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In this weeks Behind the Badge, we salute Union Co. Detective Jimmy Lyon.
One victory for Wal-Mart, one set back for disappointed neighbors living near the proposed construction site.
The Smokefree Communities Coalition is looking for people who live in multi-unit housing to participate in a study on smoking.
A proposed Walmart development in Vanderburgh County has been voted in.
The second suspect in last weekend's shooting involving an EPD officer at the Marathon on Kentucky and Walnut is out of the hospital and in jail.
Students at Boonville High School are taking a stance against underage drinking stereotypes.
A Henderson manufacturer is recognized as one of the best plants in North America.
Amanda Bruner Drove into Stripper Pit 12 Years Ago.
The Evansville F.O.P. is out with its endorsements for the November election.
The Evansville F.O.P. is out with its endorsements for the November election.
The Indiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence claims the state will cut more than $1.2 million for shelters, but state officials say cuts won't be made.
Methodist Hospital in Henderson announces a new affiliation with the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center.
Indiana is making some big changes to how you apply for a gun permit.
Holiday World is making the transition into the Halloween season.
Those who'd like to pay respects to Kristy Kelley and her family may do so at the Boonville High School Auditorium Friday night.
The fallout from the Sears' near record losses this year are being felt here in the Tri-state.
If you dial 9-1-1 and hear silence, don't be alarmed.
Walmart's corporate officials announce a major holiday hiring spree.
Walmart is eyeing a new location in Western Kentucky.
5 simple ways to protect your credit card information from "skimmers."
A former cross country coach and teacher at a Wayne County, Illinois school has plead guilty to Sex Offenses involving minors.
In Ohio, the search is on for an inmate who escaped a corrections facility in Bowling Green.
Just days after Australia raised its terror alert level to "high," police detained more than a dozen people. Through a coordinated operation, Wednesday, authorities say they disrupted a pending ISIS attack.
After hearing reports that he had been reported missing, 42 year old Brad Rubsam contacted his family on Wednesday.
Thursday, the Indiana State Police unveiled a new electronic firearms application process that will be in effect beginning October 1st.
A man charged in the death of a Martinsville, Indiana man is sentenced this morning in a Warrick County courtroom.
Evansville City Council says the City's 2015 budget could be cut by $10- to $13 million, with deep cuts to the Department of Parks and Recreation.
After more than a month of not knowing what happened to his daughter, Todd Scales found relief amid tragedy.
Customers received a pleasant surprise at a fast food restaurant.
After an internal investigation determined he acted within state law and department policy, the Evansville Police officer involved in Sunday's shooting is free to return to work Thursday assuming he's cleared by a mental health professional as required by department guidelines. EPD brass believes Officer Ryan Winters, a seven year veteran, acted heroically in stopping a shootout between two men at a gas station parking lot.
For the first time, the final plan for Evansville's proposed Roberts Park is unveiled. Whether it will be funded, however, remains to be seen.
The US Senate votes on the Fairness Pay Bill for the fourth time on Monday. Indiana Senator Joe Donnelly was not present for the vote.
How can we afford to build a new park when we have to maintain the ones we already have? That age-old question sparked a flurry of frustration Wednesday afternoon at Evansville's Parks Board meeting. Denise Johnson, the executive director for the Parks and Recreation department, didn't mince words when speaking about the projected budget cuts she feels are coming too often and too deep.
After many nights of searching, praying, wondering and hoping to find their daughter, yesterday the nightmare came to an end.
The sun shined down on a new home today in the heart of Evansville. On First at Four, the ribbon was cut on the Eyewitness News sponsored Habitat House in Evansville.
With summer on its way out the door, Indiana officials are still talking about the damaging effects of last winter's storms.
An accident involving a semi-truck has westbound traffic backed up on the Lloyd Expressway at US-41.
A Tri-State sheriff reflects on the search effort for a missing Warrick County woman that ended last night.
An Evansville Police Officer involved in a weekend shootout "acted lawfully" according to department guidelines.
Gary and Lynn Dauby run the Blue Heron Vineyards & Winery along the Ohio River in Cannelton, Ind.
A Henderson woman is in jail for the second time this month. Now, she's facing meth charges.
The city of Jasper in under a boil advisory. Officials say the advisory is expected to last 3 days.
Adrian Peterson is suspended from the NFL for allegedly abusing his child. Now he gets paid more than a half million dollars a week.
Evansville Philharmonic Guild is the sponsor for the Kenny Kent Lexus Evansville Jazz & Wine Festival. Many funds help keep the beautiful tunes of orchestra flowing.
Even though it's only September, signs of Christmas have already been spotted around the tristate.
The Warrick County Sheriff says Kristy Kelley's death was ruled an accidental drowning due to asphyxia.
According to a post on the official search page for missing Boonville woman Kristy Kelley, the family believes Kristy's vehicle has been found in a body of water. Todd Scales, Kristy's father, posted tonight that Kristy's body could be inside.
After months of continuous construction, lane restrictions and road closures, a work zone along a busy Evansville street will soon be cleared up.
The Evansville Police Department has identified the officer involved in this weekend's police action shooting on the southside. Officer Ryan Winters, a seven year veteran, acted within department policy and state law when he engaged one of the two gunmen in the shootout at a gas station parking lot, according to the findings of the internal investigation.
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I had a thought last week. I was going to call that thought a profound insight, or possibly an epiphany, but in fear of being labeled a misguided mystic or possibly a wanker, it is better I say I had a thought.
There were two things that contributed to my thought last week: first, the East Coast of Tasmania was going off, and I couldn't go. Second, I scored a goal playing soccer.
The photos of the surf last week looked epic. Sunny skies, light offshores, and an overhead swell from a good direction. I checked it on the inter-webs after watching my beloved Socceroos go down, but go down beautifully, to a panicked Chile in the World Cup.
It was a beautiful defeat. And as I watched my second favorite team, Gil Azzuri, play with such sublime majesty, it became clear to me that my two favorite pastimes share something in common.
There's a certain something in both surfing and in soccer – something that can only come after a long build up. Without the build up, it would not be what it is. Nothing beats the feeling of scoring a goal in soccer after a patient build up or the catching of a wave that ultimately ends in the tube after patiently waiting on the outside for that perfect set wave.
The lead up to a goal in soccer requires several thousand, possibly millions, of factors to align. Each goal has had a multitude of small incidentals mixing within its being. Every member of the team has to born, and the opposition too. They must be raised in just the right circumstances give them the talent they need. Every step of their life must ultimately have been towards the place they are now: people die, people get sick, people train, people lose lovers, people gain lovers, children are born, children are not, the earth revolves, the clouds form, the grass grows, the wind drops, the ball flies, it lands and the player has an opportunity to strike. And at the pointy end of everything, a singularity is reached. A goal.
Compare this to what we know in our watery world. Each barrel, over lifetimes or even generations has also had a multitude of these small incidents mixing together. Everything: your birth, your experience and training, whether or not you played football today, the wind blowing just right, the petrol in your car from some ancient forest a million years ago… it all got you to a point, where the wind now blows from the right direction at the right time and that lump of energy that has traveled for untold miles unleashes itself in just the right place. You have a chance to accept this and be embraced by the wave in its beautiful throes of finality. A different type of singularity to the football goal, from a million different circumstances, but you have to be there to be one with it. And so you ride the barrel.


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FOXBOROUGH — Even though he has been used sparingly at quarterback, deployed in a number of other roles, Tim Tebow gives the Patriots' defense plenty to ponder leading up in Sunday's game against the Jets.
