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George Foreman Grills has partnered with Gina Neely, Food Network chef, cookbook author and personality behind "Down Home with the Neelys" to launch the George Foreman Grills Weight Loss Challenge— the brand's first ever weight loss program. Brand spokesperson Gina Neely recently took the challenge and lost 20 pounds and 12 inches in 12 weeks.
"Prior to taking the George Foreman Grills Weight Loss Challenge, I wasn't in my best shape because, like many women, I was busy concentrating on career and family. Even as a chef, I found it hard to make time to eat right and live a balanced life," said Gina Neely. "The George Foreman Grills Weight Loss Challenge is easy to follow because it provides a variety of balanced and nutritious, tasty meals. Now I feel great and look great, and anyone can take the challenge, change their lifestyle and get fabulous results like I did."
The George Foreman Grills Weight Loss Challenge is a safe weight-loss approach that was developed by the brand with Registered Dietitian and Certified Personal Trainer, Sarah Berndt. Berndt is an expert in building everyday weight loss plans as co-owner of Hybrid Fitness and Fit Fresh Cuisine in Madison, Wisconsin. The all-inclusive George Foreman Grills Weight Loss program provides balanced meals and snacks including mouth-watering recipes that were developed for the George Foreman Grill. It also includes strength and cardio workouts as well as a calorie calculator, grocery shopping cheat sheet, food tracker, and restaurant guide. In addition to the meal plans, Gina Neely shares her 500 calories or less recipes created especially for the grill including Southern BBQ Turkey Sliders and Mango-Peach Lettuce Wraps. In addition, consumers can access her tips for weight loss success and enter to win $2,500 by signing up at www.georgeforemancooking.com/Challenge.aspx.
"With obesity on the rise for nearly all adult Americans, George Foreman Grills is thrilled to launch this weight loss challenge designed to knock out the fat by creating nutritious and tasty meals made on the grill. The user-friendly plan will help consumers to make a simple change in their diet to lead and maintain a more balanced lifestyle," said Andy Van Wie, Vice President, North America Home Appliances Sales & Marketing, Spectrum Brands. "We are thrilled that Gina Neely has completed her 12-week weight loss journey and will be working on behalf of George Foreman Grills to help others achieve their weight loss goals."
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Peach Upside-Down Pudding Cake
Total Time
Prep 15 mins
Cook 55 mins
This is a very easy cake, and the pudding makes it so moist. I like to serve with whipped topping and cinnamon sprinkled over top...looks like you put a lot of work into it, but it is really very simple. Mmm, think I must go make one right now!!
Ingredients Nutrition
- 1⁄4 cup butter or 1⁄4 cup margarine, melted
- 1⁄3 cup packed light brown sugar
- 1 (29 ounce) cansliced yellow cling peaches, drained
- 1 package yellow cake mix
- 1 package vanilla instant pudding mix
- 4 eggs
- 1 cup sour cream
- 1⁄4 cup oil
- 1⁄2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Combine butter and brown sugar and pour into 13x9-inch pan.
- Arrange peaches on top.
- Combine remaining ingredients in large bowl.
- Beat at medium speed 4 minutes.
- Spoon into pan and bake at 350 degrees for 50-55 minutes or until cake springs back when touched.
- Cool in pan 5 minutes.
- Invert onto platter, and cool completely.
- Garnish with whipped topping, if desired.
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I used thinly sliced fresh peaches and added a pinch of nutmeg to the batter. Very easy to make. This is outstanding!! I will definitely make this again, Thanks Manda!! This is a keeper!
Oh this is just a scrumptous cake!! I was worried at first...nobody showed any interest in it (I think because they thought cake had to have icing)...but once they tasted it it didn't last long!!
I just made this cake and it is OHHHHHHH soooooo good. This recipe is a keeper :)

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HFA celebrates OVER ten productive years.
The Heart Failure Association (HFA) of the ESC celebrated the tenth anniversary of its foundation in 2015. Over the last decade we have undergone an extraordinary growth and developed into a vibrant organisation that has done much to raise the profile of heart failure (HF) in Europe.
We represent the organisation for healthcare professionals working in HF, and currently boast more than 9000 members, most of whom are interested in actively participating in HFA activities This has allowed us to set up an exceptional international network across all continents and numerous activities with the support and close collaboration of more than 50 national societies and HF working groups.
The HFA Annual Congress attracts more than 4000 participants every year who come from all over the world, representing cardiologists, general practitioners, internists, intensivists, emergency room physicians, basic and translational scientists, nurses, technicians, medical students and the industry.
We provide new knowledge via the European Journal on Heart Failure (EJHF) and furthermore our members have access to congress slides. We have prepared for the future by publishing the Heart Failure Specialist Curriculum in the EJHF in early 2014, which recognises that HF is a complex syndrome with high morbidity and mortality. Certifiction for HF specialists and centres of excellence represented the next logical step and this will be implemented during the HF 2016 congress in Florence.
The reality is that cardiologists taking care of HF patients require expertise in complex techniques and devices that often were not around during their specialist training. Our aim is to faciliate members in providing optimal modern HF care according to ESC guidelines, with both education and everyday practice integrated into the curriculum. Last year in collaboration with the ESC Academy and Zurich Heart House we launched the Post Graduate Course in HF, which has been certified by the University of Zurich.
We developed an EBAC accredited on line learning programme based on the curriculum and latest guidelines, which has taken an innovative approach of interactive education.
Our mission "to improve quality of life and longevity, through better prevention, diagnosis and treatment of heart failure, including the establishment of networks, for its management, education, and research" led us to develop our successful Heart Failure Awareness Days and the multi language website for patients (wwww.heartfailurematters.org) which now boasts nine languages, including recently added Arabic and Greek versions.
There is no doubt the HFA needs to attract younger healthcare professionals. We propose special membership or congress registration fees for the young and offer them training grants every year. Moreover, a new group has been formed for the HF experts of tomorrow.
Because science represents our core activity we organise workshops on important topics like acute HF, ventricular assist devices or translational research, with the goal of promoting science and helping clinicians and scientists with the publication of position papers.
The HFA believes the complexity of the HF syndrome not only represents a major obstacle to adequate identification and diagnosis of untreated patients, but also thwarts the understanding of HF among both politicians and the general public. For this reason we have launched the Global Heart Failure Awareness Programme, with the aim of making prevention and management of HF a global health priority. This five year project achieved its first milestone with the Heart Failure White Paper, that has been endorsed by worldwide heart failure societies and working groups. The document, which was launched on Friday, provides contemporary data on the prevalence, survival rates and economic costs of HF across the globe and recommends actions to improve outcomes.
The HFA of the ESC is also considering implementing a European quality improvement programme aimed at reducing the gap between current guidelines and their implementation in everyday clinical practice in ESC countries. A pilot survey is on going on this project.
These are some of the numerous successful projects initiated by the HFA, all of which have a strong and relevant impact on the care of HF patients in the everyday clinical practice. What else can be done? I think that it is important to continue and establish all these successful initiatives. Moreover, when a syndrome has the high morbidity and mortality HF has, it is necessary to and improve the education of the health care professionals and the quality of HF units across all ESC countries.
I invite you all to participate in the committees and activities of the HFA, and to let us have all your new ideas that we can use to inform our future initiatives.
Gerasimos Filippatos (Attikon University Hospital, Athens, Greece)


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The sequel to SEVEN FORGES
The Empire of Fellein is in mourning. The Emperor is dead, and the armies of the empire have grown soft. Merros Dulver, their newly-appointed and somewhat reluctant commander, has been tasked with preparing them to fight the most savage enemy the world has yet seen.
Meanwhile, a perpetual storm ravages the Blasted Lands, and a new threat is about to arise the Broken are coming, and with them only Death.
"File Under" Fantasy.
About the Author
James A. Moore is a Stoker Award-nominated author of over twenty novels, including tie-in work for Buffy the Vampire Slayer. James has written extensively for White Wolf Publishing in the World of Darkness setting. James lives in Atlanta, GA.


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PATH environment variable specifies the directories to be searched through when a command is issued without specifying a path. "sbin" paths (
/usr/sbin) are intended to house administrative utilities, such that many *nix distributions don't include these directories in the default setting for
PATH. That said, there are many circumstances where non-administrative accounts legitimately need to access these utilities, and must specify full paths or modify their
PATH variable to do so. This task is relatively easy to perform, but can be cumbersome for new users. Worse, there are more difficult problems when you involve PAM, sudo, ssh, and other utilities which interact with and sometimes modify the
PATH setting. A search of this site or the internet at large yields many samples of these problems, which afflict new and veteran users alike.
