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May 03, 2011
Newberry, SC - Macroeconomics students at Newberry College have recently completed projects conducting an economic impact study on the College and the surrounding area. One project in particular has resulted in implementation, and will be used as a prototype learning experience for the College's new minor in Management Information Systems, which will be available this fall.
That standout project was completed by senior Business Administration major Brianna Blakely. Spending the semester interning for the Newberry Opera
House, she evaluated multiple software/communication packages and developed a mobile computing marketing plan which will be implemented by the Opera
Under the guidance of Business Administration Professor and Department Chair Joseph Franklin, students worked in small groups to identify industries
and products with high "capture ratios" and then provided unique ideas for economic growth in the area.
"This region offers an abundance of opportunity for active engagement between the College and the Community," Newberry College President Dr. V. Scott
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success of our business and cultural organizations."
Some of the other student recommendations included creating new incentives for small businesses, promoting local artisans, leveraging cultural and
athletic events offered through the College, and even creating more green space with walking trails and bike-friendly roads.
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Tigers successfully reintroduced in Indian parkJeremy Hance
September 27, 2010
Researching over 115 kill sites, scientists found that nearly half of the tiger's prey was made up of sambar deer, while nearly 20 percent of it was livestock, which had been left unprotected far from human dwellings. Surveys have shown that locals largely approve of the reintroduction of the tiger and view their attacks on livestock as generally culling sick and weak individuals.
Two more tigers were reintroduced to the park this year, while the current plan calls for three additional tigers to be reintroduced every two years over the next six years, making a total of 14 adult tigers by 2016 if they all survive.
Given the precarious position of wild tigers worldwide, the authors recommend continued long-term monitoring of the newly reintroduced tigers to improve management and provide detailed information for future reintroductions.
Bengal tigers, one of five surviving subspecies, are msotly found in India, though populations survive in Bangladesh, Bhutan, and Nepal. Classified as Endangered by the IUCN Red List, tigers are threatened by habitat loss and poaching for their body parts which are used in traditional Chinese medicine. Although benefactors of some of the world's most intensive conservation attention, tiger populations continue to fall.
CITATION: K. Sankar, Qamar Qureshi, Parag Nigam, P.K. Malik, P.R. Sinha, R.N. Mehrotra, Rajesh Gopal, Subhadeep Bhattacharjee, Krishnendu Mondal and Shilpi Gupta. 2010. Monitoring of reintroduced tigers in Sariska Tiger Reserve, Western India: preliminary findings on home range, prey selection and food habits. Tropical Conservation Science Vol. 3 (3): 301-318.
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Tigers discovered living on the roof of the world
(09/20/2010) A BBC film crew has photographed Bengal tigers, including a mating pair, living far higher than the great cats have been documented before. Camera traps captured images and videos of tigers living 4,000 meters (over 13,000 feet) in the tiny Himalayan nation of Bhutan.
Saving wild tigers will cost $82M/year
(09/15/2010) The cost of maintaining the planet's 3,500 remaining wild tigers is around $80 million a year, according to a new study published in the journal PLoS Biology.
Myanmar creates world's largest tiger reserve, aiding many endangered Southeast Asian species
(08/04/2010) Myanmar has announced that Hukaung Valley Tiger Reserve will be nearly tripled in size, making the protected area the largest tiger reserve in the world. Spanning 17,477 square kilometers (6,748 square miles), the newly expanded park is approximately the size of Kuwait and larger than the US state of Connecticut.


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I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Kinesiology at Penn State University, working specifically in the History & Philosophy of Sport program. I also have an affiliate position in the Department of Women's Studies. My research interests encompass two broad areas: 1) issues of sex, gender, and sexuality in women's sport and physical culture; 2) racial politics and cultural memory.
Ph.D., Cultural Studies of Sport, University of Iowa, 2005
M.A., Psychology of Sport, University of Iowa, 1999
B.A., English & Spanish, Luther College, 1996
Employment History
Assistant Professor, Department of Kinesiology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, August 2010-present
Affiliate Faculty, Department of Women's Studies
Assistant Professor, Department of Kinesiology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, June 2006-July 2010
Affiliate Faculty, Department of Women's Studies
Honors & Awards
Resident Scholars and Artists Program, Institute for the Arts and Humanities, Penn State University, Fall 2015
Teaching Excellence Award, College of Health and Human Development, Penn State University, 2013-2014
Teaching Excellence Award, College of Health and Human Development, Penn State University, 2012-2013
Luther College Athletic Hall of Fame, 2011
Best Article of the Year, International Journal of the History of Sport, 2010
Center for Teaching Excellence-Lilly Fellowship, 2008-2009
The Reinhard Sprenger Junior Scholar Award, International Society for the History of Physical Education and Sport, 2006
Lyle Olsen Graduate Student Essay Award, Sport Literature Association, 2005
Graduate Student Essay Prize, North American Society for Sport History, 2004
Barbara Brown Student Paper Award, North American Society for the Sociology of Sport, 2004
Editorships & Editorial Boards
Assistant Editor, Journal of Sport History, 2008-present
Section Editor, "The Test of Time," Journal of Sport History, 2008-present
Editorial Board, Sport History Review, 2014-present
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Tears streamed by the dozens down her fair cheeks as the young betrothed girl darted up the 'Higurashi Shrine' steps in a mad rush. Each step she took seemed to weigh Kagome down as her long drenched wedding gown seemed to be doing. At reaching about half way, she bent down and threw off her white high-heels which had tiny jewels which glittered in the tear drops of the skies. Barefoot, she continued to scamper upwards, pursuing her target. After reaching the final stone step, she pushed her soggy black bangs out from her brown tear glazed eyes and stared at her target, the well house. With rain water dripping from it's old wooden roof, and old paint chipping from the sides, she tried anxiously to pull back the doors but realized that they were locked. She frowned and muttered some cuss words to herself, remembering that it was actually her who put the locks on in order to keep herself out. And now, she was breaking her own boundaries and threatening to re-enter the passage to the era she tried to discard of in her mind. She started to shake the doors viciously in an act of frustration but soon came to her senses and made a sprint for her house. Sadly, things were not playing out as easily in her mind as they were before compared to now. As she rambled up the carpet covered steps, she could hear the low rumbling of the thunder from outside her house. It was almost if it was encouraging her to run quicker, at least in her own mind it did. She needed some form of conscious to constantly remind her of her task.
She tumbled into her bedroom and began to crawl over to her bed. She gazed longingly at her comforting bed and yearned for it's feel. Her fluffy pillow with the rose satin covering called to her as she wanted to rest her heavy head upon it. It had been a long agonizing morning for her, and a wasted one at that. She had spent the past few months preparing for this festive event, only to have her thoughts bite her in the butt to remind her of that special half demon she came to love. She got down on her hands and knees and glanced underneath her bed which was pitch black to her view. She pushed her arm under and started to feel around with her clammy wet hand. Finally, she grasped what she was looking for. She backed up with the arrow in her hand and gazed at the sharpened tip. She nodded to herself in satisfaction then followed the wet trail she left in her house back down her stairs and out to the well house.
The rain continued to pour down as she held tightly onto the arrow and brought it forward to the lock in an effort to break it. After numerous tries, it finally broke and Kagome impatiently pulled back the old door. All was so still as she stepped down the few wooden steps and stood in front of the well. The loud, yet, calm patting of the rain droplets hitting the outside of the shack accompanied the thoughts that lingered in her mind. She sniffled a bit as she peered over the edge into darkness. She fingered the glowing pink jewel which hung around her neck in deep thought as she tried to decided whether or not to go through with her plan and jump down the well. She finally summoned up the courage to jump down into the portal and watched as the blue aura surrounded her body as she traveled back to the feudal era she left behind long ago. Even though what happened a while back should have remained blurry after she left, oppositely it remained clear to her mind and constantly reminded her every day of what she had chosen to give up...
"- - and that's how engagement happens in my time!" Kagome finished explaining to her friends as she raised a finger in triumph of her perfect explanation. Sango smiled at the vision she had created in her mind of Kagome's explanation into her own interpretation. Sango glared back at the monk, though, when he came to her side and knelt before her while taking her delicate hand and cupped it between his own. She was quite confused at first then turned unamused as he revealed a thick piece of grass rolled into the shape of a ring.
