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At the South Davis Family History Fair and the St. George Family History Expo, respectively, the two revealed new information about the near future of the FamilySearch tree product, New FamilySearch (NFS). The NFS tree is a shared, world tree currently available only to member’s of FamilySearch sponsor, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Tanner gave his usual disclaimer: Product managers don’t say when an improvement will be made and they don’t make promises the improvement will ever be made. They only talk about what could be.
What is happening in the near future?
One of the top priorities is the release of CJKC versions of NFS. CJKC stands for Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Cyrillic.
Another is enabling communication and collaboration among NFS users. The audience erupted in applause when Ron Tanner said, “My job is to get rid of disputes.” Toward that end, an upcoming release includes a Discussion tab on each ancestor. Tim Cross explained that disputes were a first stab at collaboration. The Dispute tab provides a better discussion forum. He thought it might be available in about four months.
The much anticipated release of the NFS tree to the general public is another near term priority. Tanner said, “We have a goal of getting the general public in by the end of the year. But we’re not just going to open the door for everyone.” He mentioned one possibility was allowing each user to invite a few family and friends. I know Google uses this method, apparently successfully.
When asked about the applicability of the NFS tree for uses beyond submitting temple ordinances, Tanner responded, “The system must be genealogically sound in addition to preventing duplication of ordinances.”
Cross also mentioned the goal of expanding the development community, which I will cover in a future article. But first, I need to talk about the long-term plans for NFS next time. | <urn:uuid:3d659869-dc6f-4ccb-91bc-354d4b581a1f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://ancestryinsider.blogspot.com/2010/03/nfs-releasing-to-general-public.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00022-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954964 | 409 | 1.554688 | 2 |
by Randolph T. Holhut
American Reporter Correspondent
January 24, 2013
CAN PRESIDENT OBAMA LIVE UP TO THE IDEALS IN HIS SECOND INAUGURAL ADDRESS?
DUMMERSTON, Vt. -- Sure, there wasn't as much euphoria as there was four years ago. How could there be?
However, the second inauguration of President Barack Obama was arguably even more historic than the first one.
The weight of history was unavoidable. The first African-American to be elected twice to the presidency. The only other Democrat besides Bill Clinton to win two terms as President since Franklin D. Roosevelt. And all of this happening on Martin Luther King, Jr,. Day.
And, as he usually does, President Obama responded with a speech that fit the moment.
After four years of vicious pounding by the various crazed elements that have seized the Republican Party, there he stood. The victor. The President of all the people.
Mr. Obama had every right to tell the Republicans to kiss his butt in the wake of a decisive victory not only for him, but for the principle of a progressive nation.
But he's a better orator than that. He used his Inaugural Address to remind people which principles a majority of our nation believe in.
"We, the people, still believe that every citizen deserves a basic measure of security and dignity. We must make the hard choices to reduce the cost of health care and the size of our deficit.
"But we reject the belief that America must choose between caring for the generation that built this country and investing in the generation that will build its future. For we remember the lessons of our past, when twilight years were spent in poverty and parents of a child with a disability had nowhere to turn.
"We do not believe that in this country freedom is reserved for the lucky or happiness for the few. We recognize that no matter how responsibly we live our lives, any one of us at any time may face a job loss or a sudden illness or a home swept away in a terrible storm.
"The commitments we make to each other through Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security, these things do not sap our initiative. They strengthen us. They do not make us a nation of takers. They free us to take the risks that make this country great."
After a presidential campaign that ignored the issue, President Obama made it clear what was needed to deal with the greatest crisis of our time.
"We, the people, still believe that our obligations as Americans are not just to ourselves, but to all posterity.
"We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations. Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science, but none can avoid the devastating impact of raging fires, and crippling drought, and more powerful storms.
"The path towards sustainable energy sources will be long and sometimes difficult. But America cannot resist this transition; we must lead it."
And the President was just getting warmed up.
He was not just calling out the conservative movement for four decades of reactionary nonsense and its exaltation of private greed and public squalor. He was affirming the most important principle that needs affirmation right now - that government is not "them," it is all of us.
"Through blood drawn by lash and blood drawn by sword, we learned that no union founded on the principles of liberty and equality could survive half-slave and half-free. We made ourselves anew, and vowed to move forward together.
"Together, we determined that a modern economy requires railroads and highways to speed travel and commerce; schools and colleges to train our workers.
"Together, we discovered that a free market only thrives when there are rules to ensure competition and fair play.
"Together, we resolved that a great nation must care for the vulnerable, and protect its people from life's worst hazards and misfortune ... we have always understood that when times change, so must we; that fidelity to our founding principles requires new responses to new challenges; that preserving our individual freedoms ultimately requires collective action."
President Obama didn't have to be the first president to use the bully pulpit of an inauguration to stand up for gay rights. To his credit, he decided that standing on the right side of history was the better course to take.
"We the people declare today that the most evident of truth that all of us are created equal -- is the star that guides us still; just as it guided our forebears through Seneca Falls and Selma and Stonewall; just as it guided all those men and women, sung and unsung, who left footprints along this great mall, to hear a preacher say that we cannot walk alone; to hear a King proclaim that our individual freedom is inextricably bound to the freedom of every soul on Earth."
With these words, he reminded people of something that the Rev. King once observed -- that the Declaration of Independence is but a "promissory note" that has yet to be redeemed in full.
"Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law, for if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal, as well."
"Our journey is not complete until no citizen is forced to wait for hours to exercise the right to vote.
"Our journey is not complete until we find a better way to welcome the striving, hopeful immigrants who still see America as a land of opportunity, until bright young students and engineers are enlisted in our workforce rather than expelled from our country.
"Our journey is not complete until all our children, from the streets of Detroit to the hills of Appalachia to the quiet lanes of Newtown, know that they are cared for and cherished and always safe from harm.
"That is our generation's task, to make these works, these rights, these values of life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness real for every American. Being true to our founding documents does not require us to agree on every contour of life; it does not mean we will all define liberty in exactly the same way, or follow the same precise path to happiness. Progress does not compel us to settle centuries-long debates about the role of government for all time -- but it does require us to act in our time."
In short, President Obama delivered a speech that was a full-throated, unapologetic affirmation of the progressive principles our nation was founded upon. It will be a speech that will be referred to by future generations of Americans in the way that FDR's greatest speeches still resonate with the Democratic faithful.
But now that the pomp is over, and the bunting and scaffolding have come down, the hard work begins of making our President live up to the words he spoke.
The record of the first four years of the Obama Administration was a dismal one in many ways. Corporate power remains unchecked. Civil liberties are still being trampled upon. The military is still spending obscene amounts of our money to maintain an empire. And there's more concern about the deficit than there is about persistent poverty and an economy that no longer works for most Americans.
It would be nice to think President Obama's second inaugural address would be a progressive blueprint for the next four years. But that will only happen if we hold him, and the Democratic Party, to the ideas he so eloquently expressed.
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The month dedicated to Black History was designed to educate the future of their past. It services as a tool to enlighten them about the very soil they have been planted in, to blossom; encouraging them to plant more seeds once they have bloomed. Every story builds a heritage paved with heroics. Whether it was marching to prevent from being trampled, or refusing to stand to take a back seat. It has been a journey, but there’s still ground to cover
, and more places to discover. The pen hasn’t run out of ink, so the story will continue to be written!!!! AB (AmazinglyBrash)
Every human contemplates evil, but it takes a certain type of “man” to act on the impulse. We are all created equal, but some rise above and some fall below, while others settle for their birth right. We don’t maximize on our development or exhaust our creativity; Yet, we belittle the success of champions to build esteem for those who finish behind them. We have to stop justifying the acts of the undisciplined, by testing the will of the disciplined. As a nation, we are morally bankrupt. Our tax dollars are supporting low-esteem and killing dreams in the process. “Everybody makes mistakes” but the IRS will capitalize on them!!!!
We fight for the strength to maintain happiness and we pray for the comfort of a steady lifestyle, hoping the devil doesn’t knock at our door. We vary in faith, but are common in flesh. We believe in winning, but hate to see others lose. We are a kind and loving race that commits acts of the mind, which blackens our spirits. Some are birthed in questions; others, with answers, either way we’re searching to be linked. Study so much, learn so little, and capable of everything. We are mankind; full of possibilities, amazed by the impossible, but exist in the fact. We dream life while living our dreams. We’re fighters of happiness! We are God’s children! We are love!!!!
I will not beg for your affection, but I will make myself available to receive it. I love you with every chamber of my heart, but you have my blood clotting making it impossible to live. My best is what you’re getting, yet you continue to reject it. I respect your fear of getting hurt, but you’re too self-absorbed to realize I am taking the same risk; shit, you are too self-indulged to realize that you’re hurting me. It’s my purpose to pour my passion, not force you to drink it. I am halfway out the door; you can invite me back in, or ask me to leave. Choose, because if I have to, the door will be closed behind me and the distance between us will be insurmountable. We were eye to eye when the contract between us was signed, now you barely look my way. I am not trying to guilt you, just pointing out what you are guilty of!!!!
When we lose faith in love, we lose faith in the ability to submit to it. Love isn't something we think about, but something we feel then identify in our thoughts. The heart drives, and the mind navigates. Our principles, preferences, and lifestyles are "the address"; and, spirituality, morality, and emotional well being are "the destination". When we experience some discomfort in the journey, we tend to think liberation will come in the form of "ignoring the navigational systems", "confusing the driver", "visiting many addresses", and "forgetting our destination". Remember, blind faith is staying on course no matter hard the obstacles.
I am trapped in your hug; the first time I felt your heart beat against mine it drove me out of my mind. The only sanity was knowing your embrace would be my future as long as I didn’t live in the past. I have heard songs about this feeling; now they all make sense. They say I’m a fool for falling so fast, but they haven’t experienced the certainty of love. What was once wise words are now other-wise. You don’t have a choice when it’s the real thing. It’s a hurdle too high to jump and a hole too steep to climb out of; it’s an emotion too strong to run from. The greater thing is you don’t want to try to jump, climb, or run; you want its fate to become your faith. Dam, this feels so good it hurts. I have lusted; been infatuated, but could never understand what I was missing in being in-love. Always seen the tears and disregarded the smile; now I see the tears existed because they cherished the smiles. I never understood home until you wrapped your arms around me!!!!
I am attracted to older women, but what are they going to do with a man in his 30′s that doesn’t believe in sex before commitment? I am a young 30 with no children, a roommate (ex-girlfriend), and an idealist. I think young women are appealing; but once they are appealed, my wisdom, maturity, and contentment will ultimately bore them, making them grow too fast and deny them the experience of experimenting. Now, the women my age are ready for children, family, but are still searching for self. They aren’t ready to connect because they are too busy getting over their twenties and worried about their 40′s. I can’t consider being gay but men aren’t that attractive or maybe I am not attracted to them. I love my male friends, but dating them isn’t an option. So, where does an intelligent, thought provoking, moral driven man that’s wise beyond his years find a wife? I say, he waits patiently until he is granted a wish; a once in a lifetime event when two meet and their hearts are made for one another. I say, he waits for his path to reach an intersection at the same time her path meets one. At that moment they will have two options….walk in opposite directions or continue their journey together. Until our paths cross I will continue site seeing, window shopping, and smiling at couple’s that have acquired what has eluded me!!!! | <urn:uuid:3a1b954a-7fce-4745-864c-f6ce85e7995b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://amazinglybrash.com/tag/destination-love/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00006-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965129 | 1,324 | 1.765625 | 2 |
How did the film come to public attention?
The video was first posted online on July 1 without attracting much attention. It was later picked up by various Arab TV stations, with religious Egyptian TV channel Al Nas’ presenter Khalid Abdullah broadcasting scenes on September 8. A clip from his show, dubbed into Arabic, was posted online and within days had been viewed by hundreds of thousands of people.
The Afghan government says it has blocked YouTube to prevent people from watching it.
White House officials have asked YouTube to consider whether the film breaches its own guidelines. These guidelines include the stipulation: “We encourage free speech and defend everyone’s right to express unpopular points of view. But we do not permit hate speech...”
Google, which owns YouTube, said in a statement that the video was “clearly within our guidelines and so will stay on YouTube”, but added that “given the very difficult situation in Libya and Egypt” it had restricted access to the video in both countries.
The video, a trailer for a longer film entitled Innocence of Muslims, appears to depict Islam as a religion of violence and hate, and its Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) as a foolish and power-hungry man.
It opens with a scene in which a Coptic family in a newly radicalised Islamic Egypt is attacked by a group of Muslims while police look on without intervening. The father tells his daughters that Muslims want to kill all Christians and that the Islamic state is hiding their crimes.
Depicting the Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) in any way already defies Islamic belief, let alone satirising him. His wife Khadija and his earliest companions are also revered in their own right in Islam, and so mocking these individuals is also considered serious blasphemy.
What do we know about how it was put together?
The entire film is thought to be around an hour long, although most have only seen a 14-minute trailer which has now been widely circulated on the internet in English and Arabic.
The fuller version had a showing in a small Los Angeles cinema, the Vine Theatre, in June, where its title was The Innocence of Bin Laden.
It was clearly put together on a budget, with a cheaply made set, amateur actors and poor production standards. It was shot over five days at a California film studio in August last year, with a cast of around 50, together with a large production crew.
The most offensive parts of the film appear not to have been in the original, but dubbed over the soundtrack at a later date.
Who is Nakoula Basseley Nakoula?
The now infamous trailer for the film was posted through a YouTube account linked to the name ‘sambacile’ — originally reported as an Israeli-born Jewish estate agent who had raised $5 million (Dh18.8 million) from Jewish donors in the US to make the film. But this person did not exist.
US authorities now say they have identified Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, an Egyptian-born Coptic Christian living in California, as the man who made the film.
Nakoula, who was found guilty of fraud in 2010 and ordered to pay more than $790,000 in restitution, is thought to have used the pseudonym “Sam Bacile” to hide his identity. He denies the allegations.
What do the actors say about it?
They say they were misled about the film entirely, claiming that the original film had nothing to do with Islam or the Prophet, and that all references to him and insults to the religion were added post-production.
Cindy Lee Garcia, who had a small role in the film, told Gawker.com that she and others were given a script for a film called Desert Warriors, and that it would be a historical drama set in the Middle East. Garcia also said she had seen Nakoula on set.
Who else appears to have been involved in the making of the film?
An American right-wing extremist called Steve Klein, linked with various anti-Islamic groups in California, has said he promoted the film but does not know the identity of the director.
According to Salon, Klein cultivated links with Californian Coptic Christian Joseph Nasralla, who has been identified as president and CEO of Media for Christ, the organisation alleged to have produced the film.
Media for Christ is based in Duarte, California, and advertises its mission as promoting Christian values.
Pastor Terry Jones, from Florida, who gained notoriety after threatening to burn a copy of the Quran over plans to build an Islamic cultural centre near the site of the World Trade Centre, has said he was in touch with a Mr Bacile over promotion of the film, but did not meet him and could not identify him.
According to Gawker.com, soft-porn director Alan Roberts was brought in to work on the film by Nakoula Basseley Nakoula. The site says he too may not have been aware what he was actually working on.
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A groundbreaking ceremony for the new hospital that will be built in eastern New Orleans has been postponed. Mayor Mitch Landrieu and other city leaders had been slated to attend the ceremony on Thursday afternoon.
The state Bond Commission last month approved a plan to issue almost $98 million in bonds for the project. That was the last financial hurdle facing the project, which city leaders say will be completed by the end of next year.
Demolition of the Pendelton Memorial Methodist Hospital, which flooded after Hurricane Katrina, began at the end of October. City health officials say the new 80-bed hospital will provided a much needed resource to people in eastern New Orleans, which is far from New Orleans' existing hospitals.
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In Reason, Faith and Revolution, the published version of the Yale Terry lectures from 2009, Eagleton recycles many of his derivative thoughts on theology – the intrinsic nature of key doctrines and of God, the ability to see the best and worst of human beings, the possible contributions to left thought and action – found not only in his return to theology since 2001, but also in his early days as an amateur theologian of the Catholic left in the late 60s and early 70s. In this book, Tezza subscribes wholeheartedly to the argument that somewhere along the line, Christianity lost its radical, almost revolutionary edge. In a rambling, hodgepodge book (one gains the feeling that he has lost his edge since he gave up beer and smokes), he loosely distinguishes between the scriptural form of Christianity and the ideological, the former of course being the radical core and the latter its betrayal into an ideology of power, wealth and influence. So, in a classic and discredited move, he argues that the earliest is the more authentic and what followed is a bowdlerised and fallen version of Christianity.
14 May, 2010
Terry Eagleton’s Reason, Faith and Revolution: A Very Short ReviewPosted by stalinsmoustache under marxism, theology | Tags: beer and smokes, Faith and Revolution, Reason, Terry Eagleton | | <urn:uuid:a9e49b6a-1395-4b33-9217-4e951c75a6e6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://stalinsmoustache.wordpress.com/2010/05/14/terry-eagletons-reason-faith-and-revolution-a-very-short-review/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00004-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961287 | 276 | 1.8125 | 2 |
It is a cardinal rule of ethics in the legal profession that the duty of a prosecutor is not to seek convictions, but to pursue justice — even if that pursuit leads to a dismissal or acquittal of charges. Sadly, that is less and less true in today’s world of winning at any cost….
19th Judicial District Attorney Offers Cash for Convictions
Arapahoe County, CO. March 23 – The 18th Judicial District Attorney, Carol Chambers, is giving bonuses to her deputy attorneys who tried more than five cases last year and have a conviction rate higher than 70 percent, 9Wants to Know has learned.
Critics say it’s unethical to give prosecutors a financial prize for winning a trial and may give defense attorneys a reason to appeal a case.
"The prosecutor’s ethical obligation is to seek justice for everyone," Colorado State Public Defender Douglas Wilson said. "Basing bonus pay of conviction rates flies in the face of that obligation and sounds a lot like the Old West bounties."…
The DAs for both of the metro area’s biggest districts believe paying for performance could leave the prosecutor interested in the outcome of the case.
"Our job is not to directly tie the conviction rate, trials or plea bargains to a monetary figure," First Judicial District Attorney Scott Storey said. "That would be like working on commission or something. And that’s not what we do."
The American Bar Association standards say a prosecutor’s duty is to seek justice, not conviction.
"What matters is that you go in there and you seek justice. And you do the best job you can and then you leave it up to 12 citizens to make a decision," Morrissey said.
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Given that I am not an expert on Skrdlovice/Beranek, my views are:
These are probably 1950s, and show signs, of being designed by the Beraneks themselves, or by one of the 10 members of the design team, mostly unknowns, with the exception of Jan Kotik, working under Veliskova, who was put in charge of the works, following the decision to keep the works, rather than liquidate it.
Now, before people get too worked up over value and collectability, the 1950's period, with the exception of items by Kotik, (such as his "propeller" vases), saw the production of items, strongly influenced by Murano, and the Scandinavian countries. This started to change late in the 1950s. Much of this work was produced in large quantities, and if Glassexport had a run on demand, these were frequently made elsewhere, for example Chribska.
Whilst it is true that during the 1960s and 70s, Skrdlovice gained a reputation for fine, innovative designs, from the newer generation of glass artists, it was also used as a place to trial designs, which would then be put into mass-production elsewhere.
Skrdlovice is known to have used several levels of production.
Unikat: Under Czech law, this term can be used for any edition of 10 or less items. These were mainly sold through the Art Centrum and Dilo gallery system in Czechoslovakia.
Small series: This, depending, on which sources you read, is generally seen as editions of under 500 pieces, or 250 pieces.
Large series: concensus is an edition of no greater than 1250 pieces.
However, and this is the major caveat, many items have been in production for MANY years. It would be unrealistic to assume that if an item went into production in 1968, for example, that in 2007, they will only now have reached 900 of 1250 pieces. The earlier the initial production date, the less likely it is to be important, if it still appears in the current Beranek catalogue, then it is not likely to become scarce, rare, or necessarily even valuable.
Even the fact of a major named designer, ie Vizner, does not help, as many Vizner designed items have been in continuous production since the late 1960s and early 70s.
This is an area, full of potential pitfalls, for the glass investor. If you buy the item because you like it, all to the good. If you buy it as an investment.... make sure you know precisely what you are buying.
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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said yesterday that it expects economic growth in the Middle East and North Afirca region to stagnate this year and drop slightly to about 4 percent in 2012.
The IMF’s World Economic Report released yesterday said social unrest and oil price fluctuations were causing large uncertainties in the MENA economies. It slightly cut its growth forecast for the region by 0.1 percentage point to 4 percent in its quarterly World Economic Outlook. “Commodity price movements and social unrest continue to shape the region’s experience and prospects,” the IMF said.
“The short-term outlook is still subject to unusually large uncertainties, stemming mainly from the fluid political and security situation in some MENA economies as well as growing uncertainty about external demand,” the IMF report said. The IMF predicts growth in oil-exporting countries including Iran will reach 5 percent this year and drop slightly to about 4 percent in 2012, as uncertainty over the global economy prevails.
Qatar will continue to lead the economic expansion in this category on the back of its growing natural gas exports, as well as Iraq and Saudi Arabia. However, growth in Qatar this year has been slightly revised down from 20 percent forecast in April to 18.7 percent.
The pace of expansion of Qatar is expected to narrow sharply to 6 percent in 2012. The UAE’s gross domestic product is projected to grow 3.3 percent this year and is expected to reach 3.8 percent in 2012. Saudi Arabia’s projected economic growth in 2011 has also been cut from 7.5 percent forecast in April to 6.5 percent. The largest Arab economy is expected to grow by 3.6 percent next year.
Inflation may ease
MENA inflation will remain elevated in 2011 but will fall somewhat in 2012, reflecting receding commodity prices. Inflation is forecast to fall from 10.75 percent in 2011 to 7.5 percent in 2012 for oil exporters, while staying under 8 percent during 2011—12 for oil importers.
The IMF said the outlook for the whole MENA region was “subject to large downside risks”. “External risks relate to the unfolding weaker outlook in the United States and Europe, which could sharply depress activity and hence commodity prices or further slow external financing flows to the region,” the report said.
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One of the practices or real estate investors in making a nice profit is to sell a property as quickly as possible. Time is very vital when selling a property. You incur costs and expenses when you hold a property, and the longer you hold it the more money you spend.
Real estate investors make it a point to sell properties fast and in less than a month. But how do you make this possible? One can’t just put a property on sale and leave it to wishful thinking that someone will come across it and buy it.
When selling a property, one has to consider what the buyer would want in a property. Buyers have their standards. So as a seller you have to set some standards in your property in order for a buyer to consider it. You have to know how to sell your property. How can you get your money otherwise?
This is where staging and designing come into the picture. These days, buyers are very critical and careful in the houses that they are considering. Staging and designing a house is now crucial to every seller and real estate investor who wants to sell their house as fast as possible.
7 Rules In Staging and Designing
Know Your Customer
This is the number on rule: know your customer. It is prevalent in every business that the customer comes first when offering a product or service. It is the customer who will be the user of the product after all. In real estate, it’ll be the customer who’s going to be living in the house. So when you are planning to stage and design the house to be sold, always think of the customer — what he or she likes, if they have a pet, if they have kids, if they have a car, etc.
The important thing here is that you try to stage and design the house according to what your customer would want it to be. Knowing your customer will also help in building trust between the two of you, building a much more comfortable and easier buyer-and-seller relationship. Not to mention that once you’ve build trust with your customer, you’ll be getting referrals from them. This will help save you time, money, and effort in promoting and advertising yourself to others.
This is a crime that designers are prone to. Too much can really be too much. You should not overfix a house, basically because all you really need to do is to fix the house enough for it to be looking well and without problems. Further improvements to the house will be made by the customers when they have bought it and furnished it to their liking.
Underspending, or underfixing, is also a big no. Yes, it’s clever to have less expenses. But staging and designing a house has its factors to consider. In fixing the house, you also have to consider the neighborhood and the area wherein the house is located. You also have to see what the other houses. You have to make the property fit in with the type of surroundings and type of houses alongside it. Make them similar, yet also different.
Don’t make the house look so shabby, especially when the neighborhood and other houses beside it all look so lively. You have to make it comparable to the other houses. The customer might also think that you don’t really care about the property. Yes, you’re selling it, but customers would like to have the feeling that the property that they are buying has been well taken cared of. Fixing the property without underspending is also a sign to the customers that you are offering them a property that is worth their money.
Don’t Sell an Empty or Dirty House or a House In Rehab
When selling a property, you have to go by the assumption that the customer does not have the imagination of a designer. So selling empty houses, dirty houses, and houses in rehab is not a very good idea. These kinds of houses do not give what a customer would generally want to see — a theme, some warmth, some color, etc. If you want to have a property sold, it is important to have it imprinted on the minds of your customers. An empty house, or a dirty house, is definitely not that thing that you want to be remembered by the people you are selling to.
Don’t Overstuff the House
Overstuffing should not be done when designing a house for sale. You should also leave some room for the customer’s stuff. In inspecting a house they are considering to buy, they would also have thoughts on what to put and where to put it. Naturally, they would want a house wherein there are some spaces left for their things. Customers also like a place that has some room for lots of movement. Space is also something that you have to consider in staging and designing a house.
Work With the Experts
You would need some help in staging and designing the house, of course. Taking care of the plumbings and getting the kitchen and living room back into shape again is something not a single person can do. When faced with looking for people to help you with, also stick to the people who are an expert in these fields. Choose the people that you trust and you know can do a good job. Working with people who are not up to the tasks would be a waste of time and money if you need to do something all over again because of their mistake.
Bring Out Emotions!
One thing that will have your property remembered (and most probably be bought) is to give an effect to the customers. So producing in the customers emotions and positive feedback will help you sell the house quickly. Appealing to the customer’s emotions is the most effective strategy. Design the house in which the customer will have some nostalgic feeling, or wherein he or she will feel some warmth, and you have got yourself a deal! | <urn:uuid:d5e5e10b-6566-4bca-98aa-254589fbecf9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.insidersrealestatemagazine.com/blog/category/advertising/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00020-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977691 | 1,207 | 1.828125 | 2 |
Book Review: World Made by Hand
When I read James Howard Kunstler's (JHK) book The Long Emergency, it had a profound impact on me. I had been aware for many years that "running out of oil" was a serious matter. After all, I took on the challenge of peak oil in my graduate thesis in 1995. But my focus was more on finding a source that could replace oil as it ran out. Reading The Long Emergency was the first time it really hit me that I was missing a lot of key pieces of the picture.
The impact of The Long Emergency wasn't necessarily because I thought JHK's vision of the future was correct, but it made me think about possibilities. It caused me to look at the suburbs in a new light, and to really appreciate how vulnerable the U.S. is to oil shocks. It made me realize that problems will start to crop up – not when we run out of oil – but simply when supplies can't meet demand. In the U.S., we built a society based on cheap oil, in which one can live 40 miles from work and drive a gas guzzler to and from work each day. As I read his book, it sank in that this model was likely to come to an end sooner rather than later. And just as soon as I finished reading it, I got a copy of Matt Simmons' Twilight in the Desert and read it. Those two books helped me decide that I needed to start trying to educate people about energy issues.
In JHK's latest book – World Made by Hand – he shares his vision of life after oil. It's a far cry from the future I imagined as a child; a future in which man was conquering the galaxy and we were all flying around like the Jetsons. The future JHK evokes resembles the Wild West of 150 years ago – except with a few modern touches surviving.
The book is set in upstate New York (JHK's home state) in the fictional town of Union Grove. In this world, life is very hard. There are no cars, electricity is rarely on, wars have wiped out major U.S. cities (Washington D.C. was wiped out on my birthday, 12/21), religion has made a resurgence, warlords carve out territory, and lawlessness is rampant. But communities are much tighter, the food is healthier, neighbors lend a helping hand, and people have to be a lot more self sufficient. I believe these latter aspects of the future world represents a future that JHK would like to see.
As with his previous book, this one caused me to think about possibilities I had not previously considered. I spent a lot of my time pausing to evaluate whether I felt like a particular scenario was likely. I think if you accept the key premise – that no more oil is available – then the future he envisions is probably pretty close to the mark. Oil provides all kinds of conveniences that we take for granted, and I doubt the average person realizes how different their world would be if the taps dried up. Yet that is the world that JHK has produced in this novel.
But that's not the way I think things will play out. If you read between the lines, the book is set no more than 15 years into the future. The date is never given, but there is a mention of a woman in her 90's who was a nurse in WWII. Assuming 20 as a minimum age, then the setting of the book is some time between now and maybe 2025 at the latest. I simply don't believe we will lose our mechanized transport options in that time frame.
On my recent trip to India, I saw a lot of people who were using very little fuel, but were still getting around by motorized transport. We have such a tremendous amount of fat that we can cut from our fuel consumption. It may be that by 2020 we do have a lot less oil available, but oil will still be available. And some countries – Brazil for instance – are not likely to run into supply issues for many years. It is hard to envision a world in which the U.S. has no more access to oil, but Brazil is motoring happily along. Even though there isn't much mention about the rest of the world in the book – mainly because there is little communication with the rest of the world – I couldn't help but imagine that in JHK's world there were a lot of countries that would have been able to maintain their fuel supplies.
The book touched upon a lot of themes that I have thought about over the years. Long before I was involved in writing about energy, I was a student of evolutionary biology. One of the things that my studies made me appreciate is that modern medicine has allowed many genes to persist in the gene pool that centuries ago would have been cruelly weeded out by evolution. What that means is that most of us are carrying around genes that are only mildly deleterious in the age of modern medicine, but could quickly shorten our life spans without modern medicine. And in this book, JHK pulled modern medicine out from under the population. The result is as I would expect – vast numbers of people died out. I have speculated before that without modern medicine, more than 90% of the population would likely be dead within 10 years from conditions that today don't trouble us too much.
Consider your own health. Have you been hospitalized for appendicitis? How many times have you required antibiotics to treat something common like strep throat? Have you required surgery? These are all things that can kill without modern medicine. So I have a great appreciation for modern medicine. When I go to a developing country like India that's one of the first things I think about: Do the people have access to modern medicine? Without modern mecicine, I shudder to think about having a serious, painful injury or illness.
Another theme that I have thought a lot about – and that JHK tackled in the book – was mining of the municipal dumps. I have often thought about the amount of metals, useful plastics, and just various odds and ends that would be of enormous benefit in a resource-depleted world. I have no doubt that regardless of how the future plays out, there will come a time that we are mining the dumps regularly.
