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Participatory Design of DataONE - Enabling Cyberinfrastructure for the Biological and Environmental Sciences. Ecological Informatics.(In Press).
Research Data Services in European Academic Research Libraries. LIBER Quarterly. 27(1), 23-44.(2017).
Research Data Services in European Academic Research Libraries. LIBER Quarterly. 27(1), 23-44.(2017).
Beyond the download: Issues in developing a secondary usage calculator. Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries. 5, 365-377.(2016).
Changes in the Digital Scholarly Environment and Issues of Trust: An Exploratory, Qualitative analysis. Information Processing & Management . 52(3), 446-458.(2016).
Data Management Education from the Perspective of Science Educators. International Journal of Digital Curation. 11(1), 232-251.(2016).
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The Importance of Data, Information and Knowledge in Scholarly Communication. LIS Education and Research in a Dynamic Information Landscape: Proceedings of the Library and Information Studies Centre 75 years Commemorative Conference.(2016).
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No scholar is an island: The impact of sharing in the work life of scholars. Learned Publishing. 30(1), 5-17.(2016).
Trustworthiness and Authority of Scholarly Information in a Digital Age: Results of an International Questionnaire. Journal of the Association for Information Science & Technology (JASIST). 67(10), 2344-2361.(2016).
What Motivates Authors of Scholarly Articles? The Importance of Journal Attributes and Potential Audience on Publication Choice. Publications. 4(3), 22.(2016).
Changes in Data Sharing and Data Reuse Practices and Perceptions of Scientists Worldwide. PLOS ONE. 10(8), 24 pages.(2015).
Do Younger Researchers Assess Trustworthiness Differently When Deciding What to Read and Cite and Where to Publish?. International Journal of Knowledge Content Development and Technology. 5(2),(2015).
Enriching Education with Exemplars in Practice: Iterative Development of Data Curation Internships. International Journal of Digital Curation. 10(1), 123-134.(2015).
Peer Review: Still King in the Digital Age. Learned Publishing . 28(1), 15-21.(2015).
Research Data Services in Academic Libraries: Data Intensive Roles for the Future?. Journal of eScience Librarianship. 4(2), 24 pages.(2015).
The Role of Trust and Authority in the Citation Behaviour of Researchers. Information Research. 20(3), 17 pages.(2015).
How Scholars Implement Trust in the Reading, Citing and Publishing: Geographical Differences. Library & Information Science Research. 36(2014), 192-202.(2014).
Managing Scientific Data as Public Assets: Data Sharing Practices and Policies among Full-time Government Employees. Journal of the Association for Information Science & Technology (JASIST). 65(2), 251-262.(2014).
Trust and Authority in Scholarly Communications in the Light of the Digital Transition: Setting the Scene for a Major Study. Learned Publishing. 27(2), 121-134.(2014).
Academic Librarians and Research Data Service: Preparation and Attitudes. IFLA Journal (Official Journal of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions). 39(1), 70-78.(2013).
Social Media and Reading. Online Information Review. 37(2),(2013).
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Embracing Change: Perceptions of E-Journals by University Faculty Members. Learned Publishing. 23(3), 44-57.(2010).
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Increasing Biodiversity Information Sources (IBIS) for the Southern Appalachian Information Node (SAIN): Developing an Environmental Decision Making Matrix. University of Tennessee College of Communication and Information 32nd Annual Research Symposium.(2010).
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Martha E. Williams: Pioneer Information Scientist and Online Industry Guru. Libraries & the Cultural Record. 45(2), 185-209.(2010).
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Measuring Value and Return on Investment of Academic Libraries. Serials. 23(3), 182-190.(2010).
University Investment in the Library, Phase II: An International Study of the Library's Value to the Grants Process. Library Connect White Paper.(2010).
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Academic Library Decision Making and E-Journal Use. (Huotari, M-L., & Lehto A., Ed.).Quo Vadis, Bibliotheca Universitatis.(2009).
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Scholarly Journal Information Seeking and Reading Patterns of Faculty at Five U.S. Universities. Learned Publishing. 22 (2),(2009).
Variations in Article Seeking and Reading Patterns of Academics: What Makes a Difference?. Library & Information Science Research. 31(3),(2009).
Academic users' interaction with ScienceDirect in search tasks: Affective and cognitive behaviors. Information Processing & Management. 44(1), 105-121.(2008).
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Mathematicians are often confused about the meaning of variables. I hear them say "a free variable is implicitly universally quantified", by which they mean that it is ok to equate a formula $\phi$ with a free variable $x$ with its universal closure $\forall x \,.\, \phi$. I am addressing this post to those who share this opinion.
I will give several reasons, which are all essentially the same, why "there is no difference between $\phi$ and $\forall x \,.\, \phi$" is a really bad opinion to have.
Reason 1: you wouldn't equate a function with its definite integral
You would not claim that a real-valued function $f : \mathbb{R} \to \mathbb{R}$ is "the same thing" as its definite integral $\int_{\mathbb{R}} f(x) \, d x$, would you? One is a real function, the other is a real number. Likewise, $\phi$ is a truth
Reason 2: functions are not their own values
To be quite precise, the expression $\phi$ by itself is not a function, just like the expression $x + \sin x$ is not a function. To make it into a function we must first
fun x -> x +. sin x. In logic we indicate the fact that $\phi$ is a function by putting it in a
Why is all this nit-picking necessary? Try answering these questions with "yes" and "no" consistently:
- Is $x + \sin x$ a function in variable $x$?
- Is $x + \sin x$ a function in variables $x$ and $y$?
- Is $y – y + x + \sin x$ a function in variables $x$ and $y$?
- Is $x + \sin x = y – y + x + \sin x$?
A similar sort of mistake happens in algebra where people think that polynomials are functions. They are not. They are elements of a certain freely generated ring.
Reason 3: They are not logically equivalent
It is absurd to claim that $\phi$ and $\forall x \in \mathbb{R} \,.\, \phi$ are logically equivalent statements. Suppose $\forall x \in \mathbb{R} \,.\, x > 2$ were equivalent to $x > 2$. Then I could replace one by the other in any formula I wish. So I choose the formula $\exists x \in \mathbb{R} \,.\, x > 2$. It must be equivalent to $\exists x \in \mathbb{R} \,.\, \forall x \in \mathbb{R} \,.\, x > 2$, but since $\forall x \in \mathbb{R} \,.\, x > 2$ is false, we get $\exists x \in \mathbb{R} \,.\, \bot$, which is false. We proved that there is no number larger than 2.
Reason 4: They are not inter-derivable
If you can tell the difference between an implication and logical entailment, perhaps you might try to counter reason 3 by pointing out that $\phi$ and $\forall x \,.\, \phi$ are either both derivable, or both not derivable. That is to say, we can prove one if, and only if, we can prove the other. But again, this is not the case. We can prove $\forall x \in \emptyset \,.\, \bot$ but we cannot prove $\bot$.
Reason 5: Bound variables can be renamed but free variables cannot
The formula $x > 2$ is obviously not the same thing as the formula $y > 2$. But the formula $\forall x \in \mathbb{R} . x > 2$ is actually the same as $\forall y \in \mathbb{R} . y > 2$. If you find this confusing it is because you were never taught properly how to handle free and bound variables.
Reason 6: You cannot prove $\forall x \,.\, \phi$ without allowing $x$ to become free
Perhaps we can just forbid free variables altogether and
"Consider any $x \in \mathbb{R}$. Then bla bla bla, therefore $\phi$."
is now forbidden because the first sentence introduces $x$ as a free variable.
We can abolish variables altogether if we wish, by resorting to combinators, but it makes no sense to keep variables and make them all bound all the time.
Epilogue: so in what sense are they the same?
There is a theorem in model theory:
Let $\phi$ be a formula in context $x_1, \ldots, x_n$ and $M$ a structure in which we can interpret $\phi$. The following are equivalent:
- the universal closure $\forall x_1, \ldots, x_n \,.\, \phi$ is valid in $M$,
- for every valuation $\nu : \lbrace x_1, \ldots, x_n \rbrace \to M$, $\phi[\nu]$ is valid in $M$.
This is sometimes abbreviated (quite inaccurately) as "a formula and its universal closure are semantically equivalent". This theorem is causing a lot of harm because mathematicians interpret it as "free variables are implicitly universally bound". But the theorem itself clearly distinguishes a formula from its universal closure. It has a limited range of applications in model theory. It is not a general reasoning principle that would allow you to dispose of thinking about free variables.
You are in good company. Philosophers have thought about free variables for millennia, although they phrase the problem in the language of universals and particulars. They wonder whether "dog" is the same thing as the set of all dogs, or perhaps there is an ideal dog which is "pure dogness", but then do we need two ideal dogs to make ideal pups, etc. The answer is simple: a free variable is a projection from a cartesian product.

