text:
Showing 97-148 of 148 items found in Shopping
Dielman's Asparagus Patch
Pick up fresh asparagus at this roadside spot from mid-April through the end of May.
CITY: Monticello
3 French Hens Country Market
Bringing the tradition of Open Air Euro Markets to the Midwest, 3 French Hens Country Market is held on the grassy banks of the Historic I&M Canal in downtown Morris, IL. Featuring more than 140 vendors selling homemade, homegrown, antique, one of a kind and repurposed items. Open the second Saturday May, June, July, August, September and October from 8am-2pm, rain or shine!
CITY: Morris
Ackerman Farms
Ackerman Farms, celebrating over 100 years as a working family farm, invites everyone to join us from the 3rd week in August through the 3rd week in December. We feature over 150 different varieties of pumpkins and squash in all shapes and sizes, over 25 varieties of beautiful hardy mums, and over 15 varieties of apples from our orchard - everything you need for your fall decorations and for your table. Plan to spend the afternoon with us in our family friendly corn maze, ride a hay rack, browse the gift shop and visit our friendly farm animals. At Christmas, join us for hot cider by a cozy fire and leisurely shop our wonderful Christmas selection of gifts and decor. Don't forget to call us to schedule birthday parties or class field trips.
CITY: Morton
Mt. Vernon Market
Mt. Vernon Market is located at the former armory building in downtown Mt. Vernon and features farmers markets, flea markets, vendor fairs, trade shows, entertainment, and other events throughout the year.
CITY: Mount Vernon
Mileur Orchard
Mileur Orchard offers fresh-picked peaches from July to mid-September. Apples are harvested in early September, and are available into October.
CITY: Murphysboro
Bigard Orchard & Berries
Stop by for fresh strawberries May-June, and peaches from July-August.
CITY: Newton
Ropp Jersey Cheese Farm
Visit the farm and learn how fine quality cheeses are made. Explore the grounds and pet the purebred, prize-winning Jersey calves. Then take a look through the 600-square-foot Ropp Jersey Cheese retail store, featuring a cheese slicing room with viewing windows.
CITY: Normal
Uptown Normal
Uptown Normal has undergone a renaissance, with a recent overhaul of the area that included new streets and sidewalks, plus the addition of the Bloomington-Normal Marriott Hotel & Conference Center. Charming restaurants and shops populate Uptown Normal, including Babbitt's Books, which offers hard-to-find rare antique books.
CITY: Normal
Main Street Farmer's Market of Olney
The market features home-grown & produced items. Naturally raised & organic products are highly encouraged. Come out, enjoy our community, support our local economy & eat well. The market is Saturdays from 7:00 a.m. till 11:00 a.m. June through October.
CITY: Olney
Orangeville Farmers Market
Enjoy fresh produce, fresh baked goods, crafts and more provided by local farmers. Open: 8 am - Noon. First Saturday in July through Second Saturday in October.
CITY: Orangeville
Oswego Country Market
Fresh produce, herbs, flowers, plants and homemade goods are some of the sights and smells at this old-fashioned summer market, held on Sundays, June through September, from 9am-1pm on Main Street in downtown Oswego.
CITY: Oswego
Market on Main Street
Friday nights will never be the same. Don't miss the all new Market on Main Street in historic downtown Oswego. There will be quality antiques, re-purposed finds, vintage treasures, handmade items, entertainment, food and more. The shops and restaurants in downtown Oswego will be open late as well. Held the last Friday of the months of July, August, and September.
CITY: Oswego
River Junktion Market
Join us at the inaugural market debuting on Saturday June 7, 2014 at the junction of the Fox & Illinois Rivers. In conjunction with the third annual 2 Rivers Wine Festival, which annually attracts thousands of attendees from near & far, you can't miss! River JunKtion will 'plus' Ottawa's best established festivals. Wine Fest (June 7), Riverfest (August 2), Scarecrow/Oktoberfest (September 27 ) & a stand alone Holiday market in November (tba). Rest assured, a major influx of people will already be in Ottawa to attend these festivals & will wander over to the new, scenic 26 acre prime Riverfront location, set with trees, greenspace, parking & natural beauty. Ottawa park venue.
CITY: Ottawa
Palos Heights Farmers Market
Wonderful fruits and vegetables (some organic) along with honey, jams, bakery & bread items, olive oils & vinegars, cheeses, eggs, meats and much more every week! Farmers Market is open June 12 - October 9.
CITY: Palos Heights
Peoria Farmers Market at the Metro Centre
The Peoria Farmers Market at the Metro Centre was founded in 1977 by community leader Marvin L. Goodman. It was his vision to promote healthy eating while bringing together consumers and farmers from all over Central Illinois to a marketplace with a wide variety of fresh, locally-grown produce. Thirty plus years later his vision still holds true. The Peoria Farmers Market is a great place to get fresh produce, flowers, pasta, and much more. If you like to support local farmers and enjoy a relaxed atmosphere this would be your kind of place.
CITY: Peoria
Peoria RiverFront Farmers Market
Peoria's RiverFront Market features Illinois grown produce, local meats, cheeses, fresh breads, herbs, and flowers, plus a great selection of local art including jewelry, pottery, wood-turned items,candles, and much more. Only products grown or made in Illinois will be sold at our market. We are located in the Water Street parking lot (300 SW Water St), between Liberty and Harrison Streets, and also in the Liberty Park area. Plenty of free parking is available in surrounding lots and streets. Watch for new vendors, more entertainment, and lots of fun in the 2014 season!
CITY: Peoria
The Farm
The Farm includes 23 theme gardens, a rustic shop in the barn featuring herbal gifts and supplies, picnics, hayrides and a greenhouse.
CITY: Petersburg
Market on the Green
Pittsfield's Main Street Farmer's Market, featuring fresh, local products and produce, is a true summer treat! Enjoy this farmer's market June through September.
CITY: Pittsfield
Edwards Orchard
Open August through November, come visit our farm this fall to share in our rustic culture and enjoy a taste of the season. Many varieties of apples to taste. Also available, in season, are raspberries, pumpkins, home-made goodies, and our famous apple cider donuts. Take a horse drawn ride out to the orchard to pick your own apples too. Family tradition starts here! There's a petting zoo too.
CITY: Poplar Grove
A Hundred Acres Orchard and Market
A fun-filled orchard featuring apples, berries, melons. The indoor market is filled with jams, jellies, sauces, dips, salsas, candy and homemade "take n bake" pies. Also unique is the Krazy Kernel Kettle Korn, produced right in Princeton! Specialty cheeses, such as Antonella, Buffalo Wing Jack, and Tomato Basil Yellow Cheddar are also available. Pair these cheeses with some of the wines that are sold in the new wine shop, or enjoy your purchase on the newly constructed outdoor patio area. The Cider Mill banquet room has been expanded to accommodate 200 guests, so plan your wedding, reception, party, or reunion here!
CITY: Princeton
Enchanted Forest
Choose and cut your own Christmas tree here. On weekends, caboose rides help transport your tree out of the Enchanted Forest.
CITY: Prophetstown
Mill Creek Farms
Mill Creek Farms' season begins in mid-April with asparagus, mid-May though June for strawberries, early July through August for sweet corn, tomatoes, and green beans, and October for pumpkins. Pumpkin picking, a corn maze and hay rides are offered weekends in October. Support local farming and fun with family or friends!
CITY: Quincy
Granny's Berries
Stop by and pick your own blueberries and red raspberries.
CITY: Rochelle
Edgebrook Farmers Market
Sample the area's best seasonal Farmer's Market. Dozens of local farmers display their highest quality vegetables, fruits, flowers and plants.
CITY: Rockford
Lyon's Fisheries
This fresh water shrimp (prawn) farm offers agricultural tours and harvest festivals in the fall. Prawn, catfish and hushpuppies are available for purchase.
CITY: Sandoval
Larson's Family Farm
Open throughout October, enjoy scenic hayrides on weekends, a pumpkin patch, the Barn Store, and Christmas trees after Thanksgiving.
CITY: Sandwich
The Corn Crib
Offers locally grown strawberries, Mirai sweet corn, potatoes, cabbage, cucumbers, peppers, tomatoes, green beans, turnips, melons and zucchini. Open mid June to mid October, Monday through Friday 9am to 6pm and Saturday 9am to 3pm. Closed on Sundays.
CITY: Shawneetown
Goebbert's Pumpkin Farm and Garden Center
Fall: festival with haunted house, corn maze, farm animals, and more. Spring/Summer: large selection of annuals, perennials, vegetable plants, trees, shrubs, aquatic plants, roses, planters, and gourmet food items. Admission is free - cost for some activities.
CITY: South Barrington
Tanner's Orchard
Central Illinois' most unique farm market. Wagon rides, playground, corn maze, farm animals, Apple Express train. Farm market filled with unique gifts, fresh produce and specialty foods such as jams, salsas, soups, etc. The large bakery provides an assortment of fresh baked goods and a great lunch on weekdays. Lunch served on weekends in September and October from The Old Market Eatery.
CITY: Speer
Old Capitol Farmers Market
Peruse two full blocks of Illinois grown tomatoes, berries, meats, eggs, herbs, flowers and much more! Open May through October.
CITY: Springfield
Illinois Products Farmers Market
Held at the Illinois State Fairgrounds Commodities Pavilion across from the grandstand, The Illinois Products Farmers Market features fresh fruits and vegetables, baked goods, Illinois wine and craft beer, plants and flowers Live entertainment, health screenings, kids activities and more! Takes place every Thursday, excluding Aug. 7 & 14 due to the Illinois State Fair.
CITY: Springfield
Buxton's Garden Farm
Open year-round and offering annual and perennial flowers, mums, fall decor, pumpkins, squash, and fall treats. Known also for the 7 acre corn maze, haunted maze and mind twisted maze. School tours and groups welcome. Christmas trees and wreaths offered in winter months.
CITY: Sullivan
Nature's Bounty
Buy dried herbs and flowers, or pick your own red and golden delicious apples.
CITY: Sullivan
Graber Produce Patch
This roadside produce stand offers asparagus, radishes, eggplant and sweet corn.
CITY: Sullivan
Schlabachs Berries
Stop at this roadside spot and pick your own strawberries.
CITY: Sullivan
Johnson's Farmstand and Corn Maze
The 10-acre corn maze is open Friday through Sunday, with special flashlight nights. Farm stand open daily from 10am-6pm.
CITY: Sycamore
Johnson's Family Farm
Our farm is not a large scale operation but we are a family run operation that does its best to provide you the customer with a good product and a friendly smile when you come for a visit. We offer 12 acres of mazes, fall decorations, and pumpkins and gourdes galore! So gather up the kids, find some friends and venture out to Sycamore Illinois and start some great memories!
CITY: Sycamore
Tinley Park Farmer's Market
Visit the Farmer's Market every week for the best selection of fruits, vegetables, and fresh flowers.
CITY: Tinley Park
Moran Orchard
Pick your own strawberries in season, and buy fall apples, Indian corn, pumpkins and gourds.
CITY: Trilla
Kleiss Produce Farm and Country Market
This Champaign-Urbana area farmer's market sells in-season vegetables, melons, pumpkins and fruits.
CITY: Tuscola
Prairie Sky Orchard
Our small family-run business is celebrating over 20 years of bringing your family the delights of the autumn harvest. Apple picking is a great way to spend a crisp autumn day with friends and family. We planted our first 100 apple trees in 1996. Since then we have planted an additional 1900 trees.
CITY: Union
Urbana's Market at the Square
Join thousands of residents and visitors during Market season and connect with growers at Urbana's Market at the Square. Choose locally-raised foods and treasure-hunt among the art and craft vendor booths. Gather information about local non-profits, schools and other community groups on our Community Row. Catch up with friends, take in a set from local performers, and enjoy the public square atmosphere the Market has to offer. Saturday morning at Urbana's Market at the Square is one of our city's signature institutions. It's a great way to kick off your weekend! Open May through November.
CITY: Urbana
Harmony Hill Orchard
Stop by and pick up certified organic apples and peaches.
CITY: Virginia
Wauconda Farmer's Market
Come out, take a stroll and shop for fresh produce, flowers, herbs, spices, baked goods, and a myriad of other products. Also enjoy live entertainment including local musicians, a pet parade, a scarecrow building contest and comprise the market. Please visit the website for more information.
CITY: Wauconda
Seat's Orchard
This orchard is known for its strawberries and apples.
CITY: West Salem
Varvil Orchard
This orchard offers in-season peaches, apples, pears and pumpkins.
CITY: Wheeler
Homestead Orchard
This u-pick orchard features 14 varieties of apples, plus rhubarb and raspberries. The Homestead's store is located in a century-old horse barn, stocked with homemade honey, candles, dried flowers, dried apple chips and more.
CITY: Woodstock
Country Cabin Orchard and Nursery
This u-pick apple orchard (with eight varieties), also includes a petting zoo, gift shop, wagon rides, pumpkin patch, Christmas trees, donuts, pies, bakery and fall nursery. Open mid-September through December 24.
CITY: Woodstock
More Than Delicious Orchard
This seasonal orchard offers more than 80 varieties of apples and pears.
CITY: Woodstock
Oney's Tree Farm
Enjoy a horse-drawn carriage ride to find your perfect Christmas tree and browse the gift shop.
CITY: Woodstock
Red Barn Market
It's spring and we are open 8 to 6 everyday. We now have a great selection of vegetable plants, herbs, annuals, perennials, and hanging baskets. New plans are coming in every week. As always there is pottery, outdoor furniture, and fountains. Also, we have fresh asparagus direct from or farm. Come today and check us out!
CITY: Woodstock
All Seasons Apple Orchard
Take a wagon ride to the orchard where you will be surrounded by thousands of apples trees and 12 varieties of apples and pears. Enjoy seasonal activities like pumpkin picking and the corn maze. There is also a cow train, goat bridge, corn crib, giant swings, a spider web, jumping pillow and a petting zoo. The weekends even have pig races and a magic show for the kids. Take your whole family down for some apple picking and make sure to stick around for the many other activities.
CITY: Woodstock


