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Here we have The Guardian’s account, complete with a rather overstated reference to a certain popular science fiction series. —KA
The Guardian:
Perhaps Captain Owen Honors imagined he was in outer space. The commander of the USS Enterprise – not the Star Trek starship but a nuclear-powered American warship – boldly went where no sensible American navy officer would venture in the 21st century with a series of video “entertainments” for his crew that included insulting gay people, appearing with two women in the shower and plenty of simulated masturbation.
Now Honors has been dismissed as captain after one of the crew complained and the navy branded the videos, shown on the Enterprise in 2006 and 2007, “not acceptable”.
Disembarking: As of Tuesday afternoon, this official photo of Capt. Owen Honors was still featured on the USS Enterprise’s website.
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Mayan Prophecy: Is the World Coming to an End in 2012?
Ancient Knowledge Revealed
The Mayan empire, which dominated Central America for nearly 2,000 years, was one of the most advanced in history. Its mastery of astronomy, mathematics, architecture and engineering rivaled even that of the Egyptians, Greeks and Romans of antiquity. The Maya developed a sophisticated calendar made up of 18 months of 20 days each, plus a five-day period called uayeb added at year's end to equal 365 days. When researchers finally cracked the Mayan language and calendar, however, they found one thing peculiar: It ends on December 21, 2012.
Did this civilization, so attuned to the cycles of the universe, know something we don’t? Is that the date the world ends? Or is it just that they saw no need to calculate dates any farther into the future at that time?
Strangely, 2012 does correspond with anticipated major solar activity that has the potential for affecting all life on the planet in profound ways. One need only look at another example of how solar storms disrupted human activity—at a time when we were much less dependent on electronic devices for banking, communications, defense and nearly everything else. Extrapolating from that event, it’s not difficult to anticipate a disaster of major proportions occurring in 2012, as the Maya may have predicted.
[ Jesse Ventura's Take ]
I don't believe that world is going to end in 2012. I fear more that 2012 will be something that happens that's really out of all our control. If you check out the Mayan calendar it simply says that the world as you know it will end in 2012 and that a new world will begin. So what is that new world? I guess we'll have to wait until 2012 to find out.
[ Chapters ]
Watch "Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura." You won't believe what you don't know.
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10 Dumb Urban Legends
Mixing Pop Rocks and Coke can be lethal
Despite being denied by the makers of Pop Rocks and disproven by no less an authority than the bearded geniuses in the "Mythbusters," this infamous urban legend refuses to die. For years, kids believed that combining Pop Rocks and Coke could cause death by premature stomach 'splosion. The legend persisted thanks to a rumor that the kid who played "Mickey" in the Life Cereal commercial died from a Pop Rocks and Coke speedball. (Though considering that "Mickey" hates everything except Life Cereal, it's odd that he would voluntarily ingest such a disgusting combination of snack food items.)
Why it's dumb: As the Mythbusters proved, the mixture of Pop Rocks and Coke simply does not produce enough gas to cause your insides to erupt like John Hurt in "Alien." (Forget what your mom says-- Pop Rocks contain less carbon dioxide than half a can of soda.) Also, the actor who played Mikey, John Gilchrist, is alive and well and working as an attorney. Though, ironically, if you combine Pop Rocks and Life Cereal, your face will melt off from sheer deliciousness.
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Had a conversation with Basil Al Salem yesterday in regards to Cocoa Room. I was shocked and awed by what he had told me. Basically, if you’re a health and fitness enthusiast, dining in the Cocoa Room is a lot easier than you think.
Light as a Feather
If you read my cheat review on the Cocoa Room, you’ll realize that I ate a lot. I admit that on cheat days I have the appetite of a hungry army, but I assure you that the food was not as calorie-dense as I thought it would be. I savored every dish and chewed as slow as I could. It wasn’t a gorge-fest like my usual cheat meals.
My point is, each and every ingredient is made in-house, which is why the experience wasn’t a gut-bomb. Bread, bacon, turkey, organic eggs and whatever you can think of, all in-house stuff. He even took the time to explain to me the items below:
- Smoked Turkey: all-natural turkey breast, smoked in-house without nitrates.
- Lean Smokey Bacon: did you hear that? Cocoa Room uses in-house lean bacon. I’m not sure if I’m allowed to say what type of meat is used, so I’ll refrain. I assure you, the animal protein source used is leaner than chicken, turkey and red meat. You know what else is cool? The bacon’s baked and not fried in oil.
- Eggs: baked and poached unless stated otherwise. Any fried eggs are lightly (tsp to grease the pan) fried using extra virgin olive oil.
- Hash Browns: Baked sweet potato hash browns. You’ll notice that a lot of dishes are infused with sweet potatoes instead of white potatoes. This awesome carbohydrate is higher in fiber, higher in nutrients and lower in GI.
- Beans: in-house baked beans. If you’re knowledgble in health food, you’d know that beans pack a lot of protein, a lot of fiber and minimal carbs.
- Ancho & Cocoa Spiked Sausages (beef, veal or chicken): I forgot to ask Basil about this, but I’m willing to make an assumption until he jumps in to clarify. I assume these are made in-house without nitrates or fillers (sausages usually contain fillers such as added carbohydrates and fats). I don’t know what type of cut they use for beef, but I do know the veal and chicken are lean.
The above items are what I remember from my long conversation with Basil. Lets investigate how Cocoa Room manages to pull off a health menu.
Featherlights…
Option 1
- Smoked Turkey and Feta Egg White Omelette with sweet potatoes, tomatoes, poblano pesto, pine nuts, multi-cereal bread.
- Analysis: The Smoked Turkey is the lean source of protein, void of nitrates. The Feta cheese is the ideal low-carbohydrate and high-protein cheese that’s also loaded with calcium. The egg whites used are organic. This omelette is combined, poured on a plate that has a touch of extra virgin olive oil and baked.
- Fahad’s Take: Lean protein? Check. Healthy fats? Check. Slow digesting fiber-packed carbs? Check. Fahad Approved? You bet!
Option 2
- Spinach & Ricotta Egg White Omelette with sweet potatoes, beetroot pesto, pine nuts, multi-cereal bread.
- Analysis: Spinach is a proven muscle builder. Ricotta is cheese made out of whey protein. The rest is self-explanatory.
- Fahad’s Take: This has my approval written all over it.
Option 3
- Homemade Berry Granola with honey toasted oats, dried goji and blueberries, almonds, toasted sesame and flax seeds with yogurt and red berry sauce.
- Analysis: Starts with healthy honey infused oats (low GI, high fiber carbohydrate), dried goji and blueberries (fibrous berries that are proven to aid in fat-loss), almonds, toasted sesame and flax seeds (3 sources of healthy fats high in omega-3, protein and fiber) with yogurt (probiotics source of dairy, also proven to aid in fat loss) and red berry sauce (in-house red berry puree).
- Fahad’s Take: This granola isn’t protein packed, but it sure as hell packs a lot of nutritional punch. And yes- I approve.
Option 4
- Summer Fruit Salad and Tropical Fruit Salad
- Analysis: Unfortunately, I haven’t talked to Basil in regards to these two, but this is what you’ll need to look for- If syrup or any added sugar is used, then no seal of approval.
Creating Your Omelette
We all have our options and preferences, and you can’t go wrong with what’s available. Just don’t go too crazy with the cheese, and always ask for a 2:1 ratio of egg whites to whole eggs.
The Menu
Not satisfied with the above? No worries, there are items that are equally as healthy as the ones above. Here’s a short list based on what I’ve consumed:
- Barbecue Brisket Hash
- Red Flannel Hash
- Falafel Fatayer
- Morning Glory
All of the above were surprisingly light and tasty. Since you’ll want to cork your appetite for breakfast, you may either eat one of these options alone (don’t eat two options) OR add an egg white omelette without sides.
I hope this post was useful for those of you who would like a unique delicious twist in your health and fitness lifestyles.
It always feels weird — pork bacon is freely available in Bahrain and elsewhere so it would be amazing if you clarified what kind of meat is used in Cocoa room’s “Lean smokey bacon”
Abi: it’s not pork bacon. I haven’t tasted pork bacon and I never will. The type of meat used tastes exactly like regular bacon, but without the excessive fat.
Hi Fahad,
It was a pleasure talking to you yesterday. Thank you for clarifying the behind the scenes aspect of Cocoa Room. We have limited space on the menu so we couldn’t explain the made from scratch philosophy at Cocoa Room.
Just a correction on the egg white omelet, it is not baked but lightly fried on a non stick pan with an olive oil / canola oil spray which picks up little oil in the process. We also whip the egg whites which adds volume to the omelet, thus reducing the caloric density of the dish.
As for the sausages, it is made in house with not preservatives or nitrates, just a little bit of bread crumbs to bind the flavors and provide texture.
The granola is made in house and is naturally sweetened with honey and the yoghurt sweetened with splenda.
The fruit salads have no syrups or anything. Just good fresh cuts of fruit.
I hope this clarifies everything
Basil: Appreciate the input Basil! Keep up the great work
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SAN JACINTO BATTLEGROUND STATE HISTORICAL PARK
SAN JACINTO BATTLEGROUND STATE HISTORICAL PARK. San Jacinto Battleground State Historical Park, the site of the battle of San Jacinto, which won independence for Texas, is adjacent to the Houston Ship Channel, where the USS Texasqv is moored, five miles northeast of the intersection of State highways 134 and 225 and ten miles east of Pasadena in southeastern Harris County. It is on the Arthur McCormick league, which after 1836, was sold to various individuals, including Magnus T. Habermehl, whose dwelling and family burial plot were near the scene of the battle. Although not public land, the battleground, from 1836 on, has been a tourist attraction, and early San Jacinto Day celebrations centered there. In 1856, at a meeting on the field, a fund was initiated for erecting a monument at the graves of those who fell in the battle, and the money, entrusted to Francis R. Lubbock, was supplemented by a state appropriation of $1,000. Around the graves grew up a community cemetery in which were buried persons who died in the neighboring town of San Jacinto. In 1860 a meeting on the battlefield nominated Sam Houston for the presidency of the United States. In 1881 J. S. Sullivan of Richmond initiated a second movement for placing a marker at the graves, and sufficient funds were collected for a red granite obelisk which was unveiled in Galveston and placed at the grave of Benjamin Rice Brigham, the only grave then ascertainable. As a result of agitation by the Texas Veterans Association and others, the legislature appropriated $1,500 for acquiring the ground on which the monument had been erected, and on May 16, 1883, ten acres of land were bought. In 1894 a committee of veterans, including survivors of the battle, located important sites of the battle events, and in 1897 these were relocated and marked with pipes, which in 1912 were replaced by granite boulders erected by the Daughters of the Republic of Texas. The state of Texas appropriated $10,000 to acquire the field, and James Monroe Hill, Waller T. Burns, and Sterling B. Hendricks were commissioned to make the purchase. By 1900 the state had acquired 336.28 acres; additional purchases in 1909 and in the 1930s brought the total park area to 402 acres. After 1907 the state administered the park through a three-member San Jacinto Park Commission, appointed by the governor, and a resident superintendent. Operating under the Board of Control, the commission had responsibility for the care and preservation of the park. Improvements on the field culminated in 1936 in a landscaping and building program, which included a monument erected by Texas Freemasons and a sundial built by the Daughters of the Republic of Texas, who utilized the funds collected by Lubbock in 1857. The building program was completed by the San Jacinto Monument and Museum, constructed between 1936 and 1939, including the construction of the 570-foot San Jacinto Monument. In 1948 the battleship Texas was presented to the people of Texas and permanently moored in the west end of the park. The park commission was abolished in 1965, and its duties were transferred to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. During the 1980s additional land was donated to the park, and the battleship Texas became another component. By 1990 the park had 1,000 acres. The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and the San Jacinto Museum of History Association began development of a master plan for future growth and development of the park in 1994.
Hans Peter Nielsen Gammel, comp., Laws of Texas, 1822–1897 (10 vols., Austin: Gammel, 1898). George Alfred Hill, The Centennial Celebration of the Battle of San Jacinto (Senate Miscellaneous Documents, No. 253, 74th Cong., 2nd sess., 1936). Ray Miller, Texas Parks (Houston: Cordovan, 1984)..Andrew Forest Muir, "SAN JACINTO BATTLEGROUND STATE HISTORICAL PARK," Handbook of Texas Online (), accessed May 18, 2013. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
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BOSTON, TX.
Dallas Morning News, March 6, 1938.
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CODY MEMORIAL LIBRARY
CODY MEMORIAL LIBRARY. The library at Southwestern University in Georgetown began with the founding of the school in 1873. Southwestern, a direct descendent of four of the earliest institutions of higher learning in the state, was founded by Francis Asbury Mood, who made building a library a high priority of the new school. Mood relied on the largess of fellow Methodists, and by 1876 the university catalogs showed regular donations of books and materials. Some 130 volumes were donated in 1876, including works of biography, history, theology, and English literature.
In 1880 Claude Carr Codyqv, a professor of mathematics, was named university librarian. He continued to build the collection by donations, making frequent and personal appeals to Texas Methodists. In 1885 he reported that Southwestern's library contained 785 volumes. During this time three student literary societies also maintained libraries for the use of their members. The Alamo, San Jacinto, and Alethean societies had together about 1,000 volumes in 1885. These books later were added to the main collection.
From 1892 to 1895 another faculty member, H. S. Hyer, served as librarian. His term is remembered chiefly for the acquisition of the books of Homer S. Thrall, a prominent Methodist author, whose books were the largest single gift that the library had received. Because library space was unduly small the old university chapel was refitted as a reading room in 1895. Special committees to deal with library operations were appointed in May 1897. Among their recommendations were a student-use fee for library operations and appropriations for the library.
After 1900 library development was accelerated. Library quarters were established in a new building completed in 1901. Margaret Mood McKennon, daughter of the founder, became the school's first full-time librarian in 1903. The same year also marked the first standing faculty committee for the library. By 1908 the collection contained 16,000 volumes, and the library's hours of operation had been extended to "every hour during school days."
In February 1910 students met to demand a separate library building. This demand led to plans for a three-story building supposedly modeled after the Library of Congress in Washington, but this building was never begun. The Southwestern library was a depository for United States government documents by 1915, when the staff had grown to three permanent employees and several student assistants. By 1935 library holdings had reached over 35,000 volumes and the library had been expanded to four rooms on the third story of the administration building.
In 1939 Cody Memorial Library was built on a lot east of the administration building. The new building, designed by a former student of Southwestern, Cameron Fairchild, consisted of three stories, was completed at a cost of approximately $81,000, and was partially financed by a Work Projects Administration grant to the city. The fund for a library had been begun immediately after the death of Cody in 1923 and amounted to $46,000 at the time the library was built. The work started the last day of 1938, and the library formally opened on November 26, 1939. By the time the building was constructed, the total collection had grown to 54,890 volumes, and the staff included a librarian, an assistant librarian, and student assistants.
In 1966 a two-story, smooth limestone and glass building was constructed and connected to the original building. The older building was refurbished, and the two buildings were air-conditioned. The 1966 construction and renovation was made possible by a gift from the Brown Foundation of Houston and gifts from friends of Herman Brown, a member of the board of trustees for many years. Nearly 80,000 volumes were in the general collection by the end of 1966, and the staff numbered five, with four full-time librarians. The Edward A. Clark Collection, containing more than 2,400 volumes, was presented to Southwestern in July 1965 and placed in the new Special Collections Room. The Isabel Gaddis collection of the works of J. Frank Dobie, another Southwestern alumnus, was presented to the university in 1970 by the Charles N. Prothros of Wichita Falls. Nearly 1,000 Dobie items made up this collection. In 1982, a grant from the Pew Memorial Trust resulted in the computerization of library holdings through AMIGOS Bibliographic Council of Dallas.
By 1984 the size of the general collection had grown to 152,457, with an additional 6,718 titles in the Clark Texana Collection. Other special holdings at that time were the Bewick, Bible, Blake, and Meyer Hymnal collections. The full-time professional staff numbered fourteen, including five professional librarians. In 1988 the Cody Memorial Library became a part of the newly finished A. Frank Smith, Jr., Library Center and ceased to exist as an independent library.
John Bigley, "Early Library Development at Southwestern University," Texas Libraries 45 (Fall 1984). Claude Carr Cody Papers, Cody Memorial Library, Southwestern University. Ralph W. Jones, Southwestern University, 1840–1861 (Austin: Jenkins, 1973). Texas Library Association, Handbook of Texas Libraries, 1–4 (Austin, 1904–35).
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TORONTO -." Talks between the players and the owners have grinded to a screeching halt this week with a league-imposed deadline for an 82-game season set to pass with not a single strain of movement between the two sides. NHL Deputy commissioner Bill Daly told TSN and ESPN.com insider Pierre LeBrun that the league's latest proposal - which called for an immediate 50/50 split of hockey-related revenue - would be pulled off the table following Thursday's deadline. The players rejected that offer last week, responding with three proposals of their own, each of which the owners dismissed in hurried fashion. ."
"With the strides I think we've made in terms of trying to make this work and obviously on our perspective, the way it looks on the other side not really even giving anything we've tried to do a chance it gets frustrating," added Leafs forward Matthew Lombardi. "But at the same time you've got to believe it's a process and that things are going to work out here for the best. That's all you can do."
Earlier this week the players, led by Donald Fehr, reached out to the league for a no-strings attached meeting, a request that was flatly rejected by Bettman and the owners. The real sticking point in negotiations is the league's insistence that players' share of H.R.R. be immediately reduced to 50 per cent, rather than a gradual approach downward favoured by the players. An added "make whole" provision to pay back existing contracts with deferred payments was also widely spurned.
"It's frustrating," said Leafs centre Jay McClement of the talks. "I don't know where we go from here, but hopefully we get back to the table soon and we get some movement and get a little bit closer. And hopefully just get that conversation going again." ."
The prospects of an 82-game season are fading fast with the future of the season at large edging into real jeopardy. Asked if he was fearful of losing an entire year, Cammalleri was unsure. "I think owners want us to be fearful of missing another year," he said, stressing his voice as a singular opinion amongst hundreds of players. "I don't know if I feel that way or not."
"It's not just about us," Lombardi ultimately concluded of the lockout's effect. "It's obviously about a lot of people that are missing the game and people that work or have jobs that relate to the game and obviously the fans. It affects a lot of.
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OTTAWA (CIS) – Janine Frazao, a soccer player from the University of British Columbia, and Kyle Bortis, a hockey player from the University of Saskatchewan, are the CIS female and male athletes of the week on Wednesday.
Frazao, a fourth-year student from Port Moody, B.C., tallied five goals and a pair of assists in two contests last weekend as the Thunderbirds blanked Saskatchewan, 4-0, and nationally ninth-ranked Regina, 6-0, to improve to 6-1-0 in conference play and move into the CIS Top 10, in tenth place. The 5-foot-5 forward kicked off the two-game set with a goal and two helpers against the Huskies on Friday night, before exploding for four goals in a span of 23 minutes Saturday against the Cougars. In seven games this season, the 2011 Canada West scoring champion ranks second in the conference in goals (8) and third in points (11).
Acadia rugby player Allison Jordan, Montreal soccer player Éva Thouvenot-Hébert and Queen's soccer player Jackie Tessier were also nominated for the women's award.
Bortis, a fourth-year agriculture and bioresources student from Saskatoon, was in on eight of the Huskies' 10 goals during the first weekend of the regular season as Saskatchewan opened the Canada West schedule with a two-game road sweep against CIS newcomer Mount Royal, 5-4 and 5-3. The 5-foot-11, 185-pound forward was the hero in Friday's season opener as he scored the game-winner with one second left in regulation, after picking up a pair of helpers earlier in the contest. The 2011-12 conference all-star was even more productive the following night when he assisted on all five Huskies' goals.
Saint Mary's soccer player Adam Miller, Laval cross-country runner Anthony Larouche and Laurentian soccer player Matt George were the other male nominees.
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LAGOS, Nigeria -- On their first visit to Nigeria, Serena and Venus Williams were ready to inspire local kids to set their goals high.
"We were really able to break the mould and win a lot of Grand Slams and a lot of tournaments and not only that, but kind of change the face of tennis," Serena said Wednesday.
"We were able to break the mould in a sport that was really dominated by white people and to have a face of colour that could come in and do the same and dominate, (it lets) people know that it doesn't matter what your background is and where you come from. If you have dreams, if you have goals, that's all that really matters."
The sisters, accompanied by their mother Oracene Price, are in Nigeria's largest city for the week as part of a promotional tour culminating with an exhibition match between them on Friday.
After a news conference in which a journalist suggested they actually came from Nigeria, the sisters swatted tennis balls with local children at an exclusive medall.
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National Health Service Landscape Review: Department of Health
HC 708, Report by the Comptroller and Auditor General, Session 2010-11
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- National Audit Office (NAO)
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- TSO (The Stationery Office)
'National Health Service Landscape Review: Department of Health (HC 708)' summarizes the new arrangements for the National Health Service (NHS) proposed in 'Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS (Cm. 7881)'.
In that White Paper the Government proposed a number of reforms to the structure and operation of the NHS, which have since been refined and developed in 'Liberating the NHS: Legislative Framework and Next Steps (Cm. 7993)'.
