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It's crunch time. It's now or never.
English Teacher
You can find the definition of this idiom here.
It's crunch time. It's now or never.
It´s crunch time, I need to cast my vote.
a crucial decision to be made.
This one is new to me. Thank you.
I also found "when/if it comes to the crunch" used to say what someone will do when a difficult decision has to be made.
The person who says this idiom probably has had this problem for some time. He has postponed the decision to the last minute. He may succeed or he may fail as the outcome of his action is probably uncertain. He has finally sucked up his courage as he realizes that he must do something. So, perhaps against his better judgment, he is going to do something risky since he risks losing more by doing nothing.
a vital decision must be taken
crunch time is the sputnik moment, da moment of truth,da reckoning...
no matter.crunch time doesn't sound sophisticated,it's too trashy and simplistic.
according to wikipedia:
Crunch time refers to the period of time immediately before a project (or other timetabled item) is due to be done. It is typical for crunch time to occur between the next-to-last scheduled milestone and the final project completion date. Then, its projected completion timeline is either a miss, or a hit.
In basketball, the term crunch time is applied to the last few minutes of play in the fourth quarter. Here, both teams gear up to secure the game with fierce play, effectively ending the endurance match of the first, second and third quarters. The term was invented in New Zealand in 1984 as a combination of the two phrases show-time and when it comes to the crunch
Question to stuartnz: have you heard about it?
Very simply: IT'S NOW TIME TO GET DOWN TO BUSINESS!!


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Fox Host Dismisses Threat Of Furloughs From Budget Cuts As A "Convenient Excuse" As Hundreds Lose Their Jobs
A Fox News host dismissed the threat of furloughs from automatic budget cuts known as sequestration as a "convenient excuse" that allows agency heads to exaggerate the effects of the cuts. However, hundreds of workers have already been laid off due to the budget cuts and more are likely to be fired or furloughed if the cuts continue.
ICE director John Morton faced criticism From Republicans during a House hearing on Tuesday where he testified about the budget decisions ICE made to avoid furloughs. Fox & Friends host Alisyn Camerota dismissed Morton's explanation of his difficult choices as a "handy and convenient excuse," and downplayed the threat of furloughs and layoffs:
This is just what you constantly hear now with sequester. It's either this or furlough. It's either this or laying off. We don't want to take money out of the pockets of workers, and that is a handy and convenient excuse when, you know, you end up not cutting something that people think is expendable.
But local reports from around the country demonstrate that many Americans are already dealing with the serious repercussions of sequestration. Thousands of workers face pay cuts as high as 20% as a result of sequester-induced forced time off, or furloughs. Many more have already experienced layoffs. Citing other news reports, the Huffington Post highlighted several examples of layoffs and furloughs around the country:
On Monday, 250 workers at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington state received pink slips, while another 2,500 others found out they're facing furloughs. Approximately 9,000 people work at the nation's most contaminated nuclear site, and the Associated Press reports that "cleanup is likely to be slowed" because of the budget cuts.
Continental Maritime, a contractor that repairs U.S. Navy ships, expects to lay off 185 employees, effective April 12. Other contractors have issued conditional layoff notices -- meaning that jobs are safe if Congress restores some funding to the Defense Department -- to thousands of employees.
Four-hundred eighteen contract workers tied to the Tobyhanna Army Depot in Pennsylvania are losing their jobs due to sequestration. Two-hundred sixteen people will be dismissed on April 15 and 107 on April 30, the Morning Call of Allentown, Pa., reports. The paper noted that the Tobyhanna Army Depot is losing 35 percent -- $309 million -- of its government funding through the end of the fiscal year, and that more than 5,100 of the people who work there are being forced to take 22 furlough days.
At least eight municipal employees in Monterey County, Calif., are losing their jobs as a result of a decrease in the number of military contracts.
In early March, 23 people who work with the parks and recreation and maintenance departments in Tooele County, Utah, were laid off in order to grapple with the federal budget cuts. "I have four kids. This is my livelihood," said Scott Chance, a 12-year employee. "It pays my health insurance. It gives me my house."
Engineering Services Network is an engineering and technology company and one of the top Latino-owned companies in Virginia. President and CEO Raymond Lopez Jr. told NBC Latino that he has "lost about 20 employeesthrough sequestration."
The Red River Army Depot in Texarkana, Texas, announced in February that it was cutting 414 jobs -- about 10 percent of its workforce. "I don't know how we're going to make it," Raymond Wyrick, whose last day was scheduled to be March 9, told CNN Money.

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Professor Herb Berg to Receive Governor's Award for Excellence
Monday, October 14, 2013
Herbert Berg, professor of international studies, philosophy and religion at UNCW, has been selected to receive the Governor's Award for Excellence. An awards ceremony and reception will be held at 2 p.m. on Nov. 19 at the Museum of History in Raleigh, N.C. Governor Pat McCrory will present this award of excellence to Berg, the first employee from UNCW to receive this honor since 1997.
Berg's accomplishments are extensive. As a professor, he has expanded his range by teaching in departments other than his own, such as international studies, foreign languages and literatures and graduate liberal studies. Additionally, Berg has at times taught unpaid courses to meet students' requests.
While at UNCW, Berg has published two monographs with important academic presses and edited one major collection of articles from top scholars. He has served as the director for graduate liberal studies for five years. In addition, he started and directs the new international studies major.
Berg has won numerous awards and research grants. In 2012, he won the Board of Trustees Teaching Excellence Award and the Distinguished Teaching Professorship Award. In past years he has won the Chancellor's Teaching Excellence Award (2006) and the Discere Aude Award for his efforts in student mentoring (2007, 2010 and 2011). Notable research grants include the American Academy of Religion and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Berg is co-principal in a grant from the Defense Intelligence Agency.


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Know Your Zine Writer – Max Michaels
Posted by Matthew Moyer on February 25, 2010
I've been defined by my peers as a "prolific outsider artist whose influence on the local Jax scene is unmistakable." True or not, I first independently published MOVEMENT in the summer of 1992 with my own creative outline in mind, focusing on the music and arts scene. Close to two decades later I am still publishing the magazine with correspondents across the county and around the world. Publishing the magazine has led me into dozens of other projects including gallery exhibitions of my Rock and multimedia photography, club & nightlife promotions, music and talent management, and film production.
