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- Later in my career%2C I wrote as a journalist about the loss of community spirit in American life.
- I saw that the communal bonds that held me down were the only things holding my family together.
- Only your community can help you rebuild your life
Cheryl Marak's husband, Marty, was down by the burning fertilizer plant in West, Texas, and he wouldn't come home.
"I am begging, begging him to let me come in and get him," Marak sobbed to CNN's Piers Morgan the night of the disaster. "He said he can't; he's got to stay with his guys."
Marty Marak is a volunteer firefighter in the town of 2,800, emphasis on "volunteer." He installs air conditioners for a living, but like every other member of the West squad, some of whom died in the explosion, Marty doesn't do it for money. He does it for love of his neighbors.
"I don't know if you understand how big this is," my wife, a native north Texan, told me. "West is tiny. West is about the size of St. Francisville." That put the personal magnitude of the West tragedy, and the courage and compassion of that Texas town, into perspective for me. St. Francisville, La., my hometown, is where we live now.
Watching the West coverage, I thought about my brother-in-law, Mike Leming, who joined the volunteer brigade at 18 because it seemed like what a responsible man does.
When Mike and his neighbors saved their first house, he realized how much good the men of a community could do, working together. It changed his life. He became a professional firefighter in Baton Rouge, but he's still a local volunteer. He's trying to serve — and to save, if it comes to that — his community.
To people who live far away, this is the sort of thing we admire about small towns, but it's not something most of us participate in. I have lived away for most of my life, following my journalism vocation from big city to big city. I admired the life Mike and my sister, Ruthie, a public schoolteacher, built for themselves, but it was too cramped to hold me.
Later in my career, I wrote about the loss of community spirit in American life, but I never seriously considered my role. And then doctors diagnosed Ruthie with stage IV lung cancer. She was 40 and had never smoked. This was a catastrophe for Mike, Ruthie and their daughters.
In that moment, the community stepped up. There was nothing the Lemings needed that people didn't do for them. Though I watched it from afar in Philadelphia, it was staggering to see. Ruthie was a beloved teacher and had given so much over the years to the community. Now, with their time and their treasure, and in a thousand different ways, the community gave back, walking with Ruthie and her family every step of her cancer journey.
After Ruthie's death, I stood for hours at her wake, and greeted more than 1,000 people, many of them former students, most of whom said to me, "Sir, you don't know me, but here's what your sister did for me." It gave me a radically new perspective on the good an anonymous woman living a quiet life of love and service in an unseen part of the world could do.
Days after we buried Ruthie, Mike told a friend, "We're leanin', but we're leanin' on each other." Watching the tremendous sacrifices the people of my small town were making for my family in their crisis, and had been making all along, shook up my prejudices.
I saw that the communal bonds that held me down as a 15-year-old were, today, the only things holding my Louisiana family together.
The world looks different at age 45, after you've seen suffering and come to grasp your own vulnerability. Your government or your insurance company might be able to pay medical bills, but it can't take the kids to school when you're too sick to get out of bed and it can't let you die in peace because you know your husband and your children will not be alone in the world. Your government and your insurance company may help you rebuild your house after a disaster, but only your community can help you rebuild your life.
In the light of Ruthie's death, I saw my small town with fresh eyes. I saw the deep goodness of small-town people, who weren't anonymous to each other and who felt a duty of love to each other. I wanted to be part of that. I needed to be part of that.
I moved my family back home. Now, when I hear the people of West on TV talking about how they're going to carry each other through this catastrophe, I know exactly what they mean. The people of West will not only endure; they will triumph. There is nothing small about the lives of small towns.
Rod Dreher, senior editor ofThe American Conservative, is author of The Little Way Of Ruthie Leming: A Southern Girl, A Small Town, And The Secret Of A Good Life.
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Mahou Shounen FIGHT! is Moving to Webtoon!!!November 26th, 2017 |
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HISP 635 Social and Ethnic Issues in Historic Preservation Practice
Relatively few historic sites across North America do a good job of interpreting women's experiences, never mind the histories and cultures of non-privileged and non-white racial groups, socially-marginalized groups like the poor, or GLBTQ people. This seminar will focus on the issues, challenges, and some theoretical and practical techniques for documenting, recovering, and interpreting the everyday lives and cultures of people whose heritage often gets overlooked, distorted, erased, or made invisible. New preservation practices implemented since the 1980s are shaping our understandings of heritage and of the built environment in important ways. They provide powerful tools for local citizens and grassroots groups engaged in historical research and small-p planning, as well as preservationists, planners, designers, and policy makers. The new critical preservation practices raise fundamental questions about what preservation and heritage encompasses, who gets to be a preservationist, the functions of grassroots preservation in a democracy, and how best to research, conserve, and interpret both tangible and intangible heritage of a much broader range of North Americans.
