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Nielson Energy Fellowship for Women, Minorities Available at UW
An undergraduate fellowship, designed to promote recruitment of talented women and minority students planning careers in the energy sector, is available through the University of Wyoming School of Energy Resources (SER) for the 2012-2013 academic year.
Students in energy resource management and development (formerly energy resource science); energy systems engineering, petroleum engineering, chemical engineering, geology and geophysics, chemistry and physics are eligible to apply.
Five awards of $4,500 each will be given. The application deadline is April 16.
Fellowships, from a donation by the Nielson family of Cody, provide students an opportunity to work in energy-related projects with faculty mentors, graduate students and energy sector companies. New students graduating from high school or transferring from community colleges or other universities are eligible for the fellowship.
Upon selection, each student will be matched with a faculty member, and a joint research project will be designed including goals, expectations, responsibilities, methodology and projected outcomes.
Nielson Fellows will participate in the spring Energy Research and Development Symposium, and will present synopses of their research projects, including significance, results and potential contributions to the energy sector. Recipients also are expected to attend the annual SER awards banquet.
Applications should include a resume, three written recommendations, including one from a high school principal and teacher; high school transcripts, community college official transcripts, ACT or SAT scores, and a letter detailing career goals and demonstrating an understanding of the energy field. Applications should be sent to firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Packers cornerback Tramon Williams took a page from Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman's book and dubbed himself Optimus Prime ahead of this week's matchup with Megatron, a.k.a Lions wide receiver Calvin Johnson.
Williams also took a shot at Sherman for getting pushed around by Johnson during the Lions' victory over the Seahawks earlier this season. Johnson had three catches for 46 yards in that game, so any pushing around didn't really result in a huge advantage for the Lions receiver. Sherman pointed that out on the NFL Network Thursday in response to Williams' comments.
"Yeah, we were pushed around to the tune of 46 yards, I believe," Sherman said. "Not too much pushing. I don't understand that shot, he took a shot at us. Last I checked, we've never given up 250 yards to anybody. We barely give that up in a game. To give that up to one player, I mean that was the last time they played him I believe. I don't really know if he'd be the one (to) come talk to us about playing coverage."
The Packers actually allowed 244 receiving yards to Johnson last season, the most any opposing player has ever compiled in a game against the Packers. That doesn't exactly put Williams in a place of great strength as he suggests that he's the man (robot?) capable of keeping Johnson from having a huge game.
We'll see how it plays out Sunday, but we'd be pretty happy never to hear another Transformers reference from an NFL cornerback regardless of the outcome. Unless they want to argue about who is Shia LaBeouf, because that would actually be amusing.

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- McLaren news
McLaren can expect engine parity in 2014 - Mercedes
Mercedes has promised not to treat McLaren as a second-class engine customer in 2014 as they enter the final year of their contract.
McLaren will shift to Honda power from 2015 onwards, ending a 19-year engine partnership with Mercedes. Next season will see the introduction of new V6 turbo engines and Energy Recovery Systems, and there have been suggestions McLaren might not be given be given equal treatment along with the Mercedes works team and the other two customers, Force India and Williams.
However, Mercedes executive director Toto Wolff has denied McLaren will be treated any differently.
"McLaren is a customer and we have long history with McLaren, so we will do everything to support them from Mercedes' point of view," he said. "We are in modern times so there is no such thing as different specs [of engine] and different specs are not allowed by the regulations anyway. The support of Mercedes is there [for McLaren] as it is for anybody else."
McLaren managing director Jonathan Neale is confident his team will receive equal hardware to the other Mercede-supplied teams, but said it is understandable if they are phased out of future plans for the engine.
"I've worked with Mercedes for a long time and I know the team up there [in Brixworth]," he said. "I think when you have limited engines - the days of six engines in a weekend are long gone - with just five power units for the year, it means that in order to get a high-quality part, everything coming down the production line has to be the same. They can't have an 'A' model, a 'B' model and a 'C' model.
"Now, do I think in a glimmer of a dyno somewhere that the one that's a little bit better might go in one direction? I think so, but it's going to be in the noise. Parity is something that will give Mercedes-Benz the quality and brand reputation that they want, so I don't fear that at all.
"In terms of the service that we are getting, then clearly they are not going to reveal as much of the internal workings of what is going on. But I've no worries about the quality of team we have in the garage or the support from Brixworth."


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by Micah Hart
You may have noticed it's the offseason, which means we have plenty of time to sit around and think about many of the things that make it fun to be an NBA fan. Here at All Ball, we'll be passing the time until the start of the season with a new series, the Fave Five. Each week we'll count down a list of the five best, or worst … somethings. We'll try to get creative with it. Plus we're taking requests! If you have a suggestion for a Fave Five post, give us a shout and you may see it appear in this space over the next several weeks.
