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There's a little bit of everything tonight, as both Sheamus and Big Show look strong going into Hell in a Cell; the controversy over the Divas championship turns into "Wig-gate"; and Del Rio, having picked a fight with Randy Orton, pushes his luck too far.
GM Booker T steps out right off the top to introduce a terrific challenge between champion and challenger, reminiscent of the posedown between Rick Rude and The Ultimate Warrior before Wrestlemania V.
World Heavyweight Champion Sheamus faces challenger Big Show in a Punch versus Kick contest (hey, I think the WWE were inspired by my headline last week). A contraption looking like an official Ivan Drago training device awaits them to measure the pounds per square inch devastation of their respective finishing moves.
Big Show sees right through this, though, and refuses to go first. He's so flustered, in fact, that he talks about tearing through the "WWF". Sheamus has no problem jerking the curtain, and winds up a Brogue Kick to the tune of more than 1300 PSI. It's a little hard to trust the reading as it counts up rather slowly after the kick, but, regardless, Big Show is still hesitant, concerned that the machine will trick him or blow up.
Oddly, Josh Matthews talks right over top of Sheamus as the champ goes on about the WMD, saying that what he really means is the "Knock-Out Punch". Big Show eventually gets mad enough to punch the bag and gets a rating over 1800 PSI, walking immediately backstage. As Sheamus opines on the results, Tensai attacks him from behind to set up a match.
Match #1 – Sheamus vs. Tensai
They scrap a bit on the outside before the bell, and an early shoulder-block by Sheamus somehow gives Tensai a wedgie, but referee Scott Armstrong gives the former A-Train the heads-up to check his caboose. Sheamus seems to be looking straight at Ryback as he delivers White Noise, and a Brogue Kick sends Tensai packing.
Winner via pinfall: Sheamus
Alberto Del Rio is in the locker room, discouraging Ricardo Rodriguez from worrying about the Twitter-spawned rumours of Randy Orton seeking revenge for his attack at the hands of the Mexican aristocrat. Rodriguez is sent out to find Orton pre-emptively. All he finds is Santino who gives him a Cobra in place of the Viper.
Match #2 – Heath Slater & Jinder Mahal (w/ Drew McIntyre) vs. Santino Marella & Zack Ryder
The terrible trio takes to the mic first, extolling the power of their supergroup. Admittedly, it doesn't seem like that big of a deal; then again, neither did Billy Gunn severing ties with The Honkytonk Man to partner up with Jesse James.
Ryder holds Mahal open for a Santino attack off the top rope -- no, the second rope –- actually, Santino opts for the bottom rope and lands a double-axe handle. Things go poorly for Santino after that, but tagging in Ryder leads to a Broski Boot and a sure Rough Ryder until McIntyre interferes, allowing for Slater to strum his E-Minor inverted DDT.
Winners via pinfall: Heath Slater & Jinder Mahal
Match #3 – Kane vs. Dolph Ziggler (w/ Vickie Guerrero)
Is this the first ever Tout-fuelled match, as Ziggler issued the challenge on that particular platform? Probably. Ziggler looks outmatched, thrown over the top ropes twice, but he escapes a chokeslam and hits the leg lariat that Zach Ryder wishes he had. Frustrated with Kane's ability to bounce back, Ziggler finally ust smacks him with his MITB briefcase as Kane launched off the top rope. The ref saw it, and that's it.
Winner via disqualification: Kane
Back to Rodriguez's search, he hears Orton's voice and enters a locker room to find Hornswoggle playing with a talking Orton doll. The doll gets severely beaten.
Match #4 – Kofi Kingston vs. Big Show
The Miz is on commentary to see Kingston draw the short straw tonight. Kingston lands a missile dropkick and thr Boom Drop, but it's all kind of academic, isn't it? Big Show brushes aside a Trouble in Paradise attempt and Kingston feels 1800+ PSI of force.
Winner via pinfall: Big Show
Miz enters the ring for a little bad-mouth on Kingston as a trainer attends to him. After the break, Bryan visits Del Rio in the locker room to announce a match between them tonight. Elsewhere, in Booker T's office, Kaitlyn and Layla are all up in arms over the discovery of a blond wig in Eve's bag. Eve still proclaims innocence, and Booker T just looks befuddled.
Match #5 – Sin Cara vs. Damien Sandow (w/ Cody Rhodes)
Rhodes looks offended as Cara delivers a sort of Beautiful Disaster on Sandow, then he gets really mad when Cara hits a cross-body on him instead of on Sandow by mistake. Rhodes attacks Cara on the floor so the ref sends him packing, and as Sandow argues that decision Cara leaps into the ring and wraps him up for the pin.
Winner via pinfall: Sin Cara
Bryan is on his way through the backstage for his match, but he stops on the way to tell Kane not to interfere.
Match #6 – Alberto Del Rio (w/ Ricardo Rodriguez) vs. Daniel Bryan
Bryan connects with kicks a-plenty but Del Rio lures him outside to throw him hard into the security barrier. Bryan slips away from a cross-arm breaker and applies the No Lock instead, which Del Rio endures for a long time before making the ropes. A cross-arm breaker is up next anyway and Bryan is forced to tap.
Winner via pinfall: Alberto Del Rio
Dave Hillhouse is a screenwriter and teacher, and wants to see more PSI competitions.


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Israel News - Stay Informed, Pray Informed
Gilad Shalit has become the best known Israeli soldier worldwide due to his capture by Hamas-aligned terrorists in 2006, and his subsequent five-year captivity in Gaza.
Hamas traded Shalit for over 1,000 jailed Palestinian terrorists in October 2011. While many felt the price paid was dangerous, all of Israel rejoiced in Shalit's safe return home.
Now, the Hamas Ministry of Culture in Gaza wants to further make use of Shalit for propaganda purposes by producing a film about the soldier's abduction that will promote the idea that "violence is the correct form of resistance" to the so-called Israeli occupation.
"The idea for the film is above all motivated by the desire to strengthen the Palestinian national identity," said a spokesman for the Hamas ministry. Furthermore, Hamas hopes the film will be used in social and cultural activities to emphasize a "culture of resistance [read: terrorism] and the spirit of sacrifice among the Palestinian population."
Hamas claims, perhaps correctly, that the Shalit abduction was an "important event in the history of the Palestinian people and its resistance," and should be highlighted and used as encouragement.
The film is expected to cost around $100,000 USD, the bulk of which was donated by Iran. Filming is set to begin in Gaza in the coming days.
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Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
Friday, November 13, 2009
Fletcher Martin: "what your eye gives you and what your heart responds to is all-important."
Martin replied, "There was a period when I did a lot of fight things - bullfights and prize fights. At this time I was getting a lot of attention as a new artist... Life described me as an ex-sailor, ex-fighter, who had turned painter. This kind of myth fit my appearance. I don't mean to say it was totally inaccurate. I am very much interested in sports but I like to paint other things as well."
