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Dec. 13, 2011 – Popular Science
Wound-Treating Jelly Regenerates Fresh, Scar-Free Skin
Sharon Gerecht, an assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at Johns Hopkins University, and her postdoc Guoming Sun, were mentioned in a article on the Popular Science magazine website. The post describes Gerecht's and Sun's engineered hydrogel, which requires no added growth factors to cause it to facilitate the complete regeneration of burned skin.
Sept. 27, 2010 – Wall Street Journal
And tomorrow's winners will be…
Associate professor David Gracias of the Whiting School of Engineering Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering was acknowledged by Francis Collins, former leader of the Human Genome Project and current director of the National Institutes of Health. "The drug-delivery devices are small enough to fit through a hypodermic needle, thereby facilitating minimally invasive implantation and guidance in hard-to-reach microspaces," Collins said in the article.
Jul. 20, 2009 – ASU News
Student's summer filled with nanobiotechnology
Stephanie Naufel, a senior majoring in bioengineering in ASU's Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering, is in Baltimore this summer to participate in the Johns Hopkins Institute for NanoBioTechnology (INBT) Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU).
Jan. 12, 2009 – The JHU Gazette
Wireless Microgrippers Grab Living Cells in 'Biopsy' Tests
David Gracias, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering and affiliated faculty member of Johns Hopkins Institute for NanoBioTechnology, lead a team of researchers that developed tiny microgrippers that can be controlled by harmless chemicals and magnets. This tiny tool, which closes around an object like a hand, could be used to conduct minimally invasive biopsies. Experiments using the device were reported in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Early Edition for the week of Jan. 12-16). Several news outlets, including the July 13, 2009 issue of The New York Times and ScienceDaily.com featured stories on the mircrogrippers, as well as videos that demonstrated how it works.
Oct. 28, 2008 – WJZ-TV
Spice in Indian Food May Help Fight Cancer
Anirban Maitra, associate professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and affiliated faculty member of the Institute for NanoBioTechnology, has created tiny, nano-curcumin particles so small they can be absorbed into the bloodstream through the stomach.
May. 22, 2008 – CBS Evening News
A New Frontier In The War On Cancer: Behind The Scenes With Cancer Researchers Fine-Tuning Nanotechnologies
George Sgouros, professor of radiology and affiliated faculty member of the Institute for NanoBioTechnology is one the scientist featured in a news segment on the CBS Evening News.
Mar. 17, 2008 – MSNBC
The future of biomedicine: virtual humans
Andre Levchenko, an associate professor of biomedical engineering and an affiliated researcher with the Institute for NanoBioTechnology at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, said the monumental task is nonetheless important for understanding Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and other conditions that affect the brain.
Feb. 27, 2008 – Washington Post
State Hopes to Attract Emerging Industry
Boosting Maryland as a hub of nanobiotechnology research, legislators and higher education leaders joined yesterday to propose a $5 million state program to award research grants and lure private-sector firms to locate in the state.
Feb. 13, 2008 – Science Daily
'Lab On A Chip' Mimics Brain Chemistry
Johns Hopkins researchers from the Whiting School of Engineering and the School of Medicine have devised a micro-scale tool – a lab on a chip – designed to mimic the chemical complexities of the brain. The system should help scientists better understand how nerve cells in the brain work together to form the nervous system.
Dec. 21, 2007 – AAAS Science Careers Blog
A Bio-Nano Training Opportunity at Johns Hopkins
Johns Hopkins University is on the lookout for new recruits to enroll in their Interdisciplinary Graduate Training Program in Nanotechnology for Biology and Medicine (NBMed). Funded by a grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and run out of the university's Institute for Nanobiotechnology (INBT).
Nov. 12, 2007 – The JHU Gazette
Together We Stand: Bacteria Organize to Survive Hostile Environments
Using an innovative device with microscopic chambers, researchers from Johns Hopkins and three other institutions have gleaned important new information about how bacteria survive in hostile environments by forming antibiotic-resistant communities called biofilms. These biofilms play key roles in cystic fibrosis, urinary tract infections and other illnesses, and the researchers say their findings could help in the development of new treatments and preventive measures.
Oct. 31, 2007 – AAAS.org
Networking and Presentations Skills Emphasized at Undergraduate Research Conference
…..Ashanti Edwards, an educational program coordinator at the Institute for NanoBioTechnology at Johns Hopkins University, said that summer research projects allow participants to see the level of education required to work in a top notch laboratory.
"[Then] they go back to their home university and take an extra chemistry or calculus class to get prepared for graduate school," said Edwards, who was among over 60 exhibitors attending the conference to attract students to summer research programs and internships.
Oct. 28, 2007 – The Maryland Daily Record
Testing tiny solutions
Hopkins gets $200K grant to study nanotechnology
The emerging field of nanotechnology could mean a future in which blood tests take place on miniature laboratories the size of a molecule, drugs too small to see travel directly to the site of infection, and beauty lotions and cosmetics form an invisible film of tiny particles over skin.
Oct. 8, 2007 – The JHU Gazette
Faculty Team to Develop Nanotech Risk Assessment Minor
Johns Hopkins faculty members specializing in disciplines ranging from engineering to public health have received federal funding to develop an undergraduate minor in nanotechnology risk assessment and public policy. The program is expected to accept its first students by fall 2009.
Aug. 25, 2007 – Baltimore Examiner, page 11
Smaller than small is the new big thing
It's in many products, from Domino's pharmacy-grade sugar, to enzyme-based laundry detergents, computers and electronics, but you won't see it.
Nanotechnology — items, goods and materials manufactured on the far end of the microscopic scale — is revolutionizing manufacturing, medicine and the government agencies that regulate them, said Peter Searson.


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I've got an opportunity to purchase a Sig P229. It's brand new in box, never fired... comes with night sights and three 12 round mags. All for 499.00
I friend of mine works for a gun shop who mainly supplies local law enforcement agencies. They bought "600" P229's (that's right...600) and have a few that they can let go to the public.
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No trains have run on these rails for ~4years. Note the rust!
An August 2009 article from BlueRidgeNow.com is enthusiastic but comments from local landowners show diverse views and highlight some of the issues that will have to be dealt with in developing a trail on this corridor. Since then local trail supporters have formed "Friends of the Ecusta Trail" to do trail advocacy and development. Their long term goal is creating an 18 mile trail from Brevard to Hendersonville. Please see their website for more on their efforts and fund raising.
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I usually really like this author but just not feeling it with this book. I was a quarter of the way into the book - before the murder happened - and already bouncing around the rest of the book to see if it got more exciting. Still trying to see if I can muddle through but may just skip to the end and call it over.
Yup, skipped over huge chunks to read the last bit. Not much of a mystery book. Not really even a paranormal romance. Probably won't continue with this series.
Was ok. I think I'm not a fan of Katie MacAllister. This book was really confusing even though there weren't many characters.
It was hard to get a handle on the world the author created. I never had a true sense of whether or not the greater population knew about the supernatural--and I got the sense the author herself didn't know either.
