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Review of Love and Liberation: Humanitarian Work in Ethiopia's Somali Region. Lauren Carruth, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2021, 240 pp.
McKay, Ramah. 2022, "Review of Love and Liberation: Humanitarian Work in Ethiopia's Somali Region. Lauren Carruth, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2021, 240 pp.." Medical Anthropology Quarterly: 36:2. http://medanthroquarterly.org/?p=3160.
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Love and Liberation: Humanitarian Work in Ethiopia's Somali Region. Lauren Carruth, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2021, 240 pp.
Lauren Carruth's compelling ethnographic monograph, Love and Liberation: Humanitarian Work in Ethiopia's Somali Region, brings attention to how Somali aid workers navigate the provision of humanitarian assistance in eastern Ethiopia. The book centers the experiences of Somali employees of national and international NGOs, following professional and personal trajectories and seeking to understand how situated actors define, experience, and contest the meanings of "humanitarianism" in a dynamic political context. In so doing, Love and Liberation joins a robust anthropological literature on the roles played by expatriate and local aid workers, and by aid recipients, in the construction (and sometimes dismantling) of humanitarian categories.
Carruth organizes her argument around a distinction between humanitarianism, understood as a set of abstract principles and (mostly foreign) institutions, and samafal, a polysemic Somali term that encompasses "loving, reciprocal, and expected ways of responding to others' needs" (p. 58) as well as the "enduring, political, and compassionate relationships" on which those responses rely (p. 148). As she shows in Chapter 2, samafal shapes but extends beyond formal humanitarian practice and provides a lens through which to understand "the dynamic and socially and politically embedded actions of people caring for each other where foreign interventions recur" (p. 81). Yet, although these relations and actions are essential to humanitarian practice, they often go unrecognized within aid projects and in critiques of them.
By conducting an ethnography of samafal, rather than—or as—humanitarianism, Carruth aims to highlight the "ethics, expertise, and labor" that facilitates the caring, political, and liberatory work of Somali aid workers (p. 168). She also troubles the processes through which ethnographic and humanitarian projects render Somalis as "locals"—fixed and knowable subjects, at once subordinated to ostensibly global experts and elevated as a potential salve for humanitarian shortcomings. Indeed, Carruth notes that the common critique of humanitarian action, as imposed by white foreigners and expats who breathlessly arrive in moments of crisis, fails to recognize how aid is mostly delivered "by people from the very same communities facing emergencies" (p. 144)
In many agencies, she notes, upwards of 80–90% of staff come from local or regional communities, not including the subcontractors, temporary workers, and volunteers who are even more likely to come from affected communities (p. 5). Dominant critiques of aid are therefore both important and incomplete, further invisibilizing the work, experience, and expertise of Somali aid workers. Attending to samafal, by contrast, illustrates the extractive nature of the humanitarian industry, for whom situated relationships are an unrecognized but critical resource. Her account suggests how formal humanitarian practice relies on, and extracts value from, social and political relationships that humanitarian agencies only minimally support.
Love and Liberation also builds on recent accounts of the political economy of the aid industry as it shapes and refracts racialized professional identities. Using salaries, pay scales, and per diems, Carruth illustrates both the categories of difference that structure humanitarian labor and the insultingly small amounts offered to participants in aid projects. She unpacks how hierarchies of employment and pay refract through relations of race, region, religion, and ethnicity that distinguish between expats and "nationals," as well as within national categories of racial, ethnic, and geographic difference. I was particularly drawn to her observations of how the experiences of her interlocutors are shaped by their conditions of work, including the near absence of collective representation, bargaining power, or even the ability to enforce the terms of their work contracts. These conditions are exacerbated for temporary and subcontracted workers, participants in aid-for-work schemes, and the many workers (such as truck drivers) whose efforts are essential to humanitarian projects but for whom few protections exist.
Among the strengths of Carruth's approach are a close attention to how specific political histories shape humanitarian relations. Situating humanitarian action in light of both colonial and postcolonial history, Carruth shows how Ethiopian political processes of decentralization intersect with international development practices of localization. For the Somali aid workers who Carruth follows, these efforts increase (some forms of) political autonomy and (some) professional opportunities but also reinscribe experiences of marginalization. The demand for local workers, for example, creates professional space for her Somali interlocutors but also traps them in the lower rungs of a deeply hierarchical industry. Carruth's articulation of how practices of reform can fail to challenge broader power structures also offers readers a space for ethnographic self-reflection, since many anthropological accounts have also championed the local as a site for the negotiation of aid, development, and politics.
Carruth's attention to political reform also reveals aid work to be a site of nuanced regional, national, and international politics. Carruth argues that discourses of humanitarian neutrality—often assumed to be central to humanitarian assistance—rarely traveled between Geneva or New York and eastern Ethiopia, were hardly mentioned in training materials and were worse than useless in practice. As she shows, far from being apolitical, effective aid workers were in fact "hired for their political savvy, their ability to maintain good relationships with government agencies and other powerful actors, and their personal connections with populations in need" (p. 144). Indeed, political insight frequently served as yet another local resource from which international agencies profit, as Somali actors were tasked with helping their foreign counterparts navigate the complex, sensitive political dynamics on which their work depended.
While rendering samafal ethnographically provides a compelling lens into the experiences and worlds of Somali aid workers, this approach also presents some challenges. A rich and expansive term, samafal sometimes seemed to be everywhere and nowhere; at times, it felt hard to pin down precisely what, where, or in whom it might be located. This may have been exacerbated by the book's close focus on the aid apparatus. The core protagonists in this account are doctors, nurses, aid professionals, and others in similar positions of institutional legibility. This circumscribed gaze helps avoid pathos-laden portrayals of needy recipients, a common pitfall of humanitarian ethnography. At times, though, I wished to read more about how samafal is articulated across and between the offices, SUVs, clinics, and distribution points that make up the aid apparatus and might extend into wider circles of social, religious, and political life. Quibbles aside, Love and Liberation is well written and compelling, and the book's argument is thoughtfully conveyed. Drawing from ethnographic observation and interviews conducted over a multi-year period, the book is organized around five substantive chapters. The book's clear organization and focus means that it reads well as a monograph and also offers chapters—including Chapters 2 and 3—that could easily stand alone for teaching. It is a welcome addition to graduate and undergraduate courses on decolonial approaches to aid and to the anthropology of humanitarianism and is accessible to a wide readership interested in the uses and limits of humanitarian assistance.
Review of Love and Liberation: Humanitarian Work in Ethiopia's Somali Region. Lauren Carruth, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2021, 240 pp.


EB/Streymur opened up a 5 pont-gap in the top of the table as they beat GÍ Gøta by 2 goals to 0. EB/Streymur is full of confidence and it doesn't look like anybody is capable of stopping them at the moment. Next round (Wednesday) they play ÍF, which should produce 3 more points and then EB/Streymur will be 5 points clear at the top when the league takes a short summer break. – It starts again on August 5 and then EB/Streymur will have 4 tough games in a row against KÍ (a), HB (h), B36 (a) and NSÍ (h). If EB/Streymur do well in these games, then they'll be very close to clinching the title come October 21. GÍ are slipping fast down the table as they how now only won 1 of their last 6 matches. 3 draws and 1 victory in 6 games aren't going to keep them in a medal-position.
KÍ are up to second spot in the table after their win victory over Skála today (KÍ have however played 2 more matches than B36 and NSÍ and 1 more than the rest of the field). Sinisa Jovanovic demonstrated his force in the air when he headed in the first and Christian Lundberg did what he as been hired to do when he doubled KÍ's lead in the seconf half. Although Skála reduced the score late in the game, KÍ's victory was never in any danger.
Today HB dominated the match from start to finish, but they just couldn't find the back of the net. But against run of play, VB/Sumba took a surprise lead after only 10 minutes when HB were hit on the break. Birgir Jørgensen set up Palli Augustinussen for the goal.
Marcin Dawid played a great game in the VB/Sumba goal to keep HB at bay and it wasn't until midway into the second half that HB managed to equalize after a controversial penalty which the referee awarded HB after Jákup á Borg went down in the penalty area. Vagnur Mohr Mortensen scored from the spot.
HB have taken just 2 out of 12 possible points in their last 4 matches and are losing ground on the leaders and are left 8 points adrift of EB/Streymur. Maybe HB's busy match schedule of late with the Intertoto Cup matches is now taking its toll on the table.
On a positive note for HB, they announced earlier in the week that Rógvi Jacobsen is returning from Iceland, where he has played for KR Reykjavík from 2005 until now. Rógvi, who came from KÍ Klaksvík in 2001, helped HB secure the championships in 2002, 2003 and 2004. Rógvi will be ready for HB on Sunday, when they take on B68 at home.
B68 Toftir announced just before this important match that they had parted company with coach Jóannes Jacobsen. Both clubs were in desperate need of 3 points and after today's draw, both still are, as they are both placed below the relegation-line, in 9th and 10th position in the table. B68 took the lead half an hour into the match, but ÍF levelled the score the minute after with a penalty.
The match between B36 Tórshavn and NSÍ Runavík has been postponed until August 23 because of B36's involvement in the Champions League.


