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Community members and civic leaders met at the site on Thursday, June 14, to express frustration that the land sits vacant, despite the fact Maspeth lacks park space.
According to park proponents, the blame is spread over a number of parties, with the Landmarks Preservation Commission failing to landmark the church, the city not securing the land previously, and the current owner of the site refusing to settle on a sale price.
Saint Saviour's Church was built at the then tree-filled plot in 1847. It was sold in 1996 to the Korean Methodist Church for $450,000 and then again in 2005 to Maspeth Development LLC for $6 million.
In 2008, the Landmarks Preservation Commission denied the church landmark status. The building was eventually taken apart one piece at a time, and local civic leaders placed its parts in storage, where it sits today.
In 2009 and 2010, the city tried to purchase the site for roughly $7 million, but not enough funds were raised.
Under a Parks Department formula, Maspeth should have 88 acres of park space considering its size. It currently has 12.
"This community desperately needs more park space," said assemblyman and congressional candidate Rory Lancman, who was at the site on Thursday.
He added that the federal government could also use eminent domain to acquire the space if the city fails to do so.
New York City Park Advocates President Geoffrey Croft said while eminent domain is not always the favorable option, it would serve well in this instance.
"It has been abused over the years, but a lot of our parkland has been gotten through eminent domain, and this is clearly a really good use for it," he said.
He pointed out houses near the site that are up for sale, one of which Croft said was owned by former Saint Saviour's parishioners for 64 years.
"Who can blame them?" he said, adding that homeowners in the area have to live with the vacant construction site that was formerly the church. "We have to get this land back."

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Hyundai let word slip on Monday of its plans for the 2013 Detroit Auto Show.
The automaker revealed a sketch of a concept vehicle it's calling HCD-14. Shown only in a silhouetted profile, the drawing depicts a vehicle in the four-door coupe style currently en vogue with a variety of luxury marques.
Though this exact concept isn't headed for production, official word from Hyundai is that the vehicle will "give the automotive world a glimpse into future Hyundai premium vehicle design." Read between the lines and this likely means the car foretells of the style we'll see on the next rear-wheel-drive Genesis sedan, the automaker's mid-size luxury offering.
Hyundai says the production version of the Genesis will likely bow at either the L.A. Auto Show in November 2013 or the 2014 Detroit Auto Show. In addition to hinting at the future Genesis design, this concept will also include elements we'll see when the next full-size Equus debuts at a later date.
Hyundai will officially reveal the HCD-14 concept at a news conference at the Detroit Auto Show on Jan. 14. Highway 1 will be reporting live from the show, so stay tuned for this and all other key news from Detroit.
Audi gets permit to test self-driving cars in Nevada
4.2% of drivers admit to falling asleep at the wheel
Mercedes-Benz teases E-Class Coupe and Cabriolet ahead of Detroit Auto Show


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Take guard against the greatest bowling legends of cricket with SMAAASH Cricket – a one-of-its-kind 360 degree cricket simulator. Try to beat the field and experience what it's like to play inside a packed stadium, as our innovative technology perfectly replicates the bowling actions of your heroes. The rank turners and toe crushers await, are you game?
The enemies have launched a Kamikaze style attack on your city, the elite fighter pilots have been summoned to thwart enemies' mission! You being an experienced pilot have to lead the fleet and kill the enemies.
Trampoline Park
Hop. Skip. Jump on the Trampoline to let your supressed energy know no bounds at our super cool trampoline park! Our trampoline park is on a whole different level which takes the fun to a whole new 'height'!
Finger Coaster
Defy the laws of physics by experiencing the most jaw-dropping roller coasters right at the end of your fingertips. Design the wackiest roller coaster ride you can think of and enjoy a roller coaster experience like never before. Hang on to your seats; this is going to be one crazy ride!
Experience the drama, excitement and emotions of a penalty shootout, as you go oneonone against our supersonic goalkeeper. At Super Keeper, it takes a lot more than mere skills to strike the ball to the back of the net. If you wish to score, we suggest you keep calm and wear your lucky football shoes. Our Goalie hates losing, how about you?
Put on your flexible suit and tie the laces on those lucky shoes as you try your hand at one of our classic games on offer – Dodge Ball. Your opponent will be a ball throwing machine and all you need to do to survive is to avoid being hit by the balls. Do you think you can dodge your way out of this situation?
Get ready to spread your wings and have an aerial delight like never before! Adding a whole new dimension to virtual reality, FlyMax uses the Virtual Reality technology to let you experience the thrill of extreme hang gliding. Giving you a life-like experience of flying, FlyMax will surely leave you asking for more!
Experience Virtual Reality as it takes the thrill quotient several notches higher. A dizzying 50 feet fall on either sides and villainous monsters in your way. The only thing between you and death is a narrow plank. You will make it to the other side only if you can fight fear and vertigo at the same time.
Experience the pulsating action of a Grand Prix, not from the seats in the stands but from the driver's seat, with F1 Motion Simulator. So put on the racing gear and drive around some historic tracks, feeling the heat and the bumps, as we blur the lines between racing and reality. Remember, our F1 Simulator is for racers, not the gamers. May G-force be with you!
Commuting in Mumbai city is a trying exercise. Traffic snarls and potholes are just a few of the innumerable bottlenecks one faces. But now you can beat the bustle as Smaaash introduces the first-of-its-kind Zipline. So now don't fret and zip on to Mumbai's newest mode of transport.
Experience the pulsating action of a Grand Prix, not from the seats in the stands but from the driver's seat, with F1 Motion Simulator. So put on the racing gear and drive around some historic tracks, feeling the heat and the bumps, as we blur the lines between racing and reality. Remember, our F1 Simulator is for racers, not the gamers. May G-force be with you!
Experience time travel, in its most immersive and enjoyable form, by spending some time at our Smart Arcade. With vintage favourites like Pac Man, Air Hockey, Deal or No Deal and Simpson's Soccer, you'll never want to leave our time capsule. And if you enjoy the more conventional ones, there are also games like Connect 4 and Fruit Ninja. With over 25 classic and new games, where else would you rather be?
One Day Picnic At Shanku's Water World
Relax, Unwind and Rejuvenate yourself in the curves and twists as the splashes will get you to the memorable experience of lifetime