Students will explore these issues through weekly readings and the occasional viewing that will include 1) theoretical texts from cultural studies, critical race theory, African American Studies, gender studies, historical archaeology, and critical geography, and 2) case studies of local, national, and international heritage sites. We will also take some fieldtrips, and participate in Maryland Day with residents of the Lakeland Community. The class will form a partnership with members of the Lakeland Community Heritage Project to record current and former residents' oral histories about growing up and livingin Lakeland. The project, which will model best practices in community-grounded preservation, will be partly supported on an Omeka-driven software platform.
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This seminar course examines the broader social and ethnic dimensions of historic preservation practice that have impacted the field since the "culture wars" of the 1990's. Through weekly case studies of local, national, and international sites, students will explore these issues and apply newly emerging methodologies to their final case study project.
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- To learn about best practices focusing on preservation of the heritage of racial-ethnic or other groups of people frequently left out of mainstream preservation practice and interpretation.
- To become conversant with the literature of new critical preservation studies and practice.
- To ponder whether and how preservationists, historians, ethnographers, and cultural landscape specialists need to rethink or reorient research and methods to produce a socially-just, inclusive, and equitable scholarly practice.
- To partner with a community group to record, recover, and interpret the neighborhood's history, culture, and heritage.
- To craft a supportive, challenging, and intellectually rewarding environment in which students can work together to enhance each others' learning, work constructively as a team, and self-monitor their progress to complete a challenging project on time.
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BALTIMORE (AP) — The University of Maryland Schools of Dentistry and Medicine have received a $10.7 million grant over five years to study the causes, prevention and treatment of sexually-transmitted diseases.
The schools announced the grant on Tuesday from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health.
The long-term goal of the research is to develop strategies to reduce the incidence of sexually transmitted infections and diseases worldwide, particularly chlamydia and gonorrhea.
Patrik Bavoil, a professor and chair of the Department of Microbial Pathogenesis at the school of dentistry, says participants believe the project will generate new essential knowledge into the mechanisms of sexually transmitted infection and disease as they occur, both in the human host and within the microbes that cause chlamydia and gonorrhea.
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The French carmaker unveiled a diorama at a recent industry event in the UK. It covers the pair's famous victories from the snow and ice of Rally Sweden to the ruins of the Acropolis Rally in Greece.
The 1:43-scale model, which was molded over a Citröen DS3 highlights nine different rally terrains; one for every championship win. Each different terrain also features a 1:43-scale model of the championship-winning cars Loeb has driven, dating back to 2004 and the Citröen Xsara.
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Samuel Giuseppe Vito Volterra
Born: 3 May 1860 in Ancona, Papal States (now Italy)
Died: 11 October 1940 in Rome, Italy
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Vito Volterra's parents Abramo Volterra, a cloth merchant, and Angelica Almagià were married on 15 March 1859. The family were of Jewish origins. The name Volterra comes from the Tuscan town of Volterra where one of Vito's ancestor moved in the 15th century, having originally come from Bologna. One of the Volterras had opened a bank in Florence while other members of the family were writers, collectors of books and manuscripts, and travellers. They had lived in various different cities but from the 18th century there were Volterras living in Ancona. Vito, his parents' only child, named after his maternal grandfather, was born at exactly the time (May 1860) when Giuseppe Garibaldi set out to conquer Sicily and Naples and so to create a unified Italy. After victories in Sicily, Garibaldi quickly moved north in August 1860. Ancona was at this time under the direct rule of the pope but Garibaldi's army besieged the town attacking it with missiles. Vito, aged about three months, was in his cradle when a missile fell close by destroying the cradle yet, by good fortune, baby Vito survived.
Surviving this close call certainly was not the end of the young child's problems. His father Abramo died when Vito was only two years old. The family was left without any means of financial support and only survived because Alfonso Almagià, a brother of Vito's mother, took care of them. They all moved from Ancona to Terni in the autumn of 1863 when Alfonso worked there for a railway company but in January 1865 he became an official with the Banco d'Italia in Turin and at this stage Vito and his mother returned to Ancona. After only a short stay in Turin, Alfonso moved to Florence where he continued to work for the bank, and Vito and his mother joined him there. It was in this city that Vito spent most of his childhood, although he returned to Ancona for some long family visits, and it was in Florence that he received his education. His interest in mathematics started at the age of 11 when he began to study Legendre's Geometry. At the age of 13 he began to study the Three Body Problem and made some progress by partitioning the time into small intervals over which he could consider the force constant. After elementary school, Vito studied at the lower secondary Dante Alighieri Technical School and later he spent three years at the Galileo Galilei Technical Institute in Florence.
