https://twitter.com/#!/welcome/search/phusion%20projects
https://twitter.com/#!/welcome/search/FDA%20four%20loko
https://twitter.com/#!/welcome/search/FDA
https://twitter.com/#!/welcome/search/FDA
Monday, November 29, 2010
FDA letter
November 29, 2010
The Food and Drug Administration
10903 New Hampshire Ave
Silver Spring, MD 20993-0002
Dear ,
Pursuant to the state open records law, Wash. Rev. Code Secs. 42.56.001 to 42.56.904, I write to request access to and a copy of Documents of communication between Phusion Projects and the FDA concering Four Loko ingredients from 2008 to present. I request that all fees be waived because I am a student.. If your agency does not maintain these public records, please let me know who does and include the proper custodian’s name and address.
I agree to pay any reasonable copying and postage fees of not more than $10. If the cost would be greater than this amount, please notify me. Please provide a receipt indicating the charges for each document.
As provided by the open records law, I will expect your response within five (5) business days. See Wash. Rev. Code Sec. 42.56.520.
If you choose to deny this request, please provide a written explanation for the denial including a reference to the specific statutory exemption(s) upon which you rely. Also, please provide all segregable portions of otherwise exempt material.
Please be advised that I am prepared to pursue whatever legal remedy necessary to obtain access to the requested records. I would note that violation of the open records law can result in a fine — payable to me — of up to $100 for each day that I am denied access. Litigation costs, including reasonable attorney fees, may also be awarded. See Wash. Rev. Code Sec. 42.56.550(4).
Thank you for your assistance.
Sincerely,
Brier C Gabriel
445 NE Maple Street
Pullman WA
Washington State University
503 740 2270
The Food and Drug Administration
10903 New Hampshire Ave
Silver Spring, MD 20993-0002
Dear ,
Pursuant to the state open records law, Wash. Rev. Code Secs. 42.56.001 to 42.56.904, I write to request access to and a copy of Documents of communication between Phusion Projects and the FDA concering Four Loko ingredients from 2008 to present. I request that all fees be waived because I am a student.. If your agency does not maintain these public records, please let me know who does and include the proper custodian’s name and address.
I agree to pay any reasonable copying and postage fees of not more than $10. If the cost would be greater than this amount, please notify me. Please provide a receipt indicating the charges for each document.
As provided by the open records law, I will expect your response within five (5) business days. See Wash. Rev. Code Sec. 42.56.520.
If you choose to deny this request, please provide a written explanation for the denial including a reference to the specific statutory exemption(s) upon which you rely. Also, please provide all segregable portions of otherwise exempt material.
Please be advised that I am prepared to pursue whatever legal remedy necessary to obtain access to the requested records. I would note that violation of the open records law can result in a fine — payable to me — of up to $100 for each day that I am denied access. Litigation costs, including reasonable attorney fees, may also be awarded. See Wash. Rev. Code Sec. 42.56.550(4).
Thank you for your assistance.
Sincerely,
Brier C Gabriel
445 NE Maple Street
Pullman WA
Washington State University
503 740 2270
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Demographics story
WSU STAYS COMMITTED TO GOING GREEN
11-16-10
By: Lauren Madeja
Over the last couple of years, “going green” has been integrated into becoming a large part of American culture, and WSU is doing everything possible to keep up.
Last Wednesday, ASWSU senate approved a resolution to establish a “Cougar Green Fund”, which would be used for various sustainability projects across campus. The fund would be paid for by an optional $5 fee students can choose to pay at registration.
ASWSU senator Christina Turner was a big supporter of the new sustainability efforts in the senate meeting.
“We really want to be leaders of the green movement here at WSU, and this fund could open up so many possibilities for us,” Turner said.
Turner has been passionate about the environment for years, which is one of the reasons she ran for ASWSU senate.
“I really appreciate all the efforts WSU has already taken to become more sustainable, and I wanted to help make even more of a difference,” Turner said.
