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When Asian-Americans become the "new Jews," what happens to the Jews?
Remember the scene in Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint where the newly teen-aged Alex Portnoy goes to a frozen pond in his hometown of Newark to gaze upon gentile girls ice-skating?
So: dusk on the frozen lake of a city park, skating behind the puffy red earmuffs and the fluttering yellow ringlets of a strange shikse teaches me the meaning of the word longing. It is almost more than an angry thirteen-year-old little Jewish Momma's Boy can bear. Forgive the luxuriating, but these are probably the most poignant hours of my life I'm talking about--I learn the meaning of the word longing, I learn the meaning of the word pang.
This scene often involuntarily flitted across my mind during the past winter, when I spent a lot of time watching people glide across expanses of ice on skates. The reason is that my 11-year-old son, also an Alex, was playing in a hockey league. Having grown up in the Deep South, I was entirely innocent of ice matters when I first got into this. At my inaugural hockey-parents' meeting, I realized that I had wandered into a vast and all-encompassing subculture. Two, three, four times a week, we had to drive our children 30, 60, 80 miles to some unheated structure for a practice or a game. Often these were held at 6 o'clock in the morning. South Kent, Conn. West Point, N.Y. Morristown, N.J. We parents would stand at the edge of the rink in a daze drinking Dunkin Donuts coffee and griping that they weren't hustling enough out there.
For Alex Portnoy, athleticism was something alien. It was part of a total package that included not only the golden shiksas but their brothers ("engaging, good-natured, confident, clean, swift, and powerful halfbacks"), their fathers ("men with white hair and deep voices"), their mothers who never whined or hectored, their curtained, fireplaced houses, their small noses, their lack of constant nagging worry--in short, the normalcy and confidence that go along with belonging, with being on the inside.
In the Portnoy household nobody played sports--bodies existed only to generate suffering--and there was only one thing that really went well. That, needless to say, was Alex's performance in school. "Albert Einstein the Second," his mother called him, and thought it may have been embarrassing, he didn't really disagree. By the time Portnoy's Complaint came out, in 1969, it was clear--and this was part of the joke of the ice-skating scene--that people like awkward Alex were going to wind up ahead of the gliding shiksas and their halfback brothers, because they were more book-smart. The goyim were wasting their time with all those sports. What the Jews had was the real ticket. Alex's overwhelming insecurity wouldn't have been so funny if it hadn't been unjustified.
In my many hours standing next to hockey rinks last winter, I sometimes engaged in one of the Jews' secret vices: Jew-counting. All over the ice were little Cohens, little Levys, their names sewed in block letters on the backs of their jerseys. It was amazing how many there were. Occasionally, an entire front line would be Jewish, or even the front line and the defensemen. (Green--is he one? Marks?) The chosen people were tough competitors, too.
In fact, a Portnoy of the present, a kid with his nose pressed up against the window (to borrow the self-description of another ghetto-bred Jewish writer, Theodore H. White) would surely regard these stick-wielding, puck-handling lads as representing full, totally secure membership in the comfortable classes of American society. Some Lysenkoist suburban biological deviation, or else intermarriage, has even given many of the hockey-playing Jewish boys blond hair and even blue eyes.
More to the point, these Jewish kids and their parents have decided to devote endless hours of childhood to an activity with no career payoff. Do you think they're going to 6 a.m. practices for a shot at the National Hockey League? Of course not. They're doing it--mastering hockey, and every conceivable other sport--to promote "growth," "teamwork," "physical fitness," "well-roundedness," "character," and other qualities that may be desirable in a doctor but don't, as a practical matter, help you get into medical school.
What all the hockey-playing Jewish kids in America are not doing, during their hundreds of hours hustling to, on, and from the ice rink, is studying. It's not that they don't study at all, because they do. It's that they don't study with the ferociousness and all-out commitment of people who realize (or who have parents who realize) that outstanding school performance is their one shot at big-time opportunity in America.
Meanwhile, there is another ethnic group in America whose children devote their free time not to hockey but to extra study. In this group, it's common for moms to march into school at the beginning of the year and obtain several months' worth of assignments in advance so their children can get a head start. These parents pressure school systems to be more rigorous and give more homework. This group is Asian-Americans.
At the front end of the American meritocratic machine, Asians are replacing Jews as the No. 1 group. They are winning the science prizes and scholarships. Jews, meanwhile, at our moment of maximum triumph at the back end of the meritocracy, the midlife, top-job end, are discovering sports and the virtues of being well-rounded. Which is cause and which is effect here is an open question. But as Asians become America's new Jews, Jews are becoming ... Episcopalians.
The one extracurricular venue where I run into a lot of Asian-Americans is a Very Serious music school in Scarsdale, the suburban town in the New York area that (because of its famous school system) has the most name-brand appeal for transferred Japanese executives. Music is a form of extracurricular activity that Mrs. Portnoys approve of, and the atmosphere at this school would be familiar to earlier generations of American Jews. In the lobby, children waiting for music lessons bend over their homework, mom perched at their shoulder. Musical exercises drift through the air, along with snatches of conversation about AP courses, recommendations, test prep, tracking, and nursery-school admissions.
The hockey ethos is to be elaborately casual and gruff about competitive achievement: Outstanding performance gets you a little slap on the helmet, a good-natured insult. At the music school they take the straightforward approach. At my younger son's first piano lesson, his teacher, Mrs. Sun, explained the rules. "Every week, Theo, at the end of the lesson, I give you stamps," she said. "If you're a good boy, I give you one stamp. If you're a very good boy, I give you two stamps. And if you're a very, very good boy, I give you three stamps! Then, every time you get 25 stamps, I give you a statue of a great composer." Watching 7-year-old Theo take this in, I could see that he was hooked. Ancient imperatives had kicked in. When he hit 25 stamps for the first time, Mrs. Sun gave him a plastic statuette of Mozart. "Do you know how old he was when he composed his first piece of music, Theo?" A look of rapt anticipation from Theo. "Four years old! Three years younger than you." Theo, get to work.
My mother grew up in New Jersey, not too far from Philip Roth. I was raised on the story of her crushing disappointment over being only the salutatorian of her class at Perth Amboy High School, when she had been valedictorian of her junior high school class. Her father, a small-town pediatrician, had somehow gone to medical school without having gone to college, or possibly even (here we begin to slip into the realm of Marquez-like fable) finishing high school. Every relative in my grandparents' generation seems to have graduated from high school at some improbable age like 14 or 12. Then, for the most part, at least as the story was received by the young me, life turned disappointing. Why? Because school is the only part of American society that's fair. Afterward, a vast, subtle conspiracy arranges to hold you back in favor of those more advantaged by birth.
Even by my school days, the academic hunger had begun to wane. By now, it is barely producing a pulse, except among Jews who are within one generation of the immigration cycle. Jews have not become notable as academic underachievers. But something is gone: That old intense and generalized academic commitment, linked to sociological ambition, is no longer a defining cultural characteristic of the group.
What has replaced it is a cultural insider's sort of academic preoccupation: a task-specific, in-the-know concern with successfully negotiating the key junctures--mainly, college admission. Jews are now successful people who want to move the levers of the system (levers whose location we're quite familiar with) so as to ensure that our children will be as successful as we are. This is quite different from being yearning, not-successful-enough people who hope, rather than know for sure, that study will generate dramatic upward mobility for our children.
Jews' new second-place status in the strivers' hierarchy is most noticeable in places with good public school systems like Westchester County, N.Y., (where I live) and the San Gabriel Valley, outside of Los Angeles. The same is true of super-meritocratic public educational institutions like Lowell High School in San Francisco, the University of California at Berkeley, and Bronx High School of Science and Stuyvesant High School in New York, which are all now Asian-plurality.
By contrast, the Asian presence is noticeably less, and the Jewish presence noticeably more, in private schools. In these, no matter how great the meritocratic pretenses, the contest is always less completely open than it is in public institutions. Just at the moment when Harvard, Yale, and Princeton have presidents named Rudenstine, Levin, and Shapiro, those institutions are widely suspected of having informal ceilings on Asian admissions, of the kind that were imposed on Jews two generations ago.
Asian achievement is highest in areas like science and classical music, where there is no advantage from familiarity with the culture. This also once was true of Jews (why do you think my grandfather become a doctor?) but isn't any more. Several years ago, Asian-American groups in California successfully lobbied to keep an essay section out of the Scholastic Aptitude Test. It's impossible to imagine organized Jewry caring.