Explaining further, Martin continued, "You can make a hell of a painting about anything, but it is absolutely essential that it interests you. The more interested you are the better, provided your interest is esthetic and not just sentimental. When sentimentality permeates the picture it fails."
"[This] may sound like a contradiction but it isn't really... instead of sentimental involvement the painter should have an empathetic involvement."
Guitar pointed out that Martin had made a remarkably tender and very real painting of mother-and-child for the cover of that issue of Famous Artists Magazine, to which the artist replied, "To have an empathy doesn't mean that you must literally step into that person's shoes. You must understand, deeply and sympathetically, how the other person feels."
"I don't have to be a matador to paint bullfights. But I understand what the show is, what the conflict is, what the drama should be. To make an action picture you should feel the action. And when you understand fully you can be discriminating. The tourist who has never seen a bullfight before may respond only to the blood."
"The good things in a bullfight are the subtle relationships between the beast and the man. This is why the sport is exciting."
Fletcher Martin's two favourite subjects - sports and women - raised the question of how he would explain the curious contradiction - the tough and the tender - that seem to be central to his psyche. Martin replied, "The female figure just interests me. Whether it was erotic or not in the beginning I don't know."
Asked about his process, Martin explained, "I find the painting while doing it. The basic conception is usually a felt thing. Then it must be established."
"I sometimes make drawings, many drawings of the subject I'm going to do, in order to find the attitudes which will work. I have an idea about the order of the picture, but in the course of making it many changes occur."
"One should always be willing to make the changes. However proud one is of any painting, it should be expendable. One should work on the whole picture - and every day. One shouldn't get too involved with any particular detail or live in the occurrence depicted. The picture itself is an object."
"A person should draw all the time, like he eats and sleeps. Every day I draw, and it doesn't have to be a drawing for something. One's power of observation should be made as acute as possible so that anything you understand you can get down without having the subject right in front of you. The tyranny of the model is a terrible thing. It is a tremendously hampering thing. When you understand the human figure you can draw the figure. You don't need a model."
"I discovered that what your eye gives you and what your heart responds to is all-important. When I go through the material I have gathered on a trip and pick up any sketch at random, I can feel the weather, smell the smells, hear the sounds that were there because I made it, no matter how long ago. It is real to me because I lived there a little while, maybe a minute, maybe an hour, but intensely."
"The good pictures, the ones you like, are always an experience."
* My Fletcher Martin Flickr set.
* For those who missed my previous posts on Fletcher Martin's career, you can read them at these links:
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part5
* Fletcher Martin's work is represented by The Fletcher Gallery
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The first few times I came across Fletcher Martin's paintings, several decades ago, I wasn't all that impressed. They kinda looked dated (1940's), and didn't look like he used a model, or at least it didn't look that objective to me. SInce then, I have come to appreciate those very subjective traditional artist.. the good ones, anyway. Martin's work has a personal power, that I have grown to understand and admire. It is not the way I prefer to work, but after reading Martin's comments, they make a lot of sense to me. From my point of view, the challenge is to mix traditional objective academic draftsmanship and traditional subjective expressionism into a cohesive powerful statement. Fletcher Martin, Ben Stahl, Floyd Davis, Robert Fawcett and Al Dorne are a few illustrator/fine artists or maybe fine artist/illustrators, that were able to make that marriage successfully.ReplyDelete
Tom Watson
Thanks so much for posting Fletcher Martin's work.... fantastic stuff. Love your blog!!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous12:07 AM
I have a Fletcher Martin print title Country Boy's Christmas. Does anyone know anything about it? ThanksReplyDelete


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Projectdescription FU Berlin
The project "Functional extensions and value added services for OJS", founded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), is dedicated to the publishing requirements of OJS users in Germany.
The project work packages are result of an user inquiry and can be discussed in the German OJS forum [1]. The forum is moderated by the Freie Universität Berlin and PKP, and it provides a basis for the exchange and the coordination of the OJS relevant questions and developments in Germany.
- 1 Integration with other systems
- 2 Search optimization
- 3 Full support of review journals
- 4 Further enhancements
- 5 OJS forum
- 6 Workshops
- 7 Tutorial
Integration with other systems
OJS will be integrated with the following systems that play an important role in electronic publishing in Germany:
German National Library -- Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (DNB)
The OJS OAI interface and metadata export in MARC21 format will be adjusted to DNB standards in order to enable metadata harvesting by the DNB and automate the obligatory publication archiving in DNB. Also, support for and automation of URN assignments to OJS objects will be realized. The OJS OAI interface will be extended, according to DNB requirements for automated URN registration over OAI-PMH.
Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE) is an OAI service provider at the University of Bielefeld and a member of the EU project Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research (DRIVER). DRIVER aims to establish a cohesive, pan-European infrastructure of Digital Repositories, offering sophisticated services to both researchers and the public. Its vision is to establish a successful interoperation of both, data network and knowledge repositories, as integral parts of the e-infrastructure for research and education in Europe. As such DRIVER provides a guideline for content providers who expose their content using OAI-PMH and Dublin Core.
OJS OAI interface and the metadata export in DC format will be adjusted according to DRIVER-Guidelines 2.0 in order to improve the integration with other systems, e.g. service providers and institutional repositories such as OPUS. OPUS is the most widely used institutional repository in Germany.
OJS integration with a central statistics/service provider enables a standardized and interoperable usage statistics/download impact measurement for OJS documents/publications which in turn enable the use of added value services in OJS (e.g. a recommendation system based on click stream analysis).
The usage/access data collection will either be implemented in OJS or log files from an underlying web server will be used. The data will then be preprocessed and saved in OJS, transformed to OpenURL ContextObject format and provided on the OAI interface to the statistics/service provider. Thus, the preprocessing and storage of access data will be implemented in OJS, the OJS OAI interface will be extended and the data export in OpenURL ContextObject format implemented according to the statistics/service provider requirements. An interface will be developed in OJS in order to retrieve back aggregate statistics on documents. Statistics will be stored in OJS and added value services will be implemented based on such usage data.
VG Wort
German authors' rights society VG Wort provides services for tracking and registering the number of accesses to a text. This is the prerequisite for the payment of royalties for electronic publications to authors and/or organizations that acquired publishing rights. For the tracking of a document, the document has to be assigned a pixel tag issued by VG Wort. The VG Wort provides web services for integration with other systems and automation of pixel tag management. Automated ordering, registration and assignment of pixel tags to documents will be implemented in OJS.
Multilinguale Europäische DOI Registrationsagentur (mEDRA)
mEDRA is a platform for DOI registration via an ONIX DOI-Metadata-Schema. OJS data export in mEDRA format will be implemented.
DataCite is an international not-for-profit association of several research institutions. DataCite was originally founded to make DOI registration available for primary research data. Nowadays DataCite registers a broad range of publication objects. In the OJS context these are journal issues, articles, galleys and supplementary files.
Search optimization
The integration of the search server Solr with OJS will be implemented.
