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The 2009 French film "Welcome" will be shown on Wednesday, Feb. 13, at 6 p.m. at the Granberg Room of the Van Wylen Library and on Thursday, Feb. 14, at 6 p.m. in room 135 of the Martha Miller Center for Global Communication.
The campus community is invited. Admission is free.
"Welcome" follows Bilal, a 17-year-old Kurdish refugee who has struggled his way through Europe in attempt to reunite with his girlfriend, who has immigrated to England. When he is stopped in France, he decides to swim the English Channel to complete his journey. While training at a local swimming pool, he meets Simon, a middle-aged swim instructor who agrees to help him in order to regain the affection of his wife but subsequently grows to care about Bilal and his plight.
"Welcome" is in French with English subtitles and has a running time of 109 minutes.
The film is being presented in the French Films series of the French section of the department of modern and classical languages. The educational films presented through the series document important aspects of global French-speaking cultures.
The Martha Miller Center for Global Communication is located at 257 Columbia Ave., at the corner of Columbia Avenue and 10th Street. The Van Wylen Library is located at 53 Graves Place (11th Street, between 10th and 12th streets on College Avenue.


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Supporters of Tennessee Right to Life joined recently to celebrate the completion of the new state office located in Nashville. A first in the organization's 30 year history, the new building houses administrative offices, an educational resource center and outreach counseling services for women and families facing difficult pregnancies. The counseling element is most critical, say Right to Life officials, considering the providential location of the building just three doors from one of Nashville's two abortion clinics.
"Our new building was donated to us with the stipulation that it be moved from its previous location," said Brian Harris, president of Tennessee Right to Life. "It was no small undertaking for a non-profit to move a building across the city but God made a way and here we are today," said Harris.
After finding and purchasing the piece of undeveloped land, TRL worked hard to coordinate the total refurbishing of the building. By time of completion, more than 60 contractors, companies and tradesmen had donated or significantly discounted their services and materials. "This project demonstrates that many Tennesseans share a concern for the protection of life. They only need an invitation and an opportunity to do their part for the cause of life," commented Myra Simons, development associate for TRL.
Highlighting the new building's dedication was a special appearance by Father Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life. Father Pavone was invited by Tennessee Right to Life to offer a pastoral blessing over the new facility. "We pray asking God's blessing on this place where life affirming decisions will be made for years to come," offered Pavone. "We pray from a position of victory knowing that victory of life over death has already been accomplished and we stand in that victory today."
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Today, there's a crisis going on in Anoka-Hennepin school district, where the policy that forbids teachers from offering any support to LGBTQIAPPQA students, is having a devastating effect on those most vulnerable of students. Seven recent LGBTQIAPPQA suicides are still not enough to repeal this regressive and damaging policy.
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Interdisciplinary Perspectives on International Law and International Relations
The State of the Art
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- Mark A. Pollack, Temple University, Philadelphia
- Date Published: December 2012
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International Law and International Relations: Synthesizing Insights from Interdisciplinary Scholarship brings together the most influential contemporary writers in the fields of international law and international relations to take stock of what we know about the making, interpretation, and enforcement of international law. The contributions to this volume critically explore what recent interdisciplinary work reveals about the design and workings of international institutions, the various roles played by international and domestic courts, and the factors that enhance compliance with international law. The volume also explores how interdisciplinary work has advanced theoretical understandings of the causes and consequences of the increased legalization of international affairs.Read more
- Explores how interdisciplinary work has advanced theoretical understandings of international law
- Critically explores what recent interdisciplinary work reveals about the design and workings of international institutions
- Brings together the most influential contemporary writers in the fields of international law and international relations to take stock of what we know about the making, interpretation and enforcement of international law
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"In this volume a top roster of scholars plunges into the crucial debate about how international law connects with politics, both domestic and international. These chapters are crisp presentations of existing debates and advance new perspectives as well. From theory to empirical applications, no recent single volume does a better job of bringing the reader to the cutting edge of knowledge at the intersection of law and the social sciences. An informative read for scholars and students alike."
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"The most important academic development in the study of international relations in the last two decades is the fusion of perspectives and frameworks from international legal scholarship and political science international relations scholarship. This book provides state-of-the-art critical analyses of this development from leaders in both fields, and is indispensable for all students of international relations."
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"This book's subtitle is apt: The State of the Art. Dunoff and Pollack have assembled the leading writers in the field of international law and international relations and provided an invaluable and timely discussion of where we are, where we have been, and where we need to go next. The volume brilliantly weaves together a look back at the almost twenty-five years since Abbott's seminal call for a rapprochement between international law and international relations and a look forward the most interesting and important questions in the field. Where once there were two fields of endeavor there is now a distinct interdisciplinary field and this volume offers a master class in the no-longer-so-new IL/IR."
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"This is a striking book. It gathers an impressive collection of leading scholars on a topic of great importance: the connections between international law and international politics. The essays are original and bold. They cover the wide range of legal and political issues at the forefront of both scholarship and practice today. Together, the essays argue that neither the international legal realm nor international politics should be understood in isolation from each other. The volume is broad, deep, and clear. It will be essential reading for scholars of international relations and international law."
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"Interdisciplinary Perspectives on International Law and International Relations is an impressive volume that brings together the leading writers in the fields of international law and international relations to celebrate this development, while also critically assessing the conceptual and empirical contributions of IL/IR to the understanding of international law … Professors Jeffrey Dunoff and Mark Pollack's anthology proves to be a tremendously valuable contribution to the study of international relations - one that traces the trajectory of IL/IR as a discipline over the past century, provides a comprehensive depiction and analysis of the field as it exists today through the varied analyses of the volume's authors, and proposes a way forward for the continued development of cross-disciplinary IL/IR scholarship."
