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More than 50 Indian Land homeowners, wearing red shirts and hot under the collar, stormed out of Monday night's county council meeting after the council reversed itself and voted 5-2 in favor of McClancy Seasoning's rezoning request.
As the five hands went up in approval, people in the audience gasped, and some shouted out comments before abruptly leaving the council chambers.
"You're kidding me!"
"See you in court!"
"Shameful disgrace. We will vote you out!"
The city of Lancaster has awarded $100,000 in hospitality-tax grants to stimulate tourism downtown, including $30,400 to help build a new front porch roof and doors at the Lancaster County Community Center on East Meeting Street.
"This is definitely good news," said Dr. Charmaine Stradford, vice chair of the community center board. "I'm happy" to get any money from the city for the project.
Two new developments are pushing ahead the dispute over the Lancaster City Council District 3 election, with SLED gathering documentation about absentee ballots used in the race, and incumbent Jackie Harris taking her complaint against challenger Linda Blackmon directly to the S.C. Supreme Court.
And then there were seven.
The Republican field of candidates for the 5th District congressional seat grew yet again Tuesday to include former businesswoman and volunteer Penry Gustafson of Camden.
Gustafson, 46, is a former sales representative for Delta Foremost Chemical Corp., a longtime Kershaw County GOP member and a community volunteer for such local and regional organizations as Meals on Wheels and Operation Inasmuch.
Gustafson said she was running as an alternative to "today's toxic political environment."
Mayor John Howard and city council member Tamara Green Garris tangled this week over the city staff's recommendation that certain information technology employees receive pay raises.
Howard called Garris' questions about the raises "petty jealousy surrounding a mid-year budget review," saying "it's damn ridiculous. Pardon my language."
Garris shot back: "Excuse me, do not curse at me. I didn't make that motion," to which Howard replied, "I did not curse at you."
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Now sworn in as the new director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Mick Mulvaney said he is happy that the confirmation process is over.
"I am absolutely ecstatic…the longest eight weeks of my life," Mulvaney said during a phone interview Friday afternoon. "The wait was particularly tedious."
Mulvaney quickly resigned the Fifth Congressional District seat on Thursday after he was confirmed by the Senate as OMB chief.
Leaving the U.S. House of Representatives, he said, was tough.
WASHINGTON – Mick Mulvaney was scheduled to be sworn in Thursday evening as White House budget director, putting him in the pivotal role as the Trump administration formulates its first spending plans.
The U.S. Senate confirmed the Indian Land Republican's nomination on a 51-49 vote Thursday morning, and Gov. Henry McMaster accepted Mulvaney's resignation from the U.S. House of Representatives just after noon.
COLUMBIA – A bill that raises the state's 16-cents-per-gallon gas tax to 26 cents over five years passed the House Ways and Means Committee on Thursday and is now headed to the House floor.
If passed, the gas-tax hike, along with several other proposed fees, eventually would generate an additional $600 million a year to address the state's deteriorated roads and bridges.
State Rep. Tommy Pope on Monday joined the crowded GOP field lining up to run for Mick Mulvaney's U.S. House seat if he vacates it to become White House budget director.
As the House speaker pro tem, Pope is the highest-profile candidate to announce for the seat. He had previously stated his intention to run for governor in 2018, but President Trump's election and his selection of Mulvaney have changed those plans.
The line of Republicans officially interested in taking over Mick Mulvaney's 5th District congressional seat is now up to four.
Tom Mullikin, a Republican lawyer from Camden, announced Wednesday that he will run for the seat if Mulvaney is confirmed as White House budget director.
"I support President Trump's focus on strengthening America and want to be a part of his team in Congress," Mullikin said.
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NORTH DARTMOUTH, MA-Two members of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth's outdoor track and field team have been honored by the Little East Conference.
Senior Robert Yarbough (Fall River, MA/Durfee HS) has been named Men's Field Athlete of the Week, and sophomore Krista Chauvin (Seekonk, MA/Seekonk HS/Stonehill) was named Women's Field Athlete of the Week.
Chauvin finished third in the hammer throw at the Eastern College Athletic Conference Division III Championships Thursday with a school record toss of 177 feet, one inch. The throw beat her own school record by nearly 13 feet, and moved her from 22nd to seventh place nationally, allowing her to qualify for this week's NCAA Division III Championships. Friday, she finished ninth in the discus at 128 feet, eight inches.
Yarbough finished fourth in the shot put at Friday's ECAC Championships with a mark of 52 feet, 3 1/4 inches, breaking the school record in the process. It was his first throw that was over 50 feet. Thursday, he finished fourth in the hammer with a toss of 179-10, the second best throw ever at UMass Dartmouth.
"Krista has really improved week to week," said UMass Dartmouth Head Coach Steve Gardiner. "She had a career best throw in the hammer, which catapulted her into the number seven seed for the upcoming national meet. It was a great way for Rob to complete his outdoor career at UMass Dartmouth, with a personal best in the hammer and the shot and a school record performance in the shot put. It was a fitting end to an outstanding career."
Chauvin will represent UMass Dartmouth at this weekend's NCAA Division III Championships at Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Colleges in Southern California. .

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As the race to put humans on Mars heats up, researchers worry they are running out of time to find life on the Red planet.
For healthy women within 10 years of menopause, the benefits of hormone therapy for relief of hot flashes or other symptoms may outweigh the risks.
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Editor's Note
Acting Editor in Chief Elizabeth Quill predicts 2018 could be a year full of important space discoveries.
For healthy women within 10 years of menopause, the benefits of hormone therapy for relief of hot flashes or other symptoms may outweigh the risks.
As the race to put humans on Mars heats up, researchers worry they are running out of time to find life on the Red planet.
New flood maps suggest that the U.S. government underestimates how many people live in floodplains.
Breast cancer tumors may merge with blood vessels to help the cancer spread.
A fungal disease doesn't appear to discriminate among snake species, suggesting many of the reptiles may be at risk.
A less active cold-sensing protein explains, in part, why some hibernating ground squirrels are more tolerant of chilly conditions than the animals' nonhibernating kin.
An AI spotted an eighth planet circling a distant star, unseating the solar system as the sole record-holder for most known planets.
Ruling out natural variability, scientists say several of 2016's extreme weather events wouldn't have happened without human-caused climate change.
Brain organoids show how ridges and wrinkles may form.
Babies born to moms living within one kilometer of a hydraulic fracturing site were more likely to be born underweight, researchers say.
Final data from the Cassini spacecraft put a date and a mass on the gas giant's iconic rings.
NASA's Juno spacecraft has measured the depth of Jupiter's Great Red Spot for the first time.
Ribosomes may switch up their components to specialize in building proteins.
Unusual high-temperature superconductors might be explained by standard superconductivity theory.
A new gene therapy uses CRISPR/Cas9 to turn on dormant genes.
Guidelines for prescribing opioids following a routine surgery prevented thousands of unnecessary pills from leaving the hospital, a new study finds.
A key principle of general relativity holds up in a new space-based test.
Each of a scallop's many eyes contains an intricate mirror made from millions of crystals.
Battery-like devices inspired by electric eels could someday power wearable and implantable tech or soft robots.
Weird dino swimmer had flipperlike limbs and a swanlike neck.
50 years after the Dead Sea Scrolls survived a war, another possible scroll cave offered tantalizing new clues.
Reviews & Previews
Getting up close to the human brain is easy with BrainFacts.org's interactive organ.
Letters to the Editor
Readers asked about the definition of "species," a new atomic clock and how a neutron star collision produces heavy elements.
Science Visualized
Frigid air makes soap bubbles shimmering orbs thanks to surface tension.


text: Harris County was created in 1827 from lands formerly part of Muscogee and Troup counties. Savannah Mayor Charles Harris is honored with its naming, and the county seat remembers George W. Hamilton of South Carolina, who championed high tariffs to protect certain American industries, likely ones important to the Harris County area. Harris was the first Georgia county to adopt a commission form of government.