In his famous 1958 book, The Rise of the Meritocracy, British sociologist Michael Young proposed the following formula: IQ plus effort equals merit. Young, like many theorists of meritocracy, assumed that ethnicity would become a nonissue (should be nonissue) under such a system. Instead, it's an overwhelming issue. Accounting for ethnicity, you might amend Young this way (to the extent that "merit" and academic performance are the same thing): an ethnic group's long-term cultural orientation to education, plus its level of sociological ambition in American society at the moment, will equal its members' merit. The cultural connection seems so obvious that it amazes me how often ethnic differences in the meritocracy are explained in terms of genes.
By these standards, Asian-Americans today have two advantages over Jews. They have a lower average income, and so are more motivated. And most back-home Asian cultures rival or surpass Jewish culture in their reverence for study. Therefore Jews are going to have to get used to being No. 2.
In the past, when this fate has befallen the reigning ethnic group in American society, the group's standard response has been to redefine merit. It's not academic performance (or whatever the prevailing measure of the moment was) after all! It's something else, which we happen to possess in greater measure than the upstart group. Jews know all too well what the alternate form of merit that we didn't have used to be: a certain ease, refinement, and grace. This may be what has led today's generation of Jewish parents to athleticize our children. We want them to have what Alex Portnoy longed for: a deeper sort of American comfort and success than SAT scores and music lessons can provide.
But Jews are not alone in having this thought. Recently, I've been interviewing Asian-Americans for a book on meritocracy in America. A sentiment that emerges consistently is that meritocracy ends on graduation day, and that afterward, Asians start to fall behind because they don't have quite the right cultural style for getting ahead: too passive, not hail-fellow-well-met enough. So, in many of the Asian-American families I met, a certain Saturday ritual has developed. After breakfast, mom takes the children off to the juku for the day, and dad goes to his golf lesson.
The final irony is that golf and tennis are perceived by the Asian-Americans not as aspects of an ethos adapted from the British landowning classes (which is the way Jews used to perceive them), but as stuff that Jews know how to do. The sense of power and ease and comfort that the playing field symbolizes is now, to non-Jews, a Jewish trait. The wheel of assimilation turns inexorably: Scratching out an existence is phase one, maniacal studying is phase two, sports is phase three. Watch out for Asian-American hockey players in about 20 years.


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Whenever I teach a student, particularly an advanced student, I find myself giving the same old posture advice:
- Lower your shoulders
- Keep your head straight (ears in line with your shoulders)
- Tuck your koshi (press out the curve in your lower back)
- Slightly bend your knees.
- Place the weight in the center of your feet (not on the balls and not on the heels, but in the middle).
The funny thing is that when we do this, we look a little like Goju-Ryu students!
But please pay attention to this advice. Whatever your style may be, without proper posture (as defined in your style), proper movement is very difficult, if not impossible. Without proper posture, your body will be constantly fighting itself.
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The University of Memphis professor spearheading the opposition of demolishing the city's last remaining public housing project in the Vance Avenue neighborhood says that while the Heritage Trail Community Redevelopment Plan appears to be on "indefinite hold," it is not dead, and Downtowners should beware.
"This year it's Vance Avenue who's gotten screwed – not quite yet," Ken Reardon said at the Tuesday, Feb. 12, South Main Association meeting. "Next year it could be South Main or Downtown. I think that is unconscionable."
Reardon, director of the U of M graduate program in city and regional planning, and a group that would become known as the Vance Avenue Collaborative were contracted by the city in 2009 to explore federal funding to reimage Foote Homes and the Vance Avenue neighborhood.
It was a result of President Barack Obama's new Choice Neighborhood program – a continuation of Hope VI where federal money was used to demolish public housing projects and replace them with mixed-use, mixed-income development.
For six months, Reardon and the Vance Avenue Collaborative of 22 community-based organizations gauged public sentiment and advanced a plan that would preserve Foote Homes as a public housing development.
"When you ask residents under any variety of circumstances – two out of three unambiguously told us they not only did not want the housing project to come down, but they wanted it improved," Reardon said. "They thought … that the social networks they had in that complex would be unlikely to be matched in these new locations where they'd be isolated from the services they need."
But after reporting the findings to Robert Lipscomb, executive director of Memphis Housing Authority, Reardon said the U of M's contract was terminated. The planning process and website with 20,000 pages of documentation were also shut down.
In response, Reardon and his team completed the Vance Avenue Transformation Plan last fall pro bono – a 140-page plan to invest $50 million in improvements to public safety, education, health care, housing, locally-generated businesses, and the neighborhood's culture.
All the while, Reardon said Lipscomb was evaluating a 10-year old economic development plan called Triangle Noir, also known as the Black Triangle. Former Memphis Mayor Willie Herenton and Lipscomb picked the name for the project as a way of highlighting the concentration of sites in the area related to the history of African-Americans in the city.
Reardon said the models used in the original plan included the French Quarter in New Orleans, 18th & Vine Jazz District in Kansas City, Mo., and 125th Street in Harlem, New York – all areas with scarce residential populations that have been "completely gentrified for a tourist consumption district."
The plan was written and designed a decade ago by Jimmie Tucker of Self-Tucker Architects, who owns the Universal Life Insurance Building at the corner of Danny Thomas Boulevard and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue.
"If I'm shaping the policy for an area, generally, I'm not supposed to then be part of the development team because I might unconsciously or consciously shape my proposals to benefit my bottom line," Reardon said. "And he's a major property owner in the area affected."
Reardon added that the history of the term Triangle Noir has two meanings.
"It was the extermination project of the Germans for non-Jews who were a pain in the ass," he said. "If you were an artist, a labor leader, an educator, a Catholic or a Lithuanian who had ideas about cultural identity and they thought you were going to be a problem for the Third Reich, instead of getting the yellow star of David and off to the royal treatment on Auschwitz or Buchenwald, you got the Black Triangle and you got the same treatment.
"The second definition of Triangle Noir has to do with a French whorehouse and a full-service experience that has to do with a particularly erogenous zone of women."
Lipscomb and Herenton's successor, A C Wharton Jr., changed the name to Heritage Trail after some Memphis City Council members said they didn't like the name. Reardon said Lipscomb "dusted off" the old Triangle Noir plan, "updated it and put it on steroids."
Developed by the MHA and the city's Division of Housing and Community Development (which Lipscomb also heads), the 227-page plan received some pushback because it asked the Community Redevelopment Agency to consider declaring Downtown Memphis to be a slum, blighted and growing menace.
The next step would have been implementing a Tax Increment Financing district throughout the entire area – that overlaps with tax incentives used by the Center City Revenue Finance Corp. – to collect the taxes from the area and use most of the money on the redevelopment of Cleaborn and Foote homes.
It was projected that the TIF would have redirected $102.7 million of city and county property taxes to the agency over the next 20 years.
"The neighborhood has never received a presentation of this plan," Reardon said. "It has never been presented to any subcommittee of City Council until after the fact. He went directly to the taxing authority, the CRA, and tried to score with one shot $102 million to fund this thing."
The CRA has not made a decision on TIF financing and the Wharton administration has since said it is looking for other ways of financing the plan. Shelby County also decided to take a position against the Heritage Trail plan, making the MHA's passage of it less likely in the near future.
Reardon concluded by prefacing that his efforts were about "what kind of a community we're going to have and who's going to get a chance to decide."
"Otherwise, it's going to be tough to get the best and the brightest of our own community to stay and to attract others to join us in the Memphis revitalization effort, which Downtown really lit the match on before the real estate bubble bottomed out."
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October 1, 2003 -- Today the House passed H.R. 1276, "The American Dream Downpayment Act" containing a key provision included by Congressman Mike Capuano (D-MA) to help cities and towns provide home ownership assistance to police, firefighters and other eligible municipal employees. The House Committee on Financial Services unanimously passed the legislation in May.
Congressman Capuano's provision allows local communities to offer homeownership assistance through the American Dream Downpayment Program to police officers, firefighters, teachers and other uniformed municipal employees. The American Dream Downpayment Program is a new initiative in the current HOME block grant program to provide funding for downpayment assistance to eligible communities throughout the nation.
Participation in the program is governed by income eligibility, however Congressman Capuano's amendment raises income limits currently in place for HOME funds from 80% of median to 115% of median for eligible municipal employees. If the HUD Secretary determines an area to be high cost, then income limits can be raised to 150% of median. Boston is currently designated a high cost area.
In the Boston metropolitan area, the median home price was $272,000 in 2001 compared to $156,000 nationwide. The average salary for a teacher was $49,000 and the average salary for a police officer was $46,000. In order to qualify for a mortgage on a home in the Boston area, a family must make almost $80,000 a year and provide a down payment of more than $27,000 for the average home.
"The cost of housing in Massachusetts continues to rise, often beyond the reach of many aspiring homeowners. This amendment makes it a little easier for teachers, police officers and firefighters to achieve the American Dream of homeownership," stated Congressman Mike Capuano.