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- Date Published: December 2012
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781107684027
- length: 698 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 39 mm
- weight: 0.77kg
- contains: 10 b/w illus. 12 tables
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Table of Contents
Part I. Introduction: Setting the Stage:
1. International law and international relations: taking stock Jeffrey L. Dunoff and Mark A. Pollack
2. Law, legalization, and politics: an agenda for the next generation of IR/IL scholars Kenneth W. Abbott and Duncan Snidal
Part II. Theorizing International Law:
3. Institutionalism and international law Barbara Koremenos
4. Liberal theories of international law Andrew Moravcsik
5. Constructivism and international law Jutta Brunnée and Stephen J. Toope
6. Wanted: dead or alive - realist approaches to international law Richard H. Steinberg
Part III. Making International Law:
7. Flexibility in international agreements Laurence R. Helfer
8. Hard and soft law Gregory Shaffer and Mark A. Pollack
9. NGOs in international relations (theory) Peter J. Spiro
10. Regulatory networks Abraham Newman and David Zaring
11. Lawmaking by international organizations: perspectives from IL/IR theory Ian Johnstone
12. Institutional proliferation and the international legal order Kal Raustiala
13. Legitimacy: concepts and conceptions/normative and descriptive Daniel Bodansky
Part IV. The Interpretation and Application of International Law:
14. The multiple roles of international courts and tribunals: enforcement, dispute resolution, constitutional and administrative review Karen J. Alter
15. The design of dispute settlement procedures in international agreements Barbara Koremenos and Timm Betz
16. Whose agents? The interpretation of international law in national courts Lisa Conant
17. International judicial independence Erik Voeten
18. The politics of treaty interpretation: variations and explanations across international tribunals Joost Pauwelyn and Manfred Elsig
Part V. Enforcement, Compliance, and Effectiveness:
19. The engines of compliance Jana von Stein
20. Coercive enforcement in international law Alexander Thompson
21. Reputation in international relations and international law theory Rachel Brewster
22. Open economy law Joel P. Trachtman
23. Persuading to comply: on the deployment and avoidance of legal argumentation Steven R. Ratner
24. Against compliance Lisa L. Martin
Part VI. Conclusions:
25. International law and international relations: twenty years later Anne-Marie Slaughter
26. Reviewing two decades of IL/IR scholarship: what we've learned, what's next Jeffrey L. Dunoff and Mark A. Pollack.
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Veterans Day originated as "Armistice Day" on Nov. 11, 1919, the first anniversary of the end of World War I. Congress passed a resolution in 1926 for an annual observance, and Nov. 11 became a national holiday beginning in 1938. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed legislation in 1954 to change the name to Veterans Day as a way to honor those who served in all American wars. The day honors military veterans with parades and speeches across the nation. A national ceremony takes place at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.
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Comicpalooza 2014 is officially here. Consider it the mecca, a pilgrimage if you will, of comic book and fantasy enthusiasts from around the world. From May 23-26, stars and fans alike will take over the George R. Brown Convention Center in downtown Houston in all their costumed glory.
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Meeting Notes 2012 04 03
- 1 Instructions
- 2 Agenda
- Pick a moderator and a note-taker.
- Optionally: pick a membership-binder-wrangler; otherwise the moderator can take care of it.
- Open a text editor to take notes on the major points of the meeting, using this page at the template.
- Project the draft meeting notes and agenda in real time throughout the meeting.O
- Edit the Current Consensus Items if anything is proposed for consensus next week.
- Edit the Consensus Items History if anything was reached consensus or failed to reach consensus this week.
- Post the meeting notes to this page, and email out a summary with a link.
- Tell firstname.lastname@example.com and email@example.com if there are new members.
- Understand the structure of Noisebridge decision-making
- Make sure everyone gets a chance to speak.
- Speak only minimally yourself.
- Keep the meeting moving, and avoid getting bogged down.
- Identify discussion items, arrange times limits for talking about each item.
- Identify and summarize consensus, suggest things that need to be done.
- Get the membership binder and ensure that it is returned safely.
- Say your name before you talk.
- Remain on-topic, and speak as concisely as possible.
- Assist the note-taker with any links or corrections that are needed.
- Remain respectful of other participants, their time, and the consensus and moderation process.
The 210th Meeting of Noisebridge
Note-taker: User:Malaclyps
Moderator: User:Leif
Introduction and Names[edit]
- Invite a knowledgeable volunteer to explain what Noisebridge is about: "Noisebridge is a 501c3 nonprofit that provides a space for creation, collaboration, and learning about technology and creative projects. Noisebridge provides space, power tools, and infrastructure to help the public learn new skills and create cool things. Noisebridge continues to exist through and depends entirely on membership fees and donations. Our code of conduct is 'Be excellent to each other'."
- Invite a knowledgeable volunteer to give a brief primer on consensus process: We agree and so should you! Only paid-up members can block consensus.
- Introduce any new or unusual moderation techniques that you may be using during the meeting like: direct responses, limited speaking time, orderless stack, &c.
- Round of introductions (remember, announcements come later):
- What's your name,
- are you a member,
- what do you do, and
- if you are new: how did you hear about Noisebridge?
- Danny -- is writing the notes
- Jake -- is hacking on electric batteries and bikes, cold cathode fluorescent. His friend is making cool noisemakers. Making keypad thing.
- Carl
- Lilly!
- Leif -- working on steganography thing
- James -- writing a script for practicing touch-typing, based on Gutenberg scripts
- Matt -- working on JS software with CouchDB
- Mark -- hype on IRC, came here from Arbor, Michicag. Program for work and fun.
- Luther -- first meeting, just sitting here. Want to make videogames, hacking on Unity
- Will -- talk about web things, how you can harden web application
- Mike -- I'm technowanderer, not a quartermaster. Want people to see what happens under the keys when they use a computer.
- Tom -- He is tom. He fights for the user.
- Carl -- I'm Carl.
- Kelly -- she is your treasurer. Work in neuroscience. Working on the EEG. Wants to know how to do read of negative values from an Arduino.
- Robert -- do stuff. Learning Python!
- Monar -- tinkerer!
- Chris -- mathematician
- Terry -- is eating a fragrant dip
- Miloh -- is a fragrant dip
- Nick -- printing things out of minecraft
Short Announcements[edit]
Big thankyou to hak5 folks for their excellent event and lovely donation.
Zip02 is coming up very soon! Everyone is excited.
New or Stale Events[edit]
- Is there anything new happening at the space?
- Is there anything that has stopped happening at the space?
- If this is the first meeting of the month, review all the events at the space and try to weed out stale events.
Danny has ennui about Social Engineering, but is renewed by the meeting.
Membership Binder[edit]
- Invite a knowledgeable volunteer to describe the membership application process.
- Read off any names from the binder for the past month. Write a check on every open application.
- Anyone eligible to join this week should
- introduce themselves,
- answer any questions members may have for them, then
- leave the area in search of gifts (traditionally beer and a lime, or cookies) for the rest of the group.
- The rest of the meeting should reach consensus on whether they may join.
- Remember to applaud new members when they return.
Financial Report[edit]
- Funds in bank: $16607.14 -- $13700.00. We have just paid rent, so this is the lowest nadir of our month, but it's still under.
- Noisetor (See the bulletpoints at the bottom of http://noisetor.net/finances/#summary): $2882.56
Consensus items[edit]
You may wish to invite a knowledgeable volunteer to repeat a brief primer on the consensus process.
Proposals from last week[edit]
(Add any items which pass or are blocked to the Consensus Items History page.)
Proposals for next week[edit]
(Add any new items for consensus to the Current Consensus Items page.)
Discussion Items[edit]
If an item of discussion drags on too long, further discussion may be postponed until after the meeting ends.
During discussion, it is not necessary to write down exact what each person says. Record the topics of discussion, and any items of consensus or controversy here. Detailed descriptions of the conversation should go on the discuss page for this meeting.
