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Put your New Year's resolution into action by lacing up your shoes and joining thousands of others throughout the nation in more than 50 First Day Hikes taking place Jan. 1 in Texas State Parks.
For the third year in a row, dozens of Texas State Parks will participate in America's State Parks First Day Hikes initiative taking place in all 50 states. Last year, more than 1,000 hearty souls gave their soles a workout in less than ideal weather during First Day Hike events held in 57 Texas State Parks. Last year, 720 first-day hikes in state parks throughout the nation drew 22,000 park visitors who hiked 43,000 miles.
For the most up-to-date information about the more than 50 scheduled "First Day Hikes" in Texas State Parks, visit:www.tpwd.state.tx.us/calendar/first-day-hikes.
"First Day Hikes has become an established signature park event that helps Texas families create traditions they can follow year after year to get them outdoors in our state parks to share camaraderie and a renewed sense of adventure," says Karen Blizzard, Texas State Parks' First Day Hikes coordinator. "We are hoping even more Texas State Parks, many of which offer guided and interpretive walks, will join in the fun this year."
Mother Neff State Park near Moody recorded 115 first-day hikers to lead the Texas State Park system turnout this past Jan. 1, followed by Franklin Mountains State Park in El Paso that hosted 78 visitors to the Chihuahuan Desert high country. Mother Neff will offer a guided hike over four miles of trails, starting at 2 p.m., while West Texas hikers up for more of a challenge can test their endurance in the Peak Fitness Challenge by climbing 1,000 feet in elevation on a 3.5 mile round-trip trek to Munday's Gap in the Franklin Mountains. Like most First Day events, there is no charge, but park entry fees apply.
Hiking in Texas state parks offer many health benefits that help combat childhood diabetes and adolescent obesity, provide a source of Vitamin D from sunshine and help burn off unwanted pounds. Did you know a 163-pound woman can burn nine calories a minute during a brisk one-hour walk, or about 555 calories, and a 190-pound man roughly 646 calories during a brisk, one-hour hike?
First Day Hikes vary in difficulty and required fitness levels, ranging from short, leisurely nature walks through forested trails, the beach and along boardwalks to special bird watching and interpretive cultural/natural history hikes. Fort Richardson State Park & Historic Site in Jacksboro, for example, is hosting a one-half mile nature hike on the medium difficulty-rated Kicking Bird Trail. Participants are encouraged to bring a camera, binoculars, water and snacks.
Not all First Day Hikes are walking or hiking events. Look for a New Year's Day "paddle" at Ray Roberts Lake State Park's Johnson Branch, a "Boat-n-Hike" at Fort Parker State Park, a First Day Black-Eyed Pea Kids Run at Government Canyon State Natural Area and trails runs at Cedar Hill State Park.
To learn about other hiking opportunities available throughout the year in Texas State Parks, visit: www.texasstateparks.org/hiking.
The Maryland Park Service is coordinating the nation's 2014 events under the auspices of the National Association of State Parks Directors. This year, a NASPD affiliate member, the American Hiking Society, has joined to support the First Day Hikes around the country.
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J. Richard Peet, Ph.D.
Graduate School of Geography
Clark University
Worcester, MA 01610-1477
Office: Jefferson 209
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Phone: (508) 793-7364
Professor Richard Peet has a B.Sc. (Economics) from the London School of Economics, an M.A. from the University of British Columbia, and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. His areas of interest include: social and economic geography, political ecology, liberation ecology, development theory, geography of consciousness and rationality, philosophy and social theory, iconography, semiotics, and critical policy studies. He is editor of the journal Human Geography
Courses Offered
Geog 127 Political Economy of Development
Geog 289 Development Policy
Geog 318 Explanation in Geography
IDND 066 Global Society
Current Research and Teaching
Critique of Neo-Liberal Development Theory; Globalization, Global Governance Institutions; Economic Policy, Finance Capitalism and Crisis, Geography of power; Global political Ecology; Economic Policy in India; Global political ecology
Selected Publications
Recent Books
Global Political Ecology (edited with Paul Robbins and Michael Watts), London: Routledge 2010
India's New Economic Policy (edited with Waquar Ahmed and Amitabh Kundu), London: Routledge 2010
Unholy Trinity: The IMF, World Bank and WTO (re-written and updated), London: Zed Press, 2009
Theories of Development: Arguments, Contentions, Alternatives, with Elaine Hartwick, New York: Guilford Press Third Edition 2015
Geography of Power: The Making of Global Economic Policy, London: Zed Press, 2007.
Unholy Trinity: The IMF, World Bank, and WTO, London: Zed Press, 2003.
Theories of Development (with Elaine Hartwick), Guilford, 1999, 2002.
Modern Geographical Thought, Blackwell, 1998.
Liberation Ecologies: Environment, Development, Social Movements (edited with Michael Watts), Routledge, 1996; second revised edition, 2004.
Global Capitalism: Theories of Societal Development, Routledge: 1991.
New Models in Geography: The Political Economy Approach (2 Volumes) (edited with Nigel Thrift), Unwin Hyman, 1989.
Recent Articles
"Contradictions of Finance Capitalism" Interview Against the Grain KPFA C.S. Soong, Sep 11, 2012 repeated best of 2012 program, Jan 1, 2013
"May Day Meanings" Against the Grain KPFA ( Pacifica) Radio. International Workers' Day Interview May 1, 2013.
"Comparative Policy Analysis: Introduction" Human Geography 6, 2 (2013): 1-10
"The Radicalization of Geography Treballs de la Societat Catalana de Geografia Núm. 75 (2013) 185-194
"International Monetary Fund" in The Oxford Companion to Comparative Politics (2 Vols) Ed Joel Krieger Oxford. 2013
"Power/Knowledge/Geography: Speculation at the End of History" in Knowledge and Power ed. Peter Meusburger Dordrecht: Springer 2014
"Inequality, crisis and austerity in finance capitalism" Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society (2011) 4(3): 383-399
"Contradictions of Finance Capitalism" Monthly Review 63 (2011): 18-32
"Marxism in the future of Nepal" Republica 2010-01-01. http://www.myrepublica.com/portal/index.php?action=news_details&news_id=13511
"Making Sense of Globalization" (with E. Hartwick and I Chatterjee), in A Compendium of Economic Geography, London: Sage. ed R Lee, A Leyshon, L McDowell and P. Sunley (2010).
"Ten Pages that Changed the World: Deconstructing Ricardo" Human Geography 2, 1: 81-95(www.hugeog.com)
"Global Governance", "Development: Dependency" (with E Hartwick) and "Radical Geography" and "International Organisations" International Encyclopedia of Human Geography Oxford: Elsevier 2009
"Global Development and Finance Institutions" and "Development Governance" in P.A. O'Hara (ed), International Encyclopedia of Public Policy. Volume 2: Economic Policy, GPERU: Perth, 2009: 139-151 and 299-309. http://pohara.homestead.com/Encyclopedia/Volume-2.pdf
"Madness and Civilization: Global Financial Capitalism and the Anti-Poverty Discourse" Human Geography, 1, 1 (2008): 82-91 (www.hugeog.com)
"Deconstructing Free Trade: From Epistemic Communities to Ideological Communities in Struggle" Transactions Institute of British Geographers 32 (2007): 576-580
Review Article "Nepal's Geography of Underdevelopment" Monthly Review November 2007. 59, 6: 52-8
"Imaginarios de Desenvolvimento" in B. Mancano Fernandes, M. Inez Medeiros Marques and J. C. Suzuki, Geografia Agraria: Teoria e Poder Sao Paulo: Editora Expressao Popular 2007. pp. 19-37
"Neoliberalism and Nature: The Case of the WTO"(with E. Hartwick), Academy of Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2003.
"Ideology, Discourse and the Geography of Hegemony: From Socialist to Neoliberal Development in Post-Apartheid South Africa" Antipode 2003. 34:54-84.
"Culture, Consumption and Experience in Global Capitalism" in Proceedings 23rd Annual Third World Conference 1998.
"The Cultural Construction of Economic Forms" in Roger Lee and Jane Wills, Geographies of Economies London: Arnold 1997.
"Social Theory, Postmodernism and the Critique of Development" in G.B. Benko and U. Strohmeyer (Eds) Space and Social Theory Blackwell, 1997.
