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The GSFS framework for assessment and internal program review includes: - A set of broad teaching, learning and citizenship goals that were collectively articulated by GSFS instructors and students. - An articulated curricular structure for the GSFS major that includes course criteria and goals at different levels of the curriculum. - A GSFS major rationale form required to be completed by each student major with the guidance of a GSFS advisor. This form is designed to facilitate planning, breadth and depth in each student major’s curricular path. Completed forms are approved by and on file with the Standing Committee on Majors. - A feminist research methodologies assessment rubric to be completed by the instructor of Feminist Research Methodologies for every student enrolled in the course in a given term. The completed rubrics are on file in the GSFS office attached to the final research papers/proposals from that course. This rubric is an outcomes direct measure of some of the curricular goals of the GSFS major. - A GSFS capstone final project assessment rubric to be completed by the instructor of a GSFS honors project or GSFS course in which a major completes a capstone final project in the senior year or no earlier than spring term of the junior year. This rubric is an outcomes direct measure of some of the curricular goals of the GSFS major. - A GSFS senior survey that assesses each student’s experience of the major. This instrument operates as an indirect measure of the goals of the major and institute.
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The 'How to Mix Chalkboard Paint in Any Color' tutorial offered by Elsie and Emma of 'A Beautiful Mess' creative blog, is a great, cheap and chic way to add a bit of flair to your abode. Since it allows you to create your own chalkboard using almost any surface in any color, this DIY project is ideal for any home, any room and any style. DIY projects have become huge as people look to save a little money, infuse their own creativity in their home and have a fun project to work on. This definitely falls into all three categories and is a great experiment to try out. Inspired by Martha Stewart, this project is not only fun to make, but leaves you with a great tool for reminders, signs or schedules. DIY Erasable Wall Decor 15,753 clicks in 45 w More Stats +/-
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Jewish World Review June 27, 2003/ 27 Sivan, 5763 When racism is oh, so refined http://www.NewsAndOpinion.com | There are two kinds of Nice White Ladies. One means well, the other is just mean. Sandra Day O'Connor no doubt means well, but her prescription for suspending the Constitution for 25 years to do something nice for "the colored folks" is a prescription for disaster, first of all for aspiring blacks. Maureen Dowd, the columnist for the New York Times, is just mean. Her denunciation of Justice Clarence Thomas as "barking mad" is mean-spirited racism, because she means to put him in his place for not tugging at his forelock and accepting with gratitude all the nice things white liberals like Miss Maureen have done for him. Justice Thomas' dissent in the Michigan case, she writes, "is a clinical study of a man who has been driven barking mad by the beneficial treatment he has received. It's poignant, really. It makes him crazy that people think he is where he is because of his race, but he is where he is because of his race. Other justices rely on clerks and legal footnotes to help with their opinions. Justice Thomas relies on his id, turning an opinion on race into a therapeutic outburst." Well, we know about the id. The part of the id that Miss Dowd, who writes in the voice of the jilted spinster, worries most about is the man's libido. Naturally, she's still obsessed with Anita Hill. She's heard about black men and the libido. Talk about indulging ugly stereotypes. "He is at the pinnacle," she writes, "an African-American who succeeded in getting past the Anita Hill sexual harassment scandal by playing the race card, calling the hearing 'a high-tech lynching' ... ." Uppity Mexicans upset her, too. "President Bush, the Yale legacy who also disdains affirmative action, is playing affirmative-action politics in the preliminary vetting of a prospective Supreme Court nominee, Alberto Gonzales. No doubt Bush 43 will call Mr. Gonzales the best qualified man for the job, rather than the one best qualified to help harvest the 2004 Hispanic vote." Poor Mo. She's consumed with racial resentment, beginning with Irish bile directed at the Bushes, father and son, not for their politics, but for their Anglo-Saxon Protestant pedigree. Once upon a time you could celebrate Easter morn by blowing up the post office. Ah, the good old days. But we can take her or leave her to her fans on the Upper East Side. Sandra Day O'Connor, on the other hand, actually matters. The Nice White Lady inflicts real damage to the Constitution. The very language of her majority opinion has the genteel fragrance of a chicken a la king luncheon in the ladies' dining room. She found the Michigan Law School choose-by-race scheme OK because it "engages in a highly holistic review of each applicant's file," and the scheme "aspires to achieve that diversity which has the potential to enrich everyone's education." Justice O'Connor dismisses the plain and unequivocal language of the Constitution as mere irrelevancy. "We are mindful that [a] core purpose of the Fourteenth Amendment was to do away with all governmentally imposed discrimination based on race ... ," she wrote. "Accordingly, race-conscious admissions policies must be limited in time ... . We expect that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary to further the interest [of preferring one race over another] approved today." Besides, a little racial discrimination does "not unduly harm members of any racial group." This is, of course, precisely how Southerners of a generation ago justified laws requiring racial segregation. Mrs. O'Connor cites, with satisfaction, the testimony of the dean of the Michigan law school that discrimination by race "varies from one applicant to another," that sometimes it "may play no role" and another time it "may be a determinative factor." (Sometimes, when there were more white folks than colored folks aboard his streetcar, the motorman let colored folks ride up close to the front. It varied.) Maureen Dowd sneers at Justice Thomas for his dismissal of affirmative action as "racial aesthetics." The libs have worked so hard to apply racial aesthetics, and now an ungrateful black man with an enlarged id treats them with disdain. But he has their number, and flaunts it. He scorns affirmative action as "a faddish slogan of the cognoscenti," and disdains it as something only to "fulfill the bigot's prophecy about black underperformance." No one, and the liberal cognoscenti least of all, wants to look at why, after decades of throwing money at a rotting educational establishment and years of racial preferences black students are worse off than ever. A scheme to get a few blacks into law school is much easier than reforming the system to make affirmative action unnecessary. But a Nice White Lady, eager to feel good about herself, will think about that tomorrow. After all, tomorrow is another day. Enjoy this writer's work? Why not sign-up for the daily JWR update. It's free. Just click here.
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October 25, 2012 | by Steven Castle Are connected smart appliances and energy management systems that can save us scads on our utility bills finally, finally going to be a factor in our homes? GE plans as much—and is attempting to kickstart some interest with its own GeoSpring Hybrid Water Heater, which it says uses 62 percent less electricity than a standard electric water heater and can save $325 a year with its efficient technology that uses an air-source heat pump to help heat water. Over 100 Sears stores in the northeastern United States are offering the GeoSpring appliance and a Get Connected Starter Kit (under $200) consisting of the Nucleus energy manager and an appliance module, in addition to GE’s connected thermostat. The in-store water heater also features a “Take Control. Get Connected” display that promotes the Starter Kit and thermostat. The Nucleus energy manager can connect to the GeoSpring water heater via Wi-Fi and an appliance module. This will enable users to receive messages like maintenance alerts for filter changes and allow control of the appliance via an iPhone app. You can also control GE’s connected thermostat through the app. An app for Android-based devices is in the works. I’m not sure people are going to flock to change their water heater set temperature via a mobile phone. John Desmarais, market development manager for GE Home Energy Management, says that while most people don’t even know how to set the temperature of hot water heater to an economical 120 degrees, doing so from a phone app resonates with them. Don’t laugh. Users of connectivity systems being sold by service providers like ADT, Comcast and Verizon seem to like changing the set temperatures on their thermostats via mobile phone apps, especially if they want to heat or cool their home before they get home. Though how many times must you reset the set temp of your water heater? It could be just once or when you want to use the GeoSpring’s energy-saving vacation mode or switch from normal mode to a hybrid mode that uses the heat-pump technology. Maintenance alerts sent to mobile phones may have far more use for people. And we must remember that this is GE’s first real stage of releasing its Brillon brand of smart appliances and energy management to the public. The Nucleus energy manager has previously been available only through utilities and their smart grid pilot programs, while the new GeoSpring Hybrid Water Heater started manufacturing earlier this year. “We’re finding out how people want to control their ecosystems,” Desmarais says. “No where have you been able to see that ecosystem include any type of appliance connectivity.” How The Systems Work The Nucleus device looks like a plug-in module and simply plugs into an electrical outlet. It can communicate via Wi-Fi or wireless ZigBee technology to other devices on its network, like the appliance module, which in turn connects to the GeoSpring water heater via an Ethernet cable. The Nucleus can also retrieve energy usage information from a two-way communicating smart meter, which are being deployed for utility smart grid programs. However, that does not seem to be a focus of GE’s current marketing efforts. “Our story is not centered on energy savings. It’s about getting connected and tying into your lifestyle,” says Desmarais. That mirrors the approach of the big service providers: get connected first—and by the way, you can also save some energy. GE will potentially make more devices like light and lamp modules that can connect to the Nucleus available next year. As well as more smart appliances like dishwashers and clothes washers. The 50-gallon GeoSpring heater is the first of GE’s smart appliances, and heats water economically with an air-source heat pump that uses warm air around the unit to help heat the water, The principal behind heat pump technology is that it’s easier and more efficient to “move heat” from one place to another—like from the air to the water—than to create new heat. Hybrid (meaning heat pump and electricity) and Vacation modes can help save a family $325 a year on water heating, GE says. The heat pump technology works best at 68 degrees Fahrenheit air temperature or above. If the air around the water heater drops to 45 degrees Fahrenheit, the heat pump turns off and switches to the standard electric mode, as there will not be enough heat in the air to heat the water. Vacation mode will lower the water temperature to 50 degrees for the duration of a trip and then automatically re-energize itself the day before the homeowner’s return. Some states and utilities also offer rebates for efficient appliances like the GeoSpring. Some utility customers in Massachusetts, for example, can earn a $1,000 rebate through the end of the year, on the $1,199 to $1,299 GeoSpring appliance. GE’s initial GeoSpring hot water heater touted demand response capability, which could turn off or turn down an appliance from a signal from a utility. Though that demand response functionality is not now being touted by GE in its new hybrid water heater. Electric utilities’ smart grid pilot programs have been testing such demand response programs, though their acceptance by households remain in question. (Industrial, facility-wide and commercial demand response is a growing market, however.) Although a few smart and connected appliances like those from LG, Samsung, Wolf and Sub-Zero are on the market, the growth for smart appliances appears hampered from the slow and cautious rollouts of smart grid programs by utilities. That may well change as more smart grid programs come on line and protocols like the Smart Energy Profile (SEP) 2.0, which should be finalized this year and allows connectivity to IP-based networks. But GE does not appear to be counting on that yet. This promotion may be a big test balloon for marketing smart appliances and energy management systems, and it could give GE a head start in linking smart appliances to home “connectivity” systems. “We’ve been learning through consumer behaviors and actions and interrelated actions and doing a lot of research,” Desmarais says. “It’s an evolving market and an evolving technology. We want to drive adoption beyond early adopters.” Steven Castle is Electronic House's managing editor. he has been writing about consumer electronics, homes and energy efficiency topics for two decades. He is also the co-founder of GreenTech Advocates
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Authors embrace e-publishing with their essays on Utoya It's often difficult for authors to respond quickly to world events in a comprehensive way, especially if they pursue the traditional publishing route. Now writers are looking at alternative ways to get their analysis out there. In July, 77 people were murdered in Norway's Utoya Massacre by right-wing Norwegian nationalist Anders Breivik. While the media speculated on Breivik's motives, seven prominent Australian writers formed their own opinions on Utoya, writing essays on the attack. But to avoid the long publishing queue, they took the e-publishing route instead. Their e-book collection of essays is called On Utoya. - Jeff Sparrow - Author and editor of Overland Literary Journal - Antony Loewenstein - Author and journalist - Anita Barraud - Verica Jokic
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With the advent of Windows 7, Microsoft introduced two new levels of the Windows Experience Index (WEI) score which made its debut concomitantly with Windows Vista back in 2007. Provided that they own the right hardware configuration, users earn bragging rights for scores as high as 7.9, but not higher, at least not in this version of the Windows client (but most probably in the next). According to Microsoft , scores 6.0 through 7.9 were made available as a move designed to help the operating system’s WEI metrics to keep up with the evolution of hardware. “Levels, 6 and 7 were added to recognize the improved experiences one might have with newer hardware, especially SSDs, graphics adapters, and multicore processors. With respect to SSDs, the focus of the newer tests is on random I/O rates and their avoidance of the long latency issues [identified],” the software giant explained. “As a note, the tests do not specifically check whether the underlying storage device is an SSD. We run them regardless of the device type, and any device capable of sustaining very high random I/O rates will score well.” It’s quite possible to build a 7.9 machine but don’t expect to do it on a budget. Achieving the maximum Windows 7 WEI score of 7.9 requires nothing short of the best of the best hardware components on the market. The WEI score takes into consideration only the following components: processor, memory (RAM), graphics (general desktop work), gaming graphics (typically 3D), and primary hard disk. Getting up to 7.9 means owning a computer with a quad-core desktop CPU, a socket 1366 motherboard, at least 12 GB of DDR3 RAM, a GTX 285 graphics card, a SSD of 256 GB or more, and the power supply to make it all work. “For graphics adapters, both DX9 and DX10 assessments can be run now. In Windows Vista, the tests were specific to DX9. “To obtain scores in the 6 or 7 range, a graphics adapter must obtain very good performance scores, the adapter must support DX10, and the driver must be at least a WDDM 1.1 driver. For WDDM 1.0 drivers, only the DX9 assessments will be run. Therefore the overall score is capped at 5.9. “For multicore processors, both single-threaded and multithreaded scenarios are run. With levels 6 and 7, we intend to indicate that these systems will be rarely CPU bound for typical use and very suitable for demanding processing tasks and for multitasking. “As examples, we expect that many quad-core processors will be able to score in the high 6 to low 7 range, and we expect eight-core systems to be able to approach 7.9. This scoring has accounted for the very latest microprocessors available,” the company added. But always keep in mind that the WEI scores are not a reflection of performance, not that they’re intended as such. Instead Windows WEI scores are designed to do nothing more than to reflect the hardware capabilities of a PC.
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Return to Transcripts main page HOUSE CALL WITH DR. SANJAY GUPTA Meat Recall; Children's Health Insurance; Cholesterol Control Aired October 6, 2007 - 08:30 ET THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. SANJAY GUPTA, HOST: This is HOUSECALL. We're making the rounds this morning of some of the most intriguing medical stories of the week. First up, your kids' insurance. The president makes a decisive move that could affect their health. Then, alternative therapies that really work. Empower yourself to make the right choices. Plus, when it comes to cholesterol, there's good, there's bad, and there's downright ugly. How do you know the difference? And another meat recall makes headlines. How to keep your family safe from E.Coli. Let's get started, though with a story we've been following here on HOUSECALL -- health insurance, who has it, who needs it. A promised presidential veto of a bill to expand health insurance to more American children is now a reality. Ed Henry has more. ED HENRY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): In the privacy of the Oval Office, away from the glare of cameras, the president vetoed a bill expanding a popular health program for kids, a move so controversial within his own party with 45 House Republicans voting against him, the president knew he had some explaining to do at a town hall meeting in conservative Lancaster, Pennsylvania. GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I wanted to share with you why I vetoed the bill this morning. Poor kids first. Secondly, I believe in private medicine, not the federal government running the health care system. HENRY: Mr. Bush charges the Democrats' $35 billion plan is so massive, middle-class children will jump from private insurance to the government dole, leaving poor kids in the dust. BUSH: The intent of the program was to focus on poorer children, not adults, or families earning up to $83,000 a year. HENRY: Eager to restore Republicans' credibility on fiscal conservativism, the president calls the Democratic plan a budget buster, claiming his $5 billion increase would suffice. GUPTA: You have to be fiscally responsible, set priorities with your money, and keep your taxes low. HENRY: But Democrats note the president didn't veto any spending bills when Republicans were running Congress. So he's finding religion a bit late in the game. REP. PETER DEFAZIO (D), OREGON: After an orgy of borrowing, spending, and misspending on many dubious things, his target, 10 million low-income kids. HENRY (on camera): The president signaled he may be ready to compromise by saying he's willing to put up a little more money in negotiations with Democrats. But Republican strategists expect he may have to pony up even more money because the political pressure on the Republican Party is going to get intense. Ed Henry, CNN, the White House. GUPTA: And you know, the battle over S-chip isn't over just yet. The leaders of the House are scrambling right now to get enough votes to override that presidential veto. They expect that to happen sometime in the next two weeks. You know, millions of Americans look to nontraditional medicine to do everything from easing their back pain, to even curing the common cold. In this week's "Empowered Patient," Elizabeth Cohen looks at alternative therapies that might really work. You've been looking into this, Elizabeth. So what are some of the alternative they are think pis that might work? ELIZABETH COHEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, you know, Sanjay, there's a lot of good out there when it comes to alternative medicine. And there's also a lot of bad. In fact, there are people selling things that will allegedly cure your cancer, and make you grow a full head of hair, and lose weight instantly. And so we asked a panel of experts on alternative medicine. These are people who work at some of the Ivy League schools, academic institutions who specialize in integrated medicine. And we asked them, where is their real proof, where is there proof that alternative medicine works? And they gave us five alternative medicine practices that have studies behind them. I'm going to tell you two right now. One of them is acupuncture for knee pain. Really excellent studies, I'm told, at the University of Maryland that that actually works very well for osteoarthritis of the knee. Also, St. John's Wort for mild to moderate depression. Some of their studies are mixed, but the experts that I talked to said that's something really worth trying as long as you're very careful that you're not mixing St. John's Wort with certain medications. GUPTA: You know, there's a lot of alternative therapies out there. And people hear about it all the time. We talk about them. Is there a way of knowing ahead of time what's going to work and what's not going to work? COHEN: There are some questions that you can ask. For example, when you go to someone who's going to give you acupuncture, you can ask if they're licensed. Accupuncturists are often licensed, as are other practitioners. You can also go to an academic center, where they practice integrated medicine. You can see there's a website right there that you can go to. And these are 38 centers -- Harvard, Stanford, Columbia, UCLA, places like that where there are MDs who also specialize in integrated medicine. And they've really tried to put it all together rather than just advocate one type or the other. GUPTA: That's why it's called integrated. COHEN: There you go. GUPTA: That's interesting. Used to be considered fringe medicine, but not a lot of actual scientific data. COHEN: Not any more. Absolutely. GUPTA: Very good stuff, Elizabeth. Thank you so much for being here. COHEN: Thank you. GUPTA: And make sure to check out Elizabeth's column as well on this very topic at cnn.com/health. Just look for her picture. Click on the link. Every week, she writes about ways you can empower yourself to get the most out of your health care. Really good stuff. Now when it comes to cholesterol, do you know the difference between the good and the bad? Do you even know your numbers? (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I don't know. I would like to know, because I eat a lot of fast food. I do. (END VIDEO CLIP) GUPTA: And later, just say yes to your kids when it comes to underage drinking. Hmm? Some research says it could stop an addiction before it even starts. We'll explain. Finally, is your desk an occupational hazard? Coming up in just one minute, a quick tip to make your workplace healthier. GUPTA: Is your job a pain in the neck? Sometimes. Or the back maybe, even the wrist. It could be the way you sit or maybe even hold your arms when you work. So here's a quick tip from occupational medicine specialist Dr. Steven Dawkins. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) STEVEN DAWKINS, DR., OCCUPATIONAL MED SPECIALIST: For most workstations, the position should be that the arm is held at a 90- degree angle and with your arm to your elbow. And your wrist is -- should be positioned at the keyboard at about that height. Our goal is to sort of develop this 90-degree angle that minimizes the amount of stress and tension on the tendons that support the hand and the wrist. (END VIDEO CLIP) UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's around 150. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It's a little over -- I don't know the exact number. I know it's a little over 200, like 212, I think. A little high. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You know, the last time I had it checked was two years ago. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I know it's elevated, but I don't remember the exact number. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Borderline, actually, so -- but the exact numbers I don't know. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No, actually, I don't. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I've never checked it, ever. GUPTA: So do you know your cholesterol numbers? Our informal poll told us many of us do. Our cnn.com this week, we asked which topic would you most like us to tackle on HOUSECALL. The difference between good and bad cholesterol was the winner. Thanks to all those voted. We turn now to Judy Fortin with more. JUDY FORTIN: Phil Massey's total cholesterol is 143, well within the American Heart Association guidelines. But he's had to work at it. PHIL MASSEY, CHOLESTEROL PATIENT: I haven't had a pizza in God knows how long. FORTIN: He spends more time exercising and has eliminated saturated fat from his diet. Dr. William Castelli says cutting out fat and refined carbohydrates can make a big difference in lowering bad cholesterol or LDL.
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Mon, Jan 9, 2012 Would you like to engage, grow, and inspire your team members? Doing so requires proactive communication regularly, not just during annual review discussions. Developing star performers requires creating meaningful conversations well before the performance review. A conversation can be powerful and inspiring or flat and dull or somewhere in between. Are your conversations creating engagement, momentum, and inspiring others? Your ability to guide people to see around corners and to read what motivates them will make you a more effective manager, leader, and developer of star performers. Do you know how to focus team members on the things that produce desired results? You’ll need to set clear accountabilities at the beginning of the year and inspire people to deliver their best. Begin the path to success by agreeing on concrete accountabilities and then select the right conversations to follow up regularly. How do you know which conversation is needed next? 6 Conversational Strategies for Creating Star Performers There are ten conversational strategies blueprinted in Conversations for Creating Star Performers that enable you to do this. I’ll highlight six: 1. Building Awareness: Do you talk about what your team members do best and where they will need support from you and others this year? 2. Identifying Motivators: Do you talk about individual motivators connecting the dots between the assignment you have given and an employee’s motivators? 3. Creating Development Plans: Our communication styles provide a key to identifying developmental needs – do you create development plans that are focused on each of your team members? 4. Developing New Skills: Playing to strengths is smart business; however, blind spots can create derailment if left unnoticed. Have you encouraged each of your team members to identify a new skill they want to develop in 2012? 5. Getting Back on Track: Do you get people unstuck and back on track? Do you need to have a conversation that creates momentum with someone? 6. Accountability: By exploring what matters to other people so their long term goals are linked to what they are doing now, and then having ongoing check-in conversations about how they are doing in meeting their goals, and what you can do to help create momentum — you will guide meaningful accountability conversations. The performance review conversation is only one part of being a successful manager and coach. Every day, design conversations that guide star performers. Are you ready to be known as the person who is able to engage, grow, and inspire others? If so, now is the time to begin these conversations in 2012. About the Author: Shawn Kent Hayashi is an executive coach and founder of The Professional Development Group, her clients include Fortune 500 giants, such as American Express, Cigna, Johnson & Johnson, Merck as well as small entrepreneurial companies. An Emotional Intelligence Certified Coach, Hayashi earned an M.S. in organizational dynamics from the University of Pennsylvania. Check out her blog www.ShawnKentHayashi.com and www.theprofessionaldevelopmentgroup.com/star-performers/ for more.
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Morris Area Chamber of Commerce is your resource for all things Morris. We offer support and services to local businesses, connect our community, and help Morris grow. We’ll help you get to know our local market, find out what’s happening in the community, and introduce you to all the things that make Morris an amazing place to visit or to live. Not only does the Chamber serve as your information hub, we also provide relocation services and insider knowledge for visitors looking for a unique “agri-cultural” experience. Morris is a thriving rural community with approximately 5,000 citizens, located in west-central Minnesota. Our scenic city is a welcoming place for visitors, as well as people looking to make Morris their home. Whether you’re a current resident or are looking for information about our small town on the prairie with the big city cultural and educational options, this is the place to find it! Morris – a unique blend of agriculture and culture we guarantee will leave you feeling inspired. You’ll enjoy the peaceful scenery, outdoor recreational activities, and unique shops in our tree-lined downtown. Our little city is full of surprises – from the wind turbines symbolizing commitment to green energy, to local foods stores, fair trade coffee shop and farmers market, to world-class Jazz Festival, plays, concerts, horticulture gardens, and gallery openings at a downtown art store and UMM campus. Morris – where agriculture and culture come together! Stevens County Economic Improvement Commission, Inc. SCEIC is a community based non-profit corporation that provides economic development services to make the economy of Stevens County more vital and dynamic through job retention and job growth. SCEIC provides economic development services for existing and start-up businesses. Development services include, but are not limited to, business plan development, loan packaging, “gap” financing, and other business needs. Welcome to Morris, Minnesota The Pomme de Terre River, which lies along the outskirts of Morris, is the perfect representation of our unique community. Maybe the French knew when they named it “Pomme de Terre” that they were creating a metaphor for our city’s combination of diverse cultures, world-class culture and down-to-earth agriculture and industry. Originally a small town on the prairie, Morris is currently home to a historic campus of the University of Minnesota, the Stevens County courthouse, a wealth of business and industry including a major health-care hub, manufacturing that serves a world-wide clientele, and a host of educational, recreational and social opportunities. With the Pomme de Terre river flowing in Upper and Lower Pomme lakes, Morris boasts a growing network of hiking and biking trails, canoeing, fishing and boating options and numerous parks that hold campgrounds, picnic shelters, a skateboard park, athletic fields and more green than the eye can see. Ten acres of gorgeous flowers and shrubs at the horticulture gardens host master gardener classes, weddings, photographers seeking the perfect backdrop and countless visitors strolling the grounds spring through fall. The scenic outlook offers a view of Morris, the river and all the beauty nature provides in this scenic small city in the heartland. Boasting plentiful employment and a superior quality of life, Morris is a green community that offers surprising amenities for visitors and newcomers. Explore Morris and you will find It All Starts Here!
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The Reply of Nemesianus, Dativus, Felix, and Victor, to Cyprian. Argument.— This Epistle and the Two Following Contain Nothing Else Than Replies to the Foregoing, Inasmuch as They Contain The Thanksgiving as Well for the Comfort Conveyed by the Letter as for the Assistance Sent Therewith. But from the Fact that Three Distinct Letters are Sent in Reply to the Single One of Cyprian's, We are to Gather that the Bishops Who Wrote Them Were Placed in Different Departments of the Mines. 1. Nemesianus, Dativus, Felix, and Victor, to their brother Cyprian, in the Lord eternal salvation. You speak, dearly beloved Cyprian, in your letters always with deep meaning, as suits the condition of the time, by the assiduous reading of which letters both the wicked are corrected and men of good faith are confirmed. For while you do not cease in your writings to lay bare the hidden mysteries, you thus make us to grow in faith, and men from the world to draw near to belief. For by whatever good things you have introduced in your many books, unconsciously you have described yourself to us. For you are greater than all men in discourse, in speech more eloquent, in counsel wiser, in patience more simple, in works more abundant, in abstinence more holy, in obedience more humble, and in good deeds more innocent. And you yourself know, beloved, that our eager wish was, that we might see you, our teacher and our lover, attain to the crown of a great confession. 2. For, in the proceedings before the proconsul; as a good and true teacher you first have pronounced that which we your disciples, following you, ought to say before the president. And, as a sounding trumpet, you have stirred up God's soldiers, furnished with heavenly arms, to the close encounter; and fighting in the first rank, you have slain the devil with a spiritual sword: you have also ordered the troops of the brethren, on the one hand and on the other, with your words, so that snares were on all sides laid for the enemy, and the severed sinews of the very carcass of the public foe were trodden under foot. Believe us, dearest, that your innocent spirit is not far from the hundred-fold reward, seeing that it has feared neither the first onsets of the world, nor shrunk from going into exile, nor hesitated to leave the city, nor dreaded to dwell in a desert place; and since it furnished many with an example of confession, itself first spoke the martyr-witness. For it provoked others to acts of martyrdom by its own example; and not only began to be a companion of the martyrs already departing from the world, but also linked a heavenly friendship with those who should be so. 3. Therefore they who were condemned with us give you before God the greatest thanks, beloved Cyprian, that in your letter you have refreshed their suffering breasts; have healed their limbs wounded with clubs; have loosened their feet bound with fetters; have smoothed the hair of their half-shorn head; have illuminated the darkness of the dungeon; have brought down the mountains of the mine to a smooth surface; have even placed fragrant flowers to their nostrils, and have shut out the foul odour of the smoke. Moreover, your continued gifts, and those of our beloved Quirinus, which you sent to be distributed by Herennianus the sub-deacon, and Lucian, and Maximus, and Amantius the acolytes, provided a supply of whatever had been wanting for the necessities of their bodies. Let us, then, be in our prayers helpers of one another: and let us ask, as you have bidden us, that we may have God and Christ and the angels as supporters in all our actions. We bid you, lord and brother, ever heartily farewell, and have us in mind. Greet all who are with you. All ours who are with us love you, and greet you, and desire to see you. Source. Translated by Robert Ernest Wallis. From Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. 5. Edited by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, and A. Cleveland Coxe. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1886.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. <http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/050677.htm>. Contact information. The editor of New Advent is Kevin Knight. My email address is feedback732 at newadvent.org. (To help fight spam, this address might change occasionally.) Regrettably, I can't reply to every letter, but I greatly appreciate your feedback — especially notifications about typographical errors and inappropriate ads.
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macgrunt is all about workflow optimisation, with an emphasis on automation, particularly applescript. you’d be truly amazed at how much time can be saved in a studio by simply automating mundane tasks. not only does it free up more time for creativity, it also saves you from banging your head repeatedly against your desk due to the sheer tedium of some of the work you have to do — every day. this script was created for a publishing workflow where images in archived InDesign files were no longer linked to the overhauled library of over 100,000 images. at reprint time, these images had to be relinked — sometimes in their hundreds. relinking images is a quick animation which shows an actual script performing a real-life task in a fraction of the time it would take a real-life human. the animation is built from screen grabs from the actual workflow — so that dialog box showing how long the script took to do its job is real and accurate (testing was done with CS2 on a G5 PowerPC running OSX 10.5.7). if that doesn’t convince you to start learning, stay tuned, more to follow (perhaps).
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Integrity Counts: Survey Shows Keeping Your Word as Biggest Motivator to Keeping Promises Study reveals how, why and to whom people make, keep and break promises Richmond, VA, February 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Genworth Financial, Inc. (NYSE: GNW). Keeping their word. This is the number one reason Americans aim to keep a promise, according to the recent Genworth Promises Survey. The survey, designed to uncover why and to whom people make and keep promises, also revealed that people are highly motivated by family priorities. Sixty percent of U.S. adults reported they keep promises to satisfy a loved one, and 59 percent to show they care. When it came to delivering on their promises, more than half of those who have ever made a promise, 65 percent, gave themselves an “A” in keeping promises. The Genworth Promises Survey, which was conducted online by Harris Interactive® among 2,235 U.S. adults aged 18+ on behalf of Genworth Financial was released today. Genworth Financial is committed to helping customers keep their most important promises: those that will protect their family, their lifestyle and their retirement. To that end, Genworth conducted this survey as part of the company’s ongoing efforts to understand how and to whom Americans make commitments, particularly when it comes to saving and planning for the future. The survey also provided insight into why people don’t keep promises. Men more often attributed lack of time and forgetfulness as the reasons why they break promises more so than women, and women blamed finances as the culprit more than men. “Overall, the Genworth Promises study revealed that Americans today have a strong desire to be reliable, but also found a strong commitment to being fiscally conservative in today’s socioeconomic environment,” said Kathleen Gurney, Ph.D., founder and CEO of Financial Psychology Corporation. “It also showed that women and men differ on what promises they chose to make and why they sometimes break promises even if it’s not the intention.By working together and building on each other’s strengths, couples can find ways to help each other keep their promises to their loved ones, and together reach their goals of being dependable spouses, family members, parents and friends.” The survey showed that across the board, men and women promised to save more and spend less in 2011; however, the survey did show differences in how men and women planned to do this. According to the survey, women are more likely to promise to create a budget than men, and men are more likely to save for retirement/education and invest than women. “The survey results indicate that people today want to be dependable members of their family; they want to be there for those that need them. We want to be able to make promises, and keep our word in the moments that matter for our families, whether it’s a promise to save for a child’s future, stick to the family budget, or provide a fruitful retirement,” said Gurney. This survey was conducted online within the United States by Harris Interactive on behalf of Genworth Financial from October 29 – November 2, 2010 among 2,235 adults ages 18 and older. This online survey is not based on a probability sample and therefore no estimate of theoretical sampling error can be calculated. For complete survey methodology, including weighting variables, please contact [email protected]. About Genworth Financial Genworth Financial, Inc. (NYSE: GNW) is a leading Fortune 500 global financial security company. Genworth has more than $100 billion in assets and employs approximately 6,500 people with a presence in more than 25 countries. Its products and services help meet the investment, protection, retirement and lifestyle needs of more than 15 million customers. Genworth operates through three segments: Retirement and Protection, U.S. Mortgage Insurance and International. Its products and services are offered through financial intermediaries, advisors, independent distributors and sales specialists. Genworth Financial, which traces its roots back to 1871, became a public company in 2004 and is headquartered in Richmond, Virginia. For more information, visit Genworth.com. From time to time Genworth releases important information via postings on its corporate website. Accordingly, investors and other interested parties are encouraged to enroll to receive automatic email alerts and Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds regarding new postings. Enrollment information is found under the “Investors” section of Genworth.com.