Earlier this offseason, you may recall a certain four-team trade that sent Dwight Howard to the Lakers, Andrew Bynum to the Sixers and Andre Iguodala to the Nuggets. Those guys were certainly the A-listers in the deal, but several others (12 in total) changed teams, including Al Harrington, who moved from Denver to Orlando.
For Harrington, this was nothing new. Big Al has had to pack his bags at a moment's notice several times along his NBA journey so far; the trade to Orlando constituted the fifth time in his 14-year career he's been dealt.
Five trades for one guy. That seems like a lot. But is it?
Not really. The NBA trades players at almost a fantasy-league level. Contenders trade to add that last piece for a championship run. Also-rans trade to bottom out and start from scratch. The Timberwolves trade because it's Tuesday, and hey, why not. It's the trading-est league in professional sports, and I don't think it's particularly close either.
In league history, there have been seven players to be traded seven or more times. In this week's Fave
Five Seven, we take a look at them.
Jim Jackson
To me, Jim Jackson is the absolute epitome of the kind of player who gets traded a lot in the NBA. He was clearly a talented guy (drafted No. 4 overall in the 1992 Draft), and his scoring skills made him a coveted asset throughout his career. But often times Jackson failed to provide much else for a team, and soon he'd be dangled again as bait for the next team looking to shore up its offense.
Career trades: Seven. Dallas to New Jersey, New Jersey to Philadelphia, Portland to Atlanta, Atlanta to Cleveland, Houston to New Orleans, New Orleans to Phoenix
Most famous deals: Jackson came into the league with the Mavericks, and for a time there was real optimism about the team's future with the "Three Js" — Jason (Kidd), Jamal (Mashburn), and Jackson. But in-fighting famously led Dallas to blow up the team, and after shipping Kidd to Phoenix and Mashburn to Miami, the Mavs traded Jackson to New Jersey in a gigantic, nine-player deal at the 1997 trade deadline that netted Shawn Bradley. Four months later, at the '97 Draft, the Nets then turned around and dealt Jackson to the Sixers in an eight-player deal that netted (no pun intended) No. 2 pick Keith Van Horn.
Sam Cassell
I like to think teams traded for Sam just because they enjoyed his dancing talents. Almost all of Cassell's career changes of uniform involved trades; the only time he ever changed teams as a free agent was when he signed with the Celtics at the tail end of his career after being waived by the Clippers. Naturally, Boston would trade him a year later to Sacramento.
Career trades: Seven. Houston to Phoenix, Phoenix to Dallas, Dallas to New Jersey, New Jersey to Milwaukee, Milwaukee to Minnesota, Minnesota to L.A. Clippers, Boston to Sacramento
Most famous deals: Early in his career, Cassell was involved in some pretty big trades involving some pretty big names. Drafted by the Rockets in 1993, Sam was traded three years later, in August of 1996, to Phoenix as part of the package that brought Charles Barkley to Houston for one last (failed) run at a championship. In December of the same year, Cassell was then rerouted to Dallas with Michael Finley in the previously mentioned Jason Kidd trade. To cap off his busy stretch, less than two months later Cassell went with Jackson to New Jersey in the also-previously mentioned Mavs-Nets trade (there is a LOT of overlap amongst the most-traded players).
Otis Thorpe
When I think of hard-working, no nonsense NBA players, for some reason Thorpe is one of the first guys that comes to mind.
Career trades: Seven. Sacramento to Houston, Houston to Portland, Portland to Detroit, Detroit to Vancouver, Vancouver to Sacramento, Sacramento to Washington, Miami to Charlotte.
Most famous deals: Man, I thought Cassell was in some important deals, but check out the franchise-altering trades Thorpe was a part of. In 1995, Thorpe went to Portland in the trade that brought Clyde Drexler to Houston, a deal that helped the Rockets win their second straight title. In 1997, the Pistons sent Thorpe to the Grizzlies in a seemingly minor deal for a first-round pick. That pick would turn out to be one of the most famous picks in history however, as thanks to the Grizzlies ineptitude it turned out to be the No. 2 pick in 2003, which Detroit used to select
Dwyane Wade Carmelo Anthony Chris Bosh Zarko Cabarkapa Darko Milicic. Finally, in 1998, Thorpe went from the Kings to the Wizards along with Mitch Richmond for Chris Webber, a deal that set the formerly floundering franchise on a course to Western Conference stardom if not quite championship level.
Joe Smith
The only No. 1 pick on the list. In that context, I suppose you'd have to find his career a disappointment, but the guy did play 16 years in the league. Pretty hard to do that if you don't bring something to the table.