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1. Tell us more about SMPVFS and its significance.
John Baldwin: The SMPVFS work is a task to add fine-grained locking to the VFS layer of the kernel as well as the UFS and nullfs filesystems. The VFS layer provides the abstractions in the kernel that describe file objects. Each filesystem provides a VFS "driver" to manage the files on a disk device according to the design of that filesystem. Adding fine-grained locking to VFS and the UFS filesystem allows more concurrency in the kernel, especially with workloads that include disk I/O.
Robert N M Watson: One of the other nice benefits to the SMPVFS work is that with our fully preemptive 6.x kernel, not holding the Giant lock over the file system code lets the file system code not only preempt lower precedence kernel threads, such as background crypto operations or file system operations, but be preempted by more timing critical code, such as sound card interrupts, network I/O, and so on. So this isn't just a win for SMP, but a win for UP also. The SMP wins are impressive though -- Kris Kennaway has recently been benchmarking package builds, a very VFS-intensive workload, on 12-CPU sparc systems, and all the scalability we'd hoped for is there.
Scott Long: SMPVFS also reduces contention for storage drivers that are still under the Giant lock and increases the possible parallelism between these drivers and the filesystems above them. Kris' tests are a very good example of this; even though the SCSI subsystem and most of the ESP driver are still under the Giant lock, performance still scaled well.
2. We recently read that the fix for the Hyper-Threading vulnerability is considered non-trivial. Why is that?
John Baldwin: The issue found with HT is that the two logical CPUs on a single core share the same caches and as a result there are ways for one logical CPU to spy on the activities of the other CPU in the same core. The proposed fixes involve ways of guaranteeing that all of threads on a single core are all allowed to spy on each other. For example, one policy is that only threads with the same user ID should be allowed to run together no the same core. The problem is that right now FreeBSD treats logical CPUs as separate CPUs and schedules available threads on the first CPU that becomes available. It would be a bit of work to make the scheduler more aware of logical CPUs and to schedule threads with respect to UIDs, etc.
Robert N M Watson: It's worth observing that this is a serious vulnerability across a range of operating systems, not just FreeBSD. If you allow untrusted users on the same system as an SSH daemon, you're at risk, which affects everyone from desktop users, to ISPs, to military end-users. It's also a very hard problem to solve -- we're looking at it from the perspective of improving the scheduler, bringing in OpenSSL updates to limit timing attacks, and obviously we're hoping that CPU vendors take this opportunity to explore how to harden CPU architectures against this sort of attack. Because this vulnerability isn't just about scheduling, crypto, or hyper-threading, a lot of hard work will have to into a long term solutions.
3. Why is TrustedBSD an important piece of the upcoming FreeBSD 6? How does it compare to SE-Linux or OpenBSD?
John Baldwin: Robert is probably the best to answer this. From my understanding, TrustedBSD is a superset of SE-Linux as it includes things like ACLs for files as well as the MAC framework that allows for arbitrary MAC policies to be hooked into the kernel. One such policy being developed is a port of SE-Linux called SE-BSD. There are also other policies available for the MAC framework besides SE-BSD.
Robert N M Watson: TrustedBSD elements have now appeared in 4.x, 5.x, and 6.x. 5.x brought in many of our most significant features -- some were infrastructure to support our goals, and others were security features we've been targetting as primary goals. Supporting TrustedBSD features included OpenPAM, GEOM, UFS2 with extended attributes, and a lot of kernel and user space cleanup for access control. It turns out that our extensive SMP work in 5.x was also very important, as the mature kernel synchronization architecture of 5.x allows us to generate access control decisions in many code paths that would not easily have supported it in 4.x, such as in software interrupt paths in the network stack.
The direct feature set in 5.x included the TrustedBSD MAC Framework, which allows compile-time and run-time extension of the FreeBSD security model, a set of sample system policy modules, such as Multi-Level Security, Biba Integrity, and a variey of hardening policies, and also support for Access Control Lists (ACLs). So the TrustedBSD work was really key to the 5.x release line, especially if you include the supporting features I listed above.
In 6.x, many of the experimental features from 5.x are considered production quality, and extended in a variety of ways. Two of the biggest "new" projects are SEBSD, a port of NSA's FLASK/TE implementation from SELinux and its predecessors (DTOS, FLUX), and support for CAPP security event audit, which is derived from OpenBSM, which is in turn derived from Apple's CAPP Audit implementation. SEBSD will be an add-on distribution on top of FreeBSD 6.x, and allow the authoring of fine-grained Type Enforcement (TE) policies similar to those in SELinux. OpenBSM provides us with a implementation of both kernel event auditing, as well as a BSD-licensed user space audit library implementing Sun's BSM audit file format and service API. Adding support for Audit really fleshes out our trusted operating system feature set, and NSA's FLASK/TE provides a powerful policy language to for tuning system security for specific applications and configurations.
These are security features that our network appliance, security, financial, and military consumers will appreciate greatly. They're also features that end users will be able to use to customize and monitor security operation of their systems in a manner currently unsupported by any other open or closed source operating system.
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Linked by David Adams on Fri 18th Jun 2010 19:17 UTC
Linux Magazine has a profile of Daniel Fore and the Elementary project. Elementary is a Linux distro that's committed to a clean and simple user experience, but it's more than a distro - it's actually a multi-pronged effort to make improvements to the user experience for a whole ecosystem of components, including icons, a GTK theme, Midori improvements, Nautilus, and even Firefox. The work that elementary is doing isn't limited to their own distro, and some of their work is available in current, and perhaps future, Ubuntu releases. The results are really striking, and I think it's probably the handsomest Linux UI I've ever seen.
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RE[2]: OMG that looks GOOD!
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It doesn't matter what it stands for, it's just a name. GNU was developed as a free alternative of UNIX, similarly WINE was started to run Windows software on x86 Linux.
I guess GNU and WINE acronyms (or just N's in them) were adopted to avoid trademarks and to stress that no copyright violation took place (both products are independent reimplementation of some API's).
If not that, we'd probably settle for names like "Free UNIX" or "Windows Emulator".
RE[3]: OMG that looks GOOD!
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The James Madison University freshman class filed into the Convocation Center Wednesday afternoon for the University Welcome, the official kick-off of 1787 August Orientation. The 4,302 first-year students were led by their Freshman Orientation Guides carrying signs designating their FROG groups: "Weaver Fever," "Spotswood Sweethearts," "Planet Poto." The students chanted, did the wave and filled the Convo with cheers when Tisha McCoy-Ntiamoah, director of orientation, welcomed them saying, "You are finally and officially a college student."
McCoy-Ntiamoah continued, saying, "1787 is all about introducing you to the Madison culture which includes high expectations for your academic success and your responsibility of being a respectful member of the campus and Harrisonburg community."
Designed to simulate the college experience with academic meetings, programs and social events, 1787 August Orientation is named after the year when James Madison and other state delegates were meeting and writing the new U. S. constitution. Mina Imbs, student coordinator for 1787, told the students, "That period of time was a positive turning point in the history of the United States. We believe your 1787 experience will be a turning point in your life and history at James Madison University."
Advice to the Class of 2016 ranged from picking up trash on campus, holding the door open for others and "don't lose your Mappy!" the fold-out guide issued to first-year students, to more important life lessons. Dr. Mark Warner, senior vice president for student affairs and university planning, asked the students to take care of themselves and others. "If we take care of ourselves and we take care of others we create a much richer community," said Warner. "This is our community and we are responsible for each other."
Students were also encouraged to make their imprint on JMU. "It's time for the Class of 2016 to make a name for themselves," said Warner.
First-year roommates Hanna Haydock of Guilford, Conn., and Morgan Doss of Oakton, Va., were impressed by the energy and excitement of the University Welcome. "It got me really excited," said Haydock. "It's inspiring how much everybody loves this school." Doss agreed, "It's cool to see how everyone comes together as a community and makes you feel so welcome."
Fore more information on 1787 August Orientation http://www.jmu.edu/orientation/1787.shtml
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August 23, 20012
By Paula Polglase, JMU Public Affairs
Published: Thursday, August 23, 2012
Last Updated: Thursday, October 20, 2016


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Miles Aron of Norwich, the recipient of one of University of Hartford's highest awards at this year's Commencement ceremony, the John G. Martin scholarship to Oxford University, also has been awarded one of the world's most prestigious educational honors, a Fulbright scholarship.
A May 2013 graduate of the University's College of Engineering, Technology, and Architecture, Aron plans to defer the Martin scholarship to Hertford College at Oxford so he can first go to Switzerland to study as a Fulbright scholar.
