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3 Parks near Summerdale, Alabama
Silverhill, Alabama 4.5 miles NW
Robertsdale, Alabama 8.9 miles NE
Fairhope, Alabama 8.96 miles NW
Summerdale, Alabama (map) | (251) 989-2598
Sites: 39 | Latest Rate: $27.00 | 2 Reviews
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Mar 2015 - $27.00
This was an RV park and RV repair facility, but the repair facility has relocated to a larger building a few miles away. Good, wide stone roads that will make for easy maneuvering for even the largest rigs. Level sites, good water pressure and power, sewer hook-ups at each site. Every site also has a wood deck The WiFi has been repaired, and works well. The clubhouse has been completely remodeled, and has two restrooms with showers. There are also washers/dryers available. Very nicely landscaped, although the trees are still young and small, and there isn't a lot of shade yet except along the western edge of the park. Definitely a nice park, but still all back-in sites. - michdoc
Jan 2014 - $27.00
This is a pretty nice park, clean and neat with good hookups. The roads and sites are stone, and level, and each has a wood deck. They advertise Wi-Fi but it went out a while ago and apparently there are no plans to repair it, so if you depend on internet access for banking, etc., you'd better bring your own with you. There are no pull-through sites for overnight stays, and this is more of a long-term park. There is a "clubhouse" available, which is actually a small ranch style home with a couple of washing machines and a single bath tub and toilet, but no shower facilities. This is a pretty nice park, but would get a much higher rating if they had Wi-Fi, cable TV, and a restroom/shower building. - wetsuitwarrier
Summerdale, Alabama (map) | (251) 989-9888
Sites: 30 | Latest Rate: $25.00 | 20 Reviews
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Feb 2015 - $25.00
Most of the shortcomings that had existed have been eliminated by the new resident manager who answers the phone and is present almost all the time. He is exceptionally helpful and motivated. This has always been one of the most pleasing physical campgrounds with lots of room, established sod everywhere, level concrete pads and streets, excellent hookups, and a choice of shady or open sites. The WiFi has been improved and upgraded, so that it now works; it's good, not great. Propane is available. - MSTraveler
Feb 2015 - $25.00
We stayed at this park and were impressed by the cleanliness. Unfortunately there are a couple of negatives. One is a barking dog that would literally bark all day. Secondly, we had to give a $100 deposit to hold our campsite and this was not credited towards our lot rent, but was held for 2 months after we left. I had to make multiple calls to even get the $100. Additionally, we had our 5th wheel for sale while there and the owners assured us that we would get a prorated refund of the time we did not spend there, should the RV sell. Now she absolutely refuses to refund me the $180 - $200 she told us we would get back! Although the park advertises wifi, we could not get it unless we walked over by the club house. It appears to be an outdated modem. The campsites are beautiful and besides the dog, they are very quiet. - RVfuntimes
Apr 2013 - $16.00
This is an exceptionally nice park that has concrete roads and pads with lots of trees and wide spaces in a park-like setting. It's not like most campgrounds which are lined up in a row, close together. Verizon cell worked great. The park's Wi-Fi was Ok; the owner's has plans to upgrade it. We planned to stay for 6 weeks and ended up staying 3 1/2 months and plan to return next winter. This park is so quiet and peaceful, we really didn't want to leave at all. It's a short drive to Foley or Fairhope where there are lots of stores and restaurants. It's a new park with one section done and two sections to be finished. This park is a work in progress that is very nice now and will be great when done. - Tim M.
Summerdale, Alabama (map) | (251) 988-8132
Sites: 87 | Latest Rate: $20.00 | 43 Reviews
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Jun 2015 - $20.00
Large grassy shaded full-hookup sites. Friendly community with separate area for permanent and long time residents. Close to gulf beaches and Mobile Bay. A great place to stop for a few days when traveling along the Gulf Coast. - Appleknocker
Apr 2015 - $20.00
Our second stay here. A great location between Mobil and the Gulf Coast.
A nice RV community, Escapees owned and ran. Very friendly people, lots of organized events and activities. A nice clubhouse with a book exchange, pool and very nice laundry.
There are two shower rooms in the registration building.
Large full hook up spots, both 30 and 50. Shaded and open available.
They also have a fenced dog run.
Plenty of walking opportunities on the grounds. - Kgtraveler
Feb 2015 - $20.00
Rainbow Plantation is an Escapees Park. The rate reflects the membership discount and the weekly rate. The park is very friendly. All utilities operate as expected and are well placed, although the sewer in at the rear of the site, so a long sewer line is needed. Sites are on grass and are relatively level. The park offers many planned activities. Wifi is offered thru Tangonet. - 15243


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BEARD! is a casual, Beer & Pretzels, style game where you race your friends to be the first to grow an epic beard. For 2-6 Players. Read more
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This project's funding goal was not reached on November 1, 2013.
BEARD! is a casual, Beer & Pretzels, style game where you race your friends to be the first to grow an epic beard. For 2-6 Players.
About this project
An Epic Card Game about growing a beard before your friends can!
BEARD is a brand new card game from Beer Star Games! Designed for 2-6 players, its a ridiculous romp through reality as you compete with your friends to grow the first truly epic beard!
It plays in about 10 to 30 minutes, and is not to be taken very seriously. We call it a Beer & Pretzels style game. There's enough strategy to keep the game fun, but not so many mechanics that you can't play it while drinking.
The game was originally concepted and designed by Daniel Curran with additional design work by Brian A Liberge.
"BEARD! is a nice, light and silly game! Unfortunately, playing it has left me lamenting my lack of facial hair." -Aerjen Tamminga, Boston Festival of Indie Co-Producer and Games Curator, Game Designer, aerjengames.com
"Despite being an awesome, easy to learn party game, BEARD! is a down-right hilarious experience." - Eloy Lasanta, Game Desinger, http://thirdeyegames.net/
"There are two great things in this world: beards and games. When the two are combined, something magical happens." - Simeon Cortezano, Reporter, Examiner.com
Gameplay is simple.
1. The player with the largest beard chooses who goes first.
2. The first player draws a Save Or Shave card (SOS Card), reads it out loud, and does what it says. Hopefully, it tells you to draw Beard! Cards, but it might tell you to lose Beard! Cards, Steal the Cards of others, roll a six sided die, or choose between multiple options.
3. Play continues clockwise.
4. Each Beard! Card has one letter: B, E, A, R, or D. The first person to have one of each Beard! Card, wins the game.
68 Save Or Shave Cards, each with a unique scenario and instructions. Please note, contains profanity.
30 Beard! Cards
4 Rule Cards
2 Blanks, to make your own SOS Cards.
The game has been written and playtested. Its been dragged to bars, parties and even GenCon. It premiered publicly at the Boston Festival of Indie Games just this past September, and we have been listening and revising the whole time.
