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WARWICK — At the end of the last season, Nick Rusek guesses he was about 5-foot-3.
When he showed up for the first day of practice in mid-November, Rusek, now a Warwick sophomore, had shot up to 5-8.
For a diver like Rusek, the extra inches and the additional pounds make a difference in the way he leaps off the board.
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Rusek is aiming for a big year, and he's already focusing on a "top-three finish at states." Last year, Rusek was runner-up to Pine Bush's Matt Salle at the Orange County Interscholastic Athletic Association and Section 9 meets and finished one spot behind Salle at the state meet, taking fourth.
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The study is the largest yet to show such benefits.
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The PAM 00422 Luminor Marina 1950 3 Days - 47mm was displayed for the first time at the exhibition "O'Clock - time design, design time" at Milan Triennale, from 11th October 2011 – 8th January 2012.
This rare timepiece is based upon an historic model and is characterised by the transformation, (which occurred in the early 1940s), of the Radiomir's cushion case to that of the Luminor.
In the Luminor Marina 1950 3 Days - 47mm it's further enhanced by an imposing 47mm steel Luminor 1950 case with the iconic brushed steel lever device protecting the winding crown.
The familiar black dial is typical of the Panerai style, with small seconds at nine o'clock and the succession of large numbers and indexes.
The dial also features a layer of Super-LumiNova® enclosed between two plates, which shines forth from the punched holes that correspond exactly with the indexes and numbers, affording superb clarity and depth to the dial.
The engravings "Luminor Marina" and "Panerai", which are rendered in period font, add a satisfyingly authentic touch.
The watch runs on the in-house hand-wound Panerai calibre P.3001. The movement is visible through the case back and has two barrels providing a 3-day power reserve which the wearer can view at a glance on the main bridge.
The Luminor Marina 1950 3 Days - 47mm is a limited edition of just 2,000 pieces. It comes on a quality leather strap with the classic Panerai brushed-steel buckle.
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I didn't realize optimists had blogs!
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Note: Geo is not brilliant
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This seemed like a better idea when the Avs still had a chance to win :-/
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NEW ORLEANS -- I caught up with veteran free safety Darren Sharper on the 10th Sunday of the NFL season, the last official day of R&R for the New Orleans Saints before they say bye to their bye and reconvene for business Monday.
A year ago at this juncture, the amazing Saints were 9-0, battling the Minnesota Vikings for NFC supremacy and holding a commanding four-game lead on the Atlanta Falcons in the NFC South.
Today, the NFC South sports a different look, with the Falcons (7-2) on top by a game and also owning trump cards on the Black and Gold (6-3) and Tampa Bay (6-3) by virtue of victories over both divisional foes earlier this season.
Unquestionably, the NFC South is the Falcons to lose with seven games remaining in the regular season.
I asked Sharper to put the Saints season in perspective -- the past, the present and the all-important future.
Before the bye, it was a question if we could put two games back-to-back with consistent, complete performances in all phases, he said, alluding to wins against Tampa Bay (31-6) and Pittsburgh (20-10) in Weeks 8 and 9. Having seen that we can do that should be a good building block for us as we get some of our horses back for the backstretch run of our season.
We got to make sure we keep step for step with Atlanta in order to win our division. Thats our first goal.
All indications suggest the NFC South - and perhaps a first-round bye in the playoffs will come down to the rematch between the Saints and Falcons at the Georgia Dome on Monday Night Football two days after Christmas.
Their upcoming schedules are comparable in terms of difficulty, with one slight difference. The Falcons play four of their next five games on the road; the Saints three of five.
-- Atlanta: at St. Louis, Green Bay, at Tampa Bay, at Carolina, at Seattle. The Falcons are 5-0 at home this season, 18-1 with quarterback Matt Ryan as the starter. His only loss at home came against the Saints in Week 8 last season, 35-27 on Monday Night Football.
-- New Orleans: Seattle (Nov. 21), at Dallas (Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25), at Cincinnati (Dec. 5), St. Louis (Dec. 12), at Baltimore (Dec. 19). Beginning with the Seahawks, the Saints will face a critical stretch with three games in 15 days
With each passing week, Garrett Hartleys errant chip-shot field goal attempt in the Saints 27-24 loss in OT to the Falcons in Week 3 looms larger and larger.
Unlike last season when the Saints kept distancing themselves from the pack in the NFC South on a weekly basis, they now are in full chase mode.
When you get to 9-0, youre thinking about being undefeated for the season and we dont have those thoughts now, said Sharper, who spent much of the bye week rehabbing a tweaked left hamstring. Now were behind by a game, so we dont really have any margin for error. Now our focus is to try and win our division.
But as far as our mentality, its the same as it was a year ago. We want o go out and play well each and every week. We know we have a team that can do it, and we know were good enough to do it, so the mentality is the same but the margin for error is different.
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-- Offense: WR Marques Colston (54 catches, 592 yards, 2 touchdowns). Attaboys: QB Drew Brees, WR Lance Moore, TE Jeremy Shockey, TE David Thomas, RB Chris Ivory.
-- Defense: MLB Jonathan Vilma (58 tackles, 2 sacks, 1 INT, 2 FF). Attaboys: DT Sedrick Ellis, DT Remi Ayodele, SS Roman Harper, FS/CB Malcolm Jenkins.
-- Special Teams: (tie) KR Courtney Roby (24.5-yard average, 10 tackles, 2 FR) and P Thomas Morstead (46.9-yard average).
Best wishes for a speedy recovery to Al Nastasi Jr., the 68-year-old original member of the Saints game-day chain gang who has returned home after being injured on the sideline three weeks ago during the Cleveland Browns game.
I appeal to Saints and NFL officials to keep the safety of game-day officials and employees like Nastasi in mind as they address the concerns of player safety in the coming weeks and months.
Actually, there is no reason why Saints officials cant take the lead on protecting their chain gang crew. I will personally donate the first $100 to the purchase of protective helmets for their chain gang crew. Let's call it "Operation Head Start!'' Why wait till another volunteer gets hurt?
My biggest concerns heading into the backstretch of the season come on offense. After nine weeks, the Saints rank 24th in the NFL in rushing offense, averaging 93.7 yards per game. They also rank 24th in red zone efficiency, scoring touchdowns at a 43.7 percent clip inside the opponents 20-yard line. Both aspects of the offense need to improve. The Saints will go through a normal routine Monday, holding meetings, running, lifting weights, etc. They will be off Tuesday. Our next access as a media corps will be Wednesday. NFL.com is the place to cast your 2011 Pro Bowl votes. You can also vote on your mobile phone at nfl.com/probowl/ballot or by texting PRO BOWL to MYNFL (69635).
43 Days until the Saints-Falcons nationally-televised rematch at the Georgia Dome on Dec. 27th.
We exchanged text messages a couple of times. He said hes doing fine. He knew it was part of the game. I told him to heal up and keep fighting. Hes a good player. Hes having a heck of a career. Im glad hes doing all right now. Saints FS Darren Sharper whose clean hit on Carolina RB Jonathan Stewart during their game Nov. 7 resulted in Stewart suffering a concussion.
