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Leonardo to Resign as PSG Sporting Director
CNN/Stylemagazine.com Newswire | 7/10/2013, 9:04 a.m.
The man who helped bring David Beckham, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Thiago Silva to Paris Saint-Germain as part of its empire building is leaving the Qatari-owned French club.
A key figure in the club's revival thanks to his extensive network of contacts, Leonardo handed in his resignation as sporting director, signaling the second major departure from PSG in two weeks after coach Carlo Ancelotti -- Leonardo's friend -- left for Real Madrid.
"Leonardo has informed Paris Saint-Germain of his desire to resign from his position as Sport Director at the end of the current transfer window," PSG said in a statement Wednesday. "We regret this choice but respect his decision.
"We thank him greatly for his important contributions towards the project of building a top European club in Paris and wish him all the best for his future career choice."
Earlier this month Leonardo's suspension for shoving a referee following PSG's 1-1 draw with Valenciennes in May was extended from nine to 13 months, although the ban wouldn't have affected most of his duties as sporting director.
When Leonardo was hired by PSG in July 2011, he said he wasn't overawed as he sought to turn the team -- backed by the wealthy owners -- into a global powerhouse. He called the challenge a "buzz."
With Ancelotti at the helm and the likes of Ibrahimovic, Silva and the now retired Beckham -- for a short while -- on the pitch, PSG last season claimed the league title for the first time since 1994.
The influx of cash didn't hurt. The owners invested an estimated more than $195 million in the club, turning it into the highest-spending side in Europe.
In Europe the campaign was also a success, as inexperienced PSG reached the quarterfinals and was only knocked out on away goals by Barcelona thanks to Lionel Messi's late cameo.
Almost one million people tried to obtain tickets for the first leg that was played in PSG's 45,000 capacity Parc des Princes stadium.
Before the Brazilian leaves, PSG could tie up a deal for sought after Napoli striker Edinson Cavani, a boost for Ancelotti's managerial replacement Laurent Blanc.
The transfer window in France closes on August 31, with PSG kicking off the defense of its Ligue 1 title at Montpellier on August 9.
But it wasn't all smooth sailing for Leonardo. Besides his suspension, he clashed with Ibrahimovic in the dressing room after PSG won the title and has drawn criticism for some of PSG's signings, including Javier Pastore.
The Argentinean's transfer fee was a hefty $54 million.
Leonardo collapsed and had to go to hospital shortly after his altercation with Ibrahimovic, sparking reports he was stressed.
Leonardo, like Blanc a World Cup winner, earned more than 50 caps for Brazil and was a fan favorite during his four years at A.C. Milan, the club most commonly associated with Ancelotti.
He turned to management when his playing days were over, spending a season at both A.C. Milan and its city rival Inter.


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|District of Tehran
|Shah-Abdol-Azim shrine
|Coordinates: 35°35′N 51°26′E / 35.583°N 51.433°E / 35.583; 51.433Coordinates: 35°35′N 51°26′E / 35.583°N 51.433°E / 35.583; 51.433
|Capital of Rey, but within Tehran
Rey or Ray (Persian: شهر ری, Shahr-e-Ray, "City of Ray"), also known as Rhages (/ˈreɪdʒəz/; Greek: Ῥάγαι, Rhagai; Latin: Rhagae or Rhaganae) and formerly as Arsacia, is the capital of Rey County, Tehran Province, Iran, and is the oldest existing city in the province.
Ray today has been absorbed into the Greater Tehran metropolitan area. Ray is connected via the Tehran Metro to the rest of Tehran and has many industries and factories in operation. Limited excavations of what was not bulldozed began in 1997 in collaboration with the Iranian Cultural Heritage and Tourism Organization (ICHTO), the Department of Archaeological Sciences of the University of Bradford and the Department of Archaeology of the University of Tehran.
Note on spelling: According to the Iranian Chamber Society, the correct spelling of the city in both English and Persian is "Ray," (with an "a" vowel sound) though variations in spelling also exist. The city university also uses the spelling "Ray" ("Azad University, Shahr-e-Ray") as does the Encyclopædia Iranica published by Columbia University.Contents
A settlement began here c 6,000 BCE as part of the Central Plateau Culture. The settlement was used as a capital by the Medes called Rhaga. In Classical Roman geography it was called Rhagae. It is mentioned several times in the Apocrypha. Its name dates back to the pre-Median. Some historians attribute its building to ancient mythological monarchs, and some others believe that Ray was the seat of a dynasty of Zoroastrian leader.
Ray is richer than many other ancient cities in the number of its historical monuments, among which one might refer to the 3000-year-old Gebri castle, the 5000-year-old Cheshmeh Ali hill, the 1000-year-old Bibi Shahr Banoo tomb and Shah Abbasi caravanserai. It has been home to pillars of science like Rhazes.
After the Mongol conquest the town was severely damaged and it gradually lost its importance in the presence of nearby Tehran.
There is also a shrine there, dedicated to commemorate Princess Shahr Banu, eldest daughter of the last ruler of the Sassanid Empire. She gave birth to Ali Zayn al Abidin, the fourth holy Imam of the Shia faith. This was through her marriage to Husayn ibn Ali, the grandson of Muhammad, the prophet of Islam. A nearby mountain is also named after her. However, some sources attribute the shrine to the goddess of water and fertility, Anahita, claiming it was renamed in Islamic times to protect it from any possible harm after the conversion of Iranians to Islam.View from Rashkan hill to Ray and Bibi-shahr-bano mountainMain sights1818 map by Robert Ker PorterTughrul Tower, a 12th-century monument commemorating the Seljuq monarch Tuğrul Beg, is one of the historical structures still standing today.
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|As part of the Office of Vice President, it is the mission of the Georgia Highlands College Budget Office to deliver the highest quality budget management and information services to the College community and external constituents using the most appropriate and progressive technology.
Our Functions
The primary functions of the College Budget Office are:
- To assist the Institution in developing, implementing, and monitoring the College's annual operating budget. The office serves as principal staff for all budgetary purposes, preparing all agenda materials and implementing budgetary decisions.
- To support the College strategic planning and budget process through participation in deliberations of committees and hearing panels, presentation of essential institutional data and preparation of various analyses and reports.
- To serve as the primary office for complying with the College's central external reporting requirements. In most cases, the reports are prepared by the Office. In other cases, consistent, official data are provided to other offices for reporting purposes.
Our Services
Some of our services include:
- Budget Development, Implementation, & Monitoring
- Tuition Modeling
- Common Data Set
- Appropriation Process
- Institutional Reporting
- Analytical Studies
- State Reporting
Common Budget Terminology
Budget – Financial plan containing estimates of revenues and expenditures for one fiscal year that integrates competing demands while working towards the college's mission.
Budget Amendment – When funds must be transferred from one budget to another, a budget amendment form must be completed, signed by the budget unit director, and forwarded to the Budget Office for processing. This form must also be completed when moving funds from different account categories.
Encumbrance – When a purchase order is issued, the funds for the purchase must be reserved. The process of reserving the funds is referred to as encumbrance. Once funds are encumbered, they are removed from the balance available.
Expenditure – Refers to the actual funds expended.
Fiscal Year – The College's fiscal year runs from July 1 through June 30.
Current Funds – Funds available to the college for use in achieving any of its authorized institutional purposes.
- Unrestricted – Funds which the college retains full control of their use
- Restricted – Funds which are externally restricted and may only be used in accordance with the established purpose
Educational and General Expenditures
Functional Expenditure Categories
Instruction – includes expenses for all activities that are part of an institution's instruction program. Expenses for academic credit and noncredit courses.
Academic Support – includes expenses to provide support for the college's primary mission of instruction, research, and public service; includes libraries, and academic administration.
Student Services – includes expenses incurred for offices of admissions and the registrar and activities with the primary purpose of contributing to students' emotional and physical well-being and intellectual, cultural, and social development outside the context of the formal instruction program.
Institutional Support – includes expenses associated with executive management, fiscal operations, personnel services, administrative computing, and alumni and development.
Operation and Maintenance of Physical Plant – includes expenses associated with the operation and maintenance of buildings and grounds, utilities, custodial services, and campus security.
Scholarships and Fellowships – includes expenses for aid to students in the form of monetary grants resulting from selection by the institution or from an entitlement program.
Auxiliary Services – includes expenses associated with the operation of the card office, campus safety department, and athletics.
Definition of Funds
- Fund 10000 – State Appropriation
- Fund 10500 – Tuition
- Fund 10600 – Course Fees and Institutional Fee
- Fund 12xxx – Auxiliary
- Fund 13000 – Student Services & Student Life
- Fund 14000 – Sales and Services
- Fund 16000 – Technology Fee
How can each fund by USED?
