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Department of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation
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Bachelor of Science in Health, Physical Education/Fitness
Programs: (1) K-12 Physical Education (Teaching Certification) (2) Health, Leisure, Fitness Studies.
Sport Management - Master of Science
The Department of Health, Physical Education and Recreation offers professional courses leading to the Bachelor of Science degree in Health, Physical Education/Fitness, a new degree effective Fall Semester 2014. This degree offers two track options: the student can major in Physical Education Teacher Certification with endorsements in health education and driver and safety education or major in Health, Leisure and Fitness Studies (HLFS) with concentrations in aquatics, dance, exercise science and coaching and/or health promotions. The Physical Education Teacher Education curriculum is designed to prepare students for certification and employment in the K-12 teaching and coaching profession. The Health, Leisure and Fitness Studies major is designed to prepare students for entry level professional employment in community-based recreation, coaching and fitness enterprises, health promotion in business and industrial settings and related fields of hospitality, tourism, sport management, and graduate study in related fields
The Department of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation offers the Master of Science (M.S.) degree in Sport Management. The FAMU Sport Management faculty is committed to offering students the skills and knowledge necessary to understand management in sport-related settings. At the completion of the program, students will have the necessary skill set to be practitioners in the sport industry. The Sport Management program offers interactive, educational training that is necessary for individuals seeking careers in the sport industry - an industry that has evolved into an integral part of today's culture. The operation of sport programs have become more sophisticated and complex, and must be managed by equally savvy professionals well versed in the intricacies of sport activities. Thus, the program emphasizes a variety of managerial, administrative, socio-cultural, and communication skills necessary for success in a multifaceted sport industry.
Students are admitted to the program during the summer, fall and spring semesters. Graduate students in the Sport Management program must maintain a 3.0 grade point average (GPA) during matriculation and graduation from the program. Students are strongly encouraged to be involved in professional development through participation in professional and academic opportunities at the local, state, regional, national, and/or international levels in order to network and gain experience in the field.
Students seeking admission to the Sport Management program must meet the following minimum criteria prior to admission:
Possession of an undergraduate or graduate degree from an accredited institution of higher education;
Must have earned a 3.0 GPA during the last 60 semester credit hours in the undergraduate program and have a Graduate Record Examination "GRE" score on record. Test results must be within the last five years.
Three professional letters of reference (i.e. from former professors or employers) addressing the applicant's ability to succeed in a graduate program - ALL LETERS MUST BE ON COMPANY/ORGANIZATION LETTERHEAD.
A personal statement describing the applicant's desire to pursue a degree in Sport Management and career goal(s) in the sport industry
Individuals may obtain an application from FAMU Graduate Studies and Research or obtain it online from the Web-site (https://www.applyweb.com/famug/).
Potential graduate students must submit the completed application - to Graduate Studies and Research along with an official copy of the GRE scores and official transcript(s) from all previously attended colleges/universities.
All other supporting documentation should also be sent to Graduate Studies and Research Office and the Department of Health, Physical Education and Recreation (HPER) at FAMU.
AN APPLICATION SHOULD BE SUBMITTED TO GRADUATE STUDIES AND RESEARCH BEFORE SENDING ANY MATERIALS TO THE HPER DEPARTMENT.
PLEASE NOTE: ONLY COMPLETE APPLICATION FILES WILL BE CONSIDERED. It is the applicant's responsibility to confirm through the graduate office and/or department that all materials have been received.
Graduate Studies and Research - 850-599-3505
Department of Health, Physical Education and Recreation - 850-599-3135
See School of Graduate Studies and Research http://www.famu.edu/index.cfm?graduatestudies&AdmissionsDeadlines
ALL documents must be submitted BY THE DEADLINE in order for the application to be considered complete. Incomplete applications will be denied admission.
While graduate assistantships are the ideal source of funding in graduate school, financial resources are limited. Applicants may apply for funding through the College of Education. Applications may be picked up in person from either the College of Education or from the Department of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation. Individuals must be a fully, regularly admitted to receive this funding. Applicants are encouraged to visit the Graduate Studies and Research Website to search for funding options. Also, one may seek financial support through graduate assistantship positions in administrative offices around the university such as residence halls, the student recreation center, campus recreation, athletics, and other service offices
Professors: Chandler, Steve B.; Okeke, Maria U.
Associate Professors: Aly, Ezzeldin, Hickey, Brian; Price, Sarah
Instructor: Olaves, Jorge
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Q: Django complex modeling? I'm building a small reporting system for a group of IT projects and can't figure how do put this together at django models level.
The idea is fairly simple:
I have a Dictionary of RAG indicators (green, yellow, red and so on):
class DicProjectStatusRAGIndicator(DicCoreBase):
    text_marker = models.CharField(max_length=64)
    color_marker = models.CharField(max_length=6)
    icon = models.FileField(upload_to='RAG_icons')

DicCoreBase is an abstract model that adds a few additional logistical attributes to all Dictionary items.
Then, there are the actual RAG metric items (such as 'progress', 'timelines', 'scope definition' and such):
class DicProjectStatusRAGReportItem(DicCoreBase):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=32)
    description = models.TextField()

on top of these, there are a few free text items that allow people add comments and description to their status records:
class DicProjectFreeTextReportItem(DicCoreBase):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=32)
    description = models.TextField()

So, say, for example, we have two Indicators: 'green' and 'red', two metric items: 'progress' and 'quality' and one free text: 'improvements done'. A project report record would then be something like:
'progress' -> 'green'
'quality' -> 'red'
'improvements done' -> 'fixed all major defects'

bound to a particular 'Project' model.
How can this modeled with standard django modeling tools?