"Absolutely,'' said nose tackle Vince Wilfork. "I mean, he's shown up on offense and special teams. They use him, so you have to account for him. The guy's a playmaker. He's a winner and he's passionate about playing football, so we have to be able to understand, when he's in [the game], how they're trying to use him.''


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Oral History with Owen Crump
Owen Crump (1904-1998) got his start as a radio announcer at KWKH in Shreveport, Louisiana. He came to Hollywood to write and direct at KFWB, the Warner Bros. radio station, and that led to a writing contract with the studio in 1938. He later joined Warner Bros.' short subjects department, where he supervised the production of government-sponsored shorts at the request of studio head Jack Warner. One of these films, "Winning Your Wings," featuring James Stewart, was credited with greatly increasing Air Force enlistments. Around this time, General Henry H. "Hap" Arnold asked Warner to set up an Air Force filmmaking unit, and Warner called on Crump to help him make it a reality.
As an officer in the Army Air Force, Crump was instrumental in setting up the First Motion Picture Unit, and throughout the war supervised its film production activities. Housed for most of the war at the Hal Roach studios in Culver City, the FMPU (sometimes called "Fort Roach") was the Air Force's primary training and intelligence film production unit, and was unique in that it was staffed to a great degree with personnel from the motion picture industry, including actors, producers, writers, directors, cameramen and technicians. The hundreds of training and morale films produced by the unit were known for transmitting vital information while still being visually engaging and entertaining. Owen Crump's oral history, conducted by the Academy in 1991–92, is invaluable for shedding light on the outstanding work done by the filmmakers of "Fort Roach."
Owen Crump was nominated for an Academy Award in 1951 for his work on the short subject documentary "One Who Came Back."
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CRUMP: When we went over to Roach studios I was the commanding officer, and then one day Paul Mantz appeared and in a couple of days he was the commanding officer, because we received notice from our Washington office that Paul was to be appointed the commanding officer because he was a command pilot. As you know every Air Force unit must have a man who is a pilot with wings as a commanding officer. They can't have a guy like me who didn't have any wings at all. (laughs)
Paul's rank was major. On that same day when he took over I was also promoted to major. And I don't remember exactly how long Paul was the commanding officer, I honestly don't, but he had kind of dual duties, because not only was he commanding officer but he was doing flying for us, for our films, and as you know Paul was one of the greatest stunt fliers that ever lived. And he also had some airplanes out at the airfield, in the hangar, that he owned. So we had airplanes all the time, with cameras, making training films. And Paul would very often fly the camera ship, and sometimes all kind of stunts that illustrated what we were talking about in the film, so he was a very busy fellow, running between the studios and out to the airfield where he was most of the time.
INTERVIEWER: What sort of a commanding officer was he?
CRUMP: Our job was making films, and we were making so many of them and so fast, Paul actually was running the flying echelon of the unit. He didn't have anything to do with the writing or the producing of the training films. He was just kind-of in-name commanding officer, and he took care of all the flying. He sure did that. Marvelous! A good example was the first film we made. The film was to demonstrate the wrong way to do a whole lot of things. (laughs) A lesson for cadets.
INTERVIEWER: "Learn and Live"?
CRUMP: Yes, "Learn and Live." We wrote that script while we were still at Vitagraph, with all that was going on there, and we had the script, not only written, but approved by Training Aids before we ever got over to the Roach studios. Now, when you say things went in a hurry, that was a hurry. And within two weeks after we got to the Roach studios, that film was in production, cast, and shooting!
It was the first film the unit made anywhere. When we went to the Roach studios, we already had a script, as I told you. We got Guy Kibbee to play God. (laughs) Because we could hire some people to appear in our films, we didn't use just Air Force men. Sometimes we used actors, paid them a union wage. And I can't think of any instance, not one, where any of them, or their agents, wanted more money or whatever. Patriotic, in those days. We made the film, six reels, almost feature length, and we sent it back to Training Aids, and they immediately approved it, and it was sensational. A training film had never been
made quite like that...call it a "Hollywood product," because the story we wrote was a fantasy in a sense. Well, it's a fantasy of telling you how not to be killed! And that's a kind of an odd fantasy. It showed cadets in heaven, all wearing wings on their shoulders like angels, but in uniform.


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Two people renovating a house in Manenberg, Cape Town, for those coming out of gangs and drugs.
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Instead of doing a normal press release Nik wanted to go down the animation route. So he got hold of me and we made this happen!Character Design, Illustration, Motion Graphics2013
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'The Compleat Archaeologist': Mike Smith, desert archaeology and museums
Dr Mike Smith AM is a pioneering desert archaeologist, an author and a Senior Research Fellow at the Research Centre at the National Museum of Australia. His research and teachings have been inspirational throughout Australia and the world. Mike's career is virtually synonymous with the development of Australian desert archaeology as a field.
Distinguished archaeologists, historians, artists and museum staff reflected on and celebrated Mike Smith's 30 years of work in desert archaeology and museums. During the day we heard riveting stories of adventure and participated in lively discussions on contemporary archaeology and its contribution to museums.
Old Masters lecture series
This series, associated with the Old Masters: Australia's Great Bark Artists exhibition that is on show at the National Museum of Australia in Canberra from December 2013 to July 2014, explores the dynamism and richness of Indigenous Australian cultural expression and draws on experts who continue to be inspired by this unique and fascinating art and cultural form.
A nice drop – recycled water discussion and tasting
A microbiologist, a social scientist and an infectious diseases physician explore the benefits, pitfalls and palatability of recycled water.
A tribute to Bob Edwards
Dr Robert Edwards AO has played a crucial role in museums, Aboriginal art and culture, and the visual arts in Australia. At this tribute, friends, colleagues, protégés and admirers celebrate Bob's contribution over more than seven decades of public life.
AE Smith Instruments collection
Recordings from a concert by renowned Australian cellist David Pereira, playing one of the National Museum's most treasured instruments, the cello made by AE Smith in Sydney in 1953. Pereira performs his own compositions and works by Bach and Sculthorpe in a concert which also features harpist Alice Gile and a history of the AE Smith string quartet.
Barks, Birds and Billabongs symposium
A five-day symposium revisiting a landmark international venture – the 1948 American–Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land – and exploring the vast collections with an emphasis on Indigenous perspectives.
Behind the Scenes – Australian Journeys series
National Museum curators share details of the work that goes on behind the scenes and their research into key collection objects considered in the development of the Australian Journeys gallery, which traces Australia's interconnections with the world.
Behind the Scenes – Landmarks series
National Museum curators share details of the work going on behind the scenes and their research into key collection objects considered in the development of the Landmarks: People and Places across Australia gallery (formerly known as Creating a Country), which will trace a broad history of Australia since European colonisation of the continent.
Captain James Cook series
Events and exhibitions held at the National Museum of Australia exploring objects and collections linked to Captain James Cook and research into his Pacific voyages.
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Baby girl born near entrance to Holland Tunnel during rush hour
Port Authority Police officers helped a Brooklyn mother deliver a baby girl near the Holland Tunnel during rush hour Monday morning.
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There are more than 30 compounds, months of engineering and testing and a whole lot of history in every Firestone ag tire. Going back to the company's roots, every Firestone ag tire is tested on the historical farm of Harvey Firestone, who first put pneumatic tires on tractors 80 years ago.
The 400-acre property in Columbiana, Ohio was deeded to the Firestone family by President Thomas Jefferson. The farm once hosted gentlemen's camp outs with Firestone, Henry Ford and Thomas Edison in attendance. The property was established as the Firestone Test Center in 1952, and the grounds are used for testing as well as leased to a local farmer for production.
