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Improve Students' Writing Using Online Workshops
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The unconventional problem-solving suggestions in Cooper Edens' book If You're Afraid of the Dark, Remember the Night Rainbow seem to invite creative responses. While listening to a read-aloud of the book, students use reading logs to record their reactions. The text structure and illustrations in the book serve as a springboard for discussing similar emotions students may have experienced. Students develop their own if statements modeled on the text, and submit drafts of what they have written to online writing groups for peer review. Using free online tools, students discuss and respond to each other's work, focusing on creativity and expression. They then revise and illustrate their statements for a class book.
- Nicenet
- If You're Afraid of the Dark, Remember the Night Rainbow by Cooper Edens (Chronicle, 1979)
Morretta, T.M., & Ambrosini, M. (2000). Practical approaches for teaching reading and writing in middle schools. Newark, DE: International Reading Association.
In chapter 4, "Writing for Readers" (pp. 4059), the authors say that "the dynamics of a middle school reading and writing classroom and the goal of developing lifelong writers are best managed by a teacher who provides choices, challenges, and opportunities for students to read, to write, and to discuss." One of the best ways to do this is by encouraging students to review, comment, and assist each other while also preparing them for other audiences to view and read their work.
Olson, C.B. (2003). The reading/writing connection: Strategies for teaching and learning in the secondary classroom. Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon.
"Learning Log Reflections... invite readers to take a step back and ponder what has been learned, thus providing teachers the opportunities to engage in the same cognitive strategies that readers and writers use when they compose."


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The NFL's regional programming rules are famously byzantine, but luckily the506.com cuts through the bullshit for you, providing weekly maps that allow us to answer the only question that really matters: Which fans are the most screwed this Sunday?
Week 15 winner: Bullhead City, Ariz.
The Broncos, at 10-3, have won as many games as the rest of AFC West combined. They clinched their division two weeks ago. They go up against a "desperate" Ravens team that, despite losing its last two games, is still in solid shape to make the playoffs because its 4-1 division record gives Baltimore a guaranteed tiebreaker over Cincinnati. Long story short, this isn't as great a matchup as it seems.
By rule, a primary market receives no game if that market's team is playing at home on the opposite channel in the same time slot. Primary markets typically extend about 75 miles from the team's home stadium, leading to small no-game zones like those seen around New Orleans, Atlanta, St. Louis, and Chicago in the CBS early round.
Phoenix's primary market, on the other hand, is gigantic and nonsensical. It includes Bullhead City, which is 230 miles from Phoenix, but excludes Tuscon, which is only 116 miles away. With Lions-Cardinals in the afternoon slot on Fox, Bullhead City gets no game on CBS. Tuscon, Southern Nevada, and Southern California get Steelers-Cowboys. With both at 7-6, this is an absolute must-win for these teams and perhaps the best matchup of the week.
As this particularly unpleasant-looking map shows, there are a lot of different games on Fox this Sunday. Five of these games have playoff relevance. Two of the remaining are between underperforming but often exciting teams: Buccaneers-Saints and Panthers-Chargers. The last is Lions-Cardinals. The Lions have blown 10-point leads in three straight games, while the Cardinals have lost their last nine.
Just across the river, Southern Nevada and California get Giants-Falcons. The Giants need to win to hold off the surging Redskins and Cowboys, while the Falcons want to win because last week they lost to the fucking Panthers and everyone stopped taking them seriously again. Now this is a real matchup.

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Late Night Doodles
I am still working on my current novel set in the far future. More blog posts about that are forthcoming.
In the meantime I am jotting up ideas for new books. Here is one of my late night doodles: A Tribe of Mars. The idea is a group of colonists have to band together to survive Mars.
No his boots are not right, and I totally left the fingers out.
It's a doodle.
What, you wanna fight about it!?
Until next time. . .


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Traffic is located at the corner of Hamilton Street and Middlefield Road. The address is:
500 County Center
Redwood City, CA 94063
If you are coming from areas north of Redwood City traveling south on Highway 101, take the Whipple Avenue exit. This exit places you on Veterans Blvd. Proceed straight on Veterans Blvd. to Middlefield Road. Middlefield is one short block past the second traffic signal after Whipple Avenue. Turn right onto Middlefield Road. Proceed straight on Middlefield Road approximately one and one-half blocks to Hamilton Street. Traffic and Small Claims is in a one-story building sitting back from Middlefield Road and adjacent to Hamilton Street.
If you are traveling Highway 280, take the Highway 92 East exit towards the San Mateo Bridge. Take Highway 101 South, then follow the directions from Highway 101 above to get to Southern Branch Annex.
Parking is metered and the parking meters take only quarters. Most meters are for one or two hours. There is a ten-hour parking lot at Middlefield Road and Winslow. Just follow Middlefield Road to Winslow and you will see the lot. The lot is approximately three blocks from the Traffic and Small Claims.
Public Transportation
If you are planning to use public transportation, please visit 511.org to plan your trip.


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Sunday School – 10:00 am
Worship Service – 11:00 am
Bible Study – 12:15 pm
Wednesday Bible Study - 6:30 pm
12859 Martin Road Spur
Northport, AL 35473
God has ordained leadership for His churches. Though we don't often see it these days, churches in the New Testament had multiple spiritual leaders. In this first installment on Church Leadership, Pastor Todd explains the plurality of elders.


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Pumaclaw3 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de camiseta y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 147 diseños de 29 diseñadores freelance.
Camp Encounter, http://www.campencouter.com
We are a Catholic Summer Adventure Camp operating year round. Approximately 4,000 people use our facility every year from schools, churches, and cadets, etc.
Our main goals are to help people experience Christ, Community, and Creation. We are less traditional (church wise) in our approach and instead focus on creating experiences for kids and teens to know that God Loves them, utilizing nature and living in a healthy community to teach that.
At the end of the day we hope that kids go home with more confidence, more self-esteem, a personal knowledge of God's Love for them, and better able to understand and navigate the world.
We encourage them to actively pursue a relationship with God. We hope that they take their experiences into their homes, communities, and the world to be Christ for others. Our summer camp is adventurous and exciting. We employ people with great creativity, energy, and passion to provide programs that are relatable, insightful, and fun. We are a nature camp.
It is our 30th anniversary and we want to celebrate that with everyone. We are proud of changing the lives of over 90,000 people over that past 30 years. Our camp is fresh and cool. We accept people for who they are and embrace each others uniqueness. We are very welcoming and have a great volunteer base dedicated to Camp Encounter. We want to thank everyone for their support over the last 30 years.
We are targeting kids and teens (age 8 - 18) Primarily.
We are also targeting the general church community and parents of those kids and teens.
The 8-12 years old like the current popular trends for the most part.
The 13 -18 year olds like the more unique, cool, being different is cool!
We want the format of the graphic to be in SVG and Adobe Illustrator files, as well as .jpg format.
We are giving full creative rights to the designer. Below are some suggestions we would like to see incorporated in some manner.
We have tossed around ideas of incorporating a tree image, see attachments for reference, and maybe a secondary image of a cross section of a tree that shows growth rings (30 of them) and the words "30th anniversary" or "30 years" on the arm cuff or somewhere on the shirt in addition to the main image of the tree.
Use of our logo or adapting the logo to fit in the design is desired.
We are interested in printing the logo on Burnt Orange T-shirts but welcome other interesting colours of t-shirts
We are a Christian, Nature, and Adventure camp and welcome any images associated with those themes.
We are looking for 2,3, or 4 colours in the graphic max.
We have Beautiful sunsets at our camp, see attached picture.
Examples of t-shirt designs we like are:
We are also open to funky designs, 80's theme'd, etc so you can produce in those styles as well!
Someone want to try a shirt like this
And put Christ, Community, Creation and the camp logo underneath!
with the camp logo and other creative nature things as well
OR Surprise us with something completely different!!!!


