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AbleData provides information on assistive products and rehabilitation equipment for people with disabilities. AbleData's most significant resource is the AbleData database of assistive technology, which contains objective information on over 40,000 assistive products. Each product listing provides a detailed description of the product's functions and features, price information (when available), and contact information for the product's manufacturer and distributors. AbleData also offers information on non-commercial prototypes, customized and one-of-a-kind products, and do-it-yourself designs. All of AbleData's information resources are available for free at www.abledata.com. Staff are available to respond to telephone, email or written requests, 8:30 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. Eastern Time, Monday through Friday. AbleData is funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, U.S. Department of Education.
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Created in 1973, the Board is the federal agency which develops minimum guidelines and requirements for standards issued under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Architectural Barriers Act (ABA), develops accessibility guidelines for telecommunications equipment and customer premises equipment under the Telecommunications Act, develops accessibility standards for electronic and information technology under section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act, provides technical assistance on those guidelines and standards, and enforces the Architectural Barriers Act.
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The Clearinghouse provides information to people with disabilities, or anyone requesting information, by doing research and providing documents in response to inquiries. The information provided includes areas of federal funding for disability-related programs. Clearinghouse staff is trained to serve as experts in referring requests to other sources of disability-related information, if necessary. This office is in the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) which is divided into three areas: the Office of Special Education Programs, the rehabilitation Services Administration, and the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research. Information provided may be useful to disabled individuals and their families, schools and universities, teacher's and/or school administrators, and organizations which have persons with disabilities as clients.
Review Date: Sunday, September 11, 2011
The National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR) is a federal government grants-making agency that sponsors grantees to generate new disability and rehabilitation knowledge and promote its use and adoption. Promoting the use and adoption of new disability and rehabilitation knowledge by various stakeholders helps people with disabilities in the following ways: it improves their ability to perform activities of their choice in the community, and it expands society's capacity to provide full opportunities and accommodations for its citizens with disabilities.
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National Rehabilitation Information Center, funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, was established in 1977 and provides information on rehabilitation and disability-related materials. NARIC prepares bibliographies tailored to specific requests, and assists in locating answers to questions such as places, names, addresses, and statistics. NARIC's collection includes materials relevant to disability and rehabilitation. The collection contains more than 200 periodical titles and more than 60,000 research reports, books, and audiovisual materials. Coordination and information exchange with other information resources is maintained. The public can use the NARIC collection or order materials from the Center. DATABASE: REHABDATA, an online computerized database, includes bibliographic information and abstracts for the entire NARIC collection, including materials produced from 1950 to the present. Direct access to the database is through the NARIC Web page. Customized searches are available for nominal fees. There is a charge for photo duplication.
Review Date: Wednesday, February 03, 2010
The Veterans Administration was established in 1930 and elevated to cabinet level on March 15, 1989, and is now the Department of Veterans Affairs. The VA provides a wide range of veterans' benefits in such areas as health care, education, housing, disability pensions, and life insurance. Through its network of hospitals, clinics, and nursing homes, the VA provides a full range of medical, long-term care, and patient support services. Veterans with service-related illnesses or injuries receive priority for VA medical services, and special consideration is also given to veterans who are in financial need, over 65 years old, or holders of the Congressional Medal of Honor. The VA is also involved in medical research and the training of health professionals. Training programs include graduate, undergraduate, and continuing education, a medical library, and assistance for health manpower training institutions. VA benefits are restricted to U.S. military veterans.
Established in 1977, the Academy of Dispensing Audiologists (ADA) is a national organization that fosters and supports the professional dispensing of hearing aids by qualified audiologists in rehabilitative practice, encourages audiology training programs to include pertinent aspects of hearing aid dispensing in their curricula, supports research in relevant areas of aural rehabilitation, works cooperatively with individuals and organizations in improving hearing aid dispensing services, and provides guidance for audiologists interested in dispensing hearing aids as part of their rehabilitative practice.
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The American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation was founded to maximize the quality of life while minimizing the incidence, severity and prevalence of physical impairments and disabilities. The AAPM&R also promotes societal health and enhances the understanding of the field of physical medicine and rehabilitation. AAPM&R is the national medical specialty society of more than 6,500 physiatrists - physicians specializing in physical medicine and rehabilitation.
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American Leprosy Missions (ALM), founded in 1906, is a nonprofit, Christian medical mission supporting more than 100 programs in approximately 20 countries. ALM provides anti-leprosy drugs, surgical intervention for disabilities, training of health workers, research, public information programs, and physical and vocational rehabilitation assistance. The Mission collaborates with member agencies of the International Federation of Anti-Leprosy Associations (ILEP) and Christian medical missions.
Review Date: Friday, January 02, 2009
Music Therapy is the clinical and evidence-based use of music interventions to accomplish individualized goals within a therapeutic relationship by a credentialed professional who has completed an approved music therapy program. The American Music Therapy Association works to advance public awareness of the benefits of music therapy and to increase access to quality music therapy services in a rapidly changing world.
Review Date: Friday, January 13, 2012
The American Occupational Therapy Association is a national professional society established in 1917 to represent the interests and concerns of occupational therapy practitioners, and to improve the quality of occupational therapy services. Occupational therapy is a vital health care service whose practitioners help to restore and sustain the highest quality of productive life to persons recovering from illnesses or injuries, or coping with developmental disabilities or changes resulting from the aging process. Current AOTA membership numbers approximately 42,000, including occupational therapists, occupational therapy assistants, and occupational therapy students. Members reside in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and 65 foreign countries. AOTA's major programs and activities are directed toward assuring the quality of occupational services; improving consumer access to healthcare services, and promoting the professional development of members.
Review Date: Thursday, February 14, 2013
The American Physical Therapy Association (APTA), is a national professional organization representing physical therapists, physical therapist assistants, and students throughout the United States. The Association's efforts are directed toward serving its members and the public by increasing the understanding of the physical therapist's role in the nation's health care system and by fostering improvements in physical therapy education, practice and research. Headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, APTA works to fulfill its objectives in the areas of accreditation, clinical research, continuing education, legislative representation, minority and international issues, practice issues, publications, and more.
Review Date: Thursday, January 19, 2012
The Better Hearing Institute (BHI) is a not-for-profit corporation that educates the public about the neglected problem of hearing loss and what can be done about it. Founded in 1973, BHI is working to (1) erase the stigma and end the embarrassment that prevents millions of people from seeking help for hearing loss (2) show the negative consequences of untreated hearing loss for millions of Americans (3) promote treatment and demonstrate that this is a national problem that can be solved.
BHI uses the media, the web site and other communications forums to give the facts about hearing loss and promote better hearing; produces and disseminates educational materials; conducts authoritative research on the incidence of hearing loss, the benefits of treatment, the consequences of ignoring it and related topics; operates a call center for consumers who have questions about hearing loss. (Call 1-800-EARWELL.)
Review Date: Thursday, April 28, 2011
Birth Defect Research for Children, Inc. (BDRC) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that provides parents and expectant parents with information about birth defects and support services for their children. BDRC has a parent-matching program that links families who have children with similar birth defects. BDRC also sponsors the National Birth Defect Registry, a research project that studies associations between birth defects and exposures to radiation, medication, alcohol, smoking, chemicals, pesticides, lead, mercury, dioxin and other environmental toxins. Each year, BDRC responds to thousands of birth defect information requests from all over the world. BDRC's on-line environmental health updates provide thousands of parents, professionals and organizations with daily news on the latest birth defect research.
Review Date: Thursday, September 17, 2015
The Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation (CPR) is a research, training, and service organization dedicated to improving the lives of persons who have psychiatric disabilities by improving the effectiveness of people, programs, and service systems. The Center's mission is to increase knowledge in the field of psychiatric rehabilitation; to train treatment personnel; to develop effective rehabilitation programs; and to assist in organizing both personnel and programs into efficient and coordinated service delivery systems. The Center is affiliated with Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences and the Department of Rehabilitation Counseling at Boston University.
Colorado Department of Human Services consists of over 7,500 county or state employees dedicated to providing human services to Colorado residents. It provides services through 63 county or district departments of social services, 2 State Maternal Health Institutes, 10 Youth Corrections Facilities, 5 Nursing Homes, 28 Vocational Rehabilitation Offices, 3 regional Centers for persons with developmental disabilities, and numerous community-based public and private providers. In addition CDHS contracts with several agencies to provide human services. CDHS also administers and provides oversight for a variety of federally funded programs. The Department has five goals, or desired outcomes, for the individuals and families who receive services. they are: economic self-sufficiency; family and community connections; health and rehabilitation; independent living; and safety.
Review Date: Tuesday, August 30, 2011
The mission of CARF is to promote the quality, value, and optimal outcomes of services through a consultative accreditation process that centers on enhancing the lives of the persons served. CARF develops and maintains current, field-driven standards that improve the value and responsiveness of the programs and services delivered to people in need of rehabilitation and other life enhancement services; recognizes organizations that achieve accreditation through a consultative peer-review process and demonstrate their commitment to the continuous improvement of their programs and services with a focus on the needs and outcomes of the persons served; conducts accreditation research emphasizing outcomes measurement and management; provides information on common program strengths as well as areas needing improvement; and provides consultation, education, training, and publications that support organizations in achieving and maintaining accreditation of their programs and services.
The Disabled American Veterans (DAV) was chartered by Congress in 1932 as the official voice of the disabled veteran; it is not an agency of the Federal government, nor does it receive government funding. The DAV is a nonprofit association of 1,000,000 wartime disabled veterans, serving 2.5 million disabled veterans and their families. The DAV's national service program is rooted in 68 United States cities where 300 national service officers work to provide counseling, employment services, and assistance in gaining health care, free of charge to all disabled veterans. Many also visit towns and cities throughout the country in service vans. Perhaps its most important function is counseling veterans in completing the paperwork of applying for benefits from the Veterans Administration. All veterans and members of their families are eligible for the DAV's services. However, membership is limited to service-connected disabled veterans only.