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Related LinksWork & Life: Dealing With Disabilities Starting Up: Entrepreneurs Turn to Moonlighting Small-business owners looking to stay afloat in today's choppy economy have a lot riding against them. Raw materials are pricier. The U.S. dollar is worth less. Credit is harder to come by. And the cost of health care continues to rise. As a result, many entrepreneurs are slashing one of their biggest expenses: payroll. In fact, nearly half of small-business owners polled in a recent survey said they plan to lay off workers, curtail raises or offer days off instead of wage increases as a result of the economic downturn. The survey was conducted by PayCycle, an online payroll service in Palo Alto, Calif. While layoffs may be necessary at some small businesses, employers should avoid sharpening the ax. Here's why: Not only do employees contribute to the company's productivity and bottom line, they're often well-schooled (at a great cost) on your specific business methods. Conduct layoffs now, and you'll spend even more to train a whole new batch once the economy picks back up. Instead, consider these other payroll-trimming strategies: Keep employees working. If there isn't enough work to go around, consider switching up people's duties, suggests Ray Friedman, a management professor at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. "I have seen big companies make it through downturns by having factory workers do maintenance work [such as] painting, fixing tools" and the like, he says. Small companies, he adds, can receive similar cost savings by having current employees perform jobs that you would otherwise hire someone to do. While such a role reversal will likely upset some workers, Christopher J. Collins, an associate professor of human-resource studies at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., says that "complete honesty is really important." If you articulate to your employees that such a job shift is only temporary, they may appreciate your resourcefulness and pitch in where they can. Explore alternatives. As you converse honestly with employees about your business's struggles, ask them for their cost-reduction thoughts, suggests Collins. "They may have creative ideas that have to do with nonpayroll ways to save money." For instance, there may be some inefficient processes that an employee may have noticed that, if fixed, could save the company a bundle. Ask for volunteers. You might also ask employees to consider a voluntary furlough, which is typically an unpaid temporary layoff or leave of absence. "Some employees may want time off," says Friedman. "It's better to let those who want, and can afford, time off to not work, rather than forcing it on everyone." Some employees might consider using the time off to take a vacation, spend time with family or work on a personal project if they're promised a job when the furlough is over. Offer other incentives. Look into other forms of compensation, says Gene Marks, a small-business consultant in Philadelphia. For instance, providing stock options in lieu of payment may be acceptable for a short period. Additionally, if your company regularly provides bonuses but can't afford them this year, consider offering nonpayment incentives instead, Marks says. "If you have anything like a vacation home or a timeshare that you can give to an employee that doesn't cost you really anything, offer it," he says. Just make sure you're upfront about the switcheroo, as (understandably) many employees will chafe at having their bonuses disappear. Install shorter work weeks. Reducing your employee's hours may do the trick as well. For instance, Tray-Pak, a custom plastic packaging maker in Reading, Penn., has for the past two years instituted a four-day workweek during the typically slow months from February until April. "In our slow period, we really don't need full staff," says Ken Ritter, the company's chief financial officer. Historically, he adds "we would have laid those people off." However, Tray-Pak has found that it's worth keeping the employees on because the training process, which takes three weeks, is so costly. Reduce pay. If all else fails, consider reducing employees' pay, says Collins from Cornell. This is obviously going to be controversial. However, since a person's livelihood is on the line, a pay cut vs. a job cut, for many employees, may be preferable. The key to this predicament, he adds, is to "keep employees involved." It will be a difficult conversation, but after relaying to your staff that the business is being squeezed and its overall stability is in question, a pay cut may be an easier pill to swallow.
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This 6-inch (150-mm), flat cable has 22-AWG wires and female “JR”-style connectors on both ends, the same kind of connector commonly found on RC hobby servos. It can be used to make connections between devices with 0.1" 3-pin male headers, such as between RC servo controllers or RC receivers and motor controllers with an RC interface. It can also be a convenient way to connect various 3-pin sensors to a robot controller. This servo extension cable has female JR connectors on both ends, so it can be used to make connections between devices with 0.1" 3-pin male headers, such as between RC servo controllers or RC receivers and motor controllers with an RC interface. The cable’s connectors are commonly found on RC servo leads and work with both male JR and male Futaba J connectors. They have gold-flashed contacts on a 0.1" spacing and are joined by 22-AWG, 60-strand wires that make this cable more flexible than standard servo cables. Note: The cable’s female connectors are the same as what is found on most generic servos and fits nicely with 0.1" male headers, but is often referred to as “male” in the RC hobby industry. The picture below shows the cable connectors labeled with our gender convention. |Female “JR”-style connector commonly found on servo cables (often referred to as “male” in the RC hobby industry).| These female-to-female cables are available in two styles: flat, with wires stuck together side by side, and twisted, with wires twisted around each other to decrease electromagnetic interference (EMI). The twisted versions are especially soft and flexible. These cables are also available in three lengths: 6", 12", and 24". |12" (300 mm) female-female RC servo extension cable.|| |Twisted servo extension cable 12" female – female.| We also sell flat and twisted male-to-female servo extension cables. Servo cable color convention - brown or black = ground (GND, battery negative terminal) - red = servo power (Vservo, battery positive terminal) - orange, yellow, white, or blue = servo control signal line Note: Cable color may vary from what is shown in the product picture. Possible color combinations are black, red, and white or brown, red, and orange. People often buy this product together with:
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Bullyville by Francine Prose Bullyville: Book summary and reviews of Bullyville by Francine Prose When eighth grader Bart Rangely is granted a "mercy" scholarship to an elite private school after his father is killed in the North Tower, doors should have opened. Instead, he is terrorized and bullied by his own mentor. So begins the worst year of his life. The information about Bullyville shown above was first featured in "The BookBrowse Review" - BookBrowse's online-magazine that keeps our members abreast of notable and high-profile books publishing in the coming weeks. In most cases, the reviews are necessarily limited to those that were available to us ahead of publication. If you are the publisher or author of this book and feel that the reviews shown do not properly reflect the range of media opinion now available, please send us a message with the mainstream media reviews that you would like to see added. Bullyville Reader Reviews Rated of 5 Rated of 5 Francine Prose Author Biography Francine Prose is the author of many bestselling books of fiction, including A Changed Man and Blue Angel, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, and the nonfiction New York Times bestseller Reading Like a Writer. Her novel, Household Saints, was adapted for a movie by Nancy Savoca. Another novel, The Glorious Ones, has been adapted into a musical of the same name. Her latest book, Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife was published in 2009. She is the president of PEN American Center. Prose lives in New York City. Recently Published Novels
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The Philanthropy 50 The 50 biggest donors contributed $10.4-billion last year, up from $3.3-billion in 2010. The nation’s 50 most-generous donors continued to direct most of their giving to colleges, foundations, and other causes rather than social-service groups. The Philanthropy 50 list doesn't include some of the best-known names in giving because those donors didn't make any new commitments in the past year. Oregon Health & Science University Foundation offered a 12-page statement of what it could do with a large sum when an anonymous benefactor showed interest in the... The South Dakota Community Foundation uses its knowledge of what two donors cared most about to seek a big estate gift. Nonprofit leaders say the high-profile casualty of the recession could mark the start of more closures. But it is also a case study in the missteps many charities make, say... With the closing of the pioneering social-service organization in Chicago after 123 years, nonprofit leaders suggest strategies that charity organizations must embrace to... The Nobel Prize winner who is considered the founder of the social-service movement probably wouldn't recognize the organization she created, says one scholar. Community groups find that the coalition approach can be more successful than a single program in tackling social problems that have defied solutions, such as low reading... In 2010, the two men gave nearly 14 percent of their incomes to charity. The big aid charity was accused of misleading donors by overstating its revenue. The charity says the IRS was off base in its response. Charities and patient-advocacy groups say the Supreme Court should uphold a health-care law that requires most Americans to buy health insurance. In a career that most recently included 13 years at the Museum of Modern Art, Lisa Mantone has found that an ability to work successfully with "strong people" is a great... After military service and human-rights work, Ken Harbaugh wants to promote the idea of community service as "a patriotic duty." The Lincoln Center's general counsel has written an overview guide on legal issues relevant to the administration of nonprofits. Nonprofits are asking people to text pledges at galas and other events, and finding ways to get large donations, rather than the typical $10 or $25 gifts of the past. A court ruled that a hospital had to give back $500,000 the singer had provided, plus another $500,000 in damages. The singer asked for his money back after negotiations over... Consolidation of businesses sparks fears about the choices that will be available to charities that conduct online appeals. Investigating claims of Lance Armstrong's Livestrong charity, a journalist for "Outside" magazine finds that the bicycling champion has done nothing illegal--though some of... Sunny Fischer, who leads the philanthropy of the Chicago investment adviser Richard Driehaus, says her role is to be a researcher and analyst, and observer. Margery Tabankin, who has helped Barbara Streisand give away money for 25 years, says her values are the same as the entertainer. Christine Taylor, who advises the businessman Ronald O. Perelman, says she looks out return in investment as she vets potential donations, but ties to the donor also help. The search for innovation and sexy new projects often means that donors fail to focus on efforts like making education for the disabled more cost-efficient and dealing with... At a time when nonprofits are closing and demand for their services is rising, why are rich donors directing their money to causes that are not urgent, such as aiding the... Nonprofits struggle with the same profound income inequality that individuals in this country do, with hospitals, universities, and other large institutions leading the pack... A Supreme Court decision removes the roadblocks that have made it hard for federal dollars to flow to faith organizations. As donors back efforts to convert biomedical discoveries into patient therapies, it's important to look at how well grantees attract top talent and how their finances work. The rural development group Landesa says providing secure title to patches of land creates capital and helps families improve their income and their diets.
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WASHINGTON — The House passed a bill by voice vote Wednesday that would exempt banks from sending out privacy notices to customers if the disclosures haven't changed from the prior year. Industry groups, including the American Bankers Association, had lined up to support the bill, which they say would cut costs and reduce regulatory burden, especially as more customers sign up for electronic billing. Opponents have warned that the legislation will further erode consumer privacy protections. But observers have said the bill still faces an uphill battle in the Senate as the clock runs down on the legislative session. It's unclear if the chamber will have the time to take up the Eliminate Privacy Notice Confusion Act amidst continued fiscal cliff negotiations and other matters. "This legislation would eliminate unnecessary, costly, confusing and often ignored mailings that clog up people's mailboxes that end up costing millions of dollars to produce and mail. Additionally, many of these costs are ultimately being passed onto customers of banks and credit unions," said Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer, R-Mo., who introduced the legislation. "Not only will this legislation end the redundant mailings, but it also will make it more likely that people will pay closer attention to important mailings they receive from their financial institutions because they are receiving fewer."
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The epitome of a 1960s wuxia movie. The storyline and characters in Dragon Gate Inn are very simple, a triumph of Hu’s distinctive style. The action centres on the comings and goings of a small guesthouse, with particular attention paid to the props and set. As the film progresses, characters move in and out of the guesthouse and the fighting becomes increasingly intense. The scenes are precisely executed and varied, never once becoming repetitive, despite the close focus on the guesthouse. Hu was an expert in creating special effects to show feats of superhuman ability, producing some fast, fierce and truly jaw-dropping fight scenes. As a martial arts film, Dragon Gate Inn far surpassed anything else in its era, elevating the martial arts genre to a status far beyond what it had ever achieved before. —International Film Festival Rotterdam King Hu (traditional Chinese: 胡金銓; simplified Chinese: 胡金铨; pinyin: Hú Jīnquán, April 29, 1931 – January 14, 1997) was a Hong Kong and Taiwan-based Chinese film director whose Wuxia films brought Chinese cinema to new technical and artistic heights. It was his films Come Drink With Me (大醉侠, 1966) and Dragon Gate Inn (龍門客棧, 1967) which inaugurated a new generation of wuxia films in the late 1960s. He is also a noted scriptwriter and set designer. Hu was born in Beijing to a line of well-established Mandarin family originated from Da Ming, Hebei. His grandfather was the governor of Henan in late Qing Dynasty. He emigrated to Hong Kong in 1949. After moving to Hong Kong, Hu worked in a variety of occupations, such as advertising consultant, artistic designer and producer for a number of media companies, as well as a part-time English tutor. In 1958 he joined the Shaw Brothers Studio as set decorator, actor, scriptwriter and assistant director. Under the influence of Taiwanese… read more Cinemas greatest realization of 'Gesamtkunstwerk': a totality of arts in martial, music, theatre, painting, calligraphy and aesthetic visual design in celebration of a nation's finest culture all delineated with the modern medium of film. Operatic with grand leitmotifs in classical tradition of simulated staged-action cut with the patented technique of 'glimpse', King Hu's yin-styled wuxia (here with utmost heroic bravura) is the pinnacle of filmmaking. Intense! The first half hour is especially spectacular, once our mysterious man shows up at the inn, and the tension that follows. The preludes to any fight scenes are just as tense and nail baiting as the action itself. The mental mind games and stand offs that leave me throwing my furniture out the window in frustration. The action scenes, especially in the second half, are fluid; utterly beautiful.
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A California-based company called Aerofex seems to think it’s figured out how to actually make a two-duct rotor hovercraft work. The design originated in the 1960s, but it was never perfected to provide actual usability for a rider. The Magic Schoolbus, The Phantom Tollbooth, Wishbone, and Star Wars? As their internships come to a close, several interns here at NPR decided to reflect on the pop culture they miss from their childhood (and would like to share with future generations). What pieces of pop culture from your childhood would you share with the next generation? I wonder if they are Chewie? — Tanya There are so many other buildings today that actually do look like the Sandcrawler, this one not so much. I do wonder if it has 6-foot floor-to-floor heights. Old-school audio reels converted into a TIE fighter at NPR HQ. And it’s pulling Santa’s sleigh. Ever notice how oddly similar Santa’s “Ho Ho Ho” is to Darth Vader’s respirator breathing? Coincidence? I think not. - @acarvin I was a projectionist at that time at USC cinema, and there was a motor in the projection booth that had a humming sound when it just sat there idling. It had a very musical sound, a nice tone, almost a hypnotic tone. And I thought immediately that would be a good element for the lightsaber, so I recorded that motor. And a few weeks later I had an accident with a broken microphone cable, and the microphone picked up the hum from a nearby television. [It] had kind of a scintillating, angry buzz. Normally you throw that away, thinking it was a mistake, but I saved that picture-tube buzz, and I combined it with the sound of the projection motor, and the two sounds together became the basis for the sputtering hum of the light sabers…. The actors in the more recent Star Wars prequels found that when they were fighting on the set they were making those sounds verbally — unconsciously — ‘cause they might have done it as boys, from the original film. Luke…. I am your foley artist! I don’t care if Halloween is still almost two weeks from now, but this is just too good to sit on. Noel Dickover is this guy I’ve known for a while because of his work in the online disaster response community, but it turns out he’s also one heck of a pumpkin carver. Seriously. So much so, that when he posted pics of an R2-D2 jack-o’-lantern he sculpted this weekend, I just had to interview him about it. This pumpkin took the better part of a day to carve, but some of his previous projects, like a 186-lb Death Star pumpkin, take even longer. Star Wars meets Halloween meets pumpkins with flames inside of them. Bask in the awesomeness with us.
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Link pruning is a lot like the business of “street sweeping”. If broken bottles and overflowing garbage cans are making it difficult to navigate the city, it’s time to send out the sweeper to remove the waste. If your website has been impacted by “garbage” links, you may need to take a street sweeper to your backlink portfolio. Seeing a drop in traffic or rankings can be concerning, especially when it happens suddenly. If you have noticed this, chances are your were affected by a Google algorithm update or penalty. If so, then you may need to consider pruning your backlinks by finding low quality or harmful links pointing to your website and then remove them. Doing so can help you put your website back on a road to recovery. Link pruning can have its benefits. If your website has taken an algorithm hit, it can help to improve your website’s health and reputation, and hopefully lead to better performance in the future. However, it will take some time, effort and patience. There are some recovery success stories that can give you guidance and hope in your search for recovery. Keep in mind that you should only prune/remove your links if you absolutely have to. Don’t remove links just to do it. It should not be looked at as a quick fix or a broad strategy. You should exhaust all of your other efforts like updating your content, building higher quality links and producing good content to promote and engage users before you consider removing bad links. First, you need to determine if your website was hit by an algorithm update or a penalty. Find out if others are talking about an update or penalty. A “penalty” is when Google has manually targeted your site for an issue, where an “update” is a change to Google’s search algorithm. Did you get any messages in Google Webmaster Tools about unnatural links pointing to your site? If so, you will need to do everything you can to fix the issue at hand, and then submit a reconsideration request to Google. If it was an update, then you will need to change your strategy and wait for any positive movement. A Step by Step Guide to Link Pruning and Link Removal 1. Analyze Your Links There are a variety of tools you can use to analyze your backlinks, like Open Site Explorer or Majestic SEO. Download a report of your site’s links, and search through them to see what you can find. As you are looking at each link, here are some things to look for: - Are the links coming from websites in your niche? - Did you pay for any links? - Any links coming from low quality sites? What does the backlink portfolio look like for them? - Are there links coming from article directories, blog networks or link farms? - What is the ratio of exact match to branded anchor text? - What are the top ten anchor texts used for links to my site? - Do you have any site-wide or footer links? Do you have too many? All this can be a very time consuming, especially if you have hundreds or thousands of links. However, it is essential to look at your links and determine which ones are the bad ones that you can try to get rid of. Since you only want to do this as a last resort, you do not want to make mistakes and take down links that are actually helping you. You can also download link data from Google Webmaster Tool. In the traffic section, click on “links to your site” where you will find who links to you the most, your top pages that are linked to and what phrases are used to link with the most. Click on “more” and then you will then be able to download the full data information for each section. 2. Prioritize links based on difficulty Decide which links you will go after first. If you have a high number of links, sort them based on how difficult it will be to remove them, and then go after them. If it seems too overwhelming, focus on a small number like 20 or 30 links at a time. 3. Contact webmasters and editors The next step will be to contact the sites and ask them to either remove the links, or change the anchor text used. This can be a challenging and time consuming process, since some people may respond and remove them, and some may take the link down without telling you. In addition, some may tell you that they can’t or won’t remove the link, or some will just not respond to you at all. Since there’s so much back and forth communication happening, and a lot of data to keep track of, make sure to keep notes of your efforts. Follow up, and try to get as many links taken down as possible. 4. Use the Google Disavow Tool to finish clean-up process Using Google’s disavow tool, create a text file with the links you want to remove, and upload it. Add each URL to a separate line, and it will tell Google the links you are trying to remove and will discount them. How to Avoid Future Ranking Penalties Want to avoid any future ranking penalties? The easy solution is to make sure your SEO strategy is legit. These spammy links got you in trouble in the first place, so don’t allow it to happen again! Going forward, you should ensure that your SEO strategy is the best quality. Hire a reputable SEO firm that can help you recover, and will do SEO the right way by building high quality links from trustworthy sites. Be involved in the SEO efforts on your site. Review the links they build to ensure they are from trustworthy sites like editorial links, links from highly authoritative sites, guest posts, etc. If you are just starting the SEO process on your website, build your house on solid, dry ground. Avoid marsh or swampland. Pick a good neighborhood with friendly neighbors. Make sure your foundation is strong to support expansion and additional floors without it all crashing down. Do spring and fall “cleaning” and make sure everything is in order. Picture credit: cs:ŠJů Post by Jesse Woodhouse, SEO Manager at SEO.com.
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If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people. Thich Nhat Hanh My mom thinks that the last time she saw her brother Junior, he was going to pick tomatoes in Indiana to earn some extra money; he was in his teens then. (I know she saw him later, but this is how she remembers it.) My Uncle Joe remembers seeing Junior in Chicago in the early 1950s and only realized much later that he was probably the last person in the family to see his brother alive. My Aunt Eve can't remember the last time she saw her younger brother, but she remembers going with other members of the family to get his ashes and his things when he died. All of Junior's siblings have a tinge of sadness in their voices when they talk about their "missing" brother. My mother has a framed picture of her brother. Last summer, out of curiosity, I took the picture out of it's frame and turned it over to see if there was anything written on the back. "My brother, Elmer Jr. Loy, two years older than me," was written in my mother's handwriting. Not long after that picture was taken, Junior walked out of her life just as surely as he walked out of her parent's lives. I don't have any answers about family estrangements. I wish I did, but there are as many answers and outcomes as there are families. And so, I thought I'd tell what I know about how my mother's brother became estranged from his family and how that estrangement lasted a lifetime. The estrangement began because Junior resented his father. As my uncle told me, "He didn't think he was done right by." My mother's family was a close-knit one who lived in a small rural community where everyone knew everyone else, so Uncle Junior couldn't have visited the family without seeing his father and, apparently, he was willing to sacrifice his whole family to avoid that possibility. And if he thought of the sadness he was causing his mother, he didn't let that convince him to go home. Or maybe it wasn't that way at all. Maybe he was too proud to come home and then as months stretched into years, he didn't have the money or he was too ashamed. We'll never know because he died when he was in his 50s in Salt Lake City, Utah without having spoken to anyone from his family. Ironically, he died alone in a place where the passion for genealogy is intense. However, I know he still kept his family in his heart because he left a note with his landlord that if anything happened to him, they should contact his oldest brother Dellous, and Junior left Dellous's phone number. I assume, that's how Junior's family found out about his death. (photo: my mother and her younger brother Clifton, Kentucky, circa 1960) Several of Junior's siblings drove across the country to get his ashes (he had been cremated) and brought them back to Kentucky, where they were buried in the family cemetery. It was early August, then, and I imagine it was hot and humid; the cicadas would have been shrilling in the heat of the day and the tobacco would have been getting tall and lush and green. People stayed in their air conditioned cars and homes as much as they could, but they would have been out in the heat of the day at the cemetery when they laid what was left of my uncle to rest. I'm sure people were crying and sweating and hugging each other and talking of the man-child they once knew. Junior left his family and they forgave him and gathered to mourn his life and his absence. That provided a sense of closure the way rituals always do. Junior came home in death, if not in life. That's one take-away from this post: you can leave your family, but you can't make them quit loving you. Family ties are enduring and people yearn for connection. "Take care of yourself and live a long time," a friend of mine told me, "because maybe one day your daughter will want to see you again." I hold onto that hope. My alternative is bitterness and anger and I'm trying hard not to go down that path because while I cannot control what she does, I can still love her. And I would be surprised if she doesn't think of me with love too, even if she hasn't mustered up the energy or courage or whatever she needs to pick up the phone and call me. Maybe I'm too optimistic, but I do believe that love can overcome many obstacles. How long would you continue to hope that a reconciliation was possible between yourself and an estranged family member? Finally, A Long Time Traveller by the Wailin' Jennys.
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I just came across this from the Motherlode blog at the New York Times. It’s an account of how one woman told her young daughter that the daughter was born with the aid of a surrogate mother. It seems to tie back to some conversations we’ve had in the past about truth telling. Issues of truth have always been present in the ART debates (and in discussions of adoption long before that). One of the key themes raised by those who identify as donor-conceived who also claim injury is that they were lied to. And the demand for truthful birth certificates (whatever that means) have often been raised in the comments. As it happens, I am a great fan of truth-telling. (I know some people won’t accept that, but really–ask my friends.) The thing is, this doesn’t mean I think everyone gets to run around telling the truth all the time. I do, in fact, keep secrets. When I am told things in confidence I tend to respect that confidence, which means I do not go out and retell the truth I have been entrusted with, even when I realize that others may be unaware of the truth. I guess I also do not think that I am always entitled to tell the truth (and this is where Marilynn and I parted company in the comments under this recent post, I think.) Suppose a four-year-old asks me “Where do babies come from?” If it isn’t my four-year-old, I would not presume to have the right to tell this child “the truth.” And in the same way, if I came across an eight-year-old who believed in the tooth fairy, I wouldn’t feel that I had the right to tell that child the truth about tooth fairies. Beyond that, it isn’t always clear what “telling the truth” means. Suppose it was my four-year-old who asked the babies question above. There are many truthful ways to answer this question in more and less detail. Less detail might seem less truthful but it also might be age-appropriate. It is in this complicated framework that I consider the Motherlode piece. It’s a story about how one mother told her daughter the truth–that a different woman–a surrogate mother–gave birth to her. I won’t quote the whole piece–it’s worth going to read. Amy Blumenfeld talks both about why to tell the truth and also how much of the truth to tell at any given moment. What struck me most, though, is the reaction of Mia, the child who was told the truth, and here I will quote: We pulled out the album filled with snapshots of my hands on our carrier’s progressively growing abdomen and lay them out on the butterfly rug in Mia’s bedroom. “See, that was me,” Mia said matter-of-factly, pointing at a picture and looking up at her cousin. Now I confess I am not wild about the word choice (“carrier,” you know?). But that really is not what struck me first. What struck me first is that this all seems to appear perfectly natural to Mia. She’s unselfconscious and, perhaps even more importantly, unashamed. That’s really what telling the truth can get you. I thought at first her response–her unashamedness–was startling, but I’ve been thinking about it and I wonder if it is. Why would she be ashamed? It’s only if the adults (and children) around her make her feel that way. There’s no reason a child should feel shame over the manner of the child’s conception and birth unless that shame is brought to them by the world around them. After all, the truth about conception in more common families could seem pretty strange, too–at least in the eyes of children. It seems to me that lying–or not telling the truth–is much more likely to inspire shame, or at least to create fertile ground where shame may grow. And in the same way, telling the truth is not a bad way to convey to a child that there is nothing to be ashamed of. Surely that’s the right way to go.
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The over-50 job hunter: How embracing social media can help you find work Apr 4, 2012, 10:29 a.m. Finding work is tough in this economy, and more and more seniors are finding that they need work simply because, as it turns out, we live longer, more active lives these days. The retirement age is going up and many retirees are taking on part-time jobs to cover additional expenses, vacations and so on. Here are three things you need to know about finding work with a social media plan. - Get The Word Out. How is anybody going to find you and offer you a job if they don't know where to find you? Rather than strictly asking employers if they're hiring, ask your friends and family through your social network if they've heard of any jobs opening up. - Establish Yourself as an Expert. Say you're a retired plumber. You're no longer interested in full time work, but you wouldn't mind doing a few jobs now and then for friends and neighbors. Here's an idea: Start a blog about plumbing. Offer advice and interesting stories from your career and establish yourself as an expert in order to land work from clients. - Use LinkedIn or Facebook to Expand Your Network. You can take advantage of the benefits of social media, but first you need to find a social website that works for you. Many people are comfortable with Facebook, as it helps connect family, friends and other social circles in an easy way. The larger your network online, the more people will know you're looking for work, what you're qualified to do, and how to reach you if they think you'll be a good fit. If you want to create a more professional profile, try a social site like LinkedIn, which is a professional networking site that allows you to create a professional profile, connect with people in your industry, and search for available jobs. The main thing is really just getting yourself out there. Selling yourself to everybody within driving distance only covers a very small circle. Selling yourself through social media opens the door to a world of opportunities. Content Provided by Spot55.com - MyFitScript urges individuals and families in Tennessee to increase their physical activity ...
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Take a look at those who hail from mountainous regions and you'll see tough people, but practical, committed, and passionate people. Perhaps it's the hard living that makes them so. With roots in the Basque Country of Spain, famed for its rugged landscape and its exhausting week-long home Tour, Orbea embodies the general attitude of the region. You may know them as a bicycle manufacturer and a long time sponsor of the Euskaltel-Euskadi Professional Cycling Team. In the past, however, They've made guns, ammo, and even chocolates, much like Hershey here in the States. In fact, Orbea has been a family business since the 1830's. It wasn't until after World War I that the demand for gun-making ceased. At the time, cycle sport was beginning to gain in popularity, and their metal working skills seemed a perfect fit for bicycle production. Thus began the tradition of Orbea racing bicycles in 1934. Orbea is known to produce racing bicycles that climbers ride to the heights of the grand tour's mythical stages. And like the crazy Basque fans that run alongside their favorite riders, holding umbrellas over their heads as they climb to shield them from the heat of the Spanish summer sun, Orbea designs bikes and builds them with similar fervor and passion. At the same time, the bikes are practical. You can see it in the understated colors (Basque Orange notwithstanding) and straight lines - swoopy tubes are too fanciful. Part of their magic is that Orbea strives to be at the forefront of emerging technology. Remember when titanium bikes were falling from grace, with costs soaring and promised weights that never materialized in a bike that could handle a serious stomping on the pedals without yielding this way or that? Orbea was ready for carbon then. They saw it as the next step in the evolution of the racing bicycle. In fact, they had predicted its surge in popularity and already had their own production facility in place and were ready for action. For the consumer, it was simply a matter of placing your order and getting your bike. While some bike brands build everything from leisure bikes to ProTour race bikes, Orbea operates within a narrower range of focus. Their aim is towards performance. it's evident in their longstanding support of the Euskaltel-Euskadi Professional Cycling Team. And it's evident in their current line-up. The stealthy Ordu takes aim at the time trial and triathlon riders who need the fastest, most comfortable bike possible, and the mouth-wateringly gorgeous Orca is a bike to behold. Only the ride eclipses the aesthetic. The Alma Carbon 29er has stood the test of time; it was in a league of its own when it was introduced in 2007, and other manufacturers are still trying to catch up. Not ones to rest on their laurels, Orbea has recently launched the Occam Carbon. it's a full suspension 26" bike that's poised to surprise with its unmistakable Orbea styling and all 'round performance. Orbea's performance oriented vision steered them to SRAM road componentry. They were the first to offer full groups on their complete bikes. And they're among the first to offer Shimano's exciting Ultegra Di2 group. Part of Orbea's ability to respond quickly to market trends is that they're a smaller company than a few of the major players in the bike market. Another reason is the community within the company. it's actually a co-op, and a majority number of the employees of Orbea Spain own the company. what's good for the business is good for the folks that make the magic happen. that's why they keep a narrow focus and aim to offer the best performance bikes available.
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Myth, Fairy Tales and Story The first Thursday of every month June, July and August off Noon to 1:00pm This is a member offering. Donations are accepted. 43 Anson Street Held in Taize Chapel down hall Myths and fairy tales ground us in the family of humanity. They highlight our commonality and provide a sense of meaning to life itself. Through symbolic, metaphorical language, myths and fairy tales entertain while resonating within that deep creative center of us all. In the tradition of Joseph Campbell and C. G. Jung we'll look at myth and fairy tales, the stories and symbols, and reflect on how these stories may be our stories being lived out each day. Turn your stay with us into a personal retreat. Take time to process your work and delve more deeply into your own heart before rejoining the demands of everyday life. Join us for one week or even longer.
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Alain Kirili: Commandment - Dates: September 21, 1991 through January 5, 1992 - Collections: Contemporary Art August 1991: PRESS PREVIEW: Thursday, September 19, 1991, 6:00-9:00 p.m. Special motorcoach service will be available to the Museum from Manhattan, departing from the Central Park side of the Plaza Hotel at 5:30 p.m. and from the southeast corner of West Broadway and Houston at 6:00 p.m. Reservations are required. Please RSVP to Sally Williams or Michelle Menendez in the Public Information office, (718) 638-5000, ext. 330/331. French-born sculptor Alain Kirili will install the fifteenth work in his Commandment series in the Grand Lobby of The Brooklyn Museum. He began the series in 1979, the year following his move to New York from Paris. The Brooklyn Museum project consists of over forty forged iron elements that are placed on a large platform to create a more than thirty-foot-long field of sculpture. Commandment is the twenty-eighth project in the Grand Lobby series and will be on view from September 20, 1991, to January 5, 1992. The artist has said that Commandment is influenced by the Abstract Expressionists, from whom he gets much of his inspiration. “It is an absolute homage to the scriptural calligraphic aspect of David Smith and Jackson Pollock,” Kirili says, adding “I think I’m as obsessed with David Smith, Jackson Pollock, and Barnett Newman as Pollock was totally nuts on Picasso.” Kirili creates his sculpture at a Trenton, NJ, iron forge, a process he learned from American and Austrian craftsmen. Iron forging is extremely time intensive and fatiguing, allowing him to work for only two to three hours at a time. Using no sketches or maquettes and having no advance plan, Kirili casts each of the elements in the Commandment series intuitively, relying on his comprehensive knowledge of Western and Eastern art and his fascination with scriptural, monotheistic, and traditional religious concepts. Alain Kirili was born in Paris in 1946 and received little formal training as an artist. In 1979 he moved to New York and began the Commandment series, drawing on a variety of sources to inform his work, including Western and Eastern art history and religion. In conjunction with the installation, the Education Division will present an Artist-in-Residence program, consisting of a studio visit for adults on September 28 and a studio visit for teenagers on October 19. At his studio Kirili will explain his sculptural processes, drawing attention to the methods and materials used in Commandment and his other works. The project was organized by Brooke Kamin Rapaport, Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art, with the assistance of Laura Deer Moore, a curatorial intern funded by the Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fund. The exhibition and its associated Artist-in-Residence program are made possible by the Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fund.
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St. Cloud State, the flagship institution in the Minnesota State Universities & Colleges System, has a history of excellence since its founding in 1869. Key elements of a St. Cloud State education are: Minnesota's second-largest university is located on 100-acres about an hour northwest of Minneapolis and St. Paul, along the oak-crowned west bank of the Mississippi River. St. Cloud State is an accredited university, which means you'll receive an education from an institution that has proven its quality through rigorous measures. St. Cloud State University is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission and is a member of the North Central Association. Our Huskies play NCAA Division I men's and women's hockey in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association. We have nine men's teams and 10 women's teams competing at the NCAA Division II level in the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference. A college education goes beyond the world of the classroom. Enjoy more than 250 student organizations in the arts, language and culture, politics and social concerns, honoraries, academic, religious and spiritual, service, recreational sports, student government, fraternities and sororities to help you meet new friends, develop leadership skills, stay fit, and have fun. St. Cloud has four distinct seasons with a short spring. Summers are hot, sunny and humid from June to the end of September. Minnesota is known as the Land of 10,000 Lakes. Autumn is lovely when the air is crisp and cool, with blue skies and sunshine from October through November. Winters in St. Cloud are filled with snow and prone to cold winds. Snow is common in December, January, and February. Come enjoy skiing, snowshoeing, and ice skating. When it coomes to food, there are many options to choose from on campus. St. Cloud and its surrounding cities boast numerous ethnic grocery stores and restaurants from Mexican, Somali, Chinese and Thai to Vietnamese, Nepalese, Japanese, and Indian. The SCSU Residence Life community is comprised of ten residential halls with more than 3500 students living on-campus. You will have access to the Internet, laser printers, kitchen, and laundry facilities. We provide a variety of living options for students, including gender-based floors, coed floors, traditional residence halls, and apartment living. They are located in the heart of campus. The St. Cloud community also offers more than 10,000 apartments within a 10-mile radius of campus, some of which are located on the bus lines that SCSU students can ride for FREE. All SCSU students can ride the St. Cloud city buses FREE within the city with a SCSU student ID. SCSU's Public Safety Department is open 24 hours a day in order to respond to all safety, security, or medical requests.
