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For starters, you can't run the fancy 3D, translucent Aero Glass on it. Minus the pretty Glass bits, Aero was OK. SLED, on the other hand, had no trouble delivering the pretty desktop goodies with Xgl.
For Vista, if you want good graphics, you really need a DirectX 9-compliant 3D 128-MB video card that supports Pixel Shader 2.0 in hardware a WDDM (Windows Device Driver Model) driver. You'll do a lot better, though, with 256MB of RAM.
In addition, Vista was overall rather laggy on this system. It wasn't that it was always slow. It wasn't. But, when Vista was loaded down with several typical office applications, Outlook 2003, Word 2003, and Firefox 1.506 or Internet Explorer 7 beta, it would start slowing significantly. Primarily, this seemed to be happening because even with this relatively light load, it had to swap data to the hard disk for virtual memory.
SLED, with a similar load, running the Microsoft Office applications on CrossOver Office, and Firefox 1.506, had no trouble whatsoever keeping up the pace.
As it happens, Microsoft has an answer for this drive problem. Vista is able to use flash memory with its ReadyBoost feature, and ReadyDrive, which uses a flash cache on the system's hard drive to improve overall performance.
The problem with this idea is that almost no PCs have significant amounts of flash memory installed and flash-enabled "hybrid" drives, aren't here yet. Samsung and Seagate Technology promise that these drives will be here in Q1 or Q2 of 2007. But, neither company has even demonstrated a production design drive yet.
In any case, all that Microsoft is really doing is hiding under a fancy new name the fact that Vista requires enormous amounts of RAM, by saying that it can make use of flash memory for what boils down to the ancient speed-up idea of disk caching.
SLED? It does just fine with 512MB of normal, old cheap RAM and an inexpensive hard drive.
The processor speed seemed to have little to do with either operating system's overall performance. While SLED 10, of course, runs faster with a better graphics card and more memory, Vista RC 1 demands a powerful video processor and all the RAM you can give it.
To make Vista as capable as SLED was on the base system, I had to push my system up to 2GB of RAM and add a 256MB NVIDIA GeForce 7600GT card. I was, of course, unable to add flash memory or a flash-enabled "hybrid" hard-drive.
The total hardware cost to make this business PC Vista-capable was $325.
OK, but with the SLED option, you have to wipe out the disk and install a fresh operating system -- so, wouldn't that cost more? Well, yes, you would, but when eWEEK Labs tried to update an XP system to Vista RC 1, they found that it took hours for their test update... to fail.
They were able to eventually update the system, but they found along the way that many applications no longer worked.
It seems to me that if you're going to be upgrading older systems, SLED is actually an easier, and thus less inexpensive, upgrade then Vista.
Applications are, of course, another matter. Most, but not all, Windows applications will run on Vista. However, many primary office applications, like Microsoft Office 2003, will run on Linux with CodeWeavers' CrossOver Office. The standard version of this program currently costs $39.95.
Again, with a Linux expert on hand, you could get the same result for free by using WINE. Alas, in our example, you don't have one.
But, you could also switch over much of your Windows application and data to Linux without any additional cost by changing over to SLED 10's included OpenOffice.org 2.0. Out of the box, it can handle basic Microsoft Office documents and spreadsheets without any fuss or muss.
If you need more, Versora Progression Desktop for Linux does an excellent job of automatically transferring transfer files and settings from Windows desktops and the Microsoft Office suite to Linux desktops and Linux-based office applications. The price for this software is $30.
If you're wedded to the pairing of Outlook and Exchange server, you don't have to give up a thing. Novell's included groupware/email program, Evolution, can work hand-in-glove with Exchange 2000 and 2003 using the supplied Evolution Exchange program.
You will be concerned, with reason, about the costs of re-training desktop users. SLED, especially when set up to use the KDE 3.5.1 interface, actually looks and feels a lot like XP. If you use Versora to transfer desktop settings, fonts, and the like, I believe you'll find some users won't even be able to tell that they've switched desktops. While some Linux users dislike the "Windowsness" of KDE, people coming from Windows are sure to like it.
What they may not like, though, is that learning to use Vista's UI (user interface) may prove more troubling that learning SLED's XP-like UI. The interface is glaringly inconsistent across Windows Vista and all of its applications. That's not my opinion, by the way. That's my paraphrase of the Windows expert's expert Paul Thurrott's recent review of what's wrong in Vista RC1.
Read it, and then consider your users trying to find missing "Back" keys and the fundamental disconnect between Vista's search function and its built-in Find application's dialog.
I suspect many users will find it easier to shift over to SLED, because it actually will be closer to their XP experience than Vista will be. If nothing else, they will certainly expect to need to work on SLED, whereas I know many of them will be unpleasantly surprised to see how much they'll need to re-learn to get the hang of Vista.
On Vista, you'll also need to upgrade your security software. Microsoft does supply its own antivirus and anti-spam software, Windows Live OneCare. But, it will cost your company $50 a desktop per year. In other words, Microsoft will be charging you about the same as you're already paying to Symantec or McAfee for basic security programs.
With SLED, anti-spam is included with the industry-standard SpamAssassin and you can protect your PC's applications with Novell AppArmor. As is, SLED doesn't come with specific anti-virus protection. After all, Windows gets a new virus every day, while we're still waiting for the first real Linux virus to appear. That said, if you want anti-viral protection for SLED, you can get the free, official version of ClamAV from Novell/SUSE.
So, let's add it all up, shall we, and see what it will cost you to upgrade your office XP systems to either Vista or SLED.
SLED will cost you $50 per desktop. The suggested upgrade retail price for Windows Vista Business is $199. If you had to buy a new license, it would hit your wallet for $299.
For Vista, you'll need to spend at least $325 for better hardware, not counting the labor expense. With Vista, you'll also need to upgrade at least some of your software, and continue to pay for security software. Let's call this total $200.
You'll also need to retrain your employees on either platform. For the reasons, I discuss above, the actually appears to be a wash.
Now, with SLED, you don't need to update your hardware. Let's say that you use both Versora and CrossOver Office to make life as easy as possible for your users. That will run you $70.
While free, open-source software can supply most of your needs, let's presume that you'll need to pay at least $50 for some program that won't be available within SLED or the open-source community. Of course, you won't need to pay for anti-virus or spam protection, so you'll save that cash.
So, bottom line time, it will cost you $724 per PC to upgrade to Vista. Or, you could pay $170 per PC to get SLED. That's a savings of $554 per user desktop.
Now, you could argue that you can do better with Vista pricing than that, and the like. I won't argue with you. You can also drop the software costs of everything on the Linux side to zero. How? By firing your MCSE (Microsoft Certified Software Engineer) IT staffer and replacing him with a NLCE (Novell Certified Linux Engineer) professional and switching over to openSUSE 10.1 and using purely open-source solutions. When it comes to software and IT costs, there are almost endless variables. One thing, though, is certain: the upfront costs of a Linux desktop are far lower than Vista's price-tag.
You may feel absolutely sure that your users will find it much harder to move to SLED than to Vista. There, I will argue with you. Take a long, hard look at Vista, then take a look at SLED. Do the same thing, for that matter, with Office 2007 and OpenOffice.org 2.0. If your mind is at all open, I think you're going to find that users will face pretty much an even learning curve, no matter which operating system you switch to.
Putting aside all issues of Linux being more secure than Windows, and Vista lacking almost every significant feature it was supposed to include, just looking at the dollars and cents, just looking at getting office work done, SLED, the Linux desktop, is unquestionably the better choice over Vista.
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Maintenance Checklist for Geos
Maintaining your Geo is a very important practice that becomes more and more important as the vehicle ages. Older vehicles are prone to more mechanical failures, and while newer cars today have fancy built in features to alert the owner when something needs attention, these older Geo cars don't have these features. So, to help out, we've put together a quick checklist of simple maintenance tasks you do to ensure your little Geo keeps running properly for a long time to come.
Auto fluids including oil, power steering fluid, transmission fluid, anti-freeze, brake fluid, and windshield cleaner should be checked regularly. A small amount of usage may be ordinary and should be brought back up to the normal level. If there is an indication of heavy usage, a bigger problem exists, such as leaks, or your engine burning though oil.
Checking on the fluids in your vehicle is one of the most important things you can do to keep your car running well. They are the things your engine needs to function properly. Keep an eye on them. More so with older vehicles.
Take the time to learn where each of these are, and how to check them: engine oil, power steering fluid, transmission fluid, brake fluid, radiator anti-freeze. I recommend checking at least once a month.
The air filter should be checked regularly to see if it is dirty. If so, it should be changed.
The proper amount of air intake is essential to keep your engine running smooth. When the air filter gets clogged, less air gets to the engine, and you're car will start feeling sluggish, and won't accelerate as quickly. If your Geo isn't feeling as perky as it once was, this is a good place to start.
Difficulty: Easy. It's also usually pretty easy to check and change an air filter.
Like the air filter, the same rules apply for the fuel filter. If the fuel filter becomes dirty enough, the vehicle will not run efficiently. A clean fuel filter helps keep fuel usage at its best.
Difficulty: Moderate / Little Messy. The fuel filter isn't to hard to change, but you will usually have a little gas in the line that will leak out when taking off the old filter and putting on the new one. Be sure to double check that you have the fuel lines well secured after making the change and that there are no leaks.
Spark plugs are an item that needs changed periodically to keep the vehicle firing correctly. Soot can build up on the ends of the spark plugs causing an auto to fire incorrectly. The spark plug wires should also be checked for any bare spots or excessive wear.
Difficulty: Moderate to hard, depending on how comfortable you feel poking around your engine. This is a great thing to let a mechanic take care of while doing a tuneup.
All the belts on a vehicle should be checked for cracks and looseness. If any belts are loose, the vehicle will not run properly. Sometimes a belt only needs tighten, and other times it needs replaced. If no problems are seen in a visual check, tighten the belt first. If it is still loose, replace the belt.
Difficulty: Moderate to hard, depending on the belt, and how accessible it is. It's easy to visually inspect your belts looking for cracks and problems, then let a mechanic do any needed work.
Battery cables need checked for corrosion between the battery post and the cable. If a build up exists, scrape the cables and battery posts clean to make a good electrical connection to keep the auto starting properly.
When corrosion gets built up on the battery terminals, not as much power will get to your starter. If you're having problems starting your vehicle, this is the first thing to check before moving on to checking for battery or alternator problems.
Check tire pressure often. The air level can change along with weather conditions. It should be kept at the recommended level for optimum gas mileage and minimize wear and tear on the tires.
I recommend checking at least once per month. And be sure to check when temperatures drop or raise drastically.
Although brake pads should be checked periodically, any noise that radiates from them should warrant a look immediately. Proper maintenance can stop bigger and more expensive brake problems in the future.
Difficulty: Moderate (if you know what you are looking for). But easy for a mechanic to quickly check.
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Friday, 8 June 2012 6:28 AM
hi , i am going to write a page that contain a function to contact contact
i will provide 3 text fields for the criteria: mobile , lastname , gender .
after user filled in the criteria he will click search
and result will be generate in the datagrid (like crm 2011 default view).
should i write aspx page to do or silverlight-html ? as i think there is many authorization works required and i think there is no built-in table which is similar to CRM 2011 view?
if i use silverlight, is it possible to read the access role of the user? (so that i can restrict someone who is supposed not able to access this view)
Friday, 8 June 2012 9:45 AM
Silverlight is preferred over aspx in scenarios where you are going to embed the page in some CRM form. This is because of the fact that silverlight pages can be uploaded as web-resource in CRM organization and they don't need to be hosted separatly on IIS as another web site.
If your requirement is different, like connecting to CRM from a separate application, you may choose any technology based on your comfort of programing skill.
Yes, you may query information about the roles assigned to any user.
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View Full Version : Na'vi vs Mongol Warrior.
02-07-2010, 03:42 PM
So I watched Avatar again today and I thought, who would win, the giant hunter or the ruthless horse rider. The mongols lived on their horses and were some of the most efficient fighters in the world. Then there are the ten foot tall Na'vi who are clever and very deadly. Let's just say that the battlefield would be on a desert plain (mongols) with a small tropical jungle in the middle (Na'vi). I'm stuck on which would be deadlier so I'm looking for opinions.
02-07-2010, 05:12 PM
na'vi ftw :)
but really the navi would just win in so many different ways
02-07-2010, 05:32 PM
nice question hehe. but i think it's totally unfair to have a match with Na'vi vs Human. the Na'vi are at a clear advantage ... maybe it would depend on what planet it took place on? lol
02-07-2010, 05:38 PM
Lol, the Na'Vi are like 10ft tall too. It would be so much easier for them to win.
02-07-2010, 05:41 PM
Na'vi would have a major advantage.
02-07-2010, 05:54 PM
Well both the Na'vi and mongols are long distance fighters. A mongol on horseback is able to obliterate foot soldiers with his bow. A Na'vi has a height advantage but at a distance that would make it easy to hit. If it got to close quarters the Na'vi would win. But at a distance I think it's a fair fight. The Na'vi is hard to kill but seems to only carry about three arrows. While the mongol carries about twenty. If the Na'vi uses those arrows And misses it's screwed. Because a mongol will shoot you wherever he wants you to be shot. Oh and the Na'vi could probably smell a mongol from about two miles away.
02-07-2010, 05:57 PM
i'm going to go with the na'vi on this one
02-07-2010, 05:58 PM
Hey that'd make a funny tabletop game! :rotfl:
02-07-2010, 06:21 PM
Well, if the fight was on Pandora the Mongol would collapse in 40 seconds, and die in 4 minutes. So I assume that the fight is on Earth. On Earth, the higher gravity means that the Na'vi is 25% heavier than he or she is accustomed to, but at least both combatants can breath the air.
This looks like a long-distance archery duel, in which case both sides have their own advantages. The Na'vi arrow is HUGE, and the tip is coated with a deadly neurotoxin. If it strikes the Mongol, the Mongol dies. But he or she only has about three arrows, and the strange gravity might throw the aim off. Plus the Mongol is on a horse, and is adept at dodging.
The Mongol's arrows are much lighter and probably not coated with poison. On the other hand, he would have many more of them than the Na'vi. Plus the Na'vi is a huge target.
My money's on the Mongol. If he can evade the three Na'vi arrows, he can then close with the Na'vi and fill him or her with smaller but still deadly arrows of his own.
Having said that, the real power of the Mongol warrior was in their ferocious discipline and highly advanced group tactics and long-range logistics. A single Mongol warrior was very proficient at combat, but likely no more so than a Na'vi would be.
So one Na'vi versus one Mongol, the Mongol has the edge but it could go either way. One hundred Na'vi versus one hundred Mongols, the Mongols curb-stomp the Na'vi.
02-07-2010, 06:32 PM
Exactly. Nothing could stop them. Now the idea of curb stopping makes me think of gears.
So, Marcus or Neytiri.
02-07-2010, 07:32 PM
The Mongol warriors and the Navi would probably become allies and conquer the world :d
YouTube - The Devil's horsemen - The Mongols
YouTube - Mongol, Theatrical Full Trailer
02-07-2010, 10:42 PM
At first I thought this fight was ridiculous, but on second thought, this is actually quite interesting. Now the main issue here is...how many Mongol arrows can a Na'vi take before he/she is down for the count? Though the Na'vi lack armor which is important in a fight like this, I'm sure they're really durable (compared to humans at least). Anyways if this fight took place on Earth, I'd call it 5.5/10 in favor of the Na'vi.
02-08-2010, 06:17 AM
as the posts above says its important where the battle takes place, if its in pandora the mongols cant even get there, what are they gonna do? lol but if somehow they got there they would just die from the poisoned air, and the Na'Vi win either way IMO
Soldier ov Wotan
02-09-2010, 08:20 AM
This is not even a challenge. Na'vi hands down.
02-09-2010, 09:39 AM
Defenitly the na'vi, one of the mongols strength lied in numbers...
plus the na'vi bow would be able to hit from a much longer distance.
what would probaly happen would be that the Na'vi would hide in the jungle and when the mongol came close he would shot him from the shadows.
even in the dessert the navi would have the upper hand. the horses arrent that agile so it would probaly get shot down and on foot the na'vi would be much quicker and stronger and would also be able to shot longer as already mentionet.
generaly I dont think any human pre-machinegun/sniper soldier would be able to take out a Na'vi
02-09-2010, 12:17 PM
Defenitly the na'vi, one of the mongols strength lied in numbers...
Nope. Quite often the Mongols won battles, when they were insanely outnumbered.
I am very impressed with Mongols, and very fascinated by them. Actually, the first time I saw Avatar, I thought of Mongols more than once... such as the horse-clans of the plains... those plains there looked so much like the vast grass plains of Mongolia.
As for wheter Na'vi or Mongols would win... that's a tricky question. I would wish they'd unite and fight together against the common enemy. The human modern western civilisation!!!! :)
Oh, and I can really recommend this book, and the rest of the books in the series: Wolf of the Plains - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_of_the_Plains)
03-10-2010, 02:24 AM
Well there are certain similarities with the Mongols, I thought about it too, although many other peoples are similar, maybe even more.
From what I know, Mongols call themselves "Blue Mongols" and "Children of the Blue Sky". They're also known for their Blue spots: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongol_spot (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongol_spot)
They call themselves "blue spotted Mongolians". That means they are one of the few truly blue people on earth :-), even if it's just a large spot. Blue is still their most sacred color.
Plus, they traditionally braid their hair, which looks a lot like that of the Na'vi. Do not touch a Mongol’s hair! Mongolia is the classical region of shamanism, and their shamans believe in a World-Tree and other concepts very similar to "Mo'atist Eywaism". They worship “Tengri Etseg” or sky father, and “Ekh Etugen” or mother earth. Their land is still virgin and they still have an animistic reverence for their environment. They're pure nomads with close ties to hunter-gatherer Siberia. "Eytukan" sounds a bit like Ugutey/Ogodei Khan, the Khan whose death saved Europe. "Tsutey" sounds a bit like Yesukey, the father of Genghis Khan. And like the Na'vi who had Toruk for their totem, the Mongols were totem people too. Their main totem was the Wolf. The falcon was another totem (Genghis Khan' flag).
In fact, Genghis Khan and his Mongols are very similar to the Na'vi. The Persian historian Juvaini wrote that Genghis had "cat's eyes". Others mention that he had "light in his eyes". Rashid-al-din wrote that Genghis Khan was amazed when his grandson Kublai Khan did not inherit his eyes, but had small, black eyes instead. Even now some Mongolians have the weirdest eyes, some green, some yellow. His Mongols were probably one of the most lithe and physically fit people on earth. No wonder. They had superhuman eyesight, perfect teeth and extraordinary senses of smell and hearing, besides other amazing physical powers. A Chinese historian described them as being three meters tall and dressed in fish-skins. They're still taller on the average than other Asians I think. And the men are proud of showing their bodies. They wear almost no clothing when wrestling, except some fancy boots.
Armenians called them the "nation of archers". They were truly "stone-cold hunters" of the steppe who actually hunted wolves and antelope with bows and arrows while galloping on horses, as opposed to jungle hunters who don't ride an animal. They still “breathe” prayers on their arrows while shooting and when they’ve killed an animal, they kneel and treat it with the utmost respect, offering thanksgiving prayers to their earth spirits. A Mongol lives and dies on his horse. Hell they actually sleep on their horses. Mongols truly were riders par excellence, and "animal-people" par excellence. They rode and still ride horses, yaks, bactrian camels, cows and they hunt using eagles as well as falcons.
And yeah, Mongolian women are famous for their beauty and strength, maybe not all but some. There was a Mongol tribe called the Ungirat that were famous for their women. Mongol women still ride horses and know how to use bows and arrows. True Amazons.
03-10-2010, 02:45 AM
oh and Mongols also got the wild yell, like the children hooting as they race on their horses: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCxiK23Rc6k&feature=related
And they also got their traditional throat-singing or khoomii singing:YouTube - Music of Mongolia 7/7 :Six methods of the khoomii
Part of it involves imitating the sounds of birds and animals and nature in general. Ah, the call of nature, the call of the wild!
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On Good Friday we celebrate the death of Jesus Christ.
Wait, you call that GOOD Friday? Sounds more like Mourning Friday..
Yea, so it’s good. Let me explain.
Jesus’ death was a part of the mystery of God’s plan of salvation for us. All of the people who had participated in covenant relationships with God had fallen short of their promises, and the only way to atone for all of these offenses against God (sins) was for God Himself to atone for them with His own blood. In the book of Acts, in his speech at Pentecost, St. Peter said that Jesus was “delivered up by the set plan and foreknowledge of God.” This was no accident. As St. Paul wrote to the Corinthians, “Christ died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures.” And this redemptive sacrifice wasn’t just for the elect, for the Jews, or for any particular segment of people: it was for everyone! Jesus said Himself in the Gospel of Matthew that “it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.” Another key point: Jesus wasn’t forced into this. He freely gave it, as He said in the Gospel of John: “No one takes [my life] from me, but I lay it down of my own accord.”
So why is it good? Because without Jesus’ horrible death on the cross, we wouldn’t be able to be reconciled to God. Because Jesus showed us all how much He loves us. He would have went through it all for just one of us.. isn’t that beautiful! And this isn’t just any other person we’re talking about here, we’re talking about GOD! Wow! How lucky and special we are, for GOD Himself to care so much for every one of us!
Personally, the reality of Jesus’ passion is really moving to think about. Jesus had friends, He had a mother and a father, He was a person just like you and me. But He was also God and had a mission, probably the hardest mission ever. And He was man enough to go through with it, even though He knew what was coming. Even when I have something as simple as a shot from the doctor, I’d rather not know when it’s coming in to poke me. Well, extrapolate that to scourging at the pillar, carrying the cross and being spit on, and then having a “crown” of thorns beaten onto your head, three nails holding you to a wooden cross, and then a spear thrust into your side just to make sure that you’re dead. And He knew what was coming around every corner. The man in me is cowering in fear. That took balls. Thank you Jesus.
Only in Jesus can our sins be forgiven. With this in mind, consider praying the Divine Mercy Novena for the next 9 days with me. Find out more on what this Divine Mercy stuff is here. What a great way to ask for forgiveness and thank God for His great mercy!
“Eternal Father, in whom mercy is endless and the treasury of compassion inexhaustible, look kindly upon us and increase your mercy in us, that in difficult moments we might not despair nor become despondent, but with great confidence submit ourselves to your holy will, which is love and mercy itself.”
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The name "Etymotic" means "true to the ear" and is pronounced "et-im-oh-tik." Mead Killion founded Etymotic Research in 1983 to design products that accurately assess hearing, improve the lives of those with hearing loss, and protect hearing. His first in-ear headphone designs--the ER-1, 2, 3--were used for diagnostic testing and precision auditory research. The company's first noise-isolating in-ear earphone, the ER-4, debuted in 1991. I remember hearing an early ER-4 and it was radically better than any other portable headphone at the time.
The original ER-4P, which was designed for use with portable cassette and CD players, came out in 1994, long before the iPod catapulted the headphone market into the stratosphere. It was priced at $330, making it a very expensive headphone for the time. The current ER-4 models go for a little less, the ER-4PT runs $299, but Etymotic also offers a broad range of less expensive headphones.
ER-4 headphones are still made in Etymotic's Elk Grove Village, Ill., factory, and the left and right drivers are hand-matched to within 1 dB of each other. The headphone comes with a two-year warranty, double the length of most high-end headphones. If an ER-4 is returned for service, factory technicians confirm the left and right channels still match within the original tolerances before the unit is returned to its owner. Also noteworthy: each ER-4PT is shipped with a "channel-matching compliance graph," signed by the Etymotic engineer who precision matched and custom tuned the balanced-armature drivers.
The ER-4PT is very similar to the ER-4P, but the new model comes with extra mobile adapters, a large plastic storage case, a small travel pouch, and accessories for travelers. The braided cable and earpieces look slightly different than my old ER-4P. I have unusually shaped ear canals and don't always have the easiest time getting a good, air-tight fit with many in-ear headphones, but Etymotic's Triple Flange ear tips work like a charm. True, they must be deeply inserted into my ear canals, but they never accidentally fall out. … Read more
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|November 8, 2007
Taking the Education Division to the next level
"Plans for heightened recruitment of outstanding candidates for the teacher education program, elementary and secondary, are in full swing," according to Terry Sherer, associate professor and chair of the division. The process of recruitment and the curriculum developed for preparation of students is being evaluated to ensure that students successfully complete the College Basic Academic Subjects Examination (C-BASE) before taking Education 249 and meet the increased grade point
requirement in order to apply to the teacher education program, which will be determined at the November meeting of the Council on Teacher Education.
Upcoming highlights for the division include:
Room 307 in Henderson Hall will become the second SMART classroom beginning second semester. Workplace software with an Interwrite learning board will be installed in addition to the SMART
classroom and a small computer lab. "The Interwrite board allows students and teachers to interact and annotate over current lessons, solve problems interactively, save, print, and e-mail all lesson notes and files, and creates a dynamic learning environment," said Sherer.
David Hamilton, University of Iowa professor of English and nonfiction writing and editor of The Iowa Review, will present the Kraus Lecture on Tuesday, November 27. Plans are for Hamilton to interact with students in a writing workshop format and to meet with faculty concerning writing curricula and special events focused on area writers.
Scott Kuffel will highlight the "Schoolhouse Connections" series with leadership presentations to students, a presentation during the EdLab module, and an evening panel discussion with area teachers and administrators on the current reform of the American high school. Kuffel is superintendent of the Geneseo, Ill., schools and was listed last year by the Association of School Administrators as "One of Twenty Young Superintendents to Watch."
Negotiations are ongoing to bring Jonathon Kozol to C-SC as a speaker. Several education students heard him speak in Iowa City and are corresponding with him in an attempt to bring him here during the second semester for an evening presentation for area teachers and administrators.
David Fistein, Culver-Stockton lecturer in political science and sociology, will attend the Model United Nations training in November. Plans are under way by the Division of Education and the Division of Humanities to co-host a Culver-Stockton Model United Nations/Security Council during the second semester. Selected high schools from Illinois, Iowa, and Missouri would be invited to participate.
The National Geographic Society brings geographic knowledge to students, teachers and families throughout the United States with "Geography Action!" Culver-Stockton has reserved a date, yet to be named, for the two presentations: "Asia, Continent of Contrasts;" and "Africa in 3-D: Demographics, Diversity, Discovery." The National Geographic Society's program is part of the "My Wonderful World Campaign" to bring geographic literacy to students and families throughout the United States.
Culver-Stockton's exhibit will be open to area schools and educators.
The Division of Natural and Mathematical Sciences and the Division of Education are working on an interactive summer seminar for teachers and students on Science Alive!
Connie Courtney, instructor of education, Anna Hechler, junior, and Terry Sherer will represent the Education Division as they travel with the Division of Business to China on December 27
Faculty and Staff:
Please join the Master Planning Task Force for an open forum on campus master planning during one of two sessions: noon to 1:30 p.m., Wednesday, November 14, or 7:30 to 9 a.m. Thursday, November 15, in Meaders Lounge. Lunch will be provided at the November 14 meeting, and breakfast will be provided at the November 15 meeting. These forums are designed to gather input from faculty and staff as part of the master planning process.
Please join the Master Planning Task Force for an open forum on campus master planning from 6:30 to 8 p.m. on Wednesday, November 14, in Meaders Lounge. This forum is designed to gather input from students as part of the master planning process. Refreshments will be served. We value your ideas and concerns.
Quincy police visit corrections class
Sergeant Dan DuHamel and Officer Nate Elbus from the Quincy Police Department presented information on tasers as a means of self defense recently in Culver-Stockton's corrections class. Dyan Bolin, junior, and Jamie Fischer, sophomore, assisted Elbus as he was tased by DuHamel as a way of illustrating the benefits the weapon provides when apprehending a potential criminal. The officers indicated that in the six years that their department has carried the tasers, there have been no reported
instances of serious injury or death. Tasers are a viable and humane option for the police in dealing with serious incidents, they said.
"The taser is simply another alternative in law enforcement's quest to peaceably defuse or end a life-threatening situation," added Mike Bradshaw, senior lecturer in criminal justice.
Faculty and staff kick off fund drive
Faculty and staff celebrated the kick off to the annual fund drive Thursday, November 1. The faculty and staff were provided a turkey dinner with all the trimmings. Donald Gnuse '56, chair of the Board of Trustees, spoke about aiming for 100 percent participation in this year's fund drive. Last year, 94 percent of the faculty and staff contributed to C-SC's education fund.
Please join the Culver-Stockton College Business Division
Business Leadership Exchange
President, The Sonax Group
"The Goal of a Great Management Process: Isolating Management Stupidity!"
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
At 11 a.m.
Performing Arts Center
Underwritten by Ron Leftwich '64 and Susie Leftwich
Supported by IMA Student Chapter
Potential students check out Culver-Stockton
Culver-Stockton held a visit day for prospective students November 2. Faculty, staff, and current students were able to interact with prospective students and family members in Meaders Lounge. The students also had the opportunity to watch a scene from Moon Over Buffalo and listen to music provided by Culver-Stockton's Jazz Ensemble. Nearly 80 students are signed up for the final fall visit day on November 17.
Financial Aid: "Superstars"
The Financial Aid Office brings out their inner characters for Halloween. From left: Tina Wiseman as "Mary Katherine Gallagher"; Beth Bronestine as Nacho Libre; Patti Barry as Napoleon Dynamite; and Holly Platt as Borat.
Members of Culver-Stockton business students attend IMA Conference
The Institute of Management Accountants (IMA) chapter will travel to Louisville, Ky., for the National IMA Student Leadership Conference Thursday, November 8 to Friday, November 9. Dell Ann Janney, chairperson of the business division, along with Kim Moore, lecturer in accounting, and Emily Johnston, sophomore, from Blackwell, Mo., will present on "Best Practices." Kim Gaither, assistant professor of finance, and Caly Kite, junior, from LaGrange, Mo., will present a session on
the Clark Johnson Achievement Award, which the chapter won last spring..
Culver-Stockton students will attend Finance Competition
Students In Free Enterprise (SIFE) will attend the Financial Case Study Competition this week. Students will travel to Springfield, Mo. Mark Hopwood, junior, from Rochelle, Ill.; Brad Baker, sophomore, from Lee's Summit, Mo.; Katie Fretwell, sophomore, from Canton, Mo.; and Ryan Thoroman, freshman, from Beardstown, Ill., will be competing in the "Duel in the Ozarks" Competition.
The competition is designed to educate college students on money management and the wise use of credit. Each team will present a case study and have 36 hours to find a "solution" for their family's financial problem.
The competition is sponsored by the University of Arizona SIFE and the "Take Charge America." The purpose of the competition is to learn the importance of money management and compete for $9,000 in prizes. The winning team will have the opportunity to compete in the National "Duel in the Desert" competition, March 6-9, 2008, in Tucson, Ariz.
"Corporate sponsors attend the competition and students have the opportunity to interact with corporate recruiters," said Jeanne Johnson, lecturer in management information systems.
James Cosgrove, professor of business administration, and Johnson will accompany the students to the competition.
