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June 27, 2013
By BRANDON I. BROOKS
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The Jacksons are to music what the Beatles are — Royalty! Although the group has lost its iconic brother their brand still resonates with millions of fans that have followed them for more than a quarter of a century.
Therefore it is no surprise that The Jacksons will be among the big hits this weekend June 29-30 at the inaugural BET Experience.
The group's elder statesman Jackie Jackson provided an exclusive interview with Sentinel Managing Editor Brandon Brooks.
The Jacksons have been traveling and performing on their Unity Tour for more than a year. They've "just came back from Russia" according to Jackie and it is no surprise these international superstars still have staying power.
As many new artists come and go, it's amazing to see The Jacksons still standing tall after all these years, with voices that are just as golden when Motown introduced them to the world.
"Our fans want to hear our great songs. We sing all of our great hits when we are on tour" Jackie said.
There can be so many highs and lows while on tour, and The Jacksons have experienced it all. Before there was Bieber Fever, there was The Jackson 5 Fever. I'm sure these former teen idols have many stories to tell.
Jackie said that touring "can be tedious and grueling."
But he is not overtaken by the grind. "Once you get on that stage its nothing like it. You can hear from backstage the audience roaring. They can't wait to see us."
"It's the biggest high you can ever have. My brothers and I enjoy it. It's a great feeling. It gives you that energy that you feel great on stage."
And he says he and his brothers can never get enough of it.
"No not all. Because sometimes they come out and fly out and see certain shows they want to see. Whether it's in Europe or here in the states, the brothers and I love it."
Balancing the job of performing and maintaining a family life is tough, but The Jacksons have always been about their business when it comes to performing.
"We want to give our best performance. It is a tour to us; the audience gives us that tour. Want to give our fans a great performance," Jackie told the Sentinel.
"It is about bringing people together around the world. I mean there still is a lot of hatred going on around the world, but we will see it's getting better. If we can change one person and that person changes the other that is good. We love doing music."
With so many hits under their belts like "Show You the Way to Go" it's easy to see how Jackie could forget their songs. "My mind may go blank (he laughs) I'll stick the mike out to the audience and have them sing it for me."
The Jacksons will be joining R. Kelly and New Edition in concert following the BET Awards Sunday June 30.
"That is going to be real exciting doing that with BET. R. Kelly and New Edition are going to be on the show. We're very excited to play with those guys. They have been friends of ours for a very long time. Just to be on the same stage with them it's going to be wonderful. Right here at the Staples Center. We are looking forward to the show, all the brothers are too. We marked it down on our calendar; we already did (he laughs)."
Hailing from Gary, Indiana where they began their humble careers, their big hit came with their song "I Want You Back" which introduced them to the world.
Los Angeles has been their home since those early years, but they also call Indiana home.
"Home is Indiana. Home is Los Angeles. We have been out here for such a longtime in LA. We have two homes."
The Jacksons will also be performing at the LA County fair this summer. "You know we got the call. We were like of course we will do it. You know its home."
The Jacksons have a new album on the way.
"We've been recording at the same time and touring at the same time. So when we are not touring we are in the studio recording. Trying to schedule everything and figure out the album. Going to be a great record, we do not have a title right now. Recording some songs working with some top producers, but I cannot name any right now. But it's going to be wonderful and great record. We're very excited about it," said Jackson.
"The man upstairs has blessed us; we have something to do here. We travel around the world and make people happy. That is what we try to do through our music and performances on stage. That is what we love doing."
Shonassee Shaver contributed to this story.


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There is no question whatsoever that the role of bad debts has played a major hand in Otago rugby's imminent demise. The fact that the Otago Rugby Football Union (ORFU) owned its own aging ground, Carisbrook, and were therefore responsible for costly maintenance and upgrades would have hurt the union. The fact that despite its iconic status, the threat of losing major games if the ground was not overhauled was the major spur to build the Forsyth Barr Stadium. As soon as the FB Stadium was given the go-ahead, it was curtains for Carisbrook, and the ORFU therefore lost a lot of leverage in their financial situation. With a ground that was no longer the first-choice venue for rugby in the future (and had lost cricket to the University Oval), its value was diminished. Adding to their woes, they were understood to have been locked into long-term deals like a 30-year agreement to use lighting that they no longer use at Carisbrook. Despite offloading Carisbrook to the Dunedin City Council, and ridding themselves of many of the operational costs associated with the old facility, they were anticipated to be an anchor tenant in the new stadium and paying rent for the privilege - rents they were not paying at Carisbrook. According to the Otago Daily Times, the ORFU chairman Wayne Graham was reported as saying:
... owning Carisbrook had become a millstone around the union's neck, while matters such as how much it would cost to play at Forsyth Barr Stadium were never considered.
When the Union hasn't planned ahead to meet these costs, there must be serious questions asked of the present and past boards. While the wisdom of many of these decisions is debatable, the fact remains that the debt situation got to such a state that the New Zealand Rugby Union (NZRU) refused a bailout, despite sinking $200,000 into the Union for the first two months of 2012 in an attempt to alleviate the problems the ORFU were facing.
[NZRU chairman Steve] Tew told Radio NZ no other rugby unions were in as bad a shape as the Otago body, but he hoped it would be a "bit of a wake-up call'' to administrators that the NZRU won't be able to bail everyone out forever.
There are several pressing issues that will continue to shape the future of rugby in this country.
There is also no question that rising player costs has played a part in the ORFU's predicament. One needs to look no further than Southland, Otago's partner in the Highlanders Super Rugby franchise, who were given a substantial funding injection of $1.5 million by a group including the NZRU in 2011 with player costs believed to be a major contributing factor. The rise of the players association has been a factor in rising player costs, and has hurt some provincial unions. One could argue that the growing role of the players association/player unions is an evolutionary step in professional sports to combat the monopsony power of team owners, but it is worth recognising that player unions are primarily interested in, but not restricted to, facilitating higher wages for its members. The rising influence of player unions has been a major issue in professional sports leagues across the world, resulting in lockouts in three of the US major sports leagues in recent times, and will be an important issue in New Zealand rugby should we see other provincial unions continue to struggle financially.