Career trades: Seven. Golden State to Philadelphia, Minnesota to Milwaukee, Milwaukee to Denver, Denver to Philadelphia, Chicago to Cleveland, Cleveland to Oklahoma City, New Jersey to L.A. Lakers
Most famous deals: For such a high-profile guy, Smith was never really part of any trades I'd consider blockbusters. He was part of two deals that helped build LeBron James' supporting cast in Cleveland, going to the Cavs at the 2008 deadline in a three-team deal that brought in Wally Szczerbiak, Delonte West, and Ben Wallace, and then departed later that summer in another three-team swap that sent him to OKC and brought Mo Williams to Cleveland. Additionally, Smith was traded for Jim Jackson (Warriors-Sixers in 1998), and for Sam Cassell (Milwaukee-Minnesota, 2003).
Don MacLean
The two top names on this list are people that often come to mind when thinking of players who got moved around a lot, but I would never have thought MacLean would have even had the opportunity to be traded as many times as he was.
Career trades: Eight. Detroit to L.A. Clippers, Clippers to Washington, Washington to Denver, Philadelphia to New Jersey, New Jersey to Seattle, Seattle to Orlando, Orlando to Houston, Miami to Toronto
Most famous deals: Most of MacLean's deals were of the minor variety, but he was involved in the three-team, 10-player trade in August of 1999 that sent Steve Francis from Vancouver to Houston. The former Most Improved Player Award winner was also part of the Van Horn deal that sent Jim Jackson to Philly, and, in the fading twilight of his career, was part of a trade in October of 2001 involving the next member on our list.
Billy Owens
Oh Billy, Billy Billy. How you tantalized with your talents, ever since you were co-MVP of the McDonald's All-Star game with Alonzo Mourning in 1988. And yet despite a very promising college career and being drafted No. 3 overall in 1991, Owens never quite found that level of success in the NBA, even after a First-Team All-Rookie showing in 1991-92.
Career trades: Eight. Sacramento to Golden State, Golden State to Miami, Miami to Sacramento, Seattle to Orlando, Orlando to Philadelphia, Philadelphia to Golden State, Golden State to Milwaukee, Milwaukee to Detroit.
Most famous deals: Owens was drafted No. 3 overall by the Kings in 1991, but a protracted holdout led the team to the deal him to Golden State for Mitch Richmond, thereby ending the run of Run TMC. Yoko. Was dealt with MacLean from Seattle to Orlando in 1999, kicking off a ridiculous 14-month span that saw Owens traded five times. Dig this slate, from his Basketball Reference page:
June 30, 1999: Traded by the Seattle SuperSonics with Dale Ellis, Don MacLean and Corey Maggette to the Orlando Magic for Horace Grant, a 2000 2nd round draft pick and a 2001 2nd round draft pick.
Aug. 13, 1999: Traded by the Orlando Magic to the Philadelphia 76ers for Harvey Grant and Anthony Parker.
Feb. 16, 2000: As part of a 3-team trade, traded by the Philadelphia 76ers with Larry Hughes to the Golden State Warriors; the Chicago Bulls traded Toni Kukoc to the Philadelphia 76ers; the Golden State Warriors traded John Starks and a 2000 1st round draft pick (Chris Mihm) to the Chicago Bulls; and the Philadelphia 76ers traded Bruce Bowen to the Chicago Bulls.
June 27, 2000: As part of a 3-team trade, traded by the Golden State Warriors with Jason Caffey to the Milwaukee Bucks; the Cleveland Cavaliers traded Bob Sura to the Golden State Warriors; the Milwaukee Bucks traded J.R. Reid and Robert Traylor to the Cleveland Cavaliers; and the Milwaukee Bucks traded Vinny Del Negro to the Golden State Warriors.
Aug. 22, 2000: Traded by the Milwaukee Bucks to the Detroit Pistons for Lindsey Hunter.
Man I hope he got to keep his frequent flier miles.
Chris Gatling
When I first thought about making this list, I naturally assumed Gatling would be the anchor. What NBA team in the 1990s didn't trade for Gatling at one time or another? So imagine my surprise to see he was only been traded eight times.
Career trades: Eight. Golden State to Miami, Dallas to New Jersey, New Jersey to Milwaukee, Milwaukee to Orlando, Orlando to Denver, Denver to Miami, Miami to Cleveland, Cleveland to Miami
Most famous deals: Gatling went from Golden State to Miami alongside Tim Hardaway in 1996, went with Cassell and Jackson to the Nets in the much previously mentioned Nets-Mavs soiree, tag-teamed with Cassell again on the way to Milwaukee in the deal that sent Stephon Marbury to New Jersey, and made his third trip to Miami in 2001 in the MacLean deal.
Bonus trade: Gatling was actually included in nine trades if you consider that the pick used to select him in the 1991 draft was shipped from Philadelphia to Golden State in 1990 for Manute Bol.
Much love to Justin Kimbrell for the research assist in putting this one together.