Full support of review journals
OJS will be extended in order to fully support review journals. This means 1. management (create, edit, delete,…) of review items (e.g. books, CDs, DVDs, web sites,…) and their metadata, 2. support of review journal publishing and communication processes, and 3. integration with other OJS elements/areas/functions.
- Review items will be defined, a metadata standard for their description chosen and their management in OJS implemented.
- Support for the following additional functionality in OJS will be developed:
- editor can ask an author to review an item or author can ask for it,
- author can reserve a review item (or editor can do that for him/her),
- editor has a detailed status overview about the reviewed, reserved and free items,
- a list of all reviewed, reserved and free items will be published.
- The above review items and publishing processes will be integrated into existing OJS publishing processes: there should be a possibility to create a connection between a submission and a review item; the status overview and the published list of review items should be updated according to the submission status, the review item should be included into the article view. Import and Export, reading tools and citation functions will be adapted.
s. Dokumentation des Object For Review-Plug-Ins
Further enhancements
- RSS for comments,
- Notification about the upload of a revised article version
- Browse by section
- OpenURL resolver
- Setup of journal elements that are displayed on the index/start page
- Provide a link from an article to its primary research data (in a repository)
- Remote URL as galley
- Pre-decision possibility for editors/section editors
- Quick submission for editors
OJS forum
The OJS development steps listed above as well as further user requirements will be discussed in the English and German PKP Support Forum.
Workshops about OJS in general, new features, current development and future plans will be organized. They are designed to better connect and further involve the German PKP Community and to coordinate their ongoing requirements.
A multimedia-based tutorial about electronic Publishing, Open Access and OJS will be developed in order to support editors and authors in planning, realization, distribution and use of electronic journals.


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Remember This "BIG GAME" Commercial For Apple? [VIDEO]
As we prepare for the "Big Game" next Sunday, sometimes we focus our attention as much on the entertaining, much-anticipated commercials as we do on the gridiron action. Get ready to watch one that will have you saying, "That was 30 years ago?!"
Yes, 1984...when Apple introduced the Macintosh Computer! WOW, how time has flown!


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It's been a very busy and emotional two weeks, so I haven't done much blogging or made much progress on my list of 50 Things to Do Before my 5oth Birthday. I did manage to knock off a couple of little things, and one big thing, though. Here are some of the little things:
Number 21 on my list–Visit to a local landmark/attraction once a month. This month I went to Dodger Stadium, for a game between the crosstown rivals, the LA Dodgers and Los Angeles Angeles of Anaheim. I still don't understand how a team could be have LA and Anaheim in one title, since they are entirely separate counties, but from what I understand, that's what the Angels are calling themselves these days. Anyway, the cross-town rivalry doesn't just exist in Southern California, it also exists is our house. Juan grew up in the OC and I grew up in LA and environs. So we went to the game looking like this.
And of course, like father like son.
Even though I have been to Dodger Stadium several times, this was a special trip for me because I have never been on the actual ball field. After the game, the Dodgers had a fireworks display that would rival all the fireworks going on between the McCourts in thier divorce litigation. Fans got to watch the fireworks from the field, something I was very happy to do.
#21 for the month of June? Check.
The next thing I am making progress on my list, is number 24, review my financial retirement plan. Juan and I have had three meetings with a financial planner in the last two months. Now, before you jump to any false conclusions that I actually have any finances to plan, I should tell you that our lack of financial planning, has caused me a great deal of anxiety. Juan and I have 4 kids between us. Kids are expensive. We have (I hope) four college educations to plan for, not to mention our own retirement. Getting re-married later in life, also caused us to get a late start on the planning. Prior to meeting with this financial planner, Juan and I have been saving whatever we could, hoping and praying that it would be enough to fund some kind of higher education for our kids, with enough leftover for us to be able to eat something besides cat food in our retirement years. And while our meetings did not dispel all of our financial anxiety, they did give us some direction to how to achieve some our goals. I am breathing a little easier now, and I am sure our kids will be
happy relieved okay knowing that they will be able to go to a college. Even though it may not that fancy, schmanzy, private East coast university, we should not have to go knocking at their doors, ready to move in with them when we retire. Now, whether or not the kids will come knocking on our door when they finish college, that's another issue.
Number 24? Check.
The third thing I did these past two weeks was number 35, Camp on the Beach. Well, I call it "beach camping," even if it was more car camping and the beach was across the Pacific Coast Highway from our tent site, but I think it qualifies. Actually, I really do like camping, but I have never camped near or on the beach, so it is something I have always wanted to do. When my sister-in-law invited us to tag along with her and her family over 4th of July weekend I was thrilled. It was a last minute decision, but when you go camping with other people who already have the site, and most of the camp gear, a last minute camping decision is easy. We just had to pack a tent and some sleeping bags. It also helped that we were "camping" only an hour away in Orange County at a very beautiful beach, which happened to be down the street from a shopping center, and a take-out pizza place. Oh, and the fact that the camp site was brand new with showers and flush toilets didn't hurt either. Now that is what I call "roughing it."
Number 35? Check.
The last big thing on my list….
Molly. We got a new dog. I wrote about it here. I thought she was great until I discovered that she completely scratched the back of my leather loveseat. I threatened to send her back , but the kids love her. When we first brought her home, she was a bit timid, but now, she has warmed up to us and has made herself at home.
We had a little bit of trouble trying to reach a consensus on her name. Some contenders were: Jackie, Churro (Diego's idea), Baby Monkey, Cow (Both Olivia's ideas). We finally agreed on Molly. Or as I sometimes call her, Miss Molly. But, Diego likes to call her "Cute-Cute," because she is.
That's it for now. 5 down, 45 to go.


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In cooperation with Tucson Values Teachers, Arizona Spotlight presents a special series called Teachers' Voices. These conversations between educators, administrators, and students gives them a chance to share personal stories about the struggles and triumphs of their daily school experience.
Stories That Soar is a Tucson non-profit that encourages children to write stories. Any kind of story, about anything they can possibly imagine. They use those stories to feed something called "The Magic Box", and often the children get the chance to see their stories made into professionally printed books, or performed live as a play in front of their classmates and teachers.
In this conversation, Sharon O'Brien, the artistic director of Stories That Soar, talks with Mary Anderson, a former classroom teacher who is now the principal at Lineweaver Elementary School, about how the idea was born...
Stories That Soar will be at the Tucson Festival of Books on March 10th and 11th, 2012.
Teachers' Voices will air bi-weekly throughout 2012 on Arizona Spotlight, funded in part by The Arizona Department of Education and Cox Communications.


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'Virender Sehwag's thinking is entirely different'
Set to complete a century of Test appearances, Indian opener Virender Sehwag today drew lavish praise from his skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni, who said the aggressive batsman has a distinct mindset which keeps him positive even during lean patches.
Sehwag would be making his 100th Test appearance when he takes the field against England here tomorrow in the second game of the ongoing four-match series.