Fund 10000 Salaries and OS&E (Lapse @ year end)
Fund 10500 Salaries and OS&E (Lapse @ year end)
Fund 10600 lab expenses, expenses related to course delivery. (Lapse@ year end)
Fund 12xxx Salaries, OS&E, and Expenditures related to Auxiliary Services (ie, Dining Services, Campus Safety, Card Services, and Athletics)
Fund 13000 Salaries, OS&E, and Expenditures related to Student Activities (ie, Food, Drinks, Six Mile Post, Orientations, Intramurals, Student Government Organizations, etc.
Fund 14000 Salaries, OS&E, and Expenditures related to workshops conducted by Continuing Education and the dental hygiene clinic.
Fund 15000 OS&E
Fund 16000 Computers and software (Student Related Only)
Fund 20000 All expenditures are according to each specific grant "contract"
Fund 50000 Capital expenditure items such as major repairs and renovations and purchase of capitalized equipment
Fund 60000 All expenditures are according to each specific agreement on file. Typical expenditures include but are not limited to supplies.
Where does GHC get our funding?
State Appropriations Fund 10000
Under constitutional authority, the BOR approves the annual budget request for the entire University System.
The USG allocates funds to each institution based on a formula of:
Facility Square Footage
New for FY15 Additional Funding for Student Completion
Tuition Fund 10500
In state and Out of state Tuition
Other Revenue Fund 10600
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You love a poem you saw on the Internet and want to quote it in your book. But is that plagiarism? You want to quote a passage in a book but you're not sure whether you need to ask permission or not. What counts as fair use and when do you need permission to use a copyrighted work?
All the time I see people stealing from other people on the Internet by reposting their articles, stories, or photographs. Before you post anyone else's information on your website or use it in your book, you need to get permission. Yes, there are such things as public domain and fair use, but it's always best to be safe regardless. Before you decide to use something that belongs to someone else and risk angering that person and facing a potential lawsuit, ask yourself a few questions:
1. Do I really need this piece of information, poem, cartoon, or whatever it is? Will my book or website be okay without it?
2. Is this item in the public domain?
3. If it's not in the public domain, can I use part of it under the fair use laws?
4. Can I rewrite or reword the work and then reprint it?
5. Is giving credit enough?
Let's look at each of these questions in detail.
Do I really need this piece of information? Will my book or website be okay without it?
I can almost guarantee that in every situation the information, document, poem, cartoon, or whatever it is, is something you can do without. Why use someone else's property to illustrate your own? Hire your own cartoonist, artist, or write your own poem. If you can't do that, then look for one in the public domain. If you, however, absolutely want to include something that is copyrighted, then be prepared to pay for it. You will need to contact the owner or his or her heir for permission, and you will doubtless have to sign some sort of document promising you will only use it as you are given permission to do so. You will also usually have to pay to use it, especially if it is for commercial purposes, such as in a book you plan to sell, and you'll usually pay dear for it-in the hundreds of dollars or more is not uncommon. At that price, do you really need to include it in your book or on your website?
Is this item in the public domain?
Just what constitutes public domain? It varies by country and by the kind of work it is. Today for authors, copyright in the United States is for life plus 70 years, so if I were to die tomorrow, it being the year 2012, anything I write would be copyrighted until 2082. However, copyright laws were less stringent in the past so some works may have shorter copyrights that have expired. As a rule, if an author or artist has been dead since 1941 or earlier, you're probably safe, but it still never hurts to investigate. Furthermore, while an old work like "Don Quixote" may be in the public domain, that doesn't mean a modern translation of it is.
What counts as fair use?
If a work is not in the public domain, a lot of the time you can still use a small part of it if appropriate, such as a quote or passage, usually not to exceed a page. That said, a short work like a poem cannot be used in its entirety despite its short length because you will be using the whole work, but you might be able to quote a verse or stanza from it. Even so, in such cases it is best to play it safe and ask for permission to quote from the work in your book or on your website. What constitutes fair use depends on many circumstances including: the purpose of its usage, whether it is commercial or charitable, whether the quote is used to promote the work such as in a book review, or whether your use of it will harm sales of someone else's book because you provide too much information from it.
To go direct to the source, here is what the 1961 Report of the Register of Copyrights on the General Revision of the U.S. Copyright Law cites as examples of fair use:
"quotation of excerpts in a review or criticism for purposes of illustration or comment; quotation of short passages in a scholarly or technical work, for illustration or clarification of the author's observations; use in a parody of some of the content of the work parodied; summary of an address or article, with brief quotations, in a news report; reproduction by a library of a portion of a work to replace part of a damaged copy; reproduction by a teacher or student of a small part of a work to illustrate a lesson; reproduction of a work in legislative or judicial proceedings or reports; incidental and fortuitous reproduction, in a newsreel or broadcast, of a work located in the scene of an event being reported." (source: http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html )
There are always fine lines that exist in using someone else's work. Even if you are sure it falls under fair use laws, if it's not in the public domain, it's best to ask for permission to use the work, and if that seems impractical, it is always best to consult an attorney.
Can I rewrite or reword the work and then reprint it?
You may paraphrase a work by giving a summary of a basic idea, provided you give credit to the source, but you may never rewrite someone else's work and pass it off as your own, or even as theirs when it is rewritten. And even when you paraphrase an idea, it is still someone else's idea (intellectual property) so you must give credit where it is due.
Is giving credit enough?
No, it's not enough to give credit. You need permission to reprint as well, unless as noted above, it is in the public domain. You must always give credit to the owner, whether it be an author, publication, artist, another website, etc. It is usually sufficient to state who is the original creator or copyright holder of the work. For a poem, provide the title and the author's name. For a passage from a book, you can state, "George Smith states in his book 'My Brilliant Ideas,' that:" Depending on your own book or website, you may want to consult a style manual for how best to cite a source. "The Chicago Manual of Style" is the preferred style manual to use for most books, although others exist depending on the kind of book you are writing, such as the "Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association" (APA style) or the "Christian Writers Manual of Style." If you do receive permission to reproduce copyrighted material, make sure you ask the owner how you are to cite that permission to reprint the work.
Always find out if a work is copyrighted and always give credit where it is due. Then you will avoid issues of fair use violation, copyright infringements, and plagiarism that can later come back to haunt you.
Irene Watson is the Managing Editor of Reader Views, http://www.readerviews.com, where avid readers can find reviews of recently published books as well as read interviews with authors. Her team also provides author publicity and a variety of other services specific to writing and publishing books.
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In the second daily video for his upcoming show, Jimmy Fallon name drops services like Flickr and says he's going to have a laptop at his desk so he can Skype people. I believe him.
I've always liked the guy, so I know from his past standup material that he actually knows what he's talking about when it comes to things we take for granted. IM, Skype and Twitter (I'm SURE he's going to have some Twitter action) should all pop up once in a while as parts of his sketches, which makes him likely to be the first network nerd talk show host. Don't let me down, Jimmy. Do that Fallon name proud. [Late Night]


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Current record: 34-31, 2nd place in NL Central, 3.5 games back
Up Next: Minnesota Twins, 26-39, 5th place in AL Central, 8.0 games back
Season Series: 0-0, First time playing.
Notes: Minnesota is having a really rough year. The pitching is giving up 5.4 runs per game, highest in the majors outside of Colorado. They can still put some runs up on the board, however. Trevor Plouffe is astonishingly the hottest hitter in the majors this month and is up to 14 homers on the year. Joe Mauer still hits like Joe Mauer when he's in the lineup and not making shampoo commericals. Justin Morneau looked like he had recovered from his concussion in May but has slumped in June. Simply put, these are game the Bucs should win.
Familiar Faces: Ryan Doumit, Matt Capps
Probable Pitchers
Tuesday: LH Scott Diamond (5-2, 50.2 IP, 29 K, 2.13 ERA, 1.18 WHIP)
vs. RH Kevin Correia (2-6, 69.0 IP, 25 K, 4.43 ERA, 1.32 WHIP)
Diamond's been the only bright spot on a horrible Twins staff this year. Correia hasn't won at PNC since last June 22.
Wednesday: LH Francisco Liriano (1-7, 57.2 IP, 59 K, 6.24 ERA, 1.60 WHIP)
vs. LH Erik Bedard (4-7, 66.0 IP, 62 K, 4.36 ERA, 1.45 WHIP)
In four starts since moving back into the roatation, Liriano's been okay: almost 6 IP per start and has lowered his ERA by over two runs. He still walks too many on most days, but if he's on he could carve up this Pirates team. Bedard looks to bounce back from a rough outing.
