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New Offering at WBU Aim to Combat Special Education Teacher Shortages
PLAINVIEW – The need for teachers has been long known across more rural areas. But in more recent months, school districts are scrambling to fill holes on their faculty to meet special needs among their students.
According to Dr. JoBeth DeSoto, associate professor of education at Wayland Baptist University, the entire nation is facing shortages of special education teachers due to changes in the federal definitions of special needs. In an effort to meet that need, Wayland has recently enhanced its education program to include a major in special education.
"We have the bachelor's degree with an emphasis in special education as well as the Master of Education degree," said DeSoto, who spent 10 years as a special education teacher herself. "This is really in response to the great need and demand for special education teachers nationwide. Every district needs special ed teachers, so these students will be able to get jobs anywhere, most likely."
DeSoto notes classes in the emphasis are designed with the new certification tests that have been rewritten this year, so students will be up-to-date with the required information. Coursework overlaps with the core education classes in many areas, then special courses help prepare teachers for dealing with the special needs of some students. And those, DeSoto said, are getting harder to keep track of.
"You don't just do it louder and slower for special ed students," she said. "There's a lot of behavior management in this too, since behavioral issues often come with this field."
DeSoto said federal changes in 1995 widened the definition of special education with regard to schools and what they must provide for students. Now, the special education net includes students with mental retardation, hearing and vision impairment, speech impediments, dyslexia and other learning disabilities. In all, there are 13 exceptionalities, as the government calls them.
The wider definition isn't necessarily a negative in DeSoto's mind. After all, students of all abilities need to learn and each exceptionality presents unique challenges to that learning. But the changes came with the stipulation that districts have an individualized educational program for all 13 categories, and many schools just don't have teachers trained in those areas.
That's where DeSoto feels the additions to Wayland's education offerings will be most needed.
"There are lots of topics to address in special education. Students are trained to deal with all of those areas," she said. "We have a survey class that deals with an overview of every exceptionality and then determines strategies for teaching students with those needs. We also cover law and a big part of this is assessment."
DeSoto said attracting students to the program has its challenges, mainly because of the reputation of special education, which continues to grow.
"Students are sometimes reluctant because they've heard bad things. Special education has gotten a bad rap, mostly because (districts) have been sticking people in there who weren't qualified over the years," she said.
"We spend time in class talking about students' own memories of experiences with special education students in their hometown schools and how they feel about it. We also talk about their expectations and make sure they are realistic," she added.
She speaks from experience. After 10 years as a music and band teacher in Hobbs, N.M., DeSoto jumped into special education with no experience and began taking a few courses to certify and learn more. She soon discovered a new passion in education and eventually earned a doctorate in the field. But those years in the field were invaluable to providing real-world experiences for her student charges at Wayland.
DeSoto believes the trend in growth in special education numbers is not just due to the widened definition. Society, she says, is also to blame in large part.
"We have more premature babies surviving these days, and they are exposed to more medication and things that can cause problems with them developmentally when they do survive," she said. "Also, we're seeing an increase in teen pregnancies and those children are not always cared for the best. We're also finding out that drug and alcohol abuse by parents can affect children born years later and cause problems. Then of course there's poverty and malnutrition and abuse and neglect, like shaken-baby syndrome, that all lead to developmental and learning issues."
"There are just so many categories of disabilities that I believe can be avoided," she said.
Educators often differ on strategies for teaching students with special needs, and DeSoto said the pendulum seems to swing between two schools of thought. Though once schools pulled all special education students into isolated classrooms to meet their needs, that is not the current trend.
"The big rage now is inclusion – leaving students in the regular classroom and not isolating them. But districts still have the option of pulling them out for special programs for part of the day as long as they spend some time in the regular classroom," she said. "I don't think it works. We're just trying not to hurt the parents' feelings, but we're not meeting the students' needs."
DeSoto feels inclusion places unhealthy expectations in parents that their child will eventually have no special needs, but simply is not a common occurrence.
"The goal in special education is for the student to grow, but you have to be realistic about their capabilities," she said.
That's why she makes sure her Wayland students are aware of the challenges going into the field, and field experiences in local schools are a great way to prepare them for the road ahead.
The special education major is available on the undergraduate level through the 127-credit-hour Bachelor of Science in Interdisciplinary Studies degree, which provides special education certification for early childhood through eighth grade. Current teachers or those with another bachelor's degree may prefer the Master of Education route, a 36-hour degree culminating in the same certification. Another choice is the post-baccalaureate certification program that provides needed courses for certification without culminating in a degree. The programs are offered in Plainview as well as the Lubbock campus, and many of the special education courses are being offered online through Wayland's Virtual Campus on a rotation schedule.
For more information on the special education program, contact DeSoto at (806) 291-1051 or the office of admissions at (800) 588-1928.
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The shortage in trained teachers for special education is felt regionally as well.
Plainview I.S.D. has 850 students in special education, which accounts for around 15 percent of the district population, according to special education director John Hightower. The district employs around 30 special education teachers and several diagnosticians.
"When the 'No Child Left Behind' Law was passed, the expectations were set for every level and they included special education students in there as well," Hightower said. "They added a provision for teachers to be highly qualified in every subject they teach, and that has put a strain on special education teachers who often teach several subjects."
According to personnel from Region 17 Education Service Center in Lubbock, the region has 11,192 students in special education programs, or 12.5 percent of the total region student population of 89,679.


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i have the following
[root@generix ~]# lsmod
Module Size Used by
snd_emu10k1 120324 0
snd_rawmidi 26784 1 snd_emu10k1
snd_seq_device 8972 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi
snd_util_mem 4992 1 snd_emu10k1
snd_hwdep 9760 1 snd_emu10k1
uhci_hcd 33808 0
ehci_hcd 37256 0
analog 12576 0
ns558 6020 0
gameport 17160 3 analog,ns558
parport_pc 29124 0
parport 38600 1 parport_pc
pcspkr 4172 0
rtc 14156 0
snd_ca0106 31268 1
pci_hotplug 30788 0
snd_intel8x0 34752 1
snd_ac97_codec 83960 3 snd_emu10k1,snd_ca0106,snd_intel8x0
snd_pcm_oss 55456 0
snd_mixer_oss 20480 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 97796 5 snd_emu10k1,snd_ca0106,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 27012 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
snd 60388 15 snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_hwdep,snd_ca0106,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 10848 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 10244 4 snd_emu10k1,snd_ca0106,snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
forcedeth 20480 0
ohci_hcd 23044 0
i2c_amd756 6788 0
i2c_core 22784 1 i2c_amd756
usbcore 127740 4 uhci_hcd,ehci_hcd,ohci_hcd
tsdev 8384 0
evdev 10240 0
[root@generix ~]# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce CPU bridge (rev b2)
00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce 220/420 Memory Controller (rev b2)
00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce 220/420 Memory Controller (rev b2)
00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 01aa (rev b2)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce ISA Bridge (rev c3)
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation nForce PCI System Management (rev c1)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce USB Controller (rev c3)
00:03.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce USB Controller (rev c3)
00:04.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation nForce Ethernet Controller (rev c2)
00:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 01b0 (rev c2)
00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce Audio (rev c2)
00:08.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce PCI-to-PCI bridge (rev c2)
00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation nForce IDE (rev c3)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce AGP to PCI Bridge (rev b2)
01:07.0 Communication controller: Intel Corp. 536EP Data Fax Modem
01:08.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs: Unknown device 0007
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV15 [GeForce2 - nForce GPU] (rev b1)
volume levels are @ or above 3, but still no sound, please help
the archway
That is odd that lspci returns Creative Labs: Unknown device 0007.
