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Four faces of Mars as seen on March 30, 1997 are presented in this montage of NASA Hubble Space Telescope images. Proceeding in the order upper-left, upper-right, lower-left, lower-right, Mars has rotated about ninety degrees between each successive time step. For example the Tharsis volcanoes, which are seen (between 7:30 and 9 o'clock positions) in mid-morning in the UPPER-RIGHT view, are seen near the late afternoon edge of the planet (about 3 o'clock position) in the lower-left image. All of these color images are composed of individual red (673 nanometers), green (502 nm), and blue (410 nm) Planetary Camera exposures.
Upper left: This view is centered on Ares Valles, where Pathfinder will land on July 4, 1997; the Valles Marineris canyon system stretches to the west across the lower left portion of the planet, while the bright, orangish desert of Arabia Planitia is to the east. The bright polar water-ice cap, surrounded by a dark ring of sand dunes, is obvious in the north; since it is northern summer and the pole is tilted toward us, the residual north polar cap is seen in its entirety in all four images. Acidalia Planitia, the prominent dark area fanning southward from the polar region, is thought to have a surface covered with dark sand. Numerous "dark wind streaks" are visible to the south of Acidalia, resulting from wind-blown sand streaming out of the interiors of craters.
Upper right: The Tharsis volcanos and associated clouds are prominent in the western half of this view. Olympus Mons, spanning 340 miles (550 km) across its base and reaching an elevation of 16 miles (25 km), extends through the cloud deck near the western limb, while (from the south) Arsia Mons, Pavonis Mons, and Ascraeus Mons are to the west of center. Valles Marineris stretches to the east, and the Pathfinder landing site is shrouded in clouds near the afternoon limb.
Lower left: This relatively featureless sector of Mars stretches from the Elysium volcanic region in the west to the Tharsis volcanoes (shrouded by the bright clouds near the afternoon limb) in the east. The group of three dark specks just left of center are all that remain of Cerberus, a very prominent dark region during the Viking and Mariner 9 missions. This is an example of the remarkable large scale changes which can occur on Mars due to windblown dust: the former dark area has now been covered by a layer of bright dust, masking the underlying material.
Lower right: The dark Syrtis Major region dominates this image. Syrtis Major is one of the most prominent dark features on Mars, and has been visible since ground-based observers first peered at Mars through telescopes. The bright cloud at 3 o'clock is associated with Elysium Mons. The bright bluish-white feature near the southern limb of the planet is Hellas, a 1,200 mile (2,000 km)diameter impact basin formed by the collision of a large body with Mars long ago. Hellas is covered with dry ice frost and clouds during this season (winter in the south).
Phil James (Univ. Toledo), Todd Clancy (Space Science Inst., Boulder, CO), Steve Lee (Univ. Colorado), and NASA


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Clean install from the last version of 5.0, and have tried multiple ffmpeg packages
Hi - since installing the latest version of Madsonic, I've been unable to stream to android devices (latest DSub, MadSonic Apps iwth MXPlayer, VLC, and VPlayer on Android 5.0 and Android 4.4.x). From what I can tell it looks like it's trying queue the selection instead of streaming it.
Downloading to cache works
Raw works (but kinda useless on out of home mobile device)
HLS sorta works (Apple devices Ok, android sound cuts out after a couple of seconds)
I have a 5.0.x install on another server (hooked up to exterior speakers for a jukebox) that works fine once I point it towards the video directories, and has the same transcoding instructions.
Any advice or should I downgrade down to 5.1?

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|2008-03-23, 12:31
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Yeah, Shouta, I'm not sure I like the rental model either. I'd rather own a DVD if I'm going to pay money personally.
It's nice that they are making it available early, but I hope this doesn't preclude it from being licensed for a real release in the US eventually so that I can own it on dual-language DVD (so I can watch in both languages depending on my mood and so I can watch with friends) with a nice hard copy and nice packaging and stuff.
I'm really not sure I want to pay money for youtube quality streaming videos (bost is pay on-demand streaming from reading the FAQ, right?), plus I also like owning a real physical copy of stuff I like if I'm going to pay money for it. I don't really have the desire to spend money on video files like people do over Xbox Live and stuff, especially with the flimsy HD's I've experienced over the years instead of having a "mostly" permanent DVD on my shelf, often with better quality as well, but I buy a ton of R1 anime DVDs so I'm more or less part of the hardcore group of anime and movie buffs who like collecting DVDs.
"The technical and commercial specifics of the video distribution will vary between these websites, from free streaming to fee-based download of high-resolution movie files, so as to cater to the different needs of users in the diverse digital climates."
The AOD article goes further saying that there will be a range of quality available from free to paying for higher res versions depending on which of the three services you use. Atleast that sounds better than what I got out of ANN's original article since it looks like I might be able to sample the crappy youtube-quality ones for free and then have the option of buying a nice high-res one, which might be worth it for some people to hold them until the DVDs come if either show is really good. I still REALLY hope this doesn't stop a real R1 dvd release with both a sub and dub though as I think that would suck.
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|2008-03-23, 16:13
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Join Date: Apr 2004
I'm skeptical about this anime.. but at the same time i'm kinda anticipating it also.. simply because it has one thing that stands out of all anime in the past five years or so.
It's got an old school feel to the animation and the scenery. Gives me a similar feeling to old school RPG style animes like Record of Lodoss Wars.
|2008-03-23, 18:37
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i think this and belsereiter are gonna be damn good.. especially if gonzo's using them to try to "sell" the new concept to the western world..
i mean there will be no sense in trying to sell a bad product in a new way.. thats just gonna kill the new delivery system..
it would be like having really good clothes in a fasion show and having shitty models.. that just doesn't work..
i think druaga and blesereiter are gonna be really good considering this new info.
btw from what i get
in this new delivery system there will basically be 4 ways to get you Anime
youtube- that will probably be the lowest qulity , but completely free.
crunchyroll- i am not sure if they will have a free LQ version. but if so i kinda think its better then youtube, not sure thou.. also they have an HQ and H264 HQ version options for paying members.
i didn't get to check it out but my guess they will basically be having mq-hq kinda quality. pretty good and cheap (i think its like 20$ for a whole year of HQ over there, or something along those lines)
after this comes BOST.
they have HQ-streaming which is pretty good, you can actually watch it in fullscreen and not feel too bad (and a i have an 1080P screen so a 720P screen would be pretty sane)
over there it goes around 100pts(or about 1.9$) per episode for a 14 days "rent" so you can watch episodes over there if you want HQ stream(which is around the 740px resolutions, so its about the same as the average AVI fansub..)
and then comes the last option,
which was mentioned in a couple of places which is the ability to actually download the ep for a real HD video, I'm talking about 720p-1080p or so.
now it was not said directly but i think this refers to the GONZO p2p site.
i think they will use that to distribute the files for download.
now for those prices theres still nothing,
but i can tell you that speed graphed is sold over there for 1000 yen for the MQ file, and 1500 yen for a HQ file.
they had a special sale for a long time and during that time it was 500 for the MQ and 750 for the HQ.
also theres an ultra HQ that i am guessing will be for 1080p as it is 8MBIT/S.
these files btw are (from what i understood at least) for good.
that is when you buy them they are yours.
but they do have DRM so that kinda sucks at the moment.
i think they might drop it thou, or have an option to pay a little more to get a clean version.
fixed the spelling of this post XD
was damn tired when i wrote it at 2am, after a day at a convention XD
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|2008-03-24, 01:42
|Link #46
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Utah
Age: 30
I was already excited about this series, and now I'm even more interesting in what they'll be doing with it. I'm guessing that they will eventually end up selling DVDs--and maybe even the English ones at the same time as the Japanese release, since they'll have the subtitles ready to go. If so... this could change a lot. Heck, I might even start buying anime again.
The preview streamed with BOST seemed to be very good quality, but I'm not sure I'd be willing to pay for streaming video, at least not at $2 per episode...I suppose I'll have to see what the YouTube quality is like. YouTube video quality can be decent, so I might not kill my eyes watching it for free. And if it's good, I will totally buy any DVDs that are sold to show my support of free legal subs.
