Deborah Asnis '77, '81 MD, Hewlett, N.Y., Sept. 12, at age 59. During the summer of 1999, Dr. Asnis, chief of infectious disease at Flushing Hospital Medical Center, had two patients with abnormal symptoms that did not respond to treatment. She quickly discovered commonalities between the patients — they all came from the same part of Queens and enjoyed spending time outdoors in the evening.
Though it was first misdiagnosed, Dr. Asnis had discovered the first outbreak of West Nile virus in the Western Hemisphere and quickly sounded the alarm. Thanks to her action, public health officials took aggressive precautions to slow the spread of the mosquito-borne virus.
In 2007 she was inducted into the New York City Hall of Fame for Health and Science. A prolific clinical researcher, Dr. Asnis specialized in the study of HIV infection.
She is survived by her husband, Hal Kazdin; sons Joshua and Matthew; her mother, Ruth; and a brother, Greg.
Sanford I. Berman '58 PhD, Las Vegas, June 16, at age 90. A nightclub entertainer in San Diego and Las Vegas for more than four decades, Mr. Berman — better known as Dr. Michael Dean — moonlighted as a flamboyant hypnotist with a sky-high black pompadour.
On the stage he found fame — Mr. Berman once hypnotized boxer Ken Norton — and fortune, which he invested in real estate. But he was also a serious scholar who firmly believed in the power of persuasion.
Mr. Berman wrote several books on language and endowed an institute for the study of effective communication at San Diego State University. He got his start in general semantics, a philosophical approach to language, when he taught at Northwestern with professor Irving J. Lee '35, '38 MA/MS.
Mr. Berman is survived by his wife, Sandra; a daughter, Michelle; and three grandchildren.
Stanton R. Cook '49, '85 H, Kenilworth, Ill., Sept. 3, at age 90. When Mr. Cook took over as chief executive of Tribune Co. in 1974, it was known as a conservative, family-run enterprise. But during his 16 years at the helm, Mr. Cook transformed the company into a publicly traded media conglomerate.
Mr. Cook, who studied mechanical engineering at Northwestern, climbed the ranks from the Chicago Tribune production department to become the paper's publisher and later CEO of the parent company. Under Mr. Cook's leadership, the Tribune Co. became the largest operator of independent television stations when it secured KTLA in Los Angeles in 1985. He also oversaw the company's 1981 acquisition of the Chicago Cubs and Wrigley Field. An avid baseball fan, he was chairman of the Chicago Cubs until 1994. He stepped down as CEO of the Tribune Co. in 1990.
Mr. Cook also served Northwestern throughout his life. He was elected to the Board of Trustees in 1987 and later became a life trustee. In 1989 he helped secure a $30 million pledge, one of the largest made to Northwestern at the time, from the Robert R. McCormick Charitable Trust, which resulted in the renaming of the school of engineering. He also endowed the Wilson-Cook Chair in Engineering Design at the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science. In early 2015 the Cook family made a significant gift to the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences' Writing Program, which was renamed the Bobbie and Stanton Cook Family Writing Program.
Mr. Cook received the Northwestern Alumni Association's Alumni Medal in 1987. He is survived by daughters Sarah Cook Shumway '87 MMGT and Nancy; sons Scott, David and Douglas '98 MMGT; and seven grandchildren.
Russell R. Dohner '53 MD, Rushville, Ill., Aug. 7, at age 90. A beloved doctor in the western Illinois town of Rushville, Dr. Dohner tended to everyone who came through his office door for six decades. He saw patients seven days a week on a first-come, first-served basis, charging just $5 per visit. He made house calls and took special care of the uninsured and unemployed.
After attending the Feinberg School of Medicine, Dr. Dohner had planned to become a big-city cardiologist but moved to Rushville for what was supposed to be a short stint in small-town medicine. He never left. There is a life-size bronze statue of Dr. Dohner, who retired in 2013, in the town square.
Herbert M. Hart '51, Frederick, Md., Aug. 3, at age 86. A soldier and public servant, Mr. Hart retired as a U.S. Marine Corps colonel after 31 years of active duty.
Upon graduating from Northwestern's Naval Reserve Officers' Training Corps, he served in Korea, where he was wounded twice, as well as in the Middle East and Vietnam.
A journalism graduate and two-time editor-in-chief of the Daily Northwestern, Mr. Hart became director of public affairs for the U.S. Marine Corps and one of the nation's leading authorities on historic American forts. He wrote several books on the topic. Mr. Hart also helped found the Council on America's Military Past, a military history–historic preservation organization that he led as executive director for 40 years.
He is survived by seven children and nine grandchildren.
Helen Froelich Holt '34, '38 MS, Boca Raton, Fla., July 12, at age 101. A staunch advocate for the needs of the elderly in the pre-Medicare era, Mrs. Holt led the federal government's effort to build and regulate long-term care facilities for senior citizens.
She was appointed in 1959 by President Dwight Eisenhower to oversee a Federal Housing Administration program that gave mortgages to nursing homes meeting new, higher standards. Under her watch, the program established about 1,000 new nursing homes with more than 100,000 beds. She was so successful that she was reappointed to posts in the Department of Housing and Urban Development by six subsequent presidents.
Hoping to build homes that met residents' personal needs, she encouraged developers and architects to get to know residents in the facilities they built. Mrs. Holt also pioneered the creation of assisted-living facilities.
Mrs. Holt graduated with bachelor's and master's degrees in zoology from Northwestern and was teaching biology at National Park College in Maryland when her students submitted her photo to Life magazine for an article about teachers. Rush D. Holt, then a young U.S. senator from West Virginia, noticed the photo. His sister, a member of the same sorority, arranged for them to meet. Mr. and Mrs. Holt were married in 1941.
Mrs. Holt entered public service when she was appointed to her husband's seat in the West Virginia House of Delegates after his death in 1955. She was defeated in her bid to win the office in the general election but was later appointed West Virginia's secretary of state (1957–59), becoming the first woman to hold a statewide office. She is survived by her son, former New Jersey Rep. Rush D. Holt Jr.; David Chase, a nephew whom she raised; a grandson; and several great-grandchildren.
Dieter Koch-Weser '51 MS, '65 PhD, North Andover, Mass., July 19, at age 99. Dr. Koch-Weser grew up in Brazil after his family fled Hitler's Germany in the 1930s and started a coffee plantation in Rolândia, in southern Brazil.
After attending medical school in São Paulo, Dr. Koch-Weser earned his master's and doctorate degrees in pathology at Northwestern. As an assistant professor at the University of Chicago, he specialized in tuberculosis and immunology. He moved on to Case-Western Reserve University, where he led the Institute for Alcoholism Research. In the early 1960s he returned to Brazil as director of the Latin American division of the U.S. National Institutes of Health in Rio de Janeiro.
When he returned to the United States he joined the faculty of Harvard Medical School as a professor of tropical public health and later became chair of the preventative and social medicine and associate dean for international affairs.
He became an advocate for access to medical care in impoverished communities. With a particular focus on the AIDS epidemic in Africa, Dr. Koch-Weser consulted for several organizations, including the World Health Organization, UNICEF and the World Bank.
He celebrated his 99th birthday with family, friends and former colleagues just a week before his death. Dr. Koch-Weser is survived by a brother, Jan; two daughters, Carol-Ann and Suzanne; and six grandchildren.
Joan Miller Lipsky '40, Des Moines, Aug. 18, at age 96. A pioneering woman in Iowa politics, Mrs. Lipsky served six terms in the state General Assembly, focusing her efforts as a state representative on improving women's legal, economic and social equality. She campaigned for passage of the Equal Rights Amendment and supported educational and occupational programs for women. A clinical psychologist, she also fought for mental health and special education programs and championed the 1969 Iowa Tuition Grant legislation.
Before her election to the General Assembly in 1966, she chaired mayoral commissions in her hometown, Cedar Rapids, where was named Woman of the Year in 1979.
Mrs. Lipsky is survived by her children, Ann, John and Tad; and seven grandchildren.
Lyman Porter '52, Newport Beach, Calif., July 2, at age 85. A pioneer in the field of organizational behavioral psychology, Mr. Porter dedicated much of his life to understanding how and why organizations work the way they do.
A native of West Lafayette, Ind., Mr. Porter majored in psychology at Northwestern before earning a doctorate from Yale. He then joined the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley, where he taught industrial psychology and studied employee-employer relationships and motivation and success.
Mr. Porter moved to the University of California, Irvine, in 1967 and headed the Graduate School of Management (now the Paul Merage School of Business) as dean from 1972 to 1983. As dean, he created the MBA program and made organizational behavior a staple of graduate business education.
Mr. Porter, who wrote several of the preeminent texts on organizational behavior and became professor emeritus in 1992, received numerous awards for his work, including a lifetime achievement award from the Academy of Management's Organizational Behavior Division in 2006. He received a Northwestern Alumni Association Merit Award in 1994.
Mr. Porter is survived by his wife, Meredith; a daughter, Anne; a son, William; and four grandchildren.
Norman Runnion '51, Brookfield, Vt., June 19, at age 85. A self-described newspaperman to the end, Mr. Runnion's reporting and writing career spanned nearly seven decades.
The son of a journalist, Mr. Runnion earned his first bylines at the legendary City News Bureau of Chicago, working 80-hour weeks for $25 a week. He went on to join United Press International, reporting from UPI's bureaus in New York City, London, Paris and Washington, D.C.
He covered everything from the Cuban missile crisis to Martin Luther King Jr.'s march on Washington, D.C. As UPI's Washington night news editor in 1963, he contributed to the news agency's Pulitzer Prize–winning coverage of the assassination of John F. Kennedy. He also wrote UPI's main story on the Warren Commission report on the assassination.
He moved to Vermont in 1966, and after a stint as in public relations at Windham College, he spent 18 years as managing editor of the Battleboro Reformer.
In 1989 Mr. Runnion enrolled at Virginia Theological Seminary, and four years later he became an Episcopal priest. But he retired in 2001 and returned reporting and writing for the Herald of Randolph. In 1994 he received the Yankee Quill Award from the New England Newspaper and Press Association. Mr. Runnion, the author of Gemini: America's Historic Walk in Space and Up the Ivy Ladder, was elected a fellow of the Vermont Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1997.
Mr. Runnion is survived by his wife, Linda; a son David; and three stepchildren.
Arthur R. Seder Jr. '46, '47 JD, Williamsburg, Va., July 14, at age 95. As a student at the School of Law, Mr. Seder co-edited the Northwestern Law Review with future Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens '47, '77 H.
After graduating, Mr. Seder worked as a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson.
In 1960 he joined American Natural Gas Co., later the American Natural Resources Co., as general counsel. He later headed the Detroit-based company as president, chairman and CEO until his retirement in 1985. He also held a number of civic positions in Detroit and was awarded a key to the city by the Detroit City Council.
A Northwestern life trustee, Mr. Seder is survived by his wife, Marion; daughters Susan and Elizabeth; six grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.


