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— One of the mistakes I see entrepreneurs make is they move to business model before locking down strategy. The way I like to think about this is get the product right first, then lock down the strategy of the business, then figure out the business model.
You Can Do Too Much Due Diligence
— It's Monday, time for another lesson I've learned in the venture capital business. Today I will tell a story that I love telling. It has some of my favorite people in it. — Back in 2004, early in my blogging career, I heard about a service that had just launched called Feedburner.
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When Things Don't Work Out
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Short Term Thinking vs Long Term Thinking
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Venture Capital Returns
— This post is for everyone who thinks venture capital is an easy business. I'd like to dispel that notion. — Here are short term and long term returns for the venture capital business over the past ten years compared to the public equity markets in the US.
Putting 2012 To Bed
— I'm typing this on my phone as our plane is starting to descend into the NY metro area. We will land at JFK within the hour. — I've wanted to write a year end post for days. I actually wrote one and stored it as a draft. But it comes across as a whiny complaint about the s**tty year that 2012 was.
Rethinking Mobile First
— I wrote the Mobile First Web Second blog post a few years ago. In that post, I talked about apps that were designed to be used on mobile primarily with the web as a companion. — There have been a number of startups that have taken that approach and done well with it.
Nobody Is Crying For You When You Are Worth Billions
— I did a talk with Bill Werde at Billboard's FutureSound conference a few weeks ago. The entire talk is online (in two parts) here. If you go to 7:45 minutes in on the first video (embedded below) you will get to a conversation …
What Has Changed
— As I read this post in the WSJ about the changing nature of VC funding of consumer web companies, I thought that we may be looking at the symptoms and not the disease. As the WSJ notes, VC funding of consumer web and mobile companies is down 42% in this first nine months of 2012 (vs the first nine months of 2011). | <urn:uuid:669cdc60-46f6-4edc-9f6d-36b4850b475b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.techmeme.com/search/query?q=sourceurl%3Aavc.com%2Fa_vc | 2013-06-20T02:08:39Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959152 | 843 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Failure to act against police
Assembly proceedings were adjourned on Friday following the Opposition’s protest against Home Minister Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan’s denial to initiate action against the police personnel who allegedly misbehaved with two women legislators in the course of an agitation on the Suryanelli issue on February 6.
Leader of the Opposition V.S. Achuthanandan raised the issue during the zero hour and said that Mr. Radhakrishnan had promised to inform the House on Friday about the disciplinary action taken against the police personnel who misbehaved with CPI MLAs Geetha Gopi and E.S. Bijimol.
The six women LDF legislators had dropped their plan to stage a satyagraha outside the House on the basis of this assurance. Mr. Radhakrishnan said that based on the report of ADGP A. Hemachandran who probed the complaints of the women legislators; he had given oral directions for an inquiry under the provisions of the Kerala Police Department Inquiry and Punishment Act.
Since Ms. Gopi was unable to identify the accused and the government too was unable to trace anyone on scanning the video footage, it was decided to order a judicial probe.
As the Opposition refused to cooperate with the probe, the Minister gave oral direction for the probe as per the set course of law. The oral probe had been ordered to fix the responsibility. The government was not willing to yield to the Opposition pressure and suspend anyone without fixing the responsibility, he said.
Mr. Achuthanandan challenged the claim and said that the government was unable to identify the accused even 10 days after the incident. This was an attempt to delay the probe, he said. The Opposition members then moved to the well, squatted and shouted slogans. Speaker G. Karthikeyan then completed the day’s business and adjourned the House for the day.
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Dr. Pyongsoo Yoon practices Thoracic Surgery, Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery, and Vascular Surgery near Youngstown, OH.
Additional practice locations include: Memphis, TN and Fredericksburg, VA.
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TAMPA, Florida - Vincent Lanci was crossing Howard Avenue just south of North A Street early Sunday morning when he was hit by a gray or silver Acura according to Tampa police.
The 21-year-old's friends and family call him "Vinnie." Vinnie's sister, mother, and cousin can't bear to be away from his bedside at Tampa General Hospital for a moment. They're hoping for healing, and for answers.
Lena Gosik says, "He's still on a respirator, and he's laying in bed and he hasn't been responsive with us yet."
Gosik is Vinnie's cousin. She says the two grew up together. Gosik and her family want to know why someone would leave Vinnie in the street to die after running him over. Gosik, a University of Tampa finance major, was slated to graduate in May.
Tampa police say the person was driving a grey 2007 Acura TL 4-door sedan.
Gosik says, "I mean, I'd really hope that the person would see what they've done and just come forward at this point."
Vinnie's family flew in from New York, and they showed us a cell phone picture of Vinnie badly banged up and bruised with a head injury. He's received countless visitors checking in on him.
Gosik says, "He's just Mr. Popularity. Everyone loves him."
She says they believe Vinnie was simply walking home when someone slammed into him and kept going.
10 News spoke with his roommates, John Low and Steven Rodino. Low says, "It's just shocking to know the person is still out there. He knows that somebody's injured. He knows that a family is suffering."
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Rodino says, "I just want to find out who did this, because Vinnie was helpless, and the fact that someone had to hit him and leave the scene, it's very sad."
It's a feeling a lot of their schoolmates share. Many of them say it's normal to walk just about everywhere in the area. Channing Hailey attends the university and says, "One of the appeals of being here is that you can walk everywhere, and so students do."
Lattoddrea Key adds, "You have to be careful, because not everybody follows traffic laws."
10 News spoke with the lead detective on the case and he says they're trying their best to release some security video that might show the car that hit Vinnie. In the meantime, if you were in that area early Sunday morning and you saw anything that could help Tampa Police, they want to hear from you. | <urn:uuid:954edd8f-cf19-434b-92f3-d487951fd815> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.wtsp.com/news/local/article/293273/8/University-of-Tampa-student-hurt-in-hit-and-run- | 2013-06-20T01:58:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.98844 | 568 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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In Dan Brown's best-selling novel, "The Da Vinci Code," the secretive conservative Catholic organization Opus Dei and its operatives play the villains -- among them, a self-flagellating monk turned serial killer.
The actual organization is launching an unprecedented publicity campaign, called "Operation Lemonade," to combat the negative image created by the book.
The movie adaptation of "The Da Vinci Code" is set to be released May 17. The plot contends that Jesus married Mary Magdalene and had descendants, and it claims that Opus Dei and the Catholic Church were at the center of a cover-up.
"Good Morning America" got an exclusive behind-the-scenes tour of Opus Dei's New York headquarters, and looked at the facts and fiction surrounding the group.
What Is Opus Dei's Mission?
Positive Interpretation: An innovative teaching on the sanctifying value of work, complete fidelity to the Catholic Church, and enabling each Catholic layperson to take full responsibility for the mission of sanctifying society.
Negative Interpretation: Often been accused of secrecy, ultraconservative beliefs, a right-wing political agenda -- dating back to Spanish dictator Francisco Franco in Spain -- and even cultlike methods.
The 'Da Vinci Code' Villain: Silas
In "The Da Vinci Code," Silas is a crazed albino monk who physically punishes himself and murders people in the name of his religion. Opus Dei, however, says the real Silas is peaceful and soft-spoken Silas Agbim, a stockbroker from Nigeria who lives in Brooklyn, N.Y., with his wife and has been a member of the group for 28 years.
"I'm not, of course, I'm not deep undercover," he said. "I am not an albino. I am not a monk -- far from that."
Opus Dei is Latin for "The Work of God"
Members exchange the greetings "Pax" and "In Aeternum" -- meaning "Peace" and "In eternity"
There are approximately 87,000 members worldwide; 3,000 in the United States
The organization was founded on Oct. 2, 1928, in Madrid, Spain, by St. Josemaria Escriva de Balaguer
It's believed to be worth $2.8 billion
The New York City headquarters cost $69 million, according to the Opus Dei communications office -- $61 million for the building itself; $8 million for furnishings
John Paul II was supportive of the organization and designated it a "personal prelature" -- meaning the prelate's jurisdiction is not linked to a territory but over persons wherever they be
From Time magazine
Associates -- Members who follow the most rigorous spiritual practices of Opus Dei life (including celibacy) but do not live in residence or retreat centers.
Cilice -- A spiked chain that some members strap around their upper thigh for two hours a day as an act of penance.
Cooperators -- Nonmembers who support the group through prayer, volunteer work or financial contributions.
Discipline -- A small, cordlike whip that some members use once a week to flagellate themselves during the recitation of a prayer.
The Norms -- Spiritual obligations that all members perform daily, including attending Mass, praying silently for 30 minutes twice a day, and reciting the Rosary and other prayers, usually after supper.
Numeraries -- The most committed members, who take vows of celibacy, live in Opus Dei centers, and practice corporal self-punishment.
Numerary Assistants -- A subset of the numerary class composed exclusively of women who perform domestic duties in Opus Dei facilities.
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Brian White Talks Nene Leakes Beef On Wendy Williams: “Black Women Need To Be Portrayed Better In Media” [Video]
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Love Friend Triangle: Evelyn Lozada GOES IN On Ex- BFF Jennifer “Purple Contacts” Williams, Her Relationship With Nene Leakes And Says “BEYOTCH You Will Never WIN!!!”
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Nene Leakes Does Cover Shoot With Other Real Housewives, But Nene Isn’t A Housewife Anymore… She’s An Attention Slore! [Video]
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New Couple??? NeNe Leakes Is Getting Her Groove Back… But Why Is She Trying To Keep Her New Boo On The Low?
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Reality TV Bull Shizzle: NeNe Leakes Is Trippin’ On Them Hoes At Bravo! The RHOA Diva Demands Her Own Spinoff
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Monday, May 28, 2012
Kim Zolciak-Biermann is a terrible human being. She is a very bad mother, daughter, and friend. The way she has raised her daughters is terrible. On the Real Housewives Of Atlanta, Kim's daughter made a inappropriate toast to her mother and stepfather Kroy Biermann talking about sexual topics on how that now that her mother can have someone to have sex with. If Brielle was my daughter and she made a toast like that, I would tan her behind good and she would know never to do that again, but all Kim did was just laugh it up like it was nothing. I am telling you, that is what wrong with some of these parents these days, they are too busy trying to be their kids friends instead of their parents. And then they wonder why their children are being disrespectful and cussing them out as well as other adults. And as for being a daughter, Kim is the worst kind, on her show (Don't Be Tardy For The Wedding), she was being really disrespectful towards her own mother, cussing at her on the cellphone and what not. Kim has no real respect for other people period and to disrespect the woman who brought her into this world was way beyond cruel to me and it seems like Kim is a shame of her mother too because her mother isn't rich, and she also cut her mother out of the opportunity to help with the planning of the wedding. Mother crave on helping their daughters with their wedding plans and Kim just plainly denied her own mother the opportunity of helping with the wedding. Kim she needs to get some help and visiting a counselor wouldn't be a bad idea for her to do. And as for being a friend she is one of those with a friend like Kim who needs enemies. Kim uses her friends for own personal and professional gains. Such as with her "friend" Kandi Burrus, Kandi was nice enough to help her with the Don't Be Tardy For The Party song, and how did Kim repay her? She basically didn't pay Kandi at all for all of the work she put into making that song a hit. And with Linnethia "NeNe" Leakes, Kim was the worst kind of a friend to her. She loved it when NeNe was down and out, but now that NeNe's career has skyrocketed Kim she can't be happy for her to save her own life. And as for Cynthia Bailey Thomas, Kim had the nerve to talk bad about Cynthia's wedding on Don't Be Tardy For The Wedding. Kim sounded like she was jealous of the beautiful wedding that Cynthia had. Oh well, Kim who died and made you the Queen of The Real Housewives Of Atlanta? Nobody and as far as I am concerned NeNe is the Queen and the real star of that show and you Kim just need to fade into the background and shut up! So here is what I have to say about Kim Zolciak-Biermann. | <urn:uuid:1fe68c16-8eb0-4c42-95a0-38a7de365a9d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://chelsiareneenorton.blogspot.com/2012/05/kim-zolciak-biermann.html | 2013-05-20T22:32:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.990313 | 614 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Friday, March 9th 2012, 2:44 PM EST
Following your excellent seminar at the University of Houston on February 6, 2012, I introduced myself, indicated Greenhouse Gas Theory (GHG) is a perpetual motion machine to drive anthropogenic global warming (AGW) violating First & Second Laws of thermodynamics, and emailed you my proof at 'No Virginia.'
I noticed your February 29, 2012 post 'Climate Deniers Are Giving Us Skeptics a Bad Name' included things you did not cover at the University of Houston:
“Now let me turn to the deniers. One of their favorite arguments is that the greenhouse effect does not exist at all because it violates the Second Law of Thermodynamics—i.e., one cannot transfer energy from a cold atmosphere to a warmer surface. It is surprising that this simplistic argument is used by physicists, and even by professors who teach thermodynamics. One can show them data of down welling infrared radiation from CO2, water vapor, and clouds, which clearly impinge on the surface. But their minds are closed to any such evidence.”
First, I recognize your expertise at evaluating climate data and UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) conclusions for validity; you are well-known to have proven GHG Theory effects on AGW are greatly exaggerated and not supported by any reliable data. You go further to claim carbon dioxide (CO2) does cause warming, without proof or quantification.
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Earth’s temperature is a chemical process system. Review of control system engineering of Earth’s thermostat with anthropogenic CO2 in 1997 proved it will never work because it is an unmeasurable, unobservable and uncontrollable system. CO2 does not affect temperature; temperature affects CO2. There are no greenhouse gases in physics. CO2 is not a pollutant; it is green plant food. Global warming stabilized since 1998.
Purpose. Physics, chemistry, mathematics, engineering, economics, history and ethics are deployed to identify the barriers to designing the thermostat to control Earth’s atmospheric temperature by adjusting its CO2 input.
Method. People have beliefs and knowledge. Knowledge of nature is discovered by the scientific method: theory in the language of nature (mathematics), prediction and verification. Such discoveries are held to be true until falsified. I offer claims supported by credible evidence, settled science and warrant how one can know that they are true. Sound engineering requires no less. No opinion, no speculation, no controversy, no politics, no alarmist adjectives. When an unlicensed engineer resorts to name calling and threats, I declare victory and move on.
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I am still a little confused with how they came up with this and it seems a little sketchy if you ask me. Here is the article and let me know what you guys think. I will be revising this post when I do more research on Isaac Newtons calcuations for end times.
Isaac Newton. Image taken from Wikipedia
Article taken from worldnetdaily.com
In “Temple at the Center of Time: Newton’s Bible Codex Deciphered and the Year 2012,” by David Flynn, a book that has skyrocketed up the best-seller charts following its release this month, the author makes a correction to Isaac Newton’s research, pointing to the year 2013 as “the time of the end.”
In 2003, the Daily Telegraph in London published a front-page story declaring that, according to Isaac Newton, the world would end in 2060. This was the first time that this calculation of Newton became widely known. However, various biographers and researcher of Newton’s theology had encountered it since 1991 when most of his manuscripts were released on microfilm at the Jewish National and University Library in Jerusalem.
According to Flynn, in the 1660s when Newton believed that the end of days was imminent, there seemed no reason to work out the approximate year in which it would occur. With the Great Plague, the fire of London and the apocalyptic fervor of the times, it seemed obvious to Newton that the end time had already arrived. But over the ensuing decades of his life, Newton became increasingly aware that his convictions had been premature. Near the year 1705, when Newton was in his sixties, his concern for preventing the repetition of the same error compelled him to invest his considerable knowledge to setting the matter of the time of the end to rest. The paper in which Newton recorded this calculation was the subject of the article in the London Daily Telegraph in 2003. Very few readers understood Newton’s reasoning for the date, not being scholars of end time prophecy themselves. Newton wrote concerning it:
This I mention not to assert when the time of the end shall be, but to put a stop to the rash conjectures of fanciful men who are frequently predicting the time of the end, & by doing so bring the sacred prophesies into discredit as often as their predictions fail. Christ comes as a thief in the night, & it is not for us to know the times & seasons which God hath put into his own breastNewton arrived at the year 2060 in a straightforward manner. He believed that the last world empire at the coming of the Antichrist would be a revived Roman Empire, a concept wholly embraced by eschatologists in modern times as well. He also believed that this had actually occurred in A.D. 800 through the coronation of Charlemagne by Pope Leo III as ruler of the revived Roman Empire in the West.
As described by the prophet Daniel, and John in Revelation, the revived Roman Empire will rule for one “week,” a period of seven times 360 days, or 2,520 days total. In the midst of this week, at 1,260 days, the Antichrist will desecrate the future temple in Jerusalem. Following the day/year guideline, Newton assigned 1,260 years of the Revived Roman empire before Antichrist’s desecration of the temple. This he did realizing that the rebuilding of the temple and the judgments of Revelation did not follow the rebirth of the Roman Empire in A.D. 800. None of the prophecies of the End of Days followed the coronation of Charlemagne as Emperor of the revived Roman Empire after 1,260, nor for that matter, any of the years up until Newton’s day. Therefore, he established each day with a year from A.D. 800, arriving at the year A.D. 2060.
In a manuscript number 7.3g, f. 13v. of the Yahuda collection, Newton was even more specific about the 2060 date.
So then the time times & half a time are 42 months or 1260 days or three years & an half, reckoning twelve months to a year & 30 days to a month as was done in the Calendar of the primitive year. And the days of short lived Beasts being put for the years of lived [sic for "long lived"] kingdoms, the period of 1260 days, if dated from the complete conquest of the three kings A.C. 800, will end A.C. 2060.But Newton’s prediction of Charlemagne’s revived Roman Empire starting in A.D. 800 and existing until the return of Christ was contradicted in 1806 when Napoleon forced the Empire’s dissolution.
“But,” says Flynn, “there remains a valid aspect of Newton’s calculation. There is reason to believe he was correct in his assumption that there would be 1,260 years until the return of Christ at the rebirth of the Roman Empire, but that the year he chose was incorrect. There is actually a better date based on the founding of Rome and the methodology of Daniel’s prophecy.”
Flynn explains: “The Romans had fixed the birth of the city of Rome and the Empire in 753 B.C. It was believed that the patriarch of the city, Romulus, had marked out the boundaries for the wall of Rome in this year. Known as Ab Urbe Condita (literally, from the founding of the city) the Roman calendar began with 753 B.C. according to the dating of Marcus Terentius Varro (116–27 B.C.) who lived at the time of the Empire itself.
Because of how the prophet Daniel divided the prophetic week in half, Flynn believes the original founding date for the empire of the prophecy, Rome, would follow this pattern and be bisected. Therefore, correcting Newton’s date, the year 753 B.C. designates the founding of the physical Rome while A.D. 753 establishes the rebirth of spiritual Rome. Counting 1,260 years forward from A.D. 753, one arrives at the year 2013.
Additional significance can be attached to this finding when considering that 2013 follows the end of the great cycle of the Maya calendar and the planetary cycle of the Aztec calendar, which concludes Dec. 21, 2012. This date has raised apocalyptic fears in corners around the world. According to “The Bible Code,” the world will end on this date due to a collision with a meteor, asteroid, or comet. Another theory – the “Novelty Theory” – claims time itself is a “fractal wave,” which will end abruptly in 2012. Even the popular television program X-Files speculated that colonization of the earth by “aliens” would occur in December 2012.
The Maya themselves describe past visits of Quetzalcoatl, the Feathered Serpent, descending through a “hole in the sky” on a rope ladder. They believe at the end of 2012 the serpent rope will emerge again from the center of the Milky Way, and Quetzalcoatl will return, heralding a new era at the start of 2013. Another version of the story has Quetzalcoatl sailing down on a winged ship, causing some to speculate that a UFO armada or “mother ship” could descend and take up position over earth on that date.
Besides this type of speculation, an unusual number of important events will occur beginning in 2012. NASA is predicting the next Solar Maximum will arrive in 2012 and will be the strongest in 50 years. At the same time, the sun will align with the center of the Milky Way for the first time in 26,000 years, on the exact date of the end of the Mayan calendar, Dec. 21, 2012. This will also be the year when the United States and the United Nations elect a new president and a new secretary general, considered by some to be the two most powerful “thrones” on earth, and the seat from which prophecy experts say the Antichrist will rule or receive power.
On a YouTube video here, well-known preacher Jack Van Impe says that the year 2012 and the end of the Mayan Calendar could mark the return of Jesus Christ.
Based on his research into the Jewish Feasts, Pastor Mark Biltz of El Shaddai Ministries (as laid out in a series of two DVD teachings produced by WND Videos called “The Feasts of the Lord”) believes this time frame between 2012-2015 could be prophetic and may signal the return of Christ. He says for people who believe in a “pre-tribulation rapture,” this would make the year 2008 very important. For those who believe in a mid-tribulation rapture, 2012 may mark their departure. And on his website, he adds “if you’re prewrath, then 2014 might be interesting [and] if you’re a posttribber, 2015 is the date to watch for.”
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In keeping with my efforts to try something new with this blog, I post-dated a new entry for each day this week, Monday through Friday. Though I haven’t made the time yet to really catch up in reading my RSS feeds (I have about 2800 unread items at this point), I did manage to post a few new link posts this week, too. The third part of the new plan is to offer a collection of links each Friday, the purpose being to post some of the links that never got out of draft form as individual posts. Some go back more than a year!
At any rate, because I am making a presentation about Internet Awareness, Safety, and Ethics to the Orange County District Technology Leaders (DTL) meeting on Monday morning, I am beginning with my Internet Safety category today, which also has the added benefit of being a relatively small category in my list of drafts.
Some of the links are very old… others were already dead, and they are not included. Still, I hope they wills serve as resources for others as they have for me.
So, here they are… one dozen internet safety links (in chronological order):
- Filters and student decision-making (Via Moving at the Speed of Creativity.) On March 14th of last year, Wes Freyer addressed the importance of digital citizenship in the face of Internet safety fears.
- Don’t Talk to Invisible Strangers – ANNA BAHNEY, New York Times (Via Educational Technology.) This brief article from March 15th of last year focuses on the sort of fear-mongering presentation I want to avoid. This is why the presentations I do focus on the benefits of the social web first. :)
- A VC: MySpace Musings (Via David Brussin.) My friend David Brussin sent me a link to these musings on danah boyd’s work last March 18th.
- Password protection for your feed? (Via Teach42) On March 20th 2006, Steve Dembo posted about password protecting an RSS feed, which you might do to protect student information that is syndicated online.
- Article: News – MySpace spoofs irk school officials (Via Furl – The rcraven Archive.) Robert Craven linked to this local example last March 24th.
- Filter your feeds with Feed Rinse (Via Lifehacker.) Something like Feed Rinse might be used to filter inappropriate material out of student or teacher RSS feeds. This was also posted on March 24, 2006.
- Greenhill School: Technology Information: “An Internet safety presentation delivered to upper school parents at Greenhill School. The presentation was delivered on March 27th, 2006 by Chris Bigenho- Director of Educational Technology at Greenhill. All audio files are mp3 format and the slides are provided in pdf and PowerPoint formats. There were 3 video clips used in the presentation. Two of these can be found on the parent resource page and were part of a series produced by Dateline NBC.”
- My Space and Our Space (Via Weblogg-ed News: The Read/Write Web in the Classroom.) Will Richardson quotes social networking expert danah boyd: “‘Support people in learning how to negotiate it.’ What a concept.”
- An Alternative to DOPA (Via 2 Cents Worth.) A post by David Warlick back on 08/09/06 focusing on the Adam Walsh act.
- Student Thoughts on The Danger of MySpace (Via Gary Bertoia.) Who better to go to then the real experts… students. (12/05/06)
- Greatest Challenge (Via 2 Cents Worth.) The comments in this more recent (01/24/07) Warlick post are the valuable part. He poses the question: ““What is your greatest challenge in teaching appropriate, ethical use of web-based media to your students?”
- Internet Safety Videos (Via Computer Science Teacher – Thoughts and Information from Alfred Thompson.) Posted on 08/25/2006: “The netsmartz.org web site is a joint effort of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and the Boys and Girls Clubs of America. They have a number of excellent videos on cyberbullying and the risks of strangers children can meet online. Most of the videos also have activity cards (often different ones for middle school and high school students), links to related news articles and other supporting resources. These are easily used as part of a curriculum to teach students about safe and responsible behavior on the Internet.”
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Enabling CPU Frequency Scaling November 4, 2005Posted by Carthik in administration, applications, guides, ubuntu.
I use the CPU Frequency Scaling Monitor on my panel to see the speed of my CPU. I have a centrino laptop. Ubuntu automatically increases the speed (frequency) of my laptop when the demand is more, and manages things very well.
However, when I am plugged in, I want to run my laptop at the maximum possible frequency at certain times. It turns out that the CPU Frequency Scaling Monitor can also have the functionality to change the Frequency, by “Governing” the CPU frequency. However, by default, on my laptop, left-clicking on the Monitor in the Panel did not give me the option to change the frequency.
In order to be able to change the operating frequency, your processor should support changing it. You can find out if your processor has scaling support by seeing the contents of files in the /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/
For example, on my system:
1300000 1200000 1000000 800000 600000
Which means that the above frequencies (in Hz) are supported by my CPU.
userspace powersave ondemand conservative performance
All those are the different “modes” I can operate the CPU at. Userspace, for example, regulates the frequency according to demand. Performance runs the CPU at max-frequency, etc…
On the Ubuntu Forums, I read that one can manually change the frequency by executing commands like:
$ cpufreq-selector -f 1300000
which will set the frequency to 1.3 GHz.
Now, I was interested in being able to change the power mode (between the different values listed in the “governors” above, manually by using the Cpu Frequency Panel Monitor.
I found out from the Forums, again, that changing the permissions of the cpufreq-selector binary by doing a:
$sudo chmod +s /usr/bin/cpufreq-selector
will allow me to acheive this. However, I was curious as to why Ubuntu does not, by default, allow me to choose the frequency using the CPU Frequency Panel Monitor, and what the “right” or “correct” way of enabling this is.
With a little bit of detective work, I found the reason why things are the way they are in Bug #17604 :
Oh, please, not another setuid root application if we can avoid it. Which file does cpufreq-selector need access to to change the CPU speed? And why should a normal user be able to change the CPU speed in the first place? The automatic CPU speed works well enough for the majority of users, and control freaks can always use sudo to manually set the speed, or deliberately shoot themselves in the foot by making the binary suid root (as explained in README.Debian).
Anyways, since I really want to “shoot my self in the foot” using my CPU , so I read the readme:
and as suggested in it, I did a
$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure gnome-applets
and answered “Yes” to the question regarding setting the suid of the cpufreq-selector executable. Now, by left-clicking on the CPU Frequency Monitor Applet, I can choose the frequency for my processor, and things couldn’t be better!!
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In an effort to further enhance the domestic passengers travel experience, Virgin Australia together with Melbourne airport has commenced significant refurbishments to Terminal 3 (T3).
The industry has been advised to update their clients of possible delays at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport from 11 June to 10 August this year.
Reaffirming the strategic relationship between the two airports, Changi Airport Group (CAG) and Narita International Airport Corporation (NAA) have signed to intensify collaboration between the two major airports.
Although not opposed to building a second airport, Virgin Australia chief executive John Borghetti stressed it was not the only option to resolving Sydney’s aviation requirements.