Thursday: RH Liam Hendriks (0-3, 23.0 IP, 14 K, 7.83 ERA, 1.87 WHIP)
vs. RH James McDonald (5-3, 81.1 IP, 78 K, 2.32 ERA, 0.98 WHIP)
The young Aussie will get plenty of chances to see if he can stick around with Minnesota out of the race already. JMac continues to build his resume for an All-Star bid.
No lineups yet.
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Series 1: Correspondence. 1925-1947
Arguello Den, Ysabel. Christmas card. Ysabel Arguello Den was a direct descendent of José Dario Arguello of the Presidio of San Francisco. undated
Armstrong, Robert, Bishop of Sacramento. Announces a gift book on the history of Sacramento. 5 March 1946
Breen, Joseph I., Director of the Motion Picture Production Code. Announces the gift of a silver Papal Medal to the university library. 19 January 1940
Connolly, Myles, Catholic writer and scenarist. 21 October (no year)
Field, Charlotte E. Mentions her father and promises her autograph collection to Loyola. 1 May 1938
Fitzgerald, Barry. Hollywood. Under the signature is pencilled, "Father Fitzgibbon of Going My Way." 23 February 1934
Jeffers, William M. (two short notes). The first one is addressed to Spearman at Weston College, Weston Massachusetts. The notes are on the letterhead of the Union Pacific Rail Road. 9 January 1931, 24 April 1937
Knox, Ronald A. Beaufort Castle, Beauly, Scotland. 31 August 1925
Lavery, Emmet, Catholic writer and scenarist. Los Angeles. 16 January 1937
McGroarty, John Steven, Catholic lawyer and writer. Tujunga, California. Lists his choices for the best entries in a literary contest at Mount St. Mary's. 18 March 1940
Miles, Marion Hamilton. Hollywood. 31 July 1938
Milward, Anita. 9 May 1938
Murphy, Bernadine. Los Angeles. Addressed to Spearman at Manresa Hall, Port Townsend, Washington. 5 February 1935
Novarro, Ramon, Catholic film star. "Christmas greetings to "The Company of Jesus Under Loyola's Roof." 24 December 1940
Orena de Koch, Serena. Invitation to tea from the grand-daughter of José de la Guerra Noriega, the last Spanish Royal governor of California. 22 August 1937
Walsh, Rev. H. L., S.J. Walsh, from the University of Santa Clara, asks for information on the earthquake of 1868. 13 March 1947
Washington, Booker T. Signatures only (2) undated
Series 2: Photographs and Clippings. 1938
Photograph, mounted. 7 1/2 x 4 3/4 inches. J. G. Whittier. undated
Photograph, mounted. 7 1/2 x 4 3/4 inches. William Cullen Bryant. undated
Clippings: magazine clipping with two full-length silhouette portraits, one of Millard Fillmore and the other of John C. Calhoun; newspaper clipping depicting "America's only queen--Queen Liliuokalani--Ruler of Hawaii...."; cover of Literary Digest showing a photograph of Secretary of State Cordell Hull; slip of paper with oval portraits of seven American presidents from Grant to Theodore Roosevelt. undated


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Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Public Health, Jane Ellison MP made the following statement:
"I should actually just before we close put on the record Mr Emerson, forgive me, but I think it is useful for colleagues, just in regard to the Faculty of Actuaries and the data there, and I think actually the Shadow Minister also alluded to this; just to put on the public record that the data that they used was publicly available, non-identifiable and in aggregate form."
This data as described in this blog post was not publicly available or in aggregate form. It was individual-level data that had to be specifically asked for from the NHSIC.
Jane Ellison may have been referring to the report generated from the research done which is indeed publicly available, with aggregate analyses from which it would be impossible to identify an individual. But no one has concerns about the report.
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'Flipped' classroom improves student learning in physics
Scott Paulson helps with a problem in class.
Some JMU physics students have not had to do homework the past two years . . . at least not the kind of homework that was typically assigned.
Students taking certain physics classes have been doing the work traditionally assigned as homework in class. And rather than listening to lectures during class, they watch pre-recorded lectures outside of class.
"We're flipping what happens where," said Dr. Scott Paulson, one of four physics faculty members who began using the "flipped" classroom method for the 2013-14 school year. "The content is delivered as homework and when they come to class they work on these problems that ask them to understand and utilize that content toward analysis."
In addition to Paulson, Dr. Adriana Banu, Dr. Brian Utter and Dr. Bill Ingham have been using the flipped classroom method to teach physics 240 and physics 250. They started using that method based on encouraging results from Dr. Chris Hughes, a professor of physics and astronomy who started using the flipped classroom method in fall 2012.
The encouraging results come from a test that is given at the beginning of the semester and then again at the end of the semester to gauge what students learn. For years, when the classes were taught with a traditional lecture during class time, the post-test scores indicated students' knowledge of the subject increased about 25 percent. So if students knew 50 percent of the material at the start of the semester, they knew about 63 percent by the end of it "and people were like, 'Wow, they're not learning 75 percent of what we want them to,'" Paulson said.
"This was seen over and over in a lot of different places and it didn't really matter whether you had an award-winning, crowd-favorite professor that everyone knows is a great professor or an OK one," Paulson said. "You would get gains of 20 percent, 25 percent."
Since going to the flipped classroom method, the gains have been about 35 percent, "almost one and a half times better than what we were seeing before," Paulson said.
One reason the flipped approach works, Paulson said, is because the video lectures are more effective at delivering the course content than the textbook, which is still used as a resource. The textbook provides a sequence for the videos and serves as a supplement to the videos, which Hughes created by combining PowerPoint slides and audio-recorded lectures. In class, students work in small groups on problems, some of them from the textbook, and the teacher provides assistance.
Student reaction to the flipped approach has been lukewarm. "They don't love it," Paulson said. "Some like it better, some think it's awful. I think it's unfamiliar and you always compare to a default. So they can say it's bad because it's worse than lecture, which they know about, but if we had been doing this forever and you changed to lecture, you might see some of this same kind of thing."
Sarah Groth, a biology major who took a flipped Physics 150 class said, "It's a double edged sword. It gives me everything I need out of class so it also gives me the ability to slack off. But I am still learning the stuff because I have to test myself with the homework."
Students are not the only ones who have had to adjust. Paulson said he prefers to lecture, but when the results improve by trying something different, it's worth giving it a chance.
"I don't know if we picked the best approach, I don't know that there is a best one," he said. "I think that a lot of it might have to do with teaching style and what we're comfortable with. Maybe it depends on your student population, but we picked something that we thought seemed promising and we saw results that we're happy enough with that we're going to kind of keep doing this."
Paulson also said professors are willing to try changes to improve the courses' appeal to students. "This is the first time we've done it. Maybe we'll be able to figure out how to do it better. I think many of us are interested in trying some experiments that will allow us to see."
Related content: The flipped classroom method has been around for about 10 years, in high schools and colleges across the country. A recent blog post in The Chronicle of Higher Education discusses the definition of "flipped learning."
And this post addresses skepticism about flipped learning
By Melissa Mowery ('14) and Eric Gorton ('86, '09M)
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I would like to add my Dad, he was the "man" responsible for me being in the business today, he supported me, mentored me, raised me, and most important he loved me. My dad died on February 13th 1995, it was my birthday.
I miss you pops....and yes I'm paying the bills.


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Rich, stuck up, crackheads, hippies. That's how Charles Sanderson's students in rural Oregon regarded city life. Racist, trailer trash, guns, swamps is how Bryan Chu's students viewed the country landscape. How do you bridge that divide? Read what happens when middle students from rural and urban Oregon take the risk of writing someone else's life story—a stranger from another school—in poetry form. This is Charles' story.
As a rural educator at St. Helens Middle School in northwest Oregon, I find myself constantly fighting two battles against prejudice—people's preconceived notions of rural America, and my rural students' often unwarranted fear and trepidation of a world beyond their community.
I got to know Bryan Chu through the Oregon Writer's Project. He teaches at Lane Middle School in southeast Portland, Oregon—about an hour drive from St. Helens, but galaxies apart. Think Rascal Flatts and Wiz Khalifa, and you've got the picture.
With nearly 450 students, Lane Middle School sees its diversity as its biggest asset. Its student population, broken down by race, is 17.3% Asian, 8.8% African American, 28.9% Hispanic, 2.0% Native American, 38.9% White, and 4.0% Multiple Races.
Ninety-six percent of students at St. Helens Middle School are white. The largest civic event in St. Helens is the annual County Fair and Rodeo.
All about me
Bryan and I decided to use poetry to help our students turn their unwarranted ignorance into understanding, and, most importantly, empathy. A poem would tell a complete stranger's life story. Starting this project was a lot like jumping off a cliff and hoping to figure out how to fly before we hit the ground.