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3 ETFs to Consider as NASA's Insight Blasts off to Mars
Amiya Moretta May 4, 2018
NASA's InSight spacecraft is about to blast off for Mars — and there are 3 ETFs that can help you invest in space travel. InSights plan is to study Mar's deep interior.
"Scientists with the InSight mission — its full name is Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport — hope that clues beneath the Martian surface will help them learn more about what the red planet was like in the past — when conditions could have been hospitable to life as we know it — and how it came to be the barren world we know today," according to the L.A. Times.
InSight is scheduled to lift off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in on California's Central Coast as early as 4:05 a.m. Pacific time Saturday. The trip to Mars will take nearly seven months and cover roughly 301 million miles.
Here are 3 ETFs to consider investing in if you want to invest in space. With a number of companies, these ETFs position you well for investing in both government space travel and eventually, private space travel.
ETFs with Exposure to Space
iShares US Aerospace & Defense ETF (ITA) seeks to track the investment results of the Dow Jones U.S. Select Aerospace & Defense Index composed of U.S. equities in the aerospace and defense sector. The fund generally invests at least 90% of its assets in securities of the underlying index and in depositary receipts representing securities of the underlying index.
PowerShares Aerospace & Defense Portfolio (PPA) aims to provide broadly defined exposure to the aerospace & defense industry. PPA tracks a market-cap-weighted index of US-listed stocks involved in the defense, military, homeland security and space industries.
SPDR S&P Aerospace & Defense ETF (XAR) tracks an equal-weighted index of US aerospace & defense companies, as defined by GICS. XAR takes a different approach to its target than competitors. It holds a portfolio of aerospace and defense stocks, but while the benchmark concentrates on large-caps—and the very largest names in particular—XAR aims to achieve a 40/40/20 weighting among large-, mid-, and small-caps respectively.
Click here to watch the lift off live.
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Q: $E$ is open iff union of open balls Let $(A, d)$ be a metric space and $\emptyset \neq E \subset A$ a subset. Define $B(a) = \{b \in A : d(a, b) < \epsilon\}$. Show that $E$ is open $\iff$ it can be written as the union of a family of open balls of the form $B(a)$ above.
I have a general proof for an open set involving the union of balls:

Theorem: If $(A, d)$ is a metric, then $E \subset A$ is open $\iff$ it is the union of open balls.

Suppose $E$ is open then by definition; for every $x \in E$, there is some $r>0$ such that $B(x,r) \subset E$. A claim: $E = \bigcup_{x\in E} B(x,r)$. Choose $x \in E$ then can find $r>0$ such that $x \in B(x,r) \subseteq \bigcup B(x,r)$. Suppose, by a converse argument, $y \in \bigcup B(x,r) \implies y \in B(x,r) $ for some $x$. But $B(x,r) \subseteq E$ for some $x$ so $y \in E$. So $E$ is the union of open balls.
Going the other way, suppose $E = \bigcup_{\phi} O_{\phi} $ where $O_{\phi}$ is open ball. Take $x \in E$, then $x \in O_{\phi} $ for some $\phi$. But $O_{\phi} \subseteq \bigcup O_{\phi} = E$. So, we have found an open ball inside $E$, and $E$ must be an open set.

QED.

Unfortunately I am not sure how to do the problem with the specific form $B(a)$. Can somebody show me how to do this problem? Any hints or assistance is appreciated.

