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ACGCC Presents:
"Contact: The Sovereign Body and Realized Zones of Community"
Conference Date: April 23rd, 2016 at UC Santa Barbara
Antiracism Inc.: Intersections
We are very enthusiastic about the direction of our program for the coming 2014-15 academic year. The Antiracism Inc. program series will feature the subheading "Intersections." Our goal is to engage students, scholars, and activists in a discussion that develops our understanding about racism and sexism in the present. How do 'colorblindness' and 'gender-blindness' work together, for example? How do we develop language, images, and imaginaries that create radical possibilities as we expose racial and gendered power? We hope to maintain critical attention to questions of gender and sexuality as we build our analyses of the incorporation of antiracist discourses.
Spring Quarter 2015
Antiracism Inc./Works/Intersections/Transformations
We are excited to have your participation at the final event for this round of the Antiracism Inc. program series, where we will come together in a space of solidarity, creativity, collaboration, and community building to reflect on the ongoing strife in Baltimore, which speaks to a long history of race-based state violence in the United States that has not disappeared despite official antiracist discourses to the contrary. We hope to consider how the conversations that have taken place throughout the Antiracism Inc. program about racism, antiracism, activism, institutional power, violence, and the intersections among race, gender, and sexuality may come together to help us heal and build coalitions of solidarity.
The event will take place on Thursday, May 14, 2015 from 12-2 p.m. in the MultiCultural Center Lounge on the UCSB campus. Please see below for a flyer with more details about the event.
In preparation, please read the following short works:
1) Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail"
2) Alicia Garza and Patrisse Cullors-Brignac's "Celebrating MLK Day: Reclaiming Our Movement Legacy"
Winter Quarter 2015
Antiracism Inc: Intersections: Critical Conversations
How do we negotiate the relationship between the dominant demand for 'colorblindness' regrading race and the demand for 'hypervisibility' regarding gender and sexuality? "Critical Conversations" will address the intersections of those subjects, practices, and positionalities that defy incorporation. Please join us in this dialogue about race and sexuality in a series of lively discussions on Thursday March 12, 2015 from 10:00 am to 5:30 pm in the MultiCultural Center Lounge.
Fall Quarter 2014
Antisexism U.: An Encounter with Dr. Nick Mitchell
Please join us for the first event of the year, Antisexism U. Dr. Nick Mitchell (Ethnic Studies, UC Riverside) will lead us in a discussion of the institutional histories of Women's Studies and Black Studies.
In preparation, please read Wendy Brown's "The Impossibility of Women's Studies" and Dr. Mitchell's "A Riff on the Concept of the (Critical Ethnic Studies) Intellectual".
The event will take place on Thursday October 30, 2014 in South Hall 2635 from 2:00-4:00 pm. Afternoon tea and cookies will be provided.
Please email Professor Felice Blake at email@example.com or Roberta Wolfson at email@example.com for PDF copies of these readings.
Welcome back! We are very enthusiastic about the direction of our program for the coming academic year. The Antiracism Inc. program series will feature the subheading "Antiracism Works." We seek to extend the critical frames for addressing issues central to Antiracism Inc. by collaborating with community organizations. We seek to bridge intellectual work with community connection and engagement. Rather than hoarding intellectual goods, products, and services within the institution, we seek to build foundations for collective knowledge production across institutional divides. What frameworks and concepts do we need to critically and practically engage with ongoing movements for justice? What lines of flight, poetics of struggle, and radical imaginaries become possible through alternative modes for circulating and producing knowledge? While never minimizing the importance of examining the operation of institutional power, our questions look to the ways that power operates on the ground (broadly conceived) in the everyday. The program thus offers opportunities for engaging students, faculty, and community members, giving us coalitional work to do.
Also, thanks again to y'all who attended "Poetic Interventions" last spring, and we hope to have more folks at its next installment in February 2014. If you missed it, watch a video summary made by filmmaker Emanuel Garcia here.
Follow us on Twitter @acgcc
Live tweet events using the hashtag #AntiracismWorks
We would also like to thank the UC Humanities Research Institute for its support of our program this year!
Spring Quarter 2014
The American Cultures and Global Contexts Center is proud to present Antiracism Inc./Works: The Anticonference. Please join us on Friday and Saturday May 16-17 at the UCSB MultiCultural Center Lounge for the academic, artistic, and activist encounter that is sure to reinvigorate our analysis of and commitments to social justice. Our anticonference will involve the voices of faculty, organizers, students, and poets from across the country. Our conversation centers on the reading and redefinition of antiracism in the Age of Obama. We hope you'll join us to participate in generative dialogues with folks who've been part of the program since its inception, spanning the ACGCC reading and film series to Poetic Interventions last spring to the prison abolition work of the Coalition for Sustainable Communities.
Everyone is welcome - no registration required! You may stop by for any or all of the events. Please see more info and a full conference schedule below, and you may join the event on Facebook:
Winter Quarter 2014
Please join us for the second iteration of "Activist Encounters," which extends our conversation from Fall 2013 with the Shawn Greenwood Working Group and incredible undergraduate student activists. We are hosting a dialogue on stopping prison expansion in Santa Barbara County. We are delighted that Diana Zuñiga, Statewide Organizer from Citizens United For a Responsible Budget (CURB), will be joining us for the conversation. CURB is a statewide alliance of over 50 organizations working to curb prison spending by reducing the number of people in prison and the number of prisons in California. "Activist Encounters II" will offer both a critique of the structural conditions of mass incarceration and concrete strategies for stopping prison expansion. This will be our first organizing meeting to plan future community mobilizations around this pressing issue. As always, the event is free and open to the public. Lunch will be provided. Some more details are provided on the below flyer:
We at the ACGCC are excited to introduce our latest project: a drop-in writing lab for junior high and high school students, their families, SBCC students, and the greater Santa Barbara community! Please contact the Graduate Fellow, Alison, for more information or to get involved.
Fall Quarter 2013
Please join us for this incredible event at the UCSB MultiCultural Center:
On October 17, 2013, we will hold two related events: 1) a lunchtime meeting featuring a discussion with the Shawn Greenwood Working Group and 2) an afternoon forum about incarceration, drones, and detention with the SGWG, student activists, and academics. Both events are free and open to the public.
Event: Engaged Activism/Activist Encounters
Location: SH 2635
Date: Thursday October 17, 2013
Time: 12:30-1:45pm, 3-5pm
12:30-1:45pm – Talk by the Shawn Greenwood Working Group. More info and their Statement of Purpose can be found here.
3:00-5:00pm – Roundtable Discussion on activist responses to police murder, global security, drones, immigration, detention, occupation, incarceration, and other forms of state violence. We intend to foster dialogue and raise questions across racialized, gendered, and disciplinary divides with a common critique of the state to develop new frames for activism and coalition.
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Wecome back to the ACGCC! The goal of the 2012-13 program, Antiracism Inc., is to consider the need to rethink the meaning of antiracism in light of contemporary shifts in global political discourses on race and racism. Current rhetoric on race purports to embrace principles of racial equality, anti-discrimination and multiculturalism; yet old and new forms of racial violence, exploitation and discrimination persist.
If publics are complicit in systemic forms of racism but believe themselves to be anti-racists, how do we re-imagine the meaning of antiracism? The ACGCC program will seek to map the ways these paradoxes manifest in the situated discourses and practices in various geopolitical spaces. We seek to engage with the transnational mediated complexities of contemporary race practice, and explore the opportunities these provide for rethinking antiracism in the twenty-first century.
Spring Quarter 2013
The ACGCC is excited to announce a special event of the program series Antiracism Inc., which contributes to broadening new political imaginative propositions for justice by giving us all something to think about and work to do. "Poetic Interventions" is a daylong poetry workshop open to all on Saturday May 11th, 2013 that seeks to engage the imagination, our collectivity, and unique perspectives to create new language and images that address the problems and possibilities our current racial landscape presents.
Please join us! Lunch will be provided, and all are welcome.
Winter Quarter 2013
Our winter quarter program for Antiracism Inc. features a film series. Each screening will be followed by a conversation led by a distinguished scholar whose expertise will lend additional insight to our ongoing dialogue.