text:
NTFS & HFS+ for Android
Call us: 1-888-347-5462 Login to MyAccount
Subscribe to news & special offers: More info
Why Paragon NTFS & HFS+ for Android?
Key Scenarios
Recording a broadcasted program onto NTFS-formatted storage
A Windows PC user wants to record a program received by an Android-based media center to his USB stick that uses an NTFS file system. Again, there is no built-in NTFS driver to write data on NTFS partition directly.
Easy data interchange with MacOS-formatted HFS+ storage interoperatibility
Imagine the following scenario: a MacOS user copies a new movie onto an HFS+ formatted portable HDD to play on a friend's Android-based media player. Due to the lack of built-in HFS+ driver, the movie cannot be viewed and the friends' evening is ruined.
Key features
System Requirements
Get it from Google Play!
Size: 1.23MB
Note: download is available from Google Play
7 Reasons to use latest Paragon NTFS & HFS+ for Android:

subset: commoncrawl


text:
|Bars, Clubs, Museums, Internet cafe, Mal
|2 blocks
|High Season
|Low Season
|High Season
|Low Season
Ecuadorian Jungle on a budget Banana Lodge
Rio Napo, Ecuador Bed & Breakfasts
Accommodation in cosy ample rooms in the green zone of Misahualli in a 10 min walk from the center. Great river view, tropical garden, hammocks, free internet Wi-Fi. Tailored jungle tours. English speaking owner....
Starting at $15 Per Night
Yoga and Surf in Ecuador
Salinas, Ecuador Bed & Breakfasts
A 10 room hotel that is uniquely designed with a perfect balance of stone and bamboo, encompassed by an infinite supply of good energy! Providing a comfortable and tranquil place to relax, surf and do yoga; the perfect balance for your vacation!...
Starting at $25 Per Night
Your Passport to Affordable Accomodation
Coast, Ecuador Bed & Breakfasts
Hostal Alborada is a family owned guesthouse dedicated to travelers from all over the world who want to experience the great city of Guayaquil....
$10 Per Night
Hotel Cafe Cultura
Quito, Ecuador Hotels & Resorts
One of the best boutique hotels in Quito...
$79 Per Night/Room
El Cipres Hostel
Quito, Ecuador Youth Hostels
We are located in a very nice area of the city.Our prices start at $6.50 USD per person for more information just give us a call or send an e-mail....
Chicago Hostal
Quito, Ecuador Youth Hostels
Chicago hostel is located in Old Quito, very close to places where you can sense the history that has happened throughout the ages......
$11 Per Night
Hostal Jhomana
Quito, Ecuador Youth Hostels
Hostal Jhomana in Quito is run by an Ecuadorian/Swedish couple who are focused on quality and excellent service to their guests. FREE INTERNET...
$16 Per Night
Hostal La Posada Colonial
Quito, Ecuador Youth Hostels
Fantastic colonial hostel very well located in the old town of Quito. It has a great cozy atmosphere in t...
$7 Per Night
Casa Agua Canela
Quito, Ecuador Youth Hostels
This casa invites you to share the local family atmosphere that provides visitors with a rich cultural perspective of Ecuador....
$9 Per Night
Casa Kanela
Quito, Ecuador Youth Hostels
This is a historical protected house recently restored. At La Marical district, little property with only nine rooms. Beautiful house in a beautiful street....
$14 Per Night
Stoning horsebak rides in the Andes
Quito, Ecuador Horseback Riding
La Escondida provides a variety of activities. Guests can horseback ride, mountain bike or hike as well; beginners, intermediate and advance riders are all very welcome. We offer rides from 1 to 12 days by unique trails with stoning views...
Starting from $150 Per Night
High Altitude Horseback Riding
Chimborazo, Ecuador Horseback Riding
Saddle up and ride round the rocky lunar landscapes of the Ecuadorian Andes. We start horseback riding in the shadow of the volcano Chimborazo 6310m (20,565 ft) and ride through remote indigenous villages for two days and stay the night in Salinas....
Starting at $150 Per Person
The Andean Bicycle Travel Company
Banos, Ecuador Bike Tours
Tour the Ecuadorian Andes by mountain bike! Hacienda-to-hacienda tours, volcano views, screaming downhills, challenging uphills on mounain roads. Lodging, food, guide service packages. Mostly unsupported rides based from our hotel in Banos, Ecuador....
$100 Per Night/Pers
Lost World Adventures
Quito, Ecuador Eco Tours
LOST WORLD ADVENTURES arranges specialized tours and expeditions in South America and Central America. Our company was founded in 1986, when we pioneered our first adventure trips into Venezuela. We now arrange travel throughout Latin America....
Get the feeling of being in another exotic country
Western Lowlands, Ecuador Eco Tours
Arasha has been honoured with 12 international awards by "World Travel Awards" London, UK Aside we have workshops, 18 hole Mini Golf, Heated pool, Theatre for 129 guests and more than 12 other activities....
$135 Per Night
Trek Altar
Riobamba, Ecuador Eco Tours
El Altar is an extinct volcano which experts believe may have been the tallest mountain on earth until it exploded under its weight 500 years ago leaving only 9 jagged peaks that reach 5000 meters into the sky like a claw. Treks to the crater lake...
Starting at $275 Per Person
Learn Spanish fast!
Quito, Ecuador Language Schools
Schools in Ecuador, Peru & Bolivia. Proud to be the friendliest Spanish School you have ever known. 9 levels, for complete beginners-advanced. Experienced teachers, carefully selected host families. Volunteer program, university credits available....
$135 Per Week
AHStudies: Languages&tourism
Quito, Ecuador Language Schools
AHStudies:Designed Spanish lessons to your individual needs and skill levels. Programs in Quito, Cuenca, Pto. L�pez, Montañita and On-Line; covering vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation and conversation. Outings to the cultural highlights of the cou...
Starting at $180 Per Week
Napo Wildlife Adventure
Rio Napo, Ecuador Archaeology
Napo Wildlife Center is the greatest luxury alternative eco-hotel in the Ecuador Amazon. This ecotourism project include conservation of approximately over 82 miles2 of the most pristine Amazon Rainforest within the Yasuni, a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve...
$752 Per Trip
Spondylus & Green Coast Tour Ecuador
Quito, Ecuador Sight-Seeing Tours
Enjoy part of the Ecuadorian Coast, vetween sun, incredible wild life experience, relax, and cultural learning about the paradise of Ecuador...
From $750 Per Person
|Link Code


