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"HUNTINGDONSHIRE, (or Hunts), an inland county of England, situated in the east lowlands, between 52° 8' and 62° 36' north lat., and 0° 3' east and 0° 30' west long. In shape it somewhat resembles a lozenge, being 30 miles in length from north to south, and about 23 miles in its shorter diagonal from east to west. In size it is one of the smallest of the English counties, only Middlesex and Rutland being less, and one only, Rutland, having fewer inhabitants." (There is more of this description).
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Parishes of birth were not recorded in the 1841 Census, although an indication 'Y' or 'N' was given as to whether they were born within the county. For those under the age of 14 the exact age is given, but the ages of those aged 15 or more are rounded down to the nearest 5 years below - so someone who stated he was 19 would have been recorded as 15. From the 1851 census the information is more meaningful.
The dates of UK Censuses are:
1841 - 7th June.
1851 - 30th March.
1861 - 7th April.
1871 - 2nd April.
1881 - 3rd April.
1891 - 5th April.
1901 - 31st March.
1911 - 2nd April.
1921 - 19th June.
1931 - 26th April.
The GRO District volume numbers for Huntingdonshire are:
1837 to 1852 - Vol. 14
1852 to 1946 - Vol. 3b
1946 to 1974 - Vol. 4B
1974 to date - Vol 9.
The availability of census information for the Huntingdonshire parishes is given on each Towns and Parishes page, and some can be obtained from the Huntingdonshire FHS).
Census information in the UK is increasingly being transcribed onto the Internet by the Free BDM Project which is searchable.
Finally, several parishes on the north-western edge were assigned to Thrapston, Oundle and Stamford Registration Districts, and others on the south-eastern edge to the Cambridgeshire Registration District of Caxton.
These points need to be borne in mind, in particular by users of civil registration and Poor Law records.
Civil registration information in the UK is increasingly being transcribed onto the Internet by the Free BDM Project which is searchable.
Brett Langston has provided details of Registration Districts 1837-1930.
Certificates of birth, death and marriage which occured in Huntingdonshire, can be obtained from the Superintendent Registrar at the following District Register Offices:
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(b) the GRO (formerly the St. Catherine's) Index references are of no value.
(c) for marriage certificates, the precise place of marriage must be given.
(d) Civil Registration in England and Wales began on July 1st 1837.
Certificates can also be obtained centrally by post from the UK Office of National Statistics directly.
There is a listing of marriages for 1856 Quarter 1 for District 3b for Huntingdonshire.
Whatever the benefits of the 1974 amalgamation with Cambridgeshire (and, if nothing else, there were certainly improvements in the care and use of local archives), the loss of the old county was keenly felt. The name Huntingdonshire was only briefly suppressed, as in 1984 the lower tier of English local government, which had itself been created out of the amalgamation of several borough, rural and urban authorities in 1974, cast off its name of the Huntingdon District Council, and renamed itself the Huntingdonshire District Council. In 1992, with the government committed to simplifying local administration, there existed the possibility that the District would win the argument to become a unitary authority, and so in effect regain county status. This hope still exists.
To equate modern Huntingdonshire with the county of our ancestors, however, is deceptive. Whilst the changes have not been on the scale or complexity of those affecting metropolitan areas, a modern road atlas contains pitfalls for the unwary who may use it as a guide to the ancient boundaries of the county.
As the amalgamations of 1965 and 1974 will have implied, Huntingdonshire was a small ancient county; only Middlesex (now absorbed into London) and Rutland (which had been amalgamated with Leicestershire in 1974, but has now been restored) were smaller. Its greatest dimensions were 30 miles north-to-south and 23 miles west-to-east, in a very crude diamond. These proportions are reflected in the basis of the lozenge in the county arms.
The medieval division of the county was into four Hundreds: Norman Cross, Leightonstone, Hurstingstone, and Toseland - representing (remarkably tidily) the northern, western, eastern and southern quarters of the county respectively. The hundredal division was actively used for many purposes into the 19th Century (including, for example, the 1841 Census) and for taxation and judicial purposes lasting even longer.
At the lowest administrative level, (i.e. the parish) some ancient anomalies were ironed out in the late 19 th Century. The detached Huntingdonshire parish of Swineshead, an island within Bedfordshire, was exchanged for the Bedfordshire parish of Tilbrook which formerly jutted into Huntingdonshire. Further north, the county boundary which ran through the parishes of Winwick, Luddington, Thurning and Lutton, was regularised, assigning Winwick wholly to Huntingdonshire and the others wholly to Northamptonshire. It was not until 1965 that a detached part of Tetworth at the southern tips of the county, including within it the parish church of Everton-cum-Tetworth, was transferred to Bedfordshire. At the same time a large part of Eaton Socon parish, across the river from St Neots, was transferred to Huntingdonshire from Bedfordshire. Family Historians beware!
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Each Poor Law Union established a Workhouse to provide indoor relief for the poor, however, many other Huntingdonshire parishes were included in the Poor Law Unions of other counties.
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First fruits and tenths were payments made to the Pope by beneficed clergymen. In 1534 in England these were acquired by the King under Act. Various exemptions were made in 1535, 1536, 1558, 1706 and 1707. In 1703 an Act was passed enabling Queen Anne to employ these moneys in augmenting poor benefices, and since then they have been known as Queen Anne's Bounty, and have been administered by commissioners, first appointed in 1704. Existing legislation regarding Queen Anne's Bounty are Acts of 1703, 1716, 1777, 1780, 1801, 1803,1805, 1830, 1837, 1838, 1839, 1840, 1846, 1865, 1870, 1874, 1875, 1881, 1890, 1894, 1908. The Acts known as Queen Anne's Bounty Acts are those of 1703, 1716, 1803, 1838, 1840 and 1870.


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Vegard Stake Laengen (Team Type I) worked hard to win the Quebec City stage of the 27th Tour de Beauce, beating out Russell Hampton (Raleigh) and Liam Holohan (Raleigh). Nonetheless, leaders in the overall rankings held their positions. Rory Sutherland (United HealthCare) kept the yellow jersey, still 19 seconds ahead of Hugo Houle (Spidertech), who held on to second place. Christian Meier (national team) is in third and 43 seconds behind the leader.
"We worked very hard for him," said teammate Francois Parisien. "We wanted to make sure he was always protected from the wind. On Champlain Boulevard, I stayed beside him so he wouldn't be disturbed. When he needed water, we would get some for him."
Hugo Houle, who held on to the red jersey as the best young rider, really appreciated his team's hard work. "Francis did a great job. I needed to come down the side of the mountain with the overall leaders and that's exactly what happened. It was important that I be well placed at the bottom of the hill and Martin Gilbert gave it his all to make it happen. Then, some 300 meters from the finish, Ryan Roth took over allowing me to conserve my position. Everything has gone according to plan and the last stage will be really exciting. UnitedHealthcare's team is very strong and the race will be intense. For sure, we will have to give it tour all to win."
The yellow jersey holder, Rory Sutherland, was not surprised at how the race unfolded. "The Quebec City stage is pretty serious. It's very difficult and you have to know how to work with the team."
