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Summary Report for:
29-2056.00 - Veterinary Technologists and Technicians
Perform medical tests in a laboratory environment for use in the treatment and diagnosis of diseases in animals. Prepare vaccines and serums for prevention of diseases. Prepare tissue samples, take blood samples, and execute laboratory tests, such as urinalysis and blood counts. Clean and sterilize instruments and materials and maintain equipment and machines. May assist a veterinarian during surgery.
Sample of reported job titles: Certified Veterinary Technician (CVT), Emergency Veterinary Technician, Internal Medicine Veterinary Technician, Licensed Veterinary Technician (LVT), Medical Technologist, Registered Veterinary Technician (RVT), Veterinary Assistant, Veterinary Laboratory Technician (Veterinary Lab Tech), Veterinary Nurse, Veterinary Technician (Vet Tech)
Tasks | Technology Skills | Tools Used | Knowledge | Skills | Abilities | Work Activities | Detailed Work Activities | Work Context | Job Zone | Education | Credentials | Interests | Work Styles | Work Values | Related Occupations | Wages & Employment | Job Openings | Additional Information
- Care for and monitor the condition of animals recovering from surgery.
- Maintain controlled drug inventory and related log books.
- Administer anesthesia to animals, under the direction of a veterinarian, and monitor animals' responses to anesthetics so that dosages can be adjusted.
- Restrain animals during exams or procedures.
- Administer emergency first aid, such as performing emergency resuscitation or other life saving procedures.
- Observe the behavior and condition of animals and monitor their clinical symptoms.
- Perform laboratory tests on blood, urine, or feces, such as urinalyses or blood counts, to assist in the diagnosis and treatment of animal health problems.
- Prepare and administer medications, vaccines, serums, or treatments, as prescribed by veterinarians.
- Clean and sterilize instruments, equipment, or materials.
- Collect, prepare, and label samples for laboratory testing, culture, or microscopic examination.
- Prepare animals for surgery, performing such tasks as shaving surgical areas.
- Discuss medical health of pets with clients, such as post-operative status.
- Fill prescriptions, measuring medications and labeling containers.
- Take animals into treatment areas and assist with physical examinations by performing such duties as obtaining temperature, pulse, or respiration data.
- Maintain laboratory, research, or treatment records, as well as inventories of pharmaceuticals, equipment, or supplies.
- Take and develop diagnostic radiographs, using x-ray equipment.
- Prepare treatment rooms for surgery.
- Provide veterinarians with the correct equipment or instruments, as needed.
- Perform dental work, such as cleaning, polishing, or extracting teeth.
- Clean kennels, animal holding areas, surgery suites, examination rooms, or animal loading or unloading facilities to control the spread of disease.
- Schedule appointments and procedures for animals.
- Provide information or counseling regarding issues such as animal health care, behavior problems, or nutrition.
- Dress and suture wounds and apply splints or other protective devices.
- Maintain instruments, equipment, or machinery to ensure proper working condition.
- Give enemas and perform catheterizations, ear flushes, intravenous feedings, or gavages.
- Provide assistance with animal euthanasia and the disposal of remains.
- Supervise or train veterinary students or other staff members.
- Monitor medical supplies and place orders when inventory is low.
- Perform a variety of office, clerical, or accounting duties, such as reception, billing, bookkeeping, or selling products.
- Bathe animals, clip nails or claws, and brush or cut animals' hair.
- Conduct specialized procedures, such as animal branding or tattooing or hoof trimming.
Technology Skills
- Data base user interface and query software — FileMaker Pro; Microsoft Access
- Electronic mail software — Microsoft Outlook
- Internet browser software — Web browser software
- Medical software — Animal Intelligence Software Animal Intelligence; McAllister Software Systems AVImark; Veterinary practice management software PMS
- Office suite software — Microsoft Office
- Presentation software — Microsoft PowerPoint
- Spreadsheet software — Microsoft Excel
- Word processing software — Microsoft Word
Hot Technology — a technology requirement frequently included in employer job postings.
Tools Used
- Air rifles or air handguns — Capture rifles; Dart guns
- Ambulances
- Analgesic infusion sets or kits — Infusion sets
- Animal catching devices — Animal capture nets; Animal catching poles; Animal snares
- Animal husbandry equipment — Cattle chutes; Dehorners; Hoof picks
- Animal shearing or clipping equipment — Electric animal clippers
- Animal weighing scales — Electronic animal scales
- Anti shock garments — Medical anti-shock trousers MAST
- Arterial line catheters
- Artificial airway holders
- Automated external defibrillators AED or hard paddles — Semiautomated or automatic external defibrillators AED
- Benchtop centrifuges
- Binocular light compound microscopes — Optical compound microscopes
- Blood collection needle — Venoject needles
- Blood collection syringes
- Blood gas analyzers
- Blood pressure recording units — Blood pressure recorders
- Butterfly needles — Scalp vein needles
- Cages or its accessories — Squeeze cages
- Cardiac output CO monitoring units or accessories — Cardiac monitors; Portable cardiac monitors
- Cardiac pacemaker generator or cardiac resynchronization therapy pacemaker CRT-P — External pacers
- Cardiopulmonary resuscitation CPR protective shields or masks — One-way valve pocket masks
- Chemical or gas sterilizers — Gas sterilizers
- Chemistry analyzers — Automated chemistry analyzers
- Coagulation analyzers
- Dental finishing or polishing discs — Prophylaxis angles
- Dental hand pieces or accessories — Dental handpieces
- Dental probes — Dental explorers
- Dental scalers or accessories — Ultrasonic dental scalers
- Dental x ray units — Veterinary dental x ray equipment
- Desktop computers
- Digital cameras
- Electrocardiography EKG transmitter or telemetry or accessories — Telemetry units
- Electrocardiography EKG units
- Electrosurgical or electrocautery equipment — Electrosurgery units
- Emergency medical service intravenous IV kit — Intraosseous kits
- Emergency medical services head immobilizers — Head immobilization devices
- Emergency medical services obstetrics kits — Obstetrical OB kits
- Emergency medical services suction units or accessories — Airway suction units; Battery-powered portable suction units; Fixed-suction equipment
- Emergency medical services tracheal tube or cricothyrotomy kits — Cricothyrotomy kits
- Emergency medical services triage tags — Triage tags
- Emergency response litters or stretchers or accessories — Multi-level wheeled cots; Stair chairs
- Emergency resuscitator or aspirator kits — Resuscitation devices
- Endotracheal tubes — Endotracheal ET tubes
- Enema kits or accessories — Enema equipment
- Enteral feeding administration sets — Enteral feeding equipment
- Esophageal tubes — Esophageal tracheal airway devices
- Extremity restraints — Limb restraints
- Finger ring removers — Ring cutters
- Flow sensors or regulators or components — Wall-mounted oxygen regulators
- Forced air or mechanical convection general purpose incubators — Laboratory mechanical convection incubators
- Full body immersion hydrotherapy baths or tanks — Veterinary immersion hydrotherapy equipment
- Gas anesthesia apparatus — Veterinary anesthesia machines
- Glucose monitors or meters — Glucometers
- Handheld refractometers or polarimeters — Handheld refractometers
- Harnesses or its accessories — Head halters
- Hemocytometers
- Hypodermic injection apparatus or accessories — Epi-pens; Preload syringes
- Hypodermic needle — Hypodermic needles
- Intermittent positive pressure breathing IPPB machines — Mechanical intermittent positive pressure ventilators
- Intravenous infusion pumps for general use — Intravenous IV pressure infusers; Intravenous IV pumps
- Intravenous or arterial arm boards — Long arm boards; Short arm boards
- Intravenous or arterial cannulas or accessories — Intravenous IV cannulas
- Intravenous or arterial tubing adapters or connectors or locks or caps or protectors — Saline locks
- Intravenous tubing with catheter administration kits — Intravenous IV administration sets
- Intubation forceps — Adult Magill forceps
- Intubation gauges or guides — Esophageal intubation detection devices
- Intubation stylets — Adult stylets
- Laboratory balances — Laboratory scales
- Laboratory diluters — Automated diluters
- Laryngoscopes or accessories — Curved adult blades; Laryngoscopes; Straight adult blades; Straight pediatric blades (see all 5 examples)
- Manual or electronic hematology differential cell counters — Differential blood cell counters; Electronic blood cell counters
- Medical acoustic stethoscope or accessory — Mechanical stethoscopes
- Medical aspiration or irrigation syringes — Bulb syringes
- Medical computed tomography CT or CAT scanners or tubes — Computed tomography CT scanners
- Medical gas cylinders or related devices — Fixed-oxygen equipment; Portable oxygen equipment
- Medical magnetic resonance imaging MRI scanners — Magnetic resonance imaging MRI systems
- Medical nasal cannulae — Oxygen nasal cannulae
- Medical oxygen masks or parts — Adult non-rebreather oxygen masks; Child oxygen masks; Infant oxygen masks
- Medical radiation films or badges — Radiation detecting film badges
- Medical radiological positioning aids for general radiological use — X ray patient positioning equipment
- Medical radiological shielding aprons or masks or drapes — Lead aprons; Lead thyroid collars
- Medical radiological shielding gloves — Lead gloves
- Medical staff isolation or surgical masks — Protective face shields
- Medical syringe with needle — Anesthesia syringes; Hypodermic syringes; Multiple dose syringes
- Medical ultrasound or doppler or pulse echo or echography units for general diagnostic use — Veterinary ultrasound equipment