"Sango...will you marry me?" he asked with shine to his entrancing blue eyes. She couldn't help but let her cheeks turn crimson. Kagome grinned and let a small chuckle escape her lips at his gesture. She curiously looked over to InuYasha who continued to scarf down the fish he had caught and cooked, not even taking Kagome's words into consideration. It had only been few days after the jewel had been completed and Naraku defeated and InuYasha hadn't said a word about Kagome leaving for good. But of course, neither had she, so the feeling of awkwardness was mutual. InuYasha had chosen not to use the jewel, thankfully, for his own and everyone else's safety. Kagome was glad and amazed that his stubbornest had not inflicted on this decision he had made of not using the jewel. Lady Kaede had also taken Kagome's situation into consideration and knew that she would want to continue to visit the feudal times to visit her friends so she presented Kagome as the rightful protector of the Shikon Jewel. Especially since she was the reincarnation of the former protector so it was only right. Although Kagome was enthused with her being able to travel back to the world she had stumbled upon, she was still confused about InuYasha and his feelings. Kikyou hadn't appeared for quite a while now, but Kagome could tell from the half demon's actions that he was lost without her. Kagome was finding it especially hard now that the jewel was completed to cope with InuYasha's feelings towards the dead priestess.
Kagome's lost gaze was turned to an inquisitive glare towards InuYasha as he exclaimed through a mouth full,
"I think it's stupid,"
Miroku sat down normally and grabbed the bag of chips from Kagome's yellow back-pack and started to munch away as Kagome asked him what he meant. InuYasha took a huge gulp as he rid of all the food in his mouth and continued as he smacked his lips,
"The way you propose,"
Kagome let out a small grunt at his lack of romance as Sango replied to his remark,
"That's a shame you feel like that, InuYasha. I thought it's kinda sweet...I bet every girl would want a romantic proposal like that...right, Kagome?"
She smirked and Kagome's cheeks turned red at what Sango was implying to InuYasha for Kagome's sake. InuYasha arched a brow and was about to ask what Sango meant, but the bag of potato chips was thrown at his face before he could even let one word past his canine teeth. Miroku frowned and yelled at Kagome for throwing the tasty 'ninja' food at InuYasha before he could even have another bite. Sango giggled under her breath at what had happened while Kagome leaned over and grabbed her white zip down sweater and slipped it on as she made her way for the exit.
"Where are you going, Kagome-chan?" Sango asked her close friend who was more like a sister to her. Kagome glanced over her shoulder and replied that she was going to go for a walk. After taking one step out into the outdoors she automatically wanted to go back into the warm comfort of the hut the rest were dwelling in. But she hugged her body, and decided to deal with the cold winter frost in the air and made her way towards 'InuYasha's Forest'. She continued to stroll through the forest named after the half demon she was in love with, with every bit of grace praising her steps. She could feel a touch of heat in her calves from her thick school girl socks which she insisted to wear even though she had finished her schooling a while ago, but found her thighs frozen and red from the coldness but she continued on, trying not to worry about the chill.
After a long walk, she finally came to her most familiar surrounding, the sacred tree which InuYasha was pinned to long ago. As she stood, looking up to the scar on the tree, she could feel light snow flakes start to dance and sway gracefully all around her and the tree.
"Oh, InuYasha," She uttered with gladness but with no cause. She had thought to herself many of times before of what might have come of her life if she had not stumbled incidently across the particular time era and unleashed him from the seal placed on him. She glanced down to her feet to see the snow slowly but surely start to build over the cold soil.
"Kikyou!" A shrill scream rang throughout the forest making Kagome jump in fright. Again, the voice echoed throughout, and Kagome couldn't help but follow the scream to satisfy her curiosity. She slowed down to a stop and peered over a tree branch to see InuYasha kneeling down with tears rolling down his cheeks from his honey colored demon eyes. Kagome knew she should have left him alone but she couldn't stand seeing him like such a wreck. She slowly made her way towards him and cooed his name,
He wiped his crystal tears on his haori and glanced up to her with a gloomy look She slowly closed her gasping lips together and knelt down in front of him.
"InuYasha...what's wrong?" she asked cautiously, not knowing how he would react towards her curiosity. With his gaze still casted down to the ground he replied,
"She's gone...forever,"
Kagome frowned. Any cold hearted person would be jumping up and down full of joy, but not Kagome. She loved InuYasha, yes, but she still couldn't help but feel remorse for his loss. She respected Kikyou and felt pity on her ever since she was brought back from the dead. Kagome softly placed a hand on InuYasha's shoulder and told him she was so sorry. He stopped sobbing immediately and stood while shrugging her hand off his shoulder.
"InuYasha?" She asked confused and hurt with his glares. She stood as well as he spat,
"You should have never came here,"
Kagome exhaled in disbelief and asked him what in the world he was saying to which he continued to spit his reply,
"You should have never came here! You should have stayed in your own time! I betrayed Kikyou when I met you...it's all your fault,"
His hurtful words cut her like a dagger. She couldn't believe he could say such things to her. She wouldn't be pushed around, though, she was a strong girl and stood up for herself,
"Excuse me? If it wasn't for me you'd still be pinned and don't you dare tell me that her death is my fault because it wasn't you immature jerk!"
He exhaled furiously and screamed back,
"Leave! Don't you ever come back to this time ever again! Go back home...you're not wanted,"
He reached up to his neck and ripped off the heart shaped locket she had given him and threw it on the ground. She gasped and caught her breath as she wept silent tears. His hard gaze started to soften as he realized he was taking Kikyou's death all out on poor Kagome who had done nothing except try to comfort him.
"I hate you! I wish I had never come here! Sit!" She screamed as her words burned through his heart. He fell to the ground with his face dug in the cold snow. As he tried to get up, she walked over to him and grabbed onto the beaded necklace and yanked it off of his neck.
"There!" She started to scream in hate, "Now your free of me! Good-bye you animal!"
She ran off towards the well with her tears blurring her vision. She let out sobs as she continued to make her way for the well in hopes that he was not following her. As she encountered the enchanted portal, her wrist was grabbed and she was jolted backwards.
"Get away from me!" Kagome screamed as the half demon held onto her wrist tightly while letting heart felt apologies drip with regret from his mouth . She gave him a good hard slap across the face and jumped inside the well the moment his grasp loosened. As she travel through time, she left behind an era which she could never come to again.
Kagome sat at her desk tapping her foot on the floor and looking through the window in deep thought. It had been a week since she had left the half demon and hadn't left the house or her room for that matter since she was tormented by the half demon's words.
'Leave! Don't you ever come back to this time ever again! Go back home...you're not wanted,'
A single tear rolled down her cheek as she was reminded of his cold heartless words. She was pulled back to reality when her mother silently ambled into her room with a caring smile on her face that only a mother can shape as she called her daughter's name. Kagome sniffled a bit as she wiped away her tears. She turned on her chair towards her mother with a fake smile cracking her depressed features. Kagome's mother wiped her hands on her white apron and made her way over to her daughter and asked her if she wanted to accompany her on a walk. Kagome's glazed eyes darted to the floor as she refused to leave her room.
"Honey, you have to leave this house eventually,"
She ignored her mother's words entirely as she got up and collapsed on her bed with her face to the wall side. Her mother frowned and quickly changed the subject before her daughter decided to cry herself to sleep,
"Hojo called. He wants you to call him back later...I think he wants to see you,"
She lowered her head sadly when she received no reply from her child. She decided to leave the room when she figured Kagome had fallen asleep and shut the door behind her.
After she left, Kagome turned on her back and frowned to herself. She could hear the muffled voices coming from the TV downstairs but was concentrated on the ticking her clock made to pass the time and so that she wouldn't think of what happened on that day. She suddenly heard a small tapping at her window. She sat up and ambled over to her window to see InuYasha crouched behind the glass. She was surprised at first but when she gazed into his eyes she only remembered the hate built up in them when he told her he never wanted to see her again. She felt obligated to open her window and let him in, since she knew he wouldn't leave until she did. She backed up and he jumped inside.
