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More than a week since announcing his decision that the United States should -- with the approval of Congress -- launch a military strike against Syrian President Bashar Assad for his alleged use of chemical weapons, President Obama on Tuesday night told the American public that the threat of a military strike should stay on the table while the U.S. and its allies take more time to pursue a diplomatic resolution with Assad.
"Sometimes resolutions and statements of condemnation are simply not enough," Mr. Obama said in a televised address from the East Room of the White House. "Our ideals and principles, as well as our national security, are at stake in Syria."
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Mr. Obama said that, given Syria's recent offer to give up its chemical weapons, he's asked the leaders of Congress to postpone their vote on the use of force. The administration will work with its allies in the United Nations, he said, to put forward a resolution requiring Assad to give up the weapons. The international community will also give U.N. inspectors an opportunity to report their findings on the use of chemical weapons in Syria.
In the meantime, Mr. Obama said, he's ordered the U.S. military to "be in a position to respond" in case diplomatic efforts fail.
"For nearly seven decades the United States has been the anchor of global security," he said. "This has meant more than forging international agreements, it has meant enforcing them."
Acknowledging the skepticism and concern among the public over the prospect of a military strike, the president explained why intervening in Syria is in the nation's interest. Mr. Obama asserted, "We know the Assad regime was responsible" for an apparent chemical weapons attack on August 21 that killed more than 1,000 people outside of Dasmascus, in what Mr. Obama called "a violation of the laws of war."
"If we fail to act, the Assad regime will see no reason to stop using chemical weapons," the president said. "Over time our troops would again face the prospect of chemical warfare on the battlefield."
Chemical weapons could fall into the hands of terrorists or threaten American allies neighboring Syria, he said. A failure to act, he added, could weaken prohibitions against other weapons of mass destruction, potentially emboldening Iran to continue developing its nuclear weapons capabilities.
"This is not a world we should accept," Mr. Obama said. "This is what's at stake."
The president also addressed the fast-moving diplomatic developments in Syria. As recently as Sunday, in an interview with Charlie Rose, Assad refused to even acknowledge the existence of his chemical weapons stockpile. By Tuesday, however, Syrian officials said they were interested in accepting a Russian proposal to avert a U.S. strike by relinquishing its chemical weapons to the international community and signing the Chemical Weapons Convention.
"Over the last few days we've seen some encouraging signs," Mr. Obama said, noting that they followed his "constructive talks" with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the G-20 Summit last week.
"It's too early to tell whether this offer will succeed," he said. However, he added, it "has the potential to remove the threat of chemical weapons without the use of force."
The president's prime-time address followed weeks of intense engagement with Congress over a possible military strike. On Tuesday, Mr. Obama went to Capitol Hill to meet separately with the Senate Democratic Caucus and the Senate Republican Conference, spending more than an hour with each group.
In that meeting, according a senior administration official, the president told lawmakers his administration would work with Congress to craft language for the authorizing resolution that would strengthen the diplomatic efforts underway. The president also told senators Tuesday that he was pleased with the seriousness of the public debate that has taken place since he announced he would seek congressional approval for a military strike.
In spite of that ongoing debate -- and efforts from several high-level administration officials to explain the need for Congress to authorize the use of military force -- the idea of using military force in Syria has up to this point found little support in Congress or among the public.
In his address Tuesday night, Mr. Obama acknowledged the many letters he's received from citizens worried about the prospect of another military engagement in the Middle East, and he addressed point-by-point many of the concerns raised.
"Many of you have asked, won't this put us on a slippery slope to another war?" Mr. Obama said, recalling a letter from a veteran who said the nation is "sick and tired of war." The president promised he would not put "boots on the ground" in Syria, nor would he pursue an open-ended campaign -- or even a prolonged air campaign as took place in Libya.
"This would be a targeted strike to achieve a clear objective, deterring the use of chemical weapons and degrading Assad's capabilities," he said.
Others have asked whether it's worth striking without taking out Assad, Mr. Obama noted.
"Let me make something clear," he responded. "The United States military doesn't do pinpricks. Even a limited strike will send a message to Assad that no other nation can deliver."
As for concerns that weakening the Assad regime could strengthen al Qaeda forces in Syria, Mr. Obama said, "Al Qaeda will only draw strength in a more chaotic Syria if people there see the world doing nothing to prevent innocent civilians from being gassed to death."
He added that "the majority of the Syrian people, and the Syrian opposition we work with, just want to live in peace, with dignity and freedom. And the day after any military action, we would redouble our efforts to achieve a political solution that strengthens those who reject the forces of tyranny and extremism."
The president made the case that military intervention aligned with both liberal and conservative values.
"To my friends on the right, I ask you to reconcile your commitment to America's military might with the failure to act when a cause is so plainly just," he said. " To my friends on the left, I ask you to reconcile your belief in freedom and dignity for all people with those images of children writhing in pain and going still on a cold hospital floor."
Those congressmen mostly adamantly opposed to military action said they were not swayed. "Pres. Obama's speech didnt convince me," Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., said via Twitter.
Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, said on Twitter, "Still no explanation of steps 2, 3, 4, etc. and consequences of going to war in Syria. I am still a NO."
Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who have called for stronger intervention in Syria than Mr. Obama is calling for, said in a joint statement that they appreciated the president's remarks but regretted "that he did not speak more forcefully about the need to increase our military assistance to moderate opposition forces in Syria."
They added, "We also regret that he did not lay out a clearer plan to test the seriousness of the Russian and Syrian proposal to transfer the Assad regime's chemical weapons to international custody."
Other members of Congress said the president put forward a strong argument for action.
"Pres. Obama's leadership brought diplomatic solutions back to the table, shows his willingness to exhaust every remedy before use of force," House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said on Twitter.
Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., said in a statement, "President Obama tonight made a clear and compelling case as to why we cannot sit by as the Assad regime uses chemical weapons against its people."


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These are my last few days in Portland. I'm dismantling my work studio and have been going through 3 years worth of saved remnants and fabric scraps. I still have so much to do, and so much to get rid of. Everything in my studio is for sale or up for grabs, and it's so hard to let go. I am excited about living in NY, but I'm really going to miss Portland.
Monday, December 29, 2008
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These are my last few days in Portland. I'm dismantling my work studio and have been going through 3 years worth of saved remnants and fabric scraps. I still have so much to do, and so much to get rid of. Everything in my studio is for sale or up for grabs, and it's so hard to let go. I am excited about living in NY, but I'm really going to miss Portland.
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- the lanky dance said...
We are gonna miss you! so much!
- December 29, 2008 at 9:13 PM
- NFNW said...
Best of luck to you! I've never moved in my life but also hope to make it out to NYC someday soon.
It's going to be great!
- December 29, 2008 at 11:16 PM
- rg said...
There is no place like NYC! You'll love it and it will love you back :)
- December 30, 2008 at 4:46 AM
- That's MIZZ Gypsy To You! said...