I have an Sb Live! and my lspci output is
00:0b.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 08)
Here are the modules I have loaded:
snd_emu10k1 120324 2
snd_rawmidi 26784 1 snd_emu10k1
snd_seq_device 8972 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi
snd_ac97_codec 83960 1 snd_emu10k1
snd_pcm_oss 55456 0
snd_mixer_oss 20480 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 97796 3 snd_emu10k1,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 27012 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 10244 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
snd_util_mem 4992 1 snd_emu10k1
snd_hwdep 9760 1 snd_emu10k1
snd 60388 13 snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_hwdep
soundcore 10848 1 snd
Did you execute alsaconf? Try alsamixer also and make sure all channels are unmuted (by default most of them are mute).[/code]
I know you've probably already verified this, but thought I'd mention it on the off chance: your user is in the audio group? /etc/group
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thx for the replies
sorry to bother you guys. even though the volume level was on 3 in kmix but when i pushed it up further the sound worked fine but the midi wont work @all
sb live has built in midi caps, doesnt it?
can any one help me with settingup the midi
the archway
have you tried snd-emu10k1x? it's a module for some OEM version of the SB Live and it might be worth a shot.
oh, mine isnt oem version, its a pci card
the archway
OEM means Original Equipment Manufacturer. It's not related to pci. Try iBertus' suggestion to modprobe snd-emu10k1x.
What kernel are you using? I had similar problems with the SB Live and the 2.6.12 kernel. It worked again after rolling it back to 2.6.11.
using 2.6.12. i am not entirely sure that i have all the s/w mecanics setup correctly.
the archway
You might also want to try timidity. It should be in the repos.
The thing with getting the midi working with SB Live is a bit more complex. The reason is that sblive has a wavetable synthesizer midi, where you can load SF2 (soundfont) banks. 3 banks (2MB, 4MB, 8MB) are provided on the driver CD.
There is some software (I forget the name ATM) which can be used to load these soundfonts into the bank. I think that you need to load those every time you boot (rc.local is good idea, or rc.d script). The soundfont files are stored in RAM so bigger banks will give better quality with more RAM used.
OK, the package is awesfx and it is available in the AUR. Once installed, use sfxload <BANK> (for OSS) or asfxload <BANK> (for ALSA) to load the SF2 (these banks should be on your driver CD). I've added this info to the wiki at:
thx buddy, i'll try it later
the archway
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Thankfully, this "find" allowed me to take some Christmas pics! Christmases are always HUGE at my parents house - even the stockings are BIG:) Look at Kinsley's face - priceless:)
We had a fabulous Christmas, we missed my other sister Jayna and Steve, her husband, and their kiddos - they were snowed in in Denver, but we hope to see them Valentines Day weekend! Mom and Dad, thanks for such a wonderful, relaxing, memory making time, we LOVE you!!!!


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If you missed part 1 of my women pirates blog, fear not: you can still read it here.
Compared to the West, the Far East was much more accommodating toward women on ships. In fact, it was noted that pirate communities in the Far East had no settled residences on land. Rather, they lived constantly on their ships with their entire families. Thus, it was not uncommon for women to take an active role in handling ships and sailing them into raids.
Ching Shih: History's Most Successful Pirate
It was against this backdrop that Ching Shih started life as a prostitute in Canton before marrying the leader of a pirate band named Cheng I. When her husband died in 1807, she positioned herself well among her relatives and assumed command of the pirate navy. She assigned her husband's adopted son, whom she later married, to command the primary pirate fleet.
She was, for all intents and purposes, the pirate community's CEO, concerned with long term strategic planning and policy. Her second husband, Chang Pao, was the Chief Operating Officer, concerned with the day-to-day running of the community. Between the two of them, they put in place a strict code of conduct that beheaded anyone caught stealing from the common treasure, and even dealt with the issue of rape by beheading, which is unusual for a pirate community.
A Pirate Armada
For three years, the pirates fought off all government attempts to bring them to justice with the final result being the loss of 63 government vessels. At the height of its power, the pirates had some 200 ocean going junks with 20 to 30 cannons apiece. There were a number of smaller, river-going vessels as well that ensured that coastal communities paid for the pirates' "protection."
It was not until Chinese officials enlisted the help of English and Portuguese warships, combined with an ever-increasing number of Chinese naval ships, that Ching Shih took the initiative to meet with the emperor and amnesty was offered. As she was negotiating from a position of strength, she was able to ensure that her sailors were able to keep all of their plunder and join the military as experienced fighters once they gave up their ships and weapons. Based on this agreement, her husband joined the military at the rank of Lieutenant and eventually rose to the rank of Colonel before his death at the age of 36.
After her career as a pirate, Mrs. Cheng led a peaceful life running a gambling house until she passed away at the age of 69 in 1844.
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Check out previous posts to read up on pirate history and lore – and come see me at the Houston Maritime Museum and see a wide variety of ships, including those used by pirates, on display.
How To Rule the Sea: A Guide For Privateers 1500s – 1800s
Jean Laffite: Texas Pirate
Pirates: Romance vs. Reality
Real Pirates: Attackers, Thieves…Equal Opportunity Employers?
Women Pirates – Scourges of the High Seas! [Part 1]
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was murdered on July 16th by a man that she had sexual relations
with after he found out that she was actually born a male.
The story has gotten quite a bit of coverage and I've
attempted to follow it as closely as possible. I agree with the vast majority
of people writing about the story, it's very sad that Angie Zapata was murdered,
it's a terrible thing; what I disagree with is how many people are portraying
the case, or perhaps I should say – what they are not portraying:
mocospace.com, which I can only assume is similar to myspace.com; a social
website for people to network, meet and interact in various kinds of
activities, including sexual activities.
After a very brief bout of communications through
mocospace.com; the affidavit released by Greeley police states that shortly
after meeting for the very first time and spending the day together, the day of
July 15th 2008, that Angie Zapata performed oral sex on Andrade but
would not allow him to reciprocate.
They spent the night together and in the morning Angie
Zapata left her apartment, while Allen Ray Andrade was free to peruse the
apartment at his discretion.
While alone in the apartment of Angie Zapata, Andrade
apparently discovered several pictures that lead him to either question, or if
he already had doubts from the previous night – to further question the gender
of Zapata.
When Angie Zapata returned to her home she discovered the distraught
Andrade, who then began making demands to see the genitalia of Zapata; who
then, according to Andrade, stated that she was "all woman."
Not taking Angie Zapata's word for it, Andrade then began grabbing
at her genitalia, at which point he then of course made the inevitable
discovery that she was indeed a man, and that his suspicions were true.
Andrade then struck Zapata with his hands, finally the
violence escalated to Andrade grabbing a fire extinguisher and striking Zapata
in the head with it numerous times.
Thinking that his actions had lead to the death of Angie Zapata,
Andrade began his attempts at covering up his crime; shortly after Zapata began
to move and try to get off of the ground: Andrade then took the fire
extinguisher in his hands and with one final strike, ended the life of Angie
It's an extremely sad story, and to be completely honest, it
was fairly difficult typing the above explanation out for those of you that do
not yet know the story.
