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NEW ORLEANS, Oct 20 (Reuters) - Two Republicans seeking to fill an open U.S. congressional seat from Louisiana will compete in a runoff election after none of the 14 candidates garnered enough votes to win the weekend's open primary.
State Senator Neil Riser and businessman Vance McAllister will meet in a Nov. 16 contest to fill northeastern Louisiana's rural fifth congressional district seat.
Riser had 32 percent of the vote, and McAllister, a newcomer to politics, had 18 percent, far below the 50 percent or more of the vote as required by state law to be declared the winner, according to the secretary of state's website.
The House seat came open last month when Republican Rodney Alexander left the U.S. House of Representatives to become Governor Bobby Jindal's secretary of veterans affairs.
The winner of the runoff will serve out the remaining 13 months of Alexander's term.
Riser has the support of the governor, although political analyst Joshua Stockley said that could be a hindrance.
"With Jindal's disapproval numbers being so high right now, nobody would benefit too much by being associated with the governor," said Stockley, a political science professor at University of Louisiana at Monroe.
Recent polls have pegged Jindal's voter approval in Louisiana as low as 28 percent.
Nevertheless, Stockley said Riser has had a "tremendous edge" in campaign fundraising.
A fundraiser for McAllister was hosted recently by Phil Robertson, star of A&E's reality television show "Duck Dynasty."
Stockley said the election results reflect how voters view political insiders.
"Of the major Republican candidates in this race, Vince McAllister has the least political experience," he said.
McAllister has been able to "channel the anti-establishment Republican frustration sentiment" as well as the popularity of "Duck Dynasty," he said.
Contenders in the primary included five Republicans, four Democrats, two Libertarians, one Green Party candidate and two Independents. (Editing by Ellen Wulfhorst; and Jackie Frank)


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Launch of the shuttle Atlantis on a mission to upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope has been moved up one day and retargeted for May 11 at 2:01:49 p.m. EDT.
NASA officials said Wednesday that they hoped to push the launch date up in order to increase the odds of a successful launch before a deadline of May 14. But they needed to assess whether such a schedule change was feasible. Engineers and managers concluded Friday that processing could, in fact, be accelerated without affecting required work. Senior managers will hold an executive-level flight readiness review next Thursday to discuss final clearance for launch.
By moving launch up one day, NASA will have three days in which to get Atlantis off the ground before standing down to make way for a military operation on the Air Force Eastern Range, the agency that provides telemetry and tracking support for all rockets launched from Florida.
If the weather or some other problem keeps Atlantis on the ground past May 13, launch will be delayed to May 22 at the earliest because of the range conflict and time needed to recharge the new batteries being delivered to Hubble aboard the shuttle.
A NASA spokesman said the only downside to moving launch up one day was a minor reduction in battery charging time, from 209 hours to 185. But that is still well above the 156-hour requirement for the new batteries, and Hubble Program Manager Preston Burch agreed to move the planned launch.
"Everybody signed off on it," said a NASA spokesman.
As reported earlier this week, NASA is hoping to get Atlantis off as soon as possible to avoid any problems for the next shuttle mission, a space station assembly flight by shuttle Endeavour. Endeavour currently is mounted atop launch pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center, on standby for launch on an emergency rescue mission if the Atlantis astronauts run into any problems that might prevent a safe re-entry.
Assuming a rescue flight is not needed, Endeavour will be moved to pad 39A and prepared for launch June 13 on the station assembly flight. But NASA will only have one week to get Endeavour off the ground. A so-called "beta angle cutout" will kick in June 21, preventing any shuttle visits to the station until after July 11 because of temperature constraints related to the angle between the sun and the plane of the space station's orbit.
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There are some interesting statistics in a new Washington Post poll on marriage equality. The survey finds Washington D.C. residents overall support the recently approved marriage equality law 56-35 but there are racial and educational divides. A slim majority (51 percent) of blacks in the District oppose marriage equality but that changes based on education and church attendance.
Nearly six in 10 D.C. residents, including 83 percent of whites, favor making it legal for gay couples to marry. The broad support for same-sex marriage in the District's white community cuts across cultural lines that divide opinions on the matter nationally. Regular white churchgoers nationwide generally oppose same-sex marriage, but two-thirds of whites in the District who attend services monthly or more often support same-sex marriage.
African Americans tilt against same-sex marriage. Thirty-seven percent of black residents back legal same-sex marriage. A slim majority opposes it, and the bulk of opponents say they feel that way strongly. But some divisions are evident in the local black community on this issue, with sharp divides by church attendance and education.
One in five African Americans who attend church services weekly favor same-sex marriage, and support rises to 47 percent among those who attend less often. A narrow majority of black college graduates supports gay marriage, compared with about a third of African Americans with less formal education.
The poll indicates that council members Marion Barry (D-Ward 8) and Yvette M. Alexander (D-Ward 7) were representing their constituents' views when they became the only two members to vote against the same-sex marriage bill.
So approximately half of black DC residents that have a college degree or do not regularly attendance church support gay marriage. That's good news and trending with national averages.
The poll also finds that despite widespread acceptance, some 59 percent of residents would prefer to vote on the issue. But ... "If it lands on the ballot, however, the District would be well positioned to become the first state-level jurisdiction in the country where voters embraced same-sex marriage, according to the poll."


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Rory McIlroy has been voted 'Professional of the Year' in the Irish Golf Writers' Awards for 2012.
The 23-year old from Holywood won the US PGA in record-breaking fashion at Kiawah Island in August, his second Major Championship and one of five victories he recorded worldwide in a season when he also captured the money titles on both sides of the Atlantic and became Irish golf's first world number one.
This is McIlroy's third time to win the 'Professional of the Year' award, having also won in 2009 and in 2011, when he shared the honour with Darren Clarke.
The amateur awards were also captured by Ulster golfers. Alan Dunbar of Rathmore Golf Club was voted the 'Men's Amateur of the Year' following his win in the Amateur Championship at Royal Troon while Royal Portrush's Stephanie Meadow claimed the 'Women's Amateur of the Year' award following an outstanding season.
