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Happy Autumn! It's so beautiful here. Maybe a little warm in the afternoons, but the mornings and evenings are absolutely perfectly cool, and I love it. I really think fall is my favorite season.
I wanted to give you all something to pray about (not that your list isn't long enough). As you know, we are heading into RSV season, and RSV is not something that Madeline can afford to get at this point. Because of her lower immune system due to the DiGeorge's syndrome and her respiratory insufficiency, her pulmonologist really wants her to have the shots. She is working to get them approved by insurance, which may be an issue since Maddy wasn't really a premie, and therefore doesn't fit the normal protocol. I've been told by the PT who evaluated Maddy that each of the shots (5 in all) costs $1200. If insurance doesn't pay for them, we will be in the house from October to February. I really would rather not, but I will if necessary. So could you pray that the insurance will approve the shots?!! Why do insurance companies make medical decisions anyway?
Well, I'm off to read the first three chapters in my strategic planning textbook. Yes, I'm finishing up, I hope! I have six more classes. I may be crazy, but if I can't swing it with everything else goes on, I'll withdraw again for a while and try again later.
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Olay Luminous Brightening Cream face cleanser immediately refreshes pores and skin for a brighter look. Mild exfoliants are specifically designed to exfoliate uninteresting pores and skin and uncover healthy-looking pores and skin. This Luminous cream cleanser comprises a system that helps hydrate whereas leaving pores and skin feeling smoothed, conditioned and even textured. Gently therapeutic massage onto face to organize and clean your pores and skin earlier than making use of Olay Luminous therapies and moisturizers.
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Some school districts are billing parents for bus service to offset budget shortfalls. The move has angered parents in some communities and worried some school officials, who are concerned about children’s safety and access to education. (AP)
It used to be that when children hopped onto a yellow school bus to get to and from their classes, taxpayers picked up the tab.
But cash-strapped school districts in at least five states are now asking parents to pay for school bus service, often to offset budget deficits.
“It’s a trend that started back in ‘08 when the recession hit,” said Dan Domenech, executive director of AASA, The School Superintendents Association. “School districts’ budgets were cut back severely. As an alternative to cutting a lot of programs, districts went the route of charging fees for sports events, uniforms, after-school activities—and eventually transportation.”
State funding for education has declined during the last seven years. A report in October by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a Washington research group, found that at least 30 states were providing less funding per student last year than they did before the recession. Fourteen of the states cut that funding by 10 percent or more. Nationwide, school districts receive about 45 percent of their funding from the state. Local government contributes about the same percentage.
The move to charge for bus transportation has angered parents in some communities and worried some school officials about children’s safety and access to education.
“When the budget hammer drops on pupil transportation, it’s usually children and their parents who take the hit. That’s just really unfortunate and a shame,” said Mike Martin, executive director of the National Association for Pupil Transportation, which represents school transportation directors.
Martin said that most school districts don’t typically charge bus fees to make money; they do it to compensate for or offset a budget shortfall.
“It’s being driven by the budget challenges we’ve had in the last decade,” Martin said. “It’s been happening more and more.”
Bus Fees Vary
California and Massachusetts are among the states where some districts are billing parents for bus service. In Hawaii, the education department runs the state’s single school district and charges for bus transportation.
Fees vary from district to district. The Jeffco Public Schools in Golden, Colorado, for example, charge $150 a child per year. Students in grades 7 through 12 in Franklin, Massachusetts, pay $325 each, with a cap of $975 per family. And the Poway Unified School District in San Diego County, California, bills $575 a year per child, with a cap of $1,437 for three or more children.
For years, school districts in a number of states have been charging parents for transportation as a convenience if they live within a certain distance from school, often two miles or less. Those who live farther away traditionally have gotten free bus service.
But shrinking budgets and higher transportation costs have pushed some districts to charge even if the students live far away.
For the Murrieta Valley Unified School District in southern California, billing for bus service is a fiscal necessity, said Barbara Ortiz-Monson, the district’s transportation director.
“Our district is one of the lowest-funded districts in the state of California,” she said. “It costs $3.5 million a year to run the transportation program. The state only gives us $86,000.”
The Murrieta Valley district doesn’t provide bus service to high school students who live within three miles of school. For middle school students, the boundary is two miles; for elementary students it’s one. Parents of students living farther away who want bus service must pay for it.
The fees are $395 a year for the first child in a family, $365 for the second and $335 for each additional child, for a maximum of $1,095 a year.
Last year, the district took in nearly $280,000 from bus passes, according to Ortiz-Monson. “It’s a drop in the bucket when we’re looking at $3.5 million,” she said.
School districts don’t charge if students are disabled and qualify for transportation or are foster children or homeless. Some also offer discounted or free service to low-income families.
Ortiz-Monson said about a third of the nearly 1,600 students who use school transportation in her district ride for free because they are low income.
“Our board believes in transporting as many as they can,” she said.
No one keeps data on the number of school districts that bill parents for bus service. But a 2011 report by the Florida Legislature’s Office of Program Analysis & Government Accountability found that 12 states allowed districts to charge parents fees to transport their children to school. A 13th state, Hawaii, required parents to pay. Nineteen states prohibited such fees and the rest hadn’t established policies.
Most states that did allow fee-based school bus transportation gave school districts the authority to determine whether to do so and how much to charge.
The report found that districts reported some “negative consequences” as a result of charging for transportation, including declining ridership and parent complaints. Some schools experienced more traffic congestion because parents decided to drive their children to school rather than pay.
Michelle Winzent, president of the Colorado PTA, said those findings ring true in her state.
“Parents here in Colorado are feeling like they are being nickeled and dimed, period. Technology fees, book fees, athletic fees, and now bus fees. It’s really outrageous,” Winzent said. “It’s also creating these horrific traffic issues at the schools because everyone is driving and picking up their kids.”
Some officials worry that charging bus fees also creates barriers to attendance for children whose families can’t afford to pay for bus service and can’t find alternative transportation. Some districts that bill parents don’t take family income into consideration.
“That definitely is a problem. It’s an inequity issue,” said Domenech of the school superintendents association. “That is why it’s such a difficult decision for districts to make. Whether you’re charging fees for books or equipment or transportation, it’s the children eligible for free and reduced lunch who are hurt by it.”
Charlie Hood, executive director of the National Association of State Directors of Pupil Transportation Services, said school buses provide “unparalleled safety,” and that any policy that reduces the number of riders will result in some children using less safe means to get to classes.
“Local and state policymakers should be aware of the facts regarding school bus transportation and weigh the potential for unintended consequences,” Hood said in an email.
Some Parent Support
Parents don’t always oppose the concept of paying for school bus service.
At the Douglas County School District in Colorado, for example, parents were supportive of a program launched five years ago that charges fees, but also uses a real-time GPS tracking system to monitor students on the bus, said transportation director Donna Grattino.
“We began charging fees to offset the cost of providing safety and security to students,” Grattino said. “We’re a large district that covers over 900 square miles. Some stops are 26 miles from the school. It’s imperative to see where a student is and what bus they’re on and be able to track that, and parents recognized the value of that.”
The district charges $150 a year or 50 cents a ride for bus service. It receives about $1.9 million a year from the fees – only about 12 percent of the total cost of transporting students, Grattino said.
Domenech of the school superintendents group said he hopes that as the economy continues to improve, districts that have been charging fees will begin offering free transportation once again.
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A Lamborghini driver had his posh car seized by police after he failed to prove he had insurance when stopped for "showing off and driving erratically" around Normanton in Derby.
Officers pulled over the 36-year-old after reports that he was driving the £155k Huracán in an "anti-social manner" through the Derby suburb.
When they spoke to the motorist shortly after midnight on Sunday, police said he could not "satisfy officers that the correct level of insurance was in place for him to drive the car".
According to Gocompare.com insuring a Lamborghini Huracán, with a voluntary excess of £500, would cost about £3,000 for a 36-year-old man living in Normanton Road.
A tweet from Derbyshire's Roads Policing Team posted on Monday morning said the man was driving in an "erratic" way.
It said: "Not a good idea to show off & drive in an erratic manner when you can't provide any evidence of insurance at roadside. #Seized"
Sergeant Keith Chambers, of the Normanton and Rosehill safer neighbourhood team, later told the Derby Telegraph that officers pulled over the driver at 12.06am on Monday.
He said: "The vehicle was seen in the Normanton area of Derby being driven in an anti-social manner. Officers stopped the vehicle and spoke to the 36-year-old driver who could not satisfy officers that the correct level of insurance was in place for him to drive the car."
Sgt Chambers said cops used the Road Traffic Act to seize the car and then reported the driver for having no insurance.
He said the team were on the lookout for possible dangers as many people in Normanton were celebrating the Muslim festival Eid.
He said: "Due to the increased activity late at night, with the local community celebrating Eid, it is important that people going about their lives feel safe to do so, and this extends to any vehicle that is driven in such a manner that causes alarm or distress." | <urn:uuid:4c0f6d7f-730a-47f5-9af5-fa408ae04d20> | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | https://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/news/motoring/police-stop-lamborghini-derby-anti-152170 | 2018-06-25T02:36:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267867364.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20180625014226-20180625034226-00583.warc.gz | en | 0.983981 | 427 |
A practicing structural engineer and software developer, Dr. Bijan Aalami, Professor Emeritus of Civil Engineering at San Francisco State University, is an internationally renowned educationalist and leader in the analysis and design of concrete structures with specialization in post-tensioning. A native of Iran, he graduated from University of London (Imperial College), held positions as professor and Vice-Chancellor of Arya-Mehr (now Sharif) University, followed by appointment as professor of Civil Engineering at San Francisco State University .
Professor Bijan has made decisive contributions to the understanding, behavior and design of post-tensioned buildings and bridges. Bijan was recognized as the first Life Member of the Post-Tensioning Institute, for his decades of contribution to the post-tensioning industry. A member of the former Imperial Academy of Sciences in Iran, a Life Member of ASCE; honorary member of the Argentine Institute of Structural Engineers, he has been holding educational courses on design of concrete buildings and bridges throughout the United States, Canada and over 35 other countries worldwide. Bijan is a Chartered Engineer in the UK, and a registered Structural Engineer in California. He received the American Concrete Institute’s Design Award for the “application of advanced engineering to a notable concrete structure.” In 2003, Bijan’s contribution to the industry was recognized through his initiation in the Hall of Fame of the Post-Tensioning Institute.
As a Principal of ADAPT Corporation – a structural engineering firm in California that specializes in design of concrete structures, and provides design software for consulting firms, Bijan has been actively engaged for over 35 years in the design and construction of numerous concrete buildings, bridges and special structures, in particular post-tensioning. A renowned world leader and teacher, Bijan has enriched the practice of thousands of engineers in North and Latin America, Far East, Europe and the Middle East. His extensive publications on concrete design, in particular post-tensioning, are a treasured resourcefor practical design of conventionally reinforced or post-tensioned buildings and bridges. Dr Bijan is the founder, and for over 20 years was the project leader of the software suite ADAPT that is serving the concrete design engineers in over 75 countries worldwide.
Bijan’s selective list of Publications
Bijan’s non-US cities , where he held educational seminars
Bijan and his family live in Palo Alto, California
Contact Bijan bijan@PT-Structures.com www.PT-Structures.com
Dr Florian Aalami With a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, and both a master’s and doctoral degrees in construction technology from Stanford University, followed by over a decade of industrial practice in construction, software development and design of concrete structures, Dr Florian Aalami has been the focal point in spearheading ADAPT’s worldwide activities in providing practical software tools and structural engineering design expertise. With specialization in software development/application for concrete buildings and bridges, Dr Florian has been working closely with notable consultants and contractors worldwide, in providing the design tools and engineering services they have come to expect from ADAPT Corporation. As a faculty of many design courses, software workshops, and training sessions, Dr Florian has provided the software application and the know-how the consultants and contractors need to better succeed in their day-to-day work in design and construction of conventionally reinforced or post-tensioned buildings and bridges. Apart from leading the consulting activities of ADAPT Corporation, Dr Florian is now leading the development of ADAPT software system. | <urn:uuid:f5aa7003-d5c3-4ace-bcec-409f03581496> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | http://pt-structures.com/index.php/about-us/bijan-aalami/ | 2019-07-23T20:20:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195529664.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20190723193455-20190723215455-00135.warc.gz | en | 0.950822 | 767 |
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The roller weightings generally applied to the top rollers by a weight hanging below the roller beam are about 20 lbs for a double boss front roller, 14 lbs for a middle roller, and 10 lbs for a back roller, the middle and back rollers may be saddle weighted (spring weighted). In this case, the applied weight is about 20 lbs. Heavier weightings are helpful to deal with the occasional thick ends and piecing in the creel material to make even material.
Top roller weighting are very important in all the cases where the roller drafting are employed due to:
Over weighting contributes in the:
- Production of roller – Jam between the drafting rollers.
- Excessive ends down.
- Production of weaker fibres.
On the other hand under weighting produces:
- Irregular material (sliver, roving and yarn).
- Insufficient parallelization of the fibres.
- Insufficient straightening of the fibres.
- Slubs in the material.
- Waves in the sliver.
The advantages of spring weighting and top arm over dead weighting are as follows:
- The roller beam is feed from the multiplicity of weight wires and hook and is therefore easier to keep the machine clear.
- The top rollers are positioned more exactly over the corresponding bottom rollers.
- The top rollers are held by top arms and can be swung out of the way easily.
- The pressure applied is independent of the roller setting.
- The weighting is commonly even greater with synthetic rubber covering top roller than that in the old method of weighting in order to avoid from stoppages by bad drafting. | <urn:uuid:a2c9f2a8-8a7d-4017-bddf-fd707886a0b4> | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | https://textileapex.com/importance-of-roller-weighting-advantages-of-spring-weighting/ | 2023-11-29T22:41:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100146.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20231129204528-20231129234528-00460.warc.gz | en | 0.896837 | 360 |
The Tree of Life, also called Jacob's Ladder. This is a Kabbalistic image but interestingly, the spheres in the tree overlay the flower of life 'sacred' geometric form; and therefore represents a Primal Pattern of Nature.
Stampin' Up! Sneak Peek Sprinkles of Life - http://stampinpretty.com/2015/05/stampin-up-sneak-peek-sprinkles-of-life.html Simple & pretty card idea using Stampin' Up! Sprinkles of Life & Tree Builder Punch. Mary Fish, Stampin' Pretty. #stampinup, #stampingup | <urn:uuid:6a8360e6-f1d3-4500-995f-f6494f8e0200> | CC-MAIN-2017-30 | https://au.pinterest.com/explore/of-life/ | 2017-07-28T02:06:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-30/segments/1500549436316.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20170728002503-20170728022503-00389.warc.gz | en | 0.751896 | 139 |
Consumers of telecommunications services in South Africa will witness as for next year better network quality and services thanks to the attribution of new radio frequencies for telecommunications companies, according to the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications.
“The intention is allocate the spectrum before the end of the next financial year in March 2019, but hopefully sooner,” said the Ministry’s spokesman Siya Qoza. The latter disclosed that a new bill that will lead to the establishment of a Wireless Open Access Network (WOAN) as a network wholesaler would be submitted to parliament this year.
The allocation of the new frequency spectrum will allow operators to expand broadband services, notably in rural areas. Last year, Vodacom’s CTO, Andries Delport, explained that LTE network only covered 44% of rural population versus 91% in urban areas.
The initial auction by telecoms regulator ICASA was suspended after Minister Siyabonga Cwele challenged the licensing process by arguing that ICASA should have waited until the department had finalized its integrated ICT policy before inviting operators to bid for spectrum. | <urn:uuid:eec64aea-21d4-4ea0-b9ad-61eb2e35a3e7> | CC-MAIN-2019-43 | https://telecomreviewafrica.com/index.php/en/articles/general-news/1027-new-radio-frequencies-to-be-attributed-to-telcos-in-south-africa | 2019-10-14T00:36:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-43/segments/1570986648481.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20191014003258-20191014030258-00076.warc.gz | en | 0.95313 | 227 |
The 10 Best Lego Friends Sets
We spent 25 hours on research, videography, and editing, to review the top selections for this wiki. While Legos have been a fixture of childhood toy boxes for decades, the newer Lego Friends sets have become wildly popular with girls and anyone who likes more color and detail in their building sets. If you need help wading through the myriad of options out there, check out the high quality ones on this list. When users buy our independently chosen editorial picks, we may earn commissions to support our work. Skip to the best lego friends set on Amazon.
10. Adventure Camp Tree House
With three levels of fun, including a huge slide and a climbing wall, the Adventure Camp Tree House is large enough for several children to play at once. This set is one of the more complicated kits out there and may be too hard for younger, less experienced builders.
- hanging tire swing
- turning bridge obstacle
- one of the priciest sets available
|Rating||4.0 / 5.0|
9. Space Ride Kit
The Space Ride Kit has three rocket seats on articulated arms that rise higher the faster it spins, just like a real carnival ride. It comes with an ice cream stand, and the color scheme coordinates with other Lego Friends amusement park sets.
- includes a doll in a summer outfit
- photo booth with moveable camera
- a bit expensive for its tiny size
|Rating||4.0 / 5.0|
8. Heartlake Riding Club
Any budding equestrian will appreciate the level of detail in the Heartlake Riding Club. The multistory stable has a second floor cafeteria with a lofted sleeping area that accommodates two; while on the lower level, the stalls are labeled with the horse's names.
- turning weather vane
- rotating horse exerciser
- platform base is flimsy
|Rating||3.8 / 5.0|
7. Pop Star Dressing Room
The Pop Star Dressing Room will help kids get in touch with their inner diva. This set is packed with loads of skirts, wigs and hair accessories for the included pop star Livi doll. The unit folds open to create a pampering area for Livi and her dog.
- clothing rail and hangers
- vanity desk with mirror
- not enough storage for small pieces
|Rating||3.8 / 5.0|
6. Puppy Daycare
The Puppy Daycare provides hours of adorable doggy fun. It comes with two cute puppy figurines and an outdoor challenge course with two obstacles, a turning roundabout, and a podium for awarding the included golden bone trophy.
- large display windows
- bath and grooming station
- assembly difficult for younger kids
|Rating||4.1 / 5.0|
5. Heartlake Supermarket
The Heartlake Supermarket makes a great starter kit if your child is just getting to know Lego Friends. It is on the smaller side and easy to put together; however, this set does not include a lot of actual building blocks, as most of the pieces are food accessories.
- rolling trolley with trolley park
- bakery display counter
- checkout lane with cash register
|Rating||4.2 / 5.0|
4. Horse Vet Trailer
If you're looking for a gift for the animal-lover on your list, the Horse Vet Trailer has a gray dapple horse that the mini dolls can ride. The roof of the trailer comes off for access to the interior, but the inside is still a bit cramped for actual play.
- accessory storage in roof
- horse stretcher and medical supplies
- includes vet and jockey figurines
|Rating||3.9 / 5.0|
3. Heartlake Cupcake Cafe
Aspiring pastry chefs will love the Heartlake Cupcake Cafe. The mix and match cupcake toppings offer countless flavor options to place in the revolving window display, and the set comes with two figurines, one dressed as a waitress.
- delivery scooter with helmet
- oven opens and closes
- tiny cupcake parts are easy to lose
|Rating||4.7 / 5.0|
2. Amusement Park Roller Coaster
The Amusement Park Roller Coaster kit recreates an exciting carnival atmosphere with incredible attention to detail. Building the push-along coaster and rotating Ferris wheel will test your child's engineering and fine motor skills.
- one functioning light brick
- entry booth with spinning turnstile
- ferris wheel seats 6 mini dolls
|Rating||4.5 / 5.0|
1. Heartlake Grand Hotel
The Heartlake Grand Hotel includes everything your child needs for hours of building and imaginative vacation fun. This set features moving parts, like the working elevator, sliding balcony doors, and a lobby door that really spins.
- modular structure can be rearranged
- rooftop pool area
- black taxi cab with purple trim
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President Ho and Prime Minister Nehru laid the foundation for a very close and cordial relationship between the two countries," said Rae. "The festivities during the Year of Friendship will provide further impetus to the strong bonds between Vietnam and India."
A performance by 21 members of the Odissi Dance Troupe, led by Sharmila Biswas launched the series of events on April 5 in Hanoi. The dancers will now move on to perform in Haiphong, Danang and HCM City. They will also appear at the Hue Festival from April 7-15.
Next up will be a digital art exhibition entitled Kalpana (Imagination), on display in April and May.
The exhibition Masterpieces of Figurative Indian Contemporary Paintings, will open with a ceremony on April 24 at the Vietnamese Culture and Arts Exhibition Centre at 2 Hoa Lu Street in Hanoi.
During the exhibition, Indian and Vietnamese painters will lead a joint workshop in Hanoi, and the Indian painters will lecture at the Hanoi University of Fine Arts.
At mid-year, in a seminar on Champa linkages to Indian culture, six Indian and Vietnamese scholars will highlight the cultural ties between the two nations.
India will also grant US$3 million to assist Vietnam in the restoration and conservation of the UNESCO World Heritage Site at My Son, a vestige of the Champa civilisation in the central province of Quang Nam.
Other events planned for this year include Indian food festivals in Hanoi, HCM City and other major Vietnamese cities, which will also include peformances of Indian folk songs and dances, he said.
In August, the two countries will present a multimedia exhibition on India-Vietnam relations at the Ho Chi Minh Museum in Hanoi, focusing on the friendship and interaction between the great national leaders Pandit Jawahrlal Nehru and Ho Chi Minh, Rae said.
An Indian Film Week will take place in several Vietnamese cities in September, giving Vietnamese audiences a chance to experience popular Bollywood films.
The two sides also planned to open direct air routes between the two countries and open an Indian Cultural Centre in Hanoi.
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From one of the world’s most admired women, this is former National Security Advisor and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s compelling story of eight years serving at the highest levels of government. In her position as America’s chief diplomat, Rice traveled almost continuously around the globe, seeking common ground among sometimes bitter enemies, forging agreement on divisive issues, and compiling a remarkable record of achievement.
A native of Birmingham, Alabama who overcame the racism of the Civil Rights era to become a brilliant academic and expert on foreign affairs, Rice distinguished herself as an advisor to George W. Bush during the 2000 presidential campaign. Once Bush was elected, she served as his chief adviser on national-security issues – a job whose duties included harmonizing the relationship between the Secretaries of State and Defense. It was a role that deepened her bond with the President and ultimately made her one of his closest confidantes.
With the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Rice found herself at the center of the Administration’s intense efforts to keep America safe. Here, Rice describes the events of that harrowing day – and the tumultuous days after. No day was ever the same. Additionally, Rice also reveals new details of the debates that led to the war in Afghanistan and then Iraq.
The eyes of the nation were once again focused on Rice in 2004 when she appeared before the 9-11 Commission to answer tough questions regarding the country’s preparedness for – and immediate response to – the 9-11 attacks. Her responses, it was generally conceded, would shape the nation’s perception of the Administration’s competence during the crisis. Rice conveys just how pressure-filled that appearance was and her surprised gratitude when, in succeeding days, she was broadly saluted for her grace and forthrightness.
From that point forward, Rice was aggressively sought after by the media and regarded by some as the Administration’s most effective champion.
©2011 Condoleezza Rice (P)2011 Random House Audio
The stories are ones that I did not hear before and some shocked me, like the poison scare. Other stories you get to see from another point of view. While I don't always agree about decisions that were made, this book helps to understand a little of the dynamics of 'how' they were made, especially in times of stress.
The best auto-biographies are also read by the author. You can hear her tone of voice when she recollects these moments and that is an additional insight into her thoughts.
I have been a fan of Dr. Condoleezza Rice for some time and have read the Antonia Felix and Mary Dodson Wade books. No Higher Honor is the story of her work as chief advisor to the President and Secretary of State. The book is filled with tidbits and stories that readers will find entertaining and informative. I read Extraordinary, Ordinary People Rice’s story of her formative years immediately before tackling this volume. This was a good idea because it helped me to better understand how she made decisions in the course of her official duties. Now that said, readers must approach this book as a memoir. As such, this is Dr. Rice’s opportunity to tell her story from her point of view. True evaluation of her work will only come much later after many of the players are dead for that matter. Further, Dr. Rice is an academic with wide government experience and not a literary figure, per se. The prose reads similarly. It is clear, concise, and to the point. It is not great literature and that is not its intent. This volume is long as well and chronologically organized. Therefore, it reads like a day-by-day account of what she faced and how she dealt with the circumstances presented. Nonetheless, there is much here to stimulate the thinking of those in her corner and those who are not sympathetic. Those approaching this books for what it is will be well rewarded for the time spent. The reading of Dr. Rice is a plus!
i really enjoyed her account of the tremendous behind the scenes work that went into the hot cauldron of US foreign policy during the 8yrs of the GWB term. Very insightful, particularly given her even handed and clear retelling of the chain of events that started even before 9/11 and through the isreali/hezbollah conflict and even into the Arab spring. gained a much better understanding of the mindset that lead us into the iraq quagmire. i really learned alot about US foreign policy and enjoyed the human touch that she added to what could have been a dense topic.