The Question:
With the aforementioned background, is there a good reason not to add sbin directories to the default PATH ? (presumably through
/etc/profile ,
/etc/profile.d, or equivalent)
I recognize "good" is subjective, but here are some reasons that don't hold water in my opinion. Perhaps you disagree?
Not Good Reasons:
- Security
- Elevated privileges and the directory holding a utility are unrelated for world-accessible directories (
r-x). An obscurity argument might be made that sufficiently unskilled bad guys couldn't find "hidden" utilities, but this would be a sadly transparent curtain.
- Elevated privileges and the directory holding a utility are unrelated for world-accessible directories (
- Namespace
- One might argue that a user might want to write their own
rebootcommand, which they access through their own custom directory, which they added to their
PATH, and a system default in a sbin directory would trump their configuration. This is a corner case, and a case where the user in question already groks
PATHimplications and can modify their config to use their directory earlier in the sequence.
- One might argue that a user might want to write their own
- Standards
- This in no way is a change to the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard; utilities are still organized into their directories according to their function.
- Not fixing a problem because "we're used to having that problem" is silly.


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New Zealand will send $500,000 to help refugees displaced by
violence in Iraq, says Foreign Affairs Minister Murray
Mr McCully today announced New Zealand would provide $500,000
to the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees to
help those displaced by fighting in Iraq.
The money would provide urgently needed supplies such as
family tents, mattresses, blankets, hygiene kits and water
containers for those in need, he said.
"An estimated 500,000 people have been forced from their
homes in recent days due to advances by the Islamic State of
Iraq and the Levant.
"There are now one million internally displaced people in
Iraq and 350,000 Syrian refugees who have fled the civil war
in their own country.
"These numbers could rise rapidly if the security situation
continues to deteriorate."
New Zealand was committed to the international humanitarian
effort in Iraq, he said.
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Reading and restingMonday, February 08, 2010
I got tons of stuff on my to-do-list, including several blog topics. But I am all too tired to do any of those things tonight. Luckily my first batch of sewing and fashion books from Amazon arrived today, and the one I am most drooling over is former Project Runway contestant Daniel Vosovic's book about the fashion world. I will most definitely review this one, so stay tuned.
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Daniel is one of my favorite designers from PR - I thought his final runway show was amazing, I would totally wear his stuff. I was not aware of this book...now I need to get my hands on a copy. (Not that I have time to actually read)ReplyDelete
By the way, I don't comment often, but I love your sense of style and I love your designs. You dress in a way that I aspire to, I love your choices of colors and textures. Great work.
>>Kerry: Thank you so much for your kind words! I feel very flattered. And I totally agree about Daniel he is very very talented, and has such a wonderful demeanor about him and that really shows throughout the book too. Have you heard this great long interview with him? http://craftsanity.com/?p=1383 I very much recommend it!ReplyDelete


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Special Issue Article
Version of Record online: 5 JUL 2012
DOI: 10.1002/ldr.2180
Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Land Degradation & Development
Special Issue: Landscape denudation or land degradation? Interrogating the geomorphic processes of landscape change in southern Africa
Volume 23, Issue 6, pages 508–522, November/December 2012
Additional Information
How to Cite
Foster, I. D. L., Rowntree, K. M., Boardman, J. and Mighall, T. M. (2012), CHANGING SEDIMENT YIELD AND SEDIMENT DYNAMICS IN THE KAROO UPLANDS, SOUTH AFRICA; POST-EUROPEAN IMPACTS. Land Degrad. Dev., 23: 508–522. doi: 10.1002/ldr.2180
Publication History
- Issue online: 11 DEC 2012
- Version of Record online: 5 JUL 2012
- Manuscript Accepted: 22 MAY 2012
- Manuscript Received: 9 MAY 2012
- Abstract
- Article
- References
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- sediment yield;
- sediment sources;
- Karoo;
- weather and climate;
- land use change;
- catchment connectivity
We provide an overview of published results and a significant body of new data from an ongoing research programme designed to reconstruct sediment yields and sources in small (<60 km2) catchments in the Eastern Cape, South Africa over the last 150 years. Our analysis of four catchments has determined that sediment yield increased significantly in the latter half of the 20th century but that the exact timing of these increases was different in each of the four catchments. In two high altitude locations, sediment yield increases were not associated with a significant change in sediment source although, in one case, areas of former cultivation appear to have made a slightly greater contribution since the 1960s. In a third catchment, increases in sediment yield appear to have been driven by the development of badlands and by an increase in connectivity between the badlands and the main channel network in the 1960s. In the fourth catchment, increased connectivity between the main catchment and dam occurred as a result of the construction of a causeway to carry a main road and by the construction of culverts beneath the road. Occasional changes in sediment source have also been identified in the sedimentary record, but these were not linked directly to road construction. Research to date shows the complexity of sediment delivery in these semi-arid catchment systems and emphasises the need to combine sediment yield with source ascription to better understand the dynamics of these systems. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


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this is great!!! i still need to reply to a comment you made in the fall... i haven't forgotten, believe it or not.


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There's a great method to allowing one to access a machine behind a firewall by creating an outgoing listening connection: Remote into Linux workstation behind a firewall
My question is, what's the best way to make sure this connection is always up in a safe manner when I'm not at the desk? cron? (Reboots, power outage, etc)


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Agriculture futures trade mixed on the CBOT
CHICAGO (AP) - Agriculture futures were mixed Monday on the
Chicago Board of Trade.
Wheat for May delivery lost 6 cents to $4.7925 a bushel, while
May corn fell 1 cent to $3.6325 a bushel and oats for May delivery
shed 2.5 cents to $2.16 a bushel. May soybeans rose 4.5 cents to
$9.30 a bushel.
Meanwhile, beef futures advanced and pork futures traded lower
on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.
April live cattle edged up 0.55 cent to 95.65 cents a pound;
April feeder cattle added 0.05 cent to $1.0602 a pound; April lean
hogs fell 0.85 cent to 71.8 cents a pound; and May pork bellies
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Sixteen UST undergraduates are carrying out faculty-mentored research during spring semester 2016 as part of the Collaborative Inquiry Grant program. This spring's awardees include:
mentored by: Dr. Jason Sawin
Cody's research digs deeper into whether a predictive model can be created to estimate the amount of time required to charge a device that is running an application in the background
mentored by: Dr. Ande Nesmith
Stephanie's research is helping a local social service agency determine whether they are reaching their long-term goal to provide former foster youth with skills to achieve social and emotional well-being.
mentored by: Dr. Jennifer McGuire
Cassie's research is focused on screening crude oil-polluted waters to determine whether that contaminated water creates hormone-like activity in humans and animals.
mentored by: Dr. Bridget Duoos and Dr. Lesley Scibora
Participants in Maya's study have Celiac disease, and will help her research whether age at diagnosis has an impact on bone density and bone remodeling activity.
mentored by: Dr. Jennifer Cruise
Nina is carrying out research that builds upon the work she did as a Young Scholars grant recipient--this time, she is working to determine which proteins in breast cancer cell lines bind to a particular gene.
mentored by: Dr. Lisa Prevette
Chad's research is investigating where G-wires travel in a cervical cancer cell line, and determining cellular growth alterations after the G-wires are internalized.
mentored by: Dr. Marites Guino-o
Theresa's research seeks to determine how effective 1,3-bis(picolyl)benzimidazolium bromide is as an energy absorption molecule for lanthanide(III) ion luminescence.
mentored by: Dr. Jennifer Cruise and Dr. Simon Emms
Jordyn's research is looking at "DNA fingerprints" in fish genetics, and how the use of different numbers of genetic markers could affect the accuracy of these fingerprints in one Minnesota fish species.
mentored by: Dr. Justin Donato
Michael is studying a protein called Lpl-σ in order to better understand the biochemical mechanisms of its function.
mentored by: Dr. Marites Guino-o
Lanthanides are rare-earth metal elements, and Sydney is studying lanthanide luminescence. Her goal is to create a ligand that will attach to a lanthanide and help it luminesce.
mentored by: Dr. Ande Nesmith
In Emily's research, she is interviewing professionals and volunteers who work with refugees in Minnesota to gain understanding about refugee challenges, and what helps make the transition easier.
mentored by: Dr. Emily James
Megan's research focuses on poet Sylvia Plath, and explores how Plath's candor and intimacy advances our understanding of women and mental illness.
mentored by: Dr. Greg Robinson-Riegler
Kayla is looking at gender stereotypes and how deeply engrained they are in the brain. She is also looking at whether or not these stereotypes can be influenced by a simple physical experience.
mentored by: Dr. Kristine Wammer
Danielle is examining the importance of dissolved organic matter (DOM) in aquatic ecosystems, and specifically how those DOMs affect the degradation of pesticides and pharmaceuticals.
mentored by: Dr. Sarah Heimovics
Georgianne is studying the effect of developmental exposure to methylmercury on neurogenesis-related gene expression in nestling tree swallows.