One thing that I haven't discussed yet is the story itself. I really didn't expect much from the story. The real story for me was what a world without oil might look like. But the underlying story was actually pretty good. The characters are really interesting, he makes the relationships interesting, and he throws a few surprises into the mix. I have to hand it to JHK – he tells a good tale. Some of the characters (and names) seemed a bit over the top, but otherwise I found myself wanting to know what was going to happen next. So I got a bonus in that aspect.
If you are like me, and you enjoy thinking about possibilities (good or bad), then this book is definitely food for thought. If you want to remain oblivious to the threat of peak oil, or are otherwise convinced that technology will enable the status quo to remain, then you probably won't care for it (although again the book is worth a read for the story itself).
Footnote: JHK responded to this review via e-mail. He thanked me for the review, said he felt that it was "goldurn fair", and added "Of course any thinking person can come up with alternate valid scenarios that differ from mine in particulars (of what the future may actually be like). I took some 'literary liberties'... Mainly I compressed the time scale of 'Long Emergency' conditions gaining traction.... | <urn:uuid:3173cfea-ba85-4358-898a-ba4119c97b73> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.theoildrum.com/node/3900 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00010-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.983738 | 1,582 | 1.6875 | 2 |
As an entrepreneur, you have to make every moment of your hectic day count. That often leaves little time left to focus on a healthy lifestyle, especially when you're travelling to drum up business.
The typical calorie-laden business meal can lay you flat and turn colleagues or potential customers into the unwitting saboteurs of your best health intentions. Even if breaking bread results in sealing that big deal, overindulging leaves you feeling sluggish and makes your subsequent 24 hours less productive.
To be sure, connecting over meals is a way to meet people, woo clients, and fight loneliness on the road. But if you don't prepare for "temptation" ahead of time, you're far more likely to succumb.
No matter how rational you think you are, most people are wired to overthrow those reasonable decisions in the heat of the moment, according to behavioral economist Dan Ariely.
Here are two quick steps to avoid that next dietary disaster and keep you on a healthy track:
1. Set a fun active goal. Long before you sit down at the table, performance psychologist Peter Shallard recommends planning an activity with enough fun to diminish the "work" aspect of exercise. It should also be modestly more challenging than your current level, whether it's participating in an adult softball league or a salsa competition.
2. Rehearse your response. Imagine someone saying, "Try the four cheese pasta!" and you respond, "No thanks. I'm in training for…" How you finish the statement is up to you -- and depends on the activity you have chosen in advance. Then, go on to order whatever supports your best intentions.
Why it works:
"I'm in training," sounds more powerful to others than "I'm on a diet." But more importantly, note how you feel when you say them to yourself.
Who would try to sway you after such an announcement? Nothing firms personal resolve like committing to something noble in public. You can also strengthen business connections by starting new conversations around potentially mutual interests.
Committing to an invigorating activity is more than a Jedi mind trick. It's a smart maneuver that attracts everyone's cooperation, even yours. | <urn:uuid:de7529d1-194e-4f4d-ac83-8e7071379130> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.entrepreneur.com/blog/223855?cm_mmc=Carousel-_-223855-_-22-_-fpf | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00023-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950262 | 447 | 1.523438 | 2 |
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Below is a rare documentary from the early 1980′s that includes footage of Mike Tyson, Teddy Atlas, Cus D’Amato, and more.
When a legend like Cus D’Amato speaks about the sweet science and the psychological aspects involved, the best thing you can do is listen and learn. Cus shares loads of wisdom throughout the film. You will also see a young Teddy Atlas working with Tyson in his early days. As you will see, physical prowess is only part of the equation. The mind must be developed as well.
Those familiar with this blog may recognize certain scenes from the film. Many popular Youtube videos contain footage from this original documentary. For example, the following hand speed display from a young Tyson comes from this film.
Anyone with any interest or involvement in the sport of boxing should take the time to watch this classic documentary.
I tell them the first time they’re going to fight, the night before they probably won’t sleep. I can’t offer them any consolation other than the fact that the other guy went through the same thing, and when they get down to the fight and enter the dressing-room, especially if they’re in an amateur fight, the room is full of possible opponents, because they don’t know who they’re going to fight, and everybody looks calm, confident and smiling and all the new boy is aware of is that terrible thump in his chest, and he’s intimidated by their attitude and their confidence. What he doesn’t realize is that they look at him and they see the same thing in him as he sees in them, because by an exercise of discipline he also puts on a superficial appearance of confidence. – Cus D’Amato9 comments | <urn:uuid:fb264784-4c9e-4962-83a0-6d3dd20ef1a0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://rosstraining.com/blog/2012/12/18/watch-me-now-rare-documentary/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959647 | 373 | 1.585938 | 2 |
Maternal and fetal outcomes of taxane chemotherapy in breast and ovarian cancer during pregnancy: case series and review of the literature
Annals of Oncology, 08/10/2012
Cardonick E et al. – Taxane-based chemotherapy does not appear to increase the risk of fetal or maternal complications when compared with conventional chemotherapy in the small cohort of women in our Registry.Methods
- This is a retrospective cohort study in which women were identified from the Cancer and Pregnancy Registry at Robert Wood Johnson Medical Center.
- A retrospective chart analysis and an independent t-test were carried out comparing patient outcomes.
- A literature search in Ovid, Medline and PubMed was then carried out using the terms ‘breast or ovarian cancer’, ‘pregnancy’, ‘paclitaxel’, ‘docetaxel’, ‘taxanes’ and ‘chemotherapy’.
- Twelve of 129 women with breast cancer were exposed to taxanes during pregnancy.
- Three of nine women with ovarian cancer received taxane-based treatment during pregnancy.
- Birth weight, gestational age at delivery, rate of growth restriction, congenital anomalies and incidence of maternal and neonatal neutropenia were not statistically different between the two groups. | <urn:uuid:d61e47e2-5827-441e-b6e3-15de24fe0325> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.mdlinx.com/oncology/news-article.cfm/4167994/0/next/2?source=scroller | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00021-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941801 | 268 | 1.773438 | 2 |
LONDON — A British man accused of terrorist fundraising on Monday launched a High Court bid to halt his extradition to the United States, mirroring a similar move by radical cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri.
Babar Ahmad, 38, has been detained in Britain since 2004 on a U.S. warrant. He is accused of running websites used to raise money for terrorists, and of supplying terrorists with gas masks and night-vision goggles.
He has not faced charges in Britain, but has been held without trial for the longest period of any British citizen detained since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
Last week, a European court decision appeared to have cleared the way for the extradition of Ahmad and four other terror suspects — including al-Masri — after an eight-year legal battle.
Al-Masri, wanted on charges that include helping set up a terrorist training camp in rural Oregon, and Khaled Al-Fawwaz, a second terror suspect, have since filed challenges against extradition at Britain's High Court.
Britain's Judicial Office on Monday confirmed Ahmad had joined them.
All three challenges will be heard Tuesday. A fourth man, Adel Abdul Bary, has filed a separate challenge.
Authorities in the United States have for years asked for the suspects to be handed over, but the process had been delayed because the men raised human rights objections.
Prosecutors in Connecticut accused Ahmad in 2004 of running several websites including Azzam.com, which investigators say was used to recruit members for the al-Qaida network, Chechen rebels, and the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Ahmad was originally arrested in Britain in 2003 on suspicion on terrorism offenses, but did not face charges from British. prosecutors and was later released. He was subsequently arrested in 2004 over the U.S. allegations.
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"A dance every weekend"
Donalda McGeachy, Arts'42, reminisces about her student days at Queen's.
Queen’s was a very different place when Donalda (Campbell) McGeachy, Arts’42, first arrived in 1939. Female students lived exclusively in Ban Righ and adhered to a 10 p.m. curfew on weeknights. It was the Big Band era, and “there was a dance every weekend in Grant Hall,” she recalls. The student body was small -- only 1,800 men and 300 women -- and that wasn’t necessarily a bad thing.
“We had dates running out our ears,” Donalda remembers with a laugh. “We were always busy.”
Today, 70 years after graduating from Queen’s, Donalda is penning a memoir of her life that includes memories of her university years. “I’m very grateful every day for having gone to Queen’s because of the friendships I’ve made,” she says.
Donalda was born and raised in Pelly, Saskatchewan, a rural village of just 250 people. “Tinned salmon was considered a luxury,” she recalls, and her family lived a “pioneer life” without cars or running water.
Her father, Milton Campbell, was an MP for Saskatchewan’s Mackenzie constituency from 1921 to 1933. In 1933, Milton was appointed Vice-chair of the Tariff Board of Canada and the family moved to Ottawa. Donalda, then 13 years old, was sad to leave the natural beauty of her little prairie town. “In the wintertime, the snow looked like diamonds under the aurora borealis,” she remembers. “We didn’t have any streetlights, but you didn’t need them. It was so glorious, nobody would speak.”
But Ottawa, too, had its perks. For Donalda, a voracious reader, it was the Library of Parliament. “I was very excited because we didn’t have a library back home in Saskatchewan, and there were few books in people's homes.”
Milton and his wife, Hazel, valued education and prioritized university for their children. When it was Donalda’s turn, the choice was easy. “My three older brothers went to Queen’s,” she says of her siblings Henry George Campbell, BSc’35, James Douglas Campbell, BSc’39, and Richard Wallace Campbell, Arts’41. “It was just sort of there in the family.”
At Queen’s, Donalda studied English, psychology and politics. “Our life was really political,” she recalls. “Politics was my favourite class because I had sat in the visitors’ gallery in the House and heard my father’s speeches.”
She also played on the women’s basketball team, one of the many intercollegiate sports that were suspended in 1940-41 as the university faced the realities of World War II.
“They realized this wasn’t going to be a quick war, and men started to leave university,” Donalda says. Many of them never came back. Decades later, the memories still bring tears to her eyes.
“It was a very interesting time, but it was just so terrible,” she says of the loss of lives. “It’s something that I’ve never come to terms with.”
To commemorate their parents, Donalda and her brothers established the Campbell Memorial Bursaries, which gives preference to students from Saskatchewan.
“We’re very grateful that our parents wanted us to have an education,” she says. “We’ve been very fortunate to live freer lives because we went to university.”
Now 92, Donalda is in good health and keeps a busy schedule. The walls of her Toronto home are decorated with her paintings, a passion she discovered later in life. She describes art as “the nicest thing that’s happened to me besides Queen’s and my family.”
Her memoir is a collection of details of her early life, photographs and family recipes. Handwritten and neatly organized in brightly coloured folders, her stories paint a uniquely antiquated picture of Queen’s. “We had maids serving us. They had black uniforms with white aprons,” she says. She later offers, via email, another tidbit of the times: “The library was called the ‘lovers' club.’”
Donalda describes the memoir as a family project, and isn’t writing it with the express intent of publishing. “I don’t know if I’ll ever finish it,” she claims. Longevity, however, seems to be on her side: McGeachy’s brother Richard Wallace is 95. Their mother, Hazel, lived to 103. Being a grandmother of six and a great-grandmother of two has kept Donalda busy, and she hasn’t visited Queen’s in some time. But even 70 years later, as she writes her memoir, she makes it clear that Queen’s is never far from her mind.
“I didn’t realize it for a long time, but I’m finding more and more that the things I learned at Queen’s - from people, the professors, the courses I took, or playing basketball - have helped me so much in my life,” she says. “I love that team spirit.” | <urn:uuid:8f5dcb41-70d5-459b-9890-50a12d528f5b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://queensu.ca/news/alumnireview/dance-every-weekend | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00012-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9842 | 1,210 | 1.835938 | 2 |
UOW offers alternative and supplementary entry programs for students who may have suffered disadvantage during their senior school years, or who may need additional study to prepare them for their university degree.
STEP to UOW
The Special Tertiary Entrance Program (STEP) to UOW is a university preparation program for students who have experienced a disadvantage during their secondary school education. It is open to students in the University's drawing area and regional NSW.
You may be eligible for additional points for your UOW preferences if:
- you have experienced long-term (a least nine months) disadvantage in your preparation for uni, and
- your educational performance has been seriously affected by circumstances beyond your control, and
- you are in Year 12, and
- you are a permanent resident of Australia.
For application forms, contact the Universities Admissions Centre (UAC), your high school career adviser or UOW on 1300 367 869. Sympathetic consideration is given to all applicants, but admission is not guaranteed.
UOW College is the private pre-university college of UOW. It has been offering quality preparation programs for over 20 years from facilities in the heart of the main UOW Wollongong campus.
If you do not gain direct entry into UOW after the HSC, UOW College offers a range of university preparation programs to teach you the skills and knowledge you need to pass the course and succeed in a Bachelor degree.
The Woolyungah Indigenous Centre at UOW offers an Alternative Admissions Program (AAP) to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. It assesses applicants’ suitability for study at UOW based on a series of tests and interviews instead of the ATAR. It is available to all students of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander descent who are 17 years old or older. | <urn:uuid:f3e71271-30b2-406f-a89a-3964cedc82bd> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.uow.edu.au/future/specialaccess/index.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00027-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953802 | 376 | 1.789063 | 2 |
Let’s abolish the Vauxhall Cross gyratory, says Lambeth Council
The leader of Lambeth Council has called for the removal of the of the Vauxhall Cross gyratory system as the authority prepare to launch a consultation on planning policy for Vauxhall and Albert Embankment.
The council is currently preparing a supplementary planning document (SPD) for Vauxhall and the Albert Embankment that will guide development in that area for the next few years and it wants to hear people's views about what the priorities should be.
The council is putting forward a number of ideas that will make it clear what kind of development will be welcome.
This includes the creation of a new public square that would provide a focus for the area, and the potential for replacing Vauxhall bus station with bus stops along a new high street lined with shops.
"We are determined that any future development in the area brings improvements and benefits for the local community," says Cllr Steve Reed, leader of Lambeth Council.
"We want to create a proper town centre in Vauxhall and remove the physical barriers, like the gyratory, that make this difficult.
"The SPD will set out what improvements local people and the council want, making it clear to developers what will be acceptable and how they will be expected to contribute."
The council is holding open days on Wednesday 14 and Thursday 15 March (3pm to 8pm) at Unit 13A, St George Wharf, Vauxhall SW8 2LL. All are welcome to share their views.
The council says it wants to wants to consider ambitious plans to remove the gyratory and reintroduce two-way to get a better balance between cars, walking and cycling.
Last year the Mayor of London Boris Johnson told the London Assembly that abolishing the one-way system would cost "in excess of £20 million".
Last month Mr Johnson said: "TfL is continuing to work closely with the London Borough of Lambeth and the GLA to develop short and long term proposals to improve Vauxhall gyratory for all road users.
"There are currently a number of options that are being considered and discussions are continuing between the public bodies, landowners and other stakeholders, although no agreement on a preferred solution has been reached as yet.
"TfL hopes to be in a position to provide a further update by the middle of this year."
• The new SPD will also cover Albert Embankment which is the subject of a number of major development proposals, including a scheme at the former fire brigade headquarters and the recently announced plans by St James for a 28-storey tower. | <urn:uuid:18583913-c827-429d-a469-78e25d37b35d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/5870 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00005-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95716 | 550 | 1.5625 | 2 |
Tuesday, 24 July 2012
Short Stack and I had an actual conversation over the weekend. I asked him questions, and he answered.
Not an echolalia response either, but an actual response.
One aspect of Autism that many are aware of is the challenge of social skills and communication. It's a huge deal for us atypical folks to have a dialogue with our children with Autism.
Now, his answers were very short and to the point - and if you weren't listening to him - you wouldn't catch it.
The conversation came about when I asked him if he wanted some friends.
His answer was 'friends, please' (his way of saying, 'yes')
To ensure this was not an 'echo' response I asked, 'don't you have any friends at school?'
His answer was 'no'.
Then I shared with him that we need to find him some good friends. One's that will play, have fun, and who we can all trust.
He got very excited and started hand-flapping/stimming, smiling and laughing.
We went on with this back and forth for several more minutes, with me asking questions with follow up questions - trying to find out what his interests are - if he wanted music turned on while riding down the rode.... each time he responded appropriately.
It took some extra work, but the key to it was not just listening to his response - but rather watching how he responded. Like his mother so much can be said with a look, a stare, a smile.
It was a good day of developing dialogue.
Day's like this are always memorable and special. It provides a glimmer of what's to come - when the rest of the world can see what I see everyday, a very smart kid just trying to express himself. | <urn:uuid:68a171d7-b1a5-4bdc-90c5-ec31ebf6b70d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.autisable.com/766162626/developing-dialogue/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00002-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.987983 | 375 | 1.773438 | 2 |
I believe that education is the cornerstone of good programming practices. Standing still is a good way to get run over in this game and anybody who thinks that they can rest on their laurals as a developer will quickly become obsolete. So we try to keep up with the latest technologies without and programming practices through a combination of classes, community involvement and testing out demo versions of programs.
On this page you will find some links to educational resources, programming communities and other ways that we try to keep ourselves sharp. On-line communities are some of the best ways for us to stay in top form. After all, no amount of bluster or paper degrees will impress a real programmer. Competence is all that matters in this game and if you don't stay sharp, someone else will always be there to eat your lunch. | <urn:uuid:619f2e37-1a62-4e30-941b-89894a2d8127> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.codegurus.com/Advantages/ProfessionalActivities.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00024-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959806 | 165 | 1.53125 | 2 |
ABSTRACT: Concern exists about the cardiovascular health implications of large size among professional football players and those players who aspire to professional status.
To assess cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors in active National Football League (NFL) players and to compare these findings with data from the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) study.
A cross-sectional study of 504 active, veteran football players from a convenience sample of 12 NFL teams at professional athletic training facilities between April and July 2007. Data were compared with men of the same age in the general US population (CARDIA study, a population-based observational study of 1959 participants aged 23 to 35 years recruited in 1985-1986).
Prevalence of CVD risk factors (hypertension, dyslipidemia, glucose intolerance, and smoking).
The NFL players were less likely to smoke when compared with the CARDIA group (0.1% [n = 1]; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0%-1.4%; vs 30.5% [n = 597]; 95% CI, 28.5%-32.5%; P < .001). Despite being taller and heavier, NFL players had significantly lower prevalence of impaired fasting glucose (6.7% [n = 24]; 95% CI, 4.6%-8.7%; vs 15.5% [n = 267]; 95% CI, 13.8%-17.3%; P < .001). The groups did not differ in prevalence of high total cholesterol and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), low high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), or high triglycerides. Hypertension (13.8% [n = 67]; 95% CI, 11.0%-16.7%; vs 5.5% [n = 108]; 95% CI, 4.6%-6.6%) and prehypertension (64.5% [n = 310]; 95% CI, 58.3%-70.7%; vs 24.2% [n = 473]; 95% CI, 22.3%-26.1%) were significantly more common in NFL players than in the CARDIA group (both P < .001). Large size measured by body mass index (BMI) was associated with increased blood pressure, LDL-C, triglycerides, and fasting glucose, and decreased HDL-C.
Compared with a sample of healthy young-adult men, a sample of substantially larger NFL players had a lower prevalence of impaired fasting glucose, less reported smoking, a similar prevalence of dyslipidemia, and a higher prevalence of hypertension. Increased size measured by BMI was associated with increased CVD risk factors in this combined population.
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It only takes one simple click to change your life and the lives of so many others for the better. Let Wishes4Life be your home to express your hope and desire for something that you would have never imagined could happen. Your New Home to Express, Share and Celebrate Wishes, Dreams and Aspirations. START | <urn:uuid:6686b03f-c927-42be-96e5-0653bb59670a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.wishes4life.com/blog/2011/12/21/how-to-catch-the-trade-winds-in-your-sails.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00005-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955225 | 505 | 1.734375 | 2 |
ST. LOUIS (KSDK) - NewsChannel 5 received the following statements from officials around the area:
From Illinois Governor Pat Quinn:
"I am shocked and deeply saddened to learn of the horrific massacre that occurred today at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.
"All of Illinois prays for the victims of this senseless violence and their families. May God bless the immortal souls of all those who lost their lives. In their remembrance, I have ordered all flags across Illinois to be flown at half-staff beginning today.
"We know firsthand from the tragedy that took place on February 14, 2008 in a classroom at Northern Illinois University that guns have no place in any school, at anytime, anywhere in Illinois or America.
"It is the foremost duty of government to protect public safety, especially the safety of children and students.
"As governor and as a parent, I intend to spearhead passage of strict laws that will protect our children and the people of Illinois from gun violence."
From U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill:
"I'm stunned and sick to my stomach. And as a mother, I'm horrified. All of America is grieving for these children and their families. As we learn more, my prayers are with the students and staff at Sandy Hook Elementary, and with their families."
From The Crime Victim Advocacy Center:
"An incident like this reminds us that we are vulnerable to violence at any time," says Julie Lawson, President & CEO of the Crime Victim Advocacy Center (CVAC).
"We will likely see parents and children suffering 'vicarious trauma' - being afraid that the same thing will happen to us as a result of our inherent love and empathy for our fellow Americans," Lawson explains.
"While it is terrifying to think this could happen to anyone, it is also a reminder to be diligent in support of mental health, violence prevention and child safety efforts," she continues. "Children should be taught to always be aware of their surroundings. But they also need to be reminded that this is an unusual situation and they should not fear going to school or other familiar activities."
"Our hearts go out to the victims and their families. They will need a lot of support in coming months as they navigate the feelings of confusion and loss associated with such senseless violence," Lawson says. "It is going to be a long and difficult path to establishing a new sense of normal for these families."
From the National PTA President Betsy Landers:
"National PTA feels enormous sympathy for the students, families and communities affected by the horrendous tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., today. Our country has experienced far too many of these tragedies, and we all share in the sense of loss and hurt.
"School and child safety is one of PTA's core tenets as it is crucial to effective learning. A traumatic event like that of this morning affects the entire community, especially the families and friends of the victims. "This can be an emotional time, and it's important for people affected by this tragedy to connect with and support each other.
"National PTA has many resources to assist students, families, schools and PTAs in coping with school violence. The resources are downloadable at PTA.org/SchoolViolence.
"National PTA believes the protection of children in all school settings is a fundamental right and has made this the utmost priority for our work and advocacy."
From U.S. Senator Roy Blunt:
"I am shocked by this incredible tragedy, and I hope all Americans will join me in praying for the victims and their families after this horrific and senseless act of violence." | <urn:uuid:15fd9db7-31a5-42d3-8122-ca6fc625385d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ksdk.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=352270 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00017-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968145 | 752 | 1.679688 | 2 |
11 12 / 2011
"I hated being a teenager. And then I discovered drugs. And then that’s all I gave a shit about. I don’t know how I’m going to tell my kids. How the fuck do you compete with that? How do you take a miserable person with no control over their lives and tell them with a straight face, ‘oh, you can’t do drugs. You can’t do that, baby. All drugs are, are a perfect solution for every problem you have right now.’ How do you beat that? Drugs are so fucking good that they’ll ruin your life. That’s how good they are."
06 11 / 2009
From NurtureShock:In his new book, Dr. Joe Allen has concluded that our urge to protect teenagers from real life – because we don’t think they’re ready yet – has tragically backfired. By insulating them from adult-like work, adult social relationships, and adult consequences, we have only delayed their development. We have made it harder for them to grow up. Maybe even made it impossible to grow up on time.
Basically, we long ago decided that teens ought to be in school, not in the labor force. Education was their future. But the structure of schools is endlessly repetitive. “From a Martian’s perspective, high schools look virtually the same as sixth grade,” said Allen. “There’s no recognition, in the structure of school, that these are very different people with different capabilities.” Strapped to desks for 13+ years, school becomes both incredibly monotonous, artificial, and cookie-cutter. | <urn:uuid:72a7277f-664d-4fa1-9d41-195dfc935241> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://affably.tumblr.com/tagged/adolescence | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00013-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972089 | 358 | 1.515625 | 2 |
The "what will she do next" guessing game came to an end this week when Florida's Republican Governor-elect Rick Scott named Michelle Rhee," the former chancellor of the District of Columbia school system, to an 18-member transition team on education.
Scott said the transition team would help him "find innovative ways to create a new education system for a new economy."
What Michelle brings to public education in Florida, according to Julie Young, President and Chief Executive Officer of Orlando-based Florida Virtual School (FLVS), "is a new perspective and drive for change."
"Michelle was controversial, but she has a clear passion for what is best for kids and making sure kids have the highest quality education and the highest quality teacher," said Young.
In Washington DC, Rhee fired 241 teachers, making them accountable for student performance and championed weakening the teachers union and closing low-performing schools. Some of Rhee's methods are being considered outside the District as the nation's education system undergoes change.
In October, she stepped down from her post as schools chancellor after Mayor Adrian Fenty failed to win the democratic primary for re-election.
Rhee gave no hint of her intentions to join Scott's transition team when she appeared Wednesday on Comedy Central's Colbert Report. Asked by Colbert, "What is next for you?" Rhee replied, "I'm trying to figure out what makes sense right now in terms of a next job."
So now we know. And we also know that Rhee's interest in public education transcends party politics. Having worked with a liberal democrat Mayor in Washington, DC, she's joining a republican and his Florida colleagues in the edTech space.
And Florida is positioning itself as a national leader as some of the state's education reforms are available outside the panhandle. Founded in 1997, Florida Virtual School was the country's first, statewide Internet-based public high school. Last month, an alliance between Florida Virtual School and Pearson Education Inc., an education, technology and distribution services company, announced a partnership. Pearson will offer more than 100 Florida Virtual School courses worldwide.
"Florida has had a very strong track record of education reforms over the last 15 years," said Michael Horn, executive director of Education of Innosight Institute, a Bay-area innovation and education think-tank and co-author of Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns.
"In choosing her [Rhee], Scott's not letting that [education transformation] slide backwards," said Horn.
"You've got Michelle Rhee, Patricia Levesque, Executive Director, Foundation For Florida's Future and a Florida Virtual School World History Instructor [Mindy Lafevers-Hodge], "Wow! That's transformation in a bold way," he said.
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After being seen in Valencia, Seville, Málaga and Bilbao, the MNAC
is to host the exhibition Sorolla. A View of Spain. The Hispanic Society of America Collection, which brings together the series of 14 panels painted by Sorolla to decorate the library of this New York-based American institution.
Curated by Felipe Garín and Facundo Tomàs, professors at the University of Valencia and experts on this painter, this exhibition presents, for the first time, all of these impressive pieces outside the headquarters for which the group of paintings was designed, and which have been restored for the occasion.
The art dealer and scholar Archer Milton Huntington (1870-1955), who in 1904 founded the Hispanic Society of America, where he built up his important collection of Spanish art, commissioned Sorolla to do this decoration in 1911. The following year the painter travelled round Spain collecting images of the different types of landscape in Spain. In 1912, however, he began painting the immense panels directly from life, a task he was not to finish until 1919 and which meant a considerable effort on his part.
The iconographic programme developed by the painter is based on a free, highly personal interpretation of a very varied and diverse range of landscapes. Emerging forcefully behind these gigantic compositions is the talent and the energy of a painter observing the reality around him through eyes full of sensitivity: a sensitivity that can be glimpsed in the tiniest details. The time it took him to complete the task is highly illustrative proof of the challenge and the difficulty that doing the panels meant for Sorolla. Far from confining himself to doing them quickly, he decided to emphasise the direct contact with the motif depicted, thus turning the protagonists of the compositions into veritable studies of human types. This did not mean, however, renouncing the bursts of light and colour, two of the traits that have most characterized his art and have contributed the most to making him one of the most universal Spanish painters.
This exhibition is complemented with another formed of a group of about 50 drawings, belonging to the collections of the Museo Sorolla in Madrid and the Hispanic Society of America, which shows us the complex process of creating the large painted panels. The observation of these small-format compositions gives us the opportunity to get a close view, from a different angle, of what we might call one of the most singular artistic undertakings in the history of Spanish art. In the same way, visitors are also able to grasp the visual magnetism that the painters free, spontaneous language exerts. | <urn:uuid:60dfae73-7237-4c93-9ff8-ba84c35b71d1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=29119&int_modo=2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00026-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964603 | 526 | 1.835938 | 2 |
At The Clinton Global Initiative 2012, Applied Materials announced their commitment with Santa Clara University’s Center of Science, Technology and Society (CSTS) as part of a continued effort to help social entrepreneurs improve their ability to scale (grow) their business and create significantly more impact. The partnership coincides well with this year’s CGI theme of “Designing for Impact” since support from Applied Materials enables CSTS to provide business model and organizational capacity training, as well as expert mentoring, to 18 social entrepreneurs in India and China over the next three years.
CSTS is working on a few fronts in this partnership. We are updating our Energy Map which was launched one year ago to help reserachers and practitioners understand the industry of alternative energy in developing countries. As mentioned, we are also excited to have the support of Applied Materials so we can continue to help India, which is well represented in our program, and expand into China. | <urn:uuid:569c7df6-7e5c-4b32-87a3-12394cc64605> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://scu.edu/socialbenefit/news/blog.cfm?b=142&tag=4173 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00003-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966344 | 194 | 1.585938 | 2 |
One of the most exciting features of the Cindy Sherman exhibition is Sherman’s photographic mural, which is making its North American premiere at MoMA. Before MoMA visitors enter the sixth-floor galleries, they will encounter her monumental mural. Like wallpaper, the mural adheres directly to the surface of the wall, and wraps around several walls and corners to transform space and create an immersive fictive environment. The artist designed this configuration of the mural specifically for MoMA’s grand sixth-floor space. The soaring ceiling height allowed her to scale the figures to a colossal size—they stand 18 feet tall—the largest she has ever made them. The effect is utterly jaw-dropping.
As in all her work, Sherman is both model and photographer, but in the mural, instead of using makeup or prosthetics to alter her appearance, she transformed her face via digital means. She exaggerated her features using Photoshop, elongating her nose, narrowing her eyes, or creating smaller lips. The statuesque characters sport an odd mix of costumes and are taken from everyday life—they are eccentrics that Sherman has elevated to larger-than-life status. Set against a decorative toile backdrop, her characters seem like protagonists from their own carnivalesque worlds, where fantasy and reality merge.
Installing the mural required the utmost patience and attention to detail (as you can see in the video above). Made up of 25 individual panels, the mural was installed over three days by Anthony and Mike, two exacting professional wallpaper installers, and Margaret, the artist’s assistant, who used a scissor lift to reach the heights of the 24-foot walls. The mural is made with a new material, PhotoTex, with an adhesive backing. Think of it as a giant sticker that sticks directly to the wall after pealing away a backing paper.