I'm really going to miss Portland.
I'd love to say "So why leave us?" but I know moving to NYC is really the best thing for you. (What exactly from your studio is on sale? I know a costumer who might be interested.)
We'll miss you, Leanne! I was recovering from cabin fever going through the Fiber Arts District (a little pretentiously named but good stores nonetheless) and everyone there spoke of how proud we all are of you and of how wonderfully you represented us. I wish you all the best in your life and in your career. (PS One of these days, if you were to consider designing a few plus sized items, I can guarantee you at least one sale!)
- December 30, 2008 at 5:43 AM
- Tiffany said...
:) Portland is lovely (I went there earlier this year for a visit and fell in love)... but NY is going to be taken by storm by you!!
Is anything from your studio going to be sold online? I'd love fabric scraps and such... :)
- December 30, 2008 at 7:38 AM
- Leanne said...
I'm selling (or FREE-ing) everything locally on Craigslist. I should've planned better and sold it online, but now I've run out of time! ARgh!
- December 30, 2008 at 7:05 PM
- auggie rebelo said...
we are gonna miss you more than you know my dear, but we still hve a ton of fun memories to make when you move! u just call rob and i when nathan is driving you batshit crazy, and we will fly to you, and crash at your house...all to save your sanity, of course. anyhow, i love you and nathan, and ive been sad today more than ever. its starting to hit me! we love you though, and portland does too. itll be here waiting for you, like richard marx said.
- December 30, 2008 at 9:44 PM
- julie @ letter9 said...
best of luck in nyc. it's going to be amazing. and portland, i'm sure, will take you back if ever you want to return.
- December 31, 2008 at 6:15 AM
- Dylan_Disast3r said...
ooo the Portland Bridge! I remember that from The Amazing Race :]
Portland seems like a lovely place
Good luck in NYC! :]
- December 31, 2008 at 10:12 PM
- Cathy Santarsiero, "The Christmas Corgi" said...
Don't be sad. Think of it as an adventure. Wishing you all happy good things in 2009.
- January 4, 2009 at 8:14 AM
- Free spirit said...
Good luck in everything!! I love your designs you're amazing!!
- January 4, 2009 at 3:56 PM
- sammi-lise ^_^ said...
it must be really hard...but trust me, you'll love nyc once you get used to it!
oh, and i watched project runway, and you were my favorite. i am so happy that i discovered your blog, because i am a huge fan of your work. your garments are just so genius and epic!
gah...jealous of your talent...
i have a blog too, and when you have the time, do consider dropping be and leaving a comment.
<3 an aspiring fashion designer
- January 7, 2009 at 1:59 PM
- Hungarican Chick said...
Portland (and Mill End) is (are) going to miss you.
- February 17, 2009 at 8:36 AM
- We're just looking for some pretty walnuts. said...
Hi Leanne,
We've never met, but I'm also a fellow Portlander marooned in this chaos known as Brooklyn. I was reading the Mercury online (I'm so lame and starved for PDX) a long time ago, and I read the blurb where they mentioned that you were to be on that seasons PR. I'd never had any real interest in the show before, but I felt like I needed to show some Portland camaraderie. SO. Long story short, I became obsessed and never scheduled any dates on the nights that a new episode would air-- and I'm in love with you and your designs (and I creep on your blog, I'm just a creep, sorry).
But I digress. Anyway, I received one of your old dresses as a birthday present this year, and I wore it to my bands first show. I think it brought me incredibly good luck, and everyone was shitting themselves over how beautiful the dress is/was.( I wanted to send along a photo but blogspot doesn't allow photo comments).
I just wanted to say thank you for being so amazing, and I'm very excited for your upcoming line!
Many thanks, and all the best,
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Capt. Harry Wales, the helicopter pilot known in civilian life as Prince Harry, qualified as an Apache aircraft commander, U.K. military officials said Friday.
The Ministry of Defense said the prince performed well on a 6-hour assessment, the Daily Mirror reported. He flew the attack helicopter on a circuit of England, taking off from a Suffolk airfield and heading up to Newcastle, across to Carlisle and down the west side of the country while being put through various emergency scenarios.
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Is it something they put in the tea in Georgia? Last week it was the young pianist Khatia Buniatishvili who brought virtuosic fireworks to the Proms, this week, it's the playing of the 32-year-old violinist Lisa Batiashvili that has been lighting up the stage. Both are from Georgia, both have taken part in the BBC's New Generation Artists scheme, both are young, beautiful, and phenomenally gifted.
Batiashvili's performance of Shostakovich's Violin Concerto No. 1 with the Philharmonia Orchestra under the baton of Esa-Pekka Salonen last night was music-making of the very highest order.
The first thing that strikes you about her playing, from the opening sinuous melody of the Concerto's Nocturne, is the rich tone of her 1709 Stradivarius; the next is the way in which she puts it to such powerful use, combining natural freedom of expression with absolute pinpoint precision – both of intonation and articulation.
The Concerto makes huge technical and emotional demands on its soloist. Completed in March 1948, and dedicated to David Oistrakh, it was censored under the Stalinist regime and remained unperformed for seven and a half years before it was premiered in Leningrad in October 1955 under Evgeny Mravinsky.
Its themes grow out of the darkness of the war years, and Batiashvili plumbed the depths of its emotional abyss, hurtling through the demonic Scherzo and fully embracing the spiritual heart of the work – its Passacaglia – before transfixing us with its cadenza.
That she recently recorded the work with the Philharmonia Orchestra and Salonen showed in their unanimity of approach – not only in the wildness of the Scherzo finale but also in the encore, the waltz from Shostakovich's Dances of the Dolls, that followed. Here Batiashvili and the ensemble sounded almost drunk on rubato, but always as one.
Their performance provided the focal point for an all-Russian programme in which Salonen's Philharmonia deftly tackled the dark ironies of Shostakovich's Age of Gold Suite, the colour of Stravinsky's Petrushka and Tchaikovsky's Francesca da Rimini. Great programme, wonderfully executed.
Prom 44: Shostakovich: Age of Gold Suite; Violin Concerto No. 1; Stravinsky: Petrushka; Tchaikovsky: Francesca da Rimini
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The latest issue of Time magazine hits newsstands Friday featuring New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on its cover, fresh off his re-election. But it's not the article that has people talking -- it's the headline that some people say is a jab at the governor's size.
The cover features a silhouette of Christie's face with a caption that reads, "The Elephant in the Room." The cover, which Time defended as a tribute to Christie's "outsized influence" on the Republican Party, struck some as a cheap shot.
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"I thought Kendra Rhea was huge the first half. Julie Butler got into some quick foul trouble, which obviously we don't like to have, but I was prepared to put her back in if we needed to, but Kendra was just playing great. Kim and Jennie just kind of tightened down the other spot and got some rebounds and defended for us, so we ended up not having to put Julie back in so that was kind of a blessing in disguise, so we got out of the half with Julie only having two fouls. Kendra did really well the first half which carried us offensively.
