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Quarterback Connor Shaw, defensive end Jadeveon Clowney nursing injuries for Gamecocks.
South Carolina will play its second straight game against an in-state foe when it faces Clemson Saturday night at Death Valley but this one will likely have a bit more hype surrounding it.
After pulling away for a 24-7 win over Wofford last week, Carolina will try for its fourth straight win over the Tigers on Saturday.
Although coaches advise their players to take it one game at a time, that's been hard for some of the Gamecocks.
"We've been waiting," USC defensive back Akeem Auguste said. "In the back of your head you know (it's coming)."
Carolina defensive back D.J. Swearinger, who grew up 30 minutes from Clemson in Greenwood, said the Clemson game is very important to him.
"It's a personal game for me and just about everybody in South Carolina, but especially the guys that live in the Upstate," he said. "It's a personal game because we're right down the road from Clemson. To beat Clemson four times in a row would be great."
Swearinger and Auguste will be part of a USC secondary that will have the tough task of slowing down a Clemson offense that is ranked No. 6 in the nation, averaging over 535 yards per game.
Carolina defensive coordinator Lorenzo Ward admitted that it'll be a challenge transitioning from Wofford's option offense to the Tigers' high-powered spread attack but said he thinks the different offenses his unit has seen this year will help come Saturday.
"Hopefully the grind that we've had this season is going to prepare us. Clemson is scoring a lot of points, putting a lot of yards up on people. We've got a big task ahead of us," he said.
The Gamecocks' task could get even harder if star defensive end Jadeveon Clowney is unable to play. The sophomore is banged up with a foot and knee injury.
Clowney's foot has been an issue for most of the season, and he tweaked his knee last week. He didn't practice at all last week and missed the game against Wofford.
The status of quarterback Connor Shaw is also up in the air. Shaw also has a banged up foot but played through the pain against the Terriers.
USC head coach Steve Spurrier said that if Clowney and Shaw can't go he still feels his team will be ready.
"We'll be ready to play. If Clowney and Connor cannot play then we've got backup players. They'll be ready to play," Spurrier said.
Still, he is hopeful two of his most important players will be OK come Saturday.
"I would think they would try to do everything to get ready to play in this one," he said. "We'll certainly know a lot more by Wednesday."
If Shaw does play he'll look to improve on an uninspiring performance through the air against the Terriers.
Shaw did complete 16 of 20 passes but finished with just 122 yards passing and an interception. He was also sacked four times.
Spurrier said the passing game's performance against Wofford does worry him.
"Our passing game is a concern. We didn't protect extremely well at times, and we just didn't throw it down the field very much yesterday," he said.
While the passing game struggled against the Terriers, Kenny Miles and the running game thrived. Miles finished with a career-high 127 yards on the ground against Wofford.
The senior is now hoping to continue his stretch of big games against Clemson.
In two career starts against the Tigers, he's rushed for a combined 185 yards, running for 114 as a freshman in 2009 and 71 as a junior last season. He set his season high in both 2009 and 2011 against the Tigers.
Miles said he enjoys facing Clemson because of the magnitude of the rivalry.
"They don't like us that much and we don't care for them that much. I just feel like it's a rivalry game," he said. "Rivalry games are big games. You've gotta step up when you get the chance. It's a big, huge rivalry. I know both teams will be ready to play."


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I am doing something that I rarely do. I am responding to a letter in last week�s edition of the Havelock News.
I am doing something that I rarely do. I am responding to a letter in last week�s edition of the Havelock News. The letter was from Mrs. Inga DeRoche. I am compelled to answer the numerous inaccuracies in her letter.
I fully understand that as one who has been a public servant for many years, I cannot satisfy everyone. I accept that. What I do not accept is statements about me and my actions that are plain and simply false. Mrs. DeRoche�s letter is an example of such false statements.
Mrs. DeRoche states that I opposed converting the local Forest Oaks Cemetery into a Veterans Cemetery. This is simply not true. I did insist that the cemetery continue to contain burial sites for those Havelock citizens who did not meet the requirements of a Veterans Cemetery. Mr. Marmarose, (Owner of Forest Oaks) graciously consented to leave rows A, B and C of Section One of the cemetery in perpetuity for the Havelock community. I believe this was the right thing to do and I thank Mr. Marmarose for his generosity. On Nov. 17, 2011, I signed a letter of endorsement for the Forest Oaks Cemetery to become a Veterans Cemetery and that Section One rows A, B, and C be reserved in perpetuity for the Havelock community. This letter is on file at the Havelock City Hall.
As for the relocation of the Trader Store, I support the move as does the Board of Commissioners. This is part of a multi-purpose park in the area of the Tourist and Event Center and Slocum Creek. This proposed development has been publicly discussed many times and has generally been well received by the Havelock citizens. I do not know anything about the $20,000 swamp campground that is referred to in Mrs. DeRoche�s letter. Therefore I cannot comment further.
I can address the proposed park located on Lewis Farm Road between Tucker Creek and Carolina Pines. The city has need for additional outdoor recreation areas. Again this has been discussed publicly many times and is supported by the Board of Commissioners. The land valued at over three-quarters of a million dollars was obtained by the city for about $75,000 from the Coastal Land Trust. This land was once scheduled for residential development and could have encroached Cherry Point. The city has subsequently applied for and tentatively been approved for a $500,000 grant from the N.C. Parks and Recreation Trust Fund (PARTF). We should know for certain about the status of the grant on or about Aug. 19, 2013. If funded, the park will house additional outdoor recreation areas. There would be the need for one additional park employee. The annual cost to the city of $33,237 would consist of one full-time Park Maintenance Worker to oversee maintenance of this Lewis Farm Road Park, plus MacDonald Downs Playground, Waterfront Park and Arthur Edwards Playground. This information was presented to the Havelock Board of Commissioners on Jan. 14, 2013, at a public meeting. The cost of the new employee was estimated to be needed in fiscal year 2016-2017 if the park is constructed.
As for the statement that I said there would need to be two additional Havelock Police Officers to patrol this proposed park, that is simply false. I did not make those statements and I certainly do not believe they are accurate. The police department has not requested additional employees for this park, nor has the city manager. The current recreation center off of Fontana Boulevard, which will continue to be much larger than the proposed park, has historically rarely seen the need for police presence.
These are the facts. Dislike me if you must, but please keep your attacks to things I actually did.
Jimmy A. Sanders, Havelock mayor

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The State of Virginia currently requires that all drivers be covered under liability insurance. You may pay a $500 Uninsured Motor Vehicle Fee instead, but you will not be covered for damages. Proof of insurance must always be accessible in the vehicle.
The State of Virginia minimum liability amounts are as follows:
These are only the minimum requirements set by the state. Experts advise protecting your assets by getting more coverage than the state-mandated minimums as these limits tend not to keep pace with the ever increasing costs of car repairs and medical bills. Most drivers also add collision and comprehensive coverage to their policies to cover possible damage to their own cars as well.
The penalties for driving without insurance in Virginia are:
Some states require drivers to carry UM/UIM, or uninsured/underinsured motorist coverage. This coverage protects a driver if they get in an accident where the other party does not have auto insurance. Virginia requires UM/UIM coverage. The minimum UM/UIM coverage amounts for Virginia are required at the same level as the liability coverage you maintain. The $20,000 property damage coverage is subject to a $200 deductible when a loss is caused by a hit-and-run driver who cannot be identified.
