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Damian Whitewood And Danielle Spencer Make Dancing With The Stars Grand Finals In Australia (Video Coverage)
All eyes on much loved and fan favorite Dancing With The Stars pro Damian Whitewood. He and his partner Danielle Spencer have made the Grand Finals in the Australian version of Dancing With The Stars. Below is what their official site is reporting on their two dances, judges comments, and scoring. You can read the link for more on the night and how Danielle's husband and Academy Award winning actor Russell Crowe (seen above with Danielle) made a surprise visit with the couple's children Tennyson and Charlie at the end of the show.
Danielle's Tango was slightly amiss tonight although the judge's admitted her dancing left little room for error. "We just expect perfection from you guys because you're capable of delivering it," Todd said, while Helen said the dance was "close to perfect".
In their second performances of the night, our celebrities raised the bar with knockout dances – Zoe taking out her second perfect score of 30 for the season, with Danielle one behind on 29.
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JOHNNY RUFFO & Luda Kroitor 25 + 22 = 47
ZOE CRAMOND & Aric Yegudkin 26 + 30 = 56
DANIELLE SPENCER & Damian Whitewood 27 + 29 = 56
BRENDAN FEVOLA & Jessica Raffa 15 + 27 = 42
Here is some video coverage of Damian and Danielle's two dances. Her kids are sooo adorable! There are some new dance moves that I have never seen before. 😯 Dame Edna makes an appearance to critique. She is a total crack up!
More coverage at 123DanceTV.
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In Memoriam: His Eminence Metropolitan Constantine (1936–2012), Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA
21 May 2012 • Alumnus Memoriam
With deep sorrow, the community of St. Vladimir's Seminary bids farewell to an illustrious and beloved alumnus, His Eminence Metropolitan Constantine, 76, who was Ruling Hierarch of the Central Eparchy and Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA. His Eminence fell asleep in the Lord this morning, May 21, 2012—one day after celebrating the 40th anniversary of his Archpastoral ministry in the Pittsburgh area.
Metropolitan Constantine (baptismal name "Theodore") was born to the late Stanley and Catherine Sydor Buggan in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1936. From his youth, he was raised in an environment of deep faith and was encouraged by his family and parish priests to pursue a priestly vocation.
In September 1954, he entered St. Andrew's College in Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada, at that time the only Ukrainian Orthodox Seminary in North America. His four years there provided an opportunity to learn from the greatest Ukrainian Orthodox theologian in recent centuries, Metropolitan Ilarion (Ohienko). Completing his studies at St. Andrew's in 1959 with a Licentiate in Theology, young Theodore entered St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary to further his academic and spiritual formation through the inspiration of its renowned professors, Nicholas Arseniev, Sergius Verhovskoy, and Fr. Alexander Schmemann.
Metropolitan Constantine warmly reminisced about his time as a seminarian at St. Vladimir's (then located in Manhattan), in a published interview in The SVS Vine, Annual Report FY 2010, saying:
"Back then, we seminarians were divided in a large apartment building, on separate floors—2, 4, and 6; I shared apartment 66, owned by 'Mama Oakie' as we nicknamed her, with 'Tom Hopko' and 'Paul Ziatyk'. We had to cook our own meals. All the seminarians would gather together for chapel, which was a converted apartment on the third floor, and then we'd walk across the street to our classes at Union Theological Seminary. It was surely a very different environment than what the seminarians of today know, but it was a wonderful experience and I have many warm memories."
Returning to Pittsburgh after his studies at St. Vladimir's, he then pursued undergraduate and graduate studies in Philosophy at Duquesne University, completing his doctorate in 1967. On April 23, 1967 he was ordained into the Holy Diaconate by His Eminence, Archbishop Mstyslav (Skrypnyk) in St. Andrew's Memorial Church in South Bound Brook, New Jersey. Deacon Theodore was ordained to the Holy Priesthood in his home parish of St. Vladimir on the South Side of Pittsburgh on July 23, 1967, by His Beatitude, Metropolitan John (Theodorovich) of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA. He was assigned to serve as assistant pastor at St. Vladimir Cathedral in Chicago on September 1, 1967. His pastoral assignment was to St. Nicholas Parish in Troy, New York, from 1968–1972. During this time he immersed himself in all aspects of parish life, inspiring his flock with the profound richness of genuine Orthodox theology and liturgics. In addition to his pastoral responsibilities, he served as Spiritual Advisor to the Ukrainian Orthodox League.
Father Theodore was tonsured into the monastic schema on December 18, 1971, being given the name Constantine, and was elevated to the dignity of Archimandrite on December 19. He was consecrated Bishop at the hands of His Beatitude Metropolitan Mstyslav and His Grace Bishop Mark (Hundiak) in St. Vladimir Cathedral in Philadelphia on May 7, 1972 and assigned to the Episcopal See of Chicago, becoming the first hierarch of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church since St. Petro Mohyla to be born outside the borders of Ukraine. He was elevated to the rank of Archbishop in 1976. He was elevated to the dignity of Metropolitan on 1992, and upon the repose of His Beatitude Metropolitan Mstyslav on June 11, 1993, he became Prime Hierarch of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA and the Diaspora.
The Holy and Sacred Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, during its meeting on March 12, 1995, under the presidency of His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, unanimously accepted His Beatitude Metropolitan Constantine and his fellow Ukrainian Orthodox bishops of the USA and Diaspora under the omophorion of the Ecumenical Patriarchate. Thereafter the Holy and Sacred Synod proceeded to elect His Beatitude Metropolitan Constantine titular hierarch with the title of Metropolitan of Irinoupolis, to serve the pastoral needs of the Ukrainian Orthodox living in the USA, thus leading the faithful sons and daughter of the Church into the fullness of canonical world Orthodoxy. In July 2000, Metropolitan Constantine was awarded an honorary Doctor of Divinity from St. Andrew's College of the University of Manitoba.
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When Andre Lotterer took the checkered flag at this year's Le Mans 24 race, the German motorsport driver made history.
Not content with powering Audi to its 11th win in the grueling endurance race, his car also became the first "hybrid" to take the top position at Circuit de la Sarthe. But what is perhaps even more remarkable is that his diesel hybrid car draws on a technology more often associated with 19th Century machinery than racing cars.
Inside his 200mph (320km/h) V6 racer was a device known as a flywheel, a rotating mechanical device, traditionally used to store energy from steam engines. They can be thought of as a mechanical battery. In their simplest form, they are just a heavy disc mounted on a shaft that store rotational energy. Spin the disc up, and it gains momentum and keeps spinning. Couple the spinning disc to something, say the powertrain of a Le Mans sports car, and it can be used for a quick energy kick.
"Under acceleration it is able to deliver that energy back to wheels and give an acceleration boost that ideally you use at the beginning of a straight or as you come out of a corner to reduce the lap time," says David Greenwood, head of hybrid and electric systems product group, at engineering firm Ricardo UK, who was not involved in the Audi system.
Coupled with their ability to reduce fuel consumption, flywheels are making a comeback. Now, they are being incorporated into everything from Formula 1 cars to city buses. And in a few years, they could be in your new saloon.
