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Nine students will walk across the stage today at Lewis University's commencement ceremony to receive bachelor's degrees in criminal justice.
Yet, the students never took any classes at the school's campus in Romeoville.
Through the so-called 3+1 program partnership between Lewis and College of DuPage, the students earned their four-year degrees from Lewis by taking all their classes at COD's campus in Glen Ellyn.
They are the first to receive bachelor's degrees through the program since the state's largest community college started negotiating agreements with area universities in 2011 that allow students to take three years of classes at COD, then a fourth year taught by instructors from partner universities at COD's campus.
It's the only community college in the state to offer such a program. And the initiative is the latest effort by COD President Robert Breuder to encourage what he believes is the inevitable: Community colleges in Illinois offering four-year baccalaureate degrees, just like universities.
"Whenever I talk to students and they say what it is they'd like to see, more (often) than not they say, 'We'd like to not transfer out and earn a bachelor's degree here if we could,'" Breuder said. "You want to keep them in the community because once they leave, there's always the prospect they might not come back. Every community wants to keep its educated citizenry."
During his time at COD and before as president of Harper College in Palatine, Breuder has lobbied legislators for a change in state law that would permit community colleges to award four-year degrees. Legislation has never made it beyond the state House, with opponents labeling the measure as unnecessary competition and duplication. There are now 21 states that allow community colleges to award bachelor's degrees, and Breuder said he believes there could be movement again to try to change Illinois law within the next two to five years.
But for now, Breuder says COD is continuing to pursue additional 3+1 agreements with local four-year universities as a way for students to get a bachelor's degree at an affordable cost, and not have to go far from home.
Students who are graduating on Sunday said taking classes at COD through the 3+1 program cost them as much as $34,000, compared to the estimated $90,000 cost to take four years of classes at Lewis.
While other schools across the country have programs like COD's, they're not of the same model, said Glenda Gallisath, who drafted the 3+1 agreements for COD.
Many schools have 2+2 arrangements in which students take two years of classes at a community college, then transfer to a four-year university to get a bachelor's degree. But the final two years of study take place at the university -- not the community college -- and there's no tuition discount for the last two years, like universities provide in the COD 3+1 partnerships, said Gallisath, who is the school's associate vice president for academic affairs.
The 3+1 program also differs from arrangements where universities partner to offer classes at a community college, such as the University Center of Lake County located on the Grayslake campus of the College of Lake County. Students can earn four-year degrees from any of 20 universities or colleges, but academically, those institutions maintain separate operations from CLC, a community college that donated the land for the center.
COD's agreement with Lewis was signed by officials from both schools in February 2011. Since then, COD has drawn up agreements with Benedictine University, Concordia University Chicago, Governors State University and Roosevelt University. A total of 20 COD programs of study feed into 12 different bachelor's degrees at the five partner universities.
Students pay COD tuition -- $140 per credit hour as of next fall -- for the first three years, and a discounted tuition rate in the final year to a partner university.
One of the benefits of the partnerships, says Lewis University Provost Stephany Schlachter, is that the universities allow the COD credits to transfer. That may not always be the case for a student who transfers. "It might take you 4½ to 5 years to get your degree," Schlachter said.
The program, Gallisath said, "has been laid out step-by-step, course-by-course, and nothing falls through the cracks."
Students who will be graduating Sunday said they want to pursue careers in law enforcement, whether for local or federal agencies.
One of those students is Milos Radenkovic, 23, a Marine reservist from Willowbrook who decided to switch concentrations from engineering to criminal justice after returning from basic training in 2011.
"My goals became more clear after joining the military," said Radenkovic, who has applied at 14 police departments and has made it onto the eligibility list in Schiller Park.
One of the instructors at COD, Villa Park Police Chief Robert Pavelchik, has a connection to both schools. Before being hired as a patrol officer in Darien in 1978, Pavelchik took two years of classes at COD. Later he went back to Lewis to take additional classes.
Pavelchik, who teaches at least one criminal justice class per semester at COD, said the graduating students were right to complete their four-year degree now, rather than in stages as he did. And he underscored the importance of a college education for those pursuing careers in law enforcement, as more and more local police departments require new officers to have taken at least some college courses, where once a high school diploma would have been acceptable.
"This 3+1 is the way to get it done," he said.


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EY's are Good Guys
D-Backs vs Rockies Game 3
The first bobble head game of the season and it's a good one. You'd be hard pressed to find a Rockies fan who doesn't love Eric Young.
EY has a place in Rockies franchise history that will last forever. Young hit the first Rockies home run at Mile High Stadium back in 1993.
What's cool about that is EY wasn't exactly known as a home run hitter.
Today was autograph Sunday as well. I was on the field and the only player to stop by my little area was Adam Ottavino. I didn't have any pictures of Adam as of yet so he autographed a baseball for me.
Nice guy!
This is my friend Marianne aka R-Luv. She's an original Rantic and it's been a while since I've run into her at game. Good to see you R-Luv!!
The weather today was not too bad. Definitely not warm, but a long sleeve shirt or light jacket was plenty.
Eric Young was present on his bobble head day. His youngest son threw out the first pitch to his older brother Eric Young Jr. I think the world of both EY's and for me this reunion was just fun to watch. Eric Young and Eric Young Jr. are both fan friendly and about as humble as they come.
Nice pitch from the lil guy known as "The Mayor".
This was Game 3 of a series in which the Rockies won the first two.
Juan Nicasio starting pitcher.
I love following foul and home runs baseballs into the crowd. Peoples expressions are priceless.
Didn't run into the Rox Addict all game, but did find him doing his thing when I was cropping a picture.
Ever wonder who the Jackass is who starts "The Wave" when the Rockies are batting? It's this guy below, if you see him you have my permission to smack him in the head.
My favorite alien!
This is Dan's friend Brian catching Tulo's homer on the bounce.
Congrats brotha, you've just experienced what I've yet to.
D-Backs come from behind in the 9th, score two runs and the Rockies lose this one 5-4 but take the Series.
I'm "D" the Ranter…8 more bobble heads to go.

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According to a national survey, nearly one in four students say they've been bullied at school.
Dothan City Schools are working to lower that rate.
There's a new tool in their battle against bullying.
"The research will definitely show that if people can give information anonymously they will definitely provide that information," D.C.S Transportation Director Jay Bruner said.
Now Dothan City School students can report problems they're having at school without having to give their name.
"We were trying to find every way to reach children who might need to report something and not feel like they're going to be retaliated for it. We find that's very common if they witness something going on that shouldn't be happening, or if they're being bullied most of the time we hear they fear retaliation if they tell. This is an anonymous way to let us know, let us investigate without having to use a name," Dothan City Schools Superintendent Tim Wilder said.
The rise of social media and smart phones has taken bullying to a new level but this is a way that popularity can help in the fight against bullying.
It's a smart phone app called "Anonymous Alerts".
It can be downloaded for free on your iPhone or Android device.
The app can also be used for other issues students might want to report anonymously.
"If we get one or two a year that will result in us finding out a bullying situation or even suicide attempts, if someone feels suicidal, things like that. Or we notice that Johnny or Susie is having troubles dealing with day to day routine because of family problems, those are things we need to know and we'll be glad to check into. We want to help the ones that need the help," Wilder said.
"The beautiful thing about anonymous alerts is addresses two things. Of course it addresses safety and nothing can take place unless kids are safe and because of kids feeling more safe it also enhances learning," Bruner said.
You can send a picture and description through "Anonymous Alerts."
The user name and password for the app is DCS.
If you don't have a smart phone, you can access anonymous alerts through the Dothan City School's website - http://www.dothan.k12.al.us/.


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Industries › Business Law
A swelling labor pool
Law school graduates face tough job prospects as firms streamline operations
- January 27, 2010
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Shannon Sherrill will be one of the lucky law school graduates in May. The Washington & Lee University student already has lined up a one-term appointment as a law clerk to Virginia trial judges in Staunton. But luck today may just delay hardship down the road.
"In 2011, it's probable I'll be back in the job hunt," Sherrill says. With a growing backlog of job-seeking law graduates, he expects competition to remain intense for two or three years. "There's a glut of students, and law school graduates keep coming, while demand is quite low."
In fact, the list of applicants does not end with recent law school graduates. Law Shucks, a legal industry blog, estimates that 4,600 attorneys were laid off last year at major U.S. law firms as they pared their staffs in response to the recession.
To streamline operations, they are hiring fewer new graduates and taking a hard look at longtime practices, including the traditional career path and pay-grade advancement to partner. In response to changing demand in the profession, many law schools are tweaking their curricula to make their graduates more marketable.
The job market for law school graduates has been tightening since 2007. The National Association for Law Placement says 89.9 percent of 2008 graduates found employment nine months after finishing school, down from a 20-year high of 91.9 percent in 2007. The decline was the first recorded by the association in five years. Figures for 2009 graduates will be released this month. Another decline is expected, since offers to 2008 graduates generally were made before the economy tanked.
"In general, the legal market is horrible. It's the worst I've seen since I started teaching here 15 years ago," says Jeffrey Brauch, dean of Regent University School of Law in Virginia Beach, which graduates about 125 students each year.
Students are finding that, because of declining donations and budget cuts, jobs are scarce among nonprofit organizations and government agencies as well as private law firms. Government entities, in fact, are hiring mostly experienced attorneys for new positions, says James Leipold, executive director of the National Association for Law Placement, based in Washington, D.C.