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Until owners of Balance Chestnut Hill work out the exact date the fitness center is to relocate to 12. Willow Grove Ave., local artists are taking advantage of the unused space.
Shortly after Elie-Anne Chevrier Lewis and her band of local from-home décor businesses closed the doors to Nomad, which had occupied the space until February 12, Lewis announced the opening of another pop-up shop to be housed at the location.
This time it'll be Sugar, an art gallery featuring the works of two artists — Timothy Buckwalter, formerly of Fishtown, and Douglas Witmer, of West Philadelphia.
Buckwalter said the gallery will house abstract paintings, drawings, collages and sculptures.
Sugar will have an opening celebration on Saturday, March 3, from 5 to 7 p.m.
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Cartel violence continues unabated across the border
REYNOSA, Mexico — When the shooting began, Daniel Cerda Salinas, an evangelical minister, took refuge in his neighbor's home.
As the battle raged late into the night of March 10, Salinas began to question his faith in President Enrique Peña Nieto, the man he believed would free Reynosa from the paralyzing grip of Mexico's drug cartels.
"It's worse than before," Salinas, 37, said of cartel fighting. "We don't know when the shooting will begin, and we don't know what to do, except trust in God."
Over the next week, cartel gunmen clashed on at least four occasions in Reynosa, across the border from McAllen, blocking off sections of the city while residents waited in terror for the fighting to end. Official reports downplayed the carnage, but social media captured blood-stained streets and bullet-riddled, burned-out cars.
Since Peña Nieto took office Dec. 1, the drug war clashes that claimed tens of thousands of lives during the six-year administration of his predecessor have carried on at a dizzying pace, casting doubt on the president's strategy to reduce violent crime.
Peña Nieto has pledged a less militaristic approach than the previous administration, touting social programs aimed at crime prevention, but the details are unclear.
For average citizens, little has changed, according to Jesús Uriel Martínez Mata. Cartel hawks stake out the city's main thoroughfares in plain view of municipal police who stand by idly as shiny SUVs flag activity deemed suspicious.
Last month, the 29-year-old public employee had his vehicle taken at gunpoint and used as blockade during a firefight. Despite assurances that a new strategy to combat violence is being implemented, Martínez has yet to see evidence that a plan exists.
"Every day, more people lose their lives, whether they are involved (in crime) or innocent," Martínez said. "At this point, we can't believe the government is going to come out ahead."
The president's plan to reduce crime will pour $9 billion into programs aimed at steering young people away from crime and drugs, not unlike a program former President Felipe Calderón established in Ciudad Juárez.
But in practical terms, the biggest change, albeit incomplete, has been the centralization of security policy in the Interior Ministry. And in a break from Calderón's reliance on federal police and the Mexican military, the administration says it will create a gendarmerie, or paramilitary force, to take on the country's most serious threats.
But school administrators have yet to receive guidance on new programs, the gendarmerie is still months from being formed and the bloodshed continues unabated. While it's perhaps too early to expect results, Alejandro Hope, an analyst and former Mexican intelligence officer, said it's not too much to ask for a better-laid-out strategy.
"Some of the key tenets of the new policy have not been fully explained or have been poorly implemented," Hope said.
Recent bloodshed in the southwestern state of Michoacán, including the slayings of seven men found propped up in white plastic chairs and shot in the head, and in the neighboring state of Guerrero have given rise to myriad civilian defense groups taking the law into their own hands.
And in Nuevo Laredo, where the police chief has been missing for about two months, grenades were detonated in February outside the U.S. Consulate during a spate of gang fighting.
In Reynosa, the latest round of violence is the result of continued fallout after reputed top Gulf Cartel leaders Mario Cardenas Guillen and Jorge Eduardo Costilla Sanchez were arrested last year, destabilizing the organization and sparking an internal power struggle that has resulted in a wave of deadly fighting in recent weeks.
Since then, Michael "Gringo" Villarreal has attempted to wrest control from Mario "Pelon" Ramirez Treviño in a series of dramatic gunbattles in which authorities reported about a dozen dead, despite unofficial accounts that put the number several times higher.
By some unofficial estimates, the death toll in March soared to 50 or higher.
The penchant for gruesome violence brought by organized crime should not come as a surprise, said David A. Shirk, director of the Trans-Border Institute at the University of San Diego, especially amid the power vacuum left behind in the wake of high-level arrests.
"Whatever Peña Nieto tries to do, there's going to be a lag effect from the Calderón administration," Shirk said.
What remains to be seen, he added, is the strategy that Peña Nieto's administration will take as cartel feuds are resolved.
Peña Nieto's pledge to downsize the federal footprint might explain the absence of federal police patrols on the streets of Reynosa, but answers are hard to come by through official channels.