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A Service of Thanksgiving took place on Thursday, 23rd November at St Clement Danes Church in London to commemorate the distinguished military service of WWII RAF officer, Squadron Leader Michael Casano MC. Sqn Ldr Casano, who died at the age of 93 in July, was considered one of the RAF's most colourful and dashing characters during the desert campaigns of the Second World War. Known affectionately as “Cass” by all who knew him, he commanded No2 Armoured Car Company from 1941-43. He was noted for his élan and leadership and was awarded the Military Cross for his sustained gallantry and leadership during the Iraq Revolt of 1941. His Military Cross citation read: “…the work that his Company performed was a triumph of organisation and foresight…he operated virtually alone and his zeal and devotion to duty deserves the highest praise. He displayed the greatest gallantry.” The Thanksgiving service at St Clement Danes, which is the Central Church of the Royal Air Force, was attended by members of the Armoured Car Companies Association, the RAF Regiment Association and serving officers and men from the RAF Regiment. Air Commodore Peter Drissel, Commandant General of the RAF Regiment, reading from the eulogy, said of Casano, “He knew just what to do and how to get his men to achieve it. They loved him for his style of leadership – fearless but not foolhardy. He rarely ordered his men to do anything. Always preferring to ask or suggest what his requirements might be. There is no doubt that his men would have followed him to the ends of the earth.” No2 Armoured Car Company was the forerunner of the elite No2 Squadron of today's RAF Regiment. Squadron Leader David Tait, who until recently, commanded No 2 Squadron met Casano only a month before he died. “Cass was a truly inspirational leader and a real character. When I last spoke to him, he was in excellent form and still had that glint and sparkle in his eye. He was extremely modest and would never talk about his deeds; indeed, he was more interested in what the Squadron had been up to recently. "There is however, a group of men who worked for him whom I met the other weekend. The level of respect that these men showed to Cass was immense and this Thanksgiving Service is a truly fitting tribute to a man who was a genuine hero”. During the Second World War other units knew Casano's Company simply as “Cass' Boys”. Many years later at reunions his men, now in advanced years, held him in such high esteem and respect that when he entered a room every man would stand.” WWII veteran John Evans travelled from Folkestone to attend the service. He had served with the Royal Engineers in Iraq and had known Sqn Ldr Casano for the twenty years as a fellow member of the Folkestone Rowing Club. He said, “[Casano] epitomised an English gentleman of the finest quality…he was always full of praise for everyone.”
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Thu June 14, 2012 Head of State Homeland Security Office Says Fewer Resources are Available The director of Kentucky’s Office of Homeland Security says the amount of money he has available for grants to local governments is a fraction of what it was eight years ago. Gene Kiser says his office had $27 million for grants in 2004. That compares with only $2.2 million for the coming fiscal year. Kiser says the depleted resource pool comes at a time when many public safety forces in Kentucky are trying to comply with a federal mandate. “The biggest need right now is radios, because the FCC has a mandate that all first responders have to be on a narrow-band frequency by January 1 of 2013,” he said. Kiser testified this afternoon before the state legislature’s interim joint committee on veterans, military affairs and public protection.
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Breakfast for little champions CONTENT to let other organisations answer the ‘why’ when it comes to kids going to school without breakfast, Foodbank WA instead is focused on alleviating the problem where it hits hardest. The School Breakfast Program started delivering breakfasts of baked beans, bread, Weet Bix and Vegemite to just 11 schools in 2001; that number has since grown and the organisation now feeds breakfast to 37,000 school children in 254 schools every week. I'd like to register please 8 free articles per month + business email alerts twice daily us on +61 8 9288 2100 during WST office hours
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Providence, R.I.-based Citizens Financial Group Inc. is a commercial bank holding company and subsidiary of the Royal Bank Of Scotland Group PLC. It is one of the largest foreign-owned banks in the U.S. Through its subsidiaries it offers commercial and consumer banking, lending and commercial real estate services. Its Citizens Bank brand operates in Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Vermont, while its Charter One brand is in Illinois, Michigan and Ohio. Overall, Citizens Financial about 1,480 bank branches. The U.K. government took a large stake in parent RBS last fall after it received capital aid as part of the British government’s asset protection scheme. Despite its troubles, RBS has maintained it has no plans to sell off Citizens or its subsidiaries to raise capital.
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Remembering the Brave foundation awarded $10,000 for making a difference. April 19, 2009 |The Remembering the Brave foundation was recognized for their participation in Make A Difference Day, a national day for helping others that celebrates the extraordinary deeds that were performed by ordinary people on America's largest day of doing good. Make a Difference Day was created by USA WEEKEND Magazine, which takes place on the fourth Saturday of every October. Visit the USA Weekend Web Site to learn more about the 2008 honorees or read similar stories.| The Annual Remembering the Brave Run for Remembrance is held in cities throughout the nation. Stay tuned for the next location announcement!
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If you happen to be the unfortunate victim of someone breaking into your home (and I pray that you never are), the first recourse is pretty much the same around the world – you would put a call in to your local emergency services, i.e. 911 (or 000 as it is over here in Australia). This would (hopefully) guarantee a member of the local constabulary at your house quick smart to sort out the bad guys. The process is ubiquitous and well known to everyone, right down to your kids, and the beauty is that it can even be kicked off by a third party, for example, your neighbours, if they spot any illegal goings on at your property while you are not there. But what happens if your property happens to be in the Cloud, and what happens if your property is not your house, but rather your carefully manicured social profile? What is your recourse to action if the bad guys get in there and start creating havoc? Such a thing happened to my good friend Mark recently. Now, Mark is not your usual run of the mill internet user. He is a former-lawyer-turned-internet-book-author and actually does consulting gigs for web companies, so he actually knows what he is doing on line and is savvy about privacy and security. As most web consultants do, Mark has built up a strong profile online via the usual services such as LinkedIn, FaceBook, Twitter etc. So it was a surprise to many of Mark’s friends last week when they started receiving messages from his Facebook account saying that he was in dire trouble in London and needed some cash transferred to him immediately. Fortunately, one of his friends actually called Mark on his mobile, and found out that he was quite safe and happy in his Sydney pad, and not as it turns out, bereft of his cards and passport on the other side of the world. Upon immediately trying to log into his Facebook account, Mark found that his password had been changed. When he tried to recover his password, he found that his email address had also been changed, making the task impossible. Here’s where this post becomes relevant to CloudAve (and thanks for your patience in staying with me thus far). During Mark’s efforts to regain control of his account, it became clear that Facebook had no clear cut way of handling this particular scenario. Their site does not list any contact information for their administrative offices. No phone numbers, no emails, nothing. In desperation, Mark posted his dilemma on the Risks Digest newsgroup that he is a member of, and managed to get the email address of Chris Kelly, the privacy manager for Facebook. To his credit, Mr. Kelly jumped onto the situation quick time, and restored Mark’s account to him. But he was still left without control of his account for approximately 48 hours. Since then Mark has been besieged by over a dozen other people who have had their FB accounts hacked as well, and haven’t had a solution from Facebook as yet. My main concern here is that with the new promotion of Facebook Connect being your “single sign-on” to a host of other cloud platforms, this could have been a lot worse! What if you used Facebook Connect to sign on to an online accounting system, or your blog? Once the bad guys crack your Facebook password, they can wreak mayhem and destruction on your entire online (and offline) world. Surely Facebook is capable of tracking the logins to their service, and if the login (a) comes from an IP that is outside the immediate geographic region from the last login and (b) the user immediately changes his/her password and (c) the user ALSO changes their usual email address, then that should send up a red flag that something untoward is going on. At the very least, a notification should be sent to the account owner on the old email address, and the account could be put into a state of suspension pending confirmation. That is standard operating procedure for a lot of other sites. It is of concern that Facebook, and indeed most other online services, do not make it easy to report, or otherwise restrict illegal activities. Either by the account owner or related third parties. I personally have detected at least one attempt to scam money from me on eBay, which I reported immediately via eBay’s standard process posted on their website, but I never heard back from anyone at eBay, and I believe the scammer’s account is still active there. With trust in online services already low amongst the masses, I really think that the time has come for us to ratify a standard method of reporting and handling security breaches online. I am not advocating immediate shutting down and deletion of suspect accounts. I am leaning towards a suggestion by Robert Scoble that suspect http://scobleizer.com/2009/01/24/facebook-kicks-off-ifart-author-for-having-too-many-friends/%27%3Ehttp://scobleizer.com/2009/01/24/facebook-kicks-off-ifart-author-for-having-too-many-friends/%3C/a%3E“>accounts be put into a “jail” status, whereby it is still active, but people interacting with it or visiting it are alerted that the account is in “jail” pending further investigation. This still allows for flexibility whereby accounts that sound suspect whilst still staying within legitimate grounds do not inadvertently get the plug pulled, whilst definite illegal activity is still “red flagged” and anyone on the receiving end is kept on alert. What do you think? With the proliferation of OpenID and Facebook Connect, should more protection be offered within the Cloud? Should there be a central policing authority that handles suspected breaches? What would the best way to handle accounts that seem ‘hot’? Update: Upon preliminary investigation, it looks like there is a pattern emerging and that users who share the same email/password on Twitter & Facebook have been affected. It looks like someone has a list of Twitter login info, and is using that information to hack into Facebook (and possibly other services). No official confirmation or denial on this as yet – this is purely speculation, but somehow we’re not entirely surprised… - Wake Up People, It’s More than Just Your Twitter Password - Kanye West blames Gmail hijack for bisexual porn hoax (Guest post by Devan Sabaratnam)
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Showing 1-50 of 50 items Argyle Lake State Park Find serenity at this beautiful 1700-acre wooded park situated along an old stagecoach route between Galena and Beardstown. Featuring 95-acre Argyle Lake, the park is home to countless beaver dams and more than 200 bird species and 5 miles of hiking and biking trails. Joseph Smith Historic Site The Joseph Smith Historic Site retells the story of the Latter Day Saint movement in Nauvoo during the early 1840s. Within the Visitor Center, guests will find original paintings of Nauvoo by David Hyrum Smith as well as other artifacts and information about the city and its people. Guided walking tours begin at the Visitors Center, starting with a short film and continuing through the Smith family's homes. Nauvoo Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints The Nauvoo Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was recently rebuilt in Nauvoo, one of the early settlements of the Mormon people. The structure is 150 ft tall and overlooks the Mississippi River. The temple was reconstructed on the site of the original temple, which was built between 1841 and 1846. The temple is a beautiful building and a "must-see" when visiting Nauvoo. Baxter's Vineyard and Winery Baxter's Winery is the oldest winery in Illinois. Homemade arts and crafts, wine tastings, Carol's Pies and tours are available at Baxter's. Nauvoo Vacation Condo's Enjoy home away from home in the new Nauvoo Vacation condos in historic Nauvoo. Full kitchen and laundry facilities. La Harpe Historical Society Museum The museum houses a podium and pew that President Lincoln spoke at in 1858. There is also an area devoted to Charles Duryea, inventor of the gasoline automobile, as well as local artifacts and a genealogy section. CITY: La Harpe Scenic Country Getaway- 5 minutes from downtown Nauvoo Private room, homecooked breakfast and baked goods. Kibbe Hancock Museum The majority of this large collection of historic artifacts was donated by Dr. Alice Kibbe. The collection now includes Civil War and Indian artifacts, fashion items dating from 1840 to 1920, fossils, rocks, and geodes, and other historic artifacts from around Hancock County. Beautiful Prussian built home. Original stone & wood floors. Visit historic downtown Nauvoo for this fun annual Halloween festival. Hundreds of pumpkins carved by local volunteers line Mulholland Street, and festivities include a Halloween parade, fortune teller, haunted house and spooky foods. Spectacular view of the river, beautiful home with antique furnishings, 2 fireplaces and pianos. Plymouth Rock Roost Friendly B & B with antiques throughout. Lake Hill Winery Lake Hill Winery was built, not only to be a winery, but to be a gathering place and have the ability to hold a wide variety of functions. Besides the wine production, there is a tasting room bar, a small gift shop, and two banquet rooms. The first is the barrel room, which holds 100 people. This room is typically booked for smaller events such as reunions, rehearsal dinners, showers, company parties, birthday parties, etc. The other banquet room is the main hall. With two levels, capacity for over 400 people, a 160" TV/projector, and two bars, this room is capable of accommodating almost any event. The Barn of 1938 This wonderful restored barn sleeps up to six people. Field corn and soy beans are planted on the farm making for a picturesque scene with the red barn in the middle of the field of green. Guests will enjoy a full kitchen, private bath, and laundry. Nauvoo State Park Offers a timbered nature trail, a small prairie plot, and a quiet fishing lake on its 148 acres. Covering history from Quashquema to present, visitors will see items of Dr. John Weld, pioneer physician. Rooms of this Greek revival style home circa 1837 feature artifacts covering Nauvoo's long rich history. A 900-piece arrow-head collection, a river history display, pioneer artifacts, copies of Joseph and Hyrum's death masks, 1895 wedding garments, old Nauvoo business artifacts and photos spanning over 100 years of Nauvoo history on display. Country Pleasures Lodge Turn-of-the-century hunting lodge, decorated in antiques & breath taking view kitchen & outdoor grill. Country Pastimes offers a wide range of gifts for all ages. Whether you're searching for the perfect birthday surprise or a memorable wedding gift. A vast array of choices can be found with seasonal merchandise and new products daily make Country Pastimes a unique destination for all. Henderson County Museum This museum preserves Henderson County's rural American heritage, with the primary focus of the exhibits on the first half of the 20th century. Blandin House Museum This two-story brick home, owned by town founder Joseph Blandin, is said to have been visited by Abraham Lincoln during his 1858 campaign against Stephen Douglas. The museum features artifacts from Blandinsville's rich history. Ancient Pines B&B Enjoy home-cooked breakfast and baked goods in the secluded farmstead of Sonora Gardens. Located just 5 minutes from historic Nauvoo, this private room B&B is complete with whirlpool tub and a large relaxing front porch! Kibbe Hancock Heritage Museum The majority of this large collection of historic artifacts were donated by Dr. Alice Kibbe. The collection now includes Civil War and Indian artifacts, fashion items dating from 1840 to 1920, fossils, rocks, geodes, and other historic artifacts from around Hancock County. Recently acquired was the entire collection of the Illinois Funeral Customs Museum; part of which is on exhibit. Crooked Creek Gallery Crooked Creek Gallery is located in the old Sheriff's home and jail built in 1865. The past Home of cattle rustlers and horse thieves now houses fine art, jewelry, paintings and photography. Jail tours are also available. Nauvoo Family Inn & Suites Nauvoo Family Inn is a welcoming place. We want you to get the most out of your family vacation or Nauvoo wedding without stressing over your hotel situation. Check out our Rooms page for hotel amenities and room options. From our standard rooms with 2 queen beds, to our fully equipped family suites or bunk rooms; we are sure to accommodate families and groups of any size. We aren't just any old traditional family inn. We also provide an indoor heated swimming pool and additional services such as an on-site restaurant in a country style setting. The Carthage Jail was the site of the martyrdom of Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum on June 27, 1844. Joseph and Hyrum with two companions were imprisoned here. A mob broke into the jail and killed them and injured severly one of their companions. Today the restored jail and visitors center and memorial gardens are open to visitors daily. Nauvoo Grand Bed and Breakfast This turn-of-the-century home has been transformed into Nauvoo's only luxury accommodations, offering the grace and intimacy of Victorian times. Perched on a gentle rise, it is surrounded by vineyards and is across the street from Illinois' oldest winery. Vintage, antique, primitive and new furniture, home decor, jewelry and glassware. Located on the South side of the Carthage Square. Beautiful landscaped, clean rooms, with cable t.V., Walking distance from Temple Square River Park Getaway A genuine getaway. Perfect river view, charming interior, queen bed & hide a bed couch, sundeck. Temple View B & B Bed & Breakfast located in the Nauvoo downtown, just blocks from the Nauvoo temple. Nauvoo Family Motel Indoor pool & whirlpool; fireplace & jacuzzi suites. Located in the Nauvoo State Park next to the oldest vineyard of Nauvoo, this original brick home highlights an Abraham Lincoln room, quilt room, Icarian room, Victorian parlor, toy and doll antiques, summer kitchen and original underground arched wine cellar. View antiques of local families and churches. Most recent donations are Bibles, a spinning wheel, and the framed Lincoln prints of Lane K. Newberry. Park Inn Bed and Breakfast Charming 1910 cottage nestled on two park-like acres in the heart of Nauvoo, 2 blocks from temple. Shared bath, sleep sound machines, tandem bike. The River Lodge Accomodations for couples or families, large or small with or without breakfast. Hiking, wildlife, search for geodes, catch fireflies. Hot tub, sandy beach, sunset over the Mississippi. Weinberg-King State Park William Creek meanders through this park, providing habitat for an abundance of wildlife. Set in 770 acres of rolling terrain and steep hillsides, Weinberg-King is popular in winter for its cross-country skiing and snowmobiling. Twin Oaks Golf Course This nine-hole golf course offers cart rentals. The Flower Shop- Java House The Flower Shop- Java House is located on the North side of the historic Carthage Square. The Flower Shop carries a full array of flowers and gifts for any occasion. The Java House offers coffee, lattes, teas and smoothies in a homey relaxed atmosphere. Nauvoo Country Lodge This six room bed and breakfast sits on the bluffs of the Mississippi River and features panoramic views of the river from two decks and many of the bedrooms. The house is surrounded by ten acres of woods ideal for outdoor activities. The Country Star This furnished 2-bedroom farm house provides the luxuries of the quiet life, just outside of Nauvoo, IL. Enjoy over 100 acres, pond, walking trails, and even a barn for your horses. The historic Wood Inn has been in operation under the same name since 1891. Now the main attraction besides the great food is the famous "wood chips." They are also known for great burgers, tenderloins and steaks. Located just off the NW corner of the square in Carthage. Gold Hills Golf Club Rolling hills make up this 18-hole golf course. Carts, a driving range and a putting green are available. Ferris Feedlot Cafe The Ferris Feedlot Cafe is located just 4 miles north of Carthage, IL. Dining, catering and banquet rooms are available, along with great daily specials. Every Sunday enjoy the bruch buffet at the Ferris Feedlot Cafe. Fitz Randolph House Inn This brick Italianate style home was built by Dr. James (Fitz) Randolph in 1873. Dr. Randolph was a medical doctor and then entered the mercantile business. He was a state legislator and on the board of Trustees of Carthage College. Unfortunately he died shortly after the home was completed and his wife was forced to take in washing and rent rooms in order to retain ownership of her home. The second owner, Mary Alice Curts-Black purchased the home in 1894 and did an extensive renovation including adding the porches. Ernest Coeur was the third owner (1943) followed by his son, Dr. James Coeur (1973) who did additional updates. Karol and Steve Carr purchased the home in 2007 and established Fitz Randolph House Inn as a Bed and Breakfast in 2008 after major renovations. The home now features 5 guest suites in addition to the two parlors, dining room, reception room and owners' suite. Prairie Winds Motel The Prairie Winds Motel is conveniently located 1 mile west of Carthage, IL on US 136. Clean, comfortable, and affordable, the Prairie Winds Motel has free high speed internet, truck parking and weekly rates available. Bergman Farm Supply Bergman Farm Supply store in Carthage specializing in cattle holding and handling equipment, small seeds, livestock supplies, boots and more. The Wright Place The Wright Place offers home cooked meals, banquet facilities for up to 130 guests, breakfast served all day along with fresh pies daily. BBQ Ribs and fresh cut ribeye steaks on Fridays. Family owned restaurant. Whether you stop by after work to join in on the banter around the "u" shaped bar or come for breakfast, lunch or dinner you are sure to enjoy your time at the Double Deuce located in Carthage. Serving home cooked meals daily with affordable prices and a wide variety of menu options to please any appetite. Small, family-owned restaurant and bar serving breakfast, lunch and dinner.
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March 11, 2008 The Spitzer Lesson The mainstream media and the blogosphere have been buzzing over the past 24 hours regarding the fall from grace of New York's governor and former Lord of Regulation, Eliot Spitzer. As noted in this previous post, there is an under-appreciated human element in such dubious criminal problems as Spitzer fell into. So, I have a great deal of compassion for the members of Spitzer's family, although Spitzer's many victims would certainly attest that he showed none for them. Larry Ribstein has related and typically insightful thoughts regarding why the revelers in Spitzer's fate should be concerned about the way in which he was brought down. But I hope that the most important lesson that Spitzer's political career teaches us is not lost amidst the glare of a tawdry sex scandal. As with Rudy Giuliani before him, Spitzer rose to political power through the misuse of the state's overwhelming prosecutorial power to regulate business interests. In so doing, Spitzer manipulated an all-too-accommodating mainstream media, which never misses an opportunity to take down an easy target such as a wealthy businessperson. Spitzer is now learning that the same media dynamic applies to powerful politicians, as well. However, as noted earlier here, where was the mainstream media's scrutiny when Spitzer was destroying wealth, jobs and careers while threatening to go Arthur Andersen on American Insurance Group and other companies? Where was the healthy skepticism of the unrestrained use of the state's prosecutorial power to regulate business where business had no available regulatory procedure with which to contest Spitzer's actions? As Dealbreaker's John Carney noted at the time of that earlier post: Why didn’t [the mainstream media covering Spitzer's investigation of Grasso] reveal the slimy tactics of the Spitzer squad? We suspect part of the problem was the fear of being “cut off” of access. Reporters compete for scoops, and often those scoops depend on sources who will leak information to them. In the NYSE case, reporters assigned to the story were largely at the mercy of the investigators, who could cut-off uncooperative reporters, leaving them without copy to bring to their editors while their competitors filed stories with the newest dirt. They probably felt—not unrealistically—that their very jobs were on the line. This reveals an unfortunate state of affairs. Playing bugle boy while government officials call the tunes from behind a veil of anonymity is not investigative journalism—it’s hardly journalism at all. It’s closer to propaganda. It would have been far better had the journalists turned their backs on the Spitzer squad, or even revealed these tactics to the public. Sure they may have lost some “good” stories but they could have painted a truer picture of what was going on. But that’s probably too much to hope for. Alas, change does not come easily to the mainstream media. Late last week, this post reported on developments that could well expose an egregious abuse of prosecutorial power in connection with the prosecution for former Enron CEO, Jeff Skilling. Why has no mainstream media outlet intervened in that case and demanded that the information about potentially serious governmental misconduct be made public? The Spitzer lesson is not easily embraced. Update: Following on the theme of this post, the W$J's Kimberly Strassel reviews the mainstream media's complicity in portraying Spitzer as something that he is not, and Charlie Gasporino -- who wrote the book about Spitzer that foreshadowed these issues -- comments along the same lines here. Posted by Tom at March 11, 2008 7:20 AM | One other lesson from the Spitzer case: don't mess with incredibly rich men. What was the role of Ken Langone, Home Depot magnate, former head of the NYSE, and defender of NYSE's Richard Grasso, in the Spitz fritz? Langone made no secret of his desire to bury Spitzer over the past few years. Why would investigators become interested a money movements of less than $10,000 in Spitzer's accounts? Alan Dershowitz asks that. Langone bragged about Spitzer's fall: While is it is true Spitzer gave his enemies a smoking gun, it is also true that the circumstances of the Client #9's downfall was a pretty good hack job. Perhaps what goes around, comes around? Posted by: GRG51 at March 16, 2008 9:41 AM Tom K. -- Apparently John Kroger is running for Attorney General of Oregon: http://www.johnkroger.com/. As you recall, Kroger was the Enron Task Force prosecutor who brought the original Enron Broadband indictment (of which there have now been eight superseding versions). After delivering the indictment, Kroger left the Task Force so that he never actually had to face at trial any of the people he indicted. It is telling that the article linked to his site compares (in glowing terms) Kroger to Eliot Spitzer. I would say that I agree that the two men seem to be cut from the same cloth! Posted by: Evan at March 17, 2008 12:36 PM Post a comment Thanks for signing in, . Now you can comment. (sign out)(If you haven't left a comment here before, you may need to be approved by the site owner before your comment will appear. Until then, it won't appear on the entry. Thanks for waiting.)
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US slimming school helping students shed nearly 100lbs in one semester - India, China call for end to incursion issue, sign 8 deals to boost ties - Aarushi murder case: Rajesh Talwar claims he was asleep when killings took place - Railgate: BJP protests against CBI DIG for shielding Pawan Bansal - Spot-Fixing: Sreesanth reveals bookies lured India players with cars, women - Jagan Reddy case: Accused Andhra ministers Sabitha, Dharmana Rao resign A boarding school in Bluffton, South Carolina, is helping children fight obesity by including exercises, studies, working with counsellors and learning how to cook healthy meals in their semesters. Mindstream Academy, whose slogan is 'Where Teens Fit,' caters to overweight middle and high school students, who are serious about getting healthy but not missing class, ABC News reported. The slimming school offers a wide range of activities, from Zumba to horseback riding. According to the school's website, a typical day at the school begins with stretching, followed by a light half-mile walk or run around the lake. Students then go to classes and have a pre-lunch workout, like martial arts, that helps them to focus on proper mechanics, the school said. During the mid-afternoon, classes break-up for team sports activities, like football or kick ball. In the evening, a leisure walk around campus or a pick-up game of basketball rounds up the day. The academy recently helped a dozen students from Missouri school district lose a combined weight of 756 pounds. Sarah Stone, the director of programming at MindStream told the Daily Mail that they hope to engage other school districts in similar partnerships in the future. She said that it was for their best interest that the obese kids were able to realize their best potential. - Former Ranji player among 3 more held - Rajasthan Royals to file FIR against tainted trio - If found guilty, BCCI to ask ICC to erase Sreesanth records - Top cops among 42 named in death of blast accused - Manmohan-Li talks: PM takes tough line on incursion issue - Security forces blame Maoists, villagers say CoBRA man was killed in 'friendly fire'
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WIP, Next Manufacturing Paradigm Some stills because the vid is a bit long. This video was created for the final of a class at RISD called Fiction Into Film. It was shot and edited with principles of movie-making and story telling in mind with help from a textbook called Film Art. The soundtrack was and still is a source of confusion. This version is mainly ambient sounds with no narration or explanation. I like the idea, but for a 7 minute video it ends up moving kind of slowly. I am in the processing of making a track in which the printed poem is read to test if that makes any difference. The poem itself is one I picked for it’s relevance to what I am doing everyday, making. It is also written by my namesake, Kahlil (or khalil) Gibran, a poet and writer. The printed section is the first paragraph of a section called Work in a part of a book called The Prophet.
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Write Source provides users with a word processor for .txt documents that successfully imitates Word. In addition, the program offers an added feature that will help users search for words. We felt instantly comfortable with this program's interface since it smoothly mimics Microsoft Word all the way down to its layout. The Help file's instructions were necessary to master some of the more complicated features, but basic writing was a snap. Our previous experience with word processors that save as .txt files had been disappointing since they always seemed to fall short of Word with their clumsy layouts … Read more
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New Economy Transformation: Obama Budget Won't Help The last decade’s surge in military spending has pushed military contracting deeper into the foundations of our economy. Reversing this process, and transferring the savings to support the green economy, are necessary components of the project to build the new economic foundation we need. Here is a quick take on how little the President’s budget request, released this week, is going to help. First a few bright spots. This budget is a milestone of sorts. For the first time, it offers less money to the military next year than we are spending this year. This is not the way the term “spending cut” tends to be defined in Washington-speak. Mostly “cuts” are made to last year’s expansive projections of the future. As in: the doubling of my salary that I projected last year didn’t happen, therefore I took a salary cut. All those military spending cuts referred to in previous years have been that kind. With respect to support for the green economy, the budget does call for increases in spending on specific clean energy programs over what Congress appropriated last year. Pull back just a little to see a slightly bigger picture, and things don’t look so good. First, that military spending cut? It’s real (for the first time) but it’s about 1% of the Pentagon’s total. Not exactly transformational. The administration thought about eliminating one of our three nuclear weapon delivery systems (bombers, submarines, and land-based missiles); they thought about killing the most expensive weapon system of all time, the F35; they thought about having 10 rather than 11 aircraft carriers (no other country has even one to challenge them). They did none of these things. And after next year the military budget will, according to plan, go back up. We will spend more in real terms over the next ten years than we spent during the previous ten. This after 13 straight years of increases. This while we spend more than the next 17 countries put together. The Obama administration did invest about $80 billion in the green economy through the Recovery Act. But that money is mostly gone now. While their budget does make targeted investments—like $310 million for solar and $95 million for wind—overall spending on clean technology in this budget has almost been cut in half. The climate change budget includes, in addition to funding from the Energy Department, EPA money for pollution control, Treasury Department loan guarantees for clean tech investment, GSA purchases of fuel-efficient vehicles, and Housing and Urban Development funds for building weatherization. Those programs totaled $27.6 billion in the 2012 budget. In 2013 their allotment is $15 billion. Of course, to the extent Republicans are in charge, this will be much worse. They want to increase military spending far beyond what the Obama administration has in mind. And they’re hoping that the trillion-dollar “sequestration” currently planned for 2013 will be allowed to fall on everything but the Pentagon budget. Neither plan, needless to say, is transformational. For that, we have America Is Not Broke.
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North-East students make admission process simpler for persons from their States “We recognise them instantly. We know who they are from the way they talk, walk and dress. The other factor is, of course, their face,” says Jaifunj, who is wearing beige shorts, a black T-shirt and a smile that never leaves his face despite the intense mid-morning sun at Delhi University on Day Eight of admissions on Tuesday. Jaifunj is from Assam and a student of Delhi University for two years now. He had a harrowing time going around the university trying to get everything right when he was applying for admission, so he decided to make it his business to help other students from his State who come here for admissions. “They have the same queries I used to have — how to fill out the form and get around the university. They hesitate to ask other people because they think they will be made fun of since they speak differently,” he says, before admitting: “It is they who recognise me most of the time. I look as Assamese as you can look.” His friend Birsj Mushahary agrees. “The entire North-East people look the same to the people here in Delhi, but only we can recognise who is Assamese or Manipuri or from Nagaland.” He says they have an organisation, Bodoland House, which usually helps people from Assam, counsels them about the courses and the topography of Delhi University. A few feet away sitting on some steps leading up to the building that is giving away application forms for the Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes is Roveri and his brother. “We have different tribes in Nagaland and most of us come under the Scheduled Tribes quota. We have our own people here to help us out,” says Roveri, adding that since his brother was already a student of Kirori Mal College he was not keen on going to any other college. Walking briskly ahead of her husband and daughter is an elegant Ms. Jamir, who says they would have been lost and “moving around like fools” if it had not been for “those nice students who gave them all the information they needed even though they were not from Nagaland.” The family is from Manipur and the daughter has good scores. St. Stephen's College or Lady Shri Ram College are the daughter's preferred choices. Ms. Jamir says she is especially grateful for the additional quota that she is entitled to. The crowds just outside the Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes registration counters are overwhelming, there is hardly any space to weave your way forward and the noise is deafening. Amid the chaos is a white counter with “NSUD” painted on it. There are several smiling girls and boys from the North-East who cheerfully answer questions. “The NSUD is an organisation of Nagaland students but we help all the States from the North-East. We have seen six admission seasons. We are here from the beginning and stick around till the admission closes completely,” says J. Maivio. Their tasks are divided he says — some answer queries and some just go around the campus and bring back confused and clueless students. “Our first task is to make them open to different colleges in the university. They are fixed about certain colleges, without thinking of their scores and the feasibility of getting admissions. Our next task is to acquaint them with the geography of the college, course and the cut-offs they can expect,” he says, adding they usually encourage them to opt for every college in the university and counsel them about extra-curricular activities and sports quota. “Our people are usually good at sports, especially basket ball and usually do not know about the sports quota.”