However, the mystery was mysterious and the characters were relateable (even if they had four arms). Not laugh out loud funny, but good light entertainment.
A ghost wrangler of sorts gets involved in a murder mystery when her hated husband gets offed in the house of a poltergeist.
This particular author is always hit or miss for me, this was more of a miss than a hit. The characters were okay (with the exception of Spider and Meredeth, but they were supposed to be reprehensible) and the story moved well, but it just seemed a bit non-involving...I didn't really care too much about what happened. Also, the twist at the end annoyed me. Not too bad if you want a ghost story with an unusal approach to poltergeists. Also, not much of a romance at all, even though I think it was marketed as such.
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Karma Marx sends troubled spirits packing. Her nasty husband, Spider, needs her to clean a house for him. In return she gets the divorce she want. But wait, Karma doesn't like her job and tries to find places for all the out placed ghosties. Not exactly in Spider's evil plan. But when the old owner locks everyone in the house, things take a drastic turn. Murder … All in all I liked the book, even the end. Mostly I liked the characters not the plot.
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There are other worlds with mysteries to solve.
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Karma Marx exorcises haunted houses, sending troublesome poltergeists and other spirits to the ever after. But one assignment traps Karma, her foster child, her sleazy soon-to-be-ex husband, Spider, and his crooked partner under one roof. And when Spider turns up dead, it's a locked house mystery, and Karma's determined to reveal the truth, even if it means tackling all of the mansion's inhabitants-mortal and otherwise...
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Emergency closure of the McKay Creek area has done little to decrease the impact of OHVs and ATVs
All of us living in Prineville and the rest of Crook County should consider ourselves lucky to be surrounded by so much public land where we can get outdoors and enjoy our favorite recreational activity. The Ochoco National Forest is virtually our backyard and it requires only minutes to be within the forest boundary.
The Forest Service encourages multiple use but when that use starts impacting the land it gets everyone's attention. Such is the case with McKay Creek just north of Prineville. For the past several years, motorized recreational use has been increasing and causing resource damage throughout the drainage, which led the Forest Service to adopt an emergency closure of the area.
The closure began December 1 and is in effect through May 21. Routes within the Emergency Closure Area open to motorized use include Forest Roads 27, 33, 2705, 2710, 325, 350, 3320 and the Green Mountain Trail. Dispersed camping is allowed up to 300 feet from open roads. Violation of the closure order is punishable by up to a $5,000 fine or imprisonment for up to six months, or both.
Despite this closure, there have still been OHVs (off-highway vehicles, including ATVs, 4x4 trucks and dirt bikes) driving off-road and continuing to impact the riparian areas, wet meadows, hillsides and smaller streams flowing into McKay Creek. The damage is at least as bad as before the closure if not worse. According to Art Currier, district ranger on the Lookout Mountain Ranger District, the forest is taking a number of measures to try to curtail this illegal activity.
The Forest Service has conducted "saturation patrols" recently where they brought in several other law enforcement officers and even an airplane. Several citations were issued and more of these patrols are planned in the future.
Besides these special operations, Currier said he has increased patrolling the area with non-law enforcement personnel, constructed and purchased signs (and repaired or replaced signs after they were torn down) and worked with volunteers such as the Ochoco Trail Riders, an OHV group that has been out in the area every weekend doing their own patrolling.
"Pickups are proudly driving the streets of Prineville displaying the mud on their vehicles from destroying public land as if to say `Hey, you didn't catch me,'" Currier explained. He said they have taken pictures of these mud-covered trucks and have run their license plates to identify the owners.
"We have placed small video cameras, that are activated with motion detectors, at popular mud bogging spots," Currier said. "From the videos we can match the vehicles to the pictures we have taken to identify them. We have soil maps of the entire Ochoco National Forest that we can use to determine where the mud on a vehicle came from. This, along with the tire tracks at the damaged site, will help in the convictions."
Currier went on to explain that this activity is illegal and a violation of federal law. He said violators will be prosecuted in Federal Court in Eugene or Portland to the fullest extent. Repeat violators are subject to jail time in the Federal prison in Washington. Most of the people the Forest Service has ticketed live in Prineville or other parts of Crook County.
But these offenders are not the only ones to suffer from the illegal activity since it could lead to further restrictions for everyone. Currier said there could be more restrictions on where and how families can cut firewood, how hunters can use their pickups to retrieve game and where people can drive to get to their favorite camping spot.
"The longer I deal with this issue the more I realize that it is just not a public land manager's problem but a social and community problem," Currier explained. "If it continues it will ultimately affect the businesses in Prineville. Who will want to come and live or visit and spend dollars if Prineville's backyard, the Ochoco National Forest, is a big garbage dump and mud bog?"
Currier went on to say that his district has spent most of its recreation budget already this year and can't keep his recreation specialist on or hire two seasonal workers this summer to do trail maintenance and keep campgrounds clean. He noted that these seasonals are usually students.
McKay Creek is receiving lots of use since it is so close to Prineville. However, it's about 19 miles from the center of Prineville (junction of Main and Third) to the Four Corners Staging Area of the Millican Valley Trail System south of town. It's about 18 miles to the upper parts of McKay Creek where a lot of the damage is being done.
People are going to have to start making up their minds if they want to drive 20 miles out of town on legal trails with about 600 miles of access (Millican Valley OHV Trail System has 256 miles of trails and the East Fort Rock OHV Trail System has 318 miles of trails) or drive a similar distance up McKay, take their chances on getting caught driving on illegal trails, getting hefty fines and doing damage to the resources.
The problems with having an extensive OHV trail system in a place like the McKay Creek compared with the two systems mentioned above are issues such as streams, springs, wetlands and wildlife habitat.
The local chapter of the Sierra Club (Juniper Group) also has an interest in the McKay Creek issue. "As a Sierra Club representative, I think the damage up McKay due to OHVs has been well documented and it is absurd to reopen the closure at this date," said George Wilson. "The resource damage will only continue."
What happens in the very headwaters of a stream affects everyone living downstream says Prineville resident Wayne Elmore, who runs his own riparian consulting business called Full Stream Consulting.
"One of the things that people don't really understand is that water is not just important for life, it is life," said Elmore. He explained that water comes to us in the form of rain or snow and goes into the ground, and the condition of our creeks, rivers and wetlands determines how quickly water leaves.
"The speed with which it leaves determines what kind of plant communities we have, what kind of water clarity we have and what kind of values we want to have such as fisheries, boating, aesthetics or municipal water. In the McKay drainage, the water runs off the land way too fast."
Many years ago, Elmore says, it wasn't that way. "The water went into the ground and it came out over a five or six month period. Today, we've drained wetlands; we've done everything we can for the last 150-plus years in the west to get rid of water to the point that we got very, very good at it. Now we have to start thinking about how important this water is if we keep it here for livestock forage, for deer and elk habitat, for songbirds. It should be stored in wetlands and creek banks and it's not."
