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The groups seeking to influence the mainline churches denominational meetings are a motley crew of left-wing political outfits and their allies inside those denominations. In case you aren't familiar with them, I'd like to introduce them to you.
First, there's the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation (USCEIO). It calls itself "the largest and most diverse coalition working to change U.S. policy toward Israel/Palestine to support human rights, international law, and equality." That sounds nice, but it's just verbiage. So is the Campaign's claim not to support either a two-state or one-state solution to the Palestinian problem.
The reason is that the USCEIO supports, as a "human right," the so-called "right of return" for Palestinians. This refers to the claim that hundreds of thousands of Arabs were forced at gunpoint by Israel to leave the country in 1948, and that those still alive and all of their descendants should have the freedom to return to Israel, reclaim any property they claim to have held at the time, and become citizens of the country. (In fact, most of the Arabs who left Israel at the time of the invasion of the new nation by five Arab armies did so simply to get out of the way of the fighting, or because they listened to Arab propaganda and thought they'd be returning home in a few weeks once their brethren had pushed the Jews into the sea. Check out the history as it was recorded at the time here. It should also be noted that almost a million Jews were expelled from various Arab nations in 1948 and years following, and the USCEIO has never uttered a word suggesting that they should be allowed to return to their former homes.)
This, of course, is a formula for the destruction of Israel as a Jewish national homeland. Adding what is now millions of Palestinians to the over one million Arabs who are already citizens of Israel (because they didn't leave in 1948, and have therefore enjoyed greater freedom than any of their Arab brethren for over 60 years) would create an Arab majority. Assuming Israel remained a democracy, once the Palestinians were in charge of the country, things would change, to say the least. It is hardly beyond the ream of possibility that the new Arab-ruled Israel would expel the Jewish population, just as the Iraqis, Egyptians, Libyans, Syrians, and others before them. It's also likely that, since the vast majority of Palestinians are Muslims, that Christians and any Jews allowed to remain would become dhimmis in short order. Finally, of course, there's the dreadful human rights record of every other Arab nation to consider. Would a Palestinian-ruled Israel ape Syria or Saudi Arabia? Maybe not, but there's little reason for Israel's Jewish population to expect anything different, especially given the corruption and human rights violations of the Palestinian Authority, and the anti-Semitic ravings of Hamas.
The USCEIO is of the same mind as its leftist allies: Palestinians deserve the right of national self-determination, but Jews do not. It states as much in its FAQ:
The US Campaign does not endorse either a one-state or a two-state solution, but rather upholds the Palestinian right to self-determination. We believe the Palestinians must be empowered to exercise this right, and that the international community has a responsibility towards the right of the Palestinian to self-determination.
No mention of such a right for Israelis, or Israeli Jews, is mentioned anywhere on its web site.
That the USCEIO marches in lockstep with the far left is no surprise. Among the organizations that are members of this anti-Israel umbrella is a veritable Who's Who of the American extreme left. Among the member groups are long-time Communist fronts like the US Peace Council and the National Lawyers Guild, the International Socialist Organization, Code Pink, Global Exchange, the Council for the National Interest, the International Solidarity Movement, the U.S. Green Party, the Institute for Policy Studies, We Are Wide Awake (a project of anti-Semitic web site Veterans Today's Eileen Fleming), the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, the War Resisters League, If Americans Knew, the Rachel Corrie Foundation, and the U.S. Campaign fro Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel.
Of course, the secular left is not alone in the USCEIO, which includes a wide range of church groups. Among these are the General Board of Global Ministries and General Board of Church and Society of the United Methodist Church, the Methodist Federation for Social Action, Episcopal Peace Fellowship, the Episcopal Peace Fellowship Israel Palestine Network, the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina, the PCUSA's Israel Palestine Mission Network, the American Friends Service Committee, United Methodist Kairos Response, Pax Christi, Friends of Sabeel-North America, Christian Peacemakers Teams, Unitarian Universalists for Justice in the Middle East, and the Fellowship of Reconciliation.
Don't think, however, that these Christian organizations (other than the Methodist General Board of Global Ministries, which I'll return to in a moment) have a lot of say within the USCEIO. Of the five staff of the Campaign, the two most important and visible are Jewish, while the other three are of indeterminate religious background (though one has an Arabic name). The membership of the Steering Committee is especially interesting. For at least the last five years, one member has been Judith LeBlanc, a vice-chair of the Communist Party USA and national field organizer for Peace Action, which is also a USCEIO member organization. Another is Phyllis Bennis, fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies. Yet another is Felicia Eaves, whose connections to the far left include Black Voices for Justice and the Marxist-dominated United for Peace and Justice, and who has been a featured speaker at events sponsored by the likes of the neo-Stalinist International ANSWER. Also on the Steering Committee are members from the Muslim American Society, American Muslims for Palestine, and the Islamic Shura Council of Southern California. Left-wing Judaism has a representative in Sydney Levy of Jewish Voice for Peace (remember this name—it will come up again tomorrow). Bringing up the rear are a couple of leftist media types (Andrew Kadi of Adalah-NY and Bill Fletcher Jr. of Black Commentator.com) and two representatives of Christian organizations: David Wildman of the United Methodist General Board of Global Ministries and Mike Merryman-Lotze of the American Friends Service Committee.
Merryman-Lotze is the Israel-Palestine Program Director for the AFSC, but has otherwise kept a low profile on the Internet. Wildman, the "Executive Secretary for Human Rights and Racial Justice in Mission Contexts and Relationships" at the UMGBGM, is another story. He has been talking about Israeli "apartheid" and "colonialism" for years, as well as advocating for divestment. He has said of Zionism, "It's a theology that is deeply exclusivist and racist." An article of his appeared at Electronic Intifada in which he wrote:
The New Testament was written in a context of Roman colonial rule, discrimination, and military occupation in Palestine. It also took place in the midst of an active armed resistance movement (the Zealots) against colonialism and occupation. So, if we want to understand fully the meaning of biblical texts for today, it is helpful to listen to Palestinians who are facing the same dynamics of military occupation, colonial control of their land and apartheid-like discrimination.
You decide just what that is supposed to mean, or justify.