One sign of the rising competition for jobs is the soaring number of applicants to be law clerks for federal judges. These clerkships are considered plum assignments reserved for the brightest students in each class. This year, clerkship applications rose 66 percent to more than 400,000 for 1,244 positions posted on the Online System for Clerkship Application and Review.
Traditionally, better than half of graduates find work in private practice. Law firms court promising students at the beginning of their second year of law school and offer them internships for the next summer. After seeing their work, firms then hire some students during their third year or after graduation. These graduates become full associates and begin the multiyear climb toward partner.
But the economic downturn has prompted discussions among some firms about changing this model for advancement and ending use of billable hours to charge their clients fees.
Because they typically use a partnership structure, law firms don't operate as efficiently as corporations, says Mark Sirkin, a consultant for Hildebrandt, a New Jersey-based management consulting firm that advises law firms and corporate law departments.
"When business was good, when firms could raise their rates 8 to 10 percent year over year, when clients didn't ask petty questions like, 'What exactly did that second-year associate do for $350 per hour?' these inefficiencies were more easily ignored," he says. "But just as, in Warren Buffett's words, 'You only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out,' so do these inefficiencies cry out to be remedied as the financial pressures mount."
Guy Tower, executive director of the Virginia Bar Association, says the fee figures cited by Sirkin cites are more typical of New York City than Virginia but concedes that partnerships are inherently inefficient.
Some firms are taking steps to be more responsive to clients. In Virginia, for example, Williams Mullen and Reed Smith now offer a variety of fee arrangements as alternatives to the billable hour.
"There is going to be more pressure on attorneys to better understand the business needs of their clients, to become even more client-service focused and to develop the essential skills for providing excellent client service earlier in their careers. says Judith Itkin, partner in charge of lawyer resources at Richmond-based Hunton & Williams.
Her law firm, one of the nation's largest, is adapting its hiring strategy as part of an effort to ensure it meets or exceeds clients' expectations. The firm, which has about 950 lawyers globally including nearly 250 in Richmond, has increased its recruiting of experienced lawyers, judicial clerks and joint-degree holders with skills its clients may need, says Bill Walsh, one of two hiring partners.
The firm also is open to temporary or permanent alternative arrangements with lawyers, including those who may not be interested in making partner. Staff attorneys, who work up to 2,000 billable hours a year, and project lawyers, who work fewer than 1,000 billable hours, provide flexibility to the firm, its clients and employees.
In addition, Hunton & Williams is customizing its summer internship program to meet students' career goals and interests and to make the experience more meaningful to the participants. The firm plans to offer a "day in the life" experience, where the student shadows a partner and meets with clients. Seven to 10 students nationally will be invited to participate in the program this year and at least 10 new associates will start in April 2011. This April, after deferments, 32 full associates will join the firm.
Other firms plan to reduce the number of second-year students that they invite to their intern programs this summer. Charles "Chuck" Wilkins, spokesman for the Washington-based Venable LLP, says its summer program will have 17 interns. That compares with 30 interns last year, 17 of whom were offered jobs.
In 2008, the law firm had 38 summer interns and offered jobs to 30. Venable employs nearly 540 attorneys in offices nationwide, including one at Tysons Corner.
The story is similar at Norfolk-based Kaufman & Canoles. Ran Randolph, vice president of recruiting, says the 125-lawyer firm plans to invite five to 10 second-year students to work as summer law clerks. He anticipates that five of them will be offered jobs, which compares with 10 or 12 people several years ago.
While firms are hiring fewer law graduates, the swelling legal labor pool means the talent to choose from is strong. Randolph says the situation offers a chance for firms to restock their larder with "super high-quality students."
Industry observers say smaller firms especially could benefit from this buyer's market, snagging top graduates who are broadening their job search beyond the giants of private practice. At the University of Richmond School of Law this past fall, more small- to mid-size firms — those with 60 or fewer attorneys — expressed interest in interviewing some of its 500 students, says M. Denise Carl, associate dean for career services.
In fact, Leipold of the National Association for Law Placement, believes smaller firms in mid-size cities are positioned to grow in this changing economic climate because of their lower costs and fees, compared with large, big-city firms.
Like law firms, law schools are adjusting to new realities. Because many employers want graduates with hands-on experience, schools are putting more emphasis on clinical programs that put students to work in the courts and with clients.
"At Virginia, we feel very good about the large number of clinical programs. We encourage our students to build their practical skill set … and make themselves more marketable that way," says Kevin Donovan, senior assistant dean for career services at the University of Virginia School of Law, which graduates about 400 students each year.
At Washington & Lee, some third-year students tried out a year of courses that simulate legal practice environments and require participation in legal clinics and internships. The class of 2012 will be the first required to take the third-year immersion program, which was developed before the economic downturn.
Taking a somewhat different approach, Regent Law introduced a course this semester on how to start a legal practice. Nationally, one-third of 2008 law graduates found jobs in firms of two to 10 lawyers, and 3.5 percent started a firm, the National Association for Law Placement reports.
For his part, Sherrill, the W&L student, hopes eventually to work in a private law firm. "I haven't decided yet what I'd like that to look like," he says.


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University of Vermont
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Madeleine Kunin Is Keynote Speaker for 2013 Vermont Women in Higher Education Women's Leadership Conference
- 02-13-2013
- By University Communications
Madeleine Kunin, Vermont's first female governor and author of The New Feminist Agenda: Defining the Next Revolution for Women, Work and Family, is the keynote speaker for the 2013 Vermont Women in Higher Education (VWHE) Women's Leadership Conference.
More than one hundred women from across the state are expected to attend the conference March 21 and 22 at Killington Grand Resort. The conference features several workshops on topics related to leadership, wellness, current issues in education, and more. The pre-conference on March 21 features Jane Weintraub, who will discuss "Everyday Practices for Putting Wisdom to Work."
At Friday's conference, Barbara Murphy, president of Johnson State College, and Joyce Judy, president of the Community College of Vermont will moderate a lunchtime leadership panel titled "Vermont Girls & Women: How Are We Doing?" Panelists will include Tiffany Bluemle, Director of Vermont Works for Women, and others who work outside of higher education and are leading projects focused on strengthening the lives of Vermont girls and women. The panel is designed to give attendees insight into how well we are doing preparing the girls and women who will become our college students and later our workforce.
"We are incredibly fortunate to have the lineup we have for this year's conference. Our presenters include college presidents, representatives from NASA, professional life coaches, faculty members, and financial planners," said Tiffany Keune, conference co-chair and Community College of Vermont Director of Workforce Education. "The Leadership Conference offers a varied and well-rounded agenda to meet the needs and interests of our diverse audience."
This year's conference theme is "Pearls of Wisdom" in honor of Kunin's first book, Pearls, Politics and Power: How Women Can Win and Lead. Kunin served as governor of Vermont from 1985 to 1991. She was also a state legislator (1972-1978) and lieutenant governor (1978-1982). From 1996-1999 she served as U.S. ambassador to Switzerland. For three and a half years she was U.S. deputy secretary of education in the Clinton administration. She is currently a James Marsh Professor-at-Large at the University of Vermont.
"We're so pleased to have Governor Kunin joining us this year," said Christina Fabrey, conference co-chair and Green Mountain College Learning Center Director. "It's hard to imagine a more successful model of how Vermont women can achieve positions of leadership, and use them to create real and lasting change."
VWHE is sponsored by the American Council on Education's Office of Women in Higher Education, based in Washington, D.C. The organization has been active in the state of Vermont for more than 20 years. VWHE works to foster connections among women in various sectors of higher education, promote women's leadership and encourage and support women leaders of diversebackgrounds. The organization maintains an open membership policy and welcomes the participation of women from all levels of administration, staff and faculty.
Learn more about the 2013 VWHE Women's Leadership Conference.


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Far Cry 3's epic tale of survival begins in earnest next week, and while the new "launch" trailer certainly won't make the wait any easier, it does give a comprehensive breakdown of many of the games features, mission-types, and multiplayer modes.
Clocking in at over 10 minutes, the new trailer covers a wealth of information about all things Far Cry 3, detailing its factions, and introducing some of the more colorful characters you'll encounter. It is narrated by Dennis (shown above), one of the first friendly characters the player will encounter. It is the most comprehensive trailer for the game yet.
You can check out my review of the excellent single-player campaign for a bit more information, and then crouch in the brush, waiting for the December 4 release to walk by so that you can jump out and snag it.
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NEW LENOX — In honor of World Breastfeeding Week, Silver Cross Hospital Lactation Consultants and the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action raised awareness of breastfeeding during the annual World Breastfeeding Week Celebration.
An informative display table, refreshments, and prizes were available on Aug. 7 in the Birthing Center Lobby at Silver Cross Hospital in New Lenox. Silver Cross Hospital's International Board Certified Lactation Consultants answered questions and provided information to hospital visitors and staff members who visited the display.
The 2013 theme is "Breastfeeding Support: Close to Mothers." This year's theme highlights Breastfeeding Peer Counseling. It is known that continued, ongoing support increases breastfeeding duration. The theme encourages the identification of local breastfeeding support groups.
Silver Cross Hospital has monthly English and Spanish Breastfeeding Support Groups. Visit the Silver Cross website at www.silvercross.org for Breastfeeding Support Group information.
Breastfeeding support is also important to receive from families, friends, the workplace, health care systems, the government, and during emergencies.
Research shows the best feeding option globally is the initiation of breastfeeding within the first hour of life, exclusive breastfeeding for a full six months, and continued breastfeeding with solid foods added through the second year or beyond. Breastfeeding improves short- and long-term maternal and child health.
