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I've been fortunate enough, in the past week, to be the recipient of excellent user experience in the 'real world'. It's got me to thinking – are there some key ingredients that constitute a good experience and how might they translate into work we do online?
It all started last Thursday night when I braved the cold, wet weather (no, I'm not in London yet… Sydney is just doing a good job of preparing me for it!) and headed out to visit my hairdresser for the last time. (*sob*)
A client/hairdresser relationship is an exercise in extreme user experience. I don't think I've ever met a woman who is ambivalent about her hairdresser. She has either found one she *loves* or she's on the hunt for one to love. It's a trust thing.
Of course, the number one criteria that a hairdresser must meet is that they must be able to do hair in a way that pleases the client. (It's important to note that this does not necessarily mean that they do hair well, or tastefully… that's all too subjective, and people want to do some crazy stuff with their hair).
I like how my hairdresser does my hair. He knows that I don't spend much time maintaining it, so makes sure it pretty much does itself in the morning. I know he's good at his job, so I don't tell him what I want, I ask him what he thinks I should do.
He's earned my trust by plying his trade well, but he does even more than that.
My hairdresser makes me feel like I'm a really valued customer. He does this in a couple of key ways. Firstly, when I'm there, he looks after me (and I should say, it's not just him, it's his entire team, they're all great). He makes sure I'm comfortable, that I have a drink (wine? champagne? a coffee? what would you prefer?), he has good magazines, he checks in on me regularly when I'm waiting for my colour to do whatever it does in that 20 minutes.
The thing that really astounds me though is that he remembers me. He remembers little details of our conversation from six weeks before, and what's going on in my life. If I was going on holidays between appointments, how my work was going last time. He remembers my husband's name and where I live. (does this sound creepy? I can imagine how it might sound creepy, but as part of the 'user experience' it's great!).
This is what I've learned this week. The essential ingredients of good experience: do what you do do well, boy (I can't resist a country music reference), and show me that you care about me (and a musical theatre reference… these ingredients are now officially unforgettable, by me, at least!)
Do what you do do well, boy.
To get real customer love, you need to do whatever you do brilliantly. You can't just do the job. Good enough is not good enough. You need to sparkle. You need to impress. And you need to make it look easy (for you, and for the customer/user).
Show me (that you care about me)
What makes the different between people who are really good at their work and people who create amazing user experiences is caring (or, at least, being very good at creating the perception of caring). Things like the glass of wine, the regular checking in to see that I'm ok, remembering conversations… (or whatever equivalents work in the situation you're thinking of now) all of these things combine to make a customer feel really valued. Customers like that. They keep coming back and they tell their friends. All of this is very good for business.
When I went shopping for a camera the other week, I went to a few different shops.
- Big name store. The guy who served me really seemed to want to look after me. He offered me a $30 discount on an external hard drive I was going to buy with out me even asking. Unfortunately, he didn't know much about cameras… except the one he'd bought 4yrs ago and had at home.
- Specialist camera store. Knew lots about cameras. Really didn't want to spend time with me.
- Music discount store that I didn't even know sold cameras. Knew *lots* about cameras. Really looked after me – both pricewise, and also answering all my annoying questions, asking lots of questions of me so that he really understood what I needed (and compared that to what I thought I wanted).
Guess where I bought my camera.
What does this mean for a 'digital' user experience?
Good enough isn't good enough. You need to make the user experience 'sparkle'. Spend time on the details, really think it through. Talk to your users and understand them. Test your work and refine it. Make it purr.
Find ways that you can 'look after' your customers. How can you do the equivalent to the glass of wine, the checking to see that your user is doing ok, the remembering of past conversations. But, don't take this too literally! Every project will have very different opportunities to better look after users. We need to remember though that every 'statistic' that interacts with our interface is like a customer on a chair in a salon. We have the opportunity to make their experience with us amazing, or we can give them the Price Cuts equivalent. I know what I aspire to.
So, and if you're in Sydney and looking for my favourite hairdresser, get yourself to Phillip Gallo on Crown St. His website is a bit dodgy, but his customer experience (and his hair cuts) are fabulous.
Anyone got a good recommendation for a haircut in London?
And I got my camera(s) from JB HiFi. (Who knew they sold cameras?!)
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There's been a sort of headband buzz ever since Golden Globe nominees Charlize Theron and Michelle Williams topped their red carpet looks with the retro accessory. Last night, Secretary of State Hilary Clinton took a step outside her comfort zone and wore a simple bejeweled version to the state of the union address—solidifying the headband's comeback for both young and old in the process. In honor of the accessory's triumphant return, here's a list of some of the internet's chicest picks with which to crest your head.
This dangling number by Maison Michel recalls both Egyptian royalty and 70′s Bohemia. {Net-A-Porter}
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The most basic, yet the most classic of bands come handmade from France—this tortoiseshell version is elegant and suitable for everyday. {Nordstrom}
Topshop's neon and crystal stunner is like a friendship bracelet for your head. {Topshop}
For the nouveau princess, this Maison Michel for Opening Ceremony option retails just shy of one thousand dollars; it certainly doesn't lack in beauty. {Opening Ceremony}
Jennifer Behr's crystal and pearl embellished design would pair well with your favorite little black dress. {Saks Fifth Avenue}
Famous from Blair Waldorf's headband days of yesteryear, Jennifer Ouellette's streamlined her looks with this thin patchwork patent leather band. {Jennifer Ouellette}
For those whose tastes veer toward punk, this spiked number is apropos. {Urban Outfitters}

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Creative arts building back for more contingency funds
A feeling of déjà vu swept over the Haywood County Board of Commissioners meeting Monday as they reviewed more than $19,000 worth of changes to the Haywood Community College's creative arts building project.
These were not the first, or even the second, design issues that have arisen during the already controversial project. The construction has racked up more than $300,000 in changes, which has left the commissioners wondering how much more money they will have to shell out and, more importantly, how much of that they will get back.
The project is still within its $10.2-million budget. A contingency fund was built into the price tag to cover unexpected costs that crop up during the course of construction. There is still more than $300,000 in the fund.
The conversation between the commissioners and Bill Dechant, HCC's director of campus development, seemed rehearsed the third time around as Dechant described some additional work that needed to be done to a steel structural column.
"Was this a design error?" asked Board Chairman Mark Swanger.
"It was a design omission," Dechant said.
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"It will be taken up with the architect?" Swanger then queried.
"Yes," Dechant replied on cue.
The college has already begun negotiations with the architect regarding mistakes that have arisen during the project. Architects from the Raleigh-based Innovative Design have taken responsibility for some of the problems, and HCC hopes that the firm will reimburse the county for the cost of those errors.
Commissioner Kirk Kirkpatrick asked the college to provide the board with updates on the reimbursement negotiations with the architectural firm and a local surveyor.
"I really hope you all put the pressure on the architect and the surveyor," said Commissioner Mike Sorrells.
Dechant moved onto the priciest of the three change orders, re-grading and repaving a parking lot — a nearly $16,500 cost. The revision was to solve drainage problems that resulted from a lack of information on a topographical survey.
It was not an omission or an error, Dechant said. "It just did not have enough detail."
However, Commissioner Kevin Ensley, a surveyor by trade, said the survey should have included enough information to prevent the problem.
"They should have gotten that information. A survey should pick this up," Ensley said. "It's an omission."
When asked who the surveyor was, Dechant laughed uncomfortably and admitted that he could not recall at that time. The same survey led to additional costs last month related to the repaving of a sidewalk to prevent other drainage problems.
Although the commissioners seem increasingly exasperated by the repeat visits, Dechant repeated that the amount of revisions is minor considering the scope of the $10.2 million project.
"It's a complex building, and we have had very few change orders considering," Dechant said.
It looks like even more change orders are in the cards, however. Another round of change orders were considered by the college's Board of Trustees at their meeting last week — six change orders in all valued at nearly $12,000.
Change orders first go through the college trustees, then on to the commissioners, so commissioners are likely to get this next batch eventually. The list also reflects more than $7,000 in savings because of various changes to the project.
In January, Dechant went before the Haywood County Board of Commissioners seeking approval to use more than $262,000 in contingency funds. Most of it went to a water pump needed to provide adequate water pressure for the building's sprinkler system.
Architects from Innovative Design erred when studying the water pressure earlier in the planning process. They tested the pressure in the main water lines running through campus a few hundred feet below the building site. As water flows up the hill to the new building, it loses pressure — a fact the architect did not factor into his plans, Dechant said at a previous commissioners meeting.
In April, he returned to the Board of Commissioners asking for a little more than $25,000 to widen a doorway, reinforce an outside deck and construct a retaining wall as well as pay for a couple of minor miscellaneous items.
Last year, the commissioners and college administrators battled for months about the scope of the creative arts building project, before settling on a plan. Commissioners insisted that the college slash the price of its plans, while administrators argued that the building construction and amenities had been whittled down enough already.
The new facility will house studio and classroom space for students studying the creative arts, such as pottery and woodwork.
Money to pay for the new building is coming from a quarter-cent sales tax approved by county voters more than four years ago to fund improvements to Haywood Community College's campus.


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The UAE Federal Tax Authority published two summary documents on VAT implementation
Another step closer to VAT implementation
The Federal Tax Authority (FTA) of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has published two summary documents to help businesses best prepare for the introduction of Value Added Tax (VAT).
