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Peter Le and Amy Kim originally had a small idea of a fun art gallery dedicated to the original 151 Pokémon that they and many of their friends have all grown up watching. With the help of friends and students in the animation and illustration program at San Jose State University, they decided to make it for a good cause! They recruited 151 artists and randomly assigned each artist one of the 151 original Pokémon. The artists had the freedom to interpret their Pokemon in any way they wished. The result is the Rare Candy Pokémon Art Auction for Charity. All artwork made for the gallery will be auctioned off and 100% profit gained from the artwork will be donated to Canines for Disabled Kids. This is a non-profit organization that enhances the lives of deaf and physically disabled children by partnering them up with trained service dogs. watch ano hi mita PLEASE Here is just a sample of some of my recent photo project, CONsent, which you can read about here. Please read and spread the word around. I got to work with some great cosplayers, photographers and fans and I really hope to continue this project if it gains enough support. Thank you for looking! I just want to say that as a cosplayer at cons, this is a real issue. The amount of things that get said (and mostly REQUESTED) to us is ridiculous. This deserves a signal boost. On Facebook a couple days ago BelleChere posted basically asking people to not proposition her. Throughout the comments she noted she was married and neither one of them appreciated creepy comments made toward her. A number of people proceeded to argue with her saying that because she dressed up, it was okay. I know a ton of people who have dealt with harassment at cons and they feel like they can’t say anything because it’s a convention. WRONG. You deserve to feel safe no matter where you are. Dressing up is not giving someone permission to say something to you or do anything to you. This is a great project and it gets a boost from me.
At least three of the European domain names seized in this year’s batch of Cyber Monday anti-counterfeiting law enforcement are now pointing to servers controlled by the US government. We’ve found that chaussuresfoot.be, chaussurevogue.eu and eshopreplica.eu are now hosted on the same IP addresses as SeizedServers.com, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement site. But the three domains, believed to be among the 132 grabbed ahead of this year’s online shopping rush, display warnings incorporating the logos of multiple European law enforcement agencies. While domains in .dk, .fr, .ro and .uk were also targeted by this year’s transatlantic crackdown, none appear to be using SeizedServers.com. According to an ICE press release yesterday, this was the first year that Operation In Our Sites, which kicked off at this time in 2010, has included overseas law enforcement. The partnership, coordinated between ICE and Europol, was code-named Project Transatlantic. European Union privacy officials have told ICANN that it risks forcing registrars to break the law by placing “excessive” demands on Whois accuracy. In a letter to ICANN yesterday, the Article 29 Working Party said that two key areas in the proposed next version of the Registrar Accreditation Agreement are problematic. It’s bothered by ICANN’s attempt to make registrars retain data about their customers for up to two years after registration, and by the idea that registrars should re-verify contact data every year. These were among the requests made by law enforcement, backed up by the Governmental Advisory Committee, that ICANN has been trying to negotiate into the RAA for almost a year. The letter (pdf) reads: The Working Party finds the proposed new requirement to re-verify both the telephone number and the e-mail address and publish these contact details in the publicly accessible WHOIS database excessive and therefore unlawful. Because ICANN is not addressing the root of the problem, the proposed solution is a disproportionate infringement of the right to protection of personal data. The “root cause” points to a much deeper concern the Working Party has. Whois was designed to help people find technical and operational contacts for domain names, it argues. Just because it has other uses — such as tracking down bad guys — that doesn’t excuse infringing on privacy. The problem of inaccurate contact details in the WHOIS database cannot be solved without addressing the root of the problem: the unlimited public accessibility of private contact details in the WHOIS database. It’s good news for registrars that were worried about the cost implications of implementing a new, more stringent RAA. But it’s possible that ICANN will impose the new requirements anyway, giving European registrars an opt-out in order to comply with local laws. The letter is potentially embarrassing for the GAC, which seemed to take offense at the Prague meeting this June when it was suggested that law enforcement’s recommendations were not being balanced with the views of privacy watchdogs. During a June 26 session between the GAC and the ICANN board, Australia’s GAC rep said: I don’t come here as an advocate for law enforcement only. I come here with an Australian government position, and the Australian government has privacy laws. So you can be sure that from a GAC point of view or certainly from my point of view that in my positions, those two issues have been balanced. That view was echoed during the same session by the European Commission and the US and came across generally like a common GAC position. The Article 29 Working Party is an advisory body set up by the EU in 1995. It’s independent of the Commission, but it comprises one representative from the data privacy watchdogs in each EU state. It’s going to be first-come, first-served on almost 9,000 seized .eu domain names next month, following a Eurid lawsuit against a Chinese cybersquatter. The registry operator said today that it has taken control of the domains, which were registered shortly after .eu launched in 2006 by one Zheng Qinying, and will start to release them October 24. Eurid went to court in 2007 after a string of cybersquatting cases against Zheng highlighted the fact that, as a Chinese citizen with no presence in the EU, she did not qualify to own .eu names. An appeals court finally ruled a year ago that Zheng had no right to the domains, and Eurid now plans to make them available again on a first-come, first-served basis. Don’t get too excited. Judging by the small number of English domains on the 8,894-strong list, Zheng, despite being quick off the mark after .eu launched, registered quite a lot of garbage. Don’t expect to see too many valuable English keyword domains. Do expect to see a lot of domains that probably would not stand up to a cybersquatting complaint. The gems may lie in the many European surnames on the list. There may be some good non-English generics on it too, but this monolingual Anglo-Saxon has no idea. The full list of Zheng’s domains in CSV format can be downloaded here. UPDATE: A longer, no-holds-barred commentary by HosterStats’ John McCormac can be found here. EurID, the .eu registry manager, has inked a deal to have its domain names resolved internationally via Netnod’s network of name servers. Netnod is the not-for-profit Swedish internet exchange operator which also runs one of the internet’s 13 DNS root servers. The deal means .eu domains will be resolved from Netnod’s constellation of Anycast DNS servers. Anycast is a technology for mirroring servers on a large scale by enabling them to all advertise the same IP address from diverse locations on the internet. EurID already has similar deals to run .eu on Anycast networks belonging to NeuStar and CommunityDNS, reducing its exposure to a failure at any single provider. That’s some serious redundancy. The registry says that .eu domains are now resolved by 35 server locations around the world. Reding is a mildly controversial figure in the domain name world. Notably, she is the recipient of a UK Internet Service Provider Association Internet Villain award over the launch of .eu, which happened under her watch as Information Society commissioner. ISPA nominated her in 2007, for “foisting the most arcane set of rules yet seen for prior registration of .eu domains, requiring UK-registered companies to submit legal affidavits to justify the authenticity of their business.” Arcane rules? At an ICANN meeting? Shurely shome mishtake. It’s not clear whether Reding will be speaking at the meeting. She’s agreed to attend on June 22, the same day as the Governmental Advisory Committee meeting.
Locksmiths “pick” fight with Frank Schilling Thursday, October 25th, 2012 …and they lose. IDN, Inc., the company that runs Locksmith Dealers of America (LSDA), picked a fight with the wrong guy. (Sorry, I couldn’t help it.) The company filed a UDRP against Frank Schilling’s Name Administration over the domain name LSDA.com. Apparently IDN, Inc. decided that 2012 was a good year to create a web site after many years in business. Hey, better late than never. But it wanted the short and simple domain LSDA.com. It offered up to $5,000 (with a threat of legal action otherwise) to Schilling. Frank Schilling registered the domain name way back in 2001. He wasn’t going to bite. The panel obviously decided with Schilling on this one, writing: The Panel agrees with the Respondent that the evidence on record demonstrates that Respondent registered an inherently valuable short domain name more than a decade ago and Respondent’s use of the disputed domain name is clearly not violative of Complainant’s trademark or service mark rights. IDN is apparently changing its business model as it previously did much of its business through distributors. Hence its desire for the domain, but also a red flag in for the three person arbitration panel: Moreover, as the record shows, the disputed domain name was registered in 2001. The Complainant argued that in previous years, much of the Complainant’s business for LSDA was done through distributor relationships. This assertion of the Complainant is in fact an admission of the fact that the Complainant was in no way primarily known to the consumers or to the Respondent. The Complainant goes further and explains, that only with the increasing use of the Internet in business, it desired to establish a website at a domain that reflected the principal trademark for LSDA products. Name Administration pointed out some curious exhibits and assertions made by IDN. Given the clearly false statement by IDN that the domain was registered in 2006, I’m not inclined to give it any benefit of the doubt. Schilling was represented by John Berryhill. IDN was represented by Dyan M. House of Carter Stafford Arnett Hamada & Mockler PLLC. The panelists were Beatrice Onica Jarka, Hon. Neil Anthony Brown QC, and Hon. Bruce Meyerson.
My mousehouse assistant helped with the draw tonight..... ....lots of entries! thank you everyone for your lovely comments :) Time to mix the entries up 'Amelie' watching Amelie pick out the winner (covering one eye so there's no peeking!)... ...Congratulations Amber! these treats will be on their way to you :) Thanks again everyone for entering, better luck next time!
best in cow; gong xi fa cai - we saw dogs today. juniper said, "dog!" and slapped her thigh a lot. that's sign language. we also saw a little girl there who was juniper's age -- or her height actually -- who was wearing one of these: also a couple sitting beside us took notice of juniper and asked how old she was. then the dude made a crack about juniper in the "puppy class." i made a crack about working on her gait. then i felt bad. - some dogs are really pretty. - i watched something like 5 hours of home video yesterday. what i learned was that children are children but adults are dumb. see above. i keep thinking to never open my mouth when the camera is running but then i do anyway. because i am an adult. - the cow palace : san francisco :: young republicans : any college campus. you never need to go to the central valley when the central valley comes to you. the only other asian person there was a korean lady giving a poodle a haircut. sang, if you extend your visit a little longer we can go to the gun show.
Get the Book. Cooking with Grease is a powerful, behind-the-scenes memoir of the life and times of a tenacious political organizer and the first African-American woman to head a major presidential campaign. Order from Amazon - Sending thoughts and prayers to Connecticut. @cnnbrk - RT @GovMalloyOffice: 60 people have been taken to the hospital. There are five people in critical condition, one in very critical conditio… - @shondarhimes. Thank u for Season 9 & 2. #creative spirit. Speaking of Season 2 of @ScandalABC. Rest up #gladiators. Luv @kerrywashington - RT @shondarhimes: Seasons 9 and 2 are officially done so I’m leaving the twitterverse for a few months! Maybe an odd tweet here or there bu… - “@msnbc: The Republicans are now making a scandal out of President Obama’s umbrella. http://t.co/udnczD6nnC” again, they simply dislike him!
The trial of a man facing two murder charges in Door County will not be heard by a Door County jury. That was the ruling Thursday by Door County Judge Todd Ehlers, who said Brian Cooper's trial will be heard in a Door County courtroom but the panel of jurors would have to be drawn from outside of northeast Wisconsin. In making his decision on the change of venue motion, Judge Ehlers agreed with defense attorney Shane Brabazon that the case has generated "significant publicity" in Door County and it would be difficult for Cooper to get a fair trial with local jurors. On a different motion Ehlers ruled in favor of the prosecution, namely that several statements by Cooper will be admissible in court. After hearing testimony from Door County Sheriff's Department investigators Connie Schuster and Mark Winkel, Ehlers ruled that a 911 call placed by Cooper prior to being taken into custody, a conversation with his mother that took place inside the Door County Jail, and other phone calls made by Cooper from jail will be admissible. Statements made by Cooper during three separate interviews with Winkel while in custody also will be admissible. The 36-year-old Cooper is accused of killing Alisha Bromfield and her unborn daughter August 19 in the Town of Nasewaupee. He initially pleaded not guilty to the charges but on December 21 entered a plea of not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect. Judge Ehlers said the selection of jurors for the trial would take place Friday, April 5 with in-court proceedings beginning in Sturgeon Bay on Monday, April 8.
Splinter Cell Conviction Demo Impressions I was really taken by surprise when I played the demo. I was doing things I didn't think I would ever be doing in a Splinter Cell game, and I was having a lot of fun doing it. The gameplay was very satisfying, and gave me the kind of rewarding experience I have not had in a long time. At the forefront of the gameplay changes is the new mark and execute system. This system is essentially a scripted action sequence you can make Sam do to other enemies. You mark an enemy, hold the Y button, and Sam will raise his gun and make a cinematic kill for you. You must perform a hand to hand kill to get this ability, and to be able to perform your mark and execute you must have all enemies you marked in visible sight and in range. Now I know what you are thinking, the system sounds too automated, and would make the game easy. Well I can definitely say it doesn’t, and in fact actually enriches the gameplay. Mark and execute brings a new layer of strategy to the Conviction that has been unseen in previous Splinter Cells. Instead waiting for an enemy patrol to come by while waiting in the shadows, you will now be carefully analyzing the environment. You will be looking for who you want to mark and execute, where your next hand-to-hand kill is, when the perfect moment is to pounce, and what you escape route is after you have unleashed you attack. The developers of Conviction called this gameplay loop P.E.V., or prepare, execute, and vanish, and PEV sums up the gameplay of Splinter Cell Conviction to a tee. You are going to be hiding in the shadows, planning your attack, and when you think the moment is right, you show yourself and unload a barrage of bullets. The final major addition to gameplay enters into the vanish aspect of this loop. Once you have been detected, and you break line of sight with the enemy, a ghostly figure of Sam appears at his last known location to the enemy. This tells you that the enemy doesn’t know where you are, and it tells you where the enemy will be concentrating their efforts of finding you. This truly lets you play with your enemies the way a cat would play with a mouse, due to the fact that since you know where they are looking, you can flank or ambush them as you see fit. If you are killed it is no longer because you made too much noise, but rather it is because your strategy could have been better. I could write for days about how well this new gameplay for Splinter Cell works, and still wouldn’t do it justice. It is a ton of fun and adds a new layer of depth unseen in other Splinter Cell games. The environments of the game are just as excellent as this new gameplay, giving players countless options on how they want to move about the environment and take down the enemy. Each scenario in the demo had at least two points of entry, and another dozen ways to move around the environment. This makes the gameplay feel like you are playing in a mini sandbox. You can be creative in the way you want to take down your enemies, and every time you replay that same scenario, it is going to feel different. The final bit of gameplay I wanted to mention is that there is no HUD, and the developers work really hard to immerse you in the game. Like Double Agent, there is no need for Night Vision Goggles, but instead of having a light on your back, Conviction bleeds the color out of the screen when you are hidden in the shadows. This is a quick way to know you are hidden, and works much better than the failed system of Double Agent. I’m not 100% sold on this new system yet, but it worked well in the demo. The developers also try to eliminate any need of looking through an objective menu by actually projecting the objectives onto the environment. If you need to infiltrate a building, the words “Infiltrate” will be visible on the building to let you know what your objective is. This immersive tool is not only used for objectives, and some of the cut scenes actually are projected onto the environment while you play, or interrogate somebody. This system is both innovative and genius, and greatly adds to the immersion of the experience as a whole.
Now he’s alerted me to a new study and related lecture on what he and his co-authors are calling “peak farmland” — an impending stabilization of the amount of land required for food as humanity’s growth spurt plays out. While laying out several important wild cards (expanded farming of biofuels among them), Ausubel and his co-authors see a reasonable prospect for conserving, and restoring, forests and other stressed terrestrial ecosystems even as humanity exerts an ever greater influence on the planet. The study, “Peak Farmland and the Prospects for Sparing Nature,” is by Ausubel, Iddo K. Wernick and Paul E. Waggoner and will be published next year as part of a special supplement to the journal Population and Development Review, published by the Population Council. Drawing on a host of data sets, the authors conclude that a combination of slowing population growth, moderated demand for land-intensive food (meat, for instance) and more efficient farming methods have resulted in a substantial “decoupling” of acreage and human appetites. Here’s the optimistic opener: Expecting that more and richer people will demand more from the land, cultivating wider fields, logging more forests, and pressing nature, comes naturally. The past half-century of disciplined and dematerializing demand and more intense and efficient land use encourage a rational hope that humanity’s pressure will not overwhelm nature. Ausubel will describe the findings in a talk during a daylong symposium at his university on Tuesday honoring Paul Demeny, who at age 80 is stepping down as editor of the journal. Ausubel’s prepared remarks are online. In his talk, he explains that while the common perception is that meeting humanity’s food needs is the task of farmers, there are many other players, including those of us who can choose what to eat and how many children to have: [T]he main actors are parents changing population, workers changing affluence, consumers changing the diet (more or less calories, more or less meat) and also the portion of crops entering the food supply (corn can fuel people or cars), and farmers changing the crop production per hectare of cropland (yield). The new paper builds on a long string of studies by Ausubel and the others, including the 2001 paper “How Much Will Feeding More and Wealthier People Encroach on Forests?.” Also relevant is “Restoring the Forests,” a 2000 article in Foreign Affairs co-written by Ausubel and David G. Victor (now at the University of California, San Diego) This body of analysis is closely related to the core focus of this blog: finding ways to fit infinite human aspirations (and appetites) on a finite planet. The work presents a compelling case for concentrating agriculture through whatever hybrid mix of means — technological or traditional — that best fits particular situations, but also fostering moderation in consumption. Here’s an excerpt from the paper’s conclusion, which notes the many wild cards that make the peak farmland scenario still only a plausible, and hardly inevitable, future: [W]ild cards remain part of the game, both for and against land sparing. As discussed, the wild card of biofuels confounded expectations for the past 15 years. Most wild cards probably will continue to come from consumers. Will people choose to eat much more meat? If so, will it be beef, which requires more land than poultry and fish, which require less? Will people become vegetarian or even vegan? But if they become vegan, will they also choose clothing made from linen, hemp, and cotton, which require hectares? Will the average human continue to grow taller and thus require more calories? Will norms of beauty accept obesity and thus high average calories per capita? Will a global population with a median age of 40 eat less than one with a median age of 28? Will radical innovations in food production move humanity closer to landless agriculture (Ausubel 2010)? Will hunger or international investment encourage cropland expansion in Africa and South America? (Cropland may, of course, shrink in some countries while expanding in others as the global sum declines.) And will time moderate the disparities cloaked within global averages, in particular disparities of hunger and excess among regions and individuals? Allowing for wild cards, we believe that projecting conservative values for population, affluence, consumers, and technology shows humanity peaking in the use of farmland. Over the next 50 years, the prospect is that humanity is likely to release at least 146 mHa [146 million hectares, or 563,710 square miles], one and a half times the size of Egypt, two and a half times that of France, or ten Iowas, and possibly multiples of this amount. Notwithstanding the biofuels case, the trends of the past 15 years largely resemble those for the past 50 and 150. We see no evidence of exhaustion of the factors that allow the peaking of cropland and the subsequent restoration of nature. In an e-mail exchange today, I asked Ausubel about another issue touched on in the paper: Looking around the planet, it’s clear from a biodiversity standpoint that all forests — or farming pressures — are not equal. For instance, in Southeast Asia, palm oil and orangutans are having a particularly hard time co-existing. So while the overall trend is great, do you see the need for maintaining a focus on particular “hot spots,” to use a term familiar in environmental circles? So far, I don’t see lots of evidence that conservation campaigners (you are one on ocean resources) have found a way to accept this kind of good news and/or incorporate it in their prescriptions for sustaining a rich and variegated biological sheath on Earth. If you agree, any idea why? Indonesia is the number one place where letting the underlying trend work will not work fast enough. The list of threatened regions is quite well identified: parts of the central African forest, parts of the Amazon. Some conservation groups have realized that the slow growth in demand for calories as well as pulp and paper are creating big chances to reserve or protect more land. In the right places, where crops are no longer profitable, some amounts of money can acquire large amounts of land for nature. Conservation groups also ought to attend more to the ecological disaster called biofuels. I encourage you to dig in on this paper and related work, which provides a useful guide for softening the human impact on a crowding planet. There’ll be plenty of losses, and surprises, but there are real prospects for sustaining a thriving, and peopled, orb. 6:57 p.m. \| Addendum \| For relevant work with somewhat different conclusions review the presentations from “Intensifying agriculture within planetary boundaries,” a session at the Planet Under Pressure conference in London last March. I’ll be adding links to other relevant analysis here.
Share your CD/DVD/HD-DVD/Blu-ray drive (reader or burner) over a network with Paragon Net BurnerOctober 2, 2011 14 Email article \| Print article Do you have a computer (desktop, notebook, or netbook) that does not have an optical drive? Or, maybe it has an optical drive but the optical drive is broken? Well, then, Paragon Net Burner may be for you. Paragon Net Burner is a software that aims to do one thing and one thing only: Allow users to share CD/DVD/HD-DVD/BD drives (readers and burners) over a network. Thus you do not have to spend extra cash purchasing drives for computers that do not have an optical drive, or have a broken optical drive – you can just share the optical drives you have with all computers on your network with Paragon Net Burner. These are all the types of optical drives Paragon Net Burner supports: - DVD+/-R (DL) - BD-R/RE (Blu-ray) How Paragon Net Burner works is it allows you to mount an optical drive from one computer (the computer that has the drive) onto another computer (the computer that does not have the drive); by mount I mean virtually mount, not physically mount. Once you have the optical drive mounted, you can use it normally just like you would if the actual physical optical drive was in the computer (i.e. you can use any burning program, read the disk, etc.). Of course you still need to physically insert/remove disks from the actual drive – Paragon Net Burner won’t magically insert/remove the disks for you. And take note that only one computer can access an optical drive at a time. In other words, while an optical drive is mounted on a remote computer, the local computer cannot use it – nor can you use the same optical drive on another remote computer (yes, you can share one optical with multiple computers, but only one computer can use it at a time). Paragon Net Burner utilizes a server-client relationship. In other words, it has a server component and a client component. The server component is installed on the computer that has an optical drive and wants to share the optical drive with other computers on the network. The client component is installed on the computer(s) that don’t have an optical drive of their own. During installation of Paragon Net Burner you are asked if you want to do a full installation, install the server edition, or the client edition: If you are not tech savvy and don’t feel comfortable selecting which type of installation to do, you can do a full installation on both the server (the computer with the optical drive) and the client (the computer(s) without the optical drive) and everything will work just fine. Once you install Paragon Net Burner on the server, all you have to do is make sure Paragon Net Burner is running (look for Paragon Net Burner’s icon in the system tray: ) – you need not do anything else on the server. After Paragon Net Burner has been installed on the server (and running on the server) and on the client, go to the client computer and run Paragon Net Burner; you will need to select the optical drive that you want to use: If no optical drive is found, try hitting the “Refresh” button or manually entering the IP address (local LAN IP) of the computer that has the optical drive. Once you have the optical drive selected, hit “Next” and the drive will be mounted on the client. If it is the first time you are mounting the drive, it will be treated as new hardware by your computer and it will first be installed (takes a few seconds). After the drive has been mounted, you can use it normally as if you had the actual drive in your computer (including being able to use burning programs): After you are done using the drive, you can easily unmount it via the right-click menu of Paragon Net Burner’s system tray icon: As you can see from the above screenshot, if you ever want to mount a drive again, right-click on the system tray icon, select “Mount optical drive” and start the process all over again. There are three things to note about Paragon Net Burner: - Paragon Net Burner is based on Rocket Division’s StarBurn SDK. So, during installation of Paragon Net Burner you may be asked to install StarBurn/StarPort/Rocket Division drivers – these drives are safe to install, so don’t worry about it. - If you are unable to properly find optical drives on the network, be sure to open the proper ports in your firewalls to make sure the firewall is not blocking anything. - You need to fill out a short form after which you are e-mailed the download link for Paragon Net Burner: Since Paragon Net Burner is aimed at businesses, the form asks you for a “Company Name”; if you are using Paragon Net Burner for home, just put something like “Home Use”. The e-mail you get is from “firstname.lastname@example.org” with the subject of “Your Product Information for Paragon Net Burner 2.0 – Free (English)”. In the e-mail is registration information and a download link: Even though you are provided with registration information I found there is no need and no place to enter the registration information. So, just download and install Paragon Net Burner without worrying about registering it. (Someone correct me if I am wrong.) That said, you can grab Paragon Net Burner from the following link: Version reviewed: v184.108.40.206 Supported OS: Windows XP/Vista/Server 2003/Server 2008 Windows 7 is not officially supported but it seems to work fine on Win7. Download size: 2.7 MB
- Featured Stories - Douglas County - City of Ava - General Interest Life long resident of Mansfield Bulah Adams, the daughter of Charles Adams and Nola Woody Adams, was born June 5, 1940 in Hartville, and departed this life June 24, 2008 at the age of 68 years and 19 days. Bulah was a life long resident of Mansfield. In the late 1950 Bulah and Vernon McGowan were united in marriage in Wright County. Bulah was a Christian. She was a homemaker and enjoyed fishing, canning and spending time with her family. Bulah was preceded in death by her parents, one sister, Lois and one brother, Charles. Her survivors include three sons, Ronald McGowan, the state of Oregon, Roy McGowan and Rita, Virgil McGowan all to Mansfield; three daughters, Verna Griffin and Randal, Mansfield, Mary Burwell, Cassville, and Lorna Reid and Rob, Yucca Valley, Calif.; 28 grandchildren; 24 great-grandchildren; two brothers, Herbert Adams, McComb, and Virgil Adams, Hartville; and a host of other relatives and friends. Graveside services were at 12 p.m. Saturday, June 28, in the Little Creek Cemetery, Mansfield, with the Rev. Everett Jenkins officiating. Visitation was Friday from 6 to 7 p.m. in the Clinkingbeard Funeral Home, at Ava. Online condolences may be made www. clinkingbeardfuneralhome.com.