I'm going to say upfront, before I allow anyone to get the
wrong idea as to what my feelings are on this case: That I am not going to
defend Allen Ray Andrade in any way. He is undoubtedly a murderer and deserves
whatever justice is forced upon him and much, much more.
Where I take issue is in the fact that Justin "Angie" Zapata
was living a lie by stating that she was a female, when in reality she wasn't,
no matter how much she wanted to be, no matter how much she felt that she was a
female; the sad reality is that she was not a female and could never be a
I certainly don't mean to judge her. She was who she was and
I respect that on every level.
What I do not respect is the level of deception involved, as
well as the questionable decision making on her part.
Case in point, here is a (large) picture of Allen Ray
understand that meeting some 31 year old man from the internet for a random
sexual encounter is actually perfectly sound judgment on Angie Zapata's part.
Looking at it logically though, meeting a person that looks
like the person pictured above (Allen Ray Andrade) for random sex acts, after
lying to him about your gender, possibly your age, and who knows what else;
well, let's just say that it doesn't seem like a wise choice for a person, any
person, to make.
Yet for some reason I haven't seen this mentioned on one
single blog or website. Nobody seems to care that this 18 year old girl was
meeting a 31 year old man, whom she met through the internet, for a random
sexual encounter.
This is only compounded by the fact that transgendered
people are looked at through the eyes of bigotry and hate.
What does a person have to be thinking to do something like
this, to make a decision as unsound, as thoughtless as this? I can't even bring
myself to that level of understanding; it's an impossibility for me, no matter
how hard I try; I just don't see myself thinking at that level.
The second issue that I mentioned was the deception involved
on the part of Angie Zapata.
I visited what I believe to be Angie Zapata's Myspace page:
It states quite clearly that she is a female and that she is heterosexual. There
is absolutely no mention of being transgendered, transsexual, bisexual, male,
born a male, nothing of that sort.
I understand that many transgendered people don't feel that
they are actually of the gender of their birth; but the reality is that no
matter how badly they want to be the opposite gender, that it's impossible for
that to happen.
Certainly that must be tough to understand and accept,
especially considering how many people view transgendered individuals in the
United States, and much of the world for that matter. But it's something that
they have to come to accept.
Transgendered individuals should be accepting of what and who
they are. No matter how they feel, they should be free to express their
feelings in a way that makes them feel good about themselves, not in a way that
they think will be accepted by others.
I have no doubt that many people would have accepted Angie
Zapata as a transgendered person, just as her family and her friends appear to
have done. Anyone that wanted to judge her based on her sexual feelings, rather
than what she was like as a person, as a fellow human being, isn't someone that
she should have worried about looking for acceptance from in the first place.
Angie Zapata should have accepted what she was and dealt
with it. Those people that didn't accept her for how she felt, people who
judged her for her sexual feelings, aren't people whose opinions should be
respected or sought after.
In closing, it's a very sad thing that should not have ever
R.I.P. Angie Zapata, I don't doubt that you will be
remembered by a great many people.


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Will Brady (Howell, Mich.) was the lone U.S. qualifier on Friday at World Cup #2 in Cairo, Egypt. He finished tied for second in Group A of the qualification round and will advance to Sunday's individual final.
Brady placed 7th in the fencing, 12th in the swimming and 9th in the combined run/shoot to finish with 4188 points. The top 12 in each of the three groups advanced to Sunday's final.
Dennis Bowsher (Dallas, Texas) placed 17th in Group A with 3844 total points. In Group B, Eli Bremer (Monument, Colo.) was 20th with 3704 points and John Gibbons (Colorado Springs, Colo.) finished 23rd with 3568 points.
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I was doing some research into my own sleep problems (groggy again this morning) and learned of Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed...phase_syndrome. Then I remembered this thread.
I'm reluctant to diagnose myself, especially considering it effects a small portion of the population. But this fits me to a tee. In a nutshell, I want to go to sleep at 4am and wake up at noon. I don't need more sleep and don't feel like my sleep is that poor quality, provided that I get the hours right.
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JMU's newest deans look to shape colleges¿ future
The College of Health and Behavioral Studies and the College of Integrated Science and Engineering named new deans this spring, but the individuals filling those positions don't need time to settle in and get acclimated. Both Dr. Sharon Lovell, the dean of CHBS, and Dr. Bob Kolvoord, the dean of CISE, had been serving in those roles on an interim basis since the colleges were created in July 2012.
Lovell is a 1985 graduate of JMU and has worked at the university in various capacities since 1990. In addition to a bachelor's degree in psychology from JMU, she holds a master's degree and a doctoral degree in industrial/organizational psychology from Bowling Green State University. Lovell has served as coordinator of the master of arts program in general psychology as well as associate dean of the College of Education and Psychology. Prior to being named interim dean of CHBS, she served as interim dean of the College of Integrated Science and Technology.
Kolvoord, who has a bachelor's degree and a master's degree from the University of Virginia and a doctorate from Cornell University, joined the JMU faculty in 1995 and has served in a variety of roles, including interim director of the School of Engineering, and co-founder and co-director of the Center for STEM Education and Outreach. He has also taught in the educational technology, geographic sciences, and intelligence analysis programs. In 2012, Kolvoord was recognized by the State Council for Higher Education in Virginia with an Outstanding Faculty Award.
How do you define leadership?
Kolvoord: I see leadership as a collaborative venture. It's engaged in through conversation, it's engaged in through cooperation, and that allows us to draw out the best of everybody in the unit. The dean's role is also to support the faculty and students within the college.
Lovell: My training is in industrial/organizational psychology, and leadership is certainly a part of that discipline. Yet when I think about my take on leadership, I find that I blend various elements. I wouldn't say I'm a transformational leader or a transactional leader; I prefer to think about different components of leadership that are important to me and that I find very effective and useful. One of the most important is a collaborative style. I believe in establishing and accomplishing a shared vision, and I believe in relationship building and a supportive work environment. I also believe in strong advocacy, facilitation, communication and removing barriers. Another important component is encouraging risk-taking and innovation. So I believe in all those things together as elements of effective leadership.
What are some of your college's strengths?
Kolvoord: First, we have an outstanding faculty. We have the ability to look at problems from a variety of vantage points and we can bring a variety of perspectives, both technical and non-technical, to any problem. Our faculty and students are interested in problems that matter, whether they be ones of environment, of energy, of understanding living systems. We focus on cutting-edge issues, technologies and topics. We're out there learning something new every day, and I think that makes it a really exciting place to be.
Lovell: I believe we have many strengths, and the first is our people. CHBS has faculty members who are experts in their fields, highly skilled practitioners, and nationally and internationally known scholars. These include faculty members who have pioneered new classroom learning approaches, who are widely sought after for their work with individuals experiencing disastrous events, who perform leading research in exercise and muscle recovery, and much more. We are dedicated to students' learning and development, and committed to interprofessional and collaborative approaches to outreach and delivery of services.
We also have strong academic programs at all levels — undergraduate through doctorate. Our grant work is a real strength, and that's important in today's academic climate. We lead the academic colleges [at JMU] in grant funding each year. We have a number of faculty and students involved in grant work of various types. The last thing I would mention is our involvement in global learning and international experiences. We have so many short-term study abroad opportunities and other kinds of experiences for learning and research. I feel very good about where we're at as a whole.
