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1. Garlic Contains Compounds With Potent Medicinal Properties
Normal White Garlic is a plant in the Allium (onion) family. It is closely related to onions, shallots and leeks. Each segment of a garlic bulb is called a clove. There are about 10–20 cloves in a single bulb, give or take.
Garlic grows in many parts of the world and is a popular ingredient in cooking due to its strong smell and delicious taste. However, throughout ancient history, the main use of garlic was for its health and medicinal properties. Its use was well documented by many major civilizations, including the Egyptians, Babylonians, Greeks, Romans and Chinese.
Scientists now know that most of its health benefits are caused by sulfur compounds formed when a garlic clove is chopped, crushed or chewed. Perhaps the most famous of those is known as allicin. However, allicin is an unstable compound that is only briefly present in fresh garlic after it's been cut or crushed. Other compounds that may play a role in garlic's health benefits include diallyl disulfide and s-allyl cysteine. The sulfur compounds from garlic enter the body from the digestive tract and travel all over the body, where it exerts its potent biological effects.
Pure White Garlic is a plant in the onion family that's grown for its distinctive taste and health benefits. It contains sulfur compounds, which are believed to bring some health benefits.
2. Garlic Is Highly Nutritious But Has Very Few Calories
Calorie for calorie, garlic is incredibly nutritious.
One clove (3 grams) of raw garlic contains:
Manganese: 2% of the Daily Value (DV)
Vitamin B6: 2% of the DV
Vitamin C: 1% of the DV
Selenium: 1% of the DV
Fiber:0.06 grams
Decent amounts of calcium, copper, potassium, phosphorus, iron, and vitamin B1
This comes with 4.5 calories, 0.2 grams of protein and 1 gram of carbs.
Solo Garlic also contains trace amounts of various other nutrients. In fact, it contains a little bit of almost everything you need.
Garlic is low in calories and rich in vitamin C, vitamin B6 and manganese. It also contains trace amounts of various other nutrients.
3. Garlic Can Combat Sickness, Including the Common Cold
Black Garlic supplements are known to boost the function of the immune system. One large, 12-week study found that a daily garlic supplement reduced the number of colds by 63% compared to a placebo. The average length of cold symptoms was also reduced by 70%, from 5 days in the placebo group to just 1.5 days in the garlic group.
Another study found that a high dose of aged garlic extract (2.56 grams per day) reduced the number of days sick with cold or flu by 61%. However, one review concluded that the evidence is insufficient and more research is needed. Despite the lack of strong evidence, adding garlic to your diet may be worth trying if you often get colds.
Garlic supplements help prevent and reduce the severity of common illnesses like the flu and common cold.
4. The Active Compounds in Garlic Can Reduce Blood Pressure
Cardiovascular diseases like heart attacks and strokes are the world's biggest killers.
High blood pressure, or hypertension, is one of the most important drivers of these diseases.
Human studies have found Peeled Garlic supplements to have a significant impact on reducing blood pressure in people with high blood pressure.
In one study, 600–1,500 mg of aged garlic extract was just as effective as the drug Atenolol at reducing blood pressure over a 24-week period.
Supplement doses must be fairly high to have the desired effects. The amount needed is equivalent to about four cloves of garlic per day.
High doses of garlic appear to improve blood pressure for those with known high blood pressure (hypertension). In some instances, supplements may be as effective as regular medications.
5. Garlic Improves Cholesterol Levels, Which May Lower the Risk of Heart Disease
Dehydrated Garlic can lower total and LDL cholesterol. For those with high cholesterol, garlic supplements appear to reduce total and/or LDL cholesterol by about 10–15%. Looking at LDL (the "bad") and HDL (the "good") cholesterol specifically, garlic appears to lower LDL but has no reliable effect on HDL. High triglyceride levels are another known risk factor for heart disease, but garlic seems to have no significant effects on triglyceride levels.
Garlic supplements seem to reduce total and LDL cholesterol, particularly in those who have high cholesterol. HDL cholesterol and triglycerides do not seem to be affected.
When Fresh Potato plants bloom, they send up five-lobed flowers that spangle fields like fat purple stars. By some accounts, Marie Antoinette liked the blossoms so much that she put them in her hair. Her husband, Louis XVI, put one in his buttonhole, inspiring a brief vogue in which the French aristocracy swanned around with potato plants on their clothes. The flowers were part of an attempt to persuade French farmers to plant and French diners to eat this strange new species.
Today the potato is the fifth most important crop worldwide, after wheat, corn, rice and sugar cane. But in the 18th century the tuber was a startling novelty, frightening to some, bewildering to others—part of a global ecological convulsion set off by Christopher Columbus.
Fresh Onions vary in size, shape, color, and flavor. The most common types are red, yellow, and white onions. The taste of these vegetables can range from sweet and juicy to sharp, spicy, and pungent, often depending on the season in which people grow and consume them. Farmers have cultivated allium vegetables for centuries. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, China is the biggest producer of onions worldwide. It is common knowledge that chopping onions causes watery eyes. However, onions may also provide potential health benefits. These may include reducing the risk of several types of cancer, improving mood, and maintaining skin and hair health.
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Q: "Are to" and "Have to" There's a question in an exam paper to which there's only one answer:

Students ______ to make tough decisions after the final exams are out.
Between 'have' and 'are', which most suitably fills the gap?

(the tense of the passage is present - from a newspaper actually)

A: The problem lies in the words "there's only one answer". Professor Pullum, co-author of The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language, has written of the problematic nature of exam questions which require a binary choice. [See below.]
In the present case, both answers are grammatical, although one is more probable than the other.
The construction "are to" has various possible uses. Swan in Practical English Usage (p80) lists 6 of these. Among them:

Usage 1: We use this structure in a formal style to talk about
  official and other plans and arrangements.

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*The President is to visit Nigeria next month.

*We are to get a 10 per cent wage rise in June. ...

  Usage 5: The structure is used to give orders, often by parents speaking to children.

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*You are to do your homework before watching TV. ...

Both of the above uses are conceivable in the present context. Much more likely, however, is the use of have to to express a necessity, equivalent to:

Students will need to make tough decisions after the final exams are
  out.

Pullum in Correct/Incorrect Grammar-Test Items

I wish people would avoid using this sort of differential preference
  in grammar-test items, testing for knowledge of a fictive
  grammaticality distinction. If "Correct/Incorrect" test items are to
  be used, the "Incorrect" choice better be genuinely incorrect.

See also Pullum in Grammar-Test Dispute Resolution.

