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What could I plan for? Disagree with a decision made? When would a person lack capacity? Who decides if a person lacks capacity? What is Supported Decision Making (SDM)? Supported Decision Making is helping someone to make their own decisions so they can have control over the things that are important to them. The NSW Public Guardian is offering free tailored workshops for the aged care sector (Aged Care Training Flyer) and the disability services sector to promote the decision making rights of PWD in 2019. For more details on all courses on offer, refer to our 2019 Training Flyer. The Public Guardian has produced a e-Learning package that is targeted at people who work in the disability sector and want to learn more about what Support for Decision Making is and how you can practice it. The e-Learn is free and can be accessed via the National Disability Services Website. In 2016-2017 the Office of Public Guardian (OPG) led a supported decision making project aimed at building the decision making ability of people under financial management. Participants in the project explored financial decisions and were referred to financial literacy programs to learn more about managing money. The project experience and external evaluation by the Social Policy Research Centre highlighted the value of these programs in possibly increasing people's skills and ability to make choices. During the supported decision making project OPG consulted with financial literacy providers. Participate Australia facilitates one of a small number of financial literacy training programs for people with cognitive impairment. The face-to-face program is delivered by support workers using paper resources. Participate Australia and the OPG discussed making the program material available to more people. This resulted in a proof of concept trial to determine if financial literacy could be delivered using an e-Learning tool. OPG along with Participate Australia and their technology partner Tecuris, adapted the financial literacy program to an e-Learning tool. The tool was trialled with both Participate Australia support workers and participants. Participate support workers found using the tool a more efficient and effective way to teach the program. It allowed participants to use the tool at home on a tablet or desktop computer, providing a more engaging experience than the paper based course. Participants enjoyed using the tool and used it both with the support workers and at home with family members. The successful proof of concept trial indicates e-Learning offers flexibility in financial literacy program delivery. This provides an opportunity for greater access to financial literacy education for people with cognitive impairment. Participate Australia have received a grant from Financial Literacy Australia to further develop and distribute their financial literacy program. We look forward to further developments in this space. The Cognitive Decline Partnership Centre has produced a series of resources for the Aged Care Sector for both professionals and supporters to promote Support for Decision Making. You can visit the webpage to access these free resources. The Public Guardian has recently been involved in a project aiming at building the decision making capacity of people under financial management and more broadly, the disability sector's ability to practice support for decision making. The project has now come to an end and has been reviewed by the UNSW Social Policy Research Centre. The Joint Advisory Committee helped to guide our work and we would like to thank them. The results are published in the UNSW Social Policy Evaluation Report below. The Public Guardian is still doing training with lots of different service providers on Supported Decision Making around NSW. Visit the Training Section on this page for more information.

2019-04-25T02:26:47Z

https://www.publicguardian.justice.nsw.gov.au/Pages/Supported-Decision-Making.aspx

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tamu

The domestic construction industry consists of project based, dispersed organizations that face unique challenges when compared to other sectors. These challenges have largely slowed the innovative capacity of the industry. Knowledge management is a communicative practice that moves beyond data and information management systems approaches to engage the largely tacit know-how and expertise of organizational members and project stakeholders. This study attempts to further the understanding of the communicative accomplishment of knowledge work in the construction industry by engaging in both ethnographic and survey data analysis to help determine (1) how organizational members communicate what they know with others to solve problems and create capacities for action in our everyday work practice; (2) the level of knowledge management use among domestic construction organizations; (3) what motivates organizations to adopt new knowledge management practices; and (4) whether communicative knowledge management practice had measurable benefits to the organizations who were attempting to implement it. The first study is an ethnographic investigation of the communicative practice that one construction company utilized to help manage its knowledge resources. Everyday knowledge management practices observed included the use of structured occasions and planning meetings where project stakeholders engaged in the use of questioning and mentoring in a way that promoted an organizational learning culture which relied on a complex and largely unregulated network of expertise. The findings also suggest that embodied knowledge should be considered to help explain how organization actors approach problem solving episodes. Lastly, the study highlights the possibility of an organizational transactive memory system that helps organizational members know who knows what. The second quantitative study takes stock of the current levels of knowledge management practice among a sample of domestic construction companies. The study found that knowledge management systems were still relatively rare, despite the uniform belief in their value and importance. The motivation to adopt knowledge management practices was shown to indirectly increase project benefits, being mediated by both the obstacles to knowledge management adoption and specific knowledge management tool use. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed in regard to each study, as well as the research project as a whole. Sommer, Paul Allen (2016). The Communicative Accomplishment of Knowledge Work in the Construction Industry. Doctoral dissertation, Texas A & M University. Available electronically from http : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /156862.

2019-04-24T04:00:08Z

http://oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/handle/1969.1/156862

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A flurry of questions from state hospital board members forced Sherman Hospital officials Tuesday to delay seeking final approval to build a $310 million facility on Elgin's west side. Despite strong backing for the project from community officials, state officials cited concerns over the number of beds the new hospital would provide and the effect the project would have on the financial health of Sherman's main competitor, Provena St. Joseph Hospital. They also wondered why Sherman didn't want to build the 263-bed facility on the east side, its home for more than a century. Sherman officials still hope to break ground in June, with a scheduled completion date of 2009. Plans for the new facility at Randall and Big Timber Roads were announced last April. The hospital must wait at least another month before the Illinois Health Facilities Planning Board could approve the project. Rick Floyd, Sherman's president and chief executive, said he was disappointed by the delay but added that hospital officials were optimistic that they could resolve the issues. Board members expressed concern over St. Joseph Hospital's opposition to Sherman's project. St. Joseph contends it would lose $8.7 million in revenue a year--enough to go out of business--if Sherman is allowed to build the hospital less than 4 miles from St. Joseph. "That $8.7 million is a significant amount of money, and I could see them going under," said board member Carol Avery. But Floyd questioned the accuracy of a financial consultant's report St. Joseph filed on its behalf. "Some assumptions [in the report] are just not valid," Floyd said. Floyd and other officials maintain that building a new hospital is vital for Sherman's survival. Sherman officials determined that the hospital's current 13-acre campus on the east side is too cramped and the buildings too outmoded for expansion. The site, at 934 Center St., cannot accommodate advancements in medical technology and the area's growing population, officials said. Elgin's so-called Far West expansion is expected to bring 60,000 to 80,000 residents into the city over the next 20 years. Sherman had considered remodeling its current facility but concluded that the $348 million cost would be prohibitive and the project would be too disruptive to the historic east side neighborhood. Dr. Ronald Winters, a state board member who has practiced at both Elgin hospitals, questioned why Sherman had not looked for another east side location. Winters said he was aware of a large tract of available land adjacent to four major highways but declined to identify the site, saying its cost would skyrocket. Sherman officials appeared surprised by Winters' declaration, saying they had met with city officials in a futile search for an east side location. Mayor Ed Schock said after the meeting that he could not imagine any such site. The new hospital would be built on 154 acres and include a 15-acre lake with geothermal technology, intended to save the hospital $1 million a year in energy costs. Sherman would retain the Center Street campus for a 24-hour urgent care center, doctors' offices, outpatient facilities and labs. Sherman said that campus would continue to meet the everyday health-care needs of the east side. In reiterating Sherman's goal, Floyd said: "There's enough growth out there for everybody."

2019-04-19T03:32:34Z

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2006-03-15-0603150284-story.html

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Biosketch | Joseph P. Messina Ph.D. Professor of Geography, Member (Acting Director) of the Center for Global Change and Earth Observations, Member of AgBioResearch, Member of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Member of the African Studies Center, Member of the Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, and Behavior Program at Michigan State University. Awarded research honors from NASA through the New Investigator Program, the National Institutes of Health Roadmap Program, and the Sigma Xi / MSU Young Scholar of the Year. Associate Editor Plant Ecology, editorial board for the International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research. Co-edited special issues in Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, Environment and Planning A, and Environment and Planning B. Served on the Organizing committees for Geocomputation, and the International Medical Geography Symposium. Served on the EPA panel establishing a national program on behavioral and social science research and the environment. Served in national review capacity for the National Institutes of Health (NIGMS, NIEHS, NIAID); the National Science Foundation’s Cyber Enabled Discovery and Innovation and the Decision Making Under Uncertainty programs; NASA’s Terra, Aqua, and ACRIM and the LCLUC programs; EPA’s Advanced Monitoring Initiative. Served in leadership roles or on select committees for the Association of American Geographers, the remote sensing specialty group of the Association of American Geographers, and the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. Geography Awareness Week Plenary Speaker at multiple universities. Honorable Discharge, United States Army.

2019-04-26T03:50:09Z

https://msu.edu/~jpm/

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This major report published by the International Telecommunications Union captures the level of ICT developments in 175 economies worldwide and compares progress since the year 2014. It includes ICT Development Index (IDI). The IDI is a standard tool that governments, operators, development agencies, researchers and others can use to measure the digital divide and compare ICT performance within and across countries. It is based on 11 ICT indicators, grouped in three clusters: access, use and skills. The website provides free access to most of the data.

2019-04-20T04:18:40Z

https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/12/06/the-measuring-the-information-society-report-2016/

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Kris Field-Eaton and her staff did a remarkable job preparing beautiful Sherwood High School for the tournament. Thanks to them, the check-in process was among the best ever, allowing compeition to start before 6:00pm. Directed by veteran TD Norm May and his son, it went smoothly forward, staying on schedule and free from delays and disputes. The tournament ended on time, and the awards ceremony was over by about 6:30pm on Saturday. Our new tournament format and tiebreak system saw their shakedown cruises. There is more analysis to be done, but both performed fairly well; both might need a little tweaking based on our experience. The tournament format was expected to run like normal Swiss the first two rounds and then give priority to pairing teams from schools of the same classification to ensure those teams had the opportunity to play their key, head-to-head matches. As it turned out, by the time the first two rounds of normal Swiss were played, the computer was unable to make several key, expected classification pairings because of problems this would have caused with other pairings. It was not simply a computer problem; even when the TD personally evaluated whether he could use manual pairings to make those classification pairings, he found he could do no better without causing worse pairing problems for other teams. The impression at this writing is that we need to analyze the Swiss files and see what minor changes we should suggest to effectively accomplish our objective of conventional Swiss early and key classification pairings thereafter. With respect to the new tiebreak system, it performed smoothly and worked remarkably well, but there are questions about it and whether the subject needs to be revisited before next year. Moving into the final round, for instance, there was a distinct possibility that we'd see and have to break a four-way tie for 1st place. In theory, the system's logic would have worked, but we didn't know whether it actually would have been compelling enough to satisfy the four tied teams with its results. It looked like a possible train wreck. Happily, this was avoided when the four-way tie did not materialize and there were clear winners in 1st and 2nd. But the question remains to be explored--would the system effectively and fairly (and without disputes) break four-way ties? Further, new questions have arisen. For example, the US Am Team portion of the tiebreak system placed Clackamas above Pleasant Hill. Pleasant Hill played stonger opponents as measured in Solkoff points (19 vs. 15.5), but Clackamas won more boards (17 vs. 13) against its opponents. Looking at this information in the absence of any formula to apply, one could rightly ask at what point does strength of opponents trump board dominance and vice versa? Applying the US Am Team tiebreak system formula to this question, Clackamas had a tiny edge in US Am Team points (49.25 vs. 48). Without question, reasonable people could disagree on whether that was the most fair and accurate call and whether or not there is a different system and formula available that could have done better. Thanks again to Kris Field-Eaton and her crew at Sherwood High and Norm May and his son. And a special thinks from me to all the coaches. It is because of you and your dedication that high school team chess exists in Oregon and that this valuable and educational sport is available to and played by so many of our students. Because of you and the lessons they learn from you about logic, thinking ahead and good, old fashioned sportsmanship and manners, whether they win, lose or draw, those lessons remain and will have a lasting and beneficial influence on their lives. In closing, to give a sense of the color and drama of the events, I will include this newspaper article that ran in the Cottage Grove Sentinal. Enjoy! Lions Chess Team wins Oregon State Championship! It all came down to one pawn. But, as former CGHS coach Mike Wolfe correctly predicted three years ago when this year’s senior players were talented freshmen whom he had trained superbly, if they all stayed with the team they could be the state champions in their senior year. Entering the concluding round of Oregon’s high school state chess tournament held at Sherwood H.S. last weekend, Cottage Grove’s was the only varsity team that had won in all previous rounds, beating Willamette, Clackamas, 5A champion Crescent Valley, and 3A champion Pleasant Hill.. To get first place they needed only a tie, 2.5 points out of the 5 games, against their final opponent, the powerful 6A champion team from Lake Oswego H.S. that had been last year’s state champion in the tournament held at CGHS. Senior Megan Goossens finished her game first, getting her half-point after both players quickly traded off their pieces to end up in a draw at 4th board. Then, at 2nd and 3rd boards, seniors Eric Bridges and Jon Reeves both lost tough struggles involving attacks that didn’t quite succeed against their very strong opponents. At 5th board, sophomore Christopher Goes played excellently and methodically to gain a material advantage, ensuring that he would get a full point from a checkmate. The entire tournament now hinged upon the result at 1st board, where senior Jared McReynolds, the Lions’ team captain, had to find a way to get a win against his highly-ranked Lake Oswego opponent. Early in the game McReynolds let his bishop get trapped and taken, getting only a pair of pawns in return. But he found a way to get back much later, trapping and capturing a knight. At the end, each player had a king and one bishop, but McReynolds also had a pawn just two squares from promoting to a queen. Most times the other player’s bishop could be sacrificed for that pawn to prevent any chance at checkmate and end up in a draw, but McReynolds forced the opposing bishop to retreat and pushed his pawn forward toward queening and the full point victory that cemented Cottage Grove’s hold on the overall state title, keeping the team undefeated for the season, and electrifying all its overjoyed players and their coaches. This fantastic victory was a true team effort, with all the varsity players winning critical games against the top teams in the state. McReynolds had to play against all the best players on each team, but still lost only one game, to the highest-ranked player at the tournament. Bridges played the best game of his life to ensure the close 3-2 team win over Clackamas. Reeves had a superb record, winning 4 of his 5 games, including deceptive traps and creative ways to get out of danger. Goossens and Goes also lost only one game each. Goossens helped steady the team with her rock-solid performances that often confused her opponents, and Goes ended a few of the rounds with remarkably close but inescapable victories. This has been the best season for Cottage Grove chess in almost 40 years, and the Lions players deserve everyone's praise for accomplishing a final grand triumph in winning the overall state title!

2019-04-20T03:01:28Z

http://ohscta.tripod.com/id94.html

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"Hamilton Holmes is best known for desegregating Georgia's universities. One of the first two African American students admitted to the University of Georgia (UGA) in Athens in 1961, Holmes was also the first black student admitted to the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta two years later."--"Hamilton Holmes (1941-1995)," New Georgia Encyclopedia. Retrieved January 11, 2008: http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org.

2019-04-18T22:24:46Z

http://crdl.usg.edu/people/h/holmes_hamilton_1941/

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petershillfc

Welcome to the official website of Petershill Football Club. Petershill play in the West of Scotland Region of the Scottish Junior Football Association, and are currently in the Super League First Division. "Junior" Football is a term unique to Scotland, and is sometimes confused with Youth or Juvenile Football. In fact it is a level of Semi Professional Football which fits in between the Amateur and Senior Levels of the game. In recent seasons the Scottish Football Association have allowed the 3 Regional Super League Winners & the Scottish Junior Cup Winners to take part in the Scottish F.A. Cup. The teams who have taken part so far have shown that the top level of Junior Football can compete with some Scottish Football League Clubs.

2019-04-23T06:00:32Z

http://petershillfc.co.uk/

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standing and academic progress standards for two consecutive terms will lose eligibility for the CCP Grant. The Full time Student Success Grant (FTSSG) is a new financial aid program funded through the California Budget Act, 2015. Effective Fall 2015, all California community college full time students who received a Cal grant B will be awarded the FTSSG. The maximum award amount is $600 ($300 per term). If you are eligible, you will receive a revised award notification to view your awards on MyChaffeyPortal. The first disbursement for FTSSG recipients will be in October 2015. For more information, click on this link.

2019-04-23T00:21:27Z

https://www.chaffey.edu/finaid/finanacial_news.shtml

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weebly

Do not trust the macaque. Hi, everyone. I am Ms. Wood, and I like to explore places I haven't been before. I especially like to visit places I have read about and places that are very different from where I live now. I really love to try all kinds of new foods, and I really hate being bitten by monkeys. It hurts. A lot. I wouldn't recommend it. why are the animals mean? Sometimes they are protecting their babies, sometimes they are frustrated that you are not doing what they want you to do. did you get bitten by anything else? if you did that was a terible trip. How is it like there????? hey mrs.wood what have you seen so far? How are the animals there? Ms. Wood likes to travel the world and share her experiences! Some posts are for teachers, most are for kids like you.

2019-04-26T12:28:53Z

https://sciwood.weebly.com/wheres-ms-wood/about-me

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Space view of Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Jose being born. A stunning view of smoke, sea salt, and dust swirling across Earth. Actually, there’s a lot of stuff in the air, as you can see in the visualization above from NASA Goddard. Crunching data from its fleet of satellites through modeling software, the center has produced the story of what smoke, sea salt, and dust were up to from August to October 2017, when they were prowling the Atlantic up to no good. This was hurricane season, after all, and it’s incredible to see so clearly how Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Jose whipped themselves up into a frenzy before carrying chaos to our shores.

2019-04-23T14:29:27Z

https://slate.com/human-interest/2017/12/space-view-of-hurricanes-harvey-irma-and-jose-being-born.html

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barnsleyfc

Reds fail to find a way past a stubborn Preston North End side. Barnsley produced a battling performance but were held at home to a goalless draw by Preston North End. In a game of few opportunities, both sides were left frustrated, with Matty James’ low effort and Adam Armstrong’s snap shot the best chances in a tense first half. Armstrong’s ambitious 35-yard volley dipped just wide while a driven Josh Scowen shot brought a good save out of Chris Maxwell, with Tom Bradshaw also having an effort cleared off the line. The Lilywhites almost won it in the final moments when Jordan Hugill sent a header towards the top corner, but Adam Davies was alert to the danger and turned the ball away to safety. The draw leaves the Reds ninth in the table, four points outside the play-off places. The first opening of the game fell the way of the Reds as Adam Armstrong flung himself at a Marley Watkins cross, but could not direct his header on target. A clever free kick routine between Ryan Kent and Josh Scowen saw the latter slipped in by the winger only for a last ditch challenge to block his effort on target. Aiden McGeady’s driven ball across goal was deflected awkwardly towards Adam Davies but just wide of the mark before the Welsh stopper denied Simon Makienok’s towering header at the far post. Matty James responded for the Reds, taking aim from the edge of the area and sliding an effort just past Chris Maxwell’s upright, and Maxwell had to be alert to save Callum Elder’s low centre. A flowing one-touch Preston move almost gifted them the opener as Makienok slotted in Jordan Hugill nine minutes before the break, only to pull his effort wide of the target. Preston felt they should have had a penalty just before the break when Hugill went down under the challenge of Gethin Jones, only for the Preston forward's protests to fall on deaf ears. An excellent run from Ryan Kent at the end of the half saw him skip past four challenges before appearing to be upended in the area. His penalty appeals were waved away and as the ball spun loose, Armstrong drove an effort at goal, which Maxwell just managed to save with his legs. HALF TIME: Barnsley 0-0 Preston North End. It was a bright start to the second half by the Reds as Armstrong drove a low effort directly at Maxwell within the opening 30 seconds of the second half. Then, Marc Roberts got a vital touch on a low cross from the right to turn the ball away from Adam Davies’ goal with Hugill lurking at the far post. An ambitious drive from Armstrong from the best part of 35 yards almost looped over Maxwell, but the ball dropped just wide of the target. Another Reds move, started by a long ball down the line from Angus MacDonald, almost culminated in a goal for Kent, but the ball bobbled up as he took aim. Josh Scowen was the first name in the book for the Reds after stopping McGeady’s run on the edge of the area, only for Gallagher to curl the resulting free kick wide. McGeady was cautioned for halting Kent in full flight and but for a clearance off the line, Tom Bradshaw would have opened the scoring on 66 minutes with a chance at the far post. Scowen went close with another powerful effort from 20 yards which Maxwell did well to gather and Preston’s Ben Pearson was booked for dissent as the game entered its final ten minutes. Alan Browne was cautioned for a poorly timed challenge on Scowen late on and Adam Davies preserved a point for the Reds in stoppage time, clawing away a looping Hugill header from the centre of the box. Substitute Adam Hammill had the final chance of the match when he let fly from range, only for Maxwell to gather his effort and preserve his clean sheet. Reds: Davies (GK), Jones, Roberts (c), MacDonald, Elder, Watkins, James, Scowen, Kent (Hedges, 83’ ), Bradshaw (Hammill, 68’ ), Armstrong. Subs: Townsend (GK), Moncur, Lee, Evans, A. Jackson. Preston North End: Maxwell (GK), Browning, Clarke (c), Huntington, Cunningham, McGeady, Browne, Pearson, Gallagher (Robinson, 66’ ), Makienok (Beckford, 72’ ), Hugill. Subs: Lindegaard (GK), Vermijl, Horgan, Johnson, May.

2019-04-22T00:05:16Z

https://www.barnsleyfc.co.uk/news/2017/february/report-barnsley-0-0-preston-north-end/

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The Kentucky 4-H Dairy Judging team participated in the All-American Dairy Judging Contest in Pennsylvania and the National 4-H Dairy Judging Contest held in conjunction with the World Dairy Expo this fall. "The team competed against 12 other teams from across the United States and had an excellent day at the Pennsylvania All-American Contest," said Larissa Tucker, senior extension associate for dairy youth programs for the University of Kentucky College of Agriculture. "They were the second place team overall in the 4-H contest. They placed in the top five in three of the five breeds. They won the Holstein breed team competition. In oral reasons, the team placed third overall." Team members are Alex Poole, Madison Shanks and Kevin Herndon from Spencer County and Dylan Barber of Taylor County. Team members earned several individual awards. Herndon placed third in Guernseys, Shanks placed fourth in Holsteins and Poole placed third in Holsteins, Jerseys and the oral reasons competition. Poole was also third-high individual overall in the contest. At the National 4-H Dairy Judging Contest, the team placed ninth overall. They won the Jersey breed team award and were the seventh place team overall in oral reasons. On an individual basis, two team members joined the All-American club - Poole was the 22nd overall high individual and Shanks placed 18th overall. Shanks also placed eighth in the Jersey individual awards. Herndon placed fourth individually in Jerseys. Barber placed 21st in the Brown Swiss breed. Team members credit several people for their success including the following breeders who served as hosts for the workouts: Rocky Run Farm, Alpine Hill Swiss and the University of Kentucky Dairy. Tucker said the team was also thankful to their sponsors including Kentucky Nutrition Services, Farm Credit Services of Mid-America, Oliver and Virginia Payne, Dairy Farmers of America, KABA/Select Sires, Kentucky Jersey Cattle Club, Church & Dwight, Neo-Gen, Kentucky Department of Agriculture and the Kentucky State Fair.

2019-04-20T17:10:36Z

http://news.ca.uky.edu/article/4-h-dairy-judging-team-places-national-competitions-0

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“It’ll definitely mean a lot to me,” said McFadden, who receives a $300,000 bonus if he reaches the mark. Coach Jason Garrett said recently that the 1,000-yard mark is still significant for running backs. Thirteen reached the feat a year ago, and four have already accomplished it this year (Adrian Peterson, Doug Martin, Todd Gurley and Latavius Murray). McFadden sits fifth among the league’s leading rushers with 997 yards, and has an outside chance of reaching his career-high of 1,157 yards set in 2010. Even though the Cowboys have had a disappointing season by most accounts, McFadden can still take pride in playing a full 16-game season for the second time in his career and setting a career-high in carries (227 and counting). McFadden has proven to be one of the better offseason acquisitions for the Cowboys. The two sides reached an agreement last March on a two-year deal worth up to $5.85 million.

2019-04-23T00:18:31Z

https://www.star-telegram.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/article52311795.html

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At the Nanaimo Marine Festival held in mid-July, up to 200 "tubbers" compete in the Great International World Championship Bathtub Race across a 36-mile course. Using just about any conceivable watercraft, most of which at least vaguely resemble a bathtub, contestants must make it to Vancouver's Fisherman's Cove across the Straits of Georgia. The first race was held in 1967 and activities have expanded since to include a food fair, craft show, Kiddies' Karnival, and waiters' race.

2019-04-21T10:45:13Z

https://adventure.howstuffworks.com/destinations/parades-festivals/8-quirky-festivals-in-north-america6.htm

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Just south of Jefferson County, Bullitt County is in the state’s far western Bluegrass Region. The western fifth of the county is part of the Fort Knox U.S. Army Post and is reserved for military training. The county is bisected by I-65 and is a thriving distribution hub with several major business parks and distribution centers. It’s home to Zappos.com. With rolling hills and open vistas, Bullitt County also offers a rural feeling. Bullitt County is an official trailhead for the Kentucky Bourbon Trail, contains four wineries, numerous golf courses and the stunning Bernheim Forest. Split by I-65, Shepherdsville and Mount Washington spread out on either side of Kentucky 44, while Brooks and Hillview straddle the interstate just south of the county line. Bullitt County has its own campus of Louisville’s Jefferson and Community and Technical College and is within a short distance of University of Louisville, Sullivan University, Bellarmine College, and Spencerian College. The Bullitt County Board of Education serves over 13,000 students and has several building projects underway. Big box retail stores and chain restaurants are plentiful, along with small independently owned businesses including wineries, arts and crafts galleries, and antique shops. Zappos.com operates an outlet shop in Shepherdsville. A home rule-class city, Hillview had a population of 8,172 in 2010. Subdivisions Maryville, Overdale, and Lone Acres incorporated in 1974 to form the city. Information on city services can be found at www.hillviewkycityhall.com. A bedroom community of Hillview, it was incorporated into the city and enjoys shared public services. The county seat, Shepherdsville is a home rule-class city on the Salt River. Its First Street Park offers river views, a playground, ball parks, gazebo, and is also home to the Shepherdsville Pioneer Graveyard. The city is also home to Kart Kountry which claims to be the largest go-kart track in the world. The family-oriented amusement park also offers bumper boats, batting cages, and miniature golf. A home rule-class city, the population in 2010 was 9,117. Running along Kentucky 44 and north along Bardstown Road, the city offers a wide variety of shopping and dining options. The Bullitt County Public Pool at Mount Washington offers summer refreshment and is located across the street from the Mt. Washington Middle School. Just a block away is City Plaza with a large fountain and newly completed pavilion that will house the weekly farmers market among other events.

2019-04-19T20:34:17Z

https://realestate.courier-journal.com/area/bullitt-county/

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New Retro Games | New Games. Retro Spirit. Welcome back to my playthrough of old school tactics RPG Helherron, where I slowly make my way through this unforgiving forgotten tactics RPG. Previously I took my first steps through the starting village after having undertaken the painstaking process of creating eight characters who hopefully won’t die painfully. Today, that last bit might change as I set foot into the first dungeon. Right outside of the town we find the cave, and enter. Before we can blink, wouldn’t you know it, we are assaulted by a pack of goblins. At the beginning of a battle in Helherron, you get a chance to position your characters freely within a tight starting zone. Naturally I move my melee fighters: Grogg the dwarven fighter, Zitz the troll barbarian, Bender the golem barbarian and Chops the lizardman monk, to the frontlines. Freeman, a hobbit thief, hangs back with a bow, while the magic users: Friday, a fairy mage and Alisia, an elven priestess, stand at the back. It’s on! Speed plays an importnt role in this game, and as you’d expect, the Thief proves to be the fastest, going first and critically hitting a goblin archer. Nice. Next up is the priestess Alisia who successfully manages to cast “weakness” on a nearby goblin warrior, which will apparently cause him to cause less damage for the next 2-3 turns. The Fairy mage goes next, shooting a magic dart at the goblin warrior for minor damage. Interestingly, she can shoot right through friendly characters without hitting them, so friendly fire isn’t an issue in this game (aoe damage might be a different matter). Next it’s time to move the slow frontliners. “Guard” is Helherron‘s equivalent of X-COM’s “overwatch” – meaning the fighter will attack anyone who comes near, and its a very importnat feature indeed. Once enemies get close, the melee troup step up to bat, sending goblins staggering backwards before collapsing in bloody heaps (the game actually describes is as this). First blood, and amazingly, it wasn’t mine. My Shaman is an interesting character, being an average spell caster but with the ability to summon creatures. Except that at level 1, with only a 50% chance of success, my spell doesn’t just fail it critically fails, and the caster becomes stunned, probably shocked by his own incompetence. Spell-casting is thus a slight bit more nuanced than the fire-and-forget system of most games. From here, the battle goes pretty smoothly, especially thanks to the theif’s tendancy to score critical hits, the goblins generally go down in one or two hits. Of ourse, this was merely the game’s very first battle, so it isn’t too demanding. Still, it is entirely possible to characters to die, so you need to get the gang working as a team pretty much from the outset. The next battle occurs just a few yards down the tunnel, and ups the ante already – more goblins, and they are accompanied by dogs. My Shaman conjours up a… killer chicken? Well, it’s something, and surprisingly, the killer chicken even pecks a goblin to death. This summon won’t be useful for long into the game, but for the first dungeon it’s handy to thin the herd a little. Summoned animals at this level are generally weak, but a handy tactic is to summon them in front of ranged attackers and spell-casters as this tends to tie them up on melee for a turn. A few arrows and a “strange herb” that needs to be identified in town are the only interesting drops from this battle, but overall we’ve gotten off to a good start. Just north, we find our first side quest in three hobbits looking for their brother who went missing in the caves. If we find him, they promise to reward us with a ring. My hobbit theif rolls his eyes. We accept the quest for the precious. Venturing further into the depths, we stumbled across a small cave with more goblins, but lure them back into the corridor, which turns out good for us strategically. In Helherron, it’s often essential to kite enemies on the map until you have a more advantegous geographic location. They dropped an unidentified amulet which I picked up for later. Finally, in the north-western corner was a spider’s nest. Fearing the worst, I ventured in and engaged the giant spiders waiting within. Our melee fighters, backed up by ranged and magic attacks, made relatively short work of the spiders, even with their annoying webs. We’ve cleared out the first floor, and are ready to descend into the second level. So far, combat is easier than I remember. I remember struggling even with the very first battle, many years ago. Perhaps I’ve just gotten much better at tactical RPGs (I replayed all the gold box games last year), or maybe the newer versions of the game rebalanced things a bit to make the starting areas more easy. It’s probably a bit of both. My hobbit thief is making for a surprisingly excellent archer, only missing one shot in four battles, and often scoring critical hits. For now, melee fighters are the MVPs of battle, rarely missing and often doing heavy damage with knockback effects. Spell casters are less useful as they have barely any spells, and hybrid casters (the shaman and monk) have very low casting success rates, around 50-60%. Melee fighters being the MVPs, that is, with the notable exception of Bender the golem, who can only move 2 steps and rarely reaches anything to be of use. I’m not sure what stats affect movement, if any, so levelling up may never improve movement. Later we should get movement-improving equipment. Characters seem to gain experience per action, rather than a fixed amount per battle. This means I need to make sure to all characters have some input into battles. My magic users are “feeling the bern”, as they tend to skip a lot of turns to conserve mana. This will hopefully change after a few level ups. Magic users can “boost” their spells, up to 20x the power, at a higher MP cost and lower casting chance, making even low level spells potentially useful throughout the game. I’ll go into more detail on battle mechanics and spell lists in a future post. Spells and ranged attacks don’t seem to have range limitations, as far as I can tell. Presumably, though, they are less effective beyond a certain distance. I won’t be going into this level of detail for the whole game, in future summarising things, particularly battles, more and only covering important battles in detail, or explaining new mechanics, etc. in more depth. Remember Micro Machines? They were these somewhat forgettable tiny cars that took off in the mid 90s or so, followed up by some much less forgettable arcade racing games on systems like the Sega Megadrive and PSX. They were chaotic fun. MicroAces remembers, and has faithfully replicated the PSX-era game, racing a variety of super tiny cars across everyday objects like kitchen tables. Oh wait: any similarities to objects in the game “are purely coincidental,” an opening screen disclaimer tells us. Right, so, this isn’t related to Micro Machines at all, sorry. Instead it’s a completely different game about racing super tiny cars across everyday objects like kitchen tables. Glad we cleared that up.