One must also consider the nature of the revenues earned by provincial rugby unions in this part of the world. Provincial unions don't have the comparative luxury that the Super Rugby franchises enjoy with the lucrative broadcasting deals negotiated by SANZAR and broadcasters. Provincial unions rely on money filtering down from the professional franchises. At the advent of professional rugby in New Zealand in the mid-1990s, the provincial game has been caught in between the fully professional Super franchise and the amateur club rugby scene. The result has been that provincial rugby, at least for the ITM Cup provincial unions, is effectively semi-professional, which means that while the costs are sizeable, the revenues earned are not. At least the ORFU owned Carisbrook, which it was able to rent out to users. According to the Otago Daily Times (ODT), the ORFU's revenues from gate takings and ground rentals fell by up to a third in the past five years.
Fan support and the demographics of the Dunedin city and the Otago region must also be recognised as a factor in this situation. Crowd figures at Carisbrook were in steady decline, and this can be attributed to a combination of local area demographics, increased entertainment options (particularly the increasingly televised national game) and the poor on-field performances of the local team. Otago finished last in the ITM Cup in 2010, and although the team improved in 2011, attendances had flatlined and only the diehard fans were making the trip to the House of Pain to see the region's best go around.
There appears to be a growing gap between the haves and have-nots in New Zealand provincial rugby. This from the ODT:
In the past six years, the union has accumulated losses of some $10.5 million and in the past decade it has made just three surpluses, according to documents lodged with the Companies Office.
That compares to a decade of profitability for the Auckland Rugby Football Union, and just two deficits for the Canterbury Rugby Football Union in 2007 and 2009. The Wellington body reported three deficits in 2008, 2009, and 2010, but enjoyed a $1.2 million profit in the 2005 season.
As I mentioned in an earlier post in this blog, it is somewhat ironic that the team was expected to tenant the new Forsyth Barr Stadium - a facility that received rave reviews during the recent Rugby World Cup. The honeymoon effect associated with a new facility is likely to have at least given local attendances a boost while the novelty of the new stadium remained. A return to the days of a competitive (read: winning) local team would also go some way towards restoring local interest and getting the turnstiles moving again.
A related issue is the likely effect of the ORFU announcement on the anticipated private funding towards the Forsyth Barr Stadium. The ODT has raised this issue, and it is sobering. No Otago team would likely hit revenues from season ticket holders expecting to see not only Super Rugby but also ITM Cup rugby, and will lower anticipated hire revenues received from the ORFU. Local corporates might well review their longer term involvement in a facility that now has one less major attraction on its books.


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Since they met while filming the final season of The Hills, Josh has been Stephanie's shoulder to lean on. "I think you just have to support each other no matter what," Stephanie told HollywoodLife.com exclusively July 19 at the premiere of The Extra Man hosted by Vapiano in NYC. "I think what we say to each other every day is, 'I'm really proud of you!'"
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SAVAR, Bangladesh — Merina was so tired. It had been three days since the garment factory where she worked had collapsed around her, three days since she'd moved more than a few inches. In that time she'd had nothing to eat and just a few sips of water. The cries for help had long since subsided. The moans of the injured had gone silent.
It was fatigue she feared the most. If sleep took her, Merina was certain she would never wake up.
"I can't fall asleep," the 21-year-old thought to herself, her face inches from a concrete slab that had once been the ceiling above her. She'd spent seven years working beneath that ceiling, sewing T-shirts and pants destined for stores from Paris to Los Angeles. She worked 14 hours a day, six days a week, with her two sisters. She made the equivalent of about $16 a week.
Now she lay on her back in the sweltering heat, worrying for her sisters and herself. And as the bodies of her former coworkers began to rot, the stench filled the darkness.
SAVAR, Bangladesh — Merina was so tired. It had been three days since the garment factory where she worked had collapsed around her, three days since she'd moved more than a few inches. In that time she'd had nothing to eat and just a few sips of water. The cries for help had long since subsided. The moans of the injured had gone silent.
It was fatigue she feared the most. If sleep took her, Merina was certain she would never wake up.
"I can't fall asleep," the 21-year-old thought to herself, her face inches from a concrete slab that had once been the ceiling above her. She'd spent seven years working beneath that ceiling, sewing T-shirts and pants destined for stores from Paris to Los Angeles. She worked 14 hours a day, six days a week, with her two sisters. She made the equivalent of about $16 a week.
Now she lay on her back in the sweltering heat, worrying for her sisters and herself. And as the bodies of her former coworkers began to rot, the stench filled the darkness.
The eight-story, concrete-and-glass Rana Plaza was one of hundreds of similar buildings in the crowded, potholed streets of Savar, an industrial suburb of Bangladesh's capital and the center of the country's $20 billion garment industry. If Bangladesh remains one of the world's poorest nations, it is no longer a complete economic cripple. Instead, it turned its poverty to its advantage, heralding workers who make some of the world's lowest wages and attracting some of the world's leading brands.
But this same economic miracle has plunged Bangladesh into a vicious downward spiral of keeping costs down, as major retailers compete for customers who want ever cheaper clothes. It is the workers who often pay the price in terms of safety and labor conditions.
The trouble at Rana Plaza began Tuesday morning, when workers spotted long cracks in at least one of the building's concrete pillars. The trails of chipped plaster led to a chunk of concrete, about the size of a shoe box, that had broken away. The police were called. Inspectors came to check on the building, which housed shops on the lower floors and five crowded clothing factories on the upper ones.
At 10 a.m., the 3,200 garment workers were told to leave early for lunch. At 2 p.m., they were told to leave for the day. Few of the workers — mostly migrants from desperately poor villages — asked why. Some were told the building had unexplained electricity issues.
The best factory buildings are well-constructed and regularly inspected. The workers are trained what to do in case of an emergency.
Rana Plaza was not one of those buildings. The owner, Mohammed Sohel Rana, was a feared neighborhood political enforcer who had branched into real estate. In 2010, he was given a permit to build a five-story building on a piece of land that had once been a swamp. He built eight stories.
Rana came quickly after the crack was found. So did the police, some reporters and officials from the country's largest garment industry association.
Rana refused to close the building. "There is nothing serious," he said. The workers were told to return the next morning, as scheduled, at 8 a.m.
Merina, a petite woman with a round, girlish face and shoulder-length hair, never saw the crack.
She comes from Biltala, a tiny village in southwest Bangladesh, where there is electricity but little else. Her father is a landless laborer who grows rice and wheat on rented farmland, and, when he can, travels the seven hours by train to Dhaka to sell cucumbers, cauliflower and other vegetables on the street. When she was 15, she moved to Dhaka. Some of her aunts were already working in garment factories, and she quickly had a job.
For millions of Bangladeshis, the garment factories of Dhaka are a dream. Every year, at least 300,000 rural residents — and perhaps as many as 500,000 — migrate to the Dhaka area, already one of the most crowded cities on the planet.