Some states have "No-Fault" laws where a policy holder will be reimbursed by their insurance company without proof of fault, and restricted in the right to seek reimbursement through the court system for losses caused by other parties. Virginia is not a "No-Fault" state.
Some states have Personal Injury Protection or "PIP" regulations requiring drivers to carry PIP insurance. This is an extension of auto insurance that covers medical expenses, lost wages and/or other damages. Virginia does not require drivers to purchase PIP insurance.
An SR-22 form is a vehicle liability insurance document to be filed with a state's DMV as proof that a driver has the minimum required liability insurance coverage for that state. SR-22 filings are usually only required to reinstate driving privileges after an offense such as a DUI conviction, uninsured auto accident or driving without insurance. Virginia requires an SR-22 filing for driver's license reinstatement.
It is illegal to operate a motor vehicle in the United States with a BAC (Blood Alcohol Content) level of 0.08% or higher. All states have driver licensing laws that state that a licensed driver has given implied consent to a field sobriety test and/or method of determining BAC. This means that a driver is required to take such tests if a law enforcement officer has reasonable grounds for administering one, with automatic penalties for refusing to comply. If BAC is determined to be above the legal level a driver will be penalized in various ways. The first DUI offense penalties for Virginia are:
For more information, please contact Virginia Bureau of Insurance: 1-800-552-7945 or visit their website at www.scc.virginia.gov/boi/.


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- The Writings of Albert Gallatin (1879) edited by Henry Adams
- Volume I (external scan)
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- The Degradation of the Democratic Dogma (1919, completed 1910)
- Democracy: An American Novel (1880)
- The Education of Henry Adams (1906)
- Esther (1884)
- Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres (1904)
- History of the United States 1801-09 (1890)
- History of the United States 1809-17 (1891)
Works about Henry Adams[edit]
- "Adams, Charles Francis," in Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, New York: D. Appleton and Co. (1900)
- "Adams, Henry," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
- "Adams, Henry," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
- "John Quincy Adams" in The Presidents of the United States, 1789-1914 (1914)
- "Adams, Henry," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
- "Adams, Henry," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
- "Adams, Henry," in Collier's New Encyclopedia, New York: P. F. Collier & Son Co. (1921)
Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1923.
The author died in 1918, so works by this author are also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 99 years or less. Works by this author may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.


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The list of Mexican players who have gone to Europe and distinguished themselves in soccer's most challenging leagues is a short one.
Two decades ago, Hugo Sanchez was in the middle of a run that saw him score 218 goals in 318 matches with Spain's Atletico Madrid and Real Madrid. In seven seasons with Barcelona, Rafael Marquez won 12 titles — among them two UEFA Champions League crowns, making him the only Mexican player to win that honor.
But that's pretty much it. Jared Borgetti, the leading scorer in Mexican national team history, made just 19 appearances in the English Premier League for Bolton. Cuauhtemoc Blanco had an equally brief and undistinguished stay in Spain with Real Valladolid. And though Hector Moreno, Giovani Dos Santos, Carlos Vela and Andres Guardado have each played more than 100 games for various European teams, none have really made a mark with a first-division club.
Javier "Chicharito" Hernandez, who is also on that list, is quite familiar with the history. But it's a history he's doing his best to ignore.
When Manchester United opened defense of its English Premier League title Saturday with a 4-1 win over Swansea, it marked the start of Hernandez's fourth season with Europe's most storied club. And though he started it by watching from the stands, sitting out his second consecutive game with what is being termed a minor upper-leg injury, Hernandez said his EPL experience has been more about bettering his game than proving a point about Mexican soccer.
"Since I was a little boy, my goal has been to get better in all aspects," Hernandez, speaking in Spanish, said from his seat in a small conference room at Man U's sprawling Carrington training ground in suburban Manchester. "I want to keep growing. Every day I want to understand more.
"I don't really look at whether I'm doing better [than other Mexicans] or if I'm doing really well because you have to say we're continuing to develop a lot of good players."
Until recently, few of those players ventured far from home. Because the Mexican league paid well and was stable, the country's top talent chose to stay put. But Hernandez, whose father and grandfather both played for the Mexican national team, was raised with different aspirations.
"The dream, the goal, always was to play in [Mexico's] first division and then, if I did really well there, with the national team. And then after that, Europe," Hernandez said. "Our family's plan has always been for me to realize my dream. It's never been to prepare to come here to England or not."
But Hernandez almost pulled the plug on that plan before it had even begun taking shape. As a 20-year-old, he was spending most of his time on the bench at Chivas of Guadalajara, the Mexican club team for which his grandfather played and where his father had coached. So he met with his family and told them it might be better if he quit soccer and returned to school.
Give it one more year, the family urged him.
"They just told me to patient, to try to enjoy everything, not just whether you played when Saturday or Sunday came around," Hernandez recalled. "You have to enjoy the game starting on Monday when you go to training with your teammates."
Given a chance to play regularly with Chivas later that year, Hernandez proved them right, scoring 21 goals in 28 matches. A little more than a year after threatening to quit the game, Hernandez agreed to a transfer deal to Manchester United reportedly worth more than $10.5 million.
"He's taken advantage of every single opportunity that's come his way," said Herculez Gomez, who played against Hernandez in the Mexican league and with the U.S. national team. "That speaks volumes of how mentally strong he has to be. When benched, when doubted, he's come back."
How much longer Hernandez stays with Man U could be up to new manager David Moyes. After scoring 20 goals in 45 appearances in his first season with the team, Hernandez, one of the top six-yard-box strikers in the world, saw his playing time reduced in each of the last two seasons under legendary Coach Alex Ferguson, at times falling to a fourth choice at forward.
And though he remained productive, with 18 goals in 36 appearances last season — and 114 lifetime goals in 250 games for club and country — Hernandez reportedly considered asking for a transfer. Rumors this summer have linked him to Spanish club Valencia, and with Hernandez not even dressing for Man U's opener Saturday, his disillusion is undoubtedly growing.
Leaving Manchester would be a gamble though. Hernandez says playing with — and behind — the likes of Robin Van Persie, Wayne Rooney and Danny Welbeck has taken his game to a higher level. And in three seasons at Old Trafford, he's won two EPL titles and scored three goals in the UEFA Champions League.
That success already has some predicting it won't be long before Hernandez replaces Sanchez as Mexico's most important soccer export.
"Chicharito is really young. All the stuff he's won at that age Hugo Sanchez never won," said Elmur Souza, a Spanish-language soccer analyst for Time Warner Cable who spent nine years covering the Mexican national team.
"That's the difference. Hugo Sanchez is the best in history. I have to give some time for Chicharito to get to that level."
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Metallica Dust Off Cobwebs at L.A. Benefit Gig
Career-spanning set features cameo by Flea, whose Silverlake Conservatory of Music was the beneficiary of last night's show.