Russell Hampton, who came in second for the Quebec City stage, led several attacks in the breakaway of nine riders that occurred during the stage's second of 13 laps. "I failed last time," he said, remembering how he had gone over 140 kilometers during the Mont Mégantic stage Thursday before the pack caught up with him. "I had good legs today and I also wanted to break from the pack, because I found it more dangerous to ride with the big group during the breakaway. The circuit is very difficult, but I'm known as an aggressive rider and I proved that today."
Norwegian Stake Laengen Vangard had his first taste of victory in a cycling race as winner of the stage. "The race was tough and I had no choice but to give it my all to gain some time. I was afraid that the pack would catch up to us."
Tomorrow will be the last stage of the Tour de Beauce with a street circuit through the streets of Saint-George.


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text: Family, Maximize, The M Challenge, Time Management Making Face Time a Family Priority When my children were small, it seemed that all they wanted to do was play with me, draw with me, and read with me. As they get older, it seems that all they want to do is play on the computer, play on the DS, and play on the Wii… and not with me? What a change in priorities it has been to be so low on the activities totem pole! I say this tongue in cheek, of course, because I am just as guilty as my kids of making screen time more of a priority than it should be. I could spend hours on my phone checking all of my social networks and being disconnected from the three people that love me most in my life. One evening I looked around and saw each of us in our respective corners with our screens and I knew that something had to change. I want my children to have their downtime after school, but I also want us spending time together as a family. I wanted to share with you our solutions for making family time a priority again. Declare Face Time When my kids get home from school it is time for snacks and homework. After that, they are free to do screen time alone until 5PM. At 5PM, I declare it, "FACE TIME!" Face time is not FaceTime on the iPhone, instead it means that we will have time together as a family until bedtime. It means having a family meal together with great family conversation, reading books together, playing a board game, or spending an evening playing outside together. I thought Face Time was a genius idea, but the first night my husband looked at me and said, "So we are ALL supposed to not be on the computer?" Yes, admittedly, I had to flip my phone upside down because each time the screen popped up; I was dying to know what was happening in the world. The two people that had the hardest time were the two of us and the kids took the change in routine surprisingly well. Do Screen Time Together If we use screen time during our Face Time it must be all done together. Some evenings we spend an evening Wii bowling together and other evenings it is a night of wild dancing on our Just Dance game. I will admit that I often request a rousing round of Band Hero so I can sing with my very own Partridge Family. We recently added a new screen time feature to our family that we are all absolutely loving. For about seven years now, I have made homemade pizza every Friday night for our evening meal and we have watched a family movie. In the last few months we have changed our pizza night to a, "Docu-Pizza," night that we have all come to look forward to together. The evening consists of 1 pizza, 1 documentary, and 1 great family conversation afterwards. We have exposed the kids to lots of different cultures and watched documentaries about everything from the art of origami to puppetry to a senior citizen dance crew. It has led to amazing discussions and allowed us to use our screen time in a way that benefits our whole family. If you are looking for some fun documentaries to add to your family viewing, be sure to follow my Reality Bites Pinterest Board for some fun movie suggestions to incorporate into your very own Docu-Pizza Night. Screen time done together connects us and the kids are learning to include us in the gaming fun instead of doing the games on their own. Use a Screen Time Monitoring System I find it is much easier to monitor screen time hours during the school year since the kids are in school during the day. In the summer months is when screen time can really get out of control. I wanted a way to monitor their screen time so we decided to create a printable ticket that could be used for just this occasion. These tech tickets have made us all more aware of how much screen time we are using and have been a great way for us to monitor the amount they are getting. Each child gets one chore ticket and two tech tickets for the week in our house. The chore ticket must be punched before they can start with their first hour of screen time. Tech tickets grant the child one hour of computer or video game time. We do not count television time as tech time in our house. Kids can watch 2 shows daily on Netflix. We no longer have cable television so that has really helped us do a better job of not zoning out on the television. A timer is set and once it dings, the card is punched for that hour. It is as simple as that! We made an agreement that if the child wants to save computer/video game time that they can save and transfer the hours to another day. They can not, however, cash in on an advance on their ticket. Go Paperless With An Affordable Internet Monitoring System My husband did hours and hours of research on an internet monitoring system because we have worried about the types of media our children are viewing, but we couldn't find anything that fit our family's needs. These blockers for our kids created blockers for me all day trying to do my job and I didn't know how to reset the blockers my husband enabled. Potential monitoring systems would not work with our router so this is the crappy "block you from everything," solution that we had come up with for now. That is…. until we discovered Circle. It is an internet monitoring system that not only blocks potentially harmful content, but it also tracks your child's hours, sets their devices to bedtime at your chosen bedtime hour, and it allows you to pause the internet to spend time with your family. I received a beta unit and would love to walk you through it. Even though I am a blogger, I can admit that I am not very tech savvy. Watch the video to see how easy it was to set up for our family! Here are 4 Awesome things you can EASILY do with Circle: 1. Set appropriate filters for EACH DEVICE. Use the pre-designed ones or customize your own. 2. Track where your family is spending their time online. 3. Give your devices a BED TIME! 4. PAUSE the internet! Yes. you. can. We are so excited to finally have control again in our house and can't recommend it enough! My husband and I keep shaking our heads as we see the kids getting back to the root of playing together again. Without the screen distractions, they are playing more outside, playing more together, reading, and creating more. It makes my heart happy to see them getting back to this again and embracing imaginative play. This is what being a child is about and this is what being a family is about. I am glad we are rediscovering these simple pleasures again. How do you make Face Time a family priority in your house? *This post contains an affiliate link, but I only promote things I believe will add value to your life. Pin It Published May 14, 2015 by: Amy Allen Clark is the founder of MomAdvice.com. You can read all about her here.


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This is the con we have been waiting for all year! Yaoi-Con is a very special convention that celebrates and fully explores the fantasy of two men in hot, steamy romance for the female fans (and some of the men too). This weekend marks their 10th year Anniversary! We, the Con Crashers, have eagerly anticipated this event… and this year, we're an official group! Yaoi-Con this year was held in the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Burlingame. The previous year's convention was held in the Marriott Hotel in San Mateo, which was half the size of the current venue. It was a big change, and was for the best… as a lot of the events were held in bigger rooms.
My fellow Con Crashers got to the hotel Friday evening, and prepped our official room party. I arrived later, put on my cosplay, and handed out party flyers. I was finally cosplaying an original character, the Yaoi Mistress. After some modifications, I was happy with the outfit overall… as were the people who took pictures of me! After we handed out enough flyers to get a good amount of people in our room, we decided to walk around the con and check out the Bishie Bingo event. After bingo was done, we went back to our room and organized where the alcohol should go. Our room became packed with cosplayers, bishie boys and other random visitors in no time. Overall, we all had a brilliant time entertaining our guests, chatting and drinking, recruited a bartender for our "bathroom bar", and just having a blast.
Saturday quickly became flooded with cosplayers, and I walked around the convention checking out the Dealer's room and the Fan Market (the place for local artists show casing and selling their art). I checked out Scuttlebutt, HamletMachine (a well known DA artist and creator of the web comic series Star Fighter), and Ponderosa. We spent a lot of time walking around, killing time before the huge Bishie Auction began.