The attorney general's office, which stopped giving interviews two years ago, has become even quieter under Peña Nieto. In the past, it wasn't unusual for the government to churn out 20 bulletins per day, heralding blows scored against criminal groups. But that number has shrunk to fewer than a dozen in four months, mostly about the vetting of police ranks.
"We're building cases instead of announcing arrests," said an official who asked that his name not be published because he is not authorized to speak about it.
After the smoke cleared from one particularly heavy day of cartel fighting, officials said just two victims were found, a 37-year-old taxi driver and an 8-year-old boy, seated in a car next to his father. Officials seized 22 vehicles.
One officer who surveyed the aftermath insisted that his investigators had found just two dead.
"All I can tell you is what we found," he said. If more died in the melee — he shrugged his shoulders and blushed — their bodies had been removed by the time he arrived.
This is one of the many vagaries of the drug war in which counting the dead is largely a matter of speculation. By some estimates, there were more than 60,000 homicides during the six years under Calderón, though some analysts question the accuracy of statistics that exclude the thousands of disappeared.
"Talking about absolute numbers is a pretty bad indicator of the direction security is going," said analyst Hope, who works for the Mexican Institute for Competitiveness. "In the end, the trend is more important than the absolute level, and violence might be going down nationally."
On the ground, the absence of federal police is conspicuous, but one officer said their presence had not been diminished. Speaking on condition of anonymity, the officer explained that in the past, law enforcement confronted organized crime independently, whereas now, all law enforcement agencies are working together through a unified system to respond en masse to armed confrontation.
The officer rattled off seizures of marijuana, cocaine and crystal meth while downplaying the expectations of a community in which criminal activity permeates all levels of society and social media is given to exaggerate the violence, he said.
"I keep looking for the elephant and clowns that were laid out from the circus," he said. "The truth is if we minimize things, the public magnifies them."
George W. Grayson, a professor at the College of William and Mary and an expert on Mexican violence, said the government is still getting organized, deciding what unit will take the lead in the drug war and how to put together an entirely new force.
"To mix metaphors, the government is just finding its sea legs," Grayson said.


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Classes at liberal arts colleges bring to mind small groups of students bunched around a long wooden table, batting around big ideas with a professor.
That tradition would seem at odds with the new trend in higher education, opening courses to the masses via the Internet. But now a new partnership involving Wellesley College is seeking to bridge these two worlds, in a test of how humanities classes will translate into the growing online arena.
EdX, the online education provider founded by Harvard University and MIT, plans to announce Tuesday that the women's school has joined its growing roster, the first liberal arts school to do so.
Anant Agarwal, president of edX and a professor in the electrical engineering and computer science department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said the addition of Wellesley College continues the group's forays into new territory. Last month, edX announced it had teamed up with Bunker Hill and MassBay community colleges to offer online courses in computer science.
Agarwal said Wellesley College will extend the group's offerings in the humanities and will provide a case study in how to preserve the small-class culture on a large scale.
"We want to create the aura of a small-group setting, so that students can discuss among themselves," he said. Teachers will be able to break the class into small discussion groups that would be akin to seminars, he said.
With students coming together from all over the world, exchanges would hold great promise, he said.
"I would like to be a fly on the wall for those discussions," he said.
The college plans to offer four courses starting next fall, with the subjects still to be determined. Wellesley joins the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Texas system as members of the collaboration. EdX said it will announce that other colleges have joined its network in the coming days.
Kim Bottomly, Wellesley College's president, said that online learning and liberal arts education are not mutually exclusive and that faculty would strive to create a class structure that encourages personal involvement and interaction.
"That is what liberal arts education is all about," she said.
She cited an online political science course that Wellesley College already offers with a university in Pakistan as an example of the advantages of online education.
The edX partnership will allow the college to reach women all over the world, including those who cannot attend school in their own country.
"The idea that we can reach beyond our campus to women everywhere is very compelling," she said.
Graduates and high school students who are considering attending could also have access to courses, she noted.
EdX courses are free and open to all and feature a mix of video tutorials and discussion forums.
The courses have proven wildly popular: By As of October, about 100,000 students had signed up for Harvard's first two online offerings.
Agarwal called 2012 a "year of disruption" to the status quo and said it was hard to predict how the change would shake out.
"Education will never be the same again," he said. "Few of us have any idea where things may go."
A number of rivals are jockeying for position in the new landscape, including Coursera, a for-profit online initiative that has 2 million registered students, and Udacity.
Bottomly said Wellesley faculty will need to be creative to make large, virtual classes interactive. "We have to figure out what works best," she said. "It needs to be an engaged environment."
Bottomly said that while online education has great potential, colleges will need time to learn how best to tap it.
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"The purpose of Phi Theta Kappa shall be to recognize and encourage scholarship among two-year college students. To achieve this purpose, Phi Theta Kappa shall provide opportunity for the development of leadership and service, for an intellectual climate for exchange of ideas and ideals, for lively fellowship for scholars, and for stimulation of interest in continuing academic excellence."