We began by unpacking our students' preconceived notions of one another. My students' brainstorms filled the chalkboard to describe the urban landscape: gangs, drugs, rich, stuck up, hippies, and the Jonas Brothers. Equally prolific were Lane students' list on rural communities: rednecks, racists, accents, guns, trailer trash, and Taylor Swift.
Nick Hull and friends from Lane Middle School Portland Ore.
Courtesy of Bryan Chu
Students put together information packets for the person who would write their story. They completed identity surveys—including basic likes and dislikes—Legend of the Seeker and Scrubs, Paul Rodriguez Nikes, and Flaming Hot Cheetos—as well as questions about ethnicity, religious practices, and hopes and dreams.
Students also selected four images that represented themselves: friends bouncing on a trampoline, oodles of University of Oregon and Oregon State paraphernalia, family, video game systems, and for some reason—lots and lots of shoes.
Then we traded. Each student received a folder with four images and a survey, and that's when some students balked.
"Why do I have to write about her? She sounds stuck up."
"Can't you give me someone more like me? I don't want to write about no white girl."
Risk and responsibility
Bryan and I wanted our students to take the risk of creating more than a simple list poem: I like chocolate/I love playing basketball/etc. We wanted them to honor and celebrate the life of a stranger. That wouldn't happen without taking significant chances. Trying to understand the way someone else views her absent father requires risk.
Throughout the process, I hoped to uncover the deeper reasoning behind my students' extra effort, but I mostly got shrugs when I asked. DJ rarely turned in assignments the bulk of the year. For some reason, that changed when he was writing a poem for a student he had never met in his life. After repeated prodding, DJ just said, "Mr. Sanderson, I don't want them to think I'm a douche."
It was scary to drop off my students' poems at Lane. Like my students, I hoped that the recipients would feel valued and celebrated. I was also nervous about the poetic cargo that Bryan's students delivered. Would the hours at Stumptown Coffee working on this project with Bryan blow up in our faces, or blow us away?
Uncovering truths
First draft of students "Assumption Poem."
Courtesy of Charles Sanderson
One by one, my students walked to the front of the room and read their poems aloud.
There were plenty of awkward moments, but most students smiled or even beamed with pride. Courtney got upset because her partner described her as stuck up. Lots of students immediately focused on the one or two factual inaccuracies in their poem, and it took constant prodding to have them recognize the wealth of uncovered truths.
Thankfully, every student included a reflection about the process, as well as their brainstorms and drafts. When Savannah read Maddie's reflection " …I don't even know if you like guitar that much (I hope you do). I hope I got this right. I hope you like it ☺" She admitted to me that Maddie had "gotten it all wrong," but she was OK with it because she knew Maddie had tried to understand her.
Soon enough, students began to realize that these "strangers" knew them better than the students they've shared classrooms with for the last eight years. They began to look at one another through a brand new lens.
For example, when Shasta read his poem, his peers and I realized that we hadn't taken the time to see beneath the awkward, uncomfortable exterior that left Shasta often ostracized. I felt shame as I listened to the last stanza of his poem:
When you tell them my story,
Say that there wasn't anything to keep me away
From being myself,
To being alone.
Tell them, this is how I'm going to show them my world.
I wondered then, and still wonder now, how a complete stranger was able to uncover something beautiful within one of my students that I had missed after our eight months together.
Empathy key to human life
Like any middle school teacher, I just plant seeds, hoping that they blossom, grow, and bloom into something beautiful, vibrant, and awe-inspiring. I never get to see any of that; I just keep planting the seeds with hope and faith.
Nikki Giovanni writes that empathy is not simply a tool for poetically appropriating lives and experiences removed from the world inhabited by the poet; on the contrary, empathy is key to human life and understanding because it is key to human connection. Empathy enables us to collapse the dualistic structures that polarize our world into "us" and "them."
I hope my students will be people who collapse the structures that divide us.
Bryan's and my students demonstrated the capacity to build bridges. If they can do it, why can't we all?
"Building Bridges Project" How To's
Probably, more than ever before, students have a need to build connections and bridges, and feel honored and valued as an individual. If you've got the time and energy to do this project right, I promise you the reward is tremendous.
Before you begin
Have the time, energy, and rapport with your students to do it right. This project requires considerable time, energy, and effort to match students, help them through multiple drafts, and exchange materials. It's not a lesson you roll out, do quickly, and move on. To really do justice to your students' partners, you must take time.
Find an appropriate, committed school partner. Is there a school or community for whom your students hold ignorant views, or have no clue about? It took Bryan and I three months of constant correspondence and occasional meetings to organize and carry out this project. Make sure your partner cares about writing and students as much as you.
Start after second half of year. For some reason, people immediately want to use this project as an icebreaker with their students. I think this is a mistake. Save this project for the second half of the year when you have built up rapport with your students—you'll have a better chance of them trusting you as you guide them through writing a stranger's story. They also should have the poetic chops to craft poems that will honor and value their partners. This isn't the poem you want them cutting their teeth on.
Getting going
- Brainstorm list of preconceived ideas about your school partner.
- Complete identity questionnaire and collect photos.
- Match students and deliver information packets to each school.
- Write poems
- Reflect on the process
- Trade with school partner
The moment of truth
Prepare for potential hurt. My students read their poems aloud with great anticipation. In hindsight, I probably should have read the poems first to avoid potential hurt feelings, embarrassment or shame. You know your students best. Handle with care.
Shall we meet? Have the two groups meet, if you can. It works better if all or most students can meet, not just a few who can make it.
- EXPLORE: Building Bridges Project poems written by Charles Sanderson and Bryan Chu's students.
- INQUIRE: If you have comments, ideas, or questions about the project, you may email Charles Sanderson at [email protected] He'd be happy to share electronic copies, too.
Charles Sanderson wrote this article for YES! Magazine, a national, nonprofit media organization that fuses powerful ideas with practical actions. Charles teaches language arts at St. Helens Middle School in St. Helens, Oregon, where he also publishes the school's literary journal, and coaches the rugby and slam poetry teams. His next literary adventure will be bringing urban, rural, and suburban youth together to compete and collaborate as slam poets and share a common meal.


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This weekend, I will be attending the New York Comic-Con for the first time. I'm not exactly sure what to expect in terms of the convention's vibe, but there's definitely some interesting stuff on deck including a first look at the remakes of Carrie and Evil Dead plus new footage from other horror flicks Silent Hill: Revelation 3D, The Bay, and The Conjuring as well as a panel for the supernatural love story, Beautiful Creatures. There will also be panels for geek-favorite TV series The Walking Dead and Robot Chicken. I'll be reporting from these panels and more, so be sure to stay tuned to Collider this weekend. Steve will also be at NYCC doing 1-on-1 interviews.
Hit the jump for a line-up of panels I'll be attending at NYCC. The 2012 New York Comic-Con runs from October 11 – 14th at the Javits Center. Click here to visit the official website and check out the schedule.
[Note: All of these panels will be in the IGN Theater unless otherwise noted; also, there are panels on Thursday, but my flight doesn't get in until Thursday evening, so I won't be attending NYCC until Friday]
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12th
Silent Hill: Revelation 3D
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Speakers: Adelaide Clemens, Kit Harington, Michael J Bassett, and Samuel Hadida
Global exclusive! Be among the first in the world to see footage from the movie based on the groundbreaking video game franchise, Silent Hill: Revelation 3D is the sequel to the hit film Silent Hill. Experience footage from the unparalleled horror experience starring Kit Harington (HBO's Game of Thrones) and Adelaide Clemens (X-Men Origins), directed by Michael J Bassett.
Robot Chicken
6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Speakers: Clare Grant, Kevin Shinick, Matthew Senreich, and Seth Green
Seth Green (co-creator) and Matthew Senreich (co-creator), Kevin Shinick (MAD), and Clare Grant discuss season six of their popular Adult Swim series Robot Chicken.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13th
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2
12:15 pm – 1:15 pm
Speakers: Andrea Romano, Bruce Timm, and Gary Miereanu
Witness the first public display of footage from the epic conclusion to the animated version of Frank Miller's landmark graphic novel as Warner Home Video presents an NYCC-exclusive panel on Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2, the next entry in the popular, ongoing series of DC Universe Animated Original Movies. Executive Producer Bruce Timm, dialogue/casting director Andrea Romano and a few exciting guests will discuss the making of the film and show some tantalizing clips. Warner Home Video's Gary Miereanu will moderate the panel, award unique DCU-themed prizes, and offer a glimpse into the 2013 slate of DCU animated films. Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2 is produced by Warner Premiere, DC Entertainment and Warner Bros. Animation.
