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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- The Penn State alumna who oversees all advertising sales and market strategy for NBCUniversal will return to the University Park campus and provide the commencement address for the College of Communications at noon Saturday, May 10, in the Bryce Jordan Center.
Linda Yaccarino, who earned her bachelor's degree in telecommunications in 1985, serves as president of advertising sales for NBCUniversal. In that role, she oversees all advertising sales and market strategy for the company's broadcast, cable and digital properties.
She previously served as president of cable entertainment and digital advertising sales for NBCUniversal, where she was responsible for USA Network, Bravo Media, E! Entertainment, NBC.com and AccessHollywood.com, among others.
Before moving to NBCUniversal, Yaccarino was the executive vice president and COO of Turner Entertainment, handling advertising, sales, marketing and acquisitions. She was in charge of all advertising sales, marketing and program acquisitions for the company's television networks -- TNT, TBS and truTV -- as well as overseeing acquisitions for sister networks TCM and Cartoon Network.
Among her many industry honors, Yaccarino was recognized in 2011 by AdWeek as one of the "Ten Most Powerful Women in TV," and by Business Week as a "CEO of Tomorrow." Her community and professional affiliations include active involvement with Women in Cable & Telecommunications and Penn State. Yaccarino's support helped Success in the City -- the annual communications-specific job fair conducted by the College of Communications -- find a home in New York City. She also supports the communications program as a donor and volunteer.


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If a birth occurring in this state is not officially registered within the first year, a Delayed Certificate of Birth may be requested through the Texas Vital Statistics office.
A formal search must first be conducted to determine that the birth record is not on file. Submit an application or written request for a certified copy of the birth certificate, along with the fee of $22.00 to Vital Statistics in Austin.( For information on how to do this, please go to www.dshs.state.tx.us/vs/reqproc/certified_copy.shtm )
If a birth record is found, Vital Statistics will send a certified copy of the record. If record is not found, Vital Statistics will provide forms and instructions for filing a Delayed Certificate of Birth. Vital Statistics will retain the $22.00 as a search fee.
When accepted for filing, the Delayed Certificate of Birth form (VS-122) will become the original birth certificate. It must be completed neatly and legibly, signed before a notary public, and submitted along with the necessary supporting documentation to Vital Statistics in Austin. There are several acceptable forms of documentation, and they are explained in detail in the instructions provided. The cost for filing a Delayed Certificate of Birth is $25.00. Certified copies of the Delayed Certificate of Birth are $22.00 each.
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As NBA players sent messages of support to Ricky Rubio upon news of his ACL tear, Nuggets head coach George Karl showed his softer side by sporting an FC Barcelona shirt while meeting with the press yesterday. Karl's son Coby played with Rubio on Joventut Badalona after fizzling out in the NBA and escaping the D-League. Of course, FC Barcelona (the basketball team, that is) is actually a rival of Joventut Badalona, but sympathy can come in all shapes and sizes.
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Steve Daly & Tracklacers have just finished working with Pink on her new album, "The Truth About Love" producing the song "Where did the beat go" with Billy Mann and Pink.
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Behind the curtain three muscular men hung upside down on an ornate contraption suspended in mid-air. Pink, sustained by a bungee cord, seemingly sprung out of nowhere to sing "Raise Your Glass" as she swung up and down like a sling shot without a ball. The image was eye-popping. The crowd's approval was deafening.
Alecia Beth Moore, better known as Pink, performed for about two hours before a sold-out audience Friday night at American Airlines Center. Opening the show were Sweden's garage rockers the Hives who put on an energetic 40-minute set brimming with personality. Pink's "The Truth About Love Tour" stop mixed spectacle with intimacy, naughtiness with kiss-off humor and sophisticated acrobatics with seductive dancing. It was a superstar concert with all the trappings while underscoring the deserved appeal of a performer with raw talent and an everyday approachability.
It's easy to like Pink. Her rock-charged brand of pop-dance is radio ready, but it's anchored in wit and grit. She's got a pliable voice with lung power and melodic grace. She's unbelievably taut with abs of steel and an adventurous streak. She's got attitude, and no qualms about tossing a few expletives.
All of this makes her real even in the midst of an elaborate stage set-up that was part funhouse, sideshow and circus, as well as a slew of dancers with slickly choreographed moves and a barrage of costume changes. Pink plays the big ticket concert game without losing her inherent persona. When you have pop anthems titled "Just Like a Pill," "U + Ur Hand" and "Blow Me (One Last Kiss)" you obviously don't take yourself too seriously. She's even comfortable enough to line her 11 video screens with "Dork-O-Meter" pictures and call herself the queen of dorks.
But mostly Pink is an awesome performer. She defied gravity several more times including "Try" and "Sober." Each time my concert buddy and I wondered how much of her was singing live and how much of her pipes were pre-recorded. It can't be pitch perfect when you're spinning and bouncing on bungee cords. But if she did use some enhancement, she's got good reason. Pink is a natural. If this pop music thing ever dries up she's got a second career in Cirque du Soleil.
There is no question, though, that Pink was belting on real time during the moving "Family Portrait" and "Who Knew," the former featuring just her and a pianist while the latter consisted of her voice and an acoustic guitarist. She gave us a nod to her debut album with a medley of "Most Girls," "There You Go" and "You Make Me Sick." She even offered a gorgeous cover of Chris Isaak's "Wicked Game" that featured elegant choreography with three of her male dancers.
Yet Pink is all about the anthems. Sticking to much material from 2012′s The Truth About Love, the Pennsylvania native owned the platform on "We Are All We Are," "Walk of Shame" and "How Come You're Not Here." This time she had feet firmly planted on the ground, proving that she could entertain situated and levitated.
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Previewing the State of the Union's tech topics; data-driven campaigns go after the under-18 vote; open data activist Carl Malamud's renewed campaign to liberate the law; and much, much more. Read More
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Aaron Swartz, a leading activist for open information, internet freedom, and democracy, died at his own hand Friday January 11. He was 26 years old. There is no single comprehensive list of his good works, but here are some of them: At the age of 14 he co-authored the RSS 1.0 spec--taking brilliant advantage of the fact that internet working groups didn't care if someone was 14, they only cared if their code worked. Then he met Larry Lessig and worked closely with him on the early architecting of Creative Commons, an immense gift to all kinds of sharing of culture. He also was the architect and first coder of the Internet Archive's OpenLibrary.org, which now has made more than one million books freely available to anyone with an internet connection. "We couldn't have come this far without his crucial expertise," Open Library says on its about page. He also co-founded Reddit.com, the social news site, and Demand Progress, an online progressive action group that played a vital role in the anti-SOPA/PIPA fight. He also contributed occasionally to Personal Democracy Forum, writing this article on why wikis work and this essay on "parpolity" or the idea that nested councils of elected representatives could be used to represent a whole country, for our 2008 book, Rebooting America. He was a fellow traveler. Read More


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The USS Prometheus (NX-59650 / NX-74913) was a 24th century Federation Prometheus-class starship operated by Starfleet.
Prometheus was an experimental prototype designed for deep space tactical assignments and equipped with regenerative shields, ablative hull armor, and multi-vector assault mode. She was the fastest ship in Starfleet with a warp factor of 9.99 when she was launched from the Beta Antares Ship Yards on stardate 50749.5 in late 2373. The vessel was also equipped with holographic projectors on every deck, allowing its EMH Mark II free range of movement throughout the ship. The Prometheus was, at least, the second starship to bear the name.