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Global Immersion Courses Make a Difference in Student Perspectives
Seven students delved into the history, culture and public health systems of Latin America during the inaugural Summer Intersession Course in Colombia and Panama May 20-June 3. Fourteen traveled to Geneva for the third Global Health Immersion Course, focusing on policy, held May 17-June 1. Four students took field study on global access to clean water and sanitation at the Southern Institute for Appropriate Technology (SIFAT) in Alabama May 12-25, the second year of Kent State participation.
Panama and Colombia
Epidemiology doctoral student Amy R. Krystosik was teaching assistant for the Latin America course, which focused on tropical and endemic diseases. She helped to develop and lead the course, which was coordinated by Mark James, Ph.D., chair, Department of Biostatistics, Environmental Health Sciences & Epidemiology, and executive director of Global Health Programs. "We started in Panama City with a day of lectures by internationally renowned researchers discussing their groundbreaking investigations regarding influenza, Helicobacter pylori infection, HIV/AIDS, cutaneous Leishmaniasis, Chagas Disease and malaria," Krystosik explains. A must-see for the students was the Panama Canal, as they have studied the historic advancement in malaria and yellow-fever control during the canal's construction.
Traveling to Cali, Colombia, the students spent substantial time with the faculty and staff of the Caucaseco Scientific Research Center. Lectures focused on the public health system in Colombia, the country's endemic infectious diseases, malaria research conducted at the center and vaccine development efforts.
"The research regarding Plasmodium vivax vaccine development was a very unique and interesting thing to see," says Krystosik. "At this single location, there is ready access to all the required components: P. vivax-infected individuals, non-human primates, clinical trial facilities, the insectary for sporozoite production, the vaccine research laboratory and world-class scientists working together," she explains.
Next stops were to Buenaventura, an endemic region where the students visited hospitals, and Nasa Kiwe, an indigenous and autonomous community where students met with local leaders to discuss health needs and culture. "It was really important to see the striking difference between highest and most basic care and to observe that health disparities go hand in hand with poverty," Krystosik says. She is continuing her examination of tropical diseases by spending the summer at a National Institutes of Health laboratory studying malaria in Mali.
On the other side of the world, 14 Kent State public health and nursing students spent two weeks in Geneva, studying global health policy. The trip coincided with the 66th World Health Assembly (WHA), a nine-day event attended by representatives from all 194 member states, who meet annually in Geneva to determine World Health Organization (WHO) policies, budgets and leadership. The Kent State contingent enjoyed unique status at the meeting – Kent is among only a handful of universities in the world that sends credentialed students to the WHA. Kent State holds this special status due to strong relationships with Geneva organizations cultivated by Assistant Dean for Operations and Community Relations, Ken Slenkovich, who served as faculty for the Geneva course, along with Thomas W. Brewer, Ph.D., associate professor, Social & Behavioral Sciences.
Doctoral student Diana Kingsbury was one of three graduate students traveling to Geneva. She blogged about her experience attending plenary and breakout sessions of the WHA; visiting the WHO, the International AIDS Society, the World Council of Churches, the International Committee of the Red Cross, the International Council of Nurses and Doctors Without Borders; and traveling to Annecy, Chamonix and Paris.
"It was amazing the kind of information we picked up on any given day," Kingsbury says. "It was so interesting to see how the WHO works and how the WHA fits into WHO policies. I also enjoyed observing the interactions of delegates from around the world. I got the impression that many countries are working hard to address global health problems, but progress is not especially easy," she says. Kingsbury is contemplating dissertation research on refugee health, so the Geneva trip was a key opportunity for her to obtain the most up-to-date information on the topic.
The course was also pivotal for Robin Y. Hughes, a master of public health student. She's enrolled in the two-year, part-time Health Policy & Management program for working health professionals, offered at the university's Twinsburg Regional Academic Center. Hughes is a clinical research nurse specialist at University Hospitals of Cleveland (UH). She is particularly interested in global health professional workforce issues and will use her Geneva experience to inform the practicum required for her degree program.
"Developing countries represent 25 percent of the world's disease burden, but fewer than three percent of health care professionals," Hughes observes. "For example, in Ethiopia, there are 40 psychologists for three million people," she says. "In Geneva, I learned that the WHO is working really hard to increase the health professional workforce in the underserved, developing world. The WHO is helping to put regulations in place, build partnerships with universities and fund incentives, such as housing stipends," she says.
Four students journeyed to rural Lineville, Alabama, for two weeks of field study on global access to clean water and sanitation at the 175-acre campus of the Southern Institute for Appropriate Technology.
"The course is designed to get people some skills in dealing with the basic health and human needs that they learn about in their public health classes," explains Madhav P. Bhatta, Ph.D., assistant professor of epidemiology and faculty for the course. "Big problems globally are access to clean drinking water and access to improved sanitation for disposal of human waste. Some 2.5 billion people don't have access to proper sanitation, and a simple hole in the ground that is covered (a pit latrine) is considered an improved sanitation method," Bhatta says. "In the classroom, you learn the extent of such problems globally. But in this field study course, you learn how to address them with low-cost solutions for clean drinking water and improved sanitation at the household or community level in settings where an expensive water treatment plant or a waste disposal system is not feasible. The course also teaches people how to develop local sources of good, low-cost nutrition. The students learn to mobilize a community to solve its own problems," he says.
MPH student Eric Hutzell made the trip to Alabama in 2012, the first year of Kent State involvement. Calling it "by far the best course he's taken through the university," Hutzell particularly enjoyed "learning the practical application of skills to help people." "The highlight for me was being able to separate from our cell phones and computers to focus on a particular topic together with people from Congo, Haiti, Nigeria, Ivory Coast and from across the United States. We formed a community bond, actually learning what is going to help people – that was the best part the class," he recalls. In July, Hutzell traveled to Belize with Lutheran Campus Ministriesto work on a water sanitation project in the rural area around San Ignacio. "We mobilized community members to help themselves and gave them knowledge about how to make making their water safe," he says.
Ryan Tingler, a global health undergraduate, made the trip in 2013. His academic program requires an international internship or practicum, and he says he chose the Alabama immersion course because of the diversity of information and experiences he could gain in a short time period. Seared into his memory was an evening spent experiencing a life of poverty in Mumbai, in a mock slum located on the SIFAT campus. "Our roles were to work as day laborers carrying wood for construction," Tingler recalls. "We worked for hours, which earned us enough for just a few tablespoons of food to feed an entire family," he says. "It was an intense, life-changing experience, coming to understand what millions go through every day," he says.
Another highlight for Tingler was learning about Leaf for Life, an organization that works on U.S. and international nutrition projects and offers simple, creative ways to encourage children to eat more dark green, leafy vegetables. Leaf for Life focuses on solar drying of leaf crops, making of leaf concentrate and gardening. The SIFAT students dried some leaves, made a powdered concentrate and cooked with it the following day. "It tasted great," Tingler says of the pasta dish made with leaf concentrate.
Observing that the Alabama field experience "prepared him for more," Tingler says he's considering working on a Leaf for Life project in Central America in the future. "With just one leaf, you can help save a child's life," he remarks.