As for the show itself, I'm really excited after seeing the preview. Interesting that they've gone with mostly natural hair colors--that's a lot of black! I also love the redhead, of course... if they can get past the slightly girly look of the male characters, it'll at least be fun to watch.
That guy with the crazy eyes scares me.
Anyone think it a bit odd that the show seems that it will have more natural looking characters, while the MMO clips showed some pretty weird hair colors?
|2008-03-24, 09:20
|Link #47
Senior Member
btw i heard a while ago that there was something gonzo organized sometime this month that featured the first ep of druaga..
thou i didn't verify that and it was from something i read on a Japanese blog..
and about the heir color i think its kinda cool.. makes it seem more serious which is good.
|2008-03-25, 08:06
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Tokyo, Japan
|2008-03-25, 08:35
|Link #49
Senior Member
i probably misread something the first time..
was kinda lazy so i didn't really read it that well... :P
|2008-03-25, 20:17
|Link #50
Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2006
I'm sure excited about all this.
It would mark the first time sub and raw watcher can discuss the series in simultaneous. While I'm not expecting very much of the series I do hope for it to be like another Last Exile or Blue sub no.6, two series which have captivate me into watching anime.
And a small question, when is it premiering?
|2008-04-04, 12:05
|Link #54
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Graphic Designer
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Permanent retirement from raws-hunting
Age: 33
Druaga no Tou, episode 01
Spoiler for 2chan thread for DnT ep01:
- Do NOT spread the 2chan link.
- If you want to quote my post, then please ERASE THE URL.
- If you want to (re)post screenshots from 2chan, then reload them on Imageshack and kindly supply the new links. In other words, do NOT hotlink. When the short-lived 2chan threads get junked along with their contents (meaning: the screenshots), the broken urls lead the user to a pageful of adult advertisements, a type of content that goes against Animesuki's policy on inappropriate material.
I'll erase the URL in a few hours (at least until the first raw appears you-know-where) so, if you want to visit the page later on, save my link somewhere (in your bookmarks, whatever) while it's still up.
EDIT: well, since the raw/sub is already available at certain outlets such as YouTube (see below), I might as well go and deal the link a quick death.
As a matter of fact, I don't even think my 2chan links will be needed in the near future. ^_^
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|2008-04-04, 13:22
|Link #55
Join Date: Dec 2003
Live on Youtube folks.
|2008-04-04, 14:30
|Link #59
Translator, Producer
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Age: 39
Huh, well, I guess youtube CAN be region locked...
It seems like english speaking fans worldwide can watch this anime for free... except for people like me who actually live in Japan. We're screwed.
I can watched it streamed for free on gyao, but of course, there are no subs. So basically english speaking fans in japan have to watch it raw.
I shouldn't be griping, since I don't really need the subs anyway, but I was kind of hoping to support one of the newer startups... I guess I can't.
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Spent a good deal of time dwelling on Dilla today for a quick piece on Good Hip Hop's J. Dilla Tribute in Sebastopol next weekend. Then, drove to Petaluma with Like Water For Chocolate on the tape deck. The weird thing about Dilla is that as far as I remember (and I'm a little older than most people who seem to champion his genius between every meal), nobody—as in, not one solitary person I knew—liked Labcabincalifornia when it came out. Or The Love Movement. Or Amplified. All really, really reviled albums, they were.
Whether or not Dilla was ahead of his time is as pointless as wondering, as I did today, if there would eventually be someone else who decided to swap up the kick drum and offset the snare ever so slightly. That stumbling burble, his trademark—someone else surely would have thought it up, just like someone would have shook their hips and howled sexual innuendo on TV if Elvis hadn't. Right?
All of this is to say that rap production is in some interesting hands right now, and those still worshipping Dilla should hopefully see that his spirit lives on in intrepid creativity if not outright aesthetic. Right around the time Dilla died, the Pack, from the Bay Area, had a left-field hyphy hit with "Vans," which rode on a tiny snap beat, a tssst-tssst hi-hat and a synth sent from Mars. Its spirit owed slightly to the Ying Yang Twins' "Wait (The Whisper Song)" before it, and birthed a YouTube craze with the New Boyz' "You're a Jerk" in its wake.
Young L from the Pack released this new video for "Young L-E-N" today, and I hope its production hits the ears of mainstream beatmakers like Just Blaze. Not at all into the useless verses, but that's hip-hop in 2010—the illest beats beneath filler lyrics. Dilla was lucky to have visionary MCs in the best of both worlds.
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Tanya Streeter takes a last breath. A moment later, the water closes over her head. Her destination is 160 meters below—a depth no human has ever reached on a single breath.
How deep can a "free diver" go? No one really knows the human limit. "Sometimes I think I don't want it to be me who finds out," says Tanya. "On the other hand, I believe so much in our body's responses." Recently, a free diver drowned during a record attempt. "There are a lot of good free divers who are very safe," says Dr. Richard Vann, a dive physiologist at Duke University Medical Center. "But it takes training and practice."
It's All in the Training
Our bodies are well adapted to sea level or moderate altitudes. by studying free divers like Tanya, scientists have discovered that we also have a remarkable ability to survive below sea level, even under pressures many times greater than at the surface.
When Tanya is at sea level, she's at the bottom of an "ocean of air" 800 kilometers deep. Scientists call the weight of the air pressing down upon her "one atmosphere" of pressure. Because water is heavier than air, just 10 meters of seawater equals one atmosphere of pressure. At 160 meters, Tanya faces 17 atmospheres of pressure (16 atmospheres of water pressure, plus one atmosphere of air pressure).
The Test
It's August 17, 2002. Tanya, wearing a nose clip, steps onto a heavy sled attached to a weighted cable. She wraps her arms across a T-shaped bar. She takes rapid, strong breaths to flush carbon dioxide from her lungs and replace it with oxygen. Then she packs—takes small gulps of extra air. Tanya gives a nod to her husband, Paul, who releases the sled. She slips quickly into warm Caribbean water.
As Tanya moves down, water pressure increases. Most of her body isn't noticeably affected. A human body contains a lot of liquid, and liquids aren't very compressible. Gases, however, are easily compressed. The air spaces in Tanya's body—her lungs, ear canals, and sinuses—soon feel pressure.
Water presses on Tanya's sensitive eardrums. She blows into her nose, which is blocked by the nose clip. Air is forced from her lungs into her ear canals. This makes the pressure inside her ears equal to the water pressure outside (divers call this equalization).
Tanya is now 20 meters down. . .then 30 meters. . .then 40 meters, past the depth limit of recreational scuba divers. Her heart rate slows. Her body pushes more blood into her heart, lungs, and brain. Less blood reaches her arms and legs. Scientists call this the "dive reflex." All life began in the sea, and this reflex may be an evolutionary relic of our watery past.
The water pressure compresses Tanya's lungs, and she pushes more air from her lungs into her ears. She never exhales, because she needs every bit of the air in her body to protect her ears. With the air spaces in her body tightly compressed, Tanya is much less buoyant. The sled speeds up. If it goes too fast, Tanya won't be able to push air into her ears fast enough to offset the increasing water pressure. Her eardrums would burst. Tanya reaches up and opens the valve on a lift bag attached to the sled. The sled slows. Her depth: 60 meters and dropping. At 80 meters, Tanya's lungs are the size of her fists. Blood pulled from her arms and legs fills the space left by her compressed lungs. The blood keeps Tanya's chest wall from collapsing.
One hundred meters. Little sunlight reaches the diver at this depth. Tanya's heart rate is slow, perhaps only 40 beats per minute, compared to 60 at the surface. She pushes air from her mouth and throat into her ears. 110 meters…130 meters. Tanya's heart rate drops to 30 beats per minute. She is surrounded by absolute darkness. With a clunk, the sled hits a plate at the bottom of the cable. One hundred sixty meters!
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"During a dive, I am only thinking about where I am, whether I should slow down or speed up," says Tanya. "On that dive, I stopped to take it all in and think about the fact that I may never again be that deep…that nobody may ever be that deep. It was very special, very peaceful."
