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Joe Dziok '14 is still a senior at the University of Hartford but he is already an Olympic veteran. For the second straight Olympics, Dziok is working behind the scenes to help bring the competitions to your television and computer screens.
Dziok, a senior music production technology major in the University's The Hartt School, interned with NBC Universal's engineering crew during the London Olympics in 2012. He was one of just three people to go into the Olympic Village to install a robotic camera and audio system so NBC could interview American athletes. Dziok also helped repair equipment. This time, he is getting paid for his work.
"One thing that has amazed me is how much work goes into the airing of the Olympic Games," Dziok said during his time in London. ""The most exciting thing about working the Olympics was how much I learned about the broadcasting aspect of video and audio—and taking a lot of what I learned in the classroom and applying it to a real-world situation. Part of the program at Hartt trains us to be musicians first. We learn about entertaining. That's what courses like ear training are about. Another part is how to be flexible. The Olympics took that aspect of enter- tainment to another level. It takes so many people to put on a show like the Olympics that you learn just how flexible you have to be as a professional."


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Nutrigenomics Looks at Connections Between Diet and Genetics
Nutrigenomics - the systematic study of the biology of nutrition - looks at the interactions among diet, health and genetics. This field is revolutionizing the study of nutrition and challenging "one-size-fits-all" approaches that attempt to improve health with simplistic low-calorie, low-fat or low-cholesterol diets for large populations.
Diet, health and genetics. Once thought of as three distinct disciplines, diet and health have converged, with genetics often being the excuse why the first two didn't work.
Now all three are converging under the science of nutrigenomics. Being challenged are the "one-size-fits-all" (or at least many) approaches that attempt to improve health with simplistic low-calorie, low-fat or low-cholesterol diets for large populations.
Nutrigenomics – the systematic study of the biology of nutrition – explains response to food and food components in genomics, proteomics and metabolomics terms. (Genome refers to the complete genetic makeup of an organism; proteomics is the study of proteins encoded by genes; and metabolomics refers to the systematic study of the cellular outcomes – the metabolites.)
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The recognition that nutrients have the ability to interact and modulate molecular mechanisms underlying an individual's physiological functions is prompting a revolution in the field of nutrition.
Nutrients in foods alter gene expression; so different outcomes result according to the genetic makeup of people. Proponents argue that understanding these mechanisms can help consumers make up for inherited weaknesses or genetic flaws by eating differently and, when necessary, taking dietary supplements.
"The current food industry business model is simplistic," according to Jim Kaput, a nutrigenomics researcher at University of Illinois and University of California-Davis, who also founded Nutragenomics, a Chicago nutrigenomics research firm. The primary model is to create most foods for the most people, he says. But just as some food manufacturers find profit targeting segments, whether they are ethnic tastes or food intolerances, "then it follows that foods targeted to different genetic make-ups to optimize health can be equally, if not more, profitable," he says.
Kaput, however, cautions, "For manufacturers to produce effective personalized foods, research is required on two fronts. First, the different genetic makeup of the population needs to be analyzed in terms of the responses of the various metabolic groups to macronutrients (different types and amounts of protein, fat and carbohydrate) and micronutrients (types and doses of vitamins, minerals and supplements)." Then, he adds, "Food companies need to understand their consumers in terms of metabolic groups and play an important role in sponsoring and participating in the studies needed to link gene variants to food chemicals and components."
Some are. The commercial potential of nutrigenomics is heralded by the involvement of ingredient vendors DSM Nutritional Products, Parsippany, N.J., and BASF Corp., Florham Park, N.J., in Sciona, a Boulder, Colo., (www.sciona.com) genetic mapping pioneer that provides personalized health and nutrition recommendations based on an individual's diet, lifestyle and unique genetic profile.
Groupe Danone's Daniel Carasso Center (www.danone.com) is working on probiotic products using the ERGO database (a comprehensive, analytical tool used to discover the interactions within a cell) from Integrated Genomics (www.integratedgenomics.com), Chicago. Danone is analyzing genomic and microarray data from lactic acid bacteria.
At the base food production level, Minneapolis-based Cargill Inc. is applying whole genome association studies in cattle to hunt for genes that produce richly marbled beef.
Unilever USA, Hackensack, N.J., is investing in studies of human traits to help design new consumer products.
Nestle, on the other hand is exploring the world of metabolomics to personalize their products to consumers.
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Meals tailored specifically for your DNA to ward off illnesses, cancers and even signs of aging may be years away, but consumers already are looking into genetic testing promising to help them chart a personal course toward better health.
|Lunds/Byerly's grocery stores in the Minneapolis area (above) offer shoppers the use of Sciona's Cellf Assessment Kits (left), which utilize a DNA sample to help consumers connect several health issues with diet solutions.
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In addition to DNA samples collected via mouth swabs, the kits include a questionnaire that also factors in family history and lifestyle. "Checking only those genes associated with key health areas that may be affected by nutrition and exercise, we identify genetic variations that may influence your ability to benefit from diet, supplements, and lifestyle," according to Sciona statements (for more information, go to www.sciona.com).
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from Weirder Bremen
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From SBI, Week 5 Rewind:
The Philadelphia Union have given goalkeeper Rais
Mbolhi chance after chance after chance, but it�s
time for head coach Jim Curtin to pull the plug on
this failed experiment. At least for now.
In yet the latest example of the Union�s
mishandling of their goalkeeping situation, Mbolhi
turned in the type of disastrous performance that
he is becoming known for and it played a huge role
in the Union�s stomach-turning 3-2 collapse to
Sporting Kansas City. Mbolhi was completely to
blame for Sporting KC�s first equalizer, coming
off his line and whiffing on his attempt to grab
it. He did not cover himself in glory on the other
tying goal in second-half stoppage time either and
was even worse on the Kansas City�s late winner,
helplessly standing about on the goal line. Not
even a statue of a Buckingham Palace guard would
have been so still.
Mbolhi was not solely to blame for the defeat �
Michael Lahoud, here�s looking at you � but it�s
clear that his confidence, decision-making and
form just aren�t up to snuff. It�s telling that a
young veteran like Ray Gaddis had to have a talk
in-game with a player like Mbolhi who has
international experience and World Cup games under
his belt.
Union CEO Nick Sakiewicz said that he felt the
Union had three of the best goalkeepers in MLS
after acquiring Mbolhi last year. Right now, with
Zac MacMath in Colorado and promising youngster
Andre Blake healing, Philadelphia has zero.
That might make it seem like Philadelphia is stuck
having to go with Mbolhi for now. But Curtin has
2014 USL Pro Rookie of the Year John McCarthy on
the roster, and there�s just no way that McCarthy
can play much worse than Mbolhi at this point.
Make the change.
from Stormin Union
on Tue 4/7 13:10 ET
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I agree, start McCarthy this week. The Mbohli experiment
hasn't worked and we need to try a new keeper. We have
nothing to lose so it's worth giving McCarthy a shot.
from C�nicas AC
on Thu 4/9 11:15 ET
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I think there is also a trust (communication?) issue going on with
Mbohli. My impression watching the goal replays is that he does not
trust his defense and the defenders do not trust him. Too much
overcompensating on both sides (specially in the last one, with
Mbohli staying put trying to cover the whole goal and the defenders
overplaying their marks). I think that may be worse than the form
issues: you can shred the rust eventually, but when goalie and
defenders are each waging the war on their own...
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A Hermosa man suspected of shooting and killing his close friend faces up to three years in prison after signing a plea agreement Friday with the 6th Judicial District Attorneys Office.
Justin Wiese, 37, was charged with second-degree murder which carries a possible penalty of 16 to 48 years in prison but pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of criminally negligent homicide.
District Judge Jeffrey Wilson will decide whether to accept the plea agreement April 3. Wilson can sentence Wiese to anything from probation to three years in prison for criminally negligent homicide.
District Attorney Todd Risberg said he couldnt discuss specifics of the case before sentencing, but he said the difference among manslaughter, negligent homicide and reckless killing is a persons state of mind.