This green fund is in fact just one of the many things WSU has done to embrace green culture. Earlier this year the bike sharing program “Green Bikes” was introduced on campus, allowing students the opportunity to using biking, rather than driving, as a primary source of transportation. If expanded and utilized, this program will cut down on carbon emissions in Pullman not to mention supporting a healthier lifestyle for students.
WSU Wellbeing also recently launched their campus-wide “Set the Trend” campaign which encourages students to “Be Crimson. Go Green.” The program offers a variety of resources to students who are interested in contributing to a clean environment, including green consulting, eco-adventures, and environmental workshops.
WSU student, Nick Nordal, who participated in one of the Wellbeing eco-adventures was amazed by the experience.
“We hiked a trail picking up trash along the way and learning about the eco-systems in the area, and at the top we got to go mountain climbing,” Nordal said. “It was so cool to learn about where we were and help out the environment while still doing something fun.”
One of WSU’s biggest sustainability projects is the food and recycling program conducted by Dining Services. Dining services strives to use as many local and seasonal ingredients as possible, as well as products from sustainable suppliers. They have created several popular dishes based solely around ingredients produced from the Palouse, such as lentil chili and Palouse chocolate lentil cake. They use only local wheat and fresh produce, which not only cuts emissions from transportation, but also supports local farmers.
General Manager of the Hillside Café, Jeff Wold, is one of WSU’s greatest assets in the process of going green. Wold is responsible for establishing WSU’s relationship with the alliance of local sustainable farmers, Shepherd's Grain Flour and Legume, from which Dining Services gets all of their flour and other products.
“Sustainability is so important on such a large campus,” Wold said. “My goal is to teach these young minds the importance preserving the environment so they can go out in the world and do something about it.”
Wold is also responsible for first implementing the excellent recycling and composting system at the Hillside Café and leads training programs for students on how to recycle and compost foods properly.
WSU caught on quickly to the nation-wide “go green” phenomenon, and with new programs like the “Cougar Green Fund” constantly being implemented, the university should become a leader in sustainability.
Contacts: Christina Turner- (757)814-6972
Nick Nordal- (425) 283-9434
Jeff Wold- (509) 335-3561
11-16-10
By: Lauren Madeja
Over the last couple of years, “going green” has been integrated into becoming a large part of American culture, and WSU is doing everything possible to keep up.
Last Wednesday, ASWSU senate approved a resolution to establish a “Cougar Green Fund”, which would be used for various sustainability projects across campus. The fund would be paid for by an optional $5 fee students can choose to pay at registration.
ASWSU senator Christina Turner was a big supporter of the new sustainability efforts in the senate meeting.
“We really want to be leaders of the green movement here at WSU, and this fund could open up so many possibilities for us,” Turner said.
Turner has been passionate about the environment for years, which is one of the reasons she ran for ASWSU senate.
“I really appreciate all the efforts WSU has already taken to become more sustainable, and I wanted to help make even more of a difference,” Turner said.
This green fund is in fact just one of the many things WSU has done to embrace green culture. Earlier this year the bike sharing program “Green Bikes” was introduced on campus, allowing students the opportunity to using biking, rather than driving, as a primary source of transportation. If expanded and utilized, this program will cut down on carbon emissions in Pullman not to mention supporting a healthier lifestyle for students.
WSU Wellbeing also recently launched their campus-wide “Set the Trend” campaign which encourages students to “Be Crimson. Go Green.” The program offers a variety of resources to students who are interested in contributing to a clean environment, including green consulting, eco-adventures, and environmental workshops.
WSU student, Nick Nordal, who participated in one of the Wellbeing eco-adventures was amazed by the experience.
“We hiked a trail picking up trash along the way and learning about the eco-systems in the area, and at the top we got to go mountain climbing,” Nordal said. “It was so cool to learn about where we were and help out the environment while still doing something fun.”
