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Hollow OneEdit
Summary: Hollow Ones are skeletons created by the energies of the negative energy plane rather than from the bones of once living creatures.
Physical DescriptionEdit
Hollow Ones are physically similar to human skeletons of any humanoid race except that their joints are fused together by a flexible material with a bone white color. Unlike normal skeletons, Hollow Ones are not as endowed with necrotic power and as such their skeletal structure does not allow them to make claw attacks or resist some physical attacks as greatly as normal skeletons.
Hollow Ones are created by an uncarnate druid summoning them from the negative energy plane into existence to do battle for them or other reasons. If they survive and wish to remain on the plane they are allowed to do so. As such, they vary greatly from one to the next in abilities and personality.
Hollow Ones wear typical humanoid clothing for the area they inhabit but may choose to wear completely concealing clothing if they inhabit an area where it might be dangerous to reveal their identity.
Hollow Ones generally inhabit the land they are summoned onto but are not bound to any location.
Food Acquisition and DietEdit
Hollow Ones cannot eat or drink and do not need to do so to survive.
Hollow Ones may either live among humanoids in typical dwellings or choose to isolate themselves.
Hollow Ones are largely varied in their personalities.
Hollow Ones can vary in their relations to other races depending on how they fit into society and their starting personality.
Hollow Ones generally tend towards neutral alignments but can be of any alignment.
Hollow Ones are not particularly biased towards or away from any religion.
Hollow Ones speak the language of the thing that summoned them but may pick up the languages of the area they inhabit.
Hollow Ones tend to be named by their summoners or sometimes fashion names for themselves.
Racial TraitsEdit
- +2 Dexterity, -4 Strength, N/A Constitution: Hollow Ones are not as weighed down as most creatures but lack muscular structure. As with most undead, Hollow Ones do not have a constitution score.
- Undead (Extraplanar): Hollow Ones are undead from the negative energy plane.
- Medium: As Medium creatures, Hollow Ones have no special bonuses or penalties due to their size.
- base land speed is 30 feet.
- +1 natural armor bonus.
- Darkvision out to 60 feet. This is due to how their vision works, however they are still able to distinguish color and depth in dark environments.
- Damage Reduction (Ex): A Hollow One has damage reduction 2/bludgeoning. They lack flesh or internal organs.
- Light Sensitivity (Ex): Hollow Ones are dazzled in bright sunlight or within the radius of a daylight spell.
- Moderate Fortification (Ex): A Hollow One is not completely immune to critical hits as most undead are due to the connective fibers that attach its bones together. However it is 75% resistant to such attacks.
- Necrotic Metabolism (Ex): A Hollow One recovers lost hit points at half the rate of a living creature (minimum of 1 hp/day). Unlike most undead, Hollow Ones are not destroyed at 0 HP but are incapacitated at 0 HP or lower and destroyed at -10 or lower (though they automatically stabilize). A Hollow One may be brought back with spells that raise the dead but is always brought back as a Hollow One and cannot be brought back if they do not have more than 1 level.
- Speech (Su): A Hollow One is capable of producing sound magically even without supportive anatomy.
- Turn Resistance (Ex): A Hollow One has +2 turn resistance.
- Hollow Ones cannot take the toughness or diehard feats.
- Automatic Languages: Pick a typical language spoken in the area.
- Bonus Languages: Any (other than secret languages, such as Druidic).
- Favored Class: Any
- Level Adjustment: +0
- Effective Character Level: 1
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As I sit here tonight I feel relaxed, refreshed and restored. I had a great Labor Day. I was able to go on not one, but two, "walk and talks" with girlfriends. Walk and talk dates are my favorite thing to do on a beautiful day. Other than the two dates, I did absolutely nothing. I did no work. I truly rested from all labor.
I spent some time this morning reading about our Ultimate Labor Day. It says in Hebrews 4:9-11 So there is a special rest still waiting for the people of God. 10 For all who have entered into God's rest have rested from their labors, just as God did after creating the world. 11 So let us do our best to enter that rest. But if we disobey God, as the people of Israel did, we will fall.
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I love to imagine what heaven is like. I have read numerous books from people who have died and gone to heaven. I am fascinated by them. I love to get even a glimpse of what my future holds. I can't wrap my head around it, but I am smart enough to know it will be more than I could ever imagine. Best of all, we will no longer wrestle with the difficulties of this world, we will enter our final rest. A working rest, but not a laboring rest. Side by side with Jesus. I can only imagine…
Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for this day. Thank you for giving us this day of rest. Thank you for the eternal rest you promise to those that put their faith in you. Help me to keep my eyes on you when I am worn out and weary. Keep me focused on the rest that is to come more than the labor we endure on earth. In Jesus' name, Amen.
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Jonas Kyllönen explains, "While our competitors focus simply on the bonus offer and a select few aspects of gaming, Mr-Gamble.com highlights things like hidden T's & C's and other small details that make up the overall quality of a casino's service and the bonuses they offer. We even include a section purely for casinos that offer free spins, allowing players to find free spin offers without deposits. This sets us apart from old school affiliates and builds trust with our audience, resulting in a high proportion of returning visitors."
Kyllönen, who leads on all aspects of marketing for Mr-Gamble, also realises that staying plugged in to media platforms such as Twitch and Instagram enable the company to attract some of their users from the elusive millennial market.
"In just six months", says Kyllönen, "we became the most watched slots channel on Twitch in Finland, and alongside our Instagram following, this allows us to stay in touch with our audience across multiple touch points – it's been key to our growth. We still see SEO and PPC as the main pillars of the casino affiliates sector, but complimentary channels like Twitch are both entertaining and good for business."
This well-rounded approach to the casino comparison sector is both innovative and forward-thinking, standing the company in good stead for the coming decade, during which adapting to change and staying on top of market trends will separate the men from the boys.
Mr Gamble's affiliate offering is already well-established in Finland, and in April 2020 Mr-Gamble expanded operations to more English-speaking markets including the UK and Canada. The company also plans to target the US market, with licensing currently underway, and is looking at opportunities in Asia.
Alongside Finnish casino enquiries, the company invites English language operators from international markets, particularly in the UK and Canada, to contact email@example.com for more information on deals and listings.