"The crucial decision that he made in his career was when he decided that he will open the innings. I think that was a big challenge for him but he accepted it. His stats are one of the best stats that you can see. He is someone who is very different to a lot of individuals. His thinking is entirely different," Dhoni said at the pre-match press conference in Mumbai on Thursday.
"How he takes up or faces a particular kind of challenge is very different."
'Sehwag looks to put pressure on the bowler'
The 34-year-old Sehwag is on the verge of becoming only the ninth Indian player to reach the 100-Test club list, which his idol Sachin Tendulkar tops with 191 under his belt.
"He has got a very important role right from the very start. He is someone who can play shots right from the very first delivery, which means if the bowler is off target, he looks to put pressure on the bowler," Dhoni said.
"We have seen once the batsmen get after the bowlers and if they score a few boundaries off the bowler, then it is very difficult for them to get back into the game," he added.
'Sehwag's role is very crucial'
Dhoni said Sehwag is always full of positive energy irrespective of his form with the bat.
"When you talk about the mindset, that is why he is so special. Whether he is in form or not in form, it does not really bother him. He just keeps thinking positive. He was working a lot on his batting but still his approach remained the same," said Dhoni.
"His (Sehwag's) role is very crucial, not to forget the experience that he has got playing in all the formats and also the fact that he still can get us a few wickets.
"We have not been using him too much in the bowling department but is still someone who can get us a few breakthroughs," said Dhoni.
'I think Sehwag is brilliant'
The India captain said the way Sehwag plays, it is always easy for him to strike form after a lean phase.
"I don't think it is too difficult for someone like him to come back to form. We all know that form is about 15 runs here and there.
"All of a sudden from a very good run, you get out in 15 deliveries. It's the mindset that helps you get back in the game and that way, I think he is brilliant," he said.
'When it comes to Viru, you need a bit more time to understand him'
Dhoni said people need more time to understand Sehwag's mindset.
"When it comes to Viru, you need a bit more time to understand him. All the players who have played with him and shared the dressing room with realise the fact that his mindset is completely different from maybe all the cricketers around the world," the skipper said.
"He is very positive and he backs his stint and looks forward to score runs. It doesn't matter whether the wicket is seaming or turning or doing anything.
"He goes in with one purpose and that is to score runs," he explained.


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7th Global Congress on Combating Counterfeiting and Piracy
24-26 April 2013
The Global Congress has become a leading forum, shaping the direction of international responses to the crimes of counterfeiting and piracy, and raising public awareness of the dangers associated with illicit goods.
Cross-sector cooperation
A high-level event, the Congress attracts more than 1,000 participants from a wide range of sectors. Among the attendees are government ministers and policy makers, senior civil servants, business leaders, law enforcement officers, specialist investigators, judges, lawyers, brand owners, consumer groups, members of academia, and representatives from intergovernmental organizations and nongovernmental organizations.
Topics to be discussed
The theme for this year's congress was "Evolving challenges – innovative responses".
Sessions covered a variety of issues, including sales of counterfeit goods on the Internet; the impact on public health and safety; consumer attitudes and awareness; legal developments; the importance of a joint response to transnational organized crime; public-private partnerships; and optimizing the use of new technology.
International expertise
Speakers and moderators came from all parts of the world. Keynote speakers included:
- Dr Kunio Mikuriya, Secretary General of the WCO;
- Dr Francis Gurry, Director General of WIPO;
- Mr Ronald K. Noble, Secretary General of INTERPOL;
- Ms Toe Su Aung, 2013 President of INTA;
- Ms Shelley Duggan, Co-Chair of ICC/BASCAP.
Turkey was represented by Mr Ömer Çelik, Minister of Culture and Tourism and Mr. Hayati Yazici, Minister of Customs and Trade, as well as senior government officials and high-level industry delegates.
Organizers and hosts
This event was organized under a unique public-private partnership with leaders from INTERPOL, the World Customs Organization (WCO), the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the International Chamber of Commerce/BASCAP initiative (ICC/BASCAP) and the International Trademark Association (INTA).
The seventh Global Congress was held under the High Auspices of H.E. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and hosted by Turkish Customs, supported by the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey (TOBB).


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Of the many tragedies caused by a chain of powerful tornados that swept though eastern Arkansas, the Missouri Bootheel and west Tennessee on April 2, 2006, little has been said about the effect of the high winds on livestock.
Animals not killed in the initial storm often wandered off when fences were destroyed — some onto highways to be killed or maimed in accidents, or euthanized because there was no way to contain them.
Today, the region is much more prepared to handle the aftermath of such a disaster, thanks to a program implemented by the Department of Homeland Security called the Urban Areas Security Initiative.
Shortly after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, six counties in Tennessee, Arkansas and Mississippi were identified by the department as one of 50 urban areas in the United States which it believes is more at risk for possible terrorist attacks than others. Urban areas around New Orleans and Baton Rouge are also included in the initiative.
In August 2003, David Newbill with the Tennessee Department of Agriculture and Mike Dennison, Extension agent and county director, Shelby County, were asked to serve on a working group to help identify the threats and vulnerabilities in this urban area, with the help of local Farm Service Agency personnel, the Farm Bureau, Natural Resources Conservation Service, cattle producers and others.
"Initially, we wanted to respond to either a plant or an animal disaster," Dennison said. "As our concept became more defined and the Department of Agriculture became more involved, we basically changed our focus to animals only."
The Memphis urban area includes the counties of Tipton, Shelby, Fayette, Lauderdale in Tennessee, Crittenden County in Arkansas and Desoto County Mississippi.
"The first year, the area received $6 million, split between fire, police and health, medical and other. Agriculture fit in the latter category. The last couple of months of 2003, we put together equipment lists."
In 2006, the initiative was expanded to include natural as well as man-made disasters. Homeland Security stated on its Web site, "Drawing on lessons learned from the past hurricane season and concerns over the risk of a pandemic flu outbreak, the range of activities has been expanded to include catastrophic events, provided that these events also build capabilities that relate to terrorism."
Disaster equipment arrived in July of this year and included portable corrals for livestock for capturing escaped animals, a cattle trailer, four-wheelers and a cargo trailer full of items which could be used in a disaster including face masks, hard hats, pressure washer, a generator, an equine sling and a log chain.
The six counties are putting together disaster animal response teams consisting of volunteers who will respond in case of a disaster. Currently in Shelby County, 80 people have gone through the training to serve on a DART.
"We also have funds set aside for dogs and cats, for rabies shots," Dennison said. "The initiative is also set up to inject microchips free of charge, to help identify animals and get them reunited with their owners."
Agricenter International in Memphis recently hosted an event showcasing the newly arrived equipment, noted Dennison. "One of the best things about it was that it let fire and police personnel know that agriculture has response teams and equipment ready to go in case of an emergency. We've already been approached by representatives from the Memphis and Shelby County fire departments who want some of their personnel to go through the credentialing process."