This event is focused around hot, pretty men who do skits and are auctioned off to the highest bidder. They hang out with their buyer till about 3:00am. I was impressed with some of skits these lovely boys were doing, especially the one where a Hollow Ichigo cosplayer from Bleach simply came up on stage and showed off his very well muscled body while the song "I'm Too Sexy" from Right Said Fred was playing. However, the biggest surprise was having two popular Japanese voice actors (Hidenobu Kiuchi, and Ryoutarou Okiayu) being auctioned off! The audience quickly became ecstatic, and bidding went through the roof!
One lucky group outbidded another group for exactly $11,000 dollars… I was flabbergasted! Even our own Con Crashers were part of the Bishie auction. The creator and founder of Con Crashers Andrew, and fellow Con Crashers Josh and John did a skit while cosplaying three soviet Russians. Andrew portrayed a gay Stalin, and used "visual" aides to the Russian soldiers for Siberian Winter combat with hilarious results. Alas, all good things must come to an end. Sunday was our last day, and we said our goodbyes to the people we've met and parted ways.
Yaoi-Con was the best con we've crashed by far, and the room party we threw was the best part of the convention. Please keep your eyes open for the Con Crashers when we update again for our next anime convention. Till then, adieu!


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The Tea Party does not have a presence in Indonesia, where the term evokes cups of orange pekoe and sweet cakes rather than angry citizens in "Don't Tread on Me" T-shirts.
But a Tea Party group in the United States, the Institute for Liberty, has vigorously defended the freedom of a giant Indonesian paper company to sell its wares to Americans without paying tariffs. The institute set up Web sites, published reports and organized a petition drive attacking American businesses, unions and environmentalists critical of the company, Asia Pulp & Paper.
Last fall, the institute's president, Andrew Langer, had himself videotaped on Long Wharf in Boston holding a copy of the Declaration of Independence as he compared Washington's proposed tariff on paper from Indonesia and China to Britain's colonial trade policies in 1776.
Tariff-free Asian paper may seem an unlikely cause for a nonprofit Tea Party group. But it is in keeping with a succession of pro-business campaigns — promoting commercial space flight, palm oil imports and genetically modified alfalfa — that have occupied the Institute for Liberty's recent agenda.
The Tea Party movement is as deeply skeptical of big business as it is of big government. Yet an examination of the Institute for Liberty shows how Washington's influence industry has adapted itself to the Tea Party era. In a quietly arranged marriage of seemingly disparate interests, the institute and kindred groups are increasingly the bearers of corporate messages wrapped in populist Tea Party themes.
In a few instances, their corporate partners are known — as with the billionaire Koch brothers' support of Americans for Prosperity, one of the most visible advocacy groups. More often, though, their nonprofit tax status means they do not have to reveal who pays the bills.
Mr. Langer would not say who financed his Indonesian paper initiative. But his sudden interest in the issue coincided with a public relations push by Asia Pulp & Paper. And the institute's work is remarkably similar to that produced by one of the company's consultants, a former Australian diplomat named Alan Oxley who works closely with a Washington public affairs firm known for creating corporate campaigns presented as grass-roots efforts.
For the institute, the embrace of a foreign conglomerate's agenda is a venture into new territory — and distinguishes it among Tea Party advocacy groups. The issue, Mr. Langer asserted, is important to working Americans who might have to pay more for everything from children's books to fried-chicken buckets made of coated paper from Asia. He said the institute had not accepted money directly from Asia Pulp & Paper, though it was possible the company had paid others who then contributed to the institute.
"I suppose it could be," he said, but added, "I don't know about anybody else who may have gotten money from Asia Pulp & Paper who's given money to us."
Those on the receiving end of the institute's attacks — strange bedfellows like Greenpeace, Staples and Asia Pulp & Paper's American competitors — are unified in their skepticism of its motives.
"If you can spend as much money as you want and remain anonymous, then it doesn't matter if you're an overseas company or the Koch brothers, you pay the same network of anti-regulatory front groups," said Scott Paul, director of Greenpeace's forest campaign.
Seeing Tea Party Potential
Like many other nonprofit organizations on the Tea Party bandwagon, the Institute of Liberty predates the movement. It was created in 2005 by Jason Wright, an author of best-selling inspirational novels who had worked for Frontiers of Freedom, a conservative policy group.
In his three years at the institute, Mr. Wright said in an interview, he was often approached by public relations consultants pitching projects for clients. Typical, he said, were overtures from two consultants who wanted him to advocate for opposing positions on the regulation of "payday" loans, widely criticized for usurious terms that hurt low-income borrowers.
"A P.R. firm in D.C. offered me a ton of money to take the wrong side of that issue," he said. "I did end up taking some corporate donations from the side of the issue I believed in — that the industry had completely lost control and had to be reined in."
One of his most visible stands was opposing net neutrality, a tenet of Internet policy criticized by broadband suppliers who want the right to charge for different levels of service. With the rise of the Tea Party movement in 2009, the institute, by then under Mr. Langer, helped inject the issue into the national dialogue, and soon signs equating net neutrality with government oppression became a staple at Tea Party rallies.
Mr. Langer had arrived the previous year from the National Federation of Independent Business, a small-business lobbying group. An enthusiastic, talkative man of 40 who dabbles in Republican politics in Maryland, he quickly saw potential in the Tea Party phenomenon. Working with FreedomWorks and Americans for Prosperity, the institute co-sponsored early Tea Party events in Washington and published a guide called "How to Brew a Tea Party."
Mr. Langer can seem disarmingly candid when discussing his work. In a recent interview, he explained how the institute pitched its services to opponents of the Obama health care plan, resulting in a $1 million advertising blitz.
"A donor gave us some money, and we went out on the ground in five states in the space of like six weeks," he said.
He would not identify any donors, and, as a nonprofit "social welfare" organization, the institute does not have to release such information. Because the institute is a tax-exempt group, its I.R.S. filings are supposed to be publicly available, but Mr. Langer said returns for the last couple of years were being amended and refiled. The last available filing showed it took in $92,500 in 2007 — a fraction of what it has spent since on several major campaigns.
He said he had sometimes chosen issues suggested by colleagues from an earlier job, at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a free-market group heavily financed by business interests. The two institutes are involved in a campaign advocating a realignment of NASA's budget that would benefit commercial spaceflight entrepreneurs. The Institute of Liberty's contribution was a Web page called "No Space Pork!"
Last year, the two groups also supported the effort by the agribusiness giant Monsanto to ease federal restrictions on its pesticide-resistant alfalfa. (In February, regulators agreed to do so.) Mr. Langer said he decided "to try out our grass-roots method on that, and frame it as a dairy issue and access to affordable food."
He got a column published in July in the Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call, talking up Monsanto's product and asking readers to consider the value of bioengineered foods as they "stroll down the aisle of the supermarket." The institute's Web site urged members to speak up, and Mr. Langer filed a petition with the Department of Agriculture.
But a close look at that petition illustrates how a "grass-roots" campaign may be something else entirely. He submitted 8,052 comments he said were collected by telephone. The comments, under different names, were identical and began: "I was recently contacted by the Institute for Liberty and asked if I would be willing to lend my voice in support of moving these types of alfalfa to nonregulated status." The New York Times examined a random sample of 50 names, and found that three of the people were dead when the comments were submitted. Others said they had no idea their names had been used.