Affiliate Announcements
Announcing the launch of the Digital Marketing Mixer
The Digital Marketing Mixer is a new networking and business event hosted by Lee-Ann Johnstone for digital and affiliate marketing professionals to connect and get new business done. This unique concept is the first of its kind and will facilitate new business and sales for delegates in attendance.
The event is FREE to attend for any digital and affiliate marketing professional and is held in collaboration with a number of leading iGaming and Affiliate Marketing brands such as Paysafe (Income Access), GPWA.org, iBet Directory and Affiliate Guard Dog who are collaborating on this inaugural new business focussed event.
Taking place on the 22 May between 5-7pm (GMT) via virtual conference streaming, this unique event is designed to help delegates get connected, secure new business and offer a fun interactive social gathering to support industry growth and business collaboration.
Lee-Ann Johnstone who is hosting the event said: "The Digital Marketing Mixer is designed to help people keep connected during lockdown, to support collaboration and to ensure businesses thrive. I understand how hard it is to keep focussed on sales with an uncertain future, and that's why I've curated an open networking event for EVERYONE in our industry to gather together, get new business done and have fa bit of fun at the same time."
Event collaborators Michael Corfman of GPWA.org said "Hats off to Lee-Ann for bringing us together for a great time in the age of social distancing." whilst Zoltán Tűndik, Co-Founder and Head of Business at Hipther Agency, comments "A marketing mixer that doesn't involve traveling. Wow! What a great, great opportunity to network. I just can't believe such events haven't taken off before and needed a pandemic to be understood."
The Digital Marketing Mixer will kick off with a live demonstration from London's leading mixologist, Philip David from (The Covent Garden Cocktail Club and Balthazar) who will demonstrate exactly how to create a cocktail or mock-tail from ingredients found in your store cupboard at home.
There will be fun icebreaker challenges and networking games to enjoy along with coordinated speed networking and sales pitch sessions. The focus of this event is to bring people together and get new business conversations – started!
Lloyd Richman, founder of iBet Directory comments: "I think given the current circumstances the Digital Marketing Mixer is a great way to meet new contacts, expand our network and gain some new business. Thankfully we have people like Lee-Ann as a driving force helping to continue to push our industry forward."
The event has already enlisted digital representatives from companies such as PokerStars, PlayUp, Betsson, Better Collective, FTD Digital, YorMedia while several other leading iGaming affiliates from both casino, sports, bingo and poker segments, SaaS product owners and agency suppliers are registered to attend.
RSVP FOR FREE and join the Digital Marketing Mixer – HERE
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Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 130302 - http://bit.ly/ZQc19Y yesterday's tweets as a single Web page #MMDD
Petition to the Prime Minister re #TPP - http://bit.ly/WAwTQ1 #NZ health professionals rightly concerned #pharmac will be gutted
DHS built domestic surveillance tech into drones - http://cnet.co/YWhltl "able to detect whether a civilian is armed": the biter bit
Association for Computing Machinery: tear down this paywall -http://bit.ly/Y6I5Dj important #openaccess petition: to get #ACM to open up
Gleneagles G8 summit was a triumph for Africa - http://bit.ly/160lO1j why is the guardian running yet more crass pro-Blair propaganda?
#Embedded developers prefer Linux, love Android - http://bit.ly/13yEXbBconfirms that #linux totally dominates this sector
Sir David Omand backs coalition's plans for 'secret courts' -http://ind.pn/XP5B8C spy wants Star Chamber justice: ORLY? (v @AnnieMachon)
Farmers' seed options drastically reduced in GMO-producing countries -http://bit.ly/VWGsvd that's what monopolies always do
Doctors and nurses warn Prime Minister over #TPP talks - http://bit.ly/12lmgZddetails of their many concerns #NZ
Mozilla's DNA and Mobile World Congress - http://bit.ly/XLt0ef useful summary by @nitot
15 year old rape survivor faces flogging in The #Maldives - http://bit.ly/WAA0Y8still want to go there for holidays? (v @suigenerisjen)
Doctors cry foul at #NHS 'privatisation by stealth' - http://bit.ly/WAOPd8 as they should; public needs to realise what's happening #uk
State lawmaker defends bike tax, says bicycling is not good for the environment - http://bit.ly/ZcUHuJ brain-free politics (v @liotier)
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Six Downtown Restaurants Participating in Memphis Flyer Burger Week 2017
Memphis Flyer Burger Week is back this summer for a second round with new downtown restaurants participating in this year's selection of $5 specialty burgers.
Burger Week runs from Wednesday, July 12th to Tuesday, July 18th. This is prime time to sample some of the best burgers in town, and six downtown restaurants are participating in this summer's edition.
Click here to learn more about all the burgers in #BurgerWeek.
Bite Squad, the food delivery service, is offering a coupon for Burger Week as well. Use the code BURGERWEEK for a free entree (up to $15 off food cost, for new customers only) at BiteSquad! Expires 9/30/17
Participating restaurants include:
Flying Saucer - $5 San Miguel Burger
Beef and chorizo, avocado, pico de gallo, fried egg, queso fresco and tabasco mayo.
(130 Peabody Place, 38103)
Huey's - $5 Blues 57 Burger
World Famous Huey Burger topped with blue cheese crumbles, Heinz 57 sauce, mayo, lettuce, tomato and crispy onion straws on a buttered, toasted sesame seed bun.
(77 S Second Street, 38103)
Local - The $5 Burger
Ground chuck, cheddar, pickled red onion, smoked ketchup.
(95 S. Main, 38103)
Lyfe Kitchen + Chisca Bar - $5 Gobbler
Decadent turkey burger with bacon, cheddar cheese, avocado smash, pickled carrots, served on a local sourdough bun!
(272 S. Main, 38103)
The Dirty Crow Inn - $5 The French Onion Burger
Our 80/20 Angus beef with onion soup mix in the burger, cooked to perfection. Topped with melted provolone cheese, beefy soup onions, more melted Provolone cheese and topped with crispy fried onion straws. All in between a toasted Brioche bun. Served with a side of au jus for dipping.