Recently, SIFE students attended the "Walgreen's Wrangle," an entrepreneurship case study competition, which each team received an outline of problems, goals, and opportunities.
Al Beck publishes in national anthology
Al Beck is featured in an anthology of senior Poetry called, Golden Words, Fine Poetry by American Poets 50 and Older. The collection features the work of senior poet laureates from each state. Beck is a Missouri Senior Poet Laureates runner up for Fantasy.
In related news, Beck is offering students a 50% discount on any of his poetry books for holiday gifts. He also will autograph his books if desired. Beck's books are available for purchase in the C-SC bookstore. He will sign books on Tuesdays in the art department or the cafeteria.
(View Full Calendar Online)
Thursday, November 8, 2007
Pre-Registration Week for Spring 2008 semester
Friday, November 9, 2007
Pre-Registration Week for Spring 2008 semester
11 a.m.-1 p.m.
Saturday, November 10, 2007
Football v. Mid America Nazarene
Women's Basketball v. Clarke
Sunday, November 11, 2007
Ken & Lisa Cowan
(Organ & Violin)
St. John's Episcopal Church
701 Hampshire Quincy, Ill.
Monday, November 12, 2007
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Business Lecture Series
David Axson, speaker
Repertoire Class/Student Recital
Merillat Recital Hall
Tang Soo Do Karate Class
Dance Studio, Field House
Men's Basketball v. Graceland
Charles Field House
'80s Dress up Night
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
U.S. Air Force Recruiter on Campus
11 a.m.-1 p.m.
Gladys Crown Student Center
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Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh Raman Singh may have blamed Maoists for using human shields resulting in civilian deaths in a recent operation, however, human rights activist Colin Gonsalves has said that the loss of innocent lives is not acceptable.
“In a liberated zone where a civil war is taking place it is not as if the rule of the land ceases to exist. The law is a humanitarian law and the law says you can kill Naxalites and they will shoot back at you but you can never deliberately target and kill civilans,” Gonsalves told CNN IBN.
“You cannot deliberately kill, if it is accidental killing it is understandable,” he added.
Gonsalves also said in tribals have never been targeted by the Maoists.
“We have asked tribals again and again, do you fear the Maoists and they smile and say we have nothing to fear from the Maoists,” he said
When CNN IBN asked how the state force can respond if the Naxals engage in heinous crimes, Gonsalves said, “Let us assume that Maoists are doing all kinds of heinous crimes but then too does it justify that the State acts as a gunda, ruffian and killer?”
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Obama to protect US cyberspace from inside White House (Roundup)
May 29, 2009, 21:51 GMT
Washington - US President Barack Obama on Friday declared the country's digital infrastructure a 'strategic national asset' whose protection needs to be overseen from within the White House.
Referring to a series of brazen crimes ranging from attacks on thousands of US military computers to the theft of an estimated 1 trillion dollars in intellectual property, Obama announced the creation of a new position for a cyber-security czar who would coordinate a disparate government bureaucracy.
The cyber czar would have regular access to the president, Obama said.
'America's economic prosperity in the 21st century will depend on cyber security,' he said.
Seeking to quell worries that such high profile involvement might invade the privacy of users, Obama said the White House would not 'dictate security standards for private companies' or monitor private-sector networks or internet traffic.
'We will preserve and protect the personal privacy and civil liberties that we cherish as Americans,' he said.
Obama did not refer to plans by the Pentagon to create a new military command for cyberspace, which were reported Friday by The New York Times. The Times reported that the US military already has a growing number of computer weapons in its arsenal for which it was developing strategies, and was to present Obama with a plan in the near future.
Obama said the new director of cyber security would close gaps that now exist between government agencies in ensuring internet security. 'Federal agencies ... don't coordinate and communicate nearly as well as they should with each other or with the private sector,' he said.
He said the response to Conficker, the virus that has infected millions of computers worldwide in recent months, was 'disorganized.'
The White House released a 40-page report by a special team, which spent the last months reviewing the status of security of all high- tech communications - from the internet to wireless technology to air-traffic control - which affect how Americans do business and obtain their water and electricity.
Obama noted how easy it had been for hackers to gain access to his own election campaign e-mails.
'It's the great irony of our information age,' he said. 'The very technologies that empower us to create and to build also empower those who would disrupt and destroy.'
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New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday said the Centre and the city government cannot "dilute" the the Right to Education Act by allowing unaided private schools to formulate their own criteria for nursery admissions. "You (HRD Ministry and Delhi government) cannot the dilute the provision of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act (commonly referred to as Right To Education). By allowing them (schools) to formulate their own admission criteria, you are giving preference to one child over another, which is against the Act," a bench comprising Chief Justice D Murugesan and Justice V K Jain said.
The court also said the whole ongoing nursery admission process here would "go" if it decides to "quash" the notification issued on December 15, 2010 by the Directorate of Education (DoE) on behalf of Delhi government. Ashok Agarwal, appearing for NGO Social Jurist which has filed the PIL, said the notification has "given a totally free hand to all unaided recognised private schools to formulate their own nursery admission criteria based on categorisation of children....".
"This is contrary to Section 13 of the Act which says that there would be no screening process of either parents or of kids and no child would be discriminated against. It also provided that admission would be taken by way of draw of lots and the neighbourhood would be only criteria," he said adding separate guidelines cannot be framed by schools.
Despite the provision being \"clear\", the schools have been formulating their own guidelines and according preferences.
Despite the provision being "clear", the schools have been formulating their own guidelines and according preferences on grounds such as religion, alumni and sibling. This is not permissible as it propagates discrimination, he said. The court would hear the case tomorrow also.
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By SPIEGEL Staff
Alexander Lebedev strolls into the reception room with a broad smile on his face. He is something of an oddball among Russian oligarchs, with his black jeans, black tennis shoes and a black leather vest over a white shirt. Lebedev, who Forbes estimates is worth $3.1 billion (2.26 billion), holds a stake in Aeroflot, has transformed the National Reserve Bank into a flourishing business that even appears to be liquid today, and owns the newspaper Novaya gaseta, which is often critical of the government. He has also invested in Germany, where he owns 48 percent of the airline Blue Wings and plans to buy a 76-percent stake in Öger Tours, a travel agency.
"We have a stock market crisis in Russia, but not an economic crisis," he says cheerfully. Lebedev attributes this to the relatively stable ruble, which owes its stability mostly to the 380 billion in foreign currency reserves that the Russian treasury has left over now that the government has spent 65 billion to bail out the country's banks.
Czarist aristocrats used to live in his palace when they were in the city. There are no folders on the desk in Lebedev's upstairs office, where he keeps track of plunging markets on all continents. The newspapers are reporting that two of his competitors among the oligarchs, Mikhail Fridman and Pyotr Aven, are having trouble servicing a $1.5 billion loan with Deutsche Bank. Oleg Deripaska, an aluminium magnate believed to be Russia's richest man, has been forced to return his debt-financed share of Canadian automotive supplier Magna, worth billions, to the bank.
Lebedev remains in good spirits. "The oligarchs have lost money in the stock market? No problem," he says. They are slipping a few notches down the rankings of the world's billionaires? Then, says Lebedev, they should reconsider their next purchase of a yacht, a palace or a private jet.
The world economic crisis? A piece of cake for the government and for Russia. Capitalism, according to Lebedev, is loud confusion in the markets in Europe, North America and Asia -- that is, other parts of the world. Things are different in Russia. The Kremlin has instructed the country's three leading television networks not to use expressions like financial crisis or collapse in their analysis of conditions in Russia.
It is disturbing to see a country like Russia act as though the crisis in the global economy were passing it by like a mild autumn storm. This strange ignorance probably has to do with the fact that Prime Minister Vladimir Putin truly believes that the country's abundant natural resources and vast foreign currency reserves have made Russia immune to this virus, which is jumping from continent to continent, bearing down on one country after the next, triggering plunging stock markets and causing the biggest banking crisis that the world has seen since 1929 and the world economic crisis.
The men who sought to fashion China into a world power, first economically and then politically, probably entertained similar illusions. But global capitalism means that a major crisis can pull everyone into the abyss.
Part of the irony of the free-floating crisis is the idea that economic systems are slowly becoming more alike. Government capitalism is already a reality in Russia and China, and now Great Britain and America, the birthplaces of free enterprise, are flirting with mixed economy models as they nationalize some banks and economic sectors. Meanwhile, other countries in the West are poised to perform similar emergency operations. The crisis has been especially dire in the small island nation of Iceland, where the government is taking over the financial sector and faces the prospect of national bankruptcy, a first in postwar history.
Wall Street brokers have a saying that aptly describes the reversal of conditions: "The West is down and the state is up."
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) offers an insight into this depressing trend. According to its assessment, the worst phase of the escalating crisis is still ahead. IMF experts predict that a number of industrialized nations will either experience minimal growth or fall victim to a recession. Even worse, says the IMF, the real economy -- the companies that produce goods or provide services -- will not feel the full brunt of the crisis until later on. No one dares to speculate what this could mean for consumption, unemployment and pensions.
Consistent with this gloomy picture is the fact that, by the end of last week, the desperate efforts of governments had been relatively ineffective. They had done everything but bring calm to the major securities exchanges in New York, London, Tokyo and Frankfurt. Global companies like Chrysler, Ford and Daimler were suddenly up for grabs for next to nothing.
The big unknowns in this frenzied game are the financially sound sovereign wealth funds in China, Singapore and the Persian Gulf. They can invest now or wait for prices to fall even further. They are the global players whose thoughts and plans could prove to be critical.
The crisis has unleashed a political revolution that is sending shock waves around the globe. With its economy weakened, the rate of the US's relative decline as a superpower is accelerating as the country gradually loses its dominant position. Should China, India and Russia emerge from the global crisis relatively unscathed, the center of the world economy will in fact shift to the East in the 21st century. Asia will become synonymous with growth and the West with debt.
Last week seven central banks, including those of the United States, the European Union and China, attempted to bring rationality into the careening financial markets, hoping to soften the effects on the real economy. They lowered interest rates to create confidence. A similar thing happened after Sept. 11, 2001. Just as the towers of the World Trade Center collapsed more than seven years ago, a few pillars of the world economy could be collapsing today.
The Gulf states are the epitome of a booming region. They produce about 25 million barrels of crude oil a day. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is earning money hand over fist. In 2007, with an average oil price of $69 a barrel, UAE revenues amounted to $63 billion and, with oil currently at about $100 a barrel, 2008 revenues are likely to be even higher. The sovereign wealth funds in the UAE and Saudi Arabia manage about $1.2 trillion in combined assets. The Abu Dhabi Investment Authority controls a portfolio worth $875 billion, making it the world's richest sovereign wealth fund. Its headquarters are in a 38-story glass tower designed to evoke the gentle waves of the Gulf and the sand dunes of the Arabian Desert.
According to the financial blog Global EconoMonitor, it is hard to tell exactly what makes up these funds, which stock and capital markets they focus on and in which currencies they speculate.
The funds and financial institutions in the Persian Gulf region are oriented primarily toward the domestic market. Few banks had ties to the investment bank Lehman Brothers, for example. Nevertheless, stock prices have also dropped considerably on the Abu Dhabi and Dubai exchanges, as the bear markets in Asia, Europe and North America have spilled over into the Gulf.
The indirect consequences of the crisis are gradually becoming apparent. Foreign investors have withdrawn capital needed elsewhere. International banks are withholding the loans needed to fund the region's giant construction projects, which are either underway or in the planning phases -- and worth $2.3 trillion. An estimated $158 billion was lost in the stock markets throughout the Gulf. "The Gulf states have enough reserves to offset turbulence," says Eckart Woertz, chief economist at the Gulf Research Center. "Only Dubai is in a bad position. Dubai has no money and has to borrow."
Unlike Abu Dhabi, Dubai is financing its luxury high-rise buildings, shopping malls and new urban neighborhoods with loans, often using what a banker calls the "quick-flip model:" a 10 percent down payment before ground is broken, 10 percent when construction begins, 10 percent at the topping out ceremony and the rest when the project is complete. All of this is money borrowed from banks, and the loans are secured by other real estate built with similar funding. "The day could come when the sheikhs of Dubai turn up at the doors of their oil-rich neighbors in Abu Dhabi and ask for money," says Woertz.
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Anglers Expecting Great Fishing on Devils LakeDEVILS LAKE, ND (WDAZ-TV) - Lake Region anglers are gearing up for what could be the best fishing ever on Devils Lake during the month of May. There are more fish in the lake, and they are becoming active earlier than ever before.
By: Adam Ladwig, WDAZ
DEVILS LAKE, ND (WDAZ-TV) - Lake Region anglers are gearing up for what could be the best fishing ever on Devils Lake during the month of May.
There are more fish in the lake, and they are becoming active earlier than ever before.
At this time last year, ice still covered Devils Lake. The early thaw means fish will be ready to bite sooner than ever.
"We have this great early ice-out which is the earliest we've ever had in the 25 years I've been here. We're starting to warm up the water some, which is great. Just a little touch of warm weather and it's gonna be full throttle," Kyle Blanchfield at Woodland Resort said.
The ice has been gone nearly a month and fish are starting to move in the warmer water.
"What it does is it kind of picks up their metabolism rate and they get through their spawning operations and they kind of heal up after that, and now they're hungry," Blanchfield said.
A lack of water flowing into the lake this year will also help anglers track down fish.
"This year there's not been much running water so a lot of those fish might stay around the main lake and spawn there, which means there will be a lot more fish in one little area than there normally is," Fishing guide Jon Dircks said.
That will benefit fishermen more during the early part of the season. They likely will be more successful hitting the lake sooner rather than later.
"As the year progresses those fish are going to start to scatter," Dircks said.
Cooler days like today keep the fish from biting in full force. But there's still plenty of time for fishing conditions to improve.
"Traditionally doesn't happen until a little ways into May or the middle of May, but everything's two weeks ahead of schedule at least this year," Blanchfield said.
The last several spawning seasons have been among the most successful in Devils Lake, which also will contribute to the better fishing.
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October 2010 - Posts
Conductors aren't like other people. At ages when other people are happy to retire, they tend to hit their stride. Some have been active through their 80s ,and the legendary Leopold Stokowski (1882-1977)conducted his last concert at the age of 90 ! On top of that, he continued to make a number of recordings until he died at the age of 95.
What accounts for such amazing longevity on the podium? It appears to be the aerobic exercize of beating time, as well as the mental alertness required and the enormous amount of mental exertion involved as well.
The world-famous Estonian conductor Neeme Jarvi (nay-meh yair-vee) ,73, is typical. He has just been appointed to his umpteenth position as a conductor, Switzerland's Orchestre De La Suisse Romande in Geneva. The Suisse Romande is the name for the French-speaking part of Switzerland.
The Suisse Romande orchestra was founded in 1918 by the eminent Swiss conductor Ernest Ansermet (1883-1969) ,who made many acclaimed recordings with it for Decca records. Later music directors have included such distinguished conductors as Paul Kletzki, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Armin Jordan and Marek Janowski, who is in his last season with the orchestra.
Jarvi has been music director of such outstanding orchestras as the Detroit Symphony,now unfortunately beset with financial and labor woes, Sweden's Gothenburg Symphony , the Royal ScottishNational Orchestra, the New Jersey Symphony, and currently the Estonian National orchestra and the Netherland's Hague Philharmonic. In addition,he has appeared with virtually every important orchestra on the planet and some lesser-known ones as well, and has conducted opera at the Metropolitan and other leading opera houses.
Jarvi has also made a large number of recordings of an amazingly eclectic variety of orchestral and operatic repertoire for record labels such as Deutsche Grammophon, Chandos and Bis of Sweden. He has never restricted himself to the same old familiar staples of classical music and has boundless curiosity in searching for works to conduct. As an Estonian from the Baltic region,with its close cultural and ethnic ties to Scandinavia, he is one of the leading exponents of the music of Sibelius, Nielsen,Grieg and other lesser-known but interesting composers from this region, as well as the music of his native Estonia, which has a much richer musical tradition than most people realize,as well as Russian compoisers such as Prokofiev,Shostakovich ,Stravinsky and others.
He has been an indefatigable champion of neglected but intriguing music by so many composers who are rarely heard at concerts and opera. Names such as Eduard Tubin from his native Estonia, Wilhelm Steinberg, Nikolai Myaskovsky, Mily Balakirev, George Whitefield Chadwick, William Grant Still, Zdenek Fibich, Johan Svendsen, Sergei Taneyev, Franz Schmidt, and many others.
Jarvi will conduct virtually anything if he thinks it's an interesting work that deserves a hearing. He has put concert audiences and classical CD collectors everywhere in his debt for his efforts to exand the orchestral repertoire, and to think outside the box when it comes to programming .
Jarvi also has two sons who have made international reputations as conductors ,Pavvo and Krystian. Paavo is currently music director of the Frankfurt Radio orhcestra and Orchestre De Paris ,and is in his last season with the Cincinnati Symphony orchestra. Like the energizer bunny, Neeme Jarvi is always going,and shows no signs of slowing down.
Twenty years ago this month , the legendary American conductor,pianist,teacher and all-around musical genius Leonard Bernstein passed away at the age of 72,not very old for a conductor when you consider that many great ones have been active through their 80s. He was the first American conductor to achieve world renown and the first to become music director of a major US orchestra,the New York Philharmonic, with which he had a lifetime association. His success paved the way for many other prominent American conductors ever since.
He was also the composer of such beloved boradway shows as West Side Story and On the Town,as well as of serious works for the concert hall ,the mentor of such important conductors as Michael Tilson Thomas and Marin Alsop and others, and one of the most important movers and shakers in 20th century classical music. He initiated the famous Young People's Concerts of the New York Philharmonic,which introduced so many youngsters to classical music and inspired many important American classical musicians in their youth to make classical music their life goal,as well as countless other people who fell under his spell at concerts.
Bernstein was a regular conductor of such great orchestras as the Vienna Philharmonic, London Symphony , Bavarian Radio Orchestra,the Israel Philharmonic and the French National orchestra to name only a few, and also conducted at the Metropolitan opera,Vienna State opera and La Scala Milan, but unfortunately did not devote as much time to conducting opera as he should have, and made an enormous number of recordings with numerous different orchestras of repertoire ranging from Mozart Haydn and Beethoven to 20th great century composers such as his close friend Aaron Copland, Stravinsky,Charles Ives, and his own music.
Despite his many triumphs, Bernstein's life was filled with controversy , rumors of scandals and sensationalistic publicity. He was torn with doubt about his staure as a composer and hoped that he would be remembered for his serious works as well as his most popular show music.
Some music critics attacked him for his allegedly self-indulgent interpretations of such composers as Brahms,Mahler,whose music he championed throughout his life,even before it became an established part of the repertoire, Beethoven and other composers ,and also sneered at his serious works,calling them shallow and pretentious. But audiences all over the world adored "Lenny" ,as well as the musicians of the many orchestras with which he worked. Leonard Bernstein will be remembered as long as classical music exists .
If you think that the US is the only country where classical music is threatened ,you're wrong. The Netherlands, a nation which conservatives in America love to hate for its alleged permissiveness and ultra-liberal government ,is planning to slash government support for the arts by about 25 percent.
Apparently, a more conservative group of politicians has gained power there,even though what Europeans calll conservative is still pretty liberal by US standards ,and the controversial Dutch politician Geert Wilders,who has come under fire from Muslims around the world for his opposition to Islamic fundamentalism in the Netherlands ,wants to slash funding for the arts.
The result? The Netherlands Music Broadcasting Center, which supports a world-class radio orchestra,one of dozens throughout Europe, an admired choir and several other smaller groups could go under. Already, musicians throughout the Netherlands are voicing their opposition, and according to a report in a British newspaper, there was a special concert organized to protest the cuts several days ago.
Lovers of classical music everywhere are hoping that this ominous story will not become a trend in Europe. Actually, some performing groups have already suffered funding cuts in Europe in recent years, but purely because of economic difficulties ,not the kind of crass philistinism which is unfortunately so common among American politicians.
Let's hope that if these unfortunate cuts go through, private philanthropies will offer help. But there's no guarantee of this. Remember, classical music and the arts are not merely a frivolous entertainment for the bored rich. They improve the quality of life for millions of people around the world and provide gainful employment for so many talented,dedicated and hard-working musicians, artists, dancers and actors.
And it should be remembered that the arts are highly beneficial for a nation's economy,too. If only more US politicians and political pundits realized this fact.
Opera fans the world over are mourning the passing of one of the greatest voices in the history of the art form. Australian-born soprano Dame Joan Sutherland was 83 and had been suffering from an undisclosed ailment for some time.
Dame Joan was known to opera fans as "La Stupenda" for her extraordinary soprano voice,which combined the power of a dramatic soprano with the agility and finesse of a coloratura ,or soprano who can sing the highly decorated vocal lines of the so-called "Bel Canto" (beautiful singing) operas of early 19th century Italian opera, a rare combination.
Sutherland was originally destined to become a Wagnerian soprano, but her husband ,Australian conductor,pianist and scholar Sir Richard Bonynge 80, who survivies her,and a leading authority on Bel Canto music, steered her toward the music of composers such as Rossini,Donizetti and Bellini, as well as to French opera ,back in the 1950s.
With her remarkable vocal talent,Dame Joan rose to prominence in the operatic world beginning in the late 1950s ,singing at London's Royal Opera and other leading European opera houses, finally making her Metropolitan debut in the early 60s ,and making numerous best-selling recordings of operas by Verdi,Bellini,Donizetti, Gounod, Rossini,Offenbach, Massenet and other composers, many with her frequent partner,the late great tenor Luciano Pavarotti, with her husband conducting.
Before Dame Joan and the vastly different Maria Callas (1923-1977 ) came to prominence , many of these Bel Canto operas had been neglected for a century or more because of a lack of singers able to do them justice. Sutherland was sometimes criticized for concentrating on beauty of sound and spectaculartechnique at the expense of clear diction and dramatic intensity, but she worked hard to improve her diction and her acting skills .But her many fans idolized her despite any faults she may have had; she radiated star quality.
Among her most famous roles were the hapless Scottish girl Lucy in Donizetti's Lucia Di Lammermoor ,the vengeful Druid priestess Norma in Bellini's opera of the same name, the charming Tomboy Marie in Donizetti's Daughter of the Regiment,Lakme the daughter of a Brahmin priest in India in the opera of that name by French composer Leo Delibes, the Parisian courtesan Violetta in Verdi's La Traviata, and Gilda, hapless daughter of the hunchback court jester Rigoletto. Her recordings of these and many other roles have been best-sellers for decades and are still very much available,as well as some performances on DVD.
Despite her glamorous career, Dame Joan was an unpretentious , amiable and down-to-earth lady who enjoyed being a homebody,knitting and gardening . She wil go down in operatic history as one of the greatest .
In a word, busy. As I pointed out in my last post, being a major league conductor in charge of a world class orchestra or opera company is an incredibly tough,demanding and complex job . As well as the expected reharsals and concerts, there are countless decisions to be made, endless meetings with the administrative staff, the members of the board of directors, people who wealthy and influential people who might become sources of financial support, auditions to judge, as well as going out of town to guest conduct elsewhere,since no music director can possibly conduct every performance of a season which lasts from September to June,as well as Summer festivals.
If you're the music director of an opera company, there are also the numerous singers to deal with,as well as stage directors and designers. A conductor must constantly be planning his orchestra's future and dealing with administration and financial benefactors . There are decisions to be made about programming. What will you conduct during the season? How do you co ordinate it all? Which guest conductors and instrumental soloists will be invited to perform with the orchestra,as well as singers if needed ?
Will the orchestra's board of directors and administrative staff approve of what you want to conduct? Not necessarily. There may be disputes. How do you balance the programming, satisfying the audience with the beloved masterpieces they want to hear and balancing it with new music, which is absolutely essential or the repertoire will stagnate. Or what if you want to play an interesting long-neglected work from the past? You may get flack.
You have to judge auditions for openings in the orchestra. You must confer with the audition committee. You may want an applicant the committeee does not favor. How do you avoid ruffling feathers ? It's not easy. You also have to deal with the musicians of the orchestra at every rehearsal and performance. That's also far from easy. You have to earn their respect,which isn't easy to do.
Sometimes there are conflicts between a conductor and individual musicians,or disputes among the musicians. And you constantly have to study scores, often learning ones you haven't conducted before,which is far from easy. Look at an orchestral score.It may consist of 20 to 30 or more different lines of music for each instrument on one page.The individual musicians have to master their own parts, but the conductor must master the whole score before appearing before the musicians.
You have to keep up with the latest musicological reasearch , and have to mark the score with all manner of different indications, bowing for strings, inner lines in the music which can easily be obscured, and much,much more. You have to have the techinique to master the numerous rhythmical difficulties in the score, and must be able to correct out of tune playing and make sure that everything can be heard clearly. For example,if you are not careful, the brass can easily drown out the rest of the orchestra at times.
The conductor must manage both the countless details and oversee the big picture. This job requires an almost superhuman amount of talent, skill, knowledge and imagination . Many are called, but few are chosen.
As the old saying goes,when it rains,it pours. After the prolonged health problems of James Levine forced him to miss nearly a year of performances with the Metropolitan Opera and Boston Symphony, Italian maestro Riccardo Muti, who was all set to conduct his inaugural concerts as new music director of the Chicago Symphony , has been forced to withdraw because of reports of severe gastric distress.
Lately, it seems that something is always going wrong in the world of classical music. Eminent conductors such as Claudio Abbado, James Levine, Riccardo Muti and thers have been struck by a variety of illnesses and accidents. Levine ,in addition to severe back trouble, has had to deal with a broken rotator cuff after falling on stage after a concert in Boston and a cyst which required the removal of one of his kidneys.
Former Boston Symphony music director Seiji Ozawa is recovering from a bout with cancer of the esophagus , and Leonard Slatkin,now with the financially troubled Detroit symphony had a heart attack after a concert, and the venerable Claudio Abbado,77 ,has been in frail health after stomach cancer for some time. Are our orchestras jinxed ?
Fortunately, the eminent French composer/conductor Pierre Boulez ,who has had a long and fruitful realtion with the Chicagoans,and other well-known conductors , are ready to fill in for maestro Muti,who is expected to be able to conduct by Winter. Levine has a schedule which would be taxing even for a conductor in optimum health ahead of him , and every one is hoping that he will have the stamna to continue. Let's wish the best for all these eminent conductors.
Any one who thinks that conducting is an easy job could not be more mistaken. It requires the stamina of a great athlete, the leadership ability of a general, the intellect of a great mind, encyclopedic knowledge of music theory and history, the skill of a psychologist in dealing with musicians and other people, the tact of a diplomat, the ability to multitask to an almost superhuman degree, the ability to make countless tough decisions and the imagination and fantasy of a poet.
Here's some encouraging news for a change . As I've mentioned before here,I'm a member of several classical music fourms. And recently, a number of people have joined who are new to classical music ,filled with enthusiasm ,and eager to explore the vast classical repertoire, naturally by getting to know the basic masterpieces first.
Interestingly,some are even Rock fans who have somehow discovered that classical music is stuffy,highbrow and irrelevant to modern life but a miraculous,life-affirming and profoundly enjoyable and satisfying phenomenon .
They introduce themselves on the forums saying that they've recently discovered classical music and wonder where it's been all their lives. They're eager to learn and ask us classical mavens for advoice and recommendations of works to hear.
Naturally, we classical freaks are eager to help them with information,advice and recommendations. If only more and more people would do this ! If you would like to join any of these forums, the ones I'm on are classicalmusicguide.com, the forum as Good Music Guide , talkclassical.com, and the forum at gramophone.co.uk, which is on the website of gramophone,the British record review magazine .
These forums are friendly and welcoming places, and you can learn a lot about classical music.
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During an Aug. 27 open house on its proposed bus rapid-transit (BRT) system, SCAT General Manager Anthony Beckford said the estimated cost for the high-speed bus line has risen from $84 million to about $100 million.
The cost includes the purchase of eight, special hybrid buses, which look like trains and have features such as wireless internet, and the purchase of the rail corridor from University Parkway to 10th Street.
The BRT is designed to offer quicker travel times on its route from the University of South Florida campus to Westfield Southgate Mall.
The open house was intended to gather input from the public about the entire project, but most in attendance seemed to focus on where the route took the buses.
Laurel Park residents have been complaining about the section of the BRT route that runs through their neighborhood on Osprey Avenue. Members of the Laurel Park Neighborhood Association have asked Beckford to show them a study that he says shows Osprey Avenue is the best route for the BRT.
“I have not seen any data that would explain in any analytical way that it’s the best route,” said Kate Lowman, a Laurel Park Neighborhood Association board member. “For the people who live on Osprey, the issue is noise, volume of traffic and dirt.”
From the start of the discussions about the BRT, SCAT officials have talked about how it will draw high-density development along the route.
“I’m concerned about development pressure on Laurel Park,” Lowman said. “We’re zoned for nine units per acre. It makes sense to put (the BRT) in higher-density areas.”
Lowman said she thinks the high-speed bus service is a good idea, but believes Orange Avenue or U.S. 301, which are both zoned for 25 units per acre, would be better alternatives for traveling between Ringling Boulevard and Mound Street, because they are not residential like her neighborhood.
Beckford is considering Orange Avenue as an alternative, and county commissioners, who have the final say on the project, may ask SCAT to use that alternate route.
Beckford also said that the increasing complaints may end up defeating the BRT project altogether.
“It doesn’t take many people to kill a project,” he said.
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Sisters Francesca and Elizabeth Martel returned victorious Monday, May 20, after a weekend at the Special Olympics of Florida State Summer Games, in Orlando.
Trevor Kunk is the chef de cuisine at Blue Hill in New York City’s Greenwich Village, which the James Beard Foundation just named "most outstanding restaurant."
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Emergency personnel, of course, work no matter what. Increasingly, others, who are not considered emergency personnel, are in a position to work from home. Offices closed not just in Washington, but also in Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York and Boston.
“The first and most important issue is making sure we can protect the safety of our employees,” said John Berry, director of the Office of Personnel Management.
The OPM estimated that about one-third of almost 300,000 federal employees, including emergency staff, in the D.C. area telework when government buildings close because of weather.
But according to the OPM’s latest annual “Status of Telework in the Federal Government” report to Congress, issued in June, less than 8 percent of federal employees telework regularly.
If so many employees can telework when storms close D.C. offices, why don’t more telework on a regular basis?
The OPM report cites “management resistance” as the primary barrier to teleworking, closely followed by technology. But if technology is such an important barrier, how can such a significant percentage of federal workers in the D.C. area telework during storms?
“It is very telling that the federal government appears to have the capacity and capability to go from 8 percent of employees teleworking to approximately 33 percent when the continuity-of-operations plan is put in place,” said Rep. Gerald E. Connolly (D-Va.), a sponsor of the Telework Enhancement Act, which was designed to facilitate telework in the federal government. “This indicates that one of the major barriers to more robust teleworking by a significant segment of federal employees is management related and not due to technology constraints. We still have a mindset among some federal managers that ‘if I can’t see you, you must not be working.’ ”
The OPM is “working closely with agencies to break down these barriers and improve telework opportunities in the federal government,” said Thomas Richards, an OPM spokesman.