Today, many of the tests are head-to-head comparisons of new Firestone tires vs. the previous design as well as new Firestone tires vs. the competition. With the facilities, Firestone test engineers can simulate four years of wear and use in three months.
The tests are run 12 months a year on the indoor equipment as well as the five circles with concrete, black top and limestone surfaces. The test circles are the site for wear and durability tests, and the test tractors are run without an operator. The equipment is mounted with the tires for testing, the steering is locked in position, and using a remote start the tractor takes off in its circle pattern and run for 48 hours in one direction before the equipment is stopped and the direction of travel is reversed. For safety, the tractor is tethered to a concrete post and there is monitoring equipment at each tire and on the tractor so that if something malfunctions, the engine is immediately stopped.
For more hands-on, extreme testing, the crew calls on the Mean Machine, a custom-made vehicle developed in the 1975 that has up to 32,000 lb of drawbar pull. It's a unique Detroit Diesel engine-powered machine designed to provide drag for wheel slip tests on the tractor pulling it, and its tires are filled with beet juice, but were once filled with calcium chloride.
Another unique machine at the test farm is a ¼ scale machine used for the early screening of tire compounds. Specially prepared tires are run over a variety of surfaces to simulate different field wear conditions. Currently the testing for this machine is being focused on developing a more stubble-resistant tire surface.
In addition to those tests, the crew can run vibration pad testing to simulate furrow or hillside driving, and with its 400 acres, the team can conduct field tests.
Every tested tire is analyzed for performance. TekScan is a technology that produces an electronic footprint image to display pressure exerted by the tire. To test sidewall strain, a tire sidewall is prepped and a laser system is used to measure hot spots on the tire sidewall. A proprietary technology to Firestone is its 3D tire profile, which can be utilized on new and worn tires to provide a three dimensional profile of the tire. Upon conclusion of testing, a tire is cut and dissected. All data and tire sections are delivered to the engineers in Akron.
The test center is the final step in the development of Firestone ag tires. The process begins at Bridgestone's Americas Technical Center in Akron, Ohio, which is one of three of its kind for the company with the other two located in are in Tokyo, Japan and Rome, Italy.
The brand-new Akron facility was opened in April 2012 and employs 450 Firestone engineers, lab technicians and scientists. The $100-million building is certified to Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold standards, and many of the products used were from the company's Firestone Building Products division.
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I've been following this thread for quite some time know. Figured it might be time I contributed a bit. This is my current gaming rig.
CPU: Intel Core i5 3570k @ 4.4Ghz.
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RAM: Corsair Vengeance 16GB 1600 Mhz 4x4 GB.
GPU: Asus Direct CUII Radeon 7970 TOP Edition.
Motherboard: Asus Sabertooth Z77
SSD: Samsung 840 120 GB.
HDD: Western Digital Green 2 TB.
PSU: Corsair AX850 with white sleeved cables.
Fan controller: NZXT Sentry Mesh.
Monitors: 3x BenQ GL2450HM.
Misc: Corsair K90 keyboard and Vengeance 2000 headset.
Loving this rig. The only thing auditble is the GPU when fans are at 50% or higher. (Which is practially never).
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Friday, July 16, 2010
© Copyright 2014 Gwinnett Daily Post
SUWANEE -- A Suwanee deputy chief has been honored by the Georgia Police Accreditation Coalition, received her award for her nearly two decades of service assisting law agencies across the state.
Deputy Chief Janet Moon, with the Suwanee police department since 2001, has helped approximately 40 agencies across the state move toward accreditation or certification.
It's for that dedication that Moon was honored with the Meritorious Service Award.
"Janet has been one of our steadfast members," said GPAC president Cheri Pickard. "No matter what her rank over the years, she has continually attended meetings, contributed and assisted agencies with receiving accreditation."
"She's never too busy to answer a phone call."
The Cedartown native is a former military police officer with the United States Army, beginning her law enforcement career in Rome in 1989. Joining the Suwanee force in 2001, she was promoted to deputy chief in 2006.
She is also a graduate of the FBI National Academy.
"She's been a wonderful personal mentor for to me," said Pickard, "and has helped bring our organization to another level of professionalism and leadership. She's so deserving of this honor."
GPAC is a state-wide organization aimed at helping police forces meet organizational objectives related to national accreditation and state certification.
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- Suwanee PD earns CALEA certification ( April 26, 2011 )
- Suwanee PD honors its finest officers ( April 27, 2010 )
- Suwanee names deputy chief ( July 13, 2006 )


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p53 Gene May Help Fight Tumors
Drug developers have long wondered whether p53, one of the most commonly mutated genes in cancer, would make a good target for cancer therapies. Three new studies in mice suggest that it might.
The gene normally helps suppress tumors, and many cancer patients are thought to acquire p53 mutations relatively early in the disease. It has not been known whether these mutations also contribute to cancer later on, once tumors have been established.
The mouse studies suggest that they do. The researchers tested this idea by creating mice with p53 genes that could be turned on and off. They allowed the mice to develop cancers before turning on the gene. When they activated p53, the results were dramatic.
Tumors disappeared as cancer cells died or stopped growing, sometimes within hours. In one study, mice with large tumors died because the anticancer response was so strong. Even restoring p53 for a short time caused tumors to disappear.
"The tumors went away when we activated p53," says Dr. Scott Lowe of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York. His group studied mice with a form of liver cancer, and their results appeared online in Nature on January 24.
Each group used different methods to study different tumors. But they all concluded that at least some tumors depend for their survival on blocking the p53 gene and the genetic program, or pathway, it controls.
"The p53 pathway must be kept silent in established tumors for their viability," says Dr. Tyler Jacks of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who led a companion study in Nature. "The pathway appears to remain important even in advanced tumors."
If the same is true in human cancers, then a potential therapy may be to reactivate a damaged p53 gene. The new results make this scenario seem plausible.
"The key point is that when you restore p53 in established cancer cells, the gene is engaged in the pathway," says Dr. Gerard Evan of the University of California, San Francisco, who led the third study. Their findings appeared in Cell on December 29, 2006.
"This is incredibly good news because it means that mending a lesion in the p53 pathway would restore the body's natural ability to kill or block the growth of tumors," says Dr. Evan.
The signals that activate p53 and lead to an antitumor response are specific to cancer cells. This means that restoring p53 is unlikely to have effects on normal tissues, and this was the case in most of the mouse experiments.
"These studies really do formally establish once and for all that the p53 pathway is a good therapeutic target," says Dr. Lowe. Developing ways to restore defective genes in cells will not be easy, he adds, but efforts are underway.
The mechanisms by which the cancers regressed varied with the tumors. Dr. Jacks' team found that lymphoma cells died while sarcoma cells stopped growing. In Dr. Lowe's study, the immune system played a role in causing liver tumors to regress.
Dr. Evan's group provides a cautionary note - the lymphomas they saw regress eventually returned. But the researchers are learning why this happened, and they remain optimistic.
"I believe that restoring p53 in human cancers is going to have a profound therapeutic effect that will be specific to cells with abnormal p53," says Dr. Evan.
By Edward R. Winstead


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Series: Evolution Basics (48 entries)
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From a Judeo-Christian perspective, all of these curiosities dovetail into a profoundly meaningful explanation: Being made in God's image helps to explain our creative and investigative skills, particularly when we consider that God has specially engineered this universe to reveal himself to human beings.
Origins News Roundup for August 6, 2014
News about the Ebola outbreak and initiatives in genomic medicine lead our news roundup this week, with a collection of research and learning opportunities in biology and at the science/faith border to follow.