Highlights from November 2015 Conference Travel Grant Recipients
GRO Conference Travel Grant recipients in a variety of disciplines shared their work at conferences and meetings in November. Here are a few highlights:
Biology students Abbie Lukowicz, Jane Feely, Cassie Clark - plus past Young Scholars Grant recipient Nick Cipoletti '15 - traveled to Salt Lake City, Utah for the 36th annual meeting of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. Clark won third place in the "Best Undergraduate Poster" category, and Cipoletti won first place in the "Best Undergraduate Platform" category.
Clark's presentation, "Screening Crude Oil-Polluted Water for Endocrine Activity," was co-authored by UST student Abigail Lukowicz (UST, Biology 2016), and Drs. McGuire and Martinovic-Weigelt (UST) and Dr. Isabelle Cozarelli (U.S. Geological Survey).
Cipoletti's presentation, "Spatial and Temporal Occurrence of Estrogenic Activity in Urban Effluent-Dominated Systems," was conducted under Dr. Martinovic-Weigelt's (UST-Biology) and Dr. Curran's (UST-Computer & Information Sciences) leadership and co-authored by UST alumni (Jascha S. Marchuk, Matt J. Pazderka, Eric A. Smith, Rachel L. Goldenstein, Christine L. Miresse, Thomas J. Matlon), Drs. Schoenfuss (St. Cloud State University), Tom Minarik (Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago) and late Dr. Melissa Schultz (College of Wooster).
Meanwhile, a group of psychology students traveled along with Dr. Jean Giebenhein to Viterbo University in LaCrosse, Wisconsin to share their work at the Seven Rivers Undergraduate Research Symposium.
Two of these psychology students, Elizabeth Dorrow and Ellie Musser, were voted Best Poster in the Social Sciences by the conference attendees for their poster, "Psychology and Parenting Advice: Child Discipline Over the Years."
Later in the month, philosophy major Elliot Polsky traveled to Salamanca, Spain to present his work at the World Conference on Metaphysics. Polsky is studying abroad in Rome, Italy during fall semester 2015.
The work Polsky shared on the topic of "Thomistic Special Relativity" (how Einstein's theory of special relativity looks through the lens of the work of St. Thomas Aquinas) was based on research he carried out as a Young Scholars Grant recipient in summer 2015. His faculty mentor over the summer was Dr. Thomas Feeney.
Conference Travel Grants are available to support undergraduate researchers who would like to present their work at academic conferences. Learn more about our Conference Travel Grant Program here.
Workshop: Intro to NSF Grants
An "Introduction to NSF Grants" workshop is scheduled for Friday, January 29 from 9 am to noon in Murray-Herrick (MHC) Room 205. This workshop, co-sponsored by the Grants and Research Office and Center for Faculty Development, is intended for faculty who plan to apply for a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant in the future and would like an introduction to the grant process. Facilitated by Drs. David Steele and Mary Reichardt, the workshop will provide an overview of such topics as finding funding/types of funds, navigating the NSF website, using Fastlane, preparing budgets, institutional review and approval, proposal development, and writing help.
The workshop will feature a panel of three faculty who have been awarded NSF grants in the recent past. Panel members will discuss their experiences and give advice and tips for a successful proposal. Click this link to register for this workshop.
November News & Information
View our Grants and Research Office Newsletter for November 2015 for more information about government grant opportunities, as well as updates from the Institutional Review Board, the Excel! Research Scholars Program, and our undergraduate research grant programs.
UST Research Featured on MPR News
MPR News recently featured research carried out by Young Scholar (2014) Abigail Lukowicz and her faculty mentor Dr. Dalma Martinovic-Weigelt, as well as undergraduate Jane Feely and biology faculty member Dr. Kerri Carlson.
The article discussed research that is being done to determine the risk of the low levels of chemicals, such as insect repellents and antidepressants, that are present in Minnesota lakes.
To read the article, visit the MPR News site.
October News & Information
What do you need to know from GRO in the month of October 2015? Read our newsletter to find out! Read the Grants and Research Office Newsletter for October 2015 here.
Next "Inquiry at UST" poster session is October 6
Students, faculty and staff are invited to come and learn more about recent collaborative research carried out by undergraduates at UST during the 26th Inquiry at UST Poster Session.
The fall poster session will be held on Tuesday, October 6, 2015 from 11:45 am to 1:15 pm in Woulfe Alumni Hall, ASC.
Each of the presenters at this event will display a poster with more information about his or her research, and will be available to discuss the project in detail with those who are interested in learning more. Abstracts of each student's work will also be available in a printed copy, as well as online. Previous abstracts are available here; the upcoming session's volume will be added as soon as it is available.
For more information about opportunities to present undergraduate research, including grants that are available to cover conference travel expenses, visit stthomas.edu/gro/presenting/.
Join Us at the Excel! Research Scholars Summer Symposium on Thursday, July 30
The new cohort of Excel! Research Scholars has been hard at work this summer, and will be presenting their faculty-mentored research at the Excel! Research Scholars Summer Symposium on Thursday, July 30. Faculty, staff and students are invited to attend this event, which will begin at 10 am in 100 McNeely Hall.
The following research topics will be shared at this year's symposium:
- "The Power of Self-Talk: How it Affects Racial Biases." Presented by Ashley Demaio, a health science and humanities major from UST (mentored by Dr. Sarah Hankerson of UST)
- "Effectiveness of laptop and handwritten note-taking: The relationship between working memory capacity and technology habits." Presented by Thao Do, a neuroscience major from UST (mentored by Dr. Greg Robinson-Riegler of UST)
- "Distance, Quality of Care, and Maternal Health in Kenya and Haiti: A Comparative GIS Study" Presented by Xing Gao, an urban geography major from Macalester College (mentored by Dr. David Kelly of UST)
- "Visitor Effect on Individual Gorillas in a Bachelor Troop." Presented by Stephanie Garcia, a biology major from UST (mentored by Dr. Sarah Hankerson of UST)
- "A case-study on community-based participatory research methods among Vietnamese Americans to increase knowledge about chronic Hepatitis B infection." Presented by Trinh Ha, an epidemiology major from St. Catherine University (mentored by Dr. Ruby Nguyen of the University of Minnesota)
- "The Breakdown of Thriving African American Communities: A Comparative Analysis of the Socialization of the Historic Rondo Community and Implications for the Future." Presented by Maya Johnson, a social work/law major from St. Catherine University (mentored by Dr. Artika Tyner of UST)
- "Green Engineering in Beam Production Using Honeycomb Structure" Presented by Roumany Phan, a mechanical engineering major from UST (mentored by Dr. Katherine Acton of UST)
For more information about the Excel! Research Scholars program, please visit stthomas.edu/excel.
Two UST Faculty Receive Fulbright Awards
Two UST faculty members—Dr. Candace Chou of the College of Education, Leadership and Counseling, and Dr. Heather Shirey of the College of Arts and Sciences—will be traveling to Taiwan and China during the 2015-2016 academic year as part of the Fulbright Scholar Program.
Dr. Chou, associate professor of organization learning and development in UST's College of Education, Leadership and Counseling, will be the first of the two professors to depart. Chou will travel to Taiwan for ten months beginning in August 2015.
While in Taiwan, Chou will carry out research on efforts by the Taiwanese government to bridge the digital divide—such as establishing "digital opportunity centers" in rural areas and creating online tutoring centers for students.
"I'll be looking at the impact of these digital equity initiatives in education and in society as a whole," Chou said. "We'll do focus groups and interview people who are either implementers or recipients of these initiatives. And then my plan is to summarize this data and make recommendations [to the government or nonprofit running each initiative]."
Previously, Chou worked with the Minneapolis Public Schools to create professional development opportunities designed to train teachers using iPads in the classroom. "When I was working in the Minneapolis Public Schools, I found a lot of misconceptions," she said. "People think the machine itself will help [bridge the digital divide], but there is more than that."
