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Herb and Elizabeth Denniss: A Fierce Commitment to Education
Exemplary Public Servants–and So Much More
Springfield, Illinois, is better off for having Herb and Elizabeth Denniss.
Before retiring, Herb served Springfield as a police officer for many years, rising to the rank of assistant deputy chief.
As a nurse, Elizabeth served primarily in intensive care and emergency departments before retiring, touching the lives of Springfield residents at the moments of their most urgent needs.
As valuable as their service to Springfield has been, however, it doesn't begin to communicate the joy they find in life and the happiness they share with anyone lucky enough to spend time with them.
Their generosity now extends to UIS through a gift in their wills.
Elizabeth's Asian Heritage
Elizabeth Denniss lived in Japan until she was eight. When she came to the States, she retained an important element of her Asian heritage: a fierce commitment to education.
"Education," Elizabeth says, "is very important in Japan, and families make sure that children are aware of how important it is."
Impressive List of Degrees
Reflecting this commitment, Elizabeth has collected an impressive list of degrees:
- an LPN earned in Michigan at Lake Superior State College,
- an RN at Lincoln Land Community College,
- a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) at UIS (then Sangamon State), and not one but
- two master's degrees from U of I Chicago's nursing program in Peoria—one in Community Health Nursing and another in the Family Nurse Practitioner program.
Herb's Own Commitment to Education
Her husband, Herb, also values education. "I would tell young people anywhere to get an education," he says. "I always felt short-sheeted because I didn't go to college."
Instead he supported Elizabeth through her later challenging degrees and would have been happy to see her to continue through her doctorate.
Elizabeth's Career in Springfield
Although health concerns halted Elizabeth's academic advances, she lays claim, along with Sandy Hudgins-Brewer, to being Springfield's first Family Nurse Practitioners, and was able to fulfill a long-held dream of teaching though not to nurses. Elizabeth taught basic clinical skills to third-year students at the SIU medical school.
She recently retired as a Family Nurse Practitioner from Emergency Consultants, Inc. in the Emergency Department at St. John's Hospital.
Three Endowments
Because Elizabeth and Herb have no children, when it came time to plan their will, they decided to include charitable bequests.
"Whatever you want is fine," Herb told Elizabeth, and with her passion for education, Elizabeth proposed giving to schools.
The couple's wills now include endowments for three institutions in their will:
- UIS for Japanese studies,
- Lincoln Land Community College, and
- the University of Illinois College of Nursing at the Peoria campus..
Their gift to UIS will support students who want to learn more about Japan, including going to Japan to study.
Changing Students' Lives
"Before we got married," Elizabeth says, "I always had to work fulltime when I went to school. I remember studying until one or two in the morning, getting up to go to school before going to work, and then staying up again. I would hope that our gift would help a student do some of the extra things available to them, especially related to Japanese culture.
Traditional Japanese Art at UIS
The Dennisses have also bequeathed their collection of Hakata dolls, beautiful clay figurines that depict Japanese life. As you can see from the cabinet at right, their collection is quite impressive. The lower pictures shows a pair of Elizabeth's favorites in close up.
Elizabeth hopes the dolls will introduce students to traditional Japanese art, and interest them in going to Japan.
"The Japanese and American cultures are so different," she says, "and I would like students to see the differences but that we are actually very similar as human beings in so many ways."
What a wonderful legacy to create at UIS!


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The Fairtrade Mark is the globally recognised label that adorns Fairtrade Certified products.
The familiar blue and green logo symbolising a farmer in a field, known as the Fairtrade Mark, is a registered trademark owned by Fairtrade International (also known as Fairtrade Labelling Organisations International or FLO). Every time you choose a product carrying the Fairtrade Mark you are making the choice to give a fair go to farmers, workers and their communities in some of the world's poorest countries.
At Fairtrade we work in partnership with these farmers to provide fairer prices, better terms of trade and additional funds for business and community development such as education, healthcare and environmental sustainability. This leads to better working conditions and enhanced investment in quality.
For a product to display the Fairtrade Mark it must meet the international Fairtrade social, economic and environmental standards which are set by the certification body Fairtrade International. These standards are agreed through a process of research and consultation with key participants in the Fairtrade scheme, including producers themselves, traders, NGOs, academic institutions and Labelling Initiatives such as Fairtrade Australia & New Zealand.
A key goal of the Fairtrade system is to promote fairness and justice in trade through increased transparency. Products carrying the Fairtrade Mark are independently certified along the supply chain to ensure they have been sourced according to the Fairtrade Standards.
Farmers, workers and traders in the country of origin are audited by FLO-CERT (a separate international certification company), while traders and licensees in Australia and New Zealand are audited by FLO-CERT or Fairtrade ANZ. This process includes regular reporting of Fairtrade sales and on-site audits. Together these procedures ensure full supply chain transparency and provide assurance to customers that products carrying the Fairtrade Mark are Fairtrade.
All products bearing the Fairtrade Mark contain ingredients that have met strict Fairtrade Standards throughout their supply chain. These Standards are established through consultation with stakeholders across the system, including farmers and workers, traders, NGOs, academics and labelling organisations such as Fairtrade Australia and New Zealand (Fairtrade ANZ).
The Fairtrade Mark can be used on:
The Fairtrade Program Mark is another way of engaging with Fairtrade cocoa, sugar and cotton farmers to sell more of their crops on Fairtrade terms, meaning more Fairtrade benefits for their farms and communities.
Globally, more and more businesses are committing to buying sustainable cocoa, sugar and cotton for use across complete product ranges, or even their entire businesses. The Fairtrade Sourcing Program is an additional way for businesses to source Fairtrade, and runs in parallel to the existing Fairtrade Mark.
This approach was launched to help cocoa, sugar and cotton farmers to increase their market access. It enables Fairtrade to work with businesses on an ingredient-by-ingredient or commodity-by-commodity basis and ensure better outcomes for more producers.
Find out more about Fairtrade Sourcing Programs
Commercial use of the Fairtrade Marks are regulated by Fairtrade ANZ.
If you are manufacturing a Fairtrade Certified product and wish to use the Mark you are required to submit your product packaging or promotional material artwork to email@example.com

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i love pockets. adding them seems the best course, if you find your shirt, pants, skirt or jacket without. however, sometimes it just isn't possible. in a pinch once, i made a portable pocket (illustrated above). the photo has a good story behind it, i'll share below.
p.s. hannah, please use your new pocket.


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So it seems, at least according to the recently published article by Kathleen Vohs, Nicole L. Mead, and Miranda R. Goode (2008) Merely Activating the Concept of Money Changes Personal and Interpersonal Behavior , Current Directions in Psychological Science , Volume 17 Issue 3, Pages 208 – 212).
Here is the abstract:
"Money plays a significant role in people's lives, and yet little experimental attention has been given to the psychological underpinnings of money. We systematically varied whether and to what extent the concept of money was activated in participants' minds using methods that minimized participants' conscious awareness of the money cues. On the one hand, participants reminded of money were less helpful than were participants not reminded of money, and they also preferred solitary activities and less physical intimacy. On the other hand, reminders of money prompted participants to work harder on challenging tasks and led to desires to take on more work as compared to participants not reminded of money. In short, even subtle reminders of money elicit big changes in human behavior."
The concept of money was activated in the participants via four different manipulations. The first had participants play monopoly and being given at the end of the game different amounts of money "for later" before moving to another task. The second manipulation asked participants to imagine life with either abundant or limited finances. In the third manipulation participants had to organize phrases that were or were not related to money. The fourth and last manipulation made participants sit near images of cash or neutral images. The authors found that all of these manipulations had similar effects.
The authors underline that the emotional states reported by participants did not seem to be affected by whether they were reminded of money or not. This suggests that the results are unlikely to depend on emotional impacts of money on making participants less trustful, more anxious, or prideful. The authors believe that the explanation does not lie in money making people more selfish or greedy. In fact, exposure to money clues did not make participants more likely to ask for help when given a tough assignment nor more likely to reject more work than was necessary.