Review Date: Friday, January 23, 2009
A national nonprofit, 501(c)(3), organization established in 1967 by disabled Vietnam veterans to serve the war injured. DS/USA now offers nationwide sports rehabilitation programs to anyone with a permanent disability. Activities include winter skiing, water sports, summer and winter competitions, fitness and special sports events. Participants include those with visual impairments, amputations, spinal cord injury, dwarfism, multiple sclerosis, head injury, cerebral palsy, and other neuromuscular and orthopedic conditions. DS/USA's national office provides technical assistance to its local chapters and other recreation programs so they can better serve the disabled population in their communities. The organization has a nationwide network of community-based chapters. DS/USA conducts an annual "The Hartford Ski Spectacular" in Breckenridge, CO, the largest winter sports event for physically disabled people in the U.S. and "The International Challenge Track and Field" event.
Review Date: Monday, October 05, 2015
Easter Seals has been helping individuals with disabilities and special needs, and their families, live better lives for nearly 90 years. From child development centers to physical rehabilitation and job training for people with disabilities, Easter Seals offers a variety of services to help people with disabilities address life's challenges and achieve personal goals. Easter Seals offers help, hope and answers to more than a million children and adults living with autism and other disabilities or special needs and their families each year. Services and support are provided through a network of more than 550 sites in the U.S. and through Ability First Australia. Each center provides exceptional services that are individualized, innovative, family-focused and tailored to meet specific needs of the particular community served. Easter Seals also advocates for the passage of legislation to help people with disabilities achieve independence, including the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Passed in 1990, the ADA prohibits discrimination against anyone who has a mental or physical disability, guaranteeing the civil rights of people with disabilities.
Review Date: Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Families of Spinal Muscular Atrophy was founded to support families with members suffering from the condition and to promote research into treatments for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). Spinal muscular atrophy is a group of diseases which affect all age groups, from newborns to adults. The diseases included under spinal muscular atrophy are: Infantile Progressive Spinal Muscular Atrophy (Werdnig-Hoffmann Disease), Juvenile Progressive Spinal Muscular Atrophy (Kugelberg-Welander Disease), and Adult Progressive Spinal Muscular Atrophy (Aran-Duchenne Type).
The Guide Dog Foundation for the Blind provides trained dogs for qualified blind persons. The Foundation is a nonprofit organization incorporated under the Membership Corporation Laws of New York. It is supported entirely by voluntary contributions. There is no charge for its service, which includes a guide dog, four weeks of training in the dog's use and care, board and lodging while the student is in residence at the Foundation's training center, transportation costs within the continental U.S., and a follow up program. The Foundation aims to give blind persons better mobility, and to contribute to the rehabilitation progress of able citizens so that they can gain social integration and increased job opportunity for self-sufficiency.
Review Date: Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Guiding Eyes is an internationally accredited, nonprofit guide dog school with a 50-plus year legacy of providing the blind and visually impaired with superior Guiding Eyes dogs, training, and lifetime support services. Guiding Eyes for the Blind is dedicated to enriching the lives of blind and visually impaired men and women by providing them with the freedom to travel safely, thereby assuring greater independence, dignity and new horizons of opportunity.
The mission of the Helen Keller National Center for Deaf-Blind Youth and Adults (HKNC) is to enable all those who are deaf-blind to live and work the community of their choice. It provides comprehensive vocational rehabilitation training at its headquarters in New York and assistance with job and residential placements when training is completed. Services in the field include 10 regional offices, over 40 affiliated agencies, a National Training Team and an Older Adult Program. HKNC is a partner in the National Technical Assistance Consortium for Children and Young Adults Who are Deaf-Blind and with DB-LINK, a clearinghouse for information on deaf-blindness. HKNC also maintains a national registry of individuals who are deaf-blind.
The House Research Institute (formerly House Ear Institute) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for people with hearing loss and related disorders through scientific research, patient care, and the sharing of knowledge. Institute scientists investigate hearing loss and ear disease at the cellular, molecular and genetic levels, as well as the complex neurological interactions between the auditory system and brain. The researchers also study ways to improve auditory implants, diagnostics, clinical treatments and intervention methods. Outreach programs for the public serve people with hearing loss and related disorders as well as offer information about general hearing health and hearing conservation.
The International Association of Laryngectomees (IAL), consists of local clubs worldwide that provide services and information to patients who have undergone laryngectomies and their families. Members are given information on first aid, postoperative care, rehabilitation, esophageal speech, and other speech alternatives. IAL conducts meetings and conferences and publishes pamphlets and a newsletter. Single copies of some publications are free on request.
Review Date: Tuesday, June 07, 2011
The Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center at Gallaudet University provides information, training, and technical assistance for parents and professionals to meet the needs of children who are deaf or hard of hearing. The Clerc Center serves as a centralized source of information related to deaf and hard of hearing children from birth through age 21 in the United States and also maintains two demonstration schools, Kendall Demonstration Elementary School and the Model Secondary School for the Deaf.
Review Date: Thursday, August 20, 2015
The National Federation of the Blind (NFB), established in 1940 as an organization of blind persons, serves as both an advocacy and a public information vehicle. NFB contacts newly blind persons to help them with adjustment problems, provides information on services available from governmental and private agencies and on applicable laws and regulations, provides scholarships, and assists blind persons who are the victims of discrimination or whose rights have been denied. NFB monitors legislation for blind persons and evaluates and promotes new technology useful to the blind. NFB prepares pamphlets and uses public appearances to educate the public to the fact that the blind are normal individuals who can compete on terms of equality with others.
The National Foundation for Facial Reconstruction, formerly The Society for the Rehabilitation of the Facially Disfigured, was founded to help provide treatment and reconstructive surgery to facially disfigured patients who are unable to afford private care; to train health professionals in the reconstructive surgery field; to encourage research; and to educate the public. To provide multidisciplinary treatment services, the Foundation sponsors the Institute of Reconstructive Plastic Surgery located at the New York University Medical Center, which encompasses ten plastic surgery clinics, and education and research laboratories.
Review Date: Thursday, August 21, 2008
The National Institute for Rehabilitation Engineering (NIRE), formed in 1967, provides custom-made devices, training, and onsite services for severely and multiply handicapped individuals. The purpose of the N.I.R.E. is to use today's technology to help people with disabilities to be more independent and self-sufficient in their everyday lives. The Institute is an onsite technology training organization and research and development facility, and designs custom-made devices for handicapped persons who are trial-fitted, trained, counseled, and evaluated in the field. NIRE's outreach programs provide most of their services and aids locally in schools, clinics, homes, and places of employment. The N.I.R.E. assists people of all ages with all types of disabilities. Services are offered with a sliding fee scale, and nobody is denied service based on inability to pay.
Review Date: Monday, November 24, 2008
National Rehabilitation Association (NRA) was founded in 1925 to promote the vocational rehabilitation of persons with disabilities through advocacy, professional development, and public education. State and federal legislation designed to meet the needs of persons with disabilities is promoted. Conferences, meetings, continuing education, and seminars are sponsored to improve treatment and rehabilitation methods. Membership also includes publications and participation in a special interest division dealing with job placement, independent living, counseling, vocational adjustment, rehabilitation instruction, administration, private sector rehabilitation, multicultural interests, or other topics of concern to members.
Review Date: Tuesday, November 25, 2008
The National Stroke Association (NSA), founded in 1984, is a nonprofit organization dedicated to educating stroke survivors, families, health care professionals, and the general public about stroke. It seeks to reduce the incidence and impact of stroke through activities related to prevention, medical care, research, rehabilitation, and resocialization. NSA develops and distributes educational materials and a new full color magazine "Stroke Smart"; publishes a stroke journal; operates a national clearinghouse for information and referral; promotes research and disseminates research findings; advocates; develops workshops; provides guidance in developing stroke clubs and stroke support groups; operates a Stroke Center Network program to help professionals provide the best services to stroke patients; and offers a Clinical Trials Acceleration Program.
Review Date: Wednesday, March 09, 2011
Paralyzed Veterans of America was founded following World War II to meet the needs of veterans who were paralyzed as a result of disease or injury to the spinal cord. Paralyzed Veterans is supported by donations from the general public. It works to ensure quality health care, rehabilitation, and full civil rights for veterans with spinal cord injuries or diseases, and all persons with a disability. Paralyzed Veterans supports legislation and advances in medicine and technology through various programs, departments and foundations such as: PVA Research Foundation; PVA Education Foundation; National Advocacy Program; National Legislation Program; National Veterans Benefits Program; and PVA National Sports and Recreation Program.
The mission of Post-Polio Health International, including International Ventilator Users Network, is to enhance the lives and independence of polio survivors and home mechanical ventilator users by promoting education, networking, and advocacy among these individuals and healthcare providers. Audiences addressed include consumers, professionals, survivors of polio, rehabilitation health professionals, neurologists and pulmonologists. Requests for information may be received by telephone, mail, e-mail and in person.
Review Date: Tuesday, February 26, 2013
The SPINALCORD Injury Information Network offers educational and research information relevant to persons with spinal cord injuries, their families, and others of interest. Within this site, there is original information managed by the UAB Model SCI System along with the links to web sites around the world that contain SCI educational and research information along with the general disability related information.
The Stuttering Foundation provides free online resources, services and support to those who stutter and their families, as well as support for research into the causes of stuttering. We are the largest - and the first - nonprofit charitable organization in the world working towards the prevention and improved treatment of stuttering, reaching over a million people annually. We also offer extensive educational programs on stuttering for professionals.