Douglas County Commissioner Ann Jones Guider said she expects to be the "Lone Ranger" later today as the only dissenting vote opposing placing two alcohol-related resolutions on the November ballot. The Douglas County Commissioners will be voting at 10 a.m. to allow citizens to vote on regulating Sundays sales by retailers of beer and wine between the hours of 12:30 and 11:30 p.m., otherwise known as Sunday Sales. The second resolution will allow voters to permit restaurants to sell Sunday by-the-drink. Commissioners discussed the ordinances in their Monday work session meeting and will make the final decision in today's voting meeting. Not a lot of discussion was held during the work session because Jones-Guider said the Commissioners already know her feelings. Sunday Sales "is more than likely to pass," she said, but I'm going to vote against it. That's something I've made clear from the very beginning. If something comes before the Board of Commissioners, we have to make a decision based on what we feel is best for the general public and the community. "It's simple to say lets put it to a vote," Jones-Guider continued in an interview with Douglasville Patch. "Since we have a representative government where we elect officials, we get to make the decision to pass it or not based on the general public's good. I know this is not good for the community. It means more drunk drivers, more deaths and more lives broken. More alcohol is just not the answer to our problems. "A lot of people moved here from Atlanta to find a better life now we're adopting the same ordinances as they have in Atlanta," said the District 4 Commissioner. "We should make one thing clear, this is for the unincorporated part of the County, outside the City limits, from Fairplay to Winston. It's more than likely going to pass within the City limits." Jones-Guider said she expects the rest of the Board of Commissioners to allow the measures to be placed on the ballot. "I think I'm going to be the Lone Ranger on this one but some things are worth fighting for," she said. "I know I'm going to get some flack but that's just the way I feel. "I've been the director of Celebrate Recovery at the Ephesus Baptist Church for seven years. I've seen the devastation." Jones-Guider said she expects to make a statement to the commuinty at today's meeting. District 3 Commissioner Mike Mulcare told Douglasville Patch that he fully trusts the citizens of the County to decide on alcohol sales.
[Dovecot] Is it possible to migrating mail to dovecot using imapc? Dr Josef Karthauser joe at tao.org.uk Fri Mar 30 23:26:24 EEST 2012 On 30 Mar 2012, at 21:08, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On 30.3.2012, at 23.02, Dr Josef Karthauser wrote: >>> It does, but the two way sync mirroring relies on messages having GUIDs. IMAP protocol doesn't have such a concept. I guess it could be kind of emulated by using e.g. GUID = sha1(message header). The pop3-replication plugin kind of does this already. But adding such code makes the regular "doveadm backup" slower since now it has to fetch first message headers and then message bodies. But I guess this could be an optional feature. Hmh. >> I have a need of it right now. If there's something quick and dirty that I can do, that would be great. It would take the risk out of migrating my users over to dovecot. :) How much code would what you propose be? > I suppose to do it quick and dirty you could just copy&paste the get_hdr_sha1() from http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.1/rev/78317179b4af to imapc code and have imapc_mail_get_special() use it for returning GUID. Do you think that this will reliably do the trick? -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Size: 2299 bytes Desc: not available More information about the dovecot
posted: April 19, 2010 Inspired by David Gothard's post, "Most Unusual Working Conditions" I would like to share my own unusual work situation. On April 29, 1992 a jury acquitted four Los Angeles Police Department officers accused in the videotaped beating of African-American motorist Rodney King. The outrage that followed is now called the 1992 Los Angeles Riots. I was born in Pasadena, California and my youth was spent in and around the suburbs of Los Angeles. Los Angeles was my stomping grounds and I loved the city. At the time of the Rodney King trials I had been working weekly for the Los Angeles Times and that trial was definitely heating things up. The weekend after the acquittal the city was ready to blow and so many of us were outraged with the acquittal. I took off that weekend to San Francisco right when it blew. On Monday morning I checked my answering machine and I had gotten a call from Nancy Duckworth explaining that the Los Angeles Times Magazine was hiring 9 LA artists to depict their personal feelings and art in response to the verdict and the riots and that the artist, could do anything, no sketches just make sure that the art gets in by Thursday. I called Nancy, accepted the assignment and didn't tell her that I was in San Francisco. Next step, find all of the art supplies needed to create a mobile printmaking studio. I bought some plexiglass, a roller , speedball inks, paint thinner, pencils and I was able to find my favorite hand made Japanese paper in San Francisco. I worked that night on a card table under a single light bulb in my sister in laws garage with a bunch of makeshift supplies and I created this piece. Sent it out Fed-Ex the next day and the whole process was a complete artist rush to create. The other 8 artists commissioned were: Marty Gunsaullus, Todd Gray, Christian Clayton, Sherry Etheridge, Joel Nakamura, Greg Clarke, Scott Morgan and Greg Spalenka. Art Direction was Nancy Duckworth and Steven E. Banks.
Student Launches Backpack Drive for N.J. Storm Victims Kids in shelters in New Jersey are working without the school supplies they need, after Hurricane Sandy destroyed their homes. When Laci Olivia contacted the American Red Cross to help with Hurricane Sandy relief, she found out students in New Jersey need basic school supplies. After speaking with a volunteer working at the Red Cross Shelter in Tuckerton, N.J., she learned something surprising. "The students there are without the necessary supplies for school, including backpacks, notebooks, pencils…" said Olivia, a student at Delaware Valley College. "These are all things that we take for granted, but to a child they represent normalcy, especially if you will be attending a new school due to your family’s home literally being washed away." She is spearheading a project to put together backpacks for these kids containing: - Three notebooks - Two folders - Five pencils in a pencil case - A package of crayons - A lunchbox - A ruler “People were severely affected by Hurricane Sandy,” said Olivia. “Many people have lost businesses, their homes, and in some cases even family members. Many organizations and individuals have made substantial efforts towards helping those affected by the storm. We really need to get involved in helping those displaced pick up the pieces.” Olivia said donations of clothing, blankets, nonperishables, and other supplies are pouring in at shelters, but the need for school supplies has not yet been addressed. She will deliver the backpacks to the Red Cross Shelter in Tuckerton, N.J. on Sunday, Nov. 18. How to help: Grab some friends and put a backpack together. Please bring all completed backpacks to House 1 (the first house on the right if you come in the New Britain Road entrance to the College) by Thursday, Nov. 15.
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Oahu Community Correctional Center The Oahu Community Correctional Center (OCCC) is the largest jail facility in the State of Hawaii, and is situated on 16 acres in urban Honolulu. The 950-bed facility houses pre-trial detainees. In addition to its jail functions, OCCC provides reintegration programming for male sentenced felons. The pre-trial population at OCCC is offered educational, self-improvement, and religious programs. The sentenced inmate population is offered programs in substance abuse, domestic violence, cognitive skills, parenting, community service worklines, work furlough, and extended furlough. In addition to programs, there are work opportunities through Correctional Industries, with the majority of jobs in light construction (i.e. office wall panel construction and installation). In an average year, OCCC employs over 400 inmates in its in-facility worklines to provide support services for its kitchen, laundry, and other operations. OCCC staff also manages and operates the Laumaka Work Furlough Center (LWFC), which is located a block away from the jail. Inmates assigned to LWFC are either actively seeking employment or working in the community. Project Bridge, which occupies one of the buildings, is the transitional program for offenders who have completed their primary substance abuse treatment.
Phoenix Region November Home Sales The number of homes that resold in the Phoenix area rose above a year earlier for the twelfth month in a row in November as activity increased across the price spectrum. A variety of median sale price measures trended higher month-to-month, and the region’s overall median sale price fell year-over-year by less than 1 percent – the smallest dip since the median began to erode consistently in summer 2010, a real estate information service reported. A total of 7,766 new and resale houses and condos closed escrow during November in the combined Maricopa-Pinal counties metro area. That was down 3.5 percent from the month before but up 9.0 percent from a year earlier, according to San Diego-based DataQuick, which tracks real estate trends nationally via public property records. Phoenix-area sales usually drop between October and November, with that decline averaging 7.1 percent since 1994, when DataQuick’s complete Phoenix region statistics begin. Total November home sales fell 10.2 percent short of the average number sold in November since 1994, but that was only because new-home sales remained very low. Resale volume fared much better: The number of houses and condos resold in November – 6,912 – was 7.7 percent higher than the November average and was the highest for that month since November 2009, when 7,114 homes resold. November sales rose year-over-year across most price segments. The number of new and resale homes that sold for less than $100,000 rose 4.6 percent year-over-year, while sales between $100,000 and $200,000 increased 11.4 percent. Deals in the $200,000 to $600,000 range rose 0.7 percent from a year earlier, while above $800,000 sales increased 4.9 percent. The median price paid in November for all new and resale houses and condos sold in the Phoenix region was $127,000. That was up 5.8 percent from October but down 0.4 percent from a year earlier. November’s median was the highest since November 2010, when it was $127,500. Also, the year-over-year decline in the median was the lowest since the median began to drop consistently in July 2010. November’s median stood 51.9 percent below the all-time peak of $264,100 in June 2006. The median price paid for resale single-family detached houses in November rose 5.0 percent month-to-month, to $124,900, and dipped 0.5 percent from a year earlier – the lowest year-over-year decline since that median began its downward slide in September 2010. The median price paid for resale condos in November rose to $81,500, up 5.8 percent month-to-month and up 8.7 percent year-over-year. That annual increase in the resale condo median was the highest since July 2006, when it rose 15.3 percent. Another key price gauge analysts watch, the median price paid per square foot for existing single-family detached houses, increased in November to $69, up from $66 the month before and the same as a year earlier. It was the first time since August 2010 that the median paid per square foot did not drop year-over-year. The November figure was 59.6 percent below the $171 peak median price paid per square foot in May and June of 2006. At the county level in November, the median price paid per square foot for resale single-family detached houses in Maricopa County was $72, up from $70 in October but down 1.8 percent from a year earlier. It was the lowest annual decline for any month since the measure began dropping consistently back in September 2010. The Pinal County median paid per square foot was $50 in November, up from $49 in October and up 7.4 percent from a year earlier, marking the second consecutive month to post a year-over-year gain. Prior to this October, the last year-over-year increase was in June 2010. Absentee buyers, who include investors and vacation-home buyers, bought 43.4 percent of all Phoenix-area homes sold in November, down from 44.0 percent in October but up from 42.7 percent a year earlier. Absentee purchases peaked for the current real estate cycle at 47.1 percent in March 2011. In November, absentee buyers paid a median $103,000, up from $100,000 in October and up slightly from $102,000 a year earlier. Cash buyers represented 40.8 percent of all sales in November, up from 39.7 percent in October and up a hair from 40.3 percent in November 2010. The record for cash buying was 48.0 percent in February 2011. November's cash buyers paid a median $96,000, up from $88,500 in October and up from $95,000 a year earlier. Specifically, these were transactions where there was no indication of a purchase loan recorded at the time of sale. Many cash and investor buyers target distressed properties. In November, distressed sales dropped to 54.4 percent of all resale activity – the lowest level for any month since the figure was 53.1 percent in July 2008. Distressed sales are made up of lender sales of foreclosed properties, as well as “short sales,” where the sale price falls short of what was owed on the property. Foreclosure resales, defined as homes that had been foreclosed on in the prior 12 months, accounted for 38.5 percent of November resales – the lowest level since May 2008. November’s figure was down from 43.0 percent in October and 54.3 percent a year earlier. The peak level for foreclosure resales was 66.2 percent in March 2009. Short sales represented an estimated 15.9 percent of November’s resale activity, down from 16.2 percent in October, but up from an estimated 13.8 percent a year ago and 13.9 percent two years ago. Lenders foreclosed on 3,307 Phoenix-area homes in November, up 16.2 percent from October and up 9.5 percent from a year earlier. During the first 11 months of 2011, lenders foreclosed on 48,935 Phoenix-area homes, down 11.8 percent from the same period in 2010. The figures are based on the number of Trustees Deeds filed with county recorder offices. The document signals that a home was lost to foreclose. Number of sales Media calls: Andrew LePage (916) 456-7157 Copyright 2012 DataQuick. All rights reserved.
Originally Posted by nepg Could very easily end up being the best DT in this draft class. Should be fun to watch him run and jump. I presume you mean once they hit the field, and not when it comes to draft day? I can agree that the former is certainly possible, the latter almost certainly not.
Although uncommon, an entirely different group of factors plays a role when an athlete suffers a stroke. Head and neck trauma are often factors in stroke during athletic competitions. Direct head trauma can result in leakage from blood vessels, depriving large regions of the brain of necessary nutrients. Violent forward and backward movement of the head can result in tearing the inner lining of vital arteries responsible for directing blood to the brain. This condition, known as arterial dissection, can form a clot within the affected blood vessel or become a source of small clots. These smaller clots often move toward the brain as emboli and block other arteries. Treatment for arterial dissection involves the use of blood thinning medications and avoiding violent collision sports. Another common risk factor for stroke in athletes is the existence of a patent foramen ovale (PFO). A PFO is a hole between the upper chambers of the heart, the right and left atria. The foramen ovale forms in the fourth week of embryonic development and should close in the first three months after birth. When it does not close, it is considered patent or open. This abnormal channel allows direct passage of blood clots to the brain. These clots often originate in the legs and may result from immobilized lower extremities. PFOs can be treated with equal success by surgical closure or blood thinning medications. Athletes appear to do better with surgical closure and usually make a full recovery to return to sports. While considered rare, strokes do occur in athletes and treatment requires a different approach.
Being a parent in this day and age isn't easy. A Dad trying to take responsibility and do what's right for his kids is under a new kind of pressure these days. Long gone are the days he could just go to the office in the morning and not be bothered with childcare until discipline is called for at the end of the day. And Thank God for that! Dr. Marie Hartwell-Walker, a contributor to Psych Central, had this to day about good fathering. She wrote: Over the years, I’ve asked both fathers and mothers what they think are the essential qualities of such men. They tell me that fathers who are real men: Love the mothers. They show their children what mature and reciprocal love, tenderness, and caring is about. They are affectionate and supportive of their wives and are their greatest fans. Neither partner would dream of cheating so both are secure in their love and their partnership. While I agree completely, I also know that when the father is the survivor of a tough divorce this isn't always possible. For the kids' sake, I hope that such parents can at least learn to forgive each other enough to allow genuine respect to live where true love cannot. That is my Father's Day wish. Happy Father’s Day!
Meet Me at the Market for Bushwick Open Studios June 3rd through 5th 2011 The Moore Street market is located on 110 Moore Street in Williamsburg Part of Bushwick’s Open Studio Weekend - June 3rd, 4th and 5th 2011 Morning Coffee Opening, compliments of Bushwick’s own FARMCART, Saturday, June 4th 10:00 am – 11:00 am - Get a coffee and a map, and tour the historic market. Using the Moore Street Market as muse, 7 artists-Liz Atzberger, Sharon Butler, Brece Honeycutt, Lars Kremer, Austin Thomas, Julie Torres and Audra Wolowiec with a special appearance by the Push Pops performing at 2:00pm of Sunday, June 5th-combine art and food for a series of weekend events! The Moore Street Retail Market becomes a site of interaction as 7 artists either teach, set-up “shop,” in-stall, salon or serve. Peer into this special and historic “open studio” as the Push Pops perform, Sunday at 2:00 pm their remix of Luis Gisbert's Block Watching (2002) this time with more girls, more bling and a jewelry liquidation sale at half time! Draw with Austin Thomas at 12 noon on Saturday, June 4th and discuss the Economics of Open Studio with Sharon Butler on Sunday, June 5th at 4:00 pm. Elsewhere in the Market, Liz Atzberger’s sculptures will reach up to the ceiling while Julie Torres’s will use the walls of the Market as a container for an installation of paintings. Knitting enthusiast Brece Honeycutt will spin her own version while listening to yours and Lars Kremer will serve up “snacks.” On your way out grab a free poster designed specially for the event by Audra Wolowiec. Schedule of Events: Saturday, June 4th 10:00 am coffee and Bushwick Open Studio map pick-up,12 noon free art class with Austin Thomas, find Brece Honeycutt in Stall #13 from 10 am - 2pm, and at 5:00pm Lars Kremer serves up snacks! Sunday, June 5th from 12 pm - 4 pm again you will find Brece Honeycutt in stall #13 knitting, at 2:00 pm the Push Pops perform and Sharon Butler wraps it up at 4:00pm with a salon discussion on the economics of open studios. Additionally, FARMCART does their own pop-up Biergarten with cold beer and their signature sandwiches, plus coffee, sweets, and other treats all weekend long - 12-8 pm Friday, 10-8 pm Saturday, 11-5 pm Sunday. So meet us at the market!! Moore Street Market 110 Moore Street (in the corners of Humboldt and Varet) - Bus/Train directions: Hopstop.com Brooklyn, NY 11206-3301 - Phone number: (718) 384-137 - E-mail: email@example.com
The Real Bill IV Bill Long 11/07/04 Getting to the "Heart" of the Matter If life were all mind and if all human passion could profitably be directed to learning and written/oral expression, we could all become disciples of Friedrich Nietzsche and live out of our backpacks in an Italian rooming house. But, thankfully, we are creatures of the heart. In my judgment, the mind works best when the heart is attuned to the rhythms of the world. It is in the realm of the heart that I am both charming but wounded, capable but afraid, strong yet vulnerable. This mini-essay deals with the shadow side of the gifts described in the previous three essays, a shadow side with which I am well-acquainted. My Charming Self There is a part of me, an important part of me, which is outgoing, considerate, compassionate, interested in others' experiences, non-judgmental and engaged with life. I can hold an audience spellbound when I talk about subjects from the Book of Job to the death penalty. I use humor, usually self-deprecating humor, effectively to charm an audience. My ability to listen to a person, a woman especially, to understand her world and join her in her thought process about that world is genuine. I believe I am a very sensual man and a more than adequate lover. I think, however, that the major shortcoming I now face is that I tend to be like a gardener who digs up plants each day to check the roots to see if they are still growing and, by doing so, runs the risk of damaging or destroying the plants. That is, I have a tendency to live with great energy and focus, seemingly without regard to plaudits or acclaim by others, but then, almost every day, I think about how unfair it is that I have not received the kind of affirmation from others that I feel I deserve. Because I have not stayed at the same job for more than five years, I have not deeply rooted myself in any institution or with any group of people who could possibly have helped me establish myself in the recognized "grooves" of accomplishment which our society treasures. Fearing that the "grooves" were really "ruts," I have kept my distance from institutions even as I worked for them, believing that they want to suck energy and skill and repay you for neither. The result of this kind of thinking and experience is that while friends of mine now have endowed chairs or are in "Best Lawyers of America," I teach in an adjunct capacity and with no "portfolio" to speak of. Recognition that I feel should have come has not arrived. I cannot let that thought go, and it sometimes has a most debilitating effect on me. It triggers a thought that the reason I haven't been so lionized is because of other people's limitations, their incapacities, their inability to recognize real quality. I think like this, and then the thought washes over me. "Of course they cannot grasp me because I am just too big too be grasped by these little people." When I engage in this kind of thinking, I then tend not simply to isolate myself but to become incapable and indesirous [I just made up that word, and you all immediately know what it means] of intimacy. I tend not to want to "give myself" to people, believing that it will simply be a waste of time and effort. I become cynical, overbearing, self-absorbed and unhelpful. Because these folk have not accorded me the proper degree of regard, I need not pay attention to what they are doing. I train my considerable critical faculties on exposing their narrowness, incapacities, methodological weaknesses, faulty memories. It is not a good way to proceed. It is, however, how I can easily live. Drawing Me Away from the Pit Though I no longer have panic thoughts, I entertain these kind of thoughts with regularity. There are only two instances where the thoughts disappear: (1) when I am speaking to groups of people about Job/law/Shakespeare or a number of things I am engaged in or, as has frequently happened (2) when I unexpectedly connect with a person whose personal story is so compelling that it removes every trace of self-satisfaction/arrogance that I might feel. Let me give one example of the latter. About two weeks ago I had a very fruitful time of writing in the morning but as I was walking across campus at noon, the thought returned to me that no one would read these beautiful essays I had just written. Feeling sorry for myself and superior to the world, I went into my office. As I ventured out to pick up my mail, I ran into a colleague, the senior member of the law faculty, who had unexpectedly lost his wife of 35 years just a few weeks previously. We talked briefly and I invited him to my office to give him a copy of my new book on Job. As we talked in my office he unburdened himself with thoughts so raw, so powerful, so insightful about the dislocation he was now experiencing that I knew I was touching the very nerve of human emotion and life. Tangled threads of sadness, fear, and aimlessness were interwoven. It was as if a massive crater had been blasted in the middle of his life. No words, no thoughts could either change life or bring comfort at that moment. I sensed deeply our share humanity, a humanity that tries so hard, struggles so mightily, longs so deeply for expertise and integration and excellence--and then feels sometimes that the rooting principle (my friend's wife) is ripped out of life. There was no room at this point for anything other than heartfelt wishes for strength, insight and wisdom from this experience. When I engage significantly with people, I never have narcissistic thoughts. Yet, my creative work often takes me into myself and into my own deep rhythms apart from people. Learning how to make both of those work for me--creative work and connections with others--is my current desire and struggle. I want to have both the flow of insight and the hearts of friends (and a special friend if that should come). I just don't know how, at present, to mesh these two. Copyright © 2004-2007 William R. Long
Under the figure of a linen girdle is foretold the destruction of the Jews. Their obstinacy in sin brings all miseries upon them. Thus saith the Lord to me: Go, and get thee a linen girdle, and thou shalt put it about thy loins, and shalt not put it into water. And I got a girdle accoding to the word of the Lord, and put it about my loins. And the word of the Lord came to me the second time, saying: Take the girdle which thou hast got, which is about thy loins, and arise, and go to the Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of the rock. And I went, and hid it by the Euphrates, as the Lord had commanded me. And it came to pass after many days, that the Lord said to me: Arise, go to the Euphrates, and take from thence the girdle, which I commanded thee to hide there. And I went to the Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle out of the place where I had hid it: and behold the girdle was rotten, so that it was fit for no use. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: Thus saith the Lord: after this manner will I make the pride of Juda, and the great pride of Jerusalem to rot. This wicked people, that will not hear my words, and that walk in the perverseness of their heart, and have gone after strange gods to serve them, and to adore them: and they shall be as this girdle which is fit for no use. For as the girdle sticketh close to the loins of a man, so have I brought close to me all of the house of Israel, and all the house of Juda, saith the Lord: that they might be my people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory: but they would not hear. Thou shalt speak therefore to them this word: Thus saith the Lord God of Israel: Every bottle shall be filled with wine, and they shall say to thee: Do we not know that every bottle shall be filled with wine? And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord: Behold I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, and the kings of the race of David that sit upon his throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem. with drunkenness. And I will scatter them every man from his brother, and fathers and sons in like manner, saith the Lord: I will not spare, and I will not pardon: nor will I have mercy, but to destroy them. Hear ye, and give ear: Be not proud, for the Lord hath spoken. Give ye glory to the Lord your God, before it be dark, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains: you shall look for light, and he will turn it into the shadow of death, and into darkness. But if you will not hear this, my soul shall weep in secret for your pride: weeping it shall weep, and my eyes shall run down the tears, because the flock of the Lord is carried away captive. Say to the king, and to the queen: Humble yourselves, sit down: for the crown of your glory is come down from your head. The cities of the south are shut up, and there is none to open them: all Juda is carried away captive with an entire captivity. Lift up your eyes, and see, you that come from the north: where is the flock that is given thee, thy beautiful cattle? What wilt thou say when he shall visit thee? for thou hast taught them against thee, and instructed them against thy own head: shall not sorrows lay hold on thee, as a woman in labour? And if thou shalt say in thy heart: Why are these things come upon me? For the greatness of thy iniquity, thy nakedness is discovered, the soles of thy feet are defiled. If the Ethiopian can change his skin, or the leopard his spots: you may also do well, when you have learned evil. And I will scatter them as stubble, which is carried away by the wind in the desert. This is thy lot, and the portion of thy measure from me, saith the Lord, because thou hast forgotten me, and hast trusted in falsehood. Wherefore I have also bared my thighs against thy face, and thy shame hath appeared. I have seen thy adulteries, and thy neighing, the wickedness of thy fornication: and thy abominations, upon the hills in the field. Woe to thee, Jerusalem, wilt thou not be made clean after me: how long yet?
The priesthood of Christ according to the order of Melchisedech excels the Levitical priesthood and puts an end both to that and to the law. For this Melchisedech was king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him: To whom also Abraham divided the tithes of all: who first indeed by interpretation, is king of justice: and then also king of Salem, that is, king of peace: Without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but likened unto the Son of God, continueth a priest for ever. Now consider how great this man is, to whom also Abraham the patriarch gave tithes out of the principal things. And indeed they that are of the sons of Levi, who receive the priesthood, have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is to say, of their brethren: though they themselves also came out of the loins of Abraham. Without father: Not that he had no father, etc., but that neither his father, nor his pedigree, nor his birth, nor his death, are set down in scripture. But he, whose pedigree is not numbered among them, received tithes of Abraham, and blessed him that had the promises. And without all contradiction, that which is less, is blessed by the better. And here indeed, men that die, receive thithes: but there he hath witness, that he liveth. And (as it may be said) even Levi who received tithes, paid tithes in Abraham: For he was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchisedech met him. If then perfection was by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should rise according to the order of Melchisedech, and not be called according to the order of Aaron? For the priesthood being translated, it is necessary that a translation also be made of the law. For he, of whom these things are spoken, is of another tribe, of which no one attended on the altar. For it is evident that our Lord sprung out of Juda: in which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning priests. And it is yet far more evident: if according to the similitude of Melchisedech there ariseth another priest, Who is made not according to the law of a carnal commandment, but according to the power of an indissoluble life: For he testifieth: Thou art a priest for ever, according to the order of Melchisedech. There is indeed a setting aside of the former commandment, because of the weakness and unprofitableness thereof: (For the law brought nothing to perfection,) but a bringing in of a better hope, by which we draw nigh to God. And inasmuch as it is not without an oath, (for the others indeed were made priests without an oath; But this with an oath, by him that said unto him: The Lord hath sworn, and he will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever.) By so much is Jesus made a surety of a better testament. And the others indeed were made many priests, because by reason of death they were not suffered to continue: But this, for that he continueth for ever, hath an everlasting priesthood, Whereby he is able also to save for ever them that come to God by him; always living to make intercession for us. Many priests: The apostle notes this difference between the high priests of the law, and our high priest Jesus Christ; that they being removed by death, made way for their successors; whereas our Lord Jesus is a priest for ever, and hath no successor; but liveth and concurreth for ever with his ministers, the priests of the new testament, in all their functions. Also, that no one priest of the law, nor all of them together, could offer that absolute sacrifice of everlasting redemption, which our one high priest Jesus Christ has offered once, and for ever. Make intercession: Christ, as man, continually maketh intercession for us, by representing his passion to his Father. For it was fitting that we should have such a high priest, holy, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens; Who needeth not daily (as the other priests) to offer sacrifices first for his own sins, and then for the people' s: for this he did once, in offering himself. For the law maketh men priests, who have infirmity: but the word of the oath, which was since the law, the Son who is perfected for evermore.