"Re-Encountering Development as Discourse", New Political Economy (1997) 2, 2 341-347.
"Spatial Dialectics, Nietzschean Geography and the Politics of Difference" in G. Benko (Ed.) Espace et Postmodernite Paris: L'Harmatten 1997.
"The Postmodern Critique of Development" in Anpege: Lugar, Formacao, Socioespacial Mundo Sao Paulo. 1996 (in Portuguese).
"The Cultural Production of Economic Rationality in New England" 1996 NESTVAL Proceedings.
"Discursive Idealism in the 'Landscape as Text' School" The Professional Geographer 1996.
"A Sign Taken for History: Daniel Shays Memorial in Petersham, Massachusetts" Annals, Association of American Geographers 86, 1 (1996), 21-43.
"Discourse, Text, Location Theory" Economic Geography 70, 3 (1994), 297-302.
"Mapas do Mundo no fim da Historia" ("Maps of the World at the End of History") in Milton Santos et.al. (Eds), O Novo Mapa do Mund Fim de Secula E Globalizacao Sao Paulo, Brazil: 1993, 46-65.
"Introduction: Development Theory and Environment in an Age of Market Triumphalism"(with Michael Watts), Economic Geography 69, 3 (1993), 227-253. Reprinted in Modern Classics in Regional Science, Regional Dynamics edited by Kingsley E. Haynes and Peter Nijkamp (Longon: Edward Elgar).
"La Dialectique Spatiale, la geographie Nietschenne, et les politiques de la difference" ("Spatial Dialectics, Nietzschean Geography and the Politics of Difference") in G. Benko (ed.) Geographie, Economie, Societe 3,2 (2001), 369-79.
"Poststructural Though Policing" (with Elaine Hartwick) Economic Geography, 78,1 (2002), 87-88.
"There is such a thing as Culture" Antipode 34,2 (2002).
"Les Regions de la Difference, Les Espaces de la nouveaute: Aspects Culturels de la Theorie de la Regulation" ("Regions of Difference, Spaces of the New: Cultural Aspects of Regulation Theory") Geographie, Economie, Societe 1 (1999), 7-24.
"Celebrating Thirty Years of Radical Geography" Environment and Planning A. Vol.27 (2000).
"Culture, Imaginary and Rationality in Regional Economic Development" Environment and Planning A Vol. 27 (2000), 1215-1234.
"Neoliberalism or Democratic Development?" Review of International Political Economy (2001), 329-343.
"Teaching Gobal Society" Radical Teacher 62 (2001), pp. 8-10.
"La Production Culturelle de Forms Economiques" in J-F Staszak et al (eds) Geographies Anglo-Saxonnes Paris: Belin (2001), pp. 90-204.
"Neoliberalism in South Africa" Globalization, the Third World State and Poverty Alleviation in the Twenty-First Century, ed B. Ikubolajeh Logan. London: Ashgate, June 2002.

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Sports Bronze Award
- Requirement 1. Earn the Sports Bronze Award.
First Aid
- Requirement 2. Complete the American Red Cross Sport Safety Training course (or equivalent) and CPR training (total of seven hours).
- Course information: Sports Safety Training on the American Red Cross site.
Fitness for life
- Requirement 3. Your fitness
- a. Complete the Fitness for Life program (Corbin and Lindsey, published by Human Kinetics). Check with your Advisor to see if your crew already has the book Fitness for Life. Ask your Advisor about offering the program for you alone, you and some other Venturers, or even your whole crew. You might find the book at your local library. You can order it directly from Human Kinetics .
- b. Complete the following requirements:
- 1. Make an appointment with your doctor for a complete physical before beginning any physical conditioning program. Explain to your doctor that you are preparing to undertake a 90-day physical fitness improvement program.
- 2. Interview healthy older adults about their fitness levels. As part of these interviews, you may want to ask such questions as:
- What kinds of cardiovascular activities do you do?
- How have your fitness, diet, and physical activity changed over the years?
- Are you more fit and/or active now than you were five (10, 15, etc.) years ago?
- Use this data to discuss with your crew and/or another group the importance and benefits of using exercise throughout their lives.
- 3. Research and write an essay of 1,500 words or more, or make a presentation to your school, a Cub Scout den or pack, a Boy Scout troop, or Venturing crew explaining what physical fitness is. Incorporate into this essay or presentation all of the following:
- Aerobic capacity
- Endurance
- Body composition
- Flexibility
- Muscle strength
- When you have completed your research and written your essay or made your presentation, review your results with a fitness professional or your coach or Advisor.
- 4. Based upon your essay or presentation on physical fitness, develop a personal physical fitness improvement program and follow it for a minimum of 90 days. After developing your program, review it with your Advisor and/or coach. This fitness improvement program should include the following guidelines:
- Exercise a minimum of three times each week.
- Complete the Venturing Weekly Exercise Plan and Chart in appendix K. At the end of each week, review your calendar. Write down the times when you seem to have the most/least energy. Note any environmental conditions or changes in your personal health (cold, flu, fever, etc.) that may have affected your performance. You may want to adjust your schedule.
- Share this information with your Advisor. You may do some of your exercise workouts as part of your regular physical education class at school.
- Note: This may qualify as your personal improvement project for the Venturing Gold Award.
- 5. Look though current magazines, articles, and/or videos that feature exercises. Evaluate at least three exercises. Determine how these exercises apply to personal fitness. What level of fitness is required to be able to perform the exercise and what procedures and equipment are necessary for successful completion? Present your findings to your crew and/or another youth group.
- 6. Learn to calculate the number of calories a person would need who is sedentary, moderately active, or active, for their particular age. Keep a record for 10 days of your food intake and physical activity. How might you adjust your food intake and physical activity to change your percentage of body fat? Write a plan to maintain ideal levels of body fat. Include in this plan the six factors that influence body fatness and share this information with your Advisor and coach.
- 7. Examine three muscular development exercises and apply biomechanical principles to each. List two reasons why these principles can reduce injuries and discuss this information with your crew or other youth group.
- 8. Based upon the human desire for peak performance, examine and discuss the physical and psychological activities required for success. As part of this discussion, review with your crew and/or another youth group the following six specific needs (S-P-I-C-E-S) for a balanced approach to achieve this desire:
- Spiritual
- Physical
- Intellectual
- Cultural
- Emotional
- Self-Responsibility
- Note: S-P-I-C-E-S is supplied from the United States Anti-Doping Agency (www.usantidoping.org), see The Journey - an ethics module PDF (especially pages 25-27) found on the Downloads >> Publications page on the USADA site.
Fitness assessment
- Requirement 4. Administer the FITNESSGRAM physical assessment test to your crew, a Cub Scout den or pack, a Boy Scout troop, another Venturing crew, or another youth group. (The Cub Scout Wolf program has a requirement that each Cub Scout to complete a similar type of activity.) See the "Physical Assessment" chapter in the Quest Handbook.
Sports disciplines
- Requirement 5. Choose a sport from the list below or another sport approved by your Advisor.)
- 1. Develop a profile of a typical athlete in your chosen sport, listing skills and attributes necessary to be proficient. Examples: hand-eye coordination, running speed, quick responses, heavy/light weight, tall/short.
- 2. Equipment and facilities
- a. Develop a list of equipment and facilities necessary for your chosen sport:
- Personal equipment such as mouthpiece, helmet, or earplugs
- Team equipment such foils, shooting jacket, or weights
- Team or sponsor supplies or facilities such as targets, ammunition, playing courts, or rivers
- b. Discuss the relative importance equipment plays toward your success in that sport. (Certain sports are equipment-intensive, such as bobsled and luge.)
- c. Tell how equipment for this sport has improved or changed over time.
- a. Develop a list of equipment and facilities necessary for your chosen sport:
- 3. Participate and show proficiency in a sport of your choice.
- 4. For your chosen sport, give a sports clinic to a Cub Scout pack or den, Boy Scout troop, or other youth group. Include a demonstration and skills teaching. You can even include competition when possible.
