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Recent news reports tell us that America's confidence in government is at an all-time low, and here's a good example of why. Given a choice between ensuring the safety of citizens and lining the pockets of the home building industry with profits, South Carolina may be on the verge of giving public safety the back seat.
Cora Jane Caston Wallace always wanted to be a writer. But that was not an option for her. In fact, she had to quit school because her parents needed her at home. The day her mother said she wasn't going back to school, Wallace cried all night.
Wallace later went to work for Springs Industries. She married Monroe Wallace and they had four children. Their youngest child, Suzanne, was diagnosed at an early age with a rare condition called congenital pseudoarthrosis.
Several years ago Andrew Smith wrote a letter, "Lynches River holds us hostage." He described it just right. We who are on Lynches River are not able to chose our electric provider.
We have no voice on anything. The rates are outrageous and need to be adjusted. We need an option of another electricity provider so can live like normal people.
Shirley McGriff
I am a big girl, so let me refine what I am saying about flooding (in the Edenmoor area.)
These longtime residents may not live near the ranch (Larkspur) and drive by it daily like I do. I have lived here for 10 years, passing it daily.
The Hinsons say yes, it has always flooded some, but nothing like it does now and not as frequently or with as deep, running rapids as now.
As a resident of Indian Land and of this beautiful county of Lancaster, I would like to address the recent problems cited in the April 28 article, "EMS under fire about slow respionse time."
U.S. Rep. John Spratt should quit.
It's a scary thought that Spratt would have another chance to vote for big pork bills, support the thrust for big government, further the radical left-wing agendas that add to the huge deficit and continue to vote for bills he does not read.
A few weeks ago I told some friends that America, right now, has the government we deserve. A few of them were bothered by that statement. I realize now that I was wrong. America does not have the government we deserve. We deserve much worse; it is only by God's grace and mercy that we do not have what we deserve.
Today is Mother's Day, the one day a year set aside to honor the special woman who gave you life.
Motherhood is often romanticized by the media, especially around this time of year, when magazines, TV and Internet broadcasts are full of ads depicting smiling, well-dressed moms snuggling babies or freshly scrubbed children giving them flowers. This is definitely the rose-colored glasses view of motherhood.
The reality is that motherhood is often a gritty business.
Enshrinement in the Lancaster County School District Hall of Fame has drawn the elite in local education over the years.
The Class of 2010 fits the same mold.
The LCSD's annual Celebration of Excellence event included the annual hall of fame induction ceremonies, welcoming four worthy candidates.
The quartet included Tucker Jackson and Arthur Benjamin along with the late Leona "TK" Cunningham and Elsie Boyce.
Each was an "old school style" educator whose impact is still felt today through the students they taught and guided.
The Lancaster Downtown Business Association (LDBA) would like to thank the people of Lancaster for the overwhelming turnout at our Easter Eggstravaganza on April 3. Your participation in this first-time-ever event exceeded our wildest expectations and we were thrilled to see so many little (and big) faces walking around downtown on a lovely Saturday morning.
I am 19 years old. Last year was the first time I voted. My first vote was for Charlene McGriff and I will vote for her again June 8, 2010. Let me tell you why. I see her out in our community. I have seen her in our schools. She always encourages young folks to get their education and to respect others. She listens and gives good advice. She has helped me when I had problems and needed someone to talk to. She is my role model.
Tiffany Bailey
In the last couple of days, the far left and the liberal news has had the audacity to put out the most blatantly vicious lies that are made to demean the TEA Party. First, there was ex-president Bill Clinton trying to link the TEA Party rallies to a bombing of a federal building, which killed many innocent people.
The inaugural Red Rose Festival is just days away. It will be May 7 and 8 and span three blocks in Main Street in downtown Lancaster – from Dunlap to Arch streets.
The festival will be like most street festivals. There will be children's games, live music and food. See Lancaster SC, the city's marketing arm, is organizing the event. The goal of the festival is to foster community pride and to grow over the years into a signature event – Lancaster's signature festival.
As chairman of the Lancaster County Democratic Party, I am compelled to respond to The Lancaster News' editorial, "Are Local Republicans Taking Over," that appeared in the Sunday, April 18, edition. The answer to your question is no.
This is not merely a knee-jerk partisan reaction, but based on facts. In Lancaster County, every countywide office is held by a Democrat. All but one County Council seat – Council District No. 1 – is held by a Democrat.