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Sunday, October 28, 2012
* Instagram and Hurricane Sandy
(Dew-covered Spider web on our morning walk!)
So I recently set up my Instagram account and with
some encouragement from my photographer cousin.
I'm really enjoying it.
It has turned out to be a fun way to grab my phone
and snap a quickie photo of whatever we're up to at the moment.
A way to document the little moments in our daily life.
I also get to see what my friends are up too with their own lives - so fun.
If I could figure out how to link it to my Pink and Green Mama Facebook page
I would, but I'm technically challenged so I've only been able to
figure out how to link it to my regular (private/personal) FB account.
Are any of you on Instagram?
I would love to follow you and see what you're up to.
I'm PINKANDGREENMAMA
(all caps, not meant to sound like I'm screaming!)
Here are a few recent photos/scenes from our daily life.
My view from the kitchen, while cooking dinner a few nights ago.
"C" balancing on her pods from Discount School Supply
(they were in this post, they're called Hop Around Steps)
while watching Daniel Tiger -- Pippi our greyhound was supervising.
Turned our never-used Ikea Paper Dispenser into
a Washi Tape dispenser
in the art studio = big hit with the kids!
"E" spooning with Pippi the dog on a Saturday morning,
they're almost the same size -- Pippi outweighs her by 7 lbs.
Mission Gift Wrap Organization Complete!
My new wrapping paper station on the back of our guest room door
made with Elfa parts from the Container store last weekend
inspired by this I Heart Organizing blog post!
The best part was that I opened up two storage shelves in our garage
and had all the parts except one piece from our old pantry.
Visiting my happy place - the ribbon aisle at Michaels Thursday.
"E"s finished Salt Map of Virginia in a Pizza Box project
she turned in on Friday. She did all of it and it's awesome.
Building a fancy block house with the girls last night in our playroom.
Made these mini bean bag worms with the girls today!
In the meantime, we are battening down the hatches
and getting ready for what is supposed to be one whopper of a big storm,
Hurricane Sandy.
The local news and weather people are calling it a
We stocked up on food, I'm baking cookies today, making our favorite bean dip,
and charging cell phones.
Geoff picked up his work computer and blue prints so he can work from home
and the girls have already had school cancelled for the next two days.
We're planning to hunker down and hang out.
Hoping to keep our power but expecting to lose it.
We had a storm that was much smaller than this in the spring
and lost power for 4 days.
We will be crafting, reading and snacking.
Good thing we have a full bowl of halloween candy and some bottles of red wine!
Hope all of you stay safe too.
I expect to be off-line for a few days or a week...or two.
Stay dry. Stay safe.
Hug your kiddos.
and... Happy Halloween!
Pink and Green Mama, MaryLea
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Bradley Cooper signed on to play the best friend in "Yes Man" for one simple reason. "Jim Carrey," he says. "The idea of working with him is like having a chance to play one-on-one with Michael Jordan. Jim is the reason, and the goal I had -- because I'm just the best friend in a Jim Carrey comedy -- was to hopefully make you really believe that these guys have been friends since they were kids, to humanize that relationship in a big, broad comedy."
On the first day of shooting, Cooper had a scene in which his character, Peter, spotted Carrey's Carl through the window of a video store and caught him avoiding his phone calls. "We took it to just a whole other level where we were shooting guns at each other through the window, like pretending to shoot arrows and all this crazy [stuff]," Cooper recalls.
"We started to play it in this 'Dragnet' style," he says. "There were a couple takes where it was very stilted language. But the best part of it was that, every time, Jim would just have this [different] expression that he'd have to hold for like 50 seconds. It was hilarious."
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Choo Choo Loop adds a few twists to a classic train toy. Twist the track into a loop or add rolling hills, press the train's funnel down and watch it go! Once the train hits a bumper, it will automatically reverse. With so many ways to play and fun train sounds, kids will never get tired of the Choo Choo Loop! This toy requires 3-AAA batteries (not included). For ages 18 months and up.
Choo Choo Loop Includes: train, clip-on station, and 2 bumpers
Choo Choo Loop Dimensions: 10" x 3.5" x 10"


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Nicole Kidman & Keith Urban are Rockin' In The Free World
Nicole Kidman and her husband, Keith Urban, arrive at the 2010 MusiCares Person Of The Year Tribute at the Los Angeles Convention Center on Friday (January 29).
The 42-year-old actress and her sweetheart celebrated the work of legendary musician Neil Young at the event.
Keith rocked the house with John Fogerty as they performed a rendition of Neil's 1989 song "Rockin' in the Free World".
According to CMT, Keith will be presenting at Sunday's Grammy Awards!
10+ pictures inside of Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban celebrating Neil Young's work…


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While St. Patrick's Day celebrations draw hordes of travelers to Ireland each March, the island hosts a slew of other festivals that keep the party going long after the St. Paddy's parades die down and the green beer runs out.
"There is a festival in Ireland just about every weekend," said Fiona Dunne, Tourism Ireland's promotions manager for the U.S. "It is literally a country of festivals."
Whether clients are looking to experience food, music, theater, literature, comedy, street performances or horse racing, Ireland has a festival to meet their needs. The country also hosts a variety of niche festivals, such as the Belfast Titanic Maritime Festival and the Lisdoonvarna Matchmaking Festival.
"Ireland's festivals tend to be wonderfully casual in that people who come from abroad get to not just view the festivals, but participate in them," said Bernard McMullan, publicity and communications executive at Tourism Ireland. "Festivals that allow a consumer to get close to the community and close to the people are the ones they really enjoy."
For travelers planning to dodge the St. Patrick's Day crowd, here are some of the top festivals to check out.
Cat Laughs Comedy FestivalMay 29-June 2Created in 1995 as an outlet for Ireland's comic talent, the Cat Laughs Comedy Festival now attracts more than 30,000 visitors to the charming medieval city of Kilkenny. The festival offers a packed lineup of Irish and international talent, including world-famous stars and break-through acts. This year, the festival welcomes back comedians Dara O Briain, Tommy Tiernan, Des Bishop and Ardal O'Hanlon, who will all perform at the 20th Festival Birthday Party on May 29 to kick off the events.
Galway Arts FestivalJuly 14-27Last year, the Galway Arts Festival attracted more than 160,000 visitors from Ireland and abroad with its 160 performances and exhibitions. This year's festival hopes to match that turnout with the world premiere of the play "Chapatti," performances by indie rock bands The Coronas and The National and other offerings in music, comedy, literature and art. The most memorable part of the festival, for many, is the amazing street spectacles — including the Royal de Luxe and the annual Macnas Festival Parade.
Kilkenny Arts FestivalAug. 8-17The Kilkenny Arts Festival brings together more than 500 artists from 21 countries in one of Ireland's largest interdisciplinary arts festivals, and more than 28,000 visitors flock to the city each year to enjoy the shows. The festival was founded by a group of classical music enthusiasts 40 years ago but has since expanded to include events in theater, film, dance, literature, visual arts, street performance, children's entertainment and, of course, music. Despite its broadened scope, the festival continues to deliver some of the world's best classical music performances.
Puck FairAug. 10-12One of Ireland's quirkier festivals, Puck Fair revolves around an unusual main event: the coronation of a wild mountain goat. Continuing a 400-year-old tradition, the citizens of Killorglin in County Kerry hold this three-day festival — complete with street performances, fireworks displays, puppet shows, circus workshops, music and dance — which begins when the lucky goat is paraded through town and a local schoolgirl chosen to be "Queen Puck" crowns him "King Puck" for the duration of the festival.
All-Ireland Music FestivalAug. 10-17As the world's largest festival of traditional Irish music, the Fleadh Cheoil na hEireann (All-Ireland Music Festival) showcases the best music the country has to offer. The festival will take place in Sligo this year, and the lineup includes concerts from Ireland's leading musicians and new artists, a full schedule of pub sessions held throughout the week, competitions and family events.
Dublin Theater FestivalSept. 25-Oct. 12Now in its 55th year, the Dublin Theater Festival showcases the best of Irish theater and brings some of the world's finest performers to Dublin. The festival offers a multitude of plays to choose from — performed by celebrated theater companies and newcomers alike from Ireland and abroad — as well as music, dance, family events, talks, public discussions, works-in-progress showcases and artist development programs. In the past, the festival has hosted performances by such theater greats as Vanessa Redgrave, Fiona Shaw and James Cromwell.
Galway International Oyster & Seafood FestivalSept. 25-28Perhaps the most prominent food festival in Ireland, the Galway International Oyster & Seafood Festival features the "Seafood Trail" of restaurants serving Galway's freshest oysters and the World Oyster Opening Championship, also known as the Oyster Olympics. Visitors at the festival can enjoy various talks, tasting events, food producer tours and cooking demonstrations, as well as the Mardi Gras-style Festival Masquerade, where masked festival-goers feast their way through the streets.
Guinness Cork Jazz FestivalOct. 24-27 With more than 1,000 musicians performing 400 sessions at 70 venues, the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival is Ireland's largest jazz event. Each year, some of the biggest names in jazz — including blues, bebop, Dixieland, electronica, swing and jazz rock musicians — come to the festival to perform their music. Visitors can also get feedback on their vocal skills from top jazz educators at the Singers' Corner, take free classes at the Jazz Camp and participate in amateur workshops in order to join the Jazz Festival Choir.
To learn more about Irish festivals, Dunne recommends that travel agents attend one of Tourism Ireland's "Jump Into Ireland" events in the U.S. "These events really convey the spirit of Irish festivals because we use music, drama, food and entertainment to sell Ireland to travel agents in the U.S. market," Dunne said. "We're basically using all of the ingredients of an Irish festival to tell the story of Ireland."
When it comes to booking trips to festivals, Dunne suggests that agents consider working backward.
"A good way to book an Ireland vacation is for travel agents to find out where the client wants to visit, and then based on that they can layer the itinerary with festivals," she said. "No matter where you go or when you go, there's always going to be a festival in Ireland."