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Today, the most common type of hybrid system is a petrol or diesel engine paired with one or more electric motors or generators, along with a battery pack. When the vehicle coasts or when the driver brakes, a generator charges the cells. When the driver accelerates the same generator is run in reverse as an electric motor, and helps propel the vehicle forwards.
But battery packs are big, heavy, expensive and have a "low power density", meaning they store little power compared to the space they take up. Traditionally flywheels have also been big and bulky, but new materials mean they can be made smaller, able to spin faster. Crucially, they also have a high power density making them ideal for lightweight vehicles from passenger cars to track-bound speed machines.
In a vehicle, the flywheel is used to store energy when coasting or braking, by spinning the disc to ever faster speeds. When power is needed, a gearbox helps transfer it from the disc to the drive wheels. Unlike a battery-electric hybrid, the energy captured doesn't have to be converted from mechanical to electrical, and then to chemical. It is stored as mechanical energy, and fewer conversions means fewer losses.
The system used in Lotterer's Audi was at the cutting edge of today's flywheel designs. It was part of a so-called kinetic energy recovery system (Kers), designed by the Formula 1 team Williams. It is made of high-tech carbon composites and has no physical connection between the wheel and the power trains it drives – instead relying on an electrical connection. It is charged when the car brakes.
The technology was first developed by Williams for the 2009 Formula 1 season when Kers was first allowed. However, the Although it is still allowed, and used in some cars, many teams don't use it – preferring to use well understood battery alternatives.
In the meantime, Williams and other firms have set up divisions to push the technology towards more mainstream use. Greenwood's firm, for example, has built one that uses a carbon fibre disk about 30cm in diameter. It spins at up to 60,000rpm, meaning the edge of the disc is moving at about Mach 3, or three times the speed of sound.
"Clearly to do that we have to run the flywheel in a vacuum, or the air friction that we would get on the outside of the flywheel would cause very high energy loss," says Greenwood. "It would also heat up the composite to the point at which it would disintegrate."
To maintain the vacuum the flywheel is in a sealed chamber, and a magnetic coupling is used.
"We take all of the drive out with a set of magnets which sit on the outside of the flywheel casing, and because of the clever way that we have arranged the magnets you get a gear ratio between the two," he says.
"That means that although everything is rotating very fast inside the vacuum chamber, everything outside is rotating at relatively normal speeds."
That reduces any drag and air resistance. And because the flywheel is rotating so fast, the engineers do not need very much torque to get a very high power from it, which reduces the strain on the magnetic coupling.
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One of the first mass uses of fly wheels might be the "Flybus" – not, as the name would suggest, an airport shuttle - but a bus fitted with a flywheel. Buses have a long history of using flywheels stretching back to the 1940s when Swiss firm Oerlikon introduced the Gyrobus. But early designs needed fixed charging points at bus stops and junctions to give the flywheel a boost. But, like with cars, the ability to recover energy from the braking process means they are now more viable. And because their routes are by design stop-start, energy recovery could improve fuel consumption.
"It's a technology which lends itself very well to working at very high power, but not needing to store energy for a very long time," says Greenwood.
It is a sector that Williams also has its eye on with its GyroDrive technology. It claims that a flywheel – either retrofitted or built in to a new bus – could save up to 30% of fuel, along with associated CO2. The firm also envisages the system being used to power onboard lights and electrical systems.
And once it has proven itself to be safe, reliable, cheap, and effective, the technology may then begin to trickle down into other use. Experts currently believe it is about five years until flywheel technology being incorporated into passenger cars. When it is, it could offer an improvement in fuel consumption of 12-15%, for about half the price of a conventional hybrid, not to mention the performance gains that are so attractive to motorsports teams.
From racetracks to roads, it seems everyone could benefit from reinventing the wheel.
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Janus Adams: Remembering Elizabeth Catlett
This month the world lost the renowned sculptor and printmaker, Elizabeth Catlett. With family and friends preparing to travel to her home in Cuernavaca, Mexico, for celebration, she died days shy of her 96th birthday.
I visited her at home years ago. Ushered past romantic Mexican walls along an idyllic garden corridor into a true "living" room, I was welcomed into a place two people had made into a world all their own.
Behind the living room, at opposite ends of the courtyard were their separate studios. Throughout the workday, husband and wife would walk back and forth, exchanging critiques, encouragement, fruit.
"We work collectively," said Elizabeth of her marriage to fellow artist Francisco Mora, known as Pancho to family and friends -- a revolutionary of the brush inspired by a revolutionary of the people.
In the word "collectively" was the freedom she had found in a land where among the stories not told north of the Rio Grande about the Alamo was this: the newly seized Texas wanted a slave state, while Mexico, having ended Spanish slavery, had already elected a black president.
Nearly a century old, Catlett lived the traumatic, albeit promising, history that would yield the United States' first African-American president.
As a high school student, she had won, on the merits of a competitive exam, a scholarship to attend Carnegie Institute, only to have the scholarship withdrawn on account of racism. Devastated, she was revived by her mother and acceptance by Howard University -- an HBCU, Historically Black College/University -- in 1932.
At Howard, she was welcomed into the world of African-American scholarship. Thinking herself a designer, she studied textiles with scholar/painter Lois Mailou Jones. Art history professor James Herring introduced her to African sculpture. Her painting teacher, James A. Porter, ushered in the Mexican muralists, and young Catlett declared a major in painting.
As artist, African American, and woman, Catlett etched a place for herself in art. Art was inspiration. Art was power. Art empowered.
In the 1940s and 1950s, as black vets left foreign battlefields for the racial minefields of home, some artists sought acceptance in the art world by downplaying their identity as blacks. They decried the once all-black shows borne of necessity as self-segregation.
Not so, said Elizabeth Catlett. Black exhibitions did not mean segregated exhibitions; there was a difference between what one chose and what one was forced to do.
"Let us take our painting and prints and sculpture," said she, "not only to Atlanta University, to the art galleries, and to patrons of the arts who have money to buy them; let us exhibit where Negro people meet -- in the churches, in the schools and universities, in the associations and clubs and trade unions. Then let us seek inspiration in the Negro people -- a principal and never-ending source."
Her stand was revolutionary for its time; a time when -- in art as in life -- McCarthyism dominated all like the strokes of a too-broad brush on a narrow canvas. Catlett's growing appeal as an artist in the 1950s made her the target of freedom's foes -- purveyors of fear and racist oppression.
Receiving a fellowship in the late 1940s to travel to Mexico City to study painting, sculpture and lithography, she had worked with the People's Graphic Arts Workshop -- a group of printmakers dedicated to using their art to promote social change. That was her "crime."
For being true to her art; for championing the need for social change in a segregated pre-Civil Rights-era America; for speaking artful truth on the plight of African Americans, and for refusing assimilation into "the mass of American artists who must say nothing socially," she was hounded and blacklisted by the U.S. government.
The fact that her husband, the son of a poor family, envisioned in art an obligation to work for the people -- the Mexican railroad workers, in particular -- was seen as further cause for intimidation.
Even in Mexico, beyond U.S. borders, McCarthy-era zealotry harassed Catlett for her interests and friendships of twenty years earlier. Was there no statute of limitations?