New Creation: The Hermeneutic of Love
For Augustine, the literal sense of scripture is not a scientific narrative of physical reality, but a liturgical and poetic narrative of God's awesome power at the dawn of history. This is a vital thread in the story of how to read Genesis.
Series: On Creating the Cosmos, by Ted Peters (9 entries)
Last year I introduced readers to one of the leading voices about Christianity and science, John Polkinghorne. I also helped BioLogos bring in another leading voice, Robert Russell. This new series introduces a third prominent Christian thinker, Lutheran theologian Ted Peters, Research Professor Emeritus in Systematic Theology and Ethics at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences (http://www.ctns.org/), and the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California.
Christ, Trinity, and Creation, Part 2
Christ is the reason the natural sciences work: he is the source of the laws of nature, and he contains and underpins the natural sciences. Christ is the pattern for all created things, while the Spirit – his presence in the created world – breathes the divine fire into the equations.
Creation for Kids
Children's books are more than stories. They can become familiar narratives children listen to over and over. So it's worth asking - Are the books we're reading doing a good job of portraying God and His Creation?
Religion, Science, and Society
Conflicts occur when people argue one worldview against another. They may be arguing Atheism versus Monotheism, then pull out science as a weapon saying, "science proves I'm right because of this or that..." In my view, science is rather more limited than this. Science has a lot of interesting resonances with the big questions, and can inform them, but I don't believe it can answer them.
Origins News Round-Up for May 28, 2014
This weeks in Origins news: studies of a skeleton uncovered in 2007 provide clues about rapid human evolution in the Americas, our climate and Christian stewardship, a few BioLogos folks give interviews, and some cool links to miscellaneous finds.
Human Evolution: Genes, Genealogies and Phylogenies
When read in this way, the Genesis stories may be seen as one of the greatest-ever revolutions in human understanding. Genesis used the literary forms of the day to introduce its readers to a rational God who cares for people – and whose faithfulness made science possible. Genesis is expressly about theology, not science.
Origins News Roundup for May 14, 2014
This week in our Origins News Roundup: News of new nucleobases, the future of synthetic biology, and some healthy dialogue and critique of certain aspects of modern science.
Series: Intelligent Design and Common Ancestry (4 entries)
Would those genuinely interested in learning about evolution benefit from a careful explanation of why these common objections don't hold water? Here the answer seemed to me to be "yes."
Still Surprised by Easter
We now take for granted an understanding of the Christian story that was largely worked out by Paul and later theologians. Even though the Gospels were composed after Paul's letters, they were concerned to tell the story itself in all its strangeness as it had been preserved by the first generation of Christians. And what we find in the stories themselves is the shock and wonder and surprise that the resurrection caused.
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The BioLogos Book Club discussion of Francis Collins' The Language of God.
Interpreting Adam: Introduction
Four Views on the Historical Adam shows that evangelical Christians are far from agreeing on the particulars of Adam and Eve. But this book also makes clear that there is strong agreement among evangelical Christians on the fundamentals of the Christian faith. We agree that all Scripture is inspired by God and authoritative, even while disagreeing on the interpretation of some passages.
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Did God Have Any Choice When He Made the World?
Theological ideas about divine freedom and human reason were important reasons for adopting an intellectually modest, empirical approach to nature during the Scientific Revolution. The common picture of ongoing, inevitable conflict between science and religion is not only false, but perverse, for it prevents us from seeing the kinds of deep connections [between the two].
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Charm's Q & A
Who's your favorite sports team, and why?
SF 49ers & SF Giants. I'm influenced by my family and friends. Can't beat 'em, join 'em.
What's your favorite movie quote?
"Say hello to my little friend!"
What's your favorite video game, and could you kick our butts at it?
Argh, honestly Mario... But other than that Call of Duty, and there's a slight chance I CAN kick your butt!
Piercings/Tattoos (How many? Where?)
Both ears pierced. Two tattoos, one on my right shoulder and one on my left lower navel.
What's the most embarrassing song on your iPod?
I like all kinds of music. But I always find myself skipping Barbie Girl by Aqua. LoL
What's your best party trick?
Have fun, enjoy yourself and party like there is no tomorrow.
What's the most memorable pick-up line you've ever heard?
I hope your day is as radiant as your smile.
What's the worst job you've ever had?
Server, I have a short memory and will forget what you order or which table certain food go.
What's the most dangerous thing you've ever done?
Does sky diving count? I also flied a fighter plane before. Of course with a help of a trained instructor with me.
It's 4AM after a crazy night out – what are we eating?
Steak and Eggs, I live in Vegas where everything and anything is available 24/7.
What's the naughtiest thing you've ever done in public?
Besides sex? *wink*
What do you feel sexiest wearing?
White tank top, jeans and high heels.
Tell us a joke.
One night, as a couple lay down for bed, the husband gently taps his wife on the shoulder and starts rubbing her arm. The wife turns over and says: "I'm sorry honey, I've got a gynecologist appointment tomorrow and I want to stay fresh." The husband, rejected, turns over and tries to sleep. A few minutes later, he rolls back over and taps his wife again. This time he whispers in her ear: "Do you have a dentist appointment tomorrow too?"


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UCL Laws Events & CPD
Current Legal Problems: Lectures 2013-14
The Current Legal Problems (CLP) lecture series and annual volume was established over fifty five years ago at the Faculty of Laws, University College London and is recognised as a major reference point for legal scholarship.
The continuing strength of Current Legal Problems is its representation of a broad range of legal scholarship opinion, theory, methodology and subject matter but with an emphasis upon contemporary developments of law. A particularly important feature of the lecture series that forms the basis of the annual volume is the participation of members of the judiciary who chair the lectures in a convivial and academic environment.
The lectures are held at the Faculty of Law, Bentham House, Endsleigh Gardens, London WC1 from 6-7pm (except the Inaugural Lectures) and are accredited by the Bar Standards Board and Solicitors Regulation Authority for 1 CPD hour (unless noted below). They are public lectures and are free of charge.
Past Lectures 2013-14
|Thursday 10 October 2013
The Implied Term of Honesty and Fair Dealing
Prof. Hugh Collins (LSE)
Chaired by The Rt Hon Lady Justice Arden DBE
|About this lecture
The subject concerns the introduction of implied obligations with respect to the performance of contracts, particularly with respect to types of contracts that are sometimes described as relational contracts (such as agency, distributorship, and employment). This lecture, in particular, will consider the nature of these implied obligations and their relation to the idea of good faith, whether these obligations are terms implied in fact or in law, which in turn raises questions about the category of relational contracts itself.
About this speaker
Hugh Collins joined LSE in 1991 when he was appointed to the chair of English Law. He studied law at Oxford and Harvard. Previously he was a Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford University. He has also visited and taught in several American law schools including a year as a Visiting Professor at Boston University, and extended periods of research at Harvard and the University of Virginia.
Professor Collins' research interests lie in three main fields: employment law, contract and commercial law, and legal theory. In the field of employment law, a current particular interest concerns the application of human rights principles to the workplace and the employment relation. In relation to contract law, the development of European Community contract law has been a particular interest in recent years. In a combination of legal theory and commercial law, another focus of research has been in the idea of networks as a hybrid form of business organisation that is insufficiently recognised and accommodated by the law
Thursday 24 October 2013
|About this lecture
The New Labour government was accused of frenzied law making, creating a criminal offence for every day spent in office. The current government, responding to these concerns, has introduced a "gateway" mechanism to halt the tide of criminalisation. New research suggests that the accusations levelled against the last government badly underestimated the reality: criminal offences were – and despite the gateway mechanism, are still – created at a far greater rate than one a day. But what does this actually mean, and what should we do about it?.