Wesley K Hall has completed the art. (http://namelesspcs.com/)
It has been edited by John Adamus (http://writernextdoor.com/).
Daniel Solis has agreed to do layout. This Kickstarter is paying him to do so. (http://danielsolisblog.blogspot.com/)
These cards are examples from our prototype deck. This is not the final layout.
Additional Copies! - If you would like to purchase additional copies of the game you may do so for $15 in the United States or $25 internationally. If you want more than 3 copies of the game please send us an email at email@example.com. I would like to support retailers in whatever way we can.
Bottle-Opener T-Shirt! - We're working with Spreadshirt to bring you the ultimate Beard/Beer Star Games t-shirt! It's got a bottle opener built into the hem of the shirt so you'll always be ready to open a fancy soda. As a bonus award, it acts like a Save or Shave card giving just the slightest edge while playing. Wizards and up can swap their regular t-shirt for this one at a cost of $20.
As we hit certain key funding marks we'll be releasing preview content from our other lines, directly to backers!
HIT! - At $1200: Scentia, Besieged Within and Without - Our next Pulp! Fantasy supplement, by Seamus Conneely. Save Towertown from the militaristic marsh hoppers, and the secret their phalanxes hide. This document is already in a light layout and waiting on art. You also get the full PDF at funding, two weeks before it goes public.
At $2400: The Lost Ships of Smargaid - The following Pulp! Fantasy Supplement, by BEARDS!'s co-designer Daniel Curran. Investigate the isles of Smargaid and Rubin, discover where the jewelers caravans have gone, and journey below to battle what lurks beneath. This project has just finished editing.
At $3600: Ace Adventure and the Turtle of Providence - Ace Adventure takes 1920s Pulp style fighter pilots, fighting giant monsters in an alternate, decopunk, America. It's going to be our next big setting after Pulp! Fantasy. I wrote this adventure for GenCon 2013, and it was a huge success.The Turtle of Providence is a Fate Accelerated adventure taking our heroes to the harbor of Providence, but how does the infamous P.T. Barnum factor in?
Pirate! - We'll make a backer only update on day 1 that has the Word Document version of the Cards. We understand that this will allow you to print the game out and stop backing. We hope you won't but if you do, we hope you have fun.
Lumberjack! - The final release of the game, printed and shipped by GameCrafter.
Gamer! - The Game, and six six-sided dice, one for each player. Black with white pips, except on the 6 side. That side says Beer Star Games.
The Wizard! - The Game, Six d6's, and a black t-shirt featuring the Beard King, and the phrase 'Year of the Beard'. Coming to you from TeeLaunch.
The Cheat! - The Game, Six d6's, the t-shirt, and a set of six, fake beards you can wear on your finger! Each beard has five removable beard pieces so you can grow your own beard as you collect Beard! Cards. Created by Anna Walker of designsbyanna.artfire.com
The Writer! - The Game, Six d6's, the t-shirt, and the chance to work with us on a Shave or Save! card for a future expansion. You will receive full credit for your work.
The Producer! - The Game, Six d6's, the t-shirt, you get to work on a SOS! card and a sit down session at a convention. We know we'll be attending Arisia, PaxEast and GenCon in 2014. This is all about working with you as a designer. If you want to play your own prototype when we meet, great. If you just wanted to support Beard! then get a bunch of your friends together and we'll play something else, like Beard! You need to cover your own expenses on getting to the convention.
The Time Traveler! - The Game, Six d6's, the t-shirt, every game we've published and will publish up until October 2014. That means we'll send you the Pulp! Adventure Estia, and it's card deck as soon as this funds. We've got two more Pulp! Adventures in Editing and Layout, two more supplements in development, a new setting and more in the works.
Santa! - We know fake beards aren't worth a thousand dollars. You get everything at this level and a huge thank you. You are very generous and you've helped bring Beard to the world.
We hope you enjoy Beard!
Risks and challenges
We've attempted to minimize the risks as much as we possibly could. The game is written and edited. We have a printer and layout artist lined, both of whom are well-know professionals with a lot of experience.
It's always possible that something goes wrong in the printing process or that Daniel will get sick, hurt, angry or have his computer get struck by an asteroid. Delays are possible, but we'd like to think them unlikely.Learn about accountability on Kickstarter
All of our PDFs thus far have become Pay What You Want and Creative Commons. The Time Traveler grants you physical copies of all our products, including the products which are being previewed.
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About $1.00 USD
7 backers
Pirate! - Support the game with your money! In exchange you'll get access to the edited word document version of the game (before proper layout). Print and play or just read it and laugh!LessEstimated delivery:Manage your pledge
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About $10 USD
5 backers
Digital Pirate! - Your here for the preview PDFs. It's ok, we like you all the same. Get each preview PDF as soon as all the other backers, and the full version of Scentia, Besieged from Within and Without. If we release any other full versions of PDFs from stretch goals, your guaranteed those as well.LessEstimated delivery:Manage your pledge
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About $20 USD
40 backers
Lumberjack! - Pancakes, axes, oxen and a most glorious beard! As Pirate, and you get a physical copy of the game in all it's printed glory! Includes free shipping in the United States and Canada.Less
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About $30 USD
22 backers
The Gamer! - You enjoy dwarves, graph paper and dice! Sweet, sweet dice! You need 1 six sided die to play Beard. Others may steal it from their copy of Monopoly but you only want the best. As Lumberjack, and you get Six Custom Beer Star Games d6's.Less
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About $50 USD
5 backers
Wizard! - You shoot lightning from your fingers, start and stop the rain as you please, and understand that having a set of fine robes is very important. As Gamer, and you get a fine t-shirt, featuring the Beard King and the phrase 'Year of the Beard!'Less
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About $80 USD
1 backer Limited (4 left of 5)
The Writer! - You may not yet be ready to become an alcoholic, but you'll at least think about it as you take a big step forward to share the bearded word with others. As Wizard!, but we'll work with you on developing a card for a future Beard! Expansion pack.Less
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About $80 USD
1 backer Limited (4 left of 5)
The Cheat! - Maybe no one will notice if you just wear a fake beard. . . As Wizard!, and you get a custom set of six fake beards, with individual pieces you can collect instead of Beard! cards. Our most requested item, in a very limited amount.Less
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About $150 USD
0 backers Limited (5 left of 5)
Producer! - You understand the power of Lucas, Spielberg and depressed Al Gore. Beards get things done! As Writer!, and if we can get to the same convention as you, we guarantee at least 1 hour of time to share a drink and play game. We will be at PAX East and GenCon in 2014.Less
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About $200 USD
1 backer Limited (9 left of 10)
Time Traveler! - With you mighty beard a wagglin' in the streams of all time you make an investment in your future of fun! As Wizard!, and you also get a copy of every product Beer Star Games has currently produced and everything that we release until October 2014!Less
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About $1,000 USD
0 backers Limited (1 left of 1)
SANTA! - Your generosity knows no bounds! You have made a glorious effort to bring BEARD! to the world. You get everything offered to Producer and Fake Beard, and we'll have everything shipped to us first to sign. You're now our very good friend.Less
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I really cannot begin to voice my frustration with Sprint!! When we purchased this phone in August of 2011 the man at my local store in Hixson, TN assured me that my area would have 4G coverage in our area in by the end of the summer. Ok well needless to say we still dont have 4G capability! Not only was lied to so the man could get a f*****g sale, but now its considered at the EOL. So I will never be able to use 4G and my phone will not be getiing the ICS update!! It is not officially on the denied list, but if Sprint is no longer carrying this phone, the odds of them updating it are slim. Not only did I pay for two of the phones that will never live up to their full potential I had to sign a f*****g 2 year agreement that says I will keep these outdated phones for 2 years!!! This is total bullsh*t!! The phones werent cheap and neither is monthly bill. If you ask Sprint they never know nothing about nothing, I want a new phone at discounted price or I WANT WHAT I AM PAYING FOR!! JERKS!!