When and how did you first become involved with zines?
When I was 11 or 12 my father was the treasurer of a local credit union and he would to take me to his office with him when he had to go back to work at night and I'd get parked in the break room which had a copier. I would cut up magazines or type up articles and paste them into a handmade layout and recopy them into my own little magazines to hand out to my friends at school the next day. Later on in high school I focused on photography and continued to make little zines and comics. After graduating I got much more serious about publishing, it was in my blood, so I taught myself all I could and had some pretty tragic first experiences with a couple minor upstart local zines, none of whom were willing to cover subjects that held my (or anyone else's) interest, either that or they could not hold themselves together. So I set out to create a vehicle for my vision that could accommodate a broader scope of artists than anything I had worked with prior. I relocated to Gainesville, which was only an hour from home and at the time had a much better music and club scene than Jax, where I met a great group of writers and club kids and started MOVEMENT. The rest is history.
You do all of the design, layout, distribution and editing yourself. What work goes into producing an issue?
I do the design and layout myself, but its all the writers, artists and sales team that make it happen. It's very much a group effort, and producing an issue is fairly mechanical as long as their departments are functioning smoothly. Obviously advertising is the life blood of the industry, and though unfortunately its been a bit anemic as of late, signs have been showing promise for stabilization.
What's the strangest thing that's happened to you because of Movement?
That I've been able to carry it on for close to two decades now! Who knew? Total shock to me, but a welcome one. I am completely and consistently humbled and overwhelmed by the vast talents that I have had the privilege to work with over the years. It's made the lot of us a little family. I guess also becoming close with some of the artists I idolized in my youth is always a little strange to me, and embarrassing when they call my cell and their music is my call tone.
Though Movement does have a web presence, you've always been very adamant about giving the print edition priority. What's your rationale?
There is no rationale involved at all. It is entirely foolish I'm sure, but I am a nostalgic artist and as we were one of the few pioneering publications to embrace the web early on, we will also champion the undeniable need for a quality street worthy underground zine that embraces and supports the independent artists who struggles every day to be heard in the shrinking print media pool or are left to drown in the information storm on the web.
What projects are you currently working on?
I will be expanding MOVEMENT Publishing projects this year beyond the magazine, aggressively publishing a few new series on our comic publishing imprint, as well as some biographic releases relating to our art and nightlife history in the city.


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Whiteclay protesters vandalize beer truck
A beer truck in the Nebraska border town of Whiteclay was vandalized by activists who were protesting the town's alcohol stores near the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
Two eyewitnesses tell The Associated Press that more than a dozen activists confronted the truck's driver Friday as he was making a delivery.
Vic Clarke, a Whiteclay grocery store owner, says one activist flashed a knife and told the driver to leave town. Group members then started stomping on his beer containers and throwing them into the street. The truck's two front tires were slashed.
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At the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science, a full-time and fully funded position for a Ph.D. student is available for a four-year period, starting at the earliest moment (as early as 1 July 2009).
The topic of the research project, funded by the FWO-Vlaanderen (Research Foundation Flanders), is: "Argumentative networks: a still missing integration of philosophical approaches to argumentation with AI-models, with an application to mathematical practice." The intended application is the classification theorem of the finite, simple groups. We are therefore looking for a student with a philosophical training, but with the required mathematical background to handle such proofs.
Please send your CV and a letter of motivation to Jean Paul Van Bendegem (firstname.lastname@example.com) before June 15, 2009. A more detailed project description can be found at http://www.vub.ac.be/CL WF/activities/argumentativenetworks.pdf
A phrase from the project description:
The choice of the case study, viz., the classification theorem of
finite, simple groups, is mainly determined by the fact that no single mathematician can comprehend the entire proof, hence, it has to be 'shared' in the community of mathematicians.
My colleagues with experience of the Classification of Finite Simple Groups took the statement very seriously. A typical response:
I believe that there are quite a few mathematicians involved in the proof, e.g. Aschbacher, Lyons, Smith, Solomon, Thompson, etc. each of whom understands the entire proof.
I have perhaps to add that the mathematician quoted above also understands the entire proof.
Some papers andbooks on history of CFSG:
- M. Aschbacher, The Classification of the Finite Simple Groups.
- M. Aschbacher, The Status of the Classification of the Finite Simple Groups.
- M. Aschbacher, Highly complex proofs and implications of such proofs.
- D. Gorenstein, The classification of fnite simple groups, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (New Series) 1 (1979), 43-199. MR 80b:20015.
- D. Gorenstein, Finite Simple Groups: An Introduction to their Classication, Plenum Press, New York, 1982. MR 84j:20002.
- D. Gorenstein, The Classication of Finite Simple Groups, Plenum Press, New York, 1983. MR 86i:20024.
- D. Gorenstein, The classication of the fnite simple groups, a personal journey: the early years. MR 90g:0103.
- R. Solomon, A brief history of the classification of the finite simple groups. (Contains extensive bibliography.)
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Makes15 servings
This is a moist and very flavorful snack cake. Would recommend finely chopping vs grinding the almonds. Was a hit at my weekly diet class.
I used regular sugar and butter in the amounts give. I added 1/4 tsp cherry extract to increase the cherry flavor. I thought about putting some mini chocolate chips in, but opted for drizzling some melted chocolate on top which makes them taste like a chocolate covered cherry. Delicious!
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I haven't tried this recipe yet, but it sounds great EXCEPT I don't do artificial sweeteners. I use xylitol (a sugar alcohol that looks and tastes like sugar and doesn't require insulin to metabolize) in other words safe for diabetics. Just add an extra egg white to prevent dryness. Google xylitol, it's an all natural sweetener.