(855 Kentucky, 38103)
Tin Roof - $5 The Smashville Burger
Custom ground Angus beef burger, with bbq pulled pork, slaw, and bacon!
(315 Beale St., 38103)
Things to remember
Make sure to take note of the following while dining at Burger Week restaurants:
- They might run out (and they will make more tomorrow)
- There will be waits (so plan ahead!)
- You should give a tip and give thanks!
- You should buy a drink and fries to go with your $5 burger.
- Check Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to see wait times at restaurants and up-to-date information regarding burgers.
- The $5 burger deals are dine-in only.
Burger Week Social Media Contest!
Check in at participating Burger Week restaurants, take a photo of your burger, and tag @memphisflyer using #FlyerBurgerWeek on Instagram or Twitter.
Each tag will be entered to win the Grand Prize Package—the winner will be selected based onmost Burger Week restaurants visited and most likes received! And every day a random #FlyerBurgerWeek tagger will be chosen to give out additional prizes.
The Burger Week Grand Prize Package includes:
• $50 gift certificate to Gould's Spa and Salon
• two (2) lawn tickets to St. Paul and The Broken Bones Friday 8/11 @ Memphis Botanic Garden
• four (4) tickets to any Redbirds home game in 2017
• a one-year subscription to Memphis magazine
• a Memphis Flyer frisbee
• six (6) Malco movie passes
Want to stay in the loop of all things happening in Downtown Memphis?
Our weekly Downtown Memphis newsletter is the source on what to do each week in Downtown. This free publication is emailed every Thursday morning.
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For a more comprehensive view of events taking place in Downtown, visit our Events page.
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About D & A Media
D&A Media are a specialist UK based Lifesize partner. Established in 1993, D&A Media have developed an award winning reputation by providing an industry leading service to all clients. The focus we place on the quality of our service and after care support has distinguished us from competition. This in turn has allowed us to grow through client recommendations, and we are now trusted to supply our services to some of the world's leading organisations.
"I worked with the team at D & A Media throughout the process from installation through to system handover and the company was extremely supportive and accommodating" UK property manager, Nike.


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Super Star Attacker Makes It Clear He Is Desperate To Complete Arsenal Move
Goonersden brings you news from top football news sites from the likes of ESPN, SkySport, Daily Mail, Daily Star and Metro… We also Analyse football, player, transfer and predict Arsenal starting line-up.
Joel Campbell has made it clear that he has no intention of extending his Arsenal stay beyond the summer of 2018 when his current contract with the north London club expires.
The Costa Rica international is hoping to join current club Real Betis on a permanent basis next summer once his loan from the Gunners comes to an end.
Campbell joined Arsenal from Deportivo Saprissa in summer of 2011 but has spent the majority of his time out on loan. He spent just one full season – 2015/16 – with the north London club since arriving and failed to break into the first-team under Arsene Wenger.
The 25-year-old's inability to impress the Arsenal boss enough during his stay at the Emirates saw him loaned out to Sporting Lisbon in the 2016/17 campaign. He failed to impress during his time with the Portuguese giants, which has seen him shipped out to Real Betis for this campaign.
"I will try to do my best this season, (hopefully) in the end the club is happy with what I do and they want to bet on me," Campbell said about his desire to join the La Liga club on a permanent basis, as quoted by the Sun.
Joel Campbel has played in 40 games for north London club and scored four goals for Arsenal.


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3 Reasons why
The Canadian-Italian Business and Professionals Association (CIBPA) mission is to offer business people and professionals of Italian origin a full range of services and activities to foster the development and growth of their business and professional relationships.
- Networking events that help foster business relationships among members and friends of CIBPA.
- Connecting people through local and national networks.
- Monthly newsletter about the Italian business community and its members.
- Access to executives, business owners, and other decision makers.
- Social media exposure.
President's cocktail - Business Connect - Lunch Conferences - Golf tournament - 5 à 7 - CIBO & Vino - Canada-wide presence
- A key CIBPA value is education. The CIBPA Bursary Program ensures talented Canadian-Italian students can pursue their studies.
- Recognizing outstanding professional achievement by members of the Italian community.
CIBPA Scholarship Bursaries – Person of the Year – Fundraising events (CIBO & JAZZ, Walk/Run…)
- CIBPA was born 70 years ago to counter the negative effects of the war years on the community.
- CIBPA helped build a positive image of the Italian business community and continues to promote the interests of its members.
- Promotion of the Italian culture through language and cuisine.
- Merchant discount card for various business needs.
- Learn from the challenges and experiences of our elders and share their stories.
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Here's a proud confession. I have all of Richard Dawkins's 11 science books (or 10 if we are strict and discount the massive best seller The God Delusion) on my bookshelves and have read them all. He certainly arouses strong feelings in others, both positive and negative, but without question, he cannot and should not be ignored.
I have written elsewhere of how in my younger days my eyes were opened to the wonders of science – thanks in no small part to the books of Richard Dawkins – and my dismay at the realisation concerning the ignorant claptrap about science and especially evolution that I had hitherto imbibed from Muslim religious figures.
In this second of his two part autobiography (the first part was 2013's An Appetite for Wonder), Dawkins says:
…I dare to hope that my books, starting with The Selfish Gene in 1976, are among those that have changed the cultural landscape, along with the works of Stephen Hawking, Peter Atkins, Carl Sagan, Edward O. Wilson, Steve Jones, Stephen Jay Gould, Steven Pinker, Richard Fortey, Lawrence Krauss, Daniel Kahneman, Helena Cronin, Daniel Dennett, Brian Greene, the two M. Ridleys (Mark and Matt)… (p7)
If Dawkins sounds a bit arrogant here then we ought to remember (and as Dawkins himself says about the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA James Watson) that he has a lot to be arrogant about. As former Professor for the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University, Dawkins regularly took to print and to the airwaves to champion science and to ridicule what he regarded as unsupportable superstition. The targets of his criticism included the poor state of science teaching in some Muslim faith schools.
One of my most memorable encounters was being on the same team as the above-mentioned Professor Steve Jones and Matt Ridley on BBC1's Big Questions (YouTube video here) as we debated the truth of evolution with some religious deniers.