The authors conclude:
"We are eager to explore the idea that money leads to a perspective on the world that emphasizes inputs and outputs with an expectation of equity (cf. Fiske, 1991)—a perspective that would emphasize performance and, consequently, may harm interpersonal sensitivity." (p. 211).
See also the earlier article "The Psychological Consequences of Money," Kathleen D. Vohs, Nicole Mead, and Miranda Goode, Science (2006). Nov. 17, 2006.
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Mission is secret, but team is ready
ROTC Cadets James Caron and Rob Chuckney (left to right) practice assembly of M4, M249-SAW, M240-B and M9 weapons as part of their preparation for the Ranger Challenge Team's participation in the 2014 Sandhurst Military Skills Competition.
Eleven JMU Army ROTC Duke Battalion cadets are embarking on an unknown mission with one goal in mind – to represent the university and the 4th Brigade well at the 2014 Sandhurst Military Skills Competition.
The elite group, The Ranger Challenge Team, is already making history by being the first JMU team to compete in the prestigious annual competition held at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. The April 11-12 competition, hosted by the United States Corps of Cadets, will test the skills of 60 teams from military service academies around the world.
There the team will match extreme physical training with keen critical thinking skills to complete assignments that will call for expertise in marksmanship and weapon handling, land navigation, obstacle courses and other challenges, all in full gear with packs weighing up to 60 pounds.
JMU's team earned the right to compete by virtue of winning the October 2013 competition with 40 other college and university teams making up the 4th Brigade, one of eight Cadet Command brigades represented at the West Point competition.
While the missions the cadets will undertake at Sandhurst are secret until revealed to them once they convene at West Point, the JMU team is benefiting from its Department of Military Science cadre members (faculty) who have Ranger School experience in the U.S. Army. "Our cadre really trains us above and beyond everyone else," said Ranger Commander Zak Knowles.
Since November Knowles and Ranger Challenge members James Caron, Rob Chuckney, John Cundiff, Katelyn Dills, Cameron Lucas, Ben Miller, Jackson Snyder, David Wilson and alternates Garrett Mannion and Erin Pace have been training to achieve levels above and beyond ROTC standards. Instead of reporting for physical training three days a week, the Rangers train five days a week from 5:20-7 a.m. Then it's off to ROTC classes two days a week, lab once a week and further training to meeting requirements such as running five miles in less than 40 minutes, completing a 12-mile ruck march in three hours, maneuvering with full gear on a one-rope bridge or through water.
"For me, training in our gas masks was the most challenging part of preparing for Sandhurst," said Dills. "Eric Thomas, former football athlete, once said, 'If you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you will be successful.' That quote has encouraged me to push past all the challenges I face in training, in competition, in life."
The physical training comes easier for Cundiff. "I would have to say that the most grueling part of preparing for Sandhurst would be the mental aspect of it all," he said. "You need to know the academic side of the competition, and study and memorize that in a way that when it's time for the competition you don't even need to think about it and can just perform it."
"I believe the most grueling parts of preparing for the Sandhurst Competition are not the events themselves, rather the balancing of those training events with school work, class conflicts with training time and other ROTC duties," said Wilson. Knowles agrees, nothing that a cadet's grade point average counts 40 percent in the criteria for determining standing with the cadet structure.
This winter's snows, which have played havoc with JMU's class schedule, have also made preparing for the Sandhurst Competition difficult. For Commander Knowles, "Being able to plan training events throughout this crazy weather we have been having" has been the most grueling part of preparing for the Sandhurst Competition. "A lot of our training events this semester have been canceled due to the amount of snow we have received here at JMU."
But despite the hardships, the team is ready for the mission at West Point. "Everyone pulls their own weight and contributes to the team equally with their individual strengths and skills. Some people are better at assembling weapons and radios, some are better at mental tasks, some are better at medical skills, and others can go for days physically," said Chuckney. "We all bring certain skills to the table that make our team better and we teach each other these skills so that we can all become proficient at them and make it enjoyable rather than 'grueling.'"
Lt. Col. Richard Showalter, professor and head of the Department of Military Science, Master Sgt. Jeremy Wilcox and Capt. Andrew Ware will accompany the team to West Point. Showalter said, "The value of the Sandhurst Competition for JMU's Ranger Group is in the preparation leading up to the event. The training opportunities with weapons, Army tactics and skills have increased their capability to lead America's soldiers and become better officers.
"Additionally, during the course of their preparation, they have developed a bond of trust and camaraderie amongst their teammates that is unrivaled in any sport. Sandhurst will showcase this hard work, teamwork, dedication to excellence and their indomitable spirit that both cadre and cadets have put into preparing the team to represent JMU and 4th Brigade for this two-day event."
"Everyone is capable of executing for Sandhurst. It's just making sure we use good critical thinking and avoid penalties that could jeopardize whether we win or lose," Knowles said. "We're going to win; that's what we're expecting."
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Advice on how to make a good presentation
Add a call to action
Why it's so important to add a call to action to your presentation? Let's see a few key reasons for that:
First of all let's observe the most common reasons for a presentation:
- To represent something
- To teach about something new
A presentation is used to provide guidelines on any given topic you are talking about and as such, due to its nature it needs to contain a call to action. This call to action highly depends on the exact nature of the presentation but let's tell you the most general types:
- to buy or to order the represented product
- To learn more about the topic of the presentation
- A general motivation to work and develop yourself as an employee and as an individual
It is in the nature of a presentation to finish with a proper call to action, this is also meant as a sort of a reward for both you and for your audience.


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ravenshining wrote:Have you considered giving the enemies no flinch sequence, so like you they don't stop firing when fired upon? I think it'd be fun for the fist dudes to have 3x! I split the map to try that and check some things out in your physics, but for some reason Anvil won't open them.
RadBurn wrote:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/f9y8c88kkbjhb ... h.zip?dl=0
Here is an unmerged physics model with no flinch animations. The fist marine has his health increased some and a strange bug with the MADDs has been fixed ( but not tested yet ).
I'll look into Vulcan later but no promises.
ravenshining wrote:That one wouldn't open either, until I opened it up in a hex editor side-by-side with a clean one and noticed a bunch of junk at the beginning and end of the file. Maybe that's a weird byproduct of copying it from my ext4 partition to an HFS image from within Basillisk II and then adding type and creator codes with Resourcer.
ravenshining wrote:Yes, the flinchless Marines are much more challenging and closer to netplay than the flinching ones, and I like how the fist Marines can now take a rocket hit.
ravenshining wrote:I'm noticing a bug where if a Marine gets up close to it's target (whether that's you or another Marine or a MADD) they will stop attacking. I don't know if that's with A1 or some particularity of the physics but I'm not sure why that happens.
ravenshining wrote:I made some tweaks for my own fun
RadBurn wrote:Was there ever mention of an AI among the planetside colonists?
ravenshining wrote:At 64 MB Anvil runs even more unstable than normal on my Basilisk II setup so I haven't tried pushing it higher.
ravenshining wrote:Looking at the collection, I figure you don't need the blood, death, corpse, and MADD sequences all in there
ravenshining wrote:I don't want to update 599 frame references by hand on top of the 512 bitmap references that still need fixing...
ravenshining wrote:Well, you've taken the shapes format well past it's Infinity specs into Aleph One and ShapesFusion-only territory.
RadBurn wrote:ravenshining wrote:Looking at the collection, I figure you don't need the blood, death, corpse, and MADD sequences all in there
I don't have a lot of experience with the engine and only did what I felt comfortable doing. I was under the impression that each collection should be self contained and not reliant on any other collection ( for the most part ). Some of the death and corpse bitmaps needed altering to go along with the different helmet these Marines had. As for the blood I did consider using the Marine blood but remembered something I read long ago about collections not loading into memory without cause. Since this project is intended to be played single player then the Marine collection wouldn't have a need to load into memory.
RadBurn wrote:Still need fixing? I follow what you're trying to do but my question is why?
ravenshining wrote:if I were to use this in a scenario, I would need to be able to edit them, and even if I could get ShapesFusion to compile I remember not liking its interface and would prefer to use Hackvil and Anvil for everthing they can do.