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Grains finished near unchanged after trading both sides of the market. March beans were down a penny, March wheat down 2, and March corn unchanged.
The weather forecast in South America was left mostly unchanged. The lack of fresh news is keeping us at current levels and the market is waiting to see what Thursday's report says.
Looking at the most recent Commitment of Traders report, we can see that the "Managed Money" is net short 27,097 contracts of Chicago wheat, net long 192,500 of corn, and net long 33,020 contracts of soybeans. This is still an especially large net long position in corn and all the more reason to make sure as a producer you have adequate DOWNSIDE coverage if the reports were to come out bearish. The reports will be the best indication for direction to start the year and has caused significant market swings in the past.
I have included the market expectations below. If there are any surprises on the stocks data, our thought is that it will be on the amount of wheat being fed, or the rationing of corn demand from these high prices.
Report estimates are as follows (source Reuters):
Production range: 12.165 - 12.375
Average guess: 12.265 with a 146.163 yield
December USDA: 12.310
Production range: 3.010 - 3.200
Average guess: 3.048 with a 41.358 yield
December USDA: 3.046
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April 9, 2012
Volunteer for the annual Columbus State Read-In!
Join Columbus State students, faculty and staff reading to elementary students in both Columbus and Delaware city schools on Tuesday, May 8. The Read-In takes place during the National Right to Read Week, May 7-11 and in cooperation with the I Know I Can program. We will be reading to first- and second-grade students in 15 Columbus City Schools and to second-grade students in Delaware City Schools. Readers will work in teams of 2-3, and the time commitment is expected to be approximately 1-2 hours. Columbus State will also be donating age-appropriate books to each school that participates in this project.
You may be able to receive community service hours for the project, and you will receive a letter of recognition from President Harrison. To sign up to volunteer, go online here.
Cougar Challenge 5k early registration ends Friday
This Friday, April 13, is the early bird deadline for the Cougar Challenge 5k. If you intend to register, do so before the entry fee increases from $25 to $30 for employees and the general public. Remember, employees can register at the Cashier's Office in Rhodes Hall or at Frontrunner on Lane Avenue (cash or check only) to avoid the online registration processing fee.
Register this week and you can still be included in the early bird drawings for two pairs of tickets to the Taste the Future culinary showcase at Columbus State August 21. You will also be guaranteed an event t-shirt. Complete race information can be found online at the Cougar Challenge 5K website.
Columbus State's Day of Silence is April 19
Sponsored the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, the National Day of Silence is a day of action in which students across the country take a vow of silence to call attention to the silencing effect of anti-LGBT bullying and harassment in schools. Through their activities students can speak out against harassment and organize for change for their schools and communities. Columbus State participated in its first Day of Silence in four years ago.
Some activities happening at Columbus State are:
Ally posters: Display of names of faculty, staff and administrators who want to be identified as allies to the LGBT community. You can sign one at various locations on the Columbus or Delaware Campuses or Regional Centers.
Silent Sounding Board: A silent space in the Nestor Hall Lobby to post comments, questions, thoughts, names of those remembered, etc. in support of LGBT identity and in remembrance of those who have been silenced due to anti-LGBT bullying.
SafeZone training session: SafeZone is a program designed to create a safe and embracing environment for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals. SafeZone members are Columbus State employees who have received training to educate themselves about issues within the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community. Members are committed to being open, accepting and providing resource information for LGBT individuals.
Become a SafeZone member by attending the training session Wednesday, April 18, from 2-4 p.m., CT 107 and DA 129. The Diversity Office will facilitate the training session. To register or for more information, contact Kimberly Brazwell, manager of Diversity Initiatives.
Nominate a great Columbus State man for recognition
Former Trustee Napoleon Bell with Jerry Revish at the 2011 Men of the Year Awards.
Last year the MAN Initiative recognized nearly 40 amazing and diverse men--students and employees--as well as the program's first Bell award recipient, 10TV's Jerry Revish at the inaugural Men of the Year Awards Reception. The 2nd Annual Men of the Year Awards Reception will take place on Thursday, June 7, at 6:00 p.m. in the Conference Center Ballroom, WD 435.
Has a Columbus State male faculty or staff member made a positive difference in your life? Do you know a male Columbus State student who has proven all of the at-risk male stereotypes wrong? Help the MAN Initiative honor them! Today through April 30, contact the MAN Initiative at firstname.lastname@example.com with the name(s) of those you would like to nominate for recognition. Please include your name, email address and contact number so that we may follow up with you for additional information.
And save the date to join the MAN Initiative in recognizing the great men who are right here in our campus community!


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8 terms that suck the life out of your writing
How and why to eliminate vampire words including somewhat, whatsoever, and although from your prose.
Abraham Lincoln wrote the most famous speech in American history. He also was a noted vampire slayer.
Coincidence? Children may wish it so. But tough-minded communicators know that the practice of cleaning up one's copy goes hand in hand with wielding axes against the undead.
Writers must be willing to kill for the greater good of humankind. We must destroy those vampire words (and phrases) that suck the life out of our prose.
Ali Hale at Copyblogger notes that E.B. White recognized the dangers of words like rather, very, little, and pretty decades ago, although the nearsighted writer mistook them for "leeches that infest the pond of prose, sucking the blood of words."
No, sir; the problem is far worse than a few freshwater annelids. "With the Internet making writers and publishers of us all, those little words aren't just leeches: they're full-grown vampires," Copyblogger writes. "And they need to be stopped."
Garlic cloves and blinding daylight are mere trifles against these verbal apparitions. Only the blood-red ink of an editor's pen can send them to their graves.
We asked communicators, writers and Chicago-area exorcists for their suggestions. True, every word exists for a reason. But an overreliance on the following suggests it's time to summon your inner Abe Lincoln.
1. Somewhat.
Vampire slayer Janella Griggs, who by day is an account executive and copywriter with Cunningham Group, has done battle with this specter.
"Either it is or it isn't," she writes. "And when someone writes 'somewhat unique,' that irritates me to no end. … Write with passion and purpose and confidence, not noncommittal words like 'somewhat.'"
2. There is (or are, was or were).
Back away slowly if these words appear frequently in a passage. Look for fang marks on the writer or speaker's greenish neck.
Bank of America's CEO once used this phrase to deny that his firm needed to raise more money due to problems with mortgage investors.
He unwittingly revealed his status as a Transylvania native when he said, "There is no capital raise needed here." A mortal would have said, "We don't need to raise capital."
Besides, wouldn't a real banker care about economy, as in economy of words? Consider:
Vampires: There are needless words that suck the life out of our prose.
Mortals: Needless words suck the life out of our prose.
