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|Quick Facts: Radiation Therapists
$77,560 per year
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What Radiation Therapists Do
Radiation therapists treat cancer and other diseases in patients by administering radiation treatments.
Work Environment
Radiation therapists work in hospitals, offices of physicians, and outpatient centers. Most radiation therapists work full time.
How to Become a Radiation Therapist
Most radiation therapists complete programs that lead to an associate's degree or a bachelor's degree in radiation therapy. Radiation therapists must be licensed in most states; requirements vary by state.
The median annual wage for radiation therapists was $77,560 in May 2012.
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2004 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion Kurt Busch tested a Chevrolet-powered Andretti Autosport IZOD IndyCar Series car Thursday morning, May 9, 2013, just two days before IMS opens for practice for the 97th Indianapolis 500. / Doug McSchooler/for The Star
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IndyCar announced Friday that Izod will conclude its sponsorship of the series after the current season.
"We are proud of our partnership with Izod over the past six years and we're grateful to PVH Corp., owner of the Izod brand, for its support, creativity and vision," said Mark Miles, chief executive officer of Hulman & Co., the parent company of IndyCar. "But circumstances change and now we're seeking new partnerships with brands looking to align with the fastest, most versatile form of racing.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) -- Authorities are investigating a gunfight between two Birmingham police officers and several suspects on Interstate 59.
Police said in a statement that officers were summoned around 8 p.m. Friday for a report of gunfire near I-59 north and the exit for 22nd Street.
Arriving police officers found two police officers were involved in a shooting with three suspects. A male and female suspect suffered gunshot wounds and were taken to UAB Hospital for treatment. Officials said a third suspect was taken into custody. Police did not immediately release their identities. They were not formally charged with any crimes Saturday.
No other injuries were reported.
Birmingham police did not immediately return phone calls seeking to confirm why the two police officers were at the scene of the shooting.
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Congratulations on posting 2900 consecutive days, real dedication. Lets be buddies. Thanks
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thanks for the update...I will be correcting the prices for that name too
Vpowergas has been posting incorrect prices for months...I think he owns a station nearby...I have reported him to GasBuddy but it does no good
What the F are you talking about? And who the F are you to tell me what to do?
Congratulations on having the stamina to post for 2,800 consecutive days. Keep up the Great Work. Want to become buddies?? Warren {:-)
Welcome to Colorado! Here's hoping your stay is pleasant and as eventful as you had hoped for. The weather and road conditions are continually changing. If you are traveling to the high country or any other part of Colorado, then please visit: http://www.cotrip.org for the latest road conditions and webcams. It's the "Bomb", and you'll find it useful while here. Safe and warm travels, and best to you in 2013 and beyond.
Please discontinue any future contact with me. I have found that you are fraudulent, and want nothing to do with you. Thank you very much for this accommodation.
Dear Mr. Yzerman,
After allowing you several hours to review the file, I could not help but laugh at your response. You went and changed two Grand Blanc location prices AND placed INCORRECT wording in the comment section (Cash price).
For the record, these two locations are priced the SAME as cash and credit, yet you choose to list only the words "cash price". Sorry Steven, you are in error. You have no more credibility than COGB, which is zero in my book. Bring on every moderator for this site, you are part of the problem. I will continue to report accurate prices, and your "friends" (COGB) will continue to be fraudulent. Stay away from me.
ices are actually ten cents LESS (BP, 9291 Holly Road, 48439 and Sunoco, 9118 Holly Road, 48439). Feel free to call the locations and confirm the proper prices, 810-953-9398 and 810-953-1490. I have NEVER posted an inaccurate price, while this person does it several times daily. I will continue to post accuate prices, and add the "credit price listed" information. The rules allow for that distinction, and I will follow the rules.
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|Low-Sugar Whole Wheat and Oatmeal Spice Cake with Fuyu Persimmons.
This cake may look similar to the Low-Sugar and Whole Wheat Apple-Pear Cake I made for Thanksgiving, but it has oatmeal for more fiber and a slightly more whole grain texture. More important, persimmons are only in season from late October through late December, so I recommend making this before it's too late. (And after this I still have one more recipe to share that I made with the persimmons that came in the mail; thanks again to Andrea from Rookie Cookery for helping me have fun experimenting with persimmons!)
I used my food processor to grate the persimmons until I had 2 cups grated persimmons. Aren't they pretty; I love the color.
Whis together the eggs, canola oil, buttermilk, and vanilla.
Stir the wet ingredients into the dry ingredient mixture, and gently stir until it's well combined.
Sspread the mixture into a 9 inch X 9 inch cake pan.
Bake at 350F/175C for 35 minutes, or until the cake is firm and a toothpick comes out clean.
Low-Sugar Whole Wheat and Oatmeal Spice Cake with Fuyu Persimmons
(Makes about 9 small servings, recipe created by Kalyn with inspiration from Garden Harvest Cake, inspired by Garden Harvest Cake by Jennifer Dunklee for the Austin American Spokesman.
1 cup white whole wheat flour
1/2 cup oatmeal crumbs or rolled oats (oatmeal crumbs that have been buzzed in the food processor will give a finer crumb to the cake)
3/4 cup Stevia-in-the-Raw Granulated Sweetener or Splenda (or use sugar if you don't care about having a low-sugar cake)
2 T brown sugar (or use 2 T more Splenda if you want even less sugar)
1 tsp. cinnamon
1/4 tsp. nutmeg
1/4 tsp. ground cloves (cloves are a strong flavor, some people may prefer to leave out)
1 1/2 tsp. baking soda
1/4 tsp. salt
2 cups grated Fuyu persimmon (about 5-6 persimmons)
1/2 cup chopped pecans
2 eggs, beaten
1/4 cup canola oil
1/4 cup buttermilk
1 T vanilla
In a large bowl, combine flour, oatmeal crumbs, Splenda, brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, baking soda, and salt.
Peel persimmons and grate using a food processor or hand grater until you have two cups of grated persimmon, then stir the persimmon into the dry ingredients until it's evenly distributed in the mixture. Measure 1/2 cup pecans and chop with a chef's knife, then stir pecans into the dry ingredient mixture.
Bake cake about 35 minutes, or until the top is firm and springs back when touched, and a toothpick inserted into the cake comes out clean.
Serve warm or cold. Can be served with regular or low-sugar whipped cream, ice cream, frozen yogurt, or even Greek yogurt.
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I chose the South Beach Diet to manage my weight partly so I wouldn't have to count calories, carbs, points, or fat grams, but if you want nutritional information for a recipe, I recommend entering the recipe into Calorie Count, which will calculate it for you.
More Cakes with Persimmons:
(Recipes from other blogs may not always be South Beach Diet friendly; check ingredients.)
Persimmon Pudding Cake ~ Simply Recipes
Hachiya Persimmon Cake ~ Fresh Approach Cooking
Spiced Persimmon Cake with Dates and Lemon Glaze ~ Andrea Meyers
Persimmon Spice Cake ~ What's For Lunch Honey?
Fuyu Persimmon Cake ~ Kirbie Cravings
Fuyu Persimmon Bundt ~ The Food Librarian
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Why did the chicken run the 5K? To get a free beer at the Wisconsin Warrior Dash this past Saturday, of course.
Held at Milford Hills outside Johnson Creek, the Warrior Dash is a fun mud-run, offering a plethora of unique and unusual costumes worn by the thousands of participants. Of course, it is a little unnerving running on hunting club grounds dressed as a chicken, wondering if clay pigeons were truly the only fowl in season. For an outdoor obstacle event, this one is huge and very well orchestrated. The paths are wide and runner-friendly. Well, except for the occasional thigh-deep, shoe-gobbling mud, but youll have that. Water stations were oddly both placed in the first half of the course, but I suppose that if you were really thirsty, you could drink from the several obstacles pouring water on you down the road.
Trying to ramp up the soft image of the Dash, race officials increased the number of obstacles this year to an even dozen and ramped up the mud and water challenges. The hardest of which was a short series of mud hills capped with a 10-foot long mud slide. This was more humorous than difficult as it was a struggle to crawl out of the landing pit as more human bowling balls would come down the slide, knocking everyone down again and again.
Overall, the Warrior Dash is a very fun event and great excuse to exercise and get muddy with family and friends. Sure its still an outdoor 5k with obstacles thats hard to do without any training at all. One struggling first-timer succinctly summed it up at the halfway point with two words, This sucks. So maybe walk a few blocks in advance next year, sign up early to get the early bird discount and enjoy a fun day with over 5,000 of your new friends.
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The Marlboro High School baseball team took advantage of its opportunities and won its season-opening game, 13-7, over visiting Millbrook on Wednesday.
"We didn't have an outburst of hits," Marlboro coach Dave Onusko said. "We capitalized."
With the score tied 4-4 heading into the bottom of the fourth, the Iron Dukes took the lead for good with a three-run rally that began with a walk, continued with a single - one of three by John Mooradian on the day - and included two errors, a fielder's choice and a hit batsman. ...