The Stuttering Foundation also offers a Spanish language site, La Fundación Americana de la Tartamudez, which can be accessed at: http://www.tartamudez.org/.
TASH is an international grassroots leader in advancing inclusive communities through research, education and advocacy. Founded in 1975 as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, TASH advocates for human rights and inclusion for people with the most significant disabilities and support needs-those most vulnerable to segregation, abuse, neglect and institutionalization. The inclusive practices they validate through research have been shown to improve outcomes for all people.
Wheelchair & Ambulatory Sports, USA (WASUSA) organizes and governs disabled sports in the United States. Its activities are managed by its Board of Directors, National Governing Bodies, and Sport Technical Committees which maintain rules on disabled athletics, records rule changes, maintains records, selects sites for national championship meets, sanctions meets, and promotes disabled sports. The organization believes in the positive psychological aspects of a rehabilitation program of competitive sports, and hopes that the media attention gained from sponsoring meets will serve to educate the public. WASUSA offers the following sports: archery, athletics, handcycling, shooting, swimming, table tennis, billiards, weightlifting and fencing. Membership is available for a fee.
Review Date: Tuesday, June 12, 2012
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Story of One Fathers Fight against Leukemia
Randy York's N-Sider
Avery Harriman, a kindergartner at Lincoln's Zeman Elementary School, is a lucky kid. He gets to celebrate his 7th birthday twice in the next couple months – first on February 15th and then again on March 20th. Why? Because his dad, Chris Harriman, an assistant basketball coach on Tim Miles' Nebraska staff, thinks his courageous little boy – who is already a "redshirt" grade-wise because of two different diagnoses of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia – deserves a double celebration. His first "birthday" will celebrate the one-year anniversary of Avery's bone marrow transplant nearly a year ago in Omaha. The second celebration is his real birthday, one that was in jeopardy until the Harriman family found a 10-rated bone marrow match that saved Avery's life.
In honor of and respect for the amazing process that produced that medical miracle, the Harriman family and the Nebraska Athletic family are teaming up with the American Cancer Society to sponsor a Bone Marrow Donation Awareness Day on Sunday when the Huskers host the Minnesota Gophers in a 5 p.m. Big Ten Conference game at Pinnacle Bank Arena. The Bone Marrow Awareness initiative is piggybacking off the annual National Association of Basketball Coaches' (NABC) Suits and Sneakers Weekend coordinated by the Coaches vs. Cancer Program, a nationwide collaboration that has helped raise more than $85 million in the last 20 years for the society's life-saving work.
Harriman believes Nebraska is the nation's only school enabling fans to learn how to sign up and become a part of a national bone marrow registry. Volunteers will be on hand Sunday to collect information throughout Pinnacle Bank Arena. Fans also will be able to complete a quick cotton swab test that will determine their potential to be a bone marrow donor.
From 4,000 Possible Matches, Only One 10 Available
"It's a big deal for us," Harriman said. "When you go through an experience like our family did, you get a great appreciation for all the things that go in it. I'm not sure my son would be alive today if he had not had a bone marrow transplant. I don't know if we'll ever find out the name of the donor who saved Avery's life, but I do know this: Out of 4,000 possibilities, we got down to three that were considered a 10 out of 10 match. One was out of town and the other was sick. That took us down to one and thank God that person was willing to do it for Avery."
The Harriman family may learn the donor's name someday, but for them, it's more important to know how the process works. "It defines the chances of the body rejecting the transplant." Harriman said. "My biggest goal is to help expand the registry and increase the list of possibilities for other kids with cancer. We want to help make that registry as big as humanly possible. It's really a very simple test where you just put a cheek swab in your mouth. That's all it is. Taking the test does not commit anyone to go into a hospital and become an immediate donor. It just puts your name in a registry and increases the possibilities to save a life. I want every child to have a 10 out of 10-chance match like Avery had. Taking that test doesn't mean you agree to be a donor. It simply means you may someday be asked to be one."
Avery was first diagnosed with leukemia at age 2 when his dad was an assistant basketball coach at St. Louis University. The second diagnosis came after the family moved to Lincoln, and the experience they've had over the past year-and-a-half has convinced a hard-working, family-oriented native Australian coach/recruiter why he and his wife, Cheryl, strongly believe that there really is no place like Nebraska. Please join the conversation we had this week with a father who's doing his level best to fight leukemia at the same time he's helping the Huskers fight their way through a rugged Big Ten Conference:
Q: What factors determine an 8, 9 or 10 out of 10 donor?
A: Screening is technical and uses qualifiers like age or gender or if you've had the flu over a certain period of time. There aren't many 10 of 10s. That's why we need more possibilities to choose from. The bigger the registry is, the better the chances kids will get a great match. My goal is to drive more chances and more possibilities.
Q: Sunday is Bone Marrow Donor Awareness Day. Who came up with the idea?
A: Kristin Eichorst, Shawn's wife, and Marc Boehm, who oversees our basketball program. It was their idea. They came to me saying 'this is what we think. What are you thinking?' I was downright floored when they asked. I hope we have great success Sunday because I'd like to see bone marrow awareness in 50 arenas next year and not just in ours. I think this is something that could grow every year and match up well with Coaches vs. Cancer. I know how much impact this can have on a family because we've been living it. Our little boy's life hinged on the right donor and we were fortunate enough to get a transplant. Right now he's leukemia free and we take one day at a time.
Q: So many people have supported you and your family. Can you elaborate?
A: Janelle Boehm, Marc's wife, has been a big part of this, too. Cheryl and I spent 48 days in the hospital and Janelle has babysat our daughter Kacee so much, that she's almost part of the family. Avery was in the Medical Center in Omaha for 55 days. With all the lights and beepers that go off, it's insane and you'll lose your mind if you don't switch out. Janelle and Darcy Smith (wife of fellow NU assistant Craig) were taking turns picking Kacee up at school and keeping her overnight. We have had so many people bring food over to the house and ask what they can do to help, and it's not just all part of our basketball family. Billie Papuchis, Carrie Manning and Nancy Osborne are among those who have reached out and helped.
Q: Were you surprised by the outpouring?
A: Yes. When we moved here, we knew nothing about Nebraska, and we knew nothing about Lincoln. We had heard several good things from people I called and reached out to before I accepted the offer to coach here, but you don't truly realize what they're talking about until you're living here. We had heard there is no place like Nebraska, but this was the ultimate verification for us. The way Nebraska people reach out and support you is phenomenal. This is an incredible place full of bighearted people. We feel so very blessed to be living here. I don't know how it is in other cities with different schools, but I can't imagine anyone making you feel more comfortable than we feel. We thank God every day that we're in Lincoln, Nebraska, during this time of our life. We feel so lucky to be here. We were perfectly happy in our four years in St. Louis. I was not looking for a job. My wife and I kind of made an agreement that we were not going to pursue anything until Avery finished his first chemo treatment, and we did not move here until everything was clear."
Q: How would you describe your overall approach to dealing with leukemia?
A: My wife and I made a decision a long time ago when we were going through all of this. We couldn't think too far ahead. Avery went into successful chemo treatment before he relapsed. You have no control over cancer. We still don't because we don't know what's going to happen tomorrow. That's why we try to make sure we have a great day every day no matter what. With this disease, you can only live one day at a time.
Q: October 17, 2012 was the day Avery relapsed. What do you remember?
A: We went to Children's Hospital in Omaha for a routine appointment and to have the port taken out of Avery's chest. While we were driving back and just getting to Lincoln, the doctor called, and I could tell by my wife's face that it was important. I didn't know what she was hearing, but I knew it wasn't good. She just shrunk in her seat and burst into tears. The doctor told us Avery's leukemia was back. He was in relapse and we needed to come back to the hospital as quickly as possible. We were just pulling into the practice facility and I was in no frame to drive. I called Coach Miles once we got home. We figured out a preschool schedule for Kacee, then called the hospital back and said we'd be there first thing in the morning.
Q: That day had to be a jolt? Describe what was going through your mind.
A: I immediately reminded myself how lucky I was and what an amazing wife I had. When everything happened in St. Louis, my original thought was to quit coaching. I just didn't think I could do it anymore, plus go on the road to recruit. My wife is a supportive, encouraging, positive person. She's always told me she thought I was pretty good at what I do. She wanted me to be with her to support the family but she also wanted me to keep doing what I do best and work our way through it all. We both agreed that we can't just stop life. You have to keep working and keep doing things and try to be as normal as you can. It's all been such a blur. It's been tough, really tough. In the first three or four months after the relapse, I found it very hard to concentrate, whether I was scouting, recruiting, whatever. You're in a constant state of just thinking and worrying, but my wife kept assuring me that I was doing the right thing. I was staying with it and trying to do the best I could for Tim. The reason I was able to get through it all was because Tim was unbelievably supportive since day one. Anytime I ever needed anything, he was there. He told me I'd be able to tell what days I could get through and when there were days I couldn't, I needed to go straight to the hospital and spend the day there. Tim's been incredible and flexible for everything I've ever needed.
Q: How well did you know Tim before he offered you a job and you accepted?
A: I didn't meet Tim until he interviewed me for the job. I didn't know him until I came here to Lincoln and started working for him. You become pretty close pretty quickly with Tim and the staff he picked. It's a very close staff. Once you go through something like this, you need people to talk to. Tim Wilson is our strength coach for basketball, and we sit down daily and talk about all kinds of different things. From Marc Boehm to Coach Miles and to everyone else on the staff, we just keep talking and encouraging and staying positive. It's been tough…the toughest 18 months of my life and my wife's life and her family's life. It's never ending, but I think we all feel it's heading in a good direction.