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Who played the most minutes for the Lakers last night? Kobe? Nash? Pau? Nope! It was Earl Clark. During that time, the Earl of Second Chances scored 17 points with 10 rebounds, 1 assist, 2 steals and 2 blocks. He is averaging 10.5 rebounds per game since January 8. I liked him last week, I still like him with Dwight Howard out.
Caron Butler – If you could use some help, why not call your gal pal? Caron earned 18 points, 5 rebounds, 1 steal, and shot 3 of 5 from downtown. Her prior 3 games: 12/8/1, 19/5/1, 12/2/2. Percentage owned: 17%.
Eric Bledsoe – Bledsoe made it rain with 23 points (2 threes), 7 rebounds, 10 assists, 2 steals and a block. I once wrote, "If you can move him for a piece you need, now is a great time." That was a long time ago…or Friday. It was Friday. I think his value disappears when Chris Paul returns.
Avery Bradley – In 26 minutes, he had 4 points, 1 rebound and 2 assists. Jason Terry played more than 31 minutes and had 13 points (2-4 from deep), 2 rebounds, 6 assists and a steal. Leandro Barbosa saw 20 minutes and went for 14 points, 2 rebounds, an assist and 1 three. Use this as you will.
Pau Gasol – He had 23 points, 10 rebounds, 3 assists and 2 steals as Mike D'antoni decided he now has to like Gasol again.
Kyle Singler – He produced 11 points, 6 rebounds, and assist and also hit 2 of 4 from the perimeter. This comes off Friday's game of 20/8/1/2/3. It might be time to respect his game.
Will Bynum – You know, when this guy gets minutes, he does well. In 29 sub-hour measurements last night, he tallied 18 points, 1 rebound, 10 assists, and a steal.
Mario Chalmers – This guy may be the most frustrating player for fantasy purposes (hyperbole!). Not because anyone drafted him, but because a starter who gets 30 minutes should do better than 2 points (1-6, 0-2 from beyond the arc), 2 rebounds, 5 assists, and 4 steals, although the 4 steals are nice.
Shane Battier – Before the Super Bowl, there was another power outage in the form of Shane. He played nearly 34 minutes for 5 points, 5 rebounds, and 2 blocks. I mean, I know who the Big 3 are (81 combined points), but that doesn't prevent rebounds and things like that. Of course, Shane averages about 2 boards per game, so 5 is actually a break out performance for him. Meshugannah!
Amir Johnson – Subway has a commercial going on where NBA atheletes try (and fail) to pronounce February. It just goes to show you the value the NCAA provides with their "student"-athletes. Anyway, I hope Amir doesn't run into the Febhurrartery blues, as last night he only produced 2 points (4 attempts), 7 rebounds (4 offensive), 2 assists, a whopping 5 steals, and 2 blocks. Side note: I think he'll be fine. He will be my DeMarcus Cousins in the next round of valuations.
Aaron Gray – He scored 6 points but grabbed 12 rebounds (7 offensive). This comes after 12, 11 and 10 rebound performances. Too bad he didn't notch 13 boards, we could have had something (a pattern originating from coincidence; fun!).
DeMar DeRozan – He notched 27 points thanks in large part to a perfect 14 free throw attempts. He also added 3 rebounds, 3 assists and a three.


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An educator branching into filmmaking, Audrey Kali hopes her second documentary promotes debate over the need for more slaughterhouses across Massachusetts to help farmers sell their meat in local markets.
An educator branching into filmmaking, Audrey Kali hopes her second documentary promotes debate over the need for more slaughterhouses across Massachusetts to help farmers sell their meat in local markets.
An associate professor of communication arts at Framingham State University, the Medway resident wants her film "Abattoir Rising" to get "all ideological factions" talking about the complex, controversial issue of producing meat from cows, pigs, chickens, turkeys and other animals.
"The focus of the film is the humane treatment of animals," said Kali, a former vegan who now eats meat in moderation. "But the shortage of slaughterhouses in New England is making it difficult for animals to be slaughtered humanely."
As demand for locally-produced meat increases, Massachusetts Farm Bureau Federation officials appeared Thursday before the joint Committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture in the state House of Representatives to support a bill filed by Rep. Stephen Kulik, D-Worthington, calling for changes to the oversight of slaughtering that would help local farmers.
Brad Mitchell, director of government affairs for the Marlborough-based bureau, said growing demands for meat produced locally can barely be met because the state's only certified slaughterhouses are in Groton and Athol.
"In the last decade there's been renewed interest in locally-grown fruits and vegetables. There's been the same interest in meat produced on farms in Massachusetts. We're looking for new and innovative ways to slaughter animals on small farms," he said.
The owner of a sleek, inquisitive greyhound, Kali said she "has always loved animals." She sees no contradiction between caring for animals' welfare and killing them as painlessly as possible for meat.
"The basic consumer knows very little about where the meat they eat comes from. Every time people take a bite of a hamburger or chicken nuggets, I want them to understand that was a living animal," she said.
Federal and state laws regulating the killing of animals can be complicated.
If a farmer is selling meat to a store for people to buy, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration must certify the slaughterhouse to ensure the animal is stunned insensate before it is bled and butchered.
Some exemptions to the stunning requirement are given when animals are killed according to traditional Jewish and Islamic religious practices. People killing animals for their own consumption don't need to be certified but must slaughter the animal humanely.
Kali recently received a $5,000 grant from LEF Moving Image Fund which supports independent film and video artists. She expects the film, which she hopes to release in 2012, will cost $200,000. Kali will be working with her producer, David Tames, Media Arts studio manager at MassArt in Boston, on a fundraising campaign expected to start this fall.
Working with cinematographer Ed Slattery, she has shot 14 hours of footage including interviews with farmers who complain that costly delays getting their animals slaughtered locally can force them to send them out-of-state.
She also interviewed and filmed Temple Grandin, a professor of animal science at Colorado State University who has used her autism to intuit animals' pain and fear.
If animals are killed according to FDA standards, Grandin said they don't experience fear or pain. But, she said cows have good memories, "remember good and bad people" and become agitated in unfamiliar environments.
The subject of an Emmy-nominated HBO film herself, Grandin said, "If the slaughtering is done right, the animal walks and - bang - that's it. Fear is primitive emotion. People should realize animals can get scared. Do cattle know they're going to be slaughtered? They behave the same way in the slaughterhouse as in the veterinary chute. The main thing is the equipment (used to kill animals) should be properly maintained and used correctly."
Kali has visited several slaughterhouses and seen about 20 large animals and 100 chickens killed. In one segment, a cow, largely concealed in a chute, is stunned with a device known as a "captive bolt" pistol which fires a retractable steel bolt into its head.
Efficiently stunning the animal is necessary so it doesn't feel pain when it's bled while alive to prevent spoilage of its meat.
In some cases, animals are stunned by shooting them with a small-caliber gun. And poultry can have their heads cut off with an electric knife which is supposed to stun them.
In a society which regularly consumes meat, Kali stressed that people with opposing positions shouldn't demonize one another but work together in ways that benefit animals.
She said the farmers she has met cared deeply about the welfare of animals they send off to slaughter. Often large slaughterhouses have the means to kill animals more humanely than local farms.
Kali said she hopes "Abattoir Rising" makes all levels of the slaughtering industry "transparent."
"My goal is to educate, not sensationalize. It's not as simple as 'industrial' farming is bad and 'local' farming is good," said Kali. "I hope my film helps people understand it's not a black-and-white issue. I want to bring people together because they need to understand a very complex issue."
To learn about Kali's documentary, visit abattoirrising.com.