Cindy Auten, general manager of Telework Exchange, an organization that promotes teleworking, said “many positions that would not be eligible for regular telework would be eligible to telework during a natural disaster. Just like we are seeing with Hurricane Sandy, maintaining operations is absolutely critical — and telework can have a major impact.
“That being said, this presents a great opportunity for employees to have that conversation for more regular telework,” she added. “Some middle managers are still waiting to see if telework is a storm that will pass or will it be integrated into standard operating procedures.”
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Private label, or store-brand, companies in the one-bean category did not participate in the project, but through our research we were able to determine that at least some of the soybeans used in Wild Harvest organic soymilk are sourced from North American organic family farmers.
Organic consumers are often interested in knowing the story behind their food – where the food was grown, how it was processed – but store brand products are inherently anonymous. The store contracts with a manufacturer to produce the private label foods, and often the manufacturer relies on additional middlemen. Tracing the soybeans to the source is therefore often a difficult endeavor. Direct relationships between the brand and the organic farmers are non-existent.
By virtue of the fact that these companies are operating in a secretive manner, consumers should be very dubious in terms of the quality and sourcing of their raw materials. If you are a loyal customer of these grocery chains, we would encourage you to contact the management and express your displeasure.
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Part Time Courses
‘With skills at a premium and stiff competition for jobs in many sectors of the economy, there’s never been a better time to get back into part-time education and improve your marketability.'
There are lots of ways ITT Dublin’s Lifelong Learning team can help you bring your learning aspirations to life. ITT Dublin offers a whole range of courses in business, science and engineering. The courses are flexible enabling you to balance family, work and study. If you are unsure what to study, we have preparatory courses to give you a flavour of all the different subjects, so that you can decide which ones you really like before committing yourself.
We’re also an educational partner on the Government’s Labour Market Activation Programme and other back-to-education schemes. The programme enables the unemployed to get back into education by subsiding their tuition fees on selective courses. Check ittdublin.ie or contact the Lifelong Learning Office for more details about these schemes.
We are very active on workforce development through which we try to maximise educational opportunities for employees. Recently we have introduced an e portfolio system for recognising ‘prior learning'. This system allows each individual to claim competencies they have gained through life and work. These competencies can be accredited by ITT Dublin.
ITT Dublin also creates customised educational programmes for employers based on the particular internal processes and systems they have in place. This ensures that the training their employees get is 100% relevant and specific to their roles.
So, whether you are an employee or an employer, if education is on your mind, come and talk to us – we’ll do our very best to help.
We look forward to welcoming you to ITT Dublin soon.
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H-CI is a new project of National Voices, Regional Voices, CSV and Navca. Through our voluntary sector networks we hope to reach 30,000 groups across the country with a message for them to pass on to local people – to get involved, Get on the Map.
Local health and social care is changing rapidly. If people want to participate in shaping care services and hold them to account, they need to make themselves known to the new organisations that are taking charge. They need to ‘get on the map’ and they may need support to do so.
This project will help to inform and educate people on the opportunities to participate locally, including the establishment of new local Healthwatch organisations from April 2013.
It offers member organisations’ members and supporters the chance to identify themselves as potential participants by signing up to get on the map of involvement our project partners will hold, and which will be made available to Healthwatch and other organisations.
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- Assume responsibilities of the President, should the President be unable to complete his or her term for any reason;
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- Any and all other actions necessary and proper, delegated to by the President, to carry out the duties of this office.
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It’s often claimed that art imitates life and the modern “art” we are exposed to transcend the Impressionist and Pre-Raphaelite images of the past: the modern media.
When I reference modern media, I am discussing the “art” that Hollywood subjects us to be the films which we watch on a regular basis. Most recently, James Holmes entered a Colorado theater and became responsible for killing and wounding a total of 70 combined. The 24 year old doctoral student entered The Dark Knight Rises at the Century 16 for a midnight screening in Aurora, Colorado strapped with an AR-15 semi-automatic assault rifle, a Remington 870 shotgun, and his 40 caliber Glock handgun. It was 25 minutes into the film when he supposedly utilized tear gas and smoke bombs to disorient the movie watchers before subsequently firing rounds of ammo into the crowd. Reports vary about the number of people who were killed or injured, but apparently he killed as many as 12 and injured 50.
The massacre has become infectious, spreading like wildfire across the internet. There are allegations that James was an MK Ultra and that there is much speculation that the massacre was supposedly staged by U.S. intelligence in order for the Obama administration to destroy the Second Amendment and popularize the U.N. gun control tr...
What was it about the film that caused James Holmes to go berserk?
In Belgium 2009 a 20 year old man named Kim De Gelder entered the Storyland Nursery and stabbed two babies and a caregiver to death. What is most eerie about this incident is that he was reported to have sported makeup similar to Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight and quoted him while threatening a woman at knife point. It is also alleged that the name "Gelder" was an anagrame for "Ledger. The massacre was performed just one year after Heath Ledger’s untimely demise.
Similarities are not limited to the Batman killers. Many fans of both The Crow and The Dark Knight have pointed out the distinguishing comparison between Brandon Lee’s and Heath Ledger’s makeup
The familiar Glasgow smile, the black eye makeup, and the white face paint are reminiscent of a Harlequin clown mask. Although, there is some difference between both men’s faces, the striking similarities between the two deceased actors cannot be excused.
While Brandon Lee was killed by a prop gun on the set of The Crow, there were many rumors claiming of accidents during filming. In the scene where Brandon enters his loft to discover his fiancée being gang-raped by the film’s villains, one of the thugs, actor Michael Massee, raised the gun with assumed blank cartridges and fired at Lee. A real bullet perforated his abdomen and became lodged into his spine. The moment the director yelled “cut”, Lee was immobile and the rest of the cast came to his aide. Lee was rushed to New Hanover Regional Medical Center in Wilmington, North Carolina where he died at approximately 1:04 pm on March 31, 1993.
Heath Ledger was found unconscious by both his housekeeper and masseuse in his SoHo apartment where Ledger’s masseuse proceeded to call Mary-Kate Olsen who directed a New York City private security guard to investigate the scene. Out of fear that he was dead, the masseuse called 9-1-1 and was instructed to perform CPR until paramedics came. Both the masseuse and paramedics were unable to revive Ledger and he was pronounced dead at 3:36 pm on January 22, 2008. His autopsy report revealed several prescription drugs in his body and it was ascertained that he died from acute intoxication of prescription drug abuse.
Investigations were performed for both actors, with Ledger’s reaching a federal level with Olsen and two of Ledger’s doctors who were cleared of the accidental death. The doctors were supposedly prescribing Ledger other medications an....
However, many reports state that Ledger’s autopsy was deemed "inconclusive" and that he was distraught over the breakup with actress, Michelle Williams.
Why did the masseuse call Olsen instead of the ambulance first?
Olsen refused to discuss Ledger’s death unless she was granted immunity. Why was she so hesitant to testify on behalf of Ledger’s death?
Just like the Superman curse fans are now claiming that a curse surrounds whoever dons the Harlequin mask makeup.
During the filming of The Dark Knight, a special effects technician named Conway Wickliffe was on a camera truck filming a stunt car when it crashed into a tree and was declared dead on impact. Morgan Freeman was injured in a car accident several months after Ledger’s death but managed to survive. Christian Bale was arrested for allegedly assaulting his mother and sister before the London premiere.
Regardless of whether or not there may be a curse, one has to keep in mind the tragedies that have surrounded the The Dark Knight franchise. Some say they are just accidents but there just seems to be too many coincidences to pin it on random occurrences.
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Make no mistake — as an entrepreneur and lyricist, Jay-Z is dumb nice with his. But sometimes when he’s being interviewed he just sounds dumb. The campaign to remake his image for a mainstream audience seems to be backfiring by only reinforcing stereotypes about ignorant rappers. “Triple entendre” anyone?
He’s the “God MC” and one of the best things to happen to popular music, but even Jay-Z, the Roc-A-Fella, Rocawear, RocNation mastermind and lyrical genius, isn’t infallible. Mr. Carter please don’t sic the Illuminati, or Ty-Ty on us we’re merely making observations…
Jay-Z on Oprah
In a conversation about the “N-word” Jay trails off into a riff on what hip-hop has done for race relations, “even with its ignorance.” He then claims that rap has “changed things, just by being who we are.” So, just by being ignorant, racism has been erased! His proof: That kids who idolize him are racism-proof, as he told Oprah. But white people didn’t start loving black people at hip-hop’s request. White people have idolized black performers for decades: Louis Armstrong, Chuck Berry, Tina Turner, The Supremes — all of Motown, actually.
What were Jay-Z’s other interview fails? Click over to TheBVX.com to see the rest of their list!
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Internationally acclaimed artist Takashi Murakami is best-known for his "superflat" aesthetic, blurring high art and commercialism. He opened up with DW about ceramics, drinking tea and opening a gallery in Berlin.
Internationally acclaimed contemporary Japanese artist Takashi Murakami works in a variety of media, from painting and sculpture to what is conventionally considered commercial media. He's produced work for the fashion, merchandize, and animation industries, winning him widespread fame and notoriety as an artist who blurs the line between high art and commercialism.
Last summer, Murakami opened the Hidari Zingaro Berlin gallery in district of Kreuzberg as a platform for emerging artistic talent. The first exhibition this year, called Japanese Contemporary Ceramic Art by Oz Zingaro, is a group show with over 500 individual works from eight ceramic artists represented by Murakami's sister gallery Oz Zingaro in Tokyo.
This month, Murakami made a visit to his gallery in Berlin to talk about the exhibition and the roots of the post-war ceramic art movement.
DW: Why did you want to open the Hidari Zingaro gallery in Berlin?
Takashi Murakami: I was visiting [Berlin-based artist] Anselm Reyle at his studio to discuss a solo exhibition that he was holding at our gallery in Asia and upon setting foot in Berlin I was instantly mesmerized by the atmosphere. I asked Anselm what he thought about opening a gallery here and he strongly recommended it. Anselm talked to young artists and his acquaintances in the art world, and we agreed to work together on a program. That was how we came to open a gallery here in Berlin.
I'm always looking to meet young artists and I saw a lot of potential in this area, so it was really a very exciting thing for me. At the moment, however, we're still building our reputation as a gallery. Before inviting new artists to work with us, I decided to bring over some of the approach we take in Japan and see if we could find a way to match it with the reality of life here in Berlin. The curation project that Anselm and I discussed looks like it will finally happen this May.
How is ceramic art a part of Japanese heritage?
One of the traditional art forms of Japan is the tea ceremony. In feudal times, the tea ceremony was developed as a way of incorporating the arts inspired by Zen Buddhism and its philosophy into a social custom - which makes it a fairly unique piece of culture. The price of a single teacup reached an extremely high value. Warlords would have their cultural refinement judged by the quality and lineage of their collections. It's really quite similar to today's contemporary art world.
This structure lasted until Japan's defeat in World War II, along with the vague social hierarchy that remained until that time. After losing the war, we imported American-style democracy and as it spread the world that had been built around the tea ceremony changed instantly and there was no longer any real reason for the dishes and utensils to command such high prices.
For a time, however, the works were labeled as cultural treasures and they maintained their value until the collapse of the bubble economy in the early 1990s. Right up until that era, nihonga (traditional Japanese-style paintings) and the tea ceremony continued to be seen as the star players of the Japanese artistic community. The artists lived in mansions and the gallerists traded amongst themselves, leading to artificial prices that caused them to look down their nose and laugh at the value of art in the rest of the world. After the bubble burst, Japanese society became completely flattened, leading to what I call our "superflat" social structure. Under these circumstances, even national treasures lost their underpinning and prices fell dramatically.
Nowadays, nihonga artists and tea ceremony artists are barely paid any attention at all. At the same time, there is now a new genre of ceramic art that has grown from a more left-wing mindset and where the artists deliberately seek to prevent their prices from going up. This is the world in which the ceramic artists we are showing at our gallery live.
How does the recent revival of the use of ceramics by young artists fit into the contemporary art scene in Japan?
In Japan, contemporary art and high culture are not considered mainstream. Rather, the most loved and respected art forms are more democratic, like anime and manga. Some of the artists may read manga or watch anime for entertainment, but there has not been anyone who has shown a direct influence from it in their work as of yet.
I believe the reason for this is that people who live very closely with nature are operating in a world that is clearly different from those who develop a love of anime. Rather than plunge themselves into fantasy, most of them accept the reality of the physical world around them. But in the same vein, the ceramic artists we are showing ask many questions of modern society. Their lifestyles are informed by love of nature, opposition to nuclear power, and sustainable living.
In order to not disturb anyone with the smoke from their kilns, most ceramic artists must live in fairly remote surroundings, with few people around. And once you are deep in the mountains, you have no choice but to conserve on all sorts of resources. As a result, the areas around the studios where these artists work tend to be thriving with nature and many of them have naturally progressed to farming their own land. They also use scrap wood to fire their kilns, and they can create without any need to trim or cut down trees.
What have the new generation of artists brought to the genre of ceramic art?
They have great respect for tradition and they have endeavored to ensure that the genre does not loose any of the quality it possessed 30 years ago, when works were selling at high prices. Rather, you could actually say that they have become more sophisticated in their means of expression and level of skill. These days, you can find recipes for glazing or clay in published form or on the Internet, meaning that the secrets of creating ceramic works are no longer confined to experts. Anyone with enough ambition can find the information they need to improve. This has raised the level of quality for the genre as a whole.
The exhibition at Hidari Zingaro Berlin has been extended until early February.
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"To provide a warm and accepting environment in which children experience success, build a positive self-image, and develop to their fullest potential.
To develop dignity and respect for oneself and others.
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Monday, September 24, 2012
BRENTWOOD, Tenn. – The Lipscomb women’s basketball team took a break from preseason workouts as they volunteered at the Nashville Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) Walk on Saturday, Sept. 22. The Lady Bisons joined 200 walkers in raising awareness for PKD as the foundation searches for a cure.
Junior Jess Reece didn’t know anything about PKD prior to Saturday. She alluded to the event as not only volunteering but a learning experience as well.
“It was great to show support and learn about something I was not used to hearing about,” Reece said. “Interacting with the kids was a lot of fun. Getting faces painted and playing games was great. Getting to learn stories of those who are affected was amazing as well.”
Carol Boeing, a 1967 Lipscomb graduate, is the founder of the Nashville area PKD chapter and coordinates the PKD Walk every year.
“This is the sixth year of the walk in Nashville, joining more than 60 other walks nationwide in the fall,” Boeing said. “The national goal is to raise $2.5 million while the Nashville chapter raises $40,000 of that goal.”
“We like to make the walk fun and exciting for the kids as well. With the women’s basketball team present, they will interact with the kids, cheer them on in the penny kid’s dash and play a little basketball with them.”
Sophomore Ashley Southern enjoyed her time with the kids, especially those who have been affected by PKD.
“It was nice to help people out,” said Southern. “It makes you feel blessed and helps put things into perspective when you are with people fighting diseases.”
The PKD Foundation leads the fight against PKD through research, education, advocacy, support and awareness. The signature event of the PKD Foundation, the Walk for PKD, raises funds and creates awareness of both the foundation and PKD itself.
PKD is one of the most common genetic life-threatening diseases for which there is no cure. Currently dialysis and kidney transplants are the only options once kidneys start to fail. PKD is passed on to 50 percent of children of an affected parent. The disease attacks the kidney by creating cysts and enlarging the kidneys until failure occurs. A normal kidney is about the size of a human fist, but with PKD the size grows to a football or larger. It affects 600,000 Americans and 12.5 million people worldwide.
For more information, visit www.pkdcure.org.
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- The arena benches are reserved for the dancers dressed in dance regalia.
The blankets placed in the arena on benches mark the spot of the dancers. Please
don't sit on someone's blanket unless invited. If you are not dancing you may
bring chairs and sit outside of the arena behind the benches.
- Listen to the Master of Ceremonies. He will announce who is to dance, the
dance step, and when to dance.
- Please be considerate of those seated or standing behind you. They may not
be able to see over you. Please make room for everyone to enjoy the dancing.
- During the Flag Song and Honor Songs you are asked to stand and remove
hats to show respect for the American flag and those who are honored.
- The dance arena is for those participating in the dance. It has been
blessed and should be considered sacred.
- Photographs should be taken only with the permission of the individual
subject. You are welcome to take group pictures without anyone's permission.
Please remember to be courteous. If you have any questions, please ask.
- All persons not in regalia are asked that legs be covered before entering
the dance arena.
Terms Used at the Pow-Wow
Masters of Ceremonies:
All pow-wows have these. They keep the event going, announcing events,
explaining exhibition dances, telling jokes, calling for lost parents, seeking
owners of lost items.
Usually honored dancers who keep track of drum order and dance contests and help
coordinate contest events.
Bread dough fried in hot fat and served with honey and butter; powerfully
fattening and delicious. The recipe varies.
The parade of dancers that leads off each session of the pow-wow. Contestants
numbers are recorded and they receive points for participation.
Distribution of goods by a family to friends, relatives, and visitors in honor
of a person or event; for example to memorialize someone's death, for a naming
ceremony or an adoption. goods range from blankets to foodstuffs to horses
covered with money. The giveaway is preceded by an honor song.
Bread served with beans, lettuce, cheese, tomatoes, and onions. Good stuff!!!
A staff, spiritual in nature, covered in fur and hung with eagle feathers, which
represents Indianess and/or a tribe, carried with honor by a veteran in the
The time all pow-wows run on. Schedules are set, but are flexible, and attempts
are made to adhere to them strictly but due to the informal nature of large
gatherings, times are approximate. Things start when they start and end when
Similar to a rodeo circuit, and entire families travel them from Memorial Day to
Labor Day. People traveling the circuit consists of dancers, singers, gamblers,
rodeo riders, announcers, and concessionaires. The circuit can be addictive, and
is a wonderful opportunity to meet people and learn.
The music of the pow-wow circuit, each usually includes five to ten members (and
sometimes entire families), with a lead singer and others who can
"second" (repeat the lead line with melody on a different or similar
key). Dancers key their movements to the melody of the song, their footwork
keeping time to the drumbeat. Singers have a variety of song styles they offer
in order to allow dancers to show off their style. Songs include trick songs,
fast and slow grass dance songs, shake songs, crow hops, and sneak ups. Song
structure consists of chorus and verse, some using real words and others using
vocals. Certain groups are known for their quality, and the dancers will honor
these drum groups by shistling for them to repeat a song. Songs are passed on by
The Head People
To be selected as one of the "Head People" is a high honor. The Head
People are selected not only for ability but also for personal qualities,
actions and how they treat other people.
Head Man and Head Lady Dancers
This is also a high honor. These two dancers guide and direct the dancers
throughout the pow-wow. They are the first to begin dancing in each song. Other
dancers wait in respect until the head man and head lady begin dancing.
This is another high honor. The head singer must know all the songs to be sung.
The head singer is selected to lead the singing. The head singer either starts
the drumming / singing or selects another "lead" singer to begin the
song. All other singers/drummers must wait for the signal for them to join in.
The dance arena may be inside or outside, but must be large enough to
accommodate all participants and observers. It is blessed before the Pow-wow
begins and is considered sacred ground for the duration of the celebration.
Frequently, there are bleachers for spectators to sit on or people may bring
lawn chairs. The front seats of the Arbor are for the dancers, singers, and
their families. Elders are also given preferred places to sit. Running and
playing within the dance arena is not allowed, nor is it proper for spectators
to cross the Arbor during the Pow-wow. However, if you enter the circle, you
always walk in a clockwise direction.
The drum is much more than a musical instrument to the Indian. It is sacred.
It is a very special tie to the traditional Indian way of life. It should be
cared for in a certain prescribed manner. All singers must know the strict and
exacting protocol to be observed while seated at the drum. You may note that
singers observe strict drum etiquette.
The drum sets the rhythm of the dance and the tempo of the song. There are
two types of drums used at most Pow-wows. One is a traditional drum, made by
stretching hides over a frame and lacing the hides together with rawhide thongs.
The other kind is more common, a regular band bass drum. Both drums are accorded
the highest respect by all tribes as a most important part of any Pow-Wow.
Songs and Dances
There are many types of war dances. In early times, the ceremonial dance called
"haylushka" was restricted to warriors, and only the best dancers were
chosen to participate. Today, the war dance is a victory dance among the Plains
Indians. It is purely social and is enjoyed by all who chose to participate. It
is a dignified dance, rather than a violent dance as is commonly supposed.
This is a social dance. Dancers move in rows of circles clockwise around the
drum in a side-step, with the faster moving line in the middle close to the drum
and the slower toward the outside, away from the drum. The entire line moves as
one body, each in harmony to the rhythm of the drum.
Rabbit Dance / Two Step
These are two of the few dances where men and women dance as partners. The
"Rabbit Dance" comes from the northern tribes such as the Sioux. The
"Two Step" is an addition to the "Rabbit Dance". Women
choose their partners. Couples, holding hands, circle the drum, stepping off
with the left foot and dragging the right up with it in time to loud-soft drum
beats. In early days, if a man refused to dance, he had to "pay"
(money or craft gift) to the asker.
A social dance - the "Snake Dance" is just what the name implies.
Dancers follow each other in a single line, moving in and out in a snake like
manner. The line of dancers describes the journey of a large snake through the
forest and up the mountains, coiling up for a rest - uncoiling and traveling on.
The "snake" comes to a river - section after section he crosses, down
to the last, smallest tail dancer.
In recent years, nearly every tribe has composed a flag song, dedicated to the
men and women who have served in the armed forces in various wars. The flag
songs are the Indian equivalent of the National Anthem; all stand as the song is
sung. There is no dancing to this song, but all stand in respect. (Certain women
whose father, brother or son is a combat veteran may traditionally dance in
peace.) The Flag Song is sung at the beginning of most Indian activities.
Honor songs are special songs sung to honor a particular person or persons. It
is customary to stand in silence to show respect when an honor song is sung.
Honor songs are always announced before they are sung at pow-wows.
Includes all dance styles in any "everyone dance" situation, all ages
and genders. The announcer will usually say, "Let's everyone dance, all you
dancers get out there!"
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Horatius Bonar - The Surety’s Cross via http://www.gracegems.org
In the cross, we see what is in man. In the cross, man has spoken out. He has exhibited himself, and made unconscious confession of his feelings, especially in reference to God–to His Being, His authority, His character, His law, His love. It was man who erected the cross, and nailed the Son of God to it! Permitted by God to give vent to the feelings of his heart, and placed in circumstances the least likely to call forth anything but love–he thus expressed the feelings of his heart in hatred to God and to His incarnate Son!
Reckoning the death of the cross, the worst of all deaths–man deems it the fittest for the Son of God! Thus, the enmity of the natural heart speaks out, and man not only confesses publicly that he is a hater of God–but he takes pains to show the intensity of his hatred! More–he glories in his shame, crying aloud, “Crucify Him! Crucify Him!”
The cross thus interprets what is in man’s heart. The cross rips the mask of pretended religion from his face; and exhibits man overflowing with the malignity of hell!
You say, “I don’t hate God! I may be indifferent to Him. He may not be in all my thoughts; but I don’t hate Him!”
Then, what does that cross mean?
Love, hatred, indifference–which? Does love demand the death of the loved One? Does indifference crucify its objects? Look at your hands! Are they not red with blood? Whose blood is that? The blood of God’s own Son! No–neither love nor indifference shed His blood. It was hatred that did it! Enmity–the enmity of the carnal heart!
You say that I have no right to judge you. I am not judging you. It is yon cross which judges you, and I am asking you to judge yourselves by it. It is yon cross that interprets your purposes, and reveals the thoughts and intents of your heart!
Oh, what a revelation! Man hating God–and hating most, when God is loving most! Man acting as a devil–and taking the devil’s side against God!
The cross, then, was the public declaration of man’s hatred of God, man’s rejection of His Son, and man’s avowal of his belief that he needs no Savior!
“What do you think of Christ?” was God’s question. Man’s answer was, “Crucify Him!”
O what must man be–when he can hate, condemn, mock, scourge, spit upon, crucify, the Lamb of God; when coming to him clothed in love, and with the garments of salvation?
And what must sin be–when, in order to expiate it, the Lord of glory must die upon the tree–an outcast, a criminal, a curse!
Published on Jun 3, 2012 by stack45ny Man Acting as a Devil – Horatius Bonar
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Mark 15:12 Pilate answered and said to them again, “What then do you want me to do with Him whom you call the King of the Jews?” 13 So they cried out again, “Crucify Him!” 14 Then Pilate said to them, “Why, what evil has He done?” But they cried out all the more, “Crucify Him!”
Horatius Bonar – (1808-1889), Scottish churchman and poet
Horatius Bonar had a passionate heart for revival and was a friend and supporter of several revivalists, He was brother to the more well-known Andrew Bonar, and with him defended D. L. Moody’s evangelistic ministry in Scotland. He authored a couple of excellent revival works, one including over a hundred biographical sketches and the other an addendum to Rev. John Gillies’ Historical Collections bringing it up to date.
He was a powerful soul-winner and is well qualified to pen his brief, but illuminating study of the character of true revivalists.
Horatius was in fact one of eleven children, and of these an older brother, John James, and a younger, Andrew, also became ministers and were all closely involved, together with Thomas Chalmers, William C. Burns and Robert Murray M’Cheyne, in the important spiritual movements which affected many places in Scotland in the 1830s and 1840s.
In the controversy known as the “Great Disruption,” Horatius stood firmly with the evangelical ministers and elders who left the Church of Scotland’s General Assembly in May 1843 and formed the new Free Church of Scotland. By this time he had started to write hymns, some of which appeared in a collection he published in 1845, but typically, his compositions were not named. His gifts for expressing theological truths in fluent verse form are evident in all his best-known hymns, but in addition he was also blessed with a deep understanding of doctrinal principles.
Examples of the hymns he composed on the fundamental doctrines include, “Glory be to God the Father”…..on the Trinity. “0 Love of God, how strong and true”…..on Redemption. “Light of the world,” – “Rejoice and be glad” – “Done is the work” on the Person and Work of Christ. “Come Lord and tarry not,” on His Second Coming, while the hymn “Blessed be God, our God!” conveys a sweeping survey of Justification and Sanctification.
In all this activity, his pastoral work and preaching were never neglected and after almost twenty years laboring in the Scottish Borders at Kelso, Bonar moved back to Edinburgh in 1866 to be minister at the Chalmers Memorial Chapel (now renamed St. Catherine’s Argyle Church). He continued his ministry for a further twenty years helping to arrange D.L. Moody’s meetings in Edinburgh in 1873 and being appointed moderator of the Free Church ten years later. His health declined by 1887, but he was approaching the age of eighty when he preached in his church for the last time, and he died on 31 May 1889.
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Builders Association meets to explain residential energy code
By Kitty Conley [email protected] July 24, 2012 1:40PM
CROWN POINT — Matthew Brown of the Indiana Builders Association held a meeting July 13 to educate local builders, contractors, inspectors and planners about changes in state building codes.
Tim Henderlong of Henderlong Homes attended, though he said he has already built homes under the new rules, which include energy conservation measures.
“It’s only better if you can conserve energy. They should have done something a long time ago,” Henderlong said.
He made the comparison to the way Americans treat automobile gas mileage. No one listens until the price of gas is way up. As the cost of energy for use in the home goes up then the industry gets the rules changed to be able to lower those costs for future home buyers.
“Everything has to get better. In 2015 it is going to get even more strict,” Henderlong added.
Jim Smith, former president of the Indiana branch of the American Institute of Architects, sees this as the action that will take the amateurs out of the game.
Each home built with these standards may cost 5 to 10 percent more but each home will have the added value.
Smith primarily does commercial work. An architect is required there; one is not for a residential structure. House designers are not licensed by the state. Architects are. The town of Munster requires homes to have architects, other communities do not.
The big townhouse fire that destroyed homes in Lakes of the Four Seasons was arson. Part of the cause for the wild spread of the fire is that even though the attics were separated by firewalls, the fire was able to jump. An after-construction installer of cable television service for the townhouses cut holes in all the walls between the attic spaces to make it easier to move from one end of the complex to the other, laying the cable. It made a natural side-to-side fire path.
According to Brown there is an amendment in the Indiana house and senate floor to require labeling of all firewalls.
Local ordinances across the state might also require an inspection after any after construction installation is made. Any and all after-market installation must also follow the Indiana and local building codes.
The session by Brown included the new regulations for insulation. Depending on the type of path taken to reach the new requirements and testing for the 2012 Residential Energy Code could add anywhere from $1, 000 to $2,000 to the cost of a home.
Brown and builders like Henderlong are trying to get the state to include some sort of introduction of outside air into a home to offset the super tight seal. With the various products that go into a new home there are some chemicals that are released in the air, from carpets, paint, and wood composites.
It is too concentrated without fresh air being introduced into the home. Opening a door or window will do that, also.
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This post is the last in a series on creating a “homebrew” setting for a Dungeons & Dragons campaign. Readers seeking to review the series in order may wish to review Part I, Part II, Part III and Part IV before continuing here.
By this point in the setting design process, the dungeon master (DM) has enough background material to portray a convincing game world to the players. The only task remaining before play can begin is to help the players find a starting place in that world.
At the start of what this series calls “the example campaign,” this task was completed by having the first game session of the campaign devoted exclusively to the task of character generation and character background. It may seem like a full session is far too much time to allocate to the task, as many games place little or no emphasis on character background, but the time invested pays grand dividends in player involvement.
Begin the character background session with a brief meeting with all players, during which you provide an overview of the campaign themes, show or distribute copies of the regional map, briefly outline the region’s history and describe, in general terms, what ongoing conflicts exist in the area.
After this overview, your role shifts to one of support, as the players must now begin creating interconnected character backgrounds for their characters. These backgrounds can be unusually detailed, as your notes are filled with current place names, prominent non-player characters (NPCs), general ideas about trade routes, imports and exports, and rich history filled with triumphs and tragedies that can intersect with the early lives of the heroes.
You may need to make some suggestions about character races or classes, which settlements might make appropriate home towns for some heroes, or what edicts or expectations are present for paladins, clerics, wizards or any other character who acts as a member of an order or academy. But after a short while, the players will probably begin building on each other’s backgrounds in short order.
For the example campaign, it took three hours to create and generate interconnected backgrounds for six characters.
When the players are finished with their character backgrounds, play can begin.
Tracking the Growth of a Campaign
There is, however, an ongoing task the DM must perform in order to maintain the richness of the homebrew campaign: constant record-keeping. While every campaign requires the DM to record quest and experience point awards, and sometimes treasure gained, this sort of campaign requires a higher level of record-keeping. Every time the heroes visit a village, record its name, the names of the NPCs encountered there, and the events that transpired. Make notes of every rumor the heroes investigate, every NPC they offend and how, every friend they make and why.