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The Eruv as Contested Jewish Space in North America
Myer Siemiatycki
The eruv is perhaps the most creative, confounding, and contested spatial construct in Judaism. Territorially, it demarcates the urban space within which prohibitions otherwise attached to Sabbath observance for Orthodox Jews become permitted. While virtually imperceptible to the human eye, eruvin (pl.) sanctify what would otherwise be sacrilegious. An eruv thus creates permissive religious space for Jews on Sabbath. Hundreds of cities worldwide, including urban areas across North America, are home to an eruv. Notwithstanding their prevalence and undetectable physical imprint on urban landscapes, the establishment of eruvin has unleashed intense hostility and resistance in some locales. Opposition has typically been mounted by a surprisingly mixed array of critics including non-Jews, non-Orthodox Jews, and dissenting Orthodox Jews. The eruv highlights, in compelling fashion, the spatial challenges of navigating faith, ritual, secularism, and pluralism in contemporary American cities. Seemingly ethereal religious beliefs can occasion radically different perceptions of public space.
Muslim-Jewish Relations
Reuven Firestone
Muslim-Jewish relations began with the emergence of Islam in 7th-century Arabia, but contacts between pre-Jewish Israelites and pre-Muslim Arabs had been common for nearly two millennia previously. These interactions inform the earliest relations between Muslims and Jews and serve as precursors to the social, cultural, religious, political, and institutional relations between Muslims and Jews from the 7th century to the present. Areas and periods of particular importance are 7th-century Arabia with first contacts between Jews and the earliest Muslims, 8th–9th-century Middle East with the establishment of legal and social status of Jews in Islam, the 9th to 14th centuries in many parts of the Muslim world with the development of great Jewish intellectual advances under Islamic influence, the subsequent decline of the Muslim world and its negative impact on Jews and other minorities, the period under colonial powers with the rise of national movements and the subsequent transition to independent nation-states that includes the rise of both Jewish and Palestinian nationalisms, and the current status of Muslim-Jewish relations today. Common issues include language production; cultural production including literature, hermeneutics, and systematic thinking; legal developments, political relations, religious commonalities and differences, and economic relations and partnerships.


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Answer: You are watching it. There are no good tutorials for beginners anywhere!
People who actually know enough to teach JavaScript properly either don't have the time to teach, since they get paid to work for clients and when they do teach, they do so at conferences or seminars in front of their peers, not to newbies. That means that what's available on-line for beginners is stuff taught by people who do not know enough to actually teach.
For me as a professional teacher that means that I have to devote considerable time to warn my students about bad habits, thus wasting valuable lesson minutes, which turn into hours. And there are always someone who missed a class, and tried to compensate by Googling or YouTubing – something teachers normally would encourage – but will turn in bad work, that I have to give a lower grade. Thus, the worst case scenario is that students are actually punished in a way for taking an initiative.
Bad pedagogy
One of the things I've learned developing for the web for 15 years and teaching it the last 9, is that it is way more
effective to learn things the right way from the start, and then be warned about some bad or outdated habits to avoid.
Learning bad stuff, and then un-learning will harm students' motivation, confidence (
how can I trust
anything I read?) and slow down the learning process.
Also, to a newbie it is not immediately apparent why a particular way of doing things is bad, so they tend to stay with
their bad practice, even though they may hear that they shouldn't.
But it works! of course I answer something
Yes, but it's fragile, not scalable, hurts
performance and violates good style, but it will take a very long while until I can actually show
them that this is the case, and a demonstration is more worth than a thousand words.
And habits, once formed, have a tendency to become automatic, instinctive. They are hard to un-learn.
Don't believe me? Look at the praise in the comments for this
super crappy JavaScript tutorial on YouTube.
People are saying thing like
now I know how to do it, when they should be saying that now they know how
not to do it.
What's out there?
My students belong to the YouTube generation. They prefer videos to words, demonstrations to articles, images to text.
Thus, nowadays the first place I look for material to use is on sites like YouTube or Vimeo, but every single beginners
tutorial I've found so far is crap. They all exhibit most of the following
- All by itself,
document.write()is bad and should be avoided. This is way more important than keeping the "hello world" tradition alive. If you really must do that, at least use
alert()since it does not alter the DOM and thus does not give a wrong impression…
document.write()is giving the impression that JavaScript has a linear execution model and that
document.write()works like
echoin PHP, or
- The faster students get into an event-loop/event-driven programming mindset, the better!
- Inline event handlers
- As PPK says,Don't use it.
- Yup, in the year 2010 some wannabe teachers think you should still be nice to Netscape 1.2 and early versions of Mosaic! Monkey sees, monkey does.
- Setting the language attribute on script tags
- Now that we are learning that even the type attribute is not needed any longer, I still see people use the language attribute.
- It is OK to omit semi-colons on the end of a statement
- This is telling students that it is OK to rely on automatic semi-colon insertion.
I am teaching this stuff for a living and you really do not need any of the
features listed
above as an intermediate step to learning. When I teach my students, I only mention these in passing, saying that:
- If you use them, I will fail you on the course, or at least give you a low grade. (Yes, I will!)
- If you receive a tip from someone on a forum, or by Googling, suggesting that they are used, do not listen any more to that person. Learn to use these only as a sign of bad advice.
Which brings us right back to our problem. Where is the good advice?
There are some good things to read, but as I've said, I want videos as well.
What I do as a teacher today
I recommend watching the way too advanced videos, but only the first couple of minutes, originally meant as a rehash
only by the speaker. I tell my students to watch
the first 20 minutes of
this video with Robert Nyman and
the first 18 minutes of
this one with Douglas Crockford.
That is not something they do instead of listening to me or reading, but this semester I have occasionally been called away on other business and also missed a few days due to illness (nothing serious).
If not for these, I might as well let my Swedish students look at this one. At least they won't be taught something bad!
(No, I do not speak Hebrew and I have no clue if that is a good video or not.)
And I enforce the following rules:
- You shall validate your HTML early and often.
- You shall validate your CSS early and often.
- You shall learn how to use JSLint and use it early and often.
Linting is not an advanced topic. It is an essential tool to encourage good habits for newbies. Besides, validation and linting are not something you do at the end of your development process just to get a stamp of approval. They are tools to help you along the way.
In a similar fashion, I introduce PhpCodeSniffer very early in my teaching of PHP. In fact, with every year of teaching, introducing these tools have come earlier and earlier. My web design students this year were introduced to the HTML validator the very first lesson that I devoted to HTML.
Cursing darkness or lighting candles?
This blog post basically is me ranting again. However, I do have have put in some considerable effort (if I may say so myself) to make the JavaScript teaching world a better place, by my work on the InterACT curriculum for DOM-scripting for the Web Standards Project.
If you are somewhat knowledgeable about unobtrusive JavaScript, and the
good parts of the language,
please take a look at the
competency table
and provide a video explaining one or two bullet points from it. You do not have to be Douglas Crockford,
but should at least have heard a couple of his speeches and have read
his book.
In so doing you will not get the reputation of being a ninja or guru. You won't get a chance to show how clever you are, but guess what? Rookies eventually grow up to become intermediate programmers, and they may very well evolve to become rather advanced one day. They will go to conferences and hear you speak on the advanced topics – one day. If you did provide them with something of real value when they took their first steps, they might just value that experience and return to hear some more in the future.
Bonus teaching tip
Use the JavaScript shell, while talking about basic things like types, variables, operators, expressions, statements and blocks.
Since the students are not in the browser environment, they are less likely to transfer bad habits to real work. The fact that they are in a shell makes it very clear that what they are seeing is not definitive. Even so, I will nevertheless point that out to them, again and again. One must never take stuff like this for granted, and as a teacher one always have to repeat oneself…
Oh yes, when teaching PHP I use the PHP shell as well.
The better version of this post
Chris Williams talks about how JavaScript education must be revolutionized (and other things) in this talk from JSConf.eu 2010. (transcript)