There's no doubting that plenty of the approximately 2,000 people who paid 200 bucks to see Metallica play a benefit concert at L.A.'s Wiltern Theatre last night took pride in the fact that their money was going to support a good cause — namely, the Silverlake Conservatory of Music, a nonprofit music-education center founded in part by Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
But judging by the line that stretched down Wilshire Boulevard more than two hours before showtime, you can also be sure that this crowd included hundreds of folks who'd just as happily have burned the cash if it earned them the chance to see Metallica rock a room one-tenth the size of the venues they normally play.
The band certainly didn't adjust their volume for the more intimate environs, bulldozing through "Sad But True" and "Disposable Heroes" like dinosaurs on a warpath. "Did that scare you?" James Hetfield asked following the latter. "We're really nice guys."
Metallica's 110-minute set spanned the band's 25-year career: They played "Seek & Destroy," from Kill 'Em All; "For Whom the Bell Tolls," from Ride the Lightning; "Battery" and "Master of Puppets" from Master of Puppets; "One," from …And Justice for All; and their monster hit from "The Black Album," "Enter Sandman."
Flea joined the band for his favorite Metallica tune, "Fight Fire with Fire," a choice that Hetfield said surprised him given the song's breakneck pace. Another surprise: Metallica's giddy cover of the Misfits' "Last Caress." Throughout the show, Hetfield and his bandmates seemed beyond stoked to be onstage again for the first time in a year. "Metallica loves you," the frontman announced at the end. "Long live heavy music, baby."
Scars on Broadway, featuring Daron Malakian and John Dolmayan of System of a Down, opened the concert with a furious 30-minute alt-metal attack that made it clear how little System's hiatus has dulled each man's hyperactive creativity. But even Malakian acknowledged that the night belonged to the headliners: "I fucking like drugs," he announced at one point. "And I fucking like Metallica, too."
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1 housing for Nikon D90
1 Aquaview magnified viewfinder
1 dome port + shades + covers
1 macro port + cover
2 extension rings
4 lens gears
2 Sea & Sea Sync Cords - Nikonos Style for YS strobes
Aquatica o-ring kit for Aquatica D90 Housing
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Aquatica Nikon D90 Housing with dual Nikonos Style Bulkheads
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Accessories below have at least one lens (in brackets) they are compatible with:
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Chase Elliott hopes to continue rise in NASCAR Nationwide Series after Darlington win
DARLINGTON, S.C. – Chase Elliott isn't really sure what he has accomplished the last two weeks in becoming the youngest Nationwide driver with multiple victories.
Elliott acknowledged he was still in shock over his first series win at Texas Motor Speedway when he doubled up at Darlington Raceway, coming from back in the pack the final two laps on Friday night for a second consecutive triumph.
"Me telling you guys that last week, I still can't believe that, I'm not lying to you," Elliott told The Associated Press on Saturday. "Last week was really a dream come true. To come out of Texas with the win was unbelievable. I'm still not sure I completely believe that, much less to come out with a win at Darlington, that's crazy. I don't know what to think."
Elliott certainly has the pedigree to succeed at NASCAR as the son of Sprint Cup great Bill Elliott. Yet, Chase was never pushed into the sport by his father, growing to love it as he watched Bill Elliott compete toward the tail end of a stellar career.
"It was never forced upon me by any means," Elliott said of his dad. "He pushed me to be the best I could be because that was my decision. He's not one of those dads that force you to do something because they want you to do it."
Apparently, the younger Elliott does that really well.
He outran Kevin Harvick last week at Texas, then moved past veterans Matt Kenseth, Kyle Busch and Elliott Sadler after a late restart to win at Darlington in his first time at the track. Elliott has the points lead (by 7 over JR Motorsports teammate Regan Smith) and can't wait to relocate from his Dawsonville, Ga., home to the team's race shop in Mooresville, N.C., once he graduates high school next month.
"I think about racing nonstop, whether I'm at school or over at the race track, it really doesn't matter," Chase Elliott said.
So while friends and classmates discuss cut days, vacations and college plans, Elliott focuses on the next race.
Watching Chase compete in late model cars, Bill Elliott thought his son had the driving ability to succeed in the sport. It's the mental makeup of handling the ups and downs that come with NASCAR Bill Elliott works to instill in Chase.
"Here's a roller-coaster and you've got to hang on for dear life and hopefully it ends up where you want it to be on top at the end of your career," Bill Elliott said. "For me, I've been very happy, but I know it's a double-edged sword" of worrying about your child.
Chase Elliott wasn't the only young Nationwide driver wowing the circuit. Kyle Larson, the 21-year-old driver who won last month at Auto Club Speedway in California, started from the back of the field, yet was second to Busch late in the race before the final restart.
At one point earlier in the race, Elliott and Larson were side by side, bumping and grinding against each other through Darlington's misshapen corners and tight straightaways. It looked as though both young guys would find the wall — and the garage.
"I thought our night was 100 percent finished," Elliott said. "I thought both of us were getting ready to pile it up pretty good."
Instead, the two straightened things out to make it to the end — perhaps one of the earliest tangles the two young stars might have on NASCAR tracks across the country over the next couple of decades.
"I'd like to think so," Elliott said. "Kyle's obviously a talented guy."
Chase Elliott hasn't changed his focus or his goals — he still plans to win as much as possible with JR Motorsports. He's not ready to talk about a move up to Sprint Cup — JR Motorsports is partly owned by NASCAR mogul Rick Hendrick — preferring to improve at this level before taking the next step.
It's a sound strategy, endorsed by the Elliott family.
"It's like I told Chase, 'Enjoy it while you can because it's just going to be a revolving door,'" Bill Elliott said. "I think that teaches us so much about everyday life."
His son agreed with that assessment.
"I just want to do my job right and do it to the best of my ability and everything else will figure itself out," Chase said.


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Academic Exchanges
Academic Exchanges
Through Candler's academic exchange program you can spend a semester or a year living and learning in one of 13 different countries. You'll meet other theology students from around the globe, and broaden your understanding of diverse languages, cultures and religious traditions. No matter where you go, this experience will change the way you see the world.
Universidade Metodista de Sao Paulo (Methodist University of Sao Paulo)
- Location: Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Website: www.metodista.br/
- Courses taught in: Portuguese
- Curriculum Specialties: Religious Education/Pedagogy (Freire). Economics/Community Development/Urban Ministries. Liturgy/Music. Wesleyan/Methodist studies. The Church and Culture.
- Faculty Contact(s): Dr. L. Wesley deSouza and Dr. Jonathan Strom
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University of Helsinki
- Location: Helsinki, Finland
- Website: www.helsinki.fi/rre/research/areas.htm
- Courses taught in: English
- Curriculum Specialties: Bible. Theology/Ethics. Philosophy of Religion. Psychology. The Religious Roots of Europe: Judaism, Christianity, Islam. The Catherine Institute: Christian studies of Eastern Europe, Russia, Orthodoxy, and Byzantine history and culture.
- Faculty Contact(s): Dr. Carol A. Newsom
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Georg-August Universität
- Location: Göttingen, Germany
- Website: www.uni-goettingen.de/en/19855.html
- Courses taught in: German
- Curriculum Specialties: Theology/Ethics. Bible. History. Intercultural Theology, Ecumenical and Interfaith Studies (with an emphasis on Judaism). Practical Theology: Church Welfare and Social Work, Pastoral Care, Religious Education, Liturgy and Homiletics.