In this autobiography, Dawkins accepts that he can perhaps come across as being almost too bullish about science, but in his defence recounts a funny anecdote to show that he is not alone.
A former and highly successful editor of New Scientist magazine – he actually built up New Scientist to great heights – was asked: 'What is your philosophy at New Scientist?' He said, 'Our philosophy in New Scientist is this: science is interesting, and if you don't agree you can fuck off.' (p262)
Naturally the targets of his ire – often followers of the main world religions maybe do not see it this way. Is Dawkins being unfair? Let's take a more detailed look at the observations he makes in this autobiography regarding Christianity and Islam and see for ourselves.
First Christianity:
I have tried but consistently failed to find anything in theology to be serious about. I certainly take professors of theology seriously when they use their expertise to do things other than theology: jigsaw the fragments of the Dead Sea scrolls, for instance; or minutely compare Hebrew and Greek texts of scriptures, or sleuth out the lost sources of the four gospels and the other gospels that didn't make it into the canon. That's all genuine scholarship, fascinating to read and deserving of respect. It's even true that historians need to study theological logic-chopping in order to understand the disputes and wars that have stained European history, for example the English Civil Wars. But the vacuous deepities (Dan Dennett's splendid word) of 'apophatic theology' (Karen Armstrong's obscurantist smokescreen), or the expenditure of precious time arguing with other theologians over the precise 'significance for us today' of Original Sin, Transubstantiation, the Immaculate Conception, or the 'mystery' (sorry, 'Mystery') of the Trinity, none of that is scholarship in any respectable sense of the word, and it should have no place in our universities. (p177-8)
Dawkins does appear to have a fair point here. After all, can we really justify university money – subsidised by taxpayers – being spent on such studies?
Later in the book, Dawkins draws our attention to a passage from the autobiography of his hero, Charles Darwin. Beginning by noting that "Darwin, as a young man, was a devout believer, destined for a career in the church", Dawkins shares with us Darwin's own words later in life in which he said he could:
…hardly see how anyone ought to wish Christianity to be true; for if so the plain language of the text seems to show that the men who do not believe, and this would include my Father, Brother and almost all my best friends, will be everlastingly punished. And this is a damnable doctrine. (p253)
Again, the words are very strong, but are they really unfair?
And here is Dawkins on today's Muslims. He is at a dinner hosted by the former Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks with some of London's leading Jews:
It was at that dinner that I learned the stunning fact that Jews, who constitute less than 1 per cent of the world's population, have won more than 20 per cent of all Nobel Prizes. This makes a poignant contrast with the derisorily low success rate of the world's Muslims, who are orders of magnitude more numerous in the world. I thought – still do – the comparison revealing…how could it not be revealing that one of them has a success rate per head which is literally tens of thousands of times higher than the other, in the fields of intellectual endeavour celebrated by Nobel? Islamic scholars were notable for keeping the flame of Greek learning alive during the middle ages and dark ages of Christendom. What went wrong? (p249)
What indeed? The words may be uncomfortable for Muslims to listen to, but they are surely worth reflecting upon with an open mind.
Back in 2010, Dawkins was one of the co-presenters (along with Stephen Hawking, David Attenborough, James Dyson, Robert Winston and others) of the marvellous five part Channel Four series, The Genius of Britain. The series (which oddly is not mentioned in this autobiography) took a look at the British scientists who kick started the scientific revolution in the UK and which was subsequently exported to much of the world. It noted how 500 years ago, Britain was still very much in a state of darkness where 'witches' were still being hunted and burnt. These scientists, beginning with the 17th century giants Christopher Wren, Robert Hooke, Edmund Halley and Isaac Newton dared to ask questions about the workings of nature and were allowed the space to continue their research and experiments unhindered by the state. This contributed to an explosive growth in our knowledge and understanding and in due course would lead to the development of the theories of gravity, evolution and the Big Bang which underpin our current understanding of how the universe works. It would lead to practical benefits such as inoculation and vaccination which would prevent millions of needless deaths across the world. It would usher in the technological age which has brought us the PC, the internet and the dazzling new useful gadgets that are being invented every week.
The title of Dawkins's autobiography is "Brief Candle in the Dark" which is a nod to the great American astronomer and scientist Carl Sagan who talked about "science as a candle in the dark."
Long may this particular flame shine a light for all of us.


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In physics Cryogenics is
the study of the production and behavior of materials at very low temperature
(below -150°C/-238°F
or 123 K).
The word cryogenics stems from Greek
and means "the production of freezing cold".
The term is used today as a synonym for the low-temperature state.
Liquid nitrogen is the most commonly used element in
cryogenics which used for specialty chilling and freezing applications.
MRC's laboratory liquid nitrogen containers are suited for storage and
transportation have wide range of capacities.


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With more than 50 years of experience in child care, we know the first years of life are the most important for your child and we're excited and privileged to be part of that journey.
Wesley Mission Queensland's child care services are offered in a community environment that recognises and respects the individuality, ability and potential of each child.
Our educational programs allow children to express themselves and learn about the world around them through play.
Services including centre-based, family day care and in-home care can be found across South East Queensland.
We are also able to connect you with playgroups held every Thursday and Friday during the school term from 9:30am - 11am at Toowong Uniting Church. This is a great way for children to make new friends and learn through play. Parents or carers also have the opportunity to socialise. Both playgroups are popular, often with a short waiting list. To register your interest, please email:
Thursday playgroup - Clare
Friday playgroup - Claudia
apply for centre based child care
Centre-based child care offering supportive and nurturing spaces where children can grow and learn.
Professional, safe, affordable and educational child care provided in small groups at the home of educators.
Flexible child care services delivered by a qualified educator in your own home.
A well-established natural and welcoming child care centre and approved Kindergarten that caters for children 6 months to 5 years
A centre offering long day care services for children aged six months to school age.
Jahjumbeen Kindergarten and Child Care Centre is a small, family-friendly community right in the heart of Toowong.
Little Marchants is situated inside the Wheller Gardens community in Chermside and features several large and natural play spaces that includes a vegie patch, herb garden and our friendly chickens.