"I am very excited about these next couple of years," Aron says. "I will be at the University of Zurich through the Fulbright program for one year and then will head to Oxford in England for two years. I have never been out of the country," says the Norwich, Conn. resident, "so this is quite the adventure."
Aron graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor's in engineering—acoustical engineering and music. He plans to complete Oxford's PhD program in biomedical engineering. "For both Oxford and the Fulbright, I will be working on treating brain diseases and cancer with enhanced drug delivery methods using ultrasound," Aron says.
The highly competitive, merit-based Fulbright Program is the U.S. government's leading international educational exchange program. It is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.
"Miles was one of our top honors students, and consistently performed well in all of his classes, even as he averaged almost 19 credits each semester," says Robert Celmer, professor of mechanical engineering. "He also has had very challenging summer internships."
During his four years at the University of Hartford, Aron interned for the U.S. Department of Energy at SLAC National Linear Accelerator in Stanford, Calif., where he developed a method of automated optical analysis for dark matter detector crystals. He also interned for PVI Systems in Niantic, Conn., where he implemented microphone arrays for acoustic beam forming. During his senior year, through the Connecticut Space Grant Consortium, he interned at NASA Ames Research Center in California, where he designed a low-frequency calibration system for wind tunnel standing wave modes.
"Miles Aron is quite an achiever," notes Charles Condon, University secretary and general counsel emeritus and secretary to the London-based trust that administers the John G. Martin scholarship funds. "These developments are remarkable and offer life-altering possibilities for him."
"A couple years ago I never thought any of this possible," Aron says, "but the doors have opened for me and I couldn't be happier with the opportunities the University of Hartford made available to me."
Chartered in 1957 with the mission to be a "private university with a public purpose," the University of Hartford offers undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs in the arts, humanities, business, engineering and technology, education, and the health professions. The University's student body of more than 7,000 represents 45 states and nearly 60 countries. For more information, visit www.hartford.edu.


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A former IRA operative in America is one of only two witnesses scheduled to appear for Whitey Bulger at his Boston trial.
Sources say they believe that Nee, who was a key member of Bulger's gang in the old days, may testify that far more FBI officers were cooperating with Whitey and covering for his gang than has been admitted by law enforcement.
"The FBI guilty list stopped at John Connolly (The crooked agent now in jail in Florida for covering up for Bulger and warning him)" said a Boston source. "Many believe covering up for Whitey went far further, all the way up the FBI chain. Nee could have that information."
Pat Nee, now 70 was a major gunrunner to the IRA in the 1970s and planned the infamous Valhalla consignment which was intercepted off the Irish coast in 1984.
Nee also carried out numerous bank robberies he said were motivated by his desire to send funds to the IRA.
He allegedly delivered John McIntrye a crewman on the Valhalla to his death at Whitey's hands after McIntyre told the FBI (unluckily it was Connolly he gave the information to) that Whitey was involved. Tipped off by Connolly, Bulger wanted McIntyre dead.
Nee was born in Ros Muc, an Irish language speaking village in the Connemara, County Galway. He has recalled in his book that,"Our family had it tough in Ireland, sure, but I'm not going to tell you any of that Angela's Ashes crap to try to gain your sympathy. We might not have had many good clothes, but Ma washed them every day. There was always good food. In fact, Ma never let my brothers and I go to bed hungry. And I remember falling asleep every night to a penetrating fire that burned until early morning."[1]
Nee's family emigrated to Boston when he was young and at age 14 he became a member of the Mullen Gang in South Boston.
"My progression to crime was as easy as a baby's transition from crawling to walking. I didn't have an epiphany; I never sat down and had a soul searching experience in which I decided that being a criminal was my goal in life. It just seemed natural - there was a lot of money to be had if you spent the time planning the jobs right. The more I hung with the Mullens, the easier it was to go out on jobs. I'd simply ask if they needed another guy."
Nee also enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps. He arrived in Vietnam in 1965 and saw combat at Phu Bai.
Back in Boston a gang war broke out and the upshot of it was that he and Whitey ended up agreeing a pact and working together.
Nee later fled Boston after being informed by Bulger that Federal agents were looking for him. After several years in hiding, he was arrested in 1987 and served an 18-month sentence in Federal prison.
After his release in 1989, Wikipedia notes that Nee was disgusted by McIntyre's murder and, motivated increasingly by Irish nationalism, he decided to cut his links to Bulger. He put together a crew of his own and began planning armed robberies to raise money for the IRA. He was arrested by the FBI during an armored car robbery in Abington, Massachusetts on January 13, 1990. He was sentenced to 37 years in Federal prison but was released after April 2000.
He resumed his job as a union laborer and will now be a key witness for Bulger about the extent of FBI complicity in Bulger's crimes.


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Congress Moves to Ban In-Flight Cell Calls, Blowhards at 30,000 Feet
from the that-guy-in-seat-17C-simply-won't-shut-up dept
Last month FCC boss Tom Wheeler then took things further by proposing to eliminate the FCC ban on in-flight cellular phone calls (see the FCC FAQ), and the FCC is still fielding comments on the rule changes (mostly negative). While Wheeler and the FCC took a lot of grief from consumers annoyed that they'll be inundated with chatty cathys at 30,000 feet, Wheeler rather correctly argued that with tests showing no interference, the FCC's role as a technical regulator was complete, and it would be up to the FAA, Congress or the airlines to institute new guidelines protecting you from that annoying chatterbox in 17C:
"I do not want the person in the seat next to me yapping at 35,000 feet any more than anyone else. But we are not the Federal Courtesy Commission… Technology has produced a new network reality recognized by governments and airlines around the world. Our responsibility is to recognize that new reality's impact on our old rules."Since then, the Department of Transportation has hinted that they might create new rules, and the CEO of Delta has tried to win consumer brownie points by issuing a public letter stating they'll never allow in-flight phone conversations. Fast forward to this week, and the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee has approved a bill (HR3676, pdf) banning in-flight cellular (or VoIP) calls. House Transportation Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-Pa.) insists it's "common sense" to keep in-flight calls off limits:
"In our day-to-day lives, when we find someone's cell phone call to be too loud, too close, or too personal, we can just walk away," he said. "But at 30,000 feet, there's nowhere else for an airline passenger to go. Under this bill, passengers will be able to use their mobile devices to stay connected, through getting online, emailing, texting, and more. During flights, it is common sense and common courtesy to continue keeping cell phone calls on the ground."Even if by some strange chance Congress can't work together to pass a bill (there's a similar bill winding its way through the Senate), there's a good chance that in-flight calls could be so expensive as to be of limited appeal (remember $5 per minute calls via Airfone?). While some airlines could follow Delta's lead and step in to block phone calls, it seems like only a matter of time before an airline comes up with the "innovative" idea to charge a fee if users want to sit in the soundproofed section of the aircraft.


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Ernest D. Payne, 78, changed his address from Cold Water Farm, Clinton, Tennessee to heaven on March 23, 2013.
Ernest D. Payne, 78, changed his address from Cold Water Farm, Clinton, Tennessee to heaven on March 23, 2013.
Ernest was affectionately known as "Pop" to his children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Pop was a retired elementary school teacher and principal. He taught for 40 years, beginning in a one-room school in Maple Creek, Ky., at the age of 17, and continued his career in Ohio and Florida and many years in Anderson County, Tenn., at schools, including Rosedale, Shinliver, Marlow, Medford, South Clinton, Norwood, and Dutch Valley. He was retired from the Tennessee National Guard after 26 years at the rank of Master Sargent.
Pop was born Oct. 1, 1934, in Maxie, Ky., at the head of Kensee Hollow. He was the oldest son of Carson and Fannie Perkins Payne and the grandson of W.M. "Squire Bill" Perkins.
He was preceded in death by grandson, Marcus Cole Payne; infant brother, Johnny Hugh Payne; and his parents.
He is survived by his wife of 59 years and faithful caregiver, Laura Graham Payne; sons, Steve (Jana) and Mark (Martha); grandchildren, Brandon (Gretchen), Casey (fiancé Carrie), Cody (Britney) Thomas, Kolby and Kaylee; great-grandchildren, Jack and Nora; brothers, William Alfred (Rachel), George Frank (Emmalee) and Junior Carson; sisters, Dolly Williams, Selma Herron and Nannie Sue Davis (J.L.); and many nieces and nephews.
Pop loved his rural lifestyle and enjoyed gardening and farming, but his true passion was his wife, sons and grandchildren. Grieve not for Pop because he can walk again and his big heart, broken in 2004 when his grandson Marcus lost his life, is now healed. Our loss is great, but our joy is greater knowing that his pain is over and his life in heaven has begun. It would be great to hear him say just one more time, "Man, ain't this living!"