Aircraft enthusiasts will have the chance to catch a glimpse of the new Boeing Dreamliner this weekend, as it prepares to land at Sydney Airport this afternoon after completing its global Dreamtour.
With only five weeks remaining before McCarran International Airport welcomes the first flights into its new Terminal 3 expansion, airport officials have released a T3 guidebook. | <urn:uuid:96a1f9b1-1f2c-404d-9241-40dcc1a74a04> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://etravelblackboard.com/category/20/page/7 | 2013-05-20T22:25:04Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945574 | 211 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
The Telegraph has an interesting article about how a lot of Victorian and Eduardian paintings made it to Puerto Rico:
Pre-Raphaelites from Puerto Rico
On the day before he died of a heart attack in 1898, the Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones was busy at work on The Sleep of Arthur in Avalon, a massive oil painting inspired by Malory in which a mortally wounded King Arthur is laid out on a bier.
The artist had been working for 17 years on his unfinished magnum opus, which had been commissioned in 1881 by George Howard, later ninth Earl of Carlisle, for the library at Naworth Castle in Cumberland.
But that was not where the painting ended up. For the past 45 years, the 21ft by 9ft canvas has hung in an obscure museum in the crumbling colonial town of Ponce on the south coast of the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico.
The Last Sleep of Arthur in Avalon is a huge canvas, and when I lived in Puerto Rico I spent a lot of time enjoying its details. This (and The Avengers) was the start of my Anglophilia. After I had moved away from Puerto Rico, graduated from college and started working, one day I decided I would study one art movement in detail and chose the Pre-Raphaelites which – as far as art movements go – were a small group. I spent my first trip to England visiting the Tate, Lord Leighton’s house and other locales related to the Pre-Raphaelites.
Of course some of their stuff is best described as “Victorian monstruosities”, but that only adds to the fun.
I have forgotten most of what I studied then. Time flew while I was having fun, for sure.
While not a Pre-Raphaelite, Lord Leighton’s masterpiece Flaming June was also exhibited in the same room at the Museo de Ponce. Unfortunately the drama of the painting is greatly reduced by photography and by not showing it framed. Frames are an important element in Victorian and Eduardian painting, especially in the case of the Pre-Raphaelites who included some of their poetry in the frame. They in turn inspired William Morris, the creator of the Arts and Crafts movement.
The Puerto Rican Pre-Raphaelites will be in loan to the Tate in London until February next year.
The WSJ’s Five Best Books, on New York society, selected by Frances Kiernan:
(As a side note, when entering “Washington Square” in the Amazon search, it yielded “Good In Bed”, not quite what one expects.)
Ralph Lauren Women’s Nadine Wedge Pump in navy,
Pat has the Carnival of the Insanities. Go check it out.
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What an experience! You know a place is gonna be good when the only way to get there is on a boat. Amy + Kyle are good friends of Amy and Jeremy (Trust me, you want to click that link). I am so thankful to them for recommending me to Amy and Kyle. We had a fantastic time with everyone on the island, the sunset ceremony on the beach at Villas Paraiso del Mar was perfect, and dancing into the night under the trees in a coconut grove is not something I’ll soon forget. | <urn:uuid:2784659a-5a1c-4ebe-b6a2-5ab7cf575cf0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://jeremygilliam.com/weddings/amy-kyle-married-on-isla-holbox-mexico/ | 2013-05-20T22:38:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950642 | 110 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Jewish World Review March 31, 2005/ 20 Adar II, 5765
Showtime in Washington
This amuses him because it speaks to the gap between the politician in Hollywood, who works hard to keep the box-office cash flowing westward, and the stars who work just as hard bashing the White House and Congress, where he does his work. When he got his job last year, succeeding Jack Valenti, some Republicans in Washington felt insulted. How could they expect a Democrat to work with them to solve "the Hollywood problem"?
He arrived in Washington with the arrival of the results of a Harvard study criticizing "ratings creep." A movie that would have been R-rated a decade ago is likely to be rated PG-13 today. A movie X-rated 40 or 50 years ago is almost family fare now. Glickman, perhaps predictably, thinks criticism aimed solely at the moviemakers is unfair. What the movies are reflecting, he says, is "culture creep." Excessive violence and tawdry sexuality in the movies merely reflect changes in the culture. He's probably right about the culture, but Hollywood must take part of the blame.
The new president of MPAA is not an impersonator of Barbara Streisand, Alec Baldwin or Whoopie Goldberg. He brings certain bipartisan qualifications to the job, a man at home in either blue or red state. He knows how Washington works. He was a congressman from Wichita, which could be a twin of Peoria, the stereotypical redoubt of what we once called Middle America. He was secretary of Agriculture in the Clinton administration; he quotes his wife as cleverly noting that "culture" is the larger part of "agriculture." He loves movies, recalling how he spent most of Saturday afternoon as a boy sitting through a double feature, a serial and two cartoons and went home wanting more.
He acknowledges, as anyone from Kansas would, that the perception of Hollywood is that it's considerably to the left of where most people in America live. He sees his job as building bridges between red state and blue. In a free-wheeling conversation over coffee and Danish at The Washington Times, he told me how conservatives share certain important interests with the liberals in the movie industry. As an industry, Hollywood makes an economic as well as cultural impact. Movies create jobs, which makes more jobs and increases trade overseas.
"Our industry is the only one to generate a positive balance of trade in every country where it exists," he says. "Our movies earned $8 billion in the domestic market last year, but $15 billion in the international market." Although China allows only 20 foreign movies to be screened officially each year, the very size of the market requires a better job of selling American movies. Movies at their best can export American values: "Movies show other countries things about us they want to copy, and Republicans ought to see that as consistent with their view of a strong America with a strong impact in the world."
At the moment, the biggest candy-and-popcorn issue for Washington is piracy, and definitely not as Johnny Depp in "Pirates in the Caribbean." Film pirates, knocking off illegal copies of new movies, cost the industry over $3 billion a year. On a recent trip to Mexico, where he toured the world's largest flea market, he counted more than 400 stalls selling pirated films (including "Pacifier," a new "family" movie produced by his son).
This week, Ted Olson, the solicitor general for the first President Bush, argued for the entertainment industry in a complicated property-rights case before the Supreme Court. Hollywood and the recording industry argue that current law permits the copying of songs and movies, and sharing them on the Internet. This enables young people to grow up learning how to steal. But the industry also wants to encourage creative technological innovation. "Consumers want a legal, hassle-free, reasonable cost for buying their movies online," he says.
Perhaps, but a lot of consumers prefer free to reasonable if they can get it. If he can find a way to satisfy both his bosses and the customers, he'll deserve the red carpet next year.
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The Ghanaian Bill Gates and His African Colleagues
Herman Chinery-Hesse, known as the African Bill Gates, at the computer in his office.
The Ghanaian Bill Gates and His African Colleagues
Silicon Valley solves problems that don’t exist yet. But in Africa, innovation means using new technology to solve old problems. These are some examples. This is the first article of a series “technoguru” Francis Pisani is writing for El País giving a digital tour of the planet.
By Francis Pisani, November 13, 2011
To innovate is to solve an old problem with new technology. Each of the Africans I asked to define “innovation” gave me this same answer in his own terms.
This conception is rather far from the one you’d find in Silicon Valley, where, in general, innovation is associated with the creation of new commercial products or better and more efficient processes. The paradox of this dominant model is that even the most acclaimed, most popular innovations it fosters solve problems that don’t exist yet and create needs that we didn’t have before.
It’s very tempting to venture that, because they deal with problems in other latitudes, African innovations don’t concern us and should be ignored. This is a grave error: firstly, because they exist; secondly, because they are associated with a market of over a billion people (and the most rapidly growing one); finally, because African innovations can be extremely useful in other parts of the world.
Take the common credit card. It has barely changed since the 1950s! If the executives of Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and other companies wanted to make our lives easier, it would behoove them to take a trip to Africa.
Any of these economic titans would be surprised by M-Pesa in Kenya: a platform that opens new horizons for the circulation of money. It would inspire them. It is not, as I believed, a mobile banking system, but rather a technology that permits the transfer of money between telephones. The difference is radical: it does not require a bank account.
It was precisely the shortage of credit instruments that gave rise to the Kenyan innovators. “Four years ago, when we launched M-Pesa (pesa means “money” in Swahili, and M-Pesa “mobile money”), only a small fraction of the population had a bank account, and opening one was expensive,” Waceke Mbugua, who is responsible for marketing for Safaricom.co.ke, the first operator of mobile phones in Kenya and a promoter of the project, said to me.
“A large number of citizens live in large cities and send money each week to their families who are settled in the interior. Since they don’t have access to the banking system, they had to bring the money themselves or add it to a wad of bills bus drivers would carry by hand to give to parents when they passed through towns.”
Launched as a pilot project in March 2007 (thanks to an investment by Vodafone and the aid of the Danish government), the service already has 15 million users, 80% of them among the user base of Safaricom, which has 75% of the cell phone market in the country. Even more impressively, “the funds circulating through M-Pesa now are the equivalent of 25% of our GDP,” says Sitoyo Lopokoiyit, an economist for the company. The majority of these are transactions of half an American dollar or less. He adds that “so far, our service has transferred 11.5 billion dollars. We don’t charge interest or lend money, and the transactions are made instantaneously. The money disposed rarely stays put for more than a week.”
Today, Kenyans use M-Pesa to pay their bills for electricity, water, cable television, and school fees, and they can even be used for purchases in various stores, including very small ones. They pay or deposit money thanks to a network of more than 2000 distribution points throughout the country where they can buy scratch cards giving them a code to make transactions.
“M-Pesa facilitates the lives of the people and spares them trips to give money,” Waceke Mbugua states.
Safaricom now equips ATMs capable of giving money to a person with instructions sent by mobile phone. Not long ago, it launched a debit card that can be charged by telephone, unattached to banks but usable outside the country.
I have bank accounts (none of them substantial) and credit cards, unlike the majority of Kenyans, but the truth is that when a user arrived to recharge his mobile at one of M-Pesa’s stands in Nairobi and explained to me that he bought greens and paid for electricity with the device, I became certain that the more modern of the two of us was not the person I’d thought it was.
What’s more dazzling, obviously, is when innovation come from African themselves. Small initiatives are proliferating on that front, many based on the use of SMS to supply services that normally are provided by the web – see the article The Unsuspected Uses of SMS on the following page.
But there are some even more ambitious initiatives launched by individuals with continental profiles.
Herman Chinery-Hesse was presented to me as “The Bill Gates of Africa”. He doesn’t have even a shadow of the wealth or power of the founder of Microsoft. But 20 years ago, he created a great software company for the PME in Ghana. In reality, he is a much better person than the bad comparison to Gates would suggest: open, warm, owner of a clear vision of what he aspires to do for his country and continent.
After graduating from a university in the United States with a degree in engineering, Chinery-Hesse returned to his homeland in 1990 to found SoftTribe.com, which sells software to companies. This software facilitates the administration of their points of sale, their relationships with clients, or procedures for ticket reservation (in the case of transportation companies). Today it makes “millions of dollars”, its founder says without going into much detail.
His business’s success, however, reached a point where it was not viable to grow any more. Why? 70% of his country’s economy is under the control of the government, and the multinational corporations have the means to pressure others to serve them at knifepoint, including even ambassadors if necessary. The traditional model of annual contracts and large technical teams made things worse. “That is what confronted us when we wanted to construct a Ghanaian Microsoft,” he explained to me.
In order to avoid these inconveniences, he lifted SoftTribe to the cloud. Its software is available on the web, and his clients need only a small amount of bandwidth to download the models they need.
In place of an annual contract, SoftTribe solicits a modest quota (50 dollars) and/or a pay-as-you-go agreement. A bus company, for example, needs pay only a 1% premium per ticket. This is less onerous for the client, and the small margins from each transaction generate a considerable sum of money. “To change Africa, we have to change the mentality of the majority of Africans and direct them toward the base of the pyramid.” The pyramid that interests him is that of businesses.
Not satisfied with his success, Herman Chinery-Hesse is launching an even more ambitious project. It is ShopAfrica53.com, a kind of online commercial center whose objective is “to serve as an intermediary to small African businesses,” he told me on his veranda.
The system is based on three pillars. The first, a website for the country, permits dealers to advertise their products and clients to order them. All the transactions are made by SMS.
The second is a credit system christened the African Liberty Card (africanlibertycard.com). These scratch cards can be acquired at different vendors to transfer money between mobile phones, pay bills, and acquire funds to spend at ShopAfrica53.
The third is another extraordinarily shrewd idea by Chinery-Hesse. All the logistics are handled by traditional mail carriers (DHL or Fedex) trained to find a product on a mountain and dispatch as far as Zaragoza, Toulouse, or Miami. Everything in this rubric is accomplished by SMS. ShopAfrica53 only has to put the money at the disposal of providers at the end of each month. When I inquired about the cost of these operations, Chinery-Hesse responded with a smile from ear to ear: “the difference between salaries in Africa and in Europe or the United States leaves us a respectable margin, and we’re taking advantage of that.”
He recognizes that it will take some time for his project to take root: “perhaps five years,” but it will be enormously important. More effective than any foreign aid that will be provided during that time. “I don’t know of any country that developed thanks to foreign aid. It’s a smoke screen. We do it better ourselves, and what’s more, with dignity,” he roundly affirms.
The word “dignity”, released in the middle of his pleasant conversation, reveals the social and political conscience present in all my interlocutors. It truly seems like in today’s Africa you cannot be an entrepreneur without being a social entrepreneur and in many cases an activist.
If Steve Jobs had been African…
Bright Simmons, a Ghanaian entrepreneur 29 years of age, gave me the keys to understanding the ever-growing convergence between activists and businessmen.
With Mpedigree.net, Bright is innovating in a way that could save thousands of lives: detecting false medicine thanks to SMS sent directly from buyers to a database rigorously maintained daily. He estimates that in his country, 60% of the medicines for sale are placebos or poison, a very common phenomenon in Africa. Mpedigree is still in its start-up phase, but it’s estimated that by the end of this year it will cover 8% of the medicine on the market.
This is a company without a profit motive based on a simple economic model: take samples of between 0.5% and 1% of each box of medicine. Laboratories are more than willing to participate in a system that fights falsification.
Launching a project this natural in Africa takes too much time. Indeed, adds Simmons, “we still need to create an ecosystem that will level the field so innovation can flourish.” In his case, for example, he had to fight to obtain the one and only access code for all the operators in Ghana and the rest of the continent. The pharmaceutical laboratories have agreed to revise their medicine boxes to add a code hidden under the label which, when scratched, reveals a code the consumer can send by SMS to verify whether the product is falsified.
Most of the time, infrastructure and capital are insufficient. This limitation explains why Africa requires social entrepreneurs to innovate. “The people behind Mpedigree have been activists. It’s part of the DNA of our company,” he explains. He adds: “if Steve Jobs had been African, he would have been a social entrepreneur.”
The Unsuspected Uses of SMS
This first trip through Africa showed me a great truth: new technology counts less than the problems it resolves. All my African interlocutors coincided in this respect.
The most impactful example is, without a doubt, the systematic and extremely ingenious use of SMS, short text messages which almost every telephone in the world can send and receive.
The general idea consists of putting advanced services, those which are usually found on the web, in the hands of those who cannot buy a smart phone. This idea is becoming a fountain of inspiration in developed countries as well.
I have here three cases from Senegal, Ghana, and Kenya, countries where the market penetration of the mobile phone is still far from 100%, but the number of smart phones is only in the thousands or tens of thousands.
In Senegal, Manobi offers geolocalization services to producers of cacao, hydraulic infrastructure, and everything in between. “It’s almost impossible to access the Internet in rural areas,” explains Emmanuel Bocquet, technical director of the business, “but SMSes arrive everywhere.” They’re enough to secure an interface between telephones and databases. Once configured, these systems permit the exchange of information. “If a water pump donated by UNICEF breaks, someone can send an SMS to the database in Manobi, and it will immediately inform a specialist,” explains Bocquet.
The technology of NandiMobile, a Ghanaian company, helps businesses to know the opinions of their clients and communicate with them. “It relates questions asked by users to answers written or recorded beforehand. Little by little, it is learning how to respond by itself,” says Edward Tagoe, director of business and development. This faculty permits companies to stay attentive to the comments of their clients, just like their American and European equivalents. NandiMobile received the Best Business Prize at the Launch conference in San Francisco this year.
In Nairobi, m-farm helps farmers to know the prevailing prices for their products in both their own markets and those in other parts of the country. “A farmer sends an SMS with the code 3535 which includes the name of the product and the location of interest, and in less than 10 seconds he receives the price, which helps him decide where to sell,” Linda Kwamboka, co-founder of mfarm, explained to me.
An SMS which says: “price, cabbage, Embu” obtains the price of a typical sack of cabbage (126 kg) in Embu. If one then types “price, cabbage, Nairobi”, one will know where it would be better to go to the capital. The other two models permit one to “buy together” or “sell together”, all by SMS.
This system is not exclusive to Africa.
The company Dotgo.com has just filled the same gap…in the United States. If a user sends an SMS to the New York Times, he can receive the headlines in a section of his interest. It can also be used to learn the schedule for the next trains from New Jersey. And it seems to be the best way to register on Foursquare when one arrives somewhere. Thanks to SMS, the proprietors of a smart phone obtain answers more rapidly, and others gain the possibility to interact without the cost of sophisticated apparatuses and their expensive plans.
A beautiful example of how technology used in Africa can solve our own problems.Science, Math, Technology, Translations
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[ATrpms-users] video4linux update for Centos5 i686?
J.Pilk at tesco.net
Sun Nov 2 11:53:33 CET 2008
Hi Axel: It's good to see you back in the saddle. I have a new family
addition too - a granddaughter - but usually she's a couple of km away
and doesn't affect my sleep :-)
Is there still work in hand on the v4l kmdls for Centos5 i686? I
haven't found any references to them and wonder if they have become
redundant - but I haven't yet tried 92.1.13 to find out.
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The Summer 2011 edition of Freight Notes is now available. This issue contains:
Regulatory Uniformity in the North/ West Passage
Perry Joins CFIRE as MAFC Facilitator
MAFC Outreach Materials
Regional Freight Study: An Update
Hart Joins CFIRE Staff
Transportation Profiles for MAFC Commodities
Performance Measures for Evaluating Multi-State Projects
The FHWA Office of Freight Management and Operations, in conjunction with the American Transportation Research Institute, recently released an updated version of the Freight Performance Measures (FPM) report on congestion monitoring of freight-significant highway locations.
This report shows that congestion increased at 61 percent of the 100 freight significant locations from 2009 to 2010. The current [...]
Great Lakes cargo traffic dropped 7 percent from July to August, according to an article in the Green Bay Press Gazette:
Cargo traffic on the Great Lakes dipped almost 7 percent in August from July, but the amount of cargo carried by U.S.-flag freighters last month was on par with the five-year average for the month.
Researchers have recently completed the Performance Measures for Evaluating Multi-state Projects (MAFC 11) project and issued a final report.
This project outlines a method, using the Chicago CREATE project as a case study, that considers the impacts of geographic and industry distribution of project benefits, intermodal impacts, and reliability, as well as the traditional benefits of time [...]
We are pleased to announce that Ernest Perry will join CFIRE as the new facilitator of the Mid-America Freight Coalition, starting October 3. As MAFC Facilitator, Perry will focus on creating and driving innovation and partnerships that enable transportation agencies to provide and manage the freight infrastructure and services that move us, keep us safe, [...]
Researchers recently completed the Transportation Profiles for MAFC Commodities (MAFC 10) project and issued a final report.
This project developed information on the flow of commodities through the MAFC region. Part one developed two commodities in depth with narratives and illustrations to demonstrate the importance of efficient transportation to the industry along with some of the issues [...] | <urn:uuid:853c9a80-6728-458c-9ac4-f5003e4f76dc> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://midamericafreight.org/2011/09/ | 2013-05-20T22:13:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.923942 | 443 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Afghanistan Agility/PWC/GCC Army CID* Army Criminal Investigation Command* Blackwater/Xe Burn Pits Cheryl Harris Chromium-6 Commission on Wartime Contracting David Isenberg* DCAA* DLA* DoD* DoDIG* DoJ* DoS* DynCorp* DynCorp CIVPOL* Electrocutions/Shocks Employee Issues-KBR False Claims Act Fluor* GAO Halliburton Hexavalent Chromium Holidays* Human Trafficking Indiana National Guard Iraq Jamie Leigh Jones KBR LAWSUITS Lawsuits Against KBR LOGCAP LOGCAP IV Oregon National Guard Pentagon Personal POGO Qarmat Ali Rape Reports & Investigations SIGIR Sodium Dichromate U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ)
Ruben Gomez – (Federal News Radio) – January 9, 2012 – Virginia-based Dyncorp International will pay $155,000 to settle a sex-based harassment and retaliation lawsuit, the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission said Monday.
The EEOC suit alleged that a male employee harassed James Friso, an aircraft and sheet metal/structural mechanic working in Iraq, because Friso did not meet “the harasser’s gender stereotype for a man,” according to an EEOC statement.
“The harassment included daily derogatory sex-based comments, such as accusations that Friso was gay and engaged in homosexual acts, and descriptions of homosexual acts,” the statement said. “Friso is married, and the co-worker who subjected him to the comments knew that he is married and is not homosexual.”
John O’Brien – (Legal Newsline) – HOUSTON – September 27, 2011 – Jamie Leigh Jones, the woman who alleged her employer was at fault for a rape that a jury said never happened, must pay court costs to the company she sued but not its attorneys fees.
U.S. District Judge Keith Ellison ruled Monday on Kellogg, Brown and Root’s motion for costs and attorneys fees, more than two months after a federal jury found that Jones was not raped while an employee of KBR, a former subsidiary of Halliburton.
He ruled that Jones is on the hook for KBR’s $145,073.19 in court costs. Citing a federal rule of civil procedure, Ellison wrote “costs – other than attorneys fees – should be allowed to the prevailing party.”
A federal jury decided in July that Jones, whose case became a talking point for those who sought mandatory arbitration reform, was not raped in Iraq while employed by KBR. The company moved on Aug. 17 to have its attorneys fees paid by Jones. KBR spent more than $2 million on attorneys fees.
In fighting the lawsuit, KBR had argued a mandatory arbitration clause in her employment contract had prevented her from suing the company in open court. An appeals court sided with Jones on that issue, but jurors ruled in July that Jones and Charles Bortz had engaged in consensual sex. Read the remainder of this entry »
“Eye-opening indictment of the way big business spins the media.” —Variety
“Stunning debut … Sends audiences out of the theater thinking in a brand new way.” —Washington Post
“Entertaining, informative … vivdly illuminating.” —Hollywood Reporter
When Margaret Mead famously said “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has,” I’m sure even she couldn’t have envisioned a young woman named Jamie Leigh Jones. As a 20-year-old, Jamie experienced some of the worst horrors one could imagine but rather than cower in the corner feeling helpless and defeated, she has used that experience to change the world. Read the remainder of this entry »
Has you might recall MsSparky.com first blogged about this unfathomable “award” on April 7th. (read HERE) Then main stream blogs Mother Jones, Houston Press, Huffington Post, Jezebel picked it up. Then countless smaller watchdog blogs like The Truth Has Changed picked it up. Now ABC has picked it up. One would think John R. Miller, III – Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of Equal Opportunity Publications (no joke) would be tired of this negative publicity and just remove KBR from the list. What self respecting company would even want to be on the same list as KBR? I do know in fact John Miller is tired of my emails, which I may just publish on MsSparky.com!
A personal message to Mr. John Miller “All you have to do is remove KBR from the list. Return any monies paid and bump everyone else up one. Easy as that!”
Company Facing Lawsuits For Alleged Sexual Assaults Voted Top Employer For Women
KBR, Named in Sex Lawsuits, Called One of Top 50 Companies For Women In Magazine Poll
By HANNA SIEGEL (ABC News)
April 11, 2011
KBR, a company that has been sued repeatedly for alleged sexual assaults and harassment of female employees, has been voted one of the best companies for women to work for by a magazine aimed at female engineers.
Woman Engineer named the Houston-based contracting company number 46 in the 2011 version of the magazine’s annual list of the top 50 best workplaces. Winners were chosen by readers who responded to a survey, and the magazine will publish the full list later this month.
KBR has extensive contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Attorney Todd Kelly, who has so far represented five former KBR employees who have alleged sexual assault or harassment, told ABC News that in all about 40 women have contacted his office about alleged incidents that occurred while they were working overseas for KBR or at one of its facilities. Read the remainder of this entry »
Will 2011 be the year that we see the USG grow a set and begin enforcing the laws on errant and corrupt contractors? In the last few months new legislation has been enacted that seems to point in that direction. However, as the loyal readers of Ms Sparky know, new rules generally invoke new methods of cover up by the criminal elements committing these misdeeds and acts of malfeasance. Also, what about the old rules? When is the USG going to enforce them? Has anyone been debarred, sanctioned or otherwise called on the carpet for violating or covering up crimes in the past? I am not talking about the smattering of indictments, convictions and plea deals against individuals that have made headlines. I am talking about the dirty rotten scoundrels laughing all the way to the bank to deposit billions of taxpayer dollars into their corporate coffers! ~Forseti
Defense Authorization Bolsters Foreign Contractor Accountability and Expands FAPIIS
Neil Gordon – POGO – January 14, 2010 – Earlier this week, POGO submitted a public comment about a new Department of Defense interim rule permitting the reduction or denial of award fees if contractors jeopardize the health or safety of government personnel. Since then, POGO became aware of a provision tucked into the Ike Skelton National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2011 that could send the rule drafters at the Pentagon back to the drawing board. In addition, it will also provide the public with a new source of contractor accountability data. | <urn:uuid:fe099412-6678-4329-9fec-1570003e6c93> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://mssparky.com/tag/franken-amendment/ | 2013-05-20T21:58:18Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955569 | 1,542 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Up until recently, I have been a very low stress guy. I never worried about anything. However, my new job (as a grants coordinator for a large non-profit) is deadline driven and there have been several unexpected/unforeseeable bumps along the way that have me looking over my shoulder constantly. Add to that my wife being pregnant, with twins, and having lots of complications, and now I feel like I'm about to have a heart-attack.
I know these stress levels are problematic. I can't sleep, I feel like I have a knot in my stomach 24/7, I have difficulty focusing on stuff. What I don't know is what I can do about it. The pregnancy stuff will resolve itself in ~5-8 weeks (but then I'll have two infants to contend with). The job stuff will be scary for some time to come--it will get better once I have a chance to rework things, but for now there is nothing I can do to change it.