Q: Your wife delivered baby daughter Elsie and 10 days later, she's inside Pinnacle Bank Arena cheering the Huskers on to an upset of Ohio State. What was that like?
A: She came to the game to see the first half. Dominique Kelley (former Husker and now a graduate assistant manager on Connie Yori's women's staff) was happy to babysit for awhile that night. My wife was thrilled with the way we played. She's the most positive person I know. We left a great situation in St. Louis, a place we put a lot of hard work into. When you build something up for the better part of three years, you like to see the fruits of your labor. When we made a joint decision to come here, it wasn't easy, but it was right. Cheryl knew how much harder it was going to be, but she was supportive. She's a Husker through and through and wants us to be the best we can be. She loves it here.
Q: How about Avery? Did he get to stay up and watch the big upset?
A: He did and was really jacked when we won. He walked into his kindergarten class the next morning and told his teacher: "Guess what? The Huskers won last night!" Avery gets pretty excited watching every game. We're an emotional family. We wear our emotions on our sleeves. For Avery, whether it's men's basketball, women's basketball, football, whatever, he really gets into it. His mom let him stay up late to watch the Ohio State game. It was a special occasion. He watched the whole game and he had a great time.
Q: Did 'Nique (Kelley) spark his interest in women's basketball?
A: She's been a close friend of the family and comes over a lot. She's been great, just like everybody else. She's always looking out for us, and I'm pretty sure Avery was sitting in her lap watching when we beat Ohio State.
Q: Your family has been through a lot. What do you take away from all the adversity?
A: One of the biggest things I tell everybody who's gone through this is it gives you great perspective on life. I consider myself a hard-working man. I give my best effort at all times. I'm committed to Nebraska and doing everything I can to get this program where it needs to go. But experiencing what I've experienced gives you perspective you might not otherwise have, whether you're talking about losing a recruit or losing a big game. Life goes on and you have to pick yourself up and keep working hard. The amount of people who have called me and asked about my family and offered to help really is just unbelievable.
Q: What was your most surprising call?
A: When (Creighton Coach) Greg McDermott found out about Avery, he called and told me his wife has been through cancer. I mean, he's our bitter rival. We may hate each other on the floor, but he was one of the first guys to call and say: 'Hey, listen…I'm in Omaha. I know all the medical people here. Who can I call? What do you need? Is there any way I can help you?'"
Q: This story is beginning to sound like a Hallmark movie. Am I wrong?
A: With so many people reaching out and offering to help, it really does feel like a movie. It's been an emotional rollercoaster. There have been incredible highs and incredible lows and really, really tough times that you don't want to go through again. No one would want that, but if something happens, there's no place I'd rather be than here. Cheryl and I both went to college in Augusta, Georgia, but we're both Huskers now.
Q: Given the heartfelt experiences you've had, what about Sunday's game against Minnesota and the opportunity to help a cause that means so much to you?
A: I'm looking forward to Sunday night because they involve the two things I love most – my family and basketball. We're trying to do the best we can to help Avery and all of the many charitable causes for kids just like him. When you talk about cancer hitting our youngest generation, you want to do something. There's nobody more important than our youngest kids. Pediatric cancer is not fair. They deserve to live their lives, and we need to do everything we can to help. When I was in St. Louis, I took players to the hospital to see courageous kids, and I've done the same thing here. When you see kids go through the wars they go through, it breaks your heart. You want to do whatever you can. Avery's lived in a bubble for the better part of four years of his life. It hasn't always been normal to go to a park or a basketball game or just to be to able to drive your son to school. I don't take those things for granted anymore. We have to keep battling through this without worrying about the frustration. Basketball has some parallels to life. We're going through tough times, but we can't give up. Coach Miles has been through tough circumstances everywhere he's been, but he stays strong and stays the course. That's what we're doing as a family and that's what we're doing as a team. We're staying together and trying our best to make everything work out.
Watch Sunday's BTN Profile of the Harrimans' Courage
The Big Ten Network has produced a feature profiling Nebraska Assistant Coach Chris Harriman, who has helped rebuild Husker Hoops at the same time his 6-year-old son has been battling leukemia. The feature will be part of BTN's Journey program scheduled to air before Nebraska's nationally televised game against Minnesota at 5 p.m. Sunday. Journey has the 4 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. time slots before the game and will rerun at 7 p.m. and 8 p.m. after the game. On Monday, Jan. 27, Journey will air at 11 a.m., 3:30 p.m., 10 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. CT. Samantha Eisenberg spent two days with the the Harrimans and told The-Sider that Chris and Cheryl "have done whatever they can to keep their son alive." The BTN associate producer said her feature is a story of a "very strong and dedicated family" and a son who is "doing better than expected". She shared an anecdote from Cheryl, who said: "I think every parent cries on the first day your kid goes to kindergarten, but I think still to this day we tear up just seeing Avery in line. When he looks back and says 'I love you' he knows he's going to have a good day and that's the greatest thing to see, that he's so happy now."
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See below the list of some Mutimedia items issued or translated by UNESCO Brasilia Office and its partners. They are available in UNESCO Multimedia Archive website or in other external links.
- List of multimedia items
- Picture Gallery - Events on the General History of Africa Collection
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A while ago Maxies2 asked me what I thought of this product, since I had just bought it, but hadn't used it yet.
Now that I have used it, I thought I would share with everyone.
I bought a book called "Fast Forward Your Piecing" that is all about how to make quilts quickly and easily with this product, and it has cute patterns, but I am disappointed.
It is very time consuming to layout all the pieces on the grid and iron them down without them shifting. Once this is done, you sew up and down every other row, then clip seams and sew your cross seams. I thought this would be a very easy process once the ironing was done. No.
The interfacing made it really hard to feed through and it left a sticky film on my machine bed that I have had to repeatedly clean with alcohol.
In addition to that, the whole thing begins to curl after you have made a bunch of seams. I actually sewed part of it to itself and had to rip out, which made more of a mess.
I followed the directions very carefully, so I don't think I missed a step. If you have tried this and didn't have to fight it the whole time, let me know.
Long story short, this made making the quilt more like work, and not relaxing at all, so I do not recommend it. I now know why I got it so cheap (for so much) on Ebay!


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By Josh ClarkPosted Wednesday, 1 May, 2002
It was just after midnight in rural New Hampshire, and Kevin Dorr was running up what may have been the steepest hill he had ever seen.
"It was very dark, pitch black, and the hill was so steep that my nose was touching the asphalt," Dorr recounted. "I was struggling, but that's when I started to hear them: 'Mooooooose... Mooooooose... Mooooooose...' I could hear them before I could even see them."
At the top of the hill, Dorr's family and a group of runners were cheering him on in somewhat unorthodox fashion. With thumbs to temples and hands waving as makeshift antlers, the group bellowed moose calls at him.
These were Dorr's teammates, the Bull Moose team, one of nearly 100 teams of runners in last year's Reach the Beach Relay. The team's signature moose call, it turns out, is what cheerfully passes for adult behavior midway through a 200-mile relay.
"When you come over the hill and you hear your teammates yelling, 'mooooooose,' how can you not just laugh when you hear that?" asked Dorr, 47, of Alpena, Michigan. "You say to yourself, 'Okay, I can slog out another mile.' It's just fun, and that's the most important part. We're all out there to have fun."
Two hundred miles over 24 hours, through the middle of the night -- fun? You'd better believe it. The typical team size for the Reach the Beach Relay is 12 runners, making the work of the race less about the actual running and more about supporting the others on the team. While each team has its own competitive goals, every one of them is out there for the social aspect.
A road trip for adults
"It's like when you were in college, and you'd pile into a car and go on a road trip," said race co-director Michael Dionne. "This is like a road trip for adults."
"That's exactly what it is!" Dorr enthused. "As an adult you just don't do this kind of thing very often -- and it's great to be doing it. I've been running since I was 16, and this is the most fun I've had as an adult runner. It's a big social outing for the weekend. The athletic part is important, but it's just a great social event."
Reach the Beach is a young event, in its fourth year, but it has grown quickly thanks in large part to the enthusiasm of its runners, who describe the event as well-organized, beautifully scenic, and one hell of a good time.
The relay breeds an infectious enthusiasm, powerful enough in one case to attract the race's primary sponsor, Kana, after the company entered a corporate team in the first year. "There's a running culture at our company, and when Reach the Beach first started we fielded a team, including our CEO and CFO," said Sheila Walker, a Kana vice president who has run the relay every year. "That first year was such a great experience for us, and the next year our CEO said, 'Absolutely, let's sponsor it.'"
Spectacular course
Held in late September (Sep. 27-28 this year), Reach the Beach's point-to-point course showcases the richly varied terrain of New England in its most beautiful season. The course starts in northern New Hampshire at the Bretton Woods Ski Area and winds its way southeast through mountains, foothills, pastures and New England villages to the ocean, where the relay finishes at Hampton Beach, New Hampshire, about an hour north of Boston.
"This course is spectacular," said Dionne. "It's quaint New England: little towns with white church steeples, tons of lakes, pastures, barns, running brooks, little cemeteries, mountains and hills."
For many runners, the relay is their first time running in the late-night solitude of the New England countryside. "It's peaceful," Walker said. "All you hear is your own feet, and there are no other distractions."
Shift work
The teams negotiate the course in shifts, cycling through the relay's 36 legs, which vary from 2.4 to 8.6 miles in length. For the typical 12-person team, each runner takes three legs over the course of the relay, averaging a total of just under 17 miles. (Teams may have between eight and 12 runners, and there is also an ultra category for teams of six or less). Finishing times range between 20 and 30 hours.