- Medical x ray darkroom equipment or supplies — Manual darkroom developing equipment; X ray film processors
- Medical x ray film or cassette — X ray cassettes
- Medical x ray intensifying screens — X ray intensifying equipment
- Medical x ray units for general diagnostic use — Digital x ray equipment; Portable veterinary x ray equipment; Stationary veterinary x ray equipment
- Microcentrifuges — Microhematocrit centrifuges
- Microscope slides
- Mobile or transportable medical linear accelerators — Linear accelerator equipment
- Muzzles
- Nasopharyngeal tubes — Nasopharyngeal airways
- Nebulizer or accessories — Aerosol nebulizers; Humidification equipment; Nebulizers
- Needleless intravenous injection syringe set or injection cannula — Interlink syringe cannulas
- Needleless vial or bag withdrawal cannulas or adapters or decanters — Vial access cannulas
- Non vacuum blood collection tubes or containers — Blood tubes
- Notebook computers — Laptop computers
- Ophthalmic tonometers or accessories — Ophthalmic tonometers
- Ophthalmoscopes or otoscopes or scope sets — Ophthalmoscopes; Otoscopes
- Orthopedic splint systems — Cardboard splints; Rigid splints; Splints
- Osmometers
- Oxygen insufflator or its accessories — Transtracheal jet insufflators
- Oxygen therapy delivery system products accessories or its supplies — Oxygen administration equipment
- Patient stretchers or stretcher accessories — Stretchers
- Periodontal curettes
- Personal computers
- Protective gloves — Bite gloves
- Pulse oximeter units — Pulse oximeters
- Respiratory monitoring kits or its accessories — Respiration monitors
- Restraints — Bovine tail restraints; Nose tongs
- Resuscitation masks or accessories — Ambu bags
- Sledge hammer — Sledgehammers
- Specimen collection container — Specimen collection containers
- Steam autoclaves or sterilizers — Steam autoclaves; Vacuum autoclaves
- Surgical calipers or rulers — Surgical calipers
- Surgical retractors for general use — Surgical retractors
- Surgical scalpels or knives or blades or trephines or accessories — Surgical scalpels
- Suture needles
- Suture removers — Suture scissors
- Tablet computers
- Therapeutic heating or cooling units or systems — Veterinary patient warming systems
- Tourniquets
- Ultrasonic cleaning equipment — Ultrasonic instrument cleaners
- Urinary catheterization kit — Urinary catheters
- Vacuum blood collection tubes or containers — Evacuated blood collection tubes
- Veterinary blood pressure testers — Ultrasonic blood pressure monitors
- Veterinary castration instruments — Veterinary emasculators
- Veterinary clinical thermometers — Digital veterinary thermometers
- Veterinary electrocardiograph ECG — Animal electrocardiograph ECG units
- Veterinary injection or suction units or accessories — Balling guns; Veterinary suction equipment
- Veterinary nail trimmers or cutters — Animal nail trimmers; Hoof trimmers
- Veterinary speculums — Veterinary oral specula; Veterinary vaginal specula
- Customer and Personal Service — Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
- English Language — Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
- Biology — Knowledge of plant and animal organisms, their tissues, cells, functions, interdependencies, and interactions with each other and the environment.
- Mathematics — Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.
- Medicine and Dentistry — Knowledge of the information and techniques needed to diagnose and treat human injuries, diseases, and deformities. This includes symptoms, treatment alternatives, drug properties and interactions, and preventive health-care measures.
- Clerical — Knowledge of administrative and clerical procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, stenography and transcription, designing forms, and other office procedures and terminology.
- Active Listening — Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
- Critical Thinking — Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
- Reading Comprehension — Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.
- Speaking — Talking to others to convey information effectively.
- Monitoring — Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
- Judgment and Decision Making — Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
- Active Learning — Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
- Complex Problem Solving — Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
- Coordination — Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
- Service Orientation — Actively looking for ways to help people.
- Writing — Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
- Science — Using scientific rules and methods to solve problems.
- Social Perceptiveness — Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
- Time Management — Managing one's own time and the time of others.
- Oral Expression — The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
- Deductive Reasoning — The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
- Oral Comprehension — The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
- Problem Sensitivity — The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.
- Information Ordering — The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
- Near Vision — The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
- Speech Recognition — The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
- Written Comprehension — The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
- Inductive Reasoning — The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
- Speech Clarity — The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
- Category Flexibility — The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.
- Finger Dexterity — The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects.
- Flexibility of Closure — The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material.
- Written Expression — The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
- Arm-Hand Steadiness — The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position.
- Manual Dexterity — The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects.
- Trunk Strength — The ability to use your abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without 'giving out' or fatiguing.
- Auditory Attention — The ability to focus on a single source of sound in the presence of other distracting sounds.
- Extent Flexibility — The ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs.
- Mathematical Reasoning — The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem.
- Number Facility — The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly.
- Perceptual Speed — The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object.
- Selective Attention — The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.
- Static Strength — The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects.
- Time Sharing — The ability to shift back and forth between two or more activities or sources of information (such as speech, sounds, touch, or other sources).
Work Activities
- Getting Information — Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
- Documenting/Recording Information — Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic/magnetic form.
- Assisting and Caring for Others — Providing personal assistance, medical attention, emotional support, or other personal care to others such as coworkers, customers, or patients.
- Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates — Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person.
- Monitor Processes, Materials, or Surroundings — Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems.
- Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events — Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
- Performing for or Working Directly with the Public — Performing for people or dealing directly with the public. This includes serving customers in restaurants and stores, and receiving clients or guests.
- Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Material — Inspecting equipment, structures, or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects.
- Making Decisions and Solving Problems — Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
- Interacting With Computers — Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information.
- Communicating with Persons Outside Organization — Communicating with people outside the organization, representing the organization to customers, the public, government, and other external sources. This information can be exchanged in person, in writing, or by telephone or e-mail.
- Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work — Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work.
- Processing Information — Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data.
- Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge — Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.
- Performing General Physical Activities — Performing physical activities that require considerable use of your arms and legs and moving your whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, and handling of materials.
- Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards — Using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards.
- Training and Teaching Others — Identifying the educational needs of others, developing formal educational or training programs or classes, and teaching or instructing others.
- Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others — Translating or explaining what information means and how it can be used.
- Analyzing Data or Information — Identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts.
- Controlling Machines and Processes — Using either control mechanisms or direct physical activity to operate machines or processes (not including computers or vehicles).
- Handling and Moving Objects — Using hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials, and manipulating things.
- Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships — Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time.
- Estimating the Quantifiable Characteristics of Products, Events, or Information — Estimating sizes, distances, and quantities; or determining time, costs, resources, or materials needed to perform a work activity.