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Conference Agenda
Overview and details of the sessions of this conference. Please select a date or location to show only sessions at that day or location. Please select a single session for detailed view (with abstracts and downloads if available).
Session Overview
|Location: Room 97
|Date: Wednesday, 05/Jun/2019
|11:30am - 1:00pm
|Work and lifestyle factors
Session Chair: Douglas Paul Gross
Session Chair: Eva Ladekjær Larsen
|Room 97
|4:00pm - 5:30pm
|Prevention and sustainable employment
Session Chair: Thomas Lund
Session Chair: Alex Collie
|Room 97
|Date: Thursday, 06/Jun/2019
|10:30am - 12:00pm
|Musculoskeletal disorders
Session Chair: Andreas Holtermann
Session Chair: Marion Lamort-Bouché
|Room 97
|1:00pm - 2:30pm
Session Chair: Martin Lindhardt Nielsen
Session Chair: Mette Jensen Stochkendahl
|Room 97
|Date: Friday, 07/Jun/2019
|11:00am - 12:30pm
|Precarious workers and vulnarable groups
Session Chair: Ellen MacEachen
Session Chair: Astrid Velasquez Sanchez
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About us
A Valley staple for nearly a decade in Tempe, with a second location on High Street and a highly anticipated third location recently opening in Downtown Chandler, La Bocca Urban Kitchen + Wine Bar brings together everyone's all-time favorite Mediterranean and Italian ingredients. Our food is locally sourced and made fresh to order with only the finest ingredients. Offerings range from fresh basil and creamy hummus to savory prosciutto and fig bruschetta and made-from-scratch pizzas.


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These Digital Panel Meter (DPM) models provide highly accurate, stable, and repeatable temperature indication for signals from 100-Ohm Platinum Resistance Temperature Detectors (RTD's) with DIN "alpha" of 0.00385 or ANSI "alpha" of 0.003925.
RTD range and resolution (1° or 0.1°) are selectable from the front panel or via special commands issued over the optional serial interface. Data display in units of degrees Kelvin or Rankine can be selected by offsetting the Celsius or Fahrenheit range, respectively.
Open sensor indication is standard, and may be set to indicate either upscale or downscale.
RTD excitation of 0.2 mA is provided by the meter, and is monitored to make ratiometric corrections for excitation-supply variations.
RTD connections can be of the 2-, 3-, or 4-wire type, with appropriate compensation for load resistance of the sensor. Thus, in a 2-wire hookup, the meter senses the voltage drop across the 100-Ω RTD and both lead wires. The effect of the lead wires can be measured and subtracted by shorting out the RTD during meter setup. For 3- and 4-wire connections, the meter senses the voltage drop across the 100-Ω RTD and both lead wires, as well as the voltage drop across the RTD and one lead wire. This allows it to determine the effect of one lead wire and mathematically subtract the effect of both lead wires.
All ranges for all temperature sensor types are digitally calibrated at the factory to IEC or NIST standards, thus eliminating the need to recalibrate in the field for potentiometer-related drift errors.
As with all 2000 Series DPM's, the peak value of the input signal is automatically captured and may be displayed via front-panel push button or a control signal received at the rear connector (since the last meter reset). Data readings and outputs can be separately selected to be either filtered or unfiltered.
With the optional Analog Output Board, these meters can serve as superb, isolated 4-20 mA transmitters. The analog output is scaled to the display, which is linearized to °C or °F and is exceptionally accurate. The analog output tracks the high read rate of the meter (up to 56 readings per second at 60-Hz power). Fast update rates are beneficial in many closed-loop and PID control applications.
With the optional Dual Contact or Solid-State Relay Board, a temperature meter can serve as an extremely fast and accurate ON/OFF controller for closed-loop temperature control, or as a supervisory process monitor, providing alarms or shutoffs when the process exceeds normal limits.


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Butterscotch Owl Pops
Posted on September 28 2012
Owls, butterscotch and autumn just seem to go together don't you think? Every autumn I get the urge to make things featuring woodland animals!
This is my first time working with butterscotch candy melts, new to our shop this year, and oh my.. they are so incredibly sweet and yummy! Perfect for these little owls! I found the butterscotch candy melts a bit stiffer when melted than others, so I would consider them much more ideal for molding rather than dipping.
I think my very favorite use for bakers twine is tying sweet bows on chocolate lollipops!
So adorable!
Follow our Basic Chocolate Molding Tutorial if you're new to chocolate molding.
Tips: Roll the lollipop stick once in the mold to coat the whole top of the stick with chocolate, this makes the stick more secure. Get yourself more than one mold if you plan to make a lot, waiting for the chocolate to harden can become time consuming.
♥ Supply List
• Butterscotch Candy Melts
• Small Owl Lollipop Chocolate Mold
• White Paper Lollipop Sticks
• Disposable Decorating Bags
• Cappuccino Brown Bakers Twine
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Note: If you accidentally added the wrong file, delete the attachment by clicking the trashcan icon next to the document name.
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Sign up Genius is for the actual fingerprinting done in person at St. Ambrose Parish Life Center. This is done for New Volunteers, teachers and those who need licensure from the state and/or employment purposes. Some parishes may also require this type of background check. If you know you need actual fingerprinting done, please proceed to Signup Genius to schedule an appointment.
If the background check is not for volunteering with Saint Ambrose Parish or School, there is a $30 fee, payable to Saint Ambrose by cash or check. Credit cards are not accepted.
As a volunteer, if it has been more than 5 years since your last background check, you will need to complete the online background check process thru Selection.com. Following Diocesan directives, we are now working with Selection.com to do background checks. Ongoing periodic checks thru Selection.com make sure that all of our children and volunteers are safe and supported in their service to the Lord. Selection.com is much easier and more convenient for you to use as well as for the parish. It does come with a onetime cost of $25. You will be prompted to complete the background check when you log on to your Virtus account. For those who are unable to financially cover this cost, please contact Michele at the Parish Office (email@example.com).


