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Can They Kill Hot Rodding? - Hot Rods On The Horizon ... Or Are They?
The Changing Political Landscape And The Need For Enthusiast Involvement
The 2010 elections are here, and at no time in recent history has Washington been so divided. Less than two years ago, then-Senator Barack Obama led a movement united by the desire for change. Voters wanted a new era of bipartisan cooperation, openness, and an abandonment of "politics as usual".
The realities of backroom politics quickly eroded campaign ideals. Whether President Obama and the Democratic leadership failed to deliver, or his opponents refused the invitation, the battle lines were fortified and partisan rancor is now stronger than ever.
We are again at an election crossroads in which many voters are seeking "change". That's what this magazine article is about-an opportunity to consider how actions being taken by federal and state lawmakers impacts you, the auto enthusiast. The need for the enthusiast community to stay informed and become involved is greater than ever. From emissions to auto equipment standards, the government is making decisions about your current and future car.
This topic is not limited to Washington. While the federal government issues national rules dictating vehicle safety and emissions equipment, most other issues are handled at the state and local levels. From titling and registration to inspection/maintenance, your car is subject to decisions made by state and local officials.
The future of our hobby depends on you. The ballot box is one venue for making your views known. We also urge you to work collectively with your fellow enthusiasts. How? Join the SEMA Action Network (SAN). SAN is a partnership between enthusiasts, car clubs, and members of the specialty auto parts industry in the United States and Canada who have pledged to join forces in support of legislative solutions for the auto hobby. It's free to join and SAN keeps you informed about pending legislation and regulations-both good and bad-that will impact your state or the entire country. It also provides you with action alerts, speaking points, and lawmaker contact information if you want to support or oppose a bill. Join now: www.semasan.com.
Street Rod And Custom Vehicle Registration And Titling
Special titling and registration designation and recognition of specialty cars, including antique, street rod, custom, classic, collector, modified, replica, and kit car vehicles, has led to an easing of certain equipment standards and exemptions from stringent emission testing-allowing enthusiasts to enjoy the auto hobby legally and providing more business opportunities to the industry. SAN supports initiatives to establish distinctive license plates and separate vehicle code definitions for these cars to increase awareness and allow special consideration during emission testing and equipment inspections. SAN also supports initiatives to create classic motor vehicle project titles that apply to vehicles undergoing restoration that are at least 25 years old, not road worthy, and currently without a title or with a title from another state. SAN also supports initiatives to establish minimal one-time registration fees for specialty vehicles.
SEMA-Model Bill
Street rods, customs, and kit cars are a unique and exciting niche of the automotive hobby and are enjoyed by hobbyists across the country. That is why for the past 10 years SAN, with the support of its dedicated enthusiasts, has championed SEMA-model legislation to make them easier to title and register. Beginning with Illinois in 2001, versions of the model bill have been successful in helping hobbyists title their rods in 20 states to date and SAN is working to add four more states to the list: Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, and Ohio.
For many vehicle enthusiasts throughout America, building, maintaining, and enjoying their vehicles is a favorite pastime. The SEMA-model legislation represents an opportunity to acknowledge their commitment to the hobby and to protect it for future generations. As market trends come and go it seems the street rod and custom car segment remains a consistently "hot" segment of the automotive aftermarket. Participants on both sides of the counter are driven by passion and enthusiasm. After all, what could be better than going for a cruise in a shiny deuce coupe on a Saturday morning? To the citizens who the street rod and custom bill would most benefit, not much.
However, beloved street rods and customs (including kit cars and replicas) have long struggled to find their place in the law. Almost all states have processes through which antiques can be registered, but fewer provide adequately for modified cars. Hobbyists attempting to title and register vehicles that they have built from the ground up must often find loopholes in their state's code to get it out on the road. The steps can be so time-consuming and confusing that many throw in the towel.
Summary of the SEMA Street Rod Custom Vehicle Bill
Defines a street rod as an altered vehicle manufactured before 1949 and a custom vehicle as an altered vehicle manufactured after 1948. Provides specific registration classes and license plates for street rods and custom vehicles. Provides that replica vehicles and kit cars will be assigned the same model-year designations as the production vehicles they most closely resemble and allows the use of non-original materials. Exempts street rods and custom vehicles from periodic vehicle inspections and emissions inspections. Provides that vehicles titled and registered as street rods and custom vehicles may only be used for occasional transportation, exhibitions, club activities, parades, tours, etc., and not for general daily transportation. Exempts street rods and custom vehicles from a range of standard equipment requirements.
Most scrappage programs allow "smokestack" industries to avoid reducing their own emissions by buying pollution credits generated through destroying older vehicles. These programs accelerate the normal retirement of vehicles through the purchase of older cars, which are then typically crushed into blocks of scrap metal. Hobbyists suffer from the indiscriminate destruction of older cars, trucks, and parts. America safeguards its artistic and architectural heritage against indiscriminate destruction, and our automotive and industrial heritage deserves the same protection.
While some legislation designed to spur sales of new and used automobiles is positive, such as vouchers toward the purchase of a new or used cars or tax credits to help upgrade, repair, or maintain older vehicles, scrappage provisions are not. Scrappage programs focus on vehicle age rather than actual emissions produced. This approach is based on the erroneous assumption that all "old cars are dirty cars". However, the true culprits are "gross polluters"-vehicles of any model year that are poorly maintained. Scrappage programs ignore better options like vehicle maintenance, repair, and upgrade programs that maximize the emissions systems of existing vehicles. In the past year, scrappage initiatives have been defeated in California, North Carolina, and Washington.
Through SAN, enthusiasts played a vital role in altering federal scrappage legislation in 2009 when an amendment was worked into the "Cash for Clunkers" program to spare vehicles 25 years and older from the scrappage heap and expand parts recycling opportunities. This provision helped safeguard older vehicles, which are irreplaceable to hobbyists as a source of restoration parts.
Inoperable Vehicles
Don't Get Zoned Out!
You come home one afternoon only to find a ticket on your project vehicle that's parked on your property. Sounds like a nightmare scenario, doesn't it? But in some areas of the country, it's all too real. State and local laws-some on the books now, others pending-can or will dictate where you can work to restore or modify your project vehicle. Believe it or not, that project car or truck you've stashed behind your house until the new crate engine arrives or the cherished collectible you've hung onto since high school to pass down to your kids could very easily be towed right out of your yard depending on the zoning laws in your area.
Why is the long arm of the law reaching into your backyard? Some zealous government officials are waging war against what they consider "eyesores". To us, of course, these are valuable on-going restoration projects. But to a non-enthusiast lawmaker, your diamond-in-the-rough looks like a junker ready for the salvage yard. If you're not careful, that's exactly where it will wind up.
For the purposes of these laws, "inoperable vehicles" are most often defined as those on which the engine, wheels, or other parts have been removed, altered, damaged, or allowed to deteriorate so that the vehicle cannot be driven.
This year, SAN defeated bills in Hawaii, Kansas, Nebraska, Virginia, and West Virginia that would have established unreasonable restrictions on backyard restoration projects. In response to these and other anti-hobbyist efforts, SEMA has drafted its own inoperable vehicle bill that's fair to restorers while still considerate of neighbors who don't want a junkyard operating next door. The SEMA-model bill simply states that project vehicles and their parts must be maintained or stored outside of "ordinary public view". States can adopt this model legislation as their own; in 2005, Kentucky did just that. This past session, Vermont also chose to protect hobbyists from a bill that was targeted at salvage yards. The new law increases the regulation of salvage yards and automobile graveyards in the state, but includes a provision stipulating that hobbyists are not to be confused with the owners of automobile graveyards.
A model inoperative vehicle bill should contain the following elements: An explicit provision prohibiting a local area from adopting or implementing an ordinance or land use regulation that prohibits a person from engaging in the activities of an automobile collector in an area zoned by the municipality. A definition of collector vehicles that includes parts cars. A provision allowing an automobile collector to conduct mechanical repairs and modifications to a vehicle on private property. A provision mandating that government authorities provide actual notice to the vehicle's last registered owner and provide an opportunity for voluntary compliance prior to confiscation. A provision mandating due process of the law (adequate notice, right to hearing, etc.) prior to the removal of a vehicle from private property. Language to permit the outdoor storage of a motor vehicle if the vehicle is maintained in such a manner as not to constitute a health hazard. The condition that parts vehicles be located away from public view, or screened by means of a suitable fence, trees, shrubbery, opaque covering, or other appropriate means.
Emissions And Smog Check Programs
Many states operate their own emissions inspection programs in areas that the EPA has designated as a "nonattainment area," meaning that the area has not attained the EPA's required air quality. To meet the EPA's emissions reduction requirements, many states are now implementing more stringent emission inspection and maintenance (I/M) programs.
Many states have incorporated the OBD testing method as part of the vehicle emissions inspection for '96-and-newer vehicles. These OBD tests replace tailpipe tests by identifying emissions problems through information stored in the vehicle's on-board computer system. Some states have even proposed only testing vehicles with the OBD test, limiting the vehicles that need to be tested to those manufactured in 1996 and later. The I/M 240 is an enhanced emissions testing program, with 240 representing the number of seconds that the tailpipe portion of the test lasts. I/M 240 tests require visual inspection of emissions control devices, an evaporative emissions test, and a transient drive-cycle exhaust emissions test, performed while the vehicle is running on rollers. Many state programs mistakenly fail vehicles in the visual test based on the presence of aftermarket engine products or force older collector vehicles to undergo some type of testing.
