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There�s going to be a big voice bellowing from a small package tonight during the BBQ Festival on the Neuse.
There�s going to be a big voice bellowing from a small package tonight during the BBQ Festival on the Neuse.
The Artfest Stage performance at Herritage and Blount Streets is more than just a show for 9-year-old Cassidy Kennedy. The aspiring pop artist has travelled across the country to sing, act and dance but has not yet performed in front of a large home crowd.
Tonight, Cassidy � the youngest performer � will show her fellow Kinstonians the talent she�s cultivated since her early toddler years.
�I like how the audience likes to watch you sing,� Cassidy said. �They enjoy it. You have to make them feel like it�s all for them, and I like that.�
Her family noticed her talent when she was 2 years old. Cassidy�s mother, Crystal Kennedy, said her daughter was able to memorize songs from childhood shows after hearing them once or twice.
�She could do it and not miss anything,� Kennedy said, adding her daughter began singing at family functions and churches at 4. �She was 5 and she said, �Mama, I want to be on stage. � I want to do it all.� We started looking up auditions and that�s when it all started.�
Cassidy is the oldest of four total siblings. Her two sisters also participate in the performing arts, making for a busy Kennedy family. While one is in New York, the other may have to be in Atlanta, for instance.
�It�s difficult,� said Kennedy, who maintains the girls� schedules with her cell phone. �I just try to stay focused on trying to give them their childhood.�
Cassidy, a student at Moss Hill Elementary School, said her favorite instructional subject is music � naturally.
�Sometimes, we�ll have time left over,� she said. �They let me go in the front of the classroom and sing to other people. It�s kind of fun.�
She hopes Kinston sees how much she likes to perform after tonight�s show.
Cassidy will share one of threeBBQ Festival stages with a number of other local talents, headed by retired musician Kenneth Ginn.
He will stage manage a variety of dancers, such as the performers from the Jennifer School of Dance, and soloists along with Cassidy.
�(Cassidy Kennedy) will be doing numbers from her CD,� Ginn said. �It will be 30 minutes of her voice. (The audience) will surely find something that will be entertaining with all the local talent that we have.�
Ginn said he has worked with these types of shows more than 30 years and the 9-year-old talent was referred by a distant voice coach.
Cassidy sends practice videos to her instructor, who provides feedback.
�She texts Mama all the things I did wrong so I can work better on it,� she said. �Then we send another video, and if it�s perfect, we can keep practicing and do it the same way (during) the show.�
Crystal Kennedy said Cassidy advertised the performance via Facebook, cheerful with anticipation.
�She�s super excited to be able to do things for people that she knows,� Kennedy said. �She�s excited to show what she�s learned the past couple of years. I�m super excited for her.�
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BBQ Festival on the Neuse
For information, visit bbqfestivalontheneuse.com
Noon (arrival time) � 32nd Annual Wil King Hog Happenin', Pearson Park
Welcome � Miss Kinston, Festival on the Neuse hospitality team.
5-9 p.m. � The Arts and Crafts Market, Ellis Carriage Bldg., Blount and Herritage streets
5-10 p.m. � Wine Garden, garden behind The Red Room, North Street
5-11 p.m. � Amusement Rides, Mitchell Street
5:30-9:30 p.m. � Kid's Fest
6 p.m. � Teen Nation Tour 2013 concert/autographs, Herritage Street stage
7th Annual Chamber Burger and Brew Bash, Pearson Park
Steve Hardy's Original Beach Party, Pearson Park stage
6-9 p.m. � Art Fest, Herritage Street between Blount and North streets
Karaoke with KG
6-10 p.m. � Farmer's Market, Herritage Street
6:30 p.m. � Welcome/Introduction of Cook Teams and Sponsors, Herritage Street stage
6:30, 8:30 � Ring City Roller Girls, behind Mother Earth in parking lot
7 p.m. � Chief Cook briefing, Pearson Park, main stage area
7:30 p.m. � Ghost Walk Tour, Farmers Market area, reservations in advance $6 per person, call 252-527-1131
Showmanship Competition, Pearson Park
7:30-9:30 p.m., 10-11 p.m. � The Entertainers, Pearson Park stage
8-10 p.m. � Top National ATV Riders Meet and Greet
9 p.m. � Lizzy Ross, The Red Room stage, North Street
9:30 p.m. � Fireworks, Herritage Street and Pearson/Tiffany West Park
7:30 a.m. � Bicycle Fitness Ride for Scholarship, registration, 9.5 mile or 22.5 mile ride
8 a.m. � Hog Happenin', on-site barbecue judging
Emcee Martha Bishop/TACC 9, Farmers Market stage
8:25 a.m. � Fitness Ride lineup
9 a.m.-4 p.m. � The Arts and Crafts Market, Ellis Carriage Bldg., Blount and Herritage streets
9 a.m.-1 p.m. � Open Car Truck Show, registration, call Diane Jones, 252-560-0782
9:30 a.m. � 2nd Annual Corn Hole Tournament, first toss 10:30 a.m., St. John's Masonic Lodge No.4 A.F. & A. M.
10 a.m. � Opening Ceremony, National Anthem, Walk of Honor stage
Welcome � Col. Joe Tyson, chairman, Kinston-Lenoir County Tourism Development Authority
Walk of Honor/SALUTE!, call Bonnie and Herman McLawhorn, 252-560-4440
Steve Hardy's Original Beach Party, Pearson Park stage
10-noon � Amusement Rides, Mitchell Street
10 a.m.-1 p.m. � Heritage BBQ Pit, Pearson Park
10 a.m.-2 p.m. � Special Festival shopping events, Herritage Landing merchants
10 a.m.-4 p.m. � Art Fest, Herritage Street between Blount and North streets
Kid's Fest
Farmer's Market, Lenoir Co. Farmer's Market, 100 N. Herritage St.
Wine Garden, garden behind The Red Room, North Street
Vendor's Market, Gordon, Mitchell, North and Herritage streets and in the park
Antique Tractor and Farm Equipment exhibit
�Tobacco Money Feeds My Family� Outdoor film, Ellis Buggy Bldg.
Karaoke with KG
Overland Gallery studio opening, Herritage and Blount streets
10 a.m.-5 p.m. � CSS Neuse II Living History event, Gordon and Herritage streets
10 a.m. until � The Nature Center/Planetarium/Big Daddy Train
10:30 a.m. � Ring City Roller Girls, behind Mother Earth in parking lot
10:30 a.m.-noon � Kinston Public Safety fire engine display, Caswell Street near Queen Street
11 a.m.-2 p.m. � Civil War Battlefield guided bus tours, CSS Neuse, Herritage Street
11 a.m.-4 p.m. � The Seaside Band, Pearson Park stage
11 a.m.-4 p.m. � BBQ plates $7, sandwiches $3, pound $7, advance bulk orders, call 252-527-1131, Pearson Park, Farmers Market, Herritage Street behind Mother Earth, Blount/Mitchell streets
11 a.m.-6 p.m. � Brewery Tours, Mother Earth, tours every 30 min., 311 N. Herritage St.
Noon � Teen Nation Tour 2013 concert and autographs, Herritage Street stage
12:30 p.m. � Ring City Roller Girls, behind Mother Earth in parking lot
1 p.m. � 3rd Annual Golden Key Award presentation, Pearson Park stage
Mandolin Orange, The Red Room
1:30 p.m. � Sauce Boss competition, Pearson Park, main stage, to compete, call 252-527-1131
2 p.m. � 4-H Rabbit and Poultry Show, farmers market, to enter, call 252-527-2191
2:30 p.m. � Ring City Roller Girls, behind Mother Earth in parking lot
2:30-4 p.m. � Public Safety fire engine display, Caswell Street near Queen Street
3 pm � Car/Truck Show awards, Car Show stage
4-H Donkey Drop Bingo, Mitchell Street
4 p.m. � Great Neuse River Rubber Duck Race, Riverfront by farmers market, call Bill Ellis at 252-939-3332
7:30 p.m. � Nnenna Freelon Concert, Kinston Community Council of the Arts
Wyse Fork Battlefield guided tour, reservations recommended, call Jane Phillips 252-468-1424
CSS Neuse Interpretive Center special event, 100 N. Queen St.


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DALLAS — This shot came from the left faceoff circle, not the right, but the result was the same for Roberto Luongo and the Vancouver Canucks.
A soft goal at a most inopportune time.
For the second consecutive National Hockey League game, Luongo met the media and more or less said, this one's on me.