text:
President Barack Obama proposed a $3.9 trillion federal budget on Tuesday that calls for spending billions more on infrastructure, raising taxes on the wealthy and closing the gap between rich and poor that he has vowed to make a focus of his second term.
The budget — drafted with this fall's congressional elections on the horizon — includes a host of policies likely to appeal to Democratic voters, such as expanding early childhood education, raising tobacco taxes and boosting a tax credit for the poor.
For Maryland, the spending plan would set aside $100 million in the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1 for Baltimore's Red Line and an equal amount for the Purple Line in the state's Washington suburbs. Local officials described the provisions as a significant commitment for two of the state's largest transportation projects.
The president's budget is widely considered a nonstarter in Congress — in part because the midterm elections in November will further stoke partisan tensions on Capitol Hill but also because lawmakers have already approved a budget agreement that sets spending levels for the coming fiscal year.
And yet the proposal provides some insight into the policies Obama will pursue during his final years in the White House, as the economy continues its slow recovery and Republican leaders in Congress pivot away from the bruising battles over federal budget deficits that culminated in last year's government shutdown.
"Our budget is about choices. It's about our values," the president said Tuesday at an elementary school in Washington.
"As a country, we've got to make a decision if we're going to protect tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans, or if we're going to make smart investments necessary to create jobs and grow our economy."
Republicans, including House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, immediately dismissed the proposal as unrealistic and political.
"This budget isn't a serious document," the Wisconsin lawmaker and former GOP vice presidential nominee said. "It's a campaign brochure."
But even if none of Obama's budget becomes law, officials believe the spending proposed for Maryland's rail projects is an important signal that the U.S. Department of Transportation is ready to engage in negotiations over funding. The Red Line, with a total estimated cost of $2.6 billion, would run across the city, from Woodlawn through downtown Baltimore to Bayview.
"The transit numbers are really good news," said Sen. Ben Cardin, a Maryland Democrat. "It puts us in line for a full funding agreement."
Donald Fry, president and CEO of the Greater Baltimore Committee, called its inclusion in the president's budget "a significant step [because] it indicates that this project is seen as meritorious."
The proposal included other provisions important for the state as well. Federal employee unions that were critical of the president's budget last year praised the proposal he put forward on Tuesday, noting new spending for workforce training and recruitment. Maryland is home to more than 300,000 federal workers — one of the highest concentrations in the country.
But state officials said they are concerned about other aspects of the budget. The federal program that helps low-income families pay for heating costs would be cut by 18 percent to $2.8 billion if the president's recommendation were approved. That program serves about 114,000 Marylanders.
Funding for one Environmental Protection Agency program focused on cleaning the Chesapeake Bay would increase slightly while another would be cut, essentially leaving spending about the same as this year.
And despite a lot of attention paid to medical research and the Bethesda-based National Institutes of Health, several advocates noted the budget calls for only a small bump — roughly $300 million out of the agency's $30.2 billion budget — next year.
The NIH funds 80 percent of federal biomedical research, including work at major institutions such as the Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland.
"Over the past several years there has been significant restraint in growth in the science sector," said Dr. Antony Rosen, vice dean of research at the Hopkins School of Medicine. "The longer that this goes on, the more it imperils [the nation's] future as the leader of scientific discovery."
A year ago, Obama used his budget to try to draw Republicans into negotiations on a large-scale deal to cut the long-term federal deficit.
This year, with the deficit declining, such enticements were largely missing. Most notably, Obama dropped the so-called chained CPI, popular among Republicans but opposed by some Democrats. The approach aims to slow the growth of Social Security payments by changing how cost-of-living increases are calculated.


text:
MADISON, WI (WTAQ) - As of this morning, only nine grey wolves could still be taken in Wisconsin's inaugural hunting season.
The DNR said 107 of the 116 available animals have been either shot-or-trapped.
Zone 6, which covers the lower three-fourths of Wisconsin will be closed to wolf hunting starting at 5 p.m.
That leaves Zone-Three as the only one of the original six still open. That covers a relatively small territory in northwest Wisconsin – in parts of Burnett, Washburn, Rusk, Chippewa, Taylor, Sawyer, and Price counties.
Hunters have been much more successful than anyone expected in Wisconsin's first wolf season.
Some experts did not think the quota would be reached by the time the season was originally scheduled to end on February 28th.
Instead, the season will be history once the final nine animals in the state's quota are taken.