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Tourist Guide's main job is to attend tourist/s in order to provide information related to the history, geography, culture, economy, society, nature etc of the place he represents or the tourist visits. You can find them in city tour coaches, at world heritage sites like forts, old palaces, temples, museums, at sights with natural beauty like hill stations, deserts, at a National Park etc.
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UN Expert Group Meeting collects testimonies from Indigenous peoples
UN Expert Group Meeting collects testimonies from Indigenous Peoples on the human rights and intergenerational health impacts of environmental toxics.Photo courtesy: International Indian Treaty Council
Implications for human rights of the environmentally sound management and disposal of hazardous substances and wastes
International Indian Treaty Council
From January 19-20, an Expert Group (EGM) meeting was held at the Centro Cultural de España in Mexico City to provide information to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the implications for human rights of the environmentally sound management and disposal of hazardous substances and wastes, Mr. Baskut Tuncak. The EGM, hosted by the International Indian Treaty Council (IITC) and the Center for the Autonomy and Development of Indigenous Peoples (CADPI, Nicaragua) with the Fund for Development of Indigenous Peoples of Latin American and the Caribbean (FILAC), provided the opportunity for representatives from 5 regions to present testimonies and community-based studies to contribute to the Special Rapporteur's current Human Rights Legal Review of the United Nations Chemical Conventions focusing on the impacts on Indigenous Peoples.
During the two-day meeting, Indigenous community-based experts and scientists shared examples of the human rights and health impacts caused by the application of banned and highly toxic pesticides, extractive industries such as gold mining using mercury, toxic waste incineration and other activities carried out in Indigenous Peoples' lands and territories without their free prior and informed consent.
Representatives of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous issues, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization and the UN Committee on Food Security Civil Society and indigenous Peoples Mechanism also presented at the EGM. The Mexican government's National Institute of Indigenous Peoples provided an official welcome statement to inaugurate the EGM and also participated for both days.
Indigenous experts shared testimonies and studies confirming the devastating health impacts of toxic contamination in their communities including birth defects, infant mortality, reproductive impairment, and cancers. Many identified these impacts as "environmental violence" resulting in extreme suffering and many deaths, especially among infants and small children. They affirmed that Indigenous women and girls are particularly affected because of the well-known impacts of environmental toxics on women's bodies and reproductive health. The disproportionate impacts on disabled persons in Indigenous communities were also presented.
Indigenous presenters insisted that drastic and immediate change was required on the local national and international levels so that the use and storage of hazardous substances could not take place in their lands without their free prior and informed consent as affirmed in Article 29 of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. They called for effective clean-up of contaminated areas, remedies for those whose lives and human rights have been affected, corporate and government responsibility to provide redress and remedy to those who have been harmed, restoration of traditional food systems and non-toxic agricultural methods, programs to address extreme poverty and the development of safe, economically viable livelihoods in Indigenous communities that are not harmful to their health or the environment.
The UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) recommended that this legal review be carried out in 2014 and again in 2016 with the assistance of the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Toxics to address the disconnect between the UN chemicals conventions, in particular the Rotterdam Convention which permits the international import and export of banned pesticides and other toxic chemicals, and UN Human Rights Norms and Standards including the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
In April 2018, the Special Rapporteur shared some of his preliminary observations at the UNPFII's 17th session "…Indigenous peoples such as the Yaqui have suffered grave adverse impacts on their health and dignity from of the ongoing use of highly hazardous pesticides. These pesticides are often imported from countries that have banned their use domestically because of uncontrollable and unreasonable risks." In this statement, he also observed that regarding the import, export, and use of toxic substances impacting Indigenous communities "there is no recognition of the right to free, prior and informed consent of indigenous peoples."
"This legal review by the Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Toxics is very important to the UNPFII and to Indigenous Peoples around the world" said Tarcila Rivera Zea, Quechua from Peru, who participated in the EGM as an expert member of the UNPFII from Latin America and the Caribbean, focusing on issues impacting Indigenous women, children and youth. Rivera Zea affirmed at the EGM that "it is time for UN mechanisms and processes to move from recommendations to implementations" and to find "new ways forward that effectively respect international legal norms and standards protecting the rights of women, children, and Indigenous Peoples". She also called upon States to take responsibility to respect the rights of Indigenous Peoples and the public health of everyone by halting the production, import and export and use of substances known to be deadly to human health and children's development, whether they are produced by industrial agriculture, mining, oil drilling, fracking or other forms of unsustainable production."
The outcomes of the Special Rapporteur's legal review will be presented at the 18th session of the UNPFII in April and also at the 74th session of the UN General Assembly in 2019.
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the implications for human rights of the environmentally sound management and disposal of hazardous substances and wastes (informally known as the Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Toxics) was established by the UN Commission on Human Rights in 1995 to examine the human rights implications of toxic and otherwise hazardous substances. The current mandate holder is Mr. Baskut Tuncak. For more information about his work including how to contribute to this current legal review, log on to:
OHCHR | Special Rapporteur on Toxic Wastes
People around the world are exposed to hundreds of toxic and otherwise hazardous substances linked to various forms of cancer,…
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About the International Indian Treaty Council
The International Indian Treaty Council (IITC) is an organization of Indigenous Peoples from North, Central, South America, the Caribbean and the Pacific working for the Sovereignty and Self Determination of Indigenous Peoples and the recognition and protection of Indigenous Rights, Treaties, Traditional Cultures and Sacred Lands.

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Publisher to exit magazine business, focus on trade books.
After putting select teen and romance titles up for sale last month, New York City-based Dorchester Media has decided to sell the rest of its magazine stable, offering up the eight magazines that comprise the Woman's Romance Group, such as 92-year-old, 250,000-circ. flagship True Story.
The move signals Dorchester's attempted exit from the magazine business. Once it finds a buyer for the magazines, the company will focus on its trade book division, which publishes romance and Western novels.
Six years ago, Dorchester published an estimated one million romance magazines per month and generated an estimated $50 million in revenue across its book and magazine divisions. The publisher says that "at its peak," the Woman's Romance Group had a combined readership of 4 million.
Last month, the publisher began fielding offers for the assets of its Lifestyle Entertainment Teen Magazine group and select romance titles, such as Black Romance. Dorchester had previously ceased publication of those magazines, which include Right On! and Black Beat in the youth category and four titles in the romance category (including Black Romance).
While the "True" magazines are still being published and are available on newsstands and Zinio, the initial FOLIO: story prompted a flurry of comments from Dorchester magazine subscribers complaining about not receiving information about the status of their magazines following renewals.
A large part of the current subscriptions were agency-generated. "We are extending subscription rights while we work on the problem," the publisher told FOLIO. "This seems to satisfy most subscribers to the present."


July 16, 2017 | 12:00 p.m.
CARSON – Longtime Rowanty Technical Center Bookkeeper Sue Upton is retiring after 41 years of service to area school divisions. She has worked at Rowanty Technical Center ever since it opened its doors. She attributes her decision to continue working at the school for so long in part to what she considers her favorite part of the job: working with the teachers and the students.
Upton is originally from Carson, Virginia, not far from Rowanty. She graduated from Prince George High School and worked at the Colonial Imports car dealership and at the Union Camp paper company before turning to the field of education. She has had a number of responsibilities at Rowanty, including ordering supplies, coding bills, handling the activity account, registering students, doing payroll, and serving as the school board clerk.
Upton said that while the operational aspect of the school has largely stayed the same over the years, the school's programs have seen some changes, and students today have more equipment they can use and more opportunities to earn certifications.
"It's a great opportunity for the students," Upton said.
In an email, Rowanty Principal Cheryl Simmers commented on the importance of Upton's role at Rowanty.
Upton has two sons and a daughter-in-law, Craig and Jason and his wife, Jessica, and three grandchildren, Alexis, Jackson, and JaLynn. She plans to spend more time gardening and possibly traveling now that she has retired.


Marylebone is known for its energy and sense of community. Many singles and families make their homes in elegant apartments, remodelled homes or terraced houses in this very cool and popular area. Residents in this community can often be found enjoying the sights on the nearby High Street or strolling around central London on lazy afternoons. Marylebone has become incredibly fashionable of late, and now houses many of the best designer boutiques, trendy restaurants and lovely specialty food shops.
This location is conveniently close to Regent's Park and ready access to transportation make Marylebone a good choice for getting acquainted with the city.


