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When British Brain Surgeon Henry Marsh first visited the KGB Hospital in Kiev in the early 1990s, patients were dying from simple brain tumors left untreated. This documentary follows Marsh as he openly confronts the dilemmas of the doctor-patient relationship on his latest mission to the Ukraine.
Is it love for another person or love for your country which gives us the greatest sense of belonging?
Comrades and lovers Amer and Raghda met in a Syrian prison. 15 years and 4 children later, Award-winning director Sean McAllister follows the family over 5 years, as the Arab Spring sweeps the region.The film charts their incredible odyssey to political freedom, documenting their dreams and despair: for the revolution, their homeland and each other.
Does slavery exist in modern-day Hungary?
Marish has been kept by a family as a domestic slave for 10 years. She has worked as a housekeeper, entirely unpaid, performing back-breaking household duties seven days a week in exchange only for meals, cigarettes and a couch to sleep on. A Women Captured is a raw and intimate portrayal of the psychology behind enslavement.
Does anarchism offer solutions to the brutalities of capitalism and the dishonesties of democracy?
Carne Ross was a career diplomat who believed Western Democracy could save us all; but working inside the system he came to see its failures, deceits and ulterior motives. Carne quits his job and travels to meet the protesters of Occupy Wall Street, an anarchist collective in Spain and Noam Chomsky to find an answer to the question so many people today are asking themselves - isn't there a better way?
What is it like being a nine-year old albino boy in Tanzania?
In Tanzania albino body parts and blood are used in magic potions created by witch doctors and are sold for huge amounts of money. To protect albino children, the government sends them to boarding schools, far away from their families. Following nine-year-old Shida's first year in boarding school, we see the consequences of being hunted and unwanted from a child's perspective.
What impact does the Danish asylum system have on families seeking refugee status?
This Film follows 10-year-old Magomed an asylum seeker from Chechnya, as he adjusts to life in Denmark. But his new life with new friends takes on a dark and heartbreaking turn when the decision about the family's application for asylum comes with both good and bad news.
How do the mothers of illegitimate children battle social stigma in a country where sex outside of marriage is illegal?
In Morocco, sex outside marriage is illegal and women bear the brunt of society's disapproval. But what is the fate of the children of those single mothers? They are denied jobs, housing and condemned to a life of discrimination. Bastards is the first film to tell this story from a mother's point of view.
After the discover of oil, will Ghana manage to avoid becoming the latest resource-cursed African country?
Big Men is an epic adventure of high-stakes capitalism, with shockingly intimate access to company executives, government officials and gun-toting militants. Kosmos Energy, a Dallas-based oil company, discovers Ghana's first oil. Can they develop the field and maximize profits as everyone involved tries to gain as much as possible?
What does life at the world's biggest Chinese restaurant reveal about the state of modern China?
The proprietress, the bridegroom- to-be and the young waitress. Through the eyes of the staff and guests of the world's biggest Chinese restaurant, we gain a unique picture of modern China.
Will Coach Zoran unite South Sudan through its first ever national football team?
South Sudan became an independent state in July 2011, following al- most 50 years of civil war. This film follows veteran Serbian coach Zoran Djordjevic as he seeks to forge the first national football team in the new country.
How is the fight against the Taliban contributing to the exploitation of young boys in Afghanistan?
In Southern Afghanistan hundreds of boys as young as 10, living in extreme poverty, are lured off the streets on the promise of a new life away from destitution, unaware their real fate is to be used for entertainment and sex.
What can the stories of people in Detroit tell us about the evolution of American identity?
An owner of a blues bar, a young blogger, an auto union rep, a group of young artists, an opera impresario and a gang of illegal "scrappers" make up an unlikely chorus that illuminates the tale of both a city and a country in a soul-searching mood, desperate for a new identity.
What do you do when your mother suddenly disappears and never comes back?
The powerful story of those killed and then secretly buried by the IRA during the conflict in Northern Ireland.
How do you break the cycle of neglect, violence and exploitation which each year leaves thousands upon thousands of girls and women feeling that prostitution is their only option to survive?
After a violent encounter with a "John", Brenda Myers-Powell woke up in the hospital and decided to change her life. Today she is a beacon of hope and a pillar of strength for hundreds of women and girls as young as fourteen who want to change their own lives.
A real adventure film – for the 21st century.
On a three-mast schooner packed with artists, scientists and ambitions worthy of Noah or Columbus, we set off for the end of the world: the rapidly melting massifs of North-East Greenland. Curiosity, grand pathos and a liberating dose of humour come together in a superbly orchestrated film where one iconic image after the other seduces us far beyond the historical footnote that is humanity.
Can two men from Russia become part of the Libyan revolution?
In 2011 two friends abandon their peace of their home country to fight in the Libyan revolution. Driven by their hatred of Muammar Gaddafi and a desire to be a part of history.
How can LGBT people survive in a country where homosexuality is illegal?
The last year in the life of veteran activist David Kato, as he labours to repeal Uganda's homophobic laws and liberate his fellow lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender men and women, or "kuchus".
Is it possible to reform the US criminal justice system to realize "justice for all"?
Gideon's Army follows Travis Williams, Brandy Alexander and June Hardwick, three young public defenders who are part of a small group of idealistic lawyers in the Deep South challenging the assumptions that drive a criminal justice system strained to the breaking point. Can these courageous lawyers revolutionize the way America thinks about indigent defence and make "justice for all" a reality?
Is being a girl model as glamorous as it seems?
Girl Model follows two protagonists involved in this industry: Ashley, a deeply ambivalent model scout who scours the Siberian countryside looking for fresh faces to send to the Japanese market, and one of her discoveries, Nadya, a thirteen year-old plucked from the Siberian countryside and dropped into the center of Tokyo with promises of a profitable career.
How is the American Evangelical movement fuelling Uganda's turn towards violent homophobia?
Academy Award-winning Filmmaker Roger Ross Williams explores the role of the American Evangelical movement in fueling Uganda's terrifying turn towards biblical law and the proposed death penalty for homosexuality. . Shocking and enlightening, touching and horrifying, God Loves Uganda will leave you questioning just how closely this brand of Christianity resembles the one you think you know.
Can there be justice after genocide, sexual violence and slavery?
This film tells the story of Shirin and Lewiza, two Yazidi women captured by IS, who escape to Germany.
How can a dead man assist in the investigation of his own murder?
In May 2009, Rodrigo Rosenberg, a wealthy, charismatic lawyer went cycling near his home in Guatemala City and was murdered. What was extraordinary is that Rosenberg knew, for certain, he was about to be killed. A brilliant investigation, a journey into Rosenberg's soul and Guatemala's hell, that after multiple twists and turns, reached a stunning revelation.
Can these girls save themselves from female genital mutilation and being sold off into a child marriage?
We follow Rhobi Samwelly, a brave local hero who confronts her community and protects the girls in her Safe House in Northern Tanzania. Little by little, Mama Rhobi helps the young runaways find their voice.
Can there be justice in the Philippine judicial system?
A criminal who didn't commit a crime. A mystery murder without a body. A look at the corrupt Philippine legal system, like a Kafkaesque story, featuring false witnesses, cover-ups and human rights violations.
What does love look like in Japan after the economic crisis?
When Japan's economy crashed in the early 1990s Naoki lost everything, ending up divorced and penniless - he was saved from homelessness by his new girlfriend, 29-year-old Yoshie who works at sleazy bar where she is paid to drink and flirt with married men. This films tell the unusual love story of survival in the world's second richest economy.
How does foreign aid create a system of justice for sale in Congo?