The Hemispheric South/s Research Initiative and the American Cultures & Global Contexts Center have collaboratively organized a mini-conference on Friday, March 8, 2013 from 1-4pm in SH 1415:
Duplicitous Inclusions: Race and Subject of Nation
In performance, lived blackness as a subaltern location of national identity reveals and resists state and social processes of contradictory exclusion and hyper-visibility. It becomes a particular site for confronting incursions of insidious and overt marginalizations. In the research presented at Duplicitous Inclusions: Race and Subject of Nation, creative artists forge feeling and consciousness around racial exclusions that inconvenience and confound the national self-image in South Africa and the United States. The keynote addresses explore the terms of confronting racism in the face of the fantasy that it no longer exists. These scholars examine race and representation in the development of a seemingly new landscape of racial meaning and national knowledge.
This exciting event will feature two visiting scholars: Dr. Brandi Wilkins Catanese, Associate Professor of African American Studies & Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and Dr. Xavier Livermon, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Wayne State University. Through cross-disciplinary dialogue, we hope to engage questions central to the missions of both the ACGCC's Antiracism Inc. program and the Hemispheric South/s Research Initiative's focus on Race and Affect.
Please also join us for a follow-up discussion to our Fall Reading Series open to students, faculty, and community members. This special event on "Race & the Field of Literature" will be led by Dr. Felice Blake on Tuesday, February 26, 2013 from 12:30-1:45pm in the SRB Multipurpose Rm. Lunch will be provided.
Fall Quarter 2012
End of Quarter Open House and Reception
On behalf of Dr. Felice Blake I'm excited to invite you to an Open House and Reception this Friday to celebrate a wonderful quarter at the American Cultures & Global Contexts Center. We would like to thank everyone who participated in the Fall Reading Series of our 2012-2013 program, Antiracism Inc., for coming together to think through the meanings of antiracism in light of contemporary shifts in global political discourses on race and racism, and for collectively generating possibilities for justice. In case you weren't able to make the reading series or would like to learn more - you're just in luck! Amanda Phillips, an ACGCC affiliated graduate student, recently wrote a blog post about the program featured on HASTAC and the UC Humanities Forum, which you can read here:
So that we may show our appreciation and keep the conversations flowing, please do stop by the American Cultures & Global Contexts Center on Friday December 7th, from 4-6pm (South Hall 2710) for our Open House and Reception. Newcomers are also welcome - we have a lot to look forward to this winter quarter, which will feature a film series (as well as a fall reading series followup discussion led by Dr. Felice Blake) about which you can learn more during the event. Refreshments will be provided.
Hope to see you there!
Fall Reading Series
The Antiracism Inc. program for the 2012-2013 year will include a Fall quarter 2012 reading series open to undergraduate and graduate students, community members, staff, and faculty. For PDFs of the suggested readings please email the Graduate Student Fellow, Alison Reed (at email@example.com).
Spring Quarter 2012
Join us this spring for continued discussions on risk, uncertainty, and security at the Critical Issues in American program on "Speculative Futures." Upcoming events feature symposia on cybersecurity and speculative media, along with a graduate conference on contagion/control. Be sure to check back frequently for event updates!
*Risk Series*
Symposium III: Cybersecurity
Brian Krebs (krebsonsecurity.com) "The eMob"
Prof. Giovanni Vigna (UCSB)
Prof. Richard A. Kemmerer (UCSB)
Brett Stone-Gross (Dell SecureWorks)
April 16, 2012, Broida Hall 1640, 4-6 p.m.
*Risk Series*
Lecture: Kathleen Woodward (University of Washington)
"Balancing Acts and National Security: Risk, Embodiment, Affect"
April 20, 2012, McCune Conference Room, HSSB, 6th floor, 3:30-5:00 p.m.
Graduate Colloquium: Contagion/Control
Keynote Speaker, Prof. Priscilla Wald (Duke University): "Viral Visions: Disease Emergence and the Obscured Geography of Poverty" 4:00 p.m.
May 10, Wallis Annenberg Conference Room, SSMS 4315, 1:00 p.m.
May 11,
McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020, 9:00 a.m.
Click here for further information and for the program schedule.
Symposium IV: Speculative Media
Prof. Helen Nissenbaum (New York University): "Obfuscation: Sacrilege in the Data–Driven Society"
Prof. Thomas Streeter
(University of Vermont): "The Net Effect, or Why, Really, Do We Love Steve Jobs?"
May 11, McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020, 2:00-5:00 p.m.
Winter Quarter 2012
The "Risk Society Series" is in full swing this quarter and features several exciting events, many related to the Critical Issues of America program on "Speculative Futures." This quarter's events will culminate in the Santa Barbara Global Studies conference, which bring dynamic junior scholars together with established senior scholars in various fields around the issue of "Crisis." Please check back for event information as they will be updated throughout the quarter!
*Risk Series*
Symposium II: Security and Catastrophe
Prof. Peter van Wyck, (Concordia University) "An Archive of Threat"
Prof. Andrew Lakoff, (USC) "Biopolitics in Real Time: The Actuary and the Sentinel in Global Health"
Prof. Peter van Wyck, (Concordia University) "An Archive of Threat"
Prof. Andrew Lakoff, (USC) "Biopolitics in Real Time: The Actuary and the Sentinel in Global Health"
Jan. 13, 2012, McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB, 2–6 pm
*Risk Series*
Talk: Chris Mooney, "The Republican Brain on Science: Understanding Conservatives' Denial of Research Based Reality"
Loma Pelona Conference Center, 7–8:30 pm
ACGCC co-sponsored event
Last Chance for Humanity, Part II: Militarized Biological Speculation and Security.
17, 2012, 11a.m., SH 2635
In the second event for this film and discussion series, we will be looking at the Dark Winter exercises, and using them to frame a screening and discussion of Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later. We will also be looking at an excerpt of Priscilla Wald's Contagious (please contact the ACGC Fellow for copies).
This public health and security engagement is co-sponsored by the Transcriptions Center and COMMA.
ACGCC co-sponsored event
Caribbean Crossroads Conference
21-22, 2012, McCune Conference Center
This conference explores the interactions and points of contact between the different cultural and linguistic zones that make up the Caribbean region, in support of a less insular, more archipelagic sense of Caribbean culture.
*Risk Series*
SB Global Studies Conference, "Crisis"
Feb. 24-25, 2012, UCen
The University of California, Santa Barbara is holding an interdisciplinary global studies conference on a wide range of topics for scholars, both established and in the graduate stage, from the West Coast and beyond, under the general theme of crisis as salient feature of current global conditions. Crisis may thus be understood at every level, from the economic and financial to the environmental to problems of legitimacy and human security, to name a few.
Keynote speaker: Saskia Sassen (Columbia University)
Presenters will also include: Craig Calhoun, Manfried Steger, Roland Robertson, Chris Charles-Dunn, Richard Falk, and many others
Fall Quarter 2011
Welcome back!
The focal theme of the ACGCC "Risk Society Series" this year is "uncertainty." Classically uncertainty, the pathologized other of calculable risk, is precisely the terrifying face of a dynamic, unpredictable system of emergences. As a "condition," it gains prominence at moments of crisis, amid spectacular financial crashes, environmental debacles, biological insecurity, and insurgent attacks; its social and psychological effects range from terror to precarity. More recently, risk theorists have argued uncertainty arises from a dynamic but constantly generative system whose potentialities are foreclosed by the risk calculus. Given the ensuing debate, perhaps it is time to revisit the risk-uncertainty dialectic.
The ACGCC participates a campus-wide dialogue on risk-uncertainty. The center will cosponsor several events hosted by the Critical Issues of America program on "Speculative Futures." The calendar below includes these events (marked as "Risk Series") as well as other fall quarter talks, lectures, discussions, and films relevant to the focal theme.
For updated information on ACGCC and related events, make sure to bookmark the ACGCC calendar.