About the new Silver Cross Women and Infant Birthing Center
Silver Cross has brought together cutting-edge medical technology with spa-like amenities to make the birthing experience all the more memorable. On Feb. 26, 2012, the new Birthing Center opened at the Silver Cross Replacement Hospital, located at Interstate 355 and U.S. 6 in New Lenox.
The Center has 12 luxurious birthing suites designed for labor, delivery and recovery so parents can have the convenience of staying in the same room through recovery, followed by a stay in one of 30 private mother-baby suites. Each private suite is fully-equipped with a bathroom with a shower to help with labor pains, blanket warmer, refrigerator, wireless Internet access, 30-inch flat screen TV system, and a comfortable sofa-sleeper so family members can stay around the clock.
Furthermore, a variety of pain relief methods are available 24 hours a day, provided by an anesthesiologist. And for deliveries requiring surgery, there are two complete Cesarean suites. Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital neonatologists and pediatric hospitalists continue to be onsite 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
And if needed, Lurie Children's Hospital pediatric cardiologists are available to analyze a baby's echocardiogram in real time through a video linkage with Silver Cross.
For more information about the new Silver Cross Women and Infant Birthing Center, visit www.silvercross.org.
For a referral to an obstetrician/gynecologist or pediatrician on staff at Silver Cross, visit www.silvercross.org or call 1-888-660-HEAL.
About Silver Cross Hospital
Silver Cross Hospital is a not-for-profit health care provider serving Will County and southwest suburban communities since 1895.
Silver Cross has been recognized as a Thomson Reuters 100 Top Hospitals National Award winner for seven consecutive years and as a Hospital of Choice by the American Alliance of Healthcare Providers.
With over 3,000 employees, physicians and volunteers, Silver Cross operates a 289-bed acute care hospital and 9 satellite facilities providing outpatient services and physician offices. To learn more about Silver Cross Hospital or a referral to a physician on staff, visit www.silvercross.org or call 1-888-660-HEAL (4325).


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May De Ville Backpackers Hostel
Welcome to the bright and friendly hostel with all the furnishings of a five star hotel. Built in 2011, right in the heart of Hanoi's Old Quarter, it makes it makes the perfect base from which to explore this exciting city.
The spacious six bed dorms are clean, comfortable and air conditioned, with en suite bathrooms as standard.
Free Wi Fi is available on every floor and there are computers in the lobby to keep you connected to friends and family.
A complimentary buffet breakfast is served every morning, which includes a wide selection of pastries, fruit, cold and hot meats, and eggs cooked to your liking.
Want your own space? Check into one of the private double, twin or family rooms. All of them are attractively furnished and come with added touches of luxury including big and comfortable beds, LCD televisions and a personal laptop.
Want to stay in? There's an American pool table, darts board and huge cinema room with hundreds of movies at your disposal.
24 hour security and secure storage for your valuables means that in every sense you'll sleep soundly at the MDV Backpackers.
Availability & RatesTo view availability and prices please select dates and click 'Update Dates'
Hostel Facilities & Policies
- 24 Hour Reception
- 24 Hour Security
- Air Conditioning
- Airport Transfers
- Bar
- Bicycle hire
- Free Breakfast
- Cable TV
- Café
- Ceiling Fan
- Common Room
- Credit Cards Accepted
- Currency Exchange
- Elevator
- Free City Maps
- Free Internet Access
- Free WiFi
- Hair Dryers
- Hot Showers
- House Keeping
- Internet Access
- Key Card Access
- Laundry Facilities
- Linen Included
- Security Lockers
- Luggage Storage
- No Curfew
- Pool Table
- Postal Service
- Restaurant
- Safe Deposit Box
- Taxes included
- Tours/Travel Desk
- Towels For Hire
- Wake-up calls
- Wi-Fi
Cancellation PolicyThis property has a 1 day cancellation policy. Failure to cancel within this time will result in a cancellation charge equal to the first night of your stay.
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We are located down a small lane off Ta Hien in the Old Quarter.
45 minutes from Airport, 5 km from Train station, 2km from main bus terminal.
Located Near
We are right in the middle of the Old Quarter, but down a quiet side street, so the best of both worlds. Everything in Hanoi is within walking distance, including the night market, shops, the Water Puppet Theatre Show, Hoan Kiem Lake and the legendary Bia Hoi corner.


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Tonga captain Nili Latu said that Shaun Edwards' barbed comments were an "insult" to his players ahead of their match tomorrow.
Edwards, the Welsh defence coach, called for referee Mike Fraser to protect his players from the Tonga's indiscipline.
In their 38-18 loss to France last weekend, Tongan prop Sona Toumalolo was sent off for fighting and scrum-half Taniela Moa was sin-binned for elbowing hooker Dimitri Szarzewski.
But captain Latu responded angrily to Edwards' calls for the referee to not put up with any Tongan "nonsense."
"For me, that is an insult," the Tongan captain said.
"It is a contact sport and anybody who plays rugby, not only Tongans, Samoan and Fijians, bring that physicality into the game.
"It is something that we pride ourselves on. I think sometimes we do let it go to our head, giving away stupid penalties."
Latu has also called for referee Fraser not to be swayed by the Welsh defence coach's comments.
"It is important to say it is not going to stop us doing from what we do best, and we will leave it up to the referee," he said.
"He will call what he sees and hopefully it will be a fair match.
"We are looking for an entertaining game and I am sure Wales want the same game as well.
"Hopefully, the referee doesn't dictate the game or the outcome."
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Awesome Stuff: Stand While You Work
from the it's-good-for-you dept
- First up, is a the StandDesk -- which is a standard sit/stand alternating desk. There are lots of these on the market, though they can get a bit pricey. StandDesk's sole claim to fame seems to be that it's a lot cheaper than the competition -- which is true. It's an automated sit-stand desk going for about $400 (not including shipping). Standard automated sit-stand desks tend to be closer to $1,000 or more. When I switched to a sit-stand setup a couple years ago, I deliberately didn't buy such a desk, because it seemed too expensive. Instead, I retrofitted an existing desk with one of these. But the StandDesk definitely brings the price down.
- I'm always intrigued by people trying something new and different, so the ChairBot certainly caught my eye. It's an attempt to still let people get the best of both sitting and standing, while minimizing the harms. I have no idea if there's any real science behind it, but the idea appears to be to have the chair set at your standing height, and the chair splits in two, with either side going down to remove support from one leg or the other. The end result is that you end up "standing" with one leg while "sitting" with the other. And the ChairBot has a timer, so that every so often, you're prompted to switch. The theory is that you get the better posture associated with standing, but not the fatigue that often comes with it (though, again, I've found that goes away after a short adjustment period). You kind of have to watch the video to understand how this works:
- Finally, many people point out that you don't need a fancy contraption to have a standing desk. You can just pile some boxes or a shelf on an existing desk and get basically the same thing. So it's interesting to see someone trying to offer a collapsible desktop riser for exactly that purpose. Of course, I'm confused why this is a Kickstarter project, as there are tons of similar desktop risers on the market, and this doesn't appear to be new or unique in any significant way. Nor does it appear the creator put much effort at all into the campaign. It's one of the rare Kickstarter campaigns that doesn't even have a video. Given that, it's not too surprising that so almost no one seems to be interested in buying one (there's just one backer).


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Jamie Clark, the Virginia B. and James O. Welch, Jr. '52 Head Coach for Harvard Men's Soccer, has announced that nine student-athletes will join the Crimson in the fall of 2009.
The group consists of four defenders, two forwards, two goalkeepers and one midfielder. The class also includes three players from Massachusetts and New York and one each from California, Florida and England.
The addition of nine players brings the 2009 Harvard roster to a total of 27 student-athletes, as the Crimson will look to reach the NCAA Championship for the fourth consecutive season. Last year, Harvard advanced to the second round of the NCAA tournament and posted a 12-6-0 record.
John Bryant, Goalkeeper, Montgomery, N.Y./Valley Central
all-Section, all-State and an NSCAA Scholar All-American as a
senior ... Four-year member of the Eastern New York North Olympic
Development Program team ... Led squad to 2007 and 2009 state cup
final ... Invited to the Super Y League ODP National Camp ...
Captain of the East Fishkill Thunder travel team from 2006-09.
Brett Conrad, Goalkeeper, Orleans, Mass./Nauset Regional
Honored as Atlantic Coast League Player of the Year in 2008 ... Two-time Atlantic Coast League All-Star ... Named Boston Globe and Boston Herald All-Scholastic ... Selected as Boston Globe Division 2 Player of the Year in 2008 ... Named Eastern Massachusetts All-Star, all-state, All-New England and All-America senior year ... First All-American in school history ... Named ACL Defensive Player of the Year in 2007 ... Posted 30 career shutouts at Nauset Regional ... Member of the Massachusetts South Sectional All-Academic team senior year.
Owen Fox, Defender, Beverly, Mass./St. John's Preparatory
Named Boston Herald, Salem News and Lynn Item all-star senior year ... Honored as Eastern Massachusetts All-Star, Catholic Conference all-star and Furstenburg Cup all-star in 2008 ... Led team to state championship as a sophomore with a 22-0-1 record and a No. 6 national ranking, as well as conference championships sophomore and junior years ... Member of the Stars of Massachusetts club team that was a U-15 Massachusetts State Cup semifinalist in 2006 ... Member of FC Greater Boston Bolts that won the U-16 Massachusetts State Championship and was a U-16 Region I tournament finalist in 2007.
