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A Jacksonville family will soon be moving into their new Habitat for Humanity home.
A Jacksonville family will soon be moving into their new Habitat for Humanity home.
Crystal Coast Habitat for Humanity is set to publicly dedicate the house Friday and hand its keys over to the four-member Ellison-George family during an 11 a.m. ceremony at the home site, 1624 Hargett St. in downtown Jacksonville.
Matilda Ellison has completed 400 hours of sweat equity and homeowner education courses required for a partnership home build. She will receive a zero percent mortgage for the costs to build her home.
She said she is looking forward to moving her two children into their new home in time for the holidays.
�Especially my son who has special health issues,� she said, adding that a mold-free home should improve his health.
Jason Nelson, a developer with Atlantic Construction in Jacksonville, volunteered to help with his connections and expert construction knowledge. He sponsored the building project.
Nelson said he made sure the home will remain affordable for the family by using several energy efficient components.
Trinity United Methodist Church was the first of 12 Apostles Build churches to sign on to help with funding toward the costs of this Building on Faith home project. Church leaders from across the county and their congregations were represented by many trades and business owners who donated time, talents and materials to complete the house.
Construction began in May with help from the Professional Women�s Builders, the Onslow County Derby Dames and employees with the local Lowes Home Improvement.
The public is invited to the Friday ceremony. Parking will be available at Sandy Run Missionary Baptist Church, one block down the street. The City of Jacksonville is providing a shuttle bus to the site, and the Jacksonville Police Department will direct traffic and help ensure pedestrian safety during the event. The New River Harmony Quartet is scheduled to perform.
�The community is welcome, so please come out and help us celebrate this joyous occasion of dedicating this Faith Build home for the Ellison-George family,� said Kris Durham, executive director of Crystal Coast Habitat for Humanity, which serves Onslow and Carteret counties.
For more information on the Habitat homebuilding partnership program or for information on how to help, visit crystalcoasthabitat.org or call 252-223-2111. Anyone can donate, shop or volunteer at their ReStores to help raise funds for future Habitat homes. The Jacksonville ReStore is located at 1200 Gum Branch Road; the Newport ReStore is located at 5898 U.S. 70.
Contact Daily News Senior Reporter Lindell Kay at 910-219-8455 or email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter and friend him on Facebook @ 1lindell.

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It's that time of year again - the time when I get to focus on pattern designs and try out some ideas that have been floating around my head for months - sometimes even years! Something new that has come of all that focusing is a hand embroidery pattern collection called "Petite Pups"!
This new pattern set features some favorite little dogs - chihuahua, yorkshire terrier, dachshund and boston terrier. And yes, it was extremely difficult to choose which breeds to include. Narrowing it down to these little guys was tricky but they fit better in a hoop than a great dane would and they are also pretty irresistible if you ask me.
I was also inspired to take on this theme by customers who have asked if I have any other patterns of dogs. While I have a couple tucked into other pattern sets here and there I did not really have anything else to offer. So that became my 'square one.' Also, because people's pets are so personal to them I knew this collection was going to need some personal touches and that became my next creative challenge.So, while it's perfectly fine to stitch these up on their own, I also included some accent patterns that can be added in to create a more personalized project. Adding a name or other text is easy with the floral banner or abstract dog house frame designs. There are some other goodies in the mix as well so it's possible to stitch these up in so many different variations.
I hope people will find these designs to be a fun way to celebrate their favorite little pups but I also think they could be a fantastic starting point for some DIY gifts. I know some dog lovers who might just love some hand embroidered cuteness and I'll bet you do too.


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Rosario Dawson, Vanessa Hudgens, and Uma Thurman Pictures at Cannes
Rosario, Vanessa, and Uma Bring Euphoria to Cannes For Calvin Klein
Rosario, Vanessa, and Uma Bring Euphoria to Cannes For Calvin Klein
Rosario Dawson, Vanessa Hudgens, and Uma Thurman hit the beachside red carpet for Calvin Klein, Calvin Klein euphoria, and the Independent Filmmakers Project in Cannes last night. The setting was perfection and the crowd of onlookers was thrilled to get a glimpse at the stars as they headed into the bash at Hotel Martinez's waterside setup. Uma has been everywhere as one of this year's Cannes Film Festival jurors and both she and Rosario were honored at the evening's event. Rosario and Vanessa spent the afternoon shopping around the town's many luxury shops after arriving in Nice earlier in the day. Vanessa Hudgens was quoted about coming out to support her friend, "I think it's really great when somebody gives women an opportunity to come out and stand up for what they are doing, and I'm so excited to be here." The duo were also glowing as they arrived side-by-side to make their way into the exclusive soiree. It was just one of many celebrations going on up and down the Cannes promenade and just across the street in the penthouse balcony of the Hotel Martinez, Diane Kruger and Joshua Jackson were cuddling up at L'Oreal Paris's private party.