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And why should there be controversy. The demonstration occurred after class, it was optional and apparently involved only consenting adults. And the dankprofessor finds it to be a breath of fresh air when the professor stated he had no regrets, after all he stated his students are open minded adults rather than fragile children. Let us hope that the student as child obsessed are able to control their obsessive thinking, unlikely but not impossible. Following is the text of the article-
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More than 100 Northwestern University students watched as a naked 25-year-old woman was penetrated by a sex toy wielded by her fiancee during an after-class session of the school's popular "Human Sexuality" class.
The woman said she showed up at the Feb. 21 lecture in the Ryan Family Auditorium in Evanston expecting just to answer questions, but was game to demonstrate. The course's professor on Wednesday acknowledged some initial hesitation, but said student feedback was "uniformly positive."
And Northwestern defended the class and its professor.
"Northwestern University faculty members engage in teaching and research on a wide variety of topics, some of them controversial and at the leading edge of their respective disciplines," said Alan K. Cubbage, vice president for University Relations. "The University supports the efforts of its faculty to further the advancement of knowledge."
The optional, non-credit demo followed psychology Prof. John Michael Bailey's sexuality class. Nearly 600 students are in Bailey's class this quarter, and most didn't stick around for the after-class show, which featured four members of Chicago's fetish community describing "BDSM," or bondage, discipline, sadism and masochism.
"I didn't expect to see a live sex show," said Justin Smith, 21, a senior economics and political science major who was in the after-class session. "We were told we were going to have some people talk to us about the fetish world and kink."
Smith said it took him awhile to process what happened, but he doesn't object to the way the material was presented.
"It was for me academic like everything else," he said.
He told his grandparents about the class.
"My grandma was like, wow, Northwestern is a little bit different then when I went there," he said.
In a statement, Bailey said he hesitated briefly before allowing the public sex act.
"My hesitation concerned the likelihood that many people would find this inappropriate," he wrote. "My decision to say 'yes' reflected my inability to come up with a legitimate reason why students should not be able to watch such a demonstration."
After the demonstration, several students tried a different sex toy that gave a "titillating" but not painful shock, testing it out on their arms, said Ken Melvoin-Berg, who narrated the after-class lecture. Melvoin-Berg said the school paid him between $300 to $500 for his appearance.
Faith Kroll, the woman who stripped, was laying down on a towel when she was penetrated. When she arrived, she thought she just would be answering students' questions and showing off sex toys they brought, including whips, paddles and a clown wig.
An "absurd, clinical" video and subsequent discussion about various aspects of female orgasm led Faith and her partner Jim Marcus, 45, to prove to the class that female orgasm is real.
Faith said she was not coerced in any way and students were repeatedly warned it was going to get graphic.
"One of the students asked what my specific fetish was and mine is being in front of people, having the attention and being used," she said. "The students seemed really intrigued."
In his statement, Bailey said student feedback was "uniformly positive."
Marcus, a musician who said he has worked as a sex educator, said he thinks it is "smart and important" for students to be learn about sexuality.
"It's really scary for young people who want to get involved in the BDSM community who don't understand issues regarding consent and safety," he said.
Melvoin-Berg said he met Prof. Bailey through a swinging couple who previously spoke to the class. Melvoin-Berg runs the "Weird Chicago Red Light District Sex Tour," which has participants playing games like "spot the ho" as they travel the city looking for prostitutes. He also teaches "Networking for Kinky People," a 3-hour version of the one hour lecture he gave at Northwestern.
Melvoin-Berg said the sex toy used was BDSM, but was "not like a pain thing…we wanted to make it poignant."
"I did mention this was going to be the best money their parents had spent on their education," he said.
Bill Yarber, a researcher at Indiana University's Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction and author of the textbook Human Sexuality: Diversity in Contemporary America, said he's never heard of a naked woman being brought to orgasm in front of a class of students.
"The way you present it there is very unconventional," he said. "There's certain boundaries of things, I think, that are acceptable and that would certainly be pushing that."
This isn't Bailey's first brush with controversy. His 2003 book, "The Man Who Would Be Queen," sparked hostile debate in the transgender community by claiming that there were more reasons for men to become women then simply that biology trapped them in the wrong body. Several transgender women who spoke with Bailey claimed they did not consent to being used for research and accused him of practicing psychology without a license.
Bailey said in his statement Wednesday that during the Feb. 21 after-class lecture, "I was not in a mood to surrender to sex negativity and fear."
"Do I have any regrets?" he wrote on Wednesday. "It is mostly too early to say. I certainly have no regrets concerning Northwestern students, who have demonstrated that they are open-minded grown ups rather than fragile children."
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The National Flood Insurance Program aims to reduce the impact of flooding on private and public structures. It does so by providing affordable insurance to property owners, renters and businesses and by encouraging communities to adopt and enforce floodplain management regulations. These efforts help mitigate the effects of flooding on new and improved structures. Overall, the program reduces the socio-economic impact of disasters by promoting the purchase and retention of general risk insurance, but also of flood insurance, specifically.
For more information, visit www.FloodSmart.gov. Watch this short informative video, Why do I Need to Rethink Insurance?
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Protecting yourself today means preparing your home or workplace, collecting sources of information, developing an emergency communications plan and knowing what to do when a flood is approaching your home or business.
FEMA's Flood Loss Avoidance fact sheet is a valuable resource, or visit the NFIP publications page (see "During the Flood") for more information about what to do before and during a flood.
Things to know and do now:
- STAY INFORMED: Learn things you can do now to stay safe from flooding due to large storms like hurricanes. It's important to stay informed about what is happening with the storm as it approaches and always follow the instructions of local emergency management officials.
- TAKE PHOTOS: If you have contents coverage on your flood insurance policy and you haven't already done so, take photos of clothing, flooring, light fixtures, appliances, furniture, etc.--anything that could be damaged by the flood. Having this can help if you end up filing a flood insurance claim later. If you're not sure what your flood insurance policy covers, call your insurance agent.
- Make sure your sump pump is working. Then, install a battery-operated backup in case of power failure.
- Instal a water alarm will also let you know if water is accumulating in your basement.
- Clear debris from gutters and downspouts.
- Anchor any fuel tanks.
- Move furniture, valuables and important documents to a safe place.