After a two-minute trip down, Tanya spends 15 seconds at the bottom of the cable. She blows a kiss to a camera hanging below her (for proof of her world record). There really isn't much to see. The sea floor lies in eternal darkness 2,100 meters below.
Tanya reaches up and opens a valve on a lift bag from the sled. She inflates it and begins a quick trip up. As she rises, water pressure decreases. Air moves back down into her lungs. Blood is pushed out of her chest cavity. Her eardrums equalize by themselves as the air in her body expands.
At 30 meters, Tanya releases her air bag and swims slowly up. Although the dive is almost over, the last few meters are in some ways the most dangerous. During her dive, Tanya's body has been using oxygen. She has very little left in her body. If she doesn't have enough oxygen when her lungs re-expand, her lungs will suck oxygen out of her blood and away from her brain. Tanya could lose consciousness. Divers call this "shallow water blackout."
Shallow water blackout usually happens in the last 10 meters of a dive. That's because pressure changes are most intense near the surface. When Tanya comes up from 10 meters to the surface, the pressure is suddenly cut in half, from two atmospheres to one atmosphere. (When Tanya rose from 160 meters to 150 meters, she was going the same distance, but the change from 17 to 16 atmospheres of pressure was slight.)
Thankfully, Tanya has enough air left to make it back. She breaks the surface to cheers from the dive boat crew. She's just broken both the women's and the men's world record!
As a child, Tanya says that she believed she could breathe underwater. Perhaps she can't, but this dive was surely the next best thing!
- free dive: The act of diving underwater while holding one's breath.
- lift bag: A bag with its own air tank.
- After reading Lesson 2, what did you learn about the purpose of the body's circulatory system?
[anno: The circulatory system transports oxygen, nutrients, water, and waste inside of the body.]
- What happened to Tanya Streeter's heartbeat during her free dive?
[anno: It slowed down.]
- Write a few sentences explaining why you think Tanya Streeter's heart rate changed during her dive. Think about the resources that blood carries to the cells of the body. What benefit might there have been to her circulatory system as her heart rate changed?
[anno: Answers may vary. Students should indicate that Streeter's heart rate slowed because the body was conserving resources, particularly oxygen.]


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Mario E sends his regards from somewhere in New Mexico on this big-wheeled bike.
Living large on a bike with big wheels
The marketing of these bikes is so convoluted, I don't know what they're calling them now, but that's a Surly Pugsley. It's used for snow, dunes, trails, and whatever else you want to roll over.
Also see this bamboo cargo bike spotted at Sea Otter with Surly's clown shoe rims.
Clown shoes on a bamboo bike
Surly are the stoners in the bike industry that keep their shit together just enough to release something as ridiculous and cool as that.


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We know you were all itching for more crazy from Pat Robertson, the man who explained to the world that abortion caused Hurricane Katrina. Well, here you go: apparently the reason liberals want to fund Planned Parenthood is so straight women can be barren, like lesbians.
Roberston's bizarro explanation: lesbians can't have kids, so "if these married women don't have children, if they abort their babies, then that kind of puts them on a level playing field." This would be a great way to connect the twin evils of abortion and equality for gay people, if it weren't for the fact that lesbians can have children, and also that it makes no goddamn sense.
Robertson: Abortions Promote Lesbian Equality [Advocate]
Robertson: Left Backs Abortion Rights To Make Straight Women More Like Lesbians [Right Wing Watch]


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Prime Minister Harper is trying to push American-style hate media onto our airwaves, and make us all pay for it. His plan is to create a "Fox News North" to mimic the kind of hate-filled propaganda with which Fox News has poisoned U.S. politics. The channel will be run by Harper's former top aide and will be funded with money from our cable TV fees!
One man stands in the way of this nightmare -- the Chairman of Canada's Radio and Telecommunications Commission Konrad von Finckenstein. And now, Harper is trying to get him out of his job. Sign the petition below to send a wave of support to von Finckenstein and forward this campaign to everyone -- we'll publish full page ads in Canadian papers when we reach 100,000:
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As concerned Canadians who deeply oppose American-style hate media on our airwaves, we applaud the CRTC's refusal to allow a new "Fox News North" channel to be funded from our cable fees. We urge Mr. von Finckenstein to stay in his job and continue to stand up for Canada's democratic traditions, and call on Prime Minister Harper to immediately stop all pressure on the CRTC on this matter.
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1995 Harley-Davidson Softail
When we were younger, we all had a grown-up superhero we wanted to be. But as we got older, we just wanted to be younger. Unlike any of us, when Mike Grieco of Hesperia, California, got older, he started building super-trick "character" bikes. One of the many bikes Grieco and M&F Custom Cycle have built is shown here: Captain America.
Mike's superhero Harley is based on a Daytech frame (stretched 2 inches and raked 38 degrees) that has been molded and powdercoated by JPM in Hesperia. A Daytech swing arm has been shocked and sprung with Progressive coil-overs, and 2-inch-lowered Harley-Davidson forks are held on the frame by polished and anodized red-satin-finish BW Billet triple trees. RC Components wheels (21-inch front and 18-inch rear) hold Metzeler rubber and rotors for the Performance Machine brakes. Daytech fenders hang precariously low over the wheel-and-tire package.
A Pro One gas tank and a Triple E oil tank hold the vital fluids for the Captain and offer a place for him to rest or defend the world just above the 100hp 96-inch Evo hellraiser. To generate the firepower needed to conquer evil, the engine was equipped with parts from S&S, Manley, Crane (roller rockers), Jims (lifters), Dyna (ignition), Thunder Header, Linewebber, S&D, Pro One and NOS. The nitrous was added to ensure victory. For a smooth transfer of power, a Barnett clutch was added along with an Andrews primary drive gear. The drive is covered by a slick piece from Arem.
Some of the custom tricks include a handmade oil cooler equipped with AN aircraft lines and fittings, BW Billet disc floaters and an ostrich-covered seat with an inlaid view of the Captain by Murga. Ness drag-bar handlebars outfitted with Pro One grips lead the way, and a Headwinds headlight, a CCI taillight and Doss turn signals notify the world. The paint was handled by JPM, the chrome by Brico and the graphics by Jesse James. So even though Captain America was never equipped with superpowers, he can now rest easy because his bike has superpowers to spare.


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That is what the Detroit Lions were ranked on third down conversions coming in to todays game. The best team in the league is PIT at 53%.
Today the lions were at 75%.
We have one of the most talented secondaries in the league. The most dangerous WR (arguably) in the league was nullified or at least severely limited today. We have at least an average LB core with Wagner growing weekly. We are NOT "under talented"
This is a scheme problem. Something is very wrong here. We have too much talent to have these statistical anomalies seem to happen to us with such frequency. Pete is a defensive coach and he needs to figure this crap out yesterday.
Shark mentions this in the Trufant is Awful thread. viewtopic.php?f=2&t=55287
Unacceptable. We are too damn good of a defense on 1 and 2 to falter this much on 3. It's more than a few bad plays or missed tackles, we need to find and fix the root of this problem


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Lady Bucs make it two consecutive seasons with NSCAA all-region members
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Dec. 4, 2012) – ETSU women's soccer junior Ramey Kerns (Kings Mountain, N.C.) continued to rack up postseason honors, being named to the NSCAA All-Southeast Region Third Team when the association released its regional teams earlier this week.
Kerns' all-region selection comes in the aftermath of a record-breaking season, in which she scored a program record 21 goals. The Kings Mountain High School product shattered the previous single-season record of 12 held by Erin Ashton and ended the season as the NCAA leader in goals and goals per game (1.167).
Tallying four assists as well, Kerns registered 46 total points on the 2012 campaign to break Ashton's previous ETSU record of 30. Kerns' points total ranked her sixth in the NCAA this season, while her 2.58 points per game led all NCAA Division I student-athletes.