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Orkney Rangers get crafty 26 June 2008 Orkney World Heritage Site Ranger Service play host to family events this July, with opportunities for people of all ages to join in the fun and learn all about what the Rangers get up to. On Wednesday 16 July the activities will have a regal theme, with arts and crafts taking place at Earls Palace in Kirkwall. At Crowing Glory children can come along to this 16th-century property and make crowns and masks, and listen to stories of the past. There will also be the chance to get creative on Wednesday 23 July at Lovely Landscape where children will be encouraged to be inspired by the landscape and wildlife at the Broch of Gurness. The Broch is part of Orkney’s rich archaeological heritage and is unique to northern Scotland: guaranteed to provide a striking back-drop for art and design activities. Thursday 31 July sees the return of International Ranger Day. From South Africa to Sri Lanka, Orkney to Australia, International Ranger Day is celebrated the world over. A display at the Kirkwall library will highlight the varied roles the Rangers play and visitors can discover even more on one of their walks at the Ring of Brodgar, which take place daily throughout July and August at 13.00. Sandra Miller, Historic Scotland Ranger, said; “The Rangers are getting all crafty this July with art activities to keep the children entertained during the school holidays. It is a great opportunity for them to have some fun and to gain a further understanding of the fantastic surroundings in which they are growing up.” - ENDS - NOTES FOR EDITORS - Children’s activity – Crowing Glory is on Wednesday 16 July from 10.30 to 12noon at Earl’s Palace. This event is free. No booking necessary - Children’s activity – Lovely Landscape is on Wednesday 23 July from 10.30 to 12noon at the Broch of Gurness. This event is free. No booking necessary - International Rangers Day is on Thursday 31 July. Library display free. Walk free. No booking necessary. - The Orkney World Heritage Site Ranger Service can be contacted on 01856 841 732. - Historic Scotland is responsible for 36 properties in Orkney ranging from the Broch of Gurness to the Knap of Howar and the Hackness Martello Tower and Battery. - The World Heritage Site Rangers are part of Historic Scotland’s network of Rangers – there are also Ranger Services at Holyrood Park and Linlithgow Peel. - Every year, Historic Scotland stages an extensive annual programme of events at its properties in care, with the aim of bringing history to life in an entertaining and informative way. For details visit www.historic-scotland.gov.uk/events - Members can get free entry to all daytime events, plus unlimited entry to over 70 historic properties throughout Scotland. Prices start from £38 a year. - Historic Scotland has 345 outstanding historic properties and sites in its care. These include some of the leading tourism attractions in the country, including Edinburgh, Stirling, and Urquhart castles, Fort George, Linlithgow Palace, the Border Abbeys and Skara Brae. For information visit www.historic-scotland.gov.uk/places - Historic Scotland’s mission is to safeguard Scotland’s historic environment and to promote its understanding and enjoyment.
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Today’s guest star is Jacques van Heerden – a freelance digital artist from South Africa who works under the creative identity An1ken. He runs Creativeoverflow – a fresh design blog for anything creative. You should definitely connect with him on Twitter @an1ken. Creative Blocks are quite common in the industry that we work in especially amongst very busy designers. I can say that it is truly one of the most depressing feelings you can experience as a designer. The usual reason for obtaining such a evil thing is when a designer starts comparing his/her work against someone better than him/her. There are multiple reasons that a creative block can occur, but that is solely the main cause. We aren’t here to debate about how and how not to get hold of a Creative Block. We are here to enrich your memory with some tips to avoid the hazard. Being a designer myself I have had the problem numerous times in the beginning, after following up and using these tips I haven’t had a Creative Block in more than a year. Let’s get straight tot the tips. 1. Doodle in Your Sketchbook Graphic Designers always sketch up some ideas or concepts when starting on new projects. I know I do and I have been sketching and drawing since I was little and you might have too. Drawing takes your mind off things and gets your creative juices flowing, you will be surprised how quickly ideas come back to you just from doodling in a little book. 2. Visit Inspirational Galleries on the Web Looking through designs that were created by other people is usually a great inspiration too. People around the world has gone about setting up Inspirational Galleries for us to visit and view masses of art on the same website, saving us time and effort. I recommend visiting Inspirational Design Galleries as a hobby day to day too, keeping you up to date with the design trends. Read more on 10 Niche Social Networks to Get Your Design Creativity On 3. Take a Walk Get out of your office, sitting all day is just going to make you look at the same things over and over again which definitely isn’t going to benefit you. Go outside and take the dog for a walk or just go for a walk by yourself. The fresh air and seamless nature around you might drive some new inspiration into you. 4. Search for New Fonts You will be surprised by how much inspiration you can draw from a few simple curves. It freshens up your thinking patterns and gets your mind fixed on the things that you have to do. Fonts aren’t only used for saying something, they are also used to create something. Read more on 20 Websites for Font, Letter and Symbol enthusiasts 5. Stop Doubting Yourself Self doubt is a huge thing to overcome a a person, every person faces it sometime or another.When the time comes and you break free from the emotional stumble block a whole new world opens up. Like I said earlier don’t compare yourself to other people, take a stand and believe in yourself, you will accomplish a lot. 6. Get Away For a Day or Two Sitting in front of the computer days at a time isn’t good at all. My advice is to go away with friends or family for a day or two, the change of scenery will change your thinking patterns and a few ideas might spring up in the process. Keeping a balanced lifestyle is very important in the work that we do, working out is essential. 7. Take your work to the nearest Coffee Shop Working amongst a busy environment can be very beneficial, especially if you have to come up with new concepts and ideas. The reason is that nothing stays the same, it keeps constantly changing and therefore your thinking changes. You won’t understand the difference until you have experienced it yourself. Try it. 8. Go out with some friends A night on the town with some friends can bring across some inspiration as well. Having fun and taking your mind off work lets you relax and have fun and not think about your clients. 9. Listen to some Music Try changing your usual music taste to something different that you don’t always listen to. It broadens your spectrum of thinking and moving by inputting some new sounds and words. A lot of inspiration can be drawn from a simple song. Read more on 20 Fantastic Ways to Find New Music that You Like 10. Follow Some Tutorials You might think that you don’t want to follow tutorials because you want to come up with your own work, but learning new techniques is the only way to improve your skills and creativity. Following tutorials is a very good base to start off with, because you can add your personal touch to the image you are working on. Your turn now guys, any tips you feel like sharing?
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“We are all actors in the same area and good cooperation between our forces will enhance the effectiveness in keeping the shipping lanes safe as well as mutual understanding of the NATO and Russian units,” says Rear Admiral (LH) Sinan Azmi Tosun, the current Commander of Ocean Shield, NATO’s counter-piracy operation in the Gulf of Aden. NATO and Russian ships work as convoy escorts in the Internationally Recommended Transit Corridor (IRTC), which was established in early 2009 to help provide protection and security to merchant shipping in the Gulf of Aden and the southern Red Sea, a busy shipping area that is particularly prone to attacks by pirates operating from Somalia. Russian assets are occasionally invited to participate tactically with the ships of Allied countries and the naval task forces of other international actors operating in the area. In January, Rear Admiral Tosun visited the flagship of the Russian Pacific Fleet detachment which operates in the area, the Admiral Tributs, when it was escorting a merchant vessel convoy near where the NATO flagship, TCG Giresun, was patrolling. He had a constructive meeting with the Russian Commander, Captain 1st Rank Ildar Ahmerov. Both sides shared information on their counter-piracy operations and discussed opportunities for training to improve interoperability between NATO and Russian ships. Working together at sea Tactical-level information exchange at sea, including intelligence on the locations of pirates and ships reporting attacks, is currently conducted via an internet-based ‘chat’ capability known as Mercury. Efforts to improve the effectiveness of operations and develop interoperability at sea got underway in 2011. They included a lessons-learned seminar in Copenhagen, Denmark; training in maritime interdiction operations for Russian navy vessels on their way to the Horn of Africa area, conducted at the NATO Maritime Interdiction Training Center in Souda Bay, Crete, Greece; and a workshop on counter-piracy for operational commanders in St Petersburg, Russia. Following up on proposals for enhancing counter-piracy cooperation made by Russia in September 2011, the NRC has decided to explore possibilities for mutual medical and logistics support for ships involved in current and future operations. A first replenishment-at-sea event involving Russian and Allied ships was organized on 31 January 2012. The aim was to gain better understanding of the practical and technical issues that would need to be addressed to make cooperation on refuelling between Allied and Russian navies in support of Operation Ocean Shield possible. A common security challenge Countering piracy is one of the key areas of common interest and concern identified in the Joint Review of 21st Century Common Security Challenges that was approved by NRC Heads of State and Government in Lisbon in November 2010. Limited cooperation at the tactical level has been developing between Allied ships and Russian vessels since late 2008. NATO has been contributing to international counter-piracy efforts off the Horn of Africa since December 2008. Initially, NATO’s mission was focused on escorting UN and World Food Programme shipping; the mission was later expanded to help protect merchant shipping in the Gulf of Aden. NATO is working with other international navies to improve cooperation and coordination. Russia has also been sending ships to the Gulf of Aden to protect merchant shipping for several years, focusing on escorting ships from the Red Sea into the Indian Ocean.
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Recent readings on some widely followed independent inflation gauges show low historical levels of inflation, but a clear change from the recent disinflationary trend. Let’s review a few of the gauges. According to the ECRI their US inflation gauge moved to a year over year reading of 3.5% in September: U.S. inflationary pressures were higher in September, as the U.S. future inflation gauge climbed to 103.4 from an upwardly revised 101.0 in August, originally reported as 100.6, according to data released Friday morning by the Economic Cycle Research Institute. “The USFIG jumped in September to an 18-month high,” ECRI Chief Operations Officer Lakshman Achuthan said in a release. “Thus, U.S. inflation pressures have moved up a notch.” The latest Billion Prices Index showed a slight uptick to just under 2: My Housing Adjusted CPI is telling a similar story at 1.6%: The official BLS report showed inflation at just 1.7% last month, but it’s important to bear in mind that inflation has averaged about 3.5% per year since the BLS began tracking this data. The independent gauges all confirm the BLS data and even though the trend appears to have changed it’s safe to say that inflation remains historically low.
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What You Need After you've determined what size you're at now, you can buy some jewelry in the next size up to start the stretching process! There is a wide range of body jewelry to choose from, but you should only stretch with smooth, non-porous materials. Stick to steel, titanium, glass or pyrex jewelry to use in your fresh stretches. Additionally, you should only use single-flared or non-flared jewelry to stretch with. If you've been at your current size for a very long time, it may be safe to pop in your new jewelry without any additional materials. This is called dead stretching, and is only recommended when your piercings are beyond healed at their current size. In any other case, you should probably use the tapering method to stretch. Buy a taper in the same size as your jewelry -- long, steel tapers are preferred, but any taper is better than none. You only need one taper to stretch multiple piercings, and tapers shouldn't be worn as jewelry (although some of them are very pretty!). Something else that can be extremely helpful for stretching is some type of lubricant to help your new jewelry in. Some types of oils are excellent for this type of application, such as jojoba or emu oil. Any type of water-based lubricant would also be fine. Avoid oil-based lubricants, such as petroleum jelly (Vaseline). Continue to Step 3: Start Stretching! © 2013 howtostretchyourears.com
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Writing Articles for Landing Pages 1 February 2011 A website’s Landing Page is the incredibly important representation of a website or company. This page is kept simple and is designed to accomplish a select few desired actions. It is the page where visitors first arrive when they are directed to your site from somewhere else on the web. This page could be your homepage, but could also any other page of the site – such as one designed to sell a particular product or advertise a new service. In order to promote a landing page and direct traffic to it, a webmaster should participate in Article Marketing. Article marketing is one of the fastest and most effective means of driving large amounts of highly targeted traffic to a particular landing page. Article Marketing involves writing articles and publishing them to high traffic and well targeted article directory sites. The publication will result in increased traffic to the respective landing page as well as increased search engine optimization by creating a high value back link to your page with the specific and optimized anchor text of your choosing. Here are some key points that you should keep in mind to create effective articles that promote your landing pages: - Article Title Article titles need to be very effective and capable of engaging readers so that they will initially click on and begin to read the article. From the promotion and traffic point of view try to incorporate keywords and words that will attract people to read the article. You should also try to use words that are actually indicative of the content/product/service that is on your landing page – if the title is unrelated to the landing page, you might get a lot of readers, but very few will make it through to your site. The starting paragraph of the article i.e. the introductory part, is where the reader decides whether he or she will complete the article or just have a glimpse of it. Don’t bother starting the article by describing what it is about – this isn’t a high school essay -the title is sufficient to explain the premise of the article, so no need to go over it again. Use the introductory portion of the article to captivate the reader and encourage them to read further into it in order to reach the link to your landing page. Impressive facts, quick success stories and creative warnings are a great way to hook the reader. - Content of the article The content of the article needs to specify the products/services that you are offering on the landing page of your site. You do not mant to shamelessly promote your landing page directly in the article, you want to hint that there is more information on your page and that the reader should continue there in order to satisfy his/her curiosity. Keep building the reader’s interest by offering information that the reader is likely searching for. Ask and answer questions that a reader might be wondering about – especially ones they would need answered before visiting your website. You want at least one link to your landing page within the content portion of the article. Ideally you want to structure your introduction and content so that the reader will stick it out to the end of your article. If they have made it to the end (and presumably still haven’t clicked your link) then you can be a little more direct in your promotion. Finish it off with a question you think they are still wondering about and let them know the answer is on your site – then include another link to the landing page. - Useful Resources At the bottom of the the article you should include a useful resources section where you can place links to a few pages of your choosing. Some can be your own pages and some can be from external pages that you find useful. It’s always helpful to write high quality articles that will get passed and shared between readers and useful resources is one way to do this. Following all these steps should ensure you get some high quality results from your future articles. Here are a few great sites you can submit and publish your articles on:
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This has been a popular post on tumblr and it definitely sparked my interest to try it out. Melted Crayon Art are all over the internet and they are even sold at Etsy. They’re actually pretty easy to make and really fun. Me and my best friend Kim did this together one afternoon. Instead of using glue sticks and a glue gun, we used paste. And yes, it was pretty messy and isn’t sticking properly so we suggest using glue sticks for this project. When you have all your materials ready, gather your crayons and sort them out. (*note: you can group them in all sorts of shapes and patterns. This will definitely have an impact on how your artwork will come out later on. This project happens to be a trial and error though because my crayons were not enough and my canvass was too small. Will definitely do better ones in the future!) After gluing your crayons into your canvass board, grab your hair blower and blast through them. It may take a while before the crayons start to melt. Take note that they drip all over the place so make sure you cover your spot with scratch papers. We experimented and tried to move the crayons from one spot to another. Something even a grade school kid can do. I’m not quite satisfied with our work so I guess this calls for another Melted Crayon Art session with Kim. If I finally happen to whip one that’s really beautiful, it will surely be mounted as a decorative piece in our living room. So what do you guys think? Is this project something you’ll try? Check out this awesome and creative melted crayon artwork I found! Time for round 2!
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Free Markets, Free People Fed loan program that gave us Solyndra has created few jobs (update) One of the center pieces of the Obama administration’s recovery plan has been its green jobs program. It was touted by the President as an investment in the future. And he even managed to snooker Congress into including $38.6 of your dollars in a federal guaranteed loan program in the Stimulus bill – a version, in this case, of the government going into the venture capitalism business. The results, as they say, are predictable: A $38.6 billion loan guarantee program that the Obama administration promised would create or save 65,000 jobs has created just a few thousand jobs two years after it began, government records show. The program — designed to jump-start the nation’s clean technology industry by giving energy companies access to low-cost, government-backed loans — has directly created 3,545 new, permanent jobs after giving out almost half the allocated amount, according to Energy Department tallies. Half the money is gone and it has created 3,545 “new, permanent jobs”? You do the math – pretty high cost of job creating wouldn’t you say? Oh, and that number is actually down by 1,100 thanks to Solyndra. So are green jobs, of the type to be found in alternative energy, the best way to approach easing unemployment? Not really, say some experts: Obama’s efforts to create green jobs are lagging behind expectations at a time of persistently high unemployment. Many economists say that because alternative-energy projects are so expensive and slow to ramp up, they are not the most efficient way to stimulate the economy. “There are good reasons to create green jobs, but they have more to do with green than with jobs,” Princeton University economics professor and former Federal Reserve vice chairman Alan Blinder has said. Which is a nice way of saying this is more about political agendas than putting Americans to work, and unemployment is an excuse, not a reason, for pursuing this agenda. And the cost of that agenda has been pretty prohibitive with no real worthwhile results in the ostensible problem it was supposed help solve – unemployment. Another example of government using your money to pick winners and losers and everyone coming out poorer in the bargain. UPDATE: No, I didn’t see Dale’s post. My bad. I’ll leave mine, but now that Dale’s putting up a lot more stuff, I’m going to have to discipline myself to look first before I go popping something up (I use Live Writer, so unless I specifically look at the blog, I don’t see a list of what is up).
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Contact: Richard Vespucci, 609-292-1126 For Release: February 28, 2002 Advisory - School Report Cards News media will have access to the 2000-01 New Jersey School Report Card, beginning on Monday, March 4, 2002. Access will be available as embargoed information until noon, March 6, 2002. The School Report Card is a detailed statistical profile of every public school in the state. This year's report card will be a internet-based document, which means that no CD-Roms are necessary. Reporters and editors may request access to the School Report Card no earlier than Monday, March 4, 2002 by calling the Public Information Office at 609-292-1126. They will be given a URL (internet address) and assigned a password for accessing the data. All data categories will remain the same in the 2000-2001 School Report Card with the following exceptions: - Assessment data disaggregated by race, ethnicity, gender and student status: students of limited English proficiency or students with disabilities; - Other data fields are related to professional development reported by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards; - A more detailed breakdown of average class sizes for the state's elementary schools which are reported by grade span; and - Summary data on advanced placement examinations. In addition, two new school type formats were added. One is for comprehensive high schools (schools that offer approved programs in occupational training) and the other is for charter schools with secondary grades (9-12).
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Interesting Questions, Facts and Information - There are a total of 85 general entries. We are selecting 30 for display. Interesting Questions, Facts, and Information Light wrote his name in the death note. When the police were heading to Higuchi's car, Higuchi pulled a gun out threatening to shoot himself in the head. However Watari managed to shoot the gun out of Higuchi's hands and the police arrested him. They found the death note in his car. By touching the death note, they were able to see Rem and they read the rules of the death note. They found out that this was the source of Kira's power. When Light touched the death note, all of his memories were restored and he knew his master plan was a success. When no one was looking at him, Light wrote Higuchi's name in the death note, thereby killing him, which was all part of his plan. After Higuchi's death, Light became the owner of the death note again. The rest of the episode was Light narrating his plan. He planned on having both him and Misa relinquishing their death notes with the intent of getting them back. He buried his death note in the middle of the woods and he told Rem to give Misa's death note to an ambitious person, Higuchi. He planned on working with L to find this new Kira, and he would gain L's trust. When Light touched the death note again as planned, his memories were restored, however he could not keep this death note as the taskforce would use it as evidence. That is why the second death note was buried, Light could use that one to continue his role as Kira. He had Rem write in the death note before the following fake rules that were going to prove that Light and Misa were innocent under any accusations as being Kira, "If the owner of a Death Note does not use the notebook after 13 days time, he or she will die" and "If the Death Note is burned, torn up, or otherwise rendered useless, any people who have touched the Death Note will die". With Light and Misa having no contact with the death note for more than 13 days, since they were both confined, and neither of them had died, that would prove to L that neither of them were Kira. L agreed and he finally took the handcuffs off of Light. Red. Even though the type of car was not revealed, it looked similar to a Porsche 911. L's plan to catch Higuchi trying to kill someone involved Sakura TV airing a three hour special television show where an eyewitness would reveal Kira's identity. With Reiji still willing to work with L, L told him to call Higuchi to watch this show. In order for him to believe that this anonymous person's claims were valid, L planned for the screen that blocked that person's face to "accidentally" fall, revealing his face, and that anonymous person would be Matsuda. Higuchi knew he had to kill him as he knew Matsuda saw him in his Kira meeting with the other executives. L had Wedy install cameras and wire taps in Higuchi's house and cars so that they could see how he reacted to this. Higuchi tried to call people to find out Matsuda's real name as he only knew his name as Matsui. He did not find out and he drives recklessly to the Sakura TV station to kill Matsuda with a gun. L's team already knew he was on his way and they had Matsuda and the rest of the Sakura TV workers leave the station setting up the trap to catch Higuchi. Higuchi managed to escape but he was finally caught when he was blocked on the highway by many police cars. From a helicopter, Watari shot Higuchi's tires and he finally surrendered. Kyosuke Higuchi. After Misa showed L and the rest of the taskforce her cell phone conversation with Higuchi, L was confident enough to conclude that Higuchi was Kira. L did not want to apprehend him yet until he had proof of how Higuchi killed people. L decided to set up a trap for Higuchi to reveal himself. This plan would go into effect in the next episode, "Frenzy". In the bathroom of the Yotsuba office. Rem was aware that Misa lost her memories so she tore a piece of the current Kira's death note, the same one that was owned by Misa before. When Misa touched the piece of the death note, her memories were restored even though she no longer owned that death note. Rem told Misa that she and Light were both Kira at one point but were no longer Kira. Rem then told Misa that when she goes back to see the Yotsuba executives, she would float behind the executive that was the current Kira. Misa then knew who that was and started flirting with him. She managed to have him admit that he was Kira with her cell phone. Misa was the first human to know who the current Kira was. Light. Namikawa Reiji received the call. He was asked by L (Light) to delay the killings of the executives they were targeting by one month. He was also told that only Kira would be charged with all of these murders, the rest of the executives would be completely innocent despite their heavy involvement. With that in mind, Reiji cooperated with L (Light) and successfully delayed the killings. Matsuda. Matsuda felt that he was looked down upon by the taskforce and he wanted to be more helpful to the group. Without telling anyone, he tried to spy on the Yotsuba Group on his own. The Yotsuba Group found out though and they were discussing if they should kill Matsuda or not. L told Matsuda that he would create a plan that would make the executives think he had died so they would not have to kill him. Matsuda pretended to jump off of an apartment building in front of the Yotsuba executives. A con-artist and a thief. Aiba was a con-artist and Wedy was a thief. Aiba was used for communicating with Kira. He pretended that he was detective Geraldo Coil, one of L's many aliases. He was hired by the Yotsuba Group, the business that was suspected to be working with Kira, to investigate L. Wedy was hired to install cameras and wire taps so that the task force can watch and hear the Yotsuba executives from their building. Neither of these criminals had ever been convicted of a crime so they most likely would not be killed by Kira. Fifty. Even though Light was confined having no knowledge of new criminals being charged, criminals were still being killed through heart attacks. The rest of the taskforce told L that with this still happening that there was no need to keep Light confined and that he was not Kira. L only released Light and Misa after he tested them. He had Souchiro Yagami, Light's father, drive Misa and Light and he told them that both of them would be executed and claiming that they had enough proof that both of them were Kira. By putting on this act, L was trying to see if either of them were Kira. If they were, one of them would have tried to kill Souichiro once they heard about their execution. Neither of them tried and L agreed to release them. L was still suspicious of Light and decided to handcuff himself to him. L would only release Light from the handcuffs once they caught Kira. "Get rid of it". Even though it was not fully revealed at this point, Light had created a plan that would prove to L that he and Misa were innocent on any accusations that either one of them were Kira. By doing this, all of Light's memories of the death note would have disappeared. However, if he would ever touch the same death note again, his memories would be fully restored. She had hair on the tape of the envelopes that contained the videos. Light was planning to use Misa and her shinigami eyes in order to kill L. He just needed Misa to see L's face, and she would know his real name. However, L apprehended her before she could tell Light his real name. Misa was held captive by L who was using intense interrogation tactics, she was tied to a wall and was blindfolded. Misa promised Light that she would never tell anyone that either of them were Kira. She couldn't handle the confinement and forfeited her ownership of her death note. Her memories of the death note had disappeared and she was no longer as scared as she no longer remembered why she was apprehended. She now believed that she was caught by a stalker. Even though her memories of the death note had disappeared, her feelings for Light had remained the same. Rem would kill him first. While Light was trying to explain to Misa that they can not be seen in public he got frustrated and told her that if she did not cooperate that he could easily kill her. Rem then told Light that she would not allow it. Usually shinigami do not care about what happened to humans but since Rem inherited Gelus's love for Misa, Rem would do anything to protect Misa- even kill herself. Rem told Light that if Misa died before her expected life span that she would suspect that Light was involved some how and she would kill him. By doing this, Rem would be taking her own life as well. Aoyama. Using her shinigami eyes, she spotted Light in a crowd, she noticed that he did not have a life span when she saw his name. She then knew that she found the original Kira. She contacted him later in the day to tell him that she was the second Kira. She proved it to him by showing her notebook and shinigami to him. Falling in love with a human. Misa's shinigami, Rem, told her this. Rem explained how Misa found her death note. Shinigami can observe the human realm from their own realm. Gelus was the shinigami that fell in love with Misa. When he saw Misa in a dangerous situation, she was being confronted by a drunk man with a knife, he decided to kill the man to save Misa's life. Misa was originally supposed to be killed by that man but with Gelus protecting her, Misa's lifespan was extended. Shinigami were only allowed to take away human lives, not extend them. Extending their life would result in the death of the shinigami that extended it. Rem, witnessing Gelus's death, inherited his love for Misa. Rem was now willing to protect Misa under any circumstances, and that was very rare for a shinigami to do. Ukita. One of the major Japanese television stations, Sakura TV, was broadcasting videos supposedly created by Kira. However, Light did not make these videos but someone else did who had another death note. This second Kira had the power of the shinigami eyes, something that Light did not have. That was how the second Kira was able to immediately kill Ukita when he arrived at Sakura TV. The second Kira was later revealed to be a teenage model named Misa Amane who falls in love with Light. She made these videos hoping that she would be able to meet the original Kira. Tennis. Both of them were avid tennis players. Light had even won the junior high championship in Japan. When L was younger, he even won a junior tennis championship in England. Light won the set they played in six games to four. Ryuga. L, still being suspicious of Light, decides to meet him face to face. He enrolled in the same university as Light, To-Oh University. The name he enrolled himself as was Hideki Ryuga, that was also the same name of a Japanese pop singer. When L first talks to Light, he immediately told Light that he was L. Both Light and L act like they were friends but they were actually investigating each other. L was trying to see if Light was Kira and Light was trying to find out L's real name in order to kill him. Apples. Even though shinigami do not need to eat to survive, Ryuk had an addiction to apples found in the human realm. He says they were much tastier and juicier than apples in the shinigami realm. When Ryuk does not eat apples he does experience withdrawal symptoms. He gets irritable towards Light and he twists his body around in strange ways. Naomi Misora. When Naomi noticed that her fiancee died after he revealed his name to someone he was investigating, she suspected that Kira killed him and she wanted to tell the taskforce that. When she met Light and told him about it, Light knew that if she revealed her thoughts to the taskforce that it would not take long for the police to find out that he was Kira. Light wanted to kill her but he needed her name. She gave him an alias, Shoku Maki. When Light wrote that name down in his death note nothing happened and he figured out that she gave him a fake name. In order to get her real name Light lied and told her that he was part of the taskforce as well and he would like her to join. Naomi then admitted that she gave him a fake name and told him her real name. Before she died, Light told her that he was Kira. Light does eventually join the taskforce but at this point he was not in it yet. Ryuzaki. The police and Ryuzaki met every week in a hotel room. In order to remain discrete, the hotel location switched every week. Ryuzaki demanded that there would be no records of any of their meetings and that included written notes. Ryuzaki said "everything must be recorded by memory". |How many members of the Japanese police remained part of the investigation after the deaths of the twelve F.B.I. agents that were hired by L to investigate Kira?||"Death Note" (US) Episodes 1-25 Six. Originally there were one hundred forty one members of the police that were investigating Kira, many were scared that their lives would be in danger if they continue to investigate him so they resigned from the Kira case. The members that stayed in the Kira case were Chief Souchiro Yagami, Matsuda, Aizawa, Mogi, Ukita, and Ide, Ide however leaves the task force soon after everyone else because he did not trust L not because of the deaths of the F.B.I agents. Chief Yagami did report to L telling him that there were six members of the police that chose to stay in the Kira investigation. L then told Yagami that everyone must be able to trust him in order to remain in the Kira Investigation, when the six discussed Ide said that he could not trust L and chose to leave the taskforce from there. Raye Penber. L hired twelve F.B.I. agents to investigate all immediate family members of the Japanese police investigating Kira. Kira started to kill criminals whose names were not broadcasted from the media, L suspected that Kira had obtained information from the police so he hired his own team to investigate the families of the Japanese police. Half of their life span. With the power of the shinigami eyes, that person can see any person's real name and life span by just looking at their face. However a person with the shinigami eyes can not see their own life span or any life span from someone else with a death note. This power makes using the death note much easier, however it comes at a heavy cost, half of their own life span. L. L went by many different names such as Ryuzaki, Hideki Ryuga, and Geraldo Coil and his true name was never revealed. L was considered to be the best detective in the world and he rarely reveals his face to anyone and will only work on cases that interest him. L had some unique tendencies such as he was always seen eating sweets and drinking tea. L was willing to risk his life in order to capture Kira. Ryuk. Light Yagami first saw the death note fall from the sky while he was in class. He picked up the notebook after class and thought it was a joke that it had powers that could kill people. He was curious to see if it actually worked. He saw a criminal's face and name on the news and wrote his name in the death note. The death note worked and Light realized that with this power, he could make the world a better place by killing more criminals. People have been noticing the pattern of recent criminal deaths, most of them died from heart attacks, and people have concluded that this was done by one person. They gave that person a name, Kira, which was Japanese for the word killer. Many were thankful for Kira while others are in fear of him. |Near the beginning, where does Kira hide the TV from the cameras?||"Death Note" In a bag of chips. Light hides a TV in a bag of chips. It looks like he is just writing down schoolwork in a notebook while enjoying a snack while he is actually writing down the names of criminals that appear on TV. L walks up and introduces himself to Kira. L is a codename. The owner of a Death Note must know the person's whole name and have that person's face in mind when they write down the name in the Death Note. L decides the best way to discover if Light is Kira is to study him, and what better way than to become friends? Ryuk. At the end, Light runs and hides from the police. Light is shot and loses blood fast. Ryuk kills Light with the Death Note. Ryuk told Light at the beginning that it was Ryuk who would kill Light. He was right. Kira's Death Note is switched with a fake one. N has Kira's Death Note switched with a fake one. Kira's right-hand man writes down N's name into the fake Death Note (with the help of his Shinigami eyes). Light counts down the time it takes for someone to be killed by the Death Note. When the remaining time hits zero, Light tells N he lost. Little did Light know, it was vice-versa. Rem. Rem, Misa's Shinigami, comes to love Misa. Light forces Rem into a corner by making it decide between Misa's life and it's own. Rem decides to kill L to prolong Misa's life, but because Rem killed a human to help another human, it died. And Light used to be such a nice guy.... Light. Perfect student Light is the killing machine known as Kira. Light's alliance with the police and L is a huge cover-up, at least until N joins the Kira case. Show humans' addresses. Shinigami eyes show everything needed to kill a human with a Death Note. The owner of a Death Note can trade half of his remaining lifespan to get Shinigami eyes. Light doesn't make the trade, but Misa does.
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Why are syndicated TV shows programmed out of sequence? TBS is syndicating episodes of The Office every night this week at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday's episode, "Chair Model," was the 10th episode of Season 4. Later that night, a special marathon offered several out-of-sequence episodes from Season 2. Wednesday's episode, "Weight Loss," skips ahead to the Season 5 premiere. Such shuffling is typical of syndication schedules. But why do stations program shows out of sequence? It's more economical. Certain episodes are more popular than others, so it's in a station's best interest to play them more often. These episodes can command higher ad rates and can serve as attractive lead-ins to other network shows. During the holidays, it's more important to air thematically appropriate episodes than adhere to strict series chronology. And certain guest stars, in the limelight for one reason or another, can make episodes newly relevant. Furthermore, stations don't always purchase an entire series. Rather than license the entire 11-year, 251-episode run of M*A*S*H, for example, a station may cherry-pick a few seasons (the early, McLean Stevenson years, perhaps) and create a subcycle out of the larger whole. It's only in recent years that viewers expect to see nonserialized shows presented chronologically. Those who watch TV shows on DVD or Hulu can track a series by season and episode number, but such habits run counter to the original conception of these shows as stand-alone entertainments—precisely what makes them ideal syndication commodities. For syndicators and advertisers, there's a direct correlation between programming flexibility and market value. Traditionally, sitcoms like Friends do better in syndication than dramas, while self-contained programs, such as the Law & Order franchise, perform better than cliffhanger-style serials like Lost and most reality shows—which are difficult to understand without a good deal of back story. Syndicators have the right to program leased episodes in whatever order they please, but sometimes they will follow chronology, especially if a show has never been syndicated before. Stations are traditionally interested in acquiring first-run syndication rights only once a series has amassed 100 episodes—roughly four standard seasons (although there are some notable exceptions to this rule). Crossing this threshold means it's possible to "strip syndicate," or air the show five days a week for 20 weeks without repeating. Thanks to exclusivity agreements, the relative bounty of episodes, and higher audience share, syndicators are more likely to maintain sequencing during an initial strip-syndication cycle. But once the exclusivity window closes and ratings settle, larger programming needs trump expectations for chronology. Individual episodes become more like movable units on a master schedule. Some viewers might still prefer to watch Roseanne in succession, but after many years and multiple cycles of syndication, such expectations are less intense. Explainer thanks Andrew Goldman, vice president of programming and scheduling for HBO/Cinemax, and Howard Blumenthal, executive director of NJN and author of This Business of Television. Got a question about today's news? Ask the Explainer. Still from The Office by Chris Haston/NBC Photo.