What are some areas for improvement?
Kolvoord: We're really intrigued in trying to continue to build an emphasis on innovation and entrepreneurship and helping students develop entrepreneurial thinking skills. So we're working with the College of Business, the College of Visual and Performing Arts and others to do that.
We're also exploring potential new areas. We've been thinking about big data and what kinds of programs or experiences we can provide to help students leave here with a much better understanding of what the possibilities and challenges of big data are. We continue to collaborate and build relationships with industrial design to be thinking about the whole world of digital fabrication and 3-D printing, which has a potential to revolutionize manufacturing and our students need to be ready to work in that area.
Lovell: Something that we are doing, but need to do a better job of, and more of, is inter-professional education. That means we need students to have more opportunities to learn alongside students from other disciplines. This is especially important in health care settings where you may have a doctor and a nurse, and, depending on the situation, a social worker, psychologist or physical therapist. We don't want our graduates to first encounter teamwork when they're on the job. We want them to understand other disciplines and have an opportunity to work with others inter-professionally before they graduate. It leads to better care, better patient outcomes and reduced costs. Our accrediting bodies are calling for it, but more than that, it's the right thing to do. Inter-professional education is already going on in the Institute for Innovation in Health and Human Services, but it needs to be part of our curriculum.
What are some challenges facing your college?
Kolvoord: I think in some cases we're not well known. Our engineering program is very new, intelligence analysis is very new. ISAT's not so new, but there's still work to do there to make it a household name, to make it commonly understood. We continue to need to spread the word about our programs.
One of the other things we really want to do is to make sure that we have a very broadly diverse group of students and faculty in the college, and we have work to do there. We need to make sure that we're getting the message of our programs out to a variety of audiences, and we need to make sure that we're helping folks succeed when they get here.
Lovell: Staffing is a concern because of the growing number of students and the need for clinical placements. That requires, in some cases, a different kind of faculty member, one who has experience in clinical settings and is willing to accompany students in those settings. It's hard to find some of those. … In terms of finding expertise, there's only a few areas within the college where that is a problem because of the limited supply. But our programs are highly regarded and some of them are nationally ranked, so people know about us.
As far as space and equipment needs, a lot of those will be met when we move into our new building [in the summer of 2016]. Right now we're bursting at the seams. The provost has been very supportive in providing one-time money to allow us to replace some equipment. We're very equipment-dependent. To do the kind of simulation work that we're going to need to do — which really is overall less expensive than putting students in real situations for education and training purposes — there will be some real needs in terms of equipment and technology at the beginning.
What makes your college attractive to prospective students?
Kolvoord: We love to innovate. Innovation is at the core of what we do. We have developed an innovative curriculum. I think we have some programs that are unique in the country and we have other programs that are very much at the cutting edge in their particular areas.
JMU is on the path to becoming the national model for the engaged university. That engagement is at the core of what we do, particularly community engagement and engaged learning. Because we apply science, technology, engineering and math, we can't help but have community partners and be thinking about not just the technical solutions, but also how those technical solutions fit into societal contexts.
Lovell: Our majors are very popular. If anything, our challenge is in serving all of the students who are interested. With certain majors, we've needed to implement progression standards to manage the flow of students. Overall, we're doing well, and if you look at the employment forecast, the majors in this college are ones that will prepare students for careers that are going to be in demand for some time.
While the emphasis of our university on engagement is relatively new, it's something that our college been doing for a long time. Our students are engaged in learning in the classroom and through internships, field experiences and research. The community engagement piece occurs throughout our college, and we have strong relationships with our community partners.
Talk about the importance of collaboration in solving real-world problems.
Kolvoord: We have numerous connections with units in the College of Science and Mathematics. We're also looking to build connections within the college. To find ways that computer science, the programs in ISAT and engineering can work together. Robotics is one example. And that's an example where we took our most precious resource, space, and committed a laboratory to trying to build a robotics minor, which is done in collaboration with the College of Science and Math as well. And there are more areas that I expect are going to grow over time. Part of that is driven by research, and we have a number of environmental and energy projects.
Lovell: We're exploring new ways in which we can collaborate with others both within and outside the university. We're looking at developing programs with the arts, which, when introduced in therapy settings, have been shown to produce better outcomes. There is also the potential to collaborate with the STEM areas, which are high priorities right now nationally and at the state level. And there's certainly an opportunity to pursue funding through these sorts of collaborations.
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Arnette Brain Freeze Tour Kicks Off At SIA
On Thursday night, January 27th, the Arnette Brain Freeze Tour will kick off at Bender's Tavern in Denver, Colorado, during the SIA Tradeshow.
As the official team launch party series, the three-stop tour celebrates the 2011 re-launch of Arnette's goggle program and newly minted team of snow shredders including Devun Walsh, Zac Marben, Dustin Craven and Sage Kotsenburg.
All three stops will feature live performances by Del The Funky Homosapien and Bukue One, with Arnette Am, DJ Matty Mo, on the turntables. Devun, Zac, Dustin and Sage will be at select stops, and free gear and good times will be flowing for all partygoers.
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Wow, I actually got to yoga twice this week! That hasn't happened in a long time. Random times and random classes, but both good in their own way.
About all I accomplished today besides that, is some grocery shopping, and meeting with an old acquaintance about her fundraising ideas and reviving a great animal issues magazine she used to produce. It was nice to brainstorm together. Bonus: She said she barely recognized me and that I looked great! She hadn't seen me in about 6 years and even though it didn't seem very drastic to me, I gradually lost quite a bit of weight after becoming vegetarian then vegan, and I guess it shows.
Tonight, we hung out as a family, made pizzas, made pineapple upside down cake in the new bundt pan, and watched some Big Bang Season 5. I had planned to work on more show notes, but I guess that will have to wait until tomorrow. Ooh, now we can make this bundt cake recipe.
This weekend, in addition to show notes and schoolwork, I'm going to read a good portion of Jenny Brown's The Lucky Ones, since we've set up an interview with her for next week. We met Jenny last year and she was so friendly and funny—I can't wait to talk with her again.


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The business department offers business and accounting majors the opportunity to participate in one or more internships with businesses throughout Sioux County and elsewhere. Taking learning outside the classroom offers a unique way for students to explore career options, see corporate culture in a real-time environment, and gain necessary practical experience to amplify what they've learned in the classroom.
While internships are not required, roughly 90 percent of our students participate in an internship. In fact, the business department averages over 65 internships per year. Students may participate in a variety of local internships, in internships throughout the U.S., or in international internships. The Chicago Semester Program, the European Studies Program (SPICE), and our spring internship in Nicaragua are just some options.
Other recent internship sites include: Sioux Falls, Los Angeles, Chicago, Des Moines, and Seattle, with companies such as Citibank, Strong Retirement Plan Services, Pella Windows, and a variety of other firms.
Internship areas include accounting, finance, human resources, information systems, international business, marketing, management, and sales.
Our interns have handled an enormous variety of tasks and projects, including preparing income tax returns, arranging press releases, conducting employee surveys, working with payroll, developing marketing questionnaires, managing small work crews, and cataloging museum items, to name a very small sample.
The vast majority of employers over the years have formally evaluated their Dordt University interns as excellent workers. But don't take our word for it. Read what former employers have to say:
"[Our Dordt intern] had the opportunity to work with a future building project and the financing of it. He wrote and then re-wrote proposals dozens of times. He did an outstanding job with the project. Most times I was able to take his proposal as written and present it. That's incredible."