Some time shortly after stardate 51462 in 2374, the Prometheus was hijacked by Romulans. During their escape aboard the ship, the Prometheus easily disabled the USS Bonchune when the Romulans decided to enable the multi-vector assault mode, for the first time, proving her potency as a combat vessel.
Coincidentally, during the hijacking the Prometheus received a subspace transmission from the USS Voyager, which was stranded in the Delta Quadrant over sixty thousand light years away. This transmission contained Voyager's Emergency Medical Hologram, who initially escaped detection by claiming to be the Prometheus' EMH, and also claiming that, as a doctor, he was neutral. Assisted by the Prometheus' EMH, The Doctor was able to regain control of the ship by knocking the Romulans out using neurozine gas (that, naturally, didn't affect the two holograms) and stop her from entering Romulan space. Despite their initial lack of understanding of the controls of the Prometheus, the two EMHs subsequently managed to destroy an opposing Romulan ship before the Prometheus was recovered by Starfleet. Following this, The Doctor spoke directly to Starfleet Headquarters about the fate of Voyager, before returning to his ship to assure them that they were no longer alone. (VOY: "Message in a Bottle")
In 2378, the Prometheus was stationed near the Sol system and dispatched by Admiral Owen Paris to a defensive point near an opening Borg transwarp aperture near Earth.
It opened fire on the emerging Borg sphere, and assisted in its destruction. Following the emergence of Voyager from the debris, the Prometheus escorted Voyager back to Earth. (VOY: "Endgame")
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↑ There was some confusion during the production of "Message in a Bottle" concerning the registry of the Prometheus. According to Michael Okuda, he had used the number NX-74913 on all of the internal displays and the ship's dedication plaque. However, the Foundation Imaging FX artists did not get the memo and used the number 59650 instead. Although Okuda's number did appear on screen, the Foundation number was much more prominent.
According to Star Trek: Communicator issue 152, the Prometheus was redesignated NX-74913 after stardate 51461, right before the date the Prometheus was hijacked by Romulans. This was probably stated to alleviate the registry confusion mentioned above. If this statement was correct, it would suggest that the crew of the Prometheus modified the interior of the ship to reflect the new registry number before the old one was changed on the hull. It would also suggest that the ship had the old registry removed completely by "Endgame". The Prometheus having such a low registry number was meant to show that the ship had been in development for a long time.
This ship is named after Prometheus, the Titan that stole fire from the gods to benefit man in Greek mythology.
The Prometheus is the namesake of the Star Trek: Prometheus novel series, in which the ship features prominently. Among the ship's crew in 2385 are Mendon, Chell, T'Shanik, Carson, and the EMH Mark II, retained by the crew out of personal affection despite the subsequent upgrades in the EMH program, now nicknamed "Tric" for his habit of always carrying a tricorder despite being able to conduct such scans by himself.
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The theme song for the movie is "I Want Candy." If the Easter Bunny heard my pleas, he would be placing books in those Easter baskets instead of candy! Perhaps Little, Brown Books for Young Readers heard my plea. Just in time for the HOP movie release, LB Kids has published five different tie-in books for various ages:
HOP: The Chapter Book by Annie Auerbach and Kirsten Mayer. LB Kids (February 2011); ISBN: 9780316129008; Paperback; 80 pages
Based on the film, the HOP chapter book covers the movie plot and features a few black and white illustrations from the movie. Of all the LB Kids tie-in books, this one does the best job telling the entire story of E.B.'s adventures in L.A. with Fred, and, later on, his fight to keep the chicks from taking over his father's factory.
HOP: Chicks Versus Bunnies by Kirsten Mayer. LB Kids (February 2011); ISBN: 9780316129039; Paperback; 24 pages
This tie-in book covers the very end of the movie. Led by head chick Carlos, the factory chicks try to take over the Easter Bunny's factory while his son, E.B., is away. As the chicks lower the Easter Bunny into a boiling vat of pink Easter egg dye, a large fight ensues. Luckily, the Easter Bunny has the Pink Berets and E.B. on his side. The back of the book contains a page of punch-out Easter egg holders.
HOP: Meet the Easter Bunny by Kirsten Mayer and Lucy Rosen. LB Kids (February 2011); ISBN: 9780316129015; Paperback; 32 pages
This beginner reader book follows E.B. (the Easter Bunny's son) as he takes a tour of Easter Island and the Easter Bunny's magical workshop. In the factory, all different kinds of candy run along conveyor lines, bunnies paint eggs and chicks carve chocolate bunnies. The Easter Bunny even has a fancy sled, just like Santa Claus. Will E.B. decide to take over his father's job? Find out in the book! My daughter tried to read this one on her own, but the level is just slightly above her kindergarten abilities with words like "interrupts" and destiny." She did, however, enjoy the search and find picture challenge.
Hoppy Bunnies: A HOP Movie Tie-In by Kirsten Mayer. LB Kids (February 2011); ISBN: 9780316128995; Board Book with Finger Puppets; 12 pages
Told in rhyming verse and beginning with the phrase, "Twas the night before Easter," this short board book provides an Easter version of The Night Before Christmas. For some reason, I never imagined the Easter Bunny delivering candy in a flying Easter sleigh, but according to this book, that is his preferred mode of transportation. The puppets in this book are like the ones found in the popular Despicable Me book, Sleepy Kittens. Unfortunately, unlike the kittens, the bunny puppets don't serve much of a function in the book.
Counting Chicks: A HOP Movie Tie-In by Kirsten Mayer. LB Kids (February 2011); ISBN: 9780316129046; Board Book; 12 pages
Easter chick Carlos narrates this small-sized board book. Along with Phil his assistant, kids are encouraged to count items (from one to ten) as they are placed into a large Easter basket. All the candy and eggs will make you hungry for an Easter treat. My toddler son prefers this book over all the others, but I do wish that the items in the book were a little bit larger so they were easier for little fingers to count.
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The Office of Marketing and Communications is located in Hopkins Hall. During the academic year, our office hours are 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Summer hours are 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. — On Thursday, April 19, St. Bonaventure University will observe Holocaust Remembrance Day with a memorial service at 7 p.m. in the university's chapel in Doyle Hall. The public is invited to attend.
Sr. Suzanne Kush, C.S.S.F, director of the Franciscan Center for Social Concern on campus, said the memorial service will not only aim to remember those who died during the Holocaust, but also to bring a sense of dignity and respect to all people.
"The service is really highlighting the individuals who have in some way lost their lives through the atrocities of World War II, as well as remembering those of various ethnic groups, countries and religious backgrounds who also suffered through the Holocaust," Sr. Suzanne said." The memorial service will include a reflection from University President Sr. Margaret Carney, O.S.F., who will reflect on Don Aldo Brunacci, a priest in Assisi who helped save many Jewish lives in Italy during World War II.
"Remembrance of the Holocaust, or Shoah, is important. Such remembrance guarantees that we are always on guard when faced with racism, prejudice, exclusion of human rights," said Sr. Margaret. "The slow descent into the hell of the genocide of World War II took people along the slide into cooperation because it was slow, by degrees, and created a sense of denial. This allowed otherwise decent people to become complacent and complicit. For that reason, these memorials awaken our consciences to see the dangers in new invitations to marginalize those we fear or whose beliefs differ from our own."
Also speaking during the service will be Joseph Diamond, a Holocaust survivor.
Aside from speakers, various members of the community will light seven candles at the service — each one representing individuals and groups of individuals who died during the Holocaust.