Don't rule it out completely, Sprint is still releasing updates for the EVO 4G and there have been reports that HTC is working on an ICS update for the Thunderbolt which is basically the same phones as the Supersonic but on Verizon. So if they can do it on the Thunderbolt, there's no reason they can't do it on the 4G.
Will it happen? Don't know, up to Sprint but I doubt it. Why? Simply put, Sprint would have to remove allot of the bloatware, e.g. Kindle, Flash, Reader, Blockbuster, etc.. in order for the end user to be able to install at their discretion and move to SD card. And they aren't likely to do that.
theres a little bit of light at the end of that tunnel...they allowed the removal of the bloatware on the 3D...so you never know...still unlikely...but every so slight of hope
In case anyone is interested, Verizon recently made there announcment of which phones will be receiving ICS. Interestingly, the Thunderbolt is on this list. The Thunderbolt is very similar in spec to the EVO 4G. So there's not much reason why it couldn't be done for the EVO 4G.
The HTC evo 4g is at the end of its life. Its has a 1 g procesor and 512 ram. Not enough for ICS. I just got off the phone with htc tech. I also bought this phone 8/2011.
I am intrested in NFC which I am told ICS brings to the table. The tech at HTC told me not to count on it. He transerred me to SPrint, and hoestly the tech person.... ( who left somthing to be desired) probably more knowledgable on the lates R7B or rap artist kept putting me on ho,d and then trying to ask me questions and never got around to the answere of any of mine. I dont mean to rant, but I was hopin for at least a year out of this device. It was outdated before I bought it.
its been alive and kicking for what? 2 years now? longer living than most phones.
and this matters why? I just got this phone, and was told it was cutting edge, alotta updates coming, great things.... sales man hard at work...... and now. It was outdated before I got it./????? just sayin....
meaning not many phones make it this far before its EOL. the evo is still one of the most sold phones out there...doesnt mean they can continue to kick out OS updates for it...just because you just got the phone doesnt mean. as it was stated above it just doesnt have the internal memory to be able to handle it. i recomend doing research on top of what youre told. i have been past my re up time for my contract for about a year now...why so long? because i researched the current phones and none of them had what i wanted..or had a bad rap already. heck 28 posts so youre not exactly new to the forums and you could have searched out the threads to see what all was said about it.
the majority of this ^^^ is more FYI than anything.
im sure this phone will get more updates...but they will be maintenance updates...not OS updates..
Well I am disheartened, not because the evo is a bad phone, but because It was misrepresented I feel. The phone has been everything I wanted it to be, except the NFC. ICS brings NFC to the table, which I feel will be the critical update that will outdate alotta phones from the gate.
This is the future. They new it, I was told it would come with the froyo, but uppon activation it would automatically update to the cookie cutter, and then more would follow. The ICS is critical for any smart phone I feel. This technology is 10 years old in japans markets. By no means am I a tech person. I just think NFC is here, has been here, and this phone was mis represented. 6 monthst after I am sold a cutting edge peice of technology, it was and already recieved its last update upon activation.
I am disheartened is how to put it best. 22 months till me next upgrade SPrint tells me. Thats along time when you start with an outdated phone.
i agree with you there. and this wouldnt be the first time i have heard of this happening sadley. ICS would be great..but currently my phone is working pretty well (except for the sprint-verizon text issue) and dont have any awe inspiring need to go through yet another bug filed update lol.
Hi to all. Yep, got an EVO. Gone through eight of them to get one that works up to advertised speculations. I love my EVO, always have; even with all my issues. Because of all my contact with Sprint and HTC, I've got some interesting contacts. When the ICS update list was first published and didn't have it the EVO on it, I began asking around - will the EVO 4G be getting ICS. Both HTC and Sprint assured me it would. Hmmm I thought. I waited, checking all the official update lists. Nope, no EVO. Lots of custom ROMs out there that fit on the phone and run just fine. Hmmm, if devs can do it, why can't Sprint/HTC do it? Then, the most amazing thing happened: HTC released an "official unlocker" for the EVO!!! AND it reports your use of this "official unlocker" to... (drum roll, please) Sprint. This is so weird!!! My contract is up on Apr first and I really don't know what to do. If the company solution is to unlock your phone and go outside the Sprint/HTC system, allowing them to disavow any responsibility, I'm not real comfortable with that. Maybe Android isn't ready for prime-time. iOS - never. WM8, maybe. A few honest answers would be nice. Is the EVO 4G an orphan phone or not? Up - down. Yes - no. Maybe and almost or sorta just doesn't cut it on a phone that was their flagship device.
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Regime Change You Can Believe in; Mideast Turmoil Underlines Vast Difference between Democracy and Republic
Byline: C. David Corbin and Matthew T. Parks, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
According to Defense Sec- retary Robert M. Gates, regime change in Libya is a political - but not military - goal of the Obama administration. As much as there is to criticize in that confused distinction, the deeper problem with the administration's approach to the Middle East is its confusion over what should follow regime change. A fixation on merely elected leadership or government by self-proclaimed people's champions ignores important lessons from our own history.