2019-04-19T09:28:22Z

https://newretrogames.wordpress.com/

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Welcome to the home of the Medford Wave Swim Team. We practice in Medford Fitness located at 3 Nelson Drive, Medford, NJ. We are always looking for dedicated swimmers to join our team. Please call us at 609-654-1440 to schedule a tryout, or select "Contact Us" to request more information. In order to compete with the Medford Wave Swim Team you must be actively registered in the Medford Fitness Competitive Swim Program. For swimming program details, please visit the Parent Information section.

2019-04-19T20:42:29Z

https://www.teamunify.com/Home.jsp?team=mamf

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(PopSci.com) -- This past April, entrepreneur and science hobbyist Lloyd Godson awoke in the middle of the night with a pounding headache. He needed fresh air. Instead he drew in a deep breath and hoped that the algae blooms inside his 8-by-10-foot underwater home would give off enough oxygen to get him through the night. Batteries, a bicycle, a bathing suit, algae and sandwich delivery are all an aquanaut needs to live underwater. Because of steadily rising blood pressure, Godson, 29, emerged later that evening dizzy but healthy, bringing to a close his 13-day mission to live solo at the bottom of a lake near Albury, Australia. Funded by Australian Geographic magazine, Godson's effort was part science experiment, part educational outreach. As a marine biologist, he wanted to learn more about sustainable living in a closed ecological system. He fashioned the sub from mostly recycled scrap metal welded to keep water out. Inside, a "biocoil" full of water and algae helped to absorb carbon dioxide and supply oxygen [see "The BioSUB," below]. At the same time, he hoped to inspire future aquanauts by broadcasting live video to students worldwide. Although his stay is not a record for length of time spent underwater (in 1992 aquanaut Rick Presley set that, at 69 days), Godson joins the rarefied ranks of human aquatic inhabitants, among them marine researcher Dennis Chamberland. In 1997 Chamberland lived in NASA's Scott Carpenter Space Analog Station, a seafloor abode near Key Largo, Florida, for 11 days to test life-support systems for space. Godson is helping Chamberland prepare for a record-breaking 80-day stay aboard the Leviathan Habitat off the coast of Florida in 2009. Why not undertake the mission himself? "I like the things we have up here," he says. Container: The two-ton, mostly recycled-steel box is moored to the lakebed by 28 tons of concrete. Biocoil: A pump churns water and algae through a coiled tube. The algae absorbs carbon dioxide and supplies oxygen. Dive compressors: The algae-filled biocoil tube offers a nice experiment in human-plant sym-biosis, but 12-volt compressors floating on the surface above the shelter are Lloyd Godson's primary source of oxygen. Generator: A modified exercise bike powers a laptop and the biocoil pump. Godson also drew power from onshore methane fuel cells and solar panels.

2019-04-24T00:40:17Z

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/08/15/undersea.home/index.html

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My girl Liz is a consultant, new media entreprenuer, and blogger. She is the former Interactive Project Manager for New Media at KCET, the Los Angeles PBS affiliate. Recently Liz left her position at KCET, to focus on her growing her consulting business, which hopefully will be assisting me soon in redeveloping a web application I built. Liz earned her Bachelor of Science in Comparative Media Studies from the ‘mecca’ of Science, Technology and Engineering, MIT! In May of this year she received her Graduate Degree in Communication Management with an emphasis in Online Communities from USC’s Annenberg Program for Online Communities. (9:54:37 PM) Liz Burr: hola! (9:55:43 PM) Black Web 2.0: Lets start by telling our audience a little about who you are. (9:56:14 PM) Liz Burr: lol I am bad at this! (10:00:34 PM) Liz Burr: I am Liz Burr and I am a new media entrepreneur. I recently finished working with KCET, the Los Angeles PBS Affiliate, as an Interactive Project Manager. There I was in charge of all social media initiatives performed by the department. I am also a blogger, though I don’t do as much blogging as I did years ago. Finally, I am the Chief Technology Officer of an emerging hip hop startup. (10:01:36 PM) Black Web 2.0: What exactly did you do at KCET, what was typical day like? (10:02:10 PM) Black Web 2.0: What does an Interactive Project Manager do? (10:04:25 PM) Liz Burr: Truthfully that title was something we (my boss and I) made up because the position was created specifically for me. But, being in charge of social media, I essentially would be either maintaining any current projects, or initiating or consulting others in the department on their projects. (10:05:56 PM) Liz Burr: This could be anything from writing Product Requirement Documents for a Facebook app, hiring developers and designers for the product, testing the app, or helping my boss write in social media line items for a grant proposal. (10:07:01 PM) Black Web 2.0: Out of all the projects you did for KCET what was your favorite? (10:09:49 PM) Liz Burr: I would have to say the Facebook Application I created for our national series, WIRED SCIENCE. It’s my fave because I essentially had my own budget to work with, I was able to hire one of my favorite and most respected designers to design the interface, and alll my years of Facebooking paid off because I was able to use my understanding of the social graph to make a decent product. (10:10:33 PM) Black Web 2.0: Lets take a step back. When were you first get bitten by the tech bug? (10:13:11 PM) Liz Burr: I’d say back in 2002. I had recently been initiated into my sorority at MIT (shout out to my sorors of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.), and my chapter needed a new website. Our current one was roughly 4 or 5 years old. I’m not sure exactly why I volunteered to make the site, but I was down to do the research on it. I had never created a website before, and HTML scared me. (10:13:20 PM) Liz Burr: Actually I know what it was. Blackplanet. (10:13:59 PM) Liz Burr: I became obsessed with customizing Blackplanet profiles back then. I think that’s what eased my transition into not being so afraid of HTML LOL. (10:14:01 PM) Liz Burr: Sad but true. (10:14:56 PM) Liz Burr: Anyway from there I began blogging in early 2003, which also gave me a lot of practice with design and HTML. I was a personal blogger back then, mostly ranting about my life as a college student. (10:15:34 PM) Black Web 2.0: So what was your orignal career goal when you first entered MIT? (10:16:06 PM) Liz Burr: Ooh. I originally entered as a Biology major. Tragic. I was in denial about that for a good three years. I know my academic advisor must have hated me. (10:17:10 PM) Liz Burr: Anyway, I had intended on making Comparative Media Studies my concentration, but I ended up liking the department more than Biology so I eventually switched programs. It was a rough transition, as the department wasn’t a full academic major at the time, but I made it work. (10:19:11 PM) Black Web 2.0: So after you graduated from MIT, what was your next move? (10:19:30 PM) Liz Burr: Well, I wanted to get back to California ASAP. I couldn’t deal with the weather. (10:20:38 PM) Liz Burr: I actually came to LA in hopes of working in television, but at the time I wasn’t ready to pursue it fully. So I got an office job at USC to pay the bills until I figured out what to do next. (10:21:16 PM) Liz Burr: The IT Director at my job noted my tech skills and one day, I was reassigned to his department. There I did some web and print design work, front end development, and a little bit of product development. I also decided to start a grad program at USC, since tuition was free lol. (10:24:10 PM) Black Web 2.0: So how close are you to completing your graduate work? (10:24:31 PM) Liz Burr: I’m done! I finished this past May. (10:24:36 PM) Black Web 2.0: Nice! (10:24:49 PM) Black Web 2.0: PHD? (10:25:55 PM) Black Web 2.0: I feel ya!! (10:26:25 PM) Black Web 2.0: So now you’re doing consulting work right? (10:28:11 PM) Liz Burr: I am. I have started my own company where I consult on new media, web development, social media, etc. etc. (10:28:34 PM) Black Web 2.0: can you talk about some of your past and present clients? (10:34:04 PM) Black Web 2.0: You also mentioned your positon as CTO of a hip hop startup. Can you talk a little about that? (10:35:01 PM) Liz Burr: Sure. MyCypher.com is the name of the startup. Essentially it’s a social media platform for the global hip hop community. (10:35:47 PM) Liz Burr: They were actually one of my earlier clients, and they offered me the CTO position. (10:36:25 PM) Black Web 2.0: Any idea of a launch date? (10:37:26 PM) Liz Burr: The entire site should be available this Fall. Some features and content will be available earlier than others. (10:38:04 PM) Black Web 2.0: Can you talk about the types of businesses you consult for? (10:39:57 PM) Liz Burr: Oh ok, usually I consult for companies or individuals that own web properties and are looking to expand their presence online. Generally I like to work on application consulting and not necessarily work on blog consulting, but I do both. (10:40:21 PM) Black Web 2.0: Now it’s time to wrap up with the fun questions! (10:41:03 PM) Black Web 2.0: Who’s your favorite music artist or band? (10:41:16 PM) Black Web 2.0: I didn’t see that coming. (10:41:29 PM) Liz Burr: Hahaha. Most people don’t unless they know me reeeally well. (10:41:51 PM) Liz Burr: You can check my Last.FM profile for proof tho lol. I am die hard MC all day, everyday. (10:42:06 PM) Black Web 2.0: Mac or PC? (10:42:11 PM) Liz Burr: MAC! (10:42:20 PM) Liz Burr: Though I am quite salty about this iPhone 3G business. (10:42:30 PM) Black Web 2.0: Why? (10:43:18 PM) Liz Burr: I had to wait forever in a line because their point of sale process takes forever, only to discover the phone works properly only half the time. It’s just been a lot of headache and drama dealing with this thing. (10:43:33 PM) Liz Burr: I had more faith in Apple, but they let me down. (10:44:35 PM) Black Web 2.0: Maybe Steve Jobs will read this, because I know you’re not the only one. (10:44:45 PM) Liz Burr: hahaha I hope so! (10:46:03 PM) Liz Burr: Ooh. I am hardly ever not on my computer. I am probably watching a LOT of TV, or reading one of the many books I buy at the bookstore but never read. (10:47:33 PM) Black Web 2.0: what’s your favorite Mac application? (10:49:23 PM) Liz Burr: Umm my fave mac app is probably Twhirl. It’s no secret I am a Twitter addict. That’s the app I am constantly using to stay on top of the Twitter happenings. (10:49:55 PM) Black Web 2.0: is there any other web applications, project, or people you would like to shout out? (10:53:11 PM) Liz Burr: Applications: Spanning Sync and the Grand Dialer iPhone App (Grand Central users only). Project: VerySmartBrothas.com. People: my mama. (10:57:20 PM) Black Web 2.0: Well thanks for the interview. We really appreciate you taking out time!

2019-04-25T21:46:45Z

https://blackdigerati.wordpress.com/2008/09/12/black-digerati-liz-burr/

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Well some sides, obviously we couldn't possibly list every single morris side in existence, that, in itself would take up an entire website, and would make for very boring reading.There are links all over this website to many morris sides, mens, womens, and mixed, and to the associated music, one entry, a favourite, is John Kirkpatrick's incredible record, The Duck Race, the title track is a dance which John invented in 1998 as a finishing off-piece. of the Albion Country Band. team in the last century. young people aged 8 to 16 years of age. the original team of Bampton. first danced out in 1962. fertility aspect of the dance. which dates back to at least 1132. being led by Morris dancers. Celebrating their 51st anniversary, the Mendip Morris Men have always danced throughout the North Somerset area, performing the traditional dances of the Cotswolds Mendip Morris Men can be identified by their red, gold and blue baldricks (crossed sashes) adorned with King Alfred’s jewel at the back and the Somerset wyvern at the front. Black breeches and gaily decorated straw hats complete the outfit. Each summer, on Thursday evenings, we dance outside local pubs and in village centres, bringing with us the exciting sight and sound of this ancient custom. their own tradition of dances. melodeon players amongst their ranks. Haworth area of West Yorkshire. has meant this is no longer practical. Lichfield also danced on occasion. team or side listed here? the better known Cotswold style. side from Stratford Upon Avon. Stanton Harcourt, all in Oxfordshire.

2019-04-24T22:02:25Z

http://complete-morris-on.tripod.com/takingsides.html

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In addition to the release of the Jaguar XK Dynamic R, the British automaker has revealed the Jaguar XK Signature upgrade available for both the standard XK Coupe and XK Convertible. Under the hood, the Jaguar XK Signature features a 5.0-liter V8 engine delivering 379 hp and a total of 515 Nm of torque. As a result of this potent powerplant, the Jaguar XK Signature can hit 60 mph in just 5.2 seconds in Coupe specification and reach the same mark as a convertible in 5.3 seconds. The top speed for both Signature Coupe and Signature Convertible variant is electronically limited to 155 mph. The 5.0-liter V8 powering the car is the third-generation of this famous Jaguar powerplant. It features advanced spray-guided direct injection (SGDI) as well as dual independent variable cam timing. This engine has been created from lightweight aluminium. Mated to the engine is a six-speed XF automatic transmission with steering wheel mounted paddle shifters. The Jaguar XK Signature also features Dynamic Stability Control offering four modes: Normal, Winter, TracDSC and DSC Off each providing different driving experiences. From a visual standpoint, the Jaguar XK Signature features leather seats available in either Ivory or Charcoal. Additionally, this improved interior includes Canvas Suedecloth headlining, Figured Ebony veneers and metal sports pedals. Completing the changes are a set of 20-inch Kalimnos wheels at all four corners with 20-inch Takoba wheels also available.

2019-04-20T08:12:03Z

http://gtspirit.com/2014/01/24/official-2014-jaguar-xk-signature/

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Veterans can adopt any dog over 7 months old, any cats or kittens, rabbits and guinea pigs. “Help us thank these amazing folks for their service,” the SPCA says in a Facebook post. You can find adoptable pets here. At both shelters, proof of military service is required. “Owning a dog can lift your mood or help you feel less stressed. Dogs can help people feel better by providing companionship,” the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ National Center for PTSD says. Cats have also proved to be beneficial, as evidenced by cats comforting veterans at a Western Massachusetts hospital, according to MassLive.com.

2019-04-24T12:45:03Z

https://www.sacbee.com/entertainment/living/pets/article183708456.html

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In 1980 Pierre Clavel was finishing a manuscript on planning in the context of regional social movements in Wales and Appalachia, and had also been in touch with neighborhood organizers and their city hall supporters in several places - especially Cleveland, where Norman Krumholz had produced a "Cleveland Policy Planning Report" (1975), and Berkeley, where Eve Bach and others had done the remarkable The Cities' Wealth. Word had spread of the activism of Hartford's recently defeated Deputy Mayor Nick Carbone. Clavel was able to get Bach and Carbone to a session at the annual meetings of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning that fall. This article was the result - it describes city efforts to enact redistributive policies in the face of declining resources during the 1970s. Berkeley's Citizen Budget Review Commission is described against a background of rent control, attempted utilities takeover, and other actions and accomplishments proposed by the Berkeley Citizen Action coalition. Hartford's public developer initiatives to employ local residents and create lower cost housing are described alongside energy cost reduction efforts, food policy, and efforts to influence suburban jurisdictions to adopt fair housing reforms. Bach and Carbone each supplied major parts of the text. Clavel put them together and Social Policy published the result in their Winter 1982 issue.

2019-04-23T16:51:25Z

https://ecommons.cornell.edu/handle/1813/41469

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The undergraduate curriculum for the Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences BS degree (180 credits) is composed of core courses as well as specializations of 24 credits. The core represents the educational foundation of fish and wildlife conservation, and the specializations provide students with an opportunity to build their curriculum to meet specific goals. Working with faculty in formal and informal settings, students are encouraged to become engaged in designing their own education. The core courses required of all students seeking the BS degree are listed below. For further information, see the Fisheries and Wildlife website at http://fw.oregonstate.edu/. Postbaccalaureate students who are completing their second degree may use a maximum of 12 credits from their first degree towards their specialization (approved by FW advisor). Specializations are given titles to reflect their content, but titles must not substantially duplicate titles of existing degree programs. Examples of specializations include forest wildlife management, stream ecology, fish and wildlife law enforcement, marine fisheries, aquaculture, avian conservation and management, conservation education and extension, fisheries business, human dimensions of resource management, conservation biology, and many others. Specializations may include typical on-campus courses, special field courses (when college credit is earned), a full term of course work at the Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport, Oregon, or one or more terms of international exchange. A maximum of 12 credits in any combination of FW 401 RESEARCH and FW 410 INTERNSHIP can be used towards the specialization. Combined with required internships and a capstone course, fisheries and wildlife sciences graduates will be well-prepared to begin professional careers in fish and wildlife conservation, or to continue their education in graduate school. For those students unsure of their professional goals or seeking diversity in course work, a broad specialization may be declared. Specialization guidelines may be viewed at http://fw.oregonstate.edu/department-fisheries-and-wildlife/undergraduate/curricula-course-offerings. One of the best avenues to a permanent job in fisheries and wildlife is through a strong internship and temporary employment or volunteer positions. Students are required to complete a minimum of two internships or other approved alternative experiences (one of each type) for their degree. There are two types of internships: exploratory (1–2 credits) and intensive (3–6 credits). Students are encouraged to start gaining professional experience by volunteering or interning with a natural resource agency as early as possible, and no later than their junior year. This requirement is listed as FW 410 INTERNSHIP, (2 required) (4–6), under the Fisheries and Wildlife Core. Choose one course from each of the following categories, and one additional course from any category. ^WIC courses may double count. Select one course from each of the lists below. (CGI), (STS), (WC), (SPI), and (DPD) courses can double count as baccalaureate core. (CGI) and (STS) courses cannot be from the same department. No more than two courses may be selected from one category. (CGI) and (STS) courses can double count with baccalaureate core. (CGI) and (STS) courses cannot be from the same department. Cannot double count with FW Core. This is a sample plan for first-year entering students on the Corvallis Campus; individual plans will be developed after consultation with our head advisor. Ecampus students will consult with their advisor for course planning. Year 1: CH 231–CH 233 and CH 261–CH 263 series is optional. WR I and COMM requirement taken this year (COMM 111 or COMM 114). Year 2: FW 255: Field Sampling of Fish & Wildlife can be taken any term. WR II requirement taken this year. Year 3: ST 351 and 352 can be taken F, W or W, S. *FW 410: Intensive Internship can be taken any term, usually in summer. Year 4: WIC course can double count with other FW requirement.

2019-04-24T12:39:28Z

https://catalog.oregonstate.edu/college-departments/agricultural-sciences/fisheries-wildlife/fisheries-wildlife-sciences-bs-hbs/

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Our Masters programmes are designed to serve both as an autonomous degree and as a solid foundation for those who wish to pursue more advanced research in literature in Oxford or elsewhere. One of the special features of this degree is that, unlike many master's programmes, it provides opportunities for you to pursue topics across period boundaries if you so wish. We offer a 9-month MSt programme (in each of 7 strands) and a 21-month MPhil in English Studies (Medieval Period). Further information about each of these is available below. Most of the teaching for these courses takes place during full term, and students are expected to conduct their research and writing through the vacation periods. When selecting your course during the application process, please ensure you choose the correct period strand. This will determine the core courses that you take, but it will not constrain your choice of options. There is no automatic transfer to study for the DPhil or MLitt. Candidates' applications are assessed on the basis of several factors, alongside applicants with Master's degrees from other universities; for more details, see the Selection Criteria. MSt in Medieval Studies – for further details about Medieval Studies, please see the Oxford Medieval Studies website. The course convenors for 2018-19 are Andy Orchard (Pembroke College) and Siân Grønlie (St Anne's College). Oxford has a long and distinguished history of studying medieval English language and literature. In 1795 it established one of the first ever professorships in English, the Rawlinson and Bosworth Chair of Anglo-Saxon, currently held by Andy Orchard. Amongst those who taught here are of course J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, people who made the motifs and languages of medieval English part of the imagination of the modern world. Other distinguished Oxford scholars of medieval English have included C.T. Onions, Helen Gardner, Dorothy Whitelock, Neil Ker, J.A.W. Bennett, Norman Davis, Ursula Dronke, Eric Stanley, Malcolm Parkes, Anne Hudson and Paul Strohm. Numerous more recent alumni of its graduate courses teach medieval languages and literature round the world. The current generation of medievalists is one of the largest, if not the largest, in any English department globally. With our 650–1550 MSt, as well as our MPhil and DPhil programmes, we are teaching future generations of scholars in these fields. The MSt in English Language and Literature 650–1550 offers the knowledge and understanding, research materials and opportunities, and the skills and techniques, for undertaking that study. We aim to broaden students’ experience of the literature produced in the British Isles and related areas across nearly a millennium. We also offer unrivalled training in the core skills for research in medieval studies. These include reading, understanding and editing medieval manuscripts and early printed books; developing skills in languages such as Old English and Old Norse; and debating a wide range of approaches and methods in the study of medieval literature and culture. Optional courses with leading scholars help to focus students’ interests, and a dissertation provides the chance to pursue research projects in depth and to a high quality. The range of the literature and approaches likely to be encountered is challenging and rewarding: Anglo-Norman genealogical romance and Chaucer’s urban culture; theorizing gender in Norse sagas or comparing word and image in Old English verse; decoding the earliest English interlinear glosses or analysing the transformations of Tudor printing. We have no one method or theoretical approach; the course gives you time to learn which sort of medievalism you wish to practise, or invent. The broader part of the course (the ‘A Course’) is not formally assessed; it is a chance to learn for its own sake. Thus whatever your past experience and expected future academic specialism or career outside, the course will ensure that you become an accomplished medievalist with a wide range of expertise. Central to that expertise is the extensive training in handling and thinking about the ‘material text’ (the ‘B course’) – how we read, date, interpret, and edit from primary sources – including coursework studying some of Oxford’s astounding holdings of manuscripts and early printed books; such training will transform the way you think about medieval literature, bringing it to archaeological life, and open up new resources for and kinds of research. Students then pursue their particular interests in two taught courses, choosing from a range of half-dozen or so which change each year (the ‘C courses’). Recent years’ courses have included Anglo-Saxon riddles; Cynewulf; archetypes of the high middle ages; early Middle English women’s religious writing; post-Conquest literature; Chaucer’s places; intellectual dissidence and dissent in the fifteenth century; the language of Middle English literature; Older Scots literature. Students are also welcome to choose a course offered by another MSt strand, for example in another period, or in English Language. Each student submits an essay on two of these chosen subjects for assessment. Finally, each student prepares, with the guidance of a specialist supervisor, a dissertation (the ‘D course’) on any subject of her or his choice concerning the language, literature, or cultural history of the British Isles and the Norse world in the Middle Ages. These dissertations bring to bear the skills and perspectives acquired throughout the course on one focused piece of research. The dissertation, as well as the coursework for the B and C courses, can often become the seeds of doctoral research or a first publication. The A course: seminars over the first two terms introduce a range of medieval literature composed between 650 and 1550 and a variety of topics and approaches for consideration, such as voice and writing, authorship, form and formalism, historicism. Students give presentations in the weekly seminars but there is no formal assessment. The B course: seminars over the first two terms introduce skills in transcription, palaeography, codicology and editing and introduce reflection on the significance of studying the material forms of and textual transmission of medieval literature. Students sit a short test in transcription and submit a piece of coursework demonstrating research on literature in original material form or editorial transformation. The C courses: students choose one C course in each of the first two terms on a range of specialist topics and are taught in weekly small-group seminars. They submit an essay of 6,000-7,000 words at the end of each term related to a term’s C course. The D course or dissertation: in discussion with Faculty members, students devise a research project of their own. They then receive one-to-one supervision on that research and complete a dissertation of 10-11,000 words by the end of the third term. For those who would like to take their studies further, there is a second taught Master’s level course, the MPhil, which runs over two years, but whose first year syllabus is the same as that of the MSt course. It includes further taught courses, opportunities for more linguistic training, and a second, longer dissertation in the second year. It is possible to apply for this course from the outset or apply to switch onto it at the end of the MSt. Further details of the MPhil are available below. The Faculty offers MSt funding each year through the Jeremy Griffiths Studentship, which is generously supported by John and Jeanne Griffiths in memory of their son, Jeremy, who was a graduate student in medieval literature in our Faculty. In addition the Cecily Clarke scholarship may be awarded to a student of English Medieval Studies, with a preference to subjects relating to Middle English Philology. As well as the formal teaching and assessment, there is a thriving community of medievalists engaged in research and discussion in the Faculty. Those teaching and researching in the Faculty form one of the largest cadres of medievalists in the world, whose interests cover the full range of Old Norse, Old English, Middle English, early Tudor literature and Older Scots, as well as several members with interests in Anglo-Norman and Celtic literatures. The Faculty’s medievalists and their activities are listed here. The graduate students – many of them published scholars and adept teachers in their own right – are crucial members of this community. The medievalists gather every Wednesday for the Medieval English Research Seminar, at which eminent visiting speakers and locals give papers for discussion, followed by a social gathering. There is a work-in-progress group for people from dissertation students to Faculty members who are studying manuscripts or textual transmission, and there are extra termly seminars of specialists in Old Norse. There are similar research seminars in other parts of the English Faculty and in other faculties (‘medieval church and culture’, medieval social history, medieval music, Anglo-Norman reading group, literature and medicine, the history of the book) at which you are welcome: the current programme for all these can be found on the Medieval Research page. Oxford hosts annually the Oxford Graduate Medieval Conference and meetings of the student-run Oxford Medieval Society run throughout the year. The Faculty regularly hosts conferences at which our own students give papers or assist with the organization. Events in the next few years include conferences on literature after the Conquests of 1016 and 1066; on the important literary milieu of Syon Abbey; and the major international conference of the Early Book Society. The literary life of the Faculty reaches forwards too, of course, with lectures by our Professor of Poetry and special events such as the Clarendon Lectures by a distinguished guest each year. Recent years’ Clarendon Lecturers have included David Wallace, James Simpson and Brian Cummings. Each year, a distinguished medievalist is invited as a guest lecturer in Medieval Studies, and gives a lecture, seminar, and workshop with current graduate students across different faculties. Previous incumbents include Caroline Walker Bynum, Jeffrey Hamburger and Christopher Page. The course convenors are Kathryn Murphy (Oriel College) and Lorna Hutson (Merton Professor of English Literature). Details of Faculty members working in the Early Modern period can be found here. In addition to the courses provided specifically for the MSt there are many other classes and seminars including two research seminars which feature visiting speakers, Early Modern Literature and Restoration to Reform. The Bodleian Library, founded in 1602, offers immense holdings in early modern printed books and manuscripts, and also has the particular interest of representing in its architecture a key moment of early modern cultural history. The Taylorian Library offers extensive holdings in Continental printed books and in modern secondary literature. Many college libraries contain unique holdings of early modern books. The period is also very well represented in the Faculties of History and Modern Languages and graduate students are able to attend lectures and seminars in related disciplines. There is active interdisciplinary collaboration with Classics and with Women's Studies. Beginners' classes in a wide range of ancient and modern languages are available through other Faculties. The general classes on ‘Literature, Contexts and Approaches' introduce representative key texts and current debates on the literature and cultural history of the period. The A Course is taught as weekly seminar over eight weeks in Michaelmas Term, and is designed to provide a solid foundation for advanced literary study. This is a range of lectures and seminars in each of the first two terms designed to train students for research in English. Within this strand, there will be classes on palaeography, offering students the skills essential to exploring the enormous riches of Oxford's manuscript collections, and on book history, bibliography, and textual criticism. Special Option courses are one-term courses on specialist themes usually relating to the current research interests of the teacher(s). C options for this strand over the past few years have included: 'Shakespeare and the Book'; ‘The Sidneys'; 'Literature and Religion, c.1550-1642'; 'The New Milton Studies'; 'Early Modern Women and the Book'; 'Imagining Early Modern London, 1558-1640'; 'Women's Writing in English Literature 1660-1789'; ‘Early Modern Writing and the New Philosophy'. Students take one Special Option in each of the first two terms. The special option courses present an excellent opportunity for you to develop your research interests. You are not constrained to follow option courses within your designated period, and indeed, option courses often traverse the boundaries of the broad periods. All students write a 10-11,000 word dissertation on a subject of their choice, but related to the work they have been doing over the year. You will be assigned to a member of Faculty who will act as your supervisor. In addition to the dissertation, you will submit three essays of 6-7,000 words – one at the end of the first term, and two at the end of the second term – relating to the B and C courses that you have taken. Students normally take all four components to fulfil the requirements of the degree. All course work will be completed by the end of the second term (Hilary Term), leaving the summer term (Trinity Term) for the writing of the dissertation, which is submitted in early June. The course convenors are Fiona Stafford (Somerville) and Freya Johnston (St Anne's). Faculty members with research and teaching interests in the eighteenth century and romantic periods can be found on the relevant period pages. The English Faculty has expertise in poetry, editorial practice, textual scholarship, the history of the book, intellectual history, women’s writing, prose fiction, and the relationship between literature and politics. Faculty members work in collaboration with the Bodleian Centre for the Study of the Book and with the interdisciplinary Besterman Centre for the Enlightenment. The MSt in English 1700-1830, one of five overlapping period strands, is a 9-month programme offering a broad foundation for further research and a complete, unique course of study in itself. Examples of possible work across the period as a whole might include (say) the influence of Dryden and Milton on the development of epic and mock-epic from Pope to Wordsworth and Byron; the growth of prose fiction from Behn and Defoe to Austen and Scott; or the shape of the journalistic essay from Addison and Steele via Johnson to Hazlitt and the Romantic reviewers. Oxford possesses unparalleled resources in the literature, history, and culture of this period. Many college libraries contain one-off examples of seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth-century books. The Bodleian Library’s holdings range from single items—the autograph copy of Pope’s ‘Essay on Criticism’, Austen’s ‘Volume the First’ of juvenilia—to archives of printed ephemera, correspondence, diaries, and miscellaneous papers. Many of the Library’s first and early editions show fascinating evidence of ownership and marginalia. The Abinger collection, a major source for British literary history during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, includes Percy Bysshe Shelley’s manuscripts, William Godwin’s notebooks, and a unique autograph draft of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. The cultural and intellectual progenitors of Romanticism are represented in extensive collections of antiquaries’ papers (among them John Aubrey, Elias Ashmole, and William Stukeley), and the literary remains of William Gilpin. Francis Douce, Keeper of the Manuscripts at the British Museum (1807-11), bequeathed over 19,000 printed books and 420 manuscripts to the Bodleian; his collection incorporates children’s books, broadside ballads, history, biography, the fine arts, travel, and archaeology. There is a strong community of graduate students working in the period, with a thriving research seminar. The A course seeks to extend students’ knowledge of literature from 1700-1830, and encourages discussion of critical and theoretical readings of that period. It is taught as a weekly seminar in Michaelmas Term and provides a basis for advanced literary-critical study. This range of lectures and seminars in each of the first two terms is designed to train students for research in English. Within this strand are classes on palaeography, offering students the necessary skills to explore Oxford’s manuscript collections, and on book history, bibliography, and textual criticism. These one-term courses are on specialist topics which sometimes relate to the current research interests of the tutor(s). Students take one Special Option in each of the first two terms. Students are free to pursue C courses from any of the overlapping period strands which make up the MSt in English; these courses present an excellent opportunity to develop your research interests. Possible C options for this strand include: ‘Milton’; ‘Women’s Writing in English Literature, 1660-1789’; ‘English Biography, 1683-1791’; ‘Seventeenth-Century Writing and the New Philosophy’; ‘Swift’; ‘Romantic Autobiography’; ‘Wordsworth’; ‘Hazlitt’; and ‘Writing the Nation: 1750-1830’. All students write a 10-11,000 word dissertation on a subject of their choice, related to the work they have been doing over the year. A member of the Faculty is assigned to each student as dissertation supervisor. Students will submit a dissertation and three essays of 6-7,000 words—one at the end of the first term, and two at the end of the second term—relating to the B and C courses they have taken. Students normally take all four components in order to fulfil the requirements of the degree. All course work will be completed by the end of the second term (Hilary), leaving the summer term (Trinity) for the dissertation, which is submitted in early June. Students on the MSt programme will have access to unrivalled library and archival resources. The Bodleian and college libraries hold wonderful collections of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century manuscripts and printed texts from Britain, America and beyond, many of them by men and women who studied at Oxford or spent a period of their lives in the city. They include materials relating to Matthew Arnold, Robert Browning, ‘Lewis Carroll’, Arthur Hugh Clough, ‘Michael Field’, G. M. Hopkins, Benjamin Jowett, John Keble, Edward Lear, John Henry Newman, Walter Pater, Christina and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Ruskin, Mary Shelley, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Anthony Trollope, Queen Victoria, Mrs Humphry Ward, Oscar Wilde. The Abinger Collection includes manuscripts of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Godwin’s notebooks, and many other papers belonging to the Shelley circle; the Benjamin Disraeli papers preserve the great bulk of Disraeli’s private papers and correspondence; Somerville College holds the major part of the private library of John Stuart Mill and one of the best Edward Lear archives in the UK. There are extensive collections relevant to women’s education in the period, and the Oxford History Faculty provides regular updates on Bodleian and other archival sources for nineteenth-century women’s history. There are also fascinating collections of periodicals and ephemera, including the John Johnson Collection of printed materials about popular entertainment, the book trade, print making, advertising, and observations of politics, race, class, crime and punishment, and much else. The Bodleian has recently digitized its complete collection of the photographs of William Henry Fox Talbot. The Ashmolean Museum is home to a rich variety of Victorian and Edwardian paintings and art objects, with Thomas Combe’s collection of Pre-Raphaelite art at its centre (see https://www.ashmolean.org/pre-raphaelites). It also holds excellent collections of objects from Asian, African and other cultures for students with comparative interests. The course convenors for 2018-19 are Kirsten Shepherd-Barr (St Catherine's College) and Matthew Bevis (Keble College). This strand’s A course aims to familiarise you with different approaches to the literature of the period 1830-1914, introducing important critical debates within the field. It encourages you to explore your existing critical interests and develop new ones, and at the same time to extend your understanding of the Victorian and Edwardian eras and their culture. Classes draw on primary and critical texts, ranging across genres. The A Course is taught as a weekly seminar that runs over eight weeks in Michaelmas Term; it is designed to provide a solid critical foundation for advanced literary study. This is a range of lectures and seminars in each of the first two terms designed to train students for research in English. Within this strand, there will be classes on palaeography, offering students the skills essential to exploring the enormous riches of Oxford 's manuscript collections, and on book history, bibliography, and textual criticism. C options for this strand over the past few years have included: ‘Oscar Wilde and Late Nineteenth-Century Literary Culture', ‘Romantic Autobiography', ‘Victorian Sexualities', ‘Hazlitt', ‘Writing the Nation: 1750-1830', ‘Victorian Emotion', ‘Dickens and Victorian Travel' and ‘The Visionary Gleam: God, Nature, Man in Poets from Cowper to Hopkins'. The course convenors are Laura Marcus (New College) and Kate McLoughlin (Harris Manchester). The Faculty includes numerous scholars and teachers working in the modern period, as can be seen here. Within the modern period, particular areas of interest among faculty members include modernist poetry, fiction, and drama, the cultural contexts of literature, literature and science, life writing, modern drama and performance studies, contemporary poetry, post-colonial studies, and Irish literature. The Bodleian Library, the English Faculty Library, the Taylorian, the History Library, and the Rothermere American Institute Library provide a great wealth of resources for the study of modern literature at Oxford . Students are welcome to attend lectures across related disciplines. The Faculty has a number of visiting lecturers and writers every year. The Professor of Poetry (Professor Simon Armitage), successor to figures such as Seamus Heaney, James Fenton, Paul Muldoon, Christopher Ricks and Geoffrey Hill, took up the post in October 2015. The A course on ‘Literature, Context and Approaches' will give a wide overview of genres and critical approaches in the period, covering such topics as the concept of modernity, colonial space, modernist fictional form, literature and visual culture, theatre and revolution, metafiction, and late twentieth-century poetics. The A Course is taught as a weekly seminar that runs over eight weeks in Michaelmas Term, and is designed to provide a solid foundation for advanced literary study. This is a range of lectures and seminars in each of the first two terms designed to train students for research in English. Within this strand, there will classes on book history and theories of text, appropriate to the period. C options for this strand - some of which cross period boundaries - may include (subject to availability and demand), ‘Literatures of Empire and Nation’, ‘Cinema and Modernism,’ ‘How New York Stole the Idea of the Avant-Garde,’ ‘Others and J.M. Coetzee,’ ‘Literature and Psychoanalysis,’ ‘African Literature: Testimony, Life-Writing and Literary Conversations,’ ‘Locating Contemporary Poetry,’ ‘Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot', ‘Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Life-Writing', ‘Women and Drama’, ‘Post-1945 Modern Drama', ‘Joseph Conrad', ‘Virginia Woolf, Society and Politics', ‘Contemporary Fiction', and ‘Policing Literature: 1780-1980'. The course convenors for 2018-19 are Lloyd Pratt (St John's) and Nick Gaskill (Oriel). Members of the faculty with a special interest in this field can be found here. The MSt in English and American Studies is designed for students who wish to complement a Master's degree in English with postgraduate training in English and American Studies. Students will be allowed to specialize in any of the four later historical areas currently offered on the MSt in English: 1550-1700, 1700-1830, 1830-1914 or 1900-present. They will also enjoy access to the research facilities of the Vere Harmsworth Library and will be invited to attend the regular programme of lectures and seminars on American cultural topics provided by the Rothermere American Institute. The A Course is taught as a weekly seminar that runs over eight weeks in Michaelmas Term; it is designed to provide a solid foundation for advanced literary study. This is a range of lectures and seminars in each of the first two terms is designed to train students for advanced research. In place of one of the regular Course C options, students will take a compulsory core course in American Studies, designed to introduce them to the methods and practices of interdisciplinary study in this field. For this strand, students will be required to write their dissertation on an approved topic in the field of English and American Studies (broadly conceived, and allowing scope for comparative studies). Members of the faculty with a special interest in this field can be seen here. The MSt in World Literatures in English offers a broad foundation for further research in Anglophone colonial, postcolonial, world and transnational literary studies, and a complete, unique course of study in itself. Oxford has a distinguished record in particular in the general theoretical and literary-cultural field of postcolonial studies, in colonial historiography, in postcolonial book history, and in South Asian and West, East and southern African literatures in English (fiction and poetry). From as far back as the mid-nineteenth century, the University of Oxford developed a world-renowned reputation for fostering international (then colonial) networks of scholars and scholarship—networks which in their turn contributed to building the Bodleian Library’s rich resources in colonial and postcolonial materials, as held for example in the Indian Institute, John Johnson and Rhodes House library collections as well as in College libraries and archives. The study of colonial, postcolonial or international literatures in English, and of theories related to this field, has been carried out within the Faculty of English Language and Literature at Oxford since the early 1990s, to the extent that scholars around the world now make a strong association between this field of study and English at Oxford. The association of Oxford English with World literary studies has been reinforced in recent years with the successes of the lively Postcolonial Writing and Theory Seminar which runs in term across the academic year. It also organizes well-attended annual or biennial conferences and workshops. In recent years the Postcolonial seminar has hosted talks and readings by, amongst others, Nobel Prize-winner J.M. Coetzee, and prizewinning authors Caryl Phillips, Les Murray and Kamila Shamsie, as well as world literature and comparative literature theorists Ato Quayson, Pheng Cheah and David Palumbo-Liu. This strand’s A course will be concerned with exploring the keynote themes and methodologies defining the field, including: the world and the globe (globalization); what was empire?; nationalism and trans-nationalism; race and race identity; cosmopolitanism and provincialism; the city and the Global South; hybridity and migration. The A Course is taught as a weekly seminar that runs over eight weeks in Michaelmas Term, and is designed to provide a solid foundation for advanced literary study in the field. A research methods course taught by practical class and/or seminar, covering the material histories of the colonial and postcolonial book. The course convenors for 2018-19 are Andy Orchard (Pembroke) and Siân Grønlie (St Anne's). Oxford is now very rare in offering a two-year taught & research postgraduate course in medieval studies. The time and space this affords makes the Oxford MPhil the very best preparation for later research in any aspect of medieval literary or cultural history; it also stands alone as a thoroughly satisfying qualification indicating significant levels of critical, linguistic, and historical skill, expertise, and research competence, transferable to any future career. Students begin by following the programme of the one year MSt course (details above). This already includes a broad grounding in medieval literature and culture, technical training in manuscripts, paleography, and codicology (depending on courses taken), and the opportunity to pursue specific personal interests in coursework essays and in the MSt dissertation. In the second year students have the opportunity both to broaden and deepen their knowledge, adding further options in medieval languages, literatures, authors, philosophy, history, and palaeography, taking advantage if they wish of courses offered by specialists in other faculties. Students finally submit a second, longer dissertation, which often forms the basis of doctoral research, or a substantial publication. Those intending to proceed to doctoral work after their MPhil should consult with their course convenors about their second-year option choices early in their first year of study. The extra time involved in the two-year MPhil allows for internationally-recognised standards of expertise to be attained before a doctorate is even embarked upon. The opportunities for interdisciplinary engagement are multiple, and the depth of research possible is unparalleled at Master's level.