- Here are some suggested sports for requirement 5:
Field sports
- Field hockey
- Lacrosse
- Track and field
Racquet sports
- Badminton
- Handball
- Racquetball
- Squash
- Table tennis
- Tennis
Roller sports
- In-line speed skating
- Roller figure skating
- Roller hockey
- Skateboarding
Target sports
- Archery
- Darts
- Disc sports
- Shooting
Water sports
- Canoe/kayak
- Diving
- Rowing
- Sailing
- Swimming
- Synchronized swimming
- Underwater sports
- Water polo
- Waterskiing
Winter ice sports
- Bobsled
- Curling
- Ice hockey
- Luge
- Skeleton
- Speed skating
Winter snow sports
- Biathlon
- Skiing
- Snowboarding
Other sports
- Bowling
- Dance
- Equestrian
- Fencing
- Martial arts
- Modern pentathlon
- Orienteering
- Team handball
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After Monday night the NFL's undefeated ranks will shrink to five teams. Will Ryan Tannehill be the one to finally solve the Saints' new-and-improved defense? Can Drew Brees withstand the Dolphins' relentless pressure?
Dolphins offense vs. Saints defense
Of the league's 96 offensive, defensive and special teams units, the most improved this season has been Rob Ryan's new defense in New Orleans. After giving up a record 440 yards and 28.4 points per game last season, the Saints are allowing 296 yards (fourth best in the NFL) and 12.7 points (fifth) per game.
In his recent story on surging defensive end Cameron Jordan, Peter King explained how Ryan's dynamic 3-4 scheme has empowered the front seven defenders to play more to their strengths by giving them less to process. It's the impeccable discipline of his secondary in matchup-zone concepts that has allowed Ryan to play this way.
The addition of safety Kenny Vaccaro has been critical. Not only is the first-round pick rangy and athletic, but the rookie also has the versatility to play man-to-man in the slot. So does former first-round cornerback Malcolm Jenkins. This has made the Saints virtually immune to matchup problems inside. Offenses can no longer use motion or flex tight ends to stress the interior of this defense. Consequently, linebackers Curtis Lofton and David Hawthorne—both of whom look faster than ever before—can be help-defenders against the pass instead of being assigned frequent solo coverage responsibilities. Additionally, the Saints don't have to play a nickel corner, so third safety Roman Harper (though out for this game with a knee injury) can stay on the field as a full-time defender in the box, where he thrives.
So how will the Dolphins attack the Saints? They'd love to stretch the field with wideout Mike Wallace, though it's unlikely that deep shots will consistently be available for Ryan Tannehill. Jenkins often aligns 20 yards deep in centerfield, and Tannehill might be hurting for time given how offensive tackles Jonathan Martin and Tyson Clabo, as well as right guard John Jerry, struggle in protection. The Dolphins have been most effective in three-wide sets that give Tannehill clear options for getting the ball out quickly.
Rob Ryan is not quite as maniacal with his blitz packages as people think, but facing a young offense in front of a Superdome crowd that's always raucous in prime time, it would make sense for him to turn his men loose. Especially when you consider that one of Miami coach Joe Philbin's biggest concerns has been his running backs in pass protection. Daniel Thomas has the size to take on blitzers but isn't as consistent as a third-year pro should be. Lamar Miller, the guy coaches would love to see emerge as the No. 1 back, has improved his blocking but still has plenty of room to grow. Of course, if Miller continues to show more decisiveness and a surprising second gear like he has the past two weeks, Fins coaches will feel better about rolling the dice with him. And they know that running the ball is a great way to keep the Saints' powerful offense off the field.
Saints offense vs. Dolphins defense
The Saints' passing game centers around creating mismatches inside for big receiving targets Marques Colston and Jimmy Graham. Both have been steady this season after an up-and-down 2012. Colston has caught four or five balls for roughly 65 yards each week, while Graham, who looks better than ever running routes, has 313 yards and three touchdowns over the last two weeks.
While Miami's pass defense overachieved in its first three games, it might not have the interior resources on the back end to combat Drew Brees' two favorite targets. Physically, Dannell Ellerbe and Philip Wheeler both move well in zone coverage. But against the seam routes of New Orleans' 3 x 2 sets, they'll essentially have to play man-to-man. It's imperative that safeties Reshad Jones and Chris Clemons help over the top, which history suggests might require too much reactionary discipline for their comfort.


text: Staff play a crucial role in the retention and success of students. Students interact with numerous offices and administrative units, nearly on a daily basis. The nature and quality of those interactions can have beneficial impact on their personal and intellectual development in similar ways as interaction in a classroom context. Never underestimate your contribution to a student's life; particularly as it helps them to make sense of the complexities of independent living and functioning that is true of the college environment. Please also consider the unique challenge they face when an experience or interaction reflects an issue that intersects your office and another. Your assistance in particular for identifying processes and practices that cut across units and that may have opportunity for improvement for its impact on retention and graduation is appreciated.


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DeCock: Carolina RailHawks pondering future, for all the right reasons
The Carolina RailHawks return to WakeMed Soccer Park for their eighth season Saturday night, which in terms of longevity alone makes them a rousing success in an area with a dubious history of short-lived sports teams.
The team has survived ownership changes and massive shake-ups in its league, only to come out the other side more stable than ever. The RailHawks have put down roots, which means the conversation can now evolve from "Can they survive?" to "What's next?"
Traffic Sports USA, the South American soccer conglomerate that saved the RailHawks from near-extinction four years ago, continues to seek local investors, whether as a partner or to buy the team entirely. Without that, it's hard to see an endgame at this point, but there are several possibilities.
"We're at this really interesting tipping point that is mirrored throughout the country," RailHawks president Curt Johnson said.
The most glamorous is an eventual bid for an MLS franchise. The RailHawks offer a turnkey fan base and a stadium that can be upgraded to MLS standards. They sit in a soccer-savvy market that would be ripe for the league, offering a natural geographic bridge between DC United and the ongoing southern expansion to Atlanta, Orlando and South Florida.
With an ownership group in Charlotte making noise about bidding for an MLS team, the Triangle is at risk of being passed over, which would be tragic. Until someone steps forward with $100 million dollars or so to bankroll an MLS bid, that will remain a danger – and MLS here will be merely a dream.
And as the RailHawks might say, what's so great about MLS anyway? The NASL, the 10-team league that emerged from two years of turmoil, has teams in New York and South Florida, continues to add popular expansion teams in places like Indianapolis and Ottawa, could end up with 18 or 20 teams and even has designs on a spot in the CONCACAF Champions League, which would pit its champion against the best teams in North and Central America, including MLS and Mexico.
NASL commissioner Bill Peterson said Thursday he believes entry into the CCL is a realistic possibility within a year or two, arguing that the NASL has emerged as the third-best league in the CONCACAF despite its second-division classification by US Soccer. If other NASL teams build stadiums like WakeMed Soccer Park and payrolls continue to rise, perhaps there would be less reason to spend the money to bring an MLS franchise here. (A mass-market national television deal for NASL would help as well; ESPN's promotion of MLS is invaluable.)
Meanwhile, the RailHawks continue to put down deeper roots, combining with youth-soccer juggernaut CASL on an elite youth program, pushing hard to build rapport with the Hispanic community and proposing a full-time soccer school for Triangle teens that offers the team nebulous short-term benefits but could potentially pay long-term dividends.
"In order to take this team to the next level, we are going to actively look for local partners," Traffic Sports USA president Aaron Davidson said. "It's important. That's one of the things that's been missing the last four years, that local ownership flair and emotion."
Whichever direction the RailHawks end up going, it'll take someone from the Triangle to point the way. Davidson said he thinks it could happen within the next year. Traffic deserves credit for saving and stabilizing the franchise, and bankrolling what should be another competitive team, but permanent ownership of the RailHawks was never the goal.
The question remains – is anyone here willing to take over and figure out what comes next?


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Changes from previous versions of Web Server are summarized in this section.
A new API for defining customized server-parsed tags as NSAPI plug-ins has been added. For more information, see Chapter 2, Server-Parsed HTML Tags.
Server-side Java applets (HttpApplets) are not supported. Use Java servlets instead.
NSAPI has new features.
Java Servlets 2.2.1 and JavaServer Pages 1.1 specifications are supported.
HTTP/1.1 cookies are supported.
Descriptions of CGI variables have been added to CGI Variables.
You can invoke servlets as SSI in HTML pages by using the <SERVLET\> tag, as discussed in Chapter 2, Server-Parsed HTML Tags.