3. Although, while and whereas as sentence-starters.
Sometimes we must back into a thought with although, just as truckers reverse a rig down a cramped alley to a loading bay. But if these sentence starters are overused, the result is as tedious as watching the trucker keep backing up, pulling forward, and backing up again, or so Bright Hub might argue. The same is true of whereas and while.
A vampire hunter won't hesitate to grab an ax and chop out such phrases. Rearrange the thought. These sentences are the domain of undead communicators who tend to eschew concretes, like this:
Vampires: While I undertook advance measures to keep my colleagues alert during my presentation, my listeners still showed a discourteous lack of interest.
Mortals: I spiked the orange juice with No-Doz, but my presentation still put everyone to sleep.
4. Literally, actually, basically, and arguably .
Ghosts vs. vampires: now that's a war we'd like to see—at least if the ghosts were on our side. Ghosts tend to be the spirit of loved ones, can pass through walls, are unsusceptible to vampire bites, and are known for both eloquence and pithiness ("Mark me").
Luckily, the ghosts have got our back. We queried Dan Gerstein, president of Gotham Ghostwriters, who warned that younger writers are especially prone to overuse literally and actually. One of his ghosts, business author Brian Solon, added basically, and others are citing arguably.
"Both of these words have their place in select circumstances as signifiers," Gerstein writes, "but too often they are injected unnecessarily for emphasis, and wind up having the opposite effect the writer/speaker intended."
Note that many other prose-weakening adverbs would find a home under point No. 4.
5. Leverage and optimize.
Vampire slayer and "communications strategista" Justina Chen warns of these bloodsucking terms.
"The most deadening of terms in any writing—corporate or creative—have got to be techno-jargon and business-speak," she writes. "Spare me the 'leverage' and 'optimize' and superhighway of meaningless acronyms. Give customers and employees stories and telling details instead. Create terms. Play with language so what you're saying is fresh and memorable."
6. Whatsoever.
This seldom serves any purpose whatsoever.
7. Seems.
Not everything is what it appears to be, and seems is a way of hedging our bets. But it also drinks the blood of the surrounding words. Be bold. Just say it is.
8. Throat-clearing phrases like indeed, in fact and to be sure.
Rob Reinalda, the executive editor at Ragan Communications, is known as a man who strangles vampires with his bare hands. It is rumored that he keeps a stake in his sock to drive through the hearts of writers who use these throat-clearing phrases, along with lastly, that being said, and in my personal opinion (as opposed to your impersonal opinion?).
Reinalda gets a dangerous look in his eye whenever he encounters the mutant clone the thing is, is.
Like all of us here, he has been known to show up in blood-stained clothing after a night of vampire hunting and zombie blasting. Don't push him.
So what's the solution for your prose? One writer tells us to use auto-correct to highlight the vampires in our copy. He would have you automatically mark words like this: *whatever*. Then you can search for them and come up with alternatives. To each his own.
Another blogger suggests the use of a program called yWriter, which enables writers to see how many times they have used a word in a section of prose. (We haven't tried it.)
Better yet, just learn to identify the vampire words in your own copy. And keep your doors and windows bolted at night.
Follow Russell Working on Twitter @RussellWorking. This story first ran on PR Daily in June 2011.
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So basically I want to see what other people think.
In my opinion this whole thing is being blown way out of proportion. No matter how disrespectful this video was, it does not justify killing people and burning embassies.
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RE: "Perhaps we are using different definitions of 'Islamist.' For me, it's a synonym for 'Muslim.'"
No, we're using exactly the same definitions - what you're failing to see is that Muslims are protesting against Muslim extremists, or as I've been saying, and you've been failing to comprehend, Islamists are protesting against Islamic extremists. Short of a drill and a funnel, I can't think of any other way to get it into your head.
First things first, "FINALLY! An anti-Islamic protest!" is false. It is not a protest against Muslims (per se).
It's a protest BY Muslims AGAINST more extreme Muslims - per, freakin,' se - what part of that are you too obtuse to see?
So, pot, you couldn't find a nicer way to say that? Then I feel sorry for you.
Just take your meds and pass out, you'll feel much better, and so will everyone else.
I will let them speak for themselves.
I just posted this on another TA forum, but let me repeat it here, since you guys live in these countries and have much more first-hand knowledge than I:
Here's the reason, I suspect, that many Muslims blame the US for production and release of that film:
"YouTube blocked in Saudi Arabia after king orders ban on websites carrying anti-Islam film"
When you've lived your life in a country where the government controls the media, you tend to assume that that's the way it is everywhere. WE Americans know that if the US tried to shut down YouTube across the country, there would be an unimaginable 1st amendment uproar, which the government would lose, but that kind of freedom is unknown in most Islamic countries.


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Enjoy great reading while learning a little more about the natural world and mathematics.
- You Are Here:Why We Can Find Our Way to the Moon, but Get Lot in the Mall by Colin Ellard
- For me the charm of this book is how unassumingly Ellard can share "mathematics-grade" abstractions ("taxis", "gradient fields"), combine them in an argument about the nature of human beings' perception of spatial relations, and then convincingly demonstrate how important this is to every one of us. It was easy to follow the argument, even though I do get lost in malls. His contention is that people base their spatial perception on visual chunks connected by narrative, associative, or procedural links that have no real "distance" property. Compared with animals, whose navigational schemes and the interesting experiments that have elucidated them comprise the first half of the books, humans have little real understanding of relations between two unseen landmarks. Surprisingly, such an apparent disability confers on us the ability to "create" our own environment in a way that is convincing, at least to ourselves. The book's second half describes many of the benefits of "made environments" in housing, workplaces, cities, and even "virtual worlds," as well as the environmental harm being caused by our inability or refusal to understand interconnectedness in our planet's limited space.
The bibliography is wonderful, collecting similar, popular treatments of interesting topics in social science.
- The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: by Richard Feynman
- JMRL has this in audiobook form, which might not be the best for some of the intense physics discussed in some of the chapters. But the other essays talk about Feynman's work in an accessible way. In some sections, he talks about how his father helped cultivate a wonder with the world that allowed Feynman to ask questions scientifically. In others, there are discussions about Feynman's views on faith vs. science, his views for the future of science, and some great personal anecdotes - told in Feynman's own idiosyncratic verbiage if not in his own voice - about being the young gun on the Manhattan Project, winning the Nobel Prize, etc.
- Dry Storeroom No. 1: the Secret Life of the Natural History Museum: by Richard Fortey
- Entertaining for its anecdotes of eccentric scientists, odd creatures, and adventurous expeditions, the book also provides a solid picture of the importance of taxonomy in science, and how it is changing with new techniques. This is a grown-up version of From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil Frankenweiler.
- Father Goose by William Lishman
- A bohemian sculptor's adventures getting Canada geese to migrate using an ultralight aircraft. The book was made into a charming film called Fly Away Home starring a young Anna Paquin.