The Conjuring
1:30 pm – 2:00 pm
Speakers: Chris Hardwick, James Wan, Lili Taylor, Patrick Wilson, and Ron Livingston
Before there was Amityville, there was Harrisville. Based on a true story, "The Conjuring" tells the horrifying tale of how world renowned paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren were called upon to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in a secluded farmhouse. Forced to confront a powerful demonic entity, the Warrens find themselves caught in the most terrifying case of their lives. Appearing in person: Patrick Wilson, Ron Livingston, Lili Taylor and Director James Wan.
The Bay
2:15 pm – 2:45 pm
Speakers: Barry Levinson and Chris Hardwick
From Oscar®-winning* director Barry Levinson, Roadside Attractions, and the producers of Paranormal Activity and Insidious, comes this nerve-shredding tale of a small town plunged into absolute terror. The authorities believed they had buried the truth about the tragedy that claimed over 700 human lives. Now, three years later, a reporter has emerged with footage revealing the cover-up and an unimaginable killer: a mysterious parasitic outbreak. Told from the perspective of those who were there and saw what happened, The Bay unfolds over 24 hours though people's iPhones, Androids, 911 calls, web cams, and whatever else could be used to document the nightmare in Claridge, Maryland. Starring Kristen Connolly (Cabin in the Woods). Appearing on the panel to present exclusive footage will be legendary director Barry Levinson (BBC's Copper, Rain Man, Diner, Good Morning Vietnam, Wag the Dog).
Beautiful Creatures
3:00 pm – 3:30 pm
Speakers: Alden Ehrenreich, Emmy Rossum, Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl, Richard LaGravenese, Thomas Mann, and Zoey Deutch
Alcon Entertainment's "Beautiful Creatures" is a supernatural love story set in the South which tells the tale of two star-crossed lovers: Ethan (Alden Ehrenreich), a young man longing to escape his small town, and Lena (Alice Englert), a mysterious new girl. Together, they uncover dark secrets about their respective families, their history and their town. The film is based on the first novel in the best-selling series by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl.
3:45 pm – 4:15 pm
Speakers: Chloë Grace Moretz, Julianne Moore, Kevin Misher, and Kimberly Peirce
A reimagining of the classic Stephen King horror tale about Carrie White (Chloë Grace Moretz), a shy girl outcast by her peers and sheltered by her deeply religious mother (Julianne Moore), who unleashes telekinetic terror on her small town after being pushed too far at her senior prom. Based on the best-selling novel by Stephen King, Carrie is directed by Kimberly Peirce with a screenplay by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa. Appearing in person: Chloë Grace Moretz, Julianne Moore and director Kimberly Peirce. Please join all of us from Screen Gems to ask questions and see exclusive footage.
Evil Dead
4:15 pm – 4:45 pm
Speakers: Bruce Campbell, Fede Alvarez, and Jane Levy
In the much anticipated remake of the 1981 cult-hit horror film, five twenty-something friends become holed up in a remote cabin. When they discover a Book of the Dead, they unwittingly summon up long-dormant demons that possess each of those friends in succession until only one is left intact to fight for survival. Appearing in person: Producer (as well as the original Ash himself)Bruce Campbell, star Jane Levy (TV's Suburgatory) and director Fede Alvarez.
The Walking Dead
5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Speakers: Andrew Lincoln, Chandler Riggs, Chris Hardwick, Danai Gurira, David Morrissey, Gale Anne Hurd, Glen Mazzara, Michael Rooker, Norman Reedus, and Robert Kirkman
Join Andrew Lincoln and the cast of "The Walking Dead" along with showrunner and executive producer Glen Mazzara and executive producers Robert Kirkman and Gale Anne Hurd to discuss the highly anticipated season 3 premiere. Additional cast include Norman Reedus, Chandler Riggs, Danai Gurira, David Morrissey and Michael Rooker. Moderated by "Talking Dead" host Chris Hardwick, "The Walking Dead" panel will also include an exclusive clip from the premiere episode, which returns to AMC on October 14 at 9/8c.
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14th
The Following
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Location: 1E07
Speakers: Annie Parisse, James Purefoy, Kevin Bacon, Kevin Williamson, Marcos Siega, Natalie Zea, and Shawn Ashmore
Don't miss a special screening of the pilot episode of The Following, the terrifying new thriller from creator/executive producer Kevin Williamson (Scream). Then join executive producer Marcos Siega (The Vampire Diaries) and series stars Kevin Bacon (X-Men: First Class), James Purefoy (Rome), Annie Parisse (Person of Interest), Natalie Zea (Justified) and Shawn Ashmore (the X-Men films) for an on-stage Q&A after the screening. This fast-paced drama follows psychologically scarred ex-FBI agent Ryan Hardy (Bacon) as he's drawn back into an ever-growing web of murder masterminded by serial killer Joe Carroll (Purefoy), who brought an end to Hardy's career years before. From Bonanza Productions Inc. in association with Outerbanks Entertainment and Warner Bros. Television, The Following premieres on Mondays at midseason on FOX.


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Ruth Elaine Schram
Ruth Elaine Schram is a full-time composer and arranger and has over 1,500 published works in print. In addition to her choral music for church and school choirs, her songs appear on thirty albums and numerous children's videos. Her songs have also appeared on such diverse television shows as The 700 Club and HBO's acclaimed series The Sopranos. She lives in Birmingham, Alabama with her husband, Scott, and they have two grown daughters, Crystie and Celsie.


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kitenaked wrote:BayAreaKite wrote:Windy today at Berkeley, I get there at 4 or 4:30, had a great session at Alameda yesterday and long work day, so figured maybe I'd rest and just wait for my wife to show up and send her out.
Three guys show up for the first time, two went out to kite, one didn't. The wind was totally filled in, blowing 20 or so, they go out. Can they go upwind? No. Kiter #1 is heading out skirting the shore, flying his kite above the Bay Trail immediately adjacent to the Frontage road. Only by luck and virtue of the wind (this is abnormal there) being totally filled, manages to stay off the rocks.
Kiter #2, same thing, but worse, even closer to the rocks, almost on them. Kite even closer on top of Bay Trail. Where does he wobble off to? Straight downwind. When leaving later, his buddy in the car was high-tailing it down the frontage road to go fetch his buddy who washed up on the frontage road beach.
I understand that it is not possible to learn to kite instantly and know that it takes time and practice, but this is not the place to do it. Today was unusually filled in and blowing well. Were it not for that, the both of them would almost certainly have been toast, walking up on the rocks, with the kite on the rocks or Bay Trail or road or whatever. I have no idea what their story was or where they learned or what, but it's kind of hard to shrug and say "It's all good, no worries" when you see it happen more and more. They were fresh off lessons from somewhere, that was clear. The guy launching them didn't quite know how to even hold the kite up for them.
Oh, but yes,you're thinking, I could have approached them, talked about the spot, quizzed them, told them of the hazards, etc., introduce myself, get everyones names right? No. Have been doing that for years. Jaded, can't do it anymore, I didn't sign up for a life-long term of beach ambassador, accident prevention and damage control.
Sorry, that's just how I feel sometimes after seeing this happen again and again and more and more. If you're not ready, Berkeley will eat you up...
Yah Ollie you got better things to do.
I'm SURE OTHERS GOT IT, but PERSONALLY I Dont think it was funny-
It is misrepresentation of THE MAN!
First- it's FLAT OUT WRONG, Ollie almost NEVER BURNS.
Second- He WORKS pretty hard at WORK AND ON THIS SITE.
Third- He's spent TONS OF TIME personally doing the intro (s) but like he said, IT GETS OLD!
Forth and formost- That was my Bong Hit, not his!
So Don't "DISH" my friends- :lol:
Seriously- Kiting Berkley is a SERIOUS SUBJECT and "WE" tend to get a little sidetracked sometimes- Newish kiters- will need to have ALL OF THEIR FACILITIES IN ORDER to simply DEAL WITH THE REALITIES of "ATTEMPTING" TO KITE BERKLEY. This spot is NOT FOR BEGINNERS FOR GOOD REASON(S)- Like it was said, THIS SPOT WILL EAT YOU UP-
Best of luck-
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Recipes / Sandwiches & Paninis
Classic Reuben Sandwich
A good ole' fashioned Corned Beef Reuben Sandwich. Pile it high and serve on rye.
- Butter one side of each slice of rye bread and place one slice of the bread buttered side down on a flat surface.
- Add ingredients in the following order: 2 tbsp of Thousand Island Dressing, corned beef, sauerkraut (with optional caraway seeds added if desired), Imported Switzlerland Swiss cheese, and an additional 2 tbsp of Thousand Island Dressing. Crown the sandwich with the remaining slice of rye, buttered side up.
- Preheat sauté pan over medium-high heat, place sandwich in pan, and heat sandwich approximately 3 minutes on each side until the bread is golden brown and the cheese is melted.