- PROTECT VALUABLE DOCUMENTS: Store copies of irreplaceable documents (such as birth certificates, passports, insurance documents, deeds, etc.) in a safe, dry place. It can also be a good idea to photograph these documents and store the images in a safe place, too.
- PREPARE YOUR FAMILY: Visit Ready.gov for a complete disaster supply checklist, and to find out how to prepare for and what to do during a power outage.
- BE READY TO EVACUATE: Plan and practice a flood evacuation route. Ask someone out of state to be your "family contact" in an emergency, and make sure everyone knows the contact's address and phone number.
- PLAN FOR PETS AND ANIMALS: Make a pet and animal plan. Many shelters do not allow pets. Make plans now on what to do with your pets if you are required to evacuate your residence.
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The National Flood Insurance Program Desk Reference is in three distinct sections:
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- After the Flood
Community and state leaders, insurance industry professionals, as well as policyholders, renters, homeowners and businesses will find its resources helpful. We have organized this guide to provide succinct information in an easy-to-navigate document and included important, key contact information. To ensure it can be updated as the program evolves, this document has been published electronically.
Read about everything from mitigating your home to reduce flood damage, to information about weather alerts and how to stay safe when it's flooding in, How to Prepare for a Flood.
Information for Policyholders, Help with or without a Disaster Declaration.
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Use our interactive tool to find out how much a flood could cost you, and watch this short but informative video to learn more about the value of having flood insurance, Why do I Need to Rethink Insurance?
FACT: Floods are the nation's most common and costly natural disaster and cause millions of dollars in damage every year.
FACT: Homeowners and renters insurance does not typically cover flood damage.
FACT: Floods can happen anywhere--More than 20 percent of flood claims come from properties outside the high risk flood zone. Check out The Big Cost of Flooding.
FACT: Flood insurance can pay regardless of whether or not there is a Presidential Disaster Declaration.
FACT: Most federal disaster assistance comes in the form of low-interest disaster loans from U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) and you have to pay them back. FEMA offers disaster grants that don't need to be paid back, but this amount is often much less than what is needed to recover. A claim against your flood insurance policy could and often does, provide more funds for recovery than those you could qualify for from FEMA or the SBA--and you don't have to pay it back.
FACT: Wildfires dramatically change landscape and ground conditions, which can lead to increased risk of flooding due to heavy rains, flash flooding and mudflows.
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FACT: Flooding is the most common natural disaster in the United States, affecting every region and state, including yours.
FACT: Flood insurance can be the difference between recovering and being financially devastated.
FACT: The damage from just one inch of water can cost more than $20,000. Check out The Big Cost of Flooding.
FACT: You may be required to have flood insurance. Congress has mandated federally regulated or insured lenders to require flood insurance on mortgaged properties that are located in areas at high risk of flooding. But even if your property is not in a high-risk flood area, your mortgage lender may still require you to have flood insurance.
FACT: If you allow your flood insurance policy to lapse for either more than 90 days, or twice for any number of days, you may be required to provide an Elevation Certificate (if you don't have one), and you may no longer be eligible for policy rate discounts you might have been receiving prior to the policy lapse. It's important to talk with your insurance agent before canceling or not renewing the policy.
FACT: You can file a flood claim even if there is not a Presidential Disaster Declaration.
FACT: Flood damage is not typically covered by homeowners insurance.
FACT: No home is completely safe from potential flooding devastation—why risk it?
FACT: If you live in a high risk flood zone, and you've received federal disaster assistance in the form of grants from FEMA or low-interest disaster loans from the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) following a Presidential Disaster Declaration, you must maintain flood insurance in order to be considered for any future federal disaster aid.
FACT: Storms are not the only cause of floods. Flooding can be caused by dams or levees breaking, new development changing how water flows above and below ground, snowmelt and much more.
FACT: Too often, Americans are caught off guard by the emotional and financial costs of flood damage.
Flood insurance helps more: Check out your state's flood history with FEMA's interactive data Visualization Tool. Roll your cursor over each county to see how many flooding events have happened. The tool allows you to compare how much FEMA has provided in terms of federal disaster aid (through its Individuals & Households Program) after Presidential Disaster Declarations to the amount the National Flood Insurance Program has paid to its policyholders. It's easy to see having flood insurance provides a lot more help for recovery.
To renew your policy, call your flood insurance agent. If you don't have your insurance agent's contact information, call the National Flood Insurance Program's Help Center at 1-800-427-4661.
Who can buy flood insurance?
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Flood insurance from the NFIP is only available in participating communities. Ask your agent if your state and community participate, or look it up online in the Community Status Book.
Learn more by watching these short videos, What Do I Need To Know About Flood Insurance Coverage? and How Can I Buy Flood Insurance?
How can I buy flood insurance?
Visit How do I Buy Flood Insurance? Watch these informative videos, How Can I Buy Flood Insurance? and What do I Need to Know About Flood Insurance Coverage? To learn about factors that determine the cost of flood insurance, watch this video, What Factors Determine How Much I Pay for Flood Insurance.
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What can I do to prepare for or even reduce flood damage? And can doing these things lessen how much I pay for flood insurance?
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Reducing Flood Risk to Residential Buildings that Cannot be Elevated explains things that can be done to better protect a building from flood damage, and in some cases implementing these changes will reduce the cost of your flood insurance.
Communities enrolled in the NFIP's Community Rating System can get discounts on their flood insurance, learn more here.
The Homeowner's Guide to Retrofitting can help you decide the right method to mitigate future damage and loss by considering various factors, such as hazards to your home, permit requirements, technical limitations, and costs. This guide also helps you develop a flood protection strategy.
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Washington (CNN) – House investigators are interviewing two front-line Internal Revenue Service employees from the Cincinnati tax exempt office this week in Washington, and plan to interview two others next week, two congressional sources familiar with the investigation tell CNN.
House investigators are hoping these IRS employees will shed light on exactly why tea party and other conservative groups were inappropriately targeted for excess scrutiny when applying for tax exempt status.