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"The knowledge that Dordt provides its students with is strong in [this intern]. He is a great young man and has a bright future ahead. He was a pleasure to work with."
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Dordt University believes so strongly in the value of internships that we dedicate a large portion of one faculty member's time to internship placement and supervision. This, along with good students and helpful assistance from Dordt's Career Development Center, has led to a long-term business and accounting job placement rate above 95 percent for Dordt graduates with degrees in these fields.


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How do club owners decide whether they should renovate their clubs and what amount of renovation they should do? Most clubs can benefit by a renovation. Yet, is the cost justifiable, many club owners ask? Also, what should be done, and how much should be spent to significantly affect sales, retention and profits?
Let's look at two club case studies with different levels of renovations. One club is QLS Family Fitness, a 60,000-square-foot, family-oriented club in Humble, TX, and the other is 34,000-square-foot Gold's Gym in Long Island, NY. Both clubs had been open a number of years and were successful, so why did club owners decide to renovate?
QLS had a 120,000-square-foot competitor opening two miles down the road. Some people told owner Kyle Bauer that his great service would be enough to compete with the new club. They told him that rather than renovating his club now, he should wait and see what happened. However, after talking with people who had actual experience in such matters, he realized that being proactive rather than reactive was the best choice.
Although in good condition, Bauer's club was not ready for a much larger, state-of-the-art competitor. His plan was to renovate his club into a beautiful, upscale environment and to add new mind/body studios, a cardio cinema and separate pool locker rooms for a new outdoor pool. Although his competitor would always be much bigger, his strategy was to make his club an exceptional visual experience for anyone who came through the doors. However, he wanted to do so as frugally as possible by using money-saving techniques and spending where it would make the most dramatic impact without the dramatic costs.
Bauer completed the first phase of his renovation just as his competitor opened. The competitor's impact on his business was minimal, but once Bauer saw the competitor's club, he realized that had he not made such changes, he would have taken a big hit.
Although not facing any new major competitor and maintaining a membership that seemed happy with the facility, Gus Orlando, owner of the Gold's Gym on Long Island, knew his club needed a change. His immaculately clean facility was clearly outdated, and he knew that sooner or later, this would become a major competitive weakness. Orlando decided that being proactive would solidify his presence in the marketplace, and he determined that the renovations to his club should be substantial so that people would begin talking about his club again.
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The results? Orlando completed his renovation just as the economy started to go bad, yet his sales have increased substantially, his retention is up, and the one-day sales numbers at his re-grand opening were "unbelievable," he said. Making the changes brought in new member numbers that he said he may never see again in his club.
Whether trying to get new members or keeping old members, the right dynamic change can be the most significant move a club owner can make to better compete and substantially increase sales. Waiting to renovate can cause sales and profits to dwindle, making renovation even more difficult. The good news is that changes can be made cost effectively, resulting in an entirely new energy and environmental psychology. Simply put, as both owners discovered, a well-thought-out renovation can be one of the best long-term marketing investments a club owner can make.
Bruce Carter is the president of Optimal Fitness Design Systems International, a club design firm that has created about $420 million worth of clubs in 45 states and 26 countries. He can be reached at 954-888-5960 or [email protected].


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I was glad to read you're looking for funny MG, and you're a fan of Terry Pratchett. I think middle grade readers with Pratchett's appreciation of the ridiculous will enjoy my MG novel, THE BUNGLEWAD SQUAD.
Stubby Hintertail thought life in his isolated mountain village couldn't get any worse. The Captain of his Boot Camp already assigned him to the lowly Bunglewad Squad because his corkscrew tail makes him a grade-A klutz. And being squad mates with a monstrous cat who can't stop eating, a whiskerless close-talker, and a hypochondriac who wraps herself in tree bark is bad enough. But now, Stubby's mother rescues a peculiar kitten from the river, enrolls it into the Bunglewad Squad, and charges Stubby to watch over it like a brother.
The sadistic Captain Marks detests the bizarre kitten, and Stubby for being its brother. He tries to punish them all with harsh drills, but grows irate when he can't do a single thing to wipe away the new kitten's smile. The Captain doubles and redoubles his efforts to make them suffer, but this has unexpected results on Stubby's squad, due to a fact no one realizes about Stubby's new brother.
Can Stubby and the rest of THE BUNGLEWAD SQUAD learn to be functioning cats, with a little help from a dog?
THE BUNGLEWAD SQUAD is a completed 41,000 word MG book that's The Bad News Bears meets Warriors.
As for me, I'm a crossword puzzle constructor published in the NY and LA Times.
Thank you for your time, and congrats on the blockbuster success of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children!
A small gray cat teetered on a high branch with one paw curled around a red crab apple. "Father, hurry!" he shouted. "This apple is burning my nose, and I'm losing my balance again!" A breeze kicked up and he dug his claws into the swaying oak.
"Just a moment, Stubby," his father said from below. He stood erect on his hind legs and patted down white fur exploding from his head. "Proceed to drop it."
"Are you sure?" Stubby asked. "You won't get hurt?" Stubby cracked an eye open, but quickly squeezed it shut as he caught a glimpse of the eerie
"I don't know--it may be even more painful than the granite rock," his father replied. "But science waits for no cat! And please remember: as my apprentice-in-training, you must follow my every instruction."
"Sorry, sir," Stubby mumbled. All the other privates are right, he thought. I'm just a stupid, good-for-nothing bungler. He shuddered as he pictured the village sign which haunted his every moment:
What if I fail at Zwicksturm Boot Camp AND this science apprenticeship? I'd be exiled from our village, into the wild! Who knows what crazy beasts live outside the Great Stone Schutzwall?


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Gonorrhea is a bacterial infection spread through sexual contact. It's found most often in the genital area, but it can also infect other areas of the body, such as the rectum or throat.
Most people with gonorrhea have symptoms within a few days after infection. In men it can cause a discharge from the penis. In women it can cause a pelvic infection, which can be severe. Sometimes gonorrhea causes a type of arthritis. Some people have no symptoms.
Sometimes gonorrhea is called the clap, drip, or GC.
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Friday, August 24, 2012
Good Luck with Reservations for Hotels for RootsTech
I have been sort-of watching for when the RootsTech 2013 info was going online. I have several proposals for presentations, but haven't heard anything yet. Then I noticed that the hotels were listed. Wow, I should have been watching more carefully. The Radisson is already sold out for one of the days and the others in the area also reported sold out. I did get a reservation at the Plaza, but I imagine that won't be open for long either. Be advised.
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You had me worried! I just phoned the Radisson and made a booking for the week of Rootstech. Perhaps they are giving preference for longer bookings - I booked for 7 nights.
See you in SLC.
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The City of Belleville Parking Services manages approximately 1,000 parking spaces located within a three block radius of the downtown core. These spaces include approximately 100 on-street spaces on Front Street, with the balance of the spaces spread between 11 parking lots and streets in the downtown area.
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On-street metered parking is available throughout the downtown area at a cost of $1.00 an hour. The maximum length of stay at any of the metered spaces is 2 hours which is in place to ensure that more people have an opportunity to use convenient, on-street parking spaces. If you require a longer stay, please park your vehicle in a space designated for that purpose.