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So was down around Nashville this weekend, had the chance to try some new local-ish products.
The one that jumped out from a visual standpoint was one called Cumberland Cask (Cask is the product name, though they do sell in both 80 and 120 proof). From what was explained to me at multiple stops, the local distributor (Best Brands) is pushing this on behalf of the owner's son.
- Bottle itself is dead ringer for Eagle Rare.
- Local shops seemed a bit confused, some flagged it as BT product and others as Dickel. The bottle is marked TN Whiskey so i can assume BT is out.
- The 80 proof had a bite to it, couldn't tell if it was young or just charred taste profile. (Sadly they didn't have the 120 proof open for tasting).
- Didn't have chance to take any notes, but were the price lower i may have bit. It was in the $36-39 range depending on store...and for that much i'd rather just grab ER10
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Last time I was in Toronto was to present "1 day Rapid Opiate Detox" to a convention of Psychiatrists, and Medical specialists in Addiction. Sucked to hang out with them.
Highlight of the trip was the CN tower, and staying in the hotel that hosts the Toronto Blue Jays and watching the game from my hotel room which was in deep center field. My wife and I also took the day trip to Niagara Falls.
Great trip...except for the time I had to hang out with those lame-ass professionals who didn't want to talk music. Their conversations were more like, "do you use methadone or suboxone? I prefer Clonadine to manage the cramps associated with withdrawal". Hate those guys. No sense of humor. They consider me somewhat of an iconoclast within the profession as well. Wonder why???


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Ariel Castro is the father of the six year old girl that was found in his home on Seymour Avenue on Cleveland's west side.
Ohio Attorney General, Mike DeWine, confirmed this today through DNA testing.
Castro's DNA did not match any other Ohio cases, but the FBI is awaiting results of any national cases.
Also, Friday the FBI says it has concluded its investigation for now at Castro's home on Seymour for now. No human remains were recovered.
Castro was arraigned Thursday for rape and kidnapping. His bond is set for $8 million.
Thursday WKYC's Investigative Reporter, Tom Meyer, learned more about what Ariel Castro told police during an interrogation.
He told police he was addicted to sex and couldn't control his impulses.
Castro called himself "cold blooded." Read more of about the police questioning here.
Cleveland Police are reminding everyone that the victims in this case have asked for privacy.
Thursday police even offered to accept gifts and cards on behalf of the families.
Police said "The outpouring of community support surrounding the Amanda Berry, Michelle Knight and Gina DeJesus homecoming is greatly appreciated."
"In order to give the girls their privacy and time to heal, the Cleveland Division of Police is asking that anyone wishing to provide gifts or cards to the girls refrain from doing so at their homes."
"Instead, cards and gifts for Amanda Berry, excluding cash, can be dropped off at the First District located at 3895 West 130th Street in Cleveland." (READ MORE)
Visit our special section of WKYC.com for the latest details about this case, and to read more about what led up to Monday's discovery of Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus, and Michelle Knight.
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Photos: Decade in isolation
Complete coverage: Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus, Michelle Knight found
911 Call: Help me I'm Amanda Berry
Dispatch tapes: "We found them!"
Rude dispatcher?: Police investigate dispatcher's handling of Amanda Berry's 911 call
How to help: Charitable fund set up for missing girls
Investigator: What Castro told police
Investigator: Amanda Berry's baby born in plastic pool
Investigator: Ariel Castro's past
Investigator: Women raped resulting in pregnancies
Details: Women only outside twice in past 10 years
Police audio: Police audio reveals how officers found women
Found alive: Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus found alive
DeJesus homecoming: Gina gives a thumbs up
Amanda Berry homecoming: Family thanks community
Charges: Charges announced against Ariel Castro
Court appearance: Ariel Castro arraigned, bond set by judge
Castro family: Ariel Castro's family mortified to be related
Charles Ramsey: Neighbor tells how he helped rescue Amanda Berry
Charles Ramsey: Listen to 911 call that led to Amanda Berry rescue
Ramsey t-shirt: T-shirt for sale honoring Charles Ramsey as a hero
Michelle's mom: Michelle Knight back in hospital
Inside the house: Details emerge about house where victims held
Padlocks in house: Suspects' son says Seymour house had padlocks throughout
No human remains: No human remains found at home where women escaped
Jaycee Dugard: Cleveland women need opportunity to heal
Castro Brothers Id'd: Three brothers identified in missing women case
Timeline: Gina DeJesus
Timeline: Amanda Berry
Watch: Last 10 years looking for Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus
Twitter trends: Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus on Twitter
Family celebrates: Amanda Berry's family celebrates
Police: Amanda is the real hero here
Family shocker: DeJesus family reacts to Gina's return
Arrest: Ariel Castro and two brothers arrested in Amanda Berry case
Inside the house: Safety director talks about home where Berry, DeJesus were held
Out of the HOSPITAL: Three missing women released from hospital
Mayor reacts: Mayor Jackson talks about the release of the three missing women


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We always loved trees, but only recently learned how important they are.
Trees preserve the planet and us by providing oxygen, absorbing greenhouse gases and pollutants, purifying water, helping make rain and protecting the earth from harmful temperature changes.
A future without the benefits of trees would be dire. Yet, electric cooperatives in Missouri have been clearing massive numbers of trees in far greater swaths than ever before. ...