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Spiritual Adaptation
aka: Spiritual Licensee
"It's a shame that there was never a good Alien game on the NES... Oh wait, actually I take it back! There were some good Alien games on the NES! They're called Contra and Metroid! Yeah."
— The Angry Video Game Nerd (after playing the Alien³ NES game), The Angry Video Game Nerd
While a Spiritual Successor is for any plot that is reused without the same setting/characters, a Spiritual Adaptation is when the plot and even characters are used in a different medium. This often occurs because the creators in the new medium are not the same creators/producers of the original medium, which means they don't have access to the intellectual property rights of the original storyline.
It's particularly evident with video games; most people have certain movie characters with tons of potential they dream of playing as in an amazing game, yet as most movie licensed games are terrible, there's little chance of that happening. The storyline may deal with the same themes or problems faced by a very similar cast of characters, but without getting the license, the creators have put together an original work instead. Fans check out the new work, and recognize story elements from a work in a different medium.
A Sub-Trope of Recycled Premise, where it's the story that is reused for another work. A Sister Trope to Spiritual Successor (where any work that shares the same themes/creators is written in a separate universe), Spiritual Crossover (when one work has the characters encounter Expies from another franchise or work) and Recycled IN SPACE! (where the same premise from one work is also reused for a similar but distinct work in another setting). Compare Divorced Installment (where a work did, in fact, begin life as a straightforward adaptation, only to have the Serial Numbers Filed Off during production) and Spiritual Antithesis (where one work has the same characters and themes as its predecessor but done completely different). See X Meets Y, where two or more works are combined together and The Mockbuster where a work doesn't just have similar characters and plot from another work but deliberately rips it off to capitalize on its success.
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The European segment of Colin Quinn Long Story Short seems to take a lot of cue from Hetalia: Axis Powers.
There are many Dungeons & Dragons comics, but the one that captures the spirit of the game the best? Demon Knights.
There's been plenty of comics based on Star Trek: The Original Series, but only The Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye really captures the spirit of the show, complete with some similar character archetypes. Others feel that it's closest thing to the Firefly continuation that we'll never get.
Deadpool as a character can be considered something of a gun-toting, katana-wielding spiritual licensee for Freakazoid!
There has been quite a bit of adaptations of The Leatherstocking Tales in comic book and graphic novel form. The best? The Manga Shakespeare adaptation of the William Shakespeare play King Lear, where the setting is shifted to North America circa 1759 with Lear bringing Chingachgook to mind, as does Gloucester Leatherstocking and his sons the Munro sisters.
Greg Rucka has openly acknowleged that Queen and Country is a comic adaptation of the cult British Stale Beer spy TV series The Sandbaggers.
The Walking Dead (and, by extension, its TV series adaptation) is openly acknowledged by its creators to owe a heavy debt to George A. Romero's Living Dead Series and the many films that it inspired. Robert Kirkman, in the introduction to volume one, heaped praise upon Dawn of the Dead (1978) and stated that his intent was to create "the zombie movie that never ends". It even has everybody who dies come back as a zombie as opposed to just those who were bitten by one, a rule that is found throughout Romero's films but is rarely seen in other zombie stories.
Green Lantern is the best adaptation of E.E. Doc Smith's Lensman ever. Both are Science Fantasy series involving Empathic Weapons created by Sufficiently Advanced Aliens to empower champions who fight with their minds (albeit in different ways). A great many Green Lantern characters resemble ones from Lensman and the general tone of both stories is quite similar as well.
The Punisher is basically The Executioner in the Marvel Universe.
Frank Miller has acknowledged that 300 is inspired by The 300 Spartans and thus it serves as an unofficial comic adaptation of the movie albeit heavily stylized. It's got to the point where some regions simply rename the movie to have the same title as the original, as though it were a remake.
J. D. Salinger and his estate have ensured that there will likely never be an adaptation of The Catcher in the Rye for the foreseeable future. Ghost World, however, makes a great substitute, albeit updated for '90s suburbia with a female Holden Caulfield in the form of Enid Coleslaw.
Alan Moore's V for Vendetta is a comic book adaptation of George Orwell's 1984 with both stories being social satires of specific ideologies (Communism in 1984, Thatcherite conservatism in V For Vendetta) and a totalitarian political party ruling Britain with an iron fist. Unlike 1984, V For Vendetta has the dictatorship being outright overthrown by the main protagonist at the cost of his own life.
Prez (1973) has a similar premise to cult movie Wild in the Streets - a grassroots campaign helps a young man (24 years old in Wild In the Streets, 20 in Prez) become president of the United States - the similarity is very likely intentional, even if the premise is played on a Lighter and Softer angle.
Morning Glories is Lost as a Teen Drama with a complicated Myth Arc, Loads and Loads of Characters with extensive back stories, and plentiful biblical motifs.
The Unbelievable Gwenpool is a Trapped in TV Land action-comedy about a young fan who gets sucked into the world of their favorite action-packed media franchise and uses their Genre Savvy to subvert the cliches and fight the villains. Barring the Gender Flip of the protagonist and it being about Marvel superheroes instead of '80s action movies, this is the best comic book adaptation of Last Action Hero ever made.
The MagiQuest simulated-adventure franchise, although much lower-tech and modest in scale, is currently the closest that fans of Niven & Barnes' Dream Park can come to savoring the fictional mega-theme park's attractions.
Simon R. Green's Deathstalker series will be immediately familiar and fun territory to any Warhammer 40,000 player.
The Nina Wilde series by Andy McDermott, about a semi-reluctant Adventurer Archaeologist, obviously takes more than a few cues from (and frequently references) Indiana Jones and Lara Croft. However, the number of pitched gun battles in exotic locations and rare vehicles which inevitably explode makes it far more akin to the written form of Uncharted.
The Hunger Games:
It's been called an American take on Battle Royale, and for a long time, it was thought that the (then in production) film adaptation would be the closest thing that Americans had to even seeing a legal release of the Battle Royale movie.note It (and its sequel, Battle Royale II: Requiem) finally received an official DVD/Blu-Ray release in the US in 2012, twelve years after it came out and just eight days after The Hunger Games hit theaters, likely due to the popularity of The Hunger Games demonstrating to American distributors that it was no longer too soon after the Columbine massacre to release it there. The long period of No Export for You produced an Urban Legend claiming that the film had, in fact, been banned in the US. This is actually the root of the Fandom Rivalry between the two works, with fans of Battle Royale accusing The Hunger Games of being a ripoff and Hunger Games fans countering that both books draw from similar influences. And on that note...
It's also been called "The Running Man with teenagers." Both works are set in a dystopian future revolving a televised fight to the death that's used to oppress the populace, the intent of both authors being to satirize contemporary television (game shows in The Running Man, Reality TV in The Hunger Games), politics, and pop culture.
The best Dungeons & Dragons novel is, without a doubt, The Deed of Paksenarrion.
Inheritance Cycle is a medieval fantasy adaptation of Star Wars.
The improbable death scenes of Another make it awfully like a Japanese Final Destination.
In a rather broad sense, Mogworld is a pretty good novelization of Star Ocean: Till the End of Time in terms of both works being based around video game characters in a fantasy world Noticing the Fourth Wall.
Solea Razvan's A Symphony of Eternity series is a mashup of Discworld and Flashman set in a universe akin to Legend of Galactic Heroes only where magic instead of technology is used in this epic Galactic War.
The Girl With All the Gifts may as well be the novelization of The Last of Us, only with the setting transplanted to England. Both are stories about a Zombie Apocalypse caused by a fungus in the cordyceps genus jumping to humans, in which a young girl who is immune to the fungus and lives in a symbiotic relationship with it is being transported across a post-apocalyptic wasteland filled with zombies and human bandits to a safe zone where scientists will likely slice her brain open to study her immunity. Two of Melanie's protectors in The Girl With All the Gifts, Miss Justineau and Sergeant Parks, each correspond to different aspects of the protagonist Joel's personality in The Last of Us, with Justineau being the loving, adoptive parental figure and Parks being the badass killer who develops a grudging respect for Melanie. And both end with the protagonist destroying humanity's hope for a cure for the infection, while implying that the search for a cure was a lost cause to start with.
The first book of Bravelands is this to The Lion King (1994). Both include a young male lion cub being driven out of his pride (and leaving behind a close female cub) after his father is murdered by another male. The cub is saved by prey animals and is adopted by them, before he eventually ventures off on his own.
Stephen King's It can easily be read as a literary adaptation of A Nightmare on Elm Street, albeit on a slightly more epic scale, with both IT (in the form of Pennywise) and Freddy Krueger being quick-witted, Faux Affably Evil monsters that prey on children by using supernatural powers to exploit their worst fears. IT's stomping grounds of choice are the sewers beneath the town of Derry, not unlike how Freddy's go-to dreamscape is an underground boiler room reminiscent of where he killed children in life. The 1994 film Wes Craven's New Nightmare takes the influence full-circle by having Freddy turn out to be an ancient demonic entity that latched onto the Nightmare series and took the form of its iconic villain, reminiscent of how IT is something more akin to an Eldritch Abomination. Andrés Muschietti even considered having IT take the form of Freddy at one point in the 2017 adaptation of It (both that film and the Nightmare series were made by New Line Cinema), though he decided that it would be too distracting.