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We've all had days when the swing felt perfect and our scores reflected that confidence. But unfortunately, we all know the days where the swing feels out of sorts and the scorecard reflects that as well. Wouldn't it be great if we could battle through the tough days and still post some good numbers? Top PGA Professional Todd Anderson tells us -- using Phil Mickelson's victory at THE PLAYERS as evidence -- that we can still make the most of those days by working on our short game skills.
There's no question that winning at such a demanding and high-profile tournament like THE PLAYERS Championship is one of the great tests in golf. This tournament consistently attracts one of, if not the, best fields of the season -- and it's played on one of the TOUR's toughest layouts. Congratulations to Phil Mickelson, who has shown that even the best players in the world can benefit from some fine-tuning as his newly ravamped swing has now led to two third-place ties and a very impressive victory.
The course renovations and the new date have changed the character of The PLAYERS course at TPC Sawgrass. The new sub-air system has given The TOUR control of the course conditions. The firm fairways have made hitting fairways more difficult, and hitting the already small greens can be almost impossible from the bermuda rough. Second, the new greens are much firmer, making it more difficult for the ball to hold. Even well-struck iron shots from the fairway are rolling off the greens, resulting in a variety of short-game situations. And that was the key this week.
A close look at Mickelson's statistics through the week show something astounding. Through two rounds of golf, Mickelson's swing was not quite in synch. He was missing fairways with alarming regularity and missing many greens in regulation. In fact, during the critical second round, Mickelson hit only a third of the greens in regulation. Usually, a statistic like that dooms a player's chance of winning a title.
But the Lesson Learned from THE PLAYERS is that a strong short game can bail out a lot of other weaknesses in your golf. Despite such lackluster stats through the first two rounds, Mickelson held the 36-hole lead. How? Because he was able to save par from a variety of difficult positions from off the green.
This can only help you in your game as well. There will be days when your swing might be a little off. That doesn't mean you can't grind out a good score. Just remember, the ability to hit a variety of shots around the green will make all your shot selections a little easier.
And having a strong short game is not overly complicated. The key to success is controlling the distance, trajectory, and roll on short game shots. Whether it is a high flop shot or a low bump and run, the procedure is the same.
Divide the shot into two parts: air time and ground time. Pick the club and trajectory (air time) that will allow the ball to land on the spot and have the correct amount of roll to end up close to the hole.
Try this drill: Place a bag tag on the green where you want the ball to land. Then pick the club, the set up, and the motion and hit some shots that will produce the desired distance, trajectory, and roll to get the ball close to the hole. Work on different types of shots to get comfortable with different situations.
Of course, these shots take practice and discipline. But the payoff is huge. Phil Mickelson won THE PLAYERS Championship on Sunday because he controlled his golf game so well. But he would never have been in the position to win if not for his phenomenal short game. It might not win you the TOUR's signature event, but it will improve your golf and make the game more enjoyable.
Best of luck.


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Miami-Dade County
Two dead after bus crash at Miami International Airport
What began as a day of prayer and fellowship turned into a surreal scene of stunned, bloodied passengers and twisted metal.
There was the sickening sound of crunching metal early Saturday as a busload of Jehovah's Witnesses was low-bridged by a concrete overpass at Miami International Airport, peeling back the top of the vehicle "like a can of sardines."
Airport workers running to the scene found shocked passengers thrown into the aisle or trapped in their seats by the wreckage.
Riders in the front rows were crushed — two of them killed, others seriously injured.
The driver of the bus, 47-year-old Ramon Ferreiro, took a wrong turn off LeJeune Road, entering the airport by mistake, then rolled past multiple yellow signs warning tall vehicles. He drove on, approaching an overpass whose sign said "8ft-6in". The driver either didn't see it, couldn't read it, or realized it too late.
The bus stood 11 feet tall.
"The last thing he should have done is to keep going," said Greg Chin, airport spokesman. "That goes against all logic."
Ferreiro, whose driver's seat was lower than those of the passengers, was not injured.
One passenger, 86-year-old Miami resident Serfin Castillo, was killed on impact, and all 31 others were taken by ambulance to local hospitals. Thirteen ended up at Jackson Memorial's Ryder Trauma Center, where one of them, 56-year-old Francisco Urana of Miami, died shortly after arriving.
Three remained in critical condition Saturday night, and three had been released.
Luis Jimenez, 72, got a few stitches on his lip and hurt his hand. He said the group left the Sweetwater Kingdom Hall about 7 a.m., bound for West Palm Beach.
"I was sitting in the back when it happened," Jimenez said. "We were on our way to an assembly and lost a brother today. I'm very sad."
Delvis Lazo, 15, a neighbor and member of the same congregation, described Castillo as a "nice, old man." He often saw Castillo at religious gatherings, and their families have known each other for more than 15 years.
The last time Lazo saw him was about two months ago, as he prepped for a talk before his congregation.
"He gave me a thumbs up, told me that everything was going to be all right," he said.
The bus, one of three traveling to the Spanish-language general assembly on Saturday, had been contracted by the congregation, which has fewer than 150 members.
According to public records, the bus belongs to Miami Bus Service Corporation, a Miami company owned by Mayling and Alberto Hernandez that offers regularly scheduled service between South Florida and Gainesville, often used by University of Florida students. At the home address listed for the company and the owners, Mayling Hernandez told The Miami Herald that passenger safety is her primary concern.
"At this time I'm worried about the driver and the families of the victims. I'm praying for them," she said. "My job is to worry about the safety of the passengers who are our clients. What we do requires a lot of responsibility. I didn't know the passengers but that doesn't mean I'm not suffering."
Neighbor Armando Bacigalupi described the owners as "caring people" and said he had seen buses park briefly in front of the house.
According to the U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, the company has two drivers for its three passenger motor coaches.
The company had no unsafe driving or controlled substances violations based on a 24-month record ending on Oct. 26, 2012.
Hernan Garcia, who works at the airport guiding cruise ship tourists to buses taking them to the port, said: "It's clear that the driver was not familiar with the airport. There are designated routes for these type of buses and it is prohibited to speed in this area."
Among the arriving tourists who came upon the crash scene was youngster Edwin Aparicio of Bogotá. "Wow, like a can of sardines," he said in Spanish, referring to the top of the bus, sheered back by the overpass.
Sweetwater Mayor Manny Maroño happened to be in the airport Saturday morning, flying in from a conference in Boston an hour after the crash.
"I saw the bus and wondered how the accident happened," said Maroño, whose family had to pick him up in the departures section to bypass the crash scene. "My thoughts and prayers are with those families. These were people who were on their way to a place to further their faith."
Back at the Kingdom Hall in Sweetwater Saturday night, Himdley Llopez, 45, was waiting anxiously for his wife Miriam Suarez, who was on one of the other two buses that went to the general assembly. When she arrived, he hugged her tightly.
"We have been married for over a decade," Llopez said in Spanish. "It's a relief to see her. If something would have happened to her it would have been devastating."
Manuel Lacayo, 14, of Coral Park Senior High, arrived at the West Palm Beach assembly in one of the buses. He said when the thousands of people gathered there heard the news of the crash, they offered tearful prayers.
"They were something special to all of us," Lacayo said. "We are very religious, so as a Jehovah's Witness we see this as a work of the devil."
Miami Herald staff writers Alexandra Leon and Anthony Cave, and staff photographer Peter Andrew Bosch contributed to this story.