Having helped the University of Alabama to its first team national title in the NCAA Championships in Tennessee in May, Ms Meadow secured the decisive point for Great Britain and Ireland in a dramatic Curtis Cup victory over the United States at Nairn before going on to capture Ladies British Amateur Open title at Carnoustie.
Cork-born businessman Oliver Barry, who started his career in the music industry as an impresario and concert promoter, is the recipient of the 'Distinguished Services to Golf' award.
Mr Barry's vision of providing affordable and challenging golf to the people of Dublin led to the founding of Hollystown Golf Club, Ireland's first pay and play golf course, in 1992.
The recipients will receive their awards, which have been specially designed for the Irish Golf Writers' Association (IGWA) by Tipperary Crystal, at an Awards Dinner sponsored by Carton House Golf Club in Maynooth on January 24.


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Welcome to the Stanford Computer Science Department History Wiki
This site is a repository of historical information about Stanford's Computer Science Department and Computer Systems Laboratory. For more about the site itself, including how to contribute to the site, see Stanford_CSD_History:About.
Some of the history has already been added to this site:
- Timeline - originally compiled by Nils Nilsson with extensive help from faculty and staff
Some of the history will be here someday (Pseudo-links in red like this indicate pages that should be created):
- Faculty books - A list of textbooks written or co-written by the faculty
- Faculty honors - A list of honors and awards for the faculty
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- "From the Valley of Heart's Delight to the Silicon Valley: A Study of Stanford University's Role in the Transformation" by Carolyn Tajnai.
- "Fred Terman, The Father of Silicon Valley" by Carolyn Tajnai.
- The Links Between Stanford University and Industry by Carolyn Tajnai.
- Information on early computers at Stanford (compiled by Gio Wiederhold)
- Computer History Exhibits (web page compiled by Gio Wiederhold)
- Wellspring of Innovation A searchable compilation of companies founded by people affiliated with Stanford. According to this website, "In the last several decades, over 1,200 full-time companies were founded by members of the Stanford University community." Just a few of these are listed in the timeline.
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Market segmentation is broadly defined like a complex process composed in 2 primary phases:
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- segmentation of those markets to be able to select the best target markets and develop Marketing mixes accordingly.
Everybody inside the Marketing world knows and talks about segmentation though not many truly understand its underlying mechanics, thus failure is coming. What can cause this? It's been documented that many marketers fail the segmentation exam and begin having a narrow mind and a lot of misconceptions for example "all teenagers are rebels", "all seniors women purchase the same cosmetics brands" and so forth. There are lots of dimensions that need considering, and uncovering them is unquestionably a workout of creativeness.
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McCarthy and Perreault suggest developing sub-markets around what you will call your "typical customer", then aggregate similar people into this segment, around the condition so that you can satisfy their demands utilizing the same Marketing mix.
Begin to build a column with size of the main need you attempt to pay for: this makes it simpler at your discretion if your given person ought to be incorporated within the first segment or else you should form a brand new segment. Also make a list of individuals-related features, census incorporated, for every narrow market you form – an additional step will request you to name them.
There's no exact formula regarding how to form narrow markets: make use of your best judgement and experience. Don't avoid asking opinions even from non-Marketing professionals, as differing people might have different opinions and you may usually rely on a minimum of individuals products many people agree with.
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Each segment identified, named and studied throughout the previous stages should finally get a quote size, even when, for insufficient data, it is just a tough estimate.
Estimates of areas will be handy later, by providing an assistance for sales forecasts which help plan the Marketing mix: the greater data we are able to gather now, the simpler further planning and strategy is going to be.
They were the steps to segment an industry, briefly presented. If performed properly and completely, you need to now have the ability to possess a peek at building Marketing mixes for every market segment.
This 7 steps method of market segmentation really is easy and practical and works best for most marketers. However, if you're interested in other methods and wish to experiment, you need to check out computer-aided techniques, for example clustering and positioning.
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If Americans believe that "we are a better country" than what we have seen for the past eight years, as Democratic Presidential nominee Barack Obama said in his acceptance speech Thursday night, then that sense of hope will help propel him into the White House.In what was an inspiring speech, Obama's soaring rhetorical style encouraged Americans to dream again of a country that leads the world, not by military might, but by the force of its optimism and a promise of opportunity available to all: "It's a promise that says each of us has the freedom to make of our own lives what we will, but that we also have the obligation to treat each other with dignity and respect," Obama said. "It's a promise that says the market should reward drive and innovation and generate growth, but that businesses should live up to their responsibilities to create American jobs, look out for American workers, and play by the rules of the road."Ours is a promise that says government cannot solve all our problems, but what it should do is that which we cannot do for ourselves — protect us from harm and provide every child a decent education; keep our water clean and our toys safe; invest in new schools and new roads and new science and technology. Our government should work for us, not against us. It should help us, not hurt us. It should ensure opportunity not just for those with the most money and influence, but for every American who's willing to work."That's the promise of America - the idea that we are responsible for ourselves, but that we also rise or fall as one nation; the fundamental belief that I am my brother's keeper; I am my sister's keeper."That's the promise we need to keep. That's the change we need right now."But Obama's speech wasn't just about hope. He also asked the American people to look critically at the failure of the Bush administration over this past eight years, and not excuse that performance."We meet at one of those defining moments," Obama told the nation, "a moment when our nation is at war, our economy is in turmoil and the American promise has been threatened once more. Tonight, more Americans are out of work and more are working harder for less. More of you have lost your homes and even more are watching your home values plummet. More of you have cars you can't afford to drive, credit card bills you can't afford to pay and tuition that's beyond your reach."These challenges are not all of government's making. But the failure to respond is a direct result of a broken politics in Washington and the failed policies of George W Bush." He broadened that criticism by charging that Republican nominee Sen. John McCain has subscribed to the Republican's failed theory of trickle-down economics, where the policy of the land is to enrich the wealthy and let the money trickle down to the vast majority of Americans. "It's time for them to own their failure. It's time for us to change America."It's not that difficult to imagine how McCain and the Republican camp will fight back. They'll simply deny the charges. They'll suggest that the Iraq war was the right one to pursue; they'll downplay the difficulties in Afghanistan and suggest Americans are safer today than we would have been under a Democratic administration. They'll play the fear card, time and time again, because putting fear in the hearts of Americans is what has worked for Bush these past eight years. And they'll suggest the economy is strong and getting stronger, that health care works better without more government involvement, and giving tax breaks to the wealthy is really the best way to go… just trust them. And then, of course, they'll preach God and Country, as if only Republicans are the only real Christians and patriots among us.It's divisive, demeaning and dishonest, but it's a strategy that has worked before. The nation's hope is that American citizens are able to choose the storyline that will best serve the nation's long-term interest.Angelo S. Lynn


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American astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko will launch on the one-year space station flight in spring 2015 and return to Earth in spring 2016, NASA officials announced Monday. They will begin their mission training in early 2013.
