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link to the article in the paper
The guy who wrote the article has an e-mail address, and he hasnt had much more to say about it. (firstname.lastname@example.com)
You can follow the sltrib.com links and see if you can get the atricle. Mostly though the atrical is not about the fish which is too bad. I suspect there is more to it that is being said. My guess is a high BOD organic soup with a cerfactant which whould not only help disolve the waste but also dispurse it. It was enough to knock out the trickling filter at the treatment plant which is up stream of the ponds. A plant operators worst nightmare.
About a discharge permit, I dont know, but Im certainly going to find out.
I went down there on thursday night last week to check it out. I saw two fish, one was belly up on the bottom and the other was swimming on its side in shallow water. I walked around the biggest pond and where once I would have seen hundreds of fish there were only these two. Im mad as hell because this was the place where I could fish all winter long during even the coldest weather and catch fish up to 15 lb, on a 6 wt rod on a dry fly.
|natrix, do you have a link to the article in the paper? Does the company have a permit or need a permit to discharge into the ponds? Carp are pretty hardy critters, do you know what they are dumping in there?
Fish Kill on my Favorite Pond
From Utah we must travel for our steelhead or salmon, and the trout arent nearly that big so with fly rod in hand I drive to my favorite Carp pond for the next best thing. Except this week a local food supliment maker has killed all or nearly all the fish in the whole system of ponds. Utah is known for cheep labor and lax environmetal enforcement which is why industry is so popular here. I wrote the following in responce to the article in the paper.
I read with great concern your recent article on the fish kill in Springville. Those ponds particularly the pond at Flowserv have provided many hours of enjoyment for my friends and I. We fly fish for Carp which is the best kept secret in town. This was one of the best places to fly fish for Carp that I have found, primarily because its an urban pond and people feed the ducks with bread. We even developed a new fly called the pop corn fly which we used to catch and release hundreds of large fish over the past three or four years. Sport Carp fishing is growing in popularity and ponds like these have been wonderful places to spend fishing on a summer afternoon.
I am civil engineer with a background in aquatic chemistry, waste water treatment, and I also take an interest in aquatic eco systems. I would think that because carp which are an extremely hardy fish that can live in fairly low oxygen concentrations have been killed, that many of the aquatic invertebrates upon which other fish including carp feed would have been wiped out also. Not a good thing for a pond or a stream. I also have the concern that what ever was spilled must have been either in a large volume, very toxic or have an extremely high biological or chemical oxygen demand, or all of the above. "light organic based vegetable wash" sounds a little innocuous. But then sometimes that all it takes to cause a killing oxygen sag.
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Final tour of Adler exhibition offered, Oct. 7
Posted October 2, 2001; 06:32 p.m.
exhibition in the Milberg Gallery of Firestone Library that celebrates the 1940 founding of a unique Princeton collection will close on Oct. 7.
A final tour of "For the Love of Books and Prints: Elmer Adler and the Graphic Arts Collection at Princeton University Library" will be offered by curator Rebecca Davidson at 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 7. Those interested should meet in the Milberg Gallery.
The exhibition showcases the history and arts of the book through the finest examples of printing, typography, binding, papermaking, calligraphy and illustration. It provides fascinating glimpses of the history of the revival of fine printing in early 20th-century America and of campus life at Princeton in the 1940s.
For a news release on the exhibition, click here ; to visit the library's Web site on the exhibition, click here .
Contact: Marilyn Marks (609) 258-3601

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Marygrove College Announces Commitment to Expand College Access
at White House Event
DETROIT, Dec. 4, 2014—Today, Marygrove College President Dr. David J. Fike will join President Obama, the First Lady, and Vice President Biden along with hundreds of college presidents and other higher education leaders to announce new actions to help more students prepare for and graduate from college.
The White House College Opportunity Day of Action helps to support the President's commitment to partner with colleges and universities, business leaders, and nonprofits to support students across the country to help our nation reach its goal of leading the world in college attainment.
Marygrove College, along with fellow member institutions of the Yes We Must Coalition (Ferrum College, Trocaire College, Keuka College, Mount Aloysius College, Union College, Bethune-Cookman University, Paul Quinn College, and Metropolitan College of New York),
have committed to increase graduation rates from low-income and first generation students by at least 1,000 additional graduates by 2020.
The Yes We Must Coalition is a three-year-old organization of small, non-profit, private colleges and universities where 50 percent or more of each campus' undergraduate enrollment is Pell-eligible. The Coalition's purpose is to share resources, information and promising practices to improve the success of low-income and first generation students and to be a voice for these students in the policy arena.
To help schools in the coalition reach their completion goal, Yes We Must will create an Institute that will work with campuses to develop implementation plans and outcome measures focused in three key areas to build greater support to disadvantaged students. The Coalition will:
Key researchers and facilitators in the Coalition will assist campuses in researching evidenced-based practices in each of the three areas, and the Institute will provide the opportunity to share, discuss, and adopt promising and effective practices across campuses. The Coalition anticipates seeing changes resulting from their work through the Institute to be implementation ready for students entering in the fall of 2016 with anticipated increases in graduation outcomes from 2020 onward.
Today's participants were asked to commit to new action in one of four areas: building networks of colleges around promoting completion, creating K-16 partnerships around college readiness, investing in high school counselors as part of the First Lady's Reach Higher initiative, and increasing the number of college graduates in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
The President will announce new steps on how his Administration is helping to support these actions, including announcing $10 million to help promote college completion and a $30 million AmeriCorps program that will improve low-income students' access to college. Today's event is the second College Opportunity Day of Action, and will include a progress report on the commitments made at the first day of action on January 14, 2014.
Expanding opportunity for more students to enroll and succeed in college, especially low-income and underrepresented students, is vital to building a strong economy and a strong middle class. Today, only 9 percent of those born in the lowest family income quartile attain a bachelor's degree by age 25, compared to 54 percent in the top quartile. In an effort to expand college access, the Obama Administration has increased Pell scholarships by $1,000 a year, created the new American Opportunity Tax Credit worth up to $10,000 over four years of college, limited student loan payments to 10 percent of income, and laid out an ambitious agenda to reduce college costs and promote innovation and competition.
Founded by the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (IHM) in 1905, Marygrove College is an independent liberal arts college and a Catholic institution of higher learning. The College's commitment to the city of Detroit comprises an institutional mission and vision for developing urban leaders. The main campus is situated on 53 wooded acres in northwest Detroit.
8425 W. McNichols Rd., Detroit, MI 48221
Detroit – Oct. 22, 2014 – A consortium of Marygrove College, University of Detroit Mercy, Wayne County Community College District and Wayne State University has been awarded $21.2 million over five years by the National Institutes of Health to implement a program encouraging more undergraduate students from underrepresented and economically disadvantaged backgrounds to pursue careers in biomedical research.
The grant was awarded through the NIH's Building Infrastructure Leading to Diversity (BUILD) initiative, created to get more minority and economically disadvantaged students in the STEM pipeline, expose students to research in laboratories and enhance the research-training environment. Studies have shown students from underrepresented backgrounds enter early biomedical research training in numbers that reflect the general population, but they are less likely to persist.