Watching the installation was exhilarating. As the characters were applied to the walls one by one, the space was slowly transformed. MoMA’s white walls and clean, minimal architecture morphed into a fantastical world that invites viewers to marvel and linger.
To get a sneak preview of the mural and the exhibition before it opens to the public on February 26, become a MoMA member, and attend Member Previews February 22–25.
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100 million websites by the end of this year?
The Internet continues to grow at an impressive speed. According to a survey conducted by Netcraft earlier this month, there are currently 88,166,395 sites available - 2.87 million more than last month. 14.1 million new hostnames - about 19% of all currently online hostnames - were added in the first half of this year. At a pace of more than 2 million new hostnames per months, it seems likely that there will be more than 100 million websites by the end of this year.
Netcraft found that Apache was able to gain back market shares from Windows servers after a several months of decline. Apache saw its base grow by 3.2 million hostnames during June and now holds a 63.25% market share, according to the survey. The share of Windows servers dropped slightly to 29.48%. Solaris had a rough month and lost 953,000 servers and almost 75% of its market share, which now stands at 0.39%. | <urn:uuid:9d3aa03c-7cc2-4381-b88e-0c16d73a4069> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.tgdaily.com/trendwatch/27668-100-million-websites-by-the-end-of-this-year | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00031-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979211 | 209 | 1.835938 | 2 |
When you have selected the software in cloud technology that you are going to use for yourself for Windows Backup, the next thing for you to do is to check it out periodically.
There are several companies out there who provide one with the best of Windows Backup. Once you have stored all your files and folders on it, you might just tend to forget it. However, a good idea is to check how long does it take to retrieve it using the latest cloud technology options and also how quick to restore is it. This can not only be extremely reassuring for you but it will give you a chance to go on and get the data in the fastest way possible if something were to happen.
What most wise people do in order to have a great Windows Backup for their data is to have important files stored in threes. One is to store it on their computers, another one on a removable and portable hard drive, and the third in the virtual world in a cloud on a server in another geographical location.
These actions on your path will make certain that you won’t end up facing data loss and the problems that come along with it. In fact, when others might be running around in panic wondering what they will do without the data, you will only have to log on to the computer and start retrieving your files. | <urn:uuid:8baab736-cd35-40ff-b01d-acf6383189bd> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thetop10bestonlinebackup.com/online-backup-blog/what-after-windows-backup/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00021-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965853 | 266 | 1.5 | 2 |
"Coastlands, listen to Me in silence, And let the peoples gain new strength; Let them come forward, then let them speak; let us come together for judgment. Who has aroused one from the east whom He calls in righteousness to His feet? He delivers up nations before him, and subdues kings. He makes them like dust with his sword, as the wind-driven chaff with his bow. He pursues them, passing on in safety, by a way he had not been traversing with his feet. Who has performed and accomplished it, calling forth the generations from the beginning? 'I, the Lord, am the first, and with the last. I am He.'" The coastlands have seen and are afraid; the ends of the earth tremble; they have drawn near and have come. Each one helps his neighbor, and says to his brother, "Be strong!" So the craftsman encourages the smelter, and he who smooths metal with the hammer encourages him who beats the anvil, saying of the soldering, "It is good"; and he fastens it with nails, that it should not totter. "But you, Israel, My servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, descendant of Abraham My friend, you whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called from its remotest parts, and said to you, 'You are My servant, I have chosen you and not rejected you.' Do not fear, for I am with you; do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, surely I will help you, surely I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.' Behold, all those who are angered at you will be shamed and dishonored; those who contend with you will be as nothing, and will perish. You will seek those who quarrel with you, but will not find them, those who war with you will be as nothing, and non-existent. For I am the Lord your God, who upholds your right hand, who says to you, 'Do not fear, I will help you.'"
My Father's Gift to Me
I bring this series on courage to a close with the text that has served to relieve my fears more often than any other text in the Bible—namely, Isaiah 41:10. I've told you the story before. But since it's Father's Day, I will tell you again, as a kind of tribute to my father—and my heavenly Father.
Heading for Germany
On July 27, 1971, Noël and I boarded a 707 to fly from New York to Munich, Germany. We believed God opened the door for us to go study at the University of Munich. I was 25 years old, had just graduated from Fuller Seminary the month before. God had turned my life around in seminary so that I was eager for studies not for their own sake but for Christ and his church.
I had written in my journal on July 12,
My desire is to throw myself into the church and be employed by the Lord to do what he would in this day and through me. I am not alienated from her. I am in love with her. I want to teach in her and be taught in her. I want to be a channel of life for her and receive life through her. I want now to be about my studies in preparation, and I thank God for these times at home to see some needs—in the church and in myself. My how imperfect and weak I feel at home because I am not as loving as I ought to be. I am a long way off from holiness realized.
The Promise of Isaiah 41:10
Now with that sense of desire to serve the church and that sense of weakness and imperfection I was in New York, 15 days later, ready to leave for Munich for three years. My father couldn't be there to see us off because he was doing the work of an evangelist in another state. My mother and grandmother were there. To give a sense of realism here, let me read from my journal entry two days later.
We picked up mother and MaMohn and headed for New York. At about 2 PM we found Cargo Hanger 67 at Kennedy Airport where we unloaded our 400 pounds of extra luggage and paid $253 to have it shipped on our own flight. Then we went into Manhattan to see the town, and decided it would be preferable to sit in Radio City Music Hall than fight that crazy traffic and heat. From Radio City we called Daddy long distance to say good-bye. I felt so frustrated to make our good-bye appropriate. I came closer to crying there than when I left Mother and MaMohn at Pan Am. He gave me 3 passages to read: Is. 41:10 [today's text]; Is. 50:7; II Tim. 4:1–5. Noël and I read these together before going to bed tonight. My how I love Daddy. I think every time I am thrown into a new situation where I may be afraid or alone my mind turns to the kind of life Daddy has been called to live for almost 30 years. I love him for following through in that call. Oh how I pray that I will have the faith and confidence he has in our Lord for trying times.
For three years in Germany, Isaiah 41:10 was on my lips and in my heart during anxious times more than any other verse. In fact it became so instinctive to say it, that today when my mind is neutral the spinning of the gears is in Isaiah 41:10. I can remember riding my old fashioned, second hand, balloon-tire bike on the bumpy, cobblestone back streets of Munich along the Isar River on the way to a class where I might have to use my German in front of the other students, and saying over and over again to myself, "Fuerchte dich nicht, denn ich bin mit dir; shau dich nicht aenchstlich um, ich bin ja dein Gott. Ich staerke dich, ich helfe dir, ich stuetze dich mit der rechten hand meiner Gerechtigkeit." And seeing God again and again and again come through for me.
Passing It On to My Own Sons
And now I am a father with sons. And I rejoice that I can do for them what my father did for me. So last Wednesday evening just before Benjamin left for boot camp in Fort Jackson, South Carolina, we all sat down in the living room and I said, "There is a special verse I want to send with you, because my father sent it with me. It served me well and it will serve you well. "Fear not for I am with you. Be not dismayed for I am your God. I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand."
When I sought for a concluding text for this series on courage and fearlessness and risk-taking, it had to be the one that God has used in my life more than any other to help me through times of stress and fear.
Two Commands Supported by Five Reasons
Let's look at the verse, Isaiah 41:10, and then see how the preceding verses intensify the point of the verse.
There are two commands in the verse not to fear and five pillars of fearlessness. "Fear not" is the first command at the beginning of the verse. And then the second is "do not anxiously look about you" (RSV: "do not be dismayed").
As always in the Bible, there are reasons for the commands. Commands don't hang in the air with no basis in reality. If God commands us to do something, there are good reasons to do it. And power comes from understanding and believing those reasons.
Here there are the five reasons—call them.
The Five Pillars of Fearlessness
- "For I am with you"—"Do not fear, for I am with you."
- "I am your God"—"Do not look anxiously about you, for I am
- "I will strengthen you."
- "Surely I will help you."
- "Surely I will uphold you with My righteous right hand."
Restated, the five pillars of fearlessness are:
- God is with me;
- God is my God;
- God will strengthen me;
- God will help me;
- God will uphold me.
When God calls you to be free from fear as you do evangelism, as you take a test, as you face an interview, as you take a stand against an unjust business practice, as you confront someone with sin in their life, when you leave a secure position and take a risk in a new venture, when you face an operation or a treatment, when you lose a spouse or a friend—when God calls you to be free from fear (to overcome this natural emotion and have peace), he does not leave the command hanging in the air. He puts pillars under it. Five of them. That's the nature of all biblical commands. They come with divine support.
- Fear not . . . God is with you;
- Fear not . . . God is your God;
- Fear not . . . God will strengthen you;
- Fear not . . . God will help you;
- Fear not . . . God will uphold you.
The Key to Overcoming Fear
The key to overcoming fear is resting on the pillars of the promises of God.
We'll come back to these pillars in a moment. Look with me for a minute at the verses leading up to verse 10 to see how they intensify these promises and strengthen these pillars.
If the key to fearlessness is believing that God is your God and is with you and will strengthen you and help you and uphold you, then knowing the greatness of this God will intensify your faith and your fearlessness.
Four Glimpses of God's Greatness
So look at the Glimpses of God's Greatness that Isaiah gives.
Glimpse #1: The Judge of All the Earth
In Isaiah 41:1 God says, "Coastlands, listen to Me in silence, and let the peoples gain new strength; let them come forward, then let them speak; let us come together for judgment."
Here is a picture of God calling all the coastlands and all the peoples to gird up their strength and come before him for judgment. The God of Isaiah 41:10 is the judge of all the earth. He calls all nations to give an account of their lives and their religions and their thoughts. He is not called to account. He is not on trial. They are. They come into his courtroom. He is the judge of all and will pass sentence on every person. That's the God who is with you to strengthen and help.
Glimpse #2: The Ruler of All Rulers
In Isaiah 41:2–3 Isaiah asks, "Who has aroused one from the east [probably Cyrus the Persian king that God stirred up to come against Babylon] whom He [God] calls in righteousness to His feet? He delivers up nations before him, and subdues kings. He makes them like dust with his sword, as the wind-driven chaff with his bow."
Here is a picture of God rousing a king and leading him in conquest and delivering up nations before him. So the God of Isaiah 41:10 is Ruler of the rulers of history. He controls the affairs of men and nations for his purposes. That's who gives the pillars for fearlessness in Isaiah 41:10.
Glimpse #3: The Uncreated First, Yahweh
In Isaiah 41:4 Isaiah asks, "Who has performed and accomplished it, calling forth the generations from the beginning? 'I, the Lord, am the first, and with the last. I am He.'"
Here is a picture of God not only judging the nations and ruling the rulers of the earth but calling all the nations of the earth into being—"calling forth the generations from the beginning." God is the first—he is the absolute reality before all other reality and on which all other reality depends. He is the uncreated first. And he will be there with the last when all is accomplished according to his eternal purpose.
When God answers, "I, the Lord, am the first . . . ," the word "Lord" is "Jehovah" or Yahweh. Franz Delitzsch comments on this verse: "It is the full meaning of the name Jehovah which is unfolded here; for God is called Jehovah as the absolute I, the absolutely free Being, pervading all history, and yet above all history, as He who is Lord of His own absolute being, in revealing which He is purely self-determined; in a word, as the unconditionally free and unchangeably eternal personality" (cited in E.J. Young, The Book of Isaiah, vol. 3, p 76). That's the God of Isaiah 41:10 who strengthens and helps and upholds.
Glimpse #4: The God Who Chose His Own People
In verses 5–7 Isaiah shows us the desperate attempts of the nations to persuade themselves that they and their gods are strong. Verse 5: they are afraid and they come together. Verse 6: they try to encourage each other not to be afraid, and say, "Be strong!" Verse 7: the idol makers who smooth the metal and nail up the idols with nails try to encourage each other and say, "It is good."
In other words, there is a picture of the unrepentant nations desperately trying to convince themselves that their self-wrought gods, made with soldering and nails, are really adequate for their needs.
Over against this desperation of self-reliance and idolatry God says to his people in verses 8–9, "But you [are] Israel, My servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, descendant of Abraham My friend, you whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called from its remotest parts, and said to you, 'You are My servant, I have chosen you and not rejected you.'"
In verses 1–9 there is a picture of the God who judges the nations, and rules the rulers of the nations, and calls the nations into being, choosing his people for himself, calling them from their hopeless distance from him, and taking them to be his servant.
That is what God has done for us in Christ. He chose us before the foundation of the world. He called us out of darkness and death. And he took us for himself to be his. To make himself our God.
These Glimpses Intensify the Five Pillars
Now all that, I say, intensifies the five pillars of fearlessness in Isaiah 41:10.
- The God who judges all the earth and calls the coastlands to give account . . .
- The God who rules the rulers of history . . .
- The God who calls the nations of earth into being because he is first and last . . .
- The God who calls his own people and makes himself their God freely and graciously . . .
That God says to us who believe,
- I am your God.
- I am with you.
- I will strength you.
- I will help you.
- I will uphold you.
Then Comes the Command—On These Pillars
- Therefore—because I am the judge of the nations . . .
- Therefore—because I rule the rulers of history . . .
- Therefore—because I call nations into being . . .
- Therefore—because I choose freely my own . . .
- Therefore—because I—this great and sovereign God—
- am your God and
- am with you and
- will strengthen you and
- will help you and
- will uphold you . . .
Therefore, do not fear.
Or change the image for a moment. Not five pillars. But God in five relations to you expressed in five different prepositions.
- I am your God—over you.
- I am with you—by your side.
- I will strengthen you—from inside of you.
- I will help you—all around you from wherever the enemy comes.
- I will uphold you—from underneath you.
Over you, by you, inside you, around you, underneath you.
Therefore do not fear.
Our Final Ground for Fearlessness
We come to the end of this series with one great ground for fearlessness—GOD!
- I am your God.
- I am with you.
- I will strengthen you.
- I will help you.
- I will uphold you.
I call you this morning to stop defining and limiting your future in terms of your past and start defining it in terms of your God.
I call you to recognize that God is greater than your personality. God is greater than your past experiences of timidity. God is greater than your "family of origin." And God calls you to joyful fearlessness.
The crucial factor in your fearless living is not your family but your God.
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Gaming, Disclosure, Prof. Frank, and a Question
THE GAME OF DEBATE, THE PHASES OF EDUCATION, PRE-ROUND DISCLOSURE, AND A
QUESTION FOR JUDGES
Alfred C. Snider, Edwin W, Lawrence professor of Forensics, University of
This is a response to Prof. Frank in his discussion of coach participation
and how it relates to a "gaming" approach to debate. As the (now cited)
"Father" of the gaming paradigm, I feel obligated to clarify my position and
perhaps enlighten the participants in this controversy (on all sides) about
how these specific practices fit in with the reality of modern educational
Since we are all patting each other on the back (Oh, if only that alone could
drive us forward!) I would like to mention that I salute the approach that
Prof. Frank brings to the debate. Unlike many others, he is true to his
judging philosophy and implements it fairly. When he judged us in round eight
the debaters were able to implement the strategy they and the coaching staff
easily agreed on (although there was more extension to the "world government
conspiracy" argument than I had suggested....just shows students end up
making their own choices anyway). His approach to debate and judging debate
is welcome whether he accepts gaming or not, because it certainly fits right
in with the educational debating game that I, as a coach, am interested in
I believe that all of our disagreements may be based on a misunderstanding of
gaming as a paradigm for academic debate. For this I take all the blame,
because I have inadequately communicated my ideas through the years.
Prof. Frank begins by saying that debate is not a game.
Well, yes and no. The gaming paradigm which I have been advancing since 1979
is radically different than all other paradigmatic approaches. Most of them
say that debate "should be like X." They are prescriptive paradigms. They say
what debate should be like. The gaming paradigm does not say debate should be
like a game, but simply observes that it is like a game, and this reality can
give us insight into what is really going on. It requires no evangelism or
prophet. It simply is. The realities of our current activities make it clear
to me. Both Prof. Frank and I: are coaches, we have teams, they attend
tournaments, we hold tournaments, we have practice and training, our teams
compete against other teams for wins and losses, get quality points, are
ranked 1 through 4, by judges who award decisions and send the results to a
tabulation room, where results are used to phase competitions, all as part of
a league (CEDA), during a season. The realities of modern debate drip with
their gamed nature. However, one must not assume that because it is a "game"
that anything goes (every game is constrained by rules, procedures, and the
voluntary agreement of participants to cooperate on these). Anything can
happen, but anything does not "go." Also, just because it is a game does not
mean that it is not highly educational. The literature of modern education
conclusively shows that participating in a gamed situation is one of the most
valuable pedagogical tools of this century. One year in NDT Dartmouth College
quoted me in their first affirmative speech every round (except when I
judged) to prove this in a general educational context. (I did a literature
survey which was published). Debate is not only about education, but it
probably is more about education than anything else. It is also about
competition. However, to me, the competition adds the drive and motivation
which makes so much of the education a reality. Students wouldn't learn as
much if they were not enticed by the competition.
Prof. Frank later states that if a game it needs to have its rules and norms
spelled out. This is true. However, there is an important distinction in the
game construction literature between "rules" and "procedures." "Rules" are
set guidelines which cannot be changed based on the activities of the
participants. The baseball ump cannot call you out on two strikes nor can the
pitcher argue for and receive five balls before a walk is issued. Likewise,
the judge cannot switch the topic being debated as the round begins, nor can
the 1AR argue and win that she should receive a seven minute rebuttal. These
are rules. They include: time limits, speech order, school identity, the
wording of the resolution, and other things imposed as rules by the
tournament. "Procedures" are norms of behavior which are often assumed but
may be determined within the context of the game itself. This can happen
either inside of the debate and be determined by the judge (which standard of
competitiveness is best, whether topicality is a voting issue, etc.) or it
can be determined outside of the debate and offered as a fait accompli to the
judge (the affirmative is going to run a strange case and the negative has
agreed not to argue topicality, the teams have agreed to both go slow/fast
for a judge, the teams have agreed to not use all their speaking time so that
they can leave and go start a party, etc.). In this regard, the judge is
required to impose the rules but is not required to impose a procedure
(although many judges do so, and that is within their purview). When most
judges say they are "tabula rasa" (blank slate) what they are really saying
is that they will impose the rules but let the debaters argue out the
procedures. When a judge lists in their philosophy that they demand that
debaters also do X, Y, and Z (what I call "tabula saxa" or "stone tablet"
judging philosophy) they are informing debaters of which procedures they
think of as rules. All tabula rasa and tabula saxa judges are really
participating in the game of debate which differentiates between rules and
procedures. The educational literature on gaming, by the way, clearly
indicates that games which minimize rules and maximize procedures are much
more fruitful paths to intellectual discovery and development. This is what I
mean when I say that the gaming paradigm does not tell us what we have to do,
but does help to give us insight into what we are doing and how we might
My general response to all of this is that it is wrong to blame the "game"
for everything in modern educational debating which we do not like. The
"game" nature of debate is the setting for our activities. You can have good
and bad activities in any game, and often the challenge is figuring out how
to limit the harmful activities and enhance the good ones is very important.
In the game of debate I have observed three consistent goals (although there
have been others): educate the participants, have a fair contest, and discuss
the issues in the topic (the other goal I have heard that I like is to "have
fun"). At times these goals can exist in tension. For example, running a case
that argues that gays should be allowed in the military certainly chooses
competition (and perhaps education about this important issue) over
discussing the important issues in the topic. Likewise, forcing students to
use arguments or strategies concocted by coaches would seem to favor
competition over education at the moment at which it takes place. I daily
experience these tensions. Dr. Berube used to say (and perhaps still does)
that on even numbered days I am focused on competition and on odd numbered
days I am focused on education (I think my focus changes moment to moment,
but then I have more observational experience of myself than Berube does).
Perhaps Todd Graham chose competition over education at that point. We all
make these choices at different times. My guess is that he has spent plenty
of time before they got to the tournament to educate them about strategies
and techniques, and that right before the round the focus was more on
competition. There are different goals and sometimes they trade off, or at
times we focus on one over another.
In considering the goals of competition and education and the problems in
balancing them, it is important to understand how students learn, learn from,
and benefit from involvement in educational games. There is a simple model of
how educational games work which, I think, applies well to debate. The
educational process of game participation takes place in four phases:
1. Learning the game. Our novices (only one of my eight students at nationals
had any considerable high school experience, three of them were novices)
attend a number of meetings and training sessions before they are in a
practice debate. They learn the order and duty of speakers, the stock issues
likely to arise, how to take notes in a debate, and how to organize their
arguments. These are entry level concepts they need before they can actually
debate in any meaningful way. I estimate (ballpark figure) that about 25% of
the learning in debate takes place here.
2. Learning by doing. After they have the basic ideas, they try to apply them
and carry out what they have learned. As we know, transferring concepts into
behavior can be challenging, and this requirement is one of the things that
makes debate a unique and valuable educational tool. Too few parts of the
higher education experience require students to actually use what they learn.
This can be a trying in time in learning through the game of debate. Students
have practice debates, go to novice tournaments, and learn by doing. They
know that they should organize their arguments, they know how to organize
their arguments, but they now have to learn to actually organize their
arguments. They know three ways they can answer a topicality argument (we
meet your definition, we meet our definition which is OK, or we don't need to
meet your definition because it is not OK) but then they have to actually
apply it to the arguments in the round. I estimate that about 50% of the
learning in debate takes place here.
3. Learning to manipulate the game. Once students have learned the basics and
are able to implement them, it is time to explore the complex interaction of
ideas. How ideas relate to one another and how to exercise a meaningful
strategy all come into play here. Students learn from their experience how to
take advantage of strategic errors, how to trap opponents into losing, how to
adapt meaningfully to different styles of judging, and how to keep track of
complex ideas in herds. I estimate that about 20% of the learning in debate
takes place here.
4. Mastering the game. Here, students know the basics, are able to enact
them, understand how to manipulate the game, and now are aimed at learning
how to out manipulate the game against others of like abilities. The top
debaters and teams in the nation fall into this category. They have learned
almost all of what they can learn from debate, and are measuring their
mastery against others. I estimate that about 5% of the learning in debate
takes place here. Students who have reached this level should enjoy it for a
while, and then move on to their next endeavor, whether they have eligibility
left or not.
The vast majority of education takes place before the students get to the
national tournament, and certainly before they get to the elimination rounds
at the national tournament.
These comments have been made in general, and not specifically about the
instance under discussion. I perceive that Prof. Frank is posing a larger
question than "Make Todd stop it," and is asking us to consider the roles of
coaches and debaters and how we deal with education and competition. That is
the basis of my commentary.
So, to summarize:
1. Debate is an educational game whether we like it or not. The realities of
our competitive format cannot be dismissed. This does not mean that it is
frivolous or anti-educational. Games can be serious and are some of the best
teaching tools around.
2. Our task is to outline rules, procedures, and practices which will best
achieve a balance of the goals we have for the game of debate: education,
competition, discussion of issues.
3. Recognizing the gamed nature of modern educational debating and using
insight from the literature of educational game design and practice will help
us to improve our ability to meet these goals. For example, learning the four
stages of how students learn through games has helped me understand how to be
a better debate coach.
4. We all may approach the same game in different ways.
However, I do want to make some remarks about the incident which Prof. Frank
describes, as well as his criticism of coaches who do research and impose
1. Debaters in the elimination rounds at nationals have probably learned just
about all they are going to learn from debate. That setting is for them to
match what they have learned and what they can do against others in a similar
situation. The UMKC and NWL coaches have probably done a lot of teaching to
get those students to that position.
2. It happened outside of the round and not under the control of any judge.
3. It was all done by consent. NWL wanted to question, UMKC wanted to answer,
and UMKC may or may not have chosen to question back.
4. If I was judging that round I would have left the room and I would have
asked to be called back when they were ready. I don't want to be hear any
discourse taking place before the timer starts.
5. I tell my teams not to disclose and not to ask. Like all of my advice, it
is advised but not required. They don't obey me, but that is their problem. I
think you should have the element of surprise. I also don't see how, once you
get started, you can feasibly limit the extent of disclosure. The incident
you describe is somewhat distasteful, and following my guideline would limit
this. Besides, I might change my mind after hearing the 1AC about what I, as
a debater, would want to do, and I would not want to be held to a disclosed
strategy. I like the "unknown" strategy of the game of debate. However, if
students and coaches agree to it, so be it. It falls into the realm of
procedures determined by the debaters before the debate.
I have an interesting bit of news I would like to add, however, and I wonder
how Prof. Frank and others would deal with this. In the round where Prof.
Frank judged us at nationals my team (shame on them!) asked the affirmative
(US Military Academy, Medof & Ripperger) which case they were going to run.
They indicated that they were going to run their IMET case (which is what was
on our list). They then stood up and ran a completely different case, this
one about NATO. Well, my debaters were unfazed, and then adjusted and went on
to win the round. My question is this: should my team have argued that by
running a different case the affirmative had engaged in a breach of trust,
and that they should be punished? How do you make such an argument? How would
you receive it as a judge? Of course, if I was debating I would just roll
with it, as my students did, or more probably this would not have been a
problem at all because I would never have asked. What do you think?
If you desire I will upload my explanatory article on what gaming as a
paradigm for educational debating really is. As Walter Ulrich once observed,
gaming is the most simplistic yet most misunderstood of all the debate
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- Apply a mixture of 1 tbsp of honey and 1/2 tbsp of lemon juice on your face. Leave it to dry for 15-30 minutes. Then rub it off using a very small quantity of water.
- Rub the inner part of the skin of a papaya on your face. Let it dry. Then, wash your face with cold water and wipe dry. This will give your skin a nice glow.
- 4Try using any or a combination of these chemicals at least 3 times a week on your skin: Glycolic acid, retinal and even salicylic acid. These are all chemicals that naturally even out discoloration. The Gold Standard of lightening skin is Hydroquinone. It can be found in many over-the-counter cosmetic products in 2% or less. Rarely, some people find a darkening in their skin. This is mostly an abnormal reaction that happens to people with darker skin. Obviously, if this happens, discontinue using the product and consult a dermatologist.
- 5Exfoliate your skin a few times a week. Exfoliation takes off dead skin cells. Exfoliation only helps if your current skin is darker than your normal skin tone, because it reveals fresh skin, untouched by the sun. If you do not have an exfoliator, make one by mixing sugar or sand into liquid soap.
- 6Dab lemon juice on your face each night. Wash off all make-up and lotions before doing this. Close your eyes or keep the juice away from your eyes. It will burn your face, but if you can keep on a small quantity for fifteen minutes, then wash it off, it will help in lightening your skin.
- 7Wear plain yogurt facial masks and wash it off with milk. They are both skin lightening agents.
- 8Use tea tree facial cleansers. Tea tree goes deep into the skin and cleanses it out for a clear look. If you were fair but tanned or burned, tea tree cleansers should help.
- 9Be patient. Skin becoming a fair color takes a long time. Depending on the damage done to your skin, it can take anywhere between a few months and a couple of years. Remember that consistency is the key-do facial treatments daily. Typically, if you have only mildly tanned or burned, a few months should be adequate. But if the sun has been at your skin for hours and several days, be prepared to wait for two years or more.
- You should, mix up some lemon, honey and oil, and apply it to your skin, you will get lighter skin. Apply it on to your hair as well if you want lighter hair!
- Try washing your face often, and try some home remedies as well.
- mix lemon juice and honey in same amount and apply all over the body,after 15 minutes wash it off. Just try this for 15 days you can see the change.
- If you find that the natural way of skin lightening is too slow, use a lightening cream. Consult dermatologists if needed. Using a lightening cream in addition to natural treatments speeds up the process.
- Use ripe tomato paste and wash your face 2-3 times in a week.
- When choosing a sunblock, try to find one with a mineral block such as Zinc Oxide or Titanium Dioxide. Not only are these broad-spectrum blocks, they naturally add a slight whitish tinge most people do not like. But since you are trying to appear paler, this is exactly what you want! If it goes on TOO whitish, just mix a little with your foundation to even out the color.
- Think about your skin like a painting. You want to make your skin appear lighter, so a good rule-of-thumb is to wear clothes that are darker than your skin tone. Wearing too many whites, peaches, and beige clothes will only make your skin appear darker in contrast. Go for dark colors such as black or any other dark colors which flatter you.
- For women, try wearing dark lipstick and/or eye colors that will contrast with your skin. Stick to one feature on your face ( the eyes or the lips ) so as not to look overdo and clown-like.
- Wear fair and lovely cream.
- Never use household bleach, or hair bleach on your skin thinking you can lighten your skin. These will not work, as they are not designed to lighten the melanin in your skin.
- Remember, this will only work if you are genetically fair-skinned. If you were fair at birth and then tanned for several years, enough treatment will get you back to your original color. But if you were born dark-skinned, be thankful for what you have. No lightening cream or treatment can drastically lighten your skin.
- Wear a moisturizer on your skin after using lemon juice.
- Never use any concentrations of hydroquinone higher than 2% without consulting a doctor. You risk adverse reactions and possible damage to your skin.
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This is a picture taken by the Phoenix Lander of water ice on Mars. Or, alternatively, some ice in a Hollywood backlot that somebody staged. Or, alternatively, Photoshopped ice. No but seriously, it's water ice on Mars.
The confirmation that water ice exists in the area directly surrounding the lander is big and good news for the Martian mission. NASA's stated goal for the Mars Phoenix was to find exactly this -- water ice -- and then analyze it. With the latest news, the first step is accomplished. All that's left now is to get the water into the Phoenix's instruments, a task which has occasionally proven more difficult than anticipated.
Now I know what many of you are thinking -- "So freaking what?" Well apparently you don't understand the profound implications of such a discovery -- we won't have to tote bagged ice up there to keep our drinks cold.
Thanks to Lee, who is actually helping me throw a party on Mars that's gonna be freaking awesome. Martian chicks and a cooler full of desert juice -- who's coming with us? | <urn:uuid:a7f8bbe1-554a-4688-9658-e4310486a69a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://geekologie.com/2008/06/its-official-theres-ice-on-mar.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00027-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957256 | 222 | 1.757813 | 2 |
We are debating over whether to do it this way or that one. My way or his.
You’ve been there. Everyone has.
You see it your way, and your way makes the most sense for the world as you see it.
His way makes the most sense for his world, the world as he sees it.