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The Ministry of Defense and the Navy submitted a plan for the defense of the gas fields in the Mediterranean Sea to Israel's Cabinet. The plan claims a massive increase in troop strength and general budget. The costs for the defense of four drilling stations will amount to approximately three billion shekels, which corresponds to approximately $760 million. "This area is strategically important like any area on Israel's mainland," Navy General Ram Rotberg commented on the plan. The plan implies that Israel will acquire four vessels for the coast guard, each of them of the size of a torpedo boat, and that they will be equipped with the "Barak" defense system. This system works almost like the "Iron Dome" on the mainland, which is to intercept missiles. A new radar system for the detection of terrorist activity will be added. Approximately 250 navy soldiers and other experts will be operating the vessels. They will fend off different threats like missiles, mine boats, bombs and much more. The army emphasized that they are not willing to station troops or weapons directly on the drilling stations, since they would be declared as military bases and thus as "legitimate" targets for attacks. Israel's Navy has adopted many new tasks during the past years, among other things also the detection of smuggling of arms by Hamas and Hezbollah, who receive them from Iran via the Red Sea. The situation of anarchy in Egypt as well as Libya after the revolution in those countries leads to increased security risks for Israel. This means new challenges for the Navy as well.
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An American (Working) in Paris
On vacation to Paris, we sometimes imagine what it'd be like to live full-time among the locals. But ever wonder how it'd be to work—like, work work—with them, too? In this exclusive excerpt from his forthcoming memoir, Paris, I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down, Rosecrans Baldwin relays what it's like to strap in at a (particularly dysfunctional) office job to pay the (barely decipherable) bills... the daily offering to the dream of the American in Paris
The sun above Paris was a mid-July clementine. I bought copies of _Le Monde _and the _Herald Tribune _at a kiosk and climbed the stairs to my new office on the Champs-Elysées. For three hours, I mugged at a laptop, trying to figure out how the e-mail system worked. My fingers were chattering. I spent long, spacey minutes trying to find the @ key. They'd given me a keyboard mapped for French speakers, with the letters switched around.
For the rest of the day, strangers approached and handed me folders, speaking to me in French while I panicked inside. A sentence would begin slow, with watery syncopation, then accelerate, gurgling until it slammed into an ennnnnnh, or an urrrrrrrr, and I'd be expected to respond.
What did they want from me?
Why was every question a confrontation?
First day on the job, my French was not super. I'd sort of misled them about that.
The advertising agency occupied three floors of a building located a few blocks east of the Arc de Triomphe, next to a McDonald's. Our floor might have been a wing from Versailles. Chandeliers everywhere. Gold-flaked moldings. Long rooms walled by spotty mirrors. There were fireplaces like cave mouths, and high ceilings painted with frescoes. A cherub's little white gut mooned my desk.
For a long time I'd thought Paris had the world's best everything. Girls, food, the crumble-down buildings. Even the dust was arousing. Coming out of the Métro that morning, I'd been so full up my throat constricted.
Basically, I'd been anaphylactic about France since I was ten.
So I was trying to seem cool and unruffled.
My new boss, Pierre, was an old friend. We knew each other from New York, where Pierre and his wife had lived before returning to Paris, their hometown. In March, I'd received an e-mail that Pierre had sent around looking for someone to join his agency who could attend meetings in French but write English copy.
We spoke the next day. Pierre said, "You're good in French . . ."
I said, "How good in French?"
Around lunchtime, Pierre introduced me to André, his co–creative director. They shared an office. André was stocky, long-haired, orthodontic. He grinned like Animal from the Muppets. I liked him right away. Probably ate scissors for lunch.
"André doesn't speak English," Pierre said.
"Fuck that," André said in English, staring at me. He added, smiling, "But no, do not."
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A computer monitor attached to André's laptop showed two nude women sixty-nining. André had on a pink Lacoste shirt and a blazer with two lapels, one folded up. It was the first jacket I'd ever seen that included a constantly popped collar, suggesting, Dude, let your clothes handle the boil, you're busy musing. At that moment, André's boots were perched on an Italian racing bicycle. People informed me later that he never rode it—it was parked there only to keep beauty in near proximity.
I told André I liked his office. André grinned, then his Black-Berry began to chirrup. André ignored it and said in English,"So, where you come?"
"Come from," Pierre corrected him.
"New York," I said.
The BlackBerry kept ringing. André grabbed it like it was a burning club and screamed down the line while rampaging out of the room.
In a short while, I'd figured out the e-mail system and how to remap my keyboard; as long as I didn't look too closely at what I was doing, it would perform like a QWERTY layout and communicate my intentions. Perhaps this will become a metaphor, I thought. Then my calendar program started making a boingy sound. It said I was late for a _réunion _on the sixth floor.
Getting my _étages _wrong, I wound up in a law firm. The receptionist was prickly: I was due for a meeting where? With whom?
On the proper floor, I asked an IT guy for directions. He said a bunch of things and gestured with his arm. Tried a hallway: dead end. Backtracked, tried another hallway. Oh, you're dead, I told myself. Around me people were speaking French into headsets, wearing scarves despite the heat. Finally I found a conference room, took an empty chair, and apologized to a horseshoe of elders who were watching a PowerPoint presentation—"Désolé," I said, catching my breath, "désolé."
A woman wearing a white suit and white eyeglasses said in English, "Excuse me, who are you looking for?"
Kind of bold, I thought, matching your pantsuit to your glasses.
Finally, down the hall, in the right conference room, I met Claude, a senior account director, who assured me I was where I belonged.
"Dude, you're from, like, New York? So cool, man," Claude said in English. Claude was skinny and smelled of cigarettes, with arms sunburned to the color of traffic cones. "I love New York," he said. "Why did you leave? You know, no one goes New York to Paris."
Claude said he'd recently returned from the beach. "Just the total best, dude, Antibes. You haven't been? You must go with me sometime."
Behind me, a breeze suckled the blinds from a large open window. The view spanned Paris, one of those views that came with sunshine and clarinets, from the Eiffel Tower to the Grand Palais, to the fondant of the Sacré Coeur.
I wanted to levitate right out of the room.
Claude asked if I was married and what girls were like in New York. "They're easy, right, easy pussy? Like you're just going down the street"—Claude mimed a drum major swinging his arms; he found it hilarious and exciting—"and there's one! And there!"
Slowly, about a dozen young French people turned up—art directors, copywriters, project managers, programmers—nodding with afternoon fatigue. They helped themselves to Coke and Coca Light from plastic bottles shaped like petite scuba tanks, and Claude began the meeting. "Okay, so hey, meet this guy . . ." Claude paused before saying my name. Truthfully it was a pain in French, all those "R"s. Claude asked in French if I had any introductory remarks. I said, "Excusez-moi?" People laughed, and I laughed too, a survival reflex or whatever. I said, "Non." Claude explained to the group that I was there that afternoon only to listen. "_Mais demain matin, nous aurons un brainstorming _. . . with this dude." Claude gestured at me and winked.
An hour later, I had no idea what my assignment was, what I'd be called upon to do, or when I'd be required to do it.
In the beginning of my job, I had a look: toddler struggling with digestion. I saw it reflected back at me in people's sunglasses, absorbed by my coworkers' eyes. They weren't used to an American coming up so close, being such a worried listener—me pressing in with my nervous smile, my jaw clamped, my forehead rippling with humps like a Klingon's.
Why couldn't I have found a job in Sydney or Cape Town, where the surf brahs communicated by vibe?
What had I done?
At the end of my first day at work, around seven p.m., Pierre introduced me to my new wife, Bruno. In advertising, copywriters and art directors work in pairs. Bruno and I would be overseeing an infant-nutrition account together, Pierre said.
Bruno approached me with a chuckling grimace. I tried to kiss him. No doing. For months I'd get that wrong. All day, I'd watched coworkers greet each other with a peck, the kissing version of Hey, what's up. But Bruno backed away. Instead we shook hands and grunted hello, bonjour, the way children do when one is new and the other has been asked to show him around school.
The view from the office rooftop terrace.
Still, Bruno offered me some madeleines he'd just bought from the vending machine.
No matter what happened, Bruno always meant well.