This film follows Claudine, a young and courageous human rights lawyer, in her struggle against injustice and widespread impunity in Congo. Her investigation into the case of a young soldier convicted of rape, opens her up to a world of widespread corruption seemingly instigated by foreign aid.
Is an attempt to make history worth your life?
Andrew McAuley sets out to become the first person to kayak from Australia to New Zealand. After a month at sea, his unshakeable need to conquer the unknown, ultimately costs him his life.
Can photographer Rax capture the unique lifestyle of his friends in the Arctic before it disappears?
This film follows RAX a world renowed photographer based in Iceland. Rax is on a mission: to document the deteriorating lifestyles of the Northern Hemisphere and bring them to the eyes of the world before it's too late.
Deep in the Peruvian rainforest a policeman is killed. Who is blamed?
Although no one witnessed the gun being fired, a group of indigenous men are jailed and accused of murder and terrorism. The indigenous are poor and despised, so their chances of winning a courtroom battle are next to none. But a young indigenous leader, Fachin, refuses to give in.
How did three teenage boy escape their polygamist Mormon cult in Utah?
As they struggle to come to terms with life in the real world, we learn about the extraordinary lives they used to live - in houses with many mothers, where their sisters may be married off at 14 and no one can wear red in case it offends the Second Coming. A powerfully emotional and compelling insight to an unimaginable community.
Will Bolivian president Evo Morales ever be able to deliver on his promise of a Guevara-style revolution?
Evo Morales, Bolivia's first indigenous President struggles to empower the poor and end systemic corruption. Comparatively Jiovana Naivis, a corrupt politician witnesses the social change from her prison cell.
Can an employment system hide a reality of torture and humiliation?
Harassment, abuse, rape and 18-hour work days are a commonplace reality for domestic helpers who have traveled to the Middle East to find employment. Trapped in the Kafala system, domestic workers have their passports confiscated and are bound to their employer.
What is the cost of stardom in a country impregnated by great social misery?
Budhia Singh, the six year old Indian running phenomenon and the web of intrigue around him. An Indian boy from the slums with an unbelievable talent for running becomes the cause of a political battle between his coach and child welfare.
Can miners on strike in South Africa achieve their aim of better wages?
In August 2012, mineworkers in one of South Africa's biggest platinum mines began a wildcat strike for better wages. Six days later, the police used live ammunition to brutally suppress the strike, killing 34 and injuring many more. The documentary follows the strike from day one, showing the courageous but isolated fight waged by a group of low paid workers.
Can plans to build a new suspension bridge ease Mumbai's llife or death traffic tensions?
In the Indian city of Mumbai, 13 people die on public transportation every day. The solution: a massive suspension bridge to be built off the coast, linking the north of the city to the south.
What can Nagieb learn about his roots on a trip to Afghanistan?
Nagieb Khaja, a young Danish journalist of Afghani origin, travels to Lashkar Gah in Afghanistan. Assisted by 30 locals he captures a rare glimpse of everyday life in a war-torn existence.
Is it possible to recover from childhood sexual abuse?
Failure, violence and sexual abuse were everyday life in Lisbeth Zornig Andersen's upbringing. She begins an uncertain journey to uncover how these terrible events could take place.
Will two young Syrian refugees be able to reunite with their families in Europe?
The moving story of two young boys as they attempt to escape the civil war in Syria. The film follows them as they desperately try to become reunited with their families in Europe.
How can the human spirit defy the confines of imprisonment?
Thakhar Prison. 40 women. 34 children. Four cells. No burqas… Their stories are deeply compelling and are a testament to the strength and dignity of the human will in the face of obscene conditions.
How does North Korea fund its regime?
Shrouded in secrecy and notoriously cash-strapped the North Korean regime has resorted to running one of the world's largest slaving operations - exploiting the profits to fulfill their own agenda. These bonded laborers can be found in Russia, China and dozens of other countries around the world - including EU member states.
Will the Afghan cricket team be able to qualify for the World Cup?
We follow the team from refugee camps in Pakistan - where many of the players learned the game as boys - to practice sessions in Kabul and on to qualifying tournaments overseas. Finally they reach the World Cup qualifier in South Africa where they'll face their greatest test...
Can sex offenders reintegrate into society?
In Florida sex offenders are not allowed to live within 1000 feet of places frequented by children. Because of this, many sex offenders live under bridges or in woods - or in the trailer park Florida Justice Transitions - also known as "Pervert Park". The film follows the everyday lives of the sex offenders in the park as they struggle to reintegrate into society.
"A girl's life is cruel...A woman's life is very cruel," notes Sampat Pal, one of Northern India's vigilantes in pink.
Sampat should know – like many others she was married as a young girl into a family that made her work hard and beat her often. But unusually, she fought back. The film tells the story of Sampat and other beleaguered women throughout Uttar Pradesh.
What can eight-year-olds teach us about democracy?
A primary school class in Wuhan, China has their first encounter with democracy when they hold an election to select a Class Monitor. Eight-year-olds compete against each other for the coveted position, abetted and egged on by teachers and doting parents. Weijun Chen's film reflects on the nature of representative democracy and the future of democracy in China where elections only take place within the Communist Party.
An American sets out with his motorbike to find both adventure and his sense of manhood, leading him on an extraordinary journey he could not have imagined, including fighting in the Libyan Revolution.
Would you risk your life to flip a switch?
In Kanpur, India, putting oneself in harm's way to deliver electrical power is all too common. Powerless illuminates the political power struggles taking place across Kapur through the lens of the city's electrical supply.
Will 10 year old Yula be able to realize her dream to escape life on the largest garbage dump in Europe?
For 14 years, Oscar-nominated director Hanna Polak follows Yula as she grows up in the forbidden territory of Svalka, the largest garbage dump in Europe and 13 miles from the Kremlin in Putin's Russia. A dramatic cinema story about coming of age, and maturing to the point of taking destiny into one's own hands, Putin's Forgotten Children offers a universal message of hope, courage, and life.
Why are young people drawn to nationalist movements? Why do they leave them?
Masha Drokova has been a dedicated member of Nashi since the age of 15. However, everything changes when Drokova becomes acquainted with a group of liberal journalists, including popular anti-Putin reporter Oleg Kashin. When Kashin is brutally beaten by "unknown perpetrators," her worldview is challenged and she decides to take a stand.
Looking for a laugh in North Korea?
Comics Jacob Simon, together with Mads Brügger, who poses as their manager, gets permission to put on a vaudeville act in Pyong Yang, North Korea.
What will the Yemen revolution mean for the young men in the country?
As Yemen moves toward an important turning point in the 2011 revolution, documentary filmmaker Sean McAllister follows his guide Kais, a young father who prefers to look on at the tumult from a distance.
How do refugees remember the home they were expelled from?
Remember Baghdad is an unmissable insight into how Iraq developed through the eyes of the Jews, Iraq's first wave of refugees. From picnics on the Tigris and royal balls, to hangings, imprisonment and escape, moving individual stories take us from past to present unfolding onto the wider story of the Middle East.
Can money buy affection and social standing?
Ryuichi runs a small company called I Want To Cheer You Up Ltd, which rents out family members, spouses and friends to clients who are desperate to keep up a correct social facade. But Ryuichi has a secret of his own: His wife and his two sons are completely unaware of his profession.
Will fame and success will change the life of Cambodia's newest Pop Diva for the better?
When an Australian musician meets a poor Cambodian woman in a Karaoke bar, their tempestuous cross-cultural romance results in the birth of The Cambodian Space Project, a thrilling musical explosion that wows audiences world- wide with sounds from the 1960s and '70s golden age of Cambodian rock.
How does South Africa treats its most vulnerable people?