The family suggest memorial contributions be sent to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital or the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
The family will receive friends Monday, March 25, from 6 to 8 p.m. at Holley-Gamble Funeral Home in Clinton. Graveside service will be Tuesday, March 26, at 11 a.m. at Grandview Memorial Gardens with Pastor Kenny Gillium officiating. Holley-Gamble Funeral Home, www.holleygamblefh.com, is in charge of arrangements.


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Paramus-based Hudson City Bancorp Inc., the holding company for Hudson City Savings Bank, announced Tuesday net income of $42.5 million for the quarter that ended on March 31, 2014, compared to last year's income of $47.9 million for the same quarter.
According to the announcement, diluted earnings per share were $0.09 for the quarter as compared to $0.10 for the same period last year.
The company also said its board of directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.04 per share payable on May 30, 2014 to shareholders of record as of May 13, 2014.
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Style # 198622
Fit to contour your body, this simple bebe dress packs a seriously edgy punch. Features a hot back cutout and exposed back zipper. Made from breathable lightweight cotton. Try it with a pair of metallic sandals for a glam punch.
- 78% cotton, 19% nylon, 3% spandex
- Center back to hem: 35" (89 cm)
- Machine wash
- Imported
- Model is 5'9" and is wearing a US size S
Stylized Open Back Dress is rated out of 5 by 6.
Rated 3 out of 5 by ilovebebe from nahhh Gorgeous on a bebe model and hanger:( Tried on an XS (5'5",110 lbs)and was very disappointed.Too big in the bust area,bra was showing:(Color is gorgeous though!
Date published: 2013-05-26
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Date published: 2013-05-21
Rated 5 out of 5 by Drshowme from Lovely I just bought this dress in yellow yesterday. It doesn't look special on the hanger, but it is so cute on. It is an Aline dress, so it's not super tight at the bottom. I usually wear a medium or an 8, and this dress was no different. The yellow is so vibrant, not too bright, not too dull. I feel it's versatile enough to wear in many different settings, but you will be sure to grab the attention of everyone there! This is cotton, so I suspect it may wrinkle a bit. Getting Ito it was different since there is a hidden zipper on the side as well as the top. You more than likely will need someone to help you zip and unzip the back. Very lovely dress!
Date published: 2013-05-02
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Date published: 2013-04-24
Rated 5 out of 5 by treasure78 from looks great.. how does it fit? Just wanted to kno how it fits? It looks loose but is that just the model? I'd like it to look how it does on the model and i normally wear a medium.. should i order up a size?
Date published: 2013-04-12
Rated 5 out of 5 by michelina from Sassy! "I had come across this dress in the store before I saw it online and decided to give it a whirl since I'm obsessed with anything white. Well let me tell you that I'm very glad I did because when I tried on the XS, I fell in love! It looks much sexier on than it appears in the photos on the website. This is definitely a timeless piece that can be dressed up or down."
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TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — The funeral of a slain Tunisian opposition leader was marred Friday by clashes between police and gangs of young men destroying nearby cars, as black smoke spiraled from burning vehicles into the sky and clouds of tear gas floated over the nearby cemetery.
Hundreds of thousands of Tunisians chanting anti-government slogans converged on the Jellaz cemetery for the funeral of Chokri Belaid, a left-wing politician whose assassination Wednesday outside his home has exacerbated Tunisia's political crisis and escalated tensions in the North African nation that helped kick off the Arab Spring.
The murder of Belaid, a harsh critic of the Islamist government, sparked days of rioting by his supporters, who hold the ruling Ennahda party complicit in his death. The nation was largely shut down Friday due to a general strike called by the labor unions in solidarity, and the national carrier Tunis Air canceled all its flights.
Late Friday, Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali said he still intends to try to install a technocratic government — a decision he first announced hours after Belaid's killing and which was rejected by his own ruling party. Jebali expressed confidence that Ennahda would back him, and suggested he would resign if the plan failed to get approval.
Belaid's funeral procession passed into the cemetery amid a scene of chaos caught live on television. Family members and associates wept as he was lowered into the earth and his colleague Hamma Hammami of the Tunisian Workers' Party gave the eulogy.
"Sleep well, Chokri, we will continue the fight," he said, even as the acrid stench of the tear gas fired outside hung in the air.
Hundreds of young men threw rocks at police trying to stop them from destroying cars in a nearby municipal lot, and police responded with tear gas. TV images showed the youths pushing cars into the street, and the cars bursting into flame.
Witnesses described the young men in tracksuits — many armed with clubs and machetes — as hooligans seeking to take advantage of the turmoil surrounding the funeral.
"These kids are uncontrollable and don't follow any political ideology," said Moncef Chebbi, 68, a retired computer programmer attending the funeral. He said they came from nearby low-income neighborhood. "This is very disappointing, it's a shame."
Khaled Tarrouch, the Interior Ministry spokesman, said 132 people were arrested and around a dozen cars set on fire. He said they were being questioned to see if someone was behind the violence.
There were demonstrations and symbolic funerals held for Belaid in several cities around the country.
Once the standard bearer in the region for its political consensus, the Tunisia's transition to democracy since the 2011 ouster of dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali has been shaken by a sour economy and political turmoil pitting the country's governing Islamists against secular parties, sometimes violently.
Efforts to stem the country's worst crisis since the revolution have so far failed and the anti-government sentiment at the cemetery was palpable. Before the body arrived, there was a brief scuffle when officials identified as being with the governing coalition were stopped by the crowd from entering.
The army, one of the few state institutions still holding people's respect, provided security for the funeral march and could play the role of a stabilizing force in the coming weeks.
Belaid had accused the Ennahda party of resorting to thugs to attack opposition rallies. His family and allies accuse the party of complicity in his murder. Although they have offered no proof, the allegations have fanned popular dissatisfaction with the government.
"We can't accept that they assassinate freedom, that they assassinate democracy — that's what they are doing — we are burying a martyr," said Mohammed Souissi, a 63-year-old veterinarian who showed up at the cemetery, where the crowd seemed unfazed by the intermittent rain and sang the national anthem and chanted "Ghannouchi assassin," a reference to Rachid Ghannouchi, the head of Ennahda.
Near Belaid's parental home where the funeral procession began, opposition politicians, lawyers in black robes and white collars gathered with thousands of other mourners, chanting "stop the violence" and "we are all Chokri Belaid."
More than a dozen headquarters of the Ennahda party were attacked overnight in towns around the country, Tunisian media reported. Schools, shops, banks and other institutions were all shuttered following the general strike.
Soon after Belaid's killing, Tunisia's prime minister offered to replace the government in response to long-standing opposition demands, but that attempt may have backfired as Ennahda rejected his decision — exposing divisions within the party itself between moderates and hardliners.
Nonetheless, Jebali insisted Friday that he would try to install a technocratic leadership, but that he would simply replace existing Cabinet ministers with non-political experts instead of dissolving the government. He said he was sure he would get Ennahda's support.
"I am convinced this is the best solution to the current situation in Tunisia," Jebali said, calling on unnamed parties not to block the formation of the new government. "I am convinced that the voice of reason will prevail over all other considerations."
The premier said will consult with other parties over the next 24 hours and would soon announce the composition of the new government. If lawmakers do not accept his plan, Jebali said he would step aside to let someone else form the government, meaning he'd quit his post.
The Ministry of the Interior put out a statement Friday urging calm, but the police force has been a major target of protesters over the past few days.
The ministry building itself on Friday morning was ringed by several lawyers of iron barriers and barbed wire extending across the city's signature Bourguiba Avenue. The area was also heavily patrolled by armored police vehicles in anticipation of any violence.
Belaid's death came as relations between the government and the opposition had deteriorated. Ennahda was long repressed under the secular rule of Ben Ali, but after his overthrow, the well-organized movement won subsequent elections. Overall, Ennahda is considered a moderate grouping. Hardline Islamists known as Salafis have come out against it.
Friday's strike was called by the country's largest labor union, the General Union of Tunisian Workers, in a clear expression of their opposition to the Ennahda government. A threat to call a general strike in December was defused by negotiations.
As one of the most organized groups in society and with a left-wing leadership, the UGTT, as it is known, has long been a counterbalance to Ennahda. The last time it called a general strike, in 1978, riots erupted around the country.
Associated Press writer Paul Schemm contributed to this story from Rabat, Morocco.