The 'Health and Social Care Bill (HC 132)' is designed to create the necessary legislative change.
This review's purpose is to inform the Public Accounts Committee so that it can take stock of the proposals as they currently stand and discuss their implementation with the Department of Health (DH) and NHS.
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Events - Start at 8 a.m.
High Jump (Women then Men)
Long Jump (Men then Women)
Triple Jump (Men then Women)
Shot Put (Women then Men)
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55m Hurdle Prelims (Women then Men) - 10:30 a.m.
55m Dash Prelims (Women then Men)
Distance Medley Relay (Women then Men)
55m Hurdles Finals (Women then Men) - Two Heat Finals.
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By the editors of Your Family TodayFrom Your Family Today.
Ages 2 Through 5
-- Offer to take care of a neighbor's pet while he or she is sick or away from home. This gives you the opportunity to teach your child about feeding, walking and playing with animals. Let your child take the lead, and she'll learn an important lesson in responsibility and helping her community.
--Hold a wish-list drive for your child's nursery school or day care. Create a sign-up sheet together. Ask your child to help you collect supplies and donations. While you'll have to do most of the legwork, your child can do the heavy lifting. Put him in charge of carrying the supplies to the car.
--Invite your child to accompany you to the grocery store to shop for an elderly neighbor or family member. Sit together with the neighbor to make a list of groceries. Shopping for the items on the list, picking out the best fruits and vegetables, checking expiration dates for freshness and putting the groceries away together is a great way to demonstrate the importance of teamwork and the thought and effort that goes into helping others.
Ages 6 Through 8
--Visit a local hospital with your kids. Whether it's helping to paint a mural on the wall or visiting with sick patients, many hospitals offer programs for young kids. Check with your local hospital for details on volunteering. Also inquire about bringing pets; they can be very therapeutic for patients.
--Volunteer at a senior citizens home. Playing board games, reading and simply talking with the residents can make such a difference in their lives. When your kids see the impact they are having, it boosts their self-esteem and gives them an appreciation of just how important their efforts are. Plus, building relationships with the elderly can be an enriching experience -- for everyone.
--Encourage your kids to lend a hand. Offer to help a neighbor carry his groceries into the house -- and bring your children with you. Help move furniture or rake leaves or anything else neighbors could use help with. If you're out there shoveling your driveway, do your neighbor's driveway too -- without even asking. While you're busy doing that, have your kids brush snow off the neighbor's car. They'll learn that making someone else's life a little easier does a lot of good.
Ages 9 Through 12
--Give back to your community. Local libraries can always use volunteers to help complete daily tasks. Sign up for a regular time slot that you and your children can commit to. If they're lucky, your kids may also get the opportunity to read to younger kids or help them navigate around the library.
--Help out in pinch. If your child has experience baby-sitting, encourage her to raise her hand when a friend or family member has a last-minute need for coverage. That shows your child that even if you have to change your own plans, it's worth it to put someone's mind at ease.
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The Tucson Unified School District is moving forward with a plan to consolidate more schools as it looks for ways to close a $17 million budget gap.
Tuesday night, the governing board laid out the framework for which schools will be selected to be closed.
Ten factors will influence the final decision, including academic performance and enrollment.
It's not considered easy to close schools for anyone involved.
The TUSD governing board voted to close nine of them just two years ago.
The district will close up to 10 more at the end of the current school year.
However, TUSD is hoping to make the best of the school consolidations.
TUSD Planning Services Program Manager Bryant Nodine says they have studied what other districts have done when they had to close schools.
"The ones that were successful in how they did it were the ones that created some improvements to the district through having to make the changes. And so that's really what we're trying to do. Look at ways we can serve our teachers better. Look at ways we can get better resources into the classrooms," Nodine says.
The head of the teachers union, the Tucson Education Association, Frances Banales, says the district must work to make the transition as easy as possible on students and families, and to minimize layoffs.
She also agrees it's best to consider the closures, not a loss, but a gain, in the schools that remain open.
Banales says it's about building a premier school.
"Then we can market that and do that right--making sure that we're bringing all the stakeholders together, making sure that we're addressing their needs and then highlighting what opportunities are you going to have now, by coming to this newly formed school that you may not have had in the current situation that you were in at maybe a smaller school or a school that wasn't performing as well," Banales says.
A list of schools to be considered for closure will be presented to the school board at the end of this week.
The next school board meeting is next Tuesday, November 20.
The public will be asked for input on the proposed school closures.
The tight budget is not the only reason TUSD will be closing more schools.
Nodine says the district is suffering what many urban school districts are.
The population is aging, while younger families head to the suburbs.
"Then on top of that we've had increased charter schools-- a number of charter schools and we've had a shift of students from one side of the district to the other. Not that they're moving. It's just that one area is a growing area and one area is a declining area," Nodine says.
Nodine says overall, the TUSD student population is declining.
He says charter schools nationwide have grown by about five times what they were 10 years ago, while inside TUSD they've grown about six times.
In a news release, TUSD outlined the criteria it will use to decide which schools will be closed:
School Consolidation Criteria approved by the TUSD Governing Board
Part One: A list of candidates for school closure that focuses on, but need not be limited to, middle schools, includes no more than ten schools altogether, is based on the following ten criteria, in no particular order, and includes for each candidate a written rationale that focuses on these criteria:
1. High cost savings, after accounting for likely enrollment losses, condition of the school, required renovations at receiving schools, and increased transportation costs.
2. Low academic performance, especially taking into account the demographics of the student population.
3. Lack of success in attracting families, based on enrollment trends and the attraction/flight ratio.
4. Weak prospects for turnaround in enrollment and academic performance, based on current and foreseeable assets.
5. Easy transitions for families to high performing nearby schools. (This criterion is especially important for elementary schools.)
6. Good prospects for retaining students, based on the strength of the receiving schools and the weakness of competition from charter schools, private schools, and other districts.
7. Preservation of unique programs and activities, if there is strong demand for those programs.
8. Likelihood of reducing or at least not exacerbating ethnic imbalances within schools.
9. High likely value of the site in an alternative use.
10. Considerable distance from the sites of recently closed schools.
Part Two: For each closure candidate a report with the following information:
1. Estimated cost savings. Net annual itemized savings, assuming that all teachers are moved rather than laid off. Comparison to cost savings which could be achieved by conversion to a charter school.
2. Concurrent use of the site. Current use of the school by organizations other than TUSD. Likely prospects for future such use if the school remains open.
3. Competition. A list of nearby charter and private schools. Evaluation of the intensity of the competition provided by those schools and by any nearby school district.
4. A map showing schools in the neighborhood of the closure candidate. It should include the closure candidate and potential receiving schools, the locations of any recently closed TUSD schools within five miles, and the locations of major competing schools.
5. Plausible options for site disposition or reuse. These should take account of the site's specific characteristics.
6. Any other relevant unique or unusual features of the school.
7. Letters from the site council and principal. The school's site council should have an opportunity to review the information given to the Board and to write a letter to the Board concerning any errors or omissions. The school's principal should have a similar and separate opportunity. This can be provided after the Board initiates closure.
Part Three: For each closure candidate and potential receiving school a report with the following information:
1. Academic performance including actual average AIMS scores and ADE grades for the past two years.
2. Condition of facilities including the facilities condition index and itemization of significant bond program upgrades at that school.
3. Enrollment including total current enrollment and history for the past five years, projections of future enrollment, and notations to special factors that may have affected enrollment, e.g. boundary changes.
4. Current staffing including a breakdown of the current staffing at the school, funding source, and how many years the current principal has been assigned to the school.
5. Current attraction and flight data.
6. Demographic characteristics including ethnic composition and percentage of free and reduced lunch.
7. Special programs that distinguish this school from other TUSD schools. In the case of schools considered for closure: the movability of these programs and the potential synergies or consolidations among programs at the closed school and receiving schools.
8. Transportation time and costs including the typical distance from families enrolled at the closed school to possible receiving schools, typical bus transportation time for the same families, to possible receiving schools, and the projected increase in transportation costs, both gross and net of projected state reimbursement.
9. Capacity for each receiving school excluding portables and the nature and cost of expected necessary improvements.
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Maybe the question is the other way around ? Why are the symptoms of low blood sugar the same as shock ? Hypoglycemia is also sometimes called insulin shock.
I think it's the brain's way of saying 'Something is wrong' !!!
Interestingly, after a google search, I found an article on 'insulin shock therapy', where it tells how they intentionally induced comas with mega doses of insulin to treat psychiatric patients.
Hope you're ok.. My brother broke his collar bone while racing his motorcycle, and flew over the handle bars. All he remembered in the hospital was wanting to have water, but no one would get him some. But he healed fine, and no problems afterward.
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TCU Senate update | Senate unanimously passes safety resolution
Published: Monday, November 19, 2012
Updated: Monday, November 19, 2012 08:11
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate last night passed a resolution in support of the implementation of additional safety measures at the intersection of Packard Avenue and Powderhouse Boulevard.
The resolution, which passed unanimously, comes in response to an incident on Nov. 8 in which a Tufts student was struck by a motor vehicle at that intersection and hospitalized.
Citing students’ concerns alongside a 2007 public safety report by the City of Somerville, the resolution calls for the university to work with government officials to “take immediate action in advocating for further pedestrian safety measures placed at the intersection of Packard Avenue and Powderhouse Boulevard in Somerville, which would force drivers to reduce speed and come to a full stop at the intersection.” The resolution will also be forwarded to Somerville Mayor Joseph Curtatone and Director of Community Relations Barbara Rubel.
Senators debated multiple points at length, arguing over whether the resolution should include more specific suggestions for how the government should improve the intersection. The original language included mention of four−way traffic lights, crossing buttons at crosswalks and creating a “raised intersection” to deter drivers from crossing too quickly. The body eventually decided that the city’s engineers would be better equipped to make such suggestions.
The Tufts Anthropology Collective received $458 in New Group Funding to defray the costs of attending two documentary screenings and a museum. The allocation was scaled down from the group’s $580 request, as the Allocations Board (ALBO) felt that buying tickets for up to 15 attendees was unjustified for a 10−member group.
The TCU Judiciary was allocated $397.50, the entire budget of the Tufts Judicial Advocates, a group that seeks to advise students going through the Tufts judicial system. Though the group has existed for many years, they were cut from last year’s budget when it was decided that they were not a cohesive enough group to warrant funding.
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got permission to borrow my cousin’s old car for the summer. OH THE PLACES I CAN COMMUTE WAHAHAHA. and now i can get to my job from oakland, hooray!
2 more essays, a multiple choice test, a project to polish up, and P4P grading to do til freedom tho -____- 48 hours hnnnrrrgghhhh
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- Florence: Especially, like, wanting Isa to come be in the band with me and be on tour, it's made such a difference. The hill is less hard to climb, I think, with someone there.
- [they hug]
- Florence: This is, uh, Isabella Summers, my very very good friend and also writing partner.
- Isabella: And this is Florence Welch; she's the lead singer of Florence and the Machine.....
- Florence: Oh yeah, and she plays the keys in Florence and the Machine.
- Isabella: Best friend from the beginning....
- Florence: We've done so many kind of amazing shows together [READ: the one in which Florence kissed Isabella, and the one in which Isabella proposed], and it's really nice to be able to share that with someone...and it makes my life so much easier and more fun, because you know she's such a sort of...such a ray of sunshine in my life.
- Isabella: So we have all these relationships that come and go and all the rest of it...and we go on tour and we do this...but like, we've always had
- Florence and Isabella: constant.
- Isabella: I think you're like my sister.
- Florence: Yeah.
- Isabella: I don't have any sisters; so I always say that Flo's my sister, because we have been like sisters for so long now. It's pretty much once in a lifetime that you make a friendship like we have [aka, "let's get married now, Flo"].
- Florence: Boyfriends come and go, but friends....
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10 Ridiculously Cool Natural Phenomenon
Volcanic Lightning
If someone asked you to name the two coolest things you could ever see in nature, your answer would be “volcanoes and lightning.” Or possibly “lightning and volcanoes,” I guess, but those are the only two options—it’s just a fact. But nature, it seems, is constantly looking for new ways to impress us—which is why it went ahead and made volcanic lightning a reality.And yes, it’s exactly what it sounds like.
Brinicles
. The technical name for this sort of thing is ‘ice stalactite,’ but what kind of boring title is that for such a breathtaking phenomenon? Hence the need for their cool nickname, ‘brinicles.’ Regular English didn’t have a good enough word, so we had to come up with a whole new one (or, more accurately, sloppily mash together two old ones).
Penitentes
Here’s another cool ice formation, about as far away from underwater as you can get—high in the mountains. These spiky fields of ice are called penitentes, and each individual shard can be up to a whopping 13 feet (4 meters). The sharp spikes, then, are just the lucky parts of the snowfield that the sun didn’t target for complete and utter annihilation.
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Transit have just announced their new album, Young New England, will be released on April 2nd. Check out a tweet from the band as well as new tour info below.
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Transit have premiered a new song called “Weathered Souls.” The track is off of their upcoming album, Young New England, which is set to release on April 2nd. Listen to the song below and dates to their latest tour can be seen as well.
Transit is now streaming their new album, Young New England which was released today! Listen to the whole album below and be sure to catch them on their upcoming tour that starts the 5th in Hamden, CT.
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Toro Y Moi -- All Alone
All Alone- Toro y Moi
“Follow her tonight, to give
what she’s looking for
‘cause she’s all alone”
lilianavonk replied to your post: *Waits patiently for PIRATE GENE fan fiction to start appearing*
I tweeted someone the other day that in my head there’s already a half-written fanfic about when Captain Smollett met Gunner Hobbs…partial points? ;)
Triple points if this partially conceived fan fictional creation of yours causes the two nautical Philip Glenisters to make out with each other. Ohmygosh did I really just say that…? ^_~
Going to this festival in San Francisco on October 14 with Brie!!!
Finally getting to see Los Campesinos as an 18 year old and finally getting to meet Brie in person! It will be remarkable.
So far, opinions are varied, but helpful! ^_^
rangerg replied to your post: Alright, time to bite the (apparently quite pleasurable) double-barreled bullet.
I’m gonna say Downton. Only because its a lot more episodes than Sherlock. Both are tops though.
missanthropicprinciple replied to your post: Alright, time to bite the (apparently quite pleasurable) double-barreled bullet.
Sherlock is exciting, Downton is calming, so maybe Sherlock first.
Netflix has both, and I don’t have to go to work tomorrow. So that’s a plus! Although I do still need to watch part 2 of Treasure Island with my watching buddy, littleotter73!
Gah, there are just too many things to watch and not enough hour-plus chunks of my life to go around! 0_o
I don’t know if it’s only this time in particular—whether it’s because of the beautiful indian summer day, or being with a person I love more than I could ever express, or having most things go wonderfully right (though not crazy flawless perfect, which is what I prefer anyway)—but based on today, Treasure Island might be a perfect music festival. Except for the dollar they charge to refill your water bottles.
Elyse and I woke up in the morning and made awesome omelettes and coffee to start our day. Though we thought we had given ourselves enough time, we didn’t end up completely ready til like 1:30 PM, when we ideally wanted to get there around noon when everything started. But whatever I’m filipino and we’re not punctual sorry bout it. We wanted to at least see all of Grimes, but alcohol priorities slowed us down a bit. We did get to catch the last half of her set, though, and it was wonderful, and she was adorable, and it sounded really great and I didn’t really hear any reason for bad things to say.
The two stages are set up in a right angle in the relatively narrow strip of land that comprises the festival grounds. Because the set times for each stage simply alternated, we could just set up camp at random spots halfway between the corresponding crowds and chill. From both stages’ crowds you could get a view of the entire SF skyline and bay bridge—the visibility was clear from the day well into the night, and the skyscrapers were illuminated in orange in honor of the Giants and it was fuckin beautiful. I got to try The Chairman food truck during Public Enemy (who fuckin tore that shit up oh my GOD) but I forgot about that when we had a motherfucking LECHON BURRITO which was one of the tastiest things I’ve ever eaten. That shit gave us the energy to dance for all of the Presets who blew the fog away via lasers and flashy lights.
Elyse lost her sketchphone after Porter Robinson (who were bangin’ and made me really want to grind up on a boy) but the neat thing about that shitty phone is that no one will ever want to steal it. I called it and someone answered and said they’d return it to lost and found, so once we had that problem solved we just got to dance our asses off and not worry and go get it later.
There were lots of art vendor booths around, including an entire tent of awesome Jason Munn prints, and I picked up a print of a baby chick for $5, because chickens. We saw SBTRKT, who killed it, and then we ended our night early because Girl Talk was the closer and who gives a fuck.
Idk man I’ve just never had an all day music festival experience where every act was worth seeing, and where every interaction we had with strangers was genuine and effortless and chill as fuck. It’s nice to be surrounded by crowds of people who aren’t fake fucks and instead are just there to have a good time and dance with their friends and talk to cool polite people. Also food! Also there were trampolines.
We are probably going to go on the big ferris wheel tomorrow. Sunday’s more indie rock shit so we’ll see how that goes (Hospitality’s early on yay!!!) but I guess I would rate today: B+. Strong as hell. Could be better sure, but still so good. Story of my life, stupid grades
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Feedback on brush guards.. any sag? [Archive] - Toyota Tundra Forums : Tundra Solutions Forum Toyota Tundra Forums : Tundra Solutions Forum > Truck Forums > 1Gen-Tundra > Feedback on brush guards.. any sag? PDA : Feedback on brush guards.. any sag? OfficerMorgan5107-27-2012, 10:19 AMLooking for people with brush guards on their tundras to give me some feedback on whether or not they make the front end sag any with it installed Only reason I want to know is because my truck sits level now with a 2" spacer n stock shocks, which clears 285's, and if the front end sags any they'll probably rub.. which I really don't want to happen! :p But if it does, what are some good shocks out there to relevel it? Thanks, Brandon seanpistol07-27-2012, 10:39 AMIt probably depends on how much it weighs. If you do get some sag you can replace your spacers and springs with Old Man Emu 886 springs for a Tacoma. That'll give you the extra height and stiffness you're looking for. OfficerMorgan5107-27-2012, 12:13 PMThe westin one i was looking at weighs 93 pounds I believe, that's the shipping weight from summit at least, haha.. I don't think that would make it sag, but I'm not too sure, I guess time shall tell! I'll definitely look into those springs too:ts:
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TurfMutt is thrilled to announce the start of a new sweepstakes that will help dogs, cats and other critters just like him. Enter TurfMutt’s “Paw It Forward” Sweepstakes for a chance at one of two $250 donations to a local animal shelter.
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Roger and Klaus are driving in Europe, and they come upon a sign for a town named Schaffhausen. This is an actual town in northern Switzerland.
Langley Falls Post front page headline: Friend's T-Shirt Idea Deemed "Genius!" By Friend
Stan: Where would a communist go? Cuba? China? Back in time to kill Betsy Ross?
Sergei: Your rocket is bloated and overstuffed like this fat child, with whom I shall win space race.
Barry: We will bury you!
Sergei: Hey, neighbor!
Stan: Sergei!!
Sergei said that he worked in the first Moscow "Wendy's" and the first Moscow "Burger King". But the first Russian "Burger King was opened only in 2010 and the first "Wendy's" is planned to be open in 2011.
When Stan returns home to see if Steve has become a communist, it is nighttime. However, in the establishing shot of the house after the commercial break, it is daytime and it is again night when Steve escapes.
International Airdates:
Denmark: August 6, 2008 on TV3
This episode premiered on [adult swim] on May 4, 2008.
This is the second time that Night Ranger's song "You can still rock in America" has been used in an episode of American Dad! The first being in the opening scene of season three episode ten "Tearjerker".
Nikita Khrushchev
Sergei slams his shoe against a crate similar to Nikita Khrushchev during a rough session in the United Nations. Additionally, Barry later says "we will bury you", which Khrushchev said in a speech.
The Simpsons
During the scene where Stan and Steve buy the rocket supplies and demonstrate American excess, the price of all the merchandise comes to $847.63, the same price that comes up on the scanner when Maggie is scanned in the opening sequence of The Simpsons.
Communism
Among the communist effects Sergei gave Steve are images of Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong, along with the flags of the People's Republic of China and the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
Felix Dzerzhinski
Sergei bears a strong resemblance to Felix Dzerzhinski, founder of the KGB.
Apt Pupil
The episode is a parody of Stephen King's 1982 novel and its 1998 film Apt Pupil.
Che Guevara
Stan mistakes a poster of Argentine Revolutionary Che Guevara for a Planet of the Apes movie poster.
Cold War
The rocket competition is a reference to the Cold War space race between Russia and America.
Episode Title: Red October Sky
This episode's title is a take on the movies The Hunt for Red October and October Sky. "Red October" also refers to the October Revolution of 1917, when the Czar was finally ousted and the Bolsheviks took power in Russia.
S 9 : Ep 19
Aired 5/12/13
S 9 : Ep 18
Aired 5/5/13
S 9 : Ep 17
Aired 4/28/13
S 9 : Ep 16
Aired 4/21/13
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A mechanic is towing away Eli's company car, unimpressed with his claim that he's a prophet. Eli's forced to take public transportation to get to the office where he meets with Patti. She isn't thrilled that she has to coordinate the engagement party while Taylor's assistant fills in. Maggie meets with Eli and notes that with Matt out of town, she wants to help out Eli and get a win on her record. Eli reluctantly agrees and they go into the morning meeting where Martin Posner mentions that associate billables are down. Jordan asks for a volunteer on a case and Maggie volunteers, but he's unimpressed until she says Eli will be helping her.