Policy makers must properly focus inspection procedures and not confuse legitimate aftermarket parts with emission defeat devices and tampering violations. The hobby must also pursue proactive legislative initiatives to establish exemptions from inspections for low-mileage vehicles, classic vehicles (defined as 25 years old and older), and newer vehicles. It is useful to remind legislators that the emissions from this small portion of the vehicle fleet are negligible. This is especially true when you consider the low miles typically driven by hobby vehicles and the excellent condition in which these vehicles are maintained.
Equipment Standards And Inspections
The federal government, through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has the right to set, enforce, and investigate safety standards for new motor vehicles and motor vehicle equipment. These Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS) are performance-based. They do not dictate design elements. For example, the federal lighting standard prescribes the photometric requirements for a headlamp but doesn't dictate shape or size.
The FMVSS covers basic types of equipment (tires, rims, headlamps/taillamps, brake hoses) and establishes vehicle crashworthiness requirements (front and side impact, roof crush resistance, fuel system integrity).
Emissions and emissions-related parts are regulated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and various state agencies, primarily the California Air Resources Board (CARB). For products sold in California (and states that have adopted the California standards), manufacturers must conform to standards issued by CARB.
Federal law prohibits states from issuing motor vehicle safety regulations that conflict with federal standards. However, states are free to enact and enforce safety and equipment regulations that are identical to the FMVSS or, in the absence of a federal rule, establish their own laws and regulations. The most frequent examples of individual state rules cover parts like "optional" or "accessory" lighting equipment, noise levels for exhaust and stereo systems, suspension height, and window tinting. States also establish rules on how a vehicle is titled and registered. State and local jurisdictions have the authority to regulate inoperable vehicles or determine whether an enthusiast is engaged in a business versus private activity. State and local law enforcement officials issue tickets and inspect cars.
State laws have evolved over many generations and they continue to change. Some laws are better than others, and there is a constant need to remind state policy makers not to be biased in favor of the vehicle's original equipment, such as lighting, tires and wheels, suspension components, and bumper/frame height. For example, some state laws allow motorists to be ticketed when an officer has made a subjective noise level determination that the exhaust system is "louder than what came with the car". Opposing arbitrary and unnecessarily restrictive equipment and inspection laws is a constant challenge.
Exhaust Noise
How Loud Is Too Loud?
Imagine driving down the road and getting stopped for the modified muffler on your hot rod. Now imagine sitting on the shoulder, receiving a citation from local law enforcement, while a stock Ferrari overtakes your car and drives on. This is the scene being played on state highways across the country, the result of poorly drafted or ineffective state laws and regulations. The laws on the books in these states frequently cite the manufacturer's specifications or a factory-installed muffler as the basis on which vehicle exhaust noise is measured.
On this topic, states can generally be divided into two major categories: states with noise standards and states without noise standards. Of the states with a test standard on the books, many ignore guidelines when handing out citations. Most states that have chosen to go the route of setting specifications choose to measure a vehicle's noise by decibels. States that have quantifiable noise standards on the books are shaded red on the map below. These standards often go unenforced. One reason these regulations are not enforced is that they are based on an in-use standard-exhaust noise is measured while a vehicle is in motion on the highway. The states that employ these operating standards typically divide vehicles into classes and then set separate standards: one for vehicles while driving on roads with a speed limit of 35 mph or less and a second standard for vehicles driving on roadways with a speed limit greater than 35 mph. The measurements are to be taken while the vehicle is in motion on the road, usually from a distance of 50 feet from the center lane of travel.
Other states choose not to specify a quantifiable noise standard. These states are shown in yellow on the map. Typical language in these states' statutes includes prohibitions on "excessive or unusual noise" from a vehicle's exhaust system. While most motorists believe that exhaust systems should not be used in a way that causes overly loud or objectionable noise, these vague provisions fail to provide a clear and objective standard for those seeking more durable exhaust systems that enhance a vehicle's appearance and increase performance.
Language that effectively limits the use of aftermarket exhausts can be found among both yellow and red states. Such language includes sentences such as "no person shall modify the exhaust system of a motor vehicle in any manner which will amplify or increase the noise or sound emitted louder than that emitted by the muffler originally installed on the vehicle". While such language does not specifically prohibit all modification, it doesn't provide any means of measuring whether a vehicle has been acceptably modified. Such language also negatively affects the aftermarket industry by placing the noise limit authority in the hands of the OEMs and ignores the fact that aftermarket exhaust systems are designed to make vehicles run more efficiently without increasing emissions.
The green on the map identifies the three states that have enacted SEMA-model legislation to provide enthusiasts and law enforcement officials with a fair and enforceable alternative. The model legislation establishes a 95dB exhaust noise limit based on an industry standard adopted by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE). Under this standard (SAE J1169), a sound meter is placed 20 inches from the exhaust outlet at a 45-degree angle and the engine is revved to three-quarters of maximum-rated horsepower. The highest decibel reading is then recorded.
EPA Ethanol
My Engine is Not a Vegetarian, It Wants Gas
There is a battle raging in Washington that may force you to put ethanol in your car, whether you want to or not. The U.S. EPA currently allows gasoline to include up to 10 percent ethanol (E-10), a fuel additive made from corn or other biomass sources. The ethanol industry wants the EPA to increase the amount to 15 percent.
Who would object?
Answer: Millions of owners of high-performance engines and older cars who fear corrosion and other nasty side effects. Ethanol attracts water. In turn, the resulting condensation can corrode the fuel lines, fixtures, and tank components (steel, rubber, aluminum, etc). We're talking rust, clogging, and deterioration. For modern cars, the oxygen atom in the ethanol molecule may confuse the exhaust sensor when measuring the fuel/air mixture going into the cylinders. The mixture may be too lean, producing a hot exhaust capable of damaging the catalytic converter. The end result may also be more nitrogen oxides, a building block for smog.
Many newer engines and parts have been designed to be more compatible with alcohol fuels, and E-15 will not be an issue. But E-10 has been a problem for some current and older models, and E-15 may be worse. Many in the auto industry have cautioned the EPA to do more science before it rules on the request.
Why does it matter? The fact is gasoline without ethanol may eventually become scarce or non-existent at the pump. We also face an education curve. For many people who already ignore the "contains up to 10 percent ethanol" they won't understand that 15 percent may cost them a pretty penny in repair bills.
EPA Paint
A Quick Guide To Paint Regulations
There are two main issues with respect to regulatory oversight, volatile organic compounds (VOCs), and hazardous air pollutants (HAPs). VOCs include both man-made and naturally occurring chemical compounds that are released into the atmosphere as a gas. They are found in oil-based paints, adhesives, and cleaning supplies and may trigger respiratory irritation, headaches, or other health concerns. VOCs also react with nitrogen oxides and sunlight to form smog. Both federal and state regulators have imposed limits on VOC emissions, primarily at the manufacturer level. A number of products, from paint to engine degreasers and windshield washer fluids, have been reformulated to reduce their VOC levels. Additionally, there has been an effort to switch the public from oil-based paints and cleaning solvents (enamel, lacquer, mineral spirits, etc.) to water-based paints like latex. The paint industry has expanded the range of water-based finishes that are available to assist in the conversion. Sometimes it is not a voluntary switch. A number of states or urban areas have banned retail sales of certain oil-based products in an effort to combat smog.
HAPs pose a separate concern. They are hazardous metal compounds-cadmium, chromium, nickel, etc.-that become airborne during paint stripping operations or surface coating and autobody refinishing operations. The EPA now regulates most activities except low-volume operations, such as when hobbyists restore or customize one or two personal vehicles (or the equivalent in pieces) per year. The EPA rule establishes "best practices" (spray booth, spray gun cleaning, etc.) for minimizing HAP emissions during surface coating operations.
Regulating paint has been a balancing act: making sure hobbyists and commercial entities have access to affordable, quality paints while protecting health and environment. It has also been a moving target, since there is always the chance rules put in place today may not be deemed adequate upon further review. A good source for additional information is: http://www.ccar-greenlink.org/paintrule.html.
Engine Swaps Made Easier
Hobbyists frequently ask us about the rules governing engine switching in project vehicles. First of all, those engaged in engine switching activities are bound by specific state laws that may vary from state to state. Having said that, there are some general guidelines one may consider. This article will cover the rules for switching the engine in production-type vehicles (but not specially constructed vehicles, street rods, kit cars, and the like). The basic rule of engine switching (as opposed to installing a "replacement" engine) is that the change must do no harm. This means that the engine being installed must theoretically be at least as "clean" as the one taken out. Several requirements may define "clean" for the purposes of engine switching:
Model Year: The engine to be installed must be the same age or newer than the one being replaced. Crate engines can be used if they are configured to resemble an engine that was certified by the U.S. EPA and/or CARB. This essentially means that the required emissions parts must be present on the engine.
Certification Level: The engine to be installed must come from a vehicle certified to meet the same or more stringent emissions standards than the one replaced.
Vehicle Class: An engine from a vehicle class such as a motor home, medium-duty truck, or marine application must not be used since these engines were certified to different types of emissions standards, using different tests.
System/Equipment: When swapping in a newer engine from a later-model vehicle, all of the relevant emissions control equipment must be transferred as well. This includes the carbon canister, the catalytic converter(s), and even parts of the on-board diagnostic (OBD) system. Some states have exceptions to this requirement, but the general rule is that as much of the donor vehicle's emissions system as possible should be transferred. The vehicle will likely run more efficiently with a full transfer of the system and shouldn't cause any undue heartache.