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Poteau golf coach enjoyed All-State coaching honor
CATOOSA — A coaching role at the All-State Golf Tournament was a once in a lifetime deal for Poteau boys golf coach Mike Thomas.Coaches are only allowed to coach one sport one time at the annual event.So Thomas, who coached both the East boys and the girls, made the best of memories Monday checking up on golfers throughout Monday's All-State Golf Tournament at Cherokee Hills Golf Course."I've got to know a lot of these kids through the years from playing against my kids in high school golf tournaments," Thomas said. "A lot of them I didn't know because they're in other classes where we don't see them, but to get to know them, get a little bit of a relationship with them and to actually watch the caliber of golf we got to see [Monday], that's one thing I like to do."And the East did with 31½-16½ win over the West to get the 2013 Oklahoma Coaches Association's All-State Games week under way.Wister's Tyler Gibson was slated to play in Tuesday's Small School All-State Game for the East at Oral Roberts University's J.L. Johnson Stadium.Tonight, Poteau wrestling duo Tyler Tustin and Derek Francis will try to help the East beat the West in the All-State Wrestling Dual that will begin at 7 p.m. at Bixby High School.To cap the week, Poteau's Jay Werner and Talihina's Trevor Crone will play for the East team, which will have Werner's dad — and second-year Poteau coach — Greg Werner as one of the coaches, in the All-State Football Game, which will kick off at 7 p.m. Friday at Union-Tuttle Stadium at Tulsa Union High School.Clarification: Due to misinformation originally sent out by the Oklahoma Coaches Association, Poteau's Troy Barnett was not named a replacement for the East football team.


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Anyone who is a fan of the television show "Friends" likely remembers the episode in which Phoebe attempts to find and carry out a selfless good deed.
Her reasoning is that because the person doing the deed always ends up feeling really good about it, nothing is ever done simply for the greater good.
I'm a Methodist, and we talk a lot about spiritual gifts and how we can use them to make the world a better place. A few years back I thought I'd found a way to use one of mine for the benefit of others � but as is usually the case, I found, as Phoebe did with most of her good deeds, that it ended up adding something good to my life, too.
One of my spiritual gifts is my talent for writing. I pondered how I could take the talent I have for using the written word and parlay it into something beneficial for others.
I used to be a member of Kiwanis in Greencastle, Ind., where I worked for the local newspaper. Three of my fellow Kiwanians worked for ResCare Residential, which oversaw boy's and girls' homes for at-risk youth. Children were placed at ResCare for a variety of reasons � sometimes they were ordered by the court to be there because of something they did; sometimes they were placed there because of something that had happened in their homes.
I became intrigued with the work being done at ResCare and with the youth who resided in its homes. I did stories for the newspaper, but decided I wanted to do something with the youth on a more personal level.
It struck me that one way I might be able to do this would be to marry my passion of writing with my desire to get to know the youth at ResCare. I asked one of my fellow Kiwanians who worked at ResCare if she thought I might be able to teach a six-week creative writing workshop at one of ResCare's homes.
She was thrilled with the idea and set about doing what had to be done to make it a reality.
Not long after , I sat down with a group of nine young men who resided at ResCare's Challenger House to conduct my first creative writing workshop group.
The young men, all of various backgrounds, ranged in age from 14 to 17. They were eager and were armed with notebooks and pencils.
I was amazed at the variety of interests they had. One young man � a quiet, introspective boy � told me he liked to write poems. He said he wrote different sorts of poetry and that he enjoyed both rhyming poems and blank verse.
Another boy, who was charismatic and always willing to share his thoughts, told me he was a "rapper" and that he played the trumpet and liked to write songs.
Still another boy told me he was interested in learning more about creative writing because he'd heard you had to be able to write a good essay for college applications. As I drew him out a little more, he told me he liked crime scene investigation shows as well as non-fiction crime books. He enjoyed doing research and unraveling mysteries.
What an inspiring group of young men I had the pleasure of meeting! I became enthusiastic about what the next five writing sessions we'd have together would bring.
Some of the boys were hesitant to write, thinking I'd be checking their work. I assured them they weren't being graded � that creative writing wasn't about everything being perfect.
If they didn't want to share what they had written in their notebooks, I told them, they didn't have to. They didn't have to show it to anyone, not even to me. I encouraged them to find their own muses and processes. One boy wanted to know if he could listen to music while he wrote. I told him of course he could ... creative writing was about finding what inspired each of them individually. There was no right and no wrong.
We did some exercises, and I showed them how any simple thing could be used as a jumping off point. For instance, I had them write down what their favorite dessert was ... then I asked them to write about a memory they associated with it.
They took off with that idea, some of them filling two of three pages in their notebooks.
Spending the next few weeks with those boys was such a wonderful experience for me. I missed them when it was over and I still think about them and hope they're doing well. I will likely never see any of them again, but they're in my heart forever.
It is my hope that I gave these young men something they took with them; something they could hold on to and keep; something that was their very own and that no one can ever take away from them.
I hope, in some small way, I was even a fraction of a blessing to them that they were to me.
And I hope someday I can gather around a table again with young people who need someone to listen to them and talk to them � and that I will have the honor of being that someone.
Jamie Barrand is the executive editor of The Daily Reporter. Hillsdale Daily News, Bronson Journal and Jonesville Independent. She can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Is there any such thing as a selfless good deed?
Anyone who is a fan of the television show "Friends" likely remembers the episode in which Phoebe attempts to find and carry out a selfless good deed.


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Memoir #11
Dr. Judith E. Winston and Dr. Peter J. Hayward
The Virginia Museum of Natural History has published "The Marine Bryozoans of the Northeast Coast of the United States: Maine to Virginia." This publication, co-authored by Dr. Judith E. Winston and Dr. Peter J. Hayward, is the museum's 11th memoir.
This guidebook describes the most common species of intertidal (the area that is above water at low tide and under water at high tide) and subtidal (below the low-tide mark but still shallow and close to shore) bryozoans of the northeast coast of North America from Maine to Virginia. Bryozoans are colonial invertebrate animals that live in water and filter food particles out of the water using retractable tentacles.
This is the only guide to the identification and distribution of bryozoans of this region published in the last 100 years. This publication includes 12 species that are either newly described or are given new names, along with one new genus that is described and discussed.
Dr. Judith E. Winston is curator of marine biology at the Virginia Museum of Natural History in Martinsville, Virginia. Dr. Peter J. Hayward is honorary research fellow at Swansea University in Wales, United Kingdom.
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Outreach and Engagement
Rethinking the definition of the JMU student
Today I met with the Office of Outreach and Engagement—a very flexible, nimble and entrepreneurial group that has enlarged the definition of the JMU student in a way that allows us to make a real impact on our community. This group is helping JMU to reach some of the true outposts of Virginia that are underserved in terms of education and economic development. These efforts are very important as we think of ourselves as an engaged university, which I have been emphasizing during my many "Why Madison?" Listening Tour visits with academic units, advisory committees and alumni. Through the Office of O&E, we are educating not just our traditional 17- to 22-year-old students on a traditional campus, but responding to the varied needs of adult learners.
How do we make our menu of JMU programs available in a way that's convenient for the community?
Outreach and Engagement administers myriad programs that focus on many age groups. Most of these programs focus on adult learners—22 years old and up—with credit courses and degree programs—like the Adult Degree Program; and noncredit courses that tend to be professional certification courses or courses created especially for local industry to develop their workforces. Another effort focuses on supporting the PK-12 outreach efforts of the university. There are other important programs around the university—the Lifelong Learning Institute, for instance—that operate in other departments. It will be important for us to look at our entire menu of offerings and find a way to coordinate them that enables members of the community to easily find, understand and connect with them—a one-stop shop, as I heard it put.
Aligning our thinking with Carnegie
That thinking aligns with the priorities of our Carnegie Classification as a Community Engaged University—a distinction shared by only 8 percent of colleges and universities—which the Office of Outreach and Engagement coordinated on JMU's behalf. While a university-wide steering committee continues to look across the entire institution, I want us to be mindful of what engagement truly means. We should take our cues from Carnegie. As one person noted: Engagement is not something JMU does "to" another or even "for" another, but "with" another, so that the benefits and resources are mutual and reciprocal, and we can form true partnerships.
"This is why we get up in the morning"
The name of this office—Outreach and Engagement—is not lost on me, as I continue to emphasize the importance of engagement—by which I mean engagement both with ideas and with the world. I was inspired to hear several members of this office talk about their initiatives and say, "this is why we get up in the morning." While we want to remain professional and think analytically and critically about what we do in higher education, I'd like to take a moment and say, yes, it IS OK to admit that you want to help students make their dreams come true and that you want to help them change the world. That is how good ideas can take hold. As I have been hearing from alumni, students and professors all along the "Why Madison?" Listening Tour, it also is an inspiring characteristic of the JMU educational culture.