"St. Bonaventure University has a long tradition of multi-faith outreach and indeed the Franciscans in Assisi were involved in saving so many Jews during the Holocaust itself. It is so fitting, therefore, to have St. Bonaventure and the surrounding community be a source of education, remembrance and inclusion for all 11 million men, women and children who died during this heartbreaking time. We are thankful of the expression of love, respect and solidarity," said Lana D. Benatovich, a member of the university's Board of Trustees and president of the National Federation for Just Communities of Western New York.
St. Bonaventure sophomore Simone Bernstein and senior Mike Kaplan are helping to organize the remembrance.
"As one of a handful of Jewish students on campus, I wanted to organize a meaningful and educational experience for students to help them understand the impact of the Holocaust. It's important to showcase the impact of the Holocaust so people never forget nor allow it to happen again. Through this Holocaust Remembrance Service, we are remembering those who survived, suffered and fought for their lives," said Bernstein.
Although the Holocaust is a painful era of human history, Kaplan said it is a tragedy that must not be forgotten.
"It is a time that is most remembered as a failure of our species to respect and cherish each other, but often forgotten are the powerful stories of selflessness. On this night we mourn the tragedy of inhuman crimes, but we also celebrate the righteousness of men and woman who bravely stood then, as well as those who stand today, in their attempts to protect the marginalized men and woman of the world," said Kaplan.
Fr. Francis Di Spigno, O.F.M., executive director of University Ministries at St. Bonaventure, said the memorial service is important because it ties in with the university's Franciscan tradition.
"As a Franciscan university, one of the main charisms of Franciscans is to be bridge builders. (Saint) Francis did that in his life," Fr. Francis said. "I think it's really important that we as a university mark what is one of the most horrific events perpetrated to the human race … as an opportunity to recognize our uniqueness, our thisness, each person has, as well as each religion, each denomination, each community."
Fr. Francis hopes the service will not only heal but also bring about conversation and thought about how peace can be brought to the world today.
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.... share her message of peace and find an emotional lift from her lyrics and melodies.
It's another 12-hour day on the set for her music video. Set designers, producers, hair and makeup artists … all scramble under the bright studio lights. Their mission: to help Ivy, who is diagnosed with brain cancer, create a lasting artistic work … to grant her one true wish.
Recording Ivy's music video will take two days in the studio photo credit: John Hollingworth
Ivy wrote and recorded "At Ease" before her diagnosis photo credit: John Hollingworth
"At Ease" is a song about world peace photo credit: John Hollingworth
Ivy selected former wish kid Milton to play the soldier's role photo credit: John Hollingworth
For Ivy, the video shoot begins in the dressing room photo credit: John Hollingworth
After securing the wig, the styling begins photo credit: John Hollingworth
Milton reviews the storyboard. photo credit: John Hollingworth
Ivy arrives on-set for her performance photo credit: John Hollingworth
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Ivy performs her song several times for different camera angles photo credit: John Hollingworth
One more angle captures her performance in profile photo credit: John Hollingworth
Soldier Milton materializes at the one-minute mark photo credit: John Hollingworth
A costume change has Ivy dress in 1940s attire photo credit: John Hollingworth
Ivy loves the '40s photo credit: John Hollingworth
The director, Edwon, reviews the final scenes with Ivy photo credit: John Hollingworth
Ivy and Milton rehearse their walk in front of a blue screen photo credit: John Hollingworth
With post-production editing, 1940s-vintage Ivy and her soldier will walk in front of guitar-playing Ivy photo credit: John Hollingworth
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Be a part of Ivy's wish. Watch her music video and share it photo credit: John Hollingworth
Ivy's desire never falters during the long hours of work as her wish comes true. She participates in every step to turn her song, "At Ease," into a professional-caliber music video. One of her teachers who went to war in the Middle East inspired her to write the lyrics. Ivy's creative vision drives every aspect of the production, right down to its 1940s-inspired visual flare. The music? She wrote and recorded it before she was diagnosed with brain cancer.
Just getting to Seattle to have her wish granted is a tribute to her attitude. To be here, Ivy measured her progress in standing up out of her wheelchair, taking a few more steps than she did the previous day, reclaiming her guitar chops.
The work comes to fruition when more than 200 people join her at Seattle's EMP Museum for the video premier of "At Ease." Her success continues today, with the song available on iTunes.
Ivy's wish come true still inspires others – and Ivy herself. She knows people around the world can share her message of peace and find an emotional lift from her lyrics and melodies. And that gives her extra motivation to stay positive as she battles brain cancer.
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The heart displayed in the video is inspiring. That she wanted to sing a song about world peace is, in itself, very telling. To allow yourself to be that vulnerable is no easy thing, given her current battle. God Bless you, Ivy. For those of us who are songwriters you set the bar a little bit higher, I think. We can all learn something from your example.
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Beautiful Ivy. Your song sends a strong message and it's crystal clear that you're one heck of a special kid....
February 08, 2012 - 8:45 PM
Ivy-- I work at an Applebee's in New York State. I am young and don't have a lot to give, but through work I am able to ask for donations. I just wanted to let you know that I was especially inspired by you and your story. Your song impressed me and the theme was amazing. Shine on, Ivy.
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June 25, 2012 - 11:25 AM
Ivy, very inspiring... God bless your soul.
May 17, 2013 - 10:11 PM
You have a beautiful voice & wonderful talent!!!!
June 07, 2013 - 2:38 PM
chris p.
I feel at ease. Very spiritual. Love it !
June 07, 2013 - 8:34 PM
Ivy i just cant tell you how impressed I am what i mean by that is that i am 12 and i watch your video every single day I am very inspired and you keep staying strong.
May 15, 2014 - 8:26 AM
Beautiful music, Ivy, and I love the 1940s vibe!
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Despite the already high factory overclock (147MHz over reference 925MHz) 650 Ti SSC can be overclocked even further. Additional 50MHz may not sound that impressive, but giving the memory a 150MHz boost gave a 7 percent performance bump. Although memory specs say 1500MHz, EVGA decided to stick with the reference 1350MHz.


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Rusty is just the color you'd expect a dachshund named "Rusty" to be, a handsome shiny red. He was normally a happy 8-month-old puppy, full of energy and bouncing off the walls. However, in the last few days he'd been mopey and refused to eat. Although Rusty's owners didn't have dog insurance for Rusty, they were worried and decided to make an appointment at the veterinary clinic.
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A normal canine Complete Blood Count, or CBC has about 40% red blood cells, and the rest is serum or plasma. Rusty had just 11% cells, indicating he was severely and life-threateningly anemic. In an animal with anemia, or low numbers of red blood cells, there are only three ways this occurs: the animal's bone marrow isn't producing the blood cells, the blood cells are being destroyed by something, like the immune system, or the animal is bleeding somewhere.
After additional questioning, the owners mentioned they had a rodent problem and last week had put rat poison down. In fact, they were pretty sure they had seen Rusty eat some. It was then I determined Rusty was suffering from rodenticide toxicity, a fatal disease if left untreated. Rusty's red blood cells numbers were low because he was bleeding internally.
Rodenticides are chemicals used to kill mice, rats, moles, gophers and other vermin. They have been available in the US for decades and are available in several formulations with blue or green pellets or paraffin blocks being the most common. While many contain bittering agents to prevent accidental ingestion by children, these agents have limited effectiveness in animals.
The reason rat poison works is that it is an anti-coagulant; it inhibits the blood's ability to clot. Clotting is important for everyday life and prevents you for bleeding when bumped, or with normal cell turnover.