Each note taken provides more resources for future adventures, since old friends and enemies will certainly return during the game. The notes also provide internal consistency for the campaign; if the heroes meet Bandor the innkeeper at the Rusty Dwarf Inn, the players will expect to see Bandor during future visits. If they don’t, it will be obvious that something happened to him, or that the DM made a mistake that ruined suspension of disbelief.
There are as many ways of tracking this ever-increasing pile of information as there are DMs, but one efficient way involves using computer outlining software. One free version used by this author is Keynote; although this freeware is no longer supported, it is as robust as anything else out there, and this writer has had no problems with its functioning during the past year.
Regardless of the outlining software used, these sorts of programs are very memory-efficient, and can be added and updated easily (even during a session, if the DM uses a lap-top computer during play).
Of course, the campaign outline can (and should) contain more information than is immediately available to the players. Whenever inspiration strikes, there’s usually a place for it the outline, even if it’s on a page marked “cool ideas for villains” or “neat places for combat.”
Lastly, the outline will allow the DM to see where some areas of the campaign are underdeveloped. If the DM plans to send the heroes into the Dunmarshes in a few levels, he or she can tell at a glance if more background information is needed.
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NAIROBI — Kenyan police said they were bringing two rival communities together for a peace meeting Thursday, after at least 52 mainly women and children were hacked or burnt to death in the worst ethnic massacre for several years.
"We want to bring together these warring communities," said regional deputy police chief Joseph Kitur, after the attack late Tuesday between the Pokomo and Orma peoples in the rural Tana River district.
The dead included at least 31 women and 11 children, the majority killed with machetes, the others burnt alive as men from the Pokomo community torched their huts.
It was not clear what sparked the attack, but the two communities have clashed before over the use of land and water resources, although the scale and intensity of the killings shocked police.
It was the worst single attack since deadly post-election violence four years ago.
"We are holding a major security meeting on the ground today, because we want to understand what the problem is," Kitur added. "We want to engage them so that we can work together in getting a lasting solution."
The Pokomo are a largely settled farming people, planting crops along the Tana River, while the Orma are mainly cattle-herding pastoralists.
Police were hunting down suspects from the Pokomo group blamed for the attack, but many had escaped into the remote bush.
"Most suspects have fled from their homes after committing the attacks, but we are closing in on them," Kitur said.
The attack happened in the Reketa area of Tarassa in Kenya's south-east, close to the coast and some 300 kilometres (185 miles) from the capital Nairobi.
The bodies were buried late Wednesday in line with Islamic custom, Kitur said, adding that around 50 people are still in hospital.
In 2001, at least 130 people were killed in a string of clashes in the same district and between the same two communities over access to land and a river.
"They need to live together as neighbours instead of resorting to killing one another and even burning houses because of water and pasture," Kitur added.
Lawmaker Danson Mungatana, who represents the area, said on Wednesday the killings were "revenge attacks", adding there had been a string of tit-for-tat killings, attacks and cattle raids this month, though on a far smaller scale.
"There have been problems simmering for a while," he said, shortly after the attack.
In 2007 Kenya spiralled into violence after contested elections that pitted candidates from different ethnic groups against each other, resulting in the deaths of some 1,200 people and displacing 600,000.
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If you’re like me you’d rather not think about passwords. Unfortunately though we just can’t avoid them, and ignorance can costs us thousands of dollars, our reputation and a heap of anguish. Joe Kissell’s book makes the whole subject both tolerable and interesting, and his advice is clear, sensible and level-headed. After only a few pages I realised this was a must-read book. Here’s why.
When you put files and folders in the Trash on your Mac it feels as though you’ve removed them from your machine. But you haven’t — they’re quietly sitting there out of sight sucking up space on your hard drive. Here’s what’s going on and a handy tip that means you’ll never have to remember to empty the Trash again.
A good thing about Kindle books is that you can read one book at different times on different devices, such as iPad, iPhone or even Mac, and the software automatically lets you know what page you were up to. But if a book doesn’t turn up on one device, here’s how to get it.
What say you can’t see the images in a document? Wouldn’t it be great if the images were replaced by text instead! Here’s how to add alternate text to images if you’re writing with Word 2011 for Mac, as explained by guest author Rachel McAlpine.
Moving around a long document can mean a lot of scrolling, unless you know the shortcut keys to use. Here’s what you need to know to go quickly to top or bottom, or up or down a page at a time.
If you use BBEdit at all then buy Take Control of BBEdit, either for a head start or as a tune-up for your existing work habits. And if you write or work with web sites then BBEdit itself is also a must-have app.
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TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - State leaders are looking at ways to cut costs on corrections, while decreasing crime.
Governor Sam Brownback and Corrections Secretary Ray Roberts talked with legislators and members of the justice reinvestment working at a breakfast forum Wednesday.
The forum was hosted by former speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representatives, Kris Steele.
He says his state has ideas that could work for Kansas.
"What we did in Oklahoma, is we actually established a grant program for local law enforcement entities to be able to apply for funding to implement smart, best-in-practice strategies to reduce crimes within their local jurisdictions," Steele said. "And i think that that's something the state of Kansas is likely to consider and is currently considering and I think it would be a great move."
The justice reinvestment initiative looks to save $50 million over the next five years, reinvesting the money in strategies that decrease crime and increase public safety.
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Leo Tolstoy's masterful novel ‘Anna Karenina' comes to screen for 13th time
Published: Sunday, November 11, 2012 at 6:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, November 9, 2012 at 7:52 p.m.
William Faulkner called it the best novel ever written. Ernest Hemingway believed that anyone who wanted to be a writer had to read it.
'Anna Karenina' at a glance
“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” — Opening sentence to “Anna Karenina”
Major themes: The novel explores the themes of hypocrisy, jealousy, faith, fidelity, family, marriage, society, progress, carnal desire and passion, and the agrarian connection to land in contrast to the lifestyles of the city.
Style: “Anna Karenina” is considered by many critics to be transitional, forming a bridge between the realist and modernist novel.
Perspective: The novel is narrated from a third-person-omniscient perspective.
Tolstoy considered Anna Karenina his first true novel.
Time magazine declared “Anna Karenina” the “greatest novel ever written” in 2007.
More than a century since Leo Tolstoy penned the lives of an adulterous Russian princess and her fellow aristocrats, “Anna Karenina” still begs to be told.
The novel, published as a series from 1873 to 1877, has been adapted for the screen 12 times since its publication. The most recent adaptation, directed by British director Joe Wright, hits American theaters on Friday.
In the 130-minute film, Keira Knightley plays the beautiful Russian socialite Anna as she abandons her unhappy marriage to Karenin (Jude Law), and begins a destructive love affair that eventually ends in her suicide.
Throughout the novel, Anna's life and the lives of those around her unravel as each character battles with the question of love and its forms — unrequited love, familial love and corrupted love. Often the relationship dynamics, such as that of Kitty and her families' constant search for a suitable husband for her, expose the truth behind Tolstoy's opening sentence, “Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
The intersecting stories of the characters in “Anna Karenina” can be taxing on young readers today, said Ron Cooper, associate professor of philosophy and humanities at the College of Central Florida, but Tolstoy's masterful language makes reading the cumbersome book worthwhile.
“If you want to be a literary novelist, there's a hell of a lot to learn from Tolstoy. This is an author who wrote perfect sentences, even in translation,” Cooper said. “This is going to stick with you, and is the reason (“Anna Karenina”) keeps being read in college classes.”
The novel tells a story that is still relevant today, said Stephanie Smith, who teaches English and American Studies at the University of Florida. If a group of men and women were polled, “Anna Karenina” would still resonate with women even though the story may be dated, Smith said.
“Even though we say we're equal today, there's still a double standard that exists,” said Smith. “More often than not, women pay a steep price for sexual independence.”
The novel raises a question that many prominent writers of Tolstoy's time felt needed to be addressed: What is the role of women in society and should it change?
During the late 1800s, women in Russia held very little power over their own lives. Husbands and fathers dictated what a woman could do. Women had no right to higher education, professions or even their own children.
Tolstoy's novel is “largely about jealousy and women who are being in some way stifled by society,” Cooper said. Women in the novel “try to push their boundaries, even though they weren't in a position of power to do so.”
Society, as depicted in “Anna Karenina,” pigeonholed women into certain roles. Karenin, Anna's deceived husband, expects Anna to be a loving, obedient wife and dutiful mother.
“The burden has changed, but there's still a large social expectation that women do it all – competent in the workplace, competent as a mother,” Smith said. “In a society where the family is paramount, it's largely the women (who) are keeping it together.”
The various marriages in “Anna Karenina” reflect this idea of a double standard. When Anna deceives her husband, the relationship falls apart, leads to Anna's ruin and her eventual suicide. However, when her brother Stiva commits adultery, his wife forgives him and the relationship lasts through the novel.
“You can't really separate class from gender issues,” said Cooper.
In the early 20th century, when the novel was first being praised, he said many of the readers were still very privileged. Now, Americans don't have to have a lot of money to go to college, and seem to be more attuned to class issues.
Smith disagrees, stating instead that at the time the novel was published the issue of women's rights was a hot topic. By the time American women gained the right to vote in 1920, there had been a growing effort by women in the United States, Russia, England and France to reach the same level as men.
“Many middle class Americans will look at (the novel) and see a world of Russian gentry that they really can't enter,” Cooper said. “But if they look past that, they will see that it is also a lesson.”
“Anna Karenina” is a lesson on war, ethnicity, society and class, and economics, he added. ever-changing climate of class and economics is constantly shaping the characters within the novel.
“We're really no different,” he said.
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Shots - Health Blog
Enrollment In High-Risk Insurance Pools Inches Up, But Remains Low
Though it's nearly 2,000 miles from Washington, Montana plays an oversized role in the health care debate. Its senior senator, Max Baucus, was one of the biggest players in crafting the sweeping federal health law.
And now Montana leads the country in the proportion of people who have signed up for the health law's insurance program for those with pre-existing conditions.
Still, the absolute number is quite low. Montana has signed up just 198 people.
The numbers remain far below initial estimates for the high-risk pools established in the 2010 health law. Two reasons: high premiums and consumers' lack of awareness about the program.
The plans, which are run either by individual states or by the federal government if the states opted not to participate, became available to most people last September. They are intended to serve as a bridge until the insurance market reforms are implemented in 2014, when insurers will no longer be able to deny coverage or charge higher rates for people with pre-existing conditions.
The Congressional Budget Office had estimated that as many as 4 million uninsured Americans would be eligible for the program and that 200,000 would be enrolled by 2013. And the Chief Actuary of Medicare and Medicaid estimated that 375,000 people would enroll in these high risk pools by the end of 2010.
Citing the low enrollment, some Republicans including Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), have criticized the administration's handling of the program.
The cost of the plan, and the fact that many people still don't know about it, may be keeping enrollment down.
But administration officials point to the trend and are optimistic.
"We're encouraged by the jump in enrollment and we're excited to build and expand on our recent outreach efforts to reach even more people," said Richard Popper, director of insurance programs at the federal Center for Consumer Information & Insurance Oversight.
Enrollment varies widely by state. Pennsylvania has the highest enrollment with 2,684 people while North Dakota has enrolled just six people.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services lowered premiums in the plans it runs by about 20 percent this year and asked the states running their own programs to consider lowering their rates as well. Despite the slow start, Obama administration officials have said they are pleased with the program.
Most states require applicants to show proof that they've been rejected for coverage by a private insurer within the past six months or been denied coverage for certain benefits. At least a dozen states, including Pennsylvania, give applicants the option to provide a doctor's note as proof they have a pre-existing condition such as cancer or rheumatoid arthritis.
HHS has hired a private contractor to administer the programs it runs in states but generally they have enrolled fewer people than states running their own program.
Michael Keough, executive director of Inclusive Health, which runs the plan in North Carolina, credits increased awareness and lower premiums for the enrollment increase.
His plan cut rates by 10 percent across the board in January and rates fell as much as 30 percent for people between ages 55 and 64. The average premium for a 50-year-old in the plan is $285 with a $3,500 deductible.
More than 1,500 people have signed up for the program in North Carolina as of April, doubling enrollment since February.
"The trend line is increasing and that is what you want and the program is starting to have the desired impact," Keough said. "The plans still have the shadow of the original expectations to live with however accurate or not." Copyright 2011 Kaiser Health News. To see more, visit http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/.
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Selecting a VoIP Provider Can Be Challenging
With the growing popularity of the VoIP system for telecommunications, there are several VoIP providers in the marketplace --- each one trying to outdo the other in their offers and prices. It is, therefore, important not to get swayed by the sales spiel. You should make an educated, informed decision when you need to choose the right vendor for your needs. Do your research. Read reviews about the various VoIP providers.
The system you choose also depends on the number of people you employee, and your specific needs. Then there is the question of selecting the company which would provide you with these services, give you service support when needed, and offers these at a reasonable price. Quotations should be obtained from several vendors. You should make a comparison among the various VoIP systems in the areas of features and functions, maintenance, service support, performance, and cost.
Points to Consider
Before the service contract is signed, it is essential to remember that this is not just a financial investment, but an issue that also concerns the reputation of the company. It would be disastrous if the service company went bankrupt or just shut down, leaving you in total disarray with your VoIP system. It could take weeks to get the system going again. In the meantime, business operations would likely come to a halt.
Price is an important factor. However, price should not be the only consideration in the search for a good VoIP provider. It is necessary to find a reliable company. The streamlined telephony and communication systems of your business operations would depend on the service company and, therefore, you must choose with great care and consideration.
The Service Angle
In the hosted PBX service, the equipment remains with the service provider. This ensures that problems with the service are resolved remotely by the provider. When choosing the VoIP provider, this is an aspect that must be evaluated and understood through the terms and conditions of the Service Level Agreement (SLA). An SLA is a signed contract between the VoIP provider and the client organization. The SLA spells out, in measurable terms, the kind of services the former would provide the latter, including all the support parameters.
Questions you should ask VoIP Providers
Before you sign a contract with a VoIP Provider, there are certain relevant queries that the vendor should answer to your satisfaction. These could concern the duration of the SLA, how long it would take to get the system up and running, cost of additional phones, the frequency of updates and redundancy issues. In addition, there are questions such as the areas of preparation on the part of the customer; the strength of the broadband connection; the need for a PSTN landline; the need for any special equipment; the size of the company; and the number of employees.
It is best to choose a VoIP provider who has a good reputation for reliability, quality and prompt technical support. Asking around among those who are already using the service is also another way to collect information, which would help in selecting the best among the many VoIP providers. Reviews written about VoIP providers can help greatly.
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It really depends on the technology you use to implement multifactor auth. If you use smartcards with Active Directory then you need to modify all client devices to support smart cards and configure each user account in AD for certificates. You don't have to modify IIS if you are planning on doing just Windows auth, but if you want mutual auth in IIS with client certificates then you'd have to set it up. If the app running in IIS doesn't support Windows Auth then the app needs to be modified to support multifactor auth. If you use a 3rd party solution then it all depends on how they implement it. The company I work for has a credential provider for Windows as well as an API for custom applications and an ISAPI module for IIS, etc. RSA's solution is similar, as are 99% of all other solutions.
Like I said, it depends on the technology you use, but basically it all boils down to: you have to modify all points of authentication where you require multifactor auth and if it can't support it, disable it.
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Just because the snow starts falling and the ice piles up on your favorite mountains, it doesn't mean hiking season has to be over. In fact, with the right extreme-cold-weather gear, you can continue hiking on just about any trail right through the winter.
It’s crucial to make a checklist of all the cold-weather items you'll need before you start your winter mountaineering adventure. One of the main focal points should be the traction devices, or crampons, you choose. Depending on the exact conditions where you'll be using them and your experience level with mountaineering, you'll find a wide range of crampons suited for your adventure.
The Right Pair
All crampons serve the same basic purpose—to help you safely travel across snow and ice. By strapping on or stepping into these devices, you’ll have much better traction for traversing glaciers, snow slopes, and slippery, ice-laden trails.
However, over time, crampons have become specialized for certain activities. If you plan on taking more casual winter walks over level ice and snow, superlightweight crampons have been developed that are perfect for you. If rugged mountaineering and technical winter hikes are more your style, traditional crampons are available that can take whatever rough and cold conditions you put them through.
When shopping for crampons, you'll find some made of steel and others made of aluminum. A basic pair of mountaineering crampons will likely be made of steel, making them extremely durable and perfect for trekking across steep, slick, and technical trails. If the crampons are made of stainless steel, they'll be less likely to suffer from corrosion.\
While aluminum crampons are lighter weight, they're also less durable than steel, and will likely wear out sooner. But if you aren't looking to take on a very technical climb, where you're constantly hiking over rock mixed with snow, these are most likely your best choice.
Crampons can be fastened to your winter boots in one of three ways, and are categorized as step-ins, strap-ons, and hybrids.
Step-in crampons are best used for vertical ice climbs but can used for winter hiking/mountaineering, as long as you don’t mind the extra stiffness. The bindings attach to your boots the same way ski bindings work. They require a bale (indented shelf) located in the front and rear of the boot that the binding fits into.
The crampons themselves are very stiff, requiring an equally stiff plastic or leather boot with minimal flex. If you do couple step-in crampons with more flexible boots, you run the risk of “popping out” of the binding as you walk. Hint—if you’re going to hike in stiff plastic boots, make sure there’s plenty of snow on the ground to cushion your feet as you stride.
Strap-on bindings are the most popular and can be fastened to just about any kind of shoe or boot, regardless of the boot’s stiffness. These are great for moderate ice routes, although they may take slightly more time to strap on.
Hybrids are made with a heel clip (which requires a bale on the boot’s heel) and a toe strap. The crampon can be easily put on, even when wearing gloves.
You'll notice that most mountaineering crampons have 10 or 12 points. As a general rule, the steeper the hike, the more points your crampons should have. General mountaineering crampons will typically have less prominent front points than vertical ice climbing crampons to make it easier to walk.
A Good Fit
Be sure that whatever winter boot you wear will be compatible with the crampons you choose. Characteristics to keep in mind include the flexibility of your boot and the activities you'll be doing. Take your boots into the store to make sure you find the right fit.
A good pair of crampons should be an essential piece of your outdoor gear collection, and will help keep you on the trails all winter long.
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A young man who was walking the Camino de Santiago with his parents caught the eye of an innkeeper’s daughter. Unfortunately her feelings for him were not reciprocated, so she planted a silver cup in his backpack, falsely accused the lad of theft, and had him hanged. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.
His grieving parents sadly continued their pilgrimage to Santiago, but on their way past the gallows, noticed that their son, though still hanging from his neck, was surprisingly alive.
They went to the magistrate to appeal his sentence. ‘Too late,’ said the judge, ‘The law’s the law and your son’s as dead as the hen and rooster roasting on that spit there.’ But imagine everyone’s amazement when the hen and rooster grew feathers, squawked and flew away.
Our 21st century miracles (the iPhone, coming from 0-3 behind to win 4-3, finding good coffee in a Dutch cafe) just don’t measure up to this sort of thing.
The boy was cut down and pardoned, I hope with an apology for the inconvenience. His travel insurance claim would have made interesting reading.
Saint Dominic, the patron of pilgrims on the Camino, who built a bridge over the river here to speed their progress, is believed to have been behind the rescue effort.
To acknowledge the miraculous event, there’s a small cage in the Santo Domingo cathedral in which a live white rooster and hen strut around.
Because it’s high in the cathedral and poorly lit, it’s hard to make a satisfactory photo, but I did my best.
The cathedral itself has been recently restored.
It features an extraordinary 16th century gold altarpiece, designed by Damien Forment, with incredible detail in the numerous figures.
The museum adjoining the cathedral has some old, intriguing, and to my mind unusually beautiful religious art, very well displayed.
Much of it suggests stories or miracles, though unfortunately there’s nothing to tell a non-Catholic like myself what the stories are. It tempted me to make up my own.
The Parador Santo Domingo is an admirable Spanish institution. A 12th century hospital next to the cathedral has been preserved by its tasteful conversion to an affordable 4-star hotel.
There are a number of these paradors around Spain. They’re an excellent way for the government to restore and care for historic buildings, make them available to the public, and earn some money from them.
A little way down the road, the historic Albergue of Santo Domingo offers pilgrims accommodation, food and blister binding for donation only.
Our local guide Rosa led us to the ancient square, where we took refreshments in the early evening sun.
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Some of the young men participating in this year’s NFL Draft will end up making millions of dollars over the course of their long careers, while others may only play for four years, but still make annually 10 times what the average American makes. For the vast majority however, they will come away from the game of professional football with much more modest sums of money to show for all the years of work, pain, isolation and sacrifice they committed themselves to, only to spend the next five, six, seven decades of their remaining lives facing the same obstacles, money issues and life challenges we all face.
But for a brief moment in their lives, these young men find themselves on the cusp of attaining a goal that most of them have held since they were in grade school; of fulfilling a dream most of us never dared to dream. And in this split second of their lives, as they exist suspended between being sheltered, coddled, boy/man ex-college players and fully autonomous man/boy pre-professional football players, what they are experiencing is a living, breathing allegorical representation of America and Steeler Nation; a representation of who we truly are as a people with all the faults and admirable traits our society contains.
These men are actors in an allegorical play being performed on the world's stage, but they are not two dimensional caricatures; instead they are personifications of all of us who make up the American contingent of Steeler Nation; all of our faults, our cruelties to ourselves and our fellow citizens, but also all of our good traits, our diversity, our values and our sacrifices for family, friends, and even strangers.
Within the context of this gross hedonistic moment we lay bare the very nature of our being, and both expose our basest traits as well as our fundamental qualities and beliefs that we hold as being self-evident and that resonate with the millions of people from around the world who have, or desire to, come to our shores for the opportunity to experience such qualities for themselves and their children. While we in Steeler Nation view the draft with eagerness and a longing for GM Kevin Colbert to find the next James Harrison, Aaron Smith, Troy Polamalu, Lynn Swann or Kevin Greene, we should take a moment to appreciate the greater significance of what we're watching, and one of the fundamental aspects of the game of football that makes us love it so much, even if we don't realize why.
Consider for a moment the black quarterback. Many, if not most of you in Steeler Nation reading this can remember a time in the NFL when there was a mis-guided, ignorant notion that a black man just did not have what it took, temperamentally, intellectually or otherwise to assume the most important position on a football field. And yet when Draft day arrives, as we watch these athletes await what is tantamount to voluntary indentured servitude, we do so (most of us) in a country that elected, and re-elected, a black man to serve as our Commander in Chief; to be our President and to be who we hold forth to the other nations of the world as the face of all that we hold sacrosanct as a society.
Consider for a moment the dialectic at play between the economic model of the NFL League Office as it operates its retail for-profit business, and the economic model it imposes on the group of 32 privately held businesses that make up the production side of its operations. The League wants to expand the football schedule to 18 games to make more money; it wants to establish teams in other countries, to make more money; it wants to re-vamp the very Draft we're watching to make it more marketable, more "interesting to the casual viewer" so that it can make more money; it modifies the rules of the game to tip the scales of the game towards greater offensive output because it believes that is what its consumers most want to see, in order to make more money. The NFL embodies raw unfettered capitalism in its pursuit of profits.
And yet, for those privately held 32 "business units" that are the sole producers of the product that the NFL sells; the NFL imposes a model of "social" ownership on the means of production and a cooperative management of its "economy". Television revenue is equally divided between the 32 teams, regardless of the fact that some teams generate far more of that revenue than others. Rich teams are allowed to spend no more than the poorest of teams due to the imposition of a salary cap. The "means of production", the players themselves, is regulated not by market forces (i.e. the team that bids the most gets the prized player) but instead on Parity, providing that "the Last shall be First" in order to ensure that the weak teams have the opportunity to become strong.
Or, consider for a moment the individuals involved; the players. From the first time they showed a glimmer of athletic ability, they have been coached, monitored, pampered and flattered to a degree those of us who have never experienced it can barely imagine. And as a result of all that pampering and "allowances" for the breaking of rules resulting from their ability to throw, run, or catch a ball, many never developed a sense of character, morality or ethics, and thus grew up believing that they were indeed allowed to exist outside the rules, to satisfy their every carnal whim.
We in Steeler Nation have several examples of this we may reflect on; Santonio Holmes' and Mike Adams' disregard for society's determination that a certain weed shall not be smoked, or Chris Rainey's childish lack of control of his inner anger, or Alameda Ta'amu and his alcohol induced black-outs that resulted in behavior that now has him facing federal criminal charges.
And yet, for every one of these players who personify the worst in ourselves, there are others who show the best of what we can be; they resisted the temptations placed in front of them, ignored the license granted to their indulgences by others, overcame the same adversities life throws in front of us all. Whether they came from wealthy or middle class homes or from poverty, they held onto the guidance of their parents, grandparents, coaches or mentors. They shed the friends, the girls, the relatives, the strangers who fed them false flattery to curry favor; they fought the social pressures of "how dare you try to achieve" by those who needed to tear them down to feel good about themselves. They continually worked their crafts to reach the highest levels of accomplishment in their chosen field. And we in Steeler Nation have examples of these men as well: Troy Polamalu's quiet profession of his faith amidst the chaos on the field around him, Curtis Brown's overcoming heart rending personal losses and adversity to reach the NFL; Cortez Allen's humble and dignified demeanor despite having the right to brag about being only the eighth player ever to make it to the NFL from The Citadel, being just three.
They all come to the draft, this staged event to stand before the gates of the NFL facing 32 teams' GMs, head coaches and others collectively playing the role of Anubis, weighing the supplicants' hearts and their bodies to determine whether they may pass on to the afterlife they all dreamt of, and were told was theirs for the taking. They bring with them their individual and very personal stories that in truth merely mirror what all we in Steeler Nation endure or experience in one degree or another. They bring with them their accomplishments and their failures, and we watch and judge and applaud and criticize as they perform in anticipation and fear of being discovered. For their trials have not ended, but are only beginning.
Some will find their best efforts up to now will have been for naught; that while being some of the few chosen to participate in the Draft, they are not one of those even fewer yet who can make the final transition to the NFL. They will either be undrafted and will fade quickly from our consciousness, or will be drafted but soon discarded. Others will be drafted, but will suffer the betrayals of bodies unable to withstand the violence and rigors of a professional career.
Some will succeed, and having made the final leap into the rarified air of the NFL, will become modern versions of Icarus, ignoring the instructions of their fathers or mothers by flying too close to the glare of the money and fame their long sought goal brings them, only to find themselves falling from tremendous height back to the mundane world from which they leapt.
Others will succeed, and as a result of their success go on to do great things for themselves and others; they will give back to the people and places that aided them on their great journeys, they will be guideposts for the next generation of aspiring athletes to follow, and for those of us less athletic to nonetheless emulate.
For those fates are what befall all of us, to one degree or another. Replace the Draft with college, culinary school, the military; replace players' careers in the NFL with our careers in education, manufacturing, the media, and you will find the same spectrum of results. Some of us may have found high school or college so easy we never learned to push ourselves academically and thus didn't make ourselves stand out from the thousands of other graduates the top employers had to choose from. Or maybe we did.
Or maybe we chose another route, and decided to focus instead on pursuing a career with little material compensation, but it fed our yearning for something more spiritual. We heard a calling and dedicated our lives to answering it, like an artist, a teacher, or a clergyman or not-for-profit business owner; we strove to become what we desired most, and some failed, while others succeeded.
So enjoy the Draft, to the degree that you're interested in it. But while you watch and evaluate; while you compare and judge these men's' performances and weigh the good and the bad you know or think you know about them, and guess how they might or might not benefit the Pittsburgh Steelers, take a moment to compare the story of your own life's journey with the stories of the men you are watching, and look for the commonality of character traits, of successes and failures, on display with your own, and with Steeler Nation as a whole.
Check out more of PaVaSteeler's columns here on Behind The Steel Curtain, including his latest about the contract given to Ravens QB Joe Flacco.
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Welcome to Capriccioso, a world that lives, just beyond our surface dreams, a world that the musically inclined can sometimes reach into easily. In Capriccioso, music is power. The weapons of war are instruments, made to be as a weapon. A piano cannon, a violin bow, a bell hammer, it continues on and on. The wars of this world, disguise their bloody intentions with the sweet music in their battle. Singing is the same as magic, the songs of singers and minstrals, healing the wounded, curing the sick, and even fending off attackers.
Capriccioso has been in a time of peace for some time, and new music has arrived within the world. Jazz, Rock and Roll, Pop, and more continue to show. As more music appears, more kingdoms appear as well, and the music is causing conflict among the kingdoms of Capriccioso. The kingdom of Blues, capital of the Land of Rock, has ordered war upon the Baroque kingdom, that which strived for so long before. The Jazz and Pop kingdoms are at war, only because of differences in their music. However, subgenres, the smaller kingdoms, don't always have a problem with eachother, such as the J-pop kingdom, and the Classic Rock. But the problem still remains.
Now, we focus on a boy, a 16 year old boy, named Benjamin Francis Wailand. He is a musical genius, as his teacher has told him. The boy wishes to become a great composer and conductor, there's only one problem. He has an illness that has sent him into a coma. Its the first day of his coma, and his family sit around the hospital bed. The most they can do is keep him alive and work his muscles, hoping he will awake. Before his comma he was thinking of a new song to make, but had a creative block. Now he approaches Capriccioso. Unbeknownst to everyone, he may be a deciding factor in the end of war throughout Capriccioso.
The kingdom of Classical, the Capital of Baroque, a large society that dresses much like people of the Renaissance period. They have carrages, boats, and recently began working with Cameras and hand carried Gunpowder Weapons. Wheel lock is their newest technology. Within Baroque, live many other classical music kingdoms, such as the masters of magic, the Opera Kingdom. Baroque is to the Northwest in this world, and covers a large amount of land. Baroque also has many sea ports to their west.
The kingdom of Blues is the capitol of Rock. Rock is a country to the south east of Baroque. This kingdom is used to very cold and rocky areas. They're society is used to steam powered engines, but not steam punk. The usual attire of Rock is usually something warm, and tight, such as leather. This country specializes in brute strength and fire magic. Inbetween Rock and Baroque is the country of Country. Rock has many Rogue Countries that like to go off by themselves, attacking other countries for more room.
Country is a vast country with few inhabitants. They are viewed as barbarians by most, as they wear hides and are less advanced as the other countries. They are very peacful though, and love nature, but will turn vicious if threatened. There have been reports of children lost and raised by animals in this country.
To the East of Baroque, North of Rock, lies the desert island country of Jazz. Jazz has many nomadic groups that usually stick to the rivers and ocean. They are very attuned with harmful magic and affliction magic. Most from this country wear robes and other light clothing. To the south of Jazz and North of rock, is R&B.
R&B is looked down at for its choice in song music, most of their society however live along the sea, and enjoy free trade among all countries, allowing agreeable people to live there.
In the ocean are 7 Islands that share a country together kown as Pop, depite not having just pop. Techno, Reagae, and others live on the islands, but act as a single kingdom also. These islands usual attire are those of the far east. They also enjoy having steam punk style technology, as well as a very effective fishing company.