Since his family were extremely poor, there was pressure on Vito to leave the Galileo Galilei Technical Institute after one year of study and take a job. However, his determination to continue studying, supported by his uncle Edoardo, saw him continue. Edoardo, who had a degree in applied mathematics and civil engineering, had a firm which was involved in railway construction. Alfonso put pressure on Vito to join Edoardo's firm but Edoardo kept delaying to allow Vito to continue his education. One of Vito's mathematics teachers at the Galileo Galilei Technical Institute was Cesare Arzelà and he quickly realised that Vito was an extremely talented mathematician. The physics teacher, Antonio Ròiti (1843-1921), became another important ally in Vito's bid to continue his education. Ròiti offered Vito a position teaching physics at the Istituto di Studi Superiori e di Perfezionamento in Florence in 1877, so managing to prevent him from being forced by Alfonso to take a job at the Banco d'Italia. Volterra was able to proceed to the University of Pisa in the autumn of 1878, enrolling in the faculty of Science. In the autumn of the following year he sat the competitive examination for entry to the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa and scored the highest possible marks. This meant he received a scholarship together with free board and lodgings. At the Scuola Normale he was taught by several inspiring teachers, the most influential being Ulisse Dini and Enrico Betti. Volterra published three papers in 1881 before graduating, one on mathematical physics Sul potenziale di un' elissoide eterogenea sopra sè stessa Ⓣ and two on analysis, Alcune osservazioni sulle funzioni punteggiate discontinue Ⓣ, on pointwise discontinuous functions, and Sui principii del calcolo integrale Ⓣ which became important in the development of the history of integration. At Pisa he worked for his thesis advised by Enrico Betti, graduating with his laurea in 1882. His thesis on hydrodynamics, Sopra alcuni problemi di idrodinami Ⓣ, included some results of George Stokes, which Volterra had discovered later but independently.
After graduating with his laurea, Volterra was appointed as Betti's assistant in December 1882. He was named Professor of Rational Mechanics at Pisa in 1883 and immediately gained a reputation as a severe and demanding teacher. He was well liked by his colleagues, for example Ernesto Pascal who arrived in Pisa in 1887 wrote in a letter to a friend (see [4]):-
Professor Volterra is an angelic young man, of characteristic modesty.Volterra's mother Angelica had continued to live with her brother Alfonso while Volterra studied at Pisa and she continued to live in Florence until 1887 when she moved to Pisa and set up home with Volterra. His remarkable mathematical contributions were quickly recognised and he was awarded the gold medal of the National Academy of Sciences of Italy (the "Academy of XL") in 1887, he became a corresponding member of the Accademia dei Lincei and a member of the French Mathematical Society in 1888 and, three years later, he was elected to the Mathematical Circle of Palermo and also named a Knight of the Order of the Crown of Italy. After Betti's death in 1892, he occupied the Chair of Mathematical Physics at Pisa. In the same year he became dean of the Faculty of Science at Pisa and succeeded Betti at editor-in-chief of the journal Nuovo Cimento. During these years while holding a chair at Pisa, Volterra had made a number of trips abroad. He visited Henri Poincaré in Paris in 1888 and was invited to come to Paris again in the following year for the Congrés international de bibliographie des sciences mathématique. This proved an important event since it saw Volterra become a significant member of the international mathematical community. In 1891, as a consequence of these newly established connections, he travelled to Germany spending a month at the University of Göttingen and a few days at the University of Berlin. He met a number of leading German mathematicians on this trip including Hermann Schwarz and Leopold Kronecker.
Although he never formally applied for the position, he was offered the Chair of Higher Mechanics and Rational Mechanics at the University of Turin in July 1893. It would appear that Enrico D'Ovidio was behind the invitation. Volterra wrote to Ulisse Dini a few days later (see [4]):-
Most esteemed Professor, I have come to look for you several times in recent days but I have never succeeded in finding you. I would like to tell you some news that I received the other day from Segre, that is, that the Faculty of Turin has called me there to succeed Siacci, who is going to Naples. This news reached me unexpectedly, and I have written to Turin saying that since it concerns a matter of importance I wanted to wait until I had had time to reflect on it.Pisa tried to entice him to stay, while Turin tried hard to persuade him to accept their offer which Volterra eventually did. One of his new colleagues at Turin was Giuseppe Peano and, beginning in 1895, the two mathematicians became involved in a dispute. This was an unfortunate affair which started as a priority dispute but became rather heated. The dispute did nothing to harm Volterra's reputation, if anything he came out of it rather well, and he continued to receive honours for his contributions. In particular, he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences of Italy (the "Academy of XL") in 1894 and, in the same year, became a member of the board of the Mathematical Circle of Palermo. He won the mathematics prize from the Accademia dei Lincei in 1895. In 1897 he attended the first International Congress of Mathematicians in Zürich and there met Paul Painlevé and Émile Borel who invited him to Paris in the following year. He made the visit and had useful discussions with Henri Lebesgue. The next International Congress of Mathematicians was held in Paris in August 1900 and Volterra was invited to give one of the four plenary lectures; he gave the lecture Betti, Brioschi, Casorati - Trois analystes italiens et trois manières d'envisager les questions d'analyse Ⓣ.