text: Don't look now, but it's Halloween! Halloween is time for kids of all ages to dress up in costumes and go trick-or-treating. But it is also a time of visiting haunted houses and watching those scary horror films. Think of the movies that frightened you the most, and they usually have an element of fear of the unknown. Doing business online may also needlessly frighten people. When it comes to Social Security, however, there is nothing to be spooked about. We take all the fear out of doing business online. There are a number of things you can do online at www.socialsecurity.gov, and none of them should send so much as a shiver down your spine. Save yourself a trip to a Social Security office and transact your business from the comfort of your home. No need to be afraid to go online; it's so easy and safe to do business at www.socialsecurity.gov. Here are just a few of Social Security's online services you can easily access from the convenience of your home or office computer: Apply for retirement, disability, or Medicare benefits; Find out what benefits you might be eligible to receive; Setup a my Social Security account so you can access and update your information anytime; Apply for Extra Help with your Medicare prescription drug costs; Estimate your future benefits; Appeal an unfavorable decision on a disability claim; Change your address; and Report employee wages. For a complete list of our online services, visit www.socialsecurity.gov/onlineservices. You also can find forms, publications, answers to frequently asked questions, Social Security news, and much more at www.socialsecurity.gov. You'll find our online services are frighteningly easy to use. Save your fears for the monsters on television or the costumed creatures knocking at your door. Don't be afraid to visit www.socialsecurity.gov.


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Kbuuk Partners with VoiceBunny to Offer Audiobook Solution for Independent Authors
Jan 10, 2013, 07:06 ET
HOUSTON, Jan. 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Kbuuk, LLC (http://kbuuk.com) has teamed up with VoiceBunny (http://voicebunny.com), a global voice talent service, to provide independent authors a convenient way to create audio books. The partnership will provide online self-published authors an additional format for sales as well as open new channels of distribution for their work. Kbuuk currently offers independent authors the opportunity to convert documents to ebooks as well as an online retail channel and access to larger distribution channels. "By partnering with VoiceBunny we're marrying the written word and the spoken word to allow independent authors to create more valuable experiences for all of their potential customers," said Isaac Shi, CEO of Kbuuk.
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VoiceBunny will personally assist each author, ensuring they get great results for their audio book. Authors will be able to get high-quality, professional audio books produced without paying royalty fees. Authors will own all rights to their audio to distribute however they choose. "Trough this partnership with Kbuuk, we're very pleased to be able to give authors support and access to crowdsourcing technology and allow them to keep all of their rights and more profits," said Alexander Torrenegra, CEO and Co-founder of VoiceBunny.
To access the new VoiceBunny App along with other great apps such as Cover Art Design, Ebook Formatting, and PR Newswire iReach Press Distribution, visit the Kbuuk Publishing App Store at http://kbuuk.com/s/vbpr1.
About Kbuuk
Founded in 2011, Kbuuk's mission is to break down the barriers of traditional publishing by empowering independent authors to publish ebooks quickly and conveniently. Equipped with a suite of powerful and intuitive tools, authors can also engage readers and track sales to refine products and strategy. Anyone can create a Kbuuk account and find the support once only reserved for writers who could get past the gatekeepers of the publishing industry. Kbuuk is a privately held company headquartered in Houston, TX. For more information on Kbuuk, please visit http://kbuuk.com/about/media.
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ZZ Top Reveal Street Date, Cover Art and Full Tracklist for New Album 'La Futura'
Legendary blues rockers ZZ Top are set to release a new album titled 'La Futura' on Sept. 11 through American Recordings, the group announced today.
ZZ Top guitarist Billy Gibbons produced the album – the group's first in nine years — with Rick Rubin. The Texas-based trio, who are currently celebrating 42 years with the same lineup of Gibbons, bassist/vocalist Dusty Hill and drummer Frank Beard, returned to their roots for the new tracks, but with a new twist.
"We thought long and hard about what this album should be," Gibbons says in a press release. "We wanted to recall the directness of our early stuff but not turn our backs on contemporary technology. The result of this melding of the past and the present is, of course, 'La Futura.'"
Four of the new tracks – 'I Gotsta Get Paid,' 'Chartreuse,' 'Consumption' and 'Over You' - debuted last month as an iTunes-only collection titled 'Texicali,' which met with strong sales and glowing reviews. Music Radar summed up the tunes as "ZZ Top crankin' up some fresh, vital roadhouse blues."
Another track, 'Flyin' High," appropriately made its world premiere in space. The then-unfinished song played on board the Soyuz spacecraft during its launch to the International Space Station thirteen months ago at the request of NASA Astronaut Mike Fossum, a long-time ZZ Top fan and friend who had heard about it in talking with Dusty Hill.
ZZ Top are currently on a European tour that will take them to Russia, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Belgium, France, Switzerland and Norway. They will return stateside to jump start the release of 'La Futura' with a rare performance at the Beacon Theatre in New York City before embarking on a North American tour.
ZZ Top 'La Futura' Track Listing:
1. 'I Gotsta Get Paid'
2. 'Chartreuse'
3. 'Consumption'
4. 'Over You'
5. 'Heartache in Blue'
6. 'I Don't Wanna Lose, Lose, You'
7. 'Flyin' High'
8. 'It's Too Easy Manana'
9. 'Big Shiny Nine'
10. 'Have a Little Mercy'