I am so disappointed in the mail carrier in my neighborhood.
I read in The Lancaster News that postal carriers were collecting food for those who need it. I made the effort to get out and buy the food and get up early enough to put it at the mailbox for them to collect it.
You can't say there is nothing to do around here. Take a look at the calendar and you'll see fun happenings in and near Lancaster County this weekend.
For starters, there is the 31st annual Kershaw Spring-A-Thon that got under way yesterday. It continues today and Saturday with a full lineup of activities and entertainment.
Today at 6:30 p.m., The Embers will be playing live on Main Street. If you love beach music, fun people and shagging (Carolina style) you are in for a treat.
Lancaster County, we've done well. As of Thursday, the county's participation rate in the 2010 Census was 79 percent. That put Lancaster County tied with neighboring York County as the counties in South Carolina with the best census response in 2010.
South Carolina as a whole has done a good job responding to the census. The state's most-recent participation rate was listed by the U.S. Census Bureau as 73 percent, one point above the national average.
My name is Gloria Wylie and I have been the property manager for Miller Grove Apartments located at 2017 Miller St. for the last two years.
I was previously a property manager for the city of Atlanta for 15 years. In all my years in this business, I have never met a police chief more dedicated than Hugh White. When I first took this property Chief White met with the owners of my company and me.
At that time we discussed the crime in the area and specifically on the property. We shared numerous concerns as to the amount of police presence we were receiving.
The season is upon us. Baseball? Well yes, but the traditional opening pitch has been thrown, and there's a connection to our subject here since President Barack Obama tossed out the first pitch for Major League Baseball when the Nationals battled the NL champion Phillies on April 5 in Washington.
Racing? Try again, because the wheels of a new motor sports campaign have been rolling on NASCAR, and even at our own Lancaster Motor Speedway.
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The inferior colliculus (IC) is a good alternative to brainstem implants implantable into the cochlear nucleus due to its good surgical accessibility and its well-known tonotopic stratification in frequency ranges. In acute experiments frequency-specific activities could be proven on the auditory cortex after electric stimulation by the AMI electrode.
AMI electrodes with and without electric coupling were implanted into the IC of six animals (one electrode each). For the animals with electrically coupled electrodes the impedance was determined after surgery for a minimum of three times a week over a period of three months and acoustically stimulated five times a week for five hours daily.
Even neonatally deafened animals react to acoustic stimuli. Stable impedances can be measured over the period examined. Scar formation in the IC has to be seen locally. Quality of scarring and stable impedances do not provide any arguments against implantation into humans.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 8th Nov 2012 20:54 UTC, submitted by Elv13
"Theme development is a tedious and difficult task, and for the GTK devs to be so careless in breaking their API at every turn disrespects the many hours people put into making themes for it. [...] I was given to believe that this breakage stems from a Microsoft-like climate of preventing users from customizing their systems, and deliberately breaking the work of others so that your 'brand' is the best. Anytime I hear the word 'brand' being used in Linux, I know something valuable is being poisoned." I find the tone of this one a bit too harsh and overly negative at times, but his point still stands.
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RE: MS like?
No, Gnome has always worshipped Apple, and are following the user-hostile approach of their idol, but without the talent to make hard-coded defaults any good.
Gnome has always worshipped Apple and Mac OS, but they've always completely, totally and fundamentally misunderstood the world that Mac OS operates in. It operates in a world of straight-jacket hardware and options such as theming because it just isn't intended to be Windows, isn't intended to run on a wide variety of hardware and doesn't have the extremely wide range of software written for it. Even then, amusingly, Mac OS is far more configurable than Gnome is.
Gnome is fundamentally at odds with those two things - yes it does need to run on a variety of platforms for its userbase (it's supposed to be a 'Unix' desktop for fuck's sake) and it desperately needs applications and developers to move forwards. Put those two things together and you have why Gnome is dying in its own vomit.
What's more funny is how the Apple worship and general 'usability' direction came about. It didn't come about because Gnome's developers genuinely believed that it was the right direction to go. It was because the functionality that they needed to write to compete with KDE, Windows, and Mac OS for that matter, was simply too difficult to do. Gnome is still the same hashed together, poorly thought out technical mess loosely based around Gimp's toolkit that it was in the mid-nineties when it was thrown together as a response to KDE.