- Keypad
Jake sez "Made a keypad from a phone. There's an LED, arduino, and it's going to be bolted to the gate. There'll be a CAT5 cable that goes to minotaur serial port. It sends keypad tones, and it can send back happy or sad. Software was written so that you could type the right number. There's a key to lock it. It is a good but unexceptionable lock."
Jake has built this so that people can be more comfortable naked in the space.
Leif is not happy about the keypad idea, but have been convinced to not argue about that. Keypads are shitty security. And we should be pointing out shitty security systems, not using them. Having a way to get in without using the buzzer. More ways to get in the better. I'm okay as long as all the mechanism is additive, and removing other ones is not so good. If the keys stop working, I'll rekey.
Kelly says noone has said anything about removing the physical keys.
Mark -- when I started coming here, I appreciated how I could come here without stuff. Then I wondered about people coming in and taking stuff. Noisebridge is looked up by other hackerspaces, so your decisions counts. I love the idea of the keypad, maybe as a complement to existing systems. You should try it. It's hard to make judgements about people who turn up.
Augustine -- My question is: who you trying to keep out? You can't keep out bad guys. It's futile to keep out anyone out.
Ronald -- I think the keypad is a good idea. We need more creative ways of getting in. We definitely rekey locks without landlord's permission.
Jake -- we could rekey them again.
Kelly -- I want feebdack on unacceptable features of the keycode generating system.
- Laser venting
Leif says 'you're crazy'. Rayc says its better this way, and it doesn't smell.
Nick says it's not about the smell.
Augustine -- we don't know.
Jake -- we used to have lots of fumes, even when the lasercutter was in the booth. We are a hackerspace, we should work on the ventilation. Alan and Mike and Christopher who have been working on making a cleanroom for science, and they do extremely excellent things. We should work with them.
Tom -- I should have the reasonable expectation that people are doing excellent things. If you are claiming that the plastic is safe, you should be able to explain what the byproducts are, and test for them and show that there aren't any. You should test.
Matt -- says "just say something when you're cutting"
Rob -- makerbots use plastic and could be using more fumes. Corey said ducts need to be shorter. I think it's a good locatoin.
Miloh -- it's a negative pressure system now. That's kind of the standard.
Nick -- I was going to suggest a visible light.
Alan -- I think the lasercutter is in a good spot. It used to be anti-social. I just cut the stinkiest plastic I could, I sniffed around and couldn't smell it.
Rayc -- the improvements were put into place on Saturday.
Kelly -- can somebody provide 3rd party ventilation standards.
- Membership expiration --
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Following a dramatic e-fight with Jenny Johnson, Chris has deactivated his account.
After getting into a rather intense Twitter battle earlier tonight, Chris Brown has deleted his account. One of the last tweets the singer sent out before deleting his page was "Just ask Rihanna if she mad??????"
Earlier today Chris Brown posted a series of vulgar tweets attacking comedienne Jenny Johnson (@JennyJohnsonHi5), a long-time critic who dared to mock the girl-beater celebrity.
Chris Brown is really bad at public relations. The 23-year-old rapper went on a memorably vulgar tirade and apparently realized soon thereafter that it was a bad idea, because he scrambled to cover his tracks. But deleting tweets does not erase their previous existence and deactivating your Twitter account does not take away all of the bad things you did with it.
Then things got ugly. In a series of tweets, Brown told Johnson to suck his dick, threatened to fart on her, threatened to shit and called her a "bitch" and a "ho" about seven times. After tweeting -- and this is a direct quote -- "mom says hello... She told me not to shart in ur mouth, wanted me to shit right on the retina, ....#pinkeye" Brown tweeted, "Just ask Rihanna if she mad??????"
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Some car companies you can't help but love. They might go out of business every seven weeks, they may make product planning decisions with tarot cards, but they've got history and charm and (every once in a while) brilliance.
I can rattle off a ton of carmakers like this, carmakers that you would never, ever invest in, but ones that you never want to go away.
The most obvious one is Lotus, which has gone so silent in the US that you'd be forgiven if you thought they were out of business. But they're the company that made the Elan and the Esprit and tuned the Sunbeam and Cortina and did everything else from groundbreaking F1 cars to the fastest four-door sedan in the world.
They've got history, and most of it is them going bust multiple times. But still, you always root for them.
What company do you think of, when you think of a lovable fuckup of a car company?
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A look back at the 2011 fishing year
With this being my last column for 2011, I thought we'd take a look back at the season that was on the lakes.The first LeFlore County Bass Club tournament took place March 5 at Broken Bow Lake. Steve "Hard" Core and "Good Luck" Chuck Restine won first place with a haul of 18.81 pounds of bass — which included Steve big bass winner of 7.33 pounds which was good for $230 — which earned them $575 for the win. Jason "Wick" Wickware and Russ "Pop" Warner were second (14.12 pounds, $345), while Robbie "The Bruiser" Brassfield and Keith "Stone" Jones were third (9.22 pounds, $230).On March 20, the next stop on the LCBC Tour was on Lake Eufaula. Tony "The Tiger" Parker and Joey "Clint" Chitwood took home first place with 16.22 pounds for $650. Tom "Big Sexy" Hamm and Brian "Cuts Like a Knife" Adams were runners-up (12.73, $390) and Wade "FLW" Dalton and Josh "Love Me Sexy" Walls were third (11.58 pounds, $260). Kenny "Rogers" Richie got the big bass winner, a 6.2-pounder to pocket $260.The next stop was Lake Tenkiller on April 2. "Big" and "Li'l" Jeff Mahar claimed the top spot with 16.41 pounds to earn $650. "Uncle" Tom Neff and Paul "The Tank" Tankersly came in second (15.97 pounds, $390), while Dalton and Walls were third (13.23 pounds, $260). Keith "Pipes" Griffith got the big bass winner for the event, which weighed 4.74 pounds to earn $260.The next two stops were at the same place — Sardis Lake, and won each time by Dwayne "Mr. Sardis" Williams and Ivan "The Great" Williams. On the first event on April 17, they caught 13.43 pounds (including Dwayne's big bass winner of 7.73 pounds and $300) to win $750. Jim "Dandy" Yandell and "Slick" Rick Short came in runners-up (11.96 pounds, $375), and "Tiny" Tim O'Daniel and "King" David Kirkes took third place (8.82 pounds, $225).In the second Sardis event on May 15, the Williams duo hauled in a total of 22.33 pounds to win $615. Doug "Mister" Rodgers and "Saint" Nick Cox were second (16.47 pounds, $370), while "Smoking" Joe Phillips II and Chris "Shawun" Michaels came in third (12.82 