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Multiple events open to the entire community have been scheduled during the annual Homecoming Weekend at Hope College, running Friday-Sunday, Oct. 12-14.
Highlights include performances and presentations in the arts and an academic lecture, athletic competition, a 5K run and 50K bike ride, and a barbeque on campus. The weekend will also feature reunion activities geared toward alumni from 1984 through 2012 and for affinity groups. The weekend is expected to bring hundreds of alumni back to campus.
Hope will hold a groundbreaking ceremony for the Haworth Engineering Center on Friday, Oct. 12, at 12:30 p.m. at the 10th Street side of VanderWerf Hall. Participants will include Richard Haworth, who is chairman emeritus of Haworth Inc.; Kurt Dykstra, mayor of Holland; James Bultman, president of Hope College; Dr. R. Richard Ray Jr., provost and professor of kinesiology; Dr. John Krupczak Jr., professor of engineering and chairperson of the department; and Lauren Aprill, a junior engineering major from Cedar. Members of the faculty will also be available after the ceremony to lead tours of the building. Admission is free.
The annual Gentile Lectureship will feature the address "Optimizing Health Care Outcomes: Interdisciplinary Team Research" on Friday, Oct. 12, at 3 p.m. in the Maas Center auditorium. The speaker will be Dr. Barbara Given, who is associate dean for research, director of the doctoral program and the University Distinguished Professor in the College of Nursing at Michigan State University. Admission is free.
Hope is hosting the Midwest Volleyball Invitational on Friday-Saturday, Oct. 12-13, at the DeVos Fieldhouse. Hope will play on Friday, Oct. 12, at 3 p.m. and 7 p.m., and on Saturday, Oct. 13, at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Tickets are $5 for adults, and $3 for students 18 and under, and will be sold at the door.
Multiple alumni will be participants in the panel discussion "History, Law School and the Practice of Law" on Friday, Oct. 12, at 3:30 p.m. in room 121 of Lubbers Hall. Admission is free.
An exhibition of artwork by Hope alumni opening during the weekend will be preceded by a panel presentation on Friday, Oct. 12, at 4 p.m. in the De Pree Art Center. The exhibition itself will open with a reception in the gallery of the De Pree Art Center from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. Following the opening, the gallery will be open Mondays through Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sundays from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. The exhibition will continue through Sunday, Nov. 18. Admission is free.
The Great Performance Series will feature Rennie Harris Puremovement dance on Thursday and Friday, Oct. 11-12, at 7:30 p.m. at the Knickerbocker Theatre in downtown Holland. Tickets are $18 for regular admission, $13 for senior citizens, and $6 for children 18 and under, and are available at the ticket office in the main lobby of the DeVos Fieldhouse, which is open weekdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and can be called at (616) 395-7890.
Hope College Theatre is presenting "Helen" by Ellen McLaughlin on Friday-Saturday, Oct. 5-6, and Wednesday-Saturday, Oct. 10-13, at 8 p.m. in the DeWitt Center studio theatre. Tickets are $10 for regular admission, $7 for senior citizens and $5 for students, and are available at the ticket office in the main lobby of the DeVos Fieldhouse.
There will be two reunion parties for alumni on Friday, Oct. 12, at 7 p.m.: a "Young Alumni Reunion Party" ($15) for the classes of 2002-12, and a "Not-Quite-As-Young Alumni Reunion Party" ($25) for the classes of 1984-2001. Advance registration is required, and additional information including the admission cost is available by calling the Office of Alumni and Parent Relations at (616) 395-7250 or at hope.edu/homecoming.
The event for the classes of 1984-2001 will also feature the presentation of Young Alumni Awards to 1998 graduate Daniel Capps of Orono, Maine, and 1997 graduates Seth and Stephanie Kaper-Dale of Highland Park, N.J. Capps is an assistant professor of science education at the University of Maine, and Seth and Stephanie Kaper-Dale are co-pastors of the Reformed Church of Highland Park.
The activities on Saturday, Oct. 13, will begin with a 50K recreational bike ride starting at 8 a.m. and a 5K run starting at 9 a.m., both at Holland Municipal Stadium. Registration for the bike ride is $20 for the general public and alumni, and $15 for Hope students, faculty and staff. Registration for the run is $20 for the general public and alumni, and $10 for Hope students, faculty and staff. The fee for registration for the run will increase by $5 after Friday, Oct. 5. Participants may register online at hope.edu/homecoming or by calling the college's Office of Alumni and Parent Relations at (616) 395-7250.
There will be a men's alumni lacrosse game on Saturday, Oct. 13, at 10 a.m. at the DeVos Fieldhouse lawn. Admission is free.
The Hope-Geneva Bookstore in the DeWitt Center will be open on Saturday, Oct. 13, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The bookstore will also sponsor a tent staffed by members of the college's Alumni Board and featuring selected Hope merchandise, primarily clothing, at Holland Municipal Stadium on Saturday from 1:30 p.m. through the end of the college's game with Alma College.
There will be a "Fall Fling BBQ" for alumni and friends of the college on Saturday,
Oct. 13, from noon to 2 p.m. Based on the forecast, the Fall Fling BBQ will be moved
into Phelps Dining Hall and the Maas Center. Almost all of the fun
activities scheduled to take place outside will be able to be held indoors. Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for children 10 and under, and will be available at the event.
The Flying Dutchmen will host Alma College in football at Holland Municipal Stadium on Saturday, Oct. 13, at 2 p.m. Tickets are $7 for reserved seats, $5 for adult general admission and $3 for general admission for those under 18. They are being sold in advance at the ticket office in the front lobby of the DeVos Fieldhouse. Tickets will also be available at the gate.
Halftime during the football game will feature the introduction of the Homecoming Court and the crowning of the Homecoming king and queen; and the presentation of appreciation awards by the college's Social Activities Committee and student life office to Susan M. Cherup, who is the Arnold and Esther Sonneveldt Professor of Education, and Kerri Allen, resident director in Dykstra Hall. The college's chapter of Mortar Board will have a table set up, to collect gently used children's books and donations, through halftime of the football game.
There will be a men's alumni soccer game on Saturday, Oct. 13, at 2 p.m. at the Van Andel Soccer Stadium. Admission is free.
There will be a women's alumnae soccer game on Saturday, Oct. 13, at 4 p.m. at the Van Andel Soccer Stadium. Admission is free.
Hope alumnus Josh Quinlan (saxophone/keys), who is a member of the college's Class of 1999, and his trio (bassist Patrick McDevitt and drummer Alejandro Castano) will present a jazz clinic on Saturday, Oct. 13, at 5:30 p.m. and a jazz concert on Saturday, Oct. 13, 7:30 p.m. Both events will take place in Wichers Auditorium of Nykerk Hall of Music. Admission is free.
Men's soccer will host Alma College on Saturday, Oct. 13, at 7 p.m. at the Van Andel Soccer Stadium. Tickets are $5 for adults and $3 for those under 18, and will be available at the gate.
A Homecoming worship service will be held on Sunday, Oct. 14, at 10 a.m. in Dimnent Memorial Chapel. The service will feature the college's Chapel Choir and Alumni Chapel Choir under the direction of Dr. Brad Richmond of the Hope faculty. The sermon will be delivered by the Rev. Don Jansma, a 1954 Hope graduate who is a retired Reformed Church in America pastor.
Saturday, Oct. 13, will also include several affinity-group reunions. The college's fraternities and sororities will hold events at 10 a.m. Beginning at 4 p.m., there will be gatherings for alumni of the political science, international studies and Baker Scholars programs, as well as for international alumni.
A full schedule of Homecoming activities and a link to the online registration are available at hope.edu/homecoming.