They then dressed up cutting features and configuration you would find in all those other desktops as being for reasons of 'usability' to hide these uncomfortable facts. In fact, I don't think Gnome's developers have even consciously thought about this. It just seems to be an endemic mental disease in the project. People like Jeff Waugh over the years have exemplified all this, and the whole notion of a Gnome 'brand' - whatever that is.


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Marco from NoobFeed says" But instead of talking about what I want out of GTA V, I decided to just list the points that I don't want to see in GTA V. You know that one feature that made you twist your face in one of the previous games? Chances are they're exactly what I want out of what is already touted as one of next year's most anticipated games."
i just don't want friends calling me to hangout, one of the most annoying things about GTA IV. plus i hope they don't put as many radio stations into GTA V. i found more radio stations to be bother because half of them sucked or they had like one or two songs that were good. unlike the past GTA's each radio station had a abundance of good tunes plus they were memorable too, ten or eleven station is preferable to me, twenty stations is way too much. Also i'd actually like to see a zombie DLC like Red Dead Redemption, not really a zombie mode.
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2. no fools telling me to come bowl with them
3. more modes of transport, i want police motorbikes, mountain bikes, parachutes, biplanes, jets, all that stuff BACK.
4. more interesting characters
5. car customization back
I don't know about the Zombie thing, if was any other game then fair enough but in a game as big as GTAV, it could be amazing if Rockstar pull it off right.
However I would add other supernatural enemies like Mummies, Ghosts, Warewolfs, Vampires, Witches etc so it's not just "another Zombie" DLC
Running over a Mummy in my Monster truck (if there is one) while listening to an old 90s rock song....sounds good to me
Less dating and friend stuff. I dont even like doing that stuff in real life. Why would I want to do it in a video game? I want to do stuff that I cant do in real life, like bank heists. Or steal cars and sell the parts on a black market. More effort should have been put into that in GTA4 instead of the social aspect with npcs. I think that was GTA4s biggest downfall. Less fun in exchange for a real life simulator or something
I don't want to see a zombie mode or a horde mode. Both are getting very played out. Developers need to stop being lazy, and actually try designing their own original and fun modes.
I was also very disappointed that with GTA IV Rockstar sacrificed fun wherever possible if it would allow more "realism". GTA was always about over-the-top fun, that's why they became so popular. It's never a good thing to ignore your roots, and I hope they ramp up the fun factor in GTA V.


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Like with '' Feyris '', I would like to know the official spelling for her name? You'd think the subs, by CR, were accurate, but apparently not since we have Feyris there while it should be Faris, and now with Ruka..
I see Ruka everywhere, but on the official character CD's? (Check the Av/Sig thread), her name is written as Luka Urushibara. So which is it, with an L or R?
.. Luka would be a very stupid name though, especially now that she's a girl. What puzzles me further is that why is her name not changed.. When her mother knew she was going to have a girl, why did they still name her as it is? Or is Ruka supposed to be an unisex name?
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It leaves a timing window for them to be like "Is it ok now to f---?"
Should be a poll: "Would you...?"
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I mean traps became a new moe for a reason
Also, Watarase Jun (one of the earlier most famous trap, often regarded as the one who brought this moe to life) was also a trap that became non-trap, so actually the idea was as old as the moe existed.
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I thought episode 18 was actually really well done, mainly in regard to the latter half when Ruka finally confessed everything to Okarin. I mean, we debate about the "trap" in a similar context. As a heterosexual male, when you see a male that looks/acts so much like a female that it is difficult if not impossible to tell the difference, where you struggle between your feelings of attraction for who they are and your confusion on how to handle what they are, what do you do?
Flip that around for someone like Ruka. Here is a person who fell in love but knows that his gender is a huge barrier that pretty much prevents any chance of pursuing that love. I can almost see how Ruka might even have some (or even a lot) of resentment toward his own gender...."cursed" to look so feminine that he's stuck between two worlds. He can never be manly, but he'll never be a real girl either.
In many ways this is a common frustration among transgenders. They (at the very least mentally) don't have any comfort with their biological gender, but struggle with the knowledge that they can only (at best) live as the gender they identify with, and current options are all superficial. They might pass well enough that others won't question their gender, but inside they themselves know the truth. It's something that eats at many transgenders no matter how much they rationalize it.
That really comes to a head with Ruka's confession. She gave up her chance at being happy as a real girl, having a chance at a real relationship with Okarin, to save her friend. Okarin struggles with the knowledge of this, since it is his invention that made possible that reality and what revealed Ruka's feelings for him. He's a good person, knowing that he had the ability to reverse the D-mail but deciding to make a "proper" date and give her some happiness.