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Sunday marks International Literacy Day. Celebrate by reading something — The Dispatch, a book, the back of the cereal box while you're having breakfast.
Sunday marks International Literacy Day. Celebrate by reading something — The Dispatch, a book, the back of the cereal box while you're having breakfast.
Not everyone can share the pleasure of reading.
The United Nations, while not always acting with the most noble of intentions, got it right when it set Sept. 8 as an annual time to promote the importance of literacy.
The UN says 774 million adults around the world lack minimum literacy skills and about two-thirds are women.
Don't dismiss that statistic as a problem far from home.
Many Davidson County adults are considered functionally illiterate — unable to read well enough to handle basic daily tasks such as deciphering the words on a medicine bottle.
Reading isn't just about pleasure.
It's about getting a good job. Making a better living for yourself and your family. Being a responsible citizen.
There's a great deal of talk these days about what "literacy" actually means. In some circles, the definition has been expanded to include knowledge of basic computer skills and the ability to access information online.
Certainly, knowing how to get information across the many platforms now available is a basic skill for just about everyone. But what good is knowing how to get that information if you can't read the information you get?
At its core, literacy is about knowing a word when you see it.
Continued improvement in literacy skills will remove barriers to economic development that have hindered Davidson County. A better qualified workforce will serve as a magnet for companies searching for a suitable location.
And a more literate population, in Davidson County and elsewhere, will go a long way to preserving America as the land of the free.
Reading gives individuals the opportunity to find out for themselves what is going on with their government and by those who hold power through elections. Otherwise, one is left to find out from others who may slant information to suit their own agenda.
The Internet has made government information more available that ever before, but availability means nothing to the individual who cannot read.
Reading allows each person to decide for himself or herself where he stands on any issue and to determine a candidate's suitability for office based on the reader's own thoughts and beliefs.
Those thoughts and beliefs go into the polling place with the individual and give him or her the power to shape the community, the state and the nation.
Celebrate your own ability to read Sunday on International Literacy Day. If you know someone who needs help with reading, be a good friend or a good family member and direct that person to resources that can help, such as programs at Davidson County Community College, Communities in Schools and Davidson County School Readiness/Parents as Teachers.


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Gilder Lehrman History Scholar
Anna Ziering '11
Anna Ziering's selection as one of 10 students in the country to receive this scholarship and admission to an intensive five-week history research program in New York this past summer isn't so surprising, given her penchant for digging into documents and contemplating serious social issues. As a high school senior at Boston University
Academy, the native of Newton, Massachusetts, wrote her thesis on Queen Mary I of England. Ziering also spent last spring pursuing American studies at King's College, London. And she was already planning her senior thesis on Robert Frank's The Americans.
As a Gilder Lehrman History Scholar, Ziering's summer was spent researching Secession and the events that led to the Civil War. She focused on Louisiana, conducting research at the New-York Historical Society and other archives, ultimately producing a three-page introduction for four primary documents that will be used in high school and college classrooms.
An American-studies major, with a concentration in gender and sexuality since 1945, she notes, "I realized that American studies was the study of the cultures that make up daily life in the United States. I'm interested in social movements and civil-rights struggles, and the ways that they manifest themselves in different social contexts."
She also integrates her academic and extracurricular pursuits: A former intern at the American Civil Liberties Union, Ziering serves on the executive board of Everyone Allied Against Homophobia, and participates in the Student Government Association as an academic affairs representative. This fall she's also a senior interviewer in the admissions office.
Although her post-graduate plans aren't fixed, she would like to pursue higher education, probably in American studies, but notes, "I would also love to combine it with film, apply it to social activism, and somehow incorporate poetry."
Two Barnard students were awarded Barry M. Goldwater Scholarships that provide funding to undergraduates studying science, mathematics, and engineering.
Kerin Higa '11
Kerin Higa '11 is fascinated by the human brain. Originally interested in medicine when she entered Barnard, her ongoing curiosity about how the brain works—and what happens when it doesn't—translated into the pursuit of a neuroscience and behavior major at Barnard. "In middle and high school I used to tutor in my mom's special-education classroom," says Higa, who is from Altadena, California.
Summer internships at the City of Hope in California, where she studied different treatments for brain cancer, further convinced her that a scientific research career was where her heart lay. This summer she worked with schizophrenic mice in Professor Peter Balsam's lab at the New York State Psychiatric Institute at Columbia's College of Physicians & Surgeons, exploring the problem of memory deficits.
Beyond basically living in the "mouse house," as Higa said, she devoted much of her time to examining the data generated by these experiments. She presented a poster about the internship, which was funded by the Jewish Foundation for the Education of Women, at the College in August. She'll continue to work in the lab this school year as well. Higa has already given scientific presentations and posters on brain tumors and brain cancer, with some publications in the works. She looks forward to pursuing a PhD, with graduate school applications on her fall agenda.
When she's not in the lab, Higa tutors students in the Morningside Heights neighborhood and coordinates the Columbia Community Outreach day of service.
Erin Kara '11
"I am open to a lot of different things," says Erin Kara '11, a physics major who studied and researched gravitational waves at California Institute of Technology
(CalTech) this summer at its Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) and already has collaborated on a scientific paper. "Barnard has been really wonderful, and given me so many opportunities." She is quick to credit her advisor, Reshmi Mukherjee, for encouraging her scientific inquiries and mentoring her.
At CalTech, Kara worked in the data analysis group, researching tools that will enable scientists to eventually detect gravitational waves. As part of the experience, Kara, in the company of the other 24 LIGO students, went to Hanford, Washington, to visit one of the LIGO detectors where she gave a talk about her summer work.
Outer space intrigues Kara, who spent the previous summer as a NASA intern working with gamma-ray bursts transmitted from the Fermi Gamma-Ray space telescope. "The romantic side of me loves discovery and seeing something that no one else has seen before," says Kara. "That's part of what keeps me interested [in physics]." But there are outside interests. Kara is an art history minor and co-director of Uptown Vocal, an a cappella singing group. And she makes time to pursue other activities, such as traveling to Greece and taking advantage of her time in Southern California to explore art museums and camp in Sequoia National Park.
The Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, native definitely sees herself as an academic, pursuing research. Kara adds, "[Academics] are so interested in their work, such intensity appeals to me."
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Bats go quiet, Marlins drop opener to Padres
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Andrew Cashner pitched 7 1-3 innings of four-hit ball and the San Diego Padres beat the Miami Marlins 5-0 on Monday night.
Cashner (2-2) struck out four and walked three in the longest outing of his career. Dale Thayer finished the five-hitter in front of a season-low crowd of 14,596 at Petco Park.
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Miami was shut out for the fifth time this season, tying Atlanta and Philadelphia for most in the majors. The Marlins are last in the league with a .226 team batting average and 98 runs this season.
Jedd Gyorko homered for the third time in six days and Chase Headley had an RBI double for San Diego, which has won four of five and nine of 12. It was the Padres' first shutout the season.
Wade LeBlanc (0-5) allowed four runs, three earned, and four hits over five innings in his first career start against his former team. The left-hander is 0-7 with a 6.35 ERA in his last 12 appearances dating to last season.
Miami handed a run to San Diego when catcher Rob Brantly dropped Carlos Quentin's two-out popup in the first, allowing Everth Cabrera to score from second.
Gyorko connected in the second, driving a 1-0 pitch over the wall in center for his third homer of the season. Gyorko is batting .333 with six RBIs in his last 14 games.
San Diego added two more runs in the fourth. Nick Hundley scored from second on a single from Chris Denorfia, getting his hand just underneath the tag in a tight play at the plate. Denorfia advanced on the throw by right fielder Marcell Ozuna and scored on Cabrera's single to right that was another close call at home.
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Nineteen-year-old Roman Pirozek, Jr., of Queens, was flying the helicopter in a park near Bay 44th Street and Shore Parkway in Gravesend Brooklyn when it struck him in the head and killed him.
Roman Pirozek Sr. tells the Daily News his son was also a great friend.
The elder Pirozek acknowledged operating the helicopters was a bit dangerous, adding it was also an expensive hobby.
A tearful Pirozek told the paper his family still didn't know what caused the fatal accident
The young man's family returned home Thursday night and were met by neighbors with tears in their eyes.
"We are in shock because we are neighbors, we look after each other, we love each other, we care for each other," said Margarita Aviles, a neighbor.
Pirozek, Jr. was an avid flier of remote control helicopters.
He flew gas-powered, turbine choppers with two foot-long carbon fiber blades.
Roman made a series of videos in the field in Gravesend, Brooklyn and posted them on YouTube.
Police say it was there while flying spectacular stunts that Roman lost control of his helicopter and was struck in the head and killed.
He was a member of a small group of remote control chopper pilots who told reporters that it can be a risky hobby.
"We're all concerned about our own personal safety, but things happen, things happen," said Eaton Boyce, the victim's friend.
"It's just an unreal event that someone that young, that full of life, enjoying something, is gone," said Dino Spadaccini, the victim's friend.
Weah Roberts assembles and repairs remote control helicopters and says Roman was clearly a talented pilot.
The cause, he says, was most likely a mechanical malfunction.
"You've got something with whirling blades, it's like knives, and you get hit with that it's no joke," said Weah Robert, an RC Helicopter expert.
YouTube video of Pirozek flying his helicopter: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRPfLKVMGM8