We have to consider the strength of the evidence, he said. We have to figure out what we can prove. In some cases, there are no witnesses.
Wiese is suspected of shooting and killing Darrick Zuber, 42, for unknown reasons late April 19, 2011, or early April 20, 2011, at Wieses home in the 100 block of Hermosa Circle, about 10 miles north of Durango.
The fatal gunshot entered the back of Zubers left shoulder at an angle impossible to have been self-inflicted, according to a medical examiner.
Zuber was found lying facedown in the kitchen and dining area. He wore only a T-shirt and socks. His underwear was off and lying near his feet. Wiese called 911 to report his friend had committed suicide.
Um, I think my buddy just committed ... suicide, he told the dispatcher. He then made what sounded like a short, nervous laugh, according to an arrest affidavit. I just woke up and my buddy is ... hes on the floor, hes blue, and I found my guns on the floor.


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Seasonal adjustment is a statistical technique which eliminates the influences of weather, holidays, the opening and closing of schools and other recurring seasonal events from an economic time series. This permits easier observation and analysis of cyclical, trend and other non-seasonal movements in the data. By eliminating seasonal fluctuations, the series becomes smoother and it is easier to compare data from month to month.
When comparing not seasonally adjusted data year-to-year, most of the recurring seasonal events are accounted for in the comparison. For example, when comparing July 2009 and July 2010, both months reflect the closing of school years. Therefore, the difference in employment over the year is due to reasons other than recurring events. The difference in the employment level would be due to events which are specific to that year, such as weather, strikes or some other factors. Because of the mild winter during the early part of 2006, there were reports of increased construction activities causing the construction industry employment to increase earlier in the year than it has historically.
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An excerpt from Fr. Laurence Freeman's 2008 Holy Week Reflections, posted at www.wccm.org.
As Holy Week unfolds I am writing from our retreat for young meditators on Bere Island. At this moment there is not a cloud in the sky and the clear light is calling out every hidden colour, shade and texture of the sea, trees and mountains. Nature makes it easy to believe that we are on the human journey into the light of Christ, the Sun of the Resurrection that never sets.
The weather forecast however is warning us of some cold snaps and showers (this is Ireland) just as we know that our lives cannot be free from suffering.
In our conversations during the retreat we are looking at the tensions we have to hold in day by day living. How to manage the balance between family commitments and meditation or retreat times? How to deal with the challenges to faith that the Church in its culturally conditioned forms can present us with and still remain within it? How to read the essential revelations of Christian doctrine in the light of modern language and experience? Sacred time, such as we have entered upon this week gives us the wiggle room for these tensions, the inner space necessary to accept what seems unacceptable and balance what seems unsupportable.
During these next few days we are empowered and sensitised to respond to that whole spectrum of being human that Easter illustrates. Tomorrow in our presence at the Lord's Supper we experience the joy and the tensions of being in community, washing each others' feet and learning what faithful relationship means. Do we prefer to opt for the no-growth security of the modern atomised individual? On Friday we face the deepest repression of our psyche, the fact and fear of mortality, the terror of absolute loss and abandonment. We learn that in facing it we can touch a meaning that opens a door through which we must pass but which is still a passage into the unknown. On Saturday we rest on the horizon of that meaning, balanced between loss and finding. We are uncertain, even unconvinced, yet we have not closed ourselves to the possibility – the possibility that rises in the early morning from the nowhere of the tomb into the flooding reality of new life.
Let us stay in the communion of our meditation these holy days and feel the presence of community even over the physical distance and different time zones that separate but cannot divide us.
After meditation: "Morning in a New Land," Mary Oliver, NEW AND SELECTED POEMS (Boston: Beacon Press, 1992), p. 251.
Morning in a New Land
In trees still dripping night some nameless birds
Woke, shook out their arrowy wings, and sang,
Slowly, like finches sifting through a dream.
The pink sun fell, like glass, into the fields.
Two chestnuts, and a dapple gray,
Their shoulders wet with light, their dark hair streaming,
Climbed the hill. The last mist fell away.
And under the trees, beyond time's brittle drift,
I stood like Adam in his lonely garden
On that first morning, shaken out of sleep,
Rubbing his eyes, listening, parting the leaves,
Like tissue on some vast, incredible gift.
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UK comedy actress Mollie Sugden dies at 86Thu Jul 2, 5:49 am ETLONDON (Reuters) – British actress Mollie Sugden, best-known for her role as Mrs Slocombe in the television comedy series "Are You Being Served?," has died at the age of 86.http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090702/people_nm/us_britain_sugdenSeems another week of people in entertainment passing. I really enjoyed her.
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NL Capsules
ATLANTA (AP) — Brandon Belt, Buster Posey and Michael Morse led off innings with home runs, and the streaking San Francisco Giants beat the slumping Atlanta Braves 3-1 on Saturday night in a matchup of first-place teams.
The NL West-leading Giants have won four straight and eight of nine. The Braves, who lead the NL East, have lost five straight for the first time since May 21-28, 2012.
San Francisco had only four hits but has homered in 10 straight games, a feat it previously accomplished from Sept. 23-Oct. 3, 2010.
Ryan Vogelsong (1-1) allowed one run, five hits and four walks in six innings, and Sergio Romo pitched a perfect ninth for his ninth save. Julio Teheran (2-2) gave up just four hits with no walks in seven innings, but allowed a season-high three runs.
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Neil Walker hit a tiebreaking, two-run double in the eighth against Todd Redmond (0-3), capping a comeback from a 5-0 deficit.
A night after wasting a 5-3, ninth-inning lead in a 6-5 loss, Toronto led 6-2 in the seventh but the the Pirates tied the score against Aaron Loup on Josh Harrison's RBI double, Pedro Alvarez's run-scoring groundout and pinch-hitter Jordy Mercer's two-run double.
Bryan Morris (3-0) pitched a perfect eighth, and Mark Melancon earned his first save of the season in place of injured closer Jason Grilli, retiring Colby Ramus on a game-ending groundout with two on. Pittsburgh, which overcame four errors, won consecutive games for the first time since beating St. Louis and the Chicago Cubs on April 6 and 8.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Ryan Howard and Cody Asche homered, and A.J. Burnett (2-1) allowed one run and three hits in six innings.
Jimmy Rollins had four hits and Marlon Byrd doubled and drove in a pair of runs for Philadelphia, which won for just the third time in 11 games against the Nationals.
Adam LaRoche and Zach Walters homered for Washington.
Tanner Roark (2-1) had the poorest start of his two-year big league career, allowing seven runs and seven hits in four-plus innings.
CINCINNATI (AP) — Johnny Cueto (3-2) gave up three hits over eight innings, including solo homers by by Aramis Ramirez and Mark Reynolds, and singled in a run. Cueto, who walked one and struck out 10, is the first Reds pitcher to throw at least seven innings in each of his first seven starts in a season since Bucky Walters in 1944
Yovani Gallardo (2-1) gave up four runs and nine hits in six innings.
Ryan Ludwick singled home a run, and Brayan Pena drove in two more with a single in a three-run fourth.
CHICAGO (AP) — Jake Arrieta struck out seven and allowed four hits over 5 1-3 innings in his season debut, helping the Cubs to their first three-game winning streak this season.
Arrieta, slowed by shoulder stiffness this spring, walked two and threw 82 pitches.
Chicago's bullpen finished a seven-hitter. Brian Schlitter (1-0) got two outs for the win, and Hector Rondon worked around a pair of leadoff singles in the ninth for his third save.
Junior Lake hit a two-run homer and Anthony Rizzo had a solo shot for the Cubs, who hadn't won three straight a series sweep at San Francisco last July 26-28.
Michael Wacha (2-3) allowed two runs, five hits and three walks in six innings.
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Brandon McCarthy threw seven superb innings and Alfredo Marte drove in two runs as the Diamondbacks survived a ninth-inning rally for a win over the Padres.
The Diamondbacks handed San Diego its fourth straight loss as the major-leagues' worst offensive team avoided its third shutout in four game with three runs in the ninth.