It's both a blessing and a curse for all these characters. Feyris and Ruka lose their memories of the blessings they had, so they are spared from knowing that they lost them. They won't remember what those blessings were though, and those memories with her father, or his/her memories of being a real girl, are lost forever. Okarin on the other hand must live with the memories of both timelines. He'll know how happy these people were, and that he was responsible for both their happiness and their sacrifices for their friend.
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It is an hour before low tide and Captiva Island's serious shellers are already hard at work. They aren't standing on the beach with the rest of us, though. They're in the water with snorkels and masks on - scoring the best shells before they ever wash up on shore. Their biggest challenge will be making sure the shells they pick up are not occupied, because it is illegal to remove live shells from Florida beaches.
Seashells are an example of nature's most beautiful art and few people who walk along a stretch of beach can resist picking up a beautiful shell that has washed up at their feet. Shell collecting is a pastime the entire family can enjoy and learn from. Serious shellers not only find unique shells, they identify them, display them and learn about the sea creatures that once occupied them.
Most serious shellers eventually find their way to the white sand beaches of Florida's Gulf coast, because the tiny islands of Captiva and Sanibel have been declared by many experts to have the best shelling beaches in North America. The east-west orientation of the islands and a surrounding broad underwater shelf helps capture and preserve fragile shells.
As I watch people scouring the shallow waters for shells with their snorkel gear, I can't help feeling a twinge of regret at having left my own snorkel equipment behind. I figured shelling was something you did on dry land, but it is clear that there is more to this hobby than I anticipated.
My family and I walk down the beach poking around bits of seaweed and shells left behind at the high tide line and practise what locals call the island "stoop" as we bend over to pick up and examine eye-catching shells. I am fairly certain that I would develop a permanent stoop if I stayed for any length of time in this part of Florida.
When my back is tired from the constant bending, I wander a few metres into the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico. It is then that I spot my prize - a large lightning whelk shell. The shell is common on Captiva Island, but this one is particularly beautiful, large and fully intact. Since it is in the water, I carefully pick it up and check to see if there is a mollusk inside.
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- If you are in the area, be sure to visit Bailey-Matthews Shell Museum on Sanibel Island. You'll find delightful displays of shells and be able to figure out the identity of the shells you collect from area beaches. (www.shellmuseum.org)
- We stayed in the 'Tween Waters Inn on Captiva island (www.tween-waters.com). Rates start at $165 US per room per night and include breakfast. The resort is an excellent choice for families and rooms range from standard hotel rooms to three-bedroom cottages with full kitchens. Rates vary depending on the size of the room and the dates of travel.
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- Storms often bring in an abundance of shells, so it's a good idea to go shelling right after a storm.
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- In addition to the beach area, be sure to check the high tide line, tidal pools and the shallow water just off shore for shells. Always make sure a shell is empty before you take it home.
- The early bird gets the worm and early shellers get the best shells. Shelling at low tide early in the morning will give you the jump on other beachcombers.
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Originally intended for Academy Awards consideration, this earnest World War II docudrama-like escapade falls far short of Oscar-caliber.
Hugh Bonneville (Lord Grantham on "Downton Abbey") delivers one of the most memorable performances as an alcoholic British art historian, seeking noble redemption as part of the small, multi-national squad headed by Fogg Museum curator/conservationist Frank Stokes (George Clooney), who is determined to preserve Europe's greatest works of art from acquisition and/or destruction in 1944 by the retreating Nazis.
"If you destroy an entire generation of people's culture, it's as if they never existed," Stokes explains to skeptical President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Working within the newly formed Monuments Fine Arts and Archives program, Stokes' team also includes an art restorer (Matt Damon), architect (Bill Murray), sculptor (John Goodman) and connoisseur (Bob Balaban).
They're charged with advising front-line commanders and recovering masterpieces looted from museums and private Jewish collections, treasures like Michelangelo's Madonna of Bruges and Flemish masters Hubert and Jan van Eyck's 12-panel altarpiece "The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb " -- superbly photographed by Phedon Papamichael.
They're aided by a Paris' Jeu du Paume Museum assistant curator/collaborator (Cate Blanchett), Ecole des Beaux-Arts painting instructor (Jean Dujardin) and German-Jewish teenage driver/translator (Dimitri Leonidas).