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Volkswagen CrossBlue Coupe Concept: LA Auto Show
What Is It?
To understand the Volkswagen CrossBlue Coupe Concept, we need to break it down.
Cross means it's a crossover SUV, like the Honda CR-V and Ford Edge. They're vehicles based on cars but made to look (and sometimes act) like sport utility vehicles, so they cross over from one genre to another. This concept uses the current Golf platform as its foundation.
Blue in Volkswagen-speak is green. Anything the company makes that involves an eco-angle has Blue in its name somewhere. In this instance, the CrossBlue Coupe is a plug-in hybrid where the default running mode is the electric-only Eco setting. VW claims a zero-emissions range of 13 miles from its lithium-ion battery before the gasoline engine is required.
As well as a regular 3.2-liter V6, the CrossBlue Coupe has two electric motors -- one for each axle -- offering a total of 516 lb-ft of torque to get all four wheels moving. Yet the company claims the average fuel consumption as the equivalent of 70 miles per gallon, which is really quite blue -- or green.
A quick look at the photograph is all it takes to realize that VW is interpreting the word "coupe" in the loosest sense possible. Accepted wisdom describes a coupe as a vehicle with two doors and a roof that slopes down to the tail, such as the Ford Mustang, Nissan 370Z, Porsche 911, Audi TT and Scion FR-S. Even when Mercedes-Benz launched the CLS and called it a 4-door coupe, the company had the decency to give it a swooping roof. Having a steeply raked rear window is not the same thing.
Will They Ever Sell It?
Quite possibly -- or something like it. An earlier version of the CBC was unveiled at last April's Shanghai auto show. Among the specs VW gave then were 21 miles in electric mode and a range of 720 miles. For Los Angeles, the company has been more realistic, claiming a 570-mile range. This managing of expectations certainly seems like a step toward production. And since the CBC is based on a car that is already being made and proven to be successful, the tooling up and hardware should be possible.
Chances are some things will be lost in the translation from concept car to production model, particularly on the inside. "As soon as the driver's door is opened, the controls come to life," says VW. Press the Start button and switches for the climate control and headlights lift out, displays light up the screens and ambient lighting is activated. These are neat touches for a car show but perhaps too expensive for a street-going model.
Why It's Important
The Volkswagen CrossBlue Coupe Concept could be another part of VW's declared intention to be a leading car company in the United States. American buyers are well known for their love of sport utility vehicles while also demanding greater fuel efficiency. This idea covers both seemingly disparate bases.


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Long-Term Review
2013 Mazda CX-5: Pros and Cons
The 2013 Mazda CX-5 may be the ideal car for small families. Its staring price is about $21,000, there's ample cargo space, it's fun to drive and fueling up the CX-5 has been costing us about $33.
If you've been paying attention to new cars, you're probably thinking about that $21,000 price tag, right? And you're probably also thinking how that price gets you a really basic car with none of the amenities many of us have come to expect. That's not entirely true with the CX-5, even thrifty shoppers should consider the CX-5, as the base model comes nicely equipped with standard with 17-inch alloy wheels, power windows and mirrors, keyless entry, cruise control, a tilt and telescoping steering wheel and a 60/40 split-folding rear seat. Plus, there's a 4-speaker sound system with a CD player and a USB port for playing your iPod as well as an auxiliary audio jack for just about anything else (like those who keep music on their Android phone).
Our 2013 Mazda CX-5 is a Grand Touring model with the Technology Package. Grand Touring models get 19-in wheels, heated leather seats up front, a power driver's seat, Bose stereo with satellite radio and a sunroof.
One CX-5 feature I'm particularly impressed with is the automatic and adaptive Xenon headlights. The feature is part of the Technology Package and is probably worth getting. Here's how it works: As you turn a corner (and the headlights are on), one headlight swivels out so you can better see where you're headed. If you turn right, the right headlight points toward the corner, if you turn left, the left headlight adapts. This feature worked especially well on a recent foggy night, lighting up guardrails and street signs that I would have missed if the headlights were simply pointing forward.
Is it worth the extra $1,300 for the tech package on the CX-5 Grand Touring? It probably depends on where you live. If you live in an urban area that's always well-lit at night, you'll probably never get the full benefit of the CX-5's adaptive headlights. But if you live in the suburbs or even a partially rural area, it's a feature worth getting.


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Mississippi pecan growers can learn more about how to maintain their orchards at an April 4 workshop in Crystal Springs, Miss.
The half-day workshop begins at 9:30 a.m. at Mississippi State University's Truck Crops Experiment Station. Lunch will be provided following the workshop.
Topics for discussion include crow control, pecan tree pruning and thinning, and how to sample and grade pecans for optimum marketing strategies.
The workshop is sponsored by MSU's Extension Service, the Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station and the Mississippi Pecan Growers Association.
The Truck Crops Experiment Station is located on Highway 51 in Crystal Springs, 25 miles south of Jackson. Take exit 68 off Interstate 55 to get there. For more information, contact David Ingram at (601) 857-2284 or by e-mail at [email protected].