2019-04-25T08:17:45Z

https://www.english.ox.ac.uk/masters-programmes

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Suit up monkey’s, its time once again to protect your precious hides with a cold, hard second skin we call armor. Anyone who’s anyone looks better in armor. Iron plates cast to ones magnificent shape, held together with bits of leather. Maybe you prefer “chainmail”, tough interlocking iron rings that lie snugly over ones physique. Glorious shields and lethal swords bring this look to the top of the “must haves” 2014 armor collection. Of course not everyone has the strength to adorn the armor of yesterday. For those monkeys the trendy ballistic vests, flak jackets, or the hot new Dragon skin body armor may be just the ticket! No judgement, no worries, just suit up and ready yourselves for armor Sunday, February 23rd. I’m a little rusty… run that by me again 😀 I’ll suit up. Love it Tracy.

2019-04-22T08:00:15Z

https://msbweb.wordpress.com/2014/02/16/armor/

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A big breakfast set me on my way for the second half of the Millenium Coastal Park. Llanelli seems to be expanding and regenerating; I counted 3 new housing estates fronting onto the Loughor Estuary. In the 19th Century Machynys (translated to mean Monk’s Island, even though it’s not an island but there might have been a monastery here to St Piro) was the industrial heart of Llanelli. According to what I read there had been 3 iron foundaries 3 chemical works, steel and tinplate works, a brickworks and of course the floating dock and railway line to deal with all of the industry and the output from the coalfields further up the valley. Now the land has been regenerated and there is a golf course and the Millenium Coastal Park. Indeed the golf course was on the site of a former village, Bwlch y Gwynt, that was cleared for regeneration in 1973, signifying the loss of a community (although the football team is still going). There is a lot of marshland either side of the Loughor Estuary, and the Llanelli side has an area set aside for a Wildlife and Wetlands Centre. I really needed the loo and so headed to the centre to use the facilities. Fortunately no one noticed me walk in because it was only when I exited that I realised I should have paid to go in the place. They have a really good lookout across the marsh and there were lots of birds to watch. I crossed the Loughor Bridge, left Carmarthenshire behind and entered Swansea and The Gower. The path headed inland slightly, following the Gower Trail, to skirt the marshes. A few muddy fields later and I was in Crofty, where I stopped at the CKs supermarket to get some lunch. As the tide was out I was able to walk the low road that skirts the edge of Llanrhidian Marsh. I stopped at a pub in Llanrhidian for a coffee, but it wasn’t the one with the Gower Brewery. The sun came out as I neared my destination and I had good views across the Loughor to Burry Port and Pembroke. The marshes reminded me of Cumbria, except instead of cattle grazing there were horses roaming these marshes. Just before Whiteford Burrows, a sandy and woody spit at the entrance to the estuary, I headed up the hill to Llanmadoc and my lovely accommodation. I had decided not to camp because the only campsite had such terrible reviews that I didn’t want to give my money to the owners (the B&B owners later confirmed their bad reputation). After such a long day I felt I deserved my pint of Gower Gold and an amazing Welsh lamb dinner.

2019-04-20T22:56:02Z

https://lucyswalkaroundbritain.wordpress.com/2016/04/23/day-260-the-afon-loughor-marshes/

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How Can Schools Better Persuade Students To Show Up For Class? Many schools give attendance awards to motivate students. A study found students who were awarded for perfect attendance went on to have more absences than their peers who weren't given the award. Many schools give attendance awards to motivate students. A study found students who were awarded for perfect attendance went on to have more absences than their peers who weren't given the award. There are some schools that hand out awards for perfect attendance, which really sounds like a great idea, right? You reward kids for just showing up every single day. But, of course, science likes to test great ideas. And that is just what some researchers did here. And NPR's social science correspondent Shankar Vedantam told Steve Inskeep that those researchers found a downside. INSKEEP: OK, so a student has a perfect attendance record, gets a certificate or something. What's wrong with that? VEDANTAM: ...In California. Students with a perfect attendance record in any month were given a certificate - an award, basically. But when they analyzed the results, Robinson said, they found that giving awards to students with great attendance lowered subsequent attendance. CARLY ROBINSON: When we got the results, we were like, WTF. This is exactly opposite what we predicted. It, obviously, totally backfired. INSKEEP: OK. First, WTF - that's one of those social science acronyms. VEDANTAM: Widely used social science acronym, yes. INSKEEP: But it totally backfired - meaning what? The kids who got the certificates stopped showing up for class. VEDANTAM: They showed up less than they did before. VEDANTAM: It had the opposite effect that the researchers thought. Now, you have to ask, why? Awards are meant to incentivize the behavior that led to the award. But you have to think about what an award signifies, especially if you're a middle schooler or a high schooler. You don't give awards to people who are doing what's expected of them. You're giving awards to people who are exceeding expectations. Robinson and her colleagues believe the awards inadvertently send the wrong message to students, especially students in middle school and high school. ROBINSON: When students receive these retrospective awards, it signals to them that they were attending school more than their classmates. And this award also potentially signals that the school had low expectations for their attendance. So they were actually overshooting their school's expectations for their own attendance. INSKEEP: I wonder if this also makes kids feel they've been marked as a teacher's pet since they're doing more than other kids. VEDANTAM: You know, that's possible. In fact, the researchers were so worried about the concern that you're raising that they didn't give the kids the certificates in class. They actually mailed the certificates to the kids at home so the kids wouldn't get the sense that they were being singled out for praise, and that would make their other peers sort of laugh at them. INSKEEP: But even when they took that additional precautionary step, kids' attendance still declined after getting the certificate. VEDANTAM: That's right, Steve. I think the bottom line here is when we launch an intervention, we often do it with the best of intentions. But human behavior tends to be very complicated. So if you're not actually measuring the outcomes of what you're doing, you're essentially flying blind. INSKEEP: Shankar, I'd like to congratulate you for showing up - perfect attendance once again. VEDANTAM: I'm going to miss next week, Steve. INSKEEP: Oh, darn. OK. Well, Shankar Vedantam - whenever he comes back again, we'll get more wisdom from him. INSKEEP: He is NPR's social science correspondent, also the host of a podcast that explores the unseen patterns in human behavior. You can attend that every week. It's called Hidden Brain.

2019-04-24T19:10:54Z

https://www.npr.org/2018/11/13/667285010/how-can-schools-better-persuade-students-to-show-up-for-class

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Jonson Clarke-Harris scored a dramatic late winner as Bristol Rovers eased their League One relegation fears with a thrilling victory over Bradford. The visitors looked to have salvaged a point when Nathaniel Knight-Percival made it 2-2 in the last minute, but in-form Clarke-Harris struck deep into stoppage-time to earn Rovers a priceless win at the Memorial Stadium. Rock-bottom Bradford had taken the lead through Lewis O'Brien, but the Pirates responded through goals from Clarke-Harris and Ollie Clarke before the frenetic finish. Bradford, who are now nine points adrift of safety, went ahead when good work from Jack Payne set up O'Brien who took advantage of hesitant Rovers defending to send a low right-footed shot past Jack Bonham from 12 yards. But the home side were struggling when Clarke-Harris rose unmarked to head in Liam Sercombe's corner from the right. Clarke then fired Rovers ahead with a fierce right-footed shot from the left corner of the box, but battling Bradford equalised through Knight-Percival's volley as stoppage-time approached. The drama did not end there as Clarke-Harris swept home a Tareiq Holmes-Dennis cross for his 11th goal in as many league starts since his move from Coventry in January. The victory leaves Rovers five points above the bottom four with four games remaining.

2019-04-18T13:12:29Z

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/47836017

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This lovely mare would make a wonderful English prospect with lots of jumping potential. She frames when lunging with side reins and is beginning to carry her frame while riding. She is a spirited mare with lots of personality and would need a confident and capable rider to do well. Franny doesn't have a mean bone in her body but because she has energy she needs a rider who can remain calm and effectively deal with her personality. She doesn't rear, buck, strike, or kick. She has a habit of becoming quick on the rail while riding however it is easily dealt with. Franny boards outdoor all year round. To keep her outdoor during the winter she would require a rain-sheet to keep her dry. She is barefoot; and she is utd on shots. Franny is located at Official Little Rock Farm which is about 15 minutes out of Perth, Ontario. Sire: Eternals Zippo Flame Dam: Silverados Galiano Birthday: May 20, 2004 If you have any questions please pm me or e-mail me at [email protected].

2019-04-21T22:54:08Z

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The report said that Pakistan also plans to lodge a complaint against India at the United Nations, accusing New Delhi of "eco-terrorism". p class="rbig">Pakistan on Friday registered a first information report against "unidentified pilots" of the Indian Air Force for bombing and destroying 19 trees in the Balakot area, according to a media report, days after India's preemptive strike against the Jaish-e-Mohammed's largest terrorist training camp in the country. The FIR, registered against "unidentified IAF pilots", also details the damage suffered by 19 trees after the Indian fighter jets "hastily dropped their payload", it says. On March 26, India said IAF jets, in the face of imminent danger, launched a preemptive strike on Balakot in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. "In an intelligence led operation in the early hours of today, India struck the biggest training camp of JeM in Balakot. In this operation, a very large number of JeM terrorists, trainers, senior commanders and groups of jihadis who were being trained for fidayeen action were eliminated," Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale said in a statement in New Delhi. The Pakistani military has has said the IAF jets released their payload which "had free fall in open area." "No infrastructure got hit, no casualties," Pakistan military spokesman Major General Asif Ghafoor said in a tweet soon after the Indian preemptive strike. The Express News report said Pakistan also plans to lodge a complaint against India at the United Nations, accusing New Delhi of "eco-terrorism". The Indian warplanes bombed Jabba Top, a hilly forest area near the northern town of Balakot, about 40km from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. Pakistan's Climate Change Minister Malik Amin Aslam had said Indian jets bombed a "forest reserve" and the government was undertaking an environmental impact assessment, which will be the basis of a complaint at the United Nations and other forums, the report said. "What happened over there is environmental terrorism," Aslam said, adding that dozens of pine trees had been felled. "There has been serious environmental damage," Aslam was quoted as saying. The United Nations states that "destruction of the environment, not justified by military necessity and carried out wantonly, is clearly contrary to existing international law", the report quoted the UN General Assembly resolution 47/37 as saying.

2019-04-25T07:51:12Z

https://www.rediff.com/news/report/pak-registers-fir-against-iaf-pilots-for-bombing-in-balakot-report/20190308.htm

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Bedworth 40 point X Wing Tournament | Blood Shines Gold And All Coin Spends. X wing is still a very enjoyable game, simple, easy and fun to play, clean rules and adaptable. Easy right? Then the kicker was added. Lose one game and its over, you’re done, thanks for playing and goodnight. Whats at stake? A ship from the new wave and a trophy, but mainly bragging rights! I’ve put my list together with care, following the traditional theme of style before purpose! It’s a family blog, so I can’t repeat my first response. Martin and me have….history. I always have fun games, but ive not beaten him in tournament play. Ever. So this might be a short night! I’ll report back soon as it looks like lots of fun. As ever suggestions and comments are welcome!

2019-04-23T19:59:06Z

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'MESSAGE' => string 'Check out these classes at the Wellness Center's Burnt Toast Kitchen. Come to learn and enjoy cooking and tasting Thai food. This class is designed to teach you what to ask for in Thai restaurants, the secrets of Thai cooking and the philisophy of Thai food. This session of Thai Kitchen will feature Stir Fried Vegetables and Tofu in dark soy and oyster sauce with rice. Check out these classes at the Wellness Center's Burnt Toast Kitchen. Are you looking to make over your families eating habits in the new year? Or maybe just learning to cook before venturing out into career and home life? Join us for Eating for Life. This two-session class features two to three entrees along with side dishes and healthy snacks. Participants will cook along side the instructor and enjoy each healthy creation. Recipes are selected with heart health and carbohydrate control in mind, and they are great for singles, couples, and families. Classes are located in the Wellness Center Burnt Toast Demo Kitchen. Sign up for classes 24 hours in advance at the Wellness Center welcome desk. -- Leah Wagner, coordinator of Wellness Programs, Wellness Center, [email protected] , 777-0842.

2019-04-25T14:11:53Z

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Some Boeing 747's have a fuel-pump part that can wear out after a few flights and possibly lead to fuel-tank explosions, the Federal Aviation Administration said today. The agency issued an emergency order to reduce the risk of potentially explosive sparks from the pumps in a move that will cut the range of the newest planes by 400 miles. The order, which requires within seven days changes in how fuel is stored in the tanks of the 747's, came after airlines noticed pump failures and returned 14 pumps to Boeing. The pumps had a bearing shaped like a washer, about the size of a half-dollar coin, that was wearing away, letting metal parts rub against each other. Each 747 uses 10 or 12 of the pumps, and Boeing said it had shipped airlines about 700 suspect bearings either in pumps or as replacement parts. The aviation agency said the flaw was not the cause of the explosion on Trans World Airways Flight 800 off Long Island two and a half years ago. The agency has attributed the explosion to a spark in the center fuel tank, but the pump bearings found in the wreckage showed no wear. Still, the order is an example of the greatly increased worry by inspectors about the safety of fuel systems on the planes, and the latest in a series of orders covering potential ignition sources in the planes' fuel systems. Elizabeth Erickson, the agency's director of aircraft certification, said in a telephone interview, ''Our concern has been heightened in this area.'' Tom McSweeney, the associate administrator for regulation and certification, said the action, which will have more impact on airline operations than most F.A.A. orders, was indicative of the agency's effort to cut accidents by 80 percent. Stephen M. Hatch, Boeing's chief engineer for 747's, said the accident and the subsequent discovery of a variety of problems in fuel systems had changed the atmosphere. ''We're being extra conservative here,'' Mr. Hatch said. Tests showed that the fuel pumps would overheat, he said, but the temperatures were too low to cause a fire or explosion. The agency is still exploring the biggest proposal to come out of the TWA crash, switching to a fuel less prone to form explosive vapors. The pumps covered by today's emergency order are at the bottom of the tanks, and when they are running they are usually immersed in fuel, which lubricates them and eliminates oxygen, so there can be no fire or explosion. But it has been standard procedure to run the pumps to empty the tanks almost completely, at which point the pumps are running dry, unlubricated and exposed to fumes. In addition to ordering the replacement of suspect bearings, the agency told airlines to stop using fuel tanks in the horizontal stabilizers of 747-400's, the newest model. Those tanks in the horizontal part of the tail carry 3,300 gallons of fuel. They are shallow, and, if the plane climbs steeply, the pumps may be exposed. Another standard procedure is to burn fuel in those tanks before landing, to prevent the plane's center of gravity from shifting too far back, but burning it means running the pumps dry. For some airlines, that could mean having to fly with an extra crew, experts said, because adding a stop could make the workday longer than agency rules allow. It could also mean some planes might have to carry more flight attendants. United Airlines, a subsidiary of UAL Corporation, owns 35 of the 747-400's, more than any other domestic airline, and its routes from Chicago to Hong Kong and from the West Coast of the United States to the South Pacific, Hong Kong and Taipei could be affected, said Joe Hopkins, a spokesman. Engineers at the airline were looking for an inspection system that would satisfy the aviation agency and allow continued use of the tank, he said. A spokesman for Northwest Airlines, Jon Austin, said that the Detroit-to-Beijing route might be affected. In addition, the order today required older 747's without tail tanks to fly with more fuel in the center tank, which is routinely pumped dry in flight, and to switch off the pumps with the problem while thousands of gallons of fuel remain inside. Some of that fuel can be recovered and used by small ''scavenge pumps,'' but, especially on shorter trips, the effect will be to require planes to fly with thousands of extra pounds of fuel. The agency said it did not know what the order would cost. There are 1,087 747's in operation, of which 246 are registered in this country.

2019-04-19T08:49:44Z

https://www.nytimes.com/1998/12/04/us/faa-orders-alterations-in-how-747-s-store-fuel.html

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Berman, M, EC Lin 1971. Glycerol-specific revertants of a phosphoenolpyruvate phosphotransferase mutant: suppression by the desensitization of glycerol kinase to feedback inhibition. J. Bacteriol. 105(1):113-20. Title: Glycerol-specific revertants of a phosphoenolpyruvate phosphotransferase mutant: suppression by the desensitization of glycerol kinase to feedback inhibition.

2019-04-25T18:34:07Z

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The search for the country's 2017 culinary superstar continues. The second group of chefs create a three-course fine-dining menu at the Institution of Civil Engineers. Knockout week continues on MasterChef: The Professionals. Chef Monica Galetti and Michelin-starred chef Marcus Wareing scrutinise the chefs' every move in their bid to uncover the professional chef to crown culinary superstar of 2017. Tonight, the second group of five chefs face two intense challenges set by Monica and Marcus. The chefs must cook together for the first time as a team to create an exceptional three-course fine-dining menu at one of London's most prestigious addresses, The Institution of Civil Engineers, to celebrate the organisation's bicentenary. The chefs have two and a half hours to collaborate as a team to design and cook their special menu, which will be served to Lord Robert Mair, the president of the institution and his five VIP guests. The chefs' every move will be watched over by judges Monica and Marcus. Will their creative vision and talent shine through? Or will team playing prove to be their weakness? With the team challenge behind them, the five chefs return to the MasterChef kitchen where they face the judges as individuals once again. Pitted against each other, they battle it out for a place in the semi-finals by proving to judges Monica, Marcus and Gregg that they really are a cut above the other chefs. Within 90 minutes, they must create their own unique showstopper dish to prove their talent and dedication to deliver at the highest level. After tasting the dishes, Marcus, Monica and Gregg decide whose time in the MasterChef kitchen is up and which four chefs will move forward in the competition - one giant step close to being crowned MasterChef: The Professionals winner 2017.

2019-04-24T14:11:18Z

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09j34p3

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Dems keep control of Senate, Warren wins in Mass. Republicans retained control of the U.S. House of Representatives while Democrats held onto the U.S. Senate in Tuesday’s national election. In Massachusetts, Democrat Elizabeth Warren unseated Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass., while Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine defeated Republican George Allen to hold onto a Democratic Senate seat. In its first gathering under President Christina Paxson, the Corporation will meet this weekend to hear updates about Paxson’s recently formed strategic planning committees. The University’s next capital campaign will be contingent on priorities to be outlined by the six strategic planning committees established earlier this fall, President Christina Paxson told The Herald. The November election represents a nationwide referendum on the best way to fix the economy and the importance of social entitlement programs, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., said at Tuesday night’s Brown Democrats meeting. Though the University receives “consistent reports” from students expressing concerns about their peers, few cases have required drastic intervention by threat assessment teams, said Senior Associate Dean for Student Life Jonah Ward and Director of Psychological Services Belinda Johnson. With Harvard’s announcement April 1 that it will not reinvest in HEI Hotels and Resorts, only three major university investors have yet to make statements regarding their holdings in the company. Harvard’s decision – attributed to “portfolio strategies and needs” by Harvard Management Company President and CEO Jane Mendillo – is the latest in a string of announcements that began with Brown officially announcing in February 2011 that it would not reinvest with the company. Actor Kal Penn has two words of advice for Brown students – be crazy. President-elect Christina Paxson made her first visit to the University this week since the announcement of her selection as the University’s 19th president March 2.

2019-04-24T02:36:37Z

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O'Reilly lit the lamp and notched an assist in Tuesday's win over the Devils. Not only has O'Reilly been the most consistent player on the Blues, but he's playing the best hockey of his career with 21 goals and 57 points. He's already just seven points away from his career-high 64 points set with Colorado in the 2013-14 season. O'Reilly also has a plus-23 rating, which is a huge upgrade after he finished the last eight campaigns in the negatives. Cement him into all fantasy lineups.

2019-04-23T07:59:22Z

https://www.cbssports.com/fantasy/hockey/news/blues-ryan-oreilly-will-shatter-career-highs/

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The Golden Circle and the Blue Lagoon are two of the most famous attractions in Iceland. Join this tour to discover both in a unique one day adventure. During the tour you will visit Thingvellir National Park, Geysir and Gullfoss waterfall as well as the volcanic crater Kerid (entrance fee included). After exploring the amazing Icelandic nature, you end the journey by soaking in the extraordinary Blue Lagoon. You arrive before 17:00 (5:00pm) and enjoy a relaxing time there for about 2 hours before heading back to Reykjavik (entrance fee to the Blue Lagoon is not included and must be booked in advance at own expense). This is the most popular day tour route in Iceland. See geysers, Gullfoss the golden waterfall, Thingvellir National Park, and the Blue Lagoon. We wanted to add something unique to your experience and that's why you will also visit the big volcanic crater called Kerid. The crater is 270m wide and more than 55m deep. There is a lake at the bottom of the crater, which adds to the magic of the place. The lake itself is almost 14m deep.Thingvellir National park is the national shire of all Icelanders. It lies within the belt of volcanic activity and fissures which pass across Iceland. It is a part of the mid-Atlantic ridge, the junction between the American and Eurasian tectonic plates. It is a nice feeling to stand with your right foot in Europe and the left one in America!You will also visit Geysir. The biggest geysers of Haukadalur are Strokkur and Geysir itself, which gives the others their name. Strokkur erupts every 5 to 10 minutes, throwing a column of water into the air to a height of 20 to 30 meters.Next it's Gullfoss, one of the most amazing waterfalls in Iceland. Witness the power of the water cascading down this incredible waterfall.You end the day at the Blue Lagoon arriving there before 5pm (17:00) for a relaxing time in the amazing hot geothermal waters. You will spend 2 hours in total at the Blue Lagoon before heading back to Reykjavik. Entrance to the Blue Lagoon is not included in the tour and must be purchased at own expense in advance to enter. You can book directly on the Blue Lagoon's website. If tickets to the Blue Lagoon are not available on their website then please let us know as soon as possible and not later than 48 hours before your tour departure, as we can in many cases supply standard tickets to the Blue Lagoon (subject to demand).

2019-04-26T00:38:21Z

https://www.lonelyplanet.com/iceland/reykjavik/activities/golden-circle-kerid-crater-blue-lagoon-tour-from-reykjavik/a/pa-act/v-42839P2/359560

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Nov 14, 2017 9:38 AM - A Prospect Heights letter to the editor: So much ado (and rightly so) about the rich and powerful politicians, movie moguls and other big shots who over the years abused women because felt they could and were "entitled" by their standing, money, or other circumstance. Nov 14, 2017 9:38 AM - An Evanston letter to the editor: Yes, it was highly effective brainwashing that brought America to its knees on gun control. Nov 14, 2017 9:38 AM - An Arlington Heights letter to the editor: To all American veterans: We will never take a knee! Nov 10, 2017 11:45 AM - A Des Plaines letter to the editor: So, Geo. H.W. Bush (a man I used, to admire) didn't vote for President Donald Trump because "He was a blowhard"? Nov 10, 2017 9:32 AM - When retired Army Sgt. Sammy L. Davis, aka 'the real Forrest Gump', spoke with students at St. Viator High School, he was living proof of the value of sharing experiences to fight PTSD, a Daily Herald editorial says. Nov 10, 2017 1:00 AM - A Geneva letter to the editor: Paul Ryan promised most recently that all middle class taxpayers will get a tax cut from this new bill. Sorry, Paul, but we are one family that will pay more, and I am guessing there are more of you out there. Nov 10, 2017 1:00 AM - A Warrenville letter to the editor: I was not surprised to see the news that state Rep. Jeanne Ives is running for Governor of Illinois. Nov 10, 2017 1:00 AM - Guest columnist Ralph Martire: By now, every American who is objective or can do math should know that the proposed supply-side tax cuts won't really stimulate the economy. Nov 10, 2017 1:00 AM - Columnist Georgie Anne Geyer: After only a few hours, authorities agreed the Uzbek attacker in New York had been "self-radicalized." This is not an entirely new idea. But now it has become a full-blown description of terrorism in America. What does it actually mean?