pounds, $245). Again, Dwayne had the big bass winner, which weighed 11.09 pounds to earn him $245.The circuit's next stop was on Robert S. Kerr Reservoir on May 28. Core and Restine took home the top prize of $475 for hauling a top-weight total of 14.76 pounds of bass. "Ribeye" Randy Martin and Bucky "Buckshot" McGee were runners-up, just missing out on first place by a mere 0.58 of an ounce (14.18 pounds, $285). Brassfield and Jones were third (14.08 pounds, $190). Cox had the big bass winner, a 5.5-pounder to earn $190.Then, the final two regular-season stops on the tour came to Wister Lake. The first one was June 11, and won by Danny "The Doctor of" Love and Andy "Fat Albert" Nance with 14.2 pounds to earn $725. "Bad" Brad Hall and Robert "I Want to Go Fast" Wellman were second (13.48 pounds, $435), while Edwin "Evers" Miller and Hershel "Maniac" Miller came in third (13.47 pounds, $290 — including the big bass winner for Edwin of 4.44 pounds to earn $290).The final event of the 2011 circuit was on June 28 on Wister, which was captured by "The" Chad Ritter and John "Bo" Hopson with 15.55 pounds to pocket $710. Jeff "Jeffy" Hardin and Dennis "The Menace" Roper came in runners-up (13.41 pounds, $430), while Griffith and Gary "Egghead" Steelman were third (12.62 pounds, $285). Robert "Wide Open" Wellman got the big bass winner, a bass weighing 4.27 pounds to earn $285.The big one, the LeFlore County Bass Club's Classic Tournament, was Oct. 1-2 at Applegate Cove on Robert S. Kerr Reservoir. Wickware and Warner claimed the top spot with 26 pounds even to earn $3,370. Griffith and Steelman were second (25.67 pounds, $1,680), followed by Rodgers and Cox (24.04, $840), George and Clay Sherrill (22.79, $520), Phillips II and Michaels (22.58, $330), Chitwood and Parker (19.65, $200) and Core and Restine (19.46, $100). George Sherrill had the big bass winner on both days, 4.35 pounds on Day 1 and 4.82 pounds on Day 2 to earn a total of $1,060 — $530 for each one.As for the top five weights for the season, the Williams duo's 22.33-pound performance on Sardis Lake topped them all. Restine and Core were next with 18.81 pounds at Broken Bow Lake, followed by the Mahars (16.41 pounds) on Lake Tenkiller, Chitwood and Parker (16.22 pounds) on Lake Eufaula and Neff and Tankersly (15.97 pounds) also on Lake Tenkiller.Dwayne Williams had the biggest bass winning fish with his 11.09-pounder caught on Sardis Lake. Ritter had the second-best big bass winner (9.79 pounds) on Sardis Lake, while Williams' other big bass winner on Sardis Lake (7.73 pounds) was third. Core's 7.33-pounder hauled in on Broken Bow Lake was the fourth-best big bass winner, while rounding out the top five was Richie's 6.2-pounder caught on Lake Eufaula.The average number of boats per tournament in 2011 was 25, while the average winning weight total was 16.46 pounds. The average weight per big bass winner was 6.41 pounds, the average weight per fish caught was 2.49 pounds and the average number of fish weighed collectively per tournament was 64. The average number of limits caught per tournament this past season was seven.Here is the 2012 LeFlore County Bass Club Tournament Schedule:March 3 on Broken Bow Lake.March 18 on Lake Eufaula.April 14 on Lake Tenkiller.April 29 on Sardis Lake.May 5 on Wister Lake.May 20 on Sardis Lake.June 2 on Wister Lake.June 24 on Robert S. Kerr Reservoir.Other Tournaments of Interest in 2012:Jan. 7 — He-Man Tournament at Grasshopper Landing on Broken Bow Lake.Feb. 25 — Open Tournament on Broken Bow Lake.March 31 — Open Tournament on Wister Lake.April 28 — Open Tournament on Sardis Lake.July 14 — Open Tournament on Wister Lake.For those who would like to join the LeFlore County Bass Club and fish in this upcoming season's circuit, the first organizational meeting will take place at 7 p.m. Jan. 26, 2012, at LaHuerta's Mexican Restaurant. The cost to become a member is $30. For more information, call "The Jody Ray Fishing Hotline" at (918) 649-7387.


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These days, when Dale Walker goes shopping, you can count on there being a notebook full of manufacturer's coupons open on the baby seat in the top of her shopping cart.
"It's all about saving money," Walker said. "You'll do anything you can to save money these days."
A rough economy has reversed a 14-year decline in coupon redemption in the United States.
The last few days have been miserably hot. It kind of reminds me of when the U.S. Army came to town for a round of war games.
America was getting a bit antsy with all the saber-rattling going on in Europe.
Given the situation, somebody up and decided to call out our soldiers in the middle of a really hot summer for military maneuvers.
You know, it takes two sides to argue, fight or have a war, even if it's just playin' war.
Name: Mary Ida Lucas
Age: 102; I will be 103 on Aug. 7.
Address: New Hope Road, Heath Springs
Family: Husband, the late James Lloyd Lucas; four children, Arthur Lucas, Marian McNeely, Mary Powers and Edith Taylor; 13 grandchildren; 19 great-grandchildren and 13 great great-grandchildren
Job: Retired, Springs Industries
Church: Grace United Methodist Church
Coupon-clipping has become so popular that some stores are now advertising items to match manufacturer's coupons.
However, some of them have also revised their coupon policies to limit what customers can and cannot do.
Many retailers are attributing the changes to TLC's popular "Extreme Couponing" show, which showcases over-the-top couponing practices.
It was a sound that brought summer to a halt along every Erwin Farm street. If we were racing our home-made, human-powered go-carts made from worn-out mower wheels, discarded lumber, rope steering and axles fashioned from metal rods discovered in a pile of rubbish from the old mill trash pile off Laurel Avenue, this sound would bring out a red flag as it drew closer and closer.
During summer months, days are longer and more people are outside for longer periods of time, increasing the health risks from heat exhaustion and overexposure to the sun.
Each year, more Americans on average die from heat waves than from any other natural disaster.
And every hour, one person dies from skin cancer, which is the most common occurring cancer in the Unied States.
Staying cool
To avoid heat exhaustion and overexposure to the sun, follow these steps to stay cool and safe this summer:
Eating your own words (or thoughts) isn't always the most appetizing thing on the menu.
Like castor oil, it can get something stuck out of your system.
You know, I've read my share of letters to the editor from folks who want to thank others for doing the job they are paid to do.
And most of the time, I made light of their letters.
However, that chicken has come home to roost and is crowing away atop a house gutter.
Within the next couple of months, Robert Truesdale's "office" will be empty.
That office is the seed counter in Ace Hardware and Garden Center of Lancaster, where Truesdale has weighed out seed of every kind and shape in the last 54 years. Truesdale, now a part time "feed and seed store" employee, will soon weigh out his last bag for one of the farmers who stop by to trade hearty stories and conversation.
That's because Lancaster is losing one of its oldest businesses.