- Resolving Conflicts and Negotiating with Others — Handling complaints, settling disputes, and resolving grievances and conflicts, or otherwise negotiating with others.
- Performing Administrative Activities — Performing day-to-day administrative tasks such as maintaining information files and processing paperwork.
- Selling or Influencing Others — Convincing others to buy merchandise/goods or to otherwise change their minds or actions.
- Scheduling Work and Activities — Scheduling events, programs, and activities, as well as the work of others.
Detailed Work Activities
- Monitor patients following surgeries or other treatments.
- Maintain medical facility records.
- Monitor patient conditions during treatments, procedures, or activities.
- Administer anesthetics or sedatives to control pain.
- Position patients for treatment or examination.
- Treat medical emergencies.
- Prepare medications or medical solutions.
- Administer non-intravenous medications.
- Immunize patients.
- Test biological specimens to gather information about patient conditions.
- Clean medical equipment or facilities.
- Collect biological specimens from patients.
- Communicate detailed medical information to patients or family members.
- Prepare biological specimens for laboratory analysis.
- Prepare patients physically for medical procedures.
- Sterilize medical equipment or instruments.
- Assist healthcare practitioners during examinations or treatments.
- Operate diagnostic imaging equipment.
- Process x-rays or other medical images.
- Prepare medical supplies or equipment for use.
- Treat dental problems or diseases.
- Provide health and wellness advice to patients, program participants, or caregivers.
- Schedule patient procedures or appointments.
- Apply bandages, dressings, or splints.
- Administer basic health care or medical treatments.
- Maintain medical equipment or instruments.
- Supervise patient care personnel.
- Train medical providers.
- Maintain inventory of medical supplies or equipment.
- Order medical supplies or equipment.
- Merchandise healthcare products or services.
- Perform clerical work in medical settings.
- Process medical billing information.
- Assist patients with hygiene or daily living activities.
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Work Context
- Contact With Others — 95% responded "Constant contact with others."
- Telephone — 86% responded "Every day."
- Importance of Being Exact or Accurate — 77% responded "Extremely important."
- Consequence of Error — 73% responded "Extremely serious."
- Frequency of Decision Making — 81% responded "Every day."
- Physical Proximity — 66% responded "Very close (near touching)."
- Work With Work Group or Team — 88% responded "Extremely important."
- Impact of Decisions on Co-workers or Company Results — 64% responded "Very important results."
- Spend Time Standing — 50% responded "Continually or almost continually."
- Face-to-Face Discussions — 78% responded "Every day."
- Deal With External Customers — 65% responded "Extremely important."
- Exposed to Minor Burns, Cuts, Bites, or Stings — 48% responded "Every day."
- Responsible for Others' Health and Safety — 48% responded "Very high responsibility."
- Exposed to Radiation — 42% responded "Once a week or more but not every day."
- Coordinate or Lead Others — 39% responded "Extremely important."
- Indoors, Environmentally Controlled — 69% responded "Every day."
- Spend Time Using Your Hands to Handle, Control, or Feel Objects, Tools, or Controls — 44% responded "Continually or almost continually."
- Exposed to Contaminants — 53% responded "Every day."
- Wear Common Protective or Safety Equipment such as Safety Shoes, Glasses, Gloves, Hearing Protection, Hard Hats, or Life Jackets — 41% responded "Every day."
- Exposed to Disease or Infections — 39% responded "Once a week or more but not every day."
- Freedom to Make Decisions — 65% responded "Some freedom."
- Importance of Repeating Same Tasks — 43% responded "Extremely important."
- Structured versus Unstructured Work — 65% responded "Some freedom."
- Time Pressure — 41% responded "Every day."
- Wear Specialized Protective or Safety Equipment such as Breathing Apparatus, Safety Harness, Full Protection Suits, or Radiation Protection — 47% responded "Once a week or more but not every day."
- Responsibility for Outcomes and Results — 41% responded "High responsibility."
- Spend Time Walking and Running — 34% responded "Continually or almost continually."
- Deal With Unpleasant or Angry People — 44% responded "Once a week or more but not every day."
- Spend Time Bending or Twisting the Body — 35% responded "More than half the time."
- Spend Time Making Repetitive Motions — 34% responded "About half the time."
- Frequency of Conflict Situations — 41% responded "Once a month or more but not every week."
- Spend Time Kneeling, Crouching, Stooping, or Crawling — 46% responded "More than half the time."
- Sounds, Noise Levels Are Distracting or Uncomfortable — 43% responded "Once a week or more but not every day."
Job Zone
|Job Zone Three: Medium Preparation Needed
|Most occupations in this zone require training in vocational schools, related on-the-job experience, or an associate's degree.
|Related Experience
|Previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is required for these occupations. For example, an electrician must have completed three or four years of apprenticeship or several years of vocational training, and often must have passed a licensing exam, in order to perform the job.
|Job Training
|Employees in these occupations usually need one or two years of training involving both on-the-job experience and informal training with experienced workers. A recognized apprenticeship program may be associated with these occupations.
|Job Zone Examples
|These occupations usually involve using communication and organizational skills to coordinate, supervise, manage, or train others to accomplish goals. Examples include hydroelectric production managers, travel guides, electricians, agricultural technicians, barbers, court reporters, and medical assistants.
|SVP Range
|(6.0 to < 7.0)
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- Realistic — Realistic occupations frequently involve work activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions. They often deal with plants, animals, and real-world materials like wood, tools, and machinery. Many of the occupations require working outside, and do not involve a lot of paperwork or working closely with others.
- Investigative — Investigative occupations frequently involve working with ideas, and require an extensive amount of thinking. These occupations can involve searching for facts and figuring out problems mentally.
Work Styles
- Cooperation — Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude.
- Attention to Detail — Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks.
- Dependability — Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations.
- Integrity — Job requires being honest and ethical.
- Self Control — Job requires maintaining composure, keeping emotions in check, controlling anger, and avoiding aggressive behavior, even in very difficult situations.
- Initiative — Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges.
- Stress Tolerance — Job requires accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively with high stress situations.
- Concern for Others — Job requires being sensitive to others' needs and feelings and being understanding and helpful on the job.
- Social Orientation — Job requires preferring to work with others rather than alone, and being personally connected with others on the job.
- Adaptability/Flexibility — Job requires being open to change (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace.
- Persistence — Job requires persistence in the face of obstacles.
- Achievement/Effort — Job requires establishing and maintaining personally challenging achievement goals and exerting effort toward mastering tasks.
- Leadership — Job requires a willingness to lead, take charge, and offer opinions and direction.
- Independence — Job requires developing one's own ways of doing things, guiding oneself with little or no supervision, and depending on oneself to get things done.
- Analytical Thinking — Job requires analyzing information and using logic to address work-related issues and problems.
- Innovation — Job requires creativity and alternative thinking to develop new ideas for and answers to work-related problems.
Work Values
- Relationships — Occupations that satisfy this work value allow employees to provide service to others and work with co-workers in a friendly non-competitive environment. Corresponding needs are Co-workers, Moral Values and Social Service.
- Support — Occupations that satisfy this work value offer supportive management that stands behind employees. Corresponding needs are Company Policies, Supervision: Human Relations and Supervision: Technical.
- Working Conditions — Occupations that satisfy this work value offer job security and good working conditions. Corresponding needs are Activity, Compensation, Independence, Security, Variety and Working Conditions.
Related Occupations
Wages & Employment Trends
|Median wages (2019)
|$16.98 hourly, $35,320 annual
|State wages
|Local wages
|Employment (2018)
|109,400 employees
|Projected growth (2018-2028)
|Much faster than average (11% or higher)
|Projected job openings (2018-2028)
|State trends
|Top industries (2018)
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics 2019 wage data and 2018-2028 employment projections . "Projected growth" represents the estimated change in total employment over the projections period (2018-2028). "Projected job openings" represent openings due to growth and replacement.
Job Openings on the Web
Sources of Additional Information
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- Academy of Veterinary Dental Technicians
- American Animal Hospital Association
- American Veterinary Medical Association
- Association of Zoo Veterinary Technicians
- National Association of Veterinary Technicians in America
- Occupational Outlook Handbook: Veterinary technologists and technicians
- Society of Veterinary Behavior Technicians
- Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care Society


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Original content is where it appears to be at.