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If you've already added Phone and/or Email address in the footer as simple text and want that to become a link-able element
If you've already added Phone and/or Email address in the footer as simple text and want that to become a link-able element
please navigate to WP Admin -> Appearance -> Widgets and in the part of the Footer area in which you have this information create HTML anchor tags,
As a result, links will be displayed on the front-end,
The Qode Options panel is where most of our theme options are set. The footer area has a dedicated tab inside the Qode Options panel as well.
If you navigate from your WP Admin dashboard to Qode Options -> Footer you can choose two main types of footer: Uncovering Footer,
and Regular Footer
The difference between the two is that the Uncovering Footer will have the content area overlap the footer area at the bottom and produce a smooth unveiling effect. This layout is very common for a modern web design approach -
The other option is to select the Regular Footer where there is no overlapping - the footer will be shown right after the content of the page and have a stacked layout, as you can seen on the majority of websites online.
Right below the Uncovering Footer option, a default background background image can be set.
This image will stretch across the whole footer area of your site.
This is a general setting that can be overridden once you get into styling Footer Top or Footer bottom area.
The footer area as a whole is divided into two main sections - Footer Top and Footer Bottom,
Example with only Footer Top area - http://demo.qodeinteractive.com/bridge38/
Example with Footer Top area and Footer Bottom area – http://demo.qodeinteractive.com/bridge59/
If you do not enable either of these footer areas, your footer will be hidden. By enabling one of these areas, a lot of new options become available -
Similarly to the global website layout, both footer sections - Footer Top and Footer Bottom - can be placed in grid as well-
or set to stay in full width -
This is defined using the Footer In Grid option
The basis of footer structure represents a grid column layout. This layout technique lets you build your content through widget areas and have them positioned in a clear and responsive manner.
Let's focus on Footer Top for now.
In Qode Options -> Footer you have an option to choose how many columns you want to set as your layout structure. The range goes from one to four columns, in various alignments
By selecting the number of columns, the alignment options will appear below.
Colors and Background Image properties for this area will override any general setting you might have applied to the Footer Background Image initially.
Other layout options that are valuable in terms of styling and design are padding, border and angled footer
Let's go through these additional styling options:
Footer Top Colors - With this option you can configure colors for the Footer Top area with Background Color, Title Color, Text Color, Link Color, Link Hover Color -
Footer Top Border - Setting the Footer Top Border option, you can separate the Footer Top area from the content above and set the separator color. Also you can set the height of the footer area, and if you have the footer in grid you might want to check the option for Top Border in Grid as well.
Footer Top Padding - With Footer Top Padding you can set all four paddings: Top, Right, Bottom and Left. This way, by managing Top and Bottom values you can set the height your footer area will inherit.
Angled Shape, Angled Shape Direction - Using this option you can create an angled footer and set its direction and background color.
Similar settings are available if you decide to enable the Footer Bottom area -
An additional option for Footer Bottom Columns lets you choose three columns maximum. Also, you can use Custom Menu Item Spacing. This option is set to adjust the spacing between menu items located in the custom menu widget.
To add content to your footer please navigate to WP Admin -> Appearance -> Widgets. This is where all your footer widget areas (sidebars) are located. To add content to one of these areas you need to 'drag & drop' a widget from your left-hand side.
Many engaging footer layouts on our demos use Visual Composer shortcodes placed directly into a Text Widget in one of the footer widget areas. We'll go more in-depth on how to create some of them in the following sections.
If you are looking to create a social icons area in your footer,
you should follow these instructions:
First, navigate to WP Admin -> Pages and create a test page. Then switch to backend editor, add a Social icons shortcode and set desired parameters,
Now, switch to classic mode and copy the code of shortcode,
In the end, navigate to WP Admin -> Appearance -> Widgets and paste the shortcode in a Text widget -
In order to change the logo image placed in the footer area
you should navigate to WP Admin -> Appearance -> Widgets, open the Footer Column widget area the logo is set in, open the Text Widget in that widget area, and replace the HTML tag's src attribute. Add the link to your own image -
Similarly to placing your original logo you can add another image as well.
If you don't want to use any image in your footer, and when you delete the text widget, the footer gets misaligned,
you should navigate to Qode Options -> General -> Custom code -> Custom CSS field and delete this code:
footer .column1 {
position: relative;
top: -18px;
Here is a screenshot:
In order to put a Flickr stream in your footer,
you should go to WP Admin -> Pages -> Create New Page and use this test page to add the Flickr shortcode,
Then you should switch Visual Composer back to Classic mode and you will get the shortcode which you need to copy from the page,
Then navigate to WP Admin -> Appearance -> Widgets -> Footer, add a Text widget into a Widget Area and paste your Flicker shortcode there and save,
Similar to adding Flickr Stream to your Footer widgets, you can add an Image Gallery shortcode into your site's footer area as well. First, create an Image Gallery shortcode on a test page,
switch back to Classic mode, select the gallery shortcode,
copy and paste that shortcode into your Text widget in Appearance -> Widgets -> a widget area of your choice,
If you've already added Phone and/or Email address in the footer as simple text and want that to become a link-able element
please navigate to WP Admin -> Appearance -> Widgets and in the part of the Footer area in which you have this information create HTML anchor tags,
As a result, links will be displayed on the front-end,
In order to set a copyright note at the bottom of your site,
first, you should check if the footer bottom is enabled in WP Admin -> Qode Options -> Footer -> Show Footer Bottom.
To add a widget into the footer bottom area, navigate to WP Admin -> Appearance -> Widgets and find the Footer Bottom Center widget area for example,
Add a Text widget to Footer Bottom Center widget area,
Insert your text into the content field,
Save and refresh your site,
To change this widget's style, navigate to WP Admin -> Qode Options -> Footer -> Footer Bottom,
Depending on the purpose of your website it might be useful to have newsletter subscription field available for your site visitors throughout the site. One of the more convenient locations is usually a widget are in the footer as it'd be present on each page a site visitor navigates to.
To add a newsletter subscription field to a footer widget area, first you need to install Contact Form 7 plugin. Then, create a subscription form that will consist of Name, Email and a Subscribe button for example -
Finally, place its shortcode into the widget area of your choice in the following format:
[contact-form-7 id="15279" html_class="cf7_custom_style_1"]
Html_class determines a previously determined style in WP Admin -> Contact Form 7 to be bound to this particular form.
Here's how this field looks like on one of our demos:
Note: As with any other shortcodes you can use additional 'styling' shortcodes to introduce spacing. For example:
In order to add the WordPress search box into the footer area, please navigate to WP Admin -> Appearance -> Widgets ,
Add the Search widget into one of footer widget areas (Footer Column 1 - Footer Column 4),
Save and refresh your site,
You are able to use any native WordPress widget on your website with the Bridge theme. You just need to drag a widget item into your desired widget area and tweak additional settings.
The method for adding any shortcode into a widget area is the same:
1. Create a test page
2. Using Visual Composer add the shortcode.
3. Switch back to Classic mode
4. Copy the whole shortcode and paste it into a Text Widget
If you decide to place testimonials in the footer of your site, you should perform the following steps:
Navigate to WP Admin -> Pages and create a test page.
Switch to Backend editor, add Testimonials shortcode, set desired parameters and save,
Finally, switch back to Classic mode, copy the code for testimonials,
and paste it into Text widget in WP Admin -> Appearance -> Widgets,
In order to introduce vertical spacing between two items in the footer widget areas we recommend using Separator shortcode. To create a separator for this usage, you should go to a test page. Using Visual Composer add the Separator shortcode,
You are able to choose between solid, transparent and small separator, and set thickness and margins for your separator,
save changes, switch to Classic mode and copy code for separator,
Then navigate to WP Admin -> Appearance -> Widgets and paste the code in a Text widget in the footer column of your choice,
You will get this effect,
for transparent separator,
for small separator.
Another shortcode that can come in handy in the footer area is the Button shortcode. Whether it be a basic button without any other content, or button used with additional text to create a Call to action element, this is how it's created. Simply follow through these screenshots:
01 Create the shortcode on a test page -
02 Switch back to Classic mode and copy the shortcode -
03 Navigate to WP Admin -> Appearance -> Widgets and paste the shortcode into a Text Widget placed into a widget area -
To add an inline menu to the very bottom of your page simply navigate to WP Admin -> Appearance -> Widgets and paste the following HTML into a Text widget in one of the widget areas:
Home
About
Shop
Blog
Contact
We recommend that you let this serve as placeholder layout and modify the href attributes to match the links to your existing pages and enter the corresponding labels.
Here's how the end result will look like -
If you're using the Full Screen Sections page template, the footer area won't be displayed. Instead, you should create it manually in the last full screen section on your page,
as we did on this demo. It's important to know that none of the options from Qode Options -> Footer will be applied to this new footer area.
When you are copying and pasting HTML shortcodes to a text widget in one of the footer widget areas, please double-check the opening and closing tags. Due to improper HTML structure unwanted layouts can appear.


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Share photos & videos
You can share photos, videos, albums, and movies with anyone, even if they don't use the Google Photos app.
In a shared album, each person can add photos and videos until the album reaches 20,000 total items.
Note: If you have a large album, some features may not be available.
After you share, you can stop them from seeing the album. Learn how to stop sharing an album.
Before you get started
Download and install the Google Photos app.
Share with other people
You can share with family, friends, and other people if they are in your contacts list or by adding their phone numbers or email address.
- On your Android phone or tablet, open the Google Photos app .
- Sign in to your Google Account.
- Select a photo, album, or movie.
- Tap Share .
- Tap Type a name, phone number, or email or select people to share with. If you're part of a family on Google with at least 2 other people, select Family group to share with your family members.
You can add a message, then tap Send. To manage these messages, go to the activity log.
Send a link or share to other apps
- On your Android phone or tablet, open the Google Photos app .
- Select a photo, album, or movie to share.
- Tap Share .
- Select an app to share to. Slide up to see more apps. You can also send a link.
What happens when you share
- Contacts with this icon on their profile image use the Google Photos app. If you Send via Google Photos:
- They get an in-app notification.
- Their profile image will be added to the album and will appear faded until they see the album.
- You can only do this if you've interacted with them through Google services.
- They may also appear with this icon if their phone number is connected to their Google Account and you've added it to your Google Contacts.
- If you share to a phone number or email address:
- They get a link to the album, by SMS or email, depending on how it was shared.
- A generic profile image will be added to the album and will appear faded until they click the link to see the album.
- If they join the album, their profile image will change into their Google Account profile image.
- When they see the album, you'll get an in-app notification.
- Anyone that has the shared link will be able to see the album. Learn how to change your sharing options.
What happens when someone shares with you
- You may receive an email, text message, or in-app notification, depending on the way it was shared.
- When you tap a link to see the album, your profile image in the album will light up and a notification will be sent to the sharer. Learn how to leave an album.
- If you were shared to by email or phone number, and you join the album, your profile image will change to your Google Account profile image.
- Learn more about who can share with you.
- If you think someone is spamming you, you can block or report them.
Remove an invite to see photos
If you were invited by phone number or email address, you can reject an invite to see their photos.
- On the invite, tap More Options.
- Tap Remove invite.
Share all photos to another account
Share from a suggested share
See albums you've shared or joined
- On your Android phone or tablet, open the Google Photos app .
- At the bottom, tap Sharing.
Under "Start a new share," you can see your shared albums and sharing activity, like comments and recently added photos. New sharing activity will be in bold.
To see people you've shared an album with:
- Open the photo, video, or album you shared.
- Tap More Options.
Related articles
- Stop sharing an album.
- Delete photos & videos.
- To get photos from your computer, back up your photos and videos.
- Stop people from adding to your albums, or turn commenting off.