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Rep. Darrell Issa on Sunday stood by claims that a group affiliated with the terrorist organization al Qaeda was involved in the 2012 attack on the American consulate in Benghazi.
Rep. Darrell Issa defends his harsh criticism of President Obama's handling of the Benghazi attack.
"It was accurate," Issa said on NBC's Meet the Press. "There was a group that was involved that claims an affiliation with al Qaeda."
The comments by Issa, the Republican chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and one of the most outspoken critics of the White House's handling of the attack, came after an investigative New York Times report concluded that the raid was conducted by local militants rather than by Al Qaeda or by another international terrorist group.
The report by journalist David Kirkpatrick further asserts that a major cause of the attack was outrage over an American-made video offensive to Muslims.
Issa said that Kirkpatrick did "very good work" but that he has seen no evidence that the video was the attack's leading cause, a claim made by then-UN ambassador Susan Rice in the immediate aftermath of the attack.
He maintained that the administration should come clean about misstatements about the causes of the attack, even if those claims were made to protect the CIA outpost in Benghazi.
"They went out on five stations and told the story that was at best a coverup for the CIA or at worst something that cast away this idea that there was a real terrorist operation in Benghazi," Issa said.
The September 11, 2012 attack left four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens, dead.
Also appearing on Meet the Press, Kirkpatrick said that Republicans like Issa are conflating local Islamic militant groups with the international terror network founded by Osama bin Laden.
"If you're using the term al Qaeda to describe even a local group of Islamist militants who dislike democracy or have a grudge against the United States, If you're going to call anybody like that 'al Qaeda,' then, okay," he said.
A senior Obama administration official told NBC News on Saturday that the White House does not dispute the New York Times report.
The New York Times' David Kirkpatrick discusses his investigation that found al Qaeda was not behind the 2012 attack on an American consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
While it dismisses the allegations of some of the White House's biggest critics, Kirkpatrick's report hardly paints a rosy picture of the intelligence community's handling of the Benghazi situation.
"I would say in addition to inadequate security, there was a real intelligence failure here," he told NBC's David Gregory. "There's a substantial C.I.A. operation tasked with trying to figure out what is a threat to American interests among these militias, and it's clear that the United States fundamentally understood the dynamics of those militias."
But the piece also pinpoints why some Republicans have claimed a direct link between local militant groups and the terror network.
"The only intelligence connecting al Qaeda to the attack was an intercepted phone call that night from a participant in the first wave of the attack to a friend in another African country who had ties to members of al Qaeda, according to several officials briefed on the call," he wrote in his report. "But when the friend heard the attacker's boasts, he sounded astonished, the officials said, suggesting he had no prior knowledge of the assault."
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The experiment called Semester Online will shortly close operations. Naysayers and competitors may claim that the closure dents 2U's reputation. The company sees the outcome differently.
When 2U announced shortly after the company went public that it would be closing its Semester Online program when courses were finished in August, CEO Chip Paucek refused to view it as a company failure. "Would I have wanted as a brand new public company to announce that we were disbanding the pilot program that day? No. Of course not. But that's why you do pilots. You learn from it. We don't hang our head at all. We think we learned a lot."
The idea behind Semester Online was to create a consortium of 10 institutions that would offer credit-bearing courses combining asynchronous formats — threaded discussions, reading assignments and pre-recorded video conversations — with real-time activities. Ultimately, the work of sorting out agreements among the faculty governance across all of the participating schools became an insurmountable hurdle, and the program caved in.
Paucek won't admit defeat. "If you look at the metrics that came out, even though it's a small number of students — 100 to 200 — they not only loved it, they performed very well; their attendance was strong; their Net Promoter scores were really good. From an outcomes perspective, we felt that it did work."
Is that attitude simply C-level spin, or does it signal something else — such as that the company took the Semester Online disbanding as a sign that it truly needs to double down on the approach it has honed so well since it launched its first online master program in 2009 at the University of Southern California?
The approach has been fairly well documented. The company contracts with leading universities to launch fully online degree programs. 2U handles all of the back office machinery such as recruitment and delivery and provides the online learning platform. The institution accepts new students, provides the faculty and curriculum and delivers the instruction. The agreements are set for 10 to 15 years; and 2U takes between 60 percent and 70 percent of the tuition revenue.
Before you sputter at that amount, consider that 2U also invests between $4 million and $9 million during the first three to four years of working to develop a new program. (The high range is for programs begun at new university clients; the low range is for those programs launched at an institution where 2U already operates.) According to company CFO Cathy Graham, programs only reach "steady state scale in year six of the 10- to 15-year contract term."
And that's where the doubling down comes in.
With its initial public offering in February, which raised about $110 million, the company intends to work with a group of "very interested universities in building new programs," Paucek reported. "They're all different. But the core business model has proven out. And you're going to see us take that capital and continually roll out new programs."
This isn't a vague promise. 2U has committed to its investors that it would do no fewer than four new programs a year. As its first quarter 2014 financial results report, it's surpassing the terms of that promise:
The 2015 pipeline is also filling up nicely:
What was once a business proposition to create master-level programs that appeared to be exclusive to a single institution will now stretch in all directions — from bachelor to master to doctorate and from sole domain to multiple domains. 2U's business model has become a predictable revenue generator.
One result is that the competition is growing. Embanet, owned by Pearson, and Deltak, owned by John Wiley & Sons, are being joined by ed tech companies Blackboard and Desire2Learn, which both also are making moves to get into the academic degree program business. And why not? As Paucek boasted, " The reality is it's all about this combination of great technology and great service. When we started, a lot of people thought we were crazy. Our program has generated $540 million in tuition bookings from conception to date."
Paucek doesn't expect any single company to necessarily dominate in marketshare for this type of service. Besides, "there's plenty of room" to grow the pie bigger. "It's just not the way education works," he said. "And the overall higher ed market is $1.7 trillion worldwide. It's massive."
2U will continue building its business the best way it knows how: methodically. As the company's offerings evolve, he insisted, the mission remains the same: "We're trying to build the world's best programs." The company's recently released "Impact Report" bears out the positive news — the retention rate is 82 percent. It also contains plenty of other numbers:
The report is full of student and faculty profiles and testimonials regarding their fondness for the 2U slant. As one instructor put it, "I have never felt a more personal connection with students in any classroom, even in smaller seminar courses. The reason is that there's no hiding.... You see every facial twitch of everyone in the class. Everyone is right there."
Or as Paucek is fond of saying, "No back row." Unlike MOOCs with their thousands of anonymous participants or typical online courses featuring student headshots and threaded discussions, the 2U method involves cohort gatherings with everybody's moving images present and accounted for.
It doesn't hurt that Paucek himself has become a 2U student. Even though he has been a CEO three times over, he has always "wanted" his MBA. So about a year and a half ago he signed on as a student at the UNC Chapel Hill program. "I fell in love with the leadership approach. So I convinced, first, my board and, second, my wife that I wasn't insane." The 2U board limited him to a single class a term, which Chapel Hill allows, so he's been slogging through it ever since.