2019-04-22T04:30:16Z

https://www.dailyherald.com/archive/site/20171110/opinion/

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I bought this beauty back in August 2013 on my New York city trip! I purchased it within the first 15 minutes that we arrived in the city! It was such a steal. Today I will be spending the day with my lovely Konstruktor Lomography camera in the big beautiful city of Toronto! My friend gave me this camera as a gift back in December.. We set aside a day and we each built our own, personalized Konstruktor camera! Since that day was TOO cold to go out and shoot, we saved it for another day! And finally, today is the day! I will post some photos as soon as I develop them! I’m so excited, I can’t wait to give it a go! Only 6 to go… will YOU help? So I feel that if I write something short and sweet, it might make me sound needy, and that’s not my intentions at all.. So I figured, I’ll give you a little story. Ever since I was a little girl, I was always with a camera in hand. Taking pictures here, taking pictures there – of everything and anything that I would lay an eye on. I was young, didn’t give the future much thought. It hit me in 2006 at my cousins wedding. There was something about her Wedding photographer that really stuck with me. Maybe it was seeing the big camera’s and all the professional equipment, maybe it was the fact that he captures wonderful memories for people for a living.. I couldn’t really pin point and tell you exactly what it was. Ever since that day, I’ve had my mind set on making it a profession. It’s something I love and have a passion for and cannot see myself committed to doing anything else! Slowly during these past couple years I’ve been trying to get myself out there a little bit more. Figured social media would help me out to get a little more noticed. I created a blog, a flicker and facebook page and I will be soon working on my website. My Photography facebook page is where I do most of my updating! I’m close to reaching 150 Likes. Hey, to me that’s a big-ish deal. I’m only 6 likes away! So here I sit and write! Will you be one of the 6 to get me to 150?? I updated my Flickr page! Check it out by clicking the link above!! Up above is my facebook photography page where I upload and update my page with work that I do. Please take a minute to check it out and give it a like! I have an eBay shop, where I sell some paintings, jewelry, iPhone cases and some photographs! Check it out, maybe you’ll find something you like! A couple weekends ago I did a random fun photoshoot with my wonderful boyfriend, Andrew. Check out some more photos here and give my photography page a like! A couple weeks ago I had the pleasure of shooting one of my old high school teacher’s wedding. Small, nothing big, but still wonderful to be a part of. It was a beautiful, sunny and warm-ish spring day.. simply a perfect day to tie the knot! The bride and groom and along with their guests were filled with lots of love, joy and excitement to celebrate this glorious day!

2019-04-22T14:52:06Z

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Systems Editor – chose a computer system and page makeup software for the newsroom to replace a proprietary system, and trained all of the copy editors to use Macs. Makeup Editor – shepherded priority pages through production on behalf of the newsroom. Op-Ed Page Editor – chose commentary and opinion content; worked with reporters and columnists to generate local commentary and opinion pieces; designed and edited the op-ed page and edited editorials and columns. Copy editor of lead pages in primary sections throughout the newspaper – Page 1, City, Business – after developing expertise as a general assignment copy editor.

2019-04-25T18:09:27Z

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Yeah. Good post. Divided Government is also consistent with the intent of the founders when they built checks, balances and separation of power into the Constitution. What they did not anticipate, is how single party rule undermines these constitutional protections. I have been beating the divided government drum for two years on my blog. I voted for John Kerry to get divided government in 2004 and lost. I supported a straight Dem ticket in 2006 to get divided government and won. This year I will vote to re-elect divided government by supporting John McCain. This scholarly article from a Constitutional lawyer puts more than a little academic cred behind the divided government thesis. The only way to re-elect Divided Government in 2008, is elect John McCain for President. It is the right thing to do.

2019-04-25T19:54:59Z

https://mediacrank.wordpress.com/2008/10/20/mccain-can-still-pull-it-off/

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Memorial Belltower and spring blossoms. Spring is here and we have news to share! The 2019 US News & World Report ranks us #3 among nuclear engineering graduate programs in the nation. And the 2018 Best College Reviews ranks our online Master of Nuclear Engineering #1. It continues the tradition of firsts, the 1 st Nuclear Engineering (NE) program with the 1 st civilian university reactor in United States, and currently the largest stand-alone NE department with a research reactor in the southeast United States. In last few years, with strong support of our College of Engineering (COE), we’ve experienced steady growth and have attained an outstanding reputation. We’ve increased the number of faculty and graduate students and have established new research units and experimental laboratories. Currently we have 19 tenured/tenure track faculty with 2 expected positions in the upcoming academic year. Our faculty, staff and students have been recognized for numerous international, national & university awards and leadership appointments. Our sponsored research funding has steadily increased and for July 2017 through June 2018 we had $18.05 million in grant expenditures and received $11.36 million in grant awards. Our senior design teams have been working on real-world topics with industry & national lab sponsorship. Our teaching and research labs, student spaces and conference rooms are being continually enhanced. And we have established a minor in health physics. I hope that these snapshots of current and future activities wet your interest. And on the NCSU Day of Giving, March 27, and beyond you help your development continue to excel. Congratulations to Dr. John Mattingly, Associate Professor in NC State’s Department of Nuclear Engineering , he was selected as one of NC State’s 2018-19 University Faculty Scholars. John is the Principal Investigator and Chief Scientist for the Consortium for Nonproliferation Enabling Capabilities (CNEC). He also leads the RADIANS research team of graduate students, undergraduate students and postdoctoral scholars. Their projects apply modeling and simulation to analyze nuclear radiation measurements for nuclear security applications, including arms control, safeguards, nonproliferation, counter terrorism, emergency response and forensics. Congratulations to Dr. Mohamed Bourham , 2018-19 university-level Outstanding Teacher awardee. Through NC State’s Office of the Executive Vice-Chancellor & Provost, this award recognizes excellence in teaching at all levels. Recipients become members of the Academy of Outstanding Teachers for as long as they remain at NC State and their names will be published in the commencement program. Dr. Bourham, Alumni Distinguished Graduate Professor of Nuclear Engineering, joined the university in 1987. He earned his B.Sc., M.Sc. and PhD from Alexandria, Cairo and Ain Shams universities in Egypt, respectively, in Electrical Engineering. He has taught a diverse number of departmental courses and has successfully obtained educational grants from the U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission in support of undergraduate and graduate students. The 2019-20 U.S. Department of Energy Nuclear Energy University Program (NEUP) scholarship and fellowship awardees includes eight of our undergraduate students and three graduate students. Through the Integrated University Program (IUP), the U.S. Department of Energy awards more than $5 million for 45​ undergraduate scholarships and 33 graduate fellowships to students pursuing nuclear energy-related disciplines at universities across the country. NC State’s ANS Student Organizing Committee is busy preparing to host the 2020 ANS Student Conference. The dates are set for April 5-7, 2020. ENLIGHTEN ourselves about nuclear science and technology as we share and contribute to the field. This student conference brings us together to share insight from student and expert research. Nuclear science and engineering is ubiquitous in society – from energy, health, defense, non-proliferation, to name a few. This conference will provide the perfect platform to come together and learn about various ongoing cutting-edge research. In the year 2020, we aim to take stock of what we know, what we still need to know, what opportunities are present, and what the future holds. EMBRACE nuclear science and technology. As we learn, we support our industry by contributing knowledge and impacting the next frontiers across existing and new industries that nuclear will transform. EMPOWER ourselves and others with knowledge and enthusiasm for the impact made by nuclear technologies of the past, present and future. We will change the “not in my backyard” (NIMBY) mantra to one of “in my backyard” because of the benefits it provides to societies near and far. This theme allows us to see our collective role in active learning, living, and sharing associated with nuclear energy, health physics, plasmas for the life sciences & other industrial applications, nuclear non-proliferation, nuclear materials, nuclear computational science, reactor engineering and nuclear waste management to name a few broad areas. It also arms us with information to share with students and the larger public about the benefits we receive from nuclear science and engineering. We’re nuclear engineers, we’re innovators, and we’re ambassadors for the continued use of an awesome technology in our backyards! The US News & World Report published their annual rankings of best colleges. The Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors (CASL) Education Program is excited to announce the registration for 4 th annual CASL Summer Intensive. The Institute will introduce participants to CASL and the Virtual Environment for Reactor Applications (VERA) framework and component codes. Participants will receive instruction on radiation transport, thermal hydraulics, fuel performance, multi-physics coupling and sensitivity and uncertainty analysis. Through both lecture and practical work sessions, participants will learn how to use individual component codes through the VERA framework (MPACT, COBRA-TF, and BISON ) & will be able to run a variety of test problems. In addition, the Institute will include instruction on and practice in utilizing high performance computing resources.Through both lecture and practical work sessions, participants will learn how to use individual component codes through the VERA framework to run a variety of test problems. The application deadline is March 31. includes such topics as nuclear energy, radiation detection & applications, computational science, nuclear materials, nuclear nonproliferation, nuclear waste management, science policy, etc. dates for 2019 are July 8 through 26 (check-in on July 7). The application deadline is April 30. Additional information, including a sample agenda & the online application link are available here. Dr. Mark Peters, Director at Idaho National Laboratory, gave our Progress Energy Distinguished Executive Lecture earlier this spring semester. His seminar was entitled “What is the Future of Nuclear Energy?” The answer to that question, he postulated, will be determined largely by how we answer another: How do we meet future energy needs while mitigating climate change? If the goal is to decarbonize our power grid, manufacturing processes and transportation systems, while increasing the standard of living in the U.S. and providing power to the more than 1.3 billion people worldwide currently living without, nuclear energy must be part of a mix that includes renewables such as solar and wind. Through private-public partnerships and cutting-edge research conducted at Idaho National Laboratory, the U.S. is working to develop reactors that are safer, smaller, cheaper to build and operate, and that produce less spent fuel. Dr. Arthur T. Motta, Chair of Nuclear Engineering at Penn State University, gave the Progress Energy Distinguished Technical Lecture this spring semester. His seminar was entitled ” Hydrogen in Zirconium Alloy Nuclear Fuel Cladding” . In face of increasing worldwide demand for electricity generation and the increasing concerns with the contribution of fossil fuel emissions to climate change, nuclear power is again being considered for further development in the U.S. and abroad. New reactor construction is being proposed using both evolutionary concepts based on the current fleet of light water reactors (LWRs) and advanced reactor concepts. The materials used in these reactors must maintain outstanding performance for years, or even decades, in an extreme environment, in which they are exposed to a combination of high temperature and pressures, aggressive chemistry and a constant fast neutron flux. As utilities and fuel vendors attempt to push materials to higher temperatures and doses many challenges become apparent, one of the foremost being hydrogen degradation of the nuclear fuel cladding. research in Germany this fall 2019. In providing the Humboldt Research Fellowships for experienced researchers, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation enables highly-qualified scientists and scholars from abroad, who completed their doctorates less than twelve years ago, to spend extended periods of research (6-18 months) in Germany. Candidates are selected solely on the basis of the evaluation of their academic qualification. State & HZDR researchers to make advancements in the area of two-phase flow modeling and simulation. Congratulations to Dr. KL Murty , he has been selected as an honorary member of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers (AIME). He received his AIME certificate and medal at The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) annual meeting earlier in March. AIME Honorary Membership is one of the highest honors that the Institute can bestow on an individual. Established in 1872 and bestowed in appreciation of outstanding service to the Institute or in recognition of distinguished scientific or engineering achievement in the fields embracing, broadly speaking, the activities of the Institute. Dr. Murty is the Progress Energy Distinguished Professor of Nuclear Engineering and Director of Nuclear Engineering Graduate Program (DGP). Lisa Marshall has been awarded the 2019 NC State Outstanding Engagement Award. Our annual Nuclear Engineering Graduate Open House welcomed prospective students from across the nation to NC State. During their visit students met with prospective faculty mentors and current students to discuss their research interests. Students also had an opportunity to tour facilities – the PULSTAR Research Reactor, the Nuclear Engineering Simulator, nonproliferation, materials and plasma laboratories as well as the Analytical Instrumentation Facility (AIF). A visit to Raleigh would not be complete without experiencing the culinary delights, visiting potential on- & off-campus accommodations and a bit of sightseeing. Raleigh ranks among the best places to live, work and play . the next generation of NC State nuclear engineering students. Projects range from a Center for Student Learning & Innovation, scholarships & fellowships, outreach & engagement, pre-college programming and the list goes on. We’re also always interested in news from our alumni, partners and friends. And we’d love to reconnect with ‘lost’ alums, so if you know of someone who did not receive this newsletter, let us know how we can reconnect with them. And above all do share this newsletter far and wide (family, friends, listservs etc) . Thanks to all faculty, staff & students for contributing.

2019-04-25T16:04:08Z

https://www.ne.ncsu.edu/news/2019/spring-2019-news-from-nc-state-nuclear-engineering/

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In many applications, investigators monitor processes that vary in space and time, with the goal of identifying temporally persistent and spatially localized departures from a baseline or ``normal" behavior. In this talk, I will first discuss a principled Bayesian approach for estimating time varying functional connectivity networks from brain fMRI data. Dynamic functional connectivity, i.e., the study of how interactions among brain regions change dynamically over the course of an fMRI experiment, has recently received wide interest in the neuroimaging literature. Our method utilizes a hidden Markov model for classification of latent neurological states, achieving estimation of the connectivity networks in an integrated framework that borrows strength over the entire time course of the experiment. Furthermore, we assume that the graph structures, which define the connectivity states at each time point, are related within a super-graph, to encourage the selection of the same edges among related graphs. Then, I will propose a Bayesian nonparametric model selection approach with an application to the monitoring of pneumonia and influenza (P&I) mortality, to detect influenza outbreaks in the continental United States. More specifically, we introduce a zero-inflated conditionally identically distributed species sampling prior which allows borrowing information across time and to assign data to clusters associated to either a null or an alternate process. Spatial dependences are accounted for by means of a Markov random field prior, which allows to inform the selection based on inferences conducted at nearby locations. We show how the proposed modeling framework performs in an application to the P&I mortality data and in a simulation study, and compare with common threshold methods for detecting outbreaks over time, with more recent Markov switching based models, and with other Bayesian nonparametric priors that do not take into account spatio-temporal dependence.

2019-04-24T00:11:15Z

https://www.stat.washington.edu/index.php/event/seminar/bayesian-approaches-dynamic-model-selection

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Health

wordpress

Childhood memories of growing up in the midwest are relatively clear. My “town” was Bay View; not a city but an identifiable area on Milwaukee’s south side. I knew the neighborhoods, made friends at my elementary school, and actually enjoyed attending the local public high school. Through age 10 I believed that I lived in a happy home, but for the next couple of years I heard and saw that all was not well. My parents divorced when I was 12, and yet life didn’t come to an end. Far from it. It simply evolved, and evolution is, after all, about growth, and about change. Moving around the country—from Milwaukee, to Chicago, to Los Angeles, to New York, to St. Paul—we lived in cities; from one million to ten million. In 2007 we moved to northern California’s Mendocino County, and the town of Gualala, a town smaller than the number of students at Bay View High School. Moving to the Mendocino coast has been enlightening. It’s small town living, yet with a rainbow of locals identifying as Latino, Black, Asian, Native American, white. All of Mendocino’s coastal communities are identifiable, at least to cartographers and local residents. The communities are not homogeneous, and each remains connected to the others primarily by one highly visible element: California’s Highway One. After eight years living on the Mendocino coast I can say that I know some of our neighbors, have a group of friends, share some likes and dislikes, and feel reasonably connected. I rationalize that what I don’t know is understandable because too many of the people we see and meet are tourists passing through. • There was the picture of Abbi, the lost 10-year old Abyssinian cat, who went missing in September—two months ago. Beyond the phone number the plaintive message on the flyer was “Please call. He is very missed. Thank you.” The hurt was palpable. • The local book store had a flyer announcing the appearance next week of an author reading from her book “How To Raise An Adult”. It’s a book on bringing up children. Good luck with that. • The Coastal Seniors are having a Holiday Faire next month. • The Community Center is hosting a free Community Thanksgiving Dinner. For three hours you can immerse yourself into community, and it includes a free dinner. Lord knows any one of us can use some community, and all too many people today need a good, free meal. • The local Chamber Chorus performs next Sunday. • A little girl, a first grader named Sophia Jean Roach has T-cell Leukemia and needs financial help. We missed last Saturday’s fundraiser but the local Redwood Credit Union is taking donations. People can get more information at (707) 322-6485. Conservative Americas’s virulent opposition to full health care for all Americans continues to be a mystery to me. • I found three messages placed—by accident or design—side-by-side: the first asked “What Message Do We Want To Give Our Teens About Marijuana?” The second announced a fundraiser for Meals-on-Wheels titled “5th Annual Martini Madness: Home of the Best Martinis in the World.” The third, “Parents who host Lose the most: Underage Drinking Not A Minor Problem”. Given the topics the placement seems a little ironic. • Vernon “Cody” Matthews has been missing since June. I followed a link to a Facebook page that confirms Cody is still missing. His family is grieving and hoping. • There’s a page of tags with a phone number for anyone wishing to host a foreign exchange student. • A notice in Spanish announced a Suicide Prevention Meeting. • And then there was a poster I’ve seen all around town. 26-year old Asha Kreimer is still missing. She was last seen in Rollerville, just north of Point Arena. The family is trying to raise money to continue the search, and the fundraising page offers this: “Our daughter, sister and friend Asha went missing from Rollerville Cafe in Point Arena, CA on September 21, 2015 around 9:30 am. She was in the middle of a mental health crisis. She did not have ID, money, credit card, phone or any traceable items. She was wearing black skinny jeans and a dark gray hoodie. She was also shoeless.” I would suggest that Asha seems like a poster child for someone in need, but in fact she is a poster child. And shoeless. And absolutley someone in need. If we pay attention we can learn something. About ourselves, about our friends, about strangers. About hope. About despair. About hunger. And hurt. And not just by being informed by the message board at the Post Office. We need to listen to what our friends, family, and acquaintances are saying. Let’s take some time to ignore social media and empathize old school. Maybe there’s a community event in which we can actively take part, to a degree or up to the eyeballs. Maybe by listening a little more intently, by stopping to talk for a moment instead of a offering a cursory wave, we can become community instead of being just a part of the population. And maybe one of us can help Cody, Asha, and Abbi find their way home. When they return I’ll guess we may just sleep a little bit better. An edited version of this post is available in the December issue of The Lighthouse Peddler. Nice piece David. Hope all is well.

2019-04-19T22:46:32Z

https://jazzdavid.wordpress.com/2015/11/27/the-community-message-board/

Sports

Recreation

google

A shear brace assembly is provided which laterally braces wall lines within a structure, such as a house or other residential construction, while also providing vertical and out-of-plane load carrying capacity. The assembly consists of one or more wood-based panel(s) which are rigidly connected to concrete, masonry or wood support material directly below or above the shear brace assembly bearing surface. The term “wood-based” should be interpreted to mean that the panel may be constructed from a natural wood, or partially or wholly from an engineered wood, such as Timberstrand®, Parallam®, or the like. Ductile anchorage assemblies are used below, and in some applications, above the individual panels. This invention relates generally to a brace assembly having a ductile anchorage assembly. Typical building frame construction includes a roof assembly supported by an attached frame. The frame typically includes a plurality of vertically oriented studs attached between upper and lower plates. Inner and outer siding materials are attached to the frame. In a typical residential building, framing is accomplished by employing lumber and wood products. Lateral forces applied to the wall, which may occur as a result of high winds or earthquakes, can cause the wall to laterally deform in the plane of the wall (in the direction of the load). Excess movement of the upper section of the wall relative to the anchored lower section of the wall can result in damage to the structure, which can be catastrophic. A variety of designs have been developed for resisting lateral forces imposed on structures. One method for resisting lateral forces imposed on a building includes the installation of 4 foot by 8 foot sheets of material such as oriented strand board (OSB) or plywood to the frame exterior such that it spans over multiple studs and is attached to the upper and lower plates. A lateral force applied to the wall parallel to the wall line is therefore transferred through the sheet material to the bottom plate and the foundation of the structure. This reduces the tendency of the wall to deform in-plane of the wall line. Lateral and vertical forces are typically resisted by the wall-to-foundation interface with a plurality of anchor bolts, tie-downs and/or perpendicular framed shear walls. However, a need still exists for lateral force resisting elements within a wall line which are narrower than the typical 4′×8′ sheets of OSB or plywood, but have similar performance characteristics. Desired characteristics of the lateral force resisting element include strength, stiffness, ductility and damping to resist lateral loads imposed on the wall line. Moreover, a need exists for lateral force resisting elements having the capacity to resist vertical and out-of-plane loads. The intent is for the lateral force resisting element not to fail in a brittle and catastrophic manner, but rather a gradual, ductile and life-safety promoting fashion when subjected to static or cyclic lateral loading conditions. FIG. 16 illustrates a side view of a ductile anchorage assembly in an embodiment of the present invention. The present invention is a braced panel assembly which laterally braces wall lines within a structure, such as a house or other residential construction, while also providing vertical and out-of-plane load carrying capacity. The assembly consists of one or more wood-based panel(s) which are rigidly connected to concrete, masonry or wood support material directly below the braced panel assembly bearing surface. The term “wood-based” should be interpreted to mean that the panel may be constructed from a natural wood, or partially or wholly from an engineered wood, such as Timberstrand®, Parallam®, or the like. The brace assembly configurations consist of at least the following embodiments: Stand Alone (see FIGS. 1 & 2); Portal (see FIGS. 9 & 10); Stacked, or Multiple Story (see FIG. 7); and Tall Wall (see FIG. 10). The assemblies may include a Raised Floor Kit (RFK), as shown in FIGS. 13-15, when installed, for example, over a platform floor system supported by concrete, or a Multiple Story Kit (MSK) as shown in FIGS. 7 and 8 when installed, for example, over a platform floor system supported by a framed wall. The wood-based portion of the brace assembly (i.e., the panel or frame) consists of a solid piece of material (FIGS. 3 & 4) cut or formed to a specific shape. The specific shape of the panel accommodates the fit of ductile anchors installed at a bottom end and, where applicable, a top end of the member. The panel may also have notches and side routing, as well as multiple holes and chases. When utilizing an engineered wood, such as, for example, Timberstrand® material, the requirement for wood shrinkage compensation devices may be eliminated due to higher dimensional stability than natural wood. The panels may be, in certain embodiments, 8″ to 36″ wide, 3½″ to 5½″ in thickness and range from 78″ to 360″ in length. Referring to FIG. 1, the brace assembly 1 may have a panel 2 which may be constructed from a wood-based material. The panel 2 may be rigid and may have an upper opening 12, a mid height opening 8 and a lower opening 10. The openings may be linearly positioned along a face of the panel 2. As stated above, the openings accommodate wiring and plumbing demands for wall construction. A utility chase 14 may be provided on the panel 2 between each of the openings. It should be noted that the positioning of the openings and chase or the sizing of the same should not be limited by the example provided in FIG. 1 but may also include any positioning or sizing contemplated by one of ordinary skill in the art which maintains structural integrity. The panel 2 may have a variety of shapes. For example, as seen in FIG. 3 and FIG. 4 (showing front and back faces), panel 31 may have notching, such as a top notch 52 at a top end 51. A rout 54 may also be provided adjacent the top end 51 or bottom end 63. Openings 56, 58, 60 are provided along the length of the panel 31 as well as a chase 64 along one face. A bottom notch 62 is provided at a bottom end 63. While a width 53 for the panel 31 may be in a range from 8 inches to 36 inches, a width for the notches 52, 62 may be in a range from, for example 3 to 8 inches. In another embodiment, a panel 49 may have a linear, or flat, top end 50 and may have a notch 57 at an opposite end 59. In yet another embodiment (not pictured), the flat end may be adjacent a bottom end and a notch may be provided at the top end. Referring again to FIG. 1, the brace assembly 1 may connect to, for example, adjacent framing 20 via a fastener 16, such as for example, a shear clip or other mechanical fasteners. In another embodiment, the brace assembly may attach to a foundation 18 which may be constructed from, for example, wood, concrete, or the like. Referring now to FIGS. 5 and 6, a ductile anchor assembly 4 is provided with a combination of metal components and is attached to the panel 2, 31 at a bottom or top end. The anchor assembly 4 for the brace has side plates 28 which contact opposite faces of the panel 2, 31. The plates 28 are attached to a bottom plate configuration 37 (an inner-tube) to form a “U”-shape. The bottom plate configuration 37 comprises a bottom plate 38, top plate 32, and support plates 34. These components will be described in more detail below. As can be seen in FIGS. 12, and 7, the anchor assembly 4 fits over a bottom end 7 of the panel 2 or top of panel 1 over a notched area and is attached to the panel 2 via, for example, mechanical fasteners. The plates 28 may be greater or less in width 33 than the width 39 of the bottom plate 38, thereby extending beyond or within the width 39 of the bottom plate, as seen in FIGS. 6 and 16. The side plates 28 may have a length in a range from 8 inches to 48 inches. The bottom plate 38 may have a length, for example, in a range from 2 inches to 8 inches. The bottom plate 38 may have a width 39 in a range from 2 inches to 18 inches. The side plate 28 may have edges 101, 103 which are non-parallel. For example, the edge 103 may be slanted at an angle in a range from 0.01 degrees to 10 degrees in a direction from an outer edge 43 to an inner edge 45. Put another way, a length of the side plates 28 may taper from the outer edge 43 to the inner edge 45 such that a length 105 adjacent the outer edge 43 is greater than a length 107 adjacent an inner edge 45. Because the edges 101, 103 are non-parallel, a space is created between the edge 103 and, for example, the foundation 18, when the brace assembly 1 is attached to the foundation 18. The slant, or taper, at the edge 103 ensures that the outer edge of the ductile anchor bearing surface is in contact with the bearing surface with a slight, pre-loaded condition. The small gap 47 created by, for example, the 0.01 degree to 10 degree slant in bearing surface is closed when the anchor bolt nut 48 (see FIG. 9) is tightened, creating a pre-loaded condition at the foundation 18 or the bearing surface l08. This pre-loaded condition ensures predictable stiffness and ductility during the performance of the brace assembly. FIGS. 6 and 16 provides a side view of the anchor assembly 4. The plates 28 contain mechanical fastener holes 30 which may be positioned closer to the outer edge 43 than the inner edge 45. The holes 30 may have any shape, including round, oval, diamond, or the like. The given shape may enhance ductile performance characteristics of the assembly. However, the positioning of the holes 30 may be selected as deemed appropriate by one of ordinary skill in the art. The anchor assembly may be constructed from, for example, steel, aluminum, or ductile composits. The top plate 32 extends between the side plates 28. In addition, support plates 34 are provided on inner surfaces 25 of the plates 28. The complete, “U” shaped, anchorage assembly 4 has a hole 36 within the bottom plate 38 for attachment to the foundation below with anchor bolts. The vertical plates and inner “tube” 37 (the resulting shape from the collection of the top, support and bottom plates) of the assembly act as tension members as well as compression members, transferring the overturning forces directly to, for example, the concrete surface below. The vertical legs and inner “tube” 37 are designed to deform in tension and compression under a specific loading stress as shown in FIG. 5 and eventually transition from a rigid state to a ductile state. The vertical legs and inner “tube” assembly create load resistance as well as designed energy dissipation as the assembly deforms as the panel assembly resists cyclic loading. The outer bearing edge 43 of the anchorage assembly 4 may be slightly lower than the inner edge 45 which ensures the outer edges are always in contact with a corresponding bearing surface 106 or the foundation 18. The holes 111 in the lower portion of the side plates 28 accommodate mechanical fasteners to resist shear loads imposed on the brace assembly 1. The anchor assemblies 4 may work in pairs, thus two anchorage assemblies may be utilized per brace panel application. In an embodiment, the brace assembly has a “stand alone” configuration, as seen in FIGS. 1 and 2. This configuration includes the brace panel 1 attached to ductile anchors 4. An anchor bolt 48 (see FIG. 9) is installed at the bottom of the brace assembly 1 to resist overturning moments. A fastener, such as a shear clip 16, is used to attach the brace to the adjacent framing to resist horizontal shear. This type of configuration may be used in applications such as, for example, a single story construction. In other embodiments, seen in FIGS. 11 and 12 the brace assembly has a portal-type configuration. The brace portal assembly 100, 200 consists of a brace panel 102 having ductile anchors 104 attached at a bottom end only. Anchor bolts (not pictured) connect the brace panel 102 to the bearing surface-106. A header 108 may be rigidly connected to the top of the panel 102 by a fastener, such as shear clips and tension straps 24. A brace panel 102 may be located on one, or both ends of the corresponding header, as seen in FIG. 12. When the brace panel 102 is installed at one end only, a post 26 may be required on an opposing end 110. When the post option is utilized on one end of the header 108, the post 26 may also be connected to the header 108 and the bearing surface 106 with tension straps 112. In another embodiment, the brace assembly is in a stacked, or multiple story, configuration 300, as seen in FIG. 7. The multi-story configuration attaches stacked panels together and transfers shear and overturning moments from the upper panel to the lower panel. In this embodiment, the brace panel 1 may be installed directly over another brace panel 1. A multi-story kit 22 may be positioned between the two brace panels 1. The lower brace panel member of the configuration 300 may have a ductile anchor assembly 46 located at a top end and a ductile anchor assembly 4 at a bottom end of the panel 1. Attached to the upper ductile anchor assembly 46 and to the lower ductile anchor assembly 47 of the upper brace panel is a steel rod 44 with a compression and tension fit to ductile anchors 46 & 47 as shown in FIG. 8, to create a rigid connection which spans the thickness of the platform framed floor system. The compression and tension fit consist of the threaded rod 44 and a threaded connection on each end such as a compression nut which may be structurally welded to the surface of the ductile anchor 46 or 47. Another tension and compression fit may be the use of a double nut assembly also shown in FIG. 8. As seen in FIG. 8, horizontal shear at the top of the upper lower brace assemblies may be resisted by shear clip 16. Horizontal shear at the base of the upper brace is resisted by “T”-shaped shear clip 42. The shear clips and tension/compression rods and nuts resist imposed shear and overturning moments transferred through the connection assembly. In another embodiment, seen in FIG. 10, the brace assembly may be utilized in a “tall wall” configuration 400. This configuration 400 may utilize a “stand alone” panel 404 having a length 402 which may be in a range from 12 feet to 30 feet. As opposed to the previously described embodiments, the panel 404 may be constructed absent an upper opening. This embodiment may also be trimmable to address specific height requirements for a structure. In an embodiment, illustrated in FIGS. 13, 14 and 15, a raised floor kit 500 extends the braced panel 501 bearing condition through the thickness of floor framing over, for example, a concrete foundation (not shown). A block 507 may be a wood-based component and may be constructed from, for example, typical wood-based materials utilized as rim joist. Tension rods 504, located within channels 509, may connect to the braced panel 501 by a nut (not pictured). The connection may be made through the hole (not pictured) in the anchor assembly. A bottom plate 511 may be applied to a bottom surface 513 and may serve to raise or plumb block 507. A top metal plate 515 may be applied between the raised floor kit 500 and the panel assembly and may serve to transfer shear and compression forces through block 507. Rod 504 is connected to anchor rod 548 with coupler 532. The panel assembly, when subjected to lateral forces in-plane with the panel, utilizes the tension capacity of the tension rod 504 and coupler 532, the tension capacity of anchor bolt (not shown), and the compression capacity of the raised floor block 507, the bottom plate 511, and the top metal plates 515, to resist the overturning shear and moment. Horizontal shear at the base of the brace panel 501 above the raised floor kit 500 is resisted by, for example, a “T”-shaped shear clip 521 and steel plate 515 (shown in FIG. 15). While the embodiments of the invention have been illustrated and described, as noted above, many changes can be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. Accordingly, the scope of the invention is not limited by the disclosure of the embodiments. Instead, the invention should be determined entirely by reference to the claims that follow. wherein the side plates further comprise top edges and the bottom edges of the side plates are not parallel to the top edges of the side plates. 2. The anchorage assembly of claim 1 wherein a width of the side plates is greater than a width of the bottom plate. mechanical fastener holes within the side plates. 4. The anchorage assembly of claim 1 wherein the side plates and bottom plate form substantially a “U” shape. 5. The anchorage assembly of claim 1 wherein the side plates have a length in a range from 8 inches to 36 inches. 6. The anchorage assembly of claim 1 wherein the bottom edges of the side plates are inclined to form an angle between the bottom plate and a horizontal support structure when attached to said support structure, the angle ranging from 0.01 degrees to 10 degrees. 7. The anchor assembly of claim 1 wherein the side plates each have an inner edge having a first length and an outer edge having a second length, the second length being greater than the first length. 9. The braced wall assembly of claim 8 wherein a width of the side plates is greater than a width of the bottom plate. 10. The braced wall assembly of claim 8 wherein the panel is constructed from an engineered wood product. 11. The anchorage assembly of claim 8 wherein the bottom edges of the side plates are inclined to form an angle between the bottom plate and a horizontal support structure when attached to said support structure, the angle ranging from 0.01 degrees to 10 degrees. 12. The braced wall assembly of claim 8 wherein the side plates each have an inner edge having a first length and an outer edge having a second length, the second length being greater than the first length. wherein the side plates have an inner edge and an outer edge and further wherein a length between the top edges and bottom edges of the side plates tapers from the inner edge to the outer edge. 14. The braced wall assembly of claim 13 wherein the panel is constructed from an engineered wood product. 15. The braced wall assembly of claim 13 wherein the side plates have a greater width than the bottom plate. 16. The anchorage assembly of claim 13 wherein the bottom edges of the side plates are inclined to form an angle between the bottom plate and a horizontal support structure when attached to said support structure, the angle ranging from 0.01 degrees to 10 degrees.