Bruno was a late-thirties Parisian, stocky and morose. Year-round, he was reddishly tan, with a rosy flush that became a glower the more he drank. Bruno was roughly good-looking. His lips were plump, and one ear was scarred from rugby. There was a good deal in Bruno—his sad confidence, his ponderous horniness—for women to get hooked on. Over time, we'd talk a lot about girls. Bruno liked a good time. He liked wine, photography, gourmet food, the sea, and the hours he spent on Sundays repairing antique furniture. For Bruno, cigarettes were life itself. Same for his Yamaha scooter.
In the beginning, Bruno's English was even worse than my French. Pierre left the room, and Bruno tried to explain the project we'd be working on together. We didn't get far. Finally he said something like, Drinks? You like a glass? Glass of wine?
Hot summer evening outside, brightly yellow. A very windy Paris twilight, with dust pluming from cars going around the Arc de Triomphe. Bruno led us away from the Champs-Elysées to nearby Boulevard Haussmann, a regal side avenue of shops, restaurants, and white limestone buildings. We took seats at a sidewalk café. Gorgeous people walked by, going home, talking on their mobiles. Bruno sat under a machine shaped like a palm tree that sucked up smoke. He lit a cigarette, unpopped a shirt button nonchalantly, ordered Sancerre, and began talking over my head. After fifteen minutes, I understood that he'd worked on the infant-nutrition project for eleven months, ever since he'd joined the agency. They'd gone through four copywriters in the same amount of time; I was number five.
Bruno said, Reservoir Dogs, did I know this film?
"Bien sûr," I said, adding, "Mr. Pink?"
"Okay, good," Bruno said in English. "Then, Mr. Pink . . . do not be this. Do not be saying in the office, 'Fuck, fuck, fuck.' "
Evidently Bruno had overheard me swearing. He wanted me to know that cursing wasn't cool in Parisian office culture. It seemed to weigh on Bruno, speaking English like that, correcting my behavior. As though envisioning trials to come.
Bruno paid the bill in coins and wiggled out his cigarette.
Back in République, the day's heat was trembling, about to drop. Just like me. After nine hours of French, all I wanted was to snort some Excedrin, eat a meal gargantuesque, and sleep for two months.
My wife Rachel and I decided on a café around the corner from our apartment, Café Crème on Rue Dupetit-Thouars. We managed to snag an outside table with a view of the blue market. But what a marvelous evening to be outside in Paris! Never-ending light. The buzz of apéritifs. Cafés full of disheveled girls smoking cigarettes and their boyfriends fluffing their hair once they'd set down their helmets. So many hello kisses—just another night in northern Europe. Back in the day, it might have been Le Dôme, or Deux Magots, only here everyone was twenty-first-century Parisian: dining on the Right Bank, and before they stacked their Camels and lighters on the table, first they laid down their Nokias.
After twenty minutes, a waitress turned up and propped a menu on the table. The day's dishes, in addition to traditional fare, included three types of cheeseburger.
Afterward, at home, a neighbor across the courtyard waved at me while he smoked a cigarette on his balcony. In the next window, a woman was preparing dinner in their kitchen. Two weeks later, I'd see him screwing her there while they both watched a news show on TV, and I'd be reminded of a Joan Rivers joke about the benefits of sex like that, how a woman's in a position to be productive and accomplish other things, like read a magazine.
Rachel and I both collapsed on top of the covers. I was asleep in two minutes.
A pattern emerged: whenever, wherever, I would glue my foot to the roof of my mouth.
Third day at the office, I was visiting the canteen to get two cups of water, one for me, one for Tomaso, who had the desk next to mine. The canteen wasn't so much a cafeteria as a Beaux-Arts salon with an enormous white cube in the middle, a sleek modern design structure that puzzlingly contained restrooms and a kitchen. From a distance it looked more like a contemporary art installation. Basically it was a nine-foot-tall white Rubik's Cube with secret toilets, situated in the middle of a ballroom. Anyway, it was where people got coffee and ate lunch.
"You must be delicate," Tomaso had warned me; "the pressure from the water fountain in the kitchen is very strong." So I slid into the kitchen—it was about the size of a closet—and carefully filled my two cups. I turned to find a man blocking my way out. We'd met that morning. He was senior VP of something. Systems administration? His name was Philippe. Philippe lurched past me into the closet, our chests scrubbing together while I said bonjour. Philippe grunted. Then he held out a cup and smashed the button—I guess he hadn't talked to Tomaso—and the water fountain blasted his cup out of the closet, across the room.
"Wow," I said. A second later, I said in French, "The water, it comes _very _hard."
Philippe didn't hear me. He asked me to repeat myself.
"The water," I said, "it comes forcefully?"
Philippe still didn't understand, so I tried louder, with my embouchure resembling a puckered "o," per Pierre's instructions—to sound more Parisian. I also gestured by waving my arms, which made one of my cups spill its contents on the floor.
The other cup went down the front of Philippe's suit pants, filling one cuff with a moat.
Philippe stared at me. Incredibly, some water had gotten trapped in his trouser pleats, so when he bent over to look at his shoes, even more water splashed out. For a dramatic conclusion. I didn't know what to do. What could I say? Some part of me decided to make a joke. It was my gut reaction whenever shame fluttered around my head. I stammered in French, "Well, when I come, I guess I come hard, too."
It wasn't until that afternoon when I wrote Rachel an e-mail that I realized what I'd said. Rachel replied, "I think you crossed a line in the workplace that even Parisians respect."
At the end of summer, _la morte saison _finished and _le rentrée _commenced, when Parisians came home from their vacations brimming with satisfaction. All my coworkers turned up eight shades nuttier; they tanned splendidly well. Their first day back, I'd watch them step out of the elevator like so many show ponies, glistening brown stallions, frosted bronze mares.
The park where Baldwin took his lunch break every day.
The best French word I found for the most prevalent tone was bistre, same spelling in English: "A brownish-yellowish pigment made from the soot of burned wood."
One lunchtime, an HR woman who was tanned to a Kit Kat told me that, when it came to sunbathing, she preferred the natural look. We were standing on a balcony while she smoked a cigarette—every _étage _of our building featured balconies overlooking the Champs-Elysées, where people would go to eat lunch or take smoke breaks. Some guys would ogle cleavage below, calling out like mountaineers when they spotted a deep crevasse.
"You see?" the HR woman said, indicating a girl below us on the sidewalk. "Around the eyes, how ugly she seems?"
Proper tanning was less a class issue, she suggested, and more a question of aesthetic commitment. The HR woman pointed out that fake tanning produced a Creamsicle glow. The bone she had to pick, between deep breaths, wasn't whether to tan, but if a person tanned outdoors—in Provence, for a hide of crackling; in Brittany, where the ocean bestowed a speckled salt crust—or applied self-tanner, or spray-tanned, or visited a tanning salon.
The lesson being that fake tanners didn't properly enjoy life.
In the beginning, people were always trying to give me lessons.
The creative department, all we _créatifs—_copywriters, art directors, graphic designers, illustrators, information architects, video editors, Web-animation mathematicians—sat in clumps. My unit had five desks pushed together, where I was one of two expatriates, me and Tomaso, the Italian, and the rest were French. My art director, Bruno, worked down the hall.
To start, I didn't understand four-fifths of what was said. It was a bitch. But the problem ran both ways, which made it worse. Two neighbors of mine, Julie and Françoise, both Parisiennes, would peer at my lips whenever I spoke in French, then explain they hadn't understood a word I'd said.
Julie was a twentysomething copywriter, wide-eyed and attractive, a romantic poet outside of the office. A poem of hers I found on the Internet was about flowers, the beauty of stars, and how she, any evening, might die in bed.
Julie asked one afternoon, "You said you live on Rue Béranger, is that correct?" She spoke perfect, if slightly formal English. "Béranger was a famous poet, you know," Julie said. "In Madame Bovary, Flaubert made Charles read Béranger so he would seem of his era. Béranger is forgotten now. But that is life."
Many days, Julie's style was low-cut trousers with a visible, high-riding thong. All men in the office were Julie's property to tease. She sang cheerily while she worked, except when her computer crashed, then she cursed—her computer being among the few things that Julie could not bend to her will.
But Julie was very nice. Frequently she helped me translate my electric bill.
Françoise, a graphic designer, sat across from Julie. Like Julie, she found my name ridiculous, all those _R_s to roll. When someone said my name in the office, Françoise would parrot it by clearing her throat.