"It's amazing. I love it. Of course, there are some days where it's super hard, and I'm running this company," he said. Currently, because of the pressures of the IPO, he's taking off a term, but he said he expects to be back in class by July.
Paucek's cohort includes the head of ER for a hospital, a Turkish female athlete, an oil company engineer who spends half of his year on an oil rig, and a former general counsel of a professional basketball team. "Those are all people who are simply not going to pick up their lives and move to attend a top 20 B-school, but they really wanted a degree. So I think it speaks to the core of the 2U opportunity. You can really unleash the university from its physical boundaries in a very material way."
And while Paucek the CEO didn't sign on to UNC to "eat the dogfood," he acknowledged that "it certainly is useful to see the product from the inside as Paucek the student. "I send notes to our COO or our CTO all the times with some little thing I saw. The nice thing is I feel like they're little nits. Overall I think we're doing a pretty good job." 2U's learning continues.
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Emmanuel Hatzidakis
Fr. Emmanuel Hatzidakis is a writer and a priest of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America.
Fr. Emmanuel was born on the island of Crete and also studied in Greece. He also has studied abroad in Rome and in the United States, completing an undergraduate degree from Oberlin College in Classics. He has also done additional graduate coursework in this field at the University of Chicago. Fr. Emmanuel also earned a Masters of Divinity degree from Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology], Brookline, Massachusetts. In 2001, Fr. Emmanuel founded Orthodox Witness, a not-for-profit group dedicated to Orthodox Christian evangelism. Fr. Emmanuel is the priest at St. Luke the Evangelist Greek Orthodox Church in Columbia, Missouri, a parish serving the multi-ethnic Orthodox Christian community of central Missouri.
He has also written several Christmas plays including: "Prophecies Announcing Christ", "The Three Wise Men", "Daniel and the Three Youths", "God is with Us", and "Christmas Eve." Each play is highlighted with original Orthodox Christmas songs and carols written or arranged in English by Fr. Emmanuel.
In 2008, Orthodox Witness published Fr. Emmanuel's first book entitled, The Heavenly Banquet: Understanding the Divine Liturgy.
- Hatzidakis, Fr. Emmanuel. The Heavenly Banquet: Understanding the Divine Liturgy (Columbia, MO: Orthodox Witness, 2008) ISBN 978-0-9778970-1-8 The Divine Liturgy explained. 420p, hardbound.


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Meret Lenzlinger has been a part time faculty member since 2001. She has developed and taught studio courses about representation, narrative and making a visual argument; food sustainability and systems mapping; and sustainable communities and design. Many of her courses are collaborative, interdisciplinary, cross-divisional and team-taught. She also teaches at Pratt Institute in the Industrial Design department.
She is a founding partner at LOCALbrooklyn, an architecture, research and design practice that provides a variety of services, ranging from architectural and furniture design to program development and sustainability workshops. Originally from Switzerland, she holds a Master of Architecture from Harvard University and an undergraduate degree in Architecture from the University of California at Berkeley. She has worked for offices in Boston, San Francisco and New York, as well as for Herzog & De Meuron in Basel, Switzerland. She has also worked for a boat builder, cabinetmaker and contractor.
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#1 In honor of next week's DU fundraiser, I bring you a golden oldie08-07-2009, 04:52 PMModem Butterfly (1000+ posts)
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Turns out there's an organized scam by the site that shall not be named.
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42. Obviously, it is self-serving for me to comment here.
After all, I'm the person who gets the money when you donate, so you can take my opinion with a grain of salt. But I think this thread is unfortunate. It adds to the level of paranoia here on DU, and it creates even greater suspicion against new people.
I have always been impressed by how selfless and generous DU members are. If there is a member in need, I think it's great when others help out. There is no harm in giving someone a star. It's a good deed that can be done easily and inexpensively, from the comfort of your own home.
Do some trolls take advantage of the generosity of DU members? Of course they do. But there are many more DUers who are perfectly legitimate members who have fallen on hard times. They should not have a cloud of suspicion over their heads just because someone at Conservative Underground wants a star too. Those people at Conservative Underground will figure out a way to get a star even if you all stop handing them out. It's not like it's a particularly difficult thing to do. A one dollar bill in an anonymous white envelope will get you a star here.
The moderators never take people's donation status into account when they discuss whether someone might be a troll. Every day they ban people with gold stars. Administrators will occasionally consider a member's history of donation, because we actually know who has donated and who has not. But the moderators can't tell, and they don't even consider it.
Allow me to offer another possible interpretation of what you are reading at Conservative Underground: They know you are reading their crap, and they know that they can easily scare you all into doing what they want you to do. Sure, they want you to give them stars. But if you all get paranoid and decide to stop giving out stars, then what happens? Two things, both of which play right into their hands: 1. More paranoia about trolls and newbies, and 2. Less money for DU. It's a win-win for the disruptors at Conservative Underground.
If only you all would stop reading their lies, they wouldn't be able to disrupt this place. But apparently that website is like crack cocaine for DUers, and nobody has much interest in trying to kick the habit. We know that you all care about DU and you are just trying to help -- and I appreciate that -- but you've got to understand that when you bring their lies back to DU, you are doing more harm to Democratic Underground than the people at CU could ever do on their own.
Let's not give the CUers what they want. I think we would all prefer to be part of a community that is kind and generous, rather than suspicious and paranoid.
I'm going to need a star next week.
Betcha I get more than one.
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I wonder how much of a donation it would take for skinner to let me post anything I want as long as I threaten no one? And that includes not having any post I make deleted by any moderator.:D
Does the advertising alone support CU?
Bumping for what supports CU.
SonnabendGuest08-07-2009, 11:17 PMIf only you all would stop reading their lies, they wouldn't be able to disrupt this place.
Just ask the Secret Service....:D
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West Virginia's Successful Turkey Trap and Transfer Program
The single greatest success story in wildlife management in West Virginia has been the spectacular return of the wild turkey. A major contributor to this success was a program that involved trapping turkeys in areas of relative abundance and releasing them in areas with no turkeys to start new populations. This trap and transfer program evolved largely through an orderly progression of knowledge after the stocking of game farm turkeys was tried, and failed.
Years ago, West Virginians saw the wild turkey disappear from most of our state. Concern grew with increasing restrictions placed on hunting, but the wild turkey still disappeared in most of our central, western, and southern counties. Restocking efforts were made by concerned sportsmen and the West Virginia Conservation Commission by raising birds in captivity and releasing them into the wild. Over 5,000 of these game farm turkeys were known to be released without one single successful stocking.
Beginning in 1950, biologists changed direction and for the first time live-trapped birds were taken in the wild and transplanted into unoccupied range. The first stocking was made in Preston County on Coopers Rock State Forest. From 1950-63, 213 turkeys were stocked at 19 areas in the state. Following the initial wild turkey releases, biologists evaluated the merits of these early stockings. Several releases were successful; however, population growth was slow, and rapid expansion was not evident. Mistakes were made by implementing fall hunting which had a detrimental effect on population growth.