text:
Click here for Fall 2014 Special Topics Course Descriptions
Click here for Summer 2014 Special Topics Course Descriptions
Click here for Spring 2014 Special Topics Course Descriptions
Click here for Fall 2013 Special Topics Course Descriptions
Click here for past Special Topics Course Descriptions
Unless otherwise noted, Special Topics courses are each 3 credits.
Fall 2014
AH3202 Special Topics: Comic Book Cinema: Adventures in Film Adaptation
The role of superheroes and other comic book properties in Hollywood seems to increase with every coming year, with the film industry pinning its hopes on big budget spectacles and tent pole franchises that are rooted in a popular imaginary. Yet the big screen exploits of caped crusaders tells only part of the story of how comics have infiltrated and re-shaped cinema. The proliferation of comic book films has coincided with the growing importance of the global box office, which requires easily relatable narratives and iconic pre-sold properties. In essence, superheroes have become both our modern mythology and our most reliable media brands. At the same time, the growing reputation of graphic novels has transformed our definitions of literature and, in turn, what is acceptable source material for "quality" and "art" films. Charting the rise of comic books and graphic novels as source material for feature films, this course will explore issues of adaptation and ask pressing questions about the form and function of cinema culled from comics. We will touch on issues relating to narrative, aesthetics, politics, nation, race, gender, difference, and the culture of fandom.
Prerequisites: AH100, AH150, HU102
GD234 Special Topics: The Design Laboratory
This course promotes to advocate opportunities for students to collaborate with existing organizations, both non-profit and for-profit, allowing students to obtain real world experience. This student-driven course will develop students' interdisciplinary design and collaboration skills, which are critical skill sets in the field of design. Through various user-based projects, students are expected to explore the role of design in contemporary society. Students are also expected to be proactive in collaboratively developing the infrastructure of The Design Laboratory.
Prerequisites: Foundation courses
GD235 Special Topics: Sustainable Design Studio
This course seeks to introduce the fundamental principles of environmentalism and environmentally friendly design and foster awareness about various forms of sustainability through interdisciplinary design activities. This course provides a comprehensive approach to the environmentally and socially sustainable design projects, which may include information design, package design, life cycle analysis map design and guerrilla campaign design.
Prerequisites: Foundation courses
HU224 Special Topics: Introduction to African American Studies
This course is a broad historical survey of the systems, movements, and ideas that have shaped the experiences of African Americans — including slavery and emancipation, politics and religion, and culture and identity. The course is interdisciplinary in its aim to introduce students to the complexities of the African-American experience as represented through widespread social and political participation and the creation of a rich body of intellectual work, literature, art, and music. We will examine the intellectual and artistic contributions African Americans have made in response to the struggle for emancipation and self-determination. We will also consider a series of questions including the following: When and how did Africans become "African Americans"? How has race been defined in the U.S. context?
Prerequisite: HU102
HU3204 Special Topics: Sexuality in Literature
"Sex, the explanation for everything" (History of Sexuality).
Literature has been a traditional space for exploration of sexuality. This course examines the representations of sexuality and gender, particularly in the twentieth century, through study of theoretical and literary texts. We will look at how these texts construct the relations among sexuality, gender, and identity, and how they place gender and sexuality in relation to other aspects of public and private life, including race and ethnicity.
Prerequisite: HU102, fulfills the Literature (LIT) requirement or a Liberal Arts elective
HU3212 Special Topics: The Art of Storytelling: Discovering the Beauty and Restoring the Connection
This course is designed to deepen the student's appreciation for the art and power of storytelling to build positive community connections. The students will be encouraged to dig more deeply into their own life stories and to risk being vulnerable with each other as they share their stories in a safe and nurturing environment. Students will improve their observation and listening skills. Students will be introduced to marginalized members of our community, people who have been forgotten or set apart (homeless, incarcerated, residents of nursing homes and assisted living facilities, developmentally disabled adults and chronically mentally ill). The students will be challenged to discover and restore the beauty and significance of the stories of these people. Each student will be given the opportunity to create a scripted performance of the story he or she has restored. The performance will be staged for local audiences at TheatreSouth.
Prerequisite: HU102
HU323 Special Topics: African American Literature
This course provides an introduction to twentieth-century African-American literature. We will read writings representative of the Harlem Renaissance, the Civil Rights movement, and Black women's movement. We will think about how these social and intellectual milieus have created new thematic concerns as well as innovative forms in African American writing.
Prerequisites: HU102, fulfills the Literature (LIT) requirement or a Liberal Arts elective
HU3241 Special Topics: Colonial American History
A study of the development of the American colonies from their discovery to the end of the American Revolution. While emphasis is on the English colonial experience, the influences of Spanish, French, and other European cultures are also examined. The study includes social, economic, cultural, and political developments.
Prerequisite: HU102
Il230 Special Topics: Dimensional Illustration
Sculpting characters and environments for production as illustrations, stop action animation assets and gaming industry characterizations, focusing on conceptual illustration, craft and building a visual library of gesture, expression, and texture in a concrete form. The processes are informed by basic sculptural or 3D design practices beginning with sketches, the drawing of standard format character sketches (front, back, side) followed by armature building, the use of polymer clay as a medium, along with clay, cardboard, etc.
Prerequisites: Foundation courses.
IL338 Special Topics: Digital Painting
This course is an introduction to digital painting techniques using Wacom tablets and Adobe Photoshop. There is a strong emphasis on visual development, figurative imagery, composition, color theory, craft. Course work includes drawing and painting digitally from a live model, creating master copies, speed painting, portraiture, and concept art such as character and background design.
Prerequisite: Junior standing or above.
MA221 Special Topics: Mathematics in Music
Music and Mathematics are connected in fundamental ways, and understanding these connections helps you appreciate both, even if you have no special ability in either field. In this course, you will discover how mathematics is involved in making music by learning about harmony, tones and tunings by the ancient Greeks, mathematical patterns in musical compositions, and the artistic attributes of mathematics.
Prerequisite: HU102, fulfills the Mathematics/Natural Science (MA/NS) requirement or a Liberal Arts elective
PH338 Special Topics: Collaborative Exchange
Effective collaboration is an increasingly essential skill for success in the arts. MCA students will join forces with students from other institutions both within the United States and abroad on the creation of unique visual art projects. The course will culminate in student-organized exhibitions showcasing the projects created over the course of the semester. Leveraging new technologies, students will learn to effectively collaborate, create dialogue through visual art, experiment with various modes of communication, form and foster professional connections with other working artists outside of the MCA community, and learn how to organize and execute an exhibition. There will be a focus on photography, but artists of all mediums are welcome to participate.
Prerequisites: Junior standing or above.
PM236 Special Topics: Book-Paper Collaborative
This course will focus on designing and developing a book as a three dimensional project from the beginning to the end by manufacturing the paper, printing the contents, and hand binding the book form itself. The students will develop a skill of complex thinking thru the design of individual project works. Through this class students will learn:
-a classical French link stitch book binding technique
-Art portfolio designing
-different fibers for papermaking
-papermaking techniques such as embedding, embossing, and shaped deckles
-how to make editions of paper that are clean, uniform in thickness and size, and manipulated to fit individual projects
-letter press printing
-polymer plate making
-various alternative print mediums
SS327 Special Topics: Sociology of Marriage, the Family, and Intimate Relationships
A survey of changes in family systems over the years. Areas of study include courtship, love, mate selection, and family problems. The course also examines cross-cultural comparisons and considers alternatives to current traditional family forms. Emphasis is placed on the use of empirical evidence to evaluate popular beliefs.
Prerequisite: HU102, fulfills the Social Science (SS) requirement or a Liberal Arts elective
Summer 2014
Summer Session 1: May 12–30
HU3213 Special Topics: Riding the Rails: A Literary Journey through Doubt to Discovery
Riding the Rails provides an overview of contemporary American literature (i.e. novel, short story, poetry, song, and film) centered on the journey/quest motif, using the symbol of the railroad to examine narrative, setting, character, symbol, and theme. Particular emphasis is placed upon character, theme, symbol (metaphor) and theme against the backdrop of narrative of place. Including the image of the railroad adds both a visual and metaphorical element, seeking to build the analytical capacity of students.
Focusing on such themes and conceptual elements as tragedy, spirituality, doubt/fear/alienation, and initiation/discovery, this course affords the student the opportunity for analysis and examination of a variety of literary genres and reflection on such themes. Simply put, reading good literature helps one to understand human nature, and in a course such as this, students are asked to look for the conceptual ties that not only bind these literary works, but also are linked with contemporary living.
The course emphasizes careful reading, analysis, and interpretation of the selected works. Critical thinking, discussion, and writing about these literary works and art will be used as tools of evaluation. This course counts as a Literature credit or as a Liberal Arts Elective.
Prerequisites: HU102
Summer Session 2: June 2–20
PH336 Special Topics: Advanced Large Format Photography
This course is a studio class that investigates advanced techniques using large format cameras. Students will create photographs within their visual concept and style with a 4×5 camera. Students will learn complex techniques to control the aesthetic aspects of their photographs such as rise, tilt and shift. While students will be shooting film that will be printed digitally, a 48 megapixel, 4×5 digital back will rented so that students can have experience working with professional-level technology.
Prerequisites: PH250 or permission of instructor
Summer Session 3: June 30 – July 18
HU225 Special Topics: The Graphic Novel
This Graphic Novel course offers instruction in the reading of the graphic novel as well as writing and thinking about this sequential art form commonly referred to as comics. We will explore the medium's long and rich history, its storytelling potential, its unique visual grammar, and the cultural, aesthetic and theoretical context of the genre and individual works. This course counts as a Liberal Arts Elective.
Prerequisites: HU102
PM235 Special Topics: Sculptural Papermaking
Students taking this class will learn sculptural techniques using handmade paper and paper pulp. Projects will include work done with wire armatures, vacuum table forming, and pulp spraying. Students will be graded according to proper use of materials, studio cleanliness & safety, attendance & participation, craftsmanship, and creativity of final work.
Spring 2014
AH3201 Special Topics: Realism and Impressionism
This course will survey the history of European art from approximately 1840 until 1880. Students will become familiar with the various schools of mid-century Realism (including Impressionism), and how these movements developed within the context of historical events in France, Britain, Germany, and Italy. Through a close examination of artworks and writings of the time period, students will be able to discuss how Realist artists and thinkers engaged with contemporary politics while laying the groundwork for modernist styles of art.
Prerequisites: AH100, AH150, HU102
AH329 Special Topics: American Art, 1865-1950
This class examines art in the United States from the end of the Civil War in 1865 to the rise of Abstract Expressionism around 1950. We will study painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, illustration, design, and material culture produced by indigenous, native-born, immigrant, and expatriate American artists. Primary themes include post-Civil War imagery related to the issues of national unity, nativism, and immigration; artistic interchange between America and Europe; the arrival, reception, and subsequent flowering of modernism in America; African American artists and movements, including the Harlem Renaissance; regionalism; government patronage and the Great Depression; art by women and art about women; Abstract Expressionism and the end of American Art.
Prerequisites: AH100, AH150, HU102
AH428 Special Topics: Curatorial Practicum: The Art of Ed Perry
Edward H. Perry (1947-2007) was a Memphis College of Art alumnus who created a unique, unusual, and virtually unknown body of work. Using discarded architectural millwork and other scraps of hardwoods, spray-painted canvases, and occasionally electric lights, circuit boards, plastics, and other materials, Perry made constructions that combine two-dimensional and three-dimensional ideas. They could be described as paintings with oversized sculptural frames or sculptures that house paintings. In this class, students will work directly with Perry's art (currently on display at A2H, an architectural and engineering firm in Lakeland, TN, just outside of Memphis). An exhibition of Perry's work is planned for the Memphis College of Art galleries in Fall 2014. In this class, students will help to curate the MCA show by researching Perry and his art, recommending which works should be in the MCA show and how they should be organized, and writing the text that will accompany the works in the show. Students should be prepared for group work. Occasional trips to A2H to view Perry's work will be necessary.
Prerequisites: AH100, AH150, HU102 and permission of instructor
AH621 Special Topics: The Biopic
This graduate seminar will explore an often derided but nevertheless enduring film genre: the biopic. As is the case with literary adaptations, the attempt to summarize a life story within the confines of narrative film is fraught with compromises and controversies. Filmmakers are tasked with condensing the lives of their subjects into a few hours of screen time while also dealing with the political and economic considerations inherent in commercial film production. Focusing heavily on the lives of artists (although not exclusively), we will explore tropes relating to the creative process and definitions of success. Simply put, what makes a subject "worthy" of a biopic? This seminar course will unpack the formal and narrative conventions of the biopic as well as the myriad fissures between popular, personal, and scholarly versions of history.
AH622 Special Topics: Scandalously Conservative: William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Painter of exquisite female nudes, scantily-clad Grecian nymphs, melancholy beggar children, and beautifully costumed peasant girls, William-Adolphe Bouguereau (French, 1825-1905) enjoyed an enormously successful career. Collectors in France and America eagerly paid top dollar for his finely finished, almost photographic works. But even at the height of his fame, more progressive artists—namely the Impressionists—began the assault on his critical reputation. Due to the rise of modernism, Bouguereau was almost entirely forgotten soon after his death, and only rediscovered in the 1980s. This seminar will explore the rise, fall, and rise of Bouguereau through a variety of lenses. In particular, it will consider the artist as related to a variety of complex issues, including: attitudes toward nudity in 19th century America; collectors and collecting; the use of photography; social problems such as poverty and prostitution; religious images for Protestant worship; the rise of Modernism, and the objectification of women.
GD234 Special Topics: The Design Laboratory
This course promotes to advocate opportunities for students to collaborate with existing organizations, both non-profit and for-profit, allowing students to obtain real world experience. This student-driven course will develop students' interdisciplinary design and collaboration skills, which are critical skill sets in the field of design. Through various user-based projects, students are expected to explore the role of design in contemporary society. Students are also expected to be proactive in collaboratively developing the infrastructure of The Design Laboratory.
Prerequisites: Foundation courses
HU228 Special Topics: Conversational French
(1 credit)
Conversational French is designed for those students who have some knowledge of French and would like to "brush up" on their conversational skills. The class will focus mainly on listening and speaking with few interruptions due to corrections. The main goal is communication.
Various scenarios will be used as the impetus for the "conversation du jour". Such situational settings will include public transportation, dining out, museum visits, and topical news items. Students will be given the topics one week in advance and will be expected to pre-load the necessary vocabulary and background information for the discussion. All pronunciation practice will be the responsibility of the student using free websites or apps for practice outside of class.
Prerequisites: HU102, HU295 or permission of instructor
HU3203 Special Topics: Women's Literature
Women's literature as an area of study is based on the notion that women's social reality, historically, has been shaped by gender. This course will examine how selected women writers explore questions about gender, women's roles within the family and the community, and how women have been perceived culturally and historically. Special attention will be given to the ways in which race, class, gender, ethnicity, and sexuality shape personal and social realities in literature. The course is organized around conceptual themes. The themes include feminist utopias and dystopias, rewriting fairy tales, sexual violence, and madness. We will read a wide variety of works, including novels, short stories, and essays by British, American, and Canadian women writers. This course fulfills the Literature requirement.
Prerequisites: HU102
HU3211 Special Topics: Trauma in Literature and Film
Can the horrors of war, genocide, and loss be represented? What is at stake in representing experiences often referred to as unspeakable? This course will examine attempts to portray psychological and cultural effects of traumatic events through a variety of twentieth century fictions, films, graphic novels, and short stories. Reading selections from trauma theory, students will be introduced to the interdisciplinary field of trauma studies. Major questions to be discussed include, but are not limited to: what challenges does trauma pose to representation? What are the ethical and political implications of representing trauma in relation to significant historical events and personal past? How do contemporary artists respond to trauma and attempt to represent it? The course will encompass twentieth-century catastrophes such as war and genocide as well as everyday experiences of violence and loss. This course fulfills the Literature requirement.
Prerequisites: HU102
HU3212 Special Topics: The Art of Storytelling: Discovering the Beauty and Restoring the Connection
This course is designed to deepen the student's appreciation for the art and power of storytelling to build positive community connections. The students will be encouraged to dig more deeply into their own life stories and to risk being vulnerable with each other as they share their stories in a safe and nurturing environment. Students will improve their observation and listening skills. Students will be introduced to marginalized members of our community, people who have been forgotten or set apart (homeless, incarcerated, residents of nursing homes and assisted living facilities, developmentally disabled adults and chronically mentally ill). The students will be challenged to discover and restore the beauty and significance of the stories of these people. Each student will be given the opportunity to create a scripted performance of the story he or she has restored. The performance will be staged for local audiences at TheatreSouth.
Prerequisites: HU102
HU325 Special Topics: The Hidden Life of Letters: A History of Western Writing from Empire to Graffiti
Written language is a key component of any civilization. It is often taken for granted that an enormous history lurks behind each of the letters that facilitate even our most banal communications. Writing in the west, originating in the Phoenician alphabet, has grown and evolved following the material and ideological conditions of European transformation. This class will track that history and development—the hidden lives of our letters. After analyzing the social conditions that initially gave rise to writing (c. 3500 B.C.E.), we will then turn to the progression of writing as it travels from Egypt and Mesopotamia on to the Greek and Italian mainlands (c. 800-700 B.C.E.). The lion's share of the class will carefully track the Western European use of the Latin script—that is, Latin letters and the forms they take through time (100 C.E. – 1500 C.E.) and their mutations through the development of feudalism, with attention paid to the life and times of the scribes that produced them.