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It's more than timing. Tom Cruise's "Knight and Day" and Ashton Kutcher's "Killers" beg for comparison.
Everything from the blonde girl-next-door type caught up in a confusing world of international intrigue played for broad laughs (Cameron Diaz and Katherine Heigl respectively) to the eerily calm and competent secret agents who just want a simple life (Cruise and Kutcher).
Were the two projects affected by each other? "Knight and Day" director James Mangold tells PopcornBiz that he had no idea about the other film. He was too busy planning plane explosions on the East Coast, among other things, for his film.
"I honestly didn't know "Killers" existed until about 12 weeks ago," he tells us. "You get in a tunnel when you do a film. You have no idea."
That said, "Knight and Day" is in another league from "Killers." The key difference is Cruise, who manages to achieve comedy as well as his usual excellence in stunt and action work. Kutcher managed to be the funny guy (at times), but tried way too hard to be Bond-lite in his action venture. It was painful at times. Raise your hand Tom Cruise, you've won the secret agent contest in this round!
Whether it was a freak of nature or Hollywood that brought both of these two movies out at the same time, we've seen such duplication many times before. Mangold has first hand experience. He directed the Oscar winning "Walk the Line" (2005) about Johnny Cash and emerged from his movie-making to hear similar questions about a certain film centering around Ray Charles.
"I had no idea about 'Ray,' " he says. "I didn't know about the existence of that movie until we were compared to it…all the time. I was like, 'What is that?' "
Mangold clearly needs a better spy network.
Whatever You Do, Don't Confuse This Film With "Killers"
It's more than timing. Tom Cruise's "Knight and Day" and Ashton Kutcher's "Killers" beg for comparison.


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Hi there, everyone, and welcome to my space!!! I'm Charly. Born in May 1956, in the year of the monkey. In then rustic Tagbilaran, in the island of Bohol, Philippines.
I joined the military at the tender age of 17, way back in Apr 1, 1974, when I entered the Philippine Military Academy. I finally retired last May 2012, after spending 37 plus years of devoted service.
But I realized I am not through yet. I still have that burning passion to serve. After all, that is what I was trained to do – to serve. These blogs then are a hodgepodge of my past adventures from which I have learned plenty from; plus my present activities and my future plans, aspirations and dreams. Some of these blogs will be serious, some will be light. Each, I assure you, will have a story to tell.
I have lined up different categories that more or less tell you what really interests me most. I have a category for 'Family', which essentially will tell you about what's been going on with my family and friends. I have a category on 'Advocacies', which focuses on my desire to continue to serve humanity. I believe in the adage: Stand up for what you think is right, even if it's unpopular. Once in a while, I will make some noise on some issues I care about.
And then there's the fun stuff. I have a category on 'Sports', which was my very first love. And of course, 'Travel', something I've been blessed to do in my years in the service and beyond. Later, I added up a new category on 'Habitat', which contained stories related with a line of work and passion with Habitat for Humanity Philippines.
The blogs you find here will be a hodge-podge of what my eyes, ears and my other senses have experienced. Please join me in this adventure. Perhaps you can help me uncover the hidden treasures and lessons in life that we can together learn from.


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Italian speaking Customer Support Representative wanted here in Breda in the Netherlands for one of Europe's leading players in the travel industry. Help, guide and be aware of all that is out there to explore for travel plans.
All you need is a near native level of Italian, a good level of English & a minimum of 1 year's customer service experience.
Your Tasks:
All you need is a near native level of Italian, a good level of English & a minimum of 1 year's customer service experience.
Your Tasks:
- You will help customers by guiding them via phone, email and online chat with all queries and issues they may have when it comes to booking and/or confirming their travel plans.
- You will also get the chance to act as an advisory party on for the customers travel plans – recommending the best options possible.
- Keep yourself up to date on great package deals and the company's offerings.
Our Client:
Work for one of Europe's biggest players in the travel sector – a client of ours that helps make holidays and travel easier for their customers with their online portal to book tickets for travel and accommodations in easy steps.
Main Requirements:
You will need the following to qualify for this job:
- Near native level of Italian
- Good level of English
- Excellent communication skills (especially written skills)
- A strong empathetic nature
- 1-year customer service experience – ideally in the travel sector
- Previous GDS experience would be a big plus for your application (Amadeus/Galileo)
- OK with working in Shifts
Where is the job located?
Breda – The Netherlands –Live & work in a city that is known for its cosy and social feel thanks to the number of students living here. There is plenty of history to soak up here in Breda, a great nightlife, public transport and food. Let's go Breda!
Interview & Salary:
The interview will start off with either a phone or Skype interview and if successful you will be invited for a face-to-face here in Breda.
Salary: You can expect to earn between €1,600 - €1,800 gross per month along with exciting opportunities for career growth.
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Chris Mosby, the Lean Manager for Topper Industrial, recently explained how fork truck free lean initiatives start with reduced walk-time. According to Mosby, walking the plant floor or distribution center adds zero value. Value is only achieved at work locations, never between them. Poorly designed operations have pickers walking more than ten miles a day on the floor increasing errors, injuries, and declining productivity.
"Fork truck free environments do not eliminate all the walking, but allows a dramatic and quantifiable reduction in the walking 'commuting time' to collect and retrieve product. Inefficient designs make work difficult, less efficient, and is certainly not lean," shared Mosby.
Rather than having packing employees run for tape, filler, or other materials, fork truck free environments brings needed materials to the worker. Topper Industrial flow racks are instrumental in mobile storage options and efficient replenishment. Inventory needed for an assembly process is a lean principle; orders move through straight lines. This does not eliminate rework, changes, or customization; these can roll the needed stock to the work-in-process as needed, reducing the need for work-in-process or pending orders to shift place in the line.
To read more, go to: http://bit.ly/2vxPtET
About Topper Industrial
For more than twenty years, Topper Industrial, (www.TopperIndustrial.com) based just outside of Milwaukee, WI, has been a leader in the material handling equipment industry. The company's product roster features industrial carts, conveyors, lifts, lifts & tilts, shipping racks, containers, casters, and cart components. From mother-daughter carts to quad steer carts to tilt carts and rotate carts, Topper's material handling solutions make delivering material line side more effective through more efficient practices. Topper Industrial has a team of experienced professional experts able to assess and provide the right product for all material handling equipment requirements.
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Dan Gilbert: LeBron 'quit' during playoffs
He has gotten a free pass," Gilbert said in a phone interview with The AP. "People have covered up for [James] for way too long. Tonight we saw who he really is."
"He quit," Gilbert said. "Not just in Game 5, but in Games 2, 4 and 6. Watch the tape. The Boston series was unlike anything in the history of sports for a superstar."
"It's not about him leaving," Gilbert said. "It's the disrespect. It's time for people to hold these athletes accountable for their actions. Is this the way you raise your children? I've been holding this all in for a long time."
HoopsVibe`s Very Quick Call: I'm certain Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert will be receiving a phone call from Commissioner David Stern telling him to cool it.
Sure, LeBron James showed zero class by announcing he was leaving Cleveland for Miami on national television, embarrassing an owner, organization, city, and, state that has showered him with adulation and love for seven years.
And sure, James mailed it in against the Boston Celtics in the 2010 playoffs and was pretty mediocre against the Orlando Magic in the 2009 Eastern Conference Finals.
So Gilbert has a point, a very good one, in fact.
However, owners don't do this. Owners don't act like jilted lovers when things don't go their way. Owners don't write nasty letters to fans, essentially hexing the face of the league –even if it's totally justified.
Owners are supposed to model professionalism for fans, players, front office staff and, heck, even the guy pouring pints at Quicken Loans Arena.
By doing this, by stooping to James and Maverick Carter's level of nonsense, Gilbert has made it harder to attract a star(s) to replace The King.
After all, players talk. And James and his posse will put out the word to the fraternity of ballers that Gilbert is a micromanager, tyrant, and jerk.
This may or may not be true. The NBA is like life, though. Perception is reality. And the gossip will overshadow Gilbert's desire to win championships and his willingness to write multi-million dollar luxury tax cheques to achieve this end.
Right now, Gilbert, an Alpha Male billionaire, must do something out of character. He must turn the other cheek. He must take the high road.
If he can't stay somewhat silent, if he can't stay mum, then the businessman must immediately tone down the rhetoric and describe his frustration in a more appropriate and reasonable manner.
Gilbert is right: the people of Cleveland and Ohio deserved far better from James. Those same people also deserve far better from Gilbert, too.
— Oly Sandor.
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Denver Federal Center Hosts 7th Annual Electronic Recycling Event
July 18, 2013
More Than 19 Tons of E-waste Recycled
Delivering on its commitment to create a more sustainable government, the U.S. General Services Administration hosted its seventh federally organized home and office electronics recycling event and collected more than 19 tons of electronic waste. All DFC agencies and Lakewood residents were invited to drop off their electronics.