Fortunately, scientific research and experience improved over the years following the early releases. Inefficient cage-type wire traps were initially used, but technology resulted in development of mortar-thrown nets, and then rocket propelled nets. Knowledge on wild turkey population dynamics, behavior, and habitat requirements increased. Armed with this knowledge, the trap and transfer program was reactivated with stocking of wild trapped birds into Wirt, Ritchie, and Wyoming counties in 1970. Biologists developed a state-wide wild turkey management plan and determined that there was a large amount of excellent habitat in the state. They found 21 counties with good to excellent wild turkey habitat, and based on this potential, they estimated that additional stockings would conservatively double the bird's range in West Virginia.
Population studies pointed out the problem of illegal hunting and accompanying changes associated with human habitation. Wildlife biologists attempted to over-come some of the limitations. They released 30 to 50 or more birds at a site as compared to the dozen or so birds used earlier. In addition, research revealed that turkeys were very social creatures and that larger groups of birds wander less and are less subject to predation. They hoped that the large stocking would offset the effects of illegal hunting and predation, and assure rapid population expansion by meeting the reproductive and social needs of the bird.
Biologists evaluated areas throughout the state by systematic habitat evaluation procedures which were designed to rate potential stocking sites. When a biologist looked at an area, he examined habitat intensively on a 9-square-mile area. An additional 15 square miles were also evaluated extensively to provide some idea on the prospects of population expansion from the 9-square-mile nucleus. The planning and habitat examination procedures were time-consuming, but they were important because they resulted in the best wild turkey habitat being stocked first. With this approach wild turkey population growth was much more rapid than a hit-or-miss system.
After the planning and habitat examination procedures came the difficult task of trapping turkeys. Wildlife managers of the Wildlife Resources Division deserve most of the credit for this job. Even with modern "tools," it was necessary to watch trap sites from pre-daylight hours until turkeys arrived. Turkeys do not maintain an 8-hour schedule, 5 days a week. In other words, long hours were devoted to capturing the elusive bird. Sometimes it meant waiting a week or more at a trap site including weekends and holidays. Traveling all hours of the day and night was required to move birds to their new home as rapidly as possible.
Was all the above worth the effort? We think so and the facts support our conclusion. The wild turkey trap and transfer program has resulted in the moving of 2,251 turkeys to 32 counties of West Virginia. Turkey populations expanded from 62 stockings in these 32 counties to an additional 7 counties. Therefore, the program is responsible for restoring turkeys to 39 counties. It is even more spectacular when one considers that the program has resulted in restoring turkeys to 16,000 square miles of range, or 66 percent of the total area of the state.
West Virginia's wild turkey population is now estimated to range between 130,000-175,000, and of this total, 90,000-140,000 occur in counties restocked with wild-trapped birds. Since initiation of the trap and transfer program, our wild turkey population has shown more than a 25-fold increase in numbers.
Credit for the transplant program must be shared by all West Virginians. Sportsmen funded the program and supported it enthusiastically over the years. Conservation officers in the Law Enforcement Division enforced laws and regulations to protect our turkeys. Landowners and sportsmen protected birds stocked into new range. Conservation organizations such as the West Virginia Chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation provided funds to help the Wildlife Division purchase equipment and supplies and conducted education seminars. The West Virginia Chapter initiated a $200 reward program for information leading to the arrest of persons illegally killing turkeys. Thousands of dollars have been given to informants, and the reward system has discouraged illegal harvesting of wild turkeys.
West Virginians are proud of their wildlife heritage, and we can be proud of our efforts to restore the wild turkey to every county of our state. A number of years ago, one of our wildlife biologists was writing about the wild turkey trap and transfer program and said that "in a few years mountaineers can say, we established the wild turkey in all of West Virginia." Well, we did it!
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It's so fun to have the kids at these ages, because they don't have a huge memory for most things. Therefore, remembering, myself, how delighted and surprised they were to see the huge balloons in the Macy's parade on TV last Thanksgiving, I had my camera ready to catch the new delight and surprise on their faces when they saw the balloons this year.
They didn't really recognize any of the characters that the balloons were supposed to be ("CheeseBob!!!" shouted Willow, when the Spongebob Squarepants balloon came around a corner), but just the concept of HUGE BALLOON is apparently enough to thrill a kid.
Of course, in other ways it wasn't a typical Thanksgiving at all. For instance, our nice big library table, instead of being set for the traditional meal, spent the day looking like this:
All the better to spend the day making Christmas cards with, my dears.
It's been fun to try out several new and different card-making strategies with the girls this month. Some--the window card in which they create their own cut-outs, the window card in which they paint one panel with watercolor paints so that it can show through the window--are complete failures. Others, such as this window card that uses strips of wallpaper in a behind-the window collage, worked great for the five-year-old, the three-year-old, and the 33-year-old.
When the girls do art, of course I like to keep the level of instruction as minimal as possible and just let them go to town with whatever art materials they've got (while keeping intact the rules about not contaminating the paint jars with other colors, not marking on someone else's work, etc.). Even when we do something like this, which is really more of a "craft," I still like to keep the number of instructions and step-by-step directions and parent work down as far as possible. I don't like children's work that is too crafty or obviously parent-directed--there aren't just a lot of ways to make a Santa out of an upside-down white handprint and some red construction paper and googly eyes, ya know?--but I also would like the children to send some Christmas cards that can be recognized as Christmas cards by anyone, not just her parent who can interpret the scenario under which the smear of orange tempera on a playing card was created.
For a full-on collage window card tutorial you can check out my tute on Crafting a Green World, but it really isn't that hard to figure out: tri-fold card, cut-out window, artful collage across that window--
--and a judicious amount of white glue.
And then, once we've got a few of these under our belts (two for Will and one for Syd is about the limit), plenty of time to make even more cards out of leftover wallpaper scraps, pink cardstock, the hole punch, and an extremely generous amount of white glue to hold it all together.


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For everyone having trouble with their food running out, here's what I do:
When I start a new tribe, I plant the first tree right away. Then, of course start harvesting honey. But after I get to 300 or so in my food bin, I pull the farmer to the lab to work on getting the tech points for the lift. If you just pace yourself, you'll have enough food to last until the new tree grows. Also, I like to space the planting of new trees to about 2 hours apart. This way, one will be just blooming when I need it the most.
Hope this helps.
Hey, about the fire puzzle:
On my first tribe, I put all my people on the dry wood and put lots of wood on the fire. Then the fire started to sparkle a bit, so I cooled off the fire. I don't think the trick is to wait for days, I think it's to add wood! I am going to attempt this again on another tribe to prove this true, but I think it may be a bit helpful to you guys out there stuck with the fire key.
Tayjay -
The exercise potion makes them amusing to watch, sure, but it also adds building experience.