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SubscribeSubscribe to this blog's feed 170 posts categorized "Foreign Aid" by Roger Thurow In Lutacho, Kenya, the rains were late. It was mid-March 2011, and the farmers of western Kenya were still in the grip of the brutally hot dry season. The year before, the seasonal rains that usher in the corn planting began at the end of February; by March of that year the first shoots of the stalks were already pushing through the soil. Now, though, the fields remained parched and the farmers nervous. And every day the farmers’ worry increased. They knew that a drought, bringing great hunger, was spreading across the eastern and northern realms of their country and throughout the Horn of Africa. Western Kenya, one of the breadbaskets of the region, was usually blessed with good rains. But the extended dry season had made some of them anxious that the drought might reach them as well. “What if it doesn’t rain?” I asked Agnes Wekhwela, one of the farmers. She was 72 years old, two decades beyond the average life expectancy in Kenya. Her face was creased with wrinkles and wisdom. She had more experience divining the weather than most anyone else. “It will rain,” she said firmly. It was a cloudless day, with a brilliant blue sky. “How can you be so confident?” I pressed. “God knows where we live,” she said, again with great certainty. “God knows who we are.” A few days later, her bedrock faith was confirmed. The rain began falling, the farmers planted, the heat and the anxiety broke. That conversation with Agnes became a touchstone for me. Yes, I thought, God knows where the farmers live, God knows who they are. But do we? That conversation and those questions drove my efforts to report on the lives of these farmers, their hopes and fears, their struggles and triumphs. Every day I was with them, my conviction grew stronger: we must know who they are. With the presidential election fast approaching, there will be no shortage of stump speeches, fundraisers and “personal” emails from the candidates. These may not be the best forums for voicing your opinion, but there is one platform that is ripe for making concerns about hunger and poverty known—the town hall meeting. A town hall meeting is an informal public meeting where everyone in a community is invited to attend, voice opinions, and hear from public figures about a particular subject or subjects. Attending one of these meetings is your right as a member of the community, but it can be nerve-wracking if you haven’t gotten your talking points together to effectively engage your member of Congress. Bread for the World now offers useful resources for bringing hunger and poverty to the forefront of these meetings. They include tips on how to get your Congress member’s attention and quick and powerful facts about hunger and poverty. You can also find ideas for taking things a step farther—guidelines for writing letters to the editor, scheduling a meeting with your members of Congress, and publicizing responses to your questions using social media. While poverty and unemployment in the United States reached record rates between 2008 and 2010, the rate of food-insecure households did not rise. This is largely due to the success of anti-poverty programs like SNAP that help people get back on their feet in times of heightened need. Overseas, U.S. funding for medication helps prevent more than 114,000 at-risk infants from being born with HIV each year. Additionally, more than 33 million people affected with HIV since 2004 have received counseling. Unfortunately, programs that support hungry and poor people in the United States and abroad risk grave cuts as Congress continues work to reduce the deficit. It is more vital than ever for you to take action and lift your voice for hungry and poor people, and town hall meetings are perfect platforms to do so. Ask your members of Congress to create a circle of protection around programs that provide vital support and nutrition to vulnerable people in the United States and around the world. Visit Bread’s Elections Matter page for more resources to ensure that hunger and poverty are top priorities this election season. Screen shot of North Carolina Bread activists taken from WFMY-TV. Bread’s engine runs on the fuel of dedicated and faith-filled advocates across this nation who continually address decision makers on issues of hunger and poverty. When organizers see members independently creating events like the Bread for the World North Carolina Team did on Wednesday, we know we are doing our job right. With song and prayer, over 20 religious leaders and activists surrounded the Guilford County Department of Social Services, making public their concern for protecting programs that are critical to people experiencing hunger and poverty. Vital domestic nutrition programs like SNAP (formerly food stamps) are facing severe cuts by Congress that could send more hungry to already overburdened church pantries. The Greensboro Urban Ministry got a small taste of the daunting task of feeding the recipients of such programs when a computer glitch stopped local SNAP benefits. Over a two-month period, 1,500 more people needed food, compared to the same period in the previous year. Bread activist Bryan McFarland has a history of going the extra mile—advocating for an end to hunger by creating programs like “Jacob’s Join” that educate with song. Yesterday was no exception. With the help of Robert Herron, Frank M. Dew, Christine Byrd, Mike Aiken, and other organizers with Bread for the World’s Triad Chapter, the leaders sent a public call—not only to Greensboro, but also to North Carolina’s Senators Kay Hagen and Richard Burr— to maintain SNAP funding. Listen to what they had to say in a WMFY news story: You don’t need Bread staff to create an event in your region. However, your Bread organizer can help you with press contacts, resources, and information about which issues are the most critical and timely. Creating the political will to end hunger is noisy business, but when advocates are empowered, active, and public, change happens. Thank you for your fantastic work, Triad Team! +Make the conversation about hunger public at a town hall meeting this month while Congress is on recess. We have resources for you here. Robin Stephenson is regional organizer at Bread for the World. School kids enjoying a healthy lunch with fresh fruit and vegetables. Photo by USDA. Your donation will make a difference for hungry people. I want to personally thank those who contributed to our summer matching gift campaign. I am happy to report that Bread for the World raised over $180,000—surpassing our goal of $150,000! An additional matching gift was made by a generous member, and now a total of $175,000 will be matched dollar-for-dollar. I am grateful to everyone who participated in the campaign, which raised a total of $355,000 overall—a significant boost to Bread’s efforts to protect funding for programs that are vital for hungry people. Thank you for your generosity and for making this campaign an overwhelming success! Rev. David Beckmann is president of Bread for the World At Bread, we talk about the budget as a moral document outlining our country’s priorities. Taxes are a necessary part of that equation. We often hear that Washington has a spending problem. But really, what we have is a deficit problem. Since a deficit occurs when you spend more than you take in, when people say “spending problem,” they’re ignoring half of the equation. With all of the heated discussion about taxes, it would be convenient to turn away from the deficit issue and say, “Let’s ignore taxes: they’re complicated; they’re controversial; and they’re boring.” However, as devoted followers of Jesus, we are not the types who choose a path based on convenience. We don’t talk only on those issues that make everyone comfortable. As Christians, we speak from an understanding of the way things could be—when the stranger is given something to eat and widows and orphans are cared for. Thus, the budget debates and the fiscal problems faced by this country lead us to talk taxes. To help move the conversation, Bread has published a new action guide on taxes, which combines our specific public policy prescriptions with underlying biblical principles—to help you speak up. We must start talking about taxes, and we need to start talking today. If we do not push our elected leaders to bring in more tax revenue, then our voices will call out in vain to fund vital programs like the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly food stamps), poverty-focused development assistance, the McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program, Food for Peace, the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids, school lunches, and the Earned Income Tax Credit. Our deficit situation is so severe in the long-term, that without additional revenue we will be unable to fund programs for hungry and poor people at anything close to their current levels over the long term—unless Congress makes unthinkable and politically impossible cuts. Nearly all mainstream economists agree that we simply cannot cut our way out of this situation. This is not calculus or complex economics. It is simple arithmetic. Major deficit reduction packages over the past quarter century have not only maintained a commitment to not increase poverty, they’ve also all included substantial tax revenues. Amelia Kegan is a senior policy analyst at Bread for the World. Did you ever try to get to a far-off destination without a map? It’s not easy. Today, Bread for the World will join a coalition of 50 faith-based, humanitarian, and advocacy groups to present A Roadmap for Continued U.S. Leadership to End Global Hunger. At a Capitol Hill event later this afternoon, members of Congress, policymakers, and NGO leaders will officially unfold the Roadmap, charting a course for a hunger-free world through smart investments. The document reviews progress over the last three years towards the goals set out in the original Roadmap and offers recommendations to ensure continued effectiveness of U.S. global food security programs. The Original Roadmap In the wake of the global food price crisis of 2008, a broad-based coalition of non-governmental organizations, advocacy groups, and faith-based organizations developed a document titled the Roadmap to End Global Hunger, which was endorsed by over 40 organizations and became the basis for legislation introduced in the House of Representatives (H.R. 2817). The Roadmap presented a vision for a comprehensive and integrated U.S. strategy to increase global food security, including suggested levels of financial support for emergency, safety net, nutrition and agricultural development programs over five years. Hunger remains one of the world's most pressing challenges, with almost a billion people—or one in seven worldwide—suffering chronic hunger. In addition, each year up to 100 million more may face acute hunger brought on by natural disasters and conflicts. Women and children are disproportionately affected by hunger and malnutrition. With population growth placing a strain on a limited natural resource base, and changing weather patterns creating more droughts and floods, feeding the world of the future presents a serious challenge. ACDI/VOCA's Kenya Maize Development Program nearly tripled maize yields for small-scale farmers in Kenya, about a third of whom are women. New technologies like improved seeds helped farmers realize these gains. Photo by ACDI/VOCA. Ambassador Mark Dybul, former U.S. global AIDS coordinator, writes that a battle is brewing in Congress over whether or not to uphold an existing bipartisan consensus on health and development. At issue is U.S. support for self-sufficiency programs in developing countries, setting the goal for those countries to take primary responsibility for their citizens’ health and well-being. Fortunately, the brewing battle is not between Republications and Democrats. “The reason for the strong bipartisan agreement is rather simple: it’s the right thing to do for the American taxpayer to save and lift up more lives with the highest return on investment—and that, in turn, is good for our national economy and security,” writes Ambassador Dybul in a recent op-ed in The Hill. Those who favor this consensus argue that local organizations are closer to the ground and, thus, can accomplish more with less money. The days of paternalistic development are over, say supporters; developing countries no longer welcome support run by foreign governments or development institutions. Those who are against increased support to self-sufficiency programs often cite corruption as an issue. They also argue that local organizations cannot manage large, complex development projects. “A change in mindset is needed," writes Ambassador Dybul, a leader of the Consensus on Development Reform (a project of the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network). “U.S.-based organizations should begin to shift from being primary implementers of programs to agents of technical support and exchange.” The result of this battle will affect two major programs, in particular, for which Bread for the World activists advocated—and which they continue to support: the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and the Millennium Challenge Corporation. Both were started by Republicans and continue to be supported by Democrats. Such programs are keys to our efforts to modernize U.S. foreign aid. Bread for the World intern Reginald Egede shares his story of growing up in a small town in Nigeria around children who didn't get enough to eat: Growing up and attending boarding school in Nigeria, I had little contact with the kids my age who lived beyond the boundary of the school grounds. I would see them in passing once every two weeks while going on our customary “Sunday walk." Although these kids, whose parents were mainly farmers and traders, weren’t the most desperate, seeing their condition sometimes triggered some serious soul-searching. Miango, on the outskirts of Jos, was a rural community I came to love for its scenery and tranquility, but deep inside I wanted much more for the warm-hearted villagers outside the school walls. All I was certain of was that the kids did not get enough to eat, but because I could not put myself in their shoes, I made of their plight what any kid my age and in my privileged position would: I believed their circumstance would improve sooner rather than than later. But it didn’t, and I learned that the situation is more desperate in other parts of the developing world. The Horn of Africa is a remote corner of earth beset with conflict, disease, and famine. In Ethiopia alone, 4.5 million people required emergency food assistance and 300,000 children under the age of five were at risk of becoming severely malnourished last year. Clearly, these numbers ought to call attention to the plight of our brothers and sisters in Africa. In parts of the continent, lack of rain has significant ramifications for small-holder farmers. The decimation of livestock and poor harvests, often caused by factors such as poor agricultural practices and climate change, result in many women and children suffering from malnutrition. Thankfully, a number of programs geared toward reducing malnutrition and hunger—especially during the critical 1,000-day window between a mother’s pregnancy and the child’s second birthday—are under way. Bread for the World is so close to reaching our summer match campaign goal of $150,000. Generous Bread members like you have already given more than $147,000! Can you donate right now to help us reach the goal by midnight? The entire $150,000 will be matched dollar-for-dollar if we can raise just $3,000 more. That's only $10 from 300 people! Ten dollars is less than you'd spend on eating out for dinner—will you be one of the 300 and help hungry people with a donation? With everyone's support, this will make a huge impact for millions of hungry people all over the world. Thank you for giving generously. Photo caption: Mother and daughter shell peas from their garden in Nicaragua. Rev. David Beckmann is president of Bread for the World. I sat in my cubicle mesmerized by my student’s depiction of his life for 13 years in rural Africa: raised beds of vegetables, dusty dirt roads stretching to the horizon, smiling faces dripping with sweat in the bright orange sun. As a professor at Eastern University, I traded in my life in humanitarian aid, development, and missions for the privilege of training Christian relief workers with a powerful set of program planning and economic tools set within the framework of Kingdom principles. But on days like this one, I still feel like the student. As David recounted stories of his narrow escape from war-torn South Sudan, he transported me to the joys and struggles of life as a refugee. I learned that David alone survived from his family. I heard the story of his settlement within a refugee camp outside of his nation’s borders, the new farming techniques he mastered, and the privilege given to him to travel to other sites to teach the art of soil cultivation, crop rotation, and farming.
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Authority, Not Control Spiritual authority is the provision of God to transform the temporal with the power of the eternal. It is not something our flesh can imitate, nor is it found in the tone of our words or the gaze of our eyes. Divine authority requires divine sanction. This sanction comes from passing the tests of love. When authority is administered without love, it degenerates into control. God does not call us to control His people but to inspire and guard them. The outcome of control is oppression, witchcraft, and strife. But the result of love is liberty and the power to build up and protect God's people. True spiritual authority exists above the realm of fleshly control. Our lives, and the lives of those who follow us, are laid down on our own initiative. It is a choice we make because of love. Since true authority itself is born in freedom, freedom is what it breeds. We will walk in either the true authority of love, the false authority of control, or no authority at all. Both false authority and no authority are rooted in fear, and we react to fear in either of two ways. The first reaction, which produces false authority, is to seek to control those around us, thus making the circumstances around us more predictable and less threatening. The other response to fear is to refuse to accept and exercise any authority at all. Many relationships are simply the pairing of these symbiotic needs: the desire to control and the willingness to be controlled. Both are fueled by overreactions to fear. Scripture tells us, however, "There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear" (1 John 4:18). Since true authority is built upon love, its goal is to liberate, not dominate. Therefore, before one can truly move in spiritual authority, he must be delivered from fear and its desire to control; he must be rooted and grounded in love. Authority to Inspire Christlikeness When our teaching about God and our obedience to Him are one, spiritual authority accompanies our lives. Jesus astounded the multitudes, for He spoke "as one having authority" (Matt. 7:28-29). What He taught was consistent with how He lived. Therefore, we also must live and display the virtue we seek to teach. Dear pastor, if we seek to train our congregations to pray, we ourselves must first be intercessors. You may say, "But out of a congregation of several hundred, only three people join me for prayer." Then with those three develop your intercessor base. Do not be discouraged, for you will win others. But the measure of our success is not the numbers in attendance on Sunday mornings. God has given us people so we may train them, not merely count them. Of this group, those whom we inspire to live like Christ are actually the measure of our success, the test of our effectiveness in the ministry. Another may say, "But I've never been a leader." When anyone lays down his or her life in Christ's love, others will see and follow. Whether you are a business owner, a housewife, or a teen, such a one can speak with confidence and authority as Christ's disciple. In truth, if you are following Christ, others are following you. You are, indeed, a leader. This next generation will not just teach the people; they will inspire the body of Christ to live like Jesus. Their example in all things will awaken godliness in those around them. From true virtue shall the leaders of tomorrow draw true authority, for when the nature of Christ is revealed, the authority of Christ soon follows.
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Quotes and Readings of the Day Today's Bible Reading Prayer for Guidance and for Deliverance To you, O LORD, I lift up my soul. O my God, in you I trust; do not let me be put to shame; do not let my enemies exult over me. Do not let those who wait for you be put to shame; let them be ashamed who are wantonly treacherous. Make me to know your ways, O LORD; teach me your paths. Lead me in your truth, and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation; for you I wait all day long. Be mindful of your mercy, O LORD, and of your steadfast love, for they have been from of old. Do not remember the sins of my youth or my transgressions; according to your steadfast love remember me, for your goodness’ sake, O LORD! Good and upright is the LORD; therefore he instructs sinners in the way. He leads the humble in what is right, and teaches the humble his way. All the paths of the LORD are steadfast love and faithfulness, for those who keep his covenant and his decrees. For your name's sake, O LORD, pardon my guilt, for it is great. Who are they that fear the LORD? He will teach them the way that they should choose. They will abide in prosperity, and their children shall possess the land. The friendship of the LORD is for those who fear him, and he makes his covenant known to them. My eyes are ever toward the LORD, for he will pluck my feet out of the net. Turn to me and be gracious to me, for I am lonely and afflicted. Relieve the troubles of my heart, and bring me out of my distress. Consider my affliction and my trouble, and forgive all my sins. Consider how many are my foes, and with what violent hatred they hate me. O guard my life, and deliver me; do not let me be put to shame, for I take refuge in you. May integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait for you. Redeem Israel, O God, out of all its troubles. Note: Today's Gospel reading is Mark 1:29-45 From the New Revised Standard Version. Reprinted with permission from HarperBibles. Today's Torah Reading Then the Lord said to Moses, "Hold out your arm over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come upon the land of Egypt and eat up all the grasses in the land, whatever the hail has left." So Moses held out his rod over the land of Egypt, and the Lord drove an east wind over the land all that day and all night; and when morning came, the east wind had brought the locusts. Locusts invaded all the land of Egypt and settled within all the territory of Egypt in a thick mass; never before had there been so many, nor will there ever be so many again. They hid all the land from view, and the land was darkened; and they ate up all the grasses of the field and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left, so that nothing green was left, of tree or grass of the field, in all the land of Egypt. Pharaoh hurriedly summoned Moses and Aaron and said, "I stand guilty before the Lord your God and before you. Forgive my offense just this once, and plead with the Lord your God that He but remove this death from me." So he left Pharaoh's presence and pleaded with the Lord. The Lord caused a shift to a very strong west wind, which lifted the locusts and hurled them into the Sea of Reeds; not a single locust remained in all the territory of Egypt. But the Lord stiffened Pharaoh's heart, and he would not let the Israelites go. Then the Lord said to Moses, "Hold out your arm toward the sky that there may be darkness upon the land of Egypt, a darkness that can be touched." Moses held out his arm toward the sky and thick darkness descended upon all the land of Egypt for three days. People could not see one another, and for three days no one could get up from where he was; but all the Israelites enjoyed light in their dwellings. From Parshat Bo. From THE TANAKH: The New JPS Translation According to the Traditional Hebrew Text. Copyright 1985 by the Jewish Publication Society. Used by permission. Angel Quote of the Day Our certainty that angels right now witness how we are walking through life should mightily influence the decisions we make. God is watching, and His angels are interested spectators too. Buddhist Quote of the Day The one who wanders independent in the world, free from opinions and viewpoints, does not grasp them and enter into disputations and arguments. As the lotus rises on its stalk unsoiled by the mud and the water, so the wise one speaks of peace and is unstained by the opinions of the world. From "The Pocket Buddha Reader," edited by Anne Bancroft, 2000. Reprinted by arrangement with Shambhala Publications, Boston, www.shambhala.com. Celebrity Quote of the Day Christian Quote of the Day Eco-Tip of the Day Emotional Health Quote of the Day Evangelical Quote of the Day Health Quote of the Day Hindu Quote of the Day The six months of the northern path of the sun, the path of light, of fire, of day, of the bright fortnight, leads knowers of Brahman to the supreme goal. The six months of the southern path of the sun, the path of smoke, of night, of the dark fortnight, leads other souls to the light of the moon and rebirth. Bhagavad Gita 8:24-25 Excerpted from The Bhagavad Gita, translated by Eknath Easwaran, copyright 1985. Reprinted with permission from Nilgiri Press, www.nilgiri.org. To order the book, please call 1-800-475-2369. Holistic Living Quote of the Day Inspiration Quote of the Day You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of unmanufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive. -Dr. Thomas Arnold Bennett Judaism Quote of the Day Muslim Quote of the Day The Prophet said that God has said, "I cannot be contained in hallowed places. Heaven and earth cannot hold Me. But I am contained by true hearts. If you seek Me, search in those hearts." From "The Bounty of Allah," translated by Aneela Khalid Arshed. Copyright 1999. All rights reserved. Used with permission of The Crossroad Publishing Company, New York. Relationship Quote of the Day Peace and Universal Love is the essence of the Gospel preached by all the Enlightened Ones. The Lord has preached that equanimity is the Dharma. Forgive do I creatures all, and let all creatures forgive me. Unto all have I amity, and unto none enmity. Know that violence is the root cause of all miseries in the world. Violence, in fact, is the knot of bondage. "Do not injure any living being." This is the eternal, perennial, and unalterable way of spiritual life. A weapon howsoever powerful it may be, can always be superseded by a superior one; but no weapon can, however, be superior to nonviolence and love. Source: The Peace Abbey
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Tuesday, May 17, 2011 Bautista and hits to left fieldPosted by Mat Kovach About once a week, I run a few special processes on my collection of PITCHf/x and Gameday data which I call "Oddities," where I try to look for things "off the beaten path." Typically it just brings something I already know: someone has a hitting streak, someone is not pitching well, etc. Then I get something like this: This table summarizes a search for descriptions of batted balls hit to left field by batter. Jose Bautista's numbers triggered my oddity search. Let's break down what is happening: Of 35 batted balls, 28 were hits. Twelve of those hits were home runs, 12 were singles, and four were doubles. Eighteen were fly balls, four were ground balls, and 13 were line drives. Based on the description from MLB Gameday). In 35 at-bats, 68 total bases, an .800 batting average and a 1.942 slugging percentage. That isn't odd. That is impressive. Indians fan, member of the Duane Kuiper Fan Club, Spitball Researcher, Contact me on twitter, @siddfinch, via email or avian carrier
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Do public libraries host birthday parties for children as part of their programming? I was with my son at a party for one of his friends a local bouncy inflatables place and happened to be thinking about library stuff while waiting for him to finish bouncing around. Suddenly (for me, at least) the two topics came together. A quick Google search for “library birthday parties” shows one promising hit at the Cambridge Springs Public Library but the rest seemed to be birthday parties for libraries or librarian-themed birthday parties. My son gave a noncommittal shrug when I asked him if he wanted his next party at the local library branch — that may be why they are not so common, but I wondered if anyone else had heard of libraries doing this. With Thursday Threads coming on a Thanksgiving Thursday, it seems appropriate to use a theme of what I’m thankful for. So, in this edition of DLTJ Thursday Threads I’m offering three things: open source software, the internet, and public libraries. Reading this on Thanksgiving? Feel free to offer what you are thankful for in the comments. I’m in Vancouver, British Columbia, for the Access 2011 meeting which starts tomorrow. Coming across from the eastern timezone I had to come a day early, so — being a self-confessed library nerd — I checked out the Vancouver Public Library. I’m impressed with not only the physical structure but also the obvious degree of community engagement. The Central Library was very busy on a Tuesday afternoon, and first impressions are that it is beloved by its patrons. Included below are some pictures and some notes; some of the pictures have annotations — you can mouse over the boxes to see them. You can also click on the pictures to go to larger versions on Flickr. Two entries on big data lead this week’s edition of DLTJ Thursday Threads. The first is at the grandest scale possible: a calculation of the amount of information in the world. Add up all the digital memory (in cell phones, computers, and other devices) and analog media (for instance, paper) and it goes to a very big number. The authors try to put it in perspective, which for me brought home how insignificant my line of work can be. (All of our information is still less than 1% of what is encoded in the human DNA?) The second “big data” entry describes an effort to make sense of huge amounts of data in the National Archives through the use of visualization tools. Rounding out this week is a warning to those who run public computers — be on the look-out for key loggers that can be used to steal information from users. They created a sample library called Loremville, TN public library to demonstrate key aspects of the service. I did not ask them how long that particular example will be around, so you may follow that link at a later date and not find it. I love my local public library system, the Columbus Metropolitan Library. I’m a big fan of its helpful staff, plentiful collections, and convenient delivery service. Today I appaud it for coming up with what I think is the best terminology for our patrons to understand what we mean when we say databases. In a box on their homepage with the heading “Beyond Google” the CML says “Your library card is all you need to access our premium online resources!” What a great phrase for those things — premium online resources. By using the word “premium,” this phrase points out the notion that these are things with added value. That added value may come from the fact that the resources are licensed and are therefore beyond what you would get just looking at the open web. Or it could mean that it is a curated collection created and offered to the open web by the library itself. Some may waver over the use of the word “resources” but I think that is a meaningful phrase
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Charles Aznavour is perhaps the best-known French music hall entertainer in the world -- renowned the world over for the bittersweet love songs he has written and sung, which seem to embody the essence of French popular song, and also for his appearances on screen in such wildly divergent fare as Shoot the Piano Player, Candy, and The Tin Drum. His status as the quintessential French popular culture icon is something of an irony for a man who identifies himself most closely with his Armenian heritage. Born Shahnour Varenagh Aznavourian, his French roots derive from the fact that his family fled the threat of massacre by the Turks -- his father was a singer and sometime-restauranteur, while his mother was an actress and part-time seamstress. His father's singing, done in a notably impassioned style, heavily influenced Aznavour's approach to singing as a boy. Although he had a voracious appetite for music, he also had a serious impediment growing up, in the form of a paralyzed vocal cord that gave his voice a raspy quality. He channeled some of his energy into theater, making both his stage and screen debuts at age nine, in 1933, in the theater piece Un Bon Petite Diable and in the film La Guerre des Gosses. As an adolescent, he danced in nightclubs and sold newspapers, as well as touring with theatrical companies, and he wrote a nightclub act in partnership with Pierre Roche -- Aznavour wrote the lyrics to their songs and it was through that material that he began his singing career. Early on, he learned to overcome his fears about his vocal limitations, in part with help from singing legend Edith Piaf, for whom he worked as a chauffeur, among other capacities; with her help, he developed a style that suited his capabilities and played to his strengths and also continued writing songs in earnest, some of which were performed by Piaf.
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To Train or Not to Train Hello from PackTrainerSteve, This post is for New Leaders looking for resources and direction. Are you asking the question "Do I really need to be trained?" The answer is Yes, Yes, Yes!!!!! First, you need to at least complete Youth Protection Training. It is best to do it in a Live training session if possible, but you can also do it online. The important thing is to DO IT! Second, complete your leader specific training. This will give you insight into how meetings are planned and run along with what works best. Third, consult with your Pack Trainer and CubMaster for additional ideas they might have to make Den meetings easier and keep the Cubs interested. Well, time for me to plan my next Den Meeting. Yours In Scouting, PackTrainerSteve New comments will not show up until they have been manually approved, do to problems with spam. To Train or Not to Train@Patrick Take a good look at all the boys that crossed over with your son. In anohter five years, they and your son will be looking at you in the eye, giving a firm handshake and thanking you with deeper voices when you congratulate them on their progress to Eagle Scout.Just remember to let the boys run the troop with your help in the background. You are there to provide transportation and ensure safety as they learn to work independently from you, to set up and break camp, to chop wood, build fires and to feed and clean up after themselves. The best is yet to come. Show Control Box
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WILLMAR -- Since it began taking patients in September, Willmar's new 16-bed mental health hospital has been at or near capacity, but a shortage of state and federal funds is creating a "bottleneck" in where those patients go when they're discharged. Kevin Bollin, director of Willmar's Community Behavioral Health Hospital, told the Kandiyohi County Commissioners this week that that the average stay for clients at the hospital should be 14 to 17 days. But the lack of money has created a shortage of options for long-term housing for those suffering from chronic and persistent mental illness, Bollin said. As a result, some clients stay 30 or 40 days or even more. "There's no place for them to go," Bollin said. "It's jamming up." Willmar's new acute psychiatric hospital was the last of 10 to be built in Minnesota to take the place of the regional treatment centers, including the Willmar Regional Treatment Center. Ideally, patients spend a short time at the residential hospital for treatment and then go to group homes, "intensive residential treatment services" facilities or return home and receive follow-up care from "assertive community treatment" teams that travel from client to client. But Bollin said funding for those support services is "is shrinking." "Money is tight," Bollin said. The state's mental health program showing an $8 million deficit. "As money shrinks in the state for all types of services, the system shrinks," Bollin said. "There are less resources and less beds available outside." In some regions of the state, the bottleneck has meant that beds at psychiatric hospital may not have space in communities close to where patients live -- which was one of the goals of the restructuring of the state's mental health system -- and people have to travel to open beds in other towns. The 16-bed hospitals were the "last piece of the pie" to be put in place for the state's new continuum of mental health care, but Bollin said, "all of those pieces of the pie need to be in place and working well." Besides a shortage of placement options for after-hospital care, Bollin said a state study shows there is also a shortage of psychiatrists. Bollin said Carmen Clementson, a supervisor with Kandiyohi County's family services department, is coordinating collaborative efforts between other community providers of mental health services, like Woodland Center and Rice Memorial Hospital, to help meet the mental health needs of clients by pooling resources, including psychiatrists. Clementson said the county "can't wait for fixes" from the state, which is why local entities are working to fix the problems now.
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I guess we should thank Al "hug-a-tree" Gore for a smaller carbon footprint cause if you cause more damage to save energy you're okay. AND DON'T PAY ANY ATTENTION TO THIS REPORT EITHER This one is for your environmentalists out there ... you Prius drivers. You know who you are. When you drive a Prius you're so much better than everyone else on the road, right? Yeah .. right. Because your carbon footprint is so much smaller than everyone else's. You're special. You care about the environment while that jerk driving the Hummer doesn't. Uh oh. Maybe things aren't as they seem. There's a story in The Recorder from Central Connecticut University which says that it takes more energy to produce a Prius than it does a Hummer. I'm not going to try to explain it to you here ... just read the story. Oh ... and all of this is caused, of course, by global warming.
