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You've bought your shrimp-baiting license, prepped the boat, fixed the cast net, updated your poles with the required stickers. You've spent an hour with your hands in a noxious mix of fish meal and clay binder.
Finally, you and your buddies can indulge in your annual trip to Bulls Bay, that legendary shrimp-baiting spot where you can fill a cooler with jumbos during daylight hours.
You trailer the boat north through Mount Pleasant, up past Awendaw. You're headed to Buck Hall, a recreation area off U.S. Highway 17 with campgrounds and a set of nice boat ramps near the bay. For years, the place has served as a sort of shrimping headquarters for both locals and out-of-owners hoping to fill their freezers.
You turn right into Buck Hall and hit the brakes. The entrance is blocked.
Two laminated pieces of paper taped to the barricade tell the tale: "Due to a lapse in federal funding, this facility is closed." Drive around the barricade and you could face a fine of up to $5,000 and six months in prison.
Buck Hall is just one of the many federal operations related to outdoors pursuits that have been shuttered since the partial shutdown of the federal government began Oct. 1.
Here in the Lowcountry, the shutdown has cancelled or closed:
All federally maintained boat ramps, including Buck Hall and Garris Landing.
The Twin Ponds and Boggy Head rifle ranges in the Francis Marion National Forest.
All campgrounds in the Francis Marion National Forest and on other federal lands.
National Wildlife Refuges, including the Cape Romain, Hollings ACE Basin and Waccamaw refuges. Several scheduled hunts were cancelled.
Permit applications for activities such as camping at primitive (non-campground) sites and ATV use in national forests.
Fortunately, hunting is still allowed within the Francis Marion and other national forests. The state Department of Natural Resources (DNR) manages hunting opportunities on those lands, and their folks are still on the job.
The closure of so many recreational sites — particularly those that are unstaffed — has angered not only the anglers and hunters using them, but also some of the state officials who normally work closely with federal agencies to manage natural resources.
In an Oct. 3 letter to Secretary of Agriculture Jamie Whitten, DNR Director Alvin Taylor railed against the closure of Buck Hall, in particular, and asked that the Forest Service reconsider the move.
"I fail to understand why the Forest Service could not have anticipated the closure and worked with local partners such as the SC Department of Natural Resources to assure access to unstaffed facilities such as the Buck Hall landing," Taylor wrote.
"… Our hard-working constituents deserve to be treated with respect, and their recreational and commercial endeavors should not be held hostage nor treated as pawns in a political dispute."
Robert Boyles, deputy director for marine resources at DNR, said Friday that the federal shutdown has affected a broad range of natural resource work, from sea turtle nesting monitoring to fisheries research.
Boyles cited one example based out of the Fort Johnson complex on James Island. When the shutdown began, state biologists were two years into a three-year study of how overfishing might affect the genetics of black sea bass.
Two tanks holding the fish being studied were housed in a federal building at Fort Johnson. State workers had only limited access to the tanks, and the fish died.
"That's just one of those pieces of collateral damage," Boyles said.
Bottom line: Until the government shutdown ends, hunters and anglers should make sure that the areas or facilities they plan to use aren't closed.
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Strategies to boost enrollment and further meet the expanding needs of this region are being put in place at MSU Meridian. This past fall, the school introduced its first ever program that focuses on special education. So far, it's been a success in all aspects, especially with attracting more students.
"It's one of the things where we have sort of shifted our focus into the areas where we see either growth in enrollment, recent growth or the potential for continued growth in the next few semesters," says MSU Meridian Dean, Dr. Steven Brown.
In hopes of continuing that growth, MSU Meridian is requesting approval from Mississippi's board for Institutions for Higher Learning, or IHL for short, to approve a new bachelor's degree in Applied Technology for the school.
"It offers us an opportunity to reach out to those folks who may have technical credits from community colleges, whether they are recent or from several years ago, and to apply those technical credits to an undergraduate degree," says Brown.
If the IHL gives approval, Dr. Brown says the university will first offer a concentration in healthcare services. Ultimately, he says the plan is to further expand the overall program.
"We're working right now to try to develop a program that would offer opportunities for people to get degrees in broadcast media or possibly in digital media production," says Brown.
The IHL board is expected to vote on the request later this month. If approved, Dr. Brown says the new program will likely be in place by this coming fall.
MSU Meridian opened in 1972. At that time it had a capacity of between 350 to 400 students. Nearly 900 students were enrolled last semester. Since opening, the school has helped educate roughly 10,000 students.

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Standing on the steps of City Hall, former Gainesville City Commissioner Scherwin Henry launched a campaign for mayor on Friday afternoon.
Standing on the steps of City Hall, former Gainesville City Commissioner Scherwin Henry launched a campaign for mayor on Friday afternoon.
Henry spoke of his lifelong ties to his hometown — a city he loves but sees as a community of haves and have-nots.
"As a little boy and eventually as a young man growing up in Gainesville, I realized the city of Gainesville was a tale of two cities," he said. "One city was a city that experienced a wealth of economic growth and a great quality of life. The other one was a city that experienced just the opposite, minimal to no economic prosperity and lesser quality of life."
He said that prompted him to launch a campaign for City Commission in 2000. Henry lost that year but was elected as the District 1 commissioner in 2006 and re-elected in 2009. He left the City Commission due to term limits earlier this year.
On Friday, Henry spoke of progress in east Gainesville and across the district during his time in office. He pointed to the continued development of Cone Park, the new library planned there, new housing in the Porters neighborhood, the development of the Lincoln Estates neighborhood and the fact that the district will soon have two Walmart Supercenters.
His campaign for mayor, he said, would focus on economic development, the need for better bus service in areas of the city with the most need and "accessibility and accountability."
"I will be accessible and I'm not afraid to be held accountable," he said.