Next to Françoise was Olivier. Olivier was a jovial, bitter art director in his fifties, who'd worked at the agency for twenty-plus years. All day long, Olivier listened to electronica through headphones to scare away project managers should they fancy him to work faster. He was tall, bald, and droll. His laugh went hohoho, and to the rest of the office, Olivier was Father Christmas. Beautiful women—the building was full of them—constantly stopped by to visit and flirt and kiss Olivier's cheeks.
For some reason, Olivier hated me from the start.
Tomaso was a handsome Italian from Venice who loved Paul McCartney and the Police. He had curly black hair and got along with everyone. In addition to French and Italian, Tomaso was fluent in English (he did a good Sting: "Rooooooooxanne") and would help me when I couldn't follow the gossip at our desks. For example, Julie was upset one afternoon, shouting in high-speed French, it having something to do with André and a new account she'd been assigned. I poked Tomaso, whispering, "What did Julie just say?"
"Ah, my poor Rosecrans," Tomaso said loudly. He shook his head. "Julie say you are one sexy motherfucker."
I repeated my question. Tomaso repeated his translation. Julie was fuming, blushing underneath her tan.
"Come, it's a nice thing," Tomaso said, patting my shoulder. "A compliment for a beautiful gentleman. You know, maybe she will sleep with you this evening."
"Tomaso," Julie yelled, "please shut up!"
In a new office, you tried to play it clean. You kept your head down and went about your work while attempting to fit into the groove, pure and cool. Except here in Paris there were rituals beyond my understanding.
First off, I did not know whom to kiss.
Each day I'd wake up at five a.m. to work on my novel, eat a small breakfast with Rachel at seven, and be out the door in order to arrive at my desk by eight-thirty and be ready, fretting with low-lying dread, to give and to receive _les bises _(kisses).
Office culture in Paris held that it was each person's responsibility, upon arrival, to visit other people's desks and wish them good morning, and often kiss each person once on each cheek, depending on the parties' personal relationship, genders, and respective positions in the corporate hierarchy. Then you moved on to the next desk.
Not everyone did it, but those who did not were noticed and remarked upon.
So first a polite bonjour, walking through the room and repeating it at each chair, _bonjour, bonjour, salut, bonjour. _If someone arrived late and needed to get straight into a meeting, they might let out a big _bonjour _for the group. For example, André did this a lot, blazing through the office at ten a.m. with his collar popped, shouting a giant, angry BON-JOUR, like a battle cry. And the room would reply in one voice, BON-JOUR, at the same time that he slammed shut his door.
But then there were the bises, which were conditional.
In French class, I did well in spoken tests, but my written French was appalling. The conditional tense confused me, and the French loved the conditional tense, French conversation practically being founded on relativity—perhaps, maybe, I don't _know. _In kissing, some people were ripe, others were not. Whole groups could be off-limits.
It definitely wasn't appropriate to kiss your boss, except when it was, though it _was _correct to kiss your underlings, except when it wasn't. Young men generally didn't kiss other young men, unless they were friends outside work. But older men did, sometimes. You never knew. Also, these kisses were intended not to touch the cheek but to glance it. People kept their eyes locked on the middle distance and seemed, while kissing or being kissed, very bored.
Honestly, I had no idea how it worked. There was one woman, an Italian down the hall, who visited us at ten-fifteen each morning, making loud smooching sounds even before she entered the room; then she'd deliver long-drawn, suction-fueled _bises _all around: on Julie's cheeks, Françoise's cheeks, Tomaso's cheeks, Olivier's cheeks. Even my cheeks, once we were introduced. But it wasn't always done. Maybe four days out of five, but that fifth day . . .
September found me frequently _bise_ing inappropriately. Male clients, IT support workers, freelance temps. Any female who came within ten feet. They'd return my weird kisses reluctantly, or else back away and attempt to ignore the gaffe. I asked Pierre how he knew whom to kiss, whom not. Pierre said there was no way of knowing this unless you'd grown up in France, then you just knew. He himself preferred to shake hands.
André overheard Pierre saying this and suggested, in that case, Pierre should move "the fuck" back to New York.
Gradually I learned to _bise _in the local mode. There weren't any guidelines, just intuition. It required months of calibration. I mimicked Pierre and Chloe, the way other young people around Paris went into kissing each other: regretfully, with a forced, resigned air, as if playing out an obsolete ritual. The procedure by which teenage athletes in America lined up to shake hands: nice game, kiss kiss, whatever.
One evening, there was un pot, an office party, organized for an employee who was leaving us, a tall man named Guy who wore flip-flops. Around seven p.m., about forty people assembled in the canteen around the cube of toilets. There were towers of salmon sandwiches, and terrines, and small cakes. Plus champagne from the office champagne refrigerator. I hadn't seen it yet, but a refrigerator just for champagne was kept upstairs, in a small room off the agency's terrasse. Anyway, André was standing at a counter, grinning at me while he squeezed a lime wedge into a cocktail, his smile a bank robber's bandanna. I saw Keith, a Scottish copywriter I'd come to know, across the room and started threading my way toward him. Then I slipped in a puddle and went down in a split, and knocked a small cake off a bench while my drink shot out of my hand and exploded rum on the feet of Guy, the guy in whose honor we'd gathered, the one in flip-flops.
I picked myself up and shrugged. I knew just what to say to him, because nothing else fit: _"C'est la vie." _There you have it, that's life in Paris for us bumblers, what could we do?
No reply from Guy.
For months, I'd feel like an infant wandering into rooms that filled with tension the moment I appeared: What is the giant baby doing here?
_ Rosecrans Baldwin lives in North Carolina with his wife. His first novel, You Lost Me There, was named one of NPR's Best Books of 2010, a _New York Times Book Review _Editor's Choice, and a Time and Entertainment Weekly best book of the summer of 2010. He is a co-founder of the online magazine _The Morning News.
Excerpted from Paris, I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down by Rosecrans Baldwin, published May 1st by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC. Copyright © 2012 by Rosecrans Baldwin. All rights reserved.


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Communication Arts
Degree Information
The Communication Arts option is designed to introduce students to all aspects of the media, including newspapers, magazines, radio, books, internet, television, and film. It also examines the growing interrelationships among these various media outlets.
Essential background theory on state-of-the-art technologies and trends in communications will be studied to provide students with a complete understanding of all media forms and techniques.
Communication Arts majors are required to assume leadership roles in activities including college video productions.
In the Communication Arts and Media Technology major, students will:
- Experience the balances of philosophy and applied skills in many fields of media communication
- Work as technically proficient, artists, and professionals who combine history, theory, aesthetics, analysis, and social vision in video productio
- Understand the planning, scripting, shooting, and editing a media production
- Demonstrate an understanding of the technical aspects of the video camera, lighting for video, audio recording, videotape recording and editing
- Demonstrate a basic level of skill in using the video camera, various kinds of microphones, a lighting kit and editing systems
- Demonstrate a knowledge, understanding and skill in the use of television studio production and audio production elements
- Develop production of multimedia projects using various computer software programs
- Become socially and politically active through partnerships with local cultural groups, non-profit entities, and community media and technology organizations
- Be involved with collaborative projects involving their classmates and the college community
- Experience the balances of philosophy and applied skills in many fields of media communication
- Be prepared effective communicators in varied professional, public fields
- Be skilled, effective, communicators who understand the effects and responsibilities of media
- Research, and analyze the social, legal, political, historical, and economic factors that influence the media and the media's influence on society
- Have a solid foundation to enter the diverse areas of communication workforce or to pursue baccalaureate studies in any field relating to communication arts
Examples of outcomes assessments
- Completion of media project outlining media and everyday use or effect in students' lives
- Participation in course and college productions
- Completion of a media project or internship
- Develop a skills paper in Interpersonal Communication outlining and analyzing students' own interpersonal strengths and weaknesses
- Create and design a public relations plan including research needed, construction and implementation of a public relations plan, and evaluation of the plan's success
- Required college portfolio project demonstrating students' knowledge and application skills
View the curriculum guide (for students beginning in Fall 2018) – PDF
The Communication Arts and Media Technology degree is offered exclusively to students at the Scranton campus.