- Faculty Contact(s): Dr. Jonathan Strom, Dr. Steffen Lösel, and Dr. Joy Ann McDougall
Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität (LMU)
- Location: Munich, Germany
- Website: www.en.evtheol.uni-muenchen.de/faculty/index.html
- Courses taught in: German
- Curriculum Specialties: Bible. Theology/Ethics. Church History. Ecumenics. Missiology. Practical Theology. Cultural studies. Hinduism. Buddhism. Religious Education. Opportunity for housing in ecumenical, international Collegium Oecumenicum.
- Faculty Contact(s): Dr. Jonathan Strom, Dr. Steffen Lösel, and Dr. Joy Ann McDougall
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Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Department of Religious Studies
- Location: Kumasi, Ghana
- Courses taught in: English
- Curriculum Specialties: Bible. Religion and Science. Religion, Medicine, and Health. Islam. Christianity in West Africa. Ethics. African Traditional Religions. Christianity and Culture.
- Faculty Contact(s): Dr. Emmanuel Y. Lartey
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St. Paul's University, Faculty of Theology
- Location: Limuru, Kenya
- Website: http://www.spu.ac.ke/
- Courses taught in: English
- Curriculum Specialties: Islam/Christian-Muslim Relations. Development (Masters in Development Studies: Children and Development, Organizational Development, Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation, Community Development, Theology and Development). Faith and Health (HIV/AIDS). Gender Studies. Pastoral Care.
- Faculty Contact(s): Dr. Karen D. Scheib, Dr. Jonathan Strom; Mimi Kiser and Dr. John Blevins– Rollins School of Public Health
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Methodist Theological University (MTU)
- Location: Seoul, Korea
- Website: http://www.mtu.ac.kr/mtu_eng/c3/sub4.jsp
- Courses taught in: English, Korean
- Curriculum Specialties: Bible. Theology/Ethics. Church History. Ecumenics. Missiology. Practical Theology. Cultural studies. Religious Education.
- Faculty Contact(s): Dr. Jonathan Strom and Dr. Karen D. Scheib
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Seminario Evangélico de Puerto Rico
- Location: San Juan, Puerto Rico
- Website: www.se-pr.edu/
- Courses taught in: Spanish/English
- Curriculum Specialties: Martin Luther King, Jr. Center. Christian Education. Ministerial Formation. Opportunities for living with a family and interning with a congregation.
- Faculty Contact(s): Dr. Jonathan Strom
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University of St. Andrew, St Mary's College, School of Divinity (Robert T. Jones, Jr. Fellowship)
- Location: Scotland
- Website: www.st-andrews.ac.uk
- Courses taught in: English
- Curriculum Specialties: Center for the Study of Religion and Politics (with an emphasis on Latin America). School of International Studies (Center for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence). Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts. Institute for Bible, Theology, and Hermeneutics (MLitt in Theological Interpretation of Scripture) The More OT Pseudepigrapha Project.
- Faculty Contact(s): Dr. Jonathan Strom
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Trinity Theological College
- Location: Bukit Timah, Singapore
- Website: http://www.ttc.edu.sg
- Courses taught in: English
- Curriculum Specialties: Center for the Study of Christianity in Asia. Emphasis on student spiritual formation (rooftop prayer garden). Liturgy/Worship. Sacred Music. Asian Christianity. Christian Education.
- Faculty Contacts(s): Dr. Jonathan Strom
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University of KwaZulu Natal
- Location: Durban and Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
- Courses taught in: English
- Curriculum Specialties: Center for Oral History and Memory Work/Resilience Studies supporting HIV/AIDS orphans. Center for Constructive Theology. Ujamaa Center for Biblical and Theological Community Development and Research. Gender Studies. Religion and Theology in the African Context. Hindu and Islamic Studies. Religion and Social Transformation. Catholic Theology and Christian Spirituality.
- Faculty Contacts(s): Dr. Elizabeth M. Bounds and Dr. Jonathan Strom
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Stockholm School of Theology
- Location: Bromma/Stockholm, Sweden
- Website: www.ths.se/site/index.php/in-english.html
- Courses taught in: English – spring semester
- Curriculum Specialties: Human Rights. Peacebuilding. Scholarships for Candler students participating in spring travel seminar to Israel and Palestine.
- Faculty Contact(s): Dr. Ellen Ott Marshall
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- Location: Cambridge, UK
- Website: http://www.wesley.cam.ac.uk/
- Courses taught in: English
- Curriculum Specialties: Church History. Biblical Studies. Philosophy of Religion and Ethics. Ancient, Medieval and Modern Judaism. Patristics. Christian Systematic Theology. Religions and the Natural Sciences. Religion and the Social Sciences. Arabic, Greek, Hebrew, and Sanskrit studies. Islam and Indian Religions. The Study of World Christianities. This requires a full-year of study in Cambridge.
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Africa University
- Location: Mutare, Zimbabwe
- Website: http://www.africau.edu/
- Courses taught in: English
- Curriculum Specialties: Wesleyan/Methodist Studies. Health (HIV/AIDS). Conflict Transformation. The Religions of Africa and African Context for Christian Studies. Agriculture/Land Use. M.A.R. - Leadership for NGOs. Teaching Religion and Theology in Secondary Schools. Gender Studies.
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Bexley City Councilman Steve Keyes manages to stay busy.
Bexley City Councilman Steve Keyes manages to stay busy.
When he isn't working as an executive with Nationwide Mutual Insurance or drafting legislation for Bexley City Council, Keyes spends his free time pursuing his first love -- music.
"I am an attorney by training, a human resources executive by day, a Bexley City Council member by night, and a singer at every opportunity," Keyes said. "But most of all, the world's luckiest husband and father every single day."
On New Year's Eve, instead of enjoying a party with his wife, Keyes will be providing entertainment for a big one -- ProMusica's end of the year event at the Great Southern Theatre.
Keyes and Sean Altman are founding members and current tenor lead vocalists of the nationally renowned vocal quartet The GrooveBarbers, as well as founding former members of the pioneering a cappella group Rockapella.
Featured as the co-lead singers of quartet "The Astelins" in the national television advertising campaign for Astelin Nasal Spray, Altman and Keyes have also teamed up with their fellow GrooveBarbers in recent appearances with pop legend Marshall Crenshaw in New York City, with a cappella icon Jerry Lawson of the Persuasions in Boston's Symphony Hall, and as headliner hosts for "Columbus A Cappella Fest!" at Columbus' historic Lincoln Theatre.
Over the years, they have performed together in such venues as Radio City Music Hall and Madison Square Garden, in TV appearances including Entertainment Tonight, Regis & Kathie Lee, and as featured soloists in Spike Lee's Do It A Cappella documentary.
In their special New Year's Eve performance with ProMusica and the High Street Stompers, Keyes and Altman will share their duet harmonies as they bring together music of the Everly Brothers, The Beatles, and more.
Keyes is a premier high tenor and rock/blues soloist of the a cappella scene.
He has been a featured soloist with the New Choral Society of Central Westchester, and with Capital University's Choral Union. Keyes settled in Bexley a decade ago with his wife and daughter, and is co-founder and host of the annual Columbus A Cappella Fest! He was elected to Bexley City Council in 2011,
Altman co-founded Rockapella and led the pioneering vocal group through its heyday years on the Emmy-winning PBS-TV series Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego? -- for which Altman wrote the theme song. His latest ventures are his original comedy song act Jewmongous and The GrooveBarbers, an a cappella group of former Rockapella members.