Entering office under the threat of civil war, Abraham Lincoln was prepared to do anything to keep the country together so long as the union he wished to save remained worthy of being saved. The Declaration of Independence had committed the United States to the cause of equal liberty, charging the new government of the independent states - even before it was formed - with the duty to protect the God-given natural rights of all Americans.
In one speech, Lincoln told his audience that if the only way to save the union was to give that up, he would rather be assassinated on this spot. Lincoln had no desire to live to see a United States that had repudiated the principle that, so long as she championed it and demonstrated its power, gave hope to the world for all future time. That hope was not found simply in democracy, but rather in the sort of republic described by James Madison in Federalist 10 and established by the Founders in the Constitution - one best able to secure the rights of all because it places both moral and institutional restraints on the majority.
Ironically, while the U.S. Constitution is the longest-lasting and most successful written constitution in the world, it is also perhaps the least imitated. Even when the United States has been able to have a heavy influence on the constitution of a conquered nation, as in Japan after World War II or, more recently, in Iraq, it has proposed parliamentary models closer to the English institutions we rebelled against than the form our nation's Founders judged, in the words of the Declaration, most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. …


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On 1/15/15, Deputies from the Allegany County Sheriff's Office responded to Super Shoes in Corriganville for a report of a suspicious subject removing security devices from merchandise. The subject left prior to the arrival of the Deputies. Employees described the vehicle and Deputies located the vehicle in the parking lot at Dunham's in the LaVale Plaza. The subject was located inside the store and identified as Jason Mathhew Kaufman (25 years old, Eglon, WV). Subsequent investigation revealed that KAUFMAN was the subject removing the security devices from the merchandise at Super Shoes and also, following a consent search of KAUFMAN's vehicle, it was discovered that KAUFMAN stole merchandise from Ollie's. CDS and paraphernalia were also located during the search of the vehicle.
KAUFMAN was arrested and charged with the following:
Theft less than $1,000
Theft less than $100
CDS: Possession other than marihuana
Possession of paraphernalia
Following an initial appearance in front of a District Court Commissioner, KAUFMAN was ordered held on $3,500.00
His vehicle was also impounded and the investigation is on going.
August 14th, 2011 by WCBC Radio
On Saturday the Cumberland Police Department responded to Queen City Drive for the report of a shoplifter. An employee had followed the suspect from the store and the officer located the suspect near North Centre Street. The stolen items were returned to the business and a criminal citation was issued to Scarlett Eva Williams, age 21 of Lonaconing, for Theft.
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School test results released
15 percent of county schools rank in the top 10 percent statewide
About 15 percent of Ventura County schools rank in the top 10 percent statewide for student test scores, according to rankings released Wednesday by the California Department of Education.
That's about the same percentage of county schools that made the top tier last year. Also similar to last year's rankings, fewer than 1 percent of Ventura County schools scored in the bottom 10 percent statewide.
The rankings, known as the Academic Performance Index, were based on student scores on standardized tests mostly taken in spring 2007.
Schools receive a score based on a scale of 200 to 1,000, with 800 the target. They were ranked in two categories, on a scale of 1 to 10.
The first ranking compared their scores with all other schools in California. The second compared schools with similar demographics, such as family income and the number of students still learning to speak English.
"I think they are very helpful for schools," state Superintendent Jack O'Connell said Wednesday of the rankings. Educators can now easily identify the top schools and learn from them the best ways to improve student achievement, he said.
In the Ventura Unified School District, Superintendent Trudy Tuttle Arriaga said she looked at Wednesday's rankings and compared them to several years ago.
"We are very pleased," she said of the improving schools, including Sheridan Way and De Anza, an elementary and middle school on Ventura's west side.
Those campuses still have two of the lowest scores districtwide, and when compared with schools statewide, Sheridan Way ranked a 3 and De Anza a 4. But both schools, which have a high percentage of English learners and low-income students, did much better when compared with campuses of similar demographics. De Anza, for a second year, was in the top 10 percent of similar schools.
It's exciting to see the results, Arriaga said, but it's just one of numerous indicators of a school's performance.
Along with the rankings, state officials released the 2007 Base API score and 2008 target scores. The targets are what districts, schools and all categories of students will have to meet on tests that students have been taking over the past several weeks. Those results will be released in August.
Highlights from Wednesday's results include:
n Five Ventura County high schools earned 10s when ranked against all other schools: Foothill Technology, a magnet school in Ventura; Santa Susana, a magnet school in Simi Valley; Oak Park; Thousand Oaks; and Westlake. Foothill, the top scoring high school at 904, was the only one to also receive a ranking of 10 when compared with schools of similar demographics.
n The Oxnard and Rio elementary school districts posted some of the lowest scores, with eight of their campuses ranked in the lowest 10 percent statewide.
Those schools, however, ranked higher when compared with those of similar demographics. Teachers and administrators are using intervention programs that target students' specific needs, said Micheline Miglis, district program improvement administrator, and the district is seeing significant overall growth in test scores.
n Some schools that have consistently scored high in statewide rankings did not do as well when compared by demographics. Meadows and University schools in the Conejo Valley Unified district and Red Oak School in Oak Park Unified earned 9s in statewide rankings but only 3s in similar-school rankings. Medea Creek Middle School in Oak Park got a 10 and 3.
Some officials believe the statewide rankings are a better indicator of quality than the demographic rankings. "One of the outstanding things in our district is the quality of education that we have maintained over time," said Laurel Ford, Oak Park's director of teaching and learning.
n Six schools in the Las Virgenes Unified School District, which includes Westlake Village, Agoura Hills and Calabasas, scored above 900. Twelve of the district's 13 schools were ranked in the top 10 percent statewide, and all ranked in the top 20 percent.
For a complete list of the rankings, visit http://www.cde.ca.gov/ta/ac/ap/apireports.asp.
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According to the Miami Herald, the Dolphins are one of several teams interested in free agent defensive tackle Jay Ratliff.
We hear the Dolphins are among several teams that have called about four-time Pro Bowl defensive tackle Jay Ratliff, who was released by Dallas and hasn't played this season because of sports hernia surgery.
Ratliff, 32, hopes to meet with teams within a couple of weeks and the Dolphins are among teams that interest him. He hopes to play this season, but it's not determined if he will. He has been cleared medically to resume football activities.