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On Wednesday July 25, 2012, The Future Awards held the Online Business Master Class for bloggers and New Media entrepreneurs. The training which held at the Terra Kulture, Victoria Island, Lagos, brought together various bloggers, copy editors, IT enthusiasts, writers, social media users and some of Nigeria's most influential online personalities.
"We are impressed with the training which everyone can see has been a huge success. We are grateful to our facilitators for obliging us their time and to participants for coming. The level of impact has been simply amazing," said Chude Jideonwo, Executive Director of The Future Project.
The training began with the Chief Information Officer of Daily Times, Mr Cheta Nwanze, presentation: 'Getting your Technology Right.' He outlined various tips for generating traffic such as consistency, building content with the intended audience in mind and maintaining an active social media account with updates, directing users to the site.
Nigeria's super blogger, Linda Ikeji stayed true to her girl-next-door persona. She traced her history in blogging and revealed the many challenges she had to overcome to become the established blogger that she is. She maintained that her consistency over the years is what gave her the edge. She spoke about her passion for blogging, the time and sacrifices she made to achieve the success that she has.
"When it comes to making money from blogging, not many people can make money from blogging," Ikeji said. "But believe me, there is money to be made."
Mr. Chude Jideonwo, Editor-in-Chief of YNaija.com and Executive Director of The Future Project speaking on the topic: 'Standards Still Matter' emphasized the need to adopt a high standard of practice in online communications. He explained that because the new media is still evolving, the standards for the platform are still being formed. He noted that even established and well respected traditional media such as CNN make embarrassing blunders. Therefore, it should be understood when new media practioners also make occasional mistakes.
Jideonwo concluded by revealing some success nuggets: good grammar, accuracy, humility in accepting mistakes, correction, creativity, consistency, self-imposed limitation when in doubt of news authenticity, and observance of extant copyright laws.
Edidong Umoh, founder of Nigeria's fastest breaking news service, @NigeriaNewsDesk, spoke on the topic: 'Location is Irrelevant.' He engaged the audience in a hands-on-training as he showed participants how to use Google Reader to monitor internet content, while admonishing them to get ready for criticism as the launch online businesses.
Japheth Omojuwa, who spoke on 'How to Build an Online Personality,' explained that his online influence is proportional to the increase in his financial status. He urged the participants to strategize and take time to build a consistent online brand and stick to it; he also clearly stated that one criteria for success is to focus on outdoing one's self.
Founder of 360Nobs, Noble Igwe, was all business when he spoke about pulling audiences online and offline. He started by preparing the participants' minds that there is no guaranteed way to achieve success in blogging. He went on to list some key attributes which aspiring bloggers must imbibe to succeed such as: strength, topic, speed to market, push, and consistency.
The event was streamed live on social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook with the hashtag #TFAMasterClass. It trended while the event was on.
"It gave us great pleasure to trend for hours on twitter however we were more pleased that people who couldn't be at the training for one reason or the other could still benefit," Chude Jideonwo said.
The Future Awards Season 7 takes place on August 26, 2o12 with a reception for the nominees taking place first on August 4, 2012.
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(CNN) - Rep. Stephen Lynch will hold a news conference in Boston on Thursday to announce whether he'll run in the June 25th special election in Massachusetts to fill out going Sen. John Kerry's seat, a campaign spokesman for Lynch tells CNN.
As of now longtime Rep. Edward Markey is the only Democrat who's announced a bid. Markey's been endorsed by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Kerry, and Vicki Kennedy, the widow of the late Ted Kennedy.
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Lynch is a social conservative Democrat from South Boston who's been flirting with a run the past two months. Earlier this month two other Democrats who were considering bids, Rep. Michael Capuano and state Sen. Ben Downing, decided against running.
On the Republican side, the big question is whether former Sen. Scott Brown will make a bid to return to the Senate, or instead run for governor in 2014?
"Brown is still in the process of deciding and discussing it with his wife and family. No talk on timing yet," said a GOP strategist in Massachusetts close to Brown, who insisted on anonymity to speak more freely.
In January 2010, then Republican state lawmaker Brown upset Democratic candidate Martha Coakley, the state's attorney general, in a special election to fill the final two years of the term of longtime Democratic Sen. Ted Kennedy, who died the previous summer. Coakley defeated Capuano in a multi-candidate Democratic primary.
Brown won the special election by five points over Coakley, but lost his re-election bid in November to Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren by eight points. Around 2.3 million voters cast ballots in the 2010 special election, and nearly 3.2 million voting in last month's general election. A big question is whether the 2013 electorate will look more like that of the 2010 contest or that of last month's general election.
Last month President Barack Obama nominated Kerry, the longtime senator from Massachusetts and 2004 Democratic presidential nominee as his choice to succeed outgoing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The Senate overwhelming confirmed Kerry on Tuesday.
The state's Democratic governor, Deval Patrick, is expected to announce Wednesday a placeholder (who would not run in the special election) to fill the Senate seat in the interim.
Whoever wins the June special election would serve the final year and a half of Kerry's term and would then have to run again in 2014 for a full six-year term in office.
- CNN Chief National Correspondent John King contributed to this report
I had to do a double take because at first I thought that was a pic of Brian Mulroney (former PM of Canada). They look amazingly alike.
No gop goofball obstructionist will win this seat ,time to throw out all the gop trash in2014 mid terms !!!!
Wafflemania: Kerry's had a TON of work done on his face.
John Kerry, the definition of Moral COWARDICE.
Please please please put in Barney Frank. Maybe then he'll change his mind, and he could be elected to the Senate. We need men like him.
Good for Kerry- bad for America. Typical liberal
3 days in Vietnam and a scratch, ask the other swift boat members