If you budge, are you compromising something that’s ok to compromise, or are you compromising something that’s not ok to compromise?
He’s asking himself the same question.
Maybe there is another way to look at all this.
What are you trying to accomplish with your way? What is he trying to accomplish with his?
Can you do things his way and still achieve your underlying goals through other means? Can he consider things in a likewise fashion?
What about an altogether third way neither of you have considered?
If I know nothing else, I know the world has more options than arguments.
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The Hancock-Henderson Quill, Inc.
Compiled and Edited by Virginia Ross
Registrar for Daniel McMillan Chapter, N.S.D.A.R.1916
Stronghurst Graphic, April 13, 1916
LOCAL AND AREA NEWS: George Drain and family have moved onto Mr. Isaac Brokaw's farm southwest of Raritan. Reeder Garret and family moved into the George Stanley home; he is working for Arthur Pogue. John and Rex Mudd, who have been attending veterinary school in Chicago, have returned home for the summer.
Harry F. McAllister was down from Oquawka conducting the Master in Chancery Sale of 80 acres of land belonging to the estate of the late Wm. Wisher. The tract, which is situated just south of Honey Creek, 3 miles west of Stronghurst, was purchased by Mrs. Wilsher for $7,600.
Elder Catlin, pastor of the Old Bedford Christian church desires us to announce that on next Sunday evening he will preach a sermon of the reason for a Hell and the need and justice of it. (This topic should bring it a large crowd.)
A spark from the chimney started a small blaze on the roof of the Stronghurst M.E. parsonage, but it was noticed by neighbors and extinguished with a few buckets of water.
The firemen were quickly on hand with two leads of hose ready to attach to convenient hydrants, but their services were not needed. (This was good PR for the fire department who recently had spent money on equipment.)
(In this paper are sample ballots for village trustees: both a men's and a women's ballots for the citizens' and independent ticket were printed.
Obviously, Stronghurst was enlightened and let women vote before they were so privilege nationally.)
GLADSTONE GLEANINGS: Dr. Gay was in town visiting relatives before returning home to Winfield, Kansas. Ruth Babcook is very sick at her home. The yearly meetings were held at the M .E. Church and the U. P. Church. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Galbraith welcomed a new baby boy to their home. A. L. Freed returned home in Kewanee after contracting to put up several monuments near here.
A jolly bunch of girls walked out from Burlington Sabbath day for an outing at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Taylor Galbraith; they returned home on the 6 o'clock train.
OLENA OBSERVATIONS: Work on the M.E. Church is slowly progressing. A new roof and papering throughout have been done, but there is much to do. The congregation is holding services regularly, however, and extend a welcome to all who may wish to attend Sunday School at 2 p.m. and preaching at 3 p.m.
Mrs. Lillie Ellis, who spent the winter with relatives here, is returning to her home in Seattle, Wash. Mrs. H.S.Lant, whohas been quite a sufferer with LaGrippe and acute quinsy, is having her throat lanced a second time. Mr. Terry of Media started his grocery wagon through the neighborhood and Mr. Hathaway of Media is making the rounds buying eggs and poultry. Mr. Wm. Marshall now rides in a spick and span new automobile. | <urn:uuid:fc889226-6483-44b7-b4d4-fff920674e6c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.quillnewspaper.com/theGraphic02/Feb27.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00003-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977457 | 705 | 1.5625 | 2 |
He quoted a passage in which Juliet tells Romeo of the depths of her love:
My bounty is as boundless as the sea,This was written to describe a woman's love for a man but as I was listening, I couldn't help but think that this passage better describes another type of love - the purest, deepest, and most sacrificial ever felt by any human - the love of a mother for her child. There is no rival. For how many women begin with the same "Juliet-type" feelings for their own lover that over time, fades and in some cases, disappears altogether?
My love as deep, the more I give to thee
The more I have, for both are infinite.
But a mother could never "file for divorce" from her child. The notion is preposterous. Whatever may happen, that bond and love, even if it flows one way at times (especially during the teenage years), is always there. It can never break. It will survive and perhaps grow stronger, even in death.
Josh's tree is the only one that still has leaves.
Peace on Earth ornaments
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The Village of Hoffman Estates, in conjunction with School District 54, has been awarded the 2012 Illinois Governor’s Hometown Award for its Community Resource Centers. The Hometown Awards were presented to 30 groups from across the state during a ceremony Nov. 29 at the Executive Mansion in Springfield.
“The Governor’s Hometown Awards honor the efforts of 30 remarkable groups who have selflessly dedicated their time and efforts to making their communities a better place to live,” Governor Quinn said.
The goals of the resource centers are to provide meaningful programs and a beneficial link between government resources and the community in order to foster a safer and healthier environment.
The original resource center opened in 2000 in the Salem Ridge Apartments in Hoffman Estates. However, the need for services quickly grew. When a new police station opened in 2009, the village included space for another community resource center.
“District 54 is honored to partner with the Village of Hoffman Estates to provide Community Resource Centers for our families,” District 54 Early Childhood Director Jen Mursu said. “By opening its buildings to us, the village has supported District 54 in its efforts to bring preschool services and parent education to families, thereby helping our students prepare for kindergarten and beyond.”
School District 54 employs child and family educators who provide classes and workshops to promote literacy for children from birth to age 5 at District 54 schools, as well as at the resource centers. They also perform home visits for the participants in the program. The educators are a multilingual group speaking English, Spanish, Polish and some Indian dialects, enabling direct assistance to the variety of participants at the CRCs.
The CRCs’ services include early childhood literacy education, childcare assistance, student education, finance education, local transportation, English as a second language (ESL) courses, and many other programs. The village and School District 54 have cultivated meaningful relationships with residents, and have provided valuable early childhood education to at-risk children. The centers house books, puzzles and parent resources
There are currently three resource centers in District 54 (at the police station, at Salem Ridge and at Woodfield Crossing in Rolling Meadows). In addition, District 54 provides similar programs at the Hoffman Estates and Hanover Park branch libraries, as well as at the Hoffman Estates Village Hall.
“It is a major focus of the village to work collaboratively with other government agencies and service providers to deliver the best amenities to meet our residents’ needs in the most cost-effective way,” Hoffman Estates Mayor William D. McLeod said. “On behalf of the Village Board and staff, we are honored to receive this recognition alongside our partners at School District 54.”
The most fascinating aspect of the resource centers is that the entire community has embraced its mission. Private businesses, nonprofit organizations, the municipality, townships, libraries, community colleges and school districts have all played a part in the CRC’s success story. Even participants in programs have found non-monetary ways to give back to the facility as a thank you for the services they received. This tremendous effort by the public is evidence that creative civic partnerships are possible, and that the CRCs are an exemplary model of community service.
The Governor’s Hometown Award recipients are selected by volunteer judges who review and rank applications based on a variety of factors, including local need, volunteer participation, use of resources and the results achieved. The Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) administers the Governor’s Hometown Awards program. Each winning group receives a road sign for its community and plaque recognizing its efforts.
Visit our early childhood website to learn more about the FIND (Family Involvement Nurturing Development) program offered at resource centers in District 54. | <urn:uuid:912b73af-21c1-4e23-a623-e5814d89da27> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://sd54.org/2012/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00004-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959058 | 779 | 1.546875 | 2 |
My Divine Comedy
A student balances AP classes, extracurricular activities and college applications.
June 05, 2007
In my first week of my AP English Lit class, my new teacher announced that we would begin the school year with one of the most famous works of literature, Dante’s “Inferno.” In his epic poem, Dante writes about his journey through Hell and Purgatory to eventually become the perfect man in Paradise. He struggles, hesitates and fails at some tasks, but ultimately rises above his flaws and learns to be a great human being.
While some ardent Dante scholars choose to believe the work literally, I prefer to view his adventure in a more allegorical sense. While Dante strives towards Heaven, I think his journey represents the overcoming the obstacles in our lives when we reach for a goal. Hence, I relate to this work of literature when I think about the obstacles standing in the way of success in my academics, clubs, and future.
Senior year definitely poses obstacles in respect to academics. First of all, I need to keep up with the academic rigor of my schedule. Despite my senior status at school, I have to work hard in all of my AP classes. Since an AP class is equivalent to a college course, they demand more work. For example, my AP Biology labs require a lot of time outside of the classroom. I need to come into class early before the start of school to finish the labs on time.
Any of my friends will inform you that I am not a morning person and would not appreciate waking up early to titrate an enzyme solution. The lab reports are usually 20 pages long and count as a test grade. One error in measurement, data or calculations can completely throw off your lab report and your GPA. AP Biology is only one class; I need to balance four additional AP classes and one Honors class.
Just because I am immersed in academics does not mean I can neglect my extracurricular activities. Autumn is the season for club presidents to recruit new members, and I need to get the ball rolling for different club events. I am the captain of the debate team at Bolles (my school), and I need to pick topics for debates, set dates for practices, and whip my fellow debate nerds into shape. For my charity club, I need to plan with my fellow officers on how to interest students to crusade against world poverty.
College applications are another huge undertaking for any senior. I feel as if I’ve started a new club because of all of the work. I also feel a sense of anxiety as I wonder whether I am good enough for the colleges that interest me. I know that my transcript and extracurricular activities represent my interests and my best efforts. However, a little voice of doubt in my mind always wonders, “Will that be enough? Will an admissions office truly see that I belong there? Will they see that Kristin Drew is a student who loves literature, math, debating and singing? Will they see that she is a great student who will diversify and add to the school community because she is unique in her pursuits of knowledge and truth?” Yet, as I read about Dante’s pathos from his journey, a line from “The Inferno” inspired me. He writes,
“A man must stand in fear of just those things that truly have the power to do us harm, of nothing else, for nothing else is fearsome.”
At that moment, I realized that I have nothing to fear in this “hellish” process as long as I believe in my mind, my heart and my soul. | <urn:uuid:afc98be8-b797-48dc-836e-a59c06c55616> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.fastweb.com/college-search/articles/1031-my-divine-comedy | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00005-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968952 | 749 | 1.570313 | 2 |
Last week, over 600,000 Macs were infected with a new trojan called the Flashback trojan, and even if you've updated your software, you could still be infected. Here's an app that will check your computer for the trojan, and how to remove it if you find you're infected.
Nearly 2% of owners who checked their computers using Russian antivirus web tool Dr. Web found that their computers were infected, so if you haven't checked yet, now's the time. Previously, you had to enter a few terminal commands to search for the trojan on your system, but now there's a much simpler way: just download the FlashbackChecker app and run it on your system. It will automatically search your computer for signs of the Flashback trojan and let you know if you're safe. If you're rather tech savvy, you've probably already checked your computer using the aforementioned commands—but this is a great app to send to less tech-savvy family members that might not know if they've been infected.
Note that FlashbackChecker can't actually remove the trojan, it can only detect it. So, if you or a family member does find it on their machine, you'll have to go back and run those original terminal commands to determine exactly what you need to remove. Check out F-Secure's instructions for removing the trojan for more info, as the commands are a bit more involved. And, as always, make sure you run Software Update from the Apple menu to make sure you can't get this trojan in the future. | <urn:uuid:81cd5c11-0c15-4581-aa26-607a90af1d33> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://lifehacker.com/5900434/how-to-find-out-if-your-mac-was-infected-by-the-flashback-trojan-in-one-click?tag=Mac | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00017-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968305 | 326 | 1.546875 | 2 |
Portuguese magnate Joe Berardo established this museum after being persuaded by the government. Although other major cities ... More
The Berlado Collection Museum
Portuguese magnate Joe Berardo established this museum after being persuaded by the government. Although other major cities were interested in providing a space for his esteemed collection, the museum eventually landed up in Lisbon. The museum features the best in contemporary and modern art and you can find works of legends like Picasso and Bacon hang on the walls. Overlooking the River Tagus, one couldn't have found a more scenic setting to host the brilliance inscribed on canvas. The museum hosts various events throughout the year attracting enthusiasts from world over. Please check the website for exact visiting hours.
Situated in the Convento Madre de Deus, the Tile National Museum has an original Azulejos collection of the 15th century.
It is possible to enjoy traditionally decorated Moorish mosaics and beautiful walls here. You'll also get an insight into ...
The Military Museum presents a rich collection of items related to a history that goes back to the foundation of
the Portuguese nation. The exhibitions are specially focused on the most important episodes of Portugal's history. There are also ...
The National Coach Museum or Museu Nacional dos Coches is one of the most popular museums in Lisbon. Museu Nacional
dos Coches is located in the area of Belem, a neighborhood with pretty gardens. The museum is teeming with ...
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Cairo, Egypt (CNN) -- Ahmed Taha was 17 a year ago, when he says security forces abducted him outside Egypt's High Court, beat and raped him.
"They beat me," he says. "One stepped on my face. I was wearing my glasses. They broke the glasses and my face was disfigured."
He says the beatings were just the beginning.
"I felt someone coming in. I was almost dead so he picked me up from the floor and tore my T-shirt and started holding my body," he recalls. "I went into shock. He removed my clothes and sexually assaulted me in front of the other policemen."
For nine months, he says, his family couldn't find him in hospitals and police stations. His mother started to wear black in mourning.
Finally, his family located him and were able to visit him briefly in prison. Taha was released in July, without ever being indicted. He's now 18.
Egypt's Ministry of Interior refused to comment on Taha's claims and has long maintained that there is no torture inside its prisons.
Taha, who says he has overcome the trauma with the help of a psychiatrist, recounts his story in a rush -- short sentences without pauses.
He believes others who have disappeared from the streets of Cairo since the start of last year's revolution may have similar stories -- if they can ever be found.
A March 2011 report found that 1,200 people went missing in the course of the uprising in January and February that year, according to Nermeen Yousri, co-founder of the Hanlaqihom (We Will Find Them) Campaign. The list of missing, which activists say is still with the cabinet of ministers, hasn't been updated or cross-checked with lists of names of those found dead or in military prisons.
Many believe those missing could be in military prisons without proper papers or may have been killed and buried without identification. During the uprising, there were forced, and sometimes temporary, disappearances of activists, and also random rounding up of citizens passing by sites of clashes and protests.
Simple procedures, like keeping DNA records of anonymous bodies, could have helped narrow down the numbers of the missing, says lawyer Ahmed Raghab, a member of a new fact-finding commission mandated by President Mohamed Morsy. Raghab criticizes the actions of many state institutions, including judicial and investigative authorities, especially when dealing with missing people. The number of the missing, he says, could be in the thousands now following the turbulent 18-month transition.
Mohamed Siddiq disappeared on January 28, 2011, a "day of rage" which resulted in nationwide clashes between police and protesters. His mother was able to talk to him on the phone two weeks later, the same day then-President Hosni Mubarak stepped down. He told her he was in prison. It was the last time she heard from him.
"The ministry of interior tells me all the revolution people are with the army, the army tells me they are with the interior ministry," Sabah Siddiq says. She calls her son's mobile number regularly and pays to keep it working.
"I know he's alive," she says repeatedly.
In July 2011, a soldier answered the phone and told her he found the SIM card near a detention facility outside Cairo. When she asked about her son there, officials told her about "a group of protesters from the revolution" who were held there. They were moved to an unknown place, she was told.
At a gathering for the families of the missing in August, the wails of the mothers screaming the names of their sons challenged claims of change.
"We believe it's a deliberate punishment to people who tried to protest and bring down the regime," said Yousri, of the Hanlaqihom Campaign.
Taha said he was tortured to force him to confess about crimes he didn't commit. He says he was taken near a protest staged by lawyers against changes in court procedure. He was accused of receiving foreign funding, holding thousands of judges hostage, arms possession, thuggery and protesting against the military. Most of the questions, however, were about his participation in the January 25 protests that forced Mubarak out of office.
In pants soaked with blood, Taha says, he eventually signed a pre-written police report. When he pleaded to a deputy prosecutor for help, telling him he was a minor, the official reportedly told him, "Here, you don't have rights."
"The value of the human being to our government is still not clear," said Yousri.
The ministry of interior refused to comment on Taha's story and the issue of the missing.
The fact-finding commission was formed because of the lack of cooperation by security agencies, Raghab says. "If these entities were cooperative, a fact-finding mission wouldn't have been needed. Some security agencies have an interest in covering up parts of their crimes."
'Circle of frustration'
Several activists and psychiatrists working on missing persons cases say it is a double punishment for the detainees and the families. In the case of torture, for instance, the victims are denied the ability to adapt to the violence because they usually don't know the reason for their ordeal. The same applies to the family.
"Forced disappearances are worse than murder, because families are deprived from their right to know and to grieve," said Hossam Bahgat, director of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights. Sometimes, he said, families feel that even if their children are dead, they are better off knowing the truth.
It's a dilemma. Families "are afraid to let go of the hope because maybe (their son or daughter is) out there somewhere and they would be letting (them) down if they stopped looking," said Yousri. "It's really a circle of frustration and anger and depression."
Many of the missing were the main providers for their families. To search in prisons scattered across the country is costly, increasing the families' financial burdens.
For many, such as Siddiq's family, the search in morgues continues.
"For my son not to come back ... of course, it's taking its toll on all of us. He's my only son. I need him," says Siddiq, pausing repeatedly to hold back the tears. Mohamed's picture is placed on the partition separating his small bedroom from the living room.
Like Taha, she is frustrated with Egypt's first elected president. She had hoped he would bring about substantial change and find her son. "Isn't the government supposed to bring me back my son? Who's responsible for this country? Dr. Morsy, right? He's supposed to find where my son is."
Morsy pardoned all political prisoners on Monday, but that leaves the missing file unresolved. Activists suspect that those supposedly held in prison are without proper documentation.
Lawyer Ahmed Seif El-Islam, a member of an official committee set up by Morsy to look into prisoners, said in August that there are "private prisons" associated with certain security agencies and outside the inspection jurisdiction of the prosecutor. Secret detention facilities in existing prisons, as alleged by some former prisoners, would be even more difficult to pin down, he says.
Taha, however, remains hopeful. "We must have hope because of the blood of the martyrs, the pain of the injured, the deprivation of the detainees, the injustice dealt to the revolutionaries. These things should inspire hope and push us forward and not look back," he says.
He was able to get a reversal of a decree expelling him from school for missing a year and is now working on a campaign against torture and the detention of students.
"We can face any oppressor or corrupt regime until we find the Egypt that we want, that we dream of," he says. "We will continue to the last breath." | <urn:uuid:6bced3c4-52a6-430a-9d95-ef283ab738b7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/10/world/africa/egypt-missing/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00004-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.987215 | 1,634 | 1.507813 | 2 |
-Robin Yassin-Kassab is the author of The Road from Damascus, a novel published by Penguin, and co-editor of PULSE, one of Le Monde Diplomatique's five favourite websites. The opinions expressed are his own.-
There’s no pretty way to describe what I saw in Hebron, no tidy conceit to wrap it in.
I visited as a participant in the Palestine Festival of Literature, the brain child of the great British-Egyptian novelist Ahdaf Soueif. I was in the company of many wonderful writers and publishers, among them Python and traveller Michael Palin, best-selling crime novelist Henning Mankel, Pride and Prejudice screenplay writer Deborah Moggach, and prize-winning novelists Claire Messud and MG Vassanji.
Our first stop was Hebron University, where I ran a workshop on "the role of writing in changing political realities." The students were bright and eager; the only discomforting note was struck by a memorial stone to three killed while walking on campus, by rampaging settlers, in 1986.
After lunch we visited Hebron’s historic centre. The usual way on the West Bank is for Israeli checkpoints, towers and settlements to encircle Palestinian population concentrations. But here 400 gun-wielding settlers, guarded by 1500 soldiers, also occupy the centre of the Old City. | <urn:uuid:5a84fccc-b986-4e27-9c66-b8441241d327> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/tag/hebron/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00018-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94422 | 285 | 1.601563 | 2 |
Iran aids Afghans as US frets
Afghan leader Hamid Karzai is in Tehran for talks with Iran's government.
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"Khan aligned himself closer to Iran than the interim government initially - perhaps for his own security interests," says a Western relief worker who asked not to be named. "But he is a ruler in the traditional sense and is adjusting his views. Khan understands that he needs to be closer to Kabul, to comply with the rules."Skip to next paragraph
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Iran, adamantly opposed the Taliban and backed the rebel Northern Alliance for six years. Iranian officials point out that their support allowed the US to turn the alliance into a proxy force in the northeast of the country to help topple the Taliban last year. In the west, after Khan escaped from a Taliban prison in Kandahar in 2000, he sought exile in Iran and was allowed to muster forces among refugees there to join the battle against the Taliban on the western front.
"We want peace and stability in Afghanistan, and we are anxious about events there because they have a direct impact on our country," says Elahe Koulaiei, a member of Iran's parliamentary foreign affairs and security commission. "Our official policy is to protect the interim government, to back Karzai.
"But there are some different outlooks and views in our country - in all things," Ms. Koulaiei says, adjusting her headscarf. "With respect to the US accusation, there may be some real matters, I don't deny it."
Iran's parliament has launched an inquiry into the US accusations.
Khan is one of the most well-known mujahideen commanders to have fought during the 1980s Soviet occupation. He went on to become governor, and has brought a degree of security to this region that is almost unparalleled elsewhere in Afghanistan.
Khan says he is "surprised" by the allegations of Iranian interference, which he says come from Taliban sources "not yet finally defeated" who are trying to destabilize his rule for their own future designs.
"Some American friends are here already, and are witness to the situation," Khan says, referring to a four-man American military civil-military unit based in Herat the past two months. They are helping relief agencies and the United Nations fill gaps in humanitarian projects, and they say they have seen no evidence of undue Iranian influence here.
"Our policy is that both the US and Iran are working for the same objective: a stable Afghanistan," says Curt, a captain in the 96th Civil Affairs Battalion, who could not give his full name. The unit is among a group of American plainclothes soldiers billeted for months in the highest building in Herat, on a military base directly above the governor's guesthouse.
"I have not seen anything in the western region that [Iran] is undermining this," the captain says.
But Khan's ties to Iran have not always been so close. During his first term as governor from 1992 to 1995, his views seemed to not favor Iran. Back then, agreement on a large road-building project from Herat to the border fell apart two or three times. Bulldozers and graders are racing now to open the way, which is critical to commerce.
"I don't think Khan likes Iran too much," says an Afghan observer who asked not to be named. "And Khan is a little afraid of Iran right now, because Afghanistan has no owner now. They don't support each other."
Iran has committed $567 million, and the US has committed $296 million so far, to halt drug trade and rebuild Afghanistan.
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The Cayuga school board unanimously approved the policy, also known as the guardian plan, during a regular monthly meeting following a public hearing on Monday.
A shooting in mid-December in Connecticut that left 20 school children and six school employees dead has brought the issue of arming school employees to a head and sparked the initiative of school boards adopting a policy on weapons, Webb said.
Cayuga is the latest East Texas school district to approve such a policy. Others that have already adopted a gun policy include Westwood ISD, Van ISD and Union Grove ISD. The policy was first adopted by Harrold ISD near Wichita Falls in 2007.
Adoption of the policy by the Cayuga board is “one part of a comprehensive program to do all that we can to make our school as safe as possible for our students and faculty,” Webb said.
“Our school district started looking at it (a proposed gun policy) in late January. In their meeting Jan. 28, they (district trustees) discussed the matter and decided they wanted to invite our school attorneys to come and visit with us about that possibility,” Webb said.
Tyler attorneys John Hardy and Randy Cook advised the Cayuga board during a meeting on Feb. 7 “about what we would be looking at if we wanted to approve a policy of that type and one of the things we decided was we needed to have a public hearing and try to get input from the community,” Webb said.
After the hearing, the board approved the proposed policy during a regular meeting.
The policy has four components.
The first component requires that any person authorized to carry a weapon on Cayuga school property has to be an employee of the district. Secondly, the person has to be approved by the school board. The third part of the policy requires the person to
have a concealed handgun license. The fourth requirement is that employees who bring a weapon to school must first undergo training such as crisis management, active shooter training and handling a hostage situation.
“Now that the policy has been approved,” Webb said, “We will begin to become informed of individuals on our staff that are interested in participating in the program and then identify the training they need to attend before they can bring a firearm to school.”
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I'd like to record audio coming out of a DJ mixer that has only one output. So I thought I'd use those 'Y' shaped cable splitter plugs which take the L and R cables as input and output to two. Assuming I use decent quality splitters and cables, will this give me broadcast-quality audio?
Not in principle. Assuming the input impedance of both recipients is substantially smaller than the output impedance of the mixer (which it normally is), both do ideally recieve exactly the same signal that each of them would if connected alone.
However in practise, there is one problem which turns up really often if you have audio inputs of different devices in parallel: interference introduced inductively through a ground loop. This is usually either mains hum or artifacts from a switched-mode power supply; both can be pretty nasty. Balanced connections are much less likely to suffer from this, so if the mixer's outputs and both(!) devices' inputs are balanced it should be fine; of course only if you use a fully symmetric splitter. (In the case of TRS connection this means all of the plugs on both Y-cables need to be stereo.)
If any of the devices does not support balanced and you do experience an untolarable amount of static, the canonical solution is a DI-box. I'd recommend the ART DTI. | <urn:uuid:f65f59c6-79bf-4bd5-aa4f-f54d103e7927> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://avp.stackexchange.com/questions/3002/do-audio-cable-splitters-reduce-signal-quality-or-add-noise?answertab=votes | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948355 | 277 | 1.59375 | 2 |
Spring has arrived! Which means it is time for the New-York Historical Society's annual Strawberry Festival. This year, we are pleased to award Mika Brzezinski, co-host of MSNBC's "Morning Joe," with our Women in Public Life Medal. Diana DiMenna, who has been so instrumental in our institution's rebirth as a great center for the enjoyment of historical learning, will present the award. We will also honor respected library and education advocate Patricia D. Klingenstein with our Public Service Award.
New-York Historical's annual Strawberry Festival provides a platform for exploring the opportunities and challenges that women face in our country. The issue has never been more topical with a seeming avalanche of new books and articles contemplating what it means to “have it all.”
Ms. Brzezinski's book Knowing Your Value touches on these important issues by examining the role of women in the workplace, why the gender wage gap still exists, and what can be done to close it. It was published in May 2011 and is New York Times Bestseller. Strawberry Festival guests will receive a signed copy of Ms. Brzezinski's latest book Obsessed: America's Food Addiction--And My Own.
Ms. Brzezinski joins a list of outstanding women who have been honored at the Strawberry Festival. Past recipients of the distinguished service award include Hillary Clinton, Kirsten Gillibrand, Michelle Obama, Anna Quindlen, Lesley Stahl, Christine Quinn, and Wendy Wasserstein.
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Integrated Reporting Essential for Useful Business Reporting
The current model for financial reporting has long been under discussion; investors and other stakeholders want more than a historical look back and one that only focuses on financial measures. They want to see the value companies create through intangible assets too. Part of the solution is integrated reporting, which provides a holistic presentation of data and brings together the many disparate reports that organizations provide (as opposed to being an add-on to existing reports).
In the AICPA’s comment letter, it encouraged the IIRC to leverage the preliminary, high-level Enhanced Business Reporting Framework. This framework has been developed through an open-collaborative approach and additional ongoing work efforts by WICI continue to build upon this framework. A new integrated reporting framework should be comprehensive enough so that organizations can find and report the common framework elements that are most relevant to their stakeholders. The elements should also be presented in a way that is comparable across companies and time periods. Finally, the AICPA called upon the IIRC to develop a framework so that standardized integrated reports could be created using data standards, such as XBRL, to improve transparency and provide easy access to and analysis of integrated reporting disclosures.
This is, understandably, a very large undertaking. The IIRC has done an excellent job of exploring existing best practices frameworks; however there will need to be significant involvement from CPAs and CAs with advisory, reporting and auditing backgrounds to develop a robust, verifiable integrated reporting framework covering all relevant content areas. As a starting point, the AICPA has recommended that the IIRC consult with members of the Accounting Bodies Network, of which the AICPA is a member. The AICPA is committed to both fulfilling its role and supporting the IIRC both internationally and through its U.S. efforts.
For more information on integrated reporting and the development of an integrated reporting framework, visit the Enhanced Business Reporting section on AICPA.org.
Ami Beers, CPA, Manager - Business Reporting, Assurance and Advisory Services, American Institute of CPAs. Ami is responsible for providing information, tools and resources that enable members to provide valuable business reporting, assurance and advisory services. This includes building awareness and understanding of XBRL and supports the AICPA XBRL Assurance Task Force. | <urn:uuid:73a74f3e-37f6-4179-a725-d91aabc1f86e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.aicpa.org/2011/12/integrated-reporting-essential-for-useful-business-reporting.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95746 | 475 | 1.71875 | 2 |
|HMS Illustrious - 1940 Aircraft Carrier|
This photo comes from my brother's photos taken during WWII. He served on the Illustrious in the Mediterranean and may have been aboard when Swordfish aircraft from the carrier attacked the Italian fleet at Taranto.
|Swordfish (I think)|
Seaplanes also flew off carriers but this one seems to have lost its way.
|Grounded - Supermarine Walrus|
To add a bit of colour to our greyish theme I'll change to grey and green,
|13th Century Parish Church, St Mawgan, Cornwall|
Dedicated to St Mauganus and St Nicholas
St Mauganus was a Welshman so I'm told.
In North Yorkshire the best preserved ruins of a Cistercian monastery are those of Fountains Abbey.
|Fountains Abbey, North Yorkshire|
I have nearly 40 photos of the Abbey but for this greyish theme you will have to be satisfied with one.
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Allen Young, M.D., F.A.C.P.,
is a board-certified specialist in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
and a licensed acupuncturist. His subspecialty interest is in pain management.
He graduated from the Finch University Chicago Medical School, completed
his residency at the Albert Einstein Montefiore Medical Center, and was
recruited to the faculty of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
in 1991. He also serves as Chairman of the Department of Physical Medicine
and Rehabilitation at the Maryland Rehabilitation Center at the Maryland
State Department of Education.
He is the author of the book Women
and Pain: Why It Hurts and What You Can Do.
Women and Pain: Tell Me Where It Hurts
Do you suffer from constant, agonizing pain? Have you been to doctor after
doctor, only to receive nothing that helps or be told "it's all in your
head," "it's stress," or "you're just getting old"?
If so, you're not alone.
Women have said it -- and men have denied it -- for years. Now we know that
it's true: Women feel more pain, seek help more aggressively, and make more
active attempts to cope with pain than men.