The mission will help NASA understand how the human body adapts to extremely long space missions, such as voyages around the moon, to an asteroid and ultimately to Mars, NASA officials said.
"Congratulations to Scott and Mikhail on their selection for this important mission," William Gerstenmaier, NASA's associate administrator for Human Exploration and Operations in Washington, said in a statement. "Their skills and previous experience aboard the space station align with the mission's requirements. The one-year increment will expand the bounds of how we live and work in space and will increase our knowledge regarding the effects of microgravity on humans as we prepare for future missions beyond low-Earth orbit." [ Most Extreme Human Spaceflight Records ]
NASA is developing spacecraft and mission plans to send astronauts to visit a near-Earth asteroid by 2025, a goal set by President Barack Obama. The space agency is also reportedly studying potential manned missions back to the moon.
Kelly, 48, is a U.S. Navy captain who has flown on two space shuttle missions and one long-duration expedition on the International Space Station. He commanded the space station's Expedition 26 mission in 2010 during his third spaceflight.
Kelly hails from West Orange, N.J., and joined NASA's astronaut corps in 1996. His identical twin brother, Mark Kelly, also served as a Navy captain and NASA astronaut before retiring from the military and spaceflight in 2011.
Kornienko, 52, is also a veteran spaceflyer. The native of Syzran in Russia's Kuibyshev region is a former paratrooper officer who joined Russia's cosmonaut corps in 1998. Kornienko spent more than 176 days in space as a flight engineer on the station's Expedition 23 and 24 crews.
NASA and Russia announced plans for the one-year space station voyage earlier this year. Rumors of the flight were circling before the announcement, with the Russian news agency Interfax suggesting that veteran NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson — a veteran station commander — as a potential choice for the American crew member. Whitson stepped down from her position as NASA's chief astronaut earlier this year to rejoin the agency's active spaceflying ranks.
Today's announcement, however, puts that theory to rest.
"Selection of the candidate for the one year mission was thorough and difficult due to the number of suitable candidates from the Cosmonaut corps," Vladimir Popovkin, the head of Russian Federal Space Agency, said in a statement. "We have chosen the most responsible, skilled and enthusiastic crew members to expand space exploration, and we have full confidence in them."
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The events in Newtown sparked a lot of discussion on gun control and the media's representation of children following violent events. However, as is the case with most well-covered human tragedies, mental health discourse was decidedly missing from the reporting. "Evil visited this community today," the Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy said following the shooting. Such words are not uncommon following acts of violence, but their prominence still made me cringe. I have to ask, whose "evil" are we talking about when we classify this tragedy as such?


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Dr. Jeffrey S. Ginsberg reviews content for Healthwise, a nonprofit organization with a mission to help people make better health decisions. He is a hematologist with training in clinical and laboratory aspects of thrombosis. His research interests include the development of novel antithrombotic agents; diagnosis and management of thrombosis during pregnancy; prevention and treatment of post-phlebitic syndrome; investigation of the clinical complications and antiphospholipid antibodies, and the diagnosis of venous thrombosis and pulmonary embolism. Dr. Ginsberg is a Professor in the Department of Medicine at McMaster
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Davis S. Ingalls Hockey Rink
Designed by Eero Saarinen and completed in 1958, the David S. Ingalls Hockey Rink at Yale University is an extraordinary building, a highpoint in expressive modern architecture. Commissioned to design the rink, Saarinen developed a uniquely sculptural building, resembling something like a slithering beast, with 2,900 seats set stadium fashion around a 200' x 85' skating area. Saarinen wanted to bring people into the rink on the southern, campus side and he wanted the movement of the skaters toward the goals to follow that processional route. The curved form also sweeps the observer along and into the action. The great arching spine of the building is visible and dominant inside and out, with the central arch reaching 75 feet in height and cantilevering out 40' on each end to support the roof over the entrances.
Technically and visually, the most notable feature of the concrete and aluminum building is the sweeping aluminum and wood roof. The roof is hung in a saddle shape from a great central spine and held in place by a grid of cables running parallel and perpendicular to the spine, forming a tensioned web. Wood slats on the roof work well with the concrete formwork, and though some have been replaced, most have survived. Saarinen sheathed the roof with neoprene, a material he first used at the GM Technical Center to hold curtain wall windows in place. On top of the roof, there are three guy wires (bracing cables 1 3/4 in diameter), which help it resist snow loads.
Saarinen hired Fred Severud, the noted engineer to work with him on the design of the rink. They developed a roof hung in a saddle shape from a great central spine and held in place by a grid of cables running parallel and perpendicular to the spine, forming a tensioned web. The roof was covered with a membrane of wood slats. Saarinen's design was an innovative approach to these ideas and also one of the most expressve uses of this type of modern technology.
Each of Eero Saarinen's projects are unique and particular forms specifially designed for a certian set of circumstances, functionally and humanistically. The Ingalls Rink expressed movement through its scluptural organic form inside and out, setting an innovative and unique standard to approaches in expressive modern architecture.