The USCEIO is not alone in its efforts to infiltrate the churches. A close ally in this effort is Jewish Voice for Peace. Both the staff and board of directors of JVP are shot through with individuals with resumes full of left-wing activism:
*Executive Director Rebecca Vilkomerson: "Rebecca has over fifteen years of experience in community organizing, advocacy, program development and fundraising in the United States and Israel."
*Director of Advocacy Sydney Levy: "Sydney has worked for over 15 years in nonprofits advocating for LGBT human rights organizing for media justice, and assisting in the preparation of death row appeals."
*Administrative Director Jane Suskin: "Long active in justice, peace and feminist causes."
*Board member and treasurer Jethro Eisenstein: "Since 1971 he has been involved in the longest-running civil rights case in New York, which established a right to sue the NY Police Department to restrict surveillance of peaceful political activity."
Board member and secretary Jordan Ash: "He later dropped out of college to work as a union organizer for SEIU. After 12 years working at ACORN, where he played a leading role in the group's campaign against predatory mortgage lending, he returned to the labor movement and now works for SEIU again."
*Board member Noah Winer: "...was a founding campaign strategist at MoveOn.org from 2003 to 2010."
You get the idea. JVP is a political organization, and needless to say not a Christian one. It has no interest whatsoever in Christian theology or ethics, and doesn't care what the right stance would be for Christian denominations to take would be based on their own beliefs or interests, and yet is heavily involved in the effort to get the denominations meeting this summer to buy into its divestment/boycott/sanctions agenda.
Jewish Voice for Peace has put out a flyer in connection with the Methodist General Conference that you can see here. Among the anti-Israel voices quoted in it are Archbishop Desmond Tutu (who thinks that pretty much everything is related to apartheid), and a Holocaust survivor named Hajo Meyer, a favorite of the anti-Semite set who has expressed support for the bizarre theory that most Jews are not really Jews, but descendants of a Central Asian people called the Khazars; referred to Zionism as "racist and separatist"; and declared that the Jewish state is the modern equivalent of Nazi Germany. He's also claimed that the definition of "anti-Semitism" has changed:
"Formerly an anti-Semite was somebody who hated Jews because they were Jews and had a Jewish soul. But nowadays an anti-Semite is somebody who is hated by Jews."That's the kind of person that Jewish Voice for Peace wants United Methodists to listen to next week.
Tomorrow: the tactics being used by the political left to infiltrate the churches.


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I'm still obsessed with John M. Smith (1760-ish – 1835) and trying to make a connection between him and a Smith family from the first permanent settlement in Kentucky – Fort Harrod. John has been a brick wall for a long time, and some of the information I've discovered in the last year has given more clues – and more questions.
For years, I thought John had 4 children based on deeds when the siblings sold their portion of John's land to each other, but researching the Russell County Court Records revealed 2 children that I didn't know John had. Solomon and Benjamin Smith both passed away in 1840 and their older brothers, George and Elias, were the administrators of their estates. I have the Court record, administrator and executor's bonds, but nothing further. One year later, a brother-in-law, Henry Payne, grants power of attorney to one of his relatives to make sure that his children get their rightful share of each estate. Only one of these sons – Benjamin – ever showed up in a tax list. He was listed directly after his older brother, owned no property or horse, so to me, it appears that he is a young man living with his brother after the death of his father. I estimated Solomon and Benjamin's dates of birth guessing that they were about 20-21 years old at the time of death. If they had been older, they should have shown up in the lists earlier. So now my group sheet shows 6 children.
Another unknown person showed up in the Court Records in 1833. John M. Smith was the administrator for the estate of John B. Smith. John B. never appears in a tax list or deed, and I can find no administrator or executor's bond for this estate. I had been hoping that I might find a John B. Smith in Mercer County and that probate records there might make the connection to John M, but I have not been able to find any records at all for a John B. Smith. Today, I was looking at John M's group sheet and I noticed a 5 year gap between the 2nd and 3rd child and another gap between the 4th and 5th child. Could it be that John B. was also a child who wasn't quite old enough to be listed on the assessment list? If I insert a hypothetical John B. into the 2nd gap, I have the following children:
1) Sarah Smith – b. @1804 m. Henry Payne in 1828 d. bef. 1847
2) George A. Smith – b. 1805 m. Talitha Ellis @1834 d. 1890
3) Elias Smith – b. 1810 m. Elizabeth Meadows in 1834 d. 1853
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5) John B. Smith – b. @1813? d. 1833
6) Benjamin Smith – b. @1819? d. 1840
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- The third son was named after the father
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I don't have the name of John M's wife, but in theory, her father's name would have been Elias. (Both of John M's oldest sons also had sons named Elias AND George, so I think these are important names in the family.)
The 3rd son, the hypothetical John B, would be named after his father, John M.
Without knowing more on George Smith of Harrodsburg's children, I cannot confirm that Benjamin or Solomon could be named after brothers. However, Adam Smith, who died in the Mercer County in 1793, had 2 sons named Benjamin and Solomon.
So my new focus will be on finding all I can on George Smith. At northamericanforts.com, the listing for Smith's Station in Mercer County says it was built in 1784 by "George, Adam or Zachariah Smith". Does this imply they were related? They don't list a source, so I don't know, but it would make sense. George got his land warrant in 1780 and Adam and Zachariah got theirs in 1781. Of course, I can find all kinds of information on Adam and Zachariah, but next to nothing on George. Based on various message boards, Adam and Zachariah's father was John Michael Smith. Could my John M. be named after John Michael?The search continues!


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A police officer from the nation's largest American Indian reservation was killed in western New Mexico and a suspect is in custody, federal officials said.
Navajo Nation Officer Houston James Largo, 27, was critically wounded after responding to a domestic violence call near the small town of Prewitt, said Frank A. Fisher, an FBI spokesman in Albuquerque. The agency, which is investigating along with the tribe, released no other details.
Largo was flown to the University of New Mexico Hospital and died hours later Sunday.
"Our nation mourns for you as does the country," Navajo Nation President Russell Begaye said in a statement. "Our officers' lives are precious. They are the ones who stand guard over our nation and protect us."
He said earlier Sunday that tribal officers are well-trained but face danger.
"Our officers put themselves in highly volatile situations every day in addressing domestic violence situations," Begaye said.