"What do you want?" She asked angry that he returned. He sighed and replied,
"I'm sorry,"
She scoffed at his words and asked him what kind of a fool he took her for. A part of her still loved him, but she couldn't stand being heartbroken once more. She knew he still loved Kikyou even if she was dead and she couldn't go on like that. He let a small growl rumble in his throat and he exclaimed,
"I want you to come back! I said I'm sorry now can you please just come?"
She chuckled in spite of herself and replied with a hint of anger,
"You don't understand, do you InuYasha? I can't forgive you for what happened. And I can't go on anymore with you still in love with Kikyou, I'm even surprised I pushed myself to put up with it because of how much I loved you...but now, it's done. I can't be toyed with any longer...now go back to your own time and don't come back,"
He couldn't believe what she was saying. In fact, she couldn't even believe what she was saying. She sadly came up to him and took his hand, giving it a light squeeze and replied,
"My heart was ripped in two, now I need to move on to make it whole again,"
She let go and watched as he was on the verge of tears. He hopped out the window while staring back at her for a brief moment, waiting for her to cry and tell him that she loved him and he would take her back to the feudal era where they would live together. But of course, no tears, only subtle goodbyes. As soon as he left, Kagome's knees gave in and she fell to the ground with tears flowing from her eyes. She winced in pain at how much it hurt to let him go.
"Hojo!" Kagome exclaimed with a hint of playfulness to her voice as Hojo revealed a dozen white roses to her. His star studded smile made her laugh out of joy as she took the roses and pecked him with a small kiss on the lips. She walked inside her apartment and delicately placed the flowers on the glass dining room table as she walked over to the kitchen while grabbing her glass vase in the process. With her high heels clicking away on the tainted peach tiles, she filled up the vase and carefully placed the flowers inside.
"There. They're beautiful, Hojo, thank you!" She exclaimed as he took her by the hand. As she gazed deeply into his glistening blue orbs, his eyebrows lifted in remembrance as he pulled out an apple and placed it in the palm of her hand.
"An apple a day, keeps the doctor away," he recited playfully. She smirked and replied,
"And why would I want to keep you away?" he chuckled and kissed her lovingly on the lips. As he closed his eyes as he kissed her, her's flickered and wandered around the room nervously. She broke the kiss suddenly and said,
"Uh...I have to go to the bathroom. Just wait for me in the car, ok?" Kagome then quickly rushed into the bathroom leaving Hojo with a confused grin. Kagome leaned over the sink with her head hanging as she muttered to herself,
"This can't be happening again. Come on...I'm very much in love with Hojo. There is no reason for me to think about him. That's in the past. It's over,"
Ever since the day InuYasha returned but was banned from her era, Kagome had given up moping around and decided to call Hojo. Well, one thing led to another, and they ended up in a relationship. Kagome had decided to move on and move out and into an expensive apartment of her own. Although she let go of the half demon and his world, she still found herself constantly having dreams of him. After months went by, though, she finally stopped having these dreams and started focusing on her new life. Now that she had been seeing Hojo for quite a long time now, she was beginning to have uncontrollable flashbacks of InuYasha.
Kagome groaned and reached for her lipstick and smothered it on her lips in frustration. She froze when she realized what might be causing the flashbacks. She bolted out from the bathroom and ran for her bedroom. The room was lit with an golden tint from the sunset that continued to be devoured by night. She walked over to her dresser and pulled out her second drawer and took out the rosary beads she had taken with her to her own time. She backed up and sat at the corner of her bed as she softly ran her fingers over one of the shiny purple beads. She smirked at the memories she had of 'sitting' him but shook her head trying to get rid of the flashbacks.
"It's time for me to give him up," She announced to herself. She pulled back the sliding door to her balcony and made her way over to the edge and held the rosary out over the balcony ledge. She wanted to let go so badly, but she couldn't. She growled and brought the rosary to her heart while trying to fight back tears. This was all she had left of him and although her mind was sure of letting him go, her pure heart wasn't. She strolled back into her room and threw the rosary carelessly and hopelessly on her bed as she made her way out from the room and wiping a stray tear from her cheek.
"You look beautiful tonight," Hojo complimented to Kagome who was entranced with her thoughts as she softly rubbed her wine glass. Her eyes were quickly fixed on his as she smiled and thanked him. She wore her hair high up with stray pieces and her bangs falling down with a diamond bracelet on her right wrist. She wore a black halter top dress with black high heels which bore her feet and french pedicure toes.
"You know I've always wanted to ask you something," Hojo started to say in an effort to make conversation, "Where did you get that necklace? It's very beautiful. Kind of looks like that Shikon thing your grand father used to tell me about,"
Kagome took hold of the jewel that was strung around her neck by a silver necklace and replied,
"I've always had it. Surprisingly, it broke once but it was put back together,"
She couldn't help but laugh to herself on her little secret she had just revealed that he would think nothing of. She quickly changed the subject before he could ask any more questions regarding her past,
"This is a lovely restaurant, Hojo. Why the special occasion?"
He smirked and replied,
"Because..." He stood up and Kagome watched as he bent down in front of her on one knee with diamond ring between his thumb and index finger. She could feel the other people in the restaurant staring at the pair as he asked,
"Kagome, will you marry me?"
She smiled and covered her mouth in disbelief as she was about to utter 'yes'. But before she could even say anything, a flashback of InuYasha clouded her mind. She gasped but shrugged off the vision and replied,
"Yes, Hojo, I will marry you,"
His wondering blue eyes to her hesitation faded into beaming eyes as he slipped the ring on her finger and kissed her in front of everyone. As Kagome kissed him, it was as if she was underneath freezing cold water and she could hear the faint voice of InuYasha calling her back to him as the imaginative water tried to nudge her out of the promise she had just made.
Kagome sat in her old room glaring off into morning light with everything silent. Her hair was dun up in a white jeweled ponytail wrapped around with her hair twirled and curled with beauty for the special day. Her bangs hanging down, and her makeup all done, she sat in her white wedding dress. It was a boat-neck gown with silk for the bodice that fit around the curves of her breasts and waist. And from her waist down, the rest of her dress was puffy and made of silk which stopped at her ankles. Kagome's stare wandered over to her desk where the rosary was laying with the morning beams shining upon the necklace. She reached over and took hold of the rosary and wrapped it around her wrist.
"Kagome?" Ms. Higurashi asked calmly but with curiosity to why her daughter was sitting in her old room when she should be getting into the sleek black limo to make her way to her own outdoor wedding. Kagome didn't flinch. She just continued to let her thoughts accompany her as she waited for the opportune moment to leave. Kagome's mother gracefully rested on the edge of Kagome's bed as she asked,
"What's wrong, honey?"
Kagome didn't reply right away but soon turned to her mother with wondering eyes. Kagome looked deeply into her daughter's eyes and watched as depressed feelings lingered in her big brown orbs. She turned her gaze to the ground then back up to her daughter as she advised,
"Look, Kagome, I understand what you're feeling and I want you to know that you should do whatever is in your heart,"
Kagome chuckled in worry and replied with depression,
"I can't go back...I don't love him anymore,"
Ms. Higurashi frowned and asked her daughter who she was trying to fool. Kagome glared down at the her wrist where she wrapped the beads around with puddles of tears curved around her eyes. She stood and left the room leaving her mother dumb-struck with her decision. After Kagome had left, she pulled out a picture of InuYasha and Kagome from her pocket that her daughter had given her long ago and smiled. Her thoughts on Hojo were nothing less then spectacular, she thought he would be a great husband for her child. But she knew that the half demon was who Kagome was truly meant to be with. She silently put the picture back in her dress pocket and followed her daughter outside to the limo.
Kagome leaned against the gazebo post with confusion of which path to take. It was either the man she loved, or the half demon she truly had fallen in love with. She shoved these thoughts to the back of her mind as she heard the organ start to play the bridal anthem. She exhaled sharply and muttered,
"This is it...I have about a minute to figure out what I'm going to do,"
She scurried over to the aisle and began to walk down. Her eyes traveled back and forth to each pair of eyes glistening at her sight in pure fright. It was like a tug of war fight in her mind, Hojo versus InuYasha.. She glanced up to see Hojo eyeing her beautiful sight and cringed at the decision she was about to make that she feared might become a mistake. She came to his side and took him by the hands as soon as the music stopped.