RadBurn wrote:Red Spectrum remapped to work with this project
https://www.dropbox.com/s/3xy5t4o7t8tfe ... m.zip?dl=0
Flowers wrote:Any plans on getting this on Simplici7y now that there's more content out?
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The SEO Tips City website has posted a book review of one of Wrox's latest PHP-related offerings, "Search Engine Optimization with PHP" (by Jaimie Sirovich and Cristian Darie).
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the last process I would think of when making my homepage. However, when fighting for customers or the possibility for an audience and thus advertising revenue through page clicks then understanding SEO and placing it in the center of your website's design is vital for your personal/professional wealth.
They quickly share their impression of the book - a positive response that uses PHP code examples to describe some of the key features for making your site optimized.


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The profession of physical therapist assistant (PTA) has emerged as an integral part within the discipline of physical therapy. The PTA plays a key role in a patient's recovery from injury or disease of the neurological or musculoskeletal systems of the body.
PTA's work under the supervision of a licensed physical therapist to use electrical, mechanical, and thermal modalities; assist in gait training; instruct in strengthening and coordination exercises; and improve work, sports, or activities of daily living skills. They are employed in hospitals, outpatient care clinics, rehabilitation facilities, home health agencies, nursing homes, and school systems.
The curriculum is designed in a five semester sequence incorporating academic and clinical coursework. Upon successful completion of the program, the graduate is awarded an Associate in Applied Science Degree as a physical therapist assistant and is eligible to apply for the National Physical Therapist Assistant Examination.
Mission Statement
The mission of the Physical Therapist Assistant Program of Shawnee State University is to provide regional training via coordinated broad based learning experiences through excellence in teaching and transforming therapeutic principles into clinical applications.
The PTA program is committed to providing higher education that fosters competence in communication, scientific reasoning, and logical reasoning to enrich the lives of the community. The PTA program at Shawnee State University is committed to the development of life-long learners that are both professional and sensitive to the ever changing environment of healthcare.
The PTA faculty will strive to prepare the entry-level PTA to collaborate with the PT in a variety of settings and patient populations. This training enables students to prepare for the National criterion-based Physical Therapy Examination for the Physical Therapist Assistant (NPTE-PTA).
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Teaching and Learning/eFest 2009 -2
MUVEing towards collaboration – the benefits and pitfalls of working as a collaborative teaching in a Multi-user Virtual Environment," and "In-world, meets the real world – the trials and tribulations of bringing Second Life to an ITP," presented by Merle Lemon, lead educator in foundation learning, and lecturer at Manukau Institute of Technology and Oriel Kelly, manager of MIT's Learning Environment Support Technology Centre.
SL foundation learning students
"do better" than f2f learners
Real Life assessment finding
Merle Lemon is her SL alter ego on screen at Teaching and Learning/eFest 2009
Foundation Learning students who used the SLENZ pilot foundation learning programme in Second Life to hone their interview skills did better in real life assessment interviews than those students who had not been through Second Life, according to SLENZ lead educator and senior Manukau Institute of Technology lecturer Merle Lemon (SL: Briamelle Quintessa).
The result came from all foundation learning classes in interview techniques – both from those students who used Second Life and those in face-to-face classes – being assessed in real life interviews by an assessor who did not know who had attended which classes.
Although Lemon is the first to admit the test was "not scientific" and that the results "might have been confounded by individual class teacher ability" the results point to the benefits of a properly- designed virtual world learning programme used by itself or as a valuable adjunct to face-to-face learning.
The result, even if anecdotal in nature, was across the board with students four the four SL classes doing better in the real life interview assessment than those from six face-to-face-only classes.
Lemon reported the result as an aside to virtual world teaching workshops she conducted at last week's annual, national Teaching and Learning/eFest 2009 tertiary education conference at UCOL in Palmerston North, New Zealand.
Introducing "MUVEing towards collaboration – the benefits and pitfalls of working as a collaborative teaching team in a Multiuser Virtual Environment", Lemon paid tribute to the SLENZ team and to the support she received from her foundation learning pilot members and fellow educators – MIT's Tania Hogan (SL: Tania Hogan) and Maryanne Wright (SL:Nugget Mixemup); NorthTec's Martin Bryers (SL: Motini Manimbo), Vicki Pemberton (SL: Sky Zeitman) and Clinton Ashill (SL: Clat Adder), as well as Oriel Kelly (pictured right), manager of MIT's Learning Environment Support Technology Centre and MIT's IT support staff "although they were somewhat reluctant at first."
"We tried to get the educators into Second Life as quickly as possible after the project started," Lemon said. " We tried to keep everyone on the same page all the time and largely succeeded.
"But we had to keep the lecturers motivated. They had to realise they were not going to be alone when they were going into SL. For this we used mentors and we linked up for meetings together in SL and with other educators in SL. Volunteers from ISTE ( International Society for Technology in Education) and the University of Arizona helped out a lot in SL."
Highest praise for ISTE, Jo Kay
On an international collaborative basis she paid tribute for outstanding help – I publish her list in the belief it may be a help to other educators – to Second Life's MNC (New Media Consortium), CCSL (Community Colleges of Second Life), Google Teacher Academy,Second Life Mentors, Second Life Education, and Second Ability Mentors (for the disabled).
She also found the VWBPE (Virtual World Best Practices in Education conference) run virtually in February this year as being invaluable both from a learning and networking point of view and received help from the Education Coffee House, Virtual Pioneers and Media Learning – Danish Visions, the Kiwi Educators group, and COM Educators in Second Life.
She reserved some of her highest praise for The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) which she described as "the trusted source for professional development, knowledge generation, advocacy, and leadership for innovation" in in-world education and Australian Second Life educator and researcher Jo Kay, of Jokaydia, the Jokaydia annual Unconference , Jokaydia News and Info and Jokaydia Educators-in Rez.
"Inadequacy," "panic"
Lemon said among the difficulties experienced by her team were: wavering support and/or a lack of commitment; exacerbated by feelings of "inadequacy" and sometimes "panic"; communication problems and the loss of some team members as the pilot progressed. There also was a problem initially with student non-attendance and a lack of computer literacy but this had been overcome with the establishment of a "buddy" system. This had sometimes turned into a problem of keeping track of students: "Make sure they are in your group and are on your friends list," she said.
However, in the five classes taken into SL, there had only been one student who had "resisted" the idea, not for computer or virtual world issues, but because of "privacy" in connection with the other students.
In deciding to move learning into Second Life, Lemon said, educators, rather than initially spending lots on their developments etc, without proper research, should consider the existing resources within Second Life and whether they could use these resources, and what needed to be added to them to make them useful for a particular purpose.
She recommended, based on her experience, that the lead educator or "champion" of any on-going education project in Second Life should Motivate, Motivate, Motivate team members. She noted that in the Second Life context "knowledge is power".
She added that any education team should hold regular meetings in world and members should lock themselves into the relevant Second Life groups. But, she added, team members must take time to have fun in SecondLife.
Technology issues
On Technical and Learning Technology Support Issues, Oriel Kelly, who presented this paper with Lemon, said at MIT, they had found, that Second Life barely ran on a computer with an Intel Core 2 Duo; Motherboard: Intel DG35EC (G35 Express); CPU: Intel E8400 (2Ghz); Memory: 2GB (800mhz) RAM; GPU: NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT. On the question of network and bandwidth, latency was an issue with computer lab sessions needing 416kb/machine. Firewalls had also been problematic because Second Life's SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) is non-standard and needed to be passed without being shredded by SIP aware firewalls or declared an "illegal operation".
On the question of access MIT had had problems with single IP NATs (network address translation) registering more than two avatars.
"We had a lot of technical problems, " Lemon said, adding that the major complaints from students had involved technical issues.
Many of the problems, Lemon said, could be overcome by involving the technical staff in-world in the Second Life experience.
"Once in there and involved in the experiences they are sucked in," she half joked, adding that previously the technical staff hadn't been able to see why anyone would want to teach in-world.
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All of it!
- The T10 tokens.
- The Arena season gear
- The mounts, all of it!