NSAPI has new features.
Programs such as servlets modify a virtual server instead of the server as a whole. (To add programs as in iPlanet Web Server 4.1, you can configure only one virtual server.)
Web applications are now supported as described in the Java Servlet 2.2 API specification.
NSAPI has new features. For details, see the NSAPI Programmer's Guide for Sun ONE Web Server.
Some configuration files have changed. For details, see the iPlanet Web Server 6.0 Programmer's Guide (http://docs.sun.com/source/816-5687-10/index.html).
The Access Control API has changed. For details, see the comments in the server_root/plugins/include/nsacl/aclapi.h file.
Java Servlets 2.3 and JavaServer Pages 1.2 specifications are supported.
HTTP extensions for the WebDAV protocol in compliance with RFC 2518 are supported.
NSAPI filters that enable the custom processing of HTTP request and response streams are supported.
HTTP compression through the use of native HTTP request and response stream filters is supported.
Legacy servlets, that is servlets configured through the servlets.properties, contexts.properties, and rules.properties files are not supported.
For information about migrating legacy servlets to web applications, see the Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 Developer's Guide to Web Applications.Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 Update 3 Developer's Guide to Java Web Applications.
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How well do you know the Code? Think you can spot violations the original installer either ignored or couldn't identify? Here's your chance to moonlight as an electrical inspector and second-guess someone else's work from the safety of your living room or office. Can you identify the Code violation(s) in this photo? Note: Submitted comments must include specific references from the 2011 NEC.
Hint: Hammer time
'Tell Them What They've Won...'
Using the 2011 NEC, correctly identify the Code violation(s) in this month's photo — in 200 words or less — and you could win something to put in your toolbox. E-mail your response, including your name and mailing address, to [email protected], and Russ will select three winners (excluding manufacturers and prior winners) at random from the correct submissions. Note that submissions without an address will not be eligible to win. Winners will receive a fluorescent lighting tester from Milwaukee Tool, valued at $199. The product allows complete lamp, ballast, and pin testing, before or after install, without dismantling fixtures.
(Please allow six to eight weeks for delivery of tools.)
September Winners
Our winners this month include: Ken Wilcox, project manager, electrical maintenance, MAHLE Engine Components USA, Inc., Morristown, Tenn.; Brian E. Glennon, senior consultant, GLENCO, Inc., North Quincy, Mass.; and Dave Roach, electrical engineer, CD Controls, LLC, Lavonia, Ga. They all correctly identified some violations in this breaker box.
The use of white insulation for other than a grounded conductor on circuits of 50V or more is permitted in accordance with 200.7(C)(1) only if part of a cable assembly where "the insulation has been permanently reidentified by marking tape, painting, or other effective means at its termination and at each location where the conductor is visible and accessible to indicate its use as an ungrounded conductor." In addition, 200.7(C)(2) also permits a flexible cord, having one conductor identified by a white or gray outer finish or three continuous white stripes, that is used for connecting an appliance or equipment permitted by 400.7. However, this installation is neither a cable nor a cord. It's EMT! White wires can never be used as ungrounded conductors for this installation, even if they were re-identified (with red or black tape or paint, for example).
In addition, the sheet metal screw serving the dual purpose of securing the enclosure to the wall and for connecting the equipment grounding conductor to the enclosure is a violation of 250.8(A).


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Hackers now pick tools from script kiddies' toybox – report
Automated attack weapons help blackhats spread the pain
Infosec 2012 Hackers are increasingly turning to automated software tools to launch attacks.
According to research from Imperva, more than 60 per cent of SQL injection attacks and as many as 70 per cent of Remote File Inclusion attacks (the two most common attack types) are automated. Remote File Inclusion attacks allows hackers to plant back doors on PHP-based websites.
Tools like Havij and SQLMap are used by miscreants to probe for vulnerabilities and execute SQL injection attacks. These tools also employ techniques to evade detection, such as periodically changing headers or splitting attacks through controlled hosts to avoid black-listing. In the past, using attack tools was purely for script kiddies but these attitudes are changing, according to Rob Rachwald, director of security strategy at Imperva.
Automatic attack tools aren't just for the clueless anymore, he says. These tools can be used to attack more applications and exploit more vulnerabilities than any manual method possibly could, making them a useful adjunct for even skilled attackers. "Automated tools are becoming better quality. Both experienced and inexperienced hackers use them but experienced hackers use them with more finesse," Rachwald explained.
By contrast, organisations still struggle to embrace automatic defences, often deploying technologies such as intrusion prevention systems in "alert only" mode. Rachwald argued that too much focus was being placed on attacks based on spear-phishing and malware (ie, advanced persistent threat attacks) at the expense of overlooking more commonplace assaults, such as SQL injection attacks.
Automated attacks have specific traffic characteristics such as rate, rate change and volume, all factors which can be used to fingerprint and block automated attacks. For example, IP addresses associated with automated attacks can be blocked. ®
Havij means "carrot" in Farsi, which is also the slang word for penis in Iran. The tool was developed by an Iranian blackhat with an obvious taste for crude humour. SQLMap, unlike Havij, is a command-line tool.


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AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. (AP) Another wild overtime finish in the Navy-Air Force rivalry. Only, this time, the Midshipmen came out on top in their quest to regain the Commander-in-Chief's Trophy.
Navy beat Air Force 28-21 on Saturday when right guard Jake Zuzek recovered freshman quarterback Keenan Reynolds' fumbled snap in the end zone.
``I had no clue he had fumbled the ball,'' Zuzek said. ``I just saw it when I was on the bottom of the pile. I wasn't letting it go for anything.''
After the weird touchdown, defensive end Wes Henderson knocked down Connor Dietz's pass on fourth-and-6 from the 21 to seal Navy's win, a significant first step in the Midshipmen's quest to regain the trophy that represents superiority among the three service academies.
``Last year was so painful to see the seniors go out like that. To win like this is really indescribable,'' Henderson said. ``It's probably one of the best feelings I've ever had in my life.''
Last year's game also went to overtime in Annapolis, Md., with Air Force prevailing 35-34 thanks to a controversial call. Officials ruled a touchdown celebration by Navy went overboard, and penalized the Midshipmen for unsportsmanlike conduct. The long conversion attempt from 35 yards was blocked by Alex Means. Then, the Falcons scored, and Parker Herrington added the conversion to give Air Force the wild win.
Herrington had the chance to win it again this time, but his 51-yard field goal attempt sailed wide left as time expired in regulation. It was his second miss of the afternoon and fifth in six tries this season for the senior.
After starting the season with blowout losses to Notre Dame and Penn State and then getting shut out by San Jose State at home last week, Navy (2-3) needs only to beat Army on Dec. 8 to regain the Commander-in-Chief's Trophy that the Falcons (2-3) have had in their possession the last two years.
Dietz said he was confident the Falcons would match Navy's touchdown in overtime because ``we had only stopped ourselves the whole game.''
They had lost fumbles on three straight drives and blew a late eight-point lead in the second half with Navy's starting quarterback sidelined with an ankle injury.
``This game never should have been this close,'' Means said.
``It's football, you never know,'' Dietz said. ``Obviously, I think we missed a lot of opportunities, I'll say that. But, you have to give them credit. You let somebody hang around, it never ends up good.''
Cody Getz rushed for 204 yards and a score, becoming the first Air Force player to post three 200-yard games in one season. He is the second Mountain West Conference running back to do that, joining San Diego State's Larry Ned (2001).
It wasn't enough to keep the Midshipmen from celebrating wildly on Air Force's field - and in the coaches' box adjacent to the press box, where some salty language reverberated loudly after Henderson's pass deflection sealed Navy's wild win.
``Things have looked bleak, not just in this game, but in this year,'' Navy coach Ken Niumatalolo said. ``But our guys just continue to fight.
``Last year, I thought our loss kind of put us in a tailspin. I'm hoping this is the reverse. I'm hoping this game will propel us to some good things the rest of the year.''
The 9:40 a.m. kickoff was the earliest in Falcon Stadium history, and the Falcons slumbered their way through much of the game, wasting opportunity after opportunity with fumbles and foibles aplenty.
Air Force scored on its first possession but didn't get into the end zone again until Getz burst up the middle for a 21-yard touchdown that gave Air Force a 14-10 lead with 37 seconds left in the third quarter.