ACGCC co-sponsors an East Asia Center Event
Prof. Pheng Cheah (UC Berkeley) Lecture: "Entering the World from an Oblique Angle: On Jia Zhangke as an Organic Intellectual"
Thursday, Oct. 6th at 6pm, 2252 HSSB
Prof. Pheng Cheah (UC Berkeley) Lecture: "Entering the World from an Oblique Angle: On Jia Zhangke as an Organic Intellectual"
Thursday, Oct. 6th at 6pm, 2252 HSSB
*Risk Series*
UCSB Arts & Lectures Hosts
Daniel Yergin (author of The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power) Lecture: "The Quest--Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World"
Wednesday, Oct. 12th, 8pm, Campbell Hall (free)
For details: UCSB Arts & Lectures
Daniel Yergin (author of The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power) Lecture: "The Quest--Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World"
Wednesday, Oct. 12th, 8pm, Campbell Hall (free)
For details: UCSB Arts & Lectures
*Risk Series*
Critical Issues in America presents
A Symposium on Historical Perspectives
Prof. Wolf Kitler (UC Santa Barbara), "The Origin of Risk"
Prof. Colin Milburn (UC Davis), "Postmorten: The Necrosis of Nanotechnology"
Friday, Oct. 14 from 2-6pm, Wallis Annenburg Conference Room
For details: www.criticalissues.ucsb.edu
Prof. Wolf Kitler (UC Santa Barbara), "The Origin of Risk"
Prof. Colin Milburn (UC Davis), "Postmorten: The Necrosis of Nanotechnology"
Friday, Oct. 14 from 2-6pm, Wallis Annenburg Conference Room
For details: www.criticalissues.ucsb.edu
*Risk Series*
ACGCC co-sponsors Critical Issues in America and UCSB Arts & Lectures
Screening: Michael Madsen's Into Eternity (2010)
Followed by Q&A with the director
Monday, Oct. 17th, 7:30pm, Campbell Hall ($6/free for students)
For details: www.criticalissues.ucsb.edu, UCSB Arts & Lectures
Screening: Michael Madsen's Into Eternity (2010)
Followed by Q&A with the director
Monday, Oct. 17th, 7:30pm, Campbell Hall ($6/free for students)
For details: www.criticalissues.ucsb.edu, UCSB Arts & Lectures
*Risk Series*
Critical Issues in America hosts
A conversation with Michael Madsen
Tuesday, Oct. 18th, 5-7pm, McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
For details: www.criticalissues.ucsb.edu
A conversation with Michael Madsen
Tuesday, Oct. 18th, 5-7pm, McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
For details: www.criticalissues.ucsb.edu
*Risk Series*
UCSB Arts & Lectures hosts
Siddhartha Mukherkjee (Pulitzer-prize winning author of The Emperor of Maladies: A Biography of Cancer) Lecture: "Where We Are on the War on Cancer"
Saturday, Oct. 22nd, 3pm, Campbell Hall ($20/$10 UCSB Students)
For details: UCSB Arts & Lectures
Siddhartha Mukherkjee (Pulitzer-prize winning author of The Emperor of Maladies: A Biography of Cancer) Lecture: "Where We Are on the War on Cancer"
Saturday, Oct. 22nd, 3pm, Campbell Hall ($20/$10 UCSB Students)
For details: UCSB Arts & Lectures
*Risk Series*
Literatures and Mind presents
Colloquium on Care and Vulnerability
Fabienne Brugère, "What is an ethics of care?"
Guillaume Le Blanc, "Why are we so vulnerable?"
Friday, Oct. 28th, 1-5pm, South Hall 2635
For details: http://litandmind.english.ucsb.edu
Fabienne Brugère, "What is an ethics of care?"
Guillaume Le Blanc, "Why are we so vulnerable?"
Friday, Oct. 28th, 1-5pm, South Hall 2635
For details: http://litandmind.english.ucsb.edu
*Risk Series*
ACGCC co-sponsors a Literature and Environment event
Prof. Rob Nixon (UWisconsin, Madison), "Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor."
Friday, Nov. 18th, 2pm, McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
Prof. Rob Nixon (UWisconsin, Madison), "Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor."
Friday, Nov. 18th, 2pm, McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
Spring Quarter 2011
CCS Literature Symposium co-sponsored by the ACGCC
"Digital Publishing, Creative Possibilities"
Wednesday, May 25th at 4pm, Old Little Theater
As a founding member of the editorial team of the Journal of Transnational American Studies (JTAS), Martinsen will discuss how this online journal was formed and provide a glimpse behind the scenes to see how JTAS functions as an open-access forum for Americanists in the global academic community. In addition, this talk will explore some of the creative possibilities and resources for digital publishing, particularly for groups of students and scholars on a limited budget.
Eric Martinsen is assistant professor of English at Ventura College. In 2010, he completed his doctorate on "Global Moments: Spectatorship, Violence and Urbanization in Contemporary Fiction and Film" at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Please join us in this talk by a former ACGCC Fellow and UCSB alum!
Undergraduate Panel
"Special Topics in Research: American Literature, Global Literature and the ACGCC."
Thursday, May 12th, from 2-3pm in the ACGC Center
Yanoula Athanassakis, Anne Cong-Huyen, Ryan Stodtmeister, and Sharon Tang Quan will be present to talk about their work, to hear about yours, and to answer your questions about what's new, hot, and exciting in the fields of American and Global literatures; we'll all also look forward to hearing about your research interests and your thoughts about the field. Food and beverages provided.
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Power of the New Digital Disorder
David Weinberger is an Internet Age philosopher. His latest book, Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder (Times Books, May 2007), examines ways the Web is reforming our basic ideas about organizing and accessing information, concepts that have helped shape Western thought since the time of the ancient Greeks. Weinberger's previous books include an early examination of Web culture, Small Pieces Loosely Joined, and (with co-authors Christopher Locke, Rick Levine and Doc Searls) the influential Cluetrain Manifesto. A Ph.D. in philosophy who has worked in academia, the tech industry and as a gagwriter for Woody Allen, Weinberger spoke with CIO Insight Senior Writer Edward Cone about the practical implications of this philosophical twist.
CIO Insight: How does the organization of digital information differ from the organization of other information?
David Weinberger: There can be only one way of organizing a physical store; that's the way atoms work. Digitally, not only can there be as many ways as we can imagine of organizing, but the organization doesn't have to actually move any of the objects, which means the owners of the stuff no longer have to own the organization of that stuff. You don't have to move the objects; customers can just point to them, like they do with playlists. You can organize by musician, events in your life the music narrates, year produced. The shift is not just in multiple ways of organizing, but that anyone can do it.
Why is that a good thing from a business point of view?
Weinberger: Letting users organize information makes the information more usable and more valuable. Traditionally you figure out a way of clustering products online or in a catalog, based upon the season or price or how they are used, and that helps customers find what they need, and to see other things they might want in the cluster. That mirrors the way we organize things in the physical world. We can still do that, but also enable our users to decide what matters to them, and to pull together clusters around that. That makes a site far more usable, much more directly relevant to their interests and their needs and their way of thinking.
An example: Amazon has a standard set of categories for organizing books, very similar to the Dewey Decimal system, a treelike structure of information. Yet it's all the way at the bottom of the page and hardly anybody uses it. Instead, Amazon organizes in ways you'd never organize a [bricks-and-mortar] bookstore, but that may be useful to some readers. One of the most important [ways to organize] is clustering books by the purchase patterns of other readers. They also do a linguistic analysis of each book to find statistically improbable phrases that are distinctive to the book, and let you click on the phrases to find books that use them. Someone's going to buy one of the books that's linked that way. Amazon also lets users create their own lists and publish them on Amazon pages, so on the page for Little House on the Prairie books there may be a list of 19th century recipe books--that's an usual cut through the material, created by a customer around a topic he or she found interesting. You can also tag or categorize books as you want.
And that can increase sales?
Weinberger: There is tremendous practical business value in enabling users to bring to the surface their ways of organizing your stuff. Maybe some small group of people who would have never found your stuff, who wouldn't have known it belongs in this or that category unless somebody else had done it, will find it. It's a Long Tail thing: Businesses are good at figuring out the most valuable categories for the majorities of their users, but there's money left on the table because some number of potential customers--possibly a very large number--would come to your site and buy your product if they knew that this thing you've categorized one way is to them an example of something else. You want to enable customers to sort and organize things in the way they think about them, and to allow them to do it for one another. It's a social activity, not just individuals acting alone.
Are these hard changes for businesses to make?
Weinberger: The technology is really simple. The hard part is the bigger shift this entails. We are very used to the notion that the owner of an organization owns the organization of that stuff. If you own a store and customers rearrange the stock, you throw the customers out, even if they rearrange it in a way that makes complete sense to them and may make sense to their friends.
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Residents of Maine Town Not Required To Own Guns
BYRON, Maine (AP) — The small western Maine town of Byron won't be requiring residents to own guns. About 50 registered voters turned thumbs down on an article that read: "Shall the town of Byron vote to require all households to have firearms and ammunitions to protect the citizens?" Even Bruce Simmons, who proposed the measure, says it should have read "recommend' rather than "require."


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When you have type 2 diabetes, taking time to plan your meals goes a long way toward controlling your blood sugar and weight.