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The "Inspirational Autism Stories" program was designed to honor someone with autism from the San Diego community. Selected honorees stand as an inspiration to others with autism, to parents with a newly diagnosed child, as well as to people without the disorder. Individuals selected for this honor participate in a live interview or fill out a questionnaire that asks questions such as:
Our new honoree is selected and responses are posted on the ACE website to inspire the people who read the stories of success.
I have not only obtained my high school diploma but also have an Associate's degree in Computer Aided Design and Drafting.
I excel in memory. I am very good at learning formulas and equations from the classes I have taken and am able to recall many sport events and stats. For example, I am able to recall many Olympic events and who won in each category. I am also very good at building and crafting things with my own hands such as block designing.
At a very young age I was not able to talk and could only make sounds in which no one could understand what I meant or wanted. Therefore, once I was diagnosed with autism I was able to be referred to services in which I would receive different kinds of therapy such as speech therapy. At a young age, because of my diagnosis, I was also eligible to be placed into a school known as Excelior Academy where speech therapists worked with me on a daily basis. Learning to talk not only allowed me to feel more confident but also engage in conversations and make friends.
Unlike many others, I was not capable of speaking at an early age when everyone else could. As a child I was also very restless and would become easily aggravated if something was not done the way I wanted. Luckily I now take medications that ameliorate my aggression.
I love the beach. I have attempted to surf and am not very good at it but love being in the water. I like to watch a lot of different sports, such as baseball and basketball. On my spare time I take the MTS bus to constructions sites to observe more closely the construction taking place and the craftsmanship behind the construction. I get a lot of reward seeing how things shape and form together resulting in the productivity of construction.
When learning how to speak, practice on saying the words aloud frequently. Converse more with your parents and distance yourself from things you can easily become fixated on. Read as much as you can. If you are prescribed medications, learn more about how they can better facilitate your behaviors and emotions. Take whichever skills you have and put them to a good use. Learn how to believe more in yourself and try new things.
I would love to work as a civil engineer one day. In addition, I would like to write a book/autobiography that could serve as a recipe for autism and help other individuals diagnosed with autism relate with the many challenges I have encountered in life. I would also like to become a better surfer…
Official Web Site of the University of California, San Diego.


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Fox & Friends Devotes Live Coverage To Conservative Group's Gas-Price Publicity Stunt
Fox & Friends devoted live coverage to a publicity stunt by a conservative group paying the difference between today's gas prices and the price when President Obama took office. Conveniently, Fox & Friends never mentioned the oil interests funding the group or the dishonest premise behind the stunt.
On its October 25 show, Fox News correspondent Heather Nauert reported live from a gas station in New Jersey where the "conservative free-market group" Americans for Prosperity (AFP) was conducting a publicity stunt in which drivers paid $1.84 a gallon for gas -- the price that gas temporarily plummeted to right before Obama took office -- and AFP paid the difference.
AFP's stunt is explicitly designed to promote an anti-Obama agenda -- the group has stated [1] that the point is to "highlight President Obama's failing green energy policies."
Nauert effectively played into AFP's political agenda, asking drivers questions like "Would you be more willing to vote for a different administration in this election as a result of the high gas prices today?"
In a second live segment later in the show, Nauert posed similar questions to a female driver. When the driver responded that she supports Obama and plans to vote for him again, Nauert asked, "Even though you're paying more for gas?" After the interview, Nauert highlighted that "we spoke to another voter earlier today who said that he voted for President Obama four years ago but the high cost of gas is actually going to change his vote."
What Nauert and the Fox & Friends hosts failed to mention was that the fundamental premise behind the stunt -- it's somehow Obama's fault that gas prices are higher than when he took office -- is misleading and divorced from context. Economists have explained [2] that gas prices plunged right before Obama took office as a result of a drop in world oil demand due to the recession occurring at that time, and that prices are driven by the world market for oil, not U.S. policies.
Also unmentioned was that Americans for Prosperity is largely funded [1] by the Koch brothers, who have significant oil interests. The publicity stunt is designed to advocate [1] for the removal of "bureaucratic and legal barriers to responsible and efficient development of America's oil." But economists across the political spectrum have explained [1] that these policies will only benefit the Koch empire -- not American consumers.
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It's Mexico vs. Denmark at the University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona on January 30 and you would think anticipation and excitement for the game would be high from fans and Mexican-Americans in Arizona. But immigration rights organizations say not so fast.
"The Mexican soccer team is coming down to play in the apartheid state of Arizona," says Salvador Reza, 61, an organizer for TonaTierra for 20 years who works with its Barrio Defense Committees engaging with families on problems they face from authorities. "Where anybody who looks brown is suspect and officers would even stop them if they saw them driving. For them to come here and leave millions of dollars to the state of Arizona in taxes and revenue is a disservice to the community they represent."
In a statement to NBC Latino, the Mexican Soccer Federation said it believes it's important for the Mexican national team to take part in the game in Arizona.
"For the Mexican Soccer Federation it's important that the Mexican team be present in any state in the United States, so we can give fans who always support us a great show, and we're certain many fans will be with us for the game," it wrote in Spanish.
Reza says there aren't many organizations still supporting a boycott of Arizona after the National Council of La Raza said there is no ongoing boycott against the state for its treatment of Latinos, but says TonaTierra is receiving support from the National Day Laborer Organizing Network and its affiliates.
immigration voices are a Puerto Rican Congressman and a Cuban Senator" href="http://nbclatino.com/2013/01/17/opinion-why-d-c-s-top-immigration-voices-are-a-puerto-rican-congressman-and-a-cuban-senator/" target="_blank">RELATED: Opinion: Why D.C.'s top immigration voices are a Puerto Rican Congressman and a Cuban Senator
The issue is larger to TonaTierra than just one game. A protest is scheduled for Saturday, which will begin at the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office of controversial Sheriff Joe Arpaio and pass the University of Phoenix Stadium before ending at the Glendale Police Department, where Reza says hundreds will be in attendance to protest the criminalization of their community.
The 2013 match will mark El Tri's third visit to the University of Phoenix Stadium. Mexico's first visited in 2007 in a sold-out international exhibition against the United States, with more than 60,000 fans in attendance. According to the University of Phoenix web site for the game, Mexico last played at the facility in 2009, defeating Guadeloupe in a Gold Cup doubleheader group match.
"We would love for them not to come or to do a form of protest in solidarity with the community," Reza says.
"We're talking about a high level here — they're one of the best teams in the world. But we have a problem with them leaving millions of dollars in the coffers of Arizona."
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Surya's Frontier collection is packed with versatile styles and vibrant color palettes. Ikat styles, casual designs, and tribal themes are hand woven into low wool piles. The flat weave pile allows these rugs to be reversible, thus twice as versatile as other rugs. Mediterranean blue, poppy red, honeysuckle pink, and light orchid are just a few examples of the bold and striking colors that can be found in this collection.
We encourage any discussion or questions concerning this product. Our goal is to personally respond to any questions placed during business hours within 30 minutes.


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Welcome to Robert A.L. Mortvedt Library
The Library Services website is your portal to the PLU library collection. You can search our library catalog, online databases, indexes, and encyclopedias, and access most of our periodical collection; over 90% of our journal subscriptions are online. The PLU library offers:
260,000+ volumes of books
81,000+ journals (full text + indexing) with 39,000+ of those in full text
14,000+ e-books
105 electronic databases
300 course and subject research guides
20 individual and group study rooms
In the 2015-2016 academic year, Library Services librarians taught 176 library research workshops. Why not schedule one for your class?
The oldest book in the PLU collection is a psalter by Johann Bugenhagen published in 1524.
The Mortvedt Library building is home to an information commons, housing the university's print collection as well as providing access to over 60 computers, wireless Internet access, and the many services provided by the division of I&TS. Academic Assistance and the student Writing Center are also housed here. Whether you need help with background research for your paper, writing critiques, designing websites and presentations, or just a quiet place to work, it's all available at the library.
Our vision
The Robert A.L. Mortvedt Library is committed to excellence in service that enables, empowers, and encourages life-long learning. The library provides access to information resources that advance the teaching of critical thinking and the pursuit of knowledge for the Pacific Lutheran University Community.
Our mission
The mission of the library is to support the university in providing quality education in preparation for lives of service. To that end, we:
- Provide quality customer service
- Select, purchase, organize, and maintain a quality library collection
- Offer access to material and information resources regardless of format or location
- Anticipate information needs in an increasingly globalized community
- Teach efficient techniques of information retrieval as well as critical evaluation and effective use of resources
- Provide leadership in the use of information technology on campus
- Promote diversity, intellectual integrity, and freedom of inquiry and expression
In an effort to realize our vision and carry out our mission, we recognize that the most important resource in our library is the people. Therefore, we will:
- Empower staff with continuing education and training
- Strive for a collaborative environment where staff contribute ideas freely, are innovative, creative, and take pride in their work.