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During a snowstorm, when snow clearing operations are underway, no stopping of a vehicle is permitted on any city street. Snow-clearing operations typically take place between 11 pm and 7 am. The fine for this offence is $75 and your vehicle will be towed. All vehicles will be towed to The Quinte Towing compound, located at 15 Newberry Street, and can be claimed the following day. All expenses are the responsibility of the owner.
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Accessible Parking
Parking spaces designated with a "wheelchair" symbol are reserved for persons with a registered accessible parking permit. The Accessible Parking Permit (APP) is issued to an individual or company and entitles the vehicle in which it is displayed to be parked in a designated accessible parking space. For permits issued to individuals, the person to whom the permit is issued must be transported in the vehicle and the permit must be visibly displayed on the dashboard or sun visor when it is parked in the designated accessible parking space. Individual permit holders may use the permit in any vehicle in which they are traveling.
Designated accessible parking spaces are located throughout the City — both on street, in municipal lots and in various private locations. Designated accessible parking spaces are clearly indicated by posted signage.
The set fine for improper parking in an accessible space is $300.
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To qualify for an APP, the individual must be certified by an APP Program recognized health practitioner as having one or more of the following conditions:
- Cannot walk without assistance of another person or a brace, cane, crutch, a lower limb prosthetic device or similar assistive device or who requires the assistance of a wheelchair.
- Suffers from lung disease to such an extent that forced expiratory volume in one second is less than one litre.
- Portable oxygen is a medical necessity.
- Cardiovascular disease impairment classified as Class III or Class IV to standards accepted by the American Heart Association or Class III or IV according to the Canadian Cardiovascular Standard.
- Severely limited in the ability to walk due to an arthritic, neurological, musculoskeletal or orthopedic condition.
- Visual acuity is 20/200 or poorer in the better eye with or without corrective lenses or whose greatest diameter of the field of vision in both eyes is 20 degrees or less.
- Condition(s) or functional impairment that severely limits his or her mobility.
For more information on Accessible Parking Permits, please visit the Service Ontario website, or visit your local Service Ontario Centre.
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Telephone: City of Belleville - Parking Services - 613-968-6481
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Charges dismissed against 3 in voter fraud cases
Charges of election misconduct have been dismissed against three Council Bluffs residents, though they could be refiled later.
Canadians Albert Harte-Maxwell and his wife, Linda, along with Maria Ayon-Fernandez, a citizen of Mexico, were charged in September.
All three are living in the U.S. legally, but prosecutors say they registered to vote without being U.S. citizens.
Prosecutors say a key witness, the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation agent looking into the cases, has been called to active military duty. County Attorney Matt Wilber says the charges could be refiled at a later date.
The three were the first of eight people charged under an investigation pushed by Secretary of State Matt Schultz.
He's made fighting election fraud his key issue and was granted $280,000 to investigate voter fraud.


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Trumbull beats Ludlowe for first win
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After surrendering 68 points in its first two games, the Trumbull High School football team was looking for redemption Saturday against Fairfield Ludlowe.
And after a wake-up call, the Eagles got just that.
Trumbull scored 35 unanswered points after allowing a first-quarter score, as the Eagles earned coach Bob Maffei's 100th win, a 35-7 rout over the Falcons on Saturday morning at McDougall Stadium.
Trumbull junior quarterback Nick Roberts threw for 376 yards and five touchdowns, three of which went to senior receiver Mike Williams. Williams had 178 receiving yards and senior running back Ryan Pearson had 127 all-purpose yards and a touchdown, leading the Eagles to their first win of 2012.
"We hadn't won in a while and we haven't been down like that," Maffei said. "I give the kids credit ... the plan is in place, we've just got to follow the plan."
Eagles defensive back Jeff Sam intercepted two passes and recovered a fumble, as Trumbull forced four turnovers. Trumbull rebounded from an overtime home loss to Westhill last Friday, in which the Eagles surrendered 37 points.
"That's unacceptable," Sam said of allowing 37 points. "This team deserved this, especially (Maffei). We had to work hard, we had to stop them."
The Falcons dropped their 14th consecutive game and fell for the 22nd time in their last 23 games. Ludlowe will try to end the drought next Saturday at Harding at 2:30 p.m.
"There were some positive things," Ludlowe coach Matt McCloskey said. "But we shot ourselves in the foot."
The Falcons stunned Trumbull with a score on their first possession. After Pearson missed a field goal on Trumbull's opening drive, Ludlowe's Victor D'Ascenzo took a toss from quarterback Matt White and hit a wide-open Dan Santella for the 64-yard score, giving Ludlowe a 7-0 lead -- its first advantage since Thanksgiving 2010 -- just 3:32 in.
"We knew it was going to go," McCloskey said.
Trumbull answered on its subsequent possession, a 10-play, 65-yard drive, capped by Roberts' 20-yard strike to Williams on fourth-and-12, tying the score at 7.
"That was a game-changer," Roberts said. "We needed to get that and it was a great play."
After a Ludlowe three-and-out, the Eagles scored again, going 91 yards in seven plays. Roberts hit Pearson with a screen pass and the senior back sped 44 yards, giving Trumbull a 14-7, second-quarter advantage.
"A couple of plays they scored on, our defense wasn't communicating," McCloskey said. "You can't do that against Trumbull or any team. It's tough on the kids. We've just got to keep their spirits up."
"Screens are a big part of our offense," Maffei said.
Roberts hit Williams later in the second with a perfect throw along the sideline, over Santella's outstretched arm. Williams tight-roped the boundary, staying inbounds, and capping the 51-yard touchdown, making it 21-7.
"That was a magnificent catch and throw," Maffei said. "That's what they're capable of doing."
Roberts found Williams in the fourth when the junior quarterback hit his receiver for a 49-yard score.
"We were doing well in practice this week," Roberts said. "We just connected in the game."
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FL-- Victor D'Ascenzo 64 pass to Dan Santella (D'Ascenzo kick)
T-- Nick Roberts 20 pass to Mike Williams (Ryan Pearson kick)
T-- Roberts 44 pass to Pearson (Pearson kick)
T-- Roberts 51 pass to Williams (Pearson kick)
T-- Roberts 36 pass to Eric Anderson (Pearson kick)
T-- Roberts 49 pass to Williams (Pearson kick)
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Of Elves and Dwarves is the epilogue of Mines of Moria. Unlike all other books of this volume the epilogue was, together with Fortress of the Nazgul, released with The Lord of the Rings Online: Siege of Mirkwood.
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Nov. 9, 2011) – As Itode Fubara (Ogbema, Nigeria) watched four bandits rob him and everybody else inside a bus at gunpoint on its way to the U.S. Embassy, he felt helpless. Four people had stolen everything he had worked so hard for and ran away with it into the African jungle.
Nearly a year has passed since the sophomore midfielder scored the goal that won ETSU its first Atlantic Sun Tournament Championship. A simple redirect off a free kick sent in the box which Fubara planted in the back of the net and into the memories of the 1,162 fans in attendance at Summers-Taylor Stadium.
It was a great moment in the Buccaneers' short history, but what nobody in attendance knew was just how difficult and unlikely that simple shot really was. A goal which meant so much to so many signified even more to the Nigerian native, because it came after many improbable obstacles.
Growing up as one of 12 children near Port Harcourt, Nigeria, Fubara took a liking to the sport of soccer at a young age. As with most youthful athletes, Fubara dreamed of becoming the best at the sport he loved, but unlike most of his friends and fellow competitors, he valued his education as well.