The Lady Astor Lady Astor Would be Proud 2 Guests, 1 Night – $269 ~ Check Availability A “pretty woman with a dirty face” — this is how British Lady Nancy Astor described Savannah in 1946. Much has changed since then, and Lady Astor would be proud. This room is located on the second floor of the West wing with an entrance off the large second floor shared veranda. The room features a working gas fireplace, a 32″ flat panel television, and a king-sized four-poster bed. The bathroom features a claw foot champagne bubble tub and shower combination.
Directors Guild Assistant Director July 3, 2012 — Kristina Massie, Film & Video student, wrote this article about her being accepted into the prestigious NY DGA Assistant Director Program. If you are interested in sharing a story in our newsletter please email Lisa at firstname.lastname@example.org For the past few years, I have been interested in applying to the DGA Assistant Directors Program in New York City and finally decided to move forward with my application. It was a long application process, beginning back in December, that consisted of a paper application; an online exam evaluating my problem solving skills, verbal ability, and critical thinking; an interview with a consulting firm; and a final interview with the DGA Board of Trustees. I found out the same day of the final interview that I was 1 of 5 trainees selected for the 2012 program starting this June. As a trainee, I am guaranteed 400 days of work over the next two years, and the automatic eligibility to become a 2nd AD in the DGA once I have graduated from the program. I was shocked to find out that I was picked out of the hundreds that had applied to the program. I have focused on assistant directing here at Drexel for the past two years, and have thoroughly enjoyed it. It is a position that relies heavily on communication, organizational skills, and leadership. My professors here at Drexel have taught me a lot in the classroom, but even more valuable than that, have encouraged me to get as much hands-on experience as I can by working on multiple student and professional projects. During my junior year co-op in the Spring and Summer of 2011, I worked in Los Angeles, CA. I worked as an intern at a management/production company in Beverly Hills called Echo Lake Entertainment, and in Los Angeles on the fifth season of the hit TV show, Mad Men. Through these experiences, I learned a lot about the industry and established confidence in my own abilities. Over the next two years as a trainee, I hope to learn as much as I can about what it takes to become a successful assistant director. Although my workweeks will average 70 hours, I want to excel in every task I am given and take advantage of every opportunity that comes my way. I hope to network with the cast and crew, so I will come out with great connections that may lead to future jobs. I can’t wait to start the program in a few weeks and get assigned my first job. I have to thank my wonderful family, professors, and friends for all the support they have given me over the past four years.
[staging] driver for adis16255 gyroscope mensch0815 at googlemail.com Thu Apr 29 00:54:08 PDT 2010 2010/4/28 Greg KH <gregkh at suse.de>: > On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 08:45:35PM +0200, matthias wrote: >> This drivers allows a communication with the Analog Devices ADIS16255 >> Low Power Gyroscope over SPI. > Why is this going to be a staging driver? Is there a problem with it > going into the main portion of the kernel now? - No one else has tested it, so I think if it stays in staging, others have the possibility to test it. - It has checkpatch issues - Odd stuff like the AD_CHK(_ss) macro - I'm not sure to which subsystem it should be added (maybe industrial io, but this is still staging. Any suggestions?) - Improvements of code on protocol hierarchy needed (e.g. shutdown device commands in remove function; it is not obvious which sample rate the device uses) > greg k-h More information about the devel
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Tables with many operations feel cluttered and focus is lost on the most common operation(s). For example, in the Views interface there are 4 possible operations, but "enable" is the most commonly used. Used to group related operations, most commonly used in tables. Other interfaces where there are multiple operations with one clear primary operation may also benefit from the drop button pattern. - Choose a sensible primary operation, the 80% operation. Often this is "edit". - Keep the task link text short; preferably 1 to 3 words. - Avoid similar labels such as "Edit menu" and "Edit menu links".
Wazir Agha: See the note inside. Baidar Bakht: An expert in constructing bridges, he is also engaged in an ambitious program of translating modern Urdu poetry in several volumes. Shelah S. Bhatti: Lives in Madison, Wl. Asif Aslam Farrukhi: Short story writer; writes on Urdu literature for several English journals in Karachi. Shamsur Rahman Faruqi: Critic and poet; founder/editor of Sabxun (Allahabad). Nida Fazli: Poet; lives in Bombay. Faruq Hassan: Poet and critic; teaches at Dawson College, Montreal. Zahida Hena: Lives in Karachi; another story by her appeared in the AUS ^4. Intizar Husain: Lives in Lahore; author of several novels and many volumes of short stories; Journal of South Asian Literature devoted a special issue to him, edited by M.U. Memon, in 1983. Wayne Husted: Lives in Madison, Wl. Muzaffar Iqbal: Has finished his first novel in Urdu which he typed using the Urdu word-processing program developed by Donald Becker; presently living in Canada and working on his second novel. Victor G. Kiernan: Distinguished translator of Iqbal and Faiz. Balraj Komal: Poet; recently won the Sahitya Akademi Award; teaches English in Delhi. Leslie Lavigne: Poet; lives in Montreal. Muhammad Umar Memon: Short story writer; teaches at the University of Wisconsin, Madison; has translated extensively from Urdu. Annual of Urdu Studies, #6 159
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I've always disliked ability damage for a multitude of reasons--the way they affect the RNG, their save-or-die status against specific enemies, and so on; does anyone have any suggestions for alternatives? Here are some suggestions that I came up with and from others that sound viable: - Make it deal either static damage for every ability damage taken (8-10 damage). - Target takes a -2 penalty to all checks associated with that ability score for a number of rounds equal to the amount of ability damage taken, as well as taking damage equal to their HD/level (perhaps 1/2 that?). More ability damage stacks for duration. Let me reiterate, I'm looking for viable alternatives, not for reasons why ability damage works as-is, or why it's retarded to change it. --Ghostwheel 01:19, January 20, 2010 (UTC) - Your 2nd example sorta works, but the first is essentially eliminating ability damage from the game instead of making it an interesting or distinct way to hurt people. Which is fine if you want every attack to take off from the same pool, it just seems boring to me. - An extension of your 2nd might be to make full on ability damage tracks, or stick a nasty status effect at the end. The former means you track how much they've taken, and assign scaling penalties based on that. So X Dex damage makes you slowed, 2X dex damage makes you held, and 3X Dex damage makes you petrified or whatever. This implementation takes more work, but suffers less random swings. The latter option means you have less points to track, but are just worried about when some line is crossed. So if you take Wis damage, you start making will saves (DC 20 or whatever, keep it static if you want high level players to be able to take more ability damage in the same way that they take more HP damage) with a penalty equal to half the Wis damage you've taken. If you fail your effective wisdom becomes 0 and you become insane until healed or regened or whatever. Either of these could be added on to your second option above without much work, and would serve to keep ability damage more unique than just another way to plink away at a guy until he's dead or just a minor penalty that lasted for a while. - TarkisFlux 02:27, January 20, 2010 (UTC) - A good suggestion, thanks! The only thing is that I'm trying to add it to the game I'm currently running, and monsters don't have ability scores per se, and I'm trying to stay away from effects that could (in theory) insta-kill characters, so it doesn't work so well. Anything else come to mind with the above? --Ghostwheel 04:50, January 20, 2010 (UTC) - Nope. Go with option 2, adjust the damage in some way. - TarkisFlux 05:09, January 20, 2010 (UTC) - Level of target in damage per point of damage dealt sounds good nod, thanks --Ghostwheel 05:17, January 20, 2010 (UTC) - I think I'd actually go half level unless you hit a primary attribute. So rogue's take it in the teeth from dex damage, wizards cry when their int is sapped, clerics suffer worse for wisdom, etc. It helps to keep the various ability damage forms less interchangeable, but that may not be a goal for you. - TarkisFlux 05:28, January 20, 2010 (UTC) - Also, damage = level means that you're tying ability damage limits to hit dice fairly directly. So wizards are going to fall dead from 4-6 points of attribute damage and barbarians will take 8-12. Which I don't like at all, but I don't like the damage = direct damage (fixed or some number of whatever dice, a la option 1) either for the issues that it brings to low levels (any attribute damage = dead). I got nothin on this one, just pointing out the behavior. You should pick the method that better matches the behavior you want. - TarkisFlux 05:34, January 20, 2010 (UTC) - In truth, this would be more for PCs who damage monsters, rather than the other way around since monsters will default to actual penalizing abilities or pure damage--so instead of inflicting actual Int damage (which can screw a caster over for the rest of the day) the monster might reduce the DCs of any abilities used by two, increase the casting time, or reduce the damage of magical effects by half or to minimum die dealt--whatever fits. This is more so that I don't have to recalculate half the monster's stats every time ability damage is dealt, so that they don't wander too far on the RNG, and so that if they are forced to wander towards the bottom of the RNG, so that they aren't made useless for the rest of the fight. - Do you have any suggestions on how to do something similar with negative levels? Perhaps -2 to all checks for two rounds for every negative level dealt, and take twice your level in damage? Throwing out the first idea that comes to mind... --Ghostwheel 05:41, January 20, 2010 (UTC) - That's basically what they already do, just twice as strong or so on the damage (which also eliminates the need to track them to see when a guy falls dead from them) and capped on the modifier (which you're already doing for tracking ease). Which is fine I guess, since you're turning up the pain from ability damage as well. I don't like it, because I don't like rules that change based on PC/NPC target (and even if they don't, these rules are not an improvement for PCs), but it should work well enough for your purposes (which I assume is to apply these efects to those mini-monster stat blocks on your Grimoire page). - TarkisFlux 21:26, January 21, 2010 (UTC)
A stab wound to the heart killed a man early Christmas morning in a house on County Road 125 near Wildcat Canyon Road. “The autopsy Wednesday showed that a knife hit the heart,” La Plata County Sheriff’s Investigator Kevin Brown said Wednesday. “It caused him to bleed out.” Authorities were alerted to the stabbing of Robby Schindeldecker about 1 a.m., Brown said. Brown declined to say anything further about the weapon, possible multiple wounds, suspects or a motive. He said he is interviewing people who were at the house. The District Attorney’s Office will bring charges when the time comes, Brown said. Schindeldecker, 43, died as he had lived – violently. In May 1998, Schindeldecker was sentenced to 15 years in prison for raping a woman on Animas City Mountain on Jan. 4, 1996. He had pleaded guilty to the charge in September 1996. But, free on $25,000 bond, he fled before his scheduled sentencing the next month. Schindeldecker dodged the law until April 1998 when he was arrested in Estancia, N.M., about 40 miles southeast of Albuquerque on charges of battery, carrying a concealed weapons and concealing his identify. New Mexico returned Schindeldecker to Colorado. The battery charge in New Mexico stemmed from the alleged assault on a disabled woman friend of his live-in girlfriend. When he was arrested, he was carrying a .38-caliber handgun, 19 knives and several martial arts weapons. In the La Plata County rape, he assaulted a 39-year-old jogger. District Court Judge Timothy Patalan, who sentenced Schindeldecker, received 15 to 20 letters from the public. About half the writers said rape wasn’t in keeping with Schindeldecker’s nature. The others said he was a criminal who should spend time in prison.
There are many ways to effectively teach a dog. Not so long ago, most of the accepted methods for training were forceful or aversive. Unfortunately, some of these methods still are in use among the abusive and uneducated. One of the pioneers of gentle training techniques was Barbara Woodhouse. This English dog trainer was instrumental in paving the way for today’s nonaversive and positive methods of training. She was a genius at molding behaviors with lures and gently “modeling” a dog into positions without force. But even Woodhouse used some techniques that can be considered rough by today’s standards. If you have researched dog-training methodologies at all, you probably have noticed that a percentage of the available training books advocate the use of a “choke chain” (otherwise called the training collar). When used properly, this training device relies on aversion to get the dog’s attention or to make a correction when your dog doesn’t respond to a command correctly. A sharp snap of the leash tightens the collar around the dog’s neck, startling the dog with a momentary, low-level pain. The choke chain is not a training device for leash pullers, as is commonly thought, and when used incorrectly can, at the least, cause misalignment of the spine and trachea damage. At worst, it can cause brain damage and even death. Because there is such a high risk for misuse of this device (you may not realize that the choke chain should be worn with the free ring up, for instance), the training world probably would be much better off without it. Your efforts to train your dog should focus on building a bond and nurturing trust. This bond becomes the motivator that drives your dog to learn, focus and respond. Why would anyone want to use force or violence when positive reinforcement works so well? Why should your dog trust you if he knows that you are likely to hit him when he is unfocused or confused? That’s like your supervisor yelling at you when you have problems with a difficult task. Stress won’t help you concentrate or focus better. Abusive treatment of dogs in the name of training, just as abusive handling of employees in the name of supervision, doesn’t work. It does, however, tell us a lot about the trainer. For any method of dog training to be successful, it must be: Effective – If it’s not effective, what’s the point? Efficient – Both you and your dog will become frustrated if training takes too long. Enjoyable – Fun is an important ingredient in motivating both you and your dog. The proper execution of any training program is dependent on these three ingredients. But, ultimately, the most important ingredient in your training program is you, the owner. The trust you nurture in your dog will be evident in his willingness to look to you for leadership and his motivation to work with you in any and all situations. Those qualities are in your dog right now but cannot be developed through the use of harsh training methods. Dog training can be whatever you want it to be. If you rely on anger and force, the relationship and trust will suffer. If you rely on motivation and reward, while providing appropriate consequences for misdeeds, training just gets better and better. Julie Winkelman is a certified pet dog trainer and a certified dog trainer. Reach her at www.alphacanineacademy.com.
A 2012 survey conducted by the Association for Pet Obesity Prevention found 52.5 percent of dogs and 58.3 percent of cats to be overweight or obese by their veterinarian. This translates to nearly 80 million dogs and cats in America with a weight problem. Dr. George Banta, chair of the Veterinary Technology department at Brown Mackie College - Akron and Dr. Mary Jo Wagner, attending veterinarian at Argosy University, Twin Cities, offer useful information for pet owners. How can you tell if your pet is overweight? “It’s not the number of pounds, it’s how the animal carries the weight,” says Banta. “The number on the Body Condition Score is more important than pounds.” The Body Condition Score offers a way to assess the condition of an animal, usually on a scale from one to five, taking into account height, weight, and relative proportions of muscle and fat. With a little knowledge, you can use sight and touch to figure your pet’s general condition. “When looking down on a dog or cat from above,” says Banta, “the body should slim to a discernable waist. An animal is too thin if you can see the spine or ribs; however, you should be able to feel them beneath the fur.” An animal of ideal weight will also display a pelvic tuck when viewed from the side. “Just like humans, when animals overeat, they face increased risk for health problems like diabetes, heart disease, gastrointestinal problems and cancer,” continues Banta. In fact, these risks also include a shortened life expectancy. Many owners feed pets according to the manufacturer’s suggested amounts; however, this instruction may not be right for your pet. “These guidelines are meant to cover all animals of a certain weight range,” says Wagner. “An owner must consider the age and activity level of each pet. The more active they are, the more calories they will burn in a day.” Metabolism rates vary in animals the same way they do in people. Metabolism is the body process in which food is broken down for energy; another factor that affects the amount of food a pet needs. Wagner advises owners to keep an eye on body condition to judge whether a pet is eating properly. “If your pet shows signs of being overweight, simply cut back the amount of food given at each meal. Then weigh the pet in two or three weeks to see if it has made a difference,” she says. Choosing the right food for your pet is important as well. Different brands of pet food contain varying amounts of protein, fat, carbohydrates and calories. “As a general rule, young, active dogs need high protein food,” says Wagner. “Older dogs need higher fiber to keep the gastrointestinal (GI) tract moving.” Ingredients listed on the package appear in descending order of volume; the first item on the list is most abundant in the food. Most of us love to give treats, but many of us don’t realize how many we offer each day. “A 40-pound dog is one quarter the size of a 160-pound person,” Wagner says. “They have smaller stomachs. Look at calories in everything your pet eats. After that, it’s simple math.” “Table scraps are a definite no. Zip, zilch, nada,” says Banta. “They are not good for two reasons. First, foods like chocolate, caffeine, grapes and raisins can be toxic to dogs. Second, the high fat content associated with table scraps, especially holiday trimmings, can lead to the onset of acute pancreatitis, which can be fatal.” He recommends offering a kibble of food or a carrot instead of a cookie. If you must give cookies, try breaking them in half. “Pets do enjoy treats as a reward; however, attention from you is also a reward. It’s important to praise animals. In some ways, spending time with them is better than a treat,” Wagner says.
The organizer skill is used by the manager noble to manage work orders in the Manager menu. Work orders will not be started until they are "verified" by the manager. However, until your population reaches 20, the manager doesn't need an office, and all orders are verified as soon as they are issued. Note that work orders which are verified instantly do not grant experience. The Organizer must work in an office to gain skill. Greater skill allows faster work order verification. Verify - Performing the "Manage Work Orders" task when in an office.Verify - Work orders provide 10*(number of items in order) of skill points to organizer skill upon verification by the manager.
Molly Ball gets the Michele Bachmann campaign to acknowledge on the record what had become clear in New Hampshire — the Granite State is not a high priority for her: “Iowa is our main focus right now, secondly is South Carolina,” Bachmann spokeswoman Alice Stewart said in an email. “We do plan to build on our efforts in New Hampshire in due time.” The locals already suspected they were being blown off. “People are baffled by the fact she hasn’t been here since before the straw poll,” said former state GOP chairman Fergus Cullen, who penned a column for the Union Leader over the weekend on the subject. “Activists notice when she’s campaigning in Florida and making two trips to South Carolina but isn’t scheduled to make any visits to New Hampshire.” There isn't a massive evangelical space in the GOP primary in the state, but her forfeiture of it allows Rick Perry to pick up extra points there, and among conservatives who put a premium on social issues. And the closer Perry gets in the state to Mitt Romney, who will see Jon Huntsman and, potentially, Rudy Giuliani trying to trim his numbers with moderate voters, the better off he is.
After spending tens of millions of dollars to defeat Democrats, U.S. Chamber of Commerce president Tom Donohue moved Wednesday to assure his board of directors that Washington’s biggest business lobby can still work with President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats. “Since the elections, we’ve been asked whether the Chamber will be able to work with the administration and those in Congress who criticized us. The answer is, of course we can. It’s already happening,” Donohue said in a speech to his board of directors, his first public remarks in the States since Election Day. “This is not personal with us, the whole question of how we get along. It’s about representing our members,” he said. For instance, he said, Chamber and top White House officials worked last week on Obama’s failed push to reach a free-trade agreement with South Korea. The Chamber will launch a major initiative to sell the public and policymakers on how global trade creates American jobs. Still, Donohue spent most of the speech outlining how the Chamber will beef up to fight some of Obama’s signature achievements, including health care and Wall Street reforms. Donohue railed against the “regulatory tsunami” created by the Obama administration. For example, the new health care law creates 183 agencies, commissions and panels while Wall Street reform calls for 540 new and suggested rules. For months, the Chamber has criticized the Democrats’ regulatory push, arguing that many of the new rules are unnecessary, costly and create uncertainty in the market, which is keeping companies from investing and hiring. “This is where government is going. Regulation is the vehicle by which some seek to control our economy, our businesses and our very lives – and left unchecked, it will fundamentally weaken our nation’s capacity to create jobs and opportunity,” Donohue said. To amplify that message, the Chamber will start a new group aimed at painting regulations as a tax on the American people. Pressed after his speech to explain the new group, Donohue offered few details, saying only that the work will be done using existing Chamber staff. Donohue said the Chamber will also push to renew the Bush tax cuts, rebuild the nation’s infrastructure, improve public education and fight efforts requiring the Chamber, and groups like it, to disclose more information about their donors.
On this day in 1951, more than six years after the end of World War II in Europe, President Harry S. Truman signed a proclamation officially ending U.S. hostilities with Germany. The official end to the war came nine years, 10 months and 13 days after Congress had declared war on Nazi Germany. The lawmakers had responded to a declaration of war issued by the Third Reich in the aftermath of the Dec. 7, 1941, Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and other U.S. bases in the Pacific. The president explained why he had waited so long after the fighting had ended to act: It had always been America’s hope, Truman wrote, to create a treaty of peace with the government of a united and free Germany, but the postwar policies pursued by the Soviet Union “made it impossible.” After the war, the United States, Britain, France and the Soviet Union divided Germany into four zones of occupation. Berlin, while located wholly within the Soviet zone, was jointly occupied by the wartime allies and also subdivided into four sectors because of its symbolic importance as the nation’s historic capital and seat of the former Nazi government. The three western zones were merged to form the Federal Republic of Germany in May 1949, and the Soviets followed suit in October 1949 with the establishment of the German Democratic Republic. The East German regime began to falter in May 1989, when the removal of Hungary’s border fences punched a hole in the Iron Curtain, allowing tens of thousands of East Germans to flee to the West. Despite the grants of general sovereignty to both German states in 1955, neither of the two German governments held unrestricted sovereignty under international law until after they were reunified in October 1990.
DWT’s David Oxenford and Rob Driscoll Present Seminar on The Basics of Music Licensing In Digital Media: Issues to Think About When Using Music in the Digital World, Including In Connection With User Generated Content Davis Wright Tremaine attorneys David Oxenford and Rob Driscoll conducted a seminar - Using Music in Digital Media: Business and Legal Issues - on June 16, 2010 in New York City. The seminar was presented to attorneys from committees of the New York State and New York City bar associations. In the seminar, Dave and Rob discussed the music licensing issues that can arise when music is used in digital media - touching on everything from royalties for the streaming of music by Internet radio stations, to the use of music in video productions or in advertisements that may be displayed online, to the occasional use of music by a business on its website to enhance the "stickiness" of that site. The PowerPoint presentation from the seminar is available here. Many of the issues that were covered in the seminar are discussed in Dave and Rob's memo the on The Basics of Using Music in Digital Media, available by clicking on this link. Another topic that was discussed was the use of music in user-generated content, and how website operators can avoid liability that may arise from the posting on their sites of content using music and other copyrighted materials by users over whom the site owner has no control. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act provides protection for those who host sites where such content is posted, but certain formalities need to be observed by the site owner to insure that they receive the law's full protection. Site owners cannot encourage the posting of copyrighted content unless the appropriate clearances have been obtained, they cannot have actual knowledge of the infringing content, they cannot receive a direct financial benefit from the infringement, and they must act promptly to remove infringing content if notified that it is on their site. To make this notification possible, to provide a "safe harbor" under the DMCA, a website owner needs to place a notice on its website in a "location accessible to the public," and register with the Copyright Office, the name of a person to be contacted by a copyright owner if the owner finds its content being used on the site without permission. This notice must provide the contact person's address, phone number and email address. Information about registering the contact person with the Copyright Office, a list of those website operators who have registered, and a link to the form to be used to register a contact person, can be found here.
Survey data is a snapshot of a population, a moment captured in numbers, like vital signs: height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, etc. People build trend lines and watch for changes, shifting strategies as they make educated guesses about what’s going on. What’s holding steady? What’s spiking? What’s on the decline? Just as a thermometer makes no judgment, the Pew Research Center provides data about the changing world around us. We don’t advocate for outcomes or recommend policies. Rather, we provide an updated record so that others can make those pronouncements and recommendations based on facts. The latest in our health research series is being released today. Health Online 2013 finds that internet access and interest in online health resources are holding steady in the U.S. For a quick overview, read on… What is new? 1 in 3 U.S. adults use the internet to diagnose themselves or someone else – and a clinician is more likely than not to confirm their suspicions. This is the first time we – or anyone else – has measured this in a straightforward, national survey question. 1 in 4 people looking online for health info have hit a pay wall. This is the first data I know of that begins to answer the important question: what is the public impact of closed-access journals? We added three new health topics: - 11% of internet users have looked online for information about how to control their health care costs. - 14% of internet users have looked online for information about caring for an aging relative or friend. - 16% of internet users have looked online for information about a drug they saw advertised. (A full list of all the health topics we’ve included, 2002-10, is available here.) What has changed? The percentage of people who have consulted online reviews of drugs and medical treatments dropped (and I don’t know why — do you have a theory? Please post a comment.) Related: why aren’t health care review sites catching on? Pew Internet has tracked a boom in consumer reviews of other services and products — why not health care? What to keep an eye on? One of my favorite survey questions is asked of all adults and attempts to capture a broad portrait of health care resources that someone might tap into when they’re sick. It’s a useful question for keeping online resources in perspective. I think it’s also going to prove useful in the coming years as the landscape shifts and people have more opportunities to connect with clinicians online. How fast will that ”Yes, online” group grow? Or will care always be hands-on at its core — and therefore we should see growth in the “Yes, both” category? Speaking of keeping things in perspective, I think it’s important to remind ourselves that there are pockets of people who remain offline. Internet access drives information access. Here’s a table from the Appendix that digs even deeper: In other words, 64% of college educated adults in the U.S. have researched a specific disease online, compared with just 16% of U.S. adults who have not completed high school. These are just a few highlights — please read the report, ask questions, and tell us what you think: How’s the patient doing, based on this new set of vital signs? What do you prescribe?