Asked about those comments after his announcement, Henry said he felt there was a negative change to the commission's interaction with the public during his second term.
"I felt a disconnect between the City Commission and the citizens," he said. "Every meeting, it seemed the angst and agitation seemed to grow because the citizens felt the City Commission was not being open or not being accessible. They felt they were not getting answers to some of their questions about city government."
Henry, 60, is a senior biological scientist at the University of Florida Interdisciplinary Center for Biotechnology Research.
He is the sixth candidate to enter the mayor's race. The current candidates are incumbent Mayor Craig Lowe; Pete Johnson, a member of the city Plan Board and former member of the Gainesville-Alachua County Regional Airport Authority board; Mark Venzke, who ran for City Commission in 2012; barber shop owner Edward Earl Young, and Donald E. Shepherd Sr.


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The Ross School of Business Community is committed to leading in thought and action. With that commitment comes high expectations of the values and actions of the members of the community. On this page you will find a Statement of Community Values and individual codes and procedures that govern different arenas of our community as they pertain to our core values.
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Statement of Community Values: The Ross School of Business community – students, faculty, and staff – agree to a common Statement of Community Values that govern all community members in both academic and nonacademic settings. Membership in the Ross community requires adherence to these values.
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PRONI had more good news for "armchair" researchers. Now available online is a fully searchable index to the will calendar entries for the District Probate Registries of Armagh, Belfast, and Londonderry. The database covers the period 1858-1919 and 1922-1943. Those for 1921-22 will follow soon. In addition, the digitized images of entries from the copy will book from 1858-1900 are now available online. Reseachers can now view the full contents of those wills online. The collection contains 93,388 will images.
Wait--there's more from PRONI! Over fifty years of wedding and family portraits are now available for viewing via the photo-sharing website, Flickr. The photos are from the Allison Photographic Studios in Armagh. There are now 200 digital images online, with more being added, until all 1530 images are posted.
Not to be outdone, the National Library of Ireland announced its intention to digitize and make available online all of its Roman Catholic parish register microfilms. These are IMAGES, yes, IMAGES! This is a revolutionary leap in online genealogy research. Currently, researchers must visit the Library in Dublin or obtain the films from the Latter-day Saints if they want to see actual images of the registers. Since we Irish family historians rely so heavily on church records, especially for those years before civil registration began in 1864, this online collection will be a dream come true. The collection covers 1200 parishes on 520 reels.
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Titus Andronicus (2006)
Shaun Parkes played Aaron in the 2006 production of Titus Andronicus.
Abbess, Courtesan, Balthasar played by Emma Pallant
The Comedy Of Errors (2011)
Emma Pallant toured with the Globe earlier in the 2011 season as both Jacques and Phebe in As You Like It. She then embarked on another tour for the Globe, playing the Abbess, the Courtesan and Balthasar, in The Comedy of Errors.
Adriana played by Hattie Ladbury
The Comedy of Errors (2014)
Hattie makes her Globe debut as Adriana in the upcoming production of The Comedy of Errors.
Hattie trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (1996 gold medal winner).
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Adriana played by Yolanda Vazquez
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Adriana played by Laura Rogers
The Comedy Of Errors (2011)
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Kurt trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
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The Comedy Of Errors (1999)
In the Globe's 1999 production of The Comedy of Errors, Angelo was played by Paul Chahidi.
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Our healthcare system is undergoing profound change unlike any experienced before. Access, quality, and cost of healthcare are critical issues that affect all citizens, residents, and communities.
Healthcare and the healthcare industry – which account for more than 17 percent of the entire U.S. economy – involve complex and fast-moving developments in technology, economics, ethics, finance, policy, and management. Visionary and effective leadership is needed to improve management structures in a highly competitive, market-driven environment.
Tomorrow's healthcare leaders must address such pressing issues as:
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As the delivery system changes, career opportunities abound. The field needs leaders and managers – in hospitals, health plans, medical practices, health-related enterprises, and community health organizations – who have the passion, knowledge, and skills to shape the future of healthcare.
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Solar powered advertising boards have provided companies with ways to advertise their products in an environmentally friendly way, and it appears that wind power is following suit. UK-based City Windmills is giving companies the chance to not only generate clean power (and thus cheaper energy bills) for themselves, but to use their installation as a unique advertising platform.
With the XLT wind turbine, City Windmills creates wind arrays for companies that can achieve multiple objectives. Operating in groups of between 10 and 50, the wind turbines are primarily designed to generate low cost clean energy wherever it is needed. As the turbines are approximately 30ft tall, they can be situated on the roof of any building or wherever is most convenient. This means that no energy is lost over distance as long distance transmission lines are reportedly capable of losing up to 55% of its energy.
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The mini-turbines also don't share the same problems that hamper other larger turbines, as they are extremely quiet. With the numbers of wind turbines growing so rapidly, the City Windmills turbines offer something unique in the clean energy market.
All energy systems are also linked over the internet, enabling Remote Performance Monitoring that allows customers to view performance, power generation, possible future failures and historical data.
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OGDEN, Utah (AP) — Federal officials in Utah are investigating after a Molotov cocktail was thrown through the window of a church in Ogden.
The Deseret News reports (http://bit.ly/13ZQPQK ) the device was thrown into a meetinghouse of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints sometime Sunday night.
Ogden Fire Department Deputy Chief Eric Bauman says the remains of the failed weapon were found Monday by a maintenance worker. Bauman says it caused about $1,000 in damage to the kitchen of the church.