Poverty remains the norm across most of rural Bangladesh, where less than 60 percent of adults are literate. To them, the steady wage of a garment factory — even with minimum wage less than $40 a month — is enough to start saving up for a scooter, or a dowry, or a better school for the next generation.
Merina's two sisters joined her in Savar, where women make up the vast majority of the factory workers. Here, the poor learn quickly that it is not their role to question orders. And girls learn quickly that nearly all decisions are made by men.
So for a woman like Merina, who like many Bangladeshis goes by one name only, there are generations of culture telling her not to question a command to go back to work.
When some factory workers did speak up Wednesday morning, they were reminded that the end of the month — and their paychecks — were coming soon. The message was clear: If you don't work, you won't get paid.
"Don't speak bullshit!" a factory manager told a 26-year-old garment worker named Sharma, she said, when she worried about going inside. "There is no problem."
Around 8:40 a.m. Wednesday, when the factories had been running for 40 minutes or so, the lights suddenly went off in the building. It was nothing unusual. Bangladesh's electricity network is poorly maintained and desperately overburdened. Rana Plaza, like most of the factories in the area, had its own backup generator, sometimes used dozens of times in a single day.
A jolt went through the building when the generator kicked on. Again, this was nothing unusual. Eighteen-year-old Baezid was chatting with a friend as they checked an order of short-sleeved shirts.
He'd come from the countryside with his family — mother, father and two uncles — just seven months earlier. Since then, he'd worked seven days a week, from 8 a.m. to midnight. His salary was about $55 a month. But he could more than double that by working so many hours, since overtime pays .37 cents an hour.
Sometime after the generator switched on — perhaps a few moments later, perhaps a few minutes — another, far larger, jolt shook the floor violently. The building gave a deafening groan.
The pillars fell first, and one slammed against Baezid's back. He was knocked to the floor, and found himself pinned from the waist down, unable to move.
He heard coworkers crying in the darkness. One coworker trapped nearby had a mobile phone, and the seven or eight people nearby took turns to call their families.
Baezid wept into the phone. "'Rescue me!'" he begged them.
Like a young boy, he kept thinking of his mother. He wanted to see her again.
In Bangladesh, people in need of help rarely think first of the police, or firefighters, or anyone else official.
Baezid called his family. So did many other people. The state is so dysfunctional here, so riven by corruption and bad pay and incompetence, that ordinary people know they have a better chance of finding help by reaching out to their families. Often, they simply call out for the help of whoever will come.
Until Monday, when there was no hope left for survivors and heavy equipment was brought in to move tons of concrete, many of the rescuers working inside the rubble were volunteers. They were garment workers, or relatives of the missing. Or, in the case of Saiful Islam Nasar, they were just a guy from a small town who heard people needed help.
Nasar, a lanky mechanical engineer from a town about 300 kilometers (185 miles) away, runs a small volunteer association. They get no funding and have no training. They buy their supplies themselves. For the most part, the group offers first aid to people who have been in car accidents. During the monsoon rains, they help whoever they can as the waters rise around the town.
When he saw the news, Nasar gathered 50 men, jumped on a train and reached Rana Plaza about 11 hours after the collapse.
He made his way into the rubble with a hammer and a hacksaw, by the light of his mobile phone. In six days, he says he has rescued six people, and helped carry out dozens of bodies.
That first night, he slept on the roof of the collapsed building. Then for two nights he slept in a field, and now he has a tent. But he can't sleep much anyway, because the images of all the corpses keep running through his head.
Told that he was a hero, he looked back silently.
Then he wept.
Merina was sitting at her knitting machine on the fourth floor, in the Phantom-TAC factory, when the world seemed to explode.
She jumped to her feet and tried to run for the door, but pieces of the ceiling slammed down on her. She crawled in search of a place to hide, and found one: a section of the upstairs floor had crashed onto two toppled pillars, creating a small protected area. About 10 other men and women had the same idea, including Sabina, a close friend. The two women clutched hands and wept, thinking their lives would end in a concrete tomb. "We're going to die, we're going to die," they said to each other.
The group could barely move in the tiny space. Merina's yellow salwar kameez was drenched with sweat. The air was putrid with the smell of death.
As time passed, desperately thirsty survivors began drinking their own urine. One person found a fallen drum of water used for ironing and passed around what was left in a bottle cap. Merina sipped gratefully.
She kept thinking of her sisters, who shared a single bed with her in a corrugated tin-roofed room near the factory.
Her sisters, though, had been luckier.
Merina's older sister, Sharina, ran out just in time. She turned around to watch the building she had toiled in for years fold onto itself in an instant.
"I must be no longer on this earth," she thought, her hands covering her ears from the deafening boom. After a frantic search,, she found 16-year-old Shewli, who had also escaped. But where was Merina? She borrowed a cell phone and called her father in their village. "I managed to escape, but Merina is still trapped," she told him.
Their parents booked tickets on the next train to Dhaka.
They arrived Thursday morning, joining hundreds of other relatives who had thronged to the scene. Merina's mother prayed hard, promising God a devotional offering — a valuable gift from this rural family — if Merina got out alive.
"If you save the life of my daughter, I will sacrifice a goat for you," she promised.
On Friday, Merina finally began to hear the sounds of rescuers cutting through the slab above her with concrete saws.
"Save us! Save us!" she and Sabina yelled together. But by the time the rescuers reached her Saturday morning, she was disoriented and barely conscious. She was put in an ambulance and people surrounded her. "Where are you taking me?" she asked them. "What happened?"
"Don't be afraid, you're going to the hospital," someone told her.
Merina was taken to the Enam Medical College Hospital, a bare-bones facility with aged, rusted beds, dirty tile floors and bare concrete walls. After everything that happened, she had emerged with just bumps on her head and a sore back from lying in the same constrained position for so long. Baezid woke up in the same hospital, relatively unhurt except for a huge bruise from the pillar, which had turned his back almost black.
At least 382 others died, and the toll is climbing. Building owner Rana has been arrested.
On Saturday, as Merina lay on her side resting, her mother stroked her hair, fed her and rubbed her back. Tears rolled down Merina's face, and she squeezed her father's hand.
That night, Merina slept fitfully, replaying the ordeal in her mind. She woke with a new conviction. "God has given me a second life," Marina said later, speaking from her hospital bed. "When I've recovered, I will return home and I will never work in a garment factory again." Baezid said the same thing: He'd never go back to the garment factories.
Many survivors, though, will return. The choices are just too few.