"This is for the everyday, run-a-few-miles person," said Dionne. "People think, '200 miles, I'm not up for that, I'm not a marathoner.' But that's the beauty of it: you can have marathoners and joggers together on your team, and it all works out."
"We've got guys who can run at a 7-min/mile pace, and we've got guys who run at an 11-min/mile pace," Dorr agreed. "The really good thing about it is that as long as you're in reasonably good shape and you've been running a reasonable amount -- not even a lot -- this race is doable, especially if you're careful picking which legs you run."
The relay starts in stages -- slower teams first, faster teams later -- so that most teams finish within a few hours of each other. That means that for a few magical miles in the middle of the night, all of the teams, fast and slow, converge on the course.
"It's 1 or 2 in the morning," Dorr described, "and you're out there in the dark running all by yourself in the middle of nowhere. The moon and the stars are out, it's very still, very peaceful, and it's just you. All of a sudden, like fireflies, you begin to see all of the flashlights of the runners ahead and behind. It's extremely cool."
The next time all the runners see each other is some 10 or 12 hours later, oceanside at Hampton Beach, where all the teams cheer each other to the finish line amid a festive air, some teams plunging enthusiastically into the chilly ocean water at the end. "Our whole team runs the last leg together with our last runner," Dorr said, "moosing everyone and everyone moosing us."
Some planning required
For all of its fun, running Reach the Beach does require careful coordination. Teams travel in two vans: the runners in one van complete all of their legs while the other van has a few hours off. The active van shadows its runners, leapfrogging from transition area to transition area, cheering runners on, giving them water, keeping them going. Meanwhile, the runners in the other van are left to their own devices, free to sleep, get a bite to eat, whatever -- as long as they're there to meet the other runners when their shift is up.
"Some of the funnest part is the logistics," Walker said. "Last year we were so much more rested at the end of the race than ever. You get in a pattern, you figure out the driving, you learn how to get sleep, you start to know the course, and everything just starts to go easier. But even then, you can never anticipate the curve balls that are going to get thrown at you."
"The biggest thing is making sure that a runner doesn't get lost, and that's part of the race," said race co-director Dionne. "A bunch of runners go the wrong way at some point on the course, and the van has to go off and find them. Some teams will give the runner a two-way radio so you have a mile or two link to the van."
Van-to-van coordination presents its own difficulties. Since cell phone coverage is spotty along the course, there's often no way to communicate with the other van, and there are inevitable instances of poor timing.
"The first year we ran it, our group took off and went to a hotel with a Jacuzzi after our first leg," Dorr said. "We sat in the jacuzzi, loosened up, just relaxed, kind of lost track of time.
When we got back, we passed the last runner who was going to hand off to us literally just 200 yards before the transition area. We passed him, and we didn't even slow down. Without stopping, our runner opened the door of the van, jumped out, just had enough time to take his sweats off, and he was off and running. We got there just in time, a matter of seconds."
Local flavor
In addition to hosting these occasional moments of high drama, the transition areas are also the social gathering places for both runners and local community groups. Despite the 200-mile sprawl of its course, Reach the Beach maintains a genuinely local feel; girl scouts, PTA groups, volunteer fire companies and local congregations turn out to feed, and even house, the teams.
"The people who volunteer for this race are really phenomenonal," Walker said. "Adults, kids, all ages, and they can't do enough to help you. At the transition areas, they tell you great stories about the other teams, and it's an amazing word-of-mouth element -- it's a comfortable, old-fashioned way to share the news."
The Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Laconia, New Hampshire, opens its doors to runners, who lie down in the pews for a few minutes of sleep. The first runners begin arriving around 10pm and the last leave around 2:30am.
"Imagine being in a van with five runners," Dorr said. "After a number of hours, the van begins to smell, well, not the best. You've got all this stuff, gear, food, water -- you're packed in. I can't tell you how great it is to be able to get out and sleep on the floor of this church."
"We turn our sanctuary into a dormitory. I tell them to lay down on the pews, and in the middle of the run, the sanctuary is full," said Pastor Rob Robb, adding that the church plans to have 30 cots available this year. "We just feel it's a service we can do for the community. It's not just the local community, but the national community -- we've met runners from Seattle, the coast of Maine, northern Michigan, the Carolinas, all over."
For runners too wired to rest, the church has big pots of homemade soup waiting. "You walk into the church and the aroma of homemade soups in crockpots just knocks you down. It's phenomenal," Dorr said.
Another local group puts on a Hawaiian luau theme, complete with grass skirts. Elsewhere, a local school opens its gymnasium, where runners roll out sleeping bags for a quick nap. At Bear Brook State Park, runners swap stories around a giant bonfire, hosted by the Allenstown Volunteer Fire Department. "They bring in their fire trucks, and they build the fire, and they bring soup and sandwiches for the runners," said Dionne.
It's all about the team
"It's a great team building event, that's the reason I did this," Dionne said. "The running's great, but the main thing is that you're spending time with people you like for 24 hours, and you just have a great time."
"I've worked with these guys for a long time," said Walker of the Kana relay team, "but to go through something like that, to spend 24 hours together in a small space, helping each other to run our best, it brings out the best in people. And we have a blast every year."
Other teams find that the event helps them make new friendships, since many are cobbled together from friends of friends, or even complete strangers. Teams often turn to the online bulletin board of the Reach the Beach website to find pick-up runners, and over the summer as the event draws near, the site heats up with activity -- runners looking for teams, teams looking for runners, everyone looking for advice and swapping strategy.
"The first year we were trying to figure out do we need tents, how much food, do we need to carry walkies or cell phones," Dorr said. "What I would suggest to teams running it the first time is to pick up the phone or e-mail somebody and talk to people who have done it.
"Just don't let it overwhelm you," Dorr added. "Once you do it, it all just kinda makes sense."
Reach the Beach Relay website
Online race registration
Sep. 27-28, 2002
Start time
Friday September 27, 2002 8:00 AM - 7:00 PM.
Teams start in waves every 15-30 minutes.
Course type
200-team limit
Team size
8 to 12
(6 or less for ultra category)
Time limit
33 hours
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Being cheap and running low on the supply of my boyfriend's game meat, I'm intrigued by the concept of cow-pooling, or sharing an entire animal carcass with a few others.
I've heard of more people doing it, and while it sounds nutty at first, buying a whole cow offers more affordable ($3 to $5 per pound) access to normally (outrageously) expensive pasture-raised or grass-fed beef.
Your refrigerator's freezer compartment probably won't have a cow…not a whole or half one, at least.
But chest freezers and upright freezers are surprisingly affordable, starting below $190 for a 5 cubic foot model. In general, 50 pounds of meat fits in 2.25 cubic feet of freezer space. A half cow takes up about 10 cubic feet of freezer space. And stored properly, the meat stays tasty for 12 months.
Something to keep in mind: when storing meats and other foods for periods longer than say, six months, it's best to purchase a manual defrost freezer. While manually defrosting a freezer is a pain in the butt, frost-free freezers remove more moisture from the air in the freezer, which can degrade the quality of the meat over time (i.e. freezer burn).
One of my favorite magazines, Cooking Light offers more tips on buying and storing beef in bulk.
Has anyone ever bought a whole or half animal carcass? Where did you keep it? Would you do it again?


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Aszu is the world-famous Tokaji wine that is proudly cited in the Hungarian national anthem. It is the sweet, topaz-colored wine that is known throughout the English-speaking world as Tokay.
The original meaning of the Hungarian word asz was "dried", but the term asz came to be associated with the type of wine made with botrytized grapes.
Watch the "Wines.com TV: Scott Ota on Tokaji Aszu":http://www.wines.com/blog/Wines-com-TV-Scott-Ota-on-Tokaji-Aszu Video here.
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OK young'uns, here's a craft project just for you! Want to make necklaces for your Mom or your friends this Christmas? Well you can, and you can do it all by yourself (well ... maybe with a little help from Dad or an older brother or sister).
Pull off a layer of the funnies from the Sunday paper. Open the double sheet out flat on a hard surface (the kitchen floor or a table that it won't hurt to work on).
Then use a yardstick and a pencil to measure off and mark a series of dots. These dots start on the upper left corner of the paper right where the color begins. And they're spaced an inch and a half apart all the way across the double-sheet to where the color ends on the paper's right edge.
Next draw a second series of dots across the paper's bottom. This series will be spaced an inch and a half apart too, but it is started three-quarters of an inch in from where the color starts on the sheet.
(Do you see why the top row of dots starts at the edge of the color while the bottom row starts in three-quarters of an inch from the color's edge? It's so a series of long, skinny triangles will be formed when the dots are connected by straight lines.)
Now cut out the long, skinny triangles. You should get about 30 or 32 of them from the double-sheet of paper, and each one should be approximately 20 inches long. (Don't worry about how many you get from a sheet or about how long they are. All newspapers are not the same size. Your triangles will be close enough to this "average" size to work. And if you don't cut enough from your first sheet of paper, you can cut a few more from another!)
You're now ready to roll your strips into newspaper beads. You'll need some round toothpicks and library paste (not glue) for this step.
Take one of the long strips and trim a little sliver off each side of its base. Not a lot; just enough to remove the points from the base's corners. Then lay the strip—with its most colorful side down—on a covered work surface. (It's important for you to cover your work surface with several layers of "regular" newspaper so you won't get paste on the floor or table.)
Next, "spot paste" the long paper triangle with small dabs of your adhesive. Don't use a lot of paste. Just space a spot of the adhesive every inch or so along the length of the triangle.
Then fold about one inch of the triangle's wide end over a toothpick and — using your fingernails to tuck it under — start to roll the paper onto the pick. Make it tight, but not so snug that you won't be able to get the toothpick out later!