George W. Bush, Don Rumsfeld, and Dick Cheney have already published very good books about their service in the Bush Administration. Yet this book is in my opinion the best of the group. Why is that? I think there are three reasons. First, Condi???s book focuses almost exclusively on her service during the. Bush 43 Presidency. That allows her to provide more detail than did the others, who include considerable material about their prior government service. Second, Condi is a former college professor in the field of foreign relations and a very good one. She appears to have wanted to include clear teaching points for her readers. In any case, her account provides richer background and context to particular episodes and issues. The book (or excerpts from it) should become an invaluable resource for college and post-graduate courses on international relations and political science. Third, Condi shares more openly her own joys, mistakes, concerns, and fears as she went about her work. This is perhaps because she was newer to high-level government service, making it a fresher experience for her. It may also reflect the fact she is not a professional politician and is perhaps less concerned about image and her popular persona.
There are a number of vignettes in the book that reflect Condi???s unique background as a native of Birmingham, Alabama and the first black woman to serve as Secretary of State. For example, who else would have described to the President the deteriorating scene in Iraq in 2006 as the ???Iraqis having a Bull Connor problem??????i.e., comparing the reports of Iraqi police forces joining with outlaw Shiite militias to the disgraceful record in 1963 of the Birmingham Police Commissioner directing brutal police actions against peaceful demonstrators seeking an end to racial segregation?
All in all, an excellent book that will provide many insights and useful information for anyone interested in the major international and security issues of our day.
I specifically chose this book based upon the fact the author read it.
The insight provided by Secretary Rice about her time in Washington was incredibly informative, however like her experience in the city was very different for each term, the book has 2 very distinct flavors. At times, I felt Ms. Rice was overly eplanatory of details and situations that could have reduced the length. I will definitely read this book again, but I may skip a few parts the 2nd time around.
Simply incredible. What an amazing woman. If you want the real story of the Bush years, THIS is the best source.
I would highly recommend this book to a friend! Many friends, and already have! It's a wonderful account of the service this patriot has given to her country and what an insightful leader she is. She's got the creds. Let's hope she's asked to serve again in the next administration. We're gonna need honorable folks like Ms. Rice to straighten out the mess we're currently in!! This book proves that she is a solid human being. Worthy of a higher office!
When it's impossible for me to go there, reading takes me there.
It is one of my favorite books so far.
More of a memorable tug of war between Don Rumsfeld/Dick Cheney and Condoleezza Rice.Though "thousand of tactical mistakes..." was pretty humorous.
Read Secretary Rice's book, General McChrystal's book, and Chris Kyle's book to get a perspective on the Iraq War from very different viewpoints.
No, that's not my style, except for Steve Jobs, which I did listen too twice. Ms. Rice's book was one of the best books I have ever listened too or read.
As of this moment, there is no comparision, but I am waiting on a book written by Colin Powell that covers his time as Sec. of State.
I was happy to hear her voice and the inflection that she placed on some of the personal moments. You cannot get that from reading. I have a new found respect for her, because I am a black man and a democrat. She also made Pres. Bush almost sound presidential.
It would have been nice if I had that kind of time. I did take some long drives while listening and enjoyed every moment. I was sorry that the story ended.
I have a new hero (Shero). Every time I see her from now on, I will be much more respectful.
I was initially intimidated by the length of this book but once engaged I found it fascinating. Condoleezza knows how to tell a story and provide that human element in the big events that is tough to find in the newspapers
George Bush comes off well in book but not so for Rumsfeld or Cheney
Her version of the events we are all familiar with was very believable and she was willing to admit her mishaps along the way. Her insights into other world leaders and their motivations was very interesting.
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Obituary of Charles L. Breon II
Charles L. Breon, II (Chuck), 73, of Warriors Mark, died Thursday, September 22, 2022, at home. He was of Lutheran faith.
Born June 7, 1949, in Bellefonte, he was the son of the late Charles L. Breon I (Elizabeth) and his mother. On February 7, 1975, at Pine Hall Lutheran in State College, he married Cynthia Breon, who survives at home.
Along with his wife, he is survived by four children, Donna Hawbaker and her husband Brian of Huntingdon, Frank Breon of Port Matilda, Christy McMullen of Philipsburg, and Clint Breon and his wife JoAnna of Rebersburg; surviving sister, Virginia Hunt and her husband Wayne of Arvonia, VA; seven grandchildren; Casey, Joshua, Frank, and Erica Hawbaker, Whitney Breon, Kaylyn McMullen, and Cameron Gabriel.
In addition to his parents, he is preceded by his sister, Fannie Breon.
Chuck graduated from State College Area High School in 1968. He was considered a good athlete and making the varsity baseball team in ninth grade was especially a proud moment for him. Growing up with his dad as his coach and later in life umpiring, made conversation around the dinner table very interesting. He went on to play softball sponsoring a Duffy's Tavern team and playing fast pitch for Mr. C's.
For many years, Chuck had "Chucks Body Shop" renting a space from Kline's Garage out of Pine Grove Mills. Later, he went on to work and retire from HRI, Inc where he worked in concrete highway construction. He was a self-taught master of many traits, whether it was building his family home, helping his family, friends and neighbors most knew it would be meticulous, known as Chuck's way.
He enjoyed being outdoors whether that was him and his son's morel hunting, going out for archery season or teaching his daughters this sport of hunting.
He loved to put up a very large vegetable garden and was very fussy about every row being straight. He took great pride in this garden which he enjoyed sharing with family and friends. He loved everything about canning and putting up fruit jams. His grandchildren loved his raspberry jams.
Over years, Chuck could be seen at many auctions all over the county as he was quite the collector of antiques. The family referred to the basement as his museum where he displayed everything he loved.
Chuck was most proud of his 1929 Chevrolet, known as the "Yellow Car", and could be seen with his wife taking Sunday drives for ice cream.
He was a member of the Legion Post 245, Fleet Foot Hunting Club, and Bob's Camp.
Visitation will be from 1:00pm – 3:00pm and 5:00pm – 7:00pm on Sunday, September 25, 2022 at Koch Funeral Home, 2401 S. Atherton St., State College.
Funeral service will be at 10:30am on Monday, September 26, 2022 at the funeral home with Pastor Clayton Kessling officiating.
Burial will be in Friends Cemetery, Warriors Mark.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be directed to Halfmoon Christian Fellowship, 1776 Halfmoon Valley Road, Port Matilda.
Arrangements are under the care of Koch Funeral Home, State College. Online condolences may be entered at www.kochfuneralhome.com or visit us on Facebook.
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Leonard Cohen to Release New Album After 80th Birthday
Leonard Cohen will celebrate his 80th birthday with the new LP Popular Problems. Rolling Stone reports that word of the album was revealed last week at the Leonard Cohen Event 2014, an officially sanctioned fan convention held in Dublin. A September 22 release date has also surfaced on Amazon France.
Jarkko Arjatsalo, an accountant that runs Cohen’s official website, says that “Leonard has worked hard on his next studio album of entirely new songs. He asked me to let you know that Popular Problems will be out at the end of September, shortly after his 80th birthday.”
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Places to visit in 2012 – The Algarve
The Algarve region of southern Portugal is indeed one of the most popular tourist destinations on the continent of Europe but that doesn’t mean that they’re sleeping on their laurels, in today’s day and age one has to constantly be offering new things and more particularly, offer what your potential clients want in order to continue surviving and thriving.
The region is popular due to a combination of factors, great weather, great geography and a wonderful people and culture. There are the traditional attractions of sea, sand and golf – golf is incredibly big in the Algarve, the region being host to around thirty top-notch golf courses – but the sun-drenched region is planning to attract an increasing number of visitors to their shores and as such there is an entire crop of new or renovated luxury hotels dotting the coastline, all of which emphasize style, authenticity and most importantly, Eco-friendliness. The transition to Eco-friendliness is something that has been a long time coming to the Algarve, but they owners have kept a close ear to the cultural trends and know that most people are much more aware of their carbon-footprint nowadays, as well as other things such as sustainable resources and such.
For instance, in the town of Portimao, the 38-room Hotel Bela Vista just re-opened, this is a 1918 villa that overlooks the famous Praia da Rocha, the building was renovated entirely and features stunning decoration designs.
The goal of attracting new visitors each year has spread to some of the quieter places in the region, for instance Sagres which now includes the Martinhal resort as well as the scheduled opening of a Conrad hotel in the autumn.
In a similar vein, those Lisboans who are in the know, are flocking to Olhao – this used to be a fish-canning town but now it turned itself into a resort with very stylish lodging options, not to mention the fact that the city is surrounded by great natural attractions such as the Ria Formosa National park and of course pristine white sand beaches.
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Dua For Someone To Fall In Love With You
Do you love someone? Does that person have no hint about your feelings? Do you want that person to love you with same intensity as you do? Do you want to make that person fall madly in love with you? If yes, then no power in this world, other than the Allah Swt can make it possible for you. You should recite dua for someone to fall in love with you to make the impossible possible. Once you recite this dua, Insha Allah, that person will have feelings for you and love you madly.
If you love someone but that person is higher in status than you and you don’t have the courage to confess your love in front of him/ her, then the best solution is to recite dua for someone to fall in love with you. Insha Allah, that person will love you irrespective of your status and financial background. Do not give up and have faith in the doings of Allah Miyan for only He knows what’s good for you. Recite the dua for someone to fall in love with you with great devotion to get desired results in the shortest time possible.
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If you are engaged and you want to create love in the heart of your would-be husband, then you can recite dua to make him fall in love with you. Insha Allah, the dua will work for you and add feelings of love and care in the heart of your husband, even before the marriage. If you have a boyfriend and you want him to take care of you and love you with all his heart, then also you can recite dua to make him fall in love with you. Insha Allah, his heart will melt for you.
Dua To Fall In Love With Your Husband
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- Blow it on a sweet dish and pray to Allah talah to create love for you in the heart of the person you want.
- Make that person eat the sweet dish.
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“Looking forward is an excellent way to begin 2012. Take an hour this week and get alone and write down some dreams and plans and faith statements. Start talking to God about them. Write down some things you could do to clarify where you want to go. Then take actions that move you in that direction and do so with excitement.”
So here I am, making my plans and dreams for this year. But I was even happy when i started planning out our homecoming vacation to Philippines. I’m thrilled with eagerness and curiosity. Knowing that after three long years of waiting I can finally do the things that I’m looking forward to.
I will see great places and travel destinations.
I will smell the fresh air of my hometown (Surigao City).
I will hear intriguing stories and hot gossips.
I will hug my wonderful friends and relatives.
I will taste sweet delicacies and luscious Filipino cuisine.
I will sleep in my old bedroom.
I will be having a good quality time with my beloved parents and siblings.
Keeping all of these plans will provide myself a sense of purpose and direction. Deep within me, I nurture a strong faith that this year will be good and fruitful because of God’s grace and the people around us – who continuously filled our life with love, faith, and hope.
I am wishing myself as well as everyone else to attain success and happiness so that in our own little ways we can also be an inspiration and blessings to others.
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Ten years later, at thirty-one, Sarah is still struggling to resume a normal life, living as a virtual recluse under a new name, unable to come to grips with the fact that Jennifer didn’t make it out of that cellar. Now, her abductor is up for parole and Sarah can no longer ignore the twisted letters he sends from jail.
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A shocking, blazingly fast read, Koethi Zan’s debut is a must for fans of Karin Slaughter, Laura Lippman, and S.J. Watson. -- Pamela Dorman Books
Yesterday, I reviewed a pretty darn scary psychological thriller called THE NEVER LIST by Koethi Zan. This is Ms. Zan's debut novel and it's quite impressive, especially considering her career for the last fifteen years has been in entertainment law. I have a feeling that Ms. Zan is going to garner a lot of interest with THE NEVER LIST, and I'm so grateful that she's taken time from her busy schedule to share a few special things about herself.
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2. I was a dancing queen. When I was younger, I was a dedicated club kid. I was too young to have lived the dream of Studio 54 in the seventies, but I was lucky enough to be living in Alabama when the gay club scene really caught fire. And because it was still a little bit “underground,” it made it that much wilder. My friends and I would dress up in elaborate costumes and dance all night, ending up at Waffle House at four in the morning. We’d go to New Orleans for special weekends, hitting every kind of club: straight, gay, transvestite, fetish. I kind of miss it. Even now I never turn down the opportunity to dance. I love weddings, fundraisers, and restaurant openings. I might embarrass myself at this point, but I don’t care. I love it.
3. I’m running for political office. Three years ago, I moved from Brooklyn to a tiny town in upstate New York. I’ve gotten very involved in the community: I’m on the boards of the hospital foundation, a child advocacy center, and my kids’ school; I started a not-for-profit to fight a high voltage power line; and I’ve been involved in a fight to stop the rebuilding of a toxic chemical plant. Now I’m taking it a step further and running for Town Board. One might think numbers one and two above would disqualify me from political office, but it’s 2013! Let’s hope people are open-minded. It’s definitely making for a hectic summer between promoting my book, going to public hearings, meeting with elected officials, and planning our canvassing efforts for my campaign. But all of the work I’m doing now is incredibly satisfying. I feel like I have a real purpose (or rather purposes) in life. And yes, dancing is still one of them.
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English sparkling wine producer Nyetimber has announced the release of the country's first demi-sec style sparkling wine.
‘Rice pudding to Panettone’: Nyetimber Demi-Sec
The wine is made from 100% estate-grown Chardonnay with a dosage of 45 grams per litre residual sugar, four times the normal amount for the brut style of sparkling wine.
‘There is a niche quality to this wine,’ winemaker Cherie Spriggs told Decanter.com. ‘The whole product is born out of a desire to make a wine to go with dessert.’
‘A classic brut doesn’t have the richness or the unctuous character needed to successfully pair with dessert. This was deliberately made to go with a range of dishes, from classic pastries to rice pudding to Panettone.’
Demi-sec sparkling is uncommon – Spriggs admitted there are none she admires – and unknown in England.
She said that the temperate southern English climate was a boon, allowing them to produce Chardonnay that has ‘a natural, lean acidity’ that could take a dosage of 45gsl without the wine becoming too heavy or cloying.
‘If you have grapes with high phenolics and lots of tannins then you could get something heavy. But with our Chardonnay, even though you have the sweetness level, there is also a refreshing, crisp and pure quality to the wine. It’s an exciting product.’
The demi-sec is something of an experiment for the much-decorated, 160ha West Sussex producer, and only ‘a few thousand’ bottles have been made. ‘It’s early days,’ Spriggs said.
Nyetimber Demi-Sec is available at Harvey Nichols and selected retailers, price £35.
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Penny Millionaire is a SCAM! Don’t Believe the Fake Reviews!
Penny Millionaire is a SCAM! Don’t Believe the Fake Reviews!January 10, 2017
The Penny Millionaire software by David Forrster is a BLACKLISTED SCAM which we will expose in our fair an impartial review. It’s extremely troubling that this fake app and trading robot is being promoted some of the industry’s so called most “ethical” review sites. We will expose this fraudulent software and show you exactly which sites to avoid. First, a word of caution! The Penny Millionaire software is directly responsible for wiping out thousands of bank accounts belonging to traders from all over the world. It is extremely misleading and deceptive in ways we have never seen before. If you have recently received a SPAM email to participate in this farce be warned. Do not click any of the links and unsubscribe immediately as we have received multiple complaints regarding malware infecting computers and mobile devices. We understand that some of you are under the impression that Penny Millionaire is a legit or genuine trading app, however we will provide all the proof and evidence required in order to let you reach the proper conclusions and understand that this system is a dangerous financial SCAM!
Official Scam Website, Login Page, and Members Area: http://www.pennymillionaire.com/
Proof of SCAM:
Below you will see an image of a fake bank statement originating from a company named Intuit. This company does payroll services, however it is a fact that wire transfers are sent from the Broker’s Bank account only and there is no way a US-based payment services company will be willing to wire money to international destinations related to binary options trading.
As if you needed additional proof, this lunatic (whoever it is) is saying that Penny Millionaire is an “Online Lottery”. This means he is actually admitting that the software is rigged and set up to take losing trades. I don’t understand the rationale behind this sub-par sales-pitch, but this con artist is not a very good liar and this time we caught him with his hand in the cookie-jar.
Penny Millionaire Software Review
“Have you heard the expression a penny saved is a penny earned?” This is how this presentation starts. Then this paid actor says that his system takes you “from a single penny to over a million dollars. In one month.”
Then this fictitious character takes out a calculator and starts explaining how this penny “compounds itself”. Is this making sense to you?! Then we see some fake bank account with around $600 magically grow to around 8.5 Million Dollars. He then continues to blab about how his system will make you a millionaire in just one month, and this is followed by a parade of fake testimonials. Each of these people providing testimonial such as Roberta Lebowitz is paid actor, and I can promise you that a lot more than 100 applicants will be selected, and that this sales page will stay up for a very long time. This guy goes on to say that they can only allow 100 millionaires a year because if everybody won, the money would be worthless.
How Does Penny Millionaire Work?
This person claims the system utilizes a custom trading software that uses a “specialized algorithm that correctly predicts winning trades on the stock market”. Then the software applies the “principles of compound interest in order to turn what would look like small profits, into something, well, exponentially larger”. He claims the software allocates 1 cent from your winning trades and places it in your “compound interest account”. Then this money grows from 1, to 3 cents and so on. The software is claimed to work on autopilot and no experience is needed in order to profit.
In reality we are witnessing a very simple scam designed to steal your money. The dots have connected for us as we have found the same pattern of deception such as inflated bank accounts, fake testimonials, hyped-up or exaggerated claims, and outright lies. The narrative is full of inconsistencies and totally fabricated, and this is very plain to see.
Is it Free?
No, it is not and this SHAM will cost you at least $250 to get started. This money will be charged to your credit card by some unregulated offshore broker.
Fake Review Sites Promoting This Software for Bribes
Below is a list of the top fake review sites promoting this evil scheme. These are all affiliate marketers who have crossed the line, and are not ethical ones as we strive to be. I hope they realize they made a mistake and rectify their actions before we start digging deeper and who knows where that might lead. These sites have been known to trick and deceive innocent day traders by telling them the software is genuine and profitable, while in reality this can’t be the case and the exact opposite is true as we have just proved it.
Signals and Trading Robots
If you are deliberating which one is right for you its with good reason. We understand why you may feel cheated or betrayed, but we can only be held accountable for our actions and hot how others choose to carry on, and in this specific review we will not be recommending any specific systems, we are simply informing you of this latest development.
Review Summary and Conclusions
The Penny Millionaire software by David Forrster is a BLACKLISTED SCAM and we have provided all the facts and evidence required in order to validate our initial claims. Our findings are unequivocal and leave no room for doubt. We understand why you may think you have stumbled upon a genuine or legit trading system, but in reality this is not the case and it would be futile to deny the facts as they have been presented to you. The Penny Milionaire App was designed with pure malice and explicitly created to steal your money. This is our indisputable conclusion and at this point we recommend our members and subscribers seek alternative investment channels. As always, we welcome you to join our Facebook Group and YouTube Channel. | <urn:uuid:c36f4e15-2412-44f5-aa87-2e98ba39b714> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | http://www.binaryscamalerts.com/penny-millionaire-review-scam-software/ | 2017-11-17T21:10:46Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934803944.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20171117204606-20171117224606-00733.warc.gz | en | 0.953045 | 1,271 |
The man accused of masterminding the 2012 attack on a US consulate in Benghazi, Libya, has been acquitted by a US jury of the most serious charges.
Ahmed Abu Khattala was convicted of terror charges but found not guilty of other charges including murder.
The attack on the diplomatic compound resulted in the death of US ambassador Chris Stevens and four US guards.
Hillary Clinton, who was secretary of state at the time, was accused by Republicans of not doing enough.
A jury in Washington acquitted Khattala of 14 of the 18 charges after deliberating for five days following a seven-week trial.
He was convicted on four charges including conspiracy to provide material support for terrorism, maliciously destroying and injuring dwellings and property as well as using and carrying a semi-automatic weapon during a crime of violence.
Khattala faces up to 60 years in prison.
He was captured by US special forces in Libya in 2014.
Ahmed Abu Khattala
• Native of Benghazi in eastern Libya
• Construction worker by trade
• Spent several years in Col Muammar Gaddafi’s notorious Abu Salim prison in Tripoli
• Formed his own small militia during the anti-Gaddafi uprising
• Denies any links to al-Qaeda but has expressed admiration for it
• Also denies any role in the attack on the US embassy in 2012, but eyewitnesses report him being there
• US state department says he is a senior leader in Islamist group Ansar al-Sharia
According to prosecutors, the first wave of attackers assembled outside the gates of the mission about 21:45 local time on 11 September 2012.
They were armed with AK-47-type rifles, handguns and rocket-propelled grenade launchers.
Stevens and diplomat Sean Smith died in the fire, while the remaining state department workers escaped to a separate US facility nearby.
That building soon came under attack, and security officers Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty were killed by mortar fire.
Prosecutors said Mr Abu Khattala entered the destroyed US mission and “supervised the exploitation of material from the scene” by armed men.
According to US prosecutors, in the days following the attack, Mr Abu Khattala “attempted to obtain various types of equipment, including weapons, to defend himself from feared American retaliation for the attack”.
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Susan’s off on her travels again this week, but here’s a seasonal Retroprogressive from the archives…
In view of current concerns over the preservation of our nation’s official faith, it seems odd that more is not made of Guy Fawkes Night, as an affirmation of our collective identity. Even in multi-faith, or faithless Britain, the occasion seems as good an excuse as any to enjoy pyrotechnics, conversation and refreshment with friends and neighbours (at a time of year when we’d probably rather be at home in the warm).
Although the celebration of Halloween, as we’ve come to know it, is a US import, the associated paraphernalia comes mainly from China. Halloween has become a bonanza for the high street, for specialist fancy dress retailers and for clubs, bars and restaurants. Go to any supermarket and you’ll see shelves stacked with stickers, food, party packs, clothing and accessories. Meantime, fireworks are kept far away from children’s grubby mitts, locked up in the glass cabinets of quietly decaying corner shops.
Any fule kno that playing with fireworks is potentially more hazardous than cadging sweets from neighbours. However, Halloween is fraught with its own dangers, like accepting gifts from strangers. Fireworks displays have become occasions for the health and safety brigade to go bonkers. Rarely these days will you see a real fire: local authorities have even been known to show film footage of a bonfire to simulate the authentic crackle and glow. Meanwhile, middle class parents play their part in the commercial conspiracy that is Halloween, by chaperoning kids around local streets in search of goodies, which are collected in large carrier bags. Some parents then filter out all the ‘junk’ items (almost certainly 100% of the contents) and restrict their children to what is deemed to be healthy.
You’d think Jamie Oliver would be on the case, promoting Guy Fawkes food – which is dominated by the Great British banger. Sausages with mash, or baked potatoes, are popular fare, often with beans. Otherwise, a hearty winter warming soup or stew. But children (and those who advertise to them) prefer stickier treats. It’s a shame the beta-carotene rich pumpkin is just for show. Halloween offers only toffee apples… and marshmallows, along with every other type of ‘candy’ (think acid drops, toxic waste and gum powder).
Long gone are the days when children trawled the streets, with a homemade Guy in a craftily cobbled together trailer, asking for a ‘penny’ towards fireworks… Pointy hats and noses, Dracula capes and teeth are far more popular with children – though rarely made by hand. Any opportunity to dress up is an excuse to buy a look. Bat ears, blue lips, golf balls and a curious crow suit all feature amongst the best dressed celebrity Halloween costumes on the Telegraph’s fashion blog – and an Ashish sequin skeleton dress (at £1025) has the most ‘loves’. Fancy dress parties, enjoyed by people of all ages, are big business. Even the traditional Guy Fawkes mask has been given a V for Vendetta makeover.
Halloween, which has its origins in Celtic tradition (and the commemoration of the eve before All Hallows, or All Saints Day), is also a chance to celebrate all things horrid and evil. The practice of trick or treating can lead to pranks as dangerous as posting fireworks through letterboxes. I’ve heard of garden hedges being set alight, apples being thrown through windows, and have inadvertently been the victim of Halloween pranksters myself. Having spent the best part of the prior evening painstakingly carving out the guts of a pumpkin, I lit the candle inside and put it on display outside the door, as I popped out to buy sweets for the trick and treaters. On my return, I was mortified to find that my pumpkin had been kicked into a lightwell, and smashed to smithereens… | <urn:uuid:b548425e-5227-4182-b85d-6fa5267d7780> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://thedabbler.co.uk/2012/10/halloween-versus-guy-fawkes/ | 2016-05-06T01:38:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461861700326.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428164140-00008-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957499 | 854 |
Photo booths are a great way to spice up any party. Guest young and old will line up to strike-a-pose, capturing silly and intimate photos. Send everyone home with a keepsake from your fun and exciting event!
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TEHRAN (Reuters) -- Iran has arrested a number of people accused of setting up antireligious and obscene websites as part of a foreign-backed plot to undermine the Islamic republic, Iranian media have reported.
The semi-official Fars news agency listed the initials of 26 people it said were involved in the case, but it did not make clear whether all of them had been detained in an operation by the intelligence arm of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards.
