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Nobel Prize-winning Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi Monday begins a two-week tour of the United States, where she is to receive Congress' highest honor.
Aung San Suu Kyi will spend the first four days of her visit in Washington - meeting with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and receiving the Congressional Gold Medal.
She also is expected to meet with President Barack Obama and make appearances at the Voice of America and Radio Free Asia.
Other stops on her visit include the states of California, Kentucky and Indiana, where the city of Fort Wayne is home to one of the country's largest Burmese-American communities.
Her visit coincides with next week's visit by Burmese President Thein Sein, who will address the United Nations General Assembly.
President Obama is considering relaxing some of the tough sanctions imposed on Burma because of the former military government's poor human rights record.
Conditions have improved since a civilian government came to power last year, including freedom for hundreds of political prisoners. Aung San Suu Kyi, who spent nearly 20 years under house arrest, is now a member of the Burmese parliament.
Article by VOA News
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CA Attorney General Brief: Prop 8 Violates 14th Amendment
June 13th, 2009
What a contrast between the California Attorney General and the U.S. Department of Justice. On the same day in which the Obama administration filed a brief before the U.S. Supreme Court defending the so-called “Defense of Marriage Act,“ California Attorney General Jerry Brown filed a very different brief in Perry v. Schwarzenegger, the Prop 8 challenge brought by Ted Olson and David Boies.
In the brief filed on behalf of the State of California (PDF: 128KB/11 pages), Brown notes that:
The Attorney General of California is sworn to uphold the Constitution of the United States in addition to the Constitution of the State of California. Cal. Const., art. XX, § 3. The United States Constitution is the “supreme law of the land.” Taking from same-sex couples the right to civil marriage that they had previously possessed under California’s Constitution cannot be squared with guarantees of the Fourteenth Amendment. Accordingly, the Attorney General answers the Complaint consistent with his duty to uphold the United States Constitution, as Attorney General Thomas C. Lynch did when he argued that Proposition 14, passed by the California voters in 1964, was incompatible with the Federal Constitution.
The complaint filed by Olson and Boies (PDF: 140KB/11 pages) is broken down into forty-nine paragraphs. The response by the Attorney General addresses each of the numbered paragraphs in the original complaint. The response begins with a stipulation that California’s Domestic Partnerships are not equal to civil marriage and therefore violates the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution”
In response to paragraph 1 of the Complaint, the Attorney General admits that in November 2008 California adopted Proposition 8; that Proposition 8 amended Article I of the California Constitution by adding section 7.5 which provides that “[o]nly marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California;” and that the effect of Proposition 8 is to deny gay men and lesbians and their same-sex partners access to civil marriage in California and to deny them recognition of their civil marriages performed elsewhere. The Attorney General admits that lesbians and gay men and their same-sex partners may form domestic partnerships in California pursuant to California Family Code sections 297 through 299.6, and that such domestic partnerships are not equal to civil marriage, and that this unequal treatment denies lesbians and gay men rights guarantees by the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
…In response to paragraph 7 of the Complaint, the Attorney General admits that Proposition 8 denies same-sex couples the right to civil marriage in California, and that it therefore violates the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
…In response to paragraph 23 of the Complaint, the Attorney General admits that California’s domestic partnership law gives same-sex couples many of the substantive legal benefits and privileges that California civil marriage provides; that the domestic partnership law does not permit the marriage of same-sex couples; and that the California Supreme Court has noted at least nine ways in which statutes concerning marriage differ from corresponding statutes concerning domestic partnerships.
Brown describes the reasons that gays and lesbians should be treated as a suspect class deserving of equal protection:
…In response to paragraph 20 of the Complaint, the Attorney General admits that sexual orientation is a characteristic that bears no relation to a person’s ability to perform or contribute to society and that the sexual orientation of gays and lesbians has been associated with a stigma of inferiority and second-class citizenship, manifested by the group’s history of legal and social disabilities.
Brown also invokes Loving v. Virginia, the 1967 U.S. Supreme Court ruling which struck down laws banning marriage between people of different races:
In response to paragraph 35 of the Complaint, the Attorney General admits that the United States Supreme Court found in Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1. 12 (1967), that the “freedom to marry has long been recognized as one of the vital personal rights essential to the orderly pursuit of happiness by free men.”
The brief then addresses the Due Process claims:
In response to paragraph 38 of the Complaint, the Attorney General admits that, to the extent that Proposition 8 took from Plaintiffs their previously held fundamental right to marry, the measure violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution on its face.
…In response to paragraph 39 of the Complaint, the Attorney General admits that, to the extent that Proposition 8 took from Plaintiffs their previously held fundamental right to marry, the measure violates the Due Process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution on its face; and that by denying civil marriage to gay and lesbian same-sex couples that it affords to heterosexual opposite-sex couples, the California Constitution denies gay and lesbian couples and their families the same dignity, respect, and stature afforded families headed by a married couple.
And the Equal Protection claims:
In response to paragraph 42 of the Complaint, the Attorney General admits that Proposition 8 restricts civil marriage in California to opposite-sex couples; that gays and lesbians are therefore unable to enter into a civil marriage with the person of their choice; that the California Constitution treats similarly-situated persons differently by providing civil marriage to opposite-sex couples, but denying it to same-sex couples; that domestic partnership under California law is available to same-sex couples, but is not the equivalent of civil marriage; that even if domestic partnership were the substantive equivalent to civil marriage, it would still be unequal to deny civil marriage to same-sex couples because, as recognized by the California Supreme Court in In re Marriage Cases, domestic partnership would carry with it a stigma of inequality and second-class citizenship; that under the California Constitution, gay and lesbian same sex couples are unequal to heterosexual opposite sex couples; and that article I, section 7.5 of the California Constitution discriminates on the basis of sexual orientation.
This is an exceptional brief, absent all of the pernicious anti-gay ramblings of the Obama administration’s brief before the U.S. Supreme Court. After reading the DOJ brief yesterday, this one was a breath of fresh air. Look at these two briefs side-by-side. It will be clear that only one was written by a “fierce advocate” for the Constitutional principles of Due Process and Equal Protection.
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When I was researching the Green Lighting book with my coauthors Seth Leitman and Bill Brinsky, we heard about a whole new lighting technology that was reportedly in development. Details were scarce, and repeated calls and emails to the Seattle-based Vu1 Corporation were never returned. So we were only able to write a few paragraphs, based on press releases.
Now, however, Vu1 is providing a lot more information. The other day, William B. Smith dropped by The Daily Green's office to tell us about the product. Smith is president of New York-based SAM Advisors, which has been funding Vu1 and controls two seats on its board. He admitted that the company had been going through a reorganizing period while we were working on our book.
Smith's message was clear: he hopes Vu1 bulbs will become the dominant lighting technology in the next couple of years. He pulled no punches when describing the competition. "CFLs are garbage," Smith said. He described their light as "horrible" and "bluish," and repeated widespread concerns over the toxic mercury they contain (I've written before about how many of these fears are way overblown, and are not a good reason to avoid CFLs in most cases.)
"On the high end, you have LEDs (light emitting diodes), which still have power issues, light issues, and are expensive, although our government has gotten behind them," said Smith. "The LED industry doesn't have a good product now. They say they do, but they don't. It will be four to five years before they have something people will want in their homes," he said.
(In Green Lighting, we disagree with Smith, and feel that the newest LEDs can be a great choice for many applications right now. Certainly for early adopters and those interested in saving money long term, they can be a smart buy. For the rest of us, we think they will become the dominant technology within two to three years, not four to five. Check out TDG's recent lighting tests, and see for yourself how today's LEDs provide excellent light quality compared to CFLs and traditional incandescents.)
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By Sydney Bucksbaum, Hollywood.com Staff
David Blaine's electromagnetic stunt, Electrified: One Million Volts Always On, began Friday evening, meaning the magician spent his weekend standing on a 20ft platform in New York's Pier 54 in the middle of one million volts of electric current streamed by Tesla coils. (Tesla coils were invented by Serbian-American scientist Nikola Tesla for generating high-voltage bursts of electricity. The more you know!) However, Blaine is wearing a chainmail suit made of highly conductive stainless steel also known as a Faraday suit so the current doesn't actually touch him.
No doubt, that's a fact that would disappoint some fans of Blaine who are used to seeing the magician deliberately endure extreme torture in exhibits like 2000's ""Frozen in Time"" (during which he encased himself in ice for 63 hours) and 2006's ""Drowned Alive"" (during which he submerged himself in water for seven days). "Unlike what uneducated people think, voltage is not what matters," Walter Lewin, Professor of Physics Emeritus at MIT, tells Hollywood.com. "It's the current that matters.""
And because the Faraday suit is conducting the electrical current, there is little to no danger to Blaine. In fact, Lewin himself has done something like this for educational purposes. "During lectures, I often bring my body at a potential of about one million volts," Lewin said. "Even three million volts provided you know what you are doing can be very safe. The crazy thing here is that this idiot wants to stand for 72 hours without food and drink. That is madness, somewhat dangerous, not because of the million volts."
Indeed, Blaine's most dangerous aspects of this stunt are staying awake for three days straight with no food (only a tube that delivers water), no rest, and in the middle of speakers constantly blaring loud, audience-attracting music. For some fans, that is the most impressive part of the event. Megan Valdez and Jessica Brown visited Pier 54 on Saturday evening to see Blaine's performance after hearing about it from a former teacher of Brown's who currently lives in Spain. (And, interestingly enough, Blaine's stunt has invited plenty of chatter overseas press has been covering the display thanks to a live stream to audiences in London, Beijing, Tokyo, and Sydney via the Electrified YouTube channel.) ""It's amazing that he can literally stand there for that long and deal with the music," Valdez said.
In fact, fans didn't seem to care for the scientific aspect of the display for Brown, enduring the loud atmosphere and a lack of sleep was worthy enough of awe. "The music probably would kill me because I have sensitive ears,"" Brown said. ""So I think that there's a lot of elements besides just standing on that pole that people probably aren't taking into account. Besides that fact that he's also standing for that long, he's not sleeping, he's not eating, he's not drinking."
Plus, for some, it doesn't hurt that the spectacle is visually stunning Blaine stands in the center of a steel cage, wearing the mesh suit, and watches bright blue tendrils of electricity jump out at him. Add in the loud crackling of the volts and the music played on the keyboard, and it made for an intense viewing experience. (Of course, watching Blaine himself standing, waving at the crowd, and stretching his legs wasn't quite so interesting.) "I saw this on the Internet," said another spectator, Mike Weiss, who visited the display with his son, Robert. "The last time we came and saw him, he was in the water for like three days. Pretty cool stuff, but this is way cooler than the water."
Of course, not everyone was cool with some realities of the spectacle. Said Valdez in horror watching Blaine, "He's peeing in a catheter!"
Follow Sydney on Twitter @SydneyBucksbaum
[Photo Credit: WENN]
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Before you begin to dance away with her on the ocean floor, beware: she may be a Siren. Sirens are bird-like seductresses originating from Greek Mythology, notably in Homer’s The Odyssey. Odysseus and his men were venturing through the treacherous oceans to finally make it home when they ran into the Sirens. Their song is equally sad and sweet—luring sailors into their ultimate death.
You’re a player who’s starting to feel sly and in control. Women are throwing themselves at your sultry, suave demeanor… yeahhh. Unfortunately your complacency will most likely prevent you from filtering women, dooming you to hear song after song from vicious Sirens who have no intent of letting go of their ravenous grip.
Sirens entrap men. They are typically bright, alluring women with a thick layer of charisma to mask the decaying spirit inside. If your relationship consists of cyclical break ups and fictional love then you are probably in a Siren’s empty trance.
A Domestic Siren is the trophy on your mantel. She makes gourmet sandwiches, folds your socks while you watch ESPN after dinner and the dishes are totally cleaning themselves. But all that time at home, all work and no play, turns the Siren straight away. Yes, I advocate milfhood and glorify domestic duties, but without hobbies and interests this Siren will feel caged. Goodbye Domestic and hello Desperate Siren from Wisteria Lane.
The Carnivorous Siren can start off as the beak to your worm. And as delightful as woodpeckers can be, this Siren is more naughty than nice. As psychology would reiterate, the lack of a good father figure, traumatizing first boyfriend experience, or unyielding need for attention will cause her to gnaw your heart away. Carnivorous women are convinced that all men are evil and use it to justify their selfish tendencies. These women first manipulate and then learn to chirp your tune. She lusts you but she lusts herself more. Vultures.
Some women do not have confidence and Flightless Sirens sing this pitiful song. At first, it’s precious, their self-loathing antics and cute failures. However, there is dust gathering on her wings. Life isn’t about finding yourself, but making yourself and if you’re too busy helping her, you’ll both fall. And yikes, it never helps that insecure women are usually boring because they’re too afraid to just be. Flightless Sirens are prone to fling their man-woes on “the universe”, never themselves. They preach cynicism and predict holes in others’ happiness. Keep thy ears covered!
The Migratory Siren is a Player’s female counter-part. Perhaps this is your ideal gal. She’s the right balance of party owl and career chick but in that shuffle, you hardly come up. If you were trying to keep score in the mating game, you will see no victory with her. She’s the only Siren that will want things to end between you two—and that very objective is what keeps you clasped on.
Running into one of these Sirens marks the end of your Playerhood. Women who display Sirenistic qualities (look at me, making up words already) are hopefully in a phase as well. So if you’re wasting your time, at least know what you’re wasting it with. What’s worse than a woman without standards? A man without standards. Men are supposed to maintain composure so when they’re found at a dark corner wallowing in their female misery, it only fuels the darkness of the pit a Siren wishes you to remain in. No, women don’t like “jerks”, but we’d like to secretly know that you can make a firm decision when necessary.
“Nice guys” don’t finish last, push-overs do.
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The Hells Canyon National Recreation Area (hereinafter referred to as the “recreation area”), which includes the Hells Canyon Wilderness (hereinafter referred to as the “wilderness”), the components of the Wild and Scenic Rivers System designated in section 3 of this Act, and the wilderness study areas designated in section
of this title, shall comprise the lands and waters generally depicted on the map entitled “Hells Canyon National Recreation Area” dated May 1978, which shall be on file and available for public inspection in the office of the Chief, Forest Service, United States Department of Agriculture. The Secretary of Agriculture (hereinafter referred to as “the Secretary”), shall, as soon as practicable, but no later than eighteen months after December 31, 1975, publish a detailed boundary description of the recreation area, the wilderness study areas designated in section
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A new documentary raises questions about whether Washington, D.C., school officials downplayed allegations that educators were cheating to improve students' scores on high-stakes skills tests - even after a principal came forward with her own eyewitness account.
Washington's Noyes Education Campus was the subject of a 2011 investigative series by USA TODAY, which first reported on unusually high numbers of wrong-to-right pencil erasures on standardized test papers going back to 2008.
The erasures weren't direct evidence of cheating by staff members, but strongly suggested tampering, experts told USA TODAY.
Administered citywide each spring, the math and reading exams gained new prominence in 2007, after then-chancellor Michelle Rhee began tying student scores to principals' and teachers' employment.
The PBS Frontline documentary "The Education of Michelle Rhee," airing Tuesday, offers the first testimony from Adell Cothorne, who in the 2010-11 school year was principal at Noyes. Cothorne tells the filmmakers that she alerted officials on Nov. 3, 2010, to an afterschool incident in which she stumbled upon three staffers sitting in an office with students' completed practice test booklets and pencils.
"I noticed that the erasers were down and the pencil points were up," Cothorne said Monday in an interview. "That really stuck out in my mind."
She immediately reported the incident, but was never contacted by administrators. "I kind of trusted that somebody would follow through on it and it didn't really happen that way," Cothorne said.
Cothorne filed a federal complaint against the district in 2011, alleging that cheating essentially defrauded the U.S. government, since Washington receives millions in federal funds annually for education. That triggered an investigation by the U.S. Department of Education, which said on Monday that cheating was limited to just one school, which it didn't specify. The department said it couldn't substantiate any false claims and the U.S. Department of Justice declined to intervene.
In the complaint, newly unsealed, Cothorne alleges that shortly after she stumbled upon the staffers erasing test papers, former Noyes principal Wayne Ryan called her to his office and told her, "I heard that you don't respect the legacy that has been built at Noyes." She said Ryan told her, "You're not saying anything" about erasures.
Ryan couldn't be reached immediately for comment.
Cothorne requested extra security for the high-stakes tests the following spring and students scores dropped about 25 percentage points.
In a statement, D.C. Public Schools spokeswoman Melissa Salmanowitz said every report of testing impropriety "is taken very seriously." She noted that Cothorne was interviewed by a private firm as part of a separate investigation of the 2010-11 tests "and there is no mention of this incident in the interview report."
After USA TODAY wrote about Noyes in March 2011, the city's inspector general launched what would become a 17-month investigation that included interviews with Cothorne's entire staff, but not her. "I just figured they didn't want to hear what I had to say," she said. That report focused solely on Noyes and found no reason for a wider probe of Washington schools.
The Frontline documentary includes comments from a USA TODAY reporter who worked on the 2011 investigative series.
Copyright 2013 USATODAY.com
Read the original story: Frontline: D.C. schools downplayed cheating allegations
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In an engaging if predictable cautionary tale, 14-year-old Cameron stops taking medications for his schizophreniform disorder and finds that his choice brings unwanted consequences.
Off his medication, Cameron hears voices. He likes having some of the voices in his head, such as the even-keeled, informative Professor and the alluring Girl, a newer arrival. (They are helpfully represented, as are the other voices, by recognizably different typefaces.) His desire to hold onto the voices makes his quitting his meds believable and compelling. The central ambiguity—the way some aspects of Cameron’s unmedicated state feel desirable and important, even while others are confusing or frightening—is maintained almost to the end. A new, intimidating voice Cameron calls the Other Guy urges Cameron to take risks and be cruel, and readers feel the exhilaration Cameron experiences at obeying the Other Guy’s commands. Cameron’s parents and sister are realistically drawn, with believably flawed reactions to Cameron’s condition, as is his friend Nina, a classmate with depression from the Emotionally Disturbed Program. A pat ending, however, undermines the question of whether Cameron ought to be allowed to go without medication, as does an afterword in which the author, a clinical psychologist, speculates that “one day, Cameron might very well be free of the disease forever, which is his fondest hope.”
Complex questions are carefully presented but answered too simply in this nevertheless intriguing exploration. (Fiction. 12-16)
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Education Tax Credit
No later than January 31 each calendar year, all eligible students will be issued a form for the prior calendar year. Students may review payment information online at www.leoonline.odu.edu. Students and parents are advised to use personal financial records to determine the qualifying amount for tax purposes since the definition of "qualified tuition" may include other related expenses.
1098T Form Facts
- Students who pre-registered in calendar year 2010 for courses in 2011 will not have the cost included in the figure reported. (1) The law says that schools must send this information to each taxpayer and to the IRS. For the 2011 tax year, this information will include:
(1) the name, address, and taxpayer ID number of the school
(2) the name, address, and taxpayer ID of the student for whom tuition was paid
(3) whether the student was enrolled at least half-time
(4) whether the student was enrolled only in a graduate-level program
(5) costs for 2011 courses (1)
- The IRS does not require taxpayers to submit 1098T forms when filing tax returns.
- The education tax credit amount the taxpayer can claim should be based on the taxpayer's personal records.
- Professional tax advisors should be consulted. The University cannot determine if a student qualifies for the tax credit or supply tax advice.
- Forms will be sent to the student's permanent address on file with the University.
According to the IRS, the term "qualified tuition and related expenses" means the tuition and fees an individual is required to pay in order to be enrolled at or attend an eligible institution. The following are not defined as "qualified tuition or related expenses."
- Charges and fees associated with room and board
- Student activities
- Transportation and similar personal, living, or family expenses
- Expenses paid with a Pell Grant or other tax-free scholarship, a tax-free distribution from an Education IRA, or tax-free employer-provided educational assistance are not taken into account in calculating the credit amount.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS REGARDING 1098T FORMS
What is the 1098T Tuition Statement?
It is a statement of related tuition expenses in calendar year 2011. The form contains elements that the IRS will find helpful in calculating a student's eligibility for the Hope Scholarship Credit and Lifetime Learning Credit. All students enrolled for credit courses with reportable transactions will receive a 1098T Statement.
Why does the statement include the charges for the courses that I pre-registered for in 2011?Students who pre-registered in calendar year 2010 for 2011 courses will have the cost of those courses included in the figure reported, since the due date of those transactions was in calendar year 2011.
Why doesn't the statement include all the charges for the courses that I registered for in 2011?
- Students who pre-registered for Spring 2012 courses in calendar year 2011 will not have the charges reported until calendar year 2012. The due date for those charges is not until calendar year 2012.
- Students may use their own records to report any payments made towards Spring 2012 in calendar year 2011.
This 1098T is incorrect; it does not include payments I made towards my tuition!
ODU does not report payments made towards tuition on the 1098T. ODU supplies students with their qualified tuition charges to use as a tool to calculate their own payments. Students will have to use their own records to determine actual amounts paid.
Why is ODU reporting to the IRS this way?
ODU is complying with the requirements of the IRS. We are only approved to report qualified tuition charges. The IRS established new requirements beginning with the 2004 reporting year.
What is reported in Scholarships and Grants, Box 4?
All payments made to your account except Federal Direct Student Loans- both unsubsidized and subsidized. Parent Plus loans.
Do I have to use this figure to claim the tax credit?
A 1098T is provided to assist you in figuring your tax credit. It is only one piece of several educational expenses you should consider. Form 8863 (Education Credits) does not ask you to report this amount. You report expenses based on your own financial records. Please consult a tax advisor if you have additional questions.
Can you help me determine what to report?
No. While we want to be helpful to students and their families, ODU staff is not qualified to assist you. The regulations are complex and we do not want to inadvertently misinform.
How can I find out more information?
- IRS Publication 970
- Contact your tax advisor.
How can I find out what I was charged or paid in 2011 so I can prepare my taxes?
Refer to your personal financial records or view your ODU student account on www.leoonline.odu.edu for detailed information. We only provide the 1098T.
How can I get a duplicate?
After February 10, students may request a duplicate 1098T statement. Please allow two weeks for processing a duplicate statement.
Please be sure that your permanent address on file with Old Dominion University is correct prior to submitting your request for a duplicate. Requests for duplicates are limited to one and must be submitted in writing to:
Old Dominion University
Norfolk, VA 23529
My tuition is fully covered by a scholarship, grant or contract; do I need a 1098T statement?
No. Students whose qualified tuition was entirely covered by formal billing arrangement, scholarship or grant for the entire calendar year did not receive a 1098T statement.
I received a 1098T form but I did not register in calendar year 2011. Why did I receive this?
A student could receive a 1098T even if they did not register during calendar year 2011 if:
- An adjustment was made in 2011 to their financial aid for the previous year. It could be a reduction or an increase.
- An adjustment was made to tuition charges from the previous year. For example: an approved tuition appeal, administrative drop, change in domicile.
Do I have to amend my taxes for the prior year?
Unfortunately, ODU is not qualified to give you tax advice. Please consult a tax advisor.
What did ODU report last year?
Since 2004, the IRS has required us to report any adjustments to reportable transactions from a prior year.
I received a 1098T and the SSN is incorrect or blank.
IRS regulations require that we report tuition and charges paid for each calendar year. The University apparently does not have your Social Security Number on file. Please send a photocopy of your Social Security card to the Registrar's Office. You may mail or fax the information. The Registrar's Office will not change your record based on a phone call or email. The Registrar's Office is responsible for inputting this information in the system. Once this has been completed, please contact your Accounts Receivable representative directly to have a corrected 1098T processed. The corrected copy may take up to two weeks since this function is outsourced.
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When it comes to the ballot questions of whether the City of Boulder should create its own municipal electricity utility the combatants were pretty predictable.
On the other side was an array of local elected officials, grass-roots groups pushing renewable energy and local control, and the Boulder Clean Energy Business Coalition.
Then about a month ago New Era Colorado – a five-year-old, non-profit group promoting political activism among young people – joined the fray.
“One of our core issues is energy and environment. It is something young people care a lot about,” said Steve Fenberg, a New Era organizer. New Era says rather than being left or right it is forward. It can also be funny.
So, New Era is planning to do door-to-door canvassing in support of the municipal utility plan on Halloween night – in costume.
And they produced this video spot promoting a Coal Energy Drink – check it out.
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Google Chrome doesn’t need any introduction to most of our audience. They almost saved us from the Satanic clutches of an Internet Explorer 6 infested world. With 3D rendering support, quick adoption of HTML 5, fastest JS engine (Wait.. That was before IE10), prettiest UI (again, before IE10) it wouldn’t be unfair to say Chrome is the most loved browser, under the sun.
Incidentally, Chrome turned 4 this month, and it is only fitting to celebrate their birthday with our readers here. Today, we’re going to see what makes Chrome so special.
Author’s note: I’d usually love to tell the story of the product from its inception, but Google’s sexy time machine here, kind of ruined it for me
Browsers were the talking point of the geek town back in 90′s when Microsoft and Netscape were fighting it out. But once MS won the war, browsers ceased to be in the limelight. From a technical standpoint, they were clumsy. Controlled by large corporations, browsers used arbitrary standards to render pages, which were broken most of the times. Browsers were terribly unstable: All your tabs were bound to crash whenever someone had misplaced their scripts, and that 3-page long email you were typing goes right into hell, in front of your eyes.
So, Google decided to do what Mozilla did for the free web, only bigger and better. The idea was to free the web from the hands off the agents of monopoly, and open up the gates for all. Chrome was born on September 2, 2008, admist thunderstorms and dragon showers. All the code was available to the rest of the world, as a part of Chromium.
What Makes Chrome So Fresh?
Sure, Chrome is all about building a free web, but that’s not all. Mozilla was working towards that since Google was in its infancy, they didn’t get anywhere, that’s a different story. Chrome built their product on Webkit, same as Firefox, only better.
Improved Process Handling
As we already saw, browsers were horribly unstable. Whenever you summon a new tab or a new window it spawns a new thread, but it’s still a part of the same process. So, when a script in a specific page gets crazy, it kills the whole process. Chrome changed this behavior and treated every instance of the browser, be it a new window, or a tab, as a separate process, and when something goes awry, you lose only that instance.
It’s not always the web developers to blame. Plugins are equally capable of brain draining your PC. Chrome efficiently pairs the extensions into several separate processes and as always, you lose only that specific add-on than all your hard toiled work along.
As an added bonus, we get a task manager along with Chrome. It lets you analyze, the memory usage, CPU utilization and figure out who is misbehaving, and boot them out of your space.
Browser interfaces are so ’90s (Yes, I’m talking to you Mozilla!). A menu bar with so many options, is absolutely useless. Well, lets think about it, when was the last time you took a second into File or Edit menu? I personally use it to open up the settings, or to switch to Private Browsing, both which could be wrapped up in a couple of buttons- the Chrome Way.
Search is an inextricable, integral part of our web lives (I don’t know how I would’ve survived back in college, without Google). Google, being world leaders in search, obviously understood it better than the rest of the crowd, and is well integrated into the browser with Omnibar. If you ask me the best thing that they’ve done so far, it is them losing the search bar. People seldom use both search and address bar together, in which case, it doesn’t make any sense to separate them.
Another useless interface element, usually found in all the browsers, is the empty pixels on top, just to say the browser’s name (I know the name of the app if I can open it, Thanks!), eating up precious pixels on my screen.
One of the fundamental differences between Chrome and other browsers is the way treat web pages- everything is an application, from our mail client to the video sharing site. Taking a page from Apple’s iTunes Store, Google brought the world of apps to us, right in our browser. With so many useful productivity apps, including Cut the Rope (C’mon! It helps me focus), it gets the work done.
In this age of mobiles, we carry several devices along with us, but everything has its own settings. Personally, I’ve hundreds of bookmarks, and I’d be at a loss without half of the data. Plus, there’re apps that we’ve installed, trust me, it’s not cool to keep reinstalling all your favorite apps all over, in all your devices.
Chrome lets you login with your Google account and sync up all your settings, apps, bookmarks. All your data are available in the Cloud and can be retrieved from anywhere, anytime.
The web is open to all. We’ve websites in all languages, and often we stumble upon web pages from Mars. We used to copy the text or send the URL to Google Translate. After a while Google integrated it with Chrome, making our lives a lot more easier.
The first decade of the new millennium saw a great surge in graphics and games. Online gaming was touted as the next big thing back then, with Adobe boosting Flash as the frontrunner, but Flash was naive and was unable to do any serious stuff.
While the rest of the world was fist fighting with their open source project O3D, Google brought the delight of powerful 3D rendering to our browsers.
IE as usual was problematic, and Google, the Big Daddy for Open Source projects, chipped in their support. Chrome, in line with WebKit, supports all major HTML5 and CSS3 specifications. On a tangential note, for all number crunchers, Chrome has swept all ACID tests under the carpet, with a neat 100.
In contrast to native applications, web apps are strongly confined within the walls of your browser. They aren’t passed on with the benefits of your high-end GPU and are left to fend on their own. This made it impossible for developers to create quality assets on the web.
Introduced by IE9, Chrome went on to support Graphics Hardware Acceleration from Chrome 10. For those of us who don’t know what all the hoopla around Hardware Acceleration means, it’s a technique where the browser is allowed to share the computing power of your video card, for a blissful visual rendering.
Some things are personal, Browsing included. There are a few things which I want to keep out from the outside world, and with Incognito mode I get to do that exactly. Sure, other browsers support similar feature, but Chrome handles things a little differently. All the add-ons are disabled by default in the incognito mode. This can be both a good thing and a bad thing depending on the time of the hour you ask me.
The logic behind this is that, browsers have little control over what the third party apps track. On the other hand sometimes browsing gets annoying without all my add-ons, especially Adblock.
IE made it incredibly difficult for developers to analyze their code. Firefox was the most preferred tool, thanks in large to Firebug, until Chrome entered the space. Chrome’s Inspect Element is such a Godsend, especially I’m dealing with a huge script at midnight.
Even though Firefox was around with us for a while, IE was still dominating the Browser market. Firefox was very unstable (nothing much has changed yet), forcing most of the crowd to stick with IE. When Chrome came in they literally swooped in on their heads and stole their thunder (and largely, their customer base). At present Chrome has a little less than 35% of the browser share, while Firefox is down to 24.
Web has come a long way since the primitive browsers came by. There is a paradigm shift in the way we see web today. It has become a more mature platform for sharing information, communication, and even play games- stuff that weren’t even imaginable a few years back. So it makes sense to build a new browser from ground up, rather than adding more useless features, and that’s exactly what Chrome does, and that’s exactly what makes it so special.
Chrome is one of the best modern browsers in store today, But IE is closing in on Chrome, after IE9, and with Windows 8 on cards, yet another browsing war awaits us.
What was the first browser you’ve used? Hop-in in our comments section, and let us know your thoughts, Thanks for reading!
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"Inside Longwood - Barry O'Meara's clandestine letters" is a book published in May 2012.
Barry O'Meara was the Navy surgeon chosen by Napoleon in July 1815 to follow him to St. Helena as his personal physician. O'Meara's unique position among the captives gave him an insight into their personal routines and thoughts. His status as a British officer gave him access to Plantation House, seat of the Governor of St. Helena, Napoleon’s “gaoler” Sir Hudson Lowe.
Despite the restrictions that surrounded Longwood House, Napoleon's residence, O'Meara decided to conduct a clandestine correspondence with John Finlaison, a friend at the Admiralty in London. His letters recorded his private conversations with the illustrious captive, who became increasingly irritated by Sir Hudson Lowe.
In the autumn of 1817, when Napoleon's health began to decline, the Governor would not believe his physician's diagnosis. Pressure was exerted upon O'Meara, but to no avail, and finally, in July 1818, he was expelled from Longwood. Without medical assistance for over a year, and increasingly isolated in his wretched, damp abode, Napoleon’s health gradually deteriorated leading to his death in May 1821.
These clandestine letters offer an invaluable insight into Napoleon's state of mind during his captivity. O'Meara would later use them to compile his famous book, A Voice from St. Helena, in 1822. However, in the published work, he exercised restraint and softened the tone of the original letters which now for the first time are published in their entirety in Inside Longwood.
Published in England, the book is orderable from online services such as Amazon, or directly from the author (via the Contact form).
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Albert Benhamou is the author of L'autre Sainte-Hélène (2010), a comprehensive scholarly account of Napoleon’s exile on St. Helena, published in French. He is also the author of a number of articles on the Napoleonic period. He lives with his family in England.
- John Tyrrell, a known blogger about Napoleon in St. Helena, has posted a book review at his blog page ; his conclusion is that "Albert Benhamou has done a great service in extracting these letters from the archives so that we may for the first time read them as a whole and judge for ourselves."
- J. David Markham, President of the International Napoleonic Society (INS), wrote on Amazon.com web site: "Albert Benhamou had made a very important contribution to the field of Napoleonic studies in general and Napoleon's time on St Helena in particular. By bringing these important letters together into one book he has eased the process of researching this aspect of Napoleon's life and added another 'must read' volume to the literature of St Helena."
- the Friends of St. Helena society also published a positive book review in their magazine "St. Helena Connection" No. 13 - The review concludes with: "Inside Longwood is an important addition to the ever increasing literature relating to the captivity because it is a rare example of new source material being brought to public notice with only very limited comment and interpretation."
- a reader from Amazon has also posted his comments in their web site ; his opening remark is that "This wonderful little gem of a book will be treasured by anyone with an interest in Napoleon and his time on St Helena."
- In France, the Foundation Napoleon has posted a notification of the publication of this book in their English pages
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When It Happens Panel Get involved: send your photos, videos, news & views by texting 'OXFORD NEWS' to 80360 or email
Queen to attend Tube celebration
The Queen is set to carry out her first public engagement in more than a week when she joins the Duchess of Cambridge at an event celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Tube.
The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh will travel with Kate to Baker Street Underground station in London to mark the transport network's milestone.
The Queen, who had been suffering symptoms of gastroenteritis, has been carrying out her duties within Buckingham Palace but last week cancelled a trip to London's East End to visit Tech City.
The Duke of York, who carried out the engagement without his mother, said she was "not ill" but stayed at home as precaution.
The last time she was seen at an official event was an engagement last Monday evening when she signed the Commonwealth's new charter.
The Queen last visited a Tube station in February 2010, when she travelled to Aldgate station to meet staff and view a memorial plaque dedicated to the seven people killed at Aldgate during the July 7, 2005 bombings.
During the royal party's visit to Baker Street, they will meet station staff in the ticket hall before moving downstairs to the platform where maintenance and train workers will be waiting.
The Queen, Philip and Kate will also view a restored 1892 carriage and meet staff and apprentices involved in the restoration of the rolling stock.
They will then walk through a new S7 train before she unveils a plaque, naming the train Queen Elizabeth II.
The royal party will also meet staff from the Railway Children charity, an international organisation which works to help homeless youngsters.
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Next, I need to figure out how to get this unit powered up and input/output functioning outside of the rack for calibration. There are many ways to do this, so I thought about it for a while. This is probably something I will need to do with other future modules, so some good tools would help.
First, I thought about just creating a 51X card that is merely a pass-through "umbilical" connector.
Then, I thought about utilizing a little 51X "plug-in" power supply I had rigged up with a JLM powerstation prior to the official powers supply kit being available in the United States.
Luckily, I had purchased some DIY supplies and spare parts to have in my bin for situations like this, and came up with something I thought might do the job more elegantly.
My initial thought was to jumper straight across for an easy build, but then, I realized the modules would have to be inverted from each other to work, and the handling may become awkward.
So, I abandoned that idea and decided to wire the adapter so the modules could both orient face up which basically means connecting all wires to the opposite end.
And, this is what I ended up with. . . powersupply goes on the right side, and the VC528 goes on the left side w/ the main input and output connectors spliced in for easy connection.
And, all hooked up. . .
This is looking like it might work for when I bring this into the studio to calibrate. One more small item remained, and that is an XLR cable with test clips on one end to clip onto specific leads on the PCB. Again, digging in my parts bin, I come up with this.
Now, I am really ready to get these VC528's dialed in, and hopefully have some simple tools that I can re-use for calibration and testing on other modules I assemble.
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Note: To protect the privacy of our members, e-mail addresses have been removed from the archived messages. As a result, some links may be broken.
Re: .......thoughts on copying?
[ Thread ][ Subject ][ Author ][ Date ]Bob Greaves
Tue, 27 Jan 1998 09:12:33 +0000
Reatha's points about copying are well said. I often use the essay
analogy. It is ok to use images produced by other people and recorded
by a camera as we all need reference material. We should though,
acknowledge the reference. It often bothers me when people reproduce
a cartoon without acknowledgement.