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The University of South Alabama is a comprehensive, global university that offers students a quality education in a variety of fields. USA offers more than 100 undergraduate, graduate and doctoral degrees through its nine colleges and schools and is ranked "Research University/High" by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
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USA offers instruction in the College of Arts and Sciences, the Mitchell College of Business, the College of Education and Professional Studies, the College of Engineering, the College of Medicine, the College of Nursing, the Pat Capps Covey College of Allied Health Professions, the School of Computing, and the Harrison School of Pharmacy (with Auburn University).
The University also has a campus in Baldwin County, providing more opportunity and convenience for students living in one of the state's fastest-growing counties.
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The Green Berets AMC's Memorial Day weekend slate of classic war movies includes the 1968 Vietnam War tale starring John Wayne and David Janssen. 5 and 11 p.m. AMC
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Vice President, Advanced Technology and Engineering
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Klaus G. Hoehn is Vice President, Advanced Technology and Engineering, Deere & Company, a position he has held since January 2006. He is responsible at the corporate level for directing advanced technology development and engineering services that support worldwide agricultural, construction, and commercial and consumer equipment design and manufacturing.
Following an academic career as professor in Germany and Ethiopia, Hoehn joined Deere & Company in 1992 as Manager, Engineering, at John Deere Werke in Mannheim, Germany. He transferred to the company's Product Engineering Center in Waterloo, Iowa, in 1997, where he served as Manager, Worldwide Core Technology and Component Engineering. In 1998, Hoehn was named Director, Worldwide Tractor and Component Engineering.
He is a member of VDI, a German engineering association, and a previous board member of VDI's Max-Eyth-Society. Hoehn is also a member of the Society of Automotive Engineers, a previous member of the SAE Board of Directors, and a previous member of SAE Foundation Board of Trustees. Additionally, he served on the Iowa State University IPRT Industrial Advisory Board, Iowa State University ABE Advisory Council, and the University of Michigan NAC Advisory Board, as well as the German Fraunhofer Advisory Council at the University of Magdeburg, Germany.
Hoehn received bachelor's, master's, and doctorate degrees in mechanical and agricultural engineering from Rostock University in Germany.
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A hearty autumnal or winter soup, this dish is brimming with the kind of soul-warming ingredients we all love: pumpkin, chicken, ginger, and leeks. If that weren't enough, its silky smooth consistency makes it the kind of soup you just want to curl up with in front of the fire.
It's also a recipe to feature at a dinner party, as the soup and leeks can be prepared several hours ahead and the bowls assembled at the last minute.–Charlie Trotter
LC Ginger-tastic Note
This recipe doesn't dally when it comes to ginger – we would say it packs a punch, but it's more like a big hug. Maybe one of those hugs that takes your breath away for a moment with its enthusiasm, but not one of those that makes you wonder if you'll get out with all your ribs intact. Preserving the ginger as directed, in several changes of syrup, softens the flavour from an outright burn to a sweet smolder, and combining the end result with pumpkin and a hint of sage is a marriage made in autumnal heaven.
Pumpkin Soup with Chicken and Ginger-Braised Leeks
- Quick Glance
- Serves 4
- For the preserved ginger
- 6 tablespoons peeled and julienned ginger
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 1 1/2 cups water
- For the soup
- 1 small pumpkin, halved and seeded
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, plus extra for drizzling
- 8 sprigs thyme
- 2 leeks (white part only) cut into 1/4-inch-thick slices
- 5 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 3 cups homemade chicken stock or canned chicken broth
- 1 tablespoon plus 1/4 cup preserved ginger
- 2 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
- 1 tablespoons canola oil
- 2 teaspoons fresh tiny sage leaves
- Make the preserved ginger
- 1. Place the ginger, 1/2 cup of the sugar, and 1/2 cup of the water in a small saucepan. Simmer for 10 minutes, strain the liquid, and repeat the process two more times, reserving the final cooking liquid to store the ginger. Use immediately, or refrigerate for up to 1 week.
- Make the soup
- 2. Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C). Season the flesh of the pumpkin with salt and pepper and rub with the olive oil. Place the pumpkin halves, cut side down, on a baking sheet and place 4 thyme sprigs under each half. Add 1/4 inch water to the pan and roast for 45 to 60 minutes, or until tender. Scrape the pulp into a bowl and discard the skin.
- 3. Cook the leeks with 2 tablespoons of the butter in a saucepan over medium heat for 10 minutes, or until translucent. Add 1 cup of the stock and the 1 tablespoon ginger and cook over medium-low heat for 25 minutes, or until the leeks are soft and most of the liquid has been absorbed. Keep warm.
- 4. Season the chicken breasts with salt and pepper. Heat the canola oil in a saute pan over medium heat, add the chicken breasts, and cook for 5 to 6 minutes on each side, or until just cooked. Thinly slice the chicken and reserve.
- 5. Puree the 1/4 cup ginger and any residual ginger juice, the remaining 2 cups stock, and the pumpkin pulp until smooth. Season with salt and pepper. Cook the soup in a saucepan over medium heat for 5 minutes, or until warm. Whisk in the remaining 3 tablespoons butter and season with salt and pepper.
- 6. Spoon some of the leeks into the center of each bowl and ladle the soup around the leeks. Arrange some of the sliced chicken in the center of each bowl and sprinkle with tiny sage leaves. Drizzle with olive oil and serve immediately.
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Nichols to headline Chingawassa
News editor
Chart-topping country star Joe Nichols will perform at Chingawassa Days on June 7 in Marion, becoming the second headliner to sign for the 2013 festival, joining early '90s rockers FireHouse, who will perform June 8.
Nichols' biggest hit was 2005's "Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off." The video for the song has more than 6 million views on YouTube.
In the words of Chingawassa Days Committee Chairman Michael Powers, organizers are "stoked" to have a contemporary star for a concert.
"He will be by far the most current act we've ever booked," Powers said Tuesday. "You hear his hits on the radio. It's going to be a big, current production of an artist who is currently relevant."
Nichols released his first album in 1996. Starting with "The Impossible" in 2002, he has had 15 consecutive singles make the top 30 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, including three No. 1 singles. "Brokenheartsville" from his 2002 album Man with a Memory was his first No. 1 single on the country charts.
His second No. 1 hit was "Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off," from his 2005 album, III. His most recent No. 1 hit was "Gimmie That Girl" from 2009's Old Things New.
Nichols has released seven studio albums, a Christmas album, and a greatest-hits album. In October, Nichols signed a new record deal with Red Bow Records.
Nichols and Chingawassa Days have a basic agreement ready for his appearance, and the final details of a contract are expected to be hammered out any time. But until a contract is signed, the concert isn't set in stone.
Powers said Chingawassa Days was able to make an agreement with Nichols because he will be on his way from Tennessee to Colorado at the time, and Marion is conveniently along the way.


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Bill Text: WV SB447 | 2012 | Regular Session | Introduced
West Virginia Senate Bill 447 (Prior Session Legislation)
Bill Title: Clarifying circuit judges appoint attorney from public defender office in certain cases
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-30 - To Judiciary [SB447 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2012-SB447-Introduced.html
Senate Bill No. 447
(By Senators Tucker, Klempa and Barnes)
[Introduced January 30, 2012; referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.]
A BILL to amend and reenact §29-21-9 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to panel attorneys; and providing that an attorney from the public defender office shall be appointed by a judge in certain cases.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That §29-21-9 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
§29-21-9. Panel attorneys.
(a) In each circuit of the state, the circuit court shall establish and maintain regional and local panels of private attorneys-at-law who are available to serve as counsel for eligible clients. An attorney-at-law may become a panel attorney and be enrolled on the regional or local panel, or both, to serve as counsel for eligible clients by informing the court. An agreement to accept cases generally or certain types of cases particularly may not prevent a panel attorney from declining an appointment in a specific case.
(b) In all cases where an attorney-at-law is required to be appointed for an eligible client, the appointment shall be made by the circuit judge in the following order of preference:
(1) In circuits where a public defender office is in operation, the judge shall appoint an attorney from the public defender office unless an appointment is not appropriate due to a conflict of interest or unless the public defender corporation board of directors or the public defender, with the approval of the board, has notified the court that the existing caseload cannot be increased without jeopardizing the ability of defenders to provide effective representation;
(2) If the public defender office is not available for appointment, the court shall appoint one or more panel attorneys from the local panel;
(3) If there is no local panel attorney available, the judge shall appoint one or more panel attorneys from the regional panel;
(4) If there is no regional panel attorney available, the judge may appoint a public defender office from an adjoining circuit if such public defender office agrees to the appointment;
(5) If the adjoining public defender office does not accept the appointment, the judge may appoint a panel attorney from an adjoining circuit; or
(6) If a panel attorney from an adjoining circuit is unavailable, the judge may appoint a panel attorney from any circuit.
(c) In any given case, the appointing judge may alter the order in which attorneys are appointed if the case requires particular knowledge or experience on the part of the attorney to be appointed: Provided, That any time a court, in appointing counsel pursuant to the provisions of this section, alters the order of appointment as set forth herein, the order of appointment shall contain the court's reasons for doing so.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to clarify that an attorney from the public defender office shall be appointed by a judge in all cases where an attorney-at-law is required to be appointed for an eligible client.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from the present law, and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.