A day after the Los Gatos-based Netflix reportedly made an offer to be the home of the second-coming of the show "Arrested Development," it was revealed that Google is offering more than $100 million to get original content produced for YouTube.
Both companies appear to be preparing for a post-cable world.
Google in particular has been active in trying to secure original content for its mediums. After the tepid response to Google TV last year, the Mountain View-based company was reportedly negotiating with networks to secure its content.
Then last week there was a report that Google was willing to bid upwards of $4 billion to purchase video-streaming site Hulu.
Many analysts suspected that the real appeal of Hulu was its in place contracts to stream content from ABC, NBC and Fox.
A reported sticking point in the negotiations was Hulu providing more than two years of that existing contract.
The cable industry itself is also not sitting still. Dish Network also reportedly challenged Google's Hulu bid.
And that move came on the heels of the satellite provider's announcement last week with Blockbuster that the two companies will provide on demand streaming content to its customers.
Google, Netflix Push Industry to Chase Original Content
Original content is where it appears to be at.

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1.What is your opinion of Tanya's assessment of the werewolves? Do you feel she is right, that they are no match for the Volturi?
Yes, she is right, the wolves are strong, but they don't have special powers, the Volturi do.
2. We've known that Kate is talented along with Eleazer. What do you think of their talents? Are they what you predicted?
Not what I predicted, but their talents are cool!
3.Eleazar was part of the Volturi guard – was this a surprise to you? How do you feel and what are your impressions when he
speaks of the guard and his ability to leave it. Why would Aro allow him to leave?
Aro wanted to show that the Volturi are the Good Guys. By not allowing Eleazar to leave, he would let people know/see what he was up to.
4.What were your reactions and/or thoughts of Bella's talent? Is it something you predicted?
I think I would have predicted it, it seems logical. I think it's useful. I think it fits Bella, she always wants to protect everyone and with this she can.
5.Peter and Charlotte have arrived, what are your feelings regarding their appearance and what are you thoughts of Alice and Jasper at this point?
I knew Alice was still doing the right thing, but that she didn't want anyone to know. I never doubted her.
Chapter 31: Talented
Our chapter by chapter discussion of Breaking Dawn.
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What History Course Should I Take?
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Gateways to the Major: Where to Begin?
There are two gateways to the major.
All instructors in the department teach History 101: Introduction to Historical Study. It is designed to introduce students to the study of history through a particular theme. Some of the topics taught in recent years include: The Sixties, Crime & Punishment, The Civil Rights Movement, and Hitler & the Nazi State.
In addition to the History 101, students often begin the major through the introductory surveys, 100-level courses in U.S. History (History 110 and 111), Western Civilization (History 106 and 107), Introduction to Global History (History 108), and the History of Black America (History 115). These courses will give you a broad understanding of a major field of history and prepare the way for advanced study.
But you don't have to begin at the 100-level. First-years with good academic preparation and a strong interest in history should feel free to enroll in 200-level courses. These courses are taught at a slightly more advanced level, but—aside from the History 201 and History 202—they have no prerequisites and presume no previous knowledge.
Where Do I Go from There?
Students with an interest in history should pursue broad and deep historical studies (more on this in a moment); they should also learn the critical skills of the historian.
Toward this second aim, majors and minors in History are strongly encouraged to complete History 201: The Craft of History. The course is best taken in the sophomore year, after students have completed at least one course in history at the College but before they begin Junior I.S. This course—like the History 101—is taught by a large number of faculty members and with a wide range of themes. But all courses taught under this rubric share an emphasis on the critical skills of the historian—including the analysis of primary sources, historiography, historical research and writing, and historical argument. Topics offered include The History of the News, The History of Education in the U.S., Slavery in the Americas, Plagues in History, and the Harlem Renaissance. A writing- intensive course, the class is taught as a seminar. This course is strongly recommended for majors, but it is open to students from all departments and programs.
Other courses that focus on methodology include History 202—History Workshop, a quarter-credit course devoted to a particular approach to history, and History 298—The Making of History, an advanced course in historical theory and methods.
Junior-Senior Seminar
Students in their junior or senior year should consider the offerings under the rubric of History 301: History Colloquium. This course provides an advanced, reading-intensive seminar, focusing on a particular historical problem or field, for students well experienced in historical study.


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Professor Tillman Gerngross, following on the heels of his successful GlycoFi yeast manufacturing system (which he and co-founder Professor Charles Hutchinson sold to Merck in 2006 for $400 million), is driving progress at his latest biotech start-up, Adimab, which re-engineers yeast cells to create antibody factories. "We've created a synthetic human immune system in yeast, and the yeast will do what a normal B cell does, which is create an antibody," says Gerngross. Adimab recently announced major new research collaborations with Merck and Roche.
Assistant professor Petia Vlahovska has earned a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award. Her research aims to mimic the design of biological cells.
Professor Ian Baker has been named the Sherman Fairchild Professor in Engineering in recognition of his research, scholarship, teaching, and mentoring. His most recent research is developing iron nanoparticles for cancer treatment.
Thayer School has been awarded a grant to support two women as Clare Boothe Luce Graduate Fellows in its new Ph.D. Innovation Program, the nation's first such program addressing the need for engineers with both technical and entrepreneurial expertise.
Ashifi Gogo Th'09 and Shivam Rajdev Tu'09 placed first in the United States and second globally in the 2009 Global Social Venture Competition, earning $10,000 for their business plan for mPedigree Logistics. Citing the "huge problem" of counterfeit drugs in developing countries, the World Economic Forum also recognized mPedigree as a Technology Pioneer for 2009, and Forum Nokia awarded mPedigree first place in the emerging markets category of its Calling All Innovators competition. With mPedigree, all drugs distributed in participating countries are labeled with a scratch panel that reveals a unique code, or "pedigree." When a drug is purchased, the patient can text the code to a designated number and receive a response confirming whether the drug is genuine or fake. Piloted successfully in Ghana in January 2008, mPedigree is now working to expand its platform to all 48 sub-Saharan African countries, starting with a trial in Nigeria this summer. Gogo is in Thayer's Ph.D. Innovation Program.
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This week's featured adaptation is "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter" and the movie reviews are decidedly mixed. The film fits into the classic-cum-monster genre popularized by Seth Grahame-Smith and others, and shows a new side of Honest Abe, wailing away at Southern vampires with his trusty axe. (The Baltimore Sun has a gallery of other famous vampire hunters.) Here are some exceprts from movie reviews:
Los Angeles Times: "Vampire Hunter's" dramatic intentions are way ahead of its ability to execute them, so even capable actors such as Dominic Cooper, Anthony Mackie, Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Rufus Sewell don't make much of an impression. And star Benjamin Walker, in his first significant film role, doesn't do much more than look appropriately lantern-jawed and determined.
Tribune newspapers: For every medium or long shot in anything resembling sunlight (though this is largely an animated film, given the amount of green-screen effects), the digital zizz of the image looks like a dupe of a dupe of a dupe. This isn't "period" style; it's just sloppy. I did enjoy a few things, though. Mary Elizabeth Winstead plays the dishiest-ever version of Mary Todd Lincoln. ... There's a slo-mo strut toward the camera performed by [Benjamin] Walker's Lincoln that is genuinely funny. And I adore the nutty hypocrisy of the voice-over that begins and ends the film (meant to be torn from the pages of Lincoln's secret vampire-hunting journal), the line referring to how history prefers "soaring speeches to quiet deeds." This, in a splattery diversion that has no time for either.
Salon: There's definitely some empty-calories, summer-movie fun to be found in this ludicrous genre mashup, most of it courtesy of maniacal Russian director Timur Bekmambetov, who stages hilarious, imaginative, almost free-form action sequences like nobody in the business. There's a scene in this movie that involves an ax fight between the young Mr. Lincoln and a slave-trading vampire mastermind, set amid a stampeding herd of horses, who are alternately used as conveyances, obstacles and weapons. In its own idiotic and limited way, it's a work of genius, and you could almost say that about the movie as a whole.