"GSA is proud to sponsor the seventh electronic waste recycling event on the Denver Federal Center campus," said Sue Damour, Rocky Mountain Regional Administrator. "Keeping e-waste out of landfills while providing data privacy through certified destruction supports the federal government's sustainability goals and boosts the DFC's goal of being the greenest campus in the country by 2020."
Participants were encouraged to bring all of their unwanted or broken electronic items such as:
- Printers and fax machines
- Keyboards and mice
- Stereo and network equipment
- Cell phones
- Servers
- Telecom equipment
- All business/office electronics
- Home computers
Recycling was free of charge with the exception of computer monitors and televisions. There was a five dollar recycling fee for monitors and $10 fee for televisions.
All GSA recycling vendors are certified and provide proof of safe destruction of all materials. This year, GSA partnered with Electronic Recyclers International, Inc., a local company with R2 and e-Stewards certifications.
Last year, the DFC recycled more than 17 tons of e-waste. This is the equivalent to keeping 152 cars off of the road annually, and saves 600 pounds of air pollution from our environment. The regional electronics recycling program is an educational platform for both federal employees and the general public on how to properly manage their electronic wastes.


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Histories of Herodotus
A history source of Persian Empire of Achaemenian era
By: Herodotus (c. 484 - 425 BCE); Translated by: George Rawlinson
[2.1] On the death of Cyrus, Cambyses his son by Cassandane daughter of Pharnaspes took the kingdom. Cassandane had died in the lifetime of Cyrus, who had made a great mourning for her at her death, and had commanded all the subjects of his empire to observe the like. Cambyses, the son of this lady and of Cyrus, regarding the Ionian and Aeolian Greeks as vassals of his father, took them with him in his expedition against Egypt among the other nations which owned his sway.
A history source of Persian Empire of Achaemenian era
By: Herodotus (c. 484 - 425 BCE); Translated by: George Rawlinson
[2.1] On the death of Cyrus, Cambyses his son by Cassandane daughter of Pharnaspes took the kingdom. Cassandane had died in the lifetime of Cyrus, who had made a great mourning for her at her death, and had commanded all the subjects of his empire to observe the like. Cambyses, the son of this lady and of Cyrus, regarding the Ionian and Aeolian Greeks as vassals of his father, took them with him in his expedition against Egypt among the other nations which owned his sway.
[2.90] Whensoever any one, Egyptian or foreigner, has lost his life by falling a prey to a crocodile, or by drowning in the river, the law compels the inhabitants of the city near which the body is cast up to have it embalmed, and to bury it in one of the sacred repositories with all possible magnificence. No one may touch the corpse, not even any of the friends or relatives, but only the priests of the Nile, who prepare it for burial with their own hands - regarding it as something more than the mere body of a man - and themselves lay it in the tomb.
[3.30] And now Cambyses, who even before had not been quite in his right mind, was forthwith, as the Egyptians say, smitten with madness for this crime. The first of his outrages was the slaying of Smerdis, his full brother, whom he had sent back to Persia from Egypt out of envy, because he drew the bow brought from the Ethiopians by the Icthyophagi (which none of the other Persians were able to bend) the distance of two fingers' breadth. When Smerdis was departed into Persia, Cambyses had a vision in his sleep - he thought a messenger from Persia came to him with tidings that Smerdis sat upon the royal throne and with his head touched the heavens. Fearing therefore for himself, and thinking it likely that his brother would kill him and rule in his stead, Cambyses sent into Persia Prexaspes, whom he trusted beyond all the other Persians, bidding him put Smerdis to death.
So this Prexaspes went up to Susa and slew Smerdis.
Some say he killed him as they hunted together, others, that he took him down to the Erythraean Sea, and there drowned him.
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"You can't make any excuses for Jacob wrestling with the Man of God - you can't excuse that away!
Hell, you don't wrestle with God's Man and hold up God's business!
'Israel' is not a good name - his name was 'Jacob' at first; he became [across] the Man of God, beats The Man, holds The Man, fights The Man, holds The Man up all night long, and tells The Man
'Look, I ain't gonna let you go until you give me something...'
And he gave him a name, 'Israel'
[Fights/Strives with (a) god (Is-Ra-El) ] -
now you have to deal with what that name means..."
- Bro. Minister Khalid Abdul Muhammad
[2.2] Now the Egyptians, before the reign of their king Psammetichus, believed themselves to be the most ancient of mankind. Since Psammetichus, however, made an attempt to discover who were actually the primitive race, they have been of opinion that while they surpass all other nations, the Phrygians surpass them in antiquity. This king, finding it impossible to make out by dint of inquiry what men were the most ancient, contrived the following method of discovery:- He took two children of the common sort, and gave them over to a herdsman to bring up at his folds, strictly charging him to let no one utter a word in their presence, but to keep them in a sequestered cottage, and from time to time introduce goats to their apartment, see that they got their fill of milk, and in all other respects look after them. His object herein was to know, after the indistinct babblings of infancy were over, what word they would first articulate. It happened as he had anticipated. The herdsman obeyed his orders for two years, and at the end of that time, on his one day opening the door of their room and going in, the children both ran up to him with outstretched arms, and distinctly said "Becos." When this first happened the herdsman took no notice; but afterwards when he observed, on coming often to see after them, that the word was constantly in their mouths, he informed his lord, and by his command brought the children into his presence. Psammetichus then himself heard them say the word, upon which he proceeded to make inquiry what people there was who called anything "becos," and hereupon he learnt that "becos" was the Phrygian name for bread. In consideration of this circumstance the Egyptians yielded their claims, and admitted the greater antiquity of the Phrygians.
[2.3] That these were the real facts I learnt at Memphis from the priests of Vulcan. The Greeks, among other foolish tales, relate that Psammetichus had the children brought up by women whose tongues he had previously cut out; but the priests said their bringing up was such as I have stated above. I got much other information also from conversation with these priests while I was at Memphis, and I even went to Heliopolis and to Thebes, expressly to try whether the priests of those places would agree in their accounts with the priests at Memphis. The Heliopolitans have the reputation of being the best skilled in history of all the Egyptians. What they told me concerning their religion it is not my intention to repeat, except the names of their deities, which I believe all men know equally. If I relate anything else concerning these matters, it will only be when compelled to do so by the course of my narrative.
[2.4] Now with regard to mere human matters, the accounts which they gave, and in which all agreed, were the following. The Egyptians, they said, were the first to discover the solar year, and to portion out its course into twelve parts. They obtained this knowledge from the stars. (To my mind they contrive their year much more cleverly than the Greeks, for these last every other year intercalate a whole month, but the Egyptians, dividing the year into twelve months of thirty days each, add every year a space of five days besides, whereby the circuit of the seasons is made to return with uniformity.) The Egyptians, they went on to affirm, first brought into use the names of the twelve gods, which the Greeks adopted from them; and first erected altars, images, and temples to the gods; and also first engraved upon stone the figures of animals. In most of these cases they proved to me that what they said was true. And they told me that the first man who ruled over Egypt was Min, and that in his time all Egypt, except the Thebaic canton, was a marsh, none of the land below Lake Moeris then showing itself above the surface of the water. This is a distance of seven days' sail from the sea up the river.
[2.5] What they said of their country seemed to me very reasonable. For any one who sees Egypt, without having heard a word about it before, must perceive, if he has only common powers of observation, that the Egypt to which the Greeks go in their ships is an acquired country, the gift of the river. The same is true of the land above the lake, to the distance of three days' voyage, concerning which the Egyptians say nothing, but which exactly the same kind of country. [Kush]
The following is the general character of the region. In the first place, on approaching it by sea, when you are still a day's sail from the land, if you let down a sounding-line you will bring up mud, and find yourself in eleven fathoms' water, which shows that the soil washed down by the stream extends to that distance.


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Grand Opening: April 4, 1997... Braves defeat Cubs, 5-4.
Location: Between Ralph David Abernathy on the north, Hank Aaron Drive on the east, Bill Lucas Drive on the south and Pollard Boulevard on the west. It's near the junction of I-75-85 and I-20.
Seating: Three levels supported by four concourses. A cross-aisle walkway divides the lower concourse. Field-level and dugout seats are below the cross-aisle, the terrace level above it. The second level, the Club Level, includes 58 private suites, three party suites and the 755 Club, the ballpark's private membership club. The third, or upper, level does not go all around the park, providing the fans there with a view of the downtown Atlanta skyline.
Playing Field: Prescription Athletic Turf, featuring a state-of-the-art mechanical drainage system and hybrid Bermuda grass. The turf for the playing field is grown in an area below the scoreboard beyond the center-field wall.