The Detroit consortium's project is called REBUILD Detroit — an acronym for Research Enhancement for Building Infrastructure Leading to Diversity. During the first year of the grant, the four partner institutions will redesign their curriculum with an emphasis on peer mentoring, early introduction to laboratory research and dedicated faculty advising. The program will recruit its first cohort of students in the second year and begin their training.
In order to shift the paradigm of minorities in biomedical research, REBUILD Detroit's goals are aggressive: To have at least 75 percent of its scholars graduate with baccalaureate degrees in biomedical science-related fields a nd have 50 percent of those graduates matriculate into biomedical research doctoral programs.
To recruit as broad and diverse of a group of students and offer them research training and mentorship activities in a variety of disciplines, the different but complementary Detroit institutions decided to collaborate. Combined, the four colleges and universities enroll more than 47,000 undergraduates, of whom more than 50 percent of whom are underrepresented minorities and/or qualify for federal financial aid.
University of Detroit Mercy (UDM) is the grant's primary institution responsible for managing the grant. UDM faculty will provide research opportunities and mentorship for program undergraduates.
"The NIH-funded REBUILD Detroit consortium will contribute significantly to the achievement of the nation's goal of annually producing 34 percent more undergraduate students with biomedical degrees over the next 10 years," said Dr. Antoine M. Garibaldi, president of University of Detroit Mercy. "Our four institutions are uniquely qualified to address this major challenge because of our biomedical programs and the expertise of our faculty in those fields.
"Marygrove College and Wayne County Community College District will be pipeline partners for REBUILD Detroit, expanding the pool of students in the program and co-developing and implementing support programs that enable students to learn coursework necessary to enter research careers, in addition to participating in research and mentoring activities.
"Since the curricular design will impact all undergraduate students enrolled in biomedical science courses, we're confident REBUILD Detroit will have a halo effect on far more students than those participating in the program," said Marygrove President Dr. David J. Fike. "History has shown addressing challenges that disproportionately affect minority populations often have a transformative impact on the majority as well."
WCCCD Chancellor Dr. Curtis L. Ivery added, "The elements of REBUILD Detroit correlate strongly with retention of science majors for both underrepresented and non-underrepresented minority populations. It's vital that students are aware of opportunities in the sciences as early as possible, and that we're here to support them and ensure that they succeed."
Wayne State will serve as the research partner in the consortium. As such, it will mentor faculty from other institutions in research skills; provide research-training opportunities; and provide REBUILD scholars skills development in grant applications, graduate school preparedness, and networking opportunities. Prior to joining WSU, President M. Roy Wilson co-chaired the NIH Common Fund programs, which resulted in the development of the BUILD funding opportunity.
"There are compelling reasons to promote diversity in biomedical research," said Wilson. "It's clear that diversity is fundamental to innovation. A variety of perspectives are critical to solve sciences' most complex problems, and the REBUILD Detroit project will train a more inclusive group of researchers and scientific leaders." The principal investigators of the grant are Dr. Gary Kuleck, dean of the College of Engineering & Science, University of Detroit Mercy; Dr. Sally Welch, interim dean of New Program Development, Marygrove College; Dr. George Swan, III, vice-chancellor for External Affairs, Wayne County Community College District; and Dr. Ambika Mathur, dean of the Graduate School, Wayne State University.
At the conclusion of the BUILD projects, the NIH will disseminate successful approaches widely so that institutions beyond those directly supported by the program may adopt and implement the most effective strategies.
The National Institutes of Health grant number for this award is 1TL4MD009629-01.
About University of Detroit Mercy
University of Detroit Mercy is Michigan's largest, private Catholic University with more than 100 academic majors and programs. Sponsored by the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) and the Sisters of Mercy, the University has three campuses located in downtown and northwest Detroit.
UDM is one of 28 Jesuit colleges and universities and the largest of 17 Mercy institutions of higher education in the United States. For the 14th consecutive year, University of Detroit Mercy is listed in the top tier of Midwest universities in the 2015 edition of the U.S. News and World Report's "Best Colleges.
"About Marygrove College
Founded by the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (IHM) in 1905, Marygrove College is an independent liberal arts college and a Catholic institution of higher learning. The College's commitment to the city of Detroit comprises an institutional mission and vision for developing urban leaders. The main campus is situated on 53 wooded acres in northwest Detroit.
About Wayne State University
Wayne State University is a premier urban research institution offering more than 370 academic programs through 13 schools and colleges to nearly 28,000 students. Through its multidisciplinary approach to research and education, and its ongoing collaboration with government, industry and other institutions, the university seeks to enhance economic growth and improve the quality of life in the city of Detroit, state of Michigan and throughout the world.
About Wayne County Community College District
WCCCD, the largest urban community college in Michigan, is a multi-campus district with five campus locations, the Mary Ellen Stempfle University Center and the Michigan Institute for Public Safety Education (MIPSE), serving nearly 80,000 students annually across 32 cities and townships, and more than 500 square miles. WCCCD is committed to the continued development of new programs, workforce transformation, hosting community-based training sessions, and improving student facilities and services. www.wcccd.edu.
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Website: www.rebuildetroit.org
DETROIT, Sept. 15, 2014 — Marygrove College is pleased to congratulate its Distinguished Alumni Awardees for 2014: Mary Ellen Johnson McCormick '48, Yvonne Lawrence Larabell '64, Anne Fitzgerald '67, Patricia Dean Phillips '13 and Alesha Jones, the Distinguished Alumna of Tomorrow.
The Marygrove College Distinguished Alumni Awards were established in 2002 to recognize and honor alumni of distinction. These awards celebrate Marygrove's ideals of competence, commitment and compassion, with a separate honor going to the Distinguished Alumna of Tomorrow, which acknowledges a Marygrove junior or senior with high academic achievement, and who embodies these ideals.
This year marks the 13th Anniversary of the Distinguished Alumni Awards which will honor this year's winners at a ceremony at 7 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 19, in the Marygrove College Theatre. The event is free and open to the public.
Founded by the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (IHM) in 1905, Marygrove College is an independent liberal arts college and a Catholic institution of higher learning committed to developing leaders for the new global society. The main campus is situated on 53 wooded acres in northwest Detroit.
8425 W. McNichols Rd., Detroit, MI 48221
We are pleased to announce that Tracy Halloran Pearson, Assistant Professor of Dance at Marygrove College, has been selected as one of 18 recipients of the 2014 Kresge Artist Fellowship Award.
The Fellowships, funded by The Kresge Foundation and each consisting of a $25,000 prize and professional practice opportunities, are awarded annually to metropolitan Detroit artists for their exceptional commitment to artistic achievement and strong contributions to their respective communities.
To be awarded a Kresge Fellowship and acknowledged by a panel of such extraordinary talent is a high honor that is not lost on Tracy. "To be recognized by your peers is a great moment in one's life—but to be recognized by such accomplished artists is even more rewarding," she said.
This year's panelists—including Grammy Award-nominated composer Carl Craig and Academy Award-winning director and producer Sue Marx—noted the difficulty they faced in selecting 18 Fellows from among hundreds of extraordinary applicants in Dance/Music and Film/Theatre. The distinguished panelists for both categories commented repeatedly on the scale, scope and caliber of creative work represented in the applications.