As part of her research, Chou will explore whether similar misconceptions exist in Taiwan. "I want to find out if there is a vast difference in different countries—or is it the same?" she said. "Do people think 'digital equity initiatives' are simply putting machines into a room? What can we do to make it better?"
Dr. Shirey, associate professor and director of graduate studies in art history at UST's College of Arts and Sciences, will travel to China to teach American Art through 1980 during spring semester 2016. Tsinghua University in Beijing will serve as Dr. Shirey's host institution.
One of the things that may have set Shirey apart in her Fulbright application is her area of expertise. "I teach African and African American art, so I often don't think of myself purely as an Americanist art historian," Shirey said.
"For years, I've been thinking about the idea that African American art should be central to the discussions that we have about American art," Shirey continued. "I think it is essential to look at ideas about race and ethnicity as part of the broader American experience."
Shirey is excited that she will be able to teach about how race and ethnicity relate to American art history in a different cultural context. "In the United States our national dialogue about race and ethnicity is very complex," Shirey said. "I think it will be a good challenge for me to teach in a new context, where students will have different perspectives when it comes to discussing everything from the Emancipation Proclamation to contemporary race relations."
Shirey also thinks that upon her return, it will enhance her ability to teach international students or students who don't speak English as their native language. "All of my teaching [in Beijing] will be in English, and the students are well-equipped to do their research and writing in English," Shirey said. "I'm excited about having the experience of teaching students who choose to take a class in another language in order to work on their language skills—it will be fun."
For more information about the Fulbright Scholar program, visit this overview from the Grants and Research Office, or the official Fulbright Scholar Program site.
The GRO Welcomes the Newest Cohort of Excel! Research Scholars!
The Excel! Research Scholars Program helps first-generation college students and/or students who are underrepresented by race in graduate schools by preparing them for graduate school admission while also becoming competitive for funding.
Seven students recently joined the ranks of Excel! Research Scholars at UST, and all are currently participating in the program's Summer Research Insitutute. One element of this program is a faculty-mentored research project, which these students are currently carrying out. They will present their work at a Summer Research Symposium on Thursday, July 30, 2015.
The 2015-2016 cohort includes (pictured above from left to right):
- Stephanie Garcia, a biology major from UST (mentored by Dr. Sarah Hankerson of UST)
- Trinh Ha, an epidemiology major from St. Catherine University (mentored by Dr. Ruby Nguyen of the University of Minnesota)
- Maya Johnson, a social work/law major from St. Catherine University (mentored by Dr. Artika Tyner of UST)
- Roumany Phan, a mechanical engineering major from UST (mentored by Dr. Katherine Acton of UST)
- Ashley Demaio, a health science and humanities major from UST (mentored by Dr. Sarah Hankerson of UST)
- Thao Do, a neuroscience major from UST (mentored by Dr. Greg Robinson-Riegler of UST)
- Xing Gao, an urban geography major from Macalester College (mentored by Dr. David Kelly of UST)
Dr. Jean E. Giebenhain Receives the 2015 "Undergraduate Research Award for Faculty"
Psychology professor Dr. Jean Giebenhain was awarded the 2015 Undergraduate Research Award for Faculty on May 15 at the Annual Celebration of Undergraduate Research, which is hosted by UST's Grants and Research Office.
This award is given annually to a faculty member who has demonstrated outstanding commitment to supporting undergraduate research and faculty/student scholarly collaboration. UST faculty are nominated by their peers each spring, and nominees who agree to be considered for the award submit a statement indicating how they have contributed to undergraduate scholarship. References submit additional materials, and these documents—together with the original letter of nomination—are reviewed by the undergraduate research board, which then selects one person for special recognition.
Giebenhain was excited to receive the award, and shared the following words with the Grants and Research Office after she was informed of the research board's decision:
I am proud to have been a member of the Psychology department since 1983. I have been impressed by, and deeply committed to our students. I enjoy working with students on research projects that are guided by their own interests as well as my own. Students have presented their work at local, regional, national, and even international conferences.
Students have investigated the portrayal of mental illness in popular culture through children's literature, Batman comics, Naruto graphic novels, as well as the depiction of self-injury in teen fiction and online communities.
Life experiences also often direct research topics. I am an adoptive parent. My three daughters, biological siblings, came from India when they were 12, 10, and 7. This fueled my interest to learn more from families like mine. Students worked with me on projects related to adoption that resulted in papers and workshops presented in Manila, California, and New Orleans.
More recently, a fruitful collaboration initiated by Dr. Sarah Schmalenberger (UST Music Department), investigating female-musician breast cancer survivors, resulted in numerous papers with students on topics related to our participants' experiences with breast cancer, including: pain, culture, identity, social support, post-traumatic growth and depreciation, gratitude, "mattering" within the health-care system, terror-management, pro-social behavior, and optimism. One of these projects resulted in a book chapter with a student as first author.
Finally, I have been impressed by the wonderful projects that have come from research teams in my sections of our capstone course: The History of Psychology in Social Context. Over the last several years, all students from my classes have presented research posters at the Seven Rivers Undergraduate Research Symposium at Viterbo University, the Minnesota Undergraduate Psychology Conference, or the Midwestern Psychological Association annual meeting in Chicago.
I am grateful and proud to be part of an institution that values student research and supports it financially. Colleagues from other institutions are envious! It is wonderful to be part of watching all of these budding young professionals BLOOM!
Institutional Review Board to Hold Training Workshop on
Tuesday, May 26
Responsibility for managing the Institutional Review Board (IRB) has been transferred to the Grants and Research Office. Sarah Muenster-Blakley, M.A. '12 has been named the new director of the board, which is primarily responsible for ensuring the ethical treatment of human subjects involved in research conducted by faculty, students, and staff at the University of St. Thomas.
In an effort to help summer research students get a good start on their projects, Sarah will hold a special IRB training workshop on Tuesday, May 26 from 9:00 am to 11:00 am in ASC 238 on the St. Paul campus. The workshop will focus on the concepts that inform the protection of human subjects and include an overview of IRBNet and specific instructions on how to develop and submit a research protocol to the IRB. All summer students and researchers who are working with human subjects are encouraged to attend. Please send her an email by Friday, May 22 to register for the workshop. Faculty are also welcome.
The Institutional Review Board office encourages researchers to submit an IRB application early if you are planning to conduct research that engages human subjects so that the IRB can support your efforts in the most effective way possible. In most cases, the IRB can complete an initial review of a submitted protocol within one to eight calendar days.
GRO Welcomes New Institutional Review Board Director Sarah Muenster-Blakley
The Grants and Research Office is pleased to announce the addition of a new staff member, Sarah Muenster-Blakley. Sarah will serve as director of UST's Institutional Review Board. She has been at the University of St. Thomas since fall 2010. She was a graduate assistant in the Grants and Research Office while she worked toward her Master of Arts in Art History degree, which she received in December 2012. Sarah has been an adjunct art history instructor for the university since spring 2013. She is very excited to begin her new role and to be back in the Grants and Research Office. Rewriting the IRB application forms is at the top of her to-do list, and she is thrilled to work with students, faculty, and staff as they complete the IRB process.
Young Scholars, Community-Based Research and Summer Housing Grant application deadlines are approaching! Undergraduate students from all academic disciplines are encouraged to apply. This is a great opportunity to get paid to carry out faculty-mentored research on a full-time basis over the summer. Learn more here.
Ask Reviewers What They Look for in a Young Scholars/CBR Application! Information Sessions Held on February 5.
Interested in applying for a Young Scholar or Community-Based Research Grant? Don't know where to get started?
The Grants and Research Office will be hosting informational sessions on how to prepare an application for these programs! Hear from board members in charge of reading and scoring applications and bring them your questions!
If you are a student in the Humanities or Social Sciences, a session just for you is being held on Thursday, February 5, 2015 at 3:00 p.m. in ASC 202.
If you are a student in the STEM disciplines, your session is being held on Thursday, February 5, 2015 at 3:00 p.m. in ASC 238.
Come with your questions and be prepared to walk through the application process!
Deadline for applying for these grants is February 20, 2015.
Excel! Research Scholar Anisa Abdulkadir to Present at ABRCMS
The Grants & Research Office would like to congratulate Anisa Abdulkadir on being accepted to present at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS) in San Antonio, TX this November.
This prestigious event is one of the largest professional conferences for underrepresented minority students and students with disabilities who are interested in pursuing advanced training in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. During this four-day conference, undergraduates come from over 350 colleges and universities nationwide to present their work, as well as to hear about graduate school and summer internship opportunities, funding sources, professional networks, and more.