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LocationThurmont, MD
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Used 2014 Little Guy Worldwide Little Guy 5 Wide Platform
2014 Little Guy 5-Wide Platform Featuring Queen Size Bed, Interior Cabinets & Lights, Locking Double Doors with Slider Window & Screen, Large Roof Vent, Alloy Wheels, Aluminum Fender & Stone Guard, Fiberglass Shell, Wheel Jack, Rear Hatch & Galley, and Torsion Axle.
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Reading 4: The National Council of Negro Women: Beyond Bethune
When Bethune decided to step down as president of NCNW in 1949, she helped ensure that Dr. Dorothy Ferebee, her personal physician and NCNW's national treasurer, would be elected the next NCNW president. Not surprisingly, Ferebee put increased emphasis on healthcare education. Under her leadership, NCNW also focused on ending discrimination against blacks and women in the military, housing, employment, and voting. She continued fundraising efforts and participated in various meetings of national and international organizations. She was a member of the executive board of the White House's Children and Youth Council and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).
In 1951, Ferebee led NCNW in hosting a reception for the wife of the Vice-President at the Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C. This event was important because it gathered approximately 500 women from diverse backgrounds. As a result of Ferebee's determination and leadership, it also was the first time that a major Washington, D.C. hotel had rented its main ballroom to an African American group. During her presidency, Ferebee also issued a "Nine Point Program" which called attention to the need to achieve "basic civil rights through education and legislation." She worked hard to advance NCNW's agenda while maintaining a full-time job at Howard University and dealing with limited funds and staff.
In November 1953, the Council elected Vivian Carter Mason as president. A graduate of the University of Chicago, Mason had been the first black female administrator in New York City's Department of Welfare. She was president of the Norfolk NCNW chapter and vice-president of the national organization under Dr. Ferebee. Mason's administrative skills were beneficial in helping to better organize NCNW headquarters and connect local chapters to the national office. Under her leadership, NCNW members participated in numerous meetings and conferences held by such groups as the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women, the American Association for the United Nations, the International Council of Women of the World, and the National Advisory Committee on Health.
Mason served as president when NCNW marked its 20th anniversary in 1955. At a celebration in February, Mary McLeod Bethune praised the council members by saying, "I am very grateful to you, my daughters. I have been the dreamer. But, oh, how wonderfully you have interpreted my dreams."1 A few months later, Bethune died of a heart attack at her Daytona Beach home on May 18 at age 79. During her lifetime, Bethune witnessed the tremendous growth of the organization she founded. Over its first 20 years, NCNW helped African American women break down barriers that often isolated them from mainstream America. Through perseverance, the council helped make it acceptable for black women to be a part of national and international affairs. Through increased interaction with white female organizations, NCNW tried to unite all women as equals and present a more accurate image of American black women to the world.
In 1957, Dorothy Irene Height, who had served for 20 years in various appointed positions with NCNW, became its fourth president. Height had the daunting task of leading NCNW during the early 1960s, a turbulent period of increased racial violence in the South as the Civil Rights Movement expanded. In 1963, she had offered NCNW headquarters as a meeting place for national organizations and individuals taking part in the March on Washington on August 28. During this period, civil rights advocates were being arrested in states such as Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia. As tensions mounted, Height and NCNW launched a plan that called for racially mixed groups of women to visit rural communities in Mississippi each week during the summer of 1964 to foster better communication among the races and encourage voter registration among blacks. This highly successful project was known as "Wednesdays in Mississippi."
One of NCNW's consistent problems had been lack of funds, caused in part because the organization did not qualify for tax-exempt status. Without this designation, foundations and philanthropists were unlikely to donate large sums of money to NCNW because they had to pay taxes on their gift. Height made it a priority to revise the Articles of Incorporation and make other changes that resulted in the U.S. Internal Revenue Service granting tax-exempt status in 1966. That same year, sizeable grants from the Ford Foundation and the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare allowed NCNW to begin a "nationwide network of Negro women, working with all segments of their communities, middle-class and poor, Negro and white, to help chart and carry out needed community service and social action programs."2 Increased funding allowed the council to expand and standardize its programs on the national and local level.
While the council enjoyed a period of substantial growth in the mid-1960s, its headquarters suffered major water and smoke damage from a fire started by a leak in the heating oil tank in January 1966. As a result, NCNW had to move its headquarters to the Dupont Circle area. The building that had witnessed two decades of NCNW gatherings and had stood as a symbol to NCNW members remained vacant for several years. Finally, in 1975, grant money enabled NCNW members to begin restoring the townhouse for the purpose of reopening it as a museum. On November 11, 1979, the Mary McLeod Bethune Memorial Museum and National Archives for Black Women's History opened to the public. Decades earlier, Bethune recognized the need to preserve records related to African American history, particularly ones focusing on African American women. NCNW's Library and Museum Committee had collected various materials through the years and showcased them in the Council House library. Occupying the carriage house behind the Council House, the archives today includes the records of NCNW, personal papers of African American women, records of other African American women's organizations, and a collection of more than 4000 photographs.
In October 1982, Congress designated the Mary McLeod Bethune Memorial Museum a National Historic Site. The National Park Service acquired it in 1994 and opened it to the the public as Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site on October 1, 1995. That same year, NCNW members proudly dedicated a new headquarters at 633 Pennsylvania Avenue, a prestigious address blocks from the White House and the Capitol. Dorothy Height continued as president of NCNW until l998 when she became Chair and President Emeritus. Today, the Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site stands as a poignant memorial not only to Bethune herself but the many African American women who worked tirelessly to institute change in American society.
Questions for Reading 4
1. What challenges might Dr. Ferebee and Vivian Carter Mason have faced taking over NCNW while Bethune was still alive?
2. What were some of the accomplishments of each president?
3. How did Dorothy Height change NCNW? What particular challenges did she face as NCNW president during the 1960s?
4. Make a brief timeline of the history of the house. When did it become a National Historic Site? Why was this important?
Reading 4 was adapted from Dorothy Height, Open Wide the Freedom Gates: A Memoir (New York: Public Affairs, 2003); Audrey Thomas McCluskey and Elaine M. Smith, eds. Mary McLeod Bethune: Building a Better World: Essays and Selected Documents (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1999); Elaine M. Smith, Mary McLeod Bethune and the National Council of Negro Women: Historic Resource Study (Alabama State University, 2003); and Dr. Bettye Collier-Thomas, NCNW: 1935-1980 (Washington, D.C.: The National Council of Negro Women, 1981).
1 As quoted in McCluskey and Smith, eds., 281.
1 As quoted in McCluskey and Smith, eds., 281.


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Atheist Universe
Atheist Universe: Why God Didn't Have a Thing To Do With It is a book originally self-published by David Mills in 2004. Ulysses Press of Berkeley, California, published a second edition in August 2006, for distribution to major bookstore chains. This edition of Atheist Universe is subtitled The Thinking Person's Answer to Christian Fundamentalism and includes a foreword by Dorion Sagan, the son of Carl Sagan.
As of March 8th, 2007, Atheist Universe sits at #1,208 in Amazon's book sales rank. However, it was at one point Amazon's best selling book on atheism.
Atheist Universe supplies counter-apologetics arguments through the Evidentalist paradigm. One of the central themes of the work is debunking Intelligent Design or Creationist thoughts through enumerating the apologetic arguments behind them and proving them false through the use of modern scientific evidence. For example, David Mills explains the typical apologist's rationale for believing the age of the Earth to be approximately 6000 years old. These apologists determine Earth's age through looking at the genealogies and ages of persons mentioned in the Bible. Mills goes on to tear this notion of a 6000-year-old Earth apart by giving such evidence as radiant light energy seen on Earth from stars that are billions of light-years away from Earth and explaining the modern scientific understanding of fossilization. Along the way, he counters such claims as a Great Flood and provides sound scientific arguments against apologist claims for it.
Atheist Universe tackles the following questions (from the back cover):
- What is atheism, and why is it so misunderstood?
- If God is a myth, then how did the universe appear?
- Without God, is there an objective "right" and "wrong"?
- What is the meaning of life without God?
- Is there evidence of Jesus' miracles and resurrection?
- Can atheists explain "near death" experiences and medical miracles?
- Can science and the Bible be realistically reconciled?
- What is the behind-the-scenes relationship between politics and religion?