Alternative Names
Type 2 diabetes diet; Diet – diabetes – type 2
Your main focus is on keeping your blood sugar (glucose) level in your target range. To help manage your blood sugar, follow a meal plan that has:
- Food from all the food groups
- Fewer calories
- About the same amount of carbohydrates at each meal and snack
- Healthy fats
Along with healthy eating, you can keep your blood sugar in target range by maintaining a healthy weight. Persons with type 2 diabetes are often overweight. Losing just 10 pounds can help you manage your diabetes better. Eating healthy foods and staying active (for example, 30 minutes of walking per day) can help you meet and maintain your weight loss goal.
Carbohydrates in food give your body energy. You need to eat carbohydrates to maintain your energy. But carbohydrates also raise your blood sugar higher and faster than other kinds of food.
The main kinds of carbohydrates are starches, sugars, and fiber. Learn which foods have carbohydrates. This will help with meal planning so that you can keep your blood sugar in your target range.
Meal plans should consider the amount of calories children need to grow. In general, three small meals and three snacks a day can help meet calorie needs. Many children with type 2 diabetes are overweight. The goal should be a healthy weight by eating healthy foods and getting more activity (60 minutes each day).
Work with a registered dietitian to design a meal plan for your child. A registered dietitian is an expert in food and nutrition.
The following tips can help your child stay on track:
- No food is off-limits. Knowing how different foods affect your child's blood sugar helps you and your child keep it in target range.
- Help your child learn how much food is a healthy amount. This is called portion control.
- Have your family gradually switch from drinking soda and other sugary drinks, such as sports drinks and juices, to plain water or low-fat milk.
Everyone has individual needs. Work with your doctor, registered dietitian, or diabetes educator to develop a meal plan that works for you.
When shopping,
A good way to make sure you get all the nutrients you need during meals is to use the plate method. This is a visual food guide that helps you choose the best types and right amounts of food to eat. It encourages larger portions of non-starchy vegetables (half the plate) and moderate portions of protein (one quarter of the plate) and starch (one quarter of the plate). You can find more information about the plate method at the American Diabetes Association website:
Eating a wide variety of foods helps you stay healthy. Try to include foods from all the food groups at each meal.
VEGETABLES (2½ to 3 cups a day)
Choose fresh or frozen vegetables without added sauces, fats, or salt. Non-starchy vegetables include dark green and deep yellow vegetables, such as spinach, broccoli, romaine lettuce, cabbage, chard, and bell peppers. Starchy vegetables include corn, green peas, lima beans, potatoes, and taro.
FRUITS (1½ to 2 cups a day)
Choose fresh, frozen, canned (without added sugar), or dried fruits. Try apples, bananas, berries, cherries, fruit cocktail, grapes, melon, oranges, peaches, pears, papaya, pineapple, raisins. Drink juices that are 100% fruit with no added sweeteners or syrups.
GRAINS (3 to 4 ounces a day)
There are two types of grains:
- Whole grains are unprocessed and have the entire grain kernel. Examples are whole-wheat flour, oatmeal, whole cornmeal, amaranth, barley, brown and wild rice, buckwheat, and quinoa.
- Refined grains have been processed (milled) to remove the bran and germ. Examples are white flour, de-germed cornmeal, white bread, and white rice.
Grains have starch, a type of carbohydrate. Carbohydrates raise your blood sugar level. So, for healthy eating, make sure half of the grains you eat each day are whole grains. Whole grains have lots of fiber. Fiber in the diet keeps your blood sugar level from rising too fast.
PROTEIN FOODS (5 to 6½ ounces a day)
Protein foods include meat, poultry, seafood, eggs, beans and peas, nuts, seeds, and processed soy foods. Eat fish and poultry more often. Remove the skin from chicken and turkey. Select lean cuts of beef, veal, pork, or wild game. Trim all visible fat from meat. Bake, roast, broil, grill, or boil instead of frying.
DAIRY (3 cups a day)
Choose low-fat or nonfat dairy products. Be aware that milk, yogurt, and other dairy foods have natural sugar even when they do not contain added sugar. Take this into account when planning meals to stay in your blood sugar target range.
OILS/FATS (no more than 7 teaspoons a day)
Oils are not considered a food group. But they have nutrients that help your body stay healthy. Oils are different from fats in that oils remain liquid at room temperature. Fats remain solid at room temperature.
Limit your intake of fatty foods, especially those high in saturated fat, such as hamburgers, deep-fried foods, bacon, and butter.
Instead, choose foods that are high in polyunsaturated or monounsaturated fats. These include fish, nuts, and vegetable oils.
Oils can raise your blood sugar, but not as fast as starch. Oils are also high in calories. Try to use no more than the recommended daily limit of 7 teaspoons.
If you choose to drink alcohol, limit the amount and have it with a meal. Check with your health care provider about how alcohol will affect your blood sugar and to determine a safe amount for you.
Sweets are high in fat and sugar. Keep portion sizes small.
Here are tips to help avoid eating too many sweets:
- Ask for extra spoons and forks and split your dessert with others.
- Eat sweets that are sugar-free.
- Always ask for the smallest serving size or children's size.
A registered dietitian can help you decide how to balance the carbohydrates, protein, and fat in your diet. Here are some general guidelines:
The amount of each type of food you eat depends on:
Your diet
Your weight
How often you exercise
Your other health risks
Everyone has individual needs. Work with your doctor, and possibly a dietitian, to develop a meal plan that works for you.
The Diabetes Food Pyramid, which resembles the old USDA food guide pyramid, splits foods into six groups in a range of serving sizes. In the Diabetes Food Pyramid, food groups are based on carbohydrate and protein content instead of their food type. A person with diabetes should eat more of the foods in the bottom of the pyramid (grains, beans, vegetables) than those on the top (fats and sweets). This diet will help keep your heart and body systems healthy.
Another method, similar to the new "plate" USDA food guide, encourages larger portions of vegetables (half the plate) and moderate portions of protein (one-quarter of the plate) and starch (one-quarter of the plate).
(6 or more servings a day)
Foods like bread, grains, beans, rice, pasta, and starchy vegetables are at the bottom of the pyramid because they should serve as the foundation of your diet. As a group, these foods are loaded with vitamins, minerals, fiber, and healthy carbohydrates.
It is important, however, to eat foods with plenty of fiber. Choose whole-grain foods such as whole-grain bread or crackers, tortillas, bran cereal, brown rice, or beans. Use whole-wheat or other whole-grain flours in cooking and baking. Choose low-fat breads, such as bagels, tortillas, English muffins, and pita bread.
(3 – 5 servings a day)
Choose fresh or frozen vegetables without added sauces, fats, or salt. Opt for more dark green and deep yellow vegetables, such as spinach, broccoli, romaine lettuce, carrots, and peppers.
(2 – 4 servings a day)
Choose whole fruits more often than juices. Whole fruits have more fiber. Citrus fruits, such as oranges, grapefruits, and tangerines, are best. Drink fruit juices that do NOT have added sweeteners or syrups.
(2 – 3 servings a day)
Choose low-fat or nonfat milk or yogurt. Yogurt has natural sugar in it, but it can also contain added sugar or artificial sweeteners. Yogurt with artificial sweeteners has fewer calories than yogurt with added sugar.
(2 – 3 servings a day)
Eat fish and poultry more often. Remove the skin from chicken and turkey. Select lean cuts of beef, veal, pork, or wild game. Trim all visible fat from meat. Bake, roast, broil, grill, or boil instead of frying.
In general, you should limit your intake of fatty foods, especially those high in saturated fat, such as hamburgers, cheese, bacon, and butter.
If you choose to drink alcohol, limit the amount and have it with a meal. Check with your health care provider about how alcohol will affect your blood sugar, and to determine a safe amount for you.
Sweets are high in fat and sugar, so keep portion sizes small. Here are some tips to help avoid eating too many sweets:
- Ask for extra spoons and forks and split your dessert with others.
- Eat sweets that are sugar-free.
- Always ask for the small serving size.
Learn how to read food labels, and consult them when making food decisions.


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Film Review: The CroodsFast-paced, inventive animated comic adventure of a Stone Age family gets an extra boost from the lively vocal performances of stars Nicolas Cage, Emma Stone and Ryan Reynolds.
"The Flintstones" may be a bedrock of TV animation, but there's a whole generation or three who wouldn't know Fred from Barney, Wilma from Betty. So the time is ripe for a new prehistoric family to capture the imaginations of the kid audience, and DreamWorks Animation's Crood clan does it with dazzling 3D style.