One of WSU’s biggest sustainability projects is the food and recycling program conducted by Dining Services. Dining services strives to use as many local and seasonal ingredients as possible, as well as products from sustainable suppliers. They have created several popular dishes based solely around ingredients produced from the Palouse, such as lentil chili and Palouse chocolate lentil cake. They use only local wheat and fresh produce, which not only cuts emissions from transportation, but also supports local farmers.
General Manager of the Hillside Café, Jeff Wold, is one of WSU’s greatest assets in the process of going green. Wold is responsible for establishing WSU’s relationship with the alliance of local sustainable farmers, Shepherd's Grain Flour and Legume, from which Dining Services gets all of their flour and other products.
“Sustainability is so important on such a large campus,” Wold said. “My goal is to teach these young minds the importance preserving the environment so they can go out in the world and do something about it.”
Wold is also responsible for first implementing the excellent recycling and composting system at the Hillside Café and leads training programs for students on how to recycle and compost foods properly.
WSU caught on quickly to the nation-wide “go green” phenomenon, and with new programs like the “Cougar Green Fund” constantly being implemented, the university should become a leader in sustainability.
Contacts: Christina Turner- (757)814-6972
Nick Nordal- (425) 283-9434
Jeff Wold- (509) 335-3561
Monday, November 15, 2010
zehm lead
There is no investigative finding of criminal actvity on the part of the involved officers in the violent arrest and later death of Otto Zehm, according to a report by a Spokane detective.
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
a. there is no address or phone number for me but there is one for Lauren Dilette Madeja: 2016 Medford Rd Ann Arbor, MI 48104
b. again, no phone number for me but you can call Lauren D. Madeja at (734) 973-2049
c. my myspace and facebook showed up as well as several websites where articals were published about my swimming and swim coaching
3. something surprising on addictomatic is there were swimming videos which I thought would be of me which would be really creepy but then they were of someone named Magdalena Madeja
2. the administrative contact for wsu1812 is Butch cougar
3. 755 NE Campus Ave
Pullman, WA 99163
US
4. 509-335-4200
5. President Floyd
-U00085707
-speeding ticket and MIP
-417
-
b. again, no phone number for me but you can call Lauren D. Madeja at (734) 973-2049
c. my myspace and facebook showed up as well as several websites where articals were published about my swimming and swim coaching
3. something surprising on addictomatic is there were swimming videos which I thought would be of me which would be really creepy but then they were of someone named Magdalena Madeja
2. the administrative contact for wsu1812 is Butch cougar
3. 755 NE Campus Ave
Pullman, WA 99163
US
4. 509-335-4200
5. President Floyd
-U00085707
-speeding ticket and MIP
-417
-
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Feature
Academic Advising at WSU Needs Some Advising Themselves
By: Lauren Madeja
Apparel design student Lauren Barr stares off into the distance as her professor drones on and on about the textural differences between silk and satin, wondering how she will get through a fifth year of school. This should be Barr’s senior year at Washington State University, but due to poor academic advising, she will have to stay an extra year to graduate in her major.
“My parents are furious they have to pay for an extra year of school when I could have done it in four,” Barr says. “But there’s nothing I can do, I wasted tons of credits because my advisor didn’t know what she was talking about.”
The problem arose when Barr’s apparel, merchandising, and textiles advisor put her on the apparel merchandising track instead of Barr’s intended major of apparel design. So while she should have been taking sewing and fitting classes, Barr was taking classes in economics and accounting.
“I thought it was strange that I would have to take those math classes for design,” Barr said, “But my advisor told me all AMT majors had to take those classes.”
When Barr was switched to a different advisor in her sophomore year, she found out she had been taking those classes for nothing, putting her way behind in her actual major. Now, because of limited classes and the tight schedule apparel design majors have, she will be spending a fifth year at WSU.
Barr is not alone in her frustrations with the academic advising at WSU. Many students have been left misled and uniformed by incompetent WSU advising, causing them to take unnecessary classes, graduate late, and even drop out of school. In fact, student dissatisfaction with academic advising has gotten so bad in the last five years that the school is revising its advising program by looking into what is wrong with the system and what could be better.