Fewer rare sea turtles will die on the swordfish industry's longlines in Hawaii under an agreement between environmental groups and the government. The agreement settles a lawsuit challenging the federal government's plans that would have dramatically increase the number of turtles that could be killed. The Turtle Island Restoration Network, Center for Biological Diversity and KAHEA sued the National Marine Fisheries Service for allowing 46 imperiled Pacific loggerhead turtles to be hooked last year. The new court-ordered settlement caps the number at 17 per year. Meanwhile the National Marine Fisheries Service is weighing whether loggerheads need more protection under the Endangered Species Act. "It made absolutely no sense to have one arm of the National Marine Fisheries Service increasing the lethal capture of loggerheads, while the other arm is in the process of determining whether loggerheads should be uplisted from threatened to endangered," said Todd Steiner, biologist and executive director of Turtle Island Restoration Network. "With extinction looming, these animals need more protection, not less." "With this decision, Hawaii's public-trust ocean resources can be better managed for our collective best interest, and not just the interests of this commercial fishery," said KAHEA program director Marti Townsend. "This is a victory not just for the turtles, but for Hawaii's people who rely on a healthy, functioning ocean ecosystem." Conservation groups represented by Earthjustice filed a federal lawsuit challenging a 2009 rule allowing the swordfish fleet to catch nearly three times as many loggerhead sea turtles as previously permitted. This settlement freezes the number at the previous cap of 17 while the government conducts additional environmental studies and decides whether or not to classify the loggerhead as endangered, rather than its current, less-protective status of threatened. For leatherback turtles, the bycatch limit remains at 16 per year. In 2010, eight Pacific leatherbacks and seven loggerheads were caught in the longline fishery, according to the National Marine Fisheries Service. There have already been 4 loggerheads captured in 2011, which has sea turtle conservationists concerned. "Sea turtles have been swimming the oceans since the time of dinosaurs. But without a change in management, they won't survive our voracious quest for swordfish and tuna," said Miyoko Sakashita, oceans director at the Center for Biological Diversity. "If loggerheads are going to survive in the North Pacific, we need to stop killing them in our fisheries." "Pacific loggerhead sea turtles are nearly extinct, so this bycatch rollback helps right a serious wrong," said Teri Shore, program director at Turtle Island Restoration Network. "We can't allow these rare sea turtles to disappear for a plate of swordfish. It's tragic that it took a lawsuit to correct this fishery problem." Swordfish longline vessels trail up to 60 miles of fishing line suspended in the water with floats, with as many as 1,000 baited hooks deployed at regular intervals. Sea turtles become hooked while trying to take bait or become entangled while swimming through the nearly invisible lines. These encounters can drown the turtles or leave them with serious injuries. Sea birds such as albatross dive for the bait and become hooked; marine mammals, including endangered humpback whales and false killer whales, also sometimes become hooked when they swim through the floating lines.
Merlin is the only UK specialist Non Governmental Organisation (NGO) which responds worldwide, with vital healthcare and medical relief for vulnerable people affected by natural disasters, conflict and healthcare collapse. Each year, Merlin assists more than 15 million people, in up to 20 countries. Merlin Kenya programme is currently seeking to recruit highly skilled professionals with significant working experience to fill the following vacant The successful applicant will join our field team in Nyanza province based in Kisii. Project Health Coordinator The Project Health Coordinator will have overall responsibility for the technical quality of Merlin’s projects in Nyanza Province. In particular, the successful applicant will have the following key responsibilities: • In collaboration with district health authorities, design and implement quality HIV/TB care and treatment services • Provide technical support to malaria control activities in the larger Kisii region. • Coordinate with the MOPHS/MOMS and other stakeholders to ensure that the programme remains in line with national priorities and strategies, does not duplicate efforts and attains sustainability. • Ensure timely data collection, analysis and use in preparation of progress reports. • Strengthen monitoring and evaluation systems and standards to ensure the programme meets its expected outputs, objectives and overall aim. •Organise and carry out training and mentorship for health workers to ensure adequate capacity to deliver high quality services • Represent Merlin in various technical forums at district,provincial and national levels. Minimum Qualifications and Experience: • Medical doctor with post-graduate training in a relevant field (congruent with above tasks) • Registered with the Kenya Medical Practioners and Dentists Board • Previous experience in HIV/AIDS programmes desirable. • Proof of up-to-date training on various technical areas of HIV/AIDS care and treatment • Experience of working for NGOs or donor-funded programme • Previous experience of training and mentoring health service providers. • Knowledge of MOH systems including reporting tools • Strong monitoring and evaluation skills • Proficient in computer application packages • Excellent communication and report writing skills Interested candidates should send their letter of application and detailed CV to the address below by 4th June 2010. Due to the urgency of these positions, applications will be considered as they come and the vacancies may be filled before the stated deadline. Merlin, Kenya Programme P.O. Box 3350-00200, Nairobi Email addresses: firstname.lastname@example.org and copied to : email@example.com More Jobs and Vacancies in East Africa available here
Authentic Japanese food!!!. I'm so happy to find this place. The food is amazing delicious. Great portions for a reasonable price. The sashimi is so fresh. Tasty miso soup! There are many unique dishes that you don't find in a typical Japanese restaurant. Great Japanese food at very reasonable prices!. Kabuki is one of my favorite Japanese restaurants. The food is always fresh and tasty. The 2- and 3-item combos are very reasonable. The extra side dishes that come with the 3-item combo are very nice surprises. The sushi is extremely good. Everything is delicious and I've tried most items on the menu. The atmosphere is quiet so if you want to enjoy conversation while dining, this is the place! The tatami room is beautiful and brings the feel of being in Japan. Great Food, Price @ Kabuki. This restaurant was great. I had dinner for 2 with a large beer for only $30. the meals came with a complimentary ice cream dessert too! The Japanese lady was great and the rest. decoration was very japanese, simple, nice. there is a tatami room. I'll go there again.
My hubby and his buddies camp out every year at Daytona for the Rolex 24. It’s 24 hours of watching cars go fast, enjoying libations, and most importantly, eating. Last year, our good friend Skippy brought this casserole to have for breakfast , and my hubby brought back the recipe. It’s a hardy breakfast best enjoyed after a long night, but will also impress any Holiday house guests that maybe looking for a great breakfast from a wonderful host. It can be a bit on the spicy side, so for the not-so-big-a-fan of heat first thing in the morning, use mild Rotel and unseasoned hashbrowns. - 1 20 oz package refrigerated Southwestern flavor hashbrowns - 1 10.75 oz can cream of mushroom soup - 1 10 oz can Rotel - 1 small onion, chopped - 1 lb cooked, crumbled sausage - 1/2 cup sour cream - 2 cups shredded cheddar cheese - 2 cups Cornflakes - 2 tbsp melted butter Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a large mixing bowl, combine first seven ingredients and mix well. Pour into a greased 13×9 baking dish. Mix together cornflakes and melted butter. Spread evenly on top of hashbrown mixture and bake in preheated oven for 45 minutes. Let cool 10 minutes before serving. Enjoy!
Police are hoping the public can help identify two suspects in connection with an assault in an elevator on August 11. Silent Witness Sgt. Darren Burch said in a news release that a suspect followed a 21-year-old white male into an elevator at the W-6 Townhomes located at 212 West 6th Street in Tempe at approximately 2:07 a.m. The victim was punched repeatedly by the suspect rendering him unconscious. The suspect continued punching the victim approximately 15 times despite being defenseless, according to Burch. The suspect is described as a white male in his early 20s, six feet tall with a medium build, with short brown hair. He was wearing a blue t-shirt with an unknown white logo. A second person of interest who met with the suspect in the lobby after the crime is described as a black male in his early 20s, also six feet tall with a medium build. He was wearing a white t-shirt. Silent Witness offers a reward up to $1,000, anyone with information is encouraged contact Silent Witness at 480-WITNESS (480 948-6377) or on our website at silentwitness.org.
The landmark Sheraton San Marcos Resort and Country Club in Chandler, known to attract the rich and famous, has been shut down since Tuesday after the discovery of a potentially fatal bacteria that infected an elderly man. Management for the historic hotel brought in an environmental testing service after they were recently served legal papers charging that an elderly man contracted Legionnaires’ disease while staying at the resort. The man, who does not live in Arizona, stayed at the country club about six months ago, said Gary Stougaard, executive vice president for Sun Stone Hotel Properties. Stougaard said he does not know how many people have stayed at the resort in the past six months, but added there are no reports of guests falling ill with the disease. The popular hotel and golf resort learned Tuesday that a boiler in the east wing of the resort tested positive for Legionella pneumophila, a bacteria that can cause Legionnaires’ disease. Stougaard would not say why information was not released to the public sooner. San Marcos reported the detection of Legionella to the Maricopa County Department of Public Health on Thursday, said Doug Hauth, spokesman for the department. Since then, the department has been looking through records for reports of Legionnaires’ disease from doctors’ offices or medical facilities over the past six months. But so far, no reports have been found, he said. The possible exposure at San Marcos could be an isolated incident, Hauth said. Infected people would have reported the flulike symptoms and pneumonia associated with the illness, which appear within 10 days, he said. Full-blown Legionnaires’, which is what the man reported to San Marcos, lands people in the hospital. "If it had been a true outbreak, you would have known by now," Hauth said. Legionellosis, commonly known as Legionnaires’ disease, can develop from exposure to the common bacteria, Legionella. Infection occurs through the respiratory system, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Those with compromised immune systems, middleaged and older people, and smokers are most susceptible to the disease, which infects 8,000 to 18,000 people in the United States each year. An estimated 5 percent to 30 percent die from Legionnaires’, according to the CDC. Reports of the disease are rare in Arizona, Hauth said. Employees have continued to work at the resort. A hotline, staffed with health professionals, has been set up for them. A similar hotline for visitors has not been set up, Stougaard said. And there is no effort under way to contact former guests, he added. Hotel guests were quickly relocated after learning of the bacteria, Stougaard said. Testing continued throughout the resort, which will remain closed until it is safe to reopen, he said. He did not know how many people were staying at the resort when they temporarily closed their doors, but he estimated that the building was 30 percent to 40 percent full. Environmental crews will "superheat" the water in the boiler that pumps chlorine through the plumbing system for two days to kill the bacteria, Stougaard said. After disinfecting the boilers, health crews will conduct more tests to determine if the resort is safe to reopen. Stougaard said he expects the hotel to be back in business within 10 days. The San Marcos Resort, which has lost some of its luster over the years, has spent $6 million renovating itself into one of the East Valley’s historic jewels. Legionnellosis, or Legionnaires’ disease • Infects 8,000 to 18,000 people in the United States each year • Symptoms include fever, chills and cough. • Bacteria is found in many water systems. • Exposure comes from breathing bacteria-contaminated mists from a water source. • Disease is not spread from person to person. • Time between exposure and onset of disease is two to 10 days. • Recommended treatment is the antibiotic Erythromycin. Source: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
I had a really good run on Tuesday. According to my training schedule, I was supposed to do a 2 mile easy run but I felt so good that I decided to do the next day’s tempo run instead. I ran 5 miles and I could have run more but I had to get home and get some work done. This is what I did: - 1 @ 10:00 - 3 @ 9:06 - 1 @ 9:40 I haven’t been able to run five consecutive miles, much less maintain a 9:06 pace for 3 miles in a long time. I didn’t stop to walk and I didn’t stop for “other things.” It was amazing. While I was on the treadmill, I really wished I had worn my special occasion rip-away clothes, because I was all like… Wednesday, I went to the gym to do the easy run I skipped the day before. The schedule was 2 miles at a 10:43 pace which, on the crappiest of days, is a little on the slow side for me unless I’m running long. Knowing I was only supposed to do two slower miles must have helped me mentally because once I got going, I felt so good that I ended up running 3 miles and increased my speed for every mile (9:40 average). Then I was all like… After two awesome runs, I was super psyched for my first long run in awhile on Saturday morning. Third times a charm, right? First I had to get through Friday’s Crossfit workout. (Not the best idea before a long run, by the way.) No equipment needed for that workout. We did the burpees for 25 feet, which I think equaled to about 10 of them (I wasn’t counting). I was, however, waddling instead of walking afterwards because my legs were so weak. When my trainer told me what I’d be doing beforehand, I thought it sounded easy. It wasn’t. Trust me. It didn’t take long to do but it was super tiring and my butt was sore the next day. Saturday morning, I met my group for a long run. I had eight miles on the schedule but was willing to do ten if I was feeling good. I haven’t run long in at least five weeks, so hopefully that will give you some indication of how it went. Four miles in, I wanted to turn back but the whole group was going a different direction and it was still pitch black out. I received this email from my old group a few days earlier, so I decided I’d rather run some seriously shitty miles than get molested. WARNING! We need to be on the lookout for “the weird Brazilian kick boxer guy” (yes, that’s what we call him). He likes to touch women and will just jump in and start running with any group. Call the police immediately if you see him (you’ll know him) and remember to NEVER run alone, even in beautiful Winter Park! So, this means, if you break away from the group for some reason, be sure someone is with you!! By the time it was light out and I felt comfortable breaking away from the group, I was eight miles into the run and four miles away from my car. So that meant I had no choice but to do them. I ran 11 miles, walked one, and stopped my Garmin whenever I walked. I’m really surprised I had a 10:33 average pace. It was so humid, I expected it to be worse. Either way, it was a terrible run and I hope next week goes better. And now for the drama… I hate my new running group. So much. I mean, I like that it’s a faster group and that my friend Brad is in it but I hate everything else. One of the pace leaders doesn’t give a shit who he leaves behind. He just keeps running and doesn’t watch out for people who may be having bad days. I was left behind at a water stop Saturday morning. It was dark out and I didn’t know the route, so I was really lucky that Brad knew where he was going so we could catch up. The other pace leader never finishes with the group. He lives in the neighborhoods we run through, so he always leaves at some point and runs back home and no one knows where he is. Honestly, the only thing keeping me in the group is Brad. I love running with him because we are basically pace twins and he keeps me motivated. (Our half marathon PRs are exactly the same – down to the second. And we ran them in different races.) So, I’m not sure what to do. Go back to my old, slower, Brad-less group that I love and possibly not improve my speed? Or stop being a complaining jerkface and just run in the new, faster group with Brad and try to ignore the fact that the pace leaders suck and start bringing GPS for when (not if) I get lost?
Chief Keef continues to make headlines for all the wrong reasons, as another decision by the young Chicago emcee has caused controversy. Reports Hip Hop DX: Keef tweeted an Instagram photo of him and an unidentified woman engaged in a sexual act. This is the latest in a string of controversial moves from Keef, including laughing at fellow Chicago rapper JoJo’s death (which he would later deny doing), and threatening to smack Lupe Fiasco. Keef’s reactions triggered a police probe, though nothing has come of it yet. This is EbenGregory.com…first telling you that under federal law (18 U.S.C. 2256), child pornography is defined as any visual depiction, including any photograph, film, video, picture, or computer or computer-generated image or picture, whether made or produced by electronic, mechanical, or other means, of sexually explicit conduct, where * the production of the visual depiction involves the use of a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct; or * the visual depiction is a digital image, computer image, or computer-generated image that is, or is indistinguishable from, that of a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct; or * the visual depiction has been created, adapted, or modified to appear that an identifiable minor is engaging in sexually explicit conduct. This is EbenGregory.com…telling you young blood already has the feds on his back and he gave them another reason to sit right next to him. PS, child porn, that’s the sh*t WE DONT LIKE!
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Researchers and theorists in the Transhumanist movement will meet in Melbourne Australia this May to bring together thinkers from across the world to explore the implications of a broad range of emerging technologies poised to transform the ways in which we live. The conference will address topics in AI, robotics, genetics, nanotechnology, biotechnology, life extension and the technological singularity. Speakers will include; Dr Aubrey de Grey Chief Science Officer of the SENS Foundation, artist and designer Natasha Vita-More director of the Transhumanist Arts and Culture World Center and president of the Extropy Institute and many others. We have seen all too often in the media times when new technologies are presented in an inaccurate or sensational way leading to public misunderstandings and fear. Interestingly one of the main goals of the conference is to strategize methods for ensuring that the increased public awareness of these ideas and technologies are presented in a positive light. Find Out More www.hplusconf.com.au
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Some of my fellow micks have been very good at drip feeding you poor people panel after panel of artwork from a single sample of comics. (I'm looking at you Sliney!) I, on the other hand, am willing to share an entire Moleskin sketchbook with ya, here's just ONE image from the entire 100-and-something pages of sketches... The entire set is here. So, apparently, iPhoto is very cleverly linked to flickr in that, if you delete photos from iPhoto (because, you know, you need the storage space and sure you already have those photos on flickr so it doesn't matter) iPhoto will then synchronise the deletion of those photos with flickr, thereby deleting them from flickr too. Very clever. Very fucking clever, I don't think. Argh. Apologies. I've lost the entire 56 photo set of sketchbook pages, I will try and get them back - but I suspect the only way to do that is to repeat the entire taking the photos thing again - and that was mad just doing it once.
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Yes. But don’t take my word for it. Instead, check out this new working paper by Sam Schulhofer-Wohl and Miguel Garrido, both at Princeton. The authors present a case study of the consequences of closing a newspaper — in this situation, The Cincinnati Post, which published its last edition on Dec. 31, 2007. They argue that the closing of The Post — which left the Cincinnati Enquirer as the area’s only daily — has led to lower voter turnout, fewer candidates running for municipal office in the suburbs most reliant on The Post, and greater re-election chances for incumbents. The study looked at only the Kentucky suburbs of Cincinnati, since the Ohio suburbs had not had regular municipal elections since The Post closed. Reading through newspaper archives, the authors noted which Kentucky suburbs had received the most coverage from The Post as opposed to The Enquirer. They then compared changes in political outcomes before and after The Post’s closure in suburbs that received relatively more or less coverage from that paper. As it turned out, those areas in which The Post had dominated coverage had less democratically “vibrant” elections in 2008 (after The Post had closed) than did their Enquirer-dominated counterparts. Mr. Schulhofer-Wohl, an economics and public affairs professor, and Mr. Garrido, who appears to be an undergraduate (according to Princeton’s Web site), call their work “statistically imprecise.” Still, they say: [O]ur findings suggest that even a small newspaper — the Post sold about 27,000 copies daily in 2007, compared with 200,000 for the Enquirer — can make local politics more vibrant. Although competing publications or other media such as TV, radio and blogs may take up some slack when a newspaper closes, none of these appears so far to have fully filled the Post’s role in municipal politics in northern Kentucky.
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Minti , an international networking site for parents, has officially launched after completing the public beta programme it started in March. Calling itself an ‘advice-opedia’ for parents worldwide, the site claims to have signed up “hundreds of thousands of members” for its user-generated content and other Web 2.0 features. Owned by Australia-based Vibe Capital, it also claims to be in talks to license its technology to other online community start-ups, as well as considering the launch of more social networking ventures in other vertical sectors. Minti’s features include shared parenting advice, social ranking of content, free blogs and user-created sub groups. It has also adopted user tagging and tag clouds, private lounge areas, RSS feeds and a Q&A function. "Minti is just starting to get a feel for the Web 2.0 space and what may be possible,” said its co-founder Clay Cook.
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Volume 4 Number 2 ©The Author(s) 2002 The Continuity Framework: A Tool for Building Home, School, and Community Partnerships AbstractWe will need to become savvy about how to build relationships, how to nurture growing, evolving things. All of us will need better skills in listening, communicating, and facilitating groups, because these are the talents that build strong relationships. (Wheatley, 1992, p. 38) In the face of today's challenging social and family issues, many new efforts are underway to help children and families. One solution that many communities have adopted is the establishment of a collaborative partnership that involves all the relevant partners—home, school, and community—in the planning and monitoring of services for children. Unfortunately, achieving a strong partnership with meaningful participation can often be difficult and time-consuming. This article focuses on a set of training materials that has been developed to assist community partnerships in their efforts. These materials highlight eight elements of continuity and successful partnerships: (1) families as partners, (2) shared leadership, (3) comprehensive/responsive services, (4) culture and home language, (5) communication, (6) knowledge and skill development, (7) appropriate care and education, and (8) evaluation of partnership success. Results from a field study that included more than 200 reviewers and 8 pilot sites are summarized. Results indicate that a majority of reviewers found the training materials easy to understand, relevant to their work, and up-to-date. In addition, data gathered from the pilot sites indicate that the partnerships found the materials practical and useful for addressing a variety of issues, including time constraints, communication gaps, differences in professional training, and funding limitations. Communities face a host of problems that threaten the health and well-being of their children and families. Poverty, unemployment, inadequate care/education, and poor health care are just a few of the difficult issues that communities must confront. What makes these issues particularly challenging is that children and families who experience one problem are often likely to experience other problems as well. Compounding the problem is that delivery of services to help children and families is typically fragmented and scattered. Even efforts designed to increase the quality and supply of services to children and families have, at times, created greater fragmentation and discontinuity. In previous years, those who sought to improve outcomes for children concentrated only on the child. Today, however, many service providers have come to understand that the best way to serve and preserve children is to serve and preserve the supportive networks that benefit children (Family Support America, 1996). An extensive body of research identifies the elements that contribute to children's well-being, beginning with those closest to the child and moving outward to encompass the family, early care/education, the neighborhood, the community, and beyond. This ecological perspective (Bronfenbrenner, 1979) has motivated a growing number of communities to focus more closely on the need for collaboration--engaging in a process that allows the community to address many problems at once rather than one at a time. One solution that many communities have adopted is the establishment of a collaborative partnership involving all the relevant partners--home, school, and service providers--in the planning and monitoring of services for children (Kagan, 1992; Hoffman, 1991). The goal of most of these collaboration initiatives is to improve child outcomes, recognizing that many of the child's needs are closely linked to needs of the family and the community. Challenges to Collaboration Community collaboratives/partnerships represent one of the most challenging--yet one of the most effective--efforts for creating a flexible, comprehensive system that meets the needs of children and families. They involve new relationships among service providers and the children and families they serve. They require time, resources, and the willingness of collaborating agencies to learn about and establish trust with each other. In short, they require change (Bruner, Kunesh, & Knuth, 1992). As a result of the new roles and responsibilities that service providers must assume, collaboratives/partnerships encounter many common difficulties, including (Melaville, Blank, & Asayesh, 1996): - staff or agency representatives who are resistant to relinquishing power; - policies and regulations within individual agencies that make it difficult to coordinate services, information, and resources; - differences in prior knowledge, training, or experience that make it difficult for members to communicate and work together; and - lack of time to meet and plan together. Many factors contribute to the success or failure of a community collaborative, and no two collaboratives operate in exactly the same way. However, certain guidelines seem to help smooth the way for a more successful partnership, including (North Central Regional Educational Laboratory, 1993): - involve all key stakeholders; - establish a shared vision of how the partnership will operate and expected outcomes for the children and families served; - build in ownership at all levels; - establish communication and decision-making processes that are open and allow conflict to be addressed constructively; - institutionalize changes through established policies, procedures, and program mandates; - provide adequate time for partners to meet, plan, and carry out activities. The process of establishing and maintaining a collaborative partnership is not easy, and in the end, each partnership must find a way to proceed that is consistent with its community and unique set of circumstances. However, a number of resources and tools are available to help communities get started creating an effective system for delivering services. In this article, we describe one such tool that assembles elements essential to building a successful collaborative partnership. Development of Continuity Framework Materials For the past eight years, the 10 Regional Educational Laboratories (RELs) serving each region of the country have studied effective strategies for strengthening collaboration and increasing continuity among programs for young children and their families. The RELs are overseen by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Educational Research and Improvement [now the Institute of Education Sciences], and their primary purpose is ensuring that those involved in educational improvement have access to the best information from research and practice. During the contract period of 1995-2000, the RELs established a program called the Laboratory Network Program (LNP), which convened representatives from each Laboratory as a national network working on common issues. In 1995, the Early Childhood LNP developed Continuity in Early Childhood: A Framework for Home, School, and Community Linkages (U.S. Department of Education, 1995), a document designed with two key purposes in mind: first, an emphasis on the need for children and families to receive comprehensive and responsive services, reflected in the eight elements of continuity outlined in the Framework (see Figure 1). Taken together, the elements are intended to promote a comprehensive understanding of continuity and transition during early childhood. Second, the Framework offered a set of guidelines that partnerships could use to compare and assess their current policies and practices, as well as identify areas in need of improvement. Figure 1. Elements of Continuity (U.S.Department of Education, 1995) An extensive field review of the Framework indicated that although the document was helpful and informative, many community partnerships continued to have difficulty "getting started." As a result, a Trainer's Guide was developed to support the use of the Framework and assist community partnerships in the first stages. These materials were developed by the Early Childhood LNP in collaboration with the National Center for Early Development & Learning. The Trainer's Guide provides an overview of the content and potential uses of the Framework and includes all activities and materials necessary to conduct training sessions. The Guide itself consists of four training sessions that are organized around the eight elements of continuity. The materials are designed so that a local partnership has everything needed to conduct the training: background information, scripts, handouts, transparencies, sample agendas, and checklists for additional equipment and supplies: - The first session, Understanding Continuity, is designed to introduce participants to the Framework document and help participants develop a greater understanding and appreciation for continuity. - The second session, Developing a Continuity Team, highlights the importance of broad representation and shared leadership among partnership members. - The third session, Planning for Continuity, emphasizes the need for a comprehensive approach to service delivery and encourages participants to examine their current partnership practices and policies. - The final session, Formalizing Continuity, focuses on the importance of effective communication among group members and provides participants with an opportunity to formulate action plans. The Guide is designed to be a flexible training tool, adaptable to meet the needs of a particular audience. The intended audience includes local partnerships for children and families (including Smart Start partnerships in North Carolina), Head Start Program representatives, public schools, and communities. The overall objectives of the training are (1) to enhance the collaborative's knowledge and understanding of continuity, (2) to strengthen and support collaborative groups in their efforts to work as partners, and (3) to maximize the benefit they might receive from using the Framework. What follows is a description of the field test that was designed to assess the use and effectiveness of the Trainer's Guide. The field test focused exclusively on the Framework materials--no other instructional sources were employed. We will present the major findings of the field test and summarize recommendations based on those findings. In addition, we will highlight the work of several collaborative partnerships that took part in the field study, and we will describe some of the problems they encountered, how they used the Framework materials to address those problems, and where they are today. Specifically, the evaluation will explore: - To what extent is the information contained in the Framework and Trainer's Guide relevant and useful to community partnerships? - What is the perceived impact of the training and Framework on partnership activities? - How do partnerships incorporate elements of the Framework into their ongoing activities? - Of the review sites that indicated interest in the training materials, what proportion actually conducted the training? The overall usefulness and effectiveness of the Trainer's Guide was studied in two phases. Phase One consisted of document review and feedback from individuals working in the early childhood field. In Phase Two of field testing, the training was actually piloted in eight partnership sites. Phase One: Document Review Reviewers for the Trainer's Guide were solicited through the Laboratory Network Program (LNP) and at conferences related to early childhood issues. Three hundred thirteen individuals/organizations requested a set of the Framework materials (participant manual, Trainer's Guide, and a sample color transparency) and feedback form. Feedback questions centered on four areas: (1) information's relevancy and accuracy, (2) format and organization of the Trainer's Guide, (3) specific training needs, and (4) possible barriers to conducting training. Of the 313 requesting materials, 215 (68.7%) reviewers returned feedback forms. Twenty-one percent (N = 45) of the respondents were members of a Smart Start partnership (North Carolina initiative), 19% (N = 40) worked in Head Start agencies, and 11% (N = 24) worked in family resource centers. Others included representatives from state agencies, school personnel, and university faculty. A majority (89%) of the respondents indicated that they are actively involved in a community partnership. Final Follow-up with Select Reviewer Sites. Of the original 215 organizations/individuals who reviewed the Framework materials, 80 indicated an interest in conducting the training in its entirety and requested a complete set of transparencies. (The original materials included one sample color transparency, and the REL offered a complete set of Framework transparencies to all organizations making the request.) Approximately one year after receiving the materials, interviews were conducted with representatives who received transparencies. The purpose of these follow-up telephone calls was to determine if the materials had been used and the degree to which outside support or assistance might be needed to conduct the training. Phase Two: Pilot Training During the second phase of the field testing, the training was piloted in eight collaborative partnerships from across the nation (see Table 1). These sites were recruited through the LNP and selected based on their interest in the project. To assist with logistical details, a liaison, identified at each site, coordinated training dates and assisted with data collection. Sites varied according to demographics, partnership maturity, and sponsoring or lead agency. \|Site Location\|\|Community Type\|\|Sponsor/Lead Agency\| \|Beaufort, SC\|\|Rural\|\|Success by 6\| \|Dothan, AL\|\|Urban\|\|Family Resource Center\| \|Walnut Cove, NC\|\|Rural\|\|Smart Start\| \|Valdosta, GA\|\|Rural\|\|Family Connections/County Commission\| \|Wheeling, WV\|\|Rural\|\|Head Start\| \|Troy, NC\|\|Rural\|\|Smart Start\| \|Concord, WV\|\|Rural\|\|Family Resource Center\| Five of the partnerships described themselves as existing collaboratives (two years or more), while the remaining three indicated that they were in the planning stages of building a collaborative partnership. Sponsors of the partnerships included Smart Start (2); Head Start, family resource centers (2); Success by 6; a public school system; and a county task force. Across the eight sites, a total of 160 individuals participated in the training. Approximately 64% of the attendees were White, 27% were African American, and the remainder were either Hispanic, American Indian/Alaskan Native, or multiracial. Several of the partnerships invited persons who were not part of the collaborative partnership to attend the training. As a result, slightly more than half (54%) of the participants reported that they were current members of the partnership. The majority of these had been members less than one year (53%). Early childhood specialists represented the largest group attending the training (29%), followed by program administrators (18%), teachers/caregivers (14%), and parents (10%). Other groups represented included policy makers, members of the business community, and university faculty. Each of the sites conducted the entire training course in the fall; however, there was some variability in delivery of training. For example, some partnerships conducted the training as described in the Trainer's Guide--two complete, consecutive days of training. Other partnerships modified the training schedule to meet the needs of its members and used other formats such as one day of training followed two weeks later by a second day of training. At the conclusion of training, participants were asked to provide feedback on specific elements of the training, including organization, training content, and materials/resources. In addition, participants were asked to comment on their satisfaction with the training and the overall usefulness of the training materials. This information, along with information gathered from the review sites, was used to revise the Trainer's Guide. In the six months following the training, partnership activities were studied to determine the degree to which the collaboratives incorporated content from the Framework into their regular activities. Materials studied included a record of stakeholder attendance and meeting minutes documenting partnership activities. At the end of this period, a follow-up survey was sent to participants at each pilot site. Survey questions focused on three major areas: (1) impact of the training, (2) impact of the Framework materials, and (3) overall familiarity with Framework materials. In addition to the final survey with individuals who participated in the training, a final interview was conducted with seven site liaisons (one liaison was unavailable for interview). Interview questions focused on the original goal of the partnership, reasons for participating in the field study, and impact of the training and Framework materials. The data were analyzed to determine general response patterns and to identify logical changes or improvements to the Trainer's Guide. Both quantitative and qualitative techniques were used to analyze data from the review sites and the pilot sites. Phase One: Document Review Analyses of data from reviewer sites were conducted on 215 surveys. Table 2 summarizes Trainer's Guide as easy to understand, relevant to their work, accurate, and up-to-date. \|Survey Statement\|\|Agreed or Strongly Agreed with Statement\| \|Information is accurate and up to date.