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Shortly after the shooting stopped, Romney and Obama both issued statements on the killings in Aurora that largely struck the right tone, even if the message was perfectly predictable in the wake of yet another massacre. Along with those expected words of condolence, we all fell immediately into a depressing pattern of exaggerated grief and feigned shock. The Appeal to God Statements from both candidates make an appeal to God, which in fact trivializes the event and our response to it. Romney said, for example, "We pray that the wounded will recover and that those who are grieving will know the nearness of God." And what about those who are not grieving; can they then not know the nearness of God? Does a son or daughter have to die to know the nearness of God? And concerning the wounded: If God wants them to recover, why have the victims wounded in the first place? To teach them a lesson? To get to know him better? If Romney wants to pray, how about praying that people going to see a movie do not get shot and killed? If prayer is effective, I suggest prayer to prevent tragedy rather than to comfort victims afterward. Or let's be realistic and concede that prayer cannot alter the course of events and stop appealing to prayer just because it makes us feel good about ourselves so we can move on and put the tragedy easily behind us. "Offering our prayers" is a coward's way out: We do not have to think any further, and we've done our bit, even though we've done nothing at all. Dissing the Dead When a survivor of a violent and deadly attack, like that in Aurora, says, "I am thankful God spared me," I wonder if he or she has an inkling of how extraordinarily offensive that is to the families of those who died. Did those who died not get spared by the same god for some reason of sin? Were they less worthy individuals, less pious, less deserving of life? Were the survivors chosen by God because they are special and the dead were not? By assigning the outcome of the tragedy to the workings of God rather than to the random nature of existence, those so thankful imply that they were spared for a reason, that the hand of God came down to protect them but very specifically did not protect others; so where does that leave the families of the dead? Did God abandon them? If you answer, "God works in mysterious ways," then you explain nothing; that statement is no different from saying, "I have no idea why some died and others lived other than bad luck, being in the wrong place at the wrong time." So why invoke God at all, implying so rudely that the dead were somehow less deserving? We honor the dead by acknowledging that they were not chosen for their ill fate but died because life is dangerous; we diminish their lives if we claim God chose them for death, speculating on why God would do so and ending with the meaningless "we can't know the mind of God" or other such pabulum. In a perfect counter to the scientific method, many politicians pick and choose facts to fit a theory or political agenda, rather than developing a theory or principle based on a set of facts. So we can expect that after every major attack politicians of every stripe will come out to draw lessons that always coincide with their preconceived ideas. A few mature representatives use the tragedy to call for unity, appealing to our common interests, but there are always the fire breathers like Louie Gohmert, a Republican representative from Texas. He claims the Aurora deaths can be attributed to "ongoing attacks on Judeo-Christian beliefs." Here is Gohmert's well-thought-out, carefully crafted, perfectly logical justification for this bizarre conclusion: "People say ... where was God in all of this? We've threatened high school graduation participations, if they use God's name, they're going to be jailed ... I mean that kind of stuff. Where was God? What have we done with God? We don't want him around. I kind of like his protective hand being present." (Yep our prisons are filled to the rafters with high-school kids who used God's name -- and that kind of stuff). Well, then, where was his protective hand? Did he ignore Aurora because we do not allow public schools to impose a Christian god on a diverse student body? Did he punish 12 innocent souls to make a point about separation of Church and State? Did he allow the death of 12 bystanders to promote gun control? The great thing about God and the Bible is that you can appeal to either to justify any point of view or to promote any political agenda. Gohmert goes for broke and uses the terrible death of 12 people callously to advance a narrow agenda. But hey, he is a Republican from Texas. We could expect little else. Faithful Democrats are criticizing Obama because he has not used the latest massacre fueled by yet another arsenal of weapons as a vehicle to push for gun control. You have got to be kidding me. Even after more than three years of proving the success of running the long game (see DADT, gay marriage, Iraq), Democrats insist on being both impatient and impractical. Here is the realpolitik choice, whether you like it or not: Tackle the issue of gun control now and lose the election, or be smart. There is no middle road here. The polls are running even nationally; twice as many voters think Romney can handle the economy better than Obama (proving the amazing power of propaganda). If Democrats have any hope of winning reelection in November, idealism is going to have to be tempered by the reality of our divided nation. I have no idea if Obama will address gun control if he is reelected, but I know we have no hope of doing so if he takes on the issue now. If there is one characteristic that makes Obama unique, it is his ability to ignore calls for immediate action that feel good now while he keeps his eye on the ball to achieve lasting change. I have close gay friends who infuriated me when they soured on Obama because he did not deliver on DADT and gay marriage in a time frame they thought suitable. I kept telling them to take a deep breath and give the man some room. He has enough trouble fending off Republicans; he does not need to fight another front with his own. And sure enough, in a way that will stick, and be widely accepted, he eliminated DADT and, when the time was right, came out strongly for gay marriage. So Democrats, chill out. Obama will not deliver on every issue and will not fulfill your every fantasy. But he will do more for you than his opponent ever will. So back off a little and be realistic about what is possible, or experience the hardships of what is not when Romney takes office. As a society we manage to turn real tragedy into parody. The deaths in Aurora are terrible and represent, to those who lost loved ones, a dark day from which they will never recover fully. The hole will always be present, and that is truly sad. The unexpected and senseless nature of the deaths in a place of innocence catches our attention, and rightfully so. But we go overboard. The news coverage is excessive, blanket, non-stop, 24-hour; we lose all perspective. In 2010 an estimated 32,788 Americans died in auto accidents. That means 90 people die on our highways each day, every day, seven days per week, every week of the year. That is, about four people die every hour of every day of every week. We suffer the tragedy of Aurora every three hours in a perpetual, never-ending loop of death. The families of those killed in cars feel no differently, have lost no less, than the families of the victims in Colorado. Do not misunderstand; what happened in Aurora is newsworthy and is important enough to suggest that society has some important questions to consider (although we probably will not). But what we are witnessing in covering the story is obsession, and it is unhealthy. We have lost our sense of proportion. News organizations are nearly giddy with opportunity even as they put on a grim face before the camera. Instead of taking this tragedy as an opportunity to have an adult conversation about gun control, or about broader issues of societal risk, we instead have converted a true tragedy into the triviality of a reality TV show. In doing so we degrade ourselves and soil the memories of those who did not survive. Follow Jeff Schweitzer on Twitter: www.twitter.com/JeffSchweitzer
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Bible Gateway Recommendations Our Price: $46.99 Save: $23.00 (33%) View more titles Our Price: $5.99 Save: $1.51 (20%) New American Standard Bible (NASB) 3 Therefore if you have been raised up with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 2 [a]Set your mind on the things above, not on the things that are on earth. 3 For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God. 4 When Christ, who is our life, is revealed, then you also will be revealed with Him in glory. 5 Therefore [b]consider the members of your earthly body as dead to [c]immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which [d]amounts to idolatry. 6 For it is because of these things that the wrath of God will come [e]upon the sons of disobedience, 7 and in them you also once walked, when you were living [f]in them. 8 But now you also, put them all aside: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and abusive speech from your mouth. 9 [g]Do not lie to one another, since you laid aside the old [h]self with its evil practices, 10 and have put on the new self who is being [i]renewed to a true knowledge according to the image of the One who created him— 11 a renewal in which there is no distinction between Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, [j]barbarian, Scythian, slave and freeman, but Christ is all, and in all. 12 So, as those who have been chosen of God, holy and beloved, put on a heart of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and [k]patience; 13 bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, whoever has a complaint against anyone; just as the Lord forgave you, so also should you. 14 Beyond all these things put on love, which is [l]the perfect bond of unity. 15 Let the peace of Christ [m]rule in your hearts, to which [n]indeed you were called in one body; and [o]be thankful. 16 Let the word of [p]Christ richly dwell within you, [q]with all wisdom teaching and admonishing [r]one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing [s]with thankfulness in your hearts to God. 17 Whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through Him to God the Father. 18 Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. 19 Husbands, love your wives and do not be embittered against them. 20 Children, be obedient to your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing [t]to the Lord. 21 Fathers, do not exasperate your children, so that they will not lose heart. 22 Slaves, in all things obey those who are your masters [u]on earth, not with [v]external service, as those who merely please men, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord. 23 Whatever you do, do your work [w]heartily, as for the Lord [x]rather than for men, 24 knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward [y]of the inheritance. It is the Lord Christ whom you serve. 25 For he who does wrong will receive the consequences of the wrong which he has done, and [z]that without partiality.
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School News: School closings—where to find them It’s coming up on winter in Minnesota and school closings and delays, though something we try to avoid, are a fact of life sometimes. On those occasions when a closing or delay may be an eventuality, our transportation department is watching and testing conditions closely overnight so any necessary announcements can be made well in advance of the school day, when possible. In the event of a closing or delay, the district tries to cover the community with information like a blanket. Television, radio, telephone, Internet, newspaper, and even social networking will be used to keep families updated. Our most effective tool is our parent notification system. We will call all district families and let them know of any changes to the school day. We will also notify all the Twin Cities television stations. They have become adept at getting those announcements on the air very quickly. But TV news is often busy with statewide closings, so families can monitor local radio stations as well. The district will report to WCMP (100.9 FM, and 1350 AM), and KBEK (95.5 FM) in the event of a closing or delay. The Internet will also be used extensively, and people can check the district website (www.northbranch.k12.mn.us) for updates. We will also notify all of the local papers to any changes in the school day and all have websites. Did you know we have a Facebook page? We will also post closings and delays there for our roughly 590 “fans.” The district information line is (651) 674-1411 and the recording will be updated any time there is new information. Although circumstances don’t always allow, we do everything in our power to disseminate closings and delays as early and as widely as possible to give you an opportunity to plan. As always we appreciate your patience and understanding on those occasions when weather makes things difficult for the district. — Deb Henton is superintendent for North Branch Area School District 138
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Clothing, clothing, and more clothing -- there is little doubt that when we arrive at the CDC (clothing distribution center) in Punta Arenas, Chile, there will be ample gear to provision our student, post-doc, and faculty researchers. Our gear will include the National Science Foundation’s characteristic bright red parkas, multiple sets of long underwear, wool pants, wool socks, three or four pairs of gloves, wind jackets, wind pants, caps, ear muffs, and of course, the famous “bunny boots.” The plastic white boots were developed during the Korean War and are great at keeping your toes warm under the coldest of conditions. Many a time during my past eight trips to Antarctica have I found myself thanking the architect of these marvelous boots; they have saved many a frost-nipped toe. Thank goodness we are getting our clothing allotment in Chile and don’t have to carry them with us from the United States. Instead, here in Birmingham, I have been busy shopping: for camera gear; Dramamine (for the rough Drake Passage between South America and Antarctica); toothpaste; sunscreen (there’s lots of ultraviolet radiation in the Antarctic where the ozone hole figures prominently); and blue jeans -- only we OAE’s (Old Antarctic Explorers) fully appreciate the value of bringing a pair of these for life around the station. We’re also taking data books, various and sundry laboratory supplies (the vast majority have been ordered months ago and shipped to the station ahead of us), and a host of other odds and ends, many of which are the product of coming to know what is needed in such a remote location. Fortunately the station has a laundry facility, so there will be opportunities to wash our salt-sprayed clothing, and there is even a small dispensary where one can buy shaving cream and a T-shirt for a souvenir. As I pack my bags for the trip, it dawns on me that yet another chapter of Antarctic adventure is looming, and after all these weeks of preparation we are headed back to “the ice!” Now, if I can only be sure to leave enough room in my bags to bring home small Antarctic gifts for Jamie and Luke, my five-year-old daughter and seven-year-old son. Wish me luck!
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H is for Headache Except it isn't even that good. The horse hasn't been bought yet, and the cart is still in the shop. Here's the basic plot: By 2006, the government says everyone will be weaned off their old analog televisions and planted in front of their brand new digital sets. It'd be a flawless plan if it weren't for the fact that a whole lot of people have refused to fall in line, throw out their old sets, and invest the thousands of dollars required to buy the new digital one. And local broadcasters are left guessing what to buy and how to spend to make the transition to digital television. Don't expect that horse and cart to be racing out of the barn anytime soon. One of the biggest question marks for broadcasters is the "transitional period" during which stations are expected to transmit signals in both analog and digital. That's an expensive proposition since it means stations will have to sink serious cash into a new antenna, transmitter, and encoder - even before there is an audience ready to receive the digital signal. It's a classic catch-22: no one will buy a new digital receiver until they can see digital pictures with it, but there's no incentive for stations to put out a digital picture if no one's got a set yet. According to the Federal Communications Commission, the transitional period should last from 2003 (when the public broadcasters are expected to have converted to digital) to 2006, when the simulcasting should end, and most everyone should be able to receive a digital signal. Then, the analog signal is turned off forever. Fortunately, the federal government included an "out" clause: the mandatory conversion date won't hit until 85 percent of the public has the ability to receive a digital signal in their homes. And at this point, nobody believes that this will be the case in 2006. Another wrinkle is that over 60 percent of U. S. TV households have cable. Since a true high definition picture needs much more data than an old analog picture, cable operators will have to find enough "space" on their systems to carry the new signal. In Frankfort, the city-owned cable system has already begun planning a solution to all these problems. According to John Higginbotham, director of community television, the Frankfort system has "set aside bandwidth earmarked to carry the digital signals of all our broadcast stations. Our system will have the capacity to pass the digital signal." Higginbotham also said the Frankfort system - betting not everyone will have a digital TV when the analog signal is turned off - will enable its viewers to continue to receive a signal with their old sets. "For example, as long as WLEX is up with two feeds, we're going to send both out to our customers," Higginbotham said. "Once their analog license has to be turned in, we'll downconvert the digital signal to analog, because we don't want our customers to be without those signals." While Higginbotham hasn't priced out how much it will cost the Frankfort system to upgrade to carry these high definition pictures, local television stations are already dealing with their upgrade costs, which are considerable. One Lexington station, Fox 56, is predicting it will have to invest a minimum of $3 million dollars to convert to digital. The list of upgrades is lengthy, according to Mark Aitken, the director of advanced technology for Sinclair Broadcast Group which owns Fox 56. Just to "pass through" the signal of the network without doing any local production, Aitken said, a station will spend from $500,000 to $1.8 million. And that's if they don't have to build a new transmission tower, which some stations must do because the existing tower can't accommodate a second antenna. A new tower can cost up to $3 million. The final figure is only larger with the cost of new studio cameras (about $100,000 each), new mobile vans for live shots ($1.5 million each), new camcorders for news coverage ($125,000 each), and other necessities like editing bays, control panels, and high bandwidth cable to connect cameras to the control room. What concerns Aitken most, however, is yet another problem that the industry has discovered: Getting a signal inside your home. If a viewer lives 10 miles away from the station's antenna, currently a cheap set-top antenna (the beloved "rabbit ears") will receive a signal. But when that station goes digital, rabbit ears may not cut it. That viewer 10 miles away may end up buying an outdoor directional antenna with a rotor. And that's on top of the cost for a new receiver and the decoder that goes with it. At prices like these, people may just go back to reading. Aitken explains, "The buildings reflect the signal, or hilly and mountainous areas reflect the signal, and the receiver has a tough time decoding it." So: stations will be investing millions of dollars in new equipment, antennas, towers, mobile vans, and cameras, and the "new and improved" signal may not reach everyone who could receive the old signal. You have to ask the question: why would the stations make the investment? Beyond the governmental mandate, most stations are excited about the opportunities for enhanced services the new digital TV system will provide. Aitken says his company is experimenting with those services: "Not only are we doing digital television, but we're doing interactive programming, in some cases we're offering Internet service over the air, and other really neat things." These neat things are additional revenue streams for stations, which they will need in order to recoup the cost of conversion. But neat or not, there are miles to go before this cart and horse ever gets to you. HOME | THIS ISSUE | ACE ARCHIVES
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In 2011, more than three out of 10 US new-car buyers said they were likely to purchase online New-car sales virtually never take place online, despite growing interest among consumers and manufacturers, according to a new eMarketer report, “Automotive Ecommerce: Late to the Party, Industry Will Adapt.” Sales of new cars make up roughly 15.8% of all US retail activity, according to US census data. This figure is more than double the total for all ecommerce, which accounts for 7.2% of US retail sales presently, according to Forrester Research and Barclays Research estimates. In September 2012, the most recent month for which data is available, sales at new-car dealerships totaled $54.3 billion, according to US census data. Next to none of it was transacted online. This is not to say the auto segment has no ecommerce activity. But it is almost entirely limited to used-vehicle sales, mostly via sites like eBay and AutoTrader.com, and to parts sales. Without new-car sales in the mix, the auto sector will never play as large a role in the digital world as it does in the physical world. In fact, eMarketer forecasts that autos and parts will represent a lower percentage of overall ecommerce by 2016 than they do today. So, is there any chance of a substantial shift occurring in the industry? Or will the sales process remain relatively unchanged, thereby locking out online selling? In fact, there is good reason to expect change—although not perhaps in eMarketer’s forecast period of four years. Industry officials expect that, within the next decade, manufacturers and dealers ultimately will embrace ecommerce in order to cater to younger buyers and to protect market share. A growing portion of consumers in the US and abroad say they would consider buying new vehicles online, with 35% of US new-vehicle buyers last year reporting they would be likely or very likely to buy a car online, up from 21% in 2009, according to Capgemini survey data. The worldwide figure overall was even higher at 42%. It is worth noting, too, how open to online selling consumers are in major emerging markets such as Brazil, China and India. Shifts in big foreign markets could force change domestically. Young buyers, generally more open to ecommerce and alternative transportation options, will need to be wooed by automakers or risk being lost. Millennials represent about 40% of all car buyers, according to a 2011 Deloitte study, and their potential share of the market will grow as the group ages and its income rises. The full report, “Automotive Ecommerce: Late to the Party, Industry Will Adapt,” also answers these key questions: - Which automotive products are being sold online, and which are not? - What kind of consumer will buy a new car online? - How do marketers feel about the mobile opportunities on Facebook? - What are the implications for brands of having access to buyers at the point of purchase? This report is available to eMarketer corporate subscription clients only. eMarketer clients, log in and view the report now. Check out today’s other articles, “Record Retail Sales on Smartphones, Tablets Take Greater Ecommerce Share” and “Connected Youth Drive Digital Behaviors in the Middle East and North Africa.”
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We offer a 100% unconditional guarantee. If you are not satisfied, we will reship or refund immediately. We want you happy because we want to stay in business. A perennial is a plant that will live multiple growing seasons, unlike an annual which grows, sets seed, and dies all in one season. Their flowering time is not as long as an annual because the plant must take time out to gather enough strength to overwinter, but the range of flowering times, colors, heights, foliage color, and textures, make for a fascinating plant pallete to work with. Our perennials will be 6 to 9 months old. Our shrubs will be 12 to 18 months old. The plants will be fully rooted and leafed out. The plant tops will vary in height by variety, but if they are taller than 6-8" above the pot; we may have to cut them back to fit in our boxes. This does not harm the plant in any way, and actually helps to promote a bushier, fuller plant. We grow in one size – a biodegradable coco pot 3.5" x 3.5" x 4" deep (27.4 cubic inches, 15.2 fl. oz., 450 ml). We usually grow all our own plants, but occasionally we have to buy plants from other nurseries. Their sizes may not exactly match ours. Use our handy zip code search to find your hardiness zone in our Plant Finder. Also, most books dealing with plants will have a US map depicting the climate zones. Please treat hardiness zone ratings on perennials as a best guess, but only a guess. Many factors influence plant survivability: reliable snow cover, wind swept location, proximity of structures, depth of soil, just to name a few. We do offer both printed and digital (email) gift certificates for giving anytime. We also have pre-planned prepared gardens which make excellent gifts. They are acknowledged to your friends with a personalized gift card, if desired, and with a full write-up of the plants along with instructions for soil preparation and planting. The plants themselves and a second set of instructions follow at the proper planting time for their area. To order any of these gardens, see our Pre-Planned Gardens page. You should open the box, unpack the plants, and place the plants in a shady spot, and water them thoroughly. They should perk up overnight if looking at all wilted. You can plant right away or let them catch their breath for 3-4 days, then plant them in the ground, again watering thoroughly. Plants can actually be maintained in their coco pots for several days, just keep them moist and in dappled light. Any questions, just give us a call. Our 100% guarantee assures your happiness.Return to top Your goal should be a self sufficient flower border. If you water everyday, you will always have to water everyday. Normally, 1" of water a week, either from you or Mother Nature the first year is enough. You want it to soak deeply so that the plants will send their roots down to look for water. The second year you can water every other week, more often just to help them through droughts, or if wilting before lunchtime.Return to top The plants need 6 weeks of growing to anchor themselves in the ground and to get ready for winter. We ship in the Fall from late August to early November. The farther north you are the sooner you would want to receive your order.Return to top With the exception of the chrysanthemums and the herbs, the plants will be able to handle a heavy frost to a light freeze. It is much better to plant your order than to hold it until all threats of bad weather are past. If in doubt, let us advise you as to the best time for your area.Return to top In most cases, no, you should not cover your plants for the wintertime. A protective mulch (salt marsh hay, pine boughs, straw, etc.) can be applied after the ground is frozen, and removed with the first thaw. Here in the Midwest that is very hard to do (since we typically have a December thaw, a January thaw, and February/ March thaws. The biggest killer of perennials is having the crown of the plant smother (or rot) in the late winter/ early spring. Overwintering mulch put on too soon, or left on too long will do this. Exceptions would be areas with extreme cold and little snowcover. Or when plant material is way outside of its normal climate range. (i.e. 2 or more zones away.) We never use mulch here in Northern Ohio, and never lose plants to Old Man Winter. Decorative mulch such as cedar is another issue. While convenient for weed control and appearances, it's depth should be no deeper than necessary to discourage the weeds, and it should NEVER be raked over the crown of the plants for the winter. The jury is still out on decorative mulch as it can harbor insects and plant diseases, but its use is so prevalent now that we address it here. Our best advice for your plants is to avoid excessive decorative mulch, and plant your garden so that it will fill in.Return to top Clematis are the Queens of the Climbers, prized for their incredible flowers. They will train onto trellises, fences, or arch over doorways. They only need to have their roots shaded and their flowers in the sun. Stunning when used alone or when several colors are mixed. Pruning Types are noted in both the printed catalog and the online catalog. Type 1: Flowers are produced from old stems, so pruning is done immediately after flowering has stopped. Prune by removing all dead and weak stems immediately after flowering. Larger, older plants (over 15') are normally not pruned, especially if growing in trees. Tie stems into place after flowering. New growth will begin, and these are the stems for next year's flowers. Type 2: In this group all first flowering comes from last season's ripening stems. In early Spring watch for swelling leaf buds beginning to show. Cut all dead material off above these swelling buds. Be sure all growth is tied to the trellis, etc. at this time. Do not tie too tightly, so growth will not be hampered or cracked by tying too tight. Type 3: This group blooms later and from new growth. These should be pruned in February or March as new leaf buds begin to show low on the plant. Also remove all dead material above the buds and clean out any old or mildewed foliage at this time.Return to top Almost every plant we grow will be okay in a container for one season. The difficulty comes in wintering over the container. Since the roots are now "above ground" in the container, the moderating effect of the soil's warmth is lost. Either transplant the perennials into your fall border, or sink the entire container in the ground. In mid zones, you might get away with protecting the container with hay bales, or by placing the container along the sheltered foundation of your house.Return to top Our bulbs will usually arrive in late September from Europe and are shipped out by mid-October. Our customers in warmer zones (8,9,10) should wait until mid-November to plant them (when the ground cools off). Soil temperature below 60 degrees is a good rule of thumb. Store them in your garage or basement. Any place with cool (50-60 degrees F) with good air circulation with do.Return to top Yes, you may request a ship date if you wish. Or you can let us select the best time for your area. Mention your request on step 3 of the checkout sequence, and we will honor your request.Return to top We normally give you a two week window in which to expect your plants. If spring has arrived to your area and we are currently shipping to your area, you will receive your order within 10 days of ordering. If it is late in the spring, we are usually shipping the next day, avoiding weekend layovers. Also see the question below about requesting specific shipping times. Call our office with any questions.Return to top If you order during the season, your order usually ships within days. However, when booking in advance, the approximate dates below apply unless you prefer to indicate a specific ship week (noted in the third part of the checkout sequence). Due to the weather in Northeast Ohio, we are not able to ship before the end of March. We also usually take a break from shipping between mid June and late August as the plants do not typically transport well due to the heat. Weather permitting, we ship through to the end of October. In the Spring, we normally ship as follows based on the recommended planting time for your area: Zone 3, 4: Mid May Zone 5: Late April to Mid May Zone 6: Mid to Late April Zone 7: Late March to Mid April Zone 8: Late March to Early April Zone 9, 10: Late March In the Fall, we normally ship plants as follows based on the recommended planting time for your area: Zone 2, 3, 4: Late August to Early September Zone 5: Early September Zone 6: Mid September Zone 7: Mid to Late September Zone 8, 9, 10: Late September to Early October Bulbs will ship upon their arrival from Holland, usually late September. View our shipping chart here.Return to top Our new packaging system has completely eliminated the use of styrofoam peanuts in our shipping. Our pots are individually protected with custom cardboard sleeves that not only keep the plants themselves from being damaged, but also help keep the soil firmly in place.Return to top No, but close. We currently have about 95% of our varieties on our site. You are welcome to call if you don't see a variety you want, we are probably growing it. If you are looking for an item from last year's catalog that is not on the site, call us, we may have a limited supply available.Return to top You can unsubscribe by clicking on the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of one of our emails and then resubscribing with your corrected address.Return to top If you have coupons to apply to your order, enter the number of the coupon in either the Quick Order box at the top left of the Cart page or the Discount Code box at the bottom of the Cart page. The coupon will then appear in your cart. The site will prompt you if you have not met the requirements of the coupon. Once the requirements are met, your coupon will activate. Still having trouble? We are always here to take your phone order, if that proves easier.Return to top Coupons are often sent out in our packages along with your plants. Subscribe to our Newsletter online and we will send coupons. Discount codes are sent out with our printed catalog as a bonus offer for placing orders early. Ordering early helps us plan production better and be more efficient and we can pass these savings along to you.Return to top You must create an online account to save a wishlist. If you are already logged in to your established account, you can move any item from your cart to your wishlist for future reference at any time.Return to top This item is specially priced for a limited time. Specials items cannot be combined with a Discount code.Return to top Our everyday low price on these items is so low that we cannot discount them further, so no promotions apply to these items.Return to top Please enter these in the third part of the checkout sequence. We will need the number of your certificate and the amount to verify its validity before your card is charged. If you have trouble, please don't hesitate to call or email us.Return to top Bankcards are not processed automatically by the website. We process them from our offices here after your internet order has been received, reviewed, and booked on our in house computer system. This means that if you should happen to select an unavailable item, you will not be billed for it. Bankcards are charged within a day or two of when the plants are ordered.Return to top Bluestone is a family owned and operated business founded in 1972. We grow and ship over 3 million plants a year nationwide. See our About Us section to learn more.Return to top Yes, although we do not have display gardens, we do have thousands of visitors come and browse our mail-order setup. We're located half-way between Cleveland, Ohio and Erie, Pennsylvania. It's a great way to see 900+ varieties all alphabetized on tables. We also have mums, shrubs, bedding annuals, hanging baskets, and in the fall, bulbs. Find out where we're located! Or you can take our new virtual tour.Return to top We are one of the last nurseries on a national scale which propagates, grows, and then ships its own material. We do buy in some of our stock, but basically it is all done here.Return to top Our catalog is full of pictures, information on our varieties, and recommendations for far north or southern areas. It’s good for spring or fall seasons and many people like to use the website, and the printed catalog together. You can request a catalog on almost every page of our site.Return to top
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In the 1980s boom years, courier companies called all the shots. If a client wanted a parcel delivering the couriers would dictate when it arrived. These days, though, the business is more customer led. People expect good service and don't want to wait in all day for their packages. If you can't deliver when they want you to, they'll go elsewhere. Thanks to this, there are opportunities available for smaller firms which can offer a more personal, local service. Although there are a lot of van couriers, this is something motorbike or cycle couriers are perfect for. What is it? At first glance, the courier industry looks easy to get into. It can appear that all you need is an office, a telephone and a set of wheels - either two or four. As a result, there are a lot of new businesses starting up each year. Inevitably, there is a lot more to making a success of it though: very few tend to start up a courier company from scratch. Most of those who own courier enterprises are former couriers themselves. Even a smallish motorbike or cycle company requires considerable effort and knowledge. Phillip Stone of the Despatch Association, a courier trade organisation, estimates that only 30% of courier start-ups make it to years two and three. Narrow profit margins and tight cashflow are realities of the trade but attention to detail and a great service will make your reputation. Cycle couriers can, by definition, only exist in an urban setting. Most cyclists cover around a two mile radius - otherwise the same day service and ability to deal with urgent jobs is lost. As courier firms operate in cities, jobs tend to be office related - lighter packages, urgent documents and so on. Motorbike couriers are faster and can go further but, similarly, they would be more likely to do town or city based work. For long distance journeys it makes economic sense to do more than one job at once, for which a van is obviously better suited. Prompt and courteous riders are a must as cycle couriers have had something of a reputation for unreliability in the past. Unless you have unlimited money for a fleet of motor or push bikes, you will generally have people working with you on a self-employed basis, rather than employing them. They will be responsible for providing their own bikes and equipment, as well as storing and maintaining them. A business can therefore be run from a home office on this basis, with a computer and mobile phones rather than a radio. These jobs tend to be with offices which you don’t have to deal with late into the night. Although couriers are starting up all the time, this is a fluid industry. Firms merge and change, so if you find a niche within your area it is possible to work alongside them. No firm turns a job down but in a busy city there should be enough for everyone. Cycle couriers are also a greener option with so many city centres plagued by traffic gridlock and plans for no-car zones to develop. ** Image by Nein Lives **
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Automakers Smarter About Incentives A combination of low interest rates and pent-up demand has kept the car market strong. Published: Wednesday, December 12, 2012 at 10:28 p.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, December 12, 2012 at 10:28 p.m. Auto sales have been one of the major bright spots in the U.S. economy all year. But here's the surprising part: Sales have remained strong even as car companies have been spending less on rebates and other incentives to pique consumer interest. Over the past few months, major auto manufacturers have been steadily paring their spending on incentives, from cash-back offers to subsidized-leasing programs. According to Edmunds.com, the average incentive was $2,124 per vehicle in October. That's down 3.3 percent from September and 1.4 percent below last year's level. Yet U.S. car sales rose to an annualized rate of 14.4 million — a healthy clip, even though Hurricane Sandy had put a dent in activity at the end of October. A combination of low interest rates and pent-up demand has kept the car market strong. "Buyers are ignoring the stagnant incentives and are happily jumping back into the new car market," said Jessica Caldwell, an analyst at Edmunds, earlier this month. "It's not like they're getting huge deals on new cars that they couldn't get two or three months ago. They're buying new cars quite simply because they're ready to." Automakers typically spend money on incentives for different vehicles, particularly when they want to clear inventory or bolster a model that isn't selling as well. These programs can include everything from rebates for customers to rewards for car dealerships to low interest rates or subsidized-leasing programs. During the 2000s, some Detroit automakers fell into financial trouble after relying too heavily on rebates and incentives to boost sales. But since then, said Jesse Toprak of TrueCar.com, the big automakers have become smarter about tailoring their incentives to ensure they're not spending too much. "Many major automakers have whole departments full of people whose only job is to optimize these incentives," Toprak said. "There's now a whole wealth of historical data on how much to spend, how much other companies are spending, where the highest returns are." Increasingly, car manufacturers are tailoring their incentives to different states, Caldwell added. The days of car commercials offering all comers $4,000 off are waning. Instead, automakers might offer cash incentives in states such as Arkansas, where buyers pay in cash, while focusing on leasing incentives in, say, Los Angeles. Leasing in particular has become more widespread, now making up roughly 25 percent of all vehicle sales. GM still spends more on incentives than any other automaker, at an average of $3,037 per vehicle in October, according to Edmunds. Ford spent $2,788 per vehicle, and Chrysler spent $2,683 per vehicle. Honda and Toyota, by contrast, spent $1,420 and $1,621 respectively per vehicle. That continues a longtime trend in which U.S. automakers make up the lion's share of incentive spending. Still, the gap in incentive spending between Detroit's Big Three and Japanese automakers is much narrower than it was a decade ago, Toprak said. That's partly because U.S. automakers are building more attractive small cars that people want to buy and partly because all companies are getting better at optimizing their spending. That, in general, is good news for automakers. The current combination of high sales, low incentive spending and low average transaction prices translates into higher profitability. Reader comments posted to this article may be published in our print edition. All rights reserved. This copyrighted material may not be re-published without permission. Links are encouraged.
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Though Mountains Fall, by Dale Cramer, is the third book in his “The Daughters of Caleb Bender” series. This series follows the story of a group of Amish families who, in search of freedom from government control, begin a new community in Paradise Valley, Mexico. The books follow their struggles as they try to forge a new life while dealing with bandits, government corruption, violence, and isolation from their former church. One of the daughters falls in love with a Mexican man and is banned from the Amish church, while her family struggles between acting in love versus following the church’s rules. Having read the first two books in the series, I was anxious to read this volume as well, in order to continue the story. I enjoy other Amish fiction, but this series is a bit different. There is quite a bit of page-turning suspense interspersed with the struggles with relationships and faith that one might expect in this genre. I thought it was a good mix. It was interesting to see how some of the characters came to question some of their long-held beliefs and to deepen their understanding of God as they were forced to intermingle with “outsiders.” My only concern with the book is one that I commonly have with books in a series—I think that someone picking this book up first, instead of reading the books in order, might have trouble getting into the storyline. This inspiration for this series came from an actual Amish community that settled in Mexico in the 1920’s. I received a free copy of this book from Bethany House in order to write this review. All opinions are my own.
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Eugenia (Gene) Deichler Geyman: 1935—2012 | Passages April 3, 2012 · 12:24 PM Our beloved Gene Geyman passed away peacefully at the Whatcom Hospice House in Bellingham on Sunday, March 25, 2012, after a 15-year struggle with Alzheimer’s disease. She was surrounded by family as she passed. Her kind and generous spirit will be missed by all who were fortunate enough to know her. She was courageous to the end as she dealt bravely and with graceful dignity as her cruel and relentless disease progressed. Gene was born in Atlanta, Ga., on Feb. 9, 1935 (the same day as my birthday four years earlier!) to Clark and Emogene Deichler. Her father was a civil engineer during the Great Depression, moving as needed to support the family. Gene attended some 10 schools before graduating from high school, always adapting well with her outgoing and positive nature. The family moved to the Bay Area in California soon after the outbreak of World War II, when her father deployed to the South Pacific as commander of a Naval Construction Battalion (Seabees) building airstrips. He was killed on Okinawa just two months before the end of the war. After her mother remarried two years later, the family moved to Ross, Marin County, Calif., where she completed high school. She graduated in 1956 from the University of California at Berkeley, with a major in English and a minor in Art. We were married the same month. She completed her teaching certificate the following year, while I entered medical school at the University of California. Over our 56 years of marriage, Gene maintained her buoyant approach to life while we raised our three sons, even as we moved more than 10 times to places of my medical training, practice and teaching. She was a loving and cherished wife, mother, and friend, a gifted schoolteacher and puppeteer, and author of an excellent book, “Ghost Pilot”. We moved part-time to San Juan Island in 1987, then full-time in 1990. Here on the island, she contributed in many ways to the community, whether with the San Juan library, the garden club, as an EMT, or as a giving and caring friend to many. She remained a loving parent, grandparent and support to me to the end despite her advancing disease. Gene is survived by her husband (me), Clark Deichler (brother) (Anne) of Ross and Friday Harbor, Allan Breslin (brother) (Eileen) of Covington, La., sons Matt Geyman of Seattle (Amy), Cal Geyman in Denver (Lisa), and Sabin Geyman, Mount Vernon, and four grandchildren: Ben, Emily, Will and Laura. A memorial service and celebration of life will be held at the Friday Harbor Presbyterian Church on Saturday, April 28th, at 1 p.m. In lieu of flowers contributions may be made in Gene’s memory to the Whatcom Hospice House, the San Juan Island EMT Association, or the Friday Harbor Presbyterian Church. — Dr. John Geyman
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BOOK: WE BOUGHT A ZOO AUTHOR: Benjamin Mee PUBLISHER: HarperCollins Publishers Aust WE Bought a Zoo was recently made into a successful film, but whether you've seen it or not, the book is well worth reading. We Bought a Zoo is a remarkable true story of an English family who move into an old, run down zoo. Author Benjamin Mee, a specialist in animal behaviour and once a columnist for the Guardian, was living what he thought was the ideal live - he and his wife Katherine had sold their home in London and moved to France with the idea of raising their children in the countryside. But then after a strange turn of events, they moved into Dartmoor Wildlife Park and their family now included Solomon the African lion, Zak the Alpha wolf, Ronnie the Brazilian tapir and Sovereign the jaguar, who devised a long-term escape plan and implemented it. Each chapter documents the trials and tribulations Benjamin and his family went through - nothing was ever easy and there was many a heart-breaking moment. The story was a moving and unforgettable tale of a family living in the most extraordinary circumstance that brought me to tears. I highly recommend this book.