According to Elmore, people simply turn their faucets on and expect water to be there and they don't understand the process of how they are able to do that. Another issue he brought up is sediment in streams, which affects fish and will be in the spotlight with the reintroductions of anadromous fish in the near future.
There are plans to reintroduce steelhead into the McKay drainage next year and, according to U.S. Fish and Wildlife officials, as soon as either eggs or fry are placed in the stream, they are considered endangered species.
Recently, Currier said he was driving through Prineville following a pickup with a sign in the back window that read "Tread Violently - It's only dirt"".
"I would like to respond to that," said Currier. "It's NOT only dirt. It's my favorite camping and picnicking spot. It's my favorite place to look at wildflowers. It's my favorite place to see all the beauty of nature. It filters the water so the streams run clear. Please tread lightly so I too can enjoy the Ochoco National Forest."


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By Jillian McCartney and Jonathan Weaver, Salisbury Post
Darris Morris wanted two things: To be somebody and to make his mama proud.
He dreamed of playing professional football.
By his senior year at Catawba College, that dream was becoming a reality.
His mama, Cleavie, waited for the day she could watch him walk proudly across the stage, flash his megawatt smile and accept his diploma.
He was so close.
Cleavie Morris came to Salisbury on Saturday and accepted her son's diploma, his most valuable player award and his class ring.
Darris wasn't there.
He's buried at home in Batesburg-Leesville Memorial Garden.
On Jan. 25, a fight broke out at a Catawba dorm party, then spilled outside, and a bullet ripped through Darris Morris' heart. Six Livingstone College students are charged in his death, opening a wound in the Salisbury community that may take years to heal.
Salisbury and Batesburg-Leesville shared the tragedy of Darris' death. But they share more: young lives lost, potential squandered.
Catawba's first blow came when Stephen Andrew Grooms died in October after a fire at the Foil House Dorm.
Then Darris.
This month Matthew Greear and Frank Long V were shot and killed in an off-campus apartment. Police said that shooting was drug-related.
In Batesburg-Leesville, three other students have died since 1997.
Omar Todman was stabbed to death during the 1997-98 school year. His girlfriend was charged with murdering him.
A few weeks later, tailback Rashad Isles died in a crash when he fell asleep at the wheel while traveling to see his mother in Aiken, S.C.
In the summer of 2000, William Phillips, a football and baseball player, also died in a car accident. He's the son of Batesburg-Leesville Athletic Director Gary Phillips.
The towns share Darris.
"Why? That is the eternal question," said Tonia Black-Gold, chief communication officer at Catawba. "We want to think there is some logic or some hidden meaning that we don't get."
Black-Gold said people in the community are asking: "Why us? Why this little place? Why our little world?
"This kind of stuff is supposed to happen somewhere else."
"Such a waste of a young man's life who had such potential to offer," said Principal Pat Padgett.
Darris Morris was born April 2, 1980, at Richmond Memorial Hospital to Ivy and Cleavie Morris.
He grew up in Batesburg, which merged with its twin city in 1993 to become Batesburg-Leesville. Situated in the midlands of South Carolina, the towns are divided by Main Street's rows of awning-covered mom-and-pop shops.
The odor of Columbia Farms' chicken processing plant hangs thick in the air. Poultry is king here -- thousands were expected to invade the town this weekend for the annual South Carolina Poultry Festival.
Visitors may stop for a plate or two of mustard barbecue from local restaurants such as Shealy's or Jackie Hite's.
But even birds and barbecue take a back seat each year from late August through November. That's when the Panthers of Batesburg-Leesville High School play. The team has won five state championships.
"Man, this is a football town," said Matthew Hill, supervisor of street maintenance for the town of Batesburg-Leesville. "These are all Panther fans around here."
Budding gridiron stars start young in Batesburg-Leesville, Hill said. "When they're 8 or 9 years old, they start out playing Little League Football."
Naturally, gangly Darris wanted to throw on some pads and hit the field.
At the age of 9, "he just came to me and said he wanted to play,"Cleavie Morris said. "So we took him down there and signed him up."
Even then, Cleavie Morris went to every game.
Teammates called him String Bean, "because he was so bony," said friend Travis Gates, 23. Gates played next to him on those elementary school-age teams.
Darris' natural talent and a strong work ethic quickly emerged. He soon was known as the playmaker.
Joe Barr considers Darris his second son, having coached him in track and football.
Barr remembers the first time he met Darris at the age of 12. Barr had gone with his son Jamaal to the gym on a Sunday to play basketball. There sat Darris, watching the older boys play.
"Why aren't you playing?"Barr asked.
"I'm not big enough," Darris replied.
"We're playing next," Barr told him. Barr and his two "sons" played together for the first time that day, a tradition that would last for many years.
Even as a teen, Darris was a jokester.
When he was about 13, Darris' aunts Cornelia Nicholson and Aleathea Carter came home to find him lying flat on his back in the driveway. Since he had a reputation for pranks, they thought he was kidding and yelled from the car for him to get out of the way. After fussing over who was going to get out and get him to move, they realized he had fallen out of a nearby tree. Nicholson said when they finally helped him up, "he was walking like a drunk person."
But he had a serious side.
Darris valued education, always harping at his baby sister, Nakesha, 9, to mind her studies so she could go to college.
But like any red-blooded teen-ager, Darris often did only what he needed to do to get the job done. "Darris was a bright kid," said English teacher Kathie Toth. "And when I say he was bright, he really was bright." But, she added, he didn't always use his brightness as much as he could have.
Younger students like Ryan Todman and Brandon Harris, both juniors, remember Darris always looked out for people.
"He was a big brother type," Harris said. They remember Darris coming back to visit from Catawba. "He never would forget where he came from," Harris said.
Friends agree, the ladies loved Darris. "The boy had women on each arm," basketball and football coach Ross Cary said.
Wherever they traveled as a team, Darris seemed to know a girl, if not several, Cary said.
Phil Strickland, head coach of Batesburg-Leesville High School's football team, remembers the "skinny little player" the coaches had to coerce into playing football. Darris liked football and ended up an exceptional player, but it was not his first love.
"He thought he was the next Michael Jordan," Strickland said.
But Darris was an average basketball player on the varsity team, according to Cary, who coached Darris in basketball for three years. "He just loved playing. He was one of the few kids you had to run off the court at the end of practice."
His sophomore year, when Darris didn't show up one day for football tryouts, Coach Barr went to his house. Darris told Barr he wasn't playing football that year; he wanted to concentrate on basketball.
But Barr changed Darris' mind. "He's a good basketball player but a great football player," Barr said.
Great football players are local celebrities in Batesburg-Leesville, said Darris' cousin and teammate Frederick Morris.
On Friday nights, fans flow in to the pride and joy of Batesburg-Leesville High School: Panther Stadium. In a town with a population of about 6,500, Panthers' home games pack the 6,600-seat stadium.
Like so many Batesburg-Leesville athletes, Darris' dreams extended beyond the stadium's chain link fences.
"If you want to make it, you have to leave this town,"said friend Kevin "Popsicle" Rowe, who attends Claflin University in Orangeburg.