Fearless, feisty and resolute, the "Rough Aunties" are a remarkable group of women unwavering in their stand to protect and care for the abused, neglected and forgotten children of Durban, South Africa.
What's life like for inmates in this notorious prison?
Federal Penal Colony No. 56 is situated in central Russia, in a forest larger than Germany and a seven- hour drive from the nearest city. There are 260 prisoners serving out their sentences, all of them for murder.
Does the collision of cultural values offer fresh insights into the 2011 Olympus Scandal?
This film explores the fallout from the Olympus Corporation scandal in 2011, when the multi-billion dollar Japanese optical company, suddenly dismissed its president and CEO. British-born Michael Woodford was dismissed 6 months into his tenure for blowing the whistle on the 1.7 billion dollar fraud that the company had been keeping secret for more than 20 years.
Will young Roma women get the opportunity to pursue their life aspirations?
Every summer, a few brave Roma girls will enter a beauty pageant in the bid to be called Miss Roma. But what if their dream is not a marriage proposal, but to go to high school and get a diploma? With extraordinary access and seldom-seen intimacy, we follow three young women on their journey of high stakes and self-discovery.
Is poverty raising a generation of children for sale?
In India, the world's largest democracy, millions of vulnerable children are bought and sold, given only what they need to survive another day. In this film, we follow the lives of children who have been denied a childhood and an education to work in mica mines, pick tea leaves at plantations, work as domestic helpers and be sold as brides.
Will a young girl from Iran be able to defy familial and social expectations to become an Astronaut?
This documentary follows Sepideh from her evenings spent explorig the universe, to her teaming up with the world's first female space tourist Anousheh Ansari - all in pursuit of her ambition to become an astronaut.
Can sexist attitudes and societal norms be overcome in a courtroom?
The film follows a state prosecutor and a judge - both women - as they fight sexist attitudes and societal norms with a keen knowledge of the law and an acute desire for justice. The film delicately weaves together courtroom drama and small-town life in Cameroon, West Africa.
How can solar engineering be a route out of poverty for women?
Rafea is the second wife of a Bedouin husband. She is selected to attend the Barefoot College in India that takes uneducated middle-aged women from poor communities and trains them to become solar engineers. The college's 6-month programme brings together women from all over the world. Learning about electrical components and soldering without being able to read, write or understand English is the easy part. Witness Rafea's heroic efforts to pull herself and her family out of poverty.
What can we learn about the Israel-Palestinian conflict from the stories of women in the IDF?
A unique look at the tense relationship between Israel and the Palestinian population, through the perspective of women drafted into Israel's military service.
How is rape used as a weapon of war?
In Democratic Republic of the Congo the mass rape of women by soldiers, is an accepted weapon of war. Here a number of soldiers tell their stories in an effort to acknowledge the atrocities they have committed.
How do saunas encourage men in Finland to reveal their sensitive sides?
Fat men, thin men, old men, men who dress as Santa, vagrants: all of them go to the Finnish sauna. If they don't have a sauna nearby, they build one. Naked and sweaty, surrounded by steam, the Fins reveal their sensitive sides. In this film, personal, moving stories are interspersed with footage of the beautiful Finnish landscape.
How does human trafficking tear apart communities in Cambodia?
This film intimately captures the stories of three Cambodians: two human traffickers and a victim. It highlights the consequences of the trafficking business on their individual fates and shows how their humanity ends up trapped by this invisible plague.
Where do you find hope in the darkest hours of Gaza?
A raw, first-person account of the last war in Gaza in the summer of 2014. Mohamed Jabaly, a young man from Gaza City, joins an ambulance crew as war approaches, looking for his place in a country under siege, where at times there seems to be no foreseeable future. While thousands of things are published on the recurring violence in Gaza, the stories behind them remain hidden. Not this one.
How do you play with the power structuref of the chinese CPC?
A daring insight into how power works in the Chinese Communist Party, focused through the mission of one local mayor who is determined to transform the coal-mining center of Datong into a tourism haven (showcasing clean energy). In order to revitalize the city, he must first destroy it. With remarkable access, the film follows him out and about facing battles on the street, mostly from within the Communist party itself.
Moazzam Begg has been detained under suspicion of terrorism in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Cuba and Britain. In 2002, whilst detained in Bagram, he gave a forced confession that incriminated him as being a member of Al Qaeda. Since his release, Begg has never been convicted of any crime, or even brought to trial. This film is his first-hand account of the circumstances under which that confession was made, a chronicle of terror, torture and rendition.
Can a liberal vegan filmmaker and a colonial conservative hunter understand each other's worlds?
The End of the Game is a compelling character study of a bizarre eccentric undertaking his last big game hunt in Africa. A committed vegan, David follows 73-year-old colonial relic Guy Wallace to South Africa as he fulfills a lifelong ambition to bag a cape buffalo. It's Guy's last chance to relive his glory days and finally lay down his guns.The oddball relationship between David and Guy is the central drive of the film, as the director explores the ethics of big game hunting and questions his own animal rights stance when lured in by the thrill of the hunt.
Will Or be accepted by their community after gender reassignment surgery?
The incredible story of Or, a 22-year-old Israeli person secretly saving up for reassignment surgery in Thailand. A tale about fear, self-doubt, willpower, the importance of family and being able to be who you are.
Can Pol Pot's right hand man face up to the reality of the genocidal violence he inflicted?
Over a three-year period Thet Sambath talks with Nuon Chea, Pol Pot's deputy, about all phases of his political career except the years of the Khmer Rouge regime. Then he makes his first admission.
How can the construction of a new road alter the fabric of a remote community in China?
This documentary follows the dramatic changes that take place in Hunan, a province in central China, after the construction of a major new road is announced. As people from across the country flock here with the hope of finding work on the road, local villagers are forced to adapt.
Why are migrants going missing in the USA?
The Undocumented tells the stories of migrants who have died in the Arizona desert, and follows them on their long journey home. While others simply disappear never to be heard from again.
Are vasectomies a viable solution to the environmental issues caused by overpopulation?
The Vasectomist follows Dr Doug Stein, an urologist from small town Florida on a mission to save the planet by "spreading the gospel of vasectomy". It is a journey through difficult and divisive issues, crossing cultural, religious and political taboos, which ultimately provokes a new conversation about over-population, over-consumption and the planet's environmental tipping point.
How do parent's attitude's affect young women's aspirations in India?
Two young women follow completely divergent paths in the new, modernizing India-one wants to become Miss India, the other is a fierce Hindu Nationalist prepared to kill and die for her beliefs.
When a great idea and technological viability is not enough, how do you overcome political and economic interests?
Engineer Bill Watts has a quest; to create a saltwater infrastructure in the desert and make greenhouses in the driest part of the planet, thus being able to supply fresh water, food, energy and jobs to a region desperate for all new working solutions. The idea is simple – bring saltwater into the desert – evaporate it by means of the sun and create fresh water, food and energy in desert. But it is 50 degrees in the sun and it seems that every drop of fresh water requires a drop of sweat.
Can justice be attained after 30 years of silence?
After decades of silence survivors and relatives of the victims of Iranian state terror establish a People's Court investigating mass executions of political prisoners in Iran in the 1980s. A survivor follows the Tribunal. He dreams of confronting the perpetrators with their crimes.
Why leave your safe life in Denmark to risk it as Al-Shabaab fighters in Somalia?
Young Somali-Scandinavian men leave their comfortable everyday life in Scandinavia to become fighters - even suicide bombers - in Somalia.
How can a former child soldier recover from a childhood mared by violence?