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An area of study in the Department of Art
Undergrad BFA
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Faculty Lecturers & Grads
Alumni MFA
Alumni BFA
Trans-Species Skins
State of Emergence – Art & Tech show
Filter Bubbles and Inequality
BioPresence – Au '15
Squint – SP'14
Stochastic Resonance – Au '13
Action Potential – Sp '13
Extract – Au '12
Updating World… – Sp '12
Twitch – Winter '12
Alumni Snapshot – Sarah Hockman
11/29/2020 11/29/2020 | Amy Youngs
Sarah Hockman, (BFA 2016) visited the Studio Practice course this semester to share her career path with us. After graduating, she researched jobs online while traveling to California in her van. Her first job was at Unity Labs in San Francisco, as a Virtual Reality Lab Assistant. Her creativity and working knowledge of emerging technologies were very helpful skills for this position.
Eventually, she sought new challenges. She had quite a bit of experience working in animation and video as an Art & Technology major, and she knew she really enjoyed it. She aimed her job search at smaller companies, which would allow her to have more creative control of projects and she found a great match as a Motion Graphics Designer at Avalanch Media in Salt Lake City, Utah. After a few years of working there, she decided to leave so she could go on a long bike trek in Spain.
With her work portfolio and a solid network, she is able to find clients as a freelancer now. Check out her website here.
Some of her advice to students included:
reinvent your brand regularly
maintain an up-to-date website
don't get too fancy with your resume
make time for your own creative projects
make sure to enjoy your life, too!
Alumni Snapshot – Charles Hairston
Charles Hairston graduated in 2013 with a BFA in Art, focused in Art & Technology. He is a Producer and Motion Graphics Designer at the Ohio Channel, a service of Ohio's public broadcasting stations. He is also the Creative Director and Founder of Faesis.
Charles recently presented his work and his career path at "Art & Tech Career Talk" for the undergraduate students in Studio Practice, taught by Amy Youngs. He discussed the work he does at his day job, how he landed that job, which began as a paid internship, and how he slowly, but surely, built his own creative content agency in Columbus, Ohio. He started before he even graduated from Ohio State University and, though he recently changed its name from Nuge to Faesis, the focus is still on producing visual storytelling content in the form of videos, motion graphics, branding, and illustration.
Charles Hairston shared his journey with the students, his philosophy of networking, and the importance of valuing – and getting paid for – the creative work one does.
An example of a video story he has made for the musician Andy Milne. His company's list of clients includes The Columbus Foundation, Making Midwest Fest, Medical Mutual, Artfluential, and The Ohio State University.
Visit the Faesis website
Visit the Ohio Channel website
Art & Tech student club hosts Multivarius Games event
Join the Art & Tech Student Club on Tuesday, Feb 25th at 7pm in Hopkins Hall room 250 to learn about Multivarius Games, a game creation company here in Columbus, Ohio. With Katie Hamill, BFA alumna of Art & Tech!
All are welcome and encouraged to join the Art & Tech student club. Come to the meetings each Thursday this semester at 7pm in Hopkins 180a, or contact Megan Wright wright.1945@buckeyemail.osu.edu.
Ruth Burke Visiting Artist
OSU Art & Tech Alumna Ruth Burke (BFA 2012) is visiting to present her recent artwork. Her work involves interspecies collaborations with animals; inspired by her relationships with them. Ruth's visit is sponsored by the Graduate Student Art Club at Ohio State University.
Susurrus 2019, by Ruth Burke
More on Ruth's Website.
Fuse Factory exhibition and workshops
Exciting events going on this month with Fuse Factory, our local non-profit organization promoting electronic and digital arts. Check out the workshops (many free for OSU students) and the exhibition Anthropocene, opening Saturday, Nov 19 at the Pearl Conrad Art Gallery in Mansfield, Ohio. 6 – 9pm.
Art and Tech alumnus Doo-Sung Yoo directed the exhibition and brought in Internationally-known artists, Victoria Vesna, Paul Catanese, and Matt Kenyon to jury the show.
Big congrats to all the Art and Tech alumni involved!
· Bill Randall, presenting artwork in the exhibition
· Andrew Frueh, presenting a workshop on 3D printing
· Jessica Ann, presenting a workshop on Electronic Art & Arduino
· Christopher Summers, presenting a workshop on Virtual Reality
· John Cairns, presenting a workshop on Video Projection Mapping
More info: http://thefusefactory.org/2016_ffe/
Machines Triggered by the Ghost of Thomas Eakins
Art and Tech MFA alum Fernando Orellana's has a solo show at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (PAFA), recently reviewed by Hyperallergic. To summon the ghost of Thomas Eakins to Philadelphia through art machines and nude models, robots are constantly sampling three different measurements: electromagnetic, temperature, and infrared. All three of these are what pseudo-scientist and paranormal researchers measure when they try to detect ghost activity.
Read more about it in this review in Hyperallergic
And visit Fernando's project webpage, His Study of Life.
Maker Faire Ottawa
Selfie Moment, by Ethan Schaefer
Art and Tech students and faculty and alumni presented work at Maker Faire in Ottawa Canada in a special art exhibition titled Preternatural, co-curated by Ohio State University Professor Ken Rinaldo and Maker Faire curator Remco Volmer. They invited artists whose works address the perspectives of animals, media and technological representations, ecosystems, futures, coevolution, symbiosis and friction between human and non-humans. These included 3D rapid prototyped sculptures, 3D animations, robotic artworks, performance and moving image art installations.
Makezine wrote a story about the Preternatural exhibition
AdaFruit wrote about Jeremy Viny and Andrew Frueh's project in the exhibition
Invited artists: Madeleine Rico, Jeremy Viny, Trademark Gunderson, Jordan Reynolds, Ethan Schaefer, Catherine Lee, Danner Seyffer-Sprague, Danielle Popp, Yoni Mizrachi, Sarah Goetz, Amy Youngs, Grant Parish, Casey Hamilton, Daniel Popp, Christine Rucker, Katherine Beigel, Drew Grigsby, Christina Howard, Kyler Holland, Maggie Barrie, Riley Patrick, Makayla Combs, Nick Cunningham, Hui Yang, Jayne Kennedy, Brandon Messner, Jacob Markusic, Brandon Ball, Michael Anderson, Leah Lafarciola, Gaopeng Chen, Jay Young and Ken Rinaldo.
Special Thanks to the United States Department of State for the generous grant allowing travel funds for these artists and to Maker Faire Ottawa for this generous opportunity as well as the Department of Art at the Ohio State University in supporting this international opportunity.
Alumni Snapshot – Gene Felice
11/12/2015 | Amy Youngs
Gene A. Felice II graduated in 2002 with a BFA in Art, focused in Art & Technology. In 2014 he earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in Digital Arts & New Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Gene Felice presenting his artwork at the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA
He is a new faculty member within Intermedia & New Media at the University of Maine where he is also developing his Coaction Lab for interdisciplinary collaboration with an ecologically minded approach. He bridges his research and practice across: Art, Science, Design & Education, developing a network of creativity, living systems, and emerging technologies. He has a hybrid practice at the intersection of nature and technology, developing symbiotically creative systems as arts / science research.
Visit Gene's website here.
Alumni Snapshot – Seung Yoon
Seung Yoon graduated with a BFA from the Ohio State University's Art and Technology area in 2010. He earned a graduate degree at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2013.
He is currently working in Los Angeles, CA at Gorilla Pictures as a 3D generalist – 3d modeling, rigging and animating. The studio is creating an animated children's feature, scheduled to come out next halloween.
MFA Student Project Selected for Development by Medialab-Prado in Madrid
11/24/2014 10/03/2020 | Christopher Summers
Art & Technology Graduate student Jessica Ann is currently in Madrid, Spain pursuing a project titled Biofeedback Cinema at Medialab Prado Comunidad. Jessica's Biofeedback Cinema is an expanded-cinema-experiment (ECE) that connects an actor's brain to a camera via an open source brain-computer-interface (BCI). The system proposed operates in lieu of a traditional cinematographer. In this case, the actor's brainwaves are dictating the final composition (camera focus, aperture, position, etc).
Jessica began development of her project in the New Media Robotics course taught by Professor Ken Rinaldo and is now collaborating with a team in Madrid that includes a programmer, a choreographer, and a video producer. You can learn more about the project and follow their daily progress here.
For more information about programs at Medialab-Prado Madrid, visit their site here.
Can You See My Screen?
Graphic Novels / Web comics class offered Spring 2021
New Topics Class: Sound and Image
Dalena Tran and Hirad Sab join Art & Tech
Cloud Crusher – Spring 2020
Art-Sci
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Grace for a New Springtime
The NCCB Ad Hoc Committee for Catholic Charismatic Renewal prepared this statement on the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of Catholic Charismatic Renewal. In March 1997 the Administrative Committee of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops approved the publication of Grace for the New Springtime as a statement of the Ad Hoc Committee for Catholic Charismatic Renewal. The statement is authorized for publication by the undersigned.
Monsignor Dennis M. Schnurr
NCCB/USCC
As part of the preparation for the Great Jubilee Year 2000, Pope John Paul II has asked the Church to focus on the role and charisms of the Holy Spirit. Our Ad Hoc Committee for the Catholic Charismatic Renewal felt it was appropriate to issue a statement of affirmation, support and encouragement to those who have experienced the release of gifts and charisms of the Holy Spirit– known as baptism in the Holy Spirit (Acts 1:4).
Specifically on the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal in the United States, we desire to affirm the positive impact this move of the Spirit has had in the lives of millions of people and through them the life of the Church.
Because we believe that God in His great love for His people continues to fulfill His promise to pour out His Spirit anew, we have entitled this statement: "Grace for the New Springtime". We are reminded of the words of Peter on Pentecost in reference to the vision he had of the future impact this anointing and empowerment by the Holy Spirit would have: "It was to you and your children that the promise was made and to all those still far off whom the Lord our God calls"(Acts 2:39).