Name: Trish Hinson
Age: 42
Address: Hula Drive
Family: Husband, Joel, 45, and a daughter, Katie Hope Hinson, 17
Pets: Zoe, a dapple dachshund, and four treeing walker hounds
Job: Lancaster County 911 addressing
Church: Rich Hill Baptist Church
Mosquitoes have been around for thousands, maybe millions, of years.
And these winged blood suckers have no intention of taking off this summer.
With the pop-up thunderstorm season now in full swing, it doesn't take much to create a mosquito nuisance, said Sue Ferguson, an environmental health manager for S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control.
That's where a little routine yard sprucing-up comes in.
There's nothing like the smell of fresh, homegrown tomatoes.
That is exactly what it smelled like in the Carol Raye Dowling Health Services Center at the University of South Carolina Lancaster where in mid-June participants peeled and quartered dozens of tomatoes during Clemson University Cooperation Extension's hands-on canning course.
Canning is one of the most time-tested ways to preserve that smell and taste of fresh food, but it must be done carefully.
– Editor's note: W.B. Evans is on the mend after a recent at-home mishap. "I climbed a ladder and fell off, simple as that," he said. "I ain't as young as I sometimes think I am." We are reprinting this Remember When column on Vacation Bible School that was originally published in the June 29, 2008, edition of The Lancaster News.
No sooner had the final school bell rung for our last day at Chesterfield Avenue Grammar School, the bell at First Baptist Church peeled, summoning all of us to Vacation Bible School.
Name: Josh McNeal IV
Age: 25
Address: Sunshine Road
Family: Dad, the Rev. Willie McNeal; mom, Robin Stevenson, and three brothers, Adrian McGriff, Quacy McNeal and Willie McNeal Jr.
Job: Graduate assistant for the Southern Political Science Association
Hobbies: Working out, Gamecocks football and baseball, videography, golf and watching the TV news
Favorite book: "Strivers Row" by Kevin Baker
Eighteen-year-old Morgan "Hot Shoe" Turpen has lofty dreams.
They include earning an education degree from the University of Memphis and becoming a teacher and high school softball coach and possibly, one day, a principal.
But should that plan go awry, the Cordova, Tenn., native does have a back-up.
For now, she has a 1,300-pound winged sprint car with a 360-cubic, 700-horsepower engine and a pair of racing gloves to fall back on. Later on, if she continues to grow and develop, that could mean NASCAR.
I have breaking news: Our neighborhoods have disappeared.
The young folks moved away and the older folks have gotten older or moved on, too.
What happened? Our neighborhoods are now full of strangers who seldom speak, much less wave.
Why are there no children riding tricycles or scooters on the sidewalks?
Shucks, most recently developed neighborhoods don't even have sidewalks. For that matter, most of the residents don't even know what a scooter is.
Elizabeth M. Hunter has been named the Lancaster Soil and Water Conservation District's Conservation Farmer of the Year for 2010.
This annual award recognizes a county farmer who protects natural resources to an unusually high degree or in an innovative way.
Name: Maria Campos
Age: 30
Address: Holly Dale Drive
Family: Husband, Hugo Campos, and a daughter, Mabelyn Campos
Job: Volunteer for ESL (English as a Second Language)
Church: St. Catherine Catholic Church
Hobbies: Reading and watching movies
Favorite movie: "The Notebook"
Favorite book: The Bible
Favorite food: Mexican food
Nine years ago, when Ronnie and Crystal Carnes bought their home at 1228 Kent Drive, the contractor made them an offer they couldn't refuse. The price of the new home was reduced if they agreed to do all the landscaping themselves.
Having a special knack for landscaping, Ronnie welcomed and accepted the deal.
Now, by reading do-it-yourself magazines, driving through neighborhoods and picking up a few tips from previous Yard of the Month recipients, he has created quite a showplace at their home.
They have a wholesalers license and their product is certified as a South Carolina product. In fact, Barbara Lyles and Barbara Hilton even have a certificate from the Department of Homeland Security.
"We are certified as not being terrorists," Lyles said.
Their product is made in South Carolina and they are licensed to sell. Homeland Security might want to rethink their designation, though, because the cheesecakes Lyles and Hilton make in their small business are definitely "the bomb."
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The first pictures of the Volkswagen Beetle Dune Concept are here, and it's that Baja Bug-esque softroader you always dreamed of, maybe. The rumors on the street though are that this new Dune might actually be headed to the showroom, so you may be looking at the new face of California cruising.
Our friends over at Road & Track were the first ones to get all the info on the new Dune, and it certainly looks like, well, a Dune.
Resembling in both design and color the last Beetle Dune concept of 14 (yes, fourteen, you're old now) years ago, the Dune looks like it can tackle the muddiest of slightly muddy roads, which is quite befitting for a Beetle-based buggy. Alliteration, yay.
Reinforcing the rumors of production is the fact that Volkswagen put a real license plate on this concept, which is unusual for concepts you never intend to actually put in the hands of real people, and the fact that Volkswagen seems to have released so much information about the car.
It's not the normal stuff about concepts, either, like it was inspired by magical demons of the indigenous people of the Atacama desert or anything like that. We're talking boring things, that you wouldn't normally show off if that wasn't the point of the concept, like the fact that it gets 23 miles per gallon in the city and 29 on the highway, or that it gets from 0-60 miles an hour in seven and a half seconds. It's roof structure is also supposedly production-ready, like you'd ever need that.
The Dune concept is powered by VW's 208-horse turbocharged 2.0-liter engine, with a DSG gearbox. To make sure it can actually go sort-of offroad, it's also got an electronic differential. But it's still front-wheel drive, so boo.
We'll see if it actually does make production. If it does, the first thing I'm doing is lopping the fenders off.
Because Baja Bug.
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Better Together – The Inevitable Integration of Networks and Rich Media Applications – Part 3
In part 2 of this blog series, I discussed the need for the network to operate in collaboration with rich media applications to deliver quality services.
The key to a successful medianet architecture is the integration of endpoint/application and network to deliver a flexible end to end system. By exchanging information between these two entities, it enables the network to deliver the right services to the application whilst maximizing the resources available. This enables the network to understand the changing requirements of the application and can lead to the endpoint explicitly asking for services, such as recording and transcoding, rather than the network relying on traffic analysis to determine whether a service is needed or not. Intelligent interaction would also enable the network to negotiate service levels with the endpoints.
An example would be around bandwidth reservation. Rather than having the option to accept or reject a bandwidth reservation request, interaction would enable the network to offer alternative reservations which the endpoint could still utilize. It's far better to offer the endpoint the best service that is practically available than to offer no service at all. This in turn provides the network with the means to maximize service whilst still maintaining control over the resources and services at its disposal. This becomes particularly attractive as rich media endpoints can often support multiple codecs enabling them to receive media in different formats and at different resolutions. The flow of information need not always be from the client to the network. By exposing network services to the endpoints it would be possible to remove much of the guesswork that the quality of experience mechanisms that video conferencing solutions often provide. Rather than estimating the network status through analysis purely on the endpoints the prospect of enabling the client visibility into network performance from the network devices themselves would enable those endpoints to finely tune their functions and better align their user experience with the network resources available.