McCarthy (1-5), who tied his career high with his fifth straight loss in his last start, gave up three hits, including two doubles to Seth Smith, and allowed just one runner to reach third base. He struck out six and walked one.
The Diamondbacks, who came into the game with the majors' highest ERA at 5.03, had their scoreless innings string snapped at 24 innings when J.J. Putz allowed a one-out single to Smith and an RBI double to Yasmani Grandal.
Addison Reed then surrendered Jedd Gyroko's two-run homer.
MIAMI (AP) — Pinch-hitter Carl Crawford hit a two-run homer in the 11th inning, and the Dodgers escaped several late-inning jams to beat the Marlins.
The Marlins lost even though they tied a franchise record at Marlins Park with three home runs. They erased a 7-2 sixth-inning deficit but left the bases loaded in the eighth and ninth, and left two on in the 10th.
Yasiel Puig hit a three-run homer and Dee Gordon had a career-high five hits for the Dodgers.
Gordon drove in two runs, scored twice and stole three bases to increase his total to 19, most in the majors. He's 8 for 11 in the series to hike his average to .357.
Juan Uribe walked to start the 11th against Carlos Marmol (0-2), and with one out Crawford hit his first homer. Manager Don Mattingly held Crawford out of the starting lineup because he was hitting .185.
DENVER (AP) — Pinch-hitter Charlie Culberson hit a two-run homer in the ninth inning off Kyle Farnsworth, and the Rockies, down by six runs early, rallied again to beat the Mets in a wild affair.
The Mets had weathered an eight-run fifth inning by Colorado, that included Nolan Arenado's grand slam, and took a 10-9 lead on Juan Lagares' RBI single in the ninth inning off LaTroy Hawkins (1-0).
But Troy Tulowitzki, who recorded his 1,000th career hit earlier, singled off Farnsworth (0-2) to start the bottom of the ninth. He advanced to second on a deep flyout by Arenado, and Culberson followed with a drive that cleared the center field wall.
The crowd erupted as he rounded the bases. As he neared the plate, he tossed his helmet and jumped onto home plate as he was mobbed by his teammates.


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Pacers clinch Central Division crown
Indianapolis, IN – The Indiana Pacers clinched their first Central Division title in nine years on Sunday after the second-place Chicago Bulls fell to the Detroit Pistons.
The division crown is the fifth in franchise history since the NBA restructured its alignment in the 1979-80 season and the Pacers became a member of the Central.
Indiana is 48-29 this season and sits third in the Eastern Conference, 2 1/2 games behind the New York Knicks and 3 1/2 games ahead of the Brooklyn Nets.
As the division winner, the Pacers are guaranteed a home playoff series and cannot be seeded lower than fourth in the Eastern Conference playoffs.
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Assignment #3
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- Complete a short review assignment of several activities in the current Cutting Edge collection. More info on that coming via email.
- Work on your course, assignments, and activities over the summer.
- Prepare a "poster" for the online poster session to be held on Saturday, August 27. We will send an email to you when a template is ready.
- We hope you will also submit an abstract for GSA Topical Session T170 Using GIS and Remote Sensing to Teach Geoscience in the 21st Century
- Read and respond to discussion threads; start discussion threads, if you wish.
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Special Handcycle Bicycles
Two special handcycles are now available for free use on a first-come, first-served basis at Central Broward Regional Park & Stadium. The handcycles - one recumbent, one upright - may be checked out by any person age 18 or older with a physical disability. The weight limits are 250 pounds for the recumbent handcycle and 350 pounds for the upright one. Each handcycle may be checked out for one hour at a time, although park staff may extend this time frame as they deem appropriate. The handcycles are for independent use, and assistance with transfers and adjustments to the devices will not be provided by park staff.
Hours of use are daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., with the last checkout of the day being at 4 p.m. Users must read and sign the Handcycle Usage Release, Indemnity, and Waiver of Liability and receive a copy of the User Guidelines prior to taking possession of a handcycle. Users must leave a valid driver's license or state-issued identification card as a deposit, to be returned upon return of the handcycle and any accessories, to the same location and in the same condition in which they were checked out.
Other guidelines also apply:• A helmet must be worn at all times; helmets are available upon request.• The seat positioning strap is to be used at all times.• Operation of the handcycle is subject to all traffic rules and regulations.• Handcycle is for independent use within the park and cannot be taken off the park property.• Operator's Manual is available for review.• Tools will be provided for basic adjustments to handcycle• Quad grips are available upon request.
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Red Sox 7, Rays 3 (10): Mike Carp delivered a pinch-hit grand slam in the 10th inning as Boston struck another blow to host Tampa Bay's hopes in the American League East.
The Red Sox put two on in the 10th against Joel Peralta (2-7) before the Rays brought in right-hander Roberto Hernandez to face Mike Napoli. Hernandez walked Napoli on four pitches and Carp followed by belting the first pitch to straightaway center field as Boston increased its lead in the East to 9 1/2 games over Tampa Bay.
James Loney tied it with a solo home run in the eighth but the Rays could not get anything done against Koji Uehara (4-0) in the ninth. Evan Longoria and David DeJesus each recorded an RBI double for Tampa Bay, which had its lead for the second AL wild card trimmed to one game over the New York Yankees.
The Red Sox grabbed a 3-0 lead in the third inning on Napoli's two-run double and an RBI groundout from Daniel Nava. The Rays fought back for a run on DeJesus' double in the bottom of the third and drew to within 3-2 in the seventh when Longoria pushed an RBI double to right-center.
Loney came up with one out in the eighth and lined a high fastball from Brandon Workman into the stands in right to tie it up but Tampa Bay still dropped its 13th game in the last 17 contests.
GAME NOTEBOOK: Red Sox starter Ryan Dempster allowed a run on four hits and five walks in five innings while Rays starter Alex Cobb was charged with three runs and seven hits in 5 2/3 frames. ... Uehara struck out Wil Myers in the eighth to retire his 33rd consecutive hitter, passing Ellis Kinder (1952) for the longest streak in Red Sox history. He finished off a perfect ninth to run the streak to 34 straight. ... The Red Sox clinched their 31st series win of the season - most in the majors.


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The Dutch found a way.
As 25-mph winds whipped through Ron and Joyce Schipper Stadium Saturday, the Central College football team felt like it was bucking headwinds most of the way, but the Dutch overcame a 30-14 deficit to escape Buena Vista 33-30. Freshman Kevin Sheldon (West Des Moines, Valley HS) delivered the gamewinner, a 19-yard field goal with 2:21 left.
Down 30-20 at intermission, Central (4-2 overall, 3-1 Iowa Conference) pitched a shutout the second half, giving the offense enough time to grind out 13 fourth-quarter points for the win. The Dutch pounded out 318 rushing yards, outgaining Buena Vista 425 yards to 278 overall.
"I'm extremely happy with our football team," coach Jeff McMartin said. "I'm very proud of the effort our players gave in the second half."
In the first half, Buena Vista (1-4 overall, 1-2 conference) jumped on every Central mistake and had an answer for every Dutch offensive assault. The Beavers set the tone in the first quarter when they were going against the stiff wind yet were in command, controlling the ball for 12:19 of the 15 minutes. They used an interception to set up a touchdown for a 7-0 lead.
A frenzied second quarter followed, with the teams erupting for a combined 43 points. A fumbled kickoff following the BV score set up a 35-yard Gunnar Wyatt field goal, then the Beavers blocked a Dutch punt and recovered a subsequent fumble in the end zone. Suddenly it was 16-0.
Running back Josh Osborn (freshman, Burlington) jump-started the Central offense with a dazzling 54-yard TD run to make it 16-7. But Buena Vista needed just five plays to strike back as Logan Lehrkamp caught a 54-yard scoring strike from freshman quarterback Bobby Brown.
Dutch quarterback Nate Snead (senior, Altoona, Southeast Polk) completed a 13-play, 75-yard drive with a 4-yard scoring run, but again BV had the quick answer. The Beavers needed just two plays to move 67 yards as Dylan Barrett scored from 28 yards out.