Come, Holy Spirit, Come!
As We Prepare for the New Millennium
On the occasion of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal's thirtieth anniversary, as well as the one hundredth anniversary of Pope Leo XIII's encyclical on the Holy Spirit, Divinum Illud, we, the U.S. Bishops' Ad Hoc Committee on the Catholic Charismatic Renewal, want to affirm again all those Catholics involved in this movement of the Holy Spirit in our day. We, likewise, "encourage them in their efforts to renew the life of the Church." (A Pastoral Statement on the Catholic Charismatic Renewal, 1984, NCCB/USCC)
As we prepare for the Third Millennium, as called for by Pope John Paul II in his Apostolic Letter, Tertio Millennio Adveniente (As the Third Millennium Draws Near), we believe the Catholic Charismatic Renewal is particularly called and gifted by God to be with the Church as it prepares for the Great Jubilee and for the challenges it faces as we enter the new millennium.
In its thirty year's of existence, the Catholic Charismatic Renewal has brought personal spiritual renewal to the lives of millions of priests, deacons, religious, and lay Catholics. It has called countless alienated Catholics to reconciliation with the Lord and with the Church. It has deepened a love for Jesus and the Church among young people as well as so many others, including the unchurched.
Thus, for us, the Catholic Charismatic Renewal is one of the signs of hope our Holy Father is referring to as "present in the last part of this century" when he speaks of "a greater attention to the voice of the Spirit through the acceptance of charisms and the promotion of the laity." (Tertio Millennio Adveniente, 46)
We believe that "the renewed outpouring of the Spirit of Pentecost in our times" (cf. Called and Gifted for the Third Millennium, NCCB/USCC) is particularly present in the Catholic Charismatic Renewal and in the grace of baptism in the Holy Spirit.
As early as 1969, we affirmed the good fruits of the Renewal. Our Holy Father and other Bishops' Conferences have testified to these abundant fruits. In 1984 we wrote:
"Insofar as the Renewal makes its own what is central to the enduring reality of the Gospel, it cannot be dismissed as peripheral to the life of the Church. . . . It witnesses to elements of the Good News which are central, not optional: the covenant love of the Father, the Lordship of Jesus, the power of the Spirit, sacramental and community life, prayer, charisms, and the necessity of evangelization."
The Catholic Charismatic Renewal is, as Pope John Paul II said in 1979, "A sign of the Spirit's action . . (and) a very important component in the total renewal of the Church."
Impact of the Renewal on the Broader Church
The impact of the Charismatic Renewal on the broader Church has been significant. The Renewal has nourished the call of all to holiness as a gift from the Spirit and helped the Church come to a greater awareness and expectancy of the Holy Spirit and the charismatic gifts of the Spirit. The Charismatic Renewal has led the people of God in a revival of the ministry of healing, encouraging them–laity and clergy alike–to pray for the sick with faith and expectancy.
It has renewed the appreciation for the role of praise in individual and communal prayer and enriched the Church with many gifted musicians, music ministries, and songwriters. The Renewal has taught a commitment to the Pope, the Bishops, and to orthodox teaching. Vocations to priesthood, diaconate, and religious life have been fostered. It has called forth the gifts of the laity who are today serving in a variety of ecclesial lay ministries; e.g., in the liturgy, religious education, and youth ministry, and ministries for the transformation of the world.
Catholic Charismatic Renewal Today
Among the areas in which the Renewal continues to make an impact today are its response to the Holy Father's call to "new evangelization," the increased awareness of Mary's role in the Church and in individual lives, and in ecumenism.
The Renewal is at its best when, from its internal prayerful reflection, it looks outward to the lives of the many, both churched and unchurched, who do not have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. "Charismatic empowerment in community has supplied the Church in this country and throughout the world with a host of committed and effective evangelists bringing the gospel to persons and places otherwise without hope of hearing the good news." (Fanning the Flame, p. 13)
The witness of lives lived under the Lordship of Jesus Christ and of fervent Catholics telling others about Jesus Christ and the power of the Holy Spirit have always been and continue to be a constitutive part of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal and a fruit of the baptism in the Holy Spirit.
Baptism in the Holy Spirit is empowerment of individuals and of the Church for its mission in the world: the proclamation of the Lordship of Jesus Christ and of His power to transform society.
Authentic Marian devotion and imitation is a welcome and growing dimension of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal in the United States. Mary, Mother of the Church, who was overshadowed by the Holy Spirit "when the fullness of time had come" (Gal 4:4), will "lead the men and women of the new millennium toward the One who is 'the true light that enlightens every man' (Jn 1:9)." (Tertio, 59) It is thus with great anticipation that we find within the Renewal this joyful awareness of the relationship of Mary and the Holy Spirit.
In this moment in history the Lord has also called us all to a deepened awareness of the brokenness of the Body of Christ. In 1995 the Holy Father issued his twelfth Encyclical, Ut Unum Sint (That All May Be One), in which he states clearly that the Catholic Church is committed "irrevocably to following the path of the ecumenical venture, thus heeding the Spirit of the Lord, who teaches people to interpret carefully the 'signs of the times'" (#3).
We believe that the Holy Spirit has been poured out in our day to bring about unity of the Body of Christ for which our Lord prayed (Jn 17:21). Thus, efforts in authentic ecumenism–e.g., the Congresses of the Holy Spirit and World Evangelization held in New Orleans (1987), Indianapolis (1990), and Orlando (1995), are some of the great fruits of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal. As we stated in 1984, "we see in the Catholic Charismatic Renewal an ecumenical force in which we rejoice."
In the Sacraments of Initiation we experience the action of the Triune God. As regards the Third Person of the Trinity, in Baptism we become temples of the Holy Spirit; in Eucharist we share in the Body and Blood of Jesus through the power of the Holy Spirit; in Confirmation we are empowered with the gifts and charisms of the Spirit to be witnesses for Jesus Christ. In this statement, we want not only to affirm the good fruit of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal but also the grace which is at the heart of this Renewal, namely, baptism in the Holy Spirit, or the fuller release of the Holy Spirit, as some would prefer.
As experienced in the Catholic Charismatic Renewal baptism in the Holy Spirit makes Jesus Christ known and loved as Lord and Savior, establishes or reestablishes an immediacy of relationship with all those persons of the Trinity, and through inner transformation affects the whole of the Christian's life. There is new life and a new conscious awareness of God's power and presence. It is a grace experience which touches every dimension of the Church's life: worship, preaching, teaching, ministry, evangelism, prayer and spirituality, service and community. Because of this, it is our conviction that baptism in the Holy Spirit, understood as the reawakening in Christian experience of the presence and action of the Holy Spirit given in Christian initiation, and manifested in a broad range of charisms, including those closely associated with the Catholic Charismatic Renewal, is part of the normal Christian life.
Pastoral Encouragement
We encourage the whole Church to look into and embrace baptism in the Holy Spirit "as the power of personal and communal transformation with all the graces and charisms needed for the upbuilding of the Church and for our mission in the world." (Fanning the Flame, p. 27)
We want also to encourage those in the Renewal to continue to bring an awareness of the Holy Spirit and the gifts of the Spirit to the Church; to foster balanced devotion to Mary; to teach and grow in the discernment of spiritual experiences, and to continue in faithful cooperation with the mission and the vision of the local Church in which they serve. By its shared life, the Renewal can be an example and fostering agent of small Christian communities in the Church. Through the Cross and the "embrace of the paschal mystery" (Called and Gifted for the Third Millennium , p. 24), the Renewal can deepen "life in the Spirit."
We encourage leaders in the Catholic Charismatic Renewal to work to bring the various streams of this Renewal into cooperative unity.
Finally, aware of various pastoral concerns and needs, we want to affirm the National Service Committee and the various ethnic national service committees that have emerged in recent years; diocesan liaisons and their Association of Diocesan Liaisons; the various networks of covenant communities, such as the Fraternity of Catholic Charismatic Communities and Fellowships; and others in providing leadership for the Renewal.
In 1975 Leon Joseph Cardinal Suenens convinced Pope Paul VI of the value of the Renewal for the Church and continued to offer it guidance through the early theological documents called the Malines Documents. Even as recently as five years ago he offered his wisdom to the Renewal at the 1992 National Catholic Charismatic Renewal Conference when, via videotape, he encouraged us to open ourselves fully to the power of God, stressing that today more than ever before the world needs the witness of people open to the Spirit.
It is the Holy Father's conviction and ours that we stand on the threshold of a "new springtime for Christianity."
In Tertio Millennio Adveniente, Pope John Paul II states that this "new springtime of Christian life will be revealed by the Great Jubilee if Christians are docile to the action of the Holy Spirit" (#18), and he exhorts his "venerable brothers in the episcopate and the ecclesial communities entrusted" to us to open our "hearts to the promptings of the Spirit" (#59).
Thus, in the spirit of Cardinal Suenens and our Holy Father John Paul II, we say again, with great thanksgiving and enthusiasm, that in the Catholic Charismatic Renewal and in the grace of baptism in the Holy Spirit we see God's outpouring of a new Pentecost. This is a blessing for the Church and for the world as we near the celebration of our Lord's 2000th birthday and the beginning of the Third Millennium of Christianity. Copyright ©1997 by the United States Catholic Conference, Inc., Washington, D.C. All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.