They were part of networks supported by foreign security services, it said, without naming the countries.
"These people...with the aim to take forward the enemies' goals as part of the soft revolution project acted to launch a number of antireligious, obscene, and antirevolutionary websites," Fars said.
Iran often accuses Western powers of seeking to undermine the Islamic state through a "soft" or "velvet" revolution with the help of intellectuals and others inside the country.
Iran and the West are embroiled in a dispute over Tehran's nuclear program, which the United States and some of its allies suspect is aimed at making bombs. Iran denies the charge.
The official IRNA news agency said those arrested were part of organized networks engaged in "evil projects," including insulting Islam's holy Koran, spreading moral deviation, and "advertising to sell Iranian girls."
"Thanks to God...the main and active elements in these networks...were identified, arrested, and handed over to judiciary officials," IRNA quoted a Guards statement as saying.
Young Iranians are avid users of the Internet, even though the authorities often block websites, which are deemed as having content contrary to Islamic values.
In December, Iran's judiciary confirmed reports that a prominent Iranian-Canadian blogger had been detained and said his case was being investigated.
Canadian media said Hossein Derakhshan, who has been nicknamed the "Blogfather" for pioneering a blogging revolution in Iran, was being held on charges of spying for Tehran's arch-foe, Israel.
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Our story goes all the way back to when we met in pre-school at the age of 3. (See if you can identify us in our class photo below.)
Pretty cute, right?! In short, we met in pre-school, had crushes on each other through various phases of our lives, finally dated late in our 20’s, and made it official on New Year’s Eve 2010.
We both have a passion for travel, adventure, and exploring new places and cultures! We’ve already crossed a ton of items off of our ever-growing Bucket List and look forward to making more of our travel dreams come true! With Toccara’s planning and photography skills and Sam’s filming, editing, and technical web skills, we’ve put together this website to inspire you to get out and explore this beautiful world we live in!
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Why Choose MBI for Charter Bus Rental in Southwest Florida
We Specialize in Buses
MBI is exclusively a Motorcoach company, not a limo company with buses. this allows our mechanics to be the very best at what they do and focus on one type of equipment.
We are a locally owned company that that not only values our employees but the opportunity to give back to our neighbors and community with great pride.
We Know the Area
We all live here and are familiar with the Naples/Ft. Myers area. This means we know where to pick you up and most likely have been where you are going. This is worry free travel at its best.
With MBI, you will always receive a full size motorcoach, a comfortable seat, and a professional driver. You’re free of the hassle of traffic, GPS and parking headaches. Just lean back, look out the windows and relax.
MBI Tours provides you and your group with a team of professionals that take pride in providing you with the very best in charter bus service travel. From your highly trained, friendly and professional driver, a proactive maintenance team and our sales and operations team’s devotion to your group’s safe and enjoyable trip on a MBI charter bus!
SPECIALIZING IN LOCAL AND LONG DISTANCE SERVICE
Transporation Services We Provide
When it comes to transportation for your church, we know that safety is extremely important. Whether you’re transporting youth groups or choirs, we want you to know that your precious cargo matters to us.
We know that your family homecoming only happens once a year and that you’re busy preparing every last detail. We would love to help out with your transportation!
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Safety, reliability, and comfort make MBI Tours a good choice for your school’s educational and recreational field trips.
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If you’ve followed all of the steps in this guide, the good news is that all of the hard work is done. You now have a blog that has huge potential to become a leader in your category, and a plan to make it happen! However, like any journey, there will be opportunities that arise along the way that can propel you forward at at even greater velocity (and others that may stunt your growth) – the trick is in spotting them! In this section I will outline the tips and tricks that will help you to confidently steer you along the most favourable path for your blog’s long-term success.
Find what works and do more of it
Finding out what ‘works’ on your blog is vital. If your readers aren’t consuming your blog content in the way that you intend, you could end up wasting hours upon hours of your time.
The most effective way of seeing what’s working on your blog is to install Google Analytics. Google Analytics is a free tool that, once installed on your blog, allows you to monitor user behaviours including:
- Where your visitors are coming from (for example, search engines, social media posts or via links from other websites)
- Your blog’s most popular pages
- What types of devices your readers are using when they visit your blog
- The most common search queries being used to find your blog
- How long a user is spending on your blog, how many pages they visit …. and much, much more
Hard to believe that such a valuable tool can even be free, huh? Thanks team Google!
So how do you set up Google Analytics on your blog? Simply visit google.com/analytics and sign up for a free account. Once you have a free account setup, you’ll then need to create your first ‘Property’ , which is really just a fancy name for your blog.
Once you are on the ‘New Property ‘page in Google Analytics:
- In the ‘Website Name’ field enter your blog’s name (in my case this would be ‘The Freedom Chaser’)
- Enter your domain in the ‘Website URL’, for example www.thefreedomchaser.com
- Select an ‘Industry Category’ that is as closely matched to your blog’s niche as possible (setting this accurately allows you to see how you compare to the rest of your industry for certain metrics)
- Set your Time Zone (this is important, as there are some reports that are broken down by hour of day, so if you are targeting a specific country I’d suggest you set the Time Zone accordingly so you can accurately measure user behaviour for that specific region)
- Click the magic blue ‘Get Tracking ID’ button
Now you just need add the Google Analytics tracking code to your blog. There are two ways to achieve this:
- Manually, by editing your WordPress theme code (you’ll need to be confident modifying HTML)
- Using a WordPress plugin (there are plenty to choose from in the Plugin directory; choose one with good ratings and follow their instructions to install)
Once installed, I highly recommend that you login to Google Analytics on a weekly basis to track the behaviour of visitors on your blog. Use GA to discover which of your blog posts that are attracting the most visitors and are resulting in higher engagement; keep these learning in mind for future content planning.
For more resources and free training modules to help you get up and running with Google Analytics visit Google’s free Analytics Academy.
Track mentions and links to your blog
It’s a very good thing when your blog is mentioned by other websites and bloggers! Not only are links and mentions a great for promoting your blog to new audiences, but they are also critical for a solid search engine optimisation strategy. In other words; the more natural links you acquire to your blog over time, the more visibility your blog will be in search results.
The question is; how do you know when other online authors are mentioning you?
Fear not, my friend, for I have just two tools that will make the task of tracking online mentions and backlinks a breeze.
I’ve mentioned this nifty app plenty of times before and because it’s so good, I’m going to mention it again! Visit google.com/alerts to set up alerts whenever your blog’s name (or even your own name) is mentioned. Automatic email notifications can either occur daily, weekly or even as it happens.
Once you’ve set up your alerts, you will receive an email straight to your inbox whenever your blog is mentioned anywhere on the world wide web. Glorious, free technology!
Google Search Console
Another amazingly free tool provided by our friends at the Google towers is Search Console. Once installed, this applications allows you monitor incoming links as well as the most frequent queries your visitors are typing into Google to discover your blog.
If you are yet to setup Google Search Console, please read the earlier section of this guide which outlines how to do this. Once setup and running for a few weeks, log into Search Console and navigate to the ‘Links’ section. You will notice that this section is divided into two areas;
- External Links – which describes links coming from other websites or blogs to yours
- Internal Links – which describes the links from your blog to other pages within your blog.
The part that is of most interest right now, are the Top Linking sites in the ‘External Links’ portion of the report.
To view these, scroll down to the ‘Top linking sites’ section and choose the ‘More >’ option to view all of the websites that are linking to your content.
Be curious; visit the websites that you haven’t heard of before and if they look like viable partners for future collaborations drop them a note to introduce yourself and to say thanks for linking to you. You never know where the relationship could lead to for future blogging collaborations.
The other area of Google Search Console you should be monitoring regularly is the ‘Queries’ reportm as it reveals the search queries that are exposing your blog in search results. In other words, Queries report details the phrases that regular people are typing into Google to discover your blog.
To access the Queries report, once you are in Search Console simply visit the ‘Performance’ tab. Queries will be the default report displayed, with the highest volume search terms (‘Queries’) for your blog being broken down by ‘Impressions’ (that are most frequently being used to display your blog in search engines and ‘Clicks’ which are the ultimately impressions that result in visits to your blog.
Another figure worth monitoring is Clickthrough Rate (CTR). This metric provides you with insights into how many people are actually clicking on your website relative to the number of times it appears in search results.
The way to add the CTR for each query to the tabulated report in Search Console is by clicking on the ‘Average CTR’ widget (the green rectangle circled in the below screenshot).
A high click-through rate is good; it means that users see your blog as highly relevant to their search and are therefore feeling compelled to click. Look for queries that have a much higher CTR than average, as these are your strong performing pieces of content and you should try and mimic their success in future articles.
A low click-through rate is a sign that your blog isn’t as attractive as others for specific search queries and may therefore require some minor adjustments. For any high volume search queries exhibiting a low click-through rate, I suggest you Google the term yourself and see what you are up against – you may need to update the article title and description to stand out from the competition.
Competitor Analysis see what works and replicate it
The general idea behind effective competitor analysis for bloggers, is to keep an eye on what your competitors are doing, to see what works (and what doesn’t) so that you can do it even better.
There are a variety of methods available to monitor your peers and competitor activity.
The first of these is mentioned in the previous section, utilising Google Alerts. Simply add your competitors name as a search phrase in your Google Alerts and you’ll be notified every time their blog gets a mention anywhere on the web. This is a great way to uncover competitors’ linking strategies and partnerships, as over time you’ll see some of the same website and blogs sharing the backlink love. At the same time you will also uncover new opportunities for outreach; if a website is willing to link to your competitor they are probably interested in linking to your content too!
The second is to signup to your competitors email newsletters. Despite sounding completely logical, you’d be surprised how many bloggers turn a blind eye to their competitors most valuable source of direct communication with their fans. Register to receive emails from your competitors and peers and keep a close eye on the content they are promoting most heavily. No one promotes content simply for the sake of it, so pay attention to the content being prioritised and start to pick it apart…you may uncover new ideas and monetization opportunities by doing so.
The third and final method is to use an online competitor monitoring tool such as Similarweb. The Similarweb platform offers free and paid versions, but the free version should offer you enough insights to keep you busy for now!
Once you’ve signed up for a Similarweb account, simply navigate to the ‘Referral Traffic > Incoming Traffic‘ section to discover domains that are regularly linking to your competitors’ blogs.
TIP: To bookmark specific reports in Similarweb, simply click on the star button to Save
Once you have identified referral links, take a look at what they are linking to specifically, and then factor these news insights into your blog’s content plan.
You now have a range of free tools and techniques at your disposal which will assist you tremendously in monitoring the popularity of your blog’s content. By getting into a regular routine of monitoring consumption of your blog through Google Analytics and competitors’ blogs Similarweb, and by checking your inbox regularly for Google Alerts and competitor eNewsletters, you’ll have all the insights you will ever need to have a confidently know what’s working well in your blogging niche. Use this knowledge to your advantage; fine tune your content plans accordingly and you’ll be in good stead to rapidly become a leading authority in your niche (and of course, make a good income in the process).
Summary of guide
If you’ve read every chapter of this guide, you now have an almost unfair advantage over all of the other bloggers out there. Using the techniques in Blog Life, you can create a blog that can generate a long term income for you.
By selecting the right niche for your blog, choosing a revenue model that works for you and setting up a WordPress blog the right way you’ll launch your blog with a massive headstart over your competitors.
Using my WISPR method for content ideation and my free content planning calendar you’ll be creating amazing content that will consistently generate traffic to your blog, plus a swag of loyal fans that will grow incrementally over time.
And finally, by using the best monitoring and analytics tools available (most of them free) you can remove the guesswork and find out precisely what is working for you and your competitors.
The final section of this book contains links to all of the resources mentioned throughout, as well as some other handy tools I thought you might find useful.
I hope you have enjoyed this guide as much as I have enjoyed writing it. Don’t be a stranger, drop me a line and share your blogging progress with me…I’d love to hear from you.
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Anyone needs a little advice in home improvement, even if you are a professional. There are just those projects that you may not be 100% sure of, or techniques that you don’t know about. If this is the case, great advice could be just a click away. Start with this article and learn some great tips about home-improvement today.
If you are working on a new home improvement project, make sure that you are complimenting your environment rather than fighting against it. If you are in an area that has high winds, then you most likely will not be spending much time outside. As such, it probably would be in your best interest to work on indoor arrangements. By the same token, you can still enjoy the outdoors, by simply adding a glass structure. This can help block out the environment while still providing you with an outdoors atmosphere.
An easy way to make the worn our furniture and scuffed up floors look like new is to add new lighting fixtures. There are many styles of lights that create a comforting aura of light. While you may think the adding light to the room emphasizes the impurities, but guests will only notice the bright and cheery glow of the house.
When it comes to home improvement, small additions such as power strips and surge protectors can be extremely beneficial. Power strips allow for you to easily turn off groups of electronics, saving money on energy. Most surge protectors will protect your electronics from lightning strikes and power surges.
You could make a unique choice in coffee tables rather than settling for something ready-made. Use an old steamer trunk, blanket chest, or other unusual bin type item as a coffee table that doubles as storage. Place some books, magazines and other odds and ends on top of the coffee table to give it a unique look. You may also consider teacups and a tablecloth in order to get that country look.
Make yourself a shopping list before going to the store. Making a list of all the items you need to purchase ensures that you will not need to make multiple trips to the store and also helps to keep you organized.
If you have a lot of cords hanging out of your entertainment stands then you know what a pain and unsightly view cords can be. You can easily clean up your mess by using Velcro tape, which is widely available, at most stores for about $5. Roll up the unused portions of your cord and hold them together with the Velcro tape for a clean and tidy look.
If you notice that you are starting to get large cracks in your drywall, it is time to do some handy work. Fixing the cracks won’t cost you a lot of money, and it will make your walls look fresh and new. Once you fix the cracks, the value of your home and the pride you have in it will go up.
When you paint interior rooms during a home improvement project, allow extra drying time if your house is new. Newer homes are usually built with extremely effective (nearly air-tight) separation between the interior and exterior. While this is an advantage for you as a homeowner in most situations, when you paint inside, your paint will take longer to dry than the paint manufacturer might claim.
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Now that I am part of the Cozy Cat Press family, I thought it would be nice to introduce you to some of the other fabulous felines making their homes there. Today, you get to meet Blanche Manos.
The Outside Lane: Blanche, how did you become a writer?
Blanche Day Manos: I started writing when I was a youngster, inspired by Nancy Drew and by not having any friends nearby to play with. I created my own world with my words. As a child and later as an adult, I started writing poetry for children. I also wrote short articles on the importance of reading to children, books as a good baby shower gift, and my experience as an elementary school teacher.
I wrote fiction for children and was published by several children’s magazines, including Cricket, Humpty Dumpty, Turtle, Guide, The Friend, Wee Wisdom, and others. I’ve also been published by confession magazines and Christian periodicals. I’ve written on assignment for many years for a Christian publication.
TOL: Tell us about THE CEMETERY CLUB.
BDM: Several years ago, a friend introduced me to Barbara Burgess, another northwest Arkansas writer. Since we are both of Cherokee heritage and have heard several legends about northeast Oklahoma and northwest Arkansas, we thought it might be fun to write a mystery incorporating our ideas and experiences and so, our first book, The Cemetery Club was born.
BDM: And how did you come to Cozy Cat Press?
A: A funny thing…when we finished our second book, Grave Shift, and queried Patricia Rockwell, she was interested in it but thought it might have a little too much violence for a cozy. We re-wrote and she liked it and took it for Cozy Cat Press.
TOL: Tell us about Darcy and Flora, the main characters of your series.
BDM: The main characters in our books are quite a bit like Barbara and me; our likes, our beliefs, and the closeness we shared with our parents. We like Darcy and Flora, our main characters and we like their small and fictional town of Levi, Oklahoma.
TOL: What’s next for your intrepid problem solvers?
BDM: We are finishing our third Darcy/Flora book and I am thinking of maybe branching out on my own with a completely different series and a different protagonist.
The second book in your series, GRAVE SHIFT
, is getting rave reviews on Amazon. What is it about?
When Darcy Campbell returned to her home town of Levi, Oklahoma, she longed for peace and healing from the recent loss of her husband. She found much more than she bargained for when two rare Oklahoma earthquakes, a villain with murder in his heart, and a mountain lion threaten her and her mother Flora Tucker. Being an investigative reporter on leave of absence from her Dallas newspaper, Darcy has an active curiosity which leads her into some dangerous places and nearly costs her her life. At last she solves a long-standing mystery in Levi and her grief begins to heal when the sheriff of Ventris County re-kindles an old flame in her heart.
TOL: I can’t wait to read your books! Where else can we find you?
Of course you can find all of Blanche
and Barbara’s books on Amazon.
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I grew up with the BBC television adaptations of four of the Narnia books, which I absolutely adore and, like Star Trek Voyager, will not hear a word against - you will not sway me on this (I'm sure posts on those series will follow at some point as well). But I also love the 2005 film, which is completely gorgeous and which impressed me right from the start with how strongly it placed Narnia within its historical context. In the books, the Second World War is not overtly present to a child reader (though an adult might notice some themes resonating with issues from that time). It is used mainly as a plot device to get the children into the Professor's house and then, from their point of view, largely forgotten for the rest of the series (The Silver Chair, in theory, should take place towards the end of the war, but in the real world sections of that book Lewis is clearly preoccupied with post-war education and the war itself seems largely forgotten). At the time Lewis was writing, this would not have been much of an issue - although his readers might be too young to remember the war themselves their parents and older siblings would be bound to tell them about it and, if they lived anywhere near London, they would still be able to see craters and damaged buildings from the wartime bombing.
This is not the case for modern viewers of the film, who may be three (or even four) generations removed from the war and who are unlikely instantly to understand the significance of evacuation, unless they happen to have covered it in school recently. This is why the air raid in the opening sequence is so important. The raid is actually historically inaccurate - the Pevensies would most likely have been evacuated during the mass evacuations of late 1939-early 1940, while the regular bombing raids on London did not start until the time of the Battle of Britain, in September 1940. Now normally, I come down like a ton of bricks on anything that includes inaccuracies or even biased emphases with regards to World War Two (a major pet peeve of mine resulting partly from the fact that both my grandfathers fought in it). But I think this minor inaccuracy is too valuable to complain about or lose. The important point for modern child viewers to understand about these introductory sections is that London is in danger and the children have been sent away (leaving their mother behind) to keep them safe from a very real threat. Actually showing a raid is a much more effective and dramatic way of getting this across than any amount of dialogue could be. The war continues to be present through references in the dialogue throughout the movie, which is very effective as a counterpart to the Narnian war the children are fighting.
Anyway, all that is by the by, as I'm supposed to be talking about Classics! Our first Classical encounter is, of course, with Mr Tumnus. As in the earlier BBC adaptation, Tumnus, although played by Scottish actor James McAvoy, is given a bog standard Received Pronunciation English accent (Micheal York, narrating the audio book, makes him Irish for some unfathomable reason - this would be less irritating if the Irish accent wasn't distinctly dodgey). Tumnus is a thoroughly middle-class ancient Roman woodland spirit, with a cave-home full of books and genteel furniture, so the accent makes sense. His physical appearance is exactly as described by Lewis (much as the sight is easy on the eye, poor McAvoy must have been freezing with no shirt on). We don't see the dryads and others described by Tumnus in a flashback, but we see fiery figures representing them, several of which seem to have animal heads, which is a bit odd. It's a brilliant scene, though, where the real danger Lucy's in and the creepiness of Mr Tumnus, potential child-abductor, is really strongly emphasised; Lucy is only saved by Aslan's intervention. Up until this point, Tumnus has had more in common with Bilbo Baggins than a wild Roman woodland creature, but here his wildness and dangerous side come to the fore.
The next time we see any Classical creatures, other than Mr Tumnus, is in the form of statues in the White Witch's courtyard. (People turning to stone is one of those themes that crops up in a number of different mythological traditions - maybe it's related to the tendency for rocks to look a bit like heads or faces sometimes). The first new creature we see in the flesh, as it were, is a Dryad who waves to Lucy as she, Peter and Susan make their way to Aslan's camp after the thaw. The interpretation of the dryads is particularly beautiful in this film, and quite original. Dryads are nymphs connected to trees - they appear occasionally in ancient literature but I suspect their popularity comes from later uses in early modern poetry and art. Usually, they are beautiful women (wearing varying amounts of clothing) who hang around near, or melt into, trees. In this case, however, the dryad is made up of the blossom of the tree, which is very pretty, and adds an extra reason for the dryad to have disappeared throughout the winter, when there are no leaves or petals to take shape from.
The Dryad, by Evelyn de Morgan
At Aslan's camp we see a large gathering of mythological beasties, mostly fauns and centaurs because they make the most human-looking soldiers. I've talked about centaurs in Narnia before, both here and in my Narnia article, so I'll let them go for now, but it is interesting how military the fauns and centaurs look here, with all their matching red and gold armour. It fits with the much more war-centric, military feel of the film as a whole, which is probably due in equal parts to the changed international situation (since the BBC's version in 1988) and to the need for a big holiday blockbuster to have large scale battle sequences a la The Lord of the Rings.
The White Witch's gang of largely mythological minions whom she summons to her sacrifice of Aslan are suitably scary here. The hag creatures are particularly unpleasant and look rather like Furies. The minotaurs (plural as ever, though in Greek mythology there is only one) are prominent, as they are among the scariest of the creatures present and the biggest and weirdest. The Witch, who has looked suitably wintery for the film so far, now looks like she belongs in a much hotter climate (which, according to The Magician's Nephew, she does) and the scene is full of big flaming torches, so the scary qualities inherent in it are rooted in the force and wildness of the Witch and her army, not in spookiness. Among her minions are quite a few Cyclopes for some reason; although they're not as tall as Cylopes should be - they're nowhere near giant, being shorter than the minotaurs - their one eye is quite clearly displayed. I suppose the designers thought they would be a cool scary creature to include, as although the Witch's list of evil minions is quite extensive, including Ghouls, Boggles, Cruels, Hags, Spectres, People of the Toadstools, Incubi, Wraiths, Horrors, Efreets, Orknies, Sprites, Wooses, Ettins, and all whose evil works for her, Cyclopes are not among them. The designers have, quite fairly I think, decided that any creature from Greek mythology is fair game for Narnia and thrown in a few extras, which is rather cool.
That's not the only extra Classical reference in the film. Much, much earlier on, Susan insists on playing what Edmund quite rightly refers to as the worst game ever invented, getting her brothers to guess medical ailments or other complex terms she reads out from the dictionary. She reads out the word 'gastrovascular' and Peter correctly guesses that it derives from Latin before Lucy interrupts with the much better suggestion of hide and seek. As so often in popular culture, Latin is used here to demonstrate how boring and out of touch Susan is; Latin is held up as the dullest of subjects, scorned by everyone who isn't trying to sound clever. (It's all a far cry from the books, written by an Oxbridge scholar at a time when getting a good education meant learning Latin, in which Peter regularly swears 'By Jove!' as if he were actually a Roman).
Another big plus in this movie - Lewis' sexism has been surgically removed, so that Lucy should not fight because she's too little, and Susan has to suck it up and get on it with it. I honestly don't know what that hairy creature beside her is.
Returning to the Big Battle, Peter rides a unicorn for the final fight, a creature mostly associated with medieval art and literature, but which does have some Classical origins. Mostly, it just makes me think unkind thoughts that do not belong near a children's film. The most awesome thing about the Big Battle though, is another element of Greek mythology that, like the Cyclopes, has been added for the film - attack by phoenix. The Narnian phoenixes burst into flame while flying right in front of the enemy forces, which is really very cool and the most proactive use of the phoenix's special gift I've seen (normally, all phoenixes actually do is live for a very long time and occasionally burst into pretty flames, though Fawkes in Harry Potter makes himself useful).
The depiction of Cair Paravel in the film is one of the little things that really annoys me, as it looks rather more like a Georgian palace than a medieval castle, and I think Cair Paravel - with its turrets, and its dais for the royals - should be a medieval castle. The mermaids outside are very pretty and I believe, based on dolphins' tails - I'll talk more about mermaids when I get to Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Then there are the costumes, which are far too obviously designed to be replicated in Disney stores - the BBC ones were much more tasteful. The crowns are absoutely gorgeous though. But I've gone rather off the point - which is that, although mythological creatures are kept in the foreground by having Mr Tumnus crown the children, the aesthetic of the last scenes has moved even beyond the medieval, never mind the Classical.
The film really is gorgeous, and although nitpickers might complain about the CGI, I like to use my imagination - it looks more than good enough for me, I don't need perfection. I like the added sequences, chiefly the melting river, which give the film a bit more action, and the music and cinematography are both absolutely beautiful. If only Mrs Macready wasn't given an Irish accent (she should be Scottish) it would be almost perfect. And Jim Broadbent will break your heart in the closing sting. | <urn:uuid:79979838-14ba-4340-91d7-86e5a8348c64> | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | http://popclassicsjg.blogspot.com/2010/10/chronicles-of-narnia-lion-witch-and.html | 2017-04-26T13:40:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917121355.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031201-00428-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977131 | 2,293 |
FBI chief to successor: Be ‘flexible’ in terror fight
WASHINGTON – FBI director Robert Mueller said Wednesday that the best advice he can give his successor is to “be flexible and agile” when responding to threats of terrorism.