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text: A Literary History of U.S. Garden WritingTraces the literary roots of the environmental justice movementRobert S. EmmettDetailsDescriptionWhile Michael Pollan and others have popularized ideas about how growing one's own food can help lead to environmental sustainability, environmental justice activists have pushed for more access to gardens and fresh food in impoverished communities. Now, Robert S. Emmett argues that mid-twentieth-century American garden writing included many ideas that became formative for these contemporary environmental writers and activists.Drawing on ecocriticism, environmental history, landscape architecture, and recent work in environmental justice and food studies, Emmett explores how the language of environmental justice emerged in descriptions of gardening across a variety of literary forms. He reveals early egalitarian associations found in garden writing, despite a popular focus on elite sites such as suburban lawns and formal southern gardens. Cultivating Environmental Justice emphasizes the intergenerational work of gardeners and garden writers who, from the 1930s on, asserted increasingly radical socioeconomic and ecological claims to justice. Emmett considers a wide range of texts by authors including Bernard M'Mahon, Scott and Helen Nearing, Katharine S. White, Elizabeth Lawrence, Alice Walker, and Novella Carpenter. Reviews"Emmett's book is a centrally important contribution to ecocriticism, environmental justice discourse, and the burgeoning field of food studies and sustainability, because it is the first attempt to bring together the many historical and political backgrounds of the relatively recent emergence of the urban gardening movement in connection with environmental justice."—Louise Westling, author of The Logos of the Living World: Merleau-Ponty, Animals, and Language"Emmett's ecocritical attention to language allows him to foreground how the discourse of cultivation applies to aesthetic and literary tastes as well as practical questions of ethics and ecological restoration. . . . His chapter on the post-industrial US and the ghetto pastoral trope in community garden writing would be an excellent reading for courses about environmental justice."—ISLE AuthorRobert S. Emmett is director of academic programs at the Rachel Carson Center, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich. Related Subjects: American StudiesEnvironmental History and EcologyLiterary Studies and Print Culture


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Inmates at the Saline County Juvenile Detention Center in Salina, Kan. are being transferred to a state-run facility this week, following Sheriff Glen Kochanowski's decision to shutter the center on Friday.
According to The Salina Journal, County commissioners John Price, Jim Gile and Randy Duncan were notified about Kochanowski's plans to close the facility before the weekend. At a conference on Monday, Kochanowski said that the closing will not be permanent.
"I don't want to close it," he is quoted by KSAL.com. "This is temporary until we can get some of these issues worked out."
Earlier this month, Sheriff Kochanowski requested additional detention center staffers at a commission meeting. According to The Salina Journal, Kochanowski told the commissioners that the facility was over capacity, and feared staff and inmate altercations and injuries were likely to increase as a result.
Sheriff's office data revealed that 48 juveniles this year had been placed in the center between January and March, with an average of nine young people per day housed at the facility, which has only 10 beds. In April, one inmate allegedly attacked another inmate with a handheld metal-detector, while in February, a 16-year-old was accused of severely beating another inmate.
At a mid-April meeting, Sheriff Kochanowski said that smaller facilities were required to employ at least 15 staffers. At the time, the Saline County Juvenile Detention Center had only 11 members on staff.
KSAL.com reports that Kochanowski wants to add two more staffers to the Saline County center, at an estimated cost of $90,000 annually. Of the 10 current staffers at the facility, all but three are expected to remain at the center; the seven other employees are expected to have their positions "folded" into the Saline County Jail.
According to County Commission Chairman Duncan, Kochanowski made the call to shut down the center too early.
"We're working thorough many of these issues the Sheriff raised in the last couple of weeks, in particular, staffing and what can be done," Duncan is quoted by The Salina Journal. "We know that there are some needs, a temporary staffing crisis and a few more juveniles, but it's not clear to me whether this is a long-term problem or a short-term problem."


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8 Easier Alternatives to Pull-Ups
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Pull-ups are an excellent exercise for working multiple muscles at the same time while also increasing your heart rate—which is why so many top trainers include them in their training plans. But like most exercises that have great potential to improve your fitness, they're also one of the most difficult to perform. That doesn't mean you should avoid them. Instead, trade the iconic exercise for less difficult moves that target the same muscle groups—lats, deltoids, and rhomboids—until you're strong enough for the real thing.
How it works: Two or three days a week, add some of these exercises into your existing strength routine or do all eight as a separate workout, complete with a proper warm-up and cool-down.
You'll need: A pair of 3- to 5-pound dumbbells, a pair of 10- to 20-pound dumbbells, and a squat bar.
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Renegade Rows
Reps: 8 per side
Place a set of 10- to 20-pound dumbbells on the floor and get into pushup position with shoulders above wrists and feet slightly wider than hip-width apart, hands on the set of weights.
Keeping hips level, bring one weight up to shoulder height, pointing elbow directly toward the ceiling. Engage core and legs the entire time.
Lower the weight back down to the floor and switch sides. Make sure to keep belly button drawn up and in and shoulders down and back. Do 8 reps on each side.
Lat Squeezes
Reps: 30
Grab a set of 3- to 5-pound dumbbells and stand with feet hip-width apart, knees slightly bent and tailbone tucked. Keeping upper arms close to body, bring hands out to your sides so that forearms are parallel to the floor.
Draw elbows toward one another as tight as possible. This will only be about an inch, then bring elbows back to starting point. Do 30 reps.
Rhomboid Pulls
Reps: 30
Grab a set of 3- to 5-pound dumbbells and bend arms to form two right angles. Maintain the bend as you lift arms up to shoulder height. Pull elbows back an inch, then forward an inch. Draw shoulders down away from ears during the entire movement. Do 30 reps.
Band Pulldown
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Stand with feet hip-width apart, knees slightly bent, and chest lifted. Hold the handles of the band with palms facing up. Step back so there is tension on the band.
Pull band with straight arms until it reaches hips. Return back to starting position and repeat. Do 15 reps.
Snatch Grip Bar Hold
Reps: 30-second hold
Bend knees, shift hips back, and keep chest up. Place hands wider than shoulder width on the squat bar and pull the bar into your legs (near your hip crease).
Get tight through your upper back by engaging lats and drawing shoulder blades down and together. Hold for 30 seconds, continually pulling the bar in toward legs.