Let's not kill the players with more grinding. Let's make all the loot useful to someone.
I know, Ninja time…
At least make the emblem gear all BoA. You main has a hundred emblems rotting in the bank? Buy your alts some new threads.
Your a tank or healer that wishes you could DPS, or at least swap rolls, but you are barely in heroic gear…
Why can't your main give you a leg up?
Instead of personal, or guild banks, have account banks where all your emblems can be stored. Let it be your decision who makes the withdrawal and lines up at ToC!
Gnomer and Out!
OK, you got me.. this isn't the post I intended for today, but I am afraid there is so much exciting stuff going on. My new home is now my new home. Odin and I went and had a look last night… he was so excited that 2 hours after his normal bed time he conceded that it was time to leave his new unfurnished bed room and head home.
Anyway.. a few projects in the works… you may have seen yesterdays….
If you don't see a post when you expect it… smile, it probably means I am trying to work out how to squeeze the couch in through the front door…
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Global Women's Rights
Equality Around the World: Women's Rights are Human Rights
The Feminist Majority Foundation's Global Campaign has always been based on the belief that the fight we face on the domestic front and the fight we face on the global front for women's rights are not two separate battles: They are one and the same. Women's rights are human rights.
The Feminist Majority Foundation is committed to empowering women and girls around the world. Join us as we advocate for Afghan women and girls, women in Iran, increased funding for global sexual reproductive health and rights, the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), known as The Women's Treaty, and the worldwide elimination of violence against women.


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Our LED cabin lighting range now includes the exciting modern range of Roca interior lights. These LED lights come in a variety of stylish looks and really make a difference to the look of your cabin. The range also includes a clever dimmer system for use with the majority of these lights which lets you adjust the light output from your cabin lights.
LED light bulbs are an ideal way to dramatically reduce power consumption. Modern advances in LED bulb technology mean that the latest LED replacement bulbs are now even brighter and more efficient than ever!
These lights are all suitable for interior applications on boats, caravans, RVs and in other general automotive applications.


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They will be available at 8:00pm (pacific time) tonight, April 30th
You will find all of our new products (as soon as they are released) HERE.
...of course we will send a newsletter with more details and card samples tonight.
This is our MAY 2015 release...
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Kristen Stewart loves her throngs of "Twilight" fans – but it's the character Bella, not Kristen herself, who the legions of fans are really fawning over, at least according to the actress.
"Masses of girls identified with Bella in a really profound way, for want of a better word," Kristen said in a new interview for the February issue of Vogue, which features her on the cover. "The connection that I've seen people have . . . I've seen it physically. It's the characters they're flipping for."
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Whether it's Kristen or Bella the Twi-hards are going crazy for, it's the 20-year-old big screen beauty who must bear the brunt of the adoration.
"There's no way to eloquently put this," she told the mag. "I just can't go to the mall. It bothers me that I can't be outside very often. And also to not ever be just 'some girl' again. Just being some chick at some place, that's gone."
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Don't take it the wrong way. K-Stew isn't complaining about the global superstardom which Bella has bestowed upon her. After all, it's also brought a flood of something else – money, something which she said she doesn't take lightly.
"It's funny when you are endowed not only with public recognition on a [expletive] seriously vast level, but also money," she added. "Like, fund. Anytime I hear that somebody's really rich, the first question is 'Do you do anything with it? Or do you, like, chill? You just sit on it?'"
As it turns out, Kristen does have a plan for her newfound fortune (or at least, part of it) – she wants to set up a network of halfway houses to help those who are struggling get back on their feet – a cause Kristen saw first-hand while researching for a role as a runaway from a sex slave trafficking ring, according to Vogue.
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"That would be amazing," she continued. "Right now it's the thing I feel most connected to."
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"At this point it seems like, 'We'll see what the 'Twilight' girl did. Let's see how she's trying to be different,'" she conceded.
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C.T. Adams is a U.S.A. Today Bestselling Author who writes both individually and as co-author with Cathy L. Clamp. Our new joint pen name is Cat Adams. This is Cie's Blog. View and Participate AT YOUR OWN RISK (BWA, HA, HA, HA!!!)
Great interview Cie, and thank you Melissa!
(pokes my head in from my corner of cyber space)
Just wanted to say howdy!
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Fantastic interview. Loved the scaring the waitress story. I write seductive suspense, and while I was dating my husband, my mother remarked that he must really love me because he wasn't scared off by all my macabre murder plots.
Wow! What a moment to see genius at work with that waitress. It is obvious your appreciation in watching others creative works and feeling them in their writing.
Great interview and I can see what a special person you are and a champion to promote the authenticity that resides in most authors.
With pleasure and gratitude, I am grateful you took your time today to share yourself and your amazing vision of what makes a true artist.
Great interview. I always enjoy reading posts by editors as it gives us writers a different view of the business-Vanessa D.
Doing a job you enjoy with passion, meeting the authors whose work entertain and give you hours of reading pleasure and getting a chance to actually be a part of something that will outlive you and give reading pleasure to others for many years is something really special Melissa.
Thank you both for sharing this small look into the "fun" side of the editing process!
Awesome interview..
I would love to hear some more of Melissa's adventures with authors.. the waitress must have been a Kodak moment..
Hi Ladies~
Awesome interview!
I would be so nervous just meeting my fave authors...I can't imagine editing for them!!
What an amazing experience!
Thanx for the interview! :)
Oh I am so jealous, editing is my dream job. I am doing a media degree at the moment and I have managed to talk an author friend into allowing me to beta read/ edit a book for her. I sent the first 3 chapters back today, you are right the idea is terrifying.
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Thanks for the kind words, everyone!
(I should point out that this wasn't an interview; Cie pointed me at a blank screen and said, "fill it.")
~Jane~: Hands down, the coolest moment in my early editing life was meeting Isaac Asimov at a Nebula Awards banquet. I was literally shaking and blathered something about having been a fan since I was 8. He wrote me a limerick on a piece of paper from a little notepad he always carried around with him, and I still have it tucked away somewhere safe.
Hollie: Editing friends is indeed terrifying because of the possible risk to the friendship. I lost a very close friend over an editorial dispute when we were in our late 20s and I regret it to this day. It is possible to work with friends--I'm in fact currently editing a manuscript by a former roommate of mine--but you need to tread carefully and stay professional, and the writer needs to understand that editorial judgment is about the text, not the person writing the text. Best of luck with it!
ROFLMAO. I'm dying laughing. Love the whole interview.
Robert Block! I can't even imagine. I was tongue tied when I met Sherlyn Kenyon at RWA last year. I'm still a little giddy that I get emails from Cie. LOL
It's nice to read things like this that show editors are just regular humans like the rest of us.
Thanks for taking the time to chat with us, Melissa.
And thanks, Cie, for asking her to do it.
Thanks Melissa, we both know what we are taking on she knows I don't pull my punches as a reviewer, so she knows I'm going to be honest when it comes to editing. I think she is really brave agreeing to teach me how things are done lol.
lol i imagine so. the poor waitress
I'm so sorry I missed yet again, another visiting dignitary! I'm hoping that once I get a J.O.B that I will be on track again...ANYWAY....I love the fact that Melissa is soooo into what she edits! I've heard many stories of editors who just don't get it! I thank her for taking care of Cie and Cathy!
As a Community theater Director/Actor...I think I wanna see what kind of reaction I can cause at a restraunt by doing something like Melissa and Robert did! That was hysterical!
Great interview and once again sorry I didn't come in when I should...but know I love ya!
Hi Melissa~
Oh my gosh! What a great thing for him to do--and a great memory for you! :)
Next year I am planning on making it to at least one convention...I hope I can keep my cool! LOL :)
I studied stage-fighting for about 10 years and did some very amateur theatricals, so I understand the impulse!
We went to Medieval Times once for a sales conference dinner; one of my fight-class partners was also a co-worker and we had a great time dissecting the "battles" and then re-staging one in front of the sales reps as we were heading for our bus. Our boss/publisher, Tom Doherty, was quite amused.
