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Wednesday, December 19, 2012
DIY { children's field study bag }
I made this for Leeluu for Christmas. A little messenger bag, for field study ( other wise known as a bug bag). I used a pair of old man pants that I bought at the thrift store, and I picked up a cute little print that has sticks and squirrels on it at the fabric store. As you can see I haven't sew'n the buttons on yet...I don't have a needle kicking around. I am pretty happy with it. I am o.k. using the sewing machine, but I didn't have a pattern, and I don't use pins. I pretty much just wing it.
She loves being outside, finding frogs, worms, bugs and butterflies. I filled it with a notebook and pencil, a magnify glass, and some binoculars. I am on the hunt for a small flash-light, and would really love to find one of those small containers with the magnify on the lid....What have you made lately?
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About a month ago Will rediscovered these Audio CD's of our very favorite children's bible, The Jesus Storybook Bible and has been listening to them almost non-stop every afternoon during quiet time.I didn't realize how much the stories had been sinking in until yesterday afternoon i overheard this little dialogue when all 4 kiddos were in Will and Ben's room playing and looking at a bible picture book.
Sophie: "what's THAT?!?"
Will: "that's a fox."
Madeline: "is that guy STUCK in the treeeeeeee?"
Will: "No, that's zaccheaus. he's tiny. he climbed in the tree to see jesus because everyone was too tall. he was also bad because he stole taxes from people. taxes were what the people had to pay the king."
(turned a few pages and put on an all-out story-teller's tone)
Will: "and this is the story. it was a niiiiice calm night and then it got STORMY. jesus was sleeping in a fishing boat and then all his friends were afraid and he said, 'HUSH'. and the waves and the winds recognized his voice. because they had heard it. it was the same voice that made them."
Isn't that sweet? I suggest you go find one of these Bibles right away. Maybe even better, get the audio CDs. I think i need to start listening to them more often so i'll be able to re-tell these stories as well as Will can.
If you still aren't convinced here's a great review from one of our favorite pastors:
'I would urge not just families with young children to get this book, but every Christian--from pew warmers, to ministry leaders, seminarians and even theologians! Sally Lloyd-Jones has captured the heart of what it means to find Christ in all the scriptures, and has made clear even to little children that all God's revelation has been about Jesus from the beginning--a truth not all that commonly recognized even among the very learned.' -- Dr. Tim Keller, Redeemer, NY, NY


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Posted: Wed Jun 21, 17 12:49 pm Post subject: Hanging a Hammock
I have a hammock. I have redundant spreader bars. I have two old fence posts about ten feet apart in a nice shady spot under a sycamore tree (I don't like the sycamore tree, but I'll take any shade in this weather)
How can I fix the hammock to the posts in such a way that the rope doesn't slip down to the bottom as soon as I sit in it? They're just fence posts, so there's no irregularities to hold a rope in place.
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Bang a large nail into each post.
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depending on the rope a couple of turns and a suitable hitch should do it. as sean said a big nail and tie off above it will also do the job.
i use the hammock cord (or 7mm soft braid ) on most supports
sliding isnt an often an issue due to the angle of pull
the leverage on a few feet of post will be considerable , if they do not seem very strong and stable
rather than using the DUP as an anchor a couple of guy ropes and stout pegs would help stop them falling over or snapping at the base
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Bloody things are concreted in. I would actually quite like them out, but it has so far been beyond me. So it's a win-win.
I wonder if I have any suitable nails. Turns out the spreader bars (from a pair of hammock chairs the mice ate over the winter) are too big for the hammock seams, so I couldn't use them anyway. And it was far too hot to get the strimmer out and deal with the nettles underneath.
While I was messing about with the spreader bars (which have clips on them) I was thinking a big eye bolt would do nicely, because I could clip it on and off more easily.
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Brink will be released on May 20 in Europe, Bethesda has revealed. The game will arrive in North America on May 17. The release date means Bethesda will just about meet its stated spring 2011 release.
The ambitious shooter that merges the single and multiplayer experience hasn't had the easiest development, missing a number of proposed release periods. Initially the game was due to hit stores almost a year ago, in spring 2010.
Also out from Bethesda in 2011 is Hunted: The Demon's Forge on June 3, id Software's Rage on September 16 and The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim on November 11.
Brink will launch on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC.
While it's great that Brink finally has a firm release date (providing it doesn't miss it), we can't help but think launching the same day as Rockstar's LA Noire is a mistake. If LA Noire has success similar to last year's Red Dead Redemption we expect games released in the same window will struggle at retail. Brink will also have to contend with a recently released Duke Nukem Forever and Red Faction Armageddon.
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The V-2 rocket terrorized the denizens of London throughout the end of World War II. The weapon, built by slave labor, struck the city over a thousand times, killing and injuring several thousand. After the war, it became America's toy.
Once Germany had been pummeled into ruin and submission, America looted the hammer Berlin dropped on Churchill—and the men who'd concocted it. Nazi weapons and Nazi scientists were imported with great fanfare, celebrated as harbingers of the Space Age, just a few short years after they'd aided an attempted destruction of the Allied world.
The decision was not without controversy. Although many American scientists, both federal and university, were eager to tinker with the German killing machines, many were not. Einstein was a particularly outspoken critic of the Nazi hand me downs. But the critics were a minority, and the V-2 rocketed up into American airspace over White Sands, New Mexico, on May 10th, 1946 (having crashed miserably during a prior attempted launch). But even when successful, the V-2 just wasn't that great of a scientific instrument. It was made for war, not measurements.
When it managed to reach zenith without blowing to bits, it would careen back down to earth at supersonic speeds, leaving a crater—not data—in its midst. Not until the US cooked up a sufficient parachute to jettison scientific gear mid-flight was the V-2 of any non-Nazi worth. The V-2's DNA also trickled its way into Atlas and Minuteman missiles, along with the engine systems of the Space Shuttle—rocketry gems considered the pride of Uncle Sam's treasure heap. Odd ancestry for patriotic tech—and not a part of the family album oft-opened.