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Located in Turkey, the Nirvana is a cave hostel in the heart of Cappadocia, in the small town of Göreme. It is situated among fairy chimneys and fruit trees and is just a few minutes on foot from the bus station and city center of Göreme. At Nirvana Cave Hotel of Göreme guests have the possibility to spend the night in a traditional cave room or in one of the stone built rooms with authentic wooden ceilings. Budget travelers can choose to stay in the unique cave room dormitory where the beds are fitted into niches in the rock. All guests of this Göreme hostel in Cappadocia will have access to several amenities and servicesl, such as a washer/dryer, makeup/shaving mirror, slippers, private bathroom with a shower only and complimentary wireless Internet access. So, what about a dip in the outdoor swimming pool in the garden? In Winter, guests can warm up by the fireplace on the covered terrace where it is also possible to enjoy the amazing views over the surroundings. Free parking and snacks are also available to guests.venere.com
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Sports Fan Widget for Mac
editor's review
The Mac OS X Dashboard enables you to run various utilities in the background, in order to help you keep your desktop organized and clutter free: when you want to have access to the additional software, all you have to do is activate the Dashboard.
Effortlessly monitor your team's activity from your Dashboard
Sports Fan Widget is a minimalist widget that resides in your Dashboard, and provides up to date information about your favorite team's performance. Simply select the team you want to monitor from the back of the widget, and the utility takes care of the rest.
The widget provides support for multiple sports, such as baseball, basketball, football, and hockey. At the same time, it can monitor teams from various leagues: MLB, NBA, WNBA, Men's NCAA College, NFL, NHL, and so on.
Visualize your team's upcoming games and its current place in standings
Once you have provided the sport, the league, and the team's name, in the Sports Fan Widget main window you will be able to see the day's or week's scoreboard, a quick overview for each game, or the upcoming events. Note that you can use the arrow buttons next to the date to go back and forward.
Moreover, the Sports Fan Widget changes the background image depending on the sport you choose, and also includes your team's logo. At the same time, you can choose to see the standings statistics for various leagues (you can switch between them via a simple drop down menu).
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They will unveil details of an initiative where active players will take action to help ease the burdens for many retirees. One active NFL player will coordinate a massive grass roots initiative and reach out to every active NFL player in the league to gain their participation. The active players, along with Mike Ditka and the group of former players, will also address the lack of significant changes in support and adequate benefits that that are available to retired players.
Also in attendance will be the Chairman & CEO of a Tampa Florida based, premiere heath care facility and the facilities Chief Surgeon and Founder. They will announce an unprecedented donation (over $1 million) to the Gridiron Greats Assistance fund combining funding and pro bono medical care for retired NFL players in crisis. The donated care focuses one of the leading medical issues for players; back, spine and neck.
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Since 2009, Mass in Motion New Bedford (MiM NB), funded by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and housed at New Bedford's Office of Housing & Community Development, has been making policy, environmental, and systems changes to encourage residents to eat healthier and be more active. Working with partners from a variety of sectors, including health care, private business, government, education, and non-profits, MiM NB's mission is to promote healthy eating and active living throughout the city.
Current Initiatives
Food Access
Increasing access to nutritious and affordable foods, particularly in low-income, under-served neighborhoods, through:
Built Environment
Improving infrastructure and safety throughout the city to encourage people of all ages and backgrounds to walk and bike more. Specific initiatives include:
Mass in Motion Kids
This year we are evaluating the impact and success of the Mass in Motion Kids program that was implemented over the past two years, while also continuing to create effective and sustainable programs that combat and prevent childhood obesity.
Past Successes
- Received funding from Narragansett Bay Wheelmen
- Launched the Healthy Markets Initiative
- One of ten communities to receive a grant from the Massachusetts Council on Aging and Department of Public Health to build a community garden at Hazelwood Senior Center
- Mayor Jon Mitchell invited to speak at the annual, statewide Mass in Motion Action Institute
- Completed the 3rd Annual Summer Beverage Challenge throughout the community, partnering with Parks, Recreation & Beaches and the school district
- Worked with Parks, Recreation & Beaches on Project Bread
- Participated as a panel member at the FedUp screening, in partnership with the New Bedford Wellness Initiative
- Invited to speak with the new Dean of Nursing at UMass Dartmouth as part of a Public Health Tour
- Helped the South Coast Bikeway receive official non-profit status
- With help from the Department of Public Infrastructure, installed over 160 bike racks at all public schools and parks throughout the City
- Helped members of the New Bedford Bicycle Committee receive certification in MassRIDES
- Awarded a "Growing Up Healthy" grant from Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation
- Launched the Victory Park Children's Garden
- Invited to the CDC's Comprehensive Cancer Control Forum in Atlanta
- Invited to present our success with the Healthy Dining Program at local Health Board training
- Steve Miller from the Harvard School of Public Health's "Livable Streets and Healthy Weight Initiative" toured New Bedford and offered technical assistance regarding the City's bicycle culture
- Mayor Mitchell declared May 17th "Bike to Work Day" for the City
- Local health teacher invited to speak at the statewide Safe Routes to School forum about the success of I-Walk Day at Normandin Middle School
- Worked with Brooks Elementary School featured as first "Bike to School" school
- Held MiM Kids Summer Passport Program
- Re-opened Harmony Garden
- Invited by Mayor Jon Mitchell to participate in the Mayor's Learn and Serve Youth Program
- Mass in Motion New Bedford founder, Pauline Hamel, steps down and receives citation from the City for her dedication to improving the health of the City through MiM
- Held 1st Annual Pedal Party
- Hosted pedestrian and bicycle safety trainings at local schools with Safe Routes to School and MassBike
- Completed preliminary infrastructure assessments with Mass Department of Transportation
- Healthy Dining Restaurants were featured at the annual Connecting for Change Conference, in collaboration with Food Day
- Launched the Healthy Dining New Bedford program
- Worked with New Bedford Public Schools to adopt district-wide School Wellness Policies, in collaboration with the NB Public Schools Healthy Advisory Council
- One of two cities awarded the CDC's Childhood Obesity Research Demonstration Grant which became Mass in Motion Kids
- Invited to present at the Policy Link Equity Summit in Detroit
- Distributed School Health and Wellness Resource Manuals to all New Bedford Public Schools
- Presented at the Mass Department of Public Health's Regional Health Dialogues
- Contributed to City's Master Plan 2020 regarding public health, built environment, and opportunities for healthy eating and active living
- Worked with the City's Community Development Block Grant program to create a policy requiring all grant recipients to offer healthy snack options at all meetings and events
- Lincoln Elementary School Assistant Principal received "Rookie of the Year" award from the Mass Department of Transportation for participation in International Walk to School Day
- Co-sponsored with VOICES for a Healthy Southcoast, the "Healthy Southcoast by Design," a two day workshop and tour with Mark Fenton, national pedestrian advocate
- Board of Health adopted the Health Resolution for a Healthier Community through the Built Environment and Community Design
- Kicked-off Soda Free Challenge initiatives at the YMCA, YWCA, and Boys and Girls Club in partnership with Boston University School of Public Health
- All New Bedford Public Schools signed on as partners in the Safe Routes to School initiative
- Kicked-off first International Walk/Bike to School Day
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Minimum Wage
Here's How We Can Reverse Wage Stagnation
August 31, 2015
The discrepancy between worker productivity and hourly wages is the largest it's ever been. Why?