A project first developed in 2005 by Monty Python alum John Cleese (who gets a story credit) for stop-motion house Aardman Animation, The Croods has evolved into a fast-paced CGI comedy that ranks with the best of DreamWorks' recent output. Writer-directors Chris Sanders (How to Train Your Dragon) and Kirk DeMicco (Space Chimps) put a lot into the mix: a looming apocalypse, a constant battle to survive, ferocious predators, plus more relatable matters like friction between an overprotective father and a rebellious daughter, the blossoming of young love, and the thrill of new discoveries. The action is consistently lively enough to delight very young viewers, while the character interactions have the kind of nuance that will satisfy their parents or guardians.
A hand-drawn opening, showing the terrible fates of neighboring families, establishes that the Croods are an especially hardy bunch just by virtue of staying alive. Much of that has to do with the justifiably cautious outlook of patriarch Grug (voiced by Nicolas Cage), whose basic philosophy is "Fear is good, change is bad." But his teenage daughter Eep (Emma Stone) chafes against his strictures, refusing to be part of the family's nightly "sleep pile" and often venturing outside alone. One such excursion leads her to Guy (Ryan Reynolds), a much more enlightened (and quite hunky) young primitive who wows Eep with his mastery of the awesome phenomenon we know as fire. But Guy also bears some awful news: A great cataclysm is coming, and it's time to retreat to new terrain.
The Crood family (which also includes mother Ugga, younger son Thunk, feral infant Sandy, and Ugga's wizened mother Gran) soon find themselves at the center of an earthquake that destroys their sheltering cave, leaving them with no choice but to set off for parts unknown. Along the way, Eep reunites with Guy, much to the annoyance of Grug, who resents not only the boy's closeness to his daughter but the threat this resourceful young upstart poses to his authority.
Beginning pre-quake with rather barren landscapes, The Croods expands out to fantastical, riotously colorful realms that rival the CG designs of Avatar. And those new horizons are populated with a zany array of fanciful creatures, such as bear-owls, mini-elephants, and a canine/crocodile hybrid that becomes history's first pet. Most fearsome of all are the piranhakeets, parakeets with razor-sharp teeth that annihilate every living thing they encounter.
Sanders and DeMicco's script has other clever notions, including a prehistoric variation on the snapshot, Eep's reaction to her first pair of shoes, a novel use of puppetry to get out of a dire situation, and a giant popcorn explosion which could inspire repeat visits to the concession stand. They also take vivid advantage of the 3D format, especially when dust motes and sparks from Guy's fire seem to fill the auditorium.
One of the non-CGI surprises of The Croods is the fully committed performance of Nicolas Cage. His Grug has every reason to be wary and fretful, and he's completely unmoored by the sudden loss of his cave sanctuary and by so much dreaded newness invading his life. This rigid patriarch is the butt of many of the movie's jokes, but Cage brings real poignancy to his dilemma, the kind anyone who's faced a devastating change can relate to.
Stone, with her appealing feistiness, is perfect casting as Eep, and Reynolds gets to apply both his leading-man charm and comic timing to Guy, who is initially overwhelmed by the roughshod lifestyle of this family on a lower rung of the evolutionary ladder. Catherine Keener brings her usual warmth to the underwritten role of mom Ugga, while comedy veteran Cloris Leachman shows sass as Gran, whose constant hectoring inspires the very first mother-in-law jokes. Watch out, Flintstones, the Crood era has begun.


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Religion and Philosophy majors and minors leave Otterbein with the skills and knowledge to pursue a plethora of careers, from law school to the Peace Corps to the military. Here's a look at what some of our recent graduates are doing:
Major: Religion Marlena states that she came to Otterbein because it is a small school that is involved with its surrounding community. Being a religion major has allowed her to look critically at religious traditions, including her own, thus gaining a better understanding of religions throughout the world. She hopes to use her education to work toward social justice.
Major: Religion Eshakhia will be attending The Methodist Theological School in Ohio upon graduation from Otterbein. She plans to serve a church or community for a few years and then work toward a Ph.D. so that she can teach in higher education. She intends to spend the rest of her life "going on a journey, traveling from state to state, country to country, making life better not just for the few but for the many." She claims that her journey began with a group of fascinating religion and philosophy scholar-teachers who led the way . . . and that the Otterbein Library literally became her second home.
Majors: Religion and Psychology Brianne is a graduate student at Kent State University in Ohio where she is pursuing a master's degree in clinical mental health counseling; she also works at Akron Children's Hospital. She intends to continue her education straight through to a Ph.D. Brianne double majored when she found out that she could study religion from an academic approach rather than a confessional one. That is, she was challenged to think past her own beliefs. She learned how to think critically, to be open to other perspectives, and to question why she understands the world as she does. She wrote recently, "While I am enjoying new places and meeting new people, I am hopeful to one day return back home to Otterbein."
Majors: Philosophy and Art Ben is currently an artist-in-residence at Otterbein and plans to go into Americorps for national service work and then to the Peace Corps after that. He states, "The opportunity to study philosophy at Otterbein is probably an understatement. It was a privilege to learn from my professors and classmates during my years in the department. I believe that it has given me the ability to ask, understand and critically think about questions that I had no idea even existed. Not only has my major given me intellectual stability, but it has made me more creative, empathetic, and broader minded with all my other endeavors. I cannot imagine my education without philosophy; it was a pleasure as well as a privilege to study at Otterbein."
Major: Philosophy Beth is currently a Philosophy Graduate Student at Georgia State University. She sees her Otterbein education as a means to understand the world in a deeper sense, in order to make it a better place for everyone. She wants to make a difference in the world, to help ensure that everyone is given the capabilities to live a flourishing and fulfilling life.
Major: Religion Sammi is a student at the Methodist Theological School in Ohio and plans to become an ordained pastor. She writes, "My time at Otterbein University was one of the most transformational four years of my life. I received a well-rounded education that helped to challenge me to ask questions and seek out answers in multiple subjects. As a religion major, I was introduced to a wide variety of religious concepts that shaped my faith and informed my current path towards ministry. Otterbein was where I was given the resources and education to ensure success in achieving my goals to become a leader in the United Methodist Church." Sammi's educational experience has provided travel to Vietnam and Cambodia as part of a cross-cultural immersion class.
Major: Religion John is currently the Music Director at St. Thomas More Parish in Brooklyn, Ohio. John writes that he uses his religion degree everyday as he chooses songs and makes other musical decisions. "My degree has given me a newfound appreciation of the faith I grew up in and at the same time has made me more open-minded than ever before. Learning how to understand the world's religions from an objective and academic perspective has given me a new perspective on the world."
Minor: Religion
Chelsea Merriman graduated from Otterbein in 2009 with a minor in Religion. Today, she holds a position as Guardian ad Litem Education Services Specialist with the Supreme Court of Ohio. Post-graduation, she worked as a curriculum developer and presenter at COSI Columbus before being hired at the Supreme Court this past winter.
She wrote, "It's (religion minor) always a good conversation piece! Especially the topics related to Dr. Jackson's Religion in Films course."
Major: Philosophy
After graduation, Larsa entered the Teach for America Program, and moved to Baltimore where she taught mathematics to middle school students in the Baltimore City Schools. She plans to enter law school at the College of William and Mary in the Fall of 2011.
She recently wrote about her experience at Otterbein, "Studying philosophy at Otterbein helped me to become a better reader, writer, speaker, and thinker. Teaching middle school requires one to be extremely precise in what one says, especially when responding to and asking questions of students, and philosophy helped me to develop that skill. My work at Otterbein has benefited my students, as I am better equipped to push forward and challenge their thinking, which is not always the most logical. Studying in the Religion and Philosophy Dept. at Otterbein also made me more open-minded to different views, which is essential when moving out of one's comfort zone into a new community."
Major: English; Minor: Religion
Sarah currently works in Salt Lake City, Utah, for the Crossroads Urban Center where she is a social justice advocate. The Center serves lower-income families through a food pantry and a thrift store, organizes "low-income people to be advocates for themselves," and Sarah also works with Utah legislators in an effort to fight "the systems that create the need for a food pantry."
She recently wrote of her experience in the department, "I took Introduction to Religion autumn quarter of my freshman year. The class blew my mind. And I was hooked. Religion courses at Otterbein opened up so many questions. I had grown up in the Christian tradition for 18 years, with two ordained pastors for parents, so I thought I knew plenty about Christianity. Not quite. . .Even if you don't consider yourself a religious person, these classes are still vital. Religion colors so much of society, especially politics, history, and international relations. You don't have to become a 'believer' to enjoy these classes. They're just helpful in developing a global perspective and understanding people who are different from you...a skill we all have to learn eventually." In thinking about her service to the people of Salt Lake, she remembers that her "religion courses gave [her] a glimpse into Jesus' life on earth, and the message he spread of good news to the poor...They are the strongest voice for the issues they face. They are the ones who belong on Capitol Hill. And they are the ones Jesus talked with, ate with, and lived with."