Trailing 2-1 late in the second period, but carrying the play, the Canucks looked like they were going to make a game of it with the Dallas Stars on Thursday.
But when Erik Cole's soft wrist shot trickled through Luongo's legs, the life was pretty much sucked out of the Canucks, who fell 4-1 to the Dallas Stars at American Airlines Center.
"That third goal I gave up there was a back-breaker for our guys," a solemn Luongo said. "It was a wrister, I stopped it with my glove and it kind of just fell down and I think it might have fallen between my legs or something and it just trickled in. Whatever it is, it's an inexcusable goal at that point of the game."
Two nights earlier, Luongo was saying much the same thing about Charlie Coyle's goal from the right circle that also went through his legs, forced overtime, and allowed the Minnesota Wild to beat the Canucks 3-2 in a shootout.
Coach John Tortorella noted, quite correctly, that Luongo was not entirely to blame for Thursday's defeat. The Canucks, after all, started poorly and gave up a pair of goals 15 seconds apart early in the first period to dig themselves a huge hole.
"That hurt," Tortorella said of Cole's goal. "But a number of other things happened in the game."
That seven-game winning streak the Canucks had in their back pockets when they began this trip is quickly fading to a distant memory.
But Tortorella wasn't about to rip his team, noting that Thursday's game was the first one in a long while in which the Canucks had failed to earn at least a point. He also said he's not overly concerned about Luongo, although it seems a safe bet that Eddie Lack will play Friday night when the Canucks complete their three-game trip at the Madhouse on Madison in Chicago.
Lack replaced Luongo at 2:23 of the third period after Valeri Nichushkin made it 4-1.
"We have to get him (Luongo) off the hook a little bit, too, in capitalizing," Tortorella said. "So it's not just one guy here. It's our first game we haven't got a point in I think nine or 10 games (actually, nine) games. We need to move by it and not over-think this and get ready to play our next game."
The Canucks had plenty of chances to tie the game in the second period before Cole's goal. When Dallas centre Shawn Horcoff was sent off for boarding at 13:43 of the second, the Canuck power play had the puck in the Dallas zone for ages and had a number of good looks.
But they could not beat Dallas goalie Kari Lehtonen, who is the big reason the Stars have swept the two-game season series against the Canucks. Early in the second, Lehtonen absolutely robbed Jannik Hansen at the edge of the crease.
"Lehtonen made some big saves at key times," Tortorella said. "We have seen that before against him. We couldn't score, the third one hurt us a bit. But we have some power plays to get us back in and we don't get it done."
"The difference was our power play couldn't score," added captain Henrik Sedin. "It has been scoring lately, but tonight we needed a goal from our power play to get back in the game.
"Especially the one power play where we were in their end for a minute-and-a-half and we had some good shots and some good looks. Right there the game can turn around and we are right back in it. But they killed it off and all of a sudden the game was over."
It looked like the game was over before it was five minutes old. The Stars buzzed the Canucks in the opening minutes and those two quick goals from Jamie Benn and Colton Sceviour had Vancouver reeling.
"On the road being down 2-0 right away is tough," said Daniel Sedin. "But I thought we came back and we could have tied it up in the second period. Our power play didn't score and they got the 3-1 goal there. That is tough. I think the difference is the power play. We had a few good looks and we couldn't score."
Now it's on to Chicago, where the well-rested Blackhawks await the Canucks, who will be playing their third game in four nights.
Defenceman Dan Hamhuis said it's imperative that the Canucks get a result at the United Center.
"We need to," Hamhuis said. "An 0-2-1 trip is no good. With the playoff race as it is right now, we need tomorrow's game. Chicago is up there in the standings, but those points are huge for us."

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Big House Pete Invades Hard Rock Cafe!
The band wanted to tell all our fans that made it down for the meet and greet at Hard Rock Cafe on Saturday, February 15th, Thank you! We had a blast and can't wait to see how the vote ends up for us in the Hard Rock Rising contest. Continue reading
Big House Pete In?The Studio – Wanna Hear One Of Our New Tracks!
The song is titled "For Christ's Sake" and it is one of three that we are in the studio with right now that will be on the next BHP CD! Thanks to Robert Adzmo for the great video, and to BMR who signed us up to headline this year.
Let Us Buy You A Beer!!!!!!!
Ok, here's the deal. Vote for us in the Hard Rock Rising contest, then come to the Pittsburgh Hard Rock Cafe on Saturday, February 15th from 2-3pm and if you are one of the firs t20 of our fans through the door we will buy you a beer. While you're there you can tripple your vote for us by checking in at HRC. We will als obe giving away some t-shirts and pictures of the band. Come hang with BHP.
Wanna Freebie Choocie Pants?
Busy Summer Comin To Get Ya!
So off course, to start this little offering, the Hard Rock Rising contest is in full effect. Just clink on the link above and vote if you haven't. Also, look for a date in the near future where the band will be hanging out at the Hard Rock Cafe in Pittsburgh giving away some free stuff and for the first 20 of our Facebook Fans we are even going to buy you your first beer. Why? well let me tell you. Anyone who has voted for us in the Hard Rock contest that stops down their local Hard Rock can have their vote counted as three.
While Big House Pete members are currently in the studio working on the next CD, some of these tracks are ready to be heard by the public. If you happen to be at a show in the near future, like the one in Jamesburg, NJ this weekend, ask to hear some of them like: "Ideal Girl" or "Plain Jane" or "Dog House" There's more but these are ones you may get to hear…
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Brian Survives First Gig!!!
Yup, he made it. Our new drummer Brian Forsha made it through the grueling first gig and rocked his ass off. Poor bastard, this was his chance to escape. Seriously though, thansk to all the BHP supporters who came out last night and helped us welcome him in grand style. Buddies was packed and we had a blast.
Thanks for Taking Us Over 1,000!!!
Got some great reviews on "Crash And Burn" from Reverbnation.
This song started out with an ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS guitar solo that is passionate, full of velocity, and just absolutely powerful. The artist has a voice that is extremely unique in every way. He doesn't sing like any other male rock artist I've ever heard. All the elements vocally it takes for an artist to be successful is present in this artist's voice. The level of pizazz and perfection is what stood out the most. I like the style with which the artist sang with and compiled his music with as well. The lyrics are clear, concise, relevant, and surprisingly relatable. The artist kept me wanting to listen and really and truly intrigued me greatly!


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District dining: A week of farm-to-table food
WASHINGTON (AP) -- If there's one thing District of Columbia diners are familiar with, it's Restaurant Week. But for the third year, one local organization and its partners are putting their own spin on the food-focused week: The group is encouraging the hungry masses to eat locally.
Farm-to-Table Restaurant Week, a collaboration of Think Local First DC, FRESHFARM Markets and the Restaurant Association Metropolitan Washington, is part of Eat Local First Week. From Saturday through July 28, 25 participating restaurants will offer fixed menus, full of dishes and drinks sourced from area artisans and farms.
But Farm-to-Table Restaurant Week goes beyond the menu. It also includes a week of discussions and events. It even ends with a "block party" at Union Market, featuring food, live music and culinary demonstrations.
According to Stacey Price, executive director of Think Local First DC, food is an important, leading component to the growth of small businesses in the city. She says food serves as a conduit between community and commerce.
Suzanne Simon is a local blogger and entrepreneur who works to bridge food and community. At her recent restaurant concept, Chaya, she and Bettina Stern use ingredients from local sources to fill and sell homemade corn tortillas at the White House Farmers Market.
Simon is leading an edible garden tour through the district's Bloomingdale neighborhood on Wednesday as part of Eat Local First Week. This is her third year organizing the tour, which she says has grown from around 30 people in 2010 to around 150 in 2012.
Simon says the tour highlights eight garden spaces, including five private gardens, a school garden and a community garden. But for Simon, it's more than just showcasing plants, fruits and unique urban garden spaces -- it's about discovering the different neighborhoods in the city.
"When you're in your car, you can completely drive through a neighborhood and not get a sense about what it's about. (The tour) pulls people in to discover all the neighborhood's shops and restaurants," says Simon, who adds that it would be ideal to move the tour to a different area of the city each year.
After the edible garden tour, the group will head to Big Bear Café for a happy hour celebration from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Other events for the week include: A discussion and kick-off party on how local food grows our city on Saturday from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, a "femivore" awards ceremony on Wednesday from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Heurich House Museum, an evening celebrating foraged cask ales from eight local breweries on Thursday from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Meridian Pint and a farm-to-street party on July 27 from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Union Market.