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Before I go into this week's post, I want to draw your attention to a new project being undertaken by a college professor acquaintance who, like me, has worked extensively with law enforcement. In his Jan. 1 blog, he writes:
Seeking LE organization willing to work virtually with supervised university students.
The goal is to give students more exposure to real officers and police administrators and fewer TV cops.
Are you willing to partner with a handful of students with retired-LE professor oversight on a small project tailored to your department/team needs? All project ideas considered, prefer those reated to mobile technology, with no anticipated cost to your organization.
I got excited about this even before Carter referred his readers to Cops 2.0, so please head on over, read the rest of his post and let us know if you're interested. Thanks!
Policing for a future generation
I find Carter's work — bringing younger citizens into active law enforcement research — especially important because, as 2012 begins, I think we need to take stock of where policing currently sits. In recent months I've seen a couple of opinions that indicate community policing, as we knew it in the 1990s, is dead; meanwhile, technology provides police with ever-increasing amounts of data about private citizens. Law enforcement, along with the societies it polices, is clearly in transition as technology and privacy collide at unprecedented rates.
This is not just true of the kinds and amount of data an investigator can glean from social media, surveillance video, license plate readers, and so on. It will also increase as law enforcement becomes comfortable with technology such as:
- Augmented reality
- The internet of things
- Radio frequency identification (RFID)
- Biometrics
- Artificial intelligence
How police use these technologies, the extent to which they use them, and what they do with the data will face intense public and legal scrutiny, as they should. Now's the time to get comfortable with transparency; if you're worried about the bad guys finding out how you use technology, then you need to get creative about understanding 1) what the public needs to know and 2) how to communicate it to reduce privacy fears without giving away too many details.
Transparency sits between accountability and exposure
This may be more important than you think. As Scott Dickson wrote the other day, some agencies remain steeped in politics, manipulating their crime statistics by asking officers not to take reports. This, as Scott writes, is a double public relations whammy: not only does it look bad to citizens, who are unlikely to support budget increases for such an unprofessional agency; it also hurts the agency's ability to see (and thus respond to) emerging problem patterns.
That's especially worrisome given the balancing act our culture finds itself in as we begin a new decade. This infographic from the Institute for the Future has an interesting item, a "critical balance" of exposure and accountability that notes:
In the face of growing demand for accountability, public exposure will emerge as as a multifaceted strategy for disrupting existing power structures, both hidden and obvious, both criminal and socially beneficial.
There is both danger and opportunity in that balance: danger to certain law enforcement power structures, like the kind that manipulate crime stats. But also opportunity, for innovative investigators to understand and exploit how criminal power structures are being disrupted.
Indeed, Tim Burrows made relevant predictions in his recent post for the IACP Social Media Beat:
- The 'love-in' experienced, "just because" the public's local police are using social media is over and the public will demand (and deserve) greater accountability.
- There will be less tolerance for mistakes, faux pas, and ignorance.
- Working partnerships with individuals of influence, community groups, professional partnerships, and other police agencies will be standard.
As arms of the government, it's incumbent on police to provide fair leadership to their communities. The law enforcement commander who doesn't believe he has to justify his agency's technology use — who believes crime-fighting is justification unto itself — necessarily invites public scrutiny. So does the commander who takes advantage of grant money without a long-term strategy to go with it; both COPS and homeland security programs have seen this happen.
True transparency shows strength, not weakness
This month's Officer.com column describes using content to serve an agency's goals, whether related specifically to social media, or more broadly to relationship-building. Besides that column, nearly two years ago (!) I wrote about one example of this kind of activity. There's a lot of promise for communication. But also a lot of agencies that are so focused on the status quo that they can't get out of their own way.
Digital content shared through social media can show how police are relevant and important to civil society, as well as weaknesses that need to be shored up. This is the exact opposite of stat manipulation because it's not trying to cover over weakness; it's leadership in asking for help to solve the problem.
Yes, the public needs to know a strong police force can competently and adequately enforce laws; but that's during personal or community crisis. If an agency can't provide services, in or out of crisis, because it lacks the funds to buy the technology that would enable that provision, then the public deserves to know up front, and deserves to become part of the solution. That was the promise of community policing.
What balances are you striking in your police work?
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It should be considered a given by now that the sequester is an epic failure by Congress and the White House and both branches are to blame for making a mess out of the federal budget.
And so, here we are.
Agencies are planning for mass furloughs — at least 1.1 million feds by Federal Times' count — and other dire cutbacks that all carry costly implications.
For federal managers, this is a nightmare. They must apply budget cuts across the board — roughly 8 percent for defense programs and 5 percent for non-defense programs — with little authority to apply judgment, expertise or common sense.
While the sequester's impact — $85 billion — represents a tiny fraction of the overall federal budget, the impact will be outsized given that a half year is already behind us and because the cuts are indiscriminate.
Government programs that cater to public safety, health, the poor and elderly and the environment will be hobbled. Entire departments — as in the case of the Environmental Protection Agency and the Housing and Urban Development Department — will close for numerous days.
What federal managers need most is for their national political leaders to strike a long-term deficit-cutting deal that will avert the remainder of the sequester.
Until that happens, they need the authority to meet their budget bottom line by making the cuts where they see fit; to be able to prioritize spending in a way that maximizes agency efficiency and minimizes the pain. In short, managers need to be allowed to manage. They know best how to do the least harm as they find ways to meet the sequester's mandates.
They also need lawmakers to recognize where the sequester's cuts will be most harmful and make needed adjustments.
Some lawmakers appear to get that. Both the House and Senate versions of a bill to continue federal funding for the remainder of the year include provisions that would make selective plus-ups in critical areas. both bills would, for example, make additions of more than $10 billion to military operations and maintenance to protect readiness. Those funds will come from other accounts, such as military construction, that are considered a lower priority.
The Senate bill would add $300 million more than last year to the Homeland Security Department's Customs and Border Protection to help reduce the scale of furloughs there. Similarly, both bills likely will add money to the FBI to do the same.
Congress aims to complete work on the 2013 spending bill this week before adjourning for the Easter-Passover holiday recess. As lawmakers do that, they must extend to managers the ability to truly manage the mandated cuts. That would ensure a far better outcome than the current sequester plan, which shackles the agency leaders whose expertise and experience would be invaluable in this budgetary crisis.