Further, in order to grasp the often-nuanced transitions between letter forms, we will learn to reproduce features of specific script forms. In other words, we will learn about writing, in part, by reproducing historical lettering. However, this class will primarily be paleographic (studying the development of writing through time) rather than calligraphic (studying the purely aesthetic production of letters) in character. Finally, we will explore the place of writing in contemporary forms, specifically asemic (nonsense) writing and graffiti culture.
This class will be useful to students in a variety of ways. The history of writing provides a unique lens thorough which to understand the social and historical changes that produced Western civilization. For instance, the transition from the so-called Dark Ages to the high Middle Ages is marked by a shift from local letter forms to standardized, Imperial Carolinian script. This class will argue that the mutation of writing tracks the ebb and flow of power in European history. Further, an enriched historical understanding of letters and lettering provides students with an enormous toolbox for use in other aesthetic applications, from design generally to the lettering of graphic novels, etc. In this sense, the history of lettering will be an interdisciplinary platform for both liberal studies and the practical aspect of lettering.
Prerequisites: HU102
HU328 Special Topics: Fantasy and Science Fiction Literature
Often considered the most imaginative of the genres, this course will provide an overview of fantasy and science fiction's roots in myth to modern concepts of technology; the course will focus on themes such as dystopian/utopian visions of society, man's relationship with the divine, alien contact and man's role in an ever-changing technological landscape. Emphasis is placed on the students' critical interpretation of the texts. Written assignments will demand critical thinking skills and literary analysis.
Prerequisites: HU102
IL230 Special Topics: 3D Illustration
Sculpting characters and environments for production as illustrations, stop action animation assets and gaming industry characterizations, focusing on conceptual illustration, craft and building a visual library of gesture, expression, and texture in a concrete form. The processes are informed by basic sculptural or 3D design practices beginning with sketches, the drawing of standard format character sketches (front, back, side) followed by armature building, the use of polymer clay as a medium, along with clay, cardboard, etc.
Prerequisites: Foundation courses
MA222 Special Topics: Geometry in the Arts
Geometry in the Arts is a study of topics in geometry with examples of its historical application to the arts. The emphasis is on geometric concepts. The course is designed to illustrate the relationship between two fields of endeavor: geometry and the arts. The course includes all the topics necessary for a solid foundation in geometry—plane, solid and fractal. It goes beyond the traditional geometry course by delving into the history of geometric ideas, the mathematicians who developed them, the symbolism of geometric figures and the influence of geometry in the arts and architecture.
Prerequisites: HU101, HU102
SC212 Special Topics: Metal Studio Furniture
This course will teach students the design, form, function, and construction of traditional and nontraditional metal furniture through a sculptural filter. Wood, plastics, stone, and recycled materials will be discussed as complementary component to the primarily metal construction. Areas of exploration may include tables, lighting elements, outdoor, and indoor seating. Emphasis will be placed on developing sculpturally significant furniture items relevant to contemporary trends.
Prerequisites: SC100 or SC150, permission of instructor
SC236 Special Topics: 3D Printing
This course will address contemporary processes emerging in the fine art industry by familiarizing students with basic rapid prototyping techniques (3D printing). 3D printing is the process of using CAD-rendered objects (computer drawings) to precisely layer extruded bits of molten plastic or other material to create physical three- dimensional objects. 3D printing allows the artist to create objects that otherwise would be incredibly difficult, costly, and time-consuming using the traditional processes. Students will not only be exploring the many advantages that 3D printing has to offer, but also the creative possibilities beyond the printing process.
Prerequisites: FD130, FD170
SS221 Special Topics: Introduction to Sociology
An introduction to the sociological perspective. Sociology seeks to explain the origin and functioning of social behavior as it appears in such areas as the family, religion, economic structures, political structures, schools, deviant behavior, cultural norms, and other areas of human social interaction. Students will be introduced to basic sociological terms, concepts, and theories.
This class fulfills the Social Science (SS) requirement.
Prerequisites: HU102
Fall 2013
AH328 Special Topics: High Renaissance Italy
This course is a survey of the visual arts of Italy from the late 15th century through the 16th century. Focusing on the conditions in which the artworks were produced and viewed rather than on the distinctions between "fine" and "decorative" art, the course will emphasize painting, sculpture and architecture but will also cover aspects of visual culture in both religious and domestic settings. The classes will be primarily lectures, but student participation in discussions is strongly encouraged.
Prerequisites: AH100, AH150, HU102
GD234 Special Topics: The Design Laboratory
This course promotes to advocate opportunities for students to collaborate with existing organizations, both non-profit and for-profit, allowing students to obtain real world experience. This student-driven course will develop students' interdisciplinary design and collaboration skills, which are critical skill sets in the field of design. Through various user-based projects, students are expected to explore the role of design in contemporary society. Students are also expected to be proactive in collaboratively developing the infrastructure of The Design Laboratory.
Prerequisites: Foundation courses
GD235 Special Topics: Sustainable Design Studio
This course seeks to introduce the fundamental principles of environmentalism and environmentally friendly design and foster awareness about various forms of sustainability through interdisciplinary design activities. This course provides a comprehensive approach to the environmentally and socially sustainable design projects, which may include information design, package design, life cycle analysis map design and guerrilla campaign design.
Prerequisites: Foundation courses
HU227 Special Topics: U.S. History to 1877
This course examines the economic, geographical and social background of life in the United States from its discovery through its colonization and independence and, finally, to its national crisis and reconstruction. Emphasis will be placed upon vital intellectual, cultural, political and social movements that formed the foundations of the nation. In addition to a general textbook, primary documents will also be examined in order to expose students to firsthand historical sources of American history.
Prerequisites: HU102
HU3201 Special Topics: Rhetoric of Popular Culture
This course provides students with an introduction to rhetoric in popular culture. It is concerned with how rhetoric functions in popular culture artifacts. Loosely translated from Aristotle's definition, rhetoric is the study of the art of the available means of persuasion. Therefore, this course uses different critical theories (such as Marxist, Feminist, Racial and Queer) to critique the rhetorical dimensions of popular culture. Specifically, it is concerned with how film, television, music, advertising and technology texts are representative of cultural identities of class, gender, race, sexuality and/or disability. Overall, students in this course will be exposed to many realms of contemporary popular culture while also learning the fundamentals of theorizing about and critiquing artifacts in Western culture.
Prerequisites: HU102
HU3202 Special Topics: Women's Studies: Gender, Race, Class and Sexuality
This interdisciplinary course examines gender at the intersections of sexuality, race, ethnicity and class. Students will think about how these social categories shape women's lives and how women negotiate these categories to create their own identities. Students will consider differences among women. Students will also consider the ways in which gender, race, class and sexuality intersect to create dynamics of oppression and domination in our society. Readings include selections from feminist theory, cultural studies, and literature. Along with reading about gendered, sexual, ethnic and racial identities/experiences, students will also explore their own gendered/sexual/racial/ethnic identities, through constructing their own autobiographical narratives.
Prerequisites: HU102
SS325 Special Topics: Learning and Memory
Briefly, learning is defined as a relatively permanent change in behavior as a result of experience. This course is designed to provide students with a comprehensive overview and critical examination of learning theories with some general applications. The course will have a historical/empirical approach to assist students with understanding the basic concepts and principles of classical (aka Pavlovian), instrumental, operant and cognitive learning as applied to human and non-human animals. This course will examine the methods and discoveries from this significant area of psychology. In many ways, these discoveries form the foundation of much of our other knowledge in psychology. Throughout the semester, students will be expected to apply various aspects of learning theory and procedures to address real-life problems and situations outside the classroom to demonstrate a clear understanding of learning and conditioning in animals and humans.
Prerequisites: HU102
SS326 Special Topics: Anthropology of Warfare, Violence and Peace
The discipline of anthropology—and related fields like political science and international relations—has long addressed the causes and manifestations of warfare, violence, and peace. Are human beings naturally aggressive and "hard-wired" for violence and warfare? Or is violence merely one possibility in a range of tendencies that also includes peacefulness and altruism? Why do people engage in violence and wage war? Is peace a utopian vision, a socio-cultural fact or a set of deliberate choices that can be systematically pursued by social groups and governments? How exactly do we define violence and peace? Is warfare always the default position through which we compete for resources and power? What other explanations can we find for why people fight? And how have people in different places and time periods mobilized to both wage war and to promote peace, and at what costs?
This course critically explores the causes, manifestations, and impacts of warfare and violence on societies, communities and individuals from a contemporary cultural anthropology perspective. The class will examine the above questions through a series of approaches that analyze the reasons why human societies engage in warfare and violence and with what effects. Students will also examine how societies have pursued peace, both as an alternative to conflict and in the aftermath of conflict. Ultimately, the class will help students consider why American history, society, culture and values have often tended to be aggressive and militaristic, and more importantly, how this might be changed in the opposite direction—toward a more humane, compassionate, just, nonviolent, peaceful and sustainable society for the 21st century.
Prerequisites: HU102
Past Special Topics
AH224 Special Topics: Ancient Egyptian Art and Archaeology
This course is a survey of the key artistic and archaeological monuments (tombs, temples, statuary), material culture (burials, daily life) and other art forms of ancient Egypt from prehistory to the late Roman Period (A.D. 642). The purpose of this course is to create a better understanding of the different themes and styles that are found in Egyptian art during the empire's 3,000 years of history. Class discussion will center around two crucial points: the art forms of the king and those of the elite/ruling class because they were the patrons who determined major artistic production.
Prerequisites: AH100, AH150, HU101, HU102
AH327 Special Topics: Science Fiction Cinema
Whether it is imagining the future or allegorizing the past and present, science fiction is adept at reflecting collective fears, political viewpoints, and the ethical dilemmas presented by scientific and technological advances. Sometimes referred to as "speculative fiction," sci-fi has remained one of the most prominent and versatile genres throughout the history of the cinematic medium. This course will provide an historical framework that analyzes and contextualizes the development and revisions of the genre since 1900, paying special attention to shifts in production, reception and socio-political climate. Through a filter of the broader sub-discipline of genre studies, we will explore the ways Sci-Fi conforms to traditional definitions of genre, while using film theory to complicate and contest the idea of rigid narrative demarcation.
Prerequisites: AH100, AH150, HU102
AH424 Special Topics: Museum Theory and Practice
This course is an upper-level undergraduate seminar that explores both the theoretical approaches to museum development and implementation along with hands-on applications in the museum field today. Each week is dedicated to understanding the role of a different museum office, such as Collections Management, Development, Education, Exhibit Preparation, Marketing, Operations, Visitor Experience and Registrar. In addition, some weeks our class discussion will scrutinize the larger role of museums in their communities, museum ethics and social responsibility or the future of museums in a digital age.
Prerequisites: AH100, AH150, HU101, HU102
AH425 Special Topics: Curatorial Studies
Introduction to primary methods utilized by curators within the contemporary art world. Through examinations of the major developments in the history of art curation, students will cultivate an understanding of the practices and procedures for producing exhibitions, including fundamentals of curatorial theory, methodologies of design and installation, and audience engagement strategies.
Prerequisites: AH100, AH150, HU101, HU102
HU220 Humanities: Special Topics American History
This course examines the economic, political, geographical and social background of life in the United States from the Civil War/Reconstruction era to present times. Emphasis will be placed upon vital intellectual, cultural, political, and social movements that have shaped and continue to impact the current American scene. In addition to a general course textbook, primary documents will also be examined in order to expose students to firsthand historical sources of American history.
HU221 Humanities: Special Topics Oral Communication
Basic Oral Communication introduces students to the principles and theories of effective public and small group communication as well as interpersonal and interpersonal communication. The course explores the demands on, and effects of, communication in the 21st century and will briefly explore ideas specific to the professional art world. The students' own artwork and artist statements will be used as subject material for their final projects.
HU225 Special Topics: Graphic Novel as Literature
This graphic novel course offers instruction in the reading of the graphic novel as well as writing and thinking about this sequential art form commonly referred to as comics. We will explore the medium's long and rich history, its storytelling potential, its unique visual grammar and the cultural, aesthetic and theoretical context of the genre and individual works.
Prerequisites: HU102
HU324 Special Topics: Latin American History
This course examines Latin American history from European encounter through colonialism, the independence movements and the struggles of nationalism, to the present-day problems of globalization. Emphasis will be placed upon vital intellectual, cultural, political and social movements that have shaped and continue to impact the current Latin American scene. In addition to a general course textbook, a supplementary reader will be used to expose students to important primary and secondary documents, providing more depth into topics such as race and slavery, gender, liberalism, conservatism, revolution and globalization.
Prerequisites: HU101, HU102
HU326 Special Topics: Queers in Space: LGBTQ Geographies in the United States
"Whose street? Our street!" This phrase was a rallying cry of the gay and lesbian rights movement in the 1970s. The movement's focus on visibility and on access to public space, stood in marked contrast to the secrecy and repression that activists felt had characterized gay and lesbian life for the past several decades. In this and many other historical moments, the politics of space—who had access to it, the terms of its use, and how it shaped and was shaped by the people who occupied it—has been crucial to the formation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer sexualities and identities in the United States.
This combined lecture and discussion class will explore people's travels in and across spaces as diverse as homes, farms, bars, city streets, military bases and international borders to reveal how LGBTQ people have formed individual identities, created varied and diverse communities and challenged social and political oppression through the spaces that they claim and those from which they are excluded.
Prerequisites: HU101, HU102
HU327 Special Topics: Poetry Writing and Performance
Building on the traditional poetry workshop model, this course will also add a significant emphasis on the oral poetry reading and the live spoken word performance. Like a traditional poetry workshop, students will develop their poetic technique through extensive writing, close reading and active discussion of student work. We will also place strong emphasis on the art of reading poems aloud—through in-class performance, listening to recorded performances and through a consideration of theoretical approaches from critics and poets alike. We will also devote a period of each class to critical analysis of poetry and theory by established writers. In each case, close attention will be paid to form, language, sonic elements, and the relevant poetic traditions. The culmination of the course will be a final portfolio of revised work and an in-class performance.
Prerequisites: HU101, HU102
HU329 Special Topics: Telling the Story: Critical Approaches to Storytelling and Mythmaking
Many scholars have argued that human beings conduct their lives in a landscape of stories of our own creation. There is a storytelling impulse that teaches us how to live and how to bond as members of a community. We are inundated with stories via our upbringing, religion and cultural backgrounds as well as prominently through our media. It stands to reason that we should step outside of this landscape of stories momentarily to ask ourselves what exactly are these stories doing, how are they operating, what are they teaching us and how can we become agents in their creation? Creative people in particular can benefit from a better understanding of the human drive to create and perpetuate story. In this course we will explore several theories and processes of storytelling. Readings from authors such as Joseph Campbell, Kirin Narayan, Linda Seger and Zora Neale Hurston teach us how stories can facilitate a creative practice that resonates with audiences on a deeper level and promote the creation of new knowledge, works of art, ideas and ways of being.
Prerequisites: HU102
HU387 Forms of Fiction: Horror
This course traces the evolution of the modern horror novel from its roots in the Gothic and examines its enduring popularity. The reading list will consist primarily of novels, but some short stories will also be included.
HU420 Humanities: Special Topics Black on Film: Race and Cinema
Close analysis of the metaphor of race in cinematic texts, including American, European, AFrican, Caribbean, and Latin American films. The class will be structured around daily viewings with films augmented by a variety of other textural and contextual sources: literary, musical, philosophical, and historical. Students will write 3 short essays that develop class discussion.
NS221 Special Topics: Human Evolution
This course provides a broad perspective on what it means to be a human being and how our species fits into the wider biological framework. Evolution theory (including common misconceptions), modern human variations and adaptations and the range of human behavioral and biological diversity will be covered.
Prerequisites: HU101, HU102
SS320 Social Science Special Topics: Government
Students will learn about the history, development, and structure of the federal and state governments and outside forces that influence government. Students will analyze the role and the interaction between the three branches of government, concepts of the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights, and the impact of individual participation in government.
SS324 Special Topics: Campaigns and Elections
Through both discussions and lectures, this course will examine the dynamics of elections in contemporary American politics. We will explore how political scientists study electoral politics, what we have learned and how these academic endeavors apply to political conduct. To this end, we will examine why candidates, voters and others think and behave the way they do; the rules that govern their behavior; and who wins elections and why. Our analysis will focus on the ways in which factors within the candidate's control (e.g. strategy, fundraising, advertising) interact with factors largely outside the candidate's control (e.g. regulations, gender, race, partisanship), in order to assess what difference (if any) campaigns actually make in election outcomes. Finally, we will explore how we might use what we know about campaigns and elections to make them better.
Prerequisites: HU101, HU102