Baezid's two uncles also worked in Rana Plaza. The three went to the factories together last Wednesday.
The two uncles have not been seen since. They are presumed dead.


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Gamasutra has an interesting piece up that celebrates the art of thoughtful thievery — based around the idea that there are "no new ideas," so picking and choosing your sources wisely can at least lead to interesting new creations. Going off the recent release of the 4th edition of Dungeons & Dragons, Tom Smith looks at a couple of areas where game designers could take some lessons:
Being inspired by concepts is not just a good idea. When your skill reaches a high enough level, it becomes a state of mind. Start by analyzing games in similar genres for good ideas. Dissect those ideas and learn from them. Then jump to similar games in different genres. Pen and paper role playing games and board games are a great next step.
A true epic-level master of concept-yoinking like Shigeru Miyamoto can take gameplay features from abstract activities like gardening. Pay attention to everything you see, from movies to conversations with friends to patterns in the ceiling tiles. Where do designers get the inspiration for new games? It's all thievery.
OK, I'm not sure it's fair to say it's all thievery (it sounds so bad!), but certainly there's a healthy dose of borrowing and reinterpretation. Anyways, even if you're not a tabletop nerd, it's worth a read through - there are some interesting ideas contained within.
The Adventurer's Guide to Thievery [Gamasutra]


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BUFFALO, NY — New evidence reported by researchers at Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) lends support to the hypothesis that the SSeCKS/AKAP12 gene is a key inhibitor of prostate cancer metastasis. The data are some of the first to demonstrate this dynamic in transgenic animal models, with promising implications for development of targeted therapies for prostate cancer and perhaps for other solid-tumor cancers.
A team led by Irwin H. Gelman, PhD, noted that aggressive prostate cancers in humans typically turn off or delete two major regulatory genes, SSeCKS/AKAP12 and Rb. To explore this dynamic, the researchers developed a transgenic animal model to study the effects on prostate cancer progression of deleting these two genes. They report in Cancer Research, a peer-reviewed journal published by the American Association for Cancer Research, that the loss of these two genes and associated protein products leads to early prostate cancer. Moreover, more than 80 percent of the transgenic models in their study developed metastatic lesions in lymph nodes near the prostate.
"This correlates with our earlier finding that SSeCKS/AKAP12 inhibits the chemotaxis of metastatic prostate tumor cells — that is, their ability to move on to another environment in response to chemical attractants," said Dr. Gelman, the John & Santa Palisano Chair in Cancer Genetics at RPCI. "Thus, our data suggest that SSeCKS plays a role in preventing the early dissemination of prostate cancer cells to metastatic sites. Importantly, we show that humans whose prostate cancers have turned off or deleted the SSeCKS/AKAP12 gene have significantly higher rates of metastasis formation compared to cases where SSeCKS/AKAP12 levels are sustained."
While the SSeCKS/AKAP12 gene is deleted in about a third of metastatic prostate cancers, precluding benefit from targeted therapies exploiting this vulnerability, the remaining two-thirds of such tumors may be treatable with drugs that induce the reactivation of SSeCKS/AKAP12 production. Dr. Gelman and colleagues are now looking to identify the genomic signatures controlled by SSeCKS/AKAP12 in the suppression of metastasis pathways — at the level of the tumor cells themselves and in the cells that form the metastatic microenvironment.
"At least 93 percent of cancer patients die because of complications due to metastatic cancers, yet the vast majority of pathways studied and therapies developed address the biology of primary cancers," Dr. Gelman noted. "This current research is important in that it addresses specific mechanisms of cancer metastasis, with the result that genetic tests and therapies derived from such studies will have a higher chance of affecting cancer patient survival."
The work was supported by National Institutes of Health (NIH)/National Cancer Institute (NCI) grants R01CA70292, R01CA94108 and R01CA116430, by U.S. Department of Defense grants PC074228 and PC101210 and, in part, by RPCI's Cancer Center Support Grant from the NCI (P30CA016056).
The study is available at http://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/74/3/945.full.pdf+html?sid=b63bebd3-e88b-4d4c-b93c-41716520353e.
The mission of Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) is to understand, prevent and cure cancer. Founded in 1898, RPCI is one of the first cancer centers in the country to be named a National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center and remains the only facility with this designation in Upstate New York. The Institute is a member of the prestigious National Comprehensive Cancer Network, an alliance of the nation's leading cancer centers; maintains affiliate sites; and is a partner in national and international collaborative programs. For more information, visit www.roswellpark.org, call 1-877-ASK-RPCI (1-877-275-7724) or email [email protected]. Follow Roswell Park on Facebook and Twitter.
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A review of support plans for pupils with additional needs has been announced.
Education Secretary John Swinney made the commitment during a Liberal Democrat-led education debate at Holyrood.
Coordinated Support Plans (CSP) are statutory plans for young people with complex additional support needs who need significant educational help as well as further assistance from other agencies.
The plans enable parents or guardians to take legal action if their child does not receive the help to which they are entitled.
The Scottish Greens said it was concerned that the number of these plans has fallen since 2010 while the number of pupils with additional support needs has risen dramatically.
Mr Swinney told MSPs: "The Government is prepared to undertake a review of coordinated support plans.
"We will consider how to strengthen the guidance and other support available to local authorities on coordinated support plans and will develop this work in partnership with stakeholders to ensure that in every respect we are meeting the needs of every pupil within our country."
Ross Greer, for the Greens, said: "While the number of pupils identified with an additional need has increased to almost 200,000, the number of CSPs has dropped to just under 2,000 today — that's 1% of young people with identified additional needs having a Coordinated Support Plan."
He said councils are "not fully understanding what is required of them" when it comes to CSPs for children with additional support needs.
The MSP welcomed the Government's commitment to review the use of the plans, and called for it to "immediately follow that with action to rectify the problem".
He added: "We're not short of testimonials from young people and parents who have gone through experiences nothing short of traumatic but for who the lack of a CSP have had little opportunity for recourse."
A spokesman for the Scottish Children's Services Coalition said: "It is clear from the figures that despite a Scottish Government assurance that there would be no reduction in the proportion of pupils with CSPs this is set to virtually disappear.
"CSPs are an essential means of ensuring the children's rights are realised but official statistics suggest that the number and proportion of children identified as having ASN has rapidly increased, but CSPs appear to be in terminal decline.
"In England, by way of contrast, the use of education, health and care plans (EHCPs, the CSP equivalent) has increased, and now just under 3% of the school population has an EHCP.