"Hojo...I-," She paused for a moment to look back to her mother who was smiling at the right choice she knew her daughter was going to make. Kagome glared down to her wrist at the rosary beads then back up to Hojo and continued,
"Hojo...I can't marry you,"
Hojo was shocked at first but his blue eyes softened as he whispered,
"I had a feeling you were in love with someone else,"
Kagome tried to speak as a tear rolled free from her own eye but he put a finger to her lips and continued,
"And I know you want to be with him. I'll always love you, Kagome, but your place is not with me,"
She smiled and stroked his cheek as he smirked weakly to her compassion. She leaned in and pecked him softly on the cheek while whispering 'thank you' in his ear. He dipped in to hug her then broke off quickly.
Not knowing what to do next, Hojo guided her by nudging his head to the end of the aisle where she could run to find her true love. She smiled and nodded then tossed the flowers to the ground and ran for the well house. As she ran, it started to rain cold droplets down on the young girl...
Kagome's eyes flickered as she gazed up out of the well to find it raining in the feudal era as well. She frowned and grabbed onto the vines which crept down into the old well and pulled herself up and out. She collapsed for a moment at the non-stop running she was doing and inhaled deeply. The feudal era looked the same. The scent of the outdoors in the era was still the same as well. As if nothing had changed at all since she last left which was many months ago, close to a year. Too tired to move any of her limbs, Kagome cried out for the half demon.
"InuYasha!" She continued to scream for him. She finally decided to get up and find the 'Tree of Ages'. She finally came to it but no InuYasha to be seen. She relaxed her shoulders sadly as her perambulation took her to the base of the tree. The pouring liquid that came from the heavens started to clear as the clouds dispersed, revealing the beaming rays of sunlight.
"Kagome," A voice bellowed from behind the reincarnated woman. She slowly spun on her muddy wet heel only to see the man she was searching for.
"InuYasha," She managed to whisper as she threatened herself to take a step towards him. She stopped though, in order to explain her return. She unwrapped the rosary from her wrist and held it in her grasp. She hesitated for a moment then held out her closed fist with the rosary placed in and around and stated in a soft quivering voice,
"I couldn't forget about you,"
He grinned and held out the locket she had given him and replied,
"Neither could I,"
The tears she had fought back for so long broke free and trailed down her cheeks as she smiled in happiness and rushed into his embrace.
"I'm sorry, so sorry," She apologized to him while burying her face in his fire rat kimono. He held her close and told her that he was the one who should be sorry, not her. She sniffled a bit and backed up as she placed the rosary around his neck.
"Hey!" He laughed playfully, "Did I really want that thing back?"
She chuckled under her breath, still upset with her decision to leave him so long ago. He leaned in and pressed his forehead against hers as he whispered,
"Don't be sad. I have something for you,"
She grinned and asked him what he was talking about. He smiled and placed the locket in her hand and told her to open it. She smirked to him before she opened the locket to be caught off guard. Inside, was a ring that was completely made of diamonds and other glittering jewels.
"In-InuYasha?" She uttered as she gazed at the most beautiful ring she had ever seen.
"After I came back from your time, I decided that I would wait forever until you came back to me. Whether it have been in life or death. So I traveled all over looking for the most beautiful rocks and stuff so that I could make this ring for you and so that..."
He trailed off as he bent down on one knee while asking,
"Kagome...I love you so much. And I'm so sorry for ever hurting you...would you marry me?"
Kagome's eyes widened at his proposal then sparkled as she looked into his eyes.
"Of course I will, InuYasha,"
She placed the ring on her finger then wrapped her arms around his neck and they both shared a affectionate kiss. Clearly, it was true; their true love could reach each other across time.
"So you were paying attention when I told you about engagement, huh?" Kagome smirked as she continued to keep her arms around his neck.
"It's stupid...but I'd thought you might like it," He smirked back. She grinned mischievously and backed up away from him.
"Kagome..." He called with concern.
"Sit boy," she let the words bark out playfully past her pink lips. The rosary pulled him down to the ground face first.
"Wench," He muttered through the dirt.
"Now there's the InuYasha that I know," She laughed as she bent down and turned him over on his back. He smirked again and pulled her down to the ground into a deep kiss. Which soon lead to their laughter echoing through the forest.


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|Thursday, October 23, 2008
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|September 26, 2008
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|April 17, 2008
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Gritten keeps Gonzales loyal to Mexico
On this day in 1835, the Municipality of Gonzales passed resolutions of loyalty to Mexico, thanks to the influence of the mysterious Edward Gritten. Gritten, supposedly an Englishman and a long-time resident of Mexico, first visited Texas in 1834 as secretary to Juan N. Almonte. During July and August 1835 he worked to restore confidence between the Texas colonists and the Mexican government. He urged Mexican authorities to adopt conciliatory measures, assuring them that most Texans were law-abiding Mexican citizens. He was chosen as a commissioner to visit Martín Perfecto de Cos to explain the pacific attitude of the mass of the colonists. On the way to Matamoros, Gritten met a courier from Domingo de Ugartechea with orders to arrest William B. Travis and other Texans. Gritten hastened to Bexar and attempted to persuade Ugartechea to revoke the orders, but he refused. Gritten remained at Bexar as mediator between Ugartechea and the colonists and identified himself with the Texas cause. In December 1835 the General Council elected Gritten collector of the port of Copano, but Governor Henry Smith refused to sign the commission because he considered Gritten a spy. The last information found concerning Gritten is a receipt for money paid him by the government in October 1836 for his services as a translator.


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ACLU of Florida blasts SCOTUS decision overturning provision of Voting Rights Act as radical conservatism
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Tuesday the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a key provision of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that had been used as recently as last year to ensure voting laws donât discriminate. During a phone conference today, the ACLU of Florida condemned the high courtâs decision as radical conservatism. Howard Simon is the groupâs executive director.
Under section five of the Voting Rights Act certain states and localities, including Hillsborough County, are required to get approval from Washington before making changes to voting laws. The Act was re-authorized in 2006 for another 25 years. That provision was upheld by the court, but rendered useless when section 4 was struck down â it determines how states and counties are placed into the system of added protections.
The high court ruling called attention to the fact that criteria for implementing pre-clearance requirements hadnât been changed. In the courtâs 5-4 decision, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote, âThere is no denying, however, that the conditions that originally justified these measures no longer characterize voting in the covered jurisdictions.â The protections under section five of the Voting Rights Act can be continued if Congress comes up with a new formula. But Simon, among other critics of the high court decision, doubts that will happen anytime soon.
The law affects five Florida counties, including Hillsborough and Hardee. In Tampa, a group called Mi Familia Vota is challenging Floridaâs so-called voter purge where inaccurate and out of date information was used to remove people from the voter rolls. Those people were then charged with the burden of proving their eligibility. Julie Ebenstein is a staff attorney for the ACLU of Florida.
Secretary of State Ken Detzner said today the decision will allow the state to streamline its election process and save money on legal fees associated with upholding its laws. He added that there are still ways to challenge potentially discriminatory laws. Ebenstein said section 2 under the Voting Rights Act does make that possible, but itâs not necessarily a cheaper way to handle challenges.