Mueller, who took the helm of the US Federal Bureau of Investigations one week before the September 11, 2001 attacks, is scheduled to leave his job after mid-year.
It’s important for the FBI “to understand what is necessary to protect the American public, to grow and adjust to the new threats that are coming so much faster than they did 10, 15 or 20 years ago, and be flexible and agile to address those threats,” Mueller said at a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Senators questioned Mueller about three Patriot Act measures that are scheduled to expire in May. The senators are debating whether to temporarily or permanently renew the controversial measures.
The Patriot Act, which Congress approved in the days after 2001 terror attacks, gives law enforcement agencies broad authority to search phone and e-mail messages, as well as personal financial and medical records in their search for terrorist suspects.
In response to a question by Republican Senator Charles Grassley, Mueller agreed that the business records, roving wiretap and “lone wolf” provisions of the Patriot Act should be permanently renewed.
It is “absolutely essential” that US agents have the ability to gather records through the business records provision, Mueller told the senators. “These records enable us to get hotel records, travel records and the like.”
Without that capacity “it would be difficult to develop the cases and the investigations in that arena, as well as the counterterrorism arena,” he said.
Mueller said his agency has used the roving wiretap provision more than 190 times.
Agents must first show a court that the person they want to wiretap is trying to avoid surveillance. “It has been very helpful on national security and important,” he said.
The “lone wolf” provision has yet to be used, Mueller said. “But I still believe that it is important. We have come close to using it in several of our cases.”
The measure allows authorities to investigate a person with no known links to a broader organization who is suspected of preparing to carry out a terror attack.
The measure will only be used on a non-US citizen and with prior court approval, Mueller said.
“While we have not used that provision, with the profusion of lone wolf cases domestically and, indeed, some internationally, my expectation is we will be using this in the future,” he said.
Critics believe that after ten years it is time to let the measures expire.
Mueller said he believes there has been an “appropriate balance” between “the necessity for addressing the terrorist threat and threat from other criminal elements to the United States, and … the protection of privacy, civil liberties.”
Those being considered for his replacement, according to US news media, include former FBI deputy director John Pistole, and Patrick Fitzgerald, the US attorney famous for investigating the Valerie Plame affair, which led to the conviction of then-vice president Richard Cheney’s chief of staff Scooter Libby. | <urn:uuid:0c84197c-700c-4b72-ba13-194d9e7b2c4e> | CC-MAIN-2015-35 | http://www.rawstory.com/2011/03/fbi-chief-to-successor-be-flexible-in-terror-fight/ | 2015-09-05T12:51:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-35/segments/1440646249598.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20150827033049-00096-ip-10-171-96-226.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962913 | 682 |
Opened in 1829 as part of a controversial movement to change the behavior of inmates through "confinement in solitude with labor," Eastern State Penitentiary quickly became one of the most expensive and most copied buildings in the young United States. It is estimated that more than 300 prisons worldwide are based on the Penitentiary's wagon-wheel, or "radial" floor plan.
Some of America's most notorious criminals were held in the Penitentiary's vaulted, sky-lit cells, including bank robber Willie Sutton and Al Capone. After 142 years of consecutive use, Eastern State Penitentiary was completely abandoned in 1971, and now stands, a lost world of crumbling cellblocks and empty guard towers.
Walnut Street Jail, built to relieve the overcrowding and scandalous conditions at Philadelphia's Old Stone Jail, receives its first prisoners.
Engraving: Jail in Walnut Street, Philadelphia, 1800. William Birch (1755 - 1834).
Dr. Benjamin Rush (left) founds the Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons, the first prison reform group in the world. Benjamin Franklin (below) joined the group on August 13, 1787. This group survives today, more than two centuries later. Now called the Pennsylvania Prison Society, it promotes correctional reform and social justice.
Photo: Portrait of Benjamin Rush by Charles Willson Peale, 1818.
A "Penitentiary House," with a capacity of 16 single cells, is built in the Walnut Street Jail, and an experiment with day and night solitary confinement begins.
Photo: Portrait of Benjamin Franklin. Engraved by J. Thomson, 1805. From an Original Picture by J.A. Duplessis.
After many years of lobbying from the Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons, the Pennsylvania Legislature approves funding to build the Eastern State Penitentiary. The new prison will hold 250 inmates.
Four architects submit designs for the massive new prison. John Haviland (left), a British architect who had settled in Philadelphia, wins the commission. He receives a $100 prize for his design. For more information on John Haviland, read Pioneers in Criminology: John Haviland or contact The Independence Hall Association.
Rival architect William Strickland (below), whose design had been rejected, is chosen to oversee the construction.
Photo: Portrait of John Haviland. John Neagle, (1796 - 1865).
Construction begins on the foundations and walls. William Strickland (left) is fired and John Haviland is appointed to oversee the construction.
Photo: Portrait of William Strickland, 1829. John Neagle, (1796 - 1865).
The Marquis de La Fayette (left) visits the unfinished Penitentiary.
1829 April 23
Legislation specifying "separate or solitary confinement at labor" is passed.
Many leaders believe that crime is the result of environment, and that solitude will make the criminal regretful and penitent (hence the new word, penitentiary). This correctional theory, as practiced in Philadelphia, will become known as the Pennsylvania System.
Plans are finalized to prohibit all contact between prisoners at Eastern State, the world's most ambitious penitentiary, now nearly ready for its first inmates.
Masks are fabricated to keep the inmates from communicating during rare trips outside their cells. Cells are equipped with feed doors and individual exercise yards to prevent contact between inmates, and minimize contact between inmates and guards.
1829 October 25
Eastern State Penitentiary opens. Its first inmate: "...Charles Williams, Prisoner Number One. Burglar. Light Black Skin. Five feet seven inches tall. Foot: eleven inches. Scar on nose. Scar on Thigh. Broad Mouth. Black eyes. Farmer by trade. Can read. Theft included one twenty-dollar watch, one three-dollar gold seal, one, a gold key. Sentenced to two years confinement with labor. Received by Samuel R. Wood, first Warden, Eastern State Penitentiary...."
Photo: Original feeding aperture for an individual cell in Cellblock 3.
Work completed on Block Three, the last of the original single-story cellblocks. Work begins on Blocks Four, Five, Six and Seven, all two stories to accommodate the increasing number of convicts. Block Seven (left) completed in 1835.
First female prisoner is received.
French Commissioners Gustave de Beaumont and Alexis de Tocqueville visit to study the new correctional system.
Photo: Cellblock 7 corridor at Eastern State Penitentiary, 1890s. From Warden Cassidy on Prisons and Convicts, 1897.
First Escape. An inmate, who served as the warden's waiter, lowers himself from the roof of the front building. Once captured, this inmate will escape in the same manner in 1837.
Photo: Plate showing Eastern State Penitentiary, from a dessert service, c. 1838-42, with views of Philadelphia. Made at the Rihouet factory, Paris (1818-89).
First of several investigations into the prison's finances, punishment practices, and deviations from the Pennsylvania System of confinement.
Original prison completed under the supervision of its architect, John Haviland. Covering an area of eleven acres, with state-of-the-art plumbing, sewage systems, and 450 centrally-heated cells, Eastern State Penitentiary is an architectural marvel.
Governments throughout the world model prisons after Eastern State. Tourists travel by horse and buggy from Philadelphia, more than a mile away, to see the building.
Samuel Cowperthwaite, Convict No. 2954, created this lithograph (left) in 1855 depicting the building from above. Note that Philadelphia has not yet grown to reach the Penitentiary.
Eastern State Penitentiary has cost nearly $780,000, one of the most expensive buildings of its day in the United States.
Charles Dickens visits the United States to see Niagara Falls and the Eastern State Penitentiary. He will later write, "The System is rigid, strict and hopeless solitary confinement, and I believe it, in its effects, to be cruel and wrong...."
Engraving: The Solitary Prisoner, 1870s. From Charles Dickens' Pictures from Italy and American Notes for General Circulation.
First full-time school teacher hired. The central rotunda is photographed by William Langenheim and Frederick Langenheim in 1855 (left). Note the change in the central tower in later years (see 1958).
Over 10,000 tourists visit Eastern State Penitentiary, the most in a single year (until historic tours begin in 1994).
Photo: Admission ticket for Eastern State Penitentiary, c. 1835.
Four new cellblocks, without attached exercise yards, are constructed in the spaces between existing cellblocks.
Photo: Cellblocks 8 and 9.
Completed in 1911, Cellblock 12 (left), wedged between Blocks 6 and 7, is drastically different from the blocks that preceded it. Built of light colored reinforced concrete, this block consists of three floors with 40 cells each. There are no arched ceilings and, instead of sky lights, each cell has a narrow window.
Photo: Cellblock 12. From Annual Report, 1912.
The Pennsylvania System of confinement with solitude is officially abandoned at Eastern State. The system had actually broken down decades earlier. Photo: Inmates making shoes in a cell at Eastern State Penitentiary, late nineteenth century.
Photo: From Warden Cassidy on Prisons and Convicts, 1897.
Female prisoners removed to new prison at Muncy.
In July, inmate Leo Callahan (left) and five accomplices armed with pistols successfully scale the east wall after holding up a group of unarmed guards. More than one hundred inmates escaped from Eastern State during its 142 years of active use. Callahan is the only one never to be recaptured. All of Callahan’s accomplices were apprehended, including one that made it as far as Honolulu, Hawaii.
Inmates eat for first time in group dining halls. Tablecloths were provided on Sundays and holidays, and the holiday decorations were described as a "morale building factor."
Photo: Interior of one of the two dining halls adapted from former exercise yards.
1924 August 12
Pennsylvania Governor Gifford Pinchot allegedly sentenced Pep "The Cat-Murdering Dog" to a life sentence at Eastern State. Pep allegedly murdered the governor’s wife’s cherished cat. Prison records reflect that Pep was assigned an inmate number (no. C-2559), which is seen in his mug shot. However, the reason for Pep’s incarceration remains a subject of some debate. A newspaper article reported that the governor donated his own dog to the prison to increase inmate morale.
Construction begins on Cellblock 14 (left), Eastern State’s second three-story cellblock. Any space between the cellblocks is now nearly gone. The Penitentiary, intended to hold 250 inmates, now holds 1,700.
Photo: Prisoners constructing the third floor of Cellblock 14. From Annual Report, 1926.
Inmates from Eastern State are bussed to work on a new "farm branch" of the prison at Graterford, Pennsylvania.
Chicago gangster Al Capone spends eight months at Eastern State Penitentiary. The Philadelphia Bulletin snapped this photo (left) as Capone was led away.
An article in the Philadelphia Public Ledger, August 20, 1929, describes Capone's cell: "The whole room was suffused in the glow of a desk lamp which stood on a polished desk.... On the once-grim walls of the penal chamber hung tasteful paintings, and the strains of a waltz were being emitted by a powerful cabinet radio receiver of handsome design and fine finish..." (See 2000 for a picture of the restored cell).
Inmates set fires in their cells and destroy workshops in a riot over insufficient recreational facilities, overcrowding, and idleness.
Photo: Front gate surrounded by police officers in 1933.
Inmates at Eastern State riot over low wages. Prisoners short-circuit electrical outlets, start fires, and cause other disturbances. Warden Smith puts down the riot with a strong show of force.
Photo: Portrait of Warden Herbert "Hardboiled" Smith.
Twelve men escape through a tunnel that emerges at Fairmount Avenue and 22nd Street. Prison plaster worker Clarence Klinedinst designed and built most of the tunnel. At the time of the escape Klinedinst had only two years left to serve. Most of the men are caught within minutes.
Klinedinst (after re-arrest, left) is out for two hours, and has ten years added to his sentence for prison break. Bank robber Willie Sutton (below) takes credit for planning the tunnel.
Pennsylvania Legislature recommends abandoning Eastern State Penitentiary.
Eastern State Penitentiary becomes the State Correctional Institution at Philadelphia, or SCI-PHA.
The City of Philadelphia certifies Eastern State Penitentiary an historic property.
Cellblocks are desegregated.
Inmate John Klausenberg tricks a guard into opening the cell of another inmate. With the cells open, the inmates overpower the guard and begin the largest riot in the prison's history. Several hours later, a large force of police, guards, and state troopers reclaim the prison. The riot fuels discussions to close Eastern State.
Photo: Central Rotunda following the riot in 1961. Gift of the Biedermann Family.
Federal Government designates Eastern State Penitentiary a National Historic Landmark.
Eastern State Penitentiary closes.
Most inmates are sent to the State Correctional Institution at Graterford. While the Penitentiary's electrical and mechancial systems are in terrible shape, its walls and paint are in perfect condition.
Photo, 1971, Dr. Norman Johnston.
1970 & 1971
City of Philadelphia uses Eastern State to house prisoners from the county prison at Holmesburg, following a riot there.
1971 to mid-1980s
Eastern State is all but totally abandoned. Philadelphia Streets Department uses grounds for storage. Vandals smash skylights and windows. An urban forest grows in the halls and cells.
Dan McCloud, the last city caretaker, continues to feed a family of stray cats on the property.
Mayor Frank Rizzo suggests demolishing Eastern State to construct a criminal justice center.
City of Philadelphia takes title to the building, paying the State of Pennsylvania just over $400,000.
The city transfers Eastern State Penitentiary to the Redevelopment Authority to seek proposals for commercial use.
Eastern State Task Force, a group of architects, preservationists and historians, is formed. Mayor Wilson Goode urges the Redevelopment Authority to reject all proposals for commercial use of the property.
First limited group tours of the building.
With generous funding from The Pew Charitable Trusts, stabilization and preservation efforts begin.
The first Halloween fundraiser takes place on Halloween night to raise money to create a daytime tour program. A few hundred people attended that first year. Since then, a Halloween fundraiser has been held at the Penitentiary each fall and attendance increased each subsequent year. Today, Terror Behind the Walls is one of the largest and most successful haunted attractions in the county.
Eastern State Penitentiary opens for historic tours on a daily basis. Visitors are required to wear hard hats and sign liability waivers. More than 10,000 visitors attend in the first year.
With funding from the William Penn Foundation, permanent museum exhibits are constructed and a marketing campaign begins. An on-site art exhibition, Prison Sentences (left), receives international attention. The site is featured in The New York Times, Art in America and on the BBC, C-SPAN and PBS. Attendance nearly doubles.
Eastern State’s arched cellblocks and central rotunda are transformed into a mental institution in the movie 12 Monkeys, with Bruce Willis (below).
Photo: Virgil Marti For Oscar Wilde, Prison Sentences, 1995.
The World Monument Fund includes Eastern State Penitentiary on its list of the one hundred most important endangered landmarks in the world.
Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site, Inc., a nonprofit organization with the sole purpose of preserving the Penitentiary and opening it for tours, is formed. Eastern State portrays a Southeast Asian prison in the movie Return to Paradise.
Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site, Inc. assumes the Prison Society's Concession Agreement with the City of Philadelphia.
The tenth season of public tours marked with introduction of "The Voices of Eastern State" Audio Tour, narrated by Steve Buscemi.
Several dramatic new vistas in the prison’s cathedral–like cellblocks open. After extensive stabilization, visitors are no longer required to wear hardhats.
Cellblock 7 opens to the public for the first time.
"Pandemonium," a site specific art installation by audio artists Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller opens in Cellblock 7.
Photo: George Bures Miller (front) Carolo Crovato (in red) and Richard Harrod installing Padnemonium in Cellblock Seven.
Winter Adventure Tours begin. Eastern State Penitentiary is now open for tours seven days a week, twelve months a year.
Visitors are no longer required to sign liability waivers upon entry.
Eastern State Penitentiary introduces an exciting year of new exhibits, tours, and events including:
Towercam! – a new exhibit showcasing the spectacular view from the top of the guard tower.
Two new guided tours – Prison Inside a Prison takes visitors into the Cellblock 14 punishment cells and 142 Years of Architecture illustrates the grand and small architectural details of ESP.
Four new artist installations (and five returning) – New installations include Release, a site–specific film by Bill Morrison and Vijay Iyer. Curated by Julie Courtney.
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The Bucher Y-DNA Research Project has now tested 3 males related to the 1727 immigrant Nicholas Bucher of York Co. PA, as well as 35 males total, and those DNA results invalidate many trees published on the Internet, while revealing new evidence about Nicholas' family(details at http://www.SiteServers.net/family/dnahttp://www.SiteServers.net/family/dna )
The "myths" that are not true about Nicholas:
1) Nicholas is definitely not related to Bartholomew Bucher of Frederick Co., MD as many Internet trees suggest. Their DNA is very different.
2)Nicholas is not related to Peter Bucher/Booher of Fayette Co. PA.
3)Nicholas is not related to the Bucher lines living in Fredericksburg, Lebanon County, as some trees show.
New truths about Nicholas:
1)Nicholas is related to another Bucher line from Switzerland that immigrated in the early 1800's to Northampton County, PA, in which another Nicholas born in 1808 moved in 1837 to Northumberland County where he is buried.
2)Many early 1700's branches of Nicholas line have never been identified before for lack of documentation, but our DNA tests are able to discover them. For instance, the DNA of Adam Bucher born 1767 who died in Adams County, PA is identical to Nicholas Bucher's line. As more Bucher males are tested more missing sons will be uncovered.
We are now testing a male Bucher living today in Canton Bern, Switzerland who could match Nicholas, as this is where he is reportedly from. Consult http://www.SiteServers.net/family/dnahttp://www.SiteServers.net/family/dna for future news. | <urn:uuid:ea885e9b-d191-4d4c-9627-06951cbdbeb6> | CC-MAIN-2017-51 | http://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/bucher/457/ | 2017-12-15T04:42:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-51/segments/1512948563629.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20171215040629-20171215060629-00606.warc.gz | en | 0.934161 | 375 |
I've made a lot of stuff in the last couple of years. Yet, I have been away from my making for over a month and it seems to have me flummoxed. I feel a bit stuck and need your help. What should I make? What do you want, what do you need, what would you like to see? Please be my muses and help inspire me. I'd appreciate it most greatly. Thank you.
Oh, and a correction: Monday's posted quote (turns out) can not be attributed to MLK Jr. I don't know the exact source but, I do still think the quote said what I wanted to say. Sorry for any confusion. | <urn:uuid:775f9490-d85f-4aab-b396-021849b0685d> | CC-MAIN-2016-50 | http://lolanovablog.blogspot.com/2011/05/calling-all-muses.html | 2016-12-10T10:48:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-50/segments/1480698543035.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20161202170903-00207-ip-10-31-129-80.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.985307 | 142 |
Pants Zara (old), coat vintage, gloves H&M, scarf Aldo, watch Michael Kors, bag (Winners), bracelets Tiffany & Co. & Winners, ring Forever 21
Hello my lovelies! Hope you’re all enjoying this holiday season and spending the times with those you love! Hope you’re not spending too much time in the malls and stressing about gifts. Holidays have not been about gifts at all in my family, since we grew up, so I don’t have those worries. Though I am a really good shopper and pretty correct when selecting a special gift, so my talent is wasted here hehehe. Anyone needs help shopping?
Anywhooooo…… I finally scrammed some time to shoot another outfit and post it. I have wasted so many good outfits but just didn’t have time to shoot them. I don’t often share work appropriate outfits but today is one of those. I wore this to the office few days ago (as you can see by the creases in the pants heheheh), so I grabbed some time after work, before it got dark out, to take a few pictures. I happened to have gloves of the same colour as the pants and the top, so I thought I would match them all. The coat is vintage with an 80s vibe and I love the shorter sleeves and plaid lining. In combination with wide pants and matching gloves, it has a retro feel to it. Or am I just imagining things here? J
And may I just say how much I am enjoying this weather?! This has been an amazing fall! Though I will miss snow for Christmas and New Year, I will get over it. Very easily I might add heheh.
So that is all from me today. I promise at least one more post this year. And let me wish you all a very merry Christmas, should I not post before then. Enjoy every moment you get with those who make you happy, whoever they are. Share the love, kindness and happiness every day but especially now. It is not the happies time of the year for everyone. | <urn:uuid:d1ce1f47-8354-412a-a359-1e471e0d1818> | CC-MAIN-2017-34 | http://sashadollfashioncloset.blogspot.com/2015/12/orange-retro-look-wide-zara-dresspants.html | 2017-08-17T21:29:36Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-34/segments/1502886104160.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20170817210535-20170817230535-00608.warc.gz | en | 0.962777 | 444 |
Willkommen auf den Seiten des Auswärtigen Amts
-- Es gilt das gesprochene Wort --
Madam High Commissioner,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Those who have been to Tunis or have stood on Tahrir square could sense the power of freedom. The people’s optimism and their desire for a new life in dignity were evident everywhere.
A new chapter of history is being written. Seeing so many young people taking to the streets, fills me with hope. Brave men and women are ousting those who disregarded their fundamental rights and freedoms for decades. It reminds me of the peaceful revolution in Germany more than twenty years ago.
Tragically, the exact opposite is happening in Tripoli.
The violence the leadership in Libya is inflicting upon the people is shocking. These actions are totally unacceptable. The perpetrators will be held accountable for their crimes. If necessary, they shall be held to account before the International Criminal Court.
I denounce and condemn the horrendous violations of human rights committed by the Libyan regime.
Germany has been a strong advocate for robust sanctions against the Libyan regime.
I applaud the Security Council's decision to impose sanctions on those responsible for atrocities in Libya. I expect the European Union to agree on equally robust sanctions.
Let there be no doubt about our intentions. These sanctions are not directed against the people of Libya. Any sanctions will only be levelled at those who are responsible for the violence. And sanctions will strike hard at those who are responsible.
Germany has offered both Tunisia and Egypt a partnership for transformation. We as democrats are supportive of fellow democrats. This offer extends also to Libya once it has decided to follow the path towards democracy.
Beyond this immediate commitment we need a long-term strategy. Therefore I propose to establish a North-South pact to promote democracy, the rule of law, and to foster economic development.
We can help build democratic institutions. We can help promote an effective rule of law with truly independent judges. We can support the states in their fight against corruption. We can intensify trade and promote the people's pursuit of happiness.
Europe and its Southern neighbours must seize this historic opportunity to build a strong and lasting partnership for the 21st century.
This pact is an offer for a true partnership between equals.
The events of the past weeks underscore how closely security and peace are linked with freedom, human rights, and development.
Those who demonstrate are not demanding freedom or jobs. They rightly want both. The people's demand for respect and human rights is entirely legitimate.
Their determination sets an example for all of us here at the Human Rights Council.
These events confirm our continuous struggle in the promotion of human rights. We must live up to our duty to support these brave men and women.
In demanding respect for their fundamental rights and liberties, they demand no less and no more then they are entitled to.
The idea that democracy and stability are opposites was never true. Stability cannot be achieved with disrespect for human rights and contempt for political and economic freedom. The stability of a country depends on the stability of its society. Only a free society is a stable society.
Human rights apply universally. This is not a question of East or West, North or South.
We do not lecture anyone. But we will commit every effort to achieve the aim that one day human rights are a reality for every man, woman or child, wherever they may live. Our demand for human rights is not an interference but an obligation.
my recent journey to Iran has not altered my assessment of the human rights situation in that country. We deplore the recent wave of executions.
Human rights are not negotiable. They apply globally and are valid for everyone.
Last week I implored President Ahmadineschad to safeguard human rights in his country. I call upon the Iranian leadership to respect the will of the people and to protect the opposition in the country.
Germany will continue to promote and strengthen human rights. We rely on the ever growing strength of this Human Rights Council.
I trust the Human Rights Council to act resolutely. So far, the Council has lived up to its responsibilities. Last Friday's resolution is ground-breaking and its significance extends way beyond Libya. The unity expressed last Friday sends a clear message to all those who violate human rights. For the first time, this Council asked the General Assembly to suspend the membership of a country due to blatant violations of human rights. Now the General Assembly has to act.
I commend all delegations for passing the resolution by consensus and with the support of all regional groups. It strengthens the credibility of the Human Rights Council and the UN system as a whole. This Council has acted as a true advocate for human rights. Now we need to take the next step. I call upon all members of this Council to support the international investigation that has been mandated under UN-leadership.
With the spirit and determination this Council demonstrated last Friday we must all embrace the opportunities of the ongoing review process.
Critical human rights situations have to be addressed with a sense of urgency. The review must reflect the lessons of the past weeks.
All members of this Council carry a responsibility for the global state of human rights.
We are accountable to our citizens at home, as well as to every individual whose rights are still being violated elsewhere.
This Council can become a beacon of hope for legions of victims who are yearning for the light of freedom and democracy to end the darkness that oppresses their lives.
Mr President, thank you very much for giving me the floor. | <urn:uuid:430a63ca-6b01-421a-9198-d187066a8a26> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/de/newsroom/110228-bm-menschenrechtsrat/241670 | 2020-09-18T11:17:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400187390.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20200918092913-20200918122913-00584.warc.gz | en | 0.94495 | 1,146 |
Over the last five years, Brazil has witnessed a startup boom.