This is the first time Tracy has applied for a Kresge Fellowship, but her oeuvre speaks for itself. In addition to producing and choreographing a sold-out performance of Intersections at the Rabbit Hole in Detroit, she has been the rehearsal director for works choreographed by Peter Sparling and Artistic Director of Peter Sparling Dance Company, amongst others. She has also choreographed works for Illinois Ballet Theater, the University of Michigan's Department of Dance, Noretta Dunworth School of Dance, The Academy Dance Alliance, and Dance Masters of Michigan. Tracy holds a B.F.A. in Dance Performance from Marygrove College and an M.F.A. in Choreography from the University of Michigan.
Although Fellowship recipients were just announced, Tracy already has extensive plans for how she will use her Fellowship to impact the community. "I am planning on collaborating with other dance artists and musicians and will have several new performances in the city of Detroit throughout the next year."
To learn more about Kresge Arts in Detroit and this year's Fellows, go to kresgeartsindetroit.org.
Dr. David Fike joined Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan at an April 9th press conference to unveil a neighborhood rebuilding program. The first phase of this effort will target blight in the neighborhood near the Marygrove College campus. Last December, the College hosted a federal task force on blight, which recently completed a survey of blighted and abandoned homes and buildings in Detroit.
More about this exciting news can be found in the links below.
Links to news stories:
Marygrove area first up in Detroit blight blitz
From The Detroit News: http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20140409/METRO01/304090024#ixzz2yPNWfuyb
Duggan to target Marygrove area in crackdown on Detroit's neglected homes
From the Detroit Free Press: http://www.freep.com/article/20140409/NEWS01/304090028/Detroit-blight-Mike-Duggan
Here's a photo from Marygrove's "live tweet" of the event:
Marygrove area first up in Detroit blight blitz
From The Detroit News: http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20140409/METRO01/304090024#ixzz2yPNWfuyb
Duggan to target Marygrove area in crackdown on Detroit's neglected homes
From the Detroit Free Press: http://www.freep.com/article/20140409/NEWS01/304090028/Detroit-blight-Mike-Duggan
$1M in forgivable loans available to rehab homes near Marygrove College
Detroit Blight Authority steps aside in demolition efforts
From Crain's Detroit Business: http://www.crainsdetroit.com/mobile/article/20140409/NEWS/140409833?X-IgnoreUserAgent=1
Tweet featuring President Fike and Mayor Duggan:
Event to feature current U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey
DETROIT, March 19, 2014— To commemorate its twenty-sixth year of bringing nationally-known authors to its campus for a public lecture and seminar, Marygrove's English and Modern Languages Department is pleased to announce that our current U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey, will be the featured guest at its Contemporary American Authors Lecture Series (CAALS) event to be held on Friday, April 4, 2014 on the Marygrove College campus. Ms. Trethewey will also host a class session for Detroit area high school students and teachers beginning at 10:30 a.m. in the Marygrove College Theatre.
Trethewey is the second sitting U.S. Poet Laureate to visit Marygrove as part of CAALS. The first was Rita Dove in 1996. It was Dove who selected Trethewey's Domestic Work as the inaugural winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize for the best first book by an African American poet. Domestic Work also received the 2001 Lillian Smith Award for Poetry. Dove has written, "Trethewey eschews the Polaroid instant, choosing to render the unsuspecting yearnings and tremulous hopes that accompany our most private thoughts – reclaiming for us that interior life where the true self flourishes and to which we return, in solitary reverie, for strength." As Poet Laureate, Trethewey has been featured on PBS NewsHour poetry series known as Where Poetry Lives. Trethewey travels with Senior Correspondent Jeffrey Brown to different American cities in order to explore societal issues through literature. As part of this series, she visited participants in Detroit's InsideOut Poetry in the Schools project for a program which aired on October 23, 2013.
CAALS will also celebrate this year's event by featuring a class session conducted by Natasha Trethewey for Detroit area high school students. Over 300 students and teachers from Fordson, Cass Technical, Cody, Ferndale, Martin Luther King, Loyola, University of Detroit Jesuit and Detroit International Academy for Young Women will attend the class which begins at 10:30 a.m. in the Marygrove Theatre. Winners of the Mary Helen Washington Writing Contest will be recognized as well. Afterwards, students will enjoy lunch and a tour of the Marygrove College campus.
Natasha Trethewey will deliver the Lillian and Don Bauder Lecture at 8 p.m. on Friday, April 4, 2014, in Alumnae Hall on the Marygrove College campus.
Ms. Trethewey will be introduced by CAALS consultant Mary Helen Washington, Professor of English at the University of Maryland. Books by both Trethewey and Washington will be available for purchase, and after the reading both authors will sign copies of their work.
Read more: Marygrove celebrates 26th Contemporary American Authors Lecture Series
DETROIT, Feb. 4, 2014—Marygrove College, a private four-year institution located in northwest Detroit, today announced the addition of baseball to their ever-growing athletics slate. A member of the Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference (WHAC) and National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), Marygrove will sponsor baseball as a varsity sport for the first time during the 2014-15 academic year.
With the addition of baseball, Marygrove will offer 14 intercollegiate varsity sports – baseball, men's and women's basketball, men's and women's cross country, men's and women's golf, men's and women's soccer, men's and women's indoor track & field, men's and women's outdoor track & field, and women's volleyball.
"Adding the sport of baseball in the city of Detroit and the southeast Michigan region as a whole makes perfect sense for Marygrove," said Marygrove's Director of Athletics, Steve Bloomfield. "Our leadership team came together and agreed that offering baseball at Marygrove is a natural fit. Today, we are working toward the next steps in the formation of the program and are excited about the opportunity the program will create for local student-athletes seeking a new baseball home."
DETROIT, Jan. 28, 2014— Marygrove College today announced that Dr. Jacqueline El-Sayed will become Marygrove College's next Vice President for Academic Affairs, effective April 1, 2014. Dr. El-Sayed is currently the Associate Provost and Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs at Kettering University in Flint, Michigan.
Having served in higher education for more than 25 years, Dr. El-Sayed brings exceptionally relevant experience to Marygrove and the Academic Affairs Division. Her leadership experience includes service as Kettering's Chief Accreditation Officer, its Director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, and its Founding Chair of the Planning and Assessment Council. She also oversees the Registrar's Office, the Academic Success Center, the Library, the Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning, the Center for Culminating Undergraduate Experiences and the Cooperative & Experiential Education Department. She has led many initiatives at Kettering, such as: development of enriched First Year Experience, Supplemental Instruction, Culminating Experience, and Experiential Learning curricula; a review of Graduate, and International Programs to enhance student support and oversight; development of a self-study on Faculty Compensation, Student Retention and in preparation for Higher Learning Commission (HLC) reaccreditation, among others.
Read more: Dr. Jacqueline El-Sayed named Vice President for Academic Affairs at Marygrove College
The Great Depression was a trying time for an entire nation, and Marygrove College was no exception. Having leveraged an enormous debt for the construction of the campus in 1927, the administration led by the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (IHM) was feeling the pressure to deliver on the promises it had made to its congregation and student community. The IHM order had offered up its very best teaching talent, working tirelessly to implement the highest quality programs for women to be found anywhere at the college and university level. Consequently, the lack of finances and general hard times did not stop students from enrolling in record numbers.
"Marygrove was the place to be," said Marie Ankley Drouillard, '34, and at 101 years, the oldest known living alumna of Marygrove College. "The reputation of the IHMs and the schools they opened and supported were well known."