Unfortunately, we also know that too frequently women aren't taken seriously.
Although we think of medicine as a professional discipline, rooted in science
and free of bias, this isn't always the case. Frankly, our health care system
often disregards women in pain. At best, it's ignorance of gender differences.
Some physicians also stereotype women as complainers who are less self-controlled
and more likely to over-report symptoms. They dismiss female patients with antidepressants,
antianxiety drugs, and platitudes. This adds insult to injury. When you're in
pain, it's the last thing you need.
Given how much we know about pain, it's scandalous that women suffer needlessly.
As a physiatrist, a physician board certified in physical medicine and rehabilitation,
I specialize in treating disabling painful conditions with gentle, simple conservative
modalities. Using my skills in acupuncture and complementary medicine, I have
helped thousands of people find relief from pain. My background as a member
of the teaching faculty of Johns Hopkins University has instilled in me a strong
commitment to patient education and empowerment. Since my specialty places so
much emphasis on properly balancing the emotional and physical needs of patients,
often people with painful chronic disabilities, I am keenly aware of the frustration,
anger, and depression that many women patients face when they are in pain and
don't know where to turn for help.
Happily, times are changing. Gender has become a "hot button" issue
on the national research agenda, so important that a conference on gender and
pain was held at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 1998. Eye-opening
biomedical research presented there concluded that:
- Women experience more pain than men.
- Women discuss pain more than men.
- Women cope better with pain than men.
- Society's attitudes toward men and women in pain may influence physicians'
- The open expression of pain sometimes helps people obtain better pain control,
but being seen as "too emotional" may work against a woman and lead
to inadequate care.
- Pain treatment that works for one sex may not work as well, or at all, for
Some of the most galvanizing research concerns the medications we use to treat
pain. This work calls into question the age-old pain management practice of
"one size (or one drug) fits all." For example, a series of landmark
studies has shown that morphine-like drugs, called kappa-opioids, produce significantly
greater pain relief in women than in men. (These drugs work through receptors
in the central nervous system. There are multiple types of opioid receptors
-- kappa, mu, delta, and sigma. The mu and kappa categories are the two major
classes thought to be responsible for analgesia.) Kappa-opioids are not as commonly
used as other narcotic pain medications. Drugs that work on the mu-receptors
are the standard of care and are much more frequently prescribed. Yet they cause
more nausea, itching, cardiac effects, constipation, and depression of the respiratory
system. Treating women with kappa-opioids, then, may provide better pain relief
with fewer side effects.
Other studies show that common pain relievers do less for women than for men.
For example, in a recent study of experimentally induced pain, ibuprofen --
the key ingredient in Advil, Motrin, and other over-the-counter analgesics known
as NSAIDS (for nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs) -- was less effective at
providing pain relief for women than men. Perhaps dosages for NSAIDS need to
take gender into account.
In addition, many painful diseases and injuries disproportionately affect women.
Even when men and women suffer from the same illness, the symptoms may be different:
- Osteoarthritis (OA), or degenerative joint disease, is far more common
among women over the age of fifty-five, and women may suffer from a more severe
form of this disease. In one recent study, women experienced 40 percent more
pain, as well as worse pain. In addition, women are more likely to develop
inflammatory types of OA that lead to knobby deformities of the DIP and PIP
joints (the two sets of joints below the knuckles).
- Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) occurs two and a half times more often among women,
and it may also affect them more severely. Women have reported more painful
joints, more swollen joints, and worse function. And the majority of studies
show that RA is slightly more disabling for women than it is for men.
- Migraine headaches are more severe, longer lasting, and more frequent in
women than in men. In addition, women have more nausea, vomiting, numbness,
and tingling with their headaches, while men are more likely to have a visual
- Tension headaches occur two to three times more frequently among women,
who also experience much higher levels of tenderness in all the muscles surrounding
- Women athletes experience knee injuries two to eight times more frequently
than their male counterparts. This is particularly true for tears of the anterior
cruciate ligament (ACL).
- Osteoporosis affects both sexes, but women develop it at a much younger
age and in far greater numbers because of hormonal differences.
Gender differences play out on the operating table, too. In a study recently
published in the British Medical Journal, women emerged from general
anesthesia faster than men. However, they returned to their pre-surgery health
status significantly more slowly and they experienced more postoperative complications.
Women Aren't Just Small Men
We don't know why these differences exist, but a wide range of scientific studies
shows that the sexes differ on nearly every level. From the molecular to the
psychological, from the basic genetic codes to the hormones, biology, physiology,
and the overall functioning of the immune response systems -- men and women
We aren't doing enough to understand and close this gender gap. The prestigious
Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academy of Sciences recently issued
a call for biomedical researchers to "study sex differences from womb to
tomb." The IOM's report recommended that researchers take sex differences
into account in clinical trials, including studies of new drugs.
Even when women participate in clinical trials -- and more women do now than
five years ago -- there is little gender-specific information coming out of
the studies. Scientists at drug companies and research institutions have largely
ignored sex-based differences in their data analysis.
We also know precious little about how drugs behave during pregnancy or breast-feeding.
Most women who participate in research are postmenopausal. Admittedly, there
are serious ethical concerns about allowing women of childbearing age to enter
studies. But there may be other, less worthy issues at stake: Perhaps pharmaceutical
companies are worried about the marketing consequences of defining a drug as
more effective in one sex than another.
Sticking our heads in the sand is not the answer. We must develop guidelines
that allow all women to fully participate in research. Failure to do this has
serious ramifications; it could, in fact, be a matter of life and death. For
example, of the ten prescription drugs withdrawn by the FDA from the market
since 1997 because of adverse reactions, eight posed greater risks for women
than for men. (In some cases, the drugs were more widely prescribed to women;
however, even with medications prescribed equally to males and females, they
were more dangerous for women.) And when you are pregnant, physiological changes
may affect your response to a drug; you may be more vulnerable to its toxicity
or its effectiveness. When you take a drug, you need to know that it is safe
and effective for you.
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There are wounds that permanently disfigure us, leaving us with a constant reminder of an injury. A drunk driver disables one for life. A sexual predator robs our self-confidence and self-esteem, and we struggle with post-traumatic stress disorder and depression while the perpetrator walks away. Someone hurts our child, and our anger becomes all-encompassing, eating us alive.
Most human beings understand that forgiveness is essential to living a healthy and productive life. Yet, there are moments when forgiveness becomes a challenge. A perpetrator might be unrepentant. Or, 'things happen' in the background, in board rooms behind closed doors, and we don't even know who has hurt us. While we are left with devastating consequences, the rest of the world goes on as though nothing has happened.Forgiveness is written for those who are struggling with forgiveness, have significant wounds, and can't seem to find their way to healing and for Christians who are not dealing with a particular forgiveness issue, but who are striving to make forgiveness a daily spiritual practice.
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I learned of Scott Sonnon from a small article in a magazine called Muscle Media. Pavel Tsatsouline wrote a monthly column, I believe the title was “Question of Strength,” and one month he mentioned Scott’s work with Clubbells.
I found www.rmaxinternational.com and started to follow the articles in the RMAX magazine. The information provided was VERY, VERY useful for my work with professional and Olympic athletes. After a few months I also ordered the whole set of clubbells, the Clubbell book and “Body Flow” program. Recently, I have studied “Free To Move” as well as the Prasara book.
In this month’s blogs I would like to share the specific results I have seen in athletes and clients who applied the exercises I learned with clubbells in “Body Flow” and “Free To Move”. Also, I would like to share, how I try to “squeeze” as much out of these exercises as possible, through specific use of visualization.
Case Study 1: Kenneth Jonasson, professional badminton player and three time Olympian (2000, 2004 and 2008)
When I started working with Kenneth, he lacked thoracic extension as well as hip mobility in all planes of motion. I introduced Kenneth to the “Spinal Rock” and the “Shin Box Shift.” Kenneth was, at the time, a seasoned professional and very aware of which exercises provided a benefit for him and which exercises did not. He quickly felt a benefit from “Spinal Rock” and the “Shin Box Shift.” The Spinal Rock helped him increase the velocity of his smash (a stroke used to attack in badminton) and the “Shin Box Shift” helped his movement speed on the court.
To Your Success,
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The comments came a day after President Barack Obama said the US would reconsider its opposition to military involvement in the Syrian civil war if Bashar Assad's government deploys or uses chemical or biological weapons, describing it as a 'red line' for the United States.
A Syrian government official warned the United States Tuesday that military intervention inSyria could lead to regional turmoil as regime forces bombed a northern village and stormed a rebel-held Damascus suburb, killing dozens of people, activists said.
The comments came a day after President Barack Obama said the U.S would reconsider its opposition to military involvement in the Syrian civil war if Bashar Assad's government deploys or uses chemical or biological weapons, describing it as a "red line" for the United States.
Syrian Deputy Prime Minister Qadri Jamil called Obama's statements "propagandistic threats" made in connection with the U.S. presidential election. But Jamil also said the comments indicate that the West is looking for a pretext to intervene militarily.
He insisted that such intervention would be "impossible" because it would cause the civil war to spread to other countries in the region.
The conflict already has spilled over into neighboring Lebanon, where sectarian tensions have risen.
Clashes that broke out Monday night between the two sides in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli killed at least six people and wounded more than 70 in some of the most serious fighting in Lebanon in several months, the Lebanese state-run news agency said. The wounded included nine Lebanese soldiers.
The mostly Sunni city also saw gunbattles in May, when fighting over Syria killed eight people. The latest clashes were between gunmen from the Sunni neighborhood of Jabal Mohsen and the neighboring district of Bab Tabbaneh, which is mostly populated by followers of the Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shiite Islam.
Assad is a member of Syria's Alawite minority, while rebels fighting his regime are predominantly Sunnis.
The streets around the two districts were sealed off by roadblocks to keep people away from the line of snipers' fire, but life went on normally in the rest of the city despite the occasional sound of gunfire.
Heavy fighting also continued in and around Aleppo on Tuesday.
On Monday, veteran Japanese war correspondent Mika Yamamoto became the first foreign journalist to die in the northern Syrian city since clashes between rebels and regime forces erupted there almost a month ago.
Syrian government forces also reportedly captured two other journalists there, including Alhurra TV correspondent Bashar Fahmi and his cameraman Cuneyt Unal.
Yamamoto worked for The Japan Press, an independent TV news provider that specializes in conflict zone coverage.
The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalist said at least 16 journalists have been killed since November while covering Syria, making it "the most dangerous place in the world for journalists."
A statement from Springfield, Virginia-based Alhurra said the company has not been able to reach its correspondent and his cameraman since they entered Syria on Monday morning.
Most of Tuesday's fighting appeared centered in Damascus suburbs, which have witnessed a dramatic spike in fighting over the past month.
The Syrian activist group the Local Coordination Committees and a rebel spokesman also said regime troops entered the opposition-held suburb of Moadamiyeh from four points, raiding homes in search of anti-Assad fighters.
The rebel spokesman, who asked to be identified only by his first name Ahmed said three men in their late 20s and early 30s were shot dead execution-style soon after the town fell to regime forces.
He also said 23 fighters from the Free Syrian Army rebel group were killed when government forces stormed the town at dawn.
Later, activists said dozens of bodies were found dumped in a building in the town. The LCC said they appear to have been killed execution-style. But Rami Abdul-Rahman, director of the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said it was not clear whether they were killed in the shelling or had been shot.
The reports could not be independently verified.
Moadamiyeh, west of the capital, Damascus, had been under siege for more than two weeks. Its capture followed days of intense fighting and shelling by government troops.
In northern Syria, an activist who goes by the name Abu al-Hassan said warplanes and helicopters attacked a number of towns and villages north of Aleppo early Tuesday, killing a young boy and another civilian, and damaging homes. Several people also were wounded.
After strafing a number of villages overnight, government fighter jets dropped two bombs on a residential part of the village of Marea, about 30 kilometers (20 miles) north of Aleppo, Abu al-Hassan said via Skype.
One amateur video posted online showed a huge cloud of gray smoke rising over the village, a crater in a rubble-strewn road and two houses with collapsed ceilings. Residents were searching through the rubble for survivors, crying "is anyone there?"
A second video showed a number of people, including a small boy, with serious injuries. The videos could not be independently verified.
Marea is a relatively quiet farming village in the Aleppo countryside that was not known for being a hub of rebel activity, although one rebel group runs a prison in a school there.
Assad's overstretched forces have found it increasingly difficult to quell the rebel challenge over an ever widening stretch of territory across the country, a sign that the regime's grip on power is loosening.
The seemingly intractable 17-month-old conflict in Syria that human rights groups say has claimed the lives of more than 20,000 people has defied all international attempts to calm the bloodshed.
Brahimi will be coming to New York later this week to meet with Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and senior U.N. officials, Nesirky said.
Meanwhile, Renesys Corp., a Manchester, N.H., company that studies the structure of the Internet, said a Chinese company is keeping war-torn Syria connected to the Web as other telecommunications companies withdraw.
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News Media Guidelines
A Guide to Working with the Media for Faculty and Staff
The Office of University Communications (UComm) is staffed by professionals with extensive experience in dealing with the media on a daily basis. UComm works with all media, including on-campus publications, local, national and international, in all formats — print, broadcast and electronic. In collaboration with the appropriate communications professionals at each college and school, UComm staff issues press releases, organizes press conferences and handles the University’s overall media relations. The office assists in publicizing news that has a University connection. UComm also maintains a list of faculty experts whom external media can contact for expertise on timely topics or current events.
If a reporter contacts UComm with a request to speak to a faculty or staff member or contacts a faculty or staff member directly, UComm’s media relations team will help the faculty or staff member prepare for the interview and serve as the media liaison. For faculty who have authored a paper to be published, have a new research project under way, are receiving a prestigious award or grant, are planning a unique event or for any other publicity needs, this guide will them understand the University’s policies on how to reach the media.
A story or event may be very important to its sponsors, but whether it will receive external press coverage depends on many factors, including the nature and significance of the news or event, the timing and even what other news is happening that day. The media relations team will be able to advise on whether to expect coverage. Generally, a story must have some unusual aspect to warrant wide attention. Examples include: a scientific breakthrough, an exceptionally large donation, an appointment of a well-known scholar, or a timely event or development.
Media coverage of any story or event never can be guaranteed. However, most news will often be covered in the campus print and online media, including DrexelNow.
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Beagle the Lord. Kingdom of Fancy Dogs by Maria Pishvanova
Beagle in beautiful clothes you see on the
portrait,is more than just a character from a painting.
He is a noble dog from the magical kingdom of fancy animals!
There, dogs of all breeds celebrate their
individuality, being fashionable and artistic.
For this guest blog, we asked beagle to write about this kingdom
and tell the story of how Happy Art was born.
Maria, Julia and Anna
Artists of Animal Century
Hello, dear readers of BeagleDaily! My name is Lord Beagle. I am honored to write this
guest blog, and acquaint you with Animal Century Kingdom. This is a land of fancy animals,
where live dogs of all breeds – residents of the kingdom.
They wear stylish clothing, and lead joyful lifestyle.
You may ask, where Animal Century is situated? Well, it is not on the other planet.
And it is not imaginary. Our land was founded by artists…
Everything began in 1989, when the artist Maria Pishvanova painted kitten in a boot.
The painting looked incredible! Maria was so happy with the result, so she decided
to paint more artworks, depicting animals and fashion. The artist started
to design beautiful clothing and accessories for characters from paintings.
The first animals in clothes and also residents of
Animal Century were a pretty couple – hedgehog and cat in wedding clothes.
The story behind this painting is very romantic. A friend of Maria fell in love
with the most wonderful girl in the world. He asked the artist to paint something,
that will be a great gift for her. Hedgehog and cat turned out to be magical painting!
Boy and girl married shortly after this artwork was done.
It was the very nice surprise for Maria. She understood that her
art helps people to be happy. Everyone smiled while looking at portraits of animals in clothes.
That is how our land of Happy Art was founded – with creativity and great love.
We, residents of Animal Century, are always ready to make your day!
As time went by, more and more beautiful portraits were being created. Maria’s daughter Julia joined her,
and they continued painting together. Our kingdom grew, you
could already meet many dog breeds, walking on the magical streets.
As you know, each dog belongs to a group, which includes breeds, similar to each other.
That is why Animal Century was divided into counties. Counties for toy dogs, gundogs, shepherds…
I live in the Hound County, together with bloodhounds, harriers, borzois and other great dogs.
I would be happy to welcome beagles at my home!
Feel free to visit me in Scenthound city, when traveling around Animal Century.
Art is very important to all of us.
We love to visit museums, and watch there masterpieces of dog art.
Luckily, there are many galleries and other art spaces in our Kingdom.
For example, the Royal Gallery – there are exhibited paintings with residents of Animal Century.
My portrait hangs in the section of Royal Dogs – together with portraits
of Corgi the Queen and other noble dogs. I am honored to be accompanied by them!
Our artists carry on doing more portraits of dog breeds.
Maria and her daughters – Julia and Anna – reside in Palace of Animal Century,
and invite our residents for portraying. Julia helps with painting,
Anna manages online kingdom at AnimalCentury.com
I would also like to mention other residents from Palace.
Prince Romeo the Chihuahua and the Cat Queen are Ambassadors of Happy Art.
Their mission is to acquaint people and animals with our land.
So, when I wrote this blog, that was my mission, too.
I hope you liked my story, and are interested in visiting the kingdom.
We are working hard on making Animal Century the more exciting and magical place to visit!
Animal Century is the portrait collection of dogs, cats and other animals.
The artist Maria Pishvanova started it in 1989. Since then, she portrays animals in natural look,
giving them unique image. Over 200 paintings have been done,
and Maria carries on portraying more incredible characters.
With the help of her daughters she creates impressive art collection.
Artist uses all her skills to make outstanding paintings, that depict animals in all their beauty.
Liked today’s post? Don’t miss tomorrow…..
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The flu virus is hitting Arkansas hard -- with seven deaths reported in the state. So now is the time to get a flu shot
The Pulaski County Central Health Unit will offer flu vaccinations this Thursday.
The clinic is located on 3915 West 8th Street in Little Rock.
Flu vaccinations will be available from 4 to 6pm. There is a $30 fee for the shots.
You're asked to bring private insurance, Medicare, Medicaid or ARkids First information so that the Arkansas Department of Health can bill your insurance.
The health department encourages everyone over six months old to get a flu shot.
Baptist Health partners with 200 physicians to improve health care
Today, Baptist Health in Little Rock announced a significant new organization called "Baptist Health Physician Partners."
Right now the partnership includes more than 200 physicians. But the hospital is still reaching out to other doctors who are committed to improving quality health care and reducing costs.
Patients will also receive better communication from their doctors. And information technology will be used to monitor and manage health care services.
Hospital officials say the partnership has been in the works for 18 months and can further improve clinical outcomes for Arkansans.
Migraines & heart attacks
Women who suffer from migraines with visual disturbances -- known as auras -- may be more likely to have problems with their heart and blood vessels.
Researchers studied nearly 28,000 women with more than 1,400 suffering from migraine with aura. They found after high blood pressure, migraine with aura was the second strongest single contributor to heart attack risk and stroke.
While this doesn't mean every woman who has migraines with aura will have a heart attack or stroke, it should be considered a risk factor.
David Frid, M.D. with Cleveland Clinic says, "I think what people should look at when they're checking off "what's my risk for having heart disease? How many risk factors do I have?" They can look at do they have diabetes? Do they have high blood pressure? And now they can also look at "am I a woman who has migraines with auras?"
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Creating a fairer Britain
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Students from Indiana’s 31 independent colleges and universities will gather at the statehouse today, calling on legislators to protect funding for financial aid.
Funds from the State Student Assistance Commission of Indiana, referred to as SSACI, are given to Hoosier students to make college more affordable. In the last few years, the legislature has increased the total amount set aside in the budget for these grants.
The current budget proposal keeps that financial aid at the same levels. But Richard Ludwick, president of the Independent Colleges of Indiana, says students will tell lawmakers how much they rely on those funds, which, with rising numbers of students eligible, have actually gone down on a per student basis.
“A few years ago,” he explains, “the maximum grants were around $11,000. Recently, that has fallen, because of the expanded number of students qualifying, to about $7,000.”
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Recent figures from the Steam hardware survey show that only 0.44 percent of those who use the Valve digital distribution service actually use the new Windows 8 operating system from Microsoft.
The player base for Steam is over 54 million, which means that just over 237,000 are using the OS.
Those who have responded to the hardware survey might represent a self-selecting sample that has a lower than usual intention to use Windows 8, according to Gamespot cited figures
Previous figures from the NPD Group have also showed that actual PC sales in the United States have gone down in the month after Windows 8 was officially launched by Microsoft.
Gabe Newell, the leader of Valve, has stated that he sees the OS as a problem for PC gaming and has suggested that his own company might create a gaming focused operating system at some point in the future. | <urn:uuid:c49d8ca5-eb01-48d2-ab25-be55cc33d611> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://news.softpedia.com/news/Steam-Survey-Reveals-Low-Windows-8-Adoption-312644.shtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96768 | 172 | 1.835938 | 2 |
On Saturday February 17, 2012 a Day of Discovery was hosted in Kalamazoo, Michigan. A number of teachers and educators were attendance to learn about Data Driven Instruction, differentiated instruction, web 2.0 tools and the Discovery Education Science Techbook. Participants were also given an opportunity to learn about additional topics of their choice through the [...]
I am a manager on the Science Techbook Instructional Implementation Team. Prior to working with Discovery Education, I served as a science teacher and an instructional technology administrator. I enjoy helping teachers become better educators. My work with Discovery Education is exciting because I not only am able to combine science and technology, but I am also able to share and collaborate with great educators. | <urn:uuid:05150343-0ee5-4061-8476-45671af2762f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.discoveryeducation.com/blog/author/trinette-patterson/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00017-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969142 | 142 | 1.742188 | 2 |
Sometimes it takes a Beatles to free an elephant. The Sun reported that Paul McCartney used his personal sway in freeing an elephant kept caged in the dark for seven years in India. McCartney and fellow activist, actress and former Saturday Night Live alumnus, Pamela Stephenson, succeeded in getting India's forest minister Dr. Patangrao Kadam to free the 11-year-old elephant "Sunder" and sending him off to a wildlife sanctuary.
McCartney had written a heartfelt and angry letter, saying, "I have seen photographs of young Sunder, the elephant kept alone in a shed at a temple and put in chains with spikes. Years of his life have been ruined by keeping him and abusing him in this way. Enough is enough. Get Sunder out."
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In Oracle's Q4 earnings conference call, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison commented that the Oracle will include the jRockit server VM in their application server, claiming that "jRockit is really not BEA's, it Intel's". jRockit (which is owned by BEA) will apparently become the official VM for both Oracle and BEA. It is unclear why Ellison claims that Intel is in control of jRockit.
You can hear the response here:
. (forward in about 41 minutes).
In a question regarding java performance vs. compiled languages, an analyst asks:
"...Is there a chance that you'll be working more closely with BEA going forward with their JRockit virtual machine?"
To which Larry Ellison responds:
"jRockit is really not BEA's it Intels. And infact jRockit will be part of our appserver as well as BEA's appserver. jRockit is generally available to anyone who builds a java engine on top of Intel, and BEA has no proprietary rights to that..."
He then proceeds talk about how Oracle is the fastest appserver, as proven by ECperf.
I thought BEA tookover JRockit. I Guess Not
This is what you get from BEA Website about JRockit
"BEA WebLogic JRockit is a JVM built from the ground up to run server-side Java applications, as opposed to client-side Java applications. BEA acquired this product along with the acquisition of Appeal Virtual Machines based in Stockholm, Sweden."
Intel does have a partnership with BEA.
How much of a partnership and who owns what is not clear. Still, trust Larry to have a good spin on it!
When did you guys started taking seriously what a CEO says( that too in an earnings conference call ). Most tech CEOs are clueless on technology and Larry leads the pack.
Lets not discount Oracle, because of what their clueless CEO said. Inspite of Larry, there is a good product out there from Oracle.
ok Larry Ellison, does this mean we can use Oracle Database if we claim that another company actually owns it.
what a Moron! Bill Gates is evil but Larry Ellison is retarded.
Oracle App server is realy realy OrionServer.com but more expensive.
Oracle is "realy" postgreSQL.org, except Oracle is to expensive to run large comerical applications, and postgreSQL.org is not.
Jason: "what a Moron! Bill Gates is evil but Larry Ellison is retarded."
Retarded? Are you kidding? Look at the free press he's getting on TheServerSide.com ;-) ... I think that it was PT Barnum who said, "There's no such thing as bad press."
Besides, Orion is a relatively good app server ;-)
: Easily share live data across a cluster!
I think that it was PT Barnum who said, "There's no such thing as bad press."
And I think that anyone who believes that to be true is retarded! It's like saying "There's no such thing as bad experiences". There are definetly many things I hope I'll never experience.
As to Bill Gates vs. Larry Ellison I'd prefer listening to Bill Gates anyday (subject not considered).
Well I don't agree with no such thing as bad press, it hasn't seemed to help O.J. Simpsons movie career ;)
Larry Ellison is very calculating, and has his own spin on things. He only says these things to get more press. I'd rather see CEO's be honest and say truthful things. Our entire economy is having trouble now because of dishonest Executives. (Enron, WorldCom,etc) We don't need more of it.
And for the Record I don't really believe Bill Gates to be evil, just a good business person.
Watch how you use that term. Some of us are retards here.
As is clearly stated on our website, JRockit is BEA's technology and product.
VP, General Manager
Java Runtime Products Group
BEA Systems, Inc.
IBM clearly distinguish websphere from DB2, a websphere
admin requires different skills from db2 dba. same
is the case with oracle 9i db vs 9i as.
I think oracle apps 11i upgrades ran into rough weather, because oracle assumes that their existing dbas can perform
java/web server work. Where as the DBAs mostly follow
the instructions in rapid install, but once the problems
come on JVM, http security etc, they could not solve it.
If oracle has to succeed in middleware platforms train
people with different set of skills, and do not expect
DBAs can perform every work from app server to db server.
There's only one Larry Booboo Ellison! Our world would be so boring without some of his kind. :))
I think he mixed many things and the fact that JRockIt only runs on Intel platforms... He must have spent too much time on his boat at the America's Cup and drifted away from business.
It's good to see that even people like him make mistakes. It makes me feel a little better even though he's the one with the money and not me.
As I understand from this article the interview wasn't specifically about jrockit. It's like hey dude, forward 41 minutes to see how Ellison confused JRockit with a SELECT when answering a casual question. This is s**t. Floyd should have known that it's just a blunder. What has JRockit to do with Intel? As far as I know it was developed in Sweden and bought by BEA. I think that when Ellison is giving interviews without knowing them by heart ot without a tehnical consultant by his side, he should stick to 'Oracle is at least twice as fast as anything else out there, we're sooo good at select we can't stop looking at our faces in the mirror'.
Even Ellison cannot get away with "blunders" like this. This kind of mistake gets you sued. I don't pretend to know what is really going on, though....
Who knows? Maybe Intel wants to join Sun and IBM (not to mention some others) as a hardware company that has a server-side software arm and plans to buy BEA.
Maybe it will be Intel Weblogic some some months from now.
I understand that many of you have become upset with my recent proclamation that JRockit is actually owned by Intel. After several thoughtful seconds of deliberation, which is a long time for me, I have decided to fill you all in on the whole story in point format.<BR>-Alfred Chuang beat the tar out of me playing golf the other day. We agreed that the winner of the golf tourney would be able to exchange his BEA shares for an equal amount of INTEL shares. Since BEA stock has been kicking some serious *ss lately and INTEL has been sucking, I made up the "Intel-owns-JRockit" story to fatten my chances. I apologize.<BR><BR>-Alfred called the SEC up and told them the whole scenario. I am now being fined $500 million dollars for attempting to unjustly influence the price of a NASDAY-held asset.<BR><BR>-Aliens landed on my front yard and stole my croquet set. They left a CD in my mailbox that supposedly has instructions on how to get it back, but its written in Pascal. Obviously, I'm going to need to dig up my old Commodore 64 up out of the closet to play this CD, so you guys don't have to help me out there... what I need to know is can I use the CD as a frisbee without worrying that it will scratch, or is that just a nasty rumor?<BR><BR>-Bill Gates is my long-lost brother. The story goes something like this: My mother and your mother were hanging up clothes. My mother punched your mother straight in the nose. What color was the blood?<BR><BR>-I sometimes can walk and chew gum at the same time.<BR><BR>-Did you know that next week I will roam the streets of San Francisco and hand out sums of money to people who can correctly identify the number of hairs in my beard? Only me and my two personal barbars know the answer, and they're both locked in my office until the end of this crazy-cool promotion. Free Antonio and Gerard, people! Learn the Beard!!! HEEEEEEEEE-HEEE-HEEE! Ohhhhh, I rock so hard.<BR><BR>-I think that thesmokinggun.com is like, the coolest site in the world.<BR><BR>Now where did I put my pipe.. ahhhh, there it is... bye y'all, and remember: The fate of the world rests on Canadian shoulders! Peace out.<BR><BR>Lar. | <urn:uuid:3064f4fb-4428-413b-b76b-fb1e772a168b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=17310 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00021-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96264 | 1,879 | 1.5 | 2 |
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Celebrations in honour of Port Sunlight's founder
8:00am Sunday 16th September 2012 in News
THE founder of Port Sunlight village will be remembered in a special day of events next weekend.
Founder’s Day, taking place on Sunday, September 23, will celebrate 161 years since the birth of philanthropist William Hesketh Lever.
The Bolton-born businessman turned 56 acres of land into a world-famous soap factory, as well as housing for his employees and landscaped gardens.
For history buffs, local historian Gavin Hunter will give an evening lecture about the village's creation at Port Sunlight Museum in King George's Drive on Thursday, September 27.
Katherine Lynch, museum manager said: “Without William Hesketh Lever, the beautiful village of Port Sunlight would not be standing today.
“Purchasing 56 acres of disused marshland, Lever worked with 30 different architects to mastermind the model village, which thousands of visitors continue to appreciate today.”
Taking place outside Port Sunlight Museum King George’s Drive, next Sunday's Founder's Day celebrations run from 11am-4pm.
Among the attractions will be Tame Valley Vintage and Classic Car Club display on the Museum Green and a Friends of Port Sunlight second-hand book sale.
New character-led guided tours will also be held at 11.30am and 2.30pm. Visitors taking part will be able to find our what village life was like in 1914.