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Saturday, February 27, 2010
Posted by Rot at 7:34 AM
Labels: brett lamb blog, funny
4 comments:
- Hopsy the beer drinking clown said...
oh my....that is disturbing...is that a Gary Busey headed little troll? I have to go to work and that little video clip will be playing through my mind over and over again while I am at the hospital....
- February 27, 2010 at 8:39 AM
- Rot said...
Same here.
Yep, it's Gary Busey
- February 27, 2010 at 8:41 AM
- Pam Morris said...
ah well, typical behavior for Gary Busey...
- February 27, 2010 at 9:30 AM
- The Captain said...
That is freaking hilarious! Those are the minions from "The Gate".
- February 27, 2010 at 9:50 AM
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BRIDGETON � The Bridgeton RiverFest will be brimming with artists, crafter, dancers and musicians Friday through Sunday at the Bridgeton Harbor Marina on B Street.
BRIDGETON � The Bridgeton RiverFest will be brimming with artists, crafter, dancers and musicians Friday through Sunday at the Bridgeton Harbor Marina on B Street.
The event is also coordinating with New Bern�s Ghostwalk, which is tonight through Saturday. It is being touted as �Come for the Art, Stay for the Ghostwalk.�
Jim Hirschfield, a professor, artist and chair of the Intellectual Life Committee at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is this year�s RiverFest art judge.
Dozens of RiverFest artists and exhibitors will feature works ranging from water-ink, ceramics, acrylics, oils, pen-and-ink to clay, along with art jewelers, wood art, metalwork, stitch designs, authors and handcrafted weather vanes and bird houses.
RiverFest and the Cogs and Wheels Project have added Jane Horner, Wendy Osserman and Jane Tigar in a production of TIDES, a multi-media, audience-participation event.
It is scheduled for 2 p.m. Saturday, with a rain date Sunday. TIDES is supported by the Craven County Arts Council.
The dancers include Zoey Chittick, Osserman, Jurina Pender, Janiya Pender, Journey Pender, Ehren Rolle, Kylie Santos, Lili Stern and Meg Wethington.
The show takes its message from the New Bern exhibit �Gathering,� an arts statement about today�s concerns about water and environmental health.
Horner�s studio practice includes collaboration, installation sculpture, painting, collage, collections, drawing and assemblage.
Growing up in New York City, Osserman savored many dance forms including modern dance. She started her own company after performing as a soloist throughout Greece. Her work has been presented at a variety of national and international venues.
These days, Osserman spends more than half the year in Pamlico County. In January, her newest collaborative work, �Who Do We Think We are?� is scheduled at Craven Community College and the Old Theater in Oriental.
Tigar plays a variety of world flutes, including the Japanese shakuhachi and Native American flutes. She is a classically trained concert flute player. Before moving to Pamlico County, she served as a flute player for patients of the hospice at UNC-Chapel Hill. She also plays two kinds of artisanal contemporary steel drums � the Milltone drum and the Tank drum.
The festival also will have a �Kidz Artapalooza� tent, with face painting, firefighters, food and other activities.
Festival organizers announced this week that the popular pirate troupe � The Brethren of Caroline from Concord � will be unable to attend after being a popular attraction in 2012.
The Friday activities include artist registration and set-up, along with a VIP party.
The festival goes public on Saturday, with a 10 a.m. opening of artists and vendor booths. The art awards are slated for 5:30 p.m.
On Sunday, booths again open at 10 a.m., with the �Kids Coloring Contest� winners announced at 3 p.m.
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STOCKTON - Recently plopped down among the modest, single-story houses on Elmwood Avenue is a manufactured home that towers above its neighbors.
STOCKTON - Recently plopped down among the modest, single-story houses on Elmwood Avenue is a manufactured home that towers above its neighbors.
A staircase climbs to the front door of the structure, which has been elevated more than 6 feet above the level of the lot.
"It's a monstrosity," said one neighbor, 73-year-old William Hoaglund. "Looks like Noah's ark, huh?"
That's exactly the idea.
When the Country Club neighborhood was designated a high-risk flood zone by the federal government more than three years ago, the most immediate consequence was that thousands of homeowners were required to buy flood insurance.
Less publicized were the new building restrictions that also kicked in, requiring new, rebuilt or extensively renovated homes to be lifted above the expected level of a flood.
Over a span of decades, the building rules could change the very face of the neighborhood.
Already, a few residents have encountered roadblocks to rebuilding after fires torched their homes. One elderly woman reportedly walked away from a property she'd owned for decades because her fire insurance didn't pay for the extra expense of elevating her house.
The result of all this, some believe, will eventually be a neighborhood pocked with vacant lots and strange-looking structures such as Elmwood Avenue's manufactured home in the sky.
"I say it's legislating blight in our neighborhoods," San Joaquin County Supervisor Larry Ruhstaller said recently. "We're going to look like Detroit, where there's one or two houses on the block."
Starting next month, residents will be asked to vote on construction of a $36 million flood-control gate at the mouth of Smith Canal, which would lift the area out of the Federal Emergency Management Agency's high-risk zone and remove both the mandatory flood insurance and the building restrictions.
While residents pay about $400 a year right now for insurance, FEMA has indicated those rates could go up to $4,000 a year or higher in the future.
And the building restrictions cast a cloud of uncertainty over every homeowner and the value of his or her property.
Any of them could be the next victim of a fire. And residents who choose to remodel at more than 50 percent of the value could be prohibited from doing so, unless they elevate.
All of this to protect a neighborhood that hasn't flooded since Smith Canal was dug out in the 1880s.
"It's going to be slow, it won't happen overnight, but slowly but surely, the neighborhood is going to deteriorate," said Jim Giottonini, director of the San Joaquin Area Flood Control Agency.
In some places, elevating a home may be a matter of only a few inches. Farther west, however, toward the Stockton Golf and Country Club, it could be a matter of 12 feet to 14 feet- an entire story, said Chris Neudeck, a levee engineer working on the issue.
Such an elevation could cost tens of thousands of dollars and, in some cases, might not be practical at all, Neudeck said.
Elderly residents might need elevators. Some houses might need to be perched on stilts because of the small size of their lots.
Ruhstaller said he believes the government's ultimate goal is to move people away from the flood zone, even though - unlike newer, growing flood-prone developments - Country Club is a well-established community.
Ruhstaller said he was told in a meeting with FEMA officials that vacant lots could be used as small urban parks or gardens.
Right now, one burned-out lot on La Jolla Drive is covered with knee-high grass and weeds, with the extra touch of a discarded pizza box.
"Again, I told FEMA they were legislating blight," Ruhstaller said.
As for the impact on property values, he said, "Who would buy one of those homes, unless you were an out-of-towner who was going to pay cash and use it as a rental?"
The result of that, Ruhstaller said, could be slumlords who rent out but are loath to maintain properties.
Federal law requires that if renovations to a home - or damage caused by a fire or some other calamity - amount to more than 50 percent of the market value of the building, that's considered "new" construction, said Gregor Blackburn, chief of floodplain management for FEMA's regional office in Oakland.
Blackburn said communities, through local building codes, do have some flexibility determining whether that threshold has been met.
While expensive, elevating homes will preserve lower flood insurance rates for those residents, he said. And maps showing the flood potential in that neighborhood do reflect a real risk - even if disaster has not yet struck.
"A substantial portion of our last couple of months were spent on (Superstorm) Sandy, where they had never seen it flood, either," Blackburn said.
He said FEMA does award grants to elevate homes and acquire land to be kept open in perpetuity - a reference to the open parks Ruhstaller had heard about.
Also, legislation by U.S. Rep. Doris Matsui, D-Sacramento, would create some kind of waiver process allowing people burned out of their homes to rebuild without elevating.
Blackburn denied that FEMA is attempting to redirect growth out of floodplains.
"That lies entirely within the community's purview," he said.
The full story behind that strange elevated home on Elmwood is not entirely clear. Neighbors say a traditional home there was condemned two years ago.
The owners sold the property to a truck driver who put in the modular home.
Today, a locked chain-link fence prevents anyone from climbing to the front door. The home is for sale for $65,000, with the listing indicating that the home has never been lived in.
One special amenity, the listing notes: Plenty of storage down below deck.
Contact reporter Alex Breitler at (209) 546-8295 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Visit his blog at recordnet.com/breitlerblog.