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Caden Honored as Rams Defeat St. Joe's
Farmingdale State - 2, St. Joseph's - 0
Farmingdale, N.Y. - The Farmingdale State women's
soccer team defeated Skyline opponent St. Joseph's College, 2-0,
remaining undefeated in conference play. The Rams now hold an
overall record of 10-4-3 (5-0-1 Skyline) and the Golden Eagles
stand at 4-11-1 (3-3-1 Skyline).
The Rams led 1-0 at the half on a goal from 30 yards out by sophomore midfielder Brittany Williams (Massapequa, N.Y./Massapequa) at the 25:10 mark. Freshman midfielder Taylor Horgan (Long Beach, N.Y./Long Beach) scored Farmingdale's second goal off Williams' pass late in the second half. The Rams did not allow a shot until 38 seconds remaining in the contest, as they outshot the Golden Eagles 29-2.
Senior Courtney Caden (Setauket, N.Y./Ward Melville) was honored at this afternoons game as Farmingdale squared off against her former team. Caden played her previous three seasons at St. Joseph's College before transferring to Farmingdale for her senior year.
Freshman goalkeeper Stacey Rao (Ronkonkoma, N.Y./Connetquot) earned the win with one save for Farmingdale, while senior goalie Dana Carney (Patchogue, N.Y./Patchogue-Medford) had 11 saves for St. Joe's.
The Rams travel to Sage for a Skyline Conference game on Saturday, October 24th at 1:00pm.


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COLLEGE STATION – Texas A&M officially hooked up with the Southeastern Conference last July, and the Aggies' new union continues to look like a smart move.
The SEC on Thursday announced its new SEC Network, which will launch in August 2014 and includes a 20-year agreement with ESPN through 2034. The new network, which will be based in Charlotte, N.C., already has a distributor in AT&T Uverse. It will show about 45 SEC football games and at least twice as many men's basketball games, along with 60 women's games and 75 baseball games.
"This is not a regional network," ESPN president John Skipper said. "This is a national network."
SEC commissioner Mike Slive didn't disclose the financial terms of the new deal, although he said at the beginning of the gathering, "Today, we take another step to ensure the long-term strength of the conference."
There will be 1,000 live events on the network annually, fairly evenly split between TV (450) and digital distribution (550).
"There will be something for every SEC fan all of the time," Slive said.
Said A&M athletic director Eric Hyman, "What's particularly exciting is the investment in new technology, which will bring the SEC to the entire nation anywhere, anytime."
Football coach Kevin Sumlin and track coach Pat Henry represented A&M at the SEC Network announcement in Atlanta. While ESPN has an office in Charlotte, the city is still an interesting choice because no SEC schools reside in that state (at least for now).