The sources would not yet disclose the names of the employees, but CNN has previously reported that House Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa requested transcribed interviews with four IRS employees from the Cincinnati tax exempt office: John Shafer, Gary Muthert, Elizabeth Hofacre and Joseph Herr.
Investigators from two committees – House Ways and Means and House Oversight – are teaming up to bring these IRS workers to Washington, D.C. for the interviews.
Last week, Issa revealed they had already interviewed a potentially key IRS worker in the Washington, D.C. office – Holly Paz. Paz is a director in the IRS tax exempt division.
During a hearing with IRS Inspector General J. Russell George, Issa said Paz told his aides she was allowed to sit in on meetings with her employees and inspector general investigators. Issa said that raises questions about the true independence and veracity of the inspector general's audit on tea party targeting.
Obama's 2nd term is already in the ditch. He needs to get out from under this as quickly as he can otherwise we have a wasted 4 years to look forward to. The country deserves better. We have a whole list of priorites that need attention.
so i see the libs just dont get it. the irs being independent should never target any specific group over another. period. doesnt matter if its targeting only whites, or indians, or pinks or blues. its supposed to be fair and balanced. it cannot be used as a tool of politics. its a scandal that is worse than any other because it was used politically. that is the most arrogant and disgraceful usage of a state office ever. this administration is the most dirty since watergate and the most inept since the carter white house. i find obama to be a lazy president who has no clue how to manage anything. shame on anyone who voted for him. this is shameful and the usa should be embarrassed as such. disgusting. so damn sad.
And now the IRS is going after medical marijuana dispensaries and putting them out of business by not allowing them the usual business deductions. One can only assume that the AG and the president are behind this, given their known hostility to legal marijuana.
Data Driven: It is not alleged when the IRS came out and appologized for their actions.
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Calling it inappropriate is not editorializing when the IRS has said in official statements that it was "inappropriate". There's no "alleged" when the wrongdoer has admitted his wrongdoing. You can just start calling it what it is.
The IRS will be the "enforcer" of Obamacare. No thanks.
rudy, the right to counsel is specific to criminal matters. the IG investigation was not a criminal matter, therefore the 6th amendment wouldn't apply. moreover, although Ms. paz is an attorney, it would most likely be a conflict of interest for her to appear at such an investigatory proceeding as both an irs administrator and as counsel for an individual employee. it would not be appropriate for her to appear in both capacities.


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Between 2008 and 2011, the dysfunctional North London line was improved and rebranded into a high‐quality, high‐frequency service: the London Overground. Great ambitions for regeneration came with this project: The improved line, running through deprived areas of East London, was expected to bring inward investment and to open access to new opportunities outside the borough to its residents.
Some have questioned the financial wisdom of homeownership and, especially, Black homeownership. This is understandable because the mortgage crisis dealt heavy blows to Black homeowners. One concern is that home values may not appreciate as much where Blacks purchase homes. We examine how Black homebuyers fared compared to White and Latino buyers in terms of home appreciation during the 2012 to 2017 recovery. We examine appreciation rates by race and ethnicity across 15 metros.
China has become an important global actor in the arenas of production, trade, and foreign investment. In 1948, China contributed slightly less than 1 percent to global exports; by 2013, it had grown to almost 12 percent. Has China's vertiginous trade growth come at the expense of other exporters or does it represent an expansion of new consumer markets? For policy makers in the so-called "emerging markets," this is most relevant since many have adopted the export-led model as their engine of development.


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Bing Maps now offers transit directions. ('Bout time!) From the Bing Community blog:
Commuters rejoice! Today Bing Maps added transit routing to its directions options. So, for those of you who like to take the bus, subway, or local rail you now can turn to Bing Maps. This is a very important feature for us as public transit grows in popularity and coverage. There are more than 10.7 billion public transit passenger trips per year in the US alone.
In this initial release (i.e. more to come) of Bing Maps transit directions, Bing Maps will cover 11 cities: Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, New Jersey, New York City, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Seattle, Washington DC, and Vancouver.
So far, I like. The quick and dirty:
• The itineraries–at least the itineraries I tested–are accurate. (This is not a given, by the way.
• The UI is simple and clear, with some cool features, such as:
o It shows how many minutes you have to make a connection. (Sure, it's possible to do the math in your head, but it's nice to have the information called out.)
o It lists the stops before and after your destination stop. This is huge when you're traveling in an unfamiliar neighborhood or city. (Of course, this feature won't be necessary when we finally get automated stop announcements, but hey.)
o It lets you send an itinerary to an e-mail address or moblie device. (!!!)
Props to the folks at Microsoft for finally tapping the transit-geek market. (Unlike drivers, we can legally play with our Internet-enabled devices while we travel.)
I'll report back after I use it in the real world.


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First baseman draws walk in two-run ninth, homers before Mo's save
ST. PETERSBURG -- Lyle Overbay can't be sure of how much longer his services as the Yankees' starting first baseman will be needed, but he is certainly going to force the ballclub into making a tough decision.
Overbay crushed a long home run in the 11th inning off Josh Lueke, two innings after working a key walk that helped topple closer Fernando Rodney, as the Yankees stunned the Rays with a 4-3 victory on Saturday at Tropicana Field.
"It felt good," Overbay said. "I'd just been missing fastballs all day. It was good to just get on top of one instead of being late and underneath them. It was exciting to do that. Usually that's what happens when you put a good swing on it."
Mariano Rivera slammed the door in the bottom of the 11th for his 18th save in 18 opportunities, preserving the victory for Ivan Nova after he'd wriggled free of a bases-loaded jam in the 10th.
On a road trip where the Yanks have toppled Orioles closer Jim Johnson and now sent Rodney to his Major League-leading fifth blown save of the season, the events have served as a reminder of how important a weapon like the ageless Rivera truly can be.
"It's pretty nice," said Brett Gardner, who tied the game with an RBI single off Rodney in the ninth. "It's something we definitely take for granted. He's been lights out for us."
The Yankees were down to their final out in the ninth inning when Overbay -- who may have less than a week remaining before Mark Teixeira returns from the disabled list -- worked a six-pitch walk from Rodney.