There is a book on cartoonist called " The Art of Humourous
Illustration" by Nick Meglin.
In it he talks about 2 cartoonist who have vey different ways of
working. One quickly drew immages to convey a meaning but they
were not very accurate. e.g He could draw a few lines to suggest the
cockpit of an aircraft but a pilot would see that it was all wrong.
The other could not draw anything with out using references. He had
20 filing cabinets full of reference material.
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The survey was conducted on more than 1,400 companies in India and it found that the women constituted just 6.81 per cent of the total number of board members in 2013.
However, this marks an improvement from last year when women accounted for 6.69 per cent of the total board seats.
The female presence on company boards is highest in Norway (37.23 per cent), followed by Sweden (27 per cent), Finland (24 per cent), South Africa (17.31 per cent) and the US (16.67 per cent).
The countries having lower women representation on company boards include Italy (4.23 per cent) and Japan (1.26 per cent), the report said.
The number of companies surveyed were different in different countries.
"India is still need to promote more women for senior management level. Presence of Women members on board are very low, even it's below from average percentage of developing countries," MyHiringClub.Com CEO Rajesh Kumar said.
"While around 38 per cent of employee strength in India is female, among these only 16 per cent are able to reach on senior management level," he added.
According to the survey, the scenario is not much better in some developed countries as well, with Canada reporting only 11.41 per cent women directors, Ireland (11.16 per cent), Spain (10.79 per cent) New Zealand (9.89 per cent) and Switzerland (8.56 per cent).
The countries with extremely low percentage of women on board include Saudi Arabia (0.43 per cent), Qatar (0.89 per cent) and UAE (1.08 per cent).
In India, three per cent of the boards have three female directors, while 44 per cent having only one woman director each, the survey said.
The study observed that the average board life of male directors is three years more than female directors, while globally the difference is only about two year.
The gap between the maximum board tenure of male and female directors is very large.
About three per cent more female directors have been at this position for less than one year, which clearly indicates that boards are just beginning to include female directors, the study noted.
"Also tenure of women members on board compared to male members is a major area where India Inc needs to rethink and positive attitude required. Globally the average tenure is two years for women members on board, but in India it's only one year," he added.
Interestingly, women directors are on an average five years younger than their male counterparts.
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Scholarship Spotlight: "Financial Connects" Financial Literacy Scholarship Award
Apply for the "Financial Connects" Financial Literacy Scholarship today.
May 06, 2011
The “Financial Connects” Financial Literacy Scholarship is open to students in Grade 6 through graduate school and asks that they create a video or game that explains financial literacy according to the Department of Education’s standards.
Videos must be between two and three minutes and accompanied by a 2-3 sentence statement on the creative approach to the project. The maximum amount that can be won is $5,500.
Deadline: Has been extended to 12/31/2011.
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Petraeus condemns Fla. church's plan to burn Korans
KABUL - Gen. David H. Petraeus on Tuesday denounced plans by a Florida church to burn copies of the Koran this weekend, saying the demonstration could "endanger troops" and damage the U.S. war effort in Afghanistan.
"It is precisely the kind of action the Taliban uses and could cause significant problems," Petraeus, the top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan, said in a statement. "Not just here, but everywhere in the world we are engaged with the Islamic community."
The White House also condemned the Florida church's plan, with press secretary Robert Gibbs reiterating Petraeus's contention that U.S. forces could be put in harm's way as a result. State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley called the proposed demonstration "un-American" and said it was "inconsistent with the values of religious tolerance and religious freedom."
Habibullah, a religious leader who organized a protest Monday morning in eastern Kabul to decry the Florida church's plan, said throngs of angry men chanted, "Death to America!" and "Death to Obama!"
He said some of the protesters pelted a passing U.S. military convoy with stones.
"I stopped them," said Habibullah, who uses one name. "Otherwise they would have burned the convoy."
The Dove World Outreach Center, a 50-member evangelical Christian church in Gainesville, Fla., announced plans to burn the Islamic holy books on Saturday, the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States. At the Kabul protest, residents burned an effigy of Dove World pastor Terry Jones.
"I am very concerned by the potential repercussions of the possible Koran burning," Petraeus said. "Even the rumor that it might take place has sparked demonstrations such as the one that took place in Kabul yesterday. Were the actual burning to take place, the safety of our soldiers and civilians would be put in jeopardy and accomplishment of the mission would be made more difficult."
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen backed that warning Tuesday. He said that any burning of Korans would strongly contradict "all the values we stand for and fight for."
In Florida, Jones rejected the warnings and said his church plans to go through with its "International Burn a Koran Day."
Jones said he agrees with Petraeus that burning copies of the Koran could provoke violent opposition, but he argued that the United States should stop apologizing for its actions and bowing to kings, the Associated Press reported. He apparently referred to a London summit meeting in April 2009 when President Obama greeted Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah II, now 86, by clasping his hand and bowing.
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Seven Success Tips For Recent Graduates Entering the Professional World
1) Build a Relationship With Your Boss
Like it or not, no single individual has a greater impact on your career future than your direct supervisor. So, how do you get on their good side from the start? Managers want to feel that you truly care, and that you are "in it with them" as a team. Bring your boss solutions, not problems. Most managers have enough problems already. When a problem arises, take initiative to consider what alternatives are available. Don't just throw the problem on their desk and have them figure it out. At some point, they will expect for you to figure out what the best plan of action is first, so they don't have to.
Try to build a relationship with your boss. Ask them about their career path, and always ask your boss for advice on what you or the company could do better. Understand what is particularly important to them, and how you can assist in those areas. Offer to stay late for projects, even if they might not be your responsibility. While these things may sound obvious, many Americans rush out the door at 4:59 without even saying "Goodnight."
2) Display Professionalism and Maturity
Unfortunately, the immature stereotype of young professionals does present a common barrier to advancement. Often, how you respond to adversity in a situation defines your professional maturity. A young professional views a mistake as a catastrophe, while a mature professional considers it a bump in the road. A young professional is quick blame to others, while a mature professional takes responsibility, and asks how a team can work better together in the future.
Many will be subjected to various forms of negativity, personality conflicts, and arguing in the workplace. However, that shouldn't be the norm. There will always be differences of opinion on how best to do things in an organization, but they shouldn't escalate to confrontation. Try to maintain your composure at all times, and don't allow your emotions to get the best of you. Remember that professionalism is also judged in written communication, such as memos, reports, and especially e-mails. Ultimately tact, common sense, and rational adult conversation should reign.
3) Find a Mentor Within the Company/Industry
Take advice from someone who has succeeded, and they will help you succeed. Makes sense, doesn't it? Mentors can offer priceless advice you just can't gain from reading books. They can also help introduce you to upper management, allowing you to get on the fast-track radar screen. Some companies sponsor structured mentor programs, as do many professional organizations. Be sure to investigate these options first.
Otherwise, you must rely on a more informal method of finding a mentor. You might believe these people are too busy, or too important to talk to you. However, most people want to share their secrets to success with someone who really wants to listen. Deep down, almost everyone relishes having someone look up to them. They also understand mentoring helps contribute to the future success of the company by helping develop other young leaders. Besides, they probably had a mentor, too.
4) Master Interpersonal Relations and Teamwork
Possessing social, professional, and teamwork skills are more important than ever before. A recent Harvard University study found that for every firing due to failure to perform, there were two firings due to personality conflicts and communication issues. However, working in a team environment with a diverse atmosphere will be a major adjustment for recent graduates. Most collegians study, take tests, and complete assignments in a predominantly individual setting throughout their academic career.
Further, the professional environment requires communication and teamwork with those of vastly different ages, cultures, and backgrounds. Working newcomers will also have to co-exist with different personality types, such as egomaniacs, rule-breakers, brownnosers, and the "bare-minimum-to-get-by" guy. This can be challenging, and is another area where professionalism and maturity can be tested. At the end of the day, everyone is still supposed to be on the same team. If you continue to possess the attitude that someone else's problem is also your problem, you will ultimately gain the respect of co-workers, no matter what personality type they are.
5) Understand the Power of Networking
Everyone has heard the phrase, "it's not just what you know, it's who you know." This is statistically proven, as the latest studies show that 65% of jobs in this country are either directly or indirectly gained through networking and personal contacts. Beyond that, often such jobs are better opportunities with higher pay. Places to network can include, well, everywhere. There are professional/trade organizations, alumni groups, community groups, and online communities available for young professionals to pursue immediately.
Perhaps the most important concept to understand is that networking isn't just about what other people can do for you. If you initiate how you can assist another person first, you will gain a following of people who will go out of their way to help you whenever the opportunity arises. Keep making new contacts, build relationships with those contacts, and have a system for organizing and keeping in touch with your contacts. Lastly, it is a small world, so try to keep your enemies to a bare minimum and NEVER burn bridges.
6) Undertake a Strategic Development Plan
It is never too early to start thinking about where your current job will take you. What options are available for your next jump? It's important to understand typical advancement paths from your position, and what training and development is needed for advancement. Ideally, your company should realize the importance of investing in and developing future leaders. Otherwise, you will have to take initiative to seek out such development plans on your own.
Many college graduates are tired of learning, and they're relieved they never have to study anymore. However, the most successful leaders don't stop learning at age 22, and neither should you. Invest in yourself, and continually gain knowledge from colleagues, books, seminars, and professional organizations. Try to identify your niche or area of specialization within a company or industry that will be in demand in the future. You must then create your own strategic development plan, and hold yourself accountable to it.
7) Avoid Dangerous Pitfalls
You may think that employee binder you receive your first day is just a pile of boring policies no one reads, but take heed. Thousands of young professionals are reprimanded each year for violations such as Internet and e-mail abuse. Unfortunately, honesty and ethical judgment pose a common challenge for young professionals, as well, often brought on by the pressure to rise through the ranks. There could be temptations to mislead a customer to get one more sale, or hide a mistake from management. However, losing the trust of management could be the most damaging consequence to your career.
Further, there are over 15,000 sexual harassment cases filed every year in this country. Often, the intent of the offender may not necessarily be malicious, but rather they may not comprehend what is appropriate in the workplace vs. a "night out at the clubs." It is imperative to understand the rules of the game, and abide by those rules, to avoid irreparable damage to your career from the start.
Andy Masters is a nationally recognized speaker from St. Louis, and is author of the newly released book Life After College: What to Expect and How to Succeed in Your Career. Andy earned an M.A.-Human Resources Development and an M.A.-Marketing from Webster University. Visit http://www.life-after-college.com or email firstname.lastname@example.org for more information on the book, seminars, and additional resources.
How To Get Promoted - Take Control Of Your Destiny!
It Is Up To YouSo, you want to get promoted. The possibility really lies in your own hands.
Seven Myths You Must Challenge Now To Begin Your Second Career Today
* Has it been awhile since you explored career options?* Are you making your 21st century choices based on beliefs that were accurate when Reagan was president of the US (and Thatcher was PM of Great Britain)?* Do you wish you could take a test that would point you to the perfect Second Career?Then you're probably operating on yesterday's myths -- time to move to today's reality!Myth #1: Science supports the traditional linear career change model: test for interests, identify careers and go find a job.Reality #1 Researchers at Stanford and Harvard found that career exploration proceeds in a zig-zag trial-and-error path, almost always with a hint of serendipity.
Ten Great Careers For Computer "Geeks
The universal acceptance of computers into our daily lives, both at work and at home, has decreased the image of computer users as being "geeks." The word geek itself has evolved a bit - going from meaning a socially inept person who gets along better with computers than people, to someone who is an expert with computers, a guru even.
Feng Shui Your Desk for Career Success
Have you used feng shui around your desk? It's a great way to "test drive" feng shui, to see how well it works for you.In feng shui, we work with a 3x3 grid called a bagua (said "bagg-wahh").
Make Your Career Offshore Proof
There has been a lot of talk recently about American jobs moving overseas?offshoring is the buzzword for it. During difficult economic times it is often easy to find a scapegoat to blame for a downturn in jobs.
Ten Tips to a Powerful Resume
A new resume can jump-start your career. Your network contacts may ask for a resume and some industries absolutely, positively demand a resume as the price of admission.
Ten Tips to a Job Winning Interview
These days, interviews don't come easily. When you get The Call, make the most of your time -- and go for it!1.
5 Ways to Combat Job Burnout
Job burnout happens when the stress or prolonged frustration of a job or career contributes to emotional and physical exhaustion. The ability to cope with general life stressors outside of work is strained.
How to Overcome Being Overqualified
Have you ever gone through the interview process, felt confident that you'd performed extremely well, and then heard these dreadful words: "I'm sorry, but we feel you're overqualified for this position."
When I was told that after an interview, several thoughts went through my frustration-fogged mind.
Youre Bright And Talented -- TooT Your Own Horn --
Obviously, there are RIGHT ways to move UP the ladder. Being in the right place certainly has tremendous benefits.
How To Tap Into the Invisible Job Market
Is there a company in your area that you'd love to work for? Do you assume that, because you don't see them advertising in the classifieds or posting jobs on their website, they have no openings? That may or may not be the case. That truth is, only about one-fifth of job openings are actually advertised!Here's how to tap into the huge "invisible" job market.
How To Find A Job As A Copy Editor
Jobs for copy editors may seem like they are hard to find, but really you can find them and you can do so with many of the qualifications you already have. But, if you do not have any qualifications, this may be the first step in finding the copyediting job that you have been looking for.
How to Track Your Right Career
Are you lost in the wilderness when it comes to choosing a career? Once, we knew the way. As children, we played at different roles, but some became our favorites.
Resume Posting: Tips for Jobseekers
Recruiting firms, like most businesses today, must embrace technology in order to prosper. Part of modern recruiting is understanding the value and benefit of internet job boards.
No Experience? No Problem!
Are you a new graduate with little or no work experience? Sometimes it can be tough to get a job without experience, and how do you get more experience if you can't get a job?
Well, your chances are better than you think. Even if your work experience is a little weak, you've probably got life experience that will help you.
Losing A Career Can Feel Like Getting A Divorce
Most of us are aware that we need to grieve the death of a close friend, relative or favorite pet. We are beginning to learn that other events -- relocation, divorce, illness -- can also be experienced as loss.
Job Search - Understand Employers
Think like an employerTo be successful in your job search campaign you must think like an employer or a recruiter. If you are going to do this right, you need to appreciate the ways that employers sift through the flood of resumes.
A resume is normally the first contact point between an employer and a job seeker. It serves the purpose of providing a summary of why a candidate is suitable for a job (cover-letter) and his relevant qualifications/experience.
Unemployment Survival: Taking Back Control
One of the most emotionally crippling aspects of unemployment is the sense of powerlessness it engenders. Job layoff triggers financial pressures, emotional distress, family turmoil, and dashed career hopes.
Job Interviews: Ill File a Grievance!
I recently went to a retirement party with my husband for one of his co-workers. I worked at this same place six years ago (that's where I met my husband, but that's another story), so I knew most of the people at the party.
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Saturday, July 9, 2011
Sustaining Supply Chains in Disasters -- Podcast and Poster
I had the pleasure of being interviewed recently by Mr. Michael Breen of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) for the series Mathematical Moments.
Mr. Breen had attended my presentation at the American Association of the Advancement of Science (AAAS) meeting last February in Washington DC. I had the honor of speaking on the Mathematics and Collective Behavior panel that was organized by Dr. Warren Page.
The interview is on Sustaining the Supply Chain and focuses on the research of my team on humanitarian logistics and disaster management.
The interview is now featured on the AMS website, along with an accompanying poster.
The link to the poster is at:
and you can directly access the podcast interview at:
The Isenberg School has made a note of the podcast on its homepage.
The series Mathematical Moments highlights, in a graphic and informative way, the myriad ways in which mathematics illuminates our world and contributes to society. Plus, through such a series, one can engage others, including students, as well as the public, on timely topics.
You may find information on our relevant publications here.
Some of the outcomes of the workshop on Humanitarian Logistics:Networks for Africa, funded through the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center Program, and that I organized, which I noted in the podcast interview, can be found on a companion website.
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Russ Olsen is a long time Ruby coder, speaker and author of Eloquent Ruby and Design Patterns in Ruby. Russ spends his days crafting solutions as an architect at Relevance and his nights on twitter as @russolsen.
A couple of weeks ago I had an opportunity to do one of my very favorite things: I got to explain Ruby to a room full of programmers who knew almost nothing about the language. I've been doing these talks for years and you would think that by now I would be bored with it all, but I'm not. The idea that some of my audience will latch onto Ruby, that it will change their coding life, and that some of the credit will rub off on me never gets old.
Still there is a certain comfortable familiarity to these talks, especially with the questions that people ask: Can you really write reliable programs without static typing? (Answer: Sure!) What happens at compile time and what happens at runtime? (Answer: There is no compile time) Why is zero true? (Answer: Because everything except nil and false are true). One of the hardest questions usually comes at the end of the talk: Where do I go from here?
First Stop: The Internet
The obvious answer whenever you want to learn more is your nearest browser and if it’s Ruby that you are trying to learn then the obvious first stop is the main Ruby language website at www.ruby-lang.org. Go there and you will find downloads of Ruby for various platforms, hints about what is coming in the next release and pointers to other Ruby resources. If you’re a complete Ruby beginner then make sure you have a look at the “Ruby in 20 Minutes” tutorial.
Another great resource for people trying to learn Ruby is the Ruby Koans site. Ruby Koans, which was put together by Jim Weirich and Joe O’Brien, is a series of programming problems designed to get you thinking about the nuances of Ruby coding. The whole thing is done as a mock session with your Ruby Zen master: In the firmly tongue-in-cheek world of Ruby Koans you don’t make your programs work. Instead your code gains enlightenment.
If you are a bit less than a complete beginner or you have simply grown weary of the quest for enlightenment, then take a look at the Ruby Inside blog. Ruby Inside is a nice mix of reviews – both of software and books – along with news of the comings and goings of the Ruby community.
Books for Beginners
As useful as the Internet is, I’m not sure that surfing is ideal for becoming one with a topic as large and as complex as a new programming language. So along with URLs, I usually suggest that new Ruby programmers start with a book. Which book is, however, a difficult question since the answer depends more on the perspective reader than anything else.
For example, if you are a "first things first" kind of person, someone who likes to be very sure of the basics before you move on, then I think that the best book for you is the aptly named Beginning Ruby: From Novice to Professional by Peter Cooper. Cooper starts off with getting Ruby installed on your computer and then takes you through the basics and some not-so-basic aspects of Ruby. Cooper (who is also the evil genius behind the Ruby Inside blog) writes in a pleasant conversational style and he has a good sense of pacing – not too boringly slow, not too confusingly fast. Do try to get hold of the second edition, since it covers the current version of Ruby (1.9). Also, keep in mind that the aim of this book is to teach you Ruby – it's not a reference. And don't take the "Novice to Professional" part of the title too seriously. Beginning Ruby does a great job of getting the Ruby newcomer off the ground, but "Novice to Professional" is probably more than any one book can manage.
Alternatively, you could go with the classic: Programming Ruby 1.9 by Thomas, Fowler and Hunt. Known to Ruby programmers as the “pickax” book after the illustration on the cover, Programming Ruby 1.9 is the book that taught the first couple waves of Rails programmers the language. If you were only going to buy a single Ruby book, this would be it. Dave Thomas and his co-authors go about the business of being all things to all Ruby programmers by writing a multi-pass book: The first quarter of Programming Ruby 1.9 is a quick tutorial introduction to Ruby. This is followed by a much more in-depth look at the language and its supporting ecosystem. The final (very large) bit of the book is a class by class, method by method reference to the standard Ruby library. The pickax book tries to do it all, but as a tutorial it just didn’t work for me. There is something about its multi-pass approach to learning that my brain just doesn't like. But that's just me -- many of my fellow Rubyists swear by it. It all comes down to you and your learning style: If you learn better by getting the general idea first and then digging deeper, then Programming Ruby 1.9 just might be the book for you.
The third candidate for your first Ruby book is David Black's The Well-Grounded Rubyist. In many ways The Well-Grounded Rubyist resembles Beginning Ruby: Both explain Ruby bit by bit in a single pass. The difference is depth. Beginning Ruby does a great job of balancing the level of detail with the need to keep moving. By contrast, The Well-Grounded Rubyist goes for thoroughness. Every time David Black takes the covers off of a new part of Ruby, he is going to explain every last wire and gear before he moves on. If that strikes you as the “right” way to learn, then by all means get yourself a copy of this excellent book.
Just Beyond Beginner
I have to admit that I'm a little biased about which Ruby book you should read second: I would suggest my own Eloquent Ruby. In my defense, let me say that I wrote Eloquent Ruby especially as a second Ruby book. The goal of Eloquent Ruby is to explain how Ruby is used in the real world, to provide recently arrived Ruby immigrants with a guide to how to use the language. I'm not just talking about style here: While there is plenty of advice in Eloquent Ruby about how to indent and where to leave out the parentheses, a lot of the book is devoted to getting the most programming miles out of features like code blocks and metaprogramming. Eloquent Ruby also reflects my view that one of the best ways to get beyond the basics of any programming language is to look at real code from real applications, so mixed in with all the sage advice is lots of examples from the Ruby standard library and Rails.
I'm also biased about Ruby Best Practices, but not because I wrote it: Gregory Brown did. I just wish that I wrote it. Ruby Best Practices, which is available free at http://rubybestpractices.com, is like that senior developer who sits you down and shows you how to really do things on the project. There are chapters on doing test first development, on internationalization, on building gems and even on debugging. Although some of the details are a bit dated, it is still well worth your time.
One other book that every advancing Ruby programmer should own comes right from the source: The Ruby Programming Language is by David Flanagan and the man, Ruby inventor Yukihiro Matsumoto. A quick glance at the table of contents might lead you to believe that The Ruby Programming Language is another tutorial along the lines of Beginning Ruby or The Well-Grounded Rubyist. It's not. The Ruby Programming Language is a statement of how Ruby works. There is no coddling of beginners here: The first chapter, entitled "Introduction" is topped off with a six page example program. The rest of the book is a step by step examination of the in's and out's of Ruby. This is the book that I turn to when, for example, I need to know how constant look-up works or what the proc method returns this week.
Way Beyond Beginner
Congratulations! You've worked your way through the fundamentals and now you're ready to dig deeper. One way to do that is to get hold of a copy of Hal Fulton's The Ruby Way. The Ruby Way pretends to be a cookbook – here's a programming problem, and here's how you deal with it – but in fact it is a step by step manual on how to approach coding the Ruby way. Be aware that the current edition (the second) is getting a bit dated but a third edition is in the pipeline.
If you find you are suffering from the “all my Ruby code looks just like my Java code” problem let me suggest – while turning the bias warning light on again – my own Design Patterns in Ruby. Design Patterns in Ruby looks at 14 of the traditional GoF design patterns and recasts them into real Ruby solutions.
Now a lot of those real ruby solutions involve metaprogramming, so if you have gotten this far and metaprogramming still seems like a black art, you might want to take a look at Paolo Perrotta's Metaprogramming Ruby: Program Like the Ruby Pros. Perrotta has produced a solid book about a topic with which many new Ruby coders struggle. Do be aware that Metaprogramming Ruby relies on a sort of coding soap opera to carry the plot along:
Bill is right there with you, verbalizing precisely what’s going through your head: “This is just the same method again and again, with some minor changes.” You turn to each other and ask simultaneously, as if on cue, “How can we refactor it?”
People tend to either love or hate this sort of thing, so think about which category you fall into before you hit "Buy It Now."
Another book to consider as you lose your Ruby amateur status is The RSpec Book by Chelimsky, Astels, Dennis, Hellesøy, Helmkamp, and North. Along with having enough authors to fill out a basketball team (complete with coach), the RSpec Book is actually two books in one. The first third is an explanation of, and a passionate argument for, behavior driven development. The rest of the book is a detailed explanation of two of the Ruby world's favorite test tools, RSpec and Cucumber. Both bits of The RSpec Book are worth reading and together they are a compelling combination.
So there you have it: Ten books and a handful of web sites to get your Ruby career off of “hello world.” Of course many – perhaps most – of you are interested in Ruby because it is the underpinnings of Rails. There are lots of ways to learn about Rails... But that’s an article for another day.
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(Sports Network) - Well, it appears the Mayans were incorrect in their ancient
prediction to the end of mankind.
A little rain in the Northeast corridor may have slowed traffic and caused a
few basements to flood, but otherwise it was business as usual for the every
Had the human race perished in an orgy of asteroids, volcanoes, typhoons or
tsunamis, what impression would the NFL leave behind?
Here is a fictitious obituary on the greatest sports league in North America
had the curtain been drawn on society:
The National Football League was incepted back in the early 1900s with just a
handful of teams joining forces in Canton, Ohio. A league which showcased the
most talented and gifted athletes in the sport of football, the NFL eventually
blossomed into a 32-team partnership with dedicated owners (term used lightly
in that regard), commissioners, sponsors and a frenzied fanbase.
The NFL was a single entity and lived a successful "bachelor" lifestyle.
Perhaps the only threat to its well being was the USFL, an American football
league during the mid 1980s that posed as a threat one would compare to an
elephant and a Yorkshire Terrier on opposite ends of a see saw. Yeah, you get
the picture. The USFL did have some glamorous players, including Jim Kelly,
Steve Young, Herschel Walker and Reggie White, but the coalition known as the
National Football League reigned supreme and lured those players away.
There was another minor threat with the World Football League, too, but that
faded quicker than a jackrabbit on a date (thanks to the narrator in 'A
Christmas Story' for that reference).
Several commissioners, or league presidents, were appointed to run the
industry, which generated enough money to feed several large countries, and
will be remembered mostly by the final three administrators. Pete Rozelle got
the wheels in motion by merging the AFL (American Football League) and NFL,
and creating what Americans knew as the Super Bowl. Like all those in power,
Rozelle's popularity declined with issues regarding the NFL Players
Association, including salaries and teams moving to new markets.
Under the pensive watch of commissioner Paul Tagliabue, the NFL flourished to
what it was before its demise by falling skies. Tagliabue engineered
expansion, revenue sharing, lucrative television deals, strengthening youth,
high school and college programs as well as new stadiums, no lockouts during
his tenure, a strict substance abuse policy and interest overseas.
Following the retirement of Tagliabue, Roger Goodell took over in 2006 and his
occupancy as commissioner was littered with mixed reviews. Harsh penalties for
off-the-field incidents, several scandals involving teams spying on others and
some that pay large dividends to injure opposing players clouded Goodell's
rule. However, Goodell carried over some of the traditions he learned while
working with Tagliabue and maintained the NFL's image as a powerhouse
SURVIVORS: There were no survivors since the world ended similarly the same
way actress Linda Hamilton envisioned during a cat nap in the desert during
the blockbuster movie 'Terminator 2' http://youtu.be/BR_midwZ2f0.
Had it not been for the players and those at the controls, the NFL would have
never existed. Memories such as the Super Bowl, the setting and breaking of
individual and team records, the Hall of Fame, the advent of Monday Night
Football and the downfall that was Thursday Night Football, dedicated
fanbases, fantasy football, merchandise, advertising and employment for
thousands were just the tip of the iceberg when it came to reflecting on what
the league meant to those associated with it.
SERVICES: Once again, there were no services because there was no life to
assemble them. But they would have been held in the early hours of the day
back in Canton, Ohio -- the birthplace of the great league. Perhaps if we all
had lead-based refrigerators or freezers to hide in during the apocalypse,
setting aside time to honor the fallen NFL might have occurred.
CONTRIBUTIONS: Same as the above two sections. For the neurotic type, in lieu
of flowers or cases of wine, memorials may be presented to those who cheated
death and prepared a vigil for the NFL, a league that brought families,
especially fathers and sons, together, made going to church on Sunday mornings
more enjoyable, helped bars and restaurants stay in business, and both alcohol
and chicken wings more desirable.
The Sports Network
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Liverpool artwork of the day Friday July 27 2007. ‘Study’ 1877 by Frederic Lord Leighton at Sudley House
The girl gazes dreamily at an Eastern illuminated manuscript on a Koran stand; her pink and golden silk clothing Middle Eastern in style.
Though Leighton’s paintings were mostly inspired by ancient Greece, he was also an enthusiast for Middle Eastern art.
Around this time he was adding an Arab Hall to his Kensington studio house, now Leighton House museum. The model was Connie Gilchrist, a famous child actress.
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Security has been stepped up at a hospital where three patients have died following the deliberate contamination of saline solution.
The deaths of a 44-year-old woman and two men aged 71 and 84 at Stepping Hill Hospital in Stockport remain unexplained while a further 11 patients have been affected but not seriously harmed.
However, Greater Manchester Police said it was clear that someone had been tampering with vials of saline and needed to be caught.
Describing it as a "fast-moving investigation", Assistant Chief Constable Terry Sweeney said: "We have someone deliberately contaminating saline in the one place that people should feel they are being most cared for.
"I want to reassure everyone connected to the hospital - staff, patients, visitors and the wider community - that we are determined to prevent further harm and to bring the offender to justice. We are working very closely with the hospital to improve the security of the patients and staff at the hospital."
As well as increased security patrols, he said he would also suggest to health trust bosses that anyone entering the hospital should be searched beforehand.
Mr Sweeney said it would be speculation to say the offender was a member of staff but he said all medical professionals at the hospital as well as patients would be spoken to in the next 24 hours.
The hospital contacted police on Tuesday after an experienced nurse reported a higher than normal number of patients on her ward with "unexplained" low blood sugar levels.
It concluded that some saline ampoules had been "interfered with" - with the contamination thought to have involved the use of insulin.
All future deaths at the hospital that show any signs of relevant symptoms will be passed to South Manchester Coroner John Pollard for the foreseeable future and may be referred to detectives to investigate.
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LONDON: From one of the world's most rebellious companies, here's a call to restless NEETs, acronym for "Not in Education, Employment or Training," and shorthand for the under-30 unemployed, an antsy group that is estimated at more than 100 million worldwide.
Just because you are non-employed, does not mean you are lazy; just because you are non-employed, doesn't mean you haven't worked hard enough to find a job; and just because you are non-employed, does not mean you are an anarchist.
NEETs, the iconic firm Benetton said on Tuesday at the launch of yet another of its provocative campaigns, constitute untapped energy in a world going through an unprecedented generational clash. This young lot, contrary to their parents' generation, does not have the confidence that they will be as well or better off than their parents. But they are not "useless."
So instead of letting them sit on their haunches, Benetton is provoking them to come up with community projects leading to social change in what the company impishly calls the "Unemployee of the Year" contest under the aegis of the UnHate foundation it established last year. The foundation, based on the philosophy of accepting differences, was launched in a controversial campaign last year showing world leaders kissing mouth-to-mouth.
The latest contest, unveiled before a media more in thrall of the flap over the royal anatomy and ongoing Islamist rage, invited under-30 NEETs all over the world, including in India, to present proposals (through the UnHate website) that have a concrete impact on community welfare. The 100 winners, voted by peers, will get a grant of 5000 Euros each.
But disbursing money -- or manufacturing and selling clothes, which is Benetton's first line of business -- is not the main purpose, says the company's chairman Alessandro Benetton.
"To lose, even in part, the contribution, the vision, the energy of these young people is one of the biggest risks society faces," Benetton said at the launch of the campaign. "In history, the under 30s have contributed more than any other generation to human, artistic, scientific, political and economic development."
The crisis of needy NEETs is glaringly obvious in western societies, especially in Europe, where youth unemployment in some countries is upward of 25 per cent, and their angst is palpable. Elsewhere, from the Occupy Wall Street movement to recent expressions of Islamist rage, it is NEETs who are at the core of disenchantment. India, with a 10 per cent unemployment figure for under 30s (and that is just the official urban estimate) is no exception to NEETs need.
Benetton, which has some 500 stores and a 100 million Euro turnover in India, says it wants to shift people's perceptions and pre-conceptions and send out a message: A job doesn't define who you are, but what you fight and strive for does. So if you don't have a job, don't let it stop you from doing something positive for your community.
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|For Immediate Release|
February 2, 2011
*** WARNING: INCLEMENT WEATHER ADVISORY ***
DEPARTMENT OF BUILDINGS ADVISES PROPERTY OWNERS TO SAFELY REMOVE ICE AND SNOW FROM ROOFS, OVERHANGS, AND AWNINGS
Due to the recent heavy snowfall and icy conditions, the Department of Buildings is reminding all property owners to safely remove ice and snow from roofs, overhangs, and awnings.
The buildup of snow and ice on roofs can present a threat to the structural integrity of a building if the accumulated weight becomes too great. In addition, icicles could form and pose a threat to public safety if not promptly removed. Property owners have a legal responsibility to consider the safety of their buildings, and this obligation includes removing ice and snow.
To secure a building, property owners should take all precautionary measures including but not limited to the following:
- Clear ice and snow from areas around the sites that are used by the public.
- Safely remove ice and snow from flat roofs, gutters, and overhangs.
- Clean out gutters and roof drains to allow water to drain.
New Yorkers are encouraged to call 311 to report non-compliant conditions or 911 to report emergencies at construction sites or buildings. New Yorkers who suspect a building or property has been structurally compromised should call 911.
Under §28-301.1 of the Administrative Code of the City of New York, property owners are legally obligated to maintain their properties in a safe condition. Department of Buildings weather advisories are strictly a courtesy to remind property owners to prepare their properties for inclement weather and cannot be read to suggest that the Department, rather than the property owner, is responsible for maintaining his or her property.
Contact: Tony Sclafani/Carly Sullivan (212) 566-3473
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But a Justice Department official said on Friday that the director's report was not provided to Mr Ashcroft's budget staff. Even as the secret director's report was describing how the bureau lacked the ability to respond adequately to the array of significant terrorist threats facing the nation, FBI officials missed clues from at least two field offices about the possibility of a terrorist attack on the United States.
That failure led last week to the announcement of a sweeping overhaul of the bureau's mission by its director, Robert Mueller, that gives the FBI controversial new powers to prevent terrorist attacks and signals greater cooperation with the agency's traditional rival, the CIA.
After the report's disclosure by The New York Times on Saturday, the FBI moved to play down its significance.
FBI officials said the report "didn't deal specifically with threats from any particular country or terrorist groups". It "was intended to develop a five-year plan to increase funds for the counter-terrorism program to deal with the threat level that was currently available", the official said on condition of anonymity.
"It was a budget document . . . It was not a complete assessment of whether the bureau could thwart terrorism," he said.
But the report did provide an account of the abilities of each FBI field office in the country to deal with the overall terrorist threat.
It graded the ability of each office to deal with overall terrorist threats, and also looked ahead to determine how much more money would be required over the next five years.
The report was discussed by senior law-enforcement officials and by other officials critical of the way the bureau and the Justice Department handled counter-terrorism matters before September 11.
While the report was not only about al Qaeda, FBI officials recognised at the time that Osama bin Laden's network posed the biggest threat to the United States.
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Elementary and Middle School Breakfast $1.00
High School Lunch $2.75
High School Breakfast $1.25
All Adult Lunches $3.50
The School Lunch Program is an integral part of the Salem Public School System. We strive to meet the needs of all the students and staff, both nutritionally and socially, by serving a nutritious breakfast and lunch of high quality in a cheerful, pleasant and welcoming atmosphere. It is our role to encourage everyone to eat a breakfast and lunch that conforms to the dietary guidelines for healthy Americans while recognizing the individual preferences of each person who participates in our program. Menus are created monthly and reflect the students’ tastes by offering the choices most popular to students. All lunches include an assortment of vegetables and fruits. A variety of milk (skim, low-fat and low-fat flavored) is offered with each meal. The monthly menu can be viewed on the Salem Public Schools web site.
Parents are encouraged to pay for their children’s meals in advance. Credits can be carried over to the following week. A coded roster system, which prevents overt identification of meal benefits, is utilized to track meals served to students receiving free or reduced priced meals as well as those who pay full price.
If you have questions regarding the school lunch program, please call Deborah Jeffers at 978-740-1230.
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June 12, 2012 -
Los Cabos, Baja California Sur, will proudly host this year’s annual G20 Summit that will take place from the 18th to the 20th of June, 2012 at the new $180 million convention center in José del Cabo, this is definitely a big deal!. The G20 is arguably the most important financial and economic international summit held each year in the world. It is comprised of 20 members that represent world’s major and emerging economies.