\|\|94.9% (4.54)\| \|Format is easy to understand and follow.\|\|93.9% (4.49)\| \|Training materials were easy to understand and follow.\|\|92.5% (4.46)\| \|Information is relevant to my work.\|\|89.3% (4.41)\| \|I would be comfortable using the materials.\|\|83.3% (4.29)\| \|Note: According to the scale, 1 = strongly disagree and 5 = strongly agree. Mean scores are presented in parentheses.\| A series of open-ended questions provided respondents with an opportunity to provide more specific information and feedback. When asked what parts of the training were most useful, of those who responded, approximately 30% reported that the materials were the most useful part of the training. Reviewers specifically mentioned handouts, transparencies, and checklists. Another 22% reported that the information focusing on the need to include families and share leadership responsibilities was most useful. Reviewers also were asked to identify the greatest training need within their partnerships. Of those who responded, more than one-third (34%) reported that they often need assistance identifying and including community stakeholders. Reviewers cited family members and members of the business community as groups that often are poorly represented at partnership meetings. Other topics representing challenges to partnerships included developing the team, sharing leadership responsibilities, and involving families in meaningful ways. In terms of barriers or factors that would influence the use of training, most of the respondents (75%) cited time as the greatest barrier to conducting training. This factor was followed by a lack of funding (68%), the unavailability of a trainer (45%), and lack of interest of collaborative partners (39%). Final Follow-up with Select Reviewer Sites. Of the 80 individuals/organizations who requested a complete set of transparencies, 68 were located for follow-up interviews (85%). For the remaining 12, attempts to contact the site were unsuccessful; either the person requesting the transparencies was no longer there, or the materials were never received. Interviews revealed that 23 of the respondents had conducted training using the Framework and accompanying materials. Of those who stated that they had conducted the training, only two (less than 10%) had used the training in its entirety. Most had conducted at least one part of the training, selecting the portions most useful for their work. "Families as Partners," "Shared Leadership," and "Comprehensive and Responsive Services" were the elements from the Framework most often used for training. An additional 17% said that although they had not conducted the training as designed, they had adapted the materials or used them in other circumstances. Examples of how they had adapted the materials included using the exercises, overheads, major concepts, and other information in training activities. Head Start agencies were the primary sponsors for half of the training events. Public schools, area education associations, state departments of education, local partnerships, child development centers, and related-type centers were listed as sponsors or lead agencies for the remaining training activities. Training participants included staff and administrators at Head Start agencies, preschool and child care providers, local education agencies, schools, school improvement teams, state departments of education staff, local family service agencies and boards of directors, and parents. All who said they had used the training materials were asked to comment on the usefulness of the training. The majority of respondents rated the training as "very useful" or "useful," and all said they would recommend the training to others. Particular aspects of the training that respondents liked included: - professional quality, clarity of materials, and sequencing of content of the Framework; - handouts, activities, and overheads; - content and the ability to present the material at multiple skill levels; and - ease of use of the Framework. There were suggestions for improving the training. Four respondents said the course was "too long," especially if used in school systems or with parents. Others maintained a need for greater emphasis on action planning and implementation, "more written support materials (research, position support, background), and additional copies of key pieces of materials that helped shape the Framework." Phase Two: Pilot Training In terms of the training quality and overall effectiveness, most of the participants rated the training sessions as either "good" or "excellent." Participants tended to rate the second day of training as higher in quality and more effective than the first day of training (M = 4.392 and M = 4.17, respectively, based on a 5-point scale). Participants also evaluated the effects of the training and estimated its impact on future partnership practices. Using a four-point Likert-type scale, participants rated the extent to which they agreed with each statement. Table 3 summarizes participants' appraisal of the training and reinforces the focus of the original training objectives. Objective 1: To enhance the collaborative's knowledge and understanding of continuity \|As a result of the training, I believe that I am motivated to build and strengthen continuity efforts in my community.\|\|3.44\|\|.65\| \|As a result of the training, I believe that I have a better understanding of continuity and why it is important.\|\|3.41\|\|.65\| \|I believe that this training will have an impact on increasing awareness of new skills and knowledge for our team.\|\|3.31\|\|63\| Objective 2: To strengthen and support collaborative groups in their efforts to works as partners \|As a result of the training, I believe that I am better able to participate as a member of a home, school, and community partnership.\|\|3.40\|\|.65\| \|I believe that this training will have an impact on how decisions are made and the planning we do for services.\|\|3.25\|\|.59\| \|I believe that this training will have an impact on changing/enhancing the quality of community practices.\|\|3.23\|\|.58\| Objective 3: To maximize the benefit the collaborative might receive from using the Framework \|As a result of the training, I believe that I am better able to use the Framework as a tool for exploring continuity and transition\|\|3.26\|\|.63\| \|I believe that this training will have an impact on positively affecting outcomes for children and families.\|\|3.31\|\|.63\| \|Note: According to the scale, 1 = strongly disagree and 4 = strongly agree.\| In addition to participant ratings immediately following the training, data were collected on regular partnership activities after the training. Analysis of materials such as meeting minutes revealed that during the six months following completion of the training, five of the eight sites reported that they continued to use the Framework materials. Exactly how the materials were used varied from site to site. Two of the sites selected specific elements of the Framework as their priority concerns for the coming year. They then organized subcommittees to review the partnerships' practices with respect to those elements and make recommendations for improving existing services. Another partnership used the materials to provide training to other agencies and organizations not directly involved with the partnership. The remaining two partnerships used the Framework as a resource for improving transition practices with their communities. At the end of the six months, a final survey was distributed to participants at the last partnership meeting of the year, and surveys were mailed to those not in attendance at the final meeting. Approximately half of the individuals who participated in the training (81 of 160) responded to the survey. Participants were asked to rate the extent to which the Framework materials had had an impact on partnership practices. On a four-point scale (4 = "a great deal," 3 = "some," 2 = "very little," and 1 = "not at all"), the majority of respondents (88.6%) reported that the training had "impacted" their knowledge and skill development "some" or a "great deal." Respondents also thought that the Framework had at least "some" impact on the knowledge and skills development of their partnership (83%) and community (72%). The majority (97.4%) speculated that the Framework would have at least some future impact. Finally, participants were asked to indicate the single greatest impact they experienced as a result of the training. Approximately 41% reported that as a result of the training they felt more motivated to build or strengthen efforts to support continuity of services for children in their communities. Thirty-five percent of the respondents said they had a better understanding of continuity and its importance; 17% felt that the training prepared them to be better members of their partnership; and 7% said that the training gave them a greater understanding of the Framework as a tool. Stokes County Partnership for Children, King, NC An ongoing goal of the Stokes County Partnership for Children is to create a system that encourages service providers to work together and promotes continuity for children and their families. Members of the partnership began by using the Framework to build their own knowledge and skills about continuity; however, they soon recognized the need to inform others of the importance of continuity in children's lives. As a result, the Partnership conducted a series of focus groups and meetings among parents and family members within the community. They used information from Elements 3 (Comprehensive/Responsive Services) and 7 (Developmentally Appropriate Care/Education) to explain what was needed to support continuity and its potential benefits for children. These meetings were also an opportunity to inform families of the various resources and supports available within the community. Later, the focus groups were expanded to include all stakeholders (e.g., child care, kindergarten, Head Start, school administrators, special needs coordinators, etc). The information gathered from these meetings has been used to guide the development and implementation of policies and practices that promote continuity. Final Interview with Liaisons. In the final interview conducted with site liaisons, five of the seven liaisons reported that the overall goal of their partnership is to improve services for children and their families by connecting agencies and strengthening the collaborative bonds between those agencies. Three of the liaisons specifically mentioned the need to improve transitions and create a system of responsive and comprehensive services. In addition, liaisons were asked to talk about their reasons for participating in the field-test process. At least three of the liaisons cited low levels of collaboration across agencies and indicated that partnership meetings were used primarily as a time for sharing information. Others saw the training as an opportunity to invite additional partners to the table and begin a discussion of how they could better work together. Finally, liaisons were asked to rate the extent to which the Framework materials had been helpful in accomplishing their overall partnership goal. Using a five-point scale, five of the liaisons rated the Framework materials as either "helpful" (4) or "very helpful" (5). The remaining two liaisons rated the Framework materials as at least "somewhat helpful" (3). Developing and maintaining a community collaborative is hard work, and it is a challenge that requires a great deal of commitment and cooperation from those involved. Training and resource materials available to help community partnerships build a more responsive system must address such issues as time constraints, communication gaps, differences in professional training, and funding limitations. Given these challenges, the Continuity Framework and its Trainer's Guide seem to be important and useful tools for helping partnerships increase collaboration and involvement. Data gathered from participant ratings and key-informant interviews indicated that the training was helpful in a number of ways. A feature of the training mentioned by many of the participants was the fact that the experience helped "level the playing field." That is, it provided stakeholders with a common language to use as they worked together. As illustrated in the following example, stakeholders often come from a variety of agencies and backgrounds, which can be a major impediment when a community must begin to work together and coordinate its efforts. The case studies in the sidebars highlight the work of four collaborative partnerships that took part in the field study. These case studies discuss some of the problems they encountered, how they used the Framework materials to address those problems, and where they are today. Bovill, Idaho, Collaborative Bovill is a small town (population 310) located in the north central part of the state. Bovill has no resident doctor or dentist. At the time, there also was no child care center or preschool available to children. (The closest one was 35 miles away.) In 1998, various members of the community decided that they wanted to do something to help improve the situation for children. This group of citizens brought together parents and virtually every local organization to work on a plan that would support the learning needs of children and their families. Part of this effort was a proposal submitted to the J.A. and Kathryn Albertson Foundation that would help fund an early learning center. In 1999, they were awarded a grant, and they began the work to open the Bovill Early Childhood Community Learning Center. However, once the work began, members of the partnership found that they did not have a common vocabulary to talk about the issues of early childhood education. There were also difficulties associated with establishing a partnership, such as "Who else should be included?" and "How do you get started?" In an effort to "get started" and begin the planning process, the partnership elected to participate in the field testing of the Framework materials. Framework training was provided over two consecutive days and built into the inservice training schedule of the elementary school. In addition to staff and faculty from the elementary school, representatives from other agencies and organizations participated, including the health department, the Idaho Department of Disabilities, news media, schools, early childhood education, Even Start, parents, university students, attorneys, community leaders, and businesses. According the site liaison, the Framework materials were used: - To improve awareness of key issues in providing high-quality services. The Framework provides direction to help develop a program that really works. - To provide a common language and for internal communication enhancement. Now everyone "speaks the same language." - As an external communication tool. According to the liaison, "it is so much easier to talk with funding sources when you use the structure of the elements as a base." - To validate their progress toward providing the best practices in early childhood education. - As a piece of the Bovill Elementary School improvement plan. Positive impact on individual partnership members was cited as another basis for success of the training. Many indicated they had a better understanding of continuity and were more motivated to continue to work on the difficult issues that often arise as part of the collaborative process. An added value of the training was the opportunity to spend time together and develop relationships with persons from other agencies. Often, these individual relationships help form the basis for collaborative work within the partnership. Based on the sites that continued to use the materials, the Continuity Framework and its Trainer's Guide seem to be equally useful to both existing and newly established partnerships. A common experience in the maturation of partnerships is that they are prone to lose initial momentum, often stagnating into "easy" roles such as simple information sharing. A serendipitous discovery of this study is that such partnerships evidenced rejuvenation of their efforts after participating in the training (see the Valdosta, Georgia, example). Valdosta, Georgia, Collaborative The Lowndes County/Valdosta Commission for Children and Youth has been in existence for more than a decade, and during this time, the partnership has experienced various "ups and downs." According to site liaison Vickie Elliott, cycles are a normal part of the collaborative process, "They may be the result of staff turnover or changes in the board chair and/or board members." She reports that participation in the training provided members with practical, research-based information. This information served as a reminder to members that they were doing good work and that their work was important. Since the training, the partnership has continued to use Framework materials as a reference and resource. For example, during a recent meeting, members began a discussion regarding the evaluation of partnership activities. They used Element 8: Evaluation of Partnership Success to help shape and guide this discussion. In addition, the partnership has applied for and received a 21st Century Learning Community grant. Because of the knowledge and understanding they gained during the training, members requested funds for a case manager position to be based at each school and conducting home visits. It is hoped that this strategy will facilitate communication and create greater continuity of services for students and families. Finally, the data indicate that change takes place slowly. Participants reported that the training had had some impact on their community but felt that the greatest impact was yet to come. Bringing everyone to the table is not enough. True collaboration that produces continuity in services for children takes place over a long period of time, as agencies that have not previously worked together begin to get to know each other and slowly modify procedures and practices. Marshall County Tadpole Team, Wheeling, WV Efforts to collaborate are often driven by the realization that single agencies cannot solve problems alone. Partners must be willing to jointly plan and implement new ventures, as well as pool resources such as money and personnel. Nowhere is this need to collaborate and pool resources more crucial than in Marshall County, WV. Located in the northern part of West Virginia, Marshall County remains a predominantly rural county. With a population of approximately 36,000, Marshall County has seen a decline in the number of residents over the past two to three years, largely attributed to the economic hardships of the area. This part of West Virginia relies heavily on the coal and steel industries, and as these industries have fallen on hard times, so too have many families. As a result, many families have moved away to find other employment; however, many others have sought support from social services agencies within the community. In order to make the most of the limited resources and support available within the county, many of the local agencies (e.g., Northern Panhandle Head Start, Starting Points Center, Tadpoles Team) came together to form a community collaborative. Although their collaborative meetings began more as a time for sharing information, members soon realized that to be a true "working group," they would need to broaden the meeting agendas and formalize the collaborative relationships. Using the Framework materials as an assessment tool, members worked through each element identifying the gaps in services and generating ideas for possible programs and procedures to address those gaps. This shift encouraged members to devote meeting times to discussing specific issues facing the community. Moreover, it encouraged members to formalize the partnership with written agreements. These agreements have allowed members to make a solid commitment to the collaborative, as well as clarify specific roles and responsibilities for services. Beyond the content of the training and issues related to the collaborative process, the field study underscored the importance of training structure and design. Many study participants praised the Framework materials for flexibility and relevance to a variety of contexts. The training materials were designed so that particular attention was devoted to issues such as target audience attributes (e.g., varied educational and professional development backgrounds), which dictate the appropriate level of sophistication as well as the need for course module structure (i.e., overall organization and scripting) to be highly adaptable to local training needs. The field studies indicate that community partnerships benefit from training and technical assistance that help with the process of getting started, as well as recapturing momentum and focus. Additional research is needed to document the ongoing efforts of these communities and explore whether the Framework materials continue to have an impact on community practices and outcomes, as many of the participants predicted. 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(1992). The strategic importance of linkages and the transition between early childhood programs and early elementary school. In Sticking together: Strengthening linkages and the transition between early childhood education and early elementary school (Summary of a National Policy Forum). Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education. ED 351 152. Kunesh, Linda. (1994). Integrating community services for children, youth, and families. Oak Brook, IL: North Central Regional Educational Laboratory. Melaville, Atelia; Blank, Martin; & Asayesh, Gelareh. (1996). Together we can: A guide for crafting a profamily system of education and human services (Rev. ed.). Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education. Available: http://eric-web.tc.columbia.edu/families/TWC/ Editor's Note: this url is no longer active.[2002, October 22]. ED 443 164. North Central Regional Educational Laboratory. (1993). NCREL's policy briefs: Integrating community services for young children and their families. Oak Brook, IL: Author. Available: http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/envrnmnt/go/93-3toc.htm [2002, October 22]. U.S. Department of Education and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (1995). Continuity in early childhood: A framework for home, school, and community linkages [Online]. Washington, DC: Author. Available: http://www.sedl.org/prep/hsclinkages.pdf [2002, October 22]. ED 395 664. Wheatley, Margaret J. (1992). Leadership and the new science. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler. Dr. Glyn Brown is a senior program specialist with SERVE Regional Educational Laboratory. She studied at the University of Alabama (B.S.), the University of Southern Mississippi (M.S.), and completed her Ph.D. in Family and Child Development at Auburn University. Prior to coming to SERVE, Dr. Brown worked as a children's therapist in a community mental health program. As a program specialist with SERVE, Dr. Brown provides training and direct consultation to school personnel, child care providers, and community partnerships. SERVE Regional Educational Laboratory 1203 Governor's Square Blvd., Suite 400 Tallahassee, FL 32301 Carolynn Amwake, a program specialist at the SERVE Regional Educational Laboratory, has extensive experience working with families, child care providers, teachers, administrators, and community partners. She received her B.S. from Radford University in early childhood education and special education and has taught children with special needs in elementary schools, children's homes, and child care centers. Her experiences as an educator and parent led to an interest in improving the quality and continuity of early childhood transitions for both children and families. SERVE Regional Educational Laboratory 1203 Governor's Square Blvd., Suite 400 Tallahassee, FL 32301 Timothy Speth is a research associate at Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory (NWREL). He received his B.S. in psychology from South Dakota State University and his M.A. from San Diego State University. He has extensive training and experience in research design, statistics, and program evaluation. Mr. Speth is currently involved with several research and evaluation projects throughout the Northwest, as a Research Associate of NWREL's Child and Family Program. He is the primary external evaluator for six Alaska schools participating in the Comprehensive School Reform Demonstration Project (CSRD) and assists in CSRD-related activities throughout the Northwest. Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory 101 S.W. Main Street, Suite 500 Portland, OR 97204-3297 Catherine Scott-Little, Ph.D., is director of the Expanded Learning Opportunities Project for SERVE. Dr. Little completed her graduate work in human development at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her undergraduate degree in child development and family relations is from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Prior to joining SERVE, Dr. Little was deputy director of a large Head Start program in Fort Worth, Texas, and she has also served as director for a child development center serving homeless families in the Washington, DC, area. SERVE Regional Educational Laboratory P.O. Box 5367 Greensboro, NC 27435
We rotate cities for our annual conference, and Vegas definitely pulled in the crowds this year. (It struck me that hosting an animal welfare conference in Las Vegas is a little ironic. Here we are pushing a movement that works to encourage people not to give in to their base instincts—suggesting that there are ideas that trump the pleasure principle, radical ideas like, "Maybe you shouldn't beat your dog, even if it makes you feel good," and "Perhaps you could eat something other than veal, even though it's tasty"—and this year we held it in a city that whose modus operandi is to encourage people to indulge every instinct they've got.) Monday, April 13, 2009 A friend of mine pointed out that Vegas is the best place on earth to surrender to your lizard brain. Thus my conclusion above, reached after only a few hours of wandering from Bally's to Paris to the Bellagio to Caesar's Palace. Brain ... can't ... handle ... any ... more ... neon ... lights ... must ... milk ... cow ... and ... raise ... barn ... Here's the most depressing thing I saw in Vegas, familiar to anyone who's been there: On the strip at regular intervals, there are lines of Hispanic adults, mostly men but a few women, none of whom seem to speak more than a few words of English. They stand on the sidewalk, all wearing bright t-shirts that say "HOT GIRLS STRAIGHT TO YOUR DOOR IN 30 MINUTES!!" They're all holding stacks of small cards, and as the tourists pass, they slap the decks against their hands, making a snapping sound to get the attention of passersby. The cards, which they'll hand over in piles to anyone who holds out a hand, are all of oiled naked girls, most of whom will come see you for $35 (Vegas regulars: Is that recession-pricing, or is that standard?). You can get two for $99, though the cards don't specify what these girls will do for those prices. Maybe they'll iron your shorts. Can we make an Exploitation Flow Chart here? The prostitutes are exploiting the immigrants, the johns are exploiting the prostitutes, the city is exploiting the johns ... I feel a chorus of "Proud to be an American" coming on! On our way back from a show at the MGM Grand, a friend and I saw a woman who must have been 70 passing out these cards. She was about four feet tall and had more than a few missing teeth, and the kind of wizened, ancient face you usually see in photos accompanying National Geographic articles about lost Amazon tribes. This is the global economy: Instead of selling baskets to Ten Thousand Villages, Grandma's helping sling bargain sex to tourists in tracksuits. Vegas is like a big red glowing clown nose stuck onto an ancient, craggy, dignified face. From the top of the hotel and from the plane on the way out of the city, I could see the desert surrounding the city—empty, arid, weirdly beautiful. I wanted to be there instead.
(MAP) How Did Edina Vote in Senate District 49 Race? Patch combed through results from Tuesday's election to see which precincts went to Keith Downey and which voted for Melisa Franzen. Melisa Franzen (DFL) won the race for Senate District 49 by more than 3,800 votes against Republican Keith Downey. But how exactly did the political newcomer upset the seasoned state representative? And which parts of Edina went for each candidate? Patch has combed through results from Edina's 20 precincts, crafting those vote totals into a handy map (seen above). If you'd rather see the hard numbers, a chart of each precinct's votes regarding Senate District 49 are included below. * * * EDINA SD 49 PRECINCT-BY-PRECINCT RESULTS \|Votes for Downey\|\|Votes for Franzen\|\|Write-In\|
Burbank, California (CNN) -- Off the beaten path of the Los Angeles theater district, troubadours are resurrecting Shakespeare in an adaptation that would make the Bard smile. The Troubadour Theater Company has melded "Two Gentlemen of Verona" with song and dance performed to music by the band Chicago and has rendered an energetic, comedic romp entitled "Two Gentlemen of Chicago." Troupes and their adaptations of "Bardolatry," as George Bernard Shaw coined it, come and go, riffing endlessly on Shakespeare's tragedies and comedies, always searching for ways to breathe new life into the iambic pentameter of 500 years ago. But the Troubadour Theater Company, performing at Hollywood producer Garry Marshall's Falcon Theatre in Burbank, has come upon an entertaining formula. The performers use live music, choreography, improvisation, audience interaction, and no small measure of humor and farce to create an evening of engagement and laughter. Much of the troupe's magic comes from its improv, and performers apparently play pranks on one another, such as in one scene when Matt Walker's Proteus toasts Rob Nagle's Valentine -- with real booze, not some liquid stage prop. "Oh, got the real thing!" Walker says, nearly choking, during the March 17 performance. "On St. Patrick's Day, no less." (Walker, who trained at improv mecca Second City, also directs the show.) Other improvisations are equally witty. When Rick Batalla's Thurio flubs a line, Beth Kennedy's Launce jests him: "Thurio, you aren't sharp enough -- especially with your lines." (Kennedy is also the show's producing director.) That may be a bit unfair to Batalla, whose talents include playing the guitar and singing. The integration of Chicago's ballads, played lived by seven musicians, makes for a nice fit in the romantic comedy narrative. Add in the troupe's choreography, and the production is more than just a "free-wheeling, no holds barred...slapstick" that the stagebill touts. The show opens when Proteus and Valentine have had enough of another "Saturday in the Park," a Chicago standard. Later, both men fight over Sylvia by serenading her as "You're the Inspiration," a popular Chicago ballad. Among the show stealers are Kennedy's clownish Launce and his dog, Crab, which is a loveable pug. It's always high risk to bring an animal into a live performance -- for who knows what could go wrong -- but Kennedy is happy to improvise and highlight the what-will-the-dog-do-next suspense. Kennedy and Crab amaze the audience by exchanging between themselves a high-five -- and then a low-five. When Crab turns his rump to the audience, with his tail high in the air center stage, Kennedy admonishes the animal with what everyone is looking at but is too polite to express: "Why, you're showing them your evil eye! "I'm so sorry," Kennedy tells the gallery, all laughing. The Troubadour Theater Company's "Two Gentlemen of Chicago" runs through April 22 at the Falcon Theatre in Burbank, California.