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The Children's Picture Book Database at Miami University is a collection of picture book abstracts searchable by topics, concepts, and skills for building content area reading across all academic subjects. The collection contains abstracts of over 5700 picture books for children, preschool to grade three. Search over 900 keywords (topics, concepts, and skills) to locate books with storylines adaptable to your curriculum or program. The Children's Picture Book Database at Miami University is also a useful collection for English Language Learners and adult literacy programs.
An artist's book is a work of art that takes the form of a book. But what does that mean? And what counts as a book, anyway? Is it a bunch of pages that have been bound together, or is there more to it than that?
These are the kinds of questions that artists' books try to answer. They play with both the form and the function of books as objects, encouraging onlookers to question traditional conceptualizations of "books." They are usually handmade, often unique, and all different from one another. Because most artist's books are hand-made and only crafted in small, limited runs, they offer artists a special opportunity to create books that are intensely personal.
All of the books featured in this exhibit are part of Miami University's Walter Havighurst Special Collections. The materials on display reflect a concentrated effort to build a diverse, provocative collection that will challenge students to reconsider their notion of "books" while also paying tribute to the creativity and innovation of book artists across the globe.
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This post is based on remarks I presented during a Digital Dialog at the University of Maryland, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, on 9/25/2012.
I believe that libraries, archives and museums share a common need to aggressively promote their social mission. While there are fundamental variances among these organizations, current trends are driving them closer together, including a demand to justify relevance in an era of profound change in how people seek and use information.
Libraries, archives and museums also have a pressing imperative to deal with digital content. Each manages different kinds of content for different reasons, but they share the same challenge in keeping it accessible over time. All institutions face a common need to raise public awareness about what is at stake for our culture in terms of preserving significant digital material. The danger of digital loss is growing along with the volume of digital information, and there much work to do in educating people about that risk.
Cultural heritage organizations have a great opportunity to fulfill their mission through what I loosely refer to as personal digital archiving. The heart of the matter is that individuals and families are building large collections of personal digital content, and they need advice and help to keep this content accessible into the future. Cultural heritage institutions, as preserving entities with a public service orientation, are well-positioned to help people deal with their growing–and fragile–personal digital archives. This is a way for institutions to connect with their communities in a new way, and to thrive.
I'm going to focus on public libraries, both because I think they are at the greatest risk and also because they also have the greatest opportunity to benefit from a focus on news kinds of services.
Libraries are obviously facing tough times. The Huffington Post recently ran a series called Libraries in Crisis. The lead article is headlined Can the American Library Survive? and features a litany of sad stories from communities across the country. There are two clear-cut issues at work here. First, the state and local governments that fund public libraries are under dire financial pressure. Second, there is a case to be made that at least some of the traditional functions of libraries have been supplanted by information technology. The result is budget cuts and reduced services for libraries nearly everywhere.
To be sure, public libraries still enjoy a great deal of support. The HuffPo articles are replete with fierce testimonials in support of libraries as historic community resources and as essential public goods. Those of us of a certain age have warm memories about libraries as places where we discovered the joy of reading and discovering new knowledge. Experiences like this are deeply entwined in our values and lead to a reflexive ongoing support for the idea of public libraries.
As well, there is a wonderful egalitarian ideal involved. The Daily Kos blog, for example, recently wrote: "The library offers equal access to all. It is a truly public, truly socialized good. It doesn't matter if you're a homeless person or the mayor, when you walk-in to the library and present your library card, you have access to all of the same services."
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences Humanities Indicators devotes a section to public libraries and declares that they are "the primary point of contact with the humanities" for many Americans. David Carr, in The Promise of Cultural Institutions, writes lyrically about the importance of libraries. He declares that they "are among the most purposeful and intentional of institutions. … Holding the culture's memory and minding its continuing community."
Sentiments such as these have helped public libraries survive to this point. But no one can count on this emotional response to last. Budgetary pressures will continue, and many communities already are facing gut-wrenching choices about cutting other priority services. The English writer Will Self also claims that a good deal of the visceral support for public libraries is based on nostalgic memories rather than the value of current services. A clear-eyed view, according to him, would reveal that many libraries—in the UK, anyway—offer less than the resources they are given. Regardless of how right or wrong Self is, a new generation is rising with their own impression of the utility of the library, and they will eventually be making the decisions.
It's clear that many in the library community understand that a new direction is essential. Susan Hildreth, Director of the Institute for Museums and Library Services, said recently that "There is no doubt that the future success of libraries depends on their ability to change and evolve to meet the changing ways that people access and use information."
This is the right idea, but I do quibble with the use of "evolve," which implies gradual development. Given the profound change libraries face, "rapidly transform" is more appropriate. Libraries 2020, Imagining the Library of the not too distant future, a report from the Pew Internet and American Life Project, points to how information itself has morphed in ways that were impossible to imagine just a few decades ago.
Information used to be scarce, now it's everywhere. It used to cost a lot, now it's for the most part free. It used to be controlled by an elite, now it's in the hands of everyone. Information used to be designed for one-way use but now it's designed for sharing, participation and feedback. Pew also suggests that we now expect ready access to all kinds of information, including "location sensitive" details and data that provide immersive meaning in the context of our personal lives.
For libraries, these changes are amplified even more by new ideas about how people acquire knowledge. Lee Rainie from Pew spoke recently about the need for libraries to become an anchor for what he calls "learning communities."
IMLS explores this situation further in Museums, Libraries and 21st Century Skills, which outlines the changes that cultural heritage organizations face. The adjustment centers on interactions with users. Most institutions, for example, traditionally serve as unquestioned centers of authority in delivering their content to users. In the new era, people expect more of a partnership. Users certainly continue to value the expertise of institutions and staff. But user communities also want the ability to influence how information is presented, accessed and understood. A big part of this is a push for closer relationships between staff and users with "a focus on audience engagement and experiences."
The American Library Association recently issued Confronting the Future: Strategic Visions for the 21st Century Public Library (PDF), which outlines the strategic choices that institutions will have to make as they adapt to the needs of their communities. The key message is institutions must shift along several dimensions of their operations. ALA presents a model to think about the strategic choices that institutions will have to make as they adapt to the needs of their communities.
As I interpret this model, the left dimension represents the way public libraries have traditionally functioned: as physical places dealing with physical objects, focusing on providing access to a common set of authoritative resources. The right dimension is often seen as "the library of the future" with features such as virtual services, broad-based community interaction, and the availability of specialized resources and equipment, such as fab labs and 3D printers. The bottom dimension is particularly interesting. It represents a choice between the library as a place where you can get standard published information and as a place where you find information that is unique to a particular community. At the far right along this dimension, the library actually is more like an archive—which is exactly the term the report uses. To fill this role, libraries will collect and preserve unique local materials, such as neighborhood histories, photographs of local people and places, as well as other multimedia resources.
It's possible to image a library positioning itself at various points along each line, but it seems to me that moving one way on one dimension has the effect of pulling the other dimensions in the same direction. It also seems to me that enhanced community engagement, a focus on new media and facilitating locally-based collections is a great way for libraries to build public support and demonstrate value.
Economists talk about a concept known as "the value proposition," which can be defined as a promise to the consumer that they will get a worthwhile experience in exchange for what it costs.
In a cultural heritage context, the term begs some pointed questions. Do institutions offer what the public wants? What makes institutional products, services, or messages valuable? Why should people, for example, care about a preservation mission? At the most basic level, addressing these questions comes down to getting and holding attention. Capturing even fleeting awareness is a challenge in today's information-soaked environment. Ultimately a public institution must aim to form an emotional bond with its community, and this requires connecting with people in a way that matters to them personally. MuseumNext founder Jim Richardson talks about "social commerce for the cultural sector," by which he means having institutions understand what their communities want and then using outreach to "sell" their services.
Perhaps the most important consideration for public libraries is the need to justify relevance in modern terms to modern audiences. To quote David Carr, "the incendiary institution… must understand its own energy and how that energy attracts and engages its users: How does it lead people in? . …Users will increase in number when the institution addresses them and the problems that learning presents to contemporary life." Institutions should know that people—particularly younger people—need a different approach to lead people in. As Nick Poole from the UK Collections Trust says in his talk Powering the Museum of Tomorrow, "meeting the needs of future audiences demands new technologies and new ways of thinking." Poole notes that today and tomorrow's generations have grown up in a world designed around them. There is a basic expectation of being empowered to do what they want to do. Any aspect of life that doesn't fit that model will be ignored.
Right now there is plenty of competition for people's attention, commitment and passion. Even the notion of cultural heritage and who should collect it is up for grabs. Anyone can set up a social media account and declare themselves a curator of an archive of something or another. This is an empowering turn of events, but it also illustrates the competition for community attention that institutions face. Some cultural heritage organizations are quite aware of what they are up against. A "voter sentiment" report for the public library in Cromaine, MI, declared that "With the heavy competition for attention from all forms of media, libraries must work to market their value and services as much as any organization."
I would argue that personal digital archiving is a key marketing advantage for public libraries. People are amassing large bodies of digital content such as photographs, videos and social media streams, but they have little in the way of guidance for managing and preserving this content. The need for help in this area is rapidly growing, both because the content is expanding and because its value—sentimental and otherwise—is becoming more apparent. As noted earlier, libraries already enjoy a trusted community role. This offers a unique and potentially very effective way for institutions to connect their mission with the personal concerns of contemporary citizens. In this way, people can develop a more expansive basis for supporting the role of the library in their community.
Several libraries around the country are already doing personal digital archiving outreach. I trace the origin of these activities primarily to two initiatives. The first is the Library of Congress National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program website, digitalpreservation.gov. Full disclosure: I manage the site along with NDIIPP social media activities. And, at the risk of self-aggrandizement, let me say that the personal digital archiving section on the site is one of the best for members of the public who are seeking basic help. Included are a series of tips for dealing with different kinds of content, along with a dozen short videos focusing on topics such as preserving digital photographs and the cultural importance of digital preservation. A recently added feature is the Personal Digital Archiving Day Kit, which provides guidance and information resources to help institutions hold public outreach sessions.
NDIIPP also works to raise awareness about digital preservation through a Twitter stream, @ndiipp, and a blog, The Signal. We've made a concerted effort to reach a broad audience. The NDIIPP team found the most effective way to draw in readers were posts about personal digital archiving topics. After nearly a year and a half of blogging, nearly all of the most-read posts cover personal digital archiving topics. Our hope is that some readers will take steps to preserve their digital memories. The most motivated of these people could be activated to connect with a local institution to seek more advice. We hope as well that interest in personal digital archiving can be leveraged to raise public awareness about the overall value of preserving all forms of cultural heritage in digital form.
The second initiative that has draw attention to personal digital archiving is Preservation Week, which ALA initiated in 2010 to raise awareness about institutional collections. ALA declared that "Libraries and other institutions can use Preservation Week to connect our communities through events, activities and resources that highlight what we can do, individually and together, to preserve our personal and shared collections." The organizational website includes a listing of events and a variety of preservation resources. The number of events has steadily grown, and in 2012 over 40 institutions in the U.S. and Canada held public outreach events, many of which included some discussion of personal digital archiving.
The public library impact on—and visibility from—digital archiving could be larger still in situations where libraries embrace the community archival function noted in the ALA report. A library could, for example, collect local government records, as well as historic community photographs, videos, blogs and oral histories. Librarians could work with citizens to build co-created community repositories to document local cultural heritage. Individuals could donate personal digital information to a repository, which has the dual benefit of expanding research material while also tightening the bond between the library and it's community.
While this is a prospective vision for most public libraries, it can also be said—with apologies to William Gibson—that the future is already here, it's just unevenly distributed. An exemplar is Digital Amherst, a project of the Jones Public Library of Amherst, Massachusetts. The web-based collection blends the library's historical and literary resources with materials contributed by local residents. The Kansas City Public Library Missouri Valley Special Collections has a rich body of local content available online and solicits new material. The Fullerton, California, Public Library Local History Room has a repository with donations of materials by individuals as well as organizations. Digital Horizons, a consortium that includes the Fargo, ND, public library, solicits donations of digital photographs, videos and documents.
It is too soon to tell what the overall impact has been for personal digital archiving outreach and community repository development. My guess is that penetrating public attention will take some time. Personal collections need to keep expanding, and, sadly, a number need to be lost for the issue to resonate loudly enough to break through the torrent of other messages that people are exposed to every day. But I feel that public libraries have a great opportunity to capitalize on a growing need. And, given the rich set of personal digital archiving resources from the Library of Congress and others, launching a personal digital archiving outreach program is within the reach of nearly every public library.
The stakes are high. It could well be that personal digital archiving might turn out to be a test for how well libraries adapt to the changing needs of users. I don't mean to say that other activities are less important, but libraries are in the business of managing information—and what people need is help managing their digital information. The other consideration is the extent to which libraries can continue to serve the role that Carr describes as "holding the culture's memory and minding its continuing community."
The memory of contemporary culture is now largely digital and huge parts of that memory are in the public's hands. This is the reality that libraries face as they seek to thrive in the days ahead.