Anisa will be one of the students presenting at this event, and will share the research that she did under the mentorship of Dr. Dalma Martinović-Weigelt in UST's Biology department. Her research studied monoamine oxidase inhibitor activity in metropolitan wastewater effluent; she previously shared some of the findings from this research with the UST community at the Excel! Research Scholars Symposium in July.
Previous participants in ABRCMS from UST have included McNair Scholar Sally Mahmoud '12, who went on to receive partial funding to purse her M.D. at Johns Hopkins University, and McNair Scholar Mondraya Howard '12, who went on to receive full funding in order to pursue her Ph.D. in pharmacology at the University of Pittsburgh.
For more information about the conference where Anisa will be presenting her work, visit abrcms.org. Congratulations, Anisa!
Next "Inquiry at UST" Poster Session is Sept. 25
Students who have been doing collaborative research with a faculty member will be presenting their work through a poster session on Thursday, September 25 from 11:45 am to 1:15 pm in Woulfe Alumni Hall. This is an excellent opportunity to see the breadth of undergraduate research being carried out on campus, in all areas of study—from the sciences to the humanities. Click here to view abstracts from the upcoming event: Fall 2014 Inquiry Abstracts.
"Inquiry at UST" is open to the community; students, faculty and staff are invited to attend. In addition to being a great opportunity to see the types of research projects being carried out, it's also an excellent time to ask questions about undergraduate research grants that are available to students. Attendees will be able to speak with Grants & Research Office staff, as well as recent undergraduate grant recipients, at this event. We hope to see you there!
Excel! Summer Research Symposium
On July 31, 2014, the Excel! research scholars presented their faculty-mentored research at their symposium in Wolfe Alumni Hall. The slideshow above showcases several highlights and successes from the symposium.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) Twentieth Century Fox says "Marley & Me" has set a Christmas Day record with $14.75 million at the box office.
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URL: http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com
Author/Artist: Tim Buckley
Start Date: October 2002
Though some webcomics started out with a view toward appearing in regular gaming publications, others such as Tim Buckley's Ctrl+Alt+Del (CAD for short) began out of a simple desire to entertain friends with a strip based on real life. The two main characters, Ethan and Lucas, are based on Buckley and a friend of his, and the strip begins with just the two of them holding tongue-in-cheek auditions for a third cast member.
Though the tone of those first strips is remarkably similar to Penny Arcade -- something explicitly addressed in the strips themselves as they jettison their sofa, saying "It was too clich?Everyone has a couch" -- it was far from a shameless audience grab. "I didn't even know [Penny Arcade] existed when I decided to start a webcomic based off of the lives of my best friend and I," insisted Buckley when accused of ripping off Penny Arcade's style. Though CAD began in 2002, some years after Penny Arcade's introduction and well into it's popularity, PA hadn't become as explosively ubiquitous as it is today, and Buckley's claim may well have merit.
Whether you take him at his word or not, though, Ctrl+Alt+Del found its own voice quickly and has evolved into something quite different. Buckley splits the difference between PvP and Penny Arcade: he's willing to tackle the storyline- and continuity-based humor that PA typically shies away from, but has never strayed from the core gaming focus that PvP eventually abandoned for a more mainstream audience. The cast develops and grows, allowing Buckley to do character-based humor, but still remain gamers at heart no matter what happens.
The approach has paid off for Buckley: he's one of a relative handful of webcartoonists who makes his living solely off the profits of his strip. The most impressive thing about his success is how far he's come in such a relatively short time: most of the big successes in webcomics are the older, more established strips from the mid- to late 90s, but Buckley has built a solid readership in just three years, leaving him plenty of room to ascend even higher.
URL: http://www.little-gamers.com
Author: Pontus Madsen
Artist: Christian Fundin
Start Date: December 2000
Just as video games have the million-selling, mass-market games that no one actually seems to like, so too do webcomics have their critically lambasted but rabidly popular comics. Little Gamers is one such example.
The awkwardness of the humor may come from the fact that the Swedish creators are working in English, which isn't their first language. On the other hand, if something isn't funny, it's impossible to make it funny with excuses: whatever the reason, Little Gamers' humor is clumsy and ineffective, overrelying on the juxtaposition between the profanity-heavy leetspeak dialogue and the cute, superdeformed artwork to get its laughs. Most of it reads like a transcription of actual dialogue between the creators, and leaves the reader with the sense that this was funnier in person.
The art is extremely basic, and the lack of facial features for the characters apart from the eyes severely limits how expressive they can be: without arms to gesture, or mouths to indicate emotion, the only safe expression the creators can convey is lowered eyebrows to indicate anger. Funnily enough, this often turns out to be the only emotion the characters find necessary to express in the first place.
All that said, the strip does have fans, as those who mock the strip tend to discover to their detriment. Possibly the appeal in the comic lies in its depiction of the average gamer, as opposed to more imaginative comics' situation-based comedy. Little Gamers is, in its way, the Seinfeld of gaming webcomics: it has none of that shows' timing or wit, but it does devote itself to being about nothing, and is perhaps more easily accessible for that.
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Jon Rosenberg, creator of the entirely non-gaming related webcomic Goats, certainly noticed, and returned fire with megaGAMERZ 3133t. The strip debuted in Goats as a character's cynical attempt at cashing in on the gaming webcomic wave of popularity: "I know that there's an audience out there just waiting to be manipulated," he says gleefully.
The resulting spinoff strip, launched in June 2005, takes heavy aim at the sort of non-sequitir humor and templated drawings found in strips like Little Gamers. Two nameless characters, whose poses and expressions never change, spout random dialogue at one another while a surreal collage of backgrounds and props floats across the page, parodying the efforts taken by sprite comics to make their own reused art seem more varied. It's not very subtle, but then that's not the point, and anyway it's a lot funnier than the comics it swipes at.
Despite its best efforts, the strip has accreted its own strange set of continuity over time, with the introduction of Bentar and Marty, "characters" who have no established personality but refuse to leave anyway, persisting somewhere in the background of the non-action. It has virtually nothing to do with videogames nowadays, but then again, that was always part of the point anyway.
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Polymer City Chronicles correction...Posted: Jul 12, 2010 12:00AM PST by bcRIP
PCC actually started on gamezero.com in 1995 and was mirrored there for its full production span. It didn't have it's run on MPOG.com until 2000 when the comic was restyled into a 4-panel strip. Prior to that it had been mostly a one panel gag comic.


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Creating a challenger to the utility-based Toyota Land Cruiser, Mitsubishi's first entry into the sport utility vehicle market in the 1980s was known in the United States as the Montero. A four-wheel drive that earned a reputation as a tough off-road vehicle thanks to multiple wins in the Paris Dakar Rally, the Mitsubishi Montero was supported by a solid frame and all-terrain tires. The Montero was initially offered as a two-door vehicle but was later exclusively marketed as a four-door sport utility in North America. A smaller Mitsubishi Montero Sport was also offered from the late 1990s until the mid-2000s. Availability of the Montero in the United States ended after the 2006 model year but Mitsubishi had already created two crossover-based successors. Designed with the United States market in mind, the Mitsubishi Endeavor was offered with a standard six-cylinder engine as well as the choice of front-wheel drive or all-wheel drive. Eventually becoming the lead crossover for the Mitsubishi brand, the Outlander promoted off-road potential along with attributes sought by an urban crowd such as strong fuel economy. In addition to the Outlander that can hold up to seven occupants, the Outlander Sport is offered as a smaller, more affordable crossover.
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2002 Mitsubishi Montero
A full-size SUV with seating for up to seven, the 2002 Mitsubishi Montero comes standard with 4WD and a 200 hp 3.5L V6 engine paired with a four-speed automatic transmission.
2002 Mitsubishi Montero Sport
The 2002 Mitsubishi Montero Sport is a full-size five-passenger SUV available with 2WD or 4WD and a choice between two V6 engines.


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Released: Jul 01st, 2006
Running Time: 80
Director: David Stanley
Company: Wicked Pictures
Cast: Michelle Maylene, JC Stinger, Jassie (I), Evan Stone, Randy Spears, Courtney Simpson, Alana Evans, Tony Tedeschi, Faith Leon
Critical Rating: AAAA
Genre: Feature
David Stanley attempts comedy, with middling success. If all the stabs at humor don't quite come off, though, at least it's got a great hook, story-wise: Jassie wants husband Spears to help her lesbian friends Evans and Simpson make a baby – by jerking off to the two of them doin' it (so that they're inspiring the baby's conception, see).