By the 1980s, when I met her, as with the bad times, there seemed no limitation on the good, either. Her home -- her "living" room -- was a lush, peaceful place, its structure hewn of a steadfast tenacity of spirit.
There, in that time, we talked of love -- of work, of art, for one's spouse, and of life. She is loved and missed.
To learn more about Elizabeth Catlett's work, visit the Smithsonian Institution's new "Oh Freedom!" online exhibit at http://africanamericanart.si.edu
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Fare With Flair: Lamb gives meatball Moroccan flavour
My love affair with meatballs began when my Mom served me my first plate of spaghetti and meatballs.
The tender rounds of beef and pork had simmered in tomato sauce all day. I was hooked.
Years later, my sister introduced me to Swedish meatballs and that was followed by my sister-in-law's delicious Texan meatballs.
There have been bite-sized cocktail versions and massive ones that make a meal.
Many are made of meat, of course, but there are vegetarian versions, too. But I guess we shouldn't call those "meatballs," should we?
This week I'm featuring Moroccan seasonings with ground lamb to create a tasty version that gets simmered in a slightly spicy tomato sauce, flavoured with cinnamon and cumin.
Serve this comfort dish with a side of either couscous or bulgur. Or you can accompany them with pita bread.
I also like to put a dish of labneh on the side. This strained yogurt cheese is absolutely delicious. You can find it at Middle Eastern markets and at some of the large Asian markets.
If you are not a fan of lamb, you can substitute a combination of ground beef and pork for the meatballs.
Moroccan Meatballs
(Makes 24)
2 lbs. (1 kg) ground lamb
1 cup (250 ml) bread crumbs
½ cup (125 ml) milk
½ cup (125 ml) chopped parsley
¼ (50 ml) chopped fresh mint
3 cloves garlic, minced
1 tbsp. (15 ml) minced fresh ginger
2 tsp. (10 ml) ground cumin
2 tsp. (10 ml) salt
2 tbsp. (25 ml) olive oil
1 large onion, finely diced
2 tsp. (10 ml) minced ginger
1 tsp. (5 ml) ground cumin
1 tsp. (5 ml) ground cinnamon
1 tsp. (5 ml) harissa or ½ tsp. cayenne pepper
1 28-oz. (798-ml) can of diced tomatoes
Salt to taste
2 tbsp. (25 ml) chopped fresh mint
Couscous or bulgur
Yogurt or labneh
Pita bread
1. In medium bowl, combine lamb, bread crumbs, milk, parsley, mint, garlic, ginger, cumin and salt. Mix together well with your hands.
2. Roll meat into balls about size of golf ball and place on parchment-lined baking sheet.
3. Preheat oven to 400 F (200 C).
4. Bake meatballs about 12-15 minutes. Turn broiler on and cook until meatballs are golden on top, 2 to 3 minutes (watch carefully). Remove from oven.
5. While meatballs are baking, heat oil in medium saucepan over medium heat. Add onion and cook until soft.
6. Stir in ginger, cumin, cinnamon and harissa. Add tomatoes and bring to simmer.
7. Add salt to taste.
8. Add meatballs to sauce and simmer on low heat about 20-30 minutes.
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- Supervise employees performing financial reporting, accounting, billing, collections, payroll, and budgeting duties.
- Coordinate and direct the financial planning, budgeting, procurement, or investment activities of all or part of an organization.
- Develop internal control policies, guidelines, and procedures for activities such as budget administration, cash and credit management, and accounting.
- Maintain current knowledge of organizational policies and procedures, federal and state policies and directives, and current accounting standards.
- Prepare or direct preparation of financial statements, business activity reports, financial position forecasts, annual budgets, or reports required by regulatory agencies.
- Provide direction and assistance to other organizational units regarding accounting and budgeting policies and procedures and efficient control and utilization of financial resources.
- Analyze the financial details of past, present, and expected operations to identify development opportunities and areas where improvement is needed.
- Advise management on short-term and long-term financial objectives, policies, and actions.
- Monitor financial activities and details, such as cash flow and reserve levels, to ensure that all legal and regulatory requirements are met.
- Evaluate needs for procurement of funds and investment of surpluses and make appropriate recommendations.
- Monitor and evaluate the performance of accounting and other financial staff, recommending and implementing personnel actions, such as promotions and dismissals.
- Develop and maintain relationships with banking, insurance, and external accounting personnel to facilitate financial activities.
- Receive, record, and authorize requests for disbursements in accordance with company policies and procedures.
- Delegate authority for the receipt, disbursement, banking, protection, and custody of funds, securities, and financial instruments.
- Conduct or coordinate audits of company accounts and financial transactions to ensure compliance with state and federal requirements and statutes.
- Lead staff training and development in budgeting and financial management areas.
- Prepare and file annual tax returns or prepare financial information so that outside accountants can complete tax returns.
- Compute, withhold, and account for all payroll deductions.
- Handle all aspects of employee insurance, benefits, and casualty programs, including monitoring changes in health insurance regulations and creating budgets for benefits and worker's compensation.
- Receive cash and checks and make deposits.
- Perform tax planning work.
Technology Skills
- Economics and Accounting — Knowledge of economic and accounting principles and practices, the financial markets, banking and the analysis and reporting of financial data.
- Administration and Management — Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.
- Mathematics — Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.
- English Language — Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
- Law and Government — Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process.
- Personnel and Human Resources — Knowledge of principles and procedures for personnel recruitment, selection, training, compensation and benefits, labor relations and negotiation, and personnel information systems.
- Computers and Electronics — Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.
- Critical Thinking — Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
- Judgment and Decision Making — Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
- Complex Problem Solving — Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
- Management of Financial Resources — Determining how money will be spent to get the work done, and accounting for these expenditures.
- Reading Comprehension — Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.
- Speaking — Talking to others to convey information effectively.
- Active Listening — Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
- Mathematics — Using mathematics to solve problems.
- Active Learning — Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
- Coordination — Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
- Monitoring — Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
- Writing — Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
- Time Management — Managing one's own time and the time of others.
- Systems Analysis — Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
- Systems Evaluation — Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system.
- Social Perceptiveness — Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
- Learning Strategies — Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things.
- Management of Personnel Resources — Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job.
- Negotiation — Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences.
- Persuasion — Persuading others to change their minds or behavior.
- Deductive Reasoning — The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
- Inductive Reasoning — The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
- Oral Comprehension — The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
- Oral Expression — The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
- Problem Sensitivity — The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.
- Written Comprehension — The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
- Mathematical Reasoning — The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem.
- Near Vision — The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
- Written Expression — The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
- Information Ordering — The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
- Number Facility — The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly.
- Speech Clarity — The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
- Speech Recognition — The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
- Category Flexibility — The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.
- Fluency of Ideas — The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity).
- Originality — The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem.
- Speed of Closure — The ability to quickly make sense of, combine, and organize information into meaningful patterns.
- Flexibility of Closure — The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material.
- Perceptual Speed — The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object.
Work Activities
- Making Decisions and Solving Problems — Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
- Analyzing Data or Information — Identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts.