President Barack Obama said in a written statement today that voting discrimination in the U.S. still exists. He called the decision a setback, but promised that efforts to end voting discrimination will continue. Vice President Joe Biden said the decision âupset a well-established practice.â
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Originally written on NorthWest Sports Beat | Last updated 11/4/12
Stopping Peterson & Harvin Likely Key After what was probably the worst defensive outing of the season for the Seattle Seahawks, the team will hope to rebound this Sunday when the Minnesota Vikings roll into town. The job doesn't get any easier for the Seahawks defense, as they will have to shut down a pair of Pro Bowlers in Adrian Peterson and Percy Harvin if they want to go back above .500. Percy Harvin will almost definitely be matched up against Richard Sherman, as he is the biggest deep threat for the Vikings. Richard Sherman has been the go-to defensive back for the Seahawks this season, matching up against the opponent's best wide receiver on a weekly basis. Last week, Sherman held Calvin Johnson to 46 yards on three catches. The Seahawks will also have to be prepared for Harvin during the return game, as he has also returned one kickoff for a touchdown this season. The Seahawks' defense must step up this week against the Minnesota Vikings. Photo Credit: Grant Halverson/Getty Images The Seahawks come into this game with the 13th ranked passing defense in the NFL against a young quarterback, Christian Ponder, who has cooled down a bit since his hot start, but is still very capable of putting up big numbers in this league. The Seahawks' defensive line will have a huge impact on Ponder's success throwing the ball on Sunday. If they can put pressure on him, and minimize the amount of time that his receivers have to get open, they can make it a very long day for the Vikings' passing offense. No one was quite sure what to expect from Peterson after a season-ending knee injury last year. However, he has come out strong in the first half this year scoring four touchdowns and rushing for 775 yards (5.1 yards per carry). He is a very dangerous running back who will test the Seahawks' fifth-ranked rushing defense. He is healthy and so far this season has been running over the opposition. The Seahawks have to be prepared. If Seattle can find a way to shut down Peterson, Ponder will have a tough time scoring with a one-dimensional offense. The defense has proven multiple times this season that they have no problem matching up against high powered offenses; however, they will need to bounce back from a shaky performance last Sunday when Matthew Stafford had his way with the Seahawks' defense, throwing for 352 yards and three touchdowns. Seattle is a much better team when playing at home, and they will need to play a good game against a Vikings team that has surprised lot of people this season. At 4-4, they cannot afford to drop below .500 as this tight playoff race begins to take shape. CLICK HERE CHECK OUT THE SEAHAWKS BLOG IN OUR CLUBHOUSE AT NWSB!
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The family Campanulaceae (also bellflower family), of the order Asterales, contains about 70 genera and 2000 species. They are mostly herbs, shrubs, and more rarely small trees, which usually have milky non-toxic sap. The family includes the familiar garden plants Campanula (or bellflower), Lobelia, and the balloonflower (Platycodon.)
This family is almost cosmopolitan but concentrated in the Northern Hemisphere. However in the Southern Hemisphere, South Africa is remarkably rich in members of this family. These species are absent in the Sahara, Antarctica and northern Greenland.
Most current classifications include the segregate family Lobeliaceae in Campanulaceae.


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You don't know Michigan.
First suspension: 1 year
Second suspension: 5 years
In neither case is the license certain to be restored. The Secretarty of State must be convinced the behaviors or circumstances have changed. Lifetime revokations are possible, and driving under one can get you escalating jail rime.
Also, minors who have done something serious with a vehicle like property damage, a DUI, injuring or killing someone can be tried as adults and face the same penalties. A vehicular homicide here can bring a 2nd degree murder charge. Michigan has convicted 11 year olds of 1st degtee murder.
I'm assuming you mean 1st time your license is suspended, it is suspended for one year. Second time, for five years. But as I pointed out, people STILL drive with a suspended license. According to blotter reports all over my state, this happens a lot and most receive a citation ( a ticket ) or, basically a slap on the wrist. Just telling someone they aren't allowed to drive doesn't necessarily mean they will listen or obey.


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It said my graphics card was below minimum specifications too. But,I'm running at 1600×900, with anti-aliasing and with high graphics quality and everything is running smoothly and quickly.
I hope they eventually fix some of the limitations of the game, online only and small maps, and add features like subways, then it would be worth getting.
Posted 27 January 2013 - 08:03
As has been the case with most games as of late (even Crysis 2, believe it or not), the settings were conservative.
I kept the same resolution and yanked up the settings to all HIGH detail (from all-Medium); still no problems. And I admit that an AMD HD5450 is almost as hooptie as modern desktop graphics gets.
The small maps are due to the one-hour per session limitation; however, multiple such sessions are not a problem.
And if you think that the one-hour session limit is a problem, then you obvious have never seen recent articles (the vast majority here on Neowin itself pre-NeoGamr) that go into some folks getting so into a game that they will literally play until they croak. Given our sue-happy society, without enforcement that can indeed happen - then the lawyers get involved. (That is why TERA Online - a real MMO - has an explicit alarm at the 30-minute, 45-minute, and one-hour mark - even in the US. The *secondary business* of law firms - and politicians - has become saving us from ourselves while making potfuls of money.)
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This games crashing more then a female driver. No clue why just closes.
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This games crashing more then a female driver. No clue why just closes.
The beta appears to be disguised and is actually a demo of a finished product, and is trying to get you to pay for it at the end.
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The University of Texas at Tyler offers online Post-Baccalaureate Teacher Certification, known as the STEP program, to help students complete the requirements to teach in a Texas classroom. Before students can teach in Texas, they must fulfill three requirements.
- Hold a minimum of a bachelor's degree from an accredited university or college.
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In as little as 13 months, students can complete this online teacher certification program, fulfilling the second requirement.
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The STEP program is a 13-month online program designed to meet the needs of people who hold a bachelor's degree and want to receive a teacher certification without relocating or taking physical classes. The program begins in June each year and ends in July the following year.
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Boise State posted a team grade-point average of 3.28 during the spring semester, earning the team award from the CSCAA for the sixth-consecutive semester. The Broncos' cumulative team GPA for the season was 3.312.
Amber Boucher and Stephanie North picked up CSCAA Scholar All-America honors, individually. The organization bestows this honor on student-athletes who carry at least a 3.5 GPA and qualify for the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships. This marks the second time Boucher has earned the recognition (2010-11), in addition to an honorable mention nod in 2009-10. It is the first national academic honor for North.
Amanda Burnett, Ciera Cortney, Heather Harper and Emily Irvin were all named 2011-12 Honorable Mention Scholar All-Americans. This award is handed out to swimming and diving student-athletes who maintain a 3.5 GPA or higher and achieve provisional qualifying marks in their respective sports, but do not qualify for the national championships. Burnett and Cortney earned the same award last season.


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The Phoenix Islands were visited between 1823 and 1840 by British and American explorers, but most of them were annexed by Great Britain in the late 19th cent. After the United States took over Howland and Baker islands in 1935, Britain included (1937) the Phoenix group in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands colony. In 1938 the United States claimed sovereignty over Kanton and Enderbury, and in 1939 Britain and the United States agreed to exercise joint control over the two islands for a period of 50 years.
Previously uninhabited, Orona, Manra, and Nikumaroro islands were colonized with people from the overcrowded Gilbert Islands between 1938 and 1940. By 1963, however, the three settlements had failed and the entire population was moved to the Solomon Islands. In 2006 the waters (73,800 sq mi/184,700 sq km) surrounding the islands were made a protected area and commercial fishing was banned; the protected area was expanded in 2008.
The group is uninhabited except for a few families on Kanton (41 people according to the 2005 census). The United States unincorporated territories of Baker Island and Howland Island are often considered northerly outliers of the group, in the geographical sense. Howland and Baker are statistically grouped with the United States Minor Outlying Islands, however. The Phoenix Islands (not including the reefs) were all claimed by the United States at some point, but most came under British dominion prior to Kiribati independence.
At various times, the islands were considered part of the Gilbert group (once also known as "Kingsmill"). The name "Phoenix" for this group of islands seems to have been settled on in the 1840s, after an island of that name within the group. Phoenix Island was probably named after one of the many whaleships of that name plying these waters in the early nineteenth century.
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|Manra (Sydney Island)
|Orona (Hull Island)
|Nikumaroro (Gardner Island)
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|Winslow Reef
|Carondelet Reef
|U.S. territories to the north
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|* The lagoon areas marked with an asterisk are contained within the island areas of the previous column because they are, unlike in the case of a typical atoll, landlocked bodies of water completely sealed off from the sea.
The Phoenix Islands are a group of eight islands, totalling 11 sqare miles (28 sq. km) in land area, located in the central Pacific, north of Samoa. The chain comprises a portion of Kiribati. The only island of any commercial or historical importance is Kanton (or Abariringa) Island. The other islands include Enderbury, Rawaki (formerly Phoenix), Manra (formerly Sydney), Birnie, McKean, Nikumaroro (formerly Gardner), and Orona (formerly Hull).
Kanton, or Abariringa Island, is the northernmost and sole (as of 2007) inhabited island in the Phoenix group. It is a narrow ribbon of land (9 sq. km. in area), enclosing a lagoon of approximately 40 sq. km. Kanton is mostly bare coral, covered with herbs, bunch grasses, low shrubs and a few trees. Its lagoon teems with 153 known spieces of marine life, including sharks, tuna, stingrays and eels. Land fauna includes at least 23 bird species, lizards, rats, hermit crabs and turtles.