The film tells the story of Agel, a former child soldier who returns to South Sudan to help build up his country. The film accompanies him over a period of two years – from South Sudan gaining its independence in 2011 to the renewed outbreak of civil war in December 2013.
Jason was on vacation at the beach with family when, suddenly, he fell down. He couldn't get back up. His legs had stopped working.
Just a few months earlier doctors had told him that he had multiple sclerosis, which could lead to many complications, including loss of vision and muscle control. After his fall, Jason picked up the camera, turned it on his declining body, and set out on a worldwide journey in search of healing, self-discovery, and love.


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Schnitzel in Vidor proves appearances can be deceiving
Not being a student of German and not certain exactly what a schnitzel is, I was a little apprehensive about eating a meal in a totally German restaurant. I had been told that the restaurant that has been open just about a year was small and not very inviting looking on the outside, but when we arrived, I was a bit dismayed. Knowing I needed to go inside, order the food, and eat a meal to write truthfully, I chided myself for my thinking and went inside. Boy, am I glad I did. Appearances can be deceiving, and I found that to be true once again.
Meeting owner Monica Herring would have been worth my drive. Hearing her story and eating the food she cooks put my visit way over the top. Herring arrived in America some 20 years ago after marrying what she calls "her own G.I. Joe." For a while things were good and then they went bad (the face she makes to demonstrate what the accent hides gave one a more complete understanding). Realizing she had to make her own way in a foreign country, Herring resorted to what she does best — cooking. Making what income she could along the way, she set out to follow her American dream and cook full time for a living, giving folks in the area a true taste of German cooking.
"What people eat in most restaurants is not really German cooking," she said evenly and without apology. "They may start out using a German recipe, but along the way, they change this or they change that, and you no longer have true, authentic German food cooked and served the way it is in Germany." Herring prides herself on sticking to the basics, buying her own ingredients, and paying cash for the restaurant itself and the food she buys each week. "I don't want to owe anyone anything. I wouldn't enjoy what I do if I owed, owed, owed," she said gesturing to make certain I was getting it all straight. "This little place is mine, and I will fix it up as I can, but I will pay cash as I go. No bills for this girl."
After working for others for quite some time, Herring got the opportunity to buy the little grey-blue house at 920 S. Main Street in Vidor. Make certain you get the South Main Street right should you go, for that makes a big difference. Turn right off of I-10 coming out of Beaumont and travel down Highway 105 (also called North and then South Main Street) for a few miles. Once you cross the railroad tracks, the restaurant is about a mile on the right. And, believe me, our party had to look for it for a few minutes. There is only one small sign that says "Schnitzel" out front, but you won't forget it once you eat in the small restaurant one time.
Herring is helped at Schnitzel by her sister Ursula, also from Germany, and at times she lets her own husband, David Pyatt, a local pipefitter, help out some, but mostly he simply enjoys the food, she said. The two sisters hail from Aschqffenburg, Germany, and they love living in America.
The first of my German education came when Herring taught me what true schnitzels are and more importantly, what they are not. A wiener schnitzel is often a breaded veal cutlet dipped in a combination of flour, egg and breadcrumbs. It is then fried in butter or oil to a golden brown. It is traditionally served with a lemon wedge, which you can use to drizzle fresh lemon juice over the schnitzel. Herring said if you find yourself in an authentic German restaurant and you don't know what to order, stick with the wiener schnitzel so you won't be disappointed. The wiener schnitzel is often made with veal, but Herring specializes in pork. "The preparation techniques are the same, but I think the pork is simply better," she said. "A breaded pork cutlet is usually made with a thin, very thin loin cutlet, but the secret is in the breading and frying."
Agreeing totally with Herring's assessment were four guests who arrived while we were doing our interview. Joe Sasser, a customer who drives out to eat at least once every other week, was the host of the four-member party, and he was delighted to aid in our education. "No doubt about it," said Sasser, "Monica serves the best German food you can get in these parts, and I know a lot about this subject." Sasser had brought Roy and Rita Jacks, and their daughter, Sherry Davis, along for this treat. Rita was also from Germany and anxious to taste the food Sasser had described. She had met and married Roy, now retired from General Electric, while he was in her country in the service and has been cooking German recipes throughout their marriage.Winking, she said, "You just wait until our food arrives. I'll let you know if it is authentic German food or not." Davis agreed with her mom: "Oh, she'll let you know all right. She has been cooking for us all our lives and we know a thing or two about schnitzels." All four placed their orders as did we and waited while the kitchen hummed with activity.
The first nod of approval came from Rita Jacks when the salad arrived. It was actually almost three salads in one bowl. There were cucumbers, cole slaw, and a lettuce and tomato salad, but it was the homemade dressing that won the rave reviews. "This dressing did not come from any bought bottle," said Jacks with authority. "This has been made by hand and likely today." Herring confirmed that she was indeed correct.
Some of the party ordered the King Schnitzel served with white asparagus and cheese sauce while others ordered the special of the day, a beef dish served with two sides and that delicious salad. Several variations of the schnitzel are on the menu each day along with some American food choices for the non-believers. You can choose a traditional burger, patty melt, a Greek burger, chicken dishes and a wonderfully tasty catfish and fries meal. Everything that came out of the small kitchen while we were there looked tempting.
My husband ate every thing on his plate and asked questions until he was satisfied. He degreed the meal to be wonderful. I could have been satisfied with the two puffy potato dumplings I had with the daily special.
Sasser added that one of her all time specialties is her desserts, but by the time we had arrived around two in the afternoon for the interview, Herring had sold out of every dessert she had made for the day. Instead we were served perhaps the very best tasting soft pretzel I've ever tasted anywhere. Herring makes them in the kitchen of the restaurant each day and they remain soft when heated and offer a slight sweet taste that is difficult to describe. (My editor, who is bread junkie, would love these pretzels and I felt somewhat guilty not bringing him a sampling.)
All four members of Sasser's party said the food was amazing and that they would return. "The drive from Silsbee is nothing to get this kind of real German food," said Rita. "It is as good or better than I can cook in my own kitchen. This girl is good, very good."
Herring simply smiled knowingly at the compliments coming her way. She says she works hard to keep it real and is pleased when people appreciate her effort. "I'm going to fix the place up as I can, but I will not owe anyone. I know a coat of paint and a few nicer things might help to draw a crowd, but the food is more important to me," she said clearly. The restaurant is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10:30 a.m. until 9 p.m., and Herring said that business is picking up as people hear about Schnitzel.