Navy quarterback Trey Miller rushed for 110 yards before hurting his left ankle on a scramble on third-and-9 with just under 10 minutes remaining. He was helped off the field, and freshman Nick Sloan kicked a 41-yard field goal to make it a one-point game.
The Falcons struck back quickly, needing just two plays and 28 seconds to score when Dietz pitched to wide receiver Dontae Strickland, who pulled up and hit Drew Coleman in stride for a 54-yard strike that made it 21-13.
Reynolds replaced Miller at quarterback for Navy and capped a 75-yard drive with a 15-yard keeper for the score with 6:35 remaining. Then, Noah Copeland took the pitch and slipped Miles Fisher's tackle in the backfield, diving just inside the left pylon for the 2-point conversion that tied it at 21.
Reynolds and Miller both completed each of their three passes, marking just the second perfect passing day in the program's history.
Coleman caught four passes for 106 yards, including a 35-yard touchdown toss from Dietz four snaps into the game, with ice falling onto the field from the television camera zip lines, and ground fog rolling off the turf as it warmed.
Nothing else would come easy the rest of the half as the Falcons missed a chip-shot field goal, lost three straight fumbles, and then failed to take full advantage of the clock at the end of the second quarter. They finished with a healthy 261 yards of offense but a 10-7 halftime deficit.
Sloan kicked a 39-yard field goal, and Copeland's first career touchdown, a 5-yard run, gave the Midshipmen a 10-7 lead. Copeland's TD came after safety Tra'ves Bush scooped up Broam Hart's fumble at the Navy 27.
Getz was stripped by linebacker Josh Tate at midfield with cornerback Quincy Adams recovering, and Ty MacArthur coughed up the ball at the Navy 14 with senior linebacker Keegan Wetzel smothering it for his first career fumble recovery.
``The two things they did better was they held the ball better and they hit it a little better off the ground,'' Air Force coach Troy Calhoun said.
Follow AP Sports Writer Arnie Melendrez Stapleton on Twitter:http://twitter.com/arniestapleton


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Nicolas Mueller made it a night to remember for Swiss snowboarding at Saturday night's O'Neill Evolution Quarterpipe finals in Davos. With the home crowd support behind him all day long, the 24-year-old had the thousands of spectators cheering his every move during the climax of this prestigious 6-star Ticket To Ride event.
Returning to competition for the first time since a heavy fall at December's Nissan X-Trail in Tokyo, Mueller was straight back to his usual ways in his early evening semi-final heat. A true crowd favorite wherever he goes, the Swiss tweak-master entertained the crowds with powder slash in-runs and his trademark McTwist.
Other notable qualifiers included snowboarding legend Terje Haakonsen. Already crowned winner of the Swatch Highest Air Session in the Halfpipe on Friday afternoon, Haakonsen laid his claim to the Quarterpipe title this time by qualifying in 2nd position just ahead of Mueller with a last-minute backside air measuring in at a jaw-dropping 7.2m. The Norwegian's incredible amplitude remained unbroken for the rest of the night, and saw him pick up his second Swatch Highest Air Session award in successive days. Newly-crowned Evolution Superpipe Champion Antti Autti was killing it in his semi-final heat with an insanely tweaked and inverted frontside 900. Antti underlined his semi-final dominance with the only 1080 of the night, at more than 4.5m out. Other highlights across the two semi-final heats included Travis Rice and his slow motion backside 720's, Arthur Longo's 7m backside air and Scotty Lago's precision backside 900.
Watching the semi-final heats from the sidelines following a minor injury to his wrist, Switzerland's style king Markus Keller was enjoying watching his fellow pro riders do their thing on the monstrous Quarterpipe: "I didn't want to risk too much by riding tonight, but it's nice just to watch all these guys shred! Rice is looking pretty good for the win right now, we'll just have to wait and see what happens."
The finals themselves were off the hook. With an amped crowd of spectators cheering them on, the 16 men took it in turns to point their boards down the in-run during a one hour jam session. Charging up the gigantic transition, riders were consistently boosting 6-7m airs. Mueller established an early lead with his classic McTwist and an intimidating 274 points out of 300, while US riders Scotty Lago and Travis Rice and Norway's Henning Marthinsen had the crowd going wild with backside 720's and 9's. Crowned World Champion for the first time in Davos as far back as 1994, Terje Haakonsen was mixing things up with 7m straight airs and styled out McTwists. Meanwhile, Kevin Pearce upped the ante with an oversized McTwist of his own to claim tied 2nd place.
With only minutes to go until the end of the jam session, Antti Autti charged towards the transition before stomping a heavily inverted frontside 720 scoring him an impressive 265 points. The Finn was clearly in no mood to let Mueller walk away with the title, but the extra competition only seemed to motivate the Swiss rider further. With his top score still intact, Autti's rival pointed his board at the Quarterpipe and launched another McTwist of epic proportions. Measuring in at an unbelievable 5.5m, Mueller's trick improved on his existing lead by scoring an astonishing 281 points. Moments later, the jam session was over and the title was in the bag for the local's favorite.
Grinning from ear to ear immediately after his win, the Swiss rider stated: "I'm so happy to win tonight! This Quarterpipe is one of the best I've ever ridden. The most important thing is to be safe, and when it's like this you can have so much fun!" said Mueller.
The women's Quarterpipe finals, taking place shortly before the men's semi-finals, saw US rider and current TTR leader Jamie Anderson claiming top honors. Spread out over 45 minutes, it quickly became apparent that a handful of the 16 girls would be fighting it out for the top 3 spots.
As well as Anderson, other riders in contention included Austria's Lisa Filzmoser and Norway's Kjersti Buaas. Boosting stylish backside airs more than 3m out, Buaas did enough to clinch 3rd place. Filzmoser, focused on taking home the Swatch Highest Air Session, did exactly that after launching more than 3.5m out with a stylishly-tweaked backside air. Impressed with the Austrian's consistent amplitude and control, the judges also rewarded her with 2nd place. Head and shoulders above the competition on a technical level, however, was 16-year-old Anderson, whose perfectly grabbed and cleanly stomped McTwists earned her a well-deserved 1st place, cementing her position at the top of the TTR rankings.
Nicolas Mueller and Jamie Anderson's victories in tonight's Quarterpipe finals, as well as Autti's incredible display of freestyle riding in both Superpipe and Quarterpipe, capped what has been an extraordinary first edition of the O'Neill Evolution. Moving into 1st place in the TTR ranking list after tonight's results, the Finn has bumped Lago off the top spot in the ratings for the first time this season.
Summing things up on late on Saturday night, head judge Dani 'Kiwi' Meier said it all: "The TTR is a global tour, and after the first 3 6-star events, we find riders from the USA, Europe and even New Zealand in the top 10. Autti's performance over the last 5 days proves that to take a world-leading position during the tour, you need not only consistency and technical ability but also innovation and creativity. Today, the top 5 riders in the TTR ratings represent some of the most progressive riders that snowboarding has ever witnessed."
Quarterpipe Finals MEN
1. Nicolas MUELLER
2. Antti AUTTI
3. Kevin PEARCE
Quarterpipe Finals WOMEN
1. Jamie ANDERSON
2. Lisa FILZMOSER
3. Kjersti BUAAS


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PLANO, Texas – Americans Josh Teater, Scott Brown Johnson Wagner and Bud Cauley qualified for the British Open on Monday at the international final qualifying at Gleneagles Country Club Queens Course.
The 34-year-old Teater shot rounds of 64 and 69 to take medalist honors. He has never played in a major championship before taking one of eight spots available under very windy conditions at the par 70 course.
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He's controlling more than the Spurs would prefer in this series, namely the paint that they owned in the first two games before his return. No one is overlooking him any more.
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Fundación Swami
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Biography - English
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Swami Shivapremananda was born on 26 July 1925 in the state of West Bengal, India, in the town of Berhampore (now Bohorompur) about 100 miles north-northwest of Kolkata. His education was informal and self-taught to the extent that he was considered knowlegeable enough to be invited to lecture on comparative philosophy at the Pusey Institute of the Oxford University in the summer of 1973.