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You bitches are getting made this weekend.
I fucking love snickerdoodles.
underthevastblueseas: Underwater Rivers?
A group of amateur cave explorers discovered a river in Mexico with banks, trees and leaves just like an ordinary river, but with an additional metric shit ton of “WTF,” because they were hovering 25 feet over it in scuba gear when they discovered it.
While underwater water doesn’t seem possible, the “river” is actually a briny mix of salt water and hydrogen sulfide. It’s much more dense than regular salt water, so it sinks to the bottom and forms a distinct separation that acts and flows like a river.
Deep sea lakes look like normal lakes, complete with sandy and rocky shores. Scientist call these lakes “cold seeps,” but they’re a hotbed for life, because apparently waterfront real estate is a hot commodity under water, too. The “rocky” shores are actually made up of hundreds of thousands of mussels. Even weirder, the lakes under the waves have waves of their own.
Photos by Anatoly Beloshchin,source,
This planet, mayne…
Excuse me. The correct sentence is: This México man ._.
like, holy shit HOW
The car tire behind Hawkeye’s head when he delivers his “Captain, it would be my genuine pleasure” line cracks me up.
It’s like they’re trying so hard to convince us that yes, he really is a good guy now, that they had to literally give him a halo.
And the next thing he does is go and save babies from buses.
Anonymous asked you: You should make a picture of Thor hugging Loki and singing Set Fire to the Rain.
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By By CHRISTINA REXRODEAP Business Writer
John Stumpf, 59, the CEO of Wells Fargo, is the son of a farmer, second-oldest in a family of 11 kids. He paid for state college by playing bass guitar in a band.
"I never set out to be the CEO of this company," Stumpf, who started in banking as a repo agent, said in an interview with The Associated Press. "Life just happened."
Here's more on his background:
- GROWING UP STUMPF: Stumpf was raised on a farm in rural Minnesota, in a house where everyone had to play a musical instrument before he or she was allowed to play sports.
Stumpf played trumpet in high school band and then paid for college by playing bass guitar in a rock band called The Mason-Dixon Line.
"We played stuff in the North and we played stuff in the South," he says.
- SIBLING RIVALRY: Of 11 kids, he's the only one who went into banking. The others are in carpentry, baking, farming, academia and other fields.
"I've got siblings on every rung of the economic ladder, involved in all kinds of phases of life and situations," he says. "I don't need to take a survey about how people feel about the economy. I just need to go to a family reunion."
Growing up in a packed house, he slept in a bed between two of his brothers. "In fact, I never got to sleep alone until I got married," he likes to joke.
- GO HUSKIES: Stumpf earned a finance degree from St. Cloud State University in St. Cloud, Minn., and an MBA from the University of Minnesota. Harvard, he says, is a terrific school, "but if that were the only place to create CEOs, we would be missing a lot of them."
- DINNER WITH THE ORACLE: Stumpf recalls a dinner a few years ago at which Warren Buffett, the billionaire investor, who is also Wells Fargo's biggest shareholder, dumped salt on his T-bone steak with a shaker in each hand. Stumpf interjected.
Stumpf recalls: "I said, 'Warren, what does your doctor say about all that sodium?' He made some comment about his colonoscopy. (Buffett, now 82, had part of his colon removed in 2000.) And he said, 'I went into the hospital with a colon, and I came out with a semi-colon.'"
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After vowing to never spend more than $1,000 on a pet, a friend of mine recently spent more than $8,000 to treat cancer in his dog. When I saw him afterwards, he sheepishly said, “I know I said I would never spend near this much for a dog, but our family loves him, how could I not? “
I often hear pet owners say they wouldn’t make financial sacrifices if a pet needed expensive vet care. Yet, over the years, I’ve seen that they often do the opposite. It seems the reality of their pet being ill or injured quickly becomes a high priority – and everything else takes a back seat.
Emergencies Open Our Eyes – And Hearts
When faced with costly pet care in an emergency or life-threatening situation, all the good times with their pet quickly surface. They’re reminded of the unconditional love and emotional support their pet provides. Abruptly, the pet’s needs will not be sacrificed due to financial constraints. A way will be found to treat their pet.
This about-face has a sound and rational reason. The crisis has focused their attention on just how much value they place in their pet. The good feeling we receive when we are with our pets, the passion we feel when we greet our pets, how they overcome our loneliness and how they are steadfast in their loyalty, builds a reciprocal loyalty that we must repay. Otherwise, we feel guilty for not returning all they give to us. And of course we want to preserve that bond and maintain the relationship.
Beg, Borrow or Insure
If the pet is insured, the decisions are easy, since the pet insurance is paying the vast majority of the cost. If not insured, we max out our credit cards, tap savings or borrow the funds. Either way, we feel good knowing it was the right thing to do, but the financial aftermath can be difficult without insurance.
My friend justified going beyond his $1,000 limit by smiling and saying, “Besides, I had insurance and I only paid $1,280… just $280 more than my limit! Seriously,” he added, “thank you for talking me into getting Max Pets Best Insurance. There is no way we would not have done it, but having Pets Best pet insurance sure made it easy.”
Affording Cutting-Edge Treatment
One example of a costly, yet very effective treatment is a new cutting-edge radiation treatment called Tomo Therapy. This happens to be the therapy that saved my friend’s dog’s life. Once inoperable tumors can now be treated with great precision, sparing healthy surrounding tissues. However, the cost averages more than $6,000. The machines that can perform such precision cost $3 million each and there are only two in the country. Before you dismiss this costly treatment and say “never for me”, hundreds of pet owners have already traveled great distances and gladly accepted the cost because it can make such a difference for their pet. These pet owners are not wealthy. They simply cherish their pets and want to preserve their bond and extend their lives.
So, never say “never” when it comes to protecting your pet. No matter how sure you are that your veterinary care budget won’t exceed a certain amount, perspective can change when you find yourself having to make the decision. And besides, pets give so much to our health and well being, it may just be a good investment for our future health as well.Tags: canine cancer, tomo therapy | <urn:uuid:09156a1e-d801-4786-9636-7975316c3bf2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.petsbest.com/blog/how-far-would-you-go-for-a-pet/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00003-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968762 | 738 | 1.679688 | 2 |
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BEAT100 is a fresh new social network that has been designed and engineered in a way that caters for everything an aspiring musician or band needs. Not only can users upload videos into fantastic charts and win cash prizes for moving up, but users can link in their own Facebook, Twitter and other social networks too, meaning their friends and fans can help them move up the charts.
Austin, TX (PRWEB) January 18, 2013
The landscape for musicians today is vastly different than that of even a decade ago. Up until the turn of the millennium, aspiring bands or artists lived with the often blind hope that somewhere, amongst the silhouettes that stood around at a gig, would be someone with a pocket full of record deals. It rarely happened, but it did happen sometimes. What never happened though, was a band receiving an email from a label rep who had just stumbled across them on the internet! The last major UK bands like Oasis and Coldplay became monsters of the industry with none of the digital tools available now, so artists must use every bit of pro-active nous to take advantage of what really is a new 'ball's in your court' situation.
Social networking is a powerful new era already... but it's really only just beginning.
There are always going to be teething problems in every new era. In the early days of internet, there were endless different kinds of websites available with the idea of giving artists a platform to show off their music whilst in some cases even integrating other social networks like Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. All of them have played a part in transforming the whole musical landscape, encouraging more people into becoming musicians even. Today it's almost an even playing field... the power is with musicians to make themselves known by encouraging friends and families to share their links through social networks, sending off links to music pages to every record label in the land. Musicians now have the ability to effectively grow a fan base in town's and cities, even countries.
BEAT100 is a fresh new social networking site that has been designed and engineered in a way that caters for everything an aspiring musician or band needs. Not only can users upload videos into a fantastic chart and win cash prizes for moving up, but users can also link in their own Facebook, Twitter and other social networks, meaning their friends and fans can help musicians move up the charts. Thousands of people every day browse and share music videos already on BEAT100.com and cash prizes are won every WEEK with a dedicated team that will always answer questions; something often frustratingly absent on many other social network platforms. A new chart system is also on it's way which will feature original songs only. Cover songs will then have their own chart.
Once a video is uploaded into the BEAT100 music charts the only thing left for the artist to do is to share the link amongst friends, and there is a very good chance the artist will then be featured in the news section which goes out on the BEAT100 Facebook and Twitter pages, along with other social networks. It's all about free exposure and getting something back for your efforts. There's no middlemen involved, just the artist and the music loving public who use BEAT100 just to browse through the thousands of videos on show every day.
Also, in the BEAT100 news section, users can read general music news with features and daily reports from the BEAT100 reporting team, as well as gig news and both signed and unsigned artist interviews. The aim is to bring musicians everything they need and stack them up neatly under one strong and durable roof, but BEAT100 will continue to adapt and develop and are always open to user suggestions. BEAT100 consider every artist on their site as a member of the BEAT100 family and can also offer real advice and guidance on making it in a music industry that is littered with pitfalls. BEAT100 will always go that extra mile for their members!
The incentive of weekly cash prizes and exposure for moving up the charts is great way of rewarding artists for their efforts. The more the video is shared the better chance of a cash prize.
In all, it's a simple, fresh and easy way to get heard and not only are there thousands of people using the BEAT100 social network every day, but BEAT100 also has an extensive Facebook and Twitter network which increases the potential audience ten fold.
BEAT100 is always developing and plans and are underway in getting involved with music festivals across the country with an official BEAT100 stage, giving BEAT100 artists the chance to perform live to thousands of music lovers.
The structure of the BEAT100 network is also very easy and simple to use with on-going subtle changes being made so to constantly keep up with the ever changing landscape of social media and with thousands of new videos uploaded every week there is always fresh new content available. Whether users want to share or listen to original music, cover songs or new bands or if they are an aspiring artist and want to upload their music to a site with an ever growing audience, BEAT100 offers it all.
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What is known as the clonación of credit and debit cards is on the increase in Tijuana, according to law enforcement authorities. The term refers to the theft of data that occurs during the use of a credit or debit card, most usually via a rigged ATM.
In the past two months, three times as many cases than usual have been reported. Typically, ATMs at convenience stores and other commercial enterprises are chosen by identity thieves. The perpetrators install a device over the card reader in order to record data that can be used to gain access to accounts.
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Hand Spun and Hand Knit Cowichan Sweaters
Traditional Craft and Modern Day Style
The sweater design for Canada'a Olympic Team has caused quite a furor. This page will explain how a Cowichan Sweater is made. To order a Cowichan Sweater, please contact us.
Cowichan Sweaters are made from wool, the colour of which comes from the natural colour of the wool on the sheep. The wool is not dyed. The colours are white and dark brown or black and grays are achieved by mixing the two. No two Cowichan Sweaters can ever be alike for this and for other reasons as you will see.
Each knitter has a different style of knitting. Some knit loosely, others knit tightly. Measurements are made with the fingers, not with a ruler. Sweaters are knit as one piece. They are not, like the Mary Maxim sweaters, made in pieces and sewn together. The Olympic Sweater is based on the Mary Maxim model.
Cowichan Sweaters originally had designs which were just geometric shapes lines and zig-zags. very much like the designs woven into the baskets. Certain of these designs were used by specific families. It was only much later that the knitters begain to incorporate animals, fish, birds and even Mickey Mouse!
Cowichan Sweaters are impossible to mass produce because of all of these things. But that is the beauty and the delight of these garments. Every sweater is an individual work of art, never to be duplicated.
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Congressman Pat Meehan Wants Pa.’s Veterans’ Courts To Go Nation-Wide
By Brad Segall
NORRISTOWN, Pa. (CBS) – Congress is considering legislation sponsored by Congressman Pat Meehan that would make federal grants available to state and local governments to establish Veterans Treatment Courts. Montgomery County’s court has been up and running for nearly a year.
There are nineteen active participants in Montgomery County’s treatment court and overall court personnel say it’s going really well. Soldiers who see combat overseas many times get caught up in the criminal justice system after they return home because of addictions or mental health issues. The court gives primarily non-violent offenders an opportunity to get back on their feet through treatment programs. Coordinator Stephanie Landes says the vets lean on each other for support.
“They relate better to one another. They seem to have similar experiences and just the camaraderie of being in the military can then be applied to their recovery.”
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Google must have felt hurt with Apple rolling out their very own Maps app on the iOS 6 platform, ditching the traditional Google Maps solution along the way. Although Apple’s Maps app is far from perfect and still has plenty of work to be done for it to be remotely useful to the end user, Google is all too wary of the possibility that they remain complacent, hence the latest update to Google Maps saw an additional 25 million building footprints being thrown into the database for an even more detailed and comprehensive navigational experience.
The new building footprints were said to have been created by a computer, and this very same computer processed actual aerial imagery as well as rendered the shapes of buildings in the maps itself. User contributions are very much welcome as well, where they can help out by fixing inaccurate building footprints in Google Map Maker, in addition to assigning businesses to current buildings.Heck, one can even draw up the whole building footprints themselves. Would you contribute to Google Maps in your very own way?
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Kidnap Victim Finds His Way Home With A Little Help From Google Maps
Sharp Gets To Work On HiDPI IGZO LCD Panels
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Hamson Daniels McPherson died at the hands of racist Marines in May. Hoping that both McPherson’s and Chen’s cases are encouraging other oppressed-nationality soldiers to speak up about their experiences with racism in the US military.
One of the things that seems to be odd is that, here I am. I’m a Japanese American. This is an African American based organization. So meeting there the first night of the founding, Huey asked me to join the Party. I looked at him and I looked at Bobby and I said, “I know you two guys are crazy, ‘cuz we drafted the program together. Are you blind as well? I’m not Black.” Then Huey responded by saying, “That’s not the issue, Richard. The struggle for Freedom, Justice, and Equality transcends racial and ethnic barriers. As far as I’m concerned, you Black.”
In fact at one point I had the title of being the “toughest Oriental to come out of West Oakland.”
At first I looked over the other majors: rejected psychology for their subjective approach to the problems of the world, and philosophy as nothing but thought, mental masturbation. Political science, I couldn’t deal with that at Berkeley, because at the time the Poly-Sci department at Berkeley was politically conservative. In fact some of the professors worked for the CIA and that was public knowledge.
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Lung cancer is the most common form of cancer in terms of incidence and number of deaths. It is a disease wherein the cell lining of lung tissue grows uncontrollably and leads to the formation of tumor. There are two main types of lung cancer; small cell lung cancer that accounts for about 20% and non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) that accounts for about 80% of the total lung cancers.
The lung cancer drugs market was valued at around $4 billion in 2010 and is expected to reach about $13 billion by 2020, growing at a CAGR of 13.5% from 2015 to 2020. The market was dominated by drugs such as Avastin, Iressa, Gemzar, and Tarceva in 2010. However, by 2020, the market is expected to be dominated by talactoferrin (Agennix), an immunomodulatory drug; followed by Xalkori (Pfizer), and by ARQ 197 (ArQule/Daiichi Sankyo).
According to WHO, lung cancer prevalence is expected to grow in the emerging markets such as the BRIC countries and other Asian and African markets due to an increase in the use of tobacco products. Tobacco is the primary cause of around 80% of all lung cancers. The other causes such as radon gas exposure, asbestos can be causative factor for devel
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What is Culture Action Europe?
Culture Action Europe is an advocacy and lobby organisation promoting arts and culture as a building block of the European project. Our aim is to influence European policies for more and better access to culture across the continent and beyond. We provide customized information and analysis on the European Union, offer cultural actors a space to exchange and elaborate common positions, and develop advocacy actions towards European policymakers.
What is Culture Action Europe's mission?
Our mission is to keep on providing EU cultural operators with a common arena in which they can reflect on the European project, identify their interests and organise their political representation with a long-term objective to strengthen the role of arts and culture in the development of Europe. Behind our mission is the belief that public investment in culture and the arts contributes to the development of a sustainable and more cohesive Europe. We are convinced that access to the arts and participation in cultural life is a fundamental right of every citizen.
What is the structure of Culture Action Europe?
We are Europe-wide network of membership organisations, with a Secretariat based in Brussels. We have an Executive Committee elected from among our membership organisations who meet four times a year. Our membership organisations meet during the annual General Assembly.
Culture Action Europe currently has over 100 members that together represent over 80.000 arts and culture players across Europe and beyond in more than 14 artistic disciplines. Our members are from all domains - orchestras to writers associations, research institutions to cultural contact points, national theatres to international cultural networks, independent cultural operators to conservatoires, visual arts organisations to voluntary arts organisations. We bring them together in the belief that cultural cooperation matters in Europe.
What is Culture Action Europe's action?
We have immediate access to EU decision makers and we are widely recognised as a unique resource of information and expertise on the EU and its cultural policy. The EU institutions see Culture Action Europe as the first port of call for informed opinion and debate about arts and cultural policy in Europe. We are the biggest umbrella organisation representing the cultural sector at European level.
We have been working on European cultural policy issues since 1992. We have published numerous studies and reports, participated in key Parliamentary hearings and discussion groups, influenced the design of the early cultural funding programmes Kaleidoscope and Raphaël, as well as the two generations of Culture programmes. We had an active role in the debates, which led to the development of ‘A European Agenda on Culture’, co-initiated the creation of the Platform for Intercultural Europe and take an active part in the newly established structured dialogue with civil society. We are a leading platform for reflection and advocacy when it comes to European cultural policy.
One of our most high profile successes was the 70 Cents for Culture Campaign targeted at European parliamentarians, Commission officials and Ministers of Culture to increase the EU’s culture budget from roughly 7 cents per citizen per year to 70 in the 2007-2013 Culture Programme. The campaign struck a chord, receiving the support of more than 1,300 persons and organisations. Given the envisaged cuts in the budget and that the campaign target of 70 cents had always been symbolic, the campaign was recognized as making a significant contribution to the final result - 13 cents. It is an example of what we can do if we collaborate in the right way.
Why is Culture Action Europe necessary?
European policymaking has a growing impact on the day-to-day work on all of us. All key sectors of civil society have developed European platforms over the past few years in order to understand the issues better and to make their voice heard at European level. Culture Action Europe exists to do the same for the arts and culture. We know that among so many competing interests making their case in Brussels, it is essential that the not-for-profit cultural sector is also heard.
Despite the complexity and the diversity of the cultural sector, it shares common positions and has similar interests. In order to be heard, these interests have to be expressed in a clear voice at the European level. Culture Action Europe aims to be the leading platform for representing the diverse interests of the sector with a coherent and clear message.
In concrete terms it means that we work together by campaigning on specific policy issues at EU level and inform the debate on cultural policy issues. We are needed because we support cultural advocacy at local, regional, national and European level. Last but not least, we collaborate in forward looking research on policies to shape the future of Europe where culture is central.
What is the history of Culture Action Europe?
The Culture Action Europe/EFAH track record 1992 - 2009
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Ashland electricity rate hike agreed
Ashland council has voted to increase electricity rates by 4 percent effective October 20. the move comes after the Bonneville Power Administration, which wholesales electricity to the city of Ashland’s electric utility, announced its own 99.5percent rate hike.
The 4-percent increase comes on top of a 10 percent water rate hike that came into effect in May, and a 6 percent sewer bill increase, effective from June.
the Jackson County Fuel Committee had asked councilors not to raise rates, and called for a November through march moratorium on cutoffs for unpaid electricity bills. | <urn:uuid:57a6a579-11c3-4092-8c14-e38bb4d02326> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thedove.us/news/ashland-electricity-rate-hike-agreed?page=108&device=desktop | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706890813/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122130-00024-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958944 | 144 | 1.617188 | 2 |
All supplies should be brought in if not for the mere fact that obtaining supplies in the region can often be pricey. Remember though, the desert can be a desolate and unforgiving land, always bring more than you think you will need. Campfire BBQ's and fresh fruit are certainly treats for which you will develop a new found appreciation for. And typically, as car camping is the desired approach, you can feel free to bring in almost all that you need.
A couple of suggestions for meals:
Cereal and milk
Oatmeal (for cold mornings)
Coffee or Tea and 'greens'
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Sandwich with plenty of nice cold veggies like cucumbers and tomatoes.
BBQ chicken, pork chops or steaks
Bell peppers, onions, zucchini, tomatoes (best prepared in a covered tin)
Corn on the Cob and either regular or sweet potatoes(wrapped in foil and placed on the edge of your fire)
A hearty soup
A nice touch to wind out a long day of exploring is to cook with your campfire.
Try to stick to an existing fire ring and modify it into a 'key hole' shape(kinda like a circle with a square attached). The whole idea is to have one part where you burn your logs and another attached section that you can push the hot coals that you will cook with into.
If in a rocky region make a circle with the larger rocks and with some shorter flatter stones make the cooking section. If need be, use some smaller stones to prop up the larger ones or fill gaps to make the structure stable.
If in a relatively moist soil environment(some seasons this is the case!) create the same shape but this time by digging it into the ground. An shovel is obviously best, but an ax can be handy for this and breaking down firewood also.
Place a grill over the square section and as the logs begin to burn down into coals, push them under the grill. If you don't have a grill handy, a simple foil pan can work fine as long as you don't get it too close to the coals.
An all steel kettle can even be placed over this portion of the fire ring to boil your water.
Beef jerky and the road also go well together as long hours on the journey need a bit of flavor. Notable is a small shack on US Highway 395 simply named 'Fresh Beef Jerky' in Olancha. Its $20 for 3 packs, but its fresh made and quite frankly the best jerky around. There's plenty of pickled vegetables and free samples also.
Bring plenty of water. A standard rule of thumb is 2 gallons per person per day. Of course this can be partially substituted with fruit juices or sodas, but make sure that you have more than you think you'll need, particularly if its your first time venturing in.
The desert can be a brutal and unforgiving place, you should be prepared to be fully self-reliant.
Since proper hydration is a major concern it is recommended to follow the general rule of bringing 2 gallons of water per day per person.
Drink even when you do not feel thirsty.
When hiking, carry a gallon of water for each day plus extra in case of an emergency.
Store extra water in your car.
Carry water even if you are only planning to explore a short distance from your car.
Dress for Success
Wear a hat with a brim and light-colored, lightweight clothes.
Pack warm, wind-proof clothes in case the wind picks up or the weather cools.
Wear sunglasses and sunblock, lots of sunblock.
Carry a Flare & a Spare
Ensure that your car is in good working order - service stations are few and far between.
Carry a spare, a jack, and some flares.
Carry boards to place under tires in case you hit a sandy trap (see below).
'Fix-a-Flat' can be a lifesaver along with jumper cables.
If You Hit a Sandy Trap...
Shift down and keep moving.
If you get stuck, do not spin your wheels; it will only dig you in deeper.
Try going in reverse.
If going in reverse does not work, place boards or carpet scraps under your tires.
If you cannot get out, stay with your car.
Do not leave your car unless you are certain that help is close by.
Know Where You're Going
When hiking, always carry a topographic map and compass.
Take a compass reading before beginning your walk, and look for landmarks to guide you back.
Let someone know where you will be and when you will return.
Pay attention when traveling back roads; they often branch and divide.
Avoid flash floods by keeping out of narrow canyons and washes when there is a chance of rain.
Abandoned mines may have hidden shafts, and old buildings in ghost towns may collapse; be careful.
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Fresh off his , Gov. Dannel P. Malloy was appointed as chairman of the education and workforce committee of the National Governor’s Association (NGA), Education and Workforce Committee.
The committee has jurisdiction over issues in the area of education (including early childhood, elementary and secondary education, and higher education) as well as in the areas of workforce development and labor. Members of the committee ensure that the governors’ views are represented in the shaping of federal policy.
In a statement, the governor said:
“Last year on my jobs tour, I heard from countless business owners who had openings in their companies but couldn’t find the talent to fill those positions. At a time when so many people are trying to reenter the workforce, nothing could be more frustrating.
In both the comprehensive Jobs Bill and the Education Reform Bill, we made strides in correcting this problem. The jobs bill has a number of workforce training initiatives that have put residents back to work. And the education reform bill is going to invest an additional $100 million in struggling schools that embrace much needed changes – changes that will make sure our kids can compete.
It’s a good start, but the fact is people are still struggling. We need to do more. We need to let Washington know loud and clear the policies that will help our children and our workforce compete with anyone in the world. I look forward to working with my fellow governors on this important committee."
Iowa Governor Terry Branstad will serve as the committee’s vice chair. Other members of the committee include Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, Guam Gov. Eddie Calvo, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman, North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue, Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee, Utah Gov. Gary Herbert, Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin and Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell.
Founded in 1908, NGA is the collective voice of the nation’s governors. Its members are the governors of the 55 states, territories and commonwealths. NGA provides governors and their senior staff members with services that range from representing states on Capitol Hill and before the Administration on key federal issues to developing and implementing innovative solutions to public policy challenges through the NGA Center for Best Practices. For more information, visit www.nga.org. | <urn:uuid:4946db6d-bbec-4fc3-aea2-b88d507417f8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://wilton.patch.com/groups/editors-picks/p/gov-malloy-heading-education-workforce-group-2ec1fe02 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00013-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957906 | 484 | 1.671875 | 2 |
Response to David Baxter column, February 17-23, 2004, Business in Vancouver
Is Canada facing a looming labour shortage? David Baxter, for one, seems to think we are and that without high levels of immigration Canada will be unable to support current levels of health care and social services.
Few people who have studied the issues carefully agree with him, however. In its annual assessment of our economic prospects last October, the Conference Board of Canada, for example, stated that “contrary to earlier predictions, Canada will…not face any labour shortages over the remainder of the decade. In fact, the challenge will be to find employment for the large number of new entrants.” The Conference Board also noted that “the rising participation rate and solid source population growth as the echo generation enters the labour market results in an increase in average annual labour force growth from 1.6 per cent during 1996-2000 to 2.0 per cent over the 2001-05 time period. All of these factors will ensure that labour force growth remains relatively strong at close to the 1.2 per cent year on average from 2006 to 2010.”
Nor do Canadian demographers share Baxter’s views. Professor Roderic Beaujot of the University of Western Ontario, one of the leading experts on the demographics of immigration in Canada, has pointed out that, even with immigration levels considerably lower than at present, the entry level cohort of workers (15 to 24 years of age) will continue to be larger than the exit cohort (55 to 64) until 2011. The situation will change somewhat in the next decade, when large numbers of people will reach retirement age -- although even then, according to Beaujot, there may not be a decline in the workforce if women’s participation continues to increase, and if the participation for persons 60 and over stops declining.
In referring to Baxter’s statement that “if we didn’t have immigration, we’d stop regenerating our labour force in about four years” Beaujot, notes that “this implies that there is little regeneration associated with the numbers of people leaving Canadian schools to enter the labour force” and that “it is absurd to say that our labour force will not be renewed unless we have immigration.” Beaujot adds that “depending excessively on immigration can also undermine other sources of recruitment, both in terms of appropriate educational investments and population groups that have lower labour force participation.”
This does not mean that there won’t be some gaps in the labour force where foreign workers will be needed -- at least in the short to medium term. The current shortage of doctors is a case in point. What it does mean is that there is no general shortage.
In looking at the situation in this province, Jock Finlayson of the BC Business Council has come to much the same conclusion. In his estimation, construction is probably the only major sector in which there is a significant labour shortage at present. Even here, however, he believes that current gaps will best be dealt with by normal market forces drawing on domestic resources rather than by bringing in people from abroad. He hasn’t seen any data that persuade him there is a general shortage of workers in BC at the present time.
Further evidence that we are not facing a looming labour shortage can be seen from the fact that on average recent newcomers have been faring very poorly. Their earnings have fallen well below those of Canadian-born citizens, as well as immigrants who came earlier, and their poverty levels have risen significantly higher. While this state of affairs can be attributed to a number of factors, one of the most obvious is that new arrivals have been entering a labour market where, for the most part, they are not needed at this juncture. In this regard, economist Arthur Sweetman of Queen’s University, recently recommended a return to immigration intake related to the business cycle -- a policy first abandoned by the Progressive Conservatives when Canada was in the midst of the early 1990s recession.
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“When I left Columbia, they told me I’d probably have to come back and repeat a few classes,” Warren Buffett, MS ’51, deadpanned as he took the stage with Bill Gates on Thursday as part of a community forum at Columbia Business School. More than 700 students from the Business School were in attendance at the event, which was filmed for global broadcast by CNBC.
A major theme of the 90-minute Q&A session was optimism about U.S. economic prosperity in the long-term, with a nod to future energy issues. That theme underscored Buffett’s comments about Berkshire Hathaway’s recent acquisition of Burlington Northern Santa Fe for $34 billion last week.
“The railroads are tied to the future prosperity of this country. You can’t move a railroad to China or India or anywhere else,” he said. “As the country grows, the transport of goods will grow — [people] will be moving more and more goods back and forth to each other. And you have the most environmentally friendly and the most efficient way of doing that on the railroads.”
The theme returned later in Gates’ discussion about areas he sees with the most growth potential in the United States. He said those include information technology, energy and medicine. Gates discussed the growing field of alternative energy as a driver for a long-term economic development.
“Solar-thermal, solar-electric, nuclear [energy] is going to go through some of the revival and see if it can solve some of its cost challenges. As a country, we want to make sure all of those get lots of R&D and regulatory enablement because one of them is going to give us much cheaper power,” he said. “We don’t have quite as much R&D going into those things as I’d like to see. We have quite a bit, but I think the government policies could drive for more.” He added that he foresees an energy revolution and the United States is expected to lead the way.
Buffett also discussed his value-investing strategy, saying that it had not changed in light of the financial crisis and the fundamentals were the same. “We like companies with a durable, competitive advantage,” he said. On the economy, both Buffett and Gates lauded the actions of the government and the Federal Reserve.
Both men offered advice and inspiration to students. (Marry the right person, said Buffett. Act on your self-confidence, Gates added). Buffett signaled his optimism for future MBA graduates of Columbia Business School, making a promising offer to those in the audience.
“I would pay a $100,000 dollars for 10 percent of the future earnings of any of you,” Buffett said. “If that’s true, you’re a million-dollar asset right now.”
CNBC will broadcast “Warren Buffett and Bill Gates: Keeping America Great” moderated by Becky Quick on November 12 at 9 p.m. and 12 a.m. ET . Join the conversation with other students on Facebook and on Twitter.
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The National Foundation for Credit Counseling, or NFCC, said its member agencies assist more than 3 million people each year, with 12,500 consumers receiving counseling to resolve their financial distress on an average day.