A: 1. Based on your bottom example, metric items have an Indicator. That should be a ForeignKey relationship:
class DicProjectStatusRAGIndicator(DicCoreBase):
    text_marker = models.CharField(max_length=64)
    color_marker = models.CharField(max_length=6)
    icon = models.FileField(upload_to='RAG_icons')

class DicProjectStatusRAGReportItem(DicCoreBase):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=32)
    description = models.TextField()
    indicator = models.ForeignKey(DicProjectStatusRAGIndicator)

Assuming 'fixed all major defects' is the description field of Free Text, then DicProjectFreeTextReportItem is fine.
2. Since a project report record can have multiple metric items and free text items, that should be a Many-to-many relationship:
class ProjectReportRecord(models.Model):
    project = models.ForeignKey(Project, related_name='reports')
    metrics = models.ManyToManyField(DicProjectStatusRAGReportItem)
    free_texts = models.ManyToManyField(DicProjectFreeTextReportItem)

Now, referring to your example above and our Django models we've made, we can get to that information like so:
p = Project.objects.get(pk=1)
record = p.reports.all()[0]
print record.metrics.all().values_list('name', flat=True)
# prints ['progress', 'quality']
print record.metrics.get(name='progress').indicator.text_marker
# prints 'green'

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2018 Kubota SVL 75 skid steer with only around 90 hours on the machine (will go up a little as it is still being used). Enclosed cab with heat and a/c, hi-flow hydraulics. I bought it brand new from Central Equipment one year ago. It has been stored under cover since the day I brought it home. Things have changed and it has to go. It is financed with full insurance through Kubota. I owe $51,500 and that is what I need to get out of it. Text or email is best as I do not have great phone service at my house.