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There's no denying the Van Nicholas Ti is a stem of beauty and the obvious choice for a money's-no-object fantasy Audax or crosser build. However, super stiff CNC machined alloy or even Cro-moly steel might represent better value-especially for powerfully built racers needing super stiff cockpits.
Designed in the Netherlands, fabricated in the Far East from 3AL/2.5 grade titanium, our 90mm test model tipped the scales at a very modest 80g with alloy fasteners. The raw finish with whispers of TIG welding gives a seamless space age industrial beauty (although ours had traces of blast media inside).
Sensibly a 31.8-oversized clamp ensures the pick of topflight bars-Van Nicholas offer a corresponding titanium option but I spurned these in favour of my cross bikes super stiff alloy drops. Whichever route you take, remember to apply a thin coating of Ti Prep so as to prevent the dreaded creak.
My alloy crosser was the obvious guinea pig- even with carbon fork blades, fatigue sets in around the shoulders after several hours' continuous riding. From the outset, the Van Nicholas provided a luxurious passage over rougher asphalt, absorbing the harsher hits without turning the front end to blamancge. It's a curious, unique sensation extending full-pelt green-lane playtimes by a good hour and a half.
Given it can be flipped for a more aggressive stance, the 8.5degree rise is fine for most road based duties. One bedded in, the four-bolt face clamp grips the bars like the proverbial dog on a postman's leg. Death grip descending and honking with all my weight atop the bars couldn't budge them, giving the ideal balance between rigidity and compliance.
Bottom line: £135 is a lot of money for a stem. Oversized, CNC machined alloy units might better serve big, powerful riders. However, the wonder metal is splendidly long-lived and could well be the ultimate choice for those weighing 85kilos or less.
Expensive but undeniably beautiful stem for treasured steeds and riders of moderate weight
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road.cc test report
Make and model: Van Nicholas Ti Stem
Size tested: 110mm
Tell us what the product is for, and who it's aimed at. What do the manufacturers say about it? How does that compare to your own feelings about it?
The Van Nicholas is a Ti stem for road bikes-the most obvious audience being Audax and other riders with ti framesets. Equally it will interest crossers and those with a titanium fetish.
Tell us some more about the technical aspects of the product?
Made from 3AL/2.5 grade titanium 8.5 degree rise, 31.8 clamp diameter 80g (90mm)
Takes the sting from rougher surfaces without compromising handling.
Should last a lifetime.
£135 is a lot of money for a stem but on the right machine could prove very cost effective-especially given the material's longevity.
Tell us how the product performed overall when used for its designed purpose
Faultlessly, a great combination of low weight, supple ride over rough surfaces and just the right degree of rise. Might not be ideal for big, powerful riders-not that it will break anytime soon.
Tell us what you particularly liked about the product
Finish/raw beauty, low weight.
Tell us what you particularly disliked about the product
Nothing,although disappointed to find blast media still inside our test model.
Did you enjoy using the product? Yes
Would you consider buying the product? Possibly
Would you recommend the product to a friend? In the right context
About the tester
Age: 35 Height: 1m 81 Weight: 70 kilos
I usually ride: Rough Stuff Tourer Based around 4130 Univega mtb Frameset My best bike is: 1955 Holdsworth Road Path and several others including cross & traditional road
I've been riding for: Over 20 years I ride: Most days I would class myself as: Experienced
I regularly do the following types of riding: cyclo cross, commuting, touring, fixed/singlespeed, mtb,
Shaun Audane is a freelance writer/product tester with over twenty-eight years riding experience, the last twelve (120,000 miles) spent putting bikes and kit through their paces for a variety of publications. Previous generations of his family worked at manufacturing's sharp end, thus Shaun can weld, has a sound understanding of frame building practice and a preference for steel or titanium framesets.
Citing Richard Ballantine and an Au pair as his earliest cycling influences, he is presently writing a cycling book with particular focus upon women, families and disabled audiences (Having been a registered care manager and coached children at Herne Hill Velodrome in earlier careers)


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I am fascinated because I don't know what it is like to go through those professional stages while reading blogs stuffed with advice and information and comments and debate and all those things you get in the blogosphere. Sure, I could have read The Chronicle of Higher Education to glean some news and advice from other parts of academe, except that I didn't, back then.
Somehow, back then, we managed, of course, despite having to walk many miles in the snow without shoes and having to carry large rocks on our heads, just to get from our offices to the library, and so on.
I sort of touched on this topic in a post in February 2010 when I mused about what sort of blogs we turn to for support -- positive ones to cheer us up, pessimistic ones for the comfort of a group-wallow in misery and despair, bizarre ones because we are bizarre, all of the above, or what? I wondered what I would have done had the blogosphere existed back when I was a struggling student and postdoc. But I had no real answer, of course, because for me, it is all just speculation.
Anyway, as I said, these e-mails have been very nice. They have cheered me up while I am in the final throes of my see-you-on-the-other-side ~3.5+ month vortex of travel, meetings, deadlines, commitments, and whatnot that started in late June and is still going on for a few more weeks.
But, as nice as these e-mails have been, I still don't really know how or why it helps to read this or other blogs. I am not (just) fishing for more compliments here. I would like to hear some specific examples -- not just related to this blog, but also to any and all academic blogs that you have read for awhile as you have progressed through various life/career stages.
Sure, I can imagine a few possibilities. For example, there's the how-to kind of post: if you are a student wondering what/whether/how to write to a professor you don't know, or if you are a professor wondering what/whether/how to write a letter of recommendation for someone you hate, I've given some examples (though not necessarily good ones) for dealing with those and other situations that many of us encounter from time to time in our academic lives. It can be useful to see examples of what to do, or not to do.
But what else? And again, I'm not specifically talking about the FSP blog. What is it like to "grow up" with the blogosphere as a source of information, mentoring, and news? Is it the whole cosmic experience of having all these people writing about Everything that is useful, or is there some specific aspect that is particularly helpful to you?


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Housing Sense in Congress?
Presidential candidates insist that Washington needs fixing, and we in the commentariat love to expose hypocrisy, pork-barreling and gridlock. So it feels awkward to admit the truth about the subprime meltdown. First Congress produced a timely and well-crafted stimulus. Now it is working on proposals to help homeowners, and with one ugly exception, the recommendations are sound.
Why, you might ask, even bother to help homeowners? They have no moral claim to government assistance. People who are falling behind on their mortgages generally aren't poor, since the poor tend not to buy houses in the first place. They generally aren't deserving, since they chose to take on mortgages they could not afford. When thousands of needier Americans languish on the waiting list for housing assistance, there's no compelling case for lavishing federal dollars on the profligate middle class.
But there is a case for preventing profligates from harming bystanders. When homeowners fail to pay their debts and go into foreclosure, their homes stand empty and attract looters and squatters, dragging down the value of neighborhoods. Falling home prices depress consumer spending; the economy gets rockier, driving home prices down further. It is this threat of a negative spiral, not sob stories from homeowners, that warrants limited federal assistance to families facing foreclosure.
Of course, some fall in house prices is necessary. But absent federal action, market failure will cause real estate to fall further than the basics of supply and demand would justify. In a healthy market, foreclosure would be rare, because it pays for a lender to forgive, say, 20 percent of a loan rather than booting the homeowner out and seeing 30 percent of the property value evaporate in the process of eviction. But because mortgages have been sliced up and distributed among far-flung investors, it's difficult to get their consent for partial forgiveness. Homeowners get dumped on the street, and more value than necessary is destroyed.
So, although Congress would be wrong to launch a broad attempt to prop up home prices, it would be right to address the market failure that produces excessive foreclosures. The Senate is working on a smart reform that would begin to do this: It would give service companies that collect mortgage payments on behalf of creditors a legal safe harbor, allowing them to forgive part of a loan without having to fear that a few opportunistic creditors will sue them for being soft. Lenders as a whole would benefit, because the measure would reduce wasteful foreclosures. The flow of capital to future home buyers would not be compromised.
The Senate and the House are both considering an additional measure to reduce foreclosures. It would offer mortgage lenders a carrot: If they agree to forgive part of a loan rather than kicking a family onto the street, the Federal Housing Administration will protect them from further losses if the home's value continues to slide. Homeowners would get a break, which is unfortunate. But they would still have to pay off a loan worth 90 percent of the home's diminished value. And they would forfeit part of any gain from a future recovery in house prices.
There are risks in this policy. Lenders will try to offload the very riskiest mortgages onto taxpayers, even though safeguards in the reforms are designed to prevent that. But the good news is that neither the House nor the Senate makes the mistake of overreaching. They seek to reduce, not eliminate, foreclosure, recognizing on the one hand that an unguided market will produce too many evictions, and on the other that for really seriously indebted families, foreclosure is the right outcome. Douglas Elmendorf, a leading expert on these issues, judges that the House and Senate measures have got the balance right.
Both chambers of Congress offer ways to contain the damage from foreclosures when they do need to happen. The House version is more generous: It would give local authorities in the hardest-hit regions $15 billion worth of loans and grants to buy foreclosed properties and get people into them, either by fixing them up for resale or offering them as rentals. Grants to local government are sometimes wastefully misallocated. But both the House and the Senate have a formula that would direct the money to the neediest households in the most struggling regions.
It is too early to declare victory. The Senate has passed an egregious package of tax cuts, and lobbyists will fight to attach them to any eventual housing bill. The better ideas have yet to make it to a floor vote, though a key House committee is due to act on two of them this week. The prospects for success would increase if the administration showed clearer leadership. So far it has sounded negative but not forceful on the awful tax giveaways; it has sent mixed signals on the other measures, apparently reluctant to expand government help for the housing market, even in a balanced way.
Still, political candidates who routinely denounce Washington may soon have to face up to some good news. Shock! Congress is performing well.