Episodically adapted from Robert M. Edsel's detailed, true-life account, it's sketchily scripted with too little structure and too many subplots by Clooney and his producing partner Grant Heslov. Clooney also directed.
The diverse characters should be fascinating, but they aren't because their individual roles are not properly fleshed out. And Edsel's riveting recounting of their battlefield bickering with Army brass has been unduly truncated.
Trivia: Blanchett's character is based on French Resistance leader Rose Valland, whose memoir inspired John Frankenheimer's "The Train."
Clooney's father, Nick, appears as elderly Stokes in a 1970s epilogue. And composer Alexandre Desplat does a Resistance worker cameo.
On the Granger Movie Gauge of 1 to 10, "The Monuments Men" is a tonally shifting, sermonizing 7 -- given unexpected timeliness by the recent discovery in Germany of yet another hidden art collection.
The premise is simple: Three 20-something buddies find themselves at that confusing time in every relationship when their casual sex partner suddenly asks, "So ... where is this going?"
Jason (Zac Efron), Daniel (Miles Teller) and Mikey (Michael B. Jordan) are enjoying the good life in Manhattan. Jason and Daniel are both single, designing book covers at the same trendy downtown publishing company, while Mikey is an emergency room doctor. But after Daniel wakes up one morning to discover that his wife, Vera (Jessica Lucas), has cheated on him -- with her lawyer -- and is serving him with divorce papers, he and his callow, commiserating friends make a pact that they will not "date" women. Instead, they plan to mate and vacate, guilt-free, and they vow to avoid serious entanglements for a year.
But then Jason glibly connects with smart and sexy Ellie (Imogen Potts), rescuing her from an insistent suitor at a bar, and Daniel turns to their longtime "wing-woman" platonic friend Chelsea (Mackenzie Davis). Predictably, both of these supposed one-night stands develop into something more emotionally substantial, while Mikey covertly tries to reconcile with his ex.
Debuting writer/director Tom Gormican, whose previous credit is as producer on the dreadful "Movie 43," sets up a crude, immature male version of the dating experience, often substituting frenetic pace for intelligent insight on the sensitive issue of commitment. So it's not surprising that the female characters are sketchily underwritten and ill-served, while an inordinate amount of screen time is devoted to male genitalia: Viagra-induced, extended erections, a discolored penis and urinating horizontally. In addition, the dialogue only can be described as dopey, and the contrived Thanksgiving Day scene falls flat with a resounding thud.
What's in Gormican's favor is his casting: three hot young actors. Efron has been a heartthrob since "High School Musical," Teller scored with "The Spectacular Now" and Jordan with "Fruitvale Station."
On the Granger Movie Gauge of 1 to 10, "That Awkward Moment" is a bawdy 4, concluding with a familiar sequence of bloopers.
Since it was published in 1818, Mary Shelley's classic literary creation has had many screen incarnations but few as ridiculous as Stuart Beattie's convoluted concept of using him as an invaluable pawn in the perennial battle between good and evil, represented by gargoyles and demons.
Beginning with the monster (Aaron Eckhart) burying his creator, the story catapults forward to the present-day. Wandering the world alone and pursued by demons, he's dubbed Adam and offered shelter in a massive, medieval Gothic cathedral by Gargoyle Queen Leonore (Miranda Otto), who recognizes him as a fellow outsider, noting, "Humans think of us as mere decoration."
What the fiery-eyed demons covet is the book that Adam carries with him. It's Dr. Victor Frankenstein's handwritten journal, detailing exactly how to create life. Their leader, nefarious Prince Naberius (Bill Nighy), has been collecting an army of soulless human corpses, which he plans to re-animate to obliterate mankind. To that end, he has created an impressive, high-tech laboratory run by an attractive electro-physicist, Terra (Yvonne Strahovski). Not surprisingly, she eventually allies with Adam, who spends an inordinate amount of time skulking in the shadows.
Humorlessly adapted by Australian writer/director Beattie from a graphic novel by Kevin Grevioux (one of the creators of the "Underworld" franchise), it was filmed two years ago and set for release last February. Then it got pushed back to September and, eventually, dumped into a 2014 slot. Significantly, critics were excluded from all pre-release screenings.
Filled with reams of expository dialogue, choppily-edited fights, an invasive musical score and lots of CGI-enhanced transformations, it resembles an incoherent video game. When demons die, they descend in spiraling fireballs, while defeated gargoyles ascend directly into heaven through rapturous blue lights.