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Don't Believe the Hype: Local Media Slant, Local Advertising, and Firm Value
Umit G. Gurun
University of Texas at Dallas - Naveen Jindal School of Management
Alexander W. Butler
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business
May 18, 2011
Journal of Finance, Forthcoming
AFA 2010 Atlanta Meetings Paper
When local media report news about local companies, they use fewer negative words compared to the same media reporting about non-local companies. We document that one reason for this positive slant is due to the firms’ local media advertising expenditures. Abnormal positive local media slant strongly relates to firm equity values. The effect is stronger for small firms, firms held predominantly by individual investors, and firms with illiquid or highly volatile stock, low analyst following, or high dispersion of analyst forecasts. These findings show that news content varies systematically with the characteristics and conflicts of interest of the source.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 48
Keywords: Media Slant, Location, Media, Advertising, Firm ValueAccepted Paper Series
Date posted: January 29, 2009 ; Last revised: June 10, 2011
© 2013 Social Science Electronic Publishing, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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And so to drop intros. I remember the earliest advice I was given on intros by my first editor, the inimitable Robin Thompson. On my third day as a trainee at the Shields Weekly News I walked into the newsroom, sporting my shiny new John Collier suit, to see one of my intros hand-written on a flipchart. It was 47 words of English graduate prose. Any hope that it was there as an example of sublime writing evaporated when the editor subbed it in front of me and, horrors, my colleagues. "Aye, Peter ... it's bloody rubbish," he began in his broad Geordie before publicly crossing out the source, the bureaucratic language, the subordinate clause and the duplicated words. The result was a pithy 16-word summary of my story. "Remember Peter, this is newspapers," he advised. "The only walk of life where the orgasm comes first."
Great advice which has stayed with me forever.
Of course occasionally there is another way of telling a story. The drop intro, or delayed drop, once used almost exclusively in features, now often (in many American newspapers, too often) finds its way into news stories. The intention is to create a little suspense, dramatic effect or even humour by having the twist in the third or fourth sentence. I find myself teaching people to write drop intros more and more - not least because I help run the trainee reporters' course for the Daily Mail, one of the biggest exponents of drop intros (here's an example). The best advice, though, is to use them sparingly. A good drop can be very effective on the right story but too many are forced, particularly on hard news stories. You cannot began stories with: "When Peter Sands left home for his routine drive to work yesterday morning, little did he know what lay ahead ..." and then have some enormous tragedy in paragraph four. But you would be surprised how many trainee reporters think they can.
Anyway, I am always on the look out for good and bad examples. So it was nice to hear from old colleague Alan Cleaver (above), erstwhile editor of the Hampshire Chronicle and deputy editor of the Whitehaven News, who dropped me an email this week saying: "I stumbled across the best 'drop intro' of all time last night while doing some local history research. It concerns a small fire in a photographer's studio in Whitehaven in 1923."
The Whitehaven News, Thursday June 21, 1923
Whitehaven Studio Destroyed
Like the anguished wail of a tortured soul, only more so, the Whitehaven buzzer suddenly shattered the midnight silence of Friday night into innunmerable fragments, more or less. Its eldritch screeches eddied and swirled in the innocent ether; echoing and ricocheting from a thousand chimney pots, snarling their strident summons, bidding the dauntless fire-fighters to their nocturnal task.
Mingling with its brazen clamour varying from a hysterical crescendo of command to an almost sibilant sob of appeal, came the sudden monotonous "tap tap" upon the pavements of a myriad steel-shod clogs
while the softer stamp of hurrying leather-clad feet, and the quiet swish of unfastened laces formed a piano accompaniment to this pedestrian cacophony.
(and so it goes on, but I won't!)
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The second of the Premier Farm Dinner Series is this Sunday, and you won't believe how much work everyone is putting in to make this event "a meal of a lifetime."
Once again, Slow Food South Texas will be hosting a ticket raffle. This time the prize is a pair of VIP tickets valued at $300.00. VIP tickets include all the farm dinner amenities plus roundtrip transportation from San Antonio to Peeler's farm on a limo-van and complimentary champagne.
Raffle tickets will be sold at the Peeler Farms Poultry stand at the Pearl Farmers Market this Saturday June 2 from 9AM-1PM. Single raffle tickets are $5 each but $25 dollars will get you six tickets.
Now you have one more reason to come out and enjoy a Saturday at the Pearl Farmers Market. Just don't forget to stop by Marianna Peeler's booth to purchase tickets for a chance to win.
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The Indy Lights 2012 season is eight races in with just four to go and so far, the top four drivers have won all the races to date. Nine drivers have run in all eight events this season. But as the top feeder series for America's premier open wheel division, notably there are no Americans racing on a regualr basis in Indy Lights.
The points leader is 27 year old Esteban Guerrieri of Argentina who has had six podiums in eight races with a series leading three victories in 2012. Originally, he had good success in Formula Renault. This is his second season in Indy Lights driving for Sam Schmidt Motorsports. Last year, he finished second overall with three wins, six podiums and six poles out of 14 events.
Following closely behind Guerrieri this season is 22 year old Frenchman Tristan Vautier who is in his first season of Indy Lights - and he's only 18 points back of the points leader. He's won two events in 2012 and if not for a crash at the last race, he might be atop the standings. Like Guerrieri, Vautier also raced Formula Renault before coming to the U.S. to run in Star Mazda, the stepping stone for Indy Lights. Again, like Guerrieri, Vautier drives for Sam Schmidt Motorsports.
33 points back of first place in third is 22 year old Sebastian Saavedra. The Colombian first raced in Indy Lights when he was 19, finishing third in the points. He has one victory so far in 2012 along with five podiums. During the 2011 season, Saavedra drove for Conquest Racing in IndyCar but never finished in the Top 10. He's driving for AFS Andretti Autosport in the Indy Light series.
The other winner this season in Indy Lights is Gustavo Yacaman, another Colombian who has two victories in 2012 and stands fourth in the points. Victor Carbone of Brazil is currently fifth in the standings and has never finished outside the top six. Rounding out the Top 10 is Carlos Munoz of Colombia, Oliver Webb from England, David Ostella of Canada, Juan Pablo Garcia of Mexico and Jorge Goncalvez from Venezuela ... but, as you can see, no Americans.
The highest ranked American is 30 year old Mike Larrison of Indiana who drove three times this year and is 15th in points. 50 year old Darryl Willis from Texas is right behind Larrison in 16th and is the only other American to have driven in three Indy Light events in 2012. So where are the young American drivers?
Chase Austin from Kansas is 22 years old and ran two events in 2012 but doesn't seem to have anything steady after looking like a child star in stock cars when Hendrick Motorsports signed him eight years ago (source - Hendrick Motorsports) - but nothing much came of it. Austin did finish a respectable 10th and eighth in the two Indy Lights events he entered this season.
23 year old Bryan Clauson out of Indiana was a young phenom from the USAC sprint and midget ranks and tried his hand at stock car racing but never caught on. He qualified for this year's Indy 500, driving an extra entry supplied by Sarah Fisher and finished 30th. Clauson drove a half-a-dozen Indy Lights events in 2011 doing quite well but only chose oval tracks and none of the road races. Other young American drivers to take a stab at Indy Lights this year are Troy Castaneda of California, Floridian Nick Andries and Brandon Wagner from Indiana.
Now, it should be noted that the car count is generally down in Indy Lights with only 11 cars on the starting grid at Toronto. Andries is the only young American with any street/road course experience and that could be the main reason for a lack of competitive American racers in Indy Lights. But remember, the Indy Lights champion last year was a 20 year old American named Josef Newgarden who has moved on to IndyCars.
So for now, Colombians and several other non-American drivers continue to dominate the series. The Indy Lights next race is Edmonton this Saturday (July 21).
Sources - Racing Reference, IndyCar
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John Suler's The Psychology of Cyberspace
This article created June 01, Revised June 02, June 03, May 04, Aug 04 (v3.0)
The Online Disinhibition Effect
You Don't Know Me (dissociative anonymity)
You Can't See Me (invisibility)
See You Later (asynchronicity)
It's All in My Head (solipsistic introjection)
It's Just a Game (dissociative imagination)
We're Equals (minimizing authority))
Self Constellations Across Media
Altering Self Boundary
An earlier hard copy version of this article was published as: Suler, J. (2004). CyberPsychology and Behavior, 7, 321-326
It's well known that people say and do things in cyberspace that they wouldn't ordinarily say or do in the face-to-face world. They loosen up, feel more uninhibited, express themselves more openly. Researchers call this the "disinhibition effect." It's a double-edged sword. Sometimes people share very personal things about themselves. They reveal secret emotions, fears, wishes. Or they show unusual acts of kindness and generosity. We may call this benign disinhibition.
On the other hand, the disinhibition effect may not be so benign. Out spills rude language and harsh criticisms, anger, hatred, even threats. Or people explore the dark underworld of the internet, places of pornography and violence, places they would never visit in the real world. We might call this toxic disinhibition.
On the benign side, the disinhibition indicates an attempt to understand and explore oneself, to work through problems and find new ways of being. And sometimes, in toxic disinhibition, it is simply a blind catharsis, an acting out of unsavory needs and wishes without any personal growth at all.
What causes this online disinhibition? What is it about cyberspace that loosens the psychological barriers that block the release of these inner feelings and needs? Several factors are at play. For some people, one or two of them produces the lion's share of the disinhibition effect. In most cases, though, these factors interact with each other, supplement each other, resulting in a more complex, amplified effect.
You Don't Know Me (dissociative anonymity)
As you move around the internet, most of the people you encounter can't easily tell who you are. System operators and some technologically savvy, motivated users may be able to detect your e-mail or internet address, but for the most part people only know what you tell them about yourself. If you wish, you can keep your identity hidden. As the word "anonymous" indicates, you can have no name - at least not your real name. That anonymity works wonders for the disinhibition effect. When people have the opportunity to separate their actions from their real world and identity, they feel less vulnerable about opening up. Whatever they say or do can't be directly linked to the rest of their lives. They don't have to own their behavior by acknowledging it within the full context of who they "really" are. When acting out hostile feelings, the person doesn't have to take responsibility for those actions. In fact, people might even convince themselves that those behaviors "aren't me at all." In psychology this is called "dissociation."
You Can't See Me (invisibility)
In many online environments other people cannot see you. As you browse through web sites, message boards, and even some chat rooms, people may not even know you are there at all - with the possible exception of web masters and other users who have access to software tools that can detect traffic through the site, assuming they have the inclination to keep an eye on you, one of maybe hundreds or thousands of users. Invisibility gives people the courage to go places and do things that they otherwise wouldn't.
This power to be concealed overlaps with anonymity, because anonymity is the concealment of identity. But there are some important differences. In text communication such as e-mail, chat, blogs, and instant messaging, others may know a great deal about who you are. However, they still can't see or hear you - and you can't see or hear them. Even with everyone's identity visible, the opportunity to be physically invisible amplifies the disinhibition effect. You don't have to worry about how you look or sound when you say (type) something. You don't have to worry about how others look or sound when you say something. Seeing a frown, a shaking head, a sigh, a bored expression, and many other subtle and not so subtle signs of disapproval or indifference can slam the breaks on what people are willing to express. In psychoanalysis, the analyst sits behind the patient in order remain a physically ambiguous figure, without revealing any body language or facial expression, so that the patient has free range to discuss whatever he or she wants, without feeling inhibited by how the analyst is physically reacting. In everyday relationships, people sometimes avert their eyes when discussing something personal and emotional. It's easier not to look into the other's face. Text communication offers a built-in opportunity to keep one's eyes averted.
See You Later (asynchronicity)
In e-mail and message boards, communication is asynchronous. People don't interact with each other in real time. Others may take minutes, hours, days, or even months to reply to something you say. Not having to deal with someone's immediate reaction can be disinhibiting. In real life, it would be like saying something to someone, magically suspending time before that person can reply, and then returning to the conversation when you're willing and able to hear the response. Immediate, real-time feedback from others tends to have a very powerful effect on the ongoing flow of how much people reveal about themselves. In e-mail and message boards, where there are delays in that feedback, people's train of thought may progress more steadily and quickly towards deeper expressions of what they are thinking and feeling. Some people may even experience asynchronous communication as "running away" after posting a message that is personal, emotional, or hostile. It feels safe putting it "out there" where it can be left behind. In some cases, as Kali Munro, an online psychotherapist, aptly describes it, the person may be participating in an "emotional hit and run."
It's All in My Head (solipsistic introjection)
Absent f2f cues combined with text communication can have an interesting effect on people. Sometimes they feel that their mind has merged with the mind of the online companion. Reading another person's message might be experienced as a voice within one's head, as if that person magically has been inserted or "introjected" into one's psyche. Of course, we may not know what the other person's voice actually sounds like, so in our head we assign a voice to that companion. In fact, consciously or unconsciously, we may even assign a visual image to what we think that person looks like and how that person behaves. The online companion now becomes a character within our intrapsychic world, a character that is shaped partly by how the person actually presents him or herself via text communication, but also by our expectations, wishes, and needs. Because the person may even remind us of other people we know, we fill in the image of that character with memories of those other acquaintances.
As the character now becomes more elaborate and "real" within our minds, we may start to think, perhaps without being fully aware of it, that the typed-text conversation is all taking place within our heads, as if it's a dialogue between us and this character in our imagination - even as if we are authors typing out a play or a novel. Actually, even when it doesn't involve online relationships, many people carry on these kinds of conversations in their imagination throughout the day. People fantasize about flirting, arguing with a boss, or very honestly confronting a friend about what they feel. In their imagination, where it's safe, people feel free to say and do all sorts of things that they wouldn't in reality. At that moment, reality IS one's imagination. Online text communication can become the psychological tapestry in which a person's mind weaves these fantasy role plays, usually unconsciously and with considerable disinhibition. All of cyberspace is a stage and we are merely players.
When reading another's message, it's also possible that you "hear" that person's words using your own voice. We may be subvocalizing as we read, thereby projecting the sound of our voice into the other person's message. Perhaps unconsciously, it feels as if I am talking to/with myself. When we talk to ourselves, we are willing to say all sorts of things that we wouldn't say to others!
It's Just a Game (dissociative imagination)
If we combine solipsistic introjection with the escapability of cyberspace, we get a slightly different force that magnifies disinhibition. People may feel that the imaginary characters they "created" exist in a different space, that one's online persona along with the online others live in an make-believe dimension, a dream world, separate and apart from the demands and responsibilities of the real world. They split or "dissociate" online fiction from offline fact. Emily Finch, an author and criminal lawyer studying identity theft in cyberspace, has suggested that some people see their online life as a kind of game with rules and norms that don't apply to everyday living (pers. comm., 2002). Once they turn off the computer and return to their daily routine, they believe they can leave that game and their game-identity behind. Why should they be held responsible for what happens in that make-believe play world that has nothing to do with reality? After all, it isn't that different than blasting away at your pals in a shoot-em up video game... or so some people might think, perhaps unconsciously.
Although anonymity tends to amplify dissociative imagination, dissociative imagination and dissociative anonymity usually differ in the complexity of the dissociated part of oneself. Under the influence of anonymity, the person may try to be invisible, to become a non-person, resulting in a reducing or simplifying of identity. During dissociative imagination, the self that is expressed, but split-off, tends to be more elaborate.
We're Equals (minimizing authority)
While online a person's status in the face-to-face world may not be known to others and it may not have as much impact as it does in the face-to-face world. If people can't see you or your surroundings, they don't know if you are the president of a major corporation sitting in your expensive office, or some "ordinary" person lounging around at home in front of the computer. Even if people do know something about your offline status and power, that elevated position may have little bearing on your online presence and influence. In most cases, everyone on the internet has an equal opportunity to voice him or herself. Everyone - regardless of status, wealth, race, gender, etc. - starts off on a level playing field. Although one's status in the outside world ultimately may have some impact on one's powers in cyberspace, what mostly determines your influence on others is your skill in communicating (including writing skills), your persistence, the quality of your ideas, and your technical know-how.
People are reluctant to say what they really think as they stand before an authority figure. A fear of disapproval and punishment from on high dampens the spirit. But online, in what feels like a peer relationship - with the appearances of "authority" minimized - people are much more willing to speak out or misbehave.
According to traditional Internet philosophy, everyone is an equal: Peers share ideas and resources. In fact, the net itself is engineered with no centralized control. As it grows, with a seemingly endless potential for creating new environments, many people see themselves as independent-minded explorers. This atmosphere and philosophy contribute to the minimizing of authority.
The disinhibition effect is not the only factor that determines how much people open up or act out in cyberspace. The strength of underlying feelings, needs, and drive level has a big influence on how people behave. Personalities also vary greatly in the strength of defense mechanisms and tendencies towards inhibition or expression. People with histrionic styles tend to be very open and emotional. Compulsive people are more restrained. The online disinhibition effect will interact with these personality variables, in some cases resulting in a small deviation from the person's baseline (offline) behavior, while in other cases causing dramatic changes.
Does the disinhibition effect release inner needs, emotions, and attributes that dwell beneath surface personality presentations? Does it reveal your "true self." For example, a woman with repressed anger unleashes her hostility online, thereby showing others how she really feels. Or a shy man openly expresses his hidden affection for his cyberspace companion.
Some people do report being more like their true self in cyberspace. If personality is constructed in layers, with a core or true self buried beneath surface defenses and the seemingly superficial roles of everyday social interactions, then does the disinhibition effect release that true self?
This is a tempting conclusion. In fact, the very notion of a true self is tempting because it is useful in helping people articulate their experiences in how and what they express to others about themselves. The concept also works well, in a humanistic fashion, as a motivational tool in the process of self-actualization.
However, a comprehensive psychological as well as philosophical analysis reveals complexities inthis thing called self that stretch far beyond this tempting notion. In an in-depth exploration of the online disinhibition effect, the idea of a true self is too ambiguous, arbitrary, and rudimentary to serve as a useful concept.
Personal and cultural values: Personal and cultural values often dictate what we consider the true and false aspects of who we are. We more readily accept as valid those attributes that we regard as positive. An unpleasant aspect of one's personality is not really "me." However, sexual and aggressive tendencies, as Freud noted, are basic components of personality too, as are the psychological defenses designed to control them.
Personal and cultural values may also label the usually polite persona that we present to others during everyday living as superficial or false. However, this persona is the product of years of social and psychological development. As a critical component of the ego's construction and functioning, it is essential to interpersonal survival and no less important or true than other components of intrapsychic structure.
While online people may feel they have more opportunities to present themselves as they would like to present themselves, particularly in the carefully composed text of asynchronous communication. They may have more chances to convey thoughts and emotions that go "deeper" than the seemingly superficial persona of everyday living. These opportunities are very valuable aspects of cyberspace, but not necessarily evidence of a more true self. What we reveal about ourselves spontaneously, often right on the surface for others to see but without our being consciously awareness of it, may be just as real and true.
Some people are not fully satisfied with their in-person relationships. Perhaps they don't have opportunities to develop many relationships, or those that did develop turned out to be unfulfilling. In cyberspace they may find the companions they need. They feel more authentic in those online relationships, and this becomes a viable lifestyle alternative. On the other hand, some people who need to deny or rationalize the unfulfilling quality of their in-person relationships may resort to a personal philosophy that idealizes the disinhibition effect and the notion that the true self appears online.
The inhibiting self: The concept of disinhibition may mistakenly lead us into thinking that what is disinhibited is more real or true than the part of us that inhibits. If we can just peel away repression, suppression, and other defense mechanisms, we will discover the "real" self that lies below. Based loosely on the kind of archeological approach to intrapsychic structure proposed by Freud, this notion suggests that the personality is constructed in layers, with more true or real features of personality existing at a deeper level.
This is a simplistic interpretation of the much more dynamic psychoanalytic model which states that the inhibitory processes of repression and defense mechanisms are components of personality no less real or important than others. Psychoanalytic clinicians believe that understanding defenses is crucial to the success of the therapy because it reveals hidden thoughts, feelings, and needs. Why does a person repress something? Why is it being inhibited? Bypassing defenses to get to the "true" self may also bypass the opportunity to discover aspects of the inhibiting self that are just as true. When these defenses and elements of the inhibited self are worked through, remnants of them sometimes remain to serve an important function. Sometimes they evolve into productive aspects of one's personality independent of the problematic emotions that were originally defended.
The same is true online. Some people in some online situations become disinhibited and reveal aspects of themselves. However, at the same time, they may not be not grappling with the underlying causes of that inhibition, and therefore are missing an opportunity to discover something important about themselves - something very true about themselves, but often unconscious. If anonymity in cyberspace eases people's anxiety so they are more comfortable to express themselves, then they also are bypassing an essential component of who they are. Important personality dynamics are embedded in that anxiety.
People who are shy in-person may thrive in cyberspace when the disinhibition effect allows them to express who they "truly" are inside. This is a wonderful opportunity for them. But why is Joe's shyness a less true aspect of him compared to other features of his personality, especially given the fact that his shyness is a prominent feature of his day-to-day living? If online companions, who had formed the impression Joe was outgoing, finally met him in-person, might they not conclude that Joe is "really" shy? And what makes him shy? Are there underlying psychological problems and anxieties that caused it? Is it a biologically determined temperment, as much research in developmental psychology suggests about shyness. Aren't these possible causes of his shyness also true aspects of Joe? Here we see the arbitrary nature of the "true self" concept.
Compromise formations: Quite often when people are online and some aspect of their personality is disinhibited, some other aspect of their personality is inhibited. After all, the anonymity that contributes to online disinhibition means that the person is "without a name" - something about that person is not known. In online communication, consciously or unconsciously, people conceal or misrepresent aspects of themselves as often as they honestly reveal aspects of themselves. Any particular media encourages some aspects of identity to be expressed while inhibiting other aspects. Something is revealed while something else is hidden. Expressions of self are compromise formations within any particular media or communication modality. In email Joe reveals for the first time to Sue that "I love you," but his voice and body language, which in-person might reveal unwritten dimensions and even qualifications of his stated affection, are hidden.
This particular example also points to the polarities that operate within the dynamics of personality. Sometimes we act, think, or feel one way, and sometimes the opposite. We have ambivalent, sometimes opposing emotions. Online Joe says that he truly loves Sue, but in-person his voice indicates some doubt. Face-to-face he appears angry and rejecting, but online he admits that he feels insecure and guilty. Different communication environments convey different facets of these polarities in self. Here one side appears, and there another. Neither is more true than another.
Each media allows for a particular expression of self that differs - sometimes greatly, sometimes subtly - from another media. In different media people present a different perspective of their identity. Chat, email, blogs, videocams, telephones, face-to-face conversation, and all types of communication modalities, each uniquely highlight certain aspects of self expression and personal identity, while hiding others. The self expressed in one modality is not necessarily deeper, more real, or more authentic than another. This multiple modality framework for understanding the self-within-media bypasses the tendency to become bogged down in arbitrary arguments about the location of the true or real self.
Self Constellations Across Media
The self interacts with the environment in which it is expressed. It is not independent of that environment. If a man suppresses his aggression in life but expresses it online, both behaviors reflect important aspects of his personality that surface under different conditions. If a woman is shy in-person but outgoing online, neither self-presentation is more true than the other. Both are dimensions of who she is, each revealed within a different situational context.
Instead of thinking that personality is constructed in layers with the environment "out there" somewhere, we can conceptualize it as an intrapsyhic field containing clusters or constellations of emotion, memory, and thinking that are interconnected with certain environments. Some constellations overlap, others are more dissociated from each other, with environmental variables influencing those levels of integration and dissociation. Personality dynamics involve the complex interactions among these various clusters within the self and in relation to the environment. An extreme version of these dynamics occur in a multiple personality disorder, in which consciousness shifts laterally from one constellation of personality formation to another, with strong dissociative barriers between those formations. In the more "normal" person, the distinction between the formations may be less dramatic, and the dissociative barriers less intense, but the same alterations in identity expression does occur.
These ideas about self constellations extend as far back as William James' theory of consciousness shifting from one focus to another within a field of associations. They also are consistent with contemporary theories about dissociation and the information processing of experience.
Therefore, we can think of the disinhibition effect as a person shifting to an "online" personality constellation that may be dissociated - in varying degrees, depending on the person - from the in-person constellation. Inhibiting guilt, shame, or anxiety may be features of the in-person self but not that online self. This constellations model also helps explain other online phenomena, like identity experimentation, role-playing fantasy games, multitasking projects, and other subtle shifts in personality expression as we move from one online environment to another. In fact, a single disinhibited "online self" probably does not exist at all, but rather a collection of slightly different constellations of emotion, memory, and thinking that surface in and interact with different types of online environments. Different communication modalities enable different expressions of oneself. They allow us to see the different perspectives of that complex thing we call "identity."
This is something to keep in mind for online psychotherapy. Using a multidimensional analysis of the various features of cyberspace, a comprehensive theory of online psychotherapy explores how the design of a computer-mediated environment allows for the inhibition, expression, and development of different aspects of a person's identity.
Altering Self Boundary
My discussion so far rests on the assumption that almost everyone online tends to be disinhibited, even if the effect is small. However, this isn't necessarily the case. Some people feel guarded and suspicious about cyberspace. You don't know who people really are, or how exactly they may be reacting to you behind their typed words. You don't realize who is watching you or what they know about you. You can't trust everyone's intentions. In black hole situations, you send out a message and receive no reply, for reasons not clear. Is anyone really there?
Online environments can stir uncertainty, frustration, and anxiety - even paranoia about the possible mishaps and calamities that may befall you if you venture into the wrong environment or connect with the wrong people. As a result, people sometimes proceed with hesitancy and caution.
Some vacillate between feeling disinhibited and restrained as they move in and out of the various areas of their online lifestyle. They shift up and down what we might consider a disinhibition/inhibition continuum. However, others may feel both ways simultaneously within a particular environment or relationship. For example, you reveal intimate details about yourself to someone you meet online, but you won't give that person your phone number.
How do we explain these alternating as well as concurrent experiences of both an open and guarded self? If we focus just on online disinhibition or only on online suspiciousness, we will overlook an important underlying psychological experience that gives rise to this disinhibition/inhibition polarity. That experience is "self boundary."
Self-boundary is the sense of what is me and what is not me. It's the experience of a flexible perimeter marking the distinction between my personality - my thoughts, feelings, and memories - and what exists outside that perimeter, within other people.
A variety of factors contribute to self-boundary, including the awareness of having a distinct physical body, the perception via the five senses of an outside world, the feeling of a psychological distinction between what I know versus what others know about me, and the sensation of the physical/psychological self moving cohesively along a linear continuum of past, present, and future.
Life in cyberspace tends to disrupt these factors that support self-boundary. The physical body and its five senses no longer play as crucial a role as in face-to-face relationships. What others know or don't know about me is not always clear. The feeling of a linear past, present, and future becomes more obscure as we move back and forth through synchronous and asynchronous communication. As a result, this altered state of consciousness in cyberspace tends to shift or destabilize self-boundary. The distinction between inner-me and outer-other is not as clear. The person shifts to what psychoanalytic theory calls "primary process thinking" in which boundaries between self and other representations become more diffuse, and thinking becomes more subjective and emotion-centered. Within the transitional space of online communication, the psyches of self and other feel like they might be overlapping. We allow the hidden self to surface because we no longer experience it as a purely inner self; but at the same time we also sense, sometimes vaguely and sometimes distinctly, the intrusion of an unknown other into our private world, which results in suspicion, anxiety, and the need to defend our exposed and vulnerable intrapsychic territory.
No doubt, there are important individual differences in how people shift along the inhibition/disinhibition continuum. The effect of inhibition or disinhibition might be weak or strong, depending on the person and the situation. People might experience small or wide oscillations between the two polarities. Some might be more susceptible to inhibition than to disinhibition, or vice versa. Studying what is revealed or hidden about people within the wide range of online environments can become a laboratory for understanding the subtle dynamics of the self.