2019-04-26T10:53:02Z

https://patents.google.com/patent/US7712282B2/en

Sports

Science

uvm

We purchased some ASUS notebooks for our teachers last year and they are a little on the flimsy side. We have had to send back 3 of them for broken VGA ports, a couple for video issues and a couple with OS problems, One of them came back with the port fixed but it wouldn't even turn on. We had to send it out again and they replaced the motherboard a second time and the hard drive. So my guess is they don't run burn tests like Lenovo does. I haven't had too much difficulty getting a response from them for service when using the website online RMA. Do not call them, their reps are extremely difficult to understand and the background noise in the call center is awful. If you need to speak to a tech, use the on line chat. They have been very friendly and responsive but we aren't likely purchase these laptops again. We are considering an ASUS chromebook (Flip) for our 1:1 program next year and I was interested in hearing what experiences other schools have had with ASUS in general. Particularly their technical support but also how well they have held up etc.

2019-04-20T06:35:29Z

https://list.uvm.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1603&L=SCHOOL-IT&P=110259

Sports

Computers

reuters

CHARLESTON, S.C./RALEIGH, N.C., Sept 25 (Reuters) - A uthorities urged thousands of people to leave their homes around the city of Georgetown, South Carolina as water dumped by long-departed Hurricane Florence surged down rivers and threatened to bring devastating floods. Water levels were still rising early on Tuesday, said emergency services there, more than a week after the storm first made landfall on the U.S. Atlantic coast and killed 46 people mostly in North Carolina. Parts of Georgetown could be submerged in up to 10 feet (3 metres) of floodwaters in the next few days as the Pee Dee and Waccamaw rivers overran their banks, said the National Weather Service. The deluge threatened to cut off highways and isolate communities, they added. Authorities were sending recorded telephone messages to residents in harm’s way and will go door-to-door over the next two days, Georgetown County spokeswoman Jackie Broach-Akers said. The county opened two emergency shelters on Monday, and hotels outside the flood zone in nearby Myrtle Beach were offering discounts to evacuees. Public schools will be closed until further notice, Broach-Akers said. The storm dumped 30 to 40 inches (75 to 100 cm) of rain on Wilmington, North Carolina, alone after making landfall nearby on Sept. 14. The storm moved northwest before turning back east and becoming a post-tropical cyclone over West Virginia three days later.

2019-04-18T17:56:14Z

https://in.reuters.com/article/storm-florence/waterways-rise-in-south-carolina-residents-told-to-leave-idINL2N1WB043

Sports

News

seahawks

2008: Marcus Trufant (78 yards) and Jordan Babineaux (57 yards) return interceptions for touchdowns and D.J. Hackett caps his six-catch, 101-yard day with a 20-yard TD catch – all in the fourth quarter – as the Seahawks post a 35-14 victory over the Redskins in a Wild Card playoff game in Seattle. The linebacking crew of Leroy Hill (13), Lofa Tatupu (12) and Julian Peterson (10) combine for 35 tackles and two sacks as the Seahawks host a playoff game for the fourth consecutive season after hosting three in their first 28 seasons. 2008: Marcus Trufant (78 yards) and Jordan Babineaux (57 yards) return interceptions for touchdowns and D.J. Hackett caps his six-catch, 101-yard day with a 20-yard TD catch – all in the fourth quarter – as the Seahawks post a 35-14 victory over the Redskins in a wild-card playoff game in Seattle. The linebacking crew of Leroy Hill (13), Lofa Tatupu (12) and Julian Peterson (10) combine for 35 tackles and two sacks as the Seahawks host a playoff game for the fourth consecutive season after hosting three in their first 28 seasons. 1979: Jim Zorn throws fourth-quarter touchdown passes to Steve Largent and Brian Peets as part of his 384-yard, four-TD passing performance in a 38-24 victory over the Saints at the Kingdome. Largent accounts for 146 of those yards and two of the TDs on nine receptions. 1984: Kenny Easley and Dave Brown intercept passes and the Seahawks also recover three fumbles in a 26-6 victory over the Bengals in Cincinnati. 2001: Rian Lindell kicks a pair of fourth-quarter field goals, including a 51-yarder, as the Seahawks hold on for a 23-20 victory over the Bills in Orchard Park. 2007: Matt Hasselbeck passes for 337 yards and two touchdowns, D.J. Hackett catches nine passes for 136 yards and TD, Patrick Kerney has three sacks and Josh Brown kicks three field goals – including two in the fourth quarter – in a 30-23 victory over the Bears in Seattle. 2007: The defense sacks 49ers quarterback Alex Smith three times and hit him seven other times in a 24-0 victory on “Monday Night Football” in Seattle. D.J. Hackett leads the offense with eight catches for 101 yards and a touchdown. Jeff Ulbrich, now the Seahawks assistant special teams coach but then a 49ers linebacker, has a game-high 10 tackles.

2019-04-21T08:11:27Z

http://blog.seahawks.com/tag/d-j-hackett/

Sports

Sports

wordpress

Spotlight on Spotlight: What can library and information professionals learn from journalists? With a growing requirement to produce reports and briefing documents based on the information you retrieve, library and information professionals in all sectors can learn from techniques used by journalists. Spotlight from Flickr used under Attribution 2.0 Generic original cropped and resized. Spotlight is a movie that tells the true story of how journalists at the Boston Globe lifted the lid on a major cover-up in the Catholic Church. During their investigations, the team did everything you would expect investigative journalists to do: they door-stepped people; they confronted leading figures; they waited for hours in outer offices trying to grab interviews. But the backbone of their research was a simple spreadsheet onto which they made entries from back issues of the Massachusetts Catholic Directory. It was this that enabled them to spot the suspicious patterns of behaviour that underpinned their revelations. This kind of activity is increasing dramatically in importance. At the rocket science end of the spectrum it’s manifesting itself as big data, where analysts develop and employ applications to trawl vast quantities of data, looking for patterns that can be turned into e-commerce or other opportunities. But the principle of applying critical analysis to retrieved data operates across the board – including to the human brain power that we bring to bear in carrying out literature searches. Of course, we mere mortals do face limitations, mainly in the tiny amount of content we are capable of evaluating within a sensible timescale compared with what computers can achieve – but that doesn’t mean we’re incapable of doing it. Turning your raw search results into a narrative report – one that enables your enquirer to reach a decision, make a recommendation or take action – is becoming the stock in trade of information professionals in a growing number of fields, including government, health services and law. Information professionals who carry out desk research on their users’ behalf are the obvious and immediate beneficiaries of techniques such as these. But the skills are no less valuable for academic librarians, charged with fostering information literacy and encouraging good research practice in students doing assignments. Simply ploughing through a linear list of unstructured search results, hoping that the most useful ones will pop out at you, isn’t an efficient way of going about the task. Taking our cue from those Boston Globe journalists, we can get far more out of our results by turning them into a flexible dataset. To do this, you might be able to make use of your chosen reference management package. This should at least save you time by automating the presentation of each document’s bibliographic characteristics, and you may then be able to add extra customised fields for the further ways in which you want to arrange your search results. You may also find that you have to add ‘grey’ literature – short reports, articles from non-mainstream sources, website content, ephemera – manually. Obviously making these manual additions could be time-consuming, but it will probably be time well invested because, once entered, the reference management software will treat these non-standard documents just the same as the others, ensuring a uniform format for every document and allowing you to create bibliographies automatically. So if you can use a reference management package to automate at least part of the process, that should save you a great deal of time at the next stage. But if you can’t, you could use any application that will support this kind of matrix structure – a spreadsheet or database package, the table function in a word processed document, or any proprietary software that can be used for project management purposes. You may also be able to automate some of the process by making use of the text-to-table conversion function that comes with your word processing package – although the resulting table may need so much repair that you may be no better off than if you had done the whole thing manually in the first place. • sort and re-sort the documents using multiple criteria determined by you. What sort of criteria? Well, subject topics clearly – but you (or your student) will also need to be able to sort the documents according to how useful they’re likely to be in answering the enquiry. There’s a really good principle for ranking documents in this way: Must Know; Should Know; Could Know. Must know documents are the handful of retrieved results that are so comprehensive and so authoritative that you’re going to use them as the basis for your report (or your student as the basis of their assignment). Should know documents might provide evidence supporting the main findings, or include case studies demonstrating how the techniques outlined in the Must Know documents would work in practice. Could know documents include the rest of your viable results. They’re potentially useful in terms of detail, but they’re not going to add a great deal more to your enquirer’s overall understanding of the subject. Crucially, organising your documents in this way enables you to change your mind whenever you need to. If you find you’re now not so keen on the documents that have come to the top as Must Knows, it’s the work of minutes to rethink, re-categorise and sort again. Get this far, and it’s only a slight exaggeration to say that your report can practically draft itself. But to complete the job, you do need to be able to deploy another key skill: strategic reading. We’ll look at that in a follow-up blog. You can also check out Tim Buckley Owen’s blog article on what library and information professionals learn from the ‘Dodgy Dossier’. Tim Buckley Owen BA DipLib MCLIP is an independent writer and trainer with over 40 years’ experience of information work – at Westminster Central Reference Library, the City Business Library, and as Principal Information Officer at the London Research Centre. He has also held strategic media and communications posts at CILIP, the Museums, Libraries & Archives Council and the Library & Information Commission. Most college students have been exposed to more technology than students of previous generations. This does not make them technology experts. Students do a lot of searching online for information. This does not make them expert, or even good, searchers. Thanks to Google, students can always find information on any topic. This does not mean that they have found true, accurate, useful information and does not make them expert finders of information. Students need instruction and guidance in learning how to find, evaluate, select and use information, just as they need instruction and guidance in learning anything else. They are not born “information literate” and frequent, uninstructed Googling will not make them so. The Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education (the Association of College and Research Libraries’ new “guide” to Information Literacy) is meant to explain the theory behind information literacy and the threshold concepts that students must incorporate into their thinking to become information literate. While the “framework” provides a description of what a person who is information literate looks like and does with regard to information, the framework does not provide the answer we all want–How do we get our students to that goal? The bad news is that the Framework is not going to help answer that question. The good news is that everything we have created up to this point is still relevant. While some lessons may need to be updated and/or broadened to incorporate new types of information delivery or new groups from whom we can get information, the core of what students need to know to become information literate remains the same. Students need to know how to find information, how to evaluate information, how to select information, how to apply information to a problem, and how to use information ethically and legally. Here are 6 suggestions about how to offer students the concepts and skills that will set them on the road to information literacy. 1. Take them from the familiar to the less familiar to the unfamiliar. Everyone I know uses Google on a regular basis. The single search box is convenient, doesn’t require anything in the way of search strategy or specific language. Most people have no idea that Google has an advanced search, much less how to use it. In fact, Google no longer offers a link to its advanced search page from the basic search page. Instead one must click on “settings” and select the advanced search. Have students do a Google search for global warming in the single search box. They will get links to millions of pages returned to them. Show them how to get to the advanced Google search page and have them use some of the search options to transform a giant search into something with a meaningful result. From there, you might transition to a subject specific database, where students will find much more targeted information, making more of the information they find applicable to their information need. The website offering a scientific study on feline reactions to bearded men should make students consider evaluation of the bibliographic references. The website of Dr. David Duke, a white supremacist, should make students consider the author and author’s credentials. There are thousands of webpages devoted to the recent Brexit from the European Union, many of them able to pass the evaluation test. But every website does not provide information relevant to the same information need. So a student seeking to answer a question about the effect of Brexit on Poland will need to select information targeting that effect and not information about how the term Brexit was created. I have found it useful to put students into teams to role play a “real life” situation. Students become researchers who must provide information to the CEO of the company they work for. The CEO will base a decision about the future of the company on the information supplied. Big money is at stake, as well as job security for the researchers. The information must be on the CEO’s desk within the hour. A class presentation allows for discussion and critique of sources selected, sources discarded, sources undiscovered, and so on. Ethical concerns for students about the use of information usually center on the issues of citation of sources and plagiarism. Students I have spoken to know they need to cite sources. They know there are penalties for plagiarism, sometimes very harsh penalties. They simply don’t know when to do it. Is a citation required for paraphrasing? Is a citation required for a quote? How does one cite a quote from one person in a document from another person? Providing students with a little practice in thinking through what a citation is for and what it accomplishes will go a long way to providing them with the answers to their questions. As to the format for citations, there is software that will do that—much of it free. Direct students to those tools and they will be forever grateful. Get students to think about the ethical, economic and social consequences of plagiarism. Have them look into the specifics of incidents of plagiarism that have had serious consequences (George Harrison’s My Sweet Lord vs. the Chiffons’ He’s So Fine, for example). Discuss the nature of intellectual property and fair use. Students are both consumers and producers of information. Students should be made aware that they can create and disseminate of information and discuss what that means for them in terms of both opportunity and responsibility. For some audiences the student can be an authority. Students can add perspective and new ideas to groups working on projects or problems by participating in blogs, listservs and other interactive discussion groups. Students can create their own publications for issues of importance to them and make those publications available to the world. Have students subscribe to and follow a blog that covers an academic topic over a specified time period. Ask them to write about or discuss their experience, considering the positive and negative aspects of this form of communication, the quality of the information, the variety of people who participate, and whether or not the blog helps move the world forward in terms of the subject under discussion. Students often fail to understand that what they learn in one classroom can often be useful in the next classroom, and that concepts and skills they learn in an academic setting can translate to applications in the “real world”. The human brain works by analogy—comparing new information to information already in storage and looking for similarities. The use of analogies in the classroom can help students think about how one idea might apply in a completely different situation. To summarize, students need to learn basic concepts and skills in order to become information literate as students and as citizens of the world. Make students active participants in their own learning. Allow them to stretch their understanding through discussion and exploration. Get them to actively participate. Ask them to grapple with the big ethical and social questions. The instruction you have already developed is likely still relevant and useful so don’t start from the beginning, but build on what you have already created. Teaching Information Literacy Reframed by Joanna M Burkhardt offers a starting point to understanding and teaching the six threshold concepts listed in the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education, an altogether new way of looking at information literacy. Joanna M. Burkhardt is a full professor at the University of Rhode Island (URI) and Director of its branch libraries in Providence and Narragansett. She coordinates the branches’ information literacy program. When people want to satisfy their immediate curiosity they’re much more likely to use a search engine on their mobile device than ask their librarian. But while the days of personal intervention in this kind of enquiry are inevitably numbered, the professional skills that underpin them are not. This book uses technology as the enabler of the thought processes that information professionals need to engage in when answering enquiries, and makes the case that new technology, far from making them irrelevant, raises the skill stakes for all. Now in its seventh edition, the book is fully updated to cover new skills, such as employing critical thinking to manipulate, categorise and prioritise raw search results; using strategic reading and abstracting techniques to identify and summarise the essential information the enquirer needs from the retrieved documents; drawing on established story-telling practice to present research results effectively and working to the POWER model: plan, organise, write, edit, review.

2019-04-25T13:55:31Z

https://facetpublishing.wordpress.com/tag/research-methods/

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Responsible use of alternative transportation methods including skateboards, roller skates, rollerblades, scooters, and other coasting devices is allowed on campus as a way of reducing reliance on motorized transportation and promoting exercise. Coasting devices are allowed in any area on campus except those specified for pedestrians, in a building, or in a covered area. This policy establishes pedestrian only zones. The policy covers roller skates, rollerblades, scooters, skateboards, and other coasting devices. Bicycles are excluded because bicycle rules follow standard road rules throughout campus. Riders of coasting devices must adhere to basic rules, such as yielding to all pedestrians and limiting speed to less than 5mph, regardless of location. Coasting devices are prohibited on roadways and in parking lots. No stunts or tricks are allowed, and riding coasting devices down hills (such as East and West Campus Drives) is prohibited. Reference the full Campus Skateboard Policy for details.

2019-04-24T18:11:15Z

https://www.csulb.edu/parking-and-transportation-services/skateboard

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The CLC currently offers two exam formats; a translation and a reading comprehension model. The translation model is no longer be available for modern languages. Translation exam is available only in Biblical Hebrew, Classical Chinese, Greek, and Latin. The Academic Reading Comprehension Assessment (ARCA) has been designed to measure students' ability to conduct academic research by reading in a secondary research language. ARCA was designed using texts submitted by faculty in the departments and disciplines, and reflect the level of reading comprehension expected for students working in those areas. Examinees will have different texts than others taking the exam at the same time. The exam consists of three parts. Examinees have 2 hours and 10 Minutes to complete the exam. Examinees have access to the text and use of a print dictionary. Examinees read the text, making notes for themselves on key claims in the text's argument(s) and the most important supporting information on scratch paper. At the end of the 60-minute limit, the text is collected and a Mac laptop is distributed by the proctor. With reference to their notes—but NOT to the text itself—examinees write a summary protocol in Microsoft Word. This is a reproduction, in their own words, of the argument of the text. Examinees should include the most important claims of the argument, and as much of the supporting evidence as they have comprehended. Examinees may not include additional information they may know of, but which is not contained in the text. At the end of the allotted time, the examinees are instructed to save and close the MS Word document. Then the original text is returned by the proctor for Part III. Using the original text again, examinees answer three short-response questions and then translate a short passage from the original text, in a new MS Word document. The short answer questions are graded on examinees' ability to connect specific terms or phrases to the larger argumentative context of the text. The translation portion is graded based on the clarity and accuracy with which the meaning of the original passage is conveyed. Both the original text and computers are collected by the proctor at the end of the 40-minute time limit and before examinees leave the room. The exams listed below are in PDF format. If you are unable to view these files, please download the free reader from Adobe. The translation exam is 2 hours in length. Students will have that time to translate 1 or 2 short passages (∼500 words altogether), drawn from texts in any field in the humanities or humanistic social sciences. Students may use a print dictionary. The exams listed below are in PDF format. If you are unable to view these files, please download the free PDF reader from Adobe. *The exams are provided solely for the personal use of students practicing for the ARCA. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials on these pages are copyrighted by the University of Chicago. All rights reserved. No part of these pages, either text or image may be used for any purpose other than personal use. Therefore, reproduction, modification, storage in a retrieval system or retransmission, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical or otherwise, for reasons other than personal use, is strictly prohibited without prior written permission. Click here to view ARCA examinees by department.

2019-04-26T09:51:01Z

http://languageassessment.uchicago.edu/page/reading-exams

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Today I wanted to share with you my favorite way to get yoga practice in on a daily basis. I use the Yoga Studio app on my iPhone and iPad. The app is also available on the new Apple TV, which I think is amazing, and it is also available on Windows devices. The app does cost 3.99 USD. I usually do not pay for apps, but to me, this one is worth it. This app comes with classes ready to use, you just download the classes that appeal to you into your virtual yoga studio. The classes are arranged into different collections so you can easily find the type of class you are looking for. The classes are also divided by yoga skill level, so if you are a beginner you could start with the beginner classes and if you are more experienced you could use the intermediate or advanced classes. Their are also deep meditation classes that vary in length from 5-20 minutes. One of my favorite collection of classes is called quick yoga fix. These are classes that are all 10 minutes long and each class has a different focus, from strength, flexibility, relaxation and more. I also think this app is organized very well, making it easy to find what you are looking for. Within the collections themselves you can sort options by ability, focus, or duration. Or, you can search for a class by inputting how long of a class you want, your yoga ability, and even how intense you want the class to be. This app also has a section titled poses. This feature is wonderful. You can look at a picture of what each pose should look like, a description of how to perform the pose, benefits of the pose, modification for beginners, how to advance the pose for those more experienced, and even advice for when to avoid a drain pose due to injury or condition. This app also has a schedule feature that will connect to your calendar. This is a great way to keep yourself on track and accountable, by putting the virtual class in your daily schedule. I think my favorite feature of this app though, is the custom class builder. If you have a good understanding of yoga and want to play around with creating your own class, this is really fun. You can go through and chose all the poses you want included in your class. Then you can use a feature called link poses and the app will suggest other poses to help create flow between each of your chosen poses. You do not have to use all the link poses and if you have a experience putting a yoga class, you probably wouldn’t need that feature at all. This app is perfect for my yoga needs, it allows me to practice in my home and is adaptable to my time limitations as well. But I am still able to experience professional, guided yoga classes that can help me wind down after a long day or really challenge me, whatever I am needing. I would love to know if you practice yoga, your favorite way to practice, and about any yoga apps you like as well!

2019-04-19T18:48:55Z

https://mygirlwednesday.wordpress.com/2016/01/07/yoga-studio-app/

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Hey guys! So this week's post is a little longer and it's a bit different than my other stories. This time, I tried my hand at writing mystery. It definitely was an experience. Anyways, I hope you enjoy and don't forget to share it if ya do! Stay Nerdy! So, little update: we have new logos for STSI! Take a look at the One Year Anniversary page if you want a few cool downloads to share! As promised, here is part two of what happens to Edward and Hal! If you enjoy, don't forget to share! Hey guys and Happy Valentines Day! In honor of this lovey-dovey holiday, here is a sweet little story for y’all. Also, I’m posting this one because my next post is going to be a horror story... oops? The crazy thing is, is that I don’t even read horror! :) Anyways, I hope y’all enjoy and don’t forget to share the story of you do! Stay Nerdy! For this week, I used this prompt (thanks, Little Snake!) to create part one of Edward's story. This will be in four parts! I hope you enjoy, (so if you do, please share!) and don't forget to check in after two weeks to see what happens to Edward and Hal!

2019-04-22T13:09:00Z

https://scarletteaandsilverink.weebly.com/our-work/archives/02-2018

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"Living in Certain Neighborhoods Increases the Chances Older Men and Women Will Develop Cancer, Study Finds" - Science Daily. 12/12/2010. Vicki Freedman's study is the first to show that older people living in racially segregated areas with high crime rates have a much higher risk of developing cancer than do their counterparts living in less segregated, safer neighborhoods.

2019-04-19T03:23:24Z

https://www.psc.isr.umich.edu/events/archive/detail/1397

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This report examines the digital transition underway at three leading newspapers in India, the Dainik Jagran in Hindi, English-language Hindustan Times, and Malayala Manorama in Malayalam. Our focus is on how they are changing their newsroom organisation and journalistic work to expand their digital presence and adapt to a changing media environment. The background for the report is the rapid and continued growth in digital media use in India. Especially since 2010, internet use has grown at an explosive pace, driven by the spread of mobile web access, also outside large urban areas and the more affluent and highly educated English – language minority that have historically represented a large part of India’s internet users. With this growth has become a perceptible shift of audience attention and advertising investment away from legacy media like print and television and towards digital media. This shift has been accompanied by the launch of a number of new digital media start‑ups in India and,especially, the growing role of large international technology companies investing in the Indian market.

2019-04-21T06:43:27Z

https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/our-research/indian-newspapers-digital-transition

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Abstract: Computational intensity in using full likelihood estimation of multivariate and correlated data is a valid motivation to employ composite likelihood as an alternative that eases the process by using marginal or conditional densities and reducing the dimension. We study the problem of multiple hypothesis testing for multidimensional clustered data. The problem of multiple comparisons is common in many applications. We propose to construct multiple comparisons procedures based on composite likelihood statistics. The simultaneous multivariate normal quantile is chosen as the threshold that controls the multiplicity. We focus on data arising in four cases: multivariate Gaussian, probit, quadratic exponential models and gamma. To assess the quality of our proposed methods, we assess their empirical performance via Monte Carlo simulations. It is shown that composite likelihood-based procedures maintain good control of the familywise type I error rate in the presence of intra-cluster correlation, whereas ignoring the correlation leads to invalid performance. Using data arising from a depression study and also kidney study, we show how our composite likelihood approach makes an otherwise intractable analysis possible. Moreover, we study distribution of composite likelihood ratio test when the true parameter is not an interior point of the parameter space. We approached the problem looking at the geometry of the parameter space and approximating it at the true parameter by a cone under Chernoff's regularity. First, we established the asymptotic properties of the test statistic for testing continuous differentiable linear and non-linear combinations of parameters and then we provide algorithms to compute the distribution of both full and composite likelihood ratio tests for different cases and dimensions. The proposed approach is evaluated by running simulations.

2019-04-22T04:31:37Z

https://yorkspace.library.yorku.ca/xmlui/handle/10315/34485

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Thank you EW.com for posting this lovely little tid-bit. Finally some news about New Moon! Dakota Fanning is set to star in the Twilight sequel New Moon, EW has confirmed. The actress will play Jane, a member of Italy’s evil Volturi, in the anticipated movie, which opens in November. She had been in talks to appear in the film ever since she was offered the role in January. “It would be really cool to do it,” the 15-year-old Fanning told EW at the January premiere of her most recent release, Push, which was also produced by Twilight‘s studio, Summit Entertainment. “I am a very big fan of the books. I read them all and Jane is an interesting part.” Shooting on the movie starts this month in Vancouver. People.com first reported the news today. You can tell me, just between us girls, who will play Alec? PS I loved you in Push. Welcome to my blog. This is my very first post. Here I will regale you with all things Twilight. The rumor that Vanessa Hudgens will be playing Leah Clearwater is still circulating. It’s not true. Dakota Fanning is still not confirmed for the part of the Volturi’s Jane, but according to at least one source it still looks likely. There was a New Moon casting call for Quileute boys and girls in Phoenix this weekend. There is also a casting call going on in Victoria, BC this weekend. Could Solomon Trimble be out as Sam Uley? I hope not and so does Team Solomon!

2019-04-24T08:48:42Z

https://86rabbit.wordpress.com/tag/jane/

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In the wake of Hurricanes Irma and Maria in the fall of 2017, more than 3 million Americans were left without power across Puerto Rico. It took nearly 11 months for the local utility to restore power in some cases. During the hurricanes’ immediate aftermath, numerous life-saving services were lost due to the lack of power, such as emergency services, freshwater pumping plants, refrigeration, and wastewater treatment plants. According to the government of Puerto Rico, Hurricane Maria caused 2,975 deaths. As various government agencies did their best to rebuild, many looked to microgrids—electrical systems with numerous loads, generation assets, and the ability to “island” from the main grid—to increase community resilience to future grid outages. Microgrids’ ability to connect and disconnect from the grid provides resilience by allowing independent, localized operations. Resilience has recently become a hot topic in the energy sector, as climate change has increased the number and size of grid disturbances. The historical solution to increase resilience has been diesel generators, but experience has shown that they are unreliable, and diesel supply chains often are disrupted after natural disasters as well. Microgrids that incorporate solar photovoltaic (PV) and battery storage, on the other hand, are increasingly popular in Puerto Rico, where solar insolation levels are high and the systems are perceived to be a superior product for providing resilience when it is needed most. Some of the people interested in developing renewable energy microgrids are philanthropic donors of Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), where I interned over the summer. RMI is a nonprofit “think and do tank” that recently launched an initiative and partnered with Resilient Power Puerto Rico (RPPR), a San Juan-based nonprofit dedicated to increasing the share of renewable energy across Puerto Rico. RMI’s goal is to help develop a portfolio of renewable energy microgrids in Puerto Rico with RPPR and philanthropic support. 1. Low- to no-interest loans. The donor takes on the underwriting process and management of a portfolio of microgrid loans. This increases the impact of donated funds by using loan proceeds to issue more loans. It allows for a recycling of capital over time. 2. Loan loss reserves (LLR) with partner cooperative or commercial banks. An LLR encourages banks to originate microgrid loans by providing a safety net of funds from which banks can draw in case of individual loan defaults. Once familiar with the technical and economic risks of microgrid projects, the banks can make loans independently. By engaging the private sector, philanthropic donors can indirectly scale their impact by 10 to 20 times. RMI had not yet chosen between these alternatives when my internship ended, but given the immediacy of the need in Puerto Rico, low- to no-interest loans may be favored in the short term. As RMI and the foundations better understand the economics of these microgrid systems, they will be better able to engage with banks and explore LLRs. Puerto Rico’s electrical system is poised for a radical transformation. Its government recently announced plans to go 100 percent renewable by 2050, quite a change from where it stands now, with less than 3 percent of its energy coming from renewable sources. To better protect against future storms and natural disasters, renewable energy microgrids are emerging as a low-carbon solution to increase community resilience. Creating this industry and proving the economics of microgrid business models will take time and money. Endeavoring philanthropic donors can spur the development of renewable energy microgrids in various ways. Their organizational expertise and risk tolerance will determine what financing mechanisms best suit their objectives. While necessary and helpful, philanthropic efforts alone will not be enough. Puerto Rico needs continued support as it seeks to comprehensively reform its energy sector in upcoming years. Solar PV and storage microgrids are one promising approach to this challenge, and they are helping to create a brighter future for Puerto Rico.

2019-04-23T20:25:43Z

https://erb.umich.edu/2018/11/27/creative-financing-for-developing-microgrids-in-puerto-rico/

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When crop hail damage occurred in the past, farmers could either replant or see if crops would grow out of the damage, depending on extent and timing of hail. However, there have been significant changes in production practices for corn and soybean, especially concerning fungicide use and the labeling of fungicides for the mitigation of plant stress such as hail injury. Sisson, Adam J. and Mueller, Daren S., "Hail and Fungicides Update 2013" (2013). Integrated Crop Management News. 46.

2019-04-19T16:38:15Z

https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/cropnews/46/

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What you look for you will find. It all depends on what you are looking for. If you are looking to find a reason to be angry you will find it. If you are looking for a reason to be sad, you will find this as well. The good news is if you focus your thoughts on things you are grateful for you will feel both gratitude and contentment. If you focus on love you will find more love in your life as well, both to give and to receive. This truth has been tested time and time again and yet we continue to fight it. It seems easier to place the blame for our misery and unhappiness outside of ourselves on people and things we cannot control. Yes, the truth is what we focus on will bring more of that, whatever “that” is, into our lives. Whatever is on our inside is reflected back. We create these things as we are ones that are holding the mirror of our lives.