As Eli sits in, he hears the sound of gunfire and suddenly finds himself in a trench on a battlefield. A soldier complains about how it took Eli so long to get there, then says that Private Swain is pinned down so they have to go to help her. He grabs Eli… who snaps out of his vision from underneath the conference tape. He gives a feeble excuse about dropping his pen. After the meeting, Posner thinks there may be something wrong with Eli and wants to use it as a reason to get out of the no-firing clause. Jordan isn't convinced, but Posner has a plan.
Eli visits Dr. Chen and once again denies that he's a prophet. Chen isn't convinced but Eli notes that there's nobody named Swain on the firm's client list. Chen notes that the name may come up in the future so Eli should keep an eye out. Afterward, Eli visits with Taylor at her firm and while he's waiting, he sees a boy named Brian waiting for his mother, who is involved in a custody case. Brian is reading a newspaper article on military casualties in Iraq. His mother comes out: a soldier. Eli talks to Taylor, who is representing Brian's father Robert and whose wife is in the National Guard. The mother is suing for a discharge and receiving custody, but Taylor figures that the court won't grant an active military officer a discharge over a custody matter. She also mentions the mother's name: Patricia Swain.
Back at WPK, Maggie talks to Eli about their case: Patricia Swain's. Patti lets him know that the engagement party is set up, and then informs Eli that Patricia's current lawyer, Larry, isn't thrilled with Eli taking the case from him. They're interrupted when a server shows up to subpoena Eli with papers requiring him to submit to a physical.
Patricia's lawyer Larry is the same attorney who represented Beth, but Eli explains he just wants to act as co-counsel. They go to court where Larry founders until Eli provides some help, slipping him a note detailing other instances of active soldiers receiving custody. Eli steps in and explains the situation and the judge agrees to hear the motion, much to Taylor's disgust. Eli tries to apologize afterward but Patricia interrupts to inform him she's dropping Larry and wants Eli to run the case.
Eli catches up to Taylor in the parking garage and tries to apologize, but she's mad that this is how he wants to spend time with her. He notes that she's won more cases against him then he has against her and he promises they can have adversarial sex afterward. He ends up having to hitch a ride with her.
Eli meets with Nate, who will be doing the physical including a MRI and CAT scan. Eli warns that if he fights the subpoena then the partners will know something is up, and he wants Nate to fake the report. Nate refuses, thinking Eli needs a break.
In court, Brian's father testifies that he wants a divorce because she came back from the war as a different person. In turn Patricia argues that he can't control Brian, but Taylor argues that Patricia might be suffering from post trauma syndrome. When Taylor and Eli start arguing, the judge is forced to separate them. Later, Eli tells Brian to testify truthfully but the boy seems nervous about his father being in court. Patricia is worried about Eli's relationship with Taylor, then suggests he get some 911 phone records from Larry from when she was away.
Eli is talking with Maggie in his office when he starts hearing gunfire again. He walks outside and sees the same soldier saying they have to take the ridge. A grenade lands nearby and explodes, and Eli finds himself under Patti's desk. After trying to explain, he asks her to set up an appointment with Chen. Chen uses a needle to bring back Eli's memories, and Eli finds himself remembering a day when his father was raving about Nazis and rescuing someone on a ridge. Eli's father thought young Eli was a soldier and started waving a pistol round. He stepped out of the room and Eli heard a gunshot. In the present, an upset Eli believes the whole thing is a mistake.
Brian testifies in court about how Robert is there for him when his mother is gone. However, under cross-examination Eli brings up the fact that Brian called 911 the night he ran away from home. The judge forces Brian to reveal that he was injured that night, and he still has bruises on his torso. Brian testifies that his father inflicted them. Afterward, Eli wonders why Patricia didn't say anything, and she admits she didn't want to believe he could turn violent. He warns her that there'll be a criminal investigation but she should get custody.
That night at the party, Taylor gives Eli a hard time about bringing up the phone records without notice, and notes that other kids on Brian's football team have similar injuries. She isn't happy with how the case is affecting their relationship and Eli apologizes for blindsiding her with the new evidence.
Nate is at the party, drinking heavily, and Beth arrives there at well. Nate knows who she is and Eli realizes that Patti invited her on her own to possibly set her up with Eli. Beth's son Ben is doing better, and Eli sets her up to dance with Nate. Jordan calls for attention and congratulates the happy couple, and Eli then finds himself on the battlefield again. They've taken the ridge, but the soldier tells Eli to run for the rally point. He ends up on the pastry table with everyone staring at him.
Back at Eli's apartment, Nate makes coffee while Eli apologizes to Taylor. She wonders if this is what it was like with his father, and explains she convinced her parents that Eli was nervous about the wedding. After Taylor leaves, Eli wonders to Nate if he'll be a worst husband then their father was. Nate insists their mother loved their father, then shows Eli's the fake test papers and agrees to sign them. He insists he isn't going to let Eli end up like their father.
Eli goes to Chen for another memory-session that picks up where the last one left off. Young Eli goes into the room with his father and finds he shot a mirror. Eli takes the gun and then lies to everyone that he fired the gun so his father wouldn't get in trouble. However, the idea of a son lying to protect a parent gives Eli an idea. He goes to see Patricia and accuse Robert and Brian of committing fraud: Brian is lying so that they can get Patricia discharged to take on custody, and get her out of harms' way. It becomes clear Patricia is in on it as well, and they faked the assault charge to throw off the government. Robert will go to jail, but that's better then Patricia being killed in Iraq.
The next day in court, Eli doesn't say that Brian is lying or telling the truth, but defends the fact he needs his mother who could otherwise die in an endless war. As they wait for a verdict, Eli talks with Taylor and admits she's the best lawyer he knows. Taylor wonders if the craziness is ever going to stop, but there's nothing Eli can do to reassure her. They're called into court where the judge gives Patricia custody and remands Robert to the authorities.
Eli meets with Jordan, who congratulates him on winning the case and notes on the coincidence of the physician also being named Stone. Jordan apologizes for thinking he could get Eli back to "normal" by taking away his perks. However, he also wants Eli to tell him if anything is wrong that could impact Taylor. Eli lies and says that he's fine, but Jordan warns that if he ever finds out differently then their relationship will take a downward turn.
Back at his apartment, Eli and Taylor are sorting through engagement gifts and she notes that Eli didn't address Brian's statements or their truth during his closing statement. Eli admits that he did the same thing for his dad, then tells her that he has to break up with her. He refuses to put her through the same thing that his mother went through with his father. A stunned Taylor can only leave.
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Ratings Report: NCIS Sets Series Record
The return of Ziva to the team helped NCIS set another series record for viewers last night, helping CBS to a ratings victory for the evening. Here's a rundown of all major programs:
8 p.m.
NCIS: 20.65 million viewers
The Biggest Loser: 8.5 million
90210: 2.5 million
9 p.m.
NCIS: Los Angeles: 17.4 million
Dancing with the Stars results: 12.5 million
Melrose Place: 1.5 million
10 p.m.
The Good Wife: 13.4 million
The Forgotten: 7.5 million
Matt Richenthal is the Editor in Chief of TV Fanatic. Follow him on Twitter and on Google+.
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Gossip Girl Review: A Wolf in B's Clothing ...
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Rank: Extra
November 3rd, 2012 10:15 PM
Love Chuck and Blair together! They are the best couple on the show. Serena is just pathetic! She wants to play big girl, but obviously isn't mature enough. I have always like Nate, but really, finding out your girlfriend is underage and still having a "grown-up" relationship with her is just GROSS! I don't think that I want to even mention Dan. His hair is FRIGHTENING! You would think that Georgina would cut it in his sleep or something. He is having a high school tantrum years too late. I feel like every character wants to be treated as an adult but doesn't really want to be an adult. Serena and Blair have really lost something, letting some kid get the best of both of them, what is up with that!? Gossip Girl has even lost something, she's obviously ready to throw in the towel. I would like to never see Sage or her father again. I think Lily needs to face some of the consequences of her actions. Being on house arrest in a beautiful penthouse is NOT a punishment. I would like to see t
Rank: Extra
November 2nd, 2012 12:30 PM
God, this show keeps getting more and more boring. It's borderline idiotic. How 'bout you just skip these 6 episodes and give us the finale right now. We won't be missing much, bc the SL is always the same: Serena showing off her boobs, hooking up with everyone and pretending she's an adult, Blair and Chuck separated by hmmmm, lightning let's say, Dan moping around like a lovesick jackass, and Nate being the male Serena.
So...finale, please :)
October 31st, 2012 1:56 PM
could this site be more biased at all?i mean you literraly show your hatred to dan .its obvious that the show want to make dan the devil,to please every chair lunatic to the word... Do you know about the spoiler that chuck watches his father jumbing from a roof and does nothing to save him,after spending the last five seasons wishing a second chance with him? Well thats much worse that whatever outing dan does against rufus dan is a good guy and this joke of a season wont change that
October 27th, 2012 8:22 PM
Dan is the worst...Chuck wanted a father to love him, Dan hates his because he worked his arse off for his kids to go to a good school so they could get into the college of choice and make something of themselves. He even made them have meals together, isn't that the cement for a healthy family. But oh no, those classless brats preferred to be ticks on other people's arses.
October 27th, 2012 12:53 AM
DAN-SERENA FTW!
October 26th, 2012 3:13 AM
@ Tim, Jenny can not save the Waldorf Designs, because she never liked and wanted to be subordinated to Blair, but to be equal to Blair. For now Blair will never agree to that. It is possible that this will happen in the end when if it comes to historical reconciliation between Blair and Jenny.
October 25th, 2012 3:51 PM
I thought B and S were going to go after Sage.
I hate it because if Jenny would have dared to do something like that, nobody would have let her enjoy it - between sending her away and hearing the non-stop morally superior talks of both her father and brother. I want her to come back and save Waldorf Designs.
October 25th, 2012 8:30 AM
Also.. Nate and serena are actually the likeable characters this season
October 25th, 2012 8:28 AM
I'm sorry... but how dumb is Rufus? his character has no substance he just goes along with whatever?? like Ivy? really??? after everything? she is such a random character and he gives up everything for her?? omg... and Dan? he is completely different in this series? he was the funny loveable guy last season, the only enjoyable scenes to watch. Gossip girl was so good the first 3 seasons because the characters actually stayed as their characters but just matured now its like they all have bi polar. and they were all friends now everyone just hates each other...? I want this season to be good but so far its not looking good.
Rank: Regular Character
October 25th, 2012 2:54 AM
My thoughts on this episode which was definitively better than last week but still very average:
1. Dan's a total douche and I am sooooooooo hoping Serena does not marry him. EVER!
2. Sage is a little skank, but not bitchy enough for me, here's to hoping S&B unite to take her down but so that S does not loose her man in the process.
3. Nate is such a cute labrador
4. Chuck really does wear too much purple...and what's up with the hipster hair-style?
5. What a mis-use of Alexa Chung
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7 Bills
This guy could be the biggest challenge ever posed to the surgeons of Seattle Grace slash Mercy West. In a literal sense if nothing else.
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85 Comments
Why is this person reviewing the show if he hates it so much? I thought this was the best episode of the season. I thought the Susan storyline was stupid, but I liked everyone else’s story. How can Paul be back at his house? Didn’t Betty move into his house? I also think Betty needs to interact more with the other housewives. And I liked that the other housewives are finally starting to hang out again. Edie was also very funny this episode.
Yeah, c’mon EdHill–this ain’t supposed to be DALLAS. You gotta think of it more like Dallas on crack. Or poppers. Or maybe ‘shrooms. Or doin’ all three at camp, emphasis on CAMP.
Loved the recap EdHill – don’t even need to watch the show! It seems the worst shows get the best recaps.
Tammy: TvGasm is all about the snark not the show so go on over to abc and read THEIR recap of this crap if you don’t like it. Bobbie: This show ain’t ‘camp’. This is Bad TV trying to be good TV, where camp at least has at least one redeeming quality which I cannot seem to pinpoint right this second.
TVGasm really needs to find someone else to recap Desperate Housewives. I love the sarcasm on this blog, but I’d rather the recapper likes the show being summarized. Fire EdHill (for this show, at least). Desperate Housewives is one of my top 5 Must See shows.
Oh, and the OC sucks. Have meant to mention that here for months. 90210 wannabe.
I totally agree with Ed. I liked housewives last year….but it’s almost unbearable to watch this season. Everything that he pointed out was right on.
Susan is by far the stupidest character ever created, and it hurts to watch her scenes…
Mike is a hypocrate.
I could care less about the dude in the basement…
The whole new lawyer thing is awful…
The only thing I kind of liked was Felicity Huffman. She’s the only thing that brings a touch of cred to this show….Don’t get me wrong…I grew up on 90210 and Melrose Place….so if anyone can truly appreciate a good night time soap it’s me….but Desperate Housewives needs to make up its’ mind. Is it a serious show that is emmy worthy, or is it just so bad it’s good?
At this point it’s neither to me.
Housewives Schmousewives. Don’t dare fire EdHill. I adore him. Now if I could just get some love for Arrested Development, the best half hour on television.
I agree, the show sucks this season. The first season’s tone was right on.
Who cares about the homicidal ‘tard in the basement? Who cares if Mike gets Zack to act like his son?
Too bad the show wasn’t reviewed by a homo because then he’d know that the scene in the cemetary was completely lifted from Steel Magnolias. TO THE T!!!
I hope they get it together otherwise the widespread backlash is on it’s way! Friends didn’t have a backlash until season 3. Get it together DH!!!
I thought at least Julia Sweeney’s consulting producer credit would bring some reality to the show…what has she been doing over there?
I don’t watch this show, but I do miss my PS2 that you’re playing all that Burnout2 on (though, y’know if I had had it last weekend, it would have been ruined with my flooded basement. So yeah, go get that Vertical Takedown or whatever.)
Anyway, I’m sure this joke was made somewhere along the line, but if not, here goes… Wouldn’t it have been funny if that blond lady’s “missing” twins were locked in the black lady’s basement? (I read the comments to all the shows, so I know that sorta makes sense… right?)
As for “firing” EdHill… god no! Then I may be asked to fill in on this horrible show! Ugh.
Nice review Mr. EdHIll. All those who are complaining are obviously overweight women who get off on shitty TV like this. Someone who see’s it shitness makes it more enjoyable for the intelligent TVgasm fan. Obviously there are a couple in these comment section that don’t fit that bill.
Shitness = my new favorite word. Mad shout outs to The Svan.
sg-dub– i’d back you up with your reference, but I must confess that I stopped watching D.H in the middle of season one, so I have no idea what “blonde” you are talking about..wish I could help you out there.
But I do agree with EdHill-the storylines in Desperate Housewives are as unbelievable as seeing an “ethnic” person on Laguna Beach
Oh, and KUDOS to Lynette for sluttin’ it up! someone had to take Gabrielle’s place
Ed – less about your exploits in the bed please. Let’s just stick to the facts.
Just a randon factoid…the guy who plays Carlos’ new laywer is Natalie Maines (Dixie Chicks) husband. I’m full of useless information.
Ed- Your recaps are great. don’t listen to the haters. The show is quickly going downhill this season but your recaps are worth sticking around.
You should have gotten screencaps of Bree freaking out. I’d like to see Desperate Housewives Deathmatch. Marcia v. Eva–who will win?
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again…..too much going on and not enough happening.
The Susan storyline (whatever it was supposed to be)was just a waste of time but at least it was classic Bree lst night.
Ed- why did you take the time to type your recap if you still had a willing woman in your bed? I’m sure you could have found a way to “wake” her. You must like the show a little bit then.
Perhaps Mr. Hill is a bit older and therefore needs a bit more, ahem, “recovery time”.
Damn TVGasm … I guess the price you pay for your site’s increasing popularity is the also increasing number of really friggin’ touchy people reading it. Reading comments used to be as fun as reading the recaps — now I just find myself rolling my eyes at the uber-fanatical devotees of political correctness and the anti-snarks. But I still loves me the ‘gasm.
well this episode blowed. umm is that the right tense, is blew or blowed? anyway, it sucked and blowed!
there are way too many story lines going on. they aren’t really concentrating on one storey line so it sometimes feels like your running around in circles, watching this show. i loved this show last season, but i’m just about ready to give up on it and just stick to grey’s anatomy.
what was up with Lynette? she can’t say no to her new boss because she’ll get fired…….ooooohhh joley fisher and her boobs are sooo scary.
This season is so terrible, I have been bored from the season premiere. I thought I was the only one, now I see I am not. EdHill should not be replaced, he gets it!!!
Did anyone notice Bree’s weird neck muscles when she was freaking out at Rex’s gravesite? Yuck.
Brian (#16) I absolutely agree! I absolutely loved the “Rex” spinoff-now that is a TVgasm!
i think the correct term is blew. To be honest tvgasm is great. Im in england and this ste saves me wondering what the hell is going on in the states. Lets face it many shows have great first seasons and lose their luster. Im worried about prison break, i want a second season. Also i dont know how the show manages to be good even though its executive produced by brett ratner. Any man that dates serena williams has no taste.
Right on TexasK (#19)! …And EdHill ROCKS!
Everyone just sit back and relax. Just because he is reviewing the show, doesn’t mean he has to like it. If you haven’t noticed, a lot of the writers don’t like the shows that they review, and its sooo much better when they don’t….besides Desperate Housewives is sooooooooooo lame. Now, could we get an Arrested Development recap por favor?
Let’s clarify–I’m no hater! I laughed all through this recap, as I tend to do through most of what we all come here for. Gad, I find great recharging in a laugh, don’t you? And that’s why I watch DH in the first place…Here’s my Sunday night: Alternately laughing and moaning at America’s Funniest Videos, indulging in some prurient sobbing at Extreme Makeover Home edition, capped off with flat out roaring at the antics of those silly twits on Wisteria Lane–O! The catharsis! Then I tuck me into beddy-bye all primed up for another week in the real world. that would be this 3-D one, not the one on MTV…Give it a shot–try LAUGHING at DH–or groaning in delight at its paptent idiocy, then stoke up on more much needed hilarity here at TVgasm all week long. Good stuff. On anyone’s watch.
Forgive the typos–I am woring in a dark classroom whilst my little darlings watch THE BIRDS–and I went to the Woddward and Bernstein School of Typing.
EdHill sucks, i vote SG-Dub for class president!
geeze, stop whining all you cranky girls and just be happy EdHill actually posted something funny for us to read while BORED TO DEATH at the office!
i cant stand the whole bree-george-andrew storyline. now andrew is off to attitude camp, and creepy george is around. what i also want to know is how they intend to remove rex’s name from the tombstone as it was a stone for two people and rex’s name is currently on it. but i’m sure we’ll never see that point closed either.
I LOVE EDHILL!!!
I was so excited for this recap because I thought this episode was the best one of the season. Finally I wasn’t disappointed on Sunday. The recap was funny, but not as funny as last week, which had me instant messaging the link all over the office (j/k… kinda). Maybe if you weren’t distracted it would have had more zinging one-liners with random obscure references (Andy Dufresne, still laughing about that one…).
I know I am not kidding anyone, see ya’ all next week.
Last season, there was a central mystery plotline (the whole Mary Alice-Zach-Deirdre thing) to tie the show and all of the characters together. This season, they have failed to establish a central common thread. I think they’re trying to with the killer in basement story, but that’s not linked to all of the main characters. It becomes a show focused on the disjointed plotlines of each woman instead of a show with a central story from which the other individual stories branch out.
I agree that this show makes less and less sense. I don’t know why Lynette is having so much trouble with this job when the whole thing that prompted her to go back to work was that someone in the industry wanted to give her, not her husband, a job. I did enjoy the freakout at the gravesite but I think that story is going nowhere. This must be the dumbest police force in town (and Bree has turned her brain off completely).
and ‘slow’ black guy in the basement?!? that is depressing!!
I think the acting is still strong, (with the exception of ‘zany’ susan), but the writers need some coaching from the Lost staff on how to get good mystery.
I stopped watching the show because of that goddamn dead narrator lady. The way she talks make me want to shove spikes in my eyes.
Lynette’s body is unbelievable. When she was dancing on the bar I could have misktaken her for Madonna!
And at least this episode Lynette finally mentioned the twins, however, still no sight of them.
I love EDIE!!! I really didnt like her at first because all she did was try to be a bitch. But this episode really started to show some of her potential. She is hilarious, to the point and will tell you like it is. She can be a bit BOLD (for lack of a better word) but I LIKE IT!!!
HOw can ike expect Susan to accept Zach? He is a raving lunatic!!!!
I ment mike not ike
I don’t know why, but the show sucks this season. I read the recaps because they’re funnier than the show.
I know that it’s so un-”PC” to be “PC” these days but, Tony B!, you need to back up with the ‘tard and homo references. It’s not cute, it’s not funny, and you sound like an ass. And the same goes for you, Svan. “Overweight women” across America thank you for shutting up.