Then it was Central's turn. Just 30 seconds later, Snead broke free for a career-long 73-yard touchdown run and it was 30-20 at intermission.
But after running wild in the second quarter, Buena Vista was limited to 25 yards in the third quarter and two of the Beavers four possessions in the period resulted in negative yardage. BV could muster just 60 yards for the half.
"What a huge defensive stand we had on every level in the second half," McMartin said. "Buena Vista had the wind in the third quarter and that was a chance for them to get a score or two on the board and to really put the game away. We didn't allow that to happen. That got us a lot of momentum in the fourth quarter when we had the wind at our back."
The defense was spearheaded by a career-best effort from linebacker Seth Carson (junior, Woodridge, Ill., Downers Grove South HS) who had 11 tackles, including 2.5 tackles for loss, and two interceptions.
Carson's second pick set up a career-long 40-yard field goal by Sheldon with 12:56 left in the game. Then S-back Preston West (senior, Swisher, Cedar Rapids Prairie HS) barreled a career-long 36 yards for the tying score with 9:37 remaining.
Central quickly regained possession and powered its way to the Buena Vista 2-yard line, setting up Sheldon's winning boot.
"That field goal he made came at one of the toughest angles you can have," McMartin said. "That close and on a hash (mark) and he nailed it. Kevin's been rock solid all year and I want to give him and (kicking coach Darrell) Brand a lot of credit."
McMartin said the second-half turnaround had little to do with strategy.
"The second half was really about heart and it was about mental toughness," he said. "For all the things that got thrown at us, the things we weren't able to capitalize on and the things we did poorly, to be able to block that out and focus on just playing the next play and coming out and giving a great effort shows a lot about this team's character."
Buena Vista paid heavy attention to Snead but he still managed to rush for a game-high 116 yards and two scores. He also completed 10 of 17 passes for 107 yards with two interceptions. West rushed for a career-best 86 yards on nine carries, Osborn gained 73 yards on seven attempts and running back Ross Doehrmann (junior, Williamsburg) gained 53 yards on 13 tries.
Jeremy Snead (senior, Altoona, Southeast Polk HS) was the game's top receiver with five catches for 57 yards.
Linebacker Ryan Steinkamp (senior, Carroll, Kuemper Catholic HS) followed Carson on the tackle charts with nine stops while defensive back Jack Shipley (sophomore, Tipton) and linebacker Keith Rush (junior, Griswold) both had six tackles.
Central is on the road for three of its final four games, starting with next Saturday's contest with Loras College at Dubuque. Like Buena Vista, the Duhawks will be facing Central coming off a bye week. They're 1-4 overall and 0-3 in the league.


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The Consumer Federal Protection Bureau put companies that supply information to consumer reporting companies on notice to follow federal regulations governing consumer disputes.
A bulletin sent out Wednesday from the watchdog agency details how companies that provide data to consumer reporting companies — such as lenders and collection agencies — must comply with the Fair Credit Reporting Act.
These companies, also known as furnishers, must investigate consumer disputes forwarded by consumer reporting companies, review any documents that the consumer provided with the dispute and correct any inaccurate information after the investigation.
The bulletin comes after the system used by the three major bureaus to transfer disputes to lenders was upgraded. In December, the CFPB found the system couldn't forward any supporting documents consumers submitted with their online dispute.
"Credit reports play a critical role in the lives of consumers," said CFPB Director Richard Cordray in a press statement. "Given the importance of these reports, consumers need to know that their documents are being reviewed when they dispute what they believe is a mistake on a report. Today's bulletin helps ensure that the right people will be doing just that."
Lenders use credit reports (a type of consumer report) to approve and establish terms of credit, such as interest rates and loan amounts. Insurance companies use credit reports to set premiums, while landlords and utility companies check credit reports to determine security deposits. Employers may also pull credit reports as part of the hiring process.
A study released February by the Federal Trade Commission found that 1 in 20 credit reports contain a material error that could result in a higher interest rate or bigger insurance premium.
More than half of the information supplied to the three major credit bureaus — Experian, Equifax and TransUnion — comes from just 10 major financial institutions, according to a CFPB report last December. Almost three-quarters of the data are supplied by the top 50 financial institutions. In all, the agencies receive information from 10,000 sources.
The credit reporting industry should take the CFPB notice seriously, given the agency's enforcement actions last year against American Express, Discover and Capital One, says John Ulzheimer, credit expert at CreditSesame.com. It also sued a debt collector in August for violating federal consumer laws.
"This is not a toothless dog we're talking about," he says. "And what they are demanding is not unreasonable."
Instead, the bulletin clarifies steps that should be taken under the FCRA, he says, making it easier for companies to comply.
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The Perfect Desk: Hacking Smaller Desks Into Bigger Ones
While there are a plethora of desks available, sometimes you just need to hack yourself one because none of the ones that you see fit the bill. This happens quite a bit, especially in the home office. Since a lot more people are working from home, they need a fully functioning home office. This home office from Toronto, Canada, uses three IKEA Vika desks.
For his perfect home office setup, Tom needed a total of three desks. He planned on merging two desks to form a bigger desk for his computer workstation. Another desk would be used for work that didn't involve computers. This actually makes a lot of sense, especially if you have enough room for this to work.
He used two small IKEA Vika Hyttan table tops that were merged into one larger desk. The other large Vika Hyattan table top is used as his office desk. In total, he used 9 Vika Fintorp legs and 3 flat plate brackets that he got from a hardware store as well as some screws. His goal was to have two workspaces in his home office. Mounting one onto a wall, and putting the other right in front of it makes them both easy accessible. If you space these workstations out too far, it can be problematic to use them effectively.
The reason why he chose to merge two of these Vika table tops is that he didn't want them to be too deep. Most of the larger table tops are wide. He wanted something smaller for visual and functional reasons. Putting the tables side by side didn't work since the legs would be smack in the middle, hampering the use that he'd get out of it since his computer would be stationed in the middle. The legs would simply get in the way.
The table tops were placed upside down. One of the legs was mounted to serve as support. The table tops need to be properly lined up for this so that the weight would be adequately distributed. Then, the brackets need to be installed for further support. The Vika Hyttans are perfect for this hack, because in order to generate enough pressure to break the joint, since they are so thick, you'd first have to pull the table tops apart first, which would never happen.
Possible improvements would include some LED lighting using IKEA Dioder strips mounted in the back of the computer workstation. We can also see some loose wires hanging around, so a DIY cable management system would also clean things up. He could also install an IKEA Signum in the back of his desk. Ultimately, this home office is designed to actually meet with potential clients and the fact that the computer workstation is situated behind the main desk works really well. To top things off, the home office is nicely decorated with some art. The big windows also ensure that during the day, this home office is well lit. Tom's desk is filled with Apple products, including the iPad, iPhone, MacBook Pro, Apple Bluetooth keyboard, and Magic Mouse.
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GAUTIER, MS (WLOX) - A strong storm system that moved through the coast Monday night left several RVs, campers and vehicles damaged at the Santa Maria RV Park, located at 5800 Martin Bluff Road in Gautier.
It's one of the hardest hit areas in that city with around two dozen campers or RVs damaged. Monday night, two people were hospitalized.
"Well, they say it sounds like a freight train, but I'm gonna have to say it sounds like two freight trains because it was just deafening. It was just so loud," said Santa Maria RV Park resident Rob Quinn.
A peaceful campground turned upside down in a matter of minutes from what authorities say was either powerful straight line winds or a tornado. More than 20 people have been impacted at the Santa Maria RV Park.
Rob Quinn just started watching a movie with his wife and dog when his camper was hit.
"I grabbed my wife, grabbed the dog, threw us on the couch. Thank God we did because the hold on the slide-in slammed in and we would have been killed," said Quinn.
Luckily, the Quinns and their dog made it out alive with just some cuts and bruises. It was the same story for another campground resident.
"I was standing next to the ice box in my trailer. I got up into the ice box and next thing I know the trailer was upside down," said Santa Maria RV Park resident Todd Berkerch.