How hot is it where you are? Tell your stories at CNN's iReport. (CNN) -- For many Americans, this summer has been miserably hot. Heat advisories and warnings have been issued from coast to coast, with high temperatures often reaching into the triple digits, and July went into the record books as the hottest month ever for the continental United States. But in certain parts of the world, this is the norm -- or maybe even on the cool side. Try Kuwait City, for instance. In July, its average high temperature is 116 degrees Fahrenheit. Or Timbuktu in Mali, where the highs average 108 in May and was once recorded at 130. 130! That ranks fifth on the all-time list. The highest temperature ever recorded on the planet was in 1922, when a thermometer in El Azizia, Libya, hit 136. Some dispute that mark, saying it was improperly measured. If that's true, the record would be the 134, reached nine years earlier in Death Valley, California. But the world's hottest place might not be any of these, according to a team of scientists from the University of Montana. It says the highest temperatures on Earth are found in areas that don't even have weather stations. "The Earth's hot deserts -- such as the Sahara, the Gobi, the Sonoran and the Lut -- are climatically harsh and so remote that access for routine measurements and maintenance of a weather station is impractical," said David Mildrexler, lead author of a recent study that used NASA satellites to detect the Earth's hottest surface temperatures. The satellites detect the infrared energy emitted by land. And over a seven-year period, from 2003 to 2009, they found Iran's Lut Desert to be the hottest place on Earth. The Lut Desert had the highest recorded surface temperature in five of the seven years, topping out at 159 degrees in 2005. Other notable annual highs came from Queensland, Australia (156 degrees in 2003) and China's Turpan Basin (152 degrees in 2008). It's important to stress that surface temperatures are naturally higher than the air temperatures measured by weather stations. Air temperatures have to be measured by thermometers placed off the ground and shielded from sunlight, according to global meteorological standards. But the study shows that today's modern records might not necessarily be the most accurate. "Most of the places that call themselves the hottest on Earth are not even serious contenders," co-author Steve Running said. The world's highest recorded air temperatures 1. El Azizia, Libya (136 degrees Fahrenheit) 2. Death Valley, California (134) 3. Ghadames, Libya (131) 3. Kebili, Tunisia (131) 5. Timbuktu, Mali (130) 5. Araouane, Mali (130) 7. Tirat Tsvi, Israel (129) 8. Ahwaz, Iran (128) 8. Agha Jari, Iran (128) 10. Wadi Halfa, Sudan (127) Highest recorded air temperature (by continent) Africa: El Azizia, Libya (136) North America: Death Valley, California (134) Asia: Tirat Tsvi, Israel (129) Australia: Cloncurry, Queensland (128) Europe: Seville, Spain (122) South America: Rivadavia, Argentina (120) Antarctica: Vanda Station, Scott Coast (59) Sources: NOAA, World Meteorological Organization This temperature was measured using the techniques available at the time of recording, which are different to the standard techniques currently used in Australia. The most likely Australian record using standard equipment is an observation of 123 degrees, recorded at Oodnadatta, South Australia.
The EPA will not use the Chevrolet Volt's vaunted 230-mpg rating. By Greg Migliore Time is running out to get a 2011 Ford Shelby Mustang GT500. More than 3,300 orders have been placed for the instant icon -- arguably the best ‘Stang ever -- and Ford is capping orders for this model year at 5,500. Do the math: that means 2,200 or less remain. Ford says it will halt orders in a bid to maintain the exclusivity of the GT500, and the initial response has already beat expectations. “The car continues to be popular with sports car enthusiasts and collectors who are blown away by the increase in horsepower and performance,” said Fritz Wilke, Mustang brand manager. “The limited production of the 2011 should make this year even more desirable.” The drama of Corvette's 50th anniversary at Le Mans Now, I know it would have been impossible for Chevy to somehow procure seven-and-a-half-minutes of ad time, but this video of the Corvette racing team's struggles, triumphs, and heart break at the 50th anniversary of the team at the 24 Hours of Le Mans is the best advertisement for the Corvette brand one could want. I won't say more than that, because the inherent drama is what makes the vid great, but if you love racing -- if you love cars -- take the time to watch this start to finish. It's great stuff. By Greg Kable MINI is hard at work on a new entry-level model--dubbed the MINI Minor or “MINI MINI” -- and it could be revealed in concept form at the 2011 Geneva Motor Show. The first phase of building the prototype is under way at a BMW site in Munich, Germany. AutoWeek first reported plans for this small car last month (“Mini Minor?” AW June 7, 2010). It would be based on a modified version of an existing front-engine/front-wheel-drive platform boasting a shorter wheelbase. The new small MINI has been conceived as part of BMW's broad-based project “i” mobility initiative, which has also spawned the more high-tech, carbon-fiber-intensive Mega City Vehicle -- a car with which the new MINI shares very little. American carmakers make the most appealing autos, according to J.D. Power's 2010 APEAL Study. The last two years have been an economic nightmare for this country, especially the automotive industry. It finally looks, though, like things are on the mend -- or at least that the free fall has been stemmed -- and Americans are once again spending money on cars, although not much. A few weeks back, we reported that the domestic automakers demonstrated higher initial quality than the imports for the first time in the 24-year history of J.D. Power and Associates' Initial Quality Study. Today, J.D. Power released its annual Automotive Performance, Execution and Layout (APEAL) Study, which shows that for the first time in more than a decade, domestic auto brands have surpassed import brands as a whole in vehicle appeal. The new 100 mph, 100 miles-per-charge, 100 percent electric sportbike from Brammo. The Empulse, which comes in three models, is capable of sustaining speeds of 100 mph and can, in the case of its top-range offering, get up to 100 miles on a single charge from a standard 110-volt outlet. The Empulse takes a "world's first" on its release -- that is, it's the first production electric motorcycle with a water-cooled motor. The three models reflect the different average ranges per charge from the company's proprietary Digital Drivetrain: The Empulse 6.0 gets 60 miles per charge, the 8.0 gets 80 miles per charge and the 10.0 -- you guessed it -- gets 100 miles per charge. (Of course, you can extend those ranges with somewhat more restrained driving, the company says.) Prices -- did we mention the Empulse line starts at less than 10 grand? -- more images and a video of the sportbike in action are after the jump. Dozens of data event recorders show driver error. According to a report yesterday in The Wall Street Journal, the Transportation Department has found evidence of possible driver error during its examination of dozens of black boxes from Toyota vehicles involved in accidents allegedly attributable to unintended acceleration. The findings have noted that, in many cases, the throttles were wide open and the brakes weren't engaged. However, that doesn't completely rule out manufacturer culpability. According to the source article, while it's certainly true that some of the Lexus and Toyota drivers could have been accidentally flooring the accelerator, instead of the brake as they thought, the notorious one-two punch of "sticky" accelerator pedals that don't return to idle along with floor mats that can keep accelerators depressed, could also lead to that same outcome. Volts' battery system to get 8-year, 100,000-mile warranty. As we've said before, the press and hype surrounding the Chevy Volt extended-range electric vehicle makes it seem like the car has been out for ages, but it hasn't even hit dealerships yet. However, when it does, General Motors wants to make it perfectly clear that it's standing behind the vehicle: GM announced today that the lithium-ion batteries in new Volts will be accompanied by an 8-year, 100,000-mile warranty. It sets a new standard for electric-vehicle warranties, and is transferable at no cost to other owners. Explore New Cars More on MSN Autos About Exhaust Notes Cars are cool, and here at MSN Autos we love everything about them, but we also know they're more than simply speed and style: a car is an essential tool, a much-needed accessory to help you get through your day-to-day life. What you drive is also one of the most important investments you can make, so we'll help you navigate your way through the car buying and ownership experiences. We strive to be your daily destination for news, notes, tips and tricks from across the automotive world. So whether it's through original content from our world-class journalists or the latest buzz from the far corners of the Web, Exhaust Notes helps you make sense of your automotive world. Have a story idea? Tip us off at email@example.com. Clifford Atiyeh has spent his entire life driving cars he doesn't own. Raised in Volvos, he has grown to love fast, irresponsible vehicles of all kinds. He is the senior news editor at MSN Autos and also reports for Car and Driver, Road & Track, The Boston Globe and other publications. In the garage: 21-speed Iron Horse, 2002 Jeep Wrangler X (not his) Doug Newcomb has covered car technology for over 20 years for outlets ranging from Rolling Stone to Edmunds.com. In 2008, he published his first book, "Car Audio for Dummies" (Wiley). He lives and drives in Hood River, Ore., with his wife and two kids, who share his passion for cars and technology. In the garage: 1996 Chevrolet Impala SS, two 1984 Chevrolet Blazers, 2008 Honda CR-V James Tate learned to drive stick at age 13 in a 1988 Land Cruiser - in La Paz, Bolivia. He's since been a mechanic, on a pit crew and has wrenched on every car he's owned since his first 1989 Honda CRX Si (and won't stop until the car is a 1973 Porsche 911 RS). His work has appeared in Car and Driver, Popular Mechanics, Automobile and others. In the garage: 1995 Porsche 911 Carrera, 1988 BMW M5
Sports-car brand’s hybrid-electric push is part of a broader focus on fuel efficiency. Most automakers have dipped a toe into the slowly emerging and extremely limited plug-in hybrid electric market by producing just a single model. According to British magazine Autocar, Porsche plans to introduce plug-in versions of all of its models based on technology developed for the 2014 Panamera S E-Hybrid introduced at the 2013 Shanghai Auto Show. A Porsche representative revealed that new hybrid platforms that combine an electric motor and clutches in one unit has been adapted to fit into all of the company’s future cars, including the 911 and Cayman. It uses the same electric motor and clutch assembly slotted between the engine and transmission in the current Panamera and Cayenne hybrids, but adds a more powerful motor and battery. The new hybrid technology is a step beyond the unit used in the Panamera S E-Hybrid and will be more powerful than its 94-horsepower hybrid-electric motor. The next-generation system will also be supported by a more energy-dense battery pack and more lightweight wire looms that use aluminum instead of copper. Our semiregular roundup of the latest automotive news and musings from around the Web. Unlike other posts on this blog, these are truly notes, but they're worth a few moments of your precious time. Capping off this week, we take a look at proposed changes to blood alcohol limits, Tesla's latest court battle over a North Carolina dealership and Acura's plan to build the next NSX in Ohio. Meet the BMW 2 Series, aka the new BMW 1 Series – wait, what? After the 2014 BMW 2-Series was spotted in camouflage lapping the Nurburgring racetrack in Germany earlier this year, the first uncovered images of the new model were released this week. Specifically, the pictures (see them at Car and Driver) show the 235i in M Sport trim. As opposed to the 1-Series, which had distinctive, squared-off front- and rear-end treatments, the 2-Series more closely echoes the current 3- and coming 4-Series BMWs. The M235i, as it's likely to be known, will have a 3.0-liter turbocharged straight-six engine producing around 320 horsepower and will sit above a base 228i with a 2.0-liter 240-horsepower turbocharged 4-cylinder. An M2 follow-up to the well-received 1M coupe could top 360 horsepower. An official reveal of the 2-Series is expected to occur near the end of this year, with production beginning as we head into 2014. The creation and coming debut of the 2-Series is a major step in BMW’s overhaul of its lineup. With the end goal of creating a line of easy-to-distinguish models offering something for everyone – sound familiar, MINI fans? – BMW is coding coupes as even-numbered models and sedans under odd numbers. The accelerator actually pushes back against your foot if you're trying to goose it too hard. In a market surrounded by relatively high gas prices, nearly every car on sale has an "eco" feature of some sort. From simple dashboard indicators to sophisticated engine stop-start systems, automakers are employing a wide range of technologies designed to help drivers squeeze every mile out of each tank of gas. But none is as annoying as Infiniti’s Eco Pedal, which takes an overly aggressive approach to saving fuel. Parent company Nissan noted that with the Eco Pedal feature engaged, “Each time the driver steps on the accelerator, a counter push-back control mechanism is activated if the system detects excess pressure.” In other words, as I found out while testing a 2013 Infiniti M Hybrid with the feature, if you push the accelerator too hard and the Eco Pedal determines you’re driving in a fuel-inefficient manner, it pushes right back. This is now a trend: Fail to fix someone's luxury car in China, and soon the vehicle may be bashed to bits. Not in China. This week, a man parked his Maserati Quattroporte by the steps of the Qingdao Auto Show and proceeded to beat the car with sledgehammers in front of a crowd. The purpose, according to China Car Times, was to show the owner's frustration with a local Maserati distributor that repaired his car, unsuccessfully, with used parts instead of the new ones he ordered. Luxury cars in China face huge import tariffs, and this particular Maserati cost a whopping $423,000 when new in 2011, or roughly 3.5 times more than a typical Quattroporte in the U.S. That makes the story even crazier. Next installment gets bigger, faster, more social. When the sixth installment of "Gran Turismo" hits store shelves this holiday season for the PlayStation 3, it will include 1,200 cars, 33 tracks in 71 layouts, a new track editor with 10 square kilometers of scenery, and more ways to connect with friends and rivals. The new installment will add to the franchise's current sales of 70 million copies, continuing its run as one of the biggest sellers on the PlayStation family of consoles. Polyphony Digital, Sony and 10 manufacturers brought journalists out to the Silverstone Circuit in England for some hands-on time with a prototype copy of the new game. GT6 gets a new game engine and a new rendering program. Creator Kazunori Yamauchi says the title will have 50 times the dynamic range of the previous game. That means that the background and foreground images blur when they're supposed to -- at speed -- and clear up when you slow down. GT6 also uses a newer, more accurate physics engine including better programming for the suspension damping, tire deformation and aerodynamic parts. Polyphony Digital partnered with Yokohama tire and KW Automotive for a more accurate representation. Only Mitsubishi and Subaru were able to earn 'acceptable' and 'good' ratings on the small overlap test conducted by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. The IIHS, a nonprofit organization of insurance companies, found that 11 of 13 new models that were crashed in the group's small overlap test scored "marginal" or "poor." The 2013 Mitsubishi Outlander Sport rated "acceptable," and the 2014 Subaru Forester posted the only "good" score. As with the group's two other tests, first involving midsize luxury cars in August 2012 and another evaluating midsize family sedans in December, the latest results show a serious safety flaw that many automakers have not addressed in their most popular cars. The small overlap test modifies the group's standard offset frontal impact test, in which a car strikes a 5-foot tall barrier at 40 mph. The previous offset test strikes 40 percent of a car's frontal area, while the new test hits just 25 percent. This kind of impact, the IIHS says, occurs in about a quarter of all frontal crashes in which front passengers are seriously or fatally injured. We tease VW fans around the nation's capital with a forbidden European fruit. The later release of the Scirocco R only further teased the Volkswagen faithful, but year after year, those hopes have been dashed. Recently, pictures of a Scirocco R at Volkswagen of America’s Northern Virginia headquarters raised the eyebrows of enthusiasts and set off yet another round of "will they, won’t they?" chatter. I’m not following the online conversation right now, however; I’m too busy driving that Scirocco R and experiencing firsthand why Volkswagen should – and won’t – bring it to the U.S. Now that I’ve got your attention, let me get the ritual "reading of the specs" out of the way: The engine is a turbocharged 2.0-liter TSI 4-cylinder, good for 261 horsepower and 258 lb-ft of torque in a compact 3-door hatchback with an attractive, shooting-brake-style body. Explore New Cars More on MSN Autos About Exhaust Notes Cars are cool, and here at MSN Autos we love everything about them, but we also know they're more than simply speed and style: a car is an essential tool, a much-needed accessory to help you get through your day-to-day life. What you drive is also one of the most important investments you can make, so we'll help you navigate your way through the car buying and ownership experiences. We strive to be your daily destination for news, notes, tips and tricks from across the automotive world. So whether it's through original content from our world-class journalists or the latest buzz from the far corners of the Web, Exhaust Notes helps you make sense of your automotive world. Have a story idea? Tip us off at firstname.lastname@example.org. Clifford Atiyeh has spent his entire life driving cars he doesn't own. Raised in Volvos, he has grown to love fast, irresponsible vehicles of all kinds. He is the senior news editor at MSN Autos and also reports for Car and Driver, Road & Track, The Boston Globe and other publications. In the garage: 21-speed Iron Horse, 2002 Jeep Wrangler X (not his) Doug Newcomb has covered car technology for over 20 years for outlets ranging from Rolling Stone to Edmunds.com. In 2008, he published his first book, "Car Audio for Dummies" (Wiley). He lives and drives in Hood River, Ore., with his wife and two kids, who share his passion for cars and technology. In the garage: 1996 Chevrolet Impala SS, two 1984 Chevrolet Blazers, 2008 Honda CR-V James Tate learned to drive stick at age 13 in a 1988 Land Cruiser - in La Paz, Bolivia. He's since been a mechanic, on a pit crew and has wrenched on every car he's owned since his first 1989 Honda CRX Si (and won't stop until the car is a 1973 Porsche 911 RS). His work has appeared in Car and Driver, Popular Mechanics, Automobile and others. In the garage: 1995 Porsche 911 Carrera, 1988 BMW M5
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ADJT. AND INSP. GENERAL'S OFFICE. Numbers 71. Richmond, June 14, 1861. * * * * * IV. Captains Dorsey's and Murray's companies of the Virginia State forces are transferred to the Provisional Army of the Confederate States, and will proceed at once to Harper's Ferry where they will join the eight other companies of Maryland Volunteers now in service, and with them constitute a regiment of the Maryland Line. * * * * * By command of the Secretary of War: HARPER'S FERRY, June 14, 1861. President JEFFERSON DAVIS: Your dispatch was received last night. Two regiments, under Colonel Hill, have already left for Winchester. The command is prepared to follow, but has been detained from the want of motive power on the railroad. I have burnt the Potomac bridge. J. E. JOHNSTON. GROVE'S LANDING, June 14, 1861. General S. COOPER. Adjutant-General, C. S. Army, Richmond, Va.: SIR: I have carefully examined the various points of defense on James River below here as far as it was possible with my own eyes. When that could not be done I have inquired of the steam-boat captains in the habit of running on this river, and I am satisfied that if the guns were taken from Fort Powhatan and placed at Day's Point, just below Burwell's Bay, they would be much more useful. No ship, I am told, could pass that point if protected by a battery. It is on the right bank of James River. If this be ordered, and done at once, it would strengthen us here very much. I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant, J. BANKHEAD MAGRUDER. The Harriet Lane is now lying off this point, and several visits have been made to it for the purpose of utilizing it, which has been done. If we do not occupy it at once it will be occupied by the enemy, who will establish a base, then attempt to seize the railroad. As it can be done by us with the greatest ease, I respectfully recommend that it be done at once. I also see from this point the necessity of the steamer Teazer, now in our naval service, anchoring at night between this point and the Stone House wharf, and keeping in the day at or near Stone House wharf, to prevent the steam canal-boats of the enemy, which carry 1,000 men each, from stealing up in the night and landing large bodies of troops without the knowledge of any one, which they can do if the utmost vigilance is not enjoined on the commander of this vessel to prevent it. J. B. M.
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Fredo's Chanson is a movement in my Courtly Suite. Fredo is a young man of the court. However, no tournaments and battles for him: he hangs out with the musicians and dreams of playing with them, traveling from town to town. This text will be replacedDownload link While this composition may sound authentic to some, it's really a very liberal interpretation of renaissance music, and it features some rather "poppy" chords. Don't let anachronisms bother you. The recording features my G alto, a lovely instrument, but you can play it on a regular alto too. Find the score on the Werner Icking archive.
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Today Mr. Wetzel and I went in for our first ultrasound scan. Our baby is 34 weeks and a few days old. The results? Everything was normal. For those of you who don’t know… As I mentioned previously on the blog, we hadn’t planned on getting an ultrasound because we didn’t feel it was necessary for our situation. We weren’t scared of ultrasounds, and we didn’t have anything against them. We just didn’t think they were necessary given the fact that our pregnancy was progressing so normally. At our last midwife visit, my belly measured 2 cm too big, and Amy Gordon (our midwife) recommended that we get an ultrasound as a precautionary measure. She was concerned that there was too much amniotic fluid and that the fluid was causing my belly to get big. On her recommendation, we decided to go for it. The details from the ultrasound… As it turns out, there is nothing wrong. There is exactly the right amount of amniotic fluid. The baby is 5 pounds 4 ounces, in the 49th percentile for weight. The heart rate was normal and healthy. Baby is positioned well for birth. The ultrasound tech just kept saying “normal,” “normal,” “average,” “normal,” “healthy” to describe everything. When the M.D. that Amy referred us to, Dr. McMahon, came in to go over the ultrasound results and answer any questions we had, I really appreciated it that she cared about our perspective and decisions to avoid ultrasounds up until this point. She supported our decision to use a midwife, and said that she loves midwifes. Dr. McMahon made a point of asking us if our views and desires had been respected up until that point. I was so happy to be referred to someone with medical expertise that was open-minded, supportive and wanted to be informed by our opinions and decisions as the parents. As we went over the ultrasound pictures, Dr. McMahon was exuberant about our little one. At one point, she said, “I know you didn’t want an ultrasound at first, but I might as well tell you: your baby is perfect.” That seemed to be her favorite word to describe the baby: perfect. She used it over a dozen times. She answered the questions about amniotic fluid right away, and then went on to tell us about our baby’s other features. While she was examining the baby’s heart, we had a sweet exchange: McMahon, “Your baby’s heart is very strong. It’s perfect, just like everything else.” She looked at me and saw I was neither surprised nor relieved. “But you already knew that as the Mama, didn’t you?” I said, “I already knew I was going to love the baby’s heart no matter how perfect or imperfect it was.” McMahon sat back and smiled, as if she rarely if ever heard a patient respond this way. “I really appreciate your attitude,” she said. “We really do end up loving whatever God gives us, don’t we.” An ultrasound is a neutral thing, neither good nor bad. It’s how we use it that assigns meaning to it. I’m glad Mr. Wetzel and I decided to get an ultrasound, because I believe it was the responsible thing to do in our situation. But, if we never have a red flag in a pregnancy again, this will be our last ultrasound. We’re not afraid of ultrasounds. They are useful in certain situations. We just don’t believe they are necessary unless we have warning signs that merit the consideration of medical testing. I suppose our overall attitude could be summarized thus: “If it ain’t broke, don’t test it.” If we were able to bless Dr. McMahon with our attitude and our expressions of unconditional love to our baby, then I am grateful to have had the chance to do so. Just because we have “a perfect baby,” Mr. Wetzel and I are under no delusions that parenting will be easy or that our child will actually be perfect (if such a thing really exists). We are grateful that our child is healthy, but we don’t expect perfection from our little one. We expect our baby to be exactly what he or she is: a baby. A person. Someone who learns, grows, makes mistakes and has difficulties to overcome. The ultrasound today didn’t change anything for us; however, I think it showed us a reflection of who we are. We never cared about results. We do the best we can to care for our baby, and we lean into each other, as well as our community, for support along the way. We seek relationship, not statistics and confirmation of normality. In life, we want to set the examples for our child of unconditional love, intentional joy and deep faith. And we started a long time ago.