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Last update: 12/19/2012
Tuesday, October 30
Winter & Spring 2013 enrollment appointments posted on MySJSU
Thursday, November 1 - Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Winter 2013 advance registration
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Tuesday, November 6 - Sunday, January 13
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Enrollment limited to a maximum of 16 units
Monday, November 12
Veteran day - Campus Closed
Tuesday, November 6 - Sunday, January 13
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Thursday, November 22 - Friday, November 23
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Tuesday, January 1
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Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Spring 2013 candidates for graduation will be eligible to register for up to 18 units. Graduation application must be on file with the Registrar's Office on or before December 10, 2012.
Excess unit petition will be available only for students with Spring 2013 graduation application on file. No exceptions. Maximum units allowed, with petition, is 21 units.
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Friday, May 24
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Saturday, May 25
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How do I export or import a Synergy Project?.
After following the steps below you will be able to export and import projects in small and portable packages that you can distribute in compliance with your Renesas Synergy software license.
Exporting project into custom archive
Before you start, open e2studio ISDE and make sure your project is visible in the Project Explorer (on the right-hand side of the window by default)
- Right-click the project you wish to export and choose Export.
- In the new window, select General > File System and proceed to the next step.
- Use Deselect All button to clear the selection
- Click the checkboxes by the following entries in the left pane:
- src directory (but deselecting synergy_gen folder inside it)
- script directory (only in case project is using a modified linker script)
- In the right pane, select the project folder and click the checkboxes next to the following entries in the right pane:
- configuration.xml file (this will allow the user to re-generate all the other content missing from the archive)
- *.pincfg file (name will vary by project; used by the Synergy Configurator to create the pin configuration)
- optionally, you may choose to include .jlink and .launch files in case debug setup is different from default
- Click Browse button and pick an appropriate directory name.
- Make sure the option Create directory structure for files is selected.
- Click Finish to export project content.
- Navigate to the export folder using Windows Explorer or other file manager. Make sure you're inside the folder that is named based on the project exported from and that files listed above can be seen on the current screen.
- Select all items in the visible folder and right-click on any one of them.
- In the context menu, go to Send to/Compressed (zipped) folder.
Congratulations, you have now exported all the files necessary to re-create your project into a single .zip archive.
Importing project from custom archive
- Before you can import your exported project, you need to create a new Synergy project from the BSP template.
- Select your newly created BSP project and click File > Import.
- In the popup window, select General > Archive File and click Next.
- Browse to the location of the previously exported archive file and select it.
- Make sure the Into folder field holds the name of your target project.
- At the bottom of the window, tick Overwrite existing resource without warning checkbox.
- Click finish to import the archive contents into the workspace.
- Close and re-open configuration.xml in your new project and select Generate Project Content in the top-right corner.
- Proceed to build the source to allow running and debugging of the project.
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- Projects exported using this method cannot be ported onto different target boards without making changes. The user will be required to create a new pin configuration file matching the pin layout for the microcontroller used by that board.


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Healthy eating in Tokyo
Christopher Pellegrini reports on the capital's healthy food options.
Foodie's paradise, Tokyo, is claimed by many to have the most eateries per capita of all the cities in the world. True or not, finding something that is both healthy and easily accessible can pose a dilemma, especially if you're not comfortable with the all-Japanese intricacies of information gatekeepers such as the excellent restaurant ranking website, Tabelog. Far too many people find themselves restricted to an onigiri, a jelly squeeze-bag, and a plastic bottle of green tea when they're looking for a low-cal meal.
In order to provide you with some of Tokyo's more heart and waist-friendly dining options, we talked with Justin Berti, a yoga instructor, fitness trainer and health nut who for years has scoured this fair city for dining options that jive with his strict diet and that he can recommend to his clients.
Sometimes it can be a real bear to find healthy food options at the supermarket nearest your train station. Everything seems to be over processed and packaged. The following supermarkets are chains but carry a decent selection of imported items and health-conscious options.
Natural House has 25 locations in and around Tokyo.
F&F has 11 shops in Tokyo with another five in Kanagawa.
Seijo Ishii doesn't have an English website, but they do have dozens of locations around Tokyo and the surrounding prefectures.
Berti recommends the bentos at Natural House and F&F, and he mentions Seijo Ishii because it has plenty of "fresh salads and healthy options."
Restaurants often have menu items that look like they might be vegetarian friendly, but don't think that you can always get an informed answer from your server. There's fish and beef in almost everything (including potato chips!), and you'd be foolish to assume that the folks preparing your dinner accept the same definition of vegetarianism that you do (vegetarians don't eat fish?!).
The following are some healthy dining options that have at least a little something that's safe for vegetarians.
Nouka no Daidokoro is a good option for vegetarians as they offer some 100% vegetable course meal options. This chain of earthy restaurants added two new Tokyo locations within the past 12 months and has a salad bar that is not to be missed.
Nataraj is a small vegetarian Indian restaurant chain that has a few options in Tokyo and they occasionally have evening entertainment options such as belly dance shows.
Little Heaven near Otsuka station is a full-fledged vegan restaurant with somewhat limited hours. Dinner is served 6-9PM every day, and lunch is available Tues to Fri from 11:30AM-2PM.
Shamaim is an Israeli restaurant between Ekoda station (Seibu-Ikebukuro line) and Shin-Ekoda station (Oedo line) and is a good source for hummus and falafel west of the Yamanote loop.
Eat More Greens in Azabu Juban bills itself as a vegetable café and bakery modeled after those found in downtown New York City.
Earth Café Ohana in Sangenjaya caters to vegans and vegetarians and tries to use organic ingredients whenever possible.
Crayon House is a vegetarian-friendly restaurant across from Brown Rice Café (scroll down) that also has a veggie shop in the basement. Be sure to specify that you want food with no meat or fish if that's your prerogative, they'll understand.
Bio Café in Shibuya claims a menu with organic options.
Loving Hut recently started selling vegan bentos in the basement of Matsuzaka Department Store in Ginza.