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- Looking for a job? Visit the Career Services web site to view the employment opportunities located at SSU and the surrounding community.
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What is the Idea Contest?
This contest is organized and run by a group of Teach For America alumni and EdTech evangelists, several of whom also happen to be TFA staff members. We've partnered with Startup Weekend and Kno Inc. to organize a Startup Weekend Education (EDU) event in the Bay Area from Feb. 24 - 26, 2012. (This event is not run or produced by Teach For America.) More on Startup Weekend EDU below...
This contest gives you the opportunity to submit an idea (no business plan, team, or even logo is needed) and one to three winners will be picked to join us as full participants in the Bay Area event. As a winner, we'll cover your flight and accommodations (generously supported by UserVoice and Startup Weekend). As a participant, the benefits are many, detailed below...
IF YOU HAVE TROUBLE WITH YOUR SUBMISSION, email firstname.lastname@example.com and we'll HELP you. Or send your video and/or 500 word doc to that email address (use sendspace if your video is too big).
Who's eligible?
Teach For America alums and corps members (*). You must be able to attend the full weekend from Friday early evening to Sunday evening.
*If you are already located in the Bay Area, we strongly encourage you to register and attend once registrations officially opens. This contest is designed to bring in ideas and participats from further away. (Event registration will open around mid-January; email us at email@example.com and we'll alert you when registration opens.)
How do you apply?
Simply submit your idea following the instructions provided here by the DEADLINE at 11:59 pm PT January 19th. We'll contact you on a rolling basis if we have questions or need clarification.
The winner(s) will be selected and notified on January 27.
Startup Weekend is an innovative, non-profit, community-building event that brings together entrepreneurs of all backgrounds including software developers, marketers, designers, educators and other enthusiasts to start companies (or launch ideas) in just 54 hours. The participants that attend have 60 seconds to make a pitch (optional), the pitches are whittled down to the top ideas, and then teams form around the ideas to come out with several developed companies or projects. Finally, the weekend culminates with demonstrations in front of an audience of judges and potential investors.
Innovation + Entrepreneurs + Education:
Startup Weekend recently launched an EDU vertical focusing on education. The Gates Foundation has partnered with Startup Weekend to help support the EDU vertical and grow it internationally. Google has also recently partnered with Startup Weekend to help jumpstart developer skills.
From a past EDU attendee:
"Startup Weekend EDU is an environment full of ideas sparking and sense of possibility…and the desire to roll up sleeves and get to work solving problems. It's also super fun and left me invigorated to return to my desk to really make things happen. What does 54 hours entail? 1) Go, 2) Pitch your idea in 60 seconds or less (nail it OR listen for ideas that spark your interest or make you nod "yes I totally get it and and want to make it happen"), 3) Create a team, 4) Build (including ideation, mentoring, pivoting, designing, prototyping, even coding), 5) Pitch (the real one!), 6) Come away exhausted and exhilarated with potential to continue working on your idea with the team, and 10) Make an impact? …We/You have ideas that can make that impact when given a chance to grow in the right time and space."
Forbes on the EDU vertical and Gates backing
An account of a Startup Weekend EDU
Education in the U.S. may be one of the human rights issues of our time. All kids deserve access to an excellent education. Education as an entrepreneurial space has recently gained much traction and interest, including interest and backing from the venture and incubator community (Business Week Article), but there's still much work to be done with not enough bright spots of success. We believe that if we bring you – our educators, developers, designers, business people – together and help facilitate your collaboration in new and innovative ways, we can help contribute to the growing movement to end educational inequity.
Education/professional development:
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Build your network:
This isn't just a happy-hour. Startup Weekend attracts your community's best makers and do-ers. By spending a weekend working to build scalable companies that solve real-world problems, you will build long-lasting relationships and possibly walk away with a job or even an investor.
Co-founder dating:
We all know it's not just about the idea – it's about the team. Startup Weekend is hands-down the best way to to find someone you can actually launch a startup with.
Learn a new skill:
Step outside of your comfort zone. With a whole weekend dedicated to letting your creative juices flow, Startup Weekends are prefect opportunities to work on a new platform, learn a new programming language, or just try something different.
Actually launch a business:
Over 36% of Startup Weekend startups are still going strong after 3 months. Roughly 80% of participants plan on continuing working with their team or startup after the weekend.
Get face time with thought leaders:
Local tech and startup leaders participate in Startup Weekends as mentors and judges. Get some one-on-one time with the movers and shakers in your community.
We cover what you need for the weekend (and it can pay off for long after):
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Starting out life as a cult Manhattan store for those "in the know", Opening Ceremony has since gone on to become one of the coolest brands in the industry.
Staging their collections as performance pieces, Carol Lim and Humberto Leon demonstrate that their clothes are meant for movement. For the Spring/Summer 2018 collection, this dynamism can mean fluid maxi dresses or velour athletic tracksuits – seeming opposites that are still quintessentially Opening Ceremony. A reference to American sports, the leather-sleeved varsity jacket with branded appliqués is an outerwear piece we can't wait to layer over one of the logo-embellished sweatshirts.