"We met at Brown University in the 1980s, in a vocal group called the High Jinx," Keyes said. "That's pretty much what we did back then -- engage in high jinks. Then a few years later in New York City, with two other Brown pals (Charlie Evett and Elliott Kerman), we formed Rockapella -- really the pioneering group in modern a cappella singing."
"After Sean and Charlie and I graduated from Rockapella in later years, we formed our successor group, now known as The GrooveBarbers, with another New York friend and outstanding singer/musician, Kevin Weist -- and that group has now been together since the late 1990s.
Keyes and Altman have done a number of duo performances over the years, so when ProMusica Music Director Tim Russell asked whether something could come together in a joint performance with some of the GrooveBarbers and ProMusica, it was natural fit.
"Sean and I will do some duets, some tunes with the amazing High Street Stompers, and then several full orchestra numbers with the ProMusica Chamber Orchestra, which by the way I think is truly the premier showcase performing arts organization in our region," Keyes said. "It is a thrill to be performing with them."
Keyes said he has had "some voice training at Brown University, and some great choral directors over the years" but mostly, he learned from "singing rock-n-roll in the shower since high school."
Keyes calls Altman "an incredibly talented singer-songwriter." He is married to acclaimed opera singer Inna Dukach.
While Keyes recently turned 50, he insists "I feel 25, and that's what counts, right?"
He said his singing influences are varied.
"I'm probably more Led Zeppelin and Franki Valli," he said. "Sean's probably more The Beatles and Frank Sinatra, but together we also share a Mills Brothers close harmony swing vibe."


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"The pin oak pleases me for reasons I cannot wholly explain," wrote nature writer Hal Borland in A Countryman's Woods.
But homeowners and city foresters are pleased with this tree for very specific reasons: strong wood; dense shade; tolerance of many soil conditions, heat, soil compaction and air pollution; free from most major pests; pleasing to the eye in all seasons; and easy to plant. Needless to say, this faster-growing oak is a common sight in yards, along streets and throughout parks.


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FERGUSON, Mo. – The National Guard has arrived in Ferguson but kept its distance from the streets where protesters have again clashed with police in the St. Louis suburb where Michael Brown was fatally shot by a police officer.
Protesters filled the streets after nightfall Monday, and officers trying to enforce tighter restrictions used bullhorns to order them to disperse. Police deployed noisemakers and armored vehicles to push demonstrators back. Officers also fired tear gas and flash grenades.
Police told protesters they couldn't assemble in a single spot and had to keep moving. After the streets were mostly cleared, authorities ordered reporters to leave as well.
At least three journalists were arrested and detained before being released — a photographer for Getty and two German reporters. There were no reports of serious injuries.


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MACON, Ga. – Lipscomb freshman distance runner Kendra Lobley has been named Atlantic Sun Female Track Athlete of the Week, the conference office announced Wednesday.
The award is the first of Lobley's career and the second weekly honor for a Lady Bison track and field athlete this season. Freshman April Terry took the Feb. 15 honor. Lobley is the first female Lipscomb track athlete to earn a weekly award since Dani Walker took the March 23, 2011 honor.
Lobley is the leader in the East Region in the 5000m run following her school-record 16:49.56s run at the Rhodes Open last weekend. She won the event by 23 seconds over her next closest competitor, and shaved 24 seconds off the Lipscomb school record.
In addition to leading the East Region, Lobley is third in the nation in the 5000m. She leads all freshmen and is one of only two first-year athletes in the nation among the top-20 in the event.
Since the beginning of outdoor season, Lobley has shaved nearly three minutes off her personal-best 5000m run time.
Lobley leads the A-Sun in the 5000m, and is also the conference leader in the 3000m steeplechase. She was runner-up in the event on March 9 at the Birmingham Southern Classic with an 11:07.63s mark, which is sixth-best in the East Region and 14th in the nation.
More amazingly, Lobley accomplished her steeplechase feat in her first collegiate attempt in the event.
Kennesaw State thrower Suzee Mills captured field honors this week.
Lobley and the rest of the Lispcomb squad return from Spring Break for Saturday's Vanderbilt Black and Gold Invitational at the Vanderbilt Track and Field Complex.
Check LipscombSports.com for all the Lipscomb cross country and track and field news, and be sure to like us on Facebook (Lipscomb-university XC-track) and follow us on Twitter (@LipscombUTrack).


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The referee of the Sonny Bill Williams-Frans Botha boxing bout says he was told about an alleged bribe offer before the fight.
The referee at the centre of the controversial Sonny Bill Williams-Frans Botha boxing bout has revealed he was told about an alleged bribe offer before the fight took place.
Williams defeated Botha on points to claim the WBA international heavyweight title in Brisbane on Saturday, a result which was initially questioned due to the late change in distance from 12 rounds to 10, although this proved only the start of the post-fight drama.
Botha has since alleged that he was offered $150,000 by Williams' manager Khoder Nasser to throw the contest.
Boxing official Tony Kettlewell says former IBF world lightweight champion Philip Holiday, an assistant in Botha's team, told him earlier on Saturday night that money had been offered to the South African boxer to deliberately lose the fight.
"Philip just said he (Botha) was offered so much money to throw the fight and he refused to," Kettlewell told AAP.
"He didn't say how much money.
"He said (Botha said) 'no way in the world I'm going to lay down. I'm here to fight'."
Initially, Kettlewell shrugged off the incident and there has been no suggestion that he as referee, or the judges, were culpable of any wrongdoing.
"To me, it was hearsay. I spoke to (judge and Queensland National Boxing Federation official) Steve Marshall about it, just to let him know," Kettlewell added.
"I didn't get a chance to speak to any other official about it because we were busy on the night.
"I did my job properly. The WBA is well within their rules to reduce the fight to 10 rounds."
When informed about Kettlewell's comments, Nasser questioned why the issue has been brought up by the official five days after the fight.
"If this was the case, he shouldn't have let the fight go ahead," said Nasser, who has denied Botha's claim.
"Why is he saying it now? It's a week later."
There is no suggestion that Williams was aware of the alleged offer.
Kettlewell said he will raise all the issues with officials at a QNBF meeting on February 28.
He added it was the first time in 44 years in boxing as a fighter, trainer and official that he has been aware of a possible corruption in the sport.
The referee also believes the many contentious issues that arose from the contest could have been avoided if an official from the World Boxing Association was present.
Asked if he would have informed a WBA representative of the allegation, Kettlewell said "most definitely".
"We don't get to say whether a WBA official is there," Kettlewell said.
"I was very surprised there wasn't. It was supposed to be a sanctioned fight."


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Liverpool goalkeeper Pepe Reina showed his ability stretches much further than stopping shots at one end.
The Spanish international proved he's capable of sticking the ball in at the other end with a spectacular overhead kick during training.
Reina appeared to be going about his business by practicing high-ball takes from corners, but instead opted to attempt an acrobatic bicycle kick inside his six-yard box.
And, as Luis Suarez watched on after whipping in the cross, the Anfield stopper smashed the ball home into the empty net with some style.