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The Locked Door (1929)
We begin on a boat, a boat with a very long bar because it's a 'drinking boat'. Stanwyck is Ann Carter, the secretary of the father of her would be seducer, Frank Devereaux, played by Rod La Rocque who reminds very much of the wolf in the old Red Hot Riding Hood cartoon. He begins by wining and dining her, which she's initially quite happy about but gradually resists more and more. Luckily for her the drinking boat, carefully moored outside of applicable coastal limits, has its moorings cut and the police raid it in time to keep her decency intact, or at least as intact as it can be being caught up in a police raid.
18 months later she's married and celebrating her first wedding anniversary, but not to Frank Devereaux. Her husband is Larry Reagan, who seems to be quite a catch, if notably older than Ann. He's William Boyd and his younger sister Helen is Betty Bronson, and its Helen who brings Devereaux back into the story in person, though he's being brought back in anyway as the cause of a Reagan family friend's misfortune. I'm sure you can guess how. And out of this setup comes a murder mystery.
The Locked Door is of primary importance through being Barbara Stanwyck's sound debut (her second film overall), but it proves to have other interesting features. The story is overblown and overly emotional, with a disappointing but inevitable ending, but it's surprisingly solid for 1929. Like most early sound films, it's based on a play, this time by Channing Pollock, but it rattles along neatly enough to avoid the staginess of most such efforts. The sound is also surprisingly good, unlike most of its competitors. Maybe part of both surprises comes through the involvement of future legend William Cameron Menzies as what would later come to be called the production designer.
Stanwyck is assured from moment one, which is hardly surprising, and Rod La Rocque was always a great romantic villain. William Boyd is too old for the part and while he's supposed to be playing a pillar of the community he's far too staid and boring to be believable. The remaining name on the title screen belongs to the tiny Betty Bronson, only five feet tall but one of a number of silent legends in this film. She's perhaps best known today as Mary in the original Ben-Hur, which put her higher in the credits than what seemed like everyone in Hollywood. Back in the silent era though she was best known for playing the title role in 1924's Peter Pan, which she landed over such names as Mary Pickford and Gloria Swanson. Bronson didn't make many sound films.
Backing up the stars from further down the credits are other great silent names like Mack Swain, Zasu Pitts and George Bunny. Swain was an old Keystone institution playing not just cops, but supporting roles in films starring Mabel Normand or Charlie Chaplin. He later established his own character called Ambrose, which he played in dozens of comic shorts. I first encountered Zasu Pitts as a silent actress, playing the leading lady in Erich von Stroheim's Greed. However she transitioned well into the sound era, playing ditzy old maids with a delightful touch. You can see the beginnings of those characters here, in her portrayal of a switchboard operator who is eager to see her first murder. Bunny was the brother of John Bunny, perhaps American's first major comedian, playing opposite Flora Finch in hundreds of shorts in the early teens. George was a long way into his brother's shadow but he lived a lot longer and kept working though until the early fifties.
The film would be a forgettable one if it wasn't for its year of release. Any other time, this would be an average everyday murder mystery feature, that doesn't really register much. It's not good but it's not bad, it's just there, almost the definition of OK. However being that it was released in 1929, it's pretty impressive. Because of the speed at which Hollywood tried to refit itself for sound, and because it took a while to get it right, 1929 is probably the worst year for American movies since the very early days. After so many great silent films throughout the twenties, 1929 is a huge hole into which all the quality vanished. While this one really isn't great, it's a darn sight better than most of its fellow films from that year.
Posted by Hal C. F. Astell at 5:38 pm
Pacze Moj said...
You've gotten my attention with the tidbit about Stanwyck...
Is this film out on DVD or VHS?
Saturday, 06 September, 2008
Hal C F Astell said...
I'm not aware of one. Certainly there are threads on the IMDb page where people ask if anyone has a copy in the absence of an official release. I caught it on TCM where it will be rebroadcast on 18 Nov.
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Dr Monica (1934)
High School Confidential! (1958)
Counter-Attack (1945)
The Legacy (2006)
Sheitan (2006)
The Ghost Train (1941)
The Blair Witch Mountain Project (2002)
Escape to Witch Mountain (1975)
Sergeant York (1941)
The Red Balloon (1956)
Tom Jones (1963)
Cries and Whispers (1972)
Terms of Endearment (1983)
The Apple Dumpling Gang (1975)
Walk Don't Run (1966)
Heaven's Above (1963)
Fido (2006)
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Once a Thief (1965)
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Caloundra Rd on Thursday, January 24.
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Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden ist der Name eines schwäbischen Adelsgeschlechts. Das Geschlecht gehört zum Uradel im Virngrund. Zweige der Familie bestehen bis heute.