Information from: WTOP-FM, http://www.wtop.com


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BOSTON — Can parents use digital cameras and smart phones to potentially screen their children for the most common form of pediatric eye cancer? Baylor University and Harvard Medical School researchers believe so.
In their study, published online this week in PLOS One, the researchers discovered, through the use of amateur digital photography, evidence of leukocoria or "white eye," the cardinal symptom of retinoblastoma, which can be seen in photographs during the earliest stages of the disease. Their findings potentially pave the way for a new diagnostic tool that enables earlier diagnosis and treatment. Retinoblastoma, mostly occurring in children from birth to 5-years-old, is an aggressive eye cancer that, if not treated in time, can be fatal if it spreads to the brain.
Although children in the United States who are treated for retinoblastoma have a 95 percent survival rate that figure drops below 50 percent for children in developing countries. However, surviving retinoblastoma is just the first hurdle. Typically, "survivors experience moderate to severe vision loss" and in some cases loss of both eyes, but early detection and treatment can increase the chances of survival and vision preservation.
Historically, children with retinoblastoma exhibit persistent leukocoria in photographs. Despite this link, digital photography has not been intentionally used by doctors to screen for retinoblastoma because "white eye" is assumed to be a symptom of advanced retinoblastoma, not early stage retinoblastoma—a paradigm dispelled by the Baylor-Harvard Medical School study.
"Diagnosing retinoblastoma continues to be a major challenge. One of the most effective methods for detecting it appears to be amateur photography," said Bryan F. Shaw, Ph.D., assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry in Baylor's College of Arts & Sciences and lead study author. "In a majority of retinoblastoma cases, it is the parents that initiate the diagnosis based on seeing leukocoria or 'white eye' in photos of their children."
That was the case for Shaw and his wife, Elizabeth, a stay-at-home mother, who first noticed their son Noah's "white eye" in family photographs. It was Noah's battle with retinoblastoma that inspired Bryan Shaw to begin to try and make digital photography a deliberate tool in retinoblastoma screening.
"Newborns and infants don't typically get checked out by an ophthalmologist, but many of them do get their retinas scanned multiple times a week, when mom or dad are snapping pictures to share on Facebook," Shaw said.
As part of the study, researchers analyzed more than 7,000 recreational photographs or "baby pictures" of nine retinoblastoma patients and 19 children without the disease. After analyzing his son's pictures and quantifying the daily occurrence of leukocoria, Shaw was able to determine that "white eye" is not necessarily a symptom of advanced retinoblastoma, but that leukocoria can be a symptom of retinoblastoma in its earliest stages, for example, at 12 days old as in Noah's case.
Shaw also found "that the intensity of the "white eye" was different in each of his son's eyes and that the saturation, or measurement of color concentration, was lower in the eye with the larger tumors." These findings suggest that a digital camera can not only alert parents that their child might have retinoblastoma, but it can also inform a doctor of its severity.
"From our work, we were able to create the first quantitative scale of leukocoria by which to evaluate the intensity of retinoblastoma-linked leukocoria," Shaw said. "We were able to determine that the frequency of leukocoria can correlate with the clinical severity of retinoblastoma. Leukocoria can emerge in low frequency in early-stage retinoblastoma and increase in frequency during disease progression and decrease during disease remission."
These results suggest that leukocoria is often occurring in young children long before parents may notice it on their own because it initially occurs infrequently as the tumors are small in size and number.
That discovery confirmed the hypothesis proposed by Shaw and study co-author Shizuo Mukai, M.D., associate professor of ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School and a pediatric retina specialist at Massachusetts Eye and Ear. Mukai, who successfully treated Noah's cancer by surgically removing his tumors, specializes in pediatric retinal diseases and intraocular tumors.
"Although leukocoria is the most common presenting sign of retinoblastoma occurring in 50 percent of new patients, it is usually not detected by the parents or the pediatrician until the tumor is of significant size," Dr. Mukai said. Their research is a pivotal step in laying the groundwork for creating software "to alert unsuspecting parents to the emergence of recurrent leukocoria," Shaw said. In developing countries, where most deaths occur, speeding up diagnoses could save lives.
"In Namibia or India, for example, a parent's access to digital photography is probably going to continue to increase at a faster rate than their access to monthly pediatric eye exams," Shaw said. "If we can create software that can detect leukocoria and alert a parent when it begins to occur persistently, then I believe digital photography can eradicate metastatic retinoblastoma from this world and prevent most of the deaths that occur."
Other contributing authors to the study include: Alireza Abdolvahabi, Brandon W. Taylor and Rebecca L. Holden of Baylor University; Alex Kentsis of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, N.Y.; and Carlos Rodriguez-Galindo, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, Mass.
(Find this story on Baylor's website: http://www.baylor.edu/mediacommunications/news.php?action=story&story=135498.)
(See Dr. Mukai discuss the finding and collaboration with the Shaw family: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72TWzgzBKXg&feature=youtu.be
To contact Dr. Mukai: Mary Leach
(617) 573-4170
To contact Dr. Shaw: Tonya B. Lewis
(254) 710-5656


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17 April 2014
Hunger Crisis In South Sudan: View From The Ground
On 15 December 2013 fighting broke out in South Sudan, forcing hundreds of thousands of people to flee their homes. Since then WFP has been providing food and nutrition assistance for half a million people. This atmospheric video records some of the sights and sounds of the crisis. It provides glimpses into the daily lives of displaced families in the camps and also captures parts of WFP's response.


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Search for External Scholarships
Enrollment Services receives scholarship announcements along with applications from many outside sources.
Copies of these announcements are usually posted on the wall outside the office, right next to the Financial Aid Office.
We encourage you to check the postings whenever you are in the area.
Do not rely solely on information found on our website—you can research opportunities on your own:
- Use Internet sites for Free Scholarship Search Services
- Check with professional groups like Kiwanis Club, Rotary Club, and Elks, etc.
- Large companies and unions offer scholarships to employees and their dependents
- If you are not from this area, visit community colleges and 4-year institutions in your hometown to find the more localized opportunities
- Pay attention to newspapers and bulletin boards
The links that follow are examples of where you might start, but none are endorsed by the Financial Aid Office or by The Evergreen State College.
Financial Aid forms may be available in multiple formats. Many require use of the Adobe Reader or other PDF viewer.
If you complete a form on your computer, remember to print it and sign it before submitting by mail or faxing to (360) 867-6576.
External Scholarships
AAUW Fellowships and Grants
American Association of University Women (AAUW) has a long and distinguished history of advancing educational and professional opportunities for women in the United States and around the globe. One of the world's largest sources of funding for graduate women, AAUW provided more than $3 million in funding for more than 200 fellowships and grants to outstanding women and nonprofit organizations in the 2009-10 academic year. Due to the longstanding, generous contributions of AAUW members, a broader community of women continues to gain access to educational and economic opportunities — breaking through barriers so that all women have a fair chance.
Fellowship and grant recipients perform research in a wide range of disciplines and work to improve their schools and communities. Their intellect, dedication, imagination, and effort promise to forge new paths in scholarship, improve the quality of life for all, and tackle the educational and social barriers facing women in the United States and around the globe.
Garden Club of America Scholarships
Scholarships for: botany, medicinal botany, tropical botany, field studies, summer study, coastal wetlands, conservation & ecological restoration, desert studies, garden history & design, horticulture, conservation horticulture, tropical horticulture, landscape architecture, native bird habitat studies, summer environmental studies and urban forestry.
Beyond Dreaming: Scholarship list for undocumented students in Washington State.
The Middlebury Fellowships in Environmental Journalism
Each year this program takes 10 journalists near the start of their careers and help them work through an ambitious reporting project in print, web-based, or radio journalism, from the beginning through publication or broadcast. Fellows meet together twice during the year, once in the fall on the Middlebury campus in Vermont, and once in the spring at the Monterey Institute of International Studies in California.
At these meetings professional journalists help participants plan their reporting and shape their stories. Graduate fellows each receive $10,000 to help with reporting and living expenses during the fellowship year—enough, we hope, to let the reporting project be one significant focus of their year's work. We interpret the environment broadly—reporting projects dealing with economics, culture, global issues, and the like are fine, as long as they center in some way on the human relationship with the physical world.
Morris K. Udall Foundation
The Morris K. Udall Foundation was established by the U.S. Congress in 1992 to honor Morris King Udall's thirty years of service in the House of Representatives.
Morris Udall's career was distinguished by civility, integrity, and consensus, as well as a commitment to preservation of the nation's natural environment. Consistent with these values, the Udall Foundation is committed to educating a new generation of Americans to preserve and protect their national heritage through studies in the environment, Native American health and tribal policy, and effective public policy conflict resolution.