A: Assuming that in your original problem (stated at the top), $a$ is a fixed point (if it is not fixed then I don't understand what $B(a)$ is supposed to denote):
The theorem is clearly wrong.
Counterexample:
Let the metric space be $\mathbb{R}$ and let $E = (1,2) \cup (3,4)$. $E$ is clearly open however, it cannot be union of family of open balls of form $B(a)$ since such a union must be a open segment centered at $a$.
This is probably not what you meant, so maybe you can edit the question to make it clear.

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Use one cup of each.
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Illustrators: Harris, Alleanna
Opening the Road
by Keila V. Dawson and Alleanna Harris
"In the late 1930s when segregation was legal and Black Americans couldn't visit every establishment or travel everywhere they wanted to safely, a New Yorker named Victor Hugo Green decided to do something about it. Green wrote and published a guide that listed places where his fellow Black Americans could be safe in New York City. The guide sold like hot cakes! Soon customers started asking Green to make a guide to help them travel and vacation safely across the nation too. With the help of his mail carrier co-workers and the African American business community, Green's guide allowed millions of African Americans to travel safely and enjoy traveling across the nation." -- publisher
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"Ella and Marilyn. On the outside, you couldn't find two girls who looked more different. But on the inside, they were alike--full of hopes and dreams, and plans of what might be"--Page [4] of cover
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Patricia's Vision
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"The inspiring story of Dr. Patricia Bath, a groundbreaking ophthalmologist who pioneered laser surgery—and gave her patients the gift of sight. Born in the 1940s, Patricia Bath dreamed of being an ophthalmologist at a time when becoming a doctor wasn't a career option for most women—especially African-American women. This empowering biography follows Dr. Bath in her quest to save and restore sight to the blind, and her decision to "choose miracles" when everyone else had given up hope. Along the way, she cofounded the American Institute for the Prevention of Blindness, invented a specialized laser for removing cataracts, and became the first African-American woman doctor to receive a medical patent." -- publisher
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Thomas Jefferson's Corps of Discovery included Captains Lewis and Clark and a crew of 28 men to chart a route from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean. All the crew but one volunteered for the mission. York, the enslaved man taken on the journey, did not choose to go. Slaves did not have choices. York's contributions to the expedition, however, were invaluable. The captains came to rely on York's judgement, determination, and peacemaking role with the American Indian nations they encountered. But as York's independence and status rose on the journey, the question remained what status he would carry once the expedition was over. This is his story.--Provided by publisher
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Universal MIDI interface for iPhone/iPod touch/iPad and Mac/PC
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using Microsoft.Azure.Management.Insights.Models;
using System.Collections.Generic;

namespace Microsoft.Azure.Commands.Insights.OutputClasses
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Wrapps around the ServiceDiagnosticSettings
    /// </summary>
    public class PSServiceDiagnosticSettings
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// The storage account id.
        /// </summary>
        public string StorageAccountId { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// The storage account name.
        /// </summary>
        public string StorageAccountName { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the metric settings.
        /// </summary>
        public List<PSMetricSettings> Metrics { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the log settings.
        /// </summary>
        public List<PSLogSettings> Logs { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Initializes a new instance of the PSServiceDiagnosticSettings class.
        /// </summary>
        public PSServiceDiagnosticSettings(ServiceDiagnosticSettings serviceDiagnosticSettings)
        {
            this.StorageAccountId = serviceDiagnosticSettings.StorageAccountId;
            this.Metrics = new List<PSMetricSettings>();
            foreach (MetricSettings metricSettings in serviceDiagnosticSettings.Metrics)
            {
                this.Metrics.Add(new PSMetricSettings(metricSettings));
            }

            this.Logs = new List<PSLogSettings>();
            foreach (LogSettings LogSettings in serviceDiagnosticSettings.Logs)
            {
                this.Logs.Add(new PSLogSettings(LogSettings));
            }

            this.StorageAccountName = serviceDiagnosticSettings.StorageAccountName;
        }
    }
}