"Most people just want to play professionally; they don't want to go to school," Fubara said. "I guess I thought differently. I needed a backup in case something happened while I was playing and I couldn't play anymore. My big aim was to go to school with the hope that afterwards I could continue playing."
The influence to do so came from his family. Fubara's mother, Blessing, worked as an educator in the family's hometown. Growing up, Fubara had the luxury of knowing the importance of education while his peers focused their efforts on the unlikely chance of being talented and fortunate enough to play at the professional level.
When he came of age, Fubara moved out of his parents' house to live with one of his older brothers. Then a teen, Fubara felt he had relied on his parents for too much for too long and willingly moved out upon his brother's request.
"My brother wanted me to move in with him so he could take care of me," Fubara said. "I didn't want to be a bother to my parents anymore, since they had provided everything for me my entire life, so I moved in with my brother.
"In Nigeria it's thought of as a responsibility. As an elder brother you have to take care of your siblings. Almost all of my elder brothers gave me money every month as I was the youngest. They gave me the opportunity to be able to continue playing without working full time. They gave me everything I needed."
Well cared for, Fubara was given the opportunity to play soccer and began to develop his skills. Building talent and quite the playing reputation at home, he went on to be named MVP of the Abua – Odual Chairman's Cup in Rivers State Nigeria in 2006. He then became the leading goal scorer, netting seven goals, in the Abua – Odual Seven Aside Tournament in 2007 before being named the MVP of the Abua – Odual Seven Aside Tournament again in 2008.
An opportunity to showcase his skills came in December of 2008, when Clemson University – a program known for recruiting in Africa, particularly Nigeria – attended a tournament Fubara was supposed to play in.
"The coaching staff had gone over to Nigeria and spent quite a bit of time over there to find a player which they thought could help them get back to Clemson's dominant years," said ETSU head coach Scott Calabrese, a former assistant at Clemson. "It was tough to find a player who had an academic background, the maturity and the football ability all in one package. They found a lot that were great players, but not diligent in terms of their studies."
Not even aware of the opportunity which was about to present itself, Fubara prepared for the tournament just as he would any other; however, he ran into a problem. When he showed up to compete, he was told he had not been registered to play and was ineligible.
"I didn't want to just go home," commented Fubara. "So I went to the other field to kick around with people I saw playing. I didn't plan to go over there because I was supposed to be playing in the tournament."
The pick-up game happened to be scouted by the Clemson staff, which watched Fubara net two goals in a matter of 10 minutes and immediately brought him over for a talk. After talking with Fubara a few more times, the staff left but returned a month later to scout more talent, and reevaluate Fubara.
Liking what they saw, and with Fubara longing for the opportunity to come to America to play and fulfill his dream of pursuing an education, he agreed to play for Clemson starting in the fall of 2009.
However, a coaching change brought Fubara's hopes to a standstill.
"Clemson had a coaching change in that interim period, where [Fubara] was then told he was no longer going to be able to go to Clemson," Calabrese said. "It was a bad situation in a lot of ways because he had done all this work; taking the SAT, getting all the transcripts, getting everything sent over, and it isn't cheap to send stuff DHL.
"He put a lot into it and then, all of the sudden, the plug was pulled."
With bringing in Fubara no longer an option, the Clemson staff contacted Tyler Junior College, located in Tyler, Texas, touting the Nigerian's skill and character to the coaching staff. Before long, Tyler contacted Fubara and plans were arranged for him to now join the Tyler squad come August.
Then a second obstacle struck, as Fubara was not able to attain a visa from the U.S. Embassy in Abuja, Nigeria because of missing documentation. The situation caused Fubara's trip to be delayed, costing him a spot on the Tyler team and preventing him from reaching the United States.
"That is when we found out about him," Calabrese said. "We wanted to give him an opportunity to pursue his education and play soccer at ETSU. There were lots of difficulties because visas are very difficult to come by and traveling across the country to get your visa is difficult. He had quite a few bumps in the road in terms of getting everything situated."
The bump felt more like hitting a brick wall at 50 miles per hour. Planning to arrive at ETSU in January of 2010, Fubara headed for the U.S. Embassy in mid December. Wanting to save some money, he decided to take the bus from his home near Port Harcourt all the way to the Embassy in Abuja.
En route to Abuja, and hours from home, the bus abruptly stopped.
"There were four robbers, with guns" Fubara said. "We saw two of them ahead and the driver stopped and planned to go back, but then we saw two more guys coming from behind. There is no way you can move. If you move they are going to shoot. Eight people were on the bus and they robbed everyone.
"They took the bags, everything, and ran into the bush. The cops didn't see it happen. They drove by and I stopped them and told them that people just robbed everybody on the bus and that they had stolen my bag and ran into the bushes."
In Fubara's stolen bag were his documents; the documents he needed to bring to the Embassy in order to get his visa so he could join Calabrese and the Bucs at ETSU. Without the documents, Fubara's trip would again be halted, and he would have to go on without knowing if another opportunity would ever surface.
Minutes later the police came out, but with very little. One of the few items in their possession was Fubara's bag full of the documents he needed to receive his visa.
"I lost my phone and everything else I had with me," he said. "I was just happy they got my bag. If they hadn't gotten back my bag I would not have been able to go to the Embassy and I would have had to redo the documents. I don't know if I would have been able to come here anymore."
Bag in hand, Fubara headed back on a different bus for home. He decided not to risk traveling any further toward the Embassy, and instead took his flight. When he finally arrived at the Embassy, he received his visa in a matter of minutes. A document which eluded him so many times was finally in his grasp.
Fubara landed in the U.S. in January and was finally attending ETSU as a member of the men's soccer team. In his first season, he went on to be selected First Team All-Conference, was named A-Sun Freshman of the Year, earned All-Tournament honors, and was named A-Sun Tournament MVP after putting in a simple goal which, after all he had been through to get here, never seemed more complicated.
For more information on ETSU men's soccer please visit ETSUBucs.com and click on the men's soccer links.


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VANCOUVER - Fourteen.
Thank you, Sidney Crosby.
Thank you for putting the exclamation point on Canada's record 14 gold medals won here, unequalled by any nation, host or otherwise, in the history of the Winter Olympics.
Thank you for not taking a shift off, even when you were frustrated at every turn by an American body or stick in your way, all day long. Thank you for following that puck into the corner in overtime after you were sandwiched trying to split the U.S. defence, and thank you for heading for the hole when you left the puck with Jarome Iginla and two American defencemen stuck in the corner.
"He was yelling pretty hard for it, so I just laid it in there, hoping I wasn't too late," said Iginla, who was fighting off U.S. defenceman Ryan Suter and falling when he made the pass. "There's different pitches to a guy's voice when he's yelling for it. This was pretty urgent, so I knew he had a step. I didn't see it go in, I just heard everybody yelling, and saw him jumping around, so I knew we won."
"What did you yell at Iggy?" a reporter asked.
"Iggy!" said Crosby, laughing.
Thanks, Sid, most of all, for delivering your country from the nervous breakdown it was all set to suffer after Team USA's Zach Parise tied the game with 24.4 seconds left in regulation time, making all of Canada sit on a bed of nails, wondering if the dream would all turn to dust in the final act of this 17-day passion play.