Anticoagulant rodenticides stop the liver's ability to produce vitamin K, which is crucial to the production of several coagulation factors. This takes several days to deplete; therefore clinical signs of toxicity, such as bleeding can take days to happen. When clinical signs do occur, everyday things that would normally result in a bruise or other small insignificant problem can turn into life-threatening bleeding situation.
Patients may present bleeding almost anywhere, from the nose, in the lungs, into the eyes, GI tract, heart sac or bladder, to name a few. Because Rusty's owners hadn't actually seen any bleeding, it was thought that his bleeding was likely internal. After they were told the gravity of the situation, Rusty's owners agreed to having him hospitalized for treatment.
If he had been brought immediately to the clinic after ingesting the rat poison, treatment would generally be straight forward and consist of inducing vomit, administering activated charcoal to 'soak up' any left over toxins to prevent absorption, and supplementing vitamin K for three weeks until any toxin is officially out of the body.
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text: Korean Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - What's the best foreign language class you've ever seen? Speak Korean Now! Korean Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in What's the best foreign language class you've ever seen? Korean Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Job-related Discussion Forum View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message tomatoJoined: 31 Jan 2003Location: I get so little foreign language experience, I must be in Koreatown, Los Angeles. Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2003 8:00 pm Post subject: What's the best foreign language class you've ever seen? I have two questions: Number one: What's the best foreign language class you've ever seen? Number two: What can you learn from the example? The best foreign language class I've ever seen was my own first-year French class in high school. It centered around conversation and never involved grammar until the last couple of months. We had all our classes together, so there was a great deal of esprit de corps. We spoke French to each other throughout the day. We borrowed pencils and erasers, we made fun of the teachers, and we teased and insulted each other in French. Ever since I came to Korea, I have wanted to create such an environment for my own students. But I've been here for three years and the students are still saying, "Teacher, hwajangshil." Perhaps the greatest factor is that my high school peers and I saw each other all day whereas my hagwan students don't. The best I can do, then, is to manipulate the students' home environment. I shall try giving weekly handout sheets containing a few questions or sentences which the students are to practice, along with a note to the parents asking them to involve these questions or sentences in English conversation at home. I know someone who has tried something like this and it worked. Any comments? Back to top AMERICAN HEROJoined: 03 Feb 2003Location: Najaf Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2003 4:49 pm Post subject: Here is a great website for questions. Maybe you can use some of the question lists. http://iteslj.org/questions/ Back to top mokpochicaJoined: 21 Jan 2003Location: Ann Arbor, MI Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2003 7:04 pm Post subject: good foreign language classes I think the size of the class is definitely a factor. And the amount of time the class meets. For foreign language classes I prefer the 1 hour a day schedule (rather than 2 hours, 3 times a week, i.e. block scheduling). I was fortunate enough to work in a school that had really small class sizes (biggest was 19 students, smallest was 5) and a great foreign language program. The students started the FL (Spanish in this case) in grade 6. From this grade on, almost the entire class was taught in Spanish (very important to me..and I've seen it can be done!). By the time I had the kids for HS Spanish III, IV AP and V, they were speaking and writing at an incredible level in Spanish. I think the reason this school's language program was so effective involved many factors. One was that they did a good job of matching up the right teachers with the right levels. The 6th and 7th grade teachers were the kind that were very clear in their explanations and had very structured classes. They spoke slowly (and corrrectly!) in the target language, but not so that you would feel stupid. The higher level teachers offered the kids more freedom and challenged them more with creative assignments where they could inject a little more of their own personalities. This school and its teachers also encouraged students to work a lot outside of the class. I think this is key. The kids had guided homework when they were younger. As they got older, they had assignments like watching Spanish TV, reading newspapers. Many even had community service projects which utilized their language skills. The majority of students took a real responsibility with their language learning--and with those that didn't there was a huge difference. These teachers also did a good job of focusing on all of the aspects of learning a language: reading, writing, speaking, listening. I think speaking and listening were empasized the most at the lower levels (but reading and writing were not ignored). As time went on, these different skills got about equal time. Starting the kids at an earlier level is a big thing too. For one, they are often less resistant than older learners to using L2 entirely or almost entirely in class. Also, learning a language in a classroom isn't ever going to be a perfectly natural situation. However, I think the earlier a kid starts, the more 'natural' the learning process can be. I am thinking specifically of the order a kid will learn and use new vocabulary. Also, word games and games in general to practice language tend to be more popular with kids than older learners. Older learners often want to know 'why?' language is the way it is and study grammar, syntax, etc. before they have a good grasp of the language--they can be very analytical. If kids start learning a language young, they absorb things more easily and tend not to translate between language 1 and L2--or compare things between the two as much. (It can be a real pain when older students expect the rules of language 1 to directly translate into language 2---or just feel that there are 'direct translations' in general. I know because I used to be one of those people!) These are just some thoughts I have. There are a lot of things that make a foreign language classroom a successful classroom. 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Quentin Tarantino's latest movie, "Django Unchained," about a slave-turned-bounty hunter, doesn't shy away from violence and language, including 110 uses of the N-word –- something the cast had to come to grips with while filming.
"These characters use the N-word because that's what people said back then, and again if you don't understand how ugly the time is, you don't understand how bad--- [Django] is to get through this time," Kerry Washington told Access Hollywood's Michelle Beadle, referencing Jamie Foxx's Django character.
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"There were days when hearing that N-word over and over again would start to get a little uncomfortable and Jaime and I had these imaginary shields… we'd roll up our n-word shield," she explained.
Leonardo DiCaprio, who plays plantation owner Calvin Candie, uses the word most often, but had trouble going there, according to his co-stars.
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"I think that what Quentin wanted to do was really let you know how it really was [during this time] and you're not supposed to feel good about it," Foxx said.
Foxx said co-star Samuel L. Jackson helped motivate DiCaprio to immerse himself in the character and his language.
"When Leo goes, 'Buddy, I'm having a tough time with these words' and then… Samuel Jackson [told him] 'It's just another Tuesday for us, get over that.' And I told Leo, if you don't go there then we don't have a story. So the next day he walked [and] he didn't even speak to me," the actor recalled.
Foxx added, "We knew we had to go to a bad place and when I talked to black people about the film and they say they were bothered by the N-word, I said, 'It's supposed to, it's supposed to bother you. Those horrific things that happened to us, is supposed to bother you.'"
Despite the film's intensity, Washington stressed the film isn't just a painful look at a horrific time in our history.
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"This film is the full ride… you will absolutely laugh, you will cry, you will be afraid, you will fall in love. You get the whole shebang," she told Access.
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The love is right around 34th place right now.sacagawea wrote:Cutting to the chase, Cistercian played with its full team from last year's HSNCT for the first time this year. This same team will be playing at both PACE NSC and HSNCT. In our full truly full strength tournament, we soundly beat the 25th ranked team (St. Marks) soundly, thrice. Additionally, we out-convert them on bonuses (23.69 to 22.48). Further, we destroy them in 15pg (5.5 to 4.4) despite having to play the top team in the nation (LASA A) thrice (oh, and the 25th team in the nation thrice, playing 50% of our games against top 25 teams). Now, to quote Stephanie Ferguson, I ask, "Where is the Love?"
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Ladies and gentlefolk, I give you the two-thousand and eight PHP Advent Calendar!