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As we’ve unfortunately seen, irresponsible, unchecked actions on Wall Street can have disastrous effects on Washington’s main streets. The financial collapse underscored the need to rein in market abuse and speculation and add much-needed transparency to derivatives trading, which financial experts say largely contributed to the market collapse. Maria became a leader in the effort to hold Wall Street’s feet to the fire and she led a small group of Senate Democrats, hailed in a Newsweek column as progressive insurgents fighting against an Obama administration reluctant to change, in pressuring the White House and their colleagues to get tough on real regulation. The push for Wall Street accountability led to the passage of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and Maria was a key figure in the debate. She voted against the Wall Street bailout because she believed it left small businesses on Main Street behind and so she worked tirelessly to ensure that reform stopped reckless behavior on Wall Street from crushing Main Street again. She left her mark on the final product, closing the loophole that allowed risky derivatives trading to go on in dark, unregulated markets and requiring traders, for the first time, to prove there was real money behind their bets. Her work to include derivatives regulation in the bill led a columnist for The American Prospect to label her “the savviest and toughest battler for effective legislation” and “the best informed and most relentless crusader.” Maria fought hard and even withheld her support for the bill until measures were included to toughen derivatives trading. Maria also fought to add language to the bill that allows the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to crack down on Wall Street speculation in oil markets that leads to higher prices at the pump. In early 2011, she led a group of Senators in pushing the CFTC to move forward with their new authority, and following months of her continued persistence, the agency passed tougher new rules for policing oil markets in July 2011. The Dodd-Frank bill was a major step forward in ensuring Washingtonians don’t suffer from risky Wall Street behavior, but there’s more to be done. That’s why Maria continues to champion oversight on market speculation that drives up costs at the gas pump and in energy bills for Washington families. As one of the most beautiful states in the union–and one of the richest in natural resources–Washington has a special interest in energy and environmental policy. And Maria has fought hard to uphold the state’s conservation tradition, while also working to bring our energy policy into the 21st century. Maria knows Washington’s business community – because, as an executive at an innovative software company, she was part of it. And as a Senator, she’s led the way in helping businesses large and small throughout Washington grow, thrive, and create jobs. Maria has taken a leadership role on safety and security issues, including defending our borders, strengthening our military, cracking down on gangs, and taking on drug crime in Washington communities. Middle-class families around Washington and across the country are facing tough times–and tough decisions about balancing the family checkbook each month. Maria has fought to strengthen the economic security of Washington families and cut taxes for middle-class families.
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Pragmatism can kill your desires. Statements like the following will sabotage budding dreams: - "How will we pull this off?" (vs Why should we do this?) - "I'd love to pursue this, but I don't have the time, money, resources." - "I've always dreamed of becoming a [________], but how will I provide for my family?" - "I really want to move forward in my calling, but I guess I'll wait until the economy rebounds a bit." Let me also be clear that there must be discernment involved. Launching into your dream or calling without having heard some directive from God can be foolish and bring about unnecessary pain. Listening for his counsel and wisdom is critical. That having been said, don't allow pragmatism to prevent you from taking the necessary, God-inspired risks that will bring you further into your place in the Story. Pragmatism's favorite word is "how?" Someone has to answer that question, but we can leave that to our Supply Captain who has any and every resource at his disposal. God recently asked me and my wife to move our family 1,000 miles with no job. I knew that's how he wanted us to proceed because it's what I had been hearing for two years. Believe me, it was tempting to hedge our bets and say, "Sure we'll move, God; if you give us a job first." Or, "Let's wait until we've got some good job leads." In fact, our trust did waver during the journey. Other's we hoped would support us thought we were nuts. But in the end, we moved without a job. And God showed up. Brilliantly. He provided a job for my wife that couldn't have come any other way than by his intervention. That's just one of the ways in which he took care of things. Pragmatism could have killed our dream, for we did not have a clue as to "how" God was going to provide. But our Supply Captain always has something up his sleave...
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Posts Tagged ‘lion toy’ Fisher-Price Stride-To-Ride Lion This characterized walker-to-ride on provides great play and developmental benefit for baby. In the walker mode baby will have a large wheel base and large handle to aid them in their first steps. When baby is ready, simply put the lion's tail down and convert the walker to a ride-on. In the ride-on mode baby will have a large seat to sit on and ample room for their hands behind the lion's soft tuft of hair around his ears. Music, Light and Lion sounds encourage and reward baby as they walk or ride around the house or if baby presses the lion's nose. This adorable lion grows with your developing child, from his first strides to his first ride. In walker mode, your little one can grasp onto the chunky handle and experiment putting one foot in front of the other. A large wheelbase provides ample stability. When Baby is ready, simply fold the lion's tail down to convert the walker into a ride-on. In ride-on mode, your little rider can use the lion's ears as handgrips. A large seat gives your child plenty of room. Lion features a soft tuft of hair around its ears. Touch its nose to hear music or a mighty roar! Music and sounds also encourage and reward your baby as he walks or rides around the house. Requires 2 "AA" batteries (included). Measures 19"L x 13"W x 15"H.
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Jackie Robinson Day in DC rained out Nationals expected to honor baseball pioneer at later date WASHINGTON -- The Nationals were scheduled to honor Jackie Robinson by wearing No. 42 on Wednesday night at Nationals Park. But the game between the Nationals and Phillies was postponed because of rain. Washington is expected to honor Robinson at a later date. In March 2004, Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig designated April 15 as Jackie Robinson Day throughout the Major Leagues. In 2007, in honor of the 60th anniversary of Robinson's first Major League game, the retirement was temporarily lifted to allow players to pay homage to him by wearing his number. On Wednesday, all of the Nationals and Phillies players, coaching staffs and managers were expected to wear No. 42. Although the game was postponed, it didn't stop Nationals manager Manny Acta from paying homage to Robinson during a pregame news conference. "Everything I have -- and big players where I come from in Latin America -- we have it all because of Jackie Robinson. He is the one who did it for us," Acta said. "Without Jackie Robinson, Juan Marichal, Ozzie Virgil Sr., Rico Carty and Felipe Alou never would have had the chance to come over here. "It was tough for Jackie to be an American. Imagine us not only being minority, but also foreigners. We owe everything to him." Outfielder/infielder Willie Harris gets emotional when talking about Robinson. They were both born in Cairo, Ga., and Harris knows how much Robinson means to baseball and society. "Around the league, I think we are doing a great job as a far as honoring Jackie Robinson," Harris said. "He laid the groundwork and the red carpet for us and I'm very thankful and grateful what he has done for me." Bill Ladson is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.
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Friday night, my wife asked me to go along with her to walk in the Wetzel County Relay for Life being held on Magnolia's track. When we arrived the area was alive with activities for those who had come out that warm evening in support of those whose lives have been touched by cancer. If you have never taken part in the annual event, you may be surprised at the many faces that are in attendance. From the very young to those we call senior citizens were there to show their support for the great cause. I realized as I looked around the track area the amount of people whose lives are touched each year by the disease. There were people renewing old friendships and others meeting for the first time as the sun began to set. On the evening air, the smell of hot dogs and popcorn cooking was being carried in the breeze. Hundreds and even perhaps a thousand people had gathered to spend time remembering those who cancer had taken. At the same time, others were celebrating those who have survived the second leading cause of death in our country. What was once a word that meant no hope when a person was diagnosed with cancer; today through efforts such as Relay for Life, support systems, and medical research, the word no longer means the disease has the final word in people lives. My dad asked, "What was the distance around the track the people were walking that evening?" I told him if I remembered correctly it was a quarter mile. That got me to thinking about that distance and how many luminaries it must have taken to encircle the track on both sides. At that moment, I came to understand the small white luminaries with people's names written on them stretched for over a total distance of a half mile. A half mile of names of people who had survived the battle with cancer and those who had been taken by the disease. I tried walking and looking at the many names written on what seemed to be thousands of white luminaries. Many names I did not recognize, but still I realized each name belongs to a person. A person who was someone's mom or dad, brother or sister, son or daughter, or a friend. Every name on a luminary marked, "In Memory" was a person who no longer could stand up and say, "I will continue to fight this terrible disease." Alongside were other luminaries with names of survivors who still could stand and say, "I may not go quietly in the night without a fight. I will light the way one luminary at a time to show the way for hope." As the night came on, each of the luminaries began to glow within from a tiny flame of a candle. At first, it was only a few glowing luminaries, then more and more as each was lit. Within a short time the field was ringed in circle of light and hope-hope for those who may have been lost in the darkness of cancer and those who face the uncertainty of the disease each day in the battle to win. Last Friday night, citizens of the area came together and lit small luminaries with hopes to remember and support the fight against the disease. As the night grew dark, I looked up at the sky and could see in the heavens, the stars that had begun to show down on the field of hope and prayers. Perhaps those who cancer had taken and could not be there with us had lit their luminaries in the heavens as a way to remember those who were left behind. I believe that also may be a cruel result of the disease for those left behind to face the future alone. But events such as this can help with the pain of those left with only memories of loved ones. Through efforts such as the Relay for Life "HOPE" can live on for those who remember and share that togetherness. I realize that each person there knows someone who cancer had touched. For myself, as I walked around the circle I saw names of those people I have known and cancer had taken or touched. I came upon names of two men I called friends. Truth was, I have not thought much about them since their deaths. I would remember when I saw one of their family members and it would remind me of those men. I somehow felt a little ashamed at that fact that it took an event such as this to remind me of those lost friends. I worked with both of them at the plant over the years. I remembered when each man had told me of their cancer. I have never known what to say when someone tells me of such an illness. Both men were going to beat their fates. Burt Nolan was a man who spoke his mind and worked hard. He was a committeeman in the union for many years and always represented the membership with strength and dedication. He loved to fish and hunt and spend time telling of the big one that got away. Charlie Slie was a man who I always remember with a smile on his face, even when his fate was uncertain. He worked the railroad crew and had driven many a railroad spike over the years. I will always remember him with his rolled up blue hat and his smile. Both men loved their families and life, and made a difference in the people they touched along the way. Cancer took that away from us all and especially their families. As I stood in the warm evening air looking at the flicking lighted luminaries that bore the names of my friends, I once again remembered them fondly and smiled to myself and then felt sad they were no longer with us. In the future, when I look into the night sky and see a twinkling of a star, I will remember my two friends and those who cancer had touched. The luminaries have gone dark around the track for this year, but if you go out into the night and look into the heaven you will see the light of stars in the sky. When you do, think of those who the Relay for Life is helping to remember. And for each of us, it reminds us there is still hope as long as we remember the battle goes on to defeat this disease known as cancer. Perhaps, we all can look for a little hope as we look Thru the Lens.
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Disgraced American Bishop was honored guest at Ireland’s Vatican Embassy Boston’s Cardinal Bernard Law attended major functions there in 2011 Cardinal Bernard Law attended a number of farewell parties for Irish and British diplomats at the Embassy, recently closed down by the Dublin government. A row is still ongoing in Ireland over the decision to shut the embassy to the Holy See with Fine Gael back-benchers campaigning to reverse the ruling. Now the news that Cardinal Law was regularly feted at the embassy has caused outrage amongst support groups for those abused by Catholic Church clerics in Ireland. The Irish Independent previously released details of the three largest parties thrown by the Irish ambassador at the 17th century mansion in Rome. Now its sister paper, the Belfast Telegraph, has outlined details of Cardinal Law’s presence at a number of big bashes thrown at the venue. He resigned after 18 years as Archbishop of Boston in 2002 when decades of child abuse by the clergy was exposed in his diocese. The disgraced Cardinal was then put in charge of the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome, a prestigious position he held until last November. Now 81, Cardinal Law was heavily criticised in the report into child abuse in the Boston diocese, which found that offending priests were transferred from parish to parish where they were able to abuse again. Like the Cloyne Report in Ireland, the Boston document was critical that the hierarchy, led by Cardinal Law, seemed more concerned with the church’s reputation than protecting children. Records which Ireland’s Department of Foreign Affairs tried to keep secret now show that Cardinal Law was a frequent guest at the Vatican embassy. In 2011 alone, he attended farewell functions for the Irish and British ambassadors but was unable to attend a St Patrick’s night celebration. Cardinal Law was accompanied to one dinner by Monsignor Paul McInerny, his secretary in Boston in the 1990s. A spokeswoman for the Department of Foreign Affairs said: “Cardinal Law was invited to the events because he was a senior member of the Roman Curia who, in his professional capacity, was regularly invited to functions organised by members of the diplomatic corps to the Holy See. - Chilling testimony before congressional hearing - Bill O'Reilly claims the Obama administration... - Census shows more Catholics than Protestants... - Horse disemboweled and sliced open in horrific. - Enda Kenny rejects Dublin Archbishop's claims... - New reports suggest Robert F Kennedy’s wife... - Young people worst affected by Ireland’s... - 'You attack one Muslim, you attack all Muslims' - Gerry Adams accuses British government of... - Senator Schumer says Irish deserve a separate...
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Mon, May 03, 2004 Atlanta-Bound Delta Flights Delayed Up To Six Hours We here at Aero-News Net are firm believers in the theory of "percussive maintenance." In other words, we believe that any computer glitch can be resolved with the use of a ball-peen hammer. Maybe that's what Delta Airlines needed over the weekend, as a computer problem caused flights to Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International to be delayed by more than six hours. As to what caused the computer problems, Delta won't yet say. "We are still investigating that and we don't have information yet as to the exact nature of the problem," said Delta spokeswoman Liza Delta told the FAA it had problems with the computers that handle dispatching. Those computers handle weight and balance calculations, fuel load calculations and gate information. It all started around 2:50 pm EDT Saturday, when the problems were uncovered at Delta's Atlanta headquarters. Flights in the air were allowed to continue to Hartsfield-Jackson, but those on the ground stayed on the ground for up to six-and-a-half hours. Although the computer problems were apparently resolved at about 9:30 pm EDT, what Delta called "residual" delays were off the ground by 10:00 am EDT Sunday. ANN/Aero-TV Marketing Department Needs Part or Full Time Personnel Since ANN started, we have enjoyed the amazing support of a group of sponsors who have, by and large, been genero>[...] "On his last day in the country he gave his life for, Tyler was working on his RV-8 at the EAA hangar. He spoke to (chapter member) Vance Simons, who had become a friend since he i>[...] Klyde Does 'Drone' On... FMI: www.klydemorris.com>[...] Also: Wanna Buy A Control Tower?, SAC 7-35 Airdata Computer, Remembering Frank Beagle, Exp 35 Astros Drop In, 777X Team Named, AF Academy Grads Will Get Their Flyover! The X-47B Un>[...] Historical Fiction Set Against Invasion Of Kuwait In 1990 In order to succeed in his invasion of Kuwait on August 2, 1990, Saddam Hussein needed weapons. Weapons lead to questions:>[...]
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|TO:||County Clerks/Elections Administrators and County Chairs| |FROM:||Ann McGeehan, Director of Elections| |DATE:||February 5, 2010| |RE:||Bilingual Election Official Requirements for the Primary Election| This advisory is to inform you of the minority language requirements that apply to elections in Texas. State and federal laws require all written materials to be translated into Spanish statewide, and require the appointment of bilingual clerks in certain election precincts. The U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) has advised this office that they will continue to closely monitor compliance with these bilingual election requirements to determine compliance in each county. Texas election law has required bilingual election materials and bilingual clerks since 1975, and most counties have readily complied with these requirements. However, in light of additional attention on this issue, I thought it would be helpful to remind you of your bilingual election duties. Enclosed with this memorandum is information concerning the number of Spanish-surnamed voters in each precinct in your county. This information should prove helpful to County Clerks/Elections Administrators and County Chairs for purposes of better identifying those precincts that will require Spanish-speaking clerks. Please note that some counties may receive no reports in the event that the number of Spanish-surnamed voters falls below the guidelines. Appointment of Bilingual Election Clerks State law requires the presiding judge of an election precinct to make reasonable efforts to appoint a sufficient number of election clerks who are trained and fluent in both English and Spanish to serve the needs of the Spanish-speaking voters of the precinct, if five percent (5%) or more of the inhabitants are persons of Spanish origin or descent. Tex. Elec. Code Ann. § 272.009 (Vernon 2003). Federal law requires that all assistance relating to the electoral process be provided in English and Spanish. 42 U.S.C. 1973b(f)(4) and 42 U.S.C. 1973aa-1a. (2003). While state and federal laws contain general mandates concerning the obligation to provide bilingual clerks, these laws do not specify the number of bilingual clerks that must be appointed in each affected precinct. My office recommends that in those election precincts, not less than one bilingual election clerk be appointed for each election precinct in which Spanish-surnamed voters comprise five percent (5%) or more of the population of such precinct. You should note, however, that in some of these affected precincts, one bilingual clerk may not be sufficient to serve the needs of the Spanish-speaking voters, especially in polling locations where precincts are combined, or when new voting machines or other changes are likely to prompt additional questions from voters. It shall remain the responsibility of the county to determine in its sole discretion the proper number of bilingual clerks to serve its Spanish-speaking voters. A report is enclosed which reflects those precincts in your county with 5% Spanish-surnamed voters. This report is titled “Number of Bilingual Workers by Percentage.” For purposes of providing a guideline for counties to use in making the foregoing determination, we note that several Texas jurisdictions have entered into separate consent agreements with DOJ in which the counties agreed to appoint bilingual election workers according to the following ratios: |Number of Spanish-surnamed Voters||Number of Bilingual Election Officials| |500 or more|| You are not obligated to follow the ratios applied in Ector or Hale Counties. We share this information only for guideline purposes. A report is enclosed which reflects the number of bilingual election officials per precinct based on the guidelines adopted in consent decrees previous. (This report is titled “Number of Bilingual Election Workers By County.”) For each County Clerk/Elections Administrator who receives this memorandum, we have enclosed information concerning the Spanish-surnamed voter population in the election precincts in your county in order to help you to determine the appropriate number of bilingual election officials needed at each affected precinct. If you have questions regarding your county’s data, please contact a member of the voter registration staff at 1-800-252-2216. In addition, please remember to appoint an adequate number of bilingual clerks during early voting. If the number of bilingual election clerks appointed to serve in an election is insufficient to serve the number of Spanish-speaking voters in that election, at least one bilingual clerk must be appointed to serve at a central location. Tex. Elec. Code Ann. § 272.009 (Vernon 2003 & Supp. 2009). This bilingual clerk must be able to communicate via telephone to any affected precinct. Translation of Bilingual Election Materials Pursuant to state and federal law, all election materials information that is prepared for voters in English must also be provided in Spanish, and any other required minority languages. The bilingual requirement applies to instruction posters, ballots, official affidavits and other forms requiring voter’s signature, early voting materials, and all other election information provided to voters in English. Tex. Elec. Code Ann. § 272.005 (Vernon 2003), 42 U.S.C. 1973b(f)(4) and 42 U.S.C. 1973aa-1a. (2003). We hope that by reminding you of the state and federal bilingual election requirements, you will be able to appropriately respond to any potential inquiries or monitoring visits by DOJ officials or any other interested party. If you have any questions about the information in this advisory, please contact the Elections Division at 1-800-252-2216. 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Will NJ Purchase Flood-Prone Properties? Legislation Advances More than $123 million in voter-approved funding would be set aside to help preserve open space and acquire properties that are prone to flooding in New Jersey under a package of bills that have been approved by the Assembly Appropriations Committee. “As the most densely populated state in the nation, preserving open space is always one of our key goals, but in the aftermath of Sandy, providing funding to buy up properties that are prone to flooding and damage is paramount right now,” said Appropriations Committee Chair John Burzichelli. “The Blue Acres program was designed to help alleviate repeated nightmares for home and business owners located in flood-prone areas. This program allows them to willingly sell their homes to the state, which is crucial. Properties that are repeatedly prone to flooding are nearly impossible to sell, nor do we want new owners to come in and subject themselves to costly, reoccurring damage.” “While these are all worthy projects, moving forward, as we work to identify a new funding source for these programs, we certainly must place an increased emphasis on properties in flood-prone zones. As Chairman of the Appropriations Committee, I look forward to being a part of those discussions,” said Burzichelli. The State’s Blue Acres program was designed to provide funding for the acquisition of properties, including structures, that have been damaged by, or may be prone to incurring damage caused by, storms or storm-related flooding, or that may buffer or protect other lands from such damage. The funding comes from the Green Acres, Water Supply and Floodplain Protection and Farmland and Historic Preservation Bond Act of 2009, which was approved by voters.
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AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) - E-book readers have been relatively slow to borrow digital works from the library, frustrated by a limited selection and by not even knowing whether their local branch offers e-releases, according to a new study. The Pew Research Center published a survey Friday that reports around 12 percent of e-book users 16 years and older downloaded a text from the library over the past year. Earlier in 2012, Pew issued a study showing that around 20 percent of adults had read an e-book recently. Simon & Schuster, the Hachette Book Group and other major publishers have limited e-book offerings to libraries or refused to make any available, citing concerns that the ease of free downloads would hurt sales. Lack of awareness may be another factor. Around 60 percent of those 16 and older couldn't say whether their libraries had e-books. Pew's Internet & American Life Project study, conducted with nearly 3,000 respondents between Nov. 16 and Dec. 11, 2011, suggests that library patrons trying to borrow digital texts have been deterred by the selection and by not having the right e-book device. Just over half of respondents said their library did not have the book they were looking for and nearly 20 percent found that the device they owned could not receive a given title. Nearly half of those who have not borrowed an e-book said they would be "very" or "somewhat" interested if they were lent an e-reading device with a book already downloaded. Officials from the American Library Association have been meeting with publishers in an effort to work out a system that would satisfy both sides. On Thursday, Penguin Group (USA) announced a pilot program with the New York and Brooklyn library systems that will make e-books available six months after they first go on sale. Penguin had suspended its e-book program with libraries last year. "I applaud Penguin's decision today to re-start e-book sales to libraries so that we may again meet our mutual goals of connecting authors and readers," library association president Molly Raphael said in a statement. One statistic reported by Pew should please publishers and librarians: Those who borrow e-books from libraries tend to read more _ 29 books a year _ than readers who don't use the library (23 books). But library card holders also are more likely to borrow, as opposed to buy, a book compared to those without library cards. Overall, around half of those surveyed said they had bought their most recent book. Around 15 percent said they had borrowed a copy from the library. (Copyright 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.) Scenes from last night's show and spectacle in Las Vegas.(Photos) Fans have hooked up RG3 and his fiancee for their wedding. A Canadian singer struggles with the American anthem. An 18-year-old creates a tiny device that charges a phone quickly. (Video)
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UCPS, Boys and Girls Club team up for free lunches MONROE – Thanks to a joint effort between the Union County Public Schools Child Nutrition Department and the Boys and Girls Club at Monroe Middle School, children won’t have to go hungry this summer. The two parties have teamed up with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s program Seamless Summer Option to provide free lunches to children during the summer. Monday through Thursday, from June 11 to July 12, 300 free lunches will be served in the Monroe Middle cafeteria from noon to 1 p.m. The lunches are available on a first-come, first-served basis to children 18 and younger. “All you have to do is show up,” John Arrowood, the Child Nutrition Department’s supervisor, said. “People do need to understand the meals are capped at 300, but if there’s a lot more participation, we’ll look at raising the amount.” UCPS attempted to do something similar two years ago at Rock Rest Elementary, but the effort fell through. Arrowood believes the school’s location prevented the program from being successful. “You can’t really walk to and from (the school), so we didn’t have much of a turnout,” Arrowood said, adding the county does not have the funds to provide transportation for the children. Monroe Middle principal Mike Harvey contacted the UCPS Child Nutrition Department about teaming up with the Boys and Girls Club to do something similar. Monroe Middle already provides meals to the members of the Boys and Girls Club, which meets at the school. “If we can provide a nutritious meal, the students will do better academically,” Harvey said. “If the school can step in and help them with that, I think we’re doing our job. That’s just part of what we’re doing here.” Harvey and Arrowood both agree the school’s location in the central city of Monroe will attract more participants. “It’s a great geographic location,” Harvey said. “There’s lots of public housing and apartment complexes within easy walking distance. Lots of students already walk to and from school. Plus, having the Boys and Girls Club here is good, too. Hopefully, they’ll benefit each other.” To fund the program, UCPS has to front the money for the cost of the meals, including labor, groceries and transportation of necessary items. If the program is a success and children continue to show up, the state will reimburse the school system at a rate of $2.80 to $3 per meal. If not, UCPS has to eat the cost of whatever they spend money on. Arrowood isn’t sure how much the up-front investment will cost just yet, but he knows the school system is taking a risk committing to this project. “We don’t get a bucket of money like other parts of the district,” he said. “We have to basically run a business. Once we feed the students, we can be reimbursed, but we have to get them to come eat.” However, Arrowood said the school system feels a lot more secure about hosting the program this time because of its location at Monroe Middle. “We feel pretty confident, with the economy the way it’s been, that by positioning it in the inner city, we’ll get a lot more participation,” he said. According to a news release sent out by UCPS, only about one out of 13 children eligible for free or reduced lunches will get the food they need during the summer. That’s why the program is so important, Arrowood said. “It’s important because there is a need out there,” Arrowood said. “We know the need is there, because of what we do during the school year, and it doesn’t just stop there. It (continues throughout) the summer also.” For Harvey, the program is important because it brings the children of the community and the school system together. “We want to try to build relationships with kids beyond tests,” Harvey said. “We’re still worried about you the 185 days you’re not in school. We still care about you and want to make sure your needs are being met.”
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Children's homes can provide the upbringing a young people deserves. Opportunities struggled for and achieved despite a system that actively undermines such success deserves national public recognition. Imagine the self-esteem that would be shared by young people and staff. Imagine the change in public perception. Last week Michael Gove gave a speech on the future of adoption. He challenged head on the belief that taking children from damaging home situations into care was itself damaging. As a foster carer myself I strongly welcome this clear and unambiguous statement. It is great to hear him say that care is a positive outcome for some children. Over the years, my wife and I have cared for significant numbers of children where we strongly felt that the rights of parents had come first, when decisions over whether to take children into care were being made.
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Gill helps me to see more clearly how this book will progress: The design of it is to stir up Timothy to the faithful and diligent discharge of his duty, as a minister of the Gospel; to abide constantly by the truths of it, and to animate him to suffer patiently, cheerfully, and courageously for the sake of it; and to warn him against false teachers, and their errors, who were already risen, and would afterwards arise, and be followed by such who had itching ears, and could not bear sound doctrine; but this should be no discouragement to him in the prosecution of his work; and lastly to desire his presence with him at Rome, being now destitute of his several assistants.This is probably the last book that Paul wrote. Paul is an old man now, aware that his time on earth is growing shorter. He writes to Timothy encouraging him as a Christian. JFB has this to say: Paul was anxious to see his disciple Timothy, before his death, and that Timothy should bring Mark with him (2Ti_1:4; 2Ti_4:9, 2Ti_4:11, 2Ti_4:21). But feeling how uncertain it was whether Timothy should arrive in time, he felt it necessary, also, to give him by letter a last warning as to the heresies, the germs of which were then being scattered in the Churches. Hence he writes a series of exhortations to faithfulness, and zeal for sound doctrine, and patience amidst trials: a charge which Timothy seems to have needed, if we are to judge from the apostle’s earnestness in urging him to boldness in Christ’s cause, as though Paul thought he saw in him some signs of constitutional timidity (2Ti_2:2-8; 2Ti_4:1-5; 1Ti_5:22, 1Ti_5:23).And PNT adds this: Timothy, his "beloved son" in the gospel, was still laboring in distant Ephesus, but the aged apostle, about to go to rest from his weary labors, desired to see him once more in the flesh. Hence, he bids him come, as speedily as possible; but, lest he might arrive too late to receive his parting words, he impresses upon him in this letter, with the earnestness of a last charge, the various duties of his office, and especially of opposing the dangerous heresies which threatened to destroy the vitality of the Christian religion.Overall, it sounds like a book relevant for the age we live in. May I learn much from it and take it all to heart.
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Health Care and Retirement: Lessons from the United States and Canada Cover story, Centerpoint, June 2008 As the United States heads toward a presidential election, two issues on Americans' minds are health care, particularly for the millions who lack coverage, and the future solvency of Social Security. While the United States and Canada have different health and retirement systems, both potentially can learn from each other as they consider health sector solutions. To that end, the Canada Institute, in conjunction with the Global Health Initiative, and the Congress Project have held seminars in recent weeks to debate these pressing issues. Americans receive health care in various ways, said Theodore Marmor of Yale University's School of Management at an April 16th Canada Institute - Global Health Initiative seminar. Most working Americans receive care through private insurance. Some receive benefits via the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, which is structured similarly to the National Health Service in the United Kingdom. Others receive Medicare, which Marmor said resembles Germany's "continental-style social insurance" program. Many of America's poorest receive Medicaid, a need-based program, and still others receive "charity medicine," administered to patients unable to pay for care. Finally, there are public-private partnerships. Marmor outlined these access points to care to illustrate the complexity and diversity of the U.S. health care system. Marmor and co-author Antonia Maioni of McGill University were on hand for the publication launch of the Canada Institute's ninth One Issue, Two Voices series that covers topics important to the U.S.-Canada relationship. In this issue, launched at a similar program in Toronto on April 9th and the focus of a program on health care at Princeton University on April 28th, the authors compared the medical care systems in Canada and the United States and outlined the disputes over reform. While some U.S. policymakers are investigating public funding options for health care, Canada, with a shortage of public funding for its own health care system, is considering private care options. Maioni questions whether Canadians are receiving sufficient value for their tax dollars spent on health care and whether cost effectiveness has entered into the discussion. "Every other industrialized country is trying to figure out how to spend less on health care," said Maioni. "In Canada, we're trying to figure out how to spend more." In addition to spending, Canada faces other challenges to maintain its lauded health care system. Similar to the United States, said Maioni, Canada faces demographic and human resource issues, rising expectations, and diminishing confidence among Canadians in the system to provide necessary care. Maioni said the right questions must be considered before attempting reform. With human resources, for instance, the debate centers on how to train more physicians but fails to ask how best to distribute trained physicians across the country. Marmor suggested if officials on both sides of the border paused to consider each other's health sector challenges, it might lead to promising reforms that otherwise may have been overlooked. If the United States is serious about implementing universal health coverage, he said, U.S. officials should look toward their northern neighbor to learn how Canada implemented its system. Prior to developing a public health care system in the post-World War II era, Canada's health sector was financed and administered similarly to that of the current U.S. system. This fact, combined with the cultural and ideological similarities between the two countries, he said, could allow Canada's system to be a useful model for the United States to build its own version of universal health care. Maioni maintained that Canadians also would profit by contrasting the problems of their health care system with the U.S. model. Canadians, she said, often fail to recognize they are not the only industrialized country to suffer long waiting times for specific treatments or rising costs of care. Just the fact that 47 million Americans lack any health insurance should remind Canadians of the relative strength of their health care system, argued Maioni. Marmor echoed her sentiment, stating that, while both countries face health care challenges, he believes Americans would "overwhelmingly opt for the difficulties" facing the Canadian system rather than their own. U.S. policymakers continue to grapple with how to reform the health care system. Unfortunately, said Marmor, plans proposed by the top presidential candidates follow the same reform models that have failed in the past while new ideas and solutions to address today's health care access and costs have yet to materialize. Pensions for Seniors At a May 12 Congress Project seminar, two top Senate Budget Committee members spoke despondently about the future of Social Security and Medicare as the "baby boom" generation begins to retire and future unfunded liabilities for entitlements begin to explode. Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad said baby boomers will more than double the number of retirees in the United States by mid-century, from roughly 40 million to 82 million, putting tremendous strains on federal entitlement programs. Social Security, Medicaid, and Medicare already consume about 8 percent of GDP, and by 2050 these programs are expected to comprise 18 percent of GDP. At this rate, Medicare would become insolvent by 2019 and Social Security by 2041 if no changes are made. Senator Conrad and Senator Judd Gregg, the top Republican on the Budget Committee, spoke of tackling this issue on a bipartisan basis and have introduced legislation calling for a 16-member bipartisan task force to make entitlement and tax reform recommendations. Policymakers in the United States and Canada have raised concerns over the ability to meet the needs of a rapidly increasing elderly population. In the United States, Social Security faces an anticipated long-term fiscal imbalance, but the Canada Pension Plan does not. A recent Luxembourg Income Study project found poverty among the elderly in the United States to be triple that of Canada. Meanwhile, the Canadian government is far more generous in providing basic pension benefits, noted Michael Wiseman of George Washington University and Martynas Ycas of the Social Security Administration in their co-authored paper. Wiseman presented the paper at an April 15th Canada Institute seminar. "Look north…and admire the [Canadian] system," he said. The modern American social insurance system is rooted in President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal. Social Security, created in 1934-1935, has expanded beyond its more humble beginnings to become the center of the modern American welfare state, said the University of Saskatchewan's Daniel Béland. Canadians, said Béland, more readily accept the idea of a universal benefits system, financed out of general revenues. The cornerstone of the Canadian system, explained Béland, currently a public policy scholar at the Center, is a universal flat pension benefit originally inspired by a British model. Canada also has earnings-related pension programs similar to the U.S. Social Security program. Demographic aging challenges the long-term sustainability of public pension programs like Social Security and the Canada Pension Plan. While several fiscal options are considered in the United States—such as privatization and increased tax rates—Canada found a viable solution for itself. The Canadian government's approach to solving its own revenues crisis, Béland said, centered on direct government investment of social security surpluses in equities. In the 1990s, the Canadian government established an investment board to manage Canadian Pension Plan surpluses with the sole objective of increasing investment returns. The plan works well in Canada, said Béland, but there is no guarantee this model would work in the United States. The American public might fear political corruption and have queries over how and where Social Security surpluses are invested. Also, the United States has 10 times the population of Canada, so any direct government investment scheme would be far larger. There was general pessimism about the future of seniors' entitlement policy among two panelists at the Congress Project seminar. George Washington University's Kimberly Morgan, who will be a Wilson Center fellow this fall, said growing partisan polarization and strong party leaders setting the agenda make adoption of a bipartisan strategy unlikely. National Public Radio Health Correspondent Julie Rovner predicted entitlement changes will not have high priority in the next administration except as part of an overall program of expanding health care coverage for uninsured Americans. She believes Congress is too inclined to micro-manage Medicare procedures and prices to address the larger, long-term financial needs of the system. One point is clear: Serious policy changes will be needed, sooner rather than later, to protect our health care and entitlement systems.