Building on the successes of a young, vibrant program
Emphasizing advocacy, access, affordability and accountability as concepts that drive their work, the Office of O&E has grown from a staff of two to a staff of 14 in eight years. They are a self-supporting unit that serves 4 percent of JMU's student body and draws on the JMU faculty, other professionals and outside contractors to deliver programs. O&E has positioned itself to anticipate and respond to the marketplace and deliver JMU's educational resources to where the need and opportunities are. For instance, this office moved a master's program serving 12 students from the JMU campus to a remote site, where it now serves 90 students. O&E's innovative spirit is also reflected in the brand new grant-funded Return to Madison program, which serves JMU students who want to complete their JMU degrees sometimes years after leaving the university. It will be important to build on this strong and entrepreneurial base and identify benchmarks from other institutions to see how our very young program compares with more established programs.
An example where distance learning can truly be effective
In several of my visits with academic units and the Faculty Emeriti Association, there has been considerable discussion on the pros and cons of distance learning. Adult learning is prime example of where online programs can find an effective niche in higher education. Through the commonwealth's 4VA program, for example, O&E has been able to reach out to other departments on campus and create online modules that can be completed by students anywhere. This is especially helpful for mid-career professionals and students who cannot afford to drive to campus.
How can we work together to dream big for PK-12?
I heard about several impressive and popular collaborative programs—like Lego League, College for Kids, Techfacturing, Exploring Identity, Saturday Morning Physics, partnership with Boys and Girls Club, and dual enrollment programs—that O&E coordinates for JMU. I would like to use this opportunity to ask JMU to dream big and look into how we can tie these and other programs together into an avenue to reach out to at-risk or underserved children. I have mentioned a few times in my "Why Madison?" Listening Tour visits a program that we developed at Rutgers to identify and work with middle school children with academic potential who are nonetheless at risk for not completing school. We offered educational and mentorship programs and held out the carrot of a free ride at Rutgers for participants who could qualify for admission when they graduated from high school. It has been very successful. Each one of those students has stayed in school. While this program is one of many models to reach students well before they are ready to apply for college, it is an example of what I mean by dreaming big. A program of this scale would require enormous resources and coordination. I like Jim Shaeffer's idea of taking this concept to JMU's Carnegie Classification steering committee for discussion and development.
We have seeds for leadership in civic education
Finally, given our teacher education mission, I see some real leadership opportunities stemming from our multiple ties to Montpelier and our track record with the Center for Civic Engagement and Project Citizen, for forming partnerships to provide support to practicing teachers in terms of civic education and engaged citizenship.
Published: Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Last Updated: Wednesday, May 24, 2017


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Hi everyone I used to be a huge fan of LEGO in my younger years, a passion that was revived when I found LDD and started on this little project. Anyways these are my first MOCs featuring a Pesconian Patrol Ship:
Pesconian Patrol Ship
Originally the Pesconian Patrol Ships supported a light VTOL-aircraft for reconnicance and light combat support. These where however discarded when the Pesconians hardly could reach Tharaskian shores due to the Aquantian League blokade.
The Solution to Pesconian Patrol Ships being easy prey for the strong and predatory Aquantian League submersive-navy was the devlopment of the Pesconian Light Naval Mech aswell as upgraded under-water weapons for the marines onboard.
Pesconian Light Naval Mech
The Pesconian Light Naval Mech has been specifically designed for fighting both under water and on land, making it perfect for not only spearheading landfall and securing a beach foothold but also as a close-support for the navy against attacks from submarine-crafts.
It carries a rapid-fiering harpoon gun that also has an integrated lance-gun aswell as mounting two torpedoes. This coupled with its energy-sword makes gives it both strong mid to close-range fire aswell as the ability to simply cleave through enemy vehicles and shields flooding them instantly.
The Mech also caries all the wargear required for its marine pilot to function at full combat capacity in case he need to leave his vehicle.
The crew
The crew consists of one captian, one hand aswell as four marines of wich one operates the mech.
The under water combat force
All marines are trained in warfare under the surface aswell as on land, the dual-purpose lance-gun is a fairly new weapon that quickly became standard for these elite troopers. It can either fire a heavy harpoon or in its normal fiering-mode lash out conventional lance-beams.
Additional pics
Well thats it for now! I am curently working on a Hunter-Submarine of the Aquantian League that I intend to get up in this thread in the future


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Corn Queen
I'm trying to write a post about corn. A serious post. One that will start an epidemic of massive proportions and everyone in the tri-state region will want to change the way they eat for now and forever amen.
I'm trying to write a post about corn. A serious post. One that will start an epidemic of massive proportions and everyone in the tri-state region will want to change the way they eat for now and forever amen.
poured out by April at 10:54 PM
Labels: Do What I Say
Ok, I'm with you! I've been trying to not eat it ever since I read about it in "The Omnivore's Dilemma." I think it must have some of the same information as "King Corn." Oh, but I read it in a book, as opposed to learning about it in a movie, which makes me waaay more scholarly..... even though I was a cheerleader too :)
I used to watch a show on PBS called Zonya's Health Bites and she is the one who told me all about high fructose corn syrup. I could NOT believe it when I saw a commercial Sunday night involving a Popsicle and two nitwits trying to say the stuff was juuuuuuuust fine to eat... in moderation. Talk about propaganda! I will keep an eye out for King Corn on my local PBS channel. Keep fighting the good fight April!
Erin from Iowa
Imagine my shock when I discovered it in my beloved Miracle Whip! Hell is what a sandwich is without the tasty zip or Miracle Whip. But I don't use it anymore, sigh. And finding yogurt without it is expensive.
Buuuuutttttt, c'mon...I grew up pouring Karo corn syrup on my vanilla ice cream and washing it all down with a coca cola in a glass bottle...but I need to be educated and I want to try to change my old ways. I am on board to learn. Loved the video, BTW...you were a great cheerleader.
It's in my Netflix que. Guess I should move it up.
Have you seen the ads put out by the Corn Refiners Association? They're in magazines and on tv. Go to www.sweetsurprise.com.
Gimme an H!
Gimme an F!
Gimme a C!
Gimme an S!
What's that spell? I wasn't born yesterday. That stuff you're calling "natural" is not found in nature!
I'm in. My family doctor actually warned me about HFCS.
Miss Munchkin heard you cheering this morning from her bed in the other room and she said, "Mom, would you turn that DOWN?" She can't have any spunk before 10 am. :)
I have no comment on the corn syrup and the King Korn, you all lost me there. I couldn't get past the cheering video and your sis's laugh.
Good for you, April. There is a lot more in the American diet that can be done away with. Keep up the good work. Once you start emlinating the junk from your diet, your body will thank you, and it will never want to go back.
I totally agree... 'tis nasty stuff! And you know, it is really not as hard as you might think to avoid it in your foods - although you might have to give up some of the convenience foods that are so bad for you anyway... and remember, corn syrup is not the same as High Fructose corn syrup
We try to avoid HFCS too. I have been an avid label reader since I was a kid - my mom had severe food allergies. It's very enlightening. Did you know that Campbells and Progresso soups have MSG? Did you know Toaster Strudels and some Sara Lee sandwich breads have Splenda?
~the Other
But! But! But! I just discovered the joy of McDonald's Sweet & Sour sauce!
Weren't you so much happier in life before you watched those videos? It seems like everything's bad for you. Except broccoli. I've never heard anything about the dangers of broccoli. Maybe I should look into it.
USDA has eliminated HFCS from the food package we give out to Native American families in order to try to reduce diabetes. I think it's working, however MY BLOOD PRESSURE has gone sky high with the complaining I hear daily about the lack of corn syrup. Guess someone's getting healthy....just not me!
I've been trying to live HFCS free for a few years now. It seems to be in everything but if you look carefully enough, you can find yummy food without it. Here's to eating healtier!
First of all . . . you go girl! What an inspiring cheer and the look on that poor man's face! Priceless!
My mother (a chemist and nutrionist) has been warning us about high fructose corn syrup for several years now. We've been trying to cut it from our diets...but as you may have noticed it's in a lot of stuff. They sneak it into things that you wouldn't normally think about...like ketchup! Go ahead - check your ketchup bottle!
We're working on it at our house. It is in everything! FYI ... the only ketchup I've found withuot it is Del Monte. That's the kind my Grandmommy used and that's what we use too!
Sigh, woke up this morning without a care in the world. Just went through my cupboards - corn syrup is everywhere!!! Somebody mentioned broccoli never being declared a danger. What about brussel sprouts? Surely the smell of them cooking can be declared harmful and noxious??
You know what they say about high fructose corn syrup...
That it's made from corn? That it's natural? That like table sugar and honey it's fine when used in moderation?
Hahahaha! Just kidding. Have you seen those commercials though? I'd seen them without hearing a word they said or paying attention to what the commercials were for until someone pointed them out to me. How ridiculous.