All of the equipment for Shelby County is stored at Agricenter International at the Showplace Arena. "We hope nothing happens, but the reason we have it is in case something does."
If you want to report a disaster situation involving animals, always call your local Emergency Management Agency first, Dennison noted. "They have a list of people they know to call in case of an emergency. If it's a (human) life-threatening situation, call 911. The team is also equipped to quarantine an animal or animals in case of a disease outbreak."
EMS contacts and phone numbers for the four counties in Tennessee are: Fayette, B.J. Bartholomew, 901-465-5239; Lauderdale, Jim Jarrett, 731-635-3243; Tipton, Trish Miller, 901-476-0222; Shelby, Claude Talford, 902-458-1515. Call Tim Curtis, 662-429-1359, for Desoto County, Miss.; and Ronnie Rogers, 501-730-9750, for Crittenden County, Ark.


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December 2006
Season's Greetings from Pace's Lubin School of Business
Dean Joe Baczko and the faculty and staff of the Lubin School of Business send warm holiday greetings to all our students, alumni, colleagues, and friends. We hope you have a wonderful holiday season and a very happy new year, and we look forward to sharing Lubin news and highlights with you in 2007!
Marie Toulantis, BBA '81
Annual Lubin Luncheon Raises Over $765,000!
14th Annual Lubin Alumni Achievement Award Luncheon
Marie J. Toulantis
, BBA '81, CEO, Barnes&Noble.com, was held on December 1 at One Chase Plaza in downtown Manhattan. Over $765,000 was raised, nearly double the revenue from the previous year's event, which was itself a record. Proceeds provide
to outstanding undergraduate and graduate students with financial need.
Ten Lubin students
were awarded scholarships at the Luncheon.
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EIR Centennial Series a Smash Success
Executives in Residence (EIR) Centennial Series
, a series of panel discussions among former participants of the nearly
20-year-old program
, was held during the months of October and November 2006. Capacity crowds of students, faculty, alumni, and guests attended the four-event series, which was held on the downtown New York campus and also in Pleasantville.
Keith Reinhard
, chairman emeritus, DDB Worldwide;
Marie Toulantis
, BBA '81, CEO, Barnes&Noble.com; and
Richard Zannino
, MBA '84, CEO, Dow Jones, were among the participants.
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Richard Zannino, MBA '84
Tom Jones
IASB Vice Chairman to Keynote Accounting Conference
Tom Jones, vice chairman of the
International Accounting Standards Board (IASB)
, will be the keynote speaker at Lubin's First Annual Accounting Conference, sponsored by the Center for Financial Reporting in Global Markets. The Conference will be held in midtown Manhattan on April 26, 2007. The theme of the Conference is "Convergence in Global Financial Reporting and Corporate Governance: Charting a Course for the Future." Stay tuned for further details in the next
Pace Mourns Faculty Legend Ivan Fox, BBA '54
Beloved alumnus and faculty member
Ivan Fox
, a colorful and ubiquitous presence at Lubin and Pace for over 48 years, passed away on Tuesday, November 21, after a sudden illness. Teacher to thousands of Pace students over his long tenure, Fox was a highly respected legal studies educator and authority on business law, who engaged students in class and as a performer and MC at numerous campus events. He established the Ivan Fox Endowed Professorship at Pace. To make a contribution, please contact Magdalena Rybicki, Director of Development at Lubin, at (212) 618-6418 or
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Ivan Fox, BBA '54
Richard M. Matthews
Seminal Lubin Leader Richard M. Matthews Dies at 96
Professor Richard Matthews, who died on Monday, November 20, in Ojai, California, was a seminal educator at Lubin for more than 40 years. Joining the faculty in 1947, he served as chair of the
accounting department
from 1950-1969, as second dean of the Lubin School of Business Administration from 1969 to 1977, and as professor emeritus of accounting until 1989. As dean of Lubin, Matthews provided leadership that shaped the future of business education at Pace. His legacy to Lubin is monumental. During his long and rich tenure Matthews taught thousands of business students and inspired generations of faculty. To make a contribution to the Richard M. Matthews Scholarship Fund, please contact Magdalena Rybicki, Director of Development at Lubin, at (212) 618-6418 or
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Enron's Albatross?
On Tuesday, November 14,
Bethany McLean
, senior writer at
, addressed a packed audience of Pace University students, faculty, and administrators on
"The Enron Case: What It Means for Corporate Ethics and Governance."
Her talk detailed Enron's rise to glory and its dismal fall due to ethical transgressions that caused irreparable damage to the livelihoods and character of those intimately associated with it. It was Ms. McLean in early 2001 who wrote a story questioning how the company made its money. Ms. McLean signed copies of her book, coauthored with Peter Elkind,
The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron
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Bethany McLean
Save the Date for 9th Annual Golf Classic
Get the dust off your clubs and get ready for the
9th Annual Lubin School of Business Golf Classic
, which will be held on May 29, once again at Wheatley Hills Golf Club in East Williston, Long Island. This event has grown every year and is a great way to connect with alumni, corporate contacts, and friends, while raising funds for Lubin student
. So plan to join us on the links this spring. For more information on sponsorships and tickets, please contact Arleen Johnson at
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MBA Program Graduates Sixteen
Sixteen managers and professionals from Cycle 6 of Pace's
Executive MBA
program graduated on Saturday, December 9. Christopher Roker (Al Roker's younger brother) of Capital Health Management Inc. spoke at the ceremony on behalf of the graduating class. A champagne luncheon for over 200 guests followed the ceremony. Pace's
MBA program leverages the power of the Internet to provide a first-rate executive MBA program that is
as being "highly innovative, ahead of its time, and unique in the marketplace."
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MBA Cycle 6 graduates
William Phelps, MBA
Lubin Pitcher Throws Home Run
William Phelps
, MBA '08, placed first in the
Third Annual Pace Pitch Contest
on November 17, 2006. Phelps' company, Idea Storm Products, LLC, is a new start-up that invents games designed to inspire the imagination.
, the company's first product, which Phelps pitched, is an innovative drawing game that is currently
available on Barnes&Noble.com
and will appear in Discovery Channel Stores beginning March 1, 2007. Pace's
Pitch Contest
is based on the elevator pitch concept popular among venture capitalists, and it features would-be entrepreneurs who pitch their ideas, business models, and marketing strategies to a distinguished
panel of judges
in a matter of three minutes.
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Yamodo at B&N.com
Alumni Entrepreneurs Ranked By
Vitaly Feldman
, BBA '06, and
Alexander Koretsky
, BBA '04, placed among
"25 Best Entrepreneurs Under 25."
Their company
, a Web site, makes what once was a difficult and time-consuming process, a quick and easy one by making it possible for providers of services and consumers of services to easily find one another on a single user-friendly platform. According to the site, MetroHorse is the Internet's #1 Marketplace for Business & Personal Services.