Phi Theta Kappa was founded in 1918 by two-year college presidents in Missouri. The founders were seeking to recognize scholastic achievement by their students, and to establish a common purpose and standard for honors organizations on their different campuses. The founders chose to model their new Society after the prestigious senior honor society, Phi Beta Kappa. The name "Phi Theta Kappa" was taken from the initial letters of the three Greek words meaning "wisdom," "aspiration" and "purity."
Eleven years later, Phi Theta Kappa was officially recognized by the American Association of Junior Colleges on November 19, the date now traditionally observed as the Society's Founders Day.


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Mentor A Student
Niagara University's Office of Career Services has formed a group on the social networking platform LinkedIn that is intended to connect current NU students and recent graduates with successful alumni — like you.
We are currently seeking alumni volunteers who are willing to act as mentors to these young people. Mentors will connect with students on LinkedIn and respond to questions about your career field and the job search process. If you are willing to participate, please visit http://ow.ly/cqUWW and request to join the group.
All NU alumni will be admitted to the group upon request while students are required to attend an orientation session that educates them on how to create a LinkedIn profile, utilize the social media platform effectively and network professionally with alumni.
Please join this group only if you are willing to respond in a timely fashion to our students and young alumni.
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Christian School Teacher Arrested For s3x With Teen Girl In Washington!
"religion teacher at a private Christian-based high school has been arrested on suspicion of having sex with a female teenage student there, police said Saturday. Scott A. Spies, 49, a teacher at the Auburn Adventist Academy, was arrested Tuesday and later booked into the Regional Justice Center in Kent, said Sgt. David Colglazier of the Auburn police. He is being held on $150,000 bail for investigation of molestation, indecent liberties and sex with a minor, police said. Spies has since been fired, and school officials are helping the victim in any way they can. Counselors are being provided for other students."
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Supermarket sales reached $437 billion in 2009, according to Progressive Grocer's 2010 Consumer Expenditures Study. It marked a modest 1.6 percent sales gain year-over-year, but it was the first time in five years that supermarket sales didn't exceed the gain of the prior year.
The economic downturn certainly impacted the supermarket business, with American consumers cutting back on almost all purchases. Had it not been for some of the product groups on the following list—those that consumers rely on in good and bad economic times—it might have been worse.
But this year, with food prices on the rise, can these same product groups keep supermarket sales in positive territory? Global prices of agricultural commodities are picking up, and foodstuff prices passed their 2008 zenith in December, according to data compiled by the United Nations. It could make for tough days ahead for consumers and grocers alike.
Click ahead to see what American consumers continued to put in their shopping carts even as the economy faltered.
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Courtroom, Alums Help Enhance Classroom Experienceby Howard W, Hewitt • October 17, 2005 Share:
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. - The educational experience taking place daily in the Wabash College classroom is often described as amazing. When professors take their students outside the classroom, the experience often becomes one students never forget.
Members of David Timmerman's Classic Rhetoric class and Patrick Myers' Ancient History Greek and Roman Law class took their lessons to Indianapolis' federal court building Monday morning.
The students participated in a mock trial, as it would have happened in ancient Greece. The witnesses to their presentation included not only classmates, but also three Wabash alums now practicing law in Indianapolis.
The students quietly filed into the ornate federal courtroom of Sarah Evans Barker, an honorary degree holder from Wabash College. Three alumni watched the presentation and talked about the differences between ancient Greek courts and courts today. They also stayed afterwards to talk and interact with students.
"I enjoy talking to the Wabash students," said Mark Rutherford '82, who practices business law in Indianapolis. "They have lots of questions. We have high caliber students at Wabash and they ask great questions. I had alumni who were very helpful to me. I remember coming up after presentations and asking questions and, despite myself, they gave me good advice and some of it I took and I ended up doing okay."
The students took full advantage of the opportunity keeping all three attorneys talking for nearly a half hour after the session ended.
"The biggest advantage is the interaction with the alums," Timmerman said of the Indianapolis trip. "Students can look at them and say 'this gentleman was a Wabash College student just like me and look what he's doing now, look how much knowledge and experience he has.' "
The combination of the experienced lawyers and jaw-dropping ornate courtroom had students buzzing.
"The courtroom is totally awesome," said Matt Ripley '06, who portrayed the defendant in the mock trial, "When you look around with the lights and everything it's so amazing. You look out there and think, 'wow this is what it would be like to be in a trial.' It's definitely a little bit nerve wracking at first but after you get into it, it became a lot of fun."
The atmosphere may have prompted students to work harder than usual.
"It really puts pressure on them to perform really well," Myers said. "I think a lot of people put in a lot more time in preparing than they might have ordinarily. It's edifying to see this is where the things you learn in college; this is where they get applied. It just helps students make the connection between what they learned in school and how they'll use it when they get out."