This RP is a fantasy adventure RP, that I'd also call an expirament. Its a musical RP, not singing or what not, but very music based. Coming up with lyrics or notes for songs helps you in and out of battle. Their are regular instruments as well mind you. In this RP, I hope to start a new RP trend, dispite my failed attempts at previous RPs before. This will also be unique, as you won't have to bum rush somewhere the GM points. A war is occurring, but life can still go on as usual. You can make whatever you want for a weapon. But I would like it if you kept it to a certain limit. For example, a singer could use a spear microphone stand. For J-pop fans, as a shout out to Miku, you can use a megaphone pistol. Gunpowder weapons is as far as these societies have gotten, keep in mind please. If there are any questions, constructive critisism, etc. Just ask or say, and I will do my best to respond to those. This RP I have wanted to do for a very long time, but never thought that I had the time for it.
I'd like to thank MusicMac, OrangeDJ,WitchNextDoor, and Zellosse for the votes to put this through.
Tryouts for Co-GM will be pmed to me. The questions for Co-GM are...
1) If a player decides to do an instant hit on an enemy, killing it in one hit, what should be done?
2) If a player begins to speak OOC within the IC (ie. ((hey, I thought you were over here)) what do you do to keep the player from continuing.
3) If GM is gone for undisclosed reasons, should you take over till he is back?
4) When a player drops out, do you let morale drop, go hunting for new recruits, or other?
5) Should the GM give hints as to what the players should do ppenly, or hide them in context?
Personality: (can be revealed through the story if asked)
From: (what country do you originate from, and what kingdom? Subgenres of music are Kingdoms, such as Polka, or Salsa)
Weapon: (a instrument weapon such as a violin crossbow)
History: (about a paragraph or two on your characters life before the start of this, i.e. orphan thief, soldier, etc.)
Songs/Music: (any short song your character knows, and can use. brief description of what it does. p.s. lullabye and goodnight, would be like using a sleep spell, make sure the description makes sense.)
Extra: (anything else you want people to know)
Inventory: (what you might have on you, find, or are given. including Mineral Powder, similar to FF potions, put it on, let it settle, heal on outside. most Travelers would have 500 Gold on hand and 5 mineral powders, yes this is similar to an RPG, but not completley, I just want to get as much out of the wat as possible.)
*Note, any animal characters will have to be asked and okayed by GM and/ or Co-GM.
**Also, What Stores Sell will be posted in IC, should you want anything.
Example of CS:
Name: Benjamin Francis Wailand
Appearance: (Pics and/or Words) An average sized boy, standing at 5'6", he is very pale as well, due to the amount of time he stays inside. His eyes are Emeralds, and his hair, strangley, a deep silver, almost grey. (I'll get into his clothing at a later point)
Personality: (Will be revealed)
From: None, but starts in Folk, Baroque
Weapon: Conductor's Rapier (Conductor's baton extended, and added with a hand guard, allows Benjamin to perform non-sound magic, explained later, special case.)
History: Benjamin was always a good student, straight A's, never in trouble. But he has always had an illness that keeps him houseridden. However with the countless hours of music he had listened to he had become, what his teacher believes, a musical genius. Benjamin had wrote an entire Concerto that sounded beautiful to the ears, and even made the teacher well up. But before his dream of being a famous musician, conductor, composer, could be realized, tragesy struck. His illness became worse and sent him into a coma, sending him to the world of Capriccioso.
Ode to Joy; a short song that can boost morale and heal wounds.
Frosty the Snowman; a short song that summons a ball of snow that is launched where guided.
Extra: (to be revealed)
Inventory: Conductor's rapier (e)
*e means equipped.
any more questions?
Hey everybody, PandaBrady here, with more roleplaying!
Also, please support Monty Oum, his work is amazing, especially RWBY. I wish I was that good.
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The White House announced it plans to introduce the inaugural members of its Presidential Innovation Fellows program in a ceremony Aug. 23, at 10 a.m. (EDT) that will be streamed live on WhiteHouse.gov/live.
“This new initiative is bringing in top innovators from outside government to work with top innovators inside government to create real and substantial changes that will in a very short time frame benefit the American people, save taxpayers money, and help create new jobs,” said U.S. Chief Technology Officer, Todd Park.
According to Park, the program received nearly 700 applications after it was announced at TechCrunch Disrupt in New York City, May 23, at which Park, along with Federal Chief Information Officer Steve VanRoekel, called for America’s brightest minds to “drop everything you were doing and come serve your country.”
The program was designed to concentrate the talent of individuals from the private sector on specific needs in government for limited bursts of development time. The five major projects the fellows will begin working on, according to Park, include:
• MyGov (@ProjectMyGov) will create a rapid prototype of a streamlined online system that citizens will be able to use to easily access the information and services that are right for them from across the federal government.
• Open Data Initiatives (@ProjectOpenData) will accelerate and expand our efforts to make government data more publicly accessible in “computer-readable” form and spur the use of those data by entrepreneurs as fuel for the creation of new products, services, and jobs.
• The 20% Initiative (@ProjectTwenty) will work to transition “the last mile” of international development assistance payments from cash to electronic methods — lowering administrative costs, promoting financial inclusion, and reducing theft, fraud, and violence.
• RFP-EZ (@ProjectRFPEZ) will develop a new process and online marketplace that will make it vastly easier for the government and small high-growth tech startups to do business with each other, effectively opening up the government market to these startups as never before and enabling the government to buy better, lower-cost tech solutions from the full range of American businesses.
• Blue Button for America (@ProjectBlueBtn) will spread the ability for millions of Americans to easily and securely download their own health information electronically, empowering them to take that information with them should they change insurer or provider and share it with their loved ones or doctors if they choose, all while fueling the emergence of time-saving, money-saving, and even life-saving products and the businesses and jobs that those products will support.
Joining Park and VanRoekel in the announcement will be Acting Director of the Office of Management and Budget Jeff Zients and Director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management John Berry.
Park will also host a White House Office Hours session on Twitter at 5 p.m. EDT to discuss the launch of the Presidential Innovation Fellows and the projects they will be pursuing. Participants will be able to ask questions prior to and during the live event on Twitter with the hashtag #WHChat and follow the question and answer session live through the @WHLive and @WhiteHouseOSTP Twitter accounts.
The full session of the announcement will be posted on WhiteHouse.gov and Storify.com/Whitehouse. Twitter subscribers can following the morning announcement using the hashtag #innovategov.
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Activities and Amenities
GORDON REESE CABIN, MT
part ofBeaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest, US Forest Service
Status: Open through Thu Sep 05 2013 Season Dates
1 site(s) found
OverviewGordon Reese Cabin provides a modern, well-equipped place to stay while enjoying the scenic western Montana mountain ranges. During the summer a variety of recreational opportunities exist in the surrounding area, including hunting, hiking and viewing abundant wildlife. The cabin is a feature along the Lewis and Clark Trail.
During the winter months the Gordon Reese Cabin and surrounding areas transform into a winter wonderland. Surrounding the cabin are 32 kilometers of cross-country ski trails for which visitors enjoy various levels of difficulty. Gordon Reese Cabin is available as a warming hut to the public during the day, meaning the renters of the cabin do not have exclusive use of the facilities and are expected to act in a welcoming manner. The upstairs sleeping area can be closed off to provide limited privacy during the day when the cabin is used as a warming hut.
In the summer, the cabin can be accessed by a short, level hike from a parking area less than a mile away. In the winter, the cabin is available by cross-country skiing the same distance. Guests are responsible for their own travel arrangements and safety, and must bring several of their own amenities.
The Gordon Reese Cabin was built in 2001 and is located in the Picnic Meadows area near Chief Joseph Pass, along the Montana-Idaho border.
Popular activities include hiking, cross-country skiing and mountain biking on the area's many trails. Berry picking and big game hunting are popular in the fall. The cabin sits along the famous Lewis and Clark Trail, which led frontier explorers through the area in the early 1800s. The entire length of the trail covers 4,600 miles, showcasing some of the most beautiful and rugged areas of America.
The cabin has two double beds and four twin beds with mattresses in the loft, and can sleep up to eight people. A wood stove is available on the main floor for heat and firewood is kept in the basement, along with emergency and solar power equipment and other supplies. The cabin is equipped with propane-powered lighting.
Historic sites in the area include the Big Hole National Battlefield on the Nez Perce National Historic Trail. It is a commemorative site where war broke out in 1877 and is part of Big Hole National Battlefield, which is located about 15 miles east of the cabin.
Activities and Amenities
Know Before You Go
Getting There:GPS Info. (Latitude, Longitude):
From Wisdom, travel west on Highway 43 for 25 miles, then less than a mile south to the Chief Joseph Pass parking area. The route has many signs. Maps of the area may be purchased by calling the Wisdom Ranger District.
Mailing Address:GORDON REESE CABIN
PO BOX 238
WISDOM MT 59761
Phone Number:Information: (406)689-3243
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April 25, 2012
Living with Holocaust ghosts
Ed Asner, aka Lou Grant, walked slowly to the front of the stage at the Museum of Tolerance on Sunday night, and in his familiar growl — this time with a Latvian accent — he softly spoke: “Thank you for the help that is not only material, but also moral. A person lives through hope, and I hope it will get better.”
Asner was channeling the voice of a Holocaust survivor, one of what comedy actress-producer Zane Buzby, founder of the Survivor Mitzvah Project, calls “the unluckiest generation” — the now-elderly Jews of Eastern Europe who were born into pogroms, revolution and social upheaval, then lost their entire families during the Holocaust, went on to endure the strictures of communist rule only to face the depletion of social services of the post-Perestroika era and now are living out their final days destitute.
Despite all that, Asner’s words displayed how these survivors-beyond-reason have retained their dignity and, somehow, the ability to hope.
Via an all-star cast that also included Valerie Harper, Lainie Kazan, Frances Fisher, Elliott Gould, Alan Rosenberg and others, Buzby brought to life the letters she has received from hundreds of people the Survivor Mitzvah Project has helped — letters telling their stories, letters of gratitude for the small amounts of cash and gifts of Judaica and medicine and trinkets of love they’ve received from the project.
Through the Survivor Mitzvah Project, Buzby is also creating an archive of these once-forgotten lives that, in a small way, rivals the work of the much-wealthier Shoah Foundation. To hear these actors read memories of people whose mothers were buried alive, who hid from Nazis and lived only to find their world destroyed, whose thriving Jewish neighborhoods are now only a memory, the reality is overwhelming — but Buzby offered us all a way to help: “If everyone gives a little, and asks five others to do the same, we can do so much,” she said. At this moment, the Survivor Mitzvah Project is helping more than 1,500 Jews in seven countries, but there are many more in need.
I walked out of the museum’s theater with one searing question on my mind: How could a civilized world so brutally destroy so many lives, then leave these people with nothing — less than nothing, given the pain they still carry? And yet, in letter after letter, they offered not only gratitude but also gifts of dignity: “Yours are noble actions,” Rosenberg read from one letter.
If ever giving has its own rewards, this event, and the Survivor Mitzvah Project’s work, reminds us of that.
That the legacy of evil can take many forms was the message of a second Holocaust commemoration event at the same Museum of Tolerance the following night.
Claudia Sobral, a Brazilian-born Angeleno, the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, traveled to Berlin to watch a soccer tournament with her family several years ago and found herself obsessed with the Germans around her. Who was once a Nazi? Who committed crimes and got away with it? How does the younger generation, her contemporaries, deal with the legacy? All these thoughts raced through her mind then, and she has attempted to answer those questions through her riveting new documentary, “The Ghosts of the Third Reich.”
Sobral’s film focuses on three descendants of Nazis, all of whom, though born after the end of the war and without any complicity in its horrors, have borne the guilt and shame of the Nazis by association.
Bettina Goering, one of the interviewees, is the great-niece of Hitler’s second-in-command, Hermann Goering, the architect of the “Final Solution.” Another, Ursula Boger, is the granddaughter of Wilhelm Boger, one of the most brutal overseers at Auschwitz. And a third, Bernd Wollschlaeger, is the son of a highly decorated Nazi tank commander. Each of these descendants’ bloodlines haunt them — and their painful attempts to describe their own disgust with their Nazi heritage is juxtaposed in the film with horrific images of the concentration camps and contrasted with loving family pictures. If the juxtaposition of humanity and its antithesis is chilling to us watching the film, how must it feel to be born into this history?
The film also includes stories of conciliation.
Wollschlaeger, for one, rejected his unrepentant father, traveled to Israel and converted to Judaism. He is now a doctor living in Florida, father to two Jewish children, and in the film is shown participating in the March of the Living at Auschwitz with his kids — still seeking resolution but also sharing his struggle as an offering of peace to others.
The film also shows the work of another Jewish doctor, Samson Munn, whose parents both survived the Holocaust, albeit with horrific stories. Munn now juggles his work as a leading radiologist in Boston with a project he’s established called The Austrian Encounter, which brings together descendants of survivors with descendants of the Nazis in an effort toward reconciliation. Wollschlaeger and Munn (the latter via Skype) joined Sobral for a Q-and-A at the museum after the screening.
With all these images of people trying to find existential peace in a post-Holocaust world swirling in my mind, I found myself overhearing a conversation outside the auditorium: “I’m not going to waste any of my time feeling sorry for them,” one woman confided to a friend about the Nazi’s descendents.
And it is those private words that worry me the most. If we don’t have it in us to feel sorry for these innocent descendants — born of evil, but with no history of evil of their own — how can we commit to seeing others, all others, as people?
Isn’t the lesson of the Holocaust that we need to value humanity first? To salvage and preserve hope, and to understand another’s hell?
Survivors come in many shapes.
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Reactions to the Supreme Court decision
For Dr. Brian Bonnyman, the U.S. Supreme Court's health care decision hopefully means he'll hear a fewer horror stories.
As medical director for the nonprofit Cherokee Health System's Center City Clinic, Bonnyman treats many of Knoxville's poor and indigent. It's a world away from the patients he previously saw as a family practice physician in West Knoxville.
"Now I treat the poorest of the sick, and the sickest of the poor," said Bonnyman, who spoke at a downtown rally in Krutch Park on Thursday to cheer the high court's ruling upholding much of the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
"The disparity I see … is horrifying."
Speaking to a crowd of about 50 people, the physician shared several examples of his patients who should receive direct benefits, including an otherwise healthy 45-year-old mother and breast cancer patient.
"Now, because of the affordable health care act, she doesn't have to lose her health insurance," Bonnyman said. "And her children don't have to lose their insurance because they have a genetic, pre-existing condition."
Or another patient, who Bonnyman said suffered gallstones and vomited every time she ate — and lost some 40 pounds in two years — because she couldn't afford surgery.
"What's really going to be the game-changer," he said, "what I look forward to, is not having to hear these stories."
HIV activist Larry Frampton also praised the health care act as one that "provides real answers" to HIV patients who question how to pay for life-sustaining medications.
The act could qualify many Tennesseans living with HIV for Medicaid, if state leaders choose to opt into the health care act's provisions to expand the program.
"But even if they don't, (patients) will still get better care than what's available now," Frampton said.
Many low-income patients who currently are on a waiting list for the federally funded AIDS Drug Assistance Program will now at least qualify for insurance pools, he said.
The rally was one of several across the state organized by the Tennessee Health Care Campaign, a nonprofit consumer advocacy group that is lobbying Gov. Bill Haslam and state legislators to fully implement the act's Medicaid expansion option.
"The Supreme Court … has marked the end of partisan political games to block implementation of the Affordable Care Act," THCC Executive Director Beth Uselton said in a news release.
"There are no more excuses for delay. The (act) is the law of the land, and it is time for state lawmakers to start taking responsibility for ensuring that Tennessee families have the rights and protections guaranteed to them by the law."
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[Haskell-cafe] debugging a hanging program: where to start?
ketil at malde.org
Thu May 13 02:13:29 EDT 2010
Aran Donohue <aran.donohue at gmail.com> writes:
> I have a program that I can reliably cause to hang. It's concurrent using
> STM, so I think it could be a deadlock or related issue. I also do some IO,
> so I think it could be blocking in a system call.
If it's the latter, 'strace' might help you. Use 'strace -p PID' to
attach to a running process. Similarly, 'ltrace' can trace library
calls (but probably less useful in this context?)
(This is on Linux, but other OSes are likely to have similar tools.)
If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants
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B.S. in Mathematics
Environmental, scientific and economic concerns dominate modern life, and behind these issues are complex issues that call for an awareness of the fundamental principles of mathematics. Mathematics majors who enroll in this 128-credit program are encouraged to develop specific career objectives while pursuing undergraduate studies. Departmental advisors will assist students in exploring career possibilities and in devising a personalized plan of study that will best prepare them to meet and exceed their career goals.
About the Field
An undergraduate major in mathematics followed by graduate work in the same or related areas prepares students for careers in many fields. A partial listing of these fields includes business, banking, technical analysis of markets, mathematical modeling, statistical research, insurance, high technology, teaching at all levels from high school to college, and theoretical research in new mathematics. Mathematics majors who elect to minor in computer science will be well prepared for employment in computer hardware and software system design and data processing.
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November 22, 1889
Has an interview with pesky snipes – tackels a snake – has a round with his wife and is called upon by the police force and fire company – goes to the depot hears a conversation and sees a foot race etc., etc.
On Tuesday afternoon I walked into the dry goods store of Davenport and Piercy and asked for the proprietors. Mr. Day, that dandy clerk of theirs, with his hair roached back like an Indian, told me one of them was in. Just then Mr. Piercy, the funny man of the firm, and well known to the journalistic world as “Pesky Snipes” [...] up and taking a good look at my style asked if I was “Flipp.” I bowed and taking the proffered chair started to sit down, when to my horror I saw beneath me coiled in that chair a huge snake. I jumped near ten feet, yelled murder, fire, snakes and such things and swore I had been bitten by that reptile, and while standing there wonderin ghow to make my will (for I was sure I would die from the effects of that snake bite) John Piercy, or “Pesky” as I will call him was just dying with laughter, then I got mad and grabbingan axe helve, began to pound that snake; every lick I hit, the thing would jump at me. Mr. Day came from behind the counter with a two foot smile playing around his ruby lips and taking the snake by the head, said, “Man, what is the matter, are you wild? this is a rubber snake which Piercy bought to have some fun with.” After cooling down a little, I took a good look at it and sure enough I had been fooled, but “Pesky” being such a dear good fellow, I could not get mad, so I took what was left of that chair and sit down to ask him some questions. He gave me the history of Mr. Days’ coutship which was very interesting, then he quoted one of Mr. Days’ latest poems, entitled “Vine Hill Cottage.” He also quoted some from Josiah Allen, winding up on the “Peg Horn” boys. As I had laughed most all the buttons off of my vest, I started to leave but he said he had a new drawing to show me. It was a scene, the first was a saw dust road, leading from the town to a beautiful cottage. The second was a cottage at the end of said road, in the door of which stood a pretty girl and as the soft light from the hall lamp falls on the scene we see, standing on the steps hat in hand, a young man, we can, as we look on that scene, imagine we hear the soft good night, the door closes and the light in the parlor goes out, the gate slams and all is darkness. Scene 3d, a white cow coming out of the woods, the young man (which we recognize to be a popular dry goods clerk, also a member of the band.) pistol in one hand and hat in the other, coming home at a break-neck speed, and from the position of his lips I should say the man was yelling murder of ghosts.
Well after looking at that picture I went home where I found “that wife of mine” as mad a woman ever gets, she said I had been down town and made a big fool of myself by letting John Piercy scare the life out of me with one of those rubber snakes. She said that every woman in the town was making fun of my ignorance and that I had just gone and played the duce. I tried to reason with her, but woman like she would see but one way. She said that the most timid lady would have had better sense than to get frighten at such a thing. Just here I happened to think about the candy mouse I had in my pocket, so I just sliped it in her apron, she gave a scream lit with both feet in a chair then to the centre table, still screaming as loud as her voice would let her. I asked her what was the trouble but could get no sense in her. Hearing a terrible racket in the hall I went to the door, there came Police Ayers with a dozen men, asking who was murdered, and in the front door came Capt. E. R. Latham followed by his company, the most excited lot of firemen I ever saw, seeking where the fire was at, then came the Beacon reporter, paper and pencil in hand, asking if he should head that article “A tragical murder, or a disastrous fire.” I was so full of laugh that I could not say a word, I opened the sitting room door and let the excited crowd take in the scene. There upon the table stood “that wife of mine”and upon the rug before the fire lay the candy mouse which had caused the great panic. The men left in disgust, and I told the figure on the table to come down and try in future not to get scared at such little things. She came down, but there was a like of pleasantness in her voice for several days.
I was among the multitude that met the train on Wednesday night. Never in my life have I seen such a gang looking for a train. Why editor there were all colors, shapes and sizes of people. I got in the waiting room and held fast to the ticket office window until some lady place her No. 6 on my corn, then I let go that window and was pushed out on the walk, there I was caught between two ladied that would tip the beam at 187 lbs, and had the breath and shape mashed out of me. After escapeing from their loving embrace I was shoved on around the building to the freight protector where I saw what is called a “he” dance, the sot was made up of nothing but colored men. Walking past the protector to the wharf, there I saw fond lovers promenading too and fro. One couple I noticed more closely than the others, they seemed to be getting to the point, that a lover stammers to make. The lady wore a beautiful costume of green, th eman wore a black suit, blue eye-glasses and in his hand he held a cane. They drew near the edge of the wharf and stopped, the young man gazed out upon the star-lit waters as if he could catch from the silent deep, some tender expression, then looking up into the lustrous eyes of the fair maiden he, in a tremling voice, said: “If your answer be no my body shall rest beneath the deep and the waves that now roll on in playful glee, will then roll over the watery grave of a broken-hearted lover, but if yes, I will be the happiest man that ever lived.” As my attention was then called to a foot race between a young lady and the B. M., of the Beacon, I did not hear her answer, it must have been yes as the young man is yet on the town. While you know the man as no other person does, yet your readers do not, and for their benefit I will say, watch for the man that sports a cane and blue eye glasses. — Flipp.
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Have you ever wondered what is in between the interstates in Indiana?
How many of the 92 counties in Indiana have you even stopped your car in other than to fill the tank or to pull off at a rest park or fast food restaurant?
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Returning to an earlier practice, beginning January 1, 2011, and working from a palette of primary colors, I painted one 6 x 6 inch canvas panel to represent each day of the year. The primary color structure is similar to 2012. The color for each day began with the previous day's color, and developed from responses to the day’s events and a love of color. Travel days are an exception to this color structure: they are all the same color of gray, as they represent interruptions and transitional days in the year. The panels vary in depth; most panels are .75 inch in depth, while days of importance internally or externally are represented by panels of 1.5-inch depth. The days are arranged in units of one week. I chose to use a flexible fiberglass mesh to connect the work: the individual panels are attached in fixed segments and then hung like a curtain, allowing for movement, variability, and chance.The first project: A Year in Color (52 weeks and A Day) is composed of 365 individual panels attached in 7 day segments and hung from a frame.
The 2012 time project documents the phase of the moon for each day of the year on 5 x 5 inch wooden panels of varying depth. The wooden panels were first sanded and then gessoed black. The colors were derived from mixing several varieties of red, blue, yellow, and white. The color for each day began with the previous day's color, and developed from responses to events, coupled with a curiosity about and love of color. The Full Moon and the New Moon are 1.5 inch in depth, while the moon phases are 0.75 inch in depth. The visible portion of the moon was calculated by taking the percentage of the moon’s visibility as charted on Paul Carlisle’s site (www.paulcarlisle.com) and translating it into a metric measurement based on the size of the 5 x 5 panel. The panels are connected in two-week sections using 4-inch lengths of fiberglass mesh; they then hang from a frame. While the squares are fixed, the hanging structure introduces variability into the structure of the grid.
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A recent meta-analysis has suggested that the evidence for the utilization of orthobiologic materials in place of autogenous bone grafting is low level evidence at best.1 There is hardly a podiatric scientific meeting wherein at least one, if not more than one, lecture was devoted to the need for the incorporation of orthobiologics in surgery, even routine surgeries such as osteotomy or arthrodesis in the non-compromised patient.
I actually attended a meeting where five different speakers gave five different lectures, each touting a different product. I have heard some refer to the use of autogenous bone grafting as the "former standard" as opposed to the "gold standard." I have even heard one speaker suggest from the podium that the failure to utilize orthobiologics routinely may be negligent. Negligent? I am certain that the corporate support of these speakers has not influenced their opinions.
Locking plates are another issue. Locking plate technology is expensive. Although the company rep benefits from the use of this technology, is it required for the average patient with normal bone anatomy and physiology? Again, you are hard pressed to find a meeting wherein there is not a lecturer touting the need for locking plate technology in routine foot and ankle surgery. Oh, did I mention that the speaker had a corporate sponsor?
Advanced wound healing products are another quandary. While attending a recent meeting, a speaker intimated that the use of advanced wound care products in the treatment of an ulcer that had not reduced 50 percent at four weeks might just represent the “standard of care.” Standard of care?
It is interesting to me how many of the leaders in our profession use K-wires instead of screws, or standard screws and plates when necessary in deference to locking plate technology. These same leaders use plain old 4.0/4.5 screws for syndesmotic repair and generally heal wounds without hyperbaric oxygen or stem cells.
What concerns me is the ethics of the paradigm. Like any profession, we have a group of individuals getting rich at your expense. There is nothing wrong with that if they are providing you with truthful, accurate and useful information along the way. Alas, I am not certain that this is always the case.
Somehow, some way, our educational conferences need to start divesting themselves of the obvious influence of corporations on the meeting content. Charge them more to exhibit, let them make true unrestricted grants to meetings, and use the money to provide unbiased educational opportunities. The dependency on corporate sponsorship for speakers limits the academic content of our meetings to those topics likely to benefit the corporation paying the speaker and more importantly, deprives you of knowledge in many areas.
Not all meetings are so entangled in corporate obligation. The annual meetings of the North Central Academy of Ohio (No-Nonsense Seminar), the American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons (ACFAS), the Midwest Podiatry Conference and the American Professional Wound Care Association (APWCA) are examples of meetings that provide education in “un-sponsorable” areas such as rheumatology, ethics, dermatology, surgical procedure selection and the like.
You, as a participant, society member and registrant, need to start demanding more complete and unbiased educational programs that allow you to expand your knowledge and capabilities.
Oh, one more thing. Corporations do not set the standard of care. You do.
1. Van der Stok J, Van Lieshout EMM, El-Massoudi Y, Van Kralingen, GH, Patka P. Bone substitutes in the Netherlands- a systematic literature review. Acta Biomater. 2011; 7(2):739-750.
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itrean-and-somali-refugees-thrown-on-sanas-streets> Yemen: Imprisoned
Ethiopian, Eritrean and Somali refugees thrown on Sana's streets
Saturday, 28 July 2012 20:51
Refugees protest outside the Ministry of Human Rights in Sanaa.Yemen Times-
African refugees and asylum seekers demonstrated outside the Human Rights
Ministry in Hadda on Monday morning, protesting excessive force used by
Yemeni security forces to remove them from the country's immigration prison
the previous evening.
According to the former prisoners, security forces forcibly removed them
from the prison.
Security forces used tear gas and rubber bullets, the former prisoners said,
throwing tear gas canisters into cells to disorient them, before dragging
them out and beating them with steel rods.
Refugees held a protest outside the Ministry of Human Rights building to
call attention to perceived excessive force used by security forces to
remove them from the immigration prison in Sana'a.
Ethiopian, Eritrean and Somali refugees who were in the prison now live on
Following last year's 11-month demonstration, refugees set up tents outside
UNHCR's Sana'a office before being removed by Yemeni security forces. UNHCR
said it offered the refugees a one-time payment to end demonstrations
outside the office. Refugees said they were offered $400 per family, though
those who accepted UNHCR's offer said they only received $200 of the
During the height of the political uprising, refugees-facing increased
violence from Yemeni security forces-demanded a durable and permanent
solution to their situations.
"Many of us have been here for 10, 15, 20 years," said one Oromo-Ethiopian
woman. "We asked for Yemeni citizenship or repatriation elsewhere. They
rejected all of our demands, and after being removed, we agreed we would go
to Al Kharaz refugee camp. They took three buses to Al Kharaz; the rest of
us were taken to prison."
UNHCR estimates 400 refugees were initially taken from outside the UNHCR
building and placed in immigration prison. Prior to Sunday's removal of
refugees from the prison, UNHCR estimated there were 120 men, children and
women inside. Prisoners said there were 114 refugees-102 Ethiopians, seven
Eritreans and five Somalis, including 40 women and 54 children. The youngest
of the imprisoned was 3 months old.
"They threw tear gas canisters into the men's cells," Makya Ahmed, 25, said.
"The gas drifted over, women and children were crying and vomiting. After
they removed us from our cell, they hit me in the back with a steel rod and
then picked me up and threw me into a van."
Refugees at Monday's protest, now living on the streets with no food or
water, sounded increasingly desperate.
"We aren't allowed any dignity," Ahmed said. "We can't live like this; take
back your IDs. They're of no use to us," she said about her Refugee Status
Desperate for justice
Some refugees threatened to harm themselves if their situations didn't
improve. Several mentioned self-immolation as an option.
"We have no work, no one treats us well, we've contacted all the human
rights groups," Yousef Aman, an Oromo-Ethiopian, said. "At this point, we
are just tired. I don't know if there are human beings anywhere else on the
planet who live like this. It's been 10 years for me. I can't go on; I'd
rather destroy myself."
The majority of the refugees are Muslim and spend the month of Ramadan
fasting, praying and thinking of God. Refugees reported that immigration
prison authorities did not provide food or water during their last three
weeks in prison. They instead relied on friends or community members to
bring food and water once a week from outside.
Today, the refugees, who have no blankets, mattresses or clothes other than
what they are wearing, sleep on cement pavements, unprotected from the
elements. It is Ramadan, but they have no Suhoor or Iftar-one woman wondered
aloud if God will accept her fast.
According to the U.N.'s 1951 Refugee Convention, to which Yemen is a
signatory, the state has obligations to refugees. These include protecting a
refugee's right to non-refoulement-protection against forcible return. While
the Yemeni government grants prima-facie refugee status to Somalis fleeing
two decades of war, it does not recognize the refugee status of Ethiopians
and Eritreans. Yemeni policy is to arrest and deport them, behavior that is
contradictory to international law, according to Human Rights Watch.
Received on Sat Jul 28 2012 - 21:32:28 EDT
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FireFound is hands down the best security add-on for Firefox. It is a recently launched add-on which can track the location of your laptop if lost or stolen. It shows you the approximate geolocation along with the WiFi Network it last connected to. Read More
The most selling laptops in the market have 15 inch screen, they all lack the numpad because there is no space to fit in. The netbooks are selling like hotcakes and same is the case with them. I didn’t find the need for numpad until I started working with Office Excel 2010. Read More
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Microsoft Office Outlook 2010
is quite stable but not perfect, if your PST file becomes corrupt then you will need a repair tool to fix it. PST stands for Personal Storage Table(also referred as Personal Folder File) and is used to store all your Inbox, and other information. If it becomes corrupt, then your Inbox will also get corrupted.