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Saturday editorial cartoons – Steve Bell
Steve Bell of The Guardian is rough and unsparing in his cartoon commentary. See his take on Bush's state of the union address here, and for links to more of his cartoons, look here.
President Carter in Ghana to see efforts at guinea worm eradication
Posted by xcroc under Carter, Dracunculiasis, economy, filtering water, guinea worm disease, GWD, health, Kufuor
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF Kul C. Gautam, and Director-General of WHO Dr. LEE Jong-wook, examine a Guinea worm patient. photo by A Poyo
And Ghana is not doing very well with its eradication efforts. In fact it is the only country that the Carter center has been working with whose efforts to eradicate guinea worm disease, also called Dracunculiasis, or GWD, have gone backwards.
As President Carter says:
Greetings from Ghana. We departed en route to Accra Tuesday afternoon with a mixture of anticipation and trepidation. Ghana was the first country in which Rosalynn and I ever visited endemic villages, and we'll never forget seeing two-thirds of the total population incapacitated with the disease, many of them lying around under shade trees unable to walk. I described the scenes in my first message in this series.
There has been stagnation in Ghana's efforts since then, and in the last three years the number of cases reported has risen from 4,739 to 8,283.
All nations except Ghana have made significant and steady progress in recent years, resulting in a total reduction . . . (of) -more than 99 percent.
The most disturbing event occurred last year when a serious outbreak of Guinea worm in the central section, around Lake Volta, was deliberately concealed. Solemn promises by the government to dig wells have not been honored. The Carter Center has marshaled a series of exceptional efforts to overcome these problems, but all have been fruitless. There is no doubt that our visit is timely, but we have received word that top officials are very concerned about our potential criticisms. Some intense observation, incisive analysis, and political diplomacy will be necessary.
So what is the reason Ghana has fallen backward. I think there has been a general neglect of health care and health care workers by the present government, based on what I hear from talking to people in Ghana. Kufuor had not responded to letters that Carter wrote before his trip, but did have a friendly meeting with Carter while he was in Ghana. In addition, as Carter writes, Ghanaian officials have been emphasizing borehole wells as a way of eradicating guinea worm. This will not necessarily eradicate the worm, and much simpler, cheaper, and more accessible technologies are at hand. Filtering drinking water through a cloth is a principle technique of effective eradication. In fact, the Carter delegation watched a demonstration of filtering water and the application of Abate (a larvicide that kills the intermediate host, a water flea, that carries eggs.)
It became increasingly obvious to me that a basic problem was that Ghana's officials, from field workers to the president, considered the drilling of deep borehole wells as the primary solution to the Guinea worm problem. The common theme was "a deep well will eradicate our Guinea worms." Although highly desirable and much needed in every village, this is not the way to eradicate the disease. Extremely expensive and time-consuming, with no assurance of finding potable water in many areas, the borehole dream had become a substitute for simple filtering of each drink and keeping people with emerging worms out of the ponds.
Most communities throughout the world have eradicated Guinea worm without drilling a well, and many people are still infected even when blessed with a good underground source of water. Just stopping by the local pond for one drink is all it takes. I explained this to them in very strong terms, had the ministers adopt the same sermon for our joint press conference, and we continued this explanation during our very pleasant visit with President Kufuor when we returned to Accra.
When all our meetings had been completed, we felt that a new day may have come to Ghana in its eradication effort.
I certainly hope this is the case. There is no excuse for the problem of guinea worm worsening in Ghana. Ghana has the means and should be able to take the lead in eradication efforts. You can read President Carter's remarks on Ghana, and on the other countries he visited this February here, and view the slide show of his visit to Ghana.
Information on guinea worm from the US CDC can be found here, you can view an illustration of the life cycle of the worm, and recent reports.
Cheney's coup
Posted by xcroc under Bush administration, Cheney, foreign policy, Iran, Libby
Appreciation to Dr. Doom for the image.
Who is really running the US government? At a recent reception:
the president shook hands with Washington Life Magazine's Soroush Shehabi. A grandson of one of the late Shah's ministers, Soroush said, "Mr. President, I simply want to say one U.S. bomb on Iran and the regime will remain in power for another 20 or 30 years and 70 million Iranians will become radicalized."
"I know," President Bush answered.
"But does Vice President Cheney know?" asked Soroush.
The president chuckled and walked away.
So who was Bush laughing at? Mr. Soroush? the American people? our military? the disaster he has created for this country and the world? Is he chuckling because others will have to clean up after him? He acknowledged Mr. Soroush's point by saying "I know." Is he chuckling because, regardless of what happens, his family and friends will make a profit? Mr. Bush may think he is The Decider, but things are looking more and more like Mr. Cheney has been controlling our foreign policy from the very beginning of the Bush presidency. And the trial of Cheney's assistant, Scooter Libby, is revealing quite a bit about Cheney's actions and behavior. See the coverage at Firedoglake for details and live blogging. So far everyone who has testified had already told the truth to the grand jury. Only Libby is accused of lying, and the testimony of witnesses so far is damning. Why should the chief assistant to Vice President Cheney be the only one to lie? What is he hiding, or who is he shielding? The answer seems increasingly obvious.
And as Digby writes, there is another thing we know:
. . . as much as a year ago, the administration has been actively planning to attack Iran and the generals have been resisting.
I have believed for some time that the Bush administration is intent upon attacking Iran because they believe that their unpopularity will be redeemed by history for having taken great, bold steps to transform the middle east. The more Iraq looks like a cock-up of epic proportions that results in nothing more than chaos and death, the less likely it is that their "vision" will come to pass.
As they see it, the Iraqi debacle is not the product of their failed policies. Rather, it is the result of America's failure to think big.