How long you have to wait until the fire starts sparkling depends on how long you keep the fire continuously going, and what speed you have the game on. In fast mode, it doesn't take days, but you can't let the fire go out until it starts sparkling.
There is the occasional barrel of toddlers, but it is a random event. If you don't get one you may have to start over.
Alyssa -
For the clam, see puzzle 15 in the above walkthrough.
Angel -
Mushrooms can be collected by children for extra food. Keep an eye out for mushrooms, they come and go pretty fast. They mostly show up when it is raining, so definitely look for them during the rain, and just after. The red mushrooms are especially desirable as they are worth more food points.
Given that you have Alchemy 2, try using a trained (at least Adept) doctor (not researcher, but better if he/she is adept both) to make the potion.
Before making dangerous potions (another useful time is when children are about to be born) it can be useful to save the game.
Save and restore is done with copy/delete of 5 files in two directories:
In directory: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\WildTangent
The file: gtd2.dat
In directory: C:\Documents and Settings\[User Name]\My Documents\LDW
The files: ldwLog.txt
Virtual Villagers - The Secret City0.ldw
Virtual Villagers - The Secret City[tribe#].ldw
Virtual Villagers - The Secret City2[tribe#].ldw
Make sure to copy and restore all 5 files, and note that you cannot switch tribes and restore an old game because 3 files are shared among all tribes. Mismatching tribe files and shared files could have a very adverse effect on all your tribes.
Good luck
To make potions, you must have solved puzzle #3 (gathering items needed for alchemy lab). Then you must gather herbs (you can use children to do this). Every potion takes 3 herbs, which will be put on the table in the alchemy lab. Once three herbs are on the table, drop a villager on the large black pot in the alchemy lab and he/she will start adding the herbs to the pot.
A few other wise prerequsites:
- alchemy level 2 research
- medicine level 2 research
- villager making potion should be research adept and healing adept.
Good Luck
Dear grinnyp i was wondering if you mean the light and springy potion cuz I don't know the exercise potion does anyone know the exercise potion or any potion that helps build experiance in building? Also I need a ton of experience points anyone know how to get a whole bunch?? List any potion recipes you know that are great!! And help! Any way to get tech points really fast! And help with building expierience!
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To lessen the risk of a potion blowing up, use the highest ranking scientist you have, preferably a master.
Zizzlha -
Make sure you set their preferences to building before you drop them on the leaves.
Carol -
What is your specific problem with making the potion? Do they blow up? Do they refuse? Have you found the five objects and repaired the alchemy lab?
Rena -
If you check the walkthrough above, there is a section on potions which has a spreadsheet of every potion possible.
Bob -
Try dropping them at the base of the path. If that doesn't work, you may have an early version of the game that has a glitch that prevents the statue from being completely restored. If so, contact the vendor where you purchased the game to see if they have a later version you can download.
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It doesn't do anything other than gather everyone into one place. However, lecturing the children actually trains them in a skill. Drop your chief on a child and the chief and all the children will run to the ampitheatre for training. You can only do this once every 24 hours, but it gives the kids some skills to start out with and is very useful when they hit 14.
hey, i beat the game and have 90 peeps. but the population decreased everyday by 20! probably because i had all my kids at one time. so today my tribe is at 30, and all of my women are either too old to have kids, and two of them are too young. the only women i have who can breed are 3! is this really enough people to save the tribe!!?!? please, any ideas or help tips?
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About the Giant Clam:
In order to get the pearl from the giant clam, you need to create a fake pearl that you can substitute for the real thing. There is an object that is revealed when the statue is finally repaired, laying on the ground where the top half of the statue used to be. You need a master scientist and a master builder to shape this item. First drop a master builder on it and he/she will do one stage, then drop a master scientist on it and they will finish it up. Finally, drop your chief on the fake pearl and he/she will take it to the clam, substitute it for the real thing, and viola, you will be done!
Loopy -
First, you have to get your villager on the platform before it begins to rise, otherwise they won't get on at all. Second, make sure you are dropping the villager in the right place. You can test this when it is not raining. Drop a villager (adult) on the platform and if you've hit the right spot, they will simply stand there for a while. If you're not hitting the right spot, they will wander off.
Ash -
There are a couple of random events that can bring extra villagers to the settlement, like the barrel of babies event. However, there is no way to predict if this will happen, so you may end up having to start over.
Zayex -
As long as you have one male and one female of breeding age you are okay. Just set the female to parenting and let her keep having babies as long as she can.
Hi I paused my game as i was going to be away for a couple days, when i came back i still had all my ppl but all my puzzles were reset??? i still have the food and stuff but i am wondering if anyone else had a glitch where they had to redo all the puzzles?? or if anyone knows how to fix it with out having to redo everything... i still have my tec points and everything i bought with it but i have to redo all the buildings, trees, sharks are back, etc ?? any sugestions please ?? thanks in advance
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You might want to contact the technical support for the vendor where you purchased the game, they may have a fix.
Ohitstay -
Every time you buy a new level of science technology, the lab cleans up a little more. Level 3 will give you a completely restored lab. To use the hospital area, you need to purchase a higher level of medicine, and then you can drop villagers on that area to train them as doctors.
I followed all the steps to complete puzzle 12: Master Doctor, Level 3 Medicine, completed Puzzle 8, but when I put the doctor in the tub, as stated above, it says enjoying the bath, is there something I am missing or doing wrong? I have also placed the doctor next to the bath as well and that did not work either.
I left my virtual villagers game on by accident and well four of my villagers died because of old age. I have four left the youngest one is 52 (only boy, the new chief) and I have dragged him a THOUSAND TIMES OVER THE THREE GIRLS AND NONE HAVE HAD A BABY!!!! Is it possible that at a certain age the women can't have babys anymore? (by the way i have used two potions on all the villagers which are "feels romantic" and "feels fertile") did this happen to anybodie else? because im really afraid that they will all die after all the hard work of waiting a long time for them to do stuff :P so yeah HELP PPL HELP!!!!
ps: thanks
hey I think i put a coment before but it was either deleted or didn't post.
I need some advice, I've beaten the game and all is well in the tribe, but, I have a certain family that i keep special track of through the ages. The problem is, I have all 90 peeps and my current decendant is 57! If he doesn't have a son to take his name the legacy is ruined! the only thing I can do is try to kill the two women who are a few years older than him. But they wont die! I get them to no health but they just dont die! I'm afraid if I wait for them to die my decendant will die too.
Please, any ideas, suggestions, or general help???
Sincerely, Zayex
P.S. sorry this was so long :(
I've noticed somethings about the collectables and mushrooms that appear:
1. The mushrooms appear anywhere, even in the water, and vanish faster then the collectibles; so it helps if you pause the game before dragging a child onto them.
2. these are the places I have noticed are most common for the collectables to show up:
keypad section 4 (is mostly turtle shells) and keypad section 9 (which is mostly coral).
So be sure to check these two places often and carefully!!!