Sam Adams Dinner http://samadamsdinner.eventbrite.com/ Today’s Tax Day Tea Party rallies across the country bring us back to why the tea party movement came about. Three years ago saw the threat to our country and we came together because we believe in smaller government, lower taxes, and the free market system. We united behind our beliefs and our love of country, and the principals of the tea party movement were founded. Over the past three years we have educated ourselves about the constitution, politics and campaigns. We have poured our hearts into working the election cycles. We have waited for the 2012 primary to come and we voted with our hearts for the candidates we felt represented our values best. But now that the primary is over and we know who our nominees are for the November election we must come together for the general election. Beyond the election there are forces working against our country, the main stream media is gaining ground in demonizing the tea party movement. Credo a progressive think tank funded by George Soros has mounted a full out assault on the tea party, the title on their website reads “Take down of the tea party”. Let alone what Obama has done to our country over the past 3 ½ years. The Washington Post recently published an article about the tea party movement being fractured and how it will be essentially giving the democrats the victory in November. The Washington Post attributes this to the tea party’s history of attacking candidates on the Republican side. With that being said we know there are candidates on the Republican side that we are disappointed with that will be on the ballot this November. However we have to remember how politics works, and by giving control of the house back to democrats will only give more power to Obama if he is re-elected. We must have a strategy to save the republic. We must work to defeat Barak Obama, maintain control of the house and God willing take control of the Senate. Should we gain control of the senate and maintain the house of representative we are in better position to put pressure on the “Rhinos” to vote with the tea party agenda. Where does the path to victory begin? It starts with the Sam Adams dinner, the dinner is the first step for all of us come together so that we can unify and more importantly work together to bring about a victory in November. We can all agree that the country can not withstand four more years of the Obama administration; this is our moment to band together to restore liberty and change the course of our country. Please join us May 24th for the 1st Annual Sam Adams dinner. Steve Balich, Samantha Neitzke & Vivienne Porter Homer/Lockport Tea Party Coordinators Leave a Reply
With tomorrow's new election worker training, our staff underwent an exercise today that we do after nearly ever election. We conducted a post-mortem review, in this case an analysis of the last two elections to identify learnings before heading into our next one. Typically, we schedule these reviews for a couple of hours over lunch, bring in pizza, and discuss the elections as a complete group. We go through all voter comments and the feedback sheets sent back from our election workers at each polling place. Usually, we break the election down from left to right, from election preparation through advance voting, concluding with voter history and the canvass. Today, we dove directly into specific things we want to address beginning tomorrow. Our focus today related primarily to learnings around Photo ID, which included recognition that those up front need additional training on the ins and outs of ID. We've focused so much on our election workers, that they may be more up to speed on some of the changes than our front-line staff. A few of them will sit in on training tomorrow, although I think the training will more than likely just give them validation and confidence in knowing that they really are more up to speed than they may have thought. We also spend time evaluating interdependencies. During the cycle, each of us at some point becomes a temporary choke point before another group in our office can move the ball with their responsibilities. For instance, jurisdictional changes beget precinct definition and new mapping, which begets the movement of voters into new jurisdictions, which beget determination of candidates, leading to creation of the ballot, followed by ordering the printing of the ballot, followed by ballot delivery and voting machine programming, coming before voting machine delivery--accompanied with supply delivery, except for some supplies picked up by the supervising judges, who learn about that when they come to training. And that's just high-level overlay number of one of a dozen. (Er, maybe one of 10--I felt like the narrator of "The Ten Commandments" there. It's that time of year). In fact, our county is undertaking an infusion of training, sending department and agency heads to training, with the objective of cascading a culture among all employees where decisions are made collectively and at all levels in the organization. I went to this training in November, and all the while saw proof points that our staff was already operating in this high-performance mode. Having about a third of your resources cut over six years kind of brings that out, but I think that's an election thing, too. Election people are operations-oriented and are great at execution. That's a good thing, because I think execution capabilities are the most coveted competencies in organizations. When I worked at Sprint, a couple of our senior leaders were fond of saying, "We have all the tools in place; it just comes down to execution." Well, of course it does. Strategy--while important--is the easy part. Everything in life comes down to getting things done. Today was just a great reminder that I share the office with 15 persons who are great at getting things done.
A couple of months ago, I wrote about different modes of horror, and while enjoying the Library of America collection Shirley Jackson: Novels and Stories, it got me thinking about how Jackson employed (and mastered) the art of identification in her stories. The Library of America collection, selected by Joyce Carol Oates, contains forty-nine of Jackson’s stories. Except for the previously-unpublished works, the collection effectively spans the entire twenty-year period in which Jackson wrote before her untimely death in 1965. The stories range in length from what today would be considered flash fiction (like the two-page Colloquoy) to Jackson’s short novels (including the classic The Haunting of Hill House). The book starts with Jackson’s earliest stories that were originally collected in The Lottery and Other Stories, and when I think of Shirley Jackson, these are without a doubt my favorites. As a genre, horror has a great many tropes: moonlit streets, foggy nights, sexy gentlemen with a dark side, the unrelenting psychopath, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. However, most of the stories that rely on these tropes tend to either utilize revulsion or dread to induce the delightful frisson of horror. For folks who look for their horror to be splatterpunk blood-fests, or for sexy vampires lurking languidly in the night, most of Shirley Jackson’s work would disappoint. The reason for that is that she utilizes every tool of the horror trade like a scalpel, and in her earliest works the tool she most relied on was identification (or realization). Most of the stories collected in the original The Lottery and Other Stories (and which are now reprinted) have zero supernatural elements, depict no violence, and arguably lack the thriller-tension that most readers think of as horror. If it were not for the subtle manipulation of the reader’s morality, these stories would be utterly forgettable slice-of-life or Americana stories, accurate, in their representation of small-town life but insignificant as to the broader human condition. However, what makes Jackson unique in my view is the way that she can ellicit abject horror and revulsion from these utterly plebian events. Consider Flower Garden, which on its face tracks the musings of a young Mrs. Winning, a 1940′s housewife, as she goes about her life in a small country town. She interacts with people like her neighbors, the grocer, her family. Shortly into the story, we learn that a new woman (a Mrs. MacLane) has moved into town from the city, and that she has a son of an age with Mrs. Winning’s boy. However, as the story proceeds, Jackson shows us the underside of small-town life, with its small-town prejudices. As the newcomer forms a friendship with one of the town’s few African American families, the “respectable” portion of small-town society begins to draw away. What Jackson does amazingly in this story is in the way that she portrays Mrs. Winning’s rationalization of their ostracization. Mrs. Winning isn’t guilty of any such prejudice: no, that’s only for more small-minded people. But ultimately, she adopts a similar stance to the other townsfolk and effectively isolates poor Mrs. MacLane in this new community. The story works because Jackson makes us care – deeply – about the characters, both Mrs. Winning (who we know isn’t all bad) and Mrs. MacLane (who is the victim). Jackson accomplishes this using three tools: There is nothing to suggest that Flower Garden is a horror story: there is no violence, no fear, no physical tension of any kind. There are no ghosts or other supernatural elements. Yet it leaves the reader horrified at the underlying truth dramatized through the story’s actors. It ensures that we not only understand the author’s message but that we recognize it as an inevitable (and morally repugnant) consequence of human nature. And nowhere does Jackson come out and spell this message out for us: it is in the pauses between her characters’ thoughts, in the punctuation of her sentences, in the selection of her words. The story leaves us uneasy because it is all too easy to see ourselves in it. Jackson applies this pattern in many of her works, and I find that it is put to best effect in her short stories. There, she evokes similar sensations of horror, disgust, revulsion, and tragic catharsis but with admirable economy. In her later novels, Jackson employed more supernatural (or ambiguously supernatural) elements, which often serve as sleight-of-hand to provide us a cozy rationalization for the real cause of our horror. Of course, even this interpretation is likely an over-simplification because even in her “supernatural” stories, Jackson leaves everything delightfully ambiguous: perhaps we need to blame our terror on ghosts and demons because the alternative – that humanity itself produces such horror – is too unsettling. For anyone looking for an excellent author – whether a literary/mainstream author, or for one of the greatest horror writers ever to put pen to paper – I strongly recommend Shirley Jackson. Having come to her stories some sixty years after they were first published, I often wonder how my modern values affect my interpretation. I suspect, however, that the themes that Jackson addresses are universal and timeless. The foibles of humanity, the petty iniquities of small-town life, the dark secrets that lurk unspoken in our hearts: these never go away. It is easy to paint a black and white moralizing picture and say a character’s actions are morally repugnant: that does not mean those actions are unrealistic, or that they are not presented in cathartic and artistic fashion. Jackson offers no easy solutions. In fact, she doesn’t offer any solutions at all. But she raises questions that go to the heart of what we value as individuals, as a community, and as a broader society. That alone makes her worth reading. The fact that her works are fun, and unsettling, and in some cases absolutely horrifying, makes it that much better.
Using the Moon as a High-Fidelity Analogue Environment to Study Biological and Behavioural Effects of Long-Duration Space Exploration Goswami, Nandu and Roma, Peter G. and De Boever, Patrick and Clément, Gilles and Hargens, Alan R. and Loeppky, Jack A. and Evans, Joyce M. and Stein, T. Peter and Blaber, Andrew P. and Van Loon, Jack J.W.A. and Mano, Tadaaki and Iwase, Satoshi and Reitz, Guenther and Hinghofer-Szalkay, Helmut G. (2012) Using the Moon as a High-Fidelity Analogue Environment to Study Biological and Behavioural Effects of Long-Duration Space Exploration. Planetary and Space Science, Epub ahead of print (in press). Elsevier. DOI: 10.1016/j.pss.2012.07.030. Full text not available from this repository. Due to its proximity to Earth, the Moon is a promising candidate for the location of an extra-terrestrial human colony. In addition to being a high-fidelity platform for research on reduced gravity, radiation risk, and circadian disruption, the Moon qualifies as an isolated, confined, and extreme (ICE) environment suitable as an analogue for studying the psychosocial effects of long-duration human space exploration missions and understanding these processes. In contrast, the various Antarctic research outposts such as Concordia and McMurdo serve as valuable platforms for studying biobehavioral adaptations to ICE environments, but are still Earth-bound, and thus lack the low-gravity and radiation risks of space. The International Space Station (ISS), itself now considered an analogue environment for long-duration missions, better approximates the habitable infrastructure limitations of a lunar colony than most Antarctic settlements in an altered gravity setting. However, the ISS is still protected against cosmic radiation by the earth magnetic field, which prevents high exposures due to solar particle events and reduces exposures to galactic cosmic radiation. On Moon the ICE environments are strengthened, radiations of all energies are present capable of inducing performance degradation, as well as reduced gravity and lunar dust. The interaction of reduced gravity, radiation exposure, and ICE conditions may affect biology and behavior--and ultimately mission success--in ways the scientific and operational communities have yet to appreciate, therefore a long-term or permanent human presence on the Moon would ultimately provide invaluable high-fidelity opportunities for integrated multidisciplinary research and for preparations of a manned mission to Mars. \|Title:\|\|Using the Moon as a High-Fidelity Analogue Environment to Study Biological and Behavioural Effects of Long-Duration Space Exploration\| \|Journal or Publication Title:\|\|Planetary and Space Science\| \|In Open Access:\|\|No\| \|In ISI Web of Science:\|\|Yes\| \|Volume:\|\|Epub ahead of print (in press)\| \|Keywords:\|\|Physiology, Orthostatic tolerance, Muscle deconditioning, Behavioural health, Psychosocial adaptation, Radiation, Lunar dust, Genes, Proteomics\| \|HGF - Research field:\|\|Aeronautics, Space and Transport, Aeronautics, Space and Transport\| \|HGF - Program:\|\|Space, Raumfahrt\| \|HGF - Program Themes:\|\|W EW - Erforschung des Weltraums, R EW - Erforschung des Weltraums\| \|DLR - Research area:\|\|Space, Raumfahrt\| \|DLR - Program:\|\|W EW - Erforschung des Weltraums, R EW - Erforschung des Weltraums\| \|DLR - Research theme (Project):\|\|W - Vorhaben MSL-Radiation (old), R - Vorhaben MSL-Radiation\| \|Institutes and Institutions:\|\|Institute of Aerospace Medicine > Radiation Biology\| \|Deposited By:\|\|Kerstin Kopp\| \|Deposited On:\|\|27 Aug 2012 08:05\| \|Last Modified:\|\|07 Feb 2013 20:40\| Repository Staff Only: item control page
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The staff and volunteers of Grace Clinic would like to offer heart-felt thanks to you, our community, for your fantastic support of our recent Soup Sale. We were absolutely blown away by the amount of resource donations from local businesses, from the media, local restaurants, churches, HCMH, the Elkin High School Interact Club and from the many volunteers who made our soup sale possible. Thanks to all of them and all of you who came to buy soup! As this was our first soup sale, we underestimated the crowd of local soup-lovers and apologize to those of you we had to turn away after all the soup was gone. We promise to work hard to have more soup next year and so appreciate your support. Grace Clinic provides medical care for those without health insurance, helping our community be a healthier one. God bless all of you who once again demonstrated that this is a community that supports its most vulnerable. Bob Spencer is the executive director of the Grace Clinic.
Halloween is my favorite Holidays; hands down. Why? Because I can dress up, in whatever I desire, call it a costume, and no one will look at me funny. In fact I suspect envy in some people’s eyes because I was brave enough to do so. I guess we can’t all keep our inner child. Such a shame since I suspect the world would be a better place if we encouraged it. But back to the topic of Costumes! It’s been a while since I’ve actually made myself one. After all I have two kids and you can’t get them to make up their mind until Halloween is drawing nigh. Take my son for example – for six months he wanted to be Spider man, but then Grammy showed him a costume website and he wanted to be Sonic. At that same time my daughter decided she wanted to be Cinderella. No biggie, I went out and snagged two patterns (on sale no less) and started putting together my list of materials. But as I started cleaning out last year’s costumes I gave them one more chance, bringing out what patterns I had. After some back and forth between the two of them, and some discussion with me, they decide; a Prince (he likes costumes with weapons) and a Princess (she doesn’t have to be a specific one). They love to coordinate – you can easily see that if you look at what they’ve been over the course of the past 3 years \|2011: Cheetah and Snake 2010: Batman and Batgirl 2009: Pirate and Mermaid\| This year I totally scored though. We were able to find the majority of the fabric in my stash (I used to buy fabric I liked when it was on sale all the time). Still it cost more than I’m willing to admit to get the trim and two small pieces of fabric, even with some coupons. But hey, my kids love them and they get good use out of them. My daughter can still wear the Mermaid costume (after I let out two inches) and my son his batman one (though it’s almost a crop top with shorts now). For the Hubby, I’ve already made a pair of ‘Ren Fest’ wearable pants (not authentic, having an elastic waist, but much more passable than jeans). I’ve started on my son’s costume, which is coming out nicely and I only have the hood and pants to finish his look. Then for my daughter we found we already had a dress in the pattern she wanted in their Costume Closet. Now They’ll be definitely set for Girl Scouts Trunk or Treating on The 19th. As for me, I’m pulling out a fancy cape I made (just need to hem it) and a Princess dress my mom made. It’s not like I have a Costume Closet of my own to go through wink What about you? What goes through your mind when you see adults dressed up, outside of some sort of fair or conference? Do you dress up? (And do you secretly wish you could do it more of the time like I do?)
Quiet and beautiful existing in harmony to nature that is the El Sabanero Eco-Lodge. Located on a hillside in Cañafistula near Tamarindo (Costa Rica) the Hotel overlooks the Cañafistula valley with beautiful views from all Chalets. We are in the midst of 4 of the most popular and beautiful beaches in the area so our clients do not need to choose just one and have a variety to choose from. Playa Avellanas, Playa Negra, Playa Junquillal and Tamarindo are all just a few minutes drive away. (Beaches are not in walking distance) We offer Wireless Internet connection in the Pool, Bar and Restaurant areas so bring your own laptop and stay connected. Continental breakfast for 2 is included with all Chalet bookings and Meals are inexpensive and excellent. Tours like Zip lining, Horseback Riding, Snorkeling, Sunset Cruise Tours, Surfing, Buena Vista Mega Combo, Rafting Tour, Turtle Nesting (November to January only) and many more, can be arranged by our Hotel staff during your stay. Treat yourself to a relaxing and refreshing full body massage by Ana Eugenia P. Clachar while staying at our lodge- only U$ 40.00 for 60 minutes
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2 week summer course at Oxford University Would you like to spend 2 weeks living and studying at one of Oxford University's oldest and most beautiful colleges? Oxford University Department for Continuing Education's annual Summer Seminar is a teacher development course focussing on current developments in the English language and in English language teaching. This course is designed for teachers of English working at primary, secondary and tertiary level who want to reflect on and develop their teaching skills. The majority of course tutors and plenary speakers are Oxford University Press authors and trainers and the topics are varied and interesting. As well as learning from ELT authors and experts during the day, you will have the opportunity in the evenings and weekends to experience life in Oxford through a full and varied programme of events. The programme will be accommodated and taught in Exeter College. Founded in 1314, Exeter is one of the University`s oldest colleges and is situated in the heart of Oxford. For further details of the course and the application process, go to the OUDCE website: http://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/courses/details.php?id=X162-2 Dates: Sunday 22nd July to Saturday 4th August 2012 Application process: by post using the application form available to download from the University website. Fees: £1,950, includes tuition, access to IT facilities, social activities, accommodation and meals (except lunch on Saturday and Sunday and meals during optional weekend excursions) European Union Funding: Financial support may be available for English language teachers enrolling on training courses in the UK under the European Commission`s Lifelong Learning Programme. For further information please see: http://ec.europa.eu/education/programmes/llp/index_en.html Images © Exeter College
Okay, so because I like giveaways, contests and my followers, I am combining all three. I am making a shop on Etsy and I decided to giveaway two Divergent related things from there on tumblr! I am giving away Divergent Faction Bookmarks, Now, here are the rules: 1. REBLOG as many times as you want! My Bookmarks(see top right & middle) are lonely and need a parent. There’s no limit on Reblogging. This is for my followers, you are free to reblog, but if you want to win, you should be/go follow me. Choosing goes with a random generator. 2. You have an open ask, so I can message when you win so you can choose your faction and give me your adress. This means you have to be comfortable/allowed to give me your adress! 3. This is also a contest! :) With posting this post, I will give away one bookmark. If it gets 250 notes, 2 bookmarks. 450 3 bookmarks, and at the odd chance of 750, the Dauntless/Divergent bracelet shown at the top and bottom. Okay I’m doing this because my blog exists a month and I like it and I have those things lying around. If this gets fun, I’ll do it another time maybe :) This will be a a week, from thursday 19 July, to when my one month is over, thursday 26. I’ll ship it anywhere in the world. :) update second day: Since this post yesterday made 250 notes, this means that I will now give away 2 bookmarks. every reblog puts your name into the ‘pool’, even if it’s only to be seen on my dash. The more you’re in the pool, the more chance you have :)
Cumberland Iced Hoffee has been nominated for a Shorty Award in the Best Viral Campaign category. Looking at the Hoff campaign in isolation it is brilliantly integrated and executed across a variety of media. Now add to that… The 147% boost in iced coffee sales This campaign offers such a positive counterpoint to my post yesterday dissing Ogilvy and Dove for a creating a case study misrepresenting their ineffective campaign. Thanks to @seanlynam for sharing this with me! The video above “Thought Before Action” is a case study Dove released showcasing the latest move in their ongoing campaign for “Real Beauty”. Quick summary: Dove released a Photoshop plug-in that claimed to add a fake glow to model’s skin. When installed, it actually reverts the image to the original pre-shopped version and a message appears, ”Don’t manipulate our perceptions of real beauty”. AdWeek published a thoughtful analysis of this campaign, Ogilvy’s Photoshop hacktivism is clever but questionable for a brand built on honesty. The article acknowledges that the idea is clever, but also not as effective as this video case study makes it seem and therefore off-brand. “Its agency had a clever idea it knew wouldn’t really work in the real world, but went ahead with it anyway—and then let the video make it seem like something it wasn’t. Isn’t that just the kind of obfuscating that Dove claims to oppose?” I completely agree with AdWeek. If this concept actually reached and influenced a respectable number of graphic designers and photo editors, then go-tell-it-on-the-mountain how brilliant and committed Dove is to ‘Real Beauty’. But publishing a video case study of a campaign that actually had minimal impact? Sounds more similar to ‘Action Before Thought’ doesn’t it? To promote their new F TYPE, Jaguar has created a Bond-esque short film starring Homeland’s Damian Lewis and featuring an original song by Lana DelRay. That is a pretty sexy move, Jaguar. I understand why some cars need a Tim Allen voiceover touting safety features and gas mileage to appeal to the responsible family-first crowd. But, when you are buying a luxury car, you are buying excitement and sex appeal. I like this approach- not saying anything at all about the car. They just want you to know it’s of-the-moment and it’s cool. If I ever work in print again, I am totally ripping this off. My digital interpretations: Animated dragon silhouette flies across screen with homepage in his talons. Drops in place as he flies off screen. Game of Thrones full screen ad. Dragon flies in and claws it away revealing homepage. Claw marks remain. I know. I’m a day late and a dollar short with the Oscars post. I was in Nashville this weekend, where nobody really seemed to care much about the Academy Awards (adding to the list of reasons I’m obsessed with Nashville). After catching up on all post-Oscar buzz, all I can say is, Jennifer Lawrence is my new celebrity lady crush and her PR team deserves as many honors as she does. Following the “I beat Meryl” controversy (see 1:07), Jennifer got a second chance to generate more positive PR at the Oscars. You would think her PR team would intervene and encourage her to play it safe. Nope! She actually said “Does a bear shit in the woods?” on the red carpet. Then she tripped up the stairs when going to accept her award. Girl let her freak flag fly. And how appropriate considering she was nominated for her role in a film about self-acceptance and embracing imperfections. I absolutely love the clip above of her meeting Jack Nicholson. Jezebel describes her as “crass without being offensive, self-deprecating without being a sad sack, and dorky without being adorkable”. Is this a PR tactic? I hate being cynical, but being naive is even worse…so I’m going to vote ‘yes’. Brands and celebrities alike have an image to project and protect. And while most people find it more entertaining to bash Anne Hathaway and Zooey Deschanel- consumers recognize when brands are being fake. More importantly, they connect with brands that dare to be different. Every Last Drop is an interactive website that educates users on the amount of water the average person consumes every day in the UK. (I’m gonna go out on a limb and assume Americans consume even more). As you scroll down, the site takes users through an average day highlighting water consumption all along the way. Not only does it highlight direct consumption, but also the water required to produce other items we all consume on a daily basis. Allowing people to interact with a message makes it more memorable and share-able. I hope to see more Web Designers and Marketers utilize interactive designs like this to spark conversation on important issues.