Scott Prozeller, Midfielder, Sudbury, Mass./Noble and Greenough School
ESPN Rise All-America honorable mention in
2008 ... State Cup MVP in 2006 ... Two-time All-Scholastic ...
Named All-Independent School League in 2007 and '08 and
received honorable mention in '06 ... Two-time all-state
honoree ... Development Academy in 2008 ... Member of the U-18
National Team and the U-18 national pool ... Led team to ISL
championship in 2007 ... Helped squad to New England Class A
semifinals in 2007, Class A quarterfinals in 2006 and 2008 and
Class B quarterfinals in 2005 ... Led FC Greater Boston Bolts to
state championship and regional final in 2006-07.
Brian Rogers, Forward, Bronxville, N.Y./Bronxville
Was nation's sixth leading scorer with 44 goals in 2008, leading team to state championship ... Gatorade New York Player of the Year 2008-09 ... NSCAA All-American in 2008 ... ESPN Rise All-American 2008-09 ... USSF U-18 Northeast Conference Starting XI in 2008 ... NSCAA all-region 2007-08 ... NSCAA first-team all-state 2007-08 ... Journal News Athlete of the Season for all fall sports as well as soccer in fall 2008 ... New York State Championship tournament MVP in 2008 ... Section I Player of the Year 2007-08 ... All-Section 2006-08 ... Conference 4 Central League MVP 2007-08 ... All-League 2004-08 ... Mt. Markham Optimist Tournament Offensive MVP 2007-08 ... New York State leading goal-scorer in 2007 and 2008 ... Played high school soccer with fellow incoming freshman Leighton Welch.
Richard Smith, Defender, Durham, England/Durham Gilegate Sixth Form Centre
Sunderland youth team to Premier Youth League championship in
2006-07 ... Led Durham City AFC to the Angrove Northern League
First Division championship in 2007-08 ... Helped Durham Gilesgate
Sixth Form Centre to County Cup, Tyneside Senior Schools Cup,
Durham County League championship and County League Cup in 2007-08
... Member of Durham City AFC that won the Unibond First Division
and Chairman's Cup championships and was a County Cup and
Challenge Cup finalist in 2008-09 ... Participated in the England
Academy team trials ... Player of the Season for Durham City and
Durham Gilesgate Sixth Form Centre in 2007-08.
Brad Stevens, Defender, Winter Garden, Fla./Trinity Preparatory
two varsity letters in soccer .... Rise Magazine All-Central
Florida team in 2007-08 ... Captained OFC club team from 2005-08
... Member of Super-Y U16 National ODP team in 2007 ... Played in
Dallas Cup from 2007-09 and at the Disney Showcase in 2008.
Leighton Welch, Defender, Bronxville, N.Y./Bronxville
Named all-league five times and all-section three times ... Led high school team to state championship senior year ... Earned six varsity letters in tennis and four in track and field ... Tennis captain junior and senior years ... AP Scholar with Distinction ... Father, Leighton '83, played soccer at Harvard ... Cousin, Elizabeth Bast '09, was a member of the Harvard fencing team .... Played high school soccer with fellow incoming freshman Brian Rogers.
Zack Wolfenzon, Forward, San Diego, Calif./La Jolla Country Day
Tabbed to ESPN Rise All-America third team ... Named to first-team all-league, All-CIF Division IV and All-San Diego County junior and senior years ... Team MVP junior and senior years ... Named San Diego County Player of the Year by XKSoccer.com senior year ... Led team to Francis Parker Cup championship in 2007 and 08 ... MVP of the tournament both years and holds the record for most goals and points in tournament history ... Led team to Coastal South League championship from 2007-08 and CIF Division IV final from 2007-08 ... Owns school records for goals (79) and points (184).


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Forgotten, But Not Lost
She never noticed him, but he sure did notice her. He loved her, cared about her, and obsessed over her. Now after not seeing her for two years he finds himself face to face with her.
1. Prologue
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Why did she have to leave? My heart is aching for the way she smiles and her laugh, oh, her laugh. Music to my ears. I've never taken a liking to school, especially English, but on the first day, I saw her there, sitting in the seat, the seat that was directly in front of mine, and I decided that maybe English wasn't half as bad anymore. She combed through her beautiful brown hair in a way that made it look like a waterfall, clear and smooth. She glanced at me once. I wish I could've held her gaze for the longest time. I made a total fool out of myself. My eyes almost popped out of their sockets, my mouth dropped, and I think that I started to drool. She made a face and quickly turned away. I didn't smile back, due to the fact that I was caught up in those beautiful chocolate brown eyes… and I completely melted.
I tried to talk to her many of times. I think only my best friend knew that I liked her and he kept on pushing me to tell her how I felt. I'm pretty sure that I wrote her a note, once. It came out sort of like this.
I cannot tell you how I really feel, well at least to your face. You are amazing. Beautiful. Intelligent. I really like you. Do you want to go out with me??
I was completely amazed that I even wrote the note that I forgot to write my name at the end. She probably thought that it was some pervert who wanted to screw with her.
I remember one time, probably the worst I have felt ever since I broke my right arm. It was the last dance of sophomore year. I wanted to ask her to the dance, but I chickened out. Pathetic, right? So I was hoping that she'd come on her own or maybe with a friend. All night, I waited and waited. I didn't realize that the dance had ended until my friend tapped me on the shoulder. He asked me if I wanted a ride home, but I said that I'd walk home. After everyone had left, I walked over to the darkest corner and for the first time since I was five, I cried. I think that I could've stayed there forever, but my mother called me, telling me the time, and saying that I was an hour and a half late. As I was walking home, I realized that I was definitely falling head over heels for this girl.
It's been exactly two years since she has moved. You would think that after this time period I would be over her. No. Wrong. Every girl that passes me doesn't exist. I don't think about them. I don't look at them. Everything around me is black, like I'm being sucked down a winding tunnel that will never have an end.
I went through three phases of those two years that were stretched throughout the whole two years. I guess my schoolwork got better, well, at least for a while. I really concentrated and I kept an A average going. My mom was so proud of me. Was. But after a while, they started plummeting, like a plane falling from the sky after its engine is busted. I quit football, track, all of the committees I was in. This is the Twilight Zone.I first went through numbness. Once she left, on January 19th, I felt numb, like there was no point in living. For ten months I felt this way. People tried to talk to me, but I ignored them. I concentrated only on my sports and my schoolwork. I went to bed early, didn't make any plans, and I cried myself to sleep every night. There was nothing left in the world for me…
October 17th. That's when I came out of this stupor. I realized that I only had at least five friends left. The only person that really was there for me was Mimi. Mimi Marquez has been my best friend ever since Billy Gardner beat me up in the first grade. We made plans for the weekend. I didn't stick to them.
I became depressed. I missed the numbness that kept the pain away. Now the pain was slowly creeping back and it felt as if someone pulled out my heart and stitched my skin back up. Mimi tried to talk to me, saying that I should see a professional. I just hit her until bruises appeared. I didn't know why she just stood there calmly while I beat her up. I still don't know why.
My grades dropped. I started to skip school a lot. I stole money from my mother and from some people in the school, even teachers. I spent that money on cigarettes and beer. Some days I had such a bad hangover that I slept in the nearest trash can. I could be gone for days. I don't know if my mother knew about it. One night she called the police because I'd been missing for a week. They found me on the side of the river knocked out with a wound in my shoulder. Supposedly I picked a fight with a gang; they shot me and then threw me over the bridge. I was in the hospital for about two weeks. Mimi and my mother visited everyday until I was better. When I was strong enough to go to school, my mother wanted me to change my schedule so that Mimi was in every class of mine. My mother saw that it was going smoothly, so she sent me to a therapist. This plan of hers only worked for about a week. By then, the depression kicked in again and I started to smoke. It was officially the "first year anniversary" since she had left. Everybody was talking about it during school and I was sick of it. I just stood up and walked out of my class. Mrs. Bloomward, my English teacher, came running after me, but it's obvious that I outran her.
I didn't know what to do after my brilliant escape. My mother was home, so I couldn't go back there. I decided to go up to my brother, Dan, in San Francisco. I stole one of those rental cars and drove, only stopping for gas. When I got there, my brother was slightly confused, but nonetheless happy to have me with him. The good thing about my brother is that he doesn't ask questions and isn't nosey. I told him that I only needed to stay with him for a few days so I could think some things over. He said it was fine, just as long that I don't need his help with anything. Our mom called three days after I left. She was bursting into tears, saying how she lost Dan and now she is losing me. Dan told me that he has never heard our mother like that, and he thought that I should go back to Phoenix. I ignored his suggestion, and just went to the front porch to have a smoke. Turned out that I stayed at Dan's house for about two months. Our mother kept on calling, probably three or four times every day. My brother kicked me out, saying that I needed to get a life and go back to mom.
I went back to Phoenix, straight to our house. I knocked on the door, and waited for her to answer it. After five minutes, she opened the door. There were big purple bags underneath her eyes, her hair was greasy and looked like straw, and looked like she just crawled out of a dumpster. Once she saw me, her eyes lightened up a little bit, but there were no body motions. She just stood there, evaluating me. I had to push down on the urge to fidget beneath her piercing gaze. Finally after what felt like an eternity, but could only have been a few moments, she opened her arms.
"Welcome home, Logan."
I threw myself into her arms and we just stayed there. Wrapped in her arms, I came to a decision. Yes, I missed Bella. Yes, she meant everything to me. But this obsession with her – for that was what it was – was not so slowly killing me and all those around me. It had to end. Or at the very least, I had to do something about it. So, starting that day, I began burying my love for her deep within myself. I figured that I'd never think of her again or feel that love once more. How wrong I was.