"Failure to provide an adequate CSP could amount to a failure to make reasonable adjustments in respect of a child's education, which amounts to discrimination on the grounds of disability.
"The review of CSPs by the Scottish Government is therefore to be welcomed, ensuring that those children and young people with complex needs are receiving the care and support that they are entitled to."


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It's August 1937 and the new Verdugo Campus of Glendale Junior College was only weeks away from opening for its first full semester. Students campaigned throughout the city to convince the voters to pass a bond issue that made construction of the new campus possible.
Photo: Glendale Community College Library, Chester Lynch Collection
Glendale College in the 1930s
By Mike Eberts, Professor of Mass Communications
Note: Glendale College's early years reveal an energetic student body and a strong ambition to make the college bigger and better. This short article takes you back to the 1930s and the hijinks, hardships and hard work that have led to the GCC we know today.
Glendale Junior College, which had opened in 1927 with 139 students, erupted in class warfare that flapped over the Fall 1930 semester.
It began when three freshmen lifted a sheet from the Glendale YMCA and painted "Frosh" on it in bold letters. Under the cover of darkness, one of them hoisted the banner to the top of the campus flag pole, carefully greasing it on the way down to ward off upper classmen.
When dawn came, "There was a riot at the flag pole," claimed a student account. "Classes were discontinued for two days as fire hoses and all available and unavailable equipment was put into use. The faculty wailed at the empty class rooms."
The sophs' revenge was swift: a group of them kidnapped the freshman vice president and held him hostage for several hours in Griffith Park. At the pleas of the administration, a compromise was made: the freshman leader was released, and the flag was removed.
At the end of the semester, the lingering grudge was settled amicably enough--even though sophomores eventually stole the flag, ripped it to shreds and hoisted the rags up the flag pole. The students held a Class Day, where each class defended its honor with, among other things, a tug-o-war over a campus mud hole.
Glendale Junior College, which later came to be known as Glendale College and eventually as Glendale Community College, started small and simple. Established by local voters, it operated for two years out of the west wing of Glendale Union High School on East Broadway. In 1929, the college moved to the corner of Harvard and Louise--the site of today's Glendale Central Library--where it occupied a campus that had served younger students since 1908.
The gray stone buildings of the Harvard Campus were perhaps a little too historic. The 1933 Long Beach earthquake damaged the main buildings so severely that state inspectors ruled that classes could no longer be held in them. From Spring 1934 to Spring 1937, classes were held in 15 tent bungalows.
Wrote Chester Lynch in his 1987 history of the college: "Going to classes in tents had advantages. If you were not particularly interested in what your instructor was saying, you could listen to the instructors in the tents on either side two or three over if you wished."
A contemporary account was a little less charitable, however, saying that "Tent City" featured "unbearable heat in the summer months, with equally unbearable cold and dampness in winter."
It wasn't all grim, though. The tents were linked by a network of boardwalks which apparently encouraged some students to roller skate from class to class.
Clearly, though, students and faculty wanted to get back into real classrooms. That yearning was channeled into a 1935 bond measure to build a new campus on North Verdugo Road with local and federal Works Progress Administration money.
According to a 1939 account, the student body "displayed more school spirit ... than any year before or since. Every student worked to put the bonds across, and it is to every member of this class that all succeeding classes owe the Verdugo Campus."
When the measure carried by a citywide vote of 7705-1848 on Oct. 5, 1935, the students staged a gigantic snake dance through the main streets of Glendale, followed by a bonfire on the campus which over one thousand townspeople attended.
The new campus prompted changes. In keeping with its Spanish architecture, the Buccaneer mascot was keelhauled in favor of the Vaquero. The student newspaper and yearbook, the Galleon and Log respectively, were renamed the El Vaquero and La Reata. School colors were changed from orange and black to maroon and gold by vote of the student body. Songs, yells and names of clubs were changed.
But the war between the freshmen and the sophomores continued on. They clashed on the new campus for the first time in a January 1938 event called "The Big Brawl."
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After the 1933 earthquake...
Photo: Glendale Community College Library, Chester Lynch Collection
After the 1933 earthquake rendered Glendale Junior College's main buildings unsafe, classes were moved into tents. Many of the tents were linked by temporary wooden walkways, which led to a short-lived fad: roller skating to class. Back then, the college was located at Louise and Harvard, the current site of the Glendale Public Library.


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ShitRedditSays, the subreddit that exposes the worst of Reddit, is going on the warpath. They've published a long list of sick subreddits and are asking that the news be spread far and wide. Here's an example of the kind of subreddit they dislike:
Reddit also has subreddits which publish images of women's and underage girls' private areas, including "upskirt" and "downblouse" pictures, without the knowledge or consent of their subjects. The users of these subreddits trade tips on how to stalk and photograph women and minors and encourage each other to go out and take more such pictures.
I know exactly how people will fight back on this one. They will claim that it's a bunch of prudes who don't like sex who are trying to shut down the more risqué discussions. But it's not about sex.
They already cite reddit management that makes the argument that it's all about free speech. But the objections have nothing to do with free speech.
It's about consent.
Look through their long list of nasty subreddits, and that's the theme running through them: these are forums dedicated to obtaining revealing images of minors, of people in private situations, of people being raped or beat up, and making them public. Or dedicated to teaching people how to violate others. It shouldn't be about taking down things some people find offensive, it should be about demanding responsibility and requiring permission before publishing photographs of someone's breasts (oh, hi, Kate Middleton!) and making special efforts to shelter people who can't give informed consent, like children.
That's what makes the people who participate in those subgroups creepy. It's not that they like to talk about sex, or that they're defenders of free speech…it's that they don't give a damn about privacy or autonomy.


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Irrigation can provide an array of benefits to any turfgrass site. Beyond merely supplying water to the grass plants, irrigation can remove dew and frost, apply nutrients and provide a cooling effect, to name a few of its benefits. One of the most important effects of irrigation is that it can enhance or, at times, reduce the efficacy of pesticides.
Weed management Managing weeds successfully depends on manipulating plant competition to favor turf over weeds. Clearly, keeping the turf in a healthy, actively growing state improves its competitiveness. Therefore, you should always seek to minimize moisture stress, which can reduce turf growth and give certain weeds a competitive advantage.
Just as important, however, is to ensure--through irrigation, if needed--that any weeds that have managed to invade turf are growing actively enough to be susceptible to herbicides.
* Pre-emergence weed control. For the most part, pre-emergence herbicides control weeds by interfering with the germination process. They work most effectively when activated by water. Therefore, it is important to irrigate sites treated with pre-emergence herbicides immediately after application.