The Udall Foundation is an executive branch agency. The President of the United States appoints its board of trustees with the advice and consent of the U.S. Senate.
Gates Millennium Scholarship
The best and the brightest students shouldn't be denied access to higher education simply because they can't afford it. —Bill Gates
Hispanic Scholarship Fund
The Hispanic Scholarship Fund (HSF) is the nation's leading organization supporting Hispanic higher education. HSF was founded in 1975 with a vision to strengthen the country by advancing college education among Hispanic Americans-the largest minority segment of the U.S. population. In support of its mission to double the rate of Hispanics earning college degrees, HSF provides the Latino community more college scholarships and educational outreach support than any other organization in the country.
Pride Foundation
Students who have been stigmatized, isolated or closeted because of sexual identity issues often lack critical family, financial and community support. Encouraging them to continue their education can be very challenging. Too often individuals of great promise give up because they don't think anyone believes in them or cares what they have to contribute. Scholarships that clearly say,
this is for you can make a huge difference.
Pride also recognizes students who may not be gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender, but who have contributed to the LGBT community. These may be the children of LGBT parents, or just friends of our community whose leadership skills we want to foster.
National Federation of the Blind
Each year at its national convention in July, the NFB gives a broad array of thirty scholarships to recognize achievement by blind scholars.
Sodexo Foundation STOP Hunger Scholarships
STOP Hunger Scholarships, a program of the Sodexo Foundation, recognizes students who are driving awareness and mobilizing youth to be catalysts for innovative models and solutions to eliminate hunger in America.
Scholarship Searches
Know the facts. Know the myths. The plan is simple—plan to compete and qualify! The resources you need are right here, you need only use them. Now, go get the money!
Is a database search that can help you find money for college. Search 600,000 scholarships worth over $1 billion.
The Washington Scholarship Coalition is a partnership to build an online scholarship marketplace.
TheWashBoard.org is a free, user-friendly, student-centered web site for efficiently finding, and applying for, scholarship opportunities. Free of cost for both students and providers, TheWashBoard.org acts as a clearinghouse with vetted scholarship information to match those looking for support with those looking to provide it. Ultimately, TheWashBoard.org helps students, donors and policymakers achieve their goals.
Study Abroad
The Benjamin Gilman International Scholarship
The Gilman International Scholarship Program offers a competition for awards for undergraduate study abroad and was established by the International Academic Opportunity Act of 2000. This scholarship provides awards for U.S. undergraduate students who are receiving federal Pell Grant funding at a 2-year or 4-year college or university to participate in study abroad programs worldwide.
Information from Evergreen's International Programs & Services
Check out specific Study Abroad Scholarship information and resources on this page, visit the IIE Study Abroad Funding database, consult with the Office of International Programs & Services, and visit the Scholarships web page to learn more about scholarship opportunities specific to Evergreen.


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Bobby Blue Bland
Along about 1959, the Duke Records braintrust astutely recognized that Bobby 'Blue' Bland had serious potential to cross over into the pop realm and make a much bigger splash than he already had in the blues and R&B arenas. The Rosemark, Tennessee native's melismatically enriched vocal style always got him over very well with the ladies, despite his not being a particularly agile presence onstage. Thanks to his wonderfully warm pipes, he didn't need to be
It had taken Bland awhile to break through to the big time. He'd been recording for Duke since 1952, when it was still located in Memphis and before Houston entrepreneur Don Robey took the imprint over. Bland's impassioned wails and Duke's scorching house band had combined to cut some spectacular swinging blues sides, but Bobby didn't crack the R&B charts until 1957 with Farther Up The Road (see Disc Five). Bland's artistic focus was steadily evolving, thanks to Duke in-house trumpeter/arranger/A&R man Joe Scott, who served as his mentor.
"He was just a gift from God, Joe Scott, because he taught me and everybody that was around the Duke label," says Bobby. "Joe Scott picked some good stories for me to tell, because he saw that I was a good storyteller if I had the lyrics. Not the long, drawn-out lyrics. Just make 'em short and to the point and leave some opening for ad-libbing, whatever your idea would be.
Bobby's high-flying vocal range deepened when he underwent a tonsillectomy. "I wasn't able to hit a falsetto type like I had been singing in earlier years, after the operation with the tonsils. So it kind of lowered my voice," says Bland, who adopted a favorite vocal move of a famous singing preacher as his new trademark. "I was listening to 'The Eagle Stirreth Her Nest' by the Rev. C.L. Franklin, and I heard the squall in there. So I worked on it for about four or five days and developed it. It gave me a different Bobby Bland." He utilized that squall unforgettably on his spine-chilling 1958 hit Little Boy Blue.
When Bobby crooned Brook Benton's sedate ballad I'll Take Care Of You and blasted up to #2 on the R&B hit parade in early '60, it appeared he was leaving the blues behind. But Bland happily reverted to his roots on I Pity The Fool, a loping mid-tempo blues punctuated by Wayne Bennett's stinging guitar and a six-piece horn section led by Scott (Bobby's rhythm section consisted of pianist Teddy Reynolds, bassist Hamp Simmons and drummer John 'Jabo' Starks). The song was waxed on November 12, 1960 in Chicago, while Bland's contingent was on tour. Originally credited to Robey under his Deadric Malone sobriquet but probably written by Houston singer Joe Medwick Veasey, who also co-penned Farther Up The Road (Robey was in the habit of buying songs outright), I Pity The Fool catapulted to the top of the R&B charts and made a solid #46 pop showing.
"Joe Medwick, he did some hell of a writing when he did all those tunes," says former Duke house guitarist Texas Johnny Brown.
"Joe (Scott) found that, really," says Bobby. "It was a good change. I always had some good writers after I got my first record out there, and writers started pinpointing on what would be good for Bobby Bland: 'I'm going to write this particular tune.' It was a big thing for me."
Bland was by now a leading luminary on the R&B circuit with major pop appeal and would remain so on Duke into 1972. His non-stop litany of smashes included the gospel-fueled Turn On Your Love Light (1961) and Yield Not To Temptation (1962) as well as a lights-out '62 revival of T-Bone Walker's Stormy Monday Blues and the pop-oriented double-sided 1963 smash That's The Way Love Is b/w Call On Me.
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J. D. Heyes
February 17, 2013
Is chronic, slow economic growth and rising poverty the new normal for America and Americans? Unfortunately, for an increasing number of people, the answer is yes.
According to recent reports, a large and growing portion of American workers who are having trouble making ends meet because of rising costs are being forced to raid their retirement accounts for non-retirement needs, "raising broad questions about the effectiveness of one of the most important savings vehicles for old age," The Boston Globe said.
In fact, more than one in four – a staggering 25 percent of workers – with 401(k) and similar retirement savings accounts are now using them to pay current bills, new data indicates.
The monetary figure is alarming: A quarter of the $293 billion deposited in such accounts each year is now being drained via loans, withdrawals and out-right cash-outs, "undermining already shaky retirement security for millions of Americans," the paper said.
The new normal – Faltering finances
What's worse is that the federal government is broke, too; the country is already trillions of dollars in debt and tens of trillions in the hole for unfunded promises made over the years by pandering politicians who have mortgaged the future of generations of Americans to buy votes today.
Because of their irresponsibility, policymakers will now have to cut the Social Security and Medicare benefits at some point – benefits that millions of Americans who paid into both systems were counting on to make it through retirement. Couple this eventuality with sustained low economic growth, poor employment prospects, stagnating pay scales and rising costs of food, fuel and utilities, and it is easy to see how more Americans will eventually be forced to mortgage their future.
"We're going from bad to worse," Diane Oakley, executive director of the National Institute on Retirement Security, told the Globe. "Already, fewer private-sector workers have access to stable pension plans. And the savings in individual retirement savings accounts like 401(k) plans – which already are severely underfunded – continue to leak out at a high rate."
Financial advisory firm HelloWallet released a report in January stating that more than one in four workers has been forced to dip into retirement funds to make house payments, settle credit card debt and other bills. The firm said workers in their 40s were most likely to dip; of that group, one-third are raiding retirement funds.
New data from Vanguard, one of the country's biggest 401(k) managers, show an increase of 12 percent in the number for working Americans who either took out loans against their retirement accounts or withdrew money from them outright since 2008.
Firms say the most common way Americans raid is through loans which must then be repaid with interest. Also, anyone who withdraws money from accounts early pays a significant penalty; in most cases, that is in the form of a 10 percent federal tax penalty, but those workers will also pay capital gains taxes, which are substantial.