This international event is expecting world leaders that include US President Obama, Mexico’s President Felipe Calderón and those from the most economically powerful countries in the world. These include; Germany, Canada, The United States, France, Italy, Japan, The United Kingdom, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Argentina, Brazil, China, South Korea, India, Indonesia, Mexico, South Africa, Turkey, Australia and The European Union. In addition, the 2012 G20 Economic Conference of developed and emerging nations will take place in Cabo San Lucas on June 20-22, 2012.
Supplementary meetings of foreign leaders will continue through the 24th of June. According to the IMF, the G20 countries represent 90% of the world’s Gross Domestic Product, 80% of world trade volume and over two/thirds of the population. In theory, the G20 Cabo forum comes together each year to study and promote discussions about issues related to industrialized countries to maintain a stable international financial system.
The Canadian Connection
Originally established in 1999, following the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis,the G-20 was proposed by former Canadian Finance Minister and later Prime Minister Paul Martin, for cooperation and consultation on all matters pertaining to the international financial system. The G20 brought together advanced and emerging economies in an attempt to stabilize the global financial market. The economic crisis that spread throughout the world in 2008, called for the G20 members to further strengthen international cooperation. That year members agreed not to implement trade tariffs and other protectionist taxing, which would further slow international trace and open the economic situation. In 2009 it became the main group to deal with world-wide economic issues replacing both the G8 and G8+5. I am confident we all have an opinion on how successful the G20 has been achieving their objectives depending how well our long term investments and pension plans are holding up. Despite lacking any formal ability to enforce rules, in reality the G-20′s prominent membership gives it a strong input on global economic policy. However, there remain disputes over the legitimacy of the G-20 and many critics of the organization and the value of any declarations.
Los Cabos Benefits
In addition to the capital funds allocated to the new Convention Center, additional improvements are being made to the old Cabo San Lucas Airport to accommodate the more than 16,000 anticipated guests to the city for the event. The old airport will provide additional tarmac space for aircraft parking but will prove too small for the arrival of President Obama aboard Airforce 1, which will most likely land at the Los Cabos Airport which has also undergone significant improvements over the last year in anticipation of the event. It is likely everyone can also thank the G20 Summit for expediting the construction of the new four lane Highway 19 to Todos Santos, we will be thankful to drive on this after last season’s in-construction faze.
With 13,000 total rooms in the destination, Los Cabos will dedicate 11,000 rooms to the G20 Summit to accommodate the more than 7,000 attendees, while the Mexican government will invest more than $47,000,000 into the development and promotion of the Summit. The new 653,400 square foot Convention Center that is designed to house the G20 meetings and events can accommodate over 6,000 people. The municipality of Los Cabos endowed a 15-acre tract of land, which is located alongside a private golf community and boasts magnificent views for the building of the Convention Center. The Convention Center will be designated a “green” facility, and will be designed with energy efficiency in mind and will be equipped with solar panels. Construction of the center is set to begin during the first week of November. Los Cabos has long been in need of a significant convention center and the enduring legacy of the G20 conference will be a building capable of housing larger trade shows and business meetings which in turn will increase the tourist traffic to the city which has been suffering slow years since the economic slowdown and the rise of Mexiphobia. I just hope the new Convention Center is more esthetically appealing then the Cabo San Lucas harbour front “stealth like” facility.
Locals Delayed & Protesters Beware
Not surprisingly, high security and traffic delays are expected for the week surrounding the event, we actually experienced some of this when we were there last March. This means security will be tight in Cabo in advance of the event, lots of road blocks, a larger than normal military presence and Federal Police at every corner. Previous G20 conferences have drawn a great deal of protest over the economic policies of the wealthier nations attending the conference, most recently in Toronto Canada. Without question, Cabo San Lucas was selected for the remoteness of the location and the difficulty that protesters will encounter in travel to the location. I am all in favour of peaceful protest; however my experience tells me the Mexicans in charge of security are not likely going to allow the shenanigans, aka anarchistsRus, to run amok during the Summit. As I understand it, although there are areas established for peaceful protest, event organizers have already stated that civil disobedience will be handled swiftly. The Americans who are always prepared will have a United States Aircraft Carrier stationed off the coast to provide additional security for the event if required.
Foreign nationals in Mexico under tourist visas, FM3 or FM2; that activity participate in political protests in Mexico can result in detention, revocation of your travel documents, deportation and expulsion for a period of 5 years. Believe me the last place you want to end up in is the “Hotel Crowbaro” in Los Cabos as a “Gringo Turista“.
For more about the G20 in Los Cabos watch this YouTube Video
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Trying to make sense of the global stock market sell-off that began on May 13?
Remember that old Wall Street saying, "Don't fight the Bank of Japan." If you want to know what has rattled stock markets around the world and when you can expect it to end, study the Bank of Japan.
What's that? You thought the saying went "Don't fight the Fed"? How yesterday. Right now the Bank of Japan, not the U.S. Federal Reserve, is the most important central bank in the world. It's the Bank of Japan that's calling the tune for the world's equity markets.
Slip sliding awayFor the last week, you've heard all the talking heads focus on the U.S. Federal Reserve in their efforts to explain the sell-off that began on May 13. The market decline, which reached a temporary crescendo with May 17's 214-point tumble on the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($INDU), is a result of worries that U.S. inflation is in danger of spinning out of control and that the Federal Reserve will have to raise interest rates at its June meeting and beyond.
Core inflation -- that is inflation without volatile food and energy prices -- hit an annual 2.3% in the April Consumer Price Index numbers reported on May 17. That's perilously close to the 2.5% inflation rate that many think is the top of the range that the Federal Reserve will tolerate. After those numbers came out, the odds of a June 29 interest-rate hike, as indicated by prices in the Fed funds futures market, climbed to 50% from 35%.
That's not a huge shift -- to 50/50 from a 35% chance. And you'd think while the stock market wouldn't welcome another interest rate increase -- higher interest rates, which increase the attraction of alternative investments such as bonds, are never great for stocks -- it would have gotten used to them by now. A rate increase in June would be the 17th quarter-point hike since the Federal Reserve began raising short-term interest rates in June 2004. The stock market has proven itself perfectly capable of rallying while the Federal Reserve raises interest rates. Before this recent sell-off, the Dow was up 12% since the Fed began raising interest rates from 1% on June 30, 2004.
It certainly wasn't enough to send the U.S. bond market into a swoon. Bonds actually rallied on some days when stocks were sinking. On May 18, for example, when the Dow Jones industrials fell 77 points and the Nasdaq Composite ($COMPX) fell to its lowest level since November 2005, the 10-year Treasury note actually climbed in price by 0.75%. The yield on the 10-year note, which moves in the opposite direction to prices, at 5.07% on May 18 was very little changed from where it stood at 5.12% on May 10, the day the Fed announced its latest hike in interest rates.
Gold also behaved oddly. The metal is the classic inflation hedge, and yet gold sold off on these inflation worries -- if that's what they were. The metal, which had been selling at $700 an ounce on May 10, closed at $657.50 an ounce on May 19. That's a drop of 6% when gold should have been climbing -- if the financial markets were focused on the U.S. Federal Reserve and heightened fears of inflation.
And finally there was the strange behavior of the U.S. dollar. If worries centered on the U.S. Federal Reserve and concern that the Fed and its new Chairman Ben Bernanke had lost control of U.S. inflation, you'd expect the dollar to sink against other global trading currencies as investors sold dollars to find safer havens in euros and yen. But instead, the U.S. dollar has actually stayed steady against these currencies. The U.S. dollar sold for 110.6 yen on May 10 and for 110.7 yen on May 18.
Not the Fed but the bankThis is where the Bank of Japan comes in. You can't understand why some asset prices have tumbled and others have stayed rock solid if you don't know what the Bank of Japan has been doing over the last few months.
As good as its word, the Bank of Japan has been taking huge amounts of liquidity out of the global capital markets. In an effort to re-inflate the Japanese economy and end the years of deflation that had kept the country mired in a no-growth swamp, the Bank of Japan had pumped billions into the country's banking system. Now that the economy is finally growing again and now that prices aren't sinking any longer, the Bank of Japan has given two cheers to the return of inflation and has started to remove some of that cash from the financial markets.
In the last two months, the bank has taken almost 16 trillion yen, or about $140 billion, in cash deposits out of the country's banks. The country's money supply has fallen by almost 10%. The Bank of Japan isn't finished pumping out the liquidity that it had pumped in. That should take a few more months. And when it is finished, the Bank of Japan is expected to start raising short-term interest rates.
No more cheapThis sign of the return of economic and financial health to Japan is, however, bad news to the speculators who have used cheap Japanese cash to make big profits by buying everything from Icelandic bonds to Indian stocks. The momentum in many of the world's riskier markets was a result of ever increasing floods of cash -- borrowed at 1% in Japan and multiplied by leverage as speculators turned $1 of capital into $3 or more of borrowed money.
For example, India's Mumbai stock market, up 21% in 2006 and 70% over the last 12 months, has seen an inflow of $10 billion in overseas money. That wouldn't be enough to move a market like the $14 trillion (market cap) New York Stock Exchange, but it's a bigger deal on the $742 billion Mumbai market. Although $10 billion isn't enough to move a market by itself -- that took improving fundamentals in the Indian economy -- it is enough to increase upside momentum once the ball is rolling. (The Indian market's benchmark BSE index plunged 10% Monday before trading was halted for an hour. It ended the day down 4.2%.)
New inflows of cash are needed to keep the momentum going, hot money investors know, and it looks like the supply of money flowing into these markets might diminish. The moves to date by the Bank of Japan aren't enough to radically diminish global liquidity, but they are enough so that the investors who have fed some of the world's riskier markets understand that the trend has turned.
It's one thing to invest in five-year Indonesia government bonds paying 12.13% when cash is flowing into the Jakarta financial markets, keeping the rupiah strong against the dollar and pushing Indonesian stocks ever higher. It's something else entirely when it looks like investment flows might be drying up. Speculators aren't about to wait until they actually see signs that cash flows are dwindling. They take profits at the first sign that the trend may be changing. That's why the Jakarta market can drop 5.3% in a day, as it did on May 18.
What we've witnessed since May 13 is a global flight out of more leveraged and more speculative investments. Speculators attracted by the momentum of the gold, copper, and silver markets have sold -- and are still selling -- rushing to get out before other speculators could liquidate their positions. Emerging equity markets have sold off for the same reason: India's Bombay Sensex index dropped 6.8% on the same day as the Jakarta market fell. High-yielding bond markets have collapsed as prices dropped, sending yields soaring and currencies skidding. The central bank of Iceland has raised interest rates to 12.25% in an effort to prevent the further fall of the krona as hot money flees the country.
Risky investments look riskierWhat the Bank of Japan has done is to set off a global re-setting of investors' risk tolerance. With Japanese interest rates so low and Japanese cash so abundant, speculators, traders, and investors have been more and more willing in the last few years to take on risk at increasingly low premiums.
It isn't amazing that anyone would buy Indonesian bonds. It's amazing that they would buy them when the yield was only 12%. And given what we know about the direction of U.S. interest rates, the likely course of U.S. inflation and the size of the U.S. trade deficit, it was amazing that so many investors flocked to buy 10-year U.S. Treasury notes that they drove the yield in July 2005 to less 4%. On July 10, the 10-year Treasury yielded 3.97%. By locking up your money for eight fewer years in a 2-year note, you could get 3.62%. That's 0.35 percentage points in yield for taking on eight more years of risk.
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Graham Allen, the Labour MP for Nottingham North, was commissioned by the coalition government last year to review the benefits of ‘early intervention’. In his first report, published in January, he found that many damaging and costly social problems can be averted or reduced by giving families the right support during a child’s first three years. It’s a persuasive argument, which has also been made in other recent reviews commissioned by the government from Frank Field, Clare Tickell and Eileen Munro.
The big question though is how to fund early intervention services when the government is committed to spending cuts. Field thinks the answer is to give people parenting courses instead of benefits. Allen’s second report, published earlier this month, sets out a way to pay for early intervention programmes by attracting extra funding from non-government sources. Private investors would be given tax breaks, to be paid for by the money saved as a result of early intervention: from children not being in care; from young people not being in the criminal justice system or on benefits.
The approach depends on being able to attach a price to an outcome, and on being able to link an early intervention programme to the achievement of that outcome many years later. Most of the time, the outcome will be negative – not being a teenage parent, a drug addict or a violent offender – which makes it hard to measure. Allen’s plan also depends on there being no additional demand on resources, so that ‘late intervention’ services can be decommissioned to generate the savings needed to pay back investors:
If social services no longer have to deal with family X, they would need to be able to pull that resource away rather than redeploy that resource to another family lower down the priority list.
Allen’s review team have spoken to a number of potential investors, both corporate and individual. One of them said: ‘Tax relief or tax incentives would encourage me to make an investment.’ It all seems oddly convoluted, and makes you wonder if it wouldn’t be simpler – as well as more reliable, and more just – to make them pay for early intervention programmes through taxation. Though such a naive proposal would surely never get the endorsement of someone like the chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, who says in Allen’s review that he has been ‘delighted to help support the thinking around these concepts’. Good to know that when a Labour MP is asked to come up with a plan for improving the lives of the neediest he takes the time to make sure it will help the rich get richer too.
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What kind of screencast can I create?Demo videoMaking demo videos is one of the most direct ideas that people have in mind. Instead of writing thousands of words, and capturing screenshots to make a tutorial article, you can make a step-by-step demo video in a few minutes by demonstrating how stuff works on screen. It is very easy for people to understand and follow by watching your demo video.Instruction videoMany people take blogging or facebooking as their hobbit. And under many circumstances, an instruction video can help you to seize readers easier rather than text. It is reader-friendly if visitors can see your face and hear your voice in the instruction video, indicating more people subscribe your blog or become your fans on Facebook.E-Learning videoA screencast is always welcomed and praised by teachers and students because it offers the possibility of a new online education solution. Teacher can record PowerPoint presentation or convert PowerPoint presentation as video with voice, and send it to students or publish it on YouTube. In other words, it can be another form of distance elearning and online education which can be watched by many more people for thousands of times.Training videoIt is similar to elearning video. Supposing you are the sales manager of a software company and now there are groups of new employees who need a series of training courses. Do you want to have courses for many times or to give training lessons via video? Which is more time efficient? These screencast training videos can also be considered as the learning center. When a new person take in charge the task, he can learn the required skill himself without being trained by others.Interview videoIt is quite common that you use webcam to create a face-to-face interview with your friend or an expert. By capturing your desktop activities, you can make an interview video with screen recorder and share the video online. Webinar videoYou can record the webinar with screen recorder when participating in as a sitter-in or a secretary. The main checkpoint is the sound recording which is often indistinct with fitful noise. You can have a self-test of recording sound beforehand. The very advantage by doing this is that it is very convenient to review your webinar by watching screencast video instead reading the tedious meeting documents.Gameplay videoMany youngsters like recording their gameplay and share the video online. No matter web-based Flash games or PC games, the gameplay video can be recorded and created with screen recorder as well. Compared with desktop recording, game recording requires more powerful CPU and hardware support, and sometimes it can be affected by operating system and specified game.How to get started with screencast?
DemoCreator offers a three-step solution to create your screencast.1. Select the recording area and start to capture everything on your desktop and browser.
2. Press F10 to end your recording and start to enhance your screencast with built-in editor.
3. Publish your screencast in many popular video formats. For more guide, please read here.You can find more tips of making screencasts at knowledge center. And are you ready to creat your first screencast?
Monday, 13 September 2010 22:46
How Screencast Enriches Your LifeWritten by Adward Chan
We can notice that there are many people starting recording screencast and sharing on YouTube and their blogs. Take a brainstorm and you can think out libraries of things to record from your desktop with sound simultaneously with the help of screen recorder. Demo creator acts as a simple yet powerful screen recorder for both screencast newbies and experts. And there are some ideas and thoughts of making screencasts which might help you to make your life effective and fun without purchasing expensive recording devices or learning professional computer skills.
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College of Education, University of Oregon
As a network and information systems administrator, Mary Harrsch has designed a number of decision support systems for the University of Oregon College of Education; these include a graduate records information system, a faculty activity reporting system, and a multi-year research budget projection system. She has also developed systems to analyze the behaviors of family members engaged in restraint petitions in family court and to evaluate the effectiveness of reading curriculum products produced for grades K-3. For the American English Institute, Harrsch designed a database to manage international student enrollments and track host family experiences. She teaches workshops for FileMaker Pro users and developers.
Harrsch has presented at the National Conference for Computers on Campus and has served on a number of technology advisory committees for both the University and the Oregon State System of Higher Education. She has also served as a mentor for Lane Community College's ACCESS program, which provides outreach activities to women entering nontraditional professional careers.
As a software consultant, Harrsch has developed survey software used to analyze the educational environments of K-12 schools, project management software for a regional public broadcasting company, and a program to analyze the employment experiences of individuals with mental disabilities.
Harrsch's life experiences have been diverse. She has worked as a rancher, as a reporter and editor for a weekly community newspaper, and as a county economic development coordinator. In the latter capacity, she was the only female member of the first alfalfa products trade team to Japan and Korea. Harrsch has also been a freelance writer and photographer for a number of national publications (including Mother Earth News, Oceans Magazine, Farm Journal, American Collector, Vintage, and Rotor and Wing International) and has taught continuing education classes about writing for publication.
Harrsch has a passion for ancient history and developed an artificially intelligent virtual Julius Caesar. She was invited by the city of Rome, Italy, to enter her creation in an international competition for innovative uses of technology in education. Caesar has since been selected for inclusion in the HistoryChannel.com Network, a collection of the Web's best history sites. Harrsch maintains five news feeds on the Ancient Roman World and is presently engaged in compiling a database of images of the ancient world for students and history educators.mahjongbest pc gamespuzzle gamestime management gamesmatch 3 gamesdownloadable gamesmanagement gamesdownloadable pc gamesadventure gameskids games
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I'm not sure which of the following is the most crazy:
• A company that uses bicycles and motorcycles to power mobile-phone chargers and corn-shellers for the rural poor;
• A company that sells environmentally sustainable toilet paper and uses the profits to fund water sanitation projects in the developing world;
• Two young American women launching a reality TV show in Afghanistan to profile Afghani start-up entrepreneurs; or,
• Presuming that you have what it takes to "accelerate ventures that future generations will remember as having defined progress in our time."
It goes without saying that the founders of the first three ventures I describe—Global Cycle Solutions, Who Gives a Crap, and Bamyan Media—are some pretty audacious entrepreneurs, but the folks mentioned in Example No. 4, who brought the rest of them together last summer in Boulder, Colorado, are without doubt four of the most unreasonable entrepreneurs in the world.
Daniel Epstein, Teju Ravilochan, Tyler Hartung, and Vladimir Dubovsky are the founders of an organization called the Unreasonable Institute and, as Donna Fenn has previously written on Inc.com, they have an absurd proposition: They think they know how to "give high-impact entrepreneurs wings." Led by philosopher-entrepreneur Epstein, the five twentysomethings justify the ridiculousness of their intention by quoting George Bernard Shaw: "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
Their particular unreasonable proposition? At the core of the Institute's work is the idea that you can actually empower and accelerate not-just-any fledgling company, but fledgling companies that purport to meet the real needs of no fewer than one million of the world's poorest, most disadvantaged, and excluded people. Now entering its second year, this audacious program is building a global network to scout and attract the attention of the world's most promising entrepreneurs.
The requirements to qualify are three: You must have an idea that is "unreasonable," financially sustainable, and scalable to at least a million people. From this group, the Unreasonable Institute selects about fifty finalists to enter into "The Unreasonable Marketplace" — a website through which each candidate must prove his or her entrepreneurial muscle by attempting to raise the $10,000 it will cost to attend the Institute. But, it's not quite that simple. To avoid what Epstein calls the "rich uncle problem," finalists are limited to fundraising in $50 and $100 increments. The first twenty people to reach $10,000 get to go to Boulder.
From there things don't get any more normal. The twenty qualifying entrepreneurs are shepherded into a vacant sorority house where they eat, work, and live together for eight weeks. There is no formal program, although a stream of more than fifty mentors, including Neal Baer (executive producer of Law & Order and ER), Marc Mathiew (founder of BeDo and former head of global brand marketing at Coca Cola) and Paul Polak (founder of D-Rev and author of Out of Poverty) will come to visit and teach the entrepreneurs for varying stretches of time. The entire experience is videotaped and disseminated to the world via "Unreasonable TV," and the project culminates with a 36-hour bus ride to Silicon Valley where the entrepreneurs "pitch" their ventures to a room full of potential funders. (To watch the trailer, click here.)
What could an exercise of this degree of ridiculousness possibly accomplish? Surprisingly quite a lot. For starters, more than 60 percent of the entrepreneurs to attend the program to date have received backing for their companies — some of them have raised as much as $400,000. In addition, all of the entrepreneurs have left the Institute with a new network of close personal relationships with several of the most influential thinkers, funders, and doers in the world.
The Unreasonable Marketplace has so far engaged more than 3,000 sponsors from more than 130 countries who have pledged and paid to support these start-up entrepreneurs. And, perhaps most important, all 20 now have among each other a "family" of comrades in entrepreneurship. The intensity of these relationships is perhaps best captured by the fact that, before leaving, five of the fellows got tattoos of the Institute logo — sober. Now, that's serious.
Why does this all this matter? For those of us who puzzle over what it takes to catalyze the potential of promising start-up entrepreneurs, the Unreasonable Institute offers an impressive pilot case. Its experiment has unequivocally demonstrated the power of an unlikely mix of factors—seclusion, immersion, authentic mentoring, and intense personal bonding—to yield profound individual and organizational transformation during a relatively short ten-week period. The open question, of course, is whether this impact will endure over the long run. Does the Unreasonable Institute generate sufficient "push" for these entrepreneurs to hit escape velocity? We'll have to wait and see.
A second important provocation of the Unreasonable Institute is its intentional shedding of the qualifier social in social entrepreneur. Although all of the participating businesses are chosen because they address an unmet social or environmental need, Epstein prefers to call them high-impact rather than social entrepreneurs. He believes this qualitative change sheds the soft, do-gooder association makes mainstream investors and partners less skeptical about the businesses' prospects for success.
At a deeper level, the Unreasonable founders are also implying that social impact will not be a meaningful differentiator for much longer, and what will really count is simply whether a business can deliver both meaningful financial and social returns, end of story. It's a bold proposition and one that remains uncertain.
What I know for sure is that the Unreasonable Institute does hold an enchanting possibility: that a carefully crafted and deliberately amorphous intervention of precisely undefined parameters can actually yield rapid acceleration and permanent transformation toward the creation of serious, viable businesses that just might deliver sustainable, scalable social impact around the world. It's absolutely unreasonable and incalculably improbable. And if it works?Undeniably phenomenal.
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If, like me, you read a fair amount of Harlequin novels or you’ve ended up on the company’s mailing list, you’ve probably seen flyers in recent years touting Harlequin’s More than Words program and the annual anthology that goes with it. From the ad copy, I understood that Harlequin was putting out anthologies celebrating charitable work by women in their communities, but didn’t know much more than that. When I had a chance to chat about it via email with a publicist, I found out more and was very impressed by the work supported.
For the past several years, Harlequin has issued the More than Words anthology with stories based on the lives and work of the women who have won a contest through their charity program. The winners are described as women who have taken action to help those in need, and the hope is that their stories will inspire others to act. The aim of the program is “to enhance the well-being of women,” by raising awareness about causes that are of concern to women, providing money to these and engaging authors and readers in these worthy causes.
This year, five women have been chosen to receive $10,000 for their charities as well as to serve as inspiration for a novella in the More than Words anthlogy, proceeds of which will be used for further charitable work. This year’s winners are:
– Nancy Abrams of the Eva’s Intiatives Family Reconnect Program – Ms. Abrams is supervisor of a program that works with homeless youth in Ontario, Canada as well as working to help broken families rebuild relationships.
– Gracie Cavnar of Recipe for Success Foundation – This Foundation in Houston, Texas makes healthy meals for elementary school children and has programs to help combat childhood obesity.
– Sasha Eden and Victoria Pettibone of WET’s Risk Takers Series – This program, serving teenage girls in New York City, teaches media literacy and leadership skills.
-Valerie Sobel of the Andre Sobel River of Life Foundation – This foundation, created as a tribute to Ms. Sobel’s son, provides financial assistance to single caregivers of children with life-threatening illness so that they can care for their children full-time.
– Karen Thompson of Literature for All of Us – Since 1997, this organization in the Chicago area has weekly book groups reaching out to the community with reading, writing and discussion.
And the 2009 winners are:
– Katharine Chon of Polaris Project – Based in Washington DC, Polaris Project works to combat human trafficking, and to offer support to victims.
-Rhonda Clemons of Zoe Institute – Founded by a single mother after the death of her husband, the Zoe Institute is a faith-based agency supporting single mothers.
– Barbara Huston of Partners in Care Maryland – A resource for elderly people and their families, Partners in Care helps the elderly remain in their homes as long as possible.
-Roni Lomeli of Shoes that Fit – Shoes that Fit provides new shoes for schoolchildren who otherwise wouldn’t have them.
– Lara Tavares of Sky’s the Limit Youth Organization – Based in Ontario, Sky’s the Limit has set out to eliminate the digital divide for Canadian children by providing computers to underserved communities.
These are all wonderful causes and the 2009 winners are the inspiration for novellas this year by Joan Johnston, Robyn Carr, Christina Skye, Rochelle Alers, and Maureen Child. The More then Words book will go on sale on April 1, 2010, but we have 2 copies to give away to readers. To enter, simply comment below with one of your favorite charitable causes. The contest will be open from now until 5:00 p.m. EST on Thursday, March 18, 2010. Please note that, at the request of the donor, this contest is open to the United States and Canada only.
– Lynn Spencer
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There are two main types of spatulas out there. There are the flexible, usually silicone, spatulas that are good for stirring and scraping. There are also flat spatulas made for flipping. The latter type of spatula is an underappreciated kitchen implement because it doesn’t seem to have as many uses as its more flexible counter part. What can you use your flat spatula for? Scooping food out of a frying pan? Taking cookies off of a cookie sheet? Flipping pancakes? Most of these spatulas are used to slide under food and transfer it from one spot to another. They’re useful, but they’re not typically a multitasking tool that you rely on in the kitchen and this is largely because the design of the spatula hasn’t changed all that much over the years. The Chopula Smart Spatula was designed with an eye towards improving the spatula and turning it into a more functional kitchen tool.
The Red Dot award-winning Chopula may look light an ordinary spatula at first glance, but it has an unusual curved head that allows you to scrape along the sides of curved pans easily, much like a silicone spatula can do. It also has one flat side on the head, which allows you to break things up easily or coarsely chop things as you cook. A bend in the handle keeps the head off of your countertop, and it also allows the spatula to securely rest over the lip of a pan or pot. And, of course, the head is very thin and easily able to slip under anything that you might need to move, turn or flip over. It might not start a spatula revolution, but it definitely will get a lot more use in the kitchen than its predecessors.
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A Guardian writer was recently seeking an interview with a well-known author via email. In his first email the journalist identified himself and explained why he wanted to talk to her. Although she was reluctant at first, there was an email exchange between her and the journalist. Towards the end of the third email the author wrote: “These emails, btw, are confidential… just so’s you know.”
Therein lies a dilemma. At what stage is it reasonable to tell a journalist to whom you have been speaking or emailing that it’s all confidential and not for use? What should the journalist do?
In this case the pair came to an amicable agreement about what could and could not be used. But if they hadn’t, would it have been reasonable for the journalist to use any or all of the material obtained from the email exchange? What to do in the event of such requests is not an issue covered in the Guardian’s editorial guidelines, and it is not directly addressed in the Press Complaints Commission‘s editors’ code of practice.
A recent adjudication by the PCC involved a farmer’s wife who complained after she was quoted in the Dorking Advertiser. A reporter called her home to discuss the theft of industrial hemp in the area. He identified himself and she talked to him, but told him to call back and speak to her husband. The reporter said she did not say she wished to be neither quoted nor named. When her quotes appeared she complained to the PCC on the grounds of accuracy (clause 1) and invasion of privacy (clause 3). The PCC found that there had been no breach of the code: “In terms of the complainant being unaware that the journalist would quote her, the commission made clear that it has previously issued guidance in this area which states that people should be aware that if they speak to a journalist and do not categorically state that the conversation is ‘off the record’, it may well be regarded as ‘on the record’.
“In this instance, the reporter had not informed the complainant that he intended to quote her but, equally, the complainant – while making clear that another individual may be better placed to comment – had not stated that she had no wish to be quoted.”
Sam Blackledge, the reporter, writing on the Guardian’s website, expressed the wider issue: “The case raises an interesting point about who holds the power in exchanges between journalists and sources. If a reporter calls you and tells you he is working on a story about a particular issue, should he be required to ask your consent before publishing your comments? Or is the burden on the subject to make it clear that the conversation is ‘off the record’.”
In the exchange between the Guardian journalist and the author, there was a clear request from the interviewee part way through the process. But it can be that a reporter gets a call hours – or even a day or so – after an interview asking for some or all of the unpublished interview to be scrapped.
(Of course this can also happen after an article is published, perhaps years after – when it is sometimes known as “source remorse”. The Guardian’s deletions policy is robust in this area: “So-called ‘source remorse’ is not a sufficient reason to remove. Just because someone has thought better of something he or she said in full awareness of publication is not enough. What they said at the time is part of the story of events and thus an important part of the record.”)
If the interview has been gained in a legitimate fashion, clearly there is no regulatory problem with publishing. In the past many journalists would have felt entirely justified to run a story based on such material with little further thought short of evidence that the use of such quotes may endanger life and limb.
In the wake of the Leveson inquiry into press ethics, readers may be looking for an entirely new approach to the power balance between journalists and the public, and the former will have to be well prepared for that debate.
This column was originally published in The Guardian on March 25, 2012.
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Animal genotype plays a large role in farm profitability, helping the efficient conversion of grass into product.
Consequently, genetic improvement in the sheep industry has been a key focus of the the Mackinnon group since our inception in 1983, and all consultants take an active interest in sheep breeding. Dr Fred Morley, founding Director of the Mackinnon Project, was trained by Dr Jay Lush in quantitative genetics at the University of Iowa in the 1950's. Fred's work identified the benefits of measuring sheep for those factors that directly influence profit in order to achieve meaningful genetic gains.
The Mackinnon Project has helped define the consequences of selection using objective measurement in sheep production systems. Important practical issues have been highlighted in many newsletter articles and research, such as the 'World's Finest Ram' Project, over the past 20 years.
The Mackinnon project has considerable skill and experience in developing and applying practical animal breeding programs:
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Heavy vehicle mechanics carryout routine servicing and repair on commercial vehicles such as trucks/trailers, vans, jeeps, buses and coaches. Many work for road haulage companies. Usually the work is based around servicing, diagnostics and repairs. The aim is to ensure that vehicles are kept on the road as long as possible. As well as routine servicing, major overhauls are undertaken at regular intervals. Faults are diagnosed and the defective components are repaired or replaced as necessary.
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10405_000_019God loves all His children. He wants all of them to return to Him. He desires everyone to be in tune with the sacred music of faith.
As the General Authorities of the Church meet with members all over the world, we see firsthand how Latter-day Saints are a force for good. We commend you for all you do to bless the lives of all people.
Those of us with public affairs assignments are acutely aware that many opinion leaders and journalists in the United States and around the world have increased their public discussion of the Church and its members. A unique confluence of factors has raised the Church’s profile significantly.1
Many who write about the Church have made a sincere effort to understand our people and our doctrine. They have been civil and have tried to be objective, for which we are grateful.
We also recognize that many individuals are not in tune with sacred things. Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks of England, speaking to Roman Catholic leaders last December at the Pontifical Gregorian University, noted how secular some parts of the world have become. He stated that one culprit is “an aggressive scientific atheism tone deaf to the music of faith.”2
The great introductory vision in the Book of Mormon is Lehi’s prophetic dream of the tree of life.3 This vision starkly describes the challenges to faith that exist in our day and the great divide between those who love, worship, and feel accountable to God and those who do not. Lehi explains some of the conduct that destroys faith. Some are proud, vain, and foolish. They are interested only in the so-called wisdom of the world.4 Others have some interest in God but are lost in worldly mists of darkness and sin.5 Some have tasted of the love of God and His word but feel ashamed because of those mocking them and fall away into “forbidden paths.”6
Finally, there are those who are in tune with the music of faith. You know who you are. You love the Lord and His gospel and continuously try to live and share His message, especially with your families.7 You are in harmony with the promptings of the Spirit, have awakened to the power of God’s word, have religious observance in your homes, and diligently try to live Christlike lives as His disciples.
We recognize how busy you are. Without a paid professional ministry, the responsibility for administering the Church depends on you consecrated members. We know it is common for members of bishoprics and stake presidencies and many others to render long hours of devoted service. Auxiliary and quorum presidencies are exemplary in their selfless sacrifice. This service and sacrifice extend through the entire membership, to those keeping clerical records, faithful home and visiting teachers, and those teaching classes. We are grateful to those who courageously serve as Scoutmasters and nursery leaders as well. You all have our love and appreciation for what you do and who you are!
We acknowledge that there are members who are less interested in and less faithful to some of the Savior’s teachings. Our desire is for these members to awaken fully to faith and increase their activity and commitment. God loves all His children. He wants all of them to return to Him. He desires everyone to be in tune with the sacred music of faith. The Savior’s Atonement is a gift for everyone.
It needs to be taught and understood that we love and respect all of the people whom Lehi described.8 Remember, it is not up to us to judge. Judgment is the Lord’s.9 President Thomas S. Monson has specifically asked us to have the “courage to refrain from judging others.”10 He has also asked every faithful member to rescue those who have tasted of the gospel fruit and then have fallen away, as well as those who have not yet found the strait and narrow path. We pray that they will hold to the rod and partake of the love of God, which will fill their “soul[s] with exceedingly great joy.”11
While Lehi’s vision includes all people, the culminating doctrinal concept is the eternal significance of the family. “The family is ordained of God. It is the most important unit in time and in eternity.”12 As Lehi partook of the fruit of the tree of life (the love of God), he was desirous that his “family should partake of it also.”13
Our great desire is to raise our children in truth and righteousness. One principle that will help us accomplish this is to avoid being overly judgmental about conduct that is foolish or unwise but not sinful. Many years ago, when my wife and I had children at home, Elder Dallin H. Oaks taught that it was important to distinguish between youthful mistakes which should be corrected and sins that require chastening and repentance.14 Where there is lack of wisdom, our children need instruction. Where there is sin, repentance is essential.15 We found this to be helpful in our own family.
Religious observance in the home blesses our families. Example is particularly important. What we are speaks so loudly that our children may not hear what we say. When I was nearly five years old, my mother received word that her younger brother had been killed when the battleship on which he was serving was bombed off the coast of Japan near the end of World War II.16 This news was devastating to her. She was very emotional and went into the bedroom. After a while I peeked into the room to see if she was OK. She was kneeling by the bed in prayer. A great peace came over me because she had taught me to pray and love the Savior. This was typical of the example she always set for me. Mothers and fathers praying with children may be more important than any other example.
The message, ministry, and Atonement of Jesus Christ, our Savior, are our essential family curriculum. No scripture characterizes our faith better than 2 Nephi 25:26: “And we talk of Christ, we rejoice in Christ, we preach of Christ, we prophesy of Christ, and we write according to our prophecies, that our children may know to what source they may look for a remission of their sins.”
One of the underlying premises of Lehi’s vision is that faithful members must hold fast to the rod of iron to keep them on the strait and narrow path leading to the tree of life. It is essential for members to read, ponder, and study the scriptures.17
The Book of Mormon is of seminal importance.18 There will, of course, always be those who underestimate the significance of or even disparage this sacred book. Some have used humor. Before I served a mission, a university professor quoted Mark Twain’s statement that if you took “And it came to pass” out of the Book of Mormon, it “would have been only a pamphlet.”19
A few months later, while I was serving a mission in London, England, a distinguished Oxford-educated teacher at London University, an Egyptian expert in Semitic languages, read the Book of Mormon, corresponded with President David O. McKay, and met with missionaries. He informed them he was convinced the Book of Mormon was indeed a translation of “the learning of the Jews and the language of the Egyptians” for the periods described in the Book of Mormon.20 One example among many he used was the conjunctive phrase “And it came to pass,” which he said mirrored how he would translate phraseology used in ancient Semitic writings.21 The professor was informed that while his intellectual approach based on his profession had helped him, it was still essential to have a spiritual testimony. Through study and prayer he gained a spiritual witness and was baptized. So what one famous humorist saw as an object of ridicule, a scholar recognized as profound evidence of the truth of the Book of Mormon, which was confirmed to him by the Spirit.