First responders quickly scoured the campground searching for anyone injured or stuck inside their homes.
Figuring out the significance of all the damage was the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency (MEMA).
"Well, we're just looking at the damages, assessing what's happened. We don't know exactly how much damage we have yet, but have at least 25 trailers so far," said MEMA Area Coordinator Carolyn Nelson.
Red Cross volunteers were also on hand providing assistance to victims.
"We don't know the exact household composition, so we're going to try to reach out to all the folks, who had an RV here or were residents that were affected so that we can ensure that if there any additional Red Cross assistance that we can provide with clothing or food or emergency items such as toiletries, things like that," said Red Cross South MS Chapter Executive Jay Huffstatler.
As Red Cross and law enforcement offer assistance where needed, the victims, most of whom found temporary shelter, have a long road ahead of them.
"We can't call anybody because we don't have our phones. They are in there somewhere. And I do have a son that lives over in D'Iberville, so we're gonna head over there as soon as I calm down a little bit," said Quinn.
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Eugene Southworth, 87, of Malvern, passed away Dec. 28.
He was born May 30, 1924 in Paron to the late Dick and Norme Burnett Southworth.
Eugene was of the Assembly of God faith.
He was preceded in death by his parents and wife, Eleanor Southworth.
He is survived by his son, Richard Southworth of Malvern; daughters, Diann Galloway of Malvern, Kathy Norwood and Tina Benton both of Benton; step sons, Otis, Howard and Ray Nerghbors; and eleven grandchildren and seven great grandchildren.
Chapel services by Ashby Funeral Home will be 10 a.m. Friday, Dec. 30 with Rev. Jimmy Bobo officiating. Burial will follow at Bolin Cemetery in Paron.
Visitation will be at Ashbys, Thursday, Dec. 29 6 to 8 p.m.
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In the 1960s and '70s, Afghanistan was making broad strides toward becoming a modern and progressive nation, and in major cities such as Kabul, women were beginning to achieve a level of political and economic status that had been denied them in the past.
However, when the Taliban took control of the country in the 1990s and the fundamentalist Islamic denomination known as Wahabism became a dominant influence on the nation's leadership, women's rights fell by the wayside and in 2006 few Afghan women can depend on even the most basic protection under the law.
The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) is an organization that has taken on the fight to bring gender parity to the country, but despite claims made by many Western nations that a gentler form of democracy is making itself known in the Middle East, what RAWA's leaders find each day is an uphill struggle in a land where females barely qualify as second class citizens.
Filmmaker Meena Nanji examines the rise of Islamic fundamentalism and the struggle for women's rights in Afghanistan in the documentary View from a Grain of Sand (aka Meena Nanji), as well as profiling the women behind RAWA and their efforts to bring feminism to their homeland.


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About Þuríður 'Thorrid' Þórisdóttir
1. RAGNVALD "the Wise", son of EYSTEIN "Glumra/Clatterer" Jarl in Norway & his wife ---] (-[894]). Orkneyinga Saga names "Eystein the Clatterer, father of the wise counsellor Earl Rognwald the Powerful…", adding that "Earl Rognwald campaigned with King Harald Fine-Hair who gave him charge of North More, South More and Romsdale"[784]. Snorre names "Ragnvald Earl of More, a son of Eystein "Glumra" when recording that he had become a supporter of King Harald who had invested him with the districts of North More and Raumsdal[785]. Snorre records that he was created Jarl of North and South Möre and of Raumsdal in Norway by Harald I "Hårfagre" King of Norway after his victory at Solskiel [869] against Hunthiof King of Möre and Nokve King of Raumsdal[786]. Orkneyinga Saga and Snorre both record that King Harald granted Shetland and Orkney to Ragnvald in compensation for the death of his son Ivar[787]. The Historia Norwegie records that "principi Rogwaldi" crossed the Solund Sea, destroyed the peoples of the Orkney islands, in the days of "Haraldi Comati regis…Norwegie"[788]. Snorre records that Ragnvald was ambushed in his hall and burned alive by Halfdan Haaleg and Gudred Liomi, two of King Harald's sons[789]. (Cawley's Medlands)
a) for other children: see Cawley's NORWEGIAN NOBILITY.
b) HALLAD . Orkneyinga Saga names "Hallad, Hrollaug and the youngest Einar" as "natural sons" of "Earl Rognwald"[790]. Snorre names "Hallad, the second Einar, the third Hrollaug" as the three sons of "Earl Ragnvald" by concubines, adding that they were all "grown men" when their legitimate brothers were still children[791]. Jarl [of Orkney]. Orkneyinga Saga records that Ragnvald sent "his son Hallad west to the islands" after hearing of the death of his brother and nephew, and that Harald I "Hårfagre" King of Norway gave "the title of earl" to Hallad who "came to Orkney and took up residence on Mainland"[792]. Snorre records that Earl Ragnvald installed his son Hallad as Jarl of Orkney after the death of his brother Sigurd, but that he resigned the earldom and returned to Norway[793]. Orkneyinga Saga records that, following complaints by farmers about Viking raids, Hallad "tiring of his rule, gave up the earldom and went back to Norway as a common landholder" which "made him a laughing stock"[794].
m ---. The name of Hallad´s wife is not known. (Cawley's Medlands)
Hallad & his wife had one child:
i) THORE. Are´s Landnama-book records that "Thor-rid the daughter of Thore, the son of Earl Hallad, the son of Rogn-wald Earl of More" married "Thor-gils…"[795]. (Cawley's Medlands)
(a) THOR-RID . Are´s Landnama-book records that "Thor-rid the daughter of Thore, the son of Earl Hallad, the son of Rogn-wald Earl of More" married "Thor-gils of Thor-gils-stead in Deep-frith, the father of Coll", son of "Thor-beorn Loke…the son of Bead-mod of Scut [who] went to Iceland and took in settlement Deep-frith and Gruoch-ness, up to Gowe-frith", and names their descendants[796].
m THORGILS, son of THORBEORN Loke & his wife ---. (Cawley's Medlands)
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2007 Top 100: Corporate Profiles 1-25
The 2007 top 100 food and beverage processing companies in the U.S. and Canada are profiled in this annual feature. Find company contact information, major brands, key executives and main product areas.
To read the main article on the Top 100 processors and how our list was compiled, see "The Top 100: Kraft returns to the top." Access processor profiles 26-50, or processor profiles 51-100.