The main startups hubs in the country have traditionally been São Paulo and Belo Horizonte, but now a new wave of cities are building their own thriving local startup ecosystems, including Recife with Porto Digital hub and Florianópolis with Acate. More recently, a “Black Silicon Valley” is beginning to take shape in Salvador da Bahia.
While finance and media are typically concentrated in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, a city of three million in the state of Bahia, is considered one of Brazil’s cultural capitals.
With an 84% Afro-Brazilian population, there are deep, rich and visible roots of Africa in the city’s history, music, cuisine and culture. The state of Bahia is almost the size of France and has 15 million people. Bahia’s creative legacy is quite clear, given that almost all the big Brazilian cultural patrimonies have their roots here, from samba and capoeira to various regional delicacies.
Many people are unaware that Brazil has the largest Black population in any country outside of Africa. Like counterparts in the U.S. and across the Americas, Afro-Brazilians have long struggled for socio-economic equity. As with counterparts in the United States, Brazil’s Black founders have less access to capital.
According to research by professor Marcelo Paixão for the Inter-American Development Bank, Afro-Brazilians are three times more likely to have their credit denied than their white counterparts. Afro-Brazilians also have over twice the poverty rates of white Brazilians and only a handful of Afro-Brazilians have held legislative positions, despite comprising more than 50% of the population. Not to mention, they make up less than 5% of the top level of the top 500 companies. Compared with countries like the United States or the United Kingdom, the racial funding gap is even more stark as more than 50% of Brazil’s population is classified as Afro-Brazilian.Bahia could be an epicenter of innovation in Latin America
Salvador (Bahia’s capital) is the natural birthplace of Brazil’s Black Silicon Valley, which largely centers around a local ecosystem hub, Vale do Dendê.
Vale do Dendê coordinates with local startups, investors and government agencies to support entrepreneurship and innovation and runs startup acceleration programs specifically focusing on supporting Afro-Brazilian founders. The Vale do Dendê Accelerator organization has already been in the spotlight at international and national publications because of its innovative work in bringing startup and tech education from mainstream to traditionally underserved communities.
In almost three years, the accelerator has supported 90 companies directly that cut across various industries, with high representation from the creative and social impact sectors. Almost all of the companies have achieved double-digit growth and various companies have gone on to raise further funding or corporate backing. One of the first portfolio companies, TrazFavela, a delivery app that focuses on linking customers and goods from traditionally marginalized communities, was supported by the accelerator in 2019. Despite the lockdown, the business grew 230% between the period of March and May after incubation and recently signed an agreement for further support and investment from Google Brasil.
There is a clear recognition of the business case for Afro-Brazilian businesses. Another company supported in the beginning with mentoring by Vale do Dendê is Diaspora Black (which focuses on Black culture in the tourism sectors). It attracted backing from Facebook Brasil and grew 770% in 2020.
The same is true for AfroSaúde, a health tech company focused on low-income communities with a new service to prevent COVID-19 in favelas (urban slums, which incidentally have high Black representation). The app now has more than 1,000 Black health professionals on its platform, creating jobs while addressing a health crisis that had been tremendously racialized.We’re at the brink of a renaissance here in Bahia
Despite Brazil’s challenging economic situation, large national and global companies and investors are taking notice of this startup boom. Major IT company Qintess has come on board as a major sponsor to help Salvador become the leading Black tech hub in Latin America.
The company announced an investment of around 10 million reais (nearly $2 million USD) over the next five years in Black startups, including a collaboration with Vale do Dendê to train around 2,000 people in tech and accelerate more than 500 startups led by Black founders. Also, in September, Google launched a 5 million reais (around $1 million USD) Black Founders Fund with the support of Vale do Dendê to boost the Afro-Brazilian startup ecosystem.
There is no doubt that the new wave of innovation will come from the emerging markets, and the African Diaspora can play an important role. With the world’s largest African diaspora population in the hemisphere, Brazil can be a major leader on this. Vale do Dendê is keen to build partnerships to make Brazil and Latin America a more representative startup and creative economy ecosystem. | <urn:uuid:e788f29c-bc5d-444c-bc94-2253f21e10fa> | CC-MAIN-2020-50 | http://finance.azcentral.com/azcentral/news/read/40520139/brazil%E2%80%99s_black_silicon_valley_could_be_an_epicenter_of_innovation_in_latin_america | 2020-11-29T11:29:36Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-50/segments/1606141197593.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20201129093434-20201129123434-00651.warc.gz | en | 0.946262 | 1,071 |
Joy in the Moments
Emails, conference calls, and meetings have come to a virtual halt. Many of you are leaving on family trips or heading home for the holidays, or perhaps your house is going to be filled with family coming to you. I think that each year that I sit down and write our Christmas blog, I echo previous thoughts. While they may be somewhat repetitive, they also ring true each year.
We live in a town just outside of Nashville, called Franklin. Our town often feels like it is straight out of a movie set and at Christmas even more so. The decorated store fronts, the huge Christmas tree in the square, and the twinkling snowflakes hanging in the trees bring a sense of joy to the everyday drive or activities. It creates a moment to ponder.
Breathe. Reflect. Pause.
Streamline has had a wonderful year with our clients and our partners but now is the time to breathe.
Breathe. Deep breaths in and out as you embrace family and the moments that memories are made. Reflect. Remember the reason for Christmas is celebrating the birth of Jesus so long ago. Pause. I am reminded when I go home that my daughters will not remember the big stuff we did this year as a business, but they will remember the memories we make around Christmas. Those will be the moments they ponder as life carries them forward.
Merry Christmas to You
So, with that in mind let me say Merry Christmas from all of us at Streamline Event Agency. We hope you make memories that last a lifetime! Don’t worry, when you return to work for 2019, we will be here ready to go to make great things happen with you.
Justin serves as the President and CEO for Streamline Event Agency. With over 20 years of experience in entertainment and events, his passion is creating and executing events for our clients while developing new client relationships. Justin and his wife Wendi have been married since 2001. They reside in Franklin, TN, with their 3 children and 2 dogs. On his downtime, he can be found creating culinary delights for his family or cheering on his favorite teams. | <urn:uuid:dc9efeb0-062b-4538-8aeb-53af81af83e5> | CC-MAIN-2020-16 | https://www.streamlineeventagency.com/category/holiday-touring/ | 2020-03-31T05:47:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-16/segments/1585370500331.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20200331053639-20200331083639-00051.warc.gz | en | 0.968916 | 441 |
Get Ready For Moonlight Fishing On the Flagler Beach Pier, Starting in September
FlaglerLive | July 25, 2014
The Flagler Beach pier’s balance sheet is struggling this year, with a $23,000 deficit the city government–which administers the pier–is trying to close before the end of the year. One idea: starting the first Saturday in September (Sept. 6), the pier will be open to fishing through the night, but for a $6 charge–the same rate fishermen must pay during the day.
The pier is open 365 days a year from 6 a.m. to midnight. Occasional walkers pay $1.50 for a day pass. Fishermen pay $6. An annual pass is $100.
“A lot of fishermen, they love to fish when there’s a full moon,” Flagler Beach City Manager Bruce Camplell said. “I’m not sure that’s something I’d want to do but if they want to do that’s great.”
The idea isn’t Campbell’s, but that of Robert Beams, the bait and tackle shop attendant better known as Beamer. He approached Campbell a couple of weeks ago and laid out the plan. It fit right in with the city’s push for more revenue. Or fresh ideas.
The city had budgeted $351,000 in revenue from its pier operations this year. The operations include pier visits and the bait and tackle shop. But two things have hurt revenue. In June, the city wrote a $141,000 pier insurance check, increasing that cost from $80,000 because the city didn’t want to be self-insured at 50 percent. The higher cost lowered the self-insurance ratio to 25 percent. “I warned you of this back in our mid-term review that that was going to happen, because we paid that big lump of insurance back in June,” Campbell told city commissioners Thursday evening. “We of course consciously made that decision last year, we wanted to get away from being 50 percent self-insured and increase that. We will close that gap, we’ve got three months to close it.”
Yet revenue on the pier is down 14 percent this year: to date, the pier has generated $213,600. Annualized, that would leave the pier fund with a $30,000 deficit at the end of the year. The city intends to spruce up its bait shop, revamp its t-shirts, and come up with new ideas to generate dollars. Moonlight fishing is one of those.
“I think it’s something we should try,” Campbell said. “I don’t know how many people we’ll have, we’ll find out if it’s worthwhile or not. But this is another one of those things which we’re trying to throw against the wall. This is an idea that staff came up with, it’s not my idea, and I think it’s a fun thing to try and there’s really no risk.”
Commissioners asked about safety and police presence. The city manager doesn’t see much of an issue there, saying “there’s not a whole lot of unusual heavy lifting” during overnight hours, but that the police department would be aware of the fishing and likely provide a nearby presence when necessary. Campbell is not wanting to start the midnight fishing before September to have time to advertise the new access. The pier will close at midnight that night, for five minutes, so it can be cleared of people, then re-open for those who want to pay the overnight $6 fee and fish on.
Campbell stressed in an interview this morning that the so-called deficit masks a much brighter picture overall. The pier, before the city took over the bait and tackle shop three years ago, perpetually ran a $100,000 deficit every year. That’s no longer the case, Campbell said: it runs a profit, which only this year was dented by the big insurance expense. “We’ve swung from a $100,000 loss to being on the plus side” every year, Campbell said, “so with the change we’ve made we’re still $60,000 on the plus side.” At least in the long run.
“The pier fund has been good for us, the guys have done a good job there for us,” Campbell said, “and hopefully come the end of the year, hopefully we’ll be able to sneak out a bit of a plus side and certainly erase the results of that big check we wrote in June.”
Moonlight fishing is not exactly a craze across the country, but it’s offered in a few places. In Los Angeles County, for example, moonlight fishing is offered at the Santa Fe Dam in Irwindale, Calif., for $10 per person the first Friday of every month. | <urn:uuid:728f423d-3536-4e27-bbb5-f75c6543992d> | CC-MAIN-2016-40 | http://flaglerlive.com/68840/moonlight-fishing-flagler-beach/ | 2016-09-30T11:45:00Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-40/segments/1474738662166.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20160924173742-00052-ip-10-143-35-109.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963222 | 1,064 |
Molluscs of Tasmania
A guide to the seashells and other marine molluscs of Tasmania
This web-site contains over 3000 pages of information on all the marine mollusc species that are currently recognised by the author as occurring in Tasmanian waters, both inshore and offshore; plus information on the coastal localities around Tasmania where these species have been recorded. They are compiled from the author’s database, which stores tens of thousands of records of molluscs collected from around Tasmania, as well as related taxonomic, habitat and distributional information. The records are chiefly those of the author, but the database is also a repository for records from the Tasmanian Museum, the Queen Victoria Museum, Margaret Richmond and Rob de Little, as well as a range of other sources. This project grew out of the 2006 publication of A systematic list of the marine molluscs of Tasmania, by Simon Grove, Ron Kershaw, Brian Smith and Elizabeth Turner. Because molluscan taxonomy is in a continual state of flux, and because our understanding of what species occur in Tasmania is advancing all the time, a paper publication on this subject rapidly becomes outdated as new species are discovered, new names and taxonomic relationships are introduced and old ones invalidated. These web-pages are designed to avoid the fate of a paper publication by being amenable to regular updating.
Species and Localities
The two main foci of this web-site are species and localities. Each species is given its own page, featuring one or more images of exemplars of the species; plus a distribution map of available records (both inshore and offshore); plus further information (if available) on synonyms and on size, distribution, habitat and frequency of occurrence. A species’ higher-level classification can be accessed via a toggle. Two further toggles list the coastal localities at which the species has been recorded. Only coastal localities are listed, primarily because offshore records are often imprecise, and aren’t readily assignable to places with recognisable names. Clicking on any of these localities will take you to the respective locality page. A locality page features a zoomable map showing its location on the Tasmanian coast, plus thumbnails of each of the species (in alphabetical order) that have been recorded from that locality. Clicking on any of these species will take you to the respective species-level page. | <urn:uuid:7e52d2b3-f09b-4e21-9ee0-0821e5710cc8> | CC-MAIN-2019-51 | https://molluscsoftasmania.org.au/ | 2019-12-16T13:29:01Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-51/segments/1575540565544.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20191216121204-20191216145204-00166.warc.gz | en | 0.93528 | 501 |
Get Your Customers Involved
If you are a small business owner, you know that innovative marketing strategies are imperative to the health of your business. This is true even after you have already obtained customers. You want your company to remain on your customer’s minds, so you have to engage with them continuously.
By engaging with them, they can stay up-to-date with the happenings of your business, and they are first in line to receive updates, discounts, and incentives. In the following article, you will find four innovative tactics that you can use to keep your current customers informed.
#1 Automated Email Marketing
There is no doubt that email marketing is powerful when it comes to connecting with your clients. People appreciate receiving an email because it allows them to read the message when they have time, and they can decide to take action when it is convenient.
An email marketing strategy can be powerful because you can consistently send emails to keep your clients engaged. With this strategy, your clients will interact with you; even if they do not interact, the content of your emails will be remembered. Emails can include a call to action that can be highly powerful, and it can motivate your customers to keep your brand in mind and make new purchases.
#2 Social Media Advertising
Your loyal customers should already be connected with all of your social media platforms. If they are not, make sure to use a good email strategy to get them hooked. Once your customers are connected, they will want to see what is new on your social media platform. Make sure to keep fresh and exciting content on your social media platforms.
If you are tech-savvy, you can enable an application to publish content on your social media platforms. If you are not tech-savvy, or if you prefer to have someone else manage your social media platforms, then you can hire a contact manager that can be in charge of keeping your social media platforms up-to-date. The majority of your clients will be looking at your social media contact, so you may have to invest in keeping it relevant.
#3 Text Message Alerts
When your customers get a text message, they are going to be quick to look at it. There is no doubt that your customers have gotten used to constantly checking their telephones and text messages.
Since that is the case, you do well to get a text messaging service. A good text messaging service will allow you to send out the same message to tens of thousands of your clients. With that same service, your clients can contact you in a fast and straightforward fashion. The great thing about text messaging services is that they can be a highly affordable way to create quick connections with your clients.
#4 An Automated Voice Messaging Service
An automated phone system can be a perfect way for you to make a personal impact on your customers. This is not a machine or a robot that is leaving a message; it is your voice. This is a recorded message that you will leave for your clients. Once your customers hear the message, they will be pleasantly surprised by your voice, and they will feel more of a connection with you and your brand.
With this service, they have the option to press a button and get in contact directly with you. This is an innovative way to connect with your clients and to show them that you are personally interested in them and available to talk if need be. This is a service that can also be highly effective and at the same time affordable.
Keep Things Fresh
If you are a business owner, you know that marketing strategies are continuously changing, and your customers want you to keep things fresh. Not only do you want to be able to get new customers, but you also want to keep your existing customers involved as well. By trying out different strategies, applications, and platforms, you can stay up-to-date with the newest ways to engage with customers and keep them happy. | <urn:uuid:10572403-df12-4795-8ebc-c8f446d3c0e2> | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | https://www.appclonescript.com/how-to-keep-clients-well-informed/ | 2021-10-25T22:24:59Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323587770.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20211025220214-20211026010214-00062.warc.gz | en | 0.960608 | 800 |
Review posted for Konica Minolta DiMAGE X50|
(Thursday, January 13, 2005 - 17:04 EST)
I've been a fan of Minolta's (now Konica Minolta's) "X" line of subcompact cameras since the original version was first introduced nearly three years ago.
Ultra-compact digital cameras often seem to involve a lot of compromises and tradeoffs, but the new DiMAGE X50 takes very nice photos under a wide range of conditions, and offers a decent range of exposure control (exposure compensation and white balance adjustments). With five megapixels of resolution, it also captures a lot of detail, more than most subcompact digital cameras, but it does fall prey to the problem of short battery life that plagues the category.
While it runs seemingly forever in capture mode with the LCD turned off, the so-so accuracy of its optical viewfinder means that you'll have to rely upon the LCD to frame any critical shots, thereby cutting into battery life. This means that my standard recommendation of purchasing a second battery right along with the camera applies even more so to the X50 than to some competing models.
Overall though, its compact size, solid feature set, and rugged all-metal case make the Konica Minolta DiMAGE X50 digital camera a great "take anywhere" choice, appealing to non-techies as well as enthusiasts. For the novice user, it's very easy to use and takes nice pictures. For more advanced users (taking myself as an example), it makes a great "second camera", something that you'd just toss in your pocket without thinking. If you want a camera that will satisfy both novice and more advanced users, and that gives you no excuse for leaving it behind, the X50 is a great choice. Read our Konica Minolta DiMAGE X50 review for all the details! | <urn:uuid:ad5df1f5-1243-481e-a2aa-024053ff2269> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://www.imaging-resource.com/NEWS/1105653899.html | 2014-12-22T10:51:04Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802775085.124/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075255-00085-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951687 | 394 |
DJK: His personal story is genuinely rags-to-riches
Last weekend, I shared football-related comments with you from Iowa senior wide receiver Derrell Johnson-Koulianos.
To me, the more-interesting aspect of his life isn't football-related. It's how he went from a shaky home situation in Youngstown, Ohio to meeting a family that took him into their home and eventually adopted him, giving him stability in his personal life, and seeing to it that he took education more seriously.
This is in Q&A form. A story that includes comments from Johnson-Koulianos'†adoptive mother is in the Gazette's preseason Iowa football magazine, "If the Stars Align," on sale at Cedar Rapids-Marion Hy-Vee supermarkets and drug stores.
IOWA CITY ó Thereís more to Derrell Johnson-Koulianosí story than what the Iowa senior wide receiver has done on football fields.
Johnson-Koulianos grew up in Youngstown, Ohio, a once-booming industrial city that has been plagued by urban decay. Translation: Itís a tough town.
For the first 10 years of his life, his life was unstable at best. Then he met the family of Lauren and Dr. Tony Koulianos of suburban Campbell, who took him into their home and eventually became his adoptive parents.
In an interview earlier this summer, Johnson-Koulianos discussed where he comes from and how he got a better chance to become somebody.
Q: What is your background?
DJK: My biological mom had me when she was 14 years old. She kind of got overwhelmed with the process of life and I kind of became a distraction. So my life from a very, very young age ó I was raising myself. I was teaching myself about the ways of the world as much as I could growing up where I grew up.
I grew up in the projects. Thatís how everybodyís life was. I never felt like I was at a disadvantage. I just accepted everything going on in my life. I didnít know any different.
I was running the streets, no curfew. I really had nobody to answer to until I met my mom, Lauren, and my dad, Tony.
Iíve seen drive-bys. Iíve been shot at. Iíve seen anything that you see on TV. I just thought that was how the world worked. You were just accustomed to it. That was all I saw, all I knew. Youngstown is rough.
I didnít change clothes for days. I would wake up wherever I was ó my buddyís house, my auntís house, this side of town, that side of town. Really just not knowing what the next day would bring, where I would be. Then my life took a drastic change.
I met my brother Stephen (Koulianos) when I was in the fifth-grade at Campbell Middle School and we hit it off. You talk about two total opposites. Heís like a genius with computers, film, electronics, art. I was more of a social athlete, that kind of thing.
ďWe became best friends and I started going home with him every day. My mom (Lauren) invited me in, made sure I was up for school, that I had new school clothes.
As time went on, I started becoming more and more part of the family with the Koulianos. I moved in.
I didnít know this type of lifestyle existed. The comfort of having somebody who genuinely cares about every aspect of your life. Vacations, family birthdays, little things. It was like a Beaver Cleaver lifestyle. I loved it. I embraced it.
Q: How did life change for you once you moved in with the Koulianos family?
DJK: My mom always asked me what I wanted and Iíd tell her I wanted to be an NFL player, be Jerry Rice, be Terrell Owens. She told me youíve got to go to school and get your grades.
They discovered that I had ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder). They discovered that I had narcolepsy.
My mom started going to my parent-teacher conferences when she wasnít my mom, asking ĎHowís Derrell doing?í Teachers would tell her heís a sweet guy, comes to class, great spirit, but heís late, and when he is here heís sleeping.
She would stress to me ĎYou canít sleep in class.í OK, Mom, I wonít. Iíd still sleep in class. Always. She thought ĎLetís get him a sleep test.í Sure enough, I went to this facility where they had me sleep with all these wires for three days. Itís a miserable experience. Youíd stay up, go to sleep for 20 minutes, on and off for three days.
Sure enough, the test result came back and I had mid-level narcolepsy. I was put on medication, cured that.
I was a wired-for-sound kid. I had a hard time concentrating on anything. Homework was impossible. Completing any task was impossible. I was diagnosed with ADD. Some of my best friends donít even know that. I take medication every morning. Iím thankful. My whole life, I could have still been suffering from that, not ever knowing.
At the right time, I caught a blessing, before it went sour. I see some of my best friends from my youth now ó itís sad. Those guys are just going nowhere real fast. I donít understand why God chose me out of everybody to meet my family. I wouldnít be here without them.
I stay on the grind every day. I try to stop and think as often as I can about how fortunate I am, and where Iíd be today if I hadnít met my mom and dad.
Q: Has school been difficult for you over the years?
DJK: Itís been a bit of a struggle.
I was behind in school. Those early school years set me back from an educational standpoint.
My parents opened my eyes in so many ways. I had to get up to speed with school.
To be a college student was something I never dreamed of. College? I didnít even hear the word Ďcollegeí until I met my parents.
Itís been a challenge to keep everything in perspective when youíre here (in college). Itís real easy to think you should start to get a sense of entitlement. I play on the football team, I donít have to do my homework. Or, I donít have to be nice to people because Iím on the football team.
But when you get more blessings, the more you should become a better person and the more you should expect more of yourself.
Q: How far back do you go with football?
DJK: I played quarterback from the time I was 6 years old until I was a senior in high school. Every summer I was out there on the field and I was having fun. I enjoyed what I was doing and I was making plays.
I would bring a football to school when I was a little kid. I would set it under my desk. Everywhere I went, I had it. I loved the idea of running with the rock. It was my talent, my gift that God gave me.
I wanted to be good at this. I wanted to work hard at it. As my life moved forward, at each level of football people took notice of my success and it kind of gave me a role in life. Kids started looking up to me just as I used to look up to older guys I was watching on Saturdays.
Football is a means of ó my success is going to allow me to have opportunities, and those opportunities can allow me to give back. Hopefully, Iíll be able to give someone else the same life my parents gave me. Iím going to do that no matter what Iím doing with my life. I will do that. Because this sense that I have somebody I can count on for anything, thatís an amazing feeling.
Q: Do you think a lot about possibly playing in the NFL?
DJK: Itís hard not to think about it when you know you might have the opportunity. Regardless of what (college) players say, thatís really the ultimate goal. I know it is for me. It definitely is for me.
The NFL is a means of income, a means to show who you are, to get your name in the national spotlight. And itís a means to give back.
Why is it bad to say you want to play in the NFL? Is it bad to say you want to be a doctor? Doctors get paid. My dadís a doctor. When we go out and people see him, they go bonkers over him. Before they say hello to me, they say hello to him. Heís excited about what he does. I want to be good at what Iím doing.So I think about the NFL every day. But in order to make it there you have to be good at the college level, so my focus is to be good at the college level. I canít get to my dreams unless I take the proper steps. | <urn:uuid:b00e4866-36ec-427b-9a83-474adeed6dc3> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.thegazette.com/2010/08/05/djk-his-personal-story-is-genuinely-rags-to-riches | 2016-10-26T19:16:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720972.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00187-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.987114 | 1,970 |
Pusse - details and analysis
The name Pusse has a web popularity of 1,550,000 pages.
What means Pusse?
The meaning of Pusse is unknown.
Pusse has a Facebook presence of 14,600 pages.
Pusse has a Google+ Plus presence of 354 pages.
Pusse has a Linkedin presence of 105 pages.
Pusse has a Twitter presence of 10,300 pages.
The most popular images on the Internet for name Pusse:
Classmates.com has 1 occurrences for name Pusse.
White Pages has 287 occurrences for name Pusse.
Web synthesis about this name:
...Pusse is an underground lesbian strip club in south philly.
What is the origin of name Pusse? Probably France or Russia.
pusse.com domain is already registered.
pusse.net domain is already registered.
pusse.org domain is already registered.
Pusse spelled backwards is Essup
This name has 5 letters: 2 vowels (40.00%) and 3 consonants (60.00%).
Anagrams: Upess Esusp Seups Epuss Esups
Misspells: Puse Pussea Psuse Puses | <urn:uuid:f597b986-039f-469d-8dcc-980eb1a74718> | CC-MAIN-2015-35 | http://www.name-list.net/facebook/firstname/Pusse | 2015-09-02T21:47:12Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-35/segments/1440645293619.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20150827031453-00065-ip-10-171-96-226.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.770378 | 272 |
Sierra Vista Extended Stay
Fort Huachuca/sierra Vista(United States)Map (Access)
Located in the heart of Sierra Vista, this hotel is within 3 mi (5 km) of Fort Huachuca Military Base, San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area, and University of Arizona South. The Mall At Sierra Vista is 2.7 mi (4.3 km) away.