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That Hotlanta/Phoenix deal is the one I'm hoping for...
It would still kind of stink to see KG go
The Celtics would be stupid to trade away Al Jefferson ... even for Garnett. He should be more "untouchable" than Paul Pierce, at this point. Then again, the Celtics' front office is rather dumb, so I wouldn't put it past them.
And I think that's really the reason no one wants to go to Boston, because the management is maybe a hair brighter than New York and that ain't sayin' much. It's really tragic to me that it's fallen to that point. A very proud, storied franchise is now the place to NOT be.
And speaking of Garnett, is Boston more appealing now that Allen is there? Pierce/Allen/Garnett is lots of firepower (I presume Jefferson would be going the other way).
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On the banks of the Danube, you can see an impressive building with an imposing red dome and many pointed towers which contrast superbly with a blue sky. The stately Parliament Building is one of the most famous symbols of Budapest. The beautiful exterior of the edifice is often featured on photos of the city, and the equally striking interior can be viewed during a tour.
The majestic Parliament Building was devised by the famous Hungarian architect Imre Steindl. As can be seen from features in the exterior, which are typical of English Gothic Revival, the design is inspired by the Palace of Westminster in London. The 268-metre façade extends from the Chain Bridge to Margaret Bridge. The interior is richly decorated in Renaissance and Baroque styles. There is no lack of gold: 40 kilograms were used to give the parliament its regal appearance. A tour of the impressive halls, stairways and halls is well worth the time, not just because of the beauty of the Parliament Building itself, but also for the showpieces displayed there: the Hungarian crown jewels, including the 1000-year-old Holy Crown of Hungary.
Hungary underwent quite a few changes at the end of the 19th century. The country became more independent from Austria, and the cities of Buda and Pest were united to form the capital Budapest. The only thing missing was an adequate Parliament Building. The Hungarian poet Mihály Vörösmarty famously stated: "The nation lacks a home." In 1882, Emperor Franz Joseph and the Prime Minister of Hungary announced a prize for the best design which was won by architect Imre Steindl.
Construction began in 1885 and lasted 13 years. While Steindl combined different stylistic elements, his design is so symmetrical that the eclecticism isn't very apparent. The interior even has neo-Byzantine influences, as can be seen in the stairwell with the Corinthian columns and huge ceiling fresco. One of the best rooms is the hexadecagonal domed hall, the grandeur of which is reminiscent of a cathedral. Here, 16 elevated statues of Hungarian kings and heroes look down on the visitors below. The confidence they exude gives a fine picture of the growing independence of Hungary and, one assumes, increasing pride of the inhabitants of Budapest during this period.
"The Hungarian poet Mihály Vörösmarty famously stated that "The nation lacks a home.""
The majestic domed hall houses the Hungarian crown jewels: the sceptre, the orb and the Holy Crown of Hungary, which is said to have been worn by the first King of Hungary Stephen I. The upper part of the crown was supposedly provided by Pope Sylvester II for the first coronation in the year 1000. The lower part may be Byzantine and dates from the 11th century. The crown has been through many adventures: it has repeatedly been stolen and battles have raged because of it. After World War II, the crown jewels were hidden at the United States Bullion Depository in Fort Knox so that they wouldn't fall into Soviet hands. President Jimmy Carter brought them back to Hungary in 1978.


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I was very late in getting my garden in this year. I was lucky enough, though, that I had several spinach, herb, tomato and pepper plants re-plant themselves from last season. You gotta love when nature takes care of itself!
I wanted to share with you all a Free Garden Planner Tool that I use each year. You can create a single garden bed or map out your own garden. I take a little different approach though. What I do is create each of my garden beds and then save the image and put them into a Word document so I can create my entire garden area like this:
I then can save the files in the same folder on my computer each year and copy/paste if I want to duplicate anything the next year in a different garden bed. I do this every year so I can have a "map" for the next year, as well. I can compare what worked and didn't and know where things were planted in case something sprouts back up on its own (like this year!).
This is just one great way to keep a yearly garden journal.
If you haven't taken up gardening yet, it's not too late to get a few things planted. I highly recommend the book All New Square Foot Gardening, Second Edition: The Revolutionary Way to Grow More In Less Space. I have been following it for several years now and have had very good harvests each year.
If you don't have the space, you can still do some herb/lettuce bowls on your deck/balcony and maybe even a patio tomato plant or two.
Gardening is a great way to save on produce during the year!


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Several readers wrote impassioned and knowledgeable responses to Paul's post linking Diana West's column regarding the FOX series "24" yesterday. Jonathan Burack wrote:
I am second to none among those I know in denouncing even the tiniest signs of dhimmitude when I see them. I therefore cannot believe Diane West really paid much attention to 24 on this score.
Yes, of course, there were Americans involved in the Islamist Marwan's plot in 24. Does Ms. West not think such fifth columnists exist? And yes, the temporary president in the show was also caste as a fly in the ointment — but not because he was in on the plot, but because of his inept readiness to APPEASE it. Does Ms. West really not recognize that this fool of a "president" was being made fun of by the show PRECISELY for trying to stop Jack Bauer from applying maximum force to the real suspects. Moreover, the idea that Jack Bauer's actions in this regard were meant to illustrate moral equivalence between himself and Marwan is absurd. Only someone who failed totally to register the heavy irony in a show rich in humor as well as tough reality could interpret this in this way. Bauer and President Palmer who backed him to the hilt in this use of torture were depicted as heroes and were seen as such by everyone I knew who watched this show.
In fact, Marwan remained the key focus of the CTU's effort to thwart the plot to the very end. And the CAIR pressure earlier in the show did NOT in fact lead 24 to moderate in any way its view of the hideous Muslim suburban family featured in it at that point. (They were the focus of CAIR's original complaint.) That family remained the Islamic Munsters they were to the very end. True, as the show promised CAIR, two good Muslims were included. However, they turned out to be "good" because, as two gun shop owners, they enthusiastically JOINED in the battle against the terrorists. The entire show stuck with the radical Islamic essence of the main plotters to the end. (Did Ms. West really find Marwan's "You wake to a new reality" speech all that murky? Amazing.)
What Ms. West may reveal is her own squeemishness at Bauer's over the top use of force. I did not find this extreme behavior by them to be making the case for "moral equivalence" at all. Instead, the show did a fine job of making clear how UNLIKE the terrorists Bauer was in his use of this preventive violence. The points where Bauer uses this pressure are clearly set up so as to enlist maximum sympathetic understanding on the part of the audience. Proof positive of this is the fact that President Palmer, accorded all his usual dignity, is the one who makes the central case for going all out when he tells the pathetic temporary President, "We did not bring this crisis on ourselves, but we WILL resolve it ourselves." I relished the scenes like this one, which force all of us to consider what we would be willing to do in the face of the ultimate nihilism we confront. The central theme of this show was that, in the age of terror. ALL choices are bad ones, but you must make the right ones anyway. Is Ms West ready to do what Jack did? If so, I think that should be enough to make the point clear to her.
And, oh yes, and finally, if Ms. West thinks the Chinese are not ultimately next in line as a major adversary, she is as na