Brennan Boesch -- called up late Friday night from Triple-A to replace the injured Curtis Granderson -- sent Overbay racing home with an opposite-field double, trimming the Yankees' deficit to one run.
"This kid's done some things in his career, and he has been in some tough situations," Yankees manager Joe Girardi said of Boesch. "He knows how to play."
Gardner then rapped a changeup into center field, bringing Boesch around with the tying run ahead of catcher Jose Lobaton's tag.
"After we tied it, you have to feel good about your chances," Gardner said. "You know the momentum is on our side, but we're still playing on the road and they've got the last shot at it."
Overbay said that he has been able to savor these moments because, as he put it, "I could be sitting at home right now." Slapped onto the roster at the end of the spring, Overbay now hopes there can be a place for both him and Teixeira on the team.
"I want him back. I've always said, 'He's real good and he's going to give us a good chance,'" Overbay said. "I just hope that I can co-exist with him. We'll soon find out."
With the game tied, Ichiro Suzuki made a terrific catch in right field on Yunel Escobar's liner to right field, helping David Robertson send the game to extra innings.
"Amazing," Girardi said. "I heard some people in the stands close to the dugout say, 'There it is.' They thought the game was over. He's been a great defender for a long time."
The Yanks' bullpen pitched lights out after a seventh-inning wobble. Rookie Vidal Nuno had provided six solid innings before Shawn Kelley and Boone Logan were unable to prevent Tampa Bay from pushing two runs across the plate in the seventh.
In that inning, Jose Molina stroked a run-scoring single off Logan and Escobar followed with a fielder's-choice grounder that shortstop Jayson Nix threw home on, but too late to catch Matt Joyce sliding around Austin Romine's tag as the Rays took a two-run lead.
Girardi said that he wasn't sure if Romine should have blocked the plate better, saying that he'd need to watch a replay to form his opinion.
"I know it's a really close play, because I've heard a number of different answers," Girardi said.
Matt Moore held the Yankees to a first-inning run over six frames in a no-decision. New York scored quickly on Moore as Gardner doubled, advanced on a groundout and came home on Travis Hafner's run-scoring single.
"He pitched really well again; great stuff," Rays manager Joe Maddon said. "He definitely pitched well enough to win."
And so did Nuno, who permitted two runs and five hits over six-plus innings in his second Major League start. Tampa Bay didn't score on Nuno until the fifth, when Molina and Desmond Jennings doubled to tie the game.
"It feels good to go out there and compete, just knowing they're giving me a shot," Nuno said.
Gardner said that it felt like the Yankees stole one, and they've been in short supply at The Trop, where New York posted a win for just the fifth time in its last 18 games here. But for a newcomer like Overbay, those statistics don't mean a whole lot.
"I had no idea until someone else said it," Overbay said. "I was like, 'Oh really?' You think, we're the Yankees. We beat everybody, right? I know when I was with Toronto, we struggled here too. I guess it's something in the water."


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In its final report to the General Assembly, the interim committee on digital learning called on lawmakers to initiate the shift from hardbound to digital textbooks and to implement other measures that will ensure North Carolina public schools are, in fact, providing students with a 21st century education.
In addition to the transition from bound books to e-books, the committee recommended the use of lottery funds for digital learning needs and the creation of a new "digital competency" standard that teachers and administrators would have to meet to get their credentials.
"We truly have set North Carolina on a new path forward into, as we say, the 21st century," said Rep. Craig Horn, a Republican from Union and co-chair of the committee. "This is important work. It does not end here. All we've done is . . . (identify) the direction in which the ship should go at some point, so lots of work ahead."
Like other interim education committees this week, the digital learning panel sidestepped the one or two issues destined to create controversy. In this case, the issue was virtual charter schools.
Rep. Marvin Lucas, D-Cumberland, pointedly noted the omission but there was no other discussion about the possibility of allowing virtual charters to become a part of North Carolina's school choice landscape.
Criticized in other states for providing a lackluster form of education, virtual charters have met with resistance in North Carolina. A superior court judge effectively blocked an educational company called N.C. Learns from opening a virtual charter school earlier this year, a move supported by school boards across the state and the N.C. Justice Center.
"We hope," said Katherine Joyce, assistant director of the North Carolina Association of School Administrators, that "the committee's decision not to recommend authorizing a virtual charter school indicates an awareness of the concerns surrounding that proposal and all the unanswered questions that need investigation before the state moves in that direction."


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"It is a pleasure to have made such a strong connection; IEEE has honed a valuable service, and whether you are a mentor or mentee, there is a great deal of value in this program."
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This afternoon was the first meeting between two musicians named Sebastian and Sebastien. The meeting took place at the Pearl Stable in the 18th annual Fall Festival of Music offered by the Opera Guild of San Antonio. I was lucky to be attending as a guest of one of the co-chairs of the event, Caroline Sanders. Here is the photo of the two Sebastians/Sebastiens:
The young man on the left is Sebastien De La Cruz. (I know you recognize the Sebastian on the right!) You may recognize Sebastien's name from the sensation he created when he appeared on America's Got Talent. Sebastien is just 10 years old! His next concert in San Antonio will be on December 1 at the Magik Theatre. Visit his web site at http://sebastienmariachi.com/ (and see the video at the end of this blog.) The website describes his television appearances: "NBC producers along with millions of viewers fell in love with the charismatic and respectful persona of Sebastien. TV personalities and judges, Howard Stern, Sharron Osbourne and Howie Mandel all agreed that Sebastien is "wise beyond his years." Sebastien, along with Mariachi Charros de Oro, catapulted mariachi music into the national spotlight, performing 5 times (including 3 live shows) with over 11 million viewers each performance."
Sebastien sang two songs at today's Opera Guild event. His voice and stage presence were remarkable (even for somebody three times his age!?!) Right after the performance, Sebastian Lang-Lessing jumped to his feet and asked the 10-year old Sebastien to consider singing with the San Antonio Symphony! Stay tuned for more details as this story develops.