The town has "great people, just the wrong environment,"friend Eric Derrick said.
Many teens hope athletics will lead to a scholarship. For Morris, it did.
David Bennett, former Catawba College head football coach, remembers the trip to Batesburg-Leesville High School to see Darris play basketball. "Darris always thought he was a basketball player," he said. But Bennett had other plans.
Several other football coaches had planned to attend that same game, but when the day came, it snowed. Catawba recruiters were the only ones to show.
Bennett and his staff were relieved the competition wasn't there. He was impressed by Darris' size and athletic ability and determined to make him an Indian. "We were just thrilled to recruit him," Bennett said.
It helped that Bennett had connections.
Bennett served as an assistant for football coach Gary Smallen while the two were at Newberry College. Smallen later moved to Batesburg-Leesville to coach. Bennett learned that Smallen's son, Jason, was one of Darris' best friends, and Gary Smallen and his wife, Linda, knew Darris and his family.
Jason Smallen and Darris met through football and became close. "That's the good thing about football ... It has a family kind of sense," Smallen said.
From the moment Darris stepped on Catawba's campus, Cleavie Morris made it her business to know the people watching over her boy. She told them to call her if he stepped out of line.
Darris began his freshman year as a linebacker with two other freshman, Shaun Sanders and Shawn McBride. Spending four years together on the same team, playing the same position, the three became close.
"It was the linebackers everybody talked about," said Catawba head football coach Chip Hester.
But Darris knew that no one person made up a team. He reminded his teammates of that daily, through his words and actions.
During training camp last summer, the seniors each gave a speech. When it was his turn, Darris stood in front of 120 men holding a ball made of rubber bands. He took one off and threw it on the floor. The rubber band hit the floor and stayed there.
"This is what happens to one of us alone," he told his teammates.
Darris bent down, picked up the rubber band and wrapped it back around the ball. He then threw the whole ball at the floor, and they watched it bounce high in the air.
"If we all pull together, we can go through the roof," he said.
Darris told his teammates not to complain if they weren't starting and not to care who got the glory because, as a team, they earned it together.
The team gave Darris a standing ovation. In Bennett's 12 years at Catawba, Darris was one of only three players ever to get a standing ovation, Bennett said. The team grew very close.
"Just the dynamic of the sport, you've got to rely on your teammates," Hester said. "You're dealing with brothers."
Said Bennett, who's now the head football coach at Coastal Carolina University: "It's hard to put into words the things that you go through and the bonds that you make."
D-Mo, as his Catawba teammates called Darris, began his freshman year as a promising athlete. But when he tore his anterior cruciate ligament in one of the first games of the season, he had to sit out the rest of the year. He wondered if he would ever play as well again, Hester said.
But Darris dedicated himself to rehabilitation and came back his sophomore year a better player.
In his senior year, he was an All-South Atlantic Conference linebacker who helped Catawba get to the national semifinals and an 11-2 record.
But college wouldn't have been the end of Darris' football career.
"He's the one that the pro scouts were looking at," Bennett said.
Said Hester: "He was just the best all around athlete on our team. He had so much going for him."
"Iused to talk to him some about it,"said Matthew Hill, the Batesburg-Leesville maintenance supervisor who gave Darris a summer job one year. "I told him handling a pick and a shovel is a whole different world ... 'You need to make something of yourself.' "
"He felt like he had a shot," said longtime friend Eric Derrick. "He wanted it, but that wasn't his main concern. His main concern was graduating."
Final days
Darris went home to Batesburg-Leesville for winter break in December just like he always did. He hung out with friends and stayed with his family.
His baby sister, Nakesha, remembers the times she spent with Darris the last two weeks he was home for Christmas break. The two played in the snow and built a snowman.
"Darris was real protective of Nakesha," said older sister Ivette Kelley, 24.
Nakesha remembers how important it was to Darris that she go to college. She studies hard because she knows he would want her to. Nakesha said Darris' friends, like cousin Roderick Morris, have looked out for her in the months since his death.
One Friday in December, Darris got together with Eric, Red, Roderick, Popsicle and the rest of his hometown friends.
They visited a few friends, then headed to Columbia to the clubs. It was like any other night the group would get back together.
Shortly before Darris headed back to Salisbury, Roderick Morris tried to talk him out of his Timberland boots. The two shared clothes often, but "Darris said 'You can't get my trees,' " Roderick said. "Then he wanted my Seiko watch." The two went back and forth for a bit. Before he left, Roderick Morris hugged Darris.
"Isaid, 'I love you, dog,' "Roderick Morris said. "He said, 'I love you, too.' " It was the first time he could remember them expressing such affection. It was the last time Roderick Morris saw his cousin alive.
Thirteen days before Darris died, Ivette Kelley drove her brother back to college. Cleavie Morris' car had broken down, and Darris let her borrow his truck.
During the ride, Darris told his sister "he said he wanted to be somebody. He wanted to take care of mama."
"You don't have anything to worry about once I graduate from school," he told her.
"He was always saying life is too short; you need to live it to the fullest," Ivette Kelley said.
On Jan. 23, a Wednesday, Cleavie Morris called Salisbury.
"Ijust told him Iloved him," she said. "He wanted to know how everybody was doing. We talked briefly. He told me he needed some money for a book, so I told him Iwould send him some on Friday."
That was the last time she talked to her son.
Close friend and teammate Nick Means remembers that fateful Friday afternoon, Jan. 25. He and Darris went to the mall. That night they hung out in Means' room at Rowan-Salisbury Dorm "cutting up" and "fussing about the season."
Means remembers the guys talking about what they should have done. Darris defused the conversation with humor. "That was him. Always made you laugh."
A problem in the dorm earlier that day put students on a 24-hour quiet period, so they went across campus to a party they had heard about.
Means remembers the moments before the fight broke out in Pine KnotDorm. Darris stood in the corner with his hood on. Means had been talking with a girl, and Darris was giving him "that funny look" and smiling.
Students were stuffed into the room. As another friend walked out of the room, he bumped into a visiting Livingstone student, Means said.
Other Livingstone students surrounded his friend, Means said, and Darris came over. "He's our big brother so he came to see what was going on."
Some words were exchanged. The students hosting the party told everyone to leave. The altercation continued outside.
Six Livingstone students headed toward their car and retrieved two guns, police have since said.
Shots were fired.
Abullet hit Catawba student and basketball player Demetrius "Duke"Phipps, 19, in his hand and leg. Another hit Catawba student Bradley David McCrary in his leg.
One bullet went through Morris' heart. Paramedics rushed him to Rowan Regional Medical Center.
When Hester, who had succeeded Bennett as football coach, arrived at the hospital, he asked if the family had been notified. They had not.
Then he made the call that anyone dreads. He called Darris' mama.
"He said Darris had been shot, and, of course, Ibroke down,"Cleavie Morris said. "I asked him where he was shot, and what kind of gun he was shot by. He just said 'Miss Morris, you just need to get here, Idon't have any details.' "
Aunt Cornelia Nicholson remembers the long ride to Salisbury. The trip took longer when the group took a wrong turn and got on Interstate 95.