Judy Blume's Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing is a bit like a loose Gender Flip of Beverly Cleary's Beezus and Ramona, which was published 17 years earlier. Both books are episodic Slices of Life about an average 9-year-old protagonist dealing with the crazy antics of their Annoying Younger Sibling, whom they describe as their "biggest problem," and the climax of both involves the younger sibling destroying something that meant a lot to the protagonist (Ramona ruins Beezus's birthday cake, Fudge eats Peter's pet turtle.) Both books also spawned a series of sequels named after the younger sibling, although the Fudge books keep big brother Peter as the protagonist, whereas the later Ramona books switch the viewpoint from Beezus's to Ramona's.
Pride and Prejudice can almost be read as a loose retelling of Much Ado About Nothing. Elizabeth corresponds to Beatrice, Darcy is like a Composite Character of Benedick and Don Pedro, Jane and Lydia both correspond to Hero (Jane as Elizabeth/Beatrice's sweet female relative whose briefly loses her love because of a misunderstanding, Lydia as the one whose damaged sexual reputation threatens to disgrace her family), Bingley is like an Adaptational Nice Guy take on Claudio, the villainous Wickham combines aspects of Don John with the worse side of Claudio, and Caroline Bingley fills out the rest of Don John's role.
"The Red One", a short story from From a Certain Point of View about R5-D4, the astromech that was almost purchased in place of R2-D2, can be considered a serious version of "Skippy the Jedi Droid" from Star Wars Tales.
Austin Grossman's Crooked, a horror Alternate History of the Cold War, features Henry Kissinger as an Anti-Villain Humanoid Abomination with necromancer powers and monstrous pacts. In that sense, the novel works as a prequel to The Venture Bros., where Kissinger fills the same role.
R. L. Stine said that Goosebumps was inspired by reading Tales from the Crypt comics and watching The Twilight Zone (1959) when he was young. Various books in the series also draw influence from older works, in many cases with just punny titles but also going into plot elements in some.
Monster Blood, about a novelty slime toy that can move around and eat anything it can envelop, is the series' take on The Blob (1958), albeit with the twist that anything that consumes the titular monster blood will grow in size. A later book, The Blob That Ate Everyone, was a more straightforward homage.
Say Cheese and Die!, about a Magical Camera whose photographs show the future (including the fates of people and objects photographed with it), draws its inspiration from the Twilight Zone episode "A Most Unusual Camera".
Night of the Living Dummy, about a Creepy Doll that terrorizes children while driving others to believe that they are acting out, is the Goosebumps version of Child's Play. Stine also said that it was inspired by The Adventures of Pinocchio.
Welcome to Camp Nightmare shares its twist, that the protagonists are actually aliens who will be heading off to Earth on a mission, with the Twilight Zone episode "Third from the Sun".
Stine has said that Piano Lessons Can Be Murder, about a piano teacher who enslaves children (or in this case, their disembodied hands) to play the piano forever, was inspired by The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T.
Why I'm Afraid of Bees was inspired by the Robert Sheckley novel Mindswap.
Phantom of the Auditorium is a straightforward parody of The Phantom of the Opera.
The Haunted Car is about, well, a Sinister Car that tries to kill people, and is furthermore identified as female (it's possessed by the ghost of a girl who died when she took it on a joyride), while the protagonist is a boy who is obsessed with cars. In other words, it's a kid-friendly version of Christine, though unlike Arnie Cunningham, Mitchell Moinian doesn't become a co-villain himself.
Calling All Creeps is rather like a kid-friendly version of Carrie.
Diary of a Wimpy Kid is often seen as a children's novel version of Malcolm in the Middle.
The Dresden Files is probably the closest thing people will ever get to a novel series adaptation of Old World of Darkness. Alternatively, it works as a pretty damn good book series adaptation of Angel (albeit being made even Darker and Edgier than Angel already was, along with having a less adversarial perspective on religion).
Thanks in large part to how the whole series was originally conceived as "Lost Roman Legion meets Pokémon," Codex Alera can be seen as basically the ancient Roman equivalent to Avatar: The Last Airbender, particularly in how in-depth the series is in examining how Elemental Powers has impacted the everyday society of the Alerans.
Songs from the Mountain by Dirk Powell, Tim O'Brien, and John Herrmann was inspired by Cold Mountain, and originally was to have been titled after it before much legal wrangling with the rights holders intervened.
"Bullet Time" by Tom Smith is The Punisher (2004) as a song. Both are about cops who lose their careers and families to the local crime bosses, and become shells of their former selves as they become homicidal vigilantes.
Mayday Parade's "Terrible Things" is frequently associated with CLANNAD. It's about a formerly Happily Married man telling his son about his wife who died of a terminal illness years ago.
LeaF's Surprise Creepy song "MopeMope" is practically a music version of Eversion, featuring what appears to be cute flowery scenery at first and an accompanying jingle that suddenly pulls a complete 180 and turns into a hellscape of otherworldly horrors and nasty music. Both works' creators had to slap on content warnings to make it extra clear that they're not suitable for kids. Its apperance in Muse Dash even features the game scenery randomly "everting" between different kinds, like in early versions of Eversion World 8.
Soramafuurasaka's RPG , despite the Nintendo inspired imagery, actually describes a typical Diablo II session, and it also pass as one to Diab LOL as well.
Both Tee'd Off and No Good Gofers strongly invoke Caddyshack, given they all feature golfers pitted against annoying gophers. Someone even modified a Gofers table into Caddyshack by repainting the cabinet and backglass.
Hollywood Heat is so close to Miami Vice that it falls into The Mockbuster as a result.
F-14 Tomcat wants to be Top Gun with more combat, while Gold Wings goes straight into being a shameless mockbuster.
It's difficult to play Cirqus Voltaire and not be reminded of Cirque du Soleil.
Inadvertently done with Attack from Mars; it's highly reminiscent of Mars Attacks!, even though Word of Saint Paul insists it's a case of parallel development instead.
Deliberately invoked with Slick Chick, which was created to capitalize on the then-popularity of Hugh Hefner's Playboy Key Clubs.
Also deliberately invoked in Gottlieb's Mayfair, which is based on the film version of My Fair Lady.
Gottlieb's Raven tried to be this for Rambo: First Blood Part II.
Sega's Sapporo, a pinball game with a skiing theme, was released just before the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo, Japan.
Invoked in Vacation America, which features some very strong parallels to National Lampoon's Vacation.
America's Most Haunted and Bone Busters are both inspired by Ghostbusters.
Elvira's House of Horrors is sometimes considered a spiritual Mystery Science Theater 3000 game, as several of the Public Domain Feature Films it utilizesnote Specifically, Attack of the Giant Leeches, Eegah!, Hercules and the Captive Women, Manos: The Hands of Fate, Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, Teenagers from Outer Space, The Brain That Wouldn't Die, The Giant Gila Monster, The Killer Shrews, and Tormented were also riffed on by the latter show.
The forum roleplay Survival of the Fittest, in which a high school class is kidnapped, fitted with explosive collars, brought to an island, and forced to fight to the death, is openly stated by its creators to be inspired by Battle Royale, albeit with the villains being a terrorist organization instead of an authoritarian government.
Heavy Gear is an Armored Trooper VOTOMS game with the setting of Fang of the Sun Dougram.
If there was ever a tabletop game version of Watership Down, it would be called Bunnies & Burrows.
Warhammer 40,000:
The Space Marines come almost prepackaged from Robert A. Heinlein. In this case, they double as a Spiritual Antithesis, considering the franchise's very different outlook on Heinlein's militarism.
Furthermore, calling Warhammer 40,000 an expanded adaptation of the Nemesis the Warlock universe wouldn't be too far off the mark. Later publications from the two even started to share writers.
F.A.T.A.L. is... well, let's be fair. FATAL is probably the worst Berserk RPG ever made, but it's still the closest we'll ever come to a Berserk RPG.
The board game Thunder Road , the "ram and wreck survival game", is about driving through the desert and fighting with the other drivers. The publishers clearly wanted us to think of Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior.
Dungeon Lords is Dungeon Keeper: The Board Game.
In the opening to their RPGnet review of the World of Darkness ripoff Vampire: Undeath, reviewers Darren MacLennan and Wil Hutton argue that many tabletop games are, in some way, heavily inspired by properties from other media. They cite Dungeons & Dragons as owing a heavy debt to The Lord of the Rings (with treants and halflings as, respectively, ents and hobbits), the World of Darkness as inspired by the works of Anne Rice, and Underground as a stealth adaptation of Marshal Law.
The board game Steampunk Rally is Wacky Races, but Steampunk, and starring history's greatest inventors.
Werewolf: The Apocalypse is a significantly Darker and Edgier Captain Planet and the Planeteers, given that it's about magical beings tasked by Gaia to battle deformed madmen polluting the Earth For the Evulz.
GURPS Reign of Steel is very obviously inspired by the Terminator franchise.
Nemesis is a board game adaptation of Alien in all but name. Its Carnomorphs expansion switches to being a board game adaptation of Dead Space in all but name.
The Yu-Gi-Oh! card game has the World Legacy archetype and its related archetypes, which are based on JRPG characters. The story connecting them all has plenty of similarities to Xenoblade Chronicles in particular.
The British Boarding School RPGs The Skool Rools (Phil Masters, 1994) and Hellcats & Hockeysticks (Andrew Peregrine, 2009) are very much inspired by molesworth and St. Trinian's respectively.
Fading Suns with its Feudal Future and Fantastic Catholicism serves as one for Dune and The Book of the New Sun.
Ever wonder what Romeo and Juliet would look like as a musical set in working-class 1950s New York, with the Montagues and Capulets replaced with rival street gangs? Watch West Side Story and find out.
This happens frequently with the haunted houses at Universal Studios' Halloween Horror Nights event when they don't own the property the house is based on, especially in its earlier years in the 90s and 00s. These days, they're more likely to officially license the property to make a house out of, though the rights to some may be held by other theme parks (namely Disney and Six Flags).
The RUN series of houses is big on this. The first one from 2001 is this to The Running Man, while the sequel house RUN: Hostile Territory from 2005 is based more on Hostel. The 2015 house RUN: Blood, Sweat, and Fears makes the Running Man influence even more blatant with its '80s retro-apocalypse setting, while also drawing inspiration from The Hunger Games (itself often seen as a YA version of The Running Man; see Literature above).