Of course, engine switching can be much more complex than described here, but these are good general rules to follow and should keep engine switchers out of trouble in most cases.
The U.S. EPA and many states have enforceable policies and guidelines on how to perform legal engine changes. For further information, please consult the EPA and California Bureau of Automotive Repair at: www.epa.gov/compliance/resources/policies/civil/caa/mobile/engswitch.pdf and www.bar.ca.gov/80_BARResources/07_AutoRepair/Engine_Change_Guidelines.html.
SEMA Action Network Maintains Record of Achievement
Legislative Partnership has Yielded Unprecedented Successes
Gridlock and bitter partisan politics continue to persist in Washington, D.C., and in the state capitals around the country, making positive legislative action difficult. Fortunately, SAN has been breaking through the gridlock and promoting legislative solutions for the automotive hobby since 1997.
SAN is a partnership between enthusiasts, vehicle clubs, and members of the specialty automotive parts industry in the United States and Canada who have joined forces to promote hobby-friendly legislation and oppose unfair laws. With nearly 40,000 members, 3 million contacts, and an ability to reach 30 million enthusiasts through print and press, SAN is the premier organization defending the rights of the vehicle hobby. SAN is free to join with no obligations or commitments.
When it comes to taking the action needed to protect the automotive hobby, only SAN has the experience, the resources, and the dedicated network of enthusiasts to stop unreasonable bills in their tracks and keep the hobby free from overly restrictive government regulation. No other organization brings such a comprehensive set of tools and resources to bear on this mission.
In its 13-year history, the effect of SAN on shaping government policy has been enormous. SAN has successfully: enacted street rod and custom vehicle (including kit cars and replicas) registration and titling laws in 20 states; protected classic vehicles waiting to be restored on private property from confiscation; safeguarded legal off-road nitrous oxide use with SAN model legislation; defended enthusiast's right to use more durable aftermarket exhaust systems; junked state level "Cash for Clunkers" legislation; enacted legislation to lower taxes and fees for hobbyist vehicles; and advocated to ensure public lands remain open to responsible off-road recreation.
The current economic and legislative environment is emboldening the government to become more aggressive with their anti-auto hobby legislation. States are seeking new avenues for generating revenue and new ways of dictating what you can and cannot do with your vehicles. The message government is sending is clear-the hobby needs the SEMA Action Network now more than ever. Enlist now in this fellowship of auto enthusiasts, join SAN at www.semasan.com.
Lobby for the Hobby
By speaking out on issues that concern the automotive hobby, contacting our representatives, and working constructively with government officials, we have the power to protect our passion and keep it safe for future generations of auto hobbyists and enthusiasts. To get you started, we have prepared 10 tips you can use when contacting your representatives:
1. Develop and maintain relationships with your legislators and their staff
Make contact and develop productive relationships with individual legislators. It is the most effective form of grassroots lobbying. It's also important to develop a relationship with the staff who monitors ongoing legislative and community initiatives.
2. Educate legislators about our hobby and our issues
Educate your legislator about the hobby and emphasize the positive impact it has on the community.
3. Maintain a positive attitude
Develop a positive relationship with your legislator. The next time an enthusiast-related issue comes up, that same legislator may be needed to support your cause.
4. Stay informed
Keep up-to-date on the legislative issues that affect the hobby in your state. Share this information with fellow enthusiasts.
5. Get involved in the community
Join with other community groups to build positive exposure. Holding charity runs and fund-raisers provides a great opportunity to show local residents and politicians that auto clubs are a positive community force.
6. Build relationships with the local media
Contact local newspapers and radio/TV stations to publicize car shows, charity events, etc.
7. Invite officials to participate in your events
Give legislators a platform to reach an audience of constituents.
8. Build an automotive coalition
Create coalitions to add strength in numbers and ensure that the rights of all vehicle enthusiasts are represented. Actively participating in regional and statewide councils will develop a unified message to lawmakers. These types of pro-hobbyist groups can be an influential political force.
9. Spread the word
Take this information to your next club meeting, cruise night, or post it on your online forums. Share this information with other enthusiasts who are willing to help lobby for the hobby.
10. Register to vote
Exercise your right to support pro-hobby candidates. Constituents are an elected official's number one priority. Without you and your vote of support, they would not be in office, so make sure you're registered and get out and vote.


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If you're anything like Mad Moviegoer, then you are a sucker for the in memoriam tributes that come at year's end. Here's an elegiac so long to those lost in 2011 from Turner Classic Movies, the very folk so good at introducing many a film great to new audiences.
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Thats just a FUD question - To be preferred or not preferred
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One of the internal, and IBM Business Partner mailing groups I subscribe and participate in ( Hi to all on Diskcore ) recently debated :
Want to know whether IBM V3700 are true symmetric active active controllers.
A response was made, but also asked :
Can you define what you or the customer means exactly by true symmetric active/active disk controller?
The whole "preferred" status of a vdisk is an attempt to load balance.
So when you create volumes...
vdisk id = 0 - preferred to node 2 vdisk id = 1 - preferred to node 1 vdisk id = 2 - preferred to node 2 etc
The idea being, if a multipath driver understands ALUA (preferred) then overall you spread your load over both nodes. (control canisters) So load balances at a lun level. If a multipath driver does not understand or use ALUA then it will round robin I/O across nodes. So load balances I/O within a lun.
In both cases, all SVC derivatives will behave the same.
All said and done...
it makes no difference, and, SVC, V7000, V3700, V3500, Flex System V7000... they are all ACTIVE/ACTIVE and dont let any EMC propaganda tell you otherwise


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If you haven't yet seen Justin Timberlake's "A History of Rap" medley with Jimmy Fallon, by all means stop reading and skip to the video embed below.
Chances are you have seen the pair's three-minute performance covering three decades of rap hits. The clip from Wednesday's "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" bit has gone viral.
"We never know what's going to viral or get picked up, and this one's beyond what we thought it would do," the NBC late-night host told The Associated Press on Thursday.
Aided by Fallon's house band, the Grammy-winning hip-hop group The Roots, Wednesday's jam kicked off by referencing Sugarhill Gang's 1979 hit "Rapper's Delight."
MCs Fallon and Timberlake then segued into songs by the Beastie Boys, the late Notorious B.I.G., Jay-Z, Eminem, Kanye West and Snoop Dogg, among others. (The Wall Street Journal's Speakeasy blog breaks down the full set list).
"I was in my apartment till 2 in the morning the night before doing Soulja Boy and my wife was like, 'You're crazy,'" Fallon told the AP, adding that Timberlake's rhythm was "so much better than mine."
Timberlake, who shot to fame as a member of *NSYNC, had been on "Fallon" to promote his star turn in "The Social Network."
Before "A History of Rap," Timberlake last scored viral bragging rights for his hand in the faux music videos "D**k in a Box" and "Mother Lover" for "SNL."
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and yes. i am still alive. this last few months have been very .... testing. to say the least. we have had ARDs and BIPs and 'pick this crazy kid up from school because we cannot handle her ass' days. and then i had the virus "death brain cough up my spleen 104 fever i am gonna freaking meet my maker" virus. you know the one. for an entire week. i am still not quite back to where i am normally. actually today i am feeling a little bleck. nothing in particular stands out. just not right.
i have still been reading. faithfully. just have not really posted. i am seriously trying to change that. i have this problem though. i know so many great bloggers that will jot notes or do a message to their voicemail for ideas on posts. well see, my head is always full of great posts. but when the head is churning things out... my ability to sit down and blog is not always there. i have tried to pull out my nifty phone and record my words as they are flowing from the noggin. but when i go back and try to make it into a post, the feelings are gone. and so much of my writing is based on the feeling at that time. the funny, the sad, the silly. that is where my inspiration comes from. my feelings. that is where most of my posts come from. whatever i am feeling at that time. or not feeling as the case may be.
i want to be a better writer. i am a good writer. i know this. i have been. and i am not being crappy. but i want to be a blogger. maybe that is the proper statement to make. when i started this blog i did not care about numbers. about visits. and people reading. i still really kind of do not. i could care less if i only had three regular visitors. but i do like knowing that other people are reading. maybe even commenting. so i have been trying harder to share on twitter. i do not share on my facebook because that is a more 'people i know in the now' space. and this is more of a ... get shit out of my head space. and i do not always want the same people reading both areas. but i have been trying to drive a little more traffic my way. and it has been working. i just really wanna do a couple of blogging conventions. meet some of these wonderful people i read. learn from them. but that requires finances...that i obvs as a single mom do not have. but i will work on it. seriously for next year.
for now. you will all just have to deal with the drivel that i manage to plunk out on any given day. and i do appreciate you reading.
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Free to speak on final day, CFTC enforcement director calls agency 'absolutely undersized.'
Though no stranger to budget battles, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission may have reached a saturation point at which its mission and agenda are being compromised.
According to an interview published in Friday's Wall Street Journal, the agency is so "cash-starved" it is "being forced to delay cases, shelve certain probes and decided not to file charges against two former traders over J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.'s 'London Whale' trading case."
Speaking after his final day on the job, CFTC enforcement director David Meister said the independent regulator is "absolutely undersized…. We will do everything we can, …but we have limited staff and limited resources. Ultimately it comes down to the math."