Rich media poses some of today's biggest challenges to enterprise network architectures necessitating the need for medianet architectures. Just as the convergence of IP telephony lead to tighter integration and network innovations like automated port configuration and line power, the increasing demands of these rich media applications will necessitate tighter integration between network services and endpoints. Please leave a comment and let me know what you thought about this blog series.
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Call it an adult field trip: Microbrewery tours are one of Dallas-Fort Worth's hottest party trends.
Far from a snoozy factory excursion, tours typically offer requisite beer geekery plus the built-in permission to imbibe before 5 p.m.
They're the least expensive way to experience North Texas' booming craft beer movement, to boot.
Texas law says that breweries can't sell on-site. So tours usually involve three to four samples, often amounting to full pints, poured in collectible glassware that is included in the admission fee of $7 to $12. That's about the price of a single pint of craft beer at a bar or restaurant.
Each tour differs based on its respective brewery's personality and product, but on the whole, the tours are reasonably priced three- to four-hour parties where like-minded enthusiasts can enjoy homegrown Texas flavor.
With so many new breweries cropping up, it's reasonable to wonder where to start. Here is a rundown of some of North Texas' best brewery tours to help you decide when, where and how often to visit. If you can, try them all.
Rahr & Sons Brewing Co.: The daddy of all local breweries
Though Fritz Rahr's sons were still in elementary school when he established his Fort Worth brewery in 2004, he and his wife, Erin, ensured that the Rahr boys were already part of the brewery's legacy. Since its inception, Rahr & Sons Brewing Co. has grown to a 20,000-square-foot facility that produces more than 5,000 barrels of German-style beer per year.
Even though it's the area's most firmly established brewing facility, Rahr consistently produces a warm, hometown atmosphere at its weekly brewery tours. The tasting room's open, hofbrau-style seating lends itself to mingling among strangers, and the tight-knit community that Rahr has built is anything but a coincidence. Many Rahr volunteers have been showing up weekly for a half decade or more, and some even travel together on "Brew Cruises."
Whether your passion is philanthropy, music, the environment or running, Rahr probably already hosts an event to suit your fancy. If not, just ask: This Big Daddy brewery keeps his family happy.
701 Galveston Ave., Fort Worth. 817-810-9266. rahrbrewing .com
Tours: Saturdays 1 to 3 p.m., Wednesdays 5 to 7:30 p.m.
Cost: $10 tour includes pint glass and three to six samples
Where to get Rahr: On tap at select area locations and even as far as Wichita Falls and Port Aransas. Growlers and kegs are available at select Whole Foods Markets, Central Market and liquor stores. Rahr bottles are available at select Whole Foods stores, select Central Market stores and select liquor stores.
Deep Ellum Brewing Co.: The four horsemen of the beerpocalypse
Others have tried and failed, but as of November 2012, Deep Ellum Brewing Co. has overwhelmingly succeeded as the flagship brewery of Dallas proper. It's run by four guys with big personalities and even bigger yearnings for serious craft beer.
DEBC is artsy and a little rock 'n' roll, with creative branding that looks more like indie-band posters than traditional beer labels.
Unlike many of its local competitors, it is not expressly family-operated, and perhaps for that reason, its tours seem to attract a younger crowd. The atmosphere can sometimes feel insular and less conducive to mingling outside one's group. But there is no shortage of patrons lining up for a taste of its flagship IPA or citrusy Dallas Blonde session ale, which goes down all too smoothly in the DEBC beer garden, constructed of massive wooden spools.
Impress your valentine by bypassing a box of chocolates in favor of DEBC's underrated Cherry Chocolate Double Brown Stout, which returns in February.
A bit older, a bit wiser, but still maintaining its punk-rock heritage, DEBC is the second coming of craft beer in Dallas.
2823 St. Louis St., Dallas. 214-888-3322. deepellumbrewing .com
Tours: Thursdays 6 to 8:30 p.m., Saturdays noon to 3 p.m.
Cost: $10 tour includes pint glass and four samples
Where to get DEBC beer: on tap at more than 50 restaurants and bars. You can buy growlers at select Whole Foods Stores and Craft and Growler. Bottles are available at some liquor stores, select Whole Foods and Central Market stores.
Peticolas Brewing Co.: The marrying kind
If you had ever worked in the legal field, you might have turned to drink, too. In Michael Peticolas' case, that meant dropping his day job as a legal eagle and hitting the Design District as brewmaster of his eponymous brewing company.
While many hometown recipes have earned cult followings in the last couple of years, few have reached the all-out lusty madness instilled by Peticolas' sexy redhead, the aptly named Velvet Hammer. In fact, to celebrate the brewery's one-year anniversary and expansion project, the brewery hosted a "wedding" in which a fan, Ali Kay, "married" the Imperial Red Ale and all of its whopping 9 percent ABV in a ceremony of epic proportions.
Velvet Hammer is available in half-gallon growlers, fillable at select Whole Foods Market stores and specialty beer stores for $7.99.
The brewery has so far only been open for special events, but it will begin regular tours on Feb. 2, and they will recur on the first and third Saturdays of each month. Until then, catch the beer on tap at more than 50 locations in the area.
2026 Farrington St., Dallas. 214-234-7600. peticolasbrewing.com
Tours: first and third Saturdays from 1 to 3 p.m. beginning Feb. 2
Cost: $10 tour includes three samples
Where to get Peticolas beer: In more than 50 Dallas establishments, as well as a few in Addison, Plano and Fort Worth. Kegs are available from select liquor stores, and you can fill a growler at Whole Foods Market in Lakewood and on Park Lane for $7.99.
Lakewood Brewing Co.: The captivating siren
Tour veterans won't be surprised to learn that Lakewood Brewing Co. founder Wim Bens apprenticed at Rahr. The atmosphere at LBC tours in Garland is remarkably similar to what you'll find at Rahr, in all the right ways. Folks are friendly, the music's loud and the volunteer bartenders are generous with the pours.
Guests mingle slightly less thoroughly than in Fort Worth, but perhaps that is more a function of LBC's youth than a cultural statement. While the brewery is too new to have amassed as many regulars, on any given Saturday, the 1,000-square-foot tasting room is packed with happy revelers sitting on picnic benches constructed from kegs and shipping pallets.
The actual tour is both brief and amusing. Bens hops up on a ladder with a microphone so patrons can continue sipping at their seats, and he is full of quirky musings about his "liquid bread." Inviting guests into the "bedroom of the brewery, where the magic happens," he jokingly introduces the crowd to his Belgian-style collection of beers, which includes the already-recognizable Rock Ryder and Hop Trapp.