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"In the warfare being waged by many who seek to withstand temptation or overcome bondage in the arena of rampant darkness surrounding sexual issues, Tactics is a resource that will aid or rescue many."
–Dr. Jack W. Hayford, chancellor, The King's College and Seminary; founding pastor, The Church On The Way
"My good friend Fred Stoeker has crafted the weapons and given you a battle plan to protect and guard your heart as well as restore moral purity when you've fallen. All of Stoeker's books will be must reads between this grandpa and his grandsons in building godliness and preparing my boys for the good fight."
—Dr. Gary Rosberg, president of America's Family Coaches, and author of The 5 Sex Needs of Men and Women and Divorce-Proof Your Marriage.
"Tactics hits the issues head-on, and helps young men understand how innocent actions turn into addiction. With porn available on iPods, and lust-driven social sites online like Myspace and Facebook, Fred gives real tools that can help any guy win this important battle."
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"Tactics is a brilliant addition to the groundbreaking Every Young Man's Battle–insightful and practical as it dismantles lies and shame, a gift of freedom and truth."
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"Engaging in a topic so many people are afraid to talk about, Tactics takes us into the locker room and shows us the playbook, pointing out the opponent's strengths, challenging us to continue to train hard, and reminding us that we have a loving Father who shows up at every game cheering us on. Fred is the father many of my generation wish they had. His words on sexual purity–the specific damage and rewards to one's social life when one radically commits to it–are some of the most insightful I've come across."
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Rays Republic Does Not Have a "Support" Problem
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I am getting sick and tired of the National media talking heads trashing our region. Just because your own backyards or city vistas have a sparkling outlook in reference to new jobs and seeing their collective unemployment situation sliding downward, some parts of this great country have not had your "luck".
Take my home state of Florida where both the Florida Marlin and the Tampa Bay Rays have played in front of more empty orange and blue seats than those filled with fans who buy concessions and cheer.
It is heartbreaking to see it, but there is a valid reason for it, and the media juggernauts do not care to tell the real story. It is too depressing. It is easier to rake and drag this fan base over the coals than look beyond the Trop for an answer.
There is a very valid reason for those empty seats. I can tell you from personal experience that even if the Florida unemployment rate has stayed steady at 10.7 percent the last two months, I am one of those who got pushed off the recovery truck and has seen myself fall farther and farther off the economic grid. I try daily to rid myself of this fiscal flu, and a cure is nowhere in sight. But the media doesn't want to bring the truth to the ballpark.
The rest of the United States combined is currently sitting at around a 9.1 percent unemployment rate.
You ready for a real shocker, the "supposed" economic recovery has not hit this region as many of the usual tourists and travelers have decided to either forgo their yearly adventures, or can't even attempt such an extravagance. That makes employers cut back, lay-off and reduce their capital outlays and manpower, further pushing the Tampa Bay faithful to their couches instead of to the stadium.
After saying that, maybe it is not such a shocker that the Tampa Bay region is currently sitting farther down the economic ladder than the rest of the country over the Summer. This is the time of the year that this region makes a boatload of its money through hotels, food and even recreational services. But this years the crowds stayed home, the beaches are not empty, but the unemployed Tampa Bay person has a great tan this year.
For July, this area of the state of Florida is mired in a 11.1 percent unemployment whirlpool, and there is no lifeguard or program or project in sight to pull us from the swirling waters. Tampa Bay is going down for the third time and all the National media does is crack harsh jokes or innuendo.
There is no bright and bubbly plan coming out our state capital, and there definitely is no localized effort to help some of us realize our "economical potential" and rise from our financial ashes. I know the rest of this great Nation is also swirling and confused by this fiasco, but why is there no compassion? Why is there no understanding by those in the Press Box or booths who makes a healthy paycheck and stay and travel for FREE.
So the St. Petersburg Times has made sure to push the Rays Republic beneath the water's surface again and again as they nightly make sure to type a blog post about the Rays attendance figures. They make sure to keep pushing our heads under instead of offering a solution, or being a bit empathetic.
There is a different kind of "support" going on here. It is wrapped around the survival of ourselves and our families, with local disposable incomes at an all time low, attending a baseball game is taking a backseat to rent, food and utilities.
I'm sorry the Rays do not have a caravan of fans flocking into Tropicana Field with dollar bills pouring out of their pockets and an eagerness to spend beyond their means. I am sorry that I myself have only attended a handful of game this season where in the past (2009-10), I attended 161 of their 162 total home games in that time frame. My "support" had to go to living my life and providing a shelter and food for myself.
This season I had to take a huge step back and make a earnest gut check decision. I had to eliminate the Rays from my yearly and weekly budget. Poverty is rough, it makes you decide things you never imagined possible, especially not being able to cheer and see the team you had see grow before your eyes for 13 seasons play their exciting brand of baseball. I think about this decision every day.
There are tons of other people in this same financial boat in 2011 who had to make the same decision or make drastic cutbacks, and it has nothing to do with their support of the team. I think it is a huge farce that this charade has been allowed to go no so long without someone shouting from the Trop's cupola. This region needs a financial hug, but we are not alone.
So many of the media members sit in their FREE seats, sipping on a courtesy soda and snacks and sometimes forget what the rest of the country is doing with no paychecks and special treatment. Maybe they all should sit down with the masses one night and get the real stories and typical setbacks that fans throughout the Rays Republic have made in 2011.
Some have begun to bring their dinners nightly to the Trop, some have gone from Season Tickets to partial ticket plans, and other have faded away without a clue.
Kid's are going back to school this Monday, and with it I expect a crowd under 12,000 even though 2 of the MLB's hottest pitchers right now will hit the Rays mound. Rays send the Tall Texan Jeff Niemann to the hill for the "good guys" and the menacing Justin Verlander for the visiting Detroit Tigers. This match up should bring 24,000 easy into the Trop, but new jeans, school supplies and the first day of school might exhibit a lower than expected Rays crowd. And you can be sure there will be a broadcast comment on the empty seats, especially in Bristol, Conn.
Will this lack of bodies in the seats be due to a lack of support by the Tampa Bay are…No.
Will the crowds ever again fill the Trop screaming at the top of their lungs, seeking a victory….Yes.
The problem is this economic funk that has darkened the skies above Tropicana Field has to drift away, then recovery of the fan base will begin again. I yearn nightly to be in the stands, cheer for the Rays, even talk a little baseball with friends and foes. There is a unity within the Rays stands that sparks of excitement, pride and a hope for change. Problem is, this plight has not even hit it darkest moments yet.
There is nothing wrong with the fan support in Tampa Bay, we just need to again collectively feel adamantly that this financial storm is over and we can again truck out to games. In the end, when things get brighter, the crowds will again flock to Gate's 1 and 4 to see this team play. The Tampa Bay area is a huge tourist based economy, and with visitors staying home or taking regional vacations instead of visiting the "Mouse", this area will stay below the economic surface and the Rays attendance will suffer.
It hurts me to the core to nightly hear other MLB broadcast teams, Fox Sports or ESPN media combos speak down about the Rays fan base and this region. Tampa Bay right now is like a prize fighter hit hard in the gut and reeling on the ropes. There is a do or die mentality in this region, a fight that no one can imagine unless you have lived here. Go ahead National media take your best shot, I guarantee we get back up and land a solid uppercut to your jaw…That would keep you from talking smack.


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With his campaign strategy under increasing scrutiny, Mitt Romney will pivot toward offering more specifics about his policy proposals, a top adviser to the GOP presidential nominee said Monday.
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Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney campaigns in the rain at Lake Erie College in Painesville, Ohio, Friday, Sept. 14, 2012.
Romney senior adviser Ed Gillespie argued Monday that voters are "eager to hear more details" about Romney's plans, a demand which they will attempt to meet. But this shift toward greater explanation glaringly coincides with escalating, open worries from conservatives that President Barack Obama has opened up an advantage over Romney with just seven weeks to go before Election Day.
"We do think the timing is right at this moment to reinforce the specifics – more specifics – about the Romney plan for a stronger middle class," Gillespie said on a conference call with reporters.
The Romney campaign has faced mounting criticism of its strategy – which has focused almost solely on emphasizing the incumbent president's economic management – after Obama emerged from the summer's dueling political conventions with an edge both nationally and in several key swing states. Discord within the Republican's camp was detailed in a Sunday evening report in POLITICO, an airing of dirty laundry not typically associated with the efforts of a winning campaign.
NBC's Chuck Todd reports on how the Mideast violence is impacting the 2012 presidential race, and what it means for both sides.
The POLTICO story described a campaign beset by dueling chains of authority, which most notably led to Romney and a top strategist, Stuart Stevens, scrapping initial drafts of his prime-time speech at the Republican National Convention and rewriting the address together in the days before its delivery.
Gillespie asserted that the Romney campaign's pivot was "more of a natural progression" in the arc of a campaign rather than having been prompted by any specific factor.
But handwringing about Romney, especially among conservatives, many of whom have never fully embraced Romney, is nearing a fever pitch. RedState editor Erick Erickson wrote Monday that Romney "has failed to close any deal with the voters and his message is so muddled no voter really knows what they are getting." The posting by Erickson also predicted that Obama would win the election if it were held today.
The Romney campaign has put its best face on the criticism, not acknowledging or giving any credence to the accusations that things have taken a turn and an adjustment is required to change course.
Romney Advisor Bay Buchanan responds to a recent news article that says there's infighting in the Romney campaign.
"It's easy to sit on the sidelines and have complaints," Bay Buchanan, a senior adviser to the Romney campaign, said this morning on MSNBC's "Daily Rundown."
"We have a very good position today … we have the right message and very strong ads, and the polls show movement," Buchanan said.
But a campaign built around offering more specifics would mark a departure from how the Romney campaign has organized itself for the better part of the last year and a half.
Romney has often doggedly refused to say, for instance, which specific tax deductions he would eliminate in order to finance the tax cuts he has promised. He has been critical of Obama's management of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, but has not been especially willing to say how he would have handled them differently.
The Republican instead appeared to bet for most of this year that anger toward Obama related to a lackluster economic recovery would be enough to subsume the president come November. In that spirit, Romney has largely run a cautious campaign that avoided giving specifics that might otherwise be turned against him, a strategy he first telegraphed to the conservative Weekly Standard in April.
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison discusses Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama's plans for Medicare.
"One of the things I found in a short campaign against Ted Kennedy was that when I said, for instance, that I wanted to eliminate the Department of Education, that was used to suggest I don't care about education," Romney told the magazine. "So will there be some [departments and agencies] that get eliminated or combined? The answer is yes, but I'm not going to give you a list right now."
Shortly after that piece was published, Romney was overheard by NBC News telling donors at a closed-door fundraiser that he would consider eliminating the Department of Housing and Urban Development and shrink the Department of Education. As Romney predicted, the Obama campaign pounced.
This new push by the Romney campaign won't center upon offering new policies and proposals, though. Rather, it will focus on adding detail to Romney's pre-existing plans.
Top Talkers: The Morning Joe panel – including Time's Mark Halperin, NBC News' Andrea Mitchell, New York Magazine's John Heilemann – discusses the recent round of anti-U.S. protests in the Middle East as well as a report that Afghan police killed four U.S. soldiers over the weekend.
"We're not rolling out new policy so much as we are making sure that people understand that, when we say we're going to do these things, here's how we're going to get them done, and here are the specifics," Gillespie said.
As part of its renewed effort, though, Gillespie said Romney and vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan would offer more detail in a series of upcoming speeches and events. Ryan will speak, for instance, before the AARP – a group where the Wisconsin congressman's push to reform Medicare might meet a cool reception.
The Romney campaign also released new ads on Monday morning – including one, "The Romney Plan" – which also looks to better describe the former Massachusetts governor's proposals.
Despite any change in approach, Gillespie argued that Romney is still well-positioned to beat Obama this fall. He called the Republican National Convention in Tampa "successful," and argued that any "bounce" the president had received from his own convention had already dissipated.
Romney also has an additional opportunity available to him in October's three debates versus Obama to re-orient his campaign. Though Gillespie didn't make mention of the debates – the first of which is set for Oct. 3 in the swing state of Colorado – Romney spent much of last week and this weekend preparing for those crucial showdowns.