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A burglar was shot and killed during a home invasion in northeast Miami-Dade County late Monday.
It happened at an apartment complex called The Monterrey in the 800 block of NE 209th Terrance about 11:05 p.m.
Two men were inside the home when one was shot and killed, say Miami-Dade Police. A second burglar ran away.
Neighbors said they heard about six gunshots.
"I didn't know what to think until I see all the tape and cops around here," said Jerome Irving. "Like any neighborhood, you're going to have little incidents that happen there and it all depends on the people in it."
The 19-year-old man who lives in the apartment wasn't injured.
Crime scene investigators were looking through a silver car parked at the complex Tuesday afternoon. It's believed the car was the getaway vehicle the burglars planned on using.


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NEW PORT RICHEY, Florida - John Collins says his neighbor, a 90-year-old grandfather, survived being trapped in his car for days by eating cake, cookies, and empty ice cream cones.
Collins and Carl Frantz feel terrible they didn't notice Justyn Ambrozia sooner. Ambrozia's nickname is "Jay." They say he'd returned home from a quick trip to the grocery store last week but couldn't get out of his car.
Frantz says he had tears in his eyes when he did finally see his friend in distress. "Because I always watched out for him and then, when something happened, I wasn't there to help him."
Collins says Ambrozia told him it all started when a quick trip to the grocery store went bad. Collins says, "There was something on the floor that he tripped on ... he says he grabbed for the shelf and the shelf let loose, and when he went to the floor he broke his arm. He broke his hip."
Collins says the grocery store helped Jay up and then helped him right out the front door, possibly in a wheelchair, he says. He says store workers should have called paramedics immediately. "Put him in the car with his groceries. They should have called. They shouldn't have touched him."
Somehow, though, Ambrozia managed to drive himself the short distance to his home and he even backed into his garage. Collins says Ambrozia told him that once he backed in he couldn't get out of the car.
Days passed. Ambrozia says he blew his horn and hollered, but no one heard his cries for help.
Frantz remembers the garage door being nearly all the way down while Collins remembers it being all the way up. Either way, another neighbor walking by finally noticed Ambrozia and "Scooter," a dog who lives next door, sensed something was wrong around the same time. By then, Frantz and Collins and several other neighbors rushed over and one called 911.
Collins says when he first caught a glimpse of Ambrozia, all he could see was his head peering over the steering wheel and he says he was slumped down low in the front seat.
Frantz adds, "When they picked him up and put him on the gurney, he was scrunched all up in a knot."
Ambrozia had to undergo surgery at Medical Center for Trinity for his hip. A neighbor says he was sedated and resting Monday night. Ambrozia turned down a request for an interview Monday evening.
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Alex Rodriguez went 0 for 4 with three strikeouts Wednesday night in Game 1 of the World Series. / Robert Deutsch/USA Today
NEW YORK - We talk about pitching all the time with the Yankees because the hitting is supposed to be the given, supposed to be the part that always shows up. The Yankees hit. They just do. They had seven guys hit 20 home runs or more this year, scored the most runs in all of baseball and broke down fences at the new Yankee Stadium because they went over the walls here so often.
They did it in the postseason, too. In the first nine games, three in the division series and six in the ALCS, they never scored less than four runs in a game. Did they mash? No, but the arms on the other side are always better in October and the Yankees sure did enough, hit enough to sweep the Twins and win four of six from the Angels. Even with guys like Mark Teixeira and Nick Swisher looking lost, there was Alex Rodriguez and Derek Jeter and Johnny Damon (against the Angels), swinging the bats and keeping the carousel moving. The Yankees got the hits when it mattered most. Got the big hits.
Then on Wednesday night, World Series in the Bronx for the first time in six years, they barely got any hits at all. No big ones, certainly. Not even anything close. Even A-Rod had nothing.
Here is what the Yankees did do: Strike out. Get jammed a few times. Pop balls up. Strike out a little more. Cliff Lee had seven strikeouts in the first four innings - two against Rodriguez, who hadn't struck out twice in a game since Sept. 22 - and it sure felt like the Yankees were out of it early, done in their first World Series game since Josh Beckett shut them down in Game 6 back in 2003.
"This is no laughing matter - this is a serious time," Damon said when it was over. "We definitely don't like this situation."
The situation is 1-0 down in the World Series, 1-0 down mostly because none of the hitters could make anything happen. A-Rod, who had an 11-game postseason hitting streak, was 0 for 4, three strikeouts. Teixeira was 0 for 4, two strikeouts. The bottom three hitters of Robinson Cano, Swisher and Melky Cabrera? Still a black hole. 0 for 9.
CC Sabathia did his job, gutted through a night when he didn't have his best stuff and pitched seven innings with only two solo homers to Chase Utley on the board but it wasn't enough. Not when the Yankees' bats faded away under the World Series lights. Not when Lee was this good.
"We wasted a great pitching performance by CC, that's the bottom line," Damon said.
"He definitely gave us a chance to win," Jorge Posada said.
The Yankees will give Lee all the credit, will say they couldn't do anything against him. Pitching coach Dave Eiland called it "probably the best performance against us all year" and Teixeira said "I wouldn't disagree with that."
Lee sure did make it look easy. In the sixth inning, when he busted Damon inside and Damon could only manage a weak pop-up back to the mound, Lee reached out with his glove hand and caught the ball hip high, flicking at it with the nonchalance of a spring-training game.
Then in the seventh, when Posada tapped a ball down the first-base line, Lee bounded over and scooped it up right in front of the Yankees' catcher, smacking him on the rear end with a playful tag. An inning later, he reached behind his back for Cano's comebacker and snagged the bouncing ball without looking, tossing it to first with a grin on his face. This was simple for him. This was fun.
It just wasn't fun for the Yankees, not even a little bit. Lee was on, to be sure, but the Yankees never looked comfortable at the plate, never could figure out how to lay off Lee's breaking ball; nine of Lee's 10 strikeouts came on swinging strike threes.
When Sabathia made a mistake - like throwing an 0-2 fastball to Utley, which ended up somewhere over the Modell's sign in right-center - he paid for it. Lee's mistakes, few that there were, ended up in gloves. In the ninth the Yankees got two straight hits leading off, then got an unearned run when Jimmy Rollins threw away a double-play ball to make it 6-1. It was the most life they'd shown all night.
It just wasn't nearly enough. There were no lasers from the Yankees, no moonshots or blasts into the upper deck. No grinding at-bats. No working the count. There was nothing. Hitting is supposed to be the sure thing with the Yankees, supposed to be the given. Pitching is supposed to be the issue. Not this time. Not this game. Biggest night of the year so far and the only pitching talk from the Yankees was about the guy on the other side.
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Louisville players celebrate a win over Duke, 85-63, on the podium with the regional trophy after rallying from teammate Kevin Ware's gruesome injury. The Louisville Cardinals faced the Duke Blue Devils in the NCAA Men's Regional basketball Final at Lucas Oil Stadium on Sunday. (Mike Fender / The Star)
It was as horrifying and gruesome an injury as weve seen on a basketball court. As Louisvilles Kevin Ware lay prone near the Louisville bench, a bone sticking out of his leg after a Theisman-esque right leg injury, his teammates dissolved into tears and grief.
Coach Rick Pitino wiped away tears. Teammate Chase Behanan walked to the free throw line and collapsed. Players on the Louisville bench vomited. Russ Smith cried like a 4-year-old, inconsolable. The teams trainer, Fred Hina, threw a towel over the badly injured leg.
Ware, in terrible pain, called for his teammates:
Dont worry about me, he said over and over before being taken off on a stretcher and being moved to IU Health Methodist Hospital for surgery. Ill be OK. You guys go win this thing.
That, then, is exactly what they did. Reduced to tears one minute, playing with fire and emotion the next, the No. 1 seed Louisville Cardinals trampled Duke 85-63 on their way to the Final Four in Atlanta.
After the game, they declined to cut down the Lucas Oil Stadium nets (and insert your IU joke here).
Know this now: They will be cutting down the nets in Atlanta next Monday night.
Louisville won this game because of a guy who wasnt there as much as they won it because of the guys who were there.
I dont think any of us, with what we had to witness, could have overcome it if it wasnt for Kevin saying 12 times, Im fine. Win the game. Win the game, Pitino said. It was very difficult to look at and watch, but hes a brave young man.
Wares basketball brothers will not soon forget what they saw. Weve seen this on football fields. But basketball? Gruesome.
I heard it, and then I saw what happened come out, and I immediately just fell, said Louisville guard Russ Smith. And ... it was really hard for me to pull myself together because I didnt ever think in a million years I would see something like that.
Dont worry about me. Just win the game.
I dont know how he (Ware) did it, guard Peyton Siva said. I dont know how he got the strength to do it, but he told us to go out there and win. Everybody on the team just wanted to step up for him. For us to show that focus and that determination we just tried to do it for him.
From deep anguish rose rousing inspiration. Louisville did, in fact, have a 3-minute scoring drought after the injury, but thereafter, they dominated, going on a 17-2 second-half run to bust open a game whose score had been tied at 42 with 16:16 left.
The Cardinals were relentless, like a python squeezing the will and then the life out of an opponent.
They did it on offense, where uber-guards Siva and Smith penetrated and made magic time and again, where Gorgui Dieng made all his midrange jump shots and patrolled the glass. And they did it, as they always do, on defense. Nobody in the country plays with more speed and tenacity; by the second half, Dukes legs were gone.
The blowout was on.
It is an oversimplification, but Louisville has the best speed in the country, and it starts with their two fearless, quicksilver guards. Siva and Smith carved up the Duke defense, especially on the pick-and- roll, sending the Blue Devils defense scattering all over the court.
Look out, Wichita State. Deal with that, Michigan or Syracuse.
Its the best team weve played, Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski said. ... What they do, and Rick (Pitino) has done an amazing job with them, because they have depth and they keep coming at you, but they make you have multiple decision-makers. You have to have more than one guy making a decision out on the court.
And in switching their defenses and their quickness and their athleticism, its tough to run plays. And you have to make plays against them.
As Krzyzewski described Louisvilles play, he used the word boom more often than John Madden. Boom, the defense is in your face. Boom, the guards are penetrating the interior and wreaking havoc. Boom, the Cardinals are on a 17-2 run and taking control of the game.
They are a human tsunami, washing over an opponent.
Ive been doing this for a long time, Krzyzewski said. Man, they were good. Bottom line, theyre really good. And they were good. They were terrific. I love those two guards. And then Dieng has become a great player not a good one. Hes become a great player.
After the game, Pitino inspired a Ke-vin, Ke-vin, chant from the Louisville fans, who dominated the Lucas Oil Stadium stands. In a moving tableau, Behanan, Wares closest friend on the team, wore a Ware jersey as the team celebrated its trip to the Final Four.
Ware helped Louisville get to Atlanta, and when they cut down the nets a week from tonight, he will be there, too, right by their side.
Bob Kravitz is a columnist for The Indianapolis Star. Call him at (317) 444-6643 or email email@example.com. Follow Bob on Twitter at @bkravitz.