As soon as you've wrapped a few turns around the toothpick, you can pick it up and continue rolling the paper between your thumbs and fingers. But just before you get to the end, stop and coat the "point" of the paper (on both sides) with paste that you've thinned with a little water. Then finish rolling the bead and pull the toothpick out.
The bead should be thickest in the middle. If it isn't, gently push one end or the other of the little roll of paper against a hard surface. That should fix it.
You'll need about 25 of the "paper jewels" to make a necklace. But be sure to roll up more than that so you can use only the very prettiest ones.
Let your beads dry for a day. Then stick a toothpick part way into each one so you have a handle and put at least two coats of varnish on (more coats will make the jewels shinier). The first coat should be a one-to-three mixture of turpentine and varnish (have Dad help you handle the turpentine). All additional coats that you apply should be just plain varnish.
When each bead is well coated, push the free end of its toothpick "holder" in between a magazine (or something) and a covered tabletop so the bead can hang out in the air to dry. Or you can glue the ends of a bunch of toothpicks along the edge of a board to make a rack that'll cure a lot of beads at once!
Let the beads dry completely. Then string 'em up on plastic-coated polyfilament kite cord, monofilament fishing line, or a doubled-over (to make it stronger) piece of thread. If you want to, put a small colored "real" bead (that you can buy in novelty, craft, and fishing tackle shops) or a small button between every two of the beads you've just made. Hey! That makes a really pretty necklace!
You can make bigger and smaller and longer and shorter beads too. Just cut fatter or skinnier or narrower or wider strips of paper. Experiment. Have fun. And when you give Mom her necklace (or three or four of them) tell her, "I made it myself!"


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The usssoccer.com Referee Week in Review is designed to address the issues facing referees at all levels by using video highlights from professional games as well as the U.S. National Teams. Written by U.S. Soccer Director of Referee Development Paul Tamberino and U.S. Soccer Manager of Assessment and Training Brian Hall, the Referee Week in Review will highlight specific areas of focus and current U.S. Soccer initiatives designed to improve performance and aid in the development of officials across the country.
Week In Review 2010
Week 13 – Ending June 27, 2010
MLS returned to competition, following the midseason break for the FIFA World Cup, with eight games. As match officials returned to the field of play, they continued to work hard to provide flow and rhythm to the game through solid orchestration of the game and solid differentiation between minor and trifling challenges and those that were needed to be called because they were careless, reckless or involved excessive force. The result was a low average of 19.5 fouls over the eight matches with an average of 1.625 cautions issued per game.
Assistant referees (ARs) were busy monitoring offside decisions. Statistics from this week of games illustrate the importance ARs play in the MLS game. There were an average of 7.25 offside called per game. This figure does not include the no-calls ARs are regularly required to make due to factors like "benefit of the doubt,†"lack interference,†and "player noninvolvement.†Three of the games had 10 or 11 offside called.
During U.S. Soccer's midseason meetings with MLS officials, one of the focus points was red card tackles. In particular, tackles involving exposed cleats and locked knees that put the opponent at a high risk of injury. Two games this week included excessive force tackles that mandated a red card. Similar tackles were observed and dealt with at recent U.S. Soccer Development Academy Playoff and Finals events
Week In Review Podcast: For each "Week In Review,†U.S. Soccer produces a related podcast that covers the topics of the week.
"Mode of Contact†and "Area of Contact:†Excessive Force TacklesÂ
"Week In Review 9â€Â first introduced the concept of mode of contact and area of contact as they relate to tackles and other challenges (like contact above the shoulder). This concept was also a key discussion point amongst match officials during the MLS midseason meetings.
The area of contact is critical because it defines the location of contact. The location/area of contact is an important factor because it often takes less force, speed and/or aggressiveness to cause injury (or endanger the player's safety) to a player depending upon the location/area of the opponent's contact.
The mode of contact plays a vital role as certain parts of a player's body or equipment increases the possibility of injury upon contact. For example, a lunging tackle with a straight leg (knee locked) and exposed cleats is more likely to injure the opponent than a sliding tackle with both knees bent and feet on the ground. This does not preclude either from being part of an excessive force challenge but these factors do impact the likelihood of a player's safety being endangered and increase the likelihood of a challenge being committed with excessive force.
Note: Referees and ARs should be on the lookout for tackles that involve the following components as they often lead to the determination that excessive force has been used:
- Straight leg / locked knee: no give in the knee of the tackler.
- Exposed cleats: leading with the bottom of the boot.
- Feet / foot off the ground: one or both feet are raised off the ground and/or over the ball.
- Lunging: tackler leaves both feet and lunges or dives in for the ball. Often times, the lunge is started from a far distance but this increases the speed of the challenge and increases the probability that the tackler has little or no control.
More than three minutes into additional time, a player commits an excessive force tackle on the opponent. The referee correctly and calmly identifies the severity of the foul and issues a red card for serious foul play.
In evaluating the player's tackle, the referee can use the mode of contact and area of contact concepts to assist in making the red card judgment.
- Mode of Contact
- Locked knee and straight leg
- Lunging and takes off from a distance
- Cleats exposed and making contact
- Leg off ground and over the ball
- Contact in the ankle area
Unlike Clip 1, this excessive force tackle does not involve a lot of distance (in terms of steps or running) behind the tackle. The tackle does, however, meet the criteria for excessive force due to the mode of contact and the area of contact involved in the player's overly aggressive challenge for the ball. This is a red card tackle irrespective of the time of the game or the score.
The following considerations indicate that a red card must be issued for serious foul play as a result of an excessive force tackle in which the safety of the opponent is severely endangered (at a high probability):
- The mode of contact is with the bottom of the boots (the hard surface of the cleats) and the tackler makes contact while his right knee is locked (straight leg).
- The area of contact involves direct contact with the inside of the ankle.
- The ball is well gone at the time of contact.
So, despite the lack of a lunge or lack of speed, the tackle involves excessive force because it endangered the opponent's safety and put him at a high risk for injury.
Teamwork: Getting the Call Right!
U.S. Soccer has multiple publications earmarked to help officials get decisions correct whether it be through proper interpretation and execution of the Laws of the Game or through proper teamwork, mechanics and positioning. Two important guides are:
- "Guide to Procedures for Referees, Assistant Referees and Fourth Officialsâ€
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Through proper and uniform mechanics and/or procedures, referee teams have a better chance to make the right decision for the game. Mechanics help create seamless communication. Critical situations need to be addressed during the referee's pregame meeting/instructions with his crew. Referees must empower ARs to participate in game critical decisions when they are 100 percent certain.
Remember: The AR has an obligation to the referee and to the game.
The "Assistant Referee Involvementâ€Â directive states that AR involvement is required for certain game critical decisions when the AR is 100 percent certain of what he observed – regardless of the position of the referee. Those situations include:
- Decisions the "game requires†or the "referee requires†vs. simple fouls in the midfield – like a penalty kick
- Misconduct (serious foul play / violent conduct): yellow card, red card
- Foul inside / outside of the penalty area
- Goal / no goal decision
- Denying an Obvious Goal Scoring Opportunity (DOGSO)
- A team will gain an "unfair advantage†if the referee team does not deal with it
- A "trigger†event occurs that is likely to lead to mass confrontation if not dealt with quickly and firmly (look for a situation that may escalate)
Thorough understanding of these critical moments and proper pregame preparation can help the referee team properly deal with these type of situations. If the referee fails to address these and similar critical decisions during the pre-match meeting, ARs have the responsibility to ask for instructions and guidance to ensure conformity on game critical situations.
This importance of teamwork is the focus of this clip. A goal is scored as a result of a handling offense that goes unpunished. In this situation, the referee and lead AR did not see the handling. However, the trail AR clearly observed that a punishable handling offense occurred prior to the scoring of the goal. The referee team relied on technology (communication devices) to address the situation but the communication devices did not function as they should. Consequently, there was a lack of communication and messages were not delivered thereby negatively impacting the game.
Note: When a game critical decision arises, match officials cannot rely on technology (radio communication and beeper flags) especially when communication is seemingly one way (message sent without a reply or confirmation). Without a confirmation or reply, officials should assume the message was not delivered and there was a technological malfunction. Since play is stopped, the referee, AR or fourth official must seek the opportunity to have a face-to-face conversation. The focus must be on making the correct decision for the good of the game.
Since most games are played without the availability of technology to aid/assist officials, the following should be considered when a game critical situation arises:
- Prior to signaling a goal, the referee should take the time to make visual contact with the other officials – especially the lead AR. This provides the referee the time to feel and read the situation (like player reactions). If there seems to be significant negative reaction and the situation is game critical (a goal), the referee can then make eye contact with the trail AR and fourth official. In this case, the referee makes a very quick goal signal without first consulting with his teammates.
Note: Match officials must have the ability to feel and read situations in the game especially when they have not clearly observed what has occurred. This includes reading players' reactions and having the ability to decipher information because reactions may be telling a story. The referee does not have to act on the messages being sent but can use them as a signal to check with other crew members.
- If the trail AR is 100 percent certain that he observed a handling offense, he should get the referee's attention and confer with him prior to the restart of the match. This can be done with eye contact and a hand motion or by the AR raising the flag vertically to get the referee's attention. Since the AR is fully confident of what he saw, he must insist that the referee come over for a conference.
Note: While conferring with an AR or fourth official, the referee should keep the field and players in full view. Additionally, the referee should ensure there is no outside interference (players and team staff) in the area so that the officials can communicate without interruption.
- If a fourth official is involved, the trail AR can also quickly seek his input.
- If the lead AR observed the handling offense, the AR should stand at attention with the flag held straight down at the side and should not run up the touchline to indicate a goal.