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Interface in java is core part of Java programming language and one of the way to achieve abstraction in Java along with abstract class. Even though interface is fundamental object oriented concept ; Many Java programmers thinks Interface in Java as advanced concept and refrain using interface from early in programming career. At very basic level interface in java is a keyword but same time it is an object oriented term to define contracts and abstraction , This contract is followed by any implementation of Interface in Java. Since multiple inheritance is not allowed in Java, interface is only way to implement multiple inheritance at Type level. In this Java tutorial we will see What is an interface in Java, How to use interface in Java and where to use interface in Java and some important points related to Java interface. What is an interface in Java is also a common core Java question which people asked on various programming exams and interviews.
Key Points about Interface in Java
1. Interface in java is declared using keyword interface and it represent a Type like any Class in Java. a reference variable of type interface can point to any implementation of that interface in Java. Its also a good Object oriented design principle to "program for interfaces than implementation" because when you use interface to declare reference variable, method return type or method argument you are flexible enough to accept any future implementation of that interface which could be much better and high performance alternative of current implementation. similarly calling any method on interface doesn't tie you with any particular implementation and you can leverage benefit of better or improved implementation over time. This maintenance aspect of interface is also sought in various software design interview questions in Java.
Example of interface in Java
String TYPE = "AUTOMATIC";
int createSessionId();
class SerialSessionIDCreator implements SessionIDCreator{
private int lastSessionId;
public int createSessionId() {
return lastSessionId++;
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SOLID Principles of Object Oriented Design
Absolute Introduction to Object Oriented Programming in Java
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Earth from Space: Lake Travis, Texas
Lake Travis, the larger body of water with a serpentine-like course seen in the upper part of this Proba image, is an artificial lake on the Texas Colorado River that winds its way northwest from the City of Austin through Central Texas for some 100 kilometres.
The lower Texas Colorado River basin has a history of devastating floods that inundated downstream communities, often killing people and wreaking havoc on the economy. To help handle the floods, six dams were built in the lower basin between 1930 and 1950.
Lake Travis was formed by the construction of one of these – the Mansfield Dam (seen where the lake and the Colorado River meet). Since their completion in 1941, the dam and lake have reduced the force of major floods by holding water that would have otherwise inundated downstream residents.
Lake Travis and the five other lakes created by the dams, all constructed and operated by the Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA), form the Texas Highland Lakes. The other dams and lakes are: Buchanan Dam-Lake Buchanan; Inks Dam-Inks Lake; Wirtz Dam-Lake LBJ; Starcke Dam-Lake Marble Falls; and Tom Miller Dam-Lake Austin. Lake Travis is the fifth lake down in the chain.
Each of the Highland Lakes backs up to the one upstream. During floods, each pair of dams — Buchanan and Inks, Wirtz and Starcke and Mansfield and Tom Miller — operates in tandem. Although all of the dams and lakes were built to help handle the floods, Mansfield Dam, 85 m high and 2.16 km long, and Lake Travis were the only structures designed to contain flood waters.
The other dams pass flood waters downstream to Lake Travis, where the water is stored until LCRA can safely release it downstream. Mansfield is able to store 1.4 km³ of water, and Lake Travis, which is 7.2 km wide, can store 0.98 km³.
Lake Travis' normal operating range is 207 m above mean sea level. Its historic high was 216 m above mean sea level on 25 December, 1991, and its historic low was 187 m above mean sea level on 14 August, 1951.
ESA's Proba satellite acquired this image on 7 April 2006 with its Compact High Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (CHRIS), designed to acquire hyperspectral images with a spatial resolution of 18 metres across an area of 14 kilometres.


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NEW YORK, January 20, 2008--A landmark genetic study has identified multiple genes linked to systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), or lupus, a debilitating autoimmune disease that affects an estimated 1.4 million Americans.
Lupus can affect the joints, kidneys, heart, lungs, brain and blood and occurs in about 31 out of every 100,000 people. Women are nine times more likely than men to develop the condition, which is often difficult to diagnose.
In 2005 the Alliance for Lupus Research (ALR) formed and supported the International Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Genetics (SLEGEN) Consortium, charging scientists with searching for genetic variants that might predispose an individual to developing lupus.
Published in the January 20, 2008, issue of Nature Genetics, initial study results uncovered several genes linked to lupus and underscore the importance of genetic variants in diseases that affect immune function. The findings will ultimately lead to new therapies and earlier diagnosis.
"The SLEGEN study is a model for collaborative genetic research," said Mary Kuntz Crow, M.D., an immunity and inflammation specialist at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York and 2008 chair of the ALR Scientific Advisory Board. "The ALR approach of supporting investigations targeted toward developing new therapies for people with lupus is unique and meaningful."
Project co-Director Carl Langefeld, Ph.D., added, "These results suggest biologic pathways that help us understand the condition better and suggest additional genetic and non-genetic triggers. In addition, they will help delineate the genetic distinctions between rheumatoid arthritis, lupus and other autoimmune diseases, which could lead to earlier, more accurate diagnoses."
Langefeld, who is director of the Center for Public Health Genomics at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C., also noted how satisfying the study results were. "This is one of those things that, at the end of your career, you can look back on and smile because you believe it will make a real difference."
SLEGEN Director John B. Harley, M.D., Ph.D., explained that the study found strong evidence of association with multiple single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in three genes: ITGAM; KIAA1542; PXK; and at SNP rs10798269, a DNA unit not found within any known gene. SNPs are chromosome locations where a single unit of DNA may vary from one person to another.
The results also showed evidence linking lupus to nine other genes. "I would have been satisfied with finding one gene. The fact that we present 13 strong candidates, supported by data that are 99% accurate is tremendous," added Harley, who heads the Arthritis & Immunology Research Program at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation in Oklahoma City.
Researchers studied the DNA of more than 6,700 women, including individuals with lupus, their family members and control subjects. Harley said they scanned the entire genome for more than 317,000 SNPs with the goal of identifying SNPs linked to lupus. "SLEGEN's purpose is to do the genomics," Harley said. "The mechanism of the disease by which these genes cause lupus will be seized upon by scientists who are expert in those pathways to develop new strategies for prevention and therapy and reduce the burden of suffering this disease causes." Langefeld said the accomplishments made in the SLEGEN research wouldn't have been possible without the support of ALR. "We simply would not have been able to do it without them."
"We are very pleased to see the findings in print and are grateful that the ALR support for SLEGEN has had such a fruitful outcome," said Joseph E. Craft, M.D., chief of rheumatology at Yale University School of Medicine and former chair of the ALR Scientific Advisory Board.
The Alliance for Lupus Research (ALR) is a national voluntary health organization based in New York City and founded in 1999. Chaired by Robert Wood Johnson IV, it has become the world's largest private source of lupus research funds and has committed $50 million to lupus-specific research projects since its inception. The organization's mission is to find better treatments and ultimately prevent and cure lupus by supporting medical research. For more information, visit www.lupusresearch.org.


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Whiskey for the Sportsman
We don't usually associate whiskey with hunting and fishing, but in the case of the Rod & Rifle duo of straight Bourbon and blended American whiskey we make an exception, as the connection is aimed at charity for wildlife conservation.
Prestige Imports partners with Wildlife Forever, the nonprofit conservation arm of the North American Hunting & Fishing Clubs, with contributions from sales helping to fund its efforts in multi-species conservation.
Regardless of whether or not you ever pick up a rod or rifle, the spirits are quite conducive to pairing with a fine smoke.
Along with supporting the wildlife organization, sportsmen who buy the whiskeys receive a deduction on membership in Wildlife Forever through the Bucks & Ducks Cash program. Wildlife Forever will subtract $50 for a $29.99 Bourbon purchase or $25 for a $19.99 blended whiskey purchase. The deductions are applicable once for each yearly membership. (Visit rodandrifle.com for discount redemption.)
The whiskeys, which come in bottles emblazoned with a hunting and fishing motif, are made at a Tennessee distillery, using a mashbill of 75 percent corn, 20 percent rye and five percent barley. The barley quotient is roasted. The Bourbon expression is aged in new barrels for four years, while the blend marries straight whiskey (aged in new barrels) with spirit aged in reused barrels (no neutral spirits), according to Tom Cleaver, director of marketing at Prestige.
The Rod & Rifle Bourbon gift box comes with a commemorative shot glass, which Cleaver points out is made in America-as is every other aspect of the whiskeys' production. "I could have gotten a Chinese glass for half the price," he says, "but everything had to be made in America."
Cleaver also stresses that while the products are aimed at outdoorsmen they are intended for enjoyment after a day of enjoying the outdoors, reflecting the organizations dedication to responsible hunting and fishing
The whiskeys are currently available in 14 states, with distribution to every non-control state expected in the next two months.
Rod & Rifle Straight Bourbon (80 proof, or 40 percent alcohol by volume; four years old; $29.95 a 750-milliliter bottle)
APPEARANCE: Olive oil color with hint of greenish brass. Comes down in thick, quick legs.
NOSE: Very herbal nose at first, then starts to reveal candied notes of fruit with cherry and orange.
PALATE: Interesting combination of honey and spice in the front of the palate. The candy and fruit arrive on the back end with a bit of a sparkle and a big dose of sugar.
FINISH: Just when it seems resolutely medium-bodied and bright, some toasty and nutty notes arrive on the finish.
(Note: We paired only the straight Bourbon version with cigar. Both, however, proved able partners in a cocktail.)
CIGAR PAIRING: La Palina El Diario KB II (6 inches by 40 ring gauge, $8.25, 90 Points, August 2013 Cigar Aficionado). Dried cherries and a burst of pepper come through on this long corona, which has a sweet finish that hints of nutmeg. It's attractively rolled, with a three-seam cap. We picked this cigar in the interest of matching the fruit of the whiskey-and weren't appointed. The cherry notes, especially, burst out on both smoke and drink. However, the unexpected dividend came when the whiskey developed a fuller body with rounder, woodier flavors and a deeper finish.
Paul Garmirian Gourmet Series Belicoso (6 1/4 inches by 54 ring gauge, $12.40, 90 Points, October 2013 Cigar Aficionado). A tannish torpedo with a full, open draw. An oaky, white wine note segues into earthy flavors with touches of wood, honey and dampness. The sweetness of the whiskey deepens quite a bit with the addition of the cigar, and takes on a fuller body with more of the barrel becoming evident. The wood on the cigar becomes fuller and more complex as the earthy notes transform into hints of leather.