Did anyone else notice that Lynnette was dancing to “Boogie Shoes” just like she did in Sports Night? Sorry, just thought I’d point it out. . .
#35 – M
Maybe, but at least Madonna has some tits… Lynette is flat as a board!! Geez I never noticed until then.
~Intrepid
ANOTHER WRITER INCONSISTENCY
So Lynette can’t take off work for her son’s first day of school or anything related to her family, but when Bree needs to REbury her husband Lynette takes the morning off (Bree said it would be Friday morning)?!?!
Also, Rex would have smelled incredibly bad by now, no one seems to notice.
Hes probably been in the freezer, so at least he is cold….CHances are someone woul dbe able to take off work for a funeral rather that a first day of school, I think thats more realistic with Jobs these days. Of course mine is very flexible, but obviously Nina is a BIG C-U-N-T. I heard she is going to get pregnant and Lynette will get her job…
I agree- while the recapper might be good and he might be right- why is he recapping if he doesnt even like the show- Ill stick to televisionwithoutpity.com ‘s reviews. They have the sarcasm and they are just as fair. This guy needs to go.
EdHill – don’t worry – you may suck but not as much as JUnit’s self important ANTM recaps. What’s worse – a shitty show with a shitty recap or an awesome show recapped by someone who truly believes that he is an LA and modeling expert..
Sorry about the duplicate posts, stupid computer’s fault.
EdHill sucks! The reason why B-side’s recaps are so good is that he actually enjoys the shows. B-Side should defect and just get his own site.
^though i , too , enjoy reading b-side’s laugna commentaries, i don’t think anything should be taken away from the other writers on the site. they are all very funny and, honestly, those of you who are bitching and moaning about the recaps could NOT do any better of a job with the crappy shows that these poor bloggers have to sit through: apprentice, martha stewart? Making the band? ANTM? thanks, but i’d rather drill a hole in my head than watch that garbage for more than 5 minutes. if you get so pissy about reading edhill’s “biased” recaps, then go on another website and read its Desperate Housevives recap. the less complainers on this site, the better.
nice job, edhill..the video game looks amazing
NYGirl sucks too.
CM,
Put down the doughnut and try and think clearly. Maybe then you can understand The Svan.
judging by these comments, seriously, i didnt realize the primary demographic of the people who post was MIDDLE SCHOOL GIRLS.
television without pity? haha, yes, i have three hours to read a recap on a 40minute show (without commercials).
these people are ALL funny and again i cannot stress enough that you should at least be thankful these tards are posting something witty and humorous for us to read! its not like you are paying to read the site!
cappy- i’m sorry, did i offend you?
nah, i don’t think i directed anything towards you. why don’t you just let me have my opinions, and i’ll let you have yours.
god, why does it seem like this site is flooding with people who take themselves and their crappy shows WAY too seriously? lighten up
I would like to say that I hope EdHill is actually drunk next time he recaps Desperate Housewives. I’m sorry it took people so long to get on the bandwagon realizing this show sucks. Oh how the world will implode when they come to that realization with Laguna.
realityfan – did I hit your dog or leave you a bad tip or something? Did I go to your house and not courtesy flush? Did I leave your sister at the altar or break up with her on a post-it note? Seriously how did I get dragged into this discussion.
I hope whoever is in charge at TVgasm doesn’t take seriously the requests about getting another recapper who “likes” the show
Don’t worry, we usually just make fun of the people who whine while we’re getting drunk with our friends.
Ed Hill rocketh. The dude had me busting up with his Burnout recap. Well, done sir. Well done indeed.
And to all the complainers… GOOD DAY, SIR!
Holy Shit! Can I get a round of Quaaludes up in this mutha? I’m about to guest blog all yer asses. All these writers are great and everyone can have a bad day, (except for B-Side. I’m in room 706, the key’s under the mat). EdHill was always one of my favorite commentors and I was dee-lighted that he blogged a crappy show that I don’t watch. For all the haters, I’m not naming any names but their initials are Yoko Ono, take the afforementioned Lude, have a glass of wine, and chill the fuck out. Oh what the hell. Take the whole bottle. And to think, I quit waxing intellectual on progressive education, politics, organic gardening and the like for this. What can I say, I truly am a junkie always itching for that next TVGasm.
If you’re looking for a great nighttime soap, with sex, humor and a great mystery, check out “Pasadena” on the Soap Network on Saturday nights. This show was created by Mike White, aired for 3 episodes on Fox like 4 years ago, and now is finally showing in its whole run. Best scenes so far have included the housekeeper barfing on the teenage girl while serving breakfast, the mom taking a baseball bat to the windshield of her husband’s mistress’s Audi, and the misfit brother waking up in bed with a hardbody homosexual after a night bingeing on coke. Can we get someone to recap this show please???
Wait a minute…I thought this website only recapped crappy shows and all reality shows. You know, the ones with a high snark value? But then I realized that my taste in shows must be what sucks. I LOVE Prison Break and 24! And those are bothed recapped here.
Must.Find.Inhaler…Can’t.Breathe…
Ugh half of the complaints you have regarding continuity have been addressed in previous episodes. We’ve known since the first half of the first season that Lynette was in advertising before she became a stay-at-home mom. If you can’t pay attention, don’t recap this shit okay? Thanks.
i enjoyed your recap even if you dont like the show and i also wanted to know if you are the same edhill that commented on last weeks real world episode. if so i wanted to thank you for making me laugh so hard at the say anything reference you made “joe lies. joe lies when he cries.” youre hilarious
Entertainment Weekly has an article enititled “What’s wrong with Desperate Housewives?” So it’s not just us.
All this talk about Lynette has reminded me of a plot point that was never resolved: remember when her husband had to travel for his job and he had some major secret that was never revealed? What he hell was it?!
What’s with the complaining people. It’s one person’s opinion. You don’t like it.. tough shit.
Everything isn’t going to be kittens and puppies.
Anyways.. I still love the show but your recaps always entertain me!
Keep it up!
Keep on keeping on EdHill. I aprreciate sarcasm, and I like reading the recaps.
I ‘aprreciate’ the sarcasm too. Im sure Spedhill will have some interesting comments on all this banter in his next rant about dh’s. Can’t wait!
Oh and Im glad we dont have to pay for it. Cause noone would pay for it. There are so many recapping sites (albeit this is my favorite) Im not a TVgasm hater just a not a fan of spedhill.
But I love the Real world recaps! BEST EVER!
Britt –
Glad you can appreciate sarcasm. Cause maybe you’ll “get” this:
Gee, I wish YOU recapped DH somewhere, I mean, with your overuse of your one joke in just 6 short sentences, I’m sure it would be oh-so hilarious.
Thanks for reading!
EdHill rocks!! I love how people are so critical. Don’t read the damn thing then. Go to the ABC site and get the real recap.
You are ‘oh so’ welcome! Geez- I love how the peeps on this site can dish out all this ish and can’t take a little critism.
SPEDHILL- see I used it 3 times! B-SIDE FOR PRESIDENT! Ha. I LOVE IT.
all this back and forth and not one comment on my “steaming hot sex-starved vagina” ? (the joke that is)
That was comic GOLD people.
Even my mom said so.
I think EdHill is the bestest.
What is up with the ubercritical tvgasm posters all of a sudden? Edhill is attacked for questioning season 2 of DH, something that just about everyone is doing, and over at the Veronica Mars recap, people are throwing crazed hissy fits because a recapper dares to not like a character. Good grief.
EdHill, I love you. I’ll show YOU a “steaming hot sex-starved vagina”. Oh yeah, and DH sucks balls.
I was only critical of your lack of hitting it the next morning EdHill. I’m sure you’ll try “harder” next time.
Ali (#42) — Rex was embalmed.
Britt (#44) — yeah, the TWOP recaps are fantastic, esp in tone, but I can’t wait till Sat.
Mad props to Spedhill for the Lucille Ball refs — too funny!
More rawr comments from The Svan!!! Yeah.
EdHill is dreamy.
I’d have a drink with any of the TVGasm guys. Of course, they’d be paying.
I wonder if its just 3 or 4 people who post under different names?
PS DONNA MARTIN GRADUATES- is the best SN ever!!! That is my fav 90210 episode
Hey, thanks tbone!
During the late eighties, when I worked backstage on sucky Phantom of the Opera, we’d randomly yell it out over the cans (headsets) and never fail to fall down laughing.
Ya know, tbone, you might be onto something…
Compare comment #48 with #55
Lisa (#63) “Everything isn’t going to be kittens and puppies.”
WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?!?!!?!?!!?!?!?!?!!?
The DH recaps are excellent and funny, and point out the incredible decline of this show from last season. However, I do wish the writer would spend less time on his personal schtick. Sure, showing a little of your personality is fine, but gawd, I feel like I live with this guy.
DRAMA!
Holy crap people..it’s just a re-cap.
I gave up on this moronic excuse for entertainment last week and by the looks of things, so have alot of the rest of you.
The fact the re-capper enjoys playstation breaks more than the mindless drivel on the tube only enhances the re-cap.
The ‘gasm isn’t the place for blind faith in programs that are just asking for disdain.
Once a show has its cast proudly posing on the covers of EVERY entertainment rag in America they are REQUIRED to maintain at least some credible interest.
This site is all about laughing at the absurdity. It’s fun, seriously.
Flaming the esteemed bloggers of this site is kinda like Carl Rove writing hate mail to Al Franken. Ya know..pathetic?
Ali (#42) “ANOTHER WRITER INCONSISTENCY . . . Bree said it would be Friday morning.”
Even more inconsistency – The burial was shown after Lynette was out at the bar on Friday night.
I think the show has lost what little held it together last year – the women together – and the sex – how about bringing back the hot shirtless guys!
So, Betty wore gloves when she was writing the letter (to keep the DNA and stuff off, I guess). But then, she and Matthew handled the letter sans gloves during their argument. So much for needing the gloves, Betty.
ha!
P.S. And whose house is Paul in, anyway? Does it belong to Felisha Tilman, who just went out of town? Enquiring minds are scratching their heads!
There is no political agenda here. This is for FUN people. Whether I liked the show or not, the review of it has me laughing outloud. Edhill, you and all the other snarkers rock. I shit you not, I laugh out loud at every review.
This is without a doubt the best “Desperate” recap on the web. Hysterically funny with dead-on observations and critique. One problem: the recaps should be posted sooner. It’s Wednesday now, and STILL no review of this past Sunday’s episode?
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FEMA, FCC Adopt Mobile Wireless EAS Standards
12/8/2009
Two federal agencies have established a mobile communications emergency public warning technology standard. The Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Federal Communications Commission announced the adoption of design specifications for a gateway interface enabling wireless carriers to provide emergency alerts via cell phones and mobile devices.
The intended Commercial Mobile Alert System--CMAS--project, part of the Integrated Public Alert and Warning System, intends to provide the President of the United States a means by which to notify Americans of national emergencies. The system would also be available for Amber alerts and regional warnings in the form of 90-character text messages.
Today’s announcement also marks the beginning of the 28-month period, mandated by the FCC in August 2008, for commercial mobile service providers who have elected to participate in the CMAS design specs to develop, test and deploy the system and deliver mobile alerts to the public by 2012. Wireless carriers participating in the CMAS will relay authorized text-based alerts to subscribers, and vibration-cadence and/or audio signals for people with disabilities.
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Jane Fonda Tell Why She Wants to Star in a Cable Series AP
Jane Fonda, one of America's most acclaimed actresses--she's won two Oscars and an Emmy (the latter for the miniseries "The Dollhouse" on ABC back in 1984)--wants to star in a TV series on cable, reports the Associated Press.
Fonda, 72, is playing her cards close to her chest, not revealing exactly what she wants to do, other than she wants to do it on cable.
She told the AP, "I have a sort of a vision of what it could be and that's all that I'll say. I think the best, edgiest writing is now on cable television. It's pretty exciting."
Debi
Jane won an Emmy for The Dollmaker not The Dollhouse. She was in a movie The Doll's House in 1973.
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Amazing freakin blog here. I almost cried while reading it!
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The Associate Director, Internal Communications, is responsible for leading employee-driven communications strategy and execution by facilitating, promoting, and ensuring mindful engagement of employees, continued enhancement of company culture, and working towards optimal, interactive, employee communications in line with business goals.
Responsibilities
As part of the Corporate Communications team, the Associate Director, Internal Communications will lead employee communications strategy and implementation including enhancing awareness, understanding of and engagement in achieving Ironwood's company goals.
Oversee and/or draft content, originate ideas, and actualize plans in support of strategic goals for employee communications.
Identify ways to help build a communications culture where information flows well across the organization, avoiding silos both functional and geographical; where all employees feel “in the know” about long and short-term goals as well as current events and updates.
Partner with functional leadership and teams to understand and address communications opportunities to achieve goals.
Work closely with HR team to support organizational goals related to development of people, teams and culture.
Maximize live, written and personal communications as well as company's social Intranet to connect with employees. The Associate Director, Internal Communications, works closely on an ongoing basis with Employee Community Manager.
Seek out employee stories to inspire and generate dynamic, relevant and impactful content on an ongoing basis; encourage contribution from employees across the organization.
Lead companywide communications meetings from goals, strategy to execution; coordinating with planning team, gaining input from internal stakeholders.
Ensure internal communications goals, initiatives and output are developed collaboratively and include feedback from a variety of employees in the organization; utilizing employee advisory group and employee network for insights and ideas on an ongoing basis.
Monitor and measure effectiveness, including obtaining meaningful employee feedback, of internal communications initiatives, vehicles and content on a regular basis; address and change course as necessary.
Develop innovative forums for employee communications that strengthen participation and community across geographies, business units, and functions.
Draft and/or edit internal messages, providing context, clarity, consistency and appropriate tone with linkages to the company's business goals.
Manage and keep multiple stakeholders at all levels informed.
Work closely with the overall Corporate Communications team, including external and investor relations as well as other colleagues to ensure internal and external messages are aligned.
Engage employees in Ironwood community by sharing information and updates on employee events, social groups and working teams.
Requirements
5+ years' internal communications experience in biotech, pharmaceuticals or related field: a bachelor's degree in a communications-related discipline and/or equivalent work experience in Marketing and Internal Communications.
Strong track record of delivering impactful internal communications, including message development, communications planning and tailoring/targeting communications for different platforms and audiences.
Experience developing strategic programs and managing events.
Excellent writing, editing and proofreading skills, with strong attention to detail.
Effective communications planning skills and the ability to work to prioritize and move forward multiple deliverables at the same time.
Ability to work with and bring together different groups, teams, and projects.
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Port Washington, N.Y. — Karl Werner has been named U.S. technology president for The NPD Group, the global information company.
Werner leads the
Buena Park, Calif. — Yamaha veteran Bob Goedken has been promoted to general manager of the A/V division of Yamaha Corp. of America (YCA), reporting directly
Ridgeland, Miss. — Cowboy Maloney’s Electric City is opening a 12th location in a former Viking Cooking School here.
The
Wayne, N.J. — Toys“R”Us has withdrawn its two-year-old initial public offering (IPO) amid lower sales and profits for the fourth quarter and full
Wayne, N.J. — Electronics Expo has filed for Chapter 11 protection yesterday.
TWICE has confirmed the filing with the chain’s president/CEO, Leon
Chester Springs, Pa. -- Azione Unlimited, the buying group for integrators and custom retailers, announced a partnership with Simply Reliable, a supplier of
The Woodlands, Texas - Conn’s, announced that it completed an expansion of its asset-based loan facility with a syndicate of banks.
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Scottsdale, Ariz. — Ingram Micro’s consumer electronics division (IMCE) has announced a distribution agreement with Freestyle USA, a manufacturer of
Suwanee, Ga. — Longtime industry veteran Jonathan Frank, formerly Audiovox assistant mobile electronics marketing VP, has been named marketing VP of Hisense
New York City – High-end audio retailer Stereo Exchange will hold its annual Spring).
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Melissa Rosenberg, screenwriter for Twilight, New Moon & Eclipse, voiced her pick for the role of Riley in Eclipse:
(Pic via 4tnz's Channing as a Vampire? Hot)
Also, she justifies More Rob in New Moon:Also, she justifies More Rob in New Moon:
.”Melissa, who has not yet been hired to pen Breaking Dawn's screenplay, dishes on how the more gory scenes in Breaking Dawn will likely be toned-down:
.”Read the rest on E!Online.
Thanks, Phia and Kim!
Channing Tatum is my *VERY* fave eye candy man in all of the entire world - i would LOVE if he became a part of this movie because then he could be in VanCity :) also, he's dayum hot and would just add to the eye-candy drool-worthiness of the movie mmmm
Hmm. Yes I agree. He would be great as Riley. He looks very much like what I envisioned when I read the book.
he looks to old to me. I always pictured Riley way way different!
Ooo I love this guy! Ever since I saw Step Up. (Yes I saw that movie AND I loved it)
He would make a great Riley.
YUM!
Hmmm, didn't Summit release 'Step Up?'
And aren't they getting ready to release Step Up XXVIII this fall?
Doesn't Melissa write scripts for Summit movies?
Hmmmm . . .
Okay, Im going to sound off here, so excuse my insanity.
First off, I think they should replace Melissa as screen writer. I loved Twilight, dont get me wrong, but her adaptation was so poorly thought out. She added non characters like Waylon the drunk and a waitress with a purple blouse instead of saving screne time for the MEADOW!!!!! WHAT THE FUDGE,,ROSENBURG?!
Now she's casting dudes for Eclipse? Riley is such a non important character. Why is she focusing on him?
And now my concerns fo BD. I swear if she messes with the honeymoon scene, or the birth, or even their first night together as vampires, I will personally shove flaming dog poo on her door step and cackle madly!
Okay...calming down, breathing, taking a chillpill...or two. Does anyone else agree that she seems to focus on the unimportant moments rather then focusing on the story itself? UGH!
I agree with Kerri, IF Breaking Dawn is made into a film (This is a BIG IF, because Stephenie has stated in interviews that she would be hesitant to release the rights, given that CGI isn't up to par to her standards for how she would want Reneesme to appear alert and understanding, even as a young child... so unless a digital effects company can come up with an idea that satisfies that requirement, no BD.) they need to keep it true to the book- including the birth scene. It's one of my favourite parts of the whole series, such a pivitol moment - Bella's ultimate wish is coming true, but it's in such a horrible manner that the true extreme needs to be accurately portrayed.
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5. Memories
Rating 5/5 Word Count 428 Review this Chapter
Recap:
My eyes flashed to my mothers face, and the growl finally slowed and stopped, as I watched her wide eyes slowly adjust into a motherly look of disapproval.
“Sorry, mom.” I whispered, but continued to glare at Edward. “He made me.”
Chapter 4:
I sighed as I stepped through the door of Edward Cullen’s penthouse suite.
The sight of it took my breath away. The drapes were a vibrant shade of gold, and the carpet was so white that I felt blinded. The couches were beige leather.
I wouldn’t sit though. If I sat it would give him the impression that I was growing accustomed to his company and although I was… he could know that.
I stood in the corner the glare momentarily wiped from my face.
He looked at mom.
“Bella?” He asked vigilant, and weary.
She only nodded as if to confirm her actuality.
“I didn’t want to hurt you.” He whispered.
“Bullshit.” I muttered under my breath glaring at him again.
Mother shot me a look and I shrugged.
“I know.” She answered him in a self assured and understanding tone. I felt proud of her that she was able to keep her cool around him.
“I didn’t want you to leave.”
“Bullshit.”
The look.
Shrug.
“Yes you did.”
“I didn’t want…”
“Edward shut up.” I mumbled. “You are not helping your situation at all.”
My mother sat down on the plush couch and Edward sat at the other end.
So much for my plan not to sit, I made my way over and planted myself on the middle seat of the couch in between him and mom.
When I took a moment to look at him I found his eyes trained over my right shoulder at my mother… or more specifically her crimson stained cheeks from the tears shed before Alice came.
His hand reached up around my shoulder to touch her cheek.
I slapped his hand away hissing, and glaring.
Mom chuckled behind me, and leaned up to kiss my cheek. I felt her cool breath on my ear as she whispered. “Relax, kitten.”
I smiled slightly. She always used to call me kitten when I was younger because I would purr whenever I was happy.
Edward’s eyes soften when he saw my face slowly loosen.
His eyes flew back to my mom.
“You were crying.”
“Yes.” She whispered.
“Did I…?” He left the question hanging in the air.
“No”
“No… so there is nothing?”
“Not anymore.”
“Why cry, then?”
“Memories.”
“Oh.” An awkward silence filled the room, but my eyes stayed on his face… that is until I heard a shower turn off and the bedroom door open to show a beautiful vampire in a towel.
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At The End
Summary:
At the end of his life, Jacob Black reflects on what he has lost and gained.
Notes:
1. Chapter 1
Rating 5/5 Word Count 1326 Review this Chapter
Jacob Black reclined on his couch reflecting on a life that had been anything but normal, considering all of the twists and turns and surprises life had offered before leaving him, finally, at this point -- his impending death. In his youth, in the first flush of his discovery that mythical creatures did indeed exist and that he was one of them, this place, the wait for death, had been the farthest thing from his mind. All teenage boys are fairly sure they are immortal. As part of a pack of young werewolves, he had been indestructible, immortal, invincible. All of that had, in time, come to be a burden as well.