Looking Forward – Week 14
Continue to promote flow while ensuring the safety of the players is paramount. Deal with the violence and 100 percent misconduct situations as they arise.


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|Mopatop's Shop
|Written by
|Jocelyn Stevenson
|Simon Spencer
Mopatop opens the episode by offering soap suds. some fuzz or....Mopatop gets interrupted by the buzzing of a noisy fly. After the fly disappears Mopatop tries to do his introduction again, but when he gets to the fuzz the fly reappear to interrupt him and he tries to catch it. Meanwhile the mouse family looks on with interest in the chase, Moosey Mouse decides to go down and help.
Mopatop asks Puppyduck to find the high buzzing fly and they begin the chase for it around the shop. But at one point it sounds like the fly are laughing at them. They then discover that the fly answers them by using one buzz for yes and two buzz for no. Moosey leaves the shop to tell his parents that he knows how to speak a new language. They begin to ask him questions about where he are, but when they find it he flies away and they begin to sing a song with questions for the fly. After the song the fly disappears and a customer enters. It's a frog, that are hungry and looking for a fly. Just then the fly starts to buzz again and the frog, it turns out that the fly are named Francis and that the frog told him to wait in Mopatop's Shop, they leave the shop together to get lunch. Meanwhile Moosey are using the fly language to say yes and no to questions from his parents.
- Mak Wilson: Mopatop
- Nigel Plaskitt: Moosey Mouse, frog
- Victoria Willing: Puppyduck, Mother Mouse
- Brian Herring: Father Mouse, Francis the Fly
- Susan Beattie
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|Go Slow


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I was not sure what to bake at first until I found two small containers of matcha T bought on his last trip home few months ago. I used my favourite chiffon recipe but lazy to adjust the recipe to suit 9" as a result the cake was a bit short.
Ingredients (8"):
4 egg yolks
20gm caster sugar
50gm vegetable cooking oil
70ml milk
¼ tsp salt
100gm cake flour (or 85gm all purpose flour + 15gm cornflour)
2 tbsp matcha powder
½ tsp baking powder
4 egg whites
100gm caster sugar
⅛ tsp cream of tartar
- Preheat oven to 170 degree C.
- In a large mixing bowl, whisk together ingredients A until combined.
- Sift together ingredients B, then add into (2) and mix well. Set aside for later use.
- In another large mixing bowl, beat egg whites until soft peaks. Add in sugar and cream of tartar and continue to beat until stiff.
- Take ¼ of the meringue and mix with (3) until well mixed. Gradually add in remaining meringue fold in till just combined.
- Transfer batter into chiffon pan and bake in the preheated oven for 30-35 minutes.
- Invert the cake immediately after taking out from oven, and cool on rack completely before turning out from pan.
Cook's Note:
For chiffon cake, the meringue does not need to be too stiff, if too stiff the cake will have dry texture.


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Release date: July 3, 2006
Shaw heading back to Queens bench
PLAINVIEW – The Wayland Baptist University Flying Queens basketball team will have a familiar face on the bench next season as Stephanie Shaw returns to fill the assistant coach position. Shaw will take over for Sheena Maples, who accepted a coaching position at Lockney.
Shaw, who graduated from Wayland in 2005, spent last season as a graduate assistant coach at Oklahoma City University. A 5-8 guard, Shaw was a high school standout in Plainview and played one season at the University of New Mexico before transferring to Wayland in 2002. In three seasons with the Queens, Shaw became the 39th player to join the 1,000 Point Club, scoring 1,002 points in her career.
Queens coach Will Flemons said Shaw will bring a knowledge of the game and the Queens' system to the bench, along with a little attitude and confidence that may have been missing last season.
"You look at teams like Oklahoma City. When they walk into the gym they have a certain swagger," Flemons said. "She has that swagger and we need it because we have lost it."
The Queens struggled to a 9-22 record last season, losing to Oklahoma Christian in the second round of the Sooner Athletic Conference tournament.
Flemons said Shaw's biggest responsibility will be to provide intensity and a hard-nosed attitude to the team's defense.
"We are going back to hard-nosed fundamentals," Flemons said. "We are going to get in your face defensively and Shaw is going to have a lot to say about that."
"My specialty will be defense," Shaw said. "I think we have to turn up the pressure on defense and mix it up. We have to be intense and work hard. We are not going to be as big as Oklahoma City or Oklahoma Baptist, but we can be as fast and get up in your face and put pressure on you."
Shaw said spending a year in Oklahoma City, a perennial NAIA powerhouse, has instilled in her a true sense of what it takes to be at the top of the Sooner Athletic Conference.
"(OCU) was obviously successful and talented," Shaw said. "I understand what you have to do at practice and how hard you have to go and what it takes to be at the top. I think knowing that is something I can bring to this team."
Being only one season removed from the Queens, Shaw is familiar with several of the returning players. She played a full season with guards Katie Donaldson and Anastasia Okolo and half a season with Miki Mays.
"The biggest adjustment for them is calling me Coach Shaw," she said. "As far as me telling them what to do, I think they were kind of used to it when they played with me. I don't think that will be a big change.
Also returning to the team are guard Edite Kresa, post players Jaimie Graham and Sara Broome and forward Miranda Damiano.
Flemons has also signed a new crop of talent including transfer students Crystal Schmalzried, a 5-8 point guard from Tyler Junior College, and Tomisha Martin, a 5-10 post from Howard Junior College. Brittany Spradling, a 6-1 forward, joins the Queens after sitting out last season as a red-shirt at Midwestern State University. Freshmen Macey Sheumaker, a 5-8 guard from Trinity Christian, and Erica Rodriguez, a 5-7 guard from Sterling City will also join the team.
Flemons is expecting a lot from the new team members. He compared Schmalzried to Shaw saying, "she is quick, she understands the game and she is physical." He expects Martin to be aggressive in the paint and Rodriguez is a player who will take care of the ball and cut down on turnovers, a problem that plagued the team last season.
Shaw got a chance to meet the players earlier this summer while working the Queens' basketball camps and she is ready for the season to start.
"I'm excited about the team," Shaw said. "The girls who are coming back that I know and then the girls I have gotten to know at camp seem to be really good. I'm so ready for the season to be here.
"I don't think they are going to like me in the preseason. That's for sure!"


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My brother and I had a battle on the 23rd using rules similar to PARV or TTR with movement relative to 12" a round.
My brother's forces won initiative and were named the Angry Black Men, Led by Browncape.
My forces were the Sand Raiders, with their hero Blackcloak.
The vehicles moved around.
No obstacles appeared.
The blade tank's driver missed wildly with the sword.
His sniper failed to kill one of my minifigs.
He decided to go with a grenade instead.
It was more effective anyways.
However, he had less success with the guy with the black helmet.
My minifig's turn rolled around. I deployed a small bridge and started the swarm Bryan's tank.
I managed to kill his jetpack trooper before it did any harm.
I also took out one of the wheels on his rock harvester.
My hero got off the sand tank, a mistake I would regret.
During his vehicle movement the harvester attacked the sand tank.
My brother's forces moved closer to mine.
I mostly moved forwards.
The first obstacle appeared on the horizon, complete with a crazy rocket launcher lady.
Dragosani jumped from the motorbike onto my large car and missed the sniper with his spear.
The other guy on a motorbike killed my minifig on the bridge.
The driver of the blade tank figured out the controls and cut off one of my tank's weapons.
The crab cart failed to make a difference.
Browncape jumped on the car with Blackcloak.
The downward momentum helped in the killing of my hero, along with a failed heroic feat.
The sniper cursed at the infernal recoil.
And the ninja in training charged.
Both the driver and one of his allies tried to kill Browncape, they failed.
My sniper killed Dragosani, my brother said to say sorry to Warhead for getting his SATA character killed again.
As the guy with two hand weapons got on the empty motorcycle a grenade killed the rider or the crab cart.
The harvester did a point of size damage to my smallest car.
The blade tank moved so it would go off the ramp.
I moved my smallest car to a far off point to get Browncape away from my stuff for a bit.
My other car moved to the right to avoid the ramp as the ninja in training hoped on.
The obstacle moved forwards, relative to the vehicles.
The ninja in training tripped on his attempt of an attack.
The blade tank hit itself as the driver cursed at the complicated controls. The blade did this much damage:
It did two points of size damage in total.
The crab cart was reclaimed.
One of my got shot off.
By this green trooper.
Browncape claimed his new car with pride.
I claimed the crab cart.
I took out the second wheel on the harvester.
My driver who had just got shoved jumped back onto what was his car and attempted to kill Browncape.
The blade tank was disengaged.
A grenade got dropped.
My sniper shattered the windshield off of the blade tank.
The sand tank's gun misfired.
The crazy rocket lady did not do enough damage to destroy my crab cart.
Bryan's sniper and harvester driver used their action to escape from doom.
The driver of the now removed harvester realized that he was going to fall off the field when all obstacles were moved back 12".
As one of my cars was about to crash the minifigs on it bailed out.
The blade tank's weapon was ripped off, something neither me or my brother realised would happen.
This pissed the driver off.
Off screen the crab cart had moved up.
The second obstacle was a radio tower.
One of my troops was shoved off of the tank.
My brother's hero had enough of my pilot.
The sand tank destroyed the car soon after.
My troop on the Blade tank did a kamikaze move and shot the grenade.
I did a second kamikaze attack that caused the blade tank the swerve.
The Crazy lady missed her target.
The last two members of the Angry Black Men moved during the vehicle movement phase to avoid death.
The blade tank swerved right.
I moved away from it.
Obstacle phase.
Nothing else happened for the rest of the round.
Browncape sprinted again, and was moved back during the obstacle phase.