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American Quarterly Review, Volume 17
edited by Robert Walsh
ART. VI.-Memoir of Tristam Burges; with Selections from his
Speeches and Occasional Writings. By Henry L. Bowen. Providence: 1835.
It is too well established and self-evident a proposition, that popular governments are alone auspicious to the cultivation of the art of public speaking, to require any comment or stress. At the same time it is unquestionable, that the condition of the free states of antiquity was more conducive to its highest excellence, than that of similar nations in modern days; and that the former were illustrated by more glorious efforts of eloquence, however their pre-eminence in other respects may be disputed, is a fact almost universally admitted. Milton and Tasso may stand undismayed in the presence of Homer and Virgil; Shakspeare may even command homage from Æschylus, and Euripides, and Sophocles, and Aristophanes; Hume, Robertson, and Gibbon, may be placed by the side of Thucydides, Livy, and Tacitus; the halo around the brows of Cæsar is not so dazzling as that which encircles the head of Napoleon; and the laurels which cluster about the memory of Epaminondas or Cincinnatus fade before the immortal verdure of those of our own Washington; but as yet the names of Demosthenes and of Cicero remain apart in unrivalled splendourstars of unequalled magnitude and effulgence in the firmament. None can contend with them for the palm of the loftiest species of oratory; not because the native power has been wanting to rise to their elevation, but because means of equal efficacy have not been afforded in furtherance of its exertions. The plant may have possessed as vigorous a root, but the dews have not been as refreshing—the sun has not been as genial.
The main cause of this circumstance is the pre-eminence which was assigned in ancient times to eloquence over every other pursuit. Not only did it open the sole civil road to political preferments and honours, but it was deemed the noblest achievement of human genius, and imparted the most enviable and glorious fame to him whose devotion to it was signalized by the greatest success. Emulation here was excited to the utmost pitch, for, if we may use the homely language of honest Sancho, both" pudding and praise" were the sure rewards of it alone. The tongue was the sceptre with which Pericles swayed the destinies of his country, exhibiting an intellectual dominion over freemen more sublime, as has justly been observed, than any
which the proudest despot ever exerted over his slaves; and when Demosthenes spoke, all Greece crowded to hear him. Every other study, accordingly, was more or less subservient to that of eloquence. All other attainments both, in literature and philosophy, were valued mostly as the means of reaching perfection in the
master art. By its aid alone could they be rendered available to the full extent of ambition. Through it alone could the mass be universally influenced. The press was not then at hand to lend its assistance in disseminating throughout the community the thoughts and the feelings of every one who chose to record them on paper. Written literature had little or no bearing upon the public. Manuscripts must have been too costly to be possessed in any material degree by the poorer classes of the state, who then formed its controlling power. The outpourings of the mind were thus forced into the channel of eloquence, which, swollen by all the tributary streams that gushed from the common source, rolled along in a current, " deep, majestic, full, and strong," fertilizing and vivifying the soil over which it now flowed, now rushed—although at times also, it must be acknowledged, bursting its proper barriers, and causing wide-spread devastation and ruin.
To the press, undoubtedly, is the decline of the estimation and the perfection of eloquence to be in some measure ascribed. The facilities which it affords for the diffusion of ideas, and operating upon the public mind at large, in every variety of mode, necessarily affects the value of public speaking, as far as those objects are concerned. A discourse can be heard by those alone who are assembled at the spot where it is pronounced—a volume may be read simultaneously throughout the civilized world. At the same time, this circumstance has materially conduced to the formation of audiences very different from those of antiquity; and the predominant influence of the character of the audience upon that of the speaker, has been testified by both Demosthenes and Cicero themselves. What a contrast, indeed, between the assemblies that hung upon the accents of those almost inspired men, and the congregations to whom the words of modern orators are addressed! The public harangues, with the exception of the drama, were the only intellectual food upon which the people could gratify their craving after knowledge-a prominent trait in the character, at least of the Athenians. To their assemblies they flocked with eagerness, not because it was a matter of duty or necessity, but because they were there provided with a repast in which they took the highest delight. As they frequented them for the purpose of receiving information, their minds were open to every word of the orator, by which the most potent stimulus at the moment was given to his efforts the probability of accomplishing the immediate object in view, that of infusing his own soul into his audience, and directing them at will. By the constant habit, also, of listening, con amore, to speeches, they had rendered themselves peculiarly alive to the beauties of eloquence, so as to be almost entitled to the appellation of assemblages of trained critics; the consequence of which was, that they could only be addressed
in polished and elegant phrase. Vulgarity of style would have fared no better at their hands, than it would fare at the present day, with an audience composed of Edinburgh reviewers, collected for the very purpose of criticism. The orator had to do with ears which Cicero terms teretes et religiosas ; and however pointed the anecdote may be, of Phocion's asking what foolish thing he had said when his auditors applauded, it is not equally calculated to convey a just idea. If nonsense could only have elicited the applause of the Athenians, Demosthenes and Æschines would certainly not have been their favourite orators; and Phocion himself would have disdained to speak to them, or at least have endeavoured to utter more foolish things than he did.
Such was the description of persons for whom Demosthenes poured forth his breathing thoughts and burning words; and such, to a certain extent, were those to whom Tully discoursed ore rotundo. But what now, we may ask with Marmontel, "What now, in these modern times, are the functions and the sphere of popular eloquence? Where is the country in which, when a question is to be agitated of peace or war, or the election of a magistrate, or the choice of a general for the army, a citizen may exercise the right which he possessed at Rome, of asking an audience of the people, and giving his opinion? Where is the city in which, on the occasion of every public and important event, the senate and the people are assembled as at Athens; or where the tribune is open to any one who chooses to ascend it, and where a crier is heard demanding with a loud voice, what citizen above fifty years of age wishes to harangue the people, and what other citizens wish to speak in their turn?!" No such inspiring circumstances now-a-days. The very aspect of the most important of our modern audiences is enough to chill the genial current of a speaker's soul in the very outset. It requires almost as much fortitude as the old poet deemed indispensable for the man who first dared to encounter the perils of the main, to bear up against the dispiriting influence of the spectacle presented by a legislative assemblage, in this happy land especially. It is much worse in the United States than in England, for there, if an orator is permitted to proceed for awhile in his discourse, he may enjoy the consolatory reflection, that at all events he is not a very great bore, or else he would have been coughed down; and every now and then, perhaps, a cheer from some quarter of the House may inspire the fond hope that he is not altogether wasting the sweetness of his eloquence. But in our rendezvous of talkers, commonly called Congress, when a speaker sees his audience engaged in every other way than listening to his accents; when he beholds a portion in one direction amusing themselves in familiar converse, others conning over newspapers or books, and the rest inditing epistles, or packing up and sending reports and divers other parVOL. XVII.—NO. 34.
liamentary documents to their constituents; when he surveys such a scene as this, what doggedness of resolution, what fondness for hearing the music of his own voice, are not requisite to enable him to prosecute his oratorical journey to the end? These indeed would scarcely be sufficient for the purpose, were there not another stimulus by which his tongue and his patience are rendered inexhaustible—the reflection, that although his words are falling lifeless upon the ears of his ostensible audience, they will be heard and devoured by other and real auditors in that angulus terræ, dearer to him than all the rest of the world, that chosen spot where all his hopes are centered—the district in which dwell his constituents. It is to them that the speech is addressed, as much as to the surrounding crowd; and we ask, what can be more prejudicial to genuine eloquence than such a state of things ? How can a speaker achieve the highest triumph of eloquence, the persuasion of his hearers, when his mind is distracted between two sets of auditors, of a very different character, who are to be operated upon in very different modes! The one is to be affected by the spoken, the other by the written discourse; the first fatigued by a perpetual recurrence of words of mouth, involved in a multiplicity of business, careless or restless, with their minds already complácently made up about the matter in discussion, and not to be changed but by super-human efforts, and desiring brevity in the extreme; the other, reading for the most part scarcely any other discourses than those of its representative, doing this at leisure and with the kindliest feelings towards the author, better satisfied the more he gives them, and not at all exorbitant with regard to cogency of logic or beauty of rhetoric. To adapt a discourse to both is impossible.
The main reason, however, why eloquence does not reach its highest elevation in the United States, where so ample a theatre is provided for its efforts, is the want of due training and cultivation in its professors. When we advert to the assiduous manner in which the ancient orators prepared themselves for their function; the knowledge which they deemed it indispensable to possess for its adequate exercise; the private practice of declaiming to which they resorted, before venturing upon a public harangue; the intellectual armour, in short, in which they had encased themselves, and the dexterity they had acquired in the management of their oratorical weapons, previous to entering the lists, so as to be equally prepared for attack or defence—when we contemplate Demosthenes at midnight, in his solitary cave, forging, if we may so speak, those thunderbolts which were to " fulmine o'er Greece" and the world; or, with a pebble in his mouth, to overcome a physical defect, haranguing on the sea-side the boisterous waves, fit emblems of those popular billows which he was afterwards to agitate from their inmost depths, and control with a trident as
powerful as that of Neptune, and to whose turbulence he was thus habituating himself by anticipation—when we see Cicero, after years of indefatigable study at home, repairing to Greece to imbibe at the fountain-head the knowledge which he coveted, and so employing himself there as to excite the sorrow of his Attic preceptor, by the evidence which he afforded that on his return he would complete the Roman triumph, by robbing her prostrate rival of even her intellectual pre-eminence—when we reflect upon all this, and regard the mode in which our speakers of the present day qualify themselves for the functions which they attempt to discharge, we cannot be surprised at the difference which strikes us, between the eloquence of the ancient and modern republics.
The greatest British orators, likewise, have all been among the first scholars of their day. Chatham, Pitt, Burke, Fox, Sheridan, Erskine, Wyndham, Canning, Mackintosh, were all men of whose attainments any university might be proud-minds of the most refined and comprehensive culture. The same may be said of the living speakers in Parliament of the highest eminence; Grey, Brougham, Peel, Burdett, Stanley, Macauley, Grant-to all of them the ample page of knowledge, filled with the richest spoils of time, had been unfolded, before they presumed to communicate instruction.
We suppose it would be supererogation to attempt to prove that this discipline, of which we have spoken, is indispensable for the attainment of excellence in eloquence, as in every thing else; and that he who possesses the fullest and best arranged mind in general, will be most able to give due effect to " that art or talent by which a discourse is adapted to its end." When Horace observed that
" Cui lecta potenter erit res, Nec facundia deseret hunc, nec lucidus ordo," he did not mean that a mere exclusive study of a particular theme is sufficient for the effects which he describes, but that they would be the results of a powerful knowledge of it—in other words, a mastery of it in all its bearings. And this cannot be obtained by the former species of study. So nicely linked are the various branches of human knowledge, that he who contents himself with such a practice, will possess but a very superficial and partial acquaintance with his subject, and may often run the risk of being shipwrecked in the very harbour." It was on this account that the ancient writers on eloquence, judging from the examples which they had before their eyes, insisted upon that almost impossible combination for the accomplishment of a consummate orator, which it would seem to demand as much of intellectual force to effect, as would be required of physical power to hurl the rock of Diomed, of which, now-a-days, "not two strong men the enormous weight could raise." But because all cannot be achieved,