"I vaguely remember responding to a survey as to whether or not the affordability of food for my family was important to me," said Romeyn Jenkins of Iowa. "But that is far different than setting myself up as an authority on specific genetically engineered crops and authorizing my name for submission on form letters."
Told of these findings, Mr. Langer said, "That's news to me," and attributed them to errors by a consultant he retained to solicit the petitions, whom he would not identify. "Naturally," he said, "the law of averages dictates that not everything will be perfect, and I will contact the vendor about that."
Taking On Tariffs
Mr. Langer's latest initiative, defending Asian paper imports, is the central theme of his project called the Consumers Alliance for Global Prosperity, started with Frontiers of Freedom.
Domestic paper companies and their employee unions, complaining that China and Indonesia were subsidizing exported paper products, petitioned federal trade officials several years ago to slap tariffs on them. The main target, Asia Pulp & Paper, is also under attack for its logging practices; several big retailers have stopped selling its paper.
Last year, with a tariff decision looming, Asia Pulp & Paper went on the offensive. It deployed lobbyists and retained Mr. Oxley, the Australian who runs a Washington-based policy group, World Growth International, which has long defended commercial forestry and palm oil interests in Southeast Asia.
World Growth issued a report last June, "Green Protectionism," asserting that groups like Greenpeace colluded with American labor unions and paper manufacturers to hobble Asian paper imports. In September, Asia Pulp & Paper released an Oxley review criticizing a Greenpeace study of the company's logging practices.
Three days later, Mr. Langer came out with his own detailed report that hewed to these same themes, and put up a Web site, pulpwars.com, to promote it. Titled "Empires of Collusion," it reads like a brief for Asia Pulp & Paper and has been followed by reports on subjects like palm oil and American paper industry subsidies that are important to Asia Pulp & Paper and its parent company, Sinar Mas. He has worked these issues into podcasts, Facebook postings and opinion columns, often with a folksy Tea Party-friendly twist.
"More regulation and U.S. corporate welfare do not benefit American consumers, Asian companies or those in Southeast Asia who desperately need employment," he said.
Although some of his material cites Asia Pulp & Paper, Mr. Langer insists that he had not even heard of the company when he was setting up Consumers Alliance last August to call attention to free trade and affordability of products. He decided to do its first campaign on paper imports, he said, because the tariffs — which were approved in October — could raise textbook prices. "Paper came up because it was the beginning of the school year," he said, adding that no one brought him the idea.
Internet domain records, however, show that pulpwars.com was created shortly before the Consumers Alliance Web site in mid-August, suggesting the paper issue was driving the project from the start. And there are intriguing links between Mr. Langer's operation and Mr. Oxley's.
World Growth and Consumers Alliance share an e-mail marketing service. And an executive at the DCI Group, a Washington corporate affairs firm that helped Mr. Oxley set up World Growth and has continued to provide services to it, is married to Mr. Langer's consultant on the Consumers Alliance project.
The DCI executive, Trice Whitefield, has done communications work on forestry and climate change issues for World Growth. Her husband, Bret Jacobson, said he did "some Web design and initial communications efforts" for Consumers Alliance but would not talk about how he got the assignment. Neither would Ms. Whitefield, who said only that her husband "does his own thing and I do mine."
Mr. Oxley, who has previously worked with the Competitive Enterprise Institute, Frontiers of Freedom and other conservative groups in Washington, denied collaborating with Mr. Langer. He attributed any similarities between his work and the institute's to the small number of organizations promoting the issue.
While acknowledging that he had represented Asia Pulp & Paper, he said he did not know if the company was financing the Consumers Alliance, but added, "It's not unusual that economic interests who are challenged would take action in some way."
As for Asia Pulp & Paper, one of its executives seemed to suggest it was lending a hand somehow. Speaking last October to Mongabay.com, a Web site focused on forests and conservation, Ian Lifshitz said his company would continue to "support groups like the Consumer Alliance for Global Prosperity" that respect the economic rights of developing nations.
Asked about that recently, Mr. Lifshitz, who is the sustainability and public outreach manager for the North American division, backtracked, saying, "We do not directly or indirectly fund" Consumers Alliance.
"What I was getting at," he said, "is that we're just like-minded."


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When I first played Hinterland everything seemed to be working with this game including the magic portals, which was a great game concept. However, I recently played Hinterland again and the portals were no longer working. I conquered all of the enemies in the area, and a corresponding portal appears outside of my town, but they do not work. I hover my cursor over them until the symbol changes, but when I click the mouse button nothing happens. This greatly diminishes gameplay and makes a long game nearly impossible to win. Can they please fix this.
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Short and incomplete list:
- lighting a bonfire, fireplace, or grill
- swimming
- ice skating
- shooting a rifle or pistol
- using a chain saw, wood chipper, or other large power tool
- driving a stick shift
- steering a boat
- horseback riding
- using a pocket knife
--how to steer--
--how to hang on when they work up a little speed--
--how to take off their tack and groom them and make them comfy--
--how to talk about them using all the right words, croup and forelock and barrel and such--
--how to wait patiently, still and quiet--
--and how to put away all their tack and gear in just the right place, even if it's REALLY heavy:
Along with always looking out for things that I want the kiddos to know, I'm always looking out for sports and activities that have value for building them into the types of people that they'll want to be.
Forget the discipline, patience, affinity with another creature, willingness to grub and muck stuff that are of such value--it took a total of one lesson before the girls informed that they want to grow up into the type of person who was good with horses!
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Washington, DC, September 26, 2011 – The new Maronite Chapel of Our Lady of Lebanon at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception was dedicated on Friday, September 23, 2011. The Most Reverend Gregory J. Mansour, Bishop of the Eparchy of Saint Maron of
"This is a beautiful day for the Maronites and for the National Shrine," commented Bishop Mansour. "The Church breathing with both lungs."
Monsignor Rossi added, "With the dedication of the Chapel of Our Lady of Lebanon, one of the most ancient Eastern Churches is now represented at the patronal Church of the
The Chapel of Our Lady of Lebanon features a unique design, depicting a small Lebanese stone church. The Chapel was designed by the St. Jude Liturgical Arts Studio of Havertown, Pennsylvania.
The nation's only Maronite Seminary, Our Lady of Lebanon Maronite Seminary, which is located close to Catholic University of America in northwest
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Friday, November 30, 2012
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Warriors hold off Nuggets 106-105 in wild finish
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(AP) -- If there were ever a time to praise the benefits of replay, Warriors coach Mark Jackson found it.
Andre Iguodala's 3-pointer as the buzzer sounded was waived off, and Golden State held on for a wild 106-105 win over the Denver Nuggets on Thursday night after four replay reviews over the final 3.4 seconds.
Iguodala received a cross-court inbounds pass and connected from the left wing with a hand in his face, and Denver players celebrated by running off the court toward their locker room. But the Warriors stayed put and waited on yet another review by officials at the scorer's table
-- then began their own cheers at raucous Oracle Arena when officials ruled the shot came just an instant after time expired.