Reina will be happier with his clean sheet against Swansea City today (Sunday) than his training ground effort at Melwood, but if Brendan Rodgers is short of attacking options, then the former Villarreal star could be the unexpected man for the job!
Watch the video at the top of this story, and let us know the best goalscoring goalkeeper you've ever seen…


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It seems Paris Hilton and Holly Madison have more than platinum blonde hair and a beau in common! Madison, who has been seen cozying up to Good Charlotte rocker Benji Madden, was recently spotted wearing a "Team Benji" T-shirt in support of her "adventure buddy" who fought in a Las Vegas boxing match last weekend. But, there was something awfully familiar about the the former Girls Next Door star's graphic T-shirt. Remember Hilton's "Our love is the real thing" T-shirt that the heiress wore in April 2008, when she was Madden's main squeeze? We're all about proclaiming your love in style, but who do you think wore their heart on their chest best? Tell us: Whose T-shirt shows her feelings for Benji better: Paris or Holly?–Janet Mock


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For those times when you can't get to the gym — or don't feel like breaking out your credit card to pay the membership fee — home workout equipment is essential. But as these innovative, lightweight and very portable devices show, a home gym doesn't have to cost an arm and a leg or take over the entire living room. They don't even have to stay at home anymore.
Torso Ball: A June 20 Health section article reviewing fitness products listed a telephone number for customers interested in buying a Torso Ball. Inquiries should not be made by phone but sent by email to email@example.com or through the company website, www.torsoball.com. Also, the online version of the article said the Torso Ball costs $99.95 plus $19.99 for shipping and handling. The item costs $99.99, and shipping and handling costs $19.95. —
Hanging around
GFlex Portable Gravity Gym: Simple clip-on, strap-and-pulley suspended bodyweight device that turns any door, tree or solid structure into a hard-core, all-body strength-training apparatus.
Likes: A true gym in a bag that allows you to do dozens of exercises, ranging from basic presses and pulls to plyometric lunges and hack squats. By incorporating a simple pulley, the GFlex takes the effectiveness of suspension/gravity training up a notch, increasing the difficulty of bodyweight exercises by allowing for single-arm efforts. A superb DVD includes 10-minute all-body beginner, intermediate, advanced and cardio routines that lead you through a wide variety of challenging exercise. Efficiently designed (it secures in place between a door and door jamb or cinches around any tree or fixed structure with a carabiner), the device stores in a 12-inch fanny pack that doubles as a cardio belt to support jumps and suspended body weight movements. It's ideal for hotel-room workouts.
Dislikes: None
Price: $59.95. (310) 310-0968; http://www.Gflex.tv.
Altus 4-Pound Weighted Leather Training Gloves: A pair of 2-pound MMA-style fingertip-open gloves studded with sand-filled compartments for running, shadowboxing and other activities.
Likes: Good idea, well executed. I punched a heavy bag, did push-ups and ran four miles with them on. Secured at the wrist by a wrap-around Velcro-strap, they definitely add upper body work to a run or walk without disrupting your form, as hand weights can. Enjoyed having full use of my fingers. A glove designed for women, the neoprene-suede Micro-load, offers the same idea with adjustable weight of up to 2 pounds per hand.
Dislikes: You can't hold dumbbells or kettle bells comfortably while wearing them, as a sand-filled ridge on the palm gets in the way.
Price: $19.99. (800) 654-9873; http://www.altusathletic.com.
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Torso Ball: Designed to make the age-old ab wheel easier for women to use, inventor Jerry Abbott employs a 18-by-13-inch oval inflatable fitness ball that rotates around a handle speared through the center.
Likes: Practical, fun and effective for both women and men. Higher off the ground (8 inches) with wider handholds than a normal low-tech ab wheel, it provides a stable, challenging ab rollout — a fantastic mid-section exercise that stretches and contracts the core at once. Other exercises are possible, such as tough, unstable push-ups and dips, and doing squats against a wall by holding it behind your back. Although designed for beginners, even those who are very fit could get a workout from this. Air pump, knee pads, DVD and power-assist cords included. Deflated, it'll easily fit in your trunk.
Dislikes: Not cheap, and the website's promotional video is a turn-off. But it works.
Price: $99.95, plus $19.99 shipping and handling; http://www.torsoball.com.
Spin Trim: Two lightweight, 11-inch plastic rings that each rotate on a handle, working your wrists and forearms.
Likes: Although sort of rinky-dink and overblown (the video on the website touts its "complete upper body workout" and "gyroscopic technology"), there are some benefits. Whipping them around like a dime-store ninja, I began to feel some fatigue in my forearms and wrists in less than a minute. Doing this for five or 10 minutes while watching TV stopped me from reaching for the Cheetos and got some blood flowing. To push it, I tried it while performing squats, which made me feel like I was training for the circus. Also, seeing how uncoordinated my left hand is was a revelation. All in all, far better than doing nothing.
Dislikes: Pricey for being so low-tech. Won't make you fit or cause you to break a sweat.
Price: $19.95. (818) 859-7088; http://www.spintrim.com.
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Lance Fortnow has an interesting take on conference acceptance procedures today. He argues:
Two easy ways to improve your paper but lessen your chances of acceptance at a conference: Add more results and simplify your proofs. Adding a result could only increase the usefulness of a paper but program committees see many results in a paper and conclude that none of them could be very strong. One of our students a few years ago had a paper rejected at STOC, he removed one of his two main theorems and won the best student paper award at FOCS.
Given the same theorem, the community benefits from a simple proof over a complicated proof. Program committees look for hard results so if they see a very simple proof, it can count against you.
I agree mostly with his take on how PCs view papers: simple proofs can indeed be looked down upon. The interesting question is this though: since PC members are the same people who, when not on PCs, have this problem, what is it about PC membership that causes their judgement to skew ?
The usual argument is load: PC members in algorithms conferences typically review far more submissions than PC members in any other conference mainly because of two inter-related reasons:
1. Our PCs are small
2. PC members are not permitted to submit papers to the conference
(note that (2) more or less forces (1)).
Or could one argue that it is the right and appropriate thing for PC members to prune papers in this fashion ? And that it is the authors' responsibility to make the best case for their submission in a system which will always be imperfect ? One might think that this reasoning would encourage, rather than discourage, simple proofs, because these are easier to understand and lead to a better exposition in a conference setting.
It seems to me that one reason an elegant proof might be looked down upon in comparison to a more technical, grungy proof is that if the reviewer is not intimately familiar with the area of the paper, they might not appreciate the value of the elegant result, or be aware of how hard it was to achieve such an understanding of a problem etc. This doesn't sound like a problem that can be fixed easily, unless every paper can be reviewed by an expert in that specific area, which seems difficult to manage.
I would like to venture the slightly controversial claim that theory (STOC/FOCS/SODA/etc) committees are not as rigorous in providing feedback and comprehensive reviews as many other conferences. There are many good reasons why this is the case, and I don't think one can fault reviewers who do the best they can under severe load, but the fact remains, and it would be nice to see more discussion of this in business meetings or even in informal forums in the community.
Although this is somewhat removed from the original point about reviews themselves, I feel that feedback itself is a method for ensuring accountability and openness. A reviewer who has to write a detailed explanation of what they like/don't like in a paper will automatically do a more thorough job of reviewing it. Again, this is not a matter of harasssing reviewers: structural changes will have to made in how theory committees are set up to make this practical.