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Summer 2013 Newsletter
Reminder About Bias Incident Reporting Form
The EO Office reminds the University community about the availability of the Bias Incident Reporting Form. The form provides a way for individuals to anonymously notify the University of occurrences of possible bias, discrimination or harassment, including incidents such as graffiti where the perpetrator is unknown. Reporting incidents of bias, either via the Bias Incident Reporting Form or by contacting the EO Office directly, allows Western to identify and correct problems, assist those who are targeted, and work to prevent future similar occurrences. Additional information about the Bias Incident Reporting Form, and a link to the form itself, are available on the EO Office's website.
In addition to or instead of reporting discrimination or harassment using the Bias Incident Reporting Form, all students, faculty and staff have a right to file a complaint with the EO Office alleging discrimination based on a legally protected characteristic. The EO Office is located in Old Main 345.


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The Hellenbach GT is a muscle car found in Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories.
The Hellenbach GT is a two-door coupe that resembles a 1967-1970 Mercury Cougar, except for minor differences like the single headlights and added turn signals, and the sides are closer to a 1968 – 1970 AMC AMX. While its body design may occasionally include single-tone body colors, the Hellenbach GT may also appear with the hood in a mismatched color, giving the car a "beater" appearance similar to the Clover and the Tampa in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
Despite its appearance, the Hellenbach GT is capable of high speeds and handles well. The Hellenbach has an extremely high top speed, and beats the Banshee and Cheetah on top speed. It also has better handling. And for some reason, Hellenbach GT could take more damage, and the visual damage like the doors won't break or crack by one hit.
- The name comes from the phrase "To Hell and back", which most people say about the reliability of their old beaters.
- The car can first be found in the mission "Snuff" for Vincenzo Cilli. It's a reward given to the player by Joseph Daniel O'Toole after the player has killed a Sindacco leader.
- There are three special colors of the vehicle in the race Low Rider Rumble, but they are locked throughout the race and disappear after so they can't be stolen.
- Actually, After they finish the race (Don't do the race, just wait until they come back) the door becomes unlocked but the player MUST enter through the passenger sit.
- The Hellenbach can also be obtained by completing level 4 of the car salesman missions, in which it will spawn within the Capital Autos car showroom in Harwood thereafter.
- In Cedar Grove, Shoreside Vale, it can be found outside a garage.
See also
- Hellenbach, GTA Chinatown Wars rendition.


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Stone Soup Theatre to Present 5XTENN (OR SO), 2/15-3/9
You may think that you know Tennessee Williams, but you don't. Stone Soup Theatre presents 5 X TENN (OR SO), selected one acts published after the death of one of America's most treasured playwrights. It's been five years since Stone Soup Theatre produced the west coast premiere of 5 X TENN, (directed by Julie Beckman) to both audience and critical acclaim.Now, to satisfy the hunger of Williams' fans, Stone Soup offers up 5 X TENN (OR SO), six seldom produced one acts, that will transport us to a post-apocalyptic dystopian society with Chalky White Substance; take us to a flooded New Orleans (eerily reminiscent of the 2005 Hurricane Katrina) in Kingdom of Earth; and encounter the dangers, both hidden and obvious, of a fascist regime in The Municipal Abattoir. In addition, equally prophetic, provocative, and confrontational pieces will seduce and shock you: Talk to Me Like the Rain, Sunburst, and The Big Game.
This production features the talents of Scott Zogg, PatRick Baxter, Gianni Truzzi, Terrence Boyd, Jesse Putnam, Brynne Garman, Maureen Miko, and Alysha Curry. 5XTenn (or so) is directed by Ellen Graham.
The performance runs Thursday - Saturday evenings at 8pm and Sunday matinees at 4pm from February 15 - March 9, with previews, Wednesday, Feb. 13th & Thursday, Feb. 14 at $12.50. Sunday matinees, February 24 and March 3, are at 4:00pm. General admission prices are $14 -$25, $18 for seniors. All Thursdays after preview are Pay-What-You-Will.
Tickets are available for purchase at www.stonesouptheatre.org, by phone at the Stone Soup Box Office at (206) 633-1883 or at www.brownpapertickets.com, 800-838-3006.
Stone Soup Theatre is Seattle's only one-act theatre dedicated to the preservation of the one-act play. We present four professionally mounted productions per year, offer youth conservatory training, summer camps, and after school programs. For more information, log on to our website at www.stonesouptheatre.org.


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Delaware Downs Old Dominion 75-74 In Overtime
By ODU Athletics
Jan. 15, 2003
NORFOLK, VA -- The Delaware Blue Hens moved into sole possession of first place in the CAA with a 75-74 overtime win over the Old Dominion men's basketball team this evening at the Ted Constant Convocation Center.
The loss snaps ODU's two-game winning streak as the Monarchs fall to 6-7 overall and 3-2 in the CAA. The Blue Hens have now won four in a row and improves their record to 9-5 overall and 4-1 in the CAA. With the win and George Mason's loss to Virginia Commonwealth this evening, Delaware moves into the top position in the CAA.
Senior forward Richardo Marsh (Mebane, NC) led all scorers with a career-high 30 points surpassing his previous high of 25 against Towson in the CAA opener. The Blue Hens were led by senior guard Ryan Iversen who reset his season-high by coming off the bench to net 18.
In all, three Monarchs reached double figures, led by Marsh's 30. It was the first time a Monarch eclipsed the 30-point mark since Mark Poag scored 32 against George Mason on February 21, 1998. Senior forward Rasheed Wright (Greensboro, NC) collected his fourth double-double of the year with 16 points and 10 rebounds and is now just two shy of the 1,000 point plateau. Rookie guard Isaiah Hunter (Charlotte, NC) scored 10 points while junior guard Troy Nance (Va. Beach, VA) dished out a career-high 11 assists.
The Blue Hens had four in double figures. Iversen was just one rebound short of a double-double with his 18 points and nine boards. Sophomore guard Mike Slattery was also just short of a double-double with 16 points and nine assists. Junior guard Mike Ames and senior forward Maurice Sessoms also reached double figures with 13 and 10 points respectively.
Old Dominion is now 34-36 in overtime, with the last overtime game occurring back on January 19, 2002 against Virginia Commonwealth in a 79-77 loss. It was the first overtime affair in over two years for Delaware with the last coming on November 24, 2001 in an 84-78 victory against LaSalle.
The Monarchs held a slim one-point margin at intermission, 34-33. Two free throws by Delaware's Iversen tied the game at 9-9 with 13:52 to go, but Old Dominion would go on a 6-0 run for a 17-11 lead with 11:56 remaining in the half. The Monarchs extended their lead by as much as eight as a lay-up by freshman center Alex Loughton (Perth, Australia) gave Old Dominion a 21-13 advantage. However, the Blue Hens climbed back holding the Monarchs to just one field goal over the next 4:17 and claimed a 27-23 lead with just over four minutes left. In the closing minute of the half, Hunter, coming off the ODU bench, made a driving lay-up to the basket to tie the game at 32-32 and Marsh tipped in the final basket of the half to return the lead back to the Monarchs.
With Old Dominion leading 39-38 with 15:15 remaining in regulation, the Monarchs proceeded to take a 10-0 run to go up 49-38 with 11:27 on the clock. The Blue Hens climbed within four on an Iversen three-pointer, but the Monarchs were able to keep Delaware at bay as a Marsh lay-up put Old Dominion up by eight, 60-52. However, Delaware outscored the Monarchs 13-5 over the final 6:16 of the second half to force the extra session. Two free throws by Marsh gave the Monarchs a slim 65-61 edge with 2:35 to go, but Iversen sunk two from the charity stripe and a jumper by sophomore guard David Lunn tied the score at 65-65.
In overtime, the Blue Hens jumped out to a quick four-point lead before ODU was able to regain control and go up by two with a minute and a half remaining after buckets from Marsh and Wright. However, that would be the last time ODU would be on top as Iversen tied the game with a lay-up with 58 seconds left and Slattery hit a running floater down the lane with only eight seconds on the clock. Slattery then fouled Hunter on the Monarch's next possession, sending the freshman guard to the line for two shots with his team down 75-73. He would only convert one of his two chances, leaving Old Dominion on the down side of a 75-74 score.
The Monarchs controlled the boards all night long hauled in 50 boards as compared to Delaware's 36. Old Dominion grabbed 20 offensive rebounds and limited the Blue Hens to just seven. Both teams shot in the 40 percent range with ODU at a 41.7 clip and Delaware at a 46.7 shooting percentage. However, the Monarchs hit just seven of its 18 shots from the free throw line shooting just 41.2 percent.
The Monarchs will look to rebound when they travel to Hofstra this Saturday for a CAA contest at 1:00 p.m.