1. Kraft Foods Inc.
Three Lakes Drive, Northfield, IL 60093
Phone: 847-646-2000; Fax: 847-646-6005; www.kraftfoods.com
Executives: Chairman, CEO: Irene Rosenfeld; EVP-Global Business Services and Strategy: David Brearton; EVP and CFO: James Dollive; EVP-Corporate and Legal Affairs and General Counsel: Marc Firestone; EVP-Global Human Resources: Karen May; EVP and Pres.-Intl. Commercial: Sanjay Khosla; EVP and Pres.-North America Commercial: Richard Searer; EVP-Global Technology and Quality: Jean Spence; EVP-Global Supply Chain: Franz-Josef Vogelsang
Subsidiaries, Divisions: Kraft North America Commercial, Kraft Intl. Commercial;
North America Beverages, North America Cheese and Foodservice, North America Convenient Meals, North America Grocery, North America Snacks and Cereals, European Union, Developing Markets, Oceania and North Asia
Beverages: General Foods International, Gevalia, Maxwell House, Sanka, Seattle's Best Coffee*, Starbucks*, Tassimo, Tazo*, Torrefazione Italia, Yuban; Country Time, Crystal Light, Kool-Aid, Tang, Capri Sun*, Fruit20, Veryfine
Cheese and Dairy: Kraft, Woody's, Breakstone's, Knudsen, Light n' Lively, Philadelphia, Temp-tee, Athenos, Churny, Cracker Barrel, Handi-Snacks, Harvest Moon, Hoffman's, Polly-O, Old English, Velveeta, Cheez Whiz
Convenient Meals: Oscar Mayer, Louis Rich, South Beach Diet, Taco Bell*, California Pizza Kitchen*, DiGiorno, Jack's, Tombstone, Lunchables, Back to Nature, Kraft, Easy Mac, Velveeta, Boca
Grocery: Baker's, Calumet, Bull's-Eye, CarbWell, Post, Postum, Shake 'n Bake, Oven Fry, Grey Poupon, Sauceworks, Dream Whip, D-Zerta, Jell-O, Knox Gelatine, Minute, Balance, Ever Fresh, Cool Whip, Certo, Sure-Jell, Claussen, Honey Maid, Nilla, Oreo, Good Seasons, Seven Seas, Miracle Whip, A. 1., Stove Top
Post cereals: Alpha-Bits, Banana Nut Crunch, Blueberry Morning, CarbWell, Cinna-Cluster Raisin Bran, Cranberry Almond Crunch, Shredded Wheat, Fruit and Fibre, Golden Crisp, Grape-Nuts, Great Grains, Honey Bunches of Oats, Honeycomb, Natural Bran Flakes, Oreo O's, Pebbles*, Raisin Bran, Toasties, Waffle Crisp, 100% Bran
Snacks: Barnum's Animals, Biscos, Café Crème, Cameo, Chips Ahoy!, Dad's, Famous Chocolate Wafers, Family Favorites, Old Fashioned, Ginger Snaps, Lorna Doone, Mallomars, Marshmallow Twirls, National Arrowroot, Newtons, Nilla, Nutter Butter, Oreo, Pecan Passion, Pecanz, Pinwheels, SnackWell's, Social Tea, Teddy Grahams, Wild Thornberry's*, Air Crisps, Better Cheddars, Cheese Nips, Crown Pilot, Doo Dad, Flavor Crisps, Harvest Crisps, Honey Maid, Nabs, Premium, Ritz, Royal Lunch, Triscuit, Uneeda, Vegetable Thins, Wheatsworth, Wheat Thins, Zwieback, Comet Cups, Handi-Snacks, Lunchables, Corn Nuts, PB Crisps, Planters, Jet-Puffed, Terry's, Toblerone
*Used under license
Major Product Areas: Biscuits/crackers, cheese, dairy, grain products, meat and poultry, sugar/confectionery, miscellaneous
2. Tyson Foods Inc.
2210 W. Oaklawn Drive, Springdale, AR 72762-6999
Phone: 479-290-4000; Fax: 479-290-4061; www.tyson.com
Executives: Chairman: John Tyson; Pres./CEO: Richard Bond; SVP-Poultry and Prepared Foods: Bill Lovette; SVP-Fresh Meats and Margin Optimization: James Lochner; Group VP and International Pres.: Rick Greubel; SVP and Chief Human Resources Officer: Ken Kimbro; EVP and CFO: Wade Miquelon; Group VP-Logistics and Operations Services: Donnie Smith; SVP-Corporate Research and Development: Hal Carper.
Subsidiaries, Divisions: Cobb-Vantress Inc., Tyson Fresh Meats Inc., Tyson Prepared Foods Inc., Tyson Deli Inc. and Tyson Refrigerated Processed Meats Inc.
Brands: Bonici, Chairman's Reserve, Cobb, Colonial, Joseph Copperfield's and Sons, Corn King, Delightful Farms, Deli Slices, Doskocil, Hot Wings, IBP, Jac Pac Foods, Jefferson Meats, Jordan's, Lady Aster, Mexican Original, Our American Favorite, Pizza Topper, Pizzano, Reuben, Russer, Star Ranch Angus Beef, Star Ranch Natural Angus Beef, TastyBird, Thorn Apple Valley, Tyson, Weaver, Wilson, Wilson Foodservice, Wright, Wunderbar
Major Product Areas: Beef, pork, poultry, frozen and prepared foods.
3. PepsiCo Inc.
700 Anderson Hill Road, Purchase, NY 10577-1444
Phone: 914- 253-2000; Fax: 914-253-2070; www.pepsico.com
Executives: Chairman, CEO: Indra Nooyi; SVP and Chief Procurement Officer: Mitch Adamek; SVP and Controller: Peter Bridgman; CFO: Richard Goodman; SVP-Corporate Strategy and Development: Wahid Hamid; EVP-Operations: Hugh Johnston; Chief Health and Wellness Innovation Officer: Antonio Lucio
Subsidiaries, Divisions: PepsiCo North America (Frito-Lay North America, Pepsi-Cola North America, QTG [Quaker Foods/Tropicana/Gatorade], PepsiCo Sales); PepsiCo International (Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East and Africa, Sabritas and Gatorade, United Kingdom, PepsiCo International Commercial)
Brands: Aquafina, Aunt Jemima, Chee-tos, Diet Pepsi, Dole, Doritos, Frappuccino Coffee Drink, Fritos, Funyuns, Gamesa, Gatorade, Grandma's Cookies, Lay's, Lipton Brisk, Lipton Iced Tea, Lites, Mirinda, Mountain Dew, Mug, Near East, Nobby Nuts, O'Grady's, Parkers, Pepsi, Pepsi Max, Pepsi One, Propel, Quaker, Rice-A-Roni, Rold Gold, Ruffles, Sierra Mist, Slice, Smartfoods, Smith's, SoBe South Beach, Storm, SunChips, Tostitos, Tropicana, Tropicana Pure Premium, Tropicana Season's Best, Walkers
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Don King Boxing is equal parts sports simulation and true boxing drama that takes place both inside and outside the ring. The action within the squared-circle accurately mimics the sport's tactics and hard knocks by allowing players to create angles and openings using a full arsenal of true 3D motion captured movement and punch mechanics found only in the real world sport ... until now.
Outside the ring, the drama continues as the player is faced with temptations inherent in any professional athlete's life, where they must balance these trappings of notoriety with the hardship of training in order to find the road to glory.
2K Sports, the sports publishing label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO), announced today that the highly anticipated title, Don King Presents: Prizefighter, is now available on North American retail store shelves for Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft. Developed by 2K's Venom Games studio, Don King Presents: Prizefighter is the first and only current generation title to combine all the action of professional boxing with compelling live-action cut scenes featuring legendary fighters. Read More »
Also known as: Don King Presents: Prizefighter, Don King Presents: Prize Fighter
Release Region: United States
Release Date: March 31, 2009
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Release Date: March 31, 2009
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Release Date: March 27, 2009
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Evan is a fifteen year old boy living on a farm in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. After the death of both parents he is sent to a state orphanage where he meets a young girl who has been abused by her father Hhe also meets a kindly farmer who becomes an unofficial foster father. As the two teens approach adulthood, the girl's father is released from prison. He is mentally ill and begins to stalk his daughter. Evan is offered a managerial position on the fa...


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Since its founding in 1950, Oklahoma Christian University has sought to fulfill its mission to "transform lives for Christian faith, scholarship, and service." Educating and nurturing the heart, mind, and soul, OC encourages its graduates to be like Jesus Christ, who "increased in wisdom and stature and in favor with God and man" (Luke 2:52). Christian faith and scholarship, exhibited through academic and spiritual excellence, is the heart of the University's mission. While students will pursue and attain this excellence to varying degrees, we identify here the qualities desired for all OC graduates.
The OC Graduate Knows...
- The liberal arts, which enrich life and prepare for the inevitable challenges, opportunities, and changes of life.
- The specialized knowledge, research methodologies, problem-solving strategies, and practical skills that enable competent living in modern society and successful competition in the global marketplace.
- How to communicate clearly and think independently, critically, and creatively.
- How to live and work harmoniously with people of diverse backgrounds and beliefs without compromising truth.
- The great themes and doctrines of the Bible, including the message of grace, the Lordship of Christ, and the role of the church. Graduates will understand the comparative tenets of major worldviews and will be provided the tools and skills for thinking critically about and applying scripture to the issues of today
- The history and identity of a cappella Churches of Christ and their restoration heritage.
The OC Graduate Is...
- Committed to intellectual and spiritual inquiry, nurturing the mind and spirit throughout life.