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Have reports of the death of monoculture been greatly exaggerated? That's one takeaway from a look at the number of songs that reached the top of Billboard's Hot 100 last year.
In 2013, only 11 tunes made it to No. 1 on the singles chart -- fewer than in any year since 2005, when Mariah Carey's "We Belong Together" and Kanye West's "Gold Digger" together locked up the top spot for approximately five months.
Sure, those 11 songs covered a fair amount of ground, from Baauer's clattering "Harlem Shake" to Lorde's stripped-down "Royals"; from Robin Thicke's lecherous "Blurred Lines" to Katy Perry's self-empowering "Roar."
But the way this relatively small batch of tunes dominated pop music last year suggests that we're able to agree on more than we might think in this era of virtually infinite entertainment options. (I still hate "Thrift Shop," though.)
It also speaks, of course, to the enduring marketing power of gigantic record labels. And it's that aspect of the monoculture (or anyway an enforced version of one) that can feel like a bummer, as the relentless hammering of a few singles necessarily prevents others -- even those attached to reliable brand names like Prince and Justin Bieber -- from being heard as widely as they should.
With that in mind, here are five not-exactly-obscure songs that nevertheless died before their time.
Kelly Clarkson featuring Vince Gill, "Don't Rush"
One of three new tracks included on Clarkson's "Greatest Hits -- Chapter One," this slice of country-soul smoothness peaked at No. 87 on the Hot 100 (and only made it that high after Clarkson performed the song on last year's Academy of Country Music Awards). But "Don't Rush" is one of the "American Idol" champ's finest songs, with a sumptuous groove and a lovely vocal melody that recalls Shelby Lynne's plush 1999 classic "I Am Shelby Lynne." When Clarkson eventually tires of belting out pumped-up electro-pop jams like "Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)" -- if indeed she ever does -- she'll probably be able to coast on this kind of stuff until she retires.
The Killers, "Shot at the Night"
Another bit of best-of bait (from the Killers' "Direct Hits"), "Shot at the Night" paired the Las Vegas dance-rock survivors with Anthony Gonzalez of M83, who evidently convinced the band that a corny disco ballad was just what it needed. And he was totally right! Though it ascended to No. 20 on Billboard's Alternative Songs chart, the track didn't even place on the Hot 100 -- obviously the rightful home for any tune with a drum fill as Phil Collins-tacular as the one here.
Prince, "Breakfast Can Wait"
"Hot cakes smothered in honey? / I'm-a have to pass," Prince sings, "Fresh cup of coffee, no, no / I'd rather have you in my glass." With lyrics like those and a slinky soul-funk groove, it's unclear why this killer R&B jam by Prince -- reportedly a taster from a new studio album due this year -- failed to make more of an impact than it did, especially given its clickable cover art, which depicted Dave Chappelle expertly attired as the singer holding a plate of those hot cakes. (Oh, right: Cover art = no longer a thing.)
Justin Bieber, "Change Me"
"Heartbreaker," the first installment in Justin Bieber's Music Mondays series of online singles, made it to No. 13 on the Hot 100 -- not bad for a singer whose public image took a beating in 2013. But although some of the subsequent tunes were better than "Heartbreaker," most stalled out in the 40s and 50s, including "Change Me," a very handsome piano ballad that set a semi-apology for Bieber's antics against an arrangement worthy of Brian McKnight.
Brian McKnight, "Sweeter"
Speaking of McKnight, the R&B veteran released his own album in early 2013, "More Than Words," which despite a sound fully in sync with the slick soul that defined much of the year, never made it out of the shadow cast by Justin Timberlake, Robin Thicke and Bruno Mars. In the disc's lead single, McKnight flexes his trademark ability to wring fresh meaning out of words that you might've assumed had given all they had. There's probably a metaphor in there about McKnight himself.
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Independent Label Market
Despite it being tomorrow there doesn't seem to be a thread on the label market yet!
Anyone going?
I really loved last year & got a lot of great records. This year my label Robot Elephant has a stall so even better! Hoping the other labels might trade some back catalogue with us.
We are on the Sunday but great stuff both days, love it when all the friendly faces get together for a couple of days!
where is it?
incredibly vague thread!
I right sorry
Presumed that most people on here would know what it is.
Most of the best Indy Labels get together and run a market selling all their wares. Started in Soho and then moved to Spitalfields last year. Second year is today and tomorrow.
this was pretty good today
picked up some records at Lex, Monotreme and Gringo and got some free vinyl. Tempted to head back for the second day but I probably shouldn't.
After looking into this
It looks pretty awesome - but I'm too far from london, boo.
looks like they must be doing it a few times a year now.
There was one in Spitalfields in April.
Hope everyone
Didn't just got today and not tomorrow! Gonna be sharing a stall with Song, By Toad records.
Would have liked Gringo to have been tomorrow got a bunch of stuff like from them :)
don't think I recognised many going tomorrow
I live close so might go again, who would you recommend checking out?
This was great today
got stuff from monotreme and pink mist (big scary monsters), and free samplers, om nom nom samplers.
The moshi moshi stall was surrounded (whilst I was there) by Scots...do they have a Scottish connection?
Not sure on the Scottish connection, they have one or two but not enough to merit all scottish!
Well tomorrow obviously I'd recommend the Robot Elephant / Song By Toad stall cos I'm on it but apart from that I'l be buying records from the Soul Jazz / Acid Jazz for sure. Leaf Label is also great, Tape Club Records got some good stuff.
Phantasy Sound will be selling the repress of the Connan Mockasin album which is in my opinion and actual classic. Possibly the best album of the last 10 years.
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Wednesday, May 8, 2013
The First Best Practice Meeting for 2013 is TOMORROW, May 9th at Noon in Courtroom 2.
We STRONGLY suggest that at least one person from your office be in attendance.
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The other night I was walking down the street with one of my girlfriends when a super attractive man walked by us. Tall, dark brown hair, green eyes, charcoal gray business suit. As he briskly walked in and out of our lives, it prompted a discussion about the things we look for in a man. Sure, being attractive is definitely high up on the list, following behind a great sense of humor and allowing his lady to tune into Keeping Up With the Kardashians without vocalizing his desire to commit suicide.
And then she said something that really stuck with me: "I don't know about you, but I don't want to date a man that's more attractive than me."
Being discriminatory against a man for being too good looking? On one hand I'd be stupidly excited to date Tyson Beckford or Channing Tatum knowing I had a perfect 10 on my arm. But then I'd wonder, without fail, if people thought that I wasn't beautiful enough to be next to him.
And then I said: "You know what? I sorta feel the same way."
Listen, I'm not saying that I wouldn't accept a date invitation from Tyson or Channing. After seeing Tyson in person a few weeks back, I surely wouldn't mind grabbing a bite with him and staring into those eyes for a solid hour over Korean barbecue.
But with that said, I think every woman likes to stand out a little bit. When I'm walking down the street with my significant other, I sort of want the eyes to be on me. Call me selfish or self-centered, that's fine. I just think it makes sense for the man I'm dating to be on an even-level playing field with me.