"The costs are financially harmful to families, but money-management firms reap massive fees," the Globe reported.
What's more, employers are getting shafted in a sense: Those who subsidize worker contributions with matching funds are doing so under the assumption they are helping workers secure their retirements.
You may not know it yet, but your future has already been mortgaged
"I don't think this can be ignored. Employers are dramatically overpaying for retirement, but it is not benefiting the employee," Matt Fellowes, a former Brookings Institution researcher who is now chief executive of HelloWallet, told the Globe. "In many cases, the only one benefiting is the vendor."
Since 401(k) retirement accounts were created by Congress in 1978, traditional employer-provided pensions have declined, leaving the former as the primary retirement funding vehicle. But as the economy continues to under-perform and inflationary pressures grow, more workers will be forced to raid retirement funds for their future in order to make ends meet today.
"401(k)s are not being used for retirement by a large and growing share of workers because they are misaligned with the very basic financial problems most workers face and must address," Fellowes added.
Welcome to America in collapse, brought to you by a self-serving political class and paid for with your future.
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Things about the Twilight contingent's presentation that were gross, in no particular order:
-Peter Facinelli's dead-eyes as he calculated how much of his salary is worth him doing endless teen press.
-Taylor Lautner's tan and sad uncomprehending smile. Does he know what's actually going on, often? Sometimes I'm not sure.
-Elizabeth Reaser's inexplicable leather dress. She maybe thought people were going to look at her?
-Pointedly referring to the Twilight cast as a "family". GEE WHO IS MISSING?
-Robert Pattinson's outfit, from head to toe.
Look, this is enough now. The rigmarole of the cuckold and the scorned (who I believe is coming up later in the day, as per Lainey) and all of the "family" rallying around our poor dude…
It's one thing to be sad, or to make a brave appearance. It's another thing to wear a series of jokes on your body and call them clothes.
Leather-sleeved baseball jacket. Inexplicable purple shirt ending somewhere about your indistinct middle. Appearing to be freeballing in coloured jeans that aren't tight enough, such that the appearance of genitalia is accidental and therefore sad…
You are allowed any ONE of these, not three. I truly don't understand. Is it that being scorned by his love made him also fire his stylist? Or, as he discovers who he is without her, does he decide he wants to heal by dressing like a Theatre Tech major in 1996?
Enough already. Although, given how decrepit Pattinson looked, I was surprised there were no boos for Stewart during the trailer. Then I rewound. I think they cut out the arena audio altogether – probably for that reason.
Next scandal, please. We're overdue.


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semantics [Gr.,=significant] in general, the study of the relationship between words and meanings. The empirical study of word meanings and sentence meanings in existing languages is a branch of linguistics; the abstract study of meaning in relation to language or symbolic logic systems is a branch of philosophy. Both are called semantics. The field of semantics has three basic concerns: the relations of words to the objects denoted by them, the relations of words to the interpreters of them, and, in symbolic logic, the formal relations of signs to one another (syntax).
In linguistics, semantics has its beginnings in France and Germany in the 1820s when the meanings of words as significant features in the growth of language was recognized. Among the foremost linguistic semanticists of the 20th cent. are Gustaf Stern, Jost Trier, B. L. Whorf, Uriel Weinreich, Stephen Ullmann, Thomas Sebeok, Noam Chomsky, Jerrold Katz, and Charles Osgood. In the linguistics of recent years an offshoot of transformational grammar theory has reemphasized the role of meaning in linguistic analysis. This new theory, developed largely by George Lakoff and James McCawley, is termed generative semantics. In anthropology a new theoretical orientation related to linguistic semantics has been developed. Its leading proponents include W. H. Goodenough, F. G. Lounsbury, and Claude Lévi-Strauss.
In philosophy, semantics has generally followed the lead of symbolic logic, and many philosophers do not make a distinction between logic and semantics. In this context, semantics is concerned with such issues as meaning and truth, meaning and thought, and the relation between signs and what they mean. The leading practitioners have been Gottlob Frege, Lady Welby, Bertrand Russell, Otto Neurath, Rudolf Carnap, Alonzo Church, Alfred Tarski, C. I. Lewis, Ludwig Wittgenstein, J. L. Austin, W. V. Quine, P. F. Strawson, Steven Schiffer, John Searle, H. P. Grice, Saul Kripke, Donald Davidson, and Gilbert Harman.
Since the publication of the influential The Meaning of Meaning (1925) by C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards, semantics has also become important to literary criticism and stylistics, in which the way that metaphors evoke feelings is investigated and differences between ordinary and literary language are studied. A related discipline, general semantics (so called to distinguish it from semantics in linguistics or philosophy), studies the ways in which meanings of words influence human behavior. General semantics was developed by Alfred Korzybski. The key term in Korzybski's system is evaluation, the mental act that is performed by the hearer when a word is spoken. Among the most prominent followers of Korzybski are Stuart Chase, S. I. Hayakawa, and H. L. Weinberg.
A useful introduction to general semantics is H. L. Weinberg, Levels of Knowing and Existence (1959) and F. R. Palmer, Semantics (1981). For semantics in linguistics, see S. Ullman, Semantics (1962) and The Principles of Semantics (1957, repr. 1967); N. Chomsky, Studies on Semantics in Generative Grammar (1972); G. Leach, Semantics (1974); and J. Lyons, Language, Meaning, and Context (1981). For semantics in philosophy, see R. Carnap, Meaning and Necessity (2d ed. 1956); K. and A. Lehrer, The Theory of Meaning (1970); J. F. Rosenberg and C. Travis, ed., Readings in the Philosophy of Language (1971); and D. Davidson and G. Harman, ed., Semantics of Natural Language (2d ed. 1973). For semantics in literary criticism, see K. Burke, A Rhetoric of Motives (1950) and A Grammar of Motives (1955) and the works of W. Empson and P. Wheelwright.


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Andrew Lloyd Webber
- This article is about the foppish musical impresario Andrew Lloyd Webber. For an article about manly heroic Andrew Lloyd Webber, see a slash fiction site.
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"Andrew Lloyd Webber? He was my fag at Westminster!"
"Reminds me of a roof rabbit."
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber (born 22 March 1948) is a British composer and impresario of musical theatre.
The Right Honourable Lord Lloyd Webber starred in his first musical comedy with jazz hands and a soft shoe shuffle in 1948 when he was untimely ripped from his mother's womb. Since then Lloyd Webber has gone on to achieve galactic superstardom as an impresario of the musical theatre, doyen of talent search shows on BBC Television and prima donna nina pretty ballerina. He has won 1.2 awards for his 345,344 musicals that all have songs named Jellicle Cats. His least famous musical work was a Latin Requiem Mass performed at the Pussy Galore Theatre in Shadwell by the singer formerly known as The Pope.
Lloyd Webber was voted most likely to wear a smock in the deli section of Tesco by the people in the corner shop, but he proved them wrong when he wrote the lyrics for the Cliff Richard number one hit I'm dreaming of a tight Christmas. He made his first fortune trading in cat meat futures on the Chinese chicken stock market. His American-based company US Less Things went on to produce assault rifles made of pink marshmallows which served as props in his most controversial musical Mass Mallow Shootings. In March 2012 David Icke wrote an article in Time Magazine that attributed Lloyd Webber's success to reptilian origins. Lloyd Webber has never denied this accusation and it is commonly known that he favours snake skin tap shoes.
Birth and Childhood[edit]
Andrew Lloyd Webber was born in Ye Olde London Town to unmarried parents Solly Berenstein Lloyd, a fishmonger from Brick Lane, and Araminta Jacinta Tabitha Portia Rupert The Bear Webber, daughter of member Sir Rupert Horticultural Webber. Solly and Araminta met under a night soil man's cart during the London Blitz. Sir Rupert spent the first 4 years of their romance filling Solly with pistol shot, until it became apparent that Araminta was pregnant with their first child. Andrew was a precocious child who from an early age showed an interest in pink feather boas, pantomime horse costumes and pictures of Judy Garland. When his younger brother Julian was born, Andrew celebrated by writing his first song ('Juli, Juli, smells like Mooli'). When he sang it on a street corner in Camden Town Andrew was spotted by talent scout Simon Cowell and asked to move into the Theatre Royal as apprentice to the resident impresario Alan Sugar. In the early years Sugar had shared a market stall with Lloyd Webber's father in Mile End, where they used to communicate with one another through the medium of musical comedy, singing in contralto and gesticulating wildly with overipe bananas and sardines.