Aside from his glowering, grimacing and growling, Eckhart obviously has spent endless hours at the gym to achieve his admirably ripped physique, and it's apparent that Nighy is just collecting a paycheck.
On the Granger Movie Gauge of 1 to 10, "I, Frankenstein" is a mind-numbing 2. Mary Shelley must be spinning in her grave.


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Sociology 411
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Three hours lecture (3).
Prerequisites: APST 200, or SOCY 110, or SOCY 121, or permission of instructor.
Contemporary Appalachian culture; social science explanations of regional culture explored; causes and repercussions of culture change in Appalachia examined. This course may be used to meet requirements for the minor in Appalachian Studies.
Detailed Description of Content of the Course
The content may include:
I. The concept of culture and social science perspectives.
II. Is a unique Appalachian subculture extant?
A. Describing Appalachian culture
1. Economic structure
a. adaptive strategies: hunting/gathering, horticulture/agriculture, lumber, mines, other industry
b. correlates of adaptive strategy
1) style of work: non-routinized/routinized
2) mode of production: mode of production for use/mode of production for exchange
3) orientation toward time: past/present/future
4) orientation toward land: land as "place"/land as "property"
2. Social organization
a. kinship structure
1) the nuclear family and the ex-tended kin network
2) household composition
b. settlement and community: peer group conformity vs. individualism
c. social stratification
1) Is the community egalitarian?
2) Does "more urban" equal"higher status"?
3. Religion and cosmology
a. fundamentalism
b. lineal and non-lineal (non-discursive or intuitive) modes of thought
B. Stereotypes and caricature of "Mountain People"
1. Individualism
2. Fatalism
3. Otherworldliness
4. Traditionalism
C. Analyzing Inconsistencies
D. Analyzing the "uniqueness" of Appalachian culture
1. Explanatory models
a. Toennies' Gemeinschaft/Gesellschaft
b. Cooley's primary/secondary groups
c. Parson's "pattern variables"
d. Durkheim's mechanical/organic solidarity
e. Redfield's folk/urban continuum
f. Gans' person/object orientation
2. Do the models fit rural cultures around the world?
a. cross-cultural perspective on rural/urban differences
b. Do the models fit Appalachia?
III. Explaining the nature of Appalachian culture
A. Culture as epiphenomenon
1. the environmental determinism approach to Appalachian culture
2. the technological determinism approach
3. the "culture of poverty" model
4. the social structural approach (internal colonialism, class model, metropolis/satellite model)
B. Culture as basic structure
1. the cognitive approach (ethnoscience)
2. the structuralist approach
IV. Culture change in Appalachia--Post World War II
A. Change in economic structure
B. Change in social organization
C. Change in religion and world view
D. What has remained unchanging?
V. Discovering and rediscovering Appalachian culture
A. Discovery of Appalachia in social science
B. The Appalachian "Myth" as an expression of bipolar strains in American culture
Detailed Description of Conduct of Course
A lecture/discussion and in-class writing approach is used, which encourages students to exchange information about their own respective cultural backgrounds and their perceptions of Appalachian and non-Appalachian cultures.
Goals and Objectives of Course
Students will be introduced to the cultures of the Appalachian region of which Radford University is a part. Having successfully completed this course, students will:
· have knowledge of the diversity of cultures within the Appalachian region
· exercise critical thinking to understand the cultures of the Appalachian region as cultural systems with both internal integrity and external influences
· be able to analyze the importance of the environment in understanding Appalachian cultures and their current conditions
Assessment Measures
Graded and checked assignments may include in-class or take-home examinations and quizzes, homework assignments, in-class writing, and in-class discussions. Journals may be required and checked periodically. Formal oral presentations may be required.
Other Course Information
Review and Approval
February 2009, Dr. Paula Brush, Chair, Department of Sociology


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As the 2011 major-league baseball season begins, imagine yourself sitting in the stands with new friends from India. The questions they ask aren't going to be those of the lifetime fan – "Will the Giants repeat as champions?" "Will the Pirates snap their 18-season losing streak?" etc. – but rather those aimed at the very basics of the game. In other words, will you be prepared to explain why the bases are run in a counterclockwise, rather than a clockwise, direction?