About this speaker
James Chalmers was appointed to the Regius Chair of Law in 2012, having previously taught at the Universities of Edinburgh and Aberdeen. He is a graduate of the University of Aberdeen and the Tulane University of Louisiana, has taught on a visiting basis at the Universities of Baltimore, Cape Town and Maryland, and held a visiting research fellowship at Queen Mary, University of London in 2007.
His research is primarily in the area of criminal law, evidence and procedure, and he has broader interests in Scots law and the Scottish legal system, and the relationship between law and public health. This research has been supported by funding from a variety of sources, including the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the British Academy and the Scottish Government. His published books include The New Law of Sexual Offences in Scotland (2010), Walker and Walker: The Law of Evidence in Scotland (3rd edition, 2009, with Margaret Ross), Legal Responses to HIV and AIDS (2008), Criminal Defences and Pleas in Bar of Trial (2006, with Fiona Leverick) and Trusts: Cases and Materials (2002). He has published over 80 book chapters and articles in a wide range of journals.
Professor Chalmers is currently Editor of the Edinburgh Law Review and assistant editor of Renton and Brown's Criminal Procedure. He is a member of the Criminal Courts Rules Council and the Criminal Law Committee of the Law Society of Scotland, and a trustee of HIV Scotland, Scotland's national HIV policy charity. In 2011, he was named as one of the founding members of the Young Academy of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He has regularly provided professional training for practicing lawyers, judges, doctors and other healthcare professionals, as well as evidence to the Justice Committee of the Scottish Parliament on various occasions. In 2013, he gave evidence before a House of Lords committee considering the UK's 2014 decision on whether to opt out from European Union police and criminal justice measures.
|Wednesday 14 November
Governing 'As If': The Provisional Settlement of Knowledge Controversies in the WTO
Prof. Andrew Lang (LSE)
|About this lecture
This lecture explores the relationship between practices of knowledge production and legal decision-making in the field of international economic law. It explores the 'practices of objectivity' by which certain forms of economic knowledge - whether tacit or explicit, formal or informal - are certified, and become the accepted basis for governance through law. It draws on the work of Jasanoff and Riles to identify a mode of 'governing as if': a pragmatic mode of governance through knowledge, which can be read against late twentieth century controversies over the socially constructed nature of scientific knowledge. The analysis is developed through a study of the benchmark problem in the field of subsidies regulation, as well as other areas of WTO law.
About this speaker
Andrew Lang is a Reader in Law, at the LSE, teaching Public International Law, with a specialty in International Economic Law. He has a combined BA/LLB from the University of Sydney, and his PhD is from the University of Cambridge. From 2004-6, Dr Lang was a Junior Research Fellow at Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge. He is a co-founder, with Colin Picker, of the Society of International Economic Law. He sits on the Editorial Committee of the Modern Law Review, the Editorial Boards of the Journal of International Economic Law and the Law and Development Review, and is a Book Review Editor for the International and Comparative Law Quarterly. He has taught on Harvard's Institute for Global Law and Policy, the World Trade Institute's Masters of International Law and Economics (MILE) program, the University of Barcelona's IELPO course, as well as the IIEM Academy of International Trade Law in Macau. He has been a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of International Economic Law at Georgetown University Law Center, Visiting Faculty at the University of Michigan, and an International Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Sydney. Dr Lang's current research is focussed on a number of themes around global economic governance, including the relationship between law and expert knowledge, international law and economics, and sociological approaches to the study of international economic law. He has a continuing research focus on the WTO's SPS Agreement, including the particular issues raised under that agreement by Russia's accession to the WTO. From September 2012-13, Dr Lang will be on leave as a British Academy Mid-Career Fellow, undertaking research on the constitutive role of international economic law in the production of transnational markets. In Spring 2013, he will be a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School.
|Thursday 21 November 2013
Immigration Detention - The Ground Beneath Our Feet
Dr. Cathryn Costello (Oxford)
|About this lecture
Both our common law constitution and human rights law treat liberty as a central value. Yet, immigration detention remains less constrained, both normatively and institutionally, than other forms of detention. International human rights bodies and courts, and indeed domestic courts, routinely review and indeed sometimes condemn detention of migrants. Yet, that jurisprudence has been subject to a convincing critique, for failing to properly scrutinise the necessity of immigration detention. Many scholars have thus pointed out the law's anomalously indulgent approach to immigration detention, compared with other forms of deprivation of liberty. Yet, powerful as this critique is, it sometimes fails to address prior questions concerning the political purposes and legal grounds of detention. By examining these grounds and purposes, both legitimate and illegitimate, the lecture will aim to elucidate the manner in which immigration law produces reasons to detain, and thwarts any test of necessity from effectively constraining the state's power to detain migrants. The diverse approaches of the UN Human Rights Committee, European Court of Human Rights and Court of Justice of the European Union will be contrasted. The likely impact of new EU norms on detention of asylum-seekers and pre-removal detention will also be explored.
About this speaker
Cathryn Costello is Andrew W. Mellon University Lectureship in International Human Rights and Refugee Law, at the Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford, with a fellowship at St Antony's College. From 2003-2013, she was Francis Reynolds Fellow & Tutor in EU & Public law at Worcester College, Oxford, during which time she also completed her DPhil studies on EU asylum and immigration law. She has taught a range of public and EU law courses on the Oxford undergraduate and postgraduate curriculum. She began her academic career in 1998 as Lecturer in European Law at the Law School, Trinity College Dublin, and from 2000-2003, she also held the position of Director of the Irish Centre for European Law. She has been a Visiting Professor at the University of San Francisco and a visiting research fellow at NYU School of Law.
Cathryn has published widely on many aspects of EU and human rights law, including asylum and refugee law, immigration, EU Citizenship and third country national family members, family reunification and immigration detention. Her current research includes a monograph on EU immigration and asylum law due to be published in OUP's Studies in European Law series, and an edited collection (with Professor Mark Freedland, St John's College) from the Migrants at Work Project, exploring intersections between immigration law and labour law.
She is also an Associate Director of the Oxford Human Rights Hub, which aims to bring together academics, practitioners, and policy-makers from across the globe to advance the understanding and protection of human rights and equality.
|Thursday 5 December 2013
Property's People
Prof. Lorna Fox O'Mahony (Essex)
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|Thursday 16 January 2014
In support of an English Contract Code
Prof. Andrew Tettenborn (Swansea)
Chair: Lord Justice Longmore
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|Thursday 23 January 2014
Exploring Solutions to a Persistent Legal Problem: Conceptualising the Rights of Children in Detention
Prof. Kathryn Hollingsworth (Newcastle)
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|Thursday 30 January 2014
Evolutionary Trajectories for Transnational Labour Law:
Trade in Goods to Trade in Services?
Prof. Tonia Novitz (Bristol)
Chair: Prof. Keith Ewing (King's College London)
|About this lecture
Labour lawyers are familiar with what has been termed an 'International Labour Code', namely a collation of transnational norms established by institutions such as the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and European Union (EU). These norms reflect a political accommodation largely imposed by high income countries on others, which was closely related to the then dominant forms of trade, being concerned with the treatment of labour in the manufacture of goods. It is now trade in 'services' rather than 'goods' which generates an estimated 70-80% of output (and employment) in the North. In the expansion of the EU services market, we have witnessed significant modification to otherwise applicable labour standards. Globally, complex subcontracting mechanisms have led to re-labelling as 'services' what might have once been described as labour concerned with the manufacture of goods, so that the fundamental injunction (set out in the ILO Constitution) that 'labour is not a commodity' has been challenged. An open question remains the extent to which the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) can facilitate such changes and future challenges. This paper considers the opportunities that these cumulative variations in forms of trade offer to the South in terms of overcoming old (and new) patterns of dependency and underdevelopment, so that they may seek a fresh political accommodation. Given the significance of non-State actors, particularly corporate interests, such opportunities do seem limited. The analysis offered in the paper draws on Simon Deakin's recent thinking on the use of evolutionary theory and systems theory when considering scope for adaptation and inheritance. In so doing, it highlights the potential for various alternative trajectories for transnational labour law.