- Getting Information — Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
- Processing Information — Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data.
- Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates — Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person.
- Developing Objectives and Strategies — Establishing long-range objectives and specifying the strategies and actions to achieve them.
- Interacting With Computers — Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information.
- Monitoring and Controlling Resources — Monitoring and controlling resources and overseeing the spending of money.
- Developing and Building Teams — Encouraging and building mutual trust, respect, and cooperation among team members.
- Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work — Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work.
- Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge — Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.
- Communicating with Persons Outside Organization — Communicating with people outside the organization, representing the organization to customers, the public, government, and other external sources. This information can be exchanged in person, in writing, or by telephone or e-mail.
- Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards — Using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards.
- Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others — Translating or explaining what information means and how it can be used.
- Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships — Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time.
- Guiding, Directing, and Motivating Subordinates — Providing guidance and direction to subordinates, including setting performance standards and monitoring performance.
- Provide Consultation and Advice to Others — Providing guidance and expert advice to management or other groups on technical, systems-, or process-related topics.
- Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events — Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
- Thinking Creatively — Developing, designing, or creating new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions.
- Coaching and Developing Others — Identifying the developmental needs of others and coaching, mentoring, or otherwise helping others to improve their knowledge or skills.
- Coordinating the Work and Activities of Others — Getting members of a group to work together to accomplish tasks.
- Resolving Conflicts and Negotiating with Others — Handling complaints, settling disputes, and resolving grievances and conflicts, or otherwise negotiating with others.
- Monitor Processes, Materials, or Surroundings — Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems.
- Judging the Qualities of Things, Services, or People — Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people.
- Staffing Organizational Units — Recruiting, interviewing, selecting, hiring, and promoting employees in an organization.
- Scheduling Work and Activities — Scheduling events, programs, and activities, as well as the work of others.
- Documenting/Recording Information — Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic/magnetic form.
- Estimating the Quantifiable Characteristics of Products, Events, or Information — Estimating sizes, distances, and quantities; or determining time, costs, resources, or materials needed to perform a work activity.
- Training and Teaching Others — Identifying the educational needs of others, developing formal educational or training programs or classes, and teaching or instructing others.
Detailed Work Activities
- Supervise employees.
- Direct financial operations.
- Develop operating strategies, plans, or procedures.
- Develop organizational policies or programs.
- Prepare financial documents, reports, or budgets.
- Maintain knowledge of current developments in area of expertise.
- Prepare reports related to compliance matters.
- Advise others on business or operational matters.
- Analyze financial records to improve efficiency.
- Determine resource needs.
- Monitor flow of cash or other resources.
- Monitor organizational compliance with regulations.
- Recommend organizational process or policy changes.
- Compile operational data.
- Evaluate employee performance.
- Establish interpersonal business relationships to facilitate work activities.
- Approve expenditures.
- Conduct financial or regulatory audits.
- Manage control system activities in organizations.
- Administer compensation or benefits programs.
- Collect payments for goods or services.
- Prepare operational budgets.
- Conduct employee training programs.
- Analyze financial records to improve budgeting or planning.
- Determine pricing or monetary policies.
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Work Context
- Indoors, Environmentally Controlled — 100% responded "Every day."
- Electronic Mail — 97% responded "Every day."
- Telephone — 97% responded "Every day."
- Face-to-Face Discussions — 93% responded "Every day."
- Spend Time Sitting — 67% responded "Continually or almost continually."
- Duration of Typical Work Week — 77% responded "More than 40 hours."
- Importance of Being Exact or Accurate — 57% responded "Extremely important."
- Freedom to Make Decisions — 57% responded "A lot of freedom."
- Structured versus Unstructured Work — 47% responded "A lot of freedom."
- Work With Work Group or Team — 50% responded "Very important."
- Contact With Others — 50% responded "Constant contact with others."
- Impact of Decisions on Co-workers or Company Results — 50% responded "Very important results."
- Frequency of Decision Making — 47% responded "Every day."
- Letters and Memos — 43% responded "Once a week or more but not every day."
- Time Pressure — 57% responded "Once a week or more but not every day."
- Responsibility for Outcomes and Results — 63% responded "High responsibility."
- Coordinate or Lead Others — 53% responded "Very important."
- Level of Competition — 47% responded "Highly competitive."
- Importance of Repeating Same Tasks — 38% responded "Very important."
- Deal With External Customers — 27% responded "Fairly important."
- Frequency of Conflict Situations — 40% responded "Once a month or more but not every week."
- Consequence of Error — 30% responded "Very serious."
- Degree of Automation — 40% responded "Moderately automated."
Job Zone
|Job Zone Five: Extensive Preparation Needed
|Most of these occupations require graduate school. For example, they may require a master's degree, and some require a Ph.D., M.D., or J.D. (law degree).
|Related Experience
|Extensive skill, knowledge, and experience are needed for these occupations. Many require more than five years of experience. For example, surgeons must complete four years of college and an additional five to seven years of specialized medical training to be able to do their job.
|Job Training
|Employees may need some on-the-job training, but most of these occupations assume that the person will already have the required skills, knowledge, work-related experience, and/or training.
|Job Zone Examples
|These occupations often involve coordinating, training, supervising, or managing the activities of others to accomplish goals. Very advanced communication and organizational skills are required. Examples include pharmacists, lawyers, astronomers, biologists, clergy, neurologists, and veterinarians.
|SVP Range
|(8.0 and above)
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- Conventional — Conventional occupations frequently involve following set procedures and routines. These occupations can include working with data and details more than with ideas. Usually there is a clear line of authority to follow.
- Enterprising — Enterprising occupations frequently involve starting up and carrying out projects. These occupations can involve leading people and making many decisions. Sometimes they require risk taking and often deal with business.
Work Styles
- Integrity — Job requires being honest and ethical.
- Analytical Thinking — Job requires analyzing information and using logic to address work-related issues and problems.
- Leadership — Job requires a willingness to lead, take charge, and offer opinions and direction.
- Initiative — Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges.
- Attention to Detail — Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks.
- Dependability — Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations.
- Achievement/Effort — Job requires establishing and maintaining personally challenging achievement goals and exerting effort toward mastering tasks.
- Persistence — Job requires persistence in the face of obstacles.
- Stress Tolerance — Job requires accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively with high stress situations.
- Adaptability/Flexibility — Job requires being open to change (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace.
- Cooperation — Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude.
- Independence — Job requires developing one's own ways of doing things, guiding oneself with little or no supervision, and depending on oneself to get things done.
- Self Control — Job requires maintaining composure, keeping emotions in check, controlling anger, and avoiding aggressive behavior, even in very difficult situations.
- Innovation — Job requires creativity and alternative thinking to develop new ideas for and answers to work-related problems.
- Concern for Others — Job requires being sensitive to others' needs and feelings and being understanding and helpful on the job.
- Social Orientation — Job requires preferring to work with others rather than alone, and being personally connected with others on the job.
Work Values
- Working Conditions — Occupations that satisfy this work value offer job security and good working conditions. Corresponding needs are Activity, Compensation, Independence, Security, Variety and Working Conditions.