Recently, we have been playing around Outlook 2010 a lot. You can read the previous posts on using it in Offline Mode
, running in Safe Mode
, and speeding it up by downloading Headers
only. Now we are going to show you how to manage the Outlook add-ins.
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Do you have a text file that is bigger than 100MB or 1GB in size? It is not too uncommon, a busy server log can be more than 1GB in size. So the question is how can we open such a large text file?
If your Outlook 2010 is crashing due to a culprit add-in, then the only possible way is to start it in safe mode and remove the add-in. Apart from add-ins, there could be hundreds of other reasons why your Outlook is crashing. In all cases you will need to start Outlook 2010 in safe mode.
Steam is a popular desktop client that allow users to buy games, make friends, and connect with others. In short, it is a social gaming platform and marketplace where everyone can communicate. Even though I have never encountered any problems, there are complains that some users are not able to login, while others are having update problems, and so on. Read More
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Running Outlook 2010 offline
can be useful if you want to perform any task other than email. But what if you have 100 emails and it is taking forever to download them? By default Outlook 2010 downloads both the emails and the attachments and does not ask the user about this setting when setting up an account for the first time.
Outlook 2010 is a great improvement over Outlook 2007, but is not perfect. When you open Outlook 2010, it will take some time to load depending on the number of new emails it has detected in your inbox. Once Outlook 2010 is running, it will start sending/receiving information which can sometime take forever if you receive large amount of new emails.
Microsoft Office 2010 includes Word 2010, Excel 2010, PowerPoint 2010 and lots of other apps such as OneNote 2010, Visio 2010, Publisher 2010, etc. The contents of these apps are not indexable. This is where Microsoft Office 2010 Filter Packs come in.
Did you know that Windows 7 uses it’s own DirectShow filters to decode several audio and video formats? If you want to use third party filters then it is not possible without making changes to the registry, which can be quite a hectic process. Read More
So we released MSE Update Utility a few weeks back and it had some bugs. One of the most serious was the Exception Error which was due to the date format. This error is fixed now, but we did however find something interesting along the way.
As we mentioned
yesterday, ePub is a format which stands for electronic publishing and is a standard for many ebook readers. There are tools which can be used to read ePub format, but what if you want to write a book and save it in ePub format?
We have been covering some shinny new features in Office 2010 for a few months now, and have brought you several detailed articles on Word 2010
, Excel 2010
, PowerPoint 2010
, and OneNote 2010
. It is time now to have a look at the new features in Outlook 2010.
Today we came across a tool which allows you to texturize the Windows 7 taskbar. Taskbar Texturizer
is a light-weight tool which offer 10+ textures but there is a small interesting story behind it.
An independent developer (named Brad) got frustrated because StartDock added the exact same feature in Windows Blinds 7 and was toting it as a "Major Feature". But Brad actually coded it in 2002, so he quickly recompiled it, added the tray support, and released it for the public.
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Just because we are all using Windows 7 doesn’t mean that Windows XP is dead. Majority of the new netbooks come with Windows XP pre-installed, thus increasing it’s market share marginally. Some netbooks also come with Windows 7 Starter, but that is a different story.
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Customers have reduced their spending in order to save money and avoid financial hardships as the economy struggles to fully recover. Small business owners need to motivate their patrons to come back to establishments and start shopping again.
This can be difficult for some independent operations that can't afford to slash prices to appeal to budget-conscious consumers. Offering incentives for purchases can help stores convince clients to make purchases again because they don't want to miss opportunities to receive free gifts.
Giving away functional promotional products with sales gives customers another reason to frequent retailers. Modern consumers are bargain hunters who want the most value for their money, and handing them an extra item with their purchases gives them even more bang for their buck.
Owners don't have to give away extravagant gifts to every customer. A promotional pen or wall calendar is something clients love to have, but don't want to spend money on. For frequent patrons, businesses might want to hand out larger rewards like tote bags or USB flash drives.
Every establishment should brand each of these gifts with logos and identifiers so consumers remember where they received the free items, which increases the likelihood of them becoming regular customers.
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Decades before he became the impresario behind San Francisco's rock 'n' roll heyday in the '60s, Bill Graham was part of a small group of Jewish students forced to flee France to avoid Nazi persecution. After making his way to the United States, Graham was raised in a foster home in the Bronx.
The rest you know: He moved to the Bay Area, where his production company presented artists as varied as Jefferson Airplane and Miles Davis and helped launch the careers of the Grateful Dead and Janis Joplin. In 1975, Graham celebrated his roots by building the "Mama Menorah" -- a 22-foot candelabra lit in the first outdoor public menorah-lighting ceremony outside Israel. Now his life and legacy (he died in 1991) are celebrated on the first Sunday of Hanukkah at Bill Graham Menorah Day, featuring oratory, Jewish music, and performances by Mattis Yahu and Dan Wolf of local hip hop act Felonious. Festivities begin at 2 p.m. at Union Square, Geary & Stockton, S.F. Admission is free; call 387-5668.
– Owen Otto
Giving It Away
Who doesn't love Glide Memorial? For 40-some years the Rev. Cecil Williams has led a congregation dedicated to unconditional love, serving the underserved with free meals, tons of services, and a rockin' choir. "During the holiday season, everyone talks about loving their neighbor and helping the less fortunate," intones the reverend. "But it's not the talk. It's the walk." Today, the walk is the annual Grocery Bag Giveaway. Last year, Glide volunteers gave 10,000 bags of food to people in need, and they plan to walk even further this year. The real care not cash begins at 8 a.m. at Glide Memorial United Methodist Church, 330 Ellis (at Taylor), S.F. Admission is free; call 674-6000 or visit www.glide.org.
– Hiya Swanhuyser
The art that made the '90s
Like fashion and music, the art world has its fads: Impressionism hit the public's consciousness in the 1860s; surrealism was hot from the 1930s to the '50s; op art was all the rage in the 1960s. SFMOMA's "Supernova: Art of the 1990s From the Logan Collection" casts a sharp eye on the decade's fashionable styles, presenting works from a hodgepodge of international artists whose pieces reveal such modern influences as the technology boom, our increasing awareness of the fragility of the human body, and the merging of animation and film with traditional visual art forms. The show, featuring 80 works from artists such as Takashi Murakami and Katharina Fritsch, continues at 11 a.m. daily at SFMOMA, 151 Third St. (at Mission), S.F. Admission is free-$10; call 357-4000 or visit www.sfmoma.org.
– Joyce Slaton
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Over the weekend I took a trip up to Cape Ann in Massachusetts. Along the way, my wife and I stopped to see a movie that was only showing in two area theaters – one in Cambridge and one in Boston.
We chose the Cambridge theater, which was located in Kendall Square. The name "Kendall Square" didn't mean anything to me. I figured it was some sort of shopping center.
When we got there, we had a couple of hours before the movie, so we thought we'd pick up a few things at a drug store and then grab lunch.
I searched for "drug store" on my phone, and found one just a few hundred yards away. We followed the map, but soon found ourselves in the middle of an office park. When I read the complex's business directory, I realized the problem. Google hadn't taken us to a drug store, it had taken us to a hub of drug companies. Kendall Square, it turns out, is home to dozens of pharma and biotech firms, including Novartis, Genzyme and Amgen.
Cambridge, of course, is also home to Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Though I hadn't intended to take a tour of the Bay State's biopharmaceutical corridor, the stop at Kendall Square reminded me of a conversation I had last week with BioNJ President Debbie Hart.
"If we have Big Pharma setting up shop in the Cambridge area, clearly that's a function of the academic environment up there and the synergy of industry and academia working together," she said.
Hart said New Jersey could do more to foster collaboration between the state's biopharma companies and higher ed institutions.
The above comment is from a story I wrote about a new BioNJ survey of the state's biotechnology industry. The report shows positive numbers, but also calls on the state to do more to support the industry.
It's clear the greater Boston area has a strong core from which to grow its life sciences sector. New Jersey, too, has a quiver full of assets, both historical and geographical. But with such stiff competition between life sciences hubs, it seems one thing New Jersey doesn't have is the luxury of resting on its laurels.
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Less than a year after the repeal of "Don't Ask Don't Tell," the Pentagon holds an LGBT pride month. Advocacy groups say the transition from institutionalized homophobia to equal treatment is going well, but a bureaucracy of regulations still place gay service members and their partners at a disadvantage.
Gays Slowly Gaining Acceptance In Military
Tue, June 26, 2012 7:00pm
Story by Larry Abramson
Listen to this story on npr.org »
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Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- Pakistan agreed to free "a number of Taliban detainees" from its prisons "in support of peace and reconciliation" efforts in Afghanistan, Pakistan's foreign ministry said Wednesday.
The announcement followed three days of meetings in Islamabad between Pakistani officials and a high-level delegation from Afghanistan's High Peace Council, which is trying to get the Taliban to negotiate peace in that country.
The release of the Taliban prisoners was requested by the Afghan government and the peace delegation, a joint statement from both sides said.
"Pakistan and the High Peace Council called on the Taliban and other armed groups to sever all links with al Qaeda and other international terror networks," the statement said.
The statement also promised that "All concerned countries including Pakistan, Afghanistan and the United States will facilitate safe passage to potential negotiators to advance the reconciliation process."
Talk of a peace process slowed in September 2011 when suicide bombers killed senior Afghan peace negotiator and former President Burhannudin Rabbani. The peace delegation to Islamabad was led by his son, Salahuddin Rabbani.
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Long before the written word, people used sound to tell their stories. They bragged about their triumphs, impressed their competitors, sold their goods, taught their children, described the wonders they had seen and the emotions they felt. They did this with only the tenor of their voices and the sounds they could create. Music - singing, drumming, the whistle of reeds - must have developed as a way to enhance the art of storytelling. An art we now call data exchange.
People have not lost their responsiveness to sound. It's hardwired into us. The song we wore out on the seventh-grade jukebox can make us smell burgers and fries when we hear it on the radio. This automatic, physiological response is why sound design remains so important to the story-telling of the 21st century.
Our stories today are still about winning and losing, beating the competition, teaching and describing natural wonders. We've come a long way from banging on a stretched animal skin to get the message across. But sound is still central.
AUDISEE Sound & Music, the original and pre-eminent sound design company in Seattle, continues to lead the way with groundbreaking work in exhibition and retail sound-design for Fortune 100 companies, award-winning radio and television commercials and awe-inspiring natural interpretation.
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Thursday, March 29, 2012
Banking Services for the Under Banked
The under banked are not a traditionally a good target for banks. They do not typically have large bank accounts for the banks to make money off of savings accounts. They typically do not have large incomes to support high value loans. They may also not be a good credit risk for the bank’s credit card business. But wireless carrier economics are different. Carriers can leverage a service that nominally increases a customer's charge over a large customer base to increase revenues substantially. Carriers also are looking for services that reduces churn, especially for prepaid customers where churn is high. Banking services create stickiness as people tend to have long relationships with their financial institution. Prepaid wireless carriers are in a position to offer banking services to the under banked population as there is a high correlation between prepaid customers and the unbanked.
Making a Solution Possible
A company Vesta (www.trustvesta.com) has been in the prepaid top up business for years offering a turnkey prepaid top up solutions for a number of carriers around the world including Verizon, AT&T, Boost, Telcel, China Mobile, Vodafone and Telefonica. Vesta is offering a new turn- key financial solution that allows customers to pay their bills and make electronic payments. The customer puts money into a mobile wallet account run by the carrier, Vesta, and a program manager like Fiserv for example. These funds can come from a Green Dot Card, a prepaid card from Visa, MasterCard or others, cash at a retail store, or via direct deposit. The customer is charged $3 for inputting cash into the mobile wallet account. The customer is given an application on their smartphone which they can use to pay bills or transfer money from the phone; and a card which they can use like any prepaid card. The carrier, Vesta and the program manager share in the transaction fee from the merchant or electronic bill pay. The program manager is an accredited financial institution, takes care of the storage of funds, and makes money off of the float.
What has really changed the equation and made this opportunity possible is smartphones, which are getting cheaper and growing in popularity with prepaid customers; along with application stores and easy downloads. A small computer and usable applications are in the hands of people who did not have this access before.
Vesta Smartphone Application
Benefits to the Customer
The benefits to the customer are the convenience of electronic bill payment, electronic money transferring, lower cost money remittance (Vesta works with various money remittance companies in various parts of the world), as well as and maybe more importantly, a good record of income and spending.
Limitation and Potential Opportunities
Currently this is only being offered on Android phones 2.2 and 2.3, and will be offered on the 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich version of Android 30 days after launch. Android is where the main intersection of smartphones users and prepaid users exist.
At this point in time, creating interest bearing is a small factor because the rates are low. But this could be a good way for people feel good about this service. The unbanked do not typically get interest on their money and would see this as being very attractive especially as interest rates go up.
Other opportunities in the space include:
• Cash back on purchase like PerkStreet Financial (www.perkstreet.com) offers. People in the under banked group will see that as a highly attractive feature.
• Tax preparation with automatic rebates: The under banked typically have simple returns that can be done by imputing the W-2 by the camera on a smartphone. The carrier can advise clients on how to save money on taxes via an easy to use application.
• Offering discounted coupons to merchant stores.
Win Win Scenario
This is a service which will be most attractive to carriers that focus on prepaid services in the US and international carriers everywhere else because of their high % of prepaid customers. This service is not a standard telecom service so carriers will have to promote and put their trusted brand name behind this product. The service has the hallmarks of a good product in that economically it adds revenues for carriers with the additional benefits of increased loyalty. For customer’s it saves time, creates more control around their finances, and offers potential cost savings. This can be a win-win for both parties, the hallmark of any good business transaction.
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The RAND-Qatar Policy Institute (RQPI) is a collaboration between the RAND Corporation and Qatar Foundation. Our mission is to help decisionmakers design and implement sound policies for a better and more sustainable future.
RQPI was established in Doha in 2003 to study important issues facing Qatar and the region. Through RQPI, government agencies, non-profit organizations, and private-sector institutions across the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia can tap into RAND's renowned expertise.
Research projects at RQPI have spanned education, health care, energy, security, and many other topics. Strategic planning, program evaluation, risk and technology assessments, cost-benefit analysis, and choice modeling are among RQPI's core capabilities.
The World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) is accepting applications for the 2012 WISE Awards, which honor education projects around the world—including in primary education—that have had a positive societal impact and can serve as models for other institutions or nations. Submissions for the awards will be accepted through May 31, and the winners will be announced at the 2012 WISE Summit in November in Doha, which will include presentations and discussions by RAND researchers. RAND is a partner to the annual event.
Considering the challenges associated with continued growth and demographic changes, the government of Qatar is interested in updating its school transportation system (STS). This volume assesses the perspectives of parents and school administrators, identifies a vision for the STS, and discusses strategies to achieve it.
A collaboration between the RAND Corporation and Qatar Foundation, the RAND-Qatar Policy Institute (RQPI) analyzes complex policy problems and helps policymakers create enduring solutions. This publication provides an overview of RQPI, including the research questions examined by the institute, its approach to client relations and quality assurance, its research capabilities, and the public policy areas on which RQPI is focused.
Converting vast amounts of digital data into meaningful information for research and analysis is a challenge for many different types of organizations. At the QCRI Seminar Series in Doha on Dec. 12, Dalal will discuss RAND's approach to managing data and to harnessing the power of information analytics and web technologies.
Since 1995, Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development (QF) has been a catalyst for transforming Qatar's carbon economy into a knowledge economy. In a special issue of The Foundation
magazine, QF reflects on how RAND's research and policy insights have informed decisions about education, health, environmental, labor, and other important issues.
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These are free, confidential, self-guided online programs that help you to assess your use of either alcohol or marijuana. They take about 20-30 minutes each to complete. The programs will provide you with accurate and personalized feedback about:
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The last days there is a lot of discussion on Web 3.0, which is sort of equated with the Semantic Web. And the question is how we will get there.
What I did not notice in the whole discussion is a mention of the end-user. Does he want a semantic web? Can he handle a semantic web? At the moment Web3.0 only seems to a technology push. Does the end-user know that there is something different than a web-page? And does he act as such?
I am a bit pessimistic here. Large portions of the Internet users do not think beyond the web-page, do not think beyond Word. We should already be happy that they discovered address cards and bookmarks. And hopefully also images and videos are coming in the picture. And of course blogs made a large step here. But do not delude yourself as a reader of this blog and a technology avantgardist that what you do yourself, is also done by others.
It will take a very long time before there is a Web2.0 and I would not be surprised that an adoption will take a generation. The only thing we can do now is to create something to adopt for them.
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Dubai, United Arab Emirates -
A human rights group says authorities in the United Arab Emirates have detained an 18-year-old blogger as part of a widening crackdown on perceived dissent.
UAE authorities have taken dozens of people into custody in the past year over Internet postings or alleged links to an Islamist group that officials consider a threat to state security.
The London-based Emirates Center for Human Rights says Mohamed Salem al-Zumer was detained Wednesday at his home in Sharjah, the emirate north of Dubai. Al-Zumer had posted comments on the Internet supporting prominent jailed activists.
Officials gave no immediate statement in response to the Friday report.
Last month, the UAE imposed strict new laws that outlaw a range of activities on the Internet, including criticism of the ruling system or calling for street protests. - Sapa-AP
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Working out, losing weight, these are some of the most common New Year's resolutions.
"Every year when this time comes, I see a lot of new faces," said regular gym goer, Matthew Thompson.
And several years ago, Michael Albigese was one of those new faces.
"All of us at one point made a resolution to get fit. I was there, everyone who is here at one point or another started working out," he said.
Sticking to the resolution, working out is now on his daily agenda.
But he along with others say it's only so long until the other gym "resolutionists" give up.
"By the end of the month they're almost always gone," said Albigese.
So with temptations, winter weather, and other distractions, what's the key to turning that resolution into a lifestyle?
'Get a friend who is in to working out and is dedicated with you. Say you need to go with your friend, then you're going to feel guilty if you don't go because then you'll leave your friend out," said Albigese.
"You have to look at yourself fit months from then. It's not easy, it takes hard work, but you'll get there," said Thompson.
And the best reward of all they say, is the last effects.
"You stay fit and you'll be in good shape. You'll live longer," said Mike Montana, another gym regular.
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Is there any compensation for variation in atmospheric pressure? It is the static atmospheric pressure (psta) that is read by the pressure sensor. I miss-spoke agreeing to it as pressure at sea level. Since the reference is sealed within the sensor, that provides the basis for the sea level measurement.
@Frank - With accurate differential pressure measurement, does temperature need to be taken either side of the orifice ?
This is interesting question. When suppliers provide data regarding the effect of temperature on their sensor it is normally done with both sides of the sensor at the same temperature. If the sensor is temperature compensated, in a flow measurement the temperature sensing is an integral part of the sensor. If a large temperature difference exists between the upstream and downstream measurement, it should be essentially averaged in the sensing circuitry. If you are providing the temperature compensation yourself, what you have to consider is the upstream temperature or downstream temperature more important? Does the situation change over time? The answers may make you consider two temprature sensors but in most cases you should just need one.
@mahdee: I'm not having audio problems today, but I did in the last lectures several weeks ago, and it was because I had updated my flash plugin. I declined an update today. It's possible that others may have updated and are incompatible with the audio stream. I'm running Firefox.
We looked at a number of sources to determine this year's greenest cars, from KBB to automotive trade magazines to environmental organizations. These 14 cars emerged as being great at either stretching fuel or reducing carbon footprint.
Healthcare might seem to be an unlikely target application for the Internet of Things technology, but recent developments show small ways that big-data is going to make an impact on patient care moving into the future.
A quick look into the merger of two powerhouse 3D printing OEMs and the new leader in rapid prototyping solutions, Stratasys. The industrial revolution is now led by 3D printing and engineers are given the opportunity to fully maximize their design capabilities, reduce their time-to-market and functionally test prototypes cheaper, faster and easier. Bruce Bradshaw, Director of Marketing in North America, will explore the large product offering and variety of materials that will help CAD designers articulate their product design with actual, physical prototypes. This broadcast will dive deep into technical information including application specific stories from real world customers and their experiences with 3D printing. 3D Printing is
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Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has called on the Health and Human Services Department inspector general and the Office of Special Counsel to investigate if the Food and Drug Administration broke the law by extensively monitoring the activities of whistle-blowers. (File photo / USA Today)
Recent revelations that the Food and Drug Administration and possibly other agencies are aggressively monitoring and storing employees’ private emails and online activities have sparked debate over whether agencies can and should spy on their employees.
FDA employed sophisticated spying software that can record virtually everything an employee does at his workstation. By capturing an employee’s keystrokes, however, FDA gained access to email passwords, bank account information and even legally protected communications. Eventually, some 80,000 pages of information FDA collected on some employees ended up in the possession of a contractor — Quality Associates Inc. of Fulton, Md. — which posted the information online.
Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has called on the Health and Human Services Department inspector general and the Office of Special Counsel to investigate if FDA broke the law by extensively monitoring the activities of whistle-blowers.
The matter is pending in the U.S. District Court of Washington and at OSC, which launched an investigation to determine whether FDA broke personnel rules.
Grassley is also demanding answers from FDA officials on how far the agency’s monitoring program went and whether other agencies — including the Department of Homeland Security, Internal Revenue Service, Consumer Products Safety Commission, Agriculture Department, Environmental Protection Agency and National Institutes of Health — are doing the same. Those agencies all have business relationships with Quality Associates.
Six current and former FDA whistle-blowers filed a lawsuit in January claiming that top FDA managers monitored and seized emails from their personal email accounts after they expressed concerns to the incoming Obama administration that FDA had approved unsafe medical devices.
“Would you want the boss who was about to fire you having access to your bank accounts and password?” said Stephen Kohn, executive director of the National Whistleblowers Center, who represents the FDA employees.
In a July 17 floor speech, Grassley said FDA clearly went too far.
“This massive campaign of spying was not just an invasion of privacy; it was specifically designed to intercept communications that are protected by law,” he said. “The FDA knew that contacts between whistle-blowers and the Office of Special Counsel are privileged and confidential. But the James Bond wannabes at the FDA just didn’t care.”
FDA fired two of the whistle-blower employees and did not renew contracts for two others. Two other employees still work at FDA. One employee, who was fired in April for disclosing confidential information, was temporarily reappointed with pay through July 31, according to a July 13 letter to Grassley from Jeanne Ireland, FDA’s assistant commissioner for legislation.
Grassley is demanding the identity of the FDA official who authorized the monitoring and an explanation of evidence that appears to show that FDA specifically targeted congressional communication with the whistle-blowers for monitoring. Grassley also is pressing FDA for answers on its relationship with Quality Associates and why FDA told the company the 80,000 documents collected by the agency’s monitoring software were neither classified nor sensitive and did not contain personally identifiable information.
No clear guidance
In separate letters last month, Grassley asked leaders of DHS, IRS, the Consumer Products Safety Commission, Agriculture, EPA and NIH for details on their employee monitoring programs and policies.
There is no clear guidance for agency managers on how and when to monitor and collect employees’ online activities and correspondence, nor is there clear guidance on what constitutes the boundaries of employee monitoring.
Charles Coe, the Education Department’s assistant inspector general for information technology audits and computer crime investigations, defines the boundary between what is acceptable and what goes too far this way: “If you’re talking about selectively targeting individuals, and you don’t have any allegations of wrongdoing, because you just want to do it, obviously that is just way out of bounds.”
However, monitoring more broadly for the purpose of network security is acceptable, said Coe, who also chairs a Council of Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency subcommittee.
An interagency task force will address the issue of employee monitoring when it releases recommendations for how agencies across government can identify and defend against insider threats.
As agencies look to keep a tight grasp on sensitive information and guard against leaks, and as monitoring tools get more sophisticated, the topic has become a hot one among federal managers.
The Transportation Security Administration, for example, plans to purchase software that monitors employees’ keystrokes, emails and other online activities. Reps. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss, and Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, urged TSA in a June 25 letter not to snoop on whistler-blower communications with other federal entities.
In a response letter, TSA Administrator John Pistole said the software would provide TSA with forensic evidence for investigations should an employee ever be identified as a potential insider threat to TSA’s mission.
Monitoring practices by agency
Despite the lack of clear guidance on the subject, agencies have a right to monitor how employees use government computers and what information is being shared on their networks, said Kristin Alden, partner at Alden Law Group, a Washington-based firm that specializes in federal employment law.
“Federal employees can’t expect any privacy on their work computers,” Alden said. “They should assume their agency can see every email they send and every Web page they access through their work computer.”
However, agencies such as FDA send conflicting messages when employees are told they could be monitored yet are allowed to use their government computers for limited personal use, Alden said.
“Conflicting instructions of this type might raise a reasonable expectation of privacy on a work computer,” she said. “If the agency violates that privacy, it could be illegal.”
A federal safety specialist, who asked not to be named, said he feels employees at his agency are monitored more than what’s routinely necessary.
“Unless a person has provided cause to warrant such continuous monitoring, it should be curtailed,” the employee said in an email. For people who warrant monitoring, agencies should notify them if the monitoring goes beyond a routine keyword search for certain phrases that could alert agencies to national security risks, he said.
The safety specialist also asked whether anyone is monitoring agencies to ensure their practices are not overreaching.
Some federal employees told Federal Times they believe the government should be able to monitor their computers all the time and those computers should be used for government purposes only.
But the lines dividing personal and work-related use of computers are sure to be blurred further as more agencies allow employees to use their personal smartphones and tablet computers for work. As that happens, employees will increasingly have to agree to usage agreements, some of which allow their agencies to install third-party software that manages security settings on those devices. In some cases, employees will have to agree to turn over their devices to respond to discovery requests.
As at other agencies, FDA issues an alert to employees when they log on to their government computers that they have no reasonable expectation of privacy and that the government may monitor or intercept any communications on their computers at any time.
However, monitoring at FDA is done infrequently, said FDA spokeswoman Erica Jefferson.
FDA began monitoring five employees in 2010 following a New York Times article that raised concerns about the safety of medical imaging devices and exposed attempts by FDA managers to approve an application by General Electric that agency scientists had rejected.
A month later, GE Healthcare Inc. wrote to FDA alleging that confidential trade secrets had been leaked. Within days of receiving the letter, FDA began monitoring one of the scientists quoted in the Times article and was able to identify and monitor four other employees believed to have illegally disclosed confidential information about medical devices under FDA review.
“Anytime management decides to treat some employees or groups of employees differently, management is asking for some kind of grievance, EEO [equal employment opportunity] complaint or other allegation by employees,” said Joseph Kaplan, founding principal at Passman & Kaplan law firm.
Kaplan, whose firm has represented federal employees accused of misusing government computers, said if monitoring leads to a legal dispute, an agency should be prepared to justify why an employee was singled out for monitoring. If the monitoring was targeted, the agency may have to show what prompted the monitoring, provide supporting evidence and show why it believes the employee was violating agency rules, he said.
The Office of Special Counsel in June warned that agencies could be reprimanded for targeting whistle-blowers and monitoring emails that report wrongdoing.
In the memo, Special Counsel Carolyn Lerner said that targeting for surveillance emails between whistle-blowers and OSC or inspectors general is “highly problematic.” Agencies that deliberately target whistle-blowers’ submissions or draft submissions to OSC or IGs could be accused of retaliating against the employees, Lerner said.
While agencies have a right to monitor employee emails and business conducted on government-issued devices, “federal law also protects the ability of workers to exercise their legal rights to disclose wrongdoing without fear of retaliation,” Lerner said.
She also urged agencies to ensure their electronic monitoring policies do not interfere with or deter employees from reporting fraud, waste and abuse.
“If you’re casting a broad fishing net and collecting everything, that’s one thing,” OSC spokeswoman Ann O’Hanlon said in an interview. “It’s what you do with the information that would determine whether or not something has gone too far.”
How far is too far?
Tens of thousands of documents collected by FDA reveal that the agency intercepted and indexed communications that employees had with OSC, legal advisers and other entities, said Kohn, who had not seen most of the documents until a July New York Times article revealed they were accessible online.
“By looking at the documents, we can see what they were spying on and then what actions they took as they saw documents,” Kohn said.
FDA’s Jefferson said the agency did not authorize the public release of any documents by Quality Associates and that it’s looking into the matter. But in a July 17 letter to Grassley, Quality Associates CEO Paul Swidersky said the FDA documents were posted on a file-sharing website May 3 at the request of FDA. Swidersky said Google found the files online.
“If the government continues these [types of] operations, you’re going to see more of this,” Kohn said in reference to the data leak.
“It’s a risk inherent in any type of surveillance program,” he said. An agency’s ability to inadvertently or intentionally collect feds’ personal medical and financial data accessed on their computers and the passwords used to retrieve that data is a risk to privacy.
Collecting employees’ electronic communications runs afoul when an agency intends to target protected categories of data, such as communications with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, OSC and inspectors general, Kohn said. The agency runs afoul if it views data that is protected, and it’s even more egregious if that data is disseminated to others who shouldn’t have access.
FDA’s Jefferson said the agency “did not impede or interfere with any employee communication to members of Congress, their staff or the press or with any congressional investigation.”
The agency also said that data was collected without regard to the identity of the people whom the scientists emailed.
But the ordeal has negatively affected employee morale and raised deep concerns about agency management practices, Colleen Kelley, president of the National Treasury Employees Union, said in a statement. “For example, some employees voiced to NTEU their reluctance to report wrongdoing, for fear of retaliation.”
NTEU represents FDA’s bargaining-unit employees, including scientists.
In a July 17 email to FDA employees, Commissioner Margaret Hamburg explained that the FDA chose to monitor select employees to determine if confidential information was being leaked and that FDA has worked to foster a culture where differing opinions on product approvals can be expressed freely.
“We do not take lightly the decision to monitor government computers,” Hamburg said.
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Learn more about Trees for Dorset
1:00pm Tuesday 29th May 2012 in Echo Country
Trees for Dorset is a small registered charity whose objectives are to plant, protect and promote trees within the county.
They offer grants towards the planting of trees, the main criteria being that the tree planting will enhance the local landscape and will be clearly seen from a road or public right of way.
They can also offer free help and advice to anyone thinking of planting trees.
The charity has grant-aided the planting of over 1,000 native trees on a farm at Stoke Abbott where the landowner wished to extend an existing woodland on the side of a steep valley.
The charity also supported the planting of nearly 100 metres of mixed native hedging, with trees interspersed in the hedge, around a small field and a shelter belt of trees next to farm buildings at Bothenhampton, Bridport.
At West Lulworth volunteers from the charity will shortly be planting 60 native trees and shrubs to rejuvenate a small copse that was becoming derelict.
Members organise trips to woods and other places of interest, arrange fund raising events and receive a regular newsletter.
The charity is always pleased to welcome new members, annual subscriptions being £12 single or £20 per family. For details visit treesfor dorset.co.uk or email info@treesfor dorset.co.uk
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Paris Fetes Dalai Lama
Posted on Apr 21, 2008
Despite disapproval from French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s party, which is working on improving relations with the Chinese government, Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoe has championed the Dalai Lama by making the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader an honorary citizen of the City of Light.
Chinese protesters have been picketing French supermarket Carrefour, accusing it of supporting the Dalai Lama.