The essential doctrine of agency requires that a testimony of the restored gospel be based on faith rather than just external or scientific proof. Obsessive focus on things not yet fully revealed, such as how the virgin birth or the Resurrection of the Savior could have occurred or exactly how Joseph Smith translated our scriptures, will not be efficacious or yield spiritual progress. These are matters of faith. Ultimately, Moroni’s counsel to read and ponder and then ask God in all sincerity of heart, with real intent, to confirm scriptural truths by the witness of the Spirit is the answer.22 In addition, when we inculcate into our lives scriptural imperatives and live the gospel, we are blessed with the Spirit and taste of His goodness with feelings of joy, happiness, and especially peace.23
Clearly, a dividing line between those who hear the music of faith and those who are tone-deaf or off-key is the active study of the scriptures. I was deeply touched years ago that a beloved prophet, Spencer W. Kimball, emphasized the need to continually read and study the scriptures. He said: “I find that when I get casual in my relationships with divinity and when it seems that no divine ear is listening and no divine voice is speaking, that I am far, far away. If I immerse myself in the scriptures the distance narrows and the spirituality returns.”24
I hope we are reading the Book of Mormon with our children regularly. I have discussed this with my own children. They have shared with me two observations. First, persistence in reading the scriptures daily as a family is the key. My daughter in a lighthearted way describes their early-morning efforts with mostly teenage children to consistently read the scriptures. She and her husband wake up early in the morning and move through the blurry mist to grasp the iron railing that lines their staircase to where their family gathers to read the word of God. Persistence is the answer, and a sense of humor helps. It requires great effort from every family member every day, but it is worth the effort. Temporary setbacks are overshadowed by persistence.
The second is how our youngest son and his wife are reading the scriptures with their young family. Two out of their four children are not old enough to read. For the five-year-old, they have five finger signals to which he responds in order for him to participate fully in the family scripture reading. The signal for finger 1 is for him to repeat, “And it came to pass” whenever it appears in the Book of Mormon. I have to admit that I love the fact that the phrase appears so often. Incidentally, for the interest of young families, finger signal 2 is “And thus we see”; fingers 3, 4, and 5 are chosen by the parents based on the words contained in the chapter they are reading.
We know that family scripture study and family home evenings are not always perfect. Regardless of the challenges you face, do not become discouraged.
Please understand that having faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and keeping His commandments are and always will be the defining test of mortality. Above all else, each of us must realize that when one is tone-deaf to the music of faith, he or she is out of tune with the Spirit. As the prophet Nephi taught, “Ye have heard his voice … ; and he hath spoken unto you in a still small voice, but ye were past feeling, that ye could not feel his words.”25
Our doctrine is clear; we are to be positive and of good cheer. We emphasize our faith, not our fears. We rejoice in the Lord’s assurance that He will stand by us and give us guidance and direction.26 The Holy Ghost testifies to our hearts that we have a loving Father in Heaven, whose merciful plan for our redemption will be fulfilled in every aspect because of the atoning sacrifice of Jesus Christ.
As Naomi W. Randall, author of “I Am a Child of God,” penned, “His Spirit guides; his love assures that fear departs when faith endures.”27
Let us, therefore, wherever we are on the path of discipleship in Lehi’s vision, resolve to awaken within us and our families a greater desire to claim the Savior’s incomprehensible gift of eternal life. I pray that we will stay in tune with the music of faith. I testify of the divinity of Jesus Christ and the reality of His Atonement in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.
Jonathan Sacks, “Has Europe Lost Its Soul?” (address delivered on Dec. 12, 2011, at the Pontifical Gregorian University), chiefrabbi.org/ReadArtical.aspx?id=1843.
See 1 Nephi 8.
See 1 Nephi 8:12.
The Savior’s instructions are to seek out the lost sheep; see Matthew 18:12–14.
Thomas S. Monson, “May You Have Courage,” Liahona and Ensign, May 2009, 124.
Handbook 2: Administering the Church (2010), 1.1.1.
See Dallin H. Oaks, “Sins and Mistakes,” Ensign, Oct. 1996, 62. Elder Oaks taught this idea when he was president of Brigham Young University in approximately 1980.
See Marva Jeanne Kimball Pedersen, Vaughn Roberts Kimball: A Memorial (1995). Vaughn played football as a quarterback for Brigham Young University in the fall of 1941. The day after the attack on Pearl Harbor, December 8, 1941, he enlisted in the US Navy. He was killed on May 11, 1945, by enemy bombing attacks against the USS Bunker Hill and was buried at sea.
See John 5:39.
See Ezra Taft Benson, “The Book of Mormon—Keystone of Our Religion,” Ensign, Nov. 1986, 4; or Liahona and Ensign, Oct. 2011, 52.
Mark Twain, Roughing It (1891), 127–28. Each new generation is presented with Twain’s comments as if they were a significant new discovery. There is usually little reference to the fact that Mark Twain was equally dismissive of Christianity and religion in general.
I met Dr. Ebeid Sarofim in London when the elders were teaching him. See also N. Eldon Tanner, in Conference Report, Apr. 1962, 53. Many scholars of ancient Semitic and Egyptian writings have noted the repetitive use of the conjunctive phrase “And it came to pass” at the beginning of sentences; see Hugh Nibley, Since Cumorah, 2nd ed. (1988), 150.
See Moroni 10:3–4; very few critics have sincerely tested this with real intent.
Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Spencer W. Kimball (2006), 67.
1 Nephi 17:45; see also Ezra Taft Benson, “Seek the Spirit of the Lord,” Tambuli, Sept. 1988, 5; Ensign, Apr. 1988, 4: “We hear the words of the Lord most often by a feeling. If we are humble and sensitive, the Lord will prompt us through our feelings.”
“When Faith Endures,” Hymns, no. 128.
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Wood Group Pressure Control (WGPC), a subsidiary of John Wood Group PLC of Aberdeen, Scotland, is a market leader in the manufacture of surface wellhead equipment and gate valves for the oil and gas industry. WGPC employs more than 800 people, has 40 offices worldwide and manufactures equipment at five facilities on four continents.
WGPC's sales force regularly has relied on 2D drawings to communicate how products work in a real-world environment because the large size of the components make it impossible to present the customer with product samples. Despite the sales force's diligent attempts to prepare for all contingencies, customers often have questions that can't be answered by looking at a 2D drawing.
The Dimension Solution
Wood Group turned to the Dimension BST® 3D Printer to help solve its product model issues. The Dimension BST is a networked, desktop modeling system that builds functional 3D models with ABS plastic from the bottom up, one layer at a time.
In less than three months, Wood Group was able to develop functional models in-house for more than 100 components, a feat that would have cost thousands of dollars and taken much longer using outside service providers and less advanced technology.
"By reducing the cost of making the models, we have the flexibility to create larger quantities and more varieties for use by the sales force, as well as smaller, single-purpose models for very specific customer needs," said Linda Knight, Marketing Manager for WGPC. "The plastic models are also very light weight compared to the aluminum models, which makes them easier to handle and less expensive to ship."
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It is quite obvious why rock climbing remains to be a very popular sport. The sport allows an individual face challenges for each climb and there is the continuous need for discipline and learning.
It is quite obvious why rock climbing remains to be a very popular sport. The sport allows an individual face challenges for each climb and there is the continuous need for discipline and learning. Also, the level of fulfillment felt by a climber is high so it is not a huge wonder why those who start the sport get easily hooked into it.
It is not so surprising why many people are attracted to the sport of rock climbing. One reason is its current popularity and another one is the challenge of being successful at it. If you are one of those interested in taking on this particular sport or want to at least get a feel of real rock climbing by trying out indoor wall climbing, one of the basic things you need to ensure is having the right climbing gear and equipment. Of course, you can depend on a climbing store to provide you your needed climbing gear and equipment.
One of the basic climbing gear you will need is a pair of rock shoes or climbing boots. When shopping for these, keep in mind that your primary intention is to choose a pair of climbing boots that can give you as much grip as possible. Of course, you would also want to shop for a pair of rock shoes in just the right size. Remember that your climbing shoes can influence the way you learn or train climbing both in indoor and outdoor climbing activities.
You would also need to invest in good quality climbing harnesses, climbing ropes and chocks. If you are going to first go for indoor wall climbing, you can probably first rent out some of the climbing gear as lessons or rentals often also provide such items. However, you would want your own climbing boots or shoes. If you are planning to pursue the sport on a more serious level and eventually go for the real outdoor rock climbing, you would have to eventually be required to have your own climbing gear and equipment. This is especially important since you would need your gear, wear and equipment to fit you perfectly as that can also mean your safety when engaging in the sport. The good news is that you can easily shop for all these items like the climbing harnesses, climbing ropes and chocks from the usual specialty sport climbing store online or off the Web.
It is true that there are great climbing offers and deals that are seemingly hard to refuse. When browsing around a climbing store, you might come across sales and huge discounts. While grabbing these hard to resist climbing offers, keep in mind always that you are not simply after monetary savings; your aim is to buy high quality climbing gear, wear or equipment that can ensure your safety both indoors and outdoors. Discounts and sales are just add-ons; your purpose is to find a great climbing deals offers that can save you money while not sacrificing comfort and safety while doing the sport.
After you have shopped for your needed rock and wall climbing necessities, it is time for you to enjoy the sport. Feel the rush and thrill brought about by every completed climb; see yourself improve your skills and techniques.
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Crime Magazine is about true crime: organized crime, celebrity crime, serial killers, corruption, sex crimes, capital punishment, prisons, assassinations, justice issues, crime books, crime films and crime studies.
On November 28, 1994, convicted serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is beaten to death by a fellow inmate while performing cleaning duty in a bathroom at the Columbia Correctional Institute gymnasium in Portage, Wisconsin. During a 13-year period, Dahmer, who lived primarily in the Midwest, murdered at least 17 men.
Most of these men were young, gay African Americans who Dahmer lured back to his home, promising to pay them money to pose nude for photographs. Dahmer would then drug and strangle them to death, generally mutilating, and occasionally cannibalizing, their bodies. Dahmer was finally arrested on July 22, 1991, and entered a plea of guilty but insane in 15 of the 17 murders he confessed to committing. In February 1992, the jury found him sane in each murder, and he was sentenced to 15 consecutive life sentences. Two years later, Dahmer was killed at the age of 34 by fellow inmate Christopher Scarver, who also fatally beat the third man on their work detail, inmate Jesse Anderson. Scarver's motive in killing the two men is not entirely clear; however, in his subsequent criminal trial he maintained that God told him to kill Dahmer and the other inmate. Scarver, already serving a life term for murder, was sentenced to additional life terms and transferred to a federal prison.
Visit Michael Thomas Barry’s official author website – www.michaelthomasbarry.com & order his true crime book, Murder & Mayhem 52 Crimes that Shocked Early California 1849-1949, from Amazon or Barnes & Noble through the following links –
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What is it like growing up in the areas of Africa that have been ravaged by the AIDS epidemic? A traveling exhibit visiting Santa Rosa this week supplies some first-hand answers.
To reserve times and tickets for the free exhibit while it is in Santa Rosa, click here. Reservations are not required, but they are strongly encouraged. Mike Griffin explains that’s for more than one reason.
The organization behind the exhibit, World Vision, is hardly a household name, but Griffin believes that they do good work.
Use this link for more background information on the the Experience AIDS tour. The phorograph below is an overhead view of the walk-through display area.
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t was hardly a surprise when hundreds of residents of O'Fallon, Illinois, showed up on October 10, 2004, for an open house and a sneak peak at that municipality's new state-of-the-art public safety facility. It was, after all, the culmination of a six-year process that had touched the lives of many in the community. It also marked the beginning of a new and exciting relationship between public safety officials and the people they serve.
Situated on five acres on the edge of the town's rapidly growing housing developments, the new 36,000-square-foot public safety facility houses both police and emergency medical services. The size of the facility was determined through an extensive demographic analysis ofprojected growth trends in O'Fallon's population. This analysis indicated anestimated 60 percent increase in the number of residents by 2025. Based on thepolice department's staffing history,together with anticipated advancements in technology, the planners created afacility whose size could accommodate up to 125 officers and EMS personnel, along with 53 support staff and included sufficient room for holding cells, investigations and EMS bays. It also includes O'Fallon's first dedicated community room, where groups as diverse as the Girl Scouts and the local military officers' association may now hold their meetings and celebrations.
From the moment when this new facility was first conceived, local government and police officials saw it as an opportunity to use the design and construction process, as well as the finished building itself, asvehicles to strengthen ties between public safety departments and citizens. The process underscored a new approach to community policing, one that recognizes that the need to engage the public as part of everyday business. In O'Fallon, that means inviting the community into the facility on a regular basis and making it both a community center and a police station.
Achieving this successful blend in a public project did not come easily. Police departments that are considering a similar process would do well to remember four simple rules:
- Work on your community relationships all the time.
- Hire smart people.
- Get ready to invest yourself in the process.
- Remember that you're the customer and make sure the building is what you want and need it to be.
By following these rules, O'Fallon police obtained a first-class facility that is expected to accommodate their needs for the next 25 years, and the process also generated greater understanding and respect for the police among local residents. And they succeeded in creating a more open, welcoming environment that presents the public safety function in a less intimidating light, thereby leading to greater cooperation and mutual trust between police and the public that should result in more effective community policing going forward.
Understanding the Community
O'Fallon is a rapidly growing bedroom community located approximately 15 miles east of downtown Saint Louis,Missouri. Over the past 25 years, the community has doubled in size, from 12,000 residents to more than 25,000. Estimates say the population could exceed 40,000 by 2025.
O'Fallon is a relatively safe community. The police respond to 26,000 callsa year, the EMS to 2,000. Part 1 serious crime statistics have been historically low; there have been no homicides in four years and the area averages only four robberies a year. Nevertheless, as the population has surged, so have demands for more officers and services.
When the old police station was built in 1980, its 9,000 square feet were more than adequate to house the 10 employees that served O'Fallon. By the late 1990s, however, the police department had grown to 43 sworn officers and 32 other full- and part-time staff members. The aging facility was clearly undersized and was rapidly becoming a hindrance to effective department procedures.
An added burden was the increased need for ambulance and EMS services brought on by O'Fallon's growth. O'Fallon has a volunteer fire department, so its professional emergency services fall under the jurisdiction of the police chief. Yet the EMS staff was housed in a separate facility from the police, making coordination and management a distinct challenge.
Consequently, in 1998 O'Fallon's police chief and the city's mayor began to discuss the idea of a new facility that could house both departments while meeting the public's needs for the next 25 years. That idea would finally take shape six years and $8 million later.
The Political Process
An $8 million public investment in a town the size of O'Fallon is significant. With resources scarce, the first step had to be to convince stakeholders that a new facility was necessary. Stakeholders included not just elected officials but their constituents as well. How could the department convince them of the need for this project? How could they convince citizens that a public safety facility was more important than a new school or repaved street?
Of course, the first time one has a conversation with someone it should not be about how one needs an $8 million building. It helped that the O'Fallon police had worked hard for years to build solid relationships with the community and its political leaders. Those relationships provided a foundation for selling the concept of a new facility, but it was only a start.
Over a period of several years, an ongoing effort was made to bring local opinion leaders into the old station so they could see its limitations and its condition and understand why an upgrade was important. Presentations were made to local business groups, such as the Kiwanis and Rotary Clubs. Citizen concerns were considered during the site selection process. A publicity campaign was waged to communicate the need for a new public safety facility and what it would mean for the community. Local groups and outside experts were consulted to identify how the facility might be used for purposes beyond basic police work. City council members and their staff were kept apprised of developments and updated on the project's progress on a regular basis. A Web site was developed and a live webcam positioned during construction to enable residents to follow the progress on their investment.
Incorporating community space into the proposed facility helped sell the concept. At the time, O'Fallon had no other public meeting space available for local groups. The city council chambers, located at city hall, had church-like pews anchored to the floor, making that space inflexible to accommodate most other events. Parking, kitchen facilities and audiovisual equipment were also lacking. The inclusion of a space that the community could use gave the proposed facility an added appeal for a large cross section of the community.
As a result, the question for many in O'Fallon went from "Do we really need this?" to "How are we going to get this done?" That spirit of cooperation became the driving force that brought the new facility to fruition.
Location, Location, Location
The community's interest in the new facility was clearly evident during site selection. Project planners did not have to solicit community input; they got it without asking. Four possible sites were given consideration:
- A site on city-owned land near city hall. Even though local merchants favored this site, it was ultimately rejected because it did not offer adequate space for both the public safety facility and city hall, and because a nearby parochial school objected to having a jail so close to its playground.
- A site on public land near the public library. This was passed over after planners noted its proximity to the interstate on the northern edge of the city limits, away from most growth areas.
- A site downtown that was also rejected after planners pointed out that the city's 500,000-gallon water tower, which bordered the site, could cause substantial flooding damage to the facility should it fall, a possibility in a tornado zone like southern Illinois.
- A five-acre site on the edge of town, across from the new YMCA and close to several of the newer housing developments under construction. This site was ultimately selected because it offered room for future expansion, was affordable, and was unopposed by community groups.
Once a site was selected, the process turned to the design of the facility. To lead the planning and design process, O'Fallon turned to Arcturis, a full-service architectural and design firm based in Saint Louis. Arcturis's contributions were evident from the start. During an initial process known as programming, the firm met with and gathered input from a wide range of stakeholders, including elected officials, city administrators, police officers, EMS technicians, and others. They visited six other communities that had recently completed new facilities to see how they addressed similar needs and to benchmark costs and space requirements.
Through their research, they established several guiding principles for the design process that would ensure the new facility would be community friendly:
- Making the station more open, airy and welcoming to the public
- Providing state-of-the-art space for community meetings
- Ensuring that community and police activities could coexist in the facility
- Keeping the facility functional and conducive for efficient operations
- Facilitating the cultural changes that would occur as the police and EMS departments were housed in a single facility
- Designing the facility with an eye toward future needs and technological advancements
Arcturis worked closely with O'Fallon's police chief. The chief's involvement as de facto project manager ensured that the needs of the department, as well as the community, were paramount as the design process unfolded.
Designing a Community Space
In creating a plan for the new facility, designers faced several challenges. First, they had to create a facility that would meet the needs of both the police and EMS departments, including everything from 911 services to sleeping quarters for on-call EMS staff. Second, the facility's design had to be flexible enough to allow for future department growth and continually evolving technological changes. This meant anticipating the placement of voice and data cabling outlets in locations where they might one day be needed, assuring sources of emergency power and an uninterrupted power supply, and even positioning terminals at the property's edges to facilitate future power hook-ups and communications linkages.
The biggest challenge, however, was designing the facility as a place that the community would visit and use, without those activities interfering with the work of the police. Public safety officials wanted to create a space in which people could be comfortable and that would feel different from an ordinary police station. At the same time, it had to be done within budget constraints and in a way that would also meet the needs of the police and EMS for training and other related purposes.
To achieve these objectives, designers first focused on the building's exterior, opting for simple, clean lines that stress functionality and efficiency. The tan brick and tinted glass match the look of the YMCA across the street, giving the area a coordinated, campus-like feel. Large windows in the front lobby allow the building to glow at night, making it a welcoming beacon for those passing by.
Inside the facility, the visitor initially encounters a wide, open, and airy entrance lobby more reminiscent of a community center than a police station. Just beyond the lobby area, one can see an interior atrium courtyard, designed as a space where dispatchers, officers, and other staff might take a break or calm a suspect. The atrium's centrality and openness adds to the building's ambiance, adding a touch of warmth and color in the middle of a utilitarian space.
Also just off the lobby is the community room, a large, flexible meeting space that local groups and organizations may reserve throughout the year. The room has a capacity of 200 people and offers comprehensive audiovisual facilities, Internet access, and a small kitchen area. The area can be subdivided so that two meetings can be held simultaneously. Separate access to each half of the room is also possible, which allows the police to use part of the room for training and meetings without disturbing whatever community group may be holding a session.
In the first few months since its opening, the community room has become a popular and sought-after meeting location for area Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts, rotary clubs, the chamber of commerce, the military officers' association, neighborhood watch groups, and various nonprofit organizations. Several anniversary parties and other celebrations have also been held there, although a restriction on alcohol on the premises limits some social engagements.
The O'Fallon police actively promote and encourage public use of this facility. They view it as an opportunity for positive interaction with local groups, to build mutual trust that can lead to more effective community partnerships.
Listening to Internal Audiences
Arcturis's team also spent considerable time with police officers and staff to learn what they did on their jobs and find out what they would like to see in a new facility. Their findings helped dictate such design considerations as the placement of the parking lot in relation to the staff entrance, what departments should be adjacent to each other, and how much current and future space would be allocated for different areas.
An open invitation was extended to all members of both the police and EMS departments to participate on the building's planning committee. After a flurry of initial interest, the number of participants leveled off and the group's natural leaders emerged. The process, however, demonstrated the value planners placed on everyone's input, a fact that further fueled enthusiasm and support for the project throughout the community.
Two areas that were identified as critical to efficient operations were the locker room and the investigations area. Planners placed the former close to the staff entrance, as the locker room is the first place most officers go when they arrive. The locker room was also designed for easy expansion from 75 to 125 lockers to accommodate expected department growth. Individual lockers were also equipped with multiplex outlets to enable officers easily to recharge radios, flashlights, cell phones, and other personal items.
The investigations area was designed so that detectives and uniformed officers would be close to each other, thereby facilitating the exchange of information. This area was also designed for significant future growth. By contrast, the patrol officers' area was kept relatively small, in recognition of the fact that most patrol work is done outside the building.
Hiring smart people also meant bringing in specialists to consult on specific aspects of the project. Spectrum Resources Inc. of Saint Charles, Missouri, provided professional consultation in terms of police-oriented systems, especially in the communications room, helping O'Fallon assess both current and future needs and design systems infrastructure, furniture, radios, and security systems accordingly. Arcturis engaged McLaren, Wilson & Lawrie of Phoenix, Arizona, as a peer architect with specific experience in public safety facilities. As a result of their advice, changes were made in the type of wiring used, the redundancy of systems, access to systems through false floors, and penetrations to the roof that enable easy reconfigurations as new technology might be introduced.
The involvement of internal stakeholders paid substantial dividends in other ways as well. The facility includes an abundance of interview and report taking rooms because officers were passionate about having places to take suspects, victims, and witnesses where they could work without interruption. When changes were dictated due to budget considerations, officers and staff were actively invested in helping find appropriate cuts, agreeing among other things that the station's workout room could be reduced in size since the YMCA offered an excellent weight room directly across the street.
Anticipating Future Needs
When O'Fallon residents arrived for the open house last fall, their fascination and satisfaction with the facility was evident. It was fueled, in part, by the enthusiasm that their hosts displayed for their new home. Patrol officers could walk through the facility, see a detail, and say, "That was my idea." In fact, the excitement and pride of the police and EMS for the new facility remain key factors in continuing efforts to build stronger community partnerships.
Equally important to maintaining the community's trust is the fact that the facility was designed to remain functional and efficient for the next 25 years. This is a building that can house a police department serving a community of 40,000. It is a facility that reflects forward thinking, in which future enhancements and advancements can be incorporated at minimal cost.
In government, dollars sometimes drive decisions. By using dollars wisely both today and tomorrow, O'Fallon officials have demonstrated to the community that they are worthy of trust and support. That is something that you can't pay for, nor is it something that you can legislate. But it is an invaluable asset that will continue to pay dividends for years to come.
As community policing becomes more of a force in the public safety industry, the example of the new facility in O'Fallon clearly demonstrates that effective community partnerships do begin at home, especially when that home is designed with the public in mind. ■
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Diplomacy and Science Research
Posted on August 21, 2006 Comments (17)
Today more and more locations are becoming viable for world class research and development. Today the following have significant ability: USA, Europe (many countries), Japan, Canada, China, Brazil, Singapore, Israel, India, Korea and Australia (I am sure I have missed some this is just what come to mind as I type this post) and many more are moving in that direction.
The continued increase of viable locations for significant amounts of cutting edge research and development has huge consequences, in many areas. If paths to research and development are blocked in one location (by law, regulation, choice, lack of capital, threat of significant damage to the career of those who would choose such a course…) other locations will step in. In some ways this will be good (see below for an explanation of why this might be so). Promising new ideas will not be stifled due to one roadblock.
But risks of problems will also increase. For example, there are plenty of reasons to want to go carefully in the way of genetically engineered crops. But those seeking a more conservative approach are going to be challenged: countries that are acting conservatively will see other countries jump in, I believe. And even if this didn’t happen significantly in the area of genetically engineered crops, I still believe it will create challenges. The ability to go elsewhere will make those seeking to put constraints in place in a more difficult position than 50 years ago when the options were much more limited (It might be possible to stop significant research just by getting a handful of countries to agree).
Debates of what restrictions to put on science and technology research and development will be a continuing and increasing area of conflict. And the solutions will not be easy. Hopefully we will develop a system of diplomacy that works, but that is much easier said than done. And the United States will have to learn they do not have the power to dictate terms to others. This won’t be an easy thing to accept for many in America. The USA will still have a great deal of influence, due mainly to economic power but that influence is only the ability to influence others and that ability will decline if diplomacy is not improved. Diplomacy may not seem to be a science and engineering area but it is going to be increasingly be a major factor in the progress of science and engineering.
Singapore Acts as Haven for Stem Cell Research
Lately the tiny island-state’s ambition of joining the ranks of Boston and the Bay Area as a biotech hub has been getting a hand from an unexpected quarter: the White House. Bush administration policies that restrict federal money for stem cell research have prompted an increasing number of top scientists to pack their bags and head for this equatorial city.
Two of America’s most prominent cancer researchers, Neal G. Copeland and Nancy A. Jenkins, are planning to arrive here next month to take posts at the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology. The husband-and-wife team, who worked for 20 years at the National Cancer Institute in Maryland, said politics and budget cuts had left financing in the United States too hard to come by.
This is exactly they type of thing I said was happening in, A Phony Science Gap:
Those who wish to control what science research is not done are going to find they have a much more difficult job than convincing one government. Those that want to control what research is done have an easier time of it because they just have to convince someone to fund it (a government, corporation, foundation, person, non-profit organization, university…). In rare cases they might have to convince a government (any one will do) to allow them to do the research under their laws, but I doubt this will even be something that is needed at all in all but the rarest of cases (though those cases will make for great news and excitement I am sure).
Rulers and officials of these states were aware that such innovations came from innovators, not from scholars who diligently taught the classics. They tolerated and even patronized such innovators (some of whom eventually came to be called “scientists”). By the 17th century, rulers in England and France had also begun to patronize what we would now call scientific societies, devoted to the circulation and critical assessment
of investigations in science and technology.
Because inventions, innovations, and better theories could attract public acclaim and appointments to desirable positions, talented persons were motivated to conduct such investigations. In China, however, there was no need for the state to tolerate inquirers and innovators who might challenge traditional ideas held by officials and rulers. No nearby states provided any threat which might make Chinese rulers eager to benefit from new inventions or new thinking.
Related news: U.S. Rice Supply Contaminated – Genetically Altered Variety Is Found in Long-Grain Rice
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I agree with your editorial, "County campaign against sugary drinks goes too far." County Executive Ulman's executive order banning sugary drinks from being sold on county property may be well intentioned, but it is not a function of government to determine what you should and should not drink. What is the next step? Banning ice cream and cookies from county parks?
I wholeheartedly support providing information to Howard County families on the importance of a healthy diet and the consequences from drinking too much sugar-laden soft drinks/beverages. I also support ensuring that there are healthy alternatives for both children and adults; however, I cannot support taking away legal choices from our citizens.
Government has an important role to play in keeping our communities safe, providing an excellent education system, building an efficient transportation system, etc. Government has enough on its plate; it shouldn't be determining what is on yours.
State Senate, District 9
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A Heart for Haiti
Judy F. Minkove
Date: February 4, 2010
Four times a year, Hopkins Children’s emergency medicine physician Karen Schneider takes a group of residents to developing countries as part of a tropical medicine elective in the pediatric residency program. Schneider and six residents were on their way to the airport Jan. 12 for a regularly scheduled medical mission to Haiti when the 7.0 earthquake disrupted those plans. Still determined to get there, they piggybacked with a University of Miami medical team and boarded a private Learjet with food and as many medical supplies as the plane could hold. This is Karen Schneider’s story.
We made our way to a makeshift hospital in the U.N. compound next to the Port-au-Prince airport. The medical team we relieved had worked for 48 consecutive hours.
The victims in the hospital had open fractures—their bones were sticking out. There was no anesthesia, no morphine before we got there. All we could do was clean the wounds as best we could and give the children antibiotics. The first kid I saw was 11 and needed his leg cut off. He had a crushed infected leg and had developed a fever and was becoming septic. He died an hour after surgery. But he was the only child we lost. Once the other docs got there, we handled hundreds of kids 16 or younger and made sure they got IVs, antibiotics and pain medicine.
She Cried Out To Me, “My father’s dead, my mother’s dead and my body’s broken. What’s going to happen to me?” No one claimed her. I felt so guilty about leaving her.
The residents were fantastic. We took turns napping. They would say to me, You go to sleep now; I’ll take over. We worked 22 to 24 hours a day.
The residents were there for five to six days. I was there for eight days. We were running on adrenalin.Thirty-six hours after we arrived, I collapsed on a floor mat. I managed to sleep about an hour and a half when I felt a tug and one of the nurses was yelling, “Karen, Karen, can you get up? They just pulled a baby from the rubble!”
It was a 2-month old baby girl and she was covered in white concrete dust. She’d been buried for four days. Her chest was completely pushed in, her skull had a deformity, and she was so dehydrated that her heart was slowing down.
She was very close to dying. There was no oxygen, no X-rays. We couldn’t find a vein, but we finally got a line into her bone marrow so she could get some dextrose and fluids.
Suddenly someone came running in to inform us that a plane was flying to a Miami hospital. So we packaged the baby up. As I laid her down on the seat, she gave me this big, crooked smile. It was the first time this baby had responded. And then she peed! That meant that we had gotten enough fluid in her. It was really uplifting. That baby was later shown on national TV and is now doing well.
Seeing so many devastating injuries and orphaned children was beginning to take an emotional toll and it was hard not to cry. Yet the Haitian people are incredibly resilient and giving. They always look out for one another—and they’re so grateful for our help.
At one point, I got sick of eating granola bars and peanut butter and went searching in my bag for a nut mix with chocolate chips. A badly injured 20-year-old was guarding my bag, which was loaded with expensive medical supplies. He just took it upon himself to keep an eye on it and was leaning against it. I gave him a handful of the nut mix. He thanked me profusely. Then he took a tiny portion of the mix and passed it on to the person next to him, who passed it on to the next person, and so on, until it was gone.
Many of the children we saw had compartment syndrome, a crushing injury. The muscle is enveloped in fascia, like a plastic case. When a muscle is crushed, it swells and needs to be let out of the fascia. Here in the United States, after such a trauma, we would do a fasciotomy to release the muscle.
Otherwise, the muscle occludes—cuts off blood flow to the veins and arteries. Initially, it’s unbelievably painful, but then there’s no pain because the limb dies. By the time we got to Haiti, we were forced to amputate many limbs because it was too late to do fasciotomies.
On day three, a 12- or 13-year-old girl who was found sandwiched between her parents’ decomposing bodies arrived at the hospital. She cried out to me, “My father’s dead, my mother’s dead and my body’s broken. What’s going to happen to me?” She had two femur fractures, and elbow and wrist fractures. No one claimed her. She had unbelievable strength. I felt so guilty about leaving her.
There was another 12-year-old boy—Mistell—who came in with his father. His mother and three siblings had died, and he needed to have his leg amputated. He asked me, “How can I go to church or school? I don’t want to beg on the street. My daddy needs me.” He was shaking with fear.
One of the surgery residents took him to surgery and we took care of his pain. After the amputation, I sat down next to him. He wanted to see his leg, but I had to tell him it wasn’t there. The boy’s eyes filled with tears; then he heard kids screaming. He said to me, “You go because the children are crying. The children need you. I’m not in pain. They are.”
And you ask me why I go back to Haiti? It’s because of people like this. The media talk about voodoo and looting. But the Haitian people are amazing. When they get a bag of rice and boil it, it’s not just for one family. It’s for whoever comes near that pot.
—as told to Judy F. Minkove
For more on Hopkins’ efforts in Haiti, click here
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The amount of teaching required depends upon the term. Currently it is:
GP Term 1 - 3 hours per week
One hour per week in GP Terms 1, 2 & 3 must be one-on-one protected planned teaching time. This is to ensure that the registrar has the opportunity to meet their learning needs in a planned way and to receive individual feedback from their supervisor.
The balance of the teaching time can be planned teaching time or may be made up of opportunistic teaching.
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• Discussion of difficult cases
Ideally teaching should not consist of the same type of activity every session.
This is quite flexible and should respond to the registrar’s learning needs.
• Assisting the registrar to formulate an appropriate learning plan for the term
The supervisor can delegate teaching to other GPs and health professionals as appropriate. It is common for teaching to be shared amongst several GPs in the practice. Often different GPs will have individual areas of expertise. It may be appropriate for a limited amount of teaching to be delegated to other practice staff that have particular expertise in an area (eg the practice nurse teaching immunisation or wound dressing; the practice manager teaching about practice software, recall systems or billing systems).
Teaching may occur outside the practice where this is appropriate (eg teaching procedures at the local hospital, attending local CPD meetings, spending some time with specialists or allied health professionals).
The fundamental principal is that the teaching should be appropriate to the registrar’s learning needs.
An example of time that would not normally be considered appropriate as teaching time would be: a regular visit by a pharmaceutical representative where lunch is provided and the current marketing spiel endured for the sake of lunch. If this is not meeting the registrar’s educational needs then it should not be counted as teaching time.
The Teaching Allowance is specifically paid for the GP supervisor’s time that is devoted to teaching. All the time that the supervisor devotes to teaching can be claimed for payment - as long as it is documented on the Record of Teaching form. This includes both planned teaching and opportunistic teaching. It includes all methods of teaching eg observation of consultations, teaching procedures, providing feedback etc. If teaching is occurring while the supervisor is doing paid clinical work (eg seeing patients, doing an anaesthetic list) it would be reasonable to just claim the extra time spent as a result of teaching.
There may be some situations where time can be claimed as teaching time for the registrar but it is not appropriate to claim it for Teaching Allowance for the supervisor.
There are some examples of this in the following paragraphs.
If another GP or practice staff member (eg practice nurse, practice manager) does the teaching instead of the supervisor, then it is still appropriate to claim the teaching allowance for this time. As long as the teaching is being done by the most appropriate person to teach that topic, and the teaching is relevant to the registrar’s learning needs, then Valley to Coast will still pay the full rate to reimburse the teachers time.
If the teaching is done by someone unrelated to the practice then it is reasonable to claim for time that the supervisor devoted to the event. For example:
• the registrar sits in with a physiotherapist for half a day; the GP supervisor spent half an hour organising this with the physio and discussing with the physio what would be the most useful learning opportunities for the registrar. It
• a guest speaker comes to present at a regular practice educational meeting; the supervisor is an active participant in the meeting and facilitates the discussion and ensures the registrar is involved in the discussion. It would be reasonable for the supervisor to claim payment for this time.
• the registrar attends a regular lunchtime educational session run in the local area; the supervisor is involved in choosing topics and organising speakers for these events; the supervisor attends the session and is an active contributor. It would be reasonable for the supervisor to claim payment for this time.
• the registrar attends a regular lunchtime educational session run in the local area; the supervisor is not involved in the organisation of these sessions and does not attend. The time could be counted as teaching time for the registrar (as long as it is relevant to their learning needs) but it would not be reasonable to claim payment for the supervisor.
It may be appropriate to sometimes have joint teaching sessions where the registrar is taught along with another registrar, overseas trained doctor, junior doctor or medical student. This is fine as long as:
• it is meeting the registrar’s learning needs
In the case where two registrars have a joint teaching session with their supervisor, the time should be recorded as teaching time for each registrar. However, the time should only be claimed once by the supervisor (ie claim it on one registrar’s Record of Teaching form; on the other registrar’s form, record the teaching time, mark it with an asterix and deduct it at the bottom so that it is not claimed twice).
This outline cannot hope to cover all possible scenarios, but you will usually be able to work out the answer if you apply the basic principles. Please phone Valley to Coast if you need further advice.