Thank you for the posting, Melissa! It is always great to learn a little more of the world of books before they enter the store for us to read and appreciate. Your job sounds very hard, but thoroughly exciting.
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It is my pleasure to take you on the very first Show & Tell Home Tour here in Home & Garden Buzz.
Today, we are visiting the lovely home of creative mama, blogger, and author Amanda Blake Soule, otherwise known as SouleMama.
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Amanda Soule, surely one of the best creative and crafty mama bloggers out there, writes regularly about family, home, nature, and handmade crafting. Through her insightful way of looking at the world, SouleMama shares wonderful ways to invoke wonder, to inspire creativity in self and in our children, and to celebrate the goodness of every day. The best thing I've learned personally from reading SouleMama? If you want to be creative, you have to make room for creativity in your home.
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1. Tell us a little about your family and the size of your home.
My husband, three children (ages 7, 5, and 3), and I live in a 'cozy' three-bedroom New England Colonial, built in 1920 near Portland, Maine.
SouleMama's family at home
2. How do you approach decorating in your home? What's the most important thing and how do children fit into that approach?
I try to aim for a healthy mix of practical, comfortable and what's beautiful to us. We live and work at home (our children are homeschooled, and we both work a bit from home), so our house really has to function well for many different kinds of activities of equal importance—from play, to work, to creating, entertaining, and relaxing too. And in the midst of all those 'functions,' I try to incorporate the things that we love—vintage furniture and textiles, elements of the natural world, and a lot of handmade too.
Nature table
Wooden play kitchen and creative corner
3. You're expecting a new baby any minute now. How have you prepared or made room for baby in your home thus far?
We're trying to carve out little spaces here and there throughout the house for the baby and the baby care in our near future! I just added a new bureau to our bedroom which will double as a changing table and added a favorite Nikki McClure 'Surrender' print as an important reminder above it. So much of the baby's first year will really be spent in a sling, snuggled on a lambskin, or someplace similar—I don't find that we need a lot of "things" for such a little one. But we do need spaces in which lots of snuggling, nursing, and napping can happen—so we've been working on making sure there's plenty of room for that.
Baby Soule's changing table
4. How important is a clean house to you? Do you pick up for guests or do you let them see how things really look day to day?
It depends on who the guest is! I'm far from a neat freak and I'm sure you could find dust (or worse—peanut butter and jelly leftovers, anyone?) in every room of my house. But, that said, keeping things relatively 'tidy' is really important to me. At the end of the day, when company is coming, and ideally before we leave the house (coming home to a messy house is so discouraging to me!), I do a sweep through our main living area—picking up the books, toys, and clutter that have accumulated. I really believe that knowing where things are is helpful in the creative and play process—both for children and adults. So I do make an effort to tidy up at the end of the day so we can start fresh each morning.
Weekend playing on pretty wood floor
5. What household chore do you tend to back burner most so you can tend to your creative life?
I suppose it would be the deeper cleaning that gets neglected the most—washing windows, cleaning my oven, scrubbing the shower. These tasks hardly seem to make it to the front of my to do list. I try to let it go, knowing that I'd much rather be playing, living, creating with my little ones while I can. I'll have plenty of time for a really clean oven in the years to come when they're not needing me so much, right?
Pretty little creative space
6. What is your most important everyday ritual at home?
I find a lot of comfort in the rhythm our day—from baking to cleaning and playing, too. The everyday rituals we have are so important to me and, I think, to the children as well, in terms of something they can rely and depend upon to guide their days. If I had to choose one, it would be our evening meal. Especially as the children are getting a bit older and we're just reaching the point where we have fewer spills/climbing on the table/crying interruptions. It's so wonderful to watch how our evening meal is turning into a longer, more peaceful time of connection and family gathering. That time is incredibly special to me, and I see that only growing more as the children get older.
All set for the evening meal
7. Do you have anything in your home brought over from your own childhood home? Tell us about this item.
I have my childhood rocking chair—complete with its 1976 bicentennial eagle stenciled on it. It's kitschy and nostalgic, and I love it. So do my little ones. My three-year old has it in her bedroom now.
Amanda's childhood rocking chair
8. What is one indulgence you give into?
Definitely fresh flowers. In the spring/summer/fall months, I head outside nearly every morning to gather something to bring inside. And when I'm really lucky, the kids bring me 'bouquets' they find through the day. We were blessed with some really wonderful gardeners in our home before us, so I'm still reaping the rewards of the planting that happened years ago. In the winter months, regularly splurging on fresh flowers feels not only a bit indulgent, but essential for a bit of color and life in our long winters.
Fresh flowers—a must have
9. What are your favorite stores to shop for home?
Um, does my local thrift store count? Seriously, most of my furniture comes from thrift shops, flea markets, yard sales, and antique stores. I do very little 'new' shopping for my home. Buying older things really appeals to my aesthetics, my values, and my budget. As cliché as it sounds, they really just don't make things like they used to…and there is so much 'old' out there just waiting to be rediscovered, used, and loved again.
Thrifted art collection
Space for dress up
10. What are your favorite Home & Garden blogs or websites?
Sometimes I peek in on Apartment Therapy's Ohdeedoh, and I love the homes featured on BloesemKids. I love looking through the Corners of My Home Flickr group I started a few years ago—I'm really inspired by people who share glimpses of their very real homes and how they've made them both functional and beautiful at the same time.
You can read more about Amanda Blake Soule and her family at her blog SouleMama or by checking out her book The Creative Family: How to Encourage Imagination and Nurture Family Connections.


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However, every once in a while someone will ask, "Why maintain a piece of equipment that is relatively inexpensive to replace?" Although there is not an easy answer to this question, both sides of the issue should be closely examined before any final decision is reached on whether or not a specific piece of equipment should or should not be maintained. All too often the answer to this question is based on a financial analysis, and not on a philosophy of equipment reliability.
In situations where a piece of equipment is inexpensive, the need for maintenance is often ignored and the component is operated until it fails. From a financial standpoint this might seem to be the best approach because of the savings in maintenance, labor and repair parts. Additionally, it eliminates placing the item on the maintenance schedule and the associated record keeping functions that go along with it. However, is the shortened life and early replacement really a cost-effective procedure?
Cost/Maintenance Ratio
The cost/maintenance ratio benefit can be determined easily by plotting the purchase and maintenance costs against the equipment life expectancy.
Suppose the original equipment cost was $150.00 and had a life expectancy of three years with no maintenance. If the estimated annual maintenance cost was $30.00 and would at least double the life of the unit, then the cost of maintenance can be justified because it eliminates the three-year replacement costs.
However, there are two financial items that have not been taken into account in this analogy. One is the cost of the actual changing of the unit (labor). The second is the depreciation value of the equipment. Most municipal operations do not consider depreciation, but it is a financial consideration for others. There also has been no anticipated increase in the equipment purchase price.
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On the other side of the financial coin is the question of how much cost is really involved to replace the item. What happens if the equipment fails in the middle of the night or on the weekend and a replacement is not available or someone is not around to change it. There also are questions about what effect the failed item has on the process and at what cost. If the failure upsets the process flow and requires changes or adjustments to other elements that are non-automatic, then additional labor costs out of the norm will be incurred.
When considering the operating reliability and life of a piece of equipment, the cost of maintenance becomes a secondary issue. More important is the reliable operation of the plant and process, and the extended operating life of the item. By maintaining the equipment in good operating condition, the reliability of the plant process remains at peak performance.
Additionally, properly maintaining the equipment not only extends its operating life (along with the reduced replacement cost), but its anticipated failure time can be estimated. Being able to predetermine the date of failure allows a plant the flexibility of replacing the item when it is the most advantageous and the least disruptive to the overall plant operations. This includes the proper purchasing and receipt of the item as well as the scheduling of the repair personnel.
My position on the question is to maintain all equipment as part of a regular maintenance schedule. Properly maintaining the equipment tells the owners (private or public) that your operation is responsible and organized. On the other hand, if you ignore maintenance on some items and stress it on others, you are sending mixed signals to the people responsible for maintenance, telling them that maintenance can be ignored if they have other things to do. Keeping the proper focus on maintenance keeps the proper focus for the entire plant operation.