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I have 3 Master builders who have just started repairing the bath. My Tribal Cheif is withchild so my builders keep wondering off and "worrying about food".I need the bath repaired but I also need food which I can't get because I've run out of honey and my fruit tree is slow at produsing fruit. I'm also currently growing 2 more fruit trees but they won't be mature 4 anouther 4 hours! How can I get more food? Any ways apart from mushrooms???
Drop your chief on the food bin every 24 hours, and he/she'll make food
Drop your chief on a child (if you have level 2 leadership) and he/she will educate all your children
Drop your chief at the top of the path (where the statue should be, OR where the entrance to the hidden room is) (if you have level 3 leadership) and he/she will point out a rare collectible
does anybody know how to collect tech points quicker.other than dropping 2 kids on a collectable?
i have finished the bath, cleared all the leaves, cleared all the rubble, made both houses. it seems to take ages in between puzzels. i need to get level 3 restoration to fix the statue and the only way for me to get tech points is to make potions and collect shells and feathers. its really boring just to look for stuff all the time.
I'm having problem with the Statue puzzle. I bought all of the tech I possibly can and all of the other puzzles that I can possibly do are done. According to all of the walk throughs I've found with this puzzle in there, I simply have to start dropping villagers are to it and they'll start working on it. I've done that. Several times with multiple villagers - sometimes just one guy over and over and other times, a whole mess of them. But, still, they do nothing other than notice there is a statue and wonder off.
Any suggestions?
Can a child make potions? I left the game alone for four hours. When I left I had fifteen villagers. When I came back I had five children and no adults. I have evenough tech points to buy the lvl 2 faction but no villagers able to do anything. should i just wait until someone is old enough or just start over?
RootBeer -
First, have you drawn up the plans on the chalkboard in the lab? Have you used a master builder to put an anchor point on the statue? You can't do the task until that is done. Once that is done, drop your chief on the part of the statue that is laying on the ground. Once your chief starts directing people you can then drop builders on the statue to start moving it.
cburns -
No, the children cannot make potions. Just wait until one of them gets old enough (age 14).
Help! -
Was that through a potion or an island event?
Xingyun -
Unfortunately, the stick shows up in a different place each game. All I can tell you is to go slowly around the area and look closely, it can be hard to spot.
What is the significance of the story in the cave? Is there something that will happen in the future about this? Right after I dropped a villager in the cave, and I watched the little slide show thing, a baby was born, who dislikes magic. So now I feel like there is something more to the story... Someone help?
what do i do when i solve all the puzzles?
[Move on to Virtual Villagers #4! :) -Jay]
I have discovered an error in the potions listing:
Whoever's the moderator, please make the correct ammendments.
Details as Follows:
Potion of TTT(Tiger Lilyx3) does not create the effect of "Nature is calling!" but is actually "Whee! What a fun potion!" The drinker will go and play as though he/she was a child.
[Edit done. Thanks. :) -Jay]


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|Oracle® OLAP DML Reference
11g Release 2 (11.2)
Part Number E17122-05
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The TRACKPRG command tracks the performance cost of every program that runs while you have tracking turned on. To get meaningful information from TRACKPRG, your session must be the only one running in Oracle OLAP. Furthermore, the accuracy of the results of TRACKPRG decreases as more processes are started on the host computer.
You turn TRACKPRG on, run the programs you want to track, and use TRACKPRG again to obtain the results. Each time each program is executed, TRACKPRG stores its cost data as one entry in its tracking list. When you execute another program, a new entry is added to the list, which is maintained in Oracle OLAP memory (free storage).
A program or line of code is considered to have a high performance cost when it takes a long time to execute. Use TRACKPRG to identify programs that have relatively high costs and then use a MONITOR statement to identify the time-consuming lines within those programs. When you want, you can use both commands simultaneously.
TRACKPRG {ON|OFF|file|INIT}
where file has the following syntax:
Starts looking for programs to be run so it can gather their timing data in a tracking list. (Continues the current tracking process without interruption when tracking is already on, or resumes with a gap when tracking is off.)
Stops tracking programs and freezes any timing data currently in the tracking list which allows you to send the list to the current outfile or to a text file either immediately, or later in your session.
Specifies where to send the tracking list. TRACKPRG FILE has no effect on the tracking list, so you can send the same list repeatedly to different destinations.
Specifies that Oracle OLAP adds the tracking list to the contents of the file indicated by file-name instead of replacing it.
A text expression to which Oracle OLAP sends the data. Unless the file is in the current directory, you must include the name of the directory object in the name of the file.
Note:Directory objects are defined in the database, and they control access to directories and file in those directories. You can use a CDA statement to identify and specify a current directory object. Contact your Oracle DBA for access rights to a directory object where your database user name can read and write files.
When you omit file-name, Oracle OLAP sends the timing data currently in the tracking list to the current outfile
Discards the timing data in the current tracking list and releases the Oracle OLAP memory that was used for that list (useful when you want the memory for other purposes). Also, when tracking is on, resumes waiting for you to run programs so it can gather their data into a completely new tracking list.
Usage Notes
Single Execution
Each entry (that is, line) in the tracking list focuses on a single execution of a single program.
Depth of the Call
Each entry records the depth of the call, if any, to the current program; that is, how many program calls it has taken to get to the program reported on the current line. In TRACKPRG output, the depth of the call is indicated by the indentation of the program name. For each indented program, TRACKPRG also records the name of the program that called it at the end of the entry.
Types of Timing Data
In each entry, TRACKPRG records two types of timing data:
Exclusive cost -- The time spent in this program, excluding the time spent on any programs that are called by this one.
Inclusive cost -- The time spent in this program, including the time spent on any programs that are called by this one.
This gives you the option of generating a report on both types of cost.
Entry Sections
In TRACKPRG output, each entry (line) is divided into the following four sections:
Program name, in character columns 1 through 38
Exclusive time, in columns 39 through 49
Inclusive time, in columns 50 through 60
Name of calling program, in columns 61 through 77
Here is a sample of TRACKPRG output (for the MAIN program) with column numbers included for reference.
TRACKREPORT Program
When you want to use Oracle OLAP reporting capabilities to produce a report from the timing data in the text file that is created by TRACKPRG, you can use the TRACKREPORT program. It has the following syntax.
TRACKREPORT textfile-name
The textfile-name argument is the file name of the text file created by TRACKPRG from which you want to generate a report. TRACKREPORT uses a FILEREAD statement to read the data into an Oracle OLAP variable, and then it uses Oracle OLAP reporting capabilities to produce a report like the following sample.
Exclusive Inclusive Number of Program name cost cost calls ____________________ __________ __________ __________ COMM 43.793808 185.93161 1 MAIN 39.6198425 225.551453 1 _C.CON 66.7147064 80.5235901 1 _C.ENV.PUTOPTS 1.15296936 1.15296936 1 _C.ENV.XLATEIN 6.32765198 6.32765198 1 _C.MAIN 61.414505 141.938095 1 _C.SYS.DORETURN .032287598 .032287598 1 _C.SYS.INFO .289932251 .289932251 3 _C.SYS.NOF10 .038269043 .038269043 1 _CONNECT 5.3609314 6.16748047 1 _CONNNONE .806549072 .806549072 1
When you want to further process the data from a TRACKPRG file, you can write your own program using the
TRACKREPORT program as a model.