At the time Saarinen was designing the Ingalls Rink, there were many experimental structural systems emerging, particulariy in regards to tension structures and large slung roofs. Saarinen was influenced at the time by Matthew Nowicki's design for the North Carolina State Livestock Judging Pavilion of 1950-1952, Paul Rudolph and Twitchell for a tension structure house in Florida, Bill Irwin in Melbourne who was working on an Olympic Swimming Stadium and a Music Bowl and Luigi Nervi who was building the Sports Palace in Rome. Hugh Stubbins would soon design a cross-cable saddle for the Congress Hall in Berlin (1957).
The Ingalls Hockey Rink is a remarkable advancement in cable supported membrane roofs, becoming an icon in the experimental use of this technological innovation. Saarinen's use of the hung roof here influenced his design for Dulles International Airport in Chantilly, VA (1962). The development of an innovative design by a well-known architect for a sports complex, set a precedent for future such commissions.
Fred N. Severud and Raniero G. Corbelletti, Hung Roofs, Progressive Architecture, Mar. 1956, pp. 99-107.
Hockey rink at Yale; Architectural Record v 122 Aug 1957. p. 186-9.
Fred N. Severud, Arches and Catenaries Carry Rink Roof for Yale's Hockey Rink, New Haven, Engineering News Record, April 10, 1958, p. 30-31, 33.
Fred N. Severud, Cable Suspended Roof for Yale Hockey Rink, Civil Engineering, Sept. 1958, p. 60-63.
Yale's hockey rink; Architectural Record v 124 Oct 1958. p. 151-8.
Recent work of Eero Saarinen, with some statements of Eero Saarinen; Hockey rink, Yale University, fall 1958; E. Saarinen, arch, p. 46-53, Zodiac no 4 1959. p. 30-67, 194.
Donald Vesley, Yale Architecture and the Hockey Rink, Criterion, Jan. 1959, p. 15-18.
Walter McQuade, 'Exploded landscape' p. 83-90; (Rudolph, Johnson, Saarinen, Johansen, Kahn); Sibyl Moholy-Nagy, 'Cantus firmus of Eero Saarinen', p. 66-7.
Robin Boyd, 'Under Tension', Architectural Review, Nov. 1963, p 324-334.
Peter Blake, No Place Like Utopia (W. W. Norton, New York, 1993), p. 206, 259.


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2.7 Academic Advisement
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BoR POLICY MANUAL 3.9, ACADEMIC ADVISEMENT
Each institution shall follow these general guidelines in establishing their academic advising program:
- Each institution shall establish academic advising procedures within the academic units that comprise the college or university.
- These academic advising procedures shall have baseline minimal uniformity in application and simultaneously be tailored to the specific needs of individual students.
- Each institution shall establish training sessions associated with academic advising such that faculty advisors are aware of the rules and regulations associated with the core curriculum, academic transfer, student status, and grading policies.
- Institutions that have advising units outside of academic units will be responsible for keeping abreast of changes in academic curricula and requirements as stipulated by the institution and individual academic units.
- Student appeals concerning academic advising will follow the institutional appeals process.
2.7.1 Minority Advising Program
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The Minority Advising Program, established in 1983, enhances the academic welfare of minority students in the USG. Its goals include the promotion of academic success, development of human potential, and the creation of an environment that fosters the success and retention of minority students.
Following are the institutional guidelines for minority advising programs:
- Each institution within the USG will establish and maintain a Minority Advising Program to supplement, not replace, regular academic advising activities.
- The Minority Advising Program will address students' academic and non-academic needs, addressing cognitive and non-cognitive dimensions of intellectual, personal, and social self-actualization.
- Each Minority Advising Program will be structured to provide (directly or on a referral basis) the following services:
- A careful follow-up of dropouts
- Special individualized counseling for academically at-risk students and students placed on academic probation
- Assistance to students in choosing a program of study and in the selection of an academic major
- Help in considering the long-term implications of pursuing various courses of study, and careful consideration of career opportunities presented by various academic programs
- Peer counseling to address a full spectrum of personal, social, and academic needs
- Access to appropriate and effective tutoring
- Help in identifying financial aid sources and review of procedures for obtaining financial aid
- Access to, and facilitation of, career counseling
- Reinforcement of the regular advisement system
- Access to study skill activities
- Articulation with high schools to help prepare minority students for college
- Provision of culturally appropriate programming and a forum to bring effective role-models in contact with minority students to discuss their educational and other experiences
- Periodic meetings with department chairs, academic officers, and the president to maximize the interrelationship of the Minority Advising Program with other aspects of the institution
- Each Minority Advising Program should establish advising units, coordinated by faculty members with special training in the advisement of minority students.
- The program should emphasize service to freshman and sophomore students but be open to any other minority student seeking its services.
- With the approval of the Chancellor, institutions may modify the structure and functions of the Minority Advising Program to render it more responsive to minority needs at that particular institution (e.g., size and nature of institution, demographic profile, unique problems, etc.) Institutions seeking program modifications should submit a detailed request, specifying the unusual circumstances and the modifications sought.
- An institution's Minority Advising Program will be coordinated through the Office of Academic Affairs or the Office of Student Affairs. In either case, there must be formal provision for close co-ordination with the other office in the governance of the Minority Advising Program.
- The President is responsible for the operation and the success of the program and will provide institutional commitment and support to assure its success.
- The President shall appoint a Minority Advising Program Coordinator, who will oversee the program.
- The financial support of the Minority Advising Program is primarily the responsibility of the institution. Each institution will establish a separate budget for its Minority Advising Program and financially support its activities. Special funds allocated by the System Office to support Minority Advising Programs are intended only to supplement the operating budget provided by the institution.
- Each institutional President will submit an annual report to the Executive Vice Chancellor and Chief Academic Officer of the USG or the Assistant Vice Chancellor for Academic Programs. The annual report should indicate the program's goals and the activities sponsored in support of those goals. It should analyze the impact and effectiveness of program related activities, and should include a projected budget for the following year, with updated goals and objectives for the program.