Beijing accuses the Dalai Lama of inciting unrest in Tibet - claims he has denied.
Chinese officials are launching a two-month “patriotic education” in Tibet, in which Communist Party officials and local people will gather to denounce the spiritual leader.
The Dalai Lama, who lives in exile in India, insists he has no political role and played no part in the protests by Tibetan Buddhist monks that erupted into rioting in the main city Lhasa last month.
Luca Galuzzi - www.galuzzi.it
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Conclusion of Community Aqueduct – Dominican Republic
The project called for a new community aqueduct to be built to bring potable water from a small spring 1 kilometer away to houses of the village of Los Cacaos.
The pipe line was dug and the suspended river crossings were completed. The intake tank was built, followed by a reserve tank. A small pump was installed, pipes were run to the homes, and faucets were installed.
This was a tremendous community effort, incorporating the entire village, the water committee, and various funding sources. As a result, 242 people now have access to safe water.
A letter from the water committee expressed gratitude for the money that went to construct the aqueduct. We again wish to thank The Soneva SLOW LIFE Trust for providing funding for this project.
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You’ve met that Someone Special who makes your heart feel like it might pop out of your chest. You can’t think straight when you’re with them. Heck, you can’t think straight all day.
Before you jump headlong into that next relationship, here are a couple of things I would urge you to consider.
If you believe that relationships are about stability and security, think again.
A healthy relationship requires engagement: there needs to be challenge, flux and risk involved. If you are not prepared to create it yourself, the relationship will at some point create it on your behalf.
Nothing is sacred in a relationship.
All those bits that have been hiding down in the basement of your heart will pop out into the open dancing the drunk tango and wearing your dirty underwear, and you will have to deal with the truth and the reality of it. Accept this as an absolute and you will save yourself a lot of heartache.
Take responsibility for the fact that you attracted the person into your life, that you wanted to have them around, and that they were there to show up a part of yourself that you didn’t necessarily want to look at. You might hate them for it now, but it doesn’t make it any less valid.
Relationships are big medicine –
just not in the way that the fairytales want you to believe. They are the purveyors of truth. They show you how you feel about yourself. They manifest what you believe you are worthy of having.
They express the good in you, but also the parts that you haven’t wanted to look at or deal with.
Sometimes they can be incredibly painful.
If you can get to the truth of what about it was painful to you AND REALLY OWN IT, you can change your life. If you can stay with yourself and not put it all onto the other person, relationships can be like gold.
They can set you free or make you a prisoner forever. What you do with it is up to you.
Vulnerability is key in a relationship.
It implies risk. Unmasking yourself without knowing whether the other person will accept you; showing your weakness and risking being injured. If you feel incapable of doing this, don’t have a relationship. It will damage you more than doing you good.
Relationships are mirrors, reflecting your feelings about yourself back to you. They show up your good parts and your weaknesses. (They do this so well that it will drive you up the wall.)
If you start every relationship hoping that it will last forever, you’re in trouble. Relationships are catalysts in your development. The person you are seeing might be teaching you something very powerful about yourself right now, but once you’ve learnt it, it might be time to move on and let it go.
PHASE 1: THE DREAMY INNARDS OF LOVE
(Months 1 – 6)
The act of falling love is, at its core, narcissistic.
We fall in love with the perfection our own reflection in the other person’s eyes. They don’t see our faults! They love everything about us! They create a space where we can be a perfect human being. In return, we fall in love with the idea of the other person. We love them for reflecting us so beautifully. This is how it is at the beginning of a relationship.
Tread lightly: Often at this point in the relationship, a displacement happens. The true “I” becomes replaced by the “I” that you see in the other person’s eyes.
This is dangerous ground.
The more you play into the idea that the other person has of you, the less truthful you are in the relationship, and the better the chances that it will end badly, with you feeling lost and losing your sense of identity.
A relationship that develops based on an idea that you develop about yourself is sure to end in disaster. Relationships elicit truth, always. You can’t run away from it.
At some point, perhaps around the three month mark, the mutual illusion of utter perfection is casually cracked one day when the person you’re in love with shows signs of… well, of being human. (Oh, the disappointment.)
PHASE 2: THE DAWNING OF REALITY
(Months 6 – 12)
One day the person says (or does) something that shatters the perfect illusion that you’ve constructed around them. A tiny crack splits through it, and alack alas, no matter how much you close your eyes and squint into the sun when you look at them, the reality of the relationship you have now committed to is starting to set in.
A period of mourning follows:
mourning the fact that you can’t be textbook ‘perfect’ – even through the eyes of another. Mourning the fact that you still haven’t met the ‘perfect’ person. You start to realise that this isn’t going to be all fun and games. Nope. You might have to put some work into it.
You might try to recapture the innocence of the first phase, of only seeing the best in each other, and sometimes it might work, but conflict now arises in the relationship as you “re-draw” the outlines of each other and discover what you perceive to be the weaknesses of the person, and vice versa.
The big secret is officially out: both of you are human after all. The curtain has lifted. Eve has made an apple pie and danced the tango with the snake.
And so the relationship officially begins.
PHASE 3: THE MAKE OR BREAK YEAR
The real LOVE of love starts to set in or the relationship starts to stagnate. Cycles and patterns start to clearly emerge.
The relationship either grows or becomes dormant – this completely depends on the ability of both parties involved to allow the process of growth to ensue, how much they are prepared to work on themselves in order to make the relationship work and how much they are willing to risk.
Exploration and discovery of each other has to become externalised (exploring and discovering the outside world – now as a unit) and pursued by both parties, or stagnation might quickly follow.
Varied mutual experience is the essence of what make a relationship sustainable. Getting home, cooking food and watching the box might be great every now and again, but if it becomes the norm the relationship is doomed. Dormancy ensues. Both parties will start to feel trapped by the relationship and their circumstances and start fantasizing about life outside of the confines of it.
The wider the boundaries of the relationship are, the better the chances that affection will last. Spending time apart is excellent. Pursuing separate interests is vital.
Permanency is an illusion.
The basic nature of the universe and of life is change. The chances of having a loving relationship from the time that you’re twenty till you die is pretty slim, UNLESS you are both in the same headspace and working the same programme.
It requires a little bit of magic to make a relationship work for that long. It requires you AND the relationship to change, time and time again.
Relationships are powerful catalysts for connection and self-discovery. They are not supposed to be warm and comfy. If you can risk a little, if you can allow yourself to shift and move with it, a relationship can be your greatest medicine.
Are you clear about your own motives in having romantic relationships?
Are you clear about what your expectations are from the person you are in relationship with? Do you verbalise them?
Are you sure that you can’t offer those things to yourself?
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Looming budgetary constraints and the U.S. Army's ongoing downsizing have enhanced the appeal of forces that are lighter, smaller, and cheaper than tanks and other protected vehicles. But not only have armored forces proved critical in yesterday's wars; they will also be needed to win tomorrow's.
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Conventional wisdom holds that the U.S. Army will bear the brunt of forthcoming defense cuts. But that need not be the case, provided it shifts its focus away from traditional ground forces toward more relevant weapons: land-base missile systems.
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The former Afghanistan and special forces commander talks frankly about his accomplishments, his mistakes, his lessons learned, and the future of the new American way of war he helped create.
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For half a century, deterrence was the backbone of U.S. national security strategy. But now, Washington doesn't seem to know how and when to use it properly. The United States has needlessly applied deterrence to Russia, failed to apply it when it should have against Iraq and Iran, and been dangerously confused about whether to apply it to China. U.S. policymakers need to relearn the basics of deterrence in order to apply it successfully in the appropriate circumstances.
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Pundits tend to treat terrorism and guerrilla tactics as something new, but nothing could be further from the truth. Although the agendas have changed over the years -- from tribalism, to liberalism and nationalism, to socialism, to jihadist extremism -- guerrilla and terrorist warfare has been ubiquitous throughout history and consistently deadly.
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FDR Treasury official Harry Dexter White was the leading architect of the Bretton Woods international monetary and financial system. But he was also a vital agent for Soviet intelligence in the 1930s and '40s. This article brings to bear startling new archival evidence to illuminate his motives.
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Jonathan Caverly and Ethan Kapstein maintained that the United States' domination of the global arms market is disappearing and that as a consequence, Washington is squandering an array of economic and political benefits. Critics dispute the point; Caverley and Kapstein respond.
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The United States' approach to counterinsurgency, championed by General David Petraeus, helped produce stunning results in parts of Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Richard A. Falkenrath says Showtime's blockbuster series Homeland is great television, but not a useful guide to real-world homeland security. Hint: we always tap the suspect's cell phone.
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Rather than focus on dramatic raids and high-tech drone strikes, special operations should refocus its attention on working with and through non-U.S. partners to accomplish security objectives, says Linda Robinson.
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This past Memorial Day, U.S. President Barack Obama marked the 50th anniversary of the start of the Vietnam War with a speech at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
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The argument of Thomas Ricks' new book, The Generals, is simple: since the end of World War II, the combat performance of the U.S. Army has been subpar, primarily because the highest-ranking generals have been reluctant to fire underperforming generals lower in the chain of command.
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The War of 1812 gets no respect. It's easy to see why: the causes of the war are still subject to debate, and they were sometimes unclear even to the warring parties.
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For two decades, the United States has dominated the global arms trade, reaping a broad range of economic and geopolitical benefits in the process.
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Fifty years ago, the Cuban missile crisis brought the world to the brink of nuclear disaster. Every president since John F. Kennedy has tried to learn from what happened back then. Today, it can help U.S. policymakers understand what to do -- and what not to do -- about Iran, North Korea, China, and presidential decision-making in general.
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Tough economic times are often met in Washington with calls for retrenchment. But for decades, write two former top Pentagon officials, long-term forward deployments of U.S. forces and robust alliances have guaranteed stability and uninterrupted trade, the very conditions the United States needs for economic prosperity. The Obama administration gets it.
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With the Iraq war over and U.S. troops returning from Afghanistan, the U.S. Army faces a decade of change, writes its chief of staff. It will need to adjust to smaller budgets, focus more on Asia, and embrace a fuller range of potential missions.
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In March 2011, the U.S. computer security company RSA announced that hackers had gained access to security tokens it produces that let millions of government and private-sector employees, including those of defense contractors such as Lockheed Martin, connect remotely to their office computers.
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Francis Fukuyama shot to fame with a 1989 essay called "The End of History?" which he expanded into a 1992 book, The End of History and the Last Man. His thesis was a reworking of the "end of ideology" argument propounded in the 1950s by Daniel Bell and others, with an even more emphatic twist.
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Last August, the Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney performed what has become a quadrennial rite of passage in American presidential politics: he delivered a speech to the annual convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
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Grain traders expect the Ukrainian government to introduce curbs on wheat exports early in December but fear that instead of an official ban it might opt for informal restrictions, the grain lobby said Friday.
Agriculture Minister Mykola Prysyazhnyuk said last month the government would halt wheat exports from Nov. 15 due to a fall in the harvest to prevent a rise in domestic bread prices.
Subsequently after criticism from the European Union and Ukraine's main importers, the ministry softened its talk of an outright ban. It said it would apply "necessary measures" to limit sales if a critical shortage of food grain appeared.
"We were told that if we continue exporting wheat after Dec. 1, the government may take measures. They did not say what measures could be taken," Volodymyr Klymenko, head of the Ukrainian grain traders' union UZA, told a news conference.
"But we asked them that if a ban on exports were to be imposed, it should be official," he said.
Grain traders prefer a clear-cut ban, because unofficial barriers, which involve increased red tape, tend to favour some privileged companies, which would rebound on Ukraine's image as a world trader.
Traders and analysts say the government needs to limit sales because wheat stock levels at home are not high enough to guarantee the current high pace of exports.
Ukraine in the 2010-11 season imposed informal export barriers on wheat after a disappointing harvest. Exporters faced huge costs because they failed to meet contracts.
Ukraine is a traditional exporter of wheat for livestock feed but this year wheat quality improved and feed wheat shrank to about 20 per cent of the country's total wheat harvest from 50 percent a year earlier.
The former Soviet republic consumes 12 million tonnes of wheat, including 4.7 million tonnes of food wheat, per season.
In August, the agriculture ministry and traders agreed that wheat exports could not exceed four million tonnes this year, but in October the maximum volume had been increased to 5.5 million tonnes.
Klymenko said Ukraine's grain exports could this month reach a record high level for a second straight month, because traders have been speeding up shipments in expectation of government curbs.
He said Ukraine could sell abroad up to three million tonnes of grain in November after exports of 2.9 million in October.
Wheat dominated that volume, he said.
Minister Prysyazhnyuk said this week exports reached 9.2 million tonnes of grain as of Nov. 7 and would increase by 1.5 million tonnes more shortly. He said Ukraine had exported 850,000 tonnes of grain in the first week of November.
The government has said exports could total 20-21 million tonnes in 2012-13 versus 22.8 million tonnes in 2011-12.
Klymenko said that domestic trading houses had suspended wheat deals and switched to maize.
Ukraine, which boosted its maize harvest in the past few years, plans to export no less than 12 million tonnes in 2012-13.
But Klymenko also said the government was likely to allow exports of wheat late this season and that traders could export another roughly one million tonnes of wheat by the end of the season.
He said Ukraine was able to export 6.5 million tonnes of wheat this season without hurting the domestic market.
-- Pavel Polityuk writes for Reuters from Kiev.
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The MVO receives a subvention from the Government of Montserrat(GoM) to cover its operational expenses. Although the majority of the MVO's operating expenses are met by the GoM with a limited contribution from merchandise sales, the MVO operates as a statutory body. This independence may allow it to attract funds from donors who might not otherwise wish to support an official Government body.
The MVO operating budget and capital expenditure are protected by strong policy commitments from GoM and Her Majesty's Government (HMG) to maintain high quality scientific monitoring. This includes potential funding to meet any additional monitoring required by heightened volcanic activity.
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|The Shetland Music Development Project|
Musically Shetland has always been more than capable of looking after itself, but however strong something may be it can always benefit from a helping hand from time to time.
Unique at that time, Shetland Arts Trust introduced its Music Development Project in early 1999 to do just that, having initially carried out widespread public research the length and breadth of Shetland, firstly to establish the need for such an enterprise and then also how it should effectively be carried out.
The project, and its associated programme, has evolved and indeed grown dramatically since those early days - read on to find out more about it...
Certainly an exciting project to be part of and hopefully one that will continue to assist the general development of music in Shetland for as long as it may be required.
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Jukebox tracks are in MP3 format. Click to listen, or right-click to save to your computer.
Feed provided by ZetCast, an online broadcasting network serving the Shetland Islands and beyond.
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"Hit the tambourine, Billy!" Lisa's frustration rode atop her crinkled brow. "Hit it!" she again demanded. Billy's concentration paid no heed to Lisa's angry shrills. His tongue protruded, and wiggled about as if seeking--in vain attempt--to set the cadence for his rhythmically challenged hands.
Billy was a hopeless case--Lisa was sure of that. He wouldn’t listen, he completely ignored her, and he didn’t even seem to care. He just stood there, whacking away with that flyswatter he called a tambourine. Lisa lifted her eyes and looked around at the rest of the music class. Most were just like Billy. Why should she even bother? Why should she even try? She had all she could take! She crossed her arms furiously and grimaced! “I hate you all!”
Mrs. Martin wore many hats: teacher, playground monitor…weather forecaster… She had already been observing the brewing storm from across the room and with timely stealth made her way to Lisa to batten down the hatches before the big one blew.
“Now let’s pick up our wooden blocks and play our song with the other children.”
“Let someone else play the woodblocks. I am so very much better with the tambourine!”
Mrs. Martin picked up the woodblocks and held them out toward Lisa. “Here, Lisa. It’ll be fun.” Lisa scowled at Mrs. Martin, looked down at the woodblocks and begrudgingly took them from her teacher’s hand. She slapped the blocks together once in protest then folded her arms and glared. Mrs. Martin turned and walked back to front and center of the classroom.
Tap, tap, tap. The baton smacked against the steel, black music stand, then raised high into the air anticipating the first downbeat. “Ready?” Mrs. Martin raised the question above the clatter of the class, and waited all eyes to turn and fix on her. A moment passed, then all was still. With swift agility the baton came down to strike the silence and birth a rippled wake of varied pitch. Mrs. Martin smiled as though they all struck chord in sync, and she received their mislaid strikes and blows as though a child’s homemade gift.
Before long, all the whistles, thumps, thuds, and whines clamored together into an indistinguishable clump. Mrs. Martin continued waving her baton—up and down—slow and steady.
Mrs. Martin looked over at Lisa. Lisa hadn’t moved. Her arms still folded, she pouted with every part of her body. She stopped conducting and moved toward Lisa. The class continued playing without hesitation.
“Lisa, what’s wrong?”
“We sound awful!”
Mrs. Martin thought for a second, and then leaned closer and whispered in Lisa’s ear. Lisa’s expression perked and gleamed. Mrs. Martin smiled and handed the baton to Lisa, and walked with Lisa to the podium.
“Class, Lisa is going to conduct for us for a little while.”
The noise tapered then faded, awaiting the baton’s approval to continue. “Ready?” Lisa authoritatively queried. She tapped the stand and with one continual motion began pumping the baton. The class joined in.
Lisa’s face beamed. The other musicians returned to sternly focusing on their own parts to play. Mrs. Martin stepped back to listen and watch. In all the clamoring chaos, there was a melodious symphony of sorts. The clanging, clopping, clapping, tom-tom thud and finger snapping; popping, clucking, and off key plucking sent shivers from ear to spine. And yet, the little hands beating, and little arms flailing gave eye to heart endearing sight of angel’s wings in splendid flight. For to the eye that sees, there was the Maker’s mark of pleasant approval upon such a glorious display. And in that precious moment in time, within the heart of this particular music class teacher, there grew a deeper understanding of the Master’s love for all the little children of the world.
At end of class, the students scooted and scraped their metal chairs, hurried toward the instrument cabinet and laid their instruments to rest—as it were. They hurried out, with their guest conductor waiting until last to leave. Lisa stopped at the door where Mrs. Martin stood. Still beaming, Lisa looked up at her teacher.
“Mrs. Martin! Didn’t we sound great today?”
“Yes, Lisa. It was something wasn’t it?”
Left alone in the quiet, music room, Mrs. Martin began straightening. The children’s music resonated in her heart, and lifted to her lips.
“Jesus loves the little children…”
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South Sudanese return 'home' from Israel
At the bottom of the steps a woman fell to her knees and kissed the ground before rising, dramatically flinging her head back and pressing her palms to her eyes. “I’m so happy to be home”, she told the assembled journalists, politicians, police and aid workers meeting the plane.
Behind her, a woman in a leopard print shirt didn’t look so overwhelmed with joy.
Most of these people had jobs in the hospitality industry and were saving money and raising their children in Israel.
This was the homecoming of nearly 150 South Sudanese deported from Israel. They join more than a hundred others, deported a week before, and will soon be followed by another 400 or so as Israel seeks to purge itself of its African immigrants.
This has been called a “voluntary repatriation” but some would argue with this definition of voluntary. One woman told me she had been offered the choice of imprisonment in Israel as an illegal immigrant or a free flight back to South Sudan. She chose to return to the country of her birth, but she hesitated to call it 'home'.
Most of the people being deported would have entered Israel illegally through its porous border with Egypt and the government is keen to discourage more from coming through in this manner.
Some of the people being sent back to Juba haven’t been to South Sudan for decades and many of them have children who have never been here at all and who don’t speak the local language of Juba Arabic.
It is not just a case that that they are unfamiliar with their country; their country is unfamiliar with them.
South Sudan is extremely underdeveloped – barely a third of the people are literate and there are few proper roads in the country. The people getting off the plane in Juba were dressed in modern clothes, contrasting starkly with the second hand outfits of the people who live here.
The returnees arrived with ipads and flat screen TVs and their children’s buggies, designed for carefully levelled pavements, which will soon be making an appearance on Juba’s dirt streets. In short, these people look like they have been living in the modern world, and they have arrived in a place that is far from modern.
These stylishly dressed, multilingual and educated people are now dispersing across the country, and outside Juba many will be lucky to find enough electricity to power their devices, never mind find jobs to accommodate their skills in the country’s fledgling hospitality industry.
I interviewed a government spokesman about their return which he assured me was entirely voluntary, saying they have come to help build their new nation a year from gaining independence.
But the Israeli government has been telling a different story and I put this to him, to which he replied that reports of deportations are merely a media fabrication.
These people wanted to leave well-paid jobs and return to South Sudan, and journalists are liars, he was “sorry to say”.
The first anniversary of independence is next month and despite the challenges facing this country, most of its citizens are overwhelmingly proud that they have achieved separation from the north. South Sudan currently lacks a middle class, the powerhouse of an economy, and these skilled workers could make a valuable contribution to its development.
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David Brooks poses an interesting question in his column today:
Two things happened to Sandra Bullock this month. First, she won an Academy Award for best actress. Then came the news reports claiming that her husband is an adulterous jerk. So the philosophic question of the day is: Would you take that as a deal? Would you exchange a tremendous professional triumph for a severe personal blow?
He concludes his editorial with this–it’s worth chewing on:
[M]ost of us pay attention to the wrong things. Most people vastly overestimate the extent to which more money would improve our lives. Most schools and colleges spend too much time preparing students for careers and not enough preparing them to make social decisions. Most governments release a ton of data on economic trends but not enough on trust and other social conditions. In short, modern societies have developed vast institutions oriented around the things that are easy to count, not around the things that matter most. They have an affinity for material concerns and a primordial fear of moral and social ones.
Adultery and the dissolution of a marriage is always a complicated matter, and I of course don’t know the particulars of this sad situation. I can say, though, that Brooks’s words make one think, especially as so many of us are thoroughly enmeshed in modernity, with its hyper-speed, adoration of status and money, and distaste for traditional–seemingly enduring–things.
Collin Hansen reflects on John Piper’s recent announcement to his church that he will be taking some time off to focus on his marriage and soul. Hansen’s historical work in the piece deserves careful pondering.
As you may have seen elsewhere, the Christian Science Monitor just did a story on surging Calvinism that prominently features Capitol Hill Baptist Church. I recognized a number of people in the pictures–pretty cool. With thanks to Stuart Taylor, one of my mentors in the faith, for the link.
Some of you may be watching the engrossing tv show Parenthood on NBC. It follows the various branches of an extended family as they confront the challenges both traditional and modern that so many families today wrestle with. I thought this piece on the show was worthy of attention. The author, Heidi Stevens of the Chicago Tribune, calls for one of the show’s characters, Julia Braverman-Graham, to continue to honestly reflect the realities of working motherhood.
In particular, this section of the essay struck me as noteworthy:
So do me a favor. Don’t blow this. Don’t be picture-perfect “Cosby Show” Clair Huxtable working mom. Don’t be “Desperate Housewives’” Lynette Scavo mess of a working mom. The archetypes don’t leave a lot of room for being insanely enamored of your kids.
Just be a working mom who desperately tries to please her boss, compete with the stay-at-home moms for face-time, find more time for her daughter and still squeeze in wife/sister/daughter/homeowner duties.
I know. It sounds impossible. But here’s a tip: Have more tender moments with Sydney. Cut out paper dolls. Do each other’s nails. Make pancakes and play Candyland and Uno and tell her stories about your childhood.
I discussed this article with my wife, a homemaker who identified the excellent point I now seek to develop. Many modern women today, intimidated by archetypal June Cleaver and Betty Huxtable figures, scoff at these figures, viewing their lives as impossible to achieve. While few stay-at-home moms would claim that their lives are complex, it seems unrealistic to suggest that traditional womanhood makes life harder than modern womanhood.
Why? Because the Tribune piece, as is common to more contemporary feminism, seems to suggest that women can do it all. They can be a lawyer working 90-hour weeks, “have more tender moments” with their kids, and ” still squeeze in wife/sister/daughter/homeowner duties.” Let me just say that a woman in action boggles the mind. I grew up under a very gifted woman and I live with one now.
However, I have to call bluff here. How on earth can even the most omni-competent mother simultaneously complete all her responsibilities at a very demanding job, increase her special time with her children, and function in all her other roles–wife, family member, child? That’s unrealistic. It’s unfair. It’s exhausting, damaging, and dangerous, whether for the woman herself, her kids, or her marriage.
Maureen Dowd, a feminist’s feminist, noted some time ago that “blue is the new black.” In public, and to her credit, she noted that modern women are unhappy, and that this unhappiness is tied to a feminist way of life. She would not agree with much of what I stand for, I’m sure, but her candor suggests what I’m getting at here: the Julia Braverman-Graham model is untenable. It won’t hold.
Or, if it does hold, it will come at great cost. There is no substitute for quantity with children. If you want to love them and see them flourish, you simply must spend lots of time with them–not time on your cell while they play, not time on the computer while they try to get your attention–but real, thick, loving, focused time. Moms have an essential role to play on this point, even as dads do as well when their daily out-of-the-home work ceases.
Heidi Stevens is a gifted writer, and I’m guessing she’s a very sweet mother, but her model is deeply flawed. Just as men don’t need to run themselves into the ground for the sake of career, women don’t need to run themselves into the ground for the sake of some vaunted but impossible ideal of womanhood. Nobody said June Cleaver’s life was easy. There’s no way, however, that an honest viewer could say that Julia Braverman-Graham’s life is any easier. The exhaustion, frustration and guilt she feels stems in substantial part not from the reactions of others, but from the model she follows.
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The idea that the author here put these two teachings so closely together brings up some interesting thoughts. The first teaching is not to shut out a needing neighbor no matter how inopportune the moment. The second to ask and knock no matter how inopportune the need. We assume that this asking is just of God given the concluding verses, but it is also true asking of man. How many of us will ask of God, knowing that God will provide, but, not ask of man through God may well intend to do His providing, and then reason that God doesn't want to answer because He hasn't provided. It is an odd logic on our part when considered this way. God does implore the first neighbor to give; right?
This statement from Jesus may well be just as much about Satan's tight control over his host and methods and means and pressures he must use as it is about the goodly kingdom we casually assume He is talking about by hurriedly reading through. How hard it must be to keep the loyalty of his scandalous permissive and yet ultimately defeated troops.
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“I love my job, and I loved the people I worked with,” said the preadmissions nurse.
Just as expected, Brock was let go when she told her superiors that she would not put on a surgical mask. It’s the kind the hospital requires for employees — like Brock — who are not vaccinated against the flu.
A board-certified holistic nurse, Brock said, “I have spiritual and religious reasons to not have those toxins in my body.”
Brock is speaking out because she believes the hospital’s new requirement to wear the mask amounts to a scarlet letter; CoxHealth says it is simply putting the patient first.
Mandated flu shots are already part of a national debate that pits employee rights against what some say is patient safety. Most recently, in December, an Indiana hospital fired eight employees who refused to get flu shots, according to ABC News.
Brock’s situation adds another layer to the debate. This is the first year that CoxHealth employees are required to either get the vaccination or to produce paperwork showing an exemption, according to Stacy Fender, media relations coordinator for CoxHealth. In the past, flu shots were only strongly recommended.
In early September, Brock sought and was granted a religious exemption, although she admits she’s more “spiritual” than “religious.”
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Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty broadcasts in 28 languages. Most of our programs are available on FM and medium-wave frequencies of local radio stations in the countries of our broadcast area. If you are having problems listening to programs on the internet, please read our technical help document.
Published 3 March 2013
Josef Stalin rose from obscure origins in Georgia to rule the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953. RFE/RL takes a look at some images from his early life. (11 PHOTOS)
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SALES OF FLU DRUG BY DU PONT UNIT A 'DISAPPOINTMENT'
Special to the New York Times
Published: October 5, 1982
WILMINGTON, Del., Oct. 4— On the surface, it would appear that Endo Laboratories, the pharmaceutical subsidiary of E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, has everything going for it this year.
The New England Journal of Medicine, in a recent issue, reported the results of a test that determined that Symmetrel, Endo's licensed antiviral drug, is 91 percent effective in preventing influenza. And the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta has predicted this winter's flu season will be heavier than last year's.
But the 12-year-old Du Pont subsidiary has had favorable medical press and heavy flu outbreaks in the past, and sales of Symmetrel, the only available flu drug, are only slightly more than $10 million.
''Although it's gotten good medical journal press, Symmetrel has been a disappointment in the marketplace,'' said James Arenson, an industry analyst with the brokerage firm of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette.
Endo, whose annual sales total about $100 million, represents only a small part of Du Pont, where sales in 1981 totaled $22.8 billion. Indeed, Endo has been overshadowed by its sprawling corporate parent but, as pharmaceutical industry analysts suggest, it is also not performing very aggressively.
Du Pont entered the pharmaceutical business in 1966, when its scientists developed Symmetrel. In 1969, the company purchased Endo Laboratories, a private Long Island drug concern, primarily for its marketing capabilities. It is interesting, then, that industry analysts cite marketing problems as a major factor in Symmetrel's low profile among the flu-catching public. Endo's Marketing Funds
Mr. Arenson said that one of the problems has been the restrictive method with which the company finances promotion of the drug. Money for marketing comes directly from Endo's own budget and not from the parent company, which means Endo is left virtually on its own to market its products.
Mr. Arenson also asserted that too much money is pumped into research and development at the expense of marketing. According to Hazen L. Richardson, general manager of Du Pont's biochemicals department, 40 percent of sales are used in research and development, compared with an industry average of 11.5 percent. And more emphasis on research is planned, Mr. Richardson said.
''Endo does not have the marketing capabilities, but I don't know if that's the only thing holding them back,'' said Leslie Ravitz, an industry analyst with Salomon Brothers.
Another problem may have been Symmetrel's restricted uses after it was introduced. It was approved by the F.D.A. in 1966 for prevention of Asian A-2 influenza virus. By 1976 it received a broader approval for use in preventing all influenza A viruses, which are the most common of all viruses. In November 1980, the drug was granted F.D.A. approval for treatment, as well as prevention, of all influenza viruses. With each of these additional F.D.A. approvals, Endo's potential market for Symmetrel was expanded.
Last year, Endo embarked on a marketing effort aimed at linking Symmetrel with relief from the flu. The company was host at a public health seminar for 7,500 public health officials last December at the National Institutes of Health in Washington.
The marketing blitz, Endo's first ever, was apparently unnecessary, since last winter's flu season was among the lightest on record. Still, Edwin E. Messikomer, president of Endo Laboratories and director of Du Pont's pharmaceutical operations, said he is pleased with Symmetrel's sales. ''They were right on forecast,'' he added. '''m glad it's held up despite the weakened flu season.''
''To a degree, Symmetrel is discretionary,'' one industry analyst said. ''If you don't use it, you're still going to get over the flu.'' One problem with the drug is its side effects, and Endo scientists have developed another drug that does not produce as many side effects as Symmetrel.
Some industry analysts indicate that Endo will not likely blossom until Du Pont acquires another pharmaceutical concern. Mr. Messikomer said his company was ''evaluating new opportunities,'' both by developing its own products and by seeking new products to license or companies to acquire.