"I was very confident that it didn't count," Jackson said. "That being said, I didn't know what the results were going to be, the same way with some of the other calls. Mistakes are going to be made
-- by players, by coaches, by referees. At the end of the day I'm just thankful we're at a time where we review it. Great camera work. Shout out to the camera man."
Iguodala missed the last of three free throws that would have tied the game with 3.4 seconds to go, but Denver still had two more chances to win.
Officials first went to the replay table to review whether Jarrett Jack had fouled Iguodala in the act of shooting to give him three tries when trailing by three. After he clunked the third attempt off the back of the rim, Golden State's Draymond Green knocked the ball out of bounds to give the Nuggets another possession with 2.1 seconds left
-- and that play also went to review.
Andre Miller's pass was deflected out of bounds, and officials went to the replay again before ruling the ball went off a Golden State player. Iguodala swished a 3 that would have won the game, but it came too late.
"If I put a stopwatch on ... it seems like the clock started early for me," Nuggets coach George Karl said. "There's nothing to argue about. The camera says it's in his hands."
Jack scored on a driving layup with 1:12 remaining, moments after a critical turnover that could have cost Golden State.
"We were pretty confident on a lot of the calls that didn't go our way throughout the course of the game, so we really weren't sure," Jack said. "Happy that one was able to go in our favor, but it shouldn't have come down to that. We had a couple mistakes, errors down the stretch that we'll definitely try to clean up in practice."
David Lee hit a layup with 2:12 left on the way to a season-high 31 points on 13-of-15 shooting for the Warriors, who earned a hard-fought first win of the season against the Nuggets in the third meeting between the teams in a 20-day span.
Klay Thompson scored 21 points and Stephen Curry had 20 points and a season-best 10 assists as Golden State (9-6) won for the fourth time in five games and moved three games above .500 for the first time since it was 7-4 early in the 2010-11 season. The Warriors also have nine wins in their first 16 games for the first time since 2006-07.
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Iguodala finished with 22 points, Danilo Gallinari added 20 points and nine rebounds and Ty Lawson 17 points and nine assists for the Nuggets, who escaped with a double-overtime victory here Nov. 10 before beating Golden State at home last Friday.
The Nuggets used a 13-6 spurt early in the third quarter to build a 16-point lead, which looked an awful lot like the 15-0 run by Denver to start the second half of the last matchup. This time, Gallinari scored five of those points but the Warriors fought back.
"It seems as if we're developing a little bit of a rivalry with them -- two out of the three games have been dogfight games," Jack said. "It was almost like an old-school East Coast basketball game, punch after punch after punch. Luckily we got to have the last one tonight."
Iguodala was held to 8 for 17 from the floor after he went off for a season-best 29 points in the last meeting
-- the most points by an opponent against Golden State this season.
This win came at a good time for Golden State following a dramatic two days in which the Warriors and Andrew Bogut acknowledged the center underwent a more extensive microfracture surgery in April. Both sides are still unclear when the 2005 No. 1 overall draft pick will be ready to return on his surgically repaired left ankle that has limited him to four games.
He said before the game he is done predicting when he might be back on the court, while general manager Bob Myers publicly apologized Thursday night to anyone who might have questioned how the situation was handled. He insisted the team didn't intend to mislead anyone by describing the procedure as only to clean out loose particles and bone spurs.
Golden State hit seven of its first nine shots to jump to a 17-5 lead 5 minutes into the game.
Jordan Hamilton hit a 25-footer with 4:21 left in the first half for Denver's first lead on the way to a 60-51 edge at the break after the Nuggets shot 15 for 23 in the period. The Warriors, meanwhile, went 10 of 21 from the floor in the second quarter.
NOTES: A moment of silence was held before the national anthem for the daughter of Rockets coach Kevin McHale, who died Saturday at age 23. ... The Warriors are 5-2 at home. ... The Warriors won the season series with the Nuggets (2-1) in last season's lockout-shortened season for the first time since 2004-05. The teams play once more, on Jan. 13. ... 49ers WR Michael Crabtree sat courtside in an all-black get-up complete with dark shades.
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CALGARY — Redevelopment plans for the northeast Deerfoot Mall include converting the current enclosed mall to an open-air regional power centre.
Shape Properties, owner of the mall at the southeast corner of Deerfoot Trail and 64th Avenue N.E., says on its website that an additional close to 500,000 square feet of space will be added, bringing total space to just over 1.2 million square feet following redevelopment on the 32 hectares of land.
"Deerfoot Mall enjoys unrivalled exposure and access to the more than 128,000 cars/day that travel Alberta's busiest highway (Deerfoot Trail/Highway 2)," says Shape.
In a news release on Friday, Shape said the redevelopment will encompass the majority of the property with the exception of the Walmart parcel. Construction will take place in several phases over the next five years in order to keep existing tenants, that will remain part of the redevelopment, open, as well as to coincide with the lease-up of the new premises. Construction on the first phase is set to begin this fall.
"Our vision for the redevelopment of Deerfoot Mall is to create a dynamic new urban centre," said Darren Kwiatkowski, executive vice-president of Shape Properties. "Some of the ingredients will include high quality architecture, diverse mix of shops and restaurants, lush landscaping, pedestrian friendly streets, and a blend of outdoor and indoor environments strategically positioned to activate the public spaces.
"When complete, we expect the property will become one of the region's ultimate shopping and dining experience, an urban social heart and the perfect setting for the seamless integration of new office premises."
Michael Kehoe, an Alberta-based retail specialist with Fairfield Commercial Real Estate in Calgary, said the project is an example of an enclosed mall being re-purposed into a modern hybrid format that includes office space and non-retail use.
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WeiWenDi wrote:A deep-reaching, highly-technical biographical treatment of Xun Xu. Sheds a great deal of light not only on the life of one highly-technical, opinionated and obstinately perfectionist Confucian man-of-letters, but also on the entire aesthetic-political-historiographical landscape of the turbulent Three Kingdoms (Cao Wei specifically) and early Jin periods of early-mediaeval China. Stresses both the factional, court-intrigue driven divisions within the Wei and Jin courts; and the purely-intellectual ones that arose from multiple sources - the ferment of the xuanxue and qingtan circles of late Wei, the need to legitimate a new dynasty in Jin, the discovery of the Jizhong texts.
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31-9096.00 - Veterinary Assistants and Laboratory Animal Caretakers
Feed, water, and examine pets and other nonfarm animals for signs of illness, disease, or injury in laboratories and animal hospitals and clinics. Clean and disinfect cages and work areas, and sterilize laboratory and surgical equipment. May provide routine post-operative care, administer medication orally or topically, or prepare samples for laboratory examination under the supervision of veterinary or laboratory animal technologists or technicians, veterinarians, or scientists.
Sample of reported job titles: Animal Care Provider, Animal Caregiver, Avian Keeper, Emergency Veterinary Assistant, Research Animal Attendant, Small Animal Caretaker, Technician Assistant, Veterinarian Assistant, Veterinary Assistant (Vet Assistant), Veterinary Technician Assistant (Vet Tech Assistant)
Tasks | Technology Skills | Tools Used | Knowledge | Skills | Abilities | Work Activities | Detailed Work Activities | Work Context | Job Zone | Education | Credentials | Interests | Work Styles | Work Values | Related Occupations | Wages & Employment | Job Openings | Additional Information
- Hold or restrain animals during veterinary procedures.