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Where is the honor in our elected leaders? For that matter, where is honor in the electorate? Our elected officials mirror what they see in us. What they see is: forget honor, give me mine, and then I will complain about what others get. Our elected leaders know very well what it will take to get our once great country back to what it was designed by our founders to be. But, they are no better than us, so we have a country of spoiled brats. We were designed to be free, responsible and honorable. Instead, we have become greedy, sneaky and dishonorable. Neither side (Dems or Repubs) has the honor or character to tell us what we all know is the truth. We have not learned from the great failures in history. We keep the masses ignorant and ply them with lies and bad press. Not hearing the truth, we remain with our bad choices and search for someone or something to blame for our problems. Our country is being destroyed by us, not politicians, because we are the ultimate deciders. We decided wrongly and our country is burning as surely as Rome burned and for the same reasons. Class warfare has never worked. All it accomplishes is chaos. The saving grace is that after great strife our world will right itself and just maybe we will have really learned and honor will be back. Our president is not to blame. We are. Jack Tetreault, Lewiston
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Gmail Backup: Save Your E-Mail for Free Getting your e-mail out of the cloud is often a good idea, whether it's to hedge against data loss or to meet archiving or indexing goals. Although a standard POP3/IMAP e-mail program (such as Mozilla Thunderbird) can connect to Gmail, if you just want backup and not a full-fledged mail program, some solutions are appearing. I recently reviewed Gmail Keeper, and now I look at a similar but ultimately less successful free program, Gmail Backup. Gmail Backup is a standalone application. The interface is very straightfoward: Enter your account and password, select a backup directory, and go. It shows a scrolling list of messages downloaded as it works, so you know what it's doing. The data is stored in .eml format, which makes it easy to open in other programs. It will also bring down any file attachments--which is usually a benefit, but those who run this on netbooks with severely limited storage space might wish to be careful. (This is not a criticism of Gmail Backup, just a friendly warning.) In terms of features and functionality, Gmail Backup is lacking compared to the $30 Gmail Keeper. It is lacks several features, such as profile management, scheduled backups, and filtering by labels. It also has no offline documentation. While this is becoming lamentably commonplace, Gmail Backup lacks even a Help button to open your browser to the documentation at Gmail-backup.com. To rub some salt in the wound, that documentation is extremely sparse and written in somewhat broken English. Further, according to Task Manager, Gmail Backup uses 18M of RAM when running, while Gmail Keeper uses a little less than 9M. (As a caveat, there are many different factors involved in system resource usage.) After more than a year with no updates, in September 2010 the product (formerly a limited functionality trial with a commercial upgrade) was been repositioned as open source. No further work has been done, but this indicates that Gmail Backup is not completely dead, and it may be worth keeping an eye on it to see how it develops in the future. At this point, there is very little to recommend Gmail Backup over Gmail Keeper, except this: Gmail Backup is free. If basic functionality is all you need, there's no sense in paying for features you won't use; Gmail Keeper's $30 price tag is well out of "impulse buy" range for a narrowly focused utility. Gmail Backup's open-source nature may be a valuable plus for some readers. If development does begin to pick up as promised, it may well add in more functionality over time.
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[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: Difference between cognition and perception? Odd Torleiv Furnes wrote: Second, as the prime aspect of listening to music probably is that of pattern detection, memory - both of the recent unfolding events and of stored musical schemas - is active. Despite the fact that you're reiterating a point I made in an earlier post, I don't agree that "pattern detection" is "THE prime aspect of listening THE prime aspect of listening to music is the fact that it has affective significance. It's easy to say, "well we must extract such significance from patterns," but we don't know that for a fact. I agree, for me the meaning of music is its affective value. Still, I believe that pattern detection (or lack thereof) precedes affection. There are a lot of things we don't know for a fact when it comes to music, but that pattern detection is prior to affection seems to me to be rather
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NEW BRITAIN - — Survivors of the Battle of Iwo Jima will be at the National Iwo Jima Memorial on June 10 for Flag Day. They and other World War II veterans will speak about their experiences. There will be a display of WWII memorabilia, along with presentations by historians and an exhibition of correct flag etiquette. Activities are planned from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is free, but donations are encouraged to support maintenance of the National Iwo Jima Memorial Park. The National Iwo Jima Memorial Park is located near Barbour Road and Ella Grasso Boulevard, and can be reached from Exit 29 on Route 9. More information is available at SOSIwoJima.com.
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TOWNSEND -- A few days before in advance, the word gets out. A winter storm is coming. The grocery store will be jammed as people search for just the right treat to enjoy while snugging up warm inside while the wind howls. Outdoor types check the bottom of their skis. Others dream of warmer climes. In the meantime, the guys at the highway department are getting ready for whatever might be headed their way. Trucks are checked, supplies monitored and outside contractors lined up. Between year-round staff, temporary workers and self-employed plow truck drivers, you can expect to see 17 people out clearing the streets. Usually, things go smoothly for the crew. "It's worked well for the last 15 years I've been here," said Highway Superintendent Ed Kukkula. Town workers set out as soon as the roads get slippery, spreading a mixture of sand and salt. The salt is the effective substance but expensive, he said. Using sand decreases the material cost. If the storm is shaping up to be a doozy, the plows start going out as soon as the sanding is done. If the snowfall is slow, the crew waits until a few inches have fallen. The job takes a toll on equipment. Contractors use their own vehicles. "It's not something you want to do in a new truck," he said. Drivers also face another challenge: vehicles left in the road. "You'd be surprised," Kukkula said. It is not uncommon to find all the cars moved out of Kukkula suggested clearing the driveway in stages, moving the cars from one spot in the yard to another in order to leave the roadways open for plows. Piles of snow moved onto the street are another problem. Some private plow operators push snow across the street from the end of a private driveway. No problem, the superintendent said, as long as a mound of snow is not left on the road. If the workers spot a problem with cars or snow piles on the road, the police are called in. Under the town bylaws, the highway department can have vehicles towed but have not done that, Kukkula said. Occasionally, property owners have problems with the plows. Mailboxes are damaged by piles of snow and the edges of lawns are torn up. "We don't pay for that," he said. Homeowners should check their mailboxes to make sure the poles are not rotten. Even pressure treated lumber can fail if it is 20 years old, he said. If the property owner can prove the damage was malicious, the town might pay for the damage. It would have to be a direct hit, perhaps with paint on the damaged box, before a claim could be made, he said. And the damaged lawns? "Most of the time, we own that property," he said. Roads have a 30 to 40 foot right-of-way owned by the town. Some property owners re-apply mulch at the roadside yearly, others plant new seed. It is all part of living in New England.
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Auto sales, home prices help buoy weak US economy WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy is looking more resilient, thanks in part to encouraging signs for the two most expensive purchases most Americans make: cars and homes. Cheap loans and a bounty of fuel-efficient models enticed people to buy new vehicles at a brisk pace last month. And the nation enjoyed another year-over-year surge in home prices in August — a sign that the housing industry is making a sustained comeback. Both trends reflect rising confidence in the economy. They show that more families are replacing aging cars, more homeowners are deciding to sell and more would-be buyers are concluding that a home is a good investment. Holiday sales seen rising 4.1 percent in 2012 NEW YORK (AP) — Americans are expected to spend more during what's traditionally the busiest shopping season of the year, but they're not exactly ready to "shop till they drop" as they have in the past two years. The National Retail Federation, the nation's largest retail trade group, said Tuesday that it expects sales during the winter holiday shopping period in November and December to rise 4.1 percent from a year ago. That's more than a percentage point lower than the growth in each of the past two years, and the smallest increase since 2009 when sales were up just 0.3 percent. The projections are an important indicator for retailers that depend on the last two months of the year for up to 40 percent of their annual sales. But the estimates also offer valuable insight for economists who closely watch consumer spending, which accounts for up to 70 percent of economic activity. American says installation job caused seat snafu DALLAS (AP) — American Airlines says improperly installed clamps caused seats to come loose on some planes, and it's expanding an inspection to cover dozens of jets. In the past week, rows of seats have come loose on three separate flights, two of which made emergency landings. American said Tuesday that the problem was caused by improper installation of a clamp used to attach each row of three seats to tracks on the aircraft floor. Feds throw support behind lawsuit against JPMorgan WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government on Tuesday threw its support behind a lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase, accusing Bear Stearns, the investment bank JPMorgan bought in 2008, of engaging in massive fraud in deals involving billions in residential mortgage-backed securities. At a news conference, acting Associate Attorney General Tony West credited a federal-state working group of law enforcement agencies created by President Barack Obama in 2009 with assembling evidence in the lawsuit brought by the New York attorney general's office. The Obama administration has been under heavy political pressure to hold major Wall Street players accountable for the nation's biggest financial collapse since the Great Depression. Bear Stearns was sold to JPMorgan Chase in 2008. AIG: Gov't may subject firm to greater oversight WASHINGTON (AP) — The government is considering whether American International Group is large enough to threaten the broader financial system, a designation that would subject the bailed-out insurance giant to greater federal oversight. AIG said Monday that it has received a notice from the Financial Stability Oversight Council saying it may be designated a systemically important financial institution. If it receives that label, AIG would be regulated by the Federal Reserve and required to hold a larger capital cushion against losses. AIG received a $185 billion government bailout, the largest provided to a single company. T-Mobile USA in talks to buy MetroPCS NEW YORK (AP) — The parent of cellphone company T-Mobile USA on Tuesday said it's in talks to buy smaller MetroPCS Communications Inc., a deal that could shore up two struggling smaller players in the U.S. wireless industry. Deutsche Telekom AG, the German company that owns T-Mobile USA, said "significant issues have not yet been finalized" and no decision has been made on a deal. MetroPCS also confirmed the talks. T-Mobile USA is the country's fourth-largest cellphone company, with 33.2 million subscribers. Adding the 9.3 million subscribers of Dallas-based MetroPCS, the industry's No. 5, would still leave T-Mobile trailing No. 3 Sprint Nextel Corp. Judge tosses BP fuel dealers' brand-name claims NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed claims by BP fuel stations and convenience stores that the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico diminished the value of the oil giant's brand and cost them business. U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier's ruling says the dealers' claims against BP PLC aren't viable under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, general maritime law or state law. Thomas Bleau, a lawyer for BP dealers Tobatex Inc. and M.R.M. Energy Inc., argued during a hearing last month that consumer animosity and bungling by BP corporate executives after the nation's worst offshore spill severely damaged the company's brand name. Switching brands wasn't an option for the dealers because many are locked into long-term contracts, he told Barbier. Judge lifts US ban on sales of Samsung tablet SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — A federal judge has lifted a ban on sales of Samsung Electronics Corp.'s Galaxy 10.1 tablet computer. U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh ruled Monday the South Korean technology giant is now free to start selling the product in American stores. The judge had previously banned U.S. sales of the tablet pending the resolution of a sweeping patent trial between Apple Inc. and Samsung over vital technology used in smartphones and tablet computers. LinkedIn links up with panel of 'influencers' SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — LinkedIn is adding more expert advice to its website and making it easier for its users to find their pearls of wisdom. The online professional networking service hopes the proffered tips and advice will help it extend its clout beyond the help-wanted market. The new feature added Tuesday will encourage LinkedIn's more than 175 million members to sign up to follow the musings of "influencers" — a 150-person panel that includes President Barack Obama, business moguls, Internet bloggers, self-help gurus and entrepreneurs. Facebook revamps its help center NEW YORK (AP) — If you've used Facebook, chances are you've needed help with reporting spam, un-tagging photos or understanding the site's ever-changing privacy settings over the years. Facebook's redesigned help center aims to make it easier for users to navigate and find what they need help with on the site or its mobile applications. Though it's only fully accessible on Facebook's website, the new help center is designed to look and feel more like a mobile app, said Terry Guo, product manager at the Menlo Park, Calif.-based social media company. By The Associated Press(equals) The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 32.75 points to 13,482.36. The S&P 500 index gained 1.26 to close at 1,445.75. The Nasdaq composite rose 6.51 points to 3,120.04. Benchmark oil dropped 59 cents to end at $91.89 per barrel in New York. Brent crude, used to price international varieties of oil, fell 62 cents to $111.57 per barrel in London. The price of natural gas rose 5.1 cents to end at $3.531 per 1,000 cubic feet, which was a high for the year. Heating oil fell 1.03 cents to finish at $3.1255 per gallon. Wholesale gasoline dropped 5.09 cents to end at $2.8692 per gallon.
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I was lucky enough to be in the classroom for a good part of this lesson. It was amazing to see even the neediest/most challenging students engaged in the activity. I am thrilled to be able to see the entire lesson as well as the student work samples!! Sign up today for free teaching ideas, lesson plans, online activities, tips for your classroom, and much more. Choose your grade range: See a sample >
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Get involved: send your pictures, video, news and views by texting TANEWS to 80360, or email Find by date Other ways to search Also look for Burned-out carriage is back to its best A railway carriage torched by vandals has been rest-ored to its former glory. The 106-year-old coach was set on fire in December 1996 as it stood in a siding at Keighley & Worth Valley station. Over the last four years, it has been painstaking restored by its owners, The Vintage Carriages Trust, at Ingrow, Keighley. The organisation, which has a museum of carriages, won £24,000 from the Heritage Lottery to help fund the project. The restoration has been so authentic that gold leaf has been used on the blue and gold Great Northern Railway motif on the carriage's side. The Great Northern line ran the now defunct Bradford to Queensbury route which is now being transformed into a cycleway. The teak-bodied carriage has two first-class compartments - one for smokers and the other for non-smokers - and two toilets. There are two third-class compartments and a brake van for the guard and luggage. The fire caused extensive damage but the carriage was saved from destruction by firefighters from Keighley. It is believed to have started in the guard's van area. Jackie Cope, of the VCT, said: "The restoration is beautiful. People who have seen it have been astounded. "It is unique and a credit to the craftsmen and volunteers who have worked on it, especially Robin Bannier." When paint was removed from the ceiling, a beautiful blue motif was exposed which they were able to recreate. And they were able to ensure more authenticity by examining and removing articles, like door handles, from a similar carriage which had been used as a home and later a garden shed in the Midlands. VCT press officer Paul Holroyd said: "It is a fascinating part of our social history with a tremendous contrast between the relatively spartan third-class compartments - without access to a toilet - and the opulent luxury of the two first-class compartments." Even before the project was finished the coach was used on a number of film assignments, including the BBC's production of The Hound of the Baskervilles. The carriage, which was constructed in 1898 and is likely to have run between London Kings Cross and Yorkshire, will be used occasionally on the five-mile Keighley & Worth Valley line. Heritage Lottery officials have inspected the finished restoration and met volunteers. And members of other heritage railways from throughout the UK and Ireland have viewed the vehicle and rode in it along the Worth Valley. It can be seen at the VCT museum at Ingrow, which is open between 11am and 4.30pm, except Christmas Day. For details, call (01535) 680425.
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Reporting from Washington — Just eight months ago, President Obama was calling Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva "my man" and suggesting that the South American country could become a leading U.S. partner in the region. Since then, Brazil has criticized the U.S. approach to the coup in Honduras and warned the United States over plans to expand its military presence in Colombia. U.S. officials, for their part, have complained about Lula's increasing efforts to form economic and political ties with a leading American adversary, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. "Stop punishing him," Lula shot back a few months ago. The differences with Brazil underscore how the Obama administration's Latin American relations have become marred by tensions and suspicions. Polls indicate that Obama remains highly popular with Latin Americans, but his administration's relationship with some regional governments has been tested by a series of developments. Those include the June 28 military coup that toppled Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, a deal with Colombia giving the Pentagon use of seven bases for flights to combat drug trafficking and insurgency, stalled free trade deals, and Iran's growing ties with Brazil, Venezuela and Bolivia, among other Latin American countries. Another area of tension is the anti-drug fight. Although U.S.-Mexican cooperation remains broad, Central American and Caribbean countries are increasingly complaining that they receive less help than they need, and there are growing cries for the United States to do more to lessen demand at home, said Daniel Erikson of the Inter-American Dialogue, a think tank that specializes in Latin American issues. Latin American leaders who hoped to move up the U.S. priority list have discovered that the new president, like his less popular predecessor, has most of his foreign policy attention focused elsewhere -- namely Afghanistan and Iraq. "The administration created expectations that were enormous, but sooner or later reality was going to catch up," said Juan Carlos Hidalgo of the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C. "That's what happened." It was always probable that the Obama administration would come into conflict with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and the allied left-leaning governments of Cuba, Bolivia and Ecuador. After some early praise, Chavez has been critical of Obama, declaring recently, in a message carried by state media, "the Obama illusion is over." But the United States has had differences with governments closer to the center, too. These nations have been pleased with Obama's calls for closer consultation, and his moves to wind down the U.S. mission in Iraq -- a major element in the hemisphere's unhappiness with President George W. Bush. But many governments were unimpressed with U.S. efforts to negotiate Zelaya's reinstatement in Honduras. Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela and others have refused, despite U.S. urging, to recognize the Nov. 30 presidential election won by wealthy rancher Porfirio Lobo. The governments contend that supporting the new Honduran leadership could encourage coups in other countries. In early December, the Honduran Congress voted that the coup that deposed Zelaya should stand, favoring a motion against reinstatement by a vote of 111 to 14. A senior administration official, who asked to remain unidentified because of the sensitivity of the subject, said that "there is more consensus on the future of Honduras than it appears." He said he believes many countries share the view that the new Honduran government should include officials from both ideological poles, and expressed optimism that such a unity slate would be organized. Another divisive issue is the 10-year deal signed Oct. 31 involving the bases in Colombia. Though it won't increase the number of U.S. personnel in the country, it raised fears even among U.S. allies Chile and Brazil that the American military presence might spill over Colombia's borders. Lula asked for assurances that U.S. forces would stay put. In the case of Cuba, the Obama administration eased its opposition to the country's entry into the Organization of American States and made a limited gesture toward normalizing relations by reducing restrictions on Cuban Americans' travel to the island. The consensus in Latin America calls for a complete lifting of the long-standing economic embargo. "The general reaction was that it was too little," Hidalgo said. The U.S. official said Latin American leaders have been sympathetic to Obama, recognizing "the enormous challenges this president faces, including the worst recession since the '30s." Peter DeShazo, a former State Department official now at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said many of the core U.S. goals would be unchanged -- increasing security cooperation, trying to reform governments, fighting poverty and developing economies. "There will be greater continuity than a lot of people expected," he said. "Those who expected a sea change were misleading themselves."
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Here in South Louisiana science plays a big part in what we do. I know we are famous for our food but our other big industries require a lot scientific know how. Where would we be with out scientist in our oil and gas production companies. Or how about the thousands of people that make a living in the medical field? If you subscribe to the Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus theory made popular in the bookstores then this video is either very interesting to you or very stupid to you. The men will find it fascinating and fun and the women will not see the point. If I had a teacher like this teaching me chemistry I probably wouldn't have slept as well as I did. This teacher uses the universal theme of pumpkin carving on Halloween and combines it with every kids favorite thing, explosives! This is a really neat demonstration and I bet the kids that were in the class will remember the lesson for many Halloweens to come If you have lived through a high school chemistry class you have heard the lecture about being safe in the laboratory. I still remember my high school chemistry teacher telling us about certain chemical combinations that we should never put together in the lab or anywhere. Why? Because stuff like this would happen! It appears that you already have an account created within our VIP network of sites on . To keep your points and personal information safe, we need to verify that it's really you. To activate your account, please confirm your password. When you have confirmed your password, you will be able to log in through Facebook on both sites. *Please note that your points, prizes and activities will not be shared between programs within our VIP network. Welcome back to 97.3 The Dawg It appears that you already have an account on this site associated with . To connect your existing account with your Facebook account, just click on the account activation button below. You will maintain your existing profile and VIP program points. After you do this, you will be able to always log in to http://973thedawg.com using your Facebook account.
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"Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched." ~ Guy de Maupassant Alternative Parties Are No Alternative Exclusive to STR November 2, 2006 The State Supreme Court of Pennsylvania recently upheld a lower court decision removing Green Party candidate Carl Romanelli from the ballot for US Senator. Although Romanelli submitted 94,000 signatures, 27,000 more than required, the Democratic Party was able to successfully challenge enough of them to keep the Green Party candidate off the ballot. What's interesting about this is not the Democrats' concern about the Greens siphoning votes away from the Democratic Senate candidate in a close race, but the way in which the Green Party was able to gather the resources necessary to collect so many signatures. It is an instructive lesson about the cynical nature of politics, and the futility of trying to change the established order by supporting alternative parties. It costs a lot of money to get on the ballot in a statewide race in Pennsylvania. Therefore, when Carl Romanelli submitted more than enough signatures, political pundits wondered where the money came from to collect them. They didn't have to wait long to get their answer. An investigative column in the Philadelphia Daily News revealed that almost all of the $66,000 spent by the Green Party came from donors who are active in the Republican Party and supporters of incumbent Republican Senator Rick Santorum. For example, a Washington, DC lobbyist and former policy advisor to Republican Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist donated $1,000 to the Green Party. His client list includes a Halliburton subsidiary which received hundreds of millions of dollars in Iraq War reconstruction contracts. Another lobbyist who gave $1,000 represents the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, and was involved with Rick Santorum's "K-Street Project" effort to ensure that Republicans would receive almost all major lobbying jobs. California publisher James Holman, who spent $700,000 of his own money to support an antiabortion initiative in that state, donated $5,000 to pro-choice Romanelli's campaign. Why would Republican lobbyists for the pharmaceutical industry and a Halliburton subsidiary, and a pro-life activist, donate large sums to a candidate who is decidedly antiwar, pro-choice, and an advocate of socialized medicine? I think the answer is pretty obvious. In a close race that pundits see as crucial to Democrats gaining control of the Senate, it seems logical that supporters of Rick Santorum, the Ayatollah of Family Values who compared homosexuality to bestiality and is the darling of Anita Bryant Republicans, would also give money to a candidate who will siphon votes away from his liberal Democratic opponent. Another example of the impotence of alternative parties to influence political events was my own experience with a group affiliated with the Republican Party called the Republican Liberty Caucus. Their declared mission was to elect libertarians to office on the Republican ballot, Ron Paul being the best example. However, when I became involved with them, it seemed they were more interested in destroying the Libertarian Party than they were in electing libertarians. When they found out I was a former activist in the New Jersey Libertarian Party, some of them requested that I try to persuade other libertarians to support Republican candidates. When I refused, they virtually banished me from the group. I realized they did not want to make the Republican Party safe for libertarians. They wanted to make elections safe for Republicans. Once in a while there is excitement generated when an independent candidate like Jesse Ventura gets elected, or comes respectably close like George Wallace in 1968 or Ross Perot in 1992. However, these candidates do not steer very far from the political mainstream, and subsequent attempts to form alternative parties based on their campaigns proved feeble. In 1972 followers of George Wallace organized the American Independent Party, which nominated as its presidential candidate an obscure congressman named John Schmitz. He got little more than one percent of the vote, and his real claim to fame came as the father of notorious Mary Kay LeTourneau, the school teacher sent to jail for giving birth to a child whose father was her thirteen year old student. Ross Perot's Reform Party fared little better. After a hostile takeover by Pat Buchanan in 2000, and backed by $16 million in public financing, they only got about two percent of the vote. Ironically, their biggest impact was in Florida, where large numbers of elderly Democrats in Palm Beach County mistakenly voted for Buchanan when they thought they were voting for Gore. Even Buchanan admitted later in an interview there was no way he could have gotten so many votes. Sometimes alternative parties are ripe candidates for a "hostile takeover" by ambitious leader wannabes who couldn't care less about ideology but simply want to make enough of an electoral splash to get the attention of statist power brokers. A good example is the New Jersey election for Governor in 1997. Murray Sabrin, a conservative financial expert, became the Libertarian Party candidate for Governor and succeeded in raising enough money from other libertarians throughout the country to qualify for public financing and participation in debates with the two statist party candidates. However, his performance in the debates was lackluster and after spending over a million dollars (including half a million from public funds), he got only five percent of the vote. Nevertheless, he got a lot of attention from conservative political operatives in the Republican Party. Two years later they recruited him to run in the primary election for Senator against a moderate Congressman supported by the "country club" establishment. One day I was listening to a radio show when Murray called in to announce his opposition to naming a publicly financed student center at Rutgers University after the late civil rights activist Paul Robeson. A sincere libertarian would have announced their opposition to public financing of any building, regardless of who it was named for. But as a conservative Republican, Murray was pandering to the racist instincts of his political base. He lost badly, but it was an instructive lesson about the difference between conservatives who campaign like libertarians, and the real thing. One wonders why, in the face of insurmountable odds and countless failures, alternative parties keep plugging away. In sociology there is a concept called organizational maintenance, which is the imperative motive that keeps any group in existence even after they no longer have any practical use. Like the military/industrial complex that has to continuously create markets for its products by instigating wars, alternative political parties must continue to justify their existence. There are both financial and psychological motives involved. Paid staffers, campaign managers and consultants have monetary incentives to recruit candidates and raise funds for the party and campaign committees. In the aforementioned Sabrin campaign, almost half the money raised went to pay professional and marketing fees. Psychological motives may be more compelling. I've seen very talented, knowledgeable and experienced persons waste their valuable time and resources to feed their self-esteem by getting their names on the ballot and in a few newspapers. Some of them have an almost orgasmic reaction every time they see their name in print. In a parliamentary system, alternative parties do have more impact. In Israel, religious parties, though relatively small, exercise disproportionate influence because of their willingness to support any coalition government that will concede their social agenda. Usually, the narrower the agenda, the easier it is for smaller parties to gain concessions. However, a small party with a broad ideological agenda would be faced with the choice of compromising its principles to achieve a small share of power, or remain forever on the outside looking in. Whether it be Parliament or Congress, as the Green Party case in Pennsylvania illustrates, support for alternative parties can do little more than serve the interests of one statist clique in conflict with the interests of another statist clique.
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(ABC News) -- Director Peter Jackson's much-anticipated film "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" has reportedly made some moviegoers sick. The film is shot using high-speed 3D technology, and the film's high frame rate - 48 frames per second, as opposed to the normal 24 frames per second - has caused dizziness, nausea and headaches among some fans who saw an early screening of the movie in New Zealand over the weekend, the New Zealand Herald newspaper reported on Monday. The film - a prequel to Jackson's blockbuster "Lord of the Rings" trilogy of movies - had its world premiere in Wellington, New Zealand, on Wednesday. In an article on the Directors Guild of America website this fall, Jackson described the benefits of increased number of frames, saying "48 frames absolutely helps 3D because suddenly you're removing a substantial amount of the motion blur that you get at 24 . Your eyes get a much smoother experience." "Even though I've made a lot of fantasy films, I've always tried to make them as realistic as possible," Jackson explained. Some fans found the realism hard to absorb, particularly for close-up shots, the Herald reported. "You have to hold your stomach down and let your eyes pop at first to adjust," tweeted one fan. But "X-Men" director Bryan Singer had nothing but praise for the film, tweeting on Friday: "Just saw # Hobbit . Having some serious frame rate envy. Amazing and involving. Loved it! And @ ianmckellen118 , my friend, you are brilliant!" And one of the film's stars, Sir Ian McKellan, explained how engaging the film is while promoting it on "LIVE With Kelly and Michael." "[There's] a real sense of reality and, with the 3-D, it doesn't come out at you, it rather takes you inside," he said yesterday. "The Hobbit" isn't the first film to have caused sickness among viewers. James Cameron's hit, "Avatar," also drew some complaints, as did birth scene in "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn." Those complaints didn't hurt those films' box office takes. "Avatar" is the top-grossing film in movie history, with a worldwide take of $2.78 billion, according to the website Box Office Mojo. "Breaking Dawn" has made $702.3 million worldwide, the website estimates.
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Robert Moog is celebrated on Google’s homepage today with a playable version of one of his pioneering electronic synthesisers. It would have been the late founder of Moog Music’s 78th birthday today, and he would tell anyone who asked that he pronounced his name not with a long “oo” sound, but to rhyme with “vogue”. Moog seemed to be quite tolerant of people mispronouncing his name, however. Tell us if you get rather more agitated when you hear other mispronunciations. Which names and other words do you wish people would stop getting wrong?
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Texas Textbook Controversy The Left in this country has been having a hissy fit over conservatives on the Texas State School Board amending the social studies standards in that state. For example, California State Senator Leland Yee (D. San Francisco) has introduced a bill that would require the California Board of Education to be on the lookout for any Texas content in reviewing public school textbooks. He also makes the hilarious statement that the Texas curriculum changes pose a threat “to the apolitical nature of public school governance and academic content standards in California.” This in a state where the legislature has instituted a Harvey Milk Day to propagandize students in the gay rights agenda, and where the California Education Association, the teacher’s union, is the largest spender on politics in the state. To support the meme of the Left that evil conservatives were perverting educational standards in Texas, the Washington Post wrote a hit piece that may be read here. Ann Althouse, law professor and blogger decided to compare the claims of the Washington Post to the new standards. Here is what she found: Let me embarrass the Washington Post. Below, the material from the WaPo article, written by Michael Birnbaum, is indented. After the indented part, I’ve located the relevant quote from the Board of Education text, found here. (I’m searching 3 PDF documents: Economics with Emphasis on the Free Enterprise System and Its Benefits Subchapter A. High School; Social Studies Subchapter B. Middle School; Social Studies Subchapter C. High School.) The Washington Post writes: The Texas state school board gave final approval Friday to controversial social studies standards…. The new standards say that the McCarthyism of the 1950s was later vindicated — something most historians deny –… The students are required to “describe how McCarthyism, the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), the arms race, and the space race increased Cold War tensions and how the later release of the Venona Papers confirmed suspicions of communist infiltration in U.S. government…” The word “vindicated” is inflammatory and unfair. What is the Washington Post saying historians deny? One can be informed of the reality of what the Venona Papers revealed about communist infiltration into the U.S. government and still understand and deplore the excesses of “McCarthyism.” …draw an equivalency between Jefferson Davis’s and Abraham Lincoln’s inaugural addresses… Students are required to “analyze the ideas contained in Jefferson Davis’ inaugural address and Abraham Lincoln’s ideas about liberty, equality, union, and government as contained in his first and second inaugural addresses and the Gettysburg Address.” The word “equivalency” is uncalled for. The requirement is to analyze, not to be indoctrinated that the ideas are the same. … say that international institutions such as the United Nations imperil American sovereignty… What I’m seeing is “explain the significance of the League of Nations and the United Nations” and “analyze the human and physical factors that influence the power to control territory, create conflict/war, and impact international political relations such as the United Nations (UN), the European Union (EU), or the control of resources.” Where is the language that can be paraphrased “imperil American sovereignty”? …. and include a long list of Confederate officials about whom students must learn. Students are required to “explain the roles played by significant individuals and heroes during the Civil War, including Jefferson Davis, Ulysses S. Grant, Robert E. Lee, Abraham Lincoln, and congressional Medal of Honor recipients William Carney and Philip Bazaar.” Only Davis and Lee were Confederate officials! There is also this: “describe the role of individuals such as governors George Wallace, Orval Faubus, and Lester Maddox and groups, including the Congressional bloc of southern Democrats, that sought to maintain the status quo [in the Civil Rights Era].” That’s obviously not from the Civil War, but I can see why it’s annoying to Democrats. They also removed references to capitalism and replaced them with the term “free-enterprise system.” The document on economics does use the term “free enterprise system” throughout, but students are required to “understand that the terms free enterprise, free market, and capitalism are synonymous terms to describe the U.S. economic system,” so what is the problem? Virtually everything cited in the article to make the curriculum seem controversial is misstated! Appalling! ADDED: Birnbaum had an article in the previous day’s Washington Post that does contain quotes, and these have to do with changes that went through on Thursday (and which do not — but should! — appear in the documents that are available at the Board of Education website): Students will now study “efforts by global organizations to undermine U.S. sovereignty,” an addition late Thursday evening encouraged by board member Don McLeroy (R), who has put forward many of the most contentious changes…. Another one of the seven conservative board members, David Bradley (R), added a list of Confederate generals and officials to the list of topics that students must study. This provides support for Birnbaum’s statement that the standards “include a long list of Confederate officials about whom students must learn.” And it answers my question “Where is the language that can be paraphrased ‘imperil American sovereignty’?” My criticisms about “vindicating” McCarthyism, “the equivalency between Jefferson Davis’s and Abraham Lincoln’s inaugural addresses,” and the term “free-enterprise system” remain. I have not been defending the Texas standards, only attacking the quality of the journalism that fails to quote or link to a text that is referred to. Birnbaum’s Friday article contains some useful quotes (though still not a link to the whole text). The Saturday article was unanchored to text and forced me to look for what I could find on line. I’m also criticizing inaccurate paraphrasing, like the use of the words “vindicating” and “equivalency.” Birnbaum’s take on the standards might be true, but in an article that refers to a text, I do need to see the text. Paraphrasing, without the text, raises suspicions, and I don’t apologize for having those suspicions.
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