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Modern moms (and dads) don't have to sacrifice style while toting diapers and wipes. These diaper bags are both fashionable and functional. -- Jennifer Berger
Jonathan Adler Duo Diaper Bag (Skip Hop)
($75; skiphop.com)
Skip Hop has teamed up with designer Jonathan Adler to bring his iconic prints to their signature diaper bags. The multitude of pockets and compartments easily organize diapers, bottles and toys, while keeping your phone, wallet, keys and other personal items safe and dry. It also comes with a coordinating zip case and a cushioned changing pad.
Mode Tote Bag (JJ Cole)
($69.95; jjcolecollections.com)
This chic diaper bag features 12 pockets inside and out for organizing, two tote straps, a removable padded shoulder strap and stroller attachments for a no-slip grip to your stroller handle. A coordinating changing pad is included.
Due Date Bags (NY Mom's World)
($180; duedatebags.com)
Celeb fans: Vanessa Lachey and Ali Landry
Vanessa Lachey and Ali Landry were the first to get their hands on the new Due Date Bags, from NY Mom's World. Launching in August, these new diaper bags are perfect for when you're on-the-go, with roomy compartments for everything your baby needs. Also launching, the Hospital "Go" Bag ($149) which come prepackaged with essentials every mom needs to take with her to the hospital, which include a nursing cami, nursing pads, toiletries, mints and more. Plus, a clear zippered pouch that has a baby beanie, onesie and bib all imprinted with "Take Me Home" on them. There are also custom made bags available for each family member for an additional cost, as well.
Alexis Diaper Bag in Fuschia (Perry Mackin)
($168; perrymackin.com)
Celeb fans: Mariah Carey, Nicole Kidman, Jennifer Garner, Jessica Simpson, Jessica Alba, Kate Hudson and Tori Spelling
This chic diaper bag is water-resistant with a leather trim and is equipped with many exterior pockets to store everything that baby and mom needs. It comes with a changing pad, bottler warmer and pouch.
Sausalito Tote (Pottery Barn Kids)
($149; potterybarnkids.com)
This versatile diaper bag features inside and outside pockets to store everything from bottles to baby blankets and all of your on-the-go needs as well. It comes with a foldout changing pad. The matching bottle bag is sold separately for $24.
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My name is Seth McLaughlin and I have been working as a Program Manager intern on the User Experience team for the past few months. The summer is coming to an end and I will soon be returning to school at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Before I go, I wanted to let you know about a new resource that's available for all of you keyboard lovers out there.
There are many great shortcuts in IE7 - two of my favorites are CTRL+E to quickly access the Search box and ALT+D to select the Address bar. Shortcuts are wonderful things and once you start using them you will quickly begin to wonder how you ever lived without them. But how do you discover these shortcuts? And what if you forget them?
You could refer to Aaron's post from last winter that described some of the old and new shortcuts available in IE7. Or, you might spend a few minutes searching through Help (haven't used Help before? Just press F1!). These resources are great, but can be difficult to access during the key moment when you are trying to remember a shortcut. Alternatively, maybe you need to remember how to change tab settings, or perform another common task within the browser. Again, looking through Help can be time consuming and not really necessary if you just need a quick piece of information.
Enter the Internet Explorer 7 Quick Reference Sheet! We've created this sheet to bring together keyboard shortcuts and directions for common tasks in one, easy to access location. Rather than provide an exhaustive listing of ALL the IE shortcuts (there are a lot!), we focused on outlining only the ones that perform the most popular actions within the browser. Limiting the scope in this way allowed us to create a document that can be printed on a single page of paper, which you can keep handy near your computer as you browse the web.
The IE team is committed to improving this sheet over time and we strongly value your feedback. So, check out the Internet Explorer 7 Quick Reference Sheet and let us know what you think!
Seth McLaughlin
Program Manager
P.S. – We will be moving the Quick Reference Sheet to a more prominent location in the future. At that time we will post about the new location and we will also ensure the current link remains active.


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This guide provides guidance on how to construct a citation for data. Doing so is important to acknowledge the work of others if the data is not your own, but even if it is your own, to enable others to find (and perhaps re-use) your data. Citing your data enables others to cite your work, contributing to metrics that document your scholarly works and contributions in your field.
Because few citation style guides offer guidance on how to cite data, this set of reccommendations should not be taken as the final word on styles. If you have a question, check with your faculty advisor or the journal in which you hope to publish.
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'Afinogenov skated with the team prior to its practice in the Amherst Pepsi Center while Connolly skated afterward. Both traveled to Tampa for tonight's game with the Lightning but there's no definitive timetable for either to return. Ruff, however, sounded particularly optimistic about Afinogenov.'
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Play's audience gets to sit in 'Irish pub'
Western professor's experiences in Ireland inspired her to write play
For Louisa Burns-Bisogno, writing is all about culture.
A celebrated playwright and screenwriter who lives in Brewster, N.Y., and teaches writing at Western Connecticut State University, Burns-Bisogno has written popular screenplays such as "My Body, My Child," a 1982 TV film for ABC starring Vanessa Redgrave and Sarah Jessica Parker. Burns-Bisogno is also a National Playwrights Conference award winner.
Her original play, "Two Nights Near Doolin," will be performed Oct. 9-20 in the Reimold Theatre in Berkshire Hall on Western's Midtown campus.
We sat down to discuss her career as a writer and to talk about the inspiration behind "Two Nights Near Doolin."
Q: What inspired you to write "Two Nights Near Doolin?"
More InformationIf you go
"Two Nights Near Doolin" will be performed beginning Wednesday at Western Connecticut State University in Danbury.
Shows are at 7 p.m. on Wednesday and Thursday; 8 p.m. on Friday; 2 and 8 p.m. on Oct. 12; 2 p.m. on Oct. 13; 8 p.m. on Oct. 18; noon and 8 p.m. on Oct. 19; and 2 p.m. on Oct. 20.
Performances take place in the Reimold Theatre in Berkshire Hall on the Midtown campus, 181 White St.
Tickets are $20, $15 for seniors and students, and $10 for faculty and staff, plus ticketing fees. They are available at www.wcsu.edu/tickets or by calling 203- 837-TIXX.
A: A couple of experiences I had in Ireland. My first visit there was during a time they call "The Troubles" (a period of sectarian violence in Ireland). I witnessed firsthand the terrible things that happen in civil war. That same summer in 1981 I visited a place called Doolin. I was in search of my own Irish roots and also a story for an American television producer.
In Doolin I had the opportunity to hear traditional Irish music. Doolin was just a wonderful experience. In 1990, when I went back to Ireland to get a graduate degree in drama from Trinity College in Dublin, I heard a story about an American who had gone to find his birth mother. He had been Irish-born, but adopted by an American family. Despite the fact that her whole family knew that she had the child, she refused to see him.
The story troubled me. Why would a woman reject her son? What was she hiding from? What was the reason she wouldn't see him? The reason was a mystery to me. I never pursued that story, but several years later my love of Irish culture, music and dance inspired me to write "Two Nights Near Doolin."
Q: What is the play about?
A: The play takes place in a pub on the west coast of Ireland. Two Americans come to enjoy the laughter, music and dance, but really have a secret motive."
Q: What is it that you want people to take away from the play?
A: I of course want people to be entertained by the fabulous Irish culture.
Q: What is your favorite form of writing?
A: Playwriting.
Q: Why playwriting?
A: Because once it has been staged, the writer can sit back and enjoy the audience's reaction and learn from it. I like that immediate feedback.
Q: How did you get into writing?
A: Someone told me an incredible story about an attempted murder on an Indian reservation in South Dakota, and I wanted to write a newspaper article, so I went to South Dakota. I went to the reservation and returned home with a story that was way too big to tell in a newspaper.
I had to go to summer classes for scriptwriting in order to tell the story. When I started writing the story, I realized how much I enjoyed the dramatic form of storytelling. Subsequently, I submitted my first script (it was not the South Dakota one), and it was one of the National Playwrights Conference winners in 1979.