By the time Volterra gave his lecture in Paris he was married. After a short engagement of one month, he married his second cousin Virginia Almagià, the daughter of Edoardo Almagià, on 11 July 1900. They spent their honeymoon in Switzerland visiting places that Volterra knew from his visit for the International Congress in 1897. He had also been appointed to the Chair of Mathematical Physics at Rome where he succeeded Eugenio Beltrami who had died in February of 1900. Volterra took up the appointment in Rome in November 1900 and, in the following year, gave his inaugural lecture Sui tentativi di applicazione delle matematiche alle scienze biologiche e sociali Ⓣ which discussed applications of mathematics to the biological and social sciences. His first child, a son, was born in 1901 but died soon after birth. A second child, a daughter Luisa, was born in 1902 and in the same year his uncle Alfonso died. Let us continue to give Vito and Virginia Volterra's other children: Edoardo (born 1904), Enrico (born 1905), Gustavo (born 1906 but died after a few months) and Gustavo (born 1909). Volterra was not in Rome when some of these children were born since to travelled much over these years. The summer of 1901 was spent in England (London, Oxford and Cambridge), in 1902 he visited Germany (Berlin) as well as Denmark, Sweden and Norway. He received an honorary degree from the University of Christiana while there for the centenary of Niels Abel's birth. In 1904 he was back in England when awarded an honorary degree by the University of Cambridge. He also attended the International Congress of Mathematicians in Heidelberg in August 1904 and four years later was a plenary speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Rome giving the address Le matematiche in Italia nella seconda metà del secolo XIX Ⓣ. In 1909 he gave a series of lectures at Clark University in Massachusetts, United States, and received an honorary degree from the university as part of its 20th anniversary celebrations. In 1912 he was in London for the 250th celebrations of the Royal Society receiving its Royal Charter - he had been elected as a fellow in 1910. Also in 1912, he went on a lengthy lecture tour of leading American universities. Let us now examine some of his important mathematical contributions.
Volterra conceived the idea of a theory of functions which depend on a continuous set of values of another function in 1883. Hadamard was later to introduce the word 'functional' which replaced Volterra's original terminology. In 1890 Volterra showed by means of his functional calculus that the theory of Hamilton and Jacobi for the integration of the differential equations of dynamics could be extended to other problems of mathematical physics. During the years 1892 to 1894 Volterra published papers on partial differential equations, particularly the equation of cylindrical waves. His most famous work was done on integral equations. He began this study in 1884 and in 1896 he published papers on what is now called 'an integral equation of Volterra type'. He continued to study functional analysi applications to integral equations producing a large number of papers on composition and permutable functions. Let us quote from [66] regarding these contributions by Volterra:-
The theory of functionals as a generalization of the idea of a function of several independent variables was developed by Volterra in a series of papers published since 1887 and was inspired by the problems of the calculus of variations. These papers initiated the modern theory of functional analysis. They attracted attention at once from the foremost mathematicians of his time. Actually the name "functional" was introduced later by Hadamard and has now replaced Volterra's original nomenclature. In developing this theory Volterra already followed a principle which guided him through many discoveries and which he called the passage from the discrete to the continuous. It was this principle which he applied to his celebrated researches on integral equations of Volterra's type. He considered heuristically the integral equations as a limiting case of a system of linear algebraic equations and then checked his final formulae directly. His procedure opened the way for Fredholm and Hilbert who, however, investigated the limiting process itself.World War I broke out in 1914 but, shortly after hostilities began on 3 August, Italy declared that it would not commit troops to the fighting. This was despite having an alliance with Germany and Austria-Hungary. Volterra spoke out strongly against Italy honouring its treaty with the Central Powers. Italy revoked this alliance on 3 May 1915 and later that month declared war on Austria-Hungary. The day before war was declared Volterra repeated a request he had made in April to enlist:-
... in technical or laboratory service or in another service of any form or nature whatsoever.Volterra became a lieutenant in the corps of engineers and was sent to the Central Institute of Aeronautics. He was given the task of determining how guns could be fired from dirigibles without causing them to catch fire. He was appointed as head of the Office of Inventions in 1917. This coordinated contributions from the military, industry and the universities. It was renamed the Office of Inventions and Research in 1918. After the War he returned to the University of Rome and his interests moved to mathematical biology. He studied the Verhulst equation and the logistic curve. He also wrote on predator-prey equations. Weinstein writes [66]:-
A considerable part of the work of Volterra in the latter part of his life was devoted to the applications of mathematics to biology. The subject of these investigations was mainly the study of biological associations of animals of different species living together. In other words he was interested in a mathematical theory of the "survival of the fittest." While there are today other methods of a stochastic nature, the work of Volterra still exerts a dominant influence on several modern and quite recent developments in mathematical biology.In 1920 he was invited to give a plenary address at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Strasbourg; this was his third invitation to be a plenary speaker. He gave the lecture Sur l'enseignement de la physique mathématique et de quelques points d'analyse Ⓣ. Let us note that he was again invited as a plenary speaker at the 1928 International Congress of Mathematicians in Bologna where he gave the lecture La teoria dei funzionali applicata ai fenomeni ereditari Ⓣ.