As an aside in a season that gets rudely interrupted every year with a huge, great party, the PHP Advent Calendar is adding to the fray. Some of the denizens of PHP are sharing their wisdom from a beat-up old soap box in our quiet, geeky corner of the Web.
The entire project was launched in a mad, two-day rush, which featured the guys with real talent setting up the server, propagating the DNS, and gathering the initial content. A couple of days after the first article, for my sins, I applied some style to the interface. Twenty-four hours of key-smacking later — and with a good dose of help from the indomitable Jon Gibbins — it was done.
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As always, the content was king, queen, barkeep and god: I veered away from images as decoration, considering them unnecessary. I hope nothing overshadows the reading experience. With that in mind the interface is fluid, with a minimum width to stop it all collapsing into a narrow abyss. Most significantly though, the content is genuinely interesting. There are some choice pieces over there, and if you're interested in PHP at all, swing by, grab the feed, or follow 'phpadvent' Twitter for fast updates.


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The cabinet ministers in Nova Scotia will no longer be allowed to cruise around in government-paid vehicles after one teenage son of a cabinet minister crashed a 2008 Ford Escape hybrid likely doing something very un-green-like. It turned into a bit of a messy he-said she-said as the cabinet member, Judy Streatch, said she was given verbal permission to allow her son to drive the vehicle, but not written permission, which was previously required by the cabinet.
Thanks to this hoon son, who put the Escape in a ditch on the way to "get ice cream," cabinet ministers will have to buy their own vehicles, but still be allowed to claim mileage when using the vehicle for government purposes only. Take that, Canada! Now if only we can get Rep. Slaughter to give back her Lucerne. (h/t Acidic)[CBC]


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PUBLISHED, 11:25 AM ET - Former Republican Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana had tough words for his party, his primary opponent who defeated him last cycle but went on to lose in the fall to a Democrat, and opponents of ex-Sen. Chuck Hagel, President Obama's nominee for defense secretary.
Lugar, who had been chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and served with Hagel on the committee, said the former Nebraska senator's positions were "legitimately held" and are now being "selectively pulled out of context," he told NBC's Chuck Todd on MSNBC's The Daily Rundown. That's something Lugar called "unfortunate and unfair."
The Daily Rundown's Chuck Todd takes a "deep dive" look into former Sen. Dick Lugar's recent parting comments on partisanship and Republicans in Congress. Lugar joins The Daily Rundown to discuss.
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Lugar declined to criticize Richard Mourdock, his primary opponent, by name or say if the right person won in the Indiana Senate race. Mourdock and Democrat Joe Donnelly had been in what appeared to be a 50-50 race until Mourdock said that if a woman was raped it was "something that God intended to happen."
But, Lugar did say, "My opponent made some very egregious errors," emphasizing that Mourdock's performance was a drag on Republicans up and down the ballot, including on newly elected Republican Gov. Mike Pence, whom Lugar said would have likely won by more.
"There were consequences to the Senate situation," Lugar said.
As for his own campaign, Lugar said, "I have no regrets." But he added that low turnout in the primary is what doomed him. "That was my problem," he said. "We needed to get our votes out."
Lugar praised President Obama, calling his State of the Union address "comprehensive" and describing the president as someone "who really does have a unifying spirit."
But he knocked down speculation that he had wanted to serve in the Obama administration and said the president needed reach out more to members of Congress on important issues, like the budget.
"The fact is," Lugar said, "I did not want to serve in the Obama administration. I did not want to be an appointed official."
And: "I did receive a few invitations [to the White House] and appreciated those opportunities. Nevertheless, there was very little of it."


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st: Re: st: Re: st: Re: st: Re: st: Re: st: Re: st: RE: Truncated sample or Heckman selection
Nick Cox <firstname.lastname@example.com>
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Fri, 5 Oct 2012 17:51:32 +0100
Much of the point of this thread is that those answering you
_disagree_ on certain key things and are at least in part_unclear_ on
your situation.
I already said "If you are expecting that Statalist can act as a
collective oracle that can tell you the _correct_ thing to do in your
project, that is I suggest more than the list can deliver."
So, you still think you can get definitive advice out of us?
0. What do your advisors/supervisors/colleagues say who know more
about your dataset and objectives?
1. I think that's overstating it. It just sounds like a natural model
but no-one has access to your data or awareness of your full
objectives to be able to say how well it will work.
2. That's overstating it too. Whether you _need_ to do Heckman is your
3. I don't know what this means. See #0.
4. You need to try it. Answering this question would mean going back
to Stata 10 and looking at the documentation and I can't answer off
the top of my head. (As you didn't say, contrary to advice, that you
are using an old version of Stata, no-one will have been thinking
about that.)
5. I don't see why not in principle, but you may need to write a
program in practice. All depends on how the panel aspect is handled.
On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 5:38 PM, Ebru Ozturk <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:
> Thank you very much for your help. I just would like to make sure that I understand you correctly. Also I am here to learn so please forgive me for asking many questions.
> 1. I restrict sample to innovating firms and the dependent variables that I am interested in are percentages therefore, you agree on that I should use fractional logit model.
> 2. I do not need to do Heckman sample selection even though I restrict my sample. I also want to mention that yes I do not have some Xs but I still do have other Xs for non-innovators which I use them as control variables.
> 3. Do you think using a different model puts me trouble?
> 4. I use Stata 10 so can I use fractional logit model?
> 5. What about if I have a panel data? Is fractional logit model still applicable?
> Ebru
> ----------------------------------------
>> Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2012 16:21:40 +0100
>> Subject: st: Re: st: Re: st: Re: st: Re: st: Re: st: RE: Truncated sample or Heckman selection
>> From: email@example.com
>> To: email@example.com
>> Isn't this the same question?
>> It seems to me that you have two issues, which are independent of each other.
>> 1. Your response is bounded [0,1] or [0,100], dependent on units.
>> Joerg, Maarten and I all seem to agree that this is not censoring in
>> any strong sense, as values outside the bounds are impossible in
>> principle. Thus we don't think that tobit makes sense here.
>> Daniel's argument appears to be that there is a important sense in
>> which this can be considered as censoring. Thus he seems more open to
>> the idea that tobit makes sense.
>> This is not an election and what is right is not determined by
>> counting votes. As I don't understand Daniel's argument I certainly
>> can't refute it.
>> Personally I pay little attention to what's popular in the literature
>> if I think it's wrong. It's good news for me: I have a chance to try
>> to improve practice.
>> 2. There is a question of what determines which firms do and which do
>> not innovate. This is interesting and important and you should model
>> it _if you have data to do so_. In your earliest posts in this thread,
>> you seemed (to me at least) to imply that you have no other data on
>> non-innovating firms with which to model selection, but you should
>> know.
>> This is just my summary. The others who have contributed to the thread
>> may want to correct or complement it. Other people of course may have
>> other views.
>> If you are expecting that Statalist can act as a collective oracle
>> that can tell you the _correct_ thing to do in your project, that is I
>> suggest more than the list can deliver.
>> Nick
>> On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 3:29 PM, Ebru Ozturk <email@example.com> wrote:
>> > My question was whether I should use Heckman sample selection as I restricted my sample to innovating firms only.
>> >
>> > After discussing with you, I also confused as I said before many papers used tobit regression and did Heckman correction and never seen fractional logit model in these papers such as Grimpe & Kaiser, (2010); Cassiman & Veugelers, (2006).
>> >
>> > These papers are saying that, the data is left censored as it includes many zeros. Also when I search for fractional logit model it says it is bounded between 0 and 1 but my dependent variable includes for instance, 0, 11, 13, 15, 25 values and so on.