The volume of enforcement actions CFTC filed in fiscal 2013 is down by one-fifth, Meister said. His enforcement division staff of 155 is down 10 percent from when he started in January 2011.
Republicans, since taking control of the House in 2011 following passage of the controversial Dodd-Frank Financial Reform Act, have sought to cut the CFTC's budget and accused it of playing politics.
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Evie Bentley
I love my work, I feel privileged to be helping people who are wanting, needing, to change. We meet in my quiet room, where I have taken care to have comfortable seating, easy to lean back in, relax, and I listen to you, we talk, therapy begins.
Kirstie Flood BA (Hons), DIP IDM, CHP (NC)
How can I help? Qualified CNHC and NCHP registered hypnotherapist. Self-esteem, anxiety, panic, addiction, depression, quitting smoking, habits, weight loss, fears, phobias, insomnia & more. Appointments to suit: day/eve: Hurstpierpoint, Hassocks BN6
Stephanie B.Galissian (Dip.Hyp.Psych)
I help with challenges such as stress, anxiety, fear & phobia, confidence issues and addictions. I help you regain control and break free from habits, beliefs and blocks holding you back. I use a mixture of techniques bespoke to you to get results.
Bradley Dearman - Senior Hypnotherapist | Dip Hyp Psych | Dip C Hyp | GHR (REG)
I'm Bradley, a registered qualified Hypnotherapist here to help guide you on your journey to transform the areas of your life holding you back on reaching your full happiness and success, I practice in Hove, Burgess Hill & Via Skype, Mon-Sat, 8am-8pm
Sandra Slinger
Over 25 years I've developed methods which now help my clients use the power of their imagination to solve issues with phobias, weight loss, smoking, anxieties, sleep, panic attacks, stress management, confidence etc, with many positive testimonials.
Judy Sharp Dip Hyp; Dip PLT GHR and CNHC registered
My approach blends clinical hypnotherapy with past life and spirit release work to provide a very different - and highly-effective - approach to a wide range of issues. My clients say, "Jude this is weird, but it works!" It could work for you too!
Jill Wootton Bsc (Hons), DipHypPsych, EFT Advanced Trainer, Matrix Imprinting
Having worked with thousands of clients Jill is one of the most experienced hypnotherapists in the UK so you can expect great results quickly. Jill runs the hypnotherapy training school Within Sight but loves the 1 to 1 work with her clients.
Penny Iveson BA(Hons), Registered Nurse (Mental Health), Dip I Hyp NLP
As a registered NHS mental health nurse/hypnotherapist with wide experience I can put you at your ease. Anxiety is the root of most addictions. Phobias can disappear in one session. Free 30 minute consultation. Skype or phone hypnosis are options.
Jonathan Conway BSc - NCH Accredited Hypnotherapist
1st session half price if booked by end November 2019 I can help you with anxiety, addictions, smoking, phobias, weight & more. If you are at the point of wanting change & need some extra support please read my profile. Appointments available now.
Sherree Russell (BSc 1st class hons - Clinical Hypnosis)
Sherree Russell is a leading authority in her field, with a distinguished record of achievement. Articles about her work helping clients recover from illness, and sports performance has been published in several newspapers and national magazines.
Ginny Lewis LLB Dip LP Dip Hyp
I am a qualified psychotherapist and solution focused hypnotherapist, working from my base in a quiet residential area of Hove, offering a relaxed environment from which to provide one on one sessions with each client. Solution Focused Hypnotherapy...
Nicola Preston Bell
Hello, I have been a Hypnotherapist and Brief Solution-Focused Therapist since 2003 and have enjoyed helping many people overcome all kinds of challenges in their lives.
Becky Wells Dip. Hyp & CS, GHR reg, CNHC reg
Say goodbye to the issues that hold you back. Kick open the door to a new, successful and positive you! You have nothing to lose!
Hannah Morrish BA (hons) MSc CIPD, Dip Hyp Psych
I work with a diverse range of clients who have achieved complete freedom from anxiety, confidence issues, additions & life-long phobias following their sessions with me.I use a thorough solution-focused approach to bring about the change you desire.
Helen Brooks - Senior Hypnotherapist, Brighton/Hove
Helen Brooks Senior Hypnotherapist in Brighton and Hove, East Sussex. Helen Specialises in treating all aspects of anxiety and stopping smoking. Hypnotherapy sessions take place in a calm and pleasant clinic in Brighton /Hove. Evening /weekend also.
Chris Welfare Reg. MHS, Dip. MNLP, Dip. APCH
Hi, my name is Chris and I'm a Clinical Hypnotherapist and Master NLP Practitioner. There are a number of techniques that I have developed over the years to help deal with a range of issues from anxiety, phobias and panic attacks to pain control,...
Jayne Raven D.Hyp.Psych. BA(Hons) Cert.G.O.M. Dip.Hyp.(Paediatrics)
Your unconscious learns fast under hypnosis. Solutions often lie just below the surface. Whether it's about weight, IBS, addictions, confidence, phobias, trauma or many others, "her sessions are truly incredible". Unique therapy for you.
Carmen Winch BSc (Hons) HPD NCFE MNCH DipHb(KG) BACP
OK.... so you are ready to make those changes you've been thinking about for a long time..... I am here to help, support and guide you to being the best you, that you can be...
Wendy Wilkinson D.Hyp Psch, EFT Advanced, Matrix Reimprinting, RM
Are you feeling overwhelmed, anxious, trapped by the way you feel? Maybe ongoing anxiety, traumatised by a previous event or phobia. I help people like you at my clinics in Harley Street London W1 and Lewes East Sussex. Speciality pregnancy and birth
Helen Day - BA(Hons) DipCHyp, HPD, MNLPP, MNCH(Reg) PGCE
You deserve to live the life you want to have, in a rewarding and fulfilling way. Cognitive Hypnotherapy can help you overcome any limiting beliefs you may have that may be getting in your way thus allowing you to live the life you truly want.
Julie James
You are in good hands with Julie as she has been practicing alternative therapy for 20 years. She has a reputation for being caring, honest and having a great understanding of her client's needs. In your first session Julie will explain exactly what...
Sara K Gurton D.Hyp., PDCBHyp.
Member of the British Society of Clinical Hypnotherapists.
Vilija Pascal
'Healthy mind in healthy body!' I see daily in my practice benefits of being able to combine Acupuncture and Hypnotherapy.This synergy of Western & Eastern medical philosophy & medicine with Hypnotherapy approach gives results greater of its parts!
Phil Knox - PSCH, CBT, MPH, EHP NLP BHR, SQHP, GHSC, GHR, CNHC.
I'm a Hypnotherapy Expert with 26yrs experience of helping people deal with Unwanted Habits and Anxiety. I offer a FREE TELEPHONE CONSULTATION to explain how I'd free you from your specific issues, this consultation carries no obligation to book.
Christina Mills - Consultant Hypnotherapist
A Consultant Hypnotherapist, NLP Master Practitioner and Accredited Hypnotherapy and NLP Trainer, I have over 20 years clinical experience. I have helped hundreds of people in Sussex and beyond to make positive changes and overcome difficulties such...
Linda Thaper(Adv) D. Hyp. MIBWRT. MAPHP.
Advanced,Accredited and Registered Hypnotherapist, Psychotherapist and Life Coach specialising in health, weight loss, stress, anxiety, Relationship repair, pain management, motivation, confidence, self-esteem. Offering a supportive, caring and...
Richard Morley, Hypnotherapist, NLP Master Practitioner D.Hyp, PDCHyp, MBSCH
I help people transform their issues using a combination of Hypnosis, Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) and Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP). I also enable patients to use the Alpha Stim cranial electrotherapy stimulator which...
Maria Richards HPD, DipCHyp, MPNLP, MNCH, CNHC
Professional Quest Cognitive Hypnotherapist and NLP master practitioner....Ethical NCH regulatory body...Working with your uniqueness in mind & towards natural & permanent change - solution based. Initial phone consult free of charge - up to 30 mins.
Rue Asher BA (Hons) MCRAH
As a Clinical Hypnotherapist with 16 years experience, I have helped hundreds of people - specialising in Weight Loss, Stress & Anxiety and Smoking Cessation. I run a friendly supportive and ethically led practice with flexible appointment times and...
Samantha Bowley Dip Hyp Psych, GHR, CNHC Reg
Are you feeling stuck? Could it be because of your mental health ie anxiety/depression/stress, relationship problems, fear of flying, phobia or maybe fertility issues? I work with Adults and Children to help them become unstuck and feel empowered.
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Msgr. John Kozar and the CNEWA staff welcomed local members of the CNEWA family to our New York office this morning.
After celebrating Mass for our guests, Msgr. Kozar hosted a reception that focused on CNEWA's work in Ethiopia and Eritrea. Msgr. Kozar shared his reflections and stories of his recent trip to the region, and highlighted the agency's work and goals for the peoples and churches there.
Thank you to everyone who attended this morning — and thank you, especially, for supporting our good works in the Horn of Africa!
Tags: CNEWA Africa Donors CNEWA Canada CNEWA Pontifical Mission
Today we begin the holy observance of Lent. As we enter into this penitential season, I want to share a few thoughts with you. Please take a moment to watch the video below:
Lent is a wonderful opportunity to renew your body and spirit, and to place yourself in service before the Lord and his church. I pray my words help you on your Lenten journey — and stir you to make a generous gift for the Eastern Catholic churches and their ministry to the poor.