That is the argument that's clearly driving Bush and Cheney today. They have nothing else. Cheney is melting down on national television. Bush in his bubble is as detached and oblivious as ever. I believe that we are at a point where the only things standing between us and the order to attack Iran are the generals.
Or, as Josh Marshall puts it:
The president's interests are now radically disjoined from the country's. We can handle a setback like Iraq. It really is a big disaster. But America will certainly survive it. President Bush — in the sense of his legacy and historical record — won't.
Think of it like this. He's a death row prisoner concocting a thousand-to-one plan to break out of prison. For him, those are good odds. The rest of us are doing three months for disorderly conduct. And he's trying to rope us into his harebrained scheme. Like I said, his interests are very different from ours.
Speak up. We're on the edge of the abyss.
Teachers in Ghana
Posted by xcroc under economy, education, teachers
The remarkable thing about teachers is that very few of them are on record to have gone completely insane in class.
I just love this lead sentence from this article, it made me laugh. The overall point of the article is that teachers need to be paid better, particularly in Ghana. This is true in the United States as well, and the author says it is also true in the UK.
Education is the foundation of economic success for any country. It is what built the economic power of the United States. And that power has only been damaged by successive Republican efforts to damage or destroy public education.
One reason for Ghana's success has been its public education system. But that system is way underfunded and has remained somewhat stagnant. And because not everyone can afford school fees, a lot of Ghana's talent and potential is never realized. Low salaries are a push out factor for teachers, as they are for other professionals. A serious national effort to promote and fund free universal public education would make Ghana an economic powerhouse in Africa.
Sunday musical interlude – Ragga Dee
Here is Uganda's Ragga Dee in Oyagala Cash. There is some good dancing here, as well as a few chuckles.
You can read some biographical information, and an interview with Ragga Dee here.
Saturday editorial cartoons from Bob Geiger
As on the mark as ever. See them here.
US Military African Command – what are US military intentions in Ghana?
Posted by xcroc under Africa command, AFRICOM, Bush administration, economy, recolonize, US military base
A U.S. Army Special Forces soldier uses GI Joe toys to demonstrate tactics during a training session with Chadian soldiers south of the capital. It is part of a $500 million Pentagon initiative to provide counterterrorism training to soldiers in North and West Africa.
U.S. Army photo, 2005
Added March 2008:
For an update on this topic, see:
AFRICOM, US military bases, and Ghana or
US maintains a robust military presence in Ghana
President Bush just announced the creation of a Department of Defense US Africa Command.
Ghana is certainly the most stable and progressive country in West Africa, and the Bush administration has expressed an interest in West Africa, specifically mentioning both terrorism and oil as its primary interests. This makes Ghana very attractive as a place to establish a US military base. It is very difficult to find out what intentions or planning are going on regarding a base. The Bush people are the most secretive and undemocratic of any government the US has had. And Ghana's government has not been forthcoming on this subject.
The DoD Africa Command could have some positive effects. According to the liberal Democratic Senator Russell Feingold:
"Our national security strategy needs to evolve, and so does our capability to meet new and emerging threats," he said. "An Africa Command is vital to strengthening our relations with African nations and preventing them from becoming staging grounds for attacks against the U.S. or our allies."
There are many in the US who understand that an attempt to recolonize Africa in order to exploit her resources is a big mistake. Unfortunately, none of those people play key roles in the Bush administration. Cooperation between the US and Ghana would be an excellent thing. But Bush and company do not believe in cooperation. The net effect of a US military base in Ghana is likely to be recolonization and destabilization. In fact, more enemies and more terrorists mean more business for the US defense industry, in which Bush, Cheney, and their associates are heavily invested.
When Bush went into Iraq, he did not even know there was any difference between Sunni and Shiite. And for the most part the Bush people aren't interested. Africa is far more varied and complex, and is far less understood in the US. What Bush and friends want is profits. Since before the Iraq war Cheney and his oil buddies have been working on the Iraqi Hydrocarbon Law, that would allow US oil companies to suck most of the oil profits out of Iraq. And they don't really care who they deal with, so long as they get the deal they want.
As . . . Iraq's hydra-headed, multi-sided civil . . . war goes on – and it will go on and on – the Bush administration will continue to side with whatever faction promises to uphold the "hydrocarbon law" . . . If "Al Qaeda in Iraq" vowed to open the nation's oil spigots for Exxon, Fluor and Halliburton, they would suddenly find themselves transformed from "terrorists" into "moderates" – as indeed has Maliki and his violent, sectarian Dawa Party, which once killed Americans in terrorist actions but are now hailed as freedom's champions.
The thing to remember in ANY dealings with the Bush administration is –
. . . the Bush Family and their allies and cronies represent the confluence of three long-established power factions in the American elite: oil, arms and investments. These groups equate their own interests, their own wealth and privilege, with the interests of the nation – indeed, the world – as a whole. And they pursue these interests with every weapon at their command, including war, torture, deceit and corruption. Democracy means nothing to them – not even in their own country.
This is what Ghanaians must keep in mind in any dealing with the Bush administration, and particularly in any discussion of military bases.
There are plenty of Americans who do understand the issues:
"you don't want a lop-sided, security-heavy engagement in Africa, and you don't want the Defence Department setting policy. Our military engagement needs to be integrated into a much broader engagement of diplomacy, development assistance, governance, and human rights."
"There are some sophisticated military thinkers who know that it's not just guns," . . . "They've spent enough time in Africa to understand some of the fundamental challenges, such as peacekeeping and governance. They could be advocates for a stronger civilian role, and their voice is one that brings with it a great deal of clout and capacity."
"if we wrap our arms around a particular leader who's cooperative on the security front, but has a very poor record on governance and human rights, then we're likely to create problems over the long term, as we often did during the Cold War."
Let us hope both Ghanaians and Americans will look at the long term.