Timmerman said the courtroom worked as he had hoped before the trip. "To be able to do it in this courtroom is astounding," he said. "You step in there and you feel like justice is being done just by standing in that courtroom. The practice of the law either in ancient Greece or today is a highly significant event for society. Society went to great lengths to construct a room like this. Our judicial system is a foundational element of our democracy." Now they see that. They see, 'I'm part of a society that highly values the practice of the law.' think they can get inspired by that."
Terrance Tharpe '00 is a Marion County Deputy Prosecutor who said participating is a way to reach back to the college, even though he is a recent graduate.
"One of the ways younger alumni can give back quickly is their time," Tharpe said. "We may not be that established in our professions yet and may not be able to do so in a monetary fashion, but certainly giving back with our time is just as rewarding."
John Dowd '69, works in the U.S. Attorney's Office, was the other alumni participant. After the mock trial, the students spent another hour looking at the legislative procedures as they applied to ancient Greek law.
The trip was funded by the Know Indiana program, a grant from Lilly Endowment.
Hewitt is Wabash College's Director of New Media/Web Editor.
In photos:
Top right: Rutherford talks with students after the presentation.
At left: Tharpe speaks to the students after the trial presentation.
Bottom right: Dowd offers some advice after the class.
On homepage: The ornate federal courtroom was the backdrop for the classroom exercise.


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(Reuters) – Marion Bartoli would not have been high on any list of likely Wimbledon champions a fortnight ago but today the quirky Frenchwoman overwhelmed Sabine Lisicki 6-1 6-4 to claim her first grand slam title.
The 28-year-old 15th seed, who blazed through the shock-laden tournament without dropping a set, faced only token resistance in the final as German Lisicki froze on the biggest occasion of her career.
Trailing 6-1 5-1 Lisicki was struggling to hold back the tears but after saving three match points she finally freed her shoulders and briefly threatened an unlikely comeback before Bartoli slammed the door shut, holding serve to love and finsihing the match with her sixth ace.
Bartoli became the first French player to win a grand slam title since Amelie Mauresmo, now her coach, in 2006, finally breaking her major trophy drought at the 47th attempt.
"As a small girl I dreamed about this moment," Bartoli said in a courtside interview after lifting the Venus Rosewater dish on a sun-drenched Centre Court.
"Finishing with an ace to win Wimbledon, even in my wildest dreams I couldn't have imagined that.
"Honestly, I cannot believe it. I have practiced my serve for so long, at least I kept it for best moment!"
Lisicki, the 23rd seed, entered the match as favourite having beaten defending champion Serena Williams in the fourth round and last year's runner-up Agnieszka Radwanska in an absorbing semi-final.
She broke Bartoli's serve in the opening game of the match but then began to unravel as the occasion got to her.
Bartoli, runner-up to Venus Williams at the All England club in 2007, reeled off the next six games to win the first set in 31 minutes – many points being won without a fight as Lisicki's error count mounted.
Lisicki's booming serve never functioned smoothly and the astute Bartoli kept the ball away from the German's dangerous forehand as she moved within one set of her first grand slam title.
Lisicki went for the now "obligatory" toilet break at the end of the first set and returned a little more composed, holding her serve in the opening game of the second set but she wasted four break points on Bartoli's first service game and was then broken to trail 2-1.
Struggling to hold back tears, Lisicki dropped her serve again and in a flash she was 1-5, 0-40 down on serve.
"There would have been no place Lisicki would rather have been an hour ago," former men's champion John McEnroe, commentating for the BBC, said. "Now it's the last place she wants to be. Her mind's all fogged up."
The fog cleared briefly as Lisicki courageously saved three match points, then broke Bartoli to trail 3-5 and held confidently to finally apply some pressure on her opponent.
Bartoli, whose manic mannerisms and practice swings make her stand out from the crowd, regrouped and held serve to love, sealing her first grand slam title on her fourth match point after only one hour 21 minutes.
As a crestfallen Lisicki sat in her chair Bartoli clambered into the stands to embrace her entourage which included father and former coach Walter and Mauresmo.
"I was just overwhelmed by this whole situation," Lisicki said, struggling to hold back tears.
"Credit to Marion, she has been there before and she handled it perfectly."
Bartoli's triumph after 47 grand slam appearances beats the previous record held by Czech Jana Novotna who won Wimbledon in 1998 in her 45 major appearance.


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One of the most respected members of the Sooner staff, Merv Johnson joined the Oklahoma family in 1979 as an assistant football coach. Over the next 20 years, he helped the Sooners build a 150-67-5 record, win one national championship, five Big Eight titles and seven bowl games.