He recalled his childhood as a vague series of events both comforting and unsure, like all adults most likely did about a time they both yearned for and were glad to be done with. Life, though, had shifted into high gear when he'd met Bella again that day at First Beach. He had been attracted to girls before, of course, but he'd never been so alert to the presence of one girl. They had met while children, but she had just been a girl, and a boring one at that. But on that day, he found himself aware of every single thing about her. The color of her eyes, the smooth curve of her neck, her hand gestures, the way her voice always gave away how she felt... Bella consumed him. Simply put, from that moment, he had belonged to her and waited for her to realize it.
Later, after all of the drama had died down and life had dragged on without Bella, he wondered if life would have been any different if he had already changed on the day he met her. Would he have been able to imprint, and if so would that have changed anything? If he was honest with himself, he suspected not. She had already met Edward. She had been a lost cause from the start, and he had simply been to blind, too stubborn, too self destructive to realize it. Even when she had given in to the inevitable and admitted her feelings about Jacob, it had been with qualifiers, not the rapturous, ecstatic declaration of love he'd imagined in his daydreams. And she had been able to go from kissing him with a passion that had shaken him to his very bones to begging Edward to make her forget her own name. He could still hear it. Even now, it hurt.
After Bella's wedding, he'd begun what he now looked back on as his "Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll" phase. He had found no more real comfort or distraction during that time than Bella once had in riding motorcycles and cliff diving. Being fairly indestructible meant that he wouldn't be able to simply carouse himself to death. After a few years of the bitterness of another night of drinking and meaningless sex with someone who was never her, never right, he was done. He went back to school and decided to return home, to take up the responsibility he'd left behind. It hurt to come back, but it hurt less than staying away.
He ended up teaching auto shop classes at the Quileute school. He ran with the pack again, though with the Cullens gone, their encounters with enemies were limited to a few stray and quickly disposed of traveling vampires. That was always mildly vengeful fun for him.
His friends had all married and found happiness in their family duties. Billy had passed shortly after his return, and though he deeply regretted leaving him for so long, he knew Billy had understood. Jacob resigned himself to his simple, routine life until the first day of school two years after his return. He heard a new voice in the hall, remembered they were getting a new language arts teacher and turned around to see what she was like and that was all it took. He would never, ever have expected it to happen. She wasn't anything like Bella and he was oddly grateful for that. Imprinting was strange. It wasn't anything like what he'd felt for Bella. That had been ache and fire and wind and desire so strong it made his mind spin. But this -- it truly did mean just being what she needed. He would have done anything, even leave her completely alone if it would have made her happy.
In the end, he didn't have to leave her alone. She was a widow, who had lost her husband and two children in a car crash. She was frank about her past and he was open about his, and he knew that she could see in his eyes the same things she saw in his: pain for the past, and low expectations for the future. They had needed each other more desperately than either had been aware of. Both had been at sea for so long and now, in each other, they'd found solid land again. They had married quickly and it had lasted.
Their relationship would have been difficult to explain to others. It wasn't just the two of them. Jacob knew that a part of him, even though it became less and less of an ache every year, would always belong to Bella. He would always wonder "what if..." and wish that it could have happened the way he had wanted it to. He would always smart at the loss of her to Edward. His wife would always know that if it weren't for that one fatal trip, she would be living a very different life which wouldn't have involved him and she would have been happy in it. Jacob knew she loved him, but her husband and children were always there, on the periphery. On holidays and anniversaries of things in her first life, she would be vacant and he knew she was keeping faith with the things and people she had lost. He waited for her to come back to him, but he couldn't resent her absences. He knew that, at times, she had to share him as well.
Even with no children of their own, since she couldn't help but feel that having more would be 'replacing' those she'd lost and he could never quite bring himself to picture anyone but Bella as the mother of his children, they had a crowed home. Four ghosts, constantly lurking, but after so many years becoming friends rather than something to be feared, their students, the pack... it was a noisy, cozy, full life. They had been happy, content, passionate, and comfortable. It had been more perfect than he could ever have imagined. But she had slowly gone grey and his muscles had softened with age. Their time, which he would have been content to have last forever, was limited. She had died just a month ago and with her death, he knew he did not have long left.
In those first years away from Bella, he had been obsessed by fantasies of her returning at his death to offer to change him, to make him immortal like her. He had alternated between self-righteous revulsion towards it and desperate longing for just one more chance with her. Now, though, he knew that if he did see her again, he would not be tempted. It would have been nice to see and touch her one more time, but he knew that the Bella in his mind was more real that whatever she was now. She had become to him the most important of a series of memories from his youth, but he was no longer her captive. Instead, he would go to join his ghosts: his father, his mother, his wife... and embrace his mortality. How comforting, at the end of it all, to be free.
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Smith made 11 of 16 shots, including 5 of 6 3-pointers, for USF, which avenged a 78-75 loss on Jan. 30 to the Cardinals.
Inga Orekhova added 13 points and Akila McDonald pulled down 10 rebounds to help the Bulls build a 43-34 edge on the boards.
USF (18-7, 7-5) led 24-22 at the break and scored the first six points of the second half. Louisville (21-6, 9-4) cut it to 30-27 on an Antonita Slaughter three-point play, but Smith and Orekhova answered with back-to-back jumpers and the Cardinals would get no closer from there.
USF shot 47 percent (25 of 53), including a 60 percent (15 of 25) clip in the second half.
Shoni Schimmel scored 16 for Louisville, which shot a season-low 30 percent (19 of 62)
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As usual Bill Smith procrastinated and fantasied about trading Span for relievers before he finial settled on trading Delmon for another future reliever. Once he got that out of the way he could focus on signing the top three picks which he did in the nick of time Levi Michael Travis Harrison Hudson Boyd Welcome to the fold Too bad Burdi couldn't be had
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After the vote, here's how it all adds upElections are all about the numbers — how many individual voters, how many electoral votes, which party has enough members elected to the House and Senate to have a majority. Everything is counted. Here is just a sample of some of the numbers from the most recent election.
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Ferrari, a senior majoring in public relations, is the president of Associated Student Government. As the top undergraduate leader on campus, she coordinates student-led initiatives, performs executive functions for ASG, and represents the student body on many boards and committees.
But the petite dynamo says she considers herself “a student first” and does not think she has a native aptitude for leadership.
“I don’t believe that leaders are born,” Ferrari says. “Everyone has a leader inside of them. That’s what I try to do every day, to show that. You’ve got to believe in things to do anything in life, and the No. 1 thing you’ve got to believe in is yourself. Everything you do should be for a reason.”
Even as a child, Ferrari had that belief. Neither her parents nor her grandparents had college educations, but she never doubted that her path would head toward higher education.
“I’m a first-generation college student. I always knew I wanted to get a college degree,” Ferrari says.
Born in Brownsville, Ferrari was raised by her single mother in the small town of Devine.
“It’s your typical very small town: quiet, conservative, not a lot of change,” Ferrari says. “My freshman class at Texas State was larger than my entire hometown.”
A quiet student through most of her childhood in that quiet town, Ferrari did not take on leadership roles until she was diagnosed with a heart condition when she was 17 years old.
“Before that, I would always sit in the back. I wouldn’t speak up to share my opinions,” Ferrari says. But the diagnosis prompted her to consider the mortal nature of her ideas: “I realized that if I wouldn’t let my voice be heard, no one was going to do it for me.”
That year, Ferrari decided to run for and was elected to a state-level position as an officer in the Future Farmers of America. During an FFA convention at Texas State the summer before her senior year of high school, Ferrari determined the university would be the perfect place to broaden her horizons.
“It really made me feel like I was home,” Ferrari says. “Texas State is the first place I really felt like I belonged.”
As soon as she started her freshman year at Texas State, Ferrari wanted to be involved on campus. She was elected president of her hall council that year and served as Residence Hall Association vice president the following year. As a junior, Ferrari was named RHA President of the Year among all university hall councils in the five-state Southwest Affiliate of the National Association of College and University Residence Halls.
“She has been passionate about Texas State and our students since the first day she stepped on campus,” says Lisa Furler, an advisor and communication studies professor who has worked with Ferrari since her freshman year. “She is one of the few students who understands and practices inclusiveness and honestly desires for each student to find their way and their voice at Texas State.”
Her sophomore year, in addition to becoming vice president of RHA, Ferrari got involved with ASG, PAWS Preview and New Student Orientation. She also joined Student Foundation, an organization that develops student leaders. By the end of that spring semester, Ferrari says she already knew she wanted to run for ASG president.
“I wanted the span of my work to go out to all students, not just those who lived on campus,” Ferrari says, in explaining why she wanted to branch out from her heavy involvement with RHA.
She found a like-minded running mate in Colter Ray, a fellow public relations major active in student government. Ferrari and Ray launched a long campaign based on a platform of building Bobcat pride. Their efforts culminated in a tight election during the spring of Ferrari’s junior year.
“I knew entering the election, if I won, I would be the first woman in a decade to be president,” Ferrari says. “Running for this job was the second-best decision I ever made — the best being to go to Texas State in the first place.”
Ferrari and Ray went to work fine-tuning the agenda of their administration as soon as they took office. Their ambitious plan set forth 23 initiatives, including creation of the Freshmen Council in ASG, increased conservation efforts on campus, starting the Bobcat Bricks program, and promoting the relationship of the university to the City of San Marcos. Their goal was simple: They wanted to improve the experience of every Texas State student.
“One of my favorite sayings is from Gandhi: Be the change you wish to see in the world,” Ferrari says. “Well, I want to be the change I wish to see in our university. I want to make the lives of students here better.”
With that kind of change in mind, Ferrari and Ray adopted the slogan, “It's a new day in Bobcat country.” So far, Ferrari and her administration have implemented 11 of the 23 campus initiatives. One of her administration’s most ambitious projects is the orchestration of a leadership conference for Hays and Caldwell County high schools in February 2011. The conference will reach out to high-achieving high school students and allow Texas State student leaders to gain valuable experience.
“I try to reach out to everyone and empower them,” Ferrari says. “I believe every friend is worth having and every person worth knowing. Everyone can play a role. I recognize that we can do more for our university together than we can apart.”
Ray says Ferrari is true to her own idealism in all she does. “Mel is a tireless worker who is completely devoted to doing anything and everything in her power to make Texas State a better place for current and future Bobcats. “
Ferrari’s faculty advisors recognize her ability to unite other students and move a group to action. They also appreciate her inexhaustible enthusiasm for getting everyone involved.
“I am very proud of Mel and all of her accomplishments and what she is doing for our students and university,” says Ferrari’s academic advisor, Kathleen Harris. “Mel is someone who will always put others before herself. I’m excited about what great things she’ll do with ASG.”
Ferrari has a farsighted vision for her future. As she pursues her own dreams, she is undoubtedly on a mission to inspire others to strive for their personal best.
“In high school my principal once said — and it has stuck with me ever since — ‘The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.’ I think it’s important to always keep that perspective,” Ferrari says. “Finding that challenge is what makes life awesome!”
Ferrari is focused on doing all she can for Texas State students in the time before she graduates in May 2012. She is applying to become a governor-appointed student regent for the 2011-2012 school year. If appointed, she would represent students at all nine universities in The Texas State University System as a non-voting member of the Board of Regents.
Rebekah Ross-Fountain, Ferrari’s philosophy professor, says Ferrari understands the connections between virtue, choice and community. She sees Ferrari as an up-and-coming leader who can “engage in conversations about what it means to be good and what it means to think critically.”
After graduation, Ferrari plans to go straight to graduate school for a master’s degree in strategic communication. While she is confident that she will start her career working in corporate public relations, she has ambition to continue her public service through political office or university administration.
“I’ve thought of going into politics. I think I could help a lot of people by bringing my philosophy to it, to just do what’s right and show that one of the most important things you can do is serve,” Ferrari says. “My dream is to be president of Texas State University or the vice president of Student Affairs. Another dream of mine is to be a U.S. senator for Texas.”
Ferrari’s big dreams are future realities, according to Harry Bowers, the coordinator of advising for the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and one of Ferrari’s academic advisors
“Based upon Mel’s drive, passion and ability to cultivate opportunities, the sky — or maybe more appropriately the stars — are well within Mel’s future endeavors,” says Bowers.
Ferrari recognizes that her drive to catalyze change can be intimidating, but she says, unapologetically, it’s just part of who she has become in her time at Texas State.
“People sometimes tell me, ‘Mel, you’re just so intense.’ But I think being intense can be a good thing. It’s because I care so much about what I do,” Ferrari says. “In my heart, I am a Bobcat forever.”
Major: Mass Communications with an emphasis in Public Relations
Minors: Leadership Studies, Political Communications
Hometown: Devine, Texas
Before ASG: Everyone on campus knows what Ferrari does for a job now. But before she worked in a corner office, she had a more typical job. “I worked at Walgreens for three years.”
Before the camera: “Originally I enrolled as a broadcast journalism major. I wanted to be an anchor on TV, reporting the news every night.”
She said it: “I never want to live in regret. I want to say that I lived a life where I did everything I wanted; I helped others; and I did what was right. There’s a common misconception about legacies. People think a legacy needs to be something big and monumental. But you can leave a legacy every day by being nice to people, picking up a piece of trash, or helping others in really small ways. It doesn’t have to be monumental.”
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First 4 cases of West Nile in Smith County confirmed
By DAYNA WORCHEL
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Health officials confirmed four human cases of West Nile virus in Smith County on Monday -- the first human cases of the year for the county.
These four bring the total to 14 confirmed cases of the West Nile virus in the seven-county area served by the Northeast Texas Public Health District, said George Roberts, chief executive officer of the Northeast Public Health District.
The seven counties served by the area are: Gregg, Smith, Van Zandt, Henderson, Wood, Rains and Anderson.
Local officials also confirmed Thursday that a horse from the Flint-Gresham area tested positive for the virus and exhibited signs of the virus.
According to the Texas Department of State Health Services website, there are 552 confirmed cases of West Nile illness reported statewide so far this year, including 21 related deaths. Most of those cases are from Dallas County.
"We're continuing to monitor the situation, and we encourage everyone to monitor the drainage around their home because mosquitoes breed in standing water," Roberts said.
He added that the period from dusk to dawn is the most active for mosquitoes, so if someone is outdoors during that time, he or she should use insect repellant that contains DEET and wear long-sleeved clothing and pants.
Roberts said a press conference is planned today to give more information to the public about the West Nile virus.
The Texas Department of State Health Services continues to work with Dallas County and other cities to determine the areas to be covered each night by the four available planes spraying for mosquitoes, according to a Friday press release on the department's website.
The next flights will focus on the unsprayed portion of the county north of Interstate 30, including Dallas County cities that cross into Collin County.
WEST NILE VIRUS
Gregg County:
7
Smith County:
4
Van Zandt County:
3
Henderson County:
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Numbers represent human cases only.
Wood, Rains and Anderson counties have no reported cases.
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Rhodes gets ready for Kingsport
Joyce looking for a good week at Kingsport
Ronnie Bassett goes for win number 3
Dillon Bassett ready for Kingsport
Bassett, Jr. Makes the Most of a Tough Day at Richmond
Bassett jr Heads to Richmond for the Hamlin race
Last Lap crash results in 14th place finish for Brandon Jones
16TH-Place finish for Will Gallager
Joyce has part failure at the Rock
Ronnie Bassett, Jr. Comes from 27th to Second
Dillon Bassett Impresses with Fifth Place Qualifying
ESR Development Driver Will Gallaher finishes 21st
Brandon Jones races to 15th at Dillon
Bassetts run 1-2 AT Dillon
Joyce Falls Victim to Early Incident at Dillon
You know the drivers now get to know the team
Engine trouble ends good night for Pressley
Devin Jones Hickory run
Will Gallaher Kicks off the season opener at Hickory
Brandon Jones overcomes late spin
Spark PlugBasset makes most out of opener
Bassett wins Opener at Hickory
George readys for UARA opener
Marcus Ambrose teams ready for UARA opener
Tyler Laing joins Coulter Motorsports
Joyce Prepares for Season Opener
Ambrose expands to 2 teams
Brandon Jones Joins ESR
King to drive for Red Horse Truck team
Poole, Venturini Ready for Daytona -
Cory Joyce Joins Charlotte Checkers
Ben Rhodes: This 14-year-old may not have his license,
Poole Leads Venturini Trio Atop Morning Session
Brandon McReynolds Eyes First Daytona Start
Strong finish for Ben Rhodes
Good points night for Joyce
Tyler Laing No. 16 Myachi Chevy, Newport Speedway
Joyce looking forward to Newport
Ronnie Bassett Returns to Newport
Marcham drives from 22 to 7th
Ambrose teams have 2 top tens
Rhodes part of the Kentucky weekend
Joyce Enjoys Hickory
Dillon Bssett Wins the Banjo Matthews 150
J
oyce returning home to Hickory
Bassett had high hopes at Newport
Marcham ups his best finish
ESR Newport Results
Joyce night ends on a low note
16 Biscayne Chevrolet heads to Newport
Joyce heads to Newport
Ronnie Bassett Jr. Seeks Redemption
Jasper At Anderson
Toyota of Easly results for ESR
Joyce finishes has a strong run at Anderson
Devin Jones finishes 2nd at Anderson
Marcham first top 5 at Anderson
Jasper heads to Anderson
Dillon Bassett lookng to Anderson
Ronnie Bassett Jr looking for Anderson Repeat
Joyce headed to Anderson
Jasper makes gains at Kingsport
Ronnie Bassett Kingsport news
Dillon Bassett Kingsport News
Gallaher caught up in late race accident
Laing has a good run at Kingsport
Joyce leaves Kingsport with late race damage
Swaim ready for Round 2 at Kingsport
MAM Teams Kingsport Bound
Dillon Bassett looks to improve at Kingsport
Brandon Jones going K&N on his off weekend
MAM Readies for Hickory during UARA down time
Clean Race for Joyce at Tri County
Rayhall Rallies for a strong finish
ESR Gallagher
ESR Jones
Ronnie Bassett almost has a repeat
Dillon Bassett Tri County Report
ESR Post Race report
Ronnie Bassett Jr hopes for a repeat at Tri County
Dillon Bassett prepares for Tri County
Joyce has a tough night
Joyce prepares for the City Chevrolet 150
Devin Jones earns First UARA Pole
Ambrose has a solid weekend
Dillon Bassett has a solid third place at Caraway
Ronnie Bassett Jr Caraway report
Marcham goes from dirt back to asphalt
Lain heads to Caraway
Ambrose duo heads to Caraway
Buster Bennett readys for Concord
Joyce is pumped and ready for RE 150 at Caraway
Dillon Bassett hopes for luck change
Ronnie Bassett return to his car at Caraway
Devin Jones engine problems at Newport
Tyler Laing post Newport Report
Dillon Bassett has a tough night at Newport
ESR Newport Report
Strong finish for Ben Rhodes
Good points night for Joyce
Tyler Laing No. 16 Myachi Chevy, Newport Speedway
Devin Jones thrd consecutive top 10
Swaim has a top 10 at the Rock
Rhodes has strong second a the Rock
Ronnie Bassett has a 3rd place at the Rock
Dillon Bassett post Rockingham
Joyce has good car at the Rock
Rhodes has a good run at the Rock
Marcham wins I 44 heads to the Rock
Ronnie Bassett looking for his first win at the Rock
Dillon Bassett Ready for win
Rhodes to run the Denny Hamlin
Dillion Bassett has a top 5 at Hickory
Swaim has a tough ending at Hickory
Davide Amaduzzi makes UARA start
Rhodes has a busy week of racing
Ronnie Bassett Stays on a hot streak
Rhodes comes home 9th at Bristol
Bassett Brothers ready to do battle at Hickory
Rhodes heads to Bristol
Swaim starts out strong
Dillon Bassett has a strong start
Ronnie Bassett takes off where he left off
Rhodes comes home third
Rhodes set for season opener
Ronnie Bassett trying to keep the streak alive
Dillon Basett ready for 2013
Rhodes finishes second in the Battle of the Beach
Gallaher returns to ESR for 2013
has a good
Rhodes readies for Daytona
Joyce awarded UARA Most improved
Falcon racing looking to expand in 2013
Brandon Lynn Joins the UARA in 2013ode
Travis Swaim in the 2012 UARA Champ
Cory Joyce has a strong 7th place finish
Brandon Jones Rockingham report
Will Gallagher ends season on strong note
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Handheld cameras are often preferred over standard video cameras when capturing videos. This is because they offer a certain amount of ease and mobility due to their smaller and lighter size. Building on this concept, a designer, Christopher Terella has come up with the cool idea of an ‘ultimate action cam.’
The camera is being called ‘E-Clips video camera’ and is termed an action cam simply because its design makes it very easy to carry about, not only in your hand but also when you are on the go. For instance, you can easily hitch up the camera to your bike if you wish to capture a video while biking.
The camera comes with a digital wristband which provides you with ‘wireless recording options.’ This essentially refers to the bluetooth remote that is embedded in the wristband. It has been “designed for the action sports enthusiast who wants to capture the fun but also participate.”