Excluded Subprograms
When you do not want separate performance data on all the subprograms called by the program you are timing, you can, within the overall program, turn tracking off before calling any subprograms you want to exclude and then turn it back on before calling any you want to include. You can do this repeatedly. Remember, however, that the time taken by any excluded subprograms is assigned to the total "exclusive" time for the overall program and to its "inclusive" time, since TRACKPRG has not individually tracked the excluded subprograms.
Using TRACKPRG with Very Small Programs
You might not be able to reproduce the results exactly for very small programs. When the CPU interrupts processing to do other tasks, that time is a greater percentage of the total execution time.
Unit of Measure for TRACKPRG
The MONITOR and TRACKPRG commands use milliseconds as the unit for recording execution time. The execution time does not include time spent on I/O and time spent waiting for the next statement.
Example 10-154 Collecting Timing Data USING TRCKPRG
In this example, timing data on the
mybjt program and all the programs it calls is collected in a file called
TRACKPRG ON mybjt TRACKPRG OFF TRACKPRG FILE mybjttim.dat TRACKPRG INIT TRACKREPORT mybjttim.dat
Example 10-155 Using the INIT Keyword and TRACKREPORT
In this example, tracking is turned on to collect timing data about the execution of
prog1 and the data is sent to a file named
prog1.trk. Then, the INIT keyword is used to discard the existing tracking list so the data for a second program can be collected and sent to a file. Throughout the procedure, tracking remains on. Finally, after tracking is turned off and the INIT keyword is used to release the memory that was used for the tracking list, the
TRACKREPORT program is called to produce two reports generated from the data stored in the two files.
TRACKPRG ON prog1 TRACKPRG FILE prog1.trk TRACKPRG INIT prog2 TRACKPRG FILE prog2.trk TRACKPRG OFF TRACKPRG INIT TRACKREPORT prog1.trk TRACKREPORT prog2.trk


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A key UK security industry source who served in the military told the Sunday Express that GCHQ remotely switched on recorder modes right up to the moment the couple took their fatal Paris car trip.
If made public, the phone recordings could help throw light on sensational claims by former SAS serviceman Soldier N that Diana was murdered by an SAS assassination squad.
The bugging claim came as a separate Sunday Express investigation revealed that film footage of Diana's last hours was "kept secret". An exhaustive inquiry in the French capital has confirmed the existence of CCTV records of the night Diana died in August 1997.
Many belong to private companies who used France's strict privacy laws to avoid having to hand them over to the police. Just as crucially, a key traffic camera overlooking the scene of the crash in the Alma Tunnel was said to be switched off or malfunctioning.
However, one operator contacted 16 years on said: "Images would have been available if people wanted them to be. The truth is that every excuse possible was made to make sure that live film could be kept secret.
"This suited lots of powerful people, especially those who wanted to dismiss the crash as a simple traffic accident."
The operator, who asked not to be identified because he "fears for my safety", said he was convinced that all available film was "rounded up and hidden or destroyed".
Military sources have claimed Diana's driver, Henri Paul, was blinded with an intense flash of light forcing him to lose control of their Mercedes on an underpass after leaving the Ritz hotel.
The wreck of the Mercedes that Diana was in as it crashed in a Paris underpass
Now the security source, a specialist operative who has engaged in "black ops", is alleging that Diana's phone was accessed remotely, even when switched off.
"There is no doubt that this technology was used on Diana and all around her, and for very human reasons she was regularly listened to live in the moment," said the source.
GCHQ operatives spent a great deal of time recording and listening live because she was a priority intelligence target and a direct threat to the Crown, he said.
"More than that, she was an icon and the most famous woman in the world at the time and analysts are vulnerable to curiosity as much as anyone else and would have wanted and had the capacity to listen live to the conversations in the car as it sped away from the Ritz."
As well as these claims, there are suspicions that CCTV cameras were tampered with on the night of the crash.
Diana in the back of the car with driver Henri Paul (right) who is said to have been dazzled
Pascal Poulain was the commander of the Paris Information and Control Centre which was ultimately responsible for the Alma Tunnel camera that night. Interviewed by British investigators, he said: "In view of the scale of the accident, we tried to see the scene of the accident, using the camera situated at Place de l'Alma.
"That was impossible. In fact the screen showed only a blurred yellow light. We tried to manipulate the camera, that is to use the zoom and manoeuvre it, in vain. We did not have the control."By that I mean that another section must have been using the camera and manipulating it and must have not released it.
"It had remained under remote control on another section's control panel. But it could also have been due to it being out of order."Speaking further about the crash, Mr Poulain said that any order to record images taken by the camera would have to have been taken "at the highest level of authority and not by a police officer".
A spokesman for Paris Urban Traffic Units said they stopped using the camera at 11pm, around an hour and 20 minutes before the crash. In the late Nineties, police officer Eric Gigou led a team given the task of collecting all CCTV images on the route from the Ritz to the Alma underpass.
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Chocolate Passion Bowl (Or more commonly known as crack)
Chocolate Passion Bowl
3 cups cold milk
2 pkg. (3.9 oz each) Jell-O Chocolate Instant Pudding
1 tub (11 oz.) Cool Whip , thawed, divided
1 baked 9-inch square brownie layer, cooled, cut into 1-inch cubes (about 5-1/2 cups)
1 pt. (2 cups) raspberries
Beat milk and pudding mixes with whisk 2 min. Stir in 1 cup Cool Whip.
Place 1/2 of brownies in 2-qt. bowl; top with layers of 1/2 each pudding mixture, remaining Cool Whip and raspberries. Repeat all layers.
Refridgerate 1 hour.
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One of the best books published in 2010—and which I use as my "go to" book on immigration, citizenship, and naturalization—is Dave Obee's book, Destination Canada: A Genealogical Guide to Immigration Records.
It's made up of 15 chapters -
Chapter 1 - The immigration experience
Chapter 2 - Four centuries of immigration
Chapter 3 - A timetable of migration to Canada
Chapter 4 - The key resources
Chapter 5 - The early years
Chapter 6 - Atlantic ports 1865-1935
Chapter 7 - Pacific ports 1858-1935
Chapter 8 - Through the United States
Chapter 9 - Arrivals since 1935
Chapter 10 - Outbound records
Chapter 11 - Immigration Branch (RG76)
Chapter 12 - Naturalization and citizenship
Chapter 13 - Just passing through?
Chapter 14 - Migration museums
Chapter 15 - Additional sources
I have found the book to be inclusive of all of the records, and where they can be found. There are very helpful maps which explain where the people have come from, and where they were going. And there is a very good chapter on migration museums around the world.
For any questions that I am asked about immigration, I always include Obee's book in my searching for the answer because I want to make sure that I am aware of all of the facts surrounding immigration to Canada.