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Oct 18 2012
By Fatih Abdulsalam
Azzaman, October 18, 2012
Everybody yearns for peace in Syria. But peace cannot be achieve through prayers by the Pope, the pleading of an Imam or the wishes of a politician.
A ruinous war is going and it seems it is difficult to imagine peace without score-settling.
The destruction and casualties are massive and any peaceful settlement that is to follow this bloody war will be shaky. One can wonder what a few-day truce is going to achieve.
The war has been going on longer than expected. It has entered every home, every shop, every school and every factory in Syria.
The war has its proxies, minds and pockets. It has opponents and proponents with roots going down deep into the ground. It has its own brigades, militias, armies and agents.
Peace is the main victim of the war in Syria. It has been there all the time, but no one seems to be seriously interested in it.
And now the U.N. envoy Akdhar Ibrahimi is striving to bring peace to the battlefield – a truce of a few days – to defeat a gigantic war. Is not he chasing a mirage?
Ibrahimi flew the world advancing a ceasefire only for the four-day Muslim feast of Adha.
As if this is all what the hapless Syrian people need. The ambition of the whole world has been condensed to merely a truce of a few hours and days.
How will a truce of this type take place in the absence of international observers? There are no peace troops in Syria to guarantee that the sides will cease fire.
If Ibrahimi does not have a green light that the truce will go beyond the four-day feast, then he will be only daydreaming.
Syria has turned into a land no longer owned by its own people. Syria is in the hands of foreign powers who spread their carpets on its soil and are comfortably playing their cards as rivers of innocent blood flow almost everywhere around them.
The request for a ceasefire is a recognition that what is happening in Syria is a war and not peaceful demonstrations for democracy and freedom.
The world has begun to recognize that there are two warring parties in Syria. Both parties will use the truce to their benefit since the world has agreed to see them on equal footing. It is no longer a regime fighting terrorist gangs or a government suppressing peaceful demonstrations.
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Apple receives patent for virtual page turn
0. phoneArena posted on 17 Nov 2012, 14:17
Apple has just received a patent for the virtual, digital page turn which is covered in a patent titled "Display screen or portion thereof with animated graphical user interface"; the patent covers the animation that makes it look like you're turning the pages of a real book...
This is a discussion for a news. To read the whole news, click here
10. blackspot posted on 17 Nov 2012, 14:43 22 4
I'm a lover of technology, innovation, creativity & fresh ideas. But Apple, I know you guys can do better this.
You guys have some of the most innovative minds in the world working for your company......... please tell me this is not the best you can do?
Get a patent for some outrageously insanely cool idea. Not this.
18. blackspot posted on 17 Nov 2012, 15:39 2 4
...*better [than] this.
20. Nathan_ingx posted on 17 Nov 2012, 15:57 3 0
But ain't that some achievement for Apple??
"A patent recieved is a patient won"...that's my new saying especially for Apple.
And thank God it's not a real, proper page flip! Imagine Apple doing that!
They might actually use the 'page flip' animation for iOS7...transitions between menu, apps and home-screens!
OMG, did i just have Apple an idea? I should patent that thought!
22. blackspot posted on 17 Nov 2012, 16:50 4 0
An achievement for Apple is when they introduced the iPhone and the iPad. Truly ground-breaking, game-changing devices that re-defined and re-vitalized old ideas.
I see this patent they’ve been awarded as nothing more than a side-show; a incredible display of some serious artist blocks.
That is simply tasteless.
37. JeffdaBeat posted on 17 Nov 2012, 19:26 6 0
But here's the thing...instead of being pissed at Apple, we should be upset with the patent office for give it the big thumbs up. Companies will be companies and I agree that this was incredibly stupid. But I think the government needs to start doing something about this.
53. jroc74 posted on 18 Nov 2012, 06:57 0 0
Actually for this....I think its cool. And this might be on of the few patents I can say ok, I get it. If no other company was using this animation for page turning before Apple, I say let em have it.
63. Pippy posted on 19 Nov 2012, 16:32 0 0
If you go to most retailers, they use the "virtual page change" on their ads. This isn't new. I also use this everytime I preview a book on Amazon or B&N.
31. someones4 posted on 17 Nov 2012, 17:56 1 0
Apple: We like to be given credit for everything
39. andro. posted on 17 Nov 2012, 20:13 2 1
Of course this patent will only hold up in the US and its messed up beyond belief. Soon apple will have a us patent for touching a touch screen phone and making a call on a touch screen phone. At some stage any sort of human contact with a man made device will be in some sort of legal dispute with apple. Eventually charging any electrical device maybe dammed a copy of Apple since the iPhone draws electrical power,who knows
44. ddeath posted on 17 Nov 2012, 21:32 1 0
How? Money makes the World turn round and round, no matter how ridiculous it looks.
45. blackspot posted on 17 Nov 2012, 21:37 0 0
Yeah, unfortunately, that is true.
12. AnTuTu posted on 17 Nov 2012, 14:53 17 1
Apple --- >Way to go lolzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
"Apple a revolutionary company" a big LOL to that
36. metalpoet (unregistered) posted on 17 Nov 2012, 19:16 2 0
r u f*cking kidding me?!@?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
61. paulislegend posted on 19 Nov 2012, 08:46 1 0
Can ANONYMOUS hack the USPO, please... This patent is a travesty in technology. The page turn effect has been around since early 2002...let me guess, apple does it some magical way which makes it different from everyone else? oh wait, they just added "on a mobile device" to the end of it. What a fugging joke.
4. oldghost posted on 17 Nov 2012, 14:32 23 2
This is truly unbelievable.
First a patent on a rectangular device with rounded corners now this.
If there was any doubt the Patent Office is in
Apple's pocket, this should remove it.
42. andro. posted on 17 Nov 2012, 20:27 0 1
I'd rather hold a device that takes 10 seconds to change page in a non virtual way than have apple gouge money out of some company for making a device which makes virtual book reading page scrolling in a more realistic than apple. Its about time people step up to the balrog
5. jopancy posted on 17 Nov 2012, 14:34 11 1
I wonder at the intellectual capacity of the guys in the patent office. Patent for imitating a flipped page? Please!!
41. joey_sfb posted on 17 Nov 2012, 20:27 1 0
I get the idea that apple are run by a bunch of highschool kids. Their patent simply lack substance and i'm sure will be invalid when challenged. Patent is protect innovation that cost lot of research fund, not to protect some rich kid's pre-school drawing.
8. chronopc posted on 17 Nov 2012, 14:41 9 1
If you can patent a rectangle with round edges, you can patent anything. Google should patent bolded hour display on its digital clock before apple decide to take the patent. Patents are such a joke in the US.
9. Kronic (banned) posted on 17 Nov 2012, 14:42 2 15
This is the best part of iBooks. The graphics are so natural!
11. Googlethis posted on 17 Nov 2012, 14:46 7 1
really there has to be a way to stop all these crap patents
13. blackspot posted on 17 Nov 2012, 14:58 6 0
Me: This is MADNESS!!!
Apple: Madness. THIS.IS.APPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
14. blattlaus posted on 17 Nov 2012, 14:59 4 1
Taking a physical process and changing it to a virtual one is as obvious as you can get. Does the patent office even look at these applications?
15. timtimity posted on 17 Nov 2012, 15:05 4 1
Seriously, there's no need to patent everything. Let everyone make whatever they want, however they want. If Apple are so confident about their products they shouldn't have anything to worry about as people will buy the best product.
Ultimately all it does is stop Apple from innovating as they're trying to prevent any competitor from doing anything, which results in Apple not having to work as hard.
Remove the patents and return to innovation.
16. ElektronicGeek91 posted on 17 Nov 2012, 15:21 4 1
too bad my phone already has that so screw you Apple!
17. Droiddoes posted on 17 Nov 2012, 15:31 3 0
I...I just don't even know what to say anymore...
19. JGuinan007 posted on 17 Nov 2012, 15:43 1 0
I don't understand this my Barnes and Noble app has had this feature since 2009 how can Apple patent it?
21. random posted on 17 Nov 2012, 16:09 3 0
Obviously B&N did some back to the future and stole patent from Apple.
Time to pay up for Apples hard work they put into this magnificent patent.
40. meowcenary posted on 17 Nov 2012, 20:18 0 0
The Kindle you can flip the magazine pages like a page turn as well.
23. ytheunissen posted on 17 Nov 2012, 16:54 2 1
How hilarious this might seem, Apple isn't the first company to patent a page turning. Google got their page turning patent back in 2010, whereas Microsoft got theirs in 2009.
So trying to be a little more objectively wouldn't hurt (points at Android as well as Apple, and even Windows Mobile followers).
25. blackspot posted on 17 Nov 2012, 17:21 1 1
Objectivity? Apple is the main opponent handing out lawsuits like Christmas presents for patents as insignificant and frugal as the one they've just been awarded.
And the thing is, Apple has become obnoxiously "sue-happy" lately, so it's kind of hard for me to look a that patent without a bit of discontent & prejudice, in the hands of Apple.
52. tedkord posted on 18 Nov 2012, 03:54 1 0
The difference is you won't see Google saying, "That device flips podagr pages like our patent. Ban it!"
26. darkkjedii posted on 17 Nov 2012, 17:22 2 6
If u look at this from a business standpoint, it's a smart move. Anyone who wants to use it will have to pay a fee to do it. Makes sense
29. Aeires (unregistered) posted on 17 Nov 2012, 17:43 0 1
Except it'll never hold up, there have been many uses of this before Apple got the patent.
33. chaoticrazor posted on 17 Nov 2012, 18:05 1 1
technically smart but dirty at the same time, its the kind of thing that shouldnt be patented as its a natural more for e-readers etc. to mimic a real book
be like patenting how a door opens then expecting all car companys architects etc to pay
28. MrJerry posted on 17 Nov 2012, 17:39 2 0
My one year old DOG can think of this...
Unless im wrong the basic idea of this wasnt from Apple
And US company applied for a patent and US organization approved it..
Isnt it too much to think that there are only bunch of idiots?
30. Aeires (unregistered) posted on 17 Nov 2012, 17:44 2 1
This surprises people? Apple has a history of taking other people's ideas and patenting them first, or modifying them ever so slightly and getting a patent that way. THis is nothing new for Apple.
32. roscuthiii posted on 17 Nov 2012, 17:58 1 1
If it is intended to mimic a book, and turning a page is about as ubiquitous to books as words are... shouldn't this be filed under the obvious category?
Regardless of whether anyone's done this before or not... and I'm betting it's been done before.
38. Ihateapplemorethanyou posted on 17 Nov 2012, 20:08 1 0
This is ridiculous. Pretty soon apple is going to get a patent for taking a s**t. You all better watch out. We are all going to get sued next!
43. kamejoko posted on 17 Nov 2012, 20:33 0 0
USPTO eat money from apple.
Apple copy every thing from real life (turn page, glass stair, rectangle with round coner...) and patent.
Nothing to say about USPTO. Money can do everything, can patent everything.
46. ddeath posted on 17 Nov 2012, 21:37 3 0
To me, it is bloody shameful to even submit a patent like this. What is so innovative about having an animated page turning? Everyone thought of it! Just that no one except Apple will patent it, with no apparent reason but to earn money from others who implements it! Ridiculous!
47. darvisha posted on 17 Nov 2012, 21:54 2 0
I have had a software on my PC which was doing the same using a mouse. I do believe patent office must be more carefull as this kind of patenting is going to restrict small developers and actually highjack their ideas. Those who cannot afford patenting their softwares.
49. jstahl posted on 17 Nov 2012, 23:29 0 2
You can't blame Apple. You are the stupid one for not patenting it.
50. rusticguy posted on 18 Nov 2012, 02:32 1 0
I have been using following sofwatre and it works on iOS also and does the same damn thing:
Looks like US Patent office is setup to offer patent to apple for everything that they can steal/copy/reverse engineer. This isn't something to be proud of. Apple should really be ashamed if shame exists in their dictionary.
54. gammaSharma posted on 18 Nov 2012, 07:21 1 0
Apple, why don't you just Patent the use of The Fore Finger so that others cant use it. I will use my middle finger with you Capitalistic Apple. :)
56. vijaysivakula posted on 18 Nov 2012, 09:52 1 0
Damn. Didnt take a crap since yesterday as their lawyers came home to warn me not to tear the toilet paper from a side. Cant figure out how else i can do it.
57. freebee269 posted on 18 Nov 2012, 14:49 0 0
apple recieves patent for writting apple news articles. any article written about apple news will have to pay a royalty to apple. this is true innovation.
58. VAPlaya1 posted on 18 Nov 2012, 16:38 0 0
How can this be awarded to Apple when i can do this right now on a pdf app for android.
If I grab the bottom corner, I can start flipping the page, ( I can see a portion of the other next page) it goes all the way up to the top corner. Looks the same as what Apple claims it does.
59. samystic posted on 18 Nov 2012, 19:52 0 0
ridiculousness at it's extreme... i think we techies (in all colors, all levels) should start an internet cult something like 'bad luck Brian' or 'that's cute' kind of thing to stop this joke called Apple... actually Apple should patent stupidity as well, coz that it exclusive
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Shopping for baby gates is relatively low on the priority list for new or expecting parents, owing to the fact that they are generally not required for several months following the birth of a child. However, as many new parents learn, when it comes to selecting any product related to their children, there are an overwhelming number of options available.
Baby gates are certified through voluntary testing by the Juvenile Products Manufacturers Association (JPMA). It is surprising for many parents to learn that many baby related products do not actually undergo stringent levels of mandatory testing. The voluntary nature of the testing process leads to many large manufacturers unilaterally opting out of the process. Unfortunately, enacting an item recall in the event of a catastrophic failure is often more economically advantageous than redoing a product that fails to meet safety standards. A sticker bearing the JPMA mark of approval ensures that the selected item has undergone appropriate testing.
Any baby gate that is going to be positioned at the top of a staircase, no matter how seemingly small the staircase, should be more stringently examined than a traditional entryway based gate. The selected baby gate should have a stronger mounting system than a basic pressure mounted system, as well as a mechanism that only allows the gate to open in a single direction. Additionally, the gate should not have a bottom mounted trip; this can create a tremendous hazard for both parent and child.
Edges and… Read the rest
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Germany "Horrified" That Google's Collecting Publicly-Available Data
from the your-new-world-order-has-a-pretty-rainbow-logo dept
German authorities launched a new fit of privacy hysteria last week after discovering that Google's Street View cars are not only taking photographs -- they're recording the publicly-available router MAC addresses and SSIDs seen as the cars travel past Wi-Fi hotspots. UK and European politicians had already been up in arms about Americans wandering the streets taking pictures of citizens and completely non-secretive government buildings, and now Germany's data protection chief is supposedly "horrified" by the discovery that Google is also collecting public wireless hotspot data. Of course a number of companies and individuals (like Skyhook Wireless and war drivers) have been doing this exact thing for years, but because it's Google -- somehow hysteria reigns.
Neither German authorities or those covering the story seem able to say how precisely an aggregate collection of public data will be used for nefarious purposes. The assumption simply is that Google has somehow figured out a way. The Register for instance informs readers that Google's "uniquely cavalier approach to privacy" and "potential ability to cross reference the information raises additional concerns." Yet the report seems unable to tell readers what those concerns are, instead just assuming that Google must be doing something mischievous, and quoting CEO Eric Schmidt as saying users "shouldn't worry about privacy unless they have something to hide." Of course what Schmidt actually said in that interview with CNBC was somewhat less sinister:
"If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place. But if you really need that kind of privacy, the reality is that search engines like Google do retain the information for some time, and we are all subject to the Patriot Act, and it is possible that that information may be made available to the authorities."
Though Schmidt does veer awfully close to the surveillance state meme of "if you don't have anything to hide you've got nothing to worry about," in context he's simply saying the obvious: that if you want information kept private -- don't share it -- given public data these days is collected and by proxy easily accessible to law enforcement. With the outcries over Street View taking photographs of your front door, there's nothing being collected that users can't already see should they walk by. With Google's collection of Wi-Fi data, there's again nothing being collected that isn't publicly available. MAC addresses (and in this case we're just talking about hotspot MAC addresses) are changeable, and users can hide their SSID if they don't want the world to see it.
That said, how the aggregate data is used by such a large corporation is very important, and people should push Google to be as transparent as possible -- but there's a difference between asking reasonable questions about Google's data collection practices and just assuming the worst possible scenario. Google isn't publishing this data -- and two different blog posts explain how much data they're collecting, why it's being collected, and how it's being used largely to aid in GPS triangulation and local search. Though clearly from there they'll feed this data into the heads up displays of Google shock troops clad in black gunmetal body armor -- who can then carry out Google's master plan of taking over the planet using your Linksys details.
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There's nothing ambiguous about Article IV, Section 8a of the California Constitution:
"At regular sessions no bill other than the budget bill may be heard or acted upon by committee or either (legislative) house until the 31st day after the bill has been introduced unless the house dispenses with this requirement by roll-call vote entered into the journal, three-fourths of the membership concurring."
In the world of con artistry, it's known as bait and switch. The con man promotes one thing and delivers an unexpected something else.
In Sacramento, the same trick is known as gut and amend. It's a legislative sleight of hand that can turn a bill into a law without any meaningful public scrutiny -- and occasionally even without some lawmakers' scrutiny.
Three California legislators have teamed up to try to stop their colleagues from stripping the text out of legislation and replacing it with unrelated verbiage, preventing any real scrutiny.
This story is taken from Sacbee / -- Root
Editorial: Stop disgrace of 'gut and amend' in Legislature
Published Wednesday, May. 01, 2013
At the last minute in the last hour of the California legislative session, lawmakers resort to a stealth maneuver called "gut and amend." They strip out the original language of a bill and insert wholly new, unrelated language.
Of all the objectionable practices in Sacramento, perhaps the most cynical and obnoxious is the “gut-and-amend” maneuver, in which a bill is completely rewritten at the last second and rushed to passage by legislative leaders.
EDITORIAL: Stop Sacramento from passing dubious last-minute bills
Legislators should back proposals that would ban the practice of passing hastily created bills with little time for scrutiny.
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Good law does not grow from secrecy and speed. The Legislature’s habit of pushing hastily amended bills with little time for scrutiny only enables special-interest deals, political favors and flawed policy. Legislators should instead back a bipartisan effort to end the practice of passing last-minute bills without real analysis.
Assemblymember Kristin Olsen’s 72-Hours in Print Bill Sent to Suspense File Before Bill Hearing Began
Last Updated on Wednesday, 01 May 2013 05:08
Sierra Sun Times
April 30, 2013 - Sacramento – Today, Assemblymember Kristin Olsen’s (R- Modesto) ACA 4 was sent to the suspense file by Budget Subcommittee No. 6 before testimony was given on the bill, effectively preventing the committee members from taking a vote for or against increasing transparency in state government. ACA 4 would require that legislation be in print for 72 hours before a vote can be taken.
Riggs Report: Stillborn reform at the Capitol
Lawmakers bury transparency measured
Published 4:13 PM PDT May 01, 2013
Modesto Assemblymember Kristin Olsen is not naïve about the political process. But even she was taken aback by how quickly her Capitol colleagues squashed her efforts this week to promote transparency and stop unsavory dead-of-night deal-making.
Students support the joint efforts of three California State Assembly members to freeze tuition throughout the UC and CSU systems.
Assembly Bill 67, authored by Assembly members Kristin Olsen (R-Modesto), Rocky Chávez (R-Oceanside) and Jeff Gorell (R-Camarillo) would freeze tuition at the rate of the 2011-2012 academic year if there is an increase in funding to UC and CSU schools by 5 percent in the 2013-2014 and 2014-2015 academic years.
Members of the Assembly Higher Education Committee have approved a bill by a local legislator that he says would give more flexibility to community colleges to spend money on academic support staff such as counselors and librarians.
Committee members voted Tuesday to approve Assembly Bill 806, which was introduced by Assemblyman Scott Wilk, R-Santa Clarita.
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|"An Apple Red as Blood"|
|Season 01, Episode 21|
|Premiere date:||May 6, 2012|
|Written by:|| Jane Espenson &|
David H. Goodman
|Directed by:||Milan Cheylov|
|Previous Episode:||"The Stranger"|
|Next Episode:||"A Land Without Magic"|
"An Apple Red as Blood" is the twenty-first episode of Season One of ABC's Once Upon a Time. It was written by Jane Espenson & David H. Goodman and directed by Milan Cheylov. It is the twenty-first episode of the series overall, and premiered on May 6, 2012.
Henry pleads with Emma to stay in Storybrooke and continue her quest as the savior of the fairytale dwellers, and Regina concocts a plan that could rid her of Emma forever. Meanwhile, back in the fairytale land that was, Snow White enlists the aid of her fellow fairytale cohorts to attack the Evil Queen and save Prince Charming's life.
In Storybrooke, Regina and Henry Mills are eating dinner when the doorbell rings. Regina opens the door to discover Emma Swan. When she turns around, Henry has disappeared. Regina then sees that many residents are at her door. Henry is now standing behind her with a coiled rope, and they drag her outside. She is tied to her apple tree and surrounded by the people of the town of Storybrooke. They have recovered the memories of who they really are and want Regina to pay. Emma then takes a sword and swings it at Regina, while she pleads for them to stop. Regina suddenly wakes up from her nightmare and goes to check on Henry, who has pulled up the covers on his bed over a flashlight, to make it look like he is there.
Emma and Henry are leaving Storybrooke; however, when Henry realizes that she means to leave now, he begins to argue with her. He tells her that she has to save everyone, but she tells him she just wants to save him. He grabs the wheel and forces Emma into a ditch and begs her not to go, because her family is there, and she still needs to break the curse and bring back happy endings.
In the Enchanted Forest, Prince Charming is brought before King George, who intends to have him beheaded, for following the path of true love and ruining the marriage alliance with Midas' daughter. Charming is put in a guillotine and is prepared to die, when the Evil Queen interrupts. She turns the blade of the guillotine to water and offers King George all the riches he would have gotten from Midas, if he will give her Charming. She promises she will make him suffer, by using him to destroy Snow White. The King agrees and releases Charming to her.
In Storybrooke, Regina looks outside her window at her apple tree and notices the tree is dying. She picks a piece of fruit and finds it is diseased. She then goes to Mr. Gold's shop and tells him that the curse is weakening. She wonders why he doesn't seem to care. He tells her that she might need to give up Henry to keep the curse in full strength, but she disagrees with this idea. Regina wants to get rid of Emma, but Mr. Gold warns her to be careful, because killing Emma would break the curse by his design. And he cannot undo that part of the curse without magic. Regina realizes that he actually wants the curse to break. He declines to discuss his reasons. Regina wants to make a new deal; she wants to get rid of Emma without breaking the curse, but Mr. Gold is not interested. He suggests she should leave town, because when the curse is broken, the people of Storybrooke will be looking for blood.
At school, Regina sticks a white rabbit card to Paige's bike plate, knowing that the girl's father, Jefferson, is watching.
Emma arrives home to Mary Margaret Blanchard's surprise. She angrily confronts Emma for leaving without saying goodbye. Emma says that she doesn't want people relying on her, however, she says she tried to take Henry, but Mary Margaret sees this as a contradiction. She tells her not to be the person she once was, before she came to Storybrooke. She tells her that a life on the run would be bad and to figure out what is best for Henry.
In the Enchanted Forest, Snow White is rallying the Dwarves, Granny, and Red Riding Hood together to storm the castle. Grumpy says he knows people who can help with air support. Red shows up and informs them that the Evil Queen is there. Widow Lucas warns that it is a trap, and everyone agrees. Regardless, Snow White is still willing to go forward, but offers anyone the chance to turn back. No one does. Red asks about the Queen's intentions, and Snow White explains that she took away Regina's happiness; therefore, she wants to do the same to Snow White. Prince Charming is sitting in his cell when Regina arrives. She flirts with him, but he is only angry with her. Prince Charming tells her to take his life and leave Snow alone. The Evil Queen explains that she does not plan to kill Snow White; instead, she has in mind a different punishment. She walks away, smiling wickedly while flaunting a red apple.
In Storybrooke, Regina is at her window watching her tree again when Jefferson appears, having received the card left earlier on his daughter's bike. She wants his help, and she knows that he will not kill her, because he knows that then he will not see Paige/Grace again. She asks him to use his magic hat again, but he says it will not work without magic. Regina informs him that she still has a little bit left and that it should be enough for one last journey. She wants him to go back to the Enchanted Forest and get her a solution to fix the problem with Emma. Regina says that they have the same problem and that they both want their families. She offers to awaken Grace to her true self, but Jefferson does not want that, he sees the remembering of two lives as a curse. All he wants is a fresh start with no memory of the past, with his story and Grace's rewritten, so that they are together. Regina agrees, but only after Emma is dealt with.
In the Enchanted Forest, Snow White is getting ready to launch an attack on King George's castle. As a wolf, Red howls out the signal, and they move out. Above them, the fairies fly in for the attack, and on the ground, Snow White and the dwarves scale the wall. The guards see Snow White, but she quickly deals with them. The others join her and they lead an attack into the main courtyard. They manage to take out all the guards, but more show up and surround them. The fairies dive in and bomb them with fairy dust, rendering them unconscious.
In Storybrooke, Henry rushes to see August Booth and tells him about Emma's desire to leave. August tells him that he tried to make Emma believe in magic, but he failed and is paying the price. He shows him his now wooden arm, which he calls the "unvarnished truth", and Henry realizes that August is Pinocchio. He says he is changing back, because he has not been a good boy. August explains that it is hard for him to continue moving and soon it will be hard to breathe, and he just wants to spend his last bit of time with Marco/Geppetto, his father. He tells Henry that it is up to him to continue Operation Cobra.
Emma and Archie Hopper discuss Henry at the diner, but he tells her that her custody case is not strong. She can't prove any of her allegation against Regina, and he is concerned about how Henry is being affected by the dispute between Emma and Regina. He says that a court would see that, since Emma arrived in town, Henry has: stolen things, skipped school, and repeatedly put himself in danger. Emma perceives that Archie is implying that Henry is better off with Regina, and he says that Regina would never hurt him. Archie says the war needs to end for them to be together.
In the Enchanted Forest, Snow White races to the cell to save Prince Charming, but he is shown only through a mirror and explains that the Queen has taken him to her palace. Snow doubts that they will ever be together, but Charming still has faith. Then Regina appears in the mirror - she wants to talk with Snow White, just the two of them and tells her to meet her "where it all began."
Later, Snow White sets down her weapons despite her comrades' pleas against seeing Regina alone and unarmed. She thanks them, but knows it's best for her to end this herself, without endangering the others.
In Storybrooke, Regina brings Jefferson down into her vault, saying that the only remaining magic is contained in the things that she brought with her from the Enchanted Forest. She empties a box of trinkets into the hat, and they disappear, but nothing happens. Finally, she pulls out the ring that Daniel gave her and, with reluctance, drops it in the hat. Fortunately, it starts to work, but it does not open a full sized portal. Jefferson says that, although they cannot travel to the Enchanted Forest, he is able to touch the other side and bring a small object to the real world for her. She knows exactly what she wants and guides the hat's magic to the right time and place. The hat works and she tells him what she wants: an apple.
In the stables of the Enchanted Forest, the Queen and Snow White meet and walk up to the hill. Regina points out a grave which Snow White has never seen before, revealing that it is the grave of her love, Daniel. Snow White believed that he ran away and apologizes, when she learns that he was killed, because she had not kept their secret. Snow White reminds her that she lost her father in this war between them, isn't that punishment enough, but the Queen says no and rejects her apology. Regina offers her the apple which will make her body her own tomb. Snow White has to take the apple willingly or else it will not work. If she refuses, then the Queen says she will kill Prince Charming. Tearfully, Snow White agrees and takes a bite of the apple. As the poison takes effect, Prince Charming feels her pain and realizes something has happened to her. As the apple rolls away, it falls through the portal and is caught by Regina in Storybrooke
In Storybrooke, Regina holds the apple and ponders how to get Emma to eat it. She decides to bake it into a turnover. Later, Emma arrives, and Regina agrees that they need to talk. Emma says that the war between them must end. She agrees that Henry is Regina's son and offers her a deal that she will leave Storybrooke so long as she gets to come back and visit Henry. Regina seems to consent to Emma being in Henry's life and says that they must begin to be cordial to each other, and gives Emma the apple turnover for the road.
In the Enchanted Forest, Snow White's friends search for her at the stables and find her unconscious. Red notices that she has no breath; therefore, she is gone. The Evil Queen sits in her room and delightfully watches Prince Charming calling out to Snow White in grief.
In Storybrooke, Regina visits Mr. Gold and says that she found the solution. He realizes that she is talking about the sleeping curse and reminds her that all magic comes with a price. Regina believes she has won and that the curse will never be broken. Henry goes to visit Emma, and, noticing she is packing, asks if everything is okay. She says that she is leaving, but will still come to see him. Henry is dismayed that she is going to trust Regina, but Emma says that every time she fights Regina over Henry, someone else gets hurt. He asks if she truly does not believe in the curse, but she avoids the question. He insists she is the only one who can stop Regina and save Storybrooke; however, Emma pleads with Henry to stop believing in curses and fairytales. She is resolved to leave and says that Regina will take care of him. She and Henry tearfully hug.
He then notices the apple turnover on the kitchen counter. After learning that it was given to her by Regina, Henry says that the turnover is poisonous. Emma still does not believe it, as why poison her when she has agreed to leave. Henry says that Emma will always be a threat and he will prove it. He grabs The turnover and takes a small bite. When it does not appear to work at first, Emma asks him if he wants ice cream with it, but then he collapses, while Emma desperately calls out to him.
Snow White: I was very young and your mother--
Regina: She ripped his heart out because of you! Because you couldn't listen to me!
Snow White: You took my father. Haven't we both suffered enough?
Emma: Henry, what are you doing?
Henry: I'm sorry it had to come to this. You may not believe in the curse or in me, but I believe in you. [takes a bite of the turnover]
Emma: You see? You want to have some ice cream and then we can go back to talking about -- (watches as Henry collapses, then whispers) Henry? (shouts) Henry! Henry!
Regina: (to Snow White) I have no interest in cleaning tongue marks off my mirror.
- The title card features Snow White walking with the Dwarves.
- The spinning wheel Rumplestiltskin used to spin straw into gold is in Mr. Gold's shop.
- The card Regina leaves on Paige's bike is of the White Rabbit, a character from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
- The Evil Queen requests a parley with Snow White. "Parley" is a French term for a discussion between enemies, especially in times of war. It may also be a nod to another Disney franchise, The Pirates of the Caribbean.
- In this episode, Archie says, "In many ways, your rival has woken a sleeping dragon." He is unknowingly foreshadowing the next episode, where Maleficent appears in her dragon form.
- This episode premiered on August 19, 2012 in the UK.
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I disagree with inflexibly applying the logic to use steps when there's no more than a few if each step takes a substantial amount of time to perform, or even if only the first step takes considerably longer than the remainder.
For example, if the action is divided into three steps, you're right to say it sounds less intimidating and more assuring than the unknown of a zero percentage value; as a result, the user is more likely to begin the process. However, once they've moved on to step one, their perception on estimated task time is no longer influenced by a number you gave (three steps) but by the content of the first step. So, if it's a lot of information to go through, then it's quite likely they'll assume that the steps that follow are equally time consuming; of course, they may be wrong in coming to that logical assumption. As a result, they could decide against proceeding.
The point being you don't want to mislead the user in any way in regards to the estimated time it will take for them to complete a process. Yes, if you tell them what you want to hear, then you gain their attention and increase the likelihood of their participation. But, remember, that is simply the means to an end. What you should be more interested in is getting them to complete the process. If you deceive them, it's true that they may actually decide they've invested so much time in the process that they may as well as complete it now. However, remember you also need to ensure the possibility of their future participation in other activities isn't weakened i.e. if you were honest about how easy/long it will take to complete process A, they're more likely to trust your word when you ask them to complete process B in the future.
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By Howard Meyerson
Ontonagon, Mich. — Michigan may be adding a new trout steam category in 2013, created specifically for 10 test rivers where brook trout limits will be doubled to 10 fish per day. The fast-tracked proposal was presented to the Natural Resources Commission at its October meeting in Ontonagon. A final decision is expected in November.
The creation of the special category has some anglers upset. They contend it runs counter to an August recommendation by the Michigan DNR Fisheries Division to keep a 5-fish daily limit in place and scientifically study a handful of rivers to determine the impact of a 10-fish limit.
“I don’t like it,” said Bryan Burroughs, executive director for Michigan Trout Unlimited and a member of the state’s cold-water steering committee, which develops trout stream regulations for the state.
“We shrunk the regulations by 50 percent and a lot of folks spent a lot of time doing that,” Burroughs said. “Now some of the NRC folks have their own interest in adding complexity. We got yelled at for over-complex regulations, so why are we increasing trout regs by 20 percent when the public said no?”
The move to double the Upper Peninsula brook trout limit was initiated earlier this year by U.P. NRC commissioners. They claimed local anglers were disgruntled about the current five-brook-trout limit. DNR staffers then spent several months holding public meetings and gathering angler input via an online survey.
In August, the DNR Fisheries Division submitted a recommendation to the NRC based on the input of 1,400 anglers who took that survey. The report said: “There does not appear to be widespread support for raising the daily possession limit for brook trout.” It also said doing so would benefit “a relatively small percentage of the angling population.”
Brian Gunderman, DNR senior fisheries biologist, recommended keeping the five-fish limit and selecting some study streams to gather fresh data. The scientific research was expected to take six to eight years, but DNR Director Keith Creagh and NRC members wanted it done more quickly.
Gunderman recently told the commission it will be two years before any research is done. There is no money and too few staffers left to take it on next year.
“We told the NRC that we don’t have the staff power to do the study. We are going to need partners from the sportfishing community to pull this off,” Gunderman said. “It will be 2014 before we get out there, but there was a lot of interest in making the regulation change in 2013.”
Burroughs disagrees with the DNR’s direction change and the study method. He supported the original recommendations. One criterion for Type 5 selection is having abundant brook trout populations. But studying those will not provide data that can be applied to streams with smaller brook trout populations, he said. NRC commissioners initially had pushed for a change on every Upper Peninsula trout stream. The research was to determine which types of streams could withstand the additional fishing pressure.
Creating a new Type 5 category also implies permanence rather than experimentation.
Brad Petzke, of Marquette, owner of Rivers North Guide Service, was upset about the recent decision. He opposed the NRC’s initial push for change on all U.P. streams and lauded the DNR’s August recommendation.
“This decision is terrible and does not reflect what DNR Fisheries or the people of Michigan have said they want to happen,” Petzke said. “The NRC is not doing the right thing. Michigan fisheries management will move backwards if this happens.”
Gunderman said the decision can be undone in five years if need be. That’s when the regulations come up for reauthorization.
Copyright © 2012 Howard Meyerson
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NTPD students will access their didactic courses in eCollege on the first day of class. eCollege will create a home page for each NTPD student, who has created a profile in eCollege. Links to each registered course, as well as the free orientation course, will appear on each NTPD student’s home page. The home page is accessible through the eCollege login page. Students will enter their student ID (no hyphens) and the password used when creating their eCollege profile. Remember, the password is case-sensitive.
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Questions to Consider in Developing an International Memorandum of Understanding:
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND. What is the history of the relationship with the foreign institution? Has a viable pattern of collaboration already been initiated? If not, what is the compelling case for developing a new, formal relationship?
RECIPROCITY OF BENEFITS. What relevant strengths does the foreign institution bring to the linkage? Why is this an appropriate institution with which to sign an agreement? What benefits will this bring to the UI currently or in the future? Who are the UI faculty, staff and/or students who will benefit from this linkage?
COMPLIANCE. Do all elements of the agreement comply with U.S. federal law (including immigration, export/import and other regulations) and with the laws of the government of the proposed partner institution? Do all of the elements of the agreement comply with the rules and regulations of both partner institutions?
SUPPORT. What type of UI financial support has already been pledged or secured? What will be the source of this support? What type of support, if any, will the foreign institution provide during the first three years of the linkage? In addition to financial support, what arrangements are in place for other forms of support such as office space, secretarial/clerical assistance, or faculty course leave?
COORDINATION. What individual at each institution will be responsible for coordinating the activities that comprise the relationship, e.g., initiating publicity, communicating information to the other institution, etc.? Is a back-up or secondary contact available, in case the primary contact is absent or unavailable for a period of time?
EXTERNALITIES. Has the initiating department received explicit support from all other departments, colleges and programs that are implicated as participants in the agreement? If elements of the agreement might represent a significant workload increase or other resource issue for administrative offices, have these offices been consulted?