Soup Stock Tokyo has more than 30 locations in Tokyo that feature a revolving menu of low-cal soups and a curry or two. They usually have a vegetarian-looking option on the menu, and you can generally get straight answers about the actual ingredients (hint: ask about lard) which is great for people with allergy concerns as well. Soup Stock Tokyo is essentially a fast food chain, perfect for those times when you only have 20-30 minutes to get a meal in, but it should never be grouped with the ubiquitous burger joints and beef bowl shops of this city.
Saishoku Kenbi Okubo is on a back street between JR Okubo and Shin-Okubo stations and features a vegetarian-friendly and affordable lunch buffet. Closed Tuesdays.
Tenya has shops all across downtown Tokyo and specializes in tempura. This chain can be very helpful for vegetarians who need a quick and cheap bite to eat. The yasai-don is always on the menu, and there are occasionally seasonal variants that get featured as well.
Chaya Macrobiotic has three upscale Tokyo locations and features a menu flush with organic produce and other vegetarian-friendly fare.
Brown Rice Café/Deli in Omotesando adheres to a Whole Foods prep style and specializes in soy, veggies, and of course brown rice. They have a couple of 1,700 yen set meals and a detox juice for 800 yen that purportedly is good for liver overuse control.
Convenience Stores
Konbini are generally not known for selling products that are waist-friendly. However, Berti feels that one chain stands above the rest:
Natural Lawson opened its first shop just over ten years ago, and now there are more than 70 in downtown Tokyo.
"They usually have nuts and dried fruit without added salt. The quality is much better. They also have sweet potato snacks, better fruit cup selections, and a healthier selection of teas–stuff you can't find in regular convenience stores."
One of Berti's biggest pet peeves is the price tags on everything. Even though organic is popular in Tokyo, it can be incredibly hard to find. And when you do find it, you'll notice that much of it is imported, so "you spend half your rent on an 80% cocoa chocolate bar and almond butter."
He saves money by ordering from iherb.com, and invites people to freely use his discount code, JUS847, to save five dollars on their first purchase. He also recommends checking out the "Vegan in Tokyo" Facebook group for those that seek strategy tips on finding true vegan fare.
Those who avoid animal products in their food will also be interested in this Google map that details many of the vegetarian and vegan dining establishments available across Japan. The Japan Veg Guide is another resource worth checking out.
So as you can see, there are several health-conscious options available for the vegetarians, flexitarians, weight watchers and pavement pounders among us. Hopefully this short guide has given you a few new ideas for when you're tracking down your next meal in Tokyo.
Justin Berti is a yoga and fitness instructor at FAB ACADEMY.
An earlier version of this article was originally published by Tokyo Weekender. Special thanks to Adam Gyenes, Mayu Imada and Neill Harper for their valuable input.


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Announcement of Faculty Grants and Request for Proposals
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Augustana's Service-Learning Office and Center for Vocational Reflection encourage and support members of the campus community in continually enriching the learning environment through meaningful reflection and service. We want to nurture commitment, understanding, and responsibility so that our graduates not only have successful careers, but also contribute to their communities and our society, and live life with intention, integrity and generosity in the context of the world around us.
Over the past decade through previous initiatives, Augustana faculty have successfully and creatively integrated vocation (i.e. how one's gifts, skills and talents intersect with the needs of the community) and service-learning into a variety of courses on campus. To build upon this work and momentum, we are now requesting proposals from faculty for further integration with two new course design grants - one for developing service-learning courses, and another for integrating vocational reflection. Both grants offer a $500 award ($250 distributed upon grant approval and $250 distributed upon the first day of the term the course is taught) for a faculty member's ongoing or to-be-developed course.
The Vocation Grant encourages students to relate their personal experiences, prior knowledge, and story, to both the course content as well as the student's self understanding and future direction. Funds might be used to identify or construct self-assessments, integrate autobiographical writing assignments, conduct interviews focused on journey, engage in minor service projects not eligible for the service-learning designation, and connecting ultimate meanings and the sacred into course discourse and writing.
The Service-Learning Grant provides an incentive for a faculty member to develop a proposal for a "Service-Learning Designated Course." Service-learning is "a teaching and learning strategy that integrates meaningful community service with instruction and reflection to enrich the learning experience, teach civic responsibility and strengthen communities" (National Service-Learning Clearinghouse). The community served, whether local or afar, must establish the objective of the service project.
*Individual courses are not eligible to receive both grants
Contact the CEC for grant applications, additional information, or for assistance in developing your application proposal.
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This week we're taking a look at four major trilogies from this decade that are looking to add a fourth film despite substantial challenges — not least among those challenges the skepticism of moviegoers who may wonder whether some of these Hollywood vehicles are running on empty. You can find the other three installments of the series right here.
The story so far: With the triumph of comic-book properties in Hollywood today, it's easy to forget how startling Bryan Singer's "X-Men" was when it arrived in 2000. Sleek, sophisticated and respectful of its studied source material, the Fox film ran counter to the then-standard Hollywood approach of turning comic-book adaptations into smirking cartoons that insulted loyal fans of the properties. The $75-million film made $296 million in worldwide box office (it finished as the eighth-highest-grossing film in America that year) and later won over a vast audience that saw it on home video, cable or pay-per-view. The sequel "X2: X-Men United" arrived as one of the most anticipated releases of 2003 and finished with $408 million worldwide and better reviews than the first one. Singer left the franchise to take on the oddly airless "Superman Returns," so Brett Ratner ("Rush Hour") was brought in for the third movie, "X-Men: The Last Stand," which rolled up $459 million at the box office but suffered some withering reviews.