"I just shot it. I knew where the net was, but I didn't see where it went," said Crosby, whose quick release propelled the puck between the pads of U.S. goalie Ryan Miller before he had time to set for the shot. "It doesn't even feel real. It feels like a dream."
That's not how it felt for Miller.
"It feels like s---," said the Buffalo Sabres star, who stopped 36 of 39 Canadian shots, but not the last one. And fittingly, somehow, it was Crosby, the 22-year-old poster boy for Canadian hockey, who pulled the trigger. Great ones do that, and you never quite know why the chance ends up on their stick, but it does.
"That's Sid for you," said Canadian centre Ryan Getzlaf. "There's a reason he's the best player in the world. He shows up in those big moments."
"A great player made a great play," said U.S. coach Ron Wilson. "I think both teams are winners, and maybe more than anything, hockey in general."
The game was an all-out NHL war of rival cultures but identical styles.
There was never a comfortable moment all afternoon for either side, because there wasn't a lot of room to play and no time to think. Even at 2-0, after Jonathan Toews and Corey Perry had Canada ahead at the game's midpoint, the only people who couldn't seem to figure out how tenuous a lead it was were the supposedly-savvy Canadian fans.
They began chanting, nonsensically, "Miller! Miller!" in derision at the American goalie – exactly the sort of cocky nonsense that has a habit of backfiring, and did, when Ryan Kesler tipped Patrick Kane's shot past Roberto Luongo with the chant still hanging in the air.
That guaranteed a frantic third period with everything on the line and not a hair's breadth of difference between the teams.
Mike Richards (fanned on a Rick Nash centering pass), Eric Staal (shot wide on a breakaway) and Crosby (stick-checked by Patrick Kane on a breakaway) all missed chances to salt it away, and Shea Weber and Chris Pronger hit goalposts in the third, and the sense of dread built and built through the final minutes.
When Luongo couldn't field a long hopeful shot from the point by Joe Pavelski about 40 seconds from the end, the loose puck sparked a free-for-all that looked a lot like the final, panicky seconds of the Slovakia semifinal, with one small difference.
This time, Luongo didn't make the miracle save. Kane's shot from the faceoff circle was headed wide but hit U.S. captain Jamie Langenbrunner's skate and Parise took the rebound off Luongo's pads and shovelled it home with 24.4 seconds separating Team Canada from the gold.
"It was disappointing, we were so close to getting there," said the Canucks' goaltender, who was serenaded after every save, however routine, with the usual "Loooooooo!"
This town – and this country – was praying for him to finally put his stamp on a career-defining victory, and perhaps this will turn out to be it.
"I'll leave that up to you guys . You be the judge of that, but I've got a gold medal around my neck, and no one can take that away from me," he said ."That was real fun. Not so much the last 20 seconds of the third, but the feeling that goes through your body when Sid scores that goal … it's unreal.
"It's just fitting, I think, that Sid would get it. It was kind of a sharp angle, but I've seen that release before, and it's hard to pick up. Shoot it quick like that, its tough to close it."
This Canadian team had much to be proud of Sunday, not least of which was the ability to perform with an entire nation holding its breath.
"You know, at the end of the day, you've just got to play the game," said defenceman Chris Pronger, who was terrific in the finale. "You can't worry about the media, the fans, the country's expectations – we put high expectations on ourselves from the beginning, probably more than people understand."
"It's pretty cool," said Iginla, paying tribute to the larger Olympic team of which Canada's male hockey players represented but a single gold. "You know, you watch other Olympics, and see the gold medal hunt, and we're not really in it – we were looking for our first gold medal ever at home …
"And suddenly here we are setting the record, and we get to be part of that. That's a very proud and awesome feeling."


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Facebook isn't just made for stalking hot chicks, you can keep up with your friends too! But friends make it tough when they start posting cryptic, emo status updates—what do they really mean? Facemood for iPhone reads those updates and gives their updates a happiness and sadness rating.
What is it?
Facemood :), $1, iPhone. Facemood is a smart little iPhone app that tells you, through a super secret algorithm, how your Facebook friends are feeling at the moment. When your friends make status updates, the app analyzes the words they use (dictionary definitions, word connotations from Urban Dictionary) and applies a point rating to it. So words like "great" get positive points, an 'ecstatic' or 'awesome' would get more. Saying stuff like "down" or "sad" would net them negative points. It all adds up and the app spits out how happy or sad they're feeling.
Trivial? Probably. But super neat! You can find out what the computers and equations think of your friend! If you always thought they were overly emotional, you have proof. If you thought people were too damn cheery, the computers agree. It's nerdy fun to have words translated to "quantifiable" numbers.
Who's it good for?
People who care about their friends. People who don't like to read everybody's status update. People who have a lot of friends they don't get to see often. People who like using apps that implement super secret algorithms.
Why's it better than alternatives?
It's certainly a lot funner than trudging through melodramatic updates or excitable reactions. Like, who cares what they're saying! What's their Facemood score? More seriously, the app has a customizable dictionary that lets you add in some group slang words and apply value to those words too. Most importantly it lets you favorite the friends you really care about (so you can let the rest squabble on in Facebook's maul).
How could it be even better?
The app is a good start but can get better with long term graphs (showing happiness/sadness levels over time), use push notifications to warn you when someone's posted too many sad messages at once, take into consideration multiple updates rather than a single one, make the app faster and stop displaying so many "unable to calculate" options. Basically, the developers should embrace the silliness of the app and run with it. There should also be an option to vote whether you agree with Facemood's rating so they can "learn" you up. And sometimes, cursing is a good thing.
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Walking home tonight through the most recent snow and ice storm (I predict at least 1-2 mini storms before the flowers push through), I got lost listening to my iPod and dreaming about leftovers from last night's squash and bean salad. So, my 15 minute walk took 40. I entered my home cold, dripping, glasses foggy. After dropping my bag and coat and hat and scarf and gloves, I raced to the fridge, grabbed the lemon-painted mixing bowl that I made yesterday's salad in, and popped it in the microwave for a minute. No fire. No atmosphere. Just food.
Sitting on the counter were the now-dried squash seeds that I had cleaned the night before. I recalled really enjoying making and eating roasted pumpkin seeds when I was in kindergarten. (I went to one of those Montessori Schools so we did a lot of hands-on experimentation and practical things. Why they needed to take a school picture of me polishing silver is a whole other discussion….) So, I prepared them quickly and threw them in the oven as a second experiment in as many days.
Less than an hour later, after virtually licking my dinner bowl clean, I pulled the seeds out of the oven, put them in a little Japanese dipping bowl and could barely take a few pictures before eating all of them in a few minutes flat, licking the salt off my fingers between the warm crunchy bites.
Roasted Squash Seeds
Serving size depends on number and size of squash. 1 medium acorn squash yields 1/4-1/3 C seeds.
Cut squash in half and remove seeds and pith. Rinse seeds under water to free seeds from strings. Let dry overnight (you can probably skip this step).
Toss with oil (or just coat with spray oil such as Pam) and salt and lay in single layer on cookie sheet covered with aluminum foil.
Roast in oven at 300ºF for 30-40 minutes until golden brown and dry.
There are tons of other options for spicing the seeds, but since I haven't done this before, I stuck with the basics and they were fantastic. Other thoughts:
– sweet and salty: toss with sugar and salt
– sweet and spicy: sugar, cayenne and salt
– curry powder and salt
– rosemary and salt
– lemon pepper, salt and citrus zest