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Due to government issues, we need to use the neurotechnology 4.5 sdk (Product revision: 107900) and a digitalpersona 4500 reader.
I have the reader working (works with samples and another software), and the license and services activated, but the system provided by the government doesnt work in W7 and W8. It seems like the reader is not detected by the sdk, but it Works perfectly under XP.
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A consortium of partners including the IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group/Amphibian Survival Alliance, Rainforest Trust (RT), Global Wildlife Conservation (GWC) and the American Bird Conservancy (ABC) have come together to enable local partner Fundación Jocotoco to purchase 6,100 acres of critical wildlife habitat in Ecuador. Previously Fundación Jocotoco had purchased Sunfohuayco, an adjoining property of close to 6,000 acres. The mammoth property acquisition will create a permanent refuge for three threatened species of frogs which are found nowhere else, and the largest population of Andean Condor (Vultur gryphus) in the Northern Andes.
The final 6,100 acre property, called Hacienda Antisanilla, was acquired to complete a project by the Ministry of Natural Resources of Ecuador, Fundación Jocotoco, the Municipality of Quito, and the Quito Water Authority that will both protect endangered species and secure an important source of drinking water for Ecuador's capital city. The total protected area by this group amounts to approximately 270,000 acres.
"The purchase of Hacienda Antisanilla was critical, as this property held the most important site for roosting and nesting Andean Condors – Ecuador's National bird and emblazoned on our national flag." noted Fundación Jocotoco Executive Director Rocio Merino. "So after years of struggling, we were able to purchase and protect the area thanks to the constant support of the Rainforest Trust and Quito authorities."
The glaciers of the 3.5 mile-high Antisana Volcano give way to unique highland steppe and descend into lush subtropical forests on the Andean slopes and into Amazonian rainforest. Located just 20 miles from Quito, this enormous but undeveloped area first attracted the attention of conservationists in the 1980s. The Ecuadorian government declared it an ecological reserve in 1993, but the area remained in private hands. Much of the land continued to be farmed, and wildlife was increasingly threatened by over-grazing, fires, and poaching.
Home to the largest single population of condors in the Northern Andes, Antisana is also frequented by Cougars, Spectacled Bears, and the endangered Woolly Tapir. Antisana is of critical global importance for biodiversity and highlighted as an Alliance for Zero Extinction site due to the presence of no less than three species of threatened frogs - Papallacta robber frog (Pristimantis acerus), Fire robber frog (Pristimantis ignicolor) and Antisana robber frog (Pristimantis lividus).
"This enormous land protection project is even more significant as not only does it help to protect the most critical source of water for the ever-expanding city of Quito but it also connects to two adjacent protected areas, Cayambe-Coca Ecological Reserve and Gran Sumaco National Park," said Dr Paul Salaman, CEO of Rainforest Trust, "Combined, these protected areas safeguard 1.8 million acres of biologically diverse Andean and Amazonian ecosystems."
This land purchase project was made possible by the efforts of the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, Fundación Jocotoco, Rainforest Trust, Ministry of Environment, the Quito Municipality, the Quito Water Authority (EMAAP), the Quito Water Fund (FONAG), EcoFondo, American Bird Conservancy, Blue Moon Foundation, Global Wildlife Conservation, Andrew Sabin Family Foundation, March Foundation, and private donors.
For more information, please contact:
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These elements are always present in every piece of "great" acting.
1. Have Fun. If you are not having fun, you can be 100 percent sure it's not working. Christoph Waltz's recent Oscar-winning performance in Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained" is a perfect example of this. You can see the fun poring out of his eyes every moment onscreen—it reminds us why we chose this profession.
I recently coached a tremendously talented client on a period piece where she had to play a slave on a plantation. In this particular scene, the character was tortured, raped, beaten and left for dead. The actor heroically made it to the end of the scene with the battle scars and raw emotion dripping from her face and body—it was a fantastic performance. I waited some seconds before asking her, "So…was it fun?" Her response, "Oh my god…yes…I'm embarrassed to say it was."
Many method-based or "technique" acting classes sap all the joy and fun out of the process. It's a tragedy to see actors flattened and deflated when this happens. Just as it's your job to act truthfully, it's also your job to figure out how to have more fun in the work. I often tell my students, "Don't be afraid to look like an asshole or be a freak!" If a technique isn't working for you—the human actor—look to the animal world, nature, art, or fantasy and find something that corresponds best to the character you're trying to play. And when you pinpoint what that it is, don't be afraid to crawl around on the floor hissing like a tiger or jumping from tabletop to tabletop like a lemur to prime the pump of your creativity. It can often help, and it's definitely fun.
2. Effect Change. This means breaking through the Plexiglas barrier between you and your scene partner to impact them while also allowing yourself to be impacted by them. There's a great temptation to be too timid while acting. Irresponsible training has paralyzed actors with the irrational fear of being "too big." Life is sometimes big—even huge at times!
Working to effect change in your character and in your partner can also give you an advantage in booking the role because you're making the writing look as good as it possibly can. Screenwriters know all characters must have an arc and have to effect change in one another. They're not always confident that what they've written is accomplishing that. As an actor, you can empower the writing, and when you do, it's more interesting to watch, thus making you look like a more attractive hire.
3. Bring Yourself to the Role. This is not be confused with playing yourself. Bringing yourself to the role is using your actor's instrument (personality, voice, physicality, etc.) to express the character. It's acknowledging that YOU are the instrument through which the character is expressed. The character must be expressed as the role dictates BUT the personality and humanity of the actor is the heartbeat of the role.
Zooey Deschanel's character Jess in "New Girl" is a pure expression of Zooey's own sense of nerdy fun and offbeat personality. What's completely revolutionary about Zooey is that she strikes the almost impossible balance of sexuality and oddity without all the baggage of looking like another supermodel. She's an oddball—and she hides none of it in her acting. She's doesn't choose between being funny or sexy, she blends them both into Jess, appealing to men and women, while giving herself verifiable staying-power in a fickle business.
4. Be Committed. Commitment is the ability of the actor to take the audience by the hand and yank them down the rabbit hole. Just as a roller coaster commits to a 600-foot drop no matter what, you also have to commit to the actions of your character just as irrevocably. And the difference is palpable, as it's the difference between an actor who is acting, and the actor who is living truthfully under imagined circumstances. Commitment, among many other elements, meant that Marlon Brando never had to raise his voice in "The Godfather."
5. Find the Danger. There's nothing like the exhilaration of watching work that feels like it's teetering on the edge of danger. It takes an audience's breath away. You can never "try" to make the acting dangerous—it comes as a by-product of all the above elements. Danger doesn't always have to be fear of violence or bodily harm; there's just as much danger present in watching an actor playing a character who is about to go up to the person they have a crush on and drunkenly profess their love for him/her.
6. Put Yourself at Ease. "Great" acting should feel easy and effortless—like there was no "work" involved. That's a hard pill to swallow for those needing and expecting every moment be like birthing a calf.
Here's a huge secret: The best pieces of acting should feel as comfortable and easy as if you were simply playing yourself—even if you're playing an axe-wielding maniac. And that's a great gift, as you never again have to worry about how your performance was—you know in your gut that it was connected and focused.
There are only two rules in acting. 1. You can't actually harm another person. 2. You can't actually have sex with another person.
Anything else is fair game! That should give you a sense of tremendous freedom as an actor. If there are only two rules—and those two are pretty easy to follow—then the world is yours and the colors and shapes you'd like to paint on the canvas of your character are truly up to you.
This article was originally posted on Backstage