He was promoted into his current position in 1998. In that role, he coordinates the day-to-day activities off the field for Sooner football players and deals with on-campus recruiting efforts. Johnson serves as the color commentator on OU's football broadcasts in addition to various administrative duties including serving as the pro scout liaison and the coordinating the football walk-on program.
He helped produce 19 All-Americans as a Sooner coach and over his 38-year coaching career was a member of coaching staffs that won four national titles (at Oklahoma, Notre Dame and Arkansas).
He began his coaching career as a graduate assistant at the University of Arkansas before returning to his alma mater, the University of Missouri, to serve as an assistant coach in 1960-61. He returned to Arkansas as an assistant from 1962-74, then joined the football staff at Notre Dame for the 1975-78 seasons.
A former Mizzou football player, Johnson was an All-Big Seven tackle for the Tigers as a senior. He served as a team co-captain and played in the Blue-Gray All-Star game. He earned Academic All-Big Seven honors and was honored as the league's most Outstanding Student-Athlete of the Year.
A Missouri native, he has two grown children and is the proud grandparent of seven.


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Completely Booked Out in Astana
If you love books as much as I do, perhaps you too cherish the sensation of holding a new book in your hands for the first time. Or the way your nose twitches when dust lifts off the pages of an old paperback you just discovered on a bookstore shelf. Books are real treasures – they appeal to many different senses and can create memories that stay with us from childhood.
Today, more and more books take a very different form to when I was a kid. The Internet now provides us access to a vast electronic library where billions of books are available digitally rather than in the old-fashioned paper form. But there are many of us who still prefer the real thing. With this in mind, my colleagues and I at the World Bank office in Astana, Kazakhstan, held a book donation on the threshold of the New Year at the National Academic Library - one of the four depositary libraries in different regions of Kazakhstan (Almaty, Astana, Ust-Kamenogorsk, and Pavlodar) back in 2005 as an effective channel for sharing of knowledge and information.
For the event, we brought a ton of World Bank publications from the country office, inviting people to walk in and take any books that appealed to them. It took just one hour to clear the shelves! As people selected multiple books from the shelves, I asked, "Are you really going to read all of those books?" Their responses surprised me pleasantly.


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It provides unlimited freedom to ski and ride at eight of the South Island's mountain resorts, but is more than just a mountain pass. It is all you need for an action packed Winter holiday and provides unlimited freedom to experience the best the South Island has to offer; both on and off the mountain. OnePassNZ provides access to:
- Eight ski areas, giving you 5510 acres of lift-serviced terrain to choose from (that is equivalent to 2213 international rugby fields!)
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OnePass NZ is valid at: Cardrona, Treble Cone, Snow Park, Snow Farm, Mt Dobson, Ohau, Porters and Roundhill and provides ultimate freedom, flexibility and value.
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According to the National Retail Federation, holiday shoppers are expected to shell out an average of $750 this year. Wouldn't it be great to keep as much of your money local as possible?
The Jackson Web is here to help. The Local Businesses page is to help you find what you want to buy from a local merchant to keep our local economy as strong as possible. So, browse online, but shop local!


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By Quentin Fottrell
Does your husband or wife want a bigger house or car? Do you? This is one instance where the couple may be better off if they disagree, especially over money. The Juggle, our sister blog on WSJ.com, says a new study by scholars at Brigham Young University looked at more than 1,700 married couples across the U.S. and found that two materialistic spouses are actually not better than one. That runs contrary to popular opinion.
The study, just published in the Journal of Couple & Relationship Therapy, suggests it may not pay to have a partner in crime on Black Friday. It said that couples who say money is not important to them score about 10% to 15% better on measures of "relationship quality," which means they fight less and have more stable relationships. Those who both want more, more, more and share material ambitions fared worse: 20% worse than couples with just one materialistic partner.
But some say it's not the materialism itself that hurts the relationships, but the feelings of worthlessness behind it. Studies have consistently shown that the more materialistic people are, the less happy they are. Research suggests highly materialistic people have lower self-esteem, lower feelings of belonging, and lower feelings of power, says L.J. Shrum, president of the Society for Consumer Psychology. "Thus, it may be the interaction of two people who suffer from these feelings that is driving the marital discord, and not the materialism," he says.


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To request accommodations for Juneau-based classes, please contact Disability Services as soon as possible. You will need to provide official documentation of your disability.
Disabilities Services will work with you to determine reasonable accommodations for each individual course. Once accommodations are established, faculty will be given a notification letter which outlines the accommodations established for the student.


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Our home caught fire Feb. 1.
We are learning an important life lesson from this setback. It's not what you have or want that's important. It's the people.
So many people and organizations have come forward to help us. It's hard for us to now be on the receiving end of so much help and kindness.
As soon as we are back on our feet again, we will attempt to pay forward the mountain of kindness that has come our way.