Joe is now studying law at Capital University. He writes to us that the skills he developed in his Philosophy classes - particularly the focus on critical thinking - are put to use "every day" in law school.
Upon graduation, Jason received an MA degree in philosophy from Georgia State University, and is currently enrolled in the Ph.D. program at the University of Virginia.
He recently wrote about his major, "It has helped me very much. Most importantly, it prepared me very well to continue pursuing philosophy at higher academic levels."
Major: Religion
Christopher is currently a Pastor at Madison Mills United Methodist Church. He received a full tuition scholarship as an Alford Scholar at Methodist Theological School, and he is working on his Master of Divinity degree with an anticipated graduation date of December 2011.
He expressed, "My career at Otterbein led me to accept a call to ordained ministry. I was also able, due in part to grades, to receive a tuition scholarship to graduate school. Otterbein opened my mind to cultural and religious diversity, as well as, offered me a strong foundation to continue religious studies as a graduate student."
Major: Art; Minors: Religion and Art History
Kari recently returned from living and working in Ghana, West Africa doing volunteer work for the Peace Corps. She was in the Northern Region, teaching Art at the Savelugu school for the deaf. She hopes to return to Ghana in the near future. Upon completing her tour with the Peace Corps, she anticipates earning a Master's Degree in Art Education.
Of her time at Otterbein, she writes, "Taking a minor in religion didn't make any drastic difference in my life, but it really helped me solidify my views, morals and approach to life. In Buddhism class I was forced to step outside myself and critically assess my spiritual journey and beliefs. In History of Christianity I learned the solid facts behind all the stories I had been hearing since I was a child. In the Religion INST survey I learned about ways of approaching life around the world that I didn't even know existed. I know I won't become a Religion professor or found a new religion, but taking your classes helped me to better understand aspects of my chosen profession, art, and aspects of my outlook on life in general."
Chris writes that, in 2007, he "left his comfort zone, and everything he knew" and moved to Southern California. He worked as an office PA for Ricochet Television (famous for ABC's Supernanny), and part-time at KDAR, a Christian talk station. He recently accepted a position with KDAR as full-time Production Director.
He writes of his time at Otterbein, "How did the Religion and Philosophy Department help me? It's made my faith stronger. I walked into those classes a Christian, and walked out a stronger one. The Department both challenged me and helped me look at things in a different light. It was amazing exploring the history of my faith, as well as exploring why I believed it."
Nick is currently the Assistant Regional Director of the Ohio Region of Church World Service. Church World Service is an international humanitarian and development organization made up of 36 Protestant, Anglican and Orthodox denominations. He is mainly responsible for program interpretation, education and fund-raising in Ohio. After graduating from Otterbein, he attended Methodist Theological School in Ohio and received a Master's of Theological Studies with a concentration in New Testament in 2008. He is currently beginning the ordination process with the United Church of Christ.
He recently said of the department, "Studying Religion at Otterbein gave me a real advantage over many other students pursuing graduate work in religion. Not only was I able to "test out" of many intro courses, but I was well prepared for upper level courses as well. Religious Studies at Otterbein made me a well rounded student in Biblical Studies, Theology, Religious Philosophy and Ethics at the graduate level."
Jason is currently a Ph.D. student in the History of Writing at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. He received his M.A. in Literary History from Ohio University in 2008. He has taught part-time at various universities and colleges around Ohio.
On his experience at Otterbein, "I would say that my philosophy degree has increased the overall quality of my life in general. I am able to perceive more details, to question tacit assumptions, and to glimpse the overall uniqueness and singular nature of, well, pretty much everything. I think studying philosophy has allowed me to get behind and commit genuinely to that famous quote from Socrates, 'The unexamined life is not worth living.'"
After graduation, Erin worked for a time at Nationwide Insurance as a temporary office worker, and then as a Research Assistant with OCLC. In the summer of 2008, she began work on a Master's Degree in Library and Information Science.
She writes that so far her Otterbein degree has not contributed directly to her professional life, but insists, "religion and philosophy classes were never useless. Understanding a person's or a people's religion is to understand their society and their viewpoints. It forces you to stand in their shoes and see life from their viewpoint, thus creating an understanding and tolerance of thoughts and actions you may not have been able to comprehend before. I am thankful for my classes every day."
Majors: Philosophy and History
After graduation, Kris pursued a Master's in Philosophy and Social Theory at the University of Warwick in Coventry, England.
Upon completing that degree, he and his wife returned to Columbus, where he presently manages the textbook department of the DeVry University bookstore. He expects to begin teaching a few classes in the near future and ultimately hopes to teach Philosophy full time.
Of his time at Otterbein, he writes, "Studying philosophy at Otterbein changed me in many significant ways, not only academically, but in more deep-rooted personal ways. Coming from a small town in southeastern Ohio, I was narrow-minded and naïve...Studying philosophy challenged every single presupposition I had about myself and the world around me...It has changed the way I think about and understand everything, from a baseball game to relationships to politics to the food I eat....Philosophy taught me to open myself up to the world. It taught me to be an empowered and informed member of society."
Majors: Philosophy and History; Minor: Psychology
While in school at Otterbein, April served as associate pastor of the Asbury South UMC in Columbus.
After leaving Otterbein, she went to the Methodist Theological School of Ohio to begin work on a Master's of Divinity degree. In 2007, she was hired as a full-time Coordinator of Recruitment for MTSO, a position she still holds. She anticipates completing her M.Div. degree within the next year, and plans to seek ordination as a deacon in the United Methodist Church.
Of her time at Otterbein, she writes, "My interests in philosophy started as an intellectual curiosity, became a minor, and then a second major. I said this as I graduated, and I say it again: my studies at Otterbein taught me how to think."
Major: Philosophy; Minor: Religion
After graduating Otterbein, Robert taught Enblish in Japan from 2004-2007, but he could not resist the lure of philosophy. He completed an M.A. in Philosophy at Ohio University, and is now in the Ph.D. program at the University of Hawaii. He has also worked as an Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at Edison Community College.
Of his time at Otterbein, he writes, "My education in Religion and Philosophy from Otterbein University is directly responsible for the professional and personal opportunities I have enjoyed since my time in Towers hall. Without the attention and care of the faculty I would not have been able to live and teach in Japan, and would not be pursuing a career in teaching Philosophy. Having developed an understanding of a variety of religious and philosophical world views at Otterbein, it was possible for me to experience the Japanese culture to a degree of depth not afforded to all visitors. This experience solidified my conviction that Religion and Philosophy are subjects that, when studied academically, contribute greatly to personal and interpersonal development, and thus should be a significant part of all students' education. I encourage all students at Otterbein to take advantage of their opportunities to study Religion and Philosophy during their undergraduate education."
After graduating from Otterbein, Jim earned a Master's Degree of Physician's Assistant Studies. He and his wife Kristy were married in 2005. Jim served as a Physician's Assistant with the Ohio Army National Guard, and spent 10 months in Ramadi, Iraq. He has since left the army, but continues to work as a Physician Assistant and currently specializes in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation in Bellefontaine, Ohio. In a recent note, Jim said, "Thank you for all you have done for me and helped me to look at the world from more than my previous tunnel vision I had prior to attending Otterbein. I can honestly say I don't see the world, or myself, the same as I did prior to attending your courses."
Majors: Religion and English (Amanda) and Philosophy (John)
Amanda graduated in 2001 with a major in Religion (and another major in English). After graduation, Amanda worked as a Pastoral Assistant at Vineyard Church of Columbus. She and John (a Philosophy major) married in 2003 and now have a son, Grason Lewis. She and John are currently living and working in Amsterdam Netherlands, as part of a mission team charged with planting a new Vineyard Church there.
Pat writes, "I am definitely one of those students who is using my Otterbein degree for a purpose other than teaching."
She is now Senior Program Manager at Columbus Public Health, where her specialties are Communicable Disease Prevention and Response. She writes, "My day to day work involves working with people from all nations and races with a focus on the Somalis now living in Columbus. My understanding of their religion and culture makes it easier for my team to provide the services that the refugees need....We try to respect their patriarchal society, their dietary restrictions, religious holidays, and dress codes."