The Italian Fascist movement had started around 1921 as a nationalist movement. Led by Benito Mussolini, the Fascists came to power in 1923 although at this time they did not adopt racial policies. Volterra fought against the Fascists in the Italian Parliament but continued to be a leading figure being elected the first president of the Italian National Council for Research in 1923 and, in the same year, elected president of the Accademia dei Lincei. By 1926 the Fascists had abolished all opposition parties and Volterra felt he could not continue with these two roles, and resigned as president. By 1928 elections to Parliament had been abolished and the police began constructing a file on Volterra as being "politically suspect". He was subject to police surveillance from that time on. When Volterra refused to take the oath of allegiance to the Fascist Government in 1931, which was required of all tenured and contracted professors, he was forced to leave the University of Rome. From the following year he lived mostly abroad, mainly in Paris but also Spain and other countries. For refusing to sign another oath to Fascism he was removed from the Accademia dei Lincei in 1934 and removed from the Istituto Lombardo di Scienze e Lettere in 1938 because he was Jewish. It was a sad end to his highly successful career. The Manifesto della razza (Manifesto of Race) enacted by Mussolini in July 1938 stripped Jews of Italian citizenship and banned them from positions in banking, government, and education. By this time, two of Volterra's sons held university positions and they were deprived of these by the racial laws. Volterra advised his sons to go abroad and try to start a new life there. Enrico moved to the Untied States and became a professor of aerospace engineering at the University of Texas.
Volterra was offered an honorary degree by the University of St Andrews in 1938 but, although he wished to come, his doctor did not allow him to travel to Scotland to receive it. Edmund Whittaker writes [68]:-
In December 1938 he was affected by phlebitis: the use of his limbs was never recovered, but his intellectual energy was unaffected, and it was after this that his two last papers 'The general equations of biological strife in the case of historical actions' and 'Energia nei fenomeni elastici ereditarii' were published by the Edinburgh Mathematical Society and the Pontifical Academy of Sciences respectively. On the morning of 11 October 1940 he died at his house in Rome. In accordance with his wishes, he was buried in the small cemetery of Ariccia, on a little hill, near the country-house which he loved so much and where he had passed the serenest hours of his noble and active life.
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Webster University's Non-Scripted Storytelling and Producing class gives students a chance to learn the art of telling a story without a script.
ST. LOUIS, September 23, 2013 - From toddlers in beauty pageants to bachelorettes
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This is the first semester for the Non-Scripted Storytelling and Producing class in Webster's School of Communications and the students not only learn about the variety and types of shows on television, they are learning all of the steps that go into creating a riveting unscripted television series – and they're learning it straight from the professionals.
Tim Breitbach is the instructor of the course and a vice president of story development at Coolfire Originals, a St. Louis-based production studio behind a number of popular reality shows including "Welcome to Sweetie Pies," "Mom Friends Forever," "Funeral Boss" and "Hatfield's and McCoy's: White Lightening." Writers, directors, producers and on-screen talent from Coolfire Originals shows will help out throughout the semester.
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The popularity of reality television is proof enough that this class is an important option for students interested in a career in this industry.
"If you want to work in it, you have to know how it works," said Breitbach. "It's important to taste a lot of different styles and see all of the different offerings in unscripted television"
Brittany Larimore, a film production major, was excited to learn more about the reality genre.