Geschichte

Herkunft

Ursprünglicher Stammsitz der Familie war eine Burg in Adelmannsfelden bei Ellwangen. Als erster Angehöriger erscheint Sigefriedus de Adelmanesvelden 1118 bis 1136 urkundlich. Die ununterbrochene Stammreihe beginnt mit Sifriedus de Adelmanesfelden, Ministerialer des Reiches, der 1236 in Urkunden genannt wird.

Der Stammsitz, die Burg Adelsmannsfelden, wurde bereits Mitte des 14. Jahrhunderts aufgegeben und fiel an die Grafen von Oettingen. Im Jahre 1882 gelang der Familie der Wiedererwerb des alten Stammsitzes Adelmannsfelden. Das Schloss Adelmannsfelden wird bis heute bewohnt.

Ausbreitung und Besitzungen

Mitglieder der Familie gelangten 1385 nach Neubronn, das sie bis 1638 hielten.

Ab 1435 ließen sie sich auch in Schechingen nieder, wo die alte Burg noch bis 1640 bewohnt wurde, danach jedoch zerfiel. Das heutige barocke Schloss Schechingen wurde 1759 von Philipp Alois von Adelmann errichtet. Es blieb bis 1939 im Besitz der Familie.

Von 1470 bis 1526 war auch die Burg Rechenberg in Stimpfach als Lehen der Fürstpropstei Ellwangen im Familienbesitz.

1530 gelangte Hohenstadt am Kocher in den Besitz der Adelmänner. Durch das 1582 verliehene Gerichtsstandsprivileg galt der Besitz als "reichsfrei" bis zum Ende des Alten Reiches 1806. Ab 1590 baute Wolf Kaspar Adelmann die dortige mittelalterliche Burg zum Schloss Hohenstadt aus. Es erhielt nach zwei Umbauten im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert seine heutige barockisierte Form um 1760. Der bereits 1549 erwähnte "Heckengarten" wurde 1756 in französischem Stil umgewandelt und 1760 mit einem Lusthaus versehen. Schechingen und Hohenstadt wurden ab 1575 evangelisch, kehrten jedoch 1636 zur katholischen Kirche zurück. Der gemeinschaftliche Familienfideikommiss – in Majoratsbesitz – der Rittergüter Schechingen und Hohenstadt (gemäß Familienstatut von 1891) ist aufgelöst. Schloss Hohenstadt wird von der Familie noch heute bewohnt. Besitzer ist derzeit Reinhard Graf Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden.