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Contrary to what some people say, that ideological matters do not have any effect on human life, we think that these are matters which form our way of living and lead it accordingly to our ideas and beliefs.
Someone who does not believe in the Source of the Universe, the God of the Worlds and in Resurrection and the Day of Judgement will not have any relation with God, nor can he open an account in the Next World to derive the benefits of his deeds. He will find himself without any obligation and will do such things which a man believing in God and the Next World would never do. He won't be related to God and he will be indifferent to God's guidance or the guides who have come from Him to human beings.
Even the social relations of man are linked to ideological matters. Someone who believes in God and the Day of Judgement won't indulge in crimes, cheating, unjust dealings, oppression and exploitation of others.
Because of the deep relation between ideological matters and human life, it is necessary for everyone to study them
In order to place at the disposal of our sisters and brothers who are seekers of the Truth, we have prepared a set of thirty lessons in which such ideological matters and these issues have been propounded and solved in a simple and concise way.
This text can also be used as text book in religious classes for youngsters. We hope you will find it beneficial and effective.
Any questions and comment to improve these lessons will be welcomed.
May Allah help all the seekers of Truth and reality.
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Thursday, January 29, 2009
Sugar Frenzy Would Be A Great Name For A Band
When I unearthed my old friend Marvin, a 7100/80 Power Mac banished to unholy corners of my apartment, I vowed to get him up and running within days.
Ten months later and here we are. All I can say is, I don't want to know what a drag lib is, where to find it, or what to do with it when I do.
After two days of getting side tracked with a router for the PS3 and using words such as "configuration" and "subnet mask" I started using words like "I give up" and "I'm taking this piece of shit back, so f--- it."
When I picked up with Marvin where I left off (screaming obscenities at the monitor), I remembered how I got fat: Computer Error + Stuck Inside At This Desk = Sugar Frenzy.
The M&Ms arrived just after I bought a little candy to do a post called Nerding It Up, which now seems like a bad idea, especially after reading about Lisa's recent nutritional advances.
Good for you, Lisa.
My conclusion: This is no way to get healthy.
I feel so dirty I may drive through the car wash with my top down. Except I don't have a convertible, whoo hooo.
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So do you use Marvin? I want details because I have my old G4 in the basement with a cool 17" matching studio monitor. I've been trying to think of a Valentine, but I'm feeling stagnant and stunted lately. I might go and see Joan Rivers on my birthday at a casino. How lame is that?xoReplyDelete
I've got him up and running and if I had the space, I'd keep the old boy, but I'm getting him ready to give to my cousin.ReplyDelete
Geez, my main computer is a G4 with a cool 17" studio monitor (The Beast).
How lame is it I feel like I'm getting rid of a family member? Okay, not exactly Sophie's Choice, but...
That's not lame at all. She was just on some news show. I used to love her.
You're so totally funny! You shouldn't feel bad, just eat some of that candy for me. :)ReplyDelete
Marvin? You name your computers?
I had an old G3 powerbook before I went renegade and switched to a windows PC. I loved that thing. All sleek and curved and black--like sculpture. It made you want to just touch it and stuff. Too bad I broke the internet connection by deleting the wrong software. *sigh*ReplyDelete
I called it, "hello, Precious".
Now I just call my computer, "you stupid thing."
At least you have mms and mambos. :)
I think I've eaten enough for several yous, Lisa.ReplyDelete
Sure I do, this one is called "The Beast" and Marvin was my first computer with a hard drive. It will be very difficult giving him up.
Hey Jodi, Mac prices and lack of support make it very tempting to defect to the other side. Steve Jobs is the Charles Comiskey of personal computers.ReplyDelete
I'm dead ended at two OSes ago and there is no sign of a new computer in my future.
Precious from Silence of the Lambs?
Speaking of quality, have you seen Tin Man? I thought you liked Fantasy SciFi.
Never had a Mac, and I've never named my monitor? Am I missing something?ReplyDelete
Oh well......Hey...I think Rush Limbaugh is pulling for your Steelers!!!!:)
Not the monitor, JimmyJames, Marvin is the computer. If you've never had a Mac that explains it. Some might say if you've never had a Mac, you've never had a computer.ReplyDelete
Just as if you've never had a Bass pale ale buried for five hours in a cooler full of clean, melting ice, you've never had a beer.
I'll be back when I can be nicer! I'm in one of those "open mouth insert foot" moods?????ReplyDelete
I love to pick at you, but I tend to go to extremes sometimes!
Yes.....I had to moderate myself again....darn it!
Plop, Plop, fizz, fizz!!!!!!
Weird! I swear I posted a comment for this post! It disappeared into thin air! Gah.ReplyDelete


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Today's episode of The Ellen DeGeneres Show featured an interview with Real Housewives of Beverly Hills villain Camille Grammer, during which she claimed that she never wanted to do the show, but was pushed into it by soon-to-be ex-husband Kelsey.
Here's most of the first segment of Grammer's interview with DeGeneres (which took place on exercise equipment, curiously). Highlights include Grammer's assertion that she never wanted to do the show in the first place but was influenced into participating by Kelsey, a denial that the show portrays her accurately, a confirmation that she and archenemy (on the show, at least) Kyle Richards are actually friends in "real life," and her story about finding out from "a mutual friend" that Kelsey wanted a divorce.
After the break, DeGeneres asked Grammer if she speaks to Kelsey anymore. "Everything I find out is through the press with him," she replied. Ouch.
Afterward, DeGeneres asked Grammer to confirm or deny reports that she won't return to RHOBH for a second season. Naturally, she's still undecided—but also noted that she has only two weeks to make her mind up.


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He put up a HD video on youtube during the runs as well for those doubting Thomases.
HiCookie also put up a moster RAM frequency overclock with 4 sticks populated (16GB RAM) at a ridiculous 1639.7MHz using GSkill's Trident X sticks and Z77X-UD5H.
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Penguin Young Readers Group Award
2013 Winner(s)
Andrea Vernola
If you are in Kalamazoo on a Saturday, you might want to check out Andrea Vernola's First Saturdays at KPL. Responding to a request from the school superintendent, First Saturdays at KPL was created to promote literacy and increase family usage of the public library. Through creative partnering with various community organizations, First Saturdays initially attracted 300 people and continues to grow. Collaboration with the public schools has also produced programming for literacy nights for families to showcase the library's programming and ways to help their children with reading. Andrea also utilizes social media to connect patrons to the library's Pinterest page filled with literacy tips, craft ideas and children's booklists.
Heather Smith
Active programming, grant writing and reader recognition are just a few of the exciting activities developed by Heather Smith. The programs include Dance Me a Story which encourages children ages 3 to 6 to act out a classic fairy tale through dance; Danger Club for children ages 8 to 12 features science experiments; and Super Readers Council provides children with discussions skills by creating book talks and book trailers. Her grant writing provides funding for Parent-Child Workshops where early childhood professionals work with parents and caregivers and Teen Reading Lounge, an interactive literacy and art program for teens. Additionally, Heather has presented I Can Read Wall of Fame as a poster session at the 2012 Pennsylvania Library Association Annual Conference
Janet Vogel
Supervising a transition from a 2,500 square foot facility to a 25,000 square foot area, reorganizing the service model to adjust to additional programming with less staff, and managing the Early Start Bookmobile are just a few of the many responsibilities Janet Vogel has taken on over the past year. She also initiated a partnership with the Frederick County Infants and Toddlers Program (FCTIP) to present Storyland: A Sensory Storyland for Little Ones complete with story time boxes which contain materials for a variety of 12 programs. She also serves on several committees with the Maryland Library Association and Race to the Top.
Krissy Wick
Community outreach, collection development and collaboration with the Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD) are just several of the duties Krissy Wick addresses in her position as a youth services librarian. Her programming with Group Summer Reading Club, Overture Center for the Arts and a Prince and Princess Party sparks huge attendance. Krissy is introducing a new program, Book a Day, which provides training with educational toys and books for parents and caregivers that focuses on Spanish-speaking families, an underserved group in the community.