Warren Buffett's Good Idea on the Earned Income Tax Credit Is Bad for Progress
May 22, 2015
It's about politics, not policy.
Critics Were Completely Wrong About the "Fight for $15" Movement
May 20, 2015
Los Angeles raising its minimum wage to $15 per hour proves it.
Andrew Cuomo Might Unilaterally Raise the Minimum Wage of Fast Food Workers
May 07, 2015
One of his reasons for doing so is flawed, but his decision is still laudable.
Democrats Proposed a $12 Minimum Wage. Is That a Good Idea?
May 01, 2015
Democrats must understand the risks.
Martin O'Malley Just Jumped to the Left of Elizabeth Warren. Your Move, Hillary.
April 17, 2015
He wants a $15 minimum wage. That makes political sense, but not economic sense.
McDonald's Wage Hike Is Thanks to the Economy, Not the "Fight for $15"
April 01, 2015
It's not time celebrate yet. But we're close.
The Minimum Wage Worker Fired for Talking to the Media Shows How Poorly America Treats Low-Income Workers
March 31, 2015
We can do better.
Jeb Bush Almost Proposed Abolishing the Minimum Wage
March 18, 2015
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- Population:
- 671,000
- Capital:
- Moroni; 53,000
- Area:
- 1,862 square kilometers (719 square miles)
- Language:
- Arabic, French, Shikomoro
- Religion:
- Sunni Muslim, Roman Catholic
- Currency:
- Comoran franc
- Life Expectancy:
- 56
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The Comoros are a group of volcanic islands in the Mozambique Channel between northern Madagascar and Africa. The people share African-Arab origins. In 1975 three of the so-called perfume islands voted for independence from France; the fourth, Mayotte, elected to remain a dependency. Some 18 coups, or attempted coups, since independence have created great instability. In 1997 the islands of Anjouan and Mohéli declared independence, but a new federal constitution in 2001 brought the islands back together. Most inhabitants make their living from subsistence agriculture or fishing; exports include vanilla and essences used in the manufacture of perfumes.
- Industry: Tourism, perfume distillation
- Agriculture: Vanilla, cloves, perfume essences, copra
- Exports: Vanilla, ylangylang, cloves, perfume oil, copra
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The Atlanta-based duo of Amy Ray and Emily Saliers have been writing, recording and performing music together as the Indigo Girls for more than twenty years. Their debut recording, 1987's Strange Fire, was independently released and then later re-released via Columbia Records. With their eleventh studio recording, Poseidon and the Bitter Bug, they've come full circle, releasing the CD on their own independent imprint label, IG Records, distributed via Vanguard Records.
The new CD finds the duo working again with veteran producer Mitchell Froom (Neil Finn, Richard Thompson, Suzanne Vega). It's a double CD, with one disc being a full band recording of ten songs while the second offers barebones, acoustic versions of the same songs plus one that didn't make the full band disc, harkening back to the acoustic folk of Strange Fire.
The songs are placed in a different order on each disc, and initially, the full band recording resonates a little more and warrants repeat listens. For instance, the full band version of "Digging For Your Dreams" is haunting and ethereal, fleshed out with a slow but cadent rhythm, lush organ swells and pitch perfect, digitally touched up vocals. The acoustic version focuses the attention on the sparse guitars, lovely, lilting harmonies and harsh, heart wrenching lyrics like, "I went looking for the answers from someone I heard believes that life gets easier/ You learn how to breathe or you learn how to grieve the past."
Elsewhere, that same sparse instrumentation bares a strong resemblance to Strange Fire. On the upbeat, hooky "Love Of Our Lives" one can imagine oneself on a backyard porch with a small crowd, singing along at the top of their lungs with Ray and Saliers strumming their guitars.
The Indigo Girls remain committed to social, political and environmental issues in their songwriting. On "Salty South," the bonus acoustic track, they sing about Native American folklore and the glorious sunsets of early America compared to those we see today in picture frames with no sense of time. Sweet banjo adds a dulcet tone to the duo's lilting harmonies.
The additional instrumentation and polished production on the full band recording serves "Second Time Around" well, with Ray's mandolin mixing sweetly with banjo. On the full band CD rockers such as "What Are You Like" and "Ghost Of The Gang" are rousing and upbeat with electric guitar and steady drums and bass, while on the acoustic versions one doesn't necessarily miss the rock instrumentation.
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The company posted in-line fourth quarter EPS of $0.36 and revenue of $111 million. Q4 sales split 82%/18% Audio/Energy, compared to 86%/14% the prior quarter. Energy increased 19% sequentially on an uptick in high GM Seismic and initial LED production ramp (about 500,000 units).
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Audio was down 14% sequential as sales to Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) decreased about 20% to 63% of total revenues from 70% in the prior quarter. Home audio sales rebounded 5% on inventory restocking. Despite the near-term lull, AAPL remains CRUS's primary growth driver and could exit calendar 2012 as an 80% customer.
Gross margin increased 250 basis points sequential to 56.5%, above prior guidance of 54% to 56%. Gross margin guidance of 54% reflects the expected down-tick in high-margin Seismic.
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Management secured a $100 million revolver to fund a rapid inventory build to support second half demand. With $185 million in cash on hand, Schafer believes CRUS has ample room to take on the expected about $56 million inventory increase. Additionally, it has secured front and back-end capacity.
Outlook for Q1 revenue of $101 million fell short of consensus $107 million on timing issues at Apple. Management expects a sharply higher level of revenue beginning in Q2. Inventory is expected to double sequential as CRUS funds increased demand with a $100 million revolver.
The analyst believes CRUS has secured the iPhone 5 socket and look for units as well as content increases to drive second half upside. CRUS remains a top play on the growth and success of Apple. He looks for shares to trade better today following management's bullish second half commentary.