Marie Ankley was only seven years old when both of her parents were taken from her by the flu epidemic of 1918-20. Her heartbreak on a Michigan farm 10 miles north of Imlay City presented many challenges early on; challenges that would not get the best of her, through the help of key mentors in her life.
"The Depression was tough, but it's not like we all sat around and said, 'Oh, what a terrible Depression we're having,'" Marie says, with a refreshing sarcastic wit. "We just made do; we were all in the same boat." She endured a cruel upbringing at the hands of her mother's sister, who beat her "while no one was looking" for bringing pork chops back from the butcher with too much fat on them. She summed up her childhood as performing endless household chores while her cousin menacingly practiced piano scales over and over again. When she graduated high school early at age 16, she was abruptly asked to leave and find work. "As a child, I was just glad to have a roof over my head," Marie remembers. "But when I had to go off on my own, I felt relieved."
Read more: 101-Year-Old Alum Bears Witness to a Full Circle of Stewardship
Office of Urban Leadership encourages campus community involvement
DETROIT, Nov. 19, 2013 — Marygrove College today announced the addition of their BOLD microsite as an information resource for the College's urban leadership initiative. BOLD, which stands for Building Our Leadership in Detroit, is a three-year, W.K. Kellogg Foundation-funded effort for Marygrove College to develop an urban leadership curriculum, and a cornerstone in the building of the College's strategic vision of fostering urban leadership.
The urban leadership vision, which was inspired and championed by current Marygrove President Dr. David J. Fike, focuses the College on strengthening its understanding and expertise on contemporary urban issues, as well as its understanding and capacity to develop leaders. It commits the College to invest in faculty development to enhance the intellectual capital of the institution, and to support mechanisms (curricular and co-curricular) that utilize intellectual capital to develop its students to be leaders in urban areas. A key component of the BOLD initiative is the establishment of the Office of Urban Leadership (OUL). The OUL helps ensure facilitation, planning, and implementation of an integrated portfolio to advance urban leadership both internal and external to the campus.
The Office of Urban Leadership is encouraging involvement in urban leadership initiatives and believes that the microsite will serve as a place where people can go to become informed about the urban leadership vision, find opportunities to engage, and be inspired to share their own stories of how they are helping to make a difference in our community.
To visit the BOLD site, go to http://urbanleadership.marygrove.edu/
Read more: Marygrove's BOLD microsite a resource for its urban leadership initiative
Year-long series of events continues at Marygrove College on October10, 2013
DETROIT, Oct. 7, 2013— The Dudley Randall Robert Hayden/Dudley Randall Centennial Project will commemorate, through a variety of programs and activities at different Detroit area sites, two renowned poets who grew up and began writing poetry in the Detroit communities known as Black Bottom and Paradise Valley. The purpose of these events is to examine the two poets' contributions to American culture, to expose their work to new audiences, to provide opportunities for creative and scholarly expressions that intersect with their poetic legacies, and to acknowledge the historical occasion.
As part of Marygrove College's Defining Detroit series, Marygrove professor Frank Rashid and Wayne State University professor Melba Joyce Boyd and will give a joint presentation on Robert Hayden and Dudley Randall. Film clips and bio-critical discussion of the Detroit writers will trace the relationship between their lives and their writings. This event will take place on Oct. 10 at 7:30 p.m. in the Marygrove College Theatre, 8425 West McNichols, Detroit, and is free and open to the public. Call (313) 927-1383 for information.
Robert Hayden was born on August 4, 1913 in Detroit, Michigan, and Dudley Randall was born on January 14, 1914 in Washington DC, but moved to Detroit with his family on January 1, 1920. Hayden and Randall were first introduced to each other because they were poets. This introduction in 1937 occurred during the Great Depression and when both were engaged in the labor movement in Detroit. This relationship evolved into a life-long friendship. Though they pursued higher education at different times in their lives, they both majored in English at Wayne State University, and they both secured graduate degrees at the University of Michigan—Ann Arbor: Hayden in creative writing and Randall in library science. Ultimately, both poets achieved international recognition and critical acclaim as poets; and as editors and educators, they made major contributions to the African American literary canon.


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I won a $5 gift card in the Subway Scrabble game by spelling a word.
I won a $5 gift card in the Subway Scrabble game by spelling a word.
Oer the last 2 days at work:
3:10 to Yuma DVD(fullscreen, but it was free and a damn good movie)
Ear Phones
Deck of Cards
Indiana Jones Trilogy Box Set(Widescreen)
Fleece throw blanket
thanks Chux Turbo LBC Bobafrett Mtriv73 Rjarvis JF96 JT JMG FB Rogue2 Tycho Slicker Deoxy Caesar JontheJedi JJReason Brandon Solo JMS UK for great deals.
SSG Pro Football Pick em and Bowl Pick em Champ 2006. 2007 NCAA Bracket Champ
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2 superbowls ago , not only did my Steelers win that year, which I woulda been more than happy with, but to add to it I won a 42" plasma flat screen tv on a SB board!! Never kept it but sold it to my EX-biz partr for $1000! Unfortunately he had only paid me about $880 before we broke a patnership! Bas tard avoids me like the plague everytime I try to call him for the other $120. But hell, it's $880 I didnt have b4!
"What happens in Indy STAYS in Indy!".
"The only thing you have to decide, is what to do with the time that is given to you".
I won a nice award for being a "platinum" agent for the entire year. It was a huge trophy and also came with a 50 dollar gift check from Amex
thanks Chux Turbo LBC Bobafrett Mtriv73 Rjarvis JF96 JT JMG FB Rogue2 Tycho Slicker Deoxy Caesar JontheJedi JJReason Brandon Solo JMS UK for great deals.
SSG Pro Football Pick em and Bowl Pick em Champ 2006. 2007 NCAA Bracket Champ
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I've been pretty lucky my whole life.
Went to Champions on Ice Figure Skating in Atlanta, hung around for the crowd to leave & a guy that worked for the show gave me 3 backstage tickets. Got to get autographs & meet everyone that was there!!!
The latest that I've won was a trip to Miami as a top three finalist (not able to go though), a trip to Minneapolis as an alternative as top 5, & three 99.99% Pure Gold $50 coins as well as 3 T-Shirts for competing in the online game AOL Goldrush at http://goldrush.aol.com
Look me up on there! M. Champion in MS!! I think I was top 100 in the world almost 9 or 10 times out of the 12 or 13 total rounds.
I won Carolina Hurricanes tix by solving a bunch of riddles faster than the other drunks in the bar!
Peeps who have hooked me up: General Grievous Dark Marble jjreason Ramy GrandMoffLouie Josephe vader121 Val Da Car
Not sure if I posted it but I don't think I did.
When we're out on cruise the boat has BINGO that they broadcast over the TV's. They do it before each port to give whoever wins extra loot. Anywho, before we hit Malaysia I won myself $1,500 cash money. Needless to say I paid off a credit card with it.
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i don't think i mentioned this yet but I won an 80gig iPod classic (in black) just before xmas. for having the coolest profile on a dating/networking site. first proper prize I've ever won. certainly the most useful. I celebrated by changing my avatar to a still from Stewie Griffins iPod commercial.
I won another $100 on a scratch off lottery ticket.