EVALUATION and RENEWAL. How will the linkage be evaluated prior to the renewal of the agreement? What will the criteria be for a successful linkage? For what period will the agreement be in force? (University practice is to sign agreements for a period of three years, renewable with both sides’ consent. This provides a regular occasion for those involved from both institutions to discuss the mutual value of the agreement. Shorter or, more rarely, longer periods in which an agreement will be in force can be requested when appropriate.)
Once the preceding questions have been answered, the initiating UI department or program may proceed by negotiating a preliminary IMOU with the proposed partner institution, using one of the templates provided by UI’s International Programs. In many cases, the proposed partner institution may prefer to work from their own IMOU template. In this situation, it will be important to submit the draft document to International Programs for review before either party signs the agreement.
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Rep. Lee Terry in The Hill: Time to decide on Keystone
"I'm the decider, and I decide what is best."
It's a shame that former President George W. Bush caught so much flak for those now-infamous words, because there is a great deal of truth in them. We want our country's chief executive to be capable of making tough decisions. Unfortunately, we don't have a decider in the Oval Office these days. Our current president is the complete opposite -- he's more of a procrastinator.
During his time in office, President Obama has put off decision after decision. He delayed Arctic offshore oil lease sales until 2015, he pushed back reviewing the smog standard until 2013 and he put off his verdict on the Keystone XL Pipeline until 2013. Because the president refused to step up and make a decision on Keystone XL, the House and Senate forced his hand. We approved a bill requiring the president to authorize Keystone XL by Feb. 21, 2012 -- unless the president decides that Keystone XL is not in our country's best interest.
There's that word again. "Decide." It's well past time for a decision on Keystone XL. While similar pipelines are regularly approved in 18 to 24 months, Keystone XL is still sitting on the shelf at month 40. If Feb. 21 comes around and Obama has decided that the Keystone XL Pipeline is not in our country's best interest -- or if he hasn't decided anything at all -- he will have some serious explaining to do to the American people.
Job creation is certainly among our country's best interests. With our economy struggling to recover, job creation might just be our top priority. Americans want to work, but while the president twiddles his thumbs in the White House, employment opportunities grow fewer and fewer. Yet, here sits Keystone XL, promising at least 20,000 direct on-site jobs in construction, operations and supporting industries.
That is not a number simply plucked out of the air. Each of those 20,000+ jobs has been accounted for by TransCanada, the company that proposed Keystone XL. TransCanada's vice president recently broke down Keystone XL's anticipated job creation as follows:
- Construction: 17 pipeline "spreads" x 500 workers/spread = 8,500 workers
- Operations: 30 pump stations x 100 workers/station = 3,000 workers
- Manufacturing (pipes, hardware, etc.): 7,000 workers
- Oversight/Management: 1,000 workers
- Assembly camps: 600 workers
These are more than 20,000 real jobs for Americans -- jobs that cannot be outsourced. Yet, Americans still wait for these jobs, for these opportunities, and for the president to make a decision on Keystone XL.
But the Obama administration continues to drag its feet on Keystone XL, just as it has for three long years. During this time, the president, like other great procrastinators, has continued to rationalize his inaction. He has claimed that the State Department's initial environmental review wasn't good enough and that he would ask the State Department -- and the same biologists, engineers and environmental analysts that completed the first review -- for a second. For one reason or another, he wasn't satisfied with the final Environmental Impact Statement released in August 2011 by the State Department. The president didn't like the State Department's conclusion that the preferred course of action with Keystone XL would be to proceed with the project as originally proposed.
In the wake of the State Department study, the president stalled, citing the supposed risk that the pipeline poses to Nebraska's environment. But I'm proud to say that Nebraska state representatives didn't want to risk having Obama take his sweet time to reroute the pipeline around Nebraska's Sand Hills region, so they are now plotting the new route themselves.
Sometimes the most risky decision is not making a decision at all. By stalling on the Keystone XL Pipeline, Obama is playing dice with our economy and gambling with the lives of hardworking Americans. The longer he waits, the clearer it becomes that Americans will not tolerate inaction in uncertain times.
The fact is, making a decision this close to the election -- even a decision that stands to create tens of thousands of desperately needed jobs -- could hurt the president politically. Do we really need another leader who is willing to put his own political life before the lives of the American people? I don't think so. What we need is a decider.
Terry is a member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and is the author of H.R. 1938, the North American-Made Energy Security Act.
Read the article online here.
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Posted: Aug 13, 2010 3:54 PM by Letitia Walker
Secretary of State Jay Dardenne is announcing that early voting opens Saturday, Aug. 14 for the Congressional first party primaries and runs through Saturday, Aug. 21 at each parish registrar of voters office. Early voting hours are 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. each day except Sunday, when the offices are closed. Election day is Saturday, Aug. 28.
Some parishes have multiple early voting locations. Visit www.GeauxVote.com/EarlyVoting for a complete list of locations.
Only Congressional offices are on the ballot. Three parties have primaries for U.S. Senator-Democratic, Republican and Libertarian. Several Congressional districts also have primaries for U.S. Representative. To see what your ballot will look like, visit our website at www.GeauxVote.com.
In Congressional primaries, voting rules differ depending on party affiliation. Registered republicans, democrats and libertarians may only vote in their party's primary. Voters registered with a non-recognized party, or those without party affiliation, may choose to vote in either the Democratic or Libertarian primaries, but not both. Voters registered with the Green or Reform parties are not allowed to participate in the primary elections.
Voters can verify all of their voter information, including party affiliation, address and polling place, by visiting www.GeauxVote.com.
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total military (Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines) recruits per 1,000 youths in fiscal year 2005, put Utah near the bottom of all states, with 2.5 per 1,000 youths ages 15-24. The top two states were Montana and Texas, at 5.7 and 5.2 per 1,000, with the national average being 3.8 per 1,000.
One reason for Utah's low ranking may be linked to the large number of young men in Utah who serve two-year missions for The Church Of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, according to both the NPP and an Army recruiter in West Valley City.
I don't see why that should matter. Maybe young men (and women) will be off a mission for up to two years, but that doesn't mean they can't join up once they get home. Are they saying that LDS youth get all their world traveling and being away from home and family out of their system by going on a mission?
This article is heavy on facts, and light on analysis. I think the mission explanation is used almost as an excuse for every atyptical stat on Utah. Then there is this factiod that is left hanging...
The NPP considers low- to middle-income neighborhoods to be those having a median household income between $30,000 and $55,000, a group the NPP says is "over-represented" in active-duty Army recruits. The NPP makes its comparison to recruits coming from "wealthier" areas, where NPP says the median household income is above $55,000. The latter group was already "under-represented" in active-duty Army numbers for new recruits, according to NPP's data from the previous year.
The article doesn't answer the question, nor does the NPP research director, but the answer is prety obvious. Military recruiters target poor, ill-educated neighborhoods, figuring that the military's "we'll pay for college and trips around the world" pitch will play better with people that can afford neither than those who send junior to the Ivy-League and on trips to Europe.
The poor are also those most in need of a good paying job that has low skill-level requirements. And the military offers that as well (obviously, they train people and also hire highly skilled folks as well).
Of course, people making over $55,000 and less than $100,000 are probabbly what you and I would call middle class, not wealthier. And over all, military recruiting has dropped rapidly as the Iraq war as dragged on...none of which should be surprising. It is a lot less fun traveling the world when your people will be trying to kill you along the journey.
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Substitute Senate Bill No. 1282
Public Act No. 99-198
An Act Concerning Traffic Stops Statistics.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
Section 1. (NEW) (a) For the purposes of this section, "racial profiling" means the detention, interdiction or other disparate treatment of an individual solely on the basis of the racial or ethnic status of such individual.
(b) No member of the Division of State Police within the Department of Public Safety, a municipal police department or any other law enforcement agency shall engage in racial profiling. The detention of an individual based on any noncriminal factor or combination of noncriminal factors is inconsistent with this policy.
(c) The race or ethnicity of an individual shall not be the sole factor in determining the existence of probable cause to place in custody or arrest an individual or in constituting a reasonable and articulable suspicion that an offense has been or is being committed so as to justify the detention of an individual or the investigatory stop of a motor vehicle.
Sec. 2. (NEW) (a) Not later than January 1, 2000, each municipal police department and the Department of Public Safety shall adopt a written policy that prohibits the stopping, detention or search of any person when such action is solely motivated by considerations of race, color, ethnicity, age, gender or sexual orientation, and the action would constitute a violation of the civil rights of the person.
(b) Commencing on January 1, 2000, each municipal police department and the Department of Public Safety shall, using the form developed and promulgated pursuant to section 3 of this act, record and retain the following information: (1) The number of persons stopped for traffic violations; (2) characteristics of race, color, ethnicity, gender and age of such persons, provided the identification of such characteristics shall be based on the observation and perception of the police officer responsible for reporting the stop and the information shall not be required to be provided by the person stopped; (3) the nature of the alleged traffic violation that resulted in the stop; (4) whether a warning or citation was issued, an arrest made or a search conducted as a result of the stop; and (5) any additional information that such municipal police department or the Department of Public Safety, as the case may be, deems appropriate.
(c) Each municipal police department and the Department of Public Safety shall provide to the Chief State's Attorney (1) a copy of each complaint received pursuant to this section, and (2) written notification of the review and disposition of such complaint.
(d) Any police officer who in good faith records traffic stop information pursuant to the requirements of this section shall not be held civilly liable for the act of recording such information unless the officer's conduct was unreasonable or reckless.
(e) If a municipal police department or the Department of Public Safety fails to comply with the provisions of this section, the Chief State's Attorney may recommend and the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management may order an appropriate penalty in the form of the withholding of state funds from such department or the Department of Public Safety.
(f) On or before October 1, 2000, and annually thereafter, each municipal police department and the Department of Public Safety shall provide to the Chief State's Attorney, in such form as the Chief State's Attorney shall prescribe, a summary report of the information recorded pursuant to subsection (d) of this section.
(g) The Chief State's Attorney shall, within the limits of existing appropriations, provide for a review of the prevalence and disposition of traffic stops and complaints reported pursuant to this section. Not later than January 1, 2002, the Chief State's Attorney shall report to the Governor and General Assembly the results of such review, including any recommendations.
(h) The provisions of subsections (f) and (g) of this section shall be in effect from the effective date of this act until January 1, 2002.
Sec. 3. Not later than January 1, 2000, the Chief State's Attorney, in conjunction with the Commissioner of Public Safety, the Attorney General, the Chief Court Administrator, the Police Officer Standards and Training Council, the Connecticut Police Chiefs Association and the Connecticut Coalition of Police and Correctional Officers, shall develop and promulgate: (1) A form, in both printed and electronic format, to be used by police officers when making a traffic stop to record personal identifying information about the operator of the motor vehicle that is stopped, the location of the stop, the reason for the stop and other information that is required to be recorded pursuant to subsection (b) of section 2 of this act; and (2) a form, in both printed and electronic format, to be used to report complaints pursuant to section 2 of this act by persons who believe they have been subjected to a motor vehicle stop by a police officer solely on the basis of their race, color, ethnicity, age, gender or sexual orientation.
Approved June 28, 1999TOP
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Patricia Stewart has her van back from the repair shop but she’s left with a burning question. Why someone would set it on fire.
Stewart says, “It just makes me mad because it takes money out of my pocket.”
The van fire makes 65 vehicle arsons investigated in 2009 by the Omaha Fire Division.
Battalion Chief John McCormick said those arsons are difficult to solve.
Chief McCormick said, “A tip would always help or an eye witness account or if someone was talking and they were overheard. Information like that always helps out.”
The arson hotline offers rewards and 444-3473 is the number to call.
Stewart said she can prove she’s not a suspect in starting her van on fire. She had only liability insurance and had to barrow $2,000 to pay the repair bill.
She also sold some belongings to raise $500 as a reward for the arrest and conviction of the arsonist who torched her van.
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Old Faithful Inn
LeConte Memorial Lodge
M.E.J. Colter Buildings
Grand Canyon Depot
Lake McDonald Lodge
Parsons Memorial Lodge
Mesa Verde Administrative District
Bryce Canyon Lodge
Grand Canyon Power House
Grand Canyon Lodge
Grand Canyon Park Operations Building
Norris, Madison, and Fishing Bridge Museums
Yakima Park Stockade Group
Crater Lake Superintendent's Residence
Bandelier C.C.C. Historic District
Oregon Caves Chateau
Northeast Entrance Station
Region III Headquarters Building
Painted Desert Inn
Lake McDonald Lodge is a three-and-one-half-story structure built on the eastern shore of glaciated, picturesque Lake McDonald. The only structure included in this Landmark nomination is the main lodge building. The guest cabins and ancillary structures built prior to and after the main lodge was constructed are included in the National Register as part of Lake McDonald Lodge Historic District but are not included in this nomination.
The lodge building has a rustic, Swiss-chalet style with clipped gable roofs, balconies on the upper stories, and jigsawn detailing. Principal building materials for the structure are stone for the foundation and first-floor walls, with a wood-frame superstructure. Some of the interior structure around the lobby and first-floor porches is heavy-timber framing. The main wing at the north end of the building is generally rectangular in plan and contains the impressive lobby, gift shop, cocktail lounge, and a few guest rooms. The main gable is intersected at the north and south ends with perpendicular clipped gables that contribute greatly to the building's chalet character. The two upper stories contain guest rooms.
South of that main portion are the dining-room and kitchen wings of log and wood-frame construction respectively, with poured-concrete and concrete block, and stone foundations. The dining-room wing may pre-date the rest of the lodge. These one-and-one-half-story wings have low, intersecting gable roofs and minimal detailing so that the viewer's eyes remain drawn to the Swiss feeling of the main lodge building. The multiple roofs of the main lodge section, and the kitchen and dining-room wings are finished with wood shingles.
The originally exposed stone walls of the first floor are now finished with off-white stucco. The upper stories are finished with wood clapboarding painted brown. Bands of painted wood decoration wrap around the structure and visually separate the different floor levels. The building's multiple balconies and verandas also contribute to the chalet feeling. On the east side of the building at the entrance, the posts edging the veranda and supporting the upper balcony are heavy milled timbers with bracket-type capitals. On the west side, the veranda facing the lake has log post-and-beam construction. The rustic feeling is reinforced by the bark that remains on the logs.
Over time the balcony railings of milled lumber in lozenge patterns have replaced the original rustic log railings on the west side. Those on the east side that were originally milled lumber in a series of simple vertical balustrades have also been replaced with lozenge-pattern railings. Windows in the main section add architectural interest to the structure. Those in the stone walls are segmentally-arched openings with paired, multi-light wood casements. Those on the second and third stories are paired, multi-light casements, while those in the attic gable ends are multi-light casements with a low, horizontal emphasis that reflects the available interior space.
In an architectural sense, the front elevation of the building is actually the side facing the lake. Entrances on the east side that allow access to the building's lobby do not have the strong architectural emphasis that usually defines a front entrance to a major hotel.
The lobby is the most architecturally significant space in the structure. The concrete floors are scored in imitation of flagstone and have incised messages in Blackfoot, Chippewa, and Cree that translate into phrases such as "welcome," "new life to those who drink here," "looking toward the mountain," and "big feast." The lobby is a large, open space three stories in height. Balconies surround the upper portions of the lobby on three sides. In each corner of the lobby are a trio of tall cedar columns that stretch uninterrupted from the ground floor up to the third story, where they are topped with round capitals cut from slightly larger logs that in turn support the exposed roof structure. Additional log beams and brackets support the balconies. Railing-s around all of the balconies are logs in a repetitive patterns reminiscent of Stick Style railings. The main structural logs of the lobby retain their bark.
On the east wall of the lobby an inglenook-type fireplace of enormous size has Indian designs scored and painted in the masonry above the opening. The lobby edges of the inglenook are surrounded with a log framing similar in design to that of the rest of the lobby. Directly above the fireplace is a large multi-light window that allows considerable natural light into the lobby. The chimney for the fireplace is off-set to the north and is visible on the structure's exterior. The staircases from the lobby to the upper stories have gnarled log newel posts and jig-sawn railings.
All of the guest room doors and hallway entrances are framed with a dark-painted wood molding that extends in L-shapes from the corners, again contributing to the rustic Swiss detailing.
Some of the doors are replacements of the original. Guest-room interiors have been updated several times but generally retain original configurations.
The dining-room contains considerable original fabric, although the room sustained considerable damage during a flood in 1964 that destroyed the original fireplace. The exposed log walls, posts, corbels, and beams along with the original furnishings give the room a particularly rustic appearance. The large plate-glass windows on the west are not original.
Many original furnishings remain in the building. The rustic hickory-type chairs and tables in the lobby and west-side porch are original. The Navajo rugs and mission-style furnishing have been removed. The trophy heads and other mounted hunting trophies are original and a distinctive part of the lobby furnishings as are most of the paintings. All of the hunting trophies are from the personal collection of John Lewis, the first owner of the hotel. Also of significance are the chandeliers and sconces of Indian design.
Changes to the building over time have not marred the structure s architectural integrity and have been relatively minor. Guest-rooms were added to the second and third floors on the west side of the lobby in 1934 at the same time that the transportation desk and newsstand were built. The present loop road for dropping off guests and flagstone steps were constructed in 1935. In 1958 all of the building's bathrooms were updated. The gift shop, cocktail lounge, and registration desk and office were added at the same time. The kitchen underwent major rehabilitation in 1959 and even received a new roof structure. In 1964 the kitchen and dining-room were remodelled as a result of flood damage, and the dining-room was expanded.
STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE
Lake McDonald Lodge is one of the finest examples of a Swiss Chalet hotel remaining in the United States. Others of that category include the remaining two hotels and chalets in and near Glacier National Park. On a local level of significance the construction of the Lodge played a major role in the development of facilities on the park's west side.
Lake McDonald Lodge, also known as the Lewis Glacier Hotel, is the second hotel on its site. The first, the Glacier Hotel built by George Snyder, was constructed in 1895. In 1913 a land speculator named John E. Lewis of Columbia Falls, Montana, who had acquired the property in 1906, hired the architectural firm of Kirtland, Cutter, and Malmgren out of Spokane, Washington, to design a new hotel that, in his words, was "something worthy of the park."
The architectural firm, responsible for a number of hotels and commercial buildings in the Spokane vicinity, drew upon the same architectural sources as had the designers for the Great Northern Railroad: the Swiss Chalet style tempered with rugged natural materials that contributed to a frontier feeling in the architecture. The Great Northern Railroad between 1910 and 1915 was in the process of building a series of hotels and backcountry chalets in and around the newly-created (1910) park. John Lewis saw the need for a major hostelry on the shores of Lake McDonald, the largest lake in the park, and built one to rival the Great Northern buildings elsewhere in the park. The design for the hotel was patterned after a large Swiss Chalet, with a stone ground floor, and wood frame construction above. The Swiss detailing on the interior and exterior were quite evident. The lobby contained the enormous log columns and multi-story balconies, similar in thought to the Glacier Park and Many Glacier Hotels constructed about the same time. In a larger sense all of those hotel designs harkened back to the Northern Pacific's Old Faithful Inn at Yellowstone in terms of the enormous multi-storied lobbies and the heavy use of natural materials, although the spaces created were extremely different.
At the time the Lake McDonald Lodge was constructed, private developers such as Lewis, and large railroads like the Northern Pacific; Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe; and the Great Northern were beginning to construct "destination resorts" in areas of exceptional scenic value--areas that were national parks or that were proposed as parks. The railroads saw the venture on a strictly commercial basis. They wanted to lure American tourists back from Europe by providing resorts of equivalent comfort in areas of spectacular American scenery.
Through time the railroads greatly increased revenues from passenger traffic by supporting developments like Old Faithful Inn at Yellowstone, or El Tovar at the Grand Canyon. The designers for the railroads became quite adept at creating in their architecture the "image" the railroads needed to provide distinction to the resorts. After all, the railroads wanted to create places worthy of "writing home about"--places where the hotels were nearly as memorable as the scenery. In the instance of Glacier National Park the architects leaned heavily on the Swiss alpine traditions for inspiration. They considered the chalet style appropriate for this mountainous area so similar in scenic values to the Swiss Alps.
Private developers such as John Lewis had to provide accommodations of equivalent luxury to stay in business. In this instance the private developer also competed with the railroad in terms of style.
The concrete and stone foundations of the Lodge were completed before the winter of 1913, and work proceeded for ten months on the building. Building materials were transported to the site by boat during the summer months and skidded across the ice during the harsh winter. Quite naturally the building's most important elevation was at the west and faced the lake, since visitors arrived at the area by boat until 1920 when the road was constructed. The building was sited on a small rise above the water near the north end of Lake McDonald. Creating a suitable architectural entrance for the east elevation was never done, giving visitors even today the gnawing feeling that they are entering the rear of the structure, rather than the front.
The hotel opened for business in June, 1914. In 1930 the Glacier Park Hotel Company, a subsidiary of the Great Northern Railway, acquired the concessions~ rights to the structure. The Great Northern's acquisition of the concession rights of the hotel not only completed their monopoly of all major lodging at Glacier National Park, but it also fit the Swiss alpine image they worked so hard to create. The name was changed to Lake McDonald Lodge in 1957.
Today the building's lakeside elevation remains as picturesque as it was when the building first opened. The exterior retains its heavy European character. The remarkable lobby contains a strong American feeling where "frontier" materials were worked into a space of high-quality of craftsmanship and rustic design unique to the American west.
Buchholtz, C.W. Man in Glacier. West Glacier, Montana: Glacier Natural History Association, 1976.
Historical Research Associates. Historic Resources Study, Historic Structures Survey, Glacier National Park, Montana. Denver: National Park Service, Denver Service Center, 1980.
McDonald, James R., Architects P.C. Lake McDonald Lodge, Glacier National Park, Architectural Preservation Guide. Denver: National Park Service, Rocky Mountain Regional Office, 1984.
Sheire, James W. Glacier National Park Historic Resource Study. Washington, D.C. : National Park Service, Office of History and Historic Architecture, Eastern Service Center, 1970.
Tweed, William, Laura E. Soulliere, and Henry G. Law. National Park Service Rustic Architecture: 1916-1942. San Francisco: National Park Service, Western Regional Office, 1977.
The boundary begins at a point on the access road at the northeast corner of the intersection of the road and the Lodge driveway; then proceeds southwest approximately 300 feet to the northeast edge of Snyder Creek; then follows the creek edge in a northwesterly direction to the shoreline of Lake McDonald; then follows Lake McDonald shoreline in an easterly direction to a point 100 feet north of the north corner of the lodge; then proceeds southeast in a line 15 feet out from and parallel to the northeast wall of the lodge to the outside edge of the driveway; then easterly along the edge of the driveway to the starting point.
(click on the above photographs for a more detailed view)
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Wind Advisory: 25-35 mph Winds, Gusts to 50 mph
The National Weather Service issued the advisory from 7 p.m. Saturday to 3 a.m. Sunday as cold weather moves into the area.
If you’ve been wondering where the winter weather has been in the greater Chicago area, brace yourself: The answer tonight is blowing in the wind.
Strong winds will sweep through the Chicago area, bringing colder temperatures and the possibility of snow flurries Sunday and Monday.
The National Weather Service in Chicago has issued a wind advisory from 7 p.m. Saturday through 3 a.m. Sunday, according to Accuweather, as colder weather and possible snow flurries move into the area.
The wind advisory forecasts west to northwest winds of 25 to 35 mph gusting to about 50 mph, although a few gusts up to 55 mph are possible. The advisory is accompanied by a gale warning fro Lake Michigan.
Accuweather senior meteorologist Alex Sosnowski writes that we’ll be seeing waves of cold air and Alberta Clippers sweep from the Northern Plains to the Northeast, bringing frigid temperatures to the Chicago area.
While Kendall and Will counties saw high temperatures in the mid-40s range on Saturday, that was expected to plummet overnight to a low of 11 degrees. Sunday’s high will be about 19 degrees and will drop into the single digits on Monday, according to Accuweather. Things won’t start to warm up until Wednesday, when the high climbs into the low 20s. Expect the highs to remain in the 20s through Jan. 27, although Accuweather’s extended forecast shows continued highs in the mid-20s into February, with one or two forays into the low 30s during that period.
In the meantime, Sosnowski says to expect Alberta Clippers to sweep the Great Lakes from time to time. That, writes Accuweather meteorologist Meghan Evans, could mean lake-effect snow — particularly today. She predicts 6 to 12 inches southeast of the shores of the Great Lakes.
Wind Precautions Advised
National Weather Service suggests any loose items susceptible to high winds be secured, and warns that the winds may have an adversely impact on high-profile vehicles, particularly on north south roadways. That means drivers should exercise greater caution and be prepared for the blustery conditions.
A wind advisory means that sustained winds of 30 to 39 mph or gusts between 45 and 57 mph are likely, according to the National Weather Service.
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Recently released government documents show that last year's violent breakup of Occupy Wall Street protests followed a coordinated effort between the FBI, DHS, and local police, working in collaboration with the big banks themselves. Despite the FBI’s own admission that Occupy was essentially peaceful, local branches of the intelligence agency routinely treated the group as a potential terrorist organization, beginning a campaign of surveillance a month before OWS set up camp at Zuccotti Park. The material is the result of a Freedom of Information Act request by the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF), a non profit civil rights organization.
"Treating protests against the corporate and banking structure as potential criminal and terrorist activity"
As Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, executive director of the PCJF puts it, the heavily redacted documents “show that the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security are treating protests against the corporate and banking structure of America as potential criminal and terrorist activity.” For instance, the Jacksonville, Florida FBI produced a Domestic Terrorism briefing on the “spread of the Occupy Wall Street Movement” in October, 2011. At the same time, the Domestic Security Alliance Council (DSAC), a “strategic partnership between the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security and the private sector,” was advising its corporate clients on how to deal with the civil unrest the protests were expected to generate.
The FBI told CNN that while it’s “obligated to thoroughly investigate any serious allegations involving threats of violence,” the organization does not open investigations based solely on political protests, which are constitutionally protected under the First Amendment. “The Department of Justice and the F.B.I.’s own internal guidelines on domestic operations strictly forbid that.”
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Fitness Crackdown: Santa Monica Gets Tough On Trainers
Keeping up New Year's resolutions to get in shape might get tougher thanks to Santa Monica City Council's proposition to ramp up regulations on outdoor fitness classes this spring.
The council is considering banning all classes with more than two participants in the city's most popular workout spot, Palisades Park.
"Palisades park is a public park and doing commercial enterprise in a public park or a public facility really should have regulations around it," says Santa Monica's Director of Community and Cultural Services Karen Ginsberg. "The recommendation is to limit private trainers for compensation."
Additionally, the council could impose a 15 percent fee on all trainers' profits over and above the already required business license, permit, insurance, and city tax.
ReasonTV's Kennedy tried out one of the outdoor classes, Sonki Fitness' Bootcamp, to see what all the fuss was about.
"It's a park, it's not a museum," says Kennedy, "this is what people should be doing with their outdoor spaces."
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I’ve been exploring the background of John Elliott (1626 – 1674), the first husband of my 8 x great grandmother Elizabeth Greene née Leete, in the hope that it might shed some light on Elizabeth’s own origins, as well as providing useful context for my ancestors’ lives in seventeenth-century England.
In my last post I wrote about John’s first marriage, to a woman named Ursula or Ursly. I still haven’t found any record of John’s birth, but I’m becoming increasingly convinced that his family origins lie somewhere in Northamptonshire. In his will of February 1672, John writes:
I will give and bequeath unto my very Loveing Kinswoman Alice Flintam the daughter of Phillipp Flintam late of Raunds in the County of Northampton deceased the sume of five pounds of good And Lawfull money of England to be paid unto her appon her daye of Marriage by my Executrix hereafter.
As with other wills I’ve examined, it’s frustrating that the writer uses the vague term ‘kinswoman’ rather than specifying the nature of his relationship to her. Was Alice his cousin or his niece? Was she a blood relative or a relation by marriage? I’ve managed to find records for Alice and her father Philip, thanks to the sterling work of the Rushden and District History Society Research Group in putting many of their local parish registers online. The Flintam or Flintham family feature prominently in the records of Raunds parish church. Alice Flintham was christened there on 16th September 1653: she was the daughter of Philip and Elizabeth Flintham. This means that she would have been about twenty years old when her relative John Elliott died. Sadly, she would not live long enough to enjoy the sum of money bequeathed to her: Alice died in the following year and was buried in Raunds on 8th December 1675.
There is no trace of the marriage of Philip and Elizabeth Flintham in the Raunds register, so it’s not possible to determine whether the Flinthams were connected to the Elliotts by marriage. There are plenty of Elliotts among those christened, married and buried in the parish around this time, but none matching the details we have for John Elliott. However, another surname that does feature prominently in the local records and provides an additional link with the Elliott family is Ekins. In his will, John Elliott leaves money to another relative, Joseph Elliott:
I will give and bequeath unto my very Loveing Kinsman Joseph Elliot son of Joseph Eliott late of the parish of Stepney in the County of Middx Cooper deceased the sume of five pounds of Lawfull money of England to the putting of him forth to be an Apprentice.
In my earlier post about John Elliott’s will, I traced the family of Joseph Elliott, citizen and cooper of London. Judging by the dates when his children were born, Joseph Elliott the elder was probably about the same age as John Elliott – making it possible that the two men were brothers, and that Joseph the younger, to whom Joseph left money to pay for his apprenticeship, was his nephew. Joseph senior must have married his wife Anna by 1650 at the latest, though I’ve yet to find a record of their marriage. If the order in which Joseph lists his children in his will (written in 1660) reflects their order of birth, then Jane was born first, though a record of her baptism has yet to come to light.
The first child of Joseph and Anna Elliott for whom we have a record is their daughter Joanna, who was christened at St Dunstan’s, Stepney, on 11th June 1651. Joseph is said to be a cooper and the family’s address is the Hermitage, an area on the borders of Stepney and East Smithfield (see map above). Joseph and Anna Elliott were at the same address when their son John was baptised on 3rd May 1654. When their daughter Ann was christened on 16th March in the following year, the Elliotts were at an address that is difficult to decipher, though the second word appears to be ‘Rents’. Joseph Elliott the younger was baptised on 18th January 1659, when his parents were living at ‘Redmayde’ (Red Maid) Lane. We know that Joseph was the Elliotts’ last child, as Anna died shortly after giving birth to him and was buried at St Dunstan’s on 14th April 1659. Since her address is said once again to be the Hermitage, it’s possible that all of the addresses given in the parish records actually referred to the same place.
Joseph Elliott the elder wrote his last will and testament just over a year after his wife’s death, signing and sealing it on 15th November 1660. I haven’t found a record of Joseph’s death or burial, but we know that the will was proven in 1661. The death of their father would have left the Elliott children as orphans: Jane would have been 11 years old or thereabouts, Joanna 10, John 7, Ann 6 and Joseph only 2. I wonder if John Elliott and his wife Ursly became the guardians of some or all of these children?
Joseph Elliott’s will mentions, among other beneficiaries, his sister-in-law Katharine Ekins: presumably the sister of his late wife Anna. Despite the many records for this family in the Raunds register, I’ve yet to find one for Katharine, so I can’t tell whether it was her maiden or married name. Among the notable members of the family in the seventeenth century were Thomas Ekins (c.1650 – 1702) of Rushden, Member of Parliament for Higham Ferrers, and Rev. Robert Ekins, a minister at Oakham who was ejected from his living at the Restoration and became a prominent Nonconformist.
These connections suggest that John and Joseph Elliott may themselves have been born in Northamptonshire. Not only that, but their wives may have had roots in the area too.
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Life is full of choices. Some are simple, such as what shirt to put on in the morning (although if you’re like me, it’s not so much of a “choice” as it is throwing on the first thing you grab out of the closet). And some choices are more complex. In the quality world, you might have to determine which distribution to choose for your capability analysis or which factor levels to use to bake the best cookie in a design of experiments. But all of these choices pale in comparison* to the most important decision you have to make each year: which college basketball teams to pick during March Madness!
*may not actually pale in comparison
When it comes to filling out your bracket, you have a lot of information at your disposal. Some people pick teams based on colors, others use mascots, and some even use the RPI! But being the statistics nerd that I am, I like to use ranking systems created by other statistics nerds. Two of the most popular rankings are the Pomeroy Ratings and the Jeff Sagarin Ratings. However, there are numerous others. ESPN has the BPI, Ken Massey has the Massey Ratings, professors at Georgia Tech created the LRMC Rankings, and the list goes on and on. With all these choices, we better perform a data analysis to determine which one is best!
Last year I created a regression model that calculates the probability one team has of beating the other given the rankings of the two teams. I’ll use this model to help determine which ranking system is the most accurate!
Now, it’s not as simple as seeing which ranking system predicts the most number of games correctly. Most of the time there is a clear favorite, and all of the ranking systems agree. What I’m more interested in is how accurate the system’s probability is. For example, if there are 10 games where the ranking system says the favorite should win 70% of the time, then we would actually expect 3 games where the favorite loses. So it’s not about trying to predict every game correctly, it’s about trying to accurately gage the probability that one team has of beating another.
Last Year’s Model
Last year I used exclusively the LRMC Rankings, and the predictions went quite well. It picked 3 of the 4 final four teams, had Kentucky winning it all, and even showed that Lehigh had a legitimate shot of upsetting Duke (which they did)! And we knew the predictions would be accurate because we tested the model before the tournament.
This bar chart shows the predicted and observed probabilities based on last year's LRMC rankings (based on 1,045 games before the tournament). For example, the bar on the far left shows that for all the games in which the LRMC Rankings said the favorite would win between 50% and 59% of the time (there were 190), the favorite won 54.2% of the time. The red dot represents the average probability predicted by the model. In this case it was 55%. So in the 190 games in this category, the model said the favorite would win 55% of them on average, and the teams actually won 54.2%. That’s pretty accurate!
As you look at the other groups, you’ll see that the predicted (bars) and observed probabilities (red dots) are fairly close. So last year there were no worries about using the LRMC Rankings to make predictions in the NCAA tournament. But let’s not rest on our laurels! Instead of blindly using the LRMC Rankings again, let’s be good statisticians and ensure that they’re just as good this year. I’ll make another bar chart for the LRMC rankings using data from this year.
(You can get the worksheet with the data in it here. I've put the summarized data in the first few columns, and the raw data aftewards. Be warned, it's large!)
This Year’s Model
Hmmmm, the red dots don’t seem to be as close to the bars as they were last year. In fact, in games where the LRMC rankings say the favorite should be winning 55% of the time, they’re barley winning half of those games (50.3%)!
So let’s visualize the difference between the two years by plotting the difference between the observed and predicted probabilities for each probability group. More accurate ranking systems will have a smaller difference, so we’re looking for small bars on the next chart.
We see that the 2012 LRMC Rankings are superior in 4 of the 5 groups, only losing out in the “60 to 69” group. We also see that in the "90 to 99" group, the 2013 LRMC rankings are off by over 5%!
Now before we start to panic, I should point out that the data from this year are based on fewer games (678 as opposed to 1,045). A smaller sample size leaves more room for more variation. Still, it seems unsettling that the results are so different from last year's. Perhaps we should use a different ranking system! Luckily, as I was tracking the 678 games for the LRMC rankings, I also recorded the rankings from 3 other systems:
- Ken Pomeroy’s College Basketball Ratings
- The Massey Ratings (I used the Power Rating, as they are meant for prediction)
- Jeff Sagarin NCAA Basketball Ratings (again, using the PREDICTOR rankings, as they are meant for prediction)
I would have liked to compare more, but it takes a while to gather all the data. Alas, I had to limit myself to 4. But the good news is that we can now compare all 4 ranking systems on the exact same games. Just like the last Bar Chart, I’ll compare the difference between the predicted and observed observations. May the best ranking system win!
And we have a winner! The Sagarin Ratings have the smallest difference in 2 of the 5 groups, and are just about equal to the smallest difference in 2 others. In addition, 4 of the 5 observed probabilities differ from the predicted probabilities by 1.1% or less! And the 5th group differs by only 2%, which isn't bad at all. The total difference for the Sagarin Ratings across all 5 groups is 4.6%. No other ranking system comes close to that. And in fact, both the LRMC Rankings and Massey Ratings are off by more than 4.6% in a single group!
So now let’s come full circle and plot the observed and predicted probabilities of the favorite winning using the Sagarin ratings.