The challenge: When the credits rolled on "The Last Stand," most observers assumed the franchise (like a good number of the main characters) was dead and waiting to be buried. The fact that the franchise's central hero, Wolverine (Hugh Jackman), was spun off into a lone-wolf film this year suggested that the Marvel mutant team might be akin to aging band that just watched its lead singer launch a solo tour. But last month, producer Lauren Shuler Donner, a key figure in the franchise from Day 1, said that a fourth X-Men film remains viable and, more than that, there are efforts moving toward that goal, although they are in very early stages. That may be true, but there have been plenty of mixed signals when it comes to Fox and potential mutant movies; more than a half-dozen different projects have been trumpeted at one time or another, among them a Magneto film, a Deadpool movie, a Gambit project, a New Mutants spin-off and a Wolverine sequel. It's maddening to try keep track of what is (and isn't) happening.
The status: Amid all the noise, the most interesting tidbit in recent months was the August report in Variety that Singer was flirting with the idea of directing "X-Men: First Class," which would be a prequel based on the popular comic book series and the draft script by "The O.C." creator Josh Schwartz. Later, Donner publicly stated that "First Class" is not the likely next film, but the linkage of Singer to any Marvel mutant is big news — and may signal an effort to have him back in X-business. Donner has made a point of saying in interviews that having Singer back would be a welcome idea, and why not? The director's departure from the X-franchise didn't burn any bridges. Plus, Donner's husband, "Superman" director Richard Donner, was an engaged mentor for Singer as the younger filmmaker toiled on a version of the Man of Steel that was a valentine to the Donner interpretation. Singer's slate of upcoming projects looks dense, but Fox wants to keep the "X-Men" properties front and center, clearly. The studio's rights will revert back to Marvel in 2012 if there is no project in active development. I know Donner is looking at the wide mythology of the entire "X-Men" universe and there is plenty there, of course, but if they go with a "First Class" prequel, they may have a tough time shoehorning Jackman and his signature character into the film continuity. A reunion sequel may be the safer way to go, but that would require reuniting the scattered big-name cast (which would be difficult) and coming up with a deft way to bring back the dead characters (less challenging, if the old comics are any indication).
The prediction: Back in 2000, I remember telling one of the top film-coverage editors at the Los Angeles Times that there was huge potential audience for "X-Men," and he scoffed. "Well, 'Mystery Men' tanked," he said. "Why should this be different?" "X-Men" was a pivot point in superhero cinema and, with the intensity of its opening concentration-camp scene, it gave a ready generation of filmgoers the heroes they wanted, not the bloated old-school farce of "Batman & Robin," which was a mere three years earlier. With all that context, watching "The Last Stand" was torture. "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" was better but still not on the level of the Singer films. Despite the upbeat chatter on both sides, I'm skeptical that Singer will actually return to the franchise — when decision time comes, there will have to be a truly marvelous script to get the "Usual Suspects" director to circle back to ground he's covered before, especially considering that the landscape is charred and pitted after Ratner's noisy residence. No, I predict we instead see more spinoffs of Singer's outsider tale. And (judging by recent history) the directors entrusted with those mutant ventures might deliver video-game plots, flimsy characters and some killer explosions.
— Geoff Boucher
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High-Tech Corridor
Florida's I-4 corridor is a high tech hotbed
Tourism, retirees and agriculture might have put Florida on the map, but the state is also becoming a mecca for high-tech industry. Nowhere is the transformation more evident than along what's known as the Florida High-Tech Corridor, a 23-county area that runs from Tampa through Orlando to the Space Coast and bumps up to include Gainesville and Alachua County. From medical device manufacturers in Clearwater to simulation companies in Orlando to avionics suppliers on the Space Coast, the region's diverse industry clusters encompass close to 20,000 businesses and more than a quarter of a million employees with an average salary of more than $77,000.
While many of those firms are homegrown startups, the region is also attracting newcomers who are migrating to the area to take advantage of the state's favorable tax climate and skilled workforce.
"We were headquartered in Silicon Valley. We started to look around and figure out how we wanted to optimize our U.S. operations. When we looked at Gainesville, it really kept rising to the top," says John Borgerding, CEO of SumTotal Systems, a human resources software company that got a foothold in Gainesville in 2006 with the purchase of MindSolve Technologies and moved its headquarters there in 2010.
Borgerding says he appreciated the state's business-friendly climate and lack of an income tax, but the top attraction was a ready supply of talented graduates from the University of Florida and Santa Fe College. Locally, the company has grown from less than 30 employees to more than 200 over the past three years. "It's really a great talent pool to draw from, a reasonable competitive base of going after that talent, where in Silicon Valley it very saturated from a high-tech standpoint."
When Mazor Robotics, an Israeli company that produces a robotic guidance system for spinal procedures, was looking for a spot for its U.S. headquarters it considered New York, Boston, Atlanta and Dallas. At the urging of one of its customers, Florida Hospital, the company began looking at Florida and ultimately decided to locate in Orlando.
"There's a lot going on in high tech, a lot going on in medical. You had a new medical school, two major hospital systems, Orlando Health and Florida Hospital, which is access to many types of health care providers," says Christopher Prentice, Mazor's vice president of global marketing. The sunny weather, he says, was also a plus: "It's not hard to get surgeons or executives to come to Florida not only from the U.S., but from around the world, because we're a global company."
Kevin Maughan, with Novaerus, says Tampa's "big talent pool," lower cost of doing business and location gave it an edge over other Florida cities when he was deciding where to locate the company's U.S. headquarters. The Irish company manufactures a patented airborne infection control device for health care facilities that destroys airborne pathogens, including viruses, bacteria and mold spores. Maughan says that Tampa "offered the most" as he seeks to penetrate Florida's long-term care/skilled nursing market. Sales, he says, have been brisk since opening in Tampa last December. "It's about between 3% and 4% who try our technology and don't sign up — 95% plus do. We plan on growing rapidly within 50 miles."