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Tennessee Rep Adds Performances for CABARET
Due to popular demand, Tennessee Repertory Theatre has extended its production of the multiple Tony Award-winning musical Cabaret with book and lyrics by Joe Masteroff and Fred Ebb and music by John Kander. Performances have been added through Saturday, March 16. Tickets for the added performances will go on sale Tuesday, February 5 at 10 am. Cabaret runs February 16 - March 16 at TPAC's Johnson Theater (with preview performances February 14 - 15).
"Due to the overwhelming excitement from the Middle Tennessee community over this multiple Tony Award-winning musical, we've had to add performances for Cabaret," says Tennessee Rep Producing Artistic Director René D. Copeland. "This is new, exciting, and unchartered territory for Tennessee Rep to have to extend so early, and I could not be more thrilled! Aside from being able to share our version of this classic, I am elated to be a part of a community that embraces live, professional theatre and am so grateful for Middle Tennessee's continued support of Tennessee Repertory Theatre."
Willkommen to the Kit Kat Klub. Take your seat at a bar table and immerse yourself in the musical theatre event of a lifetime. You're not just at the show... you're in the show as Tennessee Rep transforms Johnson Theater into 1930s Berlin. Inside the cabaret, Sally Bowles and the beguiling Emcee live in a seedy, sexy world of delicious decadence, while outside, the gathering storm of Nazi oppression grows. Filled with hit Broadway songs and a story that still speaks profoundly to us today, Cabaret is a knock-out, once-in-a-lifetime theatrical experience.
Nashville favorite Jenny Littleton returns to Tennessee Rep's stage in the iconic role of Sally Bowles.
In addition to Littleton, the production stars David Compton as the Emcee. Other cast members include Mike Baum, Vanessa Callahan, Ruth Cordell, Rosemary Fossee, Stephen Jones, Caleb Marshall, Kristi Mason, Jeremy Maxwell, Marin Miller, Mia Rose, B. J. Rowell, Patrick Waller, Derek Whittaker, and Martha Wilkinson.
Since 1985, Tennessee Repertory Theatre has been a critically acclaimed regional theatre, creating the highest quality professional productions and by serving as a prime cultural, educational, and economic resource within the Nashville and Middle Tennessee communities. Tennessee Rep produces work that is designed, built, and rehearsed in Nashville by highly skilled actors, designers, directors, and technicians. A non-profit organization, Tennessee Rep is committed to consistently delivering thought-provoking theatre each year. For more information on the Tennessee Repertory Theatre, please visit www.tennesseerep.org.


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C-Day NanJing - April 19th in Club T-Rex!
Shanghai's premier club G plus resident DJ and GM Calvin Z will be playing this April 19th in Nanjing's T-Rex. Calvin Z has been hailed as one of China's top Chinese Trance DJs and played in various clubs in China and abroad such as Korean's famous Double Eight club and opened up for fellow trance DJs such as Armin, Dash Berlin and many more.
He will be touring Nanjing as part of his C-day tour which he has performed in Shanghai, Beijing, Hangzhou even Seoul and will be for the first time in Nanjing.
Expect to hear a night of progressive music that you wont hear in usual nights anywhere, any progressive music and trance lovers cannot miss this!
Entry is free, people dressed in fully white can expect to receive drink vouchers at the door, as the theme will be white.
English address1912, 8 Changjiang Hou Jie
Chinese address长江后街8号1912街区13号楼1楼


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By James Chute 12:40 A.M.SEPT. 22, 2013
Composer Matt McBane has been fearless as founder and director of the Carlsbad Music Festival. Over the course of 10 years, he's presented "Adventurous Music by the Beach," and against all odds, he has prevailed.
But few things McBane has done over his 10 years have been as courageous as unleashing Claire Chase in this year's festival, which included the remarkable flutist performing Friday as part of the Village Music Walk and Saturday in a solo and electronics concert at the Carlsbad Village Theatre, which also hosted performances by the Calder Quartet and Roomful of Teeth.
Chase will also play Sunday with percussionist Steve Schick at the Village Theatre.
Much of the new work McBane has presented has been relatively palatable, including his own music. Saturday, the Calder Quartet performed McBane's evocative "Ghost in the Machine, Part 1," on a program that also included selections from Pulitzer Prize winner-Caroline Shaw's poignant and undeniably affecting "By and By," Steven Mackey's energetic "Physical Property" and Bartok's String Quartet No. 3.
Although the program was fresh and engaging, it didn't demand all that much from the listeners (aside from the Bartok), and it was relatively easy on the ears.
Chase's program, however, asked a lot. Comprised of pieces on her upcoming, third solo album, "Density," it was an abbreviated, 60-minute version of a 75-program she'll play in Chicago later this month and New York next month marking the album's release.
Performed without interruption with the assistance of sound engineer Levy Lorenzo, it moves from layers upon layers of flutes in Steve Reich's "Vermont Counterpoint" to the single flute in Varese's "Density 21.5."
in between are uncompromising works by Marcos Balter, and especially Mario Diaz de Leon and Alvin Lucier, whose "Almost New York" is about as demanding as new music gets. It is a series of prerecorded, sustained, "pure wave" tones that slowly change frequency.
Using five different types of flutes, Chase also played sustained tones that moved in and out of phase as the pitch of the "pure wave" tones changed. If it didn't drive you crazy (or perhaps after it did), you could appreciate the sound for its own sake. There was no narrative, no development, no melody, no rhythm; just pure sound.
Chase, who won a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant and as importantly, grew up and studied in nearby Leucadia, played brilliantly.
Equally skillful, Roomful of Teeth was more typical of the festival's usual fare. The New York-based, eight member vocal ensemble, which includes Shaw among its members, is innovative, imaginative, entertaining, surprising and ingratiating.
Where Chase performed her album, she never said a word (you'd have to check the International Contemporary Ensemble website to get the context; the program didn't mention it either). Roomful of Teeth also sang works they had recorded but they made several mentions of their album, the final one mentioning it was on sale in the lobby. Now that's genius.


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This activity is particularly suitable for higher level Business English students, or adult learners who need to write formal letters in English in real life.
Make enough copies of these worksheets so that each student can have one.
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Roman god of war
Take me to the pictures! (one photo in photo gallery)
Mars was the god of war, and as such one of the most important gods in the Roman pantheon. Mars was a member of the archaic Capitoline Triad, but was later replaced by Minerva.
Mars was the son of Juno. He was often identified with the Greed god Ares. Mars was one of the few gods to which a bull could be sacrifices. A special priest was appointed to the worship of Mars, the Flamen Martialis.
There was a Temple of Mars in the Campus Martius, and Augustus had a Temple of Mars Ultor, Mars the Avenger, built in the Forum of Augustus to celebrate the defeat of Julius Caesar's assassins.
The month of March is named after Mars. In the early Roman calendar this was the first month of the year and marked the start of the war season.
Photo gallery of one picture for "Mars"
Prints of the photographs are available — read more here.
The pictures above are taken in the following locations:
This page is linked under the names "Mars", "Mamers", "Maris", "Marmor", "Marmar", "Mavor", "Mars Ultor", "Marspiter", "Marpiter" and "Flamen Martialis".
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Feb 13, 2014
From staff reports
Perhaps "one" isn't the loneliest number after all.
In their ongoing effort to better serve OHIO's campus customers and guests, Bobcat Essentials and Technology Depot are combining into a unified retail operation that will offer everything from textbooks and computers to academic supplies, digital accessories and apparel.
"The more each operation discussed the opportunity to combine, the more it simply made sense," said Gwyn Scott, associate vice president of Auxiliaries.
The venue is slated to open on the first floor of Baker University Center later this year.
"We can't wait to offer this collective retail operation to everyone at OHIO," said Joseph Lalley, senior associate vice president of Technology & Administrative Services.
Bobcat Essentials and Technology Depot are currently holding a naming contest that allows the campus community to put its stamp on the yet-to-be-named venue.
The contest is open to all Ohio University students, faculty and staff between Thursday, Feb.13 and Wednesday, Feb.19.
Online suggestions can be entered and submitted via the following link: http://bit.ly/NameAndWin
The winning participant will receive a 16GB iPad Mini (valued at $399).