The red dots are a lot closer to the top of the bars here. In fact, the difference between them is less than it was for the 2012 LRMC Rankings! I think we’ve found the rankings that we’re going to use for this year’s NCAA tournament. Make sure to come back Monday, as I’ll use the regression model and the Sagarin Ratings to break down the entire tournament. Until then, let’s look at the current top 5 teams according to the Sagarin Ratings.
No, they’re not #1 like they are in the human polls, but the Sagarin rankings still have Gonzaga as one of the best teams in the country. And despite their #1 ranking in the human polls, a lot of people don’t believe in the Zags because they play in a weak conference. And while this is true, they are absolutely dominating that weak conference, to a tune of 0.3 points per possession. If you’re not familiar with efficiency numbers, that’s a lot. In fact, it’s higher than the amount of points per possession the 2007-08 Memphis Tigers outscored their weak conference by. And that Memphis team came within a Mario Chambers 3 pointer of winning the national championship. So while I’m not saying Gonzaga is destined for the championship game, I am saying that thinking they’re overrated because they play in a weak conference is folly.
This Duke team is going to be a hard one to judge. The main problem with the Sagarin Ratings (or any computer based ranking system) is that they can’t account for injuries. So that means about half of the data for Duke comes in games played without Ryan Kelly. Even so, they still are ranked #4, showing that they are a great team. But how much higher would they be if Kelly was healthy all season? Most people are assuming they’d be #1. And yes, they did look mighty impressive with Kelly in their win at North Carolina. But before that, they only beat Miami by 3 points at home (even with 36 points from Kelly) and struggled for a half against a bad Virginia Tech team. A few more games in the ACC tournament will definitely be helpful to try and gauge just how good this team is.
A three-game skip in January made everybody jump off the Louisville bandwagon. But now it seems everybody is hoping back on as the Cardinals have won 11 of their last 12 games. And really, they should never have jumped off. This Louisville team definitely has the talent to return to the Final Four this year. They play suffocating defense and have the best player that nobody seems to be talking about in Russ Smith. In fact, Smith is so good that he’s currently the leading candidate for Ken Pomeroy’s Player of the Year. This will be a dangerous team in the tournament.
It shouldn’t be much of a surprise to see the best team in the Big 10 ranked so high. In a season where college basketball might have its lowest scoring season since 1952, Indiana has done its best to boost scoring, running the most efficient offense in college basketball. We should all be rooting for Indiana to go far in the tournament, if for no other reason than to make sure we don’t get stuck watching a 48-44 Final Four game. With their high scoring offense, Indiana games are anything but boring.
Yup, you read that right. The Sagarin Ratings (and most other computer ranking systems) have the Gators at #1. The reason is because Florida just blows everybody out. And when they haven’t blown people out, they’ve been unlucky, going 0-4 in games decided by 2 possessions or less. This has led to numerous sports analysts claiming that Florida “doesn’t know how to win close games” and is “unclutch.” But the statistics show that the outcome in close games has more to do with randomness (luck) than it has to with either team being clutch or unclutch. For example, in 2011 Kentucky went 1-5 in games decided by 1 possession or less. People again said they didn’t know how to win in the clutch. But all that really happened was Kentucky’s unluckiness created a very underrated 4 seed that ended up going to the Final Four. And in the tournament, they won not only one, but two 1 possession games! How did they all of the sudden learn to be clutch!?!?!?!?!?!
At the moment Florida is projected to get a 2 or even a 3 seed. If that happens, it’s going to create a very unhappy 1 seed for whoever gets put in their region.
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5,000 Walked to Make a Difference for the Epilepsy Community
April 3, 2012
— Sixth Annual National Walk for Epilepsy was a Huge Success—
Washington, D.C. (April 3, 2012) — On Saturday, March 31, the Epilepsy Foundation hosted its sixth annual National Walk for Epilepsy to help support the Foundation’s mission to lead the fight to stop seizures, find a cure and overcome the challenges created by epilepsy on the National Mall.
Ask the Experts: a Q&A session with top neurologists fielding questions from Walk participants. The 2012 panel featured Epilepsy Foundation Professional Advisory Board Chair Joseph Sirven, M.D., Epilepsy Foundation Board Chair Brien Smith, M.D., and Joan Austin, D.N.S. Joan Austin and Joseph Sirven served on the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) committee on the Public Health Dimensions of the Epilepsies, and provided an overview of the IOM study results, released on March 30, in addition to expert feedback from the entire panel on treatment options, medications and promising research.
“This is a once-a-year event where families from across the country are able to come together and support each other. So many signs and shirts read, ‘You are not alone,’” said Ellen Woods, Vice President of Development at the Epilepsy Foundation. “That’s the positive attitude and enthusiasm we saw all across the Mall on Saturday that made this Walk so inspiring and inclusive for everyone who participated.”
Epilepsy is a neurological condition affecting nearly 3 million people in the U.S. Approximately 1 in 26 people will develop epilepsy at some point in their lives. Over the past five years, the National Walk for Epilepsy has engaged more than 30,000 people and raised more than $5 million.
While there is currently no cure for epilepsy, promising research toward new treatments and a cure is being conducted every day. Money raised for the National Walk for Epilepsy provides funding for this research, as well as support for programs and services for people with epilepsy and their families.
To learn more about the Walk, visit www.WalkforEpilepsy.org, like the Epilepsy Foundation on Facebook at www.facebook.com/epilepsyfoundationofamerica and follow us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/epilepsyfdn.
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Ever see a truly clean Workplace Kitchen? Almost no one ever has. From the food splattered microwave that hasn't been cleaned since it was bought 10 years ago to the sugar covered counter top from those drinking coffee. What about the fridge? You could host a science fair with what's growing in there.
So just how dirty is your Workplace Kitchen? Science tells us all.
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1 definition by klimax32
Bargwash, the expression to use when things don't go your way, or end up going to complete shit. People find the spoken word of "bargwash" is enough to describe its meaning.
That night on the beach was total bargwash after we heard a kid got bit in the face by a shark.
When John found out Sally was a man, his plans went bargwash.
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World War I photograph album with approximately 130 4"x5" black/white photographs, most labeled, mainly taken in France. Some
are labeled as Men of the 102nd. Includes images of Generals Edwards and Passaga, several of Negro troops, several battle-site
scenes, many of French countryside, Mount St. Michel and Paris, some on ship 'The Agamemnon', 26th Division parade in Boston,
arrival in New Haven. Soldier/photographer unknown.
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or
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on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
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and that through his temptations many perish; he is thy creature, Lord, whom thou didst create; therefore, Lord, have mercy upon him."
'God answered: "Jesus, behold I will pardon him. Only cause him to say, 'Lord, my God, I have sinned, have mercy upon me,' and I will pardon him and restore him to his first
'I rejoiced greatly. said Jesus, 'when I heard this, believing that I had made this peace. Therefore I called Satan, who came saying: What must I do for thee, O Jesus?"
I answered: "Thou shalt do it for thyself, O Satan, for I love not thy services, but for thy good have I called thee."
'Satan replied: "If thou desires" not my services, neither desire I thine; for I am nobler than thou, therefore thou art worthy to serve me-thou who art clay, while I am spirit."
'Let us leave this,' I said, 'and tell me if it were not well thou shouldst return to thy first beauty and thy first state. Thou must know that the angel Michael must needs on the day of judgment strike thee with the sword of God one hundred thousand times, and each blow will give thee the pain of ten hells.'
'Satan replied: "We shall see in that day who can do most; certainly I shall have on my side many angels and most potent idolaters who will trouble God, and he shall know how great mistake he made to banish me for the sake of a vile [piece of] clay."
Then I said: "O Satan, thou art infirm in mind, and knowest not what thou sayest."
Then Satan, in a derisive manner, wagged his head, saying: come now, let us make up this peace between me and God; and what must be done say thou, O Jesus, since thou art sound in mind "
I answered: "Two words only need be spoken."
Satan replied: "What words?"
I answered "These: I have sinned: have mercy on me."
'Said Satan then: Now willingly will I make this peace if God will say these words to me."
' "Now depart from me," I said, "O cursed one for thou art the wicked author of all injustice and sin, but God is just and without any sin.'
'Satan departed shrieking, and said: "It is not so, O Jesus, but thou tellest a lie to please God.'
'Now consider,' said Jesus to his disciples, 'how he will find mercy.'
They answered: 'Never, Lord, because he is impenitent. Speak to us now of the judgment of God.'
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While plastic and cosmetic surgeons in the United States and the UK are feeling the pinch of the recession, some countries around the world are faring better during these rough economic times.
According to a recent article on CNN.com World News, Buenos Aires and other cities in Argentina are accommodating for the budget-conscious patient and enjoying an economic boom as a result.
CNN reports that many Americans are realizing they can get their coveted surgery and procedures at a very affordable price if they fly to cities such as Buenos Aires for treatment. In most cases, cosmetic surgery in South America costs a fraction of the price of the same surgery performed in the United States, the UK, or Canada.
Medical tourism companies around the globe use this important fact as the basis for their marketing promotions, emphasizing that getting surgery abroad can cost about 75% less than it would in the United States or the UK.
But what about safety? The American Society of Plastic Surgeons has published the report, “Medical Tourism: Is it Safe?”to highlight many of the disadvantages of having cosmetic procedures abroad. The ASPS encourages patients considering medical procedures overseas to make sure that the physician is qualified and to thoroughly research the facility. It’s also important to find out what the post-operative care plan is, and how the physician plans to handle any complications that may arise. For many patients, dealing with complications overseas can be stressful and risky, and they may not be able to find the treatment they need if they are carrying certain types of insurance, or do not have the funds to pay for doctor’s visits.
Still, many Americans are hopping aboard a plane to get their procedures from Argentinean doctors that they have researched thoroughly and read testimonials about. According to Dr. Williams Bukret, a surgeon in Buenos Aires who performs nearly 200 plastic surgery procedures per year in Argentina, “You can get excellent plastic surgery here at two or three times less than the cost in the United States or Europe.” (Source: CNN.com)
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Controversy has roared, both before and after the 1992 takeover of the University of Bridgeport (UB), in Connecticut, by an arm of the Unification Church (UC) of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon.
Before the coup, many in Bridgeport and the university community charged that the church would engage in the deceptive recruiting and "mind control" practices for which it had become notorious. The church, they believed, would use the school for its own messianic, theocratic purposes. This would conflict with the secular educational purposes for which the school was founded, and bound by state charter. The school's reputation was at stake.
As it turned out, the Concerned Citizens of Bridgeport, the group that has fought the takeover, was absolutely right.
Last year, the financially troubled university was essentially bought out by the Professors World Peace Academy (PWPA), a Moon front, in a secret, and possibly illegal, deal that turned over majority control of the board to PWPA.
The agreement included PWPA's intentions to integrate "over the long-term" UB's programs with other "Unification Movement projects," including Moon's Washington Times newspaper.
Although UB/PWPA down-played the Moon connection, a church member, Anthony Guerra, was soon installed as assistant dean for academic affairs. What's more, last year none other than Mrs. Sun Myung Moon spoke at the school on behalf of her new group, the Women's Federation for World Peace, as part of her international speaking tour (transpiring mostly in rented hotel ballrooms).
PWPA, according to the deal, would recruit students from the former Soviet Union and the Far East. Indeed, there are many foreign students at UB now. However, last year, two Russians said that they had been offered free tuition at "Father's University" in the United States on the condition that they attend Moon indoctrination seminars.
As for the "reputation" of the school, an obvious measure is student enrollment. Since the advent of the Moon deal, enrollment has "crashed," according to Glenn Davis, who is writing a history of the university. Although there are certainly many reasons, the Moon factor seems paramount. In September of 1991, there were 3940 students; by September of 1992, there were only 1340, only 700 of which were full-time.
Bill Finch, a courageous Bridgeport alderman, says that "the Moon organization is anti-democratic and antithetical to the mission of higher education." He also says that the financial promise of a "bail-out" has not been borne out. "A dozen buildings are in serious disrepair," he says.
Moon himself, through his public statements, has a 30-year record of contempt for American democracy, and a flagrant disregard for the law. Indeed, one Washington DC newspaper routinely refers to him as "convicted felon Sun Myung Moon." Moon did time in the big house for perjury and obstruction of justice charges in connection with a federal tax fraud case in the 1980s.
As it now stands, Moon control of UB may be undone by the persistence of the Community Coalition of Bridgeport and a lawsuit which charges that the deal was illegal.
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Many thanks to Dan Ernst for a great month of guest blogging!
The Legal History Blog welcomes Elizabeth Hillman, Hastings Law School, who will be guest blogging during July. Beth is the author of Defending America: Military Culture and the Cold War Court-Martial (Princeton University Press, 2005). Eugene R. Fidell, President, National Institute of Military Justice, said of the book: "With Defending America, Elizabeth Hillman confirms her place as one of the preeminent military law and history scholars of her generation."
Hillman is also co-author of Military Justice: Cases and Materials (with Eugene R. Fidell and Dwight H. Sullivan, LexisNexis, 2007). Other recent work includes "The Female Shape of the All-Volunteer Force" in Iraq and the Lessons of Vietnam, Or, How Not to Learn from the Past (2007); "Guarding Women: Abu Ghraib and Military Sexual Culture" in One of the Guys: Women as Aggressors and Torturers (2007); and Gentlemen Under Fire: The U.S. Military and "Conduct Unbecoming," 26 Law & Inequality (2008). She is now studying the law and politics of strategic bombing and the sourge of military sexual violence. Hillman's lecture, The Bomber Generals and the New Laws of War: Terror, Romance, and American Air Power, can be viewed here.
Hillman was on the faculty of Rutgers University School of Law, Camden before moving this year to Hastings. Before turning to law and legal history, Hillman served as a space operations officer and orbital analyst in Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Base, Colorado Springs. She served on the faculty of the U.S. Air Force Academy, where she taught military history, world history, and American history before earning a JD and Ph.D. in History at Yale. She is a board member of the National Institute for Military Justice and an elected member of the American Law Institute.
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A tale of the tape that’s stuck between “Like a Rock” and a Stone. Can the director’s lauded political films top the arena rocker’s radio classics?
Born William Oliver Stone in New York City, N.Y. on Sept. 15, 1946.
Formative Experiences Stone was twice enrolled in Yale University and dropped out both times. He then enlisted in the U.S. Army in April 1967, did combat duty in the Vietnam War and earned a Bronze Star, two Purple Hearts and an Air Medal.
Live Bullet He won an Oscar in 1979 for writing Midnight Express and also wrote the script for Scarface, but he didn’t make a name for himself as a director until Platoon. The film, based on his experiences in the Vietnam War, won him Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Director in 1986.
This American Life After Platoon, Stone went on to make two more films about America’s role in Vietnam, Born on the Fourth of July and Heaven & Earth. He’s also directed three movies about American presidents: JFK, Nixon and W.
On His Craft “I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I’m a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history.”
Born Robert Clark Seger in Lincoln Park, Mich. on May 6, 1945.
Formative Experiences After graduating from high school in 1963, Seger bounced around the Detroit music scene in various bands including The Decibels, The Town Criers and Doug Brown & The Omens before becoming the main bill in Bob Seger & The Last Heard.
Live Bullet Seger finally found national acclaim after the formation of The Silver Bullet Band and the release of a live album, Live Bullet, in April 1976. Later in the year, “Night Moves,” the title track off the band’s first studio album, gave Seger his first hit.
This American Life “If he tried any harder to reflect heartland United States,” wrote Guardian associate editor Michael Hann, “he’d turn into a John Deere tractor.” Seger’s hit material was heavily influenced by his experiences in America’s heartland; “Like A Rock,” fittingly became an anthem for Chevy trucks.
On His Craft “Rock and roll has always seemed like work to me—a good, honest solid way to make a living. I put together my first band in high school, the three-piece Decibels, in order to help earn money for my family and spending money for school clothes.”
The Last Word Stone is a war hero turned Oscar-winning filmmaker; that’s tough to top. This Stone far outweighs that rock; the director takes it.
Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band: Tuesday, March 19 at Scotiabank Saddledome. 7:30 p.m. $37.25 - $123.50. TM.
Satire and Controversy: An Evening with Oliver Stone: Saturday, March 16 at Eric Harvie Theatre, Banff Centre. 7:30 p.m. $25 - $35. banffcentre.ca.
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EDITIONS DU BARBOTIN
Centurytracks No.1, 1943-1945 Les Shermans Français de la Libération. By Claude Gillano, with Pascal Danjou; illustrations by Eric Scwartz. Soft covers, 64 pages, 7 x 9.5-inches. Contains 72 B&W photos, 18 color profiles (with dozens of smaller color illustrations), eight sets of line drawings, one chart, and several sidebars. ISBN2-9520988-6-7. Price: 14.50 €.
When the Free French Army was re-equipped and organized along modern lines, its three serving Divisions Blindées (Armored Divisions) were supplied with, among other AFVs, M4-series medium tanks from the USA. Initially equipped with M4A2s and M4A4s, after suffering combat attrition, these divisions were replenished from US stocks; this meant that nearly every version of the M4 saw use by the French, including one “Jumbo” assault tank. In addition to this variety of types, an extremely complex and very colorful system of markings was used. Thus, this subject is tailored-made for modelers looking for something different.
This latest title from the team who brought modelers the outstanding “Trackstory” booklets, concentrates on the various M4 types in service with the French 1ère, 2ème and 5ème Divisions Blindées (1st, 2nd and 5th Armored Divisions).
The dual-language English and French text begins by briefing the reader on the development history of the M4 medium tank (beginning with the M2 and M3 medium tanks) and the circumstances by which the type was issued to the Free French forces. This is followed by passages that identify the physical characteristics of the various production versions. Then, the author details the structure and deployment of the various French Divisions Blindées; a final bit contains anecdotes related to combat by French units in Germany towards the war’s end.
This is all well-supported by an excellent set of finely-reproduced B&W photographs, all of which are informatively-captioned in both the English and French languages. In fact, the author is so dedicated to the subject, that I was e-mailed a correction to the photo on page 14, which I quote here in full: “But you might be interested to know what I found on the Berry III pictured on page 14. First, it is Berry IV and it is also a M4A1E9 as you will find out looking at the enclosed photo. I changed my settings when I re-photographed it in the museum album and now the hull is visible. Too dark in the book as I was more interested at the time in the turret and the gun shield! This makes it a double rare bird as this is the only known in operational use AFAIK with the modified M34 gun shield (added direct telescope sight) and the spaced bogies.”
Thank you, Claude!
The 18 sets of color plates, which were researched by Pascal Danjou and created by Eric Schwartz are extremely well-rendered. Each one is accompanied by one or more B&W photographs upon which it’s based, as well as many smaller color renderings of the various insignia used. In some cases, alternate schemes are listed within a particular set. In addition, after the book went to press, two errors were detected. The publisher has wisely included a single loose page containing new full-color art for the two offending plates; again, this shows the dedication of this team to “get it right”. There are a number of sets of line drawings included (unfortunately, not to any designated scale) that show detail differences amongst and between various M4 sub-types; these are most helpful as they are easily accessed and competently presented. A helpful chart lists the three described Divisions Blindées and their sub-units, with the known M4 types seen in service. Another page contains monochrome profiles of all the known types seen in French service (which was essentially ALL of them!).
Overall then, this book is an outstanding treatment of the subject, presented in a most useful and information-packed form. One would hope that other books will follow in this series, devoted not only to the M4 (more, please!!), but other types such as the M10, Stuart light tanks, half-tracks and other American AFVs in French service. Modelers would probably also appreciate decals based on these schemes being produced, as was the case with the publisher’s Char B1 bis sheet, based on the Trackstory title.
If you like the Sherman and you are interested in French use of it, this book belongs in your library.
Frank V. “Curley the Stooge” De Sisto
Centurytracks (and Trackstory) books are available direct from the publisher, Editions Du Barbotin at: www.minitracks.fr/Sherman_Fr.html. E-mail: [email protected]
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by James Dinan, CNN
(CNN) - Most commencement speeches aren’t very memorable. The commencement ceremonies I’ve attended, both as a graduate and as a guest, featured speeches that sounded like the speaker just phoned it in and could have cured insomnia. All of the speeches talked about reaching for the stars and keeping your feet on the ground – it’s as if Casey Kasem wrote every commencement speech ever recited.
This takes us to David McCullough, Jr., an English teacher at Wellesley High School in Massachusetts. McCullough’s recent commencement speech to Wellesley’s Class of 2012 could be pared down to one sentence: You’re not special.
McCullough, son of the famed historian, told the graduates that they’ve been pampered all their lives by parents, teachers and others, but now they need to slip up and make mistakes as they try to make it as adults. You can catch part of McCullough’s speech in the above video.
Despite the bluntness of McCullough’s remarks, many critics are heaping praise at the speech, saying it is a wake-up call for a generation some say is self-centered and over-protected.
What do you think of McCullough’s speech? Was he mean-spirited, or was he just telling the truth?
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SOMERSWORTH — Fit on the Fly, a national wellness program, will be teaming up this morning with Chobani Inc. in encouraging students at the Somersworth Middle School to maintain a healthy lifestyle.
Chobani yogurt has donated free yogurt to all schools that participate in the Fit on the Fly program. Tami Provost, a nationally recognized leader for the Washington, D.C.-based foundation, PreventObesity.net, developed the Fit on the Fly program in hopes to teach children how to make simple choices to stay healthy. Provost has urged children from previous seminars to commit to five easy healthy habits: eating breakfast, drinking water, shaking off sugar, sleeping smart and staying active.
“I don’t want to teach kids how to be healthy. I want to teach them how to be healthy and love it,” said Provost in a public statement.
Fit on the Fly workshops are free to every school in every state. In a public statement, First Lady Michelle Obama encouraged Provost to “Stay active and continue to lead efforts to improve the health of children in your community and beyond. We need you!”
Provost’s collections of work have been featured in a September issue of Success Magazine and her national sponsors include, The Vitamin Shoppe, Larabar, Chobani and Starbucks. Provost is a New Hampshire resident and lives here with her husband and two sons.
For inquires about Fit on the Fly, contact Tami Provost at www.fitonthefly.net.
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Marfrig Group protects the Brazilian Rainforest
THE Marfrig Group, who owns leading poultry producer Moy Park, has become the world’s first food company in the animal protein segment to achieve certification from the Rainforest Alliance for its efforts in protecting the Brazilian rainforest.
It tracked its entire beef production cycle in accordance with the standards developed by the Agriculture and Forest Management and Certification Institute (Imaflora) and the Rainforest Alliance, a U.S.-based organization created 25 years ago that was one of the first to create forest-protection protocols.
As of this month, the Tangará da Serra Unit in Brazil is authorized to produce and market its products internationally bearing this “green cattle raising seal”. Tangará da Serra is the only meat processing unit in the world to meet the 136 social and environmental criteria, which range from reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, the implementation of animal welfare practices to the social conditions of employees and their families.
The requirements for this certification were established by the Sustainable Agriculture Network (RAS), an international entity composed of independent conservationist organizations that holds the certification standards that allow companies in the region to use the Rainforest Alliance Certified seal. The audit was conducted by the Imaflora, which is officially accredited to grant the Rainforest Alliance Certification in Brazil.
“This is a new and global pioneering initiative by Marfrig Beef that raises the bar in the way of thinking and conducting sustainable agribusiness,” said James Cruden, CEO of Marfrig Beef.
“The Company was also the first to implement a broad Integrated Management System, which includes certification by the standards ISO 14001 (Environmental), ISO 22000 (Food Safety), OHSAS 18001 (Health and Safety) and SA 8000 (Social Responsibility). The Rainforest Alliance certification now opens important new doors for marketing our products in the food market with “green seal” products,” said Cruden.
“We believe this certification marks an important initial step that attests to Marfrig’s commitment and courage to transform cattle raising in Brazil and the world and also elevates the level of sustainability practices for all the players in the chain,” concluded Maurício Voivodic, executive secretary of Imaflora.
At the beginning of this year, the Fazenda São Marcelo, a farm also located in Tangará da Serra, was the first production property focused on the full cattle cycle to receive the RAC seal and will be now the initial supplier of the first cattle for Marfrig.
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Galveston County Daily News, February 19, 2013 - (Link unavailable)
By Amy Barrera-Kovach
Each year the month of February is reserved for burn injury awareness. According to the American Burn Association, more than 450,000 people suffer from serious burn injures each year in the United States.
The Blocker Burn Unit at the University of Texas Medical Branch is the world’s most productive burn care and research enterprise and is recognized as a center of clinical excellence.
In 1996, it became the first burn center in the United States to be certified by both the American College of Surgeons and the American Burn Association.
The BBU has the highest survival rates in the nation for patients with major burn injury. In fact, we have trained more than 125 burn specialists now in practice and authored 80 percent of burn textbooks worldwide.
The recovery process from burn injury to burn survivor is a long and challenging road. Most of us will thankfully never experience the life-changing events that burn survivors, their families and loved ones go through.
But we can help those who have been through this experience by supporting their recovery and integration back into our communities.
On Saturday, the Blocker Burn Champions will have its inaugural Stop, Drop and Roll 5/K Fun Run/Walk and a Kid’s Fun Run at Moody Gardens Convention Center.
We are very excited about the opportunity to bring the community together to promote burn awareness and fire prevention.
At the beginning of our race, we will have a moment of silence to remember those we have loss due to burn injuries. Galveston Fire Marshal Robinson will kick off the race with a siren start. Galveston firefighters will be available to teach children and adults fire safety. There will be a fire truck so the children and adults can take pictures and a model safe house, which is a simulated house to teach individuals how to escape from a burning house. We will also have entertainment and face painting.
The race will be chip-timed for those serious runners, and baby strollers are welcome, as well. We look forward to seeing you on Saturday. All proceeds donated go to help burn survivors and their family members. We are very excited for our sponsors and volunteers who are helping to make this event a reality. Don’t miss the opportunity to support burn awareness and prevention.
Packet pickups will be available the Thursday and Friday before the race at Fit Tri Run, 518 23rd St. in Galveston.
I am so grateful for our many sponsors, as well as Kim and Steve Bachmeier from Fit Tri Run for helping to direct this important event.
To register, visit www.signmeup.com and search for “Stop” under “Find Event.” If you would like to be a sponsor or have questions, call me at 409-747-2076.
Amy Barrera-Kovach is a social worker for the Blocker Burn Unit at the University of Texas Medical Branch.
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Any of several whitefishes of central and northern North America.
(SSN-597: dp. 2,317 (surf.), 2,640 (subm.); 1. 273'; b. 23'7"; dr. 21'; s. 12.9 k. (surf.), 16 k. (subm.); cpl. 58; a. 4 tt.; cl. Tullibee)
The second Tullibee (SSN-597) was laid down on 26 May 1958 at Groton, Conn., by the Electric Boat Div. of the General Dynamics Corp.; launched on 27 April 1960; sponsored by Mrs. John F. Davidson, the widow of Comdr. Charles F. Brindupke; and commissioned on 9 November 1960, Comdr. Richard S. Jortberg in command.
Following her shakedown in January 1961, Tullibee engaged in sonar evaluations and nuclear submarine tactical exercises with Submarine Developmental Group 2, operating out of New London, Conn., into 1963. During this period, the ship visited Bermuda on several occasions, as well as San Juan, Puerto Rico.
In July 1964, Tullibee participated in fleet exercises in antisubmarine warfare (ASW) tactics with NATO units. The submarine resumed developmental work in 1965 and operated in this capacity into the fall of that year. On 28 October, her home port was temporarily changed to Portsmouth, N.H., when the ship entered the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine, for an extensive overhaul. She remained in drydock for 754 days-^-emerging on 2 January 1968.
Shifted back to New London, Tullibee deployed to the Caribbean Sea in January 1969 following refresher training and continued developmental work during 1969 and 1970. On 1 August 1970, Tullibee departed New London, bound for the Mediterranean and the ship's first service with the 6th Fleet. During this period, she took part in NATO and 6th Fleet exercises and made port visits to Athens, Greece; Naples, Italy; and Rota, Spain, before returning to New London on 14 December, having travelled some 20,000 miles in 135 days.
In early 1971, the submarine returned to developmental exercises once more to work on SSN tactics and also made a port visit to Cape Canaveral, Fla. Participating in a major NATO exercise in the western Atlantic, Tullibee visited Halifax, Nova Scotia, before she received the Meritorious Unit Commendation for her contingency operations in the Mediterranean during the previous year (from 9 September to 31 October 1970). For the remainder of the year 1971, Tullibee operated in the western Atlantic on NATO and ASW exercises. During this period, too, Tullibee received the Arleigh Burke Fleet Trophy for significant improvement in the ship's battle efficiency and readiness for that fiscal year.
The submarine conducted regular operations with the Atlantic Fleet Submarine Force into 1974, operating off the east coast and in the Caribbean. Following one Caribbean cruise in the fall of 1974, Tullibee departed New London on 28 April 1975 for her second deployment to the 6th Fleet. After operating in the Mediterranean into the fall of that year, the submarine returned to New London in October for an extended period of upkeep.
Tullibee subsequently participated in sonar evaluation tests with HMS Matapan (D 43) in the Caribbean, in two separate deployments between April and June 1976, before undergoing another extended upkeep period. The SSN conducted ASW operations and local operations into the fall of 1976, before she departed New London on 12 November for her third Mediterranean deployment. After serving in the 6th Fleet into the spring of 1977, she returned to her home port on 24 April. During the remainder of the year, Tullibee underwent three upkeep periods interspersed with ASW exercises off the east coast of the United States. The early months of 1978 were spent in preparation for her fourth Mediterranean deployment. Departing New London in March, the submarine conducted operations with various units of the 6th Fleet. The deployment was marred somewhat by a propulsion casualty which necessitated a two-month repair period spent at Rota, Spain. Tullibee returned to New London on 30 August. Operations out of that port took Tullibee into 1979.
Tullibee received a Meritorious Unit Commendation for her service with the 6th Fleet.
Tullibee (SSN-597), the only ship of her class. (USN 1051125)
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Stocks rise on hopeful signs for the US economy
NEW YORK (AP) - Encouraging news about the U.S. economy extended the stock market's rally Friday.
Small-company stocks rose the most, a sign that investors are taking on more risk. Two companies soared in their stock-market debuts in the latest indication that the market for initial public offerings is reviving.
A gauge of future economic activity rose more than analysts had expected, as did a measure of consumer confidence, adding to evidence that the economy is steadily recovering.
Stocks closed higher for a fourth straight week. Indexes are at record levels after surging this year on optimism about the economy and record corporate earnings. The market is also being supported by ongoing stimulus from the Federal Reserve, which is keeping long-term borrowing costs at historically low levels.
"This slow but relatively steady growth, that keeps inflation in check and keeps interest rates low, is actually a pretty healthy environment for the stock market," said Liz Ann Sonders, chief investment strategist at Charles Schwab & Co. "Right now we are very optimistic."
General Motors rose $1.03, or 3.2 percent, to $33.42. The automaker's stock is trading above the $33 price of its November, 2010 initial public offering for the first time in two years.
Northrop Grumman gained $3.17, or 3.2 percent, to $82.19 after the defense contractor said its board approved the repurchase of another $4 billion in stock, and that it plans to buy back a quarter of its outstanding shares by the end of 2015.
The Dow Jones industrial average rose 121.18 points, or 0.8 percent, to 15,354.40. The index gained 1.6 percent for the week and is up 17.2 percent for the year.
The index started higher, then drifted through the rest of the morning. The index added to its gains in the afternoon, climbing about 70 points in the last two hours of the day.
The Standard & Poor' 500 index rose 15.65 points, or 1 percent, to 1,666.12. The gauge is up 2 percent this week and has gained 16.8 percent this year.
After some lackluster reports on the economy Thursday, including slowing manufacturing and an increase in applications for unemployment benefits, Friday's reports were a tonic for investors.
The Conference Board said its index of leading economic indicators rose 0.6 percent last month after a revised decline of 0.2 percent in March. The index is intended to predict how the economy will be doing in three to six months.
The University of Michigan's preliminary survey of consumer confidence climbed to 83.7. Economists had predicted that the gauge would climb to 76.8.
The strength of the rally in stocks has taken many by surprise, leaving investors waiting for a drop in prices to get into the market, said Jim Anderson, an investment specialist at JPMorgan. The S&P 500 index hasn't fallen for two consecutive days in a month.
"Everyone is waiting for a pullback," Anderson said. "Every client asks me, `When are we getting a pullback?' With so many people waiting for it, and pouncing on it when it arrives, it's over so quickly."
As well as giving stocks a lift, the positive economic reports also pushed government bond yields higher. The yield on the 10-year Treasury rose to 1.96 percent from 1.88 percent Thursday as investors favored riskier assets.
The yield, which moves inversely to its prices, has jumped since May 3 after the government reported that hiring picked up sharply in April. The note started trading that day at 1.63 percent, its low for the year.
The move to riskier assets also gave small stocks a lift. The Russell 2000, an index of smaller companies, rose 10.94 points, or 1.1 percent, to 996.28. The index has surged this month and is performing better than both the Dow and the S&P 500 for the year. It's up 17.3 percent so far in 2013.
Small stocks are doing well partly because they are more focused on the U.S., which is recovering, and don't rely as much on sales from recession-plagued Europe, as larger companies do.
Gold fell for a seventh straight day, dropping $22.20, or 1.6 percent, to $1,364 an ounce. The precious metal is down almost 20 percent this year and has fallen out of favor as an alternative investment as the stock market has surged this year.
The demand for gold as an alternative asset is also being undermined by a recent surge in the U.S. dollar. The U.S. currency advanced against both the euro and the yen Friday. The ICE dollar index, which measures the strength of the U.S. currency against a group of six currencies, is at its highest in two years.
The price of oil rose 86 cents, or 0.9 percent, to $96.02 a barrel.
The Nasdaq composite climbed 33.72 points, or 1 percent, to 3,498. The technology-heavy stock index got a small boost from Facebook, which climbed 12 cents, or 0.5 percent, to $26.25 on the one-year anniversary of its initial public offering.
Facebook slumped in the first four months after its market debut on concern that it wasn't doing enough to develop mobile advertising. Despite recovering since then, it's still trading below its IPO price of $38.
Two software companies had more success in their stock market debuts on Friday. Marketo surged $10.10, or 77.7 percent, to $23.10 on its stock market debut. Tableau software rose $19.75, or 63.7 percent, to $50.75 on its first day of trading.
The standout performance made the two companies the two best performing IPOs of the year. So far, 22 companies have prices stock sales in May, making this the biggest month for stock market debuts since November 2007, according to Renaissance Capital.
Among other stocks making big moves;
_ J.C. Penney fell 78 cents, or 4.2 percent, to $18.01 after the retailer reported a loss that was worse than analysts' already dismal estimates. The retailer is reeling from the fallout from a failed turnaround plan orchestrated by its former CEO Ron Johnson, who was ousted last month after less than a year and a half on the job.
_ Autodesk fell $2.67, or 6.7 percent, to $37.11, after the design software company posted disappointing first-quarter results and lowered its forecasts for the year.
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Saturday afternoon marked the 125th graduation ceremony and a milestone for nearly 4,500 students at Utah State University. Among students receiving bachelor's degrees is 98-year-old American Studies student, Twila Boston.
Twila grew up on a farm in Fremont and Loa, Utah, and left for nursing school in 1932 on her 19th birthday. She worked for many years as a nurse. When she returned to higher education recently, she joked it seemed the right thing to do:
"What else is there to do at my age except eat and read and sleep?"
Kristin Monson, public relations specialist for USU's College of Humanities and Social Science says,"She's a lifelong learner and someone who really wanted to come back and finish what she started. She is a prolific reader and someone who never lost that passion for learning. It was a natural fit for her to come back and complete her degree."
Twila believes it's never too late to go back to education though she admits it would have been easier a few years ago. Due to a degenerative eye condition she was given many lessons over the phone. In some ways Twila's age gave her an advantage when it came to American history. Jeannie Thomas, head of USU's English Department helped Twila with her capstone class: "It's neat that you could see this person talking from their family and lived experience and then the director of American Studies would come in and talk about the historical framework behind it."
Twila says that even after graduating, her learning will continue.
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- On View
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Sam Gilliam: a retrospective
October 15, 2005–January 22, 2006
October 15, 2005–January 22, 2006
Sam Gilliam: a retrospective marked the first full-career retrospective of Sam Gilliam and the most extensive presentation of his work to date.