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Facebook are still no closer to having a report option for content on their site pertaining to CAM "Child Abuse Material" instead we are to report this type of imagery as one of the following (or similar) options...
- Drug use
- Spam or scam
- Graphic violence
- Hate speech or symbol
- Nudity or pornography
Imagery of a child being abused is NOT nudity or porn. It's a crime scene.
They are the evidence depicting children as being victims of a serious crime and possibly in need of help, and why victim identification is so important.
When content as sensitive and horrific as this is submitted, it needs experienced people ready to deal with reports. People who...
* who are able to remove content as soon as it's possible.
(understandably take down time, will vary, depending on content)
* who are able to analyse what has been reported
* who can determine if the content is illegal, and if so
* who are able to trace where it appears to be located
With the relevant law enforcement contacted, to initiate investigations into (any) victims and perpetrators related to the content.
Facebook as the leading social networking site, should also take the lead in helping combat online sexual exploitation of children. In the UK alone, the number of people accessing illegal images has risen 48% in four years, with up to 35,000 indecent images of children were being found daily.
Facebook needs a function, that stands alone from the "normal" report process, with child sexual abuse reports being submitted straight to a dedicated online reporting system.
INHOPE, for example, some one like this is ideal, they respond to reports already and have a network of 43 Hotlines in 37 countries. Facebook could provide a secure mechanism for it's users to click, which would link directly to the (Inhope) online report form, thus ensuring the content is investigated.
In short, Facebook needs a report function available that is specific to reporting any content relating to child sexual abuse. NO child victim should go unnoticed.
Thank you in advance for your support.
Admin @ Peters Law. A Voice For All Children
Admin @ War Against Child Abuse (W.A.C.A)
Admin @ Prevent Child Abuse
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Petition created in collaboration with #Op SafeKids
Second petition can be found HERE
Sallie Ferguson
Facebook needs a report function specific to child sexual abuse content.
A function that links to a hotline such as INHOPE, who have a dedicated online report system. If this feature was in place,...
Facebook needs a report function specific to child sexual abuse content.
A function that links to a hotline such as INHOPE, who have a dedicated online report system. If this feature was in place, it would ensure that any imagery reported, IS investigated, IS passed to the relevant LEA and the Internet Service Provider hosting the original content IS notified.
Behind every image, there is an exploited, abused and helpless child
- not ONE should go unnoticed.