Washington Post: As much of a mixed bag as its portmanteau title suggests, "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter" is both terribly silly and a lot of fun. Delivering fewer consistent frights and more laughs than some might wish from a flick about bloodsucking ghouls, this adaptation of Seth Grahame-Smith's 2010 bestseller is nevertheless reasonably gripping summertime entertainment. That's thanks in large part to filmmaker Timur Bekmambetov's strong sense of action and visual style.


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Advocates of stricter gun legislation, emboldened by a shift in public opinion following last week's school shootings in Newtown, Conn., pushed Monday for a renewed assault weapons ban and other gun control measures that have failed to gain traction over the past decade.
Three days after a gunman took the lives of 20 children and six adults with a Bushmaster .223 semi-automatic rifle, several pro-gun lawmakers — including Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. — said they were willing to consider new firearms legislation.
"We need to accept the reality that we are not doing enough to protect our citizens,'' said Reid said in a statement on the Senate floor. "In the coming days and weeks, we will engage in a meaningful conversation and thoughtful debate about how to change laws and culture that allow violence to grow.''
Even Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., a longtime NRA member with an A-rating from the powerful gun lobbying organization, said "everything should be on the table."
Appearing on MSNBC, he added that Second Amendment rights would not necessarily be violated by controls on high-capacity magazines. "I've never had more than three shells in a clip," said Manchin. "I'm a proud outdoorsman and hunter, but this doesn't make sense.''
Statements from Democrats such as Reid, Manchin and Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., — who said Monday "the status quo isn't acceptable'' — are a key measure of strength for gun control because even though the party is generally sympathetic to restraints on firearms, these senators and others with significant pro-gun rural constituencies have insulated themselves in Republican-leaning states in part by championing gun rights.
But it wasn't just lawmakers who were reassessing their views. Support for stricter gun control measures has reached a five-year high in the aftermath of the Connecticut school massacre, according to a new ABC News/Washington Post poll released today.
Fifty-four percent of Americans back new controls on guns — and 59 percent back curbs on the high-capacity ammunition clips used in many of the recent shooting rampages.
Another shift: Gun control supporters now have more intensity than opponents of stricter controls. Forty-four percent of Americans say they "strongly" favor stricter action while 32 percent say they oppose new controls "strongly."
Gun control advocates — led by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and backed by Connecticut Gov. Dan Malloy — pushed for swift action in Washington.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., said she would introduce an "updated'' assault weapons ban that would outlaw 100 specifically-named firearms, weapons that can accept detachable magazines as well as certain semiautomatic rifles, handguns and shotguns that can accept a detachable magazine and semiautomatic rifles and handguns with a fixed magazine that can accept more than 10 rounds.
Feinstein is the author of the assault weapons ban that became law in 1994 but expired in 2004 when Congress refused to renew it.
Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., also is likely to re-introduce legislation to require universal background checks on all weapons transactions. Current law requires background checks on weapons sold by federally licensed firearms dealers. Schumer's measure, along with a similar bill by Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, D-N.Y., in the House, would also require background checks on transactions between private parties, with a few exceptions.
Nevertheless, members of Congress who favor gun control face what may prove to be an insurmountable barrier of lawmakers from both parties who are not likely to change their support for gun rights.
For the most part, pro-gun Republicans who control the House remained conspicuously silent Monday. "One indisputable call to action from the Connecticut tragedy — SECURE YOUR GUNS IF YOU OWN THEM,'' Rep. John Carter, R-Texas, said via Twitter.
But opposition to new laws nevertheless percolated from a few House members such as Rep. Gene Green, D-Texas. "Instead of saying we need to outlaw certain types weapons, we need to find better ways to enforce current law,'' Green said in an interview. "The kneejerk approach of those who want to control firearms may not be the solution.''
He predicted that neither the proposed assault weapons ban nor the expanded background-checks proposal "would move in the House.''
Gun control advocates acknowledge the climb may be steep to get gun-control legislation through Congress. But they say that unlike previous incidents such as the one at a movie theater in Aurora, Colo., in July, in which a shooter, James Holmes, took the lives of 12 and wounded 57, the drumbeat for change in gun laws is much stronger in the wake of the Connecticut shootings.
"We have to change the paradigm and culture on this issue,'' said Colin Goddard, federal of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, who survived four gunshot wounds in the 2007 Virginia Tech attack in which 32 died. "We've got to get over the dismal, bleak outlook that nothing can be done.''


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An interesting use of accents when using the words 'can't' and 'dance' in this trailer. The 'dance' is said in the American English accent, the 'can't' in the British English accent. The outcome is tolerable Hinglish nevertheless, so I doubt it will hurt the soundtrack. Hopefully the dialogs in the film with varying English accents will not ruin things (like they did to an extent with Madhuri Dixit using the word 'dance' in Aaja Nachle (2007)).
The soundtrack to the film releases in three days (May 20)! Yay! Here I go again with my peak of inflated expectations.


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"How do you say 'Thank you' to those who have just saved your life?" These are the words of Lewis Stokes (Lew) of Garden Grove, California.
On December 5, 2008, Lew and his wife, Annette, and their close friends were getting ready to depart from Honolulu International Airport after a wonderful vacation of sun, fun, and playing in paradise.
After completing check-in with American Airlines and making their way to the departure gate, Lew did not feel well, he sat down and the next thing he remembers is a good looking young man leaning over him saying "everything is going to be OK". Lew had experienced a Sudden Cardiac Arrest, SCA. Fortunately for Lew, he had been in a public location where his SCA was witnessed, there were bystanders close-by that called the emergency response number for the airport, and by-standers started CPR.
Within minutes of Lew's cardiac arrest, Andrew Chong, an AMR airport paramedic arrived at his side, attached the public access AED and within 2 shocks, Lew was awake and asking what happened. Mr. Stokes was immediately transferred to Kaiser Hospital of Honolulu where he underwent evaluation and insertion of an Internal Cardiac Defibrillator, ICD. Lew did not have a heart attack, he experienced a sudden cardiac arrest without any warning.
Lew ended up making a full recovery and continued to thank all of his rescuers and healthcare professionals for the wonderful care and treatment he received. Mr. Stokes had a history of heart problems - prior to his cardiac arrest he has had 4 heart attacks, 6 coronary stents, and a pacemaker - but let us tell you, Lew was a very strong and determined man. Stokes received an ICD and conitnued to power through life with contagious energy. Lewis Stokes was well aware that his work on this earth was not done. His newest goal in life was to educate others in the community about the importance of knowing CPR and how AEDs can save your life ... He knew a public access AED saved him and gave him another chance to be nice to his wife!
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Shawnice Singletary was driving in Northeast Baltimore in May when someone pulled up next to her car at an intersection and fired a gun at her. Bullets slammed into her face and neck.
At the Johns Hopkins Hospital emergency department, doctors saved Singletary's life. But she couldn't breathe on her own. A doctor broke the news to her that the mother of three was paralyzed from the neck down: a quadriplegic.
But on Tuesday, Singletary was set on a path to regaining at least some independence. A team of people and organizations who have helped care for her donated a $16,500 mobile computer that Singletary can control with her eyes.
She can use it to send email and text messages, make phone and video calls, listen to music, take photos and surf the Web.
"I'm still getting used to it," said Singletary with a smile during a small ceremony at Hopkins. "You can do a lot on here."
The 36-year-old clinical assistant said she's been devastated but is still hopeful for a better life. Still, life as she knew it — driving, hugging her children, earning a paycheck — irrevocably changed with a bullet in her neck, fragments of which are still inside her.
The shooting has echoes of the sudden death 18 years ago of her younger brother, a third-grader named Tito, in an accidental shooting on a Baltimore street by a teenager playing with a gun.
"It's still very hard for me to believe that this happened to me," Singletary said.
Her shooting remains under investigation, and no one has been arrested.
Singletary is benefiting from the rapidly evolving field of computer assistive devices, which crosses the latest in cutting-edge communications technology with therapeutic and rehabilitative care in hospital settings. Doctors and manufacturers are bringing assistive devices into hospitals earlier in patient care, to help them better communicate with medical staff and their friends and family.