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Today, ARVI SA is one of the world's largest trader of
fine and rare wines. Distributing wines to over 65 countries around the
globe. As the leading leading company in this sector, its wine list has become a
worldwide reference point for vintage wines. The company holds an impressive
stock of the most sought after wines mainly specializing in the Bordeaux region
but, also carrying a huge range of Italian, Burgundy, Champagne, Rhone and other top wines from the US, Spain and Australia.
Our offices and warehouse are based in the heart of Europe, Switzerland.
In addition to wine, the company provides personalized services to private clients, wine-lovers, collectors and investors alike.
Clients are followed by their own consultant who will provide purchasing advice , suggest new discoveries , and manage each individuals' portfolio with care.
Our wine consultants also give recommendations for the best drinking dates , and most importantly, keep their clients up-to-date on interesting wine related news.
ARVI SA also owns a massive temperature - and humidity - controlled cellar, which our customers may use to store their wines, called the "Wine Vault".
Additional information can be found at: storage.arvi.ch
The most renowned financial honor in Switzerland, the prestigious Swiss Economic Award, was given to ARVI SA in 2010 celebrating the company's innovation and success.
ARVI SA is also involved in the world of fine art and antique trade.
ARTRUST mainly focuses on Swiss fine art and displays impressive collections of the most distinguished artists in rotation.
Led by our wine's great passion, we felt the need to go beyond
our traditional usual offer and to propose something really special. We love to
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University of Rochester undergraduate Jonathan Johnson '14 has been selected as a 2013 Public Policy & International Affairs Fellow at Carnegie Mellon's Junior Summer Institute. He is the second Rochester student to be named a PPIA Fellow in the last two years and is among the 20 recipients selected from a national pool of candidates to participate in the program at Carnegie Mellon.
As a PPIA Fellow, Johnson will spend seven weeks at Carnegie Mellon's Heinz Collegetheir graduate school focusing on public policyin this highly selective summer program designed to prepare students from diverse social and economic backgrounds for graduate study and careers in public policy and international affairs. As a political science and anthropology major, Johnson has studied refugee populations and policy effects on war and genocide. His interest in the intersection of identity and policy, specifically how disadvantaged populations overcome obstacles, led him to apply for the PPIA Fellowship, which will help hone the skills required to conduct policy analysis.
"The fellowship looks at how policy affects individuals, states, and countries in nuanced waysboth on micro and macro levels," Johnson said, "and understanding these complex relationships will help me gain the intellectual background needed to further my goals in affecting real-world change in the future."
At Rochester, Johnson has been an active member of the campus community. He has served as a resident advisor for three years and as a Meridian, an ambassador for the Admissions Office. A perennial member of the Dean's List, he participated in the Compass to Personal Success and Urban Fellows programs, two leadership and civic engagement initiatives through the University's Rochester Center for Community Leadership. Johnson also is president of the men's volleyball club.
While in Pennsylvania, Johnson will study economics, statistics, policy analysis and management, writing, and public speaking. The Junior Summer Institute is a blend of classroom coursework and workshops that address a variety of domestic and international issues. Carnegie Mellon's program provides career-planning workshops that include GRE prep and one-on-one meetings with admissions and program staff members from graduate school. Fellows also will have opportunities to meet with public affairs practitioners and take a networking trip to Washington, D.C.
Johnson, a native of Crystal River, Fla., is a graduate of Lecanto High School in Lecanto, Fla. After graduation, he hopes to spend a year teaching English as a second language in Malaysia before pursuing both a juris doctorate and master's degree in public policy.
The Carnegie Mellon Junior Summer Institute is part of the 30-year-old Public Policy & International Affairs Fellowship Program. A national consortium of top public policy and international affairs graduate schools, PPIA seeks to prepare college juniors for advanced degrees and careers serving the public good. In addition to Carnegie Mellon, there are four other schools that host a summer institute, including the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Michigan, and Princeton University. For additional information, visit PPIA Program's website.


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For the beloved sports figure who said, "It ain't over 'till it's over," it's sadly over.
Yogi Berra, 90, the Hall of Fame catcher with the dynastic 1950s New York Yankees known for his absurdly profound "Yogi-isms," died Tuesday of natural causes at an assisted living facility in Montclair, N.J., said Dave Kaplan, founding director of the Yogi Berra Museum and Learning Center.
Berra's death came on the 69th anniversary of his major league debut as a player.
Fans are in awe of great players, and Berra was a star among stars on those powerful Yankees teams with Mickey Mantle, Phil Rizzuto, Billy Martin, Whitey Ford, Don Larsen and Roger Maris.
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There was also a report for the always accurate (lol) Ken Rosenthal, stating the Dodgers were trying to get 1B Adrian Gonzalez and RHP Heath Bell from the Padres. If Dodger GM Ned Colletti thought the price for Halladay was expensive, he must have been off his rocker to think LA could acquire both Gonzalez and Bell.
The biggest deal of the day was the White Sox getting Jake Peavy, again, from San Diego. The teams agreed to a deal a few months back, only to have Peavy block it. Now that Peavy has been injured for awhile and the rumors of San Diego trying to trade its other stars, Peavy probably thought it was time to say good bye to the Padres. It was a post-deadline deal that seemingly came out of nowhere.
Here is a rundown of all the deadline day trades and winners:
- Detroit acquired LHP Jarrod Washburn from Seattle for two prospects: LHPs Luke French and Mauricio Robles. Winner: Detroit
- Milwaukee acquired RHP Claudio Vargas from the Dodgers for C Vinny Rottino. Rottino is a 29-year-old Double-A catcher who has no value. Vargas was moved to clear a roster spot for the newly-acquired George Sherrill. Winner: Milwaukee
- Minnesota acquired SS Orlando Cabrera from Oakland for SS Tyler Ladendorf. Winner: Minnesota
- Boston acquired C/1B Victor Martinez from Cleveland for RHPs Justin Masterson, Bryan Price and LHP Nick Hagadone. The Indians got a better return here than they did for Cliff Lee. Winner: Push
- Atlanta acquired 1B Adam LaRoche from Boston for 1B Casey Kotchman. Winner: Atlanta
- N.Y. Yankees acquired INF/OF Jerry Hairston, Jr. from Cincinnati for C Chase Weems. Winner: New York
- Colorado acquired LHP Joe Beimel from Washington for RHPs Ryan Mattheus and Robinson Fabian. Winner: Colorado
- Cincinnati acquired 3B Scott Rolen from Toronto for 3B Edwin Encarnacion, RHPs Josh Roenicke and Zach Stewart. Winner: Cincinnati
- Florida acquired 1B Nick Johnson from Washington for LHP Aaron Thompson. Winner: Florida
- Chicago White Sox acquired RHP Jake Peavy from San Diego for LHPs Aaron Poreda and Clayton Richard and RHPs Adam Russell and Dexter Carter. Winner: Chicago
The Dodgers end up as losers in this deadline season. The Sherrill acquisition was solid, but without a big addition (a workhorse SP or the Bell-Gonzalez combo), it is going to be tough for the Dodgers to compete with Philadelphia and St. Louis. The Cardinals absolutely own the Dodgers. I'm disappointed, especially since this seemed to be such a buyers market. The Phillies, Cardinals and Red Sox all won this trade season. We'll see what happens in October.


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The Colorado sheriff whose county includes the movie theater where 12 people were killed says law-enforcement officers have no right to ignore gun-control laws unless the courts rule them unconstitutional.
Arapahoe County Sheriff Grayson Robinson issued a statement Tuesday criticizing law-enforcement officials who have said they wouldn't enforce gun-control laws they consider unconstitutional.
Robinson says only courts have the authority to determine whether a law is constitutional. He says for police chiefs or sheriffs to do that would be the equivalent of having officers deciding whether people they arrest are guilty.
Robinson adds he supports gun rights under the Second Amendment.
Robinson's deputies helped respond to the July theater shootings in Aurora and are guarding the suspect in the county jail. Aurora city police are in charge of the investigation.