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10-10-2004, 01:38 AM
Much to my delight, I returned home from work last night to find a Janie and Jack box on our doorstep. It turned out to be the gorgeous cable knit sweater coat--a belated birthday gift to Julia from a dear friend of ours. Here's Julia modeling her new sweater coat. It's in 18-24 months, so rather big, but will give her lots of growing room. Oh, and she's wearing the Gymbo AS pink corduroy overalls underneath, which are too long. I had the cuffs rolled but during the course of our photo shoot, they came unrolled.
She likes it! :)
Thanks for letting me share!
10-10-2004, 01:55 AM
OK, both the coat AND the baby are delicious! What an amazing coat--just gorgeous. And look at how big Miss Julia has gotten. What a cutie!! She looks stunning in the coat.
10-10-2004, 09:57 AM
Adorable! (Both baby and coat.) And excellent choice of name, by the way!
Mama to Julia Michelle 1-10-02
10-10-2004, 11:31 AM
Julia is such a cutie and she is getting so big!! I love the sweater coat and it looks like she does too.
Mom to Kyleigh 7/19/03
10-10-2004, 12:45 PM
She looks adorable! I love the coat. It reminds me of an old Irish sweater I used to have when I was little!
10-10-2004, 02:20 PM
I just LOVE the sweater coat!! She looks so darling in it! It was the first item that caught my eye when that collection came out but this is the first time I've seen a baby with it. I love it just as much as I thought I would. Waiting for it to go on sale! :)
10-10-2004, 09:06 PM
Love Julia in this coat! It looks so cozy and comfy. She looks so happy in the last pic. :)
10-10-2004, 09:29 PM
What a nice friend! Great gift!
That coat is just beautiful and so is your little model! Thanks for sharing!
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Thanks for the compliments, everyone! I absolutely love this coat. Very soft and cuddly. :)
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Cohen & Steers will manage the gold, fixed income and real estate sleeves, while London and South African-based Investec will manage the natural resource equity sleeve, and New York-based institutional shop Gresham Investment Management will be subadvisor to the commodities sleeve. Regarding the commodities sleeve, Cohen & Steers’ president and CIO Joseph Harvey (left) pointed out that unlike most managed futures strategies, the commodities investments will be actively managed by Gresham.
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Jhirad argued that an allocation to real assets should be in the 10%-20% range, instead of the standard 2%. The new fund, he said, “creates a rational mix of assets that are difficult to access on your own,” especially in a 40 Act mutual fund.
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Opinion Number: 1994-11
Lawyer representing managerial employees of opposing party in unrelated matter may communicate ex parte only as to those matters wherein he represents said employees and not as to the other pending matter
"This is to request a formal opinion concerning the rather unusual situation which I discussed with you by phone on August 31, 1994, concerning contact with prospective witnesses employed by the defendant.
I primarily represent plaintiffs in employment discrimination cases and presently have about twenty cases pending against one particular defendant. Of those twenty cases, twelve to fourteen are consolidated cases based upon the 'Americans With Disabilities Act'; two or three involve race discrimination claims; two of the cases involve sex claims; and one of the cases involved a national origin claim. Each type claim is unrelated to the other claims. The ADA claims are hourly employees and the other clients are managerial employees. I have represented the managerial employees for some time and began representing them prior to my undertaking the representation of the plaintiffs in the ADA cases.
All of the cases which are addressed above are continuing matters upon which I must communicate with my clients on a fairly regular basis.
Recently, the defendant's attorney designated one of my clients in the sex case as defendant's prospective witness in the ADA cases and noted that this individual should not be contacted by me because conversations would be protected by the defendant's attorney-client privilege.
Obviously, it will be necessary for me to continue to have ex parte communications with my clients who are managerial/supervisory personnel. I can advise individuals that they are not to discuss the ADA case or each others' cases with me. This causes some real practical problems, particularly since one particular supervisory employee has referred several of the plaintiffs to me and advised me in doing so of his belief that they have been the subject of discrimination.
In light of the aforesaid, I need to have an opinion with respect to the following:
1. What are my ethical obligations with respect to discussions with my managerial/supervisory clients who have knowledge of the defendant's general employment policy matter; and
2. What are my ethical obligations with respect to discussions with my managerial/supervisory clients who have referred other employees to me, who may have knowledge of specific discriminatory acts which may have been committed by higher managerial employees; and
3. What are the defendant's ethical obligations with respect to speaking to my managerial/supervisory clients concerning other individuals' cases.
As these cases are presently pending, I would appreciate your advising as to what I should do in this rather complicated situation."
Whether you can talk with your so-called "managerial/ supervisory clients" about matters outside their own cases depends on the level of their authority within the defendant's personnel structure. The defendant can talk with your clients about unrelated cases involving the defendant because they are not represented in those matters.
In RO-88-34, the Disciplinary Commission essentially held that ex parte contact of an organization's employees was not ethically proper under DR 7-104(A)(1) if the employee was an executive officer; or, someone who by virtue of their position, could bind the organization by their testimony, or someone for whose conduct the organization could be held vicariously liable. On January 1, 1991, the Alabama Rules of Professional Conduct became effective. Rule 4.2 deals with the issue of communicating with a person represented by counsel The Comment to Rule 4.2 states as follows:
"In the case of an organization, this Rule prohibits communications by a lawyer for one party concerning the matter in representation with persons having a managerial responsibility on behalf of the organization, and with any other person whose act or omission in connection with that matter may be imputed to the organization for purposes of civil or criminal liability or whose statement may constitute an admission on the part of the organization."
In analyzing these three categories of "protected" employees, it is the Disciplinary Commission's understanding that "persons having a managerial responsibility on behalf of the organization" was intended to cover employees who have been given the authority to formally act or speak for the organization, and can legally bind it. Employees of this status are usually found in the "control group" of the organization. While many employees may have a supervisory position of one sort or another, they are not necessarily authorized to speak for the organization in an official sense. Only those employees are protected by this rule.
The other two exceptions referred to in the Comment cover persons actually responsible for the conduct giving rise to the organization's potential liability regardless of status in the organization and employees whose statements would be admissible under evidentiary rules like Rule 801(D)(2)(d) of the Federal Rules of Evidence dealing with admission by a party-opponent.
If your clients with "managerial/supervisory" duties are not in the control group of the organization, then you can talk with them about anything regarding the ADA cases, either general or specific to the cases. If the clients are protected by application of the above discussion, then you can only talk to them about their own particular cases. Defense counsel can talk with your managerial/supervisory clients about the cases of others because your clients are not represented by you or anyone else in those matters. | <urn:uuid:3a36e4f2-92df-42d6-8142-733f39148515> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.alabar.org/mobile/fopDisplay.cfm?oneId=58 | 2013-05-20T21:58:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96252 | 1,061 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
The Candy Factory Mystery by Gertrude Chandler Warner is about four orphan children living in a boxcar alone. These children are Benny, Violet, Jessie, and Henry Alden. They eventually find their grandfather and they are working in a candy factory. Strange things are going on in the factory and the workers are acting like they do not want to be with the Aldens. Read this book to find out who was causing the problems at the candy factory.
I liked this book because it is a mystery and I like to try and figure it out before it ends. I think other school aged children would like this book. It is a series and there are more books to read about the Aldens.
I think the author wrote this because she wanted people to read mysteries and have imagination. | <urn:uuid:9f8817fc-fb85-47d4-a22a-1c1bef831d9d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.amazon.co.uk/Factory-Mystery-Boxcar-Children-Special/dp/0756911486 | 2013-05-20T22:26:52Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.987574 | 160 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Energy market update reports say that UK government and EU are planning to help marine energy companies in developing marine energy resource abundantly, as this energy resource is capable of providing 10% of the electric energy that the world needs. According to reports from Frost and Sullivan the new investments and ample government support have catalyzed in creating the sudden advancement in marine energy market.
If ocean energy research gets this support is delivered continuously so as to achieve their expected potential, about ‘3 GW installed capacity’ can be made available for EU alone, by 2020.
The recession had badly affected the marine energy market investments, slowing down the development in ocean energy investments. UK government has announced a handful of rescue measures to revive ocean energy market.
UK Carbon trust has agreed that it will give £250,000 & £150,000 to the companies Pelamis and MCT respectively so as to focus on the installation and maintenance.
Marine Renewables Deployment Fund of UK has also agreed to provide helps, which include a £22 million grant for ocean energy developers.
EU has also agreed to help marine energy investors. A marine energy research company recently signed a €3 million agreement with the EU in October 2009.
Experts say that a constant government involvement is necessary to improve the situation prevailing in marine energy market. The other factors necessary are venture capital, private equity or government grants, as the global financial recession has literally sunk helps from the private investors.
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Water is an abundant source of hydrogen, produces no green house gases when burnt, and is to all intents and purpose limitless.
Quite astonishing the amount of money we've put into drilling and prospecting for oil over the centuries when all we had to do was figure out a means of cost effectively extracting hydrogen from seawater and freshwater.
Costly enough to do at sea level, I wonder what help ionising rays would be in the upper atmosphere, or lightning?
I suppose I'm just interested in seeing that steampunk dystopia with hydrogen fuelled Zeppelins.
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Posted 7/19/2012 1:05:52 AM
I tried using the craft sticks w/the rounded ends as the recipe suggested but, found that using 4in (10cm) lollipop/candy sticks were a little easier.
Also, I placed the form dough balls in the freezer for 30 min vs. the 15 min suggested in step 2 because dipping the balls into the melted choc mixture isn't as easy as it sounds-choc mixture was very thick so I had to continously keep reheating the choc mixture.
Since I didn't have any polystyreme foam, I ended up putting holes into 2 paper plates and placed the plates on the rim of 2 mixing bowls (deep enough so the sticks do not touch the bottom of bowl). After the balls were dipped into the melted choc mixture & graham cracker crumbs were sprinkled, I inserted the sticks into those holes on the plate & placed the plates in the refrig. for 15 min until the choc was hard.
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In A Second Helping of Chicken Soup for the Soul, Rev. John R. Ramsey tells how in one church a certain person provided him with a rose boutonniere for the lapel of his suit every Sunday. At first he really appreciated it, but then it sort of became routine. Then one Sunday it became very special.
As he was leaving the Sunday service, a young boy walked up to him and said, "Sir, what are you going to do with your flower?" At first the preacher didn't know what the boy was talking about. When it sank in, he pointed to the rose on his lapel and asked the boy, "Do you mean this?"
The boy said, "Yes, sir. If you're just going to throw it away, I would like it."
The preacher smiled and told him he could have the flower and then casually asked what he was going to do with it. The boy, who was probably no more than 10 years old, looked up at the preacher and said, "Sir, I'm going to give it to my granny. My mother and father divorced last year. I was living with my mother, but she married again and wanted me to live with my father. I lived with him for a while, but he said I couldn't stay; so he sent me to live with my grandmother. She is so good to me. She cooks for me and takes care of me. She has been so good to me that I wanted to give her that pretty flower for loving me."
When the little boy finished, the preacher could hardly speak. His eyes filled with tears and he knew he had been touched by God. He reached up and unpinned the rose. With the flower in his hand, he looked at the boy and said, "Son, that is the nicest thing that I've ever heard, but you can't have this flower because it's not enough. If you'll look in front of the pulpit, you'll see a big bouquet of flowers. Different families buy them for the church each week. Please take those flowers to your granny because she deserves the very best."
Then the boy made one last statement, which Rev. Ramsey said he always will treasure. The boy said, "What a wonderful day! I asked for one flower but got a beautiful bouquet."
That's the thankful spirit. That's the gratitude attitude. It's that attitude that should guide our giving and our lives. Like that boy's granny, God has blessed us so much. God has been so good to us that giving shouldn't even be a question. It should just flow from us naturally.
(From A Second Helping of Chicken Soup for the Soul, adapted by Billy D. Strayhorn, "The Gratitude Attitude")
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It's storming here and this is first time our Goldendoodle has experience an uproar like it's currently doing. She was suppose to go outside and do her business. Instead, she stands
there barking at the wind. Methinks, it was her way of saying,
make it stop!
Embrace Life with Passion!
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View Full Version : v2000i Copyclip Problem
4th Mar 2008, 12:02 pm
Last December I found a link, whilst looking for the answer to another problem, to an Autodesk patch that cured the copyclip/pasteclip problem I had on my v2000i. One of my colleagues has the exact same problem (sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't) but I now can't find the link in your forum. The only things I can find now seems to be for 2007 converting back to 2000, whereas I just downloaded this into my AutoCAD and I've never had a problem since. Can someone point me in the right direction again please.
4th Mar 2008, 12:45 pm
I found service pack 2 for 2000i but nowhere in the read.me file does it refer to a fix for copyclip/pasteclip. Was it incorporated in the first service pack? There didn't seem to be a hotfix either. You specifically remember one solely for 2000i?
4th Mar 2008, 12:55 pm
It was not service pack 2 as I already had that. Hand on heart I can't say it was for 2000i specifically, but I do remember being routed to the Autodesk site.
4th Mar 2008, 01:00 pm
i found this, no idea if any use
OPTIONS>User preference>Windows Standard Accelerator Keys needs
to be checked.
4th Mar 2008, 01:23 pm
OPTIONS>User preference>Windows Standard Accelerator Keys IS checked. Thanks anyway.
4th Mar 2008, 04:13 pm
OK. Well there is a patch for those who use 2007 and do a "save as" back to R14 or 2000i. Is that what you're looking for?
4th Mar 2008, 04:24 pm
Take a look at this:
4th Mar 2008, 04:25 pm
You probably installed DWGGateway (http://www.dwggateway.com/).
I used 2000i from 2000 until August, 2008 and this is the only thing I know that will open later versions right in AutoCAD 2000i and it keeps the Copy/Paste and Wblock working.
4th Mar 2008, 04:42 pm
Sorry I've been tied up. We're stuck in v2000 as our in-house software doesn't work on later versions. We have no control over what version dwg's people send us. It's not a transparent copyclip problem, it's just on some dwg's copyclip & wblock won't work. I have installed DWGGateway on my machine, but I had downloaded the copyclip patch & solved the problem before I did that. I'll try installing it on my colleagues machine & see if it works. Thanks for all your help so far.
4th Mar 2008, 05:21 pm
Rather sadly installing DWGGateway doesn't cure the copyclip problem, however, my colleague is now able to open v2007 dwg's, hoorah! I'm still convinced that I found the answer in this forum. I'm begining to wish I'd done the other machines at the same time as I did mine. Hindsight is a wonderful ability.
4th Mar 2008, 05:29 pm
Once they are back saved with out the Hotfix on the later version, they are corrupted and will never copy/paste or Wblock in earlier versions. You will need the original file.
4th Mar 2008, 05:37 pm
My machine, which has had the patch I described, seems to copyclip anything now. the CADmen upstairs have to ask me to copyclip certain things on my machine after that everything's hunky dorey.
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The city of Boulder approved a business incentive for Twisted Pine Brewing Co. that allows the local craft brewer to receive up to $45,000 in rebates on taxes and fees incurred during its recent expansion.
Twisted Pine, founded in 1995, recently expanded its brewery, tap room and restaurant to accommodate current and future growth.
The rebates were authorized for sales and use taxes and permit-related fees already paid by Twisted Pine.
The incentive was awarded as part of the city's 2012 flexible rebate program, which had a $350,000 budget. As of the Nov. 30 deadline, seven of the 10 applications filed with the city continue to be processed, city officials said. | <urn:uuid:3e61bf73-d2e9-44c2-8559-aaf902cd45c1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.dailycamera.com/business/ci_22441527/entertainment/entertainment/entertainment/entertainment/classicalmusic | 2013-05-20T22:13:39Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974354 | 139 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Client: House of Raeford
Title: “Life and Times of Marvin Johnson”
Clip RunTime: 2:10
Eagle Video produced a 42 minute documentary on the incredible career of the 82 year old House of Raeford founder, Marvin Johnson. This 2:10 minute clip focuses on the marketing aspects of this Raeford, NC company that has blossomed into an international powerhouse in the poultry industry.
© copyright 1999 - 2013 Eagle Video Productions Inc. Raleigh NC 27603-5240
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Sure, you've seen cameras with interchangeable lenses -- you might even own one or two -- but a cam that lets you swap out the sensor with
the lens? Now that's pretty unique. Ricoh's GXR has been around since 2009
and does exactly that
, with four lens / sensor combos, including two zooms and a pair of fixed lenses. Now, the company has confirmed that its new Leica M-mount module
will ship on September 9th, letting you use your existing Leica lenses with the GXR. The module includes a 12.3 megapixel APS-C sensor and has a 27.8mm Leica
M bayonet mount, with support for RAW image capture and 720p video. It also has an "open" price, which means it's still anyone's guess as to how much you'll be shelling over. But if you own a collection of Leica glass and are interested in experimenting with such a unique sensor-swapping camera system, you're probably somewhat open to open pricing. | <urn:uuid:4feedd29-3c70-4659-92b6-b4d6130c7afc> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.engadget.com/2011/08/05/ricoh-gxr-leica-m-mount-module-gets-a-september-ship-date-lets/ | 2013-05-20T22:13:32Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971581 | 210 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
New rules for recreational fishers in Nelson, Marlborough and the West Coast from tomorrow
30 September 2009
The Ministry of Fisheries is reminding recreational fishers that new rules for the “Challenger” fishery management area come into effect tomorrow (1 October 2009).
The minimum legal size for sand flounder will become 25cm instead of 23 cm – standardising it with the other seven species of flatfish in the area.
Alongside this, the amateur set net minimum mesh size for red moki will go from 115mm to 114mm to standardise this with the set net rule for blue moki.
The amateur set net minimum mesh size for butterfish will go from 108mm to 100mm – to standardise this with the minimum net mesh size for the majority of other fish species.
Inshore Fisheries Manager for the Ministry of Fisheries, Leigh Mitchell, says the changes have been made to simplify the rules and make them easier and more practical to follow.
“With one standard size for all types of flatfish, it will be easier to tell if a fish is undersized and should be put back” Ms Mitchell said.
“Removing the 1mm mesh size difference between nets for blue and red moki and standardising the net size for butterfish will make the rules simpler for fishers.
“Fishers are limited to only one net per boat at any one time, with these changes fishers will have a smaller range and will be able to target more than one type of fish with their net” she said.
“Giving fishers greater flexibility and simplifying the rules while still protecting sustainability is a key part of the Government’s 20 year goal and action plan for the fisheries sector, Fisheries 2030.”
The Challenger Fishery Management Area runs from Awarua on the West Coast north around the top of the South Island to Clarence on the South Island’s east coast
More information on the recreational fishing rules for the Challenger area is available here >>
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GUARDS UNION SETTLES CONTRACT WITH HARVARD
JANITORS UNION SETTLES CONTRACT WITH HARVARD Under the new contract, directly-hired janitors will now receive at least $11.35 per hour and will be paid no less than $13.50 per hour three and a half years from now. Harvard custodians are currently paid as little as $9.75 per hour.
SUMMERS ADOPTS PARITY AND ONE-TIME WAGE BOOST President Larry Summers announced on January 31 that he would adopt several of the Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policy's recommendations, including a one time wage increase to between $10.83 and $11.30 per hour, wage parity between directly-hired and outsourced workers, and quality of work life changes. While these are tremendous improvements to Harvard's miserable treatment of its workers, they do not adequately address the problem of poverty at Harvard. Glaringly absent from Summers' stated policy changes are an annually-adjusted living wage, the HCECP's recommended "fair bargaining clause," which would require Harvard to adjust wages for cost of living changes in case it refused to negotiate a contract with campus unions), reduced copayments to make benefits more affordable, and meaningful protection of workers' rights to organize through card-check neutrality agreements.
THE REPORT IS OUT On December 19, 2001 the Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies (HCECP) released their recommendations on how to improve the situation of low-wage workers to President Summers. While recommending a significant one-time wage increase, the committee did not go far enough: it failed to recommend a permanent living wage standard that reflects the cost of living. However, eight of the committee's nineteen members expressed a firm belief that Harvard should go beyond the majority's recommendations and implement a living wage floor.
THE KATZ COMMITTEE'S RECOMMENDATIONS will be given to President Summers on Wednesday, December 19. The committee has the choice either to present a vision for a just university by recommending a principled and lasting living wage floor that will correct Harvard's moral failure by ending poverty on campus once and for all, or to short-change Harvard workers yet again by failing to ensure that no worker at Harvard ever receive wages that are too low to meet the basic costs of living.
It is uncertain which decision the committee will make. Wichever it is, will be prepared to respond -- either with celebration or with protest. If you plan to be in the Boston area on December 19 and are interested in participating in a living wage action, please get in touch with us at firstname.lastname@example.org.
Stay tuned for more updates and information about the report and our response.
WRITE TO THE COMMITTEE The Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies (HCECP) needs your input! Send an email sharing your views about a Living Wage at Harvard to email@example.com. Click here for points to emphasize and a sample letter.
LABOR AND THE WAR Elaine Bernard, the Executive Director of the Harvard Trade Union Program, will speak about the connection between the labor movement and the war on terrorism on Wednesday, December 12, at 7:30pm in Philips Brooks House, Harvard Yard. For more information, contact Erik at firstname.lastname@example.org.
JUSTICE FOR JANITORS On Friday, November 30, hundreds of Harvard janitors joined hundreds of students, faculty, and community members in an unprecedented worker-called rally for better wages and benefits and a stronger union. In anticipation of their upcoming contract negotiations with the university, the janitors demonstrated their growing power to fight the indignity and unfairness of Harvard's poverty wages, and their continued support from the Harvard community. Thanks to all who helped make the rally an incredible success.
PUBLIC LIVING WAGE FORUM This Monday, October. 22, from 6:00pm-8:00pm at the Kennedy School's ARCO Forum, the Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies (HCECP) will host a public forum to take input from the Harvard community on the need for a living wage. Be there to voice your opinion, and wear crimson if you support a living wage!
RALLY THIS FRIDAY Welcoming Larry Summers to a Just Community: Join us this friday at noon in Harvard Square, before President Summers' installation, to greet him with the expectation that he will meaningfully respect the broad consensus for a living wage at Harvard.
NEW COMMITTEES Due to its dramatic increase in size and scope following the sit-in, the living wage campaign has adopted a new committee structure. This makes it easier for people to get involved in the campaign without attending endless meetings.
PSLM PICKETS BOSTON PROPERTIES. Read the 6/29 Crimson article here.
SUCCESSFUL STUDENT-LABOR ACTION AT UC SAN DIEGO. Read the LA Times article here.
JUNE 15 IS JUSTICE FOR JANITORS DAY! SEIU Local 254 (representing Harvard janitors) will be leading a rally at Boston City Hall (Government Center T stop) at 3:15 pm. There will also be a one-day FAST FOR JUSTICE. The Justice for Janitors demands are: Full-time work, Better Wages, Family Health Insurance & Pension, Job Security, & Amnesty for all Immigrant Workers. For more information, visit justiceforjanitors.org. And see the movie Bread and Roses.
GRADUATING SENIORS SIGN STATEMENT. Read it here.
OVERSEAS RIPPLE EFFECT! A recent (5/30/01) Jerusalem Post article revealed that our sit-in has inspired the beginnings of student-labor activism in Israeli universities. Read all about it here.
HARVARD DINING HALL WORKERS NEGOTIATE NEW CONTRACT
HERE Local 26 ratified a new contract on 5/17/01. Read all about it
FACTS AND FALLACIES is a document released by the President on April 27th. It was published in the Harvard Gazette and mass emailed to the entire university. Read our detailed response . Note: Matt D. did an awesome job reformatting this! Check it out! You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader, which you can download for free here.
DISCIPLINARY ACTION TAKEN AGAINST SIT-IN PARTICIPANTS. The undergraduate students who participated in the sit-in have been put on probation for three weeks (until June 4, 2001) by the Harvard College Administrative Board. The law school student participants were issued a formal reprimand. No action was taken against other graduate student participants.
VICTORY AT UCONN!. Students at the University of Connecticut won a living wage for their janitors after a three day sit-in. Find out more at www.freeuconn.org.
THE SIT-IN HAS ENDED. After 21 days, students left the building after reaching an agreement with the adminstration. Find out more here.
END OF SIT-IN UPDATE. Click here for our most recent statement (released 5/12/01).
CHRIS STURR'S speech on "What would Victory Be?"
TODAY AT 3 Students will be leaving Mass Hall at 3:00pm today in solida rity with students, faculty, alumni, community members and workers - ready to celebrate our victories and continue the campaign!
The details have been worked out with substantive gains for workers, a fair committee process (including workers, students, administrators, and faculty members!) for addressing the issue, and unparalleled student, faculty, labor, & community support.
Come hear the specifics at 3pm in front of Mass Hall! An e-mail will also be disseminated with our statement soon after that point.
Watch this webpage for upcoming announcements as events unfold.
WORKERS WORDS I just finished re-formatting all the "workers' words." These are stories about working at Harvard from dozens of workers PSLM has spoken with over the years. If you've never read them, do so now. Workers' Words
NEW YORK CITY A great group of alumni are forming a Living Wage New York group, to support the sit-in at Harvard. Find out about them here. Join their mailing list here. There current plan is an action everyday before work.
FACTS AND FALLACIES is a document released by the President on April 27th. It has been published in the Harvard Gazette and mass emailed to the entire university. Read our detailed response . I think the last point is the most important: even if the statement represented the whole truth, it still gives no reason not to implement a living wage.
MANY HARVARD CHAPLAINS have written an open letter to the Harvard community on the living wage campaign. If you ever wondered what the living wage campaign had to do with religious pluralism, read it here.
LETTER of SUPPORT from HERE local 6, employees of the Harvard Club in New York, here.
SUPPORT THE WORKERS CENTER The recently established Harvard Workers Center provides free legal advice to campus workers, and needs your support to get up and running this summer! Click here to find out how you can help!
THE HARVARD CRIMSON has put together all their coverage of the sit-in. Check it out here. Note: some news articles contain inaccurate information regarding size of crowds and as well as unconfirmed statements by participants in the sit-in.
OTHER SIT-INS If you've been following events at Penn State, read about the agreement that's been reached here
INSIDE STATEMENT The people on the inside have written up a statement, responding to President Rudenstine's proposals and remarks made to the students. Read it here.
4/30 GOOD NEWS FROM NORTHWESTERN A year and a half. Thousands of signatures, many rallies and protests.... and a 9 day camp-out-- NORTHWESTERN IS JOINING THE WRC! Three NSAS members met with our administration today and heard the news.
SENATOR TED KENNEDY couldn't be at the rally Monday (4/30), but he sent us a letter.
GOOD DISSENT Some officers of the Harvard Republican Club have written a letter to the Crimson, giving their views on a living wage and the sit-in. It gives an interesting perspective on the idea of a living wage, and is (I feel) a great example of people who "agree with a living wage, but don't agree with the sit-in" as opposed to people who "want to seem progressive but don't want to do anything."
4/29 UPDATE After an extremely positive meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, it seems that there might be progress. It is crucial during this time to continue pressuring the Harvard administration. Though we are hopeful, we have no guarantee that things will continue to move in a positive direction, and negotiations have still not begun. We political, labor, and academic support continues to grow, and we have appeared on CNN, ABC, and NBC over the past couple of days, giving us even more national attention.
PROF RICHARD HECK was scheduled to speak at a rally, but then there wasn't time. He has written up some reflections on the living wage camaign, read them here.