text:
Narrow your search
Using a simple bookmark, you can save the RSS feed of the current page you're viewing to your Feedbin.me account.
Many of the bookmarklets used on your desktop version of Chrome can also be used on your mobile device. Here's the steps you'll need to get started.
Snip things with nothing more than a bookmarklet using Snipd. It works on photos, videos, and text and goes into a stream other people can follow.
Got a printer, some paper, and some loose optical discs? Check out Liquid Mongoose, a simple tool that turns information from the Web into slick envelopes.
Like using strange text characters from a character map on blogs, forums, or Twitter posts? This bookmarklet gives you a shortcut for doing that.
Password Wallet for the iPhone: An interesting use of bookmarklets
With two nifty bookmarks, you can increase and decrease the font size on any Web page in Mobile Safari on iOS.
Fnd is a Web app that provides a quicker, cleaner way to find what you are looking for in iTunes.
We uncovered five very useful, built-in tools you can enable right now in Safari for iPad. Surf faster, be more efficient, and become a browsing master with these easy tips.
Instead of trying to explain with text or slides alone, add some handwritten notes or drawings to your documents with these quick steps.


text:
20% Off Nursery Bedding
When you buy $75 or more nursery bedding
Use Coupon Code: BSND20
This item cannot be purchased online at this time, please call us or email us for further information.
Phone: (601) 362-7257
Fax: (888)623-5670
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Save 15%!
Right Now
Enter Code:15OFF
at Checkout
* Some Exclusions apply
The Adora White Daisies is a stunning dark haired beauty, with her white jersey knit dress with ruffle details and daisy embellished lace skirt overlay. She's ready for playtime fun or a walk in the garden. She measures 20" tall, has dark brown hair and brown eyes. She has a vinyl head, arms, and legs with a cloth body.
Other Items In The Collection
Review / Comments Write a review
©2013 Cullen's PlayPen Inc.