- Clean and maintain kennels, animal holding areas, examination or operating rooms, or animal loading or unloading facilities to control the spread of disease.
- Fill medication prescriptions.
- Assist veterinarians in examining animals to determine the nature of illnesses or injuries.
- Monitor animals recovering from surgery and notify veterinarians of any unusual changes or symptoms.
- Clean, maintain, and sterilize instruments or equipment.
- Examine animals to detect behavioral changes or clinical symptoms that could indicate illness or injury.
- Educate or advise clients on animal health care, nutrition, or behavior problems.
- Administer medication, immunizations, or blood plasma to animals as prescribed by veterinarians.
- Collect laboratory specimens, such as blood, urine, or feces, for testing.
- Prepare surgical equipment and pass instruments or materials to veterinarians during surgical procedures.
- Prepare feed for animals according to specific instructions, such as diet lists or schedules.
- Provide emergency first aid to sick or injured animals.
- Perform routine laboratory tests or diagnostic tests, such as taking or developing x-rays.
- Exercise animals or provide them with companionship.
- Prepare examination or treatment rooms by stocking them with appropriate supplies.
- Provide assistance with euthanasia of animals or disposal of corpses.
- Record information relating to animal genealogy, feeding schedules, appearance, behavior, or breeding.
- Perform office reception duties, such as scheduling appointments or helping customers.
- Perform hygiene-related duties, such as clipping animals' claws or cleaning and polishing teeth.
- Perform accounting duties, such as bookkeeping, billing customers for services, or maintaining inventories.
- Sell pet food or supplies to customers.
- Dust, spray, or bathe animals to control insect pests.
- Administer anesthetics during surgery and monitor the effects on animals.
- Perform enemas, catheterizations, ear flushes, intravenous feedings, or gavages.
- Write reports, maintain research information, or perform clerical duties.
- Groom, trim, or clip animals' coats.
Technology Skills
- Calendar and scheduling software — Scheduling software
- Data base user interface and query software — Microsoft Access
- Electronic mail software — Microsoft Outlook
- Label making software — Labeling software
- Medical software — IDEXX Laboratories IDEXX Cornerstone; McAllister Software Systems AVImark; Practice management software PMS
- Office suite software — Microsoft Office
- Presentation software — Microsoft PowerPoint
- Spreadsheet software — Microsoft Excel
- Word processing software — Microsoft Word
Hot Technology — a technology requirement frequently included in employer job postings.
Tools Used
- Animal catching devices — Animal restraints
- Animal shearing or clipping equipment — Animal razors; Electric animal clippers
- Animal weighing scales — Electronic animal scales
- Bandage scissors or its supplies — Bandage scissors
- Bar code reader equipment — Microchip readers
- Benchtop centrifuges
- Binocular light compound microscopes — Optical compound microscopes
- Blood collection syringes
- Chemical or gas sterilizers — Chemical sterilizers
- Clothes dryers — Commercial dryers
- Desktop computers
- Digital cameras
- Full body immersion hydrotherapy baths or tanks — Veterinary immersion hydrotherapy equipment
- Gas anesthesia apparatus — Veterinary anesthesia machines
- Handheld refractometers or polarimeters — Handheld refractometers
- Hematology analyzers
- Intravenous tubing with catheter administration kits — Intravenous IV administration sets
- Label making machines — Label printers
- Laboratory beakers — Glass beakers
- Laboratory forceps
- Laundry type washing machines — Commercial washing machines
- Medical acoustic stethoscope or accessory — Mechanical stethoscopes
- Medical picture archiving computer systems PACS — Retriever PACS
- Medical radiological shielding aprons or masks or drapes — Lead aprons
- Medical radiological shielding gloves — Lead gloves
- Medical x ray darkroom equipment or supplies — X ray film processors
- Medical x ray film or cassette — X ray cassettes
- Medical x ray units for general diagnostic use — Digital veterinary x ray equipment; Stationary veterinary x ray equipment
- Microcentrifuges — Microhematocrit centrifuges
- Microscope slides
- Multipurpose or general test tubes — General purpose laboratory test tubes
- Muzzles
- Notebook computers — Laptop computers
- Personal computers
- Protective gloves — Bite gloves
- Special purpose telephones — Multi-line telephone systems
- Specimen collection container — Specimen collection containers
- Steam autoclaves or sterilizers — Steam autoclaves
- Suture removers — Suture scissors
- Tablet counters — Pill counters
- Tourniquets
- Urinalysis analyzers — Urine analysis equipment; Urinometers
- Vacuum blood collection tubes or containers — Evacuated blood collection tubes
- Veterinary blood pressure testers — Veterinary blood pressure cuffs
- Veterinary clinical thermometers — Digital veterinary thermometers
- Veterinary injection or suction units or accessories — Balling guns; Injection syringes; Veterinary vaccination syringes
- Veterinary nail trimmers or cutters — Animal nail clippers
- Customer and Personal Service — Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
- Biology — Knowledge of plant and animal organisms, their tissues, cells, functions, interdependencies, and interactions with each other and the environment.
- English Language — Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
- Mathematics — Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.
- Sales and Marketing — Knowledge of principles and methods for showing, promoting, and selling products or services. This includes marketing strategy and tactics, product demonstration, sales techniques, and sales control systems.
- Active Listening — Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
- Monitoring — Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
- Service Orientation — Actively looking for ways to help people.
- Active Learning — Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
- Complex Problem Solving — Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
- Coordination — Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
- Critical Thinking — Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
- Reading Comprehension — Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.
- Social Perceptiveness — Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
- Speaking — Talking to others to convey information effectively.
- Problem Sensitivity — The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.
- Oral Comprehension — The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
- Oral Expression — The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
- Deductive Reasoning — The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
- Near Vision — The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
- Arm-Hand Steadiness — The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position.
- Inductive Reasoning — The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
- Information Ordering — The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
- Manual Dexterity — The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects.
- Speech Clarity — The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
- Speech Recognition — The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
- Trunk Strength — The ability to use your abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without 'giving out' or fatiguing.
- Written Comprehension — The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
- Written Expression — The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
Work Activities
- Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates — Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person.
- Monitor Processes, Materials, or Surroundings — Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems.
- Getting Information — Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
- Documenting/Recording Information — Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic/magnetic form.
- Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work — Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work.
- Assisting and Caring for Others — Providing personal assistance, medical attention, emotional support, or other personal care to others such as coworkers, customers, or patients.
- Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events — Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
- Making Decisions and Solving Problems — Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
- Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge — Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.
- Performing for or Working Directly with the Public — Performing for people or dealing directly with the public. This includes serving customers in restaurants and stores, and receiving clients or guests.
- Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships — Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time.
- Communicating with Persons Outside Organization — Communicating with people outside the organization, representing the organization to customers, the public, government, and other external sources. This information can be exchanged in person, in writing, or by telephone or e-mail.
- Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Material — Inspecting equipment, structures, or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects.
- Handling and Moving Objects — Using hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials, and manipulating things.