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|Thursday 6 February 2014
Charitable Purposes and Activities
Prof. Jonathan Garton (Warwick)
|About this lecture
When determining whether a civil society organisation has charitable status, the orthodox position has it that the activities carried on in pursuit of its purposes are not relevant, save in very limited circumstances. This lecture will consider the extent to which this is correct, and whether the reluctance to consider the nature of the activities carried on by a potential charity should be revisited in light of the regulatory consequences of charitable status, outside of which the legal definition of charity has no real meaning.
About the speaker
Jonathan's research interests are in the law of charities and other nonprofits. His work focuses in particular on social, political and economic theories of organised civil society and their use as tools for evaluating legal rules. He is the author of three books: The Regulation of Organised Civil Society(Oxford, Hart, 2009), the charities volume of Halsbury's Laws of England (London, Lexis, 2010) and Public Benefit in Charity Law (Oxford, OUP, 2013). His current projects include a book on voluntary sector law and policy (with Charles Mitchell) and the sixth edition of Moffatt on Trusts Law (with Graham Moffatt, Rebecca Probert and Gerry Bean). In 2012-13 he was a Specialist Adviser to the House of Commons Public Administration Select Committee, assisting its Inquiry into the Regulation of the Charitable Sector.
|Thursday 13 February 2014
Mistaken Gifts after Pitt v Holt
Dr Birke Häcker (Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance)
Chair: The Rt Hon Lord Justice Lloyd
|About this lecture
The recent Supreme Court decision in Pitt v Holt [2013] UKSC 26 has put into sharp focus a question which has vexed English lawyers for some time: when can a donor recover a gift mistakenly made? Their Lordships ruled that there had to be a 'causative mistake of sufficient gravity'. In the light of this ruling, the lecture will explore and try to systematise the principal competing approaches towards the recovery of mistaken gifts and to assess their underlying assumptions. How can we distinguish between mistakes which are sufficiently serious and those that are not, and what are the implications of Pitt v Holt for the law of gifts more generally? It will be argued that a pure causative mistake test may in fact be preferable to the two-stage inquiry adopted by Pitt v Holt. Properly handled, such a test could accommodate many of the concerns that often drive the call for an additional criterion of 'sufficient gravity'.
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|Thursday 27 February 2014
Comity among Authorities
Prof. Timothy Endicott (Oxford)
|About this lecture
It is very commonly the case that one authority needs to take account of the decisions of another, in order to carry out its own responsibilities. This lecture aims to give a general explanation of the approach that authorities ought to take toward such judgments. The principle of comity is a central element in such a general explanation. It is the principle that the authority passing judgment (I will call it the 'second authority') ought to act in a way that respects the capacity of the other (the 'first authority') to carry out its own role. A duty of comity is not a duty to trust the first authority. It does not require the second authority to approve of the decisions of the first. It is a duty that arises not from the rights of the first authority, nor even from the first authority's success in carrying out its duties, but from the second authority's duty to those whom it serves.
|Thursday 6 March 2014 - INAUGURAL LECTURE
Precarious Professionalism - Some evidence on Market, State and Lawyer Utopias
Prof. Richard Moorhead (UCL)
|About this lecture
Since the era of Margaret Thatcher, and her much admired Lord Chancellor, Lord Mackay of Clashfern, the legal profession has found itself under increasing scrutiny and pressure. Legal Aid and legal market reform began then but has been significantly accelerated by the creation of the Legal Services Board. Professional power has decreased and the influence of the market increased. State – or rather politician - hostility to lawyers and fiscal retrenchment has led to a reduction in legal aid and concerted attempts to weaken lawyer and court roles in the resolution of disputes. Globalisation and the growth of large law firms has increased the extent to which law is seen as a business rather than a profession. Market reform and the recession have shed a harsher light on the economics and ethics of large law firms.
For many, the market and the State are combining to squeeze out professionalism. The evidence, however, paints a much more complicated picture. This lecture will outline that evidence, including some new evidence on the ethical consciousness of commercial lawyers. It will argue that professionalism is precarious - demonstrably so - but also that the blame lies with markets, with the State, and with lawyers themselves.
About the speaker
He has been a member of the Civil Justice Council and the Lord Chancellor´s Advisory Committee on Legal Ethics, the Legal Services Consultative Panel. He has also served as Specialist Adviser to what is now the Justice Select Committee. He sits on the editorial board of the International Journal of the Legal profession and the advisory board of the Journal and Law and Society.
Thursday 13 March 2014
Overpaid Tax - Changing the Remedies Landscape
Monica Bhandari (UCL)
|About this lecture
Where a taxpayer has overpaid tax it is now well established that, in principle, the tax can be recovered. However, the boundaries of this recovery are changing dramatically. Judgments from the European court of Justice in tax cases are demanding that remedies are given to taxpayers, even where the domestic system does not provide for them, or in a manner which is outside the domestic system. This lecture will consider the broader impact of these decisions. In particular what issues arise from the circumstances in which taxpayers with an issue at European law have a more powerful claim than those with a purely domestic issue? Where does this leave the domestic system of remedies in tax cases?
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|Thursday 20 March 2014
Whither the margin of appreciation?
President Dean Spielman (ECHR)
Chaired by The Rt Hon The Lord Neuberger
|About this lecture
The doctrine of the margin of appreciation may be regarded as being among the most prominent judge-made legal constructs in European human rights jurisprudence. It is an analytical tool that guides the European Court in its examination of the complaints raised under many, but not all, provisions of the Convention and its Protocols. It makes for a body of human rights law that accepts pluralism over uniformity, as long as the fundamental guarantees are effectively observed. Alongside its normative function, the doctrine pursues what may be termed a systemic objective. It devolves a large measure of responsibility for scrutinising the acts or omissions of national authorities to the national courts, placing them in their natural, primary role in the protection of human rights. It is therefore neither a gift nor a concession, but more an incentive to the domestic judge to conduct the necessary Convention review, realising in this way the principle of subsidiarity.
Protocol No. 15, adopted in May 2013 and currently in the process of ratification by the 47 Contracting Parties, will add to the Preamble of the Convention references to both the margin of appreciation and subsidiarity. What are the implications of this reform for the Strasbourg Court? And for national courts?
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|Thursday 27 March 2014
The dialogic model of constitutionalism and the system of checks and balances
Professor Roberto Gargarella (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Argentina & Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor at UCL)
|About this lecture
Numerous countries in the world have, in one way or another, incorporated social and economic rights (SER) in their Constitutions. However, while these Constitutions look modern and rights-rich, they also look old and regressive concerning the organization of governmental power -particularly in what regards the organization of a system of checks and balances. As a consequence, a recurring problem affecting these Constitutions is the "mismatch" between their progressive, 21st century commitments concerning SER and the form of constitutional democracy inherited from the 18th century. In my presentation I will examine both the promise of the bill-of-rights sections of these renewed Constitutions and the frustrations generated by the organization-of-powers-sections of the same documents. In particular, I will show how a deliberative conception of democracy and a dialogic understanding of the system of checks and balances can help us make the promise of SER – the achievement of a just society - a reality.