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text: Sydney eScholarship Community: http://hdl.handle.net/2123/5705 2018-05-21T17:44:19Z 2018-05-21T17:44:19Z From Micro to Macro: Anecdote and Citation in Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts Cooke, Verity http://hdl.handle.net/2123/17220 2017-09-20T14:05:50Z 2017-09-20T00:00:00Z Title: From Micro to Macro: Anecdote and Citation in Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts Authors: Cooke, Verity Abstract: Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts (2015) maps the story of Nelson's relationship with Harry Dodge, a genderfluid artist, from the beginnings of their relationship, through to moving in together, getting married and the eventual birth of their child, Iggy. Rather than present this intimate narrative in a linear fashion, The Argonauts is composed of fragments of reflective prose, which mobilise anecdote and citation as their central forms. This thesis draws on Heather Love's recent work on microanalysis to investigate the effects of The Argonauts' combination of the macro frames of social theory and art (the citational) with small-scale reflections of daily life (the anecdotal). It considers how Nelson uses self-disclosure to critique the queer cultural politics around maternity, kinship and caretaking. As such, this thesis demonstrates the critical potential of micro-forms of observation, description and analysis as they emerge in the aesthetic framework of life writing. 2017-09-20T00:00:00Z True Black Metal: Authenticity, Nostalgia, and Transgression in the Black Metal Scene Skadiang, Joel http://hdl.handle.net/2123/17219 2017-09-20T14:05:49Z 2017-09-20T00:00:00Z Title: True Black Metal: Authenticity, Nostalgia, and Transgression in the Black Metal Scene Authors: Skadiang, Joel Abstract: Black metal as a distinct genre of popular music is characterized by a general yearning for authenticity. This authenticity can be expressed through production values, musical techniques adopted, and style of dress and presentation among members of the scene. In this context, members of the scene are presented with a dilemma given the demand to both showcase individuality in their taste and style while also conforming to what it means to be "true" or authentic within the scene. Due to these traits, "The debates surrounding heavy metal and the people who make it – over meaning, character, behavior, values, censorship, violence, alienation, and community – mark metal as an important site for cultural contestation" (Walser 1993: 10). This thesis explores ideas surrounding authenticity in the black metal community as they are continually reproduced through the negotiation of normative relations to tradition found within the black metal community. It will also analyse the policing of its borders, examining how certain identities and practices are inherently constructed as more "authentic" to black metal while others are underrepresented, and thus may be seen as marginalized. I want to discuss the problematic conception of authenticity in the genre, in particular its static relation to the genre's history defined in terms of the styles of older "second-wave" bands (centrally those bands understood to be True Norwegian Black Metal) which are celebrated as the "hegemonic" form of black metal. As well as a discourse analysis of the scene in these terms, this thesis will centrally include a virtual ethnography of online communities for black metal fans. By examining the content and systems of distinction produced within these online communities, I will consider how the static nature of the authentic black metal style and associated "gate-keeping" in this community regulate how authenticity is produced within the scene. 2017-09-20T00:00:00Z Awkward Sex: Revisiting Rosalind Gill's Sex Advice Repertoires in the Context of New Media Listicles Wilson, Jes http://hdl.handle.net/2123/17205 2017-09-12T14:06:11Z 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Title: Awkward Sex: Revisiting Rosalind Gill's Sex Advice Repertoires in the Context of New Media Listicles Authors: Wilson, Jes Abstract: This thesis revisits Rosalind Gill's 2009 influential study of sex-advice columns in Glamour (UK) magazine in order to test her arguments about mediated intimacy within the new media genre of the listicle. This is achieved through employing a discourse and content analysis of a sample of 12 'awkward sex' listicles. While the three interpretive repertoires that Gill identifies at work in Glamour do not appear to be as actively employed in my sample, I propose that the listicles still employ 'postfeminist sensibilities' predominately through the classifier of 'awkward.' While these listicles resemble Gill's sample insofar as they remain centred on male sexual pleasure and the regulation of women's bodies, I highlight the manner in which mediated intimacy is now secured through peer-to-peer discourse rather than the expert discourse that was the focus of Gill's original study. Description: Honours Thesis 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Medical Curiosity and Tabloid Freakery: Contrasting Media Representations of Trans Children and Adults Phillips, Anna http://hdl.handle.net/2123/14029 2015-11-06T13:05:47Z 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Title: Medical Curiosity and Tabloid Freakery: Contrasting Media Representations of Trans Children and Adults Authors: Phillips, Anna Abstract: In 2014, the US edition of TIME magazine ran a cover story featuring Laverne Cox entitled 'The Transgender Tipping Point' that declared a new frontier for civil rights in North America. The article both refers to and demonstrates an increased attention towards trans people in mainstream media. Cox's rise to fame, and the discussions emerging out of her media presence, is just one example of this increased attention. In order to explore this emergence, my thesis examines the differential treatment of trans children and adults in television and print media. It uses textual and visual analysis to examine news broadcasts, talk shows, television documentaries, magazines, and newspaper articles. My conceptual framework draws from trans and queer theory, feminist theory, critical disability scholarship, and sociological analyses of childhood. This thesis demonstrates that increased visibility does not necessarily equate to trans-positive or constructive forms of representation. This is pertinent to both sensationalised and out rightly transphobic representations of adults, and to what at first glance appear as more positive or sensitive portrayals of children. Through a comparative analysis of the media's treatment of trans children and adults, the complex nature of such representations becomes clear. 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Becoming Rower: Male Embodiment and Intimacy in an Inner West Rowing Club Fogarty, Nicholas David Kemm http://hdl.handle.net/2123/14026 2015-11-06T13:05:43Z 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Title: Becoming Rower: Male Embodiment and Intimacy in an Inner West Rowing Club Authors: Fogarty, Nicholas David Kemm Abstract: While sociological analyses of masculine sporting cultures have provided us with adept explorations of discursive practices in the field, I suggest that there are deeper modalities of communication in which athlete's intentions are expressed and understood through inter-corporeal and non-cognitive processes. This transdisciplinary thesis supplements sociological analysis with a participant observational approach to explore both verbal and corporeal communication between men within the sport of rowing. I conduct ethnographic fieldwork at Kenswick, a rowing club located within Sydney's inner suburbs that was first established in 1879. Following its reincarnation after a fire in the late 1990's, the club developed a new membership demographic that now reflects that of inner Sydney more broadly. Close to half of the club's members are gay-identifying with varying degrees of sexual openness relating to the various and overlapping social and sporting circuits operating within the club. Over four months I was embedded within the elite competitive men's rowing squad across which time I observed that the combination of open and ambiguous sexual orientations resulted in tacit but strict protocols on and off the water. In line with Latour's argument that the social researcher should 'follow' (2005: 69) the interplay between human and non-human actants, I attended to the various machines engaged in the different zones of training both on and off the water. Using a combination of auto-ethnographic reflection and new materialist studies I explore how the material actants engaged in the sport of rowing engender varying inter-corporeal collaborations between men. As a result, I argue that masculine intimacy, discomfort and power must be understood on a corporeal level as well as the discursive level, with which we normally associate gender politics. 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Public and Private Parents: The Gendered Division of Labour and Australian Paid Parental Leave Policy Jones, Cassandra http://hdl.handle.net/2123/14025 2015-11-06T13:05:45Z 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Title: Public and Private Parents: The Gendered Division of Labour and Australian Paid Parental Leave Policy Authors: Jones, Cassandra Abstract: Since the 1970s, the gendered division of household labour has been an important issue for both academic disciplines and policy-makers. This thesis considers the gendered division of labour in relation to Australian family policy, arguing that policy has a particular significance to the production of gendered familial relations in liberal societies. Specifically, this thesis considers paid parental leave policy and its implications for the gendered division of childcare labour in Australian heterosexual households. In doing so, it contributes to scholarly discussions about the ways various approaches to family policy might enable or impede progress toward a more equitable division of childcare in Australia. Drawing from critical theory, feminist studies of liberalism and Raewyn Connell's work on masculinity, I provide analysis of The Coalition's Policy for Paid Parental Leave (LNP 2013) and of historical Australian family policy, considering the ways this has failed to recognise the shared responsibility of childcare labour. I argue that Australian family policy has worked to enshrine childcare responsibilities onto women and mothers. And that this history and contemporary policy framework implicitly privileges and excludes certain men. I argue that this is exemplary of the way gender hierarchies are reaffirmed by policy and the way paid parental leave policies can work to reinforce the gendered division of childcare labour. Centrally, I am interested in the power relations that are implicit in historical and contemporary Australian family policy's positioning of women and men, mothers and fathers, and in the broader question of what good policy might look like in this area. 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Bearing Responsibility:Reconceiving RU486 and the regulation of women's reproductive decisions Ryan, Rosemary http://hdl.handle.net/2123/11474 2014-07-07T16:52:46Z 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Title: Bearing Responsibility:Reconceiving RU486 and the regulation of women's reproductive decisions Authors: Ryan, Rosemary Abstract: This thesis explores the status of abortion in Australia and analyses the representations of women that are produced and relied upon in public discourse on this issue. Drawing predominantly on the field of corporeal feminist theory I examine the historical and political-legal context of abortion in Australia over time, and in particular debates concerning the medical abortion drug RU486. I argue that the debate has been informed by dualistic understandings of women as irrational, maternal vessels requiring paternalistic regulation in the interests of the reproduction of the nation. This thesis questions the assumption that oppostion to abortion is primarily motivated by concern for the foetus, and explores and elaborates the gendered and politico-cultural constructions of sexuality, the nation and women's 'natural' role that inform the debate. Finally, I demonstrate that constructs of morality, rationality, sexuality and the nation have: been informed and limited by dualistic imaginaries of women and in response I argue for the feminist potential of an alternative embodied ethical framework. 