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Yesterday, Tor.com offered up the first two chapters of Fuzzy Nation for your sampling delight — now io9 follows up with chapters three and four, in which Jack Holloway makes the acquaintance of a small, furry creature. No, not ALF. ALF appears nowhere in this book. I just want to make that clear at the outset. I'm talking about a Fuzzy! Sheesh. In any event, give chapters three and four a whirl, and I hope you enjoy them.
Oh, and the io9 link contains awesome "process" sketches of the scene from cover artist Kekai Kotaki. Worth the click in themselves!


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White House – Not U.S. Intelligence Agencies – Prepared Report about Syrian Chemical Weapons
Washington's Blog
September 10, 2013
The Obama administration is manipulating intelligence about Syria in exactly the same ways that the Bush administration did to justify the Iraq war.
Specifically, the Obama administration is copying Bush's playbook of trying to kick UN weapons inspectors out of the target country so they can't finish their investigation.
The Bush administration also famously "stove piped" information from the war hawks directly to the president – cutting out the normal vetting process by intelligence agencies.
Likewise, IPS reports today:
Contrary to the general impression in Congress and the news media, the Syria chemical warfare intelligence summary released by the Barack Obama administration Aug. 30did not represent an intelligence community assessment, an IPS analysis and interviews with former intelligence officials reveals.
The evidence indicates that Director of National Intelligence James Clapper culled intelligence analyses from various agencies and by the White House itself, but that the White House itself had the final say in the contents of the document.
Former intelligence officials told IPS that that the paper does not represent a genuine intelligence community assessment but rather one reflecting a predominantly Obama administration influence.
In essence, the White House selected those elements of the intelligence community assessments that supported the administration's policy of planning a strike against the Syrian government force and omitted those that didn't.
In a radical departure from normal practice involving summaries or excerpts of intelligence documents that are made public, the Syria chemical weapons intelligence summary document was not released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence but by the White House Office of the Press Secretary.
It was titled "Government Assessment of the Syrian Government's Use of Chemical Weapons on August 21, 2013." The first sentence begins, "The United States government assesses," and the second sentence begins, "We assess".
The introductory paragraph refers to the main body of the text as a summary of "the intelligence community's analysis" of the issue, rather than as an "intelligence community assessment", which would have been used had the entire intelligence community endorsed the document.
A former senior intelligence official who asked not to be identified told IPS in an e-mail Friday that the language used by the White House "means that this is not an intelligence community document".
The former senior official, who held dozens of security classifications over a decades-long intelligence career, said he had "never seen a document about an international crisis at any classification described/slugged as a U.S. government assessment."
The document further indicates that the administration "decided on a position and cherry-picked the intelligence to fit it," he said. "The result is not a balanced assessment of the intelligence."
Greg Thielmann, whose last position before retiring from the State Department was director of the Strategic, Proliferation and Military Affairs Office in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, told IPS he has never seen a government document labeled "Government Assessment" either.
"If it's an intelligence assessment," Thielmann said, "why didn't they label it as such?"
Former National Intelligence Officer Paul Pillar, who has participated in drafting national intelligence estimates, said the intelligence assessment summary released by the White House "is evidently an administration document, and the working master copy may have been in someone's computer at the White House or National Security Council."
Pillar suggested that senior intelligence officials might have signed off on the administration paper, but that the White House may have drafted its own paper to "avoid attention to analytic differences within the intelligence community."
Comparable intelligence community assessments in the past, he observed – including the 2002 Iraq WMD estimate – include indications of differences in assessment among elements of the community.
[A] "senior administration official" indicated that DNI Clapper had "approved" submissions from various agencies for what the official called "the process". The anonymous speaker did not explain further to journalists what that process preceding the issuance of the White House paper had involved.
That article suggests that the administration had originally planned for the report on intelligence to be issued by Clapper rather than the White House, apparently after reaching agreement with the White House on the contents of the paper.
But Clapper's name was not on the final document issued by the White House, and the document is nowhere to be found on the ODNI website. All previous intelligence community assessments were posted on that site.
The issuance of the document by the White House rather than by Clapper, as had been apparently planned, points to a refusal by Clapper to put his name on the document as revised by the White House.
Clapper's refusal to endorse it – presumably because it was too obviously an exercise in "cherry picking" intelligence to support a decision for war – would explain why the document had to be issued by the White House.
Efforts by IPS to get a comment from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence suggest strongly that Clapper is embarrassed by the way the Obama White House misrepresented the Aug. 30 document.
Opponents of the proposed U.S. strike against Syria could argue that the Obama administration's presentation of the intelligence supporting war is far more politicised than the flawed 2002 Iraq WMD estimate that the George W. Bush administration cited as part of the justification for the invasion of Iraq.
Remember, Clapper is the guy who blatantly lied to Congress and the American people about NSA spying. And even he wouldn't touch this thing with a 10-foot pole.
In addition, Daily Caller noted recently:
The Obama administration has selectively used intelligence to justify military strikes on Syria, former military officers with access to the original intelligence reports say, in a manner that goes far beyond what critics charged the Bush administration of doing in the run-up to the 2003 Iraq war.
According to these officers, who served in top positions in the United States, Britain, France, Israel, and Jordan, a Syrian military communication intercepted by Israel's famed Unit 8200 electronic intelligence outfit has been doctored so that it leads a reader to just the opposite conclusion reached by the original report.
And Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting points outthat – as bad as the Iraq war propaganda was – at least Colin Powell actually played the intercepted communications:
Recall that Powell played tapes of Iraqi officials supposedly talking about concealing evidence of banned weapons from inspectors–which turned out to shownothing of the kind. But Powell at least played tapes of the intercepted communication, even as he spun and misrepresented their contents–allowing for the possibility of an independent interpretation of these messages. Perhaps "mindful of the Iraq experience," Kerry allows for no such interpretation.
Indeed, the U.S. government itself admits that it doesn't have clear evidence that Assad was behind the chemical weapons attack, high-level intelligence officials think it might have been the rebels who used such weapons, Congress members who have seen the classified intelligence from the U.S. government arenot impressed, and top chemical weapons experts are skeptical.
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Florida coach Billy Donovan is aware of the threat Tennessee sophomore center Jarnell Stokes presents inside for the Vols.
Florida coach Billy Donovan is aware of the threat Tennessee sophomore center Jarnell Stokes presents inside for the Vols.
Donovan and UF assistant John Pelphrey recruited the 6-foot-8, 270-pound Stokes out of Southwind High in Memphis, Tenn. And last June, Donovan selected Stokes for the U.S. 18-under team that won the gold medal at the FIBA Americas championships in Brazil.
"He was a really good team guy, committed to winning," Donovan said. "Obviously his size and his strength is a major factor with him in the way that he plays. I thought he was very effective, did a lot of different things on our team on both ends of the floor, rebounding, scoring. I can see from watching film this year, he's gotten and continues to get better."
Stopping Stokes will be a priority for the No. 8 Gators when they face the Vols Tuesday at Thompson-Boling Arena. It's hard to believe Stokes just turned 19 last month, considering how he's manhandled opposing SEC frontlines this season.