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TROY -- Two local companies will receive a combined $750,000 from the state's Energy Research and Development Authority, part of a $1.2 million grant to support projects which improve the energy efficiency of manufacturing technologies, according to a Thursday announcement from NYSERDA. Troy-based ThermoAura, Inc. was awarded $393,000 to aide in the commercialization of its heat-to-electricity technology while Green Island-based Ecovative Design, was awarded $350,000 to improve the energy efficiency of the manufacturing processes used to produce its product, a packaging foam synthesized from farm by-products. "The State understands that the manufacturing sector plays a critical role in the economy, and with the incentives provided today, it is assisting these cleantech companies to remain competitive by manufacturing products in a more energy efficient way," said NYSERDA President and CEO, Francis J. Murray, Jr. in a statement. "Governor Cuomo has stressed the importance of innovation and technology in growing the State's economy, and nowhere is that more apparent than in the Capital Region. These ... companies are examples of how investments in clean-energy technology and manufacturing can provide benefits to all New Yorkers." ThermoAura is a start-up formed in 2011 by Rutvik Mehta and several professors from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. They have built a solid-state thermoelectric material which creates electricity from heat in a process more efficient than comparable products currently on the market. The company is poised to partner with Ceralink Inc. of Troy in order to scale up production to a commercial level. When commercialized, the technology could be used in medical devices, compact refrigerators, and for power generation from low-temperature (less than 100 degrees Celsius) industrial or vehicle exhaust waste heat. Paralleling their growth expectations, the company expects to add 10 new jobs in the next three to five years. Across the river, Ecovative Design has been making a natural alternative to standard packaging foam by bonding farm by-products through adhesives found in mushrooms. The funding will support the company's efforts to make its manufacturing process more efficient. Currently, the company pumps a mixture of materials into a plastic mold, which hardens in three to five days. With a new technique, the company would create a "suspension material" that would bond in seconds. This could reduce expenses, increase productivity and lessen the amount of energy needed to create the form. The company employs 70 full- and part-time employees and works out of a 50,000 square-foot office and manufacturing plant along Cohoes Ave. in Green Island. The awards were announced at Automated Dynamics of Schenectady, which was awarded $400,000 to continue commercialization of a process that could improve the manufacturing of parts by 63 percent. The company, founded in 1984 by three RPI graduates, creates custom composites from plastics, carbon and glass fibers. At its inception, the company used an electrically heated gas torch to fuse the layers of materials. Since then, it has developed a proprietary technology which uses a laser heating system to build materials into shapes that had not been feasible before. This technique is faster, reduces energy consumption by more than 60 percent and can provide energy benefits to the customer through a reduction in the weight of the parts. The firm employs 32 at its 407 Front Street location in Schenectady.
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Natural disasters are at the top of Japan's collective mind, where officials and residents alike are keen to avoid a repeat of the devastation brought on by March's earthquake and subsequent tsunami. More than 200 square miles of the country were flooded in the disaster, forcing the evacuation of more than 320,000 people. That massive and rapid destruction was bad enough, but officials can't help but wonder if, instead of the wrath of nature wiping out the north eastern coast of the country's main island, a disaster were to occur in an arguably more important part of the country, like its capital city of Tokyo.
With faultlines crisscrossing the country, earthquakes are a real threat, and officials are concerned that a big one could take out Tokyo. The prospect is real enough that the ruling Democratic Party of Japan is thinking about creating a "backup" city to assume the seat of power should Tokyo be destroyed, according to a recent article in the Telegraph.
The plan is still in its early stages, but would outline the creation of a new city on the site of an underused airport outside of Osaka, about 250 miles to the southwest of Tokyo. The new city – dubbed Integrated Resort, Tourism, Business and Backup City – would include office towers, parks, housing for 50,000 and, for some less-than-emergency reasons, resort facilities, casinos and "the tallest tower in the world." It's envisioned that this city would have space for about 200,000 workers, and that it would be able to operate as the center of government in the event of devastation in Tokyo.
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According to many religious texts, God is great and fathomless, wondrous and infinite. He's also said to be everywhere — and, let's face it, "everywhere" is a pretty all-encompassing term. So perhaps that helps to explain why so many folks have spotted religious images in food items, storefront windows, ultrasound images, frying pans — even a cat's fur. Read on for a recap of 13 of the most colorful and memorable spiritual sightings from recent years.
Face of Jesus on a Walmart receipt
An engaged South Carolina couple walked away with more than just bargains after shopping at Walmart in June 2011. Three days after their shopping trip, their Walmart receipt began to bear an eerie resemblence to ... Jesus himself.
Jacob Simmons and his fiancee, Gentry Lee Sutherland, told NBC's WYFF-TV that they spotted the receipt on the floor of Sutherland's apartment right after coming home from a church service. They couldn't help but notice that its appearance had changed.
"I was leaving the kitchen and I just looked on the floor, and it was like it was looking at me," Simmons said. "Then the more you look at it, the more it looked like Jesus, and it was just shocking, breathtaking."
The couple said the image seemed to answer a question they had just been asked at church. "We had a message on knowing God, abiding in him," Sutherland said. "(The preacher asked) 'If you know God, would you recognize him if you saw him?'"
Virgin Mary in grilled cheese sandwich
Everyone knows that grilled cheese sandwiches are divine — but here's one sandwich that garnered international media attention for being especially so. The story began in 1994, when Florida resident Diana Duyser made herself a seemingly ordinary grilled cheese sandwich. She took one bite out of it, then stopped cold.
"I saw a face looking up at me," she said. "It was Virgin Mary staring back at me. I was in total shock."
Duyser said she surrounded the sandwich with cotton balls and stored it in a plastic container on her night stand for a full decade. In that time, she said it never decayed — a detail she described as a "miracle."
And then, in 2004, Duyser put the holy sandwich up for sale on eBay. She made some cool cash from GoldenPalace.com, an Internet casino that paid a whopping $28,000 for the icon.
Cross on a baby cow's forehead
The month: December 2009. The place: A humble farm. The setting: Just perfect for an auspicious event. On a cold, dark night in the wee hours of the morning, a baby calf was born with a very special feature.
That feature? The distinctive markings of a white cross on his forehead. The image had quite an effect on Connecticut dairy farmer Brad Davis, Davis' relatives and friends and families all around the dairy farm. "It was quite a feeling," Davis recalled. "It made the hair stand up on the back of my neck, actually." Neighborhood children bestowed a biblical — albeit Old Testament — name upon the little calf: Moses. Davis promised to make sure Moses would have a good life and wouldn't get eaten.
Related story: Holy cow! Divine bovine has cross on his head
Jesus and Mary in an orange
Paul Kulniszewski of Lockport, N.Y., doesn't describe himself as a particularly holy guy. But on Christmas morning in 2009, he experienced something big. He cut into an orange for breakfast and was astonished to see what appeared to be Jesus hanging on the cross, with Jesus' mother Mary right below him. "I quickly called my wife and said, come see this ... tell me it's not my eyes," Kulniszewski said. "I mean, am I seeing what I'm seeing?"
He snapped a photo of the orange right away so the image would be captured before the orange began to turn and decay. Then he stored the orange section in a jar with rosary beads. "I'm happy with it because I know what it is and what it was at the outset. I know what I see ... it's there. I've had my 'aha!' moment and I hope everybody else gets the same opportunity."
Crucifix in a potato
What a spud! On Christmas Day 2009, Dennis Bort of Brunswick, Ohio was rustling around in the kitchen and getting ready to make some mashed potatoes. "So I peel the potatoes and I'm getting ready to do it," the police detective said. He was stunned by what he saw when he cut the potato in half.
"I said, 'Aw, holy crap, it's a cross,'" Bort recalled.
Bort posted the potato on eBay with an asking bid of $1,000. "I'm not a religious person at all," he said. "I've seen stories of Jesus in the cheese sandwich and all the other crap, but I don't really know numbers per se. I just slapped (the price) out there. There's always a Christmas credit card bill to pay with the holidays, so why not?"
Jesus in an MRI
Tammie Cohrs was nervous about her upcoming MRI scan. Really nervous. The South Carolina woman had recently been diagnosed with a rare form of oral cancer, and she felt like she needed support. "As soon as they put me in there, I just started praying," Cohrs said, explaining that she asked Jesus to be with her during the MRI.
Later, when she looked at her MRI image, Cohrs was so astonished she began to cry. She said she can see the image of Jesus — his eyes, nose, mouth and a crown of thorns — in her MRI results. "I just had this wonderful experience that I was with him," Cohrs told NBC in October 2010. "[It's] a reminder that he is with us through the hard times, not only the good times when everything is going great, but he is also with us when things get hard and difficult. ... I just think it's amazing. I don't care what anybody else thinks."