SONG LYRICS Lara Jirmanus has written some incredible alternative lyrics to the tune of "I will Survive." Read them here and prepare to laugh.
4/26 GOOD NEWS 100 dining hall workers from HERE Local 26 at the Business School had a contract that expired this week. Harvard had been planning to change the classification of these workers from "board-ops", who earn above a living wage, to "cash-ops", who earn less than a living wage. Thanks to the increased force of the living wage campaign during contract negotiations, Harvard backed down on the move to reclassification, and these 100 workers will continue to earn a living wage!
4/27 ONLINE POLL The Crimson in conducting an online poll about the sit-in. Check it out at The Crimson, in the right hand margin.
4/26 WE WELCOME Al Cho (who will be updating endorsements) and web monkey Neil Sinhababu (who will be posting emails) to the web team.
4/26 HUNDREDS OF FACULTY have signed a letter of supp ort for the campaign, demanding that the administration negotiate with the students sitting in. Their letter is printed i n today's issue of The Crimson.
INTERESTING ARTICLE on the actual effects of a living wage in communities where it has been implemented, written by Stephanie Luce, Assistant Professor of Labor Studies at the University of Massachusetts - Amherst. Article
4/24 HOUSE MASTERS for all the Houses at Harvard (except a couple who were out of town) have written an open letter to the administrators asking them to meet with students. Read it here . The United Ministry at Harvard has also endorsed this letter.
PRESS Contact various newspaper, TV stations and tell them you want to hear about the Living Wage Sit-in. Contact info
Senator Paul Wellstone sends a letter of support.
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Terming it as an wake up call, Pakistan Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar, has said that Taliban attack on teenage rights activist Malala Yousufzai, could possibly be a turning point in her country. "Today, for us (Pakistan), it (attack on Malala) could be possibly a turning point. I would keep my fingers crossed on that.
"And what we have in front of us is a war between two different sets of futures, one that Malala Yousafzai represents, a bright, young, dynamic girl who fought for her right to education and the right to live as a normal citizen," Khar told the CNN in an interview.
"And the other, which is trying to be imposed by this particular band, which is that of an extremist sort and of a terrorist sort," she added.
"In Pakistan today, Malala Yousafzai has probably done what many military operations could also not achieve. She has put it as a black-and-white question. "She's put it as either you're with the future that she represents or you are with the future that they are trying to
impose. And what you see is only fringe elements who are trying to justify it," Khar said.
"To me, the dangerous sign over here is that these people, after they attacked her, felt that they could fairly justification for an act like this. That has been rejected by all Pakistanis. "That, to me, is a confidence building measure. That, to me, is something which gives me confidence for the future of Pakistan," she said in response to a question.
"This is a wakeup call, to not only people in Pakistan, but people all over the world, that we have a clear and present danger in terms of people who choose to use violence as means to, you know, follow whatever they consider to be their agenda. To what extent they will go they have revealed in this particular incident," Khar said. Raising the issue of safe heaven across the border in Afghanistan, the Pak Foreign Minister said that for the past two years, Pakistan has been urging both the Afghan Government and the ISAF forces to take this matter seriously.
Zaibunnisa Kazi, an accused in the 1993 Bombay blast case, on Monday surrendered in a Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (TADA) court in Mumbai.
In latest development in the IPL spot-fixing case, Delhi Police have detained Ranji Trophy player Baburao Yadav from Delhi as investigation moved forward frantically on the last day of the custody of three Rajasthan Royals' players.
India and China on Monday signed eight agreements during Chinese Premier Li Keqiang's visit to India.
Dentist Rajesh Talwar claimed in the court that he was asleep on the fateful night when his daughter Aarushi and domestic help Hemraj were murdered and internet activity recorded from his room might not be correct.
Police claim to have arrested a first class cricketer, Manish, and are on the look out for a former Railways player, Baburao Yadav.
The two Congress Cabinet ministers, accused in Jagan Reddy disproportionate assets case, submitted their resignations to Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy on Sunday night.
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Saturday, November 24, 2007
Empowering Foreign-Exchange Traders
THE WEAK DOLLAR HAS SAPPED THE STRENGTH from many U.S.-based currency traders and investors. No software package we know of is going to change that. But the developers at FX Solutions (http://www.fxsolutions.com) are at least giving frustrated retail clients more control over their online systems and some advantages that only banks have had up to now.
The new FX Solutions platform turns a lot of the management of content, look and feel over to the customer. Older versions of this platform, and some of its rivals’, required the user to ask the firm’s technicians to make changes like page layout or background colors. Now “we let our customers customize everything,” says Bill Lawless, manager of the company’s foreign-exchange sales. That’s “very important,” he adds, to “a global-customer base.”
The upgrade also enables one-click trading on the currency pairs you trade most often, which means you can preset the size of a trade. The designated pairs are highlighted with a user-specified icon such as a lightning bolt. One-click trading removes the “are you sure you want to submit this trade?” query that also permits the client to change the lot amount.
There are obvious dangers to one-click trading. Lawless says, “I caution people to stay near their computers if they have pets or children once they’ve enabled one-click trading. You might come back to your screen and find out you’ve got a few tickets open you don’t know about.”
We have noted previously that most forex brokers can’t generate custom-performance reports. FX Solutions has dodged this bullet by allowing clients to export reports created by the platform to Excel, which can then be customized.
Among its other enhancements: improved news feeds and graphing capabilities, as well as a trading-premium calculator that totes up the cost of a trade and the effect of a one-pip (usually one one-hundredth of a percent) price move. The calculator shows the interest rate you’re paying on margin based on your account’s leverage setting and the margin requirement for the trade you’re considering.
The firm does not charge explicit commissions; like most forex brokers, it makes money on the spread between the bid and asked price. But unlike most forex brokers, FX Solution’s spreads are fixed for each pair. Lawless says some brokers widen the spread when a trader is closing a position, especially if the transaction has gone against the broker. “The only reason brokers will widen the spread is to protect themselves,” he says. “When you’re dealing in retail FX, fixed spreads keep people more honest.”
A sizable download is required before installing the program on a computer. But afterward, a helpful feature allows you to check out the health of your Internet connection to FX Solutions’ server. If the connection breaks during the trading day, the health meter pops up automatically.
Lawless says the firm’s goal is to provide the fairest game in town—even if the dollar isn’t helping much.
COMING SOON TO FIDELITY’S SITE: a way to backtest a stock-trading strategy free of charge—even for non-customers. This perk will be available after the first of the year, in conjunction with the release of Fidelity’s super-charged testing program, Wealth-Lab Pro, aimed at frequent traders. We’ll be reporting on both tools later.
E*TRADE MELTDOWN: Following a warning about larger-than-expected mortgage-related securities write-downs, a Securities and Exchange inquiry and an analyst downgrade that mentioned a run on its deposits, E*Trade Financial lost half its market value early last week before recovering a bit of it. Still, the big drop prompted some E*Trade customers to wonder whether they should jump ship.
E*Trade says the discount broker and banking operation is in no danger of insolvency. Corporate Communications Vice President Pam Erickson said in an e-mail: “We take exception to the sensationalism based on unfounded speculation,” referring to the Citigroup report that shook investors. She added: “Customers’ money is safe.”
Sandler O’Neill principal Richard Repetto says customers should “generally remain calm. The broker is insured by SIPC customer insurance and the bank by the FDIC. Customers with balances above the levels covered by the insurance should not panic as [E*Trade] has alternatives to fund and support their bank and broker.”
SIPC insurance covers up to $500,000 in securities in each customer account (the firm also has insurance beyond that), while FDIC insurance covers up to $100,000 in cash and up to $500,000 for Extended Insurance Sweep Deposit Accounts. Though the immediate threat may have passed, clients with large sums at risk should always review their potential exposure in a crisis—at E*Trade or elsewhere.
Published in Barron’s, November 18, 2007.
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
E*Trade's Mortgage Losses Lead to Customer Exodus
A few days ago, a Citibank analyst put E*Trade’s stock (ticker: ETFC) on their “Sell” list, and went so far as to declare the firm a candidate for bankruptcy. The stock price fell off a cliff on Monday, though it has recovered some of the ground lost in the last few days, and fired up takeover chatter once again.
The other activity fired up was the flight of customer assets. Several competitors have been in touch with me this week to report a huge uptick in new accounts, primarily attributable to E*Trade customers getting their assets out.
I dropped into the local Fidelity office today, where a manager said that they have had over $150 million moved from E*Trade to Fidelity (http://www.fidelity.com) since Monday in the San Francisco Bay Area alone. Nationally, he says the total is close to $1 billion. ONE BILLION! I was amazed by that figure.
Don Montanaro at TradeKing (http://www.tradeking.com) says TradeKing is averaging 10 calls per hour since Monday morning from people identifying themselves as E*Trade account holders with concerns about their assets and who are looking for a safe place to put their money. Nearly one-third of TradeKing’s online customer service chat sessions have been taken up by E*Trade customers looking for more information. Callers specifically seem to be hunting for brokerages outside the sub-prime arena that will not cost them a large increase in trading fees. And some clients holding both E*Trade and TradeKing accounts have already begun the process of transferring assets from E*Trade into TradeKing accounts.
At optionsXpress (http://www.optionsxpress.com), the new accounts desk is also extremely busy helping E*Trade customers move their accounts.
So, hould E*Trade customers jump ship?
E*Trade officials say the discount broker and banking operation is in no danger of going bankrupt. Corporate Communications Vice President Pam Erickson said via e-mail: “We take exception to the sensationalism based on unfounded speculation,” referring to the Citigroup report that spooked the market.
Sandler O’Neill principal Richard Repetto said, “Customers should generally remain calm. The broker is insured by SIPC customer insurance and the bank by FDIC. I think the customers with balances above the levels covered by the insurance should not panic as [E*Trade] has alternatives to fund and support their bank and broker.” Repetto is saying that customers don’t have to worry about losing their assets above the SIPC/FDIC coverage level because ETFC will cover it and won’t go bankrupt.
SIPC insurance covers up to $500,000 in securities in each customer account, while FDIC insurance covers up to $100,000 in cash.
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Saturday, November 10, 2007
Latest Research Class: Social Studies
IN THE EARLY 1990s, WHEN INVESTORS WANTED to gather online, they headed to discussion sites like Investor’s Forum on CompuServe or Motley Fool on AOL. My recollection of these venues is a lot of bragging and flame wars, with an occasional helpful tidbit thrown in.
Nowadays, there are dozens of online places to talk about trading and investments, ranging from old-fashioned misc.invest.stocks to broker-sponsored sites TradeKing and Zecco and on to social networking sites, such as two that Electronic Investor wrote about: Cake Financial (http://www.cakefinancial.com), in “A Mixer for Online Investors,” Oct. 8; and Covestor (http://www.covestor.com), in “Pick Your Own Online Stock Sherpa,” June, 25.
OR YOU CAN JOIN San Francisco’s Wikinvest (http://www.wikinvest.com), founded in 2006 by a couple of (what else?) Harvard roommates with the goal of creating the world’s largest investment research wiki. A wiki is a repository of community-generated information; the best-known example, of course, is the online encyclopedia Wikipedia (http://www.wikipedia.com), which has spawned its own language and social mores.
Wikinvest has about 250 articles with fairly in-depth information about companies, plus another 100 or so that detail various investing concepts. And there are hundreds of other articles, called “stubs,” that community members are working to flesh out. The site is free, and if you join, your literary contributions will net you community recognition, but no financial reward.
Company articles are divided into four sections—Neutral, Bulls, Bears and WikiChart—accessible by clicking on a tab near the top of the screen. The Neutral tab displays a corporate description, including an industry overview and the sectors in which the company competes. While viewing the report for Agilent Technologies, I noticed it was shown as a Nasdaq stock, although, in fact, it’s listed on the NYSE—so I hit the Edit button and quickly fixed the error.
The Bulls and Bears tabs offer arguments for positive and negative sentiment about the stock price, while the WikiChart tab takes you to a graph that can be annotated by the user to reflect news, earnings and other factors that the community believes might influence trading.
You earn points for every change you make on the site, such as editing personal information, contributing to articles or adding stock-chart annotations. The more changes, the more points you generate—if the changes endure, that is. Other Wikiinvest members can either allow them to remain or revise them if they see errors or shortcomings. If the additions stay, your reputation—as measured by increasingly august titles and more featured spots on the pages—grows; if not, your reputation suffers. The most accomplished Wiki writers become Senior Directors. Of course, the warm, fuzzy feelings generated by all this recognition—and $4—will get you a cup of coffee.
If you’d like to generate some income from your analytical prowess, check out TheUpDown (http://www.theupdown.com), a relatively new site that combines social networking with a stock-picking competition. Once you’ve set up an account at TheUpDown—a process that takes about 20 seconds—you have $1 million in fake money to play with. If your portfolio’s monthly performance beats the S&P 500’s, you win real money. Each transaction you make in your portfolio ends up costing you $100 in fake commissions, which should discourage frivolous trading. You can also get paid by supplying the site with an insightful stock analysis (tip to Barron’s columnists: perhaps you can make a little mad money on the side here) or by referring new users. The site itself is free, and is supported by advertising.
IF YOU’RE A FREQUENT OPTIONS trader interested in lowering your commissions, pay heed. Interactive Brokers recently moved to an “unbundled” options-pricing model, which charges 15 to 70 cents per contract, plus exchange fees. Says Managing Director Steve Sander: “The options exchanges are experimenting with different pricing structures, and we want to pass through the costs, as well as the rebates, that are now being passed back to brokers.”
Sanders says that most exchanges still don’t charge extra for stock-option trades, though there is a surcharge for index options. As a result, he argues, the fairest pricing model is “cost-plus,” which reflects the varying underlying costs, rather than a flat rate system that doesn’t.
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From the Editors
2012 London Palestine Film Festival. 20 April – 3 May 2012. For more information and a complete schedule of films, click here. Each year, for the two weeks of the London Palestine Film Festival, there are a bunch of people whose social life for that fortnight becomes the festival. Others dip in and out, while still others see a Palestinian film or a film about Palestine perhaps for the first time. Each year the program is rich and eclectic, ranging from animations to ...Keep Reading »
“Narrating the Arab Spring,” Cairo University, 18-20 February 2012 Many of us have spoken and thought about those who we wished would have been present to witness—and perhaps participate in—the revolutions. People we have known and loved, and people we have known from a distance. A woman stands up in a plenary at the “Narrating the Arab Spring” conference simply to say she would have loved it if Edward Said were here; she would have loved to hear and read what he had to say ...Keep Reading »
Naira Antoun is a freelance writer and youth worker who works in both formal and informal educational settings. She recently wrote her MA thesis on the framing of the Egyptian uprising as a youth uprising. Naira is a reviews editor for Arab Studies Journal and for the past few years has been one of the organizers of the annual Palestine Society conference at the School of Oriental and African Studies.
For articles by Naira Antoun and Mohand Yaqubi, click here.
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Eagle women's hoops drops Adrian in Juniata Holiday Tourney opener
(Posted January 4, 2008)
HUNTINGDON, Pa. â?" The Juniata College womenâ??s basketball team held off a second-half rally by Adrian College and won a 63-59 squeaker over the Bulldogs, in first round action of the Juniata College Holiday Tournament on Friday night in Huntingdon, Pa.
SUNY Brockport downed Hamilton College 74-60 in the other first round game. The host Eagles will face Brockport in Saturdayâ??s championship game at 3:00 p.m., while Hamilton will square off against Adrian College in the 1:00 p.m. consolation match.
The Eagles (6-4, 0-1 Landmark) held a 37-28 lead at the half, scoring 22 first-half point off 20 Bulldog turnovers.
Juniataâ??s lead held at seven points, 45-38, as late as the 13:01 mark of the second half, following a jumper by Emily Hauser (Pittsburgh, Pa./Mt. Lebanon). Adrian began chipping away at the Eagle lead, outscoring Juniata 9-2 over the next four minutes, eventually tying the game at 47-47 with 9:14 to play on a free throw by Megan Bowens.
The lead changed hands four times before the 5:09 mark, when Claudia McDowellâ??s (Alexandria, Pa./Juniata Valley) drained a three-pointer to give the Eagles a 55-52 lead. Following a bucket by the Bulldogsâ?? Anita Stamps which was answered by a pair of McDowell free throws, Adrian knotted the game at 57-57 with a traditional three-point play by Nichole Roose with 3:21 remaining.
Juniataâ??s Gina Piccolini (Indiana, Pa./Indiana) nailed her only trey of the night barely a minute later, putting the Eagles back in front by three. Piccolini and Stamps traded jumpers over the next 30 seconds, and Juniata still held a 62-59 lead with 2:00 on the clock.
The Eagles held Adrian to 0-for-4 shooting from the field down the stretch, allowing Juniata to carry the win.
McDowell led the Eagles with 18 points, while Jen Hnatuck (Mechanicsburg, Pa./Trinity) was the only other Eagle in double figures with 10 points. Adrianâ??s Bouwens paced the Bulldog attack with 12 points and nine rebounds.
Both teams turned in stellar shooting performances in the opening half, with the Eagles going 16-33 (48.5%) from the field and Adrian nearly matching at 45.8% (21-60). However both squads regressed in the second half, with Juniata shooting just 33.3% from the field while holding the Bulldogs to just 27.8% shooting.
Adrian dominated the Eagles on the boards 44-37, including a 19-15 advantage on the offensive glass.
SUNY Brockport 74, Hamilton College 60
Brockport jumped out to an early lead and never looked back, cruising to a 74-60 win over Hamilton College in Fridayâ??s opening game of the Juniata Holiday Tournament.
Brockport held an eight-point lead, 14-6, as early as the 13:41 mark of the opening half, and had a 37-26 advantage at the break.
The Continentals trailed by as many as 16 points early in the second half, but clawed their way back into the contest thanks to a 9-0 run that cut the Brockport lead to 46-39 with 13:03 to play in the game. Another 9-2 run later in the frame cut the margin down to two possessions, 53-48 with 7:06 remaining, but that was as close as Hamilton would get.
Ashley Broadhurst led the victorious Brockport Golden Eagles with 24 points on 9-of-17 shooting from the field, while Courtney Hines added 18 points and Brenlyn Campbell chipped in with 12.
Hamilton was paced by Pumla Sathula with 24 points on 9-of-16 shooting, with Sydney Fasulo adding 12 points.
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December 8, 2011
I love sewing on my projects - actually I hand stitch on my cards, scrapbook pages and mixed media projects. I do own a sewing machine but am a bit intimidated to use it - is there someone in the Denver area that would be willing to show me how to use one? *ha*!!!! I created this little felt gift box ornament for the Spellbinders Blog post titled: A Special Ornament for a very Special Tree. I have a little tutorial on how I created the ornament too!
I was lucky enough to be published in this issue of Simply Handmade Sewing from Northridge Publishing. It is filled with beautiful ideas to inspire you to get that needle and thread out and get sewing! I have an extra issue to giveaway to one lucky reader of my blog. Leave me a comment here by Midnight Sunday December 11, 2011 (mst) and let me know some of the things you like to sew. I will randomly select a winner and announce it here on Monday December 12!
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10:12am Tuesday 28th August 2012
HAVING heard the news of the death of Winnie Johnson it made me feel very sad.
All the years she endured trying to find out where her son was on the moors.
In the end she never did find out where he was.
Brady is a vicious killer along with Hindley; he plays mind games even now.
Human rights demand that we keep him alive. Why?
He did not give any compassion to the young ones he killed. He and Hindley had no respect for lives they had taken. They both should have been hanged a long time ago.
Who pays to keep him in prison? We do. Human rights are a joke.
What is wrong with justice?
How can monsters be let to have human rights? They were both an evil pair.
I just feel so sorry for Winnie who never found her son.
Also the other people who had to endure grief.
I have no pity or compassion for Brady or Hindley.
Why keep him alive?
People may say I’m heartless not to have pity.
I don’t really care what people think, no one is a law unto themselves.
PHILOMENA KERLY, Tennyson Road, Moordown
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6339 Arbitration - BRITTON- 30855
Added time and day 10-19-12
Raymond Britton (FACULTY)
Course Areas: Procedure and Practice
Time: 1:00p-2:30p MWLocation: 213 BLB
Course Outline: A course that is designed to give the student an understanding of the arbitration decision making process as applied in a work and commercial environment. Both a case study and a hands-on approach is taken as a means of acquainting the student with the non-judicial resolution of issues that are common to all forms of arbitration. Transcripts, exhibits and other materials taken from actual arbitration cases are supplied in order to assist the student in the understanding, preparation, and presentation of arbitral and non arbitral issues.
First Day Assignments:
Arbitration – First Assignment
For the first day of class, please read pages 2-24 of the casebook, ADR In The Workplace, Latest Edition.
Final Exam Schedule: 05/03 1-4pm 240 BLB
This course will have:
Satisfies Skills Course Requirement: No
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outnorthwest Issue 68
Publish Date: 15/08/2007
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- ...and even a little mention for Eurovision!
Please note, the print edition of outnorthwest this month contains the gay men's safer sex magazine EXPOSED. This magazine contains explicit imagery to illustrate safer sex messages.
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Michigan schools should take an honest, serious look at their past bonding practices and identify any areas that may be improved. An effective debt policy can help. School bonding is an area of public policy where there are opportunities to make significant improvementsimprovements that can have real and lasting benefits. Michigans schools should seize those opportunities. | <urn:uuid:f6cd31c2-0fd7-4b77-b931-535b163703cf> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.mackinac.org/480 | 2013-05-20T22:38:33Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955989 | 228 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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How a lemon car can teach you that your marriage needs more spice
We bought a brand spankin’ new car last week.
Before you send your congratulations, know that this was like those “Oops!” pregnancies and our purchase was unplanned. I am not quite sure how it happened; I wasn’t even ovulating at the time.
From the moment of
conception purchase a few years ago, we have had problems with my husband Jamie’s Jetta. But the past month has been a non-stop stream of breakdowns. The car, not me. Mostly.
We had planned to trade it in next year but we were stressed about all the nickles, dimes and dollars we were pouring into its repairs. The worst part of all is the mechanic could not ascertain the problem.
And so we had a tough decision: sustenance for the children or a new car.
Please send food.
I have never made a huge decision so quickly. Well, with the exception of buying the first wedding dress I tried on and oh, can you please throw in that cute veil ASAP because I am late for my volleyball game? Or the fact that I was married within six months of meeting Jamie.
He gives me a hard time about the deluge of children’s items that flood my SUV but nothing could have prepared me for what we discovered when we cleaned out his car.
One could expect some fast-food wrappers.
Several discarded Google maps.
Or maybe a rotting food item…or twelve.
But what Jamie unearthed in the catacombs of his trunk rocked me to my core: an illustrated book entitled The Joy of Sensual Massage.
After drowning in a stupor of silence, I finally sputtered,
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Public higher education has never, at any time in New Jersey’s history, been a high priority for the state. But the dramatic disinvestment in public higher education that has occurred over the last decade is unprecedented, and it has caused a major shift of the costs of public higher education from the state to students and their families, constituting an effective user-tax on a large and very important segment of the state’s population.
Let me share a few straightforward facts: Montclair State University has 17,475 students. That is 4,000 more students today than it had in the year 2000. Montclair State granted degrees to 3,477 students last year. That is 1,200 more degrees than it granted in the year 2000. Notwithstanding that growth, the proposed state budget for next year provides Montclair State with direct state appropriation that is less in actual dollars than we received in 2000. In that budget, state appropriation per student drops 31% below the level of support in 2000, which means that tuition must cover more of the costs.
This year, Montclair State has seen a 20% increase in undergraduate and graduate applications. New Jersey citizens are voting with their feet. They want a place in one of their excellent state colleges, but many of them won’t get one, and they will continue to be forced out of state or have to forgo the opportunity for a higher education.
The fundamental principle of public higher education, the principle that is at the heart of our mission, is that individuals with ambition and ability in our state and nation should have the opportunity to go to college without regard to the circumstances of their birth or the income level of their families. And the purpose behind that principle is that this nation needs the contributions that can be made by a broad range of its citizens.
As alumni of Montclair State, I know you will want to join in our effort to reach out to state legislators to voice your concern. You can do that by registering on www.njcollegepromise.com and by getting friends, neighbors, and members of organizations, clubs, and churches to do so as well. We invite you to join the New Jersey College Promise Action Network to help strengthen New Jersey by staying informed about the issues and sharing your views on them with our state legislators.
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By Karine Hains, Editor-in-Chief
For the month of August, Sports Card Forum is proud to announce that our Trader of the Month (TOTM) award goes to jpc879 and our Member of the Month award (MOTM) has been given to 11eleven11. These special mentions are awarded each month to highlight the member who made the most trades (TOTM) and to turn on the spotlight on a member who made an outstanding contribution to the SCF community.
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Guest article by gosens151911
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Guest article by Inferno
As many SCF members know, at least the ones who roam the Hockey boards, I am a dedicated Marian Gaborik collector. I have only been collecting Gaborik for maybe five months now, but my collection has been steadily improving. In a big way, the driving force behind the growth of my collection has been the help from fellow Gaborik collectors. Yes that’s right, other Gaborik collectors.
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Break and review by RenegadeLonghorn
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By Karine Hains, Editor-in-Chief
Isn’t it great to live in the 21st century and to be able to use all the technology which is at our fingertips in our collecting endeavors? You want to know the value of a card? There’s no need to go out and get a magazine. You want to buy a box? There’s no need to go to a hobby shop. You want to trade cards? Well I suppose you could meet up with friends and try to work out some trades but what if your friends don’t collect? That’s right you can do all these things More > | <urn:uuid:71b5c7cd-f84c-403d-be02-c4652c77f7bf> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.sportscardforum.com/articles/author/Pheebs888/page/78/ | 2013-05-20T22:13:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.928678 | 863 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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The => operator is used to define arrays. When you create an array, you will have both indexes and values. You then create the array with the following syntax seperated by commas, index => values.
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This is a bit more complicated. Are you asking how to create and use the class? I'll write up a tutorial for you soon to show you how to do this.
How do you delete things stored in a MySQL table?
You will create a query using php's mysql_query function. Here is an example of how you would delete something:
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How do you edit things stored in a MySQL table?
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mysql_query("UPDATE table SET column = 'newvalue' WHERE column = 'value'")
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There are many different forms of Arthritis affecting both adults and children. The two most common forms of Arthritis are Osteoarthritis and Rheumatoid Arthritis. Osteoarthritis is a condition which causes pain and compromises the function of the affected joints as a result of aging and general wear and tear. The smooth cartilage that takes the strain in a normal joint becomes rough, brittle and weak. To compensate, the bone beneath thickens and spreads out, forming knobbly outgrowths (Osteophytes). As Osteoarthritis gets worse, bits of cartilage may break away from the bone, causing the bone ends to rub together and the ligaments to become strained.
Rheumatoid Arthritis is a common disease affecting about one in 100 people; although three times as many women are affected as men. Most people get fluctuating pain and stiffness that gets worse during flare-ups. Many people find that the condition gives them flu-like symptoms and makes them tired, irritable or depressed. Controlled rehabilitation exercises are proven to increase muscle strength and decrease patient disability without increasing pain. Acupuncture has been shown to help ease the pain of arthritic joints especially hands and knees. Our physiotherapists are experienced in using a combination of exercise (sometimes in hydrotherapy pools) and acupuncture to relieve the pain associated with both Osteoarthritis and Rheumatoid Arthritis.