- The Assistant Vice Chancellor for Academic Programs will provide consultation on Minority Advising Programs as needed.
- An annual System-wide conference will be held for the purpose of staff development, improvement of strategies for making the program more successful, and general information sharing. The planning committee for the annual conference will consist of representatives from each institution type.
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Frigid, dry air outside and heated, dry air inside, can do a number on your skin during the winter months. But you don't need fancy repair creams that cost an arm and a leg to prevent cracking and crinkles. To keep your skin glowing from head to toe, try these tricks that will keep it feeling smooth and youthful all winter long:
Feed your skin wrinkle-fighters. Eat citrus (oranges, tangelos, grapefruit) often. The fruitful bonanza of vitamin C discourages wrinkles because C helps pump up collagen (supportive protein fibers that stop skin from sagging). Start eating smart for your face—and the rest of your body, too!
Wash with the right stuff. Skip soaps with colors and fragrances. Dyes can leave a dull residue, and scents can trigger allergies. Instead, choose gentle, pH-balanced cleansers that won't upset skin's protective acid mantle, which keeps moisture in. Tip: If the soap you're using doesn't sting your eyes, it likely won't bother your skin. Check out these get-gorgeous-skin products.
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A certain corner of Denver TV is seeing sudden turnover. Why are they fleeing Fox31 and Channel 2? Either it's a terrific springboard to bigger things or there's some malfunction at sister stations KDVR-KWGN.
Melody Mendez? Gone to the Fox station in Chicago, WFLD, where she'll co-anchor the morning show, "Good Day Chicago." Nick Emmons? Gone to WHDH Boston, the NBC affiliate, as anchor and reporter. Jacki Jing? The former KWGN morning traffic reporter left for the Fox station in Cincinnati, WXIX, as morning anchor.
"We're a little thin right now," said KDVR-KWGN news boss Ed Kosowski.
In fact, they're using some solo anchors, doubling up assignments and have no permanent Saturday anchors. Kosowski notes those who've left have jumped to larger markets or (in Jing's case) to a bigger job in a smaller market. All the positions have been posted; he's looking locally and nationally for replacements. The departures don't relate to the sale of the station (owned by Local TV LLC and put up for sale in March by parent Oak Hill Capital Partners) or to cutbacks, he said.
Word is, there are a number of open slots behind the camera, too, in promotion, production, etc. Who's next? Tom Green is said to be looking around town, talking to folks in TV and radio. Nobody's talking on the record, but he would be a huge loss, given that he's the soul of Channel 2, the bright spot of "Daybreak," the best aspect of mornings on either station.
The departures probably are unrelated to the impending sale. It's more likely staffers are concerned, two years into the current news administration, that the stations haven't turned the ratings around.


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COOKEVILLE, Tenn. --- The Tennessee Tech baseball team opens up a seven-game homestand Friday, beginning with a three-game series against the Illinois State Redbirds.
The opening pitch is set for 3 p.m. Friday, with the first pitches set for 1 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.
The Golden Eagles earned their first win of the season as junior pitchers Tristan Archer and Zane Morton helped deliver a 3-2 victory for Tech in its season opener last week.
Tech leads the all-time series against ISU with a record of 2-1, with their last meeting coming back in the 2008 season.
Through four games this season, junior Austin Wulf has had the hot bat as he has posted a .533 batting average, including eight hits and one home run. Sophomore Zach Stephens has also made a quick impact as he has notched one home run and three RBI. Senior Chad Hayes has also done well for himself at the plate, driving in four runs, while maintaining a .313 batting average.
Illinois State is currently 1-3 this season with all of its games coming against Austin Peay. APSU dealt ISU three straight losses before the Redbirds dealt the Governors a 10-1 loss in the final game of their four-game series.
Through four games Kyle Stanton has posted a .636 batting average, which includes seven hits in 11 at-bats. Eric Aguilera has driven in a team-high four RBI, while Zac Johnson and Matt Mirabal have scored a team-high three runs.
To view the livestats click here
Probable starters are listed below:
ISU: Chris Razo – 0-1, 20.25 ERA, 4.0 IP, 10 H, 4 SO, 4 BB, 9 R, 9 ER
TTU: Tristan Archer – 1-0, 0.00 ERA, 6.0 IP, 4 H, 5 SO, 6 BB, 0 R, 0 ER
ISU: Brad Sorkin – 0-1, 3.00 ERA, 6.0 IP, 7 H, 3 SO, 1 BB, 2 R, 2 ER
TTU: David Hess – 0-0, 12.27 ERA, 3.2 IP, 8 H, 1 SO, 3 BB, 6 R, 5 ER
ISU: Dylan Craig – 0-0, 4.50 ERA, 4.0 IP, 3 H, 4 SO, 2 BB, 2 R, 2 ER
TTU: Jake McWhirter - 0-1, 14.73 ERA, 3.2 IP, 8 H, 1 SO, 2 BB, 6 R, 6 ER


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What does it mean that no one seeks God?Question: "What does it mean that no one seeks God?"
Answer: Some contemporary churches are billed as "seeker-friendly," but the Bible says that "no one seeks God." Psalm 14:2–3 pictures God searching in vain for even one heart that seeks Him: "The Lord looks down from heaven on all mankind to see if there are any who understand, any who seek God. All have turned away, all have become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one." This passage is quoted in Romans 3:10–12, which says, "As it is written: 'There is no one righteous, not even one; there is no one who understands; there is no one who seeks God.'" So, if no one seeks God, who are the "seekers" that some churches strategize to attract? Plus, how are people saved if no one is seeking God?