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z "HAIR IS IT, FOR AFRICANS:" African-Australian Hair Stories Konneh, Ameisa Meima http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9763 2013-12-03T15:52:29Z 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z Title: "HAIR IS IT, FOR AFRICANS:" African-Australian Hair Stories Authors: Konneh, Ameisa Meima Abstract: This thesis examines the relationship African-Australian men and women have with their hair. Through open-ended interviews with seven African-Australian men and women, aged 22-63, this thesis analyses the cultural significance of hair and its methods of stylization in the African-Australian diaspora. Building upon empiricism and scholarship from the United States and Britain, this thesis broadens the debate by including the voices of African-Australians. It explores the highly ritualized modes of black hairstyling practices in Australia as intra-racially disciplined, managed and contained. I examine Afro-diasporic hair practices of weaving, braiding, and going 'natural,' through established frameworks that psychologise and depsychologise black hair practices. This thesis problematises academic and socio-cultural arguments that situate Afro-diasporic women who choose to process their hair as engaged in 'inauthentic' practices engendered by self-hatred, low self-esteem, and the desire to be white. I explore the gendered nature of Afro-diasporic hairstyling, and the significant burden of representation placed upon African-Australian girls and women to perform culture on behalf of the African-Australian diaspora. Finally, this thesis examines the industrial and personal economy of black hair as imbricated with the explicit and implicit labour of African-Australian identity. 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z "Quality TV": The reinvention of U.S. television Fuller, Sean http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9556 2013-11-22T17:52:39Z 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z Title: "Quality TV": The reinvention of U.S. television Authors: Fuller, Sean Abstract: This thesis examines the rise to prominence of a new form of "quality television" that has appeared in the U.S. since the 1990s. There are competing and sometimes conflicting ways to define "quality television", depending on different histories and prioritising different characteristics - sometimes production methods, sometimes viewing and distribution practices, and sometimes genre hybridity and transformation. For each, however, the 1990s is a watershed decade. The mainstreaming of cable television, the new dominance of video and then DVD collections of series, a decline in broadcast television's audience share and the rapid expansion of the internet as an entertainment media option together created new opportunities for a more 'cinematic' television that hailed an active audience interested in formally and narratively challenging television. Every account of quality television turns on claims to exceed and subvert the expectations of existing television formats and genres while also using those to attract an audience. This is famously exemplified by the 90s HBO slogan "It's not TV. It's HBO" (since 2011 just "it's HBO"). This apparent difference is only partly about heightened production values. Quality television tends to foreground genre hybridity, genre self-reflexivity, and intertextuality, and its viewers have become associated with dedicated fandom and new viewing practices such as "binge viewing", the increasing frequency of watching "off-air", and torrent culture. The quality television viewer is appealed to by, and not in spite of, their status as a niche audience, and the cultural value accruing to their niche status has transformed investment in casting, scripting, acting directing, producing and critically evaluating television. Quality television has not only become a dominant television format but the benchmark against which "mainstream" television is measured. To develop this argument I employ textual and discourse analysis and critical theory, and refer to a range of series produced between 1990 and 2013. These include Twin Peaks (1990-91), The X-Files (1993-2002), The Sopranos (1999-2007), The Wire (2002-2008), Breaking Bad (2008—), Game of Thrones (2011—), Girls (2012—) and House of Cards (2013—). These examples offer an historical range of U.S. television since 1990 with emphasis on developments that I argue have brought quality television to its current visibility. 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z Ventriloqueer: Finding Voice in the Strange Boyhoods of Disney Princesses Pena, Camilo Enrique http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9555 2013-11-22T17:52:35Z 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z Title: Ventriloqueer: Finding Voice in the Strange Boyhoods of Disney Princesses Authors: Pena, Camilo Enrique Abstract: This thesis considers two samples from the Disney Princess film canon as texts that can speak to, and be reclaimed in the name of, queer experience. Ron Clements and John Musker's The Little Mermaid (1989), and Nathan Greno and Byron Howard's Tangled (2011) are the texts examined to propose such a notion. Conceived within the qualitative methodological tradition of autoethnography, the autobiographical genre of writing where personal lived experiences are related back to the cultural, this thesis utilises the autoethnographic mode as both text and method to interpret Tangled and The Little Mermaid. Comparative to other qualitative methods, autoethnography enables this project's exploration of the different ways in which one can receive, interpret, reclaim, and experiment with the type of texts one can produce when playing with voice. Operating on a less obvious level, this thesis critiques language as a symbolic order of gender binarism and heterosexuality through unconventional writing practices. By narrating my coming out story through Tangled as a creative vessel, Chapter Two mobilises Ken Plummer's notion of the coming-out post-narrative. Chapter Three examines a queer relation to temporality through The Little Mermaid that draws on Josè Esteban Muñoz's theory of futurity to offer, in the lexicon of Eve Sedgwick, a reparative model for thinking about queer ontology. 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z Ditch the Witch: Julia Gillard and gender in Australian public discourse Woodward, Marian http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9554 2013-11-22T17:52:38Z 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z Title: Ditch the Witch: Julia Gillard and gender in Australian public discourse Authors: Woodward, Marian Abstract: This thesis explores the interplay of gender, media, politics and women's political representation in Australia. I examine how the Australian media has tended to reinforce rather than challenge dominant cultural aspects of Australian politics. Specifically, I analyse the ways in which Australian media has reflected women's marginalisation in parliament. As Australia's first female head of state, Julia Gillard's term as Prime Minister provides a unique opportunity to analyse explicit and implicit ways in which gender has been used by media commentators in their assessment of her achievements. Analysis of the media's treatment of Julia Gillard is used throughout the thesis, as her time in office exposed underlying conflicts surrounding gender and sexism in Australian media and public discourse. Media response to Gillard's so-called Misogyny Speech is used as a particular case study. The thesis draws on a range of scholarship and commentary, including the works of Erving Goffman, Walter Lippmann, Pierre Bourdieu, Robin Lakoff, Anne Summers, Julia Baird, Pippa Norris and Marian Sawer, to construct a framework through which to examine the period of Gillard's prime ministership. The last two writers (Norris and Sawer), inter alia, discuss the significance of women's representation in parliament. In particular, the analysis highlights the significance of Anne Summers' contribution to Australian feminism and draws on her Newcastle Speech (August 2012). I argue that Summers' ideas and writing have been influential in shaping public discourse on Julia Gillard. I place the widely varied media responses to Gillard's Misogyny Speech into a historical and comparative context to demonstrate the conflict within Australian society around issues of gender, feminism and female participation in public life. 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z Brief Encounter: Sex and Intimacy in Andrew Haigh's "Weekend" Sharkey, Grace http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9553 2013-11-22T17:52:38Z 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z Title: Brief Encounter: Sex and Intimacy in Andrew Haigh's "Weekend" Authors: Sharkey, Grace Abstract: This thesis is an exploration of the representation of gay male intimacy in Andrew Haigh's "Weekend" (2011), a film about a brief encounter between two men. The thesis stages a second brief encounter between Haigh's film and Lauren Berlant's writing on feeling. Where Berlant's ideas are originally worked out in relation to the genre of melodrama and the female complaint, I translate her ideas about intimacy and cruel optimism into the space of ordinary gay life as represented in Haigh's film. 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z Snog, Marry or Avoid? Class, taste and the making of selfhood in makeover televison Murphy, Caitlin http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8864 2013-01-11T17:52:31Z 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Title: Snog, Marry or Avoid? Class, taste and the making of selfhood in makeover televison Authors: Murphy, Caitlin Abstract: 'Snog, Marry or Avoid?: Class, taste and the labour of selfhood in makeover television', is an exploration of the way social stratification is visited on individual and collective corporeality, externalised through the mechanics of taste and regulated within the makeover television genre. Research for this thesis has been primarily informed by the theory of French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, who, in the latter half of the twentieth century, aimed to expose the role of culture as implicated in the functioning of power within capitalist societies. Bourdieu's work reminds us that social stratification is inevitably inscribed on corporeality, through the structure of habitus and its relation to capital. This thesis demonstrates how class often informs the subtext of makeover television – as middle-class tastes are held as the key to affecting legitimate selfhood – yet social difference is subsumed in the ideology of individualism. These concepts are developed with reference to Snog Marry Avoid? (2008--), a British 'make-under' series that subtly works to equate middle-class taste with a 'natural', desirable state of being. Through examination of this text, questions are raised about the arbitrariness of 'good' taste, the durability of habitus and how these constructs inhibit social mobility and interpersonal success. Ultimately, this thesis figures as an indictment of the way (classed) bodies are devalued by discourses of self-legitimation. 