Sam Gilliam (b. 1933) established himself as a major artist in 1968 when he jettisoned the wooden stretcher bars that had previously determined the shape of his paintings and allowed his vivid, sometimes ecstatic, rushes of color-stained canvas to hang, billow, and swing through space. This was not the first time an artist working in the venerable tradition of painting had decided to abandon the conventional rigid support. But it was the only time someone had done so to create a complete painterly environment. Gilliam’s idea that modernist painting could be sculptural and, moreover, theatrical, radically distinguished him from his contemporaries, including minimalists Donald Judd and Robert Morris, color-field painter Helen Frankenthaler, and the artists associated with the Washington Color School, such as Morris Louis and Kenneth Noland. Since that time, Gilliam has gone on to create work in an astounding variety of styles and media. Sam Gilliam: a retrospective explores many of the artist’s most important innovations while highlighting the aesthetic ideals that have remained constant throughout his career. Most important among these is his consistent disregard for the boundaries that have traditionally separated the disciplines of painting, sculpture, and architecture.
Sam Gilliam is best recognized for the classic “Draped” paintings of the late 1960s and early 1970s, and with good reason. They earned him a prominent place on the national and international contemporary art scenes. Yet Gilliam’s accomplishments extend far beyond these often monumental and always dramatic works. For more than forty years, Gilliam has pursued new aesthetic experiences without regard for theoretical prescriptions, political dictates, or marketplace preference for a singular signature style. His paintings have ranged from sheer and economical evocations of color, light, and space to complex, mixed-media, and multi-dimensional sculptural constructions.
Because Gilliam has always felt free to move back and forth between styles and formats without worrying about moving “forward” in some predetermined sense of advancement, this retrospective is not, strictly speaking, chronological. When Gilliam does “return” to a past technique or format, he incorporates it into newer approaches and transforms it as a result, making the so-called return not a return at all but a new exploration. For Gilliam, transformation and the uncertainty that results from change generate the creative spark. They provide ferment for continuation, revitalization, and hope for the value of the creative endeavor. Whether looking to the future or to the past, to the influence of other artists or to his own historical achievements, Gilliam’s love of the vicissitudes of color—beautiful, menacing, and confrontational—fuel his inimitable talent for formal invention. His expansive vision is one of the great testaments to the continued vitality of abstraction, now into the twenty-first century.
Sam Gilliam: a retrospective is organized by the Corcoran Gallery of Art and made possible through the generous support of The Women’s Committee of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, Ellen and Gerry Sigal, and the FRIENDS of the Corcoran.
The Corcoran also thanks the following donors for their support of the exhibition catalogue:
Judy and John Aldock
The Andrew W. Mellon Research and Publications Fund
Katherine Dulin Folger Publication Fund
Aldus and Dolly Chapin
The Distribution Fund
Don and Nancy Eiler
Raymond Garcia and Fruzsina M. Harsanyi
Marsha Mateyka Gallery
Dr. Robert and Mrs. Jean Steele
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Atlantis: The Mother of Time by J. Robin E. Harger
Price: $3.00 USD. 50590 words.
Published on July 10, 2012. .
The Great Pyramid was decommissioned through misadventure by Atlantis but it was built and encoded prior thereto by visitors as part of an undertaking that had driven them across the vast reaches of space. Reforming the stumbling proto-humans they had long-since departed leaving us to take up our own destiny in the mighty task of spreading human consciousness throughout the universe.
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First of all, if you're in need of a home remedy for head lice, let me lend you my condolences.
Head lice treatment is never a fun and exciting time in anyone's life. It is, however, pretty common. There aren't many statistics on the issue but Google reports over 300,000 searches solely on the term "head lice" alone. Knowing how to treat it safely is one thing; knowing how to prevent lice is another. This article will cover both.
There are many types of conventional treatments for lice, such as shampoos and sprays. There are also some dangerous alternative treatments, such as gasoline or kerosene.
But if you're aware of dangers of pesticides you ought to be aware that shampoos and other conventional treatments require using pesticides directly on your or your child's head!
With pesticide usage linking to leukemia, autism, infertility, birth defects, ADHD, Parkinson's, miscarriage and countless types of cancers, it's outrageous to think of applying this poison directly to our skin! (Click here to learn more about this.)
But left untreated, and well...I'll let you Google that one.
It's important to know a few things about this problem, before you use a home remedy for head lice.
Now that you have some background head lice information, keep those things in mind as we start talkig about your best bet for home remedy for head lice below.
We know pesticides are dangerous, as are things like gasoline (please don't do that!). But there are also plenty of myths about what actually works. Mayonnaise, oil, vinegar, and so on have all been tried, but which one is best? After all, you don't want to have to do this over and over again.
Below is the very best home remedy for head lice, followed by the best advice on how to prevent lice:
Yup, good old combing is the #1 most effective home remedy for head lice.
Actually, it's the best treatment of any kind! Hmm, is it any wonder why popular shampoos still recommend combing? It may just be that their dangerous products aren't even doing the real work; your combing is!
Here's what you'll need for this home remedy for head lice:
Once you have those things, here's what you'll get to do with them:
IMPORTANT: The entire family should to be checked and treated, just in case. Be sure clean instruments are used for each person. And don't forget you'll be doing this again in 10 days to ensure no nits were left behind that have hatched (10 days will ensure they haven't begun laying their own eggs).
ALSO IMPORTANT: You're not done yet! (You didn't think that was the hard part did you?) In order to really learn how to prevent lice from occuring again, there are a few extra extra steps you get to take.
Tea tree oil is an all-natural essential oil derived from the plant, Melaleuca. A head lice tea tree oil treatment is recommend because of the oil's natural antiviral, antibacterial, antifungal and antiseptic properties.
A head lice tea tree oil treatment is NOT a substitute for combing. Even with pesticide shampoos, combing is still necessary.
But tea tree oil and other essential oils (specifically aniseed, cinnamon leaf, red thyme, peppermint, and nutmeg) were found in one Icelandic study127 to be effective when combined in alcohol and followed with an essential oil/vinegar/water rinse the next day. Whether it was the alcohol, the vinegar rinse or the essential oil mixture that did the trick, the fact remains that it worked, as was shown by several other worldwide studies using essential oils127.
To make this home remedy for head lice tea tree oil treatment, you'll need:
Mix the 2 ounces of oil with 20 drops (or more if you want to get all crazy with it) of tea tree oil. Dab this into the hair using clean cotton balls (changing them out as you go). Make sure they get tightly sealed in a bag and thrown away.
For an alternative home remedy for head lice, tea tree oil can be mixed with alcohol (vodka works great) and sprayed into the hair. Allow either of these treatments to sit in the hair for at least 12 hours before shampooing. You can easily reapply the acohol/tea tree spray frequently as a way to help prevent re-infestations.
And now for the fun part!
Knowing how to prevent head lice is actually a two-part solution: 1. Preventing your children from getting them in the first place and 2. Preventing re-infestations in your home. Let's start with #2, preventing re-infestations.
It begins with *thoroughly* treating the heads of everyone in your home TWICE - once upon finding the head lice and again 10 days after the first treatment. Yes, everyone. No, that does not include the pets, as head lice don't go after pets, only humans.
After treating everyone's head and before you go back to your happy, lice-free life, you get to treat the entire house (or at least everywhere anyone has been since the infestation may have occurred).
Here's where not to miss:
There are several ways to treat these items using a home remedy for head lice strategy. Choose the best option from the following list:
Total prevention may not be possible. Lice are pesky little buggers after all. But there are a few ideas that might help your home remedy for head lice efforts.
Remember: even if it's not a home remedy for head lice, it's still a lot of work. And it's hardly any fun for kids or adults.
My best home remedy for head lice advice would be to not take it too seriously. Make it as fun as it can be. Laugh, make jokes, learn about it together, listen to music or watch funny movies as you comb so that the experience can be remembered as something other than the worst experience of your family's life.
Finding a home remedy for head lice and learning how to prevent lice is important for your family's health.
Here are a few more healthy steps you can take to protect your home:
Whatever step you take, remember to have fun!
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Being a typical New Yorker, I'm an inadvertent spy. I listen to what you're saying to your buddy as you walk heel-to-toe in front of me on the sidewalk. I listen to what you mumble to your girlfriend as we're all waiting for an elevator, a train or a table in a restaurant. I listen to your cell phone chatter as I sit next to you on the bus. Although, what comes out of your mouth is often annoying (I don't need to know about your brother-in-law's sciatica, about the jerk who interviewed you for a job or that your neighbor leaves his trash in the hallway). Yet I value these omnipresent conversations for one reason: They're a constant reminder of one of the advantages of being a branding professional in this day and age.
The beauty of it is, you don't even have to be a New Yorker—or even a city dweller—to do what I do. Digital technology has created an environment where marketers can wander a global sidewalk, or hover on a global backyard fence, and listen to what people everywhere have to say about the products and services they like (or don't) the reasons they buy (or don't) what they recommend to others (or don't)—not to mention what they think about the companies that offer these products and services.
While many marketers are under the assumption that digital technology has drastically changed the way brands are built and managed, I posit just the opposite: Digital technology has, if anything, magnified everything we know to be true about building a brand. The technological devices and tactics at our disposal—Web-based review sites, blogs, social networks and the like—amplify and clarify the tools of our trade, from the way we go about learning what's important to customers, to the products and services developed as a result. The rules we've always followed have been made more visible; the importance they play in our work has only become more obvious.
Here's an example. It's branding truism that the best brands are based on powerful, yet simple, consumer insights. Because of the magnifying effects of digital technology, marketers can now see more clearly not just what consumers are saying relative to the buying process, but what they're actually doing. Another truth of branding is that success is greater when the right message reaches the right people at the right time. Digital technology has sharpened our focus, allowing us to target the people who really want the things we have to offer. At the same time, technology has upped the ante on us by magnifying the differences among brands and accelerating the pace at which people can compare these differences and make their choices.
Which means digital has become the ultimate two-way street. Just as we can see consumers with more clarity, consumers can see brands with equal clarity. Branding's biggest truism is that, in order to succeed, you must deliver what you promise. Technology allows consumers to hold brands to their promises. If they fall short, you can bet the chatter on the virtual street and over the cyber-backyard fence will be fierce. But if you're a smart marketer, you'll see this force as the positive dynamic it is. Digital technology teaches companies to behave with integrity, to make promises they can keep.
While I may be an involuntary listener on the sidewalks of New York, as a brand professional I voluntarily use the digital tools at my disposal to learn what people are saying and doing relative to their buying behavior. Today's technology allows—if not compels—all of us do our jobs with greater speed, greater accuracy, greater efficiency, greater creativity and greater honesty. Walk the global sidewalk, hover a while near the global backyard fence; you'll better understand what I mean.
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The more information that leaks out about it, the more it seems clear that Microsoft is not going to kill the iPad with the Surface, at least not on this first try. And, more likely, never.
There are a couple of reasons the Surface won't be a success, but the two main points are:
- The premise is flawed. Microsoft's appeal to consumers is that the iPad can't do enough. The Surface is supposed to replace the tablet and the laptop. Consumers are happy with the iPad as an additive product — it's not meant to replace a laptop right now. Trying to be two things at once will lead to the Surface being neither.
- It will start at $600. Why pay a premium for an inferior product? The iPad 2 costs $400, and it's great. The new iPad is $500 at entry level and it's really great. The Kindle Fire costs $200, and it's adequate. Microsoft isn't going to win the high-end battle, and it's not fighting the low end.
Lesser reasons: Microsoft is only selling the Surface at its stores, the battery life might be worse, it has a kickstand, consumers don't think of Microsoft as a great, hip, cool brand, the Zune, its biggest selling point is a keyboard almost no one has used, etc.
If Microsoft can't sell tablets, it's not going to inspire its already hesitant partners to build their own versions of Windows tablets. If they don't build tablets to challenge Apple, then Apple could run away with the market.
If Apple runs away with the market, Windows is in real trouble. Steve Ballmer said at the Surface presentation that Windows is at the core of everything Microsoft does. If Windows is at risk, Microsoft is at risk.
That's a lot of ifs. But we're not the only ones who think the iPad is a big threat to Windows. Microsoft wouldn't have taken the drastic step of releasing its own hardware if it wasn't scared to death of Apple.
And watch our 60-second mashup of the Microsoft Surface keynote for everything you need to know about the tablet:
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October 22 2010
Listen: Sherry Briscoe is a retired MPS teacher who taught art and mathematics at Milwaukee High School of the Arts. In recent years, she's become one of the Urban Ecology Center's ace education volunteers, which has not only given her a chance to teach again, but it's also been a wonderful learning experience. Beyond the new subject matter, Sherry is stepping into world of teaching using hands-on experience and discovery.
While my interview with Sherry veered in all sorts of fascinating directions, I felt like nearly every theme we touched upon can be found somewhere in this story. Listen as Sherry guides a school group in a lesson about wild flowers in the Menomonee Valley:
Also, listen to an audio piece with Sherry's charming husband Tom and his experiences as a handyman/bus driver!
Volunteer with the Urban Ecology Center! Learn more about them at their website. Also, you can get involved with one of their many volunteer opportunities! Finally, you should just go and check them out in person either at their Riverside Park or Washington Park locations -- they're very welcoming people.
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Folks in the southwest Fresno County town of Lanare avoid drinking arsenic-laced water from their taps. They thought four vending machines in nearby Riverdale were their best option for healthy water.
Now the machines are gone, according to California Rural Legal Assistance, representing Lanare’s 590 residents. The machines apparently were not filtering the water in Riverdale, which also has arsenic contamination.
CRLA said water from the machines was tested at more than three times the safe level. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says the threshold is 10 parts per billion.
Instead of the four-mile drive to Riverdale, Lanare residents must drive as far as Fresno, 20 miles away, to buy water for drinking and cooking.
The town has no schools, health care or sewer service. The tainted well water is the most immediate problem.
Veronica Garibay, a CRLA community education outreach coordinator, says the Lanare Community Service District has applied to the California Department of Public Health for $50,000 to fund interim water solutions. Some of the money could help provide a water vending machine in Lanare.
If the town gets the money, the machine could be installed at the Lanare Community Center.
The millions of dollars that Gov. Jerry Brown is giving to counties to manage the state’s prisoner surplus is bypassing the watch of county boards of supervisors. And some counties don’t like this.
The Sacramento County Board of Supervisors this week passed a resolution vowing to exercise final say over its share of so-called prison realignment funds, despite what Brown’s realignment policy calls for, reported Brad Branan of The Sacramento Bee.
The realignment policy dictates that panels of law-enforcement and social service officials divvy out the cash. It’s a change from the way funds are normally distributed: through elected county boards of supervisors, which oversee just about all county matters.
The Board of Supervisors in Fresno County is also raising questions about the change.
“There is a problem when supervisors cannot participate in the deliberative process,” said Supervisor Andreas Borgeas. “We are virtually irrelevant here.”
The 1½-year-old realignment policy, which has been no stranger to controversy, has put counties in charge of thousands of felons who were formerly managed by the state in an effort to reduce California’s prison population. The state is compensating counties accordingly.
The money, however – about $28 million next year for Sacramento County and about $25 million for Fresno County — is being routed in an unprecedented fashion.
The panels set up under the realignment, called Community Corrections Partnerships, decide how to spend the state funds and county supervisors then vote on the spending plan, but in a way that deprives supervisors of any real power. The supervisors need a four-fifths vote to reject the plan; in other words, only two votes are needed for approval.
You can look up your zip code on the final version of the state’s new health screening tool to find out the risk of living wherever you live in California. And you will find it here.
I wrote about this in March for a story about West Fresno, which is ranked the most dangerous place anywhere in the state. The Bee links to the tool have been updated.
I noted at least one change. There are bound to be others.
The change I saw was in the 93656 zip code for Lanare and Riverdale in southwest Fresno County. In the previous version of the tool, the zip was ranked among the top 10% of the riskiest places to live. The new tool shows it is in the top 20%.
I noticed the score for the category on low birth weights had been lowered, meaning there was not as much risk as previously thought.
It may seem like a small change, but these rankings will be used to prioritize the spending of some money raised at cap-and-trade auctions.
Monday was the first day voters living in the district could cast ballots for the May 21 special election to fill the seat of Bakersfield Democrat Michael Rubio, who unexpectedly resigned in February to take a job with the Chevron Corp.
Fresno County Clerk Brandi Orth said her office mailed out absentee ballots on Monday to 16th District voters who live in the county. Clerks in Tulare, Kern and Kings did the same.
But starting Monday at 8:30 a.m., Orth’s office was also open to anybody registered to vote in the district who couldn’t wait a moment longer to cast their ballot. And, Orth said, a few did just that.
There are five candidates seeking the seat: Peace and Freedom Party candidate Mohammad Arif of Bakersfield, Fresno Democrat Paulina Miranda, Bakersfield Democrat Leticia Perez, Riverdale Democrat Francisco Ramirez Jr. and Hanford Republican Andy Vidak.
If none of the candidates gets 50% of the votes, plus one, in the May 21 election, the top two vote-getters will face off in a July 23 runoff.
The district favors a Democrat, but Republicans say they like their chances because special elections typically have low turnouts, which often favors the GOP.
Political Data Inc., which collects voter information, said registration in the district was 50.7% Democratic and 28.6% Republican as of Feb. 22.
But that support is not spread even across the district.
For instance, in Fresno County Democrats outnumber Republicans by more than 30,000 registered voters.
But in Kings County, Republicans outnumber Democrats, though only by a few thousand. In Tulare County, Democrats outnumber Republicans, but not by much. Kern County is another Democratic stronghold.
Still, it is clear that any winning strategy must center on Fresno County. Though it is at the district’s northern end, Fresno County has, at slightly more than 48%, the largest number of voters in the district.
Political Data has also collected some other interesting information.
For instance, almost 60% of registered voters have an average income below $50,000, and less than 1% are above $100,000.
The City of Fresno has, by far, the most voters — 25.9% of the district’s total. Next is unincorporated Kern County at 8.5% and Bakersfield and Hanford, each with 7.8% of the voters.
Local and national Democrats think a Bakersfield City School District member might make the perfect challenger for first-term congressman David Valadao, a Hanford Republican.
Andrae Gonzales is currently the board’s president pro tem. Democrats call him an “up-and-comer.” Even Bakersfield Republican political consultant Stan Harper calls him “viable” and “bright.”
The question is: Can he unseat Valadao in the 21st Congressional District?
Democrats are still unhappy that they failed to even put up a fight for the seat last November. They hold a 15-percentage-point registration advantage in the district over the rival Republicans, but Valadao thumped Fresno Democrat John Hernandez, 58% to 42%.
Despite the registration advantage for Democrats, it never looked good for them during last year’s campaign.
Hernandez never seemed to get off the ground. His campaign seemed unfocused and not nearly visible enough. It was also dogged by debt.
Democrats never wanted Hernandez in the first place. They preferred Fresno City Council Member Blong Xiong, but in the state’s new top two primary, Valadao and Hernandez finished one-two. Xiong was left on the sidelines.
Now, Hernandez says he’s running again. And Democrats once again want an alternative, said Matt Rogers, chairman of the Fresno County Young Democrats.
Rogers said he spoke with Gonzales on Thursday morning, and the 31-year-old is interested in a run against Valadao. And, Rogers said, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has also reached out to Gonzales.
Gonzales was also mentioned as a potential candidate to replace Michael Rubio, who abruptly resigned from the state Senate in February. A May 21 special election is set to fill that seat.
But Gonzales isn’t the only potential candidate. Democrats are also talking to former state Sen. Dean Florez, as well as his mother Fran, a Shafter council member.
Florez might even be preferable for a Valadao challenge, because he twice won election in a Senate district that matches up well with the 21st Congressional District’s current boundaries — which takes in parts of Kern, Tulare and Fresno counties and all of Kings County.
But Rogers said nobody in Democratic Party circles thinks Dean Florez will run.
The bench isn’t very deep for Democrats, either. Another possibility was newly elected Kern County Supervisor Leticia Perez, but now she’s running to replace Rubio in the state Senate.
If Gonzales does run — or Dean or Fran Florez, for that matter — the next hurdle would be getting them sufficient funds to mount an effective campaign.
Rogers said Democrats want to hold on the 36th Congressional District, where Raul Ruiz upset incumbent Republican Mary Bono Mack last year. The GOP will likely target that Southern California seat next year.
There are other seats held by Democrats in the state that also must be held, Rogers said.
In the end, will there be enough cash to fund Valadao’s challenger? And, it seems, the party may also have to get that person past a primary that may include Hernandez.
Secretary of State Debra Bowen made a stop in Fresno this week to recognize one of California’s longest-serving poll workers.
Lanella Hare of Fresno received kind words from Bowen and Fresno County Registrar of Voters Brandi Orth for 56 years of elections service at Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting.
Hare has been working the polls since she was 21. She follows in the footsteps of her family, tracing back her grandmother’s service to 1928 when Herbert Hoover defeated Al Smith in that year’s presidential election.
Hare is a retired service technician at Sears, Roebuck and Co.
But Borba’s statement was just one small part of a long-running series of email exchanges on March 1 that exposed a seamier side of politics not often seen by the general public.
The emails went on for hours and primarily involved Borba, Johnny Amaral, who is chief of staff for Rep. Devin Nunes, a Tulare Republican, and Westlands Water District General Manager Tom Birmingham.
Several others, including Westlands board members and staffers for Sen. Dianne Feinstein, were copied in some of the emails.
The f-word was often used, as were other expletives.
It all started with Borba thanking Rep. Jim Costa, a Fresno Democrat, for writing a letter to U.S. Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Michael Connor.
In the letter, Costa urged the Bureau to increase water pumping from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, which is restricted because of protections in place to protect the delta smelt.
Borba then added: “This is total insanity. Where the Hell is Feinstein & the Administration?” He then goes on to detail the economic losses to the Valley’s west side before concluding: “The Senator’s silence is deafening.”
One of those copied on the email was Birmingham, who responded with a defense of Feinstein. He wrote to Borba that “Senator Feinstein and her staff have been pushing Interior and Reclamation behind the scenes.”
It is at that point that Borba explodes with multiple expletives and calls Obama “Blackie.” He wrote: “I’m tired of these (expletive) politicians waltzing thru here… telling us how tough things are… picking our pockets for campaign $$$$… and they returning to DC and doing nothing! Put their (expletive) careers on the line… or step down.”
Birmingham then lashed out in response, telling Borba to “give me a (expletive) break.” He then brings the Valley’s Republican congressional delegation — Nunes, Bakersfield’s Kevin McCarthy, Hanford’s David Valadao and Turlock’s Jeff Denham — into the increasingly heated email conversation.
“The question you should be asking,” Birmingham wrote to Borba, “is where in the (expletive) were Denham, Nunes, Valadao and McCarthy, all of whom were asked to sign the (Costa) letter.”
Birmingham tells Borba that all of Costa’s Valley Republican congressional colleagues refused to sign the letter.
Borba then responds with an email to Nunes. He copied both Amaral and Birmingham. In the email, Borba tells Nunes that “standing on the sidelines… is not helpful. We’re dying out here… and you’re playing politics? What’s your excuse? If we ran our businesses like you guys run Congress… we’d be broke. Come to think of it… we’re getting there… with your ‘help.’”
Amaral responds, telling Borba he is “pathetic.”
“How quickly (Westlands) forgets what we did… and how they allowed (Feinstein) to do nothing at all. Its no wonder you guys continue to lose. Sending (expletive) letters meant to cover someones (expletive) does nothing to advance the effort,” Amaral wrote.
Borba then, in essence, asks both Amaral and Nunes — what have you done for west-side agriculture lately? Amaral replies that Nunes and his fellow Republicans did do something for the west side last year, “and you guys completely (expletive) it up and threw it away.”
At one point, Amaral writes “blah blah blah. The moment you (expletive) get your lord and savior difi (Feinstein) to do something… ANYTHING at all, the House will move a bill again.”
In an interview Tuesday, Amaral explained this part of his exchange with Borba. He said it was about H.R. 1837, legislation that would have would restored about 1.4 million acre-feet of water annually to Valley farmers who have lost water to environmental causes.
Amaral said considerable work went into the bill, which eventually passed the Republican-controlled House with the support of 10 Democrats, including Costa. But then the Senate — or Feinstein — did nothing.
“It was a gift teed up do something relevant on water and it was squandered,” Amaral said in the interview.
Instead, Amaral said, west-side ranchers and growers held a fundraiser for Feinstein.
As the emails between Amaral and Borba grow uglier and more personal, Amaral adds a new element, telling Borba he didn’t appreciate him “calling Devin a (expletive) to (Republican businessman) Tal Cloud.”
Borba responds: “Sometimes the truth hurts.”
During the exchanges, Nunes, Cloud and Fresno County Lincoln Club Chairman Michael Der Manouel Jr. weigh in. Both Nunes and Der Manouel write to Borba saying that letters are useless — Der Manouel saying they “don’t mean (expletive).”
Cloud’s contribution: “I can’t wait to hear the other side of the story on this. Most likely (Nunes) is tired of you everyone (sic) kissing Feinstein’s (expletive) when she never comes through on issues that matter.”
Amaral said Tuesday he regretted his use of profanity — but not the content of the emails.
“I will defend to my last dying breath the work Devin has done to improve the water situation in California and in the Valley,” he said. “I am proud of the work we’ve done.”
Nunes pointed out in an interview that several Westlands growers support and have donated to Democrats such as Feinstein and Gov. Jerry Brown. He said those Democrats “laugh at these guys over drinks, and they’re playing them for money.”
“This is no different than what we’ve been telling these guys,” Nunes added. “They have a flawed strategy that is doomed to failure.”
Borba and Birmingham both declined to comment on the emails. Feinstein also declined to comment.
The Valley, indeed, could be a key place to do this business, but not without controversy.
On Monday, environmentalists were cheering a federal court decision that might slow fracking exploration in Monterey County and a small part of west Fresno County.
It could be an important ruling in California and elsewhere for this hot topic.
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management a few years ago sold the oil and gas leases for hydraulic fracturing on 2,343 acres in Monterey County and 240 acres in Fresno County. Hyraulic fracturing involves injecting water and chemicals to create conduits for trapped oil and gas to migrate.
The Center for Biological Diversity and the Sierra Club sued, saying BLM had not fully investigated the risks. Environmentalists, some landowners and scientists have raised the possibility of underground water contamination and air quality issues.
In the March 31 ruling, a federal magistrate in San Jose said federal authorities broke the law by selling the leases in west Fresno and Monterey counties to oil drillers without studying the possible risks of hydraulic fracturing.
On March 10 — which was just 10 short days ago — Hanford Republican Andy Vidak announced on his Facebook page that he would seek the 16th state Senate seat that came open when Bakersfield Democrat Michael Rubio abruptly resigned last month.
Since then, Vidak said, he’s been working the phones, seeking both support and cash.
He’s off to a good start, according to the Secretary of State’s Web site.
By March 13, records show, Vidak was already recording a string of donations.
The most recent filing was today. The total so far — close to $90,000.
To date, almost all of the cash is coming from agriculture, though Assembly Republican Leader Connie Conway of Tulare also chipped in $4,100 from her 2018 state Senate account.
Contributions also include $2,500 from Allbright Cotton of Fresno and $4,100 each from Madera farmer Chester Andrew and Cutler-based Golden Star Citrus.
As of this afternoon, the other candidates, including Kern County Supervisor Leticia Perez and Shafter City Council Member Fran Florez — the two highest-profile Democrats — have yet record any donations, according to the Secretary of State’s Web site.
In the meantime, the list of people who have at least pulled campaign papers — the first step toward a run for the seat — has grown to seven.
Besides Florez, Perez and Vidak, other candidates who already had pulled papers included Fresno resident John Estrada and Francisco Ramirez Jr.
They are now joined by Jerry Armendariz and Arif Mohammad, who have unknown hometowns and list no ballot designation.
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Nancy Bernkopf Tucker Lecture Series in U.S.-East Asia Relations Starting 2013
An annual lecture series on U.S.-East Asia relations will be launched from 2013, named after noted diplomatic historian and Wilson Center Senior Scholar Nancy Bernkopf Tucker.
The Wilson Center will establish an annual lecture series on U.S.-East Asian relations from 2013, named after noted diplomatic historian and Wilson Center Senior Scholar Nancy Bernkopf Tucker.
Making the announcement Wilson Center Director, President and CEO, Jane Harman, said:
“Dr. Tucker exemplifies the Wilson Center’s mission to strengthen the link between first-rate scholarship and public policy. It is only fitting we honor her extraordinary accomplishments in US-East Asian diplomacy by establishing this annual lecture series in her name to continue the important tradition of encouraging scholars and policy makers to learn from one another.”
Dr. Nancy Bernkopf Tucker is Professor of History at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. An American diplomatic historian whose work has focused on U.S.-East Asian relations, particularly U.S. relations with China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, Dr. Tucker is the author or editor of seven books, most recently The China Threat: Memories, Myths and Realities in the 1950s, which appeared earlier this year. Her Uncertain Friendships: Taiwan, Hong Kong and the United States, 1945-1992 received the 1996 Myrna F. Bernath Book Prize, awarded biannually by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. Her articles and essays have also appeared in Foreign Affairs, American Historical Review, Journal of American History, Political Science Quarterly, Diplomatic History, and many of the other leading historical and foreign affairs journals.
In addition to her scholarly achievements, Dr. Tucker has twice served in the U.S. government, first as a China specialist in the Department of State and the U.S. embassy in Beijing (as a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow), and subsequently in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). In 2007, she was awarded a National Intelligence Medal of Achievement for distinguished meritorious service in ODNI as the first-ever Assistant Deputy Director for Analytic Integrity and Standards and Analytic Ombudsman.
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Readers love a good series, and so do authors. For readers, it’s fun to get to know characters well, comforting to know more or less what direction each book will take, and delight in knowing there are more to read and more on the way. For an author a successful series means a reliable paycheck and cumulative royalties, and a predictable path for the writing and publishing of each new book.
Guest column by Kurtis Scaletta, who is the author of three middle-grade novels published by Knopf Books for Young Readers, and the Topps League chapter book series published by Abrams/Amulet.
But publishers would rather publish a stand-alone book and see how it does before committing to a series, so the first book becomes a tough balancing act. How do you learn to write a stand-alone book with series potential? Here are 7 ways to accomplish that.
1. Begin with a strong stand-alone book.
This should be your highest priority, even if your dream is to launch a series. Pick your strongest idea and write the best book you can, as if it will be the only one. In other words, don’t sacrifice the story for the series. Address the series potential in revisions.
2. Establish a structure and format that is both predictable and extendable.
As you feel your way through the first book, keep in mind that you are also creating a template that can be reused. When I set out to write the first installment in a baseball series for kids, I decided that each book would have two stories: one centering on one player for the minor league team, and one on the protagonist who works as a bot boy. A detective series might have one major, serious case and a minor, humorous case in every book. This doesn’t have the be a rigid formula. It’s more of a theme with endless variation that helps you succeed at how to write great fiction.
3. Give yourself a wide cast to work with. Even if you aren’t sure how they will play in, give your minor characters some personality.
It was easy for me to do this, since I had an entire team and ballpark staff to introduce. If your series involves a more solitary character, think about neighbors, drinking buddies, or exes that can drop in to every book. Any one of them might have a problem that develops into a future full-blown story.
4. Adopt what could be a running joke or minor theme in your books, something readers will look forward to seeing in each subsequent volume.
I decided that every book in my kids’ baseball series would feature a ballpark promotion, something to add life to the setting of each book which often (but not always) criss-crosses with the other storylines. Explore your environment for similar threads, such as frequent malfunctions and problems in the detective’s office building, and preposterous excuses by the incompetent superintendent.
5. Give the reader a feeling that the hero has accomplished something but still has a lot to do.
Avoid the “cliffhanger” ending that undoes all of the work the protagonist accomplished in the first book, just to repeat it in a second book. However, make it clear that the hero’s ambitions still have a long way to go.
6. Create ‘thumbnail’ sketches of two or three future installments in your series.
Can you embellish a few things in the first book to lay the groundwork for those stories? Can you describe interests and or problems of the characters than can trigger future stories?
7. Set up a few possibilities for series-long narrative arcs.
My baseball series includes a gradual climb out of the basement for a minor league team and a story of growing friendships between two dissimilar bat boys. Some detective stories are against a background of “real life” narratives as the hero searches for love, raises children, or grapples with personal issues. The books might still be read out of order, but give additional rewards to those who read them in chronological order … and who read them all!
Most of these will give a book texture and depth if it is fated to be a stand-alone book, but will allow you a smooth transition into a series. In fact, the vitality that comes from planting seeds for future books can make for a richer reading experience that makes readers want more.
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The new nuclear deal with North Korea is hot stuff, and President Bush gets credit for gradually becoming more flexible with regard to Kim Jong Il. Bush started off in 2001 by refusing to have anything to do with North Korea, but then that approach failed so catastrophically that he has since then gradually come around to a more sensible and flexible approach similar to that of the Clinton administration. Five wasted years, but, hey, that’s better than a wasted decade.
The problem with the North Korea deal is that I’ll bet dollars to doughnuts that nothing will come of it during this administration. The hard decisions about timing and verification have all been deferred, and it’s almost impossible to imagine George W. Bush and Kim Jong Il agreeing on those topics — the distrust is too great.
I heard of one bilateral meeting in which Bush told a foreign leader last week: “That guy, that guy — you just can’t trust him. He looked Clinton in the eye and lied to him.” A couple of problems with that — Bush apparently couldn’t remember Kim Jong Il’s name, and Clinton never met Kim, let alone looked into his eyes.
In any case, there’s something of a deal of convenience here, in which Bush manages to put off a frightening failure of his policies — and so does the Dear Leader. That’s certainly better than nothing, though — procrastination is better than Armageddon.
The key thing to watch is whether North Korea stops construction of its other nuclear facilities — the 200 megawatt reactor at Taechon and the 50 megawatt reactor at Yongbyon. Those together would produce enough plutonium for dozens of nuclear weapons each year. If construction of those reactors continues even as the Beijing negotiations go on, then we’re being had.
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We bought this boat with the intention of circumnavigating the world. Our plan was to develop skills and save money for the first five years and then cast off the docklines for a life of adventure. Ten years later, it is ironic that we are still in a marina with extra lines attached to the dock to make sure that the boat is secure. There is no casting off of the docklines except for weekends and holidays.
Through navel gazing and experience, we realized that we are cruisers, not circumnavigators. We love nature and beautiful, peaceful places. Swinging on an anchor after a day of being on the water is one of my favourite things. I don’t have to defend this to those of you who live in a house in a subdivision. The ability to get out on the ocean on a sailboat probably seems adventurous, but periodically, my fellow boaters judge me and conclude that because I am not going offshore, that I am less of a sailor.
Judgement requires that you make an assumption about someone’s motives for an action. It brings your bias and experiences into a situation that usually has nothing to do with you. The ego likes judging other people. It makes you feel superior – all puffed out and important running around yelling, “Look at me! Look at me! I am better than you.”
Can you imagine a world where our interactions come from a place of compassion with no judgement? But be careful here – the ego understands that compassion is a worthy ideal and will sometimes hide judgement within the guise of compassion. “Oh, that’s too bad. I am sure you wouldn’t have liked it anyway.” Drop the judgement. Let the ego be naked – it will free your soul.
If this was Girl Guides, the “Offshore” badge is the highest badge that you can earn and only a few kids ever achieve it. Does it make you less of a Girl Guide if you don’t get it? Do you enjoy sailing any less because you don’t have the badge? No. Similarly, a sailor without the ”Racing” badge isn’t a bad sailor; she is a sailor who sails for different reasons.
There are many different ways to enjoy the water: coastal cruising; offshore cruising; crewing on someone else’s boat; renting a kayak; or admiring boats from shore. All of these activities are wonderful if they bring you joy. Hopefully, the more people enjoy activities in nature, the more inclined they will be to take good care of Mother Earth.
This isn’t a competition to see who can get the most badges. This is your life. Do what feeds your soul, not what someone else thinks will feed your soul.
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Hello, all. I have been searching for a particular book for a long time. I figure if anyone can tell me the name of it, or if it rings a bell, this is probably the place.
I'm looking for a children's / young adult's novel from probably the late 50's to early 70's. I read it as a kid in the late 80's, so I suppose it could be later, but it had that canvas hardback that you don't find on more contemporary books. I remember elements of the story, but I do not remember the title or the author.
The plot was the sort of kids-stranded-on-a-strange-planet adventure story that's typical of young adult stuff. It was about these teenagers who crash land on an ocean planet. Their ship is submerged. The key point that's memorable about this story is that the water on the planet is milky. The planet's water is white, translucent, but not transparent. I also seem to remember that the planet had a light side and a shadowed side, like the moon.
I'll see if I can remember any more details, and I know it's not much to go on, but the need to know is tearing up my brain. Thanks!
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