I know. Yes, I'm well aware that there are things that make a man attractive other than his outer appearance. As someone who doesn't have a physical type, those little personality traits make all the difference to me. I suppose that if I fall for some crazy handsome guy who may just be better-looking than me, I'll deal with my fear of not measuring up then. But for now, I'll stand firm on my stance: I'd rather be more attractive than the man I'm dating.
Where do you stand? Would you want to date someone who you think is better-looking than you?
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Slub Tank Top is rated out of 5 by 1.
Rated 4 out of 5 by SMarieB from Comfortable This is a nice casual tank top that can we paired with jeans and heels to dress it up or put under a blazer. The tank does run small. I usually wear an XS in Bebe but needed a Small in this top.
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November 7, 2012
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is initiating a new lecture series to celebrate faculty scholarship, collaboration, conversation and community.
Dr. Shah Tarzi, the Lee L. Morgan Chair in International Economic Affairs, will deliver the inaugural lecture titled, "America and the World After the Presidential Election: With a Grand Proposal to Protect American Interests, Promote Our Values and Revitalize US Power."
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Last week, officials at Yale University complained to the FBI that admissions officers from Princeton University had broken into a Yale Web site and downloaded admission decisions on 11 students who had applied to both schools. Princeton responded by suspending its associate dean of admissions and launching an investigation. That's a good start, but both colleges should go further, and redesign the way that their databases treat personal information.
As details surrounding the incident have emerged, it's clear that there's a lot of blame to go around. Both Yale and Princeton compete vigorously for the nation's top high school students, and in recent years the competition has become increasingly aggressive. The schools shower the best students not just with phone calls and letters, but even with tuition discounts. As part of that competition, this year Yale unveiled a new Web site designed to let applicants find out if they had been admitted -- no more waiting for either that thin rejection letter or the thick admissions packet.
Unfortunately, the security on the Yale Web site was atrocious: all anybody needed to look up a student's record was that student's name, social security number (SSN), and date of birth. And it just so happened that the officials at Princeton had this same information for the most highly-contested applicants. So in April, when the Web site went live, Princeton's admissions office sprang to action as well, allegedly downloading admissions decisions from the Yale Web site on at least 18 separate occasions.
Who's To Blame
Most of the cyber-security professionals I've spoken with have taken a decidedly "blame-the-victim" approach with this latest story of Web site hackery. Assuming that the allegations are true, it's terrible that an administrator at Princeton would engage in such patently illegal activities. But what's even worse, they say, is that Yale would deploy a Web application so poorly conceived and implemented.
To be sure, Yale is not alone in deploying systems with poor security for personal information. Many banks and credit card companies continue to treat widely-circulated personal information, like SSNs and birthdays, as if this information is secret, available only to the bank account holder or credit card applicant. Clearly it is not, as evidenced by the national epidemic in identity fraud. But financial organizations have been stymied in their attempts to find a better means for verifying the identity of account applicants -- people with whom, by definition, the banks have no current relationship.
Poor Design Principles At Play
Yale could have designed a better system: it could have asked each applicant to supply a PIN or a password as part of their application. An even more secure solution would have been for the university to assign a password to every applicant and send it back to the high school students with their confirmation cards. Such an approach would have protected the process against students who would otherwise use the same password for both Yale and Princeton.
To provide even better security, Yale and Princeton could have used what's called a translucent database, a term coined by author and cryptographer Peter Wayner in his new book by the same title.
A translucent database uses cryptographic methods like hash functions and public key cryptography to mathematically protect information so that it cannot be wrongly divulged -- not even to a crooked database administrator. Translucent databases provide for unparalleled protection of sensitive information, be that information personal, corporate, or academic. Yet, with one notable exception, translucent databases are practically unknown and unused in IT today.
The Unix password file is the one translucent database that is in wide use today. When you log into a Unix computer, you're asked to provide a username and a password. If you type the correct information, you're logged in.
Before Unix, most computers had a "password file" that simply listed valid accounts and their corresponding passwords. But there is a big problem with this approach: if an attacker gets access to the file, then everybody's password needs to be changed.
So Robert Morris and Ken Thompson adopted a different approach when they designed the Unix password system. Instead of storing the actual passwords, Unix stores passwords that have been processed with a one-way hash function. Many people call this a one-way encryption function, but it's really not encryption, because there's no way to "decrypt" the password once it is hashed. Instead, when you attempt to log into a Unix system, the computer takes the password you provide, hashes it, and sees if your hashed password is the same as the hashed password that is stored in the password file. If they are, you're allowed to log in. (If you have access to a library, you can read the original article: Morris, R.H., and Thompson, K., "UNIX Password Security", Communications of the 204 ACM, Volume 22, Number 11, November 1979, pp. 594-597. Unfortunately, the article is not available online without a subscription to the ACM's online library.)
Benefits of Using Translucent Databases
In Translucent Databases, Wayner extends this concept of hashing in new and important ways. For example, what if a police department needs to build a database of sexual-assault victims that lets them identify trends but hides personal information? You could use a translucent database where the first column is the hash of the victim's name, and the second column is a hash of their full address, and the third column is a hash of their block and street. You can now group incidents together by grouping entries with identical block hashes; you can see if the incidents refer to the same person by checking to see if those hashes are different.
Wayner's approach makes it possible to let victims update their records without giving anybody else the ability to search by a person's name. You do this by adding a password to the victim's name -- a password known to the victim and nobody else.
For example, if you were to use the MD5 hash function, you could key a victim's report with the value of MD5 ("J. Smith/color4") where "color4" is Smith's password. If Smith remembers that her password is "color4", then she will be able to update her database entry in the future -- perhaps to tell the database administrators that her perpetrator has been caught. If there is a concern that victims might forget their passwords, the database can have additional columns that are protected with other passwords, known to other people. For example, a second column where the password is known only to the intake officer. By creating multiple keys using different combinations of data, it's possible to protect a translucent database against browsing while simultaneously providing for people's natural tendency to forget critical pieces of information.
Had either Yale or Princeton adopted Wayner's principles, this nasty little episode might never have happened. We've already seen that Yale could have used a PIN or password to prevent the Princeton admissions office from being able to access the Yale Web site. But if Princeton had used a translucent database for its applications, then the admissions officials accused of browsing wouldn't have had access to the student's SSNs, either.
Although it's terrible that colleges like Yale and Princeton use a social security number as a universal identifier, they do so for a reason: there are occasionally cases where two students who apply have the same name. By using the SSN as a single identifier, it's possible to match up the student's application with their letters of recommendation, their SAT scores, and other information.
But once the match is done, there is no reason for the colleges to retain the number. Keeping around large databases of student names, birthdays, and SSNs merely opens these students up to the threat of identity fraud at some point in the future. It would be far better for the college databases to store the MD5 hash of the SSN, rather than the SSN itself.
There are a lot of other examples and clever tricks in Wayner's book. Together, they make this volume good reading for anybody interested in techniques for making privacy an inherent property of information systems -- rather than simply relying on policies, procedures, and access controls. His best example involves the creation of a database system for a community baby-sitter reservation system. Clearly, there's a lot of damage that somebody could do with a database of parents who are away from home, teenage baby sitters, and vulnerable children. But Wayner shows how you can use a combination of hash functions and digital signatures to store all of that information in a database, so that it's simply not possible for anyone other than authorized users to get it out.
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