Registering for VAT… Counting down to 1 January 2018
This summary document provides insight on the following points:
- How and when should VAT registration be done
- The documents and time required for registration
- The time needed by FTA to process the application
- The penalties for not registering within the announced timeframe
- Registering as a VAT group
Implementing VAT in your businesses
This summary document answers some of the main business questions:
- How does VAT work?
- Is there any input tax that I cannot reclaim?
- What records will I need to keep?
- When and how will I file tax returns and what will be shown on them?
- How can I pay any tax due?
- When will I have to pay any tax due?
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Click below to watch every zombie "death" featured in AMC's The Walking Dead:
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Zombie Kills
Posted by Rot at 10:59 AM
Labels: amc, gore, the walking dead, youtube.com, zombies
6 comments:
- Rob said...
Wait that was it? I should have watched that, instead of buying the season on itunes.. Hahaha. In my zombie post apocalypse, I kill that many zombies in the first 10 mins.
- December 15, 2010 at 12:33 PM
- Rot said...
I agree with you. There seems to be a great shortage of zombies. I'd expect a sea of Dead at all times. Especially in the cities.
- December 15, 2010 at 12:41 PM
- Goneferalinidaho said...
Thanks for sharing, that made my day.
- December 15, 2010 at 1:40 PM
- Rob said...
Yeah, loved the show.. but some shots the dead zombies look like pieces on a checker board. In my vision, zombies are piled as high as buildings, and the zombie goop goes up to your ankles..
- December 15, 2010 at 3:14 PM
- Rot said...
Thanks for allowing me to ponder zombie poop for the first time in my life.
- December 15, 2010 at 3:28 PM
- Anonymous said...
Damn! I forgot about zombie poop. Not going to be able to run very fast when there is zombie poo everywhere....
- December 15, 2010 at 5:36 PM
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February 29th, 2012
Lindsay Lohan's more of a 'homebody' now
Even through her legal ups and downs, we knew Lindsay Lohan had a sense of humor - if only because of how often "Mean Girls" is on TV.
And in a promo for her fourth "Saturday Night Live" hosting gig, which will air on Saturday, Lohan shows she's still got a handle on comedic timing - even when she's making fun of herself.
Paired with Kenan Thompson, she jokes that it does feel good to be back in the spotlight, as "people are probably wondering what I've been up to."
Kenan replies that he, for one, would've liked to know more details about her personal life. "It's unfortunate that everyone's paid so little attention to you over the past few years," he says without breaking a smile.
"I know, if only magazines and websites could've documented my activities more closely...America could've used more information about me, and maybe even a picture or two." Insert knowing look there.
Thankfully, Matt Lauer is here to help with Lohan's reintroduction. The 25-year-old will sit down with the "Today" anchor for an interview Thursday, and a clip of their chat shows Lohan saying she's changed her partying ways.
"I'm clean and sober now," Lohan says, adding, it's been "for awhile. It's been a long time."
The actress continues that she's seen how substance abuse can dampen one's talent. "It's a really sad factor that can come into play in people's lives sometimes if you don't recognize it. And a lot of people don't like to, and I think I did that for a long time. I think I was scared and didn't want to admit it to myself, let alone anyone else."
These days, though, Lohan says her past temptations no longer hold her interest.
"I could [go to parties], but that's not my thing anymore," she tells Lauer. "I went out a few months ago with a friend, and I felt so uncomfortable. Not because I was tempted, just because it was the same thing it always was before, and it just wasn't fun for me. I've become more of a homebody and I like that."
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13-Year-Old Girl Has Had the Hiccups for 10 Weeks
Poor Emily Marsh. Her condition has left her at a loss for words.
The 13-year-old girl has been suffering from the hiccups for the last 10 weeks. She first started on her way to math class one day and it hasn't stopped since.
Emily mother's says they have reached the end of their rope:
Absolutely nothing has worked. We have tried hypnotherapy and osteopathy but we are now completely running out of ideas. Emily takes it all in her stride. She's just got to the stage where she's fed up and wants them to go. I can understand -- if you have hiccups for 10 to 15 minutes it's horrible."
The family has tried everything, although there might be another avenue to look into if given the chance.
Emily has gone to a hospital for tests, all of which are inconclusive because doctors can't find anything wrong with her.
Emily still has a ways to go before she makes any sort of history. American Charles Osborne owns the record for having the longest streak of hiccups – 68 years. He started hiccupping in 1922 and didn't stop until 1990.
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– The Most Evil And Disturbing NSA Spy Practices To-Date Have Just Been Revealed (Liberty Blitzkrieg, March 12, 2014):
In some cases the NSA has masqueraded as a fake Facebook server, using the social media site as a launching pad to infect a target's computer and exfiltrate files from a hard drive. In others, it has sent out spam emails laced with the malware, which can be tailored to covertly record audio from a computer's microphone and take snapshots with its webcam. The hacking systems have also enabled the NSA to launch cyberattacks by corrupting and disrupting file downloads or denying access to websites.
The man-in-the-middle tactic can be used, for instance, to covertly change the content of a message as it is being sent between two people, without either knowing that any change has been made by a third party.
– From Glenn Greenwald's latest article: How the NSA Plans to Infect Millions of Computers with Malware
The latest piece from Greenwald and company on the unconstitutional spy practices of the NSA may represent the most dangerous and disturbing revelations yet. It's hard for shadiness at the NSA to surprise me these days, but there was only one word that kept repeating over and over in my head as I read this: EVIL.
As a quick aside, Greenwald points out in the quote above how spam emails are used by the NSA to bait you into clicking dangerous links. This is a timely revelation considering I received one such email yesterday from a friend of mine. The email was sent to a wide list of let's say "liberty-minded people" and webmasters associated with very popular sites. The link seemed shady so I texted him to ask if he had sent it. He hadn't.
Earlier this week, during a talk at SXSW, Edward Snowden pleaded with people to use encryption. While he admitted if the NSA targeted you individually they could almost certainly "own your computer," he stated that if people use encryption on a massive scale it makes the NSA's attempts to monitor everyone at the same time much more difficult.
Apparently, the NSA is well aware of this threat. Which is why we now know that the agency has been dedicating significant amounts of taxpayer dollars toward an attempt to infect millions of computers with malware in an attempt at "industrial-scale exploitation," which would lead to them "owning the net."
As Mikko Hypponen, an expert in malware stated:
"The NSA's surveillance techniques could inadvertently be undermining the security of the Internet."
Move along serfs, nothing to see here.
From The Intercept:
Top-secret documents reveal that the National Security Agency is dramatically expanding its ability to covertly hack into computers on a mass scale by using automated systems that reduce the level of human oversight in the process.
The classified files – provided previously by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden – contain new details about groundbreaking surveillance technology the agency has developed to infect potentially millions of computers worldwide with malware "implants." The clandestine initiative enables the NSA to break into targeted computers and to siphon out data from foreign Internet and phone networks.
In some cases the NSA has masqueraded as a fake Facebook server, using the social media site as a launching pad to infect a target's computer and exfiltrate files from a hard drive. In others, it has sent out spam emails laced with the malware, which can be tailored to covertly record audio from a computer's microphone and take snapshots with its webcam. The hacking systems have also enabled the NSA to launch cyberattacks by corrupting and disrupting file downloads or denying access to websites.
The implants being deployed were once reserved for a few hundred hard-to-reach targets, whose communications could not be monitored through traditional wiretaps. But the documents analyzed by The Intercept show how the NSA has aggressively accelerated its hacking initiatives in the past decade by computerizing some processes previously handled by humans. The automated system – codenamed TURBINE – is designed to "allow the current implant network to scale to large size (millions of implants) by creating a system that does automated control implants by groups instead of individually."
Mikko Hypponen, an expert in malware who serves as chief research officer at the Finnish security firm F-Secure, calls the revelations "disturbing." The NSA's surveillance techniques, he warns, could inadvertently be undermining the security of the Internet.
It sounds like that is precisely their intent…
The NSA began rapidly escalating its hacking efforts a decade ago. In 2004, according to securet internal records, the agency was managing a small network of only 100 to 150 implants. But over the next six to eight years, as an elite unit called Tailored Access Operations (TAO) recruited new hackers and developed new malware tools, the number of implants soared to tens of thousands.
The agency's solution was TURBINE. Developed as part of TAO unit, it is described in the leaked documents as an "intelligent command and control capability" that enables "industrial-scale exploitation."
Earlier reports based on the Snowden files indicate that the NSA has already deployed between 85,000 and 100,000 of its implants against computers and networks across the world, with plans to keep on scaling up those numbers.
The intelligence community's top-secret "Black Budget" for 2013, obtained by Snowden, lists TURBINE as part of a broader NSA surveillance initiative named "Owning the Net."
The agency sought $67.6 million in taxpayer funding for its Owning the Net program last year. Some of the money was earmarked for TURBINE, expanding the system to encompass "a wider variety" of networks and "enabling greater automation of computer network exploitation."
Your tax dollars at works slaves.
One implant, codenamed UNITEDRAKE, can be used with a variety of "plug-ins" that enable the agency to gain total control of an infected computer.