Jesus on an iron
In late November 2009, a Massachusetts woman who had recently separated from her husband and lost hours at her job saw something that made her feel immeasurably better: a soothing image of Jesus Christ with long hair. Jesus was staring directly at her from the bottom of an otherwise mundane household object: her iron.
The woman, Mary Jo Coady of Methuen, Mass., said the image comforted her and reminded her that "life is going to be good." She said she planned to store the special iron in a closet and invest in a new one.
Jesus in a cat's fur
Some people say that they have a hard time spotting the image of Jesus in Sissy the cat's fur — but that doesn't really bother the Johnson family of Goshen, Ind. They see it, and they believe it's a sign of good things to come.
The Johnsons first noticed the image in 2008, shortly after they rescued two abandoned kittens they found near their house. They remain convinced that one of those two felines — Sissy — literally has Jesus on her side.
Cheesus! (Jesus in a Cheetos bag)
At first blush, a bag of Cheetos may not be a likely setting for a moving religious experience — but the snack product managed to lead a Missouri woman to astonishment and wonder.
Kelly Ramey of High Ridge, Mo., couldn't believe what she was seeing in 2008 when she stumbled upon an exceptional cheese puff. She and her family and friends agreed: The Cheeto looked a whole lot like a little orange Jesus on the cross.
Shortly after Ramey found her own personal Jesus, she and her husband gave him a special name: Cheesus. Ramey said she didn't intend to sell Cheesus; instead, she planned to keep him in a safe deposit box or put him on display so others could enjoy him too.
Mother Teresa in a cinnamon bun
Wait for it ... wait for it ... there she is! Many people who have studied this cinnamon bun have spotted the unmistakable likeness of Mother Teresa. The pastry — dubbed the "Nun Bun" — was first noticed in 1996 by an alert customer at a coffee shop in Nashville, Tenn. Workers at the Bongo Java coffee shop preserved the bun with shellac and displayed it in a glass case, drawing tourists and media attention from around the world. Scrutiny really ramped up in 1997 when Mother Teresa herself wrote a letter to shop owner Bob Bernstein, asking him to stop selling T-shirts, mugs and prayer cards bearing the bun's image. "My legal counsel ... has written asking you to stop, and now I am personally asking you to stop," the Nobel Peace Prize-winning nun wrote from Calcutta, India.
Bernstein did remove Mother Teresa's name from the merchandise, but some onlookers continued to be displeased — and on Christmas Day in 2005, someone actually stole the Nun Bun. Bernstein said the thief ignored nearby cash and "went right for the bun." "Unfortunately I think it's somebody who wanted to take it to destroy it," he said.
Jesus in a baby's ultrasound
As many expecting parents know, 3D ultrasounds really do show a lot. But in the case of one Miami couple, a 3D image of their baby boy showed them much more than they ever anticipated: the face of Jesus himself.
In 2008, still badly shaken from a recent miscarriage, Amy Janer was struggling with nervousness and anxiety over her pregnancy. That was until she and her husband noticed what appeared to be Jesus' face in their baby's ultrasound image, with Jesus' beard leaning against the child. The couple welcomed a healthy baby boy in June 2008. They said they shared the ultrasound image to comfort and strengthen other expecting parents.
Angel in a store window
She only came out at night, and when she did, hundreds of onlookers swarmed the scene so they could see and possibly even touch her. "She" is the image of an angel that first appeared on the window of a Porterville, Calif., carpet store in 2008. The angel image only became visible when certain lights were turned on at a gas station across the street. "After dark, she fills up this whole window," said carpet store owner Teri Johnson. "And you can only see it from across the street. You can't see her close up."
Marcos De La Cruz, a minister at a church next to the carpet store, said the angel led to a spiritual awakening among area residents. "It's causing them to question where they're at," De La Cruz said. "It's causing them to sincerely think where they are spiritually in their lives."
Jesus in a frying pan
As we've clearly seen, religious sightings can happen in all sorts of places — but in burger grease? Oliver Bellerby of Yorkshire, England said he was as surprised as anybody when it happened. After whipping up a hamburger for dinner in the summer of 2009, he noticed the face of Christ in his frying pan.
"I went back to the kitchen after having dinner to get a drink and I just saw it straight away — the face of Jesus," Bellerby said. "My mate saw it too when I showed him. It blew us both away so we took a picture."
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It looks like the U.S. Navy was able to pull off a real-life game of missile command last night, and successfully shot down our ailing superspy satellite while everyone was busy gawping at the lunar eclipse. Hey, that's exactly how the script for the failed reboot of Buck Rogers began... does that mean we just sent a frozen astronaut into deep orbit somewhere? Strangely, the military lackey in this video doesn't address that issue.
In the script for the Buck Rogers reboot, it's a Ukrainian strategic defense initiative satellite that's failing, although it's also carving huge swaths across the planet with its mega-laser weapon. Sort of like the Borg did in Enterprise when they chopped up Florida. Buck Rogers, superhero to millions and ace of the space skies is sent off to shoot the thing down, although it's partially sentient and dodges his superbomb. Buck, ever the hero, decides to go after the satellite with the only weapon he has left... himself.
He crashes into it, but is apparently obliterated in the process. But little known to those left behind, he's blasted into deep space as debris. On Earth, he's celebrated as a hero with statues and meals named after him, but the resulting nuclear explosion is seen in space and alien species start visiting the planet. This leads to problems later, the kind that only Buck can solve when he thaws out 100 years later. Although we'll never really know, because the script died in development, but we're patiently waiting his return, perhaps in 2108.


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I hope I didn't move this page in error. If the product name is noiseremove and it wasn't just a language translation typo, then I will put it back as it was.
John Spikowski 00:50, 10 Dec 2004 (EST)
I'm pretty sure the product name is NoiseRemove and this page is no general noise removal page.
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(visited by Joseph Kerski)
27-Jan-2005 -- One of the most noticeable changes in the environment in our own lifetimes is urban sprawl. What exactly is sprawl? Richard Moe, president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, defines sprawl as "low-density development on the edge of cities and towns — poorly planned, land-consumptive, auto-dependent and designed without respect to its surroundings." However, it doesn't take an expert to identify sprawl. You drive in bumper-to-bumper traffic on a congested suburban highway past a repeating, endless array of fast-food restaurants, gasoline stations, and strip-mall shopping centers, all surrounded by thousands of parked cars. As each season passes, you see construction equipment pave over more and more fields with look-alike subdivisions called Oak Meadows or Fox
Hollow, whose very names mock what was destroyed. This is sprawl.
Sprawl has been called "one of the most wasteful uses of land ever devised." Every year, 161,000 hectares of rural land in the USA alone are lost to development. During the 1970s and 1980s, for every 1% of metropolitan population growth, land consumption increased by 6 to 12% in the USA. And sprawl is getting worse. During the 1990s, for every 1% of population growth, land consumption increased by 10 to 20%. One cannot help feeling that such growth, highly dependent on fossil fuels, is unsustainable.
Such were my thoughts as I, Joseph Kerski, wound my way through the seemingly endless northeast suburbs of Atlanta to the confluence of 34 North 84 West. As I turned north on State Highway 20 at Allendale, I certainly could not fault the residents of this community. One could not lay the blame on people who, like all of us, seek to live in the best communities for our families. Even though this land was covered in Georgia pines, deciduous trees, and agriculture not long ago, one had to respect the care that had gone into the planning of these fine lawns and homes. Judging from the playground down the street and the preponderance of minivans, this appeared to be a neighborhood predominantly of families with children. I turned west on Russel Road Northeast and drove for 2 kilometers to Glendale Drive Northeast, stopping down the hill from the confluence point.