Anyway, I thought I was fairly cautious, but the yogurt? Dang. I'm going to check my cabinets and fridge this afternoon and see just how less than careful I've been.
BTW, I came here earlier and clicked away to watch the cheer. I laughed my rear end right off, so thank you for that. Please post more, there's still too much back there. My 16yodd came up behind me and said, "Oh my gawd! What's she doing? Is she on crack?" To which I responded, "Give me a M! Give me an O! Give me a V! Give me an E! What's that spell? Moooove! Move on out that door! Moooove!" She ran away frightened and screaming, but it got her out the door and to her doctor appointment on time. I never was a cheerleader, but I may have to use this motivational technique more often.
i have been avoiding not only hfcs but aspartame also. talk about scary. i don't have the video on that anymore, but try googling it, maybe you can find the true info on aspartame which is another government coverup and big business propaganda(they knew it was bad before they released it back in the late
I can see I'm going to need some edumacation about HFCS. And I need to look at the labels to see what all it is in. If anything, I'm sure I can cut down if not cut it out...I think.
Thanks for the head's up.
AND, I saw that video on your sister's site. Had my laughing hysterically with her. You are such a goofball!
yep it's true, your preachin to the choir now. not only diabetes, but obesity, CAD, and cancer. All of it is bad. The average American eats 11 pounds of chemicals per year. Put that in your pipe and smoke it!
Oh Yes. Totally agree, I haven't seen "king Corn" but have done lots of other reading on the subject. All you have to do is avoid processed foods in general (which are bad for you - in general!) and you'll avoid most of the HFCS. My mom is allergic to corn and has found out how difficult it is to avoid if you like to eat processed foods, which she does.
The latest commercials on TV making people who avoid HFCS look stupid are maddening. Yea. Do your research like they suggest. There is lots of evidence how corn syrup disrupts blood sugar/insulin levels and contributes to poor health.
Thanks for bringing it up, April!
Update: Yay! No HFCS in my Yoplait Digestive Health Yogurt! You really needed to know that, didn't you?
Pleeeease tell me that coffee does not have corn in it?!
By the way, your cheering skills are enviable.
I'm with you! We've been avoiding HFCS for about a year now...it's in ketchup, spaghetti sauce, yogurt, bread, snack foods, canned soups (which also contain msg), salad dressings, and the list goes on! We've had to go organic on many products simply to avoid the HFCS. Recently I was thinking of trying to find a resource to explain to someone why we don't "do" HFCS, and didn't know where to turn...thanks for the info on King Corn!
Well that cheer was a little corny! Nice of your sis to capture you, and giggle through the whole thing!! Corn is evil..but I just love corn on the cob, dripping with butter..ah butter no Corn Syrup there!! :)
Yes! on avoiding HFCS (and ALL commercial corn in general because it's GMO and that's just as bad. Do some Youtubing on that, too.)
Also, siltedrepose-- broccoli is goitrogenic when raw... steam for best nutrition! :-)
Great post!
I've been trying to eliminate hfcs and corn by products in our diet for over a year. There are seven in my family. It is a very difficult thing to do because there is so much of this stuff in our food supply. I was happy to see some of the manufactures recently take out hfcs in their products and replace it with sugar. One of the reasons they did this was the price of corn had risen to much and sugar was cheaper. Growing up as a child my mom was a health nut and swore this stuff was better than sugar so she fed it to us in abundance, corn syrup - plain old corn syrup. I still cringe and say yuck! Ultimately do you know what led to my our decscion to cut hfcs and corn byproducts out? My husband works in a factory that processes this stuff. He takes care of the pipes and tanks because they become so corroded and leak. Let's just make this short and simple, yuck! Ok, I will hint. The other day he came home coated in it, head to steel toe boots. His clothes dried stiff as a board. And he smells awful before a shower. I encourage you all to take back your diet from the corn food processors. High five!!
1 and 1/2 years ago we stopped. The kids took a little longer. Aunt Jamima was mighty hard for the kids to give up. But in the end its worked out. We will be at the grocery and they read the ing. if it has hfcs in it they say gross really load and put it back. Of course thats not as akward as when they want to hold hands and pray over which applesauce to buy.
I'm off to watch the video, that stuff is scary. Enjoyed your cheerleading, reminds me of my sister!
I wish I knew why American bread is so sweet. European bread isn't sweet. Is this is a taste thing - folks just like sweet stuff - or is it something to do with getting the dough to rise? I don't like sweet bread, it tastes like cake. Anyone for a cake and cheese sandwich? Ugh! It's so easy to get used to the way things taste that we hardly realize how sweet and salty all processed foods are until we start making our own alternatives.
We're low on the HFCS intake here and not one of us in my family has a weight problem. Wouldn't you know that the one time my husband was overweight was when he drank sodas instead of water? Let's all get off that stuff as much as possible!
I try not to eat it but I don't always succeed. Do you have a Trader Joe's near you? They do affordable bread with no nasty ingreds. We're in Africa now, but you'll be pleased to know that it's still an additive in plenty of stuff here. It is easier to avoid though.
If I was wealthy, I'd buy you this t-shirt:
My wife gets tired of me talking about how awful HFCS is. Last year they served Kentucky Fried Chicken at work, and the packets of honey weren't packets of honey. It's HFCS. That's just wrong.
Take care,


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Bundaberg [9] is in Queensland, Australia, south of Rockhampton and north of Hervey Bay.
Bundaberg is closely linked to the sugar cane industry. The area is surrounded by cane fields, and the small railway lines used to transport the harvested cane to the mills. The closeness to the cane mills is the reason for the siting of the rum, ginger beer, and sugar industries associated with Bundaberg.
The town itself is set back around 10km from the ocean and the ocean beaches, along the river. Bourbong street is the oddly named main street (originally named Bourbon Street, due to the variety of cane that was grown in the region). Parts are also known as the Isis Highway.
The town of Bargara is essentially the beachside suburb of Bundaberg. Home to many modern apartments, accommodation, and resorts with ocean views. It is close to Bundaberg but has a very different feel to the town centre. It has a small shopping and restaurant strip of its own, and a esplanade with barbecues and picnic tables.
The Burnett River runs through a divides the town. It is crossed by two road bridges and a railway bridge.
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Bundaberg is approximately 4 hours drive by car north of Brisbane. Buses do the journey in around 6 hours. Queensland Rail [10] services Bundaberg with the tilt train (4 1/2 hours), and slower Sunlander or Spirit of the Outback services (6 1/2 hours). Adult fare $62.70
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Bundaberg Airport (BDB) has four flights a day by QantasLink [11]] from Brisbane (check for specials). The airport is around 4 km west of the city centre. Car hire is available in the terminal, Avis, Budget, Hertz and Thrifty. Europcar is not in the terminal, but is at the far end of the car park. There is a cafe and an ATM in the terminal building.
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Duffy's buses [12] run mainly school buses, although there are some public routes. In particular buses run between Bargara and the Bundaberg town centre every hour or so on weekdays and every couple of hours on a Saturday.
You really need a car to get anywhere outside the city centre. A number of Backpacker hostels run shuttle minibuses for seasonal workers to local farms early in the morning and back again in the afternoon.
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Seasonal work can be obtained picking tomatoes and other fruits and vegetables. Check with the backpacker hostels for more info. To work legally, you require a valid work visa (not a tourist visa) and you should provide the employer with a tax file number if you do not want them to deduct 48 % tax from your wages (normal non-residental tax rate 29 %). It may be possible to work without a valid visa (cash-in-hand), though occasionally inspectors do checks on farms and at hostels, which could possibly result in severe consequences.
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Bourbong Street, the main drag through town, is partly a shared pedestrian zone with a variety of shops, banks, travel agents and the main post office. There are two other major shopping centres: Hinkler Place, a few blocks to the south on the corner of Maryborough and Electra Sts, and the larger Sugarland in the west (Cnr Takalvan and Heidke Sts), both of which contain most of the major Australian chains between them.
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The Hungry Tum along Bourbong Street in downtown is is well known for its signature drink, pink lemonade. Its is a take-away place underneath the City Centre Backpackers, on the western side of downtown.
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There is a variety of accommodation styles available in Bundaberg. West of the Bundaberg Railway Station there are a number of well equipped motels. In amongst these motels is a variety of food outlets ranging from cafe style food, take away, and restaurants. There are around several backpackers hostels to choose from. One is opposite the bus depot. Two others are opposite the train station. Most of these can arrange farm work and will even provide transport to the farms in the morning and back in the afternoon. For those who wish to camp, caravan and camping parks are located throughout the city.
Bargara beach offers a choice of newer apartment style accommodation closer to the beach.
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