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Contact: Beth Shockley, DNREC Public Affairs, 302-739-9902
Open House on Gordons Pond Trail to be held on April 3
DOVER (March 26, 2013) – DNREC's Division of Parks and Recreation will host a public open house for the proposed Gordons Pond Trail in Cape Henlopen State Park. The Open House will be held from 4 p.m. through 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 3 at the Lewes Library, Second Floor Meeting Room, 111 Adams Avenue in Lewes.
This project is part of Governor Jack Markell's Statewide Trails and Pathways Initiative. The proposed trail will provide a key link in a 15.5-mile regional trail system through Lewes and Rehoboth including the existing Junction and Breakwater Trail.
The proposed trail will extend from the wildlife observation platform at Gordons Pond Area to the Walking Dune Trail near Herring Point in Cape Henlopen State Park. Approximately two miles long, the new trail will improve and reroute an existing primitive trail. The proposed trail will consist of a .4 mile elevated segment and 1.5 mile trail with a crushed stone surface.
More trails for walking, hiking, biking, and jogging rank consistently as the highest outdoor recreation need identified by Delawareans throughout the state. In addition, trail networks promote healthy lifestyles and take cars off the road, reducing air pollution and traffic. The Gordons Pond Trail will offer an excellent opportunity for young Delawareans to be outdoors to experience and learn about nature.
Visitors at the Open House can view the Gordons Pond Trail Plan and related information including exhibits, maps, and trail alignments, models of a bridge/boardwalk, trail tread cross sections, and decking material.
For more information on the Gordons Pond Trail Open House, contact Susan Moerschel, Planning Chief, DNREC Park Resource Office, 302-739-9240 or email@example.com.
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Both are the sons of Italian immigrants. Both are doctrinal conservatives. And both are known for their warm personalities.
But the two Argentine cardinals widely given an outside chance to become pope have had very different careers.
Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who would be the first Jesuit pope if chosen, has spent nearly his entire career at home in Argentina, overseeing churches and shoe-leather priests. Leonardo Sandri, who left for Rome 42 years ago, is a Vatican insider who has run the day-to-day operations of the global church's vast bureaucracy and roamed the world as a papal diplomat.
The election of either of them as pope might help to reconcile two conflicting trends in the papal election: the push to return to the tradition of Italian popes, and the longing for a pontiff from the developing world.
EDITOR'S NOTE: As the Roman Catholic Church prepares to elect a successor to Pope Benedict XVI, The Associated Press is profiling key cardinals seen as "papabili" - contenders to the throne. In the secretive world of the Vatican, there is no way to know who is in the running, and history has yielded plenty of surprises. But these are the names that have come up time and again in speculation. Today: Jorge Mario Bergoglio and Leonardo Sandri.
Bergoglio, 76, reportedly got the second-most votes after Joseph Ratzinger in the 2005 papal election, and he has long specialized in the kind of pastoral work that some say is an essential skill for the next pope. In a lifetime of teaching and leading priests in Latin America, which has the largest share of the world's Catholics, Bergoglio has shown a keen political sensibility as well as the kind of self-effacing humility that fellow cardinals value highly, says his official biographer, Sergio Rubin.
Bergoglio would likely encourage the church's 400,000 priests to hit the streets to capture more souls, Rubin said in an Associated Press interview. He is also most comfortable taking a low profile, and his personal style is the antithesis of Vatican splendor. "It's a very curious thing: When bishops meet, he always wants to sit in the back rows. This sense of humility is very well seen in Rome," Rubin said.
Bergoglio is known for modernizing an Argentine church that had been among the most conservative in Latin America,
Sandri, 69, left for Rome at 27 and never came back to stay in Argentina. Initially trained as a canon lawyer, he reached the No. 3 spot in the church's hierarchy under Pope John Paul II, the zenith of a long career in the Vatican's diplomatic service ranging from Africa to Mexico to Washington.
As substitute secretary of state for seven years, he essentially served as the pope's chief of staff, running the central office at the heart of the Vatican bureaucracy known as the Curia.
"It's hard to find somebody in church circles who doesn't like Sandri. Granted, few might describe him as `charismatic,' but he's almost universally seen as warm, open and possessing a lively sense of humor," Vatican analyst John Allen wrote in the National Catholic Reporter. "Personal relationships are all-important, and Sandri has a lot of friends."
The jovial diplomat has been knighted in a dozen countries, and the church he is attached to as cardinal is Rome's gorgeous, baroque San Carlo ai Catinari. In contrast, Bergoglio stands out for his austerity. As Argentina's top church official, he's never lived in the ornate church mansion in Buenos Aires, preferring a simple bed in a downtown room heated by a small stove on frigid weekends. For years, he took public transportation around the city, and cooked his own meals.
Bergoglio has slowed a bit with age and is feeling the effects of having a lung removed due to infection when he was a teenager - two strikes against him at a time when many Vatican-watchers say the next pope should be relatively young and strong. "But he's going to be very influential in the congress of cardinals, one of those who is most listened to," Rubin said.
Sandri, on the other hand, seems robust. He's also relatively unscathed by recent Vatican controversies.
It was seen by some as a demotion when Benedict replaced Sandri as his No. 3 in 2007, putting him in charge of Eastern-rite churches, a job outside the pope's inner circle. But Sandri left with a reputation for no-nonsense, efficient governance, and was out of the way when a scandal over leaked documents and other controversies vexed the papacy, Allen said.
Sandri remains a consummate Vatican insider. Benedict promoted him to cardinal and named him to the Vatican's Supreme Tribunal, which provides the second-to-last word on church law, after the pope. Sandri also is one of very few cardinals in the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the rule-making bastion Ratzinger led for many years before becoming pope.
The Catholic faithful probably best remember him as the "voice of the pope" who delivered papal speeches when John Paul II became too infirm, and it was Sandri who announced the beloved pope's death to the crowd in St. Peter's Square, adding the memorable observation that "we all feel like orphans this evening."
But Sandri has never led a congregation, a strike against him for cardinals who want the next pope to have pastoral experience, Allen said.
Both men are seen as moderates with open minds, even as their doctrinal and spiritual positions remain well in line with the legacy of John Paul II and Benedict XVI, both conservative popes.
Bergoglio couldn't prevent Argentina from becoming the first Latin American country to legalize gay marriage, or stop its president, Cristina Fernandez, from promoting free contraception and artificial insemination. When Bergoglio argued that gay adoptions discriminate against children, Fernandez compared his tone to "medieval times and the Inquisition."
This kind of demonization is unfair, says Rubin, who wrote Bergoglio's authorized biography, "The Jesuit."
"Is Bergoglio a progressive - a liberation theologist even? No. He's no third-world priest. Does he criticize the International Monetary Fund, and neoliberalism? Yes. Does he spend a great deal of time in the slums? Yes," Rubin said.
Critics also accuse him of failing to stand up publicly against the country's military dictatorship from 1976-1983, when victims and their relatives often brought first-hand accounts of torture, death and kidnappings to the priests he supervised as leader of the Jesuit Order in Argentina
Like other Jesuit intellectuals, Bergoglio has focused on social outreach. Catholics are still buzzing over his speech last year accusing fellow church officials of hypocrisy for forgetting that Jesus Christ bathed lepers and ate with prostitutes.
"In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don't baptize the children of single mothers because they weren't conceived in the sanctity of marriage," Bergoglio told his priests. "These are today's hypocrites. Those who clericalize the Church. Those who separate the people of God from salvation. And this poor girl who, rather than returning the child to sender, had the courage to carry it into the world, must wander from parish to parish so that it's baptized!"
Bergoglio compared this concept of Catholicism to the Pharisees of Christ's time: people who congratulate themselves while condemning others.
"Jesus teaches us another way: Go out. Go out and share your testimony, go out and interact with your brothers, go out and share, go out and ask. Become the Word in body as well as spirit," Bergoglio said.


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I really want to share something inspirational I read this week.
It was a story done on Vogue's website entitled, "Stylish Possibilities for Hair Loss after Chemotherapy & Alopecia".
I came upon it because I follow Vogue on Instagram.
It was very Inspiring. Not something I would expect from Vogue, but pleasantly surprised. I didn't use any of the photos from their website here, I wasn't sure of the copyright policy. However I really encourage you to check it out, the link is at the end.
The article shares the story of nine spirited women who have dealt with hair loss either as a result of chemotherapy or alopecia.
I absolutely LOVED one woman's quote:
"Beauty to me was always about fitting in, Now I just want to stand out." (Mia Sidaros)
Many points in this article really touched me and I found myself questioning how I define beauty.
Many women and girls struggle with self esteem, their self image and what it means to be "beautiful." I know I do.
In the world today, where everything that is celebrated seems so perfectly coiffed, airbrushed, filtered and plumped up, it can often seem overwhelming. Where does one fit in there? It is articles like this that I find so important to share & discuss with my 11 yr old daughter.
Maybe the answer is found in beautiful Mia's quote ...the answer is in standing out. Embracing ones unique qualities, gifts and imperfections. Taking the filter off and exploring what it means to be raw and human.
It's scary though.
I applaud Vogue for this wonderful article. For opening my eyes today to another view, another possibility.
To view Vogue's full article I strongly encourage you to click Here
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SANFORD — York County Community Action Corporation's transportation program has again been awarded a $10,000 grant by the Maine Cancer Foundation to support its Connecting to Cancer Care Program.
The purpose of the program is to provide all York County residents who have a cancer diagnosis equal access to the treatment they need, so that lack of transportation is not an obstacle to their recovery.
People who receive a cancer diagnosis can often face the additional challenge of getting to the treatment they need, on top of needing to address the medical and psychological aspects of cancer. While MaineCare reimburses eligible members for mileage to medical appointments, there are many individuals who are not eligible for MaineCare and who do not have a friend of family member who can transport them to treatments.
YCCAC's Connecting to Cancer Care Program, funded by the Maine Cancer Foundation since 2007, provides needed transport to appointments for radiation, chemotherapy, oncology visits and other treatments, as often as required, through a no-cost reliable transportation program. In 2012, more than 18,000 miles of service were provided to York County residents who would otherwise not have had access to cancer care.
"To the extent that we may eliminate this barrier to care for York County residents in greatest need — and in the midst of what is likely one of the most emotionally and physically exhausting experiences of their lives — we can truly make a meaningful impact by providing relief from one possible stress at what can be a very stressful time," said YCCAC Transportation Program Director Connie Garber.
Maine Cancer Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the health and well-being of Maine people by funding cancer research, education and patient support programs. One hundred-percent of the funds raised remain in Maine.
Maine Cancer Foundation is unique in its top-to-bottom approach to fighting cancer. While research makes up the core of its grant funding program, each year Maine Cancer Foundation provides financial support to dozens of patient and education programs statewide.
York County Community Action Corporation (YCCAC) is a private nonprofit organization serving York County residents since 1966. The mission of the agency is to help York County's low income citizens minimize the effects of poverty, attack its underlying causes, and to promote dignity and self-sufficiency through several social service programs.