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This photo taken Wednesday, June 20, 2012, at FBI Headquarters in Chicago, shows some of the more than 120 stolen artifacts missing for decades from the Chicago Polish Museum of America _ including letters with the signatures of Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson and American Revolution hero Thaddeus Kosciuszko that were returned to the Museum by the FBI on Wednesday. The items include letters and documents dating to the 18th and 19th centuries, seals, military medals and Nazi propaganda from World War II. The pieces, which the FBI valued at about $5 million, also included documentation about Napoleon, George Washington, John Adams and Polish kings. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)
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Case Study 17: Stories in Our Classrooms: A Faculty Community of Practice as an Agent of Change
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Beverly Bickel, William Shewbridge, and Jack Suess
In 2006, the UMBC's (University of Maryland, Baltimore County) Division of Information Technology's (DoIT) New Media Studio (NMS) began facilitating digital storytelling workshops as a gateway opportunity for faculty to explore how student-centered assignments, creative work with course concepts, and the use of digital tools can lead students to develop digital literacies.1 Prior to this event, UMBC had made very little progress in leveraging technology and multimedia to support scholarship and teaching in the humanities and social sciences. As faculty began to come together in support of the importance of digital storytelling in teaching and research, we realized that we were in the midst of a game-changing moment in our efforts to promote digital literacy among students.
In the first three years, the faculty workshops were funded by the NMS and led by the Center for Digital Storytelling (CDS), which was co-founded by Joe Lambert. CDS's pioneering work was a major inspiration to UMBC's early faculty adopters and inspired them to draw their colleagues into the effort. According to Kristen Drotner, this now-classic form of digital storytelling stems from Lambert's understanding that storytelling validates ordinary people's memories and experiences, serving to supplement and perhaps correct official histories.2 While working as producers with audio and visual representations, storytellers discover how multimedia meanings are made and, in the process, are challenged to become more critical consumers of mass- and new-media messages.
Since 2006, this effort has brought together an interdisciplinary group of approximately one hundred faculty and staff representing a variety of departments that has developed into a community of practice focused on encouraging digital literacy. We call it a "community of practice"3 because it is composed of early faculty adopters and IT staff who have worked together in the shared enterprise of digital storytelling workshops, whereby participants move fluidly between being novice learners or experts in various roles—as narrative authors and storytellers; photo, video, or sound editors; and artistic designers. In this collaborative professional context, everyone is challenged to reconsider learning and teaching as a shared social process that "differs from a mere collection of people by the strength and depth of the culture it is able to establish and which in turn supports group activity and cohesion."4
In the first few years, the NMS nurtured this faculty group through e-mail lists, by awarding equipment and software grants, by sponsoring research seminars and training workshops, and by helping to shine a spotlight on the innovative work of faculty and students. This "community" group has developed cohesion over the semesters and has come together in various ways to advocate for the advancement of digital literacies across the UMBC curriculum. As the importance of digital-media literacies in all disciplines and professions becomes more apparent on a national scale,5 this group has helped jump-start campus discussions on addressing curricular changes, particularly in the humanities and social sciences. Thus, this faculty community of practice has emerged at the center of an environment that encourages collaborations across disciplinary boundaries, discussions about research, and innovation in classroom practices where new models of learning are explored.
Eventually, the annual workshops became self-sustaining as UMBC faculty and staff, who had been specially trained by CDS, assumed the role of facilitators. As this transition occurred, we knew we were on the right path to building a vibrant community of practice to support and promote digital literacies, as the peer-to-peer flavor to the workshops has enhanced faculty members' exploration of new media technologies in a collegial, interdisciplinary, and nonthreatening setting. Beyond the workshop, this spirit of collaboration and mutual support continued as participants sought opportunities to share ideas across departments. According to Jason Loviglio, director of UMBC's Media and Communication Studies (MCS) program,
We have developed a real community of practice at UMBC based around the New Media Studio.... Every year we have widened the circle to the point where we had a core of people who were not only veterans of the workshop taught by Joe Lambert, but we were now the teachers of the workshop. It has been ambitious, it has felt quixotic to some of us, but it has been a really galvanizing experience where we feel like we can actually now share these ideas with our colleagues and we can watch them implement them in their classes.6
The community of practice has evolved from informal discussions to gatherings each semester to discuss technology-support needs, assignment ideas, grading rubrics, and stories about digital storytelling or visual assignments in over twenty courses annually. The community is supported by a website (http://www.umbc.edu/oit/newmedia/studio/digitalstories/index.html) and an active e-mail LISTSERV that boasts a membership of more than 175 faculty and staff members. The group has also served as springboard for broader discussions and has led in part to the creation of three working groups currently developing white papers on digital humanities in teaching, research, and publishing at UMBC.
With this increased interest in digital literacies came an increased demand for resources. In the absence of additional funding, faculty and staff have used the same grassroots approach that characterized the early development of the community of practice. Graduate assistants, financially supported by the NMS, began supporting faculty by providing basic technical training to students in the classroom. In addition, these assistants staffed a "genius bar" in the International Media Center's (IMC) Mac Lab, which had become the unofficial home for digital story activities. A closet in the IMC was outfitted for audio recording, and a few surplus cameras from the NMS were made available to students working on visual assignments.
In spring 2010, MCS and the NMS created a one-credit course, MCS 101L Multimedia Literacy Lab. The lab course was initially designed to accompany MCS 333 History and Theory of Mass Communication and Media Studies, a gateway course required of all MCS majors. The Multimedia Literacy Lab ensures that students develop basic multimedia skills while improving their writing abilities by creating two digital stories. Though it introduces students to a variety of production techniques, the lab stresses effective communication through the integration of written and audiovisual forms, and instructors expect all students to be able to communicate ideas effectively and creatively in multimodal work. As a result of connecting the lab to a required gateway course, the lab helps ensure that every MCS major creates at least one digital story or visual assignment early in the major. As Loviglio commented,
The level of student engagement in digital assignments in MCS 333 has been truly astounding. Students spend more time working with course texts, researching course concepts, and collaborating with peers since we've begun to require them to answer questions about theory using digital storytelling formats. Students report greater enthusiasm both for the assignments and for the material they're covering now that some of their coursework includes digital assignments alongside traditional written assignments.7
Faculty members and the NMS have also explored means of using digital literacies to help connect students to communities beyond the campus. A number of unique collaborative projects have been developed in which students use digital media to give voice to first-generation female German immigrants, returning Peace Corp volunteers, youth activists, and local residents reflecting on the histories of regional communities.
One such collaboration, the Charlestown Project,8 resulted from a partnership between the NMS and Retirement Living Television, a national network based at UMBC. Now in its fifth year, the project teams UMBC students with residents of the nearby Charlestown retirement community to create digital stories based on the residents' life experiences.9 Based on the success of this project, a new freshman-year seminar was offered in the fall of 2011, "Creating Stories about Times of Change," in which students worked in intergenerational teams to create stories that focused on common threads and shared insights and lessons about growth. The narrative collaboration offered opportunities for empathy and a broadening of perspective about the creation of identity in times of change.