Lakewood's greatest claim to fame, however, is the Temptress, an Imperial Milk Stout with dark chocolate tones and a silky but complex body. Temptress recently earned some national buzz, having made the short list for the FullPint.com's Best Craft Beer of 2012. We've already fallen captive to her siren song.
2302 Executive Drive, Garland. 972-864-2337. lakewoodbrewing.com
Tours: Saturdays noon to 3 p.m., tour starting at 1:30 p.m.
Cost: $10 tour includes tulip glass and four samples
Where to get LBC beer: Widely available locally on tap and even one lucky spot in Abilene. Kegs are available through a variety of liquor stores, and growlers are available at select Whole Foods Market stores and specialty beer stores like Craft & Growler.
Four Corners Brewing Co.: westside story
Count Four Corners Brewing Co. opened last year, making it a pioneer in the revitalization of the city's west side.
Co-founders George Esquivel and Steve Porcari host monthly Local Flavor Showcases, which are essentially massive block parties that encourage patrons to experience the neighborhood, with a backdrop of the Dallas skyline and the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge. During the parties, guests enjoy Four Corners' "all day" ales, which include Local Buzz, a honey-rye golden ale, and Block Party, a robust porter, plus several shades in between.
Beginning this week, the brewery adds 90-minute tours on the second and fourth Thursdays of each month at 4, 6 and 8 p.m. While the block parties are rowdy fun with many moving parts, the new tours will grant patrons a more intimate look into the operation.
423 Singleton Avenue, Dallas. FCBrewing.com
Tours: Local Flavor Showcases, $10 to $15. Monthly block party, TBA. Second and fourth Thursdays, 90-minute tours at 4, 6 and 8 p.m.
Cost: Flavor showcase, $10 to $15. Tour, $10, includes pint glasses and three samples
Where to get Four Corners beer: on tap
FireWheel Brewing Co.: a country beer can survive
Brewery tour rookies might find themselves a bit unsure when entering Brad Perkinson's laboratory in Rowlett. FireWheel looks a bit like an old country VFW, or a veterinary office, as his and wife Jenny's two Labradoodles, Barley and Penny, tend to run amok.
What the brewery lacks in décor or cutting-edge equipment is made up for in personality and cold brews. Perkinson has long been an avid home-brewer, and he'd already produced 43 batches when he was laid off from his job in the finance industry in September 2011. FireWheel officially opened nearly a year later in August 2012, and for now, it rocks a bit of a large-scale home brewing persona.
Much of the facility's equipment was customized by Perkinson himself; he even built a fire pit when a November tour turned out colder than expected. And while he might not have the brewing certifications of a few of his competitors – he holds a BA in finance from the University of Texas at Dallas – there's no denying that FireWheel holds its own.
From Midnight Ninja – a black ale with 8 percent alcohol that sneaks up on you – to Special No. 1, a recently released brown ale that Perkinson claims came to him in a dream, FireWheel meets the already high-standards of Dallas brews without so much as a hiccup.
With a new DART station a mere 10-minute walk away, this brewery brings craft beer to the 'burbs without the pretense.
2806 Lawing Lane, Suite C, Rowlett. 214-725-9080. FireWheelBrewing.com
Tours: Saturdays 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. (drop in anytime)
Cost: $10 tour includes pint glass and four samples; $2 to upgrade to tulip glass
Where to get FireWheel beer: On tap; in growlers at Whole Foods Market soon
Beer tours, day by day
Rahr -- 1 to 3 p.m.
Deep Ellum – noon to 3 p.m.
Lakewood – noon to 3 p.m.
FireWheel – 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Peticolas – first and third Saturdays, 1 to 3 p.m. (starting Feb. 2)
Four Corners – monthly block party is in the works
Rahr – 5 to 7:30 p.m.
Deep Ellum -- 6 to 8:30 p.m.
Four Corners – second and fourth Thursdays, 4, 6, and 8 p.m.
Brentney Hamilton is a reporter for Pegasus News.


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Lordy, I don't know how all you mom bloggers do it. I barely have time to shower each day, let alone cook a meal. And finding time to photograph and write about said meal? Forget about it.
All of that to say, I've been having trouble finding the time to devote to the blog. And I'm strangely ok with that. It's good to step back for a bit and take time to be with my family. I'm getting to know this tiny daughter of mine and I'm figuring out how to be a mother. It's the hardest thing I've ever done, but it's also the best thing I've ever done. It's pretty damn wonderful.
The other day, however, my husband held the baby while I concocted a recipe for this celebratory cranberry rum punch. I snapped a couple of quick photos, scribbled down a recipe, and happily drank a glass of said punch while the baby slept peacefully in his arms. It was wonderful.
So, here's to 2014 – it's been one for the books. I can't wait to see what 2015 holds. Cheers, and happy New Year to you and yours!
For the cranberry syrup:
1 cup fresh cranberries
2 large strips of orange zest
1/2 cup water
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 tablespoon blackstrap molasses
For the punch:
1 cup golden rum (I use Fleur de Cana)
1 cup ginger beer**
1/2 cup freshly squeezed orange juice
Cranberry syrup, to taste (up to 1/2 a cup)
A few dashes of orange bitters
Orange zest and cranberries, for garnish
**You can substitute soda water for ginger beer. The cocktail will be less sweet, but won't have that spicy ginger kick.
To make the cranberry syrup, place the cranberries, water, molasses, orange zest, and brown sugar in a small pot. Simmer over low heat until the cranberries have broken down and the mixture has a thick and syrupy texture. Using cheesecloth or a mesh sieve, strain out the fruit (reserve for another use). Set syrup aside to cool.
To make the punch, combine rum, ginger beer (or soda water), and orange juice. Add in cranberry syrup in small quantities. Stir and taste until the punch is to your liking. Add a few dashes of orange bitters. If serving in a punch bowl, garnish with round orange slices and fresh cranberries. If serving by the glass, serve over ice with a strip of orange zest.


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1. Am I eligible to apply for need-based institutional aid after I am admitted?
No. If you think you will need financial aid to attend Barnard, you MUST apply at the same time you apply for Regular Decision admission and meet the required deadlines.
2. If I am admitted to Barnard, and then decide to defer to the following fall term, should I apply for financial aid at this time?
Yes. If you think you will need financial aid to attend Barnard, you must apply for financial aid and meet the required due dates. If you fail to apply for aid in the year that you are admitted, you will not be able to apply for institutional need-based financial aid in the year that you deferred your enrollment to as a first-year student.
3. Is there a way to estimate my financial aid award?
Visit Barnard's Estimate Your Aid page to use the MyinTuition and Net Price Calculators to receive an estimate of the amount of financial aid you may be offered if you are accepted to Barnard. The Financial Aid Office will need to see all tax returns and requested documentation before reviewing a financial aid file to determine eligibility.