It turns out there is a lot wrong with the system, according to a report provided by the academic advising committee at WSU, which reveals there are no proper guidelines set out for advising and even worse, no formal training required for advisors. The report shows that any faculty member is permitted to advise students, even though they have no proper training or prior advising knowledge.
This shocking revelation definitely explains why there has been so much inconsistency in advising at WSU, but the explanation makes the situation even more disturbing. Not only are the people advising students at WSU not qualified to do that job, they didn’t even get the chance to be. The report shows that many teachers at WSU are required to be advisors as part of their teaching career, but these teachers know nothing about advising and don’t care much about it either.
Students’ reactions to this information were very powerful. Junior communication major Erin Leong was not surprised advisors had no training, and yet astounded WSU has let that system fly for so long.
“It’s ridiculous that I pay thousands of dollars to come to this school and they can’t even have professional advisors to help me graduate on time,” Leong said. “World class face to face? I don’t think so.”
Leong also had a bad experience with her advisor, who didn’t inform her of all the required classes she needed to take in order to certify in communication. Leong will have to stay an extra year just like Barr because she wasn’t able to certify on time, through no fault of her own.
“When I used to talk to my advisor I assumed she knew what she was doing so I never questioned what she told me,” Leong said. “Now I wish I would have.”
Faye Vowell, an academic affairs consultant who wrote a report on advising at WSU found yet another problem with the advising system. With an advising appointment required to take students’ holds off before they can register for classes, advising has become a rushed process seen by both students and advisors only as a means to an end, instead of an in depth discussion.
“We are not sending students the right message when we equate advising with
getting their holds lifted,” Vowell said.
Vowell says that advisors should play an important role for students in making very important academic and personal decisions in college, and WSU has lost that definition of advising. She suggests that the school rethink what advising means and how it can affect students’ lives.
The Faculty Senate Academic Affairs Committee at WSU has just recently proposed plans to revise academic advising which will require staff to undergo training and provide them more advising knowledge and guidelines. Though the proposal should have come years ago, hopefully it will prevent future students from meeting the same fate as Lauren Barr, Erin Leong, and so many other WSU students who were wronged by poor academic advising.
Contacts: Lauren Barr- 206-922-6196
Erin Leong- 206-669-3183
Faye Vowell- vowellf@wnmu.edu
By: Lauren Madeja
Apparel design student Lauren Barr stares off into the distance as her professor drones on and on about the textural differences between silk and satin, wondering how she will get through a fifth year of school. This should be Barr’s senior year at Washington State University, but due to poor academic advising, she will have to stay an extra year to graduate in her major.
“My parents are furious they have to pay for an extra year of school when I could have done it in four,” Barr says. “But there’s nothing I can do, I wasted tons of credits because my advisor didn’t know what she was talking about.”
The problem arose when Barr’s apparel, merchandising, and textiles advisor put her on the apparel merchandising track instead of Barr’s intended major of apparel design. So while she should have been taking sewing and fitting classes, Barr was taking classes in economics and accounting.
“I thought it was strange that I would have to take those math classes for design,” Barr said, “But my advisor told me all AMT majors had to take those classes.”
When Barr was switched to a different advisor in her sophomore year, she found out she had been taking those classes for nothing, putting her way behind in her actual major. Now, because of limited classes and the tight schedule apparel design majors have, she will be spending a fifth year at WSU.
Barr is not alone in her frustrations with the academic advising at WSU. Many students have been left misled and uniformed by incompetent WSU advising, causing them to take unnecessary classes, graduate late, and even drop out of school. In fact, student dissatisfaction with academic advising has gotten so bad in the last five years that the school is revising its advising program by looking into what is wrong with the system and what could be better.