2019-04-19T08:43:57Z

https://notjustablonde.wordpress.com/2016/05/30/focus-to-find/

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AMMAN, Jordan – Democrat Barack Obama’s entire traveling campaign apparatus is in place. He will speak Thursday at an historic site in Berlin that could draw tens of thousands of spectators. And chief campaign strategist David Axelrod might even assemble film crews to gather footage of it, possibly for a TV commercial. But senior aides engaged in a bit of rhetorical gymnastics Tuesday as they faced reporters who questioned their resistance to acknowledging the political aspects of Obama’s week-long, high-profile tour against the backdrop of an intense American presidential campaign. At a morning background briefing, reporters parried with senior advisers on the characterization of Obama’s speech Thursday in Berlin as a campaign rally. The outdoor speech at the Victory Column could draw thousands of people, similar to the size of Obama events in the United States. “But he is not president of the United States,” a reporter reminded the adviser. It’s one thing for politicians to speak of what they will do as president before they are actually elected to such. They need to present that image of confidence. They all do it. But, goodness gracious, it pretty much takes arrogant chutzpah, puts it on a rocket ship, and launches it straight up into the stratosphere, to make the claim that Barack Obama is actually the president right now. There’s a level of arrogance about the Obama campaign that simply goes well beyond creepy. Obama didn’t say the above gaffe; an aide did. But it continues a definite Obamamessiah trend. Volunteer trainees at Camp Obama are told not to talk issues with voters, but to offer personal testimony about how they “came” to Obama. Makes the skin crawl. Centrists generally do not find cults of personality entertaining. The mass hypnosis reminds them of the mortgage frenzy — all these people buying into a dream and not caring about the fine print. It does make the skin crawl. People talk about how they “came to Christ.” There’s something eerie about borrowing this particular metaphor and applying it to a liberal politician. I’d like to tell you that Froma Harrop was just making stuff up. But the story of the Obama campaign instruction “how I came to Obama” stuff is genuine. And really, really creepy. It’s relevant that most of the liberals who are viewing Obama in such inspiring – and irrational – religious terms are secular humanists. As G.K. Chesterton put it, “When people stop believing in God, they don’t believe in nothing — they believe in anything.” That’s why they believe so passionately in Obama in spite of every evidence to the contrary. I stumbled across this pro-Obama article that radiated all of the creepiness of one who has place personal faith in Obama the way I placed mine in Jesus of Nazareth. Apparently, the only reason that Obama used a plane to embark on his foreign trip rather than walking across the Atlantic ocean to get there was because the latter course would have taken too long (that, and how would he have brought his massive media entourage with him?). Today on CBS’s Face the Nation, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., in Afghanistan, told the paparazzi-pursued correspondent Lara Logan that “the objective of this trip was to have substantive discussions with people like President Karzai or Prime Minister Maliki or President Sarkozy or others who I expect to be dealing with over the next eight to 10 years. We’re talking about a man who not only assumes that he will be elected and then re-elected, but that he will be so completely adored that a grateful and worshipful nation will repeal the 22nd Amendment for him so he can continue to lord it over us beyond the eight-year limit that would apply to other, lesser figures. After all, how could the Obamamessiah NOT be the president? Why are you not bowing down before him even as we speak? Like ANWR and oil, there’s a lot of productive drilling that can be done with Obama and arrogance. One day, the Bible says that a great world leader will emerge who will literally be worshiped in place of God (Revelation 13:4). I sure do hope we’re not there already. NEW YORK – Television news’ royalty will fly in to meet Barack Obama during this week’s overseas trip: CBS chief anchor Katie Couric in Jordan on Tuesday, ABC’s Charles Gibson in Israel on Wednesday and NBC’s Brian Williams in Germany on Thursday. The anchor blessing defines the trip as a Major Event and — much like a “Saturday Night Live” skit in February that depicted a press corps fawning over Obama — raises anew the issue of fairness in campaign coverage. The news media have devoted significantly more attention to the Democrat since Hillary Rodham Clinton suspended her campaign and left a two-person contest for the presidency between Obama and Republican John McCain, according to research conducted by the Project for Excellence in Journalism. The reality is, “Is media playing fair in campaign coverage?” is a rhetorical question (a question with such a patently obvious answer there is no point in answering) to any but the most deluded. But what we are seeing is that there is some evidence that the media – and particularly the three elite network anchors who had been described as “Obama’s three press secretaries” – don’t like being so obviously “in the tank” for Obama. They want to show their viewers that they really aren’t as biased as everyone thinks they are. And that means finally asking Obama a few tough questions instead of merely basking in his magnificence the way they usually do. Katie Couric – SURPRISE! – attempted to pin Obama down on some of his inherent contradictions regarding Iraq. Sens. Barack Obama, Chuck Hagel, and Jack Reed just released a statement about their day in Iraq. The three are overnighting in Baghdad and will arrive in Amman tomorrow for their first and only press conference of their trip to Afghanistan and Iraq. The statement notes the security progress in Iraq but gives the new military tactics a fraction of the credit for the reduction in violence. Obama, the presumptive Democratic nominee, Hagel, a Nebraska Republican, and Reed, a Rhode Island Democrat, all opposed the troop surge. Obama in an interview with ABC News that’s posted at the bottom of this story in which he says if he had it to do all over again he would still oppose the troop surge. He told ABC what he did not expect or anticipate in Iraq was the Sunni uprising against Al Qaeda and among the Shi’ites decision to play ball politically via cease fires rather than continue their campaign of violence. How the surge affected the calculations in either case is left unsaid by Obama, according to ABC. The surge is and has been the central story in Iraq since it began in January 2007. Obama, who told CBS on Sunday, that he “never” has doubts about his foreign policy, is in no way re-evaluating the surge or what he did or did not anticipate would arise from it. This may give fodder to John McCain’s camp and other skeptics of Obama’s approach to military tactics, strategic thinking and the ability to adapt his own views to unexpected events. So our military gets only “a fraction of the credit for the reduction in violence“? And so who gets the real credit for Obama? The Sunni sheiks and the Iraqi government for disarming Shiite militias such as Sadrs! Does that jive with history? Is it just a coincidence that things were going poorly that Democrats were claiming defeat left and right, and then we had the surge, and then things started going well even as Democrats claimed they weren’t? And our soldiers were just window dressing while Iraq fixed all of its own problems? I hope you’re not actually as stupid as Barack Obama thinks you are. President Bush announced the surge strategy on January 7, 2007. 20,000 additional U.S. troops were committed, with the majority – 5 brigades – heading into Baghdad. Within slightly over a month, there were enough American troops to substantially back an Iraqi-led effort to secure the city of Baghdad. Do you remember Demacrat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid saying, “The war is lost“? in April of 2007? Who doesn’t realize that it was General David Petraeus and the surge that John McCain had been advocating all along that turned things around? Who doesn’t realize that if we hadn’t listened to great men like Petraeus – and ignored trivial fools like Obama – we would have cut and run in abject disgrace from an emboldened terrorist enemy? When the Anbar tribes first began cooperating, they told the Americans where the extremists were hiding weapons caches, burying bombs, and running safe houses. Then they set up checkpoints and began engaging in gunfights with Qaeda cells in the Ramadi area. With attacks decreasing against both Americans and Iraqis in Anbar, and large numbers of tribesmen lining up to join local security forces, the American military has begun to try to replicate its success. A story by the Times clearly shows the bulk of the Sunni fighters signing on to fight the terrorists and insurgents beginning sometime in May 2007, directly coinciding with the surge. 4,000 Marines deployed to Anbar province. It is simply a lie to claim that the Sunnis began fighting on their own, or that the surge did not massively influence their willingness to fight. To the extent that the Anbar resistance preceded the surge, it was small, it relied greatly upon American soldiers, and it didn’t explode until after the surge. BAGHDAD, Oct. 11 — In a number of Shiite neighborhoods across Baghdad, residents are beginning to turn away from the Mahdi Army, the Shiite militia they once saw as their only protector against Sunni militants. Now they resent it as a band of street thugs without ideology. It wasn’t until the surge took effect – and Shiites began to recognize that they were protecting them – that the Shiite people began to renounce the militias and the Shiite-backed Iraq government had the backing to demand the disarmament of the troublesome militias. Barack Obama is thus revealed as a demonstrated liar without shame who gives our heroic soldiers – who have been absolutely magnificent – a “fraction of the credit.” I GIVE THEM ALL THE CREDIT!!! Our soldiers succeeded when cowardly and craven men like Harry Reid and Barack Obama predicted that they would fail, and very likely even rooted for them to fail (You might recall House Majority Whip James Clyburn acknowledging that good news from Iraq was bad news for Democrats; or you might recall Rep. Jack Murtha presuming that Marines were guilty of war crimes and convicting them before the trial which exonerated them). The soldiers succeeded. It was Obama and his fellow Democrats who failed. Barack Obama gives our soldiers no credit because this man who “never has doubts about his foreign policy” cannot acknowledge he was wrong – no matter how obviously and completely wrong he was. Liberals claim that Bush was inflexible and would not admit his mistakes? Obama is rigid to about the trillionth power. Obama’s rigid ability to deny reality emerged again as he went to Israel and Gaza. “Well, obviously, it’s going to be up to the parties to negotiate a range of these issues. And Jerusalem will be part of those negotiations,” Obama said when asked whether Palestinians had no future claim to the city. Way to go, Barack. You sure contributed to Mideast peace. Any other issues you want to resolve with your courage, your integrity, your resolve, and your strength of character? Now, any normal human being would acknowledge that they had changed their position. But not Barack Obama. He is so personally arrogant, so unyielding, so deceitful, and so intellectually dishonest even with himself, that he simply does not have that capacity within him. “I continue to say that Jerusalem will be the capital of Israel. I have said it before and will say it again…but I’ve also said that it is a final status issue” that must be decided by negotiation, he said in the southern Israeli town of Sderot. No. You continue to lie. You continue to say things that are the logical contradiction of what you said earlier, and then you continue to deceitfully and disingenuously misrepresent yourself having been consistent all along. A year ago, Obama was asked whether he would meet personally, without preconditions, with leaders of Iran and other hostile nations during the first year of his administration to resolve differences with the United States. Obama said he would. The point is to say, “No. You didn’t say that at all, you lying weasel. Are you such a completely dishonest man that you can so blatantly lie even to yourself? In grammatical terms, those “if…then” constructions are called “conditionals.” The fact is, you have by now applied so many DIFFERENT PRECONDITIONS to your “without preconditions” policy that your original statement is revealed to have been a) foolish beyond belief; and b) a complete lie. This man is dangerous, and it is nowhere revealed more than in his foreign policy. He is completely incompetent; he is completely untrustworthy; he is completely wrong; and he is completely unable to recognize obvious contradictions. Returning to the issue of Iraq, let me make a point: Obama claims the surge was wrong because we’ve diverted resources we should have used in Afghanistan to Iraq. And Obama’s alternative to the surge in Iraq was to instead exert diplomatic pressure by setting a timetable for withdrawal. Obama believes that by setting a date for retreating from Iraq in stone the Iraqi government would be pressured into getting their act together. Now, if Obama really thought that idea that would have worked in Iraq, why then is he now proposing what clearly amounts to the exact same surge strategy for Afghanistan instead of demanding a withdrawal date that would pressure the Afghani government into getting their act together? Do you see the inherent contradiction? I wrote an article titled, “U.S. vs. Nuclear Iran: Russia, China Block Any Resolution – Again,” that establishes the virtually identical similarities between trying to check a possibly weaponized Iraq with the current environment of trying to check a possibly weaponized Iran. By Obama’s philosophy, we can not move to use military power to stop Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons until: 1) We are absolutely certain they have them (a belief based on the known intelligence is not enough); 2) United Nations resolutions justifying war; and 3) a military alliance similar in size to that of the Gulf War in 1991. Since NONE of those three conditions are likely to be met, we cannot possibly attack Iran to prevent their development of nuclear weapons. And then we would be dealing with a nuclear-armed terrorist belligerent state that is immune to attack (unless you want World War III) and free to attack our interests again and again with impunity. What would a President Obama do? This is a man who can’t even stand up to his own rhetoric, much less terrorist murders. Barack Obama is a complete disaster waiting to happen. If we are foolish enough to elect him president, rogue tyrants and totalitarian leaders will recognize Barack Obama’s insipid pandering weakness and immediately begin to exploit him, and the world will be shocked to discover just how empty he truly is. Well, Obama’s been at it again. This candidate who so boldly promised that he would be so different – and who has since demonstrated just how cynical he is to even make such a claim – has taken on yet another senior level campaign representative who is tied to the very worst scandal that is currently dragging this country’s economy down. Penny Pritzker, Barack Obama’s National Finance Chair, has – as Ricky Ricardo used to put it – “some ‘splainin’ to do.” And Barack Obama has his own explaining to do – for naming her to his campaign in the first place. Pritzker has secured about $200 million dollars in campaign funds for Obama, but there’s a definite down side if people become aware of her past. For the Pritzker family of Chicago, the 2001 collapse of subprime-mortgage lender Superior Bank was an embarrassing failure in a corner of their giant business empire. Billionaire Penny Pritzker helped run Hinsdale, Ill.-based Superior, overseeing her family’s 50% ownership stake. She now serves as Barack Obama’s national campaign-finance chairwoman, which means her banking past could prove to be an embarrassment to her — and perhaps to the campaign. Superior was seized in 2001 and later closed by federal regulators. Government investigators and consumer advocates have contended that Superior engaged in unsound financial activities and predatory lending practices. Ms. Pritzker, a longtime friend and supporter of Sen. Obama, served for a time as Superior’s chairman, and later sat on the board of its holding company. Superior Bank suffered as a result of its former high-risk business strategy, which was focused on the generation of significant volumes of subprime mortgage and automobile loans for securitization and sale in the secondary market. OTS found that the bank also suffered from poor lending practices, improper record keeping and accounting, and ineffective board and management supervision. Ms. Pritzker served as Superior chairman until 1994. During that period, Superior “embarked on a business strategy of significant growth into subprime home mortgages,” which were then packaged into securities and sold to investors, according to a 2002 report by the Treasury Department’s Inspector General. “Superior was at the forefront of the securitizing of subprime mortgages,” says Timothy Anderson, a retired bank consultant who has studied Superior and other failed thrifts. So we see that it was during the Clinton years that this financial strategy that would lead to such an incredible disaster had its geneisis, and it was in the liberal bastion of Chicago – and a liberal financier – who were at its forefront. People like the Pritzkers made money if people paid the high-interest loans; and they made money if they didn’t through the ensuing foreclosures. It only became a problem for the banks when the overly inflated housing market values came down to earth and people who owed more on their homes than they were worth began walking away from those high interest subprime loans in large numbers. Superior, co-owned by Pritzker family trusts, began focusing on subprime loans in 1993, according to the FDIC Inspector General’s report. At the time, Pritzker was the board’s chair. She left the board in 1994 and continued as a director of the bank’s holding company. In 2002, the Pritzkers agreed to pay, through trusts, $460 million in a settlement with the government relieving them of liability. So now we have a decided pattern – beyond the Chicago political link – to Obama himself. He named Jim Johnson to head his vitally important Vice Presidential Selection Committee. A Wall Street Journal story showed how Johnson received favorable treatment on personal loans from major sub-prime player Countrywide Financial Corp. Johnson – former chairman of now also in trouble Fannie Mae – went to Countrywide repeatedly to get new loans at sweetheart rates as a FOA (Friend of Angelo [Mozillo]). Johnson essentially received kickbacks received kickbacks in the form of great mortgages and lax underwriting guidelines on 3 properties totalling $1.7 million while millions of the “little people” crashed and burned. In a prepared statement, the Obama campaign noted that Ms. Pritzker was never accused of wrongdoing by regulators in connection with Superior, and that her family agreed to pay $460 million to help defray the costs of Superior’s collapse. That isn’t quite true. Rather, the federal regulators were simply never fully able to sort through all the flawed accounting and masked operating losses to find the smoking gun, and the offer of several hundred million dollars made them willing to quit looking. You don’t pay 460 million bucks unless you have an awful lot of skeletons in your closet. Pritzker was able to buy her way out of jail. And please tell me something: just how is Barack Obama supposed to produce “change” when he surrounds himself with the same “old” greedy executives that have profited handsomely in this mortgage and housing crisis, and even pioneered the despicably greedy concept itself? Just what kind of benighted fool is going to think this guy is going to be one iota different? The sub prime scandal originated in Obama’s backyard, and Obama keeps handpicking figures tied to it. Moe Bedard writes an article titled “Pritzker, Predatory Subprime Pioneer, Still On Obama Team” that provides a lot of documentation and includes a lot of links to other sources of information. The more you read, the more you learn about Obama’s choice for finance chair. People had better start taking a serious look at Barack Obama – and ALL the horrendous people he has been keeping around him for years – before its too late. San Fransisco is finally becoming known as the contemptible place that it is. Among it’s stupid, irrational, immoral, and frankly un-American policies, it is an official sanctuary city for illegal immigrants. Mayor Gavin Newsom and his ilk are just so darned pleased with how wonderful they are. But Mayor Newsom and the city of San Francisco have blood on their hands. The man charged with killing a father and two sons on a San Francisco street last month was one of the youths who benefited from the city’s long-standing practice of shielding illegal immigrant juveniles who committed felonies from possible deportation, The Chronicle has learned. Edwin Ramos, now 21, is being held on three counts of murder in the June 22 deaths of Tony Bologna, 48, and his sons Michael, 20, and Matthew, 16. They were shot near their home in the Excelsior district when Tony Bologna, driving home from a family picnic, briefly blocked the gunman’s car from completing a left turn down a narrow street, police say. Ramos, a native of El Salvador whom prosecutors say is a member of a violent street gang, was found guilty of two felonies as a juvenile – a gang-related assault on a Muni passenger and the attempted robbery of a pregnant woman – according to authorities familiar with his background. In neither instance did officials with the city’s Juvenile Probation Department alert federal immigration authorities, because it was the city agency’s policy not to consider immigration status when deciding how to deal with an offender. Had city officials investigated, they would have found that Ramos lacked legal status to remain in the United States. As a 17-year-old juvenile, Ramos – a gang member – boarded a bus with two other gang members and beat and kicked a passenger. The event was recorded by the bus’ surveillance cameras, and Ramos was convicted of assault and of participating in a street gang. He was released to the custody of his mother, but still considered a ward of the court and on probation. Within days of his release, Ramos – again with two others – approached a pregnant woman from behind and tried to rip her backpack-style purse off her body. When the woman’s brother tried to prevent the attack, Ramos punched him and fled. Ramos was again apprehended. He was convicted for attempted robbery – a felony – but was somehow cleared for the assault. Again, San Francisco relied upon its inflated sense of pseudo-moral superiority and did not notify ICE. About one month after being released to the custody of his mother’s sister – and three months before the murders – Ramos was again arrested in San Francisco after police pulled him over because his car had illegally tinted windows and no front license plate. An alleged gang member in the car tried to discard a gun, but police recovered it and later concluded that it had been used in a double killing, authorities said. The police report of the incident cited “numerous documented contacts” that officers had with Ramos and the man who allegedly discarded the gun, and said both were active members of the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) street gang. San Francisco prosecutors, however, declined to file charges against Ramos, saying they couldn’t prove that he knew his companion had the gun. So much for that old legal adage, “ignorance of the law is no excuse.” Apparently it is one in San Francisco. Danielle Bologna is not a very good person, by liberal standards. She has the politically incorrect audacity to actually be upset that a criminal illegal immigrant who should have been deported was walking around free to murder her husband and her two children. Mayor Gavin Newsom has bowed to the national outcry enough to rescind the sub-element of the sanctuary city policy that prohibited turning over criminal illegal immigrants to ICE for deportation. But that’s too little, and way, way, WAY to late. Newsom has said that he was not promoting crime with his policies. But he’s not merely promoting crime, he’s exporting it. San Franscisco – that bastion of liberal, secular humanistic, politically correct, smarmy, arrogant, self-righteous, and anti-American ideology – they are firmly committed to the notion that other people should pay for their immoral stupidity. It was recently learned that San Francisco was dumping – and illegally dumping, mind you – the criminal illlegal immigrants that it was just too pure and wonderful to have deported. San Francisco — An effort by San Francisco to shield eight young Honduran crack dealers from federal immigration officials backfired when the youths escaped from Southern California group homes within days of their arrival, officials said Monday. The walkaways are the latest in a string of embarrassments for city officials who are protecting illegal-immigrant drug dealers from federal authorities and possible deportation because of San Francisco’s 1989 declaration that the city is a sanctuary for undocumented immigrants. Until recently, San Francisco flew juvenile illegal immigrants convicted of drug crimes to their home countries rather than cooperate with the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, a practice that drew national attention when The Chronicle reported it Sunday. When federal law enforcement authorities demanded that San Francisco halt the flights and began a criminal investigation, the city decided to house some of the dealers in long-term youth rehabilitation centers. Some of those centers are run by a nonprofitcompany called Silverlake Youth Services in mountain towns southeast of San Bernardino. Eight Honduran juveniles who had been convicted of dealing drugs in San Francisco were sent within the past few weeks to the company’s group homes, where one month’s placement costs $7,000 per youth – an expense borne by San Francisco taxpayers. Within 10 days of being sent to the unlocked group homes, however, all eight youths ran away, said Bill Siffermann, head of juvenile probation in San Francisco. He said his agency has issued arrest warrants for them. San Bernardino County has long been a dumping ground for the rest of California, but San Francisco has taken it to a whole new ridiculous level, exporting undocumented immigrant drug dealers to private group homes in Yucaipa. But they can’t pass off or export the blood that is on their hands; all the media-relations campaigns they can perform notwithstanding. Herein is a nutshell example of liberalism when liberalism is allowed to flourish. Let liberals run things for a while and they will create one hell after another. And when it becomes a problem, they will pass the problem off on someone else. It is what they do; it is what they are. San Fransisco is the type of city that sticks its thumb into the eye of everything that most Americans believe in and stand for. It is the kind of city that gives special parking permits to make it easy for America-hating protestors to block Military recruiting stations. It is the kind of place that usurps the will of voters and the law by marrying homosexuals on its own terms. It’s the kind of place where transvestites are able to barge into a Catholic Church and mock everything God-fearing people stand for with impunity. Let us not forget House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a San Fransisco Democrat in good-standing; she is every bit as liberal and as vile in her agenda as Mayor Gavin Newsom. And let us not forget Barack Obama, who wants us all to learn Spanish, and who is prepared to pander to Hispanics as much as necessary in order to win the White House. He came to San Fransisco to tell his fellow liberal elite what he really thought of Pennsylvanians and their bitter, religious, gun-toting, anti-illegal immigrant values. You put a House Speaker Pelosi with a President Obama, and you give liberals real power. You give liberals real power, and you will see just how much they will look just like Mayor Gavin Newsom and the San Fransisco value system. As your future president I want to thank voters of all political stripes for their mindless support, despite my complete lack of any legislative achievement, my pastor’s ties with Louis Farrakhan and Libyan dictator Moamar Quadafi, and my blatantly liberal voting record while I present myself as some sort of bipartisan agent of change. I also like how my supporters claim my youthful drug use and criminal behavior somehow qualifies me for the presidency after 8 years of claiming Bush’s youthful drinking disqualified him. Your hypocrisy is a beacon of hope shining over a sea of political chicanery. I would also like to thank the Kennedys for coming out in support of me. There’s a lot of glamour behind the Kennedy name, even though JFK started the Vietnam War, his brother Robert illegally wiretapped Martin Luther King Jr., they both slept with Marilyn, and Teddy’s negligence caused the drowning death of a young woman. I’m not going anywhere near the Kennedy cousins, especially Michael Skakel. And I’d like to thank Oprah Winfrey for her support. Her love of meaningless empty platitudes will be the force that propels me to the White House. Americans should vote for me, not because of my lack of experience or achievement, but because I make people feel good. White people who vote for me will get relief from their racist guilt. I say things that sound meaningful but don’t really mean anything because Americans are tired of things having meaning. If things have meaning, then that means you have to think. Americans are tired of thinking. It’s time to shut down the brain and open up the emotion. So when you go to vote in November, remember don’t think, just do. And do it for me. And that’s change you can believe in! Are Tributes to Fallen Soldiers “Clutter”? Some members of Congress have been told that they have to get rid of their tributes to fallen soldiers, because they are cluttering the halls. Congressional Quarterly reports that a group of lawmakers — headed by Republican Congressman Walter Jones of North Carolina — is imploring House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to change a new policy that bars free-standing flags, furniture and easels because they are considered hazards. What can I say? There are clearly two worldviews clashing in Congress, and two very different attitudes toward our fallen soldiers. I have no doubt that dozens have been seriously injured dodging all those tributes in the halls. Maybe Speaker Pelosi could spend the rest of her term in the relative safety of Iraq or Afghanistan where there isn’t so much hazardous “clutter”? The Serbian war criminal and architect of the genocide of more than 8,000 men and boys in the Muslim enclave of Srebrenica was finally captured. Bill Clinton finally got his man. You remember President Clinton’s war in Kosovo. This is tongue-in-cheek, of course; Bill Clinton had nothing to do with his capture. Serbian security forces captured him after 13 years on the run. I’m not ridiculing President Clinton; I’m merely preparing to make a comparison. The fact that it took 13 years to get karadzic ought to give the liberal critics of President Bush who have long-ridiculed him for not being able to capture or kill Osama bin Laden a rare opportunity to face reality. When a powerful man has resources, an area in which to hide, and a population that will enable him, he can elude capture indefinitely. Osama bin Laden has all of the above, plus some of the most inaccessible terrain on the planet, and plus the clearly off-limits territory inside Pakistan. It has been frankly amazing to me how far liberals have run with the “Bush can’t even get bin Laden!” slogan given that it has always been a purely trivial rhetorical point. The simple fact of the matter is that President Bush has done as much as any American president could prudently do to get the murderer responsible for 9/11. The arrest of Radovan Karadzic gives those who believe in and long for justice hope: it took years to get this murderer, but this monster is finally in custody. Hopefully, the day we capture or kill bin Laden will soon come. I trust that the United States – under any future presidential administration – will never rest until it captures or kills Osama bin Laden, or is able to directly confirm his death. Good job, Serbia. This is a day to celebrate justice. But perhaps a different kind of consistency is to be discerned in this maze. When Obama opposed the war in 2002, it was clearly in his political interest to do so; according to Dan Shomon, his campaign manager at the time, the key to Obama’s chances in the Democratic race for the Senate nomination lay in his ability to rally the Left to his side.4 Then, in 2004, when the war was still supported by most Americans, he associated himself with the Bush occupation strategy. In 2005, as Iraq was becoming increasingly unpopular, he temporized by joining those saying we had to reduce but not withdraw our troop presence. By 2006, with the war’s unpopularity deepening, he embraced a policy of full-scale withdrawal. Is that what a president does? Does he waffle this way, then that, depending on the frequent shifts of the political breezes? Or is a president – and anyone who wants to become president – forced to carefully decide what needs to be done, and then commit himself (just as he commits his troops)? Could a president send troops, change his mind and withdraw them, change his mind again and increase their number form when he withdrew them before, and then decide that he shouldn’t have sent them after all and withdrawn them again – all within the span of about 2 1/2 years? Well, if that’s true (and you’re not a rank, hypocritical liar without shame who plays politics even when men’s lives hang in the balance), then why did you announce your rigid commitment to a 16-month timetable for withdrawal BEFORE you went to Iraq and actually listened to those commanders? The reality is, you’re not going to listen to them at all – just as you’ve NEVER listened to them. The Clinton campaign pointed out that Obama would renege on his Iraq policy – which is exactly what he tried to do until his liberal base erupted in outrage over the reversal. The man is a veritable bastion of courage and integrity. Barack Obama has been in favor of a timetable for withdraw since late 2005. What would have happened to Iraq had Barack Obama been our president? If we had pulled out of the country when Obama said we should (depending, of course, on how Obama felt about the war that day), a too-weak and too-unstable Iraq would have almost certainly descended into chaos, become a terrorist stronghold, and forced us to invade for yet a third time. A showdown between Congress and the president looms after President Bush said he would send 21,000 more American troops to Iraq. Meanwhile, a new poll indicates that the public is overwhelmingly against the plan. Obama pursued a plan of action that would have done NOTHING as Iraq began to stumble into chaos. John McCain – as the article acknowledges – took an “overwhelmingly” unpopular stance and supported a policy that WORKED. [And note the pessimistic stance liberal CBS took on the idea of the troop surge]. American military commanders are close to declaring complete victory in Iraq. Even Al Qaeda has openly admitted that they have lost in Iraq. The result of this success is that Obama scrubbed his earlier positions regarding the surge from his website. That’s “change” for you: no major political candidate in American history has ever been so completely disingenuous regarding his positions. WASHINGTON (AP) — Barack Obama’s aides have removed criticism of President Bush’s increase of troops to Iraq from the campaign Web site, part of an effort to update the Democrat’s written war plan to reflect changing conditions. Debate over the impact of President Bush’s troop “surge” has been at the center of exchanges this week between Obama and Republican presidential rival John McCain. Obama opposed the war and the surge from the start, while McCain supported both the invasion and the troop increase. A year and a half after Bush announced he was sending reinforcements to Iraq, it is widely credited with reducing violence there. With most Americans ready to end the war, McCain is using the surge debate to argue he has better judgment and the troops should stay to win the fight. Obama argues the troop increase has not achieved its other goal of fostering a political reconciliation among Iraqi factions. After Bush delivered a nationally televised address on Jan. 10, 2007, announcing his plan, Obama argued it could make the situation worse by taking pressure off Iraqis to find a political solution to the fighting. Obama continued to argue throughout 2007 that the troop increase was a mistake. By the early part of this year, he was acknowledging that it had improved security and reduced violence, but he has stuck by his opposition to the move. Only one of his plan’s subheads remains unchanged, the first one — “Judgment You Can Trust.” That’s a message the campaign wants Americans to embrace. That’s right: “judgment you can trust.” You can trust a man who takes every position under the sun depending on his political expediency, plays politics when soldiers’ lives are on the line, scrubs his own website of his previous erroneous positions, and then blithely pretends he’s had the same position all along. As Barack Obama launches his foreign visit accompanied by the in-the-tank anchors from the in-the-tank networks and all the media fanfare they can produce, the narrative will be that Obama is right about the timetable for withdrawal. But the only reason we can reasonably talk about a timetable for an American withdrawal from Iraq is because better and more courageous men were in charge – and Barack Obama was not. As you listen to the in-the-tank media hype for Obama, don’t forget that. Obama has repeatedly cut and run from his own positions: from dismissing the wearing of flag pins to wearing them constantly; from publicly vowing that he could never denounce Rev. Jeremiah Wright any more than he could denounce his own grandmother to publicly denouncing Jeremiah Wright; from filling out questionnaires to denying that he filled out the answers on the questionnaires; from being an opponent of free trade to being a supporter of free trade; from telling a Jewish audience that he supported Jerusalem as the eternal capital of a Jewish state to telling a group of Palestinians that he was open to negotiating the status of Jerusalem; from claiming that Iran was not a serious threat to claiming that Iran represents a serious threat; from vowing to accept public financing to refusing to accept public financing; from supporting the Washington D.C. ban on handguns to supporting the Supreme Court decision overturning the Washington D.C. ban on handguns; from swearing he would filibuster any FISA bill that did not allow lawsuits against telecoms to voting for a FISA bill that didn’t include any provisions to punish telecoms; from vowing to end the Iraq war in 2009 to saying he would refine his position to listen to military commanders to saying he would end the war in Iraq irregardless of the commanders. There’s even concern that he’s doing the Obama two-step on the issue that has been the cornerstone of his campaign: his opposition to the war in Iraq. But the senator denied that any significant change should be inferred from his comment that he would “continue to refine” his policy on the war. Mr. Obama is betting that in the long run none of this will matter, that the most important thing is winning the White House, that his staunchest supporters (horrified at the very idea of a President McCain) will be there when he needs them. He seems to believe that his shifts and twists and clever panders — as opposed to bold, principled leadership on important matters — will entice large numbers of independent and conservative voters to climb off the fence and run into his yard. Maybe. But that’s a very dangerous game for a man who first turned voters on by presenting himself as someone who was different, who wouldn’t engage in the terminal emptiness of politics as usual. Don’t forget that Barack Obama is a pandering, waffling, flip flopping liberal who doesn’t have the courage of his own convictions. Increasingly even liberals are recognizing that Barack Obama is simply not fit to lead. You are currently browsing the Start Thinking Right blog archives for July, 2008.