"Whether the financial concern is related to building a budget, debt repayment, buying their first home or saving the one they're in, each day thousands of consumers recognize that the NFCC agencies represent the gold standard in credit counseling, and reach out to them for help," said Gail Cunningham, spokeswoman for the NFCC. "Many continue to struggle with deep financial distress. It is important that they realize they are not alone, and that substantive help is available either free of charge or at low cost."
The average consumer who came to an NFCC member agency for counseling in 2011 was between 35 and 54, had a household income of $34,809, and owed $26,878 in unsecured debt spread across five credit cards, resulting in an unsecured debt to income ratio of 77 percent, the NFCC reported.
Through the Debt Management Plan, one of the many resolution tools available to the counselors, $2.27 billion was returned to creditors by NFCC agencies on behalf of consumers last year.
This amount of money reflects how a counselor can find relief for those who think their situation is beyond repair.
"Whether struggling with loss of income, an underwater mortgage or seemingly insurmountable debt, consumers owe it to themselves to seek help from a trained and certified credit counselor," said Cunningham. "As a convenience to consumers, NFCC agencies offer counseling in-person, by phone or online. All things considered, there is little reason to continue drowning in financial distress when help is so readily available."
To be automatically connected to the NFCC member agency closest to you, call 800-388-2227 or go to www.DebtAdvice.org.
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The taking of antlerless deer in wildlife management areas is controlled by area regulations or by antlerless deer permits. There is no antlerless deer season on wildlife management areas as there is on private lands.
Most management areas allow the taking of antlerless deer during the archery season (check specific area regulations ). Taking antlerless deer during muzzleloading gun season or general gun season on most wildlife management areas requires an antlerless deer permit.
Antlerless deer permits for most wildlife management areas are issued through the quota hunt program. Applicants who submit a General Gun, Archery, Muzzleloading Gun, Youth, Family, or Mobility-Impaired quota application during the Phase I random drawing will be asked if they want to be included in the antlerless deer drawing. Hunters who are exempt from quota hunt permit requirements must submit a quota hunt application during the Phase I application period , and be awarded a hunt approved for antlerless deer permit, to be eligible for the antlerless deer drawing.
Exempt hunters who want to be included in antlerless deer permit drawings for applicable WMA quota hunts that allow exemptions must apply online during phase I and must be successful in the quota random drawing.
In late August, after reviewing deer population surveys, biologists will make a recommendation as to which areas and which hunts should receive a limited number of antlerless deer permits. Those hunters who received a quota hunt permit during the Phase I random drawing for the hunts approved for antlerless deer permits, and who answered yes to the antlerless deer question, will be included in the antlerless deer drawing. Members of a group quota application will compete individually in the antlerless deer permit drawing.
The antlerless deer permit drawing is conducted in September. Successful applicants who have provided an e-mail address will be notified by e-mail when the drawing is completed. Antlerless deer permits will be mailed directly to successful applicants. You can check the status of the antlerless deer drawing .
Hunters who missed the Phase I random drawing, hunters who were not issued a quota permit in the Phase I random drawing, hunters who were issued a quota permit during the Phase I random drawing for a hunt not approved for antlerless deer permits, and hunters who were issued a quota permit for a hunt approved for antlerless deer permits, but who answered no to the antlerless deer question, are not eligible for the antlerless deer drawing.
Antlerless deer permits for wildlife management areas in the recreational use program and the special-opportunity program are issued by random drawing from all hunters who hold a recreational use permit or special-opportunity permit for an area or hunt approved for antlerless deer permits.
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Oct. 10, 2006
"Expectation is a great breeding ground for miracles." That's the way Jeff Davis remembers the 1981 season. A quarter of a century ago, Davis led the Clemson Tigers to the undisputed national title in football. Coming off of a disappointing 6-5 season in 1980, Davis keyed a team that ran the college football table.
Clemson was no stranger to football success. The Tigers captured seven ACC championships in the league's first quarter century, including an 11-1 team in 1978 that finished the season ranked sixth after defeating Ohio State in the Gator Bowl. This was the game that ended the career of Ohio State coach Woody Hayes, who was forced into retirement after he punched a Clemson player. But it also was the first game as head coach for Clemson's Danny Ford, who took over when Charlie Pell announced in December he was leaving Clemson for the University of Florida.
Clemson had a number of key freshmen in 1978, who were seniors in 1981. Davis was one. He says, "We knew Clemson could win and win big, because we had seen it. 6-5 wasn't Clemson football, 11-1 was. Coach Ford made it happen. He was a great motivator, someone who would get in the trenches, someone who wouldn't accept second best. He expected you to be a man, to represent yourself, and your family, to do the work. `Don't cheat yourself, don't cheat the game.' He encouraged the seniors to take possession of the team, to make it ours."
The Tigers returned virtually everybody on defense from 1980 and it was an exceptional group. Davis was the man defensive back Terry Kinard says, "We looked to when things got rough."
|Jeff Davis touches the rock before running down the hill at Death Valley.|
Clemson tackles Jeff Bryant and Dan Benish made All-ACC, while noseguards William Devane and William Perry controlled the middle. End Andy Headen and linebacker Danny Triplett were standouts, while Kinard was the league's top defensive back and a consensus All-America.
Unleashing this defense was the job of defensive coordinator Tom Harper, a veteran coach hired that season. Davis says, "Coach Harper was quite the feather in Coach Ford's hat. He was a calming influence. He devised a scheme that was in tune with our strengths. He simplified it, freeing us to attack. We were physical and aggressive. Lay our ears back and go after people."
|Terry Kinard was the league's top defensive back and a consensus All-America.|
Kinard agrees. "Harper made all the difference. He was a better teacher, had a better feel for what would work. We became more of an attacking team, more blitzing, mixing things up, keep the other team off balance."
Unranked Clemson opened at home against Wofford, a late substitution for Villanova, which dropped football. Wofford scored first but the outcome was never in doubt. Clemson won 45-10. Tulane was next. The visiting Tigers fell behind 5-0 but forced seven Tulane turnovers and eked out a 13-5 win.
Neither of these outcomes was unexpected. What happened next was. Herschel Walker and Georgia's defending national champions rode into Death Valley with a 15-game winning streak. Georgia had handed Clemson its only loss in 1978 and had edged the Tigers 20-16 in 1980.
Walker rushed for 111 yards but it took him 28 carries. His fumble deep in Clemson territory in the first period was a harbinger of things to come. Kinard says, "This game was a tribute to our style of defense. Our front four dominated, they couldn't make adjustments, and their offense just fell apart."
Clemson harassed Georgia's Buck Belue into five interceptions and recovered four of Georgia's five fumbles. Forcing a team as talented as Georgia into nine turnovers was the epitome of Clemson's kick-sand-in-your-face-and-take-your-lunch-money style of defense. Georgia could muster a single field goal, while Clemson scored on a pass from Homer Jordan to Perry Tuttle and two field goals. Following the 13-3 Clemson win, Georgia coach Vince Dooley admitted, "Clemson intimidated us."
|Quarterback Homer Jordan completed 11 of 18 passes against defending national champion Georgia.|
The offense was also in the hands of a new coordinator, Nelson Stokely. Tuttle says "Stokely brought some color to the offense. He understood the strengths and weaknesses of his players and he made things fun. He liked to attack."
The Georgia win put Clemson on the national radar screen. They jumped to ninth in the AP poll. Following a week off, the Tigers started slowly against Kentucky, trailing 3-0 at intermission. Kevin Mack, Jordan and McSwain scored rushing touchdowns in the second half and Clemson won 21-3. Clemson started its ACC season with a 27-0 win over Virginia.
The low point of Clemson's 1980 season was a 34-17 home loss to an 0-5 Duke team. Clemson got its revenge in Durham, plastering Duke 38-10, as Austin rushed for 178 yards and two touchdowns. Duke's touchdown, a 21-yard pass from Ben Bennett to Cedric Jones in the third period, ended a streak of 18 quarters in which no opponent had crossed Clemson's goal line. Late in the game Duke ran six plays at the Clemson goal line but came up empty. Davis says, "Playing hard for sixty minutes wasn't just a slogan. We meant it."
Clemson fell behind North Carolina State 7-0 the following week, the first time anyone had scored a meaningful touchdown against Clemson. But it wasn't enough. Jordan ran for 104 yards, including a touchdown, and Clemson pulled away for a 17-7 win.
The Tigers gave up a season high 24 points the next week against Wake Forest, whose quarterback Gary Schoefield passed for 270 yards. It hardly mattered. On a cloudy Halloween afternoon, Clemson produced the greatest offensive explosion in ACC history. "Everything clicked, everything," remembers Tuttle. The Tigers had the ball seven times in the first half and scored seven touchdowns. By the time the slaughter was over, the scoreboard read 82-24. Clemson piled up 35 first downs and 756 yards total offense, totals that would have been higher had Ford not emptied his bench. Eight Clemson players crossed the goal line.
Defending ACC-champion North Carolina was next, in Chapel Hill. The Tar Heels were ranked ninth and were riding an 11-game ACC winning streak. Davis says, "This is what we lived for. A big game, physical and low-scoring. We worked so hard in practice that we looked forward to the games. We loved close games because we felt that nobody else had paid the price like we had to win. We were going to be there at the end of the game."
Tuttle adds, "It was a dog fight. You have to be the best in your neighborhood before you can be the best in the country."
The Tar Heels drove 64 yards early but a sack by Devane kept them out of the end zone. The field goal made it 3-0. Fullback Jeff McCall capped an 81-yard drive with a touchdown for the visitors but a botched punt gave UNC a safety. It was 7-5 at the half. The teams exchanged field goals in the third period and then the two defenses took control. Bryant sewed up the 10-8 Clemson victory when he alertly recovered a UNC lateral that most players incorrectly assumed was an incomplete pass.
Clemson jumped to number two in the polls after the UNC win. There was still business to take care of. Boomer Esiason and Maryland fell 21-7, only Clemson's second win over Maryland in a decade. Jordan had a career day, completing 20 of 29 passes for 270 yards, while Tuttle had 10 receptions. The Clemson defense hounded Esiason into a 15-of-38 nightmare. Clemson finished the regular season with a 29-13 win over archrival South Carolina, keyed by McSwain's 151 rushing yards and two touchdowns.
Meanwhile, top-ranked Pittsburgh lost to Penn State in its regular-season finale, putting Clemson atop the polls for the first time in school history. The Tigers were matched against 4th-ranked Nebraska in the Orange Bowl. Nebraska was a surprising four-point favorite.
|Jordan accounted for 180 yards of Clemson's 289 yards of total offense in the Orange Bowl win over Nebraska.|
Tuttle remembers the slights but he also remembers the anxiety. "Nebraska was a bigger-than-life program. We took that team and its history seriously. We had to get rid of the butterflies and convince ourselves that we could beat them."
Davis was a key, getting in the face of his teammates early, exhorting them not to back down.
Clemson took a 3-0 lead but Nebraska made it 7-3 when star running back Mike Rozier hit Anthony Steels with a halfback option pass. Kinard was the victim, "the first time in my life I got beat on that play and the last time. It was a smart call, designed to take advantage of our aggressiveness."
A Donald Igwebuike field goal made it 7-6. The Clemson defense, as it had done so often, forced a fumble late in the half. Austin took it in from the two for a 12-7 halftime lead.
Clemson dominated the third period. A time-consuming, 75-yard drive ended when Jordan hit Tuttle from the 13 to make the score 19-7. Another field goal made it 22-7 with 2:36 left in the third quarter.
Nebraska didn't go quietly. Roger Craig finished off a 69-yard drive with a tackle-breaking 26-yard touchdown, followed by a two-point conversion that made the score 22-15 with 9:15 left. Nebraska got the ball back with 7:49 left but was forced to punt. Jordan scrambled for a first down on 3rd and 23 and the Tigers ran out all but the last six seconds. Nebraska's last, desperate pass was batted down and Clemson had the game and the national title.
In many respects, Clemson's title remains a singular event. Maryland was voted national champion in 1953 but the AP poll was taken before the bowl games and Maryland lost its Orange Bowl game to Oklahoma 7-0. Clemson remains the only one of the ACC's original schools to have an undefeated national champion on the gridiron.
Kinard played for the New York Giants when they won Super Bowl XXI but says "The NCAA title is better in my book. We were more of a family, had more camaraderie, more friendship. That had a lot to do with Coach Ford. We were a team not just a bunch of individuals." Tuttle, who won a pair of Grey Cup titles in Canada, agrees. "In college, you're winning for the team, the city, the alumni, your league, your friends, your high school coach. It's a bigger community and one that lasts longer."
Jeff Davis has thought a lot about that season. "We were college boys trying to become men. We cared about each other. We shared victories, we shared defeat, we shared the hard work. Playing a childhood game that you loved with your best friends at a great university. What could be better? "We captured the essence of football, how football is supposed to be played, how it is supposed to impact your life."
Jim Sumner's articles on southern sports history have appeared in the ACC Handbook, the ACC Area Sports Journal, Blue Devil Weekly, Inside Carolina, the Wolfpacker, Baseball America, Basketball America, and other publications. His latest book, Tales From the Duke Blue Devils Hardwood, was published in 2005. In his bimonthly column "Looking Back... by Jim Sumner", he will examine the rich history of the Atlantic Coast Conference.
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As a native Romanian who is also a novelist, I’m very intrigued–and, frankly, somewhat baffled–by America’s obsession with vampires and the Dracula legend. It seems like vampire novels and movies are growing in popularity, even as they’re being spoofed by yet other vampire novels and movies! From what I can see, this trend doesn’t seem as popular in Europe. This leads me to wonder: what are some of the reasons behind America’s obsession with vampires? I came up with five main reasons:
1. Exoticism. The setting of the original Dracula legend is a country whose history and traditions are foreign to most American readers, who find Romania distant and exotic. By way of contrast, to most Europeans, Romania is relatively familiar. It’s a place plagued by its devastating totalitarian history (first the rule of the Iron Guard, then its lengthy communist period). It’s a place struggling to emerge from its dark past, faced with enormous economic and political challenges. To the French, at least, it’s also a place known for immigrants from both sides of the social spectrum: the gypsy exodus, which is often linked to pick-pocketing and a nomadic lifestyle, and some of the most intriguing European intellectuals and artists. But when you say that you’re from Romania to most Americans, the first thing they’ll think of is not Eugene Ionesco or Mircea Eliade, but of Dracula. Vlad Tepes, also known as Vlad the Impaler (the ruler of Wallachia between 1456 and 1462) captivates readers with his notorious inhumanity. He’s infamous for the sadistic punishments he imposed upon his Turkish ennemies as well as upon anyone who violated his laws. Legend has it that he’d enjoy his supper watching prisoners being impaled before his eyes.
2. Which leads me to my second reason: the lure of evil. Vampires–these liminal beings between dark spirit and bad human–represent the powers of evil, over which we have limited control. Evil seduces us, only to later destroy us. The vampire bite is closely associated with unbridled sexuality. Vampires, like social predators, suck the vitality or life blood of healthy human beings before moving on to the next victim. But then, I wondered, why don’t we read about them in their human form, such as the Scott Petersons of this world? Why do we prefer to view and read about them as our Others?
3. Mediated evil. Human evil is inescapable. It’s everywhere around us. We read about it in the pages of history books and we see it on the news: ranging from the haunting memories of the Holocaust, to the Stalinist purges, to the latest serial killers on T.V. Because we’re exposed on a daily basis to the inhumanity of social predators, we’re not as intrigued by them as we are by their un-human counterparts, the vampires. Familiarity breeds not contempt, but boredom. At the same time, evil in its human form makes people very uncomfortable. We don’t want to imagine that social predators could enter our neighborhoods, our houses and our lives, to harm us or our loved ones. Vampires, these liminal beings between human and demon, give a more bearable expression to the evil we know, in the back of our minds, exists in the world and can reach into the intimacy of our lives. They enable us to contemplate evil while holding it at arm’s length.
4. The widespread appeal of genre fiction. Compared to most Europeans, Americans have very little leisure time. Europeans get weeks, if not months, of vacation a year. Your average American gets only about two to three weeks. Although the distinction between literary fiction and genre fiction is not cut-and-dry, I’d say that genre fiction places emphasis upon a fast-moving, interesting plot, while literary fiction privileges psychologically nuanced characterizations and a unique style. Most vampire novels, though well-written, place most emphasis on plot. They’re perfect for readers who have little time and want to delve immediately into the action rather than being distracted by stylistic experiments or bogged down by a long-winded, Proustian style. Of course, there are some vampire novels that harmonously blend several genres, to offer readers the best of all worlds. I’m thinking of Elizabeth Kostova’s The Historian, which combines a beautiful style, historical erudition about the Dracula legend and a fast-paced, intriguing story.
5. Education. My teenage daughter reminded me yesterday that she and her friends read the Twilight series in fifth grade. This was their first exposure to narrative fiction that both adults and young adults enjoy reading. In Europe, on the other hand, the curriculum places emphasis (from a very young age) upon the literary canon. I remember being exposed to Tolstoy, Baudelaire and Flaubert early on, as opposed to reading either in school or for school the latest popular novels. While American students do sample the literary canon as well, that usually starts later–in high school–and even then, they’re exposed mostly to the Anglo-American tradition. But, unlike most European students, they discover the pleasure of reading by delving into popular contemporary fiction right away. This sticks with them and most likely shapes their literary taste later in life as well.
All this to say that I suspect that our obsession with vampires in the U.S. is not a fluke. There are real reasons why vampire thrillers became so popular here and why they’re probably not going to disappear from sight anytime soon. Having experienced evil first hand, however, I prefer to depict it as it is: all-too-human even in its worst inhumanity. When I was a little girl and complained to my parents about being afraid of monsters in my room, they told me that the only thing I should fear is evil human beings. Monsters, like vampires, don’t exist and can’t harm us. But it seems that some human beings are capable of immense evil, limited only by the worst of their desires and imaginations. It’s this real, human, evil that I wrote about, both in my novel about totalitarian Romania, Velvet Totalitarianism (2009) and in my second novel, The Seducer, about a sociopathic predator. Sometimes, the monsters we imagine in fiction pale by comparison to the evil created by the monsters in our lives.
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THE SANDERS FAMILY by Gwen Boyer Bjorkman
Gwen Boyer Bjorkman, “John Sanders of Nansemond County, Virginia” The Quaker Yeomen 14 (Jan 1988) pp.10; 15 (Apr 1988), pp. 8-9; 15.
THE SANDERS FAMILY by Gwen Boyer Bjorkman, 4425-132nd Ave. S.E., Bellevue, WA 98006, in correction of an article written by me and published in THE QUAKER YEOMEN Vol. 10, No. 3, Oct. 1983.
“Whereas John SANDERS of Nanzemond County in Virginia and Prissilla PRITLOE Dafter of John PRITLOE of ye County of Albemarl in Pequimans River in North Carolina haveing declared their Intentions of takeing each other in mariage before severall Publick meetings of the people Called quakers in Caralina” were married on the 8th day of the 1st month called March 1715/6.
Included in the witnesses to the marriage were Abraham SANDERS, son of John, and the parents of Priscilla, Elizabeth and John PRITLOE, along with their daughters Leah, Rebecca, Elizabeth, Judith, and Rachel with her husband Robert Wilson. In five months Abraham SANDERS, “Late of Virginia” was to marry Judith PRITLOE at a meeting at John PRITLOE’s house where three of his daughters were married and “Timothy CLARE and Samuel NICHOLSON were appointed to stay at John PRITLOE’s the night after the wedding to see that there be no disorders.” It must have seemed like an occasion for a celebration for the PRITLOES.
John SANDERS did not attend the wedding of his son, Abraham. I believe that he had returned to Nansemond County with his bride. There are no deeds or tax records for John SANDERS in Perquimans as there are for Abraham SANDERS. Since all of the Nansemond County records have been destroyed, there is only the 1704 tax list which lists two John SANDERS. There are some land grants in Nansemond, but it cannot be determined for sure if they are for this John SANDERS.
John and Priscilla SANDERS had two daughters born to them before Priscilla’s early death. Then John SANDERS died in 1728. The estate was complicated by the death of John PRITLOE and his wife Elizabeth and their estates were probated in 1728. Elizabeth had left a negro slave to her granddaughters, Judith and Priscilla SANDERS. Zachariah CHANCEY, who had married Rebecca PRITLOE, immediately filed for guardianship. The subsequent struggle over the estate gives us the genealogical proof that we need for this line from the Perquimans records.
The Friends took up the cause of their staunch member, Abraham SANDERS. “1728, 12,5 It was agreed on by this mtg that Abraham SAUNDERS have his sister, Judeth to take care of & bring up according to his father’s desire.” “1728/9,1,5 Whereas Zachariah CHANCEY & His wife refuse to comply with ye order of last mo mtg concerning letting Abraham SAUNDERS having his sister, Judeth ye mtg appts W. MOOR, Sr., Thos. JESSOP, Nathan NEWBY & Francis NEWBY to go & discourse with them whether they think themselves to be of us or to be not in unity with us.”
Meanwhile, another son of John SANDERS, Richard SANDERS had married and applied for guardianship of the two girls. “July Court 1735. CHANCEY petition vs SANDERS: The Petition of Zach. CHANCEY praying the Estate of Judeth and Percila SANDERS out of the hand of Richard SANDERS dismist the said Richard SANDERS giving Bond and Security for the said Estate which said Bond is filed in this office.”
By this time the girls had grown up and after the marriage of John PENDLETON with Judith SANDERS, he sued for her estate from Richard SANDERS. In 1737 Priscilla SANDERS asked to name her own guardian, Thomas PIERCE, and to get her estate from her uncle Zachariah CHANCEY.
The family is further verified when Abraham SANDERS names his brother Richard SANDERS as Executor of his will in 1750 and when Richard SANDERS names his cousin John SANDERS, son of Abraham as Executor of his will in 1769. With the above records, we can construct the following family.
1. John1 SANDERS was born before 1676 and died probably in Nansemond Co., Virginia circa 1728. His first wife is unknown. He married (2) at Perquimans Co., N.C., 8, 1m, 1715/16, Priscilla PRITLOE, daughter of John and Elizabeth PRITLOE.
Children of John SANDERS and his first wife:
2. i. Abraham SANDERS, m. 16, 6m, 1716, Judith PRITLOE, dau of John and Elizabeth PRITLOE, the sister of his father’s 2nd wife. She was b. 2 Dec. 1696, Perquimans Co., N.C., d. aft. 1751. He d. bef. Oct. 1751 when his will was probated in Perquimans Co., N.C.
+ 3 ii. Richard2 SANDERS , m. Hannah NICHOLSON, dau of John NICHOLSON and Priscilla TOMS, 14, 8m, 1730, Perquimans Co., N.C. He d. bef. April 1770 when his will was probated in Perquimans Co., N.C.
Children of John and Priscilla (PRITLOE) SANDERS :
4 i. Judith SANDERS , m. bef. 1736, John PENDLETON.
5 ii. Priscilla SANDERS , m. 3, 8m, 1739, Samuel SKINNER.
3. Richard2 SANDERS married at Perquimans MM 14, 8m. 1730, Hannah NICHOLSON, daughter of John NICHOLSON and Priscilla TOMS who had married 20 Nov. 1700. John NICHOLSON died before the 2nd marriage of Priscilla to John KINSEY 23, 6m, 1711 at Perquimans MM. On the 12 August 1712, John NICHOLSON’s will was proved naming his wife “Pressela” and children, Samuel, Mary and Hannah. Priscilla and John KINSEY had one daughter, Elizabeth, born before he died and the 3rd marriage of Priscilla to John SYMONS 8, 1m, 1721/22 at Perquimans MM. John KINSEY’s will was proved 14 April 1719 naming his daughter, Elizabeth, and his daughters-in-law Mary NICHOLSON and Hannah NICHOLSON and his son-in-law Samuel NICHOLSON. [The term daughter-in-law was at that time used for stepdaughter.]
The proof of the NICHOLSON line is further verified by the Deed Records. By his will probated in 1698, Joseph NICHOLSON had left a 100a plantation on the Perquimans River to the male heirs of his brothers John, Nathaniel and Benjamin and all of them failing to have male heirs to the heirs of his five brothers, Samuel, John, Nathaniel, Benjamin and Christopher. Therefore in 1743 this piece of land, called “Log House Land” was sold for £236 “and for divers other good causes & considerations” by the heirs of Samuel, Nathaniel and Christopher [Benjamin dying without heirs] to Richard SANDERS who had married the only surviving heir of John NICHOLSON, Hannah (NICHOLSON) SANDERS who had a one fifth right to the land.
Then in the will of Richard SANDERS dated 4 Dec. l769: “I give to my son John SANDERS Twenty Acres of Land which was his Mothers Right to him and his Heirs for ever. I give to my Daughter Elizabeth SANDERS all the Remainder of my Land and Plantation whereon I now Live being Eighty Acres” I believe that this amply proves that Hannah was the daughter of John NICHOLSON and Priscilla TOMS.
Children of Richard and Hannah (NICHOLSON) SANDERS, born at Perquimans County:
+ 6 i. John3 SANDERS, b. 28 July 1731, m. 7, 11m, 1754 Miriam SYMONS, d. bef. 1770, Perquimans Co., N.C. She d. 1781, Perquimans Co., N.C.
7 ii. Elizabeth SANDERS, b. 27 April 1735, m. 2, 12m, 1772 Joseph PERISHO, d. bef. Jan. Court 1785 [probate of will], Perquimans Co., N.C.
8 iii. Mary SANDERS, m. 4, 5m, 1774, William ARNOLD.
6. John3 SANDERS was born 28 July 1731 in Perquimans Co., N.C. and died there before his fortieth birthday when his wife Miriam SANDERS, her brother John SYMONS, and Benjamin ALBERTSON made bond at the Perquimans County Court to administer his estate on the 12th of October 1770. He left a large family and a small estate. John SANDERS had married Miriam SYMONS at Pasquotank Monthly Meeting and the births of their first five children are recorded there. Miriam SYMONS was born 17, 6m, 1728, the daughter of Thomas SYMONS and Ann (KEATON) BUNDY SYMONS.
Miriam SANDERS died and left a will that was probated at Perquimans County Court in 1781 naming her seven living children. Her son Thomas SANDERS died in 1789 leaving a will naming his sisters and brothers and the family can be constructed from these two wills and the Pasquotank Monthly Meeting records.
Children of John and Miriam (SYMONS) SANDERS, born at Pasquotank Co., N.C.:
9 i. Richard SANDERS, b. 28, 10m, 1755, m. 1, 11m, 1780 Hannah HENBEY, a widow with children.
10 ii. Abraham SANDERS, b. 16, 3m, 1758, d. bef. 1781.
+11 iii. Anne4 SANDERS, b. 8, 1m, 1761, m. 15 Oct. 1785 Joseph PERISHO, d. bef. 1798, Perquimans Co., N.C. when Joseph m. (3) Elizabeth ALBERTSON.
12 iv. Thomas SANDERS, b. 5, 1m, 1762, d. 1789, Perquimans Co., N.C.
13 v. Hannah SANDERS, b. 29, 11m, 1764.
14 vi. John SANDERS
15 vii. Joseph SANDERS
16 viii. Benjamin SANDERS
11. Anne4 SANDERS was born 8, 1m, 1761 in Pasquotank Co., N. C. and died probably before 1798 in Perquimans Co., N. C. A marriage bond in Perquimans Co., N.C. was made for Ann SANDERS and Joseph PERISHO 15 Oct. 1785 and Benjaman SANDERS was bondsman. Ann PERISHO, formerly SANDERS was dismissed for marriage contrary to discipline by the Perquimans MM 5, 12m, 1785. Joseph PERRISHO was dismissed for marrying a near relative to his former wife contrary to discipline 4, 1m, 1786. Anne SANDERS was the niece of Joseph PERISHO’s former wife, Elizabeth (SANDERS) PERISHO who had died before January Court 1785 when her will was probated.
Elizabeth (SANDERS )PERISHO had inherited the NICHOLSON “Log House Land” of 80a from her father, Richard SANDERS. Immediately after the settlement of her father’s will in 1770, her brother, John SANDERS, had sold to her the 20a that he had inherited as his Mother’s right to him. Elizabeth owned the full 100a when she married Joseph PERISHO in 1772. Then in her will in 1783 she left this land where she lived in the “Old Neck” to her husband during his natural life and after his death it was to go to her cousin [nephew] Richard SANDERS as long as he would make over to his two youngest brothers Joseph and Benjamin SANDERS the land where he then lived at the head of Suttons’s Creek. Elizabeth (SANDERS) PERISHO did not have children.
Anne (SANDERS) PERISHO probably died before 9, 12m, 1797 when Joseph PERISHO condemned his marriage contrary to discipline and was reinstated at Suttons Creek MM. Joseph PERISHO, son of John PERISHO deceased, of Perquimans Co. than married Elizabeth ALBERTSON, daughter of Elihu ALBERTSON deceased, of Perquimans Co., 14, 1m, 1798 at Suttons Creek MM. Joseph PERISHO died in 1802 leaving a will naming his two sons, Joseph and John PERISHO. Elizabeth settled his estate as both Elizabeth PERISHO and Elizabeth PARKER for on the 11, 4m, 1807 Elizabeth PERISHO was reported married to Enoch PARKER at Suttons Creek MM.
Children of Joseph and Anne (SANDERS) PERISHO, born at Perquimans Co., N.C.:
+17 i. Joseph5 PERISHO, b. 27 Dec. 1786, m. ca. 1814 at Washington Co., IN, Barbara Ellen (ZINK) SEATON, d. 23 April 1838 at Grandview, Edgar Co., IL., buried at Augusta Cemetery.
18 ii. John PERISHO, b. 10 Sept. 1793, m. 15 Nov. 1816 at Washington Co., IN, Rosannah ZINK, d. 17 June 1877 at Grandview, Edgar Co., IL., buried at Augusta Cemetery.
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This was by no means an easy job. In their greatest dereliction, neither Elections Canada nor Elections Nova Scotia have yet prepared a separate electoral roll for visible minorities. So the school board had to develop their own guidelines:
To cast a ballot, people must have children who consider themselves African-Nova Scotian or they need to be the children of African-Nova Scotians themselves.Yet when it actually came to voting, it was up to the poll clerks to decide who is black enough to cast a ballot for a "mandatory black member" and who isn't. While the board pledged to make the polls "available and accessible to the entire range of voters" and printed over 44,000 ballots, only 31 residents were allowed to vote. Few more voters (as the failed candidate Gordon Warrington claims - mostly his supporters) showed up but were turned away from the polls because their skin was too light.(Source)
Shall I mention that this whole charade cost taxpayers $30,000? Shall I add that a previous attempt to elect a "mandatory black member" for that same school board ended up with half of the ballots being declared invalid by the judge?...