Außerdem konnten Angehörige des Geschlechts die Güter Reichenbach, Dewangen, Faulherrnhof und Rodamsdörfle (heute alles Ortsteile von Aalen) erwerben, diese wurden aber schon 1657 wieder verkauft. Wegen des Besitzes bzw. Teilbesitzes dieser Herrschaften waren die Adelmann Mitglied der Reichsritterschaft im Ritterkanton Kocher des schwäbischen Ritterkreises.

Johann Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden war Anfang des 16. Jahrhunderts Deutschmeister des Deutschen Ordens auf Schloss Horneck. Bernhard Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden (1459–1523) war Domherr zu Eichstätt und Augsburg und stand mit Martin Luther in regem Briefwechsel. 1519 veranlasste er die Schrift "Canonici indocti Lutherani" des Ökolampadius gegen Johannes Eck. Er wurde 1520 in die Bannandrohungsbulle "Exsurge Domine" von Papst Leo X. aufgenommen.

Konrad Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden (1462–1547) wurde Domherr zu Eichstätt. Er war wie sein Bruder Bernhard ein bekannter zeitgenössischer Humanist und verfasste unter anderem einen Bericht über den Reichstag zu Augsburg von 1518 und eine Schrift über die Türken (1525).

Johann Christoph Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden (1640–1687) war Fürstpropst der Fürstpropstei Ellwangen. Am 14. Februar 1680 wurde er in den Reichsfreiherrenstand erhoben. Sein Bruder Wilhelm († 1722) brachte 1675 das Erbmarschallsamt der gefürsteten Propstei Ellwangen und 1680 auch den erblichen Reichsfreiherrenstand an das Geschlecht. 1688 ließ er sich das Palais Adelmann in der Oberen Straße Nr. 6 in Ellwangen als ersten Barockbau der Stadt errichten. Zweimal verwitwet, trat er in den geistlichen Stand und übergab seine Güter und Besitzungen seinem einzigen Sohn Philipp Anton Rudolph Freiherr Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden. Dessen Sohn Joseph Anselm Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden (1728–1805) erlangte 1790 den Reichsgrafenstand. Er hinterließ drei Söhne.

Rudolf Graf Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden (1850–1900), Mitherr des Fideikommiss Hohenstadt und Fideikommissherr auf Adelmannsfelden sowie königlich württembergischer Kammerherr, erhielt am 25. April 1890 die Erlaubnis zur Führung des Prädikates von und zu durch Reskript, nachdem er seinem Bruder Graf Alfred Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden 1884 das von diesem zwei Jahre zuvor zurückgekaufte Stammschloss Adelmannsfelden abgekauft hatte. Rudolf trat 1888 zum evangelischen Glauben über. Der Stammsitz Adelmannsfelden wird heute von Martin Graf Adelmann von und zu Adelmannsfelden (* 1942), einem geborenen Freiherrn von Franz aus österreichisch-evangelischem Adel, bewohnt, der von seinem Großonkel adoptiert wurde.

Das 1856 durch die Heirat mit einer von Chlingensperg erworbene "Adelmannschloss" in Landshut wurde vom Zweig Hohenstadt 1935 wieder verkauft.

Seit 1914 bewirtschaftet ein weiterer Zweig das von der Familie von Brusselle-Schabeck geerbte Weingut Graf Adelmann auf Burg Schaubeck. Ein Seitenzweig aus Hohenstadt erbte von den Freiherren von Hake das niedersächsische Rittergut Hasperde.

Bedeutende Vertreter der Familie aus jüngster Zeit waren Raban Graf Adelmann (1912–1992), deutscher Politiker (CDU), Mitglied des Bundestages und der katholische Theologe und Schriftsteller Josef Anselm Graf Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden (1924–2003).

Standeserhebungen
Wilhelm Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden († 1722) wurde, durch Aufnahme in den alten Herrenstand, am 14. Februar 1680 zu Prag von Kaiser Leopold I. in den Reichsfreiherrenstand mit der Anrede Wohlgeboren erhoben.

Joseph Anselm Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden (1728–1805), herzoglich-württembergischer Geheimrat, Schirmvogt des Reichsstifts Ellwangen und Ritterhauptmann des Ritterkantons Kocher, wurde am 22. September 1790 von Kurfürst und Reichsvikar Karl Theodor von Pfalz-Bayern in den Reichsgrafenstand erhoben.

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Das Stammwappen zeigt in Silber einen rotbekrönten und rotbewehrten blauen Löwen. Auf dem Helm ist die untere Seite eines goldenen Siebes, dessen Einfassung im Abschnitt mit je einem schwarzen Hahnenfederbusch besteckt ist. Die Helmdecken sind blau-silbern.

Reichsgrafenwappen
Das reichsgräfliche Wappen, verliehen 1790, ist geviert mit goldenen Schildrand. 1 und 4 das Stammwappen, 2 und 3 in Schwarz ein rundes goldenes Sieb. Das Wappen hat zwei Helme, auf dem rechten mit blau-silbernen Decken der Löwe wachsend, auf dem linken mit schwarz-goldenen Decken ein nach oben geöffnetes halbes rundes goldenes Sieb, außen besteckt mit drei schwarzen Straußenfedern.