Apply about 0.5 inch of water. This will allow the applied herbicide to form a complete chemical barrier at or near the soil surface (where the majority of the target seeds are). Moving the herbicide into the thatch/soil upper root zone lessens the possibility of active ingredient losses via volatilization or ultraviolet (UV) light decomposition.
In addition, dense turf stands may intercept a significant proportion of spray-applied materials. The sooner you can apply irrigation to the turf, the easier it is to wash it off the leaf blades and into the soil. Once the spray dries, it is relatively difficult to dislodge. (The perfect time to make a spray application of a pre-emergence herbicide is while a gentle rain is falling.)
* Post-emergence control of annual grassy weeds. Herbicides that control annual grassy weeds, such as crabgrass and goosegrass, are primarily contact materials. You should apply them to the leaf canopy with enough volume to coat the leaf surface thoroughly, but with a minimum of drip-off. You must allow the herbicide to dry. Do not irrigate until drying is complete.
Weeds should not be under moisture stress prior to treatment, because this will compromise control. For example, annual grassy weeds under moisture stress are extremely difficult to control with fenoxaprop (Aventis' Acclaim Extra). Therefore, you should irrigate sufficiently to alleviate moisture stress before you apply the herbicide.
* Post-emergence control of broadleaf weeds. The labels of practically all post-emergence broadleaf herbicides make some reference to "actively growing" weeds. Although this statement may seem mundane, it is critically important for a couple of reasons.
First, when weeds are under moisture stress, most will produce more waxy substances on the leaf to reduce atmospheric moisture losses. The increase in waxy substances reduces the ability of foliar-applied herbicides to stick to the leaf surface and to penetrate the leaf.
Second, weeds that are not "actively" growing do not translocate materials as effectively as when they are actively growing. Many of the post-emergence broadleaf weed-control products will not provide control if they are not translocated sufficiently to meristems (areas of active cell division) throughout the plant.
Translocation throughout the plant is of particular importance for controlling weeds that spread vegetatively (by stolons or rhizomes). Insufficient translocation will result in regrowth of the weed from nodes on the vegetative propagules.
Granular formulations of broadleaf-weed control products use vermiculite as a carrier. Vermiculite is a lightweight material, and, with the addition of "sticker" materials, can adhere to the leaf surface of weeds quite well.
However, if the weed leaf surfaces are dry, the vermiculite formulation will not adhere well and control will be poor. The labels of such products always state that, if the leaf surface is dry, you should irrigate prior to application. This provides the leaf wetness the product requires for adhesion, allowing the active ingredient of the herbicide to move into the leaf and translocate throughout the plant.
For granular formulations of broadleaf herbicides to be effective, several things have to "go right," not the least of which is having a wet leaf surface. Though granular formulations have their place, spray applications of these herbicides, as a general rule, are more effective.
* Non-selective herbicides. The use of non-selective herbicides to control perennial grassy weeds or to renovate turfgrass sites is, again, facilitated when the weeds are in an "actively growing" state. As with broadleaf-weed-control products, the leaf surface must be conducive to adherence and subsequent absorption of the herbicide. Translocation to meristems is also important for successful plant kill when using these products.
Avoid any irrigation following application to allow for adequate drying, and avoid application if rain appears imminent. Labels often state the number of hours required for a product to become "rainfast," meaning that rainfall or irrigation should not substantially reduce control after that interval.
Insect management Irrigation's role in successful insect management is similar to its role in weed management. Avoiding moisture stress enhances overall turf vigor, often to the extent that treatment threshold levels for insect pests are higher for irrigated sites than for non-irrigated sites.
Also, turf sites not exposed to moisture stress may harbor fewer insect pests because conditions are more favorable to predators and fungi that attack the pests.
* Surface feeders. You can effectively control insects that attack turfgrass plants by feeding at or above the soil surface when the insecticides you apply remain near the target after application. Therefore, when treating for these kinds of pests, the spray volume should be just enough to cover the aboveground portion of the turf stand. Avoid irrigating within a day after application to let the insecticide dry.
Proper irrigation management can also reduce the numbers of certain surface feeders, such as chinch bugs. Often, sufficient irrigation alone can reduce the number of chinch bugs to a level that does not require treatment.
* Root-zone feeders. For most turf managers, the most frequent insect problem is the root feeding of white grubs. When grubs attack the root system of turf, its ability to absorb water and nutrients is reduced. This leads to turf losses.
I cannot over-emphasize the importance of proper irrigation management for grub-infested turf. Proper irrigation can provide the turf with enough moisture to survive, even with a reduced root mass. That is why irrigated turf can tolerate higher numbers of grubs per square foot than unirrigated turf.
Irrigation also is important for moving insecticides to where the root-feeding pests reside in the root zone. Therefore, in addition to requiring a high-volume insecticide spray, insecticidal treatments-whether sprays or granules-for root-zone pests benefit from irrigation in the same way as applications of pre-emergence herbicides. The water will move the pesticide to the location of the target pest (the root zone) and reduce losses of active ingredient caused by UV light degradation and volatilization.
Disease management Irrigation management is crucial to effective disease management. A healthy, actively growing turfgrass plant is less susceptible to fungal attack and more tolerant of low inoculum levels of various pathogens.
Some diseases that attack turfgrasses are in what is known as the "water mold" group of fungi, such as Pythium and snow molds. These pathogens thrive in high moisture. Therefore, when environmental conditions favor the development of water-mold fungi, carefully manage your irrigation to avoid excessive or poorly timed irrigation.
Many of the most effective and economical fungicide products are contact materials. They protect the leaf surfaces of turfgrass plants from invasion by fungi. To maximize protection, the applied fungicide must dry on the leaf surface. Therefore, delay or minimize irrigation after application as much as possible to reduce wash-off or dilution.
As with granular herbicides, granular contact fungicides have the same requirement for wet leaf surfaces when you apply them. Therefore, it is often necessary to lightly wet the leaves prior to applying granular contact fungicides.
During the past several years, several systemic fungicides have become available which are highly effective against an array of diseases. The root system as well as the leaves can absorb these materials which translocate throughout the turfgrass plant. Fungicides that are internal and mobile within the plant have important advantages for controlling diseases, but they are also relatively costly.
Systemic products work best when you irrigate them into the root zone. Sometimes, the target disease actually attacks the root system, similar to a grub feeding on the roots. In such cases, it is critical that the active ingredient of the fungicide be positioned where the pathogen is found. In other cases, the primary benefit of irrigating the fungicide into the soil is that it increases the amount of active ingredient available for root uptake and subsequent translocation throughout the plant to provide protection from disease. Either way, the irrigation is key.