2004's Horror In Wax is this to House of Wax (1953).
2005's Demon Cantina is this to From Dusk Till Dawn. They eventually got a From Dusk Till Dawn house in 2014, albeit based on its TV adaptation.
2008's Interstellar Terror is this to Event Horizon.
2010's Legendary Truth: The Wyandot Estate is this to The Legend of Hell House.
2011's The Forsaken is this to The Fog.
The "Body Collectors" are strongly based off of the Gentlemen from the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "Hush".
Universal will likely never be able to use The Joker or Harley Quinn at their parks (not with Six Flags holding the rights to use DC Comics characters), but for the time being, they have Jack and his sidekick Chance, the Monster Clowns who delight in terrorizing, torturing, and killing people with sick games. Chance's 2015 redesign especially is almost a dead ringer for Harley in the Batman: Arkham Series. This became even more apparent when Chance was made the icon of the event in 2016, the same year that Suicide Squad (2016) was released, a decision that many fans believe was made in part to capitalize off of Margot Robbie's popular take on Harley Quinn in that film.
Years before Universal Japan would open Super Nintendo World, they essentially adapted Super Mario Galaxy into the original attraction Space Fantasy: The Ride, a whimsical science fantasy ride where guests help a cosmic princess and her adorable starry sidekicks save the solar system.
Monster High has been described as the closest fans will ever get to a Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School franchise.
The Grossery Gang action figures in the Putrid Power lineup are often favorably compared to Food Fighters, an 80s action figure line that didn't have any supplemental media to back it up enough to survive longer. The comparison was pushed even further with the Bug Strike wave of action figures, which gave the characters army outfits.
The Transformers: BotBots line is often compared to the "Changeables" line of Happy Meal toys from McDonald's, being robots that transform from food items.
The toyline that spawned LEGO Elves: Secrets of Elvendale could easily be considered the closest thing to a Labyrinth LEGO set we have, since it focuses on a teenage girl going on a quest to rescue her younger sibling from a handsome goblin king.
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The Newgrounds flash game Super Adventure Pals is the best Adventure Time platformer that you'll find on the web that isn't actually a licensed Adventure Time game.
Alvin-Earthworm stated that the Super Mario Bros. Z reboot is, scale-wise, inspired by Asura's Wrath.
Do you wish The Law of Ueki had more chapters/episodes? You can always watch the countless stick fight animations on YouTube to quench that thirst.
DEATH BATTLE! can be seen as a modern, animated successor to the '90s website WWWF Grudge Match , which pit characters from pop culture against each other in hypothetical battles to the death.
In many ways, Happy Tree Friends is the real life version of the The Itchy & Scratchy Show segments from The Simpsons, both being parodies of classic American animation where the Amusing Injuries are depicted with the gore that would result in real life. The only thing is that while Itchy & Scratchy is presented In-Universe as a children's show (as befitting the satire of The Simpsons), Happy Tree Friends is pretty much meant for adults.
Wolf Song: The Movie is a lot like a Survivor Dogs fan-film based around a bunch of original characters. They both involve canines in the wild, feature a lot of bloody fighting, and have similar lore.
As several fans have pointed out , "The Lost Fable" from RWBY makes for a surprisingly good animated adaptation of The Silmarillion. What certainly helps are the numerous parallels between the two work's respective Big Bads of Salem and Sauron.
El Goonish Shive: Played for Laughs with the Fantasy Wasteland NP arc, which is effectively a Spiritual Adaptation of Bethesda Western RPGs - specifically, it feels like a slurry of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Fallout 3.
Kill Six Billion Demons is effectively a Planescape comic in all but name. Not only does it feature an identical premise (Portal Crossroad World in the middle of The Multiverse) and share a genre with it, but many of the races and characters are quite evocative of ones from Planescape, and the art style has a similar Dungeon Punk look. The main story even kinda feels like a Deconstruction of the old "what would happen if the Lady of Pain died?" fanfic plot.
Pixie and Brutus: The comics, which are the amusing and WAFFy adventures of a soft-hearted tough dog with a Roman name and an innocent Cute Kitten, resembles the Looney Tunes short "Feed the Kitty".
The Order of the Stick: Following its Cerebus Syndrome, OotS can be considered the best unofficial Discworld comic ever created: Both are Dungeon Punk Affectionate Parodies of archetypical fantasy stories set in a unique Constructed World presided over by Physical Gods, and use their setting to critique and satirize serious real-world societal issues while never forgetting to cheerfully indulge in either Surreal Humor or a Hurricane of Puns — all of which is almost always noted and lampshaded by the cast of Genre Savvy main characters.
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In-Universe, this occurs in The Nostalgia Critic's review of The Princess Diaries 2, when Benny the assassin says he didn't know they made a video game of The Purge, but the Nostalgia Critic says it's actually Grand Theft Auto VI.
Discussed in Honest Trailers (see under "Animated Films"):
Epic Voice Guy: And don't tell me there's no way to make a good Fantastic Four movie! It's called The Incredibles, and it's perfect!
Creep Catchers: Inspired by Dateline's To Catch a Predator. A Canadian grassroots movement (not so much an organization) dedicated to confronting would be child predators. As with Dateline, they pose as children in chatrooms and wait for would be "creeps" to take the bait and arrange a meeting. They will film their encounter and often aggressively persuade the "creep" to own up to their actions in light of the evidence in the chatlogs. The encounter is then posted on social media such as Facebook and Youtube as a shaming tactic. Their encounters with said "creeps" can get confrontational and some of the members have been charged with assault. They are especially noted for the theme song that was created by K-Blitz and adopted by individuals who act as creep catchers. Several individual unaffiliated groups use the name "Creep Catchers". Justin Payne, calls his operation P.O.P or "Prey on Predators" but still has used the K-Blitz theme song.
Like the aforementioned Death Battle, Epic Rap Battles of History can also be seen as an updating of WWWF Grudge Match for the YouTube age in how it pits both historic figures and pop culture icons against each other, though here, it's done through Battle Rapping rather than an Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny.
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#GodMode: 48 Hour Art Hack Day
at 319 Scholes
By Marina Galperina	| March 13, 2013 - 05:00PM
"I wanted to create a game that touched infinity," Jonathan Minard explains. We're in the dark lower level of 319 Scholes at the opening Art Hack Day: God Mode. To his right, bio-glitch artists in lab-coats explain How to be Anonymous in the Age of the DNA Surveillance. Behind him, visitors wave their arms, commanding mountains to morph and ebb on screen.
Everyone is God.
I put on Minard's headphones and maddening muzak assaults me through an endless labyrinth of waiting rooms and I can't take it. Minard takes over, bopping his head, navigating out through a secret portal into a ghostly flower-field under an undulating sky. I listen in: A calm voice welcomes him to a different spiritual plane. I believe in the incredible truth…
"I didn't realize I was bopping my head. I heard that people rock themselves back and forth when they're sleep deprived," he tells me later, after the opening is over. He hadn't slept for 40 hours. For three days, 60 artists and hackers built and collaborated on Art Hack Day's #GodMode-themed projects. The head bopping is normal. "It was delirious — all of us in this room, working for 48 hours in a collective work trance, going on this journey together to somewhere we've never been, pushing our boundaries. There is a spiritual element to it." How fitting to his Elysium, Minard's game that offers "transcendence through immersive reality."
Art Hack Day participants had teamed up earlier through online and AFK (bar) meet-ups.When I came by a few hours before the opening, the flock huddled in clusters — typing, gesturing, snacking, typing, grunting triumphantly, finishing eachother's exclamatory sentences and nodding. And typing. Screens filled with code. Plastic was being sliced. A mini-cellphone tower was interrupting texts. Code-generated mash-ups of MET artifacts were being printed and taped to the walls. 319 Scholes curatorial director Lindsay Howard presided, leading me from group to group. Last year, Christopher Poole from 4Chan was here. This year, jQuery creator John Resig caused a bit of a fan-hush. There are also a lot more visual artists this year, not just programmers. It shows.
"Artists are really good at conceptualizing things," Howard explains. "They begin by coming up with conceptual angles of why the project was meaningful and what it was really saying. Bringing that kind of aspect into technology and building narratives and telling stories makes it a lot more accessible and interesting."
A giant crackling neon Cat God head is interesting. So is, literally, everything else. There's a dense, constantly-refilling crowd all night.
There's an altar in the front room. Candles. A glowing script screen: It's God.js by Ivan Safrin, Will Brand, Ramsey Nasser. We know Nasser from his Arabic programming language at the Eyebeam Showcase. This collaboration is also code and can do anything Javascript can, but it's a bit more mythical. And it looks exactly like scripture. And you can create your own religions. That's so #GodMode.
"It happens to be that I think you should receive a plague of boils when you visit Tumblr," programmer Will Brand explains, "but it's way more exciting to have somebody look at some code and decide they wanna be a prophet too." Here's the github.
Brand runs through the creative process with me, how the "artsy" stuff was conceptualized early on and the rest the time was spent executing: "I actually struck me about halfway through, when we were talking about what each of us would work on, that it sounded just like a regular tech-work conversation. This feature is a wishlist. This one is essential. Make sure we define the religions according to this particular object model. Make sure your code sends messages to my code in this format…"
It's different though. The resulting works are functional, interactive art pieces. They do stuff. In this case, what they do is simulate religious dogma — an adjustable dogma plug-in for your internet experience. "Here's something someone wants you to see only in one specific form. Install the right religion, and it can be fucked up and deformed and remixed and yours and new." So, it's still programming, but the sculptural presentation of the altar and the crowd of enthusiastically gesturing artists, hackers and followers transform the experience. The connection between coding and creating gets tight.