It includes features such as 1080 HD video capabilities, USB connection and a downloadable app. It also comes with a unique E-clips mounting system which lets you attach the camera quickly, and securely, to a mount.
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Sony Computer Entertainment’s European CEO and president Jim Ryan was the talk of the PlayStation 4 town yesterday as he said the upcoming console would continue to use Blu-ray discs as the primary media format “for the foreseeable future.” That doesn’t necessarily mean Sony will shun its digital versions of their PlayStation 4 games as the PlayStation 3 has been doing an excellent job of making newly released games available through their PlayStation Network.
If you’re the kind of person who prefers to purchase their games digitally and would rather not be bothered to walk over to your console in order to place a disc into it, then you’ll be happy to hear Sony is once again dedicated to delivering digital versions of PlayStation 4 games. Sony Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida let the cat out of the bag during an interview with The Guardian:
“We’re shifting our platform more and more to the digital side – PS4 will be similar to PS Vita in that every game will be available as a digital download, and some will also be available as a disc.”
There’s no doubt PlayStation 4 games will probably require a large amount of hard drive space. Do you think Sony has a plan to make downloading digital copies of games hassle-free, or do you believe you’ll be downloading a previous PlayStation 4 game in order to download a new one on a regular basis?
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List of all U-boats
U-638
Previously recorded fate
Wolfpack operations
U-638 operated with the following Wolfpacks during its career:
Burggraf (26 Feb 1943 - 28 Feb 1943)
Wildfang (28 Feb 1943 - 5 Mar 1943)
Raubgraf (7 Mar 1943 - 15 Mar 1943)
Amsel 1 (3 May 1943 - 5 May 1943)
Men lost from U-boats
Unlike many other U-boats, which during their service lost men due to accidents and various other causes, U-638 did not suffer any casualties (we know of) until the time of her loss.
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Aug. 22, 2008
RENO, Nev. - The UC Santa Barbara women's soccer team entered the 2008 season with the hopes that it could muster more offense than the 2007 team. If the first game is a decent indicator, that will be the case.
The Gauchos opened the 2008 season on the road at the University of Nevada, and propelled by a three-goal first half, routed the Wolf Pack by a score of 4-0.
UCSB jumped on top at the 16:47 mark when senior forward Michelle Russell took a pass from sophomore midfielder Jacqui Simon, got past the defenders, and beat Nevada's goalkeeper Sarah Hunt for the first goal of the match and season. The score was a harbinger as the Gauchos continued to perform on the offensive end.
In the 31st minute, it was sophomore forward Kailyn Kugler, the 2007 Big West Freshman of the Year, who got into the act. She stole a pass just above the Wolf Pack penalty box and scored on a one-on-one confrontation with Wolf, the Nevada goalie.
The Gauchos made it 3-0 in the closing minutes of the first half. Freshman Alissa Sanchez, who did not play in the team's exhibition match on Saturday against Westmont, took a feed from Kugler and blasted a shot past Hunt, giving UCSB a 3-0 edge at halftime.
Santa Barbara wasted little time increasing the lead in the second half. Junior forward Genelle Ives, who missed the entire 2007 season with a knee injury, made her return a memorable one. Ives dribbled the ball down the left side and scored, unassisted, at 49:49, to give her team an insurmountable 4-0 lead. The goal was the 15th of Ives' career.
Freshman goalkeeper Ali Cutler, who had been nursing an injured quad, started the match and played the first 60 minutes, posting one save and allowing no goals. Another freshman, Laura DiBiase closed the deal for the Gauchos, playing the final 30 minutes and tossing a shutout.
UCSB played 12 newcomers, including nine freshman, in its opening match of the season. Entering the season, the Gauchos' recruiting class was ranked 38th in the nation by Soccer Buzz Magazine, and group proved up to the challenge.
Santa Barbara will remain on the road for its second game of the year on Tuesday, Aug. 26, when it travels to Los Angeles to play second-ranked UCLA. The Gauchos play their first home match on Friday, Aug. 29, when they take-on the 21st-ranked University of San Diego.
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The UEN Staff has been very busy this summer. Here is a snapshot of some of the projects we've been working on.
eMedia. New videos to download.
Common Craft* - explainer style videos that teach various topics on technology such as Twitter, cookies, blogs, photo sharing and more.
113 New PBS titles - Watch full episodes of PBS shows: Secrets of the Dead, Zooboomafoo, Downton Abbey*, NOVA ScienceNOW episodes, New Cyberchase and Between the Lions episodes ... and so much more!
Cheese Slices - You've heard about UEN's Cheese Science program, you've watched it on UEN-TV, and now you can watch and download the episodes from eMedia!
eMedia Upgrade- You can now easily refine what you are searching by clicking on the "All Resources" dropdown box and select a different collection or use an advanced search. And when you start typing in search terms the box will auto-complete with suggestions.
* These videos are only available to Utah Educators who access eMedia through their my.uen account and to Utah College students and staff via CollegeMedia.
Network Services. We Network for Education.
Uintah Basin Network ReDesign - UEN has all but completed implementation of an entirely new network design in the Uintah Basin. As many remember, the basin was one of the first Ethernet conversions on the network. When we built that segment of the network, it was revolutionary in its time, however not a completely understood change for the long term. We have since learned a lot about running an Ethernet backbone over the years, and those lessons learned have proven valuable and effective. Unfortunately, some of the older areas of the network did not benefit from some of those lessons until now. The network redesign in the basin brings the entire basin up to a standard used throughout the rest of our network. The project was completed with minimal costs and changes in equipment and in just a few short months.
Network Monitoring - We have enhanced our monitoring capabilities of the network by rolling out updates to many of the tools used to monitor the network. Specifically in areas of security monitoring.
BTOP - Thanks to UEN and its Utah and Federal partners, more than 120 community anchor institutions have been connected to high speed broadband. They include dozens of public schools, charter schools, libraries and Head Start organizations that are part of the BTOP (Broadband Technology Opportunities Program). By January 1, when the project officially ends, more than 140 sites in 59 communities will benefit from the $13.4 million, three year initiative. Visit for more information.
my.uen
More improvements.
Blog Post Comments - In addition to commenting on your blog post, visitors can now comment on other people's comments. This is great way to initiate a "threaded discussion" with your students.
3 GB - Utah Educators now have 3 gigabytes of Document storage. (Note: This is only for "Premium" educators - so be sure to associate your school email address on your my.uen page.)
Pioneer Library
Updates and additions.New Password - Pioneer Online Library has a new home access password. Visit pioneer.uen.org from a school computer to see the new password or ask your local K-12 school librarian.
NROC HippoCampus - Free educational resources for middle school, high school and college students and instructors. Explore how HippoCampus can help you.
Professional Development. Take a Class.
USOE Partnership - UEN is working with USOE to offer new online Financial Literacy and Social Studies courses.
Intel Partnership - We are now offering 4 new fully online courses that include high quality, engaging materials to help you teach critical 21st Century skills integrated with Common Core standards.
Atomic Learning Partnership - Teachers can earn license points by watching video tutorials on important technology and education topics and skills.
New Fall Schedule - Available September 1. The schedule includes Saturday classes and fully online courses, as well as W-F classes for those who are able to be away from the classroom.
Canvas Training - UEN developed a six week, fully online course on designing online instruction with Canvas as well as "Online Teaching with Canvas CMS", a 1-day in-person class which will be offered twice this fall. Schools and districts can also request Canvas training for teachers tailored to their specific implementation needs – contact the professional development manager, Victoria Rasmussen at 801-581-7862 or [email protected].
iPad and eBook Training – We also offer a six week, fully online courses on Teaching and Learning with the iPad and using eLiterature – eBooks and eReaders – in the classroom. Also, request training for your group of 10 or more on either topic and we'll come to your site at a time convenient for your group.
SciFi Friday.
Science to go with the Show.
UEN-TV takes UEN SciFi Friday on the road! On July 26, UEN’s award-winning program screened the hysterical B-film “The Beast of Yucca Flats” at Kearns Library. Complete with popcorn, “Beast Bingo” and prizes, the event raised awareness of the “Science to go with the Show” podcast that invites a scientist or other expert to comment on a campy, classic film aired Fridays at 9 p.m. on UEN-TV.
CI-Water.
Science Education Event.
UEN is proud to be part of CI-WATER, a Utah-Wyoming collaboration to help us better understand water systems in the West through innovative science and computing. Funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation’s EPSCoR program, CI-WATER includes public education to raise awareness of science, technology, engineering and math careers and opportunities as well as cultural, economic, and scientific issues of water resource management. To this end, UEN launched the project’s website, aired a week of water-themed programs on UEN-TV in May, and is helping plan the First Annual CI-WATER Symposium, which will include an appearance by science educator Dr. Christopher Emdin on September 5.
UEN.org. Education is our middle name.
New Lesson Plans - This summer UEN worked with USOE and educators around the state to develop new lesson plans to help you teach the Utah Core.
Educational Apps - Hundreds of new Apps have been added to UEN's Apps4Edu service. Be sure to take a minute to rate Apps and to send us suggestions.
Summer Highlights - Did you miss the May, June, July and August UEN Highlights? If you did, don't worry, they are still available. And to avoid missing future UEN highlights, subscribe to UEN's monthly eNewsletter.
FACS Curriculum Guides - UEN now hosts 16 Family and Consumer Science Curriculum Guides. Courses include Foods and Fitness, Interior Design and Teen Living.
E-Rate CIPA Guidelines - Utah's K-12 schools (i.e., any public, charter, or private school receiving e-rate funding) are now required by E-Rate CIPA guidelines to certify that they are educating minors about appropriate online behavior, with topics including cyber-bullying and safe use of social networking tools. Districts should be in compliance with the following requirements as of July 1, 2012:
Vote Utah.
Utah's Public Voice.
UEN and other public media providers have banded together for Vote Utah, an innovative project to inform state voters about candidates and issues. Vote Utah represents a balanced informative commitment to explore the political process and provide avenues for citizen engagement.
Utah Data Alliance
Looking Back. Moving Forward.
UEN just launched the Utah Data Alliance web site..
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This article is about appreciating the moment.
Clay Guida versus Gray Maynard is one of those special matchups that causes me to sit back and take a breath. You know, the kind of matchup that makes me want to call friends who haven’t necessarily converted to mixed martial arts fans and invite them over for dinner and the fights. One of those matchups that is absolutely must-see TV.
The allure of this fight has nothing to do with the star power of the combatants. They are certainly top contenders. There is no argument to the contrary. Maynard is a puzzle that no lightweight, other than Frankie Edgar, has been able to solve. And Edgar only solved it once in three attempts. Sure, Nate Diaz beat him on The Ultimate Fighter, but Maynard avenged that loss when it counted.
Maynard holds wins over Kenny Florian, Roger Huerta, Jim Miller, Dennis Siver, Edgar, Diaz and Rich Clementi. Pretty impressive list by anyone’s standard.
Guida isn’t far off, holding wins over Josh Thomson, Anthony Pettis, Takanori Gomi, Diaz and more.
But the respective lightweight status of Maynard and Guida isn’t what makes this such a great fight. It’s the way their styles mesh. It’s the way their personalities mesh. And they mesh in a way that all but guarantees a frenzied, fan-friendly affair from start to finish.
Think otherwise? Answer this question: Have you ever watched Guida compete in a boring fight?
I’ll answer it for you. No.
Guida is the closest thing to the Energizer Bunny that we have in the sport, across all divisions. He has a seemingly endless gas tank that he heavily relies on with his non-stop, whirling dervish style. It doesn’t hurt that he sports a caveman-style haircut. The way his locks fly around when he is throwing wild punches or bouncing on his toes just adds to the fun of the fight.
None of that would be meaningful if Guida was just a fringe contender. He is far from that. He may have fringe contender-type natural abilities. Yet, few guys in the sport work harder than Guida, and nobody squeezes more out of themselves inside the cage than this guy.
From his workmanlike approach to the sport to his athletic, but certainly not cartoonish, build, Guida is a fighter that the average weekend athlete can relate to. He just seems like one of the guys. And that makes him special. Toss in his unbelievable commitment to winning and the skills that he has built over the years, and it is easy to understand why this guy is a huge fan favorite.
Maynard is the polar opposite to Guida. He does not have a deep gas tank. In fact, that reality definitely contributed to his lone career loss. That frailty makes him very human.
Take away that one hole in his game and Maynard is otherwise a savage beast. The guy is as athletically gifted as any lightweight in the sport. His explosion and physical strength are legendary. And his wrestling skills are among the best in the sport.
Yet, Maynard is a headhunter’s headhunter. He is addicted to swinging for the fences like no other top contender that I can think of as I type. It is reminiscent of a prime Wanderlei Silva, when every punch was thrown with unbelievably cruel intentions. Every punch was designed to bring the fight to an abrupt end.
That is Maynard in a nutshell. He could easily outwrestle 95% of the division. He could safely win fights by lay and pray. But he has no tolerance for that sort of conservative approach to a fight. Maynard is there to hurt people, and he is willing to walk into the heart of darkness in an attempt to achieve his goal. Self-preservation be damned.
When the bell sounds on Friday night, the fans are in for a very special treat. Guida will come out bobbing and weaving like a crazy man. Maynard, more closely resembling a Greek God than a crazy man, will stalk him looking for that one fight-altering opportunity. And when they meet in the center of the cage, it will be an explosion of action for as long as the fight lasts.
Don’t get up to get a beer or soda. Don’t go to the front door to pay for the pizza. And Lord knows, don’t get up to go to the bathroom at the arena. Why? Because you might just miss one of the most exciting scraps of 2012.
It might last 60 seconds or the full distance. I have no idea. I also don’t know who is going to win. In fact, I don’t really care. I’m just going to sit back and enjoy this one for as long as it lasts.
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America's Job Bank
American Service Systems Corporation - American Service Systems Corporation, (AMERISS), is a Dallas/Ft. Worth based consulting company and software development firm.
Aspire Incorporated - The place to find a job or candidate in the programming, S/W,H/W,F/W,telecommunications, and engineering fields
Bayou Internet - Assistant Sys Admin job opening .. good salary, insurance, matching 401k, etc. call 318-323-0011.
BesTecs Ltd - IT recruitment consultants specialising in the placement of Unix Administrators and Consultants in the UK and Europe
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Employers Registry - Full service employment agency. Positions for Unix system administrators and network analysts/engineers.
Exceptional People Inc. - Exceptional People Inc, is a San Francisco based executive search firm with many UNIX positions currently open. We work with clients who are well funded and have attractive benefit packages.
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Harvest Personnel - A solid recruiting firm with strong connections in the New England market. We specialize in the placement of information system professionals. (Email Resumes)
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IBS Consulting Services, Inc. - IBS Consulting is a full service international Information Services consulting firm addressing the complete software development life cycle.
Infonet Services Corporation - The world leader in providing state-of-the art international communication solutions in 57 countries.
IntelliMark - IntelliMark is a global services company with a specialization in employing consultants and placing permanent employees with our clients.
IntelliMatch On-Line Job Center
Internet Online Carrer Center
King ComputerSearch, Inc. - A technical search and consulting firm providing direct and contract talent in engineering, software, IT, writing, and training to telecom and software companies.
The Knowledge Group, Ltd. - Looking for UNIX (SUN/SOLARIS) System Administrators for a major Wall Street firm (New York City); Excellent Compensation! Telephone: 201-794-1777 Contact: Aaron Gothelf
Knowledge Workers, Inc. - A Top Source for Information Systems Professionals and Employers
Lingstar - Portland, OR - positions for senior solaris administrator who is familiar with 24x7, disaster recovery, and has lead experience.
Maxim Group - National database for consulting positions.
Monster Board
Norgate Technology Inc - New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.
Ohio Careers Resource Center - Ohio's most complete WWW staffing and employment center, specializing in the data processing, engineering industries and other technical fields. We also house numerous opportunities in locations throughout the United States.
Online Career Center
Online Staffing - Come one come all. We cover the U.S. and can help place you either full time or on contract at your specified location.
Outsource, Inc
Pacific Shore Resources, inc. - Pacific Shore Resources, inc. is a Technical Search and Placement firm specializing in the placement of Information Technology professionals in Southern California. California Area.
Paranet - Paranet has excellent opportunities for technically aggressive Unix System Administrators. Check us out!!!
PeopleSource, Inc. - is a Recruitment firm based in Greenwich, CT specializing in consulting and permanent staffing in Inforamtion Technology.
Professional Resources - Top East Coast Technical Recruiter
Recruit.NET - list many opportunities for UNIX administrators, developers and security experts for the ASIA PACIFIC & JAPAN region.
Registry, Inc. - The Registry, Inc. is an international IT consulting firm with multiple openings for Unix professionals.
SAGE - The System Administrators' Guild - a professional association
SEEK Consulting Group, Inc. - SEEK Consulting Group, an Inc 500 company,is a leading national technical staffing firm. SEEK specializes in placing System Administrators (all flavors of UNIX)on both a contract and permanent basis.
State Employment Security Agency (SESA) Listing
Snelling Personnel Services
SkillSearch
SSDS, Inc. - A leading provider of electronic commerce and networking solutions, we count on the creativity and ingenuity of our professionals to develop tailor-made solutions for our customers' needs.
Systems & Software - Unix Systems Administration, Webmastering, development opportunities
Technolgoy Search International, Inc. - The Silicon Valley's logical choice for software talent.
Technical Search Services - A professional search firm specializing in IT positions in the Pa., N.J., and Delaware area. All positions are with employee oriented companies dedicated to IT. All replies are held in the strictist confidence.
Usenet misc.jobs.offered
Valenta Associates, Inc. - We need UNIX System Administrators - SUN Solaris and HP9000; Sybase and Informix database people; and Tuxedo middleware professionals.
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Zen Systems - has place contractors in the Bay Area and worldwide since 1978. Our Web site displays current live contract openings.
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Remote Desktop Connection | Virtual Private Network | UHD Wireless
Faculty and staff may connect to their computer remotely while on-campus or off-campus. The computer must be configured by following the procedures on Remote Desktop Connection.
When off-campus(home), the home computer must have the encrypted protocol Virtual Private Network (VPN) software installed to ensure that your transaction is encrypted and secured. To download the appropriation version of VPN software for your home computer, you can visit the Software Download center.
UHDwireless is a wireless network for use by UHD students, faculty, staff, and official visitors. Unauthorized use is prohibited. Usage may be subject to security testing and monitoring. Misuse is subject to criminal prosecution. No expectation of privacy except as otherwise provided by applicable privacy laws.
UHD’s wireless network infrastructure is currently designed to support the most common wireless cards currently available that meet minimum standards. Any wireless card that fully supports the 802.11b wireless standard will be able to connect to UHDwireless network. Many laptops already have built in wireless capabilities.
A laptop, Tablet PC, or handheld device with wireless capability. Your existing device may already have this capability built-in. If not, you can purchase a wireless network card for most laptops at any major electronics retailer. (Must be 802.11b compliant.)
Web Browser - You can use any standard Internet-ready browser.
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This page contains information for people in the UK who are sending or are being sent items from abroad by post. It explains how our officers at the UK ensure that these items are free from illegal items, and that the correct tax and/or duty is paid on them.
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Every year, many millions of parcels and packets are imported into the UK through the postal system. The UK Border Agency is responsible for ensuring that they are free from illegal items such as drugs and firearms, and that the correct tax and/or duty is paid on them.
We do this work in partnership with HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) and the UK's designated postal service - Royal Mail Group, which includes Parcelforce Worldwide.
HMRC establishes in law the charges that must be paid, and the items and materials that cannot be brought into the country. Our officers ensure that items comply with those regulations, by examining parcels and packets as they enter or leave the country.
HMRC is the main point of contact for enquiries about why items are charged, what the charges are, and general customs advice. For more information, see Notice 143 on the HMRC website.
How do we deal with parcels and packages at the border?
Royal Mail Group accepts each parcel or packet from the postal service in the country where it was sent. It is declared to our officers, who:
- establish what value added tax (VAT) and duty charges, if any, are due; and
- check that the contents of the parcel or packet do not contravene the law.
Officers establish what charges (if any) are due on the parcel by using the information which must (by law) be provided on the Customs Declaration affixed to the parcel. This will have been filled in for the importer (recipient of the parcel) by the sending party. The responsibility to ensure that the declaration is accurate lies both with the sender and recipient in law.
If any charges are due, Royal Mail Group pays them directly to HMRC and then recovers the amount from the importer (recipient) before delivering the parcel or packet.
For more information about Royal Mail Group and its international postal operation, visit the Royal Mail website. You can track the progress of your parcel or packet by visiting the Parcelforce Worldwide website. HMRC and the UK Border Agency cannot track it for you.
Customs charges
All goods imported into the UK from outside the EU are liable for tax/duty if their value is:
- over £15 (for purchases or commercial goods); or
- over £40 for gifts.
The price of postage is added to the value of the item when calculating charges (except for gifts posted using standard mail instead of express mail). This means that you may be charged tax and/or duty on items that are not themselves expensive.
The charging rates are set by HMRC and are set out in Notice 143 on the HMRC website . Notice 143 also explains why items are charged and contains general customs advice.