He said the tribe recently upgraded equipment and protective devices for its police department.
Begaye says Largo was from Thoreau, New Mexico, and had served with the department for 4½ years. The FBI said Largo had five years of service. The Associated Press could not immediately reconcile the two numbers.
The tribal president said he appreciated a call from New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez and her offer to help after the shooting.
"This sad news reinforces the dangers our police officers face every day — so we and our families don't have to," Martinez said in a statement. "I'm confident the monster who took this brave officer from us will face the full measure of justice."
New Mexico State Police and the McKinley County Sheriff's Office also were assisting with the investigation.
Begaye and Vice President Jonathan Nez called for support and respect of officers from the Navajo Nation, which covers 27,425 square miles in portions of Arizona, Utah and New Mexico.
"Our Navajo Nation police officers risk their lives every day to protect our communities," Nez said in the statement. "Officer Largo is a great example of an officer who paid the ultimate sacrifice to protect the life of another."


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Each year, National Night Out gets bigger and better, with more activities, more event-goers and more volunteers.
This year, National Night Out, a free community event, will be held Aug. 2 from 6-9 p.m. in downtown Galax, featuring dozens of kids activities, a mechanical bull, pony rides and bounce houses. The Galax Volunteer Fire Department will bring their fire trucks to give ladder rides.
The Galax High School stomp group will perform from 6-7 p.m., and a DJ will provide the entertainment for the rest of the night.
Over 40 organizations and exhibitors will be present to provide activities and giveaways.
The Galax Police Department and the Crime Prevention Coalition, sponsors of the event, are partnering with the American Red Cross to host a blood drive from 3-7 p.m.
Dozens of prizes will be given away, such as cabin stays, gift certificates and theme park tickets.
"We want to give families a positive experience," said Galax Police Sgt. Chris Brown, who organizes the event. "Galax is a melting pot and this brings families, friends and neighbors together for a good time. It's the police department's way of giving back."
Last year, about 65 volunteers helped to put on the big event. This year, nearly 100 people have signed on to help out.
"Four women had planned a trip to Myrtle Beach last year, but when they found out that National Night Out was happening at the same time, they cancelled their trip to help out," said Brown.
This marks this sixth National Night Out event in downtown. When the first event was held in Felts park, about 300 attended.
More than 4,000 people attended last year, and more are expected this year.
"Last year, we didn't think we could grow anymore," said Brown. "But we're looking for more people to be there this year, too. Attendance has doubled each year due to the popularity of the event."
Each year, volunteers prepare more than 2,000 hotdogs. This time, 3,000 hotdogs have been ordered.
Galax's National Night Out ranked 9th in the nation among cities of similar population, and for pulling off one of the best events. When it started, it placed 23rd out of 30-plus events in the country.
"And we're still striving for first place," said Brown.
The purpose is to encourage the public to help prevent crime, bring neighbors together and build relationships between law enforcement and citizens.
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While most high school seniors spend the last night before the first day of school getting ready for the upcoming year, Missy Franklin spent hers a little differently: She appeared on "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno."
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"The Club Industry team is always working to find new ideas and innovations to make the event more appealing and relevant to the commercial fitness community. Focusing on new products in the marketplace and providing added exposure for companies introducing them helped to facilitate increased activity on the exhibit floor," says Herb Greenebaum marketing manager for the Club Industry show. "We are also pleased at the highly positive reaction to the topical keynote address on the obesity crisis and the warm reception of the audience to the recognition given to Joe Weider by Club Industry magazine. As always, Club Industry successfully united every segment of the business."
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Nautilus introduced a StairMaster-branded club elliptical and StairMaster ClubTrack treadmills. The ellipticals reportedly have a movement that mimics the natural movement when walking or jogging.
SciFit, meanwhile, introduced the RST7000 Total Body Recumbent Stepper. The company says its ISO-strength programming on the RST7000 allows users to get a total body cardio and strength workout on one piece of equipment.
All work and no fun can make cardio very, very dull indeed. To help alleviate that problem, Life Fitness is the latest company to take entertainment internal with the launch of an integrated LCD console for its Life Fitness' treadmills, Lifecycles and stair climbers and add-on LCD entertainment consoles that can be retrofitted to the same equipment and ellipticals.
Meanwhile, traditional entertainment companies aren't resting on their laurels as BroadcastVision demonstrated its Orbit controller and receiver while CardioVision demonstrated its Personal Viewing Screens
Not to be outdone by mere sight, Technogym decided to entertain users with a full sensory experience. With its new Excite cardiovascular line developed with the innovative Multisensorial design, the treadmill combats the boredom of working out through emotions by stimulating the five senses.
There were plenty of happenings going on as well on the strength side of things.
FreeMotion Fitness was among those creating a buzz with the latest additions to the EPIC Strength selectorized line of strength equipment featuring ergonomic design and exclusive patent-pending technologies: LMT (lateral movement technology) and CAM2.
Meanwhile, Life Fitness and Nautilus also added and updated their strength lines — the Signature and Pro2 Series and Steel, respectively.
Life Fitness added four new units to its Signature Series, bringing the line's total number of units to 17. As for the Pro2 series, the company added five new pieces to the line, including a seated leg curl and assisted dip/chin.
Clubs with limited space and smaller budgets can look to Nautilus for its Steel line of selectorized strength equipment. The machines are compact and offer user-friendly features like a water bottle holder, contoured pads and instructional placards that define the exercises and muscle groups that are worked.
"We have specific needs for cardio and strength equipment," says Kevin McCauley, co-owner of the St. Louis, MO-based The Workout Co. "Visiting Club Industry and seeing the latest advances helps me to determine the right products, services and programs for my facility and for my clientele."
Regardless of the needs of the attendees — be it equipment, education or both — Club Industry 2003 turned out to perhaps be the turning point in the fitness industry as it makes its way out of the recession.