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«Аматорський театр» — україномовний журнал, що видавався у Львові упродовж 1925—1927 років комісією товариства «Просвіти». Був присвячений питанням самодіяльного театру. У 1925 році виходив поквартально, з 1926 року — кожного місяця. Редактором видання був Семен Магаляс. Мав щомісячний додаток — «Театральна бібліотека» (редактор Григорій Гануляк).

У журналі публікувалися стислі змісти рекомендованих п'єс, характеристики дійових осіб, сценічної обстановки, мізансцен, костюмів, поради щодо техніки гримування, виготовлення реквізиту, бутафорії тощо, а також матеріали з питань акторської майстерності, режисури; висвітлював історію аматорського руху, публікував хроніку, короткі рецензії на вистави самодіяльних колективів, інформацію про нові драматичні надходження. В ньому вперше було надруковано статтю Миколи Вороного «Режисер».

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Home State Publications Page 55
Rutherford County urban area thoroughfare plan
Population, Land Use, and Traffic
Factors Affecting the Future Roadway System
The objective of thoroughfare planning is to develop a transportation system that will meet future
travel demand and enable people and goods to travel safely and economically. To determine the
needs of an area it is important to understand the role that population, economics, and land use
have on the highway system. Examination of these factors helps to explain historic travel patterns
and lays the groundwork for thoroughfare planning.
In order to formulate an adequate year 2010 thoroughfare plan, reliable forecasts of future travel
characteristics must be achieved. The factors of population, vehicle usage trends, economy and
land use play a significant role in determining the transportation needs of the area, and must be
carefully analyzed. Additional items may include the effects of legal controls such as subdivision
regulations and zoning ordinances, availability of public utilities and physical features of the area.
The first step in the development of the thoroughfare plan is to define the planning period and the
planning area. The base year for the Rutherford County Urban Area study was 1997, and the year
2010 was chosen to be the end point of the study period (13 years). The planning area is generally
the limits to which urbanization is expected to occur during the planning period. The planning area
is then subdivided into traffic analysis zones. Figure 7 shows the planning area boundary and zones.
The amount of traffic on a section of roadway is a function of the size and location of the
population which it serves. Investigating past trends in population growth and forecasting future
population growth and dispersion is one of the first steps for a transportation planner. Table 6
shows the historical and projected population trends for the Rutherford County Urban Area through
2010. A graphical illustration of the population is shown in Figure 8.
Population Trends and Projections
Place/Year 1970a 1980a 1990a 2000b 2010b
Rutherford County 47,337 53,787 56,918 60,261 62,472
Forest City 7,179 7,688 7,475 7,268 7,067
Spindale 3,848 4,246 4,040 3,842 3,655
Rutherfordton 3,245 3,434 3,617 3,810 4,012
Alexander Mills 988 643 662 709 744
Bostic 289 476 371 412 455
Ruth 360 381 366 459 507
Total for towns 15,918 16,868 16,531 16,500 16,440
Planning Area ***** % ;£ ^ j|< * 25,000 26,247 27,164
a/US. Bureau of Census, N.C. State Office State Budget and Management
b/ Office of State Budget and Management
*****Planning area boundaries have changed; therefore, previous planning areas are not an
indicator of historical trends
Title Rutherford County urban area thoroughfare plan
Other Title Thoroughfare plan report for the Rutherford County urban area
Creator North Carolina. Division of Highways. Statewide Planning Branch.
Contributor United States. Federal Highway Administration.
Subjects Traffic engineering--North Carolina--Rutherford County
Highway planning--North Carolina--Rutherford County
Place Rutherford County, North Carolina, United States
Time Period (1990-current) Contemporary
Description In cooperation with: the town of Alexander Mills, the town of Bostic, the town of Forest City, the town of Ruth, the town of Rutherfordton, the town of Spindale, the Rutherford County; the Federal Highway Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation.
Publisher [Raleigh, N.C.]: The Branch,[1999]
Agency-Current North Carolina Division of Highways, Department of Transportation
Physical Characteristics 1 v. (various pagings): col. ill., maps (some col.); 28 cm.
Format Technical reports
Digital Characteristics-A 140 p., 1.67 MB
Digital Collection Urban Development Collection
North Carolina Digital State Documents Collection
Pres File Name-M pubs_udev_rutherfordcountyurban1999.pdf
Pres Local File Path-M Preservation_content\StatePubs\pubs_udev\images_master
OCLC Number-Original 43325447
Full Text Chapter 5 Population, Land Use, and Traffic Factors Affecting the Future Roadway System The objective of thoroughfare planning is to develop a transportation system that will meet future travel demand and enable people and goods to travel safely and economically. To determine the needs of an area it is important to understand the role that population, economics, and land use have on the highway system. Examination of these factors helps to explain historic travel patterns and lays the groundwork for thoroughfare planning. In order to formulate an adequate year 2010 thoroughfare plan, reliable forecasts of future travel characteristics must be achieved. The factors of population, vehicle usage trends, economy and land use play a significant role in determining the transportation needs of the area, and must be carefully analyzed. Additional items may include the effects of legal controls such as subdivision regulations and zoning ordinances, availability of public utilities and physical features of the area. The first step in the development of the thoroughfare plan is to define the planning period and the planning area. The base year for the Rutherford County Urban Area study was 1997, and the year 2010 was chosen to be the end point of the study period (13 years). The planning area is generally the limits to which urbanization is expected to occur during the planning period. The planning area is then subdivided into traffic analysis zones. Figure 7 shows the planning area boundary and zones. Population The amount of traffic on a section of roadway is a function of the size and location of the population which it serves. Investigating past trends in population growth and forecasting future population growth and dispersion is one of the first steps for a transportation planner. Table 6 shows the historical and projected population trends for the Rutherford County Urban Area through 2010. A graphical illustration of the population is shown in Figure 8. Table 6 Population Trends and Projections Place/Year 1970a 1980a 1990a 2000b 2010b Rutherford County 47,337 53,787 56,918 60,261 62,472 Forest City 7,179 7,688 7,475 7,268 7,067 Spindale 3,848 4,246 4,040 3,842 3,655 Rutherfordton 3,245 3,434 3,617 3,810 4,012 Alexander Mills 988 643 662 709 744 Bostic 289 476 371 412 455 Ruth 360 381 366 459 507 Total for towns 15,918 16,868 16,531 16,500 16,440 Planning Area ***** % ;£ ^ j|< * 25,000 26,247 27,164 a/US. Bureau of Census, N.C. State Office State Budget and Management b/ Office of State Budget and Management *****Planning area boundaries have changed; therefore, previous planning areas are not an indicator of historical trends 35