text:
Malvika Mudgal has 8 News online.
New Delhi, February 21, 2013: The latest campaign from the Suzuki stable – 'Dabangg2 Dumdaar, Hayate Shaandar' – provided a grand opportunity to five winners to meet megastar Salman Khan. The elated winners had their dream come true when the Bollywood superstar presented them with a Hayate each at Mehboob Studio in Mumbai.
The campaign was an extension of Salman's big ticket December release Dabangg2. Promotions were spread across television and print channels. Fifteen winners received a Suzuki Hayate while five 'super lucky' winners met Salman. Riding on the hype and anticipation around the sequel to the blockbuster Dabangg, the campaign received a rousing reception and enabled Suzuki to end the year on a high note.
The five winners who walked away with the Hayate are –
· Deepak from Lucknow
· Rajkumar from Bhopal
· James Hembram from Purnia
· Sohan Lal Jat from Jaipur and
· Vinod Kumar Prasad from Jamshedpur
Mr. Vipul Goel, National Head – Service & Spares, SMIPL, said, "The Hayate has been successful in establishing its core identity as tough, dependable and robust motorcycle amongst our customers. This campaign reinforced our stance in the mass motorcycle segment. The association with Salman and Dabangg2 gave this contest an edge which has resulted in widespread reach and appreciation. My heartiest congratulations to the winners."
Deepak, winner from Lucknow, said, "Meeting Salman Khan was my long cherished dream. I am grateful to Suzuki two – wheelers for giving me the opportunity to meet with the Superstar. I am thrilled to receive the stylish Hayate."
Suzuki Motorcycle India Private Limited is a subsidiary of Suzuki Motor Corporation, Japan wherein they have the same manufacturing philosophy of VALUE PACKED PRODUCTS right from the inception. SMIPL manufactures two-wheelers best suited for the valuable Indian customers. The Company started its India operation in February, 2006.
salman khan, dabangg2, suzuki two-wheelers


text:
Advocates: Pennsylvania in 'descent' toward abortion ban
The state House of Representatives on Tuesday passed House Bill 818, continuing what Planned Parenthood PA is calling the state's "descent" toward an outright abortion ban.
The legislation would ban insurance companies from offering policies through the state exchange that cover abortion services outside instances of law enforcement-reported rape and incest.
An identical bill recently passed a state Senate committee and is set to go to the Senate floor for a full vote.
"Proponents of this bill continue to mislead the legislature and the public, characterizing the debate as centered on taxpayer funding of abortion," Planned Parenthood Pennsylvania Advocates executive director Sari Stevens said in a statement.
"Nothing could be farther from the truth. House Bill 818 bans the purchase of insurance coverage of abortion with private dollars, end of story. The disingenuous and purposeful misinformation that has been circulated about House Bill 818 and Senate Bill 3 is truly shameful."
She said elected officials and lobbyists pushing the bills are attempting to "confuse the legislature into submission."
Stevens said officials and lobbyists pushing the bill have precluded an honest debate by perpetuating mistruths about their end goal, which Stevens believes to be the elimination of all safe access to abortion services in Pennsylvania.
"Even more shocking is that this bill is so ideological and blind-sighted as to refuse to give women with serious health problems like cancer any consideration," Stevens said.
That means even in cases where a pregnant woman's health is in serious jeopardy, the cost of the abortion procedure would be paid entirely by the woman or her family.
"Imagine a woman who owns her own business, who chooses to buy her insurance on the exchange, who pays her premiums every month and during a much anticipated and desired pregnancy develops cancer," Stevens said.
"The Pennsylvania legislature has decided to tell her that she's out of luck and has to foot the bill herself. That is beyond cruel. The voters are fed up with the divisive social agenda of this legislature and with elections around the corner again, it's a surprisingly risky and heartless move."
A recent poll shows 79 percent of Pennsylvania voters support insurance coverage of abortion to protect a woman's health.
"Failing to provide for this exception is not only bad policy," Stevens said. "It's in stark contrast to public opinion."
You must be logged in to post a comment.


text:
Print or e-mail your favorites and plan your perfect visit to NYC today.
Learn more about the five boroughs that make up New York City with our complete guide.
Discover what to do, where to stay and what to see in New York City with our planning tool.
NYC is the place for inquisitive minds looking for new things to see, hear, taste and learn.
Enjoy The Nutcracker, the Times Square New Year's Eve Ball Drop, the Orchid Show and more.
Download your free copy or order a guide online today.
Wireless Internet is available at locations throughout NYC—including many parks and libraries.
Get tips, maps and everything else you'll need during your stay.
These NYC-centric mobile apps put the City at your fingertips.
Off-Broadway Week: Get 2-for-1 tickets to this diverse roster of shows September 29 – October 12
Special dining offers, exclusively on Sunday.
Hotel deals to make you fall for NYC.
It opened its doors more than 20 years ago, and Indochine still holds onto the elements that made it famous, including a crowd of yuppies mixed with the fashion world and on-the-rise celebrities. Utilizing exotic-meets-tropical design elements such as Japanese box lights, palm trees painted onto the walls and a sleek tiled floor worked in the late '80s for this French-Vietnamese fusion restaurant, so why change now? Some consider Indochine to be past its prime, but revelers still frequent this pioneer for the consistent spring rolls, the reliable sole steamed in a banana leaf and the glazed duck breast.
Get deals and recommendations on citywide events for locals and visitors.


text:
Devon Leather Travel Kit
best complemented withPrevious Page
Pueblo Top Zip Leather Crossbody
Steel City Slim Leather Backpack
Tamarack Top Zip Leather Brief
- T-Tech Forge
- Devon Leather Travel Kit
- Style #: 54198
- Free Shipping! See Details
Vintage elements, artisan detailing and casual styling are combined in Forge, a contemporary collection of utilitarian, business and travel day bags. This leather travel kit features a main compartment with anti-bacterial lining and zip pocket. Made from tumbled leather, which offers rich and beautiful variations in tone.
- Monogramming Available: No
- External Dimensions (wheeled items include handles and wheels) H x W x D: 5.5" x 8" x 3"
- Construction Material: Leather
- External Features:
- Zip opening to main compartment
- Internal Features:
- Anti-bacterial lining
- Zip pocket
Everyday Free Returns
We want you to be fully satisfied with every product that you purchase from www.tumi.com. If you are not satisfied with a product that you have purchased, you may return the product within 30 days of delivery for a full refund of the purchase price, minus the shipping, handling, gift box, and other charges. Please note, however, that monogrammed and personalized items, including Accent Your Alpha, cannot be returned. Return shipping is free. You will be provided with a pre-paid UPS domestic label to return your purchase. If you cannot find the prepaid shipping label, please call our Customer Service Department at 1-800-299-TUMI (8864) or contact us by email.
We ask that the product be unused, in original boxes (whenever possible), and with all paperwork, parts and accessories in order to ensure credit. Sale merchandise will be issued a credit at the current selling price. Unused items purchased on www.tumi.com can also be returned to a US Tumi full price location. Please make sure to have all paperwork, parts and accessories to ensure credit. Store credit will be issued for items without documentation.
Welcome to the world of Tumi – the finest international brand of travel, business and lifestyle accessories. Since our founding in 1975, Tumi has been dedicated to providing our customers with an outstanding ownership experience.
Specifically, we make three commitments to our customers:
1. You will enjoy using our innovative products that are designed and manufactured to be the best;
2. You will experience world-class, after-sales customer service;
3. For a limited time after you purchase a Tumi product from an authorized Tumi store or dealer, you will be covered by our Limited Warranty.
Tumi's warranty extends to the original owner; it is straightforward and comprehensive, and just part of the total Tumi ownership experience.
Please click here to learn more about the Tumi Warranty.
The Tumi Difference
Omega Closure System®
Tumi's patented closure system significantly reduces the risk of damage to the zipper. The Omega zipper puller is designed to break away from the bag if it becomes caught. The puller, rather than the entire zipper, is then quickly and easily replaced.
Antibacterial Lining
This item features a special antibacterial lining that inhibits the growth of odor-causing bacteria, mildew, or mold.