First we must understand human nature. Because of Adam's disobedience in the Garden of Eden (Genesis 3:11), sin entered the world and became part of human existence. Because Adam is the common ancestor of every human being, we all inherit that sin nature. We are born with a natural desire for rebellion, self-interest, and disobedience. In Romans 7:18, Paul says, "For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out." In ourselves, we cannot seek after God, for the simple reason that seeking God is a good and holy thing. Sinful flesh is incapable of good and holy things (Isaiah 64:6).
Jesus said, "No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them" (John 6:44). In other words, the only way we can seek God is if the Holy Spirit has first stirred our hearts with a desire for God. It is God who draws us to Himself. Ephesians 2:8 underscores this truth: "By grace are you saved, through faith, and that not of yourselves. It is the gift of God." Even the faith to believe for salvation does not originate within our fleshly nature. God enables the fallen human heart to seek Him, when in our own self-centered rebellion we would never do so. Every good thing originates with God (James 1:17). Faith in God is a good thing, and so it also originates with God.
Even our best efforts fall far short of the righteousness required by God (Romans 3:23). That's why Scripture says that no one seeks God. We seek fulfillment. We seek pleasure. We seek escape from pain. But the pure motivation of seeking after God for Himself is a gift from God. We are not saved because we had the wisdom and insight to exercise our own faith and trust God. No one wakes up one day and, on his own, decides to seek God. That would be a salvation by our own works, and Scripture is clear we are saved only by the grace and mercy of God (Titus 3:5; Romans 11:6). We are saved when God touches our hearts and prompts us to use the faith He gives to receive His gift of salvation. Even with the knowledge of God's existence everywhere, people naturally choose to "suppress the truth by their wickedness" (Romans 1:18–20).
Because no one naturally seeks God, God seeks us. He sought Adam and Eve as they hid in the Garden (Genesis 3:9), and He has been seeking His lost loved ones ever since. Jesus gave this as His mission statement: "The Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost" (Luke 19:10).
In Jeremiah 29:13 God says, "You will seek me and you will find me, when you seek me with all your heart." Is this a contradiction to those passages that say no one seeks God? We know that God first gives us faith. But we also have a free will. We decide what to do with the faith God gives. We can ignore it, we can misuse it by chasing after false gods, or we can receive it gladly and use it to embrace the gospel. When God says we must seek Him with all our heart, we understand that He has taken the first step toward us. He has done all that is necessary for our salvation; the work is done. It is now up to us to engage our will and follow Him. The faith to seek Him is a gift, but we must accept it and exercise it to have a relationship with Him.
Recommended Resource: The Epistle to the Romans, New International Commentary on the New Testament by Douglas Moo
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Drainage management involves water budgeting and analysis of surface and sub-surface drainage systems. Sometimes water management involves changing practices, such as groundwater withdrawal rates, or allocation of water to different purposes.
As the name suggests, drainage water management helps producers manage water on their fields. This practice can increase production, keep nutrients on the field and send clean, filtered water downstream. Watch the video.
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The Chief formed the National Ag Water Management (AGWAM) Team to assist states in the voluntary conservation efforts to reduce nitrates leaving the drained farmlands. The initial focus of this team is to address the intensively drained farmlands in the Upper Mississippi River Basin – Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Minnesota, and Ohio. Since then the focus area has been expanded to include the Great Lakes Basin and the Red River Valley adding Michigan, Wisconsin, South Dakota and North Dakota due to water quality issues and the expansion of subsurface drainage systems. (Click here to see map)
Agriculture practices in this region have been identified as a major contributor to nutrient loading of receiving waters, including nutrient enrichment in the Gulf of Mexico and Great Lakes that leads to adverse environmental and economic consequences. The team is working in collaboration with partners to develop and implement an action plan that helps producers voluntarily apply nutrient and water management practices to reduce nitrate loading in the Upper Mississippi River Basin and phosphorus loading in the Great Lakes Basin.
The AGWAM team's charge is to increase the adoption of the management of agricultural drainage water management (DWM) and associated practices such as denitrifying bioreactors, vegetated subsurface drain outlets for conservation benefits. (See Drainage Water Management Fact Sheet). This is being carried out through a collaborative effort with our partners. See the FY2013 Ag Drainage Water Mgt Report to Leadership.
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Change Section III.C.1.d to read:
The meeting time and complete agenda shall be published at least 30 days in advance of the meeting.
Reasoning: Now that internet use is so widespread, it doesn't take as long for everyone to read, debate and decide about the agenda. I think 60 days is unnecessarily long and just drags things out. I'm willing to entertain other day limits, but I think 60 is too long.
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The Big Business of Fairy Tales
Nike Takes Fire Again Over One of Its Athletes
Oscar Pistorius, the double-amputee runner from South Africa known as the "blade runner" for the prosthetic feet he wears in competition, has appeared in many advertisements for Nike .
One shows him uncoiling from a start with the tag line, "I am the bullet in the chamber." Another contains images of the best of South Africa's athletes with a voice-over that pronounces, "My body is my weapon…This is my weapon, this is how I fight."
Pistorius will have a bail hearing on Friday, a police spokesman said, after being charged in the shooting death of his girlfriend, the fashion model Reeva Steenkamp.
Already, the shoe company's sponsorship deal with the athlete, and the unfortunate content of those ads, have prompted a lot of uncomfortable questions for the Oregon-based sports and apparel giant. In a statement Thursday, Nike offered condolences "to all families concerned following this tragic incident. As it is a police matter, Nike will not comment further."
In an interview after the arrest Thursday, Pistorius's agent, Peet van Zyl, declined to comment on the case. He said he was busy organizing legal and public-relations teams. But van Zyl said he had already connected with his Nike contact in South Africa and would soon be reaching out to the company's top executives. "I will be doing that later tonight," he said.
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Conversations like that one have become somewhat routine at Nike over the past decade. Anyone who has had access to a newspaper knows this isn't the first time some member of the company's stable of galactic star sports figures has been a target of serious allegations.