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The /opt/open-xchange/sbin/oxsysreport tool will collect a lot of useful log and system information into a tar archive. This so called OX Support Tarball contains Apache and OX configurations, OX logs and system information. This and a qualified error report makes sure that our support department get all needed details for fast effective help. We always recommend to encrypt your e-mail with our Support Key when attaching this tarball.
We recommend to check if all required tools are installed before an incident happens. In case you are running IBM Java on e.g. SuSE Linux Enterprise, heap dumps will be created differently. Please note, we do not list package names which usually get installed in a default installation. Please note, up from OX 7.6.1 we will use instead of 'jmap' the '/opt/open-xchange/sbin/heapdump' tool for heap dump creation by default, if supported by your JVM.
Please note, on Univention systems you have to enable the 'Unmaintained' Repositories checkbox via 'App Center' --> 'Repository Settings' to get access to package listed above.
If, e.g. due to space limitations, you need to switch from /tmp to a different drive for collecting and processing the data, you can choose an alternative but existing path here.
We do not recommend to use this option, but you can choose the output log directory name which is also root folder of the OX Support Tarball. Please note, this temporary folder will be removed by default and you need to choose an not existing directory name.
This allows to choose an alternative tarball name and storage location. Please note, the script will check for and break on already existing file arguments.
If you like to observe the data collection of the log directory without unpacking the tarball or to add additional files for repacking, feel free to use this option. The log directory path will be printed at the first lines of the oxsysreport output.
This information is valid from 7.6.0 on.
This option normally should only be used in case it is requested by our Support department. The collected thread dumps may help to identify the root cause of long running threads, critical load and very high CPU usage. In case of an incident with very high CPU usage and a lack of resources, please consider the addditional usage of --skip-compression.
This option triggers the thread dump creation via 'kill -3' and logs the related top output into the '/commands/top -d 3 -bHn 5 (thread-dump)' file. The thread dump on systems other than IBM Java will be stored within the /var/log/open-xchange/open-xchange-console.log, on IBM Java they will be stored separately inside the support tarball as /tmp/javacore.<timestamp>.txt.
This option normally should only be used in case it is requested by our Support department. The collected heap dumps could be very helpful in memory or OX service outage incidents. Please keep in mind that you have to call oxsysreport with this option before restarting the service.
First you will get a warning dialog with some system details and with the choice to proceed or to cancel. While creating Java heap dumps, your JVM will be stopped and the OX Service is not functional. This step may take several minutes and you might have to manually restart the open-xchange service afterwards. You also have to make sure that you have enough free disk space for processing the data in directories which are defined by --tempdir and --log-archive. Depending on your max heap size '-Xmx' defined by your ox-scriptconf.sh of your groupware Java Virtual Machine and amount of logs, several gigabyte could be needed!
This option triggers the creation of an heap dump which will be stored on systems other than IBM Java Systems within '/commands/jmap -dump:file (heap-dump).bz2' and '/commands/jmap -histo (heap-dump)'. The two jmap files beside without '(heap-dump)' marker contain the stdout/stderr of jmap by running this command. Please note, the '.bz2' suffix (and compression) will be suppressed by the --skip-compression option.
On IBM Java Systems the jmap command is not available and 'kill -ABRT' will do the job instead. This will kill the JVM completely by writing the heap dump. Afterwards the dump will be moved within the tarball and processed by the tool jextract. Depending on --skip-compression option jextract will compress it as zip or not. The heap dump will be located in /tmp/core.<timestamp>.dmp.zip within the tarball. The stdout/stderr of jextract will be written to '/commands/jextract core.<timestamp>.dmp (heap-dump)'. On IBM Java the OX groupware service will be restarted by this script.
This information is valid from 7.8.2 on.
The OXReportClient generates an overview about features and users from your database. On larger installations this tool may take very long and so we disabled it by default.
Please use this option only in case your system is affected by very high CPU usage and the oxsysreport compression stuck by the lack of resources. If this option is set, no compression takes place and this will affect the OX Support Tarball, as well as nested tarballs and possible heap dumps. The resulting tarball can get huge and we recommend to keep the --exclude-old-logs option in mind to also drop potentially outdated logs. Please always compress this tarball before handing it over to our support department.
We recommend to use this option if you are able to locate the period of a specific issue or by handing over an follow up tarball. This option will exclude all separate log files beyond the modified period which are stored on your system in /var/log/open-xchange or /var/log/univention. This option does not affect mandatory files like e.g. open-xchange-console.log. If logs are dropped they are listed in the generated overview file /modified-and-excluded-files.txt of the tarball.
This option removes all unexpected, as well as whole confidential known files from the /opt/open-xchange/etc/ copy of the support tarball. Also confidential information like passwords and keys will be replaced by a white and blacklist heuristic with a <REMOVED BY OXSYSREPORT> marker. The replacement works only on OX properties files and the /modified-and-excluded-files.txt file will contain the details of affected files.
Please keep in mind that the following examples just give a rough overview and arguments should be adapted to your own needs.
need to restart the open-xchange service afterwards manually again.
machine and amount of logs, several gigabyte could be needed!