- Booking.com 3.7
- 1850 E Wilcox Dr Sierra Vista USAMap
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- 15:00 - 00:00
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MathScript is the first application to bring comprehensive Mathematics to Android, and to our knowledge, it is the only such application available. This tool is much more than a scientific calculator or a function plotter/grapher both of which are available plenty in market.
Future Updates: We have been working on a new version from the ground-up. It will be one of a kind application that takes math-learning and programming to next level. The update is planned to be released by mid september.
Note:: We have high importance for customer satisfaction. We are aware that the current version might have some problems due to the fragmentation of android OS. Since we are developing a completely new update, we urge the users to be patient before giving us bad rating. We are putting our whole efforts in the new (free) update and assure you that you will be pleased with the result.
You can use MathScript as a calculator, function plotter, polynomial manipulation tool, equation solver (algebraic, differential, linear etc.), calculus tool (integration, differentiation, of arbitrary functions), matrix solver (linear algebra), units converter, finance tool (PMT, PV, FV. etc.), programming shell (complete python package), etc... It also contains interesting math puzzles that make you learn math in fun way. Train your brain to use mathematics whenever possible,
Many of the features are available only in the advanced computing tools like Matlab*# and Mathematica*#.
Add even half of the above features and the cost of other similar products in the market would easily cross $20. Our aim is to make the Math tools affordable by students. The pricing is maintained to be low, and will be maintained that way in near future. Give a try and let us know how you feel (feedback button available in Help).
ABOUT DEVELOPERS:: All developers are students enrolled in university. The aim of this group is to make an extensive software by students for students. We need people to buy our product in order to accelerate the development process, fund for web hosting, hire other students etc...
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***MathScript collects anonymous usage statistics using google analytics. The statistics will be used to customize the keyboard layout and provide advanced features in future versions. Once we have adequate data, the usage statistics will be displayed in our website***
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The Role of Nutrition in Mental Health Recovery
Let’s explore the connection between nutrition and mental health. Have you ever wondered how the food you eat can impact your mood and well-being? It turns out that what we put on our plates can significantly support our mental health.
Get ready to discover the power of nutrition in supporting your mental well-being as we navigate the intriguing world where food and mood intersect.
The Link Between Nutrition and Mental Health
Have you ever noticed how the foods you eat can affect your mood? Research has shown a clear link between nutrition and mental health. A balanced and nutritious diet provides essential vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants that support optimal brain health and function.
Certain nutrients like B vitamins, magnesium, and zinc play a role in regulating our mood. Eating anti-inflammatory foods like fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and healthy fats can reduce inflammation and promote mental well-being.
Nutritional Strategies for Supporting Mental Health
When it comes to supporting mental health, the foods we choose to nourish our bodies can make a significant difference. Implementing specific nutritional strategies can help optimize mental well-being and aid in the recovery process. Let's explore some key strategies:
- Focus on Nutrient-Dense Foods: Opt for a diet rich in fruits, vegetables, whole grains, lean proteins, and healthy fats. These nutrient-dense foods provide the essential vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants needed for proper brain function and emotional balance.
- Balance Blood Sugar Levels: To stabilize mood and energy levels, choose complex carbohydrates that release glucose slowly, like whole grains, legumes, and vegetables. Avoid excessive consumption of refined sugars and processed foods, as they can lead to blood sugar spikes and crashes, affecting mood stability.
- Incorporate Omega-3 Fatty Acids: Include sources of omega-3 fatty acids in your diet, such as fatty fish (like salmon and mackerel), walnuts, chia seeds, and flaxseeds. These healthy fats have been associated with a reduced risk of depression and anxiety, promoting better mental health.
- Foster a Healthy Gut-Brain Connection: Support your gut health by consuming probiotic-rich foods like yogurt, sauerkraut, and kefir. A healthy gut microbiome positively influences brain function and mood, enhancing mental well-being.
- Identify and Avoid Trigger Foods: Pay attention to how certain foods affect your mental state. Common trigger foods include processed foods, caffeine, refined sugars, and alcohol. You can better manage your mental health by identifying and minimizing or eliminating these triggers.
Implementing these nutritional strategies can complement other therapeutic interventions and contribute to a holistic approach to mental health.
Nutrition as Part of a Holistic Approach to Mental Health Recovery
At its core, mental health recovery involves addressing various aspects of well-being. Nutrition plays a crucial role as one component of a holistic approach to mental health recovery. When combined with other therapeutic interventions, it can contribute to a comprehensive recovery program. Here's how nutrition fits into the bigger picture:
- Physical Well-being: A nutritious diet supports physical health, providing the body with the necessary nutrients for optimal functioning. When our physical health is in balance, it also positively impacts our mental well-being.
- Emotional Stability: Certain nutrients and dietary patterns have been associated with improved emotional stability. By consuming a balanced diet, we can support mood regulation and emotional resilience, enhancing our ability to cope with stress and challenges.
- Psychological Support: The act of making mindful food choices and nourishing our bodies can have a positive psychological impact. It promotes self-care, fosters a sense of control and empowerment, and contributes to an overall positive mindset.
By integrating nutrition into a holistic approach alongside therapy, exercise, and self-care practices, individuals can experience a more comprehensive and effective mental health recovery journey.
Putting It All Together: Nurturing Your Mental Well-being
As we've explored throughout this article, nutrition plays a vital role in mental health recovery. By prioritizing a balanced and nutritious diet, you can support your mental well-being and enhance your overall quality of life. Here are some key takeaways to put it all together:
- Mindful Eating: Practice mindful eating by paying attention to your body's hunger and fullness cues. Slow down, savor each bite, and appreciate the nourishment you provide yourself.
- Build a Foundation: Focus on incorporating nutrient-dense foods like fruits, vegetables, whole grains, lean proteins, and healthy fats into your daily meals. These foods provide the essential nutrients your brain needs to thrive.
- Listen to Your Body: Take note of how different foods impact your mood and energy levels. Keep a food diary to identify any trigger foods or patterns that affect your mental well-being.
- Seek Professional Guidance: If you're uncertain about the best approach for your nutritional needs, consider consulting a registered dietitian or healthcare professional specializing in mental health. They can provide personalized guidance tailored to your unique circumstances.
Remember, small steps towards a balanced and nutritious diet can significantly impact your mental health over time. Nurturing your mental well-being through nutrition is a lifelong journey—every positive choice you make contributes to your overall vitality and happiness.
*Please note that the information provided in this blog post is not a substitute for professional medical advice. It is always advisable to consult with a healthcare professional or registered dietitian for personalized nutrition and mental health guidance.
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The welcome signs are up as the U.K., France and Germany promise to increase the number of refugees they will accept, in an effort to ease the refugee crisis striking Europe.
The United Nations estimates more than 300,000 people have crossed the Mediterranean to get to Europe in 2015, often fleeing countries stricken by violence and civil war.
The leader of this solidarity movement is none other than Europe's biggest economy, Germany. Chancellor Angela Merkel has urged European leaders to help solve the refugee crisis with “fairness and solidarity.”
Germany has promised to spend $6.7 billion to manage the immigration crisis. Eight hundred thousand refugees are expected to arrive in Germany by the end of 2015. A tent city is now in Berlin to house around 700 refugees.
France is pledging to take 24,000 asylum seekers. And, like Germany, it's pressing for a quota system that would distribute the refugees in Europe according to the population and relative wealth of each country.
And U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron has announced the U.K. will take in 20,000 Syrian refugees and set aside $150 million for humanitarian aid. But Cameron's only offering to resettle refugees in Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey, rather than those already in Europe; he argues this ensures there will be no incentive for refugees to risk the passage to Europe.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban disagrees with the quota system. His chief of staff says this type of distribution wouldn't work because it would be hard to enforce in Europe’s border-free community.
There's little agreement on a long-term plan, but for now, most EU countries are on board with housing more refugees.
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Today I was off work and decided to have a chillout day……….well, that was before I started looking through all my recipe books. I came across a baking book that I hadn’t used for a while. Looking through I spied Blueberry muffins and thought that would be a nice wee treat with my afternoon coffee…….so off I went into my Kitchen.
They were absolutely delicious. I also made a healthier version too, check them out here.
150g Plain Flour
75 g Caster Sugar
1 tsp baking powder
25g Butter – melted
1 large egg
40ml natural yoghurt
1 tsp vanilla extract
- Preheat oven to fan 160 deg. Case a muffin tin.
- Mix the flour, salt, baking powder and sugar in a bowl.
- In a separate bowl mix the egg, vanilla, butter, yoghurt together
- Add the wet bowl into the dry bowl and mix together, should be slightly thick, if its too thick just add a little milk.
- Then add in the blueberries and mix together.
- Bake in oven for about 18-20 minutes. Remove and allow to cool.
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The Latex Mat
The Latex Mat is the most allergy safe and supportive organic crib mattress. Natural rubber latex forms a springy core and is sandwiched between layers of organic coir for extra support. The coir is then wrapped in our unique organic lambswool which is bathed in a mixture made from lemon, lavender and eucalyptus, making it completely natural as well as maintaining the excellent thermal insulating properties of natural wool.
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In a sentence containing a list of book or manuals, do you put quotes around the books and the manuals names.Present tense, please: Use present tense for immediate past information, past tense for past perfect, and future tense for coming events.In addition to catalogs, this category includes almanacs, directories, dictionaries, encyclopedias, gazetteers, handbooks and similar publications.I live in America as well and if you are putting commas after your quotations then you are WRONG.We recommend the following, which is close to your second option.
They both agree on putting a website article in quotation marks.However, the different kinds of titles demand different kinds of punctuation.Even the most experienced writers have a problem remembering the proper punctuation.For example, what would be correct if you were to type the following sentence.I simply cannot wrap my senses around placing the end-of sentence punctuation within a quote, if the quote appears at the end of the sentence.Bilingual Experiments on Automatic Recovery of Capitalization and Punctuation.For example, in MLA format, the title of a website is italicized when you are citing it.
Titled sections, pages, or special features on a website should be placed in quotation marks.The Chicago Manual of Style does agree with your recommendation if quotation marks must be used.As stated on the home page of our website, GrammarBook.com represents American English rules.American English, however, still requires that periods and commas always go inside the closing quotation mark.Italicize titles of works (books, magazines, newspapers, movies, plays, and CDs).The following is a famous headline.Not only does it have a double entendre, but the bad break at the end of the first line contributes to the problem.Note our use of semicolons and our lowercasing of job descriptions.
I have done editing for both British and American publications, and I go by their respective rules.How would you write a name of an event that is not a familiar event to the reader.
A contributing writer is generally a freelance writer (not on staff) whose article or series of articles has been published by a publication.The Chicago Manual of Style recommends italicizing the names of newspapers.We will refer to the title of the work about which we are writing, and sometimes we will.Underline titles of books, magazines, and newspapers. 3. Use quotation marks to punctuate titles of articles, stories, songs, and poems.I personally, and logically use the following method: punctuation within the quotation marks only when the punctuation belongs to the quoted text, and punctuation outside of the quote when it belongs to the non-quoted text. (The same logic that is used with parenthesis.).Avoid the use of the articles a, an and the unless they are needed for clarity. (Otherwise, their use generally is considered padding.).I am writing an employees manual that will only be distributed in soft copy, and it will be around 20-25 pages long.Designing Headlines - using caps in headlines, using punctuation in headlines - tutorial with examples on making headlines do what headlines are supposed to to.
Learn the rules for correctly punctuating titles of works, including books, newspapers, poems, song titles and more.Rules for Capitalization in Titles of Articles By YourDictionary If you have a look at the title of this article you will see that some letters are capitalized and.Avoid splitting verb pieces between lines and ending lines with prepositions.Number, please: Numbers often go against AP style in headlines.In US English we put the punctuation inside the quotes and in UK English they go outside.Current style manuals recommend italicizing book titles and magazine names and using quotation marks around articles and chapters.And, Jane THANK YOU so much for not demanding a Facebook connection.
One of my English teachers (here in the U.S.) had a good way to remember this.While most of our site should function with out, we recommend turning it back on for a better experience.
The titles of certain works are indicated with quotation marks, others with italics, and yet others with regular type.
Punctuating Titles - HomesteadIf the chapter has a title at the beginning, you may put it in quotation marks or italicize it, but your use of single quotation marks is incorrect.Yes, both sentences are punctuated incorrectly but there is another error as well.He or she must ensure an article is factually flawless—in other words that what is reported as true, must be in fact 100 percent true with solid research and sources backing the story.The names of punctuation marks are not proper nouns and do not require capitalization.Also, Rule 1 of Commas recommends using commas to separate words and word groups with a series of three or more.It is important to find out which format is required for the report you are doing.
If it is a class or course of study, it should not be underlined or italicized, but it should be capitalized.Although we certainly appreciate our readers visiting our Facebook page, we do not make it a requirement.Read on to find out the different rules for capitalization and punctuation.If the newsletter is going to contain more than one article and it will be broken down in article-like sections, you should italicize the title. | <urn:uuid:a61f04b5-17a7-4769-93fa-cc5283fe1893> | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | http://liberacorp.us/gyqa/newspaper-titles-punctuation-jat.php | 2018-10-17T18:17:36Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-43/segments/1539583511206.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20181017174543-20181017200043-00038.warc.gz | en | 0.927757 | 1,117 |
Identifying Social Service Needs of Muslims Living in a Post 9/11 Era: The Role of Community-Based Organizations
AbstractIn this qualitative study the investigators sought to better understand the ways in which service provider organizations (n=19) working with Muslim service providers have adapted to the changing social and political contexts in a post-9/11 era in New York City, and how this changing environment has affected the types of services that Muslims need. Service providers described two general ways in which services were adapted: 1) they have sought to address limits in service delivery programs that were a result of emerging sociopolitical dynamics (such as increasing discrimination) through adaptations to existing programs or through the development of new initiatives, programs, and organizations; and 2) they have adapted programs and services to meet the emerging sociocultural demands (such as changing attitudes towards help-seeking, and presenting problems of services users) of the Muslim population. The study illustrated the role of service provider organizations in adapting existing services, or creating new services, in response to a changing sociopolitical context. Social work education must focus attention on how social workers can adapt and create organizations that are responsive to the changing needs of service users. More curriculum content is necessary on the intra- and inter-organizational context of direct social work practice, with particular attention to innovation and adaptation within and between human service organizations.
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Stock up on Tokara’s wholesome farm-fresh produce and freshly baked goods at the deli, which is open daily for the duration of the lockdown at this Stellenbosch wine and olive estate.
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Young people across Argyll and Bute are being urged to take part in an online survey exploring their aspirations and attitudes to the wider Highlands and Islands region.
Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) has commissioned the survey to find out what 15-30 year olds think about education, jobs, quality of life and cost of living, and whether their attitudes and aspirations have changed over the past six years.
The population of 15-29 year olds living in the Highlands and Islands is around 16% compared to the Scottish average of 20%.
A range of initiatives progressed in recent years should help give young people more opportunities to stay in the region and attract others from elsewhere.
They include the award-winning ScotGrad graduate placement scheme, the University of the Highlands and Islands being awarded university status, and the £146m rollout of next generation broadband infrastructure led by HIE and BT.
The new survey will find out what young people think about education and employment opportunities and also cover a range of issues including housing, leisure, culture and community life.
Douglas Cowan, HIE area manager for Argyll and the Islands, said he was keen that the voice of Argyll and Bute young people was heard.
He added: “Young people are a vital part of a thriving region. Previous work from 2009 highlighted the need to do more to attract and retain people between 15 and 30 in the region. We need to assess how aware young people across Argyll and Bute are of opportunities and of what else we and our partners can and should be doing.”
Ann Devine, Principal of Lochgilphead Joint Campus, added: “This survey provides a great opportunity for young people to have an input to the shape of their own future and the future of their community. We need to work together to ensure that Argyll and Bute is an attractive and vibrant place where young people can stay, grow and develop. It is essential that the target group participates in the process and school staff will be encouraging pupils and staff to take the time to complete the survey. I look forward to seeing the results.”
Those who take part in the ‘Young People and the Highlands and Islands’ survey will be in with a chance to win one of five pairs of three-day tickets to the sold-out Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival in August.
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Announcement Flouts Widespread Concern from Law Enforcement and Elected Officials
On Friday, the Department of Homeland Security unilaterally cancelled its Memorandum of Agreements (MOA) on Secure Communities (S-COMM), an immigration enforcement program of the Obama administration that was sold to state governments as a way to identify and deport serious criminals. Over the past several months, Governor Patrick Quinn (IL), Governor Andrew Cuomo (NY) and Governor Deval Patrick (MA) suspended their involvement with S-COMM, citing data that the program is deporting large numbers of non-criminals and thus negatively impacting public safety. But, evidently, DHS has decided to unilaterally impose this controversial program nationwide without the consent of elected state and local leaders.
In response, Frank Sharry, Executive Director of America’s Voice Education Fund, had this to say:
“S-COMM has never worked as promised or intended. Instead of focusing on convicted serious criminals, the program’s dragnet has led to the record-breaking deportations of ordinary undocumented immigrants. Instead of fixing it, the Department of Homeland Security has decided to double-down on it, while dismissing the growing chorus of legitimate concerns being raised by elected officials and law enforcement professionals.”
Police officers across the country have made it clear that S-COMM damages relationships between the police and immigrant communities, making it harder for them gather intelligence and solve crimes.
In addition, this action by the Department of Homeland Security demonstrates a stunning show of disrespect for Governors from the states of Illinois, New York and Massachusetts who recently exercised the “opt-out” provision in their signed “Memoranda of Agreement” with DHS — only to learn on Friday that the agreement was unilaterally rescinded.
S-COMM might help DHS meets its record-breaking deportation goals, but it comes with a huge cost — to community safety, to federal-state relations and to the trust immigrants have in local police.
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Wear Blue Fridays are all about people who support our troops wearing blue to show it, one day of the week. Anything blue is acceptable. This is a really new thing, but I’m looking forward to pulling more blue out of my wardrobe. I want to show that I am thinking about our dedicated troops. Just wear blue every Friday until all the troops come home… it’s a big statement! | <urn:uuid:8b9c3757-81f9-4628-b70b-32cfd755685e> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://www.chictopia.com/photo/show/235416-Wear+Blue+Fridays-blue-handmade-dress-blue-thrifted-belt-blue-unknown-brand-cardigan-brown-g | 2016-05-28T05:12:50Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049277313.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002117-00123-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937829 | 85 |
This week was a different one for improv as I was not at the drop in, instead the troupe met up and we had another practise. This has been a few weeks because we have had issues with room bookings but we finally found a location for the rest of February and it was in the wonderful Canary Wharf in a place called Theatre Delicatessen.
This week was all about getting used to each other again and playing more games to see what works and what doesn’t. It was four of us this week so the first thing we did was loads of warm ups to get us back in the improv frame of mind.
The first game we played was the Eastenders version of Zip Zap Zop that I haven’t played since Newcastle and it was quite fun to bring it to a location that is just off the East End of London.The next warm up game we played was headlines this is where someone says a random headline and then whatever the last word is that is used as the first word in the new headline the next person makes up. The last warm up game we did was the letter game when someone is given a letter and then you have to come up with as many words as you can for that letter in the allotted time you get given.
The next game we played was The app Heads up which ended up being a fun way to get into the mind of improv. This is an app where you put the phone to your head and then the person has to guess what items are coming up on the screen, a bit like charades. Then we started to play some real improv games.
The first one was reccomended by James who also goes to acting drop ins and this was one of the games that they had played recently. Each of the people in the scene get given an animal at the start and then that person has to develop the charactistics of the animal in the scene. The other person doesn’t know what the they persons animal is so you have to play to the scene and then also work out what the other person is.
The next game we played was the home shopping channel game. This is when you have a random prop and the audience give you two words and the you have to sell whatever they tell you the item is. This is becoming a firm favourite with our troupe as it’s fun to play and is funny for the audience.
The next game we played was a game we sort of made up on the spot that night. We used the ideology of the concept of the animal game we first played and then used it as a music based improv game. So each of us were given a specific musician from a genre that we had to then play like in the scene. This was singing in their style of music and also making subtle hints to your co-player which artist that you are. It is a game that worked well but needs development
To finish off the evening we played a few off our old favourites such as the alphabet game, questions only (which I still rule at hooray!) and statements only. This week was a great one progressively and its going well! We also discussed core team related things and we also have a logo now! Our name now is Punderstandably Improv or PS Improv for short. We decided on this as the word understandably kept coming up in one of our practises the other week and it made us all laugh and become an inside joke that we ended up liking it and jiggling it up a bit to have a comical name!
We are also on Twitter so why not follow our journeys at @PS_Improv
Case Study – Ellen Degeneres
This week it only felt right using Miss Ellen as a case study as we had so much fun using her app to train in improv. The app allows you to download many different topics and variety packs to play against friends. It also records your acts of being silly which can be funny to watch back (or cringe) after wards.
If you watch any of the videos on Ellens Youtube page you will see amy different celebrities having fun on her she using the app and you can understand why. Whilst it brings the game of charades in to the twenty first century, it also in some ways allows people to be silly without feeling like an idiot doing so as its a trendy thing to do.
Thats why improv is becoming more and more popular, people are starting to realise its not just a silly thing to play and get to your inner child, its refreshing and actually quite a laugh to do. | <urn:uuid:e762cbea-573d-4ced-90d9-650aee779cac> | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | https://thephoenixremix.com/2017/02/27/yes-and-part-6-ellen-degeneres/ | 2018-06-18T09:22:10Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267860168.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20180618090026-20180618110026-00274.warc.gz | en | 0.98856 | 933 |
It happens this is also the answer to the problem posed in this article on the stagnation of culture:
Rewind any other 20-year chunk of 20th-century time. There’s no chance you would mistake a photograph or movie of Americans or an American city from 1972—giant sideburns, collars, and bell-bottoms, leisure suits and cigarettes, AMC Javelins and Matadors and Gremlins alongside Dodge Demons, Swingers, Plymouth Dusters, and Scamps—with images from 1992. Time-travel back another 20 years, before rock ’n’ roll and the Pill and Vietnam, when both sexes wore hats and cars were big and bulbous with late-moderne fenders and fins—again, unmistakably different, 1952 from 1972. You can keep doing it...The 1980s were the era when the Baby Boomers grew up, reached their late 30s and crossed into their 40s. They stopped wanting anything new about that time, and settled into middle age. The culture locked down with them, because the size of their cohort means that advertising, the movies, all the cultural industries look to them first and last.
Look at people on the street and in malls—jeans and sneakers remain the standard uniform for all ages, as they were in 2002, 1992, and 1982. Look through a current fashion or architecture magazine or listen to 10 random new pop songs; if you didn’t already know they were all things from the 2010s, I guarantee you couldn’t tell me with certainty they weren’t from the 2000s or 1990s or 1980s or even earlier. (The first time I heard a Josh Ritter song a few years ago, I actually thought it was Bob Dylan.)
If you were born in the 1980s, then, the world you know has never changed in any serious way. The political parties have always occupied the same basic positions: Reagan was the last sea change. You don't remember JFK, so Democrats have always been anti-war.
If this demographic trend is as suggestive as it seems to be, American culture will not change much for another twenty years or so. There are a lot of interesting things going on, but they're going on in corners: they'll not have a chance to influence the big show. | <urn:uuid:8f6fa4da-5419-465b-b7df-de268f2e3ed8> | CC-MAIN-2014-49 | http://www.grimbeorn.blogspot.com/2011_12_04_archive.html | 2014-11-21T01:56:10Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-49/segments/1416400372542.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20141119123252-00018-ip-10-235-23-156.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976702 | 480 |
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These are the musings of a southern girl through and through.
Y’all all know I love basketball. Especially Memphis basketball. This video makes me uber-pumped (yes, I just said uber-that’s how excited I am) for the Grizz season! Your welcome for the chills this video will give you. | <urn:uuid:5be25799-18cc-445c-8ff1-048c6316ba57> | CC-MAIN-2019-18 | https://laceylmoody.wordpress.com/2013/09/18/believememphis/ | 2019-04-18T17:19:00Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-18/segments/1555578517745.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20190418161426-20190418183426-00132.warc.gz | en | 0.935267 | 70 |
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As of 1.00pm Irish time today, the National Library of Ireland has placed its microfilm records of the Irish Catholic parish registers online. This is a HUGE step forward in making genealogical resources available to people who cannot visit Ireland or who don’t have the time to visit the NLI in Dublin. And all this despite the savage cutbacks in government funding for the NLI in recent years! It’s a truly heroic achievement, so well done to all the people involved. Now all they need is a sponsor to do with the microfilm what the National Archives did with the 1901/1911 census records – make them more interactive and more readily searchable!
I’ll post more on this later, but before you dive in please remember – read the FAQs carefully!
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Posted in Criminal Defense on July 24, 2018
The vast majority of American adults have at least one social media profile online, and any local personal injury lawyer will likely give the same advice concerning social media use during an active case: A good rule of thumb is to avoid posting on social media during a personal injury case. While you should be able to safely browse through your media feeds and check on friends and relatives, any posts you make – even those you deem harmless – can potentially negatively impact your personal injury case.