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When traveling what we often see is the outside of buildings. We walked by this impressive building several times, before we decided to go inside and see what it contained. We were amazed at what we found inside. There were rooms filled with armour. There was even armour for children and horses, which must have been hot and heavy to wear. Napoleon’s Tomb under the dome was beautiful. An army museum is not something I would venture into normally, especially when there are so many art museums to visit in Paris. This museum was well worth going inside. For more information on the museum visit their web site at: http://www.invalides.org.

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NEW DELHI: Samsung has launched its latest Tizen operating system-powered smartphone, Z2, in India, and priced it at Rs 4590. At Rs 4,590 ($68.44), the Z2 is the cheapest Tizen phone Samsung has launched to date. It is also the first Tizen-powered device that will run on 4G networks. The device comes bundled with Reliance Jio’s unlimited 4G preview offer, the company said. Last month, Reliance Jio Infocomm entered into a data bundling deal with Samsung where users of certain Samsung smartphones were to get free data, voice benefits as part of Jio’s preview offer. Samsung said that the latest device comes pre-loaded with some essential apps and features such as ultra data saving mode, S bike mode and the new My Money Transfer. Samsung’s Tizen Z2 features a 4 inch display along with Tizen OS 3.0 and 1GB RAM. The 4G LTE smartphone is powered by 1.5 GHz quad-core processor. It comes equipped with a 15000 mAh battery. Samsung has been using Tizen on products ranging from TVs, home appliances and wearable products. The smartphone major has so far kept the operating system for a few markets such as India and Bangladesh, mainly targeting first-time buyers looking for a cheap device. The smartphone will be available in India from August 29 in three colors- Gold, Bla1 and Wine Red- across mobile phone retail stores. The device will also be available through Paytm.

2019-04-20T15:08:07Z

https://telecom.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/samsung-tizen-z2-launched-at-rs-4590-comes-with-reliance-jios-4g-preview-offer/53824498

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The Word Table format lets you create Moodle quiz questions, including comprehensive feedback and grades in Word tables, then upload them to Moodle. This can save you time. Matching: Match 4 or more words or phrases. Multiple-Answer: Choose 1 or more correct answers from 4 or more possible answers. Short Answer: Free text answer. Description: Not a question, just a facility to add some text, usually instructions for a set of following questions. Essay: An essay question allows the entry of free text, which is not graded. True/False: Choose whether a statement is true or false. Cloze: Fill-in-the-blanks or Embedded answers question. Use bold to enter Multichoice items, italic to enter Short Answer items, and underline to enter Numerical items. Creating quiz questions using the Moodle interface can be time consuming. The Word Table format is a quicker way to create quiz questions, providing you don't want to use more advanced types such as calculated questions or drag and drop. install a plugin for Word to allow you to create new quizzes and add new questions into a Word table by clicking on buttons within the Word Add-Ins tab. Open the downloaded template in Word. Leave Type Category Name for now. Choose the type of questions you want to create (MCQ, multi-answer, matching, short answer, essay, description, true/false, cloze, description). You can mix and match these. For each question you want to create copy the corresponding table, including the name. E.g. MCQ Question name (MC). See How do I use it? below to understand how to complete the table for each question type. Follow the instructions below to download and install the plugin for your platform. >> Instructions for installing the WordTable Plugin. Once installed, open Word and you should see a Moodle (or Add-Ins) tab in Word. Click the Moodle tab > New question file and save the file to your computer. Delete the True/False question, unless you want to add this type of question. On the Moodle tab, in the Add Questions menu, click the type of question you would like to insert and the complete the table following the instructions under How do I use it? Once you have your Word document template, or Word Add-In installed (see Before I start...) you can populate your Word document with your questions, ready for uploading into your Moodle course. Replace Type Category Name with the name of the Moodle quiz category you want to create for these questions to sit within. Replace 'MCQ Question name' - with the name of the question (only editors will see this). Leave the two letter code that is in brackets as this tells Moodle what type of question it is. Type the question in the top box. For Cloze questions, bold any text you want to add as a drop-down list and italicise any text you want to appear as a blank space for students to enter the correct word. Include any LaTeX in double question marks ($$). Add any images you wish to add. Make sure you refer to them in the question, so if they don't load properly the student knows they are missing information. Remember to add alt text for visually impaired people using screen-readers (providing this doesn't give the answer away). Right click the image > Format picture... Click the Layout & Properties menu (3rd button) > Enter a succinct, descriptive title (required) and a longer description (optional). If images have been cropped or resized, click on the image, go to the Format tab and choose Compress Pictures > All pictures in document > OK. MCQ: Enter the Answers, feedback and make sure the correct answer has a grade of 100. Multi-answer: Enter the Answers, feedback and give each correct answer a grade, so they all add up to 100. Matching: Type the question under Item and the matching answer under Match. Short-answer: Enter all the possible correct short answers under right answer and add feedback alongside each. Essay: Enter the response to the student under Response template. 'Information for graders' will only be seen by tutors. Cloze: Enter any distractors to populate the drop-down lists in the question text (which you indicate with bold text in the question). Description: Doesn't require any feedback or grades, as this is just for adding instructions. Provide simple feedback for overall correct and incorrect answers. Provide detailed general feedback. All students will see this regardless of whether they got the answer correct or not. In the Settings menu, click Question Bank. In the Settings menu, click Import. Choose the category you would like to import questions in to. You can leave this as the default if you like. If you keep 'Get category from file' selected, Moodle will create categories based on those in the Word file you upload. Drag your Word document to the import file area, or click Choose a file... > Upload a file and ChooseFile, then select it from your computer and click Open and Upload this file. Further guidance on Word table format is available from moodledocs. Each time you import questions these will be added to any that already exist in your Moodle course question bank. If you want to edit and replace the existing questions you will need to delete these from the question bank before importing the updated questions, otherwise you will end up with duplicates. See the WordTable website for access to the installation files, instructions and demo areas: http://www.moodle2word.net.

2019-04-22T00:28:12Z

https://wiki.ucl.ac.uk/display/MoodleResourceCentre/M12b+-+Word+Table+quiz+import

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A NEW event is being held to encourage employers to hire more staff with Autism. Worcestershire County Council and Fortis Living have joined forces with Chartered Institute of Personal Development (CIPD) Gloucestershire and CIPD Hereford and Worcester to organise an event to encourage employers to recruit people with neurodiversity. The event, which aims to offer help and support to employers to recruit people with an autistic spectrum condition, will take place on Wednesday 27 March at The Worcester Arena, Hylton Road, between 10.30am and 3.00pm with lunch provided. The event will include a ‘drop in’ to enlighten employers on the benefits of having neuro diverse people working for them and what small adjustments are needed to help them thrive in their roles. A number of local businesses who are taking part will share their experiences and highlight the benefits of employing people with the condition with the intention of bringing about a better understanding of how this can be acknowledged and aided in workplaces as well as benefit productivity. Tom Piotrowski, diversity and inclusion advisor at Fortis Living explained : “We look forward to hearing from and meeting applicants who are on the autistic spectrum. Councillor Adrian Hardman, cabinet member for adult social care for Worcestershire County Council said : “Our organisation greatly benefits from hiring people who have diverse thinking patterns.

2019-04-21T22:59:04Z

https://www.malverngazette.co.uk/news/regional/17514156.new-event-to-encourage-employers-to-take-on-staff-with-autism/

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Since 2012, the topic of mental health has gained more visibility in higher education. In 2013, the Canadian Association of College and University Student Services and CAMH jointly published Post-Secondary Student Mental Health: Guide to a systemic approach. The guide emphasizes the importance of supportive campus climates and student engagement to positively impact both academic performance and mental health. Universities, including Ryerson, have been working towards reducing mental health stigma and promoting a healthy environment for students and employees. This session will examine how far we have come, and how much further we need to go.

2019-04-25T18:11:22Z

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This entry was posted in Spotify, Streaming and tagged Spotify dpo, Spotify IPO, Spotify law suit, Spotify listing, Spotify wixen, wixen by Mark Mulligan. Bookmark the permalink. Spotify DPO or IPO is one of the the biggest bluffs in the history of securities without Wixen suit! This outfit is creator and main executor of UMG endorsed music industry suicide. $300B of annual music business is composted to $17B of subs and ads and if all streaming NUTS work very hard and we are lucky we will conclude with $30B music TOMB in 2030.

2019-04-23T11:57:39Z

https://musicindustryblog.wordpress.com/2018/01/04/joining-the-dots-how-wixens-suit-impacts-spotifys-dpo/

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Honda MotoGP rider Dani Pedrosa has announced he will retire from grand prix motorcycle racing at the end of 2018. Pedrosa, who will turn 33 in September, broke the news in a special press conference ahead of this weekend's German Grand Prix at the Sachsenring. The Catalan rider had been part of the Repsol Honda works set-up since 2006, but was left without a ride for next year when the team signed Jorge Lorenzo as his replacement for 2019. While no factory options were left available by that point, Lorenzo's Honda move left Pedrosa as the highest-profile target for Yamaha's new satellite operation, the Sepang circuit-owned SIC Racing Team. However, Pedrosa has now confirmed that he will instead end his stint in MotoGP having competed only on Honda machinery since his debut grand prix racing season in 2001. "This is a decision that I've been thinking for a long time, it's a very, very hard decision because this is the sport I love," Pedrosa said. "But despite having good opportunities to keep racing, I feel like I don't live racing with such an intensity as before – and I now have different priorities in my life." After winning the 125cc title in 2003 and back-to-back 250cc titles in the two following seasons, Pedrosa has been an ever-present frontrunner in MotoGP despite frequent injuries, some of which had threatened to end his career early. He has so far amassed 31 wins and 112 podiums in the premier class, but has missed out on a MotoGP title, finishing runner-up on three occasions – to Ducati's Casey Stoner in 2007, and to then-Yamaha rider Lorenzo in 2010 and 2012. His most recent title shot came in 2013, but he lost the championship lead after sustaining a collarbone fracture in Germany and would only wind up third overall, with rookie teammate Marc Marquez taking the honours instead. The current season has marked Pedrosa's worst start ever to a MotoGP campaign: after eight races, he is sat 12th in the standings and has yet to score a podium. While he looks set to depart the sport without a premier class title, Pedrosa has helped Honda to seven MotoGP manufacturers' championships – and has contributed to six teams' titles for the Repsol-backed factory outfit. "I would like to express how fortunate I feel to have had this experience, this opportunity in my life," Pedrosa continued. "It's been an amazing life to be out racing for such an important team and in front of all the fans. "I can say that I achieved way more than I expected and I'm very very proud of all I've done in the sport." Pedrosa's decision to retire will come as a boost to several riders hopes of tying down a place in MotoGP for 2019, as SIC Racing – which has signed a three-year deal with Yamaha – will now focus on alternative options to partner its expected first signing Franco Morbidelli. Nieto Ducati's Alvaro Bautista and KTM's Bradley Smith have both thrown their hats in the ring for the SIC ride, while Moto2 aces Lorenzo Baldassarri and Fabio Quartararo have also emerged as contenders.

2019-04-26T04:13:44Z

https://www.motorsport.com/motogp/news/dani-pedrosa-announces-retirement-1058850/3139539/

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Ralph Northam’s page in the 1984 yearbook of Eastern Virginia Medical School in which two people are wearing blackface and a KKK costume. RICHMOND, Va. – Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam plans to tell the public Saturday that he will not resign because he does not believe that he appears in a racist photograph from his 1984 medical school yearbook, according to a person close to the Democratic governor. The governor’s spokeswoman, Ofirah Yheskel, confirmed the governor will not resign when he speaks to the public at 2:30 p.m. Northam believes there was a mixup when the yearbook was produced and the image of a person dressed in blackface and another in a Ku Klux Klan robe mistakenly ended up on his page. Northam feels he should not step down for something he didn’t do, according to the person, who spoke on condition of anonymity to talk about the governor’s internal discussions. Several high-ranking Democrats confirm they were briefed on his plans. Northam does not expect the intensifying calls for his resignation to cease but believes he can work to regain public trust, the person said. He spent the morning calling state and federal lawmakers, including Democratic Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine and Rep. Bobby Scott, according to Democratic aides. Northam told them he has no memory of being in the photograph, despite his public apology, the aides said. He said he remembers selecting three other photos that appear on the page but not the offensive image. Tobin Naidorf, who also graduated in 1984 and is now a gastroenterologist in Alexandria, Virginia, said he did not recall the exact procedure for submitting photos to the yearbook staff. However, he said he was the only person who could have submitted the family photos that appeared on his own page. Northam was defying an avalanche of calls to step down from the office he’d assumed not 13 months ago. On Friday afternoon, the Republican Party of Virginia issued an early call for Northam’s resignation, followed by national Democrats, including a host of 2020 contenders. Every group allied with the governor, from Planned Parenthood to the state Democratic party and Democratic leadership in the General Assembly urged Northam to leave office. A crucial group, the legislative Black Caucus, joined the chorus calling for his resignation after a tense meeting Friday night with Northam. Even home-state champions who regarded him as a dear friend – including immediate predecessor and patron Terry McAuliffe, himself a potential Democratic presidential candidate – said he had to go. As cable television devoted hours to the controversy and social media lit up with #ResignRalph hashtags and the drumbeat continued. Calls to resign also came from Democratic presidential hopefuls Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Sen. Kamala Harris of California, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey and former San Antonio Mayor Julián Castro. Herring’s remarks, which stopped short of calling for Northam’s resignation, closely echoed sentiments expressed by the state’s U.S. senators, Kaine and Warner, both Democrats. The revelation comes after a wild week for Northam, who was accused by Republicans of advocating infanticide after he made comments defending a bill that would have lifted restrictions on late-term abortions. It was more surprising because Northam has billed himself as the political antidote to Donald Trump – an aw-shucks leader with a boring speaking style and a reputation for honesty. He gained the trust of Republicans, who worked with him last year to pass Medicaid expansion in the state after four years of resisting it under the previous governor, McAuliffe. A Northam ally, Senate Minority Leader Richard Saslaw, D-Fairfax, initially defended the governor on Friday, saying that voters needed to weigh Northam’s lifetime of public service. After serving as McAuliffe’s lieutenant governor, Northam ran for governor in 2017. During the campaign, he paid special attention to black churches, often attending two or three on Sundays. His home pastor is African-American. After the racial violence in Charlottesville that summer, Northam was among the quickest Virginia political figures to react, making an emotional plea that all Confederate monuments should come down. The origins of blackface date to minstrel shows in the 19th century, when white actors covered themselves in black greasepaint to portray African-Americans in a cartoonish, dehumanizing way. The minstrel shows put forth racist notions of African-Americans as primitive, childish and inferior. The Washington Post’s Jim Morrison reported from Norfolk. Jenna Portnoy, Patricia Sullivan, Fenit Nirappil and Antonio Olivo in Washington contributed to this report.

2019-04-22T02:55:31Z

https://www.denverpost.com/2019/02/02/virginia-gov-ralph-northam-racist-photo/?shared=email&msg=fail

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SYDNEY (AP) — A former Bahraini soccer player and refugee became an Australian citizen Wednesday, four weeks after detention in Thailand on an extradition request from his home country raised international concern. Hakeem al-Araiby told reporters he's "an Aussie now" and is happy to be safe. The 25-year-old soccer player fled Bahrain, citing political repression, and had lived under refugee status in Australia for more than a year until he was detained in Bangkok in November at the start of a planned holiday with his wife. Bahrain wanted him returned to serve a prison sentence for a vandalism conviction he denies, but Thailand withdrew the extradition case last month after sustained pressure from the Australian government and soccer bodies. He became an Australian citizen along with 200 other people at a ceremony in Melbourne, after passing his citizenship test with a 100 percent mark. "I'm an Aussie now," he told reporters. "I'm very happy to get citizen, I'm very happy to be safe." Al-Araiby said he hoped to soon resume playing soccer for his semi-professional Melbourne club, Pascoe Vale. But the defender also has his sights set on gaining a contract in Australia's nationwide professional competition, the A-League, with hopes of one day representing Australia in international competition. "I want to focus on soccer for this country," he said. Al-Araiby said he was humbled by support from Australians in the campaign which led to his return, and thanked former Australian captain Craig Foster and Foreign Minister Marise Payne, who led efforts for his release. "Across the Australian community, we were concerned for his welfare," Payne said at the citizenship ceremony. "I was very proud to witness that campaign. It embodied some of the best elements of Australia: looking after one another, mateship, a fair go." Foster said he hoped to see al-Araiby one day play for Australia, saying it was "surreal" to think that "not too long ago, he was in prison fatigues sitting behind a perspex window."

2019-04-21T11:03:11Z

https://hosted.ap.org/semissourian/article/fbc831e9585241a4ad1e78a824b403f2/refugee-soccer-player-happy-hes-now-australian-citizen

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Results indicate university students who frequent campus recreation to exercise are highly motivated to improve physical appearance, physical performance, and health. This ethnographic model, utilizing positive deviance as a sampling framework, builds upon established work in physical activity related public health research to show how a positive shared experience among university students adds value to a physical space such that the physical space, i.e. campus recreation serves as the crux of building a campus community. Further research is needed to develop and test a model whereby campus recreation can attract more students to engage in physical activity and exercise while attending university. Herrera, René Dario, "Positive Deviance as a Framework for Understanding Motivations and Barriers to Exercise for University Students at Campus Recreation" (2018). Graduate Theses and Dissertations.

2019-04-22T02:16:28Z

https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7519/

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D’Enbeau, Suzy and Buzzanell, Patrice M., "Having—and Doing—it All? The Hidden Nature of Informal Support Systems in Career and Personal Life Management" (2014). Communication Faculty Publications. 807.

2019-04-18T14:36:48Z

https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/spe_facpub/807/

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Take time to give thank for you country and the people who fought to make it what it is today. I know its not perfect but I’m so grateful to be able to call it home. “If at first you don’t succeed, try try again.” Getting you kids to eat there vegetable can be a pleasant experiences if you have the right attitude and follow helpful tips.If you need help with you tots or you are having trouble replacing french fries for broccoli read Get your kids to eat their veggies on Wellness Wednesday. Read more on Saturday Love.

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The song was included on an EMI 6 track Advance CD of Harem, but was ultimately deleted from the final album. It has never been "officially" released. Source of the lyrics: thanks to Mark Bliss. MANOWAR are: Eric Adams - vocals, Joey DeMaio - bass guitars, Karl Logan - guitars, Scott Columbus - drums and percussion. According to Paul Bateman who did the arrangement in November 2002, "Where Eagles Fly" was recorded late 2002, but Paul was unable to conduct the recording. The first word of the fifth stanza is sung unclear. The lyrics I received said here "Emptiness", but it sounds more like "onlyness" to me, but that is not a word, and "emptyness" makes sense. Then Cassie wrote it could be "Loneliness" and that makes sense too, so I adapted the lyrics.

2019-04-19T11:15:27Z

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The ruling could hardly be more damning. It found Theresa May deported thousands of students from Britain on the basis of unscientific hearsay evidence. The Home Office behaved like a tin-pot dictatorship: detaining innocent people, accusing them of made-up charges without providing anything to back it up, denying them their day in court and then deporting them. Today’s ruling could open the doors to the return of thousands of students to the UK, if – of course – they wish to come back to a country which has treated them so appallingly. And it brings to a shuddering halt Theresa May’s mass deportation programme of students. It also raises serious questions about the legal and operational functions – as well as the basic morality – of the Home Office. The Home Office started rounding up foreign students after Panorama aired a programme on how students at a single London school were cheating to pass the ETS language test. Instead of just treating this as a single instance, the Home Office decided that everyone, who had taken the test must also be guilty of fraud. The students themselves were rounded up in dawn raids, husbands and wives were separated. And they were also not allowed to see the evidence against them. Which from the point of view of the government was just as well, as there was none. The case rests on the performance of a voice recognition test run by an American firm, ETS. This claimed that it had run thousands of tests comparing its software with humans. When it came to the court case, however, ETS did not appear. It sent no witnesses, and gave no evidence one way or another. The article raises the following questions about this sorry affair. How did the Home Office get to the point where it started deporting innocent people on the basis of unreliable hearsay evidence and without any proper judicial remedy? Why did the home secretary breach her duty of candour with those being accused of fraud? How is a private firm contracted to do public service work for the UK government issuing fantastical information to the Home Office? Why is it getting away with shutting up shop and refusing to comply with a tribunal? How did the Home Office end up being completely reliant on a foreign private contractor in the first place? And what is the home secretary going to do to contact the people who were unlawfully removed from this country so that they can now return to the UK? What struck me was the sheer lack of any kind of proper legal process from the accused. They were just rounded up and deported. If they were tried, they weren’t allowed to see the evidence against them. I’ve already commented about the real, serious threat to democracy the government’s system of secret courts present, and how this is very close to the perverted court system set up by the Nazis. Under these courts, those accused of terrorism may not be allowed to see the evidence against them, or know who their accuser is, and the court proceedings carried on in closed session if this it is felt there is a threat to national security. This case shows how the same unjust procedures have been expanded to cover immigration. It’s hard to see how these foreign students en masse constitute such a threat that they could not see the evidence presented against them. Of course, the real reason they couldn’t see it, was because it didn’t exist. The government just wanted to throw them out of the country. Well, it started with those accused of terrorism. Now it’s been extended to cover possible illegal immigrants. I don’t doubt that the government is hoping they can extend it even further to the general public, and specifically those sections Cameron doesn’t like: the poor, the ill, trade unionists and left-wingers. His proposed trade union bill, remember, would have required strikers on picket lines to give their names to the police. It was a measure too far for even David Davis, who described it as ‘Francoist’. And, like Franco, Cameron no doubt ultimately aims for the arrest and detention of left-wing opponents of the regime, whether they’re trade unionists on strike or protestors holding a march. This is the beginning of a police state. And Mr Justice McCloskey is to be applauded in upholding justice against Theresa May for combatting this piece of it. A few days ago, Jeremy Corbyn took the principled step of actually visiting the migrant camp in Calais, commenting on the poverty and appalling conditions there. It’s a move few politicians would care to do, because of migration being such a toxic issue. The Daily Heil did, I think, send one of their journos there in the hope of uncovering rabid jihadis bent on entering Britain by subterfuge. They were disappointed, as the migrants they discovered all had a disarmingly high view of Britain and the opportunities it offered. Corbyn made a number of suggestions for raising living conditions in the camps, and said that those migrants with family ties to Britain should be allowed to enter our country. This has clearly got Cameron worried. So worried, that he has misquoted the man in order to distort his stance on migration and asylum. Mike today reported that Cameron said that Corbyn recommended making the Calais camp a ‘direct route’ to the UK, and stood for ‘open door’ immigration. Mike remarks that the Tories should be glad David Cameron will be gone in a few years; it is becoming far too easy for UK citizens like This Writer to see through his comments. Well, Cameron and his cronies now lie so often and so hard, that they’ve become the living embodiment of the old joke about politicians: ‘How can you tell when a politician is lying? His lips move.’ Adopt this attitude to anything Cameron, IDS, Nikki Morgan, Osbo or, indeed, the entire Tory party and you won’t go wrong. Cameron’s line, of course, is to play up to the idea that somehow Labour are soft on immigration. Underlying this is the old quote repeated in right wing, and extreme right wing circles, about Labour having deliberately let non-White immigrants into the country in order to make it multicultural against the wishes of the White population, just to spite the Tories. In fact, from what I can remember, the opposite was true. Once in power, Bliar’s administration cracked down hard on immigration. I can remember Alan Coren remarking on the News Quiz back in the 1990s when he was still alive and it was still funny his amazement at the transformation that had occurred to one of Labour’s politicians once he had become head of the Home Office. From being fairly fuzzy, warm and caring, he had turned into the exact opposite. Coren joked that there was something about the post, so that whoever it was who got the job, ‘they all become men of steel’. Coren was one of the greatest satirists 20th century Britain ever produced, and in my view his death left a gap in British political comedy that has never really been filled since. Cameron’s comments are also to cover up the fact that his administration has been consistently incompetent at handling immigration. Despite claims that they were going to cut it down to a certain level, they have proven repeatedly that they are unable to do so. And when they have tried to take a tough line, it’s been transparently racist. Remember the vans going round Black and Asian neighbourhoods inviting people to turn themselves in and be repatriated? Forget what Cameron has to say about the migrant camp and Corbyn. He’s just trying to divert attention from his own party’s dismal failure on this point. Quite apart from what it says about immigrants who dare to have families. Mike over at Vox Political has posted this piece attacking the verdict of Assistant Doncaster Coroner Mark Beresford on the death of Frances MacCormack, http://voxpoliticalonline.com/2016/01/22/does-this-coroners-verdict-on-another-bedroom-tax-related-death-seem-sick-to-you/. Mrs MacCormack was found hanging in the room her son committed suicide after receiving a letter threatening her with eviction over the Bedroom Tax. Beresford, the Assistant Coroner, concluded at the inquest that it had been ‘staged’, but had gone wrong, thus causing this poor woman’s death. Rather than making up a story, why not look at the evidence? This is a woman who had been pestered to pay the Bedroom Tax for two years, by the time of her death. She had clearly reached a point of desperation – as the note in the bedroom suggests. Anyone appealing to David Cameron for mercy is clearly in dire straits indeed. But the note was not delivered. Instead, Frances McCormack was found hanged in the same spot as her son. Perhaps this was the most secure point in the house from which a person dedicated to such a deed might commit it? Or, more simply, perhaps she chose that spot because she knew she would be successful? The eviction notice arrived the same day her body was discovered. This was no “staged arrangement” gone wrong. It was the final act of a woman who had realised that nothing she could say or do could possibly stop the council from removing her from her home – because its hands had been tied by the Conservative Government. Mike states that this is bring coroners’ into further disrepute after similar questionable verdicts elsewhere, and asks why they are making them in the first place. A generous assessment might be to save the victim’s reputation. Suicide is seen very much as the ‘coward’s way out’, instead of what it is – the horrific last act of those in the extremity of despair. And because of the shame about it, many coroners have been unwilling to pass a verdict of suicide, preferring to save the deceased’s reputation by instead deciding that it was all due to accidental death. Now some people do make an attempt on their lives as a desperate ‘cry for help’, rather than genuinely intending to take their own lives. Even so, the person so staging such an act must truly be desperate to even consider such a thing in the face of what can obviously go wrong. Or perhaps, just perhaps, that the sheer number of these cases have become such that the government is find them acutely embarrassing, and so taken what they consider to be the appropriate steps. Mike reported two more or so such suicides last week, for example. Of course, by ‘appropriate steps’, the government does not mean something common sense and humane, like actually getting rid of the Bedroom Tax. No! This is an administration of PR spin merchants, fraudsters and corporate liars. Their response to anything embarrassing is to try to close down the source of information and start lying and attacking the whistleblower. It really, really wouldn’t surprise me if there was some memo passed down from the Home Office stating that in these cases, they should avoid a suicide ruling in order not to distress the people who really count: Ian Duncan Smith and his wretched cronies.

2019-04-25T04:34:05Z

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Understanding The Role Of Carbohydrates And Fat Loss! Go back and read my previous articles on fat loss, spot reducing and cardio, so you more fully understand what we are going to discuss. As we look around today, so much information is available on carbohydrates. The belief in this information as gospel and scientifically sound, has our population fatter than we have ever been. There are so many fad type (low carb, high protein and high fat) diets out there it's amazing to me that anyone can sift through what is exercise science and what is gym science. Go back and read my previous articles on fat loss, spot reducing and cardio, so you more fully understand what we are going to discuss. Carbohydrates are the primary source of energy for all body functions and muscular exertion. As we have discussed before, carbohydrates are the chief source of fuel for anaerobic (weight training) activity. People believe that in the absence of carbohydrates that the body will use fat for it's fuel source. Well that is true, remember, only if you are doing cardio at your fat burning heart rate (Click here to calculate your fat burning heart rate). Since carbohydrates are our chief source of fuel, this leads to rapid depletion of available and stored carbohydrates (glycogen) and creates a continual craving for this macronutrient. Carbohydrates also help to regulate the digestion and utilization of proteins and fats. The principal carbohydrates present in foods occur in the form of simple sugars, starches and cellulose. Simple sugars, such as those in honey and fruits, are easily digested. Double sugars, such as table sugar, require some digestive action but they are not nearly as complex as starches, such as those found in whole grains, rice and potatoes. Starches require prolonged enzymatic action in order to be broken down into simple sugars (i.e., glucose) for utilization. Cellulose, commonly found in the skins of fruits and vegetables, is largely indigestible by humans and helps very little in the diet. It does though; provide the bulk needed for proper intestinal function and aids elimination. All sugars and starches are converted by the body into simple sugars such as glucose or fructose. All sugars must become glucose before the body can use them for energy. Some glucose or "blood sugar" is used as fuel by tissues of the brain, nervous system and muscles. A small amount of the glucose is converted to glycogen and stored in the liver and muscles; any excess is converted to fat and stored throughout the body as a reserve energy source. When total caloric intake exceeds output any extra carbohydrate, fat or protein is stored as body fat. Carbohydrate snacks, which contain large amounts of refined sugars and starches, typically promote a sudden rise in blood sugar levels, thereby providing the body with an immediate source of energy and few nutrients. The "insulin spike" which shortly follows this reaction, rapidly lowers the blood sugar levels and results in uncontrollable cravings for more sugary foods and potentially causing fatigue, dizziness, nervousness and headaches. Diets that are high in refined carbohydrates are usually low in vitamins, minerals and cellulose. Foods such as white flour, white sugar and polished rice are lacking in the B vitamins and other nutrients. Overindulging in starchy and or sweet foods gives you calories without the nutrients and robs you of essential nutrients to metabolize these foods. If you eat a meal or snack that contains a high concentration of refined or simple sugars and is low in fiber, fat or protein, your blood-glucose levels may rise so high that the pancreas over-secretes insulin. This process drives the circulating glucose into the cells at too rapid a rate. As a result, the blood-glucose level may fall low enough to cause symptoms such as fatigue. The effect that food has on a person's blood glucose and insulin response is called the glycemic effect. The glycemic effect determines how fast and how high the blood glucose rises and how quickly the body responds to bring it back to normal. Most people can quickly re-adjust but those with an abnormal carbohydrate metabolism (diabetics, hypoglycemics and insulin resistant) should avoid foods that severely alter circulating blood glucose levels. Awareness of the glycemic effect of various foods may also be beneficial to some athletes and those attempting to reach very low body fat levels with low caloric intake. By avoiding foods that produce too great a rise and too sudden a fall in blood glucose, athletes may be able to accelerate levels of performance or assist satiety. The glycemic index is a physiological measure of the body's ability to derive glucose from carbohydrate containing food. It is defined as the ratio of blood serum glucose derived from food compared to that which is derived from a solution of pure glucose. This ratio is measured over a two-hour period. Besides the monitoring of my foods, I have also found a few supplements that I consider a must for anyone trying to get to extremely low body fat levels. These ergogenic aids work extremely well for anyone trying to loose extra body fat. Chromium Polynicotinate - In order for chromium to be biologically active in the human body it needs to be bound by Niacin. Chromium Polynicotinate (chromate) has been scientifically shown to benefit individuals in a variety of ways including regulating blood sugar, decreasing sugar cravings, and lowering LDL cholesterol levels. It is also considered to be the best form of chromium available (works 364x better than picolinate) While any guidelines for the use of chromium as an ergogenic aid are premature at this time, doses of 200-400mcg/day are safe and almost any athlete is a candidate for chromium depletion and, thus, supplementation. Vanadyl Sulfate - In human beings, pharmacalogic amounts of the trace element vanadium (i.e., 10-100 times the normal intake from food which is between 10-60 mcg/day) affect cholesterol and triglyceride metabolism, influence the shape of erythrocytes and stimulate glucose oxidation and glycogen synthesis in the liver. Vanadium's primary mode of action is as a cofactor that enhances or inhibits enzymes. Vanadyl sulfate is a salt form of vanadium. Users and manufacturer claim that it's insulin-mimicking effects cause glucose and amino acids to be forced into the muscle to a greater degree than under normal conditions. Anecdotal evidence seems to support user claims of the feeling of "Better pumps" This is probably due to vanadium's ability to increase glycogen synthesis. The amount claimed by users to be safe (all minerals can become toxic at too high a level) is between 5-40 mg, split throughout the day. I know that using these supplements has given me that hard as nails, ripped to shreds look that I have become known for. It just makes sense that if we can control blood sugar and increase the amount of glycogen in the muscle, Carbohydrates can be a bodybuilder's best friend! What was it like on the Jenny Jones show? What was her worst moment in bodybuilding? Much more!