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A hearing impairment in which otoacoustic emissions can be registered, but acoustic evoked electrical potentials are absent or only recordable with elevated thresholds, is denoted as auditory neuropathy or perisynaptic audiopathy. Patients typically show insufficient speech understanding relative to the measured pure-tone thresholds which is often extremely variable. Although this disease is quite rare, it is topical for discussion currently because babies with a perisynaptic audiopathy will not be identified via the conventional newborn hearing-screening based on otoacoustic emissions alone and because of the possibility of cochlear implantation (CI), with various outcomes being reported by different authors.
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We compared eight patients with a perisynaptic audiopathy after cochlear implantation to a matched pair control group of implanted patients without the disease with respect to: age at evaluation; age at onset of the hearing loss; duration of the hearing impairment; hearing aid use and the success of the hearing aid use. We compared the results of subjective and objective audiometry results for both groups. The success of the cochlear implantation was assessed and compared using speech understanding tests.
Independent from the age of patients a complete audiometry – incl. invasive audiometry – is possible. The use of electrocochleography allows the clinician to differentiate between the affected patients in greater detail. Registrating a low threshold with Cochlear Micrphonics and Compound Action Potentials but no Auditory Electrical Potentials is suspicious for a neuropathy. In all patients with perisynaptic audiopathy the outcome with CI is positive and not in all cases inferior than in the control patients.
A perisynaptic audiopathy can be due to an isolated defect of the inner hair cells, defective postsynaptic transfer and/or spiral ganglion cells. For this reason, a variety of diagnostic tools should be used. Whether the different reasons for perisynaptic audiopathy have an effect on the success of a cochlear implantation is a topic for further research involving larger groups of affected patients.


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The SF K Files is a place for parents who are seeking a school in San Francisco. The site offers up reviews of public, private and charter schools, as well as lots of advice and opinions from the community.
Saturday, October 1, 2011
St. Paul's Open House
As I hear of other open houses I will post. Please feel free to comment on any other open houses you are aware of.
21 comments:
- AnonymousOctober 2, 2011 at 10:09 PM
Fairmount Elementary is hosting an Open House on November the 10th beginning at 6:00 p.m. in the school cafeteria located at 65 Chenery Street. It will be held in English and Spanish. See the PTA website: www.wearfairmount.com for more information.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 2, 2011 at 11:55 PM
Good job St. Paul. In the U.S. Catholic School attendence is down 50% since the '60s in absolute numbers. In %, it's more. In San Francisco, a supposedly liberal city it's up, mainly to avoid attending school with minorities. Good job St. Paul, you make Noe Valley an 80% white neighborhood, have schools which are 15% white, like James Lick. Congratulate yourself on letting San Franciscans pretend they're liberal while really acting conservative, not to mention racist. Congratulate yourself on making de facto racism comfortable and acceptable for the masses. At least the monied masses. What a feel good moment.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 3, 2011 at 8:45 AM
11:55: just because you wish you had the means to avoid minorities does not mean that others who send their kids to Catholic schools are doing to to avoid them.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 3, 2011 at 9:57 AM
Jeez, what a hateful post 11:55. Have you ever BEEN to parochial schools in SF? They are reasonably priced (typically $6K to $8 per year) and very ethnically diverse. Some people send their kids to parochial schools for religious reasons. Many in SF send their kids to parochial schools because the price is right, religion classes are handled in a way that reflects San Francisco sensibilities, and they don't trust the public school they got in the lottery. My kid is the only white kid in his class at his parochial.ReplyDelete
The $25K per year and up independent and religious affiliated schools (Town, Burkes, Convent, Stuart Hall, Cathedral, Brandeis, San Francisco Day etc.) are relatively white enclaves. That's where your wealthy white Noe neighbors are sending their kids, not to schools operated by your neighborhood parish churches.
- AnonymousOctober 3, 2011 at 10:12 AM
Sorry, maybe I'm wrong in some cases. I just feel like those enclaves you mention don't reflect the spirit of Martin Luther King and wanting kids of different backgrounds to have equal opportunity and be friends, hold hands together, etc. Maybe some of the parochials are more like Dr. King's ideal. For me, I would rather have my kids go to public school so I don't cause segregation and give them classes on the side in religion or French, because I do think private school attendence makes it two San Franciscos and less progressive. I'm not religious, but I do want my kids to learn French but do that on the side at Alliance Francaise so that I don't cause more segregation and also throw away 10k in benefits for my children.ReplyDelete
America would be more integrated if we went to the same school but learned religion on Sundays. I've heard some people say Sundays are very segregated, most people go to churches with their own. Maybe that's changing. Catholic churches do seem the most integrated of any, racially.
- AnonymousOctober 3, 2011 at 10:58 AM
@11:55 Get off your horse. It's lonely up there. I feel great that I don't want my child to go to a school with an API of 600. White, Black, What have you. I'd take a parochial over that any day of the week. I have a feeling you would too. Do your research before spouting your silly words.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 3, 2011 at 1:43 PM
But what causes it to be 600? Maybe it's all the middle class in the area showing they don't care about them or feel they deserve an equal chance and send the message they are of a lower caste, and need to be separated from their children. Brown v. Topeka said separate but equal makes you feel unequal. I think if you go to Marina or James Lick and see all the white kids, rich, in private school outfits, you don't feel wanted and you don't feel that society is giving you an equal chance. I think living up to Dr. King's dream requires some sacrifice, some sense that we are in this together and need to fix education for all, not just for our won flesh and blood and those who can't afford to are racially isolated. What you write may be lower on the horse, but it doesn't show a team effort to solving poverty, racism and inequality.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 3, 2011 at 1:47 PM
11:55 If you'd like to give your opinion about private or parochial schools, please start your own thread. The original post was about providing information to parents. It's intent was not to discuss the ethnic make-up of schools - public, private, or parochial - and the merits of attending one school over another.ReplyDelete
Make your choice and enjoy it. Let others do the same.
By the way, do your research before giving your opinion. Most parochial schools in San Francisco have students from a variety of racial and economic backgrounds. Do you actually have any stats on the ethnic make up of St. Paul's? I live close by and from my observation of the school yard and the children walking around the school it's definitely a racially mixed.
- AnonymousOctober 3, 2011 at 1:49 PM
1:43 - Please start your own thread. I think you're addressing a topic that is broad and not in the same spirit of the original post. I'm sure many people would like to discuss the issues you raise on a separate thread.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 3, 2011 at 2:11 PM
11:55/10:12/1:43, aka KevinKane, consistently confuses his feelings with the facts. He is a poisonous force on the community files. He has two and only two points to make, ever, about any topic: 1) people who don't choose public school are racist, and 2) Asians are superior.ReplyDelete
That these two positions are themselves incoherent with one another seems never to bother him -- nor does the fact that "feeling like" something does not make it true.
- AnonymousOctober 4, 2011 at 10:35 AM
Asians are unified as a group, even if poor they take much pride in academic achievement and are overrepresented at all the top Universities. Whites will throw everyone under the bus if it benefits their child. Even people who consider themselves liberal will cause segregation if it helps their kid. It is my contention that we won't solve our educational problems until we do it as a team, like South Korea or Sweden, we all make sacrifices. Here, the poor don't study and the rich don't try to help and consider them beneath knowing their children. The rich don't care about the poor, the middle class doesn't care and the poor don't care about themselves. In other countries, all 3 care. Actions speak louder than words. If you send your kid to Hamlin, you just don't care. I admire the Asian way. Kids in projects get into UCs, how many black or white kids in trailers or projects do that (inverse order)?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 4, 2011 at 2:50 PM
I am a longtime public school parent and only looked at parochials last year at high school. If you take a look, you'll see many of the parochials (ES through HS) are way more diverse than many of the publics. St. Paul's is largely kids of color - way more so than, say, Clarendon or Lillienthal.ReplyDelete
Sacred Heart HS is less white than SOTA and more ethnically diverse than Lowell.
I'm not Catholic - a solid never baptized agnostic - but would certainly consider a parochial as a great option in SF.
- AnonymousOctober 4, 2011 at 4:24 PM
" In the U.S. Catholic School attendence is down 50% since the '60s in absolute numbers. In San Francisco, a supposedly liberal city it's up, mainly to avoid attending school with minorities."ReplyDelete
Err, if that was so, St. Elizabeth's & Corpus Christi wouldn't have closed their doors in the last two years.
Don't hate on the parochials: St.James, Mission Dolores, St. Anthony's, St. Peter's, St. Charles, DeMerillac Academy, are delivering quality education to a chunk of the community with not a lot of money at a low price point ($4-5K).
Now the independents that gouge $25K out of their clients, they're really ramped up the price curve
- AnonymousOctober 4, 2011 at 8:50 PM
11:55 PM -- If you had ever set foot at St. Paul's you would see a nice mix of students -- way more diverse than many public schools, and almost any private school. Many of the families are solidly working class. Parents are your PG&E workers, your clerk at Home Depot, your UPS man, your electrician, with a smattering of professionals. St. Paul's has not been even close to a majority white in at least a generation. In fact, one on my kids was one of two white kids in a class of 30+. The other's class was more balanced, more like 5 or 6 white kids, the remainder made of mostly Latino and Filipino students and a few other Asian and African American kids.ReplyDelete
In any case, St. Paul's did a nice job with the kids they served, no matter what their ethnicity.
- AnonymousOctober 5, 2011 at 1:57 AM
I still think the existence of private schools overall does more to divide our children than to unite our children. The idea that kids should be separated by their parent's ability to pay during their formative years sounds like the Jim Crow laws, with class replacing race. It's a very conservative ideology and concept. Sure you can say it's separate but equal, but I doubt it. I'm sure the people in Pacific Heights who shun Cobb, an almost all African American and poor school right in Pacific Heights with almost no kids from Pacific Heights, to go to Hamlin or Burke feel superior about it. It just seems wrong to me. It doesn't feel like a step in the right direction. It seems unfair and negative in just about every aspect. I don't think that's what Dr. King had in mind when he made that great speech. If you think it makes the world a better place, you're probably deluding yourself, I just doubt anyone really thinks it is fair or makes the world a better place to have schools like Burke and Hamlin. Then the rich pay a lower percent in taxes than the poor, according to Warren Buffet, because they supposedly work so much harder and everyone has an equal opportunity. I just don't buy it man. If you aren't part of the solution, you're part of the problem.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 5, 2011 at 11:39 AM
"I'm sure the people in Pacific Heights who shun Cobb, an almost all African American and poor school right in Pacific Heights with almost no kids from Pacific Heights, to go to Hamlin or Burke feel superior about it."ReplyDelete
Neither Hamlin or Burke are parochial schools.
And I'm sure they look down their noses at the folks going to St. Brigid's or St. Vincent DePaul just as much as those going to Cobb.
- AnonymousOctober 9, 2011 at 9:56 AM
11:55 St. Paul's has historically and still stands as one of the most diverse schools in SF. Public or Private. You really have no idea what you are talking about. You owe their community an apology for your inaccurate and hateful remarks. If you are trying to act as a representative of public schools, you're doing yourself a disservice. Your lack of education and critical thinking skills is pretty magnified here.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 10, 2011 at 7:21 PM
11:55/KevinKane will never listen or apologize. He has one drum to beat, and he will beat it regardless of the facts. His posts are embarrassingly badly written, off-topic, and off-the-wall. Just take a deep breath and know he has no credibility, and does not represent the typical public school parent.ReplyDelete
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- St Paul ParentOctober 26, 2011 at 5:28 PM
We chose to send our daughter to St Paul Elementary in San Francisco after considering various factors, including but not limited to the curriculum offered, diversity, school administration, accessibility, finance, and old fashioned gut-feeling.ReplyDelete
We did our homework on many schools (well over a dozen), attended open houses, talked with other prospective K parents, talked with parents of those attending public and private schools, and read the online "reviews." We considered public, private parochial, and private non-denomination. St. Paul's Elementary on Church St was top 3 on the long list, and remained on the top of our short list.
The school building is new and updated, the school grounds always look clean, and the children are well-behaved. Relatively easy drop-off and pick-up, considering being located in Noe valley. And the new principal is very receptive to the concerns of parents and teachers.
Most importantly, my daughter comes home excited to talk about what she learned in the classroom. New words and concepts, songs and art work, friends and activities. It is always such a delight to talk with her about her school day.
On a personal note, I knew right away that this was the right school for us when the K teacher greeted our child by name in one of the meet-and-greet nights before the start of the school year... a small touch but a huge and lasting impression.
I would highly recommend St Paul Elementary to prospective parents.
- St Paul ParentNovember 3, 2011 at 9:24 PM
My son is currently in kindergarten at St Paul's. This was our private back up but for lack of lottery favor, we ended up here. It has turned out to be a great fit for my child, and he is very happy. The kindergarten teacher has great classroom management skills, and teaches the kids more than the basics. They learn social skills, responsibility and independence. My son does PE twice a week, and learns Spanish twice a week. We have 29 kids in the class this year, but they break into small groups for many of their activities, like Science and Library/Computer so it seems to work well. After school programs include chorus and drama. Our new principal listens, is committed and determined to better the school, and has made significant changes in the short time he's been with us. Easy drop off and pick up. Hands down the nicest facilities as far as parochial schools go.ReplyDelete