While the high-tech corridor's three research universities and 14 state and community college provide a pipeline of talent for companies like Novaerus and SumTotal Systems, the institutions are also helping to foster innovative, tech startups like NanoSpective, which evaluates the atomic structure and composition of materials.
Brenda Prenitzer, president and CEO of NanoSpective, says she and three other University of Central Florida grad students decided to form NanoSpective in 2003, when the company where she worked, Agere Systems, a spinoff of Lucent Technologies, began winding down operations at its Orlando semi-conductor plant to move production overseas. With her job eliminated, Prenitzer and her colleagues saw an opportunity in what Lucent had left behind — a fully equipped facility that Lucent had helped establish on campus at UCF — and got assistance from the UCF Technology Incubator.
Ten years later, "business is booming," Prenitzer says. The company provides nanoscale evaluation of products for everything from research and development — "we make sure that what a company thinks they're making, they're making" — to quality control, failure analysis and intellectual property protection. The seven-employee company has been growing consistently through word-of-mouth referrals. "We are working almost around the clock trying to manage the business that we have," says Prenitzer.
— John Borgerding, CEO, SumTotal Systems


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He describes the undercover mission to rescue six Americans
Tony Mendez, the retired CIA spy who inspired the Academy Award-winning film "Argo," discusses the film's Oscar win and describes the undercover mission to rescue six Americans from Iran. The report will be broadcast Tuesday, Feb. 26, on the "CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley" (6 p.m.), on the CBS Television Network.
In 1997, Mendez revealed the rescue mission for the first time in an interview with CBS News National Security Correspondent David Martin. In Tuesday's report, Mendez, who was portrayed by Ben Affleck in "Argo," tells Martin about his experience at the Oscars this weekend and provides insight on the fake production he used as a cover in 1980 to smuggle six Americans out of Iran.
"It's like robbing banks, except in our case, we had to make it look like the money was still there," Mendez tells Martin.


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Muslim civic organisations, Muslim universities, heads of state of every Muslim country and leaders from every sphere from all across the globe recently wrote an open letter to all Christians in the world. A letter of this type is totally unprecedented and is truly a letter representative of the entire Muslim world.
The full text of the letter can be found at "A Common Word" and I highly recommend that the full letter is read before conclusions are jumped to or irrelevant posts are made.
See below for an abridged version of the text:
In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
A Common Word between Us and You
(Summary and Abridgement)
Muslims and Christians together make up well over half of the world's population. Without peace and justice between these two religious communities, there can be no meaningful peace in the world. The future of the world depends on peace between Muslims and Christians.
The basis for this peace and understanding already exists. It is part of the very foundational principles of both faiths: love of the One God, and love of the neighbour. These principles are found over and over again in the sacred texts of Islam and Christianity. The Unity of God, the necessity of love for Him, and the necessity of love of the neighbour is thus the common ground between Islam and Christianity. The following are only a few examples:
Of God's Unity, God says in the Holy Qur'an: Say: He is God, the One! / God, the Self-Sufficient Besought of all! (Al-Ikhlas, 112:1-2). Of the necessity of love for God, God says in the Holy Qur'an: So invoke the Name of thy Lord and devote thyself to Him with a complete devotion (Al-Muzzammil, 73:8). Of the necessity of love for the neighbour, the Prophet Muhammad said: "None of you has faith until you love for your neighbour what you love for yourself."
In the New Testament, Jesus Christ said: 'Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One. / And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.' This is the first commandment. / And the second, like it, is this: 'You shall love your neighbour as yourself.' There is no other commandment greater than these." (Mark 12:29-31)
In the Holy Qur'an, God Most High enjoins Muslims to issue the following call to Christians (and Jews—the People of the Scripture):
Say: O People of the Scripture! Come to a common word between us and you: that we shall worship none but God, and that we shall ascribe no partner unto Him, and that none of us shall take others for lords beside God. And if they turn away, then say: Bear witness that we are they who have surrendered (unto Him). (Aal 'Imran 3:64)
The words: we shall ascribe no partner unto Him relate to the Unity of God, and the words: worship none but God, relate to being totally devoted to God. Hence they all relate to the First and Greatest Commandment. According to one of the oldest and most authoritative commentaries on the Holy Qur'an the words: that none of us shall take others for lords beside God, mean 'that none of us should obey the other in disobedience to what God has commanded'. This relates to the Second Commandment because justice and freedom of religion are a crucial part of love of the neighbour.
Thus in obedience to the Holy Qur'an, we as Muslims invite Christians to come together with us on the basis of what is common to us, which is also what is most essential to our faith and practice: the Two Commandments of love.
Please see full letter at A Common Word: http://www.acommonword.com
The letter was addressed to all major Christian Churches.
These Churches returned very interesting responses.


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by Kay Gardiner and Ann Shayne
The Weirdest Thing We've Heard So Far
Dear Problem Ladies,
Please help me figure out this Great Sock Mystery.
When I knit socks from the toe up, I always need fewer stitches than when I knit them from the cuff down. For example, any sock I knit for myself (plain or ribbed, no cables or anything else that might influence stitch count) from the cuff down usually requires 56 stitches (on #2 needles). Using the same yarn and the same needles, those same socks would take a mere 44 stitches working from the toe up. I don't get it!
I haven't figured out why this happens. No other knitter I've asked has had an explanation.
Dear Mystified,
That is the weirdest thing we have ever heard, and we've seen some peculiar stuff.
There is clearly some sort of shriveling that's setting in whenever you put on a sock that you made from the toe up. Your feet are shrinking! We're pretty sure you have some allergy to toe-up knitting, so for heaven's sake, get back to top-down sock knitting as soon as possible.
It's either that, or you've been doing some Ambien-related sleepwalking during which you prank yourself.