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Big South Announces Men's Tennis Players of the Week
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (BigSouthSports.com) - Coastal Carolina junior Yusuke Kusuda (Chikushino, Japan) has been selected as the Big South Conference Choice Hotels Men's Tennis Player of the Week, while Liberty's Wayne Harrell (East Windsor, Conn.) has been named The Crons Brand Freshman of the Week for matches played Feb. 27-March 4, it was announced today by the League office.
Kusuda posted wins at No. 1 doubles and No. 3 singles in the Chanticleers' 5-2 win over Conference foe Campbell last week. He paired up with Matias Di Pasquale to top Josep Baro and Adrien Rossignon, 9-8, before earning the win against David Clavera, 6-0, 6-3. Kusuda moves to 7-0 this season at the No. 3 singles position.
Harrell finished a perfect 2-0 in singles play to help Liberty to a 2-0 record last week. Against No. 64 Oklahoma State on Feb. 28, he defeated Adolfo Aires in a come-from-behind win (4-6, 6-4, 6-4) to clinch the 4-3 victory for the Flames. Harrell got his week started with a 6-1, 6-0 victory over Oral Roberts' Nathaniel Avery at No. 4 singles as Liberty swept the Golden Eagles.
Also nominated for Men's Tennis Player of the Week: Adrien Rossignon (Campbell), Nathan Crocker (Presbyterian College) and Nadav Ruppin (Winthrop).
Also nominated for Men's Tennis Freshman of the Week: Garik Yedigarian (Coastal Carolina), Brendan Dempsey (Gardner-Webb) and Rich Meade (Winthrop).
2012 Men's Tennis Players of the Week
Jan. 19 - Thomas Dehaen, Radford
Jan. 25 - Nick Sayer, Radford
Feb. 1 - Leo Christofides, Coastal Carolina
Feb. 8 - Danny Heidecker, Coastal Carolina
Feb. 14 - Giancarlo Lemmi, Liberty
Feb. 22 - Fernando Guillen, Campbell
Feb. 28 - Nick Sayer, Radford
2012 Men's Tennis Freshmen of the Week
Jan. 19 - Patrick O'Keefe, Radford
Jan. 25 - Adrian Rossignon, Campbell
Feb. 1 - Dylan Comerford, Winthrop
Feb. 8 - Ernest Alberch, Gardner-Webb
Feb. 14 - Wayne Harrell, Liberty
Feb. 22 - Garik Yedigarian, Coastal Carolina
Feb. 28 - Patrick O'Keefe, Radford


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Saturday, September 14, 2013
NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. - The Westminster College men's soccer team, lost 4-2, in a hard-fought match against Penn. State-Behrend on Saturday in non-conference action. The Titans fell to 3-4 overall, while the Lions improved to 4-1-1.
Westminster was tied 2-2 with the Lions, who have been regionally ranked this season, after a goal off the diving foot of Titan sophomore Austin Ewers (New Wilmington, PA / Wilmington Area) with 50:42 on the clock.
In the first half, the Lions took an early 2-0 lead after scores in the 13th and 18th minute. The Titans cut into PS-Behrend's lead when senior David Osae (Bedford, TX / Lawrence D. Bell) scored of a deflection from the Lions' goalie from a Titan penalty kick.
After Ewers tied it, 2-2, the Lions pulled away with goals in the 60th and 69th minute, with the latter score coming off a penalty kick.
Titan senior goalie Joe Bonish (Newport News, VA / Woodside) got the loss in a complete game effort. Bonish gave up four goals and earned a season-high four saves.
Westminster will host La Roche on Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. under the lights of Harold Burry Stadium.
About Westminster College...
Founded in 1852 and related to the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), Westminster College ranks first in the nation as "Best College for Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math," according to Forbes.com. Westminster is a top-tier liberal arts college and a national leader in graduation rate performance, according to U.S. News Best Colleges guide. Westminster is also honored as one of "The Best 378 Colleges" by The Princeton Review, and is named to the President's Honor Roll for excellence in service learning.
Nearly 1,600 undergraduate and graduate students benefit from individualized attention from dedicated faculty while choosing from 41 majors and nearly 100 organizations on the New Wilmington, Pa., campus. Visit www.westminster.edu/advantage to view "Advantage: Westminster" A Strategic Plan 2010-2020.