The best public information film! Kids NOW love this and its almost 65 years old! An excellent resource, I used this with pretty much EVERY class I teach, reaching at least 240 students! Amazing how many remembered hygiene afterwards. Also prompted a handwashing campaign!
Yes thanks Rosanna! The clip has since been embedded into a PowerPoint presentation for schools wanting to run a simple education programme around H1N1 and general hygiene. Have a look at some of the resources on the site, under the resources tab. There are curriculum resources which have been developed and delivered. With now at least two schools following the entire curriculum, as well as literally hundreds of downloads of some of the PowerPoint presentations every month. So the message is getting through. I think using experienced teachers for this type of curriculum development is very useful. In terms of a DVD, this can be very useful if it has a collection of short films on it, such as some of those offered on this site. I tend to use clips, usually no longer that ten minutes to engage students or to help explain concepts, illustrate examples etc and this has worked well. Any longer and attention starts to wane. I have found that experiential learning where students observe, do and reflect is very powerful and have applied multiple intelligence theory when planning lessons and delivering them. I hope this helps.


There's no WiFi in the forest, but we promise You will find a better connection!
Get ready for a full day adventure tour which includes only the best Lappish experiences you can imagine! Visit Ranua Zoo, go to a traditional Lappish wood burning sauna, try floating in a private lake and see Northern lights or Midnight sun.
Get ready for a full day adventure tour which includes only the best Lappish experiences you can imagine! Visit Ranua Zoo, go to a traditional Lappish wood burning sauna, try floating in a private lake and see Northern lights.
This is our ultimate Lappish adventure where we'll try to show you the best of Lapland in just one day. Our day starts with hotel pick up and a one hour drive to Ranua Wildlife Park. In the summer you can expect to see animals playing in their natural habitat, and during the winter find them playing in the snow! There are over 50 animal species in this Zoo. See polar bears, gray wolves, geese, owls, foxes, lynxes, minks and brown bears, and learn more about their lives in the Arctic circle.
Following our wildlife safari is lunch after which we'll take a drive to our private lake.
The Finnish sauna is praised for its rejuvenating powers and health benefits. By interchanging hot and cold temperatures, i.e. warming up in the sauna and then jumping in the icy water, you improve your circulation, skin, and pump up the adrenaline! Our wooden cottage is nearby, so you can get in there to warm up and prepare for the next part of this super-duper adventure - floating in a private lake under the night sky.
In the summer season, you will float in a lake under the midnight sun, as we have polar nights here with white nights. We will dress you up in rescue floating suits made of light, waterproof material that will keep you dry and warm. In the winter, you will float in an ice hole and let yourself loose while you enjoy the starry nights and possible sights of Aurora Borealis. Winter time is a great time to see Northern lights, and there is no better way of seeing them, then floating in the icy lake!
After the floating, we will enjoy dinner, set up an open fire, and chit chat until it's time to head back. This all-day adventure lasts for 10 hours, and it shows you the most fabulous fun Lapland has to offer. If you want to make the most of your time in Rovaniemi, this full day tour is an excellent choice.
Keep in mind that we will do our best to make you comfortable, warm and entertained, but there's one thing we can't promise you - seeing Northern lights. Nature is unpredictable and Northern lights sights are not guaranteed. That's why our tour is so fantastic; you won't feel sad if you miss the frolicking lights in the sky.


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Agathis macrophylla (also Agathis silbae)  known as Pacific kauri, is a coniferous tree native to the islands of the southwestern Pacific Ocean in tropical humid lowlands and lower montane regions, notably in Fiji, Vanuatu, the Santa Cruz Islands, and the Solomon Islands. The Pacific kauri is one of the largest and fastest growing species in its genus, and is important in forestry.

Description
It is a large evergreen tree, reaching 40 m in height and 3 m in diameter. It possesses the mottled, shedding bark that is characteristic of other kauri species. Young trees are narrow and conic in shape, but begin to grow a wider, deeper canopy after attaining a trunk diameter of 30–50 cm. In mature specimens, the trunk is generally straight or slightly tapered and clear for 15–20 m before branching into a spreading canopy up to 35 m in diameter. The root system is deep and strong, and the trees are highly wind resistant.

The leaves are green and glossy, elliptical to lanceolate, 7–15 cm long and 2–4 cm wide. They are borne on short petioles and held in a decussate pairs, but twisted so they lie in one plane. Leaves in the shade, of juvenile trees, and of individuals growing in wetter regions, tend to be larger.

Male cones of A. macrophylla are elliptical and measure roughly 2–5 cm long at pollen shed. The short pollen cones help distinguish this species from related Agathis species. Female (seed) cones are globular, 8–13 cm across, and are borne on short woody stalks. The majority of the cone crop matures early to mid February, as the cones turn brown and release the winged seeds, which are small, flattened, and attached to a wing about 3.5 cm in length. Wind dispersal is very efficient; seeds have been known to travel tens of kilometres in the wind, and may even travel hundreds of kilometres during the tropical cyclones that occur frequently in the species' range.

Ecology
A. macrophylla is one of the largest trees in its range, and occurs as a dominant emergent tree in closed, humid, lowland-montane tropical forests.  Associated plant species vary from location to location, but include Cryptocarya turbinata, Ilex vitiensis, Garcinia vitiensis, Palaquium spp., and Podocarpus spp. in Vanuatu, Calophyllum vitiense, Dacrydium nidulum, Retrophyllum vitiense, Fagraea berteroana, and Podocarpus spp. in Fiji.

It is one of the fastest growing species in its genus, capable of growing 1-1.5 metres in height annually in lightly shaded to open areas, where growth is fastest. The species is fairly shade tolerant, especially in the seedling stage, though growth is slow under suppression. Strong root systems enable mature trees to withstand cyclones and seed rapidly into gaps. The species on the whole is long lived, capable of reaching ages of 300–1000 years.

Uses
A. macrophylla is a valued commercial timber species, and its wood is much sought after for many uses. The wood is a cream to gold colour (mature heartwood is a lustrous brown) and much appreciated in the timber industry, particularly as a surface veneer. The dry wood has a density of approximately 540 kg/m3.

Pacific kauri is a valuable tree throughout the southeastern Pacific (Melanesia). The timber is frequently used for house construction, canoe carving, and totem pole construction. Smoke from the resin is used as a black dye for hair, clothes and tattoos, and the leaves are used in traditional medicine. Fijians value the resin itself (known as makadre) to be used as pottery glaze and torch fuel.