Hester said Cleavie Morris kept calling to see how Darris was doing, but he had little to no news with each phone call.
When Cleavie Morris arrived at the hospital, she demanded to see her son. When she saw where the bullet had hit, she knew he was gone.
Four months later, the pain is fresh.
Ivette Kelley still has the screaming message her mother left that night on her answering machine.
"We had to wake up to her screams," Kelley said. "It was just so terrible."
Cleavie Morris wears a button with a smiling Darris in his football jersey. "Mama's Boy" is scrawled across the bottom of the button.
When talking about her son, she often has to stop and take short, quick breaths to regain her composure.
Since the burial, she has not visited his grave. She's not sure she ever will.
"Ijust want to call him, and let him know Ilove him," she said. "That's all."
Cleavie Morris and other family members have attended all the court hearings for the six Livingstone students charged in Darris' death.
Three are charged with murder. Three others are charged with accessory after the fact.
At each hearing, Cleavie Morris sits in the courtroom, slowly rocking back and forth, weeping. She always clutches a picture of Darris to her chest.
And it's only begun.
"It's going to be the longest road and the toughest road to go through ... ,"reliving her son's death in court, Cleavie Morris said. "It will be hard, but I'll do it. For Darris, I'll do it."
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It won't be business as usual for many writers at the Final Four. Grumbling is sure to be at an all-time high.
The media loses again in the futile battle to maintain its turf. The NCAA has decided to reduce floor seating for reporters from in the neighborhood of 200 to around 70. The ousted members will be shipped to various spots of the Georgia Dome. More than likely, many of them, ticked off, will decide to watch on television from the press room.
Actually, this has been the routine for writers at venues for the entire tournament. NCAA officials told the United States Basketball Writers Association that it had other uses for those prime floor locations.
According to USBWA president John Akers of Basketball Times, the situation could have been worse. The media could have been booted off the floor completely.
"Last May, we got an inkling they were interested in moving us," Akers said. "If we hadn't gotten involved, there wouldn't be anything at courtside. That's not to say we did anything special because we still lost 2/3s of our seats. But we saved what we could."
According to Akers, the NCAA plans to use those former media seats for family and friends of the teams; for use to raise money for charities; and for sponsors. "We all suspect the seats will go to CBS more than the others," Akers said.
The likely reason is more about aesthetics than making money. The NCAA tournament generates billions of dollars; a few more bucks for floor seats isn't going to make a difference.
Akers said the NCAA wants to have more fans closer to the floor. Cheering fans look better on TV than rumpled reporters pounding a computer. In some cases, those seats are empty, especially for the second game on Saturday, when media members are working on their accounts of the first game.
"They kept asking questions, 'Why aren't those seats filled?'" Akers said. "We explained, 'People have to work on their game stories.'"
There's the obvious question: Why is it important the media to be sitting on the floor in the first place?
"In basketball, you need to be down there to hear what's going on," Akers said. "It's different than covering football and baseball. You wouldn't want to be on the floor for those sports. Unless you cover basketball, you can't really understand why it is important to be on the floor. If somebody doesn't want to believe it, they aren't going to believe it."
Akers knows many media members won't be happy with their new seat locations for this year's Final Four. However, he doesn't intend to be in charge of the complaint department.
The NCAA asked Akers and the USBWA to create a priority list for the floor seats. They declined.
"We didn't want to get involved and have it be on us," Akers said. "It's on them. They wanted to do this. If people are upset, they should be upset at the NCAA."
Akers joked that he "picked the short straw" in being on call as USBWA president this year. Normally, he said the job is mostly ceremonial. It wasn't this year, and he expects it won't be the case for future presidents. He anticipates the NCAA likely isn't done when it comes to reducing media seats on the floor.
The situation could be worse next year when the Final Four is in vast Cowboys Stadium. Preliminary reports say some media seating will feel closer to Oklahoma than Dallas.
"People are going to have to put in more work than ever before," Akers said. "And probably the best we can do is salvage what we have."


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First you build, then you smash. Then you look upon your works and despair. That's just how the game is played in this crazy mixed-up world of ours.
Think back with us now, to the days of your childhood. Ah, so innocent, wasn't it? The wrestling on TV, the comic books in the back yard, the action movies in the theaters. All built around one thing: it's cool to build, but even cooler to smash.
And so the heels and faces would set up drama and settle it in the square circle, and the Spider-Mans would punch the Daredevils until they shook hands and joined forces, and the first acts would establish the lives of the heroes and almost immediately tear them down again. Why? Because that's just how drama works.
That's why these cardboard building blocks are so much fun! They arrive flat, so you can set 'em up yourself with a few quick folds. Then, once built, all the blocks stack in any number of ways. Twelve red and twelve purple means you've got a colorful castle or space station or Pony Express fort or whatever it is that's being built today. And then? CONFLICT.
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May 24, 2013
Clearwater, Fla. - Ron Sucre (SR/Miami, Fla.) hit a two-out double to score John Peluso (SR/Bethlehem, Pa.) in the bottom of the 12th inning to give the Panthers a 7-6 win over Seton Hall (37-19) in the Big East Championship. Pitt, which trailed 5-1 after five innings, advances to the semifinals against Notre Dame tomorrow.
"What a great baseball game," said head coach Joe Jordano. "All the way around, I thought both teams played well. When we were down 5-1 we just kept saying keep fighting and we had some great at-bats in particular that last at-bat of Peluso with two outs in the bottom of the 12th and the knock by Sucre for the game winner."
Joseph Harvey (SO/Audobon, Pa.) (4-1) earned the win after a gutty effort out of the pen where he threw 5.1 shutout innings with three strikeouts. Brian Gilbert (4-4) took the loss.
"Joe pitched one of the finest performances I have been a part of considering the magnitude of the game." Jordano said.
Seton Hall jumped out to an early 4-0 lead after scoring with two outs in the first and second innings and then scoring two in the top of the third to chase Aldenhoven from the game after 2.1 innings of work. J.R. Leonardi (JR/Pittsburgh, Pa.) came in with one out in the inning and runners on second and third and was able to get a strikeout and soft lineout to second to get out of the inning with limited damage.
The Panthers got on the board when Stephen Vranka (JR/Monroeville, Pa.) doubled home Dylan Wolsonovich (FR/Ford City, Pa.) with a rope into right center to make the score 4-1.
SHU answered with a run in the top of the fourth when it scored on a double on a flyball which was lost in the sun to push its lead back to four runs at 5-1. The Pirates also threatened in the top of the sixth, loading the bases, but Jordano went to the pen and brought in Jon Danielczyk (JR/Butler, Pa.) who pitched out of the jam with a groundout to second.
Pitt got a pair in the bottom of the sixth. Steven Shelinsky Jr. (JR/Yardley, Pa.) led off the inning with a walk and was brought home by a Sam Parente (SR/Pittston, Pa.) triple down the line in right field. Peluso then singled up the middle to bring home Parente and cut the Pirate lead to two at 5-3.