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With the nursing programs at our area institutions of higher education churning out graduates every year, a recent study could give one a moment of concern.
The report, "New Graduate Survey: Finding Employment in Louisiana as a Newly Licensed RN," was conducted by the Louisiana Center for Nursing and found that 94 percent of newly licensed RNs responding to the survey were able to find employment as an RN, but the number of people taking more than six months to find a position as an RN increased each year from 2008 to 2010.
In northeastern Louisiana, however, there's still a serious need for registered nurses, and graduates still have plenty of opportunity.
"I was a little surprised at the number of people in the report saying it was taking longer to find jobs," said Jeremy Tinnerello, chief nursing officer at Glenwood Regional Medical Center. "Glenwood is busier now than it has ever been, which means we need more nurses. It's very rare for there to ever be a time when we do not have openings for nurses, and we welcome new grads."
While the turnover rate for nurses at Glenwood is not high, Tinnerello said the need for more nurses has grown as Glenwood continues to expand its services and offerings.
The New Graduate Survey was sent to new RN graduates receiving their initial license to practice in Louisiana between January 2009 and May 2011. Some 1,137 newly licensed RNs completed the survey, with 4.9 percent from northeast Louisiana.
More than a third of the respondents indicated they were faced with significant challenges while seeking employment, which can be attributed to employers filling positions with experienced nurses, older nurses not retiring, hiring freezes, and some hospitals were closing departments, according to Dr. Cynthia Bienemy, director of the Louisiana Center for Nursing.
But local RN graduates do not seem to be facing the same degree of challenges in northeast Louisiana, said Denny Ryman, dean of the University of Louisiana at Monroe's College of Health Sciences.
Out of the December 2012 RN graduates from ULM's Kitty DeGree School of Nursing, 100 percent of the students had jobs lined up before graduation, which is generally the norm, Ryman said.
In order to attract local nursing graduates and help address the nursing shortage, St. Francis Medical Center offers a nurse tech program targeted at students in their junior year of nursing school, said Kayla Johnson, associate vice president of patient care at the hospital.
The program gives students a chance to become acclimated to the nursing staff and the day-to-day rigors of the job, and it often leads to a permanent job at St. Francis after graduation, Johnson said.
The need for more nurses is expected to grow nationally in the years to come as a result of technological advancements, an increased emphasis on preventative care, the aging Baby Boomer population and the implementation of the Affordable Care Act.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, employment of RNs is expected to grow 26 percent from 2010 to 2020, faster than the average for all occupations.
Tinnerello said the increasing focus on preventative care will create more job opportunities for nurses, particularly in settings outside of acute care facilities.
As health care evolves, the role of the nurse will become even more critical as a member of our wellness-based team. The need for qualified professionals in northeastern Louisiana shows no sign of abating.
The editorials in this column represent the opinions of The News-Star's editorial board, composed of President and Publisher David B. Petty, Executive Editor Kathy Spurlock and community representatives Kay Kellogg Katz, Harris Brown and Will Sutton.


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Former pro football player Darren Sharper appears in court along with his attorneys Blair Berk (R) and Leonard Levine (L) on Feb. 14 in Los Angeles. Sharper was charged with drugging and raping two woman, one in October and the other last month, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced.
Former NFL star Darren Sharper once felt so strongly about violence against women that he wrote an essay about it for a book in 2010. He lamented how women are "undervalued and exploited," saying that as a father he felt compelled to speak up.
"Money cannot buy the women we love everyday security, which men take for granted," Sharper wrote in the book. "So, it's going to take strong, accountable men to educate young boys and influence other men to deal with women respectfully, honorably and fairly at all times."
Four years later, Sharper, 38, is scheduled to appear in a Los Angeles courtroom ...


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In this new romantic comedy, a computer scientist hooks up with a molecular biologist by blinding her with science, of course. When Elliot builds a computer program to help Molly with her research , the variables in their evolving relationship shift as rapidly as the terms of their experiment. 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday at the Des Moines Playhouse, 831 42nd St. $23 adults, $20 students. www.dmplayhouse.com
2. David Plowdens Iowa
Photographer David Plowden has been called an American treasure by historian David McCullough. His traveling exhibition of black-and-white images of rural Iowa were taken over a 40-year period and will come to the Iowa History Center at Simpson College, 701 N. C St., Indianola. The exhibition runs through May 31 in the Kent Campus Center on the Simpson College campus in Indianola. This is the exhibits only central Iowa stop. 515-961-1369. Free.
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3. Groundhog Day Grand Opening Celebration
The High Life Lounge, 200 S.W. Second St., holds its ninth annual celebration, starting at 6 a.m. Polk County Paula will look for her shadow at 7:30 a.m. and make her prediction about when winter ends. Free Miller High Life will be given out from 6 to 8 a.m. and Mr. Babers Neighbors performs at 10 a.m. Breakfast specials will be served until 11 a.m., including biscuits and gravy ($4), Quiche Paula ($4) and all-you-can-eat-pancakes ($5). Free admission. www.thehighlifelounge.com
4. Skywalk Golf Classic
Mini golf returns to downtown, with tee times starting at 8 a.m. in the Kaleidoscope at the Hub, 555 Walnut St. The tournament has two courses and is open to singles, doubles and foursomes. Prizes are awarded with each hole-in-one. $35. www.skywalkgolf.com
5. Bike Ride to Rippey
Polar plunges are cold, but if youre looking for something even more chilling, theres always the annual BRR. The 24-mile round trip takes riders from Perry to Rippey and back, and is held no matter what the weather is like. The new Raccoon River Bike Shop, next door to the Hotel Pattee, will have its grand opening Saturday. $17 to $27 depending on how much swag you want for riding. $5 more day of ride. Begins at Hotel Pattee, 1112 Willis Ave., Perry.
Bonus: New movies
Check out the movies opening in Des Moines this weekend with our new movie roundup, where you can browse reviews, look up showtimes and watch trailers.