You can offer your Lenten dedication to CNEWA here.
Tags: CNEWA Poor/Poverty Donors CNEWA Pontifical Mission
Yesterday, many of us in the U.S. celebrated the mothers in our lives for Mother's Day.
With the help of CNEWA, one place where mothers are getting a lot of support is Jordan. At the Mother of Mercy Clinic in Zerqa, Jordan, mothers receive care both before and after their children are born. The clinic, run by the Dominican Sisters of St. Catherine of Siena, serves predominantly Muslim patients. It's here where young women get the help they need in taking the first steps to begin motherhood. CNEWA has supported the clinic for many years. In 2011, the clinic saw an increase of 4,159 new patients.
To learn more about the clinic, check out Mothering Mercies, an article from the May 2009 issue of ONE.
Tags: Children Jordan Health Care CNEWA Pontifical Mission
Yesterday, the Vatican announced that Pope Benedict XVI has decided that the Holy Thursday collection at the Basilica of St. John Lateran, the cathedral of the Diocese of Rome, will be used to offer humanitarian aid to Syrian refugees. The situation in Syria has resulted in the exodus of Christians from the region. Many are finding refuge in surrounding Middle East countries like Turkey and Lebanon. Earlier this month the Catholic News Service interviewed Ra'ed Bahou, our regional director for Jordan and Iraq, about how what's happening in Syria reflects a changing Middle East:
"The same pattern like in Iraq is re-emerging, as Islamic militants are now kidnapping and killing Christians in Syria," said Issam Bishara, vice president of the Pontifical Mission and regional director for Lebanon and Syria. "Christians are concerned about the repercussions of the events taking place in the region. They fear that the experiences of Iraq and Lebanon — which took place against the backdrop of a civil war — could play out again in their own lands. These concerns haunt the Syrian Christians."
"We lost Christians in Iraq; if we lose (them) in Syria what will happen to Christians in the Middle East?" said Ra'ed Bahou, the Pontifical Mission's regional director for Jordan and Iraq. "Christians are leaving the region, and we have to work to reduce this loss. Time is not with us. (Syria) is the last castle of Christianity in the Middle East. If they start emigrating from Syria, it is the beginning of the end of Christianity in this area."
In a March 7 telephone interview with Catholic News Service, Bahou said there are no official statistics, but an estimated 200 Christians were among the recent wave of Syrian refugees entering Jordan. He said many of those same refugees earlier had fled Iraq for Syria.
"They are refugees from one country to another. It is everywhere now, not just in Jordan. Also in Lebanon and Turkey. This population movement is also creating a changing Middle East," Bahou said.
For more read, Syrian Christians Fear Persecution. To learn how you can help Syrians, visit our website.
Tags: Syria Refugees Middle East Pope Benedict XVI
In the January 2012 issue of ONE, Don Duncan reported on water scarcity in Lebanon and how CNEWA's operating agency in the Middle East, the Pontifical Mission, is helping to remedy the problem as well as empower the beneficiaries, such as Hana Habshi pictured above:
The project has jump-started the local economy and is helping to revitalize Deir El Ahmar. Residents have pooled money to build a new church dedicated to St. Charbel. Still under construction, the Maronite church stands on a once desolate lot. Now, a lush, landscaped lawn and garden cover the grounds. On summer afternoons, locals often gather on the cool lawn in the shadows of the church to relax and take refuge from the sun's sweltering rays.
"Water has brought us back to the lands," says Mr. Habshi. "It has breathed life back into the community, and now it assures the completion of our church. What's more, now I can afford to move back from Beirut and retire here."
The reservoir is just one of many water projects the Pontifical Mission has spearheaded in Lebanon since 1993, when it became a key nongovernmental partner in the country's post-war reconstruction. In the early days, the agency focused on restoring damaged water systems in rural communities, to ensure clean drinking water as well as to irrigate farms. In recent years, projects also include water collection and sewage treatment.
For more, read Springs of Hope in Lebanon featured in our January 2012 issue.
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As a small minority in many countries of the Middle East, Christians often face great challenges. Last summer Sami El-Yousef, regional director of CNEWA-Pontifical Mission for Palestine and Israel, paid a visit to Gaza to see how the Christian community there is faring:
Life in Gaza is not easy. While the government there tolerates Christian institutions and the Christian presence, it is clear that adopting a more conservative Islamic way of life does conflict at times with the more open society these Christian institutions and individuals are accustomed to.
There is an uneasy balance that seems to be maintained and holding thus far. It is certainly not easy for a teenage girl who follows a literary Tawjihi stream and finishes tenth grade and has no option but to complete her high school education in the public school system and finds herself being veiled to go to school. Neither it is easy for college-age females who are locked up in Gaza due to the blockade and want to get a college education and have no choice other than the Gazan universities and again must be veiled to go to classes. This also applies to men and women, boys and girls engaged in joint sports activities at the local YMCA who feel that they are under the watchful eye of a conservative class that does not approve of gender integrated activities.
There are other trivial matters that affect Christians, too, such as the Muslim ban on the consumption of alcohol and tobacco. These may be little inconveniences and some of them actually may be good for you, but these are additional restrictions Christians have to deal with on top of the pressures and restrictions of the occupation and the blockade. There are no easy answers, but one needs to be aware of the difficulties of daily life in Gaza, especially to the Christian community, and to appreciate the need to strengthen the Christian institutions and the Christian presence. There are many possibilities for assistance, and we hope to be able to fundraise and implement some of the projects in the near future.
After all, Christian institutions promote Christian values of worship, love, respect, honesty, humility, hope, forgiveness, compassion, integrity and self discipline among others. Gaza can only be a better place if these values are ingrained in society, and what better way to do this other than to strengthen the Christian institutions and empower them to continue to provide their services to all Palestinians alike with these values in mind.
You can read much more here. And visit our website to learn how you can join CNEWA and support Christians in the Middle East.
Tags: Middle East Christians Gaza Strip/West Bank Middle East
My first visit of the day was to meet with our staff in Jerusalem. They were all waiting to greet me and certainly made mefeel most welcomed and at home. As I was introduced by Sami, our regional director, I went around to all the offices and took photos of the team.
We had a great meeting together and this afforded me an opportunity to introduce myself and share with them some of my goals we would pursue together down the road. It was also rewarding to listen to each one tell me of their work; Sami obviously sets a very collaborative tone with them and they work well as a family.
From this most satisfying office visit, we walked to the offices of His Beatitude Patriarch Torkom II of the Armenian Apostolic Church in Jerusalem. He received us most cordially and immediately offered me his prayerful bestwishes. He was most charming in our visit. He is 93 years young and has been patriarch for two decades. Among his many accomplishments was a proficiency in athletics; he's a great hiker and musician, and proud of the fact that he lived more than 20 years in the United States, including California, New York and Chicago. For a man of his age, he had amazing recall of many details of his career.
Joining us was Archbishop Aris Shirvanian, who directs the patriarchate's ecumenical and foreign relations outreach. He, too, was most cordial and shared more details about the patriarch and the richness of his long life.
I thanked the patriarch and he asked when I would be coming back for my next visit. He was gracious in giving us a blessing as we said goodbye.
From this visit, we headed to a busy market area and found the entrance to the Wujoud Center, a facility that offers training and empowerment for Palestinian women, especially Christian women. There are training and employment opportunities in classic Palestinian embroidery, cooking, painting, woodworking and a whole variety of self-help skills. The center is run by a dynamic lady named Nora Kort, who is the embodiment of a community organizer and advocate. She is a real charmer, an elegant woman who does not like to take "no" for an answer. We have collaborated with her on a number of programs and the partnership is most fulfilling on both sides, as affirmed by both Nora and Sami.
She introduced us to about a dozen ladies. Some work with her as community leaders in the walled city of Jerusalem or benefit from the center's many programs. Some of the women, including a few Muslim ladies, told their stories of how they were able to secure employment and a new lease on life through the participation in programs at this center.
And of course, there was food, plenty of it in the form of a banquet lunch — all homemade Palestinian dishes. We expressed our gratitude to the ladies and both Nora and I reaffirmed our commitment to collaborate in supporting these self-help programs geared to help the Palestinian Christians remain in their hometown of Jerusalem.
From our big lunch, we went to the offices of the Coptic Orthodox Metropolitan and Vicar of Jerusalem, His Grace Anba Abraham. Although the archbishop has some challenges with his vision, he was a most congenial and humorous host. His wit was very sharp and he expressed his faith-filled thoughts to us, sometimes with humor and a hearty laugh.
When I was asking him how he is able to work in the midst of so much conflict, strident personalities and social, cultural and religious divisions, he gave a great answer: "Monsignor, it is no different than a bishop or a pastor in one parish or diocese having to work with his neighbors in other parishes or dioceses." He also affirmed that everything is in God's hands.
After a good visit, we tried to go on to our next appointment, but Anba Abraham insisted we stay awhile longer and have something to eat or drink. I think he really enjoyed our visit and he, too, pressed me about when I would be back to visit again.
By the way, I have to make a comment about Father Guido. Everywhere we go in the Old City, people come up to him with a warm greeting: "Abuna Guido!" and give him a big hug. I asked him if he was running for mayor of Jerusalem, he is so very well known and beloved by so many people here.
Our final visit of the day was with Patriarchal Vicar of Palestine Bishop William Shomali. As the only Palestinian bishop in the Holy Land, he is entrusted with the spiritual care of the Palestinian people in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza, the areas that make up what is Palestine, at least unofficially.