Professional Career[edit]
The Sugar Years[edit]
It was while Lloyd Webber was working as apprentice impresario at the Theatre Royal that Alan Sugar coined his famous catchphrase You are the weakest link. Goodbye. Lloyd Webber cried like a tiny little baby when he was cast out into the snow on that cold and frosty Christmas evening, but was soon cast in the role of Tiny Tim and there was peace and goodwill to all Anglican kind. Alan Sugar played the part of Christmas past and was relegated to the anals of history, while into Lloyd Webber's life walked Christmas future with a chance meeting of Tim Rice. The pair became well known in the musical theatre world as Tiny Tim and Tinier Tim until a large blackbird picked them up in its beak and flew them south for the winter.
Tim Rice Collaboration[edit]
After 16 years out in the cold Lloyd Webber and Rice climbed their way out of Africa (giving up a large jungle condominium with private gynasium, underground parking and a pandanus leave roof that lay on the banks of the Limpopo). In Africa they'd picked up many tricks of the musical trade from a strange troup of men called the Royal Artillery Concert Party, who'd sought retreat in Africa after the BBC banned them for outmoded and unfashionable racist humour. Troup member Gunner Graham and Andrew Lloyd Webber spent many hours cuddled up in front of the piano, ripping off Mendelssohn's riffs and calling them their own, while Tim Rice whispered to grass with Gunner Lofty Sugden.
Once again in London Lloyd Webber took control of the situation by getting on a Number 38 bus to Camden Passage. Rice stridently forged his way up the passage behind Lloyd Webber. It was in these three minutes that they constructed their greatest critically unacclaimed opus to date Evita. They had to let it happen. They had to change. They couldn't spend all their life down at heel. At the opening night of the musical Evita, Lloyd Webber wore a fabulous David Emanuel evening gown in powder blue seersucker with red patent leather pumps. Those sitting close to him in the auditorium reported that he burst into song during a rousing rendition of Don't Cry for Me, Argentina, at the very moment British troops won the Battle of Goose Green on the Falkland Islands.
Post Tim[edit]
Tim Rice was always jealous of Andrew Lloyd Webber's fabulous wardrobe, and this became a point of animosity between the previously inseparable pair. Andrew met his future ex-wife Sarah Brightman on the set of Starship Trooper, a music video where silver lamé jump-suited ladies and gentlemen play with each others' torches. Lloyd Webber's attraction to the shiny silver things was too great. He whipped out his credit card and bought a shiny new amazing technicolour dreamcoat from Biba in Kensington. Rice was furiously angry having only bought his own amazing technicolour dreamcoat two days before. In a sing-off between Rice and Brightman, Brightman won and Rice was boo-ed off stage. Lloyd Webber and Brightman set up house together in a harem in High Street, Persia. Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote another 16,000 musicals including a humorous pastiche of Elvis songs called Jailhouse Cock, starring a rooster, a vicar, a lap dancer and a giant black forest gateaux. Lloyd Webber also famously wrote a 15 hour rock opera called Jeeves that was the story of a fifteen foot high pedant with floppy hair.
The Television Years[edit]
As audiences for musicals became smaller and smaller and they disappeared down the plug hole Andrew Lloyd Webber found it harder to get his shows into the West End. This substantially reduced his tax bill but made it harder to pay the valet, scullery maid and coke vendor. It was on the 12th day after Lent that the Archbishop of Canterbury had to stand down as a judge on The X Factor leaving a vacancy that could only be filled by cement shoes, a sack over your head and a trip down the local canal. Instead they asked Cheryl Cole if she'd like to join the panel. When more than 20% of the audience didn't understand her answer they asked Andrew Lloyd Webber, to which Cheryl said "wi' darts they should be plastered well, that jeer'd Blind Willie's singing." For Lloyd Webber this was the start of a series of television appearances, which included choosing the best dressed Nancy, solving the problem of Maria and encouraging small children from around the world to sing happy birthday to The Queen at a Royal Command Performance.
Andrew Lloyd Webber has been caught stealing lettuces from Mr McGregor's garden. He also sold his mother to the Swiss Armed Forces to use for sniffing out survivors from avalanches in the Swiss Alps. She looked very stylish with a brandy bottle around her neck. While some people have accused him of plagiarism, stealing the musical notes of Mozart, Beethoven and Liberace, it has never been proven in 22 states including Wyoming.


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Mad. Sq. Art: Topsy-Turvy
March 1 — April 7, 2013
Site-specific work to offer visitors new view of New York City
landscape via one of the world's oldest moving image devices
New York Madison Square Park Conservancy's Mad. Sq. Art announces a new installation to inaugurate the spring 2013 season: Topsy-Turvy: A Camera Obscura Installation (2013) by New York-based artists Sandra Gibson and Luis Recoder. On view from March 1 — April 5, 2013, Topsy-Turvy will reimagine one of the world's oldest moving image devices into a life-sized 10-foot by 10-foot structure. Park visitors will be able to enter the interactive, large-scale installation, which will utilize the physical properties of light to capture images of the surrounding Flatiron District in real time. This centuries-old artistic medium will alter how visitors experience the park and engage with the various elements of New York City's urban landscape through a new and exciting lens.
Photo Credit: Courtesy of the Madison Square Park Conservancy.
For over a decade, Sandra Gibson and Luis Recoder have collaborated on numerous performances and installations uniting the various rich traditions of experimental film. They are particularly interested in the medium's structuralist and materialist aspects, and the multi-modal sensibility of expanded cinema that emerged in the 1960s in which the moving image was woven into the labile realms of performance, sound, and audience interaction. Their larger body of work explores this interstice between avant-garde film practice and the incorporation of moving images and time-based media into a distinctive art practice all their own. For their Mad. Sq. Art commission, Gibson and Recoder turn to their shared interest in cinema, drawing upon and manipulating basic elements of projected light and shadow in order to articulate space and time, as well as explore their most fundamental optical and formal qualities. In the words of Ed Halter, Artforum critic and founder of Brooklyn-based film and electronic art venue Light Industry, "in their collaborative film performances, Sandra Gibson and Luis Recoder employ simple mechanical means to hypnotically elaborate ends."
President of the Madison Square Park Conservancy, Debbie Landau comments: "Since 2004, the Mad. Sq. Art program has presented groundbreaking art practices that extend beyond the confinements of a traditional gallery space. This March, Mad. Sq. Art is thrilled to feature emerging contemporary artists who have quickly become recognized as two of the most innovative practitioners of new media, and with this exhibition, in calling on a well-known, but often unthought of practice for art in public spaces."
Artists Sandra Gibson and Luis Recoder state: "Topsy-Turvy is our homage to one of the earliest moving image technologies in the pre-history of cinema. The projected image inside our circular Camera Obscura delivers a topsy-turvy panoramic abstraction of Madison Square Park and the surrounding scenery around the Flatiron District."
Martin Friedman Curator, Adam D. Glick remarks: "Gibson and Recoder's Topsy-Turvy will bring this centuries-old practice to historic Madison Square Park, inverting the Flatiron Building and offering an unexpected perspective on one of Manhattan's most beloved public spaces and its surroundings. This exhibition will allow for a unique and individualized experience for each person who comes to Madison Square Park, creating the feeling that life is a film and in real time."
About the Artists:
Photo Credit: Bryan Derballa for The Wall Street Journal
Sandra Gibson (b. 1968) and Luis Recoder's (b. 1971) collaborative performances and installations have been exhibited internationally at numerous museums, galleries, and film festivals such as the 2004 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art (NY); Performa 09, Light Industry (NY), Radical Light, Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive (CA); Sundance Film Festival (UT), Film.Text.Performance.Film, Ballroom Marfa (TX), Film Projection Performance, Redcat (Los Angeles, CA), Conversations At The Edge, Gene Siskel Film Center (IL); Toronto International Film Festival, Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto); Expanded Cinema: Film als Spektakel, Ereignis und Performance, Hartware MedienKunstVerein (Dortmund), Expanded Cinema: Activating the Space of Reception, Tate Modern (London), BFI 50th London Film Festival, Institute of Contemporary Arts (London); Kill Your Timid Notion, Dundee Contemporary Arts (Dundee, Scotland); 36th International Film Festival Rotterdam (The Netherlands); Improvisacoes Colaboracoes, Serralves Foundation (Porto); Image Forum Festival at 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art (Kanazawa); and The Kitchen (NY).
Sandra Gibson and Luis Recoder live and work in New York City, and are represented by Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, New York and Robischon Gallery in Denver.