It was a fine southern USA winter day--temperature at 20 C with puffy clouds darting along the blue sky. I walked south up the hill to 1470 Ashwood Way and knocked on the door. A woman appeared in the window adjacent to the door who gave me, through the glass, the approval to stand in her yard and take photographs, noting that others had preceded me. I reached the confluence at 2:45pm local time (my GPS is set for mountain time). The confluence lies 3
meters straight out (northeast) from the front door of the house, on ground sloping about 7 degrees to the north, planted in grass. I took a movie and photographs, including several of myself with the camera mounted on the brick tower that served as the mailbox.
I had been to 84 West twice before, once in Michigan USA, and once in Costa Rica. I had also been to 34 North once before, in Oklahoma USA. This visit was my first in Georgia and I felt fortunate that I had the opportunity to see it. I spent only 25 minutes at the confluence, making a hasty exit in an effort to visit 34 North 85 West before nightfall.


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July 18, 2012
Columbus State President Appoints Chief of Staff
Kimberly Hall
Following a nationwide search, Columbus State Community College President David Harrison has selected an advisor to the Ohio Attorney General as his first Chief of Staff.
Kimberly Hall is currently Deputy Chief Counsel in Attorney General Mike DeWine's office. She will now serve as an advisor to Dr. Harrison as a key member of his leadership team.
Hall's duties will also include serving as a liaison for the Board of Trustees and facilitating Board policy, overseeing daily operations of legislative, legal, and community affairs, and providing guidance for strategic initiatives and special projects.
"Kim Hall is an experienced, talented leader, and she has a personal dedication to this community," says Dr. Harrison. "As Chief of Staff, Kim will play an important role in communication, integration, and alignment as we advance our work to expand student access, improve student success, and strengthen our ties to the region. She will be a great partner to those at Columbus State and throughout all the communities we serve."
As Deputy Chief Counsel, Hall has managed the Chiefs of six sections in the Attorney General's Office: Education, Business Contracts, Taxation, Workers' Compensation, Civil Rights and Public Utilities. In the Education section, her responsibilities included monitoring litigation and other legal issues facing Ohio's public colleges, universities and local school districts.
Prior to her work at the AG's office, Hall was Deputy Chief Counsel for the Ohio Department of Education. During her six-year tenure, she served as an advisor to the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, the State Board of Education and the Ohio Department of Education.
"During my work with the education department, I discovered my passion for the field of public education administration," says Hall. "It is now an honor to join the Columbus State community as the Chief of Staff, and I am looking forward to building quality relationships with the college's talented faculty, staff and students. I am excited to begin applying my full energy toward advancing the college's student success mission and strengthening Columbus State's community partnerships."
Early in her career, Hall served as a labor and employment attorney with the Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease firm and the Littler Mendelson firm. She also worked as a staff attorney in the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas Domestic Relations and Juvenile Branch.
In her spare time, she works with the Boys and Girls Club of Central Ohio, where she serves as a board member. She is also the founder of the Olive Tree Project, a writing program for girls who have an incarcerated parent.
Hall holds a Juris Doctorate from Fordham University School of Law and a bachelor's degree from Columbia University. She will begin her new position as Chief of Staff at Columbus State August 6.
It's hot out this summer and our newsletter is hot off the presses! See what's going on with the HR Department this month!
Visitors from Korea meet at Columbus State
Columbus State hosted a meeting with visitors from the Korea Research Institute for Vocational Education and Training on June 29. The meeting was in conjunction with Ohio State's Center on Education and Training for Employment. The group met with several faculty and staff members to discuss current issues in vocational education and to explore the U.S. model.
Announcing the Diversity and Study Abroad Council
In the 2012 – 2013 academic year, Diversity and Study Abroad Programs will be working with a team of individuals who are interested in bridging gaps to strengthen our incredible college diversity. This leadership team will aid Diversity and Study Abroad Programs in thinking about how we can be more intentional in building community and assisting individuals in discovering how they belong to our greater Columbus community, our college community and to each other.
We're pleased to announce our council members for 2012 – 2013 are: Mariam Adam, Jeff Akers, Jason Clever, Keith Coates, Allen Coleman, Harry Cox, James Demonte, Beau Foshee, Debra Fout, Clayton Gibson, Karen Gray, Cathy Hatfield, Sheryl Killen, Brianne Miller, Luke Robson, Suzanne Schaefer, Elissa Schneider, Jay Schnell, Dan Stanton, Todd Taylor, Michelle Teasley, Trever Thomas, and Kimberly Rhyan,
For more information on how to get involved with Diversity and Study Abroad Programs, contact firstname.lastname@example.com or 614.287.2426.
100 miles remains elusive for persistent professor
As reported here in Update last week, Assistant Professor Paul Carringer hoped his third attempt would be the charm in his effort to run 100 miles during a 24-hour fundraising run in Philadelphia over the weekend. As it turns out, he'll have to wait until next year to attempt that feat. Carringer did, however, manage to run a full 70 miles in the event. The annual event raises money to assist the homeless.
Graduating basketball team members earn full scholarships to four-year schools
Coach Patrick Carlisle
It's another big score for the Columbus State men's basketball team. While one player – Glenn Cosey – achieved a new school scoring record and was named the conference player of the year, the team itself set a new academic mark. Seven players have signed full scholarships at four-year schools, with two of them set to play in Division I.
"It's awesome to have seven kids from one community college team earn full scholarships," says Coach Pat Carlisle. "It shows our rigorous program paid off. Coaches helped oversee the academic plans for each player and they provided advice and support throughout the year. It's simply amazing and another one of those bench marks that proves the Columbus State Men's basketball team is among the national elite."
The players earning full scholarships and their respective colleges are:
Glenn Cosey - Tennessee Tech University NCAA D1
Brook Turson - Ashland University NCAA D2
Dimitri Abner - West Virginia State University NCAA D2
Kendrick Ward - West Virginia State University NCAA D2
George Harper - Central State University NCAA D2
Darnell Tubbs - Pikesville College NAIA D1
Cody Henson - Northwestern Lima NAIA D2
Can you beat Beethoven?
At an August 11 5K (3.1-mile) road race in Westerville, runners and walkers will hear Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, and if they finish before the symphony ends, they'll win a ticket to see the Westerville Symphony.
All Columbus State students and employees can receive $5 off the $25 registration fee, but only by turning in their registration form to Vickie Hunter in Marketing and Communications (Franklin 132). The deadline to receive the Columbus State discount is Friday, July 27.
The race will begin not with a starter's horn, but with the famous opening notes of Beethoven's Fifth. Volunteers will be stationed about every 400 meters playing the symphony on loudspeakers. The symphony lasts about 32 minutes, so runners would have to maintain about a 10-minute-per-mile pace to beat Beethoven.
Every participant also will receive a Beethoven 5K T-shirt, and WOSU radio is providing additional awards.
Funds from the race will be used to start a scholarship program.
Click here for the entry form.
Last Day To Submit Invoices For FY 2012 is July 27
We are quickly wrapping up accounting for FY12 and all invoices must be received in Accounting by July 27 in order to be payed from a FY12 account. Please remember, goods must have been received by June 30, 2012 for any invoices paid with FY12 funds.
A few related issues:
If you do not have sufficient funds in an account to pay a FY12 invoice, contact Ann Helfrich at email@example.com, to assist with a budget transfer.
Grant accounts will follow the same deadline as the College. The only exception to the purchase order deadline is if the Grant does not end on June 30th. Please contact your Grant accounting representative if you have questions or require additional processing time for grant invoices.
If an item was received prior to June 30th and you are using PORC to receive the item you will need to change the receive date to June 30th to ensure the funds used to pay the invoice are from the FY12 budget.