With most pest-control products, it's not just what you apply, it's also how you apply it. Irrigation is a key aspect of the "how" for many products. Proper irrigation management can facilitate or enhance the activity of pesticides, but irrigation at the wrong time can defeat your pest-control efforts.
Most importantly, proper irrigation is essential in maintaining good turf health, which is the best pest control of all.
Dr. Thomas L. Watschke is professor of turfgrass science at The Pennsylvania State University (University Park, Pa.).
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"In this New World Order the children of Israel will furnish all the leaders without encountering opposition. The Governments of the different peoples forming the world republic will fall without difficulty into the hands of the Jews. It will then be possible for the Jewish rulers to abolish private property and everywhere to make use of the resources of the state. Thus will the promise of the Talmud be fulfilled, in which is said that when the Messianic time is come, the Jews will have all the property of the whole world in their hands."
— Baruch Levy, Letter to Karl Marx, 'La Revue de Paris', p.574, June 1,1928
I wanted to bring your attention to an article on Media Matters titled News Crop. CEO Murdoch Criticizes "Jewish Owned Press". This article appears on George Soros' mouth piece; or should we be honest about his real name; Schwartz Gyorgy. Further into the article we see a comment made by a writer from The Daily Beast, and we just learned who controls The Daily Beast, as well as News Week; none other than Jane Harman. A Zionist Jew ex -Congress woman being tapped on the shoulder to replace David Petraus.
The line under the title is almost laughable, "The Anti-Defamation League writes of the anti-Semitic lie" that "Jews control the banks, the media, and the government": This myth originates with The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, a proven forgery.
Really? A proven forgery? Then why is it followed so closely by the Zionists? And why is it that only the Zionists think it is a forgery? Here is the The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion. Be sure and read the Editor's Note before continuing the read. After all it was formed from the notes of the first Zionist Congress held in 1897.
This is not an essay based on the prejudice towards the Jewish people, because Zionism is much more than that, and encompasses many different religions, including Christianity.
To demonstrate this, let's use an articles from the True Torah Jews, because they are not Zionists. The article is It's Not the American Jews, it's AIPAC! It is a great piece of journalism, complaining about AIPAC, Mitt Romney and Sheldon Adelson, a Jewish casino magnate from Las Vegas, Nevada. The Jewish people themselves, that are not Zionist, could have said the same thing as General Petraus' leaked e-mails, from the previous post, and that is "There can be no peace in the Middle East as long as U.S. policy favors only the Israeli side."
Israel is the largest cumulative recipient of U.S. foreign aid, look at the graphs on this website, 8.2 million dollars per day for Israel of military aid in 2011. Here is the most current article on all foreign aid to Israel totaling 115 Billion dollars and set to expand.
The article on Media Matters claims the media is not owned by the Jews, that is true, at least when discussing ordinary Jews. But it isn't true when discussing the Zionist Rothschild family that is Jewish. Here is a list of media they control which includes Reuters (which also owns
West Law) Associated Press, NBC, CNBC, Bravo, A&E, CBS and the list goes on and on.
Owning West Law allows them to decide which court cases within the states and federal government are allowed in West Law books.
Whether or not they control all newspapers is irrelevant when they own to two largest distributors of news over the wires, Reuters and Associated Press.
Why aren't True Torah Jews Zionists? This article article pretty well explains why. It deals with children demonstrating against the draft imposed by Zionist Israel in Jerusalem. Here is the 'why', "Eidah Chareidis represents the Old Yishuv, the community of Jews who lived in Jerusalem long before there was a Zionist movement. They know better than anyone that Jews enjoyed good relations with Arabs before Zionism, and that the Israeli state and army has only made life more dangerous for everyone. Furthermore, they believe that Jews must live humbly under non-Jewish governments until the coming of the messiah; a Jewish government such as the State of Israel is forbidden".
The ADL likes to think anything anti-Israeli is Anti Semite, but here is the definition by Jews Against Zionism, "A member of a group of Semitic speaking peoples of the Near East and northern Africa, including the Arabs, Arameans, Babylonians, Carthaginians, Ethiopians, Hebrews, and Phoenicians ". This means that Israel itself is anti-Semitic, in the way the people of Gaza and the West Bank are treated.
Who is responsible for the creation of Israel?
Any questions on why the United States should not be in the United Nations? And certainly not signing their treaties?
According to this book, most Jews are not are not Semitic, only those with Sephardic blood are Semitic, the rest come from the Khazar Empire and are Ashkenazi and not Semitic at all.
Do you see any politicians in the following videos, that might be a Zionist?
Or in this Video? Maybe even Senator Harry Reid


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Today I tried out the basic yeast-free bread recipe from The Gluten-Free Gourmet Bakes Bread by Bette Hagman, using the Four Flour Bean Mix described in my previous posting with the standard supermarket flours using in Indian cooking (Mustafa being the only supermarket I know that stocks them, though!).
The result was rather uneven: some parts did not rise much – the very smooth, close-textured parts – and other parts had huge air bubbles.
However, taste-wise and in terms of 'mouth-feel', I'm pleasantly surprised! The very green smell from the green bean flour disappeared after baking, and the bread was springy to the touch, much like real bread (despite the cake-like appearance). Actually, the texture reminds me very much of kueh lapis!
I tried it with a variety of savoury and sweet toppings as well as plain with butter, and it tasted fine every time. I couldn't stop eating… how wonderful to be able to eat 'bread' and not be worrying about exceeding my wheat & gluten limit.
The recipe for a small loaf:
2 cups Four Flour Bean Mix : I used 1/3 part chickpea flour, 1/3 part green bean flour, 1/3 part sorghum flour, 1 part cornstarch, 1 part tapioca starch
1 1/2 tsp Xanthan gum
3 Tbs brown sugar [which I reduced to 2 Tbs – still rather sweet]
1/2 tsp baking soda
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp Egg Replacer [omitted; Hagman uses this to provided additional protein and leavening power]
1/2 tsp salt
Eggs – 2 plus 1 white [I used 3 small whole eggs, also because I omitted the Egg Replacer]
2 Tbs melted butter [replaced with ghee as I was too lazy to melt butter!]
1 Tbs honey [replaced with light argave syrup]
3/4 cup buttermilk [used substitute]
approx 1/3 cup water [used much, much less]
[Hagman also uses optional dough enhancer, which I have omitted completely here.]