There's also plenty of great sex here, whether it's between Spears and Jassie, or the porno-within-a-porno that Spears watches, featuring the likes of Maylene and Leon.
Pre-noms: Best Screenplay – Video (Stanley), Best Video Feature.
Retailing: Couples will go nuts for it, but should attract solo strokers, too.


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Victor Garber
Jordan Wethersby
Julie Gonzalo
Maggie Dekker
Matt Letscher
Nathan Stone
Natasha Henstridge
Taylor Wethersby
Jonny Lee Miller
Eli Stone
Loretta Devine
Patti Dellacroix
George Michael
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Paul Sweren
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Steve Harris
Jayson Turk
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Keith Bennett
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Maggie: You're an object of ridicule, a professional pariah, reduced to barely practicing law.
Eli: Thank you, I feel better.
Maggie: You're sucking up to God. There are better ways.
Eli: Yeah, well, God and I enjoy a pretty complicated relationship. At least now I'm starting to believe in what He wants me to do. (pauses) It's like I see things now, you know. Things that were always there but that I just never noticed before.
Maggie: Like people who need help?
Maggie: My suggestion: go find another peon to pee on.
Jordan: Flattery and judicious use of loopholes: clearly you know the way to my heart.
Eli: Sir, you have to tell Solinsky that I'm unavailable... tell him anything... tell him I got hit by a bus.
Jordan: Even if I got to drive it, I couldn't do that...
Eli: Nate, the knight was you. An hour ago, you were chasing a dragon down Fossil Street on horseback.
Nathan: An hour ago I was here, asleep, and my horse hasn't been ridden all night.
Maggie: (leaving the courtroom) Was that as big a disaster as I thought it was?
Eli: No... it could still be going on.
Eli: You should meet this kid. He's all alone. It's tragic... really.
Maggie: It is... to those of us actually interested in helping people.
Eli: I am interested in helping people.
Maggie: Only because you're afraid of dying and you're trying to suck up to god.
Peter Johnson: Mr. Stone? (introducing himself) ... Peter Johnson.
Eli: Junior?
Peter Johnson: Sorry... if I told your assistant I was 15 and wanted you to represent me, I don't think you would have shown up.
Eli: (sarcastically) Only because I don't practice 'pediatric' law.
Peter Johnson: I googled you... big settlements, big judgements... your name is all over the law blogs. You're exactly the kind of lawyer I need.
Eli: So... What's the case? You're suing the school cafeteria to put french fries back on the menu?
Peter Johnson: My mom died...
International Air Dates:
Denmark: June 28, 2008 on Kanal 4
Czech Republic: July 6, 2008 on AXN
Sweden: August 13, 2008 on Kanal 5
Germany: September 10, 2008 on Pro7
Norway: December 10, 2008, on Tv2
Australia: December 24, 2008, on Seven
The Netherlands: January 5, 2009 on Net 5
Injoke: Jayson Turk's coach is named Coach Quesada and Taylor mentions a call from Chaykin Technologies. These names are probably references to two comic book creators, writer/artist (and current "Marvel" Editor-in-Chief) Joe Quesada and writer Howard Chaykin, especially considering that Marc Guggenheim (co-creator of Eli Stone) is a comic book writer himself.
"Heal the Pain" by George Michael
"Good Excuse" by John Butler Trio
"Waiting On the Light to Change" by Matthew Perryman Jones
"Fireworks" by Threes And Nines
"Perfectly" by Five Times August
"Older" by George Michael
"Before And After" by Saturn Missles
"How I Feel" by Chad Doucette
"Beneath the Silver Moon" by Matthew Perryman Jones
The Wizard of Oz
Taylor accuses Patty of thinking of her as the Wicked Witch of the West. Patty counters by saying Taylor is the Wicked Witch of the East because "they dropped a house on her." This exchange alludes to the scene in the 1939 feature film when Dorothy finds a pair of legs, belonging to the Wicked Witch of the East, sticking out from under her house that had dropped from a tornado.
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The San Francisco baseball-player defendant, represented by Eli's law firm for killing his third-base coach with a foul ball while being on steroids, is a direct reference (even in the player's appearance) to former SF Giant, Barry Bonds, who is under indictment for lying about steroid use to a Federal Grand Jury.
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Released: Dec 27th, 2007
Running Time: 104 Min.
Company: Abigail Productions
Cast: Fiona Cheeks, Jersey Cummings, Brooke Scott, Trinity Post, Valerie Vasquez, Melanie Scott (I), Laurie Vargas, Lyla Lei
Critical Rating: AAA
Genre: All-Sex
In these all-girl twosomes, the girls casually chat with each other to set up their scenes. One pair discusses boy issues before doing it on the kitchen counter. Another pair of girls are roommates who do it after fighting over their messy apartment.
The sex is ultimately standard girl/girl stuff, and some of the girls are questionably believable as muff divers. But Lyla Lei, Fiona Cheeks and Laurie Vargas definitely put umph into their performances.
Retailing: Decent girl/girl duos. Lei, Cheeks and Vargas shine.


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A Close Look at Matt Damon's 45 Lines of Dialogue in Jason Bourne
That's a full 288 words for you Jason Bourne reenactors to memorize.By Kevin Lincoln and Jackson McHenry
That's a full 288 words for you Jason Bourne reenactors to memorize.By Kevin Lincoln and Jackson McHenry
And less soul-destroying than cable-news channels.By Kathryn VanArendonk
The finest examples of show business showing itself.By Sam Fragoso
The very best, like no show ever was.By Jackson McHenry
"If you had to destroy someone's life completely without consequence, how would you go about doing it?"By Devon Ivie
Goddamn Rattata.By Jackson McHenry and Kyle Buchanan
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As selected from our recent mid-year and year-end best-of lists.By Vulture Editors
Honestly, just use Twitter.By Dan Reilly
By Jessi Klein, Joy Williams, Megan Abbott, and more.By Boris Kachka
Whether mass-market candy or high literature, a beach read needs narrative momentum, a transporting sense of place, and, ideally, a touch of the sordid.By Boris Kachka
Handpicked by Colin Dickey, Sarah Knight, and Shea Serrano.By Maris Kreizman
Hand-picked by A-Trak, Greta Kline, and YG.By Dan Reilly
Handpicked by Alexander Chee, Jenny Han, and J. Courtney Sullivan.By Maris Kreizman
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It's a diabolical greatest-hits collection that includes murder, framing, and infanticide.By Jennifer Vineyard
Sia, Rihanna, Adele, and Kent Jones, among others, are on the rise.By Craig Jenkins and Dee Lockett
Including Anderson .Paak, Pinegrove, and scrappy up-and-comers Beyoncé and Kendrick Lamar.By Frank Guan and Craig Jenkins
Ranging from E.T. up to The BFG.By Kevin Lincoln
Including two that saw big bumps from political coverage and one that's thriving on a sturdy foundation of reality TV.By Josef Adalian


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We are a women's accessories company specializing in high end everyday to special occasion/bridal jewelry and accessories. We also provide styling services for clientele.
We are based in the United States.
We are expanding and would like to develop a business and marketing plan which includes where we are now and our future endeavors. We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced individual to design a business plan for our company by effectively communicating with us and asking us specific questions as well as doing market research for our company. The business plan will have to be very detailed so this position requires someone who is fluent in English and has extensive experience creating business and marketing plans.
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Gap Year 100 company directory: volunteering
Our annual directory of the best gap year travel companies and websites.
19 Action Aid (01460 238000; www.actionaid.org.uk/adventures)
Community-building projects in Asia and Africa, including libraries and classrooms. Trips require a registration fee of £300, plus a sponsorship target of £2,999.
20 Africa & Asia Venture (01380 729009; www.aventure.co.uk)
Offers teaching and community placements lasting from five weeks to five months in Africa and Asia. A 12-week project in Kenya costs from £2,985, excluding flights.
21 African Conservation Experience (01454 269182; www.conservationafrica.net)
Working in rehabilitation centres with hands on animal care in South Africa and Zimbabwe. A 4-week trip costs around £3,450 including flights, meals and accommodation.
22 Big Beyond (0800 098 8440; www.bigbeyond.org)
Offer bespoke volunteer programmes in conservation and development projects in adventurous corners of rural Africa. Live and work with communities in Uganda by the infamous Mountain Gorilla's or in Ethiopia's Omo Valley with an ancient tribe. 2 weeks to 6 months - from £995 full-board excluding flights.