2015 RFL Thank You to, TeeEye7 & Slicker, JediTricks, Tycho, El Chuxter, and Darth Jax!!!!
Be an organ donor, save lives!
I won a date with Slicker's Mom.
I turned the winning ticket over to the state, so they could use it to execute criminals.
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Testimony before the Congressional Executive Commission on China Roundtable on Environmental NGOs in China: Encouraging Action and Addressing Public Grievances
Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC
Executive Summary
Environmental non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are at the forefront of strengthening civil society in China, drawing hundreds of thousands of Chinese citizens into environmental activities, forging non-state linkages across provincial boundaries, and establishing the Chinese people as political actors independent of state-directed policies. Environmental NGOs also play a critical role in advancing transparency, rule of law, and official accountability within the Chinese political system. Through this process, they have become a significant force for political reform.
There are approximately 2,000 environmental groups officially registered as NGOs, with perhaps as many registered as for-profit business entities, or not registered at all. Over the past decade, since the establishment of China's first environmental NGO, Friends of Nature, there has been a transformation in the nature of environmental activism in China. Initially concerned primarily with the relatively politically "safe" issues of environmental education and biodiversity protection, environmental NGOs in China today are engaged in dam protests, filing lawsuits against polluting factories, and pursuing multinationals engaged in illegal activities. Most environmental NGOs in China exist as part of a much wider community of environmental activism involving China's scientific community, the media, multinationals, international non-governmental organizations, and elements of the Chinese government.
The Chinese government has generally adopted a positive attitude toward environmental NGOs, recognizing that they fill a critical gap in the state's capacity to protect the environment effectively. Still, Beijing continues to exercise control over NGOs through a range of regulations and restrictions, remaining wary of the potential of environmental activism in China to transform into a force for much broader political change. China's State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA) has emerged as a strong supporter of NGO activity, and works very closely with NGOs— both publicly and behind the scenes— to achieve common goals. At the local level, however, some environmental protection bureaus remain wary of NGO activity, fearing the NGOs will expose their lackluster performance.
I. Who are China's Environmental Activists?
China's environmental activists tend to be educated, articulate, and in many cases, quite charismatic. Their background is varied: Liang Congjie is an historian and Wang Canfa is a lawyer, but the vast majority brings a media background to the table. Liao Xiaoyi, Dai Qing, Wang Yongchen, Hu Kanping, Shi Lihong, Wen Bo, Huo Daishan, and Xi Zhinong, among others, were all journalists, photographers, or radio/television personalities. This media background has proved invaluable in raising the profile of environmental issues within the Chinese government and throughout the country. Most of China's environmental NGO leaders have also spent significant time abroad, particularly in the United States either at universities or training with various U.S.-based environmental NGOs. Several, including Liang Congjie, Liao Xiaoyi, and Wang Yongchen, have won major international environmental awards for their work.
Many of the most renowned of China's environmental activists/NGOs are based in Beijing. However, they undertake activities throughout the entire country, including significant efforts in Tibet, Yunnan, and Sichuan. Many smaller, locally-based NGOs have also sprung up to address local concerns, such as biodiversity protection, dam construction, and water pollution. While many of these smaller NGOs struggle with the government-mandated registration process and funding and membership requirements, the Beijing-based NGOs often try to nurture and develop these NGOs, providing them with training on grant writing, developing materials and programs, and even providing financial support.
Universities have also become hotbeds of environmental activism with many of the larger universities boasting more than one environmental club. (University environmental groups may or may not go through the process of registration, which can be quite burdensome.) In 2004, on Earth Day, a reported 100,000 Chinese college students in 22 provinces participated in environmental activities organized by university groups.
Through environmental websites such as Green Web, newspapers such as China Environmental News, China Green Times, Southern Weekend, and 21st Century Business HeraldChina Green Times. This has sharply limited the income and circulation of such environmental papers.
II. The Nature of the Environmental Movement
Environmental NGOs in China address an increasingly wide range of environmental challenges. Some focus very specifically on one particular issue, such as environment-related public health problems, while others tackle a broad range of concerns from dam construction, to tree planting, to energy conservation.
- Environmental education remains a mainstay of Chinese NGO activity: Friends of Nature supports environmental education vans that travel throughout the country to provide environmental education that is specifically targeted to the region at hand, for example, overgrazing and desertification in Inner Mongolia. Green Earth Volunteers and Global Village Beijing both organize journalist salons to educate journalists on a wide range of environmental challenges. More recently, the Institute of Environment and Development has been developing a curriculum on renewable energy education.
- Biodiversity protection also continues to drive significant environmental activism in China. Many NGOs, such as Friends of Nature, Green Earth Volunteers, Wild China, and Green River launch campaigns and develop educational material including videos or photographic exhibits to promote biodiversity protection. In 2004, for example, a movie "Kekexili" was produced that discussed the plight of the Tibetan antelope. Recently, some NGO activists have been calling for greater emphasis to be placed on the protection of plant as well as animal life. This focus on biodiversity protection is supported by the strong presence in China of numerous international non-governmental environmental organizations with similar interests, such as WWF (World Wildlife Fund), Conservation International, the Nature Conservancy, and the International Fund for Animal Welfare. WWF, for one, has served as a training ground for many of China's younger environmentalists.
- Energy conservation and efficiency is a relatively new focus for China's environmental NGOs. The nuts and bolts issues of developing energy efficiency codes for buildings or promoting tradable permits for SO2 (sulfur dioxide) generally remain the purview of international NGOs such as NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) and ED (Environmental Defense), along with their Chinese think tank or government partners. However, Chinese NGOs have begun to develop their own programs in the energy arena. During summer 2004, for example, Beijing-based NGOs launched a campaign to persuade hotels and other large public buildings to keep their thermostats at 26 degrees Celsius in an effort to conserve energy. Thirty NGOs nationwide joined the campaign. In addition, with the support of the Energy Foundation, Liao Xiaoyi of Global Village Beijing, established the Sustainable Energy Journalist Forum; there is an associated award given by the Energy Foundation. WWF, and ON Semiconductor. Global Village Beijing also organized journalists from Beijing to participate in a symposium sponsored by Michelin on clean energy vehicles. One of the most interesting initiatives is the effort by the Global Environment Institute, directed by Jin Jiaman, to promote projects as wide-ranging as Bus Rapid Transit, biogas in Yunnan, and assisting farmers in developing renewable energy enterprises. This Institute is heavily supported by the international community, including the Energy Foundation, the Blue Moon Fund, and the International Network for Bamboo and Rattan.
- Air and water pollution is yet another area of growing interest and concern for China's environmental NGOs. Wang Canfa, the director of the Center for Legal Assistance to Pollution Victims, is a highly energetic and engaging man who has taken as his mission getting redress for pollution victims through the legal system. He has put forth about 60 cases, 20 of which have been resolved successfully. His center is funded primarily by the Dutch government. A different approach is taken by the Huai River Protectors (Guardians), which was founded by Huo Daishan. It is a grassroots organization that is committed to educating villagers about the impact of the polluted water of the Huai River on their health. This issue has been receiving significant attention in the Chinese media, and CCTV recently completed a documentary film, "A Village and a River," that explores this problem. Huo is also trying to assist villagers in digging deep water wells to gain access to clean water.