Seton Hall answered yet again in the top of the seventh when it scored a run on a squeeze play but the Pirates left the bases loaded when>Joseph Harvey (SO/Audobon, Pa.) struck out Zack Weigel on three pitches.
The Panthers tied the game up in the bottom of the seventh when they plated three. Parente brought home Boo Vazquez (SO/Youngstown, Ohio) and Elvin Soto (SO/New York, N.Y.) with a double into the gap in left center. Parente then scored when Peluso reached on an error by the SHU second baseman to tie the game.
Shelinsky doubled down the right field line with two outs in the bottom of the ninth but was left stranded when a Parente rope found the glove of a Pirate defender.
After neither team was able to get a run across in the tenth, Pitt was able to set down the SHU lineup in the top of the 11th punctuated by a Harvey strikeout.
Harvey closed the door on the Pirates again in the top of 12 to give the Panthers a shot at the win.
Following a pair of outs, Peluso battled Gilbert and worked a walk after falling behind 1-2. Peluso then stole second by sliding under the tag of the Pirate second baseman and setting the stage for Sucre's heroics.
"While we're certainly happy with this win there is still work to be done. We're going to have to refocus and get ready to play tomorrow against a very good Notre Dame team," Jordano said.
The Panthers will be back in action tomorrow, May 25, at 10 a.m. in the semifinals against Notre Dame (32-24). Pitt will need to beat the Irish twice to advance to the finals.
Final Season Notes: Panthers Conclude 2017 Season
Manny Pazos Signs with Seattle
Mitchell Selected by Kansas City in MLB Draft
Mattson Drafted by Los Angeles Angels
Falk Tabbed by Oakland in MLB Draft
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Yellowstone National Park limits snowmobiles
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. - In an effort to preserve the serenity of the Yellowstone National Park, officials are making big changes to park policy.
The National Park Service signed off on a decision Thursday to lower the number of over-snow vehicles. This new policy will limit the daily access of transportation group events from 318 per day to 110. Only 50 of these groups can include snowmobiles.
Yellowstone superintendent, Dan Wenk is excited about the new policy and explains that it is for the overall well-being of the park.
"What the records of decision did today was put into place an alternative that makes the park quieter, cleaner, and allows more visitation than has previously been offered." He said.
The final ruling is to take place this fall, after park officials determine regulations, before the decision can be implemented in 2014. This winter season will serve as a transition period so that the current policy will remain active until the final rule is made this fall.


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Arapahoe Basin's first chair crew
October 17, 2012
These are names you don't hear often: Nate Dogggg, Agave Mann, Trailer Tom and Nickademus Mantooth – but these four men are seen by many year after year for Colorado's ski season opening day.
The crew, also known as "Team Nate Dogggg," have claimed first chair at Colorado's season openers for years. In Dogggg's case, a staggering 17 straight years.
The crew camped out, even sleeping briefly on the chairlift to ensure their spot on first seat.
Their quest for first chair at Arapahoe Basin's opening day Wednesday began at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday morning when the posse staked their claim in chair lift lines.
Though the group described their evening camp out as "very, very cold," Dogggg, and his entourage proudly displaying shirts that read "We're with Nate Dogggg," were ecstatic Wednesday as opening day crowds began to gather around them.
Dogggg's reasons behind and the challenges he endures to make first chair, are not merely for bragging rights. Instead he says the "torch was passed to him from a good friend."
Elmer Mulkins, who caught the first chair at Loveland Ski Area for 26 consecutive years, inspired him to do the same. After Mulkins died, Dogggg pledged to catch first chair as a tribute to the camaraderie found through skiing and snowboarding.
Dogggg continues every year to catch first chair at whatever ski area opens first in the state.
"I hope I live long enough to make it 26 years in a row," he said. "Regardless though, I'll keep doing it with whoever wants to join me for as long as I can."
Dogggg and his crew were carried up by the Black Mountain Express Lift promptly at 9 a.m. after roaring crowds counted down to first chair.
"It's what it's all about: Good friends, a couple of beers and being out on opening day in Colorado," Dogggg said as he and his crew met at the bottom of the High Noon run.
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City and Borough of Juneau
Assembly NewsFinance Committee meets Wed. April 19, 5:30 pm, Assembly ChambersFY18 Budget Introduced at Special Assembly Meeting April 5CBJ Reports and StudiesEZLink to CBJ WebsiteSubscribe to News>>>>> More
Assembly of the City and Borough of Juneau
Submitted by: Kimberly A. Kiefer, City and Borough Manager
A. City Attorney John Hartle
A. June 3, 2013 – Regular Assembly Meeting 2013-13
A. Public Requests for Consent Agenda Changes, Other Than Ordinances for Introduction
B. Assembly Requests for Consent Agenda Changes
C. Assembly Action
1. Ordinances for Introduction
a. Ordinance 2013-19
To remain in the National Flood Insurance Program, the CBJ is required to adopt a new Flood Insurance Rate Map set, an associated Flood Insurance Study, and additional flood regulations, by August 19, 2013. The flood maps locate flood-prone areas along coastal, river, and inland lake areas.
The new flood maps are more detailed, and based on current data and mapping methods, yielding more accurate flood zone determinations.
Flood insurance is required for buildings in flood-prone areas that are financed through a loan or mortgage.
The largest impact resulting from the new flood regulations is the requirement for new or "substantially improved" buildings in Velocity zones to be elevated on pilings instead of on new fill material, thereby allowing waves to flow under the building.
The CBJ has hosted meetings to educate the public on the map adoption process. After review of the maps by CDD staff, the Planning Commission, and the public, CDD has found weaknesses in the maps that may have incorrectly included buildings within mapped flood-prone areas. The Planning Commission and CDD have compiled a list of improvements to the maps. CBJ will work with FEMA to improve the maps and remove improperly included buildings from some mapped flood-prone areas, after adoption as required by FEMA.
I recommend this ordinance be introduced and set for public hearing at the next regular Assembly meeting.
b. Ordinance 2012-20(AJ)
This ordinance would appropriate $1,969,325 for the Runway Safety Area (RSA) capital project. Grant funding is provided as follows:
Federal Aviation Administration grant: $1,903,817
This phase of the RSA project includes Design, Engineering, and Construction of approach lighting to runway 8.
The FAA funds 93.75% of the project with the remainder split between Alaska DOT and Juneau International Airport. The JIA match represents the value of fill material provided to the Federal Aviation Administration for this project.
The Airport Board approved this action at its February 20, 2013 special meeting.
I recommend this ordinance be introduced and set for public hearing at a Special Assembly meeting to be held on July 8, 2013.
This resolution would authorize the City Manager to enter into a loan agreement with the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation, Clean Water Fund, to provide funding as follows:
• Juneau-Douglas Wastewater Treatment Plant Facility Plan Update: $100,000; and
Total Loan: $290,000
This loan would be used to update the wastewater facility plans for the Juneau-Douglas Wastewater Treatment Plant (JDWWTP) and the Mendenhall Wastewater Treatment Plant (MWWTP).