The Cirque du Soleil show Corteo is death-defying in more than one sense.
The circus troupe's high-risk stunts are put to use for a performance about a festive funeral for a clown.
London's Budweiser Gardens will host the world-renowned circus arts show for six performances of Corteo June 13-16.
Directed by Daniele Finzi Pasca, Corteo premiered in Montreal in 2005 under a big top tent and has since been performed in front an estimated eight million fans in 19 countries.
It has been adapted to be performed in arenas and began touring again earlier this year. Tickets go on sale Friday at 10 a.m.
Corteo – which means cortege in Italian – is a festive parade imagined by a clown for his own funeral.
Corteo includes 51 acrobats, musicians, singers and actors from around the world.
Tickets: Go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. Prices start at $52. For more information on ticket prices, times, dates and the show, visit the box office, go online at budweisergardens.com, or call 1-866-455-2849.


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Five Great Quotations about Business of Writing
Delete nulls from your novel, short story
Ways to break story structure in your novel
Most novels, short stories and screenplays today follow a traditional five-part story structure, involving an introduction-rising action-climax-falling action-denouement. While dominant, this isn't the only form you have to follow as a writer. Indeed, some of the best stories and novels don't.
Be cautious about falling for gimmicks that claim to be "alternatives."
The monomyth, also known as a quest, is one of the few true alternatives to the traditional five-part story structure. Most myths and epic tales follow this structure, which record the adventure and growth of a hero by taking him through specific stages. In modern literature, it's perhaps best used in "The Lord of the Rings" series. Still, often in modern storytelling each portion of the monomyth follows the traditional five-part story structure in miniature.
Indeed, most "alternatives" to storytelling today are less alternatives than twists on the five-part traditional story structure. Such forms include:
• Episodic – This type of novel consists of several self-contained stories that when combined lead the main character on a journey. Each chapter or a group of two or three chapters may form a single episode; a good example is "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." As with the monomyth, usually each episode follows the traditional five-part story structure, and the story arc itself tends to follow the five-part story structure.
• Diary – This structure typically breaks up the traditional five-part story structure into dates, as if you were reading someone's actually diary. "Flowers for Algernon" is an excellent example. This format is more of an alternative way of presenting scenes and structuring chapters, however.
• Fate plot – Sometimes the author places the climax at the story's beginning. The rest of story is a traditional five-part story structure that essentially is a flashback showing and explaining how the climax was reached. Once the story arrives at the climax, it often is skimmed over (as the reader already knows what will happen), and the story enters the falling action/denouement.
• Zipper story – This story includes two (or more) alternating strands, with one usually as a subplot. The strands appear to have nothing in common, but with each new scene, their relationship becomes more evident until they connect in some way at the story's climax. A good example of this Fredrick Pohl's novel "Gateway." Each strand, however, follows a five-part story structure with their intersection at the climax. A twist on this is that the subplot is an analogy for the main storyline with the intersection at the story's conclusion; many episodes of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" aptly do this.
Don't be fooled by a lot of new books out there that claim they offer alternative story structures. Larry Brooks' Story Engineering and Blake Snyder's Save the Cat are among the more popular ones among them. Brooks and Snyder offer excellent advice, but they really just describe formulaic variations on the classic five-part structure of a story (such as the length of each of each part of the five-part story structure and the specific number of rising action scenes), and in the latter case, it's geared toward screenwriting rather than novels and short stories.