If tax and/or duty is payable on your item, Parcelforce Worldwide will initially pay it to us on your behalf. It will then recover this amount, plus a customs clearance fee to cover the costs of presenting the item, from you before delivering your parcel. The customs clearance fee covers Royal Mail Group's costs from additional handling, administration, money collection and clearance of parcels.
You do not need to pay tax or duty on gifts, purchases or commercial items sent from another country in the EU. However, there are different rules for goods containing alcohol or tobacco (known as 'excise goods') - see Notice 143 on the HMRC website for more information.
How do we determine the value of an item?
The sender of the item must complete a customs declaration form, which is fixed to the parcel. They must accurately describe the goods and declare their actual value. They should always declare the value accurately, even if the minimum amount of insurance cover is higher.
Our officers will use the information on the customs declaration to determine the charges that are payable. This is why it is vital that the declaration is accurate. If charges have been accurately applied based on the information on the declaration, but you believe that this information was wrong, it may be possible to have the charges reviewed and refunded - but only after the charges have been paid and the item received.
Until 1st April 2012 Royal Mail Group and UKBA have been able to offer a limited ability to correct mistakes made by importers who have inaccurately or incorrectly filled out the Customs Declaration - before the parcel is released. From April 2012 this will no longer be possible and charges levied on the information provided on the declaration will stand in the first instance although UKBA will continue to offer to exceptionally re-asses charges after a parcel has been delivered where the importer can demonstrate a genuine error was made and the intention was to declare the contents in line with legal requirements.
Our officers also examine parcels to ensure that they do not contain prohibited or restricted goods, and that the declaration is accurate. In some cases, parcels must be opened, and are then repacked by Parcelforce Worldwide on your behalf.
When any charges have been established, a charge label is applied to the item, showing how the charges have been totaled.
How to fill in a customs declaration
The Customs declaration (known as the CN22 or CN23) is the internationally agreed way of showing the important information needed by Customs authorities all over the world in order that they can assure themselves that the contents of the Parcel are allowed in to the country and that the correct charges are levied.
As with any work to prevent smuggling or abuse of the UK Border controls the UKBA uses intelligence to profile items for examination to check for illegal items and for incorrect value and contents descriptions.
Officers use the information in the Customs Declaration to establish what the goods are and a number of other key pieces of information.
The Royal Mail provide advice on correctly filling out Customs Declarations and you should ensure the person acting on your behalf (the sender) fills in the declaration fully and accurately. This will ensure any charges levied will correct.
While UKBA will always try to help customers whose declarations were incorrect or not sufficiently clear to enable accurate charges to be levied this can only be done retrospectively and where a genuine mistake has been made, in all cases of application for a reassessment of charges, evidence will be required.
Top Tips for getting declarations right:
- Do ensure the value of the goods on the declaration is the actual value, not any insurance value.
- Do specify on the declaration when items are being sent for repair or replacement under a warranty.
- Do make it clear when an item is a gift (see below for information on gifts).
- Be specific, for example if an item contains clothes, specify if they are for a child or adult and new or second hand.
- If you are a student and posting in your own personal belongings make sure the declaration shows that.
What is a gift?
A gift is an item which has no commercial/trade element and has not been paid for, either directly or indirectly. Gifts are of an occasional nature, such as a birthday or anniversary.
Anything else is a commercial/business item.
If you receive goods from outside the UK, you are an importer, even if the goods are gifts or are not being sold on to other people.
If you send goods outside the UK, you are an exporter, even if the goods are gifts.
Parcels containing gifts for different family members
When determining whether a parcel is liable for tax and/or duty, we will use the information on the customs declaration. But if the parcel contains a number of gifts, which all have a value of below £40 and are clearly for separate family members, the charges can be reviewed.
How to pay customs charges
For items due for delivery by Parcelforce Worldwide, you can pay the charges online at the Parcelforce Worldwide website or by phoning the number given on your letter from Parcelforce Worldwide.
For items due for delivery by Royal Mail, the Royal Mail website explains how you can pay the charges online or in person.
Royal Mail Group will hold parcels for 20 days. If you do not pay the charges within this time, the parcel will be returned to the sender at their expense. we have seized your items
If we have examined your parcel and seized items seized, we will write to you advising you how to proceed.
Complaints
If we have examined your parcel and some items are damaged or you think some items are missing, or you are unhappy with the service you have received, please email us at: [email protected]
Please provide full details of your complaint including reference number.
Alternatively you may write to us at the address below:
Complaints Allocation Hub
Lunar House
Wellesley Road
Croydon
CR9 2BY
Please be aware that emails are likely to receive a quicker response than letters.
Please note: This contact information is only for complaints following receipt of your items. Due to the volume of postal items we are unable to respond to other types of query at this address or email address. For other matters please refer to sections on this part of the UKBA website, the HMRC website (notice 143) and the Royal Mail website.
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With the disappearance of three key ARC personnel (Danny, Connor and Abby) and the death of Johnson, it seems the government has lost faith in Lester’s abilities to run such a dangerous operation on his own. The ARC is now in the hands of a public/private partnership, part-owned by the government, and partly by entrepreneurial scientist Philip Burton. And as with any public/private partnership, there’s tension over who’s really in charge.
Following Connor, Abby and Danny’s loss, the ARC found new recruits to take their place, but, by design, every last one of them is ex-military. No more civilians in the field – not after the tragedies of the last few years. Team leader Matt is more than an ex-soldier – he’s an ethologist, with an uncanny ability to understand animals. He may be heroic, but he is also incredibly
private and there’s mystery surrounding his background. Jess now facilitates the team’s operations from the ARC Control Centre – highly efficient and organised, her work ethic is second to none; but at heart she’s still a girly girl with an unrequited crush on Becker.
Becker resigned from the military when the ARC was destroyed, and has lived with a sense of responsibility for the original team going missing. He now works as a private soldier for Philip’s organisation, in command of what might be called Philip’s ‘private army’. They come complete with new uniforms and, most importantly to Matt, new tasers known as EMDs (electro-muscular
disruption weapons) which avoid killing the creatures.
Meanwhile, in the year they spent stranded in the Cretaceous, Connor and Abby have become closer in every sense and are now very much in love. But their time in this prehistoric world has taken its toll…
Danny, however, remains missing in action, and when he does eventually return, the information he has about Helen Cutter will have a profound effect on the team…
With all the action, thrills and dazzling special effects audiences have come to expect from this blockbuster franchise, this series doesn’t fail to excite.
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Soul Sister
A musical inspired by the life and times of Ike and Tina Turner. Pulsing with heart and soul and featuring classics such as What's Love Got to Do with It, Proud Mary, Private Dancer and River Deep Mountain High. Soul Sister follows the highs and lows, the passions and heartbreak of Ike and Tina Turner as their careers blossomed and their marriage crumbled.
Archive :: production:T1373315176, musical:S573682019, venue:V957
Current production:Tour/Production
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Universal’s Laser Interface+ laser control software has long been the industry standard for ease of use; to achieve excellent laser processing results, the user must only insert a material, select the correct material type, enter the material thickness, and press start. A detailed database of material processing information makes this ease of use possible by calculating ideal processing settings based on material type, material thickness, and laser power.
The latest update to Laser Interface+ improves the accuracy, efficiency, and in many cases the speed of the materials settings generated by the database. Through careful research, engineers at Universal’s Advanced Materials Processing Center have developed more refined processing algorithms for the materials database that powers the Laser Interface+ driver. The updated algorithms yield improvements in accuracy, efficiency, and responsiveness across the material spectrum. That means that materials processed using settings generated by the materials database will enjoy higher processing speeds and better quality results in many instances.
In addition to the improvements in processing settings, the new version of Laser Interface+ features a streamlined, tree-based materials selection interface, making it easier to store and locate materials.
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Candidate forums set in Clear Lake area
Over the next three weeks, two candidate forums will take place in the Clear Lake area for those running for Houston mayor and City Council.
Houston City Council at-large candidates for districts 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 are scheduled to participate in a forum on Sept. 17 at the Bay Area Community Center, 5002 NASA Parkway in Seabrook.
The event is being organized by the Bay Area Association of Democratic Women. It will start at 6:30 p.m. with a brief meet and greet session and will end at 9 p.m.
Candidates for mayor and City Council District E will be featured in a forum Sept. 26 at the University of Houston-Clear Lake It will be held in Atrium II of the Bayou Building from 6:30 to 9 p.m.
This forum is sponsored by Bay Area Association of Democratic Women, Bay Area New Democrats and The College Democrats-UHCL.
Mayoral candidates participating are Peter Brown, Annise Parker and Gene Locke. District E candidates are Wayne Garrison and Mike Sullivan.
Both forums are free and open to the public.
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Girls basketball playoffs
After capturing the District 24-5A championship with a 13-1 record, the Clear Creek Lady Wildcats begin their run for a state title with an opening round playoff game against Fort Bend Elkins on Tuesday at Phillips.
Bi-district playoffs
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Clear Springs vs. Marshall, 6 p.m. at Manvel
La Marque vs. El Campo, 6:30 p.m. at Stafford
Dickinson vs. Hightower, 7:30 p.m. at Manvel
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Clear Lake vs. Dulles, 6 p.m. Tuesday at Phillips
Clear Creek vs. Elkins, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at Phillips
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HS Girls Basketball: Stratford defeats Cy Springs
Stratford defeated Cy Springs in the Spring Branch ISD Invitational Thursday.
Stratford, 2-0, won the game 47-20.
Kathryn Arcy scored 13 points for Stratford.
Thursday’s loss dropped Cy Springs to 0-2 on the season.
Shelby Cross scored six points for Cy Springs, who will visit Oak Ridge M
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Statistics
The Greek Alphabet
The early statisticians were classically trained, and Greek was their language of prestige reference. Greek in any case had been associated with mathematics since the time of Euclid. It is thus natural that Greek letters have been widely used as symbols for statistical quantities or procedures. Substituting the corresponding English letters no longer works well. At the risk of losing some readers whose viewing program is not equipped for it, we have kept the Greek letters, and represent them on these pages in the Symbol font. The complete Greek alphabet is given below, in that font, for convenient reference.
Statistics is Copyright © 2001- by E Bruce Brooks
14 Sept 2005 / Contact The Project / Exit to Statistics Home Page
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» Medicine from the heart . . . Allison Hargreaves
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Medicine from the heart . . . Allison Hargreaves:
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Allison Hargreaves, MD, is a faculty member at Barre Family Health Center and inpatient medical director for its residency. Allison writes about the personal boundaries that we come up against with our patients day-in and day-out in a thousand different ways. Who amongst us hasn't rounded with their child in tow or shared their own experience of losing a loved one? Who hasn't had to answer the question “How was your vacation, doc?” or shared strategies from their personal struggle of parenting a difficult child? We are all human, and as William Carlos Williams said, we “hand one another along.” I applaud Allison's honesty and evolving dilemma.—Hugh Silk, MD
Boundaries
As a physician I often wonder about boundaries. I know it helps some patients to know me as a person, especially if I have experienced what they are going through. I don’t think anyone would fault me for telling a 5-year-old that I too have had stitches and I know what it’s like. But what about more personal things? Love and loss, birth and death? How much of myself can be shared with my patients? What is considered “appropriate” and who decides?
As a mother, my number one goal in life is to protect my daughter, keep her safe, ensure her happiness. I have certainly respected more boundaries as a result of this shift in my priorities. Gone are the days of staying at the health center until 10 p.m. to do paperwork (and let’s face it, procrastinate). I no longer say “yes” immediately to every project, opportunity or commitment that comes my way.
The other day I blurred all kinds of boundaries, and my daughter was involved, which has prompted some reflection. I have this wonderful patient, a woman in her 70s who has had a recurrence of colon cancer and is living her final weeks. She remains feisty and spirited, and our goals have recently evolved from prolonging life to ensuring quality of life. I have developed a close relationship with her and her family. They can reach me at any time on my cell phone (boundary breach?). The other day her son called and told me that all my patient could talk about was how much she wanted to meet my daughter. It didn’t take long for us to arrange a home visit.
I would never put my daughter, now 16 months old, in any danger. My patient is actually very healthy, aside from the relentless cancer cells infiltrating her body. But I couldn’t help but wonder if I was somehow exploiting my child. I called the one person I can always count on to tell me when I’m making a mistake—my mother. She offered her seal of approval, so off we went.
We arrived at my patient’s house and she was ready and waiting to meet my little bean. She had bought her a stuffed lion and a book, which my daughter took to immediately (boundary breach?). She also had a bin full of old toys that used to belong to her grandchildren, now older. While I watched the two of them playing with smiles on their faces, looking like they have known each other forever, I wondered how I ever could have thought there might be something wrong here.
The spell was temporarily broken when my patient’s husband asked if my husband was also in medicine (boundary breach?). I find it awkward telling members of this generation that I do not in fact have a husband, but I also cannot lie. So I told him that my daughter’s father is a paramedic but that we are not together. My patient must have sensed my apprehension because she asked me, point blank, “Are you happy?” I told her I am. And then she pointed at my giggling daughter and said, “Well, clearly she is happy, so good for you.” I think she and I both benefitted from that visit.
We left after a while and I told my patient I would be back in a few days with her flu shot. We exchanged hugs all around (boundary breach?). I left feeling pretty good, and my daughter hugged her new toy on the way home.
Maybe this narrative is one giant boundary breach, in that I have shared too much. I still don’t have the answers, but I have to go with what feels right to me. And this particular encounter definitely felt right.
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Cytology analysis - biliary tract; Biliary tract biopsy
A normal result means there are no signs of cancer, disease, or infection in the biopsy sample.
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Rw on the 24th.July.2012 while meeting with residents of Gihinga cell said that growing mushrooms can maintain and even make profits for the grower.
He compared growing beans or sorghum or soya grown on a 10 meters area and mushrooms grown on a 1 meter area where he said that money a person can get from mushrooms is much more than from what could be got from the produce of any of those crops.
He explained that beans grown on 10m2 areas can have a production of not more than 10 KGs and a kilogram is sold at Rwf400 and they are only grown twice in a year depending on climate change.
According to Agriculturalists, mushrooms grown on 1m2 can produce about 160Kgs and a kilogram of mushrooms is sold at Rwf1000 and they can be grown at least 4 times in a year.
Apart from giving enough production, mushrooms are rich with many nutrients including Vitamins B1, B2, B6, mineral salts and they can be used to fight poor eating habits in Rwanda if they can be grown well.
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University Hosts 6-Year Birthday Party For Leo and Una
Mar. 19, 2009
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FLORENCE, Ala. – The University of North Alabama will host a public birthday party for its lion mascots, Leo and Una, at 10 a.m. April 13 at Harrison Plaza, near the lion habitat. A rain date is scheduled for 10 a.m. April 15. The event is free and open to the public.
Cake, cookies and Coca-Cola products will be served. The Student Athletic Advisory Council (SAAC) is also sponsoring four games for children: face painting, a bean-bag game, bucket toss, and pin the tail on the lion. The games will be open from 9 to 11:30 a.m.
For more information, contact Judy Jackson at 256-765-4896 or [email protected].
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by Curtis F. Jones
For an illustrative example, consider the Middle East.
One hundred years ago, when thirty million Britons oversaw the affairs of 350 million alien subjects, the overlords assumed that the sun would not be setting on the empire for centuries to come. In fifty fleeting years, two world wars drained Britain of blood and treasure, it joined the ranks of the second-rate powers, and the imperial edifice collapsed. The former colonies and protectorates, now inoculated with the sera of revolution, graduated to self-rule.So it was supposed to be for Britains extensive holdings in the Middle East, but it transpired that the region had been transferred to the stewardship of the new superpower, the United States.
Americas proprietary interest in the region derived from two unrelated events. The first was the prewar discovery of the worlds largest known petroleum reserves. Skeptical of the Middle Easterners' ability and intent to guarantee easy foreign access to their oil and gas and the revenues therefrom, Washington made the unilateral decision to do the job for them. In 1945 President Roosevelt had private talks with King Ibn Sa'ud in the Suez Canal. As Daniel Yergin has noted in The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power (1991), no one knows exactly what was said, but the sub-text was clear: Saudi Arabia would give the United States an inside track to its oil and the United States would guard Saudi Arabia from foreign interference (in 1945 the only threat was British). That understanding has been reaffirmed by subsequent presidents. It is a pillar of U.S. Middle East policy.
A second pillar was erected in 1948 with the creation of the state of Israel. In the ensuing years, the American commitment to the survival of the Jewish state has become even stronger than that to Saudi Arabia. Saudi requests for U.S. favors, such as arms sales, are often granted; Israeli requests are almost always granted sometimes before they have been made.
Standing on these two mismatched bases of policy, the United States has habitually intoned a mantra of orderly progress toward a peaceful, prosperous, democratic Middle East. This soothing formula conflicts sharply with several realities:
- The Americans are neither indigenous nor Muslim, unlike the Turks, who dominated the region for four centuries.
- Israel and Saudi Arabia are inborn rivals. The one is dedicated to the implantation of a Jewish sanctuary in the center of the Muslim world, the other to its role as champion of Islam and custodian of the holy places in Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem. During the Gulf War of 1991 the United States exerted a major political effort insure against Israeli participation, which might well have shattered the allied coalition.
- Democracy is an elusive commodity. The United States has been practicing it for over 200 years and still hasn't gotten it right, as demonstrated by Congress' egregious failure to insulate the electoral process from the corrosive effects of special-interest money. The Middle East contains a congeries of tribal autocracies (Arabian Peninsula), military dictatorships (Egypt and the Fertile Crescent), a theocracy (Iran), a semi-republic (Turkey), and a Judocracy (Israel).
- Middle East frontiers are haphazard, the product of millennia of communal conflict and foreign invasion, further skewed in recent times by colonialist caprice.
- Borders cut across vital rivers (Nile, Tigris, Euphrates, Orontes, Jordan).
- They contravene racial distribution. Kurds are dispersed among Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria; greater Israel is split between five million Jews and three and a half million Arabs.
- They disregard sectarian divisions. In Iraq, a Sunni minority rules a Shia majority; in Syria their roles are reversed; in Lebanon a stubborn civil war between Christians and Muslims was brought to an end only by Syrian military occupation.
- They interrupt pipelines. Syria closed a line from Iraq; Arab-Israeli wars closed the tap line from Saudi Arabia to Lebanon; U.S. sanctions have cut the flow through an Iraqi line that transits Turkey.
When dollars and diplomacy fail, the United States resorts to military assistance, ranging from secret military collaboration (with Iraq against Iran in the 1980s) to emergency arms airlifts (Israel in 1967 and 1973) to long-term air cover (AWACS over the Arabian Peninsula, enforcement of no-fly zones in northern and southern Iraq) to three cases of direct military intervention.
The obverse of the policy of aid to allies is a pattern of operations designed to block the activities of regimes perceived to be hostile to American interests. In 1953, the CIA financed a coup which ousted Iranian Prime Minister Mossadeq and reinstated the Shah. In 1956, in a brief fit of impartiality, the United States pulled the financial rug out from under the ill-advised effort of its own allies, Britain and France, to take back the Suez Canal Zone. In 1957, it used the lever of economic aid to force Israel out of Sinai and Gaza.
Over the next forty years, the United States has drifted toward the status of full-time partisan in Middle Eastern disputes. Iran has been ostracized since the Ayatollah Khomeini took power in 1979. Saddam lost the American imprimateur when he misread the signs and invaded Kuwait in 1990. Syria is also on the blacklist, but by signing up with the coalition in 1991 it avoided being marked for containment, the imponderable fate to which Iran and Iraq are currently condemned.
To safeguard the two interests it perceives to be vital oil and Israel America has upgraded the old gunboat diplomacy into a sort of imperialism by remote control. Its instruments are the Sixth Fleet, based at Naples, the Fifth Fleet, based at Bahrain, long-range aircraft from the United States and the British Indian Ocean base of Diego Garcia, carrier aircraft and missiles, and short-range aircraft flying from whatever ground facilities local governments are prepared to accord in any given set of circumstances.
Compared to the extent and cost of this multifarious armada, the results have been pathetic. The United States is still paying a price in Iranian resentment of the successful interference of 1953. The Marine landing in Lebanon in 1958 was an irrelevancy. The victorious action against Iraq ran directly counter to the American objective of Middle East prosperity by subjecting the Iraqi infrastructure to apocalyptic destruction. (If Saddam possessed Hafiz al Asads lighter touch, he might have managed to acquire the same influence in Kuwait that Asad now enjoys in Lebanon.)
As for the Marine landing in Lebanon during the Israeli invasion of 1982-83, that was an unqualified disaster. By appearing to give the invasion its tacit endorsement and then allowing its ground and naval forces to be drawn into the conflict on the Israeli side, the United States incurred indirect responsibility for the heavy casualties inflicted by the Israelis and their Phalangist allies. America suffered the loss of 241 Marines in a truck-bombing and had to order an ignominious withdrawal.
If we step back and take a wider view, we see little evidence that America's Middle East policy is achieving its basic objectives.
Middle East peace? Since America assumed its supervisory role fifty years ago, the region has endured fifteen major wars. Ritual condemnations of violence collide with the sad reality that nearly every state in the world, including our own, was founded on conquest. Expulsion of Iraq from Kuwait with huge Iraqi casualties and minimal American casualties was a military tour de force, but it did nothing to alter the reality that sooner or later that tiny emirate is bound to be absorbed by one of its stronger neighbors, with or without Washington's endorsement.