Lindsay Howard and I speak on the phone a few days after the opening and she's still off her sleeping cycle but excited. She's a new curatorial fellow at Eyebeam in Chelsea, but she wants more of this for the next Art Hack Day, more collaborations, more physical space being used for technologically innovative projects, all right there in Brooklyn. Bring it.
(Picture: Marina Galperina, Video Edit: Aymann Ismail, Music: Holy Rattlesnakes)
Tags: 319 Scholes, Art, Art Hack Day, God Mode, Hacking, Jonathan Minard, Lindsay Howard, Ramsey Nasser, tech, Tech Art, Will Brand
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Located on the grounds of Picture in Scripture Amphitheater, Oasis Animal Adventures is an award-winning animal therapy program using exotic animals as a gateway to the heart.
36656 S. 510 Road
Eucha, OK 74342
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First Book in Series "Rosie the Kangaroo" Now Available
"Rosie the Kangaroo"
Linda Goldner and Rosie the kangaroo are excited about the release of "Rosie the Kangaroo," the first book in Goldner's "Tails from the Oasis" series. It tells some of the many adventures Rosie has experienced at Oasis Animal Adventures.
What do a kangaroo, lemur, camel, zebra and a yak have in common? They all live as one big happy family in the Oasis Barn near Disney in northeast Oklahoma. And, all are part of the animal therapy program, Oasis Animal Adventures.
Located on the grounds of Picture in Scripture Amphitheater, Oasis Animal Adventures utilizes unique, exotic animals, as well as horses, donkeys and mini horses, to provide a positive environment where children and adults can experience healing, security and unconditional love through interaction with the animals.
No matter the age or personal life stories of those who come, the animals are the gateway to the heart, and the results have been amazing, says Linda Goldner, who, along with her husband, Bill, owns and operates Oasis Animal Adventures and Picture in Scripture Amphitheater, a 1,000-seat outdoor amphitheater that presents an original Biblical production every summer.
The Oasis Barn is home to nearly 30 animals, all of which are used in the animal therapy program. Their job, Linda Goldner says, is to follow Jesus commandment in Matthew 22:39, You shall love your neighbor as yourself. The animals offer physical, emotional and therapeutic healing and unconditional love to more than 60 youth and adults every week.
While the larger animals, like Simon the camel and Zola the zebra, remain at the Oasis Barn, Goldner often takes smaller and younger animals with her to visit classrooms, make appearances at festivals and other events or just run errands around Grand Lake.
Whether its Omar the lemur sitting on her shoulder or a baby kangaroo peeping out of a fabric pouch in her arms, Goldner spends a lot of time with these exotic fur-babies and is rarely without one when shes out and about.
Shopping at Walmart, watching a movie at the cinema and visiting classrooms full of students are not typical experiences for a baby kangaroo, unless you are a kangaroo who lives at Oasis Animal Adventures and your job is sharing joy and happiness wherever you go.
Inspired by the Oasis animals, all of whom are unique characters with their own individual personalities, Goldner decided to share some of their adventures through a series of books.
Rosie the Kangaroo is the first book released in Goldners Tails from the Oasis series. It is a sweet story about Rosie, a red kangaroo who came to Oasis Animal Adventures when she was very young. Written for children, the book is also one adults will enjoy.
The first in the series, Rosie tells how she was welcomed into her new home and all the adventures shes had, Goldner said. Each of the books in the series will have a theme and include fun facts about the type of animal and a moral truth. The theme of Rosie the Kangaroo is to accept each other and love one another.
Rosie the Kangaroo is filled with a collection of beautiful photographs by Megan Shandel and Stacy Gough featuring Rosie and her many adventures.
Since the books release, Goldner has been on a book tour of sorts. In addition to several book signings at area Barnes and Noble stores, she has been reading and promoting the books at schools and youth groups in both Oklahoma and Texas. Sally, a younger kangaroo from Oasis Animal Adventures, has accompanied Goldner to these appearances.
Rosie is three years old, so shes too big to go out with me now, which is why I take Sally, Goldner said. But Rosie used to go everywhere. She has a traveled to a lot of places, like Walmart and Reasers, and experienced a lot. Rosie even went to the movie Dory.
From the synopsis on the books back cover Rosie is one unique red kangaroo who found her way into the home and hearts of Linda and Bill Goldner. Little did she know the life at the Oasis Barn would be full of love, surprises and adventures. Amongst the barnyard animals, rumor has it Rosie doesnt even know she is not a human, but really a kangaroo. Rosie doesnt care as long as she can carry out her mission to love one another. its easy to see why children and adults are falling in love with Rosie and her book.
Rosie the Kangaroo can be purchased for $12.95 on Amazon or at www.oasisanimals.com. The glossy paperback book is also available at Barnes & Noble and Books-A-Million.
The second book in the Tails from the Oasis book series, Omar the Lemur, is set to release early next year.
All proceeds from book sales will benefit the animals at Oasis Animal Adventures.
Rosie the Kangaroo would be a great gift for both children and animal lovers. The book, signed by the author, will be available for purchase during the Oasis Christmas Open House Saturday, Dec. 15.
Oasis Animal Adventures will be hosting its Christmas open house from 1 to 5 p.m. Everyone is invited to come meet the animals, which will include the two newest additions to the herd, Yancey the yak and Rex the roo. Simon, Zola, Omar and Rosie will be there as well. Youll also have a chance to snap a photo with a Christmas kangaroo or the Elf lemur.
Oasis Animal Adventures is located at 36656 South 510 Road, east of Disney.
For more information on Oasis Animal Adventures or to purchase a copy of Rosie the Kangaroo, visit www.oasisanimals.com or call (918) 435-8207.
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What Fruits & Vegetables Can I Feed My French Bulldog?
French bulldogs are a favorite of everyone who sees them and apartment dwellers love them due to their small stature. These pups, typically under 28 pounds, can quickly pack on the pounds, though, and are prone to obesity if not fed a healthy diet. That's why it's important to feed your diminutive dog fiber-rich, low-calorie treats.
Fortunately, fruits and vegetables are a healthy part of a French bulldog diet and aren't high in fat and calories, making them an excellent reward or mix-in for your pup's meals. Not all fruits and veggies are safe for dogs, so you'll have to be careful what you feed your pup.
When choosing vegetables that dogs can eat, for your French bulldog, it's important to feed him only ones that are completely pup-safe. Generally, you can feed your dog raw vegetables, except for potatoes or sweet potatoes which should be steamed, boiled, or baked before being fed to your pup. That's because raw potatoes are in the nightshade family of plants and immature plants contain a toxin called solanine when they're raw, according to Dogster. Sweet potatoes aren't in the nightshade family but still shouldn't be fed raw because they may upset your pup's tummy.
From the variety of vegetables dogs can eat, most French bulldogs love the crunchy texture of raw green beans, carrots, celery, pumpkin, spinach, squash, and Brussels sprouts. These veggies contain lots of healthy vitamins and minerals for your pup, along with fiber to keep him regular as well, according to PetMD.
If you feed raw veggies to your dog and he experiences tummy upset, you may end up dealing with some unpleasant French bulldog farts. To help combat this issue, try steaming the vegetables first to make them easier for your pup to chew and digest.
Of the many fruits good for dogs, you'll have lots of healthy options to choose from when incorporating them into a French bulldog diet. Sliced pieces of apple, cantaloupe, honeydew, seedless watermelon, and banana are all good choices for dogs. Blueberries and raspberries are another good choice for dogs and come in convenient bite-sized bits, making them a ready-made treat.
If you want to feed seeded fruits like oranges to your pooch, make sure to remove the seeds and peel first before cutting the fruit into small pieces that are easy for your dog to eat. When it comes to pitted fruits like cherries and peaches, you can feed these to your dog only after completely removing the pit, which can be a dangerous choking hazard.
Fruits are a great addition to a French bulldog diet, but they do contain natural sugar, so you only want to feed them as a treat, not the main part of your pup's diet. Also, too much fruit can lead to tummy upset and unpleasant French bulldog farts.
Some fruits and vegetables that are safe for humans are unsafe for our canine companions. Vegetables in the allium family including onions, garlic, shallots, and chives are all poisonous to your French bulldog and should be avoided, recommends the Whole Dog Journal. They can cause anything from upset tummy issues to anemia if eaten in large quantities. Avocados are another vegetable to avoid because they contain persin, a toxin that can upset your Frenchie's tummy.
Steamed corn is a safe vegetable, but always feed it to your French bulldog scraped off the cob. The corn cob could become a choking hazard for your pooch. And note that some dogs are allergic to corn, so you may want to keep it to a minimum if you notice any signs of itchy skin or upset tummy after your pup eats corn.
Some fruits should be avoided; for example, don't feed your French bulldog grapes because they can cause kidney failure, warns the American Kennel Club. Fruits like pineapple are safe but always remove the rough outer peel which could scratch the inside of your little dog's mouth or cause an intestinal blockage.
When it comes to legumes like beans and peas, keep these vegetables to a minimum in your French bulldog's diet as there is some evidence they might cause health issues if given to bulldogs in large quantities, according to the U.S. Food & Drug Administration. The same goes for cooked potatoes fed in large quantities.
Dogs are omnivores like people, meaning they eat meats, fruits, and vegetables. The ideal French bulldog diet contains a combination of these ingredients, but you want to feed your Frenchie a diet that meets the nutritional standards of the Association of American Feed Control Officials. Commercial diets that meet these standards will state this on the label. Remember to follow the feeding guidelines on the food for small-breed dogs between 25-and-30 pounds, according to the standards of the AKC.
According to Vetstreet, adding fruits and vegetables as a treat to your French bulldog's diet is a great way to keep her healthy, but always introduce them slowly. French bulldog farts can result from an overload of fruits and vegetables introduced too quickly in your Frenchie's diet. If you notice that your Frenchie has upset tummy issues, it may be time to cut back on the amount of fruits and vegetables you're feeding her.


JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) The Jacksonville Jaguars have signed four of their seven draft picks, including fourth-rounder Will Richardson.
The Jaguars announced Thursday they also signed sixth-round quarterback Tanner Lee, seventh-round punter Logan Cooke and seventh-round linebacker Leon Jacobs.
Richardson, who is expected to compete with veteran Jermey Parnell at right tackle, was the 129th overall pick. He started 32 games in three seasons at North Carolina State.
Richardson's contact is worth $2,742,682, including a signing bonus of $327,682.
Lee's deal is worth $2,507,141 with a signing bonus of $92,141.
Cooke's contract is worth $2,531,623 with a signing bonus of $71,623. Jacobs' deal is similar.


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/*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  Copyright 2009 Sandia Corporation.
  Under the terms of Contract DE-AC04-94AL85000 with Sandia Corporation,
  the U.S. Government retains certain rights in this software.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------*/

// .NAME vtkRCalculatorFilter
//
// .SECTION Description
//
// This class functions as an array calculator for vtkDataArrays and VTKarray objects,
// using GNU R as the calculation engine.
//
// .SECTION See Also
//  vtkRInterface vtkRadapter
//
// .SECTION Thanks
//  Developed by Thomas Otahal at Sandia National Laboratories.
//

#ifndef __vtkRCalculatorFilter_h
#define __vtkRCalculatorFilter_h

#include "vtkFiltersStatisticsGnuRModule.h" // For export macro
#include "vtkDataObjectAlgorithm.h"

class vtkRInterface;
class vtkRCalculatorFilterInternals;
class vtkDataSet;
class vtkDoubleArray;
class vtkGraph;
class vtkTree;
class vtkTable;
class vtkCompositeDataSet;
class vtkArrayData;

class VTKFILTERSSTATISTICSGNUR_EXPORT vtkRCalculatorFilter : public vtkDataObjectAlgorithm
{

public:

  static vtkRCalculatorFilter *New();

  vtkTypeMacro(vtkRCalculatorFilter, vtkDataObjectAlgorithm );
  void PrintSelf(ostream& os, vtkIndent indent);

  // Description:
  // Copies vtkDataArray named NameOfVTKArray to R with variable
  // name NameOfRvar.  The array must exist in the input data set.
  //
  // Note: for vtkArray use "0","1","2",... for NameOfVTKArray to specify the index of
  // the vtkArray to pass to R.
  void PutArray(const char* NameOfVTKArray, const char* NameOfRvar);

  // Description:
  // Copies R variable NameOfRvar from R to the vtkDataArray named
  // NameOfVTKArray.  Will replace existing vtkDataArray with the same name.
  //
  // Note: for vtkArray use any string for NameOfVTKArray.  The array will be appended
  // to the list of vtkArrays on the output.
  void GetArray(const char* NameOfVTKArray, const char* NameOfRvar);

  // Description:
  // Clears the list of variables to be copied to R.
  void RemoveAllPutVariables();

  // Description:
  // Clears the list of variables to be copied from R.
  void RemoveAllGetVariables();

  // Description:
  // For vtkTable input to the filter.  An R list variable is created for the
  // vtkTable input using PutTable().  The output of the filter can be set from
  // a list variable in R using GetTable()
  void PutTable(const char* NameOfRvar);
  void GetTable(const char* NameOfRvar);

  // Description:
  // For vtkTree input to the filter.  An R phylo tree variable is created for the
  // vtkTree input using PutTree().  The output of the filter can be set from
  // a phylo tree variable in R using GetTree()
  void PutTree(const char* NameOfRvar);
  void GetTree(const char* NameOfRvar);

  // Description:
  // Script executed by R.  Can also be set from a file.
  vtkSetStringMacro(Rscript);
  vtkGetStringMacro(Rscript);

  // Description:
  // Provide the R script executed by R from an input file.
  vtkSetStringMacro(ScriptFname);
  vtkGetStringMacro(ScriptFname);

  // Description:
  // Write R output to standard output.
  vtkSetMacro(Routput,int);
  vtkGetMacro(Routput,int);

  // Description:
  // Pass VTK time information to R.
  // If turned turned on, the filter will create three variables in R.
  // The variables will be update automatically as time
  // changes in the VTK pipeline.
  // VTK_TIME_STEPS - array of all available time values.
  // VTK_TIME_RANGE- array of minimum and maximum time values.
  // VTK_CURRENT_TIME - floating point time value at the current time index.
  vtkSetMacro(TimeOutput,int);
  vtkGetMacro(TimeOutput,int);

  // Description:
  // Create VTK_BLOCK_ID variable in R when processing composite data sets.
  vtkSetMacro(BlockInfoOutput,int);
  vtkGetMacro(BlockInfoOutput,int);

  // Description:
  // This is required to capture REQUEST_DATA_OBJECT requests.
  virtual int ProcessRequest(vtkInformation* request,
                             vtkInformationVector** inputVector,
                             vtkInformationVector* outputVector);

protected:

  int SetRscriptFromFile(const char* fname);

  virtual int RequestData(vtkInformation *vtkNotUsed(request),
                          vtkInformationVector **inputVector,
                          vtkInformationVector *outputVector);

  // Description:
  // Creates the same output type as the input type.
  virtual int RequestDataObject(vtkInformation* request,
                                vtkInformationVector** inputVector,
                                vtkInformationVector* outputVector);

  vtkRCalculatorFilter();
  ~vtkRCalculatorFilter();

private:

  vtkRCalculatorFilter(const vtkRCalculatorFilter&);  // Not implemented.
  void operator=(const vtkRCalculatorFilter&);  // Not implemented.

  // Implementation details
  vtkRCalculatorFilterInternals* rcfi;

  int ProcessInputDataSet(vtkDataSet* dsIn);
  int ProcessOutputDataSet(vtkDataSet* dsOut);

  int ProcessInputGraph(vtkGraph* gIn);
  int ProcessOutputGraph(vtkGraph* gOut);

  int ProcessInputArrayData(vtkArrayData * adIn);
  int ProcessOutputArrayData(vtkArrayData * adOut);

  int ProcessInputCompositeDataSet(vtkCompositeDataSet* cdsIn);
  int ProcessOutputCompositeDataSet(vtkCompositeDataSet * cdsOut);

  int ProcessInputTable(vtkTable* tOut);
  int ProcessOutputTable(vtkTable* tOut);

  int ProcessInputTree(vtkTree* tIn);
  int ProcessOutputTree(vtkTree* tOut);

  int ProcessInputDataObject(vtkDataObject *input);
  int ProcessOutputDataObject(vtkDataObject *input);

  vtkRInterface* ri;
  char* Rscript;
  char* RfileScript;
  char* ScriptFname;
  int Routput;
  int TimeOutput;
  int BlockInfoOutput;
  char* OutputBuffer;
  vtkDoubleArray* CurrentTime;
  vtkDoubleArray* TimeRange;
  vtkDoubleArray* TimeSteps;
  vtkDoubleArray* BlockId;
  vtkDoubleArray* NumBlocks;

};

#endif


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Although the sequence editor is ideal for manipulating sequences and displaying alignments, there is often a need to display formatted sequences including translations and restriction sites. This can be done by creating a features object in the notebook.
Open the DNA sequence file pBR322.
Select nucleotides 1 through 150 and Copy them to the clipboard by choosing Edit ➧ Copy. Note that if you select these nucleotides and drag them to the notebook, the sequence itself will be placed in the notebook as text.
Bring the Untitled GI Notebook window to the front by clicking on it or choosing Window ➧ Untitled.
Paste the DNA sequence into the notebook (Edit ➧ Paste). This creates a new notebook object called a Features object.
Double-click on the new features object to target it. You will see the appearance of a new Feature s menu added at the right.
Select the entire DNA sequence from 1 through 150 and then translate it by choosing Features ➧ Translate…. When asked for a translation table, choose the E. coli translation table.
Choose Features ➧ Adjust Size To Contents to force the size of the object to expand to include all of the DNA sequence as well as the amino acid sequence.
Your display should now look like figure like that in Figure 36. Notice how the translation skips over the intron and how, even though the codon is interrupted by the intron, it is reconstructed by the program.
We need to adjust the grouping of the DNA sequence characters to align better with the translation. Select nucleotides 1-17 and choose Features ➧ Grouping ➧ Groups Of Three. Notice how the intron grouping is adjusted to remain in groups of ten, but now the grouping starts with the first character of the intron.
Select nucleotides 98-150 (in the second "exon") and group it by threes as you did in the previous step.
Select the peptide sequence by clicking on it once. Using the Format menu, change the peptide sequence to Arial 9 point italic and color it red. Notice that the numbering style is set to match the actual peptide sequence. This is the only way the peptide numbering style can be changed.
Now let's add some restriction site markers. Choose Features ➧ Mark Sites…. Select the Commercial_4 enzyme list and move the first six enzymes in the list (all start with `A') to the right hand Sites to Mark list by pressing the Move >> button. Your dialog box should look like Figure 37. Press Find to mark all sites for the enzymes you have selected.
Select one of the site markers by clicking on it once. Choose Edit ➧ Select All to select all the site markers. Using the Format menu, change the selected site marker text to Times 10 point bold and color blue.
Choose Features ➧ Adjust Size To Contents to expand the features object again. You should now have something that looks like Figure 38.
Try using some of the other options in the Features menu to adjust the display to look exactly the way you want it to. You might select the Box Around style to highlight a specific segment or use the Upper Case or Lower Case styles to indicate other features.
Let's take a look at a features object containing a multiple sequence alignment. Open the peptide sequence file called rhodopsins . Choose Sequence ➧ Display ➧ Hide Overview. Align all the sequences by Choosing Sequence ➧ Alignment ➧ Align All Sequences… and perform the alignment with the BLOSUM30 table. Use the Sequence ➧ Consensus ➧ menu to show the consensus row and to show the scoring row.
Now click on one of the names in the left column of the sequence window and then choose Edit ➧ Select All to select all the sequences. Make sure you have an open notebook window visible and then drag the sequences from the sequence editor window into the notebook with the mouse. A features object will appear in the notebook with the same alignment as you saw in the sequence editor window.
Double-click on the new features object and a Sequences menu will appear. You may use the items in this menu to alter the display of the aligned sequences in this window. Note, however, that you cannot perform any new alignments within this object. It is for displaying the results only. To perform a new alignment you must start from the sequence editor window or else perform a multiple sequence alignment from the Analysis menu.
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namespace nsFTP
{

class CFTPFileStatus;