- Flatterland: Like Flatland, Only More So by Ian Stewart
- What it would be like living in an unusual space often serves authors well. Arthur Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama imagines existence in a huge cylinder where "up" is toward the center, and two of the cardinal directions run straight while two run in a curve. Ian Stewart builds on Edwin Abbot's classic Flatland, which, by analogy with a two-dimensional world, imagined what life might be like in more than three dimensions. Abbott also had social issues in mind. Stewart's book presents a series of worlds in much weirder, non-Euclidean geometries, and in which women's social status has been completely transformed. The book combines real geometric understanding, humor, and progressive social commentary.


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InFocus has launched a new videoconferencing and collaboration system called "Mondopad"--a 55-inch touchscreen display with built-in whiteboarding, presentation, and communications tools.
The Mondopad--which InFocus described as an "all-in-one giant tablet designed for business-class videoconferencing and collaboration"--is built around an Intel Core i5 processor with 4 GB memory and WIndows 7 Professional for multi-touch support. It combines a 55-inch, 1080p-capable, interactive touchscreen display with a 720p video camera and integrated support for standards-based (SIP and H.323) endpoints to enable videoconferencing across a range of platforms, from high-end telepresence systems down to free services like Skype using VIdtel's cloud-based conferencing service.
The device's interactive whiteboarding capabilities include multi-color annotation, highlighting, and drawing tools (including some primitives); support for multi-whiteboard networked communications; and note capture and sharing.
Other capabilities and components of the Mondopad include:
The LCD display itself supports a maximum resolution of WUXGA (1,920 x 1,200) with 1.07 billion colors and offers a brightness of 450 cd/m² and a contrast ratio of 5,000:1.
The webcam supports resolutions up to 1,280 x 720 (720p) and offers a high-definition frame rate of 22 FPS during two-way communications using H.264 encoding.
Mondopad's AV ports include two HDMI; RGB (mini D-sub 15-pin); component; S-video; composite video; stereo RCA; and stereo minijack input and output.
The Mondopad is expected to ship next month for $5,949. Videoconferencing services will run $49 per connection per month. Additional details can be found on the InFocus Mondopad portal.
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By Rob Glidden
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Dance City and the Arts is teaming up with Southington's United Way to hold a fundraising event for the Sandy Hook School Support Fund.
The community has been invited to Derynoski Elementary School on Saturday, January 26 to watch performances by the students of Dance City, the area band J.J. BOS and other local talent. All proceeds from the ticket sales will benefit the Sandy Hook Fund, meant for the community mourning the tragic shootings in Newtown.
"Just like everyone else, [the students] were stunned and in a state of disbelief," said Sheila Simone, owner of Dance City and the Arts. "They wanted to do something for the children. We've done enough fundraising events for them to know that this is a way they can make a difference. It feels like the least we can do."
The Sandy Hook Fund is managed by the United Way of West Central Connecticut, a regional branch of the organization that includes Newtown. The other 13 United Way branches in the state, including Southington, are putting on various events to contribute to the Sandy Hook Fund.
"We've gotten some individual donations but this event will be our major contribution to that fund," said Kaye Davis, Executive Director of the United Way of Southington. "Dance City has been a wonderful partner and they are very excited. We're expecting great things."
26 people ultimately were killed on the December 14 massacre and Simone has noticed that this number has been prominent while planning this event. In addition to being held on the 26, the team that will be on stage has 26 members and has 26 different dance routines planned.
Simone said that 25 of those numbers were "pure entertainment," but one will have a more serious tone. Dance City will debut a new piece dedicated to the victims of Sandy Hook and that will focus on the emotions felt by the community, such as uncertainty, mourning and the loss of innocence.
This is not the first time the group has used their art to comment on a tough subject. In the past, dance routines have been performed in honor of domestic violence victims.
"They were very empowered when they saw what dance could do," said instructor Lisa Carroll. "When this happened, they wanted to express their support through dance."
Tickets for the performance cost $10 and can be purchased at the door. Those looking to get them in advance can also buy them at the Pepper Pot Restaurant, Just For You Gift Shop, the Southington United Way office and Dance City and the Arts.
Carroll, who is an advisor for numerous area drama clubs and works in the library at Northeast Middle School in Bristol, said that she had heard a lot of enthusiasm for the fundraiser and that the crowd may exceed early expectations.
"Sometimes you think you're just doing a little local event and you don't realize the impact you can have," she said. "We have a nice array of talent and I think we'll have a lot of support."


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Harlander, Theo; Harlander, Susan , Brooklin Pottery
Canadian/Canadian (born in Germany), 1920–?
Soap dish, c. 1950–1970
16.5 x 12 x 18.6 cm
Collection of the Winnipeg Art Gallery; Gift of Robert and Ina Abra in memory of Richard and Elsie McIntosh
German immigrants Theo and Susan Harlander established the Brooklin Pottery studio in 1952 in Brooklin, Ontario, introducing a continental approach to the field of Canadian studio production. They specialized in custom-ordered household items such as these three pieces. Theo would throw the pieces on the wheel and Susan decorated them with freehand sgraffito patterns, designs incised or scratched through the slip or glaze to the earthenware ground. The incised designs on Harlander pieces wrap effortlessly around the vessel form, displaying Susan's exceptional understanding of design aesthetics. The Harlanders added new breadth to early Canadian studio pottery, introducing a distinct modernist, design-centric style that contrasted with the more common yet well-executed functional wares (such as those influenced by Bernard Leach and the early British studio pottery movement) made during this time period.
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If you want to work full-time, stay in school. That's one message from Current Population Survey job data.
CPS figures show that the rate of part-time work for those with a bachelor's degree is significantly lower than for those with a high school diploma or even some college (see Chart 1). Of course, not everyone works part-time because full-time jobs are not available, including among those with less education. But those with more education are working part-time less often for economic reasons—what the CPS considers "involuntary" part-time (see Chart 2).
But during and shortly after the recession, the rate of involuntary part-time work rose notably for all three groups. In fact, the growth rate was highest among those with a bachelor's degree, for whom involuntary part-time work more than doubled between March 2008 and March 2010. Rates for all three have fallen steadily since then, but remain elevated. The rate for those with some college education is the closest of the three to prerecession levels.
This is the last of four looks at part-time job trends in Ninth District states. For previous posts, see here, here and here. For an in-depth look at Ninth District job growth since the recession, watch for the upcoming July issue of the fedgazette.


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During the celebration of its 75th Anniversary, the national headquarters of the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) released nine insightful articles during the 2012-13 academic year that comprised the NJCAA 75th Anniversary Feature Series. Below is the fourth nstallment of the series, which was also published in the NJCAA Review.
by Michael Teague, NJCAA Media Relations
Entering the 1970s, the NJCAA personified the environment of the United States as a whole. Decades of struggles, followed by decades of renovation brought the organization and the country to a critical point in history. Vast success and flourishing revenues were being felt across the landscape, except in the case of women.