Stokes has recorded double-doubles in scoring and rebounding in nine of Tennessee's last 11 games. "He provides a physical challenge for everybody," Donovan said. "He's a big, strong kid. He does a lot of good things around the basket. He's a good rebounder. Probably the best thing about him — besides a great body — is he's got tremendous hands and that's certainly something in traffic, posting up, rebounding, playing through contact, is probably one of his greatest strengths." For a Florida frontline still thin without junior forward Will Yeguete, Stokes presents a huge challenge. The Gators are second in the SEC in rebounding margin, but have been out-rebounded in each of their last two games. That's understandable, considering UF's biggest player off the bench is 6-foot-6 Casey Prather. Florida junior 249-pound center Patric Young said Stokes "has a football player's body" and is preparing for another heavyweight battle in the post. "It's just going to be a challenge just like any other night," Young said. "I've got to go out there and do my job, hopefully stay out of foul trouble." Young is coming off a 14-point, 7-rebound effort in UF's 71-54 win Saturday over Arkansas. "If Patric is off the floor with foul trouble and we're having to play four guards that's a problem," Donovan said. "There were times in the game where we had (Erik) Murphy in the game with Prather and we've got (Kenny) Boynton, (Mike) Rosario and (Scottie) Wilbekin and we're just small. There's going to be challenges there and we've got to collectively do a better job there." Like Florida, Tennessee has dealt with injury issues. The Vols have played the season without senior center Jeronne Maymon, who had his way inside against the Gators last season. In Tennessee's two wins against the Gators in 2012, Maymon averaged 13.5 points and nine rebounds. Without Maymon to complement Stokes inside, Tennessee struggled to a 3-6 start in SEC play. But the Vols have won five straight since, including a 30-point home win against Kentucky. "Those two guys (Stokes and Maymon) were really physical," Young said. "It was a challenge last year because they were able to beat us twice. Not having him was a small setback to their team, but they are doing really well without him right now." Tennessee is coming off a 93-85 four-overtime win over Texas A&M in which starting point guard Trae Golden played 56 minutes. But considering Florida's lack of depth, it's hard to fathom the Gators taking advantage of any potential Tennessee fatigue issues. Donovan announced Monday that shooting guard Michael Frazier II (concussion) is out for the Tennessee, leaving the Gators with just six healthy players from their normal eight-player rotation. Donovan said one of his three remaining scholarship freshmen players — forward DeVon Walker, guard Braxton Ogbueze or guard Dillon Graham — will need to step up and play a role off the bench. "We need to be prepared for them to go in and play a few minutes and do what they can to help," Donovan said. "I think they're excited about the opportunity. It'll be a great challenge for them. They feel like they've worked hard for this." Frazier, Yeguete updates Donovan said Frazier passed some of his baseline concussion tests and resumed light physical activity Monday. The coach said Frazier is questionable for UF's home game Saturday against Alabama. "It probably wasn't as severe as maybe first originally thought, but I still know there's a protocol they all have to go through with the doctors and trainer, steps they've got to go through in order for him to be cleared," Donovan said. The news is more encouraging on Yeguete, who continues to go through sprints and shooting drills without swelling in his knee. Donovan said Yeguete, who underwent surgery to remove bone chips Feb. 8, will return to practice "in some form" Thursday. But he does not know if Yeguete will be cleared for contact by Thursday, or cleared to play Saturday against Alabama. "The thing that's been most challenging for him is that they've got a special knee brace that he's wearing and he does not like it," Donovan said. "It's kind of restrictive, it's something he needs to get used to, and most players don't like playing with something on them like that. But he's got to get used to that." Contact Kevin Brockway at 352-374-5054 or email@example.com. Also check out Brockway's blog at Gatorsports.com. FLORIDA PROBABLE STARTERS G Kenny Boynton 6-2 Sr. 12.9 ppg, 3.3 rpg G Mike Rosario 6-3 Sr. 13.0 ppg, 2.4 rpg G Scottie Wilbekin 6-2 Jr. 9.1 ppg, 5.4 apg F Erik Murphy 6-10 Sr. 12.5 ppg, 4.8 rpg C Patric Young 6-9 Jr. 10.3 ppg, 6.5 rpg TENNESSEE PROBABLE STARTERS G Armani Moore 6-5 Fr. 2.4 ppg, 2.6 rpg G Trae Golden 6-1 Jr. 12.3 ppg, 4.1 apg G Jordan McRae 6-5 Jr. 14.9 ppg, 3.8 rpg F Josh Richardson 6-6 So. 7.6 ppg, 4.4 rpg F Jarnell Stokes 6-8 So. 12.8 ppg, 9.0 rpg Notes: Florida goes back on the road, where the Gators are 7-4 this season. … The Gators have lost six of their last seven at Thompson-Boling Arena. … Florida ranks third in the nation in scoring defense, holding opponents to 53.1 points per game. The Gators have held 11 opponents under 50 points and 19 opponents under 60 points. … The Gators are shooting an SEC-high 38.8 percent from 3-point range while making 8.9 3-pointers per game. … Florida senior guard Kenny Boynton (1,925 career points) is five points shy of tying Andrew Moten (1,930 points) for second on UF's all-time scoring list. … Tennessee is 11-3 at home this season and 5-2 at home in the SEC. … The Vols are shooting .438 from the floor and .319 from 3-point range. …. Tennessee senior Skylar McBee is a 3-point shooting threat off the bench. McBee is shooting 34.7 percent, while junior Jordan McRae is shooting 34.5 percent from beyond the arc. … The game will serve as a homecoming for Florida junior forward Casey Prather, who is from Jackson, Tenn.


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Understanding a PhotographBy John Berger
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John Berger's explorations of the relationships between the individual and society, culture and politics, and experience and expression through the written word, films, photographic collaborations, and performances are unmatched in their diversity, ambition, and reach. His television series and book Ways of Seeing revolutionized the way that art is understood. Now, Aperture is pleased to present Understanding a Photograph, a collection of writings by one of the most internationally influential writers of the past fifty years.
Understanding a Photograph is arranged chronologically, leading the reader on a thought-provoking journey through selected essays from hallmark works such as About Looking and Another Way of Telling, as well as previously uncollected pieces written for exhibitions or catalogs, that discuss a wide range of artists—from Henri Cartier-Bresson to Jitka Hanzlová. This collection of nearly twenty-five pieces has been carefully selected by novelist and essayist Geoff Dyer, who also wrote a critical study of Berger's oeuvre. Understanding a Photograph is presented as part of the Aperture Ideas series.
John Berger (born in London, 1926) is a novelist, poet, screenwriter, and critic. He is the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, including To the Wedding, About Looking, and G., for which he was awarded the Booker Prize. Among his best-known works is the television series and book Ways of Seeing. He has received prestigious awards for his writing, including the Petrarca-Preis and a Golden PEN Award.
Geoff Dyer (editor and introduction) is the author of a critical study of John Berger, Ways of Telling, and a critically acclaimed book on photography, The Ongoing Moment. He also has written four novels, and five genre-defying books, which include But Beautiful, awarded the Somerset Maugham Prize.
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Charles Dickens
Celebrate Charles Dickens with These Curriculum Resources
David Perdue's Charles Dickens Page is an old curiosity shop of a website filled with many resources and links to still more sources to celebrate the novels and short stories of Charles Dickens.
A color-coded Timeline shows where he lived, when the novels were serialized, when he edited the weekly magazines, what happened in history, and who was monarch.
A novels page provides links to online print editions and their accompanying illustrations. A list of major characters in each novel is cross-linked to the Dickens Characters page.
If you want to read the novels as they originally appeared in serial form, Victorian Serial Novels provides The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, Martin Chuzzlewit, Dombey and Son, David Copperfield, and Little Dorrit. The site indicates which chapters were grouped together so that print editions can be more easily used.
Many of the novels have been filmed or recorded. Local libraries can often provide DVDs and audiotapes. Web-based sources of recordings are available as well. For example, a free dramatic reading of A Christmas Carol can be downloaded at LibroVox. Other Dickens works currently available or projected are listed on the site.
Dickens filled his novels with unusual characters with equally unusual names like Sweedlepipe, Honeythunder, Bumble, Pumblechook, and M'Choakumchild. David Perdue's Charles Dickens Page has an alphabetical cross-linked glossary of more than 400.
Recommended Lessons
David Perdue's Charles Dickens Page can furnish information and leads to more for the following lessons.
Beyond the Story: A Dickens of a Party
Students in grades 6-8 attend a 19th Century party as a character from Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. To prepare for their roles, students must understand the values and customs Dickens' characters represented in Victorian society. Students collaboratively research the life and times of Charles Dickens as it relates to a character and individually write and present first-person character analyses.
There Are No Small Parts: Minor Characters in David Copperfield
Students in grades 9-12 "fill in the gaps" of the life story of a minor character from David Copperfield. Small groups choose a minor character from the novel and determine everything they already know about him or her. They then use Web research and imaginative thinking to create a "back story" for the character.