Historische Wappenabbildungen

Namensträger
 Johann Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden (1454–1515), Deutschmeister des Deutschen Ordens von 1510 bis 1515
 Bernhard Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden (1457–1523), deutscher Humanist
 Konrad Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden (1462–1547), Domherr zu Augsburg
 Caspar Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden (Adelman de Adelmansfelden, 1464–1541), Domherr und Domkustos in Eichstätt
 Johann Christoph IV. Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden (1640–1687), Fürstpropst der Fürstpropstei Ellwangen
 Franz Xaver Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden (1721–1787), Weihbischof in Augsburg
 Joseph Anselm Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden (1728–1805), Ritterhauptmann des Kantons Kocher der Reichsritterschaft
 Clemens Wenzeslaus Graf Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden (1771–1826), Mitglied des württembergischen Landtages von 1820 bis 1824
 Sigmund Clemens Philipp Graf Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden (1809–1864), Mitglied des württembergischen Landtages 1848–1849 und 1851–1861
 Alfred Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden (1848–1887), Offizier und Schriftsteller
 Heinrich Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden (1848–1920), Rittergutsbesitzer, Reichstagsabgeordneter
 Rudolf Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden (1850–1900), Rittergutsbesitzer, Landtagsabgeordneter
 Gustav Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden (1858–1938), württembergischer Kammerherr und Rittergutsbesitzer sowie bayerischer Rittmeister
 Sigmund Maria Graf Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden (1876–1926), preußischer Regierungspräsident in Köln
 Raban Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden (1877–1935), Ministerialbeamter und Diplomat
 Sofie Marie Gräfin Adelmann (1905–1993), deutsche Politikerin (CDU), Mitglied des Abgeordnetenhauses von Berlin
 Raban Adelmann (1912–1992), deutscher Politiker (CDU) und Mitglied des Bundestages
 Georg Sigmund Graf Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden (1913–1991), Präsident des Landesamtes für Denkmalpflege Baden-Württemberg
 Josef Anselm Graf Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden (1924–2003), katholischer Theologe, Rundfunkbeauftragter und Schriftsteller
 Rainer René Graf Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden (* 1948), deutscher Rechtsanwalt
 Sigmund Graf Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden (* 1950), Geschäftsführer der Schaumburger Landschaft, Inhaber des Ritterguts Hasperde
 Felix Graf Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden (* 1979), Inhaber des Weinguts Graf Adelmann

Siehe auch
 Liste schwäbischer Adelsgeschlechter/A
 Liste deutscher Adelsgeschlechter/A

Literatur

 Otto Hupp: Münchener Kalender 1901. Verlagsanstalt Buch u. Kunstdruckerei AG, München/Regensburg 1901; Seite 28.
 Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: Deutsche Grafen-Häuser der Gegenwart in heraldischer, historischer und genealogischer Beziehung., Band 1, T.O. Weigel, Leipzig 1852, S. 4–5
 Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: Neues allgemeines deutsches Adels-Lexicon. Band 1, Friedrich Voigt's Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1859, S. 12. (Digitalisat)
 Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch: Neues preussisches Adelslexicon. Band 1, Gebrüder Reichenbach, Leipzig 1836, S. 81. (Digitalisat)
 Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelslexikon Band I, Band 53 der Gesamtreihe, C. A. Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1972, S. 13–14, .
 Sigmund Graf Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden: "Ueber den Ursprung des Geschlechts der Grafen Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden." In: Württembergisch Franken. Neue Folge VIII. Beilage zu den Württembergischen Vierteljahrsheften für Landesgeschichte, Historischer Verein für Württemb. Franken, Schwäb. Hall, 1908, S. 138–140 (Digitalisat)

Weblinks

 Schloss Adelmannsfelden
 Schloss Hohenstadt
 Weingut Graf Adelmann, Burg Schaubeck
 Nachkommen von Clemens Wenzeslaus Graf Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden
 Wappen der Adelmann im Augsburger Wappenbuch von 1475 | Wappenbuch des Heiligen Römischen Reiches, Nürnberg um 1554–1568 | dito

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Schwäbisches Adelsgeschlecht

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The Films of Sergei Paradjanov
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors - Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors is a boldly conceived and astonishingly photographed blend of enchanting mythology, hypnotic religious iconography, and pagan magic. And although its unsentimental depiction of the harsh realities of Russian regional history forced visionary director Sergei Pararadjanov (The Color of Pomegranates) into direct conflict with bureaucrats then controlling the Soviet film industry, the film became an international sensation when it was released in 1964. Ashik Kerib - From Sergei Paradjanov (The Legend Of Suram Fortess, Shadows Of Forgotten Ancestors) one of the most acclaimed and experimental directors of the Soviet cinema, comes Ashik Kerib, a 19th century romantic tale evocatively brought to life. The Legend Of Suram Fortress - Inspired by an ancient Russian folk tale and adapted from the novella by Daniel Chongadze, The Legend Of Suram Fortress is a dazzling film by visionary director Sergei Paradjanov (Ashik Kerib, Shadows Of Forgotten Ancestors). The Color Of Pomegranates - Sergei Paradjanov (1924-1990) has been acclaimed as the greatest Russian filmmaker to appear since the golden age of Eisenstein and Dovzhenko. His baroque masterpiece, The Color Of Pomegranates, was banned in Russia for its religious sentiment and nonconformity to "Socialist realism"; its director, a tirelessly outspoken campaigner for human rights, was convicted on a number of trumped up charges and sentenced to five years of hard labor in the gulag. A wave of protest from the international film community led to his release in 1978.
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What is the purpose of the Secure Authentication Toolkit?
Logging in to an electronic resource with a user name and password/passphrase confirms your identity and grants authentication to access University systems and sensitive information. This makes passwords the forefront of protecting your personal information as well as the University's electronic data. Given this, the University is taking password security to another level to aid in safeguarding your electronic credentials. This will be managed through a centralized application, known as the Secure Authentication Toolkit. In addition to being the sole resource for all password activities* (such as password activation and registration, password reset, forgot your password, and password change processes), this application provides a second layer of password safety by requiring an additional authentication scheme (such as telephone numbers, e-mail addresses, and knowledge-based questions/answers) in order for users to gain access to systems and/or retrieve their password. This additional schema is known as two-factor authentication.
*Note: This will not include password reset for Office 365 student accounts and sponsored accounts at this time.
All University of Missouri employees and students will be required to complete the user registration process by the end of this fall. To register, you will be asked to provide your mobile/cell phone and an external (non-University) email account. Additionally, you will be given a series of personal, knowledge-based, questions which you will need to supply answers to. Knowledge-based questions are a secure method to confirm your online identity. They should contain information only you will know the answers to; therefore, do not choose questions where the answers are published online or readily available through social media. An question example is: What was the make/model of your first car?
Why are we requiring these additional steps?
"Phishing" is a problem experienced by cyber users across the world; unfortunately, the University community is no different. The University has investigated multiple incidents where employees have been deceived into providing their login credentials. Most often, this is a result of sophisticated phishing scams. Cyber-attackers generate spoof email messages (designed to avoid spam filters) directing employees to counterfeit login pages. Once the employee logs in, their user name and password are captured and can then be used to log in to other IT systems. When an employee is successfully duped into providing their password, they put information they access at risk. This can impact University information as well as personal privacy.
While we continuously work to combat the problem of phishing, an additional layer of password security will be added with the Secure Authentication Toolkit. This tool ensures that a password alone will not grant access to an IT system, or application; in other words, the hacker must work much harder to obtain valid credentials. While not a complete solution to the phishing problem, the Secure Authentication Toolkit will move the University in the right direction as it continues to improve its security posture.
How will the University use my information?
The University will use this information for legitimate University purposes and as required by law. The University does not market personal information to outside entities.
For students: Note that your directory information is publicly available under Missouri's open records law unless you exercise rights under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and University policy to restrict access to your directory information. You can learn about what is considered directory information and your rights under FERPA and University policy at your registrar's website: http://registrar.missouri.edu/policies-procedures/ferpa.php.
Will this slow down my daily work?
No. Aside from the few minutes it takes to register, the only additional time that will be required is upon logging in to applications that use it. The immediate use is when trying to change or retrieve your password. Given this is hopefully not a daily occurrence, the additional few minutes it takes to log in to these resources should not be a burden. Future uses will include access to myHR and other IT applications that contain sensitive data. The tool can be adjusted in front of these applications to not overburden users. Final implementation plans for these uses have not yet been determined.
What should I do if I don't have a mobile/cell phone?
If you don't have a cell phone, you can use a home phone or a work phone to access your Secure Authentication Toolkit passcode. A work phone should only be used when it is a direct line uniquely assigned to you. Make sure the number you use is one you can get to quickly in order to retrieve your passcode.
Why do I need to provide a secondary (external) email address?
A non-University email address is required in case the password to your University email address is compromised by a hacker. The secondary email address will be used as one of the options you can choose from to verify that you (and only you) are able to change your University password to a new one.
What should I do if I do not have an secondary (external) email address?
Create one! Most email services are free for use (see resources below). If you have a secondary email already, but do not feel comfortable sharing it with the University, you may create a new external email account for this purpose.
What if I choose not to register with the Secure Authentication Toolkit?
Registration will be required to access password tools as well as other University of Missouri applications in the future. If you are not registered, you will not be able to use these applications. For example, you must have registration information on file to use the Forgot Password tool in order to recover your password. If you forget your password and are not registered with the Secure Authentication Toolkit, you may be required to visit your IT Support in person with a photo ID to retrieve your password.
I'm having a hard time answering some of the knowledge-based questions, what should I do?
What is the purpose of the help desk verification question?
Some campus help desks may choose to use the additional help desk question to help verify identity over the phone. The IT support personnel cannot see answers to your knowledge-based questions, only the help desk verification question.
What if I supply an alternate phone and/or secondary email address that is incorrect?
As long as the answer conforms to standard formatting (such as 573-123-1234 or something@gmail.com), the system will accept your answer. The University does not confirm the validity of your answers. However, the next time you try to reset your password or log in to an IT system with secure authentication in front of it (myHR will be the first IT system), you will not be granted access because you will not have a way to receive the random passcode needed to sucessfully log in. You will then be required to go through the registration process again to update your information.
How do I update my information after I have registered?
You can update your information with the Secure Authentication Toolkit at any time. To do so, you will need to log in to User Registration/Manage Settings with your University username and password. Once you have logged in, you have the ability to update any of the information you self-entered during the initial registration process (such as alternative phone, external email, knowledge-based questions/answers). Modify the appropriate data and click update.
Do I need to download the mobile or desktop application?
No, an additional application is not required. However, the mobile/desktop application provides more authentication options than just text, voice and/or email messages. If you frequently log in to electronic resources which utilize secure authentication, you may find these mobile applications are more convenient than text, voice or email messages. Instructions on installing the Secure Authentication Toolkit applications are available at www.umsystem.edu/ums/is/infosec/secure_authentication_app.