An implant plug-in named CAPTIVATEDAUDIENCE, for example, is used to take over a targeted computer's microphone and record conversations taking place near the device. Another, GUMFISH, can covertly take over a computer's webcam and snap photographs. FOGGYBOTTOM records logs of Internet browsing histories and collects login details and passwords used to access websites and email accounts. GROK is used to log keystrokes. And SALVAGERABBIT exfiltrates data from removable flash drives that connect to an infected computer.
The implants can enable the NSA to circumvent privacy-enhancing encryption tools that are used to browse the Internet anonymously or scramble the contents of emails as they are being sent across networks. That's because the NSA's malware gives the agency unfettered access to a target's computer before the user protects their communications with encryption.
According to the Snowden files, the technology has been used to seek out terror suspects as well as individuals regarded by the NSA as "extremist." But the mandate of the NSA's hackers is not limited to invading the systems of those who pose a threat to national security.
In one secret post on an internal message board, an operative from the NSA's Signals Intelligence Directorate describes using malware attacks against systems administrators who work at foreign phone and Internet service providers. By hacking an administrator's computer, the agency can gain covert access to communications that are processed by his company. "Sys admins are a means to an end," the NSA operative writes.
But not all of the NSA's implants are used to gather intelligence, the secret files show. Sometimes, the agency's aim is disruption rather than surveillance. QUANTUMSKY, a piece of NSA malware developed in 2004, is used to block targets from accessing certain websites.
QUANTUMCOPPER, first tested in 2008, corrupts a target's file downloads. These two "attack" techniques are revealed on a classified list that features nine NSA hacking tools, six of which are used for intelligence gathering. Just one is used for "defensive" purposes – to protect U.S. government networks against intrusions.
Before it can extract data from an implant or use it to attack a system, the NSA must first install the malware on a targeted computer or network.
According to one top-secret document from 2012, the agency can deploy malware by sending out spam emails that trick targets into clicking a malicious link. Once activated, a "back-door implant" infects their computers within eight seconds.
Consequently, the NSA has turned to new and more advanced hacking techniques. These include performing so-called "man-in-the-middle" and "man-on-the-side" attacks, which covertly force a user's internet browser to route to NSA computer servers that try to infect them with an implant.
In one man-on-the-side technique, codenamed QUANTUMHAND, the agency disguises itself as a fake Facebook server. When a target attempts to log in to the social media site, the NSA transmits malicious data packets that trick the target's computer into thinking they are being sent from the real Facebook. By concealing its malware within what looks like an ordinary Facebook page, the NSA is able to hack into the targeted computer and covertly siphon out data from its hard drive. A top-secret animation demonstrates the tactic in action.
The man-in-the-middle tactic can be used, for instance, to covertly change the content of a message as it is being sent between two people, without either knowing that any change has been made by a third party. The same technique is sometimes used by criminal hackers to defraud people.
"The thing that raises a red flag for me is the reference to 'network choke points,'" he says. "That's the last place that we should be allowing intelligence agencies to compromise the infrastructure – because that is by definition a mass surveillance technique."
In many cases, firewalls and other security measures do not appear to pose much of an obstacle to the NSA. Indeed, the agency's hackers appear confident in their ability to circumvent any security mechanism that stands between them and compromising a computer or network. "If we can get the target to visit us in some sort of web browser, we can probably own them," an agency hacker boasts in one secret document. "The only limitation is the 'how.'"
GCHQ cooperated with the hacking attacks despite having reservations about their legality. One of the Snowden files, previously disclosed by Swedish broadcaster SVT, revealed that as recently as April 2013, GCHQ was apparently reluctant to get involved in deploying the QUANTUM malware due to "legal/policy restrictions." A representative from a unit of the British surveillance agency, meeting with an obscure telecommunications standards committee in 2010, separately voiced concerns that performing "active" hacking attacks for surveillance "may be illegal" under British law.
When even the GCHQ is questioning the legality of a surveillance program you know you've gone too far. Way too far.


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- Start Date: Saturday, Mar 12th, 2016 at 6:00 pm
- End Date: Saturday, Mar 12th, 2016 at 9:00 pm
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Gorilla Games is hosting Super Smash Bros. Wii U every Saturday night! $5 entry fee with prizes for the top spots!!!
Bring your own controller or use our Wii-motes. Yes we have a GameCube controller adapter...
Bracketed play starts at 6PM
If you bring a full Wii U setup (consul, cords, all current DLC for Smash and all characters unlocked) you will get $1 off your entry fee. Limited to the first 4 setups.
PS. We are open to other formats and versions of smash as well. If enough people show up wanting to play a different generation of Smash we will begin to add other tournament times for Melee, Brawl, 64...ECT.
Super Smash Bros. (1v1)
$5.00 / Player
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1st - 50%
2nd - 25%
3rd - 10%
(All prizes are rounded down to the nearest $5)
For every 10 people that show up a $5 random prize will be given out to anyone that does not place.
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NOAA to Offer Free Online ISO Metadata Training
December 13, 2012
With declining budgets and travel limitations, it is challenging for data managers to keep up-to-date on the latest metadata standards and tools. In response, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) National Coastal Data Development Center (NCDDC) is offering Introduction to Geospatial ISO Metadata, a free, online training series beginning in January 2013.
NCDDC set out to meet the increased needs of data managers as many organizations transition from FGDC to ISO standards. Working with other metadata trainers within the community, the NCDDC Metadata Team has developed a complete package of training materials for the transition to ISO metadata standards. Conducting this training online is an innovative way to meet the increased demand for this training while controlling travel expenses. NCDDC conducted two prior metadata training series online in which over 1500 participants from 18 countries on five continents took part. The success of these efforts has led to the continuation and expansion of the training with two series of Introduction to Geospatial ISO Metadata and two series of Transitioning from FGDC to ISO Metadata already planned for 2013.
Registration is now open for the next series which will be held every Tuesday from 9:30 a.m-10:30 a.m. CST from January 15 until March 5, 2013. The series will start with an introduction to metadata, and cover topics such as XML basics, tools, and data discovery. All materials will be made available online, and instructors will be available by request for special one-on-one "My Metadata" sessions to answer specific questions for individual participants.
To register or for more information, please visit: National Coastal Data Development Center.


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(Australian Associated Press)
Former union boss Bill Kelty wants tax relief for big earners to go even further, but Treasurer Josh Frydenberg is sticking with cuts that just passed parliament.
Mr Kelty, who ran the ACTU during the Hawke-Keating years, believes the top marginal tax rate of nearly 50 per cent is "absurdly high" and should be well below 40 per cent.
"There is nothing wrong in saying we are one of the highest taxing countries, we are at the highest taxing point in our history and we want to actually tell people where we are going over the next five-or-10 years, " Mr Kelty told The Australian Financial Review.
He argued cutting the top marginal tax rate should be coupled with more effective taxes on property and capital to level the playing field.
Mr Frydenberg said it would have been nice to hear from Mr Kelty during the recent federal election campaign.
"It's interesting that Bill Kelty is saying this after the election, because we didn't hear that from Labor or senior people like Bill Kelty before the election," he told reporters in Melbourne on Monday.
"We have a tax plan, we took it to the Australian people, and now we have faithfully implemented it."
Labor leader Anthony Albanese sidestepped Mr Kelty's comments, saying his sole focus was stage one of the coalition government's income tax cuts, which passed federal parliament last week.
"That's the only tax cut that will occur during this term of government," he told reporters in Brisbane on Monday.
"I'll respond to people and policies that are actually on the table, and what is on the table is the stage one tax cuts."


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Will U.S. Soccer Ever Produce a Pele?
The men's national team has a new coach, Juergen Klinsmann. Will he be able to inject some magic into the way Americans play the sport?
U.S. Soccer president Sunil Gulati poses with Juergen Klinsmann after he was named head coach of the men's national soccer team. (Credit: Reuters)
Every week, our panel of sports fans discusses a topic of the moment. For today's conversation, Patrick Hruby (writer, ESPN and The Atlantic), Emma Carmichael (writer, Deadspin), Jake Simpson (writer, The Atlantic), and Hampton Stevens (writer, ESPN and The Atlantic), talk about the U.S. men's soccer team's new coach, Juergen Klinsmann.
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Following a series of uninspiring matches capped by a come-from-ahead loss to Mexico in the Gold Cup final, the United States' men's national soccer team clearly needed a coaching change. Buh-bye, Bob Bradley. Hello, Juergen Klinsmann. Question is, will the charismatic German—a longtime object of hardcore American soccer fan ardor—cure the numbing, nice-try middlingness that long has defined Team USA's play?
I'm skeptical.
Granted, Klinsmann's credentials are impressive. He won a World Cup as a player for Germany; in 2006, he coached his home nation to a third place finish in the tournament. And don't expect a culture clash: Klinsmann lives in California, speaks fluent English, and has an American wife and two soccer-playing children whom he says consider themselves more Fourth of July than Oktoberfest.
Better still, Klinsmann's diagnosis of what ails U.S. soccer strikes me as both accurate and insightful. He isn't focused on playing a particular formation; on finding and imposing a distinct national style; on blaming the second-class world citizen status of MLS and college soccer; on the imbecilic, casual fan fever-dream belief that America would totally kick butt on the pitch if only our best athletes didn't play in the NBA and NFL instead.
No, Klinsmann understands that the problem with American soccer is simple. We don't play enough pickup . From orange slice leagues on, our talent development is programmatic and over-coached. The U.S. national team is plenty athletic—physical fitness and toughness are our calling cards—but woefully devoid of magic. Of vision and creativity. Of the things that can't be taught. Our nation produces great, gritty goalkeepers. We never have produced a Pele.
Klinsmann says this needs to change. He says he wants to be involved with youth soccer. Sounds good. Only here's the thing: American players remain top-down creations. In sports—as in life—genius is serendipitous, unexpectedly bubbling from the bottom up.
Emma, am I off-base here? Are the U.S. men about to catch up to their female counterparts?
I'd like to offer some optimism for the men's side, because I would love to see them succeed—but I also think that the kind of institutional and foundational change that needs to (and, I think, eventually will) come about in American soccer has nothing to do with the coach of the men's national team. That's not Juergen Klinsmann's fault. Steve Sampson, Bruce Arena, and Bob Bradley didn't have had any better luck at the particular puzzle that is the Great American Soccer Crusade, but that shouldn't have been a part of their symbolic job description to begin with.
I love what you said, Patrick, about the American player being a "top-down creation," and I think that extends to the U.S. soccer structure. Klinsmann is, by all accounts, great, and he may take the men's team to new heights. But it's naive to say that real national change will come about simply because he's patrolling the sideline. That doesn't mean he's not on the right track: At his first press conference last week, he was asked about the Latin American population in the U.S. and how it might influence the American game: "We want to dig into the Latin community and we want to get those kids," he said. "And we don't want them to go back to their home countries. We want them to become real American players."
Heady as it is, that's a hopeful statement for U.S. soccer fans to read. Everyone knows by now where Clint Dempsey got his start . But it also implicitly highlights a real issue: the suburban, club soccer culture perpetuates both top-down players and a pay-to-play culture that doesn't necessarily reward serendipity—or those who have a "home country" that might better reward the "magic" Patrick referenced, for that matter. Klinsmann might do some good, but from where he'll stand, he really can't do everything.
Klinsmann may not be a savior, Emma, if only because the Peles and Maradonas of America are spending their days trying to be LeBron James or Adrian Peterson. But he has the one thing U.S. soccer has always lacked: star power.
Don't get me wrong—I'm sure Bob Bradley was a celebrity at his hometown diner. But his playing career ended at Princeton, the equivalent of an MLB manager who was a platoon player at Vanderbilt before being drafted in the 37th round and pursuing a career in sports management. Meanwhile, Klinsmann is one of the most decorated footballers in history. His 11 goals in World Cup play is tied for sixth all-time, just one behind Pele, and he was the first player ever to have at least three goals in three different World Cups. He was the captain of the German team at the '98 Cup, for God's sake! Has there ever been a U.S. player with even a tenth of Klinsmann's international success?
I say no, unless you count Alexi Lalas's hair . And on a team with several very good players but no superstars, Klinsmann immediately becomes the face of U.S. soccer. We young people love famous faces, and if Klinsmann's goal is truly to "play more pickup" and develop talent from the bottom up, he should have a far easier time getting people on board than a guy who got his professional start at Proctor & Gamble.
Hampton? Are you as riveted by this as we all seem to be?
Let me get back to you on that, Jake. When I'm done prepping for my fantasy football draft.
Sure. If American kids played sandlot soccer as much as they play basketball, we'd produce more footie stars. But why don't they? All of these ideas about how to make soccer more popular in the US miss the larger question of why the game isn't much beloved in the first place. The larger, if-it-were-a-snake-it-would-have-bit-you problem is that the game is subtly but simply unsuited to American mind, as unsuited as coffee and doughnuts would be to an Englishman, or as bathing is to the French.
The most uniquely American games, baseball and football, are often pilloried for lacking action. Untrue. They just have a distinctly American kind of action—what Fitzgerald called "the formless grace of our nervous, sporadic games." Both stop and start. Both feature huge exertions of sudden force, then a pause for reflection and planning, and another burst of force. Think of football's huddle, then clash at the line of scrimmage, or how the pitcher fidgets on the mound before putting every ounce of power into heaving the ball home.
Soccer, however, is nonstop. It flows. Endurance is a huge part of success, and endurance sports just aren't our thing. That's why a high school cross-country runner doesn't get as many dates as the quarterback, and it's also why Lance Armstrong—for all his star power—didn't inspire millions of American kids to hop on the ten-speed.
True story: A friend in the Israeli consulate once asked my opinion on why soccer isn't that big here. When I shared this theory—that Americans prefer games with quick, decisive bursts of action over those of finesse and endurance—he laughed, "Just like your foreign policy!"
Ouch. Good point.
Particularly odd is the idea that soccer can be grafted onto our sports' culture via Latin American immigrant communities. That's not how this wondrous country of ours works. All those waves of European immigrants in the 20th century? They knew about footie in the old country. But once in this one, quite naturally, they and their children adopted the games most suited to, and best reflective of, our values and way of life.
Please know that I'm not hating on soccer. Not at all. Love the game. My city just built a ridiculously sweet soccer-only complex, Livestrong Sporting Park. Seeing games there is world-class fun, be it the MLS or Gold Cup. But the sport isn't my favorite, and it never will be, no more than this Kansas City boy will ever like listening to Beethoven and Bach more than Big Joe Turner and the Bird. Is there a great American soccer star waiting to be born? Yup. Will this nation ever win a World Cup? Sure. So what? America may produce better opera singers than Italy, too. We're just that good. But that doesn't mean that opera here will ever be as beloved as our native rock and roll.


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Hey again to Sangha old and new. So in the last few years I have been through hell and back ( ill spare the personal details). but one thing that has been nagging me more and more as time goes on is to get back to more engaged living of The Way. I want to start fresh, go back to the very beginning. forget I ever learned or deluded myself into learning and just...start over ( not hard to do as I was new to begin with).
Something that I feel will help me in this endeavor, and the main reason why I am posting this thread, is..well.. I want to completely destroy my rakusu. I made it, it's done ( I can save the inka ). But I feel like destroying it, not because of it's imperfections, lovely as they are and trust me there are alot of flaws to love. But more as an outward expression to help ME feel like a fresh beginning. to go back and start all over from the first outline to the first chanted stitch.
I appreciate what the rakusu is and I definitely appreciate the experience in making it. that's something that just can't be lost. but, I don't know if it is considered wrong or a big no no to do so. so before following my intuition in it being the right decision for me personally ( and not something I can really verbalize) I wanted to take a moment to ask if that is something that is acceptable. For whatever reason, I do truly feel this would in some way be cathartic for me and help me on my first steps to my own self-imposed and much needed Ango of sorts .
Thanks for any and all responses,
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Free, Quality, Full-Text Articles, Books, & More–You Know That's What You Want!
August 8, 2006 at 5:26 pm Robert J. Lackie 3 comments
OK, as you may have noticed, Library Gardeners, I have been in a serious blogging mood today, and I just can't wait to share about this:
I have been demonstrating how to locate books in libraries via the "Find in a Library" WorldCatLibraries links within Yahoo! and Google for some time now, but only a small percentage of the items available via WorldCat were available in the two search engines. I signed up for their email update a week ago, and WorldCat has just announced today that their new worldcat.org beta site is now available–I am thrilled, since WorldCat seems to be one of the largest library networks out there:
"This site—and a downloadable WorldCat search box you can easily add to your Web site—opens the complete WorldCat database to the public, not just the smaller data subsets utilized by Open WorldCat partner sites such as Google, Yahoo! Search and others. WorldCat.org builds on the success of OCLC's Open WorldCat Program that has elevated the visibility of library materials on the open Web since the summer of 2003." (box on left courtesy of WorldCat.org)
What I really liked about this site, besides being able to find many more items in libraries, is that you can search for any item in any library near you, now using keyword searches (i.e., you can enter a title, subject or person). You can also now refine your search (box on left of screen) by author, content, format, language, and year. I am sure that there will be some kinks in it right away, as it is a very new beta site, but I am happy with the direction it is going in now. I look forward to reviews about it after it gets "used a lot" but for now, I like it (and everyone can give them feedback using the link in the top right-hand corner of the results pages).
By the way, if you do like "finding tools" and sites like this, you might also like to browse my "The Changing Face of the Scholarly Web: Finding Free, Quality, Full-Text Articles, Books, and More!," published this July/August 2006 in MultiMedia & Internet@Schools magazine. The article is freely available on the Web via their magazine's main site (which I visit often for its very relevant K-12 library info) and in many of the EBSCO databases now. I do hope you enjoy it and find it useful! And since I was limited to less than 3000 words for the article, here is another site of mine, "WOW!–Full Text AND Free?!!: An Internet Hotlist on Finding Free Full Text Articles and Books" (I used this site to write the article) that lists these and other quality, full-text finding tools, especially with some more of my favorite Open Access (OA) sites. Feel free, please, to share and comment!
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Thanks so much for this post! Very informative & I will check that out ASAP. Exciting possibilities!
Love those blog widgets!
I put the WorldCat search box on my children's book review blog yesterday. The blog reviews all link to our catalog, but if someone else reads a review and wants to locate the title in a library near them – bingo.
The link to WOW!–Full Text AND Free?!! An Internet Hotlist on Finding Free Full Text Articles and Books is not working anymore. I thought this was a better resource than the abbreviated article.
Is this publication stilll available?


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John A. Spelman III, Artist & Printmaker
Date: September 4, 2021
Time: 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Location: Johnson Heritage Post
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From Appalachia to Minnesota's North Shore
The bold and evocative styles of John A. Spelman III's artwork encourages us to consider the lives and landscapes of both the Appalachian region as well as Minnesota's North Shore during the last century.
To accompany the exhibition, curators Scott Husby and Tracey Cullen have authored a book entitled John A. Spelman, Artist and Printmaker: From Appalachia to Minnesota's North Shore. The book will be available at the JHP Art Gallery and in local bookshops. All proceeds from sales of the book will be donated to the Cook County Historical Society.
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Slow Burning Crimes
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This is one of those indie band stories that kinda shows the length some bands will go to get heard 'cuz they so believe in their music. East Hundred originally got together back in 2004 in the basement of brothers Brooke and Will Blair who thought they'd start a synth-heavy electro-dance band. After realizing that genre may not be their cup of tea, they invited Brooke's girlfriend, Beril Guceri, to jump in on vocals. They played around as a trio for a while, releasing a few rough EPs, then in 2007 added childhood friends David Sunderland on bass and Susan Gager on keyboards and began in earnest writing original songs. But of course…you knew it had to happen…Brooke and Beril broke up, which added mucho tension to the mix, but also gave them a whole new path to go down with their songwriting. All that angst and heartache has finally produced their debut album (after five years!) Passenger, dripping with songs of failed love, friendships, anxiety and awkwardness. You should really head over to MySpace and give 'em a look!


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Let's Talk about Six, Baby
This guest post from the wonderful Anne Semans at the Moms in Babeland blog is part of our month-long fundraising effort for Scarleteen. Thanks, Anne!
One day about 20 years ago I was walking down Haight Street with my 6-year-old niece. This was long before I had kids, but well after I started selling sex toys for a living. It was San Francisco in the early Nineties, and Salt n' Pepa's song "Let's Talk About Sex" was blasting out onto the city streets. My niece looked up at me and asked what the song was about.
My moment had arrived! It was my big opportunity to be the "cool aunt" and to seize on a teachable moment to explain the biology without any moralizing or stereotyping.
I nervously launched into a monologue about sex being an intimate act between two adults that brings them pleasure, and how sometimes but not always it can result in a baby being conceived, and that it can be between two women, two men, or one of each.
Finally I paused and asked her if that answered her question, to which she replied, "Oh, I thought they were singing 'Let's Talk About Six', which is my age, so I thought the song was about me."
Can you just hear the sound of my sex-positive-cool-aunt's ego deflating? I'm not sure what she actually learned, but for me it was a great lesson in taking a moment to decipher what kids really want to know when they ask a sex question.
She was too embarrassed or confused to stop me, and I was so intent on getting my message across that I didn't pause long enough to check in with her to see if I was overwhelming her with information! The other thing it taught me is that even though we think we might be over-informing kids at any given moment, they only process what they can handle. She had no recollection of this conversation when we talked about sex again some years later. I have also had this experience often with my own kids—you can explain some fascinating aspect of sex to their satisfaction one day, and then 6 months later they'll ask the same question. Big lesson, especially with the young 'uns: keep it simple, be repetitive, check-in, get back to them if you don't have the answer, and above all, applaud their curiosity!
The other important thing I remember about this time, however, was how great it was that this song, "Let's Talk About Sex" was a pop culture phenomenon. Here were women rappers advocating safe sex to a generation of young men and women in a way that made it seem hip, fun, and expected, which was in stark contrast to the sex=death message we were all getting in the wake of the AIDS epidemic.
In the years since then, a beautiful thing blossomed–the Internet–which young people flocked to for information that they might not otherwise have had access to (what, no cool aunt?). One of the websites that evolved, is what I now consider the "virtual" successor of that Salt n' Pepa song: Scarleteen. This site offers sex information and advice for young people in a way that acknowledges and celebrates their sexual curiosity, and affirms their right to know. It advocates sexual responsibility in a way that young people can relate to, and my guess is, has saved countless teenagers from making big mistakes.
This post is part of Scarleteen's Blog Carnival, an event designed to raise awareness around the importance of sex education and to help raise funds for the site. Please, particularly if you have any kids in your live, take a look at what makes this Scarleteen so special, pony up some money for them, and send the link to your favorite young adult.


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Over at Dr. French Fry's blog, I read this:
In psychiatry there is something known as a defense mechanism. Defense mechanisms can be mature, neurotic, or immature, they are ways that people deal with feelings of anxiety, pain, and internal conflict. One of my personal favorites is suppression. It's classified as a mature defense mechanism, and is defined as conscious burrying of troubling thoughts so that you can continue to function. Just push it out of your head an keep on truckin'. Acting out is an immature defense mechanism. Projection is transference of anger to a more acceptable recipient. Intellectualization is when one can't wrap his head around a painful thought or uncomfortable experience so he finds a rational way to process the info. A classic example always given the text books is that of a man who finds out he has cancer. This causes him to learn everything he can about the pathophysiology of the disease and instead of telling his son he has cancer he teaches his son about the aberrant cell cycle, P53, and the Rb gene.
My kids are getting used to hearing me burst into laughter about something I read on various blogs. If I keep laughing, they'll usually peer over my shoulder to share the moment. Nobody understood why I thought the quoted passage was funny!
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2017 04 10: Wood bison (Bison bison athabascae) graze near Muncho Lake, BC.
2017 04 11: Dall sheep (Ovis dalli) resting in Kluane National Park, Yukon, Canada.
2017 04 11: Low water levels in Kluane Lake. Kluane National Park, Yukon, Canada.
2017 04 16: Snapshot on Juneau ridge. Cooper Landing, AK.
2017 04 16: Where the Kenai turns from lake to river. Cooper Landing, AK.
2017 04 16: Trout Lake. Cooper Landing, AK
2017 04 16: Cecil Rhode. Cooper Landing, AK
2017 04 16: Kenai Lake flowing into Kenai River and past Cooper Landing, AK.
2017 05 07: A few birch continue their lives along Skilak Loop Road after most trees in the immediate area were cleared as a fire break or consumed during the 2014 Funny River Fire.
2017 05 10: Dwarfed by the size of the surrounding wilderness, rafts cross the glacial waters of Skilak Lake, AK.
2017 05 10: The highest of the Aleutian Range at 9,150 ft., Redoubt is one of three volcanoes most commonly visible from Skilak Lake, AK.
2017 05 11: Rafts crossing Skilak Lake, AK.
2017 06 07: Bog Rosemary (Andromeda polifolia) like these pink plants near Bean Creek in Cooper Landing are common throughout Alaska and highly poisionous.
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I used to post every Monday.
Then I switched to Wednesdays.
Sundays were open for the occasional Thought Bubble.
Pfft. Occasional. That's funny.
Point is, I had a schedule. It cut down on the stress of blogging. (Anyone who blogs, no matter how much they love it, knows there's a certain amount of stress that goes with the blogging territory.)
You have a day or two or whatever and that is when you post.
Your readers know when to expect you. It's what you're supposed to do…
But that's not why I did it. I had specific days I posted because it fit in nicely with my schedule OCD. I liked it.
But I don't have a prompt or a series.
If something interesting happens in my life, I write about it. Sometimes, when the scheduled day comes along to publish, it's not relevant anymore. So it sits here. Wasted words. Such a shame.
What if…? No…
What if I posted whenever I felt like it? *gasp* Besides potentially annoying readers, what harm could it do?
I decided the answer was "none".
So, at least for now, I'm posting whatever day I decide to write and hit 'publish'.
Watch out. The Lemon Shark is going to show up when you least expect it.
Writing that just made me feel queasy. Also… free.
My Sunday thoughts in 200 words or less.
When do you post? Do you post whenever you feel like it? Do you have certain days? Do you ever deviate from your schedule?


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Tuesday Art Day: Draenei
Okay, it's not Tuesday any more. But have some paintings anyway. I've been painting more than anything lately, on top of doing From Draenor With Love. To be perfectly honest, life has been pretty overwhelming in the past while and I have been taking a breather from most things, only doing art for myself or as gifts. I thought that leaping back into doing a lot of commission work would help me bounce back from layoffs at WI, but it turns out that wasn't the case. I may take a few months off from official "work" to just focus on my health and personal stuff. I appreciate the patience of folks who have inquired about art or etc.
Meantime, here are some draenei. I posted them on Tumblr already, but here they are for anyone who missed them there. I wanted to just do some draenei that were a little outside the usual. I was free painting (no sketch beforehand).
Not Millya. Similar-ish I guess, though.
Random dude draenei. I've been trying to get better at male draenei in general.
Old lady draenei. We know draenei DO age at least in appearance, sometimes, after a really long time. At least, Velen doesn't look like a spring chicken. This draenei has seen more than she really wanted to.
Probably my favourite of this bunch. She's so happy.
Finally (but certainly not least) I did a painting for my friend Sara's birthday. Unlike the previous ones, this one had a sketch first. It ends up looking like a fairly different style. Although obviously I also spent a bit more time on it than the quick, freepaint ones.Probably about two hours total, which is still not bad.
I'm going to be in Seattle this time next week, meeting some new folks, some friends-from-before folks, and hopefully having some therapeutic art time. I'm also planning a collaboration with Loreli (LoreliAoD on Twitter). She's going to do some pencils and I am going to paint them! And I will either bring or do a sketch for her while I'm there and she's going to colour it digitally. It's going to be fun, I am excited.


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Two basic types of links are used in Web sites: navigational links connect pages within a site and the classic hypertext links offer parenthetical material, footnotes, digressions, or parallel themes that the author believes will enrich the main content of the page. Although navigational links can cause problems in site design, more disruptive is the overuse or poor placement of hypertext links.
Hypertext links pose two fundamental design problems. They disrupt the flow of content in your site by inviting the reader to leave your site. They can also radically alter the context of information by dumping the reader into unfamiliar territory without preamble or explanation.
The primary design strategy in thoughtful hypertext is to use links to reinforce your message, not to distract readers or send them off chasing a minor footnote in some other Web site. Most links in a Web site should point to other resources within your site, pages that share the same graphic design, navigational controls, and overall content theme. Whenever possible, integrate related visuals or text materials into your site so that readers do not have the sense that you have dumped them outside your site's framework. If you must send your reader away, make sure the material around the link makes it clear that the reader will be leaving your Web site and entering another site by following the link. Provide a description of the linked site along with the link so users understand the relevance of the linked material.
The key to good hypertext linking is to maintain context, so that the reader stays within the narrative flow and design environment of your site. If you place a simple link on your page, these plain links will work within a single browser window your content will disappear and the linked page will fill the window. If you use this kind of link to point away from your site, you will probably lose your readers.
The simplest way to maintain context using links to other sites is to add the TARGET="main" argument to your link tags. This will cause the linked page to appear in a new browser window in front of the one containing your page. This feature allows your reader to access new material without losing visual contact with your site.
Frames offer a more complex way to maintain narrative and design context. Using frames you can split the browser screen between your site and the material you wish to bring up with a link. Frames allow you to supply commentary on material in another site and also to maintain navigation links back to your site (see Page Design, Frames).
Links are a distraction. It is pointless to write a paragraph and then fill it with invitations to your reader to go elsewhere. You can minimize the disruptive quality of links by managing their placement on the page. Put only the most salient links within the body of your text, and remember that these links should open new browser windows so that you don't supplant the original pages. But most links do not belong in the middle of the page they won't be important enough to justify the potential distractions they pose. Group all minor, illustrative, parenthetic, or footnote links at the bottom of the document where they are available but not distracting.
If you do place links in the body of your text, pay close attention to your language. Never construct a sentence around a link phrase, such as "click here for more information." Write the sentence as you normally would, and place the link anchor on the word or words that best describe the additional content you are linking to.
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Device promises to melt fat
West Palm Beach doctor using radio frequency therapy
Myra Bacon has no fear of the bright lights, hospital gown she is wearing or the strange device that is beeping away at her neck.
"It feels like a warm massage," said Bacon as she was being treated with Exilis Therapy at Dr. Zoraida Navarro's West Palm Beach medical practice.
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Bacon has been here before seeking the promise of tighter, smoother skin.
"The results are phenomenal," she said. "I have to go through two or three more treatments and hopefully that's it."
Navarro said the radio frequency device first was used in Europe to provide physical therapy to patients. When beneficial side effects were noticed, Exilis was born, she said.
"The side they used it on looked, younger and firmer and tighter," said Navarro. "And they said, 'Oh, wow. This is a good use of this technology.'"
Navarro said the device can minimize fatty deposits without invasive liposuction.
She said patients with good skin elasticity usually need four to six treatment sessions. Each treatment session begins at $200, she said.


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With some networks offering mixed signals about their futures with science fiction, we may increasingly rely on cable for compelling television about the future. Fortunately, HBO is stepping up, developing two new science fiction series with X-Files alum Frank Spotnitz.
According to Variety, HBO executives approached Spotnitz some time about the possibility of developing a medical thriller. Given that Spotnitz spent eight years writing for The X-Files, it's not terribly surprising that he gave the idea a near-futuristic twist. Humanitas takes place in a future more medically advanced than our own, where doctors are able to manipulate genes and create viruses, resulting in a host of ethical dilemmas and general anxiety that a pandemic is imminent.
Spotnitz's second project with HBO is flung much farther into the future. He is looking to adapt The World Inside, Robert Silverberg's novel about humanity in the year 2381. The human population has exploded thanks to a strictly enforced culture of free love and uncontrolled reproduction, and most of the world's population lives inside vast, sprawling buildings and never go outside. It's an apparently utopian society of unfettered sex, happiness drugs, and mutual reliance, where everyone lives in harmony. But it's also a closely monitored and regulated society with no privacy or individuality, and deviation from the social norms can be punished by death. But a computer engineer in one city finds he has perverse thoughts of leaving the building and exploring the world outside.
Of course, there's no guarantee that either show will get picked up, but it's encouraging to see HBO, a channel whose recent speculative offerings have tended more toward modern fantasy, take an interest in shows with a scientific and futuristic bent.


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Carole King has a friend in the Library of Congress. She's the first woman to win the library's Gershwin Prize for Popular Song.
In her five decades of songwriting, King's hits have included "You've Got a Friend," "So Far Away" and "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman." The library said Thursday that King will be the fifth person to receive the prize. Prior recipients include Stevie Wonder and Paul McCartney.
Librarian of Congress James Billington says King's work has been recorded by many artists to communicate universal human emotions like love, joy and pain.
King will receive the prize in the spring and says in a statement that she looks forward to performing in Washington. Honorees are typically saluted at the White House.
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There Are Two Americas, And One Is Better Than The Other
Matt Lewis writes of the controversy over Duck Dynasty that "There really are two Americas" and that the divide over the show "has as much to do with class and geography and culture and attitude as it does with religion."
That's true.
Specifically, there's one America where comparing homosexuality to bestiality is considered acceptable, and another where it is rude and offensive.
In one America, it's OK to say this of gays and lesbians: "They're full of murder, envy, strife, hatred. They are insolent, arrogant, God-haters. They are heartless, they are faithless, they are senseless, they are ruthless. They invent ways of doing evil." In the other America, you're not supposed to say that.
There's one America where it's OK to say this about black people in the Jim Crow-era South: "Pre-entitlement, pre-welfare, you say: Were they happy? They were godly; they were happy; no one was singing the blues." There's another America where that statement is considered to reflect ignorance and insensitivity.
In one America, it's OK to attribute the Pearl Harbor attacks to Shinto Buddhists' failure to accept Jesus. In the other America, that is not OK.
There are two Americas, one of which is better than the other. And it's instructive who's sticking up for the worse America.
The conservative politicians who are complaining that Phil Robertson's firing flies in the face of "free speech" are generally smart enough to understand that Robertson doesn't actually have a legal right to be on A&E. When Sarah Palin and her cohorts talk about the importance of "free speech," they mean something much more specific: That the sorts of things that Robertson said are not the sorts of things a private employer should want to fire someone for saying. That they are, or ought to be, within the bounds of social acceptability.
But they're wrong. The other America — the America I live in — has this one right. Racist and anti-gay comments and comments disparaging of religious minorities are rude and unacceptable and might cost you your job. It's not OK to say that gay people are "full of murder."
I will add one caveat, in the vein of Andrew Sullivan's comments. The things Phil Robertson said should get you fired from most jobs. But starring on a reality show is a special kind of job, one where demonstrating that you are a good person who follows good social conventions may not be necessary.
For example, if at a Business Insider function I were to flip over a table and call one of my colleagues a "prostitution whore," I'd probably be fired. But when a Real Housewife of New Jersey does that, she's doing her job just fine. Similarly, Phil Robertson represents some very real pathologies of his culture, and his job is to provide a look into the reality of that culture to the TV viewer.
In some sense, when Robertson compares gays to terrorists, he's doing his job, too. So I'm sympathetic to the idea that A&E shouldn't suspend him for this. But if they shouldn't suspend him, it's because it's acceptable for Robertson to say unacceptable things, not because his remarks were acceptable.
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Crytek is working on Nintendo's Wii U, that much is known, but it appears that its upcoming sequel in the Crysis series will definitively not be its first game for the console.
Amongst the unusually rich spring crop of new games coming out over the first six months of 2013, one of the most promising looking sequels is Crytek's Crysis 3. Crytek is known for pushing technology to its limits, and the German studio claims that Crysis 3 will be the game that rings the very last bits of power out of the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3 as those consoles enter what's believed to be their last year on shelves. "Crysis 3 is absolutely maxing out the consoles," said Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli in December, "There is absolutely not even 1 percent left." That would make it an ideal game to put on Nintendo's Wii U, a console still in its infancy that's been accused of not being up to par with Microsoft and Sony's seven-year-old machines. Despite rumors to the contrary, though, Crysis 3 isn't coming to Wii U.
"There has been discussions between Nintendo and EA and Crytek, but the bottom line is that there's no enough business drive in it," Yerli told Digital Spy on Monday, "It's a purely business decision. I'd love to see it on Wii U, but what I love to see and what gets done at the end of the day are two different things."
"It's a business decision between EA and Nintendo. If that business decision doesn't make sense, or seems to not make sense for them, it's… not possible for us to make it. We can't publish ourselves, and that's the bottom line."
It's unusual that EA wouldn't want one of its marquee 2013 releases on Nintendo's console, especially considering that it's been so willing to support the Wii U with ports of its Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 titles to date. Mass Effect 3, FIFA 13, and Madden NFL 13 all appeared on Wii U in time for the console's release. EA is also releasing a port of Need For Speed: Most Wanted in March.
The decision does reveal a pattern in EA's early Wii U publishing pattern: The company seems reticent to release its more violent Mature-rated titles on the console. While Mass Effect 3 is rated Mature by the ESRB, it's not as graphically violent as EA's other console titles coming in 2013 that are skipping Wii U. Dead Space 3, Army of Two: The Devil's Cartel, and Crysis 3 all share graphic violence in common in addition to not getting a Wii U edition.
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Monday, April 23, 2012
A to Z April Challenge: T is for Tacky
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LOL, we have several family members who have been left out of obits, very TACKY.ReplyDelete
Po' thang, being named Tacky. Bless her heart.
Wonderfully scandalous! A writer couldn't create better characters than what you have in your very own family.ReplyDelete
That is quite the name! ;)ReplyDelete
No matter how removed, sometimes those 'Tacky Relatives' seem to have some sort of impact on the Family Tree...couldn't be helped with a name like Tackie or for that matter Bluford and Fanny Finagus. Really...who does that to their offspring!!! Ditto on Po Thangs...Bless their hearts!ReplyDelete
I have noticed some peculiar names in the past. There must be a story to some of those but we may never know. This is a fun entry.ReplyDelete
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that is a peculiar name---this coming from someone named nutschell:)ReplyDelete
Happy A-Zing!
Thanks for stopping by my blog! Tacky is such a hilarious name - it almost sounds made up but I believe you. How funny.ReplyDelete
My aunt is a "geneaholic" as you say; imagine a Type A personality to the Nth degree with 40 years of administrative experience and a burning desire to research family history - whoa, stand back! I reap the benefits by having someone in my family do all the research for me. The internet has really opened things up for her, so all your previous research will probably be a great launching point for what's out there now.
When I was researching my genealogy, I came across a census record from the early 20th century, and my great-grandmother's first name was listed as "Cunchy." I would have been really confused if I didn't already that she was an Italian immigrant named "Concetta." :-)ReplyDelete


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A case of seronegative arthritis
A 39 year old man came, in August 2004, for asymmetric pains in his joints and swelling in his fingers; he has been diagnosed with seronegative arthritis. He has pains in his right hand, his elbow, and his right hip. The pain increases at night and is worst about 12 – 1 am; he uses an Ayurvedic spray (Reli) to relieve the pain. The pain comes about once a week and he has premonitions about when it is going to come, using the spray in advance. It hurts him to put weight on the right side, so he has to support himself to get up from a sitting position. Eating sour food, especially unripe mangoes, increases the pain. He also has a mild tendency to stutter, especially when meeting people for the first time.
Dr: Tell me more about the pain.
Pt: "It started when I was sixteen, in the tips of my fingers. The slightest touch used to aggravate it, and my fingers would turn red. These days, the pain is very severe; it is like a boil inside, I can't bend my limb from the pain. It feels as though I have been hit by a blunt object, as if blood is clotted inside. It is worse when my hand is hanging down, worse on touching it, and better from jerking my hand. When it started, I used to weep from the pain and wonder what will happen in the future. Today, I can tolerate this pain but I don't know about tomorrow. I feel that if I tell my wife she'll get worried. I know it's going to worsen, so these days I just keep quiet; I have the capacity to keep quiet even if someone would cut me with a blade, I would not even say "oooh" (weeps). I feel it's going to stay, it is out of my control to alleviate it, and so I just tolerate it.
The first time the pain came, I was sleeping and I had a dream. In that dream, I was in a boat in a flood and I saw many people drowning and being pulled in by the force of the water. I saw myself trying to save people. I got on the right side of my boat and saved someone, then I went to the left side of the boat and saved someone else. I saw myself doing that and with every motion the pain in my hand got worse. The pain was as if something had been broken, as if it was frozen from the inside. I could hardly move my arm but I was forcing myself to do it even though my limb was not giving me support. I was slowly moving my arm from right to left with lots of pain. When I was sitting still there was no pain but there were so many people, they wanted me to help them, to save them. Someone was calling me from one side, then the other side; it was intolerable. The worst part of the dream was the pain, my entire concentration was on it; it was limitless, intolerable, beyond my limits to bear, and I cried out with the pain. At that time, I was explaining to myself that "this pain is here and it's going to be here forever, so forget about the pain and concentrate on saving people's lives."
It is essential to understand the psyche of the patient for, even though his physical disease is arthritis, his way of dealing with his problem is equally diseased; the feeling is that he is hopeless, the pain will stay, and his only way of coping is to endure the pain. The pain is intolerable and so is the situation that he finds himself in during his dream; a very demanding situation, where one needs a superhuman effort, which he seems to tackle successfully. We can see his sensitivity to pain and the fact that he tried to control his pain in order to save people's lives. This type of coping suggests the cancer miasm: a situation beyond control, beyond one's limits to handle, very demanding, requiring a superhuman effort to deal with it, which is exactly what we see in his dream.
The second thing that we need to understand is how he uses his dreams to describe how he is coping with the pain; how intense and demanding the situation is in his perception. This is the level of imagination and delusion.
Now, we need to trace other uncompensated areas of his life and explore them in order to understand his experience. If we have explored the correct track, we will come across similar experiences to those we have already encountered. If exploring another area brings forth something completely new, it either means that we have left the earlier experience half-explored or that we have taken a wrong path. In such case, we need to understand the newly-explored scene until the entire vital core is clearly understood, and then we can go back to the earlier experience and find the missing link.
Commenting about the pain, he repeats: "It is out of my control, out of my pain limit. If it increases, I won't be able to walk, I'd be bed-ridden and that would make me depressed."
Dr: Tell me more about yourself in general.
Pt: "My goal is to stay fit. Since childhood I do skipping, 400 at a stretch."
Dr: Is there any incident in your life, which has had a deep impact on you?
Pt: "Yes, and even today if I remember that incident, I get tears in my eyes. Once my eldest daughter, who was under a lot of pressure for exams, was found laying down unconscious on her bed; her eyes were wide open and her limbs were straight out but she was not moving (tears in his eyes). It happened right in front of my eyes. I thought "what if something happened to her?" I was shocked. She was suffering and I couldn't do anything about it, I was helpless. It was beyond my imagination, I couldn't bear it."
Dr: Tell me more about "shocking".
Pt: "It was so unexpected, coming suddenly like that and again so painful. Seeing that the one whom I love so dearly was suffering, and that anything could happen to her, that was shocking for me. Another incident: I was walking with my mother, holding her hand, she missed a step and fell down. I was shocked and thought: "I am with her and still she falls down, oh my God!" I blamed myself for being helpless; in that situation, I could not do anything. In general, I become sentimental over various things and I weep easily, especially concerning my family."
We again witness his sensitivity towards intolerable pain and the suffering of his daughter and mother, and his helplessness to control the situation.
Dr: Any other incidence which had a deep impact on you?
Pt: "Once, I got badly hurt on my scalp; it was very painful. Another time, my skin was torn open and the flesh came out but I did not cry. The pain was intolerable but I controlled it and I did not feel helpless."
Dr: Tell me about your stuttering?
Pt: "It has been there since childhood. I used to feel very bad about it, wondering what was wrong with me in comparison to others, so I used to avoid facing people, talking on the phone or leaving the house. After my marriage, I became more confident and I've started talking in public, participating with friends, in groups of people, and in business circles. Even if I do stutter, I do not feel so bad, and I don't have inner fears now."
Dr: What are your interests and hobbies?
Pt: "I like outdoor games like cricket, taking active part in games, sports – you should play with all your heart, 100%. You feel tremendously happy when you win, proud of yourself, and full of excitement. You just dance with that.
I love music, listening to melodious songs, old sad songs, not the fun kind. Often, I just switch off the lights and I go to bed with the music on, and I'm peaceful. It feels completely fresh, like heaven; I forget everything and I'm calm, even if I am in pain."
Dr: What is the opposite feeling of "peace, calm"?
Pt: "I never confront anybody, I just let them be as they are. I feel bad inside when somebody hurts me or fools me, but I just leave the matter rest."
Dr: How particular are you about keeping things in order?
Pt: "Very much, I want things in their place. I shout at my daughter if she does not keep things in order."
On the one side, we see sensitivity towards intense, intolerable, severe pain and suffering. On the other side, we see peace, calm, complete silence, and no pain. The issue here is a sensitivity towards one sensation: intolerable pain. We do not find the issues of structure, maintenance, lack, and so on that typify the mineral kingdom, nor is there the issue of victim/aggressor, which dominates the animal kingdom. This is purely an issue of the plant kingdom. Being such a sensitive person, who is easily tearful, confirms the plant kingdom. His sensitivity towards intolerable pain indicates the Papaveraceae family. When we study remedies of the Papaveraceae family, we get the following symptoms:
Painlessness of complaints usually painful (Complete)
Ailments from shock (Knerr)
Ailments from fright, fear, accident, from sight of an (1) (Complete)
Delusion; hurt him, people want to execute him (1) (Knerr)
We can see that the fright - and the pain - is intense, resulting in convulsions, numbness, sleepiness, and anaesthesia, and that the person cannot allow his pain and emotion to touch him, hence painlessness is one of the main symptoms of Opium and other members of the Papaveraceae family. On one side, we get intense pain at physical as well as at mental levels (shock, fear, fright from accidents, injury, murder, violence, stabbing), along with sleepiness, coma, catalepsy, anaesthesia, and numbness as a passive reaction to pain. This is the vital sensitivity of Papaveraceae: intense, hell-like pains, turmoil-like state. On the other side of intense pain is a state of no-pain, calmness, and tranquillity; a state that one experiences in meditation, resembling the state that our patient described when listening to music in the dark, where he forgets his pains.
Miasm: Cancer (trying to control)
Remedy: Opium, whose central issue is "to control the pain and suffering, or to fail to do so." As we know, painlessness is one of the main themes of Opium, where the patient does not allow the pain to touch him, as he is so sensitive towards the pain sensation. That is the reason for meditation and tranquillity being a big theme in Opium. Chelidonium, Codeinum, Fumaria and Morphinum are other drugs from the same family sharing this state.
Characteristic Rubrics of the case covered by opium:
Mind; DREAMS; journey; water, by; anxious (1)
Opium is the only drug mentioned for this symptom. In combination with the symptom mentioned below, it more or less expresses the patient's experience in his dream of water.
Mind; DELUSIONS, imaginations; casualties, sees (7)
Again there are only 7 remedies, of which Opium is one.
Other rubrics:
Mind; AFFECTIONATE
Mind; ANXIETY; future, about
Mind; ANXIETY; pains, from
Mind; AILMENTS from; excitement; emotional, mental symptoms from
Mind; AILMENTS from; fright or fear; accident, from sight of an
Mind; AILMENTS from; grief, sorrow, care
Mind; AILMENTS from; injuries, accidents
Mind; DELUSIONS, imaginations; enlarged; he is
Mind; DREAMS; unsuccessful efforts to; do various things
Mind; SENSITIVE, oversensitive; general; pain, to
Mind; TIMIDITY
Mind; TRANQUILLITY, serenity, calmness; general
Mind; WEEPING, tearful mood; general; pains; with
Mind; WEEPING, tearful mood; general; easily
Generalities; SIDE; right
Generalities; MIDNIGHT; agg.; about
Generalities; INJURIES, blows, falls and bruises; general
Generalities; PAIN; general; joints
Generalities; PAIN; sore, bruised
Generalities; PAIN; tearing; internal
Generalities; SHOCKS; general; injury, from
Extremity Pain; RHEUMATIC
Extremities; STIFFNESS; general;
Extremities; BOENNINGHAUSEN; lower limbs; agg.; touch
Extremities; SEPARATED sensation; body, from, lower limbs; severed from his body, legs
The patient mentioned that he wants to cut his painful leg from his body and put it aside.
Prescription: Opium 1M, one dose.
20/09/04: "I had two episodes of pain but they were much less severe. I feel that my complaints will go away, they will be cured. I feel fresh and I do not get tired even with a lot of physical work. I am not depressed or hopeless. Previously, I used to be sad without any reason but now it's not there."
01/11/04: "No more pain all this time and my energy levels are very good. I had some minimal pains in my fingers these last few days but no swelling."
22/11/04: "My mood has changed; I became angry at small stuff, which was unlike me, as usually I do not confront anybody. Since the last two days, I am better and in general I am fine, no more pains in my joints."
His anger is a very good sign; in the past he used to control his emotions, now they are coming out.
"I had a dream: I was going out with a few friends, I think we were going swimming and I thought it was impossible to swim, but I heard a voice telling me "go ahead, you can do it." So, I started swimming and I reached the shore. I feel there is a lot of change in my attitude. I don't care about what people think of me, which I always did. I have always compromised, myself, my wishes, but now I decide what I want and what I don't want. I will be in control of my life. I like this change. My confidence has increased."
Over the following months, his improvement continued. Opium 1M was repeated after a continuous dry cough and painful throat, worse on swallowing and worse on laughing, and loose stool. Another repeat of Opium was given after a two day fast, with neither food nor water, while on a pilgrimage. He developed a stomach upset and pains in his epigastrium, worse on touch. He also dreamt that he was trying very hard to finish the pilgrimage but not getting there, making him restless.
His energy level remains good; there is no tiredness in the evenings anymore. Pain in the joints has reduced to nothing after resurfacing from time to time. His mood continues to improve: "I used to have many tensions concerning my life, my finances, my health, and my family, but now I think positively. If something is going to be there, why bother about it by bringing it up again and again. In the past, if anyone passed a comment, I used to feel excited and angry, thinking 'I'll do this or that to him' and it would go on and on. Now, I think 'let them talk as much as they want'."
His irritability towards his daughter has lessened and he has more fun with her instead of becoming upset if she leaves things untidy. He has fewer doubts about whether or not he will be able to accomplish things, feeling that they are no longer out of his reach. "I used to feel tense about the future, how I would handle things, but now I feel much more confident." His stutter has decreased and he has stopped paying so much attention to it when it occurs.
3/12/05: "I am feeling good, fresh, and enthusiastic. I have hardly any pains in my joints now and no more stomach acidity. I used to be occupied by worrying thoughts, so I couldn't give my attention to my business and my family, but now I have come out of this and I feel as happy as if I had won a lottery! My confidence is so much better, I feel at peace. I know that if something happens, I can face it. I am care-free, I dance in the streets when there is music playing and I don't care what others think; I just enjoy myself. I used to just live for my work and my home, and I never took part in religious or social work, but now I feel that I should do something for someone. If I only live for myself it's of no use; I want to live for my family but also for others."
He continues to feel better. While he occasionally has pains in his finger joints, they are much less intense and stop in a day or two without requiring any medical intervention. His stammering is still present but reduced. The shift in his attitude has completely opened a new aspect of his personality, which he never realised he possessed, and this awareness has surged through his life with a feeling of true joy and satisfaction. He is still a very sensitive person but now his sensitivity does not curb his potential or colour his perception in negative ways, as it did in the past.
A recent encounter with the patient revealed that he has no more signs of the paralysing pain he used to have, and he is off all medications.
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Deichbruch an der Elbe 1825; Friedrich Thöming (1802-1873)
Papaver somniferum; Mohnblumenfeld in Frankreich Aufgenommen im Sommer 2003 von Wolfgang Horlacher
Keywords: seronegative arthritis, intolerable pain, hopeless, sensitive, numb, calm
Remedies: Opium
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Graceville Work Camp Inmate Search and Prison Information
5230 Ezell Road, Graceville, FL, 32440-4289
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Graceville Work Camp offender locator: Booking Date, Mugshots, Bond Amount, Bookings, Charges, Arrests, Sex, Inmate List, Bond, Eye Color, Who's in jail, Release Date, Offense Date, Bail Amount, Post Date.
The Graceville Work Camp can be found in Graceville, Florida.
The Graceville Work Camp is a medium-security facility. . The Graceville Work Camp only houses male inmates. These male inmates all have been charged and convicted of a felony crime.
All inmates in the Graceville Work Camp living quarters are either going to be triple or double bunk beds in an open dormitory setting that expands from multiple buildings.
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The Graceville Work Camp also will offer their inmates counseling, educational programs, re-entry programs, substance abuse programs, and sex offender rehabilitation.
Graceville Work Camp — General Information
5230 Ezell Road, Graceville, FL, 32440-4289
How to Find Someone in Graceville Work Camp
With technology doing a quick inmate search is simple. You will need to head on over to the Florida Department of Corrections website, where you can find the inmate locator. You will be able to search for the inmate by their full name, gender, race, age, and institution.
You should select the Graceville Work Camp institution, so you do not get every other institution that the Florida Department of Corrections also owns and operates in the database as well.
Sending a Mail/Care Package
Nationwide Inmate Records Online Check
When you are not waiting for an inmate to call you, you are more than welcome to send a letter to an inmate. These letters will be checked by a Graceville Work Camp worker for contraband before given to the inmate it is addressed to.
Make sure when you are sending the letter out that you have it address to the inmate along with their ID number.
Sending Money
The Graceville Work Camp made it super simple for you to send/deposit money into an inmate's account.
You do not even have to leave your own home for some of these options.
The first option is you can use JPay. JPay is an online service where you can quickly deposit money into an inmate's account. This option will incur a fee though.
You can also utilize MoneyGram as well to deposit money into an inmate's account.
But, if you do not want to pay fees to send money, you can send a money order with the inmates information on it to the Graceville Work Camp.
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When an inmate is in the Graceville Work Camp, you will need to wait for them to call you hear their voice. You will NOT be permitted to call them while they are in the facility.
You will NOT be permitted to use any of your phone call features such as call forwarding, call waiting, and three-way calling. If you do use these features, your call can and will be disconnected as the Graceville Work Camp staff listens in on ALL phone calls.
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