- Devoted to Christ, seeking to emulate Him and embody the fruit of the Spirit (Gal. 5:22).
- Dedicated to truth, righteousness, and excellence in every facet of life.
- A faithful steward of the blessings, resources, and talents received from God.
The OC Graduate Believes...
- The Bible is the revelation of the nature and will of God, the incarnation of the Son, and the work of the Holy Spirit, and is the authority for Christian faith and practice.
- Life has meaning only through a relationship with God, recognizing that the pursuit of knowledge in any field is ultimately a quest for understanding of God and His creation.
- Faith and learning are integral and cannot be separated with impunity.
The OC Graduate Lives...
- As a servant-leader in family, church, profession, and community, making a difference for good in the world, both locally and globally.
- With integrity, by acting consistently with beliefs and in covenant relationship with God.
- In humble submission to God's will, diligently serving him and all humanity by following the two greatest commandments: to "Love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind," and to "Love your neighbor as yourself" (Matt. 22:37 & 39)


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U.S. Equal Employment
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Meeting of November 20, 2008 – Employment Discrimination Faced by Individuals with Arrest and Conviction Records
Don Livingston is a partner in the Labor & Employment practice of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, and resident in the Washington, D.C. Office. He represents large employers in all aspects of civil rights and employment discrimination law, with an emphasis on complex employment litigation.
Mr. Livingston is a former general counsel of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. He is also the author of EEOC Litigation and Charge Resolution (BNA 2004) a treatise covering all aspects of attorney interactions with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. In addition, he has written numerous articles and spoken extensively on employment discrimination. He is former chapter chair for Employment Discrimination Law (Lindemann & Grossman) and was a contributor to Sexual Harassment in Employment Law (Lindemann & Kadue).
In 2003 Mr. Livingston was elected to the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers. He is listed in Who's Who in American Law, Who's Who in America, The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers, and Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business. He was one of 26 management lawyers named to The National Law Journal's 1997 "Who's Who of Employment/Labor Lawyers."
Mr. Livingston received his A.B. cum laude in 1974 and his J.D. in 1977 from the University of Georgia. He is a member of the Georgia and District of Columbia Bars, and the American Bar Association. He was chairman of the Labor and Employment Law Section of the Georgia Bar in 1986, and served on the Section's executive board from 1983 to 1987. He served as regional liaison to the ABA from 1985 to 1987, and as a member of the Committee of Labor Arbitration and the Law of Collective Bargaining Agreements from 1979 to 1987. He is admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court; the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the 2nd, 4th, 5th, 6th and 11th Circuits; and the U.S. District Courts for Maryland, the District of Columbia, the Northern and Middle Districts of Georgia, the Northern District of California and the Northern District of New York.


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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Kenan-Flagler Business School recognized seven outstanding alumni at its ninth annual Alumni Association Awards ceremony Nov. 9.
Wayland H. Cato Jr. (BSCOM '44), co-founder and chairman emeritus of Charlotte-based women's apparel retailer The Cato Corporation, received the Business School Leadership Award, which recognizes an alumnus or alumna who demonstrates exceptional achievement in a career field, personal endeavor or service to UNC Kenan-Flagler. Cato resides in Sheridan, Wyo., Charleston, S.C. and Charlotte, N.C.
Paul Fulton (BSBA '57), former chairman and CEO and currently non-executive chairman of the board of Bassett Furniture Industries Inc., received the Global Leadership Award, which honors an alumnus, alumna or friend of the school whose global participation and initiative advance the school's education, research and public service mission. Fulton, who spent most of his career with Hanes Hosiery and Sara Lee Corporation, served as dean of UNC Kenan-Flagler from 1993-1997. He resides in Winston-Salem, N.C.
Four distinguished alumni received Alumni Merit Awards, given from UNC Kenan-Flagler's degree programs to alumni who personify the school's tradition of excellence:
Sindhura Citineni (BSBA '04), founder of the non-profit Nourish International and second-year dental student at UNC, received the Outstanding Young Alumni Award, which honors an alumnus or alumna of the last decade who demonstrates leadership in career accomplishments and exceptional commitment to the school.


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James F. Short, Jr., Washington State University, moderated the panel comprised of Abby Ferber, University of Colorado-Colorado Springs; Ryken Grattet, University of California-Davis; and Valerie Jenness, University of California-Irvine.
The panelists pressed the point that hate-motivated behavior was not new but that the category of hate as a crime was a more recent construction. Also, they emphasized that such actions have received more recent attention in light of a stream of violent incidents. They noted that the names of the people and places involved remind us of the worst aspects of human societies: James Byrd, Matthew Shepard, Billy Jack Gaither, Columbine, the Sacramento Synagogue arsons, Jonesboro, and Benjamin Nathaniel Smith. White supremacist organizations have also been on the rise throughout the 1990s.
The Spencer Foundation, a Chicago-based Foundation which funds projects to improve education, has made a $25,000 award to the American Sociological Association for a special issue of Sociology of Education (SOE). The special issue will examine the recent past of the sociology of education, reflect on the state of the field of the present, and point to promising directions for the future.


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Greater Orlando cultural activities include Broadway theater productions, the Orlando Ballet, the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra and a vast selection of area museums. Both the Orlando Museum of Art and the Orlando Science Center are accredited by the American Association of Museums in response to their commitment to educational and cultural programs.
The Orlando Ballet and the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra produce traditional programs as well as programs geared for families with young children. Numerous Broadway shows are presented at the Bob Carr Performing Arts Center each year. Theater groups bring the allure of Broadway to downtown Orlando with productions from Cats to The Color Purple.
Orlando hosts an abundance of street fairs and festivals throughout the year. For theater, music and dance lovers, the Orlando International Fringe Festival celebrates performers and their crafts during the 12 days leading up to Memorial Day. The Florida Film Festival comes to town in the spring and residents can enjoy the food, music and wine at the Orlando Food and Wine Festival in the fall.


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Dorothy Levy's favorite walk ends on Hammer Lane at Parkwoods Center, and when she reached her destination last week, the Friends of the Stockton Library Bookstore, she thumbed through a book of the top 500 cities in America.
Dorothy Levy's favorite walk ends on Hammer Lane at Parkwoods Center, and when she reached her destination last week, the Friends of the Stockton Library Bookstore, she thumbed through a book of the top 500 cities in America.
"It didn't have anything flattering to say about Stockton," Levy said.
Obviously it was written by someone who hadn't found the bookstore, one of Stockton's many gems.
Run by manager Jann Bueno and staffed by Sara Russell, who organizes the children's books, and a cast of volunteers that currently numbers 55, the used bookstore is a destination point and not just for neighborhood walkers.
"It's kind of like a little mystery search to go through," Levy said.
Books of all subject matters, greeting cards, video tapes, CDs, DVDs, jigsaw puzzles, even vinyl albums can be found for a pittance, with sales benefitting Stockton's libraries.
"We don't encourage people to bring us anything and everything, but we have sold some strange things before," Bueno said.
Offhand, she couldn't name the strangest item, but the strangest donation experience is etched in her mind.
"There was a live frog in the bag," Bueno said. "You never heard anybody holler so loud. It scared me half to death. My heart was pounding."
Normally, the arrival of bags and boxes of books is greeted with a bit of excitement. Volunteers going through donations one day last week were a bit like kids on Christmas as they studied the book titles that had arrived.
"Oh, there was a girl in here last week looking for this," one said as she pulled out Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird."
The teen needed it for a school assignment. Her timing was off. Once, a retiring teacher donated 150 copies of the classic.
"At the end of the school year when people are retiring or have to move things out of their classrooms, we get a lot of donations," Bueno said.
They also came in January.
"I think everyone kept their New Year's resolutions," Bueno said. "It didn't stop until the last week of the month."
Those cleaned-out closets and garages represent good news for the library.
The bookstore - and $25 annual membership dues - are the sole source of the Friends' revenues, yet the organization raises nearly $100,000 for library programs and materials every year.
Responding to library requests, the nonprofit organization has funded children's programs, including a magician, and most recently bought a dozen laptop computers for a training class at the library.