- Large-scale dams and hydropower projects have also engaged a number of Chinese NGOs both in Beijing and in the regions where the dams are slated for construction. Over time, there has been a "radicalization" of the rhetoric of NGOs engaged in dam protests, possibly due to the support of international NGOs such as International Rivers Network, such that Chinese NGOs now talk extensively about social justice and displaced peoples rather than focus exclusively on consequences for the environment or ancient cultural sites. The NGOs have achieved some significant success in Sichuan and Yunnan, but not without fierce political battles and some personal risk. Green Watershed of Yunnan, Wild China, Green Earth Volunteers, Friends of Nature, and China Rivers Network have all taken up the fight to slow dam construction on China's rivers. They have undertaken a wide range of activities in this effort. Wang Yongchen, for example, participated in the World Commission on Dams in Thailand and gathered signatures from 61 countries against the dam construction on the Nu River in Yunnan. In a separate fight to prevent a dam, Chinese activists garnered 15,000 signatures via the internet. At great personal risk, Yu Xiaogang of Green Watershed, organized trips for villagers slated for relocation at one dam site in Yunnan to speak with villagers from other dam sites, whose relocation had been far from successful. His damming report to the Central Disciplinary Committee in Beijing as well as the Yunnan Provincial government almost caused the NGO to be closed and Yu to be arrested. The Civil Affairs Bureau, the Academy of Social Science, and Green Watershed's sponsor, the Yunnan Association of Science and Technology, however, declared that Yu's work was well within the scope of his NGO's charter.
The issue of relocation for dams is a highly politically sensitive one. In October, as many as 100,000 farmers from seven townships in Sichuan Province reportedly gathered to protest their proposed compensation and relocation as a result of the Pubugou Dam construction. They had witnessed what had happened to other villagers who had been relocated a few years earlier: they received substandard housing on poor land. Thousands of People's Armed Police were brought in to keep the peace. China Youth Daily did its own investigation, questioning the project and the relocation plan, and found that local officials had budgeted one billion less in relocation compensation than had been promised. At the conclusion of an investigation, several local officials were fired.
III. NGO Relations with the Chinese Government
China's State Environmental Protection Administration generally works very closely with environmental NGOs. Environmental NGOs agitated for SEPA to be included in the Go West campaign leading group, supported the call for a green Olympics, worked with SEPA on an energy efficiency campaign, and serve as SEPA's eyes and ears at the local level. Even on the most sensitive political issues such as dam construction, there is a strong alliance between NGOs and SEPA. The decision in late January 2005 by SEPA Vice Director Pan Yue (with the support of Premier Wen Jiabao and the State Council) to bring to a halt 30 large infrastructure projects including 26 power-related projects on the grounds that environmental impact assessments were not properly completed suggests strong support within the top reaches of Beijing for NGO activity in this realm. These projects however, also speak to other central government priorities such as enforcing the rule of law and slowing large-scale investment.
Still, SEPA support for NGOs is very strong. It is common now for high-ranking SEPA officials, such as Pan Yue, to articulate the necessity of environmental NGOs for safeguarding the environment. Pan has also said that within the next two years, SEPA will help to establish an NGO cooperation network and to provide professional training for small grassroots groups. He believes that it is critical to have the Chinese people engaged in environmental protection and to open the decision-making process for environmental issues to make it democratic.
More generally, however, the government keeps a watchful eye on environmental NGOs, as well as on all registered NGOs. Officially, NGOs must have a government sponsor to whom they report their membership, funding sources, and activities. NGOs are not permitted to have branch organizations in various provinces, and no person who has been labeled a political dissident may be a member of an NGO. NGO leaders say that the degree to which all of these strictures are enforced varies according to the sponsor. There remains a concern in some parts of the Chinese government that NGOs are subversive entities. In 2002, Friends of Nature was forced to remove one of its founding board members, Wang Lixiong, because of his support for two Tibetan monks who were about to be executed, or face closure. There are also periodic crackdowns in which NGOs are shut down for violations as innocuous as not having sufficient funding or sufficient number of members. Nonetheless, during the fall of 2004, the Ministry of Civil Affairs suggested that discussions were underway to lift the requirement that NGOs become affiliated with a government sponsor.
IV. Where to From Here?
Chinese environmental NGO activists are a politically skilled and sensitive group. Over the past decade, they have moved into areas of greater technical challenge and political sensitivity with notable success. Still, as the environmental movement in China continues to evolve, several challenges remain.
First, some Chinese and outside observers have argued that Chinese NGOs are more effective at identifying problems rather than proposing answers, and shy away from addressing technically-oriented challenges. The State Environmental Protection Administration, for example, was disappointed that NGOs did not participate in a SEPA-advertised public hearing in August for comments on its draft rule on emission permit license management. Four individuals and 12 companies participated, but no NGOs.
Second, China's NGOs remain heavily reliant on international funding for their work. International foundations, multinationals, and other governments provide an overwhelming portion of Chinese NGO financial wherewithal. Some challenges arise from this situation.
- Chinese NGOs remain open to political criticism down the line that they are actually foreign-directed enterprises. While some smaller NGOs and websites exist primarily on Chinese contributions, there has yet to develop a real strategy on the part of Chinese NGOs to attract funding from Chinese sources. (One positive trend, in this regard, is the establishment of an association of Chinese businesses committed to supporting environmental protection.)
- There are signs of some resentment on both sides due to differing strategies and capabilities. Some sectors of the Chinese NGO community are articulating a desire for greater independence from international donors. They complain that international donors don't appreciate how difficult it is to make progress and are too short-sighted; and that international supporters try to direct some of the projects, thereby distracting Chinese NGOs from pursuing the projects they are most suited to tackle. From the international perspective, some donors have likewise voiced the opinion that some Chinese NGOs have taken money and not delivered on what was promised, and are not technically proficient enough to do the work that needs to be done properly.
- Third, until the Chinese government removes its restrictions on NGO registration and otherwise supports the development of civil society, the environmental movement may remain limited in size, as well as forced to operate under the shadow of knowledge that political caprice or shifting political winds could force them to pull back from their efforts, or risk being shut down entirely.


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By Ben Levisohn
Once upon a time, Baidu (BIDU) could do no wrong. Now, it seems to do no right.
Shares of Baidu have dropped 8.2% to $84.77 this morning after the company reported earnings last night. But to call the report disappointing does an injustice to disappointments everywhere.
Baidu missed its revenue and profit numbers, its margins fell more than many expected and the company is having an increasingly difficult time getting advertisers to pay more for ads. The best that can be said is that the company expects to meet its full year guidance. We'll see how that goes.
Of particular concern is Baidu's operating margin, which fell to 39.9% this quarter, from 48.3% during the last three months of 2012 and 52.9% during the first quarter of 2012. The decline comes as the company is forced to spend more to generate revue, causing costs to surge. Maxim Group's Echo He notes:
BIDU's incremental revenues require increasingly higher economic inputs. The integration of iQiyi, which has not generated material revenue per management, led to higher bandwidth (7.3% revenue vs. 5.6% in 1Q12) and content costs (1.7% revenue vs. minimal in 1Q12). Meanwhile, product promotion and marketing campaigns drove up TAC (traffic acquisition costs) and SG&A expenses…Significant R&D efforts on mobile services, cloud services and engineer recruits all contributed to higher R&D expenses.