About the speaker
Professor Roberto Gargarella is a distinguished Argentine lawyer and sociologist. He has doctoral degrees from Universidad de Buenos Aires (1991) and University of Chicago (1993). He also holds Master Degrees from the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO, 1990) and University of Chicago (LLM, 1992). Professor Gargarella pursued his post-doctoral studies at Balliol College, Oxford, under the supervision of Professor Joseph Raz (1994). In Oxford he also worked with Professor G.A. Cohen, following collaborative research with a group of 'Analytical Marxists', which he had begun in the United States, together with Professors Jon Elster and Adam Przeworski. Professor Gargarella has also been awarded a John Simon Guggenheim scholarship (2000), and a Fulbright scholarship (2010). He has taught at numerous universities, including the New School for Social Research, Columbia University, Bergen University, and Southwestern University. In recent years, Professor Gargarella has specialised in comparative American Constitutionalism and published a number of articles and books that will provide the foundations for his visit at UCL, including The Legal Foundation of Inequality: Constitutionalism in the Americas, 1776-1860(Cambridge University Press, 2010), and 200 Years of Latin American Constitutionalism(forthcoming, Oxford University Press, 2013).
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The Future of EU Social Policy
Professor Catherine Barnard (Cambridge)
|About this lecture
If the critics are right, the EU social model is dead and that's the end of it. Those on the right may well be dancing on its grave; those more sympathetic might mourn its passing. My view is more sanguine. In this lecture I shall argue that the European social model is facing unprecedented challenges: to its very raison d'être and to its future. However, I will suggest that these challenges, caused in part by the EU's response to the crisis but more generally resulting from a growing hostility towards the European Union project as a whole, are not terminal and that there is a continued role for European social policy. The lecture will examine first, why EU social policy is facing such difficulties, second, the EU's long-standing ability to regenerate and resurrect itself in different guises in the field of social policy, and third, it will make some suggestions as to the form EU social policy might take going forward.


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Truman State University is engaged in a limited number of partnerships with individual school systems to offer dual credit opportunities to high school students. Pilot programs in mathematics and English composition launched in Fall 2012. Truman is looking to expand these relationships on a school-by-school basis as school needs warrant. If your school is interested in starting a dual credit program, please contact the Dr. Kevin Minch, Director of the Truman Institute, for more information.
If you or your school are interested in participating in Truman's Competency-Based Mathematics Program (College Algebra and Plane Trigonometry) click here.
Current Dual Credit Partnerships
Calculus I & II (College Level) with Kirksville R-III Schools (Kirksville)
Writing as Critical Thinking (High School Composition I & II) with Gasconade Country R-I (Hermann)
Applying for Dual Credit Programs
Your school will receive instructions from the Truman Institute regarding how to apply for your specific dual credit program. In most cases you will either be presented with a paper application or you will be directed to an online application. In either case you will be asked to sign a statement acknowledging that you understand the dual credit policies as they apply to your school and parents will be required to sign as well.
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Q: What is dual credit?
A: The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education defines Dual Credit as: "postsecondary courses that are taught on the high school campus. These courses are taught by qualified instructors as defined by The Coordinating Board for Higher Education and are of the same quality and rigor as all other college courses available to regular college students."
Q: How is dual credit different than dual enrollment?
A: The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education defines Dual Enrollment as: "high school students taking postsecondary classes and who are physically present on the postsecondary education campus for those classes." Typically, for students working with Truman, a dual enrollment class would be a course taken in the evening, on the weekend, or during the summer as a non-degree seeking student. Typically Truman does not offer dual enrollment coursework to high school students during the regular school day.
Q: What is competency-based credit?
A: In the Truman State University context, a competency-based course is a course in which students are given credit for demonstrating they have met the learning objectives of the course (fulfilled specific, measurable competencies) by completing one or more tests that demonstrate completion. Truman's Competency-Based Mathematics Program is offered in partnership with a dozen high schools to deliver this sort of experience in College Algebra and Plane Trigonometry. From the perspective of DESE, "School districts may award high school credit to students upon demonstration of mastery of the competencies for a particular course. School districts wishing to award credit based on demonstration of a mastery of the course competencies must notify DESE. School districts must assure that the expected level of performance would demonstrate that a student has mastered the course competencies and may receive credit for the class. "
Q: Who is eligible for dual credit?
A: According to the Missouri Department of Higher Education: "The eligibility of high school students to participate in dual credit courses may vary in accordance with the admission standards of the college or university offering the courses in the high school. For all institutions, however, students must have a minimum overall grade point average of 3.0 (on a 4.0 scale) or the equivalent and be recommended by the high school principal or his or her official designee. High school students must also meet the same requirements for admission to individual courses (e.g., English or mathematics) as those required of on-campus students (e.g., ACT, ASSET, or other placement test scores). Specific placement tests may not be required for admission to some college courses; however, if the high school administers a competency assessment in an area related to the dual credit course, high school juniors and seniors must score at proficient or above on the MAP or achieve an equivalent score on a comparable assessment. Performance on the MAP or a related assessment test should be verified in the high school principal's or official designee's recommendation that the student participate in a dual credit course. High school juniors and seniors who meet the above requirements will be eligible for dual credit courses. Under special circumstances, freshmen and sophomores with superior academic talents may take dual credit courses. Freshmen and sophomores must demonstrate their competency by scoring at the 90th percentile or above on the ACT or SAT. Moreover, the recommending high school counselor and the college academic department official must concur that a younger student can benefit from dual credit in the specific course and learn at the collegiate level.
Q: How much does it cost to take a dual credit course?
A: Truman dual credit courses are $85 per credit hour. Truman competency-based courses (MATH 156 and MATH 157, through the Competency-Based Mathematics Program for High Schools) are typically $120 per credit hour. Dual enrollment courses are charged at the prevailing undergraduate hourly tuition rate at the time of enrollment.
Q: What if my child wants to take the high school course, but not the college course?
A: Under the policies of the State of Missouri, a student enrolled in a dual credit section at their high school must be afforded the same educational experience regardless of whether they elect to take the course for Truman credit or not.
Q: Is the dual credit transferrable to colleges other than Truman?
A: Yes. Because the credit is Truman credit it should be accepted anywhere in the state that transfers the "42-hour block" of general education requirements.
Q: If my child takes a dual credit course from Truman, do they have to attend class only when Truman is in session?
A: They are required to attend class when their high school is in session. When their high school is on break, the course will not convene. When Truman is on break, however, high school classes will still meet. While every effort is made to match the scheduling of content and assessments at the local school to those of the University, typically there are more hours of direct contact between the local teacher and students than there would be in a college course.
Q: Do Truman faculty/staff tuition discounts apply to dual credit?
A: No. Faculty and staff discounts only apply to regular Truman tuition.
Q: What if my child starts the class and doesn't like it? Can they get a refund? Can they quit without a penalty?
A: Normal Truman refund and withdrawal dates apply. These vary from semester to semester and you should consult your school's registration packet for these dates. Normally any withdrawal after the first week of class at Truman will result in some accrual of penalties.
Q: If my child is doing well in the dual credit section, but has not enrolled, can they later enroll for credit?
A: No. This is prohibited by state policies. Students must enroll like any other student in order to receive credit.
Q: Is a dual credit course more challenging?
A: Dual credit courses are college-level learning experiences. Consequently, students should be prepared for these experiences and the work that these experiences entails. Typically, college students should spend two hours working outside of class for every one hour they spend in the classroom. Thus, for a three-credit class, students will probably spend about six additional hours working outside of class on homework each week. In more challenging subjects, the number of hours required will vary. Students engaged in dual credit courses should be students who are committed learners, performing at the top of their class, who are seriously interested in pursuing a college career.