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On the Performance of Certain Iterative Solvers for Coupled Systems Arising in Discretization of Non-Newtonian Flow Equations (2004)
Iterative solution of large scale systems arising after discretization and linearization of the unsteady non-Newtonian Navier–Stokes equations is studied. cross WLF model is used to account for the non-Newtonian behavior of the fluid. Finite volume method is used to discretize the governing system of PDEs. Viscosity is treated explicitely (e.g., it is taken from the previous time step), while other terms are treated implicitly. Different preconditioners (block–diagonal, block–triangular, relaxed incomplete LU factorization, etc.) are used in conjunction with advanced iterative methods, namely, BiCGStab, CGS, GMRES. The action of the preconditioner in fact requires inverting different blocks. For this purpose, in addition to preconditioned BiCGStab, CGS, GMRES, we use also algebraic multigrid method (AMG). The performance of the iterative solvers is studied with respect to the number of unknowns, characteristic velocity in the basic flow, time step, deviation from Newtonian behavior, etc. Results from numerical experiments are presented and discussed.
This paper discusses a numerical subgrid resolution approach for solving the Stokes-Brinkman system of equations, which is describing coupled ow in plain and in highly porous media. Various scientic and industrial problems are described by this system, and often the geometry and/or the permeability vary on several scales. A particular target is the process of oil ltration. In many complicated lters, the lter medium or the lter element geometry are too ne to be resolved by a feasible computational grid. The subgrid approach presented in the paper is aimed at describing how these ne details are accounted for by solving auxiliary problems in appropriately chosen grid cells on a relatively coarse computational grid. This is done via a systematic and a careful procedure of modifying and updating the coecients of the Stokes-Brinkman system in chosen cells. This numerical subgrid approach is motivated from one side from homogenization theory, from which we borrow the formulations for the so called cell problem, and from the other side from the numerical upscaling approaches, such as Multiscale Finite Volume, Multiscale Finite Element, etc. Results on the algorithm's eciency, both in terms of computational time and memory usage, are presented. Comparison with solutions on full ne grid (when possible) are presented in order to evaluate the accuracy. Advantages and limitations of the considered subgrid approach are discussed.


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The fifth Australian Youth Olympic Festival (AYOF) held from 14 – 18 January 2009 was a great success! A total of 1,409 athletes from 30 nations participated across 17 sports which included 525 Australian (and State representatives). The athletes were supported by 550 team officials and support staff.
The sports competition for the 2009 AYOF included: archery, athletics, basketball, beach volleyball, canoe/kayak, cycling, diving, equestrian, fencing, football, gymnastics, hockey, rowing, shooting, swimming, triathlon and water polo.
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The 2009 AYOF Ambassador Program included many high profile Australian Olympians from each sport on the AYOF program. The ambassadors volunteered their time to mentor the AYOF athletes, stayed in the villages, attended training and competition as they shared their experiences and stories. This program is an integral part of the AYOF experience and all the young athletes enjoy the interaction with their Olympic heroes.
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The AYOF Opening Ceremony was held in the Sydney Entertainment Centre on Wednesday 14 January 2009. The total audience number was almost 6,500 providing a fantastic atmosphere to the event.
Welcome speeches were presented by the AOC President, John Coates AC, the AOC's Athletes' Commission Chair, James Tomkins OAM and the official opening announced by Lisbeth Trickett OAM, member of the AOC Athletes'' Commission.
The Opening Ceremony was once again produced by The Arts Unit of the NSW Department of Education and Training which included performances by NSW Public School students from the successful Schools Spectacular. Olympic style elements were presented included: the Parade of Athletes, Flag Raising, igniting the AYOF cauldron and the athletes' and officials' oath. Each National Federation participating in the 2009 AYOF nominated young Australian athletes to participate in the aforementioned activities. The honour of lighting the cauldron was bestowed to Breanna Appel from Water Polo.


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Ligue 1 preview: Paris Saint-Germain poised to wrap up league title
PSG could reclaim the Ligue 1 title before kicking a ball this weekend, but can also seal it with victory over Sochaux.
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Second-placed Monaco are 10 points behind and defeat to relegated Ajaccio on Saturday would see their valiant challenge - the principality club were promoted last summer - finally come to an end.
Should they return victorious from Corsica, PSG will need to take all three points away to Sochaux to end the contest, but Herve Renard's men are rallying hard towards securing a 61st consecutive season in the top flight.
For much of the campaign Les Lionceaux appeared doomed to suffer an overdue relegation to Ligue 2, yet former Zambia boss Renard has managed to guide the club to within two points of 17th-placed Guingamp and safety.
PSG sneaked past Evian 1-0 in midweek and, should they have to wrap up the title under their own steam on Sunday, head coach Laurent Blanc knows his players will need to be much more ruthless against Renard's side.
He told psg.fr: "They were three crucial points in the race for the title but it wasn't a great game.
"We didn't start the game with the right attitude.
"We need to show a different attitude and approach if we want to win the league against Sochaux on Sunday."
The flamboyant Renard knows beating the champions to climb out of the drop zone will be a tall order, but he would rather his team played the role of the "hunter" over the run-in than spend it looking over their shoulder.
"If the championship ended now, we would be relegated," he told L'Equipe.
"But there are four matches left. We all remember how Nancy cracked under the pressure last season when it seemed like they had done enough.
"So I think it is better to be in our position, the position of the hunter. I would have preferred a different opponent to PSG this week, but we have to play everyone."
To avoid being sucked into the bottom three by Sochaux, Guingamp will need to beat Valenciennes - a result which would effectively relegate Ariel Jacobs' side.
Evian are not totally safe and host St Etienne while Nice can banish realistic fears of relegation by taking something from their home game against surprise package Reims.
The Languedoc derby between Montpellier and Toulouse at the Stade de la Mosson holds more significance for the hosts, who are itching to get over the 40-point line as soon as possible.
While Monaco are all but assured of second place, Lille can move closer to tying down third and a shot at the Champions League qualifiers by beating Bordeaux on Sunday night.
Lyon are chasing fourth-placed St Etienne and host mid-table Bastia, with Marseille continuing their pursuit of a Europa League berth when they visit Nantes on Friday.
Elsewhere, Rennes and Lorient are preparing to face off in a Brittany derby at the Stade de la Route de Lorient.


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Amy Badal has been with the Office of the Dean of Students since 2001. She was named Dean of Students in August 2015. Amy oversees the office responsible for a range of student-life matters, including new student orientation, residence halls and off-campus living, campus activities and organization, fraternity and sorority affairs, student government, religious life, multicultural interests, student leadership and wellness services, among other areas of student life.