On 10 January 1945, he was accepted by Swami Sivananda to join his Ashram at Munikireti on the bank of the river Ganga (Ganges) two miles north of Rishikesh in the district of Dehra Dun, Uttarakhand, in the North-Central India.
Swami Shivapremananda was born in a Brahmin family and was given the name Sukhendu Ranjan Ray. His Brahmin surname is Deva Sharma which he does not use. His father's name is Sudhendu Ranjan Ray. He was an educationist. His mother's name was Swarnalataa Bagchi who came from a wealthy commercial family dealing in silk.
At first Swamiji worked in the circulation department of
The Divine Life
magazine, of which he became the editor and publisher in January 1949. In the same month Swami Sivananda started a monthly magazine,
Wisdom Light
, for the members of the Divine Life Society, and appointed Swami Shivapremananda its editor.
Deputed to the West
In this position Swamiji continued for over 12 years until August 1961, when he was deputed by Swami Sivananda to go to Western Europe and North America at the invitation of groups interested in the major branches of Yoga.
On 10 November 1961, Swami Shivapremananda founded the Sivananda Yoga-Vedanta Center at Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
From April 1964 to April 1970 he was the President and Director of the Sivananda Yoga-Vedanta Center of New York, founded earlier by the late Swami Vishnudevananda.
In India Swami Shivapremananda took part in Eye-Relief Camps in Saurashtra now absorbed in Gujarat, which were conducted by eye-surgeons in December 1957 and January and March 1956.
Earlier, Swamiji visited the sanctuary of Kedarnath in the summer of 1952, situated at 14,200 feet in the Central Himalayas.
In July 1953, he went with two companions (the late) Swami Vishweshwarananda and (the late) Swami Raghavananda from the Sivananda Ashram to the famous sanctuary of Badrinath at 12,000 ft, and then on to Western Tibet. They crossed the border ahead of the village of Garbeyang, and adjascent to the frontier of Nepal, walking on foot and crossing over Lipulekh pass at 17,600 ft, and the Gurla Mandhata pass even higher. They descended into the village of Taklakot at over 14,000 ft. There they stayed at the Similing Gompa (monastery).
Then Swamiji hired a local Tibetian guide and walked northward on the right side of the sacred Lake Manas Sarovar. They walked farther north to even more sacred Mount Kailash.
Just on the left side of the bridle path is Rakshas Tal (lake), a little smaller than Manas Sarovar. Between two lakes they walked to Farkha at 16,000 ft., for 15 miles, and began the parikrama or circling around Mount Kailash. On the way they went up to 18,600 ft. to the snow-bound small lake, Gauri Kund. The total ciculing distance is 27 miles, which they covered in three days. On the way they stayed at three Gompas. The monks gave them their traditional hospitality.
They returned back to Parkha and went to the frontier and crossed over the two passes already mentioned, and to the border village of Garbeyang in India. It had a single narrow road, deep in mud.
Walking on foot towards Rishikesh, they stayed at the Narayan Ashram near Ashkot. Finally, they reached Rishikesh by bus.
In 1953, for the Indian pilgrims no visa was required. Now group visas are given by the Tourist Department of the Chinese Government.
World Tour
In 1968, Swamiji went around the world from New York. Invited by groups interested in yoga, he stopped at same places to give lectures, such as at Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, Bangkok in Thailand, Phnom Penh in Cambodia, Hong kong, and Tokyo and Osaka in Japan.
Meanwhile, in May 1961, (now late) Dr. Mateo Magariños, then Deputy Foreign Minister of Uruguay, contacted the Uruguayan ambassador in New Delhi, Dr. Orlando Nadal, to find out the possibility of inviting a comprehensive yoga teacher to Montevideo. Similarly, another group was interested in Buenos Aires to co-sponsor the invitation. Among them was Dr. Moscera Eastman, president of the Argentine Society of Writers and Editors, who was later to serve as ambassador in New Delhi. Also interested was Dr. Fernando Fernández Escalante, who served as ambassador in New Delhi, as well.
These two groups asked Dr. Nadal in New Delhi to enquire on the subject. In New Delhi he was directed to the well-known Ashram of Swami Sivananda near Rishikesh.
The Ramakrishna Mission is a much more famous organisation founded by Swami Vivekananda in 1893, but it does not teach Hatha Yoga. It has branches all over India, in Western Europe, and North and South America.
Dr. Nadal drove from New Delhi to Sivananda Ashram near Rishikesh in May 1961. He was introduced to Swami Sivananda who asked that his principal disciple (now late) Swami Chidananda, at that time the General Secretary of the Divine Life Society, to be invited.
Thus, Swami Chidananda was sent to Montevideo in July 1961. He informally formed the Sivananda Yoga-Vedanta Center in the same month with a group of a dozen persons. However after four months of comprehensive teaching, Swami Sivananda recalled Swami Chidananda to India and take charge of the Divine Life Society, which he did.
Shivapremananda in South America
In June 1962, when Swami Shivapremananda was in Milwaukee, as per the instruction of Swami Sivananda, the two groups in Buenos Aires and Montevideo already mentioned, invited Swami Shivapremananda to found a Sivananda Yoga-Vedanta Center in Buenos Aires and reorganise and expand the small group in Montevideo.
Thus, on 24 June 1962, Swami Shivapremananda came to Buenos Aires. On the Guru Purnima day, 17 July 1962, Swamiji asked the then Indian ambassador in Argentina, Lt. Gen. (Rtd.) Tara Singh Bal, to inaugurate the Sivananda Yoga-Vedanta Center in Buenos Aires in the presence of local dignitaries.
The Center was constituted as a non-profit charitable institution as per the Argentine juridical laws. After three months of teaching there, Swamiji went to Montevideo to reorganise and register the Sivananda Yoga-Vedanta Center as per the Uruguyan laws. There he stayed for two months.
Then Swamiji returned to Milwaukee in the United States.
In the spring of 1965, Thomas Merton (Father Luis) invited Swami Shivapremananda to visit the Trappist Monastery in the village of Gethsemane, in the state of Kentucky. There Swamiji gave a lecture on comparative mysticism in religions.
Change of Designation
Since 1992 the name of the Sivananda Yoga-Vedanta Center has been changed to Swami Shivapremananda Foundation. It donates annually more than US$ 16,000 to the local Childrens Hospital, and is a patron of it along with the Citibank and Hongkong Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC).
In Montevideo the present name of the Center is Centro Shivapremananda de Yoga-Vedanta del Uruguay.
In Santiago the current name is Centro Shivapremananda de Chile.
In Montevideo, the Center partly supports the Escuela Secundaria de la República de la India.
Swami Shivapremananda Foundation is situated on 1261-1279 Gallo street in the Palermo district of Buenos Aires (Tel. 4962-5999), where more than 20 Hatha Yoga classes are conducted by instructors trained by Swamiji. When Swamiji is in town, on Wednesday evenings he gives courses on philosophical and psychological subjects, such as
Nuestra Identidad
as at the end of 2012. The lecture is followed by questions and answers.
On Saturday evenings, Swamiji conducts the Integral Meditation in five steps devised by him, and is similarly followed by questions and answers.
Similar activities are conducted at the Shivapremananda Yoga-Vedanta Center of Uruguay at 1503 Avenue of Uruguay, Montevideo, in the Cordon district (Tel. 2401-6286). In the absence of Swamiji, besides the Hatha Yoga classes, the Center conducts satsanga (chants, reading from spiritual literature and meditation) once a week.
Swami Shivapremananda Center in Chile is situated in the Providencia district of Santiago at 759 Antonio Varas (Tel. 223-4856).
Swami Shivapremananda's book
Yoga for Stress Relief
has been translated and published from his English original into French, German, Danish, Spanish, Italian, Norwegian, Swedish and Polish.
His book
An Insight into Yoga
, published by the Divine Life Society, Rishikesh, is being partly serealised in the British monthly magazine
Yoga and Health
. It is expected to be published in England in a revised version.