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Cigarette smoking, the main way we take in nicotine, is the single greatest cause of preventable diseases (these are the progressive, serious diseases) and probably creates the most difficult addiction of the commonly used drugs. Smoking is a high-priced addictive pleasure (and sometimes displeasure) that is costly, not only in dollars but in lives as well.
In the United States alone, cigarette smoking causes a third to a half million deaths per year (over 1,000 per day) and is responsible for about 25 percent of the cancer deaths and 30–40 percent of the coronary heart disease. It also increases the incidence of atherosclerosis, strokes, and peripheral vascular disease. Diseases of the lungs—colds, flus, acute bronchitis, pneumonia, COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), which includes emphysema and chronic bronchitis, and lung cancer—are all much more common in smokers. Other infections or allergies are also prevalent, and rapid aging of the body and especially the skin results from the generally poor oxygenation of tissues and the other chemicals and physiological effects of regular cigarette smoking.
Smoking clearly decreases life expectancy for all age groups. One-pack-a-day smokers double their chances of death between the ages of 50 and 60, while two-packers triple theirs. And smoking also affects the life expectancy of nonsmokers close to them in heart and proximity. Of all the common drugs, nicotine intake from cigarette smoking clearly has the least benefits and the most negative consequences.
The estimated cost of smoking is somewhere between $50 and $100 billion a year. Some 650 billion cigarettes are sold yearly in the United States in this $18–25 billion megabusiness. Marlboros and Winstons top the list with nearly 50 percent of the market. The 650 billion count averages about 4,000 cigarettes per year per person over age 18. Recent estimates suggest that about 38 percent of the over-18 population in the United States smoke. Percentages of adult smokers are even much higher in most European countries and some parts of Asia. In addition to the cost of the cigarettes, there are many billions spent medically to treat the problems that afflict smokers and many more billions in lost work and productivity caused from diseases generated by smoking.
I am happy to say that now only 10 percent of doctors in the United States smoke; the percentage used to be much higher. The number of cigarette smokers, which for many years has increased steadily, is tapering off somewhat. Worldwide however, there is still about a 2–3 percent yearly rise in smokers. The dangers of nicotine and smoking are now so generally accepted and well documented that it would seem that more people would be stopping or not even starting. The fact that fewer doctors smoke (or admit that they smoke) is at least representative of these health dangers. People want doctors to do healthy things and to set healthy examples.
Since most nicotine intake is from smoking cigarettes, that is the focus of this section. Cigar and pipe smoking, chewing tobacco, and snuff also pose some health risks, but far less than cigarette smoking. The regularly inhaled smoke contains tars composed of literally thousands of chemicals, including those used in tobacco cultivation as well as in cigarette making. These agents add other health risks in addition to the nicotine, which directly acts on the cardiovascular and nervous systems. There are over 30 potentially carcinogenic chemicals contained in cigarette smoke.
Tobacco comes from a large-leafed nightshade, or Solanaceae, plant. It is one of a few plants that contain the psychoactive alkaloid, nicotine. Tobacco causes joint pain in some people; this seems correlated to the theory that arthritis is in part a result of an allergy to the nightshades, which also include potatoes, tomatoes, eggplant, and peppers.
Nicotine has been widely used throughout history, first in North America. Supposedly, Columbus and other visitors were interested in it and carried some tobacco and seeds back to Europe, where its use caught on rapidly and eventually spread to Africa and the Orient. Tobacco was outlawed by several countries during the early 1600s, but to no avail; then the governments eventually found ways to profit from its use. This seems fair, since it costs them in the long run with lost health and productivity of their people. The addictive nature of nicotine has been clear for hundreds of years, as people have found ways to smoke during poverty, famine, and war.
Sigmund Freud was fascinated with tobacco and obsessed with cigars (smoking more than 20 a day). He fought his addiction to nicotine (and apparently to cocaine) through much of his life, though he experienced mouth cancer, angina pain, and multiple surgeries. Freud's dance with death and his inability to get off tobacco probably generated his theory of Thanatos, our deep subconscious longing for death, manifested in part by our destructive habits.
Smoking is clearly a deadly pastime. Its addictive nature is revealed by the fact that many strong-minded and strong-willed people cannot stop smoking, even if they are otherwise health conscious or faced with death. And most smokers, over 80 percent, declare that they want to stop smoking, and plan to at some time. In my years working in hospitals, I saw the most bizarre smoking phenomena, such as lung cancer or emphysema patients smoking between ventilator treatments or patients who breathed through tubes in their necks after tracheostomies, actually putting cigarettes into the tubes to inhale. Our passion for puffing is persistent.
Nicotine is the addictive drug found in tobacco. Even though some people start smoking for the image or the ritual, they may easily become hooked. The "up" feeling that smoking produces is likely correlated with the increased blood pressure and heart rate, as well as the production of fatty acids, steroids and possibly other hormones or neurotransmitters. Nicotine mimics acetylcholine, which then improves alertness, memory, and learning capacity. Other neurotransmitter stimulation of norepinephrine and endorphins by nicotine may help balance moods and increase energy. The liver's increase in glycogen release gives a satisfying lift in the blood sugar.
The addiction to nicotine is probably stronger than addictions to most other drugs. The initial irritating effects progress to chronic irritations, yet these are covered by the physiological and, in many instances, the psychological need (although the latter is usually secondary). Heroin addicts and people addicted to other powerful drugs have commonly referred to nicotine as the hardest drug to kick. The American Psychiatric Association has described smoking as an "organic mental disorder." Their statistics suggest that around 50 percent of people cannot stop when they try to and that, of the people who do stop, about 75 percent of them begin again within one year.
Are There Benefits in Smoking?
There obviously must be a few, or so many people would not smoke, but it is very clear that the risks outweigh the pleasures by far. Many people find smoking relaxing, but this may be a result of calming the hyperactive withdrawal symptoms. People do experience mental stimulation and improvement of hand-to-eye coordination and work activities, probably as result of nicotine's vascular-neurological stimulation. The benefits that smokers experience were well described in Dr. Tom Ferguson's book, The Smoker's Book of Health, from his interviews with hundreds of smokers. They felt better able to deal with stress and to unwind and relax. Smoking helped control their moods, improve concentration and energy levels, especially with fatigue, and reduce withdrawal symptoms, obviously. Social comfort, work breaks, reduced pain and anxiety, increased pleasure, and less boredom were also correlates for some who smoked. Smoking also usually reduces the appetite and taste for food, so it may help people to reduce food intake, a positive step for the weight conscious. The average smoker weighs six to eight pounds less than the nonsmoker. In Life Extension, Sandy Shaw and Durk Pearson note that nicotine seems to reduce distraction by outside stimuli in people working in highly stimulating environments—that is, it desensitizes people. I see this as creating a smoke screen that protects us from relating to others and keeps us in our own world. It is clear that people who work in crowded, noisy, busy offices with other workers, computers, machines running, and lots of hustle and bustle tend to smoke more frequently than do workers in more private situations.
Yet, most employers now know there is a distinct disadvantage in hiring smokers. The smoke interferes with office morale, and it is more costly. Some estimates suggest that employing a smoker costs businesses nearly 5,000 yearly. This cost comes from increased absenteeism, death risk, incident of accidents, and property damage or cleaning bills from smoke, as well as less productivity. Dr. Ferguson points out that most people are aware of this and the health hazards of nicotine and cigarette smoke. They clearly want to quit, but have not found a way to get rid of withdrawal and craving. Finding ways to reduce stress and clear those conditioned responses to want to smoke takes a great deal of effort.
What Does Nicotine Do?
Nicotine, the active and addictive ingredient of tobacco, is a mild central nervous system stimulant and a stronger cardiovascular system stimulant. It constricts blood vessels, increasing the blood pressure and stimulating the heart, and raises the blood fat levels. In its liquid form, nicotine is a powerful poison—the injection of even one drop would be deadly. It is the nicotine, not the smoke, that causes people to continue to smoke cigarettes, but it is the cigarette smoke that causes many of the problems.
Cigarette smoke is a combination of lethal gases—carbon monoxide, hydrogen cyanide, and nitrogen and sulfur oxides—and tars, which contain an estimated 4,000 chemicals. Some of these chemical agents are introduced by current tobacco manufacturing processes. Although tobacco has been smoked for centuries, only recently has it moved from the naturally grown and dried process. It appears that in the last century the negative effects of smoking have skyrocketed. My belief, which is shared by many authorities, is that much of the added risk is produced by the chemical treatment and unnatural processing of tobacco. The little research that has been done on this (it is not sponsored by the industry) suggests that natural tobacco poses much less cancer risk, as well as cardiovascular disease risk, though this is predominately from the nicotine, which is not changed by processing.
Dangers in modern tobacco products include pesticides used during growth and chemicals added to the tobacco to make it burn better or taste different. Chemicals added to the leaves and papers to enhance burning are among the major causes of fire deaths in this country, as cigarettes continue to burn after they have been put down. The forced burning also makes people smoke more of each cigarette in order to complete it. Sugar curing and rapid flue drying are also associated with increased toxicity of cigarettes. Kerosene heat drying contaminates the tobacco with another toxic hydrocarbon. Using a natural tobacco, such as some imported from France or Germany and a few U.S.-made cigarettes (possibly Shermans and More), may reduce the smoking risk. If a cigarette does not go out when left alone, it has been chemically treated.
Other toxic contaminants in cigarettes include cadmium (which affects the kidneys, arteries, and blood pressure), lead, arsenic, cyanide, and nickel. Dioxin, the most toxic pesticide chemical known to date, has been found in cigarettes. Acetonitrile, another pesticide, is also found in tobacco. The nitrogen gases from cigarettes generate carcinogenic nitrosamines in the body tissues. The tars in smoke contain polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), carcinogenic materials that bind with cellular DNA to cause damage. Antioxidant therapy, particularly with vitamin C, is protective against both PAH and nitrosamines, and extra C also blocks the irritating effects of smoke. Smoking itself reduces vitamin C absorption; blood levels of ascorbic acid average about 30–40 percent lower in smokers than in nonsmokers.