In addition to Bucknell, Amy worked at Appalachian State University overseeing student leadership initiatives and teaching leadership development courses.
She received her B.A. degree from Western New England College, an M.A. degree from Miami University and earned her Ph.D. in Student Affairs Administration from The University of Georgia.


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Last we checked in on the Jets' quarterbacking situation, Tim Tebow was a coddled malcontent who just wanted "to play regular quarterback." This came after Mark Sanchez, the man who permanently eliminated "poise" from the NFL lexicon, turned it over five times against Tennessee and was benched for Sunday's game against San Diego in favor of Greg McElroy, who played like he had no idea how to run an NFL offense, because he didn't. Oh, right, and Michael Vick was involved somehow. Let us risk psychic terror and check back in again:
Rex Ryan announced that Greg McElroy was being evaluated for a possible concussion and won't play Sunday against the Buffalo Bills in the season finale.
Bypassing Tim Tebow for the second time in as many weeks, Ryan said Mark Sanchez will start the game — yet another blow to Tebow, who has complained openly about his lack of opportunities this season.
On Thursday morning, McElroy developed a severe headache while lifting weights. McElroy, wearing a towel around his head, told trainer John Mellody of the symptoms. Together, they walked into Ryan's office around 9:30 to break the news.
Yes, this whole thing is about as Jets as it gets. A starting quarterback's concussion will not work the same magic for the Jets that it did for the Niners. Mercifully, Sunday's game against Buffalo is blacked out upstate, while other CBS affiliates in New York and Connecticut have decided to carry Houston-Indianapolis. Perhaps no one will have to see what actually unfolds.


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Jacksonville is known for its two small private colleges, its state-supported educational institutions, and the oldest of the Illinois Department of Mental Health's developmental centers. But worldwide, many more people have learned of the town by stumbling across mentions of one of the most mysterious cases in downstate-Illinois history.
On April 13, 1959, Bruce Campbell Sr. and his wife, Mabelita, drove to Jacksonville from their home in Northampton, Mass., and took a room at the Sandman Hotel. The couple had come to see their newly born first grandchild. He was the son of their only child, Bruce Campbell Jr., who taught chemistry at Jacksonville's MacMurray College. Two weeks later, Mabelita Campbell returned home alone.
No fight had occurred, no funeral. In truth, to this very day, no one has any idea what became of Campbell Sr., a prominent 57-year-old stock-investment counselor.
When he arrived in Jacksonville, Campbell was so visibly exhausted from his marathon drive -- his son described his father's state of mind as "rational but disoriented" -- that it was arranged for him to be seen by Dr. E.C. Bone, a local physician. Campbell Jr. later told police that his father was given medication to help him sleep. It didn't seem to work.
Campbell was restless and paranoid that night, his wife told police, according to a later account by Charles Runkel, a Jacksonville police captain at the time. Twice before 1 a.m., Campbell uncharacteristically awakened her to ask whether their car was locked, she said. Twice she reassured him and told him to go back to sleep. When she woke again, on her own, at 2:15 a.m., she was alone. A quick search of the hotel room and their car revealed no sign of the elder Campbell's departure but, rather, turned up a disturbing list of left-behind items: Campbell's wallet, all of his money, his shoes, his glasses, his keys, and all of his clothes. The only items missing were the bright-green pajamas he had worn to bed.
The entire day after the disappearance, Runkel and Police Chief Ike Flynn surveyed the area, both in a fixed-wing airplane and, later, in a helicopter. They found nothing. The next day, the search was joined by local firefighters in boats, who dredged the local branch of the Mauvaisterre Creek, and 150 male students from MacMurray. Again, nothing. On the third day, the entire 235-member male population -- students and staff -- of MacMurray College, plus 50 students from Jacksonville High school, joined the search.
Dr. Richard Freiburg -- who, with his wife, Dr. Mary Freiburg, taught biology at MacMurray at the time -- remembers the situation well: "I took part in the search. Keep in mind, this was in a day and age when attendance at classes was not optional. If you didn't show up, it would hurt your grade. I remember the dean dismissing classes that day. That was a rare thing. We searched a large ... well, an absolutely huge area. It was a really long day. We never found anything, though."
The Jacksonville Courier reported that the massive volunteer search crew, broken into small groups, systematically covered a six-mile-radius-area around Jacksonville, including all waterways. It was assumed, because there had been no reports of a barefoot man making his way around the city in pajamas and because the Sandman Hotel was on the northern edge of the city, that Campbell must have traveled north into recently planted fields.
A man of Campbell's stature -- he stood 6-foot-4 and walked with a slight limp -- would have been unmistakable and relatively easy to spot, especially in his pajamas. Unfortunately, this assumption proved overly optimistic. Dozens of reports of tall hitchhikers from a wide area including White Hall, Murrayville, Woodson, New Berlin, and Alexander kept police scrambling for days, but all proved to be simply what they were reported as -- tall hitchhikers, who did manage to get a convenient ride from the police.
"We have looked everyplace that has been suggested and have run out of ideas on what to do next," said Flynn to the Courier. "A fortune-teller told us that Campbell was seven miles from Jacksonville, either northeast or northwest of the city. We have even looked there."
The fortune-teller may have been onto something, though; the Courier reported that the last and practically only solid lead the police received came a week into the search. A farmer who lived several miles northwest of Jacksonville told police he'd been awakened by shouts on or near his property on the night Campbell went missing. The police immediately checked the area but came up empty-handed. Flynn told the press the case was "one of the most baffling mysteries that has occurred here."
After two anxious weeks, Mabelita Campbell reluctantly returned home to Massachusetts. Before her death last month, she never learned what happened to her husband.
After several months of extensive but futile follow-ups on anything even resembling a lead, the Federal Bureau of Investigation launched its own investigation. And on the first anniversary of the disappearance, it was revealed that the distraught Campbell family had spend almost all of their savings on private investigators who distributed Campbell Sr.'s photo and description to police departments across the country and posted a $500 reward for any information as to his whereabouts. Neither the FBI nor the private investigators found anything.