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z "Say no to burqas": geographies of nation and citizenship in Newtown Bull-McMahon, Aimee http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8863 2013-01-11T17:52:30Z 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Title: "Say no to burqas": geographies of nation and citizenship in Newtown Authors: Bull-McMahon, Aimee Abstract: This thesis is concerned with the ways in which instances of everyday racism reproduce geographies of national belonging and exclusion in the city, focusing specifically on an activist campaign in Newtown, Australia, which called on the community to 'Say no to burqas'. The focal point of this one-man campaign was a large, street facing mural, depicting a veiled woman, crossed out inside a red circle. The mural attracted much community opposition, and was defaced over sixty-four times. This thesis deconstructs the ways in which the mural campaign inscribed a particular national imaginary onto Newtown, constituted through the exclusion of the Muslim other; attending to the roots of this imaginary in racialised and gendered regimes of citizenship which privilege white, liberal civility. It goes on to show how the mural both reproduced, and was implicated in, the classed geographies of Australian multiculturalism, which figure the inner city as diverse and cosmopolitan, in opposition to the suburban as a site of ethnic criminality and multicultural failure. Finally, this thesis looks to various instances of organised opposition to the mural as examples of insurgent citizenship, capable of reimagining the relationship between place, nation and political community, in response to the ethical, political and practical task of living together in the multicultural city. 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z 'What A Girl Wants, What A Girl Needs': Father-Daughter Intimacies in Therapeutic Literature and Teen Film Ewen, Monique http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8686 2014-01-09T20:46:06Z 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Title: 'What A Girl Wants, What A Girl Needs': Father-Daughter Intimacies in Therapeutic Literature and Teen Film Authors: Ewen, Monique Abstract: This dissertation tracks the operations of broken family discourse through both therapeutic literature and popular teen film. It is interested in the way that young women and girls are implicated in supporting and maintaining the authority of fathers across separated families. The girl--‐power oriented films of the 1990s and 2000s are offered as a productive source for understanding the agency and complex subjectivity of girls who negotiate families marked by separation. In comparison to this girl--‐centric discourse, it is argued the therapeutic literature creates narrow and limited subject positions for girls as either innocent saviours or vulnerable victims of 'broken' families. In addition, it is argued that aspects of the therapeutic literature perpetuate established gender divisions and apportion blame to mothers for the breakdown of the traditional family unit. To explore these issues the first half of this dissertation surveys the therapeutic field on marriage and divorce, looking in particular at keywords in the Journal of Divorce and Remarriage and a recent review article published in this journal: Linda Nielsen's 'Divorced Fathers and Their Daughters: A Review of Research' (2011). The second half of the dissertation explores the interaction between fantasy, fairy--‐tale and girl--‐power in teen films from 1995 to 2007, looking in particular at What A Girl Wants (2003) starring Amanda Bynes and Colin Firth. The discussion of these texts is framed within the field of girlhood studies, and draws on theories of 'tween' culture and feminist concerns about commercialisation and agency. Taking a discursive rather than aesthetic approach to the film text, I employ an interpretative strategy that takes seriously the desires and disavowals expressed in fictional narratives directed at teen or iv pre--‐teen audiences. As I hope to demonstrate, contemporary films targeted at girls have the capacity to narrativise these concerns in ways that shift the debate about divorced families away from a pathologising account of the damaged child. They direct us instead towards a more productive understanding of how changing family dynamics are actively negotiated by all parties—including those female minors otherwise understood to be outside of, and at risk from, the devolution and reformation of adult intimacies. Keywords: girlhood, gender, sexuality, fathers, daughters, teen film, family 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Seeing blue: negotiating the politics of Avatar media activism Mitchell, Emma http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8038 2012-01-13T18:06:18Z 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Title: Seeing blue: negotiating the politics of Avatar media activism Authors: Mitchell, Emma Abstract: This thesis examines how the Hollywood blockbuster Avatar (2009) has been taken-up in media activism directed towards Indigenous struggles against imperialism. It assumes the importance of locating this phenomenon within the discursive and material regimes that mediate, enable, and constrain it. I therefore offer a contextualised analysis of the film and media relating to its appropriation, which focuses on the representational practices and structural mechanisms that inform the production, circulation, and reception of the texts. This approach emphasises the tensions and contradictions that underpin activists' relationship to the media they mobilise. Such contradictions are particularly apparent in relation to the politics of race that shape Avatar, the Indigenous activism that references it, and the media regimes that make this possible. The very forces that marginalise Indigenous voices empower auteur James Cameron to speak on their behalf and to be heard. Activists must also negotiate the tension between co-opting media spectacle and being commercialised as spectacle. However, refusing a simple critique of the representations activists deploy as media spectacles, I argue for a model that foregrounds the alliances that they seek to engender. Drawing on the work of feminist scholars Oliver (2001) and Deslandes (2010), I signal a theoretical approach that focuses on how the mediated spectator relates to such representations and insists on the spectator's responsibility to respond. Acknowledging that the tensions that animate Avatar media activism can be both constrictive and creative, this project seeks a model that maximises the potential for the latter. It thus resists the paralysis of activism that can come with critiquing how we fight for the world we imagine. 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Menstruating the Past, Consuming the Future: Analysing Sanitary Hygiene Products through the work of Walter Benjamin Howse, Eloise http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8037 2012-05-01T17:08:19Z 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Title: Menstruating the Past, Consuming the Future: Analysing Sanitary Hygiene Products through the work of Walter Benjamin Authors: Howse, Eloise Abstract: This thesis explores how the menstruating subject is articulated in contemporary consumer culture and through practices of consumption. This results in an alternate reading of the menstruating subject that brings together broader questions related to modernity and history. Consumption in modernity occupies a troubled place for feminist theorists and activists; considering consumption requires the rejection of assumptions about the consumer as a blank slate on which advertisers and marketers write their products. The assumed passivity of the young female consumer is also readily questioned, particularly in relation to sanitary hygiene products. Using the work of Walter Benjamin, particularly his ideas of "now-time", the dialectical image and technological reproducibility, allows for a different type of analysis of the menstruating subject in modernity. Understanding how the past, present and future are constructed in current sanitary hygiene product advertising and branding leads to new ways of accessing the everyday for young women in contemporary Australia. Benjamin"s literary trope of the fragment is also discussed and used in conjunction with the cultural artefacts of everyday objects and commodities. Looking at the visual and digital media of two brands of sanitary hygiene products Moxie and U by Kotex, framed by an autoethnographic approach, I offer a way of considering menstruation and consumption together whilst also suggesting new possibilities for how we frame the everyday for young women in modernity. 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The Great British Binge Drinking Debate Redden, Guy http://hdl.handle.net/2123/5860 2010-02-11T11:34:48Z 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Title: The Great British Binge Drinking Debate Authors: Redden, Guy Abstract: Guy Redden questions some of the assumptions behind recent measures to discourage binge drinking. 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Redden, G. (2003). "Read the Whole Thing: Journalism, Weblogs and the Re-mediation of the War in Iraq." Redden, Guy http://hdl.handle.net/2123/5859 2010-02-11T11:34:47Z 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z Title: Redden, G. (2003). "Read the Whole Thing: Journalism, Weblogs and the Re-mediation of the War in Iraq." Authors: Redden, Guy Abstract: The Net's uses are now diverse, covering many aspects of commerical, public and private life. The idea that it transforms all activities in the same or equivalent ways is no longer tenable. This paper examines a particular form of online activity—weblogging, and how it has allowed for specific new forms of popular political communication in the context of the Second Gulf War. After describing the basics of weblogging, the paper discusses Western media coverage of the war and then shows how 'warbloggers' positioned themselves vis-à-vis media coverage and propaganda, creating commentaries that frequently combined media and political criticism. While bloggers of every political hue offered a range of perspectives and personal styles, some general tendencies are evident in warblogging discourse. The piece ends by questioning the significance of warblogging in terms of its potential contribution to democratic communication. 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z Grassroots and Digital Branches in the Age of Transversal Politics Redden, Guy http://hdl.handle.net/2123/5858 2010-02-11T11:34:47Z 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Title: Grassroots and Digital Branches in the Age of Transversal Politics Authors: Redden, Guy 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Intellectual disability, sensation and thinking through affect Hickey-Moody, Anna http://hdl.handle.net/2123/5783 2009-12-11T11:33:18Z 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Title: Intellectual disability, sensation and thinking through affect Authors: Hickey-Moody, Anna 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Making over the Talent Show Redden, Guy http://hdl.handle.net/2123/5729 2009-11-29T23:59:34Z 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Title: Making over the Talent Show Authors: Redden, Guy 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z


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Allie Heffington just returned from the National Make-It-With-Wool Contest in San Antonio, Texas, and represented the state of Tennessee while in San Antonio.
The National Finals is a wonderful honor and testament to the contestant's modeling and construction skills. The American Sheep Industry Association, American Sheep Industry Women, Mohair Council of America and Pendleton Woolen Mills sponsor the annual contest which is held in conjunction with the American Sheep Industry (ASI) Annual Sheep Convention.
Allie competed and won the junior contest in the Tennessee Make-it-With-Wool Contest (TMIWW) which was held during the Lincoln County Fair. The Lincoln County Fair Association awarded Miss Heffington with her travel money to San Antonio and the TMIWW and Pendleton Woolen Mills awarded beautiful wool yardage for future wool garments. Mrs. Wendy Collins of Images and Miss Jennifer Hale, a former 4-H'er, directed the state wool contest.
The Wool Industry states that the national contestants' garments were created with skill born of practice and tenacity, reflected the beauty and versatility of the fiber and produced naturally from renewable resources. Wool is an extraordinary fiber that created a wonderful array of garments on the runway for this National Make-It-With-Wool Style Show which was the finale of the three-day event. The contestants from all over the United States were judged modeling their garments, interviewed by a panel of judges and experts, and their outfits were then judged for construction.
The wool for each garment was tested by the Montana State University Wool Lab prior to the contest.