Preheat oven to 180°C. Grease loaf pan(s) and dust lightly with rice flour.
Whisk together dry ingredients.
In a large bowl, beat eggs and egg white(s). Add melted butter, honey and buttermilk. Blend with mixer on low speed.
Add dry ingredients and continue to blend on low speed.
Add 'sufficient water to make the dough the consistency of cake batter.' This was the hard part! What is the correct consistency? I've seen a whole range of consistencies of cake batters. Anyway, using my judgement, I only needed to add about a tablespoon of water. The batter was strange-looking because of all those sticky flours, the cornstarch and tapioca starch, not at all like cake batter.
Beat 1 minute on high.
Spoon into prepared pans and bake for 55 to 60 mins, covering with aluminum foil after 30 mins.
* The bread rose tremendously in the oven the collapsed afterwards, which suggests that I should reduce the amount of leavening agent next time.
* The texture was very uneven, it did not affect the taste, but certainly is less than ideal. Bette Hagman constantly gives strict instructions to follow recipes exactly as substituting ingredients may end up with a different result. As usual, I can never follow a recipe precisely so I guess I will have to keep experimenting.
* Hagman also suggests that overly dense texture might be due too much liquid, and from my experience with muffins (which is what this essentially is – a muffin method, dry + wet ingredients then mix) is that it could also be case of over-mixing. I might just make this by hand next time; the mixer is unecessary and might have contributed to the over-mixing.
Whatever the problems, I was really pleased with the result. I fear the little test loaf in the freezer won't last long at all. Am definitely making this again, and at double the quantity :).
Here are Hagman's quantities for a large loaf:
Four Flour Bean Mix (see above) – 4 cups
Xantham gum – 3 tsp
Brown sugar – 1/3 cup
Baking soda – 1 tsp
Baking powder – 1 rounded tablespoon
Egg replacer – 2 tsp
Salt – 1 tsp
Eggs – 3 plus 2 whites
Butter, melted – 6 Tbs
Honey – 2 Tbs
Buttermilk – 1 1/2 cups
Water (more or less) – 1/2 cup
31/10/08 Update: experimented with this recipe a second time, making some tweaks and getting a much better result. Read more here: Improved recipe for gluten-free, yeast-free bean bread.
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Why East Georgia?
East Georgia State College is dedicated to serving students who are just like you – people who want and deserve a great start toward a future with promise. Whether you are a new high school graduate, a transfer student, or a returning learner ready for a new career, you will find a safe, convenient campus, ample parking, and classes that are accessible in the day or evening. East Georgia State College is an affordable way to begin your studies, with reasonable tuition and fee prices and generous financial aid available. Best of all, classes are small, so you will get to know the faculty – whose professional credentials and commitment to students are equally impressive – and they will know you.
Where Will You Go From Here?
Most students who study chemistry transfer to complete their four- year degrees and then master's or professional degrees, and work as teachers, nurses, pharmacists, physician's assistants, physicians, researchers, engineers, radiologists, nutritionists, or in industry or government agencies such as the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Food and Drug Administration. EGSC Chemistry students has transferred to complete their degrees at:
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The United States Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that there is great need for trained professionals in health care, forensics, and the sciences – particularly in teaching the sciences – and that the demand will remain until at least 2014.
Chemistry is a very central science. For this reason, chemistry is an excellent choice to include as a double major with another subject. Students majoring in biology, nursing or engineering often choose chemistry as another major. Education majors who would like to teach science find chemistry to be an excellent double major. Those interested in criminal justice may also take chemistry as a double major due to its importance in forensics. Business majors with an interest in science have taken chemistry as another major with the plan of working for a chemical company in the future. Students pursuing a pre-professional program, such as pre-pharmacy, pre-dentistry or pre-medical, would also benefit greatly from chemistry as a double major.
Dr. Paul Cerpovicz
Professor of Chemistry
Program Curriculum
|Core Areas A, B, C, D, E and Additional Institutional Requirements
Required: 46 Hours
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|Carryover from Area D
1 hour
NOTE: To carryover an hour from Area D, students should take MATH 1113, Pre-Calculus, in Area A as a pre-requisite to MATH 1540, Calculus I for the math requirement in Area D. A strong high school background in mathematics and sufficient aptitude are necessary to follow this path. Otherwise, the students should be encouraged to take MATH 1111 before attempting MATH 1113 which results in additional hours.
|Total Semester Hours: 67
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Esther Fok Creates The Bluetrek Titanium + Bluetooth Headset
Esther Fok, the maker of the awarded project Bluetrek Titanium + - Bluetooth Headset by Esther Fok points out, This new "Titanium+" headset from Bluetrek, finished in stylish design which symbolizes "reaching out" (the boom tube extending from the circular ear piece), built in a durable material – Aluminum Metal Alloy, and most of all, equipped with the capability to stream audio signal from the latest Smart Devices. The fast charging feature allows the extension of your conversation in an instant. The patent pending design of battery placement allows the balance of weight on the headset to enhance comfort of use..
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I decided I didn't believe in gods when I went through Lutheran confirmation classes and realized what a load of codswallop it all was. That's not easy to repeat with other people; the other side has many tried and true techniques to win people over to their culty silliness. We've all heard about love-bombing, and the thing is…it works on some people. But you know us atheists, we just can't do the love thing, we're all coldly rational and satanically ruthless in our criticism. But Jonny Scaramanga describes how he was weaned from fundamentalism, and suddenly, our strategy is clear.
Then, on my 19th birthday, someone bought me a vodka and Coke. And this was brilliant, because it just tasted like awful Coke. I could drink awful Coke. I already did when I went to my step-gran's house and she produced a bottle that had been sitting open, in direct sunlight, for a month.
The discovery of vodka and Coke, which meant that I could go to the pub and join in, changed everything. I immediately started going to a Wednesday night rock club, where a double vodka and Coke was about £2. Because I'd never drunk in my life, I could get absolutely hammered for less than a tenner. And I did. A lot.
The first time I went clubbing, a girl took it upon herself to sit in my lap, before leading me to the dancefloor and kissing me passionately. This was the future.
OK, got it. Cheap alcohol, check. Rock music, check. Dancing, check. Kissing, check.
This is the solution. We can do this. If every one of you atheists carries out this procedure on one Christian each this weekend, we can double our numbers by Sunday morning. By my conservative estimate, if we repeat that every week, we'll have deconverted the entire population of the US by late August. And it's all stuff we do all the time anyway!
Man, all the time we've wasted with arguing when we could have just been partying…