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Students of the course are working closely with the show "Mom Friends Forever," on NickMom, a docu-series about two St. Louis area moms who have their own popular video blog. While "Mom Friends Forever" captures the real-life and family of Kate Frisina-White and Judi Diamond, the creation of the show was more complex than simply turning on the camera and recording the action.
"The biggest thing I've learned from the class is that although reality TV shows don't require a script and are based on spontaneous events, some elements of scriptwriting still apply," said Larimore.
Breitbach agreed that this is an important lesson for students.
"To be a good storyteller, they have to be a good interviewer and also be a good scriptwriter to tie it all together," he said. "A story producer is one part journalist, one part script writer and one part psychic. They have to know how to ask the right questions, how to figure out what the character will do and then be able to guess how others will react."
Throughout the semester students are learning about the jobs available in reality television and the different types of non-scripted shows on television. They are also getting hands-on experience putting together an episodic grid, an outline and a "series story bible." Students will go on location to observe a shooting of one of Coolfire Originals shows.
Jeff Keane, the Chief Executive Officer of Coolfire Originals, thinks this is an important offering for students.
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The fall semester course filled up with students who were eager to learn about this evolving medium, and while not all are planning to go into a career producing reality television, students are finding the lessons to be beneficial.
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13 But we will not boast ebeyond limits, but will fboast only with regard to the area of influence God assigned to us, gto reach even to you. 14 For we are not overextending ourselves, as though we did not reach you. hFor we were the first to come all the way to you with the gospel of Christ. 15 We do not boast beyond limit in the labors of others. But our hope is that ias your faith increases, our area of influence among you may be jgreatly enlarged, 16 so that we may preach the gospel in lands beyond you, without boasting of work already done in another's area of influence. 17 "Let kthe one who boasts, boast in the Lord." 18 For it is lnot the one who commends himself who is approved, but the one mwhom the Lord commends.
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The VRTEX 360 virtual-reality welding system from Lincoln Electric Co., Cleveland, OH, has earned the 2011 Heinz Sossenheimer Award from the International Institute of Welding (IIW). The award is given every two years in recognition of "innovative software solutions making a decisive contribution to improving the long-term quality and/or safety of applications in the fields of joining, cutting or coating." Lincoln introduced the VRTEX 360 in 2009 as an educational and training system, to allow students to practice their welding technique in a simulated environment.
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WWE... be afraid. TNA has truly cemented the formula needed for delivering great pay per views and last night was no exception. TNA's Unbreakable PPV was an astounding buffet of action, catering to the variety of tastes among professional wrestling fans.
Topped off with a certified match of the year candidate and what you have is simply the best damn wrestling product on the planet. Some will no doubt disagree... well, I guess you haven't seen any TNA PPVs lately, have you?
Unbreakable came to a close with mind-boggling main event, featuring a three-way dance between Samoa Joe against AJ Styles against X Division champion Christopher Daniels for the championship title. Now, this is the part where I go into a detail review of the match, but I'm not going to that. Fact is there is no review that could do justice in describing just how stellar this bout was. All three were in the zone -- gathering that unique brand of focus and discipline channeled from the depths of a higher, inner consciousness that most of us will never know. The myriad of action from all three was blurring at times; one competitor would defeat the other in a confrontation, only to then be taken down by the third and so on it went. From the opening moments when Styles & Joe were using Daniels for soccer practice, you knew this was going to be special as did the audience in attendance, on their feet almost from the get go. No shortage of highlights in this battle -- moves like Joe's double suplex from the top rope, Styles springboard shooting star press to the outside of the ring, Daniels' Death Valley Driver on Joe, Styles' spiraling plancha on Daniels and Joe to break up a pin attempt, Joe's suicide dive over the top rope -- it was the kind of drama that grabbed you by the heart and would not let go. In the end, it was Styles who scored the pinfall on Daniels by reversing the Angels' Wings and bridging into a pin. That makes Styles a five-time X Division champion, but the match made all three immortals. Want more details? Get the replay or wait for the DVD.
Match 1: Cassidy Riley versus Jerrelle Clark
A pre-PPV match up, which starts off with some basic back and forth moves from both wrestlers. Alpha Male Monty Brown decides it time to get on the mic and address some issues he has with TNA, and in the process of doing so, clobbers both Riley & Clark. Match is thrown out by the ref.
Match Rating: None - match only got started before it ended
Match 2: Mikey Batts versus Shark Boy
Shark Boy pretty much dominated this one. Of course, what would a Shark Boy match be without the patented Buttocks Shark Bite (in keeping with the current trend of enforcing copyrighted names in wrestling, I do hereby declare Buttocks Shark Bite to be the sole property of SLAM! Wrestling -- use it without our permission and Greg Oliver will sue your ass!). Shark Boy fakes the top rope crotch shot and takes out Batts with the Dead Sea Drop (not sure if that's copyrighted or not). Short but fun.