And even the bulls are noting how problematic Baidu's margins have become. Here's ABR Investment Strategy's Henry Guo:


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A Christmas Carol Moment in Pure Michigan
Jeanne Van Wieren shares her "Pure Michigan Moment," a surprising encounter during the holidays in Saugatuck.
Everyone knows Saugatuck is an enchanting summertime destination, but it is also charming during the holidays. My husband, Don, and I go Christmas shopping there because we can find great gifts in a gorgeous setting. One year, we went on the same weekend that actors were putting on a production of A Christmas Carol in the historic Women's Club building.
The winter setting was perfect: Snow fell in big flakes, and visitors enjoyed a ride in a lovely white carriage pulled by a horse clip-clopping down the street. Don and I were enjoying dinner at Wally's, a wonderfully eccentric establishment favored by locals, when the door opened and, much to our surprise, in strode Bob Cratchit! I'm pretty sure it was actually a thespian in costume, but you never know in Saugatuck. He sat at the bar, and took off his top hat. "What'll you have?" asked the bartender. Nobody, nobody batted an eye except Don and me. "Give me a Bud Light," said Bob as he watched the NCAA basketball game on the TV.
A few moments later, we were laughing about it when—hand to God—Mrs. Cratchit and Tiny Tim walked in to see when Bob was coming home. "I'll be there in a while," Bob said. Off they went. Again, no one noticed.
Don and I share this story often because it reminds of us of one of our favorite places—pure Saugatuck. The striking town is home to galleries, great art and fun. It is also a place that knows life is full of surprises, so never take yourself too seriously. God bless us, every one!
Jeanne Van Wieren, who lives in Williamston, wrote about her "Pure Michigan Moment" for Michigan Travel Ideas.


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For those of you who haven't kept up, south-southeast of Japan's mainland are the Senkuku Islands, controlled by Japan in the East China Sea.
The United States administered them as part of the United States Civil Administration of the Ryukyu Islands from 1945 until 1972, when the islands reverted to Japanese control under the Okinawa Reversion Treaty between the United States and Japan.
China claimed discovery and claim over them from the 14th century, but due too their poor book-keeping their claims aren't verifiable especially since there are old Chinese maps that specifically refer to them by their Japanese name and list them as being Japanese territory. When China was questioned multiple times about who owned the islands in 1971 they refused to reply and said they would talk about it later.
Oil and other natural resources were discovered under the islands and suddenly China decided to claim the islands. Unfortunately international law makes it very clear that there is no dispute. Japan has owned the islands since January 14, 1895, after acquiring them by due international-law process (occupation of terra nullius), and the U.S. government has made it clear that the Senkaku Islands have been under the administration of the Government of Japan since their reversion to Japan as part of the Okinawa reversion in 1972 and that the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty applies to the Senkaku Islands.
A few months ago Japan bought back back islands from their private owners, who were Japanese as well. Suddenly China remembered the islands and their resources and got angry.
That is the backdrop prior to what I want to actually post.
More information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senkaku_Islands
Since then China has been belligerently poking its nose where it does not belong, sending airplanes to the islands to provoke the military in Japan (who typically scramble fighter jets as a fair warning not to violate Japanese airspace), hitting the navy in Japan with radar that can be used to lock weapons, and recently deploying DF-16 missiles whose main purpose is to defeat U.S.-made Patriot missile batteries near those islands. This as well as heightening their military exercises.
- Do you think war will break out?
- Who do you think would win?
- America is required to join the fight and would, but the islands are covered by international law, so this would be seen by the world as an attack specifically by China to steal something that does not belong to it. Do you think other countries would join the fight?
- Which side would they chose?
- Could North Korea's alliance with China be used to gain an excuse to attack America or its ally Japan (in the case of an existing war in which North Korea proclaims it wishes to support its ally, China)?
- Which side would they chose?
I have my answers but I don't want to tint anything.
What are your thoughts first?
L. Spiro
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The performance will be followed by a panel discussion on the importance of arts movements as catalysts for the growth of social capital in underprivileged communities. The panel will include: Joe Matunis, founder of El Puente Muralistas; Candice Custodio, disc jockey of the 5th Platoon and organizer of the Youth League; Mark Stern, professor of social welfare and history at the University of Pennsylvania; and Stanley Katz, lecturer with the rank of professor in public and international affairs at Princeton.
The event is sponsored by the Policy Research Institute for the Region Undergraduate Fellows Program. In case of rain, the event will move to 1 Robertson Hall.


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Bill StubbsIn Moment of Luxury, Bill Stubbs brings the artistic eye, adventurous spirit and extensive knowledge that has made him one of the world's leading interior designers to his role as host. Named to the AD 100, Architectural Digest's list of the World's Top Designers and Architects, Stubbs is president of William W. Stubbs and Associates, a 25- year-old international interior design firm, whose recent projects have taken him around the world to Kiev, Moscow, London, Hawaii, Acapulco, Palm Beach and Houston. His award-winning designs include renovations of historical buildings, private homes and estates, vacation retreats, commercial multi-family properties, community housing projects for the elderly and, most recently, the interior design of a large corporate jet. An author and popular lecturer, his second book, Moment of Luxury: Discovering the Beauty Around You (Gibbs Smith), published this fall.
Born in Gonzales, Texas, Stubbs studied design at the International Institute of Design in Washington, D.C. After a short stint as a designer at Foley's department store in Houston, he started his own design firm, working with a major developer on large projects in Houston and Boston. As his developer clients became increasingly successful, they moved into the luxury, high-rise condominium market. Well-heeled buyers saw the public spaces and model apartments that Stubbs had designed and retained him. Stubbs' reputation grew rapidly, and he was soon jetting around the globe designing multi-million dollar projects for high-profile clients. Many of his projects, including his own home, have been featured in Architectural Digest and he has received awards from numerous professional organizations, including ASID and IIDA.
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A much sought-after public speaker and guest lecturer for audiences throughout the United States, Stubbs is the recipient of the Champion of Literacy Award, which honors individuals who promote the cause of literacy and who have made a difference through the written word. He has made numerous TV appearances, and his work and professional opinions have been published by dozens of magazines and newspapers. His Houston townhouse, known as the Stubbs' Idea House, serves as a locale for charity functions and Art Institute classes. Stubbs is also the author of I Hate Red, You're Fired! The Colorful Life of an Interior Designer.


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Man charged in death of 5-year-old
Complaint: Boy died from blunt force trauma
A Madison man has been charged with first-degree reckless homicide is the death of a 5-year-old.
A criminal complaint released Wednesday said Brayden Turbill's mother, Shannon, found the boy in the basement of a Sun Prairie home on Oct. 22 not breathing and with bruises and marks on his chest. He died Oct. 24 from his injuries. The complaint states that Turnbill died from blunt force trauma to the head.
Dakota Black, Turnbill's boyfriend, was scheduled to be in court Wednesday on the reckless homicide charge, but the case was delayed as the state appoints him a new public defender. Investigators said Black was the only adult home with Turnbill before he was found injured.
Black allegedly claimed Brayden came home from school and asked to go see a friend, then came home a short time later and said he wanted to go lie down. Investigators say Black says he never checked on Brayden again.
When asked how Brayden got hurt, investigators say Black first said, "I don't know but the way he is... on my watch." Then when asked what that meant Black said "whatever happened on my watch...I am responsible," according to the complaint.