There were rumors, of course. Today, three locals, who wish to remain anonymous, recall whispered stories describing how a girlfriend had picked Campbell up at the hotel and whisked him off to a new life. But there's no proof. Another longtime resident is convinced that foul play was involved.
Dr. Edwin Ecker, retired math professor at MacMurray College, says his colleague Campbell Jr. "was certain that there was no fight, no history of depression, or anything of the sort between his parents."
Freiburg recalls that the younger Campbell later spoke of his father in terms of being deceased, though Freiburg never pried into the son's reasoning for this belief.
Runkel, the police captain, even remembers a report of a disturbance at Jacksonville's First Presbyterian Church -- Bruce Campbell Jr.'s church -- not long after the disappearance. It seems one woman began accusing another of being responsible for the disappearance. Runkel notes, though, that this woman was also well known for mental instability.
Ironically, the inscrutable case would be the last significant one of Flynn's career. Just weeks after the hoopla had calmed, Flynn retired, and Runkel was promoted to succeed him. Runkel recounts how Flynn, even though he was off duty, never let the case go. He died of cancer several months after retiring, but until the end, he never ceased checking in at the department to learn whether any new clues had surfaced. To this day, none has.
"As far as mysteries go, Jacksonville has never seen anything like that doggone thing," Runkel says.
"As far as a case where absolutely nothing, no clues, nothing was ever found ... it probably never will see anything like it again, either."
Eight years after Campbell's disappearance, the Courier ran a brief article reporting that Mabelita Campbell had finally received benefits from her husband's life-insurance policy. Campbell Sr. was, as far as the insurance company was concerned, finally dead. But was he?
Today, for residents of Jacksonville, Bruce Campbell's disappearance ranks right up there with Amelia Earhart's and Jimmy Hoffa's.
"In that we never found anything one way or the other, I suppose you might say the case is still open, but I don't think we are going to learn anything now," Runkel says.
"It was just the darnedest thing."


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Mahnaz Afkhami, president of the Women's Learning Partnership and Diane Singerman, associate professor in the Department of Government at American University's School of Public Affairs
When Egyptian women gained the right to no-fault divorce in 2001, they achieved a remarkable victory. In building the parliamentary coalition they needed, their first recourse was to respected Muslim clerics who agreed with their interpretation of traditional Islamic Law. The result of the effort was typical of the ways in which women are bringing about change throughout the middle-east. Mahnaz Afkhami and Diane Singerman analyze methods employed and challenges faced by women in a variety of Middle Eastern countries.
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Good morning, TexMessagers! Should the U.S. provide arms to the Syrian rebels?
The White House recently announced plans to arm Syrian rebels, but Rep. Ted Poe of Humble worries that the United States won't be able to control who will have access to the weapons.
United States intelligence agencies have reported that chemical weapons have been used against Syrian citizens by the Assad regime and that an estimated 100-150 people have lost their lives from detected chemical weapons attacks to date. The Obama administration decided to increase non-lethal assistance to the civilian opposition in the country and has authorized the expansion of United States assistance to the Supreme Military Council.
Obama argued that the use of chemical weapons crossed the red line and induces America to act, but Poe stated that America does not have a national interest in getting involved in the fight.
"The United States has made their problem our problem, and we should not be arming anybody in this conflict," Poe said in an interview with Fox News.
Poe said that there are numerous rebel groups, including ones that involve members of al Qaeda. He also mentioned that America does not even know for sure that Assad used chemical weapons and that a possibility exists that the rebel groups used chemical weapons.
The Texas Republican does not want to repeat mistakes made in the past where American firearms end up in the wrong hands. "We've got ourselves in a situation just like in North Africa, the Arab Spring, and in Libya. We start arming the rebels in Libya, we get rid of Muammar Gaddafi, the rebels still have the weapons, and they are still being used in other parts of the world," said Poe.
The conflict between religious groups in that area has taken place for many years, and Poe does not see it playing out well in the national interests of the United States. While Poe warns that arming the rebels may lead to the escalation of more United States involvement, he also recognizes that it is vital to assist the refugees in that area.
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"Amazing how you are quick to point out Gov. Perry's gaffes but completely ignore Pres. Obama's."
★ The House Committee on Oversight and Government reform has a hearing on reinventing government.
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Tomorrow and beyond:
★ June 19 The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee has a hearing to examine reducing senior poverty and hunger, focusing on the role of the "Older Americans Act".
★ June 19 The Senate Judiciary Committee has an oversight hearing to examine the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
★ June 20 The House Committee on Veterans' Affairs has a hearing on the value of education for veterans at public, private and for-profit colleges and universities.
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Ph.D., Boston College
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Organizational and social change, especially with regard to the role played by global liberal education, corporate citizenship, university-community partnership, and the arts.
Courses Taught
Business in Society
Entrepreneurship-Social Impact
Global Business Seminar
Applying the Art & Science of Management
Professor Boyle also advises students in the GSOM/IDCE dual-degree graduate programs.
Key Presentations/Publications
2016. "Global Liberal Education: Theorizing Emergence and Variability," presented at the Comparative and International Education Society 2016 Annual Conference. Vancouver, CA (March)
Appointed to Fulbright Specialist Program Roster, 2015-2020. Area of expertise: higher education.
Boyle, M.E., Ross, L. & Stephens, J. (2011). Who has a stake? How stakeholder processes influence partnership sustainability. Gateways: International Journal of Community Research and Engagement Special Issue on Sustaining Community – University Partnerships. Accepted for publication October 2011.
Silver, I. & Boyle, M.E. (2010) Constructing Problems by Promoting Solutions: Corporate Advertisements about US Poverty. Journal of Poverty, 14(3): 347-367.
Ross, L. & Boyle, M.E. (2007) Transitioning from High School Service to College Service- Learning in a First-Year Seminar. Michigan Journal of Service-Learning. 14(1).
Boyle, M.E. (2007) Learning to Neighbor? Service-Learning in Context, The Journal of Academic Ethics, 5 (1): 85-104.
Caldwell, C. & Boyle, M.E. (2007) Academia, Aristotle, and the Public Sphere – Stewardship Challenges to Schools of Business, The Journal of Academic Ethics, 5 (1):5-20.