2019-04-23T22:01:57Z

https://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/peggy3.htm

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Thank you for signing the Guest Book for Thomas Lloyd Lawson. Please take a moment to sign the Guest Book for Thomas Lloyd Lawson. Tom or as I called him Tommy in school was always kind to me. Later on he worked on the DeKalb University police force with my brother. My sympathy goes out to his family. Aw Tom. Thanks for accepting me without question. You were my Brother in Arms and my Brother in Blue. A funny, warm-hearted man - I wish I had done a better job of staying in touch. Rest well my friend. Condolences to Tom's family and friends. Send me a daily email when updates are made to the obituary or Condolence page for Thomas Lloyd Lawson.

2019-04-23T06:37:27Z

https://www.legacy.com/guestbooks/midweeknews/thomas-lloyd-lawson-condolences/191833008?cid=full

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Saint-Georges-sur-Cher is a commune in the Loir-et-Cher department of central France. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Saint-Georges-sur-Cher. This page was last edited on 9 January 2018, at 21:06 (UTC).

2019-04-21T01:04:43Z

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Georges-sur-Cher

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DONNA, Texas (AP) — Signs bearing a skull and crossbones dot the banks of a reservoir and canal near this town on the U.S.-Mexico border, but the fishermen standing in the reeds nearby ignore them, casually reeling in fish that are contaminated with toxic chemicals and banned for human consumption. Some do it to quell their hunger, others to make some cash by selling the carp, catfish and gar in nearby neighborhoods. "It's a great little lake," says Joe Garcia, 43, among those fishing here one day recently, where a carp with the highest levels of toxic PCB chemicals ever tested in a fish was caught years ago. He says he throws back his catch but a lot of others here can't afford to pass up the meal. The reservoir is one of thousands of sites along the U.S.-Mexico border where industry, pesticide use and population growth left hazards in past decades that still await solutions. Donna is among the worst —earning a place on the Environmental Protection Agency's priority list — and illustrates how slowly the government cleanup process moves and how those struggling for subsistence in poor areas like this sometimes do not wait. Four years after the site made the priority list, the EPA plans to begin soon extensive sampling of the water, sediment and fish that could become the foundation for a cleanup plan. But with limited funds and an elaborate process, the effort could take years, leaving authorities to educate a population that is often more concerned with daily survival than warnings of potential problems. Donna reservoir is surrounded by fields of swaying sugarcane and green leafy rows of celery. Workers who toil in migrant agriculture live in sparse neighborhoods of trailer homes and campers that border the canal. Some stubbornly believe they can cook the chemicals out of the fish, state environmental officials say. "They just don't tend to pay attention to that (sign)," said Juan Salazar, 41, who became so frustrated by the fishermen crossing his yard to reach the water that he erected a small fence. "There are too many low-income families here that may make a living selling this stuff." State and federal officials have repeatedly gone door-to-door to warn residents since PCB contamination was discovered in 1993. Twice federal authorities used electric charges to kill more than 35,000 fish in the reservoir and the 6½-mile canal that brings water from the Rio Grande. But the fish — at least 22 species, including tilapia and largemouth bass — repopulate. Every day, people are drawn to the tranquil scene, where birds feed along the shores and fish constantly break the surface. Officials believe many area residents fish there to supplement their diet. But in the fatty tissue of the fish are polychlorinated biphenyls or PCBs, an industrial residue apparently emanating from something dumped in the canal years ago. Officials say it could be a submerged piece of machinery but haven't been able to find it. PCBs, typically found as oily liquids in electrical equipment, have been banned in the U.S. since 1979 after causing cancer in animal testing. Researchers believe the chemicals can lead to lower birth weights, suppress the immune system and increase the risk of cancer. A carp caught in the Donna canal 19 years ago contained more than 1,500 times the limit of PCBs believed safe, the highest such reading ever. Members of the family who ate it had elevated PCB levels in their blood. Readings taken since then in the lake have been lower but still in the hazardous range. However, the health impact on those eating Donna reservoir fish is unknown because no health survey has been conducted. A 2010 study by Texas Department of State Health Services estimated nearly 4,000 people living within a one-mile radius. The EPA is planning a community meeting in late March to begin the process that could lead to a cleanup plan. One of the best-known PCB cleanup efforts — on a much larger scale — continues in New York's Hudson River more than 27 years after it made the priority list. Tons of sediment have been dredged from the riverbed. Though nearly a dozen people were interviewed near the reservoir for this story, only one admitted to eating the fish he caught, but he then declined to speak further — there is a $500 fine for taking the fish, but not if you throw them back. Officials said some men in the area tend to shrug off the danger but women have been more receptive. Rafael Casanova, EPA project manager, said a pregnant woman he talked to during a local canvas told him she had bought lake fish from someone selling it in the neighborhood. When he described the health danger, "She was very impressed by that," he said. "I felt good about that one."

2019-04-25T08:06:59Z

https://www.salon.com/2012/03/03/anglers_flock_to_contaminated_texas_reservoir/

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Explore the streets, monuments and man-made marvels that changed America. Get an effective and proven plan for shedding weight and reclaiming vitality and good health. Reminisce with hosts Peter Noone and Davy Jones, and other artists, who perform classic 60s songs. Enjoy a a once-in-a-lifetime gathering of 70s soul legends. Patti LaBelle hosts. Join host Zainab Salbi and guests for open, authentic conversations about sexual harassment. Join host Rashida Jones to honor the best stories in television, radio and digital media. Join host Martha Quinn for a joyful jump into the 1980s, when music videos ruled the airwaves.

2019-04-20T04:57:26Z

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Skape7 had the most liked content! Are they rumored to have an off the wall redesign? If anything, I'd like for them to go back to their Wesley Walker / Boomer Esiason kelly green jerseys. Those weren't bad. The white jersey would look so much better with teal numbers and highlights than with black... This jersey is just a few tweaks away from being real solid. Dolphins 2.0. = A. The orange gives this design life again. It finally feels like MIAMI DOLPHINS again. Lions = A- Maintains much of the classic identity Vikings = B+ A modern approach to a classic design. I even like some of the "viking style" flourishes in the sleeve stripes & numbers Seahawks = B- I think these uniforms are unfairly maligned. Neon green is used in just the right ways IMO Dolphins 1.0 = C. Without orange, it looked mostly lifeless, especially compared to the throwbacks Titans = C- While it definitely has that NIKE overdesigned thing going on, most of the elements work well. I like the sword sleeves Jags 2.0 = C- Overcorrected for their former atrocities by creating one of the blandest uniforms of all time. NEEDS MORE GOLD Browns = D. Took a classic uniform and turned it into dawg doo. Team name on pants? WTF? Jags 2.0 = F. A genuine eyesore. Whoever came up with the two-tone helmet should be tarred & feathered so they look like a two-tone helmet. Buccs = Is there a grade lower than an F? The absolute worst number font I have ever seen on any sports uniform anywhere. Repulsive. @BrandMooreArt I've been meaning to ask you... Do the executives or the design team visit Dolphins fan forums to get a sense of what fans are clamoring for or to gauge their reaction to design changes? Funny enough, I do think they took some inspiration from that logo, especially the white space between the top and bottom of the dolphin. Great job with this! Definitely looks like a modern spin on the classic block font. Although I do think rounded corners fit better with the current brand and modern day Miami. Only without the sunburst. Around the time before the logo design, I slapped the old Dolphin Stadium logo on the sunburst. I still think it would be a decent modernized approach with a few tweaks. It captures the essence of the dolphin jumping out of the water without the goofy cartoon look of the 98 logo or the awkward pose of the logo they eventually ended up with. The first comment makes no sense.The number font is exactly the same as the old set. So much better. This seems right. It makes the actual jersey seem even more like a practice jersey. I'd like to see the Ravens, Bengals and Cardinals get new uniforms... I think its time for those teams to refresh. And of course, the Buccs need to do something about those monstrosities as quickly as they are able! Aren't the Rams updating soon?

2019-04-22T02:46:54Z

https://boards.sportslogos.net/profile/39338-skape7/

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Bring your very best shoes!! DAVID GEFFEN, BONO, ROSIE O'DONNELL, MARY CHENEY, CHASTITY BONO, RUPERT EVERETT, THE SCISSOR SISTERS, WHOOPI GOLDBERG, HUGH JACKMAN, ROBIN WILLIAMS, ARIANNA HUFFINGTON, THE GOSSIP, BILL MAHER and CLANNAD URGE YOU TO STAND UP AND MARCH FOR OUR MUSLIM BROTHERS AND SISTERS! ACT-UP, Human Rights Watch, Moveon.org, the Huffington Post and David Geffen present a movement toward freedom, from the light of America into the shadows of Islam, inviting all gay brothers and sisters for an international march to the holiest of holy cities, Mecca, the capital city of Saudi Arabia’s beautiful Makkah province. Join us! Hand in hand, we CAN make a difference! Beg, borrow or buy a burqa or burnouse and join us as we March to Mecca! Have a question about lodging and accommodation? Just click on the "Lodging and Accommodation" link above and Rosie will help you!

2019-04-24T12:36:35Z

http://marchtomecca.tripod.com/

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Most people begin to believe in something at a very young age, whether it’s a superhero or the monster in the closet. But as we get older our belief system matures and grows stronger, and we begin to use belief not just as a basis of proof something exists, but as a source of strength that helps us fulfill our responsibilities and achieve our goals. Imagine getting through your next Taekwondo tournament or belt test without belief in your abilities, belief in the teachings of your instructor or belief in the support of your friends and family. Belief is having the “Yes I can” attitude always and no matter what. Birky, 30, and his wife Melanie, 26, are the embodiment of belief at work. They opened their first school in Elkhart, Ind., when he was just 21 and they opened their second in Mishawaka, Ind. two years ago. The first school now has 450 students and the second has 200, and the Birkys’ students have won close to 30 world titles to go with the two forms and one combat weapons World Championship titles Melanie has won the past three years. Seth and Melanie are 5th Degree Black Belts who will be testing for 6th Degree in a year. Seth said building belief in others hinges on showing that something, starting a business or winning a championship, can be done. There are seven pillars of belief: trust, consistency, dream, vision, determination, courage and humility. “You can relate these pillars of belief to every single day in the life of a student,” said Sr. Master Jack McInerney, 66, who with his daughter and son owns and operates four New Jersey schools under the banner of ATA Black Belt Academy Inc. in the Old Bridge area of the state. Pulling out just a couple pillars — courage and consistency — as examples, McInerney noted the everyday value of each. Consistency can mean something as simple and important as a child learning to brush his teeth each day to developing good work habits at school in order to be promoted to the next grade. And courage, McInerney said, gives a child the perseverance to hammer away at that consistency even when the school workload becomes challenging. McInerney, a veteran of the ATA Legacy and Leadership Program, was impressed by seminars on the subject conducted by Chief Master Von Schmeling in Orlando, Fla., in October and at the World Expo in Little Rock, Ark. last July. “I attribute a lot of what we do and a lot of what we have become to him as well as the Grand Masters,” McInerney said. The Legacy and Leadership Program breaks belief into four levels: 1. Belief in ourselves. 2. Belief in others. 3. Belief in society. 4. Belief in the universe. As Grand Master In Ho Lee explains, one can hardly believe in anything without a belief in oneself. Belief in ourselves is having the confidence to do anything. McInerney frequently sees this among the young ATA Tigers at his school and described one such martial artist, a 6-year-old, who stood up before his whole class and motivated them with his words. McInerney noted public speaking is among adults’ biggest fears, so to develop the belief in oneself to have the confidence at such a young age can only pay dividends later in life, he said. “Think what it’s going to be worth 20 years from now when those children become CEOs and financial advisers and leaders,” McInerney said. Once we’ve learned to believe in ourselves we can learn to believe in others. We have many people — parents, teachers, instructors and friends — who can positively affect our lives if we believe in them. They shape our ethical and moral values, which become the guidelines by which we live. The ATA Leadership booklet recommends having a mentor to believe in in each of the eight basic areas of personal development: health, family, education, career, finances, social, fun and spirituality. Belief in society is learned from the culture we live in. Society and culture also help to further shape our moral and ethical values. The world has always been an uncertain place, and society can potentially offer many limiting beliefs in our surroundings, but, the booklet notes, there are also many empowering ones and it is important to learn to reject the limiting ones — say the temptations of drugs and alcohol — for the empowering beliefs that make us better, things like the custom of keeping our word, religious faith or cultural heritage. Sometimes, we might feel that life is treating us unfairly, but if we have established a belief in the universe we understand that it is always fair no matter how things seem. To do so is to realize the universe is not about you, but that your are an important part of the universe, which functions through a set of rules that, when understood, will help us to also understand the natural results of our attitudes, thoughts and actions. Trust — Firm reliance on the integrity, ability or character of a person or thing. Consistency — The ability to maintain a particular standard or repeat a particular task with minimal variation. Dream — A cherished ambition or ideal. Vision — The ability to imagine how a country, society, industry, etc. could develop in the future and to plan in a suitable way. Determination — Firmness of purpose; resolve. Courage — Quality of being brave; the ability to face danger, difficulty, uncertainty or pain without being overcome by fear or being deflected from a chosen course of action. Humility — The state or quality of being humble; freedom from pride and arrogance.

2019-04-25T14:23:53Z

https://www.ataonline.com/you_better_believe_it

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Jun. 13, 2016, 1:14 p.m. After the mass shooting in an Orlando, Fla., gay nightclub Sunday, a well-known West Hollywood gay bar is considering making armed security guards a regular presence. The Abbey Food & Bar upped its security presence during L.A. Pride celebrations in West Hollywood on Sunday, hours after the Orlando attack. The bar had 36 guards on duty, including visible, armed guards at the front and back entrances at all times, said Brian Rosman, a spokesman for the bar. The Abbey is considering making armed guards a regular presence, especially during peak times such as the Pride event, Rosman said.

2019-04-22T02:46:04Z

https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-orlando-nightclub-shooting-live-west-hollywood-gay-bar-now-considering-1465848729-htmlstory.html

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Walking into Hopfest is like walking into beer heaven, with 70 breweries sharing their brews with beer enthusiasts. Twelve vendors will be making their Hopfest debuts. They include 10 Barrel, Ale Republic, Elysian, Flix Brewhouse, Lava Rock Brewing Co., Rowley’s Farm House Ales, 377 Brewery, Four Peaks and Golden Road as well as Truly Spiked and Sparkling, which make hard sparkling water. Beer lovers who invest in a VIP ticket get to sample exclusive, limited edition beers in a private room, which also offers snacks. For those who prefer ciders and spirits, there will be several options. Imbibe will have its popular cocktail challenge. Guests will be given mini-cocktails and can vote on their favorite. Eventgoers are contributing to the community just by enjoying great beers. A portion of the proceeds benefits several local charities, including the All Faiths Receiving Home, American Cancer Society, Battered Women’s Shelter, El Ranchito de los Niños and the University of New Mexico Children’s Hospital. There is more to the festival than unlimited sampling. There are educational seminars in the education pavilion, live music on two stages and vendors of all kinds selling their jewelry and other wares. There will be plenty of fun and games, including mega beer pong. Paint Nite also will be at the event to help eventgoers create art of their own. New to this year’s festival is live art installations. Hopfest also added a couple more educational seminars. WHEN: Saturday, Aug. 26; VIP entry at 2 p.m., Extra Hoppy Hour from 2-3 p.m., general admission from 3-6 p.m.

2019-04-21T20:45:22Z

https://www.abqjournal.com/1052393/pour-it-on.html?utm_source=abqjournal.com&utm_medium=related+posts+-+blogs&utm_campaign=related+posts

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The Code of Conduct for Visitors and Guests (Code of Conduct) is designed to promote and preserve a safe environment for all who attend and participate in school-sponsored events or use school services. All members of the campus community need to be aware of conduct that may adversely affect the school’s educational function, or disrupt or interfere with the rights of others to pursue their education, conduct their school duties and responsibilities, or to participate in school activities. Toward that end, the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York adopts the following Code of Conduct for Visitors and Guests. The Newmark Graduate School of Journalism may take action against any Visitor or Guest for an offense under the Code of Conduct when such offense occurs on school premises, as part of a school-sponsored event, or in connection with school activities. “Visitor” and “Guest” are understood to mean any person who is neither a student of the school nor a member of its faculty or staff. Actions that can cause physical harm to any person or to the property of others, including that of the school. Engaging in any type of sexual assault. Interfering with the freedom of expression, movement or activity of any person. Committing theft of property or services, or possessing property that is known to be stolen, or damaging the property of others, including that of the school. Failing to comply with the directions of school officials, including those of campus public safety officers when performing their duties. Willfully refusing to leave the campus or site of a school-sponsored event when requested to do so by a School official for having committed, or threatening to commit, or inciting others to commit, any act which would disrupt, interfere with or obstruct the processes, procedures or functions of the School. Engaging in illegal use, possession, or distribution of any controlled substance, illegal drug or alcohol. Engaging in the use, possession, or storage of any weapon or dangerous material that can be used to inflict bodily harm or damage to property, with the exception of a firearm that has been expressly authorized in writing by the Dean or designee. Engaging in disorderly or indecent conduct. Misusing school computing resources by intentionally making or receiving, accessing, altering, using, providing or in any way tampering with files, programs, passwords or hardware belonging to other computer users or to the school without prior authorization. Violating the terms of any sanction imposed in accordance with this Code. A person who violates any of the rules set forth in Section 2 above, depending on the infraction, may be subject to a warning (verbal or written), denial of access to school or other CUNY-sponsored events, arrest, removal and/or bar to campus, and possible adverse action with respect to future employment or admission. The Dean of the school may adopt such procedures, rules or regulations as deemed necessary to implement this Code of Conduct.

2019-04-26T15:47:00Z

https://www.journalism.cuny.edu/about-us/facilities-rentals/visitor-guest-code-conduct/

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Pastor Jay’s sermon from the Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany. The Readings are: Micah 6:1-8, Psalm 15, I Corinthians 1:18-31, Matthew 5:1-12. Readings for the Third Sunday after the Epiphany: Isaiah 9:1-4, Psalm 27:1, 4-9, I Corinthians 1:10-18, Matthew 4:12-23. This Sunday, Pastor Jay began his sermon series on First Corinthians. Readings for the Second Sunday after Epiphany: Isaiah 49:1-7, Psalm 40:1-11, I Corinthians 1:1-9, John 1:29-42. Readings for The Baptism of Our Lord: Isaiah 42:1-9, Psalm 29, Acts 10:34-43, Matthew 3:13-17.

2019-04-20T01:13:03Z

https://calcsermons.wordpress.com/2017/01/

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Is publishing inherently racist? It is interesting that you get black and Asian sections in a bookshop, but no white section. should they all be one? Is this gift book really by Thackeray? Indie booksellers will now be able to sell kindles and earn 10% from sales of ebooks hmm, not sure if this will actually help indies or hinder them. How Where the Wild Things Are relates to real-life. I think we all have a little bit of a Wild Thing in us. J.K. Rowling no longer a billionaire. But for good reasons, mainly. Should GIFs, liveblogs, and memes be allowed in reviews? I like reviews with GIFs, they’re fun, and sometimes pictures work. Buzzfeed are no longer posting negative book reviews. The Washington Post responded by changing some famous negative reviews. No video today. I haven’t found one yet and need to write about 1000 more words for NaNoWriMo before bed. I talked about my first weekend of National Novel Writing Month (my summery of the first week should be up tomorrow) You can still sponsor my efforts. Donations go to Macmillan Cancer Support and The British Heart Foundation. The kids read Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do You See? I’m giving away a copy of The Memory Keepers Daughter as part of The Literary Giveaway Blog Hop.

2019-04-22T00:50:32Z

https://lucybirdbooks.wordpress.com/2013/11/10/sunday-surfing-101113/

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Augmented Reality application for Trademarks in Peru. Peru - the ideal base for exploring the sights of Trujillo application. Augmented Reality application for poles. Augmented Reality Application for Brand Peru.

2019-04-25T10:44:46Z

https://play.google.com/store/apps/collection/cluster?clp=igNLChkKEzc1MDQyOTYxNzI1Mzg4MzQ3MTkQCBgDEiwKJmFwcGludmVudG9yLmFpX1JvYmVyQ29ydGV6Vi5OYXlsYW1wQ2FyEAEYAxgB:S:ANO1ljJKbRQ&gsr=Ck6KA0sKGQoTNzUwNDI5NjE3MjUzODgzNDcxORAIGAMSLAomYXBwaW52ZW50b3IuYWlfUm9iZXJDb3J0ZXpWLk5heWxhbXBDYXIQARgDGAE%3D:S:ANO1ljIGDo4

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The School of Mechanical, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at the annnual Faculty Off-Site meeting in Corvallis, Oregon. As the new head of the School of Mechanical, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Harriet Nembhard, Eric R. Smith Professor of Engineering, is off to a fast start in her first 100 days at Oregon State University. “My initial assessment with everything I’ve observed and absorbed is that this school is ready to take off,” said Nembhard. “We have the pieces and the programs, the outstanding faculty, the impressive growth, and now it is time to take this momentum and truly elevate our achievements to the national and international stage.” Making that journey requires an expanded mindset, added Nembhard, who attributes the school’s strong position to nationally recognized programs, like Robotics, as well as the contributions of her predecessors. Nembhard, who comes from Penn State University, has had a noteworthy career as an academic leader and researcher. Her expertise includes health care systems engineering operations research, process improvement, and quality control. She cofounded and directed the Center for Integrated Healthcare Delivery Systems, which combined expertise from engineering, medicine, nursing, health policy, and information sciences and technology to develop holistic solutions to the challenges of health care delivery. Nembhard also served as the interim department head of Penn State’s Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, where she developed strategies for academic development and faculty recruiting, launched a new master’s degree program, and enrolled its first class. At the school, Nembhard has already taken definitive action, funding the first round of the MIME Strategic Excellence Initiatives. Faculty will submit proposals that address focused areas of the school’s strategic plan each term. Nembhard has allotted $150,000 for the 2016-17 academic year — $50,000 for each term. By 2020, she aims to have $500,000 in annual funding for these faculty proposals. For fall 2016, Nembhard and the associate school heads selected five $10,000 MIME Innovation Grants funding projects for innovation, instructional grants and research equipment, distinguished lecturer visits, and MIME faculty and instructor travel grants. Each term, the leadership team will review the next round of proposals that follow these initiatives. Together with MIME faculty, Nembhard is focusing on the importance of curriculum development. She’s working to expand opportunities for undergraduate research, broaden multidisciplinary research with students and faculty from other engineering schools, and enhance student success through greater participation in student clubs and groups. She also recently organized a MIME student club competition night, where eight club officers made pitches for their groups. The winner earned $1,000 for their club. Called a “PechaKucha Night,” the presentation format is limited to roughly seven minutes, giving students a small window to make their case and tout their clubs achievements.

2019-04-24T03:26:34Z

https://mime.oregonstate.edu/100-days-and-counting

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Dear Dr. Staff: Why is the sky blue? My pappy told me that it's because it reflects the ocean, but then my science teacher told me that it's some sort of reflection in the atmosphere or something, like a rainbow that's only colored blue, and covers the whole sky. Why would anybody want a rainbow like that? Who was right, my pappy, or my teacher? Dear Future Atmosphere: Neither one was right. You see, when galaxies and stuff move away from us, there's this thing called "red shift", which means that their colors become a little bit more red. Well, the opposite of red shift is called "blue shift", and it means that things moving towards us become blue. You've probably heard about all the little flecks of dust and junk that are always falling to the earth from outer space. Well, all these are moving towards us, and, because of the blue shift, they turn real blue because there are so many of them and they're so close.

2019-04-23T14:06:38Z

http://spril.com/spril/staff/s02.html

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This guy's got 'em scared to death! Hope he doesn't see right through me!!

2019-04-25T18:01:21Z

https://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/34304843.html?thread=4766197067

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Lark Austin was murdered. She was brutally attacked and left tied to a tree, left to die from exposure in the frozen Virginia forest. This story is not really about Lark, but more about two of her former friends. Eve used to be close with Lark, sharing a love of swimming until events made her quit. Plagued by guilt, Eve wonders what might have been if she had been there for Lark. Nyetta is also plagued by the ghost of Lark, her former babysitter. Unable to rest in peace, Lark’s spirit is rooted to the tree she died under. As her memory fades and her killer goes unpunished, Lark transforms into the tree. She is surrounded by the souls of others that have met similar fates, all trapped in their wooden coffins. Unable to come to terms with what she is experiencing, Nyetta reaches out to Eve. Together they acknowledge what has happened to their friend to set her soul free. A quick, compelling read, Lark really makes an impact. I read the whole book in one sitting, quickly propelling myself towards the satisfying conclusion. A must for fans of Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones or Katie Williams’s The Space Between Trees.

2019-04-25T02:37:23Z

https://sbyteenreviews.wordpress.com/tag/grief/

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Histon Football Club have installed gates on the road leading to their car park, and now charge £2 per car to park. To avoid the risk that our cars are locked-up before we return, please note the change in starting point. Directions: Take junction 32 exit off A14, and head north on B1049 signed towards Histon and Cottenham. After just 150 yards, turn left at the traffic lights, and follow the road round to the left, and park adjacent to the green "island" on Cambridge Road. Looks like this one is a no go guys. As it stands Dave and Brian have pulled out. I was hoping the weather would take a turn in our favor but it's only gotten worse and now its showing a chance of icy rain. I'm going to pass on this one as I'm having flashbacks of last January's ride. Sorry for the let down but I think this is the best call this one. I think that's a very sensible decision looking that the forecast! We've got snow showers here in Hemel Hempstead today. Hope to see you all when Spring arrives! As promised, details for a ride on the 10th of June. We're riding thru Thetford forest again, I've only been waiting to do this again for near on 2 years. I know hoarder is in and Dave said he's a maybe. I haven't spoken to Atlasshrugged but Wonderbadger said he's free as well so there will be at least 3 to 5 of us not including randoms. I'm going to set our meet time for 0800 and pushing off for 0830 for any stragglers. Angel's Cafe opens a 0800 so those of us who'd like a hot drink of some food before setting off can get their fix. This ride is a 50 miler give or take a few miles guys, so be prepared for a nice long ride. We'll be stopping midway at Elveden Inn for a pint at least and maybe some food depending on the timing. Packing a lunch or something to keep you going isn't a terrible idea. As always we welcome all riders and don't let the distance put you off we only go as fast as our slowest rider. More than one of us knows the area so splitting up the group is no problem. Feel free to contact me with any questions. Off to Thetford Forest again after two years, it was well worth the wait. It was just Jon and I setting off but thanks to two unplanned stops we were soon joined by Andy. The weather was as good as it gets, the company was superb as always, and roads gave as much as they took. I think I'd like to do that ride most days if I could. So here we go again, Off for a ride to Cambridge via Soham. We'll be setting off early and it was clear but there looks to be some rain in the a.m. I guess time will tell. I've got confirmation from the usual suspects so they'll be at least 4 of us. Well I'll shut and get to the good bit. As always all are welcome to join and feel free to message me with any questions. Sadly unable to make this - I'll be at Curborough for the pedal car race at the weekend.

2019-04-25T10:07:47Z

http://forum.bhpc.org.uk/up-for-a-ride_topic5157_post64474.html

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Welcome to the premiere indoor training facility for fastpitch softball and baseball in Bellevue NE! The Powerhouse is a joint training facility for Bellevue ELITE Softball and Lightning Athletics Omaha Baseball. This business venture began in the fall of 2017 when the boards for both organizations came together and developed a strategy which resulted in a quality indoor softball/baseball training facility for our players in the Bellevue/Omaha area. Bellevue Elite offers numerous clinics and camps throughout the year. Go to our webpage to find out more information about our clinics/camps and our program. See our photo album for more!

2019-04-23T20:24:49Z

https://www.leaguelineup.com/welcome.asp?url=powerhouse

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With his match at AFC Bournemouth, James Milner became the 13th player to reach 500 Premier League appearances. At 32 years and 338 days, he is the second-youngest to reach the mark after Gareth Barry did so at 32 years and 219 days. The last player to reach 500 PL appearances was also in a Liverpool shirt, Steven Gerrard in April 2015. Unlike Gerrard, who made all his appearances for one club, Milner is one of only four men to have played more than 100 matches for three different teams in the competition, alongside Barry, Rory Delap and Gary Speed. Milner's first Premier League appearance came for Leeds United, in November 2002 against West Ham United, aged only 16 years and 310 days. When he scored in his fifth match against Sunderland on Boxing Day in 2002 he was the youngest scorer in the competition's history until James Vaughan took his record in 2005. There is one Premier League record Milner still holds. He has scored in 50 different Premier League matches, most recently the midweek 3-1 win at Burnley, and in all of them he's not ended on the losing side, winning 39 and drawing 11. No player has scored in as many matches without suffering a defeat. The Liverpool players dedicated the victory at AFC Bournemouth to their team-mate. Mohamed Salah said Milner should keep the man-of-the-match trophy that he was asked to hand to the Egyptian for his hat-trick. Defender Andy Robertson also paid tribute to Milner. "What a career he has had," Robertson told Liverpool's official website. "He has played at the top for all of it and played for some really good clubs. "He is still the fittest in the squad and is still pushing himself every single day. I'm sure he'll go on and do incredible numbers."

2019-04-23T18:20:22Z

https://www.premierleague.com/news/936025

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West Ham United will have one very interested observer tuning into BT Sport’s live coverage of their Premier League fixture with Manchester United on Saturday. Frank O’Farrell is the oldest former Hammers player still alive – he will turn 91 on 9 October – having made his Claret and Blue debut at Notts County in November 1950, nearly 68 years ago. After seven seasons in Claret and Blue, the Cork-born wing half continued his career with First Division Preston North End, before moving into coaching, replacing Sir Matt Busby as Manchester United manager for an 18-month spell in June 1971. Now living in Devon, O’Farrell told Saturday’s Official Programme how he follows the fortunes of his two old clubs on the television, while helping to care for wife, Ann. Seven decades after he swapped Cork United for West Ham United, O’Farrell remains as sharp as ever and takes a keen interest in modern Premier League football as a whole. “It’s certainly a good time to be a player or a manager with the salaries they earn now!” he smiled. “Life changes and football changes but the important thing for me is that all these years on, the game’s retained its popularity and fans still want to go and support their teams. “There are always going to be different things coming along. Different challenges are thrown at you throughout your time and all you can do is get on and do your best. To read O’Farrell’s full interview and much, much more exclusive content, download or purchase Saturday’s 100-page Official Programme. The Digital Official Programme is available to download to your iPad or iPhone, Android devices, PC and Mac and via the Pocketmags app on kindle fire and Blackberry Playbook.

2019-04-20T00:42:51Z

https://www.whufc.com/news/articles/2018/september/28-september/oldest-living-hammer-ofarrell-still-steaming-along

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