Q: What is the most challenging thing for a writer?
A: The most challenging thing for a writer is to write the end, because after you have written, whether it is six months later or a year later, or many years later, ideas pop into your head on how to add to the story. This happened with "Doolin." It has been produced twice before, and WestConn gives me the opportunity to expand the story.
Q: Can you talk about the staging of this play? I've heard it's a unique set ...
A: The set is a reproduction of an authentic Irish pub. The director, Pam McDaniel, went to Ireland this summer to a conference and researched the story further, so that the pub could be authentically reproduced.
What the theater department has done is unique. The audience is actually customers of Clancy's Pub. You don't have to get on a plane and go to Ireland to experience it. Come to "Two Nights Near Doolin."
Levon C. Ofgang is a freelance writer in Connecticut; email@example.com


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"Deathly Hallows" Video Game to be Kinect-Compatible, Phelps Twins Demonstrate Gamepaly
Aug 17, 2010
Video Games
News has come from a press conference as part of Electronic Arts (EA) GamesCon 2010, regarding a new spell casting ability appearing on the "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" video game. The forthcoming game will be Microsoft Kinect-compatible, which will allow for players to "cast spells offensively and defensively." This feature will be available on the XBox 360 platform when the game is released in November. Actors James and Oliver Phelps (Fred and George Weasley) appeared as part of the press conference, and, as report on GamePro.com relates:
James and Oliver Phelps, who played the Weasely Twins in the film franchise, entered onstage with a small firework explosion and demoed the game. The twins shot spells by moving their hands in the way they would a wand, while casting defensive barriers by holding up both hands.
An press release from EA notes:
With all of the action taking place outside of Hogwarts for the first time, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 sees Harry on the run with a horde of merciless enemies on his tail. Players will find themselves in unknown territory, far from the safety of the school grounds, fighting for survival at every turn. The new game engine, built specifically to leverage the technology of HD consoles, ensures high definition graphics and intense action gameplay on all platforms while the Kinect experience on Xbox 360 offers exclusive challenges, for either single player or two player co-op, playing as Harry, Ron or Hermione.
"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows ' Part 1 is non-stop action with Harry defending himself against a host of menacing enemies' said Jonathan Bunney, Vice President and Head of Production at EA Bright Light Studios. "Our Kinect challenges allow players to literally cast magic from the palm of their hand, completely controller free, to enhance and deepen the overall play experience; and, even better, we have enabled a special co-op mode with Kinect allowing two people to fight Death Eaters side-by-side for the first time in any Harry Potter game."
Video of the Phelps Twins at the event can be viewed via this link.
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WASHINGTON — Members of both parties say a bipartisan deal is imminent that would expand the requirement for federal background checks for more gun purchases.
An agreement could boost President Barack Obama's prospects in his attempt to curb firearms violence, although his effort's ultimate fate in Congress remains unclear.
Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Chuck Schumer of New York said they were on the verge of an agreement. An aide to Republican Sen. Patrick Toomey of Pennsylvania said they appear close. An announcement is expected Wednesday.
Several Senate aides and lobbyists said the compromise would extend background checks to transactions at gun shows and online. They and Toomey's aide declined to be identified to discuss private talks.
The breakthrough came as the Senate's top Democrat is setting Congress' first showdown vote for Thursday on Obama's gun control drive as a small but mounting number of Republicans appear willing to buck a conservative effort to prevent debate from beginning.
Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada announced his decision Tuesday as the White House, congressional Democrats and relatives of the victims of December's mass shooting in Newtown, Conn., amped up pressure on GOP lawmakers to allow debate and votes on gun control proposals. Twenty first-graders and six educators were gunned down at Sandy Hook Elementary School, turning gun control into a top-tier national issue.
"We have a responsibility to safeguard these little kids," Reid said on the Senate floor, pointing to a poster-sized photo of a white picket fence that had slats bearing the names of the Newtown victims. "And unless we do something more than what's the law today, we have failed."
Several Senate Republicans on Tuesday came out publicly against filibustering the first major gun control legislation since 1993, leaving advocates increasingly optimistic that they can corral the 60 votes necessary to begin consideration of the measure.
The legislation would expand background checks for gun buyers, bolster school safety and crack down on people who purchase firearms for those not entitled to own them.
"We don't have the guts to stand up and vote yes or no? We want to vote maybe? Tell that to the families in Newtown" and other communities where there have been mass shootings, said Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt.
Reid's decision to move ahead came after Senate Republicans began splintering on whether the bill should be allowed full consideration on the Senate floor. Four Republican senators — Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire, Susan Collins of Maine, Johnny Isakson of Georgia and Tom Coburn of Oklahoma — said Tuesday that they would support a procedural motion to formally take up the gun legislation for debate and amendments. Other Republicans indicated that they were inclined to allow debate, joining Sens. John McCain of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina.
Isakson added: "There's not very much ambivalence on Capitol Hill about the gun issue. You're on one side or the other, so there's no reason not to go ahead and vote."
But Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, one of 13 conservative senators who want to block the debate, said the Senate bill puts "burdens on law- abiding citizens exercising a constitutional right." He said none of its provisions "would have done anything to prevent the horrible tragedy of Sandy Hook."
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has said he will join the conservatives in their attempt to block debate.
Obama on Tuesday was calling senators from both parties to push for the gun bill, according to a White House official.
Should Democrats secure the 60 votes they need, the Senate would then begin what is almost certain to be an emotionally volatile debate on the measure. The dynamic would pit scores of Democrats who staunchly support new gun control measures against moderates from their own party, many of them up for re-election next year, who would rather not see the bill move forward, as well as Republicans poised to vote against any new bills to curb gun rights.
Many Republicans — and some Democrats — appeared solidly on the fence over whether to let the bill proceed.
"I want to see what's in the bill," said Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio.
Sen. Mark Begich, D-Alaska, who is up for re-election in 2014, said he too was waiting to hear more. In his state, he said, "We like our guns."
But some Republicans, while eager to avoid blocking debate on the plan, could well vote against the measure on final passage. Coupled with resistance by leaders of the GOP-run House to main parts of the bill — including bans on assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines — the ultimate outcome seems shaky for the Democrats.


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Dickson County soccer standout will play for Lipscomb
June 23, 2006
Coach Jenger Parrish has announced that Laura Grubb from Dickson, Tenn., will play soccer for the Lipscomb University Lady Bisons.
Grubb, 5-foot-5, was an All-District selection at Dickson County High School in 2004 and 2005. She was an All-District Tournament selection in 2005. She was also team captain in 2005.
Grubb lettered in soccer for four seasons. She also lettered three years in track and one year in cross country.
Her brother Michael played baseball for the University of Chicago. Here sister, Allison, played for Hiwassee College, and will also play this season for the Lady Bisons.
She is the daughter of Kathleen and Gary Grubb. She is one of 11 children. She plans to major in nursing.


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anupbatra needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 11 designs submitted by 8 freelance designers.
Budget SEO
Budget SEO is a Division of Arrow Internet Marketing, which is Australia's leading SEO company. The mission of Budget SEO is to make SEO Affordable for the small business. The Tag line could be along the lines of 'why pay more'. Suggestions are welcome!
The logo should reflect the mission of the company and the fact that it is founded by Australia's reputed SEO company to cater to the needs of the SME (Small and Medium Sized Enterprise) market. The solution will be focused on results but we will limit the allocation of client money for administrative overheads.
Small and Growing Businesses in Australia who understand the value of internet marketing. People who want to maximise the value of their marketing dollar.
We have offices in Melbourne and Sydney in Australia but provide services across Australia. Majority of our clients are young entrepreneurs looking for rapid business growth.
The services of Budget SEO include a DIY SEO Kit, Fully Managed SEO, Google Adwords Management, Facebook and Twitter Marketing. We are able to deliver a low cost solution by focusing on the activities which drive results and eliminating the fluff.
We require the designer to come up with a logo which looks professional yet friendly. It should be original and creative in a way that people remeber the company by it's logo.
The theme can be an extension of the Arrow Brand (http://www.searchenginerankings.com.au)
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