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Harlequin in Hell
Berryman's Sonnets
A strange bumbling nobility, the aristocrat with reservations or exacerbated sympathies—
Rilke was a jerk
I admit his griefs & music
I titled spelled all-disappointed ladies
the master of the heart-shaped irony—John Berryman. Tone is practically everything with Berryman—that, and the peculiar gaunt delicacy of his diction, filling the iron lace work of Homage to Mistress Bradstreet, the blues-y balloons of Dream Songs. Born in 1914, Berryman is particularly admired as a poet who came into his kingdom relatively late, or at least after a suitable struggle, unlike Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop, his contemporaries and peers, whose first volumes presented fully established personalities. Even now the character of John Berryman continues to mutate, becoming more obscure, more crashingly comic. Also sadder, much sadder, more whimsical and desperate—familiar emotions to the poet:
They'll say "I wonder
What is in Berryman lately? I find him stranger
Than usual"—working their nickel in the slot
They'll try again, dreamless…
The lines come from Berryman's Sonnets, composed as long ago as the late Forties, but only recently published. Of course, Berryman's poetry has never been published at fashionable moments. Homage to Mistress Bradstreet appeared during the neo-Victorian sunbursts of the Fifties when Richard Wilbur was king, Dream Songs some years after Life Studies. Nevertheless, Berryman has arrived, and knows it. You find that not only in the progressive surety and experimental hauteur of Dream Songs, but also in direct twinkling statements:
"Now Henry is unmistakably a Big One.
Funnee; he don't feel so.
He just stuck around.
Self-advertisement is a gaudy perennial in American letters, extending de haut en bas, from Poe to Mailer. It exists in Berryman, too, but almost as an afterthought. In the scattered references he has made to his career, whether in the poems or prose, something of pride and a wry cynicism meet, suggesting the survival of the fittest even by mishap.
Perhaps one reason Berryman took longer than Lowell and Miss Bishop to come to the fore is the absence of thematic substance (the fundamental Lowellian one of temporality, of "Time and the grindstone and the knife of God"), or descriptive power (Miss Bishop's high visibility colors, her painterly statements), which were immediately recognized in these poets, while nothing so dominant seemed apparent in Berryman. If you look over the early work, in spite of the stray successes, you cannot call it really good: cold-water rhymes, an involved twisting non-music, rueful self-defeating rhythms—they call to mind literary angst, iceberg-low personal problems. Introspection without style, or style without density. "The Dispossessed" is the most interesting of these early poems, and the one most characteristic of Berryman's later work—more interesting, it seems to me, than the pretty and much admired "Winter Landscape."
Berryman somewhere remarks on all the poets "Winter Landscape" does not echo; he forgets Eliot, Stevens, Graves, not to mention a phrase from King Lear. But the clearest thing about Homage to Mistress Bradstreet and Dream…
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U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen's stimulus: The scandal of cronyism
June 28. 2014 8:42PM
The Boston Globe reported last week that in 2009 Jeanne Shaheen's husband became an adviser to a breast cancer research firm named Ultrawave Labs, which that same year received $78,000 in federal stimulus funding Shaheen voted to approve. The Globe's implication was that because Bill Shaheen held Ultrawave stock options, Shaheen's family was profiting from her votes on federal funding.
The Shaheens did not help themselves by refusing to answer any questions regarding the story. Shaheen should have recused herself from voting on the stimulus bill because of its funding of Ultrawave. She will have to answer for the consequences of that vote. But it seems to us that the real issue here is Shaheen's willing participation in the pay-for-play scheme that is the federal appropriations process.
Shaheen believes it is her job as a U.S. senator to distribute taxpayer money to activities she favors. Funding for breast cancer research? Sure, here are tens of thousands of dollars. Funding for "green energy?" Sure, here are tens of millions of dollars. But the companies that receive this taxpayer-financed support are inevitably the best-connected ones, like Solyndra, or Ultrawave.
Shaheen complains about big-money influence in politics while engaging in the very behavior that encourages companies to hire lobbyists and senators' spouses to obtain the connections necessary to access federal money. This is crony capitalism - and Jeanne Shaheen is one of the cronies.


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Nicolet students can check their grades through MyNicolet. Along with checking grades, MyNicolet allows you to view and print unofficial transcripts, change address and other personal information, use online support for help with studies, computer issues, and obtain general information about Nicolet. Students can also enroll in classes from MyNicolet.
You must have a current email address on file with the college to obtain your User ID and Password when you first login to the MyNicolet website. Detailed instructions about accessing the different services can be found by reviewing the online reference link on the MyNicolet menu options.
If you have issues logging in to MyNicolet, contact the Help Desk at 715-365-4478, 1-800-544-3039 ext. 4478; by email at email@example.com ; or at Online Support.
Grading and Grade Point Averages
Grades are assigned to report student academic achievement. Instructors use sound judgment and fair methods in determining grades. They inform their students at the beginning of the semester about the course requirements and evaluation criteria. Any time students are unsure of their progress, they should talk to their course instructor. Instructors submit grades to the Academic Advising/ Records /Registrar's Office at the end of the semester. The following grades and corresponding grade points are used at Nicolet College:
Grade (Quality Points)
AS = Advanced Standing
AU = Audit
I = Incomplete
S = Satisfactory
T = Transfer Credit
U = Unsatisfactory
W = Withdrawn
Grades of "S" or "U" are assigned only in Community Education courses and/or in special circumstances requiring the approval of the Vice President of Teaching, Learning, and Student Success.