Boyle, M.E. & Boguslaw, J. (2007) Business, Poverty, and Corporate Citizenship: Naming the Issues and Framing Solutions. Journal of Corporate Citizenship. 26 (Spring).


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Husack, on expectations: "We have high expectations of ourselves and we will accept nothing less than strong performances. Every player wants to help the team win and no one wants to let down their teammates. The team has really stepped up to face these high expectations."
Senior Bobby Rasmussen, on win: "It was just another good day for us out there. Playing at the Olympic Club against a good opponent like USF is never easy and we played tough and got it done."
Rasmussen, on mental challenges: "We have had some big mental challenges this year and today was another one. We had been rained out twice while playing them so we had to get ourselves prepared again to play them. Everyone responded well though and we ground out another win."
Rasmussen, on big wins this year: "We have gotten a lot of confidence-building wins this year. Beating Arizona and Irvine on the road gave us a boost and then getting that close one against Hawai'i was important. Beating Saint Mary's and USF back-to-back on the road are two more big ones."


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New tests are constantly being developed to further the understanding of disease, injury, and congenital (present at birth) or acquired abnormalities of the heart. These are just a few of the tests that have been used to diagnose heart and blood vessel disease (cardiovascular). For more information, talk to your cardiologist or other healthcare provider:
Electrocardiogram (ECG). This test records the electrical activity of the heart, shows abnormal rhythms (arrhythmias), and can sometimes detect heart muscle damage.
Stress test ( also called treadmill or exercise ECG). This test is done to monitor the heart while you walk on a treadmill or pedal a stationary bike. Your doctor also monitors your breathing and blood pressure. A stress test may be used to detect coronary artery disease, or to determine safe levels of exercise after a heart attack or heart surgery. This test can also be done using special medicines that stress the heart in a similar manner as exercise does.
Echocardiogram (also known as echo). An echo is a noninvasive test that uses sound waves to evaluate your heart's chambers and valves, as well as its pumping function. The echo sound waves create an image on the monitor as an ultrasound probe is passed across the skin over your heart.
Transesophageal echocardiogram (TEE). In this test, you will swallow a small probe, about the size of a little finger. The probe passes down the esophagus nearer to the heart. It allows a closer look at the heart's structure and function. It also shows any abnormal tissue around your heart valves, if blood is leaking backward through a valve, and if blood clots are present in your heart chambers.
Positron emission tomography (PET) scan. This is a nuclear scan that gives information about the flow of blood through the coronary arteries to the heart muscle:
PET F-18 FDG (fluorodeoxyglucose) scan. This specialized PET scan uses a form of glucose to help determine if any specific areas of heart tissue have permanent damage. Your doctor may use it after a heart attack to determine which procedure, such as angioplasty, stenting, or bypass surgery, may be beneficial. Your doctor will inject a glucose solution through an IV into your blood. Then a special camera takes pictures of where the solution collects in your heart.
Thallium scans or myocardial perfusion scans. Similar to the PET scan, these tests involve an IV injection and a special camera:
Resting SPECT thallium scan or myocardial perfusion scan. A nuclear scan done while you rest. It is done to view areas of the heart muscle that are not getting enough blood.
Exercise thallium scan or myocardial perfusion scan. A nuclear scan is done while you are exercising. It is done to view areas of the heart muscle that are not getting enough blood during activity.
Adenosine or persantine thallium scan or myocardial perfusion scan. A nuclear scan done on if you are unable to exercise. It is done to view areas of the heart muscle that are not getting enough blood. It uses special medicines that stress the heart in the same way exercise does.
MUGA scans/radionuclide angiography (RNA) scans. Similar to the PET scan, these tests involve an IV injection and a special camera:
Resting gated blood pool scan (RGBPS), resting MUGA, or resting radionuclide angiography. A nuclear scan to evaluate how well the heart wall moves and how much blood is pumped with each heartbeat, while you rest.
Exercise gated blood pool scan, exercise MUGA, or exercise radionuclide angiography. A nuclear scan to evaluate how well the heart wall moves and how much blood is pumped with each heartbeat, just after you have walked on a treadmill or ridden on a stationary bike.
Holter monitor. For this test, you wear a small, portable, battery-powered ECG machine to record heartbeats over a period of 24 to 48 hours during normal activities. At the end of the time period, you will return the monitor to the doctor's office so it can be read and evaluated.
Event recorder. For this test, you wear a small, portable, battery-powered machine used to record ECG over several weeks. Each time you have symptoms, you press a button on the recorder to record the ECG sample. As soon as possible, you will transmit this sample to the doctor's office for evaluation.
Loop recorder. Your doctor uses surgery to implant this device about the size of a zip drive under the skin to monitor and record the heartbeats for up to 2 years.
Tilt table test. Your doctor will connect you to an ECG and blood pressure monitor. Your will be strapped to a table that tilts you from a lying to standing position. This test is used to determine if you are prone to sudden drops in blood pressure (orthostatic hypotension), or slow pulse rates with position changes.
Electrophysiology study. For this test, insulated electric catheters are placed through the large vein in the upper leg and thread into the heart. It is used to test the heart's electrical system to find irregular heart rhythms.
Cardiac catheterization (also called coronary angiogram). For this test, your doctor guides a small catheter (hollow tube) through the large artery in your upper leg, or sometimes your wrist or arm, into your heart. Dye is given through the catheter, and moving X-ray pictures are made as the dye travels through your heart. This comprehensive test shows: narrowing in the arteries, heart chamber size, how well your heart pumps, and how well the valves open and close, as well as a measurement of the pressures within the heart chambers and arteries.
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the heart. This procedure uses a combination of large magnets, radiofrequencies, and a computer to make detailed images of organs and structures in your body. Your doctor may use MRI of the heart to evaluate the heart valves and major vessels, detect coronary artery disease, and the extent of damage it has caused, evaluate congenital defects, and detect the presence of tumors or other abnormalities. Your doctor may do this test before other procedures such as angioplasty or stenting of the coronary arteries and heart or vascular surgery:
Magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) of the heart. This is a specialized type of MRI procedure used to evaluate blood vessels in your heart.
Cardiac CT scan. This imaging procedure uses an X-ray machine and a computer to create a 3-dimensional pictures of the heart. Sometimes a dye is injected into a vein so that your heart arteries can be seen as well.