Pat also works with the Biological Event Response Team in Columbus. The team is charged with preparing for disasters as wide ranging as Pandemic Flu epidemic to terrorist attack, to outbreaks of Anthrax or Smallpox.
After leaving Otterbein, Karen earned a Master's of Divinity in Pastoral Counseling from Ashland Theological Seminary. She was an Associate Pastor at Zion Christian Fellowship (a non-denominational church in Powell, OH) for eight years; there she established a counseling program and wrote the curriculum for a 12-week course for new church members.
She currently is on the Board of Directors for the Emergency Spiritual Care Team in Columbus. This team partners with the Red Cross to give spiritual care to people in crisis, and to train counselors, priests, rabbis and other religious leaders to deal with crises their members face.
Finally, she began (along with three partners) a multi-faceted private ministry called Grace Connection. Among this ministry's constituents are women prisoners in a nearby correctional facility, high school students interested in community service, and students in Bible study groups.
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Columbia confirms Jamie Foxx as Electro in 'SpiderMan 2'
Columbia confirms Jamie Foxx as Electro in 'SpiderMan 2'
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"The Amazing SpiderMan 2" officially has its Electro.
It was announced by Columbia Pictures that Jamie Foxx will indeed play the character in the second film of the Mark Webb reboot starring Andrew Garfield as SpiderMan.
"Electro is a great character," Jamie told "Entertainment Tonight's" Nancy O'Dell as he revealed the role. "I met with the director, Mark Webb, I met with Andrew Garfield, and we talked. … I think Electro will be an exciting character to play because he's a … genius electrician-type person, and he gets the short end of the stick from the whole world, and the next thing you know he turns it on."
Marvel describes Electro as such: "After being convinced by his mother that he was not smart enough to pursue such a career, Max [Dillon, the character's real name] instead reluctantly took a job as a lineman for an electric company.
While repairing a power line still connected to its spool, Max was struck by lightning. Instead of being killed, the freak accident caused a mutagenic change in his nervous system, allowing him to generate and control vast amounts of electricity. After creating a colorful costume, Max turned to a life of crime as Electro."


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Brief blast of winter weather causes freezing
A brief blast of winter weather caused slick bridges and overpasses Tuesday morning. A winter storm that was traveling to the east dropped snow and sleet across LeFlore County creating potentially dangerous conditions for drivers. According to the Oklahoma Department of Transportation, Oklahoma Highway Patrol officers reported slick and hazardous conditions, especially to the south end of the county. Temperatures are forecast to remain below freezing for morning lows and highs around 40 degrees until Friday. The storm that caused the hazardous conditions is expected to clear the area by 3 p.m. according to the National Weather Service.


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{I originally posted this as a reply to OHB's newbie post. I've decided to do a new thread}
Shopping for a used boat, a couple that we like have extremely low hours on them. One of them is 8 years old and hasn't been out of the slip since delivery!! Another one has not been out of the slip in 2 years. The current owner has never had it out, and doesn't really know much about the actual mechanics of the vessel. They start easy and seem to run fine. What special things should we watch for on boats that have been sitting so much of their lives? I'm guessing impellers could be a problem(?)
I believe marine surveyors will go out on a test drive for an extra fee. Would that be advisable? We plan to boat, not float - as much as we can afford.


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How to take better pictures with your camera's automatic mode
Photography experts are always imploring people not to rely on a camera's full-automatic mode – you know, that magic green icon that makes our lives easier by not asking us to fuss with the settings. After all, having control over how the camera shoots lets you produce better-looking photos. But what if your point-and-shoot camera offers only an auto mode? Can you still take great photos with a digital camera that lacks any advanced features?
When you shoot in full-auto mode, you are telling the camera to pick what it thinks are the best settings. That means your camera decides everything concerning light sensitivity (ISO), aperture and shutter speed, focus, white balance, and even when to fire the flash. Auto mode is easy to use and convenient, but it isn't foolproof, and a few simple tips can help you make the most of it. Here's how to shoot great-looking photographs, even when the camera is doing all the work.
Hold steady
Camera shake causes blurry images. The slightest vibration to the camera as it's capturing an image can affect how sharp the photo looks. Keeping still is even more important in low-light situations, because the camera keeps the shutter open longer to take in as much light as it can. Some new cameras offer image stabilization to help compensate for shaky hands, but it isn't perfect. Here are some things you can do to prevent blurry photos:
Use a tripod
A tripod keeps a camera steady, but it's not always a convenient accessory to lug around (mini desktop tripods like Joby's GorillaPod, however, are great tools to keep in a camera bag). As an alternative, find a level, non-moving surface to stabilize the camera, like a kitchen counter, a ledge, or a stack of books.
Don't move
Keeping your body still before, during, and after pressing the shutter button will help minimize image blur. Because a digital camera continues to process the image after clicking the button – especially if it's gathering light in dark environments – you want to remain motionless for a few seconds afterward, depending on your camera's lag time between shots. Of course, no person can stay completely stiff, so look for extra support (like keeping your back against a wall or leaning against a pole) to stabilize yourself.
Use the camera's self-timer
By using the self-timer, you give yourself a few seconds to position yourself and avoid any movement from having to press the shutter button. You can also use this feature when using a tripod or any stable surface, as it would eliminate nearly any vibration caused by your body.
Bring the camera closer to your body
If you're using the camera's LCD screen to frame a picture, hold it with two hands and bring it as close to your eyes as possible (without affecting your vision), tucking your elbows and arms all the way in. You can minimize body movement this way, as opposed to having your arms stretched out.
Focus on the subject
Before you press the shutter button, you need to focus on the prize: your subject. Nearly every digital camera utilizes autofocusing, but here's how to use it properly.
Press halfway and hold it
To tell the camera where to focus, lock in on the subject by pressing the shutter button halfway without letting go (you can feel when the button is physically at the halfway point). The camera will signal when something is focused with an audible beep or green indicators on the LCD display, for example. When you are ready to shoot, press the shutter button all the way. The key is to never let go of the shutter button from the halfway point, unless you want to refocus or reframe your shot.
Point the camera at what you want to be in focus
A digital camera doesn't always know what to focus on in the frame. If you want to focus on a subject in the side of a frame, for example, your camera might focus on something dead center in the background instead. The easy way to fix this is to center your subject in the frame and then focus. Without letting go of the shutter button, you can pan around until you are happy with the shot, keeping your intended subjects focused wherever they end up in the frame.
Look ahead of moving objects
Most of the aforementioned tips require the subject to remain stationary, but what if you are trying to capture your kid playing ball or some sort of action scene? Most digital cameras that lack user controls, especially entry-level models with slow autofocusing, have a hard time capturing these types of scenes. To achieve this, autofocus on a point where the object in motion will end up, then snap the photo when the object reaches that point. With some luck, you'll get that shot.
To zoom or not to zoom
Through software enhancement, fixed-lens cameras use digital zoom as a way to get closer to a far-away object. Cameras with an optical lens also use digital zoom to go beyond the physical max zoom. When should you use it? Never, because the resulting image taken with a digital zoom will always be pixelated. If you can, you should physically get up-close to a subject instead of zooming in digitally.
Use scene mode
In addition to a full-auto mode, some cameras include a selection of scene modes. Although scene modes aren't manual controls, they offer the user a way to tell the camera what type of shooting environment it's in, such as low light, under direct sunlight, portrait, and landscape. The camera then adjusts its settings for these conditions.
Some cameras may also let you adjust the exposure compensation. If available, use this option to play with the lighting conditions.
Master the flash
Digital cameras tend to always fire the built-in flash when in auto mode, whether it's necessary or not. But camera flash is not always a bad thing. The best way to know your camera's ability is to experiment by taking photos in various conditions with the flash on and off.
In dark scenes, the camera may activate the flash to compensate for weak low-light performance, but this could cause your subjects to look way too intense when lit. Without a flash, your photos could look fuzzy due to the lack of light. You can achieve better results by deactivating the flash and using all available light in the room. Hold the camera as still as possible until it has finished taking the photo (see earlier).
Believe it or not, the flash works well for bright conditions. For example, shadows on a subject's face that's caused by strong sunlight can be compensated with the use of the flash in "forced flash" mode.
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Usually in all Windows Phones these configurations are automatically set by the Windows Update. But for some reason if they are not setup here's what you should do.