>> >
>> > Maybe I am not very good at statistics but when I read papers they use tobit regression. Whey then?
>> >
>> > Ebru
>> >
>> > ----------------------------------------
>> >> Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2012 15:02:22 +0200
>> >> Subject: st: Re: st: Re: st: Re: st: Re: st: RE: Truncated sample or Heckman selection
>> >> From: firstname.lastname@example.com
>> >> To: email@example.com
>> >>
>> >> On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Ebru Ozturk <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:
>> >> > I think there is a misunderstanding here. Yes, I have valid and meaningful values on my explanatory variables but when I restrict the sample to innovating firms. By restricting the sample I just exclude the firms that no activity toward innovation at all which I am not interested in them. So, in the restricted sample I can also observe Xs for 0s as my dependent variables are radical and incremental innovation.
>> >> >
>> >> > I hope it is clear now.
>> >>
>> >> Now I really don't understand your problem: Is it that you have a
>> >> dependent variable that is a proportion and some of these proportions
>> >> are 0? Than just use a fractional logit model (just -glm- with the
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>> >> neither -tobit- nor -heckman- are appropriate nor is there any
>> >> truncation going on.
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Ericsson Helps Students Prepare for Job Interviews
UT Dallas freshman Felipe Gaspar felt nervous before his first mock interview with Ericsson recruiter Trent Owens.
Thirty minutes later, he left the interview, exuding more confidence.
"It's a first-time experience, so you've just got to get used to it," Gaspar said. "Once you're in there, you start thinking, 'Oh, it's not that bad.'"
Gaspar was among 24 Academic Bridge students who recently participated in mock interviews and resume reviews conducted by Ericsson, an international provider of communications technology and services, and a longtime supporter of UT Dallas.
This year, the company contributed $20,000 to the Academic Bridge program to cover tuition, fees, books, tutoring and housing. Last fall, Ericsson also hosted Academic Bridge students at its Plano office, where they received tips about interviews and resume development. They also heard from former Academic Bridge students who now work for the company.
"I think in the business world today, the emphasis on communication has become so important in being able to not just have the technical skills, but to have the business skills."
Trent Owens,
university relations program manager,
The Academic Bridge Program (ABP) seeks to attract, support, and retain students who graduate from Dallas-area urban high schools with high class rankings, but without having completed the full university-track curriculum.
Ericsson recruiters who led the interviews included Owens, Sara Farinacci, Michael Herman and Leslie Singleton. "Ask us anything you want to ask so when you really are in an interview or in front of your future employer, then you know what's appropriate to ask and what's not," Farinacci told the students. "You are very confident in your presentation skills of yourself and, more so, you're very confident in you as an individual and the skills that you're bringing to the table."
Owens said he spoke to students about viewing the interview as a conversation between both parties and an opportunity for students to refine their communication skills.
"I think in the business world today, the emphasis on communication has become so important in being able to not just have the technical skills, but to have the business skills," he said. "To be able to talk to customers and do presentations and be a team player and understand what that means, and being able to communicate with others."
Owens said he was impressed with the turnout especially among the freshmen.
"That's good to see them take that initiative, wanting to know early in their college career what they need to do to be successful beyond college," Owens said. "They're just now getting their feet wet in college, but to be already taking the initiative to say 'Hey, I want to be successful in the business world and what will I have to do.'"
Gaspar said he didn't want to pass up the opportunity to do the mock interview.
"I don't want to regret anything, so I'm taking advantage of all the resources I have here," he said. "This program (Academic Bridge) is going to help me a lot, so I'm grateful for that."
Ericsson has been a steady supporter of UT Dallas since 1987, when its gift to create the Lars Magnus Ericsson Chair in Electrical Engineering helped launch the Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science.
"Ericsson's endowed chairs and professorships, fellowships and scholarships help us attract and retain top faculty and students," said Michael DeFrank, UT Dallas Assistant Vice President for Corporate and Foundation Relations. "Distinguished lectures by Ericsson's technical and management leaders, Executive Link briefings for our MBA students, support of our centers and institutes, service on our school advisory councils, and the recent Academic Bridge Program are just some of the ways Ericsson's engagement with UT Dallas supports our academic programs and initiatives."
Academic Bridge student Sarah Larson (left) confers with Ericsson's Leslie Singleton, who volunteered as an advisor.
Students Yenely Tovar and Felipe Gaspar participated in the training.
Ericsson recruiter Sara Farinacci coached student Evi Ho.
Media Contact: The Office of Media Relations, UT Dallas, (972) 883-2155, [email protected].


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Less than five miles from Charlottesville is a largely undiscovered gem, Carter Mountain Orchard. Open now through Thanksgiving, this family-run business sells, as the name suggests, apples, pre-picked, or for even more fun, you can pick your own. With over 15 varieties of apples to choose from, you can also buy apple pies, apple cider, apple doughnuts, pumpkins, wine, and country crafts.
This past weekend, October 12 and 13, marked the orchard's Apple Harvest Festival, complete with live music and plenty of other old-fashioned fun. Families had a big time, with kids in tow, hefting apple-picking poles and bags bulging with apples.
When one parent told her son he could pick one more apple, I heard him say, "Okay, I'm gonna pick the best one in the whole orchard!" I bet he did.
While the festival is over, you can still go up to Carter Mountain and get your delicious apples or Halloween pumpkins any day of the week, or take a hayride on the weekends through October.


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The North Carolina Writers' Network and the Center for Creative Writing in the Arts bring you a full day of workshops on the campus of the University of North Carolina-Greensboro. We're giving you more of what you've asked for -- small classes, top writing faculty, and intensive workshops in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, screenwriting, and publishing.
Keynote: Fred Chappell
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*online registration closed. Walk in registration available on Saturday, April 24th.
Spring Conference 2010 is made possible with support from the Center for Creative Writing in the Arts, UNC-Greensboro, and the North Carolina Arts Council.
Conference Classes
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*online registration closed. Walk in registration available on Saturday, April 24th.
- The Story and the Other Story: Getting at Fictional Subtext with Holly Goddard Jones (Fiction) *this session is closed*
- The Well-Crafted Essay with Cynthia Nearman (Nonfiction)
Intensive Half-Day Workshops with
- Chris Roerden (fiction)
- Nathan Ross Freeman (screenwriting)
- Keith Flynn (poetry)
- Malcolm Campbell (nonfiction)
- John McNally (fiction)
- Scott Owens (poetry)
- Sheila Smith McKoy (all genres)
- Ed Southern (nonfiction)
Choose one of the all-day workshops, which meet in the morning and resume after lunch.
Choose from among the half-day workshops and select one class for the morning session and another class for the afternoon session.
Either way,
- Registration from 8:00 - 9:00 am
- Morning sessions from 9:00 - 10:30 am
- Keynote Reading from 10:45 - 11:45 *Open to the Public!
- Lunch with an Author! - Keep the conversations going 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- Faculty Readings 1:00 - 2:00 pm
- Afternoon sessions from 2:30 - 4:00 pm
- Publishing Panel from 4:00 - 5:00 pm *Open to the Public!
- Open-Mike readings, 5:00 - 6:00 pm
- Publisher Exhibits open all day
See the full schedule for more information about the day's activities.
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*online registration closed. Walk in registration available on Saturday, April 24th.
Early registration ends Friday, April 16. Members may register on-site April 24 for $135.