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Bottlenose Dolphin Strandings Spike on East Coast
Humans and marine mammals do share common pathogens, and anyone who finds a dead dolphin is being urged to stay away from it and contact authorities
By Brock Vergakis	• Published at 6:31 pm on August 8, 2013
An unusually high number of bottlenose dolphins are dying off the East Coast this summer, the deadliest period for the sea mammals since a virus killed off more than 700 in the late 1980s, federal officials said Thursday.
Researchers are investigating what may have killed the 124 dolphins found stranded in coastal areas in the Mid-Atlantic region since July — seven times the historic average, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration officials said. All but seven of the dolphins were already dead when they were discovered, and each of those eventually died or had to be euthanized.
It isn't clear whether an infectious disease is causing the deaths; scientists plan to test blood and tissue for viruses, bacteria, fungi and biotoxins, among other things. But humans and marine mammals do share common pathogens, and anyone who finds a dead dolphin is being urged to stay away from it and contact authorities.
The discoveries have led the federal agency to declare an unusual mortality event for bottlenose dolphins, a significant designation that Congress created in the wake of the in the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill and previous dolphin kill-off.
The declaration means scientists will have access to additional research funding. That investigation and analysis by teams of national and international experts could take months or even years to finalize, and officials say there is likely little they can do to stop the deaths unless the root cause is ultimately blamed on humans. And determining a cause is difficult: Of the 60 unusual mortality events declared since 1991, causes have been determined for only 29 of them.
Among dolphins, other strandings have also been caused by trauma, starvation, algal blooms and pollution.
At the top of the suspect list for the deaths is the same disease that led to 740 dolphins dying between New Jersey and Florida in 1987 and 1988, a morbillivirus infection. Morbillivirus is found in a broad range of marine mammals like seals, and its symptoms often involve lesions appearing in the lungs and central nervous tissues. Many of the dolphins have washed up badly decomposed, and lesions have been found in some of them.
One of the washed-up dolphins has already preliminarily tested positive for morbillivirus, but officials say it is too early to tell if that is the culprit for the other deaths. So far, necropsies haven't revealed a unifying cause. The morbillivirus passes from dolphin to dolphin, and bottlenose dolphins are typically found in groups of two to 15.
"We're not saying that this is a morbillivirus outbreak," Teri Rowles, NOAA's National Marine Mammal Stranding Coordinator, said in a conference call with reporters. "But because of the size of it right now, everybody's making that link at this point. But that is not a confirmed diagnosis or cause of this event at this point."
Officials say the spike in strandings began in early July, with dead dolphins reported in New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland and Virginia. There are two different stocks of dolphins that populate that region, with the northern stock having between 7,000 and 9,000 dolphins, while the southern stock has between 9,900 to 12,000 dolphins, according to federal estimates. Rowles said the population is too large for there to be a plan to vaccinate or otherwise treat the animals.
Virginia has experienced the largest increase in dolphin strandings this year, with most occurring along heavily populated beaches at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay. Officials say the number of dolphins that have died is likely greater than the number reported, with many more likely dying at sea and not washing up.