Press Start button
Select Settings from the program list Make sure the System settings are selected in the panorama (and not the application settings)
Scroll down to Cellular
Swipe Data Connection to On (if it is off)
Swipe 3G Connection to On (if it is off)
Click on the edit apn button
Go to Options -> Advanced Settings -> TCP
and enter the following details
Set APN to wap.cingular
Username: firstname.lastname@example.com
Password: cingular1
Leave everything else blank
Confirm by clicking on the left check-icon in the slide-up menu.
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Lily of the valley is a flowering plant. Lily of the valley poisoning occurs when someone eats parts of this plant.
This is for information only and not for use in the treatment or management of an actual poison exposure. If you have an exposure, you should call your local emergency number (such as 911) or the National Poison Control Center at 1-800-222-1222.
Alternative Names
Poisonous Ingredient
- Convallarin
- Convallamarin
- Convallatoxin
Note: This list may not include all poisonous ingredients.
Where Found
The flowers, fruit, and leaves of the lily of the valley plant are poisonous.
Eyes, ears, nose, mouth, and throat:
Blurred vision
- Excessive urination at night
Halos around objects(yellow, green, white)
- Diarrhea
- Loss of appetite
- Stomach pain
- Vomiting or nausea
Heart and blood:
Irregularor slow heartbeat
Nervous system:
- Confusion
- Depression
- Disorientation
- Drowsiness
- Headache
- Weakness
- Rash
Note: Depression, loss of appetite, and halos are usually only seen in
Home Care
Seek immediate medical help. Do NOT make a person throw up unless told to do so by poison control or a health care professional.
Before Calling Emergency
Determine the following information:
Patient's age, weight, and condition
Name and part of the plant swallowed, if known
Time it was swallowed
Amount swallowed
Poison Control
The National Poison Control Center (1-800-222-1222) can be called from anywhere in the United States. This national hotline number will let you talk to experts in poisoning. They will give you further instructions.
This is a free and confidential service. All local poison control centers in the United States use this national number. You should call if you have any questions about poisoning or poison prevention. It does NOT need to be an emergency. You can call for any reason, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
What to Expect at the Emergency Room
The health care provider will measure and monitor your vital signs, including temperature, pulse, breathing rate, and blood pressure. Symptoms will be treated as appropriate. You may receive:
- Activated charcoal
- Blood and urine tests
- Breathing support
- Chest x-ray
EKG(electrocardiogram, or heart tracing)
- Fluids through a vein (IV)
- Laxatives
- Medication to treat symptoms, including an antidote to reverse the effects of the poison
- Tube through the mouth into the stomach to wash out the stomach (
gastric lavage)
Outlook (Prognosis)
How well you do depends on the amount of poison swallowed and how quickly treatment is received. The faster you get medical help, the better the chance for recovery.
Symptoms last for 1 – 3 days and may require a hospital stay. Death is unlikely.
Do not touch or eat any plant with which you are not familiar. Wash your hands after working in the garden or walking in the woods.


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Astral travel can be enhanced by working with crystals and their vibrational field levels during your session. But where do you start and how to help? There are many different suggestions for this, as well as different ones will resonate within different people and their energy fields.
A good place to start is by working with the crystals you enjoy the most. If you are not sure where to start, go with your intuition and follow your gut instincts as they will not steer you wrong.
A wonderful way to work with them in astral travel and meditation sessions are in geode form. The best ones I have come across that have the highest energy vibrational level are clear quartz, amethyst, citrine and calcite. It is best to work with just one type of crystal within the geode, but you can combine them in your circles if you wish. The energy field will be a combination of the different types and will have them make a weaving type of pattern within the energy field. This is a very unique type of field to work within, but may not always be the best, as opposed to a single type of stronger vibrational field you would receive with just one type of geode.
During your astral travel session, surround yourself with as many geodes as possible, in a circle, or alternating the type of crystal found within. The more the better, and even if they are small, the geodes still put out a lot of vibrational fields for you to work within!


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Wishing you all an amazing weekend!
University is officially over and now the only thing left are the exams! I can say I am pretty excited and stressed at the same time. I just find exam revision so stressful and I always have the feeling that I don't know anything, even though I was studying for weeks. Hope that this time I am not so stressed out:) How about you? Do you still have classes or exams?
I was shopping online a couple of weeks ago and I found this pair of floral trousers and instantly fell in love! I love the print and the colour combination, just perfect for Spring and Summer. I was always sceptical about printed trousers because they seemed so difficult to style, luckily I was completely wrong! They are super easy to style and they just make every outfit look so unique and sophisticated.
I am wearing:
Shirt - Primark
Trousers - Zara
Heels - Primark
Bag - Dorothy Perkins
Necklace - Sheinside
Watch - Swatch
Rings - Warren James & Primark


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Organizations such as the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) and Mercy for Animals say they have stopped attempting to take undercover videos on farms in states that have laws that make this practice illegal. These laws, referred to as "ag gag" laws, have already gone into effect in states such as Iowa and Utah. Several other states are in the process of working to enact similar legislation. Meanwhile, the topic of ag gag laws is getting a lot of media attention, and the opinions about the merits…or lack thereof…of preventing undercover videos from being taken on farms differ widely. As I've read blog posts finding fault with these laws coming from within the agricultural community, I keep coming back to what I heard and saw when I attended a Mercy for Animals (MFA) press conference last summer where an on-farm video was "revealed."
A story on ABC News this year explained that during the debate over the legislation in Utah last year, lawmakers referred to the animal welfare groups as "terrorists" and portrayed them as enemies of farmers. Utah State Representative Mike Noel told ABC, "This is about a group of people who want to put us out of business, make no mistake about it." When Iowa Governor Terry Branstad signed an ag gag bill into law, he said, "If somebody comes on somebody else's property, through fraud or deception or lying, that is a serious violation of people' rights." Animal activist groups say the laws interfere with freedom of speech and they intend to challenge the laws in court. They are also expending great effort at preventing more laws from being passed. As Tennessee's governor contemplates signing the Animal Cruelty and Abuse Act that was passed by both the Tennessee House and Senate this week, he has had to contend with threats of retaliation tweeted out by celebrity animal activist and vegetarian Carrie Underwood. The legislation would require evidence of animal abuse to be reported to authorities within 48 hours.
National Hog Farmer's sister publication, Feedstuffs, reported this week that a bill in Nebraska would require reporting abuse within 24-48 hours, and bills in Indiana and Pennsylvania would make it a crime to film or photograph farm animal operations without the consent of the owner. Doesn't that make a certain amount of sense? If you see abuse, why would you film it? Why wouldn't you stop it? The U.S. pork and dairy industries recently launched the "See It? Stop It!?" initiative to demand that anyone working on a farm or in a farm setting has an obligation to report animal abuse, neglect, mishandling or harm immediately. I have to believe that the vast majority of reasonable farmers, ranchers and their employees would do just that. As the Center for Food Integrity's Roxi Beck explains, "Those in agriculture are understandably frustrated by undercover videos. The actions of a few captured on video can taint public perception of the entire livestock community. Taking action to stop abuse demonstrates a genuine commitment to do what's right for the animals on farms."
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I hear the folks who are asking what do farmers have to hide. I don't think this debate is so much about what is being hidden, as it is about the motives of those who seek to record these videos in the first place—and it isn't about helping the animals in any given situation. At the Mercy for Animals press conference in Minneapolis last year, Matt Rice, director of investigations for the activist group, revealed the bottom line about MFA's overarching goals while answering questions from reporters after showing undercover video recorded at a Christensen Farms pork production facility. He said the main reason the group had waited five months before revealing the undercover video was because they had been working to pressure retailers that worked with the farm into calling for an end to gestation stall use. It sounds a lot like blackmail to me. You can read the article here. In a publically available Tax Form 990, filed by MFA, the group indicates the purpose of the organization is "Vegetarian Outreach. MFA promotes vegetarianism and veganism as a practical way to reduce animal suffering." When asked during the press conference what MFA would view to be the ideal solution to housing pigs, Rice said, "Ideally animals would not be exploited at all."
After hearing the reasoning behind the MFA video approach, I would argue that undercover videos are just a tool for activists to exploit a meat-free agenda. Why would strangers be allowed access to your animals if they are not genuinely interested in caring for them and protecting them? Why should people be allowed to trespass on private property with video cameras if they are furthering any agenda at all? Go back and read that first sentence in this blog post. The organizations have stopped taking undercover videos in states where ag gag laws are on the books. It's a complex debate. What do you think? Leave your thoughts in the Comment section below, or email firstname.lastname@example.com.


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