Early registration:
|On-site registration as a walk-in:
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Cancellations must be made in writing and arrive at the Network office by 4 pm, Friday, April 16, for you to receive a 50% refund. Send request to NC Writers' Network, Box 954, Carrboro, NC 27510.
No refunds for cancellations received after April 15 or for no-shows.
Nearby Hotels
For favorable rates at the following hotels, mention that you are attending an event at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro.
- Greensboro Marriott, Downtown, www.marriott.com/gsodt
- Troy-Bumpas Inn Bed and Breakfast, www.troy-bumpasinn.com
Faculty Biographies: Spring Conference 2010
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|In 2004, Fred Chappell retired after forty years in the English department of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. During this time he published twenty-six books of poetry, fiction, and critical commentary. His awards include the Sir Walter Raleigh Prize, the North Carolina Award in Literature, the T. S. Eliot Prize, the Bollingen Prize in Poetry, eight Roanoke-Chowan Poetry Awards, the Prix de Meilleur des Livres Etrangers (Best Foreign Book Prize) from the Academie Francaise, the Mihai Eminescu Medal from the Republic of Moldova, and the Thomas Wolfe Prize. He was inducted into the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame in 2006. He served as North Carolina's Poet Laureate from 1997 until 2002, and in that capacity visited more than 250 schools, colleges, universities, retirement homes, churches, and other venues. His latest book of poetry is Shadow Box, published in 2009 by LSU Press. His latest work of fiction, Ancestors and Others: New and Selected Stories, was published last year by St. Martin's Press. He lives with his wife, Susan, in Greensboro.
Spring Conference Faculty
Malcolm Campbell is the author of two adventure travel guidebooks, editor of professional golf instructor Dana Rader's golf instructional book, Rock Solid Golf, and founder of the independent publishing house Walkabout Press. In Campbell's twenty years as a commercial writer, he's written everything from power-tool-accessory catalogues to television commercials to cover/feature stories for national magazines. Campbell is the 2008 recipient of the Doris Betts Fiction Prize, and he teaches in UNC Charlotte's freshman writing program.
Keith Flynn (www.keithflynn.net) is the author of five books, including four collections of poetry: The Talking Drum (1991), The Book of Monsters (1994), The Lost Sea (2000), and The Golden Ratio (Iris Press, 2007), and a collection of essays, entitled The Rhythm Method, Razzmatazz and Memory: How To Make Your Poetry Swing (Writer's Digest Books, 2007). From 1987 to 1998, he was lyricist and lead singer for the nationally acclaimed rock band The Crystal Zoo. His poetry has appeared in many journals and anthologies around the world, including the Colorado Review, Poetry Wales, The Cuirt Journal (Ireland), Takahe (New Zealand), the Southern Poetry Review, Margie, Rattle, Shenandoah, Word and Witness: 100 Years of NC Poetry, Crazyhorse, and many others. He has been awarded the Sandburg Prize for poetry, the ASCAP Emerging Songwriter Prize, and the Paumanok Poetry Award and was twice named the Gilbert-Chappell Distinguished Poet for North Carolina. Flynn is founder and managing editor of the Asheville Poetry Review. For more information, please visit //www.ashevillereview.com.
|Award-winning scriptwriter, filmmaker, and creative writing and spoken-word educator Nathan Ross Freeman was awarded 2007 B.E.S.T. Outstanding Faculty as a member of the intensive writing faculty teaching screenwriting/playwriting at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He was the 2008–09 visiting writer at Salem College teaching upper-level screenwriting, introduction and intermediate poetry, and creative writing. Freeman was a finalist adjudicator for the 2009 North Carolina Arts Council Playwright/Screenwriter Fellowship. He is the writer, director, and producer of the feature film Mr. Bones, which earned five invitations and won five first-place national and international film festival awards. Freeman is the compiler and editor for the feature documentary Authoring Action, selected by ten U.S. and eight overseas 2010 pending national and international film festivals.
Holly Goddard Jones is the author of Girl Trouble (Harper Perennial), a collection of short stories. Her fiction has appeared in Best American Mystery Stories, New Stories from the South, and various literary journals. She teaches in the MFA program in creative writing at UNC Greensboro.
Sheila Smith McKoy is a native of Raleigh. She has taught in a variety of educational environments, including St. Augustine's College, Duke University, North Carolina State University, the North Carolina Correctional Center for Women, and Vanderbilt University, where she received tenure. Smith McKoy's critical and creative work hasappeared in numerous publications, including the critically acclaimed Schomburg series African American Women Writers 1910–1940, Callaloo, Mythium, Obsidian, and Research for African Literatures. Her book, When Whites Riot: Writing Race and Violence in American and South African Cultures (University of Wisconsin Press, 2001) has received critical attention in the United States and in South Africa. The book was the featured topic of an interview on Cape Town's Bush Radio (2001) and was the subject of a National Public Television interview on John Seigenthaler's A Word on Words (2003). Currently an associate professor of English at NCSU, Smith McKoy directs the Africana Studies Program and is the editor of Obsidian: Literature in the African Diaspora. She writes critical essays, fiction, and poetry and is a Reiki master/teacher.
|John McNally is author of three novels (After the Workshop, America's Report Card, and The Book of Ralph) and two story collections (Ghosts of Chicago and Troublemakers). His nonfiction book, The Creative Writer's Survival Guide: Advice from an Unrepentant Novelist, will be published this fall by the University of Iowa Press. He is an associate professor at Wake Forest University.
|Cynthia Nearman has been the writing director at Guilford College in Greensboro since 2004. She teaches first-year writing, creative nonfiction, travel writing, rhetoric and composition, and contemporary American literature. Since spring 2009 she has served as creative nonfiction editor of storySouth. As a writer she works in various genres—academic scholarship, cultural commentary, and personal essays—focusing mostly on things like literacy, racism, and love. Her husband is a magician, and they live in a happy little cottage with their two yellow dogs and one bossy cat.
Author of five collections of poetry, Scott Owens is editor of Wild Goose Poetry Review, author of "Musings" (a weekly column on poetry), founder of Poetry Hickory, vice president of the Poetry Council of North Carolina, and a writer of reviews of contemporary poetry. His work has received awards from the Pushcart Prize Anthology, the Academy of American Poets, the North Carolina Writers' Network, the North Carolina Poetry Society, and the Poetry Society of South Carolina. Born in Greenwood, South Carolina, he has lived in North Carolina for the past twenty-five years and currently teaches at Catawba Valley Community College.
|In her forty-four years in publishing, Chris Roerden has edited authors published by St. Martin's, Berkley Prime Crime, Intrigue, Rodale, Viking, Midnight Ink, and many others. She's also written a game and eleven books, including two national-award winners to help writers get published: Don't Murder Your Mystery(Agatha Award) andDon't Sabotage Your Submission (Benjamin Franklin Award). Chris is past president of a trade association of commercial and university presses, former board member of SE Mystery Writers of America, and long-time member of Sisters in Crime, Publishers Marketing Association, and Mensa. She has taught writing at universities from Maine to Wisconsin and is sought after to present writers' workshops coast to coast.
|Ed Southern is a North Carolina native and a graduate of Wake Forest University. His nonfiction work includes The Jamestown Adventure: Accounts of the Virginia Colony, 1605-1614; Voices of the American Revolution in the Carolinas; and Sports in the Carolinas. His first work of fiction, Parlous Angels, was published in the fall of 2009. He has been executive director of the North Carolina Writers' Network since January 2008, after more than eight years with John F. Blair, Publisher. He lives in Winston-Salem.