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Home > News & Events > Wayland Press Release Archives > 2007 News Releases > June 2007 > WBU science students spending summer improving water
WBU science students spending summer improving water
PLAINVIEW – Better techniques to purify water carry the potential to affect the lives of many people and animals. For one group of students from Wayland Baptist University, that's worth giving up a summer for research.
Seniors Lori Pretzer and Luke Loetscher and juniors Stephanie Skiles and Leah Quisenberry are spending their summer doing scientific research, funded in part by a grant from the Welch Foundation and under the tutelage of Dr. Joel Boyd, assistant professor of chemistry.
For the most part, the four are working on new and more efficient ways to kill bacteria in drinking water, using light and titanium dioxide. But each of the four is working on different facets of research in order to reach the best possible technique.
Loetscher, a native of Cheyenne, Wyo., is attempting to build a portable, battery-powered or solar-powered reactor, hooked to LEDs (light emitting diodes) that would provide UV light for the purification reaction with the titanium. Though the killing of bacteria takes place with visible light, Loetscher said the process takes too long to be practical for many applications.
"We know we can kill (bacteria) with titanium dioxide, and it needs UV light, but we're using different sources for the UV," he said. Specifically, Loetscher hopes to create a device that can be placed inside large drinking containers, causing the LED-titanium reaction to remove bacteria. His project is part of his honors thesis work at WBU, and his shorter summer stint is supported by the Honors Program.
Arizona native Pretzer is in her second summer of research, continuing in some parts work begun last year in which she and fellow student Philip Carlson discovered unique ways to remove ammonia from water. That work resulted in the filing of a provisional patent for the WBU science department for the technique of adhering the titanium to acrylic materials.
Her work this summer will primarily be to improve upon their techniques. While the 2006 work involved the use of platinum to create the reaction, Pretzer said she is investigating the use of a combination of platinum and palladium to increase the rate of the reaction.
"A lot of the work we're seeing in the literature is using glass, which doesn't work that well, or slurries, where they pour everything in and stir it around," Skiles said.
Skiles' part of the research will be a continuation of Carlson's work, involving the reduction of nitrates in water using titanium and other catalysts, namely aluminum oxide and vandia. Another aspect of her work will involve using electrolysis to split water and the other reactors to achieve a neutral pH in water.
Quisenberry's part of the research will involve trial and error with various metals used to create the purification reaction. While the titanium helps create the reaction, other metals used in conjunction have the potential to improve reaction time or efficiency. Quisenberry said she plans to work with silver, platinum, palladium, zinc and others.
For now, the students are using purified water and adding the contaminants in to do their research. Actual testing on field samples, Pretzer noted, will come down the road, involving the use of the city water supply. Her projects in particular have great potential applications to fish aquariums, and that may not be far from happening.
While the implications of the research have far reaching possibilities, the student scientists realize the summer's work is also benefiting them with respect to the future.
"This is a great learning experience for me. It may be the biggest thing I take from Wayland when I leave," Skiles said, adding she is planning to pursue graduate degrees in chemistry and one day work for a research institution. "Knowing how to do research will be helpful for me, a huge career boost."
Pretzer wants to focus heavily this summer on the process of writing up research and interacting with other scientists, a key part of the research process. She is considering medical school or graduate work in chemistry after she completes her baccalaureate. She and Quisenberry agree this experience will be valuable in preparing for graduate school, though Leah leans toward the biology field. Loetscher plans a career in missions, using his expertise and learned knowledge in biology and agriculture.
Boyd and the students agree the summer format allows for a richer experience since students have more lab space and time to focus on their projects. Though many will continue to work during the school year, a full class load means the research has to vie for their time and attention. The joint effort is another benefit to both Wayland and the research projects, said Boyd.
"One good thing is that this has become truly interdisciplinary," Boyd said. "Other professors have been so helpful in this process as well, like Dr. (Adam) Reinhart (associate professor of biological sciences) and Dr. (Gerald) Thompson (professor of science) and it has benefited all of us greatly.
"The isolated scientist in the lab is not a reality, so this reflects that well. The community format has been good for all of us."


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Barcelona coach Tito Vilanova back home after 2 months of treatment in US for throat tumor
BARCELONA, Spain – Barcelona says coach Tito Vilanova has arrived back home after spending 10 weeks in New York undergoing treatment for a throat tumor.
The club says the coach arrived in Barcelona on Tuesday morning.
Vilanova had a saliva gland tumor removed in November 2011, then underwent similar surgery on Dec. 20. He flew to the United States on Jan. 21 for chemotherapy and radiotherapy at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
The team says Vilanova was driven "straight home to get some rest," and assistant coach Jordi Roura was to remain in charge of Tuesday's training session.
Barcelona says the idea is for Vilanova "to gradually be re-introduced" at the helm of the squad.