In all, Mr. Richardson said there were 12 new products in varying stages of development at Endo, including a cardiovascular drug, which controls nervous system disorders, and an anti-arthritic. The antiarthritic, Tiflamizole, is currently in clinical testing and, according to Mr. Richardson, two to three years away from market.
Illustrations: photo of Hazen L. Richardson
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What inspires you?
This may sound odd and ironic but what inspires me most is the negativity that is so prevalent everywhere. I've heard so much about how people think there's really very little we can do to change the world and this inspires me to prove something; that something real could only be ideal and unattainable when we choose to limit our selves to what we see at the present moment and refuse to go against the tide of selfishness and hope for something better and... actually do something about it.
Tell us about an issue that matters to you and how you became aware and involved.
Genocide. I came to know about it shortly before the devastating event in Rwanda back in 1994. I'm very passionate about fighting for human rights and during those days, when most of the world was tuned in to the elections in South Africa and the ethnic cleansing in Yugoslavia, I believe humanity failed the Rwandan people. This matters a lot to me because it was a total waste of human life ... something the rest of the world could have easily stopped if not prevented.
Share your perspectives on what makes a good leader.
In simple words, a good leader has to have a heart that's bigger than his or her ego. Experience, skills, and intelligence can be developed over time, but if a leader does not feel for the people then there is not a single reason for him or her to be in the position to start with. I look up to the likes of Martin Luther King, Jr., Mother Teresa, and Mahatma Gandhi for putting their people first.
Do you think TakingITGlobal can help you achieve some of your goals? Have we already? Please tell us how.
Absolutely because it's a good platform for people to come together and work on something that's really substantial. The Internet has opened so many doors to people and has been instrumental in both good and bad situations. TIG's edge is being different, but not out of touch; basic but significant. What TIG needs to do is be more aggressive because people are being enticed by less educational and less relevant social networking sites. As a result, we see the likes of YouTube and Facebook raking in millions of users.
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Bain? Dude, that’s so last week. Let’s talk Massachusetts. President Obama dropped little hints toward the end of last week that Romney’s job-creation record as the Bay State’s governor would also be on the table. So let’s get the facts. They do not support, frankly, an argument from Obama that he is the better job-creator as chief executive than Romney. But they do support an argument that Romney—when working in the public sector, not the private, as he obviously would be as president—had a downright embarrassing jobs record, especially for a state with higher-than-average education levels. And they do support an argument that, if you subtract the difficulties that were sitting there to smack each man in the face when he took the oath of office, Obama has had the better of it. And though he might have a hard time making that case, the case against the opposition is plain and direct.
Romney avoids talking about his health-care policies because they're too liberal, but he also doesn’t want to talk about jobs because his record here is so lame from any ideological perspective.
Here you will see the official Bureau of Labor Statistics month-by-month lists of total nonfarm payroll employment in Massachusetts for every month from January 2002 to April 2012. The relevant dates here are January 2003 through December 2006, Romney’s tenure. This chart lists totals, not gains or losses, so I had to do a little math. Romney took office January 3, 2003 (not January 20, so we can lay the whole month on him, assuming few to zero jobs were lost during the Rose Bowl). In January 2003, the state’s payrolls had 3.224 million workers. Within a month, 15,000 jobs were shed. The year ended with 3.179 million on the payrolls, for a first-year net loss of 44,700 jobs.
In 2004, the state gained back 20,500 jobs. The next year it gained back 24,400. So after three years in office, Romney was up a grand total of 200 jobs. Finally, in his fourth year, another 40,500 jobs were added, so he wound up with a net gain of 40,700 jobs. This, as has been often noted, put Massachusetts at 47th in the nation, only ahead of of Michigan, Ohio, and Katrina-ravaged Louisiana.
Why? The general explanation is that the high-tech economy benefited Massachusetts more when it was booming and it hurt it more when it collapsed. So the 2001 recession figures in here, which Romney and his defenders have mentioned in the past. But there is also such a thing as policy. When Romney saw his numbers sinking in the state about midway through his term, he decided not to seek reelection and to run for president, and at that point came the inevitable ascent, if we can call it that, into the Palinosphere. In a state where biotech is vital (Harvard, MIT, etc.), he blocked a stem-cell research bill that could have created jobs, quit spending much money on infrastructure repairs, and took Massachusetts out of a regional greenhouse-gas initiative that has benefited other states.
Okay, now, Obama’s record. Here is the exact same BLS chart for the whole United States from January 2002 to April 2012 (except that this shows jobs gained and lost, not total numbers). It starts out ugly. If you give him one third of the 818,000 jobs lost in January 2009 (he was sworn in on January 20, of course), a total of 4.59 million jobs were lost through February 2010. March 2010 brought the first net positive jobs report of the Obama term (189,000). There were losses that summer, but the numbers have all been positive since October 2010. So measuring since that March, 3.745 million jobs were gained. That’s a net loss of 845,000 jobs, and Romney has a right to say that, because it is technically true.
But ... what reasonable person would say that Obama caused those first several months of crushing losses? It may be fair game, such as these things are defined, for 30-second ads, but it isn’t real life. Real-life Obama-blaming starts sometime later. In his seminal book Unequal Democracy, political scientist Larry Bartels measured the effect of each president’s policies on the economy since Harry Truman by giving them all one year for their policies to start to kick in. Hey, it’s not the only thing Julius Caesar came up with that we still abide by.
If we use the Bartelian calendar, Obama is relieved of almost all of “his” job loss—4.48 million, or all but 110,000 lost jobs. Now, even though this is a respected social-science technique, if Obama tried to say something like that, it obviously would not pass a general laugh test. But it is worth pointing it out, for the sake of the historical record, and it is still true—still!—that more Americans blame Bush than Obama for the economy (56 to 29 percent, found CNN not long ago). And what president doing exactly what could have stopped 2009’s hideous immiseration? And please, don’t say “John McCain” and “cutting taxes and regulation.”
So by Bartels’s rules, Obama has created a net 3.635 million jobs. Applying the same rules to Romney’s numbers through the same time period—that is, through April of his fourth year in office, 2006—we credit Romney with 64,500 jobs. So he grew jobs by 1.9 percent. Obama’s job-growth rate is 2.35 percent.
It’s worth going into these numbers because it’s worth knowing what’s true and what kinds of arguments might strike a chord. It is pretty hilarious that Romney hardly talks about Massachusetts. As my colleague Paul Begala noted in March, you usually can’t get governors running for president to shut up about their infernal records. Romney is trying to avoid talking about his health-care policies because they're too liberal, but he also doesn’t want to talk about jobs because his record here is so lame from any ideological perspective.
Obama obviously doesn’t have a lot to boast about on the jobs front. But Romney clearly can make no claim whatsoever that he has access to some magic tonic that grows jobs. Combining his record as governor with the plans he insists he’ll inflict on us as president—gargantuan tax cuts for the rich, a gaping deficit, severe cuts to all manner of government investment in research and innovation and environmental protection so we can make sure that Lebron James gets another half million or whatever returned to him—adds up to a lurid scenario of a society becoming both more unequal and more stagnant, and a picture of a man who seemingly cannot under any circumstance utter an unfalse word about himself.
With so many scandals to cover, Stephen Colbert turned to his journalistic heroes to inspire his coverage: Cronkite, Murrow, and Bob Barker.
When it comes to presidential scandal, conservatives are utter hypocrites, says Michael Tomasky.
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Has anyone on here considered a thru-hike?
The Appalachian Trail runs from Springer Mountain in Georgia to Mount Katahdin in Maine. It is 2180 miles long. Every year a few hundred people start at one end and hike to the other.
They say the average person will burn about 7000 Calories a day (some even more). You cannot carry that much food with you.
I have read a LOT of books written by people who hike the trail and the weight loss is always incredible (even with people who are thin to start with). 50 pounds in the first two months seems pretty common with people who are 50 or more pounds overweight.
Most people end up binging in town, but it doesn't make a difference because they simply burn the calories off so fast.
Started at 300 lbs., now at 221, going for 150.
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Artwork of a Lava Piranha
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Lava Piranha is a type of Piranha Plant that is sustainable in lava and it is a lot bigger than a regular one. It first appeared in Paper Mario as the boss of Chapter 5. It is also known to formerly be leader of the Piranha Plants. They have three heads: one big, two small.
In battle, the Lava Piranha's main attack is to spit fire at Mario dealing pretty high damage. It can also attack with it's two Lava Buds as well giving it three attacks in one turn. After the Lava Piranha is defeated, it will rise back up and this time it is on fire. Nothing has really changed except direct jump attacks won't work this time. The Ice Power badge and Sushi's Tidal Way move is very helpful in this phase of the fight. After it is defeated, Lava Piranha will sink into the lava pit below and give up the Star Spirit.
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- A federal appeals court has rejected a petition to reclassify marijuana from its current status as a dangerous drug with no accepted medical use.
The appeals court panel Tuesday turned away the bid from a medical marijuana group, Americans for Safe Access.
In 2011, the Drug Enforcement Administration rejected a petition by medical marijuana advocates to change the classification.
The court said that the question wasn't whether marijuana could have some medical benefits, but rather whether the DEA's decision was "arbitrary and capricious." The court concluded that the DEA action survives review under that standard.
Marijuana is classified as a controlled substance, categorized as having a high potential for abuse and no currently accepted medical use, together with drugs like heroin, LSD and ecstasy.
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Lady Bird Johnson urged us to see America
Jul 14, 2012
Fifty years ago, Americans didn’t need jingles (“See the USA in your Chevrolet”), slogans (“America at its best”) or advertising campaigns (“See America first”) to pack up the family station wagon and head into the great outdoors. The availability of middle-class leisure, large cars and cheap gas, along with an interstate system that smoothed the way, meant that any spot in the continental U.S. was increasingly accessible to a large number of Americans.
Add another motivating factor: Lady Bird Johnson.
The late First Lady, whose centennial is celebrated this year, teamed with Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall to stage tours of the country’s most camera-ready landscapes, sometimes giving a timely push to win them official designations as parks or wilderness areas. read more
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U.S. Clean Energy Conferences may be Preludes to a Global Conference
February 28, 2007
The largest U.S. renewable energy conference starts on March 6th in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Power-Gen Renewable Energy & Fuels conference, presented by PennWell Corporation and the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE), brings together representatives from the solar, wind, geothermal, hydropower, biomass, and fuels industries for a three-day discussion of technical, strategic, regulatory, structural, and economic issues. Last year's conference featured 142 exhibitors and was attended by 2,500 energy professionals. This year's conference runs from through March 8th. See the conference Web site.
ACORE has bigger and better plans for next year, when the group proposes to coordinate the Washington International Renewable Energy Conference in Washington, D.C. According to ACORE, the U.S. Department of State has expressed the government's interest in hosting the event, which ACORE envisions as being on par with events held in Bonn, Germany, in 2004 and in Beijing, China, in 2005. ACORE is currently seeking sponsors for the conference. See the ACORE announcement.
The Power-Gen conference is part of a busy clean energy conference season. On March 1st and 2nd, the U.S. Department of Agriculture is holding its annual Agricultural Outlook Forum in Arlington, Virginia, and this year the forum will focus on renewable energy. The annual conference and expo of the National Hydrogen Association starts on March 19th in San Antonio, Texas, while the National Green Building Conference —sponsored by the National Association of Home Builders—starts on March 25th in St. Louis, Missouri. April 1st marks the start of the Alternative Fuels and Vehicles Conference and Expo in Anaheim, California, while an international green roofs conference starts on April 29th in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Federal workers will want to attend the Energy 2007 workshop and expo in New Orleans, Louisiana, starting on August 5th, while the largest U.S. solar energy conference, Solar Power 2007, starts on September 24th in Long Beach, California. Those interested in energy-efficient research facilities should consider the Labs21 2007 Annual Conference, starting on October 2nd in North Charleston, South Carolina, while green builders of all stripes should attend the 2007 Greenbuild International Conference and Expo in Chicago, Illinois, starting on November 7th.
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Organizers of a day-care center for workers in downtown Fort Lauderdale plan to open in April, thanks in part to a $50,000 donation tendered by the Broward County Commission.
The commission voted to donate the money last week after a presentation by the Commission on the Status of Women, which began planning the day-care center in 1984.
The Jackson Square Downtown Child Care Center is to be located at 416 SW First Ave., a block west of Andrews Avenue and a block south of the New River.
The center will be operated by the Early Childhood Development Association, which, according to a report by the women`s commission, sponsors a variety of child-care programs throughout the county.
Tentative fees for the center range from $46 to $55 a week, but organizers said these fees will not be enough to cover the cost of operating the center, which is expected to cost about $263,000 a year for 100 children.
``Many people in the community have demonstrated support for the concept of a Downtown Child Care Center through the donation of in-kind services amounting to almost $100,000,`` the report said. But public funds also are needed.
``This is not a free day-care center being established,`` said County Commissioner Nicki Grossman, but she did describe the center as an embryo that ``needs nourishment from the county.``
Commissioner Ed Kennedy said organizers should be careful that the day-care center does not become something of a private reserve for children of county employees.
Grossman said that isn`t an issue because the center is available to any downtown worker, many of whom work for the county. But Commissioner Howard Craft said these employees should not be given special treatment.
``I don`t want the county employees, or anybody else, to have an unfair advantage over everybody else because they have the early scoop,`` Craft said.
For registration information, contact Dr. Barbara Weinstein of the Early Childhood Development Association at 486-3900.
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You're really looking good today!
June 24, 2011, at 10:06 AM
<< Please make yourself at home - Part 1 | Boot Camp Index | Please make yourself at home - Part 2 >> I believe the internal landcape is very helpful in keeping internal conversations manageable (people can "take their conversations over there" so that if small groups are talking I (as Front) don't have to "listen" to several conversations at the same time. It directly helps with internal communication via sign language (for our deaf resident) and non-verbal language. Some of our guests (those who are not willing or able to sign the lease) can give us an important lesson on communication in an internalized visual environment:
Shane lives in a dark box in a corner that is not well lit. Shane's box says "No No No No Go Away!" in crayon. When she's somewhat comfortable the lid is sometimes open and we can kinda see her hugging her dark stuffies. When she's upset, the box is closed and she's inside of it. She's one of 2 littles who are still non-responsive to attempts to bring them to co-consciousness or co-awareness -- out of over 70 people and fragments in our head. If we didn't have an internal landscape, we might not even know about Shane. With an internal landscape and these non-verbal cues, we can actually figure out some of what she's feeling, whether she's triggered at any given moment, and have several clues about where she came from. There are a few residents she's more comfortable being "approached" by; we can tell by whether or not the lid gets put back on her box. So she knows we're here, has some vague awareness of internal events, and communicates with us in limited ways as part of our internal landscape. Why force her to be verbal? She's clearly not ready to have a conversation.
Tina is in a coma. To describe her visually might be disturbing. We have some portraits of her (doubt they're "self portraits") courtesy of her representation in our internal landscape. She is completely traumatized and non-responsive to communication. Other than her appearance, she does not communicate unless she's "touched" in our internal landscape. When touched she screams, like her whole body is in pain. Due to her choices in representing herself in our internal landscape, we've decided that she's not ready to have a conversation either.
Some of us have other types of internal representations in our system. Our best protectors may somehow represent either our perpetrators in some way ("If you can't beat them...be them."), or take the form of beings that are generally regarded as very powerful. This is one possible reason (the reason that psychology claims) for why some multiples have demons, dragons, wizards, and other relatively powerful and invincible brutes in their system.
Being able to picture our guardians and protectors as being powerful helps our system feel safer. It can help us build self-protective mechanisms, and some of these brutes are the ones who will come to a meeting focused on developing house rules and not expecting much to come out of the experience, then insist on certain system protections being in place, usually accomplishing more than anyone will want to give them credit for.
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Ofcom has announced details of a massive crackdown on internet piracy after the government lost a High Court battle with ISPs.
In its measures, published on Tuesday, Ofcom warned broadband providers it would aggressively target those breaching copyright.
The new system should be in place by 2014, and will see entertainment bodies including the BPI for music and the MPA for film gather the IP addresses of anyone sharing copyright material.
The Digital Economy Act was originally passed in 2010, but was challenged by ISPs, but they lost their case earlier this month.
Now ISPs will be required to deliver details of those customers from its own records, and will have to send a letter warning customers to use legal alternatives to those sites.
The code will cover the six top ISPs, which have 93% of the retail broadband market - BT, Everything Everywhere, O2, Sky, TalkTalk Group and Virgin Media.
After three warnings in a year a customer will be 'blacklisted', and could face civil claims under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act via a court order:
If a customer receives three letters or more within a 12-month period, anonymous information may be provided on request to copyright owners showing them which infringement reports are linked to that customer's account. The copyright owner may then seek a court order requiring the ISP to reveal the identity of the customer, with a view to taking legal action for infringement under the Copyright Designs and Patent Act 1988.
Among the changes to the measures, customers will have 20 days to appeal against any accusations - after paying a £20 fee to do so.
Legitimate grounds for appeal, as mentioned in the original act, including someone else using their WiFi network despite steps taken to prevent access.
Customers would have the right to challenge any allegation of infringement through an independent appeals body. Ofcom will appoint this body and require it to establish transparent, accessible appeal procedures. Copyright owners will need Ofcom approval of their procedures for gathering evidence of infringement before they can be used under the scheme.
Claudio Pollack, Ofcom's Consumer Group Director, said: "These measures are designed to foster investment and innovation in the UK's creative industries, while ensuring internet users are treated fairly and given help to access lawful content.
"Ofcom will oversee a fair appeals process, and also ensure that rights holders' investigations under the code are rigorous and transparent."
The moves were criticised by some, who said that by imposing an appeals fee the government was assuming customers were guilty before guilt was proven.
Jim Killock of the Open Rights Group said:
"Digital revenues are going up, the music and film industry are moving in the right direction, yet this cumbersome policy is still lumbering forward.
"Ofcom are being asked to put lipstick on a pig with this code.
"The appeals are a joke. The Government has decided that 'I didn't do it' is not a defence. Some people will almost certainly end up in court having done nothing wrong."
Mike O’Connor, chief executive of Consumer Focus, added:
"Copyright infringement is not to be condoned, but people who are innocent should not have to pay a fee to challenge accusations.
"Consumers are innocent until proven guilty. Twenty pounds may sound like a small sum, but it could deter those living on low-incomes from challenging unfair allegations. Ultimately consumers could be subject to “technical measures”, including being cut off from the internet, and the ability to appeal is therefore critical to ensure consumers who have done nothing wrong are not deprived of essential internet access further down the line."
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The best way to learn about Filmmaking is to make films.
Our practical film-studio based filmmaking courses cover all the aspects of real filmmaking and will instruct, equip and inspire you. Each of our filmmaking courses can be taken individually, in any combination and any numbers of times - real practicing makes real movies!
Wondering which course to do first? Click here for our handy Filmmaking course guide.
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I love our planet and believe that we need to do something drastic to save it and I want to do my part. I also think that natural and organic products are better for my family. I would love to buy 100% organic, use only natural products for cleaning and recycle and reuse everything but the truth is that I don’t. I admit it , I don’t have the time to make compost and half the times I go to the supermarket I forget my reusable bags and feel so guilty afterwards. Organic is just too expensive for our family and even though I have been meaning to replace my cleaning products for a more environmentally friendly option I haven’t because I still have the notion that all green products are a lot more expensive.
When some of my friends talk about using only all natural products in their homes I feel so guilty I don’t even join the conversation because I don’t want them to discover I am still using all that stuff that’s loaded with chemicals and is bad for the environment and for my kids!
I had no idea that I was not the only one feeling guilty and that most women feel the same way I do. I am environmentally conscious and I do care. This infographic was truly eye opening for me and I believe that the important thing is doing the best we can to be ecologically conscious and that our efforts do count for something even if we are not eco-fanatic.
For me the hardest part of being green is that green and organic products are usually so much more expensive. According to Green Work’s new survey 93% of women (me included!) agree that being environmentally friendly should be accessible to everyone. Most women say affordability makes green product purchases more accessible (63%) than any other factor.
Practicality is also a factor. I consider my time to be extremely valuable and feel that I have less time than I should to spend with my children, so it’s hard for me to be green when it requires too much work. According to Green Work’s survey practicality is what guides where women incorporate environmentally conscious actions into their lives. In fact, 59 percent say just that, “I introduce environmentally friendly practices only when it is practical given my lifestyle.”
Green Works products clean with the same power that people have come to expect from The Clorox Company so that you don’t have to compromise on clean to be green. The Green Works brand provides naturally-derived products with extraordinary cleaning power that are fairly priced and available where regular people shop.
For more information on Green Works visit GreenWorksCleaners.com.
Check out this hilarious video from Green Works: The Green Housewives showing us we don’t have to be extreme to be green.
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YouCanMakeThis.Com’s “Thrifty Under 50” Challenge Encourages A Handmade Holiday for Under $50
North Logan, UT (December 5, 2008) – When YouCanMakeThis.com creator Kim Christopherson decided to enlist 50 people to make as many presents as they could for under $50, she never would have imagined the response she’d get. Within two days of posting the challenge on her YouCanMakeThis.Com blog, she received over 330 requests to be a part of the Thrifty 50.
After sorting through all of the entries, Christopherson chose 50 participants for the challenge. The goal of Thrifty Under 50 is not necessarily to have participants make all of their gifts for under $50, but rather challenge them to come up with new ways to make homemade gifts that will be appreciated, without spending much money.
“We're trying to get people to think a little differently this year than in years past,” says Christopherson. “We want to encourage people to utilize what they already have on hand. To be inventive and creative and dig into those fabric stashes and figure out ways to repurpose old items, and use up what they already have.”
YouCanMakeThis.Com is the perfect company to issue a challenge like Thrifty Under 50. The website specializes in downloadable eBooks for Do-It-Yourselfers. These eBooks are written by fellow crafters who want to share their creative projects for things like children’s clothing, aprons, handbags or knit toys. Once a project has been completed, it can be recreated over and over again with fabric scraps or even with a few tweaks in the design to give each eBook multiple, unique, year-round uses. So the company encourages this kind of thinking throughout the year!
Thriftiness is especially important for many families who are feeling the financial pinch this holiday season. Instead of enjoying time with family and getting into the holiday spirit, they are concerned about how they’re going to pay the bills. With the Thrifty Under 50 Challenge, participants are not only saving money by being resourceful, they’re finding extra value in the gifts they’re making because each one is handmade for the recipient.
“I feel like every gift is special, and I feel so much more in-tune with the spirit of giving,” said one of the Thrifty 50, Kristina. “My husband lost his job earlier in the year, and it was so critical for us to stay LOW budget. We barely had $50 to spend. With this contest influencing me I've been able to make almost a 100% homemade holiday, and not have to put one penny of it on a credit card.”
The Thrifty Under 50 Challenge doesn’t end with the participants. Each member of the Thrifty 50 is blogging about their adventure and sharing tips on the YouCanMakeThis.Com blog, posting on their own blog if they have one, and of course the members have been Tweeting updates so everyone knows how easy and affordable it is to have a homemade holiday.
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An Episcopal church in Baltimore has become the latest to leave the denomination because of concerns about the ordination of homosexuals and women.
Last Sunday, members of the Mount Calvary Episcopal Church voted to separate and join with the Roman Catholic Church. A spokesman for Baltimore's Catholic Archdiocese says it welcomes the church.
Mount Calvary Pastor Warren Tanghe said homosexually was only one of the reasons his congregation decided to break ties the Episcopalians.
"There are some Episcopal clergy who openly question or say they do not believe that Jesus was God and man, who say they do not believe that the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost are one triad of God, who do not believe the bread and wine become the body and blood of Christ," he said.
Tanghe is preparing for his ordination as a Catholic priest. However, the Calvary congregation will have to negotiate with the Episcopal diocese in order to keep their church building.
The parish holds the deed, but the property is held in trust by the diocese and the national denomination.
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Governor Jerry Brown is in Washington, DC for the annual governors meeting. Monday morning President Obama met with dozens of state leaders. He urged them to invest in education after years of cuts.
President Obama spoke to a room of governors at the White House. He said, "So today I'm calling on all of you, invest more in education. invest more in our children and in our future."
President Obama is calling for change in the classroom. He wants to see more teaches on the payroll and programs focused on job training.
California is one of 40 states that has cut support to higher education to deal with a budget shortfall. According to the Cal State System, the state forked over $3 billion dollars to the CSU system in 2007. In 2011, the Cal State System received a billion dollars less.
Now students are paying more in tuition and they're getting fewer services. Mike Uhlenkamp is the CSU Chancellor Office Spokesman. He says, "We're asking for reinvestment by the state in higher education because we're going to be needing more and more skilled workers to really help the economy turn around. Hasn't seen that the state is willing to participate in that."
Governor Brown has proposed a tax hike that will help fund education. If the plan fails, K-12 and community colleges will face nearly $5 billion in cuts. The California State University and systems will see an additional $200 million in cuts.
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4. Issue: Your cat leaves its poop uncovered.
Solution: Your cat could be leaving its waste uncovered as a message that it doesn’t like its new litter. Try changing back to the previous brand you used if this is a new problem. On the other hand, if your cat has always had this issue, then it probably means that its mother never taught your cat when it was a kitten the importance of covering its poop. You can try training your cat to learn this behavior by taking its paw and carefully dragging it through the litter after it uses the box. Also, try switching to a softer litter that will be more comfortable to dig in. (Pet Finder)
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By Jean Marquit, Contributing writer
One of the most expensive times of the year is holiday season. Many people want to show their love to family and friends through gifts, but before they know it, the debt is piling up.
Before the holiday season arrives, consider putting together a budget for holiday gift giving. Especially in the current economic climate, a budget can help you keep track of your expenses, and keep you honest as you do your holiday gift shopping.
Evaluate Your Limits
It is important to set limits. You can do this by setting a per-person limit, or by setting an overall limit. Some people find it helpful to put together a list of everyone they plan to get gifts for, and then list "extra" gifts for people that they may have forgotten. Look at your list and your financial situation, and decide how much you can afford to spend on gifts.
Remember: You need to be brutally honest with yourself about how much you can afford to spend. You may not be able to buy a holiday travel package as a gift this year, especially if things are tight.
Step Two: Consider Your Options
Think about the gifts that you plan to give. Check their prices and comparison shop. Think about your talents and consider making gifts. Remember to spend appropriately. Mom and dad should, as a general rule, have a more expensive gift than siblings. Do you really need to get gifts for the children of close family friends and relatives?
Another option is to speak with family ahead of time. Many large families limit gift giving budgets by doing a drawing for who you will buy a gift for. Then a dollar amount serves as the limit.
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LITTLE VALLEY - For many years CCB (Cattaraugus County Bank) has offered children ages 5-18 years old an account called the CCBee Kid's Cash Club Savings Account. There is a gift for each child who opens an account and the club has activities for its members. There are no minimum deposit requirements and no service charges, no matter what the balance is. The CCBee Kid's Cash Club Savings Account pays interest based on the account balance and requires an initial deposit of $5 when the account is opened.
CCB is very pleased to announce the availability of a NEW type of account called the Saver Savings Account. The account focuses on children between the ages of 13 and 18. It operates similar to the Kids Cash Club, except that CCB's Youth Saver Savings Account offers a Youth Card as an add-on feature, with CCB covering the initial purchase fee. The parent (or an adult 18 or over) may purchase a Youth Card for a Youth Saver accountholder. After the first re-load a personalized card embossed with the Youth's name will be mailed at no additional charge. Either a parent or the Youth Saver may re-load the card.
Now, the accounts of children that are "Kids Club" members turning 13 will convert to "Youth Saver" and accounts of Youth Savers who turn 18 years of age will convert to a standard statement savings. New CCB customers between the ages of 13 and 18 are automatically enrolled as Youth Savers at CCB.
Employees at CCB know that teaching children the importance of saving money at an early age builds good saving habits for their adulthood. The club theme is fun for children that participate and the addition of the responsibility of a "youth card" seems appropriate for the young adult stage of their lives and CCB's program.
CCB is an FDIC insured New York State chartered independent, community bank. From January 2, 1902, CCB has established an unprecedented record of fiscal integrity and sound financial growth, which now totals over $185 million in assets. CCB maintains convenient ATMs and can be found on the web at www.ccblv.com. CCB is an equal housing lender. CCB's main office is located in Little Valley, with seven branch offices.
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Data Recovery Services for Businesses
Data recovery services for businesses are a critical need in the event of hard drive failure or other loss of crucial data sources. Unfortunately, many business owners and employees are not aware of the fact that in the large majority of cases, data can still be restored even from devices and equipment that is severely damaged, has been submerged or subjected to malicious viruses or other programs. Data recovery services for businesses can work to quickly recover important information in a secure and completely confidential manner, assuring that proprietary, classified, personal or other sensitive information remains protected at all times.
Regardless of the equipment and systems your business utilizes, in the event of lost or inaccessible data sources, a data recovery service can help to quickly retrieve data from the following:
Hard Drive Data Recovery
Hard drive data recovery works to reclaim information from devices and equipment made by companies like Western Digital, Seagate, IBM/Hitachi, Toshiba, Samsung, Fujitsu, Maxtor, Quantum and more. Hard drives may have logical or physical failures that must be addressed carefully and according to the type of storage device. Businesses that experience hard drive failures and should immediately stop using these devices, turn the power off and contact a professional data recovery services company. In most cases all of the data on a drive can be recovered and placed in a secure location.
RAID Data Recovery
For professional data recovery companies, RAID data recovery should include RAID 1, RAID 2, RAID 3, RAID 4, RAID 5, RAID 6, RAID 10, and RAID 0+1. RAID systems are generally thought to offer businesses more power and flexibility in the applications they run, but in the event of logical or physical failure RAID equipment is much more complex to recovery data from.
Flash Data Recovery
Flash drives are an increasingly common part of everyday business because of the portable nature of these storage devices. However, these devices often fail for a number of reasons, and in many cases they are simply thrown out. However, a professional data recovery services company could quickly launch a flash data recovery attempt and reclaim all of the sensitive information on the device.
SSD Data Recovery
Solid State Drives are widely considered the most reliable forms of electronic storage. However, like RAID data recovery applications, SSD data recovery projects are also rather complicated and can involve significant resources. Fortunately, these devices rarely fail, but when they do the data is almost always recoverable.
Apple / Mac Data Recovery
Apple data recovery, iPhone data recovery and iPad data recovery are increasingly becoming more common requests from business owners – primarily as a result of user errors. These errors can result in logical failures – such as in the cases of viruses, deleted data, misplaced data or a repartitioned drive or inadvertent reformatting. As with other types of storage systems, Apple Mac Data recovery is possible when a professional data recovery services company with the right technologies, skills, resources and expertise is trusted to such a sensitive task.
Data recovery services for businesses can work to recover data of any nature and do so in a secure and confidential manner. In most cases the cost is minimal compared to the amount of money required to replace, regenerate or suffer with a complete loss of data. And because even the most complex data recovery services project can be completed in as little as a few days, businesses can afford to ensure that their sensitive information is trusted only to the most capable and proven data recovery services firm.
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