Parking: 8,500 official spaces. The lot on the site of Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium contains an outline of the playing field, including markers for home plate, the bases and the location of Hank Aaron's record-breaking 715th home run.
Disabled Seating: The entire ballpark is wheelchair-accessible and compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act. More than one percent of the total seating capacity is allocated for disabled seating.
Ballpark Firsts: First pitch by Denny Neagle at 7:47 p.m.... The Cubs' Brian McRae was the first batter... Kenny Lofton was the first Braves' batter... First hit was by Chipper Jones... Michael Tucker had the first home run... Chipper Jones had the first stolen base... Brad Clontz secured the first victory and Mark Wohlers recorded the first save.... First error was by Fred McGriff.
Home of the 1996 Summer Olympic Games: Olympic Stadium, built just south of Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium, was retrofitted into a baseball-only, open-air, natural grass facility between September 1996 and April 1997. Grand Entry Plaza, the main entrance to Turner Field, was built after 35,000 seats and part of the track-and-field complex of the Olympic Stadium were removed. AFC Stadium was imploded in August of 1997 and the site is now a parking lot.


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Review: PSB Imagine W3 soundbar and W1 on-wall speaker
Calling the PSB Imagine W3 a soundbar is like calling the Red Bull RB6 F1 racer a car. Technically, the description is correct. But the item in question differs so much from most in its category that the comparison seems silly.
Most soundbars sell for less than $300 in discount retail chains. You can lift them between your thumb and forefinger. They use plastic enclosures, inexpensive drivers, and low-powered internal amplifiers. Many mass-market soundbars don't have tweeters, and those that do use simple crossovers, typically just one capacitor connected with the tweeter.
The Imagine W3 sells for $1,199, mostly at independent audio/video dealers. Its aluminum enclosure houses the same high-quality drivers found in PSB's other Imagine Series speakers. Complex, costly Linkwitz-Riley crossovers tune the response. The W3 handles only the left, center, and right channels of a surround-sound system; you'll have to add a receiver, a subwoofer, and surround speakers. It weighs 15.4 pounds.
PSB founder and chief designer Paul Barton stresses that the W3 does not use audio processing to expand its sound out beyond its edges. "I'm going for sound balance rather than trickery," he told me. He extended this purist approach to his measurements, attaching his W3 prototypes to a baffle that conforms to IEC specifications so that he could compensate for the acoustical effects of wall-mounting.
The W3 incorporates three separate speakers, each with its own internal enclosure. The left and right speakers each have a 1-inch titanium dome tweeter, a 4-inch polypropylene/ceramic cone woofer, and a 4-inch passive radiator. The center speaker has two radiators, two woofers, and one tweeter. Barton designed the center to be 3 dB more sensitive than the left and right speakers, thus achieving double the headroom with the same power in this all-important, dialogue-conveying channel.The Imagine W1 on-wall speaker uses the same drivers as the center section of the W3. It can serve as a surround speaker for the W3, or you could set up an all-W1 system with three W1s taking the place of one W3. Because W1s used for left and right channels can be spaced as far apart as you like, they can create a broader soundstage than the W3.
On one hand, I admire Barton's purism. On the other hand, in a market where most manufacturers add extra drivers, crosstalk cancellation, and SRS and other sound-processing technologies in an effort to make their bars sound bigger, I wonder how customers will react to a soundbar that makes no attempt to be anything more than what it is.
For my test system, PSB sent a W3 and two W1s. The W3 plays down to only about 85 Hz, not even as deep as the lowest note on a guitar, so a subwoofer is mandatory. I also received PSB's SubSeries 200 ($649), a sub with a 10-inch driver, to use with the W3 and W1s, but you can use whatever sub suits your taste. In this review, I'll focus on the W3, but you I've included full measurements of the SubSonic 200 later in this review.
The W3 can be wall-mounted, but it also comes with two small feet that allow it to sit atop a table. I attached the feet and placed it on two 28-inch stands right up against the wall below my projection screen. While PSB does provide a couple of feet that allow the W1 to sit horizontally on a table for use as a center speaker, surprisingly there's no way to stand the speaker vertically on its own; it must be wall-mounted for vertical use. I attached the W1s to the side walls, just a little behind my listening chair, with the bottoms of the speakers about 3.5 feet off the floor.
With the speakers in place and connected to my AudioControl Savoy amplifier, and the SubSonic 200 in the "subwoofer sweet spot" along my front wall, all that was left to do was set the crossover point and balance the levels on my Outlaw Model 975 surround processor. I tried using the industry-standard 80-Hz crossover point but found that it reduced bass energy in the crossover region; 100 Hz worked better.


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Olivine Atelier Lotion Giveaway!
Calling all compassionate cuties! Get ready to swoon over your new favorite beauty line, no joke. Olivine Atelier is gonna be your new BFF. TRUST. My homegirl Ashlee from The Little Foxes recently recommended I give Olivine a whirl. She hooked me up with a sample pack of perfumes with all six of their scents, and OMG, they are to die for! When she followed up to ask which scent was my fave, I was stumped. It's like someone asking you which fur baby is your fave – I LOVE THEM ALL! 🙂
Each scent has a beautiful name accompanied with a introspective, heartfelt description. For instance, "More Than The Stars" goes like a-so: "How much love can a human heart hold? How far is its reach, how deep its depth? What keeps us here, now – the fathomless unending love we have for our children, for each other – and hopefully, one day – ourselves. Our love is around the world and back again – it's More Than The Stars." BTW, this scent has a hint of Almond, with middle notes of lush Stargazer Lily and soft Gardenia and base note of Egyptian Musk and fresh Sandalwood, accented by essential Vanilla and Brazilian Vetiver "which add both an anchor and a sensuality to a fragrance that can be worn both during the brightest of days, and into the deepest of those star filled nights". Now, that's some sexy ish right there! **SWOON** Be still my beauty junkie lovin' heart. ♥
Olivine's entire line is vegan and cruelty-free, and yes, they make DIVINE, gorgeous smellies, but they also have a luxurious line of "You Are Beautiful" lotions! Talk about a proper daily affirmation… this skincare essential is the perfect way to treat yourself like the vegan beauty goddess that you are! Available scents (for perfume and lotion): Amongst the Waves, Bluebird, Full Regalia, More Than the Stars, Olivine, Oxley, and She Belongs There.
Now for the fun part! Olivine and I are giving one of these bottles of lotion away on VBR! You get to pick whichever scent you like, too, so please check out Olivine's website and read the descriptions to see which one you'd like best. Enter to win below. Good luck! xoxo
About Sunny (Sunny's Profile)Longtime vegan, hardcore compassionate beauty junkie, serious cake aficionado, and lover of all things floofy and sparkly! If there's something in particular you'd like me to review, drop me a line at firstname.lastname@example.com. You can also find me on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, and Google +.
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I'd like to try Amongst the Waves – perfect for summer
They all sound great and perfect to rub on my pregnant belly!
More than the stars.
Definitely "She Belongs There" I love pikake!
Thanks for the giveaway)))
I'd choose the She Belongs There Lotion
The scents sound wonderful for the Olivine Atelier Lotion. I would love to try the Amongst The Waves Lotion first.
All of the lotions look amazing, but I think I'd go with More Than The Stars if I had to pick just one 🙂
I would be grateful to win any of them. Thank you
I want to try Amongst The Waves.
I'd love to try More Than the Stars! Thank you for another giveaway opportunity! I was excited to see another one in my inbox. Did you already announce the winner of the other one?
I'd love to try Full Regalia!
I would like to try more than the stars, after checking out Olivine's website there were definitely be an order of the perfume oil sample set in my near future.
I think I would really enjoy Bluebird. Thank you for the chance
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Amongst the waves sounds good. 🙂
All of the fragrances sound gorgeous, but I think I would choose More Than The Stars.
I would love to try this since I've been trying to find a vegan perfume. This would be great for me to try out!! 🙂
I would like to try More Than the Stars.
I'd like to win the Oxley lotion
I'd love to try most of them, but the one I'd pick first is Bluebird. This brand looks awesome!
Thanks for this review, I've just recently started my lifestyle as a vegan, so I've been replacing all the products I have. I had trouble finding lotions, so this is definitely helpful! I haven't tried any of these lotions, but the Bluebird one caught my interest. (Mostly because the name to be honest!) Either way, I really appreciate your reviews!
Thanks for doing this giveaway, pretty mama. Best perfume eva. xo
I wish I could smell them in person but Bluebird made with orange sounds sweet!
Oxley looks so intriguing! I'd love to try it out!
Definitely I'd go for More than the Stars. Thanks for the giveaway!