Tennis elbow, Golfer’s elbow, Jumper’s knee, shoulder ‘impingement’, Achilles tendonitis are all examples of tendonitis. They can be caused by overuse or can be a natural consequence of ageing and general tendon wear. Physiotherapy is extremely successful in easing the pain and dysfunction caused by the irritation/degeneration of the respective tendons. Our physiotherapists may use passive treatments (electrotherapy, acupuncture, specific types of massage), give practical advice regarding alteration of sporting technique and training pattern, advice on equipment and supports and also appropriate exercises.
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With The Grocer having recently published its annual Focus on Spirits, it seems like a good time to follow up my recent post on premium spirits . Last time, I looked at some of the factors driving sales of premium spirits – such as the search for Total Basket VfM, the rise of a new type of status brand, and consumers’ desire for statement drinks.
This time, I thought I’d take a look at what some of those brands are doing to encourage consumers to trade up from their more everyday counterparts. So for those of you thinking about joining the modern-day gold rush that’s become the premium spirits market, here are four simple steps to success. Just don’t get trampled in the crowd!
Step one: Think outside the box (with some distinctive packaging)
Brands like Belvedere, U’Luvka and Iceberg vodka have made a talking point of their packaging, giving them standout on shelf but also in-home. These brands begin to justify their premium pricing from the moment consumers set eyes on them.
Step two: Make like the Brothers Grimm, and find yourself a story
Brands like Sipsmith or Zubrowka Bison Grass have focused their communications on a clear narrative, which engages and involves consumers on an emotional as well as rational level. In doing so, they encourage a greater loyalty to the brand, creating advocates and educators.
Step three: Give ‘em a moment of magic
A number of the premium spirits brands have adopted the same tactic as their more mainstream cousins, looking to create a unique ritual around the drinking experience. The classic example of this is of course the ‘Gordon’s serve’, as showcased until recently by a certain fiery, foul-mouthed chef. Brands such as Russian Standard have done so by tapping into the popularity of cocktails, as consumers escape the bleak climate with a touch of glamour. Its Golden Summertime Iced Tea cocktail was created especially to showcase the distinctive flavours of Russian Standard, and the ritual of its creation allows consumers to feel closer to the brand.
Step four: Start a rumble in the jungle
One of the biggest trends for spirits in general, and particularly for the premium end of the category, has been the use of experiential marketing to promote and build engagement with their products. Last year we saw the Smirnoff Nightclub Exchange make headlines around the world, and this year the brand’s coming back for more – more events in more countries, with Madonna as ambassador.
At the premium end of the market, there are some great case studies such as the Jameson Film Club or Hendricks Curiositorium, but the grand prize has to go to Courvoisier, which has partnered with a range of eclectic, exciting partners from Secret Garden Party to Bombas & Parr to speakeasy White Mink, currently popping up at the Edinburgh Festival. Courvoisier has created a series of high-class, exclusive events that attract its target demographic of ‘forward thinking 28+’, and in doing so, has ensured that the positive memories customers carry away from those events will be indelibly associated with the brand. Through the creation of these experiences, spirits brands are making themselves more than just drinks: they’re a key part of the buzz.
So there we are: four steps to success. As with most of life’s formulas, when you break it down, it suddenly looks simple. I’m off to find my home distilling kit – Elderflower & Cadbury’s Creme Egg vodka, anyone?
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Atom Egoyan never scruples to mystify, disconcert and even offend his audience and Exotica might well do all that and more. Following Egoyan's typically idiosyncratic take on the world of `adult' movies, it's largely set in the strip-joint of the title and toys disturbingly with images of paedophilia. Connected with the club are an ill-assorted network of characters: the club's owner, pregnant by the sleazy MC, a tax auditor who haunts the establishment to slake his obsession with one of the lap-dancers, a gay pet-shop owner with an undercover line in smuggling exotic eggs whom the taxman is auditing, and the auditor's teenage niece who still babysits for him even though his daughter was murdered two years ago. Despite its erotic imagery it's hard to imagine anyone getting off on Exotica. The prevailing mood is one of need and emotional dislocation and the film might well risk being depressing were it not put together with such style and tantalising skill. | <urn:uuid:4317a916-2e7f-4524-8342-218afc14ba6e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.totalfilm.com/reviews/dvd/exotica | 2013-05-20T22:01:04Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973835 | 216 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Tower Players invite you along to
an informal evening of Spring fun in four parts at the Rose Theatre in Rugeley on Friday April 26th and Saturday April 27th.
The evening begins with A Nice Cup of Tea which explores the impact of Health and Safety on the domestic hazard that is tea brewing!
After a brief interlude (but long enough to get a drink from the bar!) – we present Superheroes, another self-penned offering from our own Tom Allsopp. A group of lesser known superheroes are bemoaning their lot in life at a stand during the latest Superheroes trade fair. Whilst they compare their own lack of PR staff and photo opportunities, little do they realise that fate will soon present them with a chance to use their very niche superpowers and save the day.
After another chance to recharge your glass, Mastermind brings contestants new and oddly familiar to the famous black chair and will include specialist subjects ‘Answering the Question Before Last’ and ‘Answering Questions of Unfeasible Length’ among others.
The final act is Alan Ayckbourn’s Ernie's Incredible Illucinations, telling the story of young Ernie who is taken to see a sceptical doctor by his parents who are worried about the apparent reality of Ernie’s ‘Illucinations’. Ernie’s imagination takes us on an adventure involving a raid by German soldiers, the world’s most unlikely heavyweight boxing title fight, a mountain top rescue, and more.
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Gambling, especially the lottery, has been around since the beginning of time. Let's take the word "lottery" itself, which is derived from the word "lotto" and is the Italian word for destiny or fate.
History of lotteries goes back to early Chinese culture, where it is said that even the Great Wall of China was financed by a lottery. Lottery forms themselves date back to Julius Caesar. Lotteries in Europe flourished quite well between the 15th and 17th centuries, so they say.
In 1727, the Netherlands started a lottery that is still quite active. According to history lore, the main purpose of creating a lottery in those days was to simply replenish the country's depleted funds so that it could finance its wars and the construction of roads, bridges and buildings. Hmm, maybe our country should look into a lottery for our present infrastructure problems, as our government has no clue how to accomplish this.
John Hancock even operated a lottery to rebuild historic Faneuil Hall in Boston. Washington and Jefferson were involved in lotteries.
Finally, lotteries reached our shores, which funded Virginia and established the first English settlement there. Harvard University even had its own lottery. Corruption came as it usually does, and for a while, lotteries were prohibited. In 1878, the state of New York passed the first constitutional prohibition of lotteries in the U.S.A., and later, all states except Louisiana prohibited lotteries.
It took quite a bit of time, almost a century, but state lotteries were again created in the middle 1970s starting with New Hampshire, New York and New Jersey. Before you knew it, the instant game that we all love and adore came along. By the 1980s, it was quite successful with sales of the instant tickets passing $1 billion in sales.
Our own Ohio Lottery Commission was created in May 1973 by a voter-approved constitutional amendment. The first ticket went on sale in August 1974. Today, the Ohio Lottery Commission offers a variety of games with approximately 8,900 licensed locations across our state. Our Ohio lottery was established to support education programs and has contributed about $13 billion to education. The Ohio Lottery was to be solely used to support elementary, secondary, vocational and special educational programs.
As mentioned earlier there are many varieties of lottery games to be played in Ohio. Many people have won big time and are enjoying their lives as millionaires, while others hold their winnings as a curse and wish they had never won. Most of us all dream of winning millions in the big one - as in the present Mega Millions and Classic Lotto. Our hearts race as we search for the winning numbers each day.
To win the Mega, odds are 1 in 175,711,536. To win the second prize of $250,000, odds are 1 in 3,904,701, and for the third prize of $10,000, odds are 1 in 689,065. The prizes go down to having just the Mega Ball for a winning of just $2 with odds of 1 in 75.
In the Classic Lotto, to win the grand prize jackpot the odds are 1 in 13,983,816. To win the second prize of $1,500, the odds are 1 in 54,201.
There are so many different ways to win, and it does create a fever to play. But it is gambling, and we must be aware that we just don't win every time and to limit how much we play. There is Rolling Cash 5, Pick 3 or Pick 4, the number and various scratch-off instant games on whatever stakes you want to play.
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July 11, 2011 | CUNY Matters, The University
University researchers are now developing marketable products to help solve medical, energy and other global challenges. These profitable ideas will also benefit CUNY and the local economy.
What if. For science and technology researchers, these are the words that can start an idea on the road to invention — the connective tissue between something known and something imagined. In recent years, a particular brand of what-if has been percolating in labs around the University: the kind that can lead to something the world can really use.
What if, for instance, a way could be found to overcome the one problem that limits the capacity of a standard nickel-zinc battery, the kind in cameras and phones? Could you make one big enough to power a whole building?
What if electrical brain stimulation, a technique that has shown promise as a treatment for diseases like Parkinson’s, could be accomplished by simply placing electrodes on the scalp — rather than requiring a surgeon to drill a hole through the skull, as the technology now requires?
And what if there were a way to make plastics, wood and fabrics with surfaces embedded with a natural substance known to have immense antibacterial powers? Would fewer people die of infections in hospitals?
CUNY faculty researchers have been asking themselves these and a lot of other “what if” questions with real-world applications the past few years. And the answers are beginning to emerge from their labs — the first fruit of a decade-long initiative to recruit and support inventive researchers and partner with them in commercializing
discoveries. They are part of an effort to reimagine CUNY as the kind of “entrepreneurial university” that Chancellor Matthew Goldstein has said it needs to be to fulfill its mission as a modern public university in every sense.
“Our scientists are developing technologies that have the potential to make tremendous contributions to society,” says the chancellor. “Bringing them to the marketplace is essential, benefitting not only their creators, their colleges and CUNY, but local economies and the public at large.”
CUNY’s moves to scale up science and technology are broadening the University’s rich tradition of research that benefits society at large — building on the social sciences that have been a hallmark of CUNY research to foster discoveries in the physical sciences, biomedicine and technology that might make the world healthier, wealthier and maybe a little more wise.
The University’s science research faculty has grown by more than 700 over the past eight years — an expansion that was itself a bit of engineering. According to Vice Chancellor for Research Gillian Small, many were hired in clusters after a process that identified specialized, cutting-edge corners of chemistry, physics and biomedical engineering that could become “flagship areas” for CUNY. The infusion of talent and focus has helped lead to a threefold increase in government support for CUNY research in the past decade — to $152 million in 2010 — much of it, lately, in government grants targeting technology research with promise for the economy, energy and the greater American good.
A key to the University’s efforts is an intellectual property policy that is generous to faculty — more generous, in some cases, than those in place at major research institutions that have been commercializing faculty discoveries on a large scale for many years. Among other things, the policy allows faculty to start small companies, in collaboration with CUNY’s Technology Commercialization Office, to bring their inventions and discoveries to the marketplace.
“We’re in the start-up phase,” says Small. “We’re getting in the game. We’re competing.”
Chancellor Goldstein sees a connection between the commercialization of CUNY research and the University’s need to find creative solutions to its budget burdens. “This is a time when the same spirit of ‘what if?’ that drives our academic research must also drive our approach to financing,” he said in a speech earlier this year. “Universities must become incubators of new ideas, reorienting themselves to a new environment of institutional entrepreneurism.”
Here is a look at a few members of CUNY’s research faculty and how the technologies they’ve developed are helping the University re-imagine its role in the world.
Prototype device above, developed in a City College lab, shows promise for treating neurological diseases via painless, noninvasive electrotherapy.world.
Spinal Cord Injury Treatment
The invention: PathMaker Neuromuscular Treatment System, a CUNY-trademarked method of treating spinal cord injuries by using electrical stimulation to strengthen neuromotor connections.
The ambition: Ahmed’s device and method have shown early promise as an effective technique for strengthening the neuromotor pathways that remain after a spinal injury, promoting significant and perhaps permanent improvement. The technology recently won a $250,000 BioAccelerate NYC Prize from the New York City Investment Fund, an annual competition to encourage academic institutions in the city to translate biomedical research into practical applications. If the PathMaker system continues to prove effective — a trial involving 96 patients is now under way — CUNY could license the technology through the offshoot company.
In his words: “In neuroscience, there is a principle that when two neurons fire in synchrony the connection between them strengthens. It’s thought to be the basis for memory, learning and recovery from injury. The opposite is true when there’s a spinal cord injury. The connections from the brain to the spinal cord and the spinal cord to the muscle are weakened. The basis for the technology I have developed is that applying stimulation to activate brain cells, spinal cord cells and muscle — at the same time — should strengthen the connections and improve function. It is premised on the existence of at least some minimal neuronal function. The electrical stimulation is applied along the entire affected spinal neuromotor pathway, from the brain to the affected extremity. It turned out to be very effective. We’ve published two papers reporting remarkable recovery, first with mice and then with five patients with cerebral palsy and spinal injuries. We have a 16-year-old with severe cerebral palsy affecting both her arms and legs. She has always been in a wheelchair. After three weeks of treatment, three times a week for 15 minutes, she was walking with crutches without assistance. We’re now testing it with 96 patients with cerebral palsy or limited movement after a stroke. We hope it will confirm what has been shown so far, that extended treatments signal natural spinal processes to grow new neuronal connections.”
Versatile Sanitizer Creates Antibacterial Materials
The inventor: Robert Engel, Ph.D., and two of his now-former students in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Queens College.
The ambition: By making surfaces themselves antibacterial, the processes developed in Engel’s lab can be used to make a wide variety of suddenly sanitary products. Arguably the most important would be hospital gowns and bedding, and even equipment surfaces that could fight the spread of infection instead of facilitating it. Engel and his colleagues are in the early stages of licensing the CUNY-patented technology to manufacturers.
In his words: “We knew that in high concentration quats kill bacteria, and we decided to try to bind them to a range of surfaces, to see if we could arrange them in such a way that they would challenge bacteria in a relatively low concentration and could rip a hole in a bacterium when it fell on them. And it worked marvelously. E. coli would be hit by 100,000 of them simultaneously and the quats would just tear the cell wall apart. The key is in the processes we’ve developed for applying the quats to surfaces. In solution, you can’t get them organized — it’s like herding cats. But if you use the surface itself, either binding or embedding them, this makes a very nice system. It works with cloth, paper, wood, paints, cork, and a variety of other surfaces. So we can make the first antibacterial hospital gown. It can also be used in hotel bedding. We can embed it in plastics for athletic gear. It can be used in construction. We can treat wood to kill fungi, or to drive termites away. We’re in the process of negotiating with three operations interested in putting money into it, who would license our process. One of our collaborators is a fabric finisher. We have gone to his plant and we’ve put this on the assembly line and run through 10,000 feet of fabric. It can be scaled up very easily.”
The invention: Transcranial electrotherapy technology — a noninvasive method of delivering current to targeted areas of the brain, a technique that shows promise as a treatment for an array of neurological and psychiatric illnesses. CUNY patents cover the device itself, as well as the electrode configurations and algorithms that ensure that the current is precisely delivered to specific disease-related areas of the brain.
The ambition: Bikson and his team hope the technology will become a new weapon in the treatment of the most severe cases of brain diseases including Parkinson’s, epilepsy, depression and obsessive compulsive disorder. It will be tested over the next year in clinical trials at several centers including Harvard Medical School. CUNY’s Technology Commercialization Office has helped Bikson and his colleagues form a company, Soterix Medical, to test and market the technology.
In his words: “This idea grew out of my doctoral research on a procedure called deep brain stimulation, or DBS. DBS involves drilling through the skull of someone with a severe brain illness and surgically implanting electrodes to deliver constant electrical stimulation — like a brain pacemaker. Despite tremendous clinical success, the risk, complications and cost of DBS surgery represent a significant barrier to many patients. So I decided to think outside the box — and the box is the skull. In the last 10 years or so, there has been a lot of promising research showing that transcranial electrical stimulation — delivering current noninvasively, from outside the head — can induce what’s called neuroplasticity, which is the brain’s ability to essentially rewire itself by forming new neural connections. This had the potential to not just treat the symptoms of neuropsychiatric diseases, as DBS does, but induce a lasting cure. The problem was it couldn’t be focused to target specific brain regions identified with specific diseases. This is where my biomedical engineering team came in. What we have invented is the first electrotherapy delivery platform that is noninvasive, painless, and allows current delivery to specific brain targets.
The goal is for the treatment benefits to last. That’s a pretty compelling clinical proposition. Of course, there are many questions to be answered. But I think we have something pretty special on our hands. We’re motivated with every new story of a life transformed.”
Flexible Lasers Speed Wound Healing
The inventor: Vinod Menon, Ph.D., joined the physics department of Queens College in 2004, one of the first recruited to the CUNY research faculty through its strategic “cluster hiring” initiative. He and his colleagues develop lasers with practical applications.
The invention: The technique Menon has developed for creating flexible lasers and emitters that cover both visible and infrared light has the potential to be developed into a light emitting bandage that accelerates wound healing.
The ambition: Menon is a strong advocate of CUNY’s commitment to helping academic researchers get cutting-edge technologies developed and out to the world. He founded Hybrid Photonics, a company that has received funding from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research to develop chip-scale optical signal processors. He is working with CUNY’s Technology Commerciali-zation Office to bring the laser bandage idea to the marketplace.
In his words: “It has been established that infrared laser light can help heal wounds by increasing blood flow and cell production. What we have done is use a low-cost technique, namely spin-coating process, to create flexible, micro-cavity structures that work as lasers. This means we now have a way of making lasers cheaper than traditional techniques and also getting lasers on a flexible piece of plastic. What we are trying to do is marry this to the known ability of infrared laser light to accelerate wound healing. It would be a self-powered, light-emitting bandage. The low cost of fabricating these devices will allow for easy and cost-effective scale-up of manufacturing.
“What we are trying to do now is identify potential industrial collaborators for further development of the light-emitting bandage. And then, to test it, we want to collaborate with a medical institution that does research on wound-healing. Taking things from the lab to the marketplace is a long, complicated process. When I came here in 2004, there was no system in place to help professors. Now there is. It is still a difficult process, but we are learning the ropes.”
Innovative Battery With Longer Life
The inventors: CUNY Energy Institute, a center based at City College comprising faculty from across the University. Led by Sanjoy Banerjee, Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering and the institute’s founding director, research teams are working on advanced sustainable energy and other technologies to meet U.S. energy challenges.
The invention: A nickel-zinc “flow” battery that uses an innovative system of circulating electrolytes to scale up the capacity and life of the traditional nickel-zinc battery, making it a cost-effective method of storing large amounts of energy generated from renewable sources such as solar and wind. The project is led by Banerjee and Daniel Steingart, Ph.D.
The ambition: The institute’s hope of developing a “flow” battery large enough to sustain a building is one of several areas that have drawn combined funding of nearly $20 million in the past two years from federal and state grants, along with private foundations and industrial donors. To advance the institute’s vision of forging entrepreneurial partnerships to bring its technologies to the energy marketplace, Banerjee recruited an executive director, Valerio DeAngelis, a chemical engineering Ph.D. with long experience in managing and developing new technology ventures.
In his words: “As an academic research center, we’re kind of an experiment,” says DeAngelis. “We are a university with the mindset of a company. We have two products. One is the students — we support 30 Ph.D. students — and the other is the discoveries. We expect the technology developed here to lead to several start-up companies and hundreds of future employment opportunities in the New York City area. And training the next generation of engineers is as important as starting a company. They are both vital to our vision of contributing to the energy independence of the United States by pursuing pragmatic research in energy storage, oil and gas, and making nuclear plants safer and more efficient.” | <urn:uuid:db49783e-73d4-44e0-a1a8-46eab4618c6c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www1.cuny.edu/mu/forum/2011/07/11/thinking-big/ | 2013-05-20T21:58:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957187 | 3,195 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Yesterday, Brian and I cohosted, along with our friend Erik Noonan, the first of what we hope will be many outdoor pairings of poetry and visual art.
This first 'Reading in the Garden' featured two local poets, Sara Larsen and Jason Morris, reading alongside Brian's artwork. Jason and Sara were wonderful, and I couldn't be happier with how the first 'Reading in the Garden' played out.
Sara Larsen reads from 23 Chromosomes
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Better Choice of Living (BCOL) is preparing for our upcoming event - 11th Annual Black-Tie Dinner & Dance honoring our senior citizens in our community on Saturday May, 18, 2013 at the Quality Inn Hotel (on Exit 4) at 6:00pm.
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Award-Winning SCIFIT Fitness Equipment Catalog
David Clark Design of Tulsa, Oklahoma recently won an ADDY award for the work they did on our beautiful SCIFIT fitness equipment catalog. They really listened to us from the beginning and spent a lot of time understanding SCIFIT and our message of improvement through exercise. They saw SCIFIT through our eyes and it showed on every page of the catalog.
Congratulations on this honor and thanks again to the award-winning team:
David Clark, Art Director
Laura Crouch, Copywriter
Trey Thaxton, Designer
John Amatucci – Amatucci Photography, Photographer
Resource One, Printer
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Just a few years ago, Chip Rogers was a rising star in Georgia politics. He was a possible contestant for the lieutenant governor’s office if Casey Cagle sought higher office, and a sure-fire future gubernatorial candidate himself. Today, he said he’s leaving the Legislature altogether for a position at Georgia Public Broadcasting — a sharp, sudden end (for now, anyway) to a once-promising political career.
On the positive side, Rogers was strongly associated with the causes of school choice and property-tax reform. He pushed the first measure involving vouchers (for students with special needs) and tried unsuccessfully the last couple of years to expand that program to children of military and foster families. He helped reinstate the state’s Charter Schools Commission, after the Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional, by maneuvering this year’s constitutional amendment through the Senate. He was a likeable guy, and he went after big ideas.
He also attracted his share of critics, and controversy found him time and again. Some of these controversies — for instance, a business deal (with U.S. Rep. Tom Graves) gone bad — were more serious than others — such as a much-ridiculed bill requiring consent for the implantation of microchips.
But the most politically damaging controversy, by far, was his role in the leadership putsch in the Senate two years ago. Rogers helped lead the group of senators who stripped Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle of some of his powers so that they could run the chamber themselves. As the Senate’s majority leader and a telegenic, Atlanta-area legislator (he represented Cherokee County), he was a leading spokesman for a chamber that was criticized many times over the past two years for appearing rudderless. Neither Gov. Nathan Deal nor, more publicly, Speaker David Ralston, relished seeing their legislative priorities subjected to a Senate run by consensus within the GOP caucus.
Most bills, whether large or small in importance, ran the risk of becoming ensnared in the chamber’s running leadership fight. In the end, most of the more prominent bills during the last two legislative sessions managed to get through the Senate run by Rogers and President Pro Tem Tommie Williams. But the arrangement required their constant vigilance and, from my dealings with them, seemed to wear them down — both in terms of their energy and patience, and in terms of their standing with their own caucus.
First Williams announced he would not be running again for pro tem, then his chosen successor was defeated soundly in a post-election caucus meeting. Rogers dropped out of his own re-election bid, and rumors started circulating almost immediately that he’d be out of office before year’s end.
Rogers’ departure almost closes the book on the first era of the Georgia GOP’s rule under the Gold Dome; he took the majority leader position when Glenn Richardson was speaker and ran the House with Mark Burkhalter and Jerry Keen; Cagle was lieutenant governor and Eric Johnson was Senate president pro tem; and Sonny Perdue was governor. Only Cagle remains in elected office (at this point, you’d have to say he was the winner of the Senate’s two-year “experiment”).
At age 44, Rogers is too young to write off as a potential comeback candidate one day. But for now, like that first GOP-led era, Rogers’ legacy will be a mixed bag: Some big early successes, followed by less accomplishment even as the GOP’s majorities grew larger, and more questions and infighting than answers toward the end.
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Political punditry will never be the same if Claudia Wright is elected to Congress from Utah's sprawling second congressional district. The district encompasses the whole southern part of the state, the whole eastern part of the state and a nice chunk of Salt Lake City and its southern metro area, from Millcreek and Murray down to Sandy. Almost 60% of the district's population lives in the Salt Lake City area; the rest of the huge district is mostly beautiful park land. It's also Utah's relatively "progressive" district with a PVI of R +17-- which sounds pretty dismal until you look at the first CD (PVI of R +22) and the third district (PVI of R +26). McCain "only" won 57% of the vote in the 2nd (64% in the first and 67% in the 3rd). But the second has been sending a Democrat to the House since 2000-- sort of.
The congressman from the second is reactionary Blue Dog Jim Matheson, son of two-term Governor Scott Matheson, and he pretty much always votes with the Republicans on important issues. He first got elected by attacking Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore for his health-care reform proposals. Needless to say, Matheson was an eager aisle crosser when it came to the recent votes on health-care reform. And three weeks ago Democratic activists in his district -- despite a parachute jump in by wheeler/dealer Steny Hoyer-- were eager to deny Matheson the Democratic Party endorsement. They forced him into an open primary with today's Blue America endorsee, Claudia Wright.
Inside-the-Beltway pundits and political "pros" insist that Democrats only win in red areas like UT-02 by running on Republican talking points. Ignoring the outstanding campaigns run by working family champions -- from Alan Grayson (D-FL) and Carol Shea-Porter (D-NH) to Dave Loebsack (D-IA) and Mary Jo Kilroy (D-OH), each of whom ousted an entrenched Republican incumbent in a "red" district -- the conventional wisdom is that only corporate shills like Jim Matheson can win in places like Utah. We know conventional wisdom is wrong and ignores the reality of the district. And so does Claudia:
Mr. Matheson and the party wasn't prepared for the reception he got at the mass meetings we had last March. He had no idea how angry he made his constituents. He was booed and jeered... The party has misread its membership and misread the fact that we are witnessing a political realignment, not just here in Utah, but across the country. The alignment is shifting right to left and top to bottom. A Large number of delegates at our convention were actually moderate Republicans who are now more at home with our party than they are with the extremist right of the Republican Party. Grassroots candidates like myself agree with tea partiers in that we need to get corporate money and special interests out of politics so that our representatives are accountable to their constituents and only their constituents.
Claudia is running as a full on champion of working families and her campaign platform is about the issues that most concern real people, not the nonsense manufactured by Republican propaganda puppets like Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage and Sean Hannity to persuade voters that hating each other is more important than electing people who will help protect them from powerful predatory special interests and the politicians (and media outlets) they own.
While the banking bailout may have been necessary, handing over billions of dollars of taxpayer money with no strings attached doesn't serve the interests of working families. We gave all this money to big banks so they could give enough credit to small businesses to jump-start employment but the banks used that money for their own purposes rather than what it was meant for. That's what I mean by "no-strings-attached;" it should have been a requirement that that money be used to loosen up credit for small businesses. There needs to be much more oversight of Wall Street than what is being proposed in the new legislation Congress is working on.
I'd like to ask you to consider two things now. Surf over to our comments section below to meet Claudia and also please consider making a contribution to her campaign through Blue America's ActBlue page. In fact everyone who donates to Claudia's campaign this weekend (offer ends Sunday at midnight, PT) will have their name entered in a contest to win an autographed copy of Al Franken's book The Truth AND an autographed copy of the Al Franken DVD God Spoke; the winner gets both. | <urn:uuid:4cc36ae6-b17b-4af9-a0a2-c768526f01d7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blueamerica.crooksandliars.com/taxonomy/term/395 | 2013-05-23T11:48:03Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969065 | 944 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
A few weeks, I was hit—yet again!—by a bout of the Doubt Monsters.