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Vitaly Feldman, BBA '06, and Alexander Koretsky, BBA '04
Liliana Nunez,
Women in Management Take Care of Their Own
The Lubin Graduate Management Program for Women (GMPW), under the leadership of Sandra Ekberg, BA '58, MBA, '71, established a $100,000
to benefit a female MBA student and created a new MBA Mentoring Program at their rousing 30th reunion in May 2006. The first GMPW scholarship recipient is Liliana Nunez, BBA/MBA '07, an accounting and international business major. She joins PricewaterhouseCoopers upon graduation.
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Accounting Majors Fight "Crimes" with IRS
Accounting students from Pace University and Queens College were
"IRS Special Agents for a Day,"
on October 13, 2006. Working with
IRS criminal investigators
, 26 students learned federal law enforcement techniques such as undercover, surveillance, subpoenas, and search and arrest warrants to enact scenarios investigating financial fraud. The downtown Manhattan Pace campus and the surrounding streets were their stage for this exciting hands-on financial forensics training.
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IRS agent with students
Kaplan Mobray (left) with Anita Sood, BBA '05
Deloitte Executive Keynotes NABA Annual Fall Dinner
Pace's chapter of the
National Association of Black Accountants (NABA)
hosted its 14th Annual Fall Dinner on Thursday, November 16, 2006. "To Whom Much is Given, Much is Required," served as the theme for the event. The dinner provided an innovative networking experience for students, professionals, faculty, and staff. The keynote address was delivered by the dynamic Kaplan Mobray, US Diversity Recruiting Leader at Deloitte and author of
The 10Ks of Personal Branding
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The Fall of the Evangelical Nation: The Surprising Crisis Inside the Church by Christine Wicker
The author is a Christian of sorts, an ex-Southern Baptist and ex-evangelical, but still a mild believer (she has a mini-testimony at the end of the book) saying that she accepts Jesus as her saviour and would count her self as born again on certain days when she is in the mood for it! She also prays when she wants to but has many doubts and disagreements with the church.
Her data comes from interviews with leading Christians, polls and published studies. If you want her references for any of these below, let me know.
Here are a few notes of interest that I found within it:
* Church attendance figures are inflated as many Christians attend more than one church and are multiply counted.
* Roughly 1,000 evangelicals leave Christianity altogether every day and don't come back. As a whole American Christians lose 6,000 members a day (i.e. the other 5,000 going onto their own private views of religion – leaving organized religion, whilst maintaining some unorthodox religious belief like Christine Wicker, the author).
* Conservative religious causes and spokesmen are over-represented on TV as they are featured 3 times more often in TV and print reports than moderate and progressive Christians.
* The proportion of Christians who subscribe to all core evangelical beliefs is about 25%.
* The fastest growing "religious group" in America is non-believers.
* There are twice as many people claiming no religion as there are participating evangelicals that have made the religious right powerful.
* Southern Baptist growth isn't keeping up with population growth and it hasn't for years.
* 86% of baptisms are of people who are already Christians. (i.e. Christians "changing brands" rather than conversions of unbelievers).
* In the remaining 14% baptisms are going down in every group except children under five.
* Southern Baptist baptisms were 100,000 in 1980 but 60,000 in 2005.
* Evangelicals are slightly more likely to believe that astrology impacts one's life (13.6%) than Americans as a whole (12.3%).
* Mega-churches are often heavily dept-laden and suffer particularly when an influential pastor retires or dies, or the local population demographics change.
* 11% of Americans identify with the religious right.
* 20% of evangelicals identify with the religious right.
* Some evangelicals blame the Internet for allowing people to think differently about Christianity. (note: exactly as Farrell Till predicted in The Skeptical Review many years ago!)
Steve Locks, Leaving Christianity


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Uh, I went to Arright Parking and The Grand Dragon come to me, he say to steal their Warste Barsket!
by Mr. Honor February 09, 2009
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Thursday, November 29, 2012
NEST in Mystic, Ct
21 comments:
- Karen said...
oooh, such beautiful things!!.... Happy holidays to you too...
- November 29, 2012 at 1:06 PM
- oldgreymare said...
Nest is right. I want to move right in :D
- November 29, 2012 at 1:10 PM
- Laura @ 52 FLEA said...
It's been a long time since I have visited Nest...time to go back! Great photos...love those celluloid mirrors...cute idea! :)
- November 29, 2012 at 1:54 PM
- Jacqueline @ HOME said...
Dear Carole,
I couldn't possibly list all of the things that I would buy ...... suffice it to say that I would love to buy it all !!!! Just gorgeous, every last thing !! XXXX
- November 29, 2012 at 4:31 PM
- Anne said...
So beautiful Carole! BTW just received my JDL magazine today.I am enjoying reading and viewing the beautiful photos!Have a great weekend!
- November 29, 2012 at 6:25 PM
- Jacqueline~Cabin and Cottage said...
Wonderful shop! Styled so pretty. Wish I could go. Love your photos!
- November 29, 2012 at 8:14 PM
- Olive said...
Yes, amazing. And full of stuff. I always email my pics to myself. It just works out that way:}
- November 29, 2012 at 8:34 PM
- Denise said...
Absolutely amazing! I saw a couple of pieces of milk glass I would just like to pull through my computer screen. I saw pics. of your shop at 52 Flea not long ago. Equally as amazing!
- November 29, 2012 at 10:10 PM
- Romeo said...
Well, "her" and I were sitting here, leisurely looking at the beautiful pictures you took at the nest. Suddenly, "her" heart started racing and "she" started breathing quickly....dropped me on the floor and ran out the door, saying "she" needed air. That was 45 minutes ago. I think purrhaps, "she" is at the airport.....
Romeo minus "her" who went out...
- November 30, 2012 at 1:09 AM
For someone that cannot get to shops like these, this is pure delight. I also enjoyed the photos Laura shared on her blog of your shop, Carole ~ gorgeousness!!!
- November 30, 2012 at 10:16 AM
- Nella said...
Carole, just beautiful shop! Loved seeing yours as well from Laura's blog. I miss shop keeping when I see lovely ones such as these.....brings me back....N.xo
- November 30, 2012 at 5:56 PM
- Julia - "Vintage with Laces" said...
That's an awesome shop. I've seen so many things I love. The super large glass jar is among the things that had caught my eye immediately but there's a lot more.
I know that there's an other fabulous shop about half an hour away though. YOURS! I saw the pictures on Laura's blog. Oh Carole, sigh, you did such a wonderful job again, shopping and decorating. You've got a great taste and as every year, I wish I could come by and see everything in person. Your customers don't know how lucky the are.
Have a busy weekend with lots of customers, dear friend!
Big hugs,
- December 1, 2012 at 3:48 AM
- Sandi~A Cottage Muse said...
So amazing...thanks for sharing Carole!
- December 2, 2012 at 5:29 PM
- Susan Thomas said...
Carole, was amazing meeting you today and basically buying one of everything in your gorgeous shop!! I see in this post you love NEST like I do, Funny thing, in the first photo of this post, it shows a giant spool with the sissors!! It now sits proudly in my dining room!! ha ha
Hope to chat with you sooon. Thanks for a lovely day!!