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I.C. O. N Salon's Press Pamper Party kicking off the holidays with some of the top stylists in the country was held at I.C.O.N. 20010 Ventura Blvd., Woodland Hills, CA on December 4, 2013 7:00 p.m. until 9:30 p.m.
Walking into I.C.O.N. Lab Salon, it was clear that Santa was all about the TLC and I was ready to sample all of the services on site. Starting off with a fresh-pressed pomegrante juice from Mr. Juice, I was immediately greeted by I.C.O.N.'s lovely facialist Eiko Page. Eiko told me she'd been an esthetician for over 30 years and had acne skin that lasted wll into her 30's. From the looks of her pocelain and ageless complexion, that was hard to believe. Back in her treatment room, she gave me a "mini" Murad anti-aging "Resurgence" facial. I walked out glowing, feeling fresh and fabulous.
Next stop at the Pamper Party was a seat at the "Car Bar" with I.C.O.N.'S bubbly stylist Stacey Quintinella. The "Care Bar" wasn't just your typical row of washing stations, but rather a place for styists to mix custom hair care cocktails. Stacey said "these "cocktails" help to detox hair of product build up, provide protein to rebuild and strengthen hair from the inside out, and/or intensely moistturize damaged and dry hair. Everything that takes place at the "Care Bar: is based upon each client's individual hair hare needs".
After sitting for 20 minutes with the cocktail (protein & moisture) activating atop my head, my desperately dry hair was ready for a rinse. While leaned back in the wash bowl, I was educated by I.C.O.N.'s senior stylist Crystil Olsen on the science behind the brand's philosophy for at home care. Whith what I.C.O.N. Products has coined as "Regimedy" clients are recommended a complimenting shampoo, conditioner, and treatment trio. This al goes back to I.C.O.N. tailoring each product according to the hair situation at hand...and it doesn't just end when the cocktail is empty! My recommeded "Regimedy" was DRENCH Moisturizing Shampoo, FREE Moisturizing Conditioner, and INNER HOME Moisturizing Treatment and I.C.O.N. was kind enough to gift me one of my own to reap the benefits of at home care. Crystil then transported me over to her styling station, where I received the most beautiful blow out! After the cocktail, products, and blow-dry technique used on my hair, I couldn't believe how shiny and smooth it was.
To polish off my holiday hair and sparkling skin, I.C.O.N. and Mirabella Make Up Artist Jasmine Dashtishad put on the final touch of arching my eybrows. Last but not least, my nails a change of color. Who better to help me than Nichole McCauly, celebrity make-up and manucurist for Kaya Jones, former lead singer of the Pussycat Dolls, MEOW!!
Facial...check...Hair...check...Eyebrows...check...Nails...Check! As my nails were drying, I noticed the awesome accessory designers who were debuting sneak peaks of their holiday collections aside me. SoCal designer Sara Horne Jewelry was showcasing gypsy-like pendant necklaces, golden boho baubles, and romantic chain metal headpieces, Karen Zambos displayed her oversized clutches and ornately tied, leather belts. For a shooter diva, I wanted one of everything!
And last but not least. what are the holidays without giving? Per my event exit, I.C.O.N.'s Director of Operations, Michele Lepire, gratefully thanked me for coming. She handed me and I.C.O.N. gift bag with my "Regimedy" and limited edition box of CURE Replenishing Spray. She informed me that CURE is I.C.O.N.'s #1 selling product out of their entire line and gives 20% of its proceeds to Stop Cancer Org. to help fund breast cancer research. Fllowing in like doagnoses of her mother and sister, just this year Creative Divrector/Founder Chiara Scudleri was diagnosed herself and has been fighting for her life #CureForACause, I.C.O.N.'s phianthropic push, just got much more personal. I encourage you to donate to help fight this disease, support I.C.O.N.'s pink boxing gloves, and give to a cause that affects out mothers, sisters, aunts, friends and colleagues.
A flexible salon that's moderately priced affordable. My experience however was priceless. The secret to the fountain of youth is out, healthy hair and selective products to your face. The perfect gift card for the holidays , birthdays or a special treat!
A special thanks to the staff at I.C.ON Lab Salon and I.C.O.N. Products Corporate Headquartes for hosting and to their publicists at Jade Umbrella, Stacey D. Barker and Erica Hill for the invitation to an Ultimate Pampering Experience.
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'Tanning Mom' Sent to Detox Facility After Alleged Intoxication at Airport
Patricia Krentcil, dubbed 'tanning mom,' was sent to a Minnesota detox facility.
June 16, 2013 -- Patricia Krentcil, the New Jersey woman known as the "Tanning Mom" was sent to a temporary detox facility after she was allegedly found to be intoxicated at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, officials said.
Metropolitan Airports Commission spokesman Patrick Hogan told ABCNews.com that police received a call about an intoxicated passenger at the Delta ticket counters at the airport Thursday.
Hogan said Krentcil, 45, of Nutley, N. J. was taken to a temporary detox facility located in Hennepin County, Minn., after police decided that she was not able to take care of herself.
Hogan said Krentcil was in Minneapolis on a layover, but he did not know where she was traveling to or from.
Krentcil was not arrested, Hogan said. He did not know what facility in Hennepin County Krentcil was taken to, but noted that she could be held up to 30 hours in the facility before her release.
Harriet Krentcil, Krentcil's mother-in-law, told ABCNews.com that she did not know if Krentcil had returned home to New Jersey.
Through Harriet Krentcil, Patricia Krentcil and her husband, Richard, declined to comment to ABC News.
Krentcil was arrested in April 2012 for allegedly violating a state law banning children under 14 from using tanning salons. Police became involved after school officials noticed burns on the legs of Krentcil's then-5-year-old daughter. A grand jury declined to indict her in February.