T Hold
Reps: 20-second hold
Take a band and pull it out to shoulder width, palms facing forward. Hold shoulder blades down and back, keeping chest up. Hold band for 20 seconds, keeping neck relaxed and core engaged the entire time.
Barbell Row
Reps: 10
Stand with feet hip-width apart, knees slightly bent. Shift hips back, bringing torso parallel to the ground. Keep glutes and core engaged the entire time.
Place hands on squat bar slightly wider than shoulder width. Bend elbows and bring the bar up toward chest. Pause and then slowly lower the bar back down. Keep gaze down to the floor to avoid straining neck. Do 10 reps.
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Hold a pair of 3-pound weights. Bend knees and shift hips back, bringing torso parallel to the ground. Keep glutes and core engaged the entire time. Draw elbows up to shoulder height, forming a 90-degree position with the arms. Keeping upper arms still, rotate weight to bring forearms up (parallel to the ground). Press weights out, extending arms all the way to straight. Repeat the movement in the other direction and repeat. Do 10 reps.


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The Jamaica Gleaner is presenting a side of the man behind OLINT. In a Gleaner artcle of Sunday July 20, 2008, a reporter now in the Turks and Caicos tells a few stories. Here are some quotes:
Smith is a popular figure in corporate circles here and is known to throw down as much as US$100,000 ($7.2 million) a night at the Players Club and Casablanca casinos, two of his favourite spots.
No one is prepared to give their name when talking about Smith, but they speak highly of his boundless benevolence, which includes sponsoring many sports competitions and social events. "David helps a lotta people here man. He's good for this country," says a man who claims to be Smith's friend.
Two weeks ago, he celebrated his birthday with a massive party at his mansion in the upscale Chalk Sound area. It was reportedly attended by several Jamaican members of Parliament.
It is interesting that these friends are not prepared to have their names called and stand up for their friend, especially when their friend based on what we hear is happening clearly needs help.
It should also be noted that OLINT sponsored the Jazz and Blues festival in January 2008 , for a significant amount we have been unable to ascertain, and had launched a US$1 million Olint foundation in December 2007.
If we are to believe these stories, David Smith was living the life in the Turks and Caicos while his club members for at least the last 7 months have been scouring blogs to get information on what was happening to their money. It has been torturous to say the least, for members as they have shifted through speculation, conspiracies theories and the facts, only to be stunned by the contents of the now famous 'e-mail' that only confirmed what many(detractors) have believed and available evidence has suggested for a long long time. Things at Olint were not what they seemed.
Prayers for OLINT
Interesting in a letter to the Gleaner, a Bishop Peter Morgan, appears to believe that OLINT is just having technical difficulties and soon return to regular programming.
It is apparent that they do not lack the funds to disburse gains to their club members, but are hampered by the proper mechanisms to do so.
Bishop Peter Morgan, it is time to wake up and smell the roses. Persons need pray for those that are suffering and pray that the same mistakes are never made again.
Source:Smith, man of 'boundless benevolence' (Gleaner) and Prayers for Olint (Gleaner)
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Today, April 21st, is my late grandfather, Salvatore "Sam" Francis Lucchese's birthday. I honor him, now more than ever.
My writing gene comes from Sam. As I've nurtured it this last decade, communing with the DNA he bequeathed me via my mother, I have connected to a man I never felt close to in life. Most significant, I've realized how that writing gene altered the course of my family for the better, pivoting the line away from darkness. I feel that significance, and I am so proud. My grandfather was a quiet, unassuming hero, the savior of my bloodline.
Sam F. Lucchese, as he was professionally known, was born in 1900, in Victoria, Texas, to Sicilian immigrants, Giuseppe and Anna. Giuseppe and his brothers were renowned boot makers from Palermo. In the late 1800s, they'd come through the port of Galveston to make footwear for the Army at the Texas/Mexico border.
Sam, however, cared nothing for boot making. For reasons we will never know, when he came of age, he chose to make a life as an American writer. He did not go to college, but rather taught himself.
His cousin, Cosimo, turned Lucchese Boots into a thriving business. (LBJ is buried in Lucchese boots.) Sam, meanwhile, became a typesetter straight out of high school, and worked his way up to editor. In the 20s, he accepted a position on a paper in Georgia. In the Peach State, he met the beautiful, charismatic Genevieve Camp, my grandmother.
I never got a chance to know Sam. Although not unkind, he wasn't really a kid person. My mother says he wasn't "a hugger" in her youth, either. I don't think Sam and I ever had a conversation. Yet, he was always around, a benign, calming presence, easy to take for granted. A diminutive Sicilian-American who loved All in the Family, black instant coffee in a plastic mug, and his poodle, Nicole, a gift from Tony Curtis. As children, my brother and I spent a lot of time in our maternal grandparents' bungalow home. While our grandmother, Genevieve, aka "Gammie," was very affectionate and present, Granddaddy spent hours in his musty basement office, focused, tapping incessantly on a manual typewriter. To this day, the distinctive percussion of a manual typewriter reminds me of him.
Before my birth, he primarily wrote arts-related features for Hearst-owned newspapers, most significantly the Atlanta Journal, for which he was entertainment editor most of his professional life. He was the publicist for Gone with the Wind and he interviewed the Beatles when they played the Atlanta Stadium in 1964. He retired from the Journal the year I was born (1965) but did not stop working; he wrote for Variety and other outlets, including the Atlanta Playboy Club's At the Club publication. His writing put food on the table, paid the bills, kept my mom and her two sisters in saddle oxfords, and put them through college.
After a long decline, Sam died from Alzheimer's in Atlanta in 1986, just before my 21st birthday. I was touring with the Fleshtones, in New Orleans during Mardi Gras. I flew home to help my brother and cousins carry the casket, my fingernails painted black, Mardi Gras beads dangling from the epaulet of my biker jacket.
Gammie did not speak much of her history until just a couple years before she passed in 2000 at age 94. While she displayed no photos of her family, the Camps, in the Lucchese house, she festooned the walls and surfaces with framed pictures of her and Sam's progeny – their daughters, my brother, our cousins, me – and many movie stars they'd met on junkets. This lack of documentation of her pre-maternal life aroused no curiosity in me. Until Gammie, in the winter of her years, addled from falling down and hitting her head a few times too many, began to talk of the distant past.