Patients can use these devices at home or in hospitals, to communicate with those around them, and lessen their reliance on others for basic tasks. And the technology for eye-gazing software and hardware is becoming more ubiquitous and cheaper.
This field of augmentative and alternative communication devices has been around for a while but as advanced quickly in recent years with faster and smaller computer processors, and the rise of smartphones.
The assistive technology market is growing fast, thanks in part to the growth of populations of older and disabled people in the United States. The U.S. market for assistive technologies, which includes low- and high-tech vision, auditory and speaking aids, is projected to grow from $41.1 billion last year to $55 billion in 2016, according to London-based Vertical Edge Ltd., a market research firm.
Some technology companies are using simple Web cameras to incorporate eye-tracking in their software. More robust software and hardware, such as what Singletary is using, applies infrared camera technology that was once prohibitively expensive for most commercial applications.
Singletary's doctor, Albert Chi, researched eye-tracking software on the Web and cobbled together a way for her to browse the Internet through a webcam that tracked her eyes.
"She got online right away and started getting on Netflix," Chi said. "She was so amazing."
Then Chi stumbled upon the Tobii, made by a Massachusetts-based company called Tobii ATI. The Tobii is a touchscreen monitor with two built-in infrared eye-tracking cameras mounted below the screen.
This computer tracks the user's eye gaze patterns, allowing the person to use his or her eyes like a computer mouse. Such hands-free operation enables Singletary to type out words on a screen or speak commands through a computerized voice, and much more. She can even control her home's air conditioning from the device.
Text-to-speech is important for Singletary, who only recently regained the ability to speak after having to re-learn to breathe on her own, without a ventilator.
The Tobii C12 model that Singletary received and other similar devices typically are covered by insurance plans, and Medicare and Medicaid.
Tara Rudnicki, president of Tobii ATI, said patients like the device because it returns some semblance of privacy. They can browse the Web and make phone calls without someone's help. They can have private conversations. They can watch a movie without asking for help.
"It brings more independence back to the patient," she said.
People paralyzed by gunshots are not the company's most common customers. Its devices are used a lot by sufferers of a neuro-degenerative disease called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, otherwise known as ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease. Other users suffer from Rett syndrome, stroke, autism, repetitive stress and spinal cord injuries.
The long-term promise, Rudnicki said, is that such computers can help people ultimately regain employment.
The company's technology, for instance, is being used by animators and graphic artists who suffer from carpal tunnel syndrome. Instead of drawing with their hands, they can draw with their eye movements, she said.
Tobii ATI donated the device to Singletary. Meanwhile, Hopkins staffers and the Specialty Hospital of Washington, which helped Singletary re-learn how to breathe, each donated $8,440, to help her defray additional expenses.
Singletary is still receiving care at Hopkins.
Shawnice Singletary was driving in Northeast Baltimore in May when someone pulled up next to her car at an intersection and fired a gun at her. Bullets slammed into her face and neck.


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In fact it's been a week of rugby mania at Bluestone with internationals Rhys Gillard and Richard Hillard choosing Bluestone for their R&R.
Bluestone's Summer Festival is all about carnival and festival fun, with a wide range of events and activities for the whole family throughout the summer break on weekdays and weekends, culminating in a big Summer Carnival on 1st and 2nd September.
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Green Dirt Farm sheep's milk cheeses are made using milk from their own grass-fed, gently-raised ewes. Sarah and Jacqueline handcraft the cheeses on their farm using traditional old world methods that produce a unique richness and depth of flavor. The diverse grasses of the pastures flavor our ewe's milk with hints of clover, legumes and flowers. The flavors in the milk change as the pastures grow, creating cheeses that uniquely reflect Green Dirt Farm and celebrate the seasons.
Woolly Rind is their version of a classic Camembert-style cheese. It has a lovely edible white bloomy rind that is sometimes mottled with flecks of tan, blue or orange as the cheese ages. Green Dirt only makes 150 of these cheeses every two weeks, ensuring each little cheese gets the attention and care it deserves. The cheese has a firm body and flavors of milk and grass when it is young. At the peak of ripeness, the cheese becomes runny at room temperature. It develops a lovely forest floor aroma and buttery, mushroomy flavors with a natural sweetness to the rind.
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Left: One of only three surviving Revolutionary War officer's uniforms in America. Now on display in Inventing a Nation: Maryland in the Revoluntionary Era
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- 2,200 paintings and miniatures, including portraits of Maryland heroes from the Revolutionary War and War of 1812, the world's largest collection of paintings by members of the Peale family, 7 portrait paintings by Joshua Johnson, the first professional African American portrait painter in the United States, and 10 Maryland landscapes by Francis Guy, considered one of the most important English artists to come to America in the late 18th century
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Slave-made Coiled Basket c.1860 Woodlawn Plantation, Prince George's County
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With this being the year of the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's assassination, one can imagine that there will be a flood of remembrances and tributes in book, video or in the case of Parkland, celluloid and video. And while Parkland is not an 'According to Hoyle' tribute, it certainly looks at things from a different perspective that many people would not have considered otherwise.
Peter Landesman (Trade) adapted Vincent Bugliosi's book "Four Days in November" into a screenplay which he also directed. Rather than spend a chunk of time looking at how Jackie Kennedy dealt with the assassination, the film spends approximately four days in Dallas, and sees Kennedy and the associated secret service come and go. We see the doctor who first responded to Kennedy at the hospital, Jim Carrico (Zac Efron, The Lorax), along with the nurse that worked with him, Doris Nelson (Marcia Gay Harden, Big Love). Dallas FBI agent James Hosty (Ron Livingston, Swingers) struggles with the discovery of evidence that might have led him to detain Lee Harvey Oswald, while he deals with the subsequent cover-up that was ordered at higher levels. The agent in charge in Dallas, a longtime veteran of the bureau named Forrest Sorrels (Billy Bob Thornton, Eagle Eye) tries to investigate what occurred. During the course of the investigation, he encounters Abraham Zapruder (Paul Giamatti, The Ides of March) who was filming Kennedy's motorcade at the time of the shooting. Through the chaos, Robert Oswald (James Badge Dale, The Grey) struggles with the sudden news of his brother's acts, and tries to keep their mother Marguerite (Jacki Weaver, Silver Linings Playbook) on a relatively even keel.
The film puts events in a variety of settings, with the most emotionally effective being the emergency room where Carrico, Nelson and Dr. Malcolm Perry (Colin Hanks, Dexter) work to try and keep Kennedy alive and barely 24 hours later, do the same for Oswald, albeit with less passion and scores of fewer eyeballs on the situation. Hosty dealing with this revelation about Oswald and the Dallas office is also something that is stunning for him personally. And Zapruder's initial glee at being able to see the President come through town, only to find the optimism shattered, is something that is both crystallized in Giamatti's performance and simmers just beneath most any character seen onscreen. Kennedy helped people see that they were capable of great things, and to see his live extinguished in such a manner was jarring to so many. That is undeniable and shown precisely in Parkland.
However, Parkland seems to want to have its cake and eat it too. Consider for a moment when you combine three things: the emotional gut punch of the emergency room, the sadness of what Robert has to deal with from his family and law enforcement officers and what Hosty experiences in a 'we had him but YOU lost him' situation from his bosses, the feelings cannot be denied. Carrying the last part out for a moment, watching Hosty's superiors pile on him and getting into hindsight judgment calls does tend to resonate in a post 9/11 environment. But it does this while going through the initial steps of the cover-up. Secret Service man Roy Kellerman (Tom Welling, Smallville) undertakes this almost immediately while the body is getting cold in taking it back to Air Force One and going back to Washington, giving the Oath to Lyndon Johnson while the plane is in the air. And to be fair, the 24 hours for the hospital staff were a rollercoaster of feelings, but the actions that occurred after pronouncing Kennedy seem to do more harm to the arguments for a cover-up than anything. Folks were stunned, hysterical, the felt raw from witnessing in the loss of or attempt to save Kennedy's life. But the attempts to shoehorn in the conspiracy are detrimental to what it is the story may be trying to tell.