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NEW YORK — The Standard & Poor's 500 index reached an all-time high today, a day after Washington reached a deal to avoid a U.S. default.
The S&P 500 rose 11 points, or 0.6 percent, at 1,732 with 10 minutes of trading left. It's on course to beat its previous closing high of 1,725 reached on Sept. 18.
The market was up as investors got back to focusing on corporate earnings and economic data. American Express and Verizon rose the most in the Dow Jones industrials after reporting earnings that beat analysts' estimates.
The Dow was flat in late trading at 15,373, held back by declines in IBM, Goldman Sachs and UnitedHealth, which issued results that disappointed investors.
The Nasdaq composite rose 22 points, or 0.6 percent, to 3,861.
The focus on earnings is a change of pace for Wall Street, which had been absorbed in Washington's political drama over the last month. Now that the U.S. has avoided the possibility of default, at least for a few months, traders are returning to a state of normalcy.
"I don't think we can completely close the door on the debt ceiling chapter just yet, but we can get back to the stuff that really matters," said Jonathan Corpina, who manages trading on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange for Meridian Equity Partners.
IBM's third-quarter revenue fell and missed Wall Street's forecast by more than $1 billion. The stock was down $12.10, or 7 percent, to $174.50.
Goldman Sachs also weighed down the index. The investment bank's revenue fell sharply as trading in bonds and other securities slowed. Goldman fell $3.98, or 2.5 percent, to $158.250.
Now that there was no longer an immediate fear that the United States could default on its debt and the government was reopening, Wall Street was surveying the damage.
Market analysts expect the 16-day partial shutdown of the government caused billions of dollars of damage to the U.S. economy through furloughed government employees, delayed government contracts, and declines in tourism at national parks. Analysts at Wells Fargo said the shutdown likely cut 0.5 percentage points off of U.S. economic growth.
And there remain broader concerns the two parties won't be able to reach a longer-term budget agreement. The deal approved late Wednesday only permits the Treasury Department to borrow through Feb. 7 and fund the government through Jan. 15.
"The agreement represents another temporary fix that pushes fiscal uncertainty into the early months of next year," Wells Fargo analysts said.
Despite worries about the damage the debt ceiling and government shutdown did to the economy, there were signs that normalcy was returning to financial markets.
Stresses in the bond market were easing. The one-month Treasury bill was back to trading at a yield of 0.01 percent, about where it was a month ago, and down sharply from 0.35 percent on Tuesday.
Usually a staid, conservative security, the one-month T-bill was subjected to a wave of selling at the beginning of the month. Investors feared the T-bill would be the first piece of government debt to be affected by a U.S. default if the debt ceiling was breached and the federal government could no longer pay its obligations.
The yield on the more closely-watched 10-year Treasury note fell to 2.60 percent from 2.67 percent Wednesday.
Corporate earnings are expected to continue to dominate trading for the next couple weeks. So far, only 79 companies in the S&P 500 have reported third-quarter results, according to S&P Capital IQ. Analysts expect earnings at those companies to increase 3.3 percent over the same period a year ago.
In other corporate news:
— Verizon, one of the stocks in the Dow average, rose $1.63, or 3 percent, to $48.87. The telecommunications company said it earned an adjusted 77 cents per share for the recent quarter. Analysts polled by FactSet expected earnings of 74 cents per share.
— UnitedHealth Group was down $3.67, or 5 percent, to $71.52. The health insurance giant narrowed its 2013 profit forecast, instead of raising it, giving some analysts pause.
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I'm so excited that I'll be teaching another painted photo and journal workshop in Orvieto, Italy in just a few months! I'm still sighing and thinking about my trip to Australia (I still have more to share about my amazing time there!) but with September approaching, my thoughts and my heart turn toward beautiful Orvieto,
and memories of last year's dreamy adventure fill my mind. I fell head over heals in love with the beautiful Italian people;
rolling terraced vineyards, and narrow, one-way cobblestone streets winding through ancient villages clinging to cliff walls;
the golden afternoon light;
the many family run boutiques, markets, and restaurants blending food, art, and community;
and the ancient history, breathtaking architecture, and heart-stirring sculpture.
I also fell in love with Giovanni, the head nun running San Lodovico, the 400 year old convent/B&B where we stay and create art. Honestly, I wanted to adopt her and bring her home. She reminded me so much of my sweet grandmother. I can't wait to give Giovanni another great big hug!
Below are a few shots of last year's students and the fun we had together. There are spots left in the September workshop, so if you're interested, or have questions, email Kristi, Bill or myself, and any of us will be more than happy to answer your questions.
Bill and Kristi, our amazing host and hostess!
painted photo of an angel from the cemetery near Orvieto
Dearest Orvieto, I look forward to meeting again soon, so I can once again wrap my heart around you while closing my eyes and breathing deep of your magnificent beauty and charm.
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Forensics Program
Join the SJSU Forensics program and develop practical communication skills you'll use in any career. Sign up for intercollegiate competition, judging, intramural tournaments, or other forensics activities. Majors may also enroll in COMM 198, Applied Activity, in forensics (COMM 91J, 191A, B, C, and J are not substitutes for COMM 198) after consultation with the Director of Forensics.
Get more information about the Forensics Program from:
- the official San José State University Forensics Program website
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Greetings everyone,
The SimRTK role playing game (an online forum-based Romance of the Three Kingdoms game) is back online! We are starting a new game, and we are currently setting up new kingdoms. If you are interested in playing an officer or a ruler in the new incarnation of the game, please register soon. Cities are first come first serve, but there is no limit to the number of players we can have online.
Come and pay us a visit!


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School's out for ATV training
This year sees the fifth and last of ESA's Automated Transfer Vehicles leave for the International Space Station. ATV Georges Lemaître will be launched this summer from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, fully loaded with supplies, fuel and oxygen for the astronauts on humankind's orbital outpost.
ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst, who is leaving for the Space Station in May, will welcome the largest supply ship to serve the Station. Alexander finished his ATV training last month together with cosmonaut Alexander 'Sasha' Skvortsov, marking the last graduates of the training programme in over eight years of schooling at ESA's European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany.
"Alexander and Sasha passed with flying colours and for the trainers it was a moment of mixed emotions, a feeling of a job well done on this historic moment, combined with sadness that ATV training has come to end," says ATV instructor Lionel Ferra.
Over 83 astronauts have been trained on the rendezvous and docking procedures, running simulation after simulation to test their reactions to many possible scenarios in a life-size mockup to add realism.
Aside from docking procedures, astronauts were taught how to make the final connections of the spacecraft with the Russian part of the Space Station, entering the vehicle and testing the atmosphere as well as unloading cargo, loading trash and finally get trained on undocking procedures. Over 1000 items typically need to be unloaded, catalogued and stored from an ATV cargo manifest. After unloading, waste from the Station needs to be secured tightly for when ATV leaves.
"When the first ATV,Jules Verne,was launched in 2008, instructors at the European Astronaut Centre had to develop a whole new training programme from scratch," says Hans Bolender, head of ESA's Astronaut Training Division.
"Europe had never launched a spacecraft for human spaceflight but working hand in hand with the spacecraft designers, industry and partners in Russia, the team developed a complete training programme adapted to the needs of busy astronauts to safely conduct these complex missions."
Astronauts from all International Space Station partner agencies – Japan, Russia, USA, Canada and Europe – have trained on the supply and support ferry's systems. The ATV training team has had a constant flow of astronauts passing their classrooms in Cologne.
"By coincidence, when Alexander and Sasha completed their docking training, another ESA astronaut, Samantha Cristoforetti, was completing her ATV undocking training with another Alexander: cosmonaut Alexander Samokutyaev," remarks Rüdiger Seine, who is responsible for astronaut mission training. "They will be on the Space Station when ATV-5 leaves at the end of this year."
"We have seen many amazing astronauts pass by our classroom and it is always satisfying to see a student perform well in real life," says ATV instructor Michael Markus. "Naturally we will be watching the Alexanders, Sasha and Samantha from Earth for the last ATV operations as well."
The astronauts will take refresher courses on the International Space Station to review procedures. Some of these courses have been released for you to try in your own web browser or tablet, and see if you have what it takes to dock ATV!


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Most lawyers use a variety of lists – "to do" lists, task lists, checklists.
Because lawyers tend to be deadline driven and the consequences of missing certain deadlines can be quite severe, many use their calendar as a primary organizational tool. And almost every one of us keeps a "to do" list.
Such a list may take the form of a massive computerized task list of everything that needs to be done and by when, or a scrap of paper with the seven things that need to be done by the end of the day scribbled on it. If the lawyer doesn't personally keep a "to do" list, it is probably because an assistant keeps the list on the lawyer's behalf.
In addition, almost every lawyer also uses a checklist for some projects. A checklist may be used to make sure all contingencies of an estate plan have been discussed or that all required allegations are included in a court pleading.
Lawyers may think they know all there is to know about checklists, but most law firms are only scratching the surface in using them successfully. One improvement we should see in law firm operations in the next several years is the development and use of more sophisticated checklists.
I have to credit my new-found enthusiasm for law office checklists to a solo practitioner named Tim Green from Guthrie, Okla. He directed my attention to a short, easy-to-read book called The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande.
Gawande's book is a great read that covers a range of topics, from how checklists eliminated many airline crashes and saved lives in surgeries to the real reason why Van Halen's David Lee Roth famously demanded a bowl of M&M's be placed in the band's dressing room with all of the brown ones removed.
We lawyers tend to think of using forms and checklists only for complex projects. But both Green and Gawande assert that checklists are extremely valuable for the routine and the mundane.
As Green notes, "We have to do a lot of thinking as lawyers. Anything that frees us from having to think about something makes our lives better and us more productive."
A checklist allows lawyers to handle a routine task accurately and quickly. A good checklist also makes it easier to delegate to someone else when necessary.
Draw on your own experience. If there are ten steps that need to be done to accomplish a task and 100 people try to do it from memory, how many would you think correctly recall all 10 items? Certainly no one would answer 100 percent. Perhaps 80 percent? And what if the step missed is a critical step?
Green starts every day with an opening routine set out on a checklist that begins with turning on his computer as he sits down at his desk. Is that because is he is concerned he might forget to turn on his computer some day and leave it off all day? Of course not. It is simply a planned sequence to beginning his workday.
Operating with checklists allows a lawyer to complete tasks more quickly, in the right sequence and with 100 percent accuracy. And you do not have to strain your brain thinking about it. Achieving perfection with less time and effort is quite an accomplishment.
Lawyers tend to be creative problem solvers. The idea of spending the work day following detailed checklists may strike many as a rigid and unappealing business model. But the opposite is actually true. If you are going to have to do many simple and mundane tasks (and we all do), it is better to get them completed in less time and with less effort. That frees up more of your time for the valuable and creative work of lawyering and it might even allow you to go home a little earlier at night.
Highly skilled surgeons who were told that they should use pre-surgery checklists often did not support the concept and were even a bit insulted, according to Gawande's book. He noted that the initial reaction of many was along the lines of "why should a list tell me to wash my hands? I wash before every surgery."
Yet in the initial study, with a very simple checklist, post-operative infections, which always result in more expense and can lead to a patient's death, were reduced so dramatically that even the most scornful naysayer had to admit that this was a valuable tool.
The story of Captain Chesley Sullenberger, the pilot of the US Airways plane that crashed into the Hudson River is well-known. He is truly a hero. Yet, when a flock of geese disabled the airplane's engines, he turned to the checklist prepared for the situation. Many people had thought and planned for this event, calmly, with no blaring alarms or falling airplane.
In addition to providing the sequence of attempts to restart the engines, there was also a step that stated, in effect, "Look for a safe place to land, preferably in water."
A lawyer who reads The Checklist Manifesto and implements its lessons may not get an invitation to the White House, but that lawyer may become a hero to co-workers, clients and possibly even family.
Jim Calloway is the Director of the Oklahoma Bar Association Management Assistance Program. He publishes the weblog, Jim Calloway's Law Practice Tips at http://jimcalloway.typepad.com. He serves on the ABA Law Practice Management Section Council and is also chair of its Practice Management Advisor's committee. He is a frequent speaker on law office management and technology issues.