- Achievement — Occupations that satisfy this work value are results oriented and allow employees to use their strongest abilities, giving them a feeling of accomplishment. Corresponding needs are Ability Utilization and Achievement.
- Independence — Occupations that satisfy this work value allow employees to work on their own and make decisions. Corresponding needs are Creativity, Responsibility and Autonomy.
Wages & Employment Trends
Median wages data collected from Financial Managers.
Employment data collected from Financial Managers.
Industry data collected from Financial Managers.
|Median wages (2018)
|$61.53 hourly, $127,990 annual
|State wages
|Employment (2018)
|654,000 employees
|Projected growth (2018-2028)
|Much faster than average (11% or higher)
|Projected job openings (2018-2028)
|State trends
|Top industries (2018)
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics 2018 wage data
and 2018-2028 employment projections
"Projected growth" represents the estimated change in total employment over the projections period (2018-2028). "Projected job openings" represent openings due to growth and replacement.
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Southbound I-75 in Pasco County has reopened after being shut down for nearly four hours this morning following two major crashes involving three tractor-trailers and a vehicle.
The Florida Highway Patrol said the crashes occurred around 5 a.m. at the 293 mile post in Dade City, near the Hernando County line and between State Roads 50 and 52.
The FHP said two tractor-trailers were stopped in the southbound inside lane due to a road block from a previous crash, involving a tractor-trailer and an SUV.
As a tractor-trailer, traveling in the outside lane, slowed for the crash, it was rear-ended by another tractor-trailer.
The tractor-trailer that was struck – employed by McCollister's Transportation Systems of Burlington, N.J. – then jackknifed while continuing south, striking a tractor-trailer employed by T & J Trucking of Cullman, Ala.
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ISTANBUL, Turkey (WOMENSENEWS)--Sosin and her family moved from rural Turkey to Istanbul, the country's largest city, and for four years she did not leave the house, not even to buy food for her children.
"I was afraid to be lost. I never saw any place outside the house. We would be starving with the children until evening when my husband would come home," she told researchers with the Istanbul-based Basak Culture and Art Foundation. Its findings were published last year in the book, "What Has Changed? Kurdish Women's Experiences with Forced Migration."
"Women are generally more active in their villages, where they work in fields, walk around and have a social life," Nese Erdilek, administrative director of the Center for Migration Research at Istanbul's Bilgi University, told Women's eNews. "In the city, the whole family is under pressure and fearful of the outside world. Social pressure [on women] is a kind of defense for the family."
Erdilek said women are often not part of the decision to move and have less experience in surroundings other than their rural or small-town homes.
Agricultural upheavals, lack of economic opportunity and, more recently, violence and political pressure in Turkey's largely Kurdish eastern and southeastern regions -- where Sosin comes from -- have driven repeated waves of internal migration since the late 1940s. Many families find their way to Istanbul, home to a fifth of the country's population and accounting for nearly half of its wealth. In the process, Turkey has been completely transformed, from 25 percent urban in 1950 to 75 percent urban today.
For women caught up in this migration, the uprooting can be particularly harsh.
A Greater Dependency
Some women from the Kurdish ethnic minority group, such as Sosin, don't speak Turkish when they arrive. This leaves them more dependent on male family members, since state policies prohibit the official use of the Kurdish language.
"Since they do not know the language, they are imprisoned in a way in their houses," Erdilek said. "Their only contact with the outside world is through their husbands and children."
Rural women are often particularly ill-equipped for city life due to conservative cultural norms that can limit their access to education and employment. Illiteracy rates throughout the country's eastern regions are double the national average of 11 percent, hitting 29 percent in southeast Turkey, according to a 2010 report by the Center for Economic and Social Research (BETAM) at Bahcesehir University in Istanbul. Women account for the vast majority, around 80 percent, of illiterate people in nearly all regions of Turkey, BETAM noted.
"Many women say they wanted to work outside the home but their families wouldn't allow them to go to school, so they have no occupational skills," Zozan Ozgokce of the Van Women's Association, a nongovernmental organization working in eastern Turkey, told Women's eNews at the 12th International Forum on Women's Rights and Development, held here in late April.
"Women are seen as supposed to be good wives and mothers, not lawyers or engineers," Ozgokce added. "And many men won't marry a woman who has worked outside the home -- she is seen as having lost her honor."
More Opportunities, Freedom
Some women do find greater opportunities and freedom in the urban setting, despite Turkey's overall low level of female employment. But often those women who are able to join the work force are limited by their lack of marketable skills -- and, sometimes, by anti-Kurdish prejudice -- and commonly work in dangerous and easily exploitable occupations in domestic work, seasonal labor, textile and food-processing factories in addition to the informal economy.
In 2010, 51 women died, more than 400 were raped or assaulted and more than 1,000 were occupationally injured while employed as domestic workers, according to Muazzez Onuk Ozder, the deputy head of the Social Services Department in the southeastern city of Diyarbak?r.
Language barriers and an alien environment often leave women, in particular, unable to seek recourse when they suffer abuses, or even receive basic health care and other social services. As a result, many migrant women say "they had better conditions when living on their farms with their livestock," Ayten Tekes, from the Research Center for Women's Affairs in the southeastern city of Diyarbak?r, said at the Istanbul forum.
"Women had agricultural know-how in their villages that is lost," Tekes said, when they move to cities. "Gender discrimination against them increases due to their loss of skills, confidence and community ties."


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As 'Day of Archaeology 2012' sprung into life, the excavations on the Iron Age Caerleon 2012 dig came to a close. This is our final day of a brisk five day project. At the moment it's about 8:15 in the morning, and I am looking out towards the University of Wales, Newport campus. There are clouds, lots of them, and they are not the fluffy light ones, they have a pretty foreboding look about them… The campus is roughly a twenty minute drive from our excavation site, and our team this year has been dependent on our committed core of undergraduates. I should clarify that these are history undergraduate students, rather than archaeology undergraduates. Time was, our university had a bustling and well respected archaeology department, but for a variety of reasons, we sadly lost that department, and history was left standing alone. However, there are enough of us archaeologists who survive in and near to the university, and the desire for archaeological research stands strong, even if we don't have the name 'archaeology' on our department notice board anymore. A strong tenant of our excavations in the past was to train prospective field archaeologists, and that has been seen again this year, with the majority of the team being made up of first time archaeologists.
The excavations this year are just below an Iron Age hillfort (Lodge Hill), which overlooks the Roman fortress at Caerleon. We've been following up on a number of features, and today we are focusing on the second of our two sites, the excavation of a trackway feature. We have some great maps that suggest the length of the trackway to be pretty significant, and running in a temptingly straight line (tempting if you like Roman features that is), going straight over the top of the hillfort. Lots of questions were being asked of this feature, how was it made, how old was it, what was it used for? As the final day of our excavations proceed, hopefully we'll be able to deal with some of those queries.
(…several hours later…)
Well, back home now, 6pm(ish), in the warmth of the office, feet up and in front of the computer. Those black clouds spied earlier gave as expected, and turned the majority of our 'day of archaeology', into a day of mini trench floods and occasional soakings. Such is the way with field archaeology. That though is not to say that our last day of excavation was in any way a negative, in fact we had quite a successful day.