The performances as a whole are good, but the movie suffers from some overcasting that hampers what could have been a solid movie. For instance, Giamatti is decent as Zapruder, but one of Giamatti's workers at the clothing store he owned is Marilyn Sitzman, played by Bitsie Tulloch of Grimm notoriety. But she does little in Parkland other than mutter a line, often times hysterically, thus wasting her in the role. A more egregious example would be a Service Agent named Kenneth O'Donnell, played by Mark Duplass (The League). Duplass is a good actor and director, and he is here and gone in the first act before many get a chance to appreciate him, begging the question of what he was doing here to begin with?
Parkland seems to be mildly reminiscent of Bobby, where various people with some connection to another Kennedy share in the shock of the sudden loss. But rather than spend more time dealing with the shock, Parkland shows us some of what we already know while squandering parts of what was an already decent ensemble. I honestly wanted to like it more, but it never gives you the chance to.The Disc:
The Video:
Parkland comes with an 1.78:1 anamorphic widescreen presentation, the result of which being not bad. The disc handles the archived pre-Dealey Plaza footage in its natural full frame appearance and it looks good. The film is not the most colorful of the bunch, but juggles the deep blacks of secret service suits and the various deep levels of red from the blood adequately and without distortion or artifacts. The image is devoid of any significant edge enhancement and is solid viewing.The Sound:
The disc comes with a Dolby Digital 5.1 surround track which I was not initially sure of what to expect from. But it turns out to be surprisingly dynamic, with directional effects and channel panning being present (though not abundant), and the low-end even has moments of bassy engagement. It is on the whole a dialogue-driven joint and this is communicated sufficiently and in a well-balanced manner, and the disc proves to be technically adept.Extras:
Landesman contributes a commentary for the feature that, while a bit slow at times, remains enthusiastic and chock full of information. He covers the intent for the movie and some of the scenes in it, along with some recollection of certain shots. He talks up each of the notable cast quite nicely, including how he worked with them and an occasional anecdote tossed in. He adds historical perspective on the events and characters when necessary and while he narrates the action onscreen from time to time, it is clear he is passionate about the material and it is definitely worth a listen. Save for some previews, six deleted scenes (6:38) are the only other extra, and they are forgettable.Final Thoughts:
While the heart of Parkland may be in the right place, how it expresses its feelings sometimes comes across as muddled and even tamping down on what few moments of strength it has. This is not due to the cast as their performances are without complaint, the story seems to stifle them. Technically, the disc is good and the commentary for the film is better than most I have heard recently. At a minimum, definitely worth a rental for a change of pace look at this unfortunate anniversary.


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"Neither Germany nor Peru qualified for the Olympics. ... Alfredo told me, 'Dad, I want to go to these Olympics.'"
-- Galo Morales, the father of 21-year-old Berlin-born defender Alfredo Morales, who has been called up by Coach Jurgen Klinsmann for friendlies against France and Slovenia. Morales, who is also eligible for Peru and Germany, has been courted by Peru's national team coach but his hopes of playing in the Olympics give the USA an edge. Morales made his Bundesliga 1 debut for Hertha Berlin in August. (El Comerico)


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In this section I will briefly discuss the "few" spells at the disposal of a young Warlock Twink. If you were to level past 20, there would be many more options available to you, including pets, but if you are reading this, you have decided you want the challenge of limiting your game-given skills and heightening your real-life skills.
I have broken the spells down into 3 groups, Offensive, Defensive/Utility & Pet Summons.
Two notes.
- These are the base, untalented spells. The next part of the guide will discuss talents and their effect on the spells you choose to cast.
- These spells (and the talents that effect them) may be changing in WoLK. I stick my hand in the air and admit I am not looking towards WoLK at the moment.
Bread and butter of Dot, Dot, Dot, Fear, Dot, Dot, Dead combat (which some will tell you is cowardly Lock tactics.. stand and fight they say… Run and die you reply)
Needless to say, this isn't just an offensive spell, it is also defensive.
Applications (beyond the bleedingly obvious)
- Flag running – Help your flag carrier by fearing the chasers. You can only fear 1 at a time, but that wont stop you chain fearing multiple targets to give your flag carrier some breathing yards.
- Flag Defending – Can't grab the flag if you are running like a little… ummm… Gnome.
- Flag Defending – Can't run the flag if you are running in the wrong direction.
- General defense & offense – Their healers wont heal if they are running, and you can give your healers some breathing space.
Remember this might break on damage, so get ready to run… or Fear again!
Fire Offense, 2 second cast had a dot.
Cast and Fear, Fear and Cast
Slow down the damage that those melee types are laying about.
Throw this on the target you aren't focusing on at the moment to help out those who are focusing on it (and help your healers out a bit).
Remember, only 1 curse per target per Warlock
Your big nuke, 2.8 second cast, which is a long time to be sitting around, but may be worthwhile against that feared opponent
Did someone say "Dot, Dot, Dot, Fear, Dot, Dot, Dead"
Most likely you will be picking up 5/5 Improved Corruption in your talents, so another insta-cast dot.
Curse of Recklessness (Rank 1)
Increases melee attack power – this is OK if the opponent is mindlessly laying into your tank.
Reduces armor – great if they are also getting a bit of melee love from your comrades
Ignore Fear – sounds bad, but maybe you just don't want them to run too far away.. another Fear in the works?
Not likely that your opponent is going to sit still and let you drain them right?
Damn shame if they are running around like a headless raptor!
Of course, this might be both good & bad in the heat of battle. Good if you aren't being focused, bad if someone stops to follow the little squiggly line back to your black heart.
Too much health, not enough Mana?
I am sure you already know how to use this, I will say no more.
I keep hearing this echo… "Dot, Dot, Dot, Fear, Dot, DOT, Dead"
Probably not so good on the opponent your surprise at 1/2 health, you want the last tick, but it's another insta-cast death-dot.
1.5 second cast… now we are talking PvP timed casts.
Pile up the dots, throw a few of these while on the move, feast.
Remember, this spell causes a high amount of threat
- Against PC's you gained a high amount of threat by joining the battleground.. you are a Lock, therefore you are a target, otherwise threat is irrelevant
- Against Pets, different story, they still have threat tables. So may be good for pulling the pet off your pet healer.
Pffft, 100 health for a twink is a last ditch effort, still, 100 health is 100 health
Can be improved with talent Improved Healthstone, this is one of the many decisions I will leave to you.
Warning: Requires Soulshard!
Derrr, tell us something we don't know… yeah but how do you get more Soul Shards… killing Mobs (and yes PC opponents).
Beware the trap of using all your Soul Shards and grinding more off mobs… you will gain XP, you will soon be a level 20 nobody!
Grab them off BG opponents whenever possible, they are free shards.
So on that basis, I wont cry if you aren't sharing them around like lollies with your team mates – it would be a good idea for your team, but maybe not for your Soul Shard bank balance.
Don't leave home (or Spirit Healer) without it.
Increased Armour = less damage.
5 health every 5 seconds = survivability, mana, laughing at your opponent's corpses.
You need Soul Shards, and you need them XP free, so use this, but use it wisely.
Once again you will be producing a beautiful rope for your opponents to wrap around your neck. Time it well and it wont be around long enough to see.
Feed the Pet blood, your blood unfortunately, but there may be occasions when this is worthwhile.
eg: your pet tanking someone else's pet (the one you just pulled off the healer), don't want to loose that Soul Shard due to dead pet? It may be better for you and your pet to die together, and get rez'ed together.
Not much water in WSG?
No, but there are lots of nasty buff "stealing" opponents around, so lay this one on your team liberally.
There is a time and a place for an insta-in-battle rez.
Generally you will be taking the free health and mana (and pet) load from the spirit healer, but if you are the last thing standing between your nearly dead opponent capping or not, then you better be coming back from the dead, there and then!
Really nothing I can tell you about this you don't already know. Depending on what BG tactics you go with you will either have your Imp or your blueberry out.. just make sure you have one, and at least the Imp doesn't cost Soul Shards
See above.