Sebastian Lang-Lessing was the guest of honor at the lunch. He received a special Fiesta medal from the Opera Guild (pictured on the right.) Sebastian was also honored with a beautiful glass plaque. In his acceptance speech, Sebastian spoke about the importance of collaboration between opera companies and symphony orchestras. He said in Europe these are often one unified company. He accepted the honor, not only as an award, but also as a challenge to promote opera in San Antonio in the future.
Sebastian's last concerts of 2012 are coming up this weekend. After this weekend's Classics series concerts, the Symphony has 15 different holiday programs in late November and December.
November 16 & 17, 2012 at 8 p.m., Majestic Theatre
Sebastian Lang-Lessing, conductor
Ewa Kupiec, piano
Copland Four Dance Episodes from Rodeo
Ravel Piano Concerto in G major
Mozart Symphony in 41, "Jupiter"
Concert sponsored by the Valero Energy Foundation.
Ms. Kupiec's appearance is sponsored by Carolyn A. Seale and Carol Lee Klose.
The next programs for Sebastian will be the Brahms Festival (BrahmsSA.com) in February. The Symphony's part of the Brahms Festival will include all 4 symphonies, both piano concertos, the violin concerto and the double concerto for violin and cello — all conducted by Sebastian — the one that ends with "an" that is.
Here is Sebastien on TV:
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Is Spencer Pratt planning to crash "The Hills" finale?
Maybe so, according to People. Pratt apparently booked a room in the Roosevelt Hotel Hollywood for Tuesday night, a strange coincidence as it's the same hotel where the cast finale party is scheduled to take place. He announced that he'd be staying there via Twitter.
"Booking my room @Roosevelt Hotel Hollywood now that I have no place to live I think i should just move in there today (to) stay near the action," he wrote.
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Pratt and his estranged wife Heidi Montag were not invited to the party, but former "Hills" cast members Kristin Cavallari, Lauren Conrad, Brody Jenner and Whitney Port are expected to be in attendance.
Both Pratt and Montag left the show mid-season after clashing with the show's creator, Adam DiVello, and having other on-set issues.


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Marlboro's mayor, its chamber of commerce and its Marlborough Economic Development Corporation have all been working to draw biotechnology and medical device companies from Cambridge to Marlboro. And it's working. What can Worcester learn?
Worcester seems to have advantages over Marlboro when it comes to life sciences. For example, the University of Massachusetts Medical School has the kind of talent that Marlboro � lacking any institutions of higher education � does not. But Marlboro makes up for that deficit in the minds of life sciences companies.
The location of ample office space near Route 495 makes it an easy commute for the talent that lives nearby. And Marlboro's deep familiarity with life science's complex regulatory requirements, its predictable decision-making, and its willingness to offer tax incentives has proven to be a winning combination.
With 39,000 residents, Marlboro used to be home to information technology companies, including Digital Equipment Corporation, 3Com, and many of Fidelity Investments' workers. But these companies sold out or left town, and that meant office vacancies that Marlboro ably filled with "life science and medical device companies, many of which have arrived over the past year: Quest Diagnostics, Boston Scientific, Sunovian, and Hologic," reported the Boston Globe.
In October, Marlboro landed its most recent corporate resident, medical device maker, Boston Biomedical Associates, which plans to move its 52 workers from Northboro to a 17,000-square-foot space on the second floor of at 100 Crowley Dr. in Marlboro.
In a 2011 master plan, the Marlborough Economic Development Corporation described a significant economic challenge facing the city and stressed the importance of adding corporate citizens in the biotechnology business as a way to meet that challenge. According to the report, "In order to keep the tax burden of the average Marlborough homeowner stable while allowing the city's budget to continue to expand at the same rate at which it has been expanding over the past 10 years," or about 2 percent per year above the inflation rate, the report said, the assessed value of the city's nonresidential properties would need to grow by "more than $1 billion."
One way to get there would be to create "27 million square feet of new nonresidential space" � nearly triple Marlboro's 2011 level of commercial space � by encouraging biotechnology businesses and trade groups to open shop in the city.
This plan has worked, as Mr. Cummings said, about 30 percent of 2012's commercial real estate activity in Marlboro came from "life science and medical device companies moving or committing to move into the city."
Marlboro has three key selling points. It's near workers who can get there on Interstates 90, 290, and 495, and Route 20; its city council structure speeds up permitting for big construction projects; and it delivers flexible corporate property tax arrangements, such as the Massachusetts tax increment financing (TIF) program.
Through TIFs, cities in the state temporarily reduce � for a period between five and 20 years � business property taxes by calculating a company's tax bill only on the "base value" of a property, and exempting up to 100 percent of any value the property gains through the company's operations.
Mr. Cummings notes that life science and biotechnology businesses like TIFs because they often need to make big capital expenditures such as installing a costly air-flow system or making facility additions. One win resulting from Marlboro's TIF program is New Jersey-based Quest Diagnostics, which announced in 2012 that it plans to move 950 of its employees into a 200,000-square-foot Marlboro building formerly used by Hewlett Packard.
Despite the distance from Cambridge, companies in the industry like Marlboro's in-depth understanding of its complex requirements. This know-how prompted the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council in December 2012 to upgrade Marlboro to being a "Platinum BioReady Community" � along with Cambridge and Boston. MassBio noted admiringly that Marlboro had adopted the National Institutes of Health's guidelines on recombinant DNA research, according to the Globe.
Marlboro's economic development strategy may offer Worcester useful insights. As Mr. Cummings explained, "My office has been executing on our economic development plan since 2012. Mayor Arthur Vigeant and I have been meeting with 130 companies of all sizes and industries to ensure that they stay in Marlboro. And in seeking to attract businesses to the city, we are not focusing just on Massachusetts, but on the nation, in targeted industries such as biotechnology, life sciences, and medical devices. We offer quality of life and amenities � such as walking trails and bike paths for workers � and public transportation. And we realize that a location decision is a high stakes career event for the executive who makes it so we provide a highly predictable licensing timeline and a short decision window. And we are adding mixed use development that we think will make Marlboro a place where talented people will be able to live, work, and play."