Among other Nike-sponsored athletes, NFL quarterback Michael Vick pleaded guilty in 2007 to federal dogfighting charges and served time in prison. Marion Jones went to jail after being convicted of lying to a grand jury about her use of performance-enhancing drugs. Tiger Woods apologized publicly for his involvement in a string of highly publicized extramarital affairs. Former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno was fired by the school after reports emerged about the behavior of his former assistant coach, Jerry Sandusky. Last year, the company dropped Lance Armstrong after doping authorities stripped him of his Tour de France titles.
Through it all, the company has stayed a course centered on inspiration rather than product. Pistorius, after all, doesn't even wear shoes.
Nike's $2.7 billion annual marketing budget carries massive cultural influence. Its endorsement commitments are worth nearly $4 billion, or about 15% of annual revenues of $24 billion.
In the past it has been noted that when a Nike athlete falls to earth, the company's fortunes continue to soar. Nike revenues have more than doubled in the past decade, from $10.7 billion in 2003. Nike maintains nearly 60% market share in running and nearly 90% in basketball, according to footwear consultancy SportsOneSource. "Athletes are human and they do make mistakes but we still believe they inspire people and continue to do so every day," said Nike spokeswoman Mary Remuzzi.
Since 1984, when Nike boldly decided to offer nearly all of its basketball marketing budget to a single player—Michael Jordan— and build a marketing campaign around him, the company has never wavered in the approach. "It's the heritage to their entire marketing strategy over three decades," said Paul Swangard, the director of the Warsaw Sports Marketing Center at the University of Oregon.
But can Nike's strategy succeed indefinitely as the company veers from one catastrophe to the next?
One by one, as major stars are unmasked, there is a growing sense that the practice of mythmaking may have to stop. There's a feeling that at some point, shame will set in. Embarrassment will do its job and customers will go elsewhere. "In a sense, this is the biggest lesson to learn: that there really aren't heroes," said Jason Richardson, a hurdler who won a silver medal in London. "We're too quick to elevate people into these hero roles and they're not allowed to be human."
There's a perception that Nike has somehow changed the rules of athletic success in a crass or craven way. Some accuse the company of commoditizing fame. The size of one's Nike contract is often seen as another form of scorekeeping for the modern athlete, alongside things like the size of their contracts or the number of Twitter followers they have.
The thing about Nike that rarely gets acknowledged is that it doesn't sell shoes, or even athletes, as much as it buys and sells stories, narratives, fairy tales. They aren't a shoe company as much as a giant abstraction—a condition of the aspirational mind.
In Nike's pantheon, success isn't merely about winning. It isn't about the traditional forms of scorekeeping in sports—things like trophies collected, points scored, bouts won, consecutive games played, or years served. What Nike said, when it signed Michael Jordan, is that the ultimate measure of any competitor is something else entirely: How irresistible his story is. Jordan, the greatest basketball player ever, claims to have been cut from a high-school team.
Nike doesn't make racing bikes. It signed Armstrong because he had survived cancer and come back to win the most grueling race in the world. It didn't sell golf clubs when it signed Tiger Woods. Nike brought him aboard because he was a potentially transformative star who had the ability to break down racial barriers in the world's most staid sport.
If stories are the currency of Nike's business, Pistorius is the equivalent of a blank check. He's the kid who lost his lower legs before he could walk and was told he would never be able to play sports. He battled for the right to race with the fastest men in the world on a pair of carbon-fiber prostheses. He's the rare athlete who doesn't just challenge our notions of fitness, he forces us to reconsider the definition of disability.
Pistorius fits perfectly into Nike's view of the world: That the most powerful thing one can sell isn't comfortable, stylish performance sportswear, it's the concept of possibility.
— Rachel Bachman and Shelly Banjo contributed to this article.
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Social media catechesis?
Last week it was reported that Facebook is thinking about lowering their minimum age so that kids under the age of 13 can join the social network, with parental supervision. Many people think this is a bad idea, and some have even suggested that the age requirement should be raised.
As someone who works with youth, I know that many kids under the age of 13 are already using Facebook, sometimes even with their parents' permission and help. I may have a different perspective when my own son is 11 years old, but right now I don't necessarily think this is a bad thing.
Social networks are not fads, and they are more than just communication tools. As I've been studying all week in a Doctor of Ministry course on The Gospel and Global Media Cultures, digital technologies have changed our culture and will continue to do so. "Protecting" youth from social networks like Facebook is a misguided endeavor because our children are already being shaped by the broader digital culture emerging and evolving around the globe.
For about five and a half years I have been using Facebook in youth ministry. In fact, I can hardly imagine keeping up with kids spread throughout Chicagoland without Facebook. And recently, our youth ministry has been thinking about and testing some creative new ways to use Facebook in our work with high school students.
It occurs to me, then, that if culture really is being transformed by social media, and if we keep using these tools in our ministry with high school students, it might make sense to help our eighth grade confirmation class learn how to use these tools in the context of our faith community. If contemporary spirituality is shaped and mediated by digital culture, the church ought to walk with youth as they grow into these social media practices just like we do with other spiritual practices.
So, as the final project for this class, I'm considering the creation and implementation of a digital culture component to my confirmation program. One element of this would be introducing our confirmands to some of the Facebook practices we use with our high school students. In order to do this effectively, I might have to require the youth to create a Facebook account—which shouldn't be a problem because the youth going through confirmation are typically 13 or 14.
I realize that it might take a lot of work—and expend a lot of my hard earned pastoral capital—to convince some parents that this is a good idea. I imagine that other parents might find it very appealing to know that their children's early experiences with Facebook will be modeled and facilitated in a church context with trusted adults and peers.
What do you think about this idea? Does Facebook belong in our confirmation curricula? Might this be a meaningful and transformative way for the church to proactively engage the ever changing world of digital culture?