- Performing General Physical Activities — Performing physical activities that require considerable use of your arms and legs and moving your whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, and handling of materials.
- Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others — Translating or explaining what information means and how it can be used.
- Interacting With Computers — Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information.
- Judging the Qualities of Things, Services, or People — Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people.
- Analyzing Data or Information — Identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts.
- Developing and Building Teams — Encouraging and building mutual trust, respect, and cooperation among team members.
- Processing Information — Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data.
- Training and Teaching Others — Identifying the educational needs of others, developing formal educational or training programs or classes, and teaching or instructing others.
- Controlling Machines and Processes — Using either control mechanisms or direct physical activity to operate machines or processes (not including computers or vehicles).
- Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards — Using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards.
- Scheduling Work and Activities — Scheduling events, programs, and activities, as well as the work of others.
Detailed Work Activities
- Hold patients to ensure proper positioning or safety.
- Clean patient rooms or patient treatment rooms.
- Control prescription refills or authorizations.
- Assist practitioners to perform medical procedures.
- Give medications or immunizations.
- Monitor patient progress or responses to treatments.
- Monitor patients to detect health problems.
- Clean medical equipment.
- Maintain medical equipment or instruments.
- Assess physical conditions of patients to aid in diagnosis or treatment.
- Teach medical procedures or medical equipment use to patients.
- Collect biological specimens from patients.
- Prepare medical instruments or equipment for use.
- Administer basic health care or medical treatments.
- Feed patients.
- Conduct diagnostic tests to determine patient health.
- Assist patients with daily activities.
- Prepare patient treatment areas for use.
- Stock medical or patient care supplies.
- Dispose of biomedical waste in accordance with standards.
- Perform clerical work in medical settings.
- Record vital statistics or other health information.
- Schedule patient procedures or appointments.
- Inventory medical supplies or equipment.
- Process medical billing information.
- Prepare medical reports or documents.
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Work Context
- Indoors, Environmentally Controlled — 100% responded "Every day."
- Contact With Others — 95% responded "Constant contact with others."
- Face-to-Face Discussions — 93% responded "Every day."
- Deal With External Customers — 75% responded "Extremely important."
- Physical Proximity — 61% responded "Very close (near touching)."
- Work With Work Group or Team — 59% responded "Extremely important."
- Exposed to Disease or Infections — 69% responded "Every day."
- Exposed to Contaminants — 66% responded "Every day."
- Frequency of Decision Making — 73% responded "Every day."
- Importance of Being Exact or Accurate — 39% responded "Extremely important."
- Telephone — 65% responded "Every day."
- Spend Time Standing — 47% responded "Continually or almost continually."
- Exposed to Minor Burns, Cuts, Bites, or Stings — 58% responded "Every day."
- Spend Time Using Your Hands to Handle, Control, or Feel Objects, Tools, or Controls — 58% responded "Continually or almost continually."
- Impact of Decisions on Co-workers or Company Results — 48% responded "Very important results."
- Structured versus Unstructured Work — 37% responded "A lot of freedom."
- Freedom to Make Decisions — 40% responded "Some freedom."
- Spend Time Bending or Twisting the Body — 38% responded "More than half the time."
- Consequence of Error — 43% responded "Extremely serious."
- Exposed to Radiation — 42% responded "Once a week or more but not every day."
- Sounds, Noise Levels Are Distracting or Uncomfortable — 32% responded "Every day."
- Wear Common Protective or Safety Equipment such as Safety Shoes, Glasses, Gloves, Hearing Protection, Hard Hats, or Life Jackets — 35% responded "Once a week or more but not every day."
- Coordinate or Lead Others — 31% responded "Very important."
- Spend Time Walking and Running — 29% responded "More than half the time."
- Exposed to Hazardous Conditions — 37% responded "Every day."
- Importance of Repeating Same Tasks — 27% responded "Very important."
- Time Pressure — 51% responded "Every day."
- Wear Specialized Protective or Safety Equipment such as Breathing Apparatus, Safety Harness, Full Protection Suits, or Radiation Protection — 42% responded "Once a week or more but not every day."
- Deal With Unpleasant or Angry People — 33% responded "Once a month or more but not every week."
- Responsible for Others' Health and Safety — 27% responded "Moderate responsibility."
- Spend Time Kneeling, Crouching, Stooping, or Crawling — 43% responded "Less than half the time."
- Spend Time Making Repetitive Motions — 32% responded "Continually or almost continually."
Job Zone
|Job Zone Three: Medium Preparation Needed
|Most occupations in this zone require training in vocational schools, related on-the-job experience, or an associate's degree.
|Related Experience
|Previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is required for these occupations. For example, an electrician must have completed three or four years of apprenticeship or several years of vocational training, and often must have passed a licensing exam, in order to perform the job.
|Job Training
|Employees in these occupations usually need one or two years of training involving both on-the-job experience and informal training with experienced workers. A recognized apprenticeship program may be associated with these occupations.
|Job Zone Examples
|These occupations usually involve using communication and organizational skills to coordinate, supervise, manage, or train others to accomplish goals. Examples include hydroelectric production managers, travel guides, electricians, agricultural technicians, barbers, court reporters, and medical assistants.
|SVP Range
|(6.0 to < 7.0)
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- Realistic — Realistic occupations frequently involve work activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions. They often deal with plants, animals, and real-world materials like wood, tools, and machinery. Many of the occupations require working outside, and do not involve a lot of paperwork or working closely with others.
- Social — Social occupations frequently involve working with, communicating with, and teaching people. These occupations often involve helping or providing service to others.
- Investigative — Investigative occupations frequently involve working with ideas, and require an extensive amount of thinking. These occupations can involve searching for facts and figuring out problems mentally.
Work Styles
- Attention to Detail — Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks.
- Cooperation — Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude.
- Stress Tolerance — Job requires accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively with high stress situations.
- Integrity — Job requires being honest and ethical.
- Initiative — Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges.
- Dependability — Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations.
- Concern for Others — Job requires being sensitive to others' needs and feelings and being understanding and helpful on the job.
- Self Control — Job requires maintaining composure, keeping emotions in check, controlling anger, and avoiding aggressive behavior, even in very difficult situations.
- Adaptability/Flexibility — Job requires being open to change (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace.
- Achievement/Effort — Job requires establishing and maintaining personally challenging achievement goals and exerting effort toward mastering tasks.
- Persistence — Job requires persistence in the face of obstacles.
- Social Orientation — Job requires preferring to work with others rather than alone, and being personally connected with others on the job.
- Independence — Job requires developing one's own ways of doing things, guiding oneself with little or no supervision, and depending on oneself to get things done.
- Leadership — Job requires a willingness to lead, take charge, and offer opinions and direction.
- Analytical Thinking — Job requires analyzing information and using logic to address work-related issues and problems.
- Innovation — Job requires creativity and alternative thinking to develop new ideas for and answers to work-related problems.
Work Values
- Relationships — Occupations that satisfy this work value allow employees to provide service to others and work with co-workers in a friendly non-competitive environment. Corresponding needs are Co-workers, Moral Values and Social Service.