/// Implements the parsing of the string returned by the LIST command.
class CFTPListParser : public CFTPClient::IFileListParser
{
public:
   CFTPListParser();
   virtual ~CFTPListParser();

public:
   bool Parse(CFTPFileStatus& ftpFileStatus, const tstring& strLineToParse);

private:
   bool IsEPLS(LPCTSTR pszLine);
   bool ParseEPLF(CFTPFileStatus& ftpFileStatus, LPCTSTR pszLine, int iLength);

   bool IsUNIXStyleListing(LPCTSTR pszLine);
   bool ParseUNIXStyleListing(CFTPFileStatus& ftpFileStatus, LPCTSTR pszLine, int iLength);

   bool IsMultiNetListing(LPCTSTR pszLine);
   bool ParseMultiNetListing(CFTPFileStatus& ftpFileStatus, LPCTSTR pszLine, int iLength);

   bool IsMSDOSListing(LPCTSTR pszLine);
   bool ParseMSDOSListing(CFTPFileStatus& ftpFileStatus, LPCTSTR pszLine, int iLength);

   bool CheckMonth(LPCTSTR pszBuffer, LPCTSTR pszMonthName) const;
   int  GetMonth(LPCTSTR pszBuffer, int iLength) const;
   bool GetLong(LPCTSTR pszLong, int iLength, long& lResult) const;
   long GetYear(time_t time) const;

   long ToTAI(long lYear, long lMonth, long lMDay) const;
   long GuessTAI(long lMonth, long lMDay);

private:
   time_t        m_tmBase;       // time() value on this OS at the beginning of 1970 TAI
   long          m_lCurrentYear; // approximation to current year
   static const TCHAR* m_Months[12];
};

}

#endif // INC_FTPLISTPARSE_H


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The Immortality Drive is a large memory device which was taken to the International Space Station in a Soyuz spacecraft on October 12, 2008. The Immortality Drive contains fully digitized DNA sequences of a select group of humans.
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Weight: 1024g
Four Seasons of Home Cooking
A beautifully designed cookbook with easy, seasonal Italian recipes - the perfect gift for any foodie in your life
Russell Norman returns to Venice - the city that inspired POLPO - to immerse himself in the authentic flavours of the Veneto and the culinary traditions of the city. His rustic kitchen - in the residential quarter of the city where washing hangs across the narrow streets and neighbours don't bother to lock their doors - provides the perfect backdrop for this adventure, and for the 130 lip-smacking, easy Italian family recipes showcasing the simple but exquisite flavours of Venice.
The book also affords us a rare and intimate glimpse into the life of the city, its hidden architectural gems, its secret places, the embedded history, the colour and vitality of daily life, and the food merchants and growers who make Venice so surprisingly vibrant.
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Russell Norman is among the brightest stars of the British food scene ... In Venice, he returns to the recipes of that most inspirational Italian city
Offers a rare insight into the beating heart of the city
Wonderful... the dishes are simple but inspired
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POLPO does what a great cookbook should do: it makes you urgently want to cook and breaks new territory
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Today at the 27th edition of the 10km road race in Langsur, Brice Faucheux set a new personal best time over 10km with a net end time of 34:16min. He ranked 21st overall out of 1049 finishers. Congratulations!
Christian Seidel ranked 151st overall with a time of 41:33min.
In the kids race over 1500m, Leo Weishaar finished 5th overall in 5:41min. Well done!


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Etihad's A380 touches down in New York
By Mark Elliott	 On Nov 24, 2015
Etihad Airways has launched its first Airbus A380 flight to New York.
The inaugural service touched down at JFK Airport on Monday 23 November, replacing the Boeing 777-300ER previously operated the direct flight from Abu Dhabi. The new aircraft will offer New York passengers the airline's latest cabin products, including the three-room Residence by Etihad, which is available for US$32,000 one-way.
Etihad's A380 arrives at JFK Airport
Etihad operates twice daily flights to New York, with the second flight operated using a B777.
"The arrival of our A380 service at JFK International Airport is an important milestone for Etihad Airways as we respond to increased demand from our guests travelling between New York and Abu Dhabi and it represents the significant growth our airline has undergone in just 12 years of operation," said James Hogan, Etihad's president & CEO.
"The revolutionary products found on board Etihad Airways' fleet of A380s completely reimagine commercial aviation standards and we are proud to bring them to our guests traveling between the US to Abu Dhabi and beyond."
The A380 service will now depart Abu Dhabi International Airport daily at 0320, arriving in New York at 0910. The return service will then depart JFK Airport at 1420, arriving back in the UAE capital at 1215 the following day.
As well as the Residence, Etihad's A380 offers nine First Apartments, 70 Business Studios and 415 economy class seats.
Etihad's fleet of A380s now flies to London Heathrow, Sydney and New York JFK, with services to Mumbai and Melbourne scheduled to begin in May and June 2016 respectively.
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Student Affairs, Academic Affairs merge into Academic and Campus Life
TOPICS:Academic AffairsAtticus RiceNewsstudent affairs
Acting Dean of Students Liz Towle speaks at the Introduction Convocation on Aug. 24, 2018. (Marya Topina / McDaniel Free Press).
Posted By: Atticus Rice, Co-Editor-in-Chief September 19, 2018
Over the summer, the College made a number of administrative and staff changes. They affect mostly structural and organizational operations rather than students' daily lives.
Gone are the Academic Affairs and Student Affairs divisions, replaced by Academic and Campus Life, which reports directly to Provost Julia Jasken.
"The goal is for those two areas to work more collaboratively," said Acting Dean of Students Liz Towle, "because there's no separation in [the student's] life between in classroom and out of classroom student involvement. I think our current structure reflects the reality of the student experience more. That's the goal; to better meet the needs of students."
It's easier to help the students when everyone doing so is part of the same area said Towle, formerly the associate dean of student affairs before the summer changes.
In addition to the merger of the student and academic bodies, the position of vice president for student affairs has been eliminated. Beth Gerl, as a result, is no longer with the College. She had been a member of the campus community since 2006.
The senior leadership and the Board of Trustees worked together to make these "difficult" decisions, President Roger Casey said in an Aug. 30 email to the student body.
Towle will now oversee the Student Government Association, replacing Gerl.
"I haven't been involved in SGA for a couple of years so it's nice to get back into that," she said.
With the changes, Executive Director of the Center for Experience and Opportunity Josh Ambrose also takes on the role of associate dean of campus and community engagement. The new position puts both the CEO and Office of Student Engagement under his jurisdiction.
"It's all a lot of leadership and experiential learning," said Towle. "It made sense that there would be a closer connection between those two."
Greek life, however, will remain under Michael Robbins, associate dean of students and director of residence life and student engagement. He had been overseeing both the student organization and Greek life sides of student engagement since last fall when he assumed the dean role.
Robbins will also take on the student conduct process to relieve Towle in favor of new responsibilities. This includes training and instruction of the Honor and Conduct Board, a body made up of both students and faculty to hear violations of the code of student conduct.
Though Towle will still work with the College's sexual misconduct and violence process, she has also been relieved of overseeing the Wellness Center. Former Director of Counseling Services Heidi Huber has transitioned to the director of the entire wellness operation.
"That allows me to take on the role of dean of students which involves spending as much time as I can with students," said Towle. "I really appreciate that because that's why people like me get into these jobs, but very often the longer you're in the field, the less time you spend with students."
Towle has been with McDaniel for 18 years.
On the academic side, Associate Professor of Psychology Wendy Morris has been named the acting dean of the faculty for the fall semester.
Chair and Professor of English Pamela Regis has been named acting dean of the faculty for the spring when Morris takes a scheduled sabbatical.
For the last three years, Morris has split her time between teaching and acting as the associate dean for faculty development. The new role takes her away from teaching and into what was once part of Jasken's dual provost-dean position.
"I see her as a superhero," said Morris of Jasken,"because there doesn't seem like enough time in the day [to do both positions]."
In her position, Morris will continue to support faculty development in their teaching and research.
"All of that work has come into this position," Morris said of her associate dean work. "In addition, I'm doing things that are more about curricular initiatives."
Echoing Towle's statement of unit, Morris is excited about the merging of Academic and Student Affairs.
"I was very much focused on Academic Affairs," she said. "Now that we're Academic and Student Life, all under the provost's leadership, there have been some really cool productive opportunities for collaboration."
One example she pointed to was the McDaniel Local pre-orientation program that was rolled out this past summer. The College offered it to about 120 students and plans to scale up to 400 next year.
"There are pieces that will be academic and pieces that will be student life," Morris said.
She also noted that it has been much easier to put committees together now that the two divisions have merged.
"I've really enjoyed getting to know people on that side," she said.
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A revision was requested to an older NET 2.0 WebSite that uses a Telerik Tab and MultiPage control and the main page was wrapped in an UpdatePanel. The last tab (View Rates) displayed an insurance quote with a pair of Accept buttons at the top and bottom of the page to save the quote to the database. The revision was simple enough, disable the Accept button when clicked to prevent saving duplicate copies of the quote. Note: There is a quirk with disabling an asp button control, it also cancels the postback.
I've been a Chrome user for a while now, but I've been using IE9 since the Release Candidate to see how I like it. One thing I noticed is that I often have different colored tabs and I was curious so I started poking around. Turns out this is because of one of the tab settings (Internet Options, Tabs section, Settings "Enable Tab Groups"). When you have this selected, a tab that is opened by another tab will share the same color, so you can tell which tabs are grouped/related. I have to say this is a nice touch by the IE team.
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Every once in a while when doing customization or development for MS CRM I need to run a SQL trace. Anyone who has ever watched a trace of SQL Server for MS CRM (or any enterprise level application, for that matter) knows that a lot of SQL gets generated.


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