The bishop was actually standing in for the Latin patriarch, who was called to Jordan yesterday and could not see us today. However, we are having dinner with him on Wednesday, and I will be spending much of Saturday with him, as I have the honor of accompanying him in a procession to Bethlehem for the Mass of Midnight for the Christmas celebrations. Of course, there will be much more on this privilege after it happens.
I just had a first look at the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre, the site of the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus. Of course, I will have time later in the week to visit there and the other principle holy sites and I will be sure to share all ofthat with you.
I continue to remember all of you in my prayers as I live out the biblical stories in my pilgrimage.
Tags: Jerusalem Middle East
Every now and then, we hear stories of how CNEWA has been able to help people in surprising, sometimes unexpected ways. This week, we heard about one case — involving three countries, one young woman and one generous family.
Eighteen-year-old Zeina Nasraween from Jordan suffers from cerebral palsy, which severely impaired her legs and hands.
In October 2010, her family approached CNEWA's regional office in Amman for help in securing affordable housing in Germany, where she would undergo several months of medical treatment. In response, Father Guido Gockel, CNEWA's vice president for the Middle East, contacted a family in the Netherlands, who paid for the family's stay in Germany.
After arriving in Germany, Zeina underwent reconstructive surgery on both her legs and received nearly six months of intensive physical therapy.
The result: last month she was able to return home to Madaba, Jordan able to walk without a cane and use her hands fully for the first time in her life.
Family, friends and colleagues greeted her when she came home, and were astounded by the improvements. "We didn't realize how tall Zeina was before because she could never fully stand on her own. Now that she can stand and walk, we have discovered that she is quite tall," said her sister, Nisreen.
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HARTSVILLE, S.C. – The Coker College men's basketball team heads to the semifinals of the 2014 Food Lion South Atlantic Conference basketball tournament to face the No. 3 seed Anderson Trojans. The No. 7 seeded Cobras are coming off an 80-72 upset victory on the road against the No. 2 seed Carson-Newman University. Coker and Anderson split the season series, each team getting the road victory.
Four players for the Navy and Yellow put up double figures in the points column in the quarterfinal win over the Eagles. Senior guard Julian Nelson led the way with a team-high 22 points to go along with four assists and four rebounds on the night. Errick Bethel came in next with 19 points. Bethel found most his success from the charity stripe, knocking down nine of 10 free throws on the night. Eren Moses chipped in with 15 points. Trey Marshall was perfect on the night going 4-4 from the field, 3-3 from behind the arc totaling 11 points.
Anderson is led by guard Chandler Hash. Hash comes into the contest as the SAC leading scorer averaging 23.5 points a game on the season. He is shooting just over 44 percent from the field, 39.4 percent from three, and just over 88 percent from the free throw line which is third best in the conference. The guard duo of CJ Gleaton and Myson Jones are averaging 15.6 and 12 points per game respectively. Jones's 44.8 three-point percentage is good enough for sixth in the conference.
The semifinal matchup is set to tip at 2:30 p.m. from Timmons Arena at Furman University in Greenville, S.C. Live stats and video can be found at www.cokercobras.com.
Tickets for the game can be purchased in advance by calling 843-383-8073.
Story written by Sports Information Intern Aaron Beebe `15


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Collecting fashion wasn't always in fashion—seeking out the best-designed gowns, bags, and shoes of the past was once an eccentric byway for lovers of fine things. But over the past few years, it has gained traction bit by bit, fueled by fascination with Oscar red carpet recaps, the emergence of the designer as rock star, and suddenly serious treatment in museums. (Witness the public's gaga response to the 2011 Alexander McQueen show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute.)
But the most serious fashion collectors don't do it because it's trendy. They bond intimately with their finds, picturing them coming to life in a way that's impossible to imagine with a drawing or a piece of silver. "You can touch people's silver, or their paintings," points out New York-based collector Tiffany Dubin, but when you start touching people's clothes, they start to squirm. Dubin founded and ran the fashion department at Sotheby's in the 1990s, right at the moment when the modern era of interest in fashion took off. "There's something so personal about clothing," she says.
Fashion collectors generally fall into one of two camps: those who wear what they buy, and those who don't. Dubin, like many others, came to the field simply because she wanted to look good.
"I was in a consignment store, and I found a Norman Norell dress," says Dubin, referring to the American postwar designer famous for tapered lines. "My body looked leaner, longer, and my waist looked smaller. I had no idea it was 'vintage'—it was just good body armor for me."
Heidi Rosenau got started early, donning vintage goods in high school. As an adult, she has specialized in seeking out American fashion from 1920 to 1945 and generally wears items from the 1930sbecause they flatter her petite figure. Along the way, Rosenau, whose day job is doing public relations for the Frick Collection in New York, amassed (without really intending to) more than 1,000 pieces, including 450 dresses and 200 hats.
For her, fashion is only part of an interest in the overall history of the period. "I had always listened to the music of those decades—the costumes came with that attraction," she says. They're not the only thing she collects, but they certainly stand out.
"I have also collected Chinese export ceramics. But this [fashion] is a more thorough self-expression."
Donning vintage duds also sparks interactions. "A lot of people stop and ask me what I'm wearing," says Rosenau. "It creates a lot of conversations. A 92-year-old former paratrooper told me, 'I mean this in the nicest way, but you remind me exactly of my mother in 1942.' And we shared a moment."
Rosenau is dressed in samples of her collection. Above is a postwar printed cotton; on the previous page is Rosenau at a lawn party with husband Joe McGlynn.
Style icon Iris Apfel, a Palm Beach resident so chic that the Metropolitan Museum of Art devoted a whole exhibition to her aesthetic in 2005, has never been a fan of buying pieces just to archive them. "I never collected clothes to collect clothes," Apfel, now 91, said earlier this year about her treasure trove, which numbers in the thousands of items. "I bought for me. To buy things and put them in a box to me is kind of dopey."
That's typical of Apfel's generation. "Up until the 1970s, the collectors were women who wore the clothes," says Harold Koda, head of the Costume Institute at the Met. "But then people began to buy older things that were too fragile to wear. The pioneer there was Tina Chow, with the Fortuny sale."
The late Chow, a model, jewelry designer, and '80s celebrity, fell madly for the work of Spanish designer Mariano Fortuny and eventually kept two closets—one for her clothes and one for important vintage couture. "She kept them better than most museums," Koda adds.
With couture and vintage clothes, condition is paramount—well-preserved pieces command a huge premium. "Garments deteriorate," says Phyllis Magidson, the curator of costumes and textiles at the Museum of the City of New York, which holds some 25,000 of them. "You have to look at the perishability of a garment. If you wear it, you might be the last person to do so."
Iris has donated her mix of haute couture and flea-market finds to the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, where a new fashion gallery is slated for 2019. Apfel wears her collection, while other fashionistas never raid their own closets.
If you're not going to wear the pieces, protecting them is "a little daunting," says Magidson, both in terms of space and expense. "Sandy Schreier and a few other have achieved standards of a museum." Schreier, based in suburban Detroit, is perhaps the top couture collector in the United States and possibly the world. Growing up, her father worked at a local department store. "The ladies who worked there would let me play dress-up, and, eventually, people just started giving me couture," she says. At that time, vintage fashion was just old clothes: "There was no cachet in saving things back then."
Names like Mainbocher and Schiaparelli began to have a powerful hold on her mind. Now she owns 15,000 pieces kept in pristine storage (she has to make an appointment to see them), and she is courted by most major museums for donations. Michael Kors and Isaac Mizrahi are among the fashion luminaries who sometimes call her up and ask for a peek into her special storage.
"It starts in 1858 with Charles Frederick Worth and continues all the way to the present—not only couture, but also the best of ready-to-wear," says Schreier of the collection, which is heavy on Yves St. Laurent, for whom she once designed accessories.
Schreier is the epitome of the collector who's interested in history and preservation. "I've never gone to buy a couture gown to wear, and I don't wear what's in the collection," she says.
"If I owned Picasso, it wouldn't be on my back. I don't think of them as clothes, I think of them as art." Just one time she made an exception, in the late 1970s, when she donned a valuable 1910-era dress for an event. She recalls, "All I could think was, 'What if someone spills on me?'"
Pictured below is a piece from Sandy's collection, an Yves Saint Laurent outfit that Claudia Cardinale wore in 1963's The Pink Panther.
Accessories have their own devoted fans. Barbara Berger has amassed the largest collection of fashion jewelry anywhere—4,000 pieces that have traveled to museums around the world, most recently to the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, where a selection is on display until January 2014. "It's easy," says Berger, who spends six hours a day on her hobby from her home base in Mexico City. "You can find fashion jewelry anyplace, and you can afford it. It empowers a woman." The personal angle for Berger is that the collection evokes her mother. "She was a model, and very elegant, and she died when I was 12," she says. "This is about memories for me."
Berger points out that the more rarified forms of fashion—like truly antique gowns—are not good entry points for beginners. "When you collect, you have to have abundance—otherwise it's no fun," she says. When it comes to very old pieces of couture, there's not a lot left in any case. "Most of the 19th century has been yielded up," says Koda. But dedicated collectors like Hassan Abdullah, a London-based restaurateur, shop owner, and interior designer, don't let rarity stop them. In his home, Abdullah has a tightly edited selection of 60 dresses—representing different eras and styles, one of which goes back to the Georgian era (1714–1830)—plus 160 handbags.