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Game 44 vs. PHX: Utah Azz(kickers)
Words can't describe my bliss. I want to kiss everyone. I love everyone (yes, even Boozer). The world is wonderful and beautiful.
I admit it, I had no hope for this one given how it started. The Jazz came out energyless, defenseless, hapless, jumperless (which doesn't mean that they didn't shoot any jumpers, but rather they shot lots of bad ones and couldn't make any of them)…you know, basically the Jazz that we came to know and hate during the first month of the season. We were, once again, playing the role of confidence boosters for slumping teams and shooters. Every few minutes, the Jazz elected a new Sun to the Jazz Killer Hall of Fame. J-Rich was followed by Dragic, who was followed by Frye (who apparently was in a shooting slump until he arrived in the SLC).
The "American Child Labor Laws Have Failed" showcase continued tonight with the second consecutive appearance of a 12-year old at the ESA, with tonight's being Goran Dragic (if that's his real name). Dragic spotlighted just how tragic the Jazz were in the first half by scoring a new career high before halftime.
The game was tied after one quarter, but Phoenix scored 45 points in the second on an unbelievable barrage of dagger threes, and I was disgusted, and had no hope.
I'm totally a go-down-with-the-ship type of fan, meaning I watch games to the end regardless of the score, but midway through the third, I was ready to cut bait and get off the pot. It wasn't so much how big the lead was (the Suns got it up to 17) or how badly the Jazz were playing, but more like the angst that was resulting from the regression and backtracking that I was seeing in the Jazz. As I was throwing all my junk into my bag and getting ready to head off to work, i.e. while I wasn't paying attention, the Jazz put together a 12-0 run to end the quarter–thanks largely to AK hustle–and cut the Suns lead to 5.
I sit back down in front of my computer, toss my bag to the side, and prepare for 12 more [game] minutes of agony.
Andrei Kirilenko, doing what Andrei Kirilenko do (yes, that was my Karl Malone impression) kept us in the game by getting to the line, being active around the rim, playing defense, and blocking shots. The Jazz tied the game at 100 and again at 106, and when they took the lead with 5:16 left on an AK free throw, they took the lead for good. The Jazz closed the game on an 18-9 / 45-19 run because "Undrafted Wesley Matthews" ("Undrafted" has apparently become his first name) just flat out took the game over. In the 4th, OMSW had 10 points (2 threes and 4/4 FTs), 2 boards, 2 assists, and 2 steals, and the Jazz held on (or held off the Suns) for a spectacular, beautiful, magnificent, literally breathtaking WIN. YES WE CAN!!!
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|Posted: March 23, 2009
EU and Japan agree to work more closely together in energy research
|(Nanowerk News) The European Commission and Japan are going to deepen their collaboration in energy research. The prime areas for cooperation are photovoltaics, power storage and carbon capture and storage (CCS). Following the experience of the new European Public-Private Partnership on fuel cells and hydrogen, both sides agreed that in the future fuel cells and hydrogen should form a further area of cooperation with an industry expert workshop to be organised jointly.
|The collaboration was agreed upon at a common workshop in Tokyo of a high-ranking delegation from the European Commission Directorate-General for Research together with the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) of Japan in March. The event was part of the recently launched EU-Japan Science and Technology Cooperation Agreement.
|Both sides underlined: 'The cooperation between the EU and Japan in the field of energy research is of mutual benefit in assisting both sides to meet the current global energy challenges.' The political energy and climate change dialogue should, they agreed, include research and development aspects on a systematic basis.
|The Director for Energy in the European Directorate-General for Research, Raffaele Liberali, agreed with the head of the Japanese delegation, Kazuhiko Hombu, Director General for Natural Resources and Energy Policy, to strengthen the cooperation: 'We will have more exchanges in many fields of energy research.'
|The result will be a new joint rolling-action plan including an enhanced exchange of information, scientists, managers and reviewers as well as more joint workshops on specific agreed sub-topics. Both sides also noted the potential of twinning of projects such as on power storage and CCS, and possible joint research projects for high-efficiency solar cells.
|The Commission delegates expressed support for the greater participation of Japan in the EU Seventh Research Framework Programme (FP7). Both parties will also strengthen joint cooperation with other important emerging economies such as China or India.
|Regular follow-up meetings will take place to assess progress made in the implementation of the cooperation, and to facilitate its further development. The next joint meeting will take place in Europe before the end of the year.
|In order to drastically reduce the world's carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions over the long term, it is absolutely necessary to develop innovative energy technologies. Japan has developed the Cool Earth - Innovative Energy Technology Programme and the European Commission has developed the Strategic Energy Technology (SET) Plan to actively promote the development of these energy technologies.
|The EU and Japan, as world leaders in this field, have been aware of the importance of their cooperation. In June 2008, the former Japanese Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry, Akira Amari, and the European Commissioner for Research, Janez Potocnik, agreed to promote cooperation between the EU and Japan in research and development in the energy area.
|Topics for cooperation are:
--concentration photovoltaics (CPV) and ultra-high-efficiency solar-cell modules;
--intermediate band solar cell (IBSC) and quantum dot technology;
--very efficient multi-junction thin film solar cells.
-Power Storage
--testing and evaluation method for lifetime performance and safety (including standardisation);
--pre-competitive next generation battery technology (including material research);
--integration of storage on the grid.
--safety of transport and storage of CO2;
--public perception;
--standardisation and harmonisation.
|For more information, please visit: New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization
|Source: Cordis
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"A genre-defying blend of crime writing and science fiction." –Alexandra Alter, The New York Times
"Winters's apocalyptic detective story contains an earth-shattering element of science fiction that lifts it beyond a typical procedural."—New York Times Book Review
"The Last Policeman books offer an appealing hybrid of the best of science fiction and crime fiction."—The Washington Post
"In his acclaimed Last Policeman trilogy, Masters showed off his mastery of edgy, sardonic wit — there's nothing like an asteroid speeding toward Earth to bring out the black humor in people."—Newsday
"Sharp, funny, and deeply wise."—Slate.com
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"I'm in the middle of it and can't put the dang thing down."—USA Today's Pop Candy
"Ben Winters makes noir mystery even darker: his latest novel sets a despondent detective on a suspicious suicide case—while an asteroid hurtles toward earth."—Wired.com
"In his Last Policeman trilogy, for which he won both the Edgar Award and the Philip K. Dick Award, Winters took a standard science fiction trope — the final months before an asteroid slams into Earth — and mixed it with some of the conventions of the detective novel, imbuing his apocalyptic scenario with an extra measure of urgency and poignancy."—The San Francisco Chronicle
"Winters's writing is funny, surprisingly tender, and thoroughly human."—Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
"Winters constructs a sturdy, functional, entertaining page-turner."—Greg Cook, WBUR.org
"I'm eager to read the other books, and expect that they'll keep me as enthralled as the first one did."—Mark Frauenfedler, Boing Boing
"Normally, only Stephen King and Dean Koontz can suck me into a book and not release their stranglehold until I, exhausted from lack of sleep, have turned the last page. Now [Ben Winters] has joined their ranks…The Last Policeman is extraordinary—as well as brilliant, surprising, and, considering the circumstances, oddly uplifting."—Mystery Scene
"The Last Policeman succeeds both as a mystery, with a quirky detective and an intriguing whodunit, and as a piece of apocalyptic speculative fiction. That's good news. The even better news is that this novel is supposed to be the first of a planned trilogy, with each case occurring closer to the moment when, as Henry repeatedly notes, 'Bam!' And that is something we can anticipate with a good feeling."—Sacramento News & Review
"Full of compelling twists, likable characters, and a sad beauty, The Last Policeman is a gem."—San Francisco Book Review
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"A heck of a lot of fun."—Locus
"Resonant and powerful."—Locus
"Ben Winters vividly describes the decline of civilization in this pre-apocalyptic story, and spins a wonderful tale…This engrossing story is the first in a planned trilogy. It is a well-written mystery that will have readers eagerly awaiting the second installment."—New York Journal of Books
"If the next two books are as good as this one, I can't wait for the end of the world."—Asbury Park Press
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"A promising kickoff to a planned trilogy. For Winters, the beauty is in the details rather than the plot's grim main thrust."—Kirkus Reviews, starred review
"A solidly plotted whodunit with strong characters and excellent dialogue…This memorable tale is the first of a planned trilogy."—Booklist
"This thought-provoking mystery should appeal to crime fiction aficionados who like an unusual setting and readers looking for a fresh take on apocalypse stories."—Library Journal


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Apparently you can do it in Java as well, it's just hideous. (Amusingly, the Java example appears to be the longest on that page).Xeio wrote:3rdtry wrote:(Still, it's 2014, why can't I return two or three objects directly? Parameters should always be inputs)
You can, just not in Java. C#, Python, Go, etc. can all do it.
To be fair, that's all you do in Python and C# and the like (Go and Common Lisp have "real" multiple return values).Though you return an array of object if you really want.