Next time I will delve into a few different talent options, and the effect they will have on your spells and playstyle.
Gnomer and Out!
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- Audrey Victoria Meinzen, 1915-1997 (married Lee Doyle)
- Emma Virginia Bickerstaff, 1893-1973 (married William Carl Robert Meinzen)
- Mary Thompson, 1872-1940 (married E. J. Bickerstaff)
- Lydia Bell, 1851-1930 (married John Thomas Thompson)
- Lydia Fithen, abt. 1826-btw. 1880-1900 (married Jacob Bell)
- Beulah Mae Gerner, 1888-1913 (married Gust Doyle)
- Elvira Bartley, 1854-1943 (married Fredrick K. Gerner)
- Rebecca Smith, 1820-1899 (married Dixon Bartley)
And that's as far as the research has taken me on the women in these two lines.
Family History Through the Alphabet challenge, created and hosted by Alona Tester of Genealogy and History News. Thanks so much, Alona!


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NASHVILLE --- The Tennessee State University women's basketball team had its five-game home winning streak snapped, Saturday night, after falling to SIU Edwardsville, 74-66, in the final home game of the season.
TSU (10-17, 7-7 OVC) forced SIUE (10-18, 6-9 OVC) into 20 turnovers but struggled offensively most of the night.
Chelsea Hudson just missed a double-double with 16 points and nine rebounds while Jayda Johnson (14), Brianna Lawrence (13) and Rachel Allen (11) also posted in double-figures.
SIU Edwardsville also had four players to reach double-digits led by Tierny Austin's 15 points. Micah Jones had 11 points and 10 rebounds while Valerie Finnin and Allyssa Decker scored 11 and 10 points, respectively.
Tennessee State got off to a slow start and fell behind, 26-12, at the 11:07 mark. Later in the half, Alana Morris found Chelsea Hudson and Jayda Johnson in the paint on consecutive plays to cut the deficit down to single digits.
SIUE shot 66.7 percent in the first half but TSU used a 13-7 run, fueled by triples from Brianna Lawrence and Rachel Allen, to pull within four, 36-32, before the halftime break.
Brianna Lawrence buried her fourth three-pointer of the game to christen the second half and pulled TSU to within one. The visitors, however, went back up by five and maintained the lead for the next several possessions.
Tennessee State took a, 45-44, lead when Jemilah Leonard buried a triple from the top of the key with 15:08 remaining. The Cougars regained the advantage on their next trip down the floor but the Lady Tigers stayed within striking distance.
Jayda Johnson's bucket with 12:16 on the clock tied the score, 48-48, and from there, the teams traded scores.
TSU was trailing, 53-51, when SIUE used four straight points to go ahead, 57-51. The Cougars increased their advantage to, 64-55, with just under six minutes left to play.
Hudson scored in the paint to slice the SIUE lead down to five before TSU closed to within two, 67-65.
SIUE, however, finished with a 7-1 run to put the game away.
Tennessee State shot 32.4 percent from the field, including a dismal 28.0 percent from the three-point line. TSU only managed to make, 15-of-31 (48.4 percent) from the free-throw line.
SIU Edwardsville shot 56.5 percent from the field and 40 percent from long range while making 20-of-28 from the charity stripe.
Tennessee State returns to action on Thursday, Feb. 27 at Morehead State.
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Q Why so much rage?
I'm not sure I fully grasp why there is so much violence and rage in the Muslim world that is directed toward America, but I understand some of where it's coming from. The major reason is that the United States is seen as an aggressor, interested in pursuing her own interests, and pushing her own agenda. "Case in point," say the Muslims: "President Bush went in to Iraq under false pretence and felt God was on 'our side.'" Most Muslims think oil and influence in the Middle East were major concerns. I don't think this is completely fair but everything we do is not necessarily right and noble. When some Muslims lash out at such a time as this, they are striking out in blind rage because they feel helpless, oppressed and victimized. It is true; they have been oppressed, in many cases by self-serving dictators who have not allowed freedom of expression. Most have absolutely no concept of the First Amendment.
Q Was this a revenge attack for the killing of Osama bin Laden?
I don't believe it was a revenge attack for the killing of bin Laden, because many Muslims came to see through bin Laden as cruel, selfish and violent. PEW studies show most in the Muslim world had already turned away from al-Qaeda and bin Laden knew it. Pakistanis were upset by what the Navy Seals did because they were revealed to be weak, inefficient and incapable of maintaining law and order on their own soil. They were dishonored and shamed by their own weaknesses.
Q Given the fact that this movie came out last July was this a coordinated operation?
There might have been some planning by extremists in Libya (and Egypt); because no doubt extremists want to stir up trouble, but I don't think it was coordinated. Having lived through an attack on November 20, 1979, when a false rumor had it that the United States and Israel had taken over the Ka'aba in Mecca, my sense is this was the same. It was spontaneous, perpetrated by the Ayatollah Khomeini, taken at face value, and we were the objects of their rage. At that time, the United States Embassy in Islamabad was burned to the ground, and the lives of two Pakistani guards were lost. In Benghazi, Ambassador Stevens and three other Americans were killed because insecurity was not enough to protect them. It is very, very sad that lives were lost and I grieve for the families of these victims.
Q Isn't freedom of expression an American value?
Yes, it is an American value, and it's worth fighting for, but the fledgling democracies we see in much of the Muslim world have little or no concept of the freedom we cherish. I suspect it will take decades for some Muslim societies to get to where we are today. At the moment, religious sentiments trump freedom to say what you want, when you want, and how you want. When things don't happen overnight, we say the Arab Spring is dead. Muslims see a Reverend Terry Jones burning copies of the Qur'an, and endorsing the film "Innocence of Muslims," which he apparently did. Unfortunately, truth is mixed with lies in what they hear. To them, it is a conspiracy to defame Islam and denigrate Muhammad. They don't understand us and we don't understand them, and I believe this divide will stay with us for years.
Q Is it pandering when the Obama Administration condemns the film?
I don't think so. Reluctantly, I watched the 14-minute trailer, and understand why it would inflame Muslims. There is undoubtedly some truth in it, but also certain unproven theories and historical errors about the life of Muhammad. He is portrayed as a homosexual and as pedophile. He was not a homosexual, and though he did marry an underage girl, and consummated the marriage when she was nine years old, he does not fit the pedophile profile. A pedophile is one who gets sexual fulfillment from children. Other than A'isha, his wives were adults, and many were war widows. The film mixes truth with fiction in order to taunt Muslims into violence. It was created with sinister motives.
Q Aren't Muslims inconsistent?
There is no question that Muslims are inconsistent, but I am heartened by the fact that some in Libya took out processions saying they condemned the killing in Benghazi. From a Christian standpoint, the killing was done by those "whose feet are swift to shed blood" (Romans 3:15). Is this excusable? No. It is reprehensible, cruel and wicked, but what can we expect? These are people who do not know the Lord. They have never experienced the new birth, and they are not filled with the love of God. I am angered by the action in Benghazi, Cairo and recently in Islamabad, where a little Christian girl was accused of blasphemy. But I'm also angered by those who seek political gain from this incident. It is not true that President Obama is a Muslim and soft on terrorists. It is not fair, nor is it accurate, to say that all this happened because of Obama. It is simplistic to say that respect for the United States is falling in the Muslim world because of this Administration's policies. I would have expected a presidential candidate to think first, do his research, and then speak in measured tones.
Q How should we then respond?
To be honest, I have struggled with this myself, and I can only speak of what I think is the Christian reaction. We do not hate Muslims and do not even hate Islam. The Christian response should be to love truth, but not to stir up religious hatred, animosity and violence. We should not want Muslims to perish; rather we should want them to come to the knowledge of the truth (II Peter 3:9). We expose falsehood, injustice and cruelty, however the impression I have from some Americans, including some Christian Americans, is that they couldn't care less what happens to Muslims. I'm not saying 'Sam Bacile' (the man behind this infamous movie), or Steve Klein who pushed it, are Christians. I am angry at how the Muslims have reacted but also at the producers and endorsers of this film.