Ah yes, the Doubt Monsters, those nasty blood-drinking things. I think every creative person suffers this ailment from time to time, but for some reason those Doubts really like attacking me! Or maybe I'm just emotionally puny? Hmm....
I was feeling rather ho-hum a few Saturdays ago so I plunked myself on the sofa and proceeded to flip through the channels. Since The Millionaire Matchmaker wasn't on, I ended up watching a show on PBS where three college kids drove across the U.S. and interviewed successful people along the way. In the episode I watched, the kids spoke with a scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (holla! i love astronomy!) and they asked him if he had ever faced rejection in his career.
The scientist smiled a little and rattled off a long list of his stumbling blocks: rejected from grad schools, rejected from jobs, rejected ten times from the NASA space program. So what kept him going through these failures? He answered with a quote:
Those who dare risk defeat.
Those who don't ensure it.
At this point, a huge light bulb went off in my brain and I raced to scribble down the quote. I've been thinking about it ever since, letting it simmer in the back of my head and trying to apply it to my own endeavors. Mainly, to writing.
There's power behind these words, don't you think? I feel rejuvenated every time I read them, to press ahead, to keep going. And most importantly, to take that risk, no matter the outcome or the heartache. Because as long as I'm daring to dream, then that dream could someday come true. But if I stop trying, I'm ensuring my own defeat.
So, thank you, PBS! Thank you, JPL scientist! Today, I'm daring to dream.
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Scripture doesn't address this directly. The closest relevant verses I can think of are:
Psalm 101:3 (KJV) I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate
the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.
This would be an example of a (good) decision to not regard (or even look at) certain things. Things that would be depictions of sinful behavior.
This could be as obvious as watching pornography, or stretched as far as a personal conviction would take it. I may think that WWE Wrestling (does that even exist any more?) is sinful because of the violent behavior, or Betty Boop because she shows so much cartoon skin. that doesn't mean that you would necessarily agree with me. (And I don't. Those are just silly examples to illustrate the point.)
Matthew 5:28 (KJV) But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a
woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in
This would seem to me to apply in the case of pornography. The point of that type of material is to incite lust. But where is the line on what is art and what is not? This doesn't address your question, either. What I find artistic, you may find lascivious, or vice-versa.
In the end, that comes down to a personal conviction. Unfortunately, there isn't a clear line. Society, cultural norms, our own background, and our own mental (and possibly genetic) makeup all determine what we find to be beautiful in an artistic sense, and what we find exciting, and arousing in a non-artistic sense.
The same can be said for other forms of art. Music, for example. Does Heavy Metal incite aggression, or does it give that extra bit of energy when working out? Theatre, literature, every form of art is different experientially for the consumer, and we may not get from it what the artist intended.
In the end, perhaps the most relevant verse is:
Romans 14:14 (KJV) I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that
there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any
thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean.
Whether or not something is artistic or sinful is in the eye of the beholder (believer).
I hate that answer, by the way, because it opens the door to anything being acceptable. I don't think that's what's meant. I believe that we do need to rely on Scriptural guidance, the leading of the holy Spirit, and our conscience (assuming we haven't seared our conscience). | <urn:uuid:f5acfa16-bee7-44ca-ad5a-78aa28ea24bf> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/8204/the-bible-and-art/8214 | 2013-05-23T11:41:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967182 | 562 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
In honor of TV Guide Magazine’s 60th anniversary, senior critic Matt Roush names the 60 greatest comedies of all time. Here are the top 10, and pick up the new issue (on sale now) to see numbers 11 through 60.
Saturday Night Live ranks in at #10!!
Remember last summer on NBC where they had aired this comedy called “Best Friends Forever” starring Lennon Parham and Jessica St. Clair? Well, now they have a new comedy that will air on the USA network starring both of them called “Playing House”. As with BFF, they will also be executive producers on this show too
The Simpsons will go for laughs next season by putting on a Wiig: Kristen Wiig, the former Saturday Night Live star who returned as host…
Trailer for the upcoming FOX sitcom “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” starring former SNL cast member Andy Samberg. This show already looks good to me, the style of humor looks like it fits Andy pretty well. Also they have a good ensemble on this show too with notables Terry Crews and Chelsea Peretti, two people I already like. Also in this trailer, it looks like we’ll get a cameo from Fred Armisen too! FOX has pretty much has me locked into their Tuesday night lineup. This show, New Girl and The Mindy Project at least to me looks like a night with some good comedy
I can’t wait to see what the next “Late Night” logo will look like with Seth Meyers. Also, congrats to Seth, welcome to the club! It’s already filled with 3 awesome, entertaining hosts and I’m sure he’ll fit in just fine as the 4th host of Late Night :) | <urn:uuid:2d6e11dd-8d3e-44cd-96a6-aadabdd430bf> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://classicajays.tumblr.com/tagged/tv | 2013-05-23T11:27:36Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959885 | 370 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Blue Jay for Life: Mark ClapperDec 30th, 2009 | By Mike Schwartz | Category: Front Page, People
Elizabethtown College is an important institution in the Elizabethtown area. This is the story of one resident who not only was a student at the college, but has also started a career there.
Mark Clapper is an Elizabethtown College alumnus. He graduated in 1996. He was recently appointed the Director of Alumni Relations at Elizabethtown College. Mark, who assumes this new position on January 1, 2010, began with the College Admissions Department and, after several promotions, became Associate Director of Alumni Relations in 2005. Originally from Somerset, PA, he currently lives in Elizabethtown with his wife Michelle.
EJ: You are a graduate of Elizabethtown College and have chosen to be employed there. What do you find special about the college that has led you to invest so much of your life there?
MC: Since my time as a student, I have felt strongly that Elizabethtown College is a special place. Not only is the College’s mission noble and unique within the realm of higher education, but it also delivers education in relationship-centered ways that provide opportunities for students to learn through mentoring and real-life experiences. I find these qualities inspiring and want to do my part to help perpetuate them to future students and reinforce them with the members of the Elizabethtown College Alumni Association. In addition, the people (students, faculty, staff and alumni) who comprise the Elizabethtown College community are wonderful with each doing their part to make the environment very friendly and “family like.”
EJ: How did you find your way to Etown from Somerset?
MC: During my college search process as a high school student at Somerset Area Senior High School, I learned about and developed and affinity for the small private liberal arts environment. With this as my lens, I began searching for institutions that fit this mold—looking primarily in the states of Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia. During my search process, I learned about the numerous small private liberal arts colleges throughout the central Pennsylvania region and, after visiting and taking campus tours at many places, decided to select a few to which I would submit an application for admission. Elizabethtown College was on that list and, ultimately, granted me admission. While my decision wasn’t made up at that time, I decided to enroll at E-town after having overnight visit experiences at each of my top three colleges. That was the process that first led me to E-town.
EJ: As a student, what educational experiences did you value most? What was your major?
MC: As student, I found the relationship-centered learning environment to be invaluable to my learning experience. The faculty and staff took genuine interest in me and all of my questions, struggles and achievements. They provided me with the mentoring that enabled my academic advancements to be wholly realized and rooted within a real-world context. The traditional learning opportunities, as well as impromptu “teachable moments,” really stand out to me as having extra significance because of the people who took interest in me………I was an English major in the College’s Literature track and earned a minor in History.
EJ: What will be your primary responsibilities in your new position as Director of Alumni Relations?
MC: The mission of Alumni Relations is rooted in the principle of enabling and encouraging meaningful and mutually beneficial connections and engagement between members of the Elizabethtown College Alumni Association (ECAA) and Elizabethtown College’s students, faculty and staff. Developing programming that successfully addresses this charge is where my time and effort will be directed. Some of the major efforts that I will be leading involve local and regional alumni event programming, marketing the opportunities for alumni involvement with the College, developing alumni communication efforts and working collaboratively with fellow on-campus departments to develop alumni-related programming. The College’s Homecoming and Family Weekend is also coordinated by the Office of Alumni Relations.
EJ: Does your position include any outreach to the local community?
MC: Not especially, although there are certainly Alumni Relations-related initiatives that have a great impact on the local community—most notably, the College’s Homecoming and Family Weekend.
EJ: EJ is interested in the relationship of local institutions, like Elizabethtown College, with the local community-at-large. What percent of Etown students hail from nearby areas?
MC: Unfortunately I do not know the percentage of local students currently attending, but E-town is a very popular choice for individuals throughout the region and especially for individuals in the surrounding counties.
EJ: Are there continuing education opportunities offered by the College for adult learners?
MC: The College has an outstanding Center for Continuing Education and Distance Learning that features multiple locations—Elizabethtown, Harrisburg, Lancaster and York. The program has received notoriety for having exceptional quality, friendly faculty and outstanding staff support for adult learners.
EJ: What do you like to do in your spare time?
MC: I enjoy exercising, running and sports of all kinds—especially playing tennis, racquetball, badminton and squash. I also enjoy music, working outside and being with friends and family. | <urn:uuid:f26b1005-f5b9-4da0-a3dd-5e9ae38be213> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://elizabethtownjournal.org/?p=1123 | 2013-05-23T11:55:56Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9712 | 1,085 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Eurotrain was a joint venture formed by Siemens and GEC-Alsthom (today Alstom) to market high-speed rail technology in Asia. In 1997, it was one of two competitors to supply the core system of Taiwan High Speed Rail (THSR), and it was awarded the status of preferred bidder by concessionaire THSRC. Eurotrain assembled a demonstration train. THSRC decided to award the contract to a rival consortium, leading to a legal battle ending in damage payments for Eurotrain in 2004.
Eurotrain was a joint venture of Siemens (the main maker of the German ICE) and GEC-Alsthom (the main maker of the French TGV), formed in March 1996 with the aim to pool their high-speed rail technologies and market it jointly in Asia. The companies wanted to avoid a repeat of a competitive battle they had for Korea's KTX, which resulted in a loss for Siemens and limited benefits for victorious GEC-Alsthom. GEC-Alsthom held 60% and Siemens held 40% in the joint venture. The first and only high-speed project Eurotrain was involved in was THSR.
Participation in the bidding for THSR
Initial success
THSR was realised as a Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) project, but Eurotrain was already involved at the stage of the bidding for the BOT franchise. The bids of the two rival consortia were both based on specific high-speed rail technology platforms: Taiwan High Speed Rail Consortium (THSRC) allied with Eurotrain, while the rival Chunghwa High Speed Rail Consortium (CHSRC) allied with Taiwan Shinkansen Consortium (TSC), which offered Japanese Shinkansen technology. On 25 September 1997, THSRC (later renamed Taiwan High Speed Rail Corporation with the same acronym) was selected as preferred bidder.
During the final negotiations, THSRC and Eurotrain sought to convince BOHSR about the technical viability of their offer by staging a demonstration run with a hybrid train assembled specifically for this purpose (see Demonstration train).
The Eschede train disaster on 3 June 1998 didn't reduce THSRC's chances: although BOHSR wanted detailed information from Germany about the causes of the accident, it recognised that Eurotrain's train type in the THSRC offer did not use the wheel type the break of which was the root cause of the derailment. THSRC finally signed the agreement about the BOT contract with the government on July 23, 1998.
Demonstration train
To meet THSRC's high capacity requirements, Alstom and Siemens planned to create a hybrid train type that combines the lighter and higher capacity TGV Duplex articulated double-deck intermediate cars, extended from 8 to 12 cars, with the more powerful powerheads of German Railways (DB) ICE 2 high-speed trains.
In early 1998, the two companies created a demonstration train by combining cars of three existing French and German high-speed trains: ICE 2 powerheads DB 402 042-6 and 402 046-7 and the intermediate cars of TGV Duplex trainset #224.
The three components of the demonstration train were adapted separately at Siemens's DUEWAG pant in Uerdingen, Germany and GEC-Alsthom's plant in La Rochelle, France, in March 1998. Adaptations included the connection on the ICE 2 powerheads to the roof-mounted high-voltage cable along the TGV trainset, the installation of electronic and optical cables for the ICE drive control electronics on the roof of the TGV trainset, the installation of a rectifier on a TGV car for the on-board electricity, and the replacement of the automatic coupler on the ICE 2 powerheads with side buffers and standard UIC coupler. Braking systems weren't adapted, only pneumatic braking was used. The ICE 2 powerheads also received a special livery to harmonise with that of the TGV Duplex set.
The train was assembled in Munich in early April 1998, followed by static and quasi-static tests. Then, between 25 and 30 April 1998, the train conducted test runs with speeds of up to 310 km/h on the Hanover–Würzburg high-speed railway and the line from Hannover to Minden, to measure running stability, ride comfort, pressure during tunnel crossings, and pass-by noise.
On 3 May 1998, the Eurotrain demonstration train was presented to the public in Hamburg. The next day, on 4 May 1998, the train made a presentation run from Göttingen to Hannover with THSRC and BOHSR representatives present, achieving a maximum speed of 316 km/h.
Departure from the project
THSRC had difficulty raising capital for the project. In May 1999, the government of Japan promised soft loans if THSRC switched to TSC, and the head of the losing CHSRC bid, who was the top financier of the governing Kuomintang, promised funds, too. In light of these offers, in May 1999, THSRC signalled that the selection of the core system supplier is still open, and formally relaunched a tender on 15 June 1999.
To balance the perceived financial advantages of the TSC offer, Eurotrain offered to take a 10% stake in THSRC in September 1999. (The next year, TSC, too, would sign an agreement to buy a 10% stake in THSRC.) The competitors also received public government backing for their offers. While the Japanese government supported TSC with the above mentioned promise of loans, a letter from the European Union's Trade Commission to Taiwan's government expressed Europe-wide support for Eurotrain. A visit by France's Transport Minister was only called off in the wake of the Taiwan frigates kickback scandal, leading to rumours that Eurotrain may have links to the lobby group at the centre of the scandal. However, further ministerial visits from both France and Germany were planned before the decision came.
THSRC announced on 28 December 1999 that it would negotiate a final contract with the Taiwan Shinkansen Consortium, saying that while both trains were satisfactory, TSC had "technology, price, finance and maintenance merits". THSRC emphasized that expectations on exchange rate fluctuations played a role, but also noted that TSC offered a newer Shinkansen than they had in 1997.
It was rumoured that the decision for TSC over Eurotrain was political: according to Taiwanese media, the choice was made to pave the way for then-President Lee Teng-hui's visit to Japan. THSRC denied the allegations. However, in a book published earlier in May 1999, Lee made a case for picking the Japanese offer, claiming that while it was more expensive, the Shinkansen was superior based on safety and political considerations.
Legal battle
The losing Eurotrain consortium interpreted the terms of its earlier preferred bidder status as a binding agreement that THSRC violated by starting negotiations with TSC, and filed an injunction against it. On behalf of Eurotrain, Siemens chairman Heinrich von Pierer also lobbied President Lee Teng-hui for intervention, but was rejected. The German, French, and British trade offices also questioned THSRC's chairwoman. Eurotrain lost the injunction case both on the initial filing and at the appeal in the High Court.
While Eurotrain eventually conceded the train system bid, it filed a US$800 million damage claim at the Singapore International Arbitration Centre in February 2001. In response, THSRC contended that their decision was a commercial one, reiterating that "price, financial planning, and maintenance" were the only deciding factors. After a lengthy arbitration process, the court ruled in March 2004 that THSRC should pay a compensation for the US$32.4 million Eurotrain spent on development and US$35.7 million for unjust enrichment. THSRC agreed to pay US$65 million (US$89 million with interest) to Eurotrain in November 2004.
THSRC's working with Eurotrain resulted in the use of European high-speed rail technology or specialists in some fields.
- THSRC adopted European specifications for superstructure, with a larger cross-sectional area and higher bridge strength than what was standard on Shinkansen lines.
- THSRC also prescribed European stability standards for railway track constructed by Japanese companies.
- THSRC planned for bi-directional operation on the two tracks as common in Europe, in contrast with strictly uni-directional tracks in Japan, forcing TSC to develop a new automatic train control (ATC) system.
- Also for bi-directional operation, a German manufacturer supplied high-speed swing-nose switches on ballastless slab track.
- The supplier of the Environmental Control System, which monitors and controls devices and external factors and connects to the communication system, used Siemens equipment. In July 2010, after failing to solve a persistent problem with end position detectors that caused switch malfunctions, THSRC asked Siemens to help find the root cause.
- THSR started operation of its Japanese-built trains with 40 French and 13 German drivers. THSRC planned to train enough local drivers to replace them in 18 months.
Other projects, HTE, the end
Although in the nineties, Eurotrain seriously considered to participate in the expected competition for the Beijing–Shanghai High-Speed Railway, the constituent companies didn't pursue the joint venture further, and competed for further contracts separately.
After a meeting on 17 December 1999, freshly installed DB CEO Hartmut Mehdorn and SNCF CEO Louis Gallois called on the European rail industry to create a joint high-speed train platform, to realise economies of scale. DB's spokesman argued that if it is possible for German and French companies to jointly offer Eurotrain in Taiwan, the same should be possible in Europe.
The proposal, dubbed Euro-Train by the media, was taken up as a joint project of European state railways and train producers, with Eurotrain constituents Alstom and Siemens remaining the only industry partners in the project by September 2000. The project was officially named Highspeed Train Europe (HTE), and Italy's state railway FS was won as additional partner. However, after the evaluation of 10,000 detail questions, 500 remained in which the partners couldn't compromise, and the HTE project was abandoned in September 2009.
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- "Keine Fusion mit Alstom - Schwarze Zahlen in Sicht" (in German). manager-magazin. 2000-09-05. Retrieved 2010-10-09.
- "Aus für den Highspeed Train Europe". hochgeschwindigkeitszuege.de. 2004-10-30. Retrieved 2010-10-09.
- "Hochgeschwindigkeitsverkehr: Europazug HTE gestorben". Eurailpress. 2004-09-29. Retrieved 2010-10-09. | <urn:uuid:19ec8660-654a-4a66-8e87-3b8f86bca3ce> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurotrain | 2013-05-23T12:05:08Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.89825 | 3,427 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Head Pores - Oculoscapular canal with pores B",D(small),F,G,H' occacionally one more or less in the lateral canal; preopercle canal with 2 pores
Scales - 44-54 in lateral serise, scales on sides extending forward almost to pectoral axil, absent on dorsum below anterior half of spinous dorsal fin; scales largely cycloid excepting some weakly ctenoid scales along lateral midline of body and caudal peduncle and large ctenoid patch under appressed pectoral fin (Birdsong 81)
Fins - D1 - VII, spine 2-6 filamentous in males, 3-5 the longest, sometimes reaching midway soft dorsal, spines of female little produced; D2 - 16-17(15-18); pectoral - 21-22(19-24); anal - 17(16-18)
Head - Nuchal crest absent in both sexes
Color - Males: live color pattern - The pigmentation is virtually unchanged by preservation except for a general darkening of the fish and the loss of pearlescence in some areas. Except for a bluish cast to the soft dorsal fin distal margin and the caudal fin upper margin of some males, no bright colors are present in life. Body above midline marked with numerous, irregular dusky-brown blotches: body pale below midline; nape and dorsum along fin bases with 8-9 dark blotches; a pearlescent vertical bar on body beneath pectoral fin, followed posteriorly by a poorly defined dark bar; dorsal edge of pectoral base dark; head dusky with two pearlescent stripes below eye, one originating midway the maxilla, the other near the posterior tip and both running to near posterodorsal margin of opercle where they meet (lower stripe sometimes terminates at preopercular margin). Spimous dorsal fin dusky with paler median band and dark blotches on base of membranes over corresponding blotches on body dorsum; spinous dorsal filament becoming pale distally. Soft dorsal fin with 4-5 dark basal blotches over corresponding blotches on body; basal blotches surrounded above and between by opaque white area. Then in order a median longitudinal row of more or less well defined dark blotches (one on each interradial membrane), a hyaline band and a dark (black anteriorly) distal margin. Anal fin dusky with a dark margin. Caudal fin dusky with a darker margin and hyaline submarginal band. Pectoral fins pale, mottled along base. Pelvic fins dusky pale.
Females: pigmented as the male with the following exceptions: body blotches better defined and highly contrasted; belly and lower sides more darkley pigmented anterior to third anal-fin element in large females. Spinous dorsal fin with 2-3 dark blotches along base over corresponding blotches on body dorsum and 2 rows or irregular dark blotches (one medial, one distal) on interradial membranes. Soft dorsal fin with four to five dark blotches along base over corresponding blotches on body dorsum, three irregular rows of spots on interradial membranes and a dusky distal margin. Anal fin with dusky base and faint submarginal dusky band in large indivuduals. Pectoral fins darkley pigmented with hyaline distal margin. Caudal fin with 4-5 irregular, diagonal rows of dark spots in upper half, dusky lower half and dusky posterior distal margin. (Birdsong 81)
Distribution - Chesapeake Bay to Florida and Gulf of Mexico to Texas
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|2-DAY SEMINAR - RATE TYPE
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|OPTIONAL eRA WORKSHOP - RATE TYPE
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SEMINAR: NIH Regional Seminar on Program Funding and Grants Administration
The seminar (not including the pre-seminar eRA workshop) is scheduled for Tuesday, April 17 and Wednesday, April 18, 2012.
The seminar registration fee includes: the cost of registration, conference proceedings, conference materials, USB drive with presenter presentations, two continental breakfasts and lunch meals, coffee breaks, and a reception to be held Tuesday, April 17 at the JW Marriott Indianapolis.
Schedule and description of the 2-day Seminar are available as follows:
WORKSHOP: electronic Research Administration (eRA) Hands-On Computer Workshops
The optional eRA Hands-on Computer Workshop is scheduled for Monday, April 16, 2012. In order to participate in the eRA Hands-on Computer Workshop, you must have registered for the Seminar. The registration fee for each workshop session is $250 ($500 to attend the full day).
Schedule and description of the eRA workshops are available on the workshop overview. (PDF - 115 KB)
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Cancelations must be made in writing via email at NIHRegionalSeminars@mail.nih.gov by the registration deadline dates below. Requests submitted via phone, voice-mail message, fax, or mail, are neither valid nor accepted.
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- After March 9, 2012: Cancellations received after this date will be assessed the full registration cost. No refund will be issued. Refunds are not given for no-shows. Shared registrations are not allowed.
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Refunds are not honored for no-shows. Registration sharing is not permitted nor is seminar fees transferrable to future events. Substitutions are allowed. Requests for substitutions must be submitted by email at NIHRegionalSeminars@mail.nih.gov.
eRA Hands-On Workshop No-Show
Due to high demand for the eRA workshops, empty seats will be held for 20 minutes after the start of the session. After that time, attendees will be considered no-shows and seats will be offered to onsite walk-ins. If you will be late due to unforeseen circumstances, please email NIHRegionalSeminars@mail.nih.gov prior to the start time of your session in order to hold your seat.
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Kindle Fire, the newest Amazon product has sold been 250, 000 units! Kindle Fire is new threat for any tablet such RIM Playbook, Samsung Galaxy Tab or even iPad!
If you have no chance to buy Kindle Fire right now, you may wait the sweepstakes. Hope the Kindle Fire will be listed into next sweepstakes as Amazon did to Toshiba Laptop in 2009.
I remember prior Earth Day celebration in 2009, Amazon launched “green sweepstakes”. At that time, Amazon provided two ENERGY STAR-qualified powerhouses: a Toshiba laptop and a Brother printer for five first-place winners. For fifteen second place winners, Amazon will give the Brothers printer.
In coming year, more environmental activists and organizations engaging the event with specific theme. Blogger Units connects with Earth Day Network on culminating the 40th anniversary of Earth Day in 2010. Earth day 2009 will promote green generation’s core principles to reduce fossil power in household consumption. People are urge to use windmills as renewable energy for future generation.
Btw, there are Earth day saving for some products like toys, households and baby brands:
- household products: save $20 when you spend $79 or more
- green baby brands : save 10% 0r 25% for subscribe and save
- green toys: save up to 43%!
- What the heck to do on Earth Day 2009 (lightbulbs.org)
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This weekend flew by my friends.
It was 60 degrees, and despite the fact that it was raining it just made everything seem a little bit better like warm weather tends to do.
It was also fun filled!
Friday was a relaxing one for Kev and I.
We stayed home and watched some movies.
We've been on a movie spurt!
We watched Lawless.
Have you guys seen it?
It's pretty good and I am pretty sure my crush Tom Hardy has like tripled!
Shia LaBeouf isssn't to bad either ;P
Saturday we went to Beerfest.
I've told you guys about this activity that is held in Columbus before about a year or so ago, here.
Well since then the event has grown and now they host a summer beerfest and it's held on Friday and Saturday on the scheduled weekend instead of just Saturday
Apparently Columbus likes their beer...and if you've read this article on "the most hungover cities in the US" you'd all of Ohio does too!
This year there seem to be even more vendors with more beer options.
Sunday was a friends baby shower!
Lindsey threw it and I'm telling you it was right off a pinterest board.
I didn't get the best pictures of it all but she made the food items to correspond with baby books that we could give Danielle, the mama-to-be.
For example, there was "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" next to a crockpot of meatballs and pink lemonade for "Pinkalicious", etc.
She did a really great job.
It was a really fun weekend overall.
What did you guys do? Anything fun?
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In Reply: As we stated in our article, we agree
with Dr Temianka that fee-for-service incentives can lead to inappropriate
treatment and also should be disclosed. Citing numerous studies, we discussed
the challenge presented for requiring mandatory disclosure because existing
data do not provide a definitive conclusion about the relationship between
financial incentives and the quality of health care or the services provided.
At the same time, managed care incentives are less visible to patients
than fee-for-service incentives, less familiar, more complex. Disclosure of
managed care incentives also may have significant consequences for patient
trust and the physician-patient relationship. For all these reasons, disclosure
of managed care incentives demands more attention. Our article sought to inform
consideration of the important issues facing physicians, health plans, and
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In daily life, you don't ever stop learning. When you believe that spending 17 years at school from kindergarten through college grants you some level of acceptable learning, you’d before long realize that formalized schooling might be just a tip of the ice berg in comparison to all that life needs to teach you.
We never stop learning due to the fact all human beings certainly not stop growing as long as they are alive. Progress is what separates living things from non-living things and even once the aging adults experience bodily deterioration in old age, they still grow as they continuously discover by means of new experiences of growing older that they never came across before.
Just about the most pathetic human conditions is for anyone who has ever been through all of the levels of former training to start to imagine that he has figured out everything and there is nothing left for him to learn. That’s the point when the actual life begins to get sucked out of him because he stops to improve and experience the kind of deterioration that is worse than actual physical aging and death.
Possibly the truer and much better understanding begins when you step out of university and feel the actual life away from four walls of the class while you kick off into hunting for a reputable full time job. This could be the case when you're out to find teaching jobs so that you can put in application what you come to understand in your baccalaureate degree in education.
It is considered that to teach is to understand the same lesson a second time. School teaching jobs would then make you learn the very class room classes you learned in college more than two times as you teach the same subject to various young people year after year.