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Bowling Green State University senior forward A'uston Calhoun was named Second Team All-MAC and senior point guard Jordon Crawford earned honorable mention, in voting by the league's 12 head coaches.
Calhoun was named second team All-MAC for the second consecutive season after being named honorable mention as a sophomore in 2010-11. He leads BGSU and ranks sixth in the MAC at 15.3 points per game and is also sixth in the league in rebounding at 7.2 per contest. As well, Calhoun shoots 78 percent from the free-throw line (10th in the league) and is fourth in the MAC in minutes played, at 34.0 per contest. He shoots 45 percent from the field and has become a three-point threat, making 36 percent of his long range shots, knocking down 21 on the year.
Calhoun also ranks 19th all-time at BGSU with 1,327 career points, leaving him just 29 shy of NBA Hall of Famer Nate Thurmond for 18th on the list. He also needs just three rebounds for 600 in his career.
Crawford earned honorable mention All-MAC status after ranking seventh in the league at 15.1 points per game. He is also fifth in assists (4.4 per contest) and sixth in steals (1.7 per game). Crawford's 34.8 minutes per game are the most in the conference. He is shooting 76 percent from the free-throw line and has made a team-high 52 three-pointers.
Crawford ranks among the top 10 all-time at BGSU in three statistical categories, led by assists. He is fourth all-time with 469 and is fifth in steals at 181. Crawford also has made 120 three-pointers, 10th in BGSU history.
BGSU is 13-18 on the season and finished the year with a 7-9 record in Mid-American Conference play. The Falcons, seeded No. 6 for the league tournament, hosts No. 11 seed Miami in the opening round Monday night at 7 p.m. The winner will play in the second round Wednesday at 9 p.m. at Cleveland's Quicken Loans Arena.
All-MAC First Team
Zeke Marshall, C, Akron
Javon McCrea, F, Buffalo
Chris Evans, W/F, Kent State
Rian Pearson, G, Toledo
D.J. Cooper, G, Ohio
All-MAC Second Team
Demetrius "Tree" Treadwell, F, Akron
Jauwan Scaife, G, Ball State
A'uston Calhoun, F, Bowling Green
Kyle Randall, G, Central Michigan
Shayne Whittington, F/C, Western Michigan
All-MAC Third Team
Majok Majok, F, Ball State
Randal Holt, G, Kent State
Walter Offutt, G, Ohio
Reggie Keely, F, Ohio
Julius "Juice" Brown, G, Toledo
Honorable Mention
Alex Abreu, G, Akron
Jordon Crawford, G, Bowling Green
Glenn Bryant, F, Eastern Michigan
Will Felder, F, Miami
Nate Hutcheson, F, Western Michigan
MAC All-Freshman Team
Jake Kretzer, G/F, Akron
Jarryn Skeete, G, Buffalo
Chris Fowler, G, Central Michigan
Nathan Boothe, C, Toledo
Darius Paul, F, Western Michigan


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The Webster Parish high schools are getting into the meat of their district schedules this week, and all schools will play two district games this week.
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Minden High
The Crimson Tide and Lady Tiders will host Huntington tonight with the Lady Tiders tipping off at 6 p.m. and the Tide following at 7 p.m.


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AND I'M GONNA TOSS CHOCOLATE COINS TO ANY OTHER BIOSHOCK COSPLAYERS!! (or anyone who would like some chocolate money anyway)
I literally already bought a bunch of bags, and I've been practicing my throwing arm! ;D
Hope to see everybody there!! Most likely I'll be wandering around the mall and hotel areas since I don't have a badge! Oops!


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UNIVERSITY PARK | Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park at Governors State University is hosting a full day of exciting activities at its inaugural Iron Pour Jamboree, a family event from 10:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Oct. 6.
The Iron Pour Jamboree is a unique opportunity to see how metal sculptures are created, to produce your own art, and to witness spectacular results when fire and iron come together. It takes place in and around the nationally renowned Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park, a collection of 27 extraordinary works of art placed amid GSU's prairie landscape, and at the height of the park's autumn color.
As night falls,the sculpture park will present the Iron Pour Spectacle, a once-in-a-lifetime visual display commemorating the 141st anniversary of the Great Chicago Fire. The Iron Pour Spectacle will be offered free of charge.
"This is a very exciting event for us," said park director and curator Geoffrey Bates. "We're pleased to have several prominent artists helping to guide our first-ever Iron Pour Jamboree. Anyone who has ever attended an iron pour knows they have been part of a remarkable experience. By presenting these elemental, powerful aspects of the creative process, we are offering a rare and unforgettable look at how metal sculpture is made."
From 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., participants can join artists and students as they create sculptures by using scratch molds, small molds for making simple relief sculptures. Carolyn Ottmers, Chicago-based sculptor and chair of the sculpture area at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, will supervise the melting of 5,000 pounds of iron for pouring into scratch molds, which will be available for purchase.
Members of the International Sculpture Center, students from Governors State University and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and friends of the Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park will also be taking part in the Iron Pour Jamboree.
Tickets for the Iron Pour Jamboree are $25 before Oct. 6 and $35 on the day of the event. Scratch molds cost $20. For more information, to make reservations, or to buy tickets, contact Bates at (708) 534-4486 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
The Iron Pour Spectacle takes place from 5 to 7 p.m. Boston-based artists Marjee Levine and Dan Kendall will pay homage to the Great Chicago Fire, whose anniversary falls on Oct. 8. Spectators will see Levine and Kendall fire up an iron foundry and then tap it to create orange ribbons of molten iron that will flow across the landscape in wooden troughs, dripping gently onto a large-scale leather map of the city of Chicago.
Other activities at GSU and the sculpture park are also scheduled during the Iron Pour Jamboree. From 4:30 to 7:30 p.m., the sculpture park is hosting a closing reception in the GSU Visual Arts Gallery, located in E-Lounge, for "Ways of Making: Sculpture," an exhibit featuring the work of Chicago-based sculptors Juan Angel Chavez, Barbara Cooper, Bob Emser, and Vivian Visser. It is free and open to the public.
Food will be available after noon and throughout the rest of the afternoon. And an autumn afternoon is a perfect time to experience the monumental art and rolling Midwest landscape at Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park.
Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park is located at Governors State University's main campus in University Park. The park is free of charge and open from dawn to dusk 365 days a year. For more information about the sculpture park, visit www.govst.edu/sculpture or call (708) 534-4486.


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7 Weeks Out
The Minnesota State Cyclocross Weekend is only seven weeks away.
Lots of behind the scenes work is going on as we prepare for the biggest weekend of cyclocross in Minnesota history:
- Sponsors are chomping at the bit to be located within the expo area located near the sand pit.
- Food vendors have been secured and will be offering beer and frites for your pleasure.
- Local cyclocross personalities, Michael Pederson and Scott Robertson (2003 35+ State Champion) are working on a course that includes all of the favorite parts of the traditional Crystal venue.
- We have recently added a new registered riders list to the site so racers can see who has registered. Remember that registration determines your start order and this list will be updated manually (so don't worry if it doesn't show up right away).
- Advertisements have been placed on regional websites with the hope of increasing out of town participation. We have already heard of racers coming from Illinois, Iowa, Manitoba, North Dakota, Ontario and Wisconsin!
- The website is being updated daily with new information including past results, course descriptions and sponsor profiles.
- Finally, here is a feature story on Cyclingnews.com from the 2003 State CX Championships at Bassett Creek!
As always, if you have any questions or comments feel free to contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com