Probably not, but explanations for why baseball is played the way it is are often fascinating. The base-running direction, for example, was established by an influential New York team, the Knickerbockers in the mid-1800s, when heading off to the right toward first base worked well for most right-handed hitters and made throwing to first more natural for right-handed fielders.
This revealing tidbit is typical of the information compiled in the revised and expanded one-volume paperback edition of A Game of Inches: The Story Behind the Innovations That Shape Baseball. This impressive 600-page resource is written by Peter Morris, one of baseball's foremost historians, who acknowledges his debt to many fellow members of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR).
A former national and international Scrabble champion, Morris first published this work in a two-volume hardcover edition in 2006, when it was the first book awarded both of the genre's most coveted honors, SABR's Seymour Medal and Spitball magazine's Casey Award.
The more compact paperback not only benefits from revisions and additional research, it has a thorough index to assist in finding entries on a myriad of topics, from baseball's peculiar pitching distance (60 feet, 6 inches) to the history of the nine-inning game and curveballs to bullpen carts, pitching rubbers, hat catches, and so on.
The origins of many of the baseball firsts date so far back that they can be murky, at best, but "A Game of Inches" doesn't resort to oversimplification. When there are conflicting accounts that can't be sorted out, Morris acknowledges them.
Despite a total absence of illustrations, the text-heavy pages aren't a turnoff because the content is so well organized and the entries so numerous that readers can plunge in anywhere.
For instance, a search for "home plate" focuses on the origins of the name, which has nothing to do with dinner plates. Au contraire, home bases of mid-1800s were marked by circular iron plates. A one-square-foot shape was eventually adopted, then rotated so that a corner pointed toward the pitcher. This served to widen the strike zone.
Over time, the rules specified the plate to be made of rubber and have beveled edges. By 1899, the five-sided plate that is standard today was adopted. It essentially fuses the shape and orientation of earlier incarnations into a plate that makes it easier for umpires to gauge the strike zone while maintaining the tradition of at least one pointed corner.
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Antarctic DOMEX experiment contributes to SMOS mission preparations
As part of ESA's calibration and validation programme for the Earth Explorer Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission, data collected during the Antarctic DOMEX field campaign have confirmed that this cold and remote wilderness is well suited for extended calibration activities relating to space-borne radiometer missions.
The purpose of the DOMEX experiment was to acquire the first combined, in-situ microwave emission measurements using C- and L-band radiometers. The campaign took place at the Italian-French Concordia Station located on the polar plateau of East Antarctica – known as DOME-C, which is around 1000 km from the coast and 3,280 metres above sea level where, in winter, temperatures can reach -60° C. The month-long campaign was carried out last Austral summer by an Italian team led by Giovanni Macelloni from the Italian Institute for Applied Physics (IFAC-CNR) and Anselmo Cagnati from the Italian Regional Agency for Environmental Prevention and Protection in Vento (CVA-ARPAV). It was supported by ESA within the framework of the SMOS calibration and validation preparatory activities and by the Italian Programme of National Research in Antarctica (PNRA).
The SMOS mission, due for launch in 2007, will provide global maps of soil moisture and ocean salinity. Soil moisture data are urgently required for hydrological studies and data on ocean salinity are vital for improving our understanding of ocean circulation patterns. Together these data will contribute to furthering our knowledge of the Earth's water cycle, and will improve climate, weather and extreme-event forecasting. To achieve this, SMOS has been designed to measure microwave radiation emitted from the Earth's surface at L-band (1.4 GHz). In order to estimate soil moisture and ocean salinity from SMOS data, digital counts, provided by instrument output, need to be related to radiometric units, i.e. calibrated.
Calibration of passive microwave and space-borne sensor data can be performed both with the monitoring of the instrument performance and with the collection of data from extremely stable natural targets. The Antarctic plateau, thanks to its size, structure, spatial homogeneity and thermal stability, was thought to be particularly suited to this kind of calibration exercise.
Microwave data from this region at frequencies ranging from 6.8 GHz up to about 90 GHz have been, and still are being, collected by means of the SMMR (Scanning Multi-channel Microwave Radiometer), SSMI/I (Special Sensor Microwave Imager) and AMSR-E (Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for EOS) satellite sensors. Results from these sensors confirm the high temporal stability of microwave emissions in this area. However, there remains a significant lack of information at frequencies below 6 GHz.