Middle East democracy? Although the United States was conceived in revolution, it has undertaken to shore up autocracy, lately in Latin America and southeast Asia, currently in the Middle East. Kuwait's royal family, which took refuge in Saudi Arabia during the Iraqi occupation, has been reinstated. The Saudi royal family, a closed corporation of several thousand princes on generous stipends from their own government, continue to resist foreign abominations such as women drivers. If we take credit for clipping the wings of the tyrannical Saddam, we automatically incur responsibility for ravaging a country that was the most progressive in the Arab world. If we were to eliminate Saddam, as advocated by some of our more fervid pundits, we would probably precipitate the disintegration of Iraq, another Middle East war, and the acceleration of that revolutionary process we seem bent on suppressing.
If the United States has adopted such a policy, it has vitiated the strongest magic in its possession the enduring force of the democratic system. The military and political messages are incompatible. If our interest in Middle East progress is genuine, we should reduce the atavistic military presence and give the region's inhabitants free rein to lurch toward free speech, free enterprise, and free choice in the same disorderly way that other societies have done before them. Only when they stumble on common economic and political denominators will they achieve stability.
Revision of U.S. policy would be agonizing because it would automatically compel equivalent revision of the policy of our alter ego, Israel. The Arab-Israeli conflict will not be solved by military supremacy, which Israel has long enjoyed, nor by alliance with non-Arab neighbors. The new military understanding with Turkey is reminiscent of the balance-of-power policy that dragged Europe into two world wars.
The dynamics of Americas special-interest democracy stand squarely in the way of any explicit liberalization of Americas Middle East policy, but in the Middle East there are more elemental forces at work. The New York Times of March 1, 1998, reported that an Israeli court was agonizing over the application of an Israeli Arab for housing in one of the many communities closed to non-Jews under the founding principles of the Israeli state. In the United States, the discriminatory institution of slavery and its consequences are being painfully reduced by a succession of executive, legislative, and judicial actions that began 150 years ago. The elimination of the discriminatory aspects of Zionism may take as long, but the time to start is now.
Read Adam Garfinkle, The Next Middle Eastern War
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We provide jobs in the field of administration, customer service, sales, marketing, logistics, IT, HR, finance and executive management. On this website we offer general information about living and working in the Netherlands.
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Create understanding of the career development process and impart skills for effective career planning and development
Clarify the respective roles and responsibilities of staff, managers, and the Organization with respect to career planning and development
To be an additional tool to prepare staff for mobility
Explore how stress impacts on your work life Learn how to recognize and reduce stress and achieve better work/life balance, and how the organisation can support you.
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Matt Brockelman, Hugh Greene, Joy Korman, Radford Lovett, Oscar Munoz, Joan Newton, Lynn Pappas, Myron Pincomb, Patrick Plumlee, Lanny Russell, Bruce Taylor, and Sharon Wamble-King
Fred Franklin
Meeting called to order by Chair Pincomb.
Chair Pincomb asked for approval of the minutes from the October 18th meeting. Motion was made to approve. The motion passed unanimously.
No open comments at this time.
President Delaney and Vice President Allaire addressed the committee for approval to name the University Center. It was recommended to name the University Center after former UNF President, Adam W. Herbert. Motion was made to approve. The motion passed unanimously.
President Delaney and Vice President Allaire addressed the committee to present this item. It was recommended to name UNF Hall after Ann and David Hicks. Motion was made to approve. The motion passed unanimously.
Vice President Gonzalez presented amendments to the Student Conduct Code. A list of the significant changes were presented and discussed. Motion made to approve. The motion passed unanimously
Vice President Shuman presented the parking permit fees, style, replacements, and refunds regulation. There were two changes: 1) allow the President the flexibility of adjusting the day permit rate to accommodate requirements for special events 2) to designate the Parking Services’ website address as the official location for information relating to affixing permits. Motion made to approve. The motion passed unanimously.
Vice President Shuman presented proposed increases for the Student Activity and Service Fee, Student Athletic Fee, and the Student Health & Services Fee for Fiscal Year 2012-2013. The local fees were recommended by the Student Fee Assessment Committee (SFAC) comprised of students, faculty and staff. President Delaney endorsed the SFAC recommendations as follows:
$0.23
$1.30
$0.11
$0.19
TOTAL
$1.83
Vice President Shuman presented the Student Transportation Access Fee for FY 2012-2013. She stated the students requested a new shuttle route to the Town Center. Based on the number of hours the shuttle would run, the cost would increase the per credit hour fee by $.23 and added to the existing $3.85 fee for a total fee of $4.08. This fee was proposed by a University-wide committee and endorsed by the President, The recommendation is presented to the Student Life and Facilities Committee for review and approval. Motion made to approve. The motion passed unanimously.
Vice President Shuman presented the Parking and Citation Rates for FY 2012-2013. She stated that the current rates can cover the current debt service requirements and therefore no increase is recommended. However, a recommendation is being made to combine the two permit categories “Designated” and “First Floor Garages” into one permit called “Faculty/Staff” and to sell this permit at a 1.6:1 ratio at a rate of $250. Motion made to approve. The motion passed unanimously.
Associate General Counsel, Chris Wrenn presented for approval an Educational Plant Survey recommendation for demolition of the existing cafeteria, Building 14C. He stated Florida Statues state. Motion made to approve. The motion passed unanimously.
Vice President Shuman presented the Capital Projects Quarterly Report and Change Order. President Delaney mentioned that there are no PECO funds for the next two years, for new projects.
Discussion item. No motion required.
Rick Roberts, Director of Career Services and three students gave an overview PowerPoint presentation of Career Services and how it prepares students who are looking for employment.
Chair Pincomb adjourned the meeting.
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The mission of Muchas Manos Light Work non-profit organization is focused on providing financial aid and educational assistance to the Matagalpa Region of Nicaragua.
Vision
The focus of Muchas Manos Light Work is supported by two programs. The first program purpose is to provide scholarships for worthy individuals seeking a higher education and demonstrate financial need. The second purpose is to mentor, tutor, and provide hands-on experiences for members of the community and students by members of Muchas Manos Light Work. It is Muchas Manos Light Work's intent that a diverse group of people will work together to benefit the Matagalpa communities in Nicaragua.
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If you are a passionate and committed professional and want to make a lasting difference for children, the world's leading children's rights organization would like to hear from you.
UNICEF, the world’s leading organization working for the rights of children, seeks a Consultant for Technical Support in Conducting a Country Programme Gender Review.
Purpose:
Please see Terms of Reference
Qualification:
Advanced university degree in social sciences, gender, international development or related fields
Knowledge and familiarity with UNICEF country programme processes and areas of work
Proven track record in developing participatory gender assessment tools and methodology
At least 10 years of experience in international development, and institutional knowledge of UN programming and strategies and understanding of UN work in developing gender equality and human rights-based programmes.
Fluent in the writing and speaking of English
If you have got experience of working in a similar capacity and want to make an active and lasting contribution to build a better world for children, please submit a cover letter, CV, and signed P11 form here by 12 September 2012. Only short-listed applicants will be contacted.
UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages qualified female and male candidates from all national, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of the organization.
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By Aniss Maghri
MARRAKESH, Morocco, 4 August 2010 – Karima (not her real name), 23, is struggling with the consequences of an unwanted pregnancy alone. The baby’s father left her, and to hide her situation she left her parents’ house in the Marrakesh countryside. Due to traditional views on pregnancy outside of marriage and fears of the repercussions, she has not told her father, only her mother.
“I don’t want other girls to be trapped like me and be faced by the hardship of a life like mine,” said Karima.
With the help of the Moroccan League for Child Protection (LMPE), a local partner, UNICEF is working to help prevent unwanted pregnancies and support single mothers. But the problem may be more widespread than experts once believed.
Ostracism and desperation
According to a recent study conducted by UNICEF and LMPE, which was chaired by Her Highness, Princess Lalla Amina, some 6,480 Moroccan babies were abandoned at birth in 2008 – representing between 1 and 2 per cent of all births in the country. Single mothers are often ostracized by their families and society, and the lack of emotional and financial support has led many to take desperate measures, including abandoning their children.
“The phenomenon is mainly observed in the urban areas,” said UNICEF Representative in Morocco Aloys Kamuragiye. “A large number of abandonments are operated by informal intermediaries,” he added, referring to people who assist mothers in finding homes or institutions for abandoned babies.
As a consequence of the study, UNICEF and LMPE have established a task force to tackle this issue. A group from the Swedish Committee for UNICEF visited Marrakesh, along with a donor who subsequently contributed $100,000 to support a new project on preventing abandonment of children. The project aims at providing psycho-social support and counselling services to single mothers and girls at risk of unwanted pregnancies. A dedicated centre, established within the LMPE office in Marrakesh, is currently offering these services.
Progress has been made, as well, towards encouraging paternal responsibility. “Recently, a reluctant father confirmed that he would recognize the baby if the DNA test proved that the child belongs to him,” said Shems Eddoha, a social worker with the project.
Sensitizing families
A second component of the abandonment prevention project involves raising awareness and sensitizing families and communities. Families are made aware of their responsibility to ensure a protective and supportive environment for their daughters in order to avoid ostracism and child abandonment.
The campaign also targets high schools and various other places where girls meet, seeking to raise awareness of the consequences of unwanted pregnancies and of abandoning a child.
Karima has participated in the new campaign. “Single mothers are dealing with a very difficult situation,” she said. “I used to have dreams before my pregnancy. Now they have gone. I do not want other young girls to be in the same situation.”
Karima’s friend, who is 19 years old, is another single mother. “Both my family and I are responsible for my situation,” she said. “My parents never looked after me during my studies, were never interested in finding out my problems, never noticed changes in my behavior.
“Families must know,” she added. “They must be held responsible for protecting their children.”
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By Suzanna Dayne.
The first stop for the lawmakers was a village health clinic where they saw how mothers are informed about basic nutrition and health care, and how infants and young children receive regular check-ups.
“We need to ensure every child has access to free medical services in order to give them the start they deserve in life,” said Australian MP Kay Hull, one of the visiting legislators. “All vaccinations and immunizations should be free and we should encourage reproductive health care for mothers and families, including fathers.”
Protecting future generations
The lawmakers also saw pregnant women receiving care at a local maternity clinic and, as an added surprise, a woman who had given birth just an hour before their arrival.
“I want to make sure that this little girl’s rights are protected, and that means that all children have access to proper health care,” said Indonesian MP Tuti Loekman. “One of my particular concerns is female circumcision, which is still practiced in some parts of the country. This practice is against human rights, and parents need to be aware of this.”
Recognizing the critical need to protect growing children from violence, abuse and exploitation, the lawmakers went on to visit a facility where the local child protection service – known as LPA – is trying to do just that by involving young people themselves.
Support for victims of violence
“This is a great facility,” said Japanese MP Miho Takai. “It’s wonderful to see children volunteer, to see them express what they want and learn to solve problems. I would like to bring this idea back with me to Japan.”
LPA also supports victims of violence. For example, the staff is currently working to bring to justice a teacher who reportedly raped an eight-year-old girl. The lawmakers visited police headquarters, where victims of child abuse, violence and exploitation are served by officers specifically trained to deal with such incidents.
“We must realize that violence and sexual exploitation are pervasive problems,” said Canadian MP Sue Barnes. “We have to acknowledge that we cannot solve these problems alone and we need organizations like UNICEF who are on the ground. We all have a role.”
Benefits of child-friendly schools
Of course, making children aware of the dangers of abuse and violence can protect them from ever becoming victims. This issue is being addressed at an innovative elementary school in Lombok, where children learn about their rights in an open environment. Here, teachers are also trained to spot potential victims in their own classrooms.
This ‘child-friendly’ approach, developed by UNICEF, has made an impact in Indonesia and was praised by the lawmakers.
“This is an impressive approach, so much more than rote learning. It’s interactive, the children do their work and share. They can ask questions and even criticize things,” noted Egyptian MP Syada Elharmy Griess.
Many of the parliamentarians said they were inspired by the Lombok visit. One said it was “a wake-up call,” and another concluded that while good child protection laws are vital, they need to be properly implemented and supported – including at the community level .
“By taking this opportunity to visit what UNICEF does, these MPs will get to know the reality of child protection issues,” said UNICEF Deputy Executive Director Toshiyuki Niwa. “It is an excellent way to develop a good understanding within the global community at large.”
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By Alaa Malhas and Wendy Bruere
AMMAN, Jordan, 13 December 2012 - Rahaf, 19, was studying to be a doctor in the Syrian Arab Republic before she fled to Jordan one month ago. She and her family were reluctant to leave their home in Dera’a until a bomb blast killed her two sisters and injured her oldest brother. “After that, my parents saw there was nothing to do but get away,” she says.
Even so, it was a difficult decision. “I’m not comfortable being here while people are dying in Syria,” she says.
Rahaf’s 18-year-old brother supports the family by working in a local restaurant. Her father stayed behind.
She cannot afford to continue her studies in Jordan and says she is just waiting until it is safe to return to her country. “The days are long here, and I don’t know what to do with my time.”
Lives put on hold
By late November, 143,697 Syrian refugees were registered or awaiting registration with UNHCR in Jordan. Like Rahaf, the vast majority of these people live in host communities, mainly in the capital Amman and the towns Irbid, Ma’an, Mafraq and Ramtha. The rest are in Za’atari refugee camp in the north.
“While Za’atari camp rightly receives much attention, we cannot forget those refugees living in host communities who are often extremely vulnerable and need our support,” says UNICEF Representative in Jordan Dominique Hyde.
To assist young women like Rahaf, the Jordan Red Crescent, with UNICEF assistance, runs guided workshops for adolescents and parents. Sessions aim to provide psychosocial support and raise awareness of child protection issues.
They target Syrian refugees living in Amman, as well as vulnerable Jordanians. In these groups, people can discuss their concerns with others in similar situations and receive guidance and support. Sessions run weekly over several months.
In a session Rahaf attended in early November, she and seven other teenage girls – six Syrians and one Jordanian – talked about the boredom and restlessness they felt as their lives were put on hold by the conflict in the Syrian Arab Republic.
Mirna*, 16, attended the session with Rahaf. Although she is safe in Jordan, she lives with the uncertainty of not knowing what is happening to extended family left behind. “We fled death. It was horrible – there was shelling, and we were lucky to escape,” she says. “Because of bad phone connections, we haven’t been able to talk to family who stayed in Homs.”
Providing a safe space
Aside from the support offered through the guided workshops, further psychological assistance is offered to those who need it. The Jordan Red Crescent also provides recreational spaces and vocational training. So far, more than 600 Syrian refugees and vulnerable Jordanians have benefited from these programmes in Amman.
Walaa, 17, was in her final year of high school when she left the Syrian Arab Republic. She has not returned to school in Jordan, but is learning computer skills at the centre. She says she is gradually making new friends there.
Project Manager with the Jordan Red Crescent Razan Obeid says many Syrian refugees view their situation as temporary and do not plan to stay in Jordan for long – at least at first.
“Providing these programmes for girls and mothers helps them to process what they have been through and adjust to living in Jordan,” Ms. Hyde says. “Learning new skills and becoming part of a new peer group helps equip them to cope with what may become a lengthy stay here.”
UNICEF works with vulnerable Syrians in host communities, and has so far helped 17,000 children enroll in public schools, reached nearly 5,500 children and caregivers with psychosocial and protection activities, and is working to improve water supply in water-scarce northern governorates.
*Name changed on request.
Related links
For the first time in Jordan, young children who cannot be cared for by their biological parents are placed with foster families, not institutions
In Jordan, Syrian refugee children learn how to recover from a violent past
At Za'atari refugee camp in Jordan, UNICEF supports Syrian refugee families
with video
Peace and security agenda
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Thematic activities
UNIDO has spearheaded thematic initiatives involving NCPCs and other partner institutions on the following topics:
- Chemical Leasing: the development and application of service-based business models to foster the efficient and safe use of environmentally sound and safe chemicals in industrial operations. A methodology and business models have been developed and piloted in seven countries, in particular: Colombia, Egypt, Mexico, Morocco, Russian Federation, Serbia and Sri Lanka.
- Chemicals and Chemical Waste Management: UNIDO promotes the implementation of the Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICM) and has actively engaged the NCPCs in implementation of SAICM at the national level through the SAICM Quick Start Programme in for example Egypt, El Salvador and Peru.
- Corporate Social Responsibility: the NCPCs in India and Vietnam collaborated with ILO on its Factory Improvement Programme, which was the precursor for the current SCORE Programme, which is being implemented for example in collaboration with the NCPC in China. UNIDO also produced a comprehensive training and business advisory resource, under its Responsible Entrepreneurs Achievement Programme (REAP), which was extensively tested with several NCPCs including Croatia and Hungary. UNIDO in collaboration with the NCPC in Viet Nam and sector associations in the textile, leather and electronics sector implements a project on adaptation and adoption of CSR in small and medium enterprises in Viet Nam .
- International Industrial Biotechnology Network: biotechnology is among the few cross-sector enabling technologies for advancing resource productivity and environmental performance. UNIDO recently launched the IIBN to foster the application of biotechnology for sustainable industrial development in developing and transition countries.
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Pennsylvania has a rich history, beautiful scenery, and lively cities including Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. There are 500 colleges and universities in Pennsylvania in both rural and urban areas, offering an experience for everyone. Some of the most prestigious universities in Pennsylvania include the private options Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), University of Pennsylvania (UPenn), Lehigh University, and Drexel University. UPenn is part of the Ivy-League and CMU is one of the most respected research universities in the country.
Public colleges in Pennsylvania include Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) with a total of 23 campuses throughout the state. Another respected public college is Temple University. Other top colleges in Pennsylvania are the prestigious Swarthmore College and the all women’s school, Bryn Mawr College.
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Known as the Buckeye State for buckeye trees that once covered this state, Ohio has over 200 colleges and universities both public and private. In fact, the largest public college in the country is located here, Ohio State University. OSU is also the states’ highest ranked college and has a formidable football team. Other public colleges in the state include the notable University of Cincinnati, Kent State University, Youngstown State and Miami University.
There are many private colleges in Ohio including the prestigious Case Western Reserve University and Xavier University. Many of the colleges in Ohio are located in cities including Columbus, which is home to OSU, and Cleveland, where Cuyahoga Community College is located. Dayton also has many colleges including the private Catholic University of Dayton.
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The technology advantage: how UNOSAT Humanitarian Rapid Mapping Service has become a UN standard in less than 10 years
Like most success stories, the partnership between UNOSAT and the international humanitarian community had a tentative beginning. Ten years ago, UNOSAT experts housed at the CERN laboratory in Geneva suggested for the first time the idea of a full scale service dedicated to supporting humanitarian decision making and ground operations. To be useful, the service had to be operational 24 hours a day, each day of the year, rely on standards and operational procedures still unwritten at that time, and be free of charge for humanitarian operators who had no time and no dedicated budget to pay for a technology service.
Since its birth as a project in 2000 UNOSAT work has been based on a professional commitment to producing concrete, tangible and usable results. Known at first for its maps and detailed assessments, UNOSAT evolved rapidly from 2000 to 2003 into a specialized team able to produce just-in-time geospatial products for identified users and beneficiaries in UN agencies, member states, and communities in a variety of areas, with a focus on turning technology into usable applications.
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Requests for further information regarding the registration procedure may be sent to the following email address: [email protected].
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Quality Standards
To live up to our position as an industry leader. And to ensure the upholding of our high quality standards, our products are continuously tested in our in-house laboratory with regard to the following properties:
Medical properties with regard to dimensions, thickness, wall thickness distribution, pretreatment, opacity, tensile strength, expansion, dart drop,
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Physical properties with regard to water vapor permeability (MVTR)
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In addition to certification within the framework of the ISO 9001 quality management system and the HACCP hygiene quality system, the auditing for the EN ISO 15593 in April 2011 has also been successfully completed.
Environmental Resposibility
Unterland takes its duty of active participation in maintaining the environment very seriously and views this as a continuous process requiring constant attention and extending beyond the legally mandated requirements.
We consider the efficient and economical management of raw materials and resources as an indispensable part of maintaining the environment and securing our future.
Because films made of polyolefins are a thermoplastic material, they can be reprocessed into new products. This allows waste arising in the film production as well as any film scraps to be returned to the material cycle after reprocessing in the in-house recycling plant. If it can no longer be used at the end of the recycling chain, the material still represents a valuable fuel with a high thermal value corresponding roughly to that of hard coal. Incineration of polyolefins result in the release of carbon dioxide and water vapor and no harmful nitrous oxides! In the area of resource utilization, the cooling water used is also retreated before being released.
The energy released within the framework of the extrusion process is captured close to the ceiling and reused through corresponding heat recovery systems to heat the supply air for the hall, the thermal area and the extrusion area.
Environmental protection also requires new ways of thinking. On the search for alternative raw material possibilities, our efforts are increasingly directed toward biological films, for example with a starch base, that can be composted.
Our environmental responsibility in the broad sense also applies to the working environments of our employees. For example current internal projects involve the further improvement of noise protection as well as room air and exhaust air.
Optimization of the working and room climate also results from constant innovations in production plants and processes.
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