"I don't have a favorite. I bought them because they are different," Abdullah says of the dresses, though he can't help praising the softness of a 1940s Hardy Amis dress in yellow embroidered silk. "It's narrow-minded to go for just one style."
Berger's first purchase was a pair of vintage Chanel earrings almost 60 years ago. She owns 4,000 pieces, some of which are on display at NYC's Museum of Arts and Design. Pictured above is Freirich's multistrand necklace, circa 1960s.
On the purse front, he's shown a willingness to pay as much as $4,000 for a Schiaparelli "Lantern" bag; demonstrating their sculptural elements, he has actually hung his handbags from the ceiling of Les Trois Garçons, his Shoreditch restaurant. He also sells a select number of fashion pieces in his Maison Trois Garçons shop.
In case you're not able to visit Abdullah's shop, there are many places to look for fashion. Even the top collectors are not above scouring flea markets and estate sales, since the sellers don't always know what they have. But Magidson notes that when it comes to value, sometimes the previous owner matters a lot: "People love wearing something worn by a famous individual."
Auctions remain a top resource. Chicago's Leslie Hindman Auctioneers began running couture and vintage sales six years ago, and they have become a mainstay for the house. "Young people now view couture as an art form," says Hindman, who sells to a lot of collectors in their 20s and 30s, many of whom shop her sales online.
The price range is part of the appeal. You can buy a Pucci dress from the 1960s for as little as $200, or splurge on a vintage Birkin bag from Hermès for $60,000. In Hindman's September sale, there's a 1910 Charles Frederick Worth gown estimated at $1,000–$2,000. "It's not in great condition, but it's a historic object," she says.
Getting a piece of fashion's past is irresistible, even to those who are used to wearing their vintage finds, like Rosenau. "My husband and I have also gone through the Paris flea market and bought 18th-century vests just because they were important—knowing they would shatter if worn," says Rosenau. "They tell a story."
Vintage handbags dangle from the ceiling of London's Les Trois Garçons restaurant, co-owned by fashion collector and interior designer Hassan Abdulluh.
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Mayor Coleen J. Seng announced today that a test of StarTran's Alternative Ride Home program has been successful, and the StarTran Advisory Board has recommended that the service be continued on a permanent basis. The program offers regular StarTran riders a free taxi ride home from school or work, including volunteer work, if an emergency arises. Since the program began on trial basis in July 2003, 24 people have registered for the service, and StarTran has provided 13 rides home.
"We know more people would use StarTran to go to work or school if they were assured they could get home quickly in case of an emergency," said Mayor Seng. "This is an innovative idea StarTran is trying, and I encourage residents to take advantage of the new Alternative Ride Home program."
StarTran Transit Manager Larry Worth said the idea came from a patron at StarTran's annual town hall meeting. Lincoln's program was modeled after one used by Albuquerque, New Mexico. Customers can receive up to five free trips per calendar year, and there is no credit for unused rides. A "no-show"counts as a trip, and the customer can lose program privileges for multiple "no-shows."
Alternative Ride Home is available within StarTran's service area between 8 a.m. and 7 p.m. weekdays (holidays not included). Acceptable emergencies are illness at work or school; illness of a family member; unscheduled overtime; or missing the last scheduled bus pick-up. When the service is needed, the StarTran customer calls 441-7194, confirms his or her registration and gives the pick-up and delivery addresses. The taxi driver will provide the paperwork for the customer to complete. The cost of the taxi is paid by StarTran.
StarTran customers can get a registration form by calling 476-1234, by stopping by the StarTran office at 710 "J" Street or through the City web site: lincoln.ne.gov (click on "bus transportation" on the home page). The form can be completed on-line, faxed to 441-7055 or dropped off or mailed to the StarTran office.
For more information, call StarTran at 476-1234 or see the City web site, lincoln.ne.gov.


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Gulfcoast Legal Services attorney says she was let go after refusing to drop a quadriplegic's case.
Elizabeth Boyle, the longtime head of Gulfcoast Legal Services' Sarasota office, has been fired, four months after she filed a federal age discrimination complaint against the new executive director of the St. Petersburg-based nonprofit.
Boyle, 54, says her firing stems from her refusal to drop a case involving a 29-year-old quadriplegic.
"I was told I was being disciplined because I had opened a case after being told to reject it," Boyle said. "This young, single mom needed help. I would make the same decision again."
Boyle and other Gulfcoast attorneys provide free legal advice about foreclosures, family law — including domestic violence and emergency protection orders — paternity and child-custody cases, elder law, immigration and more.
The nonprofit has about 34 paid staff members and offices in five cities.
Boyle grew Gulfcoast's Sarasota office into a legal powerhouse with the help of a few staff attorneys and more than a dozen experienced volunteers — mostly retired lawyers who provided their legal expertise for free.
Before she fired Boyle, Gulfcoast's new executive director, Kathleen M. Mullin, got rid of the volunteers, which prompted Boyle to file her age discrimination complaint.
"Volunteers have rights, too," Boyle said. "They are covered under the Age Discrimination Employment Act of 1967."
Mullin declined to be interviewed for this story, insisting on written questions delivered by email.
"As someone with ample experience with the press, I have a rule as well that I do not grant telephone interviews with reporters who appear to have formulated a hostile story line," Mullin wrote. "Email provides me the opportunity that what I say is accurately captured and relayed."
Mullin took over the nonprofit Gulfcoast Legal Services in December. Before moving to Florida, she appeared as a legal consultant on television programs including "The O'Reilly Factor," "Nancy Grace," "Doctor Phil" and other programs on CNN, FOX News and Court TV.
She replaced the retiring John P. Cunningham, who served as Gulfcoast's executive director for more than three decades and who hired Boyle in 2002.
"I think very highly of Elizabeth. She was a straight-A employee," Cunningham said. "She had a good work ethic. She was very productive. I felt confident when she took on a case it would be handled properly."
Mullin disciplined Boyle for her unwillingness to drop a case involving 29-year-old quadriplegic, Gina Ruiz, who was injured in a car crash on Nov. 25. It took rescuers more than 30 minutes to cut Ruiz from her car.
Boyle said she reported Mullin's "denial of service" order to Gulfcoast's grantors and its board of directors. Boyle also offered to litigate Ruiz's case on her own — after-hours for no pay — once Mullin told her to drop the case.
Boyle said she wanted to be certain that Ruiz would be placed in a nursing home with a good reputation and close to her family after she was released from Bradenton's Blake Medical Center.
"The case was already open," Boyle said. "I was asking permission to do more: travel to the hospital, meet with the client, find a safe and appropriate discharge facility and protect her civil rights. The case needed more than a phone conversation."
Ruiz can move her right arm a bit, her left arm a bit more, but she lacks dexterity in her hands.
"I broke my neck — C5 and C6," she said Wednesday. "They haven't given me a prognosis, just that I'm a quad. They don't expect me to walk again, but I will prove them wrong."
"Elizabeth was only trying to help me," Ruiz said. "She gave me good info. She helped me and they fired her for it. That is not right."
The complaint
In her complaint with the U.S. Equal Opportunity Employment Commission, Boyle claims she and others suffered discrimination based upon their age, and that she suffered retaliation for her whistleblowing.
According to the federal complaint, Mullin sent Boyle a written reprimand for allegedly "allowing a volunteer Florida-licensed attorney to do volunteer work for a client at our legal aid office on March 12, 2013."
Boyle contends that there was nothing wrong with permitting experienced volunteers to help clients, which she said has been a time-proven method of stretching her limited staff. All volunteer lawyers operated under her supervision, she said.
On the date Mullin specified in the reprimand, Boyle said she was on a cruise to New Zealand with her husband.
"I objected to the warning by providing Ms. Mullin with these facts, which would have made it impossible for me to have done what she accused me of having done, and she never addressed nor acknowledged my written objection," the EEOC complaint states.
On May 9, Mullin drove to the Sarasota office, suspended Boyle and ordered her off the property. Boyle wrote in her EEOC complaint that the suspension was to investigate the reporting of volunteer hours and her work with Ruiz.
Boyle said that she told Mullin in Gulfcoast's parking lot that she was due in court the next day, and that she had the client's case file in her car.
"She told me she'd handle it," Boyle said. "She said another attorney would be assigned to cover the case."
That night, no one called Boyle about the case, or made arrangements to retrieve the client's file, Boyle said.
The next day, Boyle went to the courthouse intending to deliver the file to the Gulfcoast attorney. She signed in as "Elizabeth Boyle — not representing Gulfcoast Legal Services."
When a Gulfcoast attorney arrived in the courtroom, Boyle handed over the file and left. She never met with the client, and the hearing had not yet begun, she said.
Mullin fired her the next business day.
"During your administrative leave, you were advised that your duties were suspended," her termination letter from Mullin states. "Notwithstanding this directive, you appeared in court on the morning of May 10, 2013. You were sitting in the courtroom with a Gulfcoast Legal Services' client and in possession of client documents."
Once Boyle filed her EEOC complaint, Gulfcoast's board of directors created a "personnel committee" consisting of four of its members, to investigate her allegations.
The board members drove to the Sarasota office. Boyle had assembled 14 people for the committee to interview.
The staff and volunteers from the Sarasota office told the board members about Boyle's hard work.
"Ultimately, we learned that the four attorneys — the personnel committee — had been persuaded by the evidence we presented," Boyle said. "They believed the problems we raised were valid."