First things first though, for many of the entries posted for Day of Archaeology, we have been treated to some stunning artefacts and insights. Alas, the most time consuming activity that took place on our final day, was, as is often the case for field excavation, back filling! It's one of those questions that is often asked of us by passing visitors, 'what are you going to do with it (the archaeology) once you've finished?', the standard short answer is 'fill it in'. So for our day in the life of an archaeologist, it was a day of hole filling, more so than it was for hole excavation (although it's not always a dull affair as these keen excavators hopefully show)!
As some of the trenches were being filled in though, we had sunk two test pit sections through our trackway feature, which previously in the week had revealed two distinct surfaces, and in the last hour or so of the day, revealed a third. Coming down on a really compact clay surface (you can see the moment when it was revealed here), the most obvious inclusion was a wealth of charcoal material.
The discovery of this surface was one of the last acts of archaeology on site for the year. However, the questions go on. Dating from the charcoal will be next on the agenda. We only returned a few sherds of probably post medieval pottery (though it might be late, you never know) from the first two surfaces, but the charcoal may well let us take our site back much further, we'll have to wait and see. When we do get the results though, that should go a long way to helping us tackle some of those many questions we had going into this, so it's a great result, even if the result means that we must wait on some more results.
And so as the day of archaeology ends, so does our excavation. It's been a blast being involved in field archaeology again after some time away, but as interesting as the excavation element has been, today, as with the rest of this week has reminded me of one thing in particular. Field excavation has a funny effect on people. There is something about going through the hours of excavation, be it in sunshine or rain, be it through the excitement of discovering a road surface untouched for however many centuries, or the frustration of sifting through yet another find free ditch (two of our team know what that is all about now), that brings people together. At the start of this week, we had probably four distinct groups of people, different backgrounds, different social groups, different interests, yet spending the week sharing the experience of field excavation, those barriers gradually whittled away. Those involved became friends, became united, and that is both a surprising but also familiarly reassuring thing about field excavation. At the end of it all, we had had a wonderful time, become good friends, and ultimately, we were united as archaeologists. Here's hoping your day of archaeology was as good as ours!


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Nearly everything is wrong with this one. It's a shoddy, short, and frustrating title with annoying controls and an exasperating camera that's based on a shoddy movie that seems entirely created to show off as much of Halle Berry's skin as possible. Yes, she's hot. And, as a heterosexual man I find nothing wrong with seeing Halle Berry looking athletic and sexy. As always, she is absolutely stunning. But is that enough to base a movie and a game on? Survey says no -- 100% no. Even your cat will want to bury this one in the litter box.
Catwoman is a third-person action-adventure platform game with a huge amount of exploration and a moderate amount of combat. Based on the Warner Brothers movie of the same name, EA's Catwoman does not follow the DC comics original and instead tells the tale of a newfangled Catwoman (not Selena Kyle).
Patience Phillips is a woman with confidence problems. As an underling at the Hedare Beauty Design firm, she often finds herself in the wrong place at the wrong time. Only this last time, she accidentally discovered that her company is dipping into unethical and illegal research. After her startling discovery, a company henchman kills her to cover up the leak. This is where the comic book part comes in. She is supernaturally revived by the kiss of an Egyptian cat and brought back to life as a wild woman in shredded black leather. Meow!
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Patience Phillips is dead, and in her place now walks the Catwoman, a powerful, athletic, nearly invincible predator with a liking for shiny jewels, diamonds, and trouble. Her raison d'etre is to find her murderers unravel their secrets, seek revenge, and eventually discover who she once was.
The game loosely follows the movie, and EA Europe and Argonaut have done the best job possible given their strict and unfair time allotment of about eight months to create this game from the ground up. While I sympathize with EA's plight to get this out on time, the final product isn't something I'd ever want to willingly play, buy, or ever recommend to anybody. It's not the downright worst game ever created, because there are some redeeming qualities to it, but they're far outweighed by the game's trouble spots.
Designed like a hyper athletic Tomb Raider (which sounds pretty good at first), Catwoman is all adventure-platform. Your super heroine can run up and jump up walls. She's also able to acrobatically swing from flag poles to metal beams. She can handle parallel bars well, and she can cling to wire textures. The game is designed with large, extreme physical puzzles, and uses her feline "Cat Sense" extensively. With the cat sense, Catwoman is able to see glowing hints of where to go to next. In short, she's extremely dexterous, nimble, and able to move around her environment very well.


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Bills paid slowly across all industries and mines the worst
CHAMBER of Commerce and Industry Queensland has hit back at results from a report suggesting mining companies are bad at paying their bills.
The Dun & Bradstreet Trade Payments Analysis report showed mining companies were the slowest to pay their bills, with many waiting up to 56 days.
CCIQ senior policy analyst Megan Johns said feedback from chamber surveys in the last 18 months indicated issues with paying creditors was a widespread problem across all industries.
"It's also more so a factor of a cascading effect on businesses.
"If a business at the top of the supply chain either goes bankrupt or fails to pay then every business along their supply chain down the line also has cash flow challenges and is put in a position where they might not be able to pay their creditors."
Mackay Chamber of Commerce chairman Tim Miles said if companies that serviced mines followed the correct procedures they would be paid promptly "90% of the time".
He said mining companies had set procedures to follow for payments, and businesses needed to play by the rules.
"Companies need to be proactive about making sure their invoices are going to get paid ... you can't just send them off and expect the money in the bank with mining companies," he said. "It's also important to negotiate trading terms when you actually win the job ... and not after you finish the job.
"It's a lot safer dealing with mining companies than other businesses because if you do what's required to be done and follow the correct procedures you'll get your money."


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THE nation's biggest selling baby formula, Karicare Aptamil Gold, is being rationed because Chinese customers are buying it in bulk to send back to their home country, where there are fears over the safety of infant products.
Major supermarkets are also reporting a supply shortage of the Bellamy Organic baby formula.
Some frustrated new parents are being forced to visit multiple supermarkets and pharmacies to search fruitlessly for the products and face the prospect of upsetting their baby by changing brands.
Nutricia, the company which supplies the formula, has confirmed there has been a surge in demand, but says there is enough stock in Australia and they can arrange delivery to mothers in need.
Have you and your baby been affected? Tell us how
New mum Caron Steinhardt, who gives Karicare 1 formula to her 16-week-old daughter Georgie Stavrinos, was left stunned when, about four weeks ago, her local Coles in Leichhardt, NSW, ran out of that brand.
"We asked when it was coming back in and they said `we're having trouble getting a shipment,"' she told News Limited.
"So I went to four chemists and none had it. Then I went to Woolworths and they had two tins left and I bought those. Then I started to stress out because I couldn't get it and what happens if in the middle of the night my baby wakes up and I can't feed her?"
Another mother was told by a manager of a Coles supermarket he had been offered money by a Chinese customer if he let him know when the next stock delivery was due in.
Coles confirmed yesterday a number of its stores in NSW had seen unprecedented demand for Bellamy Organic and Karicare infant formulas "and as a result have temporarily run out of these products".