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Hydrogeologic framework, groundwater movement, and water budget of the Kitsap Peninsula, west-central Washington
Scientific Investigations Report 2014-5106
Prepared in cooperation with the Kitsap Public Utility District
By: Wendy B. Welch, Lonna M. Frans, and Theresa D. Olsen
https://doi.org/10.3133/sir20145106
More information: USGS Index Page
Document: Document
Plates:
Plate 1 (pdf)
This report presents information used to characterize the groundwater-flow system on the Kitsap Peninsula, and includes descriptions of the geology and hydrogeologic framework, groundwater recharge and discharge, groundwater levels and flow directions, seasonal groundwater-level fluctuations, interactions between aquifers and the surface‑water system, and a water budget. The Kitsap Peninsula is in the Puget Sound lowland of west-central Washington, is bounded by Puget Sound on the east and by Hood Canal on the west, and covers an area of about 575 square miles. The peninsula encompasses all of Kitsap County, the part of Mason County north of Hood Canal, and part of Pierce County west of Puget Sound. The peninsula is surrounded by saltwater and the hydrologic setting is similar to that of an island. The study area is underlain by a thick sequence of unconsolidated glacial and interglacial deposits that overlie sedimentary and volcanic bedrock units that crop out in the central part of the study area. Geologic units were grouped into 12 hydrogeologic units consisting of aquifers, confining units, and an underlying bedrock unit. A surficial hydrogeologic unit map was developed and used with well information from 2,116 drillers' logs to construct 6 hydrogeologic sections and unit extent and thickness maps.
Unconsolidated aquifers typically consist of moderately to well-sorted alluvial and glacial outwash deposits of sand, gravel, and cobbles, with minor lenses of silt and clay. These units often are discontinuous or isolated bodies and are of highly variable thickness. Unconfined conditions occur in areas where aquifer units are at land surface; however, much of the study area is mantled by glacial till, and confined aquifer conditions are common. Groundwater in the unconsolidated aquifers generally flows radially off the peninsula in the direction of Puget Sound and Hood Canal. These generalized flow patterns likely are complicated by the presence of low-permeability confining units that separate discontinuous bodies of aquifer material and act as local groundwater-flow barriers.
Groundwater-level fluctuations observed during the monitoring period (2011–12) in wells completed in unconsolidated hydrogeologic units indicated seasonal variations ranging from 1 to about 20 feet. The largest fluctuation of 33 feet occurred in a well that was completed in the bedrock unit. Streamgage discharge measurements made during 2012 indicate that groundwater discharge to creeks in the area ranged from about 0.41 to 33.3 cubic feet per second.
During 2012, which was an above-average year of precipitation, the groundwater system received an average of about 664,610 acre-feet of recharge from precipitation and 22,122 acre-feet of recharge from return flows. Most of this annual recharge (66 percent) discharged to streams, and only about 4 percent was withdrawn from wells. The remaining groundwater recharge (30 percent) left the groundwater system as discharge to Hood Canal and Puget Sound.
Scientific Investigations Report
10.3133/sir20145106
Washington Water Science Center
Report: vii, 44 p.; 2 Plates: 34.0 x 44.0 inches and 47.0 x 32.68 inches
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North American Datum of 1983
State Plane Washington North FIPS 4601 Feet
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World Music Day series (1) – French Café Music & Picasso's Three Musicians
June 21st is World Music Day, also known as Fête de la Musique in France, where it all started.
The World Music celebration is a great opportunity to educate and expose the public to different genres of music. A world music festival 'day observance' is a great time to give musicians a chance to share their kind of music- whether it's a folk music tradition or an innovative personal style.
This week I bring you a whole variety of music genres. I do this by means of a Putumayo world collection vis-à-vis an artwork that is representative of the featured music genre.
History of World Music Day
or Fête de la Musique
The Fête de la Musique, also known as , is a music festival taking place on June 21.
The idea was first broached in 1976 by American musician Joel Cohen, then employed by the national French radio station France Musique. Cohen proposed an all-night music celebration at the moment of the summer solstice. The idea was taken up by French Music and Dance director Maurice Fleuret for Minister of Culture Jack Lang in 1981 and first took place in 1982 in Paris.
Its purpose is to promote music in two ways: Amateur and professional musicians are encouraged to perform in the streets. The slogan Faites de la musique (Make music), a homophone of Fête de la Musique, is used to promote this goal. Many free concerts are organized, making all genres of music accessible to the public.
Two of the conditions to being approved by the official Fête de la Musique organization in Paris are that all concerts must be free to the public, and all performers donate their time for free.
FRENCH Café MUSIC
Paris has long been an epicenter for café culture, and its countless cafes have always been magnets for bohemians, artists, poets, revolutionaries, laborers and musicians. Indeed, the history of French music is inextricably linked to the cafes and music halls where popular music styles like musette and chanson were originally performed.(Info Source)
I bring you a taste of French Café Music through Putumayo's compilation and Pablo Picasso's painting called "The Three Musicians"…
Putumayo's "French Cafe"
Legends of French chanson join exquisite new voices for an enchanting musical sojourn to the cafes of Paris
Listen to a sampler of the songs on this CD
Putumayo's "French Café"
French Café is a collection of classic and modern French music that will transport the listener to the romantic streets of Paris. The album features some of the greatest names in the history of French music as well as new artists who are inspired by classic chanson, gypsy jazz and musette.
Pablo Picasso, Three Musicians (1921), Museum of Modern Art Acquired through the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest
Picasso's "Three Musicians"
(Info Source)
Three Musicians is the title of two similar collage and oil paintings by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. They were both completed in 1921 in Fontainebleau near Paris, France, and exemplify the Synthetic Cubist style. One version is currently owned by the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City; the other is found in the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Each painting features a Harlequin, a Pierrot, and a monk, who are generally believed to represent Picasso, Guillaume Apollinaire, and Max Jacob, respectively. Apollinaire and Jacob, both poets, had been close friends of Picasso during the 1910s. However, Apollinaire died of the Spanish flu in 1918, while Jacob decided to enter a monastery in 1921.
I have chosen to bring you Putumayo's French Café CD alongside Picasso's Three Musicians because they come from a distinct time in the history of France wherein the café was a place where great minds congregated. And these 3 friends: painter Pablo, poet Guillaume and artist/writer Jacob are represented in this painting, making music together. Each musician is a different character, representing each one's unique personality and life pursuit, and the music they played represents the beautiful friendship they shared that for sure enriched and inspired each other's life and works.
Check out this picture storybook:
"Paris in Spring with Picasso",
Joan Yolleck takes the reader on a trip through the streets of early 20th century Paris to look in upon their friends writer Guillaume Apollinaire and his girlfriend painter Marie Laurencin, writer and painter Max Jacob, and artist Pablo Picasso and his girlfriend model Fernande Olivier.
Learn more about the Life and Works of Pablo Picasso
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Lotus Evora, Elise, Exige, Esprit, Seven etc.
curious what is the consensus on the S260... back in 09 i think 22 were sold stateside and obviously the economic climate was to blame... but curious the thoughts concerning value when compared to say, the S240 09'..
horsepower being "eh"... do the S260's carbon interior and panels demand more in resale or as it ages that allure is lost?
I have the 09 s260. I had a 05 elise before that. So can't comment on S220, S240 etc.
I think 2010 S260 still retains the CF interior. 2011 S260, final editions, probably did not include the CF interiors.
AFAIK, 09 S260s are much sought after, as the lightest S260 compared to 2010 and 2011.
Not sure what you meant by "eh" on the hp. It's still a mighty fast little bugger on the track. Did I mention it's equipped with a accusump from factory?
i just meant the difference is negligible, and i guess 2010 does have carbon but future ones do not.
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Gulick scores DI hoops, minor league baseball jobs
(November 4, 2015) Many sports broadcasters would love to call NCAA Division I college basketball in the winter and minor league baseball in the summer. Brendan Gulick gets to do both in the same city. An STAA member, Gulick is the new voice for University of Maryland-Eastern Shore basketball and Delmarva Shorebirds baseball, the Class A affiliate of the Baltimore Orioles.
Both UMES and the Shorebirds are located in Salisbury, MD.
"I am so appreciative to have the chance to further my career in both Division I collegiate athletics and professional baseball," says Gulick. "The unique dual-nature of this opportunity was really appealing to me and I'm grateful that UMES and the Shorebirds are willing to work collaboratively with me."
The UMES job opened unexpectedly last month. Since they didn't have time for a lengthy search and they had used STAA in the past, the university asked STAA for recommendations.
"The UMES broadcaster has often doubled as the voice of the Shorebirds," says STAA CEO Jon Chelesnik. "However, the baseball team doesn't usually hire its broadcaster until after the first of the year. I suggested we could get a better broadcaster if we could get both the school and the team to approve that person before the start of basketball season. The folks at UMES worked hard to make it happen."
A 2013 graduate of John Carroll University in Ohio, Gulick has broadcast a variety of collegiate sports for his alma mater, and for Southeastern Oklahoma State University, Case Western Reserve and Baldwin Wallace. His baseball experience includes time with the Rockford Aviators and Dayton Dragons. Gulick spent last winter as the voice of University of Cincinnati women's basketball.
"I wasn't actively seeking a new opportunity, but the rare combination of these two jobs really caught my attention. After having met several people with UMES and Delmarva, I know I'll quickly find a home in Salisbury."
For Gulick, one of the exciting aspects of the UMES job is the places the Hawks play this season. Their schedule includes games at Michigan State, Maryland, Georgetown, Missouri, Kansas State and Pittsburgh.
"I think most people that get into this business want to call games in loud, crowded arenas and I'm hoping I can feed off that energy on the air," says Gulick.
Gulick has been an STAA member for nearly four years. "STAA's services have provided the framework of my career," he says. "I'm thankful to have begun using the many tools STAA offers while I was still a student at John Carroll University because it gave me a strong foundation with which to work.
"I have particularly enjoyed attending the One Day Ticket to Sportscasting Success Seminar each year because I've got to meet so many talented sportscasters who have helped me grow personally and professionally. That being said, the biggest asset in my mind is having my own professional-looking Talent Page with my resume and demos readily available. I appreciate what STAA has done in helping me build my career."
(Visit Brendan's STAA Talent Page).