A cousin of Brayden on his father's side said they believe the boy's death could have been prevented.
"We want the right people to go to jail that need to go to jail," said Christine Stone, a cousin of Anthony Turnbill, Brayden's father. "As a family we're strong and we're there for each other."
Family of Dakota Black who were in court Wednesday declined comment, but previously told WISC-TV they do not believe Black was responsible for Brayden's death.
Black was held on a probation hold until Wednesday's charges.
Black's initial appearance was rescheduled for Friday.
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Shortland Street star Teuila Blakely has a security guard protecting her around the clock after police arrested a man for allegedly stalking her.
Blakely was at home with her family yesterday but it was the security guard who came to the door. Blakely would not comment on the charges.
The 38-year-old actor plays Vasa Levi, the soap opera's head of nursing.
She has been a cast member since 2010 and previously starred in the 2006 film Sione's Wedding.
Shortland Street is taking the threat of a stalker seriously and, at their request, the Herald on Sunday has agreed to not name the 25-year-old accused man, who is unemployed and lives in Ponsonby. Producers feared naming him might feed his desire for attention.
Shortland Street spokeswoman Tamar Munch said: "Identifying him vindicates him in some capacity and may escalate the situation."
What had happened to Blakely, she said, was a "very unusual circumstance. It's absolutely unique".
The actor should not have to put up with such unwanted attention.
"It shouldn't be part and parcel of the job they do."
The accused man appeared in the Auckland District Court on Friday and was remanded on bail. The full charge states he "harassed Teuila Blakely with intent to cause fear for her safety", in December last year.
A quietly-spoken man, he told the Herald on Sunday he did not understand why he was being charged.
"I don't know why, it's stupid," he said. "Nobody knows what I'm about."
He claimed he had known Blakely for a long time and they had been in a relationship. "We used to hook up," he said.
A show spokesman said that was not true.


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So who liked this story?
It was told by a writer that fled the civil war and genocide that has occured in the ex-Soviet Union, so he knew a lot about war to write on it.
The story dealt a lot with the Jedi needing to recruit Force-sensitive children and take them with the Jedi onto the battlefield.
Lord Hoth was quoted saying that if the Jedi don't have the kids fighting for them, the Sith will surely send the kids AGAINST them.
I thought the bouncers were very cool. Nice to see a totally alien lifeform that doesn't get around like a humanoid - and to have those aliens' characters so well-developed!
I was really surprised that Rain, or Zannah, becomes Darth Bane's apprentice! I wonder if we'll ever see stories of her, and if she takes a Sith name. Darth who? The first Sith Witch in the new line - and so much more rightfully so than Ventress, the Aurra Sing clone and Sith wannabe.
Darth Bane asked her why she killed the Jedi that slew the bouncer she'd befriended (because the bouncers were going crazy since the forest was on fire and they sought to drive both the Sith and Jedi to take their battle far away). Zannah answered him, "for justice. It felt right. To restore the balance." She had no emotion about killing, and was not seeking glory like Lord Kaan and Lord Githany had been. Darth Bane sought an apprentice that was all about serving the Dark Side of the Force - not themselves. There was a big difference.
I think in that regard, perhaps Palpatine has failed Bane's hopes for the Sith cause - even at the height of the galaxy's greatest Empire. I don't see how Palpatine serves the Dark Side. He truly seems to serve only himself.
I don't know how Darth Bane relates the Dark Side to power. I don't think he sought power.
I think he was a "depressive," and sought the opposite of the life-giving Force, which would be service to Death. He certainly did want to kill all the Jedi for revenge - it would seem his own Sith Master that had looked out for him, had been killed (probably on Ruusan, prior to Kaan's ascendancy). All Bane wanted to do was serve his rotting in the face of that loss, by suffering and dying, and taking everyone around him down with him. Zannah, after the loss of her cousins and Laas (the Ruusai Bouncer), probably felt the same way.
You see, Palpatine on the other hand, is not destroying. Sure he had a Death Star or two, but they were instruments to enforce his control over an Empire he was BUILDING. So it would seem Darth Sidious warped the Sith's purpose from whatever it was originally, and USED the Dark Side to serve himself - never truly giving himself to the Dark Side intentionally, as Darth Bane taught.
Maul was just influenced to be Palpatine's lackey since he was taken and trained as a child. I'm willing to bet that most Sith apprentices were NOT taken and raised up since childhood. The Sith Master would deliberately seek out someone who had suffered, who had grudges, and who had the raw talent. Thus training an older but supposed fallen Jedi like Dooku, was not unusual for the Sith. And their ways were so corrupting, that it was not really that dangerous for the Sith to take TRAINED JEDI as their apprentices.
I'm curious as to what Palpatine's personal story is, but I think he decided to make a Sith Empire his. Perhaps he is getting the Sith back on track to what Naga Sadow's original intentions for them were as far down the line as Exar Kun and Lord Kaan. But they were not Darth Bane's intentions - not to the way I see him.
Curious, eh?
Well, finally, when we get to Darth Vader, he never really gives himself to the Dark Side, but Anakin does desire order. "Someone should make them! [agree what's in the best interests of all the people and just 'do it.']"
Anakin owes Palpatine his life, but serves him most likely to make Palpatine keep a bargain to not mess with Obi-Wan and Luke, who Vader most likely knows the most probably location of. (wait until Episode 3 to find out, but I think that's gotta be it).
Sure when he fights Kenobi, he gives into the Dark Side, but he doesn't literally give himself to it, though he's headed in that direction until after Yavin, when he learns Luke is not only grown up strong and healthy, but is becoming a Jedi like his father had been. Then Vader really gets something wonderful to live for and look forward to (minus one Death Star).
So anyway, aren't the comics great for some more deep thoughts?


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26 March 2013 to 29 March 2013
Cairo, Egypt
The EDC Centre for Diabetes Education in collaboaration with other societies are organising the 17th Pan Arab Conference on Diabetes (PACD17) to exchange experience on Diabetes and related diseases. Recent advances in population studies, clinical and basic research will be presented.
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By Johanna Bennett
Shares of Visa (V) rallied late Wednesday, helped by an upbeat earnings report that topped analysts' estimates.
At $191.40, Visa climbed $4.65, or 2.5% in late trading. The stock closed at $186.75.
In a release issued after the closing bell, the credit card giant swung to a fiscal third-quarter profit amid growing spending on its credit and debit cards.
The company earned $1.23 billion, or $1.88 per share, in the most recent quarter, compared with a loss of $1.84 billion, or $2.74 per share, a year earlier, when the company recorded a $4.1 billion litigation provision.
Excluding the provision, Visa said its bottom line rose 16% from a year earlier. Operating revenue increased 17% to $3 billion.
Wall Street expected the company to earn $1.79 per share on $2.89 billion of revenue.
Large banks that issue credit cards have recently reported higher card spending by their customers amid improving economic conditions. This portends well for Visa, which operates a payments network that processes transactions for banks that issue cards to consumers as well as those that handle transactions for merchants.
Visa is the world's largest payment network. And like competitor MasterCard (MA) earn fees on every transaction that travels over their networks.
Visa's payments volumes rose 13 to $1.1 trillion in the quarter. Visa's transaction volume increased 14% to 15 billion.


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