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Julie and Guy Barker love to travel. Aside from the many trips they've taken back to their native Ireland and England, they've explored parts of Africa, Canada and Central America. A registered nurse, Julie Barker had been working when she and her husband purchased a Passport Health franchise — a privately held chain of vaccination clinics that specializes in travel-related medications — in Woburn in 2006.
Julie and Guy Barker love to travel.
Aside from the many trips they've taken back to their native Ireland and England, they've explored parts of Africa, Canada and Central America.
In large part, it was their love of traveling that prompted the Lexington couple to open a vaccination franchise in East Cambridge last month.
A registered nurse, Julie Barker had been working when she and her husband purchased a Passport Health franchise — a privately held chain of vaccination clinics that specializes in travel-related medications — in Woburn in 2006.
In a year's time, with the help of Dr. Matt Philips, the Barkers have not only exceeded their financial expectations, they've managed to open a new location right in the heart of Cambridge.
"It's a great location," Julie Barker said of their new digs on Cambridge Street. "We can reach so many different types of people from here. We get all walks of life."
With the addition of the Cambridge office, the Barkers said they're hoping to cash in on the abundance of college students and young professionals living in the area. At the Woburn office, most of the Barkers' customers were corporate groups and traveling couples. An added advantage Passport Health holds over its competitors — namely crowded hospitals and private practice physicians — is price. Where a private doctor's office could charge as much as $400 just for a travel consultation, Passport Health provides similar service for $45.
"One of the reasons we chose the area is because of the students," Julie Barker said. "We found that they were having a tough time getting to Woburn."
"It was no use for people who travel by the [MBTA]," Guy Barker added.
Now that the Cambridge location is open for business a short walk north from Lechmere Square, the Barkers are expecting the average age of their customers to drop considerably over the next several months, particularly as the school year comes to an end in May for the city's population of immigrant students.
"When they go back for the summer, they tend to not realize that their immunizations have expired, and there's this big push to stock up," Barker said.
In recent years, it's become nearly impossible to utter the word "vaccination" without conjuring thoughts of the word "shortage" immediately afterward. Supply, the Barkers said, is almost never a problem, as Passport Health is the nation's second-largest private provider of vaccinations.
"In terms of your more common vaccinations, first the government gets it, then the private providers," Guy Barker said. "We're at the top of the private providers list, in terms of sheer volume."
At Passport Health, which got its start in Maryland in 1990s, the philosophy is, "We don't just vaccinate, we educate." It's a mantra that the Barkers have bought into wholesale. In addition to providing vaccinations for everything from shingles to the flu, to malaria and hepatitis and rabies, Passport Health also provides its customers with valuable tips and information about their destinations, as well as assistance in buying traveler's insurance.
"We do everything," Barker said. "We try as best we can to put it all under one roof, and make this an all-encompassing travel stop. We want to equip people with the best advice and as much information as possible."
Looking ahead, the Barkers plan to expand even further upon the types of services they provide. One day, Julie Barker said she hopes Passport Health will evolve into the ultimate one-stop travel shop, where customers can get their shots at the same time they book their flights and hotels.
"There's really no end to the possibilities," Barker said. "I think it's a wonderful idea to try to combine all of the separate steps people go through when they travel into one. When you put it all together, you feel safe and you feel comfortable."


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This week, California's public university students got caught with their pants down.
On Wednesday, during daylight hours, the state legislature took a $300 million whack out of the California State University and University of California systems.
That came on top of $1 billion in cuts to those systems back in March. With cuts that big (more than $1 out of $6), you would think students would be descending on the Capitol to shut the place down and block the cuts.
But there was nothing.
Fortunately for those students, Gov. Brown vetoed the budget, giving students a chance to get their act together. They should take it.
It's summer, after all, so no classes or exams to worry about. So now is the time to use social networks to gather groups of students who pledge -- at the word of the next budget vote -- to head immediately to Sacramento and engage in disobedience.
Even a relatively small percentage of the 600,000 students in the two systems could bring work to a standstill if they converged on the Capitol.
And the students shouldn't wait to see budget details before heading to Sacramento. Virtually any budget bill in this state is going to take a bite out of higher education -- because the universities don't enjoy the constitutional and legal protections of other programs. And there hasn't been a political price to pay for cutting higher ed. Students, by using their summer productively, could change that.


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FTAC 13.5 Compact Stats & Overview
|+ Aim Down Sight Speed
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|Short, compact barrel sacrifices accuracy and range for speed and agility. Improves combat in tight spaces.
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The lips of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein have long been sealed about the identity of Deep Throat, the source whose tattling brought down the Nixon White House.
(Well, actually Woodward told his wife, and Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee knew, too.)
Despite their silence, over in Waynesboro, J. Todd Foster, managing editor of the News Virginian, also knew the identity of Deep Throat, and had come tantalizingly close to getting the scoop of a generation three years ago.
Last week, his role in the Deep Throat saga splashed across the front page of the New York Times, and since then, Foster estimates he's gotten about 150 calls from news organizations.
In 2002, relatives of W. Mark Felt approached Foster, then a contributor to People magazine. Foster was certain the former FBI man was Deep Throat, but the family wanted money to tell the story, and People does not pay for stories.
So Foster approached a friend at HarperCollins about doing a book. That project was dumped when Felt's dementia and memory problems became obvious to a friend of Foster who interviewed Felt.
"If we came out and said Mark Felt was Deep Throat– and he clearly is– and Bob Woodward didn't confirm it... it would ruin our credibility," says Foster.
"The problem all along was checkbook journalism and [Felt's] memory," he adds. "Bob Woodward was the only one who could prove Mark Felt is Deep Throat, and if he said he was not the guy, we had no fallback."
Foster describes himself as a working managing editor who doesn't stay behind a desk. He'd been out on assignment all day May 31 when the story broke. Around 7pm, he turned on the TV to catch Seinfeld. "I flipped on CNN and saw Mark Felt's picture," he says. "I thought he'd died and Bob Woodward finally made good on his promise" to reveal Deep Throat.
The editor cranked out a first-person account of his role in not outing Deep Throat that appeared in the June 1 News Virginian. That story had the New York Times– and other publications– calling.
Many journalists were chagrined that a monthly broke the story and that an attorney wrote it. Foster calls the Vanity Fair story "thin," but says he doesn't feel as bad as he thought he would at being scooped. "I got emails from all over that applauded my integrity," he says.
And Foster found that being a small-town editor can be as challenging as working in the big leagues. "My friends used to accuse me of slumming, but I did it for the quality of life," explains Foster of his move to Waynesboro.
Besides, he hated living in D.C. But who needs it? Even from Augusta County, he has managed to be part of the national news scene.
Waynesboro News Virginian managing editor J. Todd Foster knew Mark Felt was Deep Throat three years ago– but he couldn't get Bob Woodward to confirm it.