Once an important trans-Pacific airport and refueling station, Kanton declined in importance with the introduction of long-range jet aircraft in the late 1950s, and was eventually abandoned after serving a brief stint as a U.S. missile-tracking station. Today, the island still exhibits the remains of the airline and military presence, with 41 persons (as of 2005) residing there, most living in abandoned structures from the U.S./U.K. occupation (1936-1976).
Extensively worked for guano, Manra was turned into a copra plantation in the early twentieth century. In 1938, Manra was selected as one of three atolls for use in the Phoenix Islands Settlement Scheme, which represented the last expansion of the British Empire. Plagued by drought and the death of the project's organizer, together with the effects of World War II and the declining copra market, Manra was abandoned in 1963.
Tragically, Gallagher died on Nikumaroro in 1941, and was buried on the island (where his empty grave monument can still be seen, though his remains were later moved to Tarawa). Like the other atolls in the settlement project, Nikumaroro was abandoned in 1963 due to the scarcity of fresh water, together with the declining market for copra produced on the island.
Several excellent modern photographs of Nikumaroro, including recent photos of the flora, fauna and Gallagher's abandonded village site, may be viewed at.
In recent years, Nikumaroro has become a news item due to a theory that Amelia Earhart might have crash-landed her plane on the island during her fateful around-the-world attempt in 1937. The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery made several expeditions to Nikumaroro during the 1990s and 2000's, finding possible evidence, but no conclusive proof, of this theory. Continued investigation and expeditions to the island are ongoing.
Such settlements probably began around 1000 BC, when eastern Melanesians travelled north.
In 1568, when Spaniard Mendana was commanded to explore the South Pacific, he sailed between the Line Islands and the Phoenix Islands without sighting land, ultimately discovering "Isla de Jesus", probably amongst the Ellice group. While early nineteenth-century whalers were responsible for discovering most of Kiribati in the modern era, conflicting reports, inaccurate mapping and duplication of islands makes it almost impossible to confirm exactly who discovered each of the islands. Jeremiah N. Reynolds's 1828 report to the American Navy recommended an exploring expedition to the Pacific as "the English charts, and those of other countries are as yet very imperfect. Much of their information has been obtained from loose accounts from whalers who were careless in some instances, and forgetful in others, and which were seized with greediness by the makers of maps and charts, in order to be the first to make these discoveries known."
This came to fruition in the 1840s: Charles Wilkes led the Exploring Expedition, consisting of the Peacock and the Flying Fish, which surveyed the islands under William Hudson.
|Island Name
|Reynold's comments
|"Phenix Island"*
|"small and sandy, three miles in circumference"
| "Mary Balcout's
| "Surrounded by a reef twenty leagues in circum-
ference, with only four openings where boats can
enter" (this is an almost identical position to
"Mary Island" shown on Norie's map of 1825;
similar to Canton Is.)
|"Barney's Island"*
| "a lagoon, twenty miles in circumference"
(Possibly another sighting of Canton Is.)
|"Birney's Island"
|"Discovered by Capt Emmert; found on charts"
|"Sidney's Island"
|"Discovered by Capt Emmert; found on charts"
|"Sidney's Is." (2)
|"Sidney's Is." (3)
|"New Nantucket"
|"Not on charts"
|"Gardner's Island"
| "Not on charts; discovered by Capt Coffin,
on Ganges".
|unnamed reef
|"Not on the charts". (possibly Carondelet Reef)
|*Reynold's suggests that since these three have similar coordinates, they "are probably the
same as Birney's Island"
Commissioned by the U.S. Navy in 1828 to compile a survey of American discoveries in the South Pacific, J.N. Reynolds interviewed several New England whalers, inspecting their logbogs, charts and documents. His report included at least 13 islands fitting roughly within the Phoenix group, but the coordinates he gave do not always compare to the now-established coordinates.
Further confusion regarding the initial discoveries is provided by other contemporary reports of the islands: Frenchman Louis Tromelin reported his 1823 discovery of Phoenix island at 3°42'S, 170°43'W, while cartographer John Arrowsmith plotted it 12 minutes further north; a rediscovery of Sydney is at 4°26'30", 171°18'. The same year, James Coffin recorded "Enderby's Island" at 3°10', 171°10. This clearly illustrates "the impossibility of deciding who discovered which of these...islands, and when...."
Contemporary reports and modern analysis provide conflicting evidence regarding the indentification of the initial discoverers, a state of affairs only complicated by the numerous names given to the atolls.
The name "Phoenix" appears to have been first applied to the whole group by Wilkes's Exploring Expedition, from the island of that name reported within the group.
During the United States Exploring Expedition of 1838-1842, Charles Wilkes identified Gardner's Island from the reported position, and confirmed its existence.
Although shelled and bombed a few times during World War II, neither Kanton nor any of the Phoenix Islands was ever occupied by Japanese forces.
Between 1938 and 1940, in an effort to reduce overcrowding on the Gilbert Islands, the Phoenix Islands Settlement Scheme colonised the previously uninhabited Orona (Hull), Manra (Sydney), and Nikumaroro (Gardner) islands. By 1963, however, the three settlements had failed and the entire population was moved to the Solomon Islands. Kanton was used by the U.S. during the 1960s and early 1970s as a missile-tracking station, before being abandoned altogether in 1976 and then ultimately resettled by I-Kiribati, who continue to reside there today. In 2008, the government of Kiribati declared the islands to be the Phoenix Islands Protected Area, the world's largest marine protected area.


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The 2013 Adirondack Youth Climate Summit will be on November 6th and 7th. Please visit our new website for all of the information about the 2013 Summit. Registration is now open.
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The 2013 Adirondack Youth Climate Summit will be on November 6th and 7th. Please visit our new website for all of the information about the 2013 Summit. Registration is now open.
Adirondack Youth Climate Summit = Big Climate Action!
By: Madeline Conway
Background: Madeline Conway is a member of the EmmaGreen Team at the Emma Willard School in Troy, NY. She attended the Adirondack Youth Climate Summit at the Wild Center in November 2012.
As the great American writer, Arthur Miller once wrote in his play Death of a Salesman, "When I walked into the jungle, I was seventeen. When I walked out… I was rich." This was my story after attending the Adirondack Youth Climate Summit this fall at The Wild Center in Tupper Lake, New York. I didn't leave with newly acquired money, but I had acquired wealth: a wealth of new knowledge, of ideas, and of inspiration. The two day conference for high school students, college students, and teachers brought together a strong group of driven young adults who knew climate change was scary, but realized they were ready to make a change. I was honored to attend and was empowered to do more when I left.
Speakers from organizations, the government, farms, colleges, and companies shared personal experiences, projects they were working on, and called our group to action. Even though I feel pretty knowledgable about this field, I was still alarmed at many of the statistics and information. It showed me why it is so easy to simply shy away from the things you do not want to hear. However, the speakers told us they did not share the details with us to simply throw the horror story in our faces and into our hands, but they wanted to empower us to make a change so that the horror story doesn't actually come true. We can't just jump into life boats and row off to another planet to escape the impending doom. We have to act and we have to act now because, as one group's t-shirt stated, "There is no planet B."
As the experts handed down their wealth of knowledge to the group, ideas for what I could do and accomplish began to flourish in my mind and in the minds of my group members. Every speaker or activity inspired me and gave me the desire to spread the knowledge to everyone. In one workshop activity, we took one recipe for simple chocolate chip cookies. One group found the carbon footprint of baking the cookies using all of the name-brand ingredients. The other group did the same thing, however they used as many local ingredients as they could find. The results were mind blowing! The drastic difference in carbon footprints for such a small recipe showed us that if we tried to buy local goods and produce for everything, we could substantially cut down on carbon emissions. Mark and Kristin Kimball from Essex Farm also came and talked to us about the importance and benefits of local production for local consumption. They run a farm on which all the labor is done with draft horses and their market is the local community. Their farm is an organic community and cooperative farm that people can buy into every year and can come pickup produce and meat on a weekly basis. The work is not easy, however it is rewarding and they find it is very important to them. So, now when I go to the grocery store, I look for local first. It may seem like a small change, but every little thing makes a big difference.