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Hi, you may have noticed the new "report a problem" link. There is also a page where you can view and act on these problems at Special:ProblemReports. Anyone can view this list, but admins can also mark reports as "fixed", "not a problem", or highlight it for staff. And you already have the first of your problem reports! Maybe an admin can have a look and see what you can do to help? -- sannse (talk) 23:33, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
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The YouTube video showing the post-Christmas blizzard in New York is charming enough, with its evocative, cleverly edited scenes of cars and pedestrians slip-sliding as a little dog explores a big snow drift.
But when film critic Roger Ebert views "Idiot With a Tripod," he sees Oscar.
"This film deserves to win the Academy Award for best live-action short subject.... Any professional will tell you the talent exhibited here is extraordinary," the renowned critic wrote on his blog last week.
The 3-minute, 35-second video, by Jamie Stuart, is well worth a look – it's already logged the more than 375,000 views on YouTube since Dec. 28. We're not sure the piece is Oscar material, but let's give Ebert two big thumbs up for even broaching the idea of YouTube as an outlet for homemade Academy Award-worthy fodder.
Ebert's refreshing take is another sign of how the digital revolution is changing the way we make and view media. It's also a reminder of how technology, in a sense, has allowed the critic to retain his own voice.
The idea of a homemade short rising to Oscar contention status is particularly enticing as we enter the awards season slog – one seemingly endless red carpet parade of Hollywood big-studio promotion, ego and glitz.
The spectacle is a far cry from the alternately down-to-earth and ethereal picture Stuart painted of the snowy streets of Astoria, Queens, on Dec. 26th. Music, but no voices, accompanies the images – offering an unintended poignancy when you consider the short's champion, Ebert.
The critic, who has battled cancer, has been unable to talk since 2006. But he still writes his syndicated column, blogs and tweets. He also "speaks" via a computer-generated voice using recordings of the many words he uttered during his years with the late Gene Siskel on "At the Movies," the show that made both critics pop culture icons.
The program is expected to return this month in a new form – titled "Roger Ebert Presents At the Movies" – with Christy Lemire and Elvis Mitchell as the principal film reviewers.
In the meantime, check out "Idiot With a Tripod" (also known as "Man in a Blizzard") below:
Hester is founding director of the award-winning, multi-media NYCity News Service at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. He is the former City Editor of the New York Daily News, where he started as a reporter in 1992. Follow him on Twitter.


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UBS launches its Sports and Entertainment Group (SEG).
The clients of UBS Private Banking are increasingly seeking customized solutions and targeted professional advice covering their whole life-cycle. UBS has addressed this challenge by setting up special advisory teams for the different needs of specific client groups and today announces the launch of its Sports and Entertainment Group.
With increasing expenditure on leisure, the flow of money to people working in this business has seen significant growth in recent years. This booming cash flow (USD 22 bn was spent on world-wide sports sponsorship in 1999) is obviously filtering through to the athletes and entertainers, as illustrated by new record levels of earnings in all sports and the entertainment industry.
The individuals concerned differ in many ways from the classic private client: they are typically young and do not necessarily have a great deal of financial expertise. Although they have potential for rapid escalation of earnings, they rarely have a second chance to recreate any "lost" wealth. In addition, they do not always have the time or the wish to take care of their investments, or to think about wealth planning or retirement when concentrating on their own career.
To respond to this need, UBS Private Banking, a leader in asset management for high net worth individuals, has set up a dedicated Sports and Entertainment Group. This global Group is headed out of London by Neil Grainger (former IMG McCormack) and has representatives in the United Kingdom, France, Spain, Monaco and Switzerland (Geneva, Zurich and Lugano). It plans to extend its presence to Germany, Italy and the United States in the near future. The main segments targeted are soccer and other team sports, motor sport, golf, tennis, entertainment, media, pop and classical music. In the next few years, UBS has set itself the goal of becoming the private banking benchmark in sports and entertainment by providing excellence of service for these clients through this new Group.
Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, Vice-President of FC Bayern Munich and consultant to the Group: "What I hope for UBS is that it continues on its path and that it opens its doors to the realm of sports, and naturally to my first love, football. I think it is a highly attractive field for both the bank and for sports. And UBS, as I see it, has a very positive future."
SEG proposes to deliver an integrated financial planning model and provide a solution on a global basis with a full range of UBS products including cash management, investment management through dedicated funds (including Global Asset Management - GAM funds of funds), portfolio management, investment advisory services, tax planning, insurance advisory and legal liaison. This special service Group will also ensure simple, clear and concise reporting with all the financial information entertainers and athletes might require. The Sports and Entertainment Group can also count on the experience and expertise of people such as Paul Miller (former English soccer player), Philippe Hertig (former Swiss soccer player) and Thierry Grin (former tennis player).
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Mary K. Briggs
Mary K. Briggs, an alumna of Emory & Henry College ('86), returned to the College in 2008 to care for the spiritual needs of the campus as College Chaplain.
After earning a Master of Divinity from The Divinity School of Duke University ('95), Mary K. went on to serve in the communities surrounding E&H as a congregational pastor for 13 years with United Methodist Churches in the Holston Conference. During this period, she provided extensive pastoral care through worship, spiritual counseling, crisis care, home and hospital visits, weddings, pre-wedding counseling, and funerals.
She has completed training in Clinical Pastoral Education and a series of classes on Family Systems. She also has experience creating and presenting interactive curriculum for congregants of all ages.
A key attribute of Mary K.'s ministerial philosophy is that of service leadership. Mary K. applies this philosophy to the programming at Emory & Henry College through mission trip planning each year; bringing students into all phases of planning for worship, projects and events; and encouraging students to take a hands-on approach to their faith.
She served as a founding member of Loaves & Fishes Food Pantry Board of Directors and went on to direct the daily operations of the Pantry; led the process of developing and implementing the Congregational Care Ministry at first United Methodist Church in Marion, VA; and planned and led mission projects in the region as well as participated in mission teams to Estonia, the Czech Republic and most recently to the Dominican Republic.
Chaplain Briggs currently teaches Introduction to Christian Faith at Emory & Henry College as well as serving as advisor to students planning to attend seminary or work in church-related vocations.
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