The truth is, it is not about relearning physics, literature or algebra that truly counts as you repeatedly train on these subject matter. What’s more important is you are learning more about humanity and life in general as you mutually gain knowledge from the students you teach each term.
Once you finally find teaching jobs that you’d enjoy, it is essential that as you take your place as a teacher, you also take the all-important position and viewpoint of being a fellow learner along with your students for your own continuing education in the school of daily life. If you assume an arrogant position as an all-knowing teacher, it might be to your disadvantage as constant discovering is important to unceasing growth and fruitfulness in a considerably meaningful life.
Always remember to use your inherent intellect beyond the futility of mere educational learning via formal education into a a lot more sensible acquiring awareness and being familiar about people, destinations and happenings in the “University of Life” where the final graduation is attained within the portals of your grave. | <urn:uuid:a85877ec-d884-4e53-b4f7-11e5e521b237> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://jerodoom.blogspot.com/2012/01/find-teaching-jobs-that-give-you-steady.html | 2013-05-23T12:01:47Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97318 | 559 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
The Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics is looking for an exceptional leader to join our senior support administration IT team. This candidate will have a deep understanding of the Linux operating system and will act as a subject matter expert for the team and our talented customer base. This position will participate in the development, administration, operation, and maintenance of systems in support of the LASP environment and will work closely with IT management and staff to create process, generate metrics, and develop solutions. This person may supervise one or more student assistants.
- Provide direction and support for Linux and UNIX system as well as guidance on build and development tools as applicable.
- Take a lead in portal design and web support acting as a focus point for data gathering and reporting.
- Take the lead in supporting multiple open source tools and applications including Nagios, Subversion, and JIRA including configuration, updating and analysis
- Perform and present technical analyses of performance and application processes and provide direct support to LASP personnel.
- Define requirements, design, implement, test, and document hardware and software systems for data processing, management, analysis, and other administrative duties as defined by the IT group.
- Present work at meetings and reviews; give oral presentations in both formal and informal settings.
- Communicate with scientists, management, administrators, end users, and other stakeholders to translate needs into system requirements, solid solutions, and reliable results.
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in a physical science, computer science, or related field or equivalent experience
- At least 5 years’ experience in UNIX systems administration with Linux as an emphasis and knowledge of the Solaris operating system.
- At least 2 years’ experience in scripting and programming in the area of IT support and reporting
- Experience programming in a UNIX environment including script programming.
- Applicable experience with modern software engineering practices and environments, including the use and support of configuration management, build, and deployment tools.
- Ability to work within a team environment, but highly self-motivated and able to work independently with minimal supervision
- Thorough understanding of advanced networking concepts including routing, firewalls, subnets, etc.
- Ability to prioritize and manage multiple job tasks and work major projects to successful closure
- Demonstrated ability to work closely with end-users and discern technical requirements from laboratory needs
- Ability to building complementary systems from disparate tools
- Excellent written and verbal English communication skills
Any combination of the following skills would be desired:
- Experience in OSX administration and support
- Experience in Web architecture and Apache configuration
- Experience in database administration and support
- Experience in Networker and Netbackup solutions
- Experience programming in Python, Perl, Bash, and Csh
- Experience in ITIL methodology, automation and repeatable process
The job posting is # 820121. Only applications submitted through the Jobs at CU website will be considered: www.jobsatcu.com/applicants/Central?quickFind=71418
Due to ITAR restrictions, only US Citizens and Permanent Residents may apply.
The University of Colorado is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to building a diverse workforce. We encourage applications from women, racial and ethnic minorities, individuals with disabilities and veterans. Alternative formats of this ad can be provided upon request for individuals with disabilities by contacting the ADA Coordinator at (303) 492-1334.
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I fully support this!
Any chance you can put the Spiffy the Dog portrait back in the game too or is the only work going to be done in Scummspeaks?
Also is the SE music coming over as well? or maybe a way we can choose?
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Posted on May 25th, 2011 No comments
To add a line break inside the text of a TextArea component in flex we cannot use \n, but instead use ‘ ’ (without the quotes).
<s:TextArea text=”this text will be on the first line and this one on the second” …/>
will produce a text box with this text:
this text will be on the first line
and this one on the second
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On my current project, i have a debug TextArea that continuously lists some var values and traces. This way i can keep track of whats going on without stopping execution to debug in Flex.
As the list fills, the Text starts going off the screen, downwards. I needed to keep the scroll on the TextArea always on the last piece of text. I googled and i found a solution by Joan Lafferty, from the blog “flex butterflies and bugs”, so all credit goes to where its due. I leave a link to the original post at the end of this one.
Anyway, the solution is as follows:
Save for the usual dimension/position properties, what you should look at is the valueCommit method, which will simply keep the scroll at the last bit of content in the TextArea.
Joan’s post is far better explained than this, and has an example. I am just posting this here as a reminder to myself and to other forgetful geeks out there.
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Judge David Young is about to debut on syndicated television. He's busy giving interviews like this one on AfterElton.com:
AE: Did voters know you were gay when you ran for reelection?
DY: Not an issue. As a matter of fact, when my partner Scott ran for election, he ran as an openly gay man, of course, and he was outed in the Herald. He was never in the closet to begin with, but the Herald ran a story on his sexual orientation with me in the story about a week before qualifying.
Some homophobic bigot almost ran against him, but it didn't happen. But Scott's fundraising doubled overnight because people were so outraged that the Herald would even mention Scott's orientation. In Florida, you're not allowed to mention race, gender or sexual orientation in any judicial campaign ads. If you do that, you can get thrown off the bench. In that vein, Florida is very progressive.
Let's go back to July 1998 and reread my story about Judge David Young and his partner, Judge-to-Be Scott Bernstein:
GAY JUDGES: JUDGE US NOT BY SEXUALITY BUT QUALIFICATIONS
BY STEVE ROTHAUS, firstname.lastname@example.org
Fall elections are approaching and gay political activists in Miami-Dade and Broward counties are busy supporting (and raising money for) their favorite candidates.
Dade ActionPac already has endorsed two openly gay candidates for judicial seats in Miami-Dade County: County Judge Victoria Sigler, who is running for re-election and Scott Bernstein, a civil-trial lawyer who hopes to become a Circuit Court judge.
Sigler made history four years ago when she became the first openly gay or lesbian person elected a judge in Florida, according to Dade ActionPac.
"She is truly an outstanding role model and judge, " according to the PAC's endorsement.
Sigler paved the way for other openly gay judges to serve in Florida: Mark King Leban became a Dade County judge in 1995; last year, Gov. Lawton Chiles appointed Robert Lee a Broward County judge.
"Scott Bernstein is trying to accomplish on the Circuit Court level what Victoria Sigler has on the County Court, " Dade ActionPac says, "to become the first openly gay or lesbian person to be elected a Circuit Court judge."
Bernstein, 38, says sexuality has nothing to do with being a good judge.
"I see it as a nonissue, " Bernstein says. "The community is mature enough to not think of that issue, but to think of the most qualified for the job . . . I don't go up to anybody and say, 'Vote for me because of this, that or the other thing.' I say, 'Vote for me because I'm qualified.' "
Still, if Bernstein is asked about being gay, he tells.
"Judges are not supposed to lie. No politician is supposed to lie, " he says. "I'm not sure that telling the truth -- how can that hurt? Isn't the lesson you learn from childhood that honesty is the best policy? There are people in this county who are not going to vote for me because I'm Jewish. There is nothing I can do about that. I'm not going to not say I'm Jewish.
"I'm not doing anything to prove a point. I'm not doing this to show people this can be done, " Bernstein says. "I have a genuine interest to improve the society in which we live."
Bernstein has spent nearly his entire life in South Florida. He graduated from Palmetto High in 1977, attended undergraduate school at Vanderbilt University in Nashville and law school at University of Florida.
About three years ago, Bernstein met Dade County Judge David Young at a law firm party and the two began to date. They have lived together for 2-1/2 years.
Young, 39, a former prosecutor and private criminal-trial lawyer, was elected to the bench in 1992. He now is a Dade Juvenile judge. Young says a person's sexuality "is irrelevant to being a judge.
"You want to be a role model, not just to a selected group. Judges should be role models for the entire community. Models for hard work and education.
"We have an obligation, all judges, to be involved in the community: Speaking before groups, especially in schools, is a wonderful way of getting the message across about right and wrong."
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Pictured: Alexa Chung, Dita Von Teese, Portia Freeman, Amber Valletta, Livia Firth, Lily Allen Cooper, & Victoria Pendleton
The 2012 British Fashion Awards went down last night (Nov. 27) at the Savoy in London. For a complete list of the winners, hit the award show’s official website.
More photos from the British Fashion Awards? CHECK IT!
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Annual Meeting and Conference Workshops
The Division offers helpful workshops for clergy and lay leaders at our annual meeting and conference which takes place in June at a different city around the country each year.
Along with many retreats and gatherings which happen regionally, the DFM sponsors a convocation which includes a time of renewal, fellowship, inspiration, and personal growth for clergy from around the country.
Marion Bradshaw Memorial Award
Harry R. Butman Fund for Ministry Award
Jennette Butman Fund for Ministry Award
The Joseph Jones Russell Award
2012 J.J. Russell Sermon of the Year Award Recipient
Rev. Seth D. Jones
Rockland Congregational Church
Sermon Title: "Two or Three Together"
DFM Sermon of the Year Award
2011 DFM Sermon of the Year Award Recipient:
Rev. Catherine Edwards Schuyler
Duluth Congregational Church
Sermon Title: "Compassion is the Foundation"
Support For Clergy
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Retired Clergy are remembered by the NACCC through the Retired Minister’s Fund. These funds are made available through Christmas offerings from our NACCC member churches and individuals. Retired clergy periodically gather at the Annual Meeting and Conference.
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Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint talk Half-Blood Prince, Hallows and the future
By Tim Masters
Entertainment correspondent, BBC News
With filming on the final two parts of the Harry Potter series under way, the young actors who have grown up on the set and become global superstars are now considering their next steps. We asked them whether it would be a case of deathly silence after the Deathly Hallows...
The child actors were cast in the summer of 2000
As you might expect, Daniel Radcliffe - who has kept busy on both film and stage projects in between playing Harry - laughs off the idea that the rest of his life might be an anti-climax.
"No man, I've got kids to have yet!" he says excitedly, despite nursing a sore throat on the cold, cavernous film set at Leavesden Studios in Hertfordshire.
"They're going to keep me busy if I do - which I hope I do at some point. I'm not planning on it soon - that's one of the things I'm really looking forward to doing."
The 20-year-old adds: "What's been cool is that I've been here when a lot of people here have had kids while on the film, and I've seen the change it's made in their life and how amazing it is."
His co-star Rupert Grint, 21, who plays Ron Weasley, says he has no doubt that Harry Potter will be the "biggest thing" he will be involved with.
"I make the most of it and enjoy it," he says.
Tom Felton on filming the saga's final films, what his future holds and how he has never seen Star Wars
"It is quite scary when this all ends because we're stepping out into the real world - it is quite a bubble I suppose, we've had these films to do every year and it's become quite a routine.
"I'm definitely going to miss it. It's been a great 10 years. I am quite keen to move on and see what else is out there."
Grint, speaking at the launch of the Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince DVD, says he is interested in more parts like the "bad boy" role he gets to play in his forthcoming movie Cherrybomb.
The coming-of-age drama premiered at the Berlin Film Festival earlier this year, but failed to find a distributor.
Fans set up an online petition for its release, and producers now say a distribution deal has been signed, and the Belfast-set movie should be in cinemas in 2010.
"It's nice because it's so different," says Grint. "That's what attracted me to it - it wasn't really a conscious thing to move away.
"It was really fun to be on a different set and experience a whole different budget - it was quite a shock. I really enjoyed it and hopefully I will get to do more films like that."
He dismisses press speculation that he's in the running to play Prince Harry in a film called The Spare that's due to shoot next year.
"I think it's just because I'm ginger they throw me into the frame, but I haven't really heard anything about it," he says.
Actress Emma Watson, 19, who plays Hermione Granger, began studying at an American university in September, though she hasn't ruled out acting projects out of term-time.
Fellow actress Bonnie Wright, 18, has just begun a degree course in film and TV in London. She has played Ron's sister Ginny Weasley since the first film in 2001.
Speaking on the set at Leavesden, she points out that she's spent more than half of her life working on Harry Potter.
"Although it has been massive," she says, "personally I think a greater project is out there. That's what makes me keep working, knowing that there's this project out there that I'm yet to do."
David Heyman, who has produced all of the Harry Potter films, is confident that the global stars that he's helped create will go on to further success.
"They've had a good structure here and at home, they are pretty solid kids," he says.
"They are going to go and have great fun - they are going to have great success. I'm sure they will thrive."
He adds: "I think they all know I'm here to support them, and if they ever want a chat I'll be there for them.
"Ultimately they've got to leave the fold and take flight - and I know they will."
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Katie Couric Uses Christmas Poem To Campaign For ObamaCare
The advocacy on display Monday by "CBS Evening News" anchor Katie Couric was almost unimaginable.
In her "Notebook" video posted at CBSNews.com, Couric read a poem fashioned after Clement Clarke Moore's classic "The Night Before Christmas."
Without any regard for hiding her position on healthcare reform legislation currently before Congress, Couric used the coming holidays as an excuse to wax poetic about her wish that Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) would "save Harry Reid's Christmas with a deal she brought forth" (video embedded below the fold with poem transcript, h/t Story Balloon, file photo):
Twas just weeks before Christmas and what do you know
Senate Democrats are once again praying for Snowe.
They won 60 votes to start the debate
But they're back to square one and the just have to wait.
Wait for Blue Dogs like Nelson and Lincoln
Who say a public option would mean the economy sinkin'.
Wait for Joe Lieberman who says it won't pass
And hope Mary Landrieu can change her mind fast.
The Republican votes right now total zero
But a trigger could make one woman a hero.
The moderate who hails from the land way up north
Could save Harry Reid's Christmas with a deal she brought forth.
Urging government plans for when private ones fail
To think: both sides happy, can both sides prevail?
At this point no compromise looms within sight
That means after Thanksgiving it's on with the fight.
Enjoy your turkey and know we'll be here
To help make this tough topic just a little more clear.
Exit question I: Shouldn't it be verboten for so-called "news anchors" to campaign for the passage of legislation while they're on the job?
Exit question II: Aren't Christmas references unacceptable to today's secular press, or are they okay if used to advance President Obama's agenda?
*****Update: NB reader Jim Wrenn e-mailed this fabulous comment...
Twas Katie the Anchor of CBS News
Attempting a poem expressing her views
That all folks should wish for Obama-type care.
Though rhymes formed the ends of the lines she prepared
The absence of rhythm comprising each line
Resembles ObamaCare's faulty design.
*****Update II: Ed Morrissey marvelously notes...
Yes, I remember fondly when Edward R. Murrow used to bastardize children’s poems in order to flack for policy on the air at the Tiffany Network. This may have been my favorite Murrow ditty:
Mary had a little lamb, whose fleece was white as snow,
And everywhere Kefauver went, Stevenson’s sure to go.
OK, OK, the meter was a little rusty, but it was Murrow, man!
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“Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering – an image of death.” – BuddhaPublished July 13, 2012 Fitness , Nutrition , Positive Attitude Leave a Comment
Just a quick post about my new health and fitness page on Facebook! It’s called “Jazzed Up Health and Fitness.” On the page you’ll find motivational pictures, videos, details about challenge groups and so much more! Please check it out when you get a chance and let me know what you like about the page, keeping in mind it is still being worked on, and what else you would like to see on the page. Just go to http://www.facebook.com/JazzedUpHealthAndFitness
If you’re a health conscious person you probably check the nutritional facts of many foods you buy. You check the amount of fat (avoiding those nasty trans fats), sugar, fiber, protein and essential vitamins and minerals like calcium and iron. But how often do you read the list of ingredients? Do you know what is actually in that healthy cereal or energy bar you bought? Chances are, the list of ingredients is probably quite long and you are not sure how to pronounce many of the ingredients. Even if you can pronounce all the ingredients, do you know what they are? Even some of the energy bars that are known for being healthy contain mysterious ingredients and WAY more added sugar than necessary. Take Clif Bars for example, they contain better ingredients than many energy bars, but the very first ingredient is brown rice syrup! That means there is more sugar than anything else in the bar because ingredients are listed in descending order of prevalence per gram (ie whatever there is the most of if listed first). Evaporated cane juice is listed multiple times because it’s in the chocolate or white chocolate chips added to the bars and added to the organic toasted oats! So, if Clif Bars have that much added sugar, can you imagine what some of the other bars have?
How about Balance Bars? Yes, they are relatively low calorie (about 200 per bar) and have 15g of protein, but there is little to no fiber and almost 20 grams of sugar; that’s about 5 teaspoons of sugar in one bar! Then, the list of ingredients is incredibly long. For example, the ingredients in a peanut butter flavored Balance Bar are: Protein blend (soy protein isolate, whey protein isolate, partially hydrolyzed milk protein isolate, calcium caseinate, casein), fructose, glucose syrup, partially defatted peanut flour, peanut butter (peanuts), sugar, water, fractionated palm kernel oil, natural flavor. Contains less than 2% of dextrose, sodium caseinate, salt, caramel added for color, soy lecithin, maltodextrin, tocopherols added to protect flavor, soybean oil.
Just think of all the processing needed to make a bar that contains “partially defatted peanut flour” and “partially hydrolyzed milk protein isolate.” I am not saying, “Don’t eat energy bars!” or “All energy bars are bad!” All I am saying is, check the ingredients and ask yourself, “Do I really want to put this in my body?” There are energy bars out there with very few ingredients and no added sugar (only sugar from the fruits in the bar). LARABARs, for example, only contain fruits, nuts, and cocoa if chocolate flavored. But, they can get expensive (typically around $2 per bar). So, a great alternative I have found is making my own energy bars! If I make my own energy bars I know exactly what is in them and don’t have to waste time reading hundreds of labels!!!
Here is a recipe for homemade energy bars. And before you say, “Beans? Those energy bars cannot possibly taste good!” I ask you to try them first! You don’t taste the beans at all!
Chocolatey chip Black Bean Energy Bars
Makes about 8 bars
3/4 cup canned black beans (drained and rinsed)
2 TB milled flaxseed mixed with 2 TB water (or substitute with 2 TB of your favorite nut butter)
2 TB agave nectar
1/2 one small banana mashed
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
3/4 rolled oats
1/4 cup baking cocoa powder + 1/4 cup oat flour (or any flour)
2 TB mini chocolate chips + 2 TB raisins + 2 TB shredded coconut
1/4 cup water
In a food processor, combine first 5 ingredients and blend until smooth. Put mixture into a bowl and stir in the remaining ingredients. If the mixture consistency seems spreadable, you’re good. If it’s too dry, add a little more water; if too wet add a little more flour (the mixture consistancy should be similar to that of chocolate chip cookie dough)
Grease 8×4 pan (I use a bread pan) with baking spray or rub with 1 tablespoon oil, then spread mixture into pan.
Bake at 350 degrees for about 15 minutes. Let cool then cut into bars. Store in airtight container. Best within 7-10 days (bars will last longer if stored in fridge).
Note: You’ll have the most success if you use unsalted, unsweetened versions of the ingredients, and control the sweetness and saltiness through the sweetener and added salt.
It’s the middle of June, which means the year is almost half way over, and I have one question for you: how far have you come in achieving the goals you set for yourself this year? Most people start the year off by outlining a list of goals for the year, but by the time June rolls around those lists have been long abandoned. The good news is there’s still time to make great strides in achieving your goals! On June 12th the saying of the day from my “African Wisdom for Life” calendar was a Sudanese proverb stating: “The one who wants to do something finds a way; the one who doesn’t, finds an excuse.” We use excuses for everything in life: skipping workouts, poor eating habits, not returning phone calls/emails, racking up debt on our credit cards, not spending time with loved ones, etc… I know, we all think our excuses are legitimate; I am just as guilty as the next person. However, I have discovered some resources to help combat excessive use of excuses and start making progress on my list of goals.
In March I signed up as an Independent Team Beachbody Coach. One of the first things my sponsor had me do was create a vision board of goals. It was only March and I had already lost sight of many of the goals I had laid out in January, but creating my vision board (and making in the background on my computer desktop) helped me gain momentum and confidence in working towards those goals. All through March and April I stayed very diligent about my goals, then May rolled around and I started to slack off again. I was feeling frustrated because my coaching business wasn’t growing as fast as I had hoped it would. Through personal development reading of The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy and support from fellow coaches helped me stay positive about the business aspect, but my determination towards some of my other goals began to dwindle.
(My vision board)
June brought about the second resource: Dani Johnson (Actually, I was introduced to Dani Johnson’s work in mid May, but I went on vacation to Ireland for two weeks so I didn’t start listening to her audios or reading her books until June). I am currently reading Dani Johnson’s book First Steps to Wealth. The book title suggests that it’s about helping you get rich (ie make a lot of money), and while this is true, the book is also about making you rich in all aspects of your life. One of Dani’s biggest points, in both the book and her audios, is that excuses are just well constructed lies; excuses obstruct our ability to realize and accomplish our goals.
So, again, I am going to ask, how far have you come in achieving the goals you set for yourself this year? What excuses have you come up with that are limiting you from being who you want to be? If you could make one change in your life this year, what would it be? How are you going to make that change?
Note: for more information about creating your own vision board and/or joining the Beachbody coaching team, please contact me at www.beachbodycoach.com/jazpiri
The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not. – Mark TwainPublished June 2, 2012 Uncategorized Leave a Comment
While Mr. Twain was an amazing writer, he was mistaken in his notions about health. Yes, in the beginning, when you make the decision to eat healthy, it feels like you’re eating what you don’t want, drinking what you don’t like, etc… But once eating clean, healthy, nutrient dense foods becomes your new lifestyle you body actually craves all the things you thought you didn’t like! When you indugle in empty calories (foods with little to no nutrient value) your body reminds you why you don’t eat them all the time and you actually end up craving the healthy, nutrient dense foods your body has become acustome to. At least, that’s been my experience.
I just returned from a 15 day vacation in Ireland. I typically eat very few processed foods, about 80% of my diet is raw foods, I don’t eat dairy or other animal products, and I rarely drink alcohol. While in Ireland I ate Irish scones, french fries, ice cream, creamy soups, porridge with full fat milk, smoked salmon, and drank beer – all of these foods were things I don’t normally eat, but on vacation I always make exceptions. While all the food tasted good, my body reminded me that it really doesn’t like eating this way. I began craving my big kale salads with tofu or tempeh. I missed my morning Shakeology after my hard workouts. I missed my raw cashews, walnuts, and almonds that I snack on between meals. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy indulging in empty calories, and there are times when we all need to eat food purely for the pleasure it provides, but our bodies want clean, nutrient dense foods. PBS recently ran a program featuring Dr Fuhrman and his insight on nutrient rich foods. He confirms my own experiences with craving clean, nutrient rich foods. Check out these two links for some more information: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6u-yLDLANI and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LruyZOzpvnI&feature=related
Would you like to change your eating habits and live a more energized life? My friend, and fellow Beachbody Coach, Jennifer and I are starting a 21 day Ultimate Reset Challenge group on Monday July 9. Contact me for more information or visit www.myultimatereset.com/jazpiri. Summer is the perfect time to make a commitment to yourself to eat healthier because there are so many yummy fruits and vegetables in season! It’s the best, and easiest, time of year to eat healthy!
In his book Compound Effect, Darren Hardy talks about the importance of consistency. It’s not about being the best from the very beginning, it’s about establishing good habits and being consistent with them. It’s very difficult to achieve goals if you try and change your life all at once, but if you take it one step at a time, making little changes regularly, then you can achieve anything!
However, there are times when it may help to jump in with both feet and just go for it. As Americans, we have the worst diets in the world. We eat tons of processed foods, very few fruits and vegetables, and way more animal products than is healthy! Have you said many times that you want to eat healthier, make great strides, and then fall back into old habits? Do you wish you had more energy for the activities and people you love? Well, this might be the time to jump in with both feet and take the 21 day Beachbody Ultimate Reset. My friend, and fellow Beachbody Coach, Jennifer and I are starting a reset challenge group on June 4th. If you’re interested comment on this post and/or visit http://www.myultimatereset.com/jazpiri
Beachbody Ultimate Reset will clean your body from the inside-out. Learn more about it in this informational video.
We’ve all heard it, “Breakfast is the most important meal of the day.” But to really get your day started right, bypass the doughnuts, muffins, frozen waffles, etc… Go for something that will energize you and keep you full for several hours. Here’s what I ate for breakfast this morning.
Raw oatmeal with chopped apples, almonds, and flax seed meal.
Nutritional Facts (approx):
It’s super easy to make: Put 1/2 cup raw oatmeal and 2 tablespoons of flax seed meal in a bowl. Add water to the dry mixture (about 3/4 cup; just enough so it’s all covered in water). Chop up your favorite apple and 2 tablespoons of your favorite nuts and mix it in with the dry mixture. Add a little bit more water (or 1/4 cup milk – I used almond milk). Mix in cinnamon. Then cover and let it sit overnight in the fridge so the water is absorbed by the oats. | <urn:uuid:fe546c26-fefa-4c77-991f-4b7843889b87> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://positiveattitudeandenergy.wordpress.com/ | 2013-05-23T11:55:39Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948395 | 2,950 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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When a harmless substance such as dust, mold, or pollen is encountered by a person who is allergic to that substance, the immune system may react dramatically, by producing antibodies that "attack" the allergen (substances that produce allergic reactions).
The result of an allergen entering a susceptible person's body may include wheezing, itching, runny nose, and watery or itchy eyes, and other symptoms.
There are two types of swelling, called a "local" or "systemic" inflammatory response to allergens.
An example of a local inflammatory response is when your allergies affect you in the nose and experience swelling of the nasal mucosa (allergic rhinitis). In this case, you will probably find yourself performing the "nasal salute" because your unusually itchy nose will force you to wipe your nose in an upward direction. If the allergies affect your eyes, redness and itching of the conjunctiva often follows.
Systemic allergic responses are more serious than the local response. Depending on the severity of your allergic reaction, allergies can cause cutaenous reactions, bronchoconstriction, edema, hypertension, coma, and even death.
Some common allergens include:
wheat, soy, peanuts and tree nuts, and seafood.
Insect bites and stings. The venom (poison) in insect bites and stings can cause allergic reactions, and can be severe and even cause an anaphylactic reaction in some people.
Airborne particles. Often called environmental allergens, these are the most common allergens.
Medicines. Antibiotics - medications used to treat infections - are the most common type of medicines that cause allergic reactions.
Chemicals. Some cosmetics or laundry detergents can make people break out in an itchy rash (hives).
The most effective way of treating allergies is to avoid all contact with the allergen causing the reaction. Allergic reactions can be treated through the use of over-the-counter medications such as antihistamines, decongestants, nasal sprays, eye drops, allergy shots and a variety of medical inhibitors.
natural products, such as saline.
Allergic reactions can be very serious. This is called anaphylactic shock. It is a sudden, severe allergic reaction that involves the whole body and it usually happens within minutes of coming into contact with a particular allergen.
The allergic symptoms of anaphylactic shock affect the respiratory and circulatory system and include the following:
- raised blood pressure,
- swelling, and
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