According to the Census Bureau, women on average earned 57.9 percent of what their male counterparts earned in 1972. A study by the National Coalition for Women & Girls in Education showed that during the 1971-72 academic year, only nine percent of medical school graduates and only seven percent of law school graduates were women. In that same year, only 29,972 women in the entire nation participated in varsity college sports.
"At almost all universities in the United States of America, the men had wonderful opportunities to compete at both the high school level and collegiate level," said former University of Iowa athletic director Dr. Christine Grant. "Women were being discriminated against on two fronts. They were denied access to real varsity competition – which in itself was truly unfair – but in addition to that, all students at the university level helped subsidize the participation opportunities for the men. The women were subsidizing the same opportunities for the men that they were denied."
Despite the male-dominated stratification of the early 70s, most of the inequality in collegiate athletics during the era was created by the predetermined gender roles of American culture. As a Scotland-native, Grant was taken aback by the lack of opportunities for women when she moved to the United States.
"The opportunities for young men were absolutely fantastic and there was nothing comparable for young women," Dr. Grant said. "When I asked why this was happening, their response was, 'Young women aren't interested in sports.' I had been playing sports since I was 11 and had participated in international sports so I knew that was a load of hogwash, but they truly believed that women weren't interested."
For the few women who did participate in collegiate athletics at the time, it was a far cry from the sports environment that male student-athletes enjoyed.
"The girls in high school had almost nothing and the young women at the university level only had club sports for which they had to pay," Dr. Grant said.
Everything changed on June 23, 1972, when President Richard Nixon signed into law the single most important piece of legislation for collegiate athletics in America: Title IX. The 37 words contained in the portion of the Education Amendments of 1972 completely changed the face of sports in this country.
For many male athletic administers across the nation, the passage of Title IX meant an end to the sports world as they knew it. Several distinguished icons of collegiate athletics fought tooth and nail against the implementation of the law, including legendary Texas football coach Darrell K. Royal who drafted an amendment to exempt revenue generating sports from complying with the statute.
"The men were very fearful of women entering their domain," said former Southern Illinois University athletic director Dr. Charlotte West. "They were not very receptive and they fought Title IX and they fought us."
While numerous men stood in defiant opposition to Title IX, NJCAA executive director George Killian perceived things in a different light. Killian saw an opportunity. An opportunity that he would have to substantiate with his colleagues in the NJCAA.
"In the beginning, people thought I was nuts," Killian said. "Budgets were small and the men had a certain amount of dollars that they didn't want to share with somebody else. They saw this as taking over a segment of collegiate sports that would take money away from the men. Our guys didn't want anything to do with it. These were not stupid guys. They were my friends. It was just the culture of the time. So I kept sitting there every day, thinking about how I would convince these guys."
Killian realized that if he was going to garner the support to bring women's athletics into the NJCAA, it was the school presidents that he would need the backing of. In 1972, Killian formed the Presidents' Special Study Committee to analyze the prospect of adding a separate division for women within in the NJCAA.
"I knew that if we got the presidents to say it was a good move, then we could get this done," Killian said. "We brought them to Hutchinson and explained to them everything in detail. They thought it was a great idea and that's all we needed, the support of the presidents."
The committee followed their study by sending out a questionnaire to the membership to measure the level of interest in creating a women's division. Clear support for the move was echoed in the membership's response.
With the endorsement of the presidential committee and the general support of the membership, Killian moved on to his next challenge: convincing the women to join. At the time, most of women's collegiate athletics was overseen by the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW).
"One of the biggest challenges we faced was getting the women to come with us," Killian said. "It wasn't easy because the AIAW had a group of strong women from community colleges. Everyone was extremely nervous about the AIAW. The biggest threat was them taking complete command of women's athletics. If the men and women at a college were in separate organizations, they could fight over dollars."
Trying to convince the women to leave an association that specialized in women's athletics was no easy task. Killian decided that there was only one way to combine men's and women's athletics under one organization. They had to be equal.
"I thought the only way we could do that was to present a plan that was equal to what the men did," Killian said. "If we were going to take the women in, we had to make sure the men didn't lose any money. That's why it was equal and the money was split in half. The word equal was very important. Everything had to be equal, so if you paid $250 for the men then you paid $250 for the women. If the women spent $1,000, it came out of their half. If the men spent $1,000, it came out of their half."
Equality in finances also meant equality in voting. With 16 male region directors each having a vote in organizational legislation, there needed to be 16 female region directors with the same voting power.
"Equality in voting was the only acceptable avenue for women to be empowered to direct their own destiny for women's sports," said former St. Louis Community College-Florissant Valley athletic director Lea Plarski. "As members of a parent organization without voting rights, we would have had minimal influence on the direction of women's programming. The men's division would have held the decision-making power and nothing would have been gained through realignment with the NJCAA."
With the assurance of across-the-board equality, the female administrators recognized the advantages of joining an organization that had established itself as the nation's leader in two-year collegiate athletics. Despite the AIAW's niche for women's athletics, the association was lacking when it came to finances, support for competitions, travel, facilities, visibility and promotion.
"They saw that we had a strong organization that was in business since 1938," Killian said. "We had a program that everybody could see and we had the support of college presidents. The women understood that we had more expertise in how to run championships and departments."
"The AIAW provided a starting place for organized women's collegiate athletics," Plarski said. "The NJCAA welcomed the women's division, gave it a home, elected and appointed women to positions of leadership, provided programming on equal footing with the men's division, promoted visibility for female student-athletes and coaches, leveled the playing field in regards to rules and regulations and generated respect for competition for women in two-year schools that otherwise had been overlooked or minimized in importance."
The deciding factor for the women to come on board hinged on the all too familiar dilemma of the needs of two-year colleges being ignored for the desires of four-year schools. Although women enjoyed being a part of an organization dedicated to women's athletics, the unique challenges facing two-year programs were not being addressed by the AIAW.
"The women that wanted to join spoke up for us," Killian said. "They didn't criticize. Their biggest argument against the AIAW was that they were primarily a four-year institution. Coming from two-year schools, they realized they had to watch out for themselves."
"A perception that the two-year school had a limited voice in the AIAW was prevalent among NJCAA representatives," Plarski said. "Within the AIAW, two-year schools seemed to be at the bottom of the pecking order without opportunities for key leadership roles within the overall membership."
After Killian addressed the concerns of the women, all that was left to do was put pen to paper. At the 1974 annual meeting, the NJCAA decided to invite a female representative from each region to the 1975 meeting to organize the nation's first women's division within a coed collegiate athletics organization. In the meantime, national invitational tournaments for women's volleyball, basketball and tennis were created for the 1974-75 academic year.
Following successful management of the three invitational tournaments and formation of the women's division, the NJCAA reclassified all three events as national championships. In November of 1975, the NJCAA Women's Volleyball Championship became the first championship held for women by a national coed collegiate organization. The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) wouldn't have their first women's championship until 1980, followed by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) who had their first in 1981.