Much is still shrouded in Southern Gothic mystery, but what emerged was a harrowing story of Gammie's father, Josephus Camp, a hopeless alcoholic, failed attorney, likely bipolar. Darkly handsome. He would eventually blow his brains out in the 50s, and Gammie's mother would insist she come help clean up the mess, which she did. He left behind a legacy of addiction, shame, and fear; carbons of letters thick with the scariest racism – i.e. hatred from the pen of an educated, eloquent, crazy person.
The Camps were devout Southern Baptist. Gammie's siblings, Imogene and Joe, were both certified mentally ill; she with paranoid schizophrenia, he with what they called "dementia praecox," which was likely schizophrenia with excessive manic features. Movie star gorgeous Imogene was able to function in society, but Joe spent most of his life institutionalized in the state mental hospital in Milledgeville, Georgia. Nannie, the febrile Camp matriarch, wrote of their relentlessly stressful life in journals now in my mother's possession.
I knew none of this until my son, Jack, was born in 1998, and I was thirty-three.
In the middle of the maelstrom was Genevieve, my Gammie, eldest child and caregiver for her entire family. The rock. Yet, I imagine her desperate to find a way out of the doomed drama that was her family, a drama she would not speak of for decades.
To her racist parents' horror, her ticket out was the short, blue eyed, Catholic, Sicilian writer, Sam F. Lucchese. On top of all those qualities, Sam was a "Yellow Dog Democrat," meaning he would rather vote for a yellow dog than a Republican. The Camps, diehard conservative Republicans who loathed FDR, would refer to him only as "The Wop."
According to Gammie, she had two suitors named Sam, so she called my grandfather "Casey." This nickname would stick for the rest of their lives. Gammie's parents desperately wanted her to marry the other Sam, a lily white Protestant guy whose parents did not hail from a country so close to Africa. The other Sam was, like the Camps, likely an apologist for the Confederacy, one who romanticized "the old ways."
But no. Genevieve Camp chose the swarthy Wop. To her parents' dismay, she converted to Catholicism, and began the process of shutting them out from the family she created: three girls, whose father would be faithful, a solid man who would not be consumed with alcohol-fueled madness about race, religion, or some destructive fantasy about white supremacy.
And Sam chose her. He spirited her away to Texas, where they married among his kin, surrounded by the lilt of Sicilian dialects, excellent food, and hardboiled Texas folk, a bright sun blazing down, my grandfather resplendent in a double breasted white suit, my pale-skinned grandmother holding the hand that would write them into a new life in the New South. The writer. She married the writer, and put her faith in his ability to spin sentences into money. It was an excellent call.
Interestingly, while Gammie converted to Catholicism, she did not convert to the Democratic Party or leave behind the racism that her chronically terrified family carefully taught her. Not hardly. She remained a product of the pre-Civil Rights Act, Jim Crow South. In years to come, she and I would argue about civil rights, unions, and miscegenation, and she would infuriate and disappoint me. I would wonder how the man who enthusiastically voted for Jimmy Carter could live in relative peace with the woman who adored Ronald Reagan. And I continue to marvel at how much Gammie's love, despite her reprehensible moral and political beliefs, shaped me.
I have come to realize this: by accepting Sam Lucchese's marriage proposal way back when, Gammie contributed to change almost in spite of herself. I recall how she did not make any great effort to convert anyone to her batshit crazy, backward views, smiling enigmatically as I grew ever more liberal, like her husband and like my mother. I prefer to think Sam appealed to the better angels of her nature, secret forces that helped her take baby steps toward the right side of history, an evolution her youngest daughter, my mom, would continue in passionate earnest, and which her great-grandson, my boy Jack, amplifies with captivating, inspirational vigor.
It all began with Sam F. Lucchese. He enabled the pivot that changed everything. Thank you, Granddaddy. And happy birthday.


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Indiana State University honored seven educators during its annual Faculty Recognition Banquet Thursday.President Dan Bradley presented the President's Medal -- the university's highest award for faculty -- to Cinda May, chair of Special Collections at Indiana State's Cunningham Memorial Library.
"It is such an honor to be selected as a recipient of the President's Medal -- and totally unexpected," May said. "To be recognized for my accomplishments and contributions to ISU and librarianship is very gratifying. But I would be remiss not to acknowledge all of the people who have believed in me, encouraged me, and even challenged me throughout my career. Without them I would not have explored the range of my abilities, or plumbed the depths of my resourcefulness. From them I learned resilience, commitment and the importance of being true to oneself. Every day I aspire to pass these lessons on to others, especially students, who are just commencing their life journeys."
May earned her bachelor's in English from the University of New Orleans. She holds three master's degrees -- in English from the University of Texas at Austin, in information and library science from the University of Michigan and in history from Indiana University.
May joined the Indiana State faculty in 2006 as the coordinator of Library Digital Initiatives. She was appointed to her current role in 2010.
While she has led and planned numerous initiatives, projects and events, May said serving as project director for Wabash Valley Visions & Voices Digital Memory Project -- now in its 12th year -- is one of the most rewarding experiences of her career at Indiana State.
"Being the project director of Wabash Valley Visions & Voices Digital Memory Project has been the most meaningful experience for me," she said. "With 20-plus community partners across six counties in west central Indiana, the Visions Project has afforded me the opportunity to work with other cultural heritage professionals to document, preserve and provide access to the history and culture of the region. It has also given ISU students interested in pursuing careers in public history or special collections librarianship a chance to directly participate in the collection, creation and management of local history resources."
Other awards and their recipients were:
• Caleb Mills Distinguished Teaching Award: Keri Yousif, professor of French.
• Community-Based Learning and Scholarship Award: Colleen Haas, instructor of African and African American Studies.
• Theodore Dreiser Distinguished Research and Creativity Award: Kevin Bolinskey, associate professor of psychology, Rusty Gonser, professor of biology, and Kit Kincade, professor of English.
• Faculty Distinguished Service Award: Richard Lotspeich, professor of economics.
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