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The agency reported earlier this month that North Carolina's unemployment rate rose to 9.5 percent in January as more than 9,000 people entered the labor force.
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Russian Satellite Debris Poses Hazard
NASA is carefully tracking some 500 pieces of debris from a Russian intelligence satellite that may pose a hazard for the international space station. The satellite exploded in March; another piece of it broke apart in June.
In recent days, a couple of pieces looked like they might come close enough to the international space station to prompt an evasive maneuver, says Gene Stansbery, of NASA's Johnson Space Center, who helps track debris. Further tracking, however, indicated the debris would pass at a safe distance.
This model of Russian satellite has a history of occasional and peculiar breakups.
"They undergo these mysterious spasms," says Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. "And what's unusual about this latest one is that there's so much debris — much more than in any previous explosion of a satellite of this type."
The satellites, known as EORSATs — Electronic Ocean Reconnaissance Satellites — have been in use since the 1970s. Some analysts believe the satellites are used to track U.S. Navy ships from their radio transmissions.
Most analysts believe the breakups are intentional, McDowell says. The initial explosion seems to happen when the satellite is within range of a Russian tracking station, "which leads one to imagine that it's them sending a radio signal going 'blow up now,'" McDowell says.
McDowell says the subsequent breakups may be due to residual fuel igniting.
Stansbery says NASA has contacted Russian officials in the past about the occasional messy breakups of these satellites, but hasn't received a response. Russia is a major partner in the international space station.
The 500 pieces being tracked are at least a couple of inches in size, Stansbery says. He says the debris cloud probably also includes smaller bits that the network can't track.
"In those cases, you don't have any warning if one would come close" to the international space station, Stansbery says, though the risk from those pieces is low.
Stansbery says he's heard the Russians are retiring this model of satellite. The Russian Embassy did not return a call seeking comment.
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Initially, the Web version of this story misidentified the affiliation of Gene Stansbery. He is with NASA's Johnson Space Center.


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Chris Tormey had three stints with the Vandal football squad, one as a player, one as an assistant coach and one as head coach. A linebacker for the Vandals from 1973-76, Tormey was an All-Big Sky honoree in 1976 after helping lead the team to a second-place finish in the Big Sky and a 7-4 overall record. As an assistant coach in 1982-83, he coached the defensive line of


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It's possible that some of the 10,000 taste buds on your tongue didn't get enough stimulation with that meal. With taste buds for sweet, sour, salty, bitter and savory (a specific taste found in the amino acids of protein), it can be difficult to keep all five "buds" satisfied.
It's quite easy to satisfy the sweet, salty, bitter and savory taste buds, but to activate the sour ones, it will take a bit, not much, of menu planning.
Cultured foods can fill that missing gap in the meal and make the process easy. These foods simply start with a whole, natural food, and change it to a new, slightly sour food with a different texture within a matter of hours through a process of fermentation. The process is totally natural.
Cultured foods include foods such as sauerkraut, Kim Chee, cheese, kefir and yogurt, but other foods can be cultured, including soybeans, eggplant, cucumbers, and turnips. In different cultures, whatever vegetable is in season is used for culturing.
We Need Bacteria in Our Intestinal Tract
The two primary reasons why cultured foods need to be a part of one's diet are: 1) to provide that complete stimulation for the taste buds, and 2) to support the microbial flora in the intestinal tract.
Surprisingly, we're all "walking bags of bacteria." Our body is comprised of 10 trillion body cells that collectively compose our organs, bones, nervous system, muscles, skin, hair and nails. However, inside the numerous feet of our intestinal tract is an estimated 100 trillion live bacteria, viruses, fungi, parasites of about 500 different species; both good and bad, that set up their own environment for either health or illness. A 'good' or 'friendly' species is one that synthesizes different vitamins and when in high numbers, creates health. A 'bad' species is one that creates disease or pathology in the body by its presence in high numbers. Collectively, the good and bad microbes are called flora.
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Rhode Island casino lures Foxwoods, Mohegan Sun workers
Lincoln, R.I. — Twin River could take more than business away from Connecticut's casinos.
The slots parlor, now on a fast track to full-fledged casino status, also could divert table-games dealers now working at Foxwoods Resort Casino and Mohegan Sun, particularly those who live in Rhode Island.
"It's purely an economic thing," a Foxwoods dealer from Lincoln said Wednesday after dropping off an application at a Twin River jobs fair that drew more than 2,000 people over a six-hour period. "This is so much closer. I like it at Foxwoods, but the commute is killing me."
The man, who said he's been working at Foxwoods for nearly 20 years, declined to give his name, as did others who spoke to a reporter outside the job fair. More than one said they saw many of their Foxwoods co-workers at the fair as well as dealers they recognized from Mohegan Sun.
"It's like a family reunion in there," said a woman who identified herself as a Foxwoods dealer from North Kingstown, R.I.
Twin River had announced the job fair late last week, just days after Lincoln residents and Rhode Island voters statewide approved the facility's introduction of such table games as blackjack, craps and roulette in Nov. 6 referendums.
Statewide voters also approved table games for the Newport Grand slots parlor, but Newport voters rejected the measure in local balloting.
Twin River management has said it hopes to have 65 tables up and running by July 1. The facility wants to hire "a mix" of experienced and inexperienced dealers. Applicants without experience will be required to complete a training program and an audition.
No interviews were conducted at Wednesday's job fair, which Twin River said was the first in a series of such fairs. It said all applications would be reviewed at a later date and selected candidates would be contacted for interviews.
Available positions at Twin River also include table games floor supervisors and table games managers. Support staff positions are available in such areas as accounting and finance, security, surveillance and food and beverage.
All Twin River gaming employees must pay for a state-mandated gaming license, which costs $150 a year.
A job seeker from Providence who said he's been a dealer at Foxwoods for nine years, said the prospect of shortening his one-hour commute by landing a job at Twin River was the main reason he applied at the Rhode Island facility. But, he added, protracted contract negotiations between Foxwoods management and the union for Foxwoods dealers, Local 2121 of the UAW, also motivated him.
He said he did not support the unionization of Foxwoods dealers.
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