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It seems like everyone is worrying about the e-book these days.
In meetings, in the press, at professional gatherings and in the hallways, there's a lot of chatter going on. "What will it mean for sales? For wholesalers? For reps? For the printed book? What about children's books? Will we ever see a digital picture book? Will this change my job? Will I have a job?"
Very few people are asking what this means for readers (except Amazon), but readers will make their feelings known as time goes on.
My advice to the industry: don't panic, but don't be stupid either.
Let me also say that I have absolutely no problem with e-books. It's a great format for certain kinds of books, and for certain kinds of readers. I'm no Henny Penny.
What I am concerned about is whether we are approaching the innovation in a smart way with a view to the long term future. In our anxiety, I'm not sure we're asking the right questions.
It's one thing if the book evolves away from the hard copy as an outcome of market forces. That's natural selection, and when we get there, that will be what it is.
It will be quite another if the industry kills the hard copy inadvertently through a shortage of vision. That would be a Darwin Award, which is something else all together.
I was inspired to write this essay after reading a comment by an industry professional in Shelf Awareness that "E-books are an avoidable and discretionary layer of production cost and administrative complexity laid on top of a relatively efficient form of publishing that has existed for centuries."
At best this position is wishful thinking, and at worse it's fatally flawed for anyone involved in the book industry.
The book has been a constantly evolving technology, and it's a mistake to think otherwise. (Clay tablets, anyone? Papyrus scrolls? How about an illuminated manuscript? Lead typesetting? Offset printing? Digital production?)
E-books are here to stay. Consumers are driving the trend, and it won't work to simply dismiss them. They are not a huge chunk of the market–about 1%–but they are a growing one–up 68% over last year–and soon there will be a loyal customer who prefers them to hard copy.
How fast this segment will grow is open for debate, but as an industry we better get ahead of it, figure out a sustainable cost structure, and serve those customers broadly or Amazon really will dictate the market terms for everyone.
Talking 'bout my generation
In addition to a technological debate, this is a generational debate both for consumers and for us in the industry. For the next twenty to thirty years, we are going to have to serve three really different demographics, each with a unique consumer pattern, and each with influence over the outcome.
On one end you have the Baby Boomers.
All 70 million of them.
By and large, this generation loves its books, and will be much more reluctant adopters of the e-book. Some members of this group will never embrace electronic technology at all. By and large this group is economically better off than the generation before them, and they have a higher degree of education than previous generations.
These guys are a major economic powerhouse that will be driving hard books sales for some time to come, and they will exert a measure of industry balance against the Gen-Z group when it comes to how far and how fast e-books will bloom.
We already know how to serve this customer very well, but sooner or later they're going to leave us.
In the middle you have Gen-X, and Gen-Y. This group, which includes folks that came of age as computers came of age (born between 1965-1999), are a transitional crowd. (I recently heard someone call this generation Digital Immigrants, which I love.)
They read books. They own books. They also own computers, blackberries, and can get around the wired world.
They adopt new technologies without throwing out the old. The Kindle and Sony E-reader are their thing. If a better, more integrated solution comes along for e-books, they'll pick it up instead.
They will gravitate to e-books for formats and reasons that make sense to their lifestyle, like taking it on the road, organizing many references into a handy package, and for cost reasons. They also will continue to buy paper books for pleasure, but will understand they don't HAVE to buy something in a hard copy if they don't want to. They are discriminating.
We're serving this group pretty well, but they're not buying everything we're selling.
On the other end you have the Gen-Z readers, the post-electronic generation born after 2000 who will be completely wired, and who will no longer think of a book solely as something made of paper you hold in your hands. This generation, which is gaining strength with every baby born today, will be the real force behind e-books. (These guys? They're Digital Natives.)
This reader isn't going to buy a Kindle, because they'd rather download an e-book to their 9-inch iPod, or whatever other fancy integrated machine is available when they hit the consumer market. Why buy a separate machine when they're already using their handheld for everything else?
This generation will be super literate, and they will be absorbing media in all forms interchangeably. This includes some hard copy books, e-books, and web content, but they will be predisposed to the speed and seamlessness of the electronic world. Web 3.0 will be their playground.
This group will drive the market, not the other way around, and it's this customer we need to get in front of (if we can.)
We're asking the wrong questions
It's a big challenge to figure out how to meet these divergent readers, especially with all of the channels competing for consumer attention.
However, I believe the biggest issue we face as an industry is not how fast e-books will gain market share, but how we will price them properly so that they accurately reflect the costs involved in making them.
Up until now, we have had a tendency to think e-books are somehow cheaper to produce than regular books. More to the point, that is the consumer perception, which makes sense unless you understand exactly what goes into a book's real cost.
There is definitely efficiency to be gained by not printing, storing, and shipping a hard copy of a book, but a book costs exactly the same to bring to the point of market readiness no matter what format it ultimately takes. (Assuming that it is a professionally written and produced book, that is.)
There are rights, advances, editorial, copy-editing, and proofing expenses, as well as set-up and general overhead. Furthermore, for e-books there is a whole set of digital readiness costs like IT overhead, web design, data management, data servers, networking costs, and other very real expenses.
How much of a book's cost is made up of these various elements? More than consumers think.
As was rightly pointed out by Carolyn K. Reidy, of Simon & Schuster, it's not a foregone conclusion that an e-book should be cheaper. It really depends on the upfront costs. The last thing we need is to habituate the consumer to an unsustainable and artificially cheap price point. There will be no going back once their expectations have been set.
If a book was only going to be put out electronically, what would the cost be then? Electronic books are only much cheaper if we've invested in the upfront costs already for its hardcover sister. We need to think very carefully about this as an industry, and we better do it quick.
Do publishers really want to be in a situation down the road where they have two products selling side by side in equal numbers, with the same content, and where one is less than half the price of the other? That's a great way to kill the hard copy book for sure. Can our industry support its costs solely on sales of e-books at $9.99? In a hypothetical world where only e-books are bought, can a publisher afford half the revenues on the same number of units? Are we really going to make it up by doubling the e-units sold?
I'm not convinced, especially as sheer consumer demographics are on the Baby Boomer end of things these days. We already know that the pool of active readers isn't expanding, and now some of our most committed readers are going to be dying off.
If I was a publisher, I'd be thinking not just about the next three years when I price this content, but about the next 30, when all those Baby Boomer book sales go away.
We'd best make a choice and make it quick
On the retail side, the big question is how to sell e-books—a format that is tailor-made for downloading—in a bricks-and-mortar store. And this is not just a question for indie bookstores, but for all retailers who currently sell books. So far, the best (and perhaps the only viable) suggestion I've heard has come from Bob Miller, head of HarperStudio.
At ABA's recent Winter Institute, as part of the opening keynote on the state of the industry, he suggested a model where we sell an enhanced hard copy of a book that includes codes for the consumer to also acquire the e-book and/or the audio book via download with one purchase. So, for an extra amount—$2.00, let's say—the customer will get the "whole" book in multiple formats.
Some folks have questioned whether the consumer wants the extra formats. That's missing the point. One of the principals of retail is to sell them the things they don't know they want, but are happy to have. If the price point is right, it will make sense to most consumers especially as e-books gain traction, and is an excellent opportunity to up-sell.
This is an elegant solution that avoids difficult-to-maintain systems like cards, kiosks, and other messy gap solutions. Frankly, it's the only solution I've heard that makes sense.
Publishers will be selling hard copies of books plus the bonus of added e-book revenue through all channels, stores will get a piece of the business regardless of whether they are tech-savvy or not, and consumers will get their content across multiple platforms in a single purchase. And they'll have more than one choice when it comes to where they get their content.
Again, time is of the essence. As an industry, we have to figure this out, or we will be completely run over and at the mercy of consumer patterns out of our control.
We can either innovate like we've never innovated before, or sit and see what the tide of shifting consumer patterns brings our way.
Which would you rather do?
To my mind, it seems like a pretty cold time for a swim.
Part of this essay first appeared in Shelf Awareness on 2/12/09.