For example, a question recently arose concerning immigration to Canada from Britain in 1927 - Is a passenger list the same as Immigration Records? Where did this person land? What port did he leave from in England? How did he get from the port to Central Canada?
By reading this book, and looking at the records at the Library and Archives Canada (LAC), as well as the records at Ancestry.ca, I was able to answer these questions.
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Forum Post: The other Washington could hold the key to Medicare's cost crisis
Posted 6 years ago on July 29, 2013, 9:20 a.m. EST by GirlFriday
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In order to cut costs and put Medicare on a stronger footing, many health policy experts say the program must stop covering procedures that do little to improve patient health or are not worth the price tag. But the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the agency that administers the program, has for the most part failed to implement such cost-cutting measures, because its authority is limited, cuts are controversial and Congress frequently interferes.
Medicare coverage policy most often set far from D.C.
Yet when it comes to setting Medicare coverage policy, relatively few decisions are actually made in Washington, D.C. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administers the program, but the nuts-and-bolts processes of running the program, including making coverage decisions and paying claims, are performed mostly by private insurance companies that contract with the federal government. Each year, Medicare does institute a dozen or more "national coverage decisions," often on high-profile or costly procedures. Other procedures are subject to so-called local coverage determinations by the regional insurance contract administrators. The result is a fragmented program in which a procedure Medicare pays for in New York is not necessarily covered in Kansas.
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Since ancient days, we have many home remedies in the home itself to cure common health issues like cold, cough. Along with natural treating, these home remedies don't get you any side effects. Here is the list of common health issues we face and remedies for them.
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Other schools of interest: Oklahoma, Florida, USC
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At the center of the Art Hall is the Fort Lewis College Art Gallery. The Gallery brings local, regional and national exhibitions to the campus, providing students and classes with an important research tool. The Art Gallery is part of the educational program at Fort Lewis College. The gallery provides exposure to diverse works of art and ranges of artistic expression representing multiple art forms, styles, periods, purposes, and locales. Through its exhibition of contemporary art, the gallery explores the artistic process as well as its products. The gallery works in conjunction with the art program and other academic programs to show how art functions in a cultural context, whether contemporary or historical. Many student shows are also scheduled throughout the year, including the Senior Art Majors Exhibition and the Annual Juried Student Exhibition. In addition to the main gallery, students also exhibit work in the "Exit Gallery", an intimate exhibition space located in the southwest corner of the art building.
The Art Gallery has approximately 130 lineal feet of display area, and is divided into a central gallery and two smaller adjacent wings. Clerestory windows located approximately 30 feet above the central gallery allow natural light to flood the gallery. Alternately, specially fitted blinds can block the natural light if a more controlled environment is desired.
The Gallery Management course is an upper division course offered through the Department of Art & Design. This internship, in association with the Art Gallery, allows students to experience all aspects of gallery work, from developing publicity to designing and installing the exhibitions.
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For those who know much about the podcast I've been doing for the past 11 years-- Face Off Hockey Show-- you will know that our fan base is far and wide. One of the bigger fan bases is that of the British persuasion and I figured I would help promote their leagues (as wacky as they may be) and maybe get you to look beyond North America.
Great Britain is home of the 1936 Gold Medal Olympic winners and the main league is the EIHL, which has seen such former NHL players like Theoren Fleury (Belfast Giants), Nick Boynton (Nottingham Panthers), Eric Cairns (London Racers), and the late Wade Belak (Coventry Blaze) come over and play; though Fleury was the only one not to play during the 2004-05 NHL lockout. The EIHL allows up to 11 non-British players to be on the ice at one time, which means all imports have to have a British work permit in order to play. Sometimes they are not that easy to get, just ask Mike Danton recently. The limit was raised from 10 of 2011-12, which some people don't seem to like because of it taking a job away from a Briton. Though the league says it's to counteract the departure of top Britons to other European leagues, it stymies the attempt to produce more top-end players by taking a spot away.
Not knowing much or seeing much of the EIHL, I got the help of Anthony Russell, curator of Banners on the Wall, a blog about the Basingstoke Bison-- formerly of the EIHL and now of the EPL-- to get his take on the EIHL. Russell said that because of the influx of North American players who couldn't make it in the North American minors, the league feels more like a low-AA hockey league in North America with a lot of physical play and fighting. The 10 team league has four teams from England, four from Scotland, one from Northern Ireland, and one from Wales.
A league lower than the EIHL is the EPL, which is a semi-pro and developmental league. Only those with European passports, residency, or of British heritage (mother or father with British citizenship) can play in this league. Those players without those key things are imports and teams can sign as many as they want. The import rule only has a team rostering four a game and three on the ice during any time of the game. Russell let me know that there is a two-minute-penalty for too many imports on the ice. About the game play, Russell said, "Because it's easier to sign Europeans, the game has a very European hockey feel to it, but also some touches of British physicality."
Another side to the EPL is the ownership situation. There's a vast difference on who owns the teams and how they could be run. Russell mentioned that the Guilford Flames are owned by a millionaire, while the Telford Tigers are owned by a trust made by fans who pay into it. If you buy one share of the team, you have a say in how they are ran.
There is another newly formed NIHL, which is a Tier 3/4 league that has a lower import rate and all of that-- but more of a development league for the EPL and then EIHL.
The playoff system of the EIHL and EPL are kind of similar, but I'll let Russell explain as to what's the difference is when it comes to the trophy races:
Where British hockey really differs from others is the mentality over trophies. Britain is a football (soccer) country so playoffs, whilst part of hockey aren't the be all and end all. Really in British hockey, the main prize is the league title. You play your 54 game season and the team who wins the league title is generally the team regarded as the best. This is partially because that's how we're wired in Britain; anyone can win 1 or 2 games but being consistently good over 54 is what makes you good.
Playoffs are the same for EIHL and EPL. Both are 10 team leagues so teams 1-8 qualify. Weekend after the regular season is done you have the Quarterfinals; 1st plays 8th, 2nd plays 7th etc over 2 legs (generally Saturday and Sunday) home and home, highest combined score over the two legs wins. The four winning Quarterfinalists qualify for Finals weekend the next weekend.
The leagues hold them at different venues and generally on different weekends, the EIHL at the National Ice Centre in Nottingham and the EPL at the Skydome Arena in Coventry. Saturday, you get the two Semifinals and Sunday you get a junior game (generally, the Under-18s National Playoff Final) followed by the finalists battling it out to be playoff champs. It's different and sounds daft to North Americans but fans from all teams in the league will descend on finals weekend to meet up, watch hockey, drink themselves stupid, and have a good time. It's like a big party to end the season essentially, though many would prefer "normal playoffs" for the quality's sake but we enjoy ourselves.---------
There's that-- a first look at the European side of the game. While I want to take credit-- Anthony Russell is the man. You can check out his work with writing for the Basingstoke Bison over at Banners on the Wall and check out his musings on British/European Hockey, wrestling, and other fun things in his world over at Twitter @84arussell.