See also
 Agathis australis, New Zealand kauri

References

Notes

External links
Agathis macrophylla at the Gymnosperm Database.

macrophylla
Near threatened plants

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Meet Your Alumni Board Nominees
In accordance with the constitution of the Reed College alumni association, and following a call for nominations to all alumni in the May 2013 edition of Reed magazine, the nominating committee of the alumni association hereby gives notice of the following nominations to the alumni board (AB). All terms begin July 1, 2014. These sketches have been edited for space.
President (One-Year Term):
Scott Foster '77 [biology], Gualala, California. While at Reed, was a soccer team goalie, KRRC DJ, and widely feared at the billiards table. He went on to a 26-year military career as a U.S. Naval officer, specializing in healthcare administration. Scott has entertained Reunions goers with jazz-ensemble performances and has volunteered as a D.C. chapter representative, 30th-reunion class leader, admission volunteer, and as at-large member of the alumni board. Scott and his wife, Susan Rudy '79, reside on the remote northern California coast, where he is the director for a bi-county emergency medical services district. He is currently serving a one-year term as vice president of the alumni board.
Vice President (One-Year Term):
Kristen Earl '05 [English], Portland, Oregon. Served on the alumni board in 2007–10, was a Portland chapter coordinator and interviewer for the Reed Oral History Project, and has been known to partake in other alumni shenanigans. Kristen is the development manager for Bradley Angle, a nonprofit providing support services for all people affected by domestic violence. In addition to serving on the Reed alumni board, Kristen is in her second year as board secretary for the Willamette Valley Development Officers. She lives in northeast Portland with her handsome husband, Eric. Kristen is currently serving a one-year term as secretary for the alumni board.
Secretary (One-Year Term):
Richard Roher '79 [English], Chappaqua, New York. Rich is chairman of Roher Public Relations, a 46-year-old firm based in New York with an office in downtown Portland. He came to Reed as a junior-year transfer student. A longtime Reed donor, his steady participation in alumni activity began as class leader for his 30th-class reunion. He subsequently went on to one-year appointment and then three-year appointment as an at-large member of the alumni board. There, Rich worked on the Reunions/Reedfayre committee, first on class leader recruitment, and then chairing the committee for two years. Rich looks forward to continue serving the college and the Alumni Association as an alumni board officer.
At-Large Board Members (3-Yr Term):
Bennett Barsk '82 [physics], Alexandria, Virginia. Math tutor. Bennett is a self-employed math tutor in the D.C. area. Both prior to and after becoming the current chair of the D.C. Reed alumni chapter, Bennett has conceived of, planned, and organized a variety of events, ranging from monthly Restaurant Club meetings to events including a private inaugural ball; art and photography exhibit receptions featuring Reed artists/photographers; and a brunch at his home featuring Diane Morgan '77, cookbook author, at which Diane and other attendees prepared dishes from her recent cookbook. Bennett's private parties (not official alumni events) have individually attracted up to 30 alumni.
Serena Golden '07 [English], Washington, D.C. Serena is associate editor of Inside Higher Ed, a national, online news publication, where she has worked for the past five years. At Reed, she worked at the sports center and as a tour guide for the admission office; now she is an alumni admission representative and a member of the Reed Career Network. She served on the "Write, Edit, Publish!" panel at Working Weekend 2013, and was a featured speaker at this year's D.C. edition of Reed on the Road. She has the personal goal of helping to improve Reed's relationship with the news media.
Constance Putnam '65 [philosophy], Concord, Massachusetts. Constance is an independent scholar working primarily in medical history. She has published widely and is the author or coauthor of four books. In 2005–06 she was a Fulbright Senior Scholar in Budapest. n active Reed volunteer, Constance served as a one-year alumni board member immediately following graduation, was an admission volunteer for several years, and frequently helped organize local alumni events. She has worked on capital campaigns, serving on both the National Advisory Council and the Centennial RCC. At home, too, she is a dedicated volunteer. In 2010, she was presented with the Foster-Scholz Club's Distinguished Service Award.
Clara Siegel '09 [mathematics], Seattle, Washington. Clara recently earned an MBA from Stanford University and is starting work with Amazon's wine business in product management. Clara loves Reed and has remained very involved with the school since graduating by volunteering with Reunions, the Career Center, Start Up Lab, and Working Weekend. While at Reed, Clara served as student body treasurer and was involved with Renn Fayre, murals, and policy committees. She looks forward to continuing her involvement with Reed by serving on the alumni board.
Will Swarts '92 [American studies], Brooklyn, New York. Will works in public relations in New York and writes book reviews. A former chair of the social affairs board and student caucus member, his Quest contributions helped him down a winding path in journalism in the Pacific Northwest, Hong Kong, Beijing, and Berlin. In New York, he helped revive the local alumni chapter in the early 2000s and was steering committee chair and chapter representative to the alumni board. He coaches youth baseball and enthusiastically attends Reed on the Road events. Will and his partner, Heather Malin, have two dogs, Neo and Fox.