The Unwritten Order of Things- Boyd K. Packer BOYD K. PACKER BYU Devotional Address, October 15, 1996 in the Marriott Center I speak to you today as a teacher. I reflect the influence of a teacher that I knew more than fifty years ago. As is often the case, the influence of that teacher did not center on the subject he taught. Dr. Schaefer was a professor of mathematics at Washington State University at Pullman, Washington. He was quite unimpressive in appearance. I don’t remember his first name, but I shall never forget the first thing he said the first day we met. It was during World War II. We were in pilot training and had been sent to the university for what we were told would be a crash course in meteorology, weather, navigation, physics, aerodynamics, and other technical subjects. We thought the title “Crash course” was not very encouraging to student pilots. The word intense would have been better. The pressure was enormous because those who failed the course would be washed out of the pilot program. I was in competition with cadets, many of whom had been to college; some of them had had some advanced training, while I had barely escaped from high school. Dr. Schaefer was to take us from basic mathematics through calculus in just a matter of weeks. I thought it was hopeless, until that first few minutes in the first class. He began the class with this announcement: “While many of you have had some college, even advanced courses in what we are to study, it will be my purpose to teach the beginners. I am asking those of you who know the subject to be patient while I teach the basics to those who do not.” Encouraged by what he said and more by how he taught, I was able to pass that course with reasonable ease. It might otherwise have been impossible. When I decided to become a teacher, Dr. Schaefer’s example inspired me to try to the best of my ability to teach basic, simple truths in the most understandable way. I have learned how very difficult it is to simplify. Years after the war, I returned to Washington State University and found Dr. Schaefer. He, of course, did not remember me. I was just one of many hundreds of cadets in his classes. I thanked him for what he had taught me. The math and calculus had long since faded away, but not his example as a teacher. So, following that example, today I want to tell you something about the Church. The things that I shall tell you are not explained in the scriptures, although they conform to the principles taught in the scriptures. A principle is an enduring truth, a law, a rule you can adopt to help you in making decisions. Generally principles are not spelled out in detail. That leaves you free to adapt and to find your way with an enduring truth, a principle, as an anchor. The things I am going to tell you are not explained in our handbooks or manuals either. Even if they were, most of you don’t have handbooks—not the Melchizedek Priesthood or Relief Society handbooks and the others—because they are given only to the leaders. I will be speaking about what I call the “unwritten order of things.” My lesson might be entitled “The Ordinary Things about the Church Which Every Member Should Know.” Although they are very ordinary things, they are, nevertheless, very important! We somehow assume that everybody knows all the ordinary things already. If you do know them, you must have learned them through observation and experience, for they are not written anywhere and they are not taught in classes. So, as we continue, if you are ones that know it all, be patient while I teach those who do not—and take a nap. The basic foundation of knowledge and testimony never changes—the testimony that God the Father lives, that Jesus is the Christ, that the Holy Ghost inspires us, that there has been a restoration, that the fullness of the gospel and the same organization that existed in the primitive church have been revealed to us. Those things are taught everywhere and always—in our classes, the scriptures, the handbooks and the manuals—in everything we do. The fundamental doctrine and instructions on the organization of the Church are likewise found in the scriptures. In addition, there is another source of knowledge relating to what makes the Church work: We learn from experience and observation. If you learn about these things that are not written down, the unwritten order of things, you will be better qualified to be a leader—and you are going to be a leader. The most important positions of leadership are in the home—the father, mother, wife, husband, older brother and sister. Then, in the Church, positions of leadership and teaching opportunities are available as nowhere else on earth. While the things I will talk about are not written, they are really quite easily learned. Just be alert to the unwritten order of things and take an interest in them, and you will find that you will increase your ability and your value to the Lord. Before I give you a few samples of this unwritten order of things, let me remind you what the Lord said: “My house is a house of order, saith the Lord God” (D&C 132:18; emphasis added). And he told his prophet: “See that all these things are done in wisdom and order; for it is not requisite that a man should run faster than he has strength. And again, it is expedient that he should be diligent, that thereby he might win the prize; therefore, all things must be done in order” (Mosiah 4:27; emphasis added). Paul told the Corinthians that “all things” were to “be done decently and in order” (see 1 Cor. 14:40; emphasis added). We’ll return to that in a moment or two. The things I am going to tell you about are not so rigid that the Church will fall apart if they are not strictly observed all the time. But they do set a tone, a standard, of dignity and order and will improve our meetings and classwork; they will improve the activities. If you know them and understand them, they will greatly improve your life. Our meetings should be conducted in such a way that members may be refreshed spiritually and remain attuned to the Spirit as they meet the challenges of life. We are to establish conditions under which members can, through inspiration, solve their own problems. There are simple things that help in that regard, and things that hinder. Alma taught “that by small and simple things are great things brought to pass; and small means in many instances doth confound the wise” (Alma 37:6). I give as my first illustration of this unwritten order of things so simple a thing as this: The one who presides in a meeting should sit on the stand and sit close to the one conducting. It is a bit difficult to preside over a meeting from the congregation. The one who presides is responsible for the conduct of the meeting and has the right and the responsibility to receive inspiration and may be prompted to adjust or correct something that goes on in the meeting. That is true whether it be an auxiliary meeting presided over by the sisters or any of our meetings. A new stake president sometimes will ask, “Must I sit on the stand in every meeting in the stake? May I not sit with my family?” I tell him, “While you preside, you are to sit on the stand.” I am tempted to say, but I don’t, “I can’t have that privilege; why should you?” Another example: If you watch the First Presidency, you will see that the first counselor always sits on the right of the president; the second counselor on the left. That is a demonstration of doing things “decently and in order,” as Paul told us. Ordinarily, but not always, if the presiding officer speaks, it will be at the end of the meeting. Then clarification or correction can be given. I have had that experience many times at the close of meetings, “Well, brother or sister somebody said such and such, and I’m sure they meant such and such.” Another illustration: We do not aspire to calls in the Church, nor do we ask to be released. We are called to positions in the Church by inspiration. Even if the call is presented in a clumsy way, it is not wise for us to refuse the call. We must presuppose that the call comes from the Lord. The fifth article of faith tells us that we “must be called of God, by prophecy, and by the laying on of hands by those who are in authority, to preach the Gospel and administer in the ordinances thereof.” If some circumstance makes it difficult for you to continue to serve, you are free to consult with the leader who called you. We do not call ourselves and we do not release ourselves. Sometimes a leader or a teacher enjoys the prominence of a presiding position so much that, even after serving for a long time, they do not want to be released. That is a sign that a release is timely. We should do as we are called. We should accept the calls and accept a release by the same authority. When President J. Reuben Clark was called as second counselor in the First Presidency after having served for many years as first counselor, he responded at the Solemn Assembly where the sustaining of the new First Presidency took place: “In the service of the Lord, it is not where you serve but how. In The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, one takes the place to which one is duly called, which place one neither seeks nor declines” (CR, Apr. 1951, p. 154). The Church had been taught a very valuable lesson in the unwritten order of things. I learned years ago that we do not choose where we serve—we just answer the call. Soon after our marriage, I was called as an assistant stake clerk. My bishop did not want to release me as Gospel Doctrine teacher. He told me that I had much more to offer as a teacher than in the very obscure assignment as assistant stake clerk. But he knew that, under the unwritten order of things, the stake president presided and that his call took precedence. I cannot tell you all that I learned in that calling. I was able to see how a presidency works. I was the witness to revelation in the calling and the releasing of stake and ward officers. By watching our stake president, I learned by observation and experience many things that are not in the handbook. It was in that calling that I first met members of the Twelve and others of the Brethren as they came to conference. It was a time of training in the unwritten order of things. I was on a plane once with President Kimball who, I think, served for 19 years as a stake clerk. A member that lived in the stake at that time was on the plane. He said to me, “If I’d known that our stake clerk was going to be President of the Church, I’d have treated him a lot better.” Brother Kimball was actually serving as second counselor in the stake presidency when the stake clerk moved. They called a clerk and that clerk moved. Brother Kimball had taken over the responsibility. Brother Melvin J. Ballard came to conference, and he said, “You shouldn’t have to be the second counselor and the stake clerk at the same time. You choose which you would rather be.” Brother Kimball was not used to having a choice. He wanted to have Brother Ballard tell him, but Brother Ballard said, “No, you choose.” So Brother Kimball said, “I have a typewriter. [Very few people had typewriters then.] I know the system. I think I can make a bigger contribution if I stay as the stake clerk.” And so it was. In those days the stake clerk received a small stipend, a little monthly something or other, I suppose to buy supplies. A sister, who knew him well, wrote and said, “Spencer, I’m surprised at you—to take a calling just because there is money involved.” Then she said, “If you don’t change your attitude, within two months, you’ll apostatize from the Church.” Well, she was a little off in her timing! Now an example: On one occasion Elder Harold B. Lee presided over our stake conference. Between sessions we had lunch at the home of President Zundell. Donna and I arrived a little late because we had gone home to check on our young children. Elder Lee had come to the car to retrieve something from his car and was on the walk when we arrived. I am sure we were very visibly moved to be able to talk personally and to shake hands with an Apostle. He gestured toward the house and said, speaking of the stake presidency who were assembled there, “They are great men. Never fail to learn from men such as these.” And I had been taught something of the unwritten order of things by an Apostle. There is so much you can learn by watching experienced leaders in the wards and stakes in which you live. There is so much you can learn by listening to the older brethren and sisters who have had a lifetime of experience in the school of the unwritten. Another illustration. There is an order of things as to where we go for counsel or blessings. It is simple—we go to our parents. When they are no longer available, if it is a blessing, then we may go to our home teacher. For counsel, you go to your bishop. He may choose to send you to his file leader—the stake president. But we do not go to the General Authorities. We do not write to them for counsel or suppose that someone in a more prominent position will give a more inspired blessing. If we could get this one thing taught in the Church, great power would rest upon us. President Joseph F. Smith taught that should there be sickness in a home and should there be present “apostles, or even members of the first presidency of the Church, . . . the father is there. It is his right and it is his duty to preside” (Gospel Doctrine, p. 286). There is one authorized “end run” around the bishop, the stake president, the General Authority, and everyone else in our line of authority. That is to our Father in Heaven in prayer. If we do that, we will in most instances solve our own problems. Another principle: Revelation in the Church is vertical. It generally confines itself to the administrative or geographic boundaries or limitations assigned to the one who is called. For instance, a bishop who is trying to solve a problem will not get revelation by counseling with a bishop from another ward or stake to whom he is related or with whom he might work at the office. My experience has taught me that revelation comes from above, not from the side. However more experienced or older or however more spiritual someone to the side may appear to be, it is better to go up through proper channels. Principle: A prime attribute of a good leader is to be a good follower. In a meeting with bishops, a new and struggling bishop once asked me, “How do I get people to follow me? I have called nine sisters to be president of the Primary and none has accepted.” There was a good humor and pleasant spirit in the meeting which made it an ideal teaching moment. I answered that I doubted that he had “called” any of the nine sisters. He must only have asked or invited them. I told him that if he had earnestly prayed and counseled with his counselors as to who should preside over the Primary, the first sister would have accepted the call. Perhaps he might have discovered in the interview some reason why it was not advisable or timely for that sister to serve and excused her from serving. But surely not more than one or two. If that many sisters turned down the call, something was out of order—the unwritten order. Because there was such good spirit in the meeting, I said to him, “Bishop, I know something else about you. You’re not a good follower, are you? Aren’t you the one who is always questioning what the stake president asks of his bishops?” The other bishops in the room started to chuckle and nodded their heads—he was the one. He chuckled and said he supposed that was right. I said, “Perhaps the reason your members don’t follow their leader is because you don’t follow yours. An essential attribute of a leader in the Church is faithful and loyal followship. That is just the order of things—the unwritten order of things.” When I was a young man, Elder Spencer W. Kimball came to our conference and he told this experience. When he was a stake president in Safford, Arizona, there was a vacancy in the office of superintendent of Young Men in the stake, as the office was then called. He left his office one day, went a few steps down the street, and had a conversation with the owner of a business. He said, “Jack, how would you like to be superintendent of the stake Young Men’s organization?” Jack replied: “Aw, Spencer, you don’t mean me.” Spencer replied, “Of course I do. You get along well with the youth.” He tried to convince him, but the man turned him down. Later in the day, after smoldering with his failure and finally remembering what Jacob had said in the Book of Mormon—“having first obtained mine errand from the Lord” (Jacob 1:17)--he returned to Jack. Calling him “brother” and by his last name, he said, “We have a vacancy in a stake office. My counselors and I have discussed it; we’ve prayed about it for some time. Sunday we knelt down together and asked the Lord for inspiration about who should be called to that position. We received the inspiration that you should be called. As a servant of the Lord, I am here to deliver that call.” Jack said, “Well, Spencer, if you are going to put it that way . . .” “Well, I am putting it that way.” You know the result. It helps to follow the proper order of things, even the unwritten order. I have on my desk a letter from a brother who is greatly bothered because he was not called to office properly. He accepted the call and is willing to serve, but he said his bishop did not consult his wife first and otherwise did not handle it properly. When I respond to him, I will try to teach him something of the unwritten order of things as it relates to being a little patient with how things are done in the Church. In the first section of the Doctrine and Covenants, the Lord admonished every man to “speak in the name of God the Lord, even the Savior of the world” (D&C 1:20). I think I’ll point out to him that he may one day be a bishop, overburdened with problems in the ward and with an extra burden of personal cares, and suggest that he give now what he would appreciate receiving then. Another point of order: Bishops should not yield the arrangement of meetings to members. They should not yield the arrangement for funerals or missionary farewells to families. It is not the proper order of things for members or families to expect to decide who will speak and for how long. Suggestions are in order, of course, but the bishop should not turn the meeting over to them. We are worried about the drift that is occurring in our meetings. Funerals could and should be the most spiritually impressive. They are becoming informal family reunions in front of ward members. Often the Spirit is repulsed by humorous experiences or jokes when the time could be devoted to teaching the things of the Spirit, even the sacred things. When the family insists that several family members speak in a funeral, we hear about the deceased instead of about the Atonement, the Resurrection, and the comforting promises revealed in the scriptures. Now it’s all right to have a family member speak at a funeral, but if they do, their remarks should be in keeping with the spirit of the meeting. I have told my Brethren in that day when my funeral is held, if any of them who speak talk about me, I will raise up and correct them. The gospel is to be preached. I know of no meeting where the congregation is in a better state of readiness to receive revelation and inspiration from a speaker than they are at a funeral. This privilege is being taken away from us because we don’t understand the order of things—the unwritten order of things—that relates to the administration of the Church and the reception of the Spirit. Our bishops should not give our meetings away. That is true of our missionary farewells. We’re deeply worried that they now have become kind of reunions in front of ward members. The depth of spiritual training and teaching which could go on is being lost. We have failed to remember that it is a sacrament meeting and that the bishop presides. There are many things I could say about such matters as wearing Sunday best. Do you know what “Sunday best” means? It used to be the case. Now we see ever more informal, even slouchy, clothing in our meetings, even in sacrament meeting, that leads to informal and slouchy conduct. It bothers me to see on a sacrament meeting program that Liz and Bill and Dave will participate. Ought it not be Elizabeth and William and David? It bothers me more to be asked to sustain Buck or Butch or Chuck to the high council. I just say, Can’t we have the full names on that important record? There is a formality, a dignity, that we are losing—and it is at great cost. There is something to what Paul said about doing things “decently and in order.” Well, there is so much I want to tell you about the unwritten order of things, but then these are things that you must learn for yourself. If we could only put you in the circumstance where you begin to observe, begin to get that training, then you will know how the Church is to operate and why it operates that way. You will find that it conforms to the principles which are outlined in the scriptures. If you will just “treasure up in your minds continually the words of life,” the Lord will bless you and give “you in the very hour” what you should say and what you should do (D&C 84:85). Learn about this great pattern—the teachings that come to us from just watching and participating. Soon after Spain had been opened for the preaching of the gospel, I was in Barcelona. Two of the first missionaries sent to Spain were sent to Barcelona to open the city. They had appealed to President Smith Griffin for forty chairs. He was in Paris at the time, and he didn’t know why they wanted forty chairs when they had no members. He hesitated at the expense, but he thought he would encourage the missionaries. So he approved the forty chairs. When we arrived at the meeting hall, upstairs in a business building, the forty chairs were filled. There were people standing. The elders had arranged for their first convert, a middle-aged man who worked in a fish market, to conduct the meeting. We watched as they taught him what to do, sometimes standing up to whisper to him. Brother Byish nervously got through the meeting with their assistance. And then, as he stood to close, the Spirit of the Lord fell upon him and he preached with great power and at some length. It was an inspired testimony, an unforgettable moment. The two young elders, both converts from South America, had somehow learned something of the unwritten order of things. They were putting the Church in place in proper order in Barcelona. Now there are four stakes in that city. And so it goes. The Lord uses the ordinary Saints, the rank and file, to move his work along. Isn’t it strange that princes and kings And clowns that caper in sawdust rings And just plain folks like you and me Are builders for eternity? To each is given a bag of tools, A shapeless mass and a book of rules, And each must build ere life has flown, A stumbling-block or a stepping stone. · R. L. Sharpe, “Stumbling-Block or Stepping Stone” The Church will move on, and it moves on just because the rank and file learn by observation, learn by teaching, learn by experience. Most of all, we learn because we are motivated by the Spirit. One day, of course, you who are young now will lead the Church. If in the intervening time you will learn and study the unwritten order of things, the power of the Lord will be upon you to the end that you might be the useful servant. I bear witness that this is His Church, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and, as the Lord said, that all “might speak in the name of God the Lord, even the Savior of the world” (D&C 1:20). I invoke his blessings upon you and bear witness to you in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.
Posted on August 29th, 2007 Happy 90th birthday, EMU! Well, almost. The college will officially turn 90 years old on Oct. 15, 2007. Eastern Mennonite School (as it was called then) began its first classes with six students enrolled on Oct. 15, 1917. ‘Shenandoah Welcome’ – Returning students, faculty and staff greeted new members of the EMU community in a recessional following the convocation. (Photo by Jim Bishop) “As is true for most schools of that era, our beginnings were rather inauspicious,” EMU President Loren Swartzendruber noted in a convocation address on the opening day of fall semester classes Wednesday, Aug. 29. “Planning for a new school had begun more than a decade earlier, but it took many years and a lot of hard work to gather the money, personnel and facilities for the dream to become a reality,” he said. Tuition for that first year, 1917-18, was “a whopping $30, $15 per term,” the president said. “Room and board was actually more expensive than tuition. Students paid $149 for tuition, room and board for the year.” “To be sure, the EMU of 2007 is very different than the Eastern Mennonite School of 1917,” Swartzendruber told students, faculty and staff gathered in Lehman Auditorium. “We survived the Great Depression, two World Wars and many other challenges. There were no international students in 1917, and there certainly was no cross-cultural requirement. That first class of six students comprised four women and two men; the current gender ratio is 60:40, which mirrors the national averages.” Swartzendruber told students that “searching out wisdom” should be a primary objective of their EMU experience. Learning Outside the Classroom “We know from national research that fully half of what students learn during the college years, and probably in graduate school, occurs outside the formal classroom,” the president said. “That doesn’t mean that faculty members aren’t important. In fact, a distinct advantage of a place like EMU is the multiple opportunities to interact with professors outside the classroom,” he added. Swartzendruber noted that since 1917, this campus has been a place for millions of “sacred conversations.” “In some ways, for me, that is the essence of a liberal arts education in the context of a faith-based university,” he said. “Sometimes it is conversations between generations — in which those with more life experience, typically faculty/staff, converse with the next generation, typically students. But, conversations are two-way interactions, and meaningful conversations are based on mutual trust and respect, he said. Those conversations happen in the classroom, in the faculty member’s offices, with supervisors in work-study jobs and informally over coffee. They happen during late-night bull sessions in the residence halls or with roommates who share an apartment. “Just like every year since 1917, again in 2007-08 we will have sacred conversations about many topics — the role of faith in our lives and vocations, what does it mean to be a university in the Christian tradition that also invites dialog with those of other faith traditions, how do we in the Christian tradition, as followers of Jesus, live in peacemakers in a violent world?” Personal Dialog, Not Electronic Interaction Swartzendruber cautioned against substituting electronic interaction, such as Facebook, MySpace or text messaging, for meaningful personal dialog, noting that “they simply can’t be the primary medium for conversation about important matters.” “I invite all of us to sink our roots deep into this community at EMU for the months or years that we are here,” he said. “Give primary attention to your present environment – academic requirements, physical well-being, social interactions and sacred conversations.” During the convocation, the assembly sang “What is This Place” (HWB No. 1), “Strong Son of God, Immortal Love” (HWB No. 488) and the university hymn, “Christ of the Mountain.” Student Government Association co-presidents Lindsey Grosh and Sarah Roth gave a welcome to campus. Julie A. Haushalter of EMU’s campus ministries team led a blessing on the new academic year for all students, faculty and staff. EMU’s fall semester runs through Dec. 14.
September 11th, 2008 – by Emily Benner My internship is at D.C. Jobs with Justice and so far it is amazing. I am assisting in organizing immigrant day laborers who hang out in the parking lot at the local Home Depot waiting for contractors to pick them up for jobs form a union and develop a worker task force center. The parking lot manager and Home Depot don’t appreciate their presence. Being from a Puerto Rican background, I understand Spanish fluently but speak minimally. I’m hoping to be fluent by the end of the semester. I will also assist in organizing and teach ESL classes, campaigning for worker rights, and community support and development. I am taking two classes at Howard University, a highly respected and predominantly African American university. I am taking Seminars in Community Development and Public Art Inter-Media. My first experience alone on the Howard campus was a bit intimidating. I’m not used to being the minority to such a large degree but after walking through campus and sitting in the waiting room of the health center for three and a half hours, you tend to forget the color of your own skin. It’s a worrisome yet empowering feeling. On one hand you don’t want to lose your identity and on the other it is amazing not being the majority yet still being welcomed and accepted. On my fourth day here, the entire house everyone had finally moved in and settled in the house. I was a bit overwhelmed after living by myself for the past year. I admit I may have cried myself to sleep that night but I’m learning to cope. I am learning that my housemates are also not out to get me but are all coping as well.
Due to the frustration I went through in May when my cable modem stopped working in my computer room and my seeming inability to get the situation corrected through Comcast’s 1-800 number, I’ve been ranting on my blog about the situation. Last week when I linked the original post, a Comcast representative invited me to email the details of my situation to her. It took me through the Christmas weekend to get the email put together, but when I did, it was sent up to corporate. Corporate scheduled a technician to visit my house and investigate the problem. The tech came, replaced some coax and splitters, and checked the signal strength. I am now able to keep my cable modem and router upstairs in my computer room, safe from the kids and our Borg cat that likes to eat wires. Seriously, we had no lights on our Christmas tree because the cat ate some bulbs and the power cord. I’ve written before about how smart businesses will monitor the web for negative incidents. I’m glad that Comcast did that. To be honest, as long as my cable modem and TV work, I am perfectly happy to stay with Comcast. There really isn’t a viable alternative to Comcast high-speed internet, but as long as it works I’m happy. I don’t have any complaints about our cable package, which is honestly a very low price. Several years ago we dumped our expanded cable to try to save money. This was right after Joshua was born in 2004, the same time we switched to DSL. After 3 weeks with a newborn baby and only basic cable, our sanity was stretched to the limits. We’d spend Saturday mornings in a half-catatonic state watching those used car commercials. I found out about a $5 value package and asked for that. Our cable and internet bill is under $60 or $70. We don’t at present see a need for a several hundred dollar a month digital package. I don’t watch sports, and as long as I have the History and Discovery Channels and my wife has Food TV and the kids have Nickelodian, we’re happy. I also recently discovered that we have Speed, which was a nice surprise. Maybe I should channel flip more often. I know that customer service is one of the most expensive and time consuming functions of business, and no business can expect to please everybody. I was very happy to see that Comcast monitors blogs.
Jackson, who leads the W's in points, assists and minutes, "says his new-and-improved physique is behind his sustained surge, and he's giving credit to the Warriors' strength and conditioning gurus Mark Grabow and John Murray." It was Murray who pointed out that Jackson's lack of strength was causing him to get pushed around without getting his share of foul calls, so the nine-year veteran hit the weight room to bulk up. Jackson now lifts for 30 to 40 minutes after every Warriors shootaround to jump start his game-day routine. He's also using meal-replacement shakes to boost nutrition. The added strength is helping Jackson get "in better spots for shots and rebounds and figuring out how to hold his position down low." It's also helped his stamina. "This is the most I've lifted and the most I've been in the weight room my whole career, and it's starting to pay off," says Jackson. "I was thinking that I didn't need it, but as I see now, it's the most I've ever weighed in my life and I still have my speed, so it's definitely helped my game a lot."
Maxthreads Architectural Design and Planning designed the Dublin’s Parlour Pavillion in Ireland. Description from the architects: Dublin’s Parlour Outdoor pavillion The objective of this project is to design a new public civic space for Dublin. The Parlour will have a strong social cultural and environmental character and have a countrywide profile for holding an intense and varied programme of music and other outdoor events including markets and monster ceils. The design concept derived from the flux/ flow of the mass pedestrian transportation point of the O2. Aim of the project is to create a strong, sculptural element with a distinctive roof form that will be prominent when viewed from large open space. Or the near by offices. The pavilion. Proposed pavilion is to accommodate a large semi-outdoor indoor performance stage and seating area for hosing the music and other outdoor events. At the same the pavilion acts as a device which can re-organise the flux of large amount of visitors and pedestrians through the central open space. The challenge of the pavilion is to create: 1. Using aluminium as light weight structural system to create long span, column free roof structure which can cover up to 700 square meters. 2. Eco-friendly design 3. A distinctive and iconic building on site. \|Architecture Design\|\|Maxthreads Architectural Design and Planning\|
A forum, themed “ Vietnam : opportunity for tourism, trade and investment”, took place in Malaysia ’s capital city of Kuala Lumpur on May 5 to further strengthen cooperation in these fields between Vietnam and Malaysia. Co-organised by the Vietnamese Embassy and the Vietnam Airlines office in Malaysia , the forum drew over 100 delegates from Malaysia ’s leading businesses and tourism companies and Vietnam ’s travel agencies, including Pitaberry, Chin Huat, Polar Ice Cream, HG Travel and I-travel Indochina . Addressing the forum, Vietnamese Ambassador to Malaysia Nguyen Hong Thao said that Vietnam-Malaysia cooperative relations in trade, tourism and investment continue to show positive growth, but did not yet correspond to the two countries’ potential and aspirations. The forum aims to boost tourism promotion, presenting opportunities and preferential investment policies to increase the number of tourists between the two countries, while strengthening two-way trade to raise bilateral turnover to 10 billion USD. The Ambassador expressed hopes that Malaysia ’s corporations and companies would continue strengthening their presence in Vietnam , believing that they will achieve more success. Acting Director General of Tourism Malaysia Haji Azizan Noordin highly valued Vietnam ’s potential in tourism, affirming that Vietnam is one of 15 leading tourism markets of Malaysia . He also expressed his hope that the two countries’ trade cooperation will develop more strongly. Also at the forum, Vietnamese commercial counsellor Vu Van Canh said that bilateral trade has increased annually by an average 20 percent in recent years. In 2011, two-way trade reached 6.66 billion USD, in which Vietnam ’s export turnover to Malaysia achieved 2.76 billion USD. In terms of investment, Malaysia ranks second in ASEAN countries and eighth among 90 nations and territories investing in Vietnam , with 404 projects and a total registered capital of 11.09 billion USD. After the forum, delegates had a chance to enjoy a special programme performed by Vietnamese artists and Vietnamese food and drinks like nem (Spring roll), pho (noodles) and Trung Nguyen coffee.-VNA
- Fernando Alonso - Jules Bianchi - Valtteri Bottas - Jenson Button - Max Chilton - Paul di Resta - Romain Grosjean - Esteban Gutiérrez - Lewis Hamilton - Nico Hülkenberg - Pastor Maldonado - Felipe Massa - Sergio Perez - Charles Pic - Kimi Räikkönen - Daniel Ricciardo - Nico Rosberg - Adrian Sutil - Giedo van der Garde - Jean-Éric Vergne - Sebastian Vettel - Mark Webber - Full name Jaime Alguersuari Escudero - Birth date March 23, 1990 - Birthplace Barcelona, Spain - Current age 23 years 56 days - Teams Toro Rosso \|First race\|\|Hungarian Grand Prix\|\|Hungaroring\|\|July 26, 2009\|\|Race results\| \|Last race\|\|Brazilian Grand Prix\|\|Interlagos\|\|November 27, 2011\|\|Race results\| Despite being thrown into the F1 limelight at a very young age - and midway through the 2009 season to boot - Jaime Alguersuari has defied his critics and learnt fast. The Spaniard, who's father was a successful motorcycle racer, started racing in karts at the age of eight and made his single seater debut in 2005. The following season he won the Italian Formula Renault winter series and was runner up in the main championship in 2006. He moved to the British F3 championship in 2008 with the highly regarded Carlin Motorsport team, and after a season-long battle - mostly with his team-mates - he became the youngest winner of the championship at 18 years and 203 days. The same year he was called up by Red Bull to deputise for the injured Mark Webber in the Race of Champions but was knocked out in the first round. He moved on to the World Series by Renault in 2009 and at the time of his call up to the Toro Rosso team he was eighth in the championship with one podium result to his credit. Despite his new F1 duties he decided to continue contesting the championship in order to get as much track time as possible. His debut at the Hungarian Grand Prix, where he replaced the sacked Sebastien Bourdais, made him the youngest F1 driver ever at just 19 years 125 days old. He retired from five of the eight races in his debut season, but Toro Rosso kept faith in him and offered him a contract renewal for 2010. In his second season he picked up five points and fared well towards the end of the year compared to team-mate Sebastien Buemi. He improved in his third season after a slow start and was expected to retain a seat for 2012 but was the more surprising name when Toro Rosso axed both drivers at the end of 2011. Strengths and Weaknesses He has won several big championships at a young age and despite his lack of experience in F1 acquitted himself admirably his first full season. Winning the prestigious British F3 championship in 2008 - former champions include Ayrton Senna (1983), Mika Hakkinen (1990), Rubens Barrichello (1991), and Takuma Sato (2001) Faced tough criticism after he was thrown in at the deep end of F1 - with no real testing he struggled to show pace and had a huge crash at Suzuka. "I am aware that I'm facing a very tough challenge, because coming into Formula 1 is never easy, coming into Formula 1 in the middle of a season is even harder and doing so without any testing is really difficult. But already I feel that I am getting great support from the team, who have quite a reputation for looking after rookie drivers." "If you get a drive in Formula One it's because you deserve it. It's because you're good enough to drive a Formula One car. And he's been given time this year to gain experience; there's no pressure on him and hopefully he can learn step by step. Is he ready? We'll see. I'm sure he'll be fine. I wish him the best." Fernando Alonso As a teenager Alguersuari spent a year at a boarding school in Ipswich to improve his English - it was his Dad's idea to help him cope with press conferences after winning races. Unhappy Alguersuari slams F1 auction (February 16, 2013) Alguersuari 'sure' he will return to F1 next year (September 26, 2012) Pole-less champions (August 3, 2012) Pirelli hints at fifth compound in 2013 (June 12, 2012) - Pirelli signs Alguersuari and di Grassi as test drivers (March 30, 2012) July 27, 2012 © Sutton Images March 17, 2012 © Sutton Images February 21, 2012 © Sutton Images

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