Allie chose a chocolate brown 100 percent Pendleton wool dress with bell sleeves and a boat neck featured on "Project Runway." The chocolate wool had a linear twill pattern and was a lightweight wool offering great style and shape for the selected pattern. The dress was belted with a plaid of chocolate brown, gold, and crimson red 100 percent Pendleton wool. Allie also selected this plaid to construct the fully-lined mini capelet. She accessorized her outfit with a brown wool hat that featured a wool rose of the plaid. Allie said the complete ensemble was constructed from three different patterns featuring McCall's and Simplicity manufacturers.
A sophomore at Fayetteville High School, Allie is the daughter of John and Allison Heffington. She is the granddaughter of Bob and Wanda Williams and Doug Heffington and the great-granddaughter of Naomi Wallace. Allie is the fourth generation to live on her family's farm. Along with her brothers, she breeds and shows Suffolk and Hampshire sheep representing Triple L Livestock. She began sewing in the fourth grade as an Explorer 4-H'er and has been sewing ever since. When she was a little girl, she would sketch fashion designs for hours.
Allie loves that her sewing took her all the way to San Antonio, Texas. While there, she enjoyed the Riverwalk, The Alamo, Alamo Plaza and the Natural Bridge Caverns.


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Alexander Edler and Mats Sundin scored in the first 6 minutes, Roberto Luongo made 28 saves, and the Vancouver Canucks held on for a 3-1 victory over the San Jose Sharks on Saturday night.
Joe Thornton pulled the Sharks within one on a power play with
2.9 seconds left in the second period, but Canucks defenseman Kevin
Bieksa restored the two-goal cushion on a power-play one-timer
almost 12 minutes into the third.
Ryan Kesler added two assists for Vancouver, which won for the
12th time in the last 14 games, but the first time in almost two
full years against San Jose.
Brian Boucher, making his fifth straight start while No. 1
goalie Evgeni Nabokov recovers from a lower-body injury, made 26
saves for the Sharks, who remain tied with Detroit atop the Western
Conference after losing four straight (0-3-1).
Missing injured forwards Jeremy Roenick, Mike Grier, Claude
Lemieux, Torrey Mitchell and Marcel Goc, San Jose got Travis Moen
into the lineup for his first game since acquiring him from Anaheim
on Wednesday. But they lost Rob Blake to an apparent leg injury
late in the second, and the 39-year-old defenseman did not finish
the game.
The Sharks had won seven straight meetings dating to the last
Vancouver win on April 7, 2007. After being swept last season by
San Jose, the Canucks were outscored 11-3 while losing the first
three of this season's four-game series.
But it was apparent early that the streak might end Saturday.
Edler opened the scoring on a delayed penalty 3:15 in,
one-timing a hard slap shot through Alex Burrows' screen and under
before Boucher could get his pads down flush on the ice. Sundin
doubled the lead less than three minutes later.
Left alone in front, Sundin took Pavol Demitra's pass from
behind the net, deked to his backhand and lifted it behind Boucher,
ending a 10-game goal drought.
Vancouver had another apparent goal waved off 27 seconds later,
as the whistle blew just before Burrows whacked in a puck sitting
in front of Boucher's pads.
The Canucks were outshooting San Jose 8-2 at that point but,
after managing just one on a power play, the Sharks carried much of
the play the rest of the period en route to a 12-2 shot advantage
over the final 13 minutes.
Luongo kept them scoreless with a couple of left pad saves off
Ryan Clowe at the side of the net on a power play, and Milan
Michalek hit the cross bar after a defensive zone breakdown allowed
him to walk in alone form the high slot.
Luongo then made his best save with just under 5 minutes left in
the period, dropping his stick and diving to swipe the puck out of
the air with the palm of his blocker after a shot caromed off
bodies in front and toward an empty net.
Vancouver re-established a territorial and shot advantage in the
second period, thanks in part to three straight power plays. But
Boucher, who gave up a goal from center ice while blowing a 3-0
lead to Minnesota Thursday, made several great saves - the best
sliding across on Daniel Sedin and Sami Salo - and Thornton scored
on a power play with 2.9 seconds left in the period.
Thornton had an empty net after Canucks forward Ryan Johnson
cleared a loose puck right to him from the slot with Luongo down in
a scramble. Vancouver's goalie wasn't the only one slow to get up
after the play, as Blake also needed help to get off the ice. Blake
was taken to the ice by Edler in the scramble, but may have also
been hit by the shot, and got up favoring his right leg.
Bieksa made it 3-1 on just Vancouver's second shot of the third
period, and Luongo kept it that way with a sprawling glove save on
Jonathan Cheechoo.
Nabokov did not make the trip to Vancouver, but is expected
to be join the Sharks when their three-game road continues Tuesday
in Minnesota.
The Canucks announced during the game that they would
play an exhibition game Sept. 14 against the New York Islanders in
Terrace. The town, about 500 miles northwest of Vancouver, gets to
host the game after being chosen "Hockeyville 2009" as part of a
contest on CBC's "Hockey Night in Canada" broadcasts. Game
highlights will be broadcast in a one-hour special on CBC, and the
community of Terrace, with a population of 11,320 in a 2006 census,
receives $100,000 from contest co-sponsor Kraft Canada to be used
for arena upgrades.


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Scientific Sister study
And this study does have to do with the investigation into women religious, not brains [1]. Researchers were inspired by our survey of ordinary Catholics about the Apostolic Visitation [2] and conducted their own, scientific poll, according to National Catholic Reporter [3].
Regular readers may remember the big to-do over whether our poll was "attacked" by so-called traditional Catholics (labels never fit exactly but that's the best I can come up with). The quick poll [4] and survey attracted more participants (2,300 and 1,700 respectively) than any other survey up to that point--it's been since dwarfed by the survey about the new translations, coming out in July. It's important to note that we have never claimed our surveys to be scientific. Surveys are a way to generate conversation, and it's quite interesting to see how our subscribers' opinions differ from the opinions of those who just linked to the survey on these big topics.
But our survey did leave me wondering who really was in the minority, so I'm thankful for the scientific study conducted by Knowledge Networks. There are definitely some differences between their results and ours (I wish the questions were more similar).
No matter their opinion, those who visit a Catholic website and take the time to fill out a survey obviously care about the issue. On the quick poll, 82 percent said the apostolic visitation was necessary or reasonable and justified. Of our subscribers, 64 percent said it was either insulting and unjustified or unnecessary.
Almost half of those responding to Knowledge Networks' questions, however, said they had no opinion about the visitation. They just don't care either way. It's hard to tell from the other choices whether respondents were for or against the visitation: unconcerned (26 percent); "probably meant to quiet the nuns who are seen as critical of some Vatican teachings" (7 percent); "take pressure off the sexual abuse scandal" (7 percent), or "warranted for reasons that may escape ordinary Catholics" (7 percent). (Exact numbers thanks to USA Todays Faith and Reason blog.) [5]
That said, the randomly selected survey participants have the same perception of women religious and their ministries as our subscribers--Sisters generally do good for others. Interesting sidenote: the 4 percent of people who thought women religious don't do much are all men. More than half (53 percent) say women religious should speak out on issues based on their consciences, but again, a full 23 percent don't have an opinion.
It's easy to get caught up in the ideological fights over church issues, but it's also good to remind ourselves that many Catholics simply don't care about these issues. No matter where you stand, the real question might be how to get that large minority of Catholics to care. I doubt that more inner-church fighting does the trick.
See our special section on the investigation into women religious [6]


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So I had wrote an article for here entitled TBP... which went up on the site on June 22nd. As it went up I had mentioned to Markuz that the site seemed to be running slow; as it turns out it was my connection. Which has only been rectified today.
You won't have seen much of me on here recently as posting anything more than 5 words at a time meant the webpage timing out. Flicking between pages in the forum was slow to non existant and sometimes didn't load in at all. And seeing as my comments on the articles can be a little wordy, I haven't been able to appreciate the fine writing that has been posted. Therefore I haven't been reading them as I wanted to wait until I could post again.
I'll give you an example of how bad it was in an ironic fashion. I did manage to read the thread regarding adding a Like button to the articles and people saying how they felt posting a comment was the best way to like an article. As I wasn't able to post to the articles, I thought it would be funny to post a reply in the thread which read:
Not... enough... bandwidth... to... comme.......
Only to not have enough upload bandwidth to post the comment. However, as you can see by this wall of words, I'm back - The incredibly polite and nice guy who still unaccountably tells bad jokes/puns.
I have alot to catch up on and I will get through all those articles until I'm up to date.
As for all your bitches who have been taking advantage of my down time and beating my scores in the Arcade, I have you on a list, a special list. Oh yes, a special list. I had managed to get some higher scores at times but could not submit the score, but I'll be back to claim some of those top spots.
All presents and kind words to welcome me back to the interaction on the site start now...


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FlightStats, sources and statistics on punctuality
The figures in the statistics are taken from FlightStats Analytics, and is based on a 15-minute arrival punctuality. FlightStats documents the results of 150,000 flights every day. They provide statistics and analysis, and real time status of flights, to millions of travellers worldwide. For more information about Flight Stats, see www.flightstats.com. For more information about FlightStats' poll "On-Time Performance Service Awards", visit http://opsawards.flightstats.com.
2011: Europe's most punctual throughout the year. The world's most punctual in July and August.
2010: Europe's most punctual throughout the year. The world's most punctual in August.
2009: Europe's most punctual throughout the year. Third place in the world.
Source: FlightStats.com 2011
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