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After Cooper: Concerned New Yorkers
POSTED ON: October 26, 2012
After Cooper is a new series about Cooper alumni using their talents and education to create innovative businesses, careers, and projects
How do artists respond to the world in a timely manner when gallery exhibition cycles can't keep up? Alumni Kenny Komer (A'06) and Boris Rasin (A'05) take their work to the streets. Working with a third member under the collective name of Concerned New Yorkers—an organizational identity that evokes a Super PAC moniker—these recent graduates create compelling, politically-minded public works that are often covered by the media. This month they released their most recent project, Citation, into the world and have already gotten more than a few reactions.
"We strive to reach a very wide audience," Rasin says, "but we also try to appeal to the cerebral element of our audience." The Citation project began with the group distributing thousands of fake parking tickets around lower Manhattan. The tickets were in fact cleverly designed packaging for a survey the group was conducting on perceptions and experiences of the New York Police Department. Concerned New Yorkers publishes their survey results as they receive them (which can be sent in with an attached pre-paid mailer) on their website. Metro NY and Time Out New York have already reported on their efforts.
It's a perfect example of the duo's rapid-response approach to art-making. "Because our projects are so quick to produce and turn-around we can make work about things that are very topical, very of-the-moment," Komer says. The inspiration for Citation came from a recent personal experience Komer had being stopped and frisked by police on his way to a meeting with Rasin. The stop-and-frisk program, in which police will stop pedestrians and may frisk them if the police feel they have cause, has recently become a controversial issue between civil liberties groups and the Bloomberg administration.
Komer and Rasin have already cut their teeth on several similarly interventionist projects in Manhattan's public sphere. The founding project, Burns for Mayor, was a direct response to billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg's controversial bid for a third-term in 2009. Concerned New Yorkers decided to give Bloomberg a run for his money by pitting him against C. Montgomery Burns, the nefarious billionaire energy magnate of the Simpsons universe, as a write-in candidate. The two artists set about creating a website, promotional video and punchy campaign poster ("No Third Terms! Vote Burns") plastered throughout Manhattan. Soon local and national media turned the campaign viral, getting the attentions of CNN, the New York Times and the Huffington Post, which later called it, "a smash." In the end, Burns received 27 write-in votes—the highest of any write-in candidate that year.
The friendship between Komer and Rasin started at Cooper Union, where both came to study more conventional forms of art-making. Rasin had the natural talent at painting and drawing to win admittance to Cooper's highly selective School of Art, but went on to try his hand at every medium he could find: video, photography, digital arts—finally settling to focus the brunt of his energies on sculpture, which he recalls studying closely with Nikki Logis, Doug Ashford, Pam Lins, and Dennis Adams. Komer meanwhile came from a sculpture background but found the interdisciplinary Cooper education liberating. "I think the most valuable thing I learned at Cooper was how to be resourceful," he explains.
Rasin, too, values his education at Cooper for imparting to him the ability for research and problem solving rather than any specific technical skill set. "One day you'll be writing a text piece as a fake news article," Rasin says, "The next day you could be doing research on petroleum jelly because you want to make a sculpture out of that material." He recalls a lesson learned from Nikki Logis: "She taught us to have confidence to learn how to do whatever it is we wanted to do."


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How to Make a YouTube Video Go Viral: Secrets for Product Marketers
It's become clear to marketers that online video sharing is one of the most powerful and efficient ways to promote new products or services. But why is it that some content becomes widespread and popular overnight, while other videos flounder with only a few views—regardless of budget or video quality? Everyone wants to learn the secret of what makes a YouTube video go viral. My recent study, "Impact of Social Network Structure on Content Propagation: A Study Using YouTube Data" tackles that very question.
Which Seeds to Sow?
The objective of the study was to understand how to best leverage YouTube influencers and networks for marketing purposes. Who are the right people to connect with, and how do you find them? These people are called "seed agents": you pick seeds, and you give them information about your product, or samples of the product itself. You then ask them to craft videos about your product, with the expectation that they will spread that information.
I found that the key to creating an effective viral social strategy is to really understand these individuals' reach through their various layers of connections. The first step is to learn how many friends they have, and how many friends their friends have. It's all about using mathematical network metrics to help your videos become popular.
Typically, marketers choose seeds because of their online brand popularity: they might have highly trafficked blogs, great numbers of followers, high quality content, or all of the above. Those things matter, but they're not the whole picture. You want seed agents with a lot of friends, but it's equally important to understand how many connections those friends have. For example, if you choose a seed agent with 100 friends, but each of those friends only has 1 or two connections, you're only going to reach a maximum of 200 people. However, if you select seeds agents whose 100 friends each have 100 connections, your content has the potential to reach 10,000 viewers. The number of people you reach rises exponentially when that second level of connection is incorporated into the equation.
Community Qualities: Tight-knit vs. Open
Another integral part of the strategy is to understand the types of communities involved. If a seed agent belongs to a tight-knit community, they tend to almost exclusively engage within that community; their influence rarely extends beyond that sphere. If you want your video content to go viral beyond the small local community, you need to pick seed agents whose communities are more fluid and open.
Implications beyond YouTube
These strategies are applicable to any type of viral social content marketing, and in fact you can expect that the impact will extend beyond YouTube. The seed agents you choose are also on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, blogs, Instagram, Quora, etc. Understanding the reach of your seed agents on YouTube is only one piece of the puzzle- it needs to fit into a wider social strategy. It's not to a marketer's advantage to craft strategies too specific to each social media platform, because they only work in isolation. Rather, you want to create a web of influence where each area supports and feeds the others.
Confidence and Control
Traditional advertising is a great way to directly reach a lot of people, but the influence of word-of-mouth information simply cannot be underestimated. If a company tells you their product is good, there's no real reason for a consumer to believe them. On the other hand, if the consumer's friends, acquaintances, contacts, or people they trust endorse the content by reposing or reviewing it, there's a much higher probability that the message will be received positively to the point of sharing and/or purchasing.
The "problem" with social marketing is that the company needs to let go of control. Once the information is out there, they can't dictate the conversation. You're opening a big can of worms with the possibility of negative feedback, spoofs, or ridicule, and many are uncomfortable with that possibility.
The positive aspect is that demonstrates a high degree of confidence in your product in order to give up control. It says a lot about the quality of the brand when they're secure enough to let others do the talking for them. Furthermore, showing an interest and investment in consumer opinions goes a long way toward forging a solid company-customer relationship. Purchasers respond positively when they feel they're being heard.
Two Hops
In my opinion, one of the top key takeaways for marketers is to understand how deep your research needs to go when selecting the right seed agents. In former network-based marketing studies, it was put forward that strategists needed to collect as much information as possible on the entire network: counting friends, and friends of friends, and friends of friends of friends—it can go on ad infinitum. At a certain point, this approach gets very expensive and time consuming; it's almost impossible to harness that amount of data, and it can be a tough call to know when to draw the line, especially if you have a 'more is better' mindset.
My study demonstrates that it's only necessary to investigate up to two hops- number of friends, and friends of friends. It's much easier to collect information and find the right seed agents if you keep that information in mind. Furthermore, it's much more cost effective if your strategy is to give each seed agent a product, especially if you're on a tight budget or if your product is extremely expensive, like a car. You can give the product to 100 people, or you can invest the time and research to finding just the right 10 people, who will in turn spread the information exponentially. Happy marketing!


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