About Mad. Sq. Art and Madison Square Park Conservancy:
Mad. Sq. Art is the free, contemporary art program of the Madison Square Park Conservancy.
Since 2004, Mad. Sq. Art has commissioned and presented more than twenty premier installations in Madison Square Park by acclaimed artists ranging in practice and media. Mad. Sq. Art has exhibited works by artists including Bill Beirne, Jim Campbell, Richard Deacon, Mark di Suvero, Bill Fontana, Ernie Gehr, Antony Gormley, Jene Highstein, Tadashi Kawamata, Mel Kendrick, Sol LeWitt, Olia Lialina & Dragan Espenschied, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Charles Long, Jacco Olivier, Roxy Paine, Jaume Plensa, Shannon Plumb, Ursula von Rydingsvard, Alison Saar, Jessica Stockholder, Leo Villareal, and William Wegman, among others.
Major support for Mad. Sq. Art is provided by the Charina Endownment Fund, Liane Ginsberg, Agnes Gund, Toby Devan Lewis, Dorothy Lichtenstein, Tiffany & Co., Sorgente Group, and Anonymous. Substantial support is provided by Martha and Bruce Atwater, Melva Bucksbaum and Raymond Learsy, The Henry Luce Foundation, Melissa S. Meyer, Ronald A. Pizzuti, The Rudin Family, Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, Tishman Speyer, the Joseph S. and Diane H. Steinberg Charitable Trust, and The Sol LeWitt Fund for Artist Work. Additional support is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, Danny and Audrey Meyer, and NYC and Company.
Exhibition support is provided by Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery. Delta Air Lines is the Official Airline Sponsor of Mad. Sq. Art. Ace Hotel New York is the Official Hotel Partner of the Madison Square Park Conservancy. Mad. Sq. Art is supported in part with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council. The Madison Square Park Conservancy is a public/private partnership with New York City Parks & Recreation.
Special thanks to John G. Hanhardt, Consulting Senior Curator for Film and Media Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, and Aaron Scott Design.
Join the conversation on Twitter and Instagram via the hashtag #MadSqArt and #TopsyTurvy
For more information on the Madison Square Park Conservancy and its programs, please visit https://madisonsquarepark.org.
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Good bet
21 St. Viateur St. W. (near St. Laurent Blvd.)
Phone: 514-507-3474
Website: n/a
Licensed: Beer
Credit cards: Cash or Interac
Wheelchair accessible: Two steps up, counter seating only
Vegetarian friendly: For you, the veggie-burger
Open: Mon. to Fri. 11 a.m.-9 p.m., weekends 4 p.m. -9 p.m.
Price range: Appetizers $2-$5.10, mains $3.99-$11.08, dessert $3.54
You could do worse than to find yourself hungry in Mile End these days. The neighbourhood has cafes aplenty, and now some fun burger joints, pizzerias and its very own fish and chips shoppe. The offices of Ubisoft are to thank in part for all the action: around one o'clock, the area looks like the site of a food field trip, as groups of game developers head back to their desks. It's symbiotic: they need restaurants and restaurants need them.
Ubisoft or not, this is one area where grassroots restos can have a go without being overly commercial or cliched. Comptoir 21 has great retro lettering in the window, painted blue floorboards, and a cool curvy bar fashioned from mahogany and white maple. "Not a place for breakups," my friend said as we slid onto our stools. In fact, it's more a place for communal conversation, and pretty soon friends and strangers were all discussing how everyone among us had the idea to open a fish and chips joint (and, while clearly none of us had ever done it, suddenly this season, they're sprouting up across town). Comptoir 21, launched last month by Jerome Costa, a Frenchman and former Cirque carpenter, already feels like a fixture.
The fries were exactly right for this context. Stiff and dry, chewy and almost tough, they're more durable than the battered crispness and delicate interior of French or Belgian frites, and nothing close to as dense and moist as the Portuguese style. They can stand up to vinegar, and offer a contrast to the softness of the fish. Some might find them undersalted, but I loved them.
The fish was mild and giving, while the batter had some fight to it. Deep-fried in vegetable oil, it didn't feel overly greasy. It was honest and thoroughly enjoyable, even if it didn't quite float off the plate. The catch here is haddock, somewhat more sustainable than cod -but let's face it, it's a tough time to be in the fish business -and it's a tough time to be a fish (ironically, I spotted local seafood expert Taras Grescoe, author of Bottomfeeder, at the end of the counter).
Comptoir 21 offers a choice of sauces. The tartar sauce is a given, this version had a pleasant aftertaste, but lacked upfront sharpness. Curry sauce went beautifully with those chips, of course. The evergreen-coloured herb sauce had concentrated flavour of parsley, but I wasn't sure what to do with it. Jalapeno, also a vivid green, would suit the calamari -and the rings of squid here, gently battered and fries, are also good. Maybe a punchier red sauce would be a good addition. But really, these seemed somewhat superfluous; the malt vinegar was all I needed.
There are also hotdogs, veggie and beef burgers, as well as a fish burger that tasted lovely -soft and herby like homemade fish cakes - but was ill-fitting in its bun, a question of too much bread.
And now the money dish: Comptoir 21's delightful clam chowder. Chubby pieces of potato you could sink your teeth into, a generous clam quotient, the marine flavour of their juices and fish mingling with herbs, celery and white wine. Not too gelatinous. Not too creamy. Not too starchy. An absolute yum. Take that, blustery fall afternoon!
The day's dessert, apple pie, did well by the fruit, but the crust needed my full body weight against a flimsy fork to break through it. Homemade indeed.
Generally, Comptoir 21 knows where to push and where to pull back. The place itself is charming, the product is really quite good, and I'd just like to see a few tweaks here and there -oh, and for the Englishman named Stuart sitting next to me, a decent cup of tea, please.
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The advantage of steam is that it flows through the pipes under its own pressure, so there's no need to install a mechanical pump. Over time, though, steam radiators can start making annoying sounds such as loud banging or high-pitched whistling and squeaking. Fortunately, you can silence most common noises without calling a plumber.
Quiet the clanging
If you hear a banging or knocking sound, then there's probably condensed steam (water) trapped in the pipes. As steam rushes through the system, it pushes the water forward at high speed. When the water hits up against a valve, elbow, or other plumbing fitting, you hear it.
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Most of the time you can solve this problem by simply shimming up one end of the radiator so that it tips back toward the boiler. That way water won't be able to settle inside the system.
Silence the squeaks
If a radiator is squeaking and whistling, you'll need to replace its air vent, which is attached to the pipe at the bottom of the radiator. You can buy a replacement air vent for about $10 to $15 at most plumbing suppliers. While there, also pick up a roll of Teflon tape and some graphite packing. Both are used to create airtight threaded connections.
Begin by turning the thermostat all the way down to shut off the heating system. Next, hold the new air vent upside down with its threaded stem facing up. Wrap Teflon tape around the threaded stem in a clockwise direction — that way, when you thread in the vent, the tape won't unravel.
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Cover the old air vent with a thick cloth (which will protect your hand from any steam or hot water), and twist it off by hand. Turn the vent to the left — counterclockwise — and be careful not to apply side pressure, or the vent might snap off.
Once the old vent is out, take the new air vent and thread it into the radiator. Be very careful not to cross the threads. Hand-tighten the vent until it's vertical. Don't use pliers — too much pressure could crack the vent. The new vent will allow trapped air to escape, reducing the chances of whistling or squeaking.
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Next, use a screwdriver to unscrew the handle from the top of the radiator valve. Then use an open-end wrench to loosen the packing nut that holds the valve stem to the valve itself. Spin off the packing nut by hand.
Now wrap graphite packing around the threaded portion of the valve stem. As with the air vent, wind the packing around the stem in a clockwise direction. Hand-thread the packing nut back onto the valve and then tighten it with the wrench. Screw the valve handle back onto the valve.
When you're done, turn up the thermostat, and wait for the steam heat to kick on. Check your work for leaks, and enjoy the silence.
This story originally appeared on PopularMechanics.com
From: Popular Mechanics


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Hello guys! Today was such a sunny day even though it's December! My friends and I decided to take a walk in our neighborhood and admired the beautiful view of our city. So I thought that a casual yet girly look matched perfect for this occasion. Of course a winter detail couldn't be missed!I'm obviously talking about my beige coat with it's fairy part, enough to keep me warm. I combined my black skirt with my new sleeveless brown top witch I love! My over-knee boots made my look more special. Besides don't forget that they are a "must-have" piece for this season. I can't wait for your comments to let me know what you think about my today's outfit.