The JD Plant is an aging facility originally constructed in the 1970's and in need of significant rehabilitation. DEC inspected the facility on September 28, 2011 and issued a Technical Inspection Summary which included a recommendation that a new facility plan be prepared by a consultant. This updated facility plan will respond to the DEC inspection team's recommendations and will evaluate improvements to the plant's headworks, aeration and digester basins, biosolids processing, and other critical plant components.
The Mendenhall Plant was originally constructed in the 1970's as an aerated bio-filter facility, and in the 1980's was converted to a sequential batch reactor plant. The new wastewater facility plan is expected to address the fats, oils and greases interception at the plant's headworks, oxygenation delivery, and associated energy reduction in its sequential batch reactor basins, biosolids processing and truck loading, possible modifications to its outfall structure, control upgrades and other plant components aimed at prolonging the useful life, improving environmental compliance, and reducing operating costs for the facility.
The terms of the low interest loans under the State of Alaska DEC Revolving Loan Fund program are 20-year repayment at 1.5-percent interest. The project loans will be repaid with Wastewater Utility customer revenues.
The Public Works and Facilities Committee recommended Assembly adoption of this resolution at its May 20, 2013 regular meeting.
I recommend this resolution be adopted.
b. Resolution 2652
This resolution is a housekeeping measure that would de-appropriate $325 in ADNR Trails Grant Funding, for the "Eaglecrest Nordic Trail Development Grant", and $2,238 in funding from the U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration for the "FHWA Ski to Sea Trail Grant".
These were both reimbursable grants and the capital projects funded with these grants are completed and no further expenditures can be allocated to them, therefore the grant money requires a de-appropriation. The amount of the de-appropriation represents the difference between the budgeted and actual expenditures.
The originating ordinances were 2009-08(AL) and 2005-11(J) respectively.
I recommend this resolution be adopted.
c. Resolution 2653
This resolution would de-appropriate $168,270 in State Marine Passenger funds previously budgeted to the Downtown Cruise Ship Berth Enhancement Capital Improvement Project.
Ordinance 2011-11 appropriated State Marine Passenger Fees of $4,265,000 from the State of Alaska Department of Revenue as funding for the Downtown Cruise Ship Berth Enhancement Capital Improvement Project, however, only $4,096,730 was actually received.
The Public Works and Facilities Committee recommended this action at its May 20, 2013 meeting.
I recommend this resolution be adopted.
d. Resolution 2654
This resolution would de-appropriate $22,406 in Alaska Department of Fish and Game grant funds previously budgeted to the Taku Harbor Transient Moorage Facility capital improvements project.
Ordinance 2008-15(BB) appropriated a $93,000 grant from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game as funding for the Taku Harbor Transient Moorage Facility.
The Taku Harbor Transient Moorage Facility project is complete and will have no further qualifying grant expenditures.
The Public Works and Facilities Committee recommended this action at its May 20, 2013 meeting.
I recommend this resolution be adopted.
e. Resolution 2655
Memo To Assembly from HR-RM Director
This resolution would provide Assembly ratification of the terms of the tentative agreement negotiated between the City and Borough and the Public Safety Employees Association, AFSCME Local 83, AFL-CIO, for a collective bargaining agreement scheduled to go into effect on July 1, 2013, and expire on June 30, 2016.
The tentative agreement includes economic modifications to the pay plan and to the employer's contribution for health insurance. The total cost increase of these provisions over the life of the contract are projected to be approximately $857,400.
In addition, there are minor operational changes that will increase administrative efficiencies and foster a more harmonious and cooperative workplace.
This tentative agreement has been ratified by the PSEA membership, and the economic terms are in keeping with Assembly direction.
I recommend this resolution be adopted.
A. Ordinance 2013-14
This ordinance would amend the disturbing the peace code relating to noise. It is a subset of the noise ordinance, which would also make changes to the Land Use Code and has been reviewed by the Planning Commission on several occasions. The disturbing the peace code needs updating and this ordinance would accomplish that. It clarifies the definitions of disturbing the peace and other terms, clarifies the day-time and night-time hours for which differing noise standards are included, and clarifies the standards for a construction noise permit for operating outside of the day-time hours set forth in the code.
I recommend this ordinance be adopted.
B. Ordinance 2012-20(AS)b
This ordinance would appropriate $16,164 for the Law Enforcement Liaison Program. Grant funding is provided by the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities, Alaska Highway Safety Office. This grant has no match requirements. This program was created by the Alaska Highway Safety Office to increase and stimulate the planning and development of aggressive, highly visible state and local enforcement efforts in the area of impaired driving and seatbelt enforcement.
I recommend this ordinance be adopted.
C. Ordinance 2012-20(AT)
This ordinance would appropriate an additional $300,000 to the FY13 Capital City Fire/Rescue operating budget. Funds will be provided by the General Fund fund balance.
Though Capital City Fire/Rescue FY13 general operations expenditures are within the approved budget two issues resulted in the needed supplemental:
1) Unanticipated ambulance revenue collection shortfalls from prior and current years ($250,000)
2) Replacing 2 rescue boats with the understanding that the costs would be eligible for federal Secure Rural Schools Title III funding ($50,000).
Write-offs for uncollectable billings had been growing during recent years but the budgeted revenues had not been updated. The FY14 budget does provide for the reduction in revenues. We are still working with the Forest Service regarding potential reimbursement but at this time the decision provided to CBJ is that the boats do not qualify for reimbursement.
This ordinance was introduced at the Special Assembly meeting on June 10, 2013.
I recommend this ordinance be adopted.
A. Appeal of USE2012 0019 – Dau Appeal Lemon Creek Gravel Extraction–Request for Reconsideration by Appellants.
A. Appeal of AME2013 0007 – Comprehensive Plan Map Amendment for Honsinger Pond
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Home > News & Events > News > Alumni Stories > Giovanna Negretti is Giving Latinos a Stronger Voice in State Politics
Giovanna Negretti believes in the power of civic engagement because she has lived it. As a small child growing up on the small island of Vieques, and later as a young adult working as the first and only Latina legislative aide in the Massachusetts State Senate, Negretti learned how effective political mobilization can indeed move mountains and change lives.
A brief career detour in 2004-05 brought Negretti to Harvard Kennedy School, where she earned a Master in Public Administration (MPA) degree. Reenergized by the experience, Negretti then returned full time to ¿Oíste?, an organization she had founded in 2000 dedicated to advancing the political, social and economic standing of Latinos in the state. Through leadership development, civic education, and advocacy programs, ¿Oíste? trains potential political candidates at all levels. In just a few years, the organization has trained more than 200 Latinos to run for public office and work in campaigns.
"¿Oíste? provides Latinos with the necessary tools to fully and effectively participate in civic life at all levels," Negretti said. "Its programs have helped Latinos and Latinas to critically and civically engage in the life of their communities and to change systems and structures that have historically barricaded their access to a healthy quality of life."