4. What financial aid forms are required for First Year-Regular Decision?
You will find all required forms on our website at http://barnard.edu/finaid/first-year
5. How can I track my financial aid application? How do I know if my financial aid application is complete?
You can track your financial aid application using the Financial Aid Checklist in your application portal.
6. Can I email my tax documents to the Financial Aid Office?
The CSS Profile and FAFSA are completed online. All tax documents and supplementary forms can be uploaded into the application portal.
7. Will failure to meet the due date affect the possibility of receiving financial aid?
After the due date, there is no guarantee that funds will be available.
8. If I receive an offer of financial assistance in my first year, am I guaranteed assistance in all four years?
A student who is admitted to Barnard with a Barnard College Grant may expect grants in future years, provided that she continues to meet economic and academic eligibility and reapplies each year. Factors that may impact a student's eligibility in subsequent years include: the number of siblings enrolled in college, fluctuation of parent or student income and assets, and family size. Students who are admitted to Barnard without financial aid are not guaranteed College grants for future years. Awards are for the academic year only.
9. Are there merit scholarships at Barnard not based on need?
Barnard does not offer any merit, athletic or talent based scholarships. Barnard's institutional financial aid is based on financial need.
10. How is financial need determined?
All federal financial aid administered by Barnard College is based on demonstrated need as determined by the Federal Methodology formula. Need for institutional aid is determined using a Barnard Need Analysis formula which takes into consideration all sources of income and all assets, including home equity, as well as the number of siblings in college.
11. When will I be notified of my financial aid decision?
Assuming that the due date is met, First Year Regular Decision applicants will receive their decision letters in late-March along with the Admissions acceptance letter.
12. Does my financial aid application have any bearing on my application for admission?
No. Admissions is need-blind.
13. My parents are divorced and my child support ends when I turn 18. Must my non-custodial parent still submit his/her information?
Yes. Barnard requires financial aid information from both parents regardless of when child support ends and regardless of what the divorce decree states. The College is not bound by family or court agreements when awarding our own institutional funds.
14. My parents were never married, so why must I submit both of their financial information?
Barnard's policy is to collect financial documentation from both parents, regardless of their marital or legal status. We do not consider unwillingness to submit financial documents as a reason to waive this requirement. Refer to Barnard's policy.
15. My parents live together but are not legally married. How should I submit their information?
If parents report that they are "Unmarried but Living Together" (Divorced, Separated or Never Married living together) or in a "Domestic Partnership", you must submit information from both parents. If parents file separate tax returns, income data must be combined when you complete your application for financial aid. Parents living together must report their information combined, regardless of their marital status or gender.
16. I cannot submit my Non-Custodial Parent information. What should I do?
On a case by case basis, the Financial Aid Office will consider unusual circumstances that prevent an applicant from submitting information about the non-custodial parent. Applicants who wish to petition for a waiver of the non-custodial parent component of the application should email our office at firstname.lastname@example.com to request the Non-Custodial Waiver Petition. Completing the form does not guarantee that we will waive the request for non-custodial parent information. There is no appeal process if a waiver request is denied.
17. How does the number of siblings in undergraduate college affect my financial aid?
The number of dependent siblings in undergraduate college is a major factor in calculating the parent contribution. If you reported on the CSS Profile and FAFSA that you have siblings enrolled full-time in undergraduate college, and they do not enroll as reported, there will be an adjustment to the parent contribution and the financial aid award.
18. Are siblings enrolled in graduate school or post-college programs considered when calculating financial aid eligibility?
Once a sibling has graduated from college, the institutional and CSS Profile formulas do not take into account any graduate school or post-college program costs. Students in graduate school programs are generally considered to be independent students, per federal regulations.
19. Does Barnard match financial aid offers from other schools?
No. We do not match other financial aid offers, whether merit or need-based.
20. How do outside scholarships affect my financial aid package?
Outside scholarships will be used to reduce the self-help portion (work/student loan) of your financial aid package. After outside scholarships completely eliminate the self-help portion of your financial aid package, any remaining scholarship funds will be used to reduce any Barnard College Grant you may have received.
21. Are books and travel included in my financial aid award package?
The Financial Aid Office includes estimates for books and travel, along with personal/miscellaneous expenses, as part of the budget in order to determine a student's eligibility for institutional financial aid. (Refer to Budgeting and Awarding Procedures.) Though these expenses are taken into consideration, no actual stipends are given out to students to pay for books, travel, etc. Students should expect to use some of their Summer Earnings to help cover the initial expenses of books and supplies.
22. Does Barnard offer financial aid for international students?
Barnard is able to offer a limited number of need-based grants for international students. Please see detailed information about our policies and procedures for international students.


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Captain Bieszard Leads Bulldogs to Seventh Place
PHILADELPHIA – Led by its captain and the Ivy Leagues undisputed best discus thrower, the Yale men's track and field team strung together a number of impressive results Sunday at the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships at Penn. As a team, the Bulldogs placed seventh (36 points), losing out to Penn by 1.5 points. Princeton claimed the title for the second year in a row with 193 points.
Senior captain Matthew Bieszard and junior Mike Levine individually accounted for 30 points between them, with Bieszard also contributing on the relay teams. For their efforts, they earned Second Team All-Ivy and First Team All Ivy honors, respectively.
Levine, who finished third in the hammer throw yesterday, kick-started the Elis with a victorious title defense in the discus throw. Prior to the event, Levine knew his primary competition would be Cornell's Stephen Mozia, who held a slight edge in the rankings. But Levine rose to the occasion and hurled a season-best 53.79m (176'06") to beat out Mozia by a decisive .61m. Levine's throw was the fifth best mark in the IC4A this year.
Bieszard, who has been in top form of late, had a career day to lead the Bulldogs on the track. After running a PR yesterday to claim the top qualifying spot in the 400-meter dash, he was more than a full second faster today. But in a repeat of indoor Heps, he was clipped at the finish line by Harvard's Tom Hopkins, and settled for second. Bieszard's time of 46.92 moves him into fifth on Yale's all-time charts. Bieszard returned to run a season-best in the 200-meter dash and take third (21.35), finishing right behind Hopkins again.
Finally, Bieszard anchored the Bulldogs' 4x100-meter relay team to a fifth-place finish. The team of sophomore Daniel Jones, sophomore Nnamdi Udeh, freshman Dylan Hurley and Bieszard posted its best time of the season (41.90), and also competed in the 4x400-meter relay (8th – 3:18.04).
The Elis also received some solid performances from its distance runners. Junior Sam Kirtner (20th – 14:56.97) and sophomore Miles Richardson (21st – 14:58.22) each set personal records in the 5000-meter run. Sophomore Ryan Laemel was 23rd in 15:08.92. Senior Nathan Richards also placed ninth in the 3000-meter steeplechase (9:14.37).
The Bulldogs will be at Princeton next weekend for the IC4A Championships.
Report by Eian Katz '13, Yale Sports Publicity


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