During any type of personal injury case, the plaintiff must provide evidence that the defendant bears liability for the plaintiff’s damages, and the plaintiff must also provide proof of the extent of those damages. If a defendant’s negligence causes a severe injury to the plaintiff, the plaintiff has the right to claim compensation for all the resulting damages, including medical expenses, pain and suffering, lost income, and property damage. The opposition will be careful to ensure the plaintiff’s claims are truthful and accurate, and a single social media post can cast doubt on a plaintiff’s claims.
Social Media May Conflict With a Plaintiff’s Story
After an injury, a plaintiff may require time off from work to recover and may experience pain and discomfort. For example, suppose Dave T-bones John’s car after running a red light, leaving Dave liable for John’s injuries. John suffers a broken leg and his medical report indicates a three-month recovery period. In John’s case, he could potentially receive compensation for his medical expenses as well as three months’ worth of pain and suffering from his injury. He may also receive compensation for any necessary ongoing medical costs such as physical therapy. If John recovers more quickly than expected or decides to disregard his doctor’s advice and engage in strenuous activity, a social media post showing John walking around or having a good time may cause a jury to believe his injuries were not as severe as he claimed.
It’s also important to remember that context is often nebulous on social media. It would be very easy for a defendant’s lawyer to look at a plaintiff’s social media profile, so plaintiffs must be careful about what they choose to post. Bragging about a “slam dunk” case before it reaches a conclusion, posts about a plaintiff’s plans for a cash award, or posts concerning legal proceedings can all jeopardize a plaintiff’s claim. It’s easy for a defendant’s lawyer or the judge hearing the case to check a plaintiff’s social media profile. They may find statements or posts that conflict with a plaintiff’s claims, but they may also cultivate their own prejudices based on what they see out of context.
Best Practices for Social Media Use During a Case
Social media is an almost unavoidable part of everyday life, but you should try to limit your social media activity once you initiate any type of legal proceeding. You should expect the opposition to thoroughly investigate your online profiles, so avoid posting anything related to your case, even after it reaches a conclusion. Remember that while social media can be a fantastic source of evidence and may even provide crucial details that support your personal injury claim, the opposition may also attempt to use your social media presence against you in the same way.
If you have questions about appropriate social media usage during a personal injury lawsuit, consult with your personal injury attorney and listen to his or her advice. In most cases, an attorney will advise you to stay off social media entirely. However, if you need to use social media for work or have some other special circumstance, your personal injury lawyer can provide guidance for safe social media use that won’t hurt your case. | <urn:uuid:d894ef2a-a2a0-4f50-8c62-65dd6723681d> | CC-MAIN-2019-18 | https://www.crimeandinjurylaw.com/blog/2018/07/can-social-media-ruin-my-case/ | 2019-04-26T00:06:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-18/segments/1555578743307.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20190425233736-20190426015736-00229.warc.gz | en | 0.954187 | 765 |
We got to find out our pairings the night before Day 2, and I knew I was playing Mark on either Spread the Net or Standoff. I have to admit, I was freaking out a bit, and I spent a lot of time thoughtmachining the different matchups.
I eventually came to an important conclusion - Mark was playing Madrak 1 almost definitely. A live scenario like Standoff or Spread the Net is hard to drop a Power of Dhunia brick into, and that meant I could just focus on which of my two lists would bully the Madrak list best.
With that in mind, I decided that I needed to drop the list with Fire Eaters. Champs are 14/18 against ranged attacks with Madrak 1, and a Fire Eater spray hits that pretty trivially and does 4.5 damage on average dice and leaves them on fire. 2-3 Fire Eaters should, theoretically, kill an entire unit of Champs since they like to clump up.
We got to the table and Mark did, in fact, pick Madrak 1 and I dropped Borka 2. I won the roll off (very critical) and chose to ambush one unit of Bears. Mark chose to ambush both (!!) of his Bear units, and so we began.
- Glacier King
- Northkin CA
- Northkin CA
Borka turn 1:
It's time to get up the table really, really fast. I want to force Mark into either feating turn 1 or letting me alpha really hard. I run up an aggressive clump of Fire Eaters on the left, and on the right side I assault my three Fire Eaters up, such that I get to spray two of them with the third and light them on fire in preparation for next turn.
Between a good Krielstone roll and not really needing the ARM buff this turn, Borka has enough fury to cast Battle Charged on turn 1 as well.
Madrak turn 1:
Mark thinks for a few moments, and then decides to just run everything at me. He makes a choice to screen his Krielstone with Champs instead of moving the Stone up aggressively.
He puts his Glacier King quite far into the zone and uses Madrak to kill one Raider and force tough on the other because, fun fact, Rathrok doesn't have Grievous Wounds on Madrak 1.
Borka turn 2:
Well...he didn't feat, so it's go time! I light up the Fire Eaters on the left and assault them in. Clever use of Sanguine Bond means that only three of the Champs are dead, but that's a pretty good trade as far as I'm concerned.
I am able to get Hunter's Mark onto the Glacier King and charge him with four Raiders and two Bears, all under Stone. I leave the King on 10 boxes. I pull my other Fire Eater unit back to prepare for an incoming Feat. I really need the second unit to carve through the Champs later and there's no point in putting chip damage onto them since Madrak's feat will heal them up.
Madrak turn 2:
Bears ambush, both on my left side.
Between a Fell Caller charge and Madrak throwing an axe, two of my Fire Eaters perish. Madrak Feats and casts Even Ground. The Glacier King heals for six. Madrak also casts Jackhammer a number of times, and the Glacier King gets to snack for max a few times.
As the King clears himself off, he snacks back up to 28 total health left, but Mark has baited my Mauler with it by putting me in trample range.
Bears murder my Pyre Troll sadly, and just flood the zone. Mark has nothing that can get to my rectangle, and he's cleared his, so we both score a point here.
Score: 1 - 1
Borka turn 3:
My Bears ambush left as well.
I clear out a trample lane for my Mauler by moving up and whacking on Champs. My Mauler gets a free Rage from Borka, and tramples up. Average dice says I do 20 damage and I'm hoping for a bit more so that I have a chance at a Fire Eater spray finishing him off. I spike the dice though, and the King goes down.
I put the Earthborn into the zone and kill a Champ.
On the left, my Bears walk in and kill a bear. Valka charges and kills another Bear. I walk my Pyg who is still on fire up and light a bunch of Champs on fire and do reasonable damage.
I score a point and Mark does not.
Score: 2 - 1
Madrak turn 3:
Lanyssa charges and kills the Fire Eater engaging the Fell Caller (!!!) and the Fell Caller moves up and misses his spray onto my Raider contesting the left zone.
Mark's Champs don't quite finish off the Mauler, so Madrak has to go and do that himself, doing some chip damage to the Earthborn as well.
I'm still holding my zone and contesting everywhere, so I will easily score 3 - 1, and then next turn kill his objective, score my zone, and quite likely clear the right hand zone to win on Scenario. We talk it out a bit, and Mark decides to concede and get some water before the final round.
Victory for Borka!
I really feel like I made the correct choice in list selection here. The Raiders hit hard enough to worry the Champs and the Glacier King when they're under stone, I'm immune to the Glacier King's shooting and his animus doesn't bug me, and I outthreat his entire army by a lot.
If the King hadn't died that turn, I feel fairly confident in my ability to continue pushing for attrition and keeping models out of my back zone to slowly build up a commanding scenario lead. Madrak can do a fair amount of work on his own, but he's not got the speed or damage output that Borka has, and I'm pretty happy chucking Borka at a unit of Champs or the Glacier King if needed.
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I was very disappointed not to be able to attend the Faith + Justice conference in Oxford hosted jointly by Jubilee+ and Nexus two weeks ago. Jubilee+ is a team set up by UK Newfrontiers with the aim of equipping churches to engage more effectively with our communities and particularly to help them increase their capacity to serve the poor. Nexus is part of Emmanuel Church in Oxford and like Jubilee+ wants to equip and motivate churches to engage with big issues in the world around us.
What made the Faith + Justice conference so special is that these groups on behalf of the churches they work with gathered together so many people from the world of politics to talk about and discuss what it means to be a Christian working in the political arena and how Christians at all levels can engage effectively with politics.
Jubilee+ on their blog entry reviewing the conference made reference to comments from the two MPs who spoke:
“As a Christian politician I have felt unwelcome in churches during difficult votes.” That was the first statement of the day that really challenged me – but it certainly wasn’t the last. It was spoken by Conservative MP for Oxford West and Abingdon, Nicola Blackwood, who addressed us first.
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Enterovirus and Parechovirus Surveillance — United States, 2014–2016
Weekly / May 11, 2018 / 67(18);515–518
Glen R. Abedi, MPH1; John T. Watson, MD1; W. Allan Nix1; M. Steven Oberste, PhD1; Susan I. Gerber, MD1 (View author affiliations)View suggested citation
What is already known about this topic?
Enterovirus (EV) and parechovirus (PeV) infections can cause a variety of illnesses, ranging from asymptomatic infection to severe illness and death, and are divided into types.
What is added by this report?
During 2014–2016, reports of EV and PeV peaked in summer and early fall. Enterovirus D68 was the most frequently reported type (56%); echovirus 30, coxsackievirus A6, echovirus 18, and coxsackievirus B3 were also frequently reported.
What are the implications for public health practice?
Improved type-based surveillance can inform disease prevention strategies by supporting outbreak detection and guiding the development of new tests and interventions. Improving surveillance would require increasing the number and capacity of participating laboratories and timely reporting.
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Infections caused by enteroviruses (EV) and parechoviruses (PeV), members of the Picornaviridae family, are associated with various clinical manifestations, including hand, foot, and mouth disease; respiratory illness; myocarditis; meningitis; and sepsis; and can result in death. The genus Enterovirus includes four species of enterovirus (A–D) known to infect humans, and the genus Parechovirus includes one species (A) that infects humans. These species are further divided into types, some of which are associated with specific clinical manifestations. During 2014–2016, a total of 2,967 U.S. cases of EV and PeV infections were reported to the National Enterovirus Surveillance System (NESS). The largest number of reports during that time (2,051) occurred in 2014, when a large nationwide outbreak of enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) occurred, accounting for 68% of cases reported to NESS that year (1). Reports to the National Respiratory and Enteric Virus Surveillance System (NREVSS) during 2014–2016 indicated that circulation of EV peaks annually in the summer and early fall. Because the predominant types of EV and PeV circulating from year to year tend to vary, tracking these trends requires consistent and complete reports from laboratories with the capacity to perform typing.
NESS is a passive, laboratory-based surveillance system that has been used to track EV and PeV reports since the 1960s and is the most comprehensive database of these reports in the United States. During 2014–2016, 11 laboratories reported to NESS, including nine state health departments, one municipal health department, and the CDC Polio and Picornavirus Laboratory Branch (PPLB). The largest contributor of reports to NESS was PPLB (1,553), which serves as a reference laboratory for jurisdictions with no or limited EV and PeV typing capacity. Testing data for untyped EV are also collected through NREVSS, a passive, laboratory-based surveillance system that collects aggregate reports of tests for EV and the percentage positive by week.
During 2014–2016, a total of 2,967 EV and PeV cases were reported to NESS, including 2,758 (93.0%) for which the type was known. Reports that included virus type represented 2,734 individual patients, among whom one virus type was identified from 2,726 (99.7%) and two types were identified from eight (0.3%). Among 2,370 (86.7%) patients with known sex, 1,422 (60.0%) were male, and among 1,351 (90.1%) for whom age was known, the median age was 4 years (interquartile range = 1–10 years). State of residence was known for 2,727 (99.7%) patients; among these, California was the most frequently reported state (413, 15.1%), followed by New York (366, 13.4%). Residents from all 50 states and the District of Columbia were represented (Figure 1). The largest number of reports to NESS that included EV and PeV type (2,051) occurred in 2014 (Box); these reports accounted for 74% of the 2,758 reports for all 3 years.
EV-D68 was the most frequently reported type during 2014–2016, accounting for 1,542 (55.9%) reports for this period, including 1,395 (68.0%) in 2014, when a large nationwide outbreak of respiratory disease associated with EV-D68 occurred. In 2015, EV-D68 accounted for only nine (2.4%) reports that included virus type. EV-D68 again constituted a large percentage (40.9%) of reported types in 2016, but the 138 reports represented <10% of the EV-D68 reports in 2014. Overall, 1,351 (86.7%) EV-D68 detections were from respiratory specimens; 154 (9.9%) were from specimens whose source was unknown.
After EV-D68, the most frequently reported types during 2014–2016 were echovirus 30 (159; 13.1% of 1,216 reports of non–EV-D68 types), coxsackievirus (CV)-A6 (152; 12.5%), echovirus 18 (116; 9.5%), and CV-B3 (109; 9.0%). Among reports in which a type other than EV-D68 was detected (1,466), the most frequently reported specimen source was cerebrospinal fluid (493; 38.0% of 1,298 specimens with known source), followed by throat/nasopharyngeal swab (487; 37.5%).
Data reported to NREVSS were used to evaluate trends in the percentage of tests positive for EV over time. Among 62,210 specimens from which virus isolation was attempted in 47 laboratories, 0.6% (347) tested positive for untyped EV; among 70,915 specimens tested in 72 laboratories by reverse transcription–polymerase chain reaction, 5,555 (7.8%) tested positive. The percentage of specimens testing positive peaked in summer or early fall for all years (Figure 2). The decline in the percentage of positive results during July and August 2014 was associated with a substantial increase in the number of EV tests performed during the EV-D68 outbreak period.
EV and PeV type surveillance in the United States was affected by the 2014 EV-D68 outbreak (1); this type accounted for 68% of identified types in 2014 and 56% of all reported types during 2014–2016. Increased vigilance and the need for rapid identification of new cases led to a large increase in diagnostic testing for EV and respiratory viruses among patients with respiratory illness during the late summer and autumn months of 2014. The number of reports with known type in 2014 was approximately three times higher than the 594 reports of EV and PeV in 2012, the year during the 2009–2013 period that witnessed the largest number of reports of typed EV and PeV (2,3).
The objectives of type-based EV and PeV surveillance in the United States are to 1) help public health practitioners determine long-term patterns of circulation for individual types, 2) interpret trends in picornavirus-associated illnesses by associating them with circulating types, 3) support recognition of disease outbreaks associated with circulating types, 4) guide the development of new diagnostic tests and therapies, and 5) monitor detections of poliovirus, which is nationally notifiable in the United States.
Reports to NESS continue to be affected by changes in diagnostic practices. For example, qualitative pan-EV molecular testing has largely replaced traditional cell culture virus isolation techniques in clinical settings because it produces results in a clinically relevant time frame and is more analytically sensitive (4). However, pan-EV molecular testing does not produce type-level results provided by viral culture, resulting in a lower frequency of reporting to NESS compared with prior decades (4). A CDC-developed real-time reverse transcription–polymerase chain reaction test for EV-D68 was widely adopted among public health laboratories in 2014. Qualitative pan-PeV testing is not as common as pan-EV testing in clinical laboratories in the United States, and PeV typing, for the most part, is limited to reference laboratories.
The findings in this report are subject to at least four limitations. First, NESS is a passive surveillance system that relies on voluntary reports from laboratories, and EV and PeV infections, except for polio, are not nationally notifiable in the United States. Second, to minimize the reporting burden for participating laboratories, patient-level clinical information is not routinely collected, so it is not possible to associate reported types with specific clinical manifestations or severity of illness. Third, typing tends to occur primarily during summer months, which might lead to underreporting of EV and PeV during other times of the year. Finally, although participating laboratories are encouraged to report monthly, reports are often delayed, making the timely compilation of data difficult.
Recent outbreaks, such as those of EV-D68–associated respiratory illness, CV-A6–associated severe hand, foot, and mouth disease, and a cluster of severe PeV-A3 infections among infants (1,3,5), highlight the continuing need for robust EV and PeV type surveillance. The associations between certain EV and PeV types and specific clinical manifestations have been well documented, but the epidemiology and associated clinical syndromes of many other EV and PeV types remain poorly characterized. Timely and robust type-based EV and PeV surveillance has the potential to inform disease prevention strategies by supporting the recognition of outbreaks and guiding the development of diagnostic tests and interventions. To do so would require improved maintenance and modernization of typing capacity within laboratories, timely and consistent reports from participating laboratories, and an increase in the number of reporting laboratories.
Conflict of Interest
W. Allan Nix and M. Steven Oberste report U.S. patent number 7,247,457 issued for the detection and identification of enteroviruses by seminested amplification of the enterovirus VP1 protein; U.S. patent number 7,714,122 issued for kits used for detecting and identifying enteroviruses using nucleic acid molecules VP1 and VP3; U.S. patent number 8,048,630 issued for methods and agents for detecting parechovirus. W. Allan Nix also reports pending patent for compositions and methods for detecting enterovirus D68, provisional patent application serial no. 62/171,657. No other conflicts of interest were reported.
Corresponding author: Glen Abedi, firstname.lastname@example.org, 404-639-5979.
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FIGURE 1. States from which enterovirus-positive or parechovirus-positive results were reported, by surveillance system — United States, 2014–2016
Abbreviations: DC = District of Columbia; NESS = National Enterovirus Surveillance System; NREVSS = National Respiratory and Enteric Virus Surveillance System; PR = Puerto Rico.
The figure above is a map of the United States showing the states from which enterovirus-positive or parechovirus-positive results were reported, by surveillance system (National Enterovirus Surveillance System or National Respiratory and Enteric Virus Surveillance System) during 2014–2016.
BOX. Distribution of the 15 enterovirus and human parechovirus types most frequently reported, by year — National Enterovirus Surveillance System, United States, 2014–2016
|2014 (N = 2,051)||2015 (N = 370)||2016 (N = 337)||2014–2016 (N = 2,758)|
|Type||No. (%)||Type||No. (%)||Type||No. (%)||Type||No (%)|
|Enterovirus D68||1,395 (68.0)||Echovirus 30||100 (27.0)||Enterovirus D68||138 (40.9)||Enterovirus D68||1,542 (55.9)|
|Coxsackievirus B3||98 (4.8)||Echovirus 18||61 (16.5)||Coxsackievirus A6||39 (11.6)||Echovirus 30||159 (5.8)|
|Coxsackievirus A6||86 (4.2)||Coxsackievirus A6||27 (7.3)||Coxsackievirus B4||18 (5.3)||Coxsackievirus A6||152 (5.5)|
|Echovirus 11||52 (2.5)||Echovirus 3||21 (5.7)||Echovirus 6||15 (4.5)||Echovirus 18||116 (4.2)|
|Echovirus 18||52 (2.5)||Echovirus 9||21 (5.7)||Parechovirus A3||15 (4.5)||Coxsackievirus B3||109 (4.0)|
|Echovirus 30||49 (2.4)||Coxsackievirus A9||19 (5.1)||Coxsackievirus A9||14 (4.2)||Echovirus 9||65 (2.4)|
|Parechovirus A3||43 (2.1)||Coxsackievirus B4||15 (4.1)||Coxsackievirus B2||10 (3.0)||Echovirus 11||64 (2.3)|
|Echovirus 9||41 (2.0)||Coxsackievirus B5||15 (4.1)||Echovirus 30||10 (3.0)||Parechovirus A3||62 (2.3)|
|Coxsackievirus B2||36 (1.8)||Echovirus 6||11 (3.0)||Coxsackievirus B1||9 (2.7)||Coxsackievirus B4||55 (2.0)|
|Coxsackievirus B5||32 (1.6)||Echovirus 25||10 (2.7)||Parechovirus A1||9 (2.7)||Coxsackievirus B5||53 (1.9)|
|Coxsackievirus A21||27 (1.3)||Coxsackievirus B3||9 (2.4)||Echovirus 11||8 (2.4)||Coxsackievirus B2||50 (1.8)|
|Enterovirus A71||23 (1.1)||Enterovirus D68||9 (2.4)||Coxsackievirus A10||7 (2.1)||Coxsackievirus A9||40 (1.5)|
|Coxsackievirus B4||22 (1.1)||Coxsackievirus A16||8 (2.2)||Coxsackievirus B5||6 (1.8)||Echovirus 6||40 (1.5)|
|Coxsackievirus A16||14 (0.7)||Coxsackievirus A5||6 (1.6)||Coxsackievirus A16||5 (1.5)||Echovirus 3||33 (1.2)|
|Echovirus 6||14 (0.7)||Coxsackievirus A10||5 (1.4)||Coxsackievirus A2||5 (1.5)||Coxsackievirus A16||27 (1.0)|
|—||—||Parechovirus A1*||5 (1.4)||—||—||Coxsackievirus A21*||27 (1.0)|
|Total||1,984 (96.8)||Total||342 (92.4)||Total||308 (91.4)||Total||2,594 (94.1)|
FIGURE 2. Percentage of specimens tested that were enterovirus-positive, by week and testing method used — National Respiratory and Enteric Virus Surveillance System, United States, 2014–2016
Abbreviation: PCR = polymerase chain reaction.
The figure above is a line graph showing the percentage of specimens tested in the United States that were reported to National Respiratory and Enteric Virus Surveillance System as enterovirus-positive, by week and testing method used, during 2014–2016.
Suggested citation for this article: Abedi GR, Watson JT, Nix WA, Oberste MS, Gerber SI. Enterovirus and Parechovirus Surveillance — United States, 2014–2016. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2018;67:515–518. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm6718a2external icon.
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By DEBORA RUBI
School of Communication
University of Miami
With the release of “Waiting for Superman,” a film providing a scathing criticism of the United States’ education system, a new critical eye is being turned against the institutions providing the education for children across the country.
The film follows five children, portraying the cracks in the system that hold back many of the students. The film focuses on the racial and socio-economic inequalities that are found in schools around the United States.
The problems are exacerbated in racially and economically diverse areas like Miami-Dade County. According to the U.S. Department of Education Choice Report of 2004, only 10 percent of its students are non-Hispanic whites.
Miami-Dade has done much to try and counter the gaps that are created trough racial and socioeconomic segregation in the system.
The “I Choose” program allows students to choose to attend a charter or magnet school to help alleviate some of the racial segregation found in the county. Only a select amount of students, however, can join these schools. As of 2004, the 31 magnet schools only enrolled 12,000 students out of the 370,000 students enrolled in Miami-Dade Public Schools.
In Florida, the problem is exacerbated by the many immigrants (predominantly Haitian and Hispanic) that do not speak English as their native language — therefore coming into the system already at a disadvantage.
Bilingual education programs, through the English Language Learner system, are prevalent throughout the country. Florida, Arizona and New York require all teachers to get English Language Learner certification.
“The goal of the bilingual program is to prepare the students for success by helping their transition,” said Mary Avalos, an assistant research professor at the University of Miami with a doctorate in curriculum and teaching in TESOL and reading. “Some keep as a goal maintaining the natural language to create a truly bilingual student, or helping to teach a second language to English speakers.”
Under Florida law, all schools must provide ELL programs for students who do not speak English fluently.
“All Florida students that are registered will be assessed,” said Rosy Ugalde, executive director of bilingual education in Miami-Dade. “If they are found to be in the English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) category they will be registered in that instructional model unless the parents decide otherwise.”
Ugalde says that almost 99 percent of parents that have their children test within the ESOL category agree to have their children enrolled in the program.
“It’s the parent’s choice,” said Ugalde. “We can’t force them, but few are willing to deny their kids assistance.”
Which programs are most successful?
According to a 2007 report by the National Center of Educational Statistics branch of the U.S. Department of Education, the last report on ELL scores, 38 percent of fourth graders and 40 percent of eighth graders in ELL programs test at the average, or above average, level.
“Since the law was instated to restrict native language instruction,” said Avalos, “the tests scores have not improved.”
Arizona had only 16 percent of fourth graders at average, or above average, testing and 22 percent of eighth graders at average, or above average, testing.
Bilingual education that includes instruction in the native language has been encouraged by many studies.
“There is no best, prescribed way to learn,” said Avalos. “But bilingual programs are more beneficial for literacy and language development beyond the extended foreign language and native language instruction.”
Florida has had to improve its ELL programs to integrate the large Hispanic and Haitian population found in the southern part of the state. According to the 2008 United States Census reports, more than one-fifth of Florida’s population is Hispanic.
“There needs to be an early intervention beyond preschool in the student’s vocabulary to ensure school success or they will never catch up,” said Avalos.
The numbers become more drastic as one centers in on Miami-Dade, where according to the Education Choice Report of 2004, 58 percent of students are Hispanic. Thirty percent are African American, many of which are Haitians who speak Creole as their first language.
“The problem is not only for immigrants,” said Avalos. “Studies in the Midwest showed African Americans with different dialects also falling behind in the language gap.”
Many of the immigrants in Florida are people born in the country with immigrant parents that do not speak English fluently.
“It’s sad because they don’t know how the language develops,” said Avalos. “They’re known as generation 1.5, where they end up not being proficient in either language.”
Bilingual education is important in anchoring students to the system and helping them progress as they adapt to the language and education system of the United States.
The problems are not entirely in the lack of resources in the poorer districts, with funds coming from education grants or money allocated through to the No Child Left Behind Program through Title III.