Woolworths said it was "aware of some supply issues regarding baby formula and we are currently working with the manufacturer to secure appropriate supply".
Box Hill pharmacist Angeline Wong, of Pharmore Pharmacy, said she had put a six-tin limit on formula sales.
"It usually doesn't stay on the shelves very long," Ms Wong said.
She said she had sold 200 tins to one customer last year and was constantly getting requests for orders of 100 or 200 tins of Karicare.
A pharmacist at Chemist Warehouse in Footscray said Karicare sales had doubled at the store from the start of the year to October then dropped dramatically in November as stock because difficult to get.
The largest purchase was 18-20 tins, he said.
The store now has a six-tin limit.
Ben Wilson, the retail manager for YouSave chemist in Sydney's CBD, which is situated next to an international hotel, said that "Chinese visitors buy as many cans as they can fit into their luggage to take back to China".
Large sections of the shelves were yesterday empty at Coles in Waterloo, with no sign of stock being replenished soon.
Customers who asked for the Karicare and Bellamy formulas were told by staff that supply was low due to Chinese customers buying in bulk to sell online to families in China.
Amcal pharmacy in Leichhardt has been without Karicare Aptimal Gold for the past two weeks, due to a lack of stock from the supplier.
But down the road at Chemist Warehouse, the shelves were full with both the Karicare and Bellany brands.
Concerns about the quality of baby formula in China are driving the demand.
Ava Dairy Company recalled its baby formula last July after high levels of aflatoxin, a toxin caused by mould, was found in the product.
In 2008, at least six babies died in China and another 300,000 became ill after drinking milk tainted with the toxic industrial compound melamine.
General Manger of Nutricia, Alistair Bradley, said it had increased production of Karicare from 5000 to 20,000 tonnes at its New Zealand factory last year to cope with growing demand and planned a further 50 per cent increase this year.
The demand was being driven by an increase in the number of Australian mums switching from other brands to Nutricia products, he said.
"This, coupled with food safety concerns overseas, has generated an unexpected increase in demand for Karicare and Aptamil formula."
"Given this, we are currently not always able to ensure that adequate amounts of Nutricia Karicare and Aptamil products are available on shelves of some Australian stores."
Mothers unable to find Karicare and Aptamil in Australian supermarkets or pharmacies could order a maximum of two tins per order through the company's online distribution partner, Terry White Chemist, at www.TerryWhitechemists.com.au and expect it to be delivered within 48 hours in a metropolitan area.
Or they could call the company's toll free Careline: Karicare 1800 258 268 or Aptamil 1800 438 500.
Originally published asForeign buy-up hits baby formula


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Safe Routes to School
In the last 30 years we have seen walking and biking to school drop from 42% to 16%. Today, kids, parents and communities are teaming up all over Idaho to reverse this trend, make kids safer and combat the rising obesity epidemic.
Nampa's Safe Routes to School program is run by the Treasure Valley YMCA http://www.walkitbikeit.org/
Why Walk or Bike?
It's Healthy - It doesn't pollute the air we breathe - It reduces traffic congestion - It reduces school bus trips - It's good for you and the environment!!
Why Now?
Lately, it seems as though we are experiencing more and more vehicle v. pedestrian/bicyclist accidents. One way to help this from happening is to educate everyone on how to be safe and how to follow the rules of the road. By learning to become a safe walker or rider, our children will, in turn, become more conscientious drivers when they are older. Also, it is never to late to learn the rules of the road, so we all become better drivers.
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Please encourage your school or PTA to become involved in the Nampa Safe Routes to School Program so we can help to educate ALL of Nampa's Children.
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Welcome to Pawsh
We appreciate being awarded best pet grooming business for Hardin County in the Elizabethtown Family Circle Choice Awards!
We're honored to have been awarded best pet grooming business for Hardin County in News Enterprise Choice Awards AGAIN for another year!!!
Here at Pawsh, we understand that pets are more than just pets... they are precious family members that deserve the very best, and we offer a place where they can come to get just that. We believe in exceeding expectations and providing the best of the best for pets and their discerning pet owners. Here you will find special spa services not offered anywhere else and high-quality grooming results unparalleled. Our ultimate goal is to not only make your pet's grooming experience a positive one but to make this very important aspect of their life something that they can look forward to, take pleasure in and enjoy! Our mission is that at the conclusion of each visit your pets go home looking magnificent and feeling relaxed, refreshed, and revitalized. Come experience the Pawsh difference for yourself!


text: Patrick Lichty (US) is a technologically-based conceptual artist, writer, independent curator, animator for the activist group, The Yes Men, and Executive Editor of Intelligent Agent Magazine. He began showing technological media art in 1989, and deals with works and writing that explore the social relations between us and media. Venues in which Lichty has been involved with solo and collaborative works include the Whitney & Turin Biennials, Maribor Triennial, Performa Performance Biennial, Ars Electronica, and the International Symposium on the Electronic Arts (ISEA). He also works extensively with virtual worlds, including Second Life, and his work, both solo and with his performance art group, Second Front, has been featured in Flash Art, Eikon Milan, and ArtNews. He is an Assistant Professor of Interactive Arts & Media at Columbia College Chicago, and resides in Baton Rouge, Louisianna.


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The ABA is supporting legislation to allow veterans who were discharged under the Don't Ask Don't Tell to request a change in their military records.
"Restore Honor to Service Members Act," H.R. 2839, will ensure that veterans who were discharged solely because of their sexual orientation and did not receive an "honorable" characterization of service can have the opportunity to request their characterization be upgraded. In addition, those who did receive an honorable discharge would be able to remove any reference to sexual orientation from their records by requesting a review.
This bill was introduced on July 25, 2013 and was referred to committee. Since July 25, 2013 there has been no movement. The ABA President's letter, dated November 21, urges the subcommittee to take action.
via Vets discharged under Dont Ask, Dont Tell should be allowed to seek change in records, ABA says.


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Farmingdale State - 0, Albertus Magnus - 0 F/2OT
New Haven, Conn. - Junior goalkeeper Angelo Viteritti (East Northport, N.Y.) made 10 saves for Farmingdale State as the Rams and Falcons ended in a double overtime scoreless tie on Sunday afternoon. Farmingdale State now stands at 3-5-1, while Albertus Magnus is 7-1-1.
In the first half, the Falcons held an 11-3 shot advantage and Viteritti recorded six saves for the Rams.
Farmingdale State junior defender Matt Kirby (West Islip, N.Y.) nearly scored on a header in the 55th minute of action but a diving stop by junior goalie Donato Piroscafo (Naugatuck, Conn.) kept the game scoreless.
Each team attempted one shot on goal in the first overtime period and no shots on net were taken in double overtime as the game ended in a 0-0 tie.
Viteritti recorded his third shutout in the last four games with his 10 save effort.
The Rams next will host St. Joseph's in a Skyline Conference match on Wednesday, September 26th at 4:00 p.m.