Negretti has now launched ambitious expansion plans for ¿Oíste?, as she hopes to replicate the model in five other states. And the networks and friendships she developed while at the Kennedy School are proving invaluable in that effort.
"The Kennedy School is a place where you can debate ideas, define your purpose, discuss great ambitions, and find your voice. Each course I took had a tremendous impact on how I have decided to refocus my professional development while building a stronger, more effective organization," she said.
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Those who live outside of Iran can only shake our heads in disbelief and sadness when still another Iranian who speaks for truth and social justice is arrested, placed in a court in which some old men with beards, decide that anyone who dares to oppose their views on life, is guilty of some heinous crime such as speaking the truth. Shiva Nazar Ahari, a fighter for human rights in Iran and founder of the Committee for Human Rights Reporters, was arrested last December on her way to attend the funeral of the Grand Ayatollah Ali Montazeri, who spoke openly about his concern for the abrogation of free speech in his society. There was a what passed for a trial and Ms. Ahari was convicted of violating, moharebeh, which means she did something to undermine the Iranian government. Obviously, speaking the truth violates the government of Iran's edicts on free speech. She apparently did not grasp in the regime of President Ahmadinejad, free speech means one is free to agree with him.
She was fined $500 in lieu of a whipping, but sentenced to six years in jail. Ah, the beloved country of Iran, we weep for you and all those who stand up for freedom.


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Diwakar has been selected as the direct finalist by the judges in Vijay TV Super singer 4 among 4 contestants.
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- 1/3 cup vegetable oil, plus more for pots
- 3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder, plus more for dusting
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This fall, U.S. exports hit their highest level in two years, according to the U.S. Commerce Dept. While census data show that small and midsized businesses account for 97 percent of all exports, that comes to less than half the dollar value of those exports—just 31 percent. Small businesses need to start exploring how they can tap into market growth overseas, particularly in the developing world, says international business consultant Kathleen Brush, who has helped lead 20 different companies since 1994 and who recently published her latest book, Leadership: Getting Ready for the Latest Global Challenges. She spoke recently to Smart Answers columnist Karen E. Klein about how U.S. businesses can increase profits by expanding internationally in 2011. Edited excerpts of their conversation follow.
Karen E. Klein: What are you telling small and midsized businesses about the need to expand overseas?
Kathleen Brush: The data [are] overpowering in terms of where growth is going to be coming from over the near future. It's not just related to the slowdown in the U.S. economy but also to demographics. China and India each have four times the population of the U.S. and for the first time, their economies are growing exponentially.
Many—if not most—smaller companies have always relied on increasing U.S. sales to fuel their annual growth. Does that strategy no longer work?
Well, by 2015, U.S. [gross domestic product] is estimated to grow by 23 percent. Compare that to 73.7 percent for China, 68 percent for India, 69 percent for Russia, 60 percent for Indonesia, and 38 percent for Brazil. The contrast is even starker when you look at the growth projections for our traditional trading partners, like Germany at 12.7 percent and Japan at 21 percent.
So in the big, macroeconomic picture, I think all companies—large and small—are going to have to look outside the United States for growth. Look at global GDP: Ten years ago, 66 percent of it came from the traditional developed countries. Today that figure is 50 percent. Ten years from now it will be down to 40 percent.
The resources to do global trade have always been associated with large, multinational corporations. How feasible are overseas sales for smaller businesses with less money and personnel?
We have to get with the program as a nation. The name of the game is global trade and we're not ready. The Germans grow up learning how to import and export, but it's completely foreign to most American companies.
Small businesses need to start getting educated. You approach foreign markets like you'd research a market in the U.S.—looking for attractive opportunities for sales. There are 200 countries out there. You don't need to look at all of them. Look at what you're selling and then figure out which populations will buy it.
What are the top U.S. products being sold internationally?
Emerging countries are building their infrastructure. In places like India, Russia, and Indonesia, it's often frightening how bad conditions are. The trains are dilapidated, electricity is unreliable, and roads are impassable. These countries have to get their health care up to speed and they have to get their populations educated.
So there's a high demand for help with transportation, with equipment and skilled personnel to help with building roads and homes. A lot of these countries have terrible problems with pollution, so they're looking for clean and efficient energy production. They need telecom, medical equipment, and supplies of all kinds. Anything to do with agribusiness and software are always good industries for exporting.
These are sectors traditionally associated with larger companies. Where does the small business fit in?
General Electric (GE) may be the company that's providing the big, expensive equipment to a country, but there are a whole lot of supplies needed to fill hospitals. And these countries don't have factories making those products. The specialized products and services—those niche opportunities that are too small for larger companies to produce—are needed in developing countries.
Franchising is another huge opportunity in almost all the emerging countries. They are now filled with people who want to own their own businesses and who very much respect known brands. If you can offer training to walk these people through the whole process of starting a business, that's seen as very valuable.
The process of international trade may seem daunting to small business owners. Where can they get started?
This is one area that the U.S. government does really, really well. There are some phenomenal services in place to help U.S. companies export products. The U.S. Commercial Service produces very informative guides to tell you about specific opportunities in various markets, who you'll be competing with, what other countries are going after this market, and what are the bugaboos you need to be aware of.
They do a fantastic job, plus it's pretty darn easy to get access via phone and e-mail to the folks that are in the foreign offices. I've used the Commerce Dept.'s gold key service six times and each time the work they did for me was unbelievable and relatively inexpensive.
They put together lists of candidates for you in terms of local distributors, you identify good fits, and they set up the meetings for you at the U.S. embassy in that country. Before you know it, you're hosting meetings at the U.S. embassy with Barack Obama's picture behind you. It really lends you a lot of credibility.


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In addition to all of the above though, the glue holding all of this together is the superb performance by then-unknown Mel Gibson. Making only his second appearance on film, his charm and presence are all over this and he goes thorough the entire range of emotions he has become famous for. Original performances by the entire supporting cast make his one of the most unusual and eccentric films you�ll lay your eyes upon.
Two documentaries are also included. The first on is a 16-minute long featurette called �Mel Gibson: The Birth of a Superstar� and focuses, you guessed it, on the start of this film and on how this film helped make him a start. If, like me, you are a fan of Mr. Gibson, it�s definitely worth a listen. The second documentary is a 25-minute long clip called �Mad Max: The Film Phenomenon�. This discusses the rise of this film from low-budget indy production to cult favourite. Very interesting as it discusses various aspects of the movie, such as stunts, special effects, casting and all that jazz. As far as documentaries go, this one is pretty solid. The only disappointment in both though, is that we never hear from Mel himself, or from director George Miller. Many trailers and TV spots are also there for you to check out. In addition to the original trailer, 4 TV Spots are there and as a little kicker, you get a trailer for the Special edition of The Terminator, whose sequel used the final shot of Mad Max as its final shot as well. The last little nugget is a gallery of posters, featuring Mad Max in a heap of different languages.


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