It turns out there is a lot wrong with the system, according to a report provided by the academic advising committee at WSU, which reveals there are no proper guidelines set out for advising and even worse, no formal training required for advisors. The report shows that any faculty member is permitted to advise students, even though they have no proper training or prior advising knowledge.
This shocking revelation definitely explains why there has been so much inconsistency in advising at WSU, but the explanation makes the situation even more disturbing. Not only are the people advising students at WSU not qualified to do that job, they didn’t even get the chance to be. The report shows that many teachers at WSU are required to be advisors as part of their teaching career, but these teachers know nothing about advising and don’t care much about it either.
Students’ reactions to this information were very powerful. Junior communication major Erin Leong was not surprised advisors had no training, and yet astounded WSU has let that system fly for so long.
“It’s ridiculous that I pay thousands of dollars to come to this school and they can’t even have professional advisors to help me graduate on time,” Leong said. “World class face to face? I don’t think so.”
Leong also had a bad experience with her advisor, who didn’t inform her of all the required classes she needed to take in order to certify in communication. Leong will have to stay an extra year just like Barr because she wasn’t able to certify on time, through no fault of her own.
“When I used to talk to my advisor I assumed she knew what she was doing so I never questioned what she told me,” Leong said. “Now I wish I would have.”
Faye Vowell, an academic affairs consultant who wrote a report on advising at WSU found yet another problem with the advising system. With an advising appointment required to take students’ holds off before they can register for classes, advising has become a rushed process seen by both students and advisors only as a means to an end, instead of an in depth discussion.
“We are not sending students the right message when we equate advising with
getting their holds lifted,” Vowell said.
Vowell says that advisors should play an important role for students in making very important academic and personal decisions in college, and WSU has lost that definition of advising. She suggests that the school rethink what advising means and how it can affect students’ lives.
The Faculty Senate Academic Affairs Committee at WSU has just recently proposed plans to revise academic advising which will require staff to undergo training and provide them more advising knowledge and guidelines. Though the proposal should have come years ago, hopefully it will prevent future students from meeting the same fate as Lauren Barr, Erin Leong, and so many other WSU students who were wronged by poor academic advising.
Contacts: Lauren Barr- 206-922-6196
Erin Leong- 206-669-3183
Faye Vowell- vowellf@wnmu.edu
"What stories aren't being covered?"
I interviewed police officer Don Heroff after a presentation he gave at the CUB about alcohol use and abuse and how to stay safe in Pullman. He had a lot of ideas about stories that aren't being covered that were actually related to his presentation. During the presentation, someone asked if you can get a DUI for driving while high. Later he told me he wished more people new that you definitely can get a DUI for being under the influence of any drug while driving, not just alcohol. He said DUIs for drugs other than alcohol have been skyrocketing in Pullman, and most times the perpetrator is argumentative because they don't think they should be getting a DUI if they aren't drunk. But he says most of these unorthodox DUIs are not covered in the media for some reason. He thinks they should be covered more so that people will be more aware they can get in trouble for driving under the influence of anything so that they won't do it anymore. He said a lot of people think it's safe to drive high, or on other drugs, but driving under the influence of anything is dangerous and can get you put in jail and he wants people to know that.
I think I could definitely make a story out of this. It's very interesting because it's true that most DUIs you hear about are for driving drunk, so you don't really think about the consequences of driving high on other drugs. It is definitely relevant to WSU students and people on Pullman because obviously alcohol and drug use is prevalent on most college campuses. Also, I think many students who use drugs would be interested to know this because a lot of them probably didn't know you could get a DUI for driving high and hopefully it would make them think twice about doing it.
I think I could definitely make a story out of this. It's very interesting because it's true that most DUIs you hear about are for driving drunk, so you don't really think about the consequences of driving high on other drugs. It is definitely relevant to WSU students and people on Pullman because obviously alcohol and drug use is prevalent on most college campuses. Also, I think many students who use drugs would be interested to know this because a lot of them probably didn't know you could get a DUI for driving high and hopefully it would make them think twice about doing it.
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