After all of the fantastic sessions on day one, we were sent back into our school specific groups and told to make an action plan: what could we reasonably accomplish in our schools and communities within the near future. My EmmaGreen team brainstormed countless ideas, created a goal board, and presented our ideas to the entire summit. I am happy to say we are on our way to some of our goals and also made and achieved new ones as well. One student created an interactive map online showing dots for where all the students within driving range from our boarding school live. This was sent out to the whole school and to parents to improve carpooling. In addition, we are reopening our thrift shop in the coming weeks where students can come and bring their clothes to sell and to find new prized possessions.
Overall the summit was overwhelmingly beneficial, imbued the entire group with new ideas, and supplied me with the hope that there are more young people out there who know that it is our duty to make change.
Beyond Colton-Pierrepont
Background: Tim got his environmental footing as a member of Colton-Pierrepont Central School's Environmental Club in Northern New York. He is now a Freshmen at Western New England University in Springfield, MA.
When I moved into my dorm for my first semester of college, I realized that there was no recycling bin in my room. This seemed appalling to me, so I made one of the two trash bins given to us a recycling bin for cans and bottles and put a box next to it to recycle paper. Shortly after, I realized that there was no recycling bins anywhere in the whole dorm building, so I suggested to my RA that we get a system started! She loved the idea and put work orders in for recycling bins right away. Unfortunately, they took a little while to be delivered, but in the meantime, I convinced my friends to save their cans, bottles and paper until they came in. Two weeks later the bins arrived and ever since then they seem to be overflowing with people's recyclables. Now, my roommate and friends often ask me now if something is recyclable before they throw it away and just the other day I heard a neighbor tell someone, "Hey, you should recycle that. We have it, so you might as well use it." It's pretty amazing to know that sometimes all it takes is just a suggestion for something really great to happen.
4th Youth Summit to stream live!
The Plenary sessions of the Fourth Adirondack Youth Climate Summit on November 14th and 15th will stream live – www.adkyouthsummit.org/live.
Let's Move Salad Bars to Schools
Any K-12 school district participating in the National School Lunch Program is eligible to apply. There is one application that accommodates either an application for a single salad bar package or for larger districts, multiple salad bar packages. Schools currently awarded with the Bronze status or above in the Healthier US School Challenge (HUSSC) automatically qualify for a salad bar donation, with the stipulation that the school or district desires and can support a salad bar every day in school lunch. All applications must be submitted electronically and must be approved by your Food Service Director. Deadline: Rolling
National Gardening Association & the Home Depot Garden Club Youth Garden Grants (YGG)
NGA awards Youth Garden Grants to schools and community organizations with child-centered garden programs. Priority will be given to programs that emphasize one or more of these elements: integration of content standards; nutrition connections; environmental awareness; entrepreneurship; social aspects of gardening such as leadership development, team building, community support, or service-learning. Eligibility: Schools, youth groups, community centers, camps, clubs, treatment facilities, and intergenerational groups throughout the U.S. are eligible. Applicants must plan to garden with at least 15 children between the ages of 3 and 18 years. For the 2013 grant cycle, 100 grants are available. All winning programs will receive curricula from NGA to complement the following packages: (5) programs will receive gift cards valued at $1000; (95) programs will receive a $500 gift card. Deadline: December 3, 2012
Whole Kids Foundation
School Garden Grants
The mission of the Whole Kids Foundation is to improve children's nutrition and wellness with the goal of ending the childhood obesity epidemic. The Foundation's School Garden Grants are provided to K-12 schools and nonprofit organizations in the U.S. and Canada that are developing or currently maintaining a school garden project that will help children engage with fresh fruits and vegetables. Grants of $2,000 are provided for garden projects at any stage of development – planning, construction, or operation. Deadline: November 15, 2012
10th Annual P3 Awards: A National Student Design Competition for Sustainability Focusing on People, Prosperity and the Planet
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), as part of the P3-People, Prosperity and the Planet Award Program, is seeking applications proposing to research, develop, and design solutions to real world challenges involving the overall sustainability of human society. The P3 competition highlights the use of scientific principles in creating innovative projects focused on sustainability. The P3 Award program was developed to foster progress toward sustainability by achieving the mutual goals of economic prosperity, protection of the planet, and improved quality of life for its people– people, prosperity, and the planet – the three pillars of sustainability. The EPA offers the P3 competition in order to respond to the technical needs of the world while moving towards the goal of sustainability. Please see the P3 website for more details about this program. Deadline for application is December 11th, 2012.
Lowe's Toolbox for Education
The Lowe's Toolbox for Education program provides grant awards to support school improvement projects at K-12 public schools. Now in its sixth year, the program has donated over $30 million to more than 6,000 schools. For the 2012-13 school year program, the foundation will give priority to basic necessities. There is a preference for funding requests that have a permanent impact such as facility enhancement (both indoor and outdoor), landscaping/cleanup projects as well as technology-based improvements. Projects that encourage parent involvement and build stronger community spirit are encouraged.
- Eligibility: Any individual U.S. public K-12 school or nonprofit parent group associated with a public K-12 school is eligible to apply. Parent groups that are applying (PTO, PTA, etc.) must have an independent EIN and official 501(c)(3) status from the IRS.
- Funding: Grant requests must be between $2,000 and $5,000 per school. Lowe's will donate $5 million to schools and school parent/teacher groups at more than 1,000 different schools during the school year.
Deadline: October 12, 2012
Contact: Lowe's Toolbox for Education
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Phone: 1 (800) 644-3561 ext: 208
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Kids In Need Foundation & Elmer's Products Elmer's Teacher Tool Kit grants
K-12 teachers across the United States are eligible to apply for one of approximately two hundred and fifty Elmer's Teacher Tool Kit grants. Grants will range from $100 to $500 for projects to be completed during the 2012-13 school year. Grants will be awarded to teachers who wish to conduct classroom projects selected from a catalog of more than five hundred projects currently in the Kids In Need Guide to Award Winning Projects. Grant awards will be based on financial need, description of how the particular project meets the educational needs of students and satisfies state standards or school curriculum requirements, and the number of students who will benefit from the project. Please note: Although special consideration will be given to first-year teachers, all certified K-12 teachers are encouraged to apply. Find out more here.
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First Bauxite on Resource Intelligence TV
By Resource Intelligence · March 16, 2010 · 2:39 pm · Leave a Comment
First Bauxite to Submit FS by April, Acquires Vast Tracts of Bauxite Land
Yannis Tsitos is the President of an intriguing company with a commodity that has compelling price dynamics. The commodity is Bauxite. Refractory Grade Super Calcined Bauxite or RASC. To educate us on the commodity and his project in Guyana, we spoke with First Bauxite's (TSXV: FBX) President and director Yannis Tsitos. Yannis worked for most of his career—18 years—with BHP Billiton as chief geophysicist for South America and business development manager for their exploration team with a global reach.
Resource Inteeligence: How did First Bauxite come into possession of such a large swath of high-grade bauxite property in Guyana?
Yannis Tsitos: I met Hilbert Shields in 2006. Hilbert Shields is the CEO of First Bauxite Corporation. He was the original vendor and owner of the properties in Guyana. We analyzed bauxite, the opportunity, the economics of the project, the quality and technical information of the project. I had long discussions with Hilbert analyzing the country and the refractory business and we came to the conclusion that this is an amazing opportunity and that we had to jump in.
RI: What is bauxite?
YT: Bauxite is the prime source of aluminum metal. Ninety to 95% of the world's bauxite becomes aluminum metal. The other five to ten percent of global bauxite is used in large industrial applications such as the construction of refractories. Typically, only high alumina bauxite goes into this application. Therefore the business of refractories is very well known among the engineering industry.
To put it simply, you use refractories to keep the heat inside a furnace.The construction of refractories is absolutely necessary for the production of steel, cement, or any pyrometallurgical process that you use to melt or have some chemical reaction in a kiln or furnace. However, in order to manufacture refractories you need to use high-alumina, low iron-oxide bauxite, with no alkalies. As such, more than 95% of the world's bauxite is unfit to make refractories. It's a unique product; you need to have the original source of high quality and high alumina content and that is what we have at Bonasika and Waratilla.