Match Rating: 5
Match 3: Diamonds in the Rough versus 3LK
Prior to match, Konnan welcomes back BG James to the Kru. Match ensues, with Elix Skipper showing a serious mean streak in him, compliments of the new Bobby Knight School of coaching, with chief counsellor Simon Diamond. 3LK take back control and engage in their unique hybrid of Wrestle Dance Offence (we'll copyright that too and hey, if you got a better name for it, I'm all ears). Skipper and partner David Young isolate James for while, but the tide turns, mandatory shoe throwing incident by Konnan who also scores the pin on Young.
Match Rating: 4
Match 4: Austin Aries versus Roderick Strong
Aries comes to the ring with that cult leader look on his face... wait, I think I saw the same guy profiled on America's Most Wanted. Aries and Strong deliver a wrestling clinic in this one, tight counters and innovative offence -- crowd was just eating this one up. Both wrestlers were very smooth in their move sets, showing no signs of intimidation before a major PPV audience. Was hoping to see more of Strong and his diverse arsenal of back breakers -- ultimately it was Aries getting the win with the 450 splash. Great match.
Match Rating: 8
Match 5: Kip James & Monty Brown versus Apolo & Lance Hoyt
Hoyt picks up where he left off at the last PPV -- on fire and clearing house. Of course, he's helped by the fact that James and Brown are arguing with each other. Brown in particular is in a foul mood and once he's in the ring, promptly punishes his opponents and the The Serengeti Slaughter is on (that's most definitely a copyright, I'm on a roll!). Highlights include Hoyt hitting his moonsault and a miscue by James that sends Brown sailing to the outside of the ring. But Brown shrugs it off and rebounds, scoring the touchdown for the win via The Pounce on Apolo.
Match Rating: 5.5
Match 6: Petey Williams versus Chris Sabin
D'amore's Cam-Am wrestling school in Windsor always gets great advertising when these two go at it. We've seen these two go at before; perhaps we've seen this match one too many times and I can only imagine there pressure they're feeling to innovate their matches with each other. Don't get me wrong, both athletes went out and gave a good performance in the ring. Sabin in particular was really intense with his moves -- but that's the norm for him. Williams' singing of the Canadian national anthem actually seems to be improving as he applied the Standing On Crotch While Singing Oh Canada maneuver (I'll copyright that name too thank you very much). Sabin takes it with the Cradle Shock.
Match Rating: 7
Match 7: Abyss versus Sabu
AaaaaaOh... AAAAAAbyss. It got violent early (oh, there's a shock) with Sabu bringing in the steel chairs. Abyss gets dumped outside and it's now time for Air Sabu (how many copyrights is that now?). Momentum swings back to the favor of Abyss, who sends Sabu over the top rope and through a table. If you're worried about Sabu breaking his back on that move, don't -- he broke his back a long time ago. Sabu delivers a nice steel chair leg drop on Abyss through the table in the ring. Abyss manages to get his hands on his bag of thumbtacks, then planting Sabu into the tacks with his Black Hole Slam and wins the match.
Match Rating: 7.5
Match 8: Booby Roode versus Jeff Hardy.
Coming to the ring is Cirque de Jeff Hardy, painted body and all. Before the match, Roode called Hardy a half-baked nut job. Roode was already pissed off before the match, now he's even more livid with Hardy's body paint all over him. Roode just beats on Hardy, who counters with his half-baked aerials. Petey Williams shows up with a hockey stick to help out his fellow Canuck, but Hardy takes him out. No worries, Jeff Jarrett gets his hand on the hockey and promptly smashes it to pieces over Hardy's back (obviously that stick wasn't made from Canadian softwood lumber). Roode rolls up Hardy for the pin.
Match Rating: 6
Match 9: America's Most Wanted versus Team Canada versus The Naturals versus Alex Shelley and Sean Waltman for the NWA Tag Team Championship.
We're advised that Waltman is a no show. That leaves Shelley to fend for himself and does an admirable job until Team Canada gets the better of him. Then, the brother of the late Chris Candido steps onto the apron and tags in, taking it to Team Canada. He winds up getting pinned for his efforts -- it was a nice gesture, can't help but wonder if they could have come up with something else, preferably outside of the match. From there, it's Team Canada and AMW going at it -- The Naturals stay out of it. Man, Eric Young has some of the best facials in the business! A-1 highsticks Wildcat Chris Harris and Young scores the pin -- it's now Team Canada against The Naturals for the belts. Back and forth action from all four, with Jimmy Hart providing the assist by taking out Eric Young, allowing The Naturals to hit A-1 with the Natural Disaster.