But before the four committee members could report their findings to the board, either orally or in writing, the board's chairman — James W. Fox Jr., a professor at the Stetson University College of Law — removed all the members of the personnel committee.
Fox declined to comment for this story, saying, "Any questions about personnel issues should be directed to Ms. Mullin."
Tampa attorney Lynn E. Hanshaw was on the board and assigned to its short-lived personnel committee. She and several members of the committee resigned from the board in protest.
"We were stopped. The investigation stopped," Hanshaw said. "We were under the guidance of counsel — doing what we believed we were charged with doing — and the president of the board disagreed, and felt we'd gone beyond what we were charged to do, so he fired us from the personnel committee, not the board. I left the board because I was fired from the personnel committee for performing the duties we were charged to perform."
Board member Ramon Carrion, an attorney based in Clearwater, said the board may still consider Mullin's decision to fire Boyle. But the date of the next board hearing has yet to be determined.
"Our job as board members is to make a determination the executive director acted in good faith. Beyond that, I'm not going to pass judgment on any decision," Carrion said. "The board will review the decision. We have to look at it. It may affirm. It may critique. I don't believe we have any limits, but certainly we have a duty to review."
St. Petersburg attorney Barry M. Salzman, like most other board members, declined to comment about Boyle's firing.
"It's not my place to do that," Salzman said. "I'm not going to put myself in that firestorm."
'A great loss'
Boyle said she is concerned for the welfare of the volunteers who were let go.
She has a list of nine names of attorneys who donated their time at the Sarasota office. The youngest is 62. The oldest, 91.
Boyle has supervised more than 250 volunteers during the 11 years she spent at Gulfcoast. She managed more than 7,700 cases, and served as the primary advocate on 3,800.
In the past four years, she brought in more than $500,000 to the program from foreclosure work, including grants from Sarasota County and private donors.
In 2010, she received the Steven Goldstein Award for excellence in a legal aid case from the Florida Bar, sharing the award with volunteer attorney Jim McDonald, who is 80.
A native of a small town in Mississippi, Boyle is married to Bradenton Police Chief Michael Radzilowski.
Radzilowski noted that Gulfcoast receives partial funding from police departments and sheriff's offices, through fines and arrests.
Like his wife, the police chief said he was concerned about Ruiz, and the denial of services.
"If this is how Gulfcoast Legal Services is going to provide legal aid to our disabled, then I believe that Pinellas, Sarasota and Manatee counties should not fund this organization," he said.
Phillip D. King is executive director of the Glasser Schoenbaum Human Services Center in Sarasota, which hosts Gulfcoast and other social service agencies, who together serve more than 10,000 people a month.
"During the recent economic crisis, Gulfcoast has been vital in their efforts to help many people save their homes, as well as helping them with other issues. The success of Gulfcoast has been largely due to the passion and leadership of Elizabeth Boyle," King said. "We consider her not being here on campus a great loss."
In an email to her staff, Mullin called this story "inaccurate," but provided no details.


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New Columbus Chief of Police to address graduates Summer Quarter
Police Chief Kim Jacobs
The first female Chief for the Columbus Division of Police, Kim Jacobs, will deliver the commencement address to the Summer Quarter class of 2012 on Friday, August 17, at 10 a.m. in Veterans Memorial. More than 700 students have petitioned to earn their degrees this final quarter at Columbus State.
Chief Jacobs entered the Columbus Division of Police in October, 1979. This was only four years after the Division first started training women to work in Patrol. She was the first woman in the Division to be promoted to Commander in 1995, to Deputy Chief in 2009, and to Chief of Police in 2012.
Throughout her career, Chief Jacobs has been actively involved in numerous projects to improve operations and as an instructor at the Division's Academy for numerous supervisor development, in-service and recruit classes. Among those accomplishments are her work in helping to set up and start the Division's Citizen Police Academy, the creation of a fifth radio talk group to reduce congestion on the radio, the creation of a separate Domestic Violence report when the new law went into effect, the complete reorganization of Internal Affairs to investigate all citizen complaints, implementing hands-on drivers training during in-service training for the first time, serving as host for President Obama when he appeared at the graduation ceremony for the 114th recruit class and in 2009-2010, putting together a new staffing and redistricting plan which included adding a new precinct.
Chief Jacobs holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology from The Ohio State University and was a 4-year letter winner for the OSU Women's Track team. She is a graduate of the Police Executive Leadership College (PELC) and the Certified Law Enforcement Executive program (CLEE). Chief Jacobs serves on the Franklin University Public Safety Management Program Advisory Board, as a member of the Coalition Against Family Violence Legal Task Force, and is a member of the United Way Women's Leadership Council.
Join the Welcome Team for the most important first days of the semester!
The switch has arrived and Autumn Semester 2012 is almost here. Join in the excitement and join the Welcome Team to welcome new and returning students to campus, Wednesday, August 29, from 7:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. and Thursday, August 30, from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
The Welcome Team counts on your support. Your service is vital, appreciated and has a direct impact on student success at Columbus State. Your time, patience and enthusiasm create an excitement that makes Welcome Team a valuable experience for all.
RSVP to Barbara Allen, or call ext. 5297 with the times and days you are able to work. You will receive confirmation within 24 hours.
Welcome Team members Barbara Allen, Nome Stillwell, Chris Grubbe, Sarah Baker, and Stacey Tackett thank you.
Getting ready to start down the Preferred Pathway
President Harrison, left, and Dolan Evanovich, far right, vice president for Strategic Enrollment Planning, The Ohio State University, flank the Preferred Pathway students who will begin their studies at Columbus State this Fall Semester. The students were at Ohio State attending the first of two orientation sessions.
Plagenz helps coordinate youth summit for new Americans
The lucky winner of a new bicycle and helmet shows off her prize at the Call to Action Youth Summit.
Florence "Flo" Plagenz, coordinator in the ESL Afterschool Communities program, was a Youth Collaborative board member for the 2nd Annual Call to Action Youth Summit titled "Empowering New American Youth to Take Action for the Future." The event was held Saturday, July 14, at The Columbus Police Academy. Ethiopian Tewahedo Social Services and Asian American Community Services organized the event.
Three-hundred participants enjoyed a day-long event featuring six workshops geared toward teens, including one given by Wedgewood Afterschool Communities students entitled "Healthy Choices," which focused on nutrition and fitness. Plagenz secured several items to be raffled off at the summit including two complete desktop computers (donated by Cougar Geeks), six bicycles (donated by Franklinton Cycle Works), and six bike helmets (donated by Columbus Public Health).
Planning for next year's event is already underway. If you are interested in being part of the Youth Collaborative Board, please contact Plagenz.
Cougar Rewards to end but opportunities to save continue
As of August 17, the Cougar Rewards program will end in an effort to offer equitable discounts to all Bookstore customers. The Bookstore has been developing new, fun promotions for students, faculty, and staff—and with these enhanced promotions the Cougar Rewards program is no longer necessary. If you have an existing Cougar Rewards Certificate for $5.00, you will need to use it by September 28.
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Upward Bound Program completes successful Summer Enrichment Institute
The students in the Upward Bound Summer Enrichment Institute get ready for New York City!
The Upward Bound program hosted a record-breaking 45 students this summer at its Summer Enrichment Institute. The six-week college preparatory program in the summer provides students from Columbus City Schools with at least 18 hours of instruction in core classes including mathematics, science, English, and foreign language. In addition, the program offers several exploratory classes as well as physical education and standardized test preparatory classes that supplement the core classes and provide students with a well-rounded academic experience. Students who maintain good grades and proper conduct during the six-week program are eligible to attend the end-of-summer educational trip. This summer, Upward Bound invited students to New York City to tour four colleges and to take in the sights and sounds of the city on a bustling four-day tour!
The program will start back in the fall with an Academic Year Kick-Off event on August 15.
Upward Bound will start recruiting new students in the fall. If you know of an interested student, have them call 287.5340 to find out more.
Speech Rehearsal Lab changes name
The Communication Department has announced that at the beginning of Autumn Semester 2012, the name of the Speech Rehearsal Lab will change to the Communication Center. The name change reflects more closely the mission to help students connect with the world around them through better verbal and nonverbal communication, according to Communications Department Professor Christiana Hopkins.
Working within the framework of a professor's assignment structure, tutors can help students brainstorm for appropriate ideas, organize effective presentations, develop and document the body of ideas, develop performance strategies, and deal with speech anxiety. Tutors coach students through the performance process by recording their rehearsals and watching the playbacks with them to help them see where and how to improve.
The Communication Center is located in 017 Nestor Hall. Students can make appointments online at http://tutorfile.com/speechlab. They will need to register on the site before making the appointments and they will also need access to their Columbus State student email accounts to confirm registration. After confirmation, they can make appointments. Hours and more information are available at http://tutorfile.com/speechlab .For more information, contact Hopkins, Lead Instructor, at ext. 5442.
Reminder: Deadline for Fee Waivers is August 15
The deadline for Employee/Dependent Fee Waivers for Autumn Semester is Wednesday, August 15. A Request for Fee Waiver form must be turned into Human Resources by 4:30 p.m. to guarantee that fee waivers will be processed before late fees are assessed.
Notebooks available!
The S2S Core Team has available to employees, on a first come, first served basis, S2S notebook/pen sets that remain from the S2S Training Courses and Calling Campaigns. If you would like one, please email email@example.com.