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The small English town of Kidderminster is internationally renowned as a 19th century powerhouse of carpet manufacture. Sir Roland Hill, a son of the town, published his 1837 work, Post Office Reform: Its Importance and Practicability, which ultimately led to the World's first self-adhesive postage stamp, the Penny Black. Other boasts include 17th century Christian rebellion and Led Zeppelin…well, one member specifically.
Kidderminster is now representative of what is commonly described as a 'post-industrial town'. It is a town that has traced a bumpy road of decline since, at least, the 1970s and has yet to recover. Some years ago a 'new' town centre was built on the site of Brinton's carpet factory. The former site of one of the great engines of carpet production is now redbrick, herringbone and chain stores gathered into an awkward 'anytown' and devoid of community focus. The 'old' town centre is now a place of many empty shop buildings punctuated by the odd chain store or thrift shop. Remnants of 1980s modernisation now look worn. The colours of post-70s optimism bled dry and lichen covered. Even graffiti art is absent; so often a symbol of gritty urban spaces devoid of Gentrification. Where is Banksy in this time of need? Could not one of his signature apparitions lift a dark corner of this once cultural hub? Would a local artist paint Vulcan ears and comedy spectacles onto the subject, should it be a figure? Perhaps.
On this Day of Archaeology, 2016, I am working on guidance for Neighbourhood Planning, the current vehicle for empowering local communities with a degree of control over how development will be integrated into their town, village or parish, and protect what is special. In its application, there is a perception of what constitutes archaeology and the historic environment. For many it is about historic buildings or areas designated with a high level of protection. Views, vistas and streetscapes are valued as too the mature trees and hedgerows that frame the skyline or sinuous country lane. However, in conversation with residents, talk will often turn towards the comparatively mundane yet magical places of a long passed childhood: the ancient stone cobbled alleyway used as a short-cut home; the ruinous Victorian shed with its ghosts lurking within the Ivy covered walls or the pasture field where a searchlight once swept the night sky in search of Heinkel HE111 bombers. These are the un-Designated and easily lost monuments of experience that define the spirit of place. Planning policy requires quantification, constraint and values defined by methods that will stand up to scrutiny. Nonetheless, value built from experience often thrives at the places in between grand designs and manicured landscapes. Perhaps however, it is an inevitable consequence of change that such places are conserved only in memories and the stories told. The short-cuts and dark corners are erased; the derelict buildings, all swept aside by the 'masterplan'.
Back in Kidderminster, in February, under a featureless winter sky, a window briefly opened back to a time when family run shops occupied almost every corner of every street. A modern advertisement hoarding had been removed after years of disuse revealing part of a painted advertisement from the golden age of residential streets as urban markets. With shaking hands, the modern urban explorer Tweeted about a 'ghost sign' #UrbanEphemera #CarryOnFlaneur. By contrast, for long-time residents – a now dwindling number in population – eyes became bright with memories of the old corner shop, Penny Chews sold by the genial shopkeeper who always had a smile on winter days. For this neighbourhood, at least, archaeology suddenly became tangible in a few faded letters.


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Play the Spinoffs Memory Game
Click on a card to turn it over. Try to find the second card that matches the first. If the second does not match, both cards return to a face down position. If they do match, the cards are removed to reveal part of the image hidden underneath.
What do things like boots, bottles, and braces have to do with the space program? They all use technologies or materials that were originally developed for the space program.
TV Satellite Dish
NASA developed ways to correct errors in the signals coming from the spacecraft. This technology is used to reduce noise (that is, messed up picture or sound) in TV signals coming from satellites.
Medical Imaging
NASA developed ways to process signals from spacecraft to produce clearer images. (See more on digital information and how spacecraft send images from space.) This technology also makes possible these photo-like images of our insides.
Vision Screening System
Uses techniques developed for processing space pictures to examine eyes of children and find out quickly if they have any vision problems. The child doesn't have to say a word!
Ear Thermometer
Instead of measuring temperature using a column of mercury (which expands as it heats up), this thermometer has a lens like a camera and detects infrared energy, which we feel as heat. The warmer something is (like your body), the more infrared energy it puts out. This technology was originally developed to detect the birth of stars.
Fire Fighter Equipment
Fire fighters wear suits made of fire resistant fabric developed for use in space suits.
Smoke Detector
First used in the Earth orbiting space station called Skylab (launched back in 1973) to help detect any toxic vapors. Now used in most homes and other buildings to warn people of fire.
Sun Tiger Glasses
From research done on materials to protect the eyes of welders working on spacecraft, protective lenses were developed that block almost all the wavelengths of radiation that might harm the eyes, while letting through all the useful wavelengths that let us see.
Automobile Design Tools
A computer program developed by NASA to analyze a spacecraft or airplane design and predict how parts will perform is now used to help design automobiles. This kind of software can save car makers a lot of money by letting them see how well a design will work even before they build a prototype.
Cordless Tools
Portable, self-contained power tools were originally developed to help Apollo astronauts drill for moon samples. This technology has lead to development of such tools as the cordless vacuum cleaner, power drill, shrub trimmers, and grass shears.
Aerodynamic Bicycle Wheel
A special bike wheel uses NASA research in airfoils (wings) and design software developed for the space program. The three spokes on the wheel act like wings, making the bicycle very efficient for racing.
Thermal Gloves and Boots
These gloves and boots have heating elements that run on rechargeable batteries worn on the inside wrist of the gloves or embedded in the sole of the ski boot. This technology was adapted from a spacesuit design for the Apollo astronauts.
Space Pens
The Fisher Space Pen was developed for use in space. Most pens depend on gravity to make the ink flow into the ball point. For this space pen, the ink cartridge contains pressured gas to push the ink toward the ball point. That means, you can lie in bed and write upside down with this pen! Also, it uses a special ink that works in very hot and very cold environments.
Shock Absorbing Helmets
These special football helmets use a padding of Temper Foam, a shock absorbing material first developed for use in aircraft seats. These helmets have three times the shock absorbing ability of previous types.
Ski Boots
These ski boots use accordion-like folds, similar to the design of space suits, to allow the boot to flex without distortion, yet still give support and control for precision skiing.
Failsafe Flashlight
This flashlight uses NASA's concept of system redundancy, which is always having a backup for the parts of the spacecraft with the most important jobs. This flashlight has an extra-bright primary bulb and an independent backup system that has its own separate lithium battery (also a NASA developed technology) and its own bulb.
Invisible Braces
These teeth-straightening braces use brackets that are made of a nearly invisible translucent (almost see-through) ceramic material. This material is a spinoff of NASA's advanced ceramic research to develop new, tough materials for spacecraft and aircraft.
Edible Toothpaste
This is a special foamless toothpaste developed for the astronauts to use in space (where spitting is not a very good idea!) Although this would be a great first toothpaste for small children, it is no longer available.
Joystick Controllers
Joystick controllers are used for lots of things now, including computer games and vehicles for people with disabilities. These devices evolved from research to develop a controller for the Apollo Lunar Rover, and from other NASA research into how humans actually operate (called "human factors").
Advanced Plastics
Spacecraft and other electronics need very special, low-cost materials as the base for printed circuits (like those inside your computer). Some of these "liquid crystal polymers" have turned out to be very good, low-cost materials for making containers for foods and beverages.