The blade tank swerved left.
An open warehouse and a landmine appeared.
My sniper died from recoil.
My brother's hero used a heroic feat to sprint forwards with a 1d20, instead of a 1d6.
The blade tank swerved right again.
Obstacle phase.
I finished the fight with the crab cart.
This battle was so metal it caused a nose bleed about half way through. It's not often that Peter beats Bryan around here.


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I'm finishing up my comments on Paul's letter to the Romans, and I'm reading through some random articles on the famous passage, Rom. 13.1–7. I find myself persuaded by Stowers, Das, and Co. that Paul writes Romans with an audience of gentile believers in mind, whether or not he also knew that there were Jewish believers in Rome. This is an important point: No amount of evidence for the presence of Jewish Christians in Rome early in Nero's reign (56–58 CE) changes the fact that, wherever Paul explicitly identifies his audience in the text itself (his "encoded audience"), he identifies them as gentiles (e.g., 1.5–7, 14; 11.13; 15.15–16, 18). Though Paul has quite a bit to say about Jews and/or Jewish believers (see esp. chapters 9–11, 16), nothing in Romans strikes me as Paul speaking to them. This is a minority position among Romans scholarship, as far as I can tell, but it clarifies a number of problems that have historically attended the interpretation of this long and complicated letter. (For the proof that supports this assertion, you'll need to contact a certain publisher in Grand Rapids, Mich., beg them to accept and publish my book, and then buy the book and read it.)
We might simply add the evidence of Paul's letter to Rome itself. For though it is clearly writen with Gentiles particularly in view (1.6,13-15; 11.13,17-21), it also presupposes a thorough knowledge of the ÖT and a considerable concern with Jewish self-identity. This could conceivably be a matter of Paul's self-indulgence, writing to satisfy his own concerns, regardless of whether his readership was able to make much sense of what he said. But this is very unlikely: the situation of the Roman Christians alreadly outlined above would almost certainly mean that questions of Jewish self-identity were questions for many Jewish Christians in Rome as well as for Paul; and the preservation of the letter by Roman Christianity implies that it was valued for its relevance in Rome. It should also be noted that knowledge of the OT within the ancient world was confined almost wholly to Jewish and Jewish-derived communities: the LXX is not known in Greco-Roman literary circles. Consequently to be able to assume such a knowledge of the scriptures as Paul does in Romans he would have to assume that his readership by and large had enjoyed a substantial link with the synagogues in Rome. (pp. 57–58)
Then, in almost the same context, Dunn writes:
At the same time there is clear evidence that the Jewish community in Rome was quite influential. For example, a population of 40,000 to 50,000 made them a substantial minority ethnic group within Rome itself, and because of Jewish support for Julius Ceasar Jews were given special privileges denied to other religious groups 'to assemble and feast in accordance with the native customs and ordinances' (Josephus, Ant 14.214–6). Cicero in his speech on behalf of Flaccus says he will speak softly since the attendant crowd were liable to favour the Jews (Flacc 28.66–67). Horace speaks of the success of Jewish proselytization—'we, like the Jews, will compel you to make one of our throng' (Serm 1.4.142–3). Judaism evidently proved attractive to not a few, including ladies of nobility like Fulvia and Poppaea, the wife of Nero (Josephus, Ant 18.82; 20.195). And early in the second century Juvenal complains about the way Judaism spread its influence by gradually winning over whole families—pork abstaining and sabbath-observing fathers who were surpassed by their sons going on to embrace circumcision and the whole Jewish law (Sat 14.96–106). No doubt it was precisely this attractiveness to some which made the Jews all the more hated and feared by others. (pp. 58–59)
My question: Is it legitimate for Dunn to imply that Romans must address an audience that includes Jewish members ("a substantial link with the synagogues") because the Septuagint (a Greek version of the Old Testament, abbreviated "LXX") was a back-water text, known only within Jewish circles, and then on the very next page to assert Judaism's attraction to gentiles? Granted that "Greco-Roman literary circles" weren't impressed with the LXX, if Roman Jews had made substantial inroads into various gentile communities and attracted a large (even alarming) number of proselytes, wouldn't the Hebrew biblical corpus find a sympathetic audience among precisely these gentiles? And if believers in Rome, for whatever reason, where no longer associated with/welcomed in the synagogues, doesn't Judaism's/the LXX's reception among gentiles in Rome leave open the possibility that Paul writes to precisely those to whom he claims to write (i.e., gentile believers in Rome)?
On closer inspection, I notice that Dunn mentions "Jewish and Jewish-derived communities" (my emphasis). But what, I would ask, is a "Jewish-derived community" if not a gentile community for whom the Hebrew Bible, probably in Greek (i.e., the LXX) had taken on authoritative (inspired?) status? I cannot see that Dunn's treatment of this particular issue is helpful.
Any thoughts?


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May 10, 2004
Mauri Ditzler, Dean of the College, has announced the following awards given at a recent Student Honors, Awards, and Prizes Chapel held at the College.
The awards and their recipients are:
• Phi Beta Kappa Prize: Michael Bricker
The Phi Beta Kappa Prize was established to encourage original work of high creative and scholarly merit, as distinct from proficiency in normal course work. It is a cash prize given by the Wabash chapter of Phi Beta Kappa to that undergraduate who is judged to have produced the most original and meritorious piece of work, whether artistic and analytical.
• Community Service Award for Outstanding Work: John Meyer and Jacob Pactor
The Community Service Award is given to the student who has embodied the spirit of selfless community service to Wabash College, Crawfordsville, and Montgomery County.
• Indianapolis Alumni Student Athlete Award: Nicholas Dawson
The Indianapolis Alumni Student-Athlete Award is given to a senior who has made a significant contribution to athletes at Wabash and who has achieved a respectable grade point average.
• Pete Vaughan Outstanding Athlete Award: Blair Hammer
The Pete Vaughan Award commemorates the 30 years of distinguished service Robert E. "Pete" Vaughan, a 1924 Wabash graduate, dedicated to Wabash as coach and athletic director.
• Malcolm X Institute Merit Award: Jerry Bowie, Keivin Kilgore, Micah Reese
The Malcolm X Institute Merit Award is given annually to those seniors who, in the judgment of the director, have made significant contributions to the Malcolm X Institute during their tenure at Wabash College.
• Paul T. Hurt Award for All-Around Freshman Achievement: James Chatt
The Hurt Award is made by the dean of students from nominations submitted by all living units on campus to a deserving freshman student in recognition of all-around achievement in his first year at Wabash.
• Angus-Scientech Education Award: Jerome Murray
The Angus Scientech Award made by the DJ Angus-Scientech Education Foundation goes to a student in recognition of excellence in science, mathematics, or social sciences who has shown exceptional improvement in academic performance over the last year.
• Fred N. Daugherty Award: Caleb Selby
The Daugherty Award is given to a student from Montgomery County who has shown significant intellectual and social growth and achievement as a result of the Wabash experience.
• Robert O. Petty Prize: Andrew Dits
The Petty Prize in nature writing is an annual competition instituted by Dr. W. Franklin Harris (Wabash '64) to honor the late Robert O. Petty, professor of biology at Wabash. It is given to the student whose essay or poem which, in the view of the judges, best preserves the cogent clarity of Petty's quest.
• Dean Stephens Award: Andrew Cartwright
The Dean Stephens Award is given to a member of the junior class who best reflects the broad intellectual and personal interests, the high moral courage, and the humane concerns of Dean Stephens, a member of the Wabash coaching staff who was killed in an airplane crash in 1958.
• Stephens-Hall Senior Scholarship: Dustin DeNeal
The Stephens-Hall Senior Scholarship Award was established in memory of Waldo Stephens and Andrew David Hall, and is presented to a senior of demonstrated worth who plans to continue his education.
• Lewis Salter Memorial Award: Justin Grimmer
The Salter award is given to a member of the junior class who best exemplifies the characteristics of scholarship, character, leadership, and service Dr. Lewis Salter embodied as a Wabash faculty member and as Wabash's twelfth president.
• Senior Award of Merit: Benjamin Tooley
The Senior Award of Merit is awarded by the Student Senate in conjunction with the National Association of Wabash Men to the senior who, though out his years at Wabash College, has demonstrated outstanding achievement in scholarship, service, and extracurricular activities.
• McLain-McTurnan-Arnold Excellence in Teaching Award: Douglas Calisch
• McLain-McTurnan-Arnold Research Scholar: Dennis Krause
The Student Honors, Awards, and Prizes Chapel is held every year at Wabash to honor students with awards and prizes for their outstanding work they have demonstrated throughout their college years.


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Untappd, the social network for those who like to spend their free time relaxing in their local with a well-poured pint, have recently announced that they are working on bringing an app to the Windows Phone 8 Store. What's more they are anticipating having it released before the end of March, as revealed in a blog post picked up by our sister site CrackBerry.
Featuring the ability to discover popular establishments as you travel, as well as which beers come with the highest recommendation, Untappd brings together ideas from other popular networks (Foursquare, Twitter) such as badges and a stream showing what your friends are drinking.
In fact Untappd's geo-location and social aspects are where I always thought I'd take my first Windows Phone 7 app, 'RateYourBeer' before I became involved in an app which has gained so much popularity it takes most of my free time!
Personally I look forward to adding Untappd to the list of apps which started on other platforms and are now seeing Windows Phone as a viable platform to add to their portfolio. Whilst it's not yet clear if we will be seeing a fully native app, or one built on top of PhoneGap, you can be sure we'll bring you a review as soon as it's ready.
If your curiosity is piqued, why not check out the mobile site and get an account going at m.untappd.com
Source: Untappd blog, via CrackBerry