Active involvement by both UMBC and CDS in the New Media Consortium (NMC), a leader in advancing digital-media literacy and open courseware among U.S. universities, has fostered participation in a broader community of practice, resulting in collaborations with other institutions and organizations on curricula projects, joint training workshops, national and international conferences, and grant proposals. In one example, UMBC students—working directly with CDS and local community organizations—worked with members of the Somali Bantu and Bhutanese communities in telling stories of their refugee experiences.
In creating a collaborative, faculty-led environment where grassroots innovation in teaching digital literacies can thrive, UMBC has made significant progress. By taking this work into the community, members of UMBC's community of practice are also creating new opportunities for student learning and civic engagement. While sustaining momentum in the absence of new resources remains a challenge, the growing community of practice illustrates the power of committed faculty and staff in transforming a campus into a digitally literate academy.
- To date, faculty from the following departments have attended the workshops and begun using digital assignments: Media and Communications Studies; Visual Arts; Modern Languages and Linguistics; Intercultural Communications; Language, Literacy and Culture; History; American Studies; Psychology; Education; Gender and Women's Studies; Math; and Engineering.
- K. Drotner, "Boundaries and Bridges: Digital Storytelling in Education Studies and Media Studies," in Digital Storytelling, Mediatized Stories: Self-Representations in New Media, ed. K. Lundby (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2008): 63
- Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger, Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1991).
- Riel, M. & Polin, L, "Learning Communities: Common Ground and Critical Differences in Designing Technical Environments," in Designing Virtual Communities in the Service of Learning, ed. S. A. Barab, R. Kling and J. Gray (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2004): 18.
- L. Johnson, R. Smith, H. Willis, A. Levine, and K. Haywood, The 2011 Horizon Report (Austin, TX: The New Media Consortium, 2011).
- Jason Loviglio, "Digital Stories in the Classroom" (profiles from UMBC's Community of Practice), accessed May 18, 2010, http://www.umbc.edu/oit/newmedia/studio/digitalstories/profiles.php.
- Jason Loviglio, e-mail correspondence with author, November 16, 2010.
- "Digital Stories from Charlestown," http://www.umbc.edu/oit/newmedia/studio/digitalstories/ctds.php.
- W. Shewbridge, "Partners in Storytelling: UMBC, Retirement Living TV and the Charlestown Digital Story Project," in Higher Education, Emerging Technologies, and Community Partnerships: Concepts, Models and Practices, ed. M. Bowdon and R. Carpenter (Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2011).
Beverly Bickel is the Interim Director and Research Assistant Professor in the Language, Literacy and Culture Doctoral program at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Her teaching and research focus on digital storytelling and digital literacies, globalized communication in cross-cultural contexts, critical pedagogies and online pedagogies, and how the public space of the Internet supports transformational knowledge projects. William Shewbridge is founding Director of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, New Media Studio. His work focuses on advancing media literacy and exploring new technologies for learning. He is an affiliate Assistant Professor of Modern Languages and Linguistics, teaching courses in intercultural media, television production, and digital storytelling. Jack Suess is Vice President for Information Technology and CIO at University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). He is a frequent speaker on security, identity, and cloud services and has volunteered in numerous ways with EDUCAUSE, InCommon, REN-ISAC, and Internet2. For more information, visit http://bit.ly/fSB5ID.
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Both projection and commissural pathways are disrupted in individuals with chronic stroke: investigating microstructural white matter correlates of motor recovery
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BMC Neuroscience 2012, 13:107 doi:10.1186/1471-2202-13-107Published: 29 August 2012
Complete recovery of motor function after stroke is rare with deficits persisting into the chronic phase of recovery. Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) can evaluate relationships between white matter microstructure and motor function after stroke. The objective of this investigation was to characterize microstructural fiber integrity of motor and sensory regions of the corpus callosum (CC) and descending motor outputs of the posterior limb of the internal capsule (PLIC) in individuals with chronic stroke and evaluate the relationships between white matter integrity and motor function.
Standardized measures of upper extremity motor function were measured in thirteen individuals with chronic stroke. Manual dexterity was assessed in thirteen healthy age-matched control participants. DTI scans were completed for each participant. Fractional anisotropy (FA) of a cross-section of sensory and motor regions of the CC and the PLIC bilaterally were quantified. Multivariate analysis of variance evaluated differences between stroke and healthy groups. Correlational analyses were conducted for measures of motor function and FA. The stroke group exhibited reduced FA in the sensory (p = 0.001) region of the CC, contra- (p = 0.032) and ipsilesional (p = 0.001) PLIC, but not the motor region of the CC (p = 0.236). In the stroke group, significant correlations between contralesional PLIC FA and level of physical impairment (p = 0.005), grip strength (p = 0.006) and hand dexterity (p = 0.036) were observed.
Microstructural status of the sensory region of the CC is reduced in chronic stroke. Future work is needed to explore relationships between callosal sensorimotor fiber integrity and interhemispheric interactions post-stroke. In addition, contralesional primary motor output tract integrity is uniquely and closely associated with multiple dimensions of motor recovery in the chronic phase of stroke suggesting it may be an important biomarker of overall motor recovery.


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School shootings are as traumatizing to parents as they are to children. What should parents do if they don't feel it is safe to send their child to school?
Parents need to be reassured. In many ways, this is more difficult for parents than for children.
Your best bet is to stay in contact with and be in close communication with the school. Find out what measures they have in place. Ask if they have scheduled any meetings with parents or have a way for parents to connect and support each other.
There is a danger in overprotecting our children. It is important to remember that this is an extremely rare event. People have a tendency to overestimate the risk of rare events while underestimating those that happen every day. It's part of human nature, but if you notice yourself doing this, it may be time to pull back a little so your child can move forward in the midst of tragedy.
When it comes to parents and children, anxiety happens by osmosis. Anxious parents often have children who are afraid. Just as you would ask of your child, ask yourself, "What am I afraid of?" If you cannot effectively deal with the answers on your own, seek professional counseling for your anxiety. It often takes only one or two sessions with a good therapist to begin healing.
Any suggestions on what NOT to do moving forward?
Don't freak out in front of the children. The less they see of your own anxiety, the better.
When a tragic news story breaks, do not leave the TV on all day, and don't leave your children alone in front of the TV. When you do have the TV on, watch with them so you can observe their reactions help them to understand. Very young children don't have enough knowledge of geography to understand how close something is. They may worry unnecessarily that the violence is taking place in their own neighborhood.
Do give your children healthy messages, says Dr. Bloch. "Show them that you are able to go on with life and the things you need to do without this becoming the centerpiece of the family's concern. Parents must keep themselves together for the sake of the children — even if they're afraid and worried."
Our heartfelt sympathies go out to the families of the victims, as well as to those who survive.
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