Swami Shivapremananda's other books in Spanish are:
Pláticas sobre Yoga (1965, 1990)
La Filosofía Universal del Yoga (1969, 1991)
Introducción a la Filosofía Yoga (1971, 1975)
Aspectos Filosóficos y Sicológicos del Yoga (1971, 1984)
La Inmanencia de lo Eterno (1973)
Ventana del Alma (1983, 1988, 1988, 1989, 1993)
Yoga Integral (1992)
Cita con mi Destino (2000)
Yoga, una Actitud Hacia a la Vida (2000)
Yoga para el Estrés (1998)
El derecho al Conocimiento (2002)
Vivir es ser Feliz (2004)
Meditación Integral (2005)
Kirtans & Mantras (2009)
Practicamos Yoga (2010)
Progresamos en Yoga (2011)
Swami Shivapremananda's booklets in Spanish are:
Satsanga (1972, 1973, 1990, 1998)
Meditación e Ideales Espirituales (1987)
Primero Pasos en Raja Yoga (1994)
El Legado Filosófico de la India (1994, 1998)
Reflexiones I, II, III (1994, 1996, 1998)
Criterio y Equilibrio Interior (1996)
Como Comprendo Yoga (1998)


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Ugly bread
Hopefully someone can tell me what I'm doing wrong to make such ugly bread.This happens whether I use a light coating of oil on the counter or flour. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks Sharon
This is the recipe I use:
3 cups warm water (110 degrees F/45 degrees C)
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In 2008 and 2009, the Department of the Treasury (Treasury) committed $62 billion in Troubled Asset Relief Program funding to General Motors (GM) and Chrysler to help the companies restructure. Anticipating the possible effects of the companies restructuring on communities that relied heavily on these companies and their suppliers for employment and economic investment, in June 2009 the President issued Executive Order 13509 establishing the White House Council on Automotive Communities and Workers (the Council)composed of over 20 members, including the heads of all domestic cabinet agencies and key White House officesto coordinate a federal response to issues affecting these communities and others that rely on GM, Chrysler, or other auto companies and suppliers.[1] The staff and the funding for the Council were housed within the Department of Labors Office of Recovery for Auto Communities and Workers (Auto Recovery Office).
As GAO reported in May 2011, GM and Chrysler restructured their operations from 2008 through 2010 in part by closing or halting production at 22 plants[2] (16 GM and 6 Chrysler), and communities in which these plants were located experienced economic challenges in addition to those they already faced. GAO visited six of these communities and found that unemployment in all of them increased after the plants closed. Staff of the Auto Recovery Office have tried to help communities address these challenges by serving as a listening post and federal liaison to agencies and programs that might assist them, but it is not clear whether the office provided communities with assistance that they otherwise would not have received. Nevertheless, the Department of Labor received funding for its management expenses, which it allocated to the office in fiscal years 2011 and 2012. The office spent approximately $1.2 million in fiscal year 2011. The Auto Recovery Office does not receive a direct line item appropriation, but rather negotiates an annual spending plan with the Secretary of Labor based on projected needs and historical data, and officials told GAO that they expect the same will occur for the fiscal year 2013 budget.
Since the Auto Recovery Office was established, it has not accomplished half of the responsibilities set forth in executive orders, and has not been able to demonstrate the results of its efforts to assist auto communities. In July 2011, the President issued Executive Order 13578 to continue assisting auto communities and workers.[1] While this executive order revoked the previous one establishing the Council, it contains essentially the same responsibilities, but with the Secretary of Labor performing them instead of the Council. These responsibilities include (1) working among executive departments and agencies to coordinate a federal response to issues that impact auto communities and workers; (2) conducting outreach to nonprofits, businesses, local governments, and others that could assist in bringing to the Presidents attention concerns, ideas, and policy options for enhancing efforts to revitalize auto communities; (3) advising the President on the potential effects of pending legislation; and (4) providing recommendations to the President on changes to federal policies and programs to address issues of special importance to automotive communities and workers.
As GAO reported in May 2011, the Auto Recovery Offices efforts were focused primarily on the first two of these functionscoordinating the efforts and support of federal agencies to ensure a coordinated federal response to issues that affect auto communities and workers, and conducting outreachand this continues to be the case. As part of their coordination efforts, the Council members and Auto Recovery Office staff visited auto communities around the country, met with local officials to understand the key challenges facing each community, and connected them to the appropriate federal agencies and resources. A specific Auto Recovery Office staff member was assigned to each auto community and state to serve as a point person for each auto community. These staff members responded to their assigned communities needs, such as by providing technical assistance or identifying contacts, and continued to connect the communities to resources and individuals as appropriate.
Although officials in communities GAO visited in 2010 and 2011 acknowledged the efforts of Council members and Auto Recovery Office staff, they also reported securing much of the assistance they received following plant closures without those efforts. For instance, officials told GAO that much of the federal assistance they received was targeted to individuals recently laid off from auto plants and delivered through Department of Labor resources outside the Council and Auto Recovery Office, such as the Workforce Investment Act Dislocated Workers Program and Trade Adjustment Assistance.
In August 2011 a new executive director joined the Auto Recovery Office, filling a position that had been vacant for almost a year. The new director and staff have visited eight communities, including communities and officials identified by the office in the past as well as new individuals. They are also planning to visit additional communities where office staff noted that automotive plant closures have been announced, such as Shreveport, Louisiana and St. Paul, Minnesota. The office staff stated that they continue to provide technical assistance to auto communities and have also participated in webinars and other events related to auto community interests, such as events hosted by the Mayors Automotive Coalition, and RACERthe environmental trust established to remediate old GM plants. However, while the Auto Recovery Office has continued its efforts, it still has not fulfilled its other two responsibilitiesadvising the President on pending legislation and making recommendations to the President on changes to federal policies and programsfor which it was established. Auto Recovery Office officials told GAO that they plan to make policy recommendations to the White House in fiscal year 2012.
Further, as GAO also reported in May 2011, neither the Council nor the Auto Recovery Office systematically tracked, measured, or assessed their assistance to auto communities and GAO recommended that they do so. GAO has reported in the past that federal agencies engaged in collaborative efforts need to create the means to monitor and evaluate their efforts so that they can identify areas for improvement.[2] However, since the Council and Auto Recovery Office did not keep an inventory of assistance that they had provided or funding they had helped communities secure, analyze the inventory for trends, or publish the results of their analysis, it was difficult to identify that assistance. In their response to GAOs May 2011 report, the Department of Labor noted the challenges in developing a set of metrics that measures activities such as facilitation and process and that the more traditional measures of performance-based results are being tracked by the agencies that are responsible for administering the actual delivery of services.
Since then, the office has provided some additional examples of assistance provided to specific communities, for example noting that its staff helped Kokomo, Indiana, secure Economic Development Administration funding to hire a recovery coordinator to support a regional economic development strategic plan, and helped Kokomo negotiate with Chrysler to receive over $25 million in personal property taxes the company owed the county. The office plans to publish some of these examples on its website. In addition, the office reported that it is in the process of developing measures to assess its work, including assessments of needs of affected communities and strategic collaboration/recovery plans tailored to affected communities. However, the Auto Recovery Office still does not have a process to systematically inventory and analyze all assistance provided to auto communities, without which it cannot ensure that it has identified all relevant areas for improvement or made the appropriate recommendations, including to the President, as it was tasked to do.
Finally, Auto Recovery Office officials told GAO the offices unique role is to serve as an ombudsman between auto communities undergoing economic and social distress and federal initiatives that could be of value to those communities, and that they see a need for this role continuing as long as auto factories are marked for closure. However, there are other efforts within the executive branch to assist economically distressed communities. For example, the White Houses Office of Domestic Policy is overseeing the Strong Cities, Strong Communities program, which also involves multiple agencies collaborating to assist communities facing economic challenges. This program has selected six communities to receive technical assistance, and at least oneDetroitis an auto community that the Auto Recovery Office has also assisted.
Though the Auto Recovery Office has made progress toward tracking its assistance to auto communities, it still has not implemented three of GAOs prior recommendations, making it difficult to identify the offices assistance or benefit to auto communities. GAO recommended in May 2011 that the Secretary of Labor
In addition, in the absence of documented results, Congress may wish to
The information contained in this analysis is based on findings from the products listed in the related GAO products section as well as additional work GAO conducted. GAO interviewed the Auto Recovery Office to obtain updated information on its activities and accomplishments. GAO also reviewed existing documentation related to the data and interviewed Auto Recovery Office staff. GAO determined that the data were sufficiently reliable to describe the Auto Recovery Offices spending.