The location for the Concordia Station was originally selected for glaciological purposes. Its 3,300 metres of undisturbed ice layers have yielded a 740,000-year paleo-climatic reconstruction as part of the European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica (EPICA). This extraordinary natural laboratory attracts scientists from all over the world and the base is now a reference point for astronomical, seismological and atmospheric research.
During the DOMEX experiment, microwave radiometers at 1.4 and 6.8 GHz designed and developed at the IFAC laboratories and used in recent years for studies on agricultural and mountainous areas, were adapted for the extreme Antarctic conditions. The instrument package was installed on a mechanical platform and fixed to a 32 m pre-existing observation tower used for the calibration of optical space-borne sensors. The platform was mounted on the observation tower at a height of about 13 m above the surface of the ice. The instrument package provided thermal control, and an autonomous sampling capability, making it possible to perform angular scans and regular cold sky calibrations. Data were collected continuously 24 hours per day for 20 days, at various incidence and azimuth angle combinations. The area observed by the radiometers is part of a protected area where the snow is pristine and undisturbed by human activity.
The physical characteristics of the snow were also monitored during DOMEX. Several snow pits were manually excavated in an area of 2 km x 2 km (down to a maximum depth of 4 m) and conventional measurements of snow parameters (grain shape and size, snow density, temperature and hardness) were carried out along vertical profiles. The dielectric constant of the snow was measured using an electromagnetic probe (at L-band). In addition, the temperature profile of the first 10 m of the snow pack was measured continuously by using 10 probes embedded in the snow.
The results of DOMEX confirmed the stability of the microwave emission on a monthly time-scale, while snow measurements emphasised the spatial uniformity of the area. A comparison of the C-band measurements, taken at an incidence angle of 55 degrees, with satellite data from the AMSR-E showed a very close agreement between the two measured brightness temperatures.
The possibility of using this area as an extended calibration target for future space-borne radiometer missions is confirmed. However, it will be important to extend the time interval of measurements to a minimum of the entire summer period, and to evaluate the spatial uniformity over a larger area to confirm that these conclusions are robust throughout all seasons. In order to investigate these aspects, a new experimental campaign is currently being planned within the framework of the SMOS Calibration and Validation Programme.


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Your visit to X Scream will be more terrifying, blood-curdling and ghastly than any slash movie you can imagine.....because that's exactly what you'll be creating – a horror movie with YOU playing the biggest part of your life (or death!)
Enter the frightening world of a psychotic cinematic genius, who wants you for his latest film.... fight to survive an audition which could literally leave you CUT from more than just the movie….
Ticket prices range from £16.99-£22.99 (groups of 11 or more will receive a 10% discount) - please see our ticket prices. Once you select your tickets and click CHECKOUT, you can either log in to PayPal or select the 'Pay with Card' option to check out as a 'guest' with your credit or debit card. You are booking a 30 minute departure slot - please arrive within this window. A voucher for a burger & a drink can be purchased on arrival for £5 each (veggie options and choice of beer/wine/cider available)
X Scream is an immersive Halloween Scare event for ages 16+, set around an old colliery site. Visitors should expect a 40-50 minute walk (shorter if you run of course!) through various horror zones within the buildings and underground tunnels - it is an outdoors environment, containing adult content and scares which may involve physical interaction from our actors or props. Our only intention is for you to have a unique and fun night out - lots of you will be scared witless, many of you will shriek at some point and all of you will scream with laughter.
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ATLANTA, Nov. 28 (UPI) -- U.S. teens and adults ages 13-24 represent more than a quarter of new HIV infections each year, but 6-in-10 are unaware they are infected, officials say.
A Vital Signs report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta said an estimated 12,200 new HIV infections occurred in 2010 among young people ages 13-24 -- 72 percent of estimated new HIV infections in young people occurred in young men who have sex with men and 57 percent were African-Americans.
"That so many young people become infected with HIV each year is a preventable tragedy," Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, director of the CDC, said in a statement. "All young people can protect their health, avoid contracting and transmitting the virus, and learn their HIV status."
Despite recommendations from the CDC and the American Academy of Pediatrics, which call for routine HIV testing of youth in medical settings, the analysis showed 35 percent of those ages 18-24 were tested for HIV, while only 13 percent of high school students and 22 percent of sexually experienced students were ever tested, Frieden said.
Partially as a result of lower testing levels, HIV-infected people age 25 and under were significantly less likely than those older to get and stay in HIV care and to have their virus controlled at a level that helps them stay healthy and reduce their risk of transmitting HIV to partners, the report said.