Travel-related reimbursement requests must be submitted by July 30th.
Tuition reimbursement payments are not subject to this deadline and can be processed per guidelines established by Human Resources.
Please direct all invoices and questions to the following:
Karen Miller – Vendors A-K ext. 5685
Linda Merritt – Vendors L-Z ext. 2418
Tonya Anderson-Russell – Bookstore Accounts Payable ext. 5871


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If you have combined vSphere 5.0 with XIV, then you may want to try out the new IBM Storage Provider for VMware VASA (vSphere Storage APIs for Storage Awareness). You can download the installation instructions, the release notes and the current version of the IBM VASA provider from here. Clearly because VASA is introduced in vSphere 5.0 your VMware vCenter also needs to be on version 5.0.
Now IBM have had a vCenter plugin for a very long time (which I have written about here, here and here) and while you still need that plugin if you want to do storage volume creation and mapping from within vCenter (as opposed to using the XIV GUI), the VASA provider makes storage awareness more native to vCenter. This is a very important step. It means instead of using vendor added icons and tabs (like the IBM Storage icon and the IBM Storage tab that are added by the IBM Storage Management Console for vCenter), you just use the default vCenter tabs.
Right now version 1.1.1 of the IBM VASA provider delivers information about storage topology, capabilities, and state, as well as events and alerts to VMware. This means you will see new additional information in three tabs: Storage Views, Alarms and Events.
After installing and setting up the VASA provider, in vCenter select your VMware cluster, go to the Storage Views tab and select the view Show all SCSI Volumes (LUNs) there are four columns with more information. The Committed, Thin Provisioned information, Storage Array and Identifier on Array (indicated with red arrows) comes straight from the XIV (hit the Update button at upper right if you are not seeing anything yet). This is really useful information as it lets you correlate the SCSI ID of a LUN to an actual volume on a source array. Here is a cut-down view of that extra information:
If you want a larger screen capture you can find one here.
The Task & Events and Alarms tabs will also now contain events reported by the VASA provider such as thin provisioning threshold alerts (although if you have just installed the provider you may see nothing new, as nothing has occurred yet to provoke an alert or event).
As usual I have some handy tips on the steps you will need to take to get VASA going:
- First up you will need to identify a virtual machine to run the provider on (or just create a new one). I chose to deploy a new instance of Windows 2008 from a template. Because the VASA provider communicates to vCenter via an Apache Tomcat server listening on port 8443, that port needs to be free and unblocked. This also means you should not run the VASA provider in the same instance of Windows as the vCenter server (see below for more information as to why).
- Download the IBM Storage Provider for VMware VASA as per the link above (use version 1.1.1, see the user comments in this post for details about a bug in version 1.1.0).
- Install the provider in the Windows VM you created in step 1. The tasks are detailed in the Installation Instructions, but it is a simple follow-your-nose application installation. As per most XIV software packages, it will install a runtime environment (xPYV which is Python) as part of the install.
- Now we need to define the credentials that VMware vCenter will use to authenticate to the IBM VASA Storage Provider. These should be unique (and are not an XIV userid and password - this is only between vCenter and the provider software). In my example I use xivvasa and pa55w0rd. The truststore password is used to encrypt the username and password details (so that they are not stored in plain text). Open a Windows command prompt (make sure to right select and open it as an Administrator) and enter the following commands:
cd "C:\Program Files (x86)\IBM\IBM Storage Provider for VMware VASA\bin" vasa_util register -u xivvasa -p pa55w0rd -t changeit
Don't close the command prompt, because we now need to define the XIV to the IBM VASA provider.
- You need the IP address of your XIV and a valid user and password on the XIV that can be used to logon to the XIV. So in this example my XIV is using 10.1.60.100 and I am using the default admin username and password (which I know does not set a good example). This is the command you need to run:
vasa_util add -i 10.1.60.100 -u admin -p adminadmin
If this command fails, reporting your firmware is invalid, you are probably using the original 1.1.0 version of the VASA provider, go back to the IBM Fix Central website and make sure you have the latest version (at least version 1.1.1). If it reports the firmware cannot be read, make sure you are running the Command Prompt as an Administrator.
- Once you successfully added the XIV to the provider, you need to restart the Apache webserver. Do this by starting the services.msc panel and looking for the Apache Tomcat IBMVASA service as pictured below. Stop it and then start it. Once you have done that you can logoff from the VASA VM.
- Now connect to your vSphere Client (which needs to be on at least version 5.0.0) and from the Home panel, open the Storage Providers panel.Then select the option to Add a new provider. The URL needs to include the correct port number (by default 8443), so it will look something like this (where the provider is running on 10.1.60.193). Note also that the VASA provider version number is in the URL, so if you upgrade the provider you will need to change the URL (currently v1.1.1):
The Login and password should match the user id and password you defined in step 4 (remember it is not logging into the XIV, it is logging into the VASA provider).
- If you get a message saying your user id and password are wrong, you probably forgot to stop and start Apache in step 6 above. If you succeed you should see a new provider listed. Highlight the provider and select sync to update the last sync time.
Your setup tasks are now all completed. Now go and explore the panels I detailed above to see what new information you have available to your vCenter server.
Why a separate server for the VASA provider?
The IBM VASA provider uses Apache Tomcat, which by default listens on port 8443. However since vCenter already has a service listening on port 8443, it means we have a clash. I googled and found the Dell and Netapp VASA providers also listen on port 8443 and they also recommend separate servers. I noted Fujitsu's provider uses a different port but still requires a separate server. So it seems if you have multiple vendors you will either have to spin up a separate server for each vendors provider, or start playing with changing the port number. The installation instructions for the IBM VASA Provider explain how to change the default port number if you are truly keen.


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Oracle Berkeley DB XML
Oracle Berkeley DB XML is an XML database with support for XQuery designed to store and index XML content for fast, scalable and predictable access. It is a C, C++ library that links into your application. Berkeley DB XML provides transactional access, automatic recovery, content compression, on-disk data encryption with AES, fail-over to a hot standby, and replication for high availability. Store, index and query key/value meta-data related to the XML documents as well. Berkeley DB XML provides fast, reliable and scalable persistence for applications that need to manage XML content.
Berkeley DB XML supports XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0, XML Namespaces, schema validation, naming and cross-container operations and document streaming. The XQuery engine uses a sophisticated cost-based query optimizer and supports pre-compiled query execution with embedded variables. Large documents can be stored intact or broken up into nodes, enabling more efficient retrieval and partial document updates. Berkeley DB XML supports flexible indexing of XML nodes, elements, attributes and meta-data to enable the fastest, most efficient retrieval of data.XML Document Storage
Berkeley DB XML's unique dynamic indexing system enables optimized retrieval of XML content. XQuery statements are optimized based on statistical, cost-based query planning engine combine to deliver results quickly even when processing complex XQuery statements across large datasets.
The XQuery language brings to XML databases what SQL brings to relational databases. With XQuery it is easy to express complex relationships, joins, conditions and result sets in statements that can be optimized and executed quickly over huge data sets. Berkeley DB XML closely tracks the XQuery and related XML standards.
Berkeley DB XML provides a full modification API allowing for very efficient updates. XML document modification is not yet part of the XQuery standard, but as the standards are approved, Berkeley DB XML will support them.
Berkeley DB XML is very flexible, easy to deploy and easy to integrate. As a set of C and C++ libraries, it can be installed and configured along with your application. It was designed to operate without the need for administrative oversight, no DBA required, all administrative functions are controlled programmatically. It supports a wide variety of programming languages and operating system platforms.