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We suppose it had to end sometime: Research in Motion's BlackBerry smartphones are no longer number one in the U.S. We've covered RIM's various follies in other stories, but perhaps the biggest reason for this slip in market share applies to apps. Simply put, BlackBerry 7 OS has fallen behind in the apps race.
The BlackBerry App World, the official BlackBerry app store, remains awkward and difficult to use, two and a half years after launch, and even in version 3.0 guise. Popular apps often don't pop up in searches because they haven't been certified for a certain model of BlackBerry—even though they may work fine. If you have an AT&T or T-Mobile BlackBerry, you can buy apps and apply the charge to your phone bill, but devices on other carriers still require a separate PayPal account, which has its own issues.
Fortunately, App World isn't the only place to get BlackBerry apps. The independent store GetJar does a brisk business, and so does Handmark. Some apps are only available through their companies' own Web sites.
Over the past year and a half, we've seen less interest in BlackBerry apps here at PCMag.com than on other platforms. Therefore, we've trimmed our BlackBerry list to the top 10 apps. You can be guaranteed that every one of the apps on our list is a smash hit; a few even take advantage of BlackBerry OS 6's enhancements, though few recognize BlackBerry 7 devices yet (and often don't even appear in BlackBerry App World). As always, if you know of other great free BlackBerry apps, please tell us about them in the comments section below.
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Sir Anthony Hopkins is hoping to take a backseat during Hollywood's upcoming awards season because he can't stand the prospect of pandering to producers in a bid to land a prize.
The Welsh star already boasts a huge collection of trophies, including Emmys, BAFTAs and Golden Globes, as well as a Best Actor Academy Award for his role in "The Silence of the Lambs."
He is tipped to win another Oscar for his portrayal of film legend Alfred Hitchcock in new movie Hitchcock, but Hopkins is adamant he doesn't want to join in the annual parties and publicity trail.
Hopkins tells The Hollywood Reporter, "I've been around – I've got the Oscar myself for 'Silence of the Lambs' and having to be nice to people and to be charming and flirting with them… Oh, come on! People go out of their way to flatter the nominating body and I think it's kind of disgusting. That's always been against my nature… You know, kissing the backside of the authorities that can make or break it; I can't stand all that. I find it nauseating to watch and I think it's disgusting to behold.
"People groveling around and kissing the backsides of famous producers and all that. It makes me want to throw up, it really does. It's sick-making. I've seen it so many times. I saw it fairly recently, last year. Some great producer-mogul and everyone kisses this guy's backside. I think, 'What are they doing? Don't they have any self respect?' I wanted to say, 'F— off.'"


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int net_read (SYS_NETFD sd, char *buf, int sz, int timeout);
The number of bytes read, which will not exceed the maximum size, sz. A negative value is returned if an error has occurred, in which case errno is set to the constant ETIMEDOUT if the operation did not complete before timeout seconds elapsed.
SYS_NETFD sd is the platform-independent socket descriptor.
char *buf is the buffer to receive the bytes.
int sz is the maximum number of bytes to read.
int timeout is the number of seconds to allow for the read operation before returning. The purpose of timeout is to limit the amount of time devoted to waiting until some data arrives.