Match Rating: 7
Match 10: Rhino versus Raven for the NWA Heavyweight Championship
It's announced that the match will be under Raven's Rules (bet you were drooling when you heard that eh, Bloodthirsty Bob?). This was a really great technical bout -- NOT! It got bloody early with Raven busting open Rhino with the Pizza Cutter From Hell (back on the copyright roll). Action spills outside where Rhino hammers on Raven with a beer keg near the broadcast table (I thought Mike Tenay and Don West were slurring when calling the matches). Raven gets Rhino in an ankle lock, but the hold is broken when Rhino grabs the ropes (don't ask me why they would allow rope breaks in a match where there are no rules). Raven eventually gets busted open and there's blood everywhere. Now it's time for Rhino to break out the staple gun and goes to work on Raven -- did I mention this match is sponsored by Staples Office Supplies? Raven power bombs Rhino into a ladder and bends it all to hell. Rhino gets a shopping cart, only to have Raven ram it into Rhino's midsection (clean-up in aisle 4 please). Jeff Jarrett enters the fray, but Hardy is there to save the day. Raven plants Rhino into the mat with the Even Flow for the victory and retains the title.
Match Rating: 7.5 (although I'm sure Kapur gave it a 10)
Samoa Joe versus AJ Styles versus Christopher Daniels for the X-Division Championship
Match Rating: 10
Overall Event Rating: 8
Final Thoughts
If you missed it, get the replay. Don't think, just do it -- the main event is well worth the price.
I thought it was a really smart move to have the heavyweight title match as the semi-main event and let the X-Division contest finish off the show. It did nothing to remove any luster from the belt. Amazing how TNA has opened the flood gates when it comes to letting the roster innovate in the ring while WWE is telling the cruiserweights to tone it down.
We should soon see some shakeups coming soon in the form of some new roster additions. I think this will be healthy in building new feuds, especially in the tag team ranks.
My one cautionary note: the fans are becoming accustomed to seeing great matches and TNA will have to remain vigilant in ensuring that they keep doing just that. Anything less, and everything they've built up could be in jeopardy.
TNA's next PPV will be Bound For Glory on October 23.
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Mutually decide to launch an ASEAN-Australia Comprehensive Partnership that is action-oriented, forward-looking and encompassing political and security cooperation, economic cooperation, socio-cultural cooperation and development cooperation at regional and international levels including, but not limited to, the following elements:
1. Engage in dialogue and support efforts to realise the ASEAN Security Community in order to help promote peace, stability, security, development and prosperity in the region;
2. Promote closer cooperation in order to address, prevent and combat transnational crimes, including terrorism, drug trafficking, trafficking in persons, money laundering, sea piracy, arms smuggling, cyber crime and international economic crime by undertaking joint activities based on existing agreements and mechanisms;
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4. Cooperate in areas of disarmament, arms control and non-proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD);
5. Strengthen the various regional frameworks and fora, including the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF), the East Asia Summit (EAS) and the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), and ensuring their complementarity in advancing the common interests of ASEAN and Australia in promoting stability and security in the Asia-Pacific region, with ASEAN as the primary driving force in the ARF and the EAS;
6. Cooperate in multilateral frameworks, including the United Nations;
7. Enhance cooperation in support of deeper economic integration between ASEAN and Australia and the realisation of an ASEAN Economic Community within 2015;
8. Promote favourable environments for trade, investment and other economic linkages between ASEAN and Australia, which will help sustain and boost economic growth in ASEAN and Australia;
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10. Enhance cooperation in areas of mutual economic interest;
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12. Promote and strengthen financial cooperation in areas of mutual interest;
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20. Enhance cooperation in education such as by encouraging and facilitating student and academic exchanges;
21. Promote people-to-people contacts, in particular among youths and the media, as well as interfaith dialogues and exchanges of cultural activities in order to further improve understanding between ASEAN and Australia;
22. Strengthen networking and interactions with and among private sectors, civil societies, experts and scholars in order to tap their expertise, initiatives and ideas, particularly with regard to policy planning and socio-economic development;
23. Further support, through the AADCP and other current and future development cooperation programmes, the foregoing as pillars of the VAP and its successor programme as well as the IAI aiming to alleviate poverty, to narrow the development gap and to promote sustainable development within ASEAN; and
24. Call on ASEAN and Australian senior officials to coordinate with their relevant agencies to develop a Plan of Action to implement the ASEAN-Australia Comprehensive Partnership and annually review and report its progress to the PMC Session with Australia.
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