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Steve Hanov needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 8 designs submitted by 4 freelance designers.
Rhymebrain.com is in desperate need of a new look! And it all begins with a logo.
Our unique approach to finding rhymes delights writers who find it. The rhymes are calculated on the fly, using advanced artificial intelligence techniques. That way, we can "rhyme any word, even made-up ones". The automatic insult generator shows off our fun side.
Our audience is writers & song writers. However, we are licensing the technology to other companies, so the logo should also suggest that there is a vast amount of fast, advanced computing power behind it.
The logo will be placed at the top of each page, above the search box. The web site will be redesigned to match the logo.
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The tagline "Rhyme any word" may be included in the logo. If included, subtly emphasize "any" using colour or other means.
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Dave's Rating:
Project Why.
It's only March but the year in film already has a reigning and probably unbeatable champion for the title of Most Elaborate Vomit Scene. It comes when freshly-21-and-entitled-to-a-blackout Jeff Chang (Justin Chon) heaves a volcano of slow-motion puke from a roiling place deep inside himself in what the movie depicts as something nearly approaching a barfgasm. It's disgustingly funny and for a moment it touches the greatness level of the Jackass franchise. If only it were also in 3D...
I figured I'd start this review with the highest praise the film deserved because the rest of this comedy, though frequently very funny -- in its first half, at least, before it feels the need to detour down the dark, bumpy road of tender feelings -- still plays like a spotty, erratic, wannabe cousin to the committed, sustained, amoral mayhem of Project X. As medium-entertaining as it is, in a battle of nerves it would lose thanks to X's refusal to sit down for any sort of meaningful "real talk" or soften up and make its characters beg for love. Meanwhile, that's all the three main party bros here seem to want. There's Chang, the pre-med student with anxiety and Dad issues, the casually racist dropout idiot Miller (Miles Teller) and the buttoned-down Casey (Skylar Astin), whose cuteness somehow doesn't get him laid. Ever. So they could all use a hug.
Lucky for them that the movie is more than ready to indulge their needs. As a fantasy of binge-drinking with no consequences it exists in the same dude cocoon as X and the Hangover films (screenwriters/co-directors Jon Lucas and Scott Moore also wrote that first Hangover). It lives comfortably inside the warm embrace of the unquestioned privilege its creators thoughtlessly provide. When the guys endure injury that would, in real life, prove fatal (or at least result in serious hospitalization) all they have to do is say, "Oh no, did we just kill Jeff Chang?" as though asking that question is its own post-adolescent talisman, warding off all worst-case scenarios. When they violate women, are caught by those same women and then punished for what they've done, the film can't bear to dole out anything approaching equal treatment. Arrested? No problem. Placed under psychiatric hold? Just jump out a window!
And when its time to face the big annoying life questions that the filmmakers insist take the place of what should rightfully be bigger, crazier, grosser laughs, the answers revolve around assumptions of vague, upper-middle-class creative freedom and personal fulfillment. Because, you know, of course 2013 is just like the booming 1990s and the economy is fine and cushy entry level jobs are everywhere. When you get one you can totally demand a lot of time off after working there for only two months and just head off to Coachella. Carpe diem! And if you have to rely on your parents for money well into your twenties? So what, they're just really old, people-shaped ATMs. So live your dreams, kids. Everything's chill.
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An interview with Dextra Nampeyo about her Grandmother
Dextra Nampeyo Quotskuyva, renowned Hopi-Tewa potter, paid the Arizona State Museum a visit on November 20, 1998. The great-granddaughters of Nampeyo through daughter Annie and granddaughter Rachel, Dextra was here to receive the first Arizona State Museum Lifetime Achievement Award. She was accompanied by her daughter Hisi (Camille) and Hisi's family, all of whom are also active potters.
Dextra Nampeyo with Lifetime Achievement Award which was presented by ASM's Associate Director Hartman Lomawaima, in 1998.
Here is an excerpt from a taped interview with Dextra. In the interview, she commented upon pottery in Arizona State Museum collections, including a piece with corrugated neck featured in the photo gallery.
Some have suggested that such pieces represent a period when Nampeyo's failing eyesight inspired her to experiment with textures rather than design. Dextra expressed the opinion that Nampeyo was just being creative, and then she launched into a conversation of poignant recollections and musings on the topic of Nampeyo, her mother Rachel:
"……. I think with experience in my own eyesight, the first thing I thought of was, uh-oh, I'm not going to be able to design. What am I going to do if I can't see, and be able to design my potteries? The first thing I thought was, well, if my hands can feel. My mom had already warned me about it, you know. "You're going to get blind just like I did." So I knew in advance that [I] would lose [my] eyesight. So she would tell me, "My daughter, be sure you have your hands. Train your hands so that it feels the pottery. The wall, the thickness of molding, Where you are, and especially when you are rubbing your pottery. Make sure your hands are good enough so that training, so that you know just how thick your potteries are, where it is thick and where it is thin. And with molding, when you get blind, it is going to show you how you are molding , when you are blind you can still go around it with your feeling. So it won't be too bad, if you can't design. You will be able to just mold it and to rub it. Because you have a feeling of it. You know how the pottery feels, in the mouth [of the pottery] and everything."
And so if [Nampeyo were blind] she would not have designed it. If Nampeyo had gone blind at that time when she did this one, she would have left it [unpainted]. And maybe she [could] do all that corrugating [instead]. But she was able, still, she was still able to design yet.
Like with my mom, you know she got so bad. It was kind of sad. Yeah, when she would design and you can tell how bad her design had gotten and she could not even put it together and sometimes she could not even connect them, and it was real sad. When she got real bad, I would fill it in for her. Just like Nampeyo did, my mom did for Nampeyo, too. My mother used to design for her toward the last, too. She did a lot of designing for her.
She had a lot of people bring her a lot of things, Nampeyo. She would get gifts, you know, from different people. Her customers or people who came to see her. And they would bring scarves, and maybe a shawl, or stockings—they used to wear those cotton stockings. And she would bring…One day she came down and she was asking my mom. We were just…well we were grown up, we should have known better then. And I noticed she was asking to design for her, she brought some pots down for her to design. And she said I brought you a stocking. And [at] that time, you know, that was really something. For our mothers, those cotton stockings. They don't wear just one, they have double of them. She was always glad to get those from her, and she had somebody to design for her. So I hope Camille gives me some cotton stockings when I can't see. (laugh). [I guess] I would have to give her cotton stockings!
But it is really bad. It is really sad when it's all you want to do is make potteries and your can't see, you know. And I thought, well I can't do anything [when my eyesight fails] and I might as well not do anything at all. 'Cause I know my mother had already prepared me for, you know, about your eyesight. When you are doing fine work, you are really straining your eyes a lot. And, so, our Nampeyo design, the migration design is very hard. This is all I did when I started to make pottery. I would do nothing but migration design. All those years I did nothing but that."
Dextra Nampeyo Quotskuyva
Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona
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Phoenix, AZ (Vocus) January 26, 2009
Shell Vacations Hospitality proudly presents its 2009 collection of Winter Getaways at selected hotels and ski resorts in world-class destinations throughout the U.S. and Canada. Visitors who book online are subject to big savings on a variety of winter adventures. Below is a brief glimpse into what Shell Hospitality is offering in the New Year:
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Scripture: Psalm (NIV) 139:7 Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?
8 If I go to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settles on the far side of the sea,
10 even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.
Observation: Verse 7 shows us that playing "hide and seek" with God is foolish. We can never win! When He does not want to be found, we can never find Him. But He always knows where we are. There is no place to go to escape His presence.
Application: But verses 8-10 show me I can play "hide and seek" with God. I am His child and He lives within me! So I can find Him. I know where he is. Wherever I am, He is there too!
Prayer: Lord, there is no place I will go today that you will not accompany me. And when I arrive at my destination I will look and find you are already there! Wow! Amen
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TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Sen. John McCain will be influencing future international leaders at Arizona State University.
The Arizona Republic reports the 2008 Republican presidential nominee is establishing the McCain Institute for International Leadership.
The McCain Institute, to open in December, will be based in Washington, D.C., but also have a presence at the school's Tempe campus.
McCain is funding the institute with $9 million leftover from his presidential campaign.
McCain says he wants to have a program that will draw American and foreign students. He says the program will stress character-driven leadership and be a place for debate on foreign affairs.
ASU President Michael Crow said in a statement the McCain Institute will fit in perfectly with the school's mission to have a positive impact on the larger community.


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Master of Science in Organizational Leadership
Frequently Asked Questions
Is the MSOL Program designed for me?
The MSOL program is designed for those who seek to strengthen their leadership capabilities in non-profit, faith based, business or community organizations. Motivated individuals seeking to complete a graduate degree in a 12-month period will appreciate the evening/weekend/online courses and the rigorous nature of the program.
What does the program offer?
- Ten courses and three thesis seminar sessions (33 credits or intense study) that integrate theoretical and practical knowledge.
- A values-based leadership model that provides a framework for students as they seek to refine their critical thinking and applied research skills.
- The opportunity to design and complete an action research study that contributes to positive leadership and organizational change.
- Tools and processes that enable students to critique their leadership values and skills and to develop their leadership potential.
Where are classes held?
Several online classes are required. In person classes are held at the following locations:
- Nyack, NY
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When are classes offered?
- 4-hour weekday evening classes are offered twice a week in New York City.
- 8-hour Saturday classes are offered on the Nyack, NY campus.
- All students enrolled in a New York City cohort must fulfill residency requirements by attending one (1) course held on the Nyack campus.
- Courses are offered consecutively and students completing all requirements will graduate in one year.
How do I apply, enroll, and pay for the program?
- Admissions Counselors are available to guide you through the application process. Attend an incoming Information Session, or call (800-876-9225) to speak with an Admissions Counselor.
- Students enrolled in this program are eligible for Financial Aid.
- Once the admissions/payment process is completed, students are automatically registered in the appropriate courses and assigned to cohort groups that remain together throughout the program. Cohorts begin in January and September of each year.


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Midterms, papers, school- it's all rushing by so fast!
Can it really already be May?
I feel like I was just studying for finals last quarter, yet here I am, crammed up in my room between review sessions, procrastinating on more studying.
But such is life!
I spent the past 5 minutes going through the randomness that is the photos on my phone, little snippets of running to and from class and meeting and friends.
Here is apparently what has been catching my eye the past few months:
Lonely letters written to the world.
"I don't understand. How is it possible to feel so alone in
a world full of people?"
School buses dubbed "cool" buses.
Darn right. Stay in school, kids!
Capturing a moment of my eccentricity.
(I learned in class yesterday that's the nice word for "crazy".)
(I learned in class yesterday that's the nice word for "crazy".)
Apparently people don't usually separate their M&Ms by color, saving blues for last and eating the rest in same-color pairs?
My school for you, folks.
Yes, that is "Platform 9 3/4" chalked into the sign for our parking structure. And "Diagon Alley" chalked into an archway.