Originally posted at Vest's blog


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10 Essential Donovan Songs
Recorded in 1964 and released the following year in both the United States and United Kingdom, "Catch The Wind" was Donovan's debut single. Drawing comparisons to Bob Dylan – who influenced Donovan, though Donovan more closely identified with the likes of Woody Guthrie – the young troubador wrote the lovelorn ballad about Linda Lawrence (then the significant other of the Rolling Stones' Brian Jones) who later became Donovan's wife. The lyrical sentiment reflected a legitimate naivety, as an 18-year-old Donovan sang wistful lines including When sundown pales the sky / I wanna hide a while / Behind your smile / And everywhere I'd look, your eyes I'd find. That unaffected, unadorned innocence was echoed in a dulcet folk melody matched to Donovan's acoustic guitar chording and harmonica riffs.
"Colours" was the follow-up single to "Catch The Wind," and later included on Donovan's second full-length, Fairytale, which was released in late 1965. The original recording (a different version with Donovan backed by a full band and produced by Mickie Most appeared on Epic's Donovan's Greatest Hits in 1969) featured Brian Locking of the Shadows on bass and took a similar tack to Donovan's first single, with lilting, acoustic-driven folk alongside the songwriter's poetic, romanticised reflections on the various shades that color his life.
After a series of folk releases, "Sunshine Superman" – the title track of Donovan's third studio album – found Donovan plugging in and tuning out the detractors that had dismissed him as a Dylan wannabe. Released in 1966, the song blended elements of blues, classical, folk, jazz and rock and seamlessly married it all to an infectious melody that helped make Donovan among the biggest recording artists of the mid 60s, as "Sunshine Superman" peaked at Number One on the Billboard Hot 100 in America and Number Two on the British charts. The arrangement led with a jazzy bass groove, dotted with flashes of harpsichord, as Donovan's more familiar folk strum got a boost from guitarist Jimmy Page (of Yardbirds and Led Zeppelin fame), who supplied inventive blues licks throughout.
Centered around two chords, 1966's "Season Of The Witch" took the psych-folk direction of "Sunshine Superman" to new heights. Whereas "Sunshine"'s narrative centered on grand romantic ambition (Superman or Green Lantern ain't got a-nothin' on me / I can make like a turtle and dive for your pearls in the sea, yeah!), "Season Of The Witch" invoked a mind-altering paranoia in lyrics such as: When I look over my shoulder / What do you think I see? / Some other cat / Looking over his shoulder at me / And he's strange, sure he's strange. Donovan departed from his usually lulling vocal cadence, instead varying between an almost spoken-word delivery to projecting in a gruff yell during the song's chorus. The trippy essence was spread over five coiling minutes.
Peaking at Number Two on the Billboard Hot 100 in December 1966, "Mellow Yellow" – the title track of Donovan's fourth studio album – was a momentous follow-up to the success of "Sunshine Superman." Released at the dawn of the psychedelic revolution, the track's nonsensical, esoteric musings rode on a smooth jazz rhythm with minimal guitar voicings before a snare drum fill introduced a whirling interlude complete with horns, hollers and hand claps.
Donovan's ambitious 1967 studio effort was released as a double LP entitled A Gift From A Flower to a Garden in the UK, while its US release was divided between two records: Wear Your Love Like Heaven and For Little Ones. The warm atmospherics of the former – as well as the more bubbly, kid friendly aesthetic of the latter – were the result of Donovan's own production hand. The lyrics of "Wear Your Love Like Heaven" tread familiar ground – love, colors, nature, positivity – that combined with the upbeat, varied instrumentation evocatively capture the sentimental spirit of the era.
Released in the United States in 1968, the title track of Donovan's sixth studio album bore a heavier sound than earlier material. Arranged by John Paul Jones, with percussion credited to John Bonham, and guitar work provided by Jimmy Page and Allan Holdsworth, the song's more muscular leanings felt natural. Donovan's trembling intonation drifted over a series of brooding rock passages that included washes of distorted guitar, declarative drum fills and sitar riffs. The song peaked at Number Five on the Billboard Hot 100.
Although the meaning of the title track to Donovan's 1969 album is debatable, its enunciation had an innate rhythmic quality that proved the guiding vibe for a recording featuring the Jeff Beck Group. With Donovan captaining the jam, and virtuoso guitarist Beck and his explosive rhythm section backing him, the song emerged as a fiery funk-groove that had yet to appear in Donovan's oeuvre to that point.
"Lord Of The Dance" appeared on Donovan's second double-album, HMS Donovan, a UK-only release in the summer of 1971. The prolific folk minstrel had returned to the studio following Barabajagal to record an album of children's songs, not unlike he had done with the aptly titled For Little Ones in 1967. "Lord Of The Dance" was an adaptation of the American Shaker song "Simple Gifts" by English musician Sydney Carter. Donovan's cover version had a markedly upbeat timbre, spirited along with the songwriter's prodigious finger picking – a style he had borrowed from the likes of another Stateside influence: the Carter Family.
Although "Poorman's Sunshine" originated during the recording of Barabajagal, it was given new life on Donovan's 2004 album Beat Cafe. True to the implication of an album named Beat Cafe, "Poorman's Sunshine" opened with a fluid upright bass riff and cymbal splashes as Donovan cooly sang "I'm out of the darkness and into the light," evoking the darkened environs of a jazz nightclub. Adding speedy drumstick-brush fills and dashes of lively organ to the mix alongside Donovan's rhythmic vamping completed the effect and gave the song a steely swing.
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I had used the reblog feature for this post, but it doesn't allow for formatting so I'm reposting as a regular post. Please read the below letter I link to.
Below is an important letter in response to 'My daughter the schizophrenic' (Guardian Weekend 19.01.13)
On 19.01.2013 the Guardian's weekend magazine published a story entitled 'My daughter the schizophrenic'. I was previously aware of this little girl as I had seen the documentary 'Born schizophrenic'. The documentary gave me sleepless nights. The article brought them back. I had to respond and I am thrilled that YoungMinds (@YoungMindsUK) agreed to publish it as a joint statement. This, for me, indicates that there are many of us, in all sectors fighting for better ways of thinking and talking about young people with psychological difficulties. (Read the rest… 1,086 more words)
● The Hearing Voices Movement: In Response to a Father – 'My Daughter, the Schizophrenia