Grade Point Averages
Grade points and grade point averages (GPA) are used for many purposes:
- Self-assessment of progress by students
- Advising and counseling
- Recognition of excellence in academic work
- Eligibility for programs sponsored by various external agencies such as colleges and universities to which students transfer
- Various scholarship and financial aid programs funded by government units
The GPA is computed by multiplying the point value by the number of credits and dividing the total points by the total number of credits, e.g.:
5 Credits of "A" = 5 x 4 = 20
10 Credits of "B-" = 10 x 2.67 = 26.7
5 Credits of "D+" = 5 x 1.33 = 6.65
20 Total Credits = 53.35 Total Points
divided by 20 Credits = 2.67 GPA
The GPA calculation for financial aid recipients is computed on all courses undertaken. "I" and "W" marks received and recorded are considered in the computation of a GPA only when the GPA is utilized to determine a student's financial aid standing. (Refer to the Academic Standards of Progress policy.)
A student's cumulative GPA is calculated using all courses taken at Nicolet College regardless of the year in which the courses were taken. Grades received at other higher education institutions are not used in the cumulative GPA calculation for Nicolet College.
Under extenuating circumstances, students may request an Incomplete grade. To receive an Incomplete, students must have completed 50% of the coursework. It is up to the instructor to decide if the request is feasible based on the reason for the request, the type of class, and whether or not it is possible for the student to complete the course work in an acceptable method and time frame. A signed Incomplete Contract between the student and the instructor must be filed in the Welcome Center by 4:00 pm on the deadline day. The deadline for submitting an Incomplete Contract is one calendar week prior to the end of the course. Exceptions to this deadline will only be made due to extenuating circumstances as approved by the Registrar. An Incomplete grade can be carried for only one semester (summer session does not count as a semester.) If a grade is not issued by the completion of the following semester, a grade of "F" will automatically be recorded on the student's transcript. Once given, the Incomplete grade cannot be changed to a Withdrawal grade. The instructor will file a change of grade upon completion of work specified in the Incomplete Contract.


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Colleges and universities across the United States are caught in an interesting dilemma: Many, if not most, have been sitting for a few years on 2.5 GHz EBS (Educational Broadband Service) spectrum licensed from the FCC that they could be using to operate WiMAX networks. Few, however, are. Many lease part of what they own to companies such as Sprint and Clearwire. But now they risk losing whatever spectrum they haven't leased, just when there is something interesting and useful they could be doing with it.
EBS spectrum holders face a fast-approaching use-it-or-lose-it deadline in their FCC contracts. If they can't show they're making 'substantial' use of the spectrum by 2011, the federal regulator will take it back.
What to do?
Ball State University (BSU) in Muncie, Indiana, the only institution of higher learning to actually deploy a WiMAX network so far, believes it has a solution.
Partly with the help of Cisco, the school has built a fully mobile 802.16e WiMAX network that provides coverage across campus and within a two-mile radius to take in off-campus housing and staff/faculty residences.
It has also developed a quasi-commercial capability for providing services to other schools to help them quickly build their own WiMAX networks. BSU can provide consulting and also remote management and monitoring of networks, which saves other universities the capital expense of building their own WiMAX network management infrastructure.
BSU Provides Academic Community With Relevant Expertise
"The window of opportunity is rapidly closing [for other schools]," notes Robert Yadon, professor and director of the Applied Research Institute, part of BSU's Center for Information and Communications Sciences.
"We represent a ray of hope for them if they do want to deploy and maintain their frequency. At least now there is someone in the academic community that can provide some assistance. And we've been in the business since 2006."
This unusual offer comes out of a long history with broadband wireless at BSU, and a fruitful partnership between the academic and administrative sides of the school. With the FCC deadline looming, it may be just in the nick of time for some other institutions.
"There is definitely some panic now about how they're going to meet the substantial use deadline in 2011," says Vernon Draper, the school's assistant director of computing in charge of communications and networking.
"They're just waking up to the problem and they know they're behind the eight ball. This is not just a Wi-Fi skill set. It takes some time to acquire the skills needed."
University of Wisconsin Configured by Remote
One school, the University of Wisconsin at Madison at Madison, has already used the BSU services. After the university installed network base stations, Draper's group stepped in -- remotely.
It was able to configure the Wisconsin network and get it up and running within three days. "And I think we could do it faster," he says. BSU continues to provide monitoring and maintenance for UW.
The University of Wisconsin was BSU's first paying client. "And we hope they won't be the last," Yadon says. The school is deliberately taking an "entrepreneurial" approach to its work with WiMAX, Draper adds.
There have been other enquiries, including from one California county that wants to light up its entire territory. And BSU has provided consulting support to a few other schools in Indiana, where it heads a consortium that provides a mutual support group for meeting the substantial-use deadline.
BSU has the skills because it has been active with broadband wireless since the very early days Wi-Fi on campus. At one point, the school was ranked by Intel as number one in the country for its innovative use of the technology.
"That recognition felt good to the university," Draper explains. "And we made a conscious decision to maintain that branding with broadband wireless. So we were always looking out past Wi-Fi to what came after. We wanted to provide some leadership in this technology."
Meanwhile, on the academic side, Yadon's Applied Research Institute was just as keen to pursue broadband wireless and the business of broadband wireless as part of its curriculum and research.
The institute has been involved in research and testing since before it was possible to use EBS spectrum for WiMAX -- the spectrum was originally intended for broadcast applications -- and before the WiMAX standard was ratified.
And all along, there has been the close partnership with Draper's department -- and more recently, with Cisco, which supplied infrastructure equipment for the school's seven-base station mobile WiMAX network.
Yadon's department and its graduate students worked side by side with Draper's staff to design, build and test the campus network and develop the service offering to other schools. Now they're beginning human factors testing trying to figure out how the BSU community can and should use the network.
The network is in fact not being widely used yet, although it has been fully built out for some months. This is because the testing required under a contract with Cisco meant constant changes that would have been disruptive for real users, Draper explains.


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