- December 2, 2012 at 7:28 PM
- MJ Ornaments said...
Love everything Carole!
Xoxo Martha
- December 3, 2012 at 11:39 PM
- Rebecca @ Belle Blog said...
That shop is so pretty. Would love to visit in person next time I'm in Mystic.
- December 5, 2012 at 9:34 PM
- suziqu's thread works said...
Wow you are so lucky Carole to have THIS amazing shop to visit just down the road!
And I just had to visit 52 Flea thanks to dear Julia and OMG! everything is so stunningly beautiful and oh how I wish I could visit you there dear friend.
That cloche with the Virgin Mary inside is the one I would have to come away with!
Wishing you lots of sales from now on until the New Year and a few tootsiesup at the end of the day.
Sending hugs and love,
- December 6, 2012 at 5:04 AM
- Donna said...
Hi Carole!
This is such a great store!
I am such a sucker for fab displays!
Thank you for sharing!
I love to see places I may never get to visit in person~ plus it is always so cool to see things through another perspective!
Have a great week!
Hugs to you my friend
- December 10, 2012 at 2:08 PM
- Tutti Chic said...
what a gorgeous shop!! thanks so much for sharing!! :) chris
- December 11, 2012 at 8:50 AM
- vicki said...
Carole- I'm so slow in making my rounds- I almost missed out on seeing these beautiful pictures!! What a dreamy shop-- full of absolute loveliness! I'd love to see it now with Christmas decor!
And-- you just know that I LOVE the name of that shop!!
Happy Holidays to you Carole--
- December 13, 2012 at 4:09 PM
- Rostrose said...
UUUUH, WHAT A SHOP!!!!! :o)))
Thanks for visiting me in your blog-pause, dearest Carole, and for the nice words you left to my California-Dreaming-posts :o)
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The Detroit Red Wings have been a fixture near the top of the Western Conference in recent years. The improving Columbus Blue Jackets, meanwhile, are getting used to those surroundings.
On Friday night, the Blue Jackets (8-4-2) will get a chance to further legitimize their fast start when they travel to Joe Louis Arena and try to end the first-place Red Wings' eight-game winning streak.
Not much was expected from Columbus at the start of the season, but the Blue Jackets have allowed the fewest goals in the Western Conference, thanks partly to league-leading numbers from goaltender Pascal Leclaire, who's posted a 1.12 goals-against average and five shutouts.
Leclaire, though, wasn't in net when Columbus lost 5-2 to Chicago on Wednesday. Fredrik Norrena made 30 saves, but gave up three goals in a 3:57 span of the third period that erased a one-goal lead and snapped Columbus' six-game points streak (5-0-1).
"Except for the last five minutes of the second period and first eight of the third, we didn't have any energy," Columbus coach Ken Hitchcock said. "We played a very loose game and paid for it."
They'll have to tighten up against Detroit (12-2-1), which hasn't lost since Oct. 15, allowing two goals or fewer in all eight games over that span. Goalie Chris Osgood has carried the load in net since Dominik Hasek went down with a hip injury, though the six-time Vezina Trophy winner is expected to start this game.
Hasek is 6-2-0 with a 1.81 GAA in his career against Columbus. He made 35 saves on April 3 in a 3-0 home win over the Blue Jackets when he last faced them on April 3.
On the offensive side, things have gone equally well for the Wings. Henrik Zetterberg leads the league with 25 points and he broke the franchise record for longest points streak to start a season with an assist in Wednesday's 3-2 shootout win over Nashville.
That game may have been Detroit's worst in weeks. Coming off a five-day layoff, Detroit blew a 2-0 lead with eight minutes to play.
"I don't think any of it was fantastic. I've been nervous for five days," said Detroit coach Mike Babcock. "I knew this was coming. I was scared about it."
But perhaps other teams should be scared of Detroit, which is no stranger to fast starts. They had this same record through 15 games two years ago, when they started 12-1-0 and 15-2-1.
Last year, they started 12-4-1, and won the Central Division for the seventh straight season.
On the other hand, in Hitchcock's first full season as coach, this is easily Columbus' best start in club history. The Blue Jackets have just 38 goals, 10 coming from Rick Nash.
Under Hitchcock, the Blue Jackets have become a defensive-minded club. Before the loss in Chicago, Columbus had allowed three total goals in its previous five games.
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STORRS, Conn.—With Meatless Mondays, low-carbon diets and under 500 calorie meals, foodservice operators are always looking for the next food trend. At the University of Connecticut, it's the raw foods movement. Dining Services has decided to embrace raw foods with a new grab-and-go line called Sain.
"Dennis Pierce [UConn's director of dining services] came to me and said he'd seen raw food concepts in big city restaurants," says Robert Landolphi, culinary operations manager. "I brought [the idea] to the culinary development team and we did a little research and found that not a lot of people have ever done a raw foods line in cafés. We did some more research and created Sain, which is currently available in two of our cafés."
The line is made fresh daily in the department's central production kitchen and distributed to each café. The Sain raw foods line includes grab-and-go items such as a cranberry nut compote wrap, a cashew cheese ravioli, a Caribbean pasta salad and cucumber flying discs, all of which are vegetarian and/or vegan.
Landolphi says the team has been overwhelmed with positive feedback about the line.
"Within a week we were receiving emails from people who loved the food," Landolphi says. "We have done many different types of food lines before and usually we have an idea of how it's going to go. But this was one food line where we really had no idea if it was going to be successful. After about three weeks, our person in charge of cafés said he wanted to expand the line to the other cafés and that's where we are now."
Landolphi says the menu development process was tougher than he expected, especially because no cooking is involved.
"We started by looking at fresh vegetables, herbs, olive oil, lemon juice, etc.," Landolphi says. "We made a list of all the different ingredients that we use on campus that could work. We also started looking at different nuts for protein, but we had to remember we couldn't use roasted nuts. So we started bringing in raw cashews and pumpkin seeds."
Nuts ended up being an important ingredient in many of the dishes.
"For example, we created the cashew cheese ravioli where the 'cheese' is actually cashews that are soaked in water overnight," Landolphi notes. "The next day, you put them in a food processor and the result tastes just like cheese. It was a big learning curve for us. As we made these raviolis, we were amazed at the flavor."
Making a sauce for the raviolis also became a challenge for the chefs' no-cooking mentality. To create an appropriate sauce, Landolphi says the team combined raw tomatoes, red onions and raw beets as well as basil, olive oil, salt and pepper, garlic and parsley in the food processor. He says the result was a "wonderful" sauce that complemented the raviolis. The team is currently working on expanding the menu for next semester. Landolphi says they are looking at creating beet raviolis and a turnip and cucumber pasta.