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Well thanks to those awfuly nice people at Sun I've done my first VODcast on SOA, tools and what technologies are hot. Unlike the people on the West Coast I had to do it via a webcam link (cheers to Simon Cook for the help there).
In quite a busy month there is also an interesting article in information age about SOA "who plays, who pays" where I put some of my oar into the debate, but the interesting bit comes from Chris who puts it all in a consistent context. Its a key question on SOA, how do we change the current funding model to make IT more accountable and more successful.
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Home > News & Events > Wayland Press Release Archives > 2007 News Releases > February 2007 > Visiting Teachers from Korea Enjoy Texas Hospitality and Culture
Visiting Teachers from Korea Enjoy Texas Hospitality and Culture
PLAINVIEW – In the end, it's all about the jewelry.
Christine Choi and Mihwa Suh made the long journey from South Korea to gain knowledge about American teaching methods and cultural differences. But what they're most proud to take back is some American jewelry.
With a wide smile and a giggle, Choi, who teaches English in a high school in her home country, showed off her hands bearing two new rings to a small group gathered at Wayland Baptist University on Wednesday for a luncheon honoring the pair of Fulbright Scholars who have spent two weeks in Plainview.
"I will tell them a man gave these to me," the unmarried Choi giggled again. "But it was Temple."
"Temple" is Dr. Harold Temple, professor of chemistry at WBU, who with wife Audrey hosted Suh while in Plainview. Dr. Jim Todd, chairman of the Don Williams Division of Education at WBU, and his wife Martha hosted Choi in their home.
One set of rings are handmade silver with pink stones, crafted in Temple's evening jewelry class – a side hobby he turned into a course a few years back – while the others are valuable because of their symbolism.
"Mine has a cross on it because I'm a Christian," noted Choi, then pointed at her companion's ring. "Hers is in the shape of Texas."
During the luncheon and their brief presentation about Korean culture, Choi alternated between a giggly excitement and her more reserved background, while Suh remained the more reserved of the two women.
But when talking about their experiences in Texas for the past few weeks, both had plenty to say.
"I keep saying, 'Aren't we so lucky to be in Plainview? No one else will have the experiences we have had,'" said Choi, noting that the local school system's use of different school campuses for each grade from fifth through eighth is unique in the state and definitely from her home country.
Choi spent her two weeks visiting a variety of classes at Plainview High School, learning the various techniques teachers in America use in English and other subjects. She also got a chance to share about her culture with local students.
"I found that our students in Korea are on about the same level the students here are on in their English classes, so that made me feel good," she said. "English is not our second language in Korea, and we don't use it in our daily life, so we have to practice a lot. We study it about three periods a day there."
Suh spent her two weeks at Estacado Junior High, primarily in four English classes observing and speaking. She found the experience helpful in improving her own teaching skills.
"We learned lots of teaching methodology for multicultural classes," she noted. "I plan to use a lot of the activities they did in my classes, even though they are 12th grade."
Both teachers agreed the exchange was valuable to their careers as well as their cultural outlook, and both said some stereotypes about America were crushed on the trip.
"When we think about America, we are often prejudiced because we think students are loud and too active and have too much freedom," Choi said. "But they were actually very polite and were not afraid to ask questions. In my country, we listen a lot and don't ask a lot of questions, so I liked that. I'd like to bring some of that culture to my classroom."
Suh said her image of American schools as dangerous – given by a teacher in Korea who was an American and wouldn't send his children to high school in the States – was dispelled as well.
Choi noted she felt that God had answered her prayer to send her to a place where she could learn and meet new people. She was encouraged to get to stay with a Christian family in America as well.
Both ladies noted the kindness and generosity of the Americans they met while in Plainview and at Wayland, and were excited to enjoy the hospitality of the exchange program.
"We have been treated like very special guests. I like being a princess," giggled Choi.
For their part, Wayland education faculty enjoyed the chance to show their students what life – and teaching – is like on the other side of the globe.
"We love these kinds of experiences," said Todd. "As we have experiences like this, the boundaries of our world keep shrinking and we learn about ourselves and others."
The teachers will return to Austin soon to complete their reporting at the University of Texas, where they spent the first four weeks of their program, before going back to South Korea.


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In previous postings, I've noted that for various reasons, doctors using EMRs are tending to bill for more E/M services. This has CMS in a bit of a tizzy, and definitely deserves attention from the industry. (See also this post about EMR and Upcoding)
Now, a study appearing in the Journal of the American Medical Association seems to have identified another vector for increased use of services. According to the study, patients with online access to medical records and clinicians consume more clinical services than those without access.
The JAMA authors drew this conclusion after studying the consumption of clinical services by members of Kaiser Permanente Colorado, a group model IDS. The Kaiser unit was studied from March 2005 through June 2010, reports Becker's Hospital Report.
What made the Kaiser unit a good choice was that not only did it have an EMR in place, it also launched a patient portal in May 2006 allowing patients secure access to health records details such as test results, care plans and active medications.
Researchers found that members who used the MyHealthManager portal, which gave access to the EMR, had increased rates of office visits, telephone encounters, after-hours clinic visits, emergency department encounters and hospitalizations during the study period.
I was surprised to find out that JAMA researchers generated this data, especially the ED and hospitalization rates, which seem to have to been markedly different between the two groups.
It did occur to me that perhaps the sickest patients are using the portal, or that those who aren't using the portal aren't very engaged in caring for their health, but such relationships are rarely that simple. Besides, the researchers did group patients by "propensity scores" which took patient age, sex, utilization frequencies and chronic illnesses, so we aren't looking at populations that simply self-selected into the sicker and more healthy.
In any event, I'm glad I stumbled across this study and could share it with you. Knowing that these patterns exist, just in case they turn up in your health system. They're certainly worth bearing in mind.


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China Poised for Crackdown on Internet
China appears to be gearing up for a crackdown on its domestic Internet after a series of online exposés of corruption underscored the growing power of social media there.
Senior members of China's National People's Congress on Monday began considering a bill that would require users to report their real names to Internet and telecom companies, according to the state-run Xinhua news agency. The draft bill is designed to protect personal information, Xinhua said. Proposals to the rubber-stamp congress often reflect the higher-level concerns of the Chinese Communist Party, signaling legislators will likely take action on the issue.


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By Tom Krisher
AP Auto Writer
DETROIT (AP) -- General Motors' second-quarter profit topped expectations as a solid performance in North America offset declining profit in some international markets and more losses in Europe.
GM's net income excluding items amounted to 84 cents per share in the three months ended June 30. That was 9 cents better than analysts surveyed by FactSet had expected.
Overall, net income fell 16 percent in the quarter as GM faced tougher competition in Asia-Pacific countries outside of China. The company's finance chief said Thursday that Japanese rivals used a weaker yen to lower prices.
GM earned $1.26 billion from April through June, or 75 cents per share. That compares with $1.5 billion, or 90 cents per share, a year ago.
GM earned $1.98 billion before taxes in North America, up 4 percent over a year ago as small businesses bought more pickup trucks in the U.S. Profit in China also rose, GM said.
The company narrowed its European loss by $284 million to $110 million as cost cuts kicked in and new products such as the Opel Mokka small crossover SUV and Adam subcompact car sold well, said Chief Financial Officer Dan Ammann.
That helped to counter falling pretax profits in international operations. Competition from Japanese automakers forced GM to lower prices in Australia and Southeast Asian countries, the company said.
Ammann told reporters Thursday that Japanese automakers were using the weak yen to cut prices in Southeast Asia and Australia. The yen has been falling against other currencies, making goods made in Japan less expensive when sold in other countries, including the U.S.
"We don't see that abating in the immediate term," Ammann said, adding that the company has new products and is taking other unspecified actions to boost international profits.
Ammann said GM would build on its performance in Europe during the second half, but wouldn't say if the loss would be cut further.
"The things that we control we feel very good about," Ammann said of Europe. "Obviously what we don't control is the European macro environment. That remains very challenging, but we're making good progress despite that."
In North America, Ammann said he expected improved performance in the second half as GM gets the full benefit of rolling out its redesigned full-size pickup trucks, the Chevy Corvette sports car, an all-new Cadillac CTS and other new models.
"That's going to give us a good tail wind into the second half," he said.
Overall, GM's revenue rose 4 percent to just over $39 billion, beating Wall Street's estimate of $37.7 billion.
Worldwide sales rose 4 percent to 2.49 million vehicles.
Published: Fri, Jul 26, 2013