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MARKET WATCH One of the only new-construction Longboat Key beachfront homes to become available in "I don't know how many years," says listing agent Barbara Ackerman of Coldwell Banker Residential Real Estate, the Johnson estate on the north end of Longboat is on the market for $13 million.
Completed in 2007, the 10,000-square-foot neoclassical mansion is set on 2.3 acres, with an unusually generous 150 feet of beachfront. It has seven bedrooms, six-and-a-half baths, and a guest wing with a West Indies feel nestled among butterfly gardens, banyans and mango trees. Among the luxurious details: mahogany, cherry and marble floors; a grand fireplace and a double mahogany staircase. The two-story, mahogany-paneled library is a smaller version of the mammoth library at the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, N.C.
To celebrate the listing, Ackerman teamed with HGTV Design Star Jason Champion in November to decorate the dining room for the holidays. "He did an amazing display," she says. Ackerman is working through Coldwell Banker's offices in 47 countries around the world to market the exceptional property.
GREAT VALUE Foreclosures and short sales have dampened property values in that poshest of mid-Sarasota County gated communities, The Oaks II, says longtime Sarasota real estate broker and Oaks resident Bev Meadows. Now semi-retired, she's listed her own three-bedroom, 3,200-square-foot home at 464 MacEwen Drive for $799,000. Set on a lake on the Arthur Hills-designed Eagle golf course, which was completely renovated in 2007, the home has three bedroom suites, a heated pool with spillover spa and an outdoor kitchen. Meadows enlarged the master suite in 2004 and redid the master bath; she also refloored the entire house with wood and tile. "It's in a very private setting, with hedges more than seven feet tall on both sides, and faces nothing but the lake, the golf course and a greenbelt beyond it," she says.
Top of The Market A magnificent gulf-front estate at 1588 N. Casey Key Road sold on Nov. 30 for $9.9 million, after an original list price of $11.5 million, making it the highest-priced real estate transaction this fall. Set on more than two extremely private acres at the northern tip of Casey Key, the home was built in 1993 with a blend of Italian and French architectural details, included barrel ceilings with huge, hand-painted wood beams. The master suite has its own fireplace, hand-painted ceiling and private garden. A separate two-bedroom guest house is on the property, as are a beautifully landscaped pool area and bocce court. Eric Heuer of Hunt Real Estate ERA was the listing agent; Ann Debellevue of Michael Saunders & Company was the selling agent.
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'Tis the season for outdoor entertaining by the glow of these handsome hand-blown glass string lights powered by a 5-inch by 5-inch solar panel. Made by Aurora in a rainbow of colors and available on several Web sites catering to gardening enthusiasts, they come in packages of six bulbs and cast a soft glow for six to eight hours. Surprisingly affordable at $50.
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Beautiful old Bayview Heights.
Bayview Heights, tucked between South Osprey Avenue and Sarasota Bay just south of Southside Village, is a classic, old West-of-the-Trail neighborhood content to let next-door neighbor Cherokee Park steal the glamour limelight. Happily, tear-downs are the exception here; residences range from '20s-era wooden cottages and Mediterranean Revivals to rambling waterfront mansions. Its oversized yards are filled with mature banyans, palms and oaks, and even the street names—Pleasant Place, Harmony Lane—attest to its neighborly character. Residents, mostly longtime Sarasota professionals, tend to raise their families here and remain as empty nesters. The oldest house in Sarasota County, a sprawling antebellum farmhouse, is rumored to have housed a rumrunner's operation during Prohibition. "I love the old brick streets, the proximity to the water, the older homes," says Susan McLeod of Michael Saunders & Company, herself a long West-of-Trail resident. "It feels very warm and comfortable."
Total number of Bayview Heights properties: 61 Total number of sales from 10/2008 to 10/2009: 3 (plus 3 life-estate transfers and quit-claim deeds) Range of sale prices: $400,000 to $585,000 Range of square footage: 1,425 to 2,437 square feet
A Mediterranean-style home at 2625 Colony Terrace in Bayview Heights, built in 2007, is on the market for $1,595,000. The four-bedroom, 3,700-square-foot residence has many quality touches, including high tray ceilings, moldings and arched doorways. It's just one block from Sarasota Bay. David and Lori Simon of Prudential Palms Realty are the listing agents.
RECENT SALE A bank-owned, four-bedroom home on an oversized lot at 2524 Colony Terrace sold for $585,000, after an original list price of $939,000. Built in 1956, it boasts beautiful wood flooring inside and a brick-paver pool area outside set amid tropical landscaping. Barbara Katz and Gina Wallwork of Re/Max Alliance Group were the listing agents; it was sold by an undisclosed non-MFR (Mid-Florida Realtors MLS) member. Previous sale: $639,000 in June 2004.


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Thomasville, NC-- Tanya Lewis was changed forever when a car hit her while she was crossing the street in 2011. Police are still searching for a suspect.
On March 7, 2011, shortly after midnight, Tanya Lewis was hit by a car on Church Street near Forsyth Street in Thomasville.
"I don't remember the car hitting me. All I remember, I was coming across the street and I dropped something and I reached down to pick it up and that's all I remember," explained Tanya.
Tanya's family watched from the front porch as a car plowed into her. She flew fifty feet and landed between the sidewalk and the road.
Tanya said, "One of my doctors told me that from Thomasville to Winston, they had to bring me back to life three times and I had two collapsed lungs."
Tanya's left leg broke in four places. She has four rods in that leg, screws in her ankle and plates and screws in her pelvis.
Police are looking for any information about this hit and run collision. They gave News 2 this information about the vehicle: small to midsize sedan, missing the driver's side door mirror.
If you have any information about this collision or about the vehicle, contact Thomasville Police Traffic Safety Unit at (336)475-4205 or call Thomasville Crime Stoppers at (336)476-8477. Crime Stoppers pay cash rewards up to $2,000 for information leading to an arrest.
She told WFMY News 2's Liz Crawford that rehab was one of the hardest challenges but she walked down the aisle this past June on her wedding day.
Although, she's come a long, she still has questions about that night two years ago.
Tanya said, "I was enraged because you hit me but you kept going. I mean how do you sleep at night?"
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WEST YARMOUTH - Two people were taken to the hospital last night after a two-car accident at the intersection of Buck Island and West Yarmouth roads.
Firefighters had to use the Jaws of Life to remove the driver of a Toyota Camry that collided with a Cadillac sedan at about 8:30 p.m., Yarmouth Fire Capt. Chuck Talbott said.
That person and another driver were taken to Cape Cod Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, he said.
Yarmouth police Sgt. Gerard Britt identified the drivers of the two cars as Palmer Gillam, 55, of Carver and Elizabeth Vigliano, 20, of South Yarmouth.
Gillam and Vigliano were treated and released from the hospital, Cape Cod Healthcare spokeswoman Robin Lord said.
The cause of the accident is under investigation, Britt said.
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Seton Earth-Sheltered Apartments
Seton Apartments, 1981 and 2006 (click thumbnails for larger images)
Architect: Hamel, Green and Abrahamson, Inc., Minneapolis; Ted Butler, project architect
Contractor: Gohman Construction
- Nov. 11, 1981: Groundbreaking
- September 1982: Completed
- Oct. 8, 1982: Dedication and Blessing
- Germer, Jerry. "Earth-Sheltered Apartments: Student housing tucked into the Minnesota soil has had few problems, but energy performance lags expectations." Solar Age, Dec. 1984, p. 20-22.
- Paur, Roman, OSB. Seton Earth-Sheltered Apartments, Oct. 8, 1982. Collegeville, MN: St. John's University [press release].
- "St. John's University; Seton Earth Sheltered, Passive Solar Apartments." Pictorial: Concrete Masonry/Solar Architecture, vol. 40, no. 2, 1984, p. 6-7. Published by the National Concrete Masonry Association.
- "Underground Buildings Escape the Cold," Builder, vo. 6, no. 8, August 1983, p. 68-69.
See Also:
- Lawyer, Peter. "Earth Homes Launch SJU into Space Age." The Record, 24 September 1982, p. 1
- Marschall, Jim. "Flynntown Burrows Blessed." The Record, 22 October 1982, p. 1.


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The trouble with texting and driving, aside from the fact that it's incredibly dangerous, is that while it's illegal, it's difficult for police to enforce.
In 2009, Tennessee became the ninth state in the nation to outlaw texting and driving thanks to a bill from State. Sen. Jim Tracy and State Rep. Jon Lundberg. But there's a difference between writing a law and enforcing it.
The Murfreesboro Police Department's arrests for texting and driving have risen from 22 in 2010 to 39 so far this year. But police spokesman Sgt. Kyle Evans told The DNJ drivers can hide their phones or claim they were dialing or doing something else. In fact, a ticket is usually only issued if the driver admits to the offense.
And while those excuses might work on the police, they won't save you from crashing.
A recent study by the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute found the following:
» Text messaging, browsing and dialing resulted in the longest duration of drivers taking their eyes off the road.
» Text messaging increased the risk of a crash or near-crash by two times and resulted in drivers taking their eyes off the road for an average of 23 seconds total.
» There is no direct increased crash risk from the specific act of talking on a cellphone. However, visual-manual tasks (locating the phone, looking at the phone and touching the phone) are always involved when using a hand-held cellphone. This makes the overall use of a hand-held cell phone riskier when driving."
In a poll on dnj.com which asked whether readers text and drive, out of 256 votes, 71 percent were for "yes" while 29 percent were for "no." But look into another driver's car when you're heading down the road and you'll often find the driver is texting.
So we're left legislation that could be revisited, but more importantly we need parents, police and organizations to talk to young drivers about the dangers of texting and driving.
Though young people aren't the only offenders, good habits start early, and there's no better time to talk to someone about safe driving than when they get a license.