"[The biggest challenge] was as we started to write recipes we had to make sure that everything we used was uncooked," Landolphi says. "That was hard because as chefs we are so used to using different ingredients in certain ways. We quickly realized we couldn't do what we were used to. We found that the food processor was our new best friend. [Raw foods] is just a whole other way of cooking. I think it's here to stay. Based on some of the new information out there about how people are eating less meat and a more plant-based diet, I think there will be an increase in interest in raw food."
Landolphi says the health benefits of the raw foods diet stem from the fact that it is plant based, especially for customers looking to get protein from beans or nuts rather than meat such as vegetarians and vegans.
"You see a lot of different people who just want to eat healthy and they look in our case and think, 'I've never tried raw food before,'" Landolphi says. "Then they try it and they are hooked. They feel better eating it."


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The purpose of financial aid is to provide assistance to students who, without such aid, would be unable to attend college. Financial aid at Southwestern Community College is available in the form of grants, scholarships, work-study, and federal student loans to help meet a student's financial need.
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It has been our experience that students and families who take the time to understand the financial aid process benefit by receiving the maximum amount of financial aid for which they are eligible, while enjoying a "stress-free" financial aid process.
Have questions about financial aid? Click here to view our FAQ. Always feel free to call or stop by the SCC Financial Aid Office if you have any questions. We are located on the 1st floor of the Balsam Center, on the Jackson Campus in Sylva. General financial aid service is also available at the Macon Campus in Franklin.


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The answer to this dilemma may be one of the new Rescue 911 cell phones. These phones make it easier to get help, sometimes at a cost that is lower than that of a full-featured cell phone and its obligatory two-year service contract.
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The Magnavox MobilePAL is the first emergency wireless phone and service to provide nationwide caller location to emergency services (fire, police, ambulance) and all levels of public service. The phone uses GPS satellites to pinpoint a caller's location. Instead of a dial pad, it has one large, red CALL button, making it easier for injured, trapped or sick callers to activate it.
Pressing the red button turns on the phone and places a call to the Personal Assistance Link (PAL) Monitoring Center. The center has operators, or "personal assistants," on call 24/7, who can remotely activate the phone's GPS feature. The phone transmits data that pinpoint the caller's location to the PAL center. The personal assistant immediately locates the nearest emergency services and gives emergency personnel the caller's location. The personal assistant can initiate a three-way call, if needed. As rescue workers get closer, the phone's alarm button can help pinpoint the caller's location with sound. Mobile PAL+ GPS retails for $129.95. MobilePAL personal security service plans vary, with basic GPS service starting at $9.95/month.
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With a price of $49.95, the Motorola 650 flip phone is the least expensive 911 emergency cell phone. It makes free emergency 911 cell phone calls and has no GPS function. However, with its full keypad, it can make non-emergency credit card and collect calls in most areas. And there's no monthly service fee.
To order the MobilePAL or Motorola phones, visit www.911cellphones.com.
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Acupuncture is the practice of penetrating the skin with thin, solid, metallic needles which are then activated through gentle and specific movements of the practitioner's hands or with electrical stimulation.
Acupuncture is part of the ancient practice of Traditional Chinese medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine practitioners believe the human body has more than 2,000 acupuncture points connected by pathways or meridians. These pathways create an energy flow (Qi, pronounced "chee") through the body that is responsible for overall health. Disruption of the energy flow can cause disease. By applying acupuncture to certain points, it is thought to improve the flow of Qi, thereby improving health.
Studies have shown that acupuncture is effective for a variety of conditions.
Acupuncture is not for everyone. If you choose to see an acupuncturist, discuss it with your doctor first and find a practitioner who is licensed as having proper training and credentials.
Acupuncture is done using hair-thin needles. Most people report feeling minimal pain as the needle is inserted. The needle is inserted to a point that produces a sensation of pressure or ache. Needles may be heated during the treatment or mild electric current may be applied to them. Some people report acupuncture makes them feel energized. Others say they feel relaxed.
Improper placement of the needle can cause pain during treatment. Needles must be sterilized to prevent infection. That is why it is important to seek treatment from a qualified acupuncture practitioner. The FDA regulates acupuncture needles just as it does other medical devices under good manufacturing practices and single-use standards of sterility.
Instead of needles, other forms of stimulation are sometimes used over the acupuncture points, including:
Heat (moxibustion)
Pressure (acupressure)
Suction (cupping)
Impulses of electromagnetic energy
Acupuncture points are believed to stimulate the central nervous system. This, in turn, releases chemicals into the muscles, spinal cord, and brain. These biochemical changes may stimulate the body's natural healing abilities and promote physical and emotional well-being.
National Institutes of Health (NIH) studies have shown that acupuncture is an effective treatment alone or in combination with conventional therapies to treat the following:
Nausea caused by surgical anesthesia and cancer chemotherapy
Dental pain after surgery
Menstrual cramps
Tennis elbow
Myofascial pain
Low back pain
Carpal tunnel syndrome
It may also help with stroke rehabilitation.
Many Americans seek acupuncture treatment for relief of chronic pain, such as arthritis or low back pain. Acupuncture, however, has expanded uses in other parts of the world. Before considering acupuncture, talk to your doctor. Conditions that may benefit from acupuncture include the following:
GastritisIrritable bowel syndromeHepatitisHemorrhoids
RhinitisSinusitisSore throat
Menstrual painInfertility
ArthritisBack painMuscle crampingMuscle pain and weaknessNeck painSciatica
HeadachesMigrainesNeurogenic bladder dysfunctionParkinson's diseasePostoperative painStroke
Allergic rhinitisSinusitisBronchitis
Irritable bladderProstatitisMale infertilitySome forms of impotenceAddiction
Because scientific studies have not fully explained how acupuncture works within the framework of Western medicine, acupuncture remains a source of controversy. It is important to take precautions when deciding about acupuncture.
Discuss acupuncture with your doctor first. Acupuncture is not for everyone. Discuss all the treatments and medicines (dietary supplements, prescription and over-the-counter) you are taking. If you have a pacemaker, are at risk for infection, have chronic skin problems, are pregnant, or have breast or other implants, be sure to tell your doctor. Acupuncture may be risky to your health if you fail to mention these matters.
Do not rely on a diagnosis of disease by an acupuncture practitioner. If you have received a diagnosis from a doctor, you may wish to ask him or her whether acupuncture might help.
Choose a licensed acupuncture practitioner. Your own doctor may be a good resource for referrals to a licensed or certified practitioner. Friends and family members may also be good sources of referrals. You do not have to be a doctor to practice acupuncture or to become a certified acupuncturist. About 30 states have established training standards for certification in acupuncture, although not all states require acupuncturists to get a license to practice. Although not all certified acupuncturists are doctors, the American Academy of Medical Acupuncture can provide a referral list of doctors who practice acupuncture.
Consider costs and insurance coverage. Before starting treatment, ask the acupuncturist about the number of treatments needed and how much the treatments will cost. Some insurers cover the cost of acupuncture while others do not. It is important to know before you start treatment whether acupuncture is covered by your insurance.
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