- Support — Occupations that satisfy this work value offer supportive management that stands behind employees. Corresponding needs are Company Policies, Supervision: Human Relations and Supervision: Technical.
- Working Conditions — Occupations that satisfy this work value offer job security and good working conditions. Corresponding needs are Activity, Compensation, Independence, Security, Variety and Working Conditions.
Related Occupations
Wages & Employment Trends
|Median wages (2019)
|$13.75 hourly, $28,590 annual
|State wages
|Local wages
|Employment (2018)
|92,200 employees
|Projected growth (2018-2028)
|Much faster than average (11% or higher)
|Projected job openings (2018-2028)
|State trends
|Top industries (2018)
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics 2019 wage data and 2018-2028 employment projections . "Projected growth" represents the estimated change in total employment over the projections period (2018-2028). "Projected job openings" represent openings due to growth and replacement.
Job Openings on the Web
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Recent research shows that American teen girls have caught up with boys in their rates of smoking cigarettes and drinking alcohol, which hasn't always been the case. Here's something else: teenage girls are now more likely than boys to abuse prescription drugs like pain pills and ADHD medications. The thing is—they have different reasons for doing so.
NIDA researchers surveyed hundreds of teens and asked them about their motivations for using particular prescription drugs. For stimulants like ADHD medications, for example, the young men were more likely to abuse them to get high or experiment, while for young women, it was to help them concentrate or stay alert. In other words, the young women were more likely "self-treat" for a specific purpose.
So what's wrong with that? They're prescribed by a doctor, after all—how dangerous can they be?
For one thing, when you borrow someone else's medication or even take your own in a way that wasn't prescribed, you put yourself at risk for scary side effects that can change your heart rhythm and breathing. And although prescription drugs may seem safer than street drugs, they still can lead to addiction and even death, especially when they're mixed with other drugs or alcohol.
Do you have a friend who abuses prescription drugs? Do your own survey—ask them why, and let us know what you find out.
very interesting
Euphoria - is what the reasons have in common - drugs lie and say that everything will be ok. we teach people to find euphoria clean and sober.
As I noticed, there are individuals who take illicit drugs to enhance their mind state and also give them a feeling of euphoria. There are also individuals who abuse them to get the same feelings in a much safer way. I've known several people with this case.
Hi, this is a very nice blog to read. Thank you so much for the priceless information, ADHD is diagnosed two to four times as frequently in boys as in girls, though studies suggest this discrepancy may be due to subjective bias of referring teachers
When my sister started to smoke she told me to try it. She said that I didnt have to worry because everyone was doing it. And by reading this article im happy that the rates of the people smoking went down, beacuse when my older sister that I looked up to
I will come back again, that is nice site. [commercial link removed, per guidelines]
Euphoria is beautiful place no matter how you get there, the problem is when you leave, and the perception under the influence often leads to consequences, so the goal is to find a way to euphoria clean and sober.
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Say no to prescription or non-precrisptiondrugs!
What I would like to see from this blog are the health benefits of eating raw vegetables and fruits. Vegetables that are not steamed, cooked or boiled. No processed foods and certainly no junk foods. There have been numerous articles on the benefits of eating raw foods on a daily basis. More raw foods, less prescription drugs. Prevention is the key to overall wellness and one great key is to eat the foods that nature has intended for us to eat in its original state- out of the ground with no pesticides, no chemicals. Just wash them and eat them raw.
I certainly could attest to that.
Here's another example why I don't use prescription drugs- when I developed foot pain from my sudden decision to go jogging- I developed Plantar Fasciitis. The pain got so bad that I was actually tempted to get some over the counter pain killers. But I have been leery of prescription and non-prescription drugs so I went to a podiatrist. She diagnosed it as Plantar Fasciitis. She gave me some exercises to do and a prescription for the pain. I never got the prescription but I did do the exercises and I also discovered some exercises on my own that greatly relieved the pain. For those of you who have plantar fasciitis, I posted the pictures of the exercises on my blog [commercial link removed, per guidelines]. Eventually, the pain disappeared. The pain went away on its own without any drugs- just exercises.
I know that there could be a host of medical problems out there that could be prevented from doing exercises and eating raw foods.
I think this is right in some ways. They are stating that boys use drugs to get high and girls use it for concentration. Girls can just as easily be under the influence just to get high just like males, and boys might just want to concentrate as well. Some students that are under the influence might just be under peer pressure and feel as if everyone else is doing it I should to.
I had people try to get me to smoke, but I always turned it down. I did that because I didn't want my lungs to turn black, and I don't want to die early
It is the real fact about how boys and girls use drugs. Boys likely use drugs to challenge themselve, make them have the different experiences while girls use drugs for treating their own feeling, it is the way that when they can not "wake up" by themselve, they have to depend on drugs and it is bad when it's becoming a sequence. No matter it is street drugs or prescription drugs, it still kill you when it is too much, street drugs damage you and obviously it is easy to see and everybody knows that but prescription drugs...people do not think the dangerous of them, they think it is the treatment but it is also DRUGS, don't follow doctor's direction? you never know what you are going to get!
I think this is priceless good information is interesting. I think that other people should read this blog to know that girls have caught up with boys in this situation.
Hello, I wrote a blog post on how to manage a healthy weight in college by establishing positive habits early on. By getting started early, college students can avoid the freshman 15. This is beneficial far beyond college and lasts for a lifetime. Wishing you the best. [commercial link removed, per guidelines]
this is quite helpful
A very interesting article, indeed. I'd like to cover the prescription drug fiasco on my blog, [commercial link removed, per guidelines] , but I'm not sure how to approach the topic.
@MajorInEconomics Check out the Prescription Medications link on the NIDA home page - it may help get you started on a way to tackle this complex issue.
very interesting article indeed. I'd like to cover the prescription drug fiasco on my blog,
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I belive u should say no 2 non precripion drugs.Dis blog can help u.People tried 2 get me 2 smoke but i said no ad they called me a [expletive deleted] and an [expletive deleted] so I just walked away.it iz hard 2 say no.da thing iz y do u want 2 smoke i mean wat iz so good bout it cuz 2 me all it iz gonna do iz turn your lungs black.Da teens who lov 2 smoke day need to prepare to hav some black lungs.
This is quite bad.I suggest them don't try to kill your self.Leave Smoking&Drinking,enjoy a happy life.


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PEORIA — As severe winter
weather begins to subside, the American Red Cross is asking all eligible
blood and platelet donors to help offset a weather-related shortfall in
"It's the blood products already on the shelves that help save
lives when severe weather hits," said Shelly Heiden, community CEO
of the Red Cross Heart of America Blood Services Region. "Thanks to
generous Red Cross blood and platelet donors, blood products were
available for patients who still needed transfusions despite the
weather. Now we invite those previously 'frozen out' from giving
blood or platelets to come in soon."
Platelet donors, as well as blood donors with the most in-demand
blood types — O-positive and negative, A-negative, and B-negative —
are urgently needed to give blood in the days and weeks ahead to
offset the shortfall.
Platelets, a key clotting component of blood often needed by
cancer patients, must be transfused within five days of donation, so
donations are constantly needed. Red blood cells, the
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blood product and must be transfused within 42 days.
Upcoming blood donation opportunity in Logan County:
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