Nominating Committee (1-Year Term):
Alea Adigweme '06 [Russian], Iowa City, Iowa. Alea is a writer, artist, and educator. During her three-year term on the alumni board (2011–14), she has worked with the Office for Institutional Diversity to facilitate meaningful connections between alumni and current students from underrepresented groups and their allies. In 2007–09, Alea was an assistant dean of admission at Reed, and in 2012, she received an MFA in nonfiction writing from the University of Iowa.
John Bergholz '83 [international studies], Oak Park, Ilinois. John is the vice president of institutional advancement at the National Louis University in Chicago. A first-generation college student, John drove a truck to pay tuition at Reed. He has been a Reed donor since he paid off his last student loan. He has also served on Reed's alumni board, board of trustees, and the Chicago alumni chapter steering committee, and helped to establish the Class of '83 Well-Endowed Scholarship. He serves on the board of directors for Thresholds, an organization providing service to people with severe mental illness. John and his wife, Katherine, have four children.
Jonathan Make '98 [international studies], Washington, D.C. Jonathan is the managing editor of a newsletter company in Washington, D.C., where he is a member of the local alumni steering committee. He is a past president of the committee and past chapter representative. He enjoys attending cultural and food-related gatherings with other Reedies, meeting new ones, and planning events to bring alumni together.
Alumni Trustee (Four-Year Term):
Jay Hubert '66 [physics], San Rafael, California. Jay is retired from Chevron, where he worked as manager of the analytical sciences unit. In 1970, he earned a PhD in physics from Texas A&M University. He has been an alumni admission representative for at least 30 years and has enjoyed interviewing prospective students and talking to their parents. His involvement with the college increased further while his son George '93 was a student at Reed. After retirement in 1999, Jay built much stronger contacts with staff at the college. Jay was a Reunions gift chair for 2006 and participated in the Oral History Project. He joined the alumni board in 2006 and retired as past president in 2013. He has contributed to the Annual Fund virtually every year since graduation, and with his wife, Mayme, funded a major matching-gift initiative for the centennial. He has been a member of the AFR steering committee since 2009. He and Mayme have three grown children.
Additional nominations for each position may be submitted by petition from the membership. Said petitions must contain the name and a brief biographical sketch of the nominee, the office to be filled, and the signatures of 50 or more members of the association. Petitions must be received in the alumni office on or before February 14, 2014.
In all offices for which there is only one nominee on February 14, the nominee shall be considered elected as of that date, except that the board of trustees must approve the alumni trustee nomination.
O.R.G.Y.
Reed alumni and their excited/nervous/non-plussed Reedie progeny (future alumni!). Top row (left to right): Benjamin Morrison '17, Juliet de la Huerga '17 (daughter of Carlos de la Huerga '73, not pictured), Elizabeth Jerison Terry '82 and Nico Terry '17, Alan Bishop '17 and Dina Kempler '89. Middle: Chloe Alston '17 (daughter of Kai Weber '84, not pictured). Front row: Tyler Morrison '90 and Rachel Altmann '88; Mira Kamdar '80 and Anjali Claes '17; Brandon Ross '17 and Molly Ross '04. (Rachel Cox '84 and daughter Sara Kelemen '17 are not pictured here.) Photo by Leah Nash
Rachel Cox '84 and daughter Sara Kelemen '17
New Reedies with alumni parents (or other relatives) qualify as members of a prestigious organization, Offspring of Reed Generations of Yesteryear, fondly referred to as O.R.G.Y. They, along with family members, were invited to join other Reed legacies for a group photo during Orientation in August. Gorgeous weather graced this photo shoot on the Eliot Hall chapel steps, and everyone received an O.R.G.Y button to wear proudly! More news and events for alumni and parents at the Alumni & Parents Homepage.
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Star Craving
By Jessica Gerhardt '11
The paparazzi should've been out for the Griffith Observatory Star Party on August 17, when SoCal alumni ranging from the classes '62 through '13 met up to take in a view of the heavens. Star Parties involve astronomers and stargazers from around Los Angeles, who congregate on the lawn outside the observatory, setting up telescopes directed at various celestial objects. At the beginning of the evening, finding each other proved to be more challenging than one might expect, due to the number of nerdy folks who tend to come together at Griffith, but eventually we all gathered on the observatory lawn, introduced ourselves to one another, and chatted about Olde Reed. Then we proceeded to explore some of the exhibits, taking cheesy photos with the displays, and eventually made our way outside to the telescopes, where we got to enjoy the sight of the moon, Saturn, a double star in the constellation Cygnus, and many other pieces of astronomical
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UK Reedies held a September Thirsty Third Thursday at the Sherlock Holmes pub in central London and even had former exchange students in attendance!
From left to right: Michelle Hennessy '02, Georgina Meakin (exchange student 2001–02), Jeff Frank '72, Juan Brito '10, Will Greaves (exchange student 2007–08), Tom Gore (exchange student 2007–08). Not shown in the picture: Josh Simon '05 and Dawn Teele '06.
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