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We continue to add items to the HJUSA General Store. You'll find a complete line of Boston Fire Dept. apparel, Now you can get custom leather helmet fronts for any helmet on the market today. You will find dozens of historical reprints in the publication section. Don't Forget the wonderful Reproduction Plates featuring the logo of the 1850's vintage hand fire engine Yankee No. 5 of Worcester, Massachusetts. These make great gifts and are sure to become collector's items. They come in a variety of shapes and sizes and you can check them out by clicking here. Speaking of reproductions we have a great line of firefighting reproduction helmet, buckets, trumpets and more. There is lots of other items to chose from for anybody that has any interest in the fire service past or present. whether it's a retirement gift, birthday gift, or some other special day you can find it in the General Store. From Phenix firefighting helmets to custom buckets, helmets and plates. Boston Fire Department apparel. reproduction trumpets, custom helmet fronts and much, much more. The is literally something for everyone in the fire service. Click here to start you shopping!
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The Encyclopedia of American Hand Fire Engines
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Choir, Orchestra, and Praise Band serve a key role in our worship services at Calvary. Rehearsals take place on Wednesdays evening, 6:30-8:15pm, in the Choir Room (Entrance F, then downstairs) or in the Chapel/Sanctuary. Anyone high school age and up is welcome to join our Worship Ministry. If you are interested in being a part of the choir, orchestra or praise band, contact at ext. 5615.


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Hutchison finishes second for Porker of the Year
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison finished second in a Citizens Against Government Waste poll for Porker of the Year 2009.
U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., finished first with 49 percent of the vote. Hutchison received 26 percent for her requests of 149 projects worth $1.6 billion in earmarks for the 2010 fiscal year.
Hutchison won "Porker of the Month" in October 2009. Gov. Rick Perry's spokesman, Mark Miner, told the Dallas Morning News that Hutchison's finish is in line with what he said was her record of wasteful spending. Hutchison's campaign countered, saying that she is proud to bring tax dollars to Texas.
Republicans looking to unseat Chet Edwards
Five Republican candidates squared off Tuesday in a debated who would be the best candidate to take on U.S. Rep. Chet Edwards, D-Waco.
The candidates include former Waco TV News man Rob Curnock, who garnered 46 percent of the vote against Edwards in 2008, and retired oil and gas executive Bill Flores, who leads in the cash and borrowing race.
Edwards, a constant target of Republicans for representing a district that traditionally votes conservative, reported $1.3 million cash on hand at the end of December. Flores only reported having about $369,000.
The other candidates are retired CIA officer Chuck Wilson, Timothy Delasandro, a College Station nurse, and Dave McIntyre, a Texas A&M professor.


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The Unlimited class has made a final commitment to the Tunica Air Races, slated for Tunica, Miss., June 2-5.
Racers in the T-6 and Formula One classes also will compete.
Expected to race are: Michael Brown, Grumann Tigercat "Big Bossman"; Dennis Sanders, Hawker Sea Fury "Argonaut"; Brian Sanders, Hawker Sea Fury "Dreadnaught"; Dan Vance, flying Michael Brown's Hawker Sea Fury "September Pops"; Stu Dawson, Hawker Sea Fury "Spirit of Texas"; Jimmy Leeward, P-51 "Cloud Dancer"; Hoot Gibson, flying Mike Keenum's Hawker Sea Fury "Riff Raff"; Ron Bucarrelli, P-51 "Precious Metal"; John Bagley, P-51 "Old Yeller"; Joe Thibodeau, P-51 "Crusader"; Dan Martin, P-51 "Ridge Runner"; Sean Carroll, Yak 3 "Russian Roulette"; Brandt Seghetti, P-51 "Sparky"; and Bob Button, P-51 "Voodoo". Art Vance will fly the pace plane, a P-51 named "Speedball Alice."


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Affirmative action foe knocks black students' demands
Jennifer Gratz says requests for enrollment increase, other changes are unconstitutional.
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Jennifer Gratz, a well-known crusader against the use of affirmative action in college admissions, says a list of demands released this week by a group of black students at the University of Michigan is unconstitutional.
Gratz's comments echoed even harsher criticisms unleashed on social media against the Black Student Union. The backlash came after the group demanded Monday that the university enroll more black students and make other changes at the Ann Arbor school.
STORY: Black Student Union at U-M: Change needs to happen
The Black Student Union says the requests are aimed at making black students feel more empowered and welcome on campus.
But they've also sparked controversy.
"They want special treatment and separate treatment based on their race," Gratz told the Free Press. "That's something that the civil rights movement has fought against for decades."
The students' demands come as diversity at the school has been in the spotlight over the last several months. Enrollment of black students has been declining, and school officials recently announced steps to boost diversity and increase black enrollment.
Members of the BSU announced seven demands Monday outside a Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day event at Hill Auditorium. They include an increased budget for the group, the renovation and relocation of a multicultural center and emergency scholarships for black students.
An online video of the event shows one student saying "physical actions" will be taken if the university does not respond within seven days.
"I don't think the university should engage with groups that threaten and put superficial deadlines on activity and ask the university to take unconstitutional action," Gratz said.
Geralyn Gaines, the secretary for the BSU, said Tuesday that any activism the students engage in will be non-violent. She said students are hoping to have discussions with university leaders in the coming days.
University officials do plan to meet with students, said Rick Fitzgerald, spokesman for the university. A meeting has not yet been scheduled.
Gaines, a junior, said alumni and other people have responded positively through e-mail. But the majority of feedback online has been negative, she said, with some critics using the terms "racists," "terrorists" and "buffoons."
"Our e-mail system has been blowing up all day with positivity," she said. "But comments on the Internet (in response to news stories), probably 97% of them are negative, and they're not from students of color. They're mostly white students making comments. It's disheartening. It's disappointing. It's sad."
Gaines described the racial climate on campus as "just not good." She pointed to an incident this past fall in which a mostly white fraternity at the school landed in hot water over party advertisements that used derogatory words for women and stereotyped blacks.
In November, students launched a Twitter campaign to raise concerns about race and diversity using the hashtag "BBUM," which stands for Being Black at the University of Michigan.
The students' requests will benefit the entire campus, Gaines said, citing an increase in black student enrollment as an example.
"To be educated on different cultures, it just makes you a better person," she said.
More than a decade ago, Gratz successfully fought against the use of an affirmative action point system in the undergraduate admissions process at the school.
Gratz, who was denied admission to U-M as a high school senior, and others sued over the admissions policies. In 2003, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the U-M Law School's use of race as a consideration in admissions, as long as there were no quotas. However, it threw out the undergraduate admissions system that awarded extra points to African-American, Hispanic and American Indian students.
Gratz was also one of the organizers behind the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative, otherwise known as Proposal 2, the 2006 voter-approved ban on the use of affirmative action in college admissions and state hiring.
The university has said black enrollment has declined since the change. Black students made up 4.6% of U-M's freshman class in 2012, down from about 6.7% in 2008, not including international students. It was 4.1% in fall 2013.
Later this year, the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule on whether the voter-approved ban should stand.


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The seven young men who founded Sigma Chi were not ordinary men. They were men of vision, men of courage, men of action. They envisioned something new in fraternities, and sought to transform that vision into reality.
Prior to Sigma Chi's birth, fraternities were based on the proposition that friendships are best formed by men of like minds, talents and personalities. Our Founders, however, believed that true brotherhood could prosper only when men of unlike minds, talents and personalities banded themselves together under a common set of ideals. It was on this precept that Sigma Chi was begun.
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