Next time the South Shore Regional School Board wants to bring a member of a visible minority group on board - they better just appoint him. I think it's better than having an election in which all but 30 residents (out of 44,000) are too white to vote. | <urn:uuid:8cde0e05-309d-43c6-9204-d69cf3fd2a66> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://forlifeandfamily.blogspot.com/2007/09/too-white-to-vote.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00027-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980908 | 296 | 1.570313 | 2 |
You have a unique medical history. Therefore, it is essential to talk with your doctor about your personal risk factors and/or experience with chlamydia. By talking openly and regularly with your doctor, you can take an active role in your care.
General Tips for Gathering Information
Here are some tips that will make it easier for you to talk to your doctor:
- Bring someone else with you. It helps to have another person hear what is said and help think of questions to ask your doctor.
- Write out your questions ahead of time, so you don't forget them.
- Write down the answers you get, and make sure you understand what you are hearing. Ask for clarification, if necessary.
- Don't be afraid to ask questions or ask where you can find more information about what you are discussing. You have a right to know.
Specific Questions to Ask Your Doctor
- What is my diagnosis?
- How serious is my condition?
- Do I have other conditions that might interact unfavorably with this condition?
- Based on my medical history and lifestyle, am I at risk for chlamydial infections?
- How can I prevent them?
- What medications are available to help me?
- What are the benefits/side effects of these medications?
- Will these medications interact with other medications, over-the-counter products, or dietary or herbal supplements I am already taking for other conditions?
- What time of day should I take my medications?
- Is timing of meals relevant to my mediation?
- What should I do if I forget to take a dose?
- Are there any alternative or complementary therapies that I should consider?
- Just how risky is my lifestyle?
- By how much will I reduce my risk by using condoms?
- Are there any other risk reduction measures I can take besides abstinence?
- Will the treatment cure me, or will there be residual effects?
- How do I know if I am cured?
- How often should I be rechecked by a doctor?
- Reviewer: Brian Randall, MD
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National Park Guide: Montana's Glacier
"Get off the tracks at Belton Station (now West Glacier), and in a few minutes you will find yourself in the midst of what you are sure to say is the best care-killing scenery on the continent," famed naturalist and author John Muir wrote of Glacier National Park in his 1901 book Our National Parks.
Today, visitors to the park know precisely the effect Muir was writing about more than a 110 years ago.
"It's awe-inspiring," says Bigfork, Mont., resident and frequent Glacier National Park visitor Pat Keane-Richmond. "The solitude, the hugeness of it. I feel so small when I'm in there. The peaks are so high, and the scenery is so breathtaking."
KEN BURNS: National parks feed America's soul
Glacier boasts some of the most spectacular and accessible high-alpine scenery in the country. Thanks to the 57-mile Going-to-the-Sun Road, which bisects the park and boasts a visitor center at 6,646-foot Logan Pass, visitors can park at the top of the world and within minutes of a stroll through beargrass meadows as curious mountain goats look on.
"Everybody comes here for their own reasons," Keane-Richmond says. "People drive through and never get out of their cars, and they love it. Other people look at a mountain and say, 'I'm going to climb that.' Whatever you put into it, you'll get out of it."
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Muir, not one to downplay the powerful positive impact that dramatic landscapes can have on one's well-being, suggested spending as much time as possible in what the locals affectionately refer to simply as "the park."
"Give a month at least to this precious reserve," Muir wrote. "The time will not be taken from the sum of your life. Instead of shortening, it will indefinitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal. Nevermore will time seem short or long, and cares will never again fall heavily on you, but gently and kindly as gifts from heaven."
About the park
Size : 1,013,322 acres
Visitors: 1,853,564 in 2011
History : Anthropologist and historian George Bird Grinnell, who would later have a glacier named after him, first ventured into the mountains that would become Glacier National Park on hunting expeditions in the late 1880s. Grinnell, who coined the phrase "Crown of the Continent," was the leading advocate for creating a national park there.
When visiting: Headquarters is in West Glacier, Mont. Visitor information: 406-888-7800.
Of note : Glacier, along with sister park Waterton Lakes National in Alberta, Canada, was established as the world's first International Peace Park in 1932.
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Quote of the day: "Robert and Frank were like two peas in a pod -- only they were like the peas in Mendel's genetic crosses , one smooth and one wrinkled." From an LRB review of a new biography of Frank Oppenheimer, brother of Robert, CP member, experimental (rather than theoretical) physicist, and -- I had not known this; I have fond memories of my visit there when I was 12 or 13 -- founder of the Exploratorium.
The reviewer was presumably thinking of Genesis 27 as well as Mendel. Certainly there's something biblical about the Oppenheimer brothers. At Trinity, Robert famously quoted, or anyway later recalled or imagined quoting, the Upanishads: "I am become death, destroyer of worlds." Frank recalled it differently: "I think we just said: 'It worked.'"
Liberal : theoretical : classicist :: communist : experimental : pragmatist. Doesn't one major axis of the 20th century lie right down that line? Frank described his job on the Manhattan Project as "training people to fix what broke, redesigning things when necessary, and ensuring that no one slacked off on the job." Mutatis mutandis, wouldn't most communists have described their work the same? | <urn:uuid:f93b79bd-169a-4af4-889d-cc40724cd3ff> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://slackwire.blogspot.com/2010/09/robert-and-frank.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00030-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972428 | 254 | 1.609375 | 2 |
by Dawn Watson
For some folks, January is a time to make resolutions—changes to unhealthy habits and unpleasant attitudes. If you are one of these people, please consider making a few changes in Fido’s life, too.
Your dog depends on you for everything. Make sure he is healthy by scheduling appointments with your veterinarian every six months. Inspect your dog’s teeth and coat; does he have a buildup of tartar or is his coat dull and full of dandruff?
Fido can’t tell you when he’s sick so you must inspect him in order to see if he is healthy. Taking good care of every member of your family—including your best buddy—is the best thing you can do to have a memorable and safe New Year!
As always, Cleary’s Notebook encourages dialog so feel free to post your comments.
Wado udohiyu (Thank you very much in the Cherokee language)
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Not sure if there is another timber in Australia more underrated than Cypress Pine, except perhaps Red Gum (which seems to up more chimneys than into any wooden creations).
Cypress Pine is used and abused – concreted into the ground as stumps, as fence posts, and painted over as picket fences (amongst its many typical applications).
I was given a post recently – rough sawn, split, the leftover from an outdoors construction, destined for the fireplace. After a few quick passes through the bandsaw (resawing), some promising boards started to reveal themselves. Next, after running it through the thicknesser, then a couple of passes through the drum sander to quickly see some results, and this is what was found:
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- Dalene Kurtis
- Apple Valley California
- United States
- Glamour Model
- Telling People Not To Call Her Darlene
- Has Her Own Doll Tattoo Of A Butterfly Above Her Ass
- Sweet Tooth
Dalene Kurtis Introduction
Fact: scientists presume the earth to be 4.5 billion years old. Fact: during those 4.5 billion years, to date only 47 women have held the title of Playmate of the Year, Dalene Kurtis is one of them.
Dalene Kurtis Life Story
Born in Apple Valley, California to normal human parents, Dalene Kurtis somehow became abnormally hot. She was a contestant in bikini contests like Hawaiian tropic before being discovered by playboy, i.e. somebody saw her in a bikini. In September of 2001, a time when America needed her most, she was the Playboy Playmate of the month. She made history by shaving her pubes and becoming the first playmate of the month to go bald downstairs for her pictorial. Then in 2002 she was bestowed withthe crown of Playmate of the Year by reigning PMOY Jennifer Walcott.
In 2003 Playboy used computer scans of her face and body to create a doll in her likeness. It is like others dolls made of other people in the past, but it differs in that it was made by computers. Fans everywhere were pleased to learn that unlike the real Dalene, it does not call the police when you try to strangle it. | <urn:uuid:a02a26a4-21bc-4e8e-a859-82ab4b8beac1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.mademan.com/chickipedia/dalene-kurtis/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00029-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948161 | 310 | 1.726563 | 2 |
ST LOUIS, Mo. -- Federal, state, local and voluntary agencies are coordinating disaster assistance to five Missouri counties following the severe storms and flooding in storm systems that hit throughout the state from April 3-14, 1999.
- On April 20, President Clinton declared a major disaster for Missouri, prompting the release of federal funds to help people recover from the severe storms and flooding April 3-14, 1999. Madison County residents, business owners, farmers and ranchers thus became eligible for a variety of state and federal disaster assistance programs. On May 5, four more storm-damaged Missouri counties - Andrew, Iron, Macon and Osage, became eligible for similar assistance. This brings to five the number of counties designated for disaster assistance to individuals, businesses, farmers and ranchers.
- Recovery specialists from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) are working with local governments and voluntary agencies to bring assistance to those affected by the storms in identified areas in the state.
Response and recovery efforts as of May 14 are:
- More than $1.5 million in grants and loans has been approved for disaster victims in the five affected Missouri counties. This includes:
- $418,263 in Disaster Housing checks to assist eligible victims with the costs of short-term rental needs, making minimal repairs to their homes or finding another place to live for those whose homes are heavily damaged.
- $627,600 in U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) low-interest disaster loans. These loans are for: homeowners and renters to repair or replace uninsured real and/or personal property; for businesses to repair or replace uninsured real property and/or business inventory and for businesses who need working capital.
- $519,048 in Individual and Family Grants (IFG) to meet serious disaster-related needs and necessary expenses not covered by insurance or other assistance programs. The state of Missouri administers this program.
- A total of 409 residents and business owners throughout the five designated counties have applied for disaster assistance on the FEMA toll-free registration line.
- The first step in applying for disaster assistance is by calling the FEMA registration number, 1-800-462-9029. Persons with hearing-or speech-impairments may call (TTY) 1-800-462-7585. The call is free and recovery specialists can take calls from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Friday.
- The deadline to file for Disaster Unemployment Assistance (DUA) in Madison County is May 24, 1999. DUA is intended for self-employed workers, farm workers, farm and ranch owners, and others who are not eligible for Missouri's regular unemployment benefits but whose employment was impacted by the disaster. The deadline for persons who live or work in Andrew, Iron, Macon and Osage counties to apply for this program is June 7. To learn how to file a claim for disaster unemployment assistance, call toll-free, 1-800-788-4002.
- Persons who have been approved for an SBA low-interest rate disaster loan may be eligible to borrow additional funds to pay for measures that will mitigate against future losses. Examples of these measures are: anchoring fuel tanks, elevating electrical outlets and panel boxes, raising or relocating water heaters, furnaces and other appliances, and installing sewer backflow valves. For more information on this program, contact the SBA at 1-800-366-6303.
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When you start pulling back the covers and realize how much is going on behind the scenes…It is both amazing and scary. Its a connected world. No doubt about that. Whether you are connecting through apps or a browser..or you don’t know, don’t care…there is a lot happening on our behalf.
I first struggled to understand exactly what problem we were solving here. At the risk of oversimplifying, the number one benefit to this communication standard: No More Plug-Ins. Those pesky little programs we have to update and run, just to get what is increasinlgy normal things done, when online. These plugins can be useful but they vary widely and are each proprietary to the vendor who developed them.
WebRTC, as part of HTML 5 is very close to getting us past this (and many other) hurdles. In development for years now, but making its presence known in 2013. Its worth understanding.
This is a standard that, instead of coming from the video codec and resolution world, is coming from the web world. The definition is being drafted by the World Wide Web Consortium and the IETF…two big and important standards bodies that have a lot to get right here, together. Its not a standard yet -- but this has not stopped it from being implemented already in several browsers.
WebRTC: Cullen Jennings talks with TechWiseTV
WebRTC: Demo from Paul O’Dwyer
WebRTC: Jimmy Ray Whiteboards the Meat and Taters
Watch this Space
This is a foundational change with big, positive disruption that will re-shape a lot of interactions we have today. WebRTC is a way of turning every browser, every app, into a HD quality video endpoint. This may first be evident in the browser, but don’t limit your thinking. Most of the quick app development we have seen these days is due to web-based back ends that are simply hidden from our view.
If you want to dive deeper. Here are some of the resources I found most useful when prepping for these shows we did.
Cullen Jennings explains WebRTC in a long but fantastically good and complete manner. I wish the audio were a bit cleaner here (Happy to help re-record for you in our studio Cullen!) but the value of the content over-rides these issues.
El Reg does a nice job laying out a high level explanation of WebRTC and explaining why this will be a market disruptor.
I like how Alan Quayle has broken this down in no jitter as it gives us a view from the communications perspective. There are respectiable hurdles here and this will round out your understanding.
A couple of other sites had great detail and may be good for some ongoing coverage if interested. Check out
From anExperts in Residence: Podcast from the early days I interviewed Cullen Jennings on the subject of SIP (Session Initiation Protocol). We actually could not get the timing to work…so we had the team record him…then I went back and laid in my questions…so it sounds very stiff (on my part) as I listen back to it.
Hope you enjoyed and learned a few things. I know I have.
April 15th, what does this day mean to you? For most U.S. citizens, it isn’t a day to look forward to. That’s because it’s the day our taxes are due. While it is part of our civic responsibility, I would venture to say that few people really enjoy the tax season; even CPAs are crazed during this time of year. And it isn’t only the pain of cutting a check if you are one of the unfortunate ones who owes money; it is also the cumbersome process of getting your taxes done.
But I’ve noticed something a little different this tax season, ads about tax services are heavily focused on expertise vs. ease. TurboTax, TaxAct, H&R Block, you name it, all seem to be promoting the credentials of their tax experts and the quality experience you will have when you engage with them. This could be due to the added levels of complexity related to changes in rules and regulations from year to year, or it could be that people are having issues with accuracy. Regardless, the “experts” promise a better experience.
In March, I make an annual journey from Dallas to Orlando – not to visit that famous mouse or take a Spring break. No, I am there with thousands of IT, telecom, and networking professionals who have descended upon Orlando to attend Enterprise Connect, the leading conference and expo on enterprise communications and collaboration.
This year, both Jimmy Ray and Robb (along with the amazing TechWiseTV crew) joined me to capture all of the excitement, announcements, and cool demos.
If you missed the conference, don’t fret. We have all of the highlights here!
First, I caught up with Rob Lloyd immediately after his keynote to get the scoop on the Internet of Everything and how it will impact businesses.
This blog is second in a series of blogs glimpsing into the future of video collaboration. The first blog was “Video Collaboration: Better Than Being There“. We encourage you to follow the series and let us know your thoughts.
Have you noticed that there is a camera and a pane of glass available to you at ALL times? From your smartphone to your PC, desktop office phone, telepresence (personal or room system), tablet, and even your TV, the ubiquity and ease of use of these devices and capabilities are providing a platform to extend video experiences everywhere. The big challenge is in providing a consistent, high quality user experience across all these devices. And that is not all. With new technologies available today such as HTML5 and WebRTC, more web-enabled devices can quickly become video enabled (video fridge anyone? )
Before I jump in, let me introduce Cisco’s WebRTC crew -
Cullen Jennings, Ethan Hugg, Enda Mannion, Suhas Nandakumar (that’s me ).
The Web is evolving at a pace faster than ever before. The last few years has seen tremendous innovations in the Web Technologies, Applications, Infrastructure and Services. The advent of HTML5 has redefined the way Web Applications work by bringing in the capabilities & richness of native applications to the Web platform.
HTML5 technologies such as Web Workers, Browser-Native Media, Web Sockets and the like are redefining the roles and capabilities of the browser and the Web, and creating experiences that rival native applications.
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Jim Rydbom/Greeley Tribune
GREELEY (AP) Ė Even with its views of the Rocky Mountains, one of many things that makes Greeley a special place, the city of 91,000 on the Front Range north of Denver probably wouldnít remind anyone of Sudan.
The African country has its own views of the mountains, so when Ibrahim Ali Bakhat is asked by a proud Colorado resident if heís gotten a chance to see the mountains, as if he was some dude from Nebraska, heís confused by the question.
Part of that could be the language barrier. Even with a capable translator at Right to Read of Weld County, itís hard to carry a long conversation with someone who speaks English. But itís also the question, itself. Sure, heís seen the mountains. The Marra mountains, in fact, were as close to his former life as Longs Peak is to us.
That view, of course, may be the only similarity. But even if Greeley is drastically different from Sudan, there are other ways Ibrahim fits in here. His grandparents were farmers, and his parents were farmers, and so, he was a farmer, with the same kind of animals you might see here, goats and sheep and dairy cows, and camels, which arenít quite as common in Greeley. He sold his produce and milk and the occasional meat at markets.
It was a peaceful life, with his five children and wife, Haja, and itís the memories of that life that make it that much more painful to think about what happened later.
You get a peek into his former life, in the Darfur region of Sudan, when you ask him why he likes Greeley. He likes it here, he said, because you can walk the streets safely, without the police beating you up.
In 2003, civil war broke out. Itís the kind of conflict that seems all too common in these African countries, at least to us, as we live in a country where we fret about politicians attacking each other with television ads. But the conflict was a shock to Ibrahim, an earthquake that shook apart his happy, normal farm life and left two of his children dead at the hands of the various militias. Nearly a decade later, Ibrahim canít talk about their deaths without crying.
He escaped with a little clothing, a little money, away from his wife and children. He sold his camels for a car and drove across the border to Chad, where he found a refugee camp packed full of people. He moved on to Ghana and spent five years as a refugee. Five years is, of course, a long time with an uncertain future, away from his family, but he said he was lucky. Most, he said, spend 20 years there.
Ibrahim is lucky in other ways. Most Darfur refugees donít make it to the U.S., and thatís because African countries are reluctant to let them out for fears of more coming in, said Rochelle Mitchell-Miller, executive director of Right to Read in Weld County. Ibrahim was allowed to come to Greeley because he has direct family here.
Even if there arenít many like Ibrahim in Greeley, people with stories similar to his are here now, and Right To Read, as a result, has an additional mission. A year ago it received a contract with the state to act as a Colorado Refugee Service Provider. Right to Read handles the education, and Lutheran Family Services of the Rocky Mountain Services takes care of the life skills with a case worker, though Right to Read does a little bit of that too, just not officially.
Back in the 1970s, Right To Read was formed to help illiterate Americans with limited educations, but as more Latinos moved into the country, Right To Read helped them as well, and now the growing population of refugees in Greeley demands a good chunk of that organizationís time. The state, in fact, awarded Right To Read of Weld County a contract after the organization worked as a refugee center for two years before. Ibrahim is learning English and hopes to work at JBS like many of the Somalis who found work at the meatpacking plant here.
When Ibrahim wound up in Greeley more than two years ago, he spent whatever money he could scrape together using phone cards to find his wife and children. Two months ago, he was reunited with them in Greeley.
ďI couldnít believe I was seeing them again,Ē he said through a translator. ďIt was like a dream.Ē
Haja now lives with Ibrahim, along with their two daughters, 17 and 19. The youngest will attend Greeley West High School this fall.
Ibrahim and Haja have a son who still is in a refugee camp in Khartoum. He talks to his son once a week.
When Mitchell-Miller asks some of her other students if they would like to stay in Greeley, they usually admit they would like to move back home, or much closer, for example to Ethiopia. But Ibrahim wants to stay here.
Sure, Greeley is different, and Ibrahim said sometimes that makes it hard. And he has a dream that may be unattainable here: He wants another farm, where he can live with his family and raise a little money and food.
But heís 52, and there wouldnít be much point to settling somewhere else, he said. Besides, part of his dream already is a reality. Itís peaceful here. He has his loved ones back. And when he considers that, somehow, Greeley, with its roots in agriculture and family and views of the mountains, feels like home. | <urn:uuid:8a1ef1c5-f28e-4eb5-8cfd-232e923b86b6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.durangoherald.com/article/20120826/LIFESTYLE01/708269985/0/FRONTPAGE/Like-Darfur-of-old:-Refugee-finds-peaks-peace | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.985719 | 1,185 | 1.742188 | 2 |
At Power Play Sports in Morrisville, Vermont, Caleb Magoon's price gun still spits out labels that end in $.99, but when he goes to the cash register, he has no pennies inside.
"We don't actively go out and get pennies in order to give people the appropriate change," Magoon said.
Starting this month, the sporting goods store is rounding its change to the nearest nickel. It does so in the customer's favor, Magoon said. If you're owed $1.63 from a cash purchase, for example, you will now actually get back $1.65, he explained.
"The most I could possibly lose on any transaction is four cents," Magoon added.
This is his way of suggesting the United States follow Canada's lead, and stop production of the coin. It actually costs the government nearly two and a half times more to produce the penny than it's worth, according to the U.S. Mint's website. | <urn:uuid:9207c45a-83d9-4b42-8166-27a50ef58372> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ksee24.com/news/local/Store-Bans-Pennies-169399566.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964928 | 203 | 1.53125 | 2 |
I couldn’t wait for November. Once the calendar page turned, Breast Cancer Awareness Month was officially over. As if I need a special month to remind me. As if I don’t think about this disease every month of the year.
I’m among the 2.5 million women who have been treated for breast cancer. I was diagnosed in September 2011, and had surgery that October. Then I had radiation. I’m doing very well, but it has been a challenging bend in the road.
In the months following surgery, I got back to my books and bridge and work, I renewed my on-again, off-again relationship with the treadmill and began to believe that I might actually live long enough to become even more crotchety. But I also realized that there was a new filter in my brain. I would never need a special month to make me aware of breast cancer.
This is not to say that I object to October as Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Not at all. We need to remind women to make and keep their appointments for mammograms and sonograms. We need money to support research into more effective treatments and, eventually, a cure. We need money to help women who can’t afford treatment.
Donations also provide assistance and support for breast cancer patients who don’t have family or friends to help them through. It may be weird that there is such an entity as Breast Cancer Social Media, where women tweet and blog and vent, but if it helps someone, somewhere, I say, tweet away.
I started a blog last year during my own treatment. It made me feel connected when everything about the disease was making me feel isolated. You do what you need to do to get through it all.
My issue with Breast Cancer Awareness Month is just that it feels personal now. I’m just saying, it’s not all “those” stories. It’s my story, too.
It seems obvious, but it needs to be said that we women who live through breast cancer are all different. We survive our diagnosis and treatment differently, and we move into the future with footsteps as unique as fingerprints. | <urn:uuid:0d396ada-2d3a-4aad-8b85-e4c6b0f103dd> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://liherald.com/stories/Breast-cancer-awareness-mission-accomplished,44225 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00027-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981486 | 453 | 1.648438 | 2 |
The respect for Life
The respect for Life in every and any form is the essence and base of the philosophy of the estate: Respect for nature, the Earth, the environment of the people on the farm, of the plants, trees, animals, insects and not least the people whom consume our wines and all those that work and collaborate with us.
Respect can only exist when one listens and hears nature speak and from this is born biodynamic agriculture, that enrichens the Earth, creates relations and the creation of life.
The secret is to develop an understanding of nature and the mystery of its forces in the search to work with natures laws. Biodynamic agriculture is a positive response to the modern industrial farming methods that leaves the Earth devoid of vitality and life. Modern agriculture is seen to represent the lack of a certain spirituality in todays society.
Wines made from biodynamic agriculture results from this respectful collaboration between man and the Earth, and like all the products made from biodynamic agriculture brings health and wellbeing. This is most important for the estate: to bring wellbeing from cultivating the Earth with care and respect of the consumer.
As biodynamics regenerates the life of the soil, of which fundamentally that of the earth and the skies, the philosophy of Rudolf Steiner, from whom was born biodynamic agricultural methods, we seek to develop relations with people in a good and fair way. On the estate we seek to develop a more stimulating and human rapport with our work force and our clients all over the World... because we hope that our system of values might be contagious like the ripples made when you throw a stone into a lake and that they might reach every corner.
From my return from London where I had lived for some years, I started to develop relations with Slow Food with which we share many principles. One of their agronomists visited the estate and spent the day going about with a small shovel, on his return he declared that the vineyards where on the threshold of desertification and that "there were only symptoms of death", the result of years of traditional farming methods. After two days of the deepest sadness, "because for me life is sacred", I decided to convert the whole estate to biodynamic farming methods. Though at the beginning local farmers were to question whether they would ever see grapes in the vineyards again, last year they nominated the estate "the happy island", as vineyards in the area where subject to disease and great losses for the harvest, the vineyards on this estate have never been in better shape or of higher quality. | <urn:uuid:0f983d14-0333-421b-ba47-779e00003571> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.castelloditassarolo.it/english/philosophy.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00001-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967703 | 521 | 1.601563 | 2 |
Not since the oil shocks that first brought the world’s superpowers together in 1974–back then they called themselves the “Library Group” because they met in the White House library–has the G8 had so much substantive business on a summit agenda. In recent years, world leaders have mostly just tried to to out-do one another with pledges of development assistance, leading to stories like this one from my colleague Massimo Calabresi, that questioned the usefulness of the annual summit. Even in 2009, less than six months after the U.S. was forced to bail out Wall Street and the economy lapsed into the worst recession since the Great Depression, the agenda focused on a $22 billion food aid pledge. But when G8 members meet this week at Camp David, they’ll be hard pressed to re-up that sum. Helping poor farmers in Africa is tough when every extra cent may be needed to bail out Europe.
It’s not that Europe isn’t rich enough to save itself, but with 27 different parliaments involved, the European Union’s reaction time in a crisis is excruciatingly slow. Thanks to politicians trying to save their own careers – leaders in France, Great Britain, Italy, Ireland, Denmark, Spain and Portugal have lost elections since Obama took office in 2009 – most of the solutions on the table are mid- to long-term fixes, not good news for politicians who are up for reelection in the short term. Obama’s re-election prospects are at risk as Greece struggles to form a government and Europe stands at the brink.
(PHOTOS: Scenes from the 2009 G8 Summit)
All of that explains why this year’s G8 summit, for once, is pretty important. It’s Obama’s chance to talk to European leaders about saving their continent. Good thing he moved the summit from Chicago to Camp David: He’ll have a captive audience, unless German Chancellor Angela Merkel makes a break for it through the Maryland wilderness. Here are five things to watch for at this weekend’s G8 summit:
Welcome to the Funhouse, Francois Hollande. The newly elected French President is probably rethinking just what, exactly, he won last week. The U.S. has been pushing Hollande to consider some short-term stimulus, a tough order for a guy who inherited a budget deficit already at 4.4% of GDP, well above the Eurozone guideline of 3%. Hollande ran on a pledge to return France’s deficit to 3% of GDP by next year. That doesn’t bode well for advocates of government spending, even though France’s economy grew 0% in the first quarter. On his first day in office, Hollande braved thunderstorms – his plane was, perhaps symbolically, struck by lightening, delaying the trip briefly – to travel to Germany to meet with Merkel and to push growth measures. He now goes to Camp David with the difficult task of building relationships with Obama and Merkel, who openly supported Hollande’s predecessor, Nicholas Sarkozy.
Entschuldigen, Frau Merkel. Sure, Germany may have the only economy still growing in Europe – it grew at 0.5% rate in the first quarter – but Chancellor Merkel still has reason to worry. Her party performed poorly in last Sunday’s state elections. In North Rhine-Westphalia, a state Merkel won with 45% of the vote when she was elected in 2005, her party received only 26% of the vote. Up until now, Merkel has been leery of moving too quickly on the European fiscal crisis. Her reticence has been criticized by market analysts: If Greece had been bailed out four years ago it’d have cost $100 billion and avoided the crisis that’s now putting trillions at risk. She’s up for reelection next year and loath to do anything that could jeopardize her chances. At the same time, if the Eurozone isn’t rescued from the ledge, she could be the first to go down with it. The U.S. hopes to persuade her to take stronger stimulative measures, and to shore up the central bank and other big banks bracing for a Greek default.
Not everything is the economy, stupid. Yes, the crisis in Europe is dire, but there is also war to consider. Hollande pledged to accelerate France’s withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan when he took office. Obama will be asking–maybe begging–Hollande to hold off on that pledge. Obama needs not only troop commitments, but money from France and other G8 nations as well. It will take an estimated $4 billion a year after the bulk of NATO’s forces withdraw at the end of 2014 to fund Afghanistan’s security forces. The U.S. is on the hook for at least half that sum, but the other half remains unsecured. The funding situation has become so dire that there’s talk that Afghanistan’s security forces will peak at 350,000 in 2014 and slowly decrease to 230,000 over the next decade, a period in which they should be growing.
Bashing Bashar al Assad. Another topic of importance is the deteriorating situation in Syria. Assad’s forces are now openly engaging opposition forces in front of United Nations’ observers, abandoning the façade of a ceasefire. (Until last week, guns would go silent during observer visits to keep up the impression that everything is alright). With casualties piling up, pressure is mounting on the G8 nations to do something. But with Russia and China still blocking a stronger UN resolution, it’s unlikely that NATO would move in to protect Syria’s civilians. Still, Europe and the U.S. are coordinating their humanitarian responses and helping to organize Syrian oppositions groups. There is much to discuss.
From Russia, with love. Syria is just one of the issues that the U.S. wants to discuss with Russia at the G8. There’s also a missile shield, Iran, Afghanistan and North Korea. But Russian President Vladimir Putin bailed on the summit at the last minute. Putin said he was having trouble forming a cabinet, and sent Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev in his stead.
As with their last summit meeting in Seoul in March, Obama will probably give Medvedev a bunch of messages for his new boss, including more requests for “space” and “flexibility,” and probably invitations to engage Iran, Afghanistan and North Korea. The U.S. badly needs Russia’s cooperation.
This year’s G8 summit promises to be the most interesting in a decade and the chemistry of the class only adds to the intrigue. From the new kid, Hollande, to the understudy, Medvedev, to those fighting for their political lives, Obama and Merkel, the politics at play are complex. But one thing’s for sure: They’ve never needed one another as much as they do now. | <urn:uuid:07a1a7c3-6c0b-4467-bb07-4703aab94e83> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://swampland.time.com/2012/05/16/the-g8-summit-at-camp-david-this-time-its-important/?iid=sl-main-mostpop1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00032-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95999 | 1,453 | 1.703125 | 2 |
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