GAO provided a draft of this report section to the Department of Labor for review and comment. The department provided written comments and agreed with GAOs recommendations. In its comments, the department reiterated that the Auto Recovery Office is the only executive office that deals specifically with the needs of auto communities, and thus it is more effective than other federal programs at helping communities address the complex effects of automotive industry restructuring. The department notes that Strong Cities, Strong Communities, the initiative GAO cites as an example of other interagency efforts to assist economically distressed communities, was not designed to deal with issues unique to automotive communities, and therefore GAO should not suggest that it replace the Auto Recovery Office. In the report, GAO does not suggest that this initiative replace the Auto Recovery Office, but rather highlights that other executive efforts exist to help communities facing economic challenges, regardless of the cause of these challenges. The department also provided additional examples of auto communities the office is assisting, which GAO incorporated as appropriate. Finally, the department writes that the Auto Recovery Office has fulfilled its responsibilities to advise the President on pending legislation, in part by participating in administrative review of pending legislation, preparing portions of the Presidents budget, and engaging with the National Economic Councils Office of Manufacturing Policy to inform policy decisions affecting proposed manufacturing legislation. While GAO recognizes that the Auto Recovery Office is involved in executive branch discussions regarding policies that could affect auto communities, the tasks the department cites, such as preparing the Presidents budget, are tasks in which all executive agencies engage. Outside of these typical agency tasks, the department did not identify instances in which the Auto Recovery Office formally advised the President. More importantly, the Auto Recovery Office has not fulfilled GAOs recommendations to track and measure its assistance, without which neither GAO nor Congress can identify what the office has done or accomplished with the funding provided to date. Given the challenges auto communities face, it is important to maximize federal assistance to these communities. As such, GAO suggested the department, if unable to demonstrate the results of the Auto Recovery Offices efforts, redirect funds from the office to other departmental programs. As part of GAOs routine audit work, GAO will track agency actions to address these recommendations and report to Congress. All written comments are reprinted in appendix IV of the PDF version of this report.
Comments from the Department of Labor
Since December 2008, the Department of the Treasury (Treasury) has committed $62 billion in Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) funding to General Motors (GM) and Chrysler. Under GAO's mandate to oversee TARP, this report addresses (1) how restructuring with federal assistance has affected GM's and Chrysler's financial condition, (2) what Treasury has done to ensure that it disinvests in GM and C...
The Department of the Treasury (Treasury) provided $81.1 billion in Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) aid to the U.S. auto industry, including $62 billion in restructuring loans to Chrysler Group LLC (Chrysler) and General Motors Company (GM). In return, Treasury received 9.85 percent equity in Chrysler, 60.8 percent equity and $2.1 billion in preferred stock in GM, and $13.8 billion in debt ob...
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A Northridge home originally built as a ranch and retreat by renowned Hollywood gossip columnist Louella Parsons has come on the market at $798,500.
The two-story French Colonial, part of a 28-acre farm when it was constructed in 1937, sits on slightly more than half an acre today. A sun porch-family room looks out on the backyard lawn, rose garden and swimming pool.
The four-bedroom, 31/2 -bathroom main house has built-in cabinetry in the dining room, a wet bar opening to a den, a kitchen breakfast area and a butler's pantry. One of the two master suites has a fireplace. The guest quarters have a separate entrance and another bathroom for a total of 4,465 square feet of living space.
Parsons, who died in 1972 at 91, started out writing social notes and then a film column. After a bout with tuberculosis in the mid-1920s, she moved to Los Angeles and became a syndicated columnist for William Randolph Hearst. "She held an undisputed position of power in the motion picture industry for 40 years," according to Times archives, opening "the doors on the private lives of movie people, reporting their scandals, romances, feuds and break-ups."
Public records show the property last sold in 1981 for $280,000.
Stephanie Vitacco of Coldwell Banker, Woodland Hills, is the listing agent.


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Desperate to recall the memory of his dead wife, a financial advisor turns to hypnosis as a means to reshape the past.
Country: USA
Genre: Thriller
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Spyke gets the band back together. Podcasters investigate a police station. Candace introduces Toni to her childhood home. Brendan and Michelle consider van life.
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Labor-business immigration deal
Senate negotiators cleared the last major hurdle to reaching a bipartisan immigration reform deal Saturday as labor and business groups signed off on a visa program for future low-skilled workers, according to sources familiar with the talks.
The agreement marks a major breakthrough and significantly improves the odds of passing a larger immigration bill because it brings two powerful Washington interests on board on an issue that contributed to the defeat of past reform efforts.
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The visa program, which allows businesses to bring in up to 200,000 low-skilled workers annually depending on economic conditions, would be among the most controversial elements of the overhaul package. But the AFL-CIO and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce are expected to play a key role in helping blunt attacks by conservatives activists and liberals.
"This issue has always been the dealbreaker on immigration reform, but not this time," Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), a leader of the Senate's Gang of Eight, said in a statement Saturday night.
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The Gang of Eight remains in negotiations on the broader bill. The senators have reached tentative agreement on many of the major issues, including the path to citizenship and border security, but they have yet to review the legislative language and caution that they don't have a deal until they agree on everything.
The reform bill is so complex that none of the senators is willing to say they have an agreement until they can look at it on paper. The group is preparing to spend the next week finalizing the legislation, with an announcement likely to come when they return from the Easter recess on April 8 — although it will mark the start of a long and difficult road to passage.
There has been a remarkable level of cooperation between Democrats and Republicans in the Gang of Eight, but their alliance will be tested once the details of their agreement become known. The bill is expected to include a 10-year path to legal permanent status for the country's 11 million undocumented immigrants, billions of dollars for new border security measures, and reforms to the legal immigration program.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), a member of the Gang of Eight, sent a letter Saturday to Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) urging against "excessive haste" when considering the expected bill. Rubio asked that Leahy hold "meaningful hearings," with a particular focus on border security and the benchmarks that must be met before undocumented immigrants can obtain legal permanent residence status.
"My strong belief that the success of any major legislation depends on the acceptance and support of the American people," Rubio wrote in the letter. "That support can only be earned through full and careful consideration of legislative language and an open process of amendments."
The deal between the AFL-CIO and the Chamber, two fierce rivals, is yet another sign of how dramatically the politics of immigration reform have shifted since the 2012 election — and the last major attempt to pass a bill in 2007.
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Schumer convened a call Friday night with AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka and Chamber president Tom Donohue so they could hear from all the parties involved that they have an agreement, according to one source familiar with the talks said.
Describing it as a "very good call," the source said they agreed they should go out to dinner at some point and celebrate.
Schumer spoke Saturday with White House chief of staff Denis McDonough to tell him that the visa program "was no longer a problem," the source said.
"The president continues to be encouraged by progress being made by the bipartisan group of senators," White House spokesman Clark Stevens said in a statement Saturday. "We look forward to seeing language once it is introduced, and expect legislation to move forward as soon as possible."
The Chamber and the AFL-CIO have been the lead negotiators for labor and business, but there could be fissures among different industry groups and unions.
Trumka issued a statement Saturday night hailing the proposed program as "a new model, a modern visa system."


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April 24, 2012 - Thomas Rafter, AAE, the longtime Airport Director at Atlantic City International Airport (ACY), has announced his retirement effective May 31, 2012.
Mr. Rafter began his aviation career in 1981 at Bader Field, which was owned by the City of Atlantic City, and held various positions at Bader Field and ACY until December 1992, when he took a position with the South Jersey Transportation Authority (SJTA), the new owner and operator of ACY. Mr. Rafter was hired as the Airport Programs Manager and in September 1995 became the Airport Director.
�Tom will not be easy to replace and we all wish him well,� said Bart R. Mueller, Executive Director of the SJTA. �He is a true advocate of ACY and has a wealth of knowledge about the aviation industry.�
Mr. Rafter oversaw many projects at ACY, including the rebuilding of the main runway, and adding a second floor to the terminal. He presided over the airport as it went from mostly charter service to the regional International Airport it is today.
Mr. Rafter resides in Longport with his wife, Trish and three children.


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Career Services at Dawson Community College provides students and community members with career counseling and college planning: personality testing, job shadow arrangements, job announcements, resume writing help and interview practice. We also serve as a conduit to community partners and businesses. If you are a business/organization that would like to post a job please submit a new job posting (coming soon).
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