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*online registration closed. Walk in registration available on Saturday, April 24th.
8:00–9:00 am
8:00 am–6:00 pm
Exhibitor Tables open
9:00–10:30 am
The Story and the Other Story: Getting at Fictional Subtext (All-Day Fiction)*this session is closed*
Holly Goddard Jones
We can probably all agree that good fiction does more than one thing at once. It is layered, complex. It leaves something to reader interpretation. But getting at subtext doesn't have to mean sacrificing rich storytelling, and in fact, the two ought to go together. In this workshop, we'll talk about different kinds of fictional conflict, both concrete and abstract, and some practical methods for discovering that "other" story: the one beneath the surface (like seven-eighths of Hemingway's iceberg) or between the lines.
The Well-Crafted Essay (All-Day Nonfiction)
Cynthia Nearman
Part I: Structure and Movement
The first part of this workshop will focus on planning and developing a meaningful overall structure for personal essays on a wide range of subjects. We will examine several examples of well-crafted essays to discover the relationship between an essay's pattern of organization and its ability to sustain and heighten a sense of energy as it moves readers from scene to scene. Participants will engage in planning activities for works still in the idea stage, as well as activities designed to sharpen the structure and movement in existing original works.
Show or Tell? What's the Real Difference, and When Do I Use Each? (Fiction)
Chris Roerden
The second-most common comment scrawled on rejected manuscripts (when comments appear at all) is: "Show, don't tell." Do you know exactly what to do? Where? And when? Enjoy interactive exercises that show, not tell, how you can learn to use this essential fiction-writing skill most effectively.
The North Carolina Screenwriter, and Screenwriter as Filmmaker
Nathan Ross Freeman
North Carolina is quickly becoming the premiere state for writing and producing the independent feature film. In this digital age, the window is open for the screenwriter to self-manage the development of your screenplay, from script to distribution, and earn a film quality that will allow your screenplay as a film to compete for national and international distribution. Nathan Ross Freeman, the director of the award-winning feature film Mr. Bones, shares his experience from the stem to the stern as a screenwriter and as a North Carolina filmmaker. We will explore beginner and advanced tenets of writing and developing your script for film; creating an LLC to film your script; developing capital to finance the independent filming of your script; producing the film of your script; directing the independent film of your script; and script development: preproduction, production, postproduction, festivals, and distribution.
Inspiration Station (Poetry)
Keith Flynn
The photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson believed that his lens had to be aimed at the decisive moment, when the photograph was willing to surrender or when the confluence of events was at its apex. Most professional writers can't wait for inspiration to strike, or for the abiding image or core theme of the work to emerge. This workshop will focus on identifying ideas and rhythms to jumpstart the creative process, with exercises designed to spark the imagination. Participants should bring at least one poem for the group to discuss and twenty copies of the manuscript. Any work deemed exemplary will be considered for publication in the Asheville Poetry Review.
Gimme a Break: Breaking Into Nonfiction Publishing
Malcolm Campbell
Writers are people who write; authors are writers who've published. The difference is insignificant to our intrinsic worth; however, we write to be read. So how do you break into nonfiction publication? This workshop will examine simple but effective steps to deliver your idea or finished piece from "your eyes only" to both online and print readership. With your first break, you'll have experience to turn into bigger and better publishing opportunities. We'll examine such nonfiction genres as feature stories, interviews, reviews, essays, and first-person accounts in such categories as travel, health, fitness, food, senior living, parenting, finance, the arts, and more. Bring your ideas, and we'll brainstorm publishing opportunities together.
10:45–11:45 am
Keynote Reading by Fred Chappell
Noon–1:00 pm
Lunch with an Author (or on your own)
Sign-up available at Conference Registration Table
1:00–2:00 pm
Faculty Readings
2:30–4:00 pm
The Story and the Other Story: Getting at Fictional Subtext (All-Day Fiction)*this session is closed*
Holly Goddard Jones
We can probably all agree that good fiction does more than one thing at once. It is layered, complex. It leaves something to reader interpretation. But getting at subtext doesn't have to mean sacrificing rich storytelling, and in fact, the two ought to go together. In this workshop, we'll talk about different kinds of fictional conflict, both concrete and abstract, and some practical methods for discovering that "other" story: the one beneath the surface (like seven-eighths of Hemingway's iceberg) or between the lines.
The Well-Crafted Essay (All-Day Nonfiction)
Cynthia Nearman
Part II: Voice and Verbs, Distance and Time
In the second part of this workshop, we'll examine techniques for moving readers between vivid, in-the-moment scenes or action sequences and the reflective theme-and-wondering-and-idea sections that deepen a sense of intimacy in personal essays and short memoirs. Participants will create playful imitations of passages from published works and consider the ways skillful essayists use verbs (and nouns) to alter and intensify readers' experiences of both events and ideas.
It's Happening Right Now!: How to Create Immediacy in Fiction
John McNally
This workshop will explore the craft issues related to creating immediacy in fiction as well as all those pesky tics that distance the reader from the story.
The Greatest Writing Prompt Ever (Poetry)
Scott Owens
Scott Owens, author of five collections of poetry and editor of Wild Goose Poetry Review, will share and illustrate generative strategies to get you writing and keep you writing for years to come. While intended for poets, these strategies will work just as well for writers of fiction and creative nonfiction.
The Morning After: Reclaiming Your Life as a Writer (All Genres)
Sheila Smith McKoy
At some point in our writing lives, we have all had to take time away from the work that sustains us. Yet, when it's time to put paper to pen again, sometimes it is difficult to re-create your writing life. This workshop is designed for any writer who needs assistance to start writing again. Participants will learn ten easy steps to restart their writing lives. These ten salient steps will help any writer who has been out of the writer's life for any length of time to begin anew. Participants may bring works in progress as well as thoughts about the progress they aren't making on specific projects. The objective of the workshop is to enable participants to set—and to meet—goals in their writing lives.
Honesty Is the Best Policy: The Basics of Writing Nonfiction
Ed Southern
Fiction writers can shape a story and its elements any way they want to-compress time, make up characters and events, move mountains. Nonfiction writers have to stick to facts, while still trying to tell an engaging story. This workshop will discuss some basic approaches to turning the real world's messiness into a clear, compelling story.
4:00–5:00 pm
Publishing Panel
Moderated by Ed Southern
5:00–6:00 pm
Open Mike Readings
Sign-up available at Conference Registration Table
Spring Conference 2010 Schedule at a Glance
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*online registration closed. Walk in registration available on Saturday, April 24th.
|Saturday, April 25
|8:00 - 9:00am
Exhibit Tables and Book Sales (open from 8:00 am - 6:00 pm)
|9:00 - 10:30am
Morning Classes:
|10:45am - 11:45pm
Keynote Reading - Fred Chappell
|12:00 - 1:00pm
|Lunch on your own OR "Lunch with an Author": A new chance for the Network to network. From 8 - 9 am, registrants can sign up to join a group of no more than 10 who will take one of our faculty members out to lunch for some good company and informal conversation. Participants will split the cost of their author's lunch, as well as paying for their own meal.
Elliott Center Food Court and Commons
Link: http://euc.uncg.edu/services/foodcourt/
Exhibit Tables Open, Book Sales
|1:00 - 2:00pm
|Faculty Readings
|2:30 - 4:00pm
Afternoon Classes
|4:00 - 5:00pm
|Publishing Panel
|5:00 - 6:00pm
|Open Mic Readings


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