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The ancient land of Kurukshetra is the headquarters of the Kurukshetra District of Haryana State. A popular destination for pilgrimage it's legendary past is associated with the Vedas and Vedic culture holds a prominent place in the history of the Hindu religion and Hindu scriptures.
Known as the land of the epic Mahabharata and Bhagavad-Gita, Kurukshetra was known as Uttaravedi, Bhrahmadevi, Dharamkshetra (land of righteousness) and Brajhmakshetra (the field of Brahma) during different ages. Situated on the banks of the River Sarasvati and River Drishadvati, Kurukshetra was the battleground of the great Mahabharata War that took place between the Kouravas and the Pandavas.
The land of Kurukshetra comprises of several political, cultural and spiritual centres like holy shrines, Kunds, Gurudwaras, etc. that are interconnected with the history of Indian civilisation. Prithudaka or Prithu's Pool, Srikrishna Museum, Jyotisar, Sannehit Sarovar, Brahmasarovar, Sheikh Chehli's Tomb, Gurdwara Patshahi, Gurdwara Rajghat, the excavated Archaeological site and site museum at Harsha ka Tila, etc. are some of the major attractions of Kurukshetra.
Kurukshetra has become a popular place of attraction for historians, pilgrims and tourists alike. With its distinct religious and cultural predominance, Kurukshetra provides a deep insight in to the history of ancient India.
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If you changed your phone number and kept your same iPhone, you can change your number within WhatsApp. Before proceeding, make sure that your new number is activated on your phone and that you can receive SMS messages and phone calls.
This process will:
- Delete the account associated with your old number, so your contacts will no longer see your old number in their lists of WhatsApp contacts.
- Migrate your account payment status, groups, profile, and chat history to the account with your new number.
Please follow these steps to change your account phone number:
- Go to Settings > Account > Change Number.
- Enter your current WhatsApp phone number in the first box.
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This is my note when reading Agile Project Management For Dummies, 2nd Edition. The content is mainly distilled and copied from original material.
First of all, let take a quick look by learning Agile Project Management For Dummies Cheat Sheet
A Manifesto for Agile Software Developers
The Manifesto for Agile Software Development, commonly known as the Agile Manifesto, is an intentionally streamlined expression of the core values of agile project management. Use this manifesto as a guide to implement agile methodologies in your projects.
"We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it. Through this work, we have come to value:
Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan
That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more."
©Agile Manifesto Copyright 2001: Kent Beck, Mike Beedle, Arie van Bennekum, Alistair Cockburn, Ward Cunningham, Martin Fowler, James Grenning, Jim Highsmith, Andrew Hunt, Ron Jeffries, Jon Kern, Brian Marick, Robert C. Martin, Steve Mellor, Ken Schwaber, Jeff Sutherland, Dave Thomas.
This declaration may be freely copied in any form, but only in its entirety through this notice.
The 12 Agile Principles
The Principles behind the Agile Manifesto, commonly referred to as the 12 Agile Principles, are a set of guiding concepts that support project teams in implementing agile projects. Use these principles as a litmus test to determine whether or not you're being agile in your project work and thinking:
Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software.
Welcome changing requirements, even late in development. Agile processes harness change for the customer's competitive advantage.
Deliver working software frequently, from a couple of weeks to a couple of months, with a preference to the shorter timescale.
Business people and developers must work together daily throughout the project.
Build projects around motivated individuals. Give them the environment and support they need, and trust them to get the job done.
The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a development team is face-to-face conversation.
Working software is the primary measure of progress.
Agile processes promote sustainable development. The sponsors, developers, and users should be able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely.
Continuous attention to technical excellence and good design enhances agility.
Simplicity — the art of maximizing the amount of work not done — is essential.
The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams.
At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its behavior accordingly.
The Agile Platinum Edge Roadmap to Value
The Roadmap to Value is a high-level view of an agile project. The stages of the Roadmap to Value are described in the list following the diagram:
In Stage 1, the product owner identifies the product vision. The product vision is a definition of what your product is, how it will support your company or organization's strategy, and who will use the product. On longer projects, revisit the product vision at least once a year.
In Stage 2, the product owner creates a product roadmap. The product roadmap is a high-level view of the product requirements, with a loose time frame for when you will develop those requirements. Identifying product requirements and then prioritizing and roughly estimating the effort for those requirements are a large part of creating your product roadmap. On longer projects, revise the product roadmap at least twice a year.
In Stage 3, the product owner creates a release plan. The release plan identifies a high-level timetable for the release of working software. An agile project will have many releases, with the highest-priority features launching first. A typical release includes three-to-five sprints. Create a release plan at the beginning of each release.
In Stage 4, the product owner, the master, and the development team plan sprints, also called iterations, and start creating the product within those sprints. Sprint planning sessions take place at the start of each sprint, where the scrum team determines what requirements will be in the upcoming iteration.
In Stage 5, during each sprint, the development team has daily meetings. In the daily meeting, you spend no more than 15 minutes and discuss what you completed yesterday, what you will work on today, and any roadblocks you have.
In Stage 6, the team holds a sprint review. In the sprint review, at the end of every sprint, you demonstrate the working product created during the sprint to the product stakeholders.
In Stage 7, the team holds a sprint retrospective. The sprint retrospective is a meeting where the team discusses how the sprint went and plans for improvements in the next sprint. Like the sprint review, you have a sprint retrospective at the end of every sprint.
Agile Project Management Roles
It takes a cooperative team of people to successfully complete a project. Agile project teams are made up of many people and include the following five roles:
Product owner: The person responsible for bridging the gap between the customer, business stakeholders, and the development team. The product owner is an expert on the product and the customer's needs and priorities. The product owner works with the development team daily to help clarify requirements and shields them from organizational noise. The product owner is sometimes called a customer representative. The product owner, above all, should be empowered to be decisive, making tough business decisions every day.
Development team members: The people who create the product. In software development, programmers, testers, designers, writers, data engineers, and anyone else with a hands-on role in product development are development team members. With other types of product, the development team members may have different skills. Most importantly, development team members should be versatile, able to contribute in multiple ways to the project's goals.
Scrum master: The person responsible for supporting the development team, clearing organizational roadblocks, and keeping the agile process consistent. A scrum master is sometimes called a project facilitator. Scrum masters are servant leaders, and are most effective when they have organizational clout, which is the ability to influence change in the organization without formal authority.
Stakeholders: Anyone with an interest in the project. Stakeholders are not ultimately responsible for the product, but they provide input and are affected by the project's outcome. The group of stakeholders is diverse and can include people from different departments, or even different companies. For agile projects to succeed, stakeholders must be involved, providing regular feedback and support to the development team and product owner.
Agile mentor: Someone who has experience implementing agile projects and can share that experience with a project team. The agile mentor can provide valuable feedback and advice to new project teams and to project teams that want to perform at a higher level. Although agile mentors are not responsible for executing product development, they should be experienced in applying agile principles in reality and be knowledgeable about many agile approaches and techniques.
Agile Project Management Artifacts
Project progress needs to be transparent and measurable. Agile project teams often use six main artifacts, or deliverables, to develop products and track progress, as listed here:
Product vision statement: An elevator pitch, or a quick summary, to communicate how your product supports the company's or organization's strategies. The vision statement must articulate the goals for the product.
Product roadmap: The product roadmap is a high-level view of the product requirements needed to achieve the product vision. It also enables a project team to outline a general timeframe for when you will develop and release those requirements. The product roadmap is a first cut and high-level view of the product backlog.
Product backlog: The full list of what is in the scope for your project, ordered by priority. After you have your first requirement, you have a product backlog.
Release plan: A high-level timetable for the release of working software.
Sprint backlog: The goal, user stories, and tasks associated with the current sprint.
Increment: The working product functionality, demonstrated to stakeholders at the end of the sprint, which is potentially shippable to the customer.
Agile Project Management Events
Most projects have stages. Agile projects include seven recurring events for product development:
Project planning: The initial planning for your project. Project planning includes creating a product vision statement and a product roadmap, and can take place in as little time as one day.
Release planning: Planning the next set of product features to release and identifying an imminent product launch date around which the team can mobilize. On agile projects, you plan one release at a time.
Sprint: A short cycle of development, in which the team creates potentially shippable product functionality. Sprints, sometimes called iterations, typically last between one and four weeks. Sprints can last as little as one day, but should not be longer than four weeks. Sprints should remain the same length throughout the entire project, which enables teams to plan future work more accurately based on their past performance.
Sprint planning: A meeting at the beginning of each sprint where the scrum team commits to a sprint goal. They also identify the requirements that support this goal and will be part of the sprint, and the individual tasks it will take to complete each requirement.
Daily scrum: A 15-minute coordination and synchronization meeting held each day in a sprint, where development team members state what they completed the day before, what they will complete on the current day, and whether they have any roadblocks.
Sprint review: A meeting at the end of each sprint, introduced by the product owner, where the development team demonstrates the working product functionality it completed during the sprint to stakeholders, and the product owner collects feedback for updating the product backlog.
Sprint retrospective: A meeting at the end of each sprint where the scrum team inspects and adapts their processes, discussing what went well, what could change, and makes a plan for implementing changes in the next sprint.
Source: https://www.dummies.com/careers/project-management/agile-project-management-for-dummies-cheat-sheet/