23 Blue Ventures (020 7697 8598; www.blueventures.org)
Specialises in marine conservation in Belize and Madagascar. A six-week volunteer expedition in Madagascar costs from £2,425, and from £2,525 in Belize. Accommodation is in eco-cabins shared by four volunteers. A newly launched 1-2 week lionfish project in Belize costs £600-1,300.
24 British Exploring (020 7591 3141; www.britishexploring.org)
Organizers of expeditions to the most majestic wilderness. Discoverers of true remoteness in the Jungle, Desert, Arctic and Mountain. Two summer 2016 expeditions to the Peruvian Amazon and Indian Himalayas for three or five weeks, including everything except flights and basic kit. Amazon: three week £2,900, five week £3,500; Himalayas: three week £2,700, five week £3,400.
25 BUNAC (033 3999 7516; www.bunac.org)
Offers worthwhile work, volunteer, intern abroad and summer camp programmes all across the globe ranging from 12 days to 23 months.
26 Camps International (01425 485390; www.campsinternational.com)
2-wk to 3-month volunteering programmes for 18-25 year olds. Live alongside rural communities and within stunning biodiversity areas, whilst you contribute to sustainable project initiatives in Borneo, Cambodia, Ecuador, Peru, Kenya & Tanzania. Prices start from £700.
27 Changing Worlds (02081 238702; www.changing-worlds.com)
Offers a variety of opportunities overseas including volunteering in disadvantaged communities, paid work placements, internships, courses and qualifications and adventure tours. 4 weeks at a care work centre in Ghana costs £895, including accommodation, food and support.
28 CREES (0207 581 2932; www.crees-manu.org)
Founded in 2002, volunteers live in Peru's Manu Biosphere Reserve, one of the most biologically diverse places on the planet. Theory is taught on tropical ecology, climate change, sustainable agriculture and species recognition, followed by hands-on training in the field. 4 weeks costs from £1,425.
29 Coral Cay Conservation (020 7620 1411; www.coralcay.org)
Award-winning specialists in coral reef and tropical forest conservation in various countries. Three weeks in the Philippines costs £1,310, including accommodation, food and PADI Open Water and Advanced Open Water training.
30 Volunteering Matters (020 3780 5870; www.volunteeringmatters.org.uk)
Offers volunteering opportunities to more than 150,000 people each year, most within Britain. Accommodation, meals and an allowance provided.
31 Earthwatch Institute (01865 318838; www.earthwatch.org)
An international environmental charity dedicated to scientific field research and promoting sustainable development across the world. Help protect dolphins by tracking them in their feeding grounds in the Adriatic Sea: the ten-day trip costs from £1,650.
32 Ecoteer (01752 426285; www.ecoteer.com)
Most placements are in ecotourism. Further volunteer opportunities are available within conservation, humanitarian aid and teaching. After registration, costs are usually limited to transport, insurance and spending money.
33 Frontier (020 7613 2422; www.frontier.ac.uk)
Frontier has over 300 projects in countries throughout Asia, Africa, South America, Europe and Australasia, offering unlimited adventures and excursions in beautiful locations. Placements are 1-30 weeks, starting at £245, excluding flights.
34 PMGY (01892 890473; www.planmygapyear.co.uk)
Volunteering opportunities in 11 countries across the world, PMGY placed 2,000 volunteers in 2014. Placements from two weeks to six months. Four-week Experience programmes that combine volunteer work and adventure travel available. Tanzania Medical Volunteers 2-24 weeks, costs from £469, excluding flights, visa and insurance.
35 Gap Guru (01635 285666; www.gapguru.com)
Community development, childcare and sports coaching. Three week summer club programme in India, Thailand or Romania working with under privileged children costs from £900, excluding flights, visas and insurance.
36 Gap Year South Africa (020 8144 2423; www.gapyearsouthafrica.com)
Offers community development, sports coaching and surfing projects in Cape Town. Three-month placements start from £2,853 for community development projects, excluding flights.
37 Global Volunteer Projects (0191 222 0404; www.globalvolunteerprojects.org)
Projects in Ghana, Tanzania, China, India, Cambodia, Mexico and Romania. Including HIV awareness projects. A four-week turtle-conservation expedition in Mexico costs from £995. Language and culture courses are included.
38 Gapforce (020 7384 3028; www.gapforce.org)
Gapforce offer courses in conservation, environmental protection and global aid. They aid programs and courses with jobs. Bahamas Marine Conservation Course 2-12 weeks from £990 including accommodation, meals, all training and exam fees.
39 Global Vision (01727 250250; www.gvi.co.uk )
Community, wildlife, marine and rainforest conservation expeditions, projects and volunteer holidays. A wildlife research expedition to South Africa lasting 2-12 weeks costs from £1,195.
40 Hands up Holidays (020 7193 1062; www.handsupholidays.com)
Focuses on tailor-made volunteer-and-tourism experiences. Staff consult with you to find the best match for your skills, interests and sightseeing preferences. The most popular projects are house building and wildlife conservation. Prices start from £3,000 for 14 days based on a minimum of 2 guests.
41 I-to-I (01273 647210; www.i-to-i.com)
Volunteer, language, teaching and work placements in 20 countries. A 2-week Amazon rainforest preservation project in Ecuador costs from £599, excluding flights.
42 Inter-Cultural Youth Exchange (020 7681 0983; www.icye.org.uk)
Three-week to 12-month social, community and environmental projects available in countries throughout Africa, Asia and Latin America. Six months cost £3,995, 12 months £4,795. Projects vary from working with children in deprived areas of Mexico to women's rights work and HIV/Aids prevention work.
43 International Citizen Service (020 8780 7400; http://www.volunteerics.org)
Ten to twelve-week placements in 28 countries for people aged 18-25. Projects range from volunteer research with the deaf population in the Philippines to HIV awareness and business training for women in Malawi. Volunteers are required to raise at least £800.
44 Latin Link (0118 957 7100; www.stepteams.org)
Sends teams to work with Christian missionaries in Latin America. This year they will send teams to Columbia, Peru, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Chile and Argentina. A four month Spring volunteer project costs from £3,000, including flights. Summer volunteer projects last 2-7 weeks and cost from £2,000.
45 Lattitude (0118 959 4919; www.lattitude.org.uk)
Offers volunteer placements worldwide. Projects, which range from three to eleven months, include teaching, medical and conservation work. Three months in Fiji costs £2,450 excluding flights.
46 Madventurer (0191 232 0625; www.madventurer.com)
Voluntary sports coaching, work and expeditions, from two weeks to six months. Projects of six weeks cost from £1,290.
47 Outreach International (01458 274957; www.outreachinternational.co.uk)
Offer projects that include working with street children in Ecuador, teaching English in Galapagos, working with victims of human trafficking in Cambodia, art therapy in Sri Lanka, elephant conservation in Nepal, and medical projects in Kenya and Tanzania.
48 Oyster (01892 770771; www.oysterworldwide.com)
Work in animal welfare worldwide, including South Africa, Costa Rica or Thailand, perfect your Spanish while teaching in Chile, or finance a ski season by working in a Canadian mountain resort. A six-week farm placement in the Australian outback costs £1,285, excluding flights.
49 Projects Abroad (01903 708300; www.projects-abroad.co.uk)
The leading global organiser of overseas volunteer placements, ranging from teaching and conservation to human-rights projects and journalism. Twelve weeks teaching in Argentina costs £2,795, including food and accommodation.
50 Project Trust (01879 230444; www.projecttrust.org.uk)
Eight- and 12-month placements aimed at school-leavers, from community work – such as working in a children's home in South Africa – to teaching English in China. Volunteers must raise at least £5,200 for eight months and £5,900 for12 months.
51 Quest (01273 777206; www.questoverseas.com)
Community and conservation schemes and adventure travel in Africa and South America. Trips range from four-week to three-month team expeditions that combine learning a language with volunteer projects and expeditions. Nine weeks in Bolivia, working with rescued animals, costs from £2,650.
52 Raleigh International (020 7183 1270; www.raleighinternational.org)
Community and environmental projects of five to 10 weeks, in Borneo, Costa Rica, Tanzania or Nicaragua. Five-week expeditions have a fund raising target of £1,850 full - flights and visas are extra.
53 Real Gap (01273 647220; www.realgap.co.uk)
Offers 195 programs across 40 different countries, 6 continents. Everything from gap years and volunteering, to paid work and internships abroad. The 17 day 'Thailand Island Hopping' trip costs £599.