Even during economic hard times, the bookstore manages to generate a steady profit.
"Last year our sales did go down, and it has to do with Kindles and Nooks," said Bueno, a one-time library employee who has served as the manager of the store since it moved to its present location in 1995. "They had an effect on people who came in once every two weeks and bought a bag of books. When they came back, they brought the books back, so we could resell them. That's was a double whammy."
There are still plenty of non-electronic readers, though, and those just getting started with reading, to make the store successful.
"Kids will say to their parents, 'Please can I get this book?' and the parent will ask, 'How much is it? Fifty cents? You can get all of them,' " Bueno said. "For a lot of families that have a lot of kids, that really adds up."
The trade-off is there aren't multiple copies of new releases, or any new releases at all for that matter, no catalog of what is on the shelves, and no special ordering a title for a customer.
Instead, a visit to the store is a treasure hunt, an opportunity to take a chance on a new author or musician. My brother and I left the store after a recent visit with 30 books and we spent about $32 between us.
Beyond the good deals, the 2,500-square foot store is warm and welcoming, purring right along under the direction of Bueno.
"She's like gold," said Dave Scheffer, current president of Friends of the Stockton Public Library. "The volunteers love her. She's done it for years and knows how to run things and keep everybody happy, and keep coming back."
Bueno, whose mother worked at the library when she was growing up in Stockton, said she most enjoys the contact with people, whether customers or volunteers.
She is known to work beyond her scheduled 40 hours a week, but she's quick to sing the praises of those who come and give freely of their time.
Alberta Johnson is one of them. A one-time owner of her own retail business, the retired Johnson works in the bookstore three days a week and two Saturdays a month.
"I enjoy the people," said Johnson, who spends downtime at the store visiting with friends or reading.
There's a warmth to the people who share a love of books, and it's evident in the friendly conversation among volunteers and with customers. Conversations about books, or suggestions of authors and titles, are interesting to overhear.
People in Stockton have been buying used books since the early 1980s, when a letter to the editor in the Stockton Record complained of the library tossing pulled books in the trash. Sales started in the meeting room at the Troke Library, then moved to a spot at Lincoln Center in 1993, by which time old library books were supplemented by donations from the public.
The Friends, formed in 1955 to help get a bond passed to build the downtown branch, petered out in 1971 then was revived after the 1978 passage of Proposition 13 cut state funding of libraries.
There are about 350 members of Friends of the Library, but the organization doesn't require everyone to volunteer at the bookstore or at Family Day at the Park, where the group sponsors King Author's Court and sells paperbacks for a quarter and hardbounds for 50 cents. Most members are simply longtime residents of the community who use and support the library.
Members get a 10 percent discount on purchases at the bookstore, but that's a minor perk. The real joy is knowing they're helping such a valuable cause.
Contact reporter Lori Gilbert at (209) 546-8284 or email@example.com.


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The King of Electro Dabke
Even though it may seem to us in the West as if world music is everywhere, European music lovers often seem to miss out on some of the most amazing sounds. This is especially true of the Arab pop music scene from Jakarta to Damascus. There, as is the case in Africa, the music cassette, which we in Europe tend to think of as something of an ancient relic, is extremely popular. Long years may pass, however, before anyone in the West picks up on the local stars of the Occidental cassette markets. In Omar Souleyman's case it was sixteen.
In his homeland, the Syrian is a superstar. Since the beginning of the nineties he has brought out an amazing 600 cassettes, which are literally sold on every street corner. The US label Sublime Frequencies, which scours the globe in search of obscure folk and pop sounds has now put together a collection of his best work. In their publicity, the Seattle record company refers to Souleyman's music as sounding like a "forbidden Morse code." And they are not far wrong.
Old anachronistic keyboards wail out like the sirens of police cars in old action movies or the strident, wild strains of a shawm. This is all happening to the accompaniment of an electric guitar, like an Arab version of Surf Guitar King Dick Dale's instrument it weaves its way through a battery of sound effects.
Anarchic electronic musical energy
A racy, driving percussion, half computer half frame drums gives the music its tremendous dynamic. And then there is the voice, alternating between an ecstatic, meandering nasal twang and a galloping declamatory cry. Suddenly there is a pause in the music: a slow, almost belly dance rhythm takes over accompanied by a breakneck solo lute. It all adds up to something that no sound engineer north of Istanbul would be willing to accept.
What is this music about? And who is this Omar Souleyman, who appears on his album covers wearing a kufiya, enormous sunglasses and an equally large moustache?
He is from the rural northeast of Syria, a place where the most diverse traditions in the Islamic world come together. "I was not born into a musical family, but in my region, one can hardly escape music," he tells me. "A friend encouraged me to sing at local festivals and a little later, in 1995, I met the Kurdish-Syrian keyboardist Rizan Said. I have been singing with him professionally, at weddings all over the northeast of Syria ever since."
Souleyman draws from many diverse sources for his songs, including the rhythms of Kurdish shekhani, Iraqi choubi or mawal, and it is with the latter of these, that the singer, in an introductory section, demonstrates his improvisational skills. But it is the dabke that he has really made his own.
A diversity of cultural influences
"The dabke is the modern folk dance which one finds throughout the Levant: in Libya, Palestine, Jordan, Iraq and parts of Turkey as well as Syria," Souleyman explains. "My sound is based on the dabke found in the Jazeera region where the influences of the Muslim, Christian, Kurdish and Armenian populations meet and mix. The proximity of Iraq is also something that can be sensed in our music."
In its original form, dabke is a line dance where participants link with their hands on one another's shoulders and feet stamping on the floor. In Omar Souleyman's version it has become something charged with anarchic electronic energy "We really did something that was new in the nineties," he says proudly. "We were the first to electrify traditional instruments such as the mijwiz flute and the rebab fiddle and transfer them to a keyboard that was specially programmed for this."
The bouzouki and the long-necked flute or saz are also amplified and electrified by specialist Ali Shaker, creator of the above-mentioned surf effect. Souleyman assures me that neither he nor any of his musicians has ever heard the name Dick Dale.
Spontaneous poetry of love
The music and traditional "ataba" verse harmonise with one another to great effect. Souleyman draws upon the poetry of his long-standing partner Mahmoud Harbi, a poetry that is often created during the performance itself. The chain-smoking poet stands alongside the singer on stage, whispering his spontaneous compositions into his ear.
"All of the poetry is improvised, the poet has to find a clever way to weave the names of the families who have engaged us for the wedding celebrations into the poetry," Souleyman explains. "The themes, of course, are love, especially lost love, and other problems that we encounter in life."
Souleyman's extraordinarily prolific recording tally can be explained by his participation in such celebrations. Nothing is wasted, his performances on such occasions are recorded and the music cassette subsequently released for sale.
His electro dabke has taken the singer onto national television; an honour granted to no other representative of the genre, he says. But thanks to the American label Sublime Frequencies, he has now reached a much larger audience. "This has made us famous all over the world! It has been a huge surprise to us, and we are very happy that our music is now going to be heard everywhere."
Stefan Franzen
© Qantara.de 2010
Translated from the German by Ron Walker
Editor: Lewis Gropp/Qantara.de
Portrait: Singer Hindi Zahra
Nomad between Morocco and Europe
Hindi Zahra is the new face of a young generation of emancipated, cosmopolitan songwriters in North Africa. Her album "Handmade" is due to be released in late February. Stefan Franzen caught up with Hindi Zahra in Paris
Interview with Abed Azrié
Orient and Occident in Balance
Syrian singer and composer Abed Azrié was born in 1945 in Aleppo and has lived in Paris since 1967. He says that only there is he able to develop freely. Suleman Taufiq visited the artist in his home district of Montmartre
Modern Dance from Lebanon
The Assassination of Omar Rajeh
The Lebanese dance company Maqamat are currently touring Europe with the play The Assassination of Omar Rajeh. The group stands for politically engaged and aesthetically ambitious modern dance. Amin Farzanefar introduces the first ever Lebanese dance company