“Teachers can overcome the [poverty] gap,” said Avalos. “They can teach about poverty and what works and not settle on one approach. In these situations it’s important to use the community and parents.”
The faults of the national system are clear as 20 percent of people born out of the country drop out of high school, according to a 2007 report in the National Center for Education Statistics.
“California has had a higher dropout rate,” said Avalos. “Students don’t feel connected to the schools. They feel that the teachers do not care. “
Leaving the Programs
The importance of the program is not simply bringing the kids into the program and providing support as they adapt but in leading the way for students to eventually progress into mainstream education programs.
“Students will regularly progress from year to year and even skip years, with most students exiting the program after three years,” said Ugalde.
The students are regularly tested through the CELLA and FCAT tests to see if they have reached the benchmarks to exit the program. The CELLA (Comprehensive English Language Learning Assessment) is used to assess the language proficiency of the students.
Students can turn in requests for extensions. However, there is always the fear that students and parents trying to abuse the program could extend their stay in the program to secure higher grades rather than out of true need for instruction.
“If an extension is needed there will be further evaluation to see what exactly is happening with the student to keep him from progressing,” said Ugalde.
Students out of the program are regularly monitored to make sure progress is being made within the general student population.
“Once exiting the program there is a two-year monitoring of the student’s GPA and performance to make sure they are succeeding,” said Avalos.
While the system is flawed, Florida has been at the forefront of helping non-native speakers adapt to a new system of education through bilingual education.
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Beginning and ending in Delhi, this tour will take you on a 15-day odyssey through the culture, history, magic and grandeur of the historic land of India’s rajas. Head west to Mandawa, on the ancient trading route of traders from China and Afghanistan and stay in a beautiful historic haveli. Then continue towards the far reaches of northwest India and visit markets brimming with fresh produce, bangles and textiles. Tour forts, once home to powerful rulers of days gone by in Bikaner. Ride a camel in the thar desert and learn Indian dancing moves under the wide-open sky. Stay in Jaisalmer, a fascinating city situated on a citadel, like a mirage in the desert. Visit Jodhpur, the “Blue City” and home of the Rathore rulers in Rajasthan, and tour the intricately adorned Mehrangarh Fort, built in 1459. Then depart for Udaipur, the “Lake City” of Rajasthan and certainly one of the most popular cities in India for Indian tourists, and take a sunset cruise on beautiful Lake Pichola. In Jaipur, you’ll see the Pink City at night and take an elephant ride up to the Amber Fort. Learn block printing at the Anokhi Museum of Hand Printing and learn how the first astrologers took their measurements of the skies. Then you’ll get to view the Taj Mahal under the light of the full moon, a superbly memorable experience! We’ll stay at a wonderful mix of three- and four-star properties, and have true local experiences in each city we visit. Join us February 10-24, 2016 for this 15 day/14 night tour, or we can plan this as a private excursion on dates of your choosing.
|Day 1||Arrive in Delhi||Delhi|
|Day 2||Explore Delhi||Delhi|
|Day 3||Drive to Mandawa||Mandawa|
|Day 4||Drive to Gajner||Gajner|
|Day 5||Drive to Jaisalmer||Jaisalmer|
|Day 6||Explore Jaisalmer||Jaisalmer|
|Day 7||Drive to Jodhpur||Jodhpur|
|Day 8||Drive to Udaipur||Udaipur|
|Day 9||Explore Udaipur||Udaipur|
|Day 10||Drive to Devgarh||Devgarh|
|Day 11||Drive to Jaipur||Jaipur|
|Day 12||Explore Jaipur||Jaipur|
|Day 13||Drive to Agra||Agra|
|Day 14||Drive to Delhi||Delhi|
|Day 15||Final departure|
Welcome to Delhi, the capital city of India. Enjoy your free afternoon to explore. (No meals).
Today we will explore the history and culture of Delhi, one of India’s oldest cities that was founded nearly 1900 years ago. The city has been raised out of ashes and ruins seven times – beginning with the Tomars of the 7-8th century, the Khaljis, the Tughlaqs, the Saiyads, The Lodis, the Moghuls and finally the British, each has contributed to the colorful history of the city.
The city tour will begin in Old Delhi where we will get on bicycles and take a short, easy pedal to the largest mosque in India, Jama Masjid and then on to Raj Ghat, the historical monument where Gandhi was cremated. In New Delhi we’ll visit the architectural inspiration for the Taj Mahah Humayun’s Tomb and then the QutbMinar in Connaught Place, with its distinct Afghan architecture. The tour will take us to several other places of interest including the Government Buildings and the India Gate. (B, D)
We will depart early for our journey to Mandawa, an ancient trading town in the Shekhawati region. Located between Bikaner and Delhi, this area was a major stop for ancient rich merchants travelling from the Middle East to China. From the 17th century through the early 20thcentury, traders built imposing mansions called havelis. The town of Nawalgarh offers many well-preserved examples of these traditional houses, evoking the richness and elegance of Morocco’s most magnificent riads. We’ll have an opportunity to tour the Murarka and Podar Havelis, transporting us into the wonders of the past. (B, D)
After breakfast depart Mandawa towards Bikaner, a bustling walled city on the ancient caravan routes from Africa and West Asia. The fort, founded by Raja Rai Singh, is distinguished by its dark red sandstone havelis and exquisitely painted Jain temples. This area is famous for the intricate rich gold painting work by Muslim Usta artisans. On our way towards Gajner, we will stop at the government-run Camel Breeding Farm where they keep over 200 camels at all times for breeding and research, a very unique stop on the outskirts of Bikaner. (B, D)
Today we will make our way towards the most impressive desert city in India, Jaisalmer. This citadel city was built in the 12th century is an architectural dream in yellow sandstone of the Thar Desert. The dramatic site inspired Jaisal, a Bhatti Prince, to build a settlement right in the heart of a desolate desert. The forts and palaces and several superbly carved Jain temples in and around Jaisalmer are reminiscent of a glorious history. (B, D)
Following breakfast, head south towards Udaipur. On your way there, stop at the spectacular Jain Temples at Ranakpur which sport an impressive 80 domes and 400 pillars! This evening will be free to explore the bustling ancient bazaars and winding, colorful alleys of this “most romantic city in India”, so dubbed by travelers over the centuries. early for a five-hour drive to Jodhpur, the historic home of the Rathore rulers of Rajasthan. (B, D)
Udaipur’s centerpoint is Lake Pichola, surrounded on all sides by the wooded Aravalli Hills which stretch in every direction for miles. Udaipur is a cool oasis in the dry heart of Rajasthan. The huge city palace towering over the lake is the largest palace complex in all of Rajasthan. Though it is a conglomeration of buildings built by successive rulers, it manages to retain a surprising uniformity of design and affords very fine views of the lake and city from the upper terraces. The Jagadish temple is home to a sacred black stone image of Vishnu on a mighty garuda. The temple is one of the finest examples of Indo-Aryan Art. We’ll drive a short distance to Sri Eklingji, a holy Shiva temple built in the 16th century and located in the village of Kailashpuri. This evening, after a sunset boat ride on Lake Pichola, we’ll enjoy a spectacular dance performance called TehraTaal. (B, D)
Depart Udaipur for Deogarh, a wonderfully welcome small town in Rajasthan. In the afternoon, board a train for a unique ride around Deogarh. Passing through breathtaking scenery, this railway passes over dramatic bridges, through tunnels, brushes waterfalls and jungles of the Ravli Sanctuary and carries with it the ambience of a bygone era. A wonderfully unique experience to remember. Later we’ll tour the fort, and marvel at the lake filled with ancient temples and tombs. (B, D)
Following leisurely breakfast depart for Jaipur, approximately five hours drive away. Arrive Jaipur and check-in at hotel. En route visit Pushkar Lake and local temples. (B, D)
Today will be a full day! First we’ll make our way to the Amber Fort, the dramatic former home of the royal Jaipurs. Few fail to be moved by the Rajput grandeur of this hilltop fortress just north of Jaipur. Set on the dry wrinkled Aravali Hills and surrounded by fortified battlements, the palace straddles two sepia-toned hills overlooking Maota Lake, and its sprawling walls lattice the surrounding hills. We will ride up to this hilltop palace on an elephant (or on foot or by jeep if you prefer), passing through the ancient main gate where the Maharajas of Jaipur have entered for hundreds of years. We’ll learn about the history of this architectural masterpiece with its mirror-studded alcoves, dazzling mosaics and water-cooled swings that delight today’s visitors as they have for centuries. The Anokhi Museum of Hand Printing will welcome us and have some of India’s finest block printed cloth on display. We’ll learn with a hands-on lesson the techniques and intricacies of this ancient art form.
This afternoon we’ll take a guided tour of Jaipur, “The Pink City” and see some of the finest sights here including the Hawa Mahal, also known as Palace of the Winds, a five-story structure of pink sandstone with semi-octagonal and delicately honeycombed windows overlooking the main street of the old city. We proceed for a guided tour of the City Palace & Observatory. The City Palace in the heart of the old city is a blend of Rajasthani and Mughal architecture. Next stop is the Solar Observatory – an astronomical treasure house, with solar device that still gives accurate astrononical measurements.
In the evening, we’ll go to a local home and learn the secrets to fine Indian cooking, and then dine on our curried creations! (B, D)
On your way to Agra today, stop at the ancient city of Fatehpur Sikri, a World Heritage Site. Perfectly preserved, the 17th century city is divided into religious and secular sections, and there is a breathtaking array of sculptures. Also, the white marble mosque in the secular section is incredible. It is a very sacred mosque and pilgrims from far and near arrives here to pay their respects. After visit continue on to Agra and check in at your hotel. Agra is the city of the Taj Mahal, perhaps the most photographed monument in the world. However, no matter how many pictures you have seen or no matter how high your expectations are, the Taj never lets you down – the unparalleled glory and beauty of the building surpasses beyond all human imaginations. Spectacular monument built for love. Besides perfect symmetry in every aspect of its construction, the inlay work of semi precious stones into marble in pietradura style is absolutely remarkable. This evening we will visit the Taj Mahal under the light of a spectacular full moon… a unique opportunity!
After a stop at the Taj Mahal to see it at sunrise, visit Agra’s “other” tourist site the Agra Fort. The Red Fort began its life in the 10th century as a simple mud and brick fortress along the banks of the Yamuna River. Originally intended as a fortress, the site was partially converted into a palace during the reign of Shah Jahan, who lived in the fortress and died there – a prisoner of his own son! Then continue on to Delhi for your final dinner as a group.
Transfer to the airport for final departure. (B)
Per person price until Dec 31, 2020
Standard accommodations (3 and 4 star hotels):
2 to 3 people: $4,000 USD per person
4 or more: $3,600 USD per person
Single Supplement: $1,250 USD
(Final prices may vary depending on hotels selected/available. A December and January peak season surcharge may apply)
We are happy to customize your tour. This trip can be organized according to your convenience and can be combined with one of our other India tours:
We can also combine this tour with any trip to Nepal and/or Bhutan. Write to us for more details.
You must get an Indian visa prior to arrival in India. You may submit your visa online. Click on this Indian Government website for details.
It is best to be conservative so cover up and dress in light, loose clothing. You can buy cheap and colorful Indian clothes once you get there. If you are traveling in the Winter months, do note Delhi and Agra can be quite cold (temperature can dip to the mid 40’s). So do bring clothing accordingly.
The best time to travel in North India is during the Autumn, winter and Spring months – October through April. Note, December and January can be a bit chilly. Late April through September are Summer and Monsoon and it’s best to avoid travel during these months.
Yes, ATM’s are widely available in all cities and towns of India. And most vendors will accept credit cards. There are also other forms of payment.
While traveling in India, things will not always go according to plan. So be patient. Here are some items you could include in your pack:
YES. As long as you apply the same level of carefulness as you would in any other large city. Petty theft and pick-pocketing is prevalent in some places and you must always be aware of your belongings.
As far as safety for women, India is generally safe. Women may experience unwanted attention from men. Dressing conservatively helps. And it is highly recommended not to travel or arrive at a destination late at night. Especially if you are traveling alone.
Indian food is SPICY; especially for those who have a bland palate. Spicy does not necessarily mean chilli spicy, but it also means the use of spices such as ginger, cumin, coriander, turmeric etc. That said, a wide variety of world cuisine is available. So you could choose what you want to eat. | <urn:uuid:a64e606d-7cad-4696-a2cd-10da70366429> | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | https://crystalmountaintreks.com/tour/highlights-of-rajasthan/ | 2021-10-22T19:32:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323585518.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20211022181017-20211022211017-00480.warc.gz | en | 0.927234 | 2,979 |
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Don't Hike Alone
Know what your destination will be. Don't overestimate your capabilities. Hike intelligently. You are responsible for your own safety as well as that of everyone in your party.
The less you carry, the more enjoyable your hike will be, so travel as lightly as possible. The heaviest items in your pack should be your food and water. Hiking sticks can take some of the stress off your legs.
Wear well-fitting and broken-in lightweight hiking boots. Bring a small lightweight flashlight and a change of batteries and bulb. Wear sunscreen, sunglasses, and a hat. Bring a map, compass, signal mirror, moleskin, and water purification tablets (as a backup).
Stay on the trail and never shortcut switchbacks. Human fecal waste should be buried under 6"-8" of mineral soil and the toilet paper carried out with you. Leave the area as you found it; all trash (including biodegradable) needs to be carried out.
Take a Break
A break of five to seven minutes every 30 to 60 minutes can remove approximately 20 to 30 percent of the waste products that have built up in your legs while hiking. Sit down and prop your legs up above the level of your heart and let gravity help drain these metabolic waste products out of your legs.
Eat some food, drink some fluids, and take this break time to really enjoy and appreciate the view. These efficient breaks can really recharge your batteries. In the long run, these breaks will not slow you down.
No Food, No Fuel, No Fun
Stay hydrated and eat often. Eat and drink more than you normally do. Eat before, during, and after you hike. Eat before you are hungry. Drink water before you are thirsty. No matter what the temperature, you need water and energy to keep going.
Keeping yourself cool and hiking in Arizona takes a very large amount of energy (food). Salty snacks and water or sports drinks should be part of any hike. Food is your body's primary source of fuel and salts (electrolytes) while hiking in a desert climate.
Your best defense against illness and exhaustion is to eat a healthy breakfast, a snack every time you take a drink, and a rewarding full dinner at the end of the day. This is not a time to diet.
Eating adequate amounts of food will also help guarantee that you are replacing the electrolytes (salts) that you are sweating out. If you replace the water, but not the electrolytes that you have sweated out of your body, you can develop a serious and dangerous medical condition known as hyponatremia (water intoxication), which, if left untreated, can lead to seizures and possibly death. You need to eat about twice as much as you normally would to meet your energy and electrolyte needs while hiking.
Watch your time
Plan on taking twice as long to hike uphill as it takes to hike downhill. As a courtesy, give uphill hikers the right of way.
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Summers approaching and the kids are out of school. Whats the perfect way to get the kids out of the house and stay out of the heat at the same time. Take them camping!Tips for Camping with Kids:Practice camping at home: If your kids are outdoor newbies, pitch a tent in the backyard or even inside [...]
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So let’s talk American Horror Story and the liability of prior owners for dangerous conditions. Our favorite fun subjects, right? Before things got too silly, there’s an episode where [spoiler alert] somebody dies and gets buried under the gazebo. This being a horror show, the victim is not content stay under the gazebo. Said victim gets out and causes all sorts of mayhem, including injuries and some pretty serious property damage. Would you stop throwing stuff around? If you, dear reader, saw a great investment opportunity in this property and bought it nonetheless, would you be liable for this victim’s subsequent mayhem on your tenants?
OK, well, let’s put it in slightly more realistic terms. Let’s say you build a nice fish pond in your back yard, because you like Japanese carp. You get that promotion and transfer across the country and away you go. You sell the property to Mrs. Investor, who is most definitely going to rent it out. She does, and the new family moves in and their toddler drowns in the pond. Are you, dear reader — seller — liable for that wrongful death claim? Come on — you know the answer. What were we discussing all last year?
Control. Once you sell the property, do you have the ability to go back in and warn the new tenant about the pond? Can you remove it? You think the new owner would like you going on the property with some bulldozers on the grounds that you want to make it safe for her new tenants? I didn’t think so. Congrats — you readers and California law are in accord! The California Supreme Court in Preston v. Goldman said there was no liability. The main issue was, as usual, control. The seller, even though he installed the pond, had no right to control the danger related to it once he sold it. He could not remove the pond, fence it off, warn about it, or control who came onto the property.
The situation might be different if this were some kind of special, hidden carp pond that you, dear reader, forgot to disclose to the purchaser. Or if you installed a garden cover that was camouflaged and did not tell the owner how to access it, or some other hidden danger that led to the death. Then you might be liable if the buyer would not discover it under most circumstances, i.e., if the seller could discover the hidden carp pond with a reasonable inspection, you would be off the hook.
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Machine Learning Theory (CSCI599)
This introductory graduate course will focus on developing the core concepts and techniques of machine learning theory. We will examine the inherent abilities and limitations of learning algorithms in well-defined learning models. Specifically, the course will focus on algorithmic problems in supervised learning. The goal of supervised learning is to infer a function from a set of labeled observations. We will study algorithms for learning Boolean functions from labeled examples in a number of models (online learning, PAC learning, SQ learning, learning with noise, etc.).
The course is primarily targeted toward graduate students who want to gain familiarity with algorithmic and statistical tools for machine learning. Advanced undergraduate students with sufficient mathematical maturity are welcome.
- Instructor: Ilias Diakonikolas
Office Hours: By appointment (send me an email).
- Teaching Assistant: Ehsan Emamjomeh-Zadeh
Office Hours: Mondays, 3:15 - 4:30, SAL 246 (location subject to change).
- Lectures: Tuesdays 15:30-18:50, WPH 106.
Mathematical maturity. Solid background in algorithms, linear algebra, and probability.
Here is an outline of the course material:
- Online Learning: Winnow, Best Experts, Weighted Majority
- PAC Learning, Relation to Online Learning, Occam's Razor
- VC Dimension and Sample Complexity
- Learning Decision Trees and DNFs
- Learning with Noise: Classification Noise, Malicious Noise
- Statistical Query Learning
- Distribution Dependent Learning, Fourier Transform
- Computational Hardness of Learning
- Learning with Membership and Equivalence Queries
- Other Models of Learning: Semi-supervised Learning, Active Learning
- Lecture 1 (January 10) Introduction to machine learning theory.
Supervised Learning. Introduction to Online Learning.
- Lecture 2 (January 17) Online Learning: Winnow algorithm, Perceptron algorithm.
- Lecture 3 (January 24) Generic Bounds for Online Learning (halving algorithm, weighted majority), VC dimension. Introduction to PAC learning.
- Lecture 4 (January 31) PAC Learning model, online to PAC conversion, Occam's razor, application to learning sparse disjunctions.
- Lecture 5 (February 7) Chernoff Bounds, proper versus improper learning, learning 3-term DNFs.
- Lecture 6 (February 21) VC dimension, sample complexity of PAC learning.
Homework Assignments: There will be 4/5 homework assignments that will count for 60% of the grade. The assignments which will be proof-based, and are intended to be challenging.
Collaboration and discussion among students is allowed, though students must write up their solutions independently.
- First Homework: [pdf] (due on February 7)
Course Project: A part of the course (25% of the grade) is an independent project on a topic related to machine learning theory. Projects can be completed individually or in groups of two students.
- Second Homework: [pdf] (due on February 28)
The goal of the project is to become an expert in an area related to the class material, and potentially contribute to the state of the art. There are two aspects to the course project. The first is a literature review: Students must decide on a topic and a list of papers, understand these papers in depth, and write a survey presentation of the results in their own words. The second aspect is to identify a research problem/direction on the chosen topic, think about it, and describe the progress they make.
Students must consult with the instructor during the first half of the course for help in forming project teams, selecting a suitable project topic, and selecting a suitable set of research papers.
Students will be graded on the project proposal (5%), the progress report (5%), and the final report (15%).
The remaining part of the grade will be based on class participation (15%).
The textbook for this course is:
An additional textbook (available online) we will use is:
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The year was a 'normal' one, in that the Senate functioned during the whole of the year with its composition as determined by the 2007 general election, undisrupted by an election period. By year's end the fourteen new senators were fully functional in their parliamentary roles, although, as noted in last year's report, the Senate Department is conscious that its orientation program, however improved, cannot fully prepare new senators for all the complexities of their multifaceted roles.
There was also a return to normal levels of activity in the Senate, but the number of sitting days remained low at 56, and the problem of the compacting of more business into the same amount of time continues. There was more legislation, more complex and large bills, and more amendments required, reflecting the continuous expansion of the legislative function.
For Senate committees the workload was far greater. There were big increases in all measures of activity. The change in the structure of the committee system, to revert to the "twin" committees of 1994 to 2006, was a sign of the expanding workload rather than a cause, and reflected the fact that, with no party holding a majority in the Senate, the inquiry agenda of the institution is determined by the priorities of senators collectively rather than of the government or one party. It is only a slight exaggeration to say that the Senate is a legislative and deliberative assembly appended to a system of committees, although the powers to pass legislation and to determine the subjects of inquiry remain with the chamber, which therefore remains the centre of activity.
The number of written advices provided to senators, a measure of the advisory role of the department, rose significantly, partly determined by the number of new senators requiring guidance but mainly by the change in the composition of the Senate and the new and more numerous issues that arose for advice.
The period was characterised by some procedural innovation. The practice of referring bills to Senate committees before their receipt by the Senate, and sometimes even before their public appearance, led to the adoption of processes which procedural purists of the past would have regarded as outlandish. Estimates hearings were held on a subject (Indigenous affairs) rather than on the responsibilities of a department, with various responsible departments examined in the same hearing.
The 12th edition of Odgers' Australian Senate Practice was published in late 2008, and this comprehensive work on Senate processes was kept up to date with a supplement at the end of the financial year. A new and valuable addition to the procedural resources of the Senate, the Annotated Standing Orders of the Australian Senate, was completed for publication early in the next year.
The development of information technology, particularly in the integration of the production of documents, continued apace. Work progressed on the establishment of a comprehensive committee database to assist committees to cope with their heavy workload by standardising and streamlining their information-handling processes. More material was placed online to facilitate both the functions of the Senate and public access to its work. Particularly notable were more materials on the legislative processes of the chamber, particularly the texts of documents used in the chamber such as amendments to legislation, the conversion of an exhibition in Parliament House on the work of the Parliament into an online exhibition, the loading of occasional lectures in sound and vision, and the placing online of educational videos produced by the Parliamentary Education Office.
The department was able to achieve this increased level of activity with basically the same staff level, indicating that staff continue to increase their productivity. As has been pointed out in earlier reports, this increase in productivity is not solely a function of technology application but of constantly rising knowledge and skills levels on the part of staff.
In relation to financial resources, the story is somewhat different. After more than a decade of accumulating cash surpluses by efficient use of its appropriations, the department is now investing its funds up to the limits of its appropriation, having in 2008 returned half of its cash holdings to the government. It may be necessary in the future to recalibrate the level of funding for the department, a step that will be the responsibility of the Appropriations and Staffing Committee.
This is my last contribution to the department's annual report. The start of my forty years with the Senate coincided with the long-awaited success of moves to establish a comprehensive standing committee system. My twenty-one years as Clerk began with the codification of the law of parliamentary immunity and of the Senate's practices in relation to its principal immunities and powers. Earlier this year the Senate adopted a codification of another kind: a procedural order setting out for the first time in detail the process that is to be followed by ministers and public sector witnesses who consider that there may be some public interest grounds for withholding information from Senate committees. Procedural enhancements of these kinds have characterised the Senate throughout its history.
The Senate is well equipped to perform its legislative inquiry and scrutiny roles, not to perfection, but to the constantly improving standard expected by the public and worthy of a free Commonwealth.
I leave office confident that my colleagues will provide the Senate and its committees with the same high level of advice and support as has been developed in the past.
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Department of Marketing
On behalf of the marketing department at Mays Business School, I want to thank you for visiting our website. It contains many pages we hope will provide you with the information you need quickly and efficiently. Whether you are a current Mays student, or a prospective Aggie interested in one of the three marketing degrees we offer (bachelor's, master's, PhD), there are sections with information just for you. Parents, recruiters and others are also likely to find helpful information here about our people and programs. Faculty looking for open positions in the marketing department can check this link.
Like many things in Texas, we are a big department with approximately 25 faculty, 500 undergraduate marketing majors, 60 Master of Science in Marketing students, and 14 doctoral students. Our many different classes and special programs are all designed to help our students appreciate the central role customer loyalty plays in an organization’s success.
As a group that is charged with boundary spanning tasks, marketing executives are responsible for listening to their customers, keeping their finger on the pulse of the marketplace, using what they learn to develop products and services that meet (and exceed) customer needs, and staying in touch to keep customers satisfied. More than anything else, modern marketing is about developing innovative solutions to customer problems and taking better care of your customers than your competitors do. Our classes and programs are designed to provide our students with the tools and skills they need to be customer-oriented business leaders who are ethically sensitive and globally aware.
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