54 Restless Development (020 7633 3350; www.restlessdevelopment.org)
A youth-led agency that offers volunteer projects and training across Africa, and South Asia. The fundraising target is around £800.
55 TCV (01302 388883; www.tcv.org.uk )
No longer offer conservation trips, but organise environmental projects with volunteers within local communities in the UK.
56 Thai Dragonfly (00 66 87 963 0056; www.dragonflycommunity.org)
Offers a number of charitable community, building and education projects throughout Thailand. Prices on request.
57 The Leap (01672 519922; www.theleap.co.uk)
Offers trips for people aged 18-27, from 6 weeks or longer. Courses in Africa, Asia and South America include team volunteering, internships and equine courses. Prices start at £1,947.
58 The National Trust (0844 800 1895; www.nationaltrust.org.uk)
Conservation projects, such as dry-stone walling and reforestation, across Britain.
59 The Scientific Exploration Society (01747 853353; www.ses-explore.org)
Keen to encourage 'Pioneers With Purpose' who are combining adventure with innovative and valuable scientific research through their expeditions across the world.
60 Think Pacific (0113 253 8684; www.thinkpacific.com)
Travel to the islands of the South Pacific on a volunteer expedition that begins with a five-day castaway induction. Courses run for one, two or three months and cost from £1,395.
61 Travellers Worldwide (01903 502595; www.travellersworldwide.com)
Teach English in Asia, Latin America or Africa, on a trip lasting from four to 12 weeks. Twelve weeks teaching in Thailand costs £2,545, excluding flights.
62 GVI (01727 250 250; www.gvi.co.uk)
Offer over 150 different volunteer abroad projects in 25 countries all over the world, involving conservation, education and community projects. An elephant volunteering project in Thailand from 1-24 weeks costs from £920.
63 The Book Bus Foundation (0208 0999 280; www.thebookbus.org)
The Book Bus literacy scheme offers the chance to volunteer as a Book Bus reading mentor and share the joy of reading with primary school children in Africa and South America. Two week placements in Zambia, Malawi, Ecuador and the Galapagos from £749, excluding flights.
64 Vine UK (www.vineuk.co.uk)
A non-profit network of organisations that arranges international volunteer-exchange programmes. Volunteers contribute about £150 towards costs, plus travel expenses.
65 Voluntary Services Overseas (020 8780 7500; www.vsointernational.org)
A development charity that sends volunteers of all ages to share their skills in developing countries.
66 Volunteer South America (www.volunteersouthamerica.net)
A website that lists free and low-cost volunteer opportunities in South and Central America.
67 Worldwide Experience (01483 860560; www.worldwideexperience.com)
Specialises in unique and life changing volunteer experiences across Africa covering wildlife conservation, community & rural projects, hands on wildlife veterinary work.
68 Worldwide Volunteering (01935 825588; www.wwv.org.uk)
A database of more than 3000 volunteer organisations and 1.9 million placements in 214 countries.


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Self rising flour consists of flour, salt, and baking powder.
Bisquick contains all of these ingredients plus hydrogenated vegetable shortening.
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In 2009, Atlanta suddenly had a vibrant comedy scene. Numerous upstart troupes like the Village Theatre joined the ranks of long-standing improvisational outfits such as Dad's Garage and Whole World Improv Theatre. The Laughing Skull Lounge opened in the back of Midtown's Vortex, where comedian/owner Marshall Chiles continues to welcome locals to his stage. Margaret Cho moved to Atlanta in 2009 to film Lifetime's "Drop Dead Diva," and quickly made Laughing Skull her home club for stand-up work. Open-mic nights started popping up everywhere from rock clubs to restaurants. "A large part of this recent comedy boom can be traced to the opening of the Laughing Skull," Atlanta comedian Shalewa Sharpe says. "Its presence helped to cultivate a scene, and even a counter-scene of sorts: 'Huh, it's taking me forever to get on that stage, maybe I should start my own show.' Because of that, there are more mics than before."
While Star Bar's Monday nights and Relapse's Thursday nights are two of the city's most respected open mics, there are opportunities all week for young and hungry local comics. "The scene has gotten much stronger than it was when I started 12 years ago," Chiles says. "The only places for a comedian to get on stage then were Eddie's Attic and Uptown Comedy Club. Now, there are like 20 shows a week where new guys can get stage time."
Too much of a good thing can be a problem, though. And in the case of Atlanta's crowded stand-up environment, too much of a mediocre thing can actually make it hard for true talent to shine. "While I'm really proud to see how much the scene has grown just in the last three years, I would actually argue that it's gotten too big for itself from a quality-control standpoint," comedian and former Creative Loafing contributor Noah Gardenswartz says. "There are too many posers or comedy hobbyists who think performing once a week at a pizza joint in Alpharetta qualifies them as comedians. They've made it harder for the city's pros to get paid consistently because some show promoters know there are 50 other worse comics who will do it for free."
And when legitimately funny comedians have trouble getting paid gigs in their hometown, or, alternately, when they feel like they've outclassed most of the local talent, one thing happens: "You want to go where the best comics are," Dave Stone said in a 2011 Paste magazine profile before heading to Los Angeles as his stand-up group, the Beards of Comedy, scattered across the country. "You've got to surround yourself with people that are more talented than you are, and New York and L.A. is where that's at."
For all of Atlanta's Hollywood buzz of late, amid breathless reports of where Owen Wilson has eaten around town or how much fun Jason Bateman was having at the aquarium, the city's entertainment industry is surprisingly hesitant to tap local comedic talent for television and movies. "The city needs to become more appealing for actors to make homes here and know they can have a thriving career," Amber Nash says. Nash saw her first Atlanta improv show in college at Whole World in 1999. She fell in love and started taking classes. She's now a 12-year veteran of Dad's Garage and the voice of Pam on FX's hit animated spy spoof "Archer." "That way those talented comedians don't hit the road the first chance they get. More and more film and television is coming to Atlanta, and the talent agencies need to catch up. We need more and better agencies and managers in Atlanta."
There's also the race issue. There are rooms that get more black talent (Uptown Comedy Corner, Backstage Atlanta) and rooms that get more white talent (Laughing Skull, Punchline). "While it's not intentional cliquishness or exclusivity, there is far too wide a natural divide between Atlanta's black and white comedians," Gardenswartz says. "I will perform for any crowd, anywhere, and actively work black and white rooms. Atlanta has the premier black comedy scene in the country, better than Los Angeles and New York, and I think any comedian in Atlanta that doesn't take full advantage of that has no right to complain if they're not advancing. If you're too scared to fail, and have too frail of an ego to push yourself to see how diverse you can be, than you're really just doing yourself a professional disservice. The more crowds you make yourself available to, the more work there is, and it really is that simple."
But the onus isn't only on the performer. When asked how Atlanta's comedy scene can grow in the years to come, promoter Maurice Sims of the Atlanta House of Comedy said, "The city can definitely grow, comedy-wise, when we add a much needed third club in the city." When pressed to clarify, since Atlanta already has three notable clubs (Punchline, Laughing Skull, and Uptown), he responded, "Honestly, Laughing Skull doesn't count because nobody really knows about it. Just the folks from the old Funny Farm, because they use their old email list from when they closed a few years ago. Black people really don't know it." One could argue that's simply not true, and that such thinking hinders a city's scene, especially one as mixed as Atlanta's.
The city's venues and talent may seem green when compared to more established comedy scenes like Chicago, Boston, New York, and Los Angeles, but there's no denying its recent growth. And there are advantages to being part of a newer, less-hyped scene: "Anything is possible," Nash says. "We can do anything we want, there is no one lording over the comedy scene telling us what to do, and I think that enables us to be very open and creative. If you have an idea for a show, you can get it done in Atlanta."
"While we are still a small pond, we have the privilege of being home to three comedy clubs that provide comics with unique opportunities that are harder to come by in bigger cities," comedian Joe Pettis says. "In my first year of comedy, I did shows with Kevin Nealon, Margaret Cho, and Chris Hardwick. I don't think I would have had that opportunity in any other city."
It's an environment that makes young comedians less likely to feel ruined if they bomb, and is already giving rise to a new crop of comics. "There are people who have moved to Atlanta for the opportunities," Sharpe says. "There's a great group of comics waiting in the wings. The class of 2011-2012 is ready to knock out the class of 2009, drag our bodies to the side, and take our stage time."