The precedent set by the NJCAA completely changed the picture for both the NAIA and NCAA. The NAIA quickly worked to establish their women's division but the conservative administrators of the NCAA would take some persuasion. NCAA executive director Walter Byers had a strong relationship with Killian and once he saw that the AIAW was a serious threat to the NCAA, he turned to him for help with this issue.
"Walter would call me asking what I thought," Killian said. "I told him he had to make sure he had a couple of strong presidents in his corner. That's what he did. He needed people like the athletic director at Michigan, Don Canham. Don Canham was an icon so when he spoke, everybody listened. He got those kind of people to push the program and he did it."
By 1979, the NJCAA had added women's national championships for cross country, swimming & diving, gymnastics, indoor track & field, outdoor track & field and softball and invitational tournaments for field hockey, bowling, skiing and golf. The NJCAA quickly became Byers' most convincing argument for a women's division to his NCAA peers.
"The one thing that helped the NCAA move forward is that we were still in business," Killian said. "We were actually having a women's division and were still in business."
Having already blazed the trail for women's collegiate athletics, the NJCAA continued to be at the forefront of increasing the opportunities available to women. After serving as the NJCAA Vice President for Women for 15 years, Plarski was elected as the organization's first female president in 1990.
"It was an honor to be elected," Plarski said. "From the very beginning, I felt trust, respect and support. I never had the feeling that lines had been drawn, even though a small pocket of regional directors still resisted the women's division. When it came to resolving difficult issues, we were a united house making decisions for the good of the organization."
In July 2009, the NJCAA set another milestone for women in sports when Mary Ellen Leicht was named the association's executive director. Leicht is the first and only female chief executive of any national collegiate athletics organization in the United States.
"I'm honored to have my current position with the NJCAA and know that it would not have been possible without some tremendous role models in my life," Leicht said. "Becoming the first female executive director of a collegiate athletics organization has been quite challenging – not because of my gender but because of the demands of the position itself. It's not about being a female executive director. It's about those that created the path which has allowed me as a female to retain the position of executive director."
The number of women playing varsity sports in college increased 622 percent between 1971-72 – the year before Title IX was instituted – and 2009-10. The NJCAA alone had 21,862 female student-athletes competing on 1,821 teams in 2011-12. Despite the tireless efforts of the NJCAA's key leaders in this movement, Title IX was the lynchpin that held it all together.
"Somewhere along the line it would have come about but it wouldn't have come as quickly," Killian said. "Title IX shoved it out there, but if we waited for everyone to get together it would have been 20 years before something happened."
"Title IX provided the legal thrust for the establishment of athletics programs for girls and women at all levels," Plarski said. "Significant credit must be given to Title IX and the pressure it generated to equalize athletic opportunities for student-athletes enrolled in the same institution."
Although Title IX helped to level the playing field at public institutions of higher learning, there is still a large gap in opportunities provided to women. According to a 2012 study by Brooklyn College, women only make up 20.3 percent of athletic directors and 9.8 percent of sports information directors, while 9.2 percent of athletic departments in America had no females in administrative positions. The report also showed that only 42.9 percent of women's college teams are actually led by a female head coach and 68.8 percent of women's head coaching jobs have gone to men since 2000.
"We've seen all this wonderful growth for female athletes with a concurring downward trend on the number of women coaching women's teams," West said. "I think the way to improve that is to educate people about this downward trend and follow the lead of organizations like the Alliance of Women Coaches. They talk to the women coaches about getting more people involved and reaching out to encourage young women interested in sports to be coaches."
There is still a lot of work to be done but the NJCAA continues to follow the proactive philosophy it's utilized for 75 years.
"The NJCAA is a special group of people that have endured a lot of adversity," Plarski said. "We've always worked together. The tug-of-war is always in the direction of how the organization can be improved."
When push comes to shove, it all comes down to the NJCAA's dedicated leaders and members. It was the forward-thinking individuals at all levels of the NJCAA that brought women's collegiate athletics into the mainstream. The individuals that stood in the face of adamant opposition and fought for gender equity in collegiate athletics.
"It's taken a hell of a lot of people, men and women, to get the women's division to where it is today," Killian said. "If you don't have strong support across the country, it's not going to work. You need men and women working together."


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CHICAGO, Ill. (Monday, Nov. 11, 2013) – The Chicago Fire Soccer Club announced Monday that goalkeeper Sean Johnson has been selected by United States Men's National Team Head Coach Jurgen Klinsmann to join the U.S. the upcoming international friendlies on Friday, Nov. 15 against Scotland at Hampden Park in Glasgow, Scotland at 2:00 p.m. CT (ESPN2/UniMas) and Tuesday, Nov. 19 against Austria at Ernst-Happel-Stadion in Vienna, Austria at 1:45 p.m. CT (NBC Sports Network/UniMas).
A Lilburn, Ga. product, Johnson made his international debut Jan. 22, 2011 against Chile at the Home Depot Center in Carson, Calif. Johnson earned his first start for the U.S. Men's National Team and earned the shutout in a 0-0 draw with Canada at BBVA Compass Stadium in Houston, Texas Jan. 29. The 24-year-old 'keeper has been capped four times and this summer competed in the 2013 CONCACAF Gold Cup, earning the shutout in the 1-0 win against Costa Rica on July 16 in the final group match of the tournament. The U.S. would go on to defeat Panama 1-0 in the final, winning the Gold Cup for the fifth time.
In his fourth season as a professional, Johnson earned six shutouts in 28 matches for the Men in Red while tallying a 12-10-6 record in 2013. With his appearance in the team's season finale at New York on Oct. 27, Johnson became the second youngest goalkeeper in MLS history to play in 100 games.
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FORWARDS (6) : Jozy Altidore (Sunderland), Terrence Boyd (Rapid Vienna), Clint Dempsey (Seattle Sounders FC), Aron Johannsson (AZ Alkmaar), Eddie Johnson (Seattle Sounders FC), Chris Wondolowski (San Jose Earthquakes) - See more at: http://www.ussoccer.com/news/mens-national-team/2013/11/131111-roster-rel-scot-aust.aspx#sthash.cbfqGOWh.dpuf
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LDWF has been working with LPB on a new six part wildlife series called: "Alive! In America's Delta" and the whooping crane reintroduction project is the focus of one of the six programs and will be the first one to air next Monday, August 19th at 7pm central time. Additional broadcasts are listed below. The rest of the programs are scheduled to be completed later this year and then the entire series will be shown.
Additionally, the program will be streamed live as it airs on LPB.ORG on the 19th. It will also be kept up on the web for the rest of the month of August, so anyone, anywhere in the world will be able to watch it.
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Crocodiles and Devin @ 7th St. Entry
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There was nothing but musical energy surging from the 7th Street Entry stage on Friday, June 23. Making his debut from Brooklyn, NY, Devin sprung a lively stage presence covering every bit of the space with slides, dives, and leaps. He was equally equipped with his straight forward rock 'n roll seasoned with Buddy Holly pops in his frantic vocals as featured in "Masochist" and "I Don't Think I."