text:
The University of Montana Western recently was ranked in the top 100 colleges in the nation by Education to Career (ETC).
This year's Dances with Words authors. Clockwise: Russell Rowland, Peter Stark, John Moore and Julene Bair.The University of Montana Western Dances with Words visiting author series announces its 2014 fall series of readings.
Anna Byrne (left) and her freshman daughter Nicole during the 2014 Convocation, which marks the start of the 2014-15 academic year.With Montana Western's orientation for new students wrapping up, students gear up to begin Block One of classes to start the Fall 2014 semester.
Help Montana Western preserve its rich educational traditions and build upon UMW's exceptional history by participating the Legacy Campaign. Click here for more information.
It's really the best way to decide which college or university is right for you. Click here to set up a visit today. And, oh by the way, we have a special gift for you just for stopping by.
We'd like to tell you more about our remarkable university. Just click here and we'll send you information.
Montana Western is actively seeking a new chancellor to continue the university's rich traditions and innovative approach to higher education.
Diana Taylor is pursuing an early childhood education degree to enrich her life and bolster her skills for her job at a Head Start in Butte, Mont.
The Carnegie Foundation's 2009 U.S. Professor of the Year is taking Montana Western's experiential learning to the national stage.
Misha Craddock may have finally found her place at the University of Montana Western.
University of Montana Western English professor Alan Weltzien is a champion of Montana literature.


text:
Davidoff Echo Homme is an urban fragrance for men who love change and freedom.
Unusual metallic undertones evoke the gleaming steel of a big city, while evocative notes of woods, spices and suede round off the essence of this creation, suffusing it with warmth, sensuality and depth.
A modern potion of chilli, nutmeg, black pepper and aldehydes. A softer balance for the cool dynamic can be found in the overtones of cedar, sandalwood and white suede.
Echo Homme comes in a striking glass bottle with metal edging to one corner that would a perfect gift.
Useful info:
- Stunning glass and metal bottle
- Comes in a smart presentation box
- Great gift idea
- Davidoff Echo Homme 100ml EDT


text:
Executive Committee
The Executive Committee makes decisions for the Senate in emergency situations, develops meeting agendas for the entire Senate, annually reviews Senate guidelines and recommends motions to the Senate.
Chair, Terry Ismert
Chair-elect, Dawn Brown
Treasurer, Tiffany Bowie
Secretary, Melissa Cox
Parliamentarian, Crystal Wilson
Past Chair, Patty Fox
Alternate to Staff Assembly, Anne Branigin
Bylaws Committee
This committee reviews and recommends changes to the Bylaws and procedures of the Senate. Any updates to the bylaws are due by May of each year.
Chair, Bill Powell
Gina Bowen
Amy Knebel
Chris Padgett
Peggy Wichmann
Nominations Committee
This committee shall handle all nominations and elections procedures as set forth in the bylaws. It shall also be the responsibility of the Committee to contact the nominated candidates prior to the meetings where elections are scheduled to be sure they are willing to serve and to fully explain the duties and length of term of each office to the potential candidates.
Chair, Lauren Brunell
Angie Edwards
Kevin Farver
Chris Padgett
Jarrett Piner
Communications Committee
This committee develops and implements a variety of communications with the Senate's constituencies, paying particular attention to communications with SPA and EPA non-faculty employees at UNCW concerning Senate activities and opportunities. One member of the Communications committee will serve as the Staff Senate Webmaster and is thus responsible for updating and maintaining the Senate website and one member will serve as Staff Senate Newsletter Reporter and Editor thus responsible for the development of the Newsletter monthly.
Chair, Mandy Hodge
Angie Edwards
Sean Ahlum
Kevin Farver
Stephanie Herring
Jarrett Piner
Tara Romanella
Orientation Committee
This committee educates newly elected members and alternates to enable them to become fully contributing members of the Senate at their first official meeting, conducts any retreats of the Senate, and provides continuing development for members. The chair of this committee represents Staff Senate during HR's New Employee Orientation sessions.
Chair, Carol Porter
Tiffany Bowie
Dawn Brown
Katie Lange
Linda Register
Crystal Wilson
Scholarship Committee
This committee monitors the activity of the Scholarship fund as well as the application and award process for the fall and spring semesters. This includes promoting the application period and establishing guidelines for the online application process. This committee will update the Scholarship Handbook as needed. The Scholarship Committee will review all scholarship applications and present applicant(s) to the full Staff Senate for approval as the scholarship recipient(s). Upon approval of a recipient(s) by the Senate, the committee works with the Staff Senate Chair and Financial Aid Department to distribute a congratulatory letter to the student and ensure the funds are transferred to the student's account.
Chair, Beth Roberts
Mandy Baker
Gina Bowen
Kimberly Cockrell
Angie Edwards
Amy Knebel
Cheryl Nichols
Fundraising Committee
This committee does fundraisers to increase the base in the Staff Scholarship fund. The committee works with Staff Senate to establish fund raising events and solicits volunteers to help with those special projects.
Mandy Baker
Beth Roberts
Sara White
Public Relations Committee
This committee promotes the objectives and accomplishments of the UNCW Staff Senate and aids in the promotion and organization of Staff Senate events. The Committee works with University Relations to provide announcements and updates to the UNCW community. In order to properly disseminate and promote these events, a member of the Public Relations Committee serves as a liaison to the Communications Committee. The Public Relations Committee duties may include but are not limited to: organizing the Staff Senate booth for the UNCW Perks Fair, Teal Spotlight, and sending thank you notes on behalf of the Staff Senate.
Chair, Katie Lange
Sean Ahlum
Dawn Brown
Stephanie Herring
Sam Nevarez
Tara Romanella
Sara White
Crystal Wilson
Legislative Ed Committee
This committee informs current SPA and EPA non-faculty about issues regarding legislation in the North Carolina House and Senate and the US Congress that directly impacts the employment of SPA and EPA non-faculty at the university. The committee collects information about pending legislation regarding salaries, health care, university funding issues, and other issues pertaining in like scope, communicates pending legislation without prejudice, and creates means for SPA and EPA non-faculty to communicate individual opinions or desires to legislatures under university and State guidelines.
Chair, Carl Torok
Anne Branigin
Top Ten Committee
This committee works to articulate the Top 10 issues identified by SPA and EPA non-faculty to be brought forth to the Chancellor on an ongoing basis. The committee's findings are presented to the Staff Senate for review prior to submission to the Chancellor.
Chair, Kimberly Cockrell
Lauren Brunell
Sam Nevarez
Cheryl Nichols
Bill Powell
Linda Register
Carol Torok
Peggy Wichmann
Staff Assembly
Anne Branigin, Staff Assembly Chair Committee
Crystal Wilson, Staff Assembly Alternate


text:
Phoenix PD chief: We're keeping an eye out for fired LA cop
PHOENIX -- Christopher Dorner has a vendetta against the police and he's vanished, inciting a massive manhunt in several states, including Arizona, and Mexico.
While the frantic search Dorner continues in California, Phoenix police officers are on alert.
"It wouldn't be unusual for him to show up in any city in the United States," said Phoenix Police Chief Daniel Garcia.
Garcia said as soon as his department started to receive intelligence from Los Angeles, they started to pass the information along to patrol officers.
"It's scary for police officers, for our citizens. It's alarming. When you have someone who's attacking police and their families it is disturbing."
Garcia said he's ordered officers to keep a closer watch on the interstates, bus stations and airports.
Most Popular
World Class Arizona
- Dignity Health World Class People. World Class Company. Excellent care, delivered with compassion, for all in need.
Voice For A Better Arizona
- Eyes on Education A view of Arizona's education system from all angles.


text:
A Queens councilman is proposing legislation to have former New York City Mayor Ed Koch's name removed from the Queensboro Bridge.
Just five months after his death, City Councilman Peter Vallone, Jr. (D-NY) is drafting legislation to return the bridge back to the Queensboro Bridge and name Manhattan's Municipal Building after Koch instead.
The bridge, which was built in 1909 to connect Midtown to Long Island City, was renamed the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge in 2011 to celebrate the former mayor's 86th birthday.
Vallone told the Post: "My problem is not with Ed Koch," Vallone said. "My problem is with taking a bridge from the people of Queens."
The councilman helped residents in Queens circulate a petition against the bridge being named after Koch.
WTTG FOX 5 & myfoxdc5151 Wisconsin Ave. NWWashington, DC 20016Main Number: (202) 244-5151Newsroom: (202) firstname.lastname@example.com