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Galileo in your community
We believe all kids have the potential to be bold, fearless innovators. And we've made it our mission to unlock that potential—not just at our camps, but throughout the community.
That's why we're committed to developing the skills of our exceptional summer staff, hundreds of whom apply their considerable talents to teaching underserved students during the school year. And it's why we work year round forging partnerships and nurturing collaborations with local families, school districts and educational organizations to bring Galileo's camps, curriculum and innovation approach to as many kids as we can.
Here's how we're spreading Galileo-inspired innovation at camp and beyond:
Galileo Financial Assistance
Every year since Galileo's inception, we have committed to reserving at least 7% of our camp capacity for low-income students. We've since granted more than 15,000 full and partial scholarships (worth upwards of $5M) for Camp Galileo, Galileo Summer Quest and Summer Camps @ The Tech through our financial assistance program. In summer 2016, we'll award over 3,500 additional weeks of camp across the Bay Area, Southern California and Chicago.
Oakland Innovators Program
Galileo joined forces with the Oakland Unified School District in 2016 to create the Oakland Innovators Program, working with principals throughout the district to identify 150 young changemakers. We recognized these extraordinary students for their innovator's mindsets and awarded them free camp.
Burlingame School District Partnership
In 2016, we partnered with the Burlingame School District to send 100 low-income Burlingame students to Galileo camps in lieu of remediation-based summer school.
Boys & Girls Clubs of America Partnership
Working with the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Peninsula and five East Palo Alto schools with funding provided by Startup:Education, we sent over 1,200 students to Camp Galileo for free in 2015 and 2016.
We believe in change makers and active agents who envision and create a better world. Are you one of these people? We'd love for you to join us. Send us a note at firstname.lastname@example.org.
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17 3/4 in. x 17 3/4 in. x 3 3/4 in. (45.09 cm x 45.09 cm x 9.53 cm)
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October 22nd, 2012 by Neil
As I try to recover from a week in New Orleans, ex-pat friend Knile has a couple of guest posts on deck. ~Rosa
I don’t remember where I picked up this Chocolove bar. It could have been downtown here or on my Swiss trip. Either way, I clearly didn’t read the label closely to find out that it’s made in one of the Fifty Nifty United States. Rosa’s reviewed other Chocolove products before, but not this one, so at least it’s somewhat novel that way.
The bar looked a bit dusty and dried up when I opened it, which detracted from its otherwise curvaceous and heart-icon-covered appearance. Each piece broke off cleanly; only a few flakes fell on my coffee table.
The chocolate itself was fairly unremarkable, with a thin flavor. I wanted it to be creamier. The bits of raspberry provided a very welcome crunchiness, though their fruitiness took a while to build up, not at all the “tart… burst of flavor” the package promised.
Not a huge winner for me in the end, but maybe my expectations were set too high. This gets an O.
Category: chocolate, Chocolove, guest post, O, review |
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July 15th, 2011 by Rosa
I recently attended the wedding of my boyfriend’s cousin. The wedding was held in Colorado, and the bride and groom chose to give their guests gift baskets with locally made treats and favors, including bars of Chocolove chocolate. That’s my kind of wedding!
The back of the Toffee & Almonds in Milk Chocolate bar described its contents as “Chunks of almond toffee in smooth milk chocolate. Creamy milk chocolate releases chunks of buttery sweet toffee and dry roasted almonds.”
Thanks to summer in my non-air conditioned house, the 33% milk chocolate that was the base of this bar was very soft, almost like putty. It melted in my fingers.
The melt of the chocolate was lovely – thick and tongue-coatingly luxurious. It tasted of caramel and sugar.
The tiny bits of toffee distributed throughout the bar were the best part. They were dry and crunchy with a great scorchiness. The almond bits were visually indistinguishable from the toffee, but I was able to detect the light nutty flavor that they added.
My only complaint about this bar was that it was too sweet in the finish, with a cloy that burned the throat. Otherwise, I loved the mix of crunchy and thick, sweet and burnt and nutty. An OM.
Category: chocolate, Chocolove, nuts, OM, review, toffee |
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March 22nd, 2010 by Rosa
I bought this Chocolove Holiday bar on sale in January. Thus I think that it’s safe to assume that “holiday” is PC for Christmas. It’s described on the back as follows: “Sweet currants, tart cherries, zesty orange and spicy ginger compliment a mix of crunchy pecans, walnuts and hazelnuts enrobed in dark chocolate… This classic combination is inspired by a popular holiday chocolate in France known as mendiant.”
The chocolate itself was very mild. At 55%, it was nicely shiny and snappy and had a smooth texture and taste. It wasn’t very distinctive, but it served as a great foil for the bar’s mix-ins.
The pecans and walnut bits add a light nuttiness and textural contrast. The hazelnuts are wonderful – the best nuts of the bunch. Their distinctive nuttiness floats above the chocolate flavors.
The currants and cherries were also great – little chewy bits of sweet and tartness that brightened the bar. I think I only got a few errant pieces of ginger, and I only think I did because they were quite candied and had lost their ginger flavor.
The orange zest was my favorite add-in. It was bright and tart and citrusy and paired amazingly with the chocolate.
The fruits and nuts really made this bar. I wish the chocolate had a bit more depth and complexity instead of taking a backseat to all the additions, but it still made for a tasty combination that kept me popping more squares. An OM.
Category: chocolate, Chocolove, Christmas, limited edition, nuts, OM, review |
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May 1st, 2008 by Rosa
After the success of my first chocolate tasting (notes here), I held a second one with the extra bars. Unfortunately, by the time the second tