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Malone, Edmond, 1741–1812, English literary critic and Shakespearean scholar, b. Ireland. His studies (1778) in the chronology of Shakespeare's plays are still considered highly valuable. He was among the first to see through the supposed antiquity of the poems of Thomas Chatterton, and in 1796 he exposed the Shakespearean forgeries of William Ireland. His monumental edition of Shakespeare was left unfinished at his death and was completed (21 vol., 1821) by Boswell's son James. The Malone Society, founded in 1907 for the purpose of furthering the study of early English drama by printing dramatic texts and documents, was named after him.
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A letter to the Town Hall Meeting protestors….
To the "Protestors" at the town hall meetings:
Where were you when YOUR party took us into an unnecessary and devastating war in Iraq?
Where were you when YOUR party deregulated the banking industry and paved the way for the financial collapse we face now?
Where were you when the previous administration of YOUR party limited access to all public events allowing in only loyal party line people? You wouldn't even have been let in the door of a town hall meeting by the previous administration after just one of these "protests."
Where were you when the previous administration of YOUR party put an incompetent bunch of private contractors in charge of the Iraq reconstruction, put A TRILLION dollars in the pockets of crony contractors and got NOTHING for it? Less people have electricity now then during Saddam Hussein's era.
Where were you when the previous administration of YOUR party whitewashed the investigation of the greatest crime ever perpetrated in the US, better know as 9/11?
Where were you when the previous administration stifled criticism of anything they did as unpatriotic, while circumventing the constitution of this nation (you claim to love) at every turn.
Where were you when the previous administration presided over the torture of foreign captives?
Where were you when the previous administration allowed New Orleans to drown?
Where were you when the previous administration stopped the states from cracking down on the predatory lending practices that contributed to the housing crash?
Where were you when our country was embarrassed in the eyes of the entire world time and time again, with gross incompetence, arrogance and downright stupidity by the previous administration?
So this is what you choose to publicly parade your outrage over? Socializing healthcare? Or the stimulus spending that has saved this country (and YOU) from the brink of an unparalleled collapse, a collapse created by YOUR party's free-market fundamentalist pipedream? THIS is what you find so important that you will make a public spectacle over it? T HIS is what you choose to execute your right to public protest, (a right honored ONLY by this administration and not the last) Of all the travesties of the past decade, you choose to protest the threat that our broken healthcare system, rated number 37 in the WORLD, and TWICE as expensive as ANYONE else's, might be "socialized" like England or Canada, (both systems rated much higher than ours) or even taken to a hybrid socialist system like France (rated #1)? Are you really so worried that you might have to contribute a few dollars to insure illegal aliens, that you allow insurance companies to charge you extra thousands in profit for doing NOTHING but trying to DENY YOU COVERAGE?
What the fuck is WRONG with you people? Go back to your knitting circles, or tire shops, or whatever it is you do with your sorry lives, and let the people charged with cleaning up the incredible mess YOUR PARTY made of this once proud country, work in peace. AND TURN OFF FOX NEWS and get a life.
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Hey. Don't lump us knitters with these idiots. Plus, knitters do no have sorry lives.
Speaking of morons…
What was so devastating about removing a tyrant from power and replacing him with a democratic government (oh wait, democracy is evil, right?)
I see you are quick to mention the deregulation of the banking industry, but fail to mention the demented efforts of your wonderful Democratic party to FORCE lenders to give loans to people who didn't deserve it. Home ownership is a fundamental right, correct (just like health care)? Oh wait, what happens when they can't pay their mortgage? The economy collapses! But we'll blame it on Bush.
You have absolutely no room to show alleged outrage at how the government may or may not have treated those who disagreed with the administration. Queen Nancy Pelosi, who just a couple of years ago was a big supporter of protesters, now calls them Nazis, just because they object to something she supports. Convenient, huh?
Wow, you really think the government pulled off 9/11…dude, the government can't keep ANYTHING secret. If GWB had diarrhea, it was leaked to the media.
The administration "allowed New Orleans to drown" because the governor of Louisiana (at the time a Democrat who has since been run out of office) failed to ask for help.
Speaking of gross incompetence, arrogance, and downright stupidity, maybe you should look in the mirror.
Do you REALLY believe that the stimulus package is saving our economy? The Congressional Budget Office said that it will hurt us more in the long run than it will help us – the CBO is no conservative think tank, my friend. What we're fighting mad about is the fact that your anointed one has spent SO MUCH MONEY that we will never be able to get out from under the debt. And morons like you try to denigrate us just for daring to question your wonderful leader.
We recognize the need for health care reform, but why don't you think for one second why the president is pushing this so hard? Why does he insist on having it NOW, as quickly as possible, even when he hasn't read the proposals? The administration doesn't care if it's a good proposal, they just want something passed. What is wrong with this picture?
The free-market system that you seem to hate so much is what made this country what it is. It is the sole reason for the prosperity that we enjoy so much (but you seem to hate so much). It inspires people to work hard and get ahead in life, which leads to jobs for others and general prosperity for society as a whole.
If you don't like the system we've been operating off of for the last 200+ yrs, then move to any of the countries that have embraced your socialist ideas and succeeded…oh wait, there aren't any. Sorry, I guess you're stuck. If you're going to stay, then go back to your commune, smoke your pot, and shut the hell up.


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Most small businesses don't use file servers, a specialized PC that is just used to share files among workers. In the past, these PCs were expensive, ran a different operating system from the ordinary Windows XP or Vista, and made it easier to connect to printers and backup tape drives. Because they were expensive, many smaller businesses just opted to store shared files on someone's desktop.
Having a file server has its advantages though: your business critical files are stored on something that has more protection because it doesn't have one of your users sitting in front of it all day, surfing the Web and getting infected with e-mails. You can lock it in a closet to prevent theft, too.
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Neither of these products solves the drive redundancy issue. For that, you want to buy a Network Attached Storage (NAS) device. If you want to buy an enclosure and add your own SATA storage drives, then take a look at what D-Link makes with its DNS-321 — for $150 you get a box with two drive bays. Another inexpensive NAS is from WD called MyBook, which is what I use because it supports both Windows and Mac clients. However, the software that shares it across the Internet (called Mionet) is miserable. If you like to tinker with your equipment, there is an active community of people who have modified their MyBooks.
All of the units I have mentioned are slow, meaning when you want to copy a large video file across the network it will take minutes, or longer. If you are worried about performance and also want to use that as a good starting place to buy a NAS device, then check out SmallNetBuilder's comparison chart of dozens of different ones here. Better options include the models from Buffalo Technology, and they have the ability to get their files from the Internet too. For less than $400, you can buy a terabyte of redundant storage.
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Zalando is the number one fashion platform and most fashionable tech company in Europe. To manage growth and complexity Zalando Tech made a shift towards a way of working that is called Radical Agility in 2015. We from the #PoDojo have been working with a small group of internal coaches to co-design a learning experience to empower people with knowledge and build capabilities in agile thinking and practices at a large scale and fast pace. In this talk we will present how we have used product discovery methods like Design Thinking and tools like the Value Proposition Canvas to launch a scalable learning program that fits the needs of co-trainers, participants and stakeholders alike, helping them to build products customers love.


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The mountains on Saturn's moon Titan defy easy explanation, but readings from the Cassini probe offer a fascinating new possibility: Titan is slowly releasing heat and shriveling up, causing mountains to form on its surface like wrinkles on a raisin.
It's a geological process unlike that of any other icy body, but that's the most likely explanation based on the new data from Cassini. Titan formed about four billion years ago, and ever since it's been very slowly venting heat and radioactive isotopes from inside its core. This causes parts of Titan's subsurface ocean to freeze and buckle, folding parts of the ice shell into each other and reducing the overall diameter of the planet. Since its formation, Titan has lost about four miles in radius and 1% of its volume to this process.
Known as contractional tectonics, it's the exact opposite of what forms mountains on other moons like those of Jupiter. There, extensional tectonics is in play, as forces stretch the ice shell and force up mountains. Scientists suggest the difference might be because of its interior ocean, which is a mix of water and ammonia.
The researchers were tipped off that something unusual was going on with Titan's mountains because most of its ranges are right around the equator with an east-west orientation, suggesting all the mountains shared a common origin. Although contractional tectonics is rare, it's not unheard of - in fact, the Zagros Mountains in Iran were formed by precisely the same process.


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MAR VISTA PARK – The origin of Lighthouse Christian Academy's hard-fought soccer victory Friday was in the small Central American nation of Guatemala.
Sophomore Luis Secaira opened scoring in the 43rd minute, and Freshman Robert Ashcraft finished off the game in the 76th minute. Both were born in Guatemala.
At game three in the 2012-13 season, the varsity Saints are 2-0-1.
After both teams stale-mated in the first half, fleet-footed Secaira put Lighthouse ahead early in the second half. Chasing an audacious through-ball from Stopper Tori Scribner, he bolted past Wildwood defense, rounded the goalie, slotted gently into the net — and fell down, the wind knocked out of him by an opponent's elbow at the start of the 40-yard dash.
Lighthouse fans — out in force for the proximity of the playing field — erupted in cheers. They were already savoring a second victory, after a dismal season with no wins last year.
But the elation turned to anxiety 13 minutes later as Wildwood struck on a free kick just outside of the area, and the ball was headed into the Saints' net.
Tied at 1-1, both teams fought an exhausting battle to move forward into striking range. Wildwood was unlucky to see hard-won penetration frustrated as a low shot on the far post bounced out and was cleared.
Meanwhile, the Saints relied mostly on counter-attack with the mind-boggling speed of forward Wyatt Hodgson, a tenacious competitor and natural athlete.
With four minutes to the final whistle, midfield magician Elijah Symonds – a.k.a. the human catapult – hurled a throw-in into the area. Surrounded by three defenders, Rob headed the ball backwards and into the net.
Wildwood players scrambled frantically for the equalizer. When the ref called the game, the Saints broke out in celebration. "We're undefeated," chimed Tori, who played nearly faultlessly.
While the Guatemalans scored the goals, at the other end of the field a Mexican American was ensuring the victory. Ace Goal-Keeper Adrian Brizuela blunted Wildwood attacking weapons with intelligent, hair-raising saves.
The freshman threw himself time after time with nervy kamikaze dives that only the most fearless goalies pull off. While saves at both ends of the field were almost equal (Saints 7, Wildwood 6), the types executed by Adrian were technically more difficult — and gutsy.
Playing co-ed against all boys, the Saints gave a lesson in mental fortitude and doggedness. Refusing to tire, they dug deep to find the inner resources to grab the victory in what was their sternest test to date. With every match, improvement can be seen.
Looming ahead on Tuesday is the biggest challenge yet: the speed demons and master-class passers of Vista Mar. Can Lighthouse with half a team of beginners muster enough grit, concentration and determination to wrangle out a satisfying result?
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Parents here is what the Common Core is doing to your children.
From the New York Post:
Way beyond the ABCs, crayons and building blocks, the city Department of Education now wants 4- and 5-year-olds to write "informative/explanatory reports" and demonstrate "algebraic thinking."
Children who barely know how to write the alphabet or add 2 and 2 are expected to write topic sentences and use diagrams to illustrate math equations.
"For the most part, it's way over their heads," a Brooklyn teacher said. "It's too much for them. They're babies!"
In a kindergarten class in Red Hook, Brooklyn, three children broke down and sobbed on separate days last week, another teacher told The Post.
When one girl cried, "I can't do it," classmates rubbed her back, telling her, "That's OK."
"This is causing a lot of anxiety," the teacher said. "Kindergarten should be happy and playful. It should be art and dancing and singing and learning how to take turns. Instead, it's frustrating and disheartening."
The city has adopted national standards called the Common Core, which dramatically raise the bar on what kids in grades K through 12 should know.
The jargon is new, too. Teachers rate each student's performance as "novice," "apprentice," "practitioner" or "expert."
Kindergartners are introduced to "informational texts" read aloud, such as "Garden Helpers," a National Geographic tale about useful pests.
After three weeks, kids have to "write a book about what they've learned," with a drawing and sentences explaining the topic.
In math, kids tackle concepts like "tally chart," "combination," and "commutative property," DOE records show.
Folks this isn't rigorous. This is INSANE and shows that the Common Core ELA and Math Standards were written by those who don't have an iota of a clue about basic child development. Have they read Erik Erickson's stages of social-emotional development and Piaget's stages of cognitive development?
Then there's language development. Here are some benchmarks for a typical five year-old.
- Can use many descriptive words spontaneously-both adjectives and adverbs
- Knows common opposites: big-little, hard-soft, heave-light, etc
- Has number concepts of 4 or more
- Can count to ten
- Speech should be completely intelligible, in spite of articulation problems
- Should have all vowels and the consonants, m,p,b,h,w,k,g,t,d,n,ng,y (yellow)
- Should be able to repeat sentences as long as nine words
- Should be able to define common objects in terms of use (hat, shoe, chair)
- Should be able to follow three commands given without interruptions
- Should know his age
- Should have simple time concepts: morning, afternoon, night, day, later, after, while
- Tomorrow, yesterday, today
- Should be using fairly long sentences and should use some compound and some complex sentences
- Speech on the whole should be grammatically correct
And for a six year-old:
- In addition to the above consonants these should be mastered: f, v, sh, zh, th,1
- He should have concepts of 7
- Speech should be completely intelligible and socially useful
- Should be able to tell one a rather connected story about a picture, seeing relationships
- Between objects and happenings
At seven years-of-age:
- Should have mastered the consonants s-z, r, voiceless th, ch, wh, and the soft g as in George
- Should handle opposite analogies easily: girl-boy, man-woman, flies-swims, blunt-sharp short-long, sweet-sour, etc
- Understands such terms as: alike, different, beginning, end, etc
- Should be able to tell time to quarter hour
- Should be able to do simple reading and to write or print many words
I hope this angers you. It does me.
If you think the frustration will stop in Kindergarten, think again. Perhaps this is a case of unintended consequences. More than likely it'll be the basis for a push for earlier and earlier government intervention into early childhood.


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Austrian-born film composer Max Steiner was the grandson of the musical impresario who discovered Strauss and brought Offenbach to Vienna. Growing up with a rich heritage of opera and symphony all about him, Steiner developed into a musical prodigy; at the age of thirteen he graduated from the Imperial Academy of Music, completing the course in one year and winning the Gold Medal of the Emperor. Already a composer at 14 and conductor at 16, Steiner moved from Austria to England in 1905, remaining there to conduct at His Majesty's Theatre until 1914. With the outbreak of the war, Steiner emigrated to America, where he kept busy with Broadway musicals and operettas. One of his most beneficial American jobs was to compose the music to be conducted during screenings of the silent film The Bondman (1915); he became a friend of William Fox, the film's producer, giving Steiner early entree into the Hollywood that would so gainfully employ him in later years. In 1929, he was brought to fledgling RKO Radio Studios to orchestrate the film adaptation of Ziegfeld's Rio Rita (1929). Always confident in his talents, Steiner was realistic enough to understand that he was hired by RKO because he cost a tenth of what someone like Stowkowski would charge. While at RKO, Steiner developed his theory that music should be a function of the dramatic content of a film, and not merely background filling. His scores for such films as Symphony of Six Million (1932), The Informer (1935), and, especially, King Kong (1933) are carefully integrated works, commenting upon the visual images, augmenting the action, and heightening the dramatic impact. While Steiner's detractors would characterize his spell-it-out technique as "Mickey Mousing" (in reference to the music heard in animated cartoons), producers, directors, and stars came to rely upon Steiner to make a good film better, and a great film superb. After 111 pictures at RKO, Steiner was hired by David O. Selznick, who assigned the composer to write the score for Gone with the Wind (1939). Virtually 75 percent of this 221-minute epic required music of some sort, and Steiner rose to the occasion with what many consider his finest work. One concept refined in Gone with the Wind was to give each important character his or her own separate musical motif -- quite an undertaking when one realizes how many speaking parts there were in the film. Around that time Steiner began working at Warner Bros, where he penned the studio's famous "opening logo" fanfare and also provided evocative scores for such classics as Now Voyager (1941), Casablanca (1942) and Mildred Pierce (1945). A proud, vain man, Steiner frequently found himself the butt of good-natured practical jokes from his fellow composers, but at Oscar time it was usually Steiner who had the last laugh. Steiner remained active until 1965, contributing scores to The Caine Mutiny (1954), The Searchers (1955), A Summer Place (1959) and many other films. It was only at the very end of his career, with such retrogressive scores as Youngblood Hawke (1964), that Max Steiner's once-revolutionary technique began to sound old hat.
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Freedom of expression is a messy business
Among Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Andrew Meyer and Lawrence Summers, the world has been treated recently to a carnival of free expression, as our most treasured right was exercised on university campuses.
Or wasn't. Depending.
Free speech isn't quite free, as it turns out. Nor is its exercise evenly enjoyed. Here's the breakdown:
In New York Monday, the president of Iran -- a liar who denies the Holocaust, sponsors terrorism and abuses human rights -- spoke at Columbia University.
Ahmadinejad was mocked, booed, jeered and laughed at -- especially when he insisted there are no gays in Iran, despite documented public hangings of homosexuals, including teenagers. But he got to speak.
Summers wasn't so lucky. In California, the former president of Harvard University did not get to speak at a University of California Board of Regents meeting after professors petitioned to withdraw his invitation.
Summers didn't hang anybody in public or stone any adulterers, as is still common in Iran. Summers' offense was more nuanced. He was insensitive.
A couple of years ago at a conference, Summers suggested that disparities in accomplishment and college tenure among men and women could be explained (possibly, maybe, but maybe not) by "availability of aptitude at the high end," as well as socialization, patterns of discrimination and, not least, the "high-powered job hypothesis" that more men than women opt for 80-hour workweeks.
It's surprising only that Summers wasn't Tasered on the spot.
Which was, alas, the fate of Andrew Meyer, the University of Florida student who was subdued by campus police during a Q&A with Sen. John Kerry. D-Mass..
Meyer, who calls himself The Andrew Meyer on his Web site, was guilty of acute self-importance, as the definite article before his name suggests.
As a video of the incident showed, Meyer persisted in asking a string of questions when told to stop and made a noisy scene when police attempted to escort him from the room. Finally, after he was pinned on the ground by five or six police officers, he was Tasered.
Whether The Andrew Meyer was obnoxious is not in dispute, but if obnoxiousness were a Tasering offense, America's talk-show hosts would be an alternative energy source.
So there you have it: Three individuals trying to exercise freedom of speech in three different university environments with three different results. The one with the greatest credibility was censored. The one whose regime restricts academic freedom and imposes censorship was given a forum. The one whose participation in the free-speech experiment arguably counts the most -- the student -- was physically punished.
Unfortunately, Meyer is not a particularly sympathetic character. His record suggests that he is motivated more by fame than principle. Even so, from the other side of the world where freedom of speech is rare -- and where students are brutalized or killed for protesting their government -- the Taser incident must have seemed familiar. It was not our best moment.
What these events tell us is that freedom of expression is a messy business, not so neatly understood or exercised. Even as we want to export freedom, we continue to struggle with it ourselves -- not because we are weak or stupid, but because freedom is a burden. It always has been.
America has toiled more than two centuries now, trying to craft a system of free expression that respects both the individual and the larger community. When should your right to express yourself prevail over my right not to share your expression? That's the trick question, and the answer requires more than magic. It requires maturity, responsibility and vigilance.
Summers should have been allowed to talk, because the marketplace of ideas has room for unpopular thoughts. So should The Kid With The Big Mouth, because America has a demonstrable tolerance for big mouths.
Strong arguments can be made both for and against Ahmadinejad's "right" to speak. A president who doesn't tolerate free speech in his own country has no legitimate claim to the pulpit, but an American university president has every right to invite him, to hear and question him, and to expose and laugh at his deceptions.
Most important, allowing all to speak is a reiteration of our hard-won understanding that speaking freely in the public square beats strapping on bombs in the marketplace every time. That's a lesson worth modeling.
We may not always get it right, but at least we get it.
Kathleen Parker writes for the Washington Post Writers Group.


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WOERMANN, Minka. Interpreting Foucault: an evaluation of a Foucauldian critique of education. S. Afr. j. educ. [online]. 2012, vol.32, n.1, pp.111-120. ISSN 2076-3433.
The potential strengths and weaknesses of a Foucauldian critique of education are discussed and evaluated. The article focuses specifically on the value of Foucault's work for critiquing social and political ideologies prevalent in education, which is understood as a societal institution, and hence, as a modern regime of institutional power. In terms of strengths, the ability to raise issues of knowledge, power and contestation that are traditionally ignored in educational theory is addressed. In terms of weaknesses, Foucault's problematic use and understanding of power and his apparent rejection of objective truth are investigated. The critique develops at the hand of influential, but competing, interpretations of Foucault's contribution to the field of education in particular, and philosophy in general. It is argued that these influential readings of Foucault gain traction within specific discourses (such as education), and should thus be subjected to critical scrutiny.
Keywords : critique; education; Foucault; institution; power; truth.


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many thanks sinner!! you've got me there with the paper, the wife got me brians "paper monsters" and also lou's "we are papertoys" books so looks like i'm set there for a while eh!!
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hey there, would love to help you, but i am lost on that one.. sorry!
i would have to "draw" it all myself also, my skills in that category are not that played out yet either. ^^
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(CNN) -- No matter what race you consider yourself to be, you have a unique genetic makeup.
That's why, as technology improves and researchers explore new implications of the human genome, medicine is going to become more individually tailored in a model called personalized medicine.
Although we've been hearing for years that people of particular races are at higher risk for certain illnesses, personalized medicine will (in theory) make better predictions based on actual genetic makeup. And even now, race is less relevant to your own health care than you might think.
But doctors say a patient's culture -- the collection of norms, goals, attitudes, values and beliefs -- will always be important to health care, no matter how sophisticated genetic technology gets.
Biologically, what is race?
When it comes down to it there's, no clear-cut way of saying that one person "belongs" to one race or another -- in fact, a person who has the skin color and hair type typical of one race may self-identify in a completely different way.
And if you think that race comes from location-based populations, many Americans don't have a "pure" genetic heritage from only one world region. In fact, 9 million Americans identified as multiracial on the most recent census, so it's hard to make these distinctions.
You probably have genes that came from several groups of ancestral communities. Based on archaeological evidence, everyone's earliest ancestors came from Africa more than 2 million years ago, so we're all descended from the same "race" anyway.
"There are genetic ancestries -- markers that you can see -- but those don't necessarily perfectly correlate with what people consider their own race to be, because that's sort of an artificial construct," said Dr. Wendy Chung, assistant professor of pediatrics at Columbia University Medical Center.
What's behind racial patterns of disease
Although races are labels that humans have invented to categorize each other, research into reasons for race-based trends is ongoing.
There's a heart failure drug, BiDil, approved specifically for African Americans. But since race itself does not predispose people to illness, this drug remains controversial.
Sometimes race obscures underlying mechanisms for genetic traits.
For decades, doctors thought that sickle cell disease was exclusively African, but some people of Mediterranean and Indian origin also have the genetic trait. We now know that the genetic trait for sickle cell disease protects against malaria, and that it is found among people with ancestry in places where malaria is, or used to be found, biologists Marcus Feldman and Richard Lewontin point out in their essay "Race, Ancestry, and Medicine."
Race can also hide underlying social issues -- namely, poverty.
African-American life expectancy at birth is on average, about five fewer years than white Americans, according to the most recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But Dr. Vicente Navarro at Johns Hopkins University has shown in his research that social class is a bigger driver of U.S. life expectancy than race or gender. He points out in a 1990 Lancet study that the United States is the only Western developed nation that does not report health statistics according to class.
"You're measuring the poverty in the black populations, but if you were talking about poverty, then you would have (an) issue that you could do something about," said George Armelagos, professor of anthropology at Emory University. "We try to avoid the issues that we hope we don't have to do anything about, especially when it comes to inequality."
How genetics reduces the importance of race
Given the imperfect association between race and specific diseases, it makes sense that race would become less important to clinical medicine if your doctor could just look at your entire genome and pinpoint genetic variants that carry risk.
Genomic sequencing is getting cheaper, and researchers are working on identifying specific markers for many diseases.
For instance, we know that women who are Ashkenazi Jewish are at increased risk for carrying the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genetic mutations linked to breast cancer; there's already a test to see whether a person has those mutations, making racial origin itself irrelevant. There are also genetic predispositions to disease that have nothing to do with race.
But currently, the ability to make predictions is limited, says Michael Zwick, geneticist at Emory University School of Medicine.
"It's more than just the science or technology of being able to sequence the genome. It's interpreting the variation and how it will be applied," he said. More research is needed to translate that information into meaningful medical decisions for a patient, he said.
But race still has uses
Some anthropologists, like Armelagos, say race has already become meaningless in medicine. But doctors such as Dr. Sharonne Hayes, cardiologist and director of diversity at the Mayo Clinic, still see a purpose for race in public health.
Race has an important role in reaching populations at risk, Hayes said. Data about African-American risk can help target screening efforts for heart disease, for instance, she said. When it comes to allocating resources and focusing efforts on at-risk groups, race can be a useful tool, even if it is imperfect, she said.
And in clinical trials, it's important to get a broad representation of people so that the results aren't skewed, said Dr. Ellen Tedaldi, a professor at Temple University School of Medicine.
Tedaldi directs Temple's program in HIV, a disease that disproportionately affects communities of color. In her studies, African-Americans and Latinos tend to come in for treatment at later stages of the disease. There is also a predominance of kidney disease among African-Americans with HIV.
Those are starting points for further investigation, she said.
"You may take that information and try and improve the outcome from either direction -- either a biomedical or more of a social or economic approach," she said.
Why family, culture matter more than race
So what does all of this mean for your next doctor's visit?
When Hayes sees a patient, she doesn't view him or her any differently based on race. She doesn't have a genetic test to gauge whether he or she is more likely to have a heart attack. She can only have conversations with the patient to create a profile of risk.
"Their lifestyle, family history, habits, whether they walk or smoke or take care of themselves or not, whether their dad had a heart attack or their mom had a heart attack -- I'm going to ask those same questions and individualize their care to the extent that I can in 2011," Hayes said.
Lines of ancestry tell a lot more about a patient's potential risks than self-identified race, experts say. Knowing the medical history of your parents and grandparents has enormous predictive value for diseases you might be at risk for, Zwick said.
Genes aren't the whole story, either.
Each patient has deeply ingrained habits, attitudes and beliefs that no genetic test can identify but which are very much a part of health and wellness. For instance, some people come from cultures where family comes before the individual, and the doctor needs to respect that in creating a dialogue about healthy habits.
"It is about going home and having, perhaps, a culture built around certain foods that may not be as healthy as some other foods, and so being sensitive to that and working with that individual," Hayes said.


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Three Christians have each been sentenced to 15 days in prison in the Andijan region of eastern Uzbekistan after police raided a home. Uzbekistan is located in Central Asia, north of Afghanistan, reports MNN.
According to Forum 18 News, speaking on condition of anonymity because of fear of retaliation, three additional Protestants at the house were detained in a homeless center for between four and eleven days, for not having their identification documents with them.
In a separate case, a Baptist in the capital city of Tashkent was given a ten-day prison sentence after approximately 20 officials from various state agencies — including the Presidential Administration — raided a prayer meeting in a registered church.
Officials told church members that they need special permission for any services aside from those on Sundays, though Forum 18 said the news service can't find any legal requirement for this alleged regulation.
Vice President of Russian Ministries Sergey Rakhuba says they have work in the region, and he confirms that attacks against Christians are on the increase. "It looks like officials are targeting everybody who is talking about their faith, claiming that they are there to destroy their country."
Rakhuba says these aren't isolated cases of oppression. He says it's happening all over the country. "People we work with are sending us messages saying that this is the beginning of another wave of very intense and very serious persecution."
Ironically this has nothing to do with a new religion law in Uzbekistan, according to Rakhuba. "The believers were in their homes. They were in their churches. They were doing what their constitution allows. They were praying and reading the Bible. But government officials arrested them under their terrorist act or regulation, implying that they're trying to [create an uprising] against their country, which it totally not true."
Rakhuba says authorities are even trying to fabricate violations of the religion law. "They will stop somebody in the car, or arrest somebody on the streets, and then they plant New Testaments or Bibles or other literature, claiming that they were trying to distribute it on the streets, when they're not trying to do that."
He says even the long time Russian Baptist are having difficulties in the country.
Because the government's taking such a hard stand on evangelical Christians, the church has gone underground. "That's really who they are after. The more pressure they create, the more success we see in the underground movement, just like any other place on earth."
Rakhuba reports that the underground church movement is growing like wildfire. Russian Ministries' Schools Without Walls program has been created to work well in underground situations — training the next generation church leaders. "You don't have to have schools or classrooms or schedules or approvals. You just have to have a leader" who's willing to go and train.
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James Monroe
5th president (1817-1825)
Background/Early Life
• James Monroe was born in Virginia in 1758 and grew up with the colonies on their way to war with Great Britain.
• Monroe attended the College of William and Mary but by the end of 1776 he joined the Continental Army. He suffered an almost-fatal wound to his shoulder in the Battle of Trenton and though he stopped fighting after that, he remained a part of the military until the end of the war.
• Thomas Jefferson became a mentor for Monroe as he studied law after the war, and Monroe was elected to the Virginia Assembly in 1782. He served on the Council of State, was elected to the Continental Congress and served in the United States Senate.
• Aside from a short stint as governor of Virginia, a lot of Monroe's political activity under the government set up by the Constitution was done overseas. He was appointed to be the U.S. minister to France by George Washington, then when Jefferson was president Monroe was sent to France to help negotiate the Louisiana Purchase. He was also a U.S. minister to Britain and did work in Spain.
• Monroe was secretary of state for James Madison and served some of the time as secretary of war during the War of 1812, and his leadership in these positions set him up to be elected president in 1816.
How he defined the office
• Called "The Era of Good Feelings," Monroe's presidency featured two historic policies that helped shape America's future — the Monroe Doctrine and the Missouri Compromise — and the Cabinet he assembled is viewed as one of the strongest in American history.
Successes and failures
• The United States acquired Florida during Monroe's presidency, and with new states being added to the union Congress reached the Missouri Compromise, which drew a dividing line at 36 degrees, 30 minutes latitude — western territories added as states north of that line would be admitted as free states and south would be added as slave states.
• In 1823 President Monroe issued what came to be known as the Monroe Doctrine. It stated that the United States would not accept European interference in the western hemisphere, essentially saying the U.S. would protect Latin America. Monroe's was the first such policy statement about the area by the United States.
notable quote
• "The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil."


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Katie Hacker, Beadalon Designer and host of 'Beads, Baubles & Jewels' TV show, demonstrates techniques from her just-published book Live Wire Jewelry: Make Colorful Designs That Shine (North Light, 2012). During a lull in the booth buzz, I took the opportunity to ask Katie for tips on getting published. I was gifted with "Katie Hacker's Ten-minute Talk on How to Propose a Book," which will appear soon in another Stabbed! blog post.
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The fire in Santa Barbara is officially called the Tea Incident, because it started near (or at) a (or the) tea house, on Mountain Road in Montecito. (Here? Ah, no, here.)
There are lots of good places to see what's happening. One of the best is this Google Map. KEYT, Edhat, the Independent, Noozhawk and others are helpful. Inciweb has nothing so far, perhaps because the Tea Incident is not yet an official wildfire. It's usually very helpful once it gets rolling on a fire. And the MODIS maps are great. That's a screenshot of one, above.
It's also a little too interesting that temperatures will be as high as 90° today (unusually hot for here) with strong winds from the northeast. Which will be bad, if any of the fire is still going. Some of it will be, but it's clear that this is not a rolling conflagration like the Oakland fire in 1990 or the San Diego fire last year. Watching the Montecito and Santa Barbara fire chiefs and Santa Barbara Mayor Marty Blum in a press conference right now. The phrases "damage assessment" and "mopping up" are being used. Also "narrow window of opportunity" to contain the fire.
So right now the top thing people want to know is, Which houses have burned down? Can we be exact about what has burned? Saying "over a hundred homes" gives us a quantity of nothing.
If anybody has something exact — streets and neighborhoods, if not addresses — let us know in the comments below. Meanwhile I'll be headed out shortly to check things out, or at least to sit at a coffee shop and hang out with concerned and/or evacuated neighbors.
[Not much later…] The County Sherrif is on now, and giving specifics. The Mount Calvary Retreat House and Monastery is completely distroyed. (A beautiful place, and a terrible loss.) Areas where many homes burned: Las Canoas, East Mountain Drive, Gibraltar Road, Scofield Park. Mostly inside a triangle between Westmont Collage, the East Riviera and St. Mary's. (By Rattlesnake Canyon.) Over 100 homes lost, but many also saved.
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Tea Garden info:
"Mar Y Cel (Sea & Sky) is a 350 acre estate in the Santa Ynez Mountain foothills above Montecito. The property includes the well known "Tea Gardens" built by Mr. & Mrs. Henry Bothin in the early 1900s. One of Montecito's most intriguing properties, the site contains the remains of an intricate array of stone aqueducts and water works, Romanesque arches, and Greek-like statues. In September 2000, the environmental investment group Cima del Mundo LLC offered to donate a conservation easement on the northern 150 acres of the estate, eliminating the possibility of residential development and ensuring protection of the scenic beauty and wildlife habitat on this part of the estate. A popular hiking trail, the West Fork of Cold Springs Trail, has run through this area for many years, but it was not on a legally-dedicated easement. Cima del Mundo agreed to grant a one-half mile trail easement to the Land Trust, so that the right to use this trail is now guaranteed to the public."
from http://www.sblandtrust.org/openspaces.html
I've been up there and seen the aqueducts – very amazing and cool stuff, though I expect now much of the area is burned.
At least 14 of the 41 faculty homes on the Westmont campus have been destroyed, along with damage to several classroom type buildings.
Governor has declared state of emergency which means more resources will be deployed to fight the fire.
SB County Sheriff stated that they aren't seeing any imminent evacuation expansion, they are still very worried about the fire moving into the City of Santa Barbara proper.
The curious side of me wants to go get some photos but I'm very wary of getting in the way of responders.
KEYT is showing shots of the planes dropping water on the fire line.
Direct Relief says in a press-release that, "Free masks will be distributed to area residents in the parking lot off Las Positas, near the intersection with State Street. The N-95 masks help protect against inhaling particulate matter in smoke and ash, a particular concern for people with respiratory conditions such as asthma."
Daryl Cagle and his son evacuated last night. Haven't been able to find any update as to whether his house was spared He has a blog entry here: http://cagle.com/news/BLOG/main.asp
Daryl is an awesome political cartoonist. I hope for the best.
I heard an hour or two ago that the upper end of Hyde road off Mtn Drive has been completely consumed. This via a photographer who is up there doing ostensible journalism — we had friends there and he confirmed their place is burnt to the ground.
Oh, by the way, how do you get to the more detailed MODIS images? I've been fooling with their site for a while and can't reach anything that shows the fire as more than a single red blob.
I hear the roads are clogged with people trying to take pictures of the fires.
Westmont College liveblog of last night here: http://horizon.westmont.edu/articles/?p=1108
'The Arches' in the 'Tea Garden', for which this fire is named:
This is right above Westmont College off of Mountain Drive.
I'm in Pennsylvania. I read about this blaze on my hometown [Culver City] parish's e-update [St. Mary Palms], reporting that our retired Rector was evacuated along with all other residents from the Mount Calvary Retreat House up at the end of Gibraltar Rd behind Palmer Park. Can you confirm that the Monastery and grounds have been lost? I am so sad and anxious for everyone up in this beautiful, fragile, and dangerous landscape. Our prayers are with you all. [Your website is the only place I have been able to find accurate, timely reporting.] Thank you.
Sorry — clicking too many links, back and forth, simultaneously. Sadly, I see you have confirmed the Monastery's loss. KME.
Crisiswire is aggregating twitter stream, ustream feeds, and news feeds on one page http://crisiswire.com/2008/11/santa-barbara-fires
Just set-up new local Santa Barbara Bulletin Boards available for fire and other local discussion:
Also local citizen news feed aggregation:
And growing comprehensive local news aggregation:
Bulletin Board resource for locals:
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This study aims to analyse innovation systems and strategies in vocational education and training (VET) by bringing together evidence of the drivers for systemic innovation in six different countries: Australia, Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Mexico and Switzerland. [Click Country reports for Country Reports] All countries taking part in the project have proposed two or three "case studies" of recently implemented systemic innovations in the area of VET.
The study will focus on the following aspects in particular:
• How countries go about initiating innovation
• The processes involved and the relationships between the main actors
• The knowledge that is drawn on
• The procedures and criteria for assessing progress and outcomes
Information on each country will be collected through desk-based research as well as country visits conducted by expert teams.
Publications resulting from the project will include reports on each of the six participating countries as well as a final comparative report drawing together findings and conclusions from the whole study. This project runs parallel to an OECD Policy Review of Vocational Education and Training.
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5.2. SimplePay will at all times use its reasonable endeavours to ensure that the supply of the Services is continuous. In this regard, however, it is specifically recorded that SimplePay cannot and does not guarantee that the supply of the Services will remain uninterrupted at all times.
5.3. In the event of any Services being interrupted during a critical period, SimplePay shall, upon written request by the Customer, use all reasonable endeavours to make alternative facilities available to the Customer.
5.4. SimplePay shall provide the Customer with reasonable notice of any scheduled maintenance that may interrupt the provision of any Services, and shall, whenever possible, schedule such maintenance at times which are most convenient for the Customer.
6.1. The Customer shall pay to SimplePay a license fee, payable either:
6.1.1. monthly; or
6.1.2. annually in advance, in which case the Customer is entitled to a ten percent (10%) discount.
6.2. License Fees are calculated in accordance with the Customer's Billing Cycle based on the number of Active Employees on the Customer's profile during the relevant month
6.3. License Fees shall escalate annually, on 1 January, with one (1) month's notice to the Customer at either:
6.3.1. the annual inflation rate as determined by the Consumer Price Index for the preceding calendar year; or
6.3.2. twelve percent (12%)
6.4. Notwithstanding the above, SimplePay reserves the right to escalate Licence Fees at other times and at other percentages upon furnishing the Customer with six (6) months' notice of such increase
6.5. SimplePay shall, for the duration of this Agreement, furnish the Customer with a written invoice setting out:
6.5.1. the amount of the License Fee due by the Customer to SimplePay in terms of clause 6.1.1 or 6.1.2, which amounts shall be invoiced by SimplePay and payable by the Customer as set out in clause 6.6.2 below; and
6.5.2. any administration fee due by the Customer to SimplePay resulting from manual processing of payments, which amount shall be invoiced by SimplePay and payable by the Customer as set out in clause 6.6.2 below
6.5.3. the net amount due and payable by the Customer to SimplePay in respect of each invoice.
6.6. Unless otherwise clearly stipulated in a Schedule, all amounts stipulated as being payable by the Customer to SimplePay in terms of this Agreement:
6.6.1. shall be payable by the Customer to SimplePay within 30 days of receiving an invoice from SimplePay and the outstanding balance of the Customer's account equalling or surpassing one hundred (100) rand, failing which the account will be frozen .
6.7. The Customer shall not, under any circumstances, be entitled to withhold payment of any amount due under this Agreement, save for as provided for in clause 6.6.2. In the event that the Customer fails to make due and timeous payment of any amount owing to SimplePay under this Agreement:
6.7.1. SimplePay shall be entitled to suspend access to the System and the provision of the Services, until such time as the Customer shall have paid to SimplePay such fees, it being specifically recorded that in the event that payment of any amount is to be made in advance, SimplePay shall not be obliged to grant access to the System and/or commence with the provision of the Services, until such payment has been made by the Customer in full
6.8. Where the Customer requests that SimplePay undertake ad hoc development work, and such work is for the sole benefit of the Customer, SimplePay reserves the right to charge a reasonable fee, subject to prior consultation with, and agreement by, the Customer
6.9. Where the Customer makes use of SimplePay's Self-Service document upload feature, SimplePay reserves the right to charge a reasonable fee for storage of large amounts of data due to excessive uploading of documents.
7.1. SimplePay shall be relieved of the obligation to perform in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement and shall, in addition, not be liable for any loss (including, but not limited to loss of data, profits and goodwill), liability, damages (whether direct, indirect or consequential) or expense of whatsoever nature and howsoever arising, where SimplePay's failure, delay or inability to perform its obligations in terms of this Agreement is due to:
7.1.1. the Customer's failure to perform, or delay in performing its obligations in terms of this Agreement;
7.1.2. the Customer's failure to confirm the accuracy and integrity of any data or information processed for and on behalf of it by SimplePay;
7.1.3. circumstances beyond SimplePay's reasonable control or events that constitute an event of force majeure in terms of clause 23;
7.1.4. all telecommunications infrastructure and communication line faults;
7.1.5. power failure or power interruptions;
7.1.6. failure or unreasonable delay by the Customer to report faults, problems or defects in the quality of the System to SimplePay;
7.1.7. the Customer making changes to its information technology system or environment or any portion thereof;
7.1.8. the failure of any hardware, software programme, application/s or any other computer systems (or any component thereof) of any third party on whom the Customer relies (whether directly or indirectly) to access and utilise the System and/or the Service, and/or on which SimplePay relies to provide access to the System or to provide the Services;
7.1.9. loss or damage caused directly or indirectly by the negligent and/or incorrect Use of the System by the Customer; and/or
7.1.10. the suspension of the Services for maintenance, repair and improvements; provided that, where possible, SimplePay shall provide the Customer with reasonable notice of any such suspension.
8.1. The Customer shall, for the duration of this Agreement:
8.1.1. be solely responsible for confirming the accuracy and integrity of any data or information processed for and on behalf of it by SimplePay;
8.1.2. be solely responsible for the protection of its Proprietary Information;
8.1.3. not commit or attempt to commit any act or omission which directly or indirectly:
18.104.22.168. impedes, impairs or precludes SimplePay from being able to grant access to the System and/or provide the Services in a reasonable and business-like manner;
18.104.22.168. constitutes an abuse
22.214.171.124. or malicious misuse of the System and/or the Services; or
22.214.171.124. is calculated to have either of the abovementioned effects,
and in the event of the Customer committing any act or omission listed in 8.1.3, should SimplePay incur expenses to remedy the situation, SimplePay reserves the right to charge the Customer the amount necessary to cover SimplePay's additional expenditure or to take any other appropriate action it may deem necessary to remedy the situation;
8.1.4. not sell, resell or otherwise deal with the System in any manner whatsoever and, without limitation to the aforegoing, any consideration which the Customer may receive whilst acting in breach of this prohibition shall be forfeited to SimplePay;
8.1.5. not allow any person other than its employees or other authorised parties access to the System and/or the Services;
8.1.6. where the Customer is an accountant or firm of accountants processing payroll on behalf of 3rd Party Cients:
22.214.171.124. not permit such 3rd Party Clients to Use the System or Services;
18.104.22.168. and, where a 3rd Party Client Uses the System, SimplePay reserves the right to refuse access to the Services and/or to require that such 3rd Party Client register as a Customer, separate from the abovementioned accountant or firm of accountants
8.1.7. not withhold or defer payment or be entitled to a reduction in any charge or have any other right or remedy against SimplePay, its servants, its agents or any other persons for whom it may be liable in law if SimplePay interrupts access to the System or refrains from providing the Services to Customer in the event that the Customer is in default of any of its obligations under this Agreement to SimplePay;
8.1.8. not at any time use the System and/or the Services in contravention of any South African law and, in this regard, the Customer acknowledges that SimplePay has no obligation to assist the Customer in obtaining knowledge and/or clarity in terms of the applicable South African law; and
8.1.9. not make any warranty or representation in respect of the System and/or the Services other than those authorised in writing by SimplePay.
The Customer warrants and represents that:
9.1. the supply of the System and/or the rendering of the Services by SimplePay in terms of this Agreement shall not give rise to:
9.1.1. a breach of any licensing arrangement or agreement concerning the Customer's computer systems, including, without limitation, the Customer's software;
9.1.2. or an infringement of any copyright or similar right held by any licensor/s of any of the Customer's computer systems and, in particular, the Customer's software.
9.2. If, in SimplePay's opinion, the supply of the System and/or the rendering of any of the Services will constitute a breach of any license or the infringement of any copyright or similar right held by any person in respect of any of the Customer's computer systems and/or the Customer's computer software, SimplePay shall not be obliged to supply the System and/or provide any such Services.
SimplePay warrants and represents that:
9.3. it has full capacity and authority and all the necessary licences, permits and consents to enter into and perform in terms of this Agreement and to provide access to the System and/or to provide the Services to the Customer;
9.4. it is the owner of or has the right to use under licence the Intellectual Property Rights employed by it during or as part of providing access to the System or supplying the Services;
9.5. it is not aware, as at date hereof, of any matter within its reasonable control which might or will adversely affect its ability to perform its contractual obligations under this Agreement;
9.6. access to the System shall be granted and the Services shall be provided in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement and in compliance with South African law; and
9.7. the Services will be performed in a professional manner and that it is and/or it shall use personnel that is appropriately experienced, suitably qualified and has sufficient knowledge, expertise and competence to perform the services, in accordance with industry standards.
9.8. Save as expressly set out in clause 9.3 above, SimplePay does not make any representations nor give any warranties or guarantees of any nature whatsoever in respect of the System and/or the Services and all warranties which are implied or residual at common law are hereby expressly excluded.
10.1. SimplePay shall not be liable for any loss (including but not limited to loss of data, profits and goodwill), liability, damages (whether direct, indirect or consequential) or expense of whatsoever nature and howsoever arising where such loss is due to the occurrence of any of the following events:
10.1.1. the Customer's failure to perform, or delay in performing its obligations in terms of this Agreement; or
10.1.2. circumstances that constitute an event of force majeure as contemplated in clause 23 below; or
10.1.3. all telecommunications infrastructure and communication line faults; or
10.1.4. failure or unreasonable delay by the Customer to report faults/problems to SimplePay; or
10.1.5. the failure by the Customer to adequately confirm the accuracy and integrity of any data or information processed for and on behalf of it by SimplePay; or
10.1.6. the failure by the Customer to adequately protect its Proprietary Information; or
10.1.7. the failure of any hardware, software programme, applications/s or any other computer systems (or any component thereof) or product or service of any third party on whom the Customer relies (whether directly or indirectly) to access the System and/or use the Services and/or on which SimplePay relies to grant access to the System and/or provide the Services.
10.2. In no event shall SimplePay be liable for any incidental, consequential, or any other indirect loss or damage (including but not limited to loss of profits or revenues and loss of data), nor for exemplary or punitive damages. These limitations of liability shall apply regardless of the form of action, whether in contract, delict or otherwise and regardless of whether the Customer has been advised as to the possibility of such damages and/or losses occurring.
11.1. All Intellectual Property Rights vested in any of the SimplePay documentation or in any software and/or any other documentation and works (whether stored in printed or electronic form) furnished by SimplePay to the Customer, and/or developed by or created by SimplePay or any of its employees, agents, or sub-contractors in the course of or for the purpose of granting access to the System and/or providing the Services to the Customer (whether or not created by SimplePay in connection with this Agreement), shall be the property of and vest solely and absolutely in SimplePay on the date upon which same is created.
11.2. The Customer shall only be entitled to utilise the Intellectual Property Rights referred to in 11.1 above, or any portion thereof, for the purposes of the accessing and utilising the System and/or the Services in terms of this Agreement, and shall not publish, circulate or copy same for use by any third party whomsoever.
11.3. To the extent necessary, the Customer hereby cedes, assigns, transfers and makes over to SimplePay any Intellectual Property Rights in respect of any of the software, documents and/or works referred to in 11.1.
12.1. The Customer shall not acquire any right, title or interest entitling it to use the name, service marks, trademarks or logos of SimplePay. In this regard, the Customer undertakes in favour of SImplePay not to perform any act which would injure the reputation or goodwill attaching to SimplePay's name and trademarks, or which would prejudice SimplePay's rights in and to such names and trademarks.
SimplePay's Proprietary Information
13.1. The Customer will keep in confidence and protect any Proprietary Information from disclosure to third parties and restrict its use to that which is provided for in this Agreement.
13.2. The Customer acknowledges that the unauthorised disclosure or use of Proprietary Information may cause substantial economic loss to SimplePay. All printed materials, containing Proprietary Information will be marked with "Proprietary" or "Confidential", or in a manner which gives notice of its proprietary nature. Proprietary Information shall not be copied, in whole or in part, except when essential for correcting, generating or modifying Proprietary Information for the Customer's authorised use. Each such copy, including its storage media, will be marked with all notices, which appear on the original.
13.3. The Customer shall ensure that its employees comply with its obligations under this clause 13. This clause 13 shall survive termination or cancellation of this Agreement. Unless specifically otherwise agreed to, this Agreement does not transfer to the Customer any rights contained in any Proprietary Information of SimplePay. Notwithstanding the provisions of clauses 13.1 to 13.3 above, the Parties agree to observe any additional security measures that may be required from time to time, such measures shall be agreed upon in writing between the parties..
The Customer's Proprietary Information
13.4. The Customer acknowledges and agrees that it shall at all times be solely responsible for the protection of its own Proprietary Information.
14.1. The Customer shall not at any time, during this Agreement, nor for a period of one (1) year after termination of this Agreement, for any reason whatsoever, either for itself or as the agent of anyone else, persuade, induce, solicit, encourage or procure any employee, agent, sub-contractor or authorised representative of SimplePay to:
14.1.1. become employed by or interested in any manner whatever in any business, firm, undertaking or company, directly or indirectly in competition with the business carried on by SimplePay; or
14.1.2. terminate his employment with SimplePay.
15.1. In the event of any dispute relating to or arising out of this Agreement, including regarding the scope, effect, validity, implementation, execution, interpretation, rectification, termination or cancellation of this Agreement, such dispute shall be finally resolved on the terms as provided for below:
15.1.1. a senior nominee of each of the Parties shall meet, or otherwise attempt to settle such dispute or difference within a period of 10 (ten) Business Days of the raising of the dispute, unless expressly agreed otherwise by both parties.
15.1.2. in the event that the respective Parties' senior nominees fail to resolve the dispute or difference within such period as stated in clause 15.1.1, such dispute or difference shall be finally resolved by arbitration in accordance with the Arbitration Act 42 of 1965;
15.1.3. Each Party to this Agreement expressly consents to any arbitration in terms of the aforesaid rules being conducted as a matter of urgency;
15.1.4. the arbitration shall be held in Cape Town and the proceedings conducted in English; and
15.1.5. the Parties shall agree on the appointment of a single arbitrator. If such appointment is not agreed to within 7 (seven) days after receipt of the written notice, either party may request that the President of the Cape Law Society, or any successor to such society, make the necessary appointment.
15.2. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary anywhere else in this Agreement, nothing in this clause shall preclude any party from seeking interim relief on an urgent basis in any court having jurisdiction.
15.3. The Parties undertake to keep the arbitration, including the subject matter of the arbitration and the evidence heard during the arbitration, confidential.
15.4. The Parties agree that the written demand by a party to the dispute that the dispute or difference be submitted to arbitration, is to be deemed to be a legal process for the purpose of interrupting extinctive prescription in terms of the Prescription Act 68 of 1969.
16.1. Should either Party ("Defaulting Party") commit a breach of any of the provisions of this Agreement, then the other Party ("Aggrieved Party") shall be obliged to give the Defaulting Party 14 (fourteen) days' written notice, or such longer period as may be reasonable in the circumstances, to remedy the breach. If the Defaulting Party fails to comply with such notice, the Aggrieved Party shall be entitled, without prejudice to its other rights in law, to cancel this Agreement or to claim immediate specific performance of all of the Defaulting Party's obligations whether or not due for performance, in either event without prejudice to the Aggrieved Party's right to claim damages.
17.1. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, on termination of this Agreement for any reason whatsoever, and in any event, on demand by SimplePay:
17.1.1. any amounts due to SimplePay shall immediately become payable to SimplePay and the Customer shall forthwith make payment of same to SimplePay by not later than seven (7) days from the date of termination of this Agreement.
18.1. Should a Party ("Affected Party") be prevented from fulfilling any of its obligations in terms of this Agreement as a result of an event of force majeure, then:
18.1.1. those obligations shall be deemed to have been suspended to the extent that and for so long as the Affected Party is so prevented from fulfilling them and the corresponding obligations of The other Party ("Unaffected Party") shall be suspended to the corresponding extent;
18.1.2. the Affected Party shall promptly notify the Unaffected Party in writing of such event of force majeure and such notice shall include an estimation of the approximate period for which the suspension in terms of clause 18.1.1 will endure. Such estimate shall not be binding on the Affected Party ; and
18.1.3. the duration of this Agreement as well as each period within which and each date by which any obligation is required to be performed in terms of this Agreement shall be extended or postponed, as the case may be, by the period of suspension in terms of clause 18.1.1.
18.2. Should the Affected Party partially or completely cease to be prevented from fulfilling its obligations by the event of force majeure, the Affected Party shall immediately give written notice to the Unaffected Party of such cessation and the Affected Party shall, as soon as possible, fulfil its obligations which were previously suspended; provided that in the event and to the extent that fulfilment is no longer possible or the other Party has given written notice that it no longer requires such fulfilment, the Affected Party shall not be obliged to fulfil its suspended obligations and the Unaffected Party shall not be obliged to fulfil its corresponding obligations.
18.3. Should an event of force majeure continue for more than 180 (one hundred and eighty) days after the date of the notice referred to in clause 18.1.2 and notice of cessation in terms of clause 18.2 not have been given, then the Unaffected Party shall be entitled (but not obliged) to terminate this Agreement by giving not less than 30 (thirty) days' written notice to the Affected Party to that effect, provided that any such notice of termination shall be deemed not to have been given if a notice of cessation in terms of clause 18.2 is received by the Unaffected Party prior to the expiry of such thirty (30) day period.
18.4. An "event of force majeure" shall mean any event or circumstance whatsoever which is not within the reasonable control of the Affected Party, including vis major, casus fortuitus, any act of God, strike, theft, fire, explosion, riot, insurrection or other civil disorder, war (whether declared or not) or military operations, international restrictions, any requirement of any international authority, any requirement of any government or other competent local authority, any court order, export control and shortage of transport facilities
The Customer shall not be entitled to cede, assign or transfer all or any of its rights and/or obligations in terms of this Agreement, without the prior written consent of SimplePay, which consent will not be unreasonably withheld.
If any provision hereof is held to be illegal, invalid or unenforceable for any reason, such provision shall be deemed to be pro non scripto, but without affecting, impairing or invalidating any of the remaining provisions of this Agreement which shall continue to be of full force and effect.
21.2. This Agreement constitutes the sole record of the agreement between the Parties in regard to the subject matter thereof.
21.3. Neither Party shall be bound by any representation, express or implied term, warranty, promise or the like not recorded herein or reduced to writing and signed by the Parties or their representatives.
21.4. SimplePay will inform the Customer of any addition to, variation, or cancellation of this Agreement by email and / or notification. The Customer has the option to terminate the Agreement within a reasonable time of having been notified and not doing so will amount to consent / acceptance of the amendments.
21.5. No indulgence which either Party may grant to the other shall constitute a waiver of any of the rights of the grantor, unless reduced to writing and signed by both Parties.
21.6. The Customer hereby warrants that it has the capacity to and is authorised to conclude this Agreement, and that upon acceptance this Agreement will, and will continue to, bind it in all respects.
21.7. Below is SimplePay's company information:
21.7.1. Full name and legal status of website owner:
SimplePay Pte Ltd
21.7.2 Street Address:
531A Upper Cross Street
#03-102 Hong Lim Complex
Singapore 051531
21.7.3. Postal address: as above in 21.7.2.
21.7.4. Physical address for the receipt of legal notices: as above in 21.7.2.
21.7.5. Official email address of the Website: [email protected]


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And I feel fine.
I feel totally fine with saying goodbye to 2013.
It's been a year of transition for me. I went into it with a lot of momentum—finishing and polishing another novel, writing four short stories, one anthology sale, two workshops, a Worldcon, a new crit group, and making handful of new writing friends. In fact, all told, that's just the first half of 2013.
The rest of this year, I've been sidelined dealing with a family member's illness. Productivity came to a screeching halt, writing time evaporated, and all that momentum has turned into regret at what-could-have-beens.
So yeah. Don't let the door hit you on your way out, 2013. I've got my eye on the horizon and what 2014 will bring. It's going to be good. I can feel it.
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What to expect next January? Well, more natterings on about my writing process, some subtle changes to the blog, maybe even some good news. A girl can hope!
In the meantime, whatever you celebrate, have a wonderful next few weeks and a happy New Year!


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Woodson County, Kansas
Woodson County was one of the original 33 counties organized by the Territorial Legislature in 1855, organized on May 22, 1858, by J. W. Dow; C. J. Cocran; William Phillips; and Charles Cameron.
Named for Daniel Woodson, acting governor of Kansas Territory, it contains the cities of Neosho Falls, Toronto and Yates Center.
The dates of the first church and school established in the county are unknown. The first fair, as stated above, was in 1879. President Rutherford B. Hayes, Mrs. Hayes, General William T. Sherman, and Governor John P. St. John attended the first county fair held in Neosho Falls on September 25, 1879.
Interesting sites in the county are the Woodson Hotel and the Woodson Museum (first church building).
- See our Kansas Counties database for statistics in the county.
- Search our Register database for historic sites in the county.
- Search Kansas Memory for historic items from the county.
For more information see the Woodson County website. The Woodson County Historical Society has many sources relating to the county, and publishes an historical quarterly titled In The Beginning.http://www.kansasmemory.org/locate.php?categories=2685-3157&
Entry: Woodson County, Kansas
Author: Kansas Historical Society
Author information: The Kansas Historical Society is a state agency charged with actively safeguarding and sharing the state's history.
Date Created: February 2010
Date Modified: October 2015
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