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Sol 115 Update on Curiosity from USGS Scientist Ken Herkenhoff: Organics?4 December 2012
Again, there were no MAHLI or MARDI activities planned during my last sol (for a while) as PUL. But lots of ChemCam and Mastcam observations of local rock targets were planned, along with SAM's 4th analysis of soil. The previous measurements of the soil show evidence for a variety of compounds, perhaps including organics. But the organics may have been brought from Earth, so further analyses are needed to confirm this.
I will be on vacation for a week, but will try to keep track of what MSL is up to.


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The great American holiday of Thanksgiving is nearly upon us. It is a time traditionally when families gather together to share a feast, give thanks for their bounty, and watch football. It is also one of the few times of the year that multiple generations of a family assemble under one roof. It is thus a great time for sharing family stories, looking at photographs, and remembering the past.
This year, why not participate in the Great Thanksgiving Listen, taking place from November 26 to November 29? The sponsor of this event is StoryCorps, a nationally-known oral history project whose mission is to capture the stories of thousands of people across our country. You may have heard excerpts of StoryCorps sessions on National Public Radio. They have made it easy by providing an app that is easily downloaded to a cell phone. This is a convenient way to record the stories of family members and preserve them forever.
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This past summer, The Genealogy Center acquired two new microfilm and microfiche reader/scanner/printer machines. With their new technological features and updated scanning software, you will definitely want to make use of these machines during your next visit.
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The new Microtext Machines are a great way to capture images from microfilm, microfiche, negatives and slides; and add them to your group of displayed photos or in your family history files and stories.
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As you visit The Genealogy Center in the coming weeks, you may notice a bit of unusual activity, especially in the Microtext Reading Room. When we reopened our expanded and renovated building in 2007, we had a large space devoted to using our extensive microtext collection—a collection that included census and military records, newspapers, city directories, and documents from many states and countries. However, digital copies of these important documents continue to grow exponentially in use. Microtext usage, on the other hand, continues to diminish greatly.
What has grown in the last decade is our dedication to expand service to include more classes and consultations, as well as meeting our customers' desires to collaborate with us and one another. In response, we are repurposing more than half of the former Microtext Reading Room into our new Discovery Center, a space for presentations, panel discussions, group activities, pop-up demonstrations, collaborative dialog, and one-on-one consultations.
We also have become increasingly aware that in this digital age, people's stories are slipping away. Email and texting have replaced written correspondence between friends and family members so much so that information that had been preserved in the past on paper is now being lost. Headliners and other "big" stories get preserved in other forms, but the day-to-day lives of firemen, teachers, industrial workers, veterans, emigrants, attorneys and the histories of communities, churches, businesses and ethnic groups get lost in the shuffle. To preserve and present these every-day stories, we are repurposing our former Orientation Area into a Life Stories Center. We want to better facilitate the preservation of everyone's experiences, memories, and life stories.
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Abstract: The cultural diversity of users of technology challenges our methods for usability evaluation. In this paper we report and compare three ethnographic interview studies of what is a part of a standard (typical) usability test in a company in Mumbai, Beijing and Copenhagen. At each of these three locations, we use structural and contrast questions do a taxonomic and paradigm analysis of a how a company performs a usability test. We find similar parts across the three locations. We also find different results for each location. In Mumbai, most parts of the usability test are not related to the interactive application that is tested, but to differences in user characteristics, test preparation, method, and location. In Copenhagen, considerations about the client´s needs are part of a usability test. In Beijing, the only varying factor is the communication pattern and relation to the user. These results are then contrasted in a cross cultural matrix to identify cultural themes that can help interpret results from existing laboratory research in usability test methods. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7950
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Abstract: In this paper, we analyze the concept of human-computer interaction in cultural and national contexts. Building and extending upon the framework for understanding research in usability and culture by Honold [3], we give an overview of publications in culture and HCI between 1998 and 2008, with a narrow focus on high-level journal publications only. The purpose is to review current practice in how cultural HCI issues are studied, and to analyse problems with the measures and interpretation of this studies. We find that Hofstede's cultural dimensions has been the dominating model of culture, participants have been picked because they could speak English, and most studies have been large scale quantitative studies. In order to balance this situation, we recommend that more researchers and practitioners do qualitative, empirical work studies. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7948
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It was a rainy morning here, after lunch we decided to put our boots on and go puddle jumping! There is a trail behind our home that we often go for walks on. I love going outside after it rains, everything smells good and feels fresh.
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Today was especially fun because we discovered blackberry bushes all over the place! At first we picked a handful, and realized we needed to go back home and get a basket. I think I am going to make a crumble for dessert tonight..that is if she doesn't eat them all first.