RI: Guyana is one of the world's major centers for this type of RASC bauxite. There are others in Africa and elsewhere. How much supply is there and what could you contribute with these deposits?
YT: As it stands at the moment China consumes 70% of the world refractory bauxite for its own needs. The balance of the bauxite produced in China or in Guyana is for export purposes. Export to Europe, United States, Japan, Australia, and India, etc. China has managed to control about 90 to 95% of the world production of refractory bauxite. The balance of production comes from Brazil, India and Russia, where we're talking about captive markets in that what they produce, these countries use internally.
RI: Is China setting the price floor for bauxite?
YT: Yes, because China produces the vast majority of bauxite in the world, it does tend to set the floor price in its exports of refractory bauxite. That being in the order of $400 to $500 per tonne for RASC bauxite.
RI: Let's talk about your projects and the size of the deposits that you're targeting.
YT: We have three different projects in Guyana. Two of them are advanced projects. One of them, Bonasika, is now at the Feasibility Study stage, which we are probably about 80% complete. We expect to receive it as a Board of Directors by the end of Q1 2010 and announce its results immediately afterwards.
Our intention is to begin production at Bonasika within 15 to 18 months from the time we press the button to develop the project, and that will happen in the next two months, at the rate of 100,000 metric tonnes of refractory calcined bauxite production per annum.
The second deposit is the Waratilla-Cartwright deposit, which we are currently drilling to outline a larger resource. Bonasika is what we call low hanging fruit. It has very little overburden and is very high quality in terms of alumina content and low iron oxide.
RI: You'll be producing 100,000 metric tonnes per year at Bonasika and China has set a price of $400 to $500 per tonne for RASC bauxite. What about the operating costs?
YT: Operating costs come in at less than $200 per tonne at the moment but until we have a completed Feasibility Study in the next six to eight weeks that operating cost can not be verified. But we feel very comfortable; all metallurgical tests are working fine. We're confident that it will be under $200 per tonne and therefore the profit margin given the prices we mentioned could be at least 100%.
RI: You've got low hanging fruit at Bonasika; how far from Bonasika is Waratilla and to what extent is it low hanging fruit?
YT: What we know about Waratilla is mostly from historical drilling by Alcan in the 1960s. It has been proven to be five times bigger than Bonasika. At Waratilla we are drilling about 2 holes a day right now. Drilling bauxite is like going through butter—you drill 40 to 50 metres depth and you drill about 2 holes a day with one drill. Waratilla is much bigger but it's at greater depth than Bonasika, so the strip ratio at Bonasika we expect to be between 1:1 and 3:1 on one of the parts of Bonasika, the strip ratio at Waratilla is going to be definitely higher but still super economic. But to put this into perspective, in comparison to their operations in Guyana, a local Chinese company operates at higher than 7:1, and and RUSAL, exporting metallurgical bauxite from Guyana, operates at 9:1 to 10:1.
RI: It sounds like your target resource size on Bonasika will be in the order of a couple million tonnes, and five times that at Waratilla.
YT: That's what we're hoping. That's why we put out to the public that the mine life at Bonasika will be about 8-9 years at 100,000 tonnes production per annum, but in year two or three, depending on financing, we will expand the operation. We believe we have enough resource at Waratilla to move to 300,000 or 500,000 tonnes per annum in total. That will happen only when Waratilla comes to the market, obviously.
RI: I am getting the picture of this small company having a lot of success surrounded by some huge Chinese operations.
YT: China controls 95% of the world market and they are our neighbors in Guyana. As I said we will export just 45 km from the Atlantic while they operate 110 km from the Atlantic, and they are more complicated and have higher operating costs than us.
RI: If you take this all the way to production who would you sell your product to?
YT: We are already in active direct and indirect talks with consumers. These are the companies that buy high quality refractory bauxite based in the United States, Europe and in Japan. We hope to have marketing agreements and contracts for effectively sending out product right away.
RI: When do you plan to be shipping product?
YT: Subject to having a positive feasibility study and financing very quickly after that, we are hoping to see the first product in June or July of 2011.
RI: Outside of your main two deals Bonasika and Waratilla, you have another project on the go with Rio Tinto. What are the details of that joint venture?
YT: First Bauxite Corporation controls 100% of 6,000 square km of prime bauxite land. We thought we would farm out the exploration to a major corporation. Rio Tinto ALCAN is a fabulous partner and we did a deal with them back in May 2008 where in order to vest an interest in our project they have to spend $58 million in exploring this ground in two phases. $8 million has to be spent to earn 51% of the project and then a feasibility study must be completed, which is about $50 million for a good metallurgical bauxite project. Rio Tinto is not involved in the refractory business. The target for Rio Tinto in Guyana is to discover a major metallurgical bauxite resource. If they spend all $58 million they will have 75% and we will retain the remaining 25%.
RI: You just announced a new major acquisition of some 15,000 hectares in two historical prospecting licences by acquiring a company called Bauxite Corporation of Guyana (BCGI). What is the significance of that deal?
YT: We acquired all the shares of BCGI and in doing so also receive these two prospecting licences from the company that cover an historical bauxite deposit named Tarakuli, in Northeastern Guyana. BCGI had also submitted to the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission applications for three additional Prospecting Licenses, covering an area of 15000 hectares contiguous to the Tarakuli deposits. Reynolds Metals drilled Tarakuli in the 1960s and their data shows an historical non-43-101 compliant inferred bauxite resource of approximately 63 million MT at 58.6% alumina. Half of the tonnage was classified as metallurgical grade bauxite and half as chemical grade bauxite. This is such huge area that we will have to carefully choose our targets. But I want to be clear that our first priority right now is to advance the Bonasika and the Waratilla projects project to production.
RI: What is Guyana like as a mining environment?
YT: Guyana is a fabulous place as a mining environment to do business. They are very mining friendly. A significant part of Guyana's GDP is the export of bauxite and gold. Bauxite has been mined in Guyana since 1917. It was the third country in the world to discover and export bauxite. The country's Prime Minister is also the Minister of Mines. He used to be a chemical engineer working for Alcan in the 1960s, so he understands the importance of mining to his country.
RI: It sounds like you have a lot going for you in the country as well as on the project.
YT: True. If you have an aggressive plan like First Bauxite Corporation you have to deal with all the aspects of the business from managing the project risk and building a team that is very competent around you, that knows the refractory bauxite business. That is what we are doing at the moment.


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ELIZABETHTON — An investigation by the Elizabethton Police Department into complaints of theft of prescription drugs has led to the arrest of a Walgreens employee Monday.
Jared Angel, 24, Long Branch Drive, Erwin, was arrested by Officer Paul Morell on charges of obtaining narcotics by fraud and theft under $500. Bond was set at $5,250.
Investigator Kirk Carrier said the complaint was received from Walgreens on Nov. 15. The store said Angel had been stealing prescription medication from the pharmacy between Aug. 8 and Nov. 15.
Carrier said the investigation found that Angel "used deception and subterfuge to obtain controlled substances and removed items from the store without paying or permission."
Angel is scheduled to answer the charges in Sessions Court on Jan 9.


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AWWA praises Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act
WASHINGTON — The American Water Works Association (AWWA) is celebrating the unveiling of a Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (WIFIA) in two pieces of Senate legislation.
On Nov. 12, Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) introduced a WIFIA bill in the US Senate, S.3626. Three days later, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee held a hearing on a draft of the Water Resources Development Act, which also included WIFIA. Details in both pieces of legislation are likely to undergo adjustments.
RELATED: Water organizations urge support for WIFIA
AWWA and its partners in the water community have been working for the introduction of WIFIA legislation for the past few years, testifying before Congress multiple times and approaching legislators with the concept at the annual Water Matters! Fly In. In February 2012, AWWA released its "Buried No Longer: Confronting America's Water Infrastructure Challenge" report, which demonstrates that more than $1 trillion will be needed over the next 25 years to replace and expand aging drinking water infrastructure. Wastewater needs are similar in scope.
"The introduction of the Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act marks an important step forward in confronting America's urgent water infrastructure challenge," said AWWA Executive Director David LaFrance. "WIFIA would provide communities across the U.S. with access to low-cost capital to address their most significant water infrastructure needs, without adding to the long-term federal deficit. It would fill a significant gap between what current water infrastructure tools can do and what needs to be done."


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