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Trey Anastasio at Bonnaroo last June in Tennessee. Photo: Dave Martin, The Associated Press
Phish: We learned a few weeks ago that the most popular jam band this side of the Grateful Dead will return to the Hollywood Bowl on Aug. 5. Now we know that tickets are about to go on sale, Friday (March 29) at noon, $45-$60.
The National: Here's another previously announced gig that's about to become widely available. The Cincinnati-born, Brooklyn-based group drops its sixth album, Trouble Will Find Me, on May 21, but doesn't arrive for its Greek Theatre debut until nearly the end of its stateside run, on Aug. 10, $39.50.
Other Greek parts of the now-closed Premiere Marquee Club subscriber series are about to go on sale as well, including the Up in Smoke Tour featuring War, Cheech & Chong and Tower of Power, May 25, $30-$100; Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo with Cheap Trick, June 8, $35-$75; Last Summer on Earth 2013, which gathers up Barenaked Ladies, Ben Folds Five and Guster, June 23, $37.75-$77.75; and the Jerry Garcia Symphonic Celebration featuring Gov't Mule guitarist Warren Haynes, Aug. 4, $40-$100.
All of those, including the National, go on sale Saturday at 10 a.m.
The Dandy Warhols: More than a year since issuing eighth album This Machine, Courtney Taylor-Taylor and his psych-pop gang from Portland (Ore.) are back on the road, playing June 14 at the Wiltern Theatre in L.A. The Shivas open, $30, on sale Thursday at 10 a.m.
Latin shows at Gibson: The former Universal Amphitheatre will host comedian Adal Ramones on May 18, $20-$55, and pop star Marco Antonio Solis on Aug. 16, price unavailable. Both are on sale Friday at 1 p.m.
The Presets: The electronic duo from Down Under will team with Dragonette for a May 21 performance at Avalon in Hollywood, with Classixx opening, $29.50. Also at the venue: the Boxer Rebellion, June 7, $20. Both of those are on sale Friday at 10 a.m.


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ODH in the News
May 4, 2012
With the announcement of our most recent round of 22 funded Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants projects and the continued accomplishments of many other ODH projects, we have seen a number of news stories in recent weeks featuring ODH grantees. Some highlights include:
- USA Today's Technology Live and tech news site Ars Technica featured the recently-funded project "FACES: Faces, Art, and Computerized Evaluation Systems," led by art historian Conrad Rudolph at the University of California-Riverside. The FACES project will experiment with ways to apply facial recognition technology to the identification of portraiture by initially comparing the death masks of prominent 15th-century figures to portrait sculpture busts thought to depict them.
- The Associated Press featured recently funded Start-Up Grant project, "Is That You, Mr. Lincoln?: Applying Authorship Attribution to the Early Political Writings of Abraham Lincoln." The project, which is led by the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library in collaboration with researchers at Duquesne University, will use computational methods to determine with greater certainty whether or not anonymous newspaper columns from Lincoln's years in the Illinois state legislature were actually written by the future president.
- Writing for Inside Higher Ed, Noah Wardrip-Fruin discusses the potential for a broader view of the digital humanities. In his essay, Wardrip-Fruin discusses "Media Systems," an upcoming workshop at the University of California-Santa Cruz that received ODH (as well as NSF, NEA, and Microsoft) funding and will bring together digital humanists, digital artists, and computer scientists in a dialogue about the creation and analysis of media-enabled systems.
- An article by Jennifer Howard of the Chronicle of Higher Education highlighted two ODH-funded projects from the New York Public Library. Harnessing the power of crowdsourcing, NYPL's "What's on the Menu?" has found enormous success as visitors have transcribed individual dishes on over 13,440 digitized menus from the collection. The article also mentions the newly funded "NYC Chronology of Place, a Linked Open Data Gazetteer," which seeks to create a digital compendium of place names that can be related to materials in the NYPL collections, and "Map Warper," a project funded through the Division of Preservation and Access Humanities Collections and Reference Resources program.


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It's all useful stuff!
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Movenote is a simple little app that gives you the opportunity to put not only voice-overs on your PowerPoint but face-overs too. The video at the end of the short post here provides an example for you.
I really like this next one. Learn how to speak and cook Italian with MIT! There are links to lots more free learning on this OpenCulture site too.
Not quite sure how this next piece of technology will make things more secure but anything that gets rid of the dreaded PASSWORD gets my vote. This article from the famous Forbes journal explains how Google intends to get rid of passwords. Keep your eyes open for it, it could be our salvation 🙂
Another thing I hate as much as passwords are cables. They are everywhere, all over the desk, under your feet, arrgh! Wireless technology has helped a little but we need more – like this idea from Apple. I do hope they hurry up with this, I can't wait.
This article from Technology Review is just mind-blowing. At last the age of technology is about to provide something amazingly useful, wonderful, fantastic! When someone says, "we are going to cure the ills of the world" you never quite believe them – may be this time they really mean it.
I was very pleased when I read this article. For me the quote from Paul Kagame at the end of the article is what Digital Literacy is all about. These are such good actions, I do hope he does not let anyone down.
I can't wait to try this new technology from Intel, it looks such fun. The more serious applications of this, "perceptual computing" are endless – coming from a health background I can see how this is going to improve online healthcare enormously.
You might think I have moved a long way from Digital Literacy but all of this is what being literate is about. Knowing what is happening in the world and being prepared to make use of that knowledge is what being literate enables us to do. And we can have some fun too – here is a 12 days of Christmas list from ALISS, some of it is a bit gruesome but there are funny and interesting pieces too 🙂


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Concert performer, recording artist and music scholar Richard Fuller will perform a fortepiano concert at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 20, in the Noble Recital Hall of the Jenson-Noble Music Hall on the Luther campus.
In honor of the year's musical celebrant and his 300th "birthday," the first half of the program will feature the works of Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach, including the sonatas from his collection "For Connoisseurs and Amateurs."
The second half of the program will focus on the works of Mozart.
The performance is open to the public with no charge for admission.
Born in Washington, Fuller first studied music with his mother, later obtaining degrees in piano and musicology at Central Washington University and the University of Oregon. He also studied harpsichord and fortepiano in San Francisco with Laurette Goldberg and in Vienna with Herbert Tachezi.
Since relocating to Vienna, Fuller has been considered a preeminent interpreter of fortepiano repertoire. He is one a few performers who has sought to dedicate himself exclusively to the interpretive potential of the fortepiano, an instrument with a delicacy and subtle sensitivity which evokes an earlier keyboard culture.
Fuller frequently appears as a soloist, accompanist and member of numerous musical ensembles devoted primarily to performance of 18th century music on authentic instruments in both Europe and North America.
Fuller received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the University of Oregon for his artistic work in 2002. He is the founder and director of the Donaustädter Mozart Project, a series of performances dedicated to the music of Mozart's Vienna years.


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christian formation
Worship Service Schedule
7:30 AM Rite 1 Worship Celebration in the Caper's Chapel
8:30 AM Breakfast Tacos in the Gazebo and on the Lawn
9:00 AM Family Friendly Communion Celebration with Music*
9:30 AM Breakfast Served in the Parish Hall
10:00 AM Christian Formation & Education for All Ages
- Children in the Family Ministry Center (FMC)
- Youth in the Carriage House
- Adults in multiple locations throughout the campus
11:00 AM Rite 2 Worship Celebration with Full Choir
6:00 PM Rite 2 Worship in the Church with Music
*Note to Parents:
9 AM Family Worship Celebration
Children are integral both in the congregation and helping to lead our worship, however, we understand that kids get the wiggles, so nursery care is available for infants through Pre-K in the FMC.
11 AM Worship Celebration
Children's Chapel offered in the FMC for age 3 through 5th grade who then join their parents at the Peace.
Infant/toddler care available in the FMC Nursery.