San Diego's Crocodiles brought their swagger to promote their recently released album, "Endless Flowers." Lead singer; Brandon Welchez waltzed right into the crowd and swarmed around while the crowd broke out into a head-nodding trance. Highlights included the rebellious, "I Wanna Kill," the charming, "No Black Clouds for Dee Dee," and the thriving, "My Surfing Lucifer." Crocodiles ended on a high note with "Welcome Trouble" with its fitting vocalized yelps and clamoring arrangement that echoes like a warning. Rumor has it these rollicking reptilians will be back in Minneapolis in September or October.
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"This was a very, very difficult decision for me, as I am so enormously fond of CIS, the faculty, staff and students, and proud of all our accomplishments," Baum wrote in an email to her colleagues.
Baum has been an active participant on various committees, including most recently, on the advisory board of the Rochester Regional Optics, Photonics and Imaging Accelerator Consortium; as an executive committee member of the Women in Science, Engineering, Technology and Entrepreneurship Regional Association; and as an executive team member of Advancing Women Faculty in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math.
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12 Cool Windows 8.1 Apps
Windows 8 and now Windows 8.1 have had a lot of catching up to do, apps-wise. After all, the iPad has been available since 2010 and accumulated over 475,000 apps in its store. The new Windows does double duty as a desktop/laptop and touch tablet operating system, but it still has a whole app store for a new class of touch-friendly tablet-centric apps—the Windows Store. There, you'll find over 120,000 apps available for easy download, installation, and updating. With that many to choose from, you can be sure there are some gems. Here you'll find our picks of some of the coolest.
Don't forget that as a full-fledged desktop OS, Windows 8.1 still runs all existing Windows apps in its desktop view, in addition to the new-style apps we're including below, so the whole universe of Windows apps isn't represented here—not by a long shot. For example, you're still going to want to run complex pro-level apps like Adobe Photoshop, in the desktop.
As with most mobile platforms, most of the apps are free—especially the well-known ones like Facebook, Skype, Twitter, and Netflix—but there are plenty of premium-level apps, especially games like Halo Spartan Assault or Bejeweled, that cost from $1.49 up. But unlike other app stores, the Windows Phone store lets developers offer free trial versions of apps, so you often won't have to spend a cent to try out a new app.
To get you started, the OS comes with standard apps created by Microsoft (and much improved with Windows 8.1) for everyday necessities—Mail, Calendar, People (for social networking), Messaging, Photos, SkyDrive, Reader, Music, and Video—but both small and well-known software publishers alike have released Windows 8.1 apps, including Autodesk, Cyberlink, and several major news publishers. According to the site MetroStore Scanner, an average of over 200 new apps are still arriving every day, so we're just getting started. The coolest Windows 8.1 apps may be yet to come, but meanwhile check out our chosen bunch.
1 Vyclone
2 Asphalt 8: Airborne
3 Star Chart
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Mir zenen Yiddishe scoutenWe are Jewish scouts/ With muscles strong and healthy./ Neither heat nor frost will alarm us/ nor thunder nor storm./ We march forward proudly toward a worthy goal/ To liberate the Jewish people from the binds of the Diaspora/ To live as equals among all men/ Raise the blue and white flag/ And call out loudly and clearly: (From the "Hatikva") We have not yet lost our hope/ The nation of Israel lives!
Mir musklen shtark un gezunt
Es shreken unz nisht kein hitzen un kein kelten
Kein diener, kein shtrum-vind
Mirmarshirn faranigt tzu a groisen tzil
Tzu bfreien das folk Yisruel fun de galuskeiten
Tzu leiben gelich min leiten
Hoibt of de veis bloiye fan
Un mita leiten shtum git a geshrei:
Od lo uvda tikvateinu, am Yisrael Chai!
Freely translated it means:
We are the cry of pain, the cry which lasts so long
That the far-off subsequent generations will hear it.
We are the requiem, the cry of agony
We are the chorus chanting the prayer for the dead bitterly
Over the grave,
Whose echo will resound through the generations-
We are Polish Jewry.
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Fans hop aboard exclusive train to Comic-Con
ABOARD THE SILVER SPLENDOR >> For a lucky fellowship of fans, Comic-Con is beginning early on a private train car trekking to the pop-culture convention.
The fan-centric social networking site Wikia picked 30 users to board a private vintage carriage transformed into the Wikia Fan Express, a special expedition Wednesday from Los Angeles to San Diego that included an assortment of unique on-board entertainment, including special sneak peeks and Q&A sessions.
"Comic-Con is supposed to be all about the fans, so what cooler way to get some of our fans to the show than to take them on this really beautiful train car," said Wikia entertainment programming director Eric Moro, while perched underneath the car's domed glass ceiling. "The fact that we're not only taking this really cool train to Comic-Con, but we've got all this great content to show them along the way, is awesome."
The Wikia-sponsored railway journey, which served as the caboose to a standard Amtrak train, included a preview of the upcoming video game "Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor," a sneak peak at the fantasy-meets-reality TV series "The Quest" and a demonstration of Wikia's new interactive mapping feature, which allows users to collaboratively annotate maps of both real and fictional places like Middle-earth.
"This is the first time I've ever demoed a game on a train," said "Shadow of Mordor" design director Michael de Plater before showing off a level from the open-world combat game, which is set between "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings" tales. "I'm afraid this might turn into 'Snowpiercer.' It might be a blood bath. I will be Ed Harris."
While the private excursion hardly resembled the train-set sci-fi film, Wikia did deck out booths inside the domed Silver Splendor car, which was built in 1956, with maps of the villainous realm Mordor and flat-screen monitors to broadcast game and TV clips.
Moro and his team hand-selected fans for the expedition from hundreds of Wikia users headed to Comic-Con. Rebecca "cyabude3" Lietz, who contributes to the site's "Shadow of Mordor" page, traveled from Germany for the special trip. It's her first-ever Comic-Con.
"It's really special," said Lietz. "People from all over the world come to Comic-Con to see things like DC, Marvel and Archie Comics, so for me to be here for the first time and go to San Diego this way, it's really great."
Comic-Con, the four-day extravaganza that celebrates film, TV, video games, comic books and costumes, launched at the San Diego Convention Center with a preview Wednesday night before going full steam ahead Thursday with more than 150,000 fans expected to attend the sold-out event.
Natalie "keyframegirl" Ebnet, who contributes to the Wikia page specifically about Comic-Con, is taking her 10th trip to the festival. She said she initially started posting about the expo because she couldn't find tips about attending with children, though Ebnet's offspring aren't along for the ride this time.
"I've ditched the kids for the past two years with the husband," said Ebnet. "I meet up with my girlfriends down there. It's our version of a spa weekend.


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