Sickly Kid Buys+Rents Too Much [Book Haul] – her.commonplace.blog.
Posted on May 9, 2018 by Tamara C.
I'm not gonna take photos of ALL the books I bought, but I couldn't help but snap a few of 2 of them as they were too pretty not to!
I absolutely loved In Real Life by Jen Wang and Cory Doctrow so I knew I HAD to read this when I heard about it. It just… took me a while… that's all…. But I knew I'd love it as since it came out so many friends and book people had said they just adored it on every level. LOOK AT THOSE PAGES!!! THE COLOURS!!! ARE!!! SO!!!! VIBRANT!!!!!!!!!!
YOUR LIBRARY IS YOUR GREATEST RESOURCE!!! VISIT EVERY BRANCH!!!!!!!!
Luckily all the books I wanted were at the same branch, which IMO is the prettiest one smack dab in the center of the city in the Orchard area.
Omg the Prince and the Dressmaker looks so preeettttyyyy! Lemme know how it reads!
OH IT'S sO CUTE AND SO PURE!!!!!!!!!! It's also really pretty to hold and turn pages. SUCH THICK PAGES!!! My mum also really liked the art because she's a Francophile lol… AND THANK ♥ I miss you all so terribly, it's 2018 why can't travel be faster????????????????


I've now invested over 7,000 hours trying to turn my passion into a fulltime business — producing language-learning books and online language learning webinars. The advice I'm about to give you? It doesn't matter if your business is more of a physical product or even a service. There are some insights to starting a business that can help us all.
Most of us can get really passionate about something. If this includes you, you've probably invested a lot of time perfecting your skills in a particular area. Maybe you feel this is the right time to turn your hobby into a business. Perhaps you want to teach, offer your services, or create your own product.
But in order to build a successful business you really have to love what you do — day-to-day. After all, you'll be spending most of your time doing it. If you plan to start a pizzeria, for example, you should really enjoy pizza: that means a love of baking it, creating it, even looking at it – not just eating it.
For me, I love writing books, and I try to get better at writing by coming up with better and new ways to tell stories. When you love what you do and put all your passion and time into it, you will create a successful business . . . right? You will in an ideal world. Unfortunately, in reality, it's far from enough.
I wish passion and time are all we need, but they're just half of it. Here are some of the things I wish I knew when I first started — and others I'm still learning – that will hopefully give you the head start you need.
If your product is for everyone, it's for nobody: For my first book, I decided I wanted to write about learning Portuguese for anyone going to Portugal, Brazil, or other places where they speak Portuguese. Great idea, am I right? That means anybody in the world can qualify as a potential customer; but that's a hell of a lot of customers. How do I know where to advertise or where to even start?
Of course, one way to catch people is to use Google Ads, for example, when they search for holiday destinations — but that can be expensive. It's much better to go after a particular niche that you know where to find, and create a product that's specific to that audience.
Before you decide what you to do or make, you should think carefully about where you will find your audience and how much it will cost you to reach them. It is better to have a narrow audience — not even the biggest brands have the whole world as potential customers, and you shouldn't either.
Share your best content (for free): A lot of authors and business people are reluctant to give things away. I did too. How am I going to give away something that took me so long to make? How am I going to share my unique product with the rest of the world without charging them anything for it?
But here's the thing: giving away content is a long-term income machine and relationship builder. It's your opportunity to listen to your audience and get real feedback to use your advantage – namely, to improve your product, service, or business.
You need to earn your audience, and the best way to do it? Give them something of real value. Give more than just a freebie. Give them an experience, something they will remember. I don't know about you, but I get freebies all the time, things that I have no use for like stickers or key chains. Unfortunately, most of it is junk. But if what you're giving me is something that inspires me, helps me to solve a particular issue and is actually useful, then it is more than just a freebie; it is special and remarkable.
Put all your love and effort into something you believe in; be generous and give it away. It pays off in the log run – trust me. Not only will it build your credibility; it will establish you as an expert in your industry.
Stop being the perfectionist and ditch the micromanaging: My first book was a hard one to release. This was mainly because, to me, it never seemed good enough. I felt that I needed to improve it all the time, so I ended up spending a lot of time making microscopic changes to it.
Sometimes you just have to let go and improve things as you go, rather than getting stuck at a single task for a year. Of course, overall layout, spelling, and punctuation are important, but if your content is great, people are likely to forgive you for a missing comma.
In business, being a perfectionist is tricky, because you end up wasting a lot of time on things that are not really necessary or crucial at the moment. Perfectionism distracts us from seeing the big picture – our true goal. In whatever you do, there will always be room for improvement, but you have to draw the line somewhere.
Sometimes you just have to be brave enough to put your content out there – even if you think it can still be improved. Your first version will never be as good as the second and third, but the important thing is that you keep improving and striving for excellence.
Passion alone is not enough: So you've decided to start your own business doing something you love. There will be a period of excitement, perhaps during the first six months when everything is new and exciting. But just because you are passionate about what you do, it doesn't mean everyone else will be. Even if people love your work, they may not be willing to pay you enough to make you a decent living.
This is where you have to take the professional hat off and put the business one on. Think about prices and everything else that comes with having a business — marketing, sales, branding, outsourcing, PR, etc. – things you may not be so passionate about, but still have to be done. Your success will not be determined purely by your passion but all the other aspects a business requires as well.
Don't just be a brand — be personal: When I first started recording videos and sharing them with the world, I felt really self-conscious. My hair looked funny, I had an accent, I gesticulated a lot, and my voice sounded terrible. But let's be honest, who likes to listen to themselves? Not me, and probably not you either. So get over it and start recording.
People want to see real people, and they want to learn and buy from real people too. Think about it. When was the last time you subscribed to a generic YouTube channel? I subscribe and follow people on social media because they're personal, genuine, or have something interesting to say. Deep down, people care about people, and they will listen to your story — whatever your quirks.
Stop doing your "job" and run your business: Statistics show that 8 in 10 startups fail. There are many reasons for this, but one of the most common is a tendency to focus too much on the job and not enough on the business itself.
In other words, you can be a magnificent writer but that doesn't mean that you will sell enough books to make a living or be a best seller. Have you ever wondered how the latest "it girl" celebrity made it to the best seller charts? It's not because her book is an amazing piece of literature; it's because she has built a brand and an audience.
Creating a product is much more than just coming up with a product. You really have to understand who your audience is. At least half of your time needs to go into marketing and promoting your work — building your credibility, listening to your customers, and engaging with them.
That means finding a balance with both sides of the business. Most people have a working routine in their profession, but running a business is a whole different ball game. You are in charge, which may sound great, but you have to be the one motivating yourself, creating your own habits and work routine. This can be hard, as a lot of people starting a business also keep their day jobs on the side.
But getting into a routine isn't impossible. Perhaps you can work at your outside job in the morning and run your business in the afternoon. This often means working long hours, even weekends, but in the beginning that's what it's all about – hard graft for real gain. Get into your new habits and stick to them – or else it's hard to get things done and reach your maximum level of productivity.
Caterine Apruzzese is a writer and the author of Recipes for Visiting Brazil and Habla Ingles en Londres. After having lived in more than five countries around the world, and having to learn different languages, she co-founded Fluent Globe, an online language learning service for expats who want to unleash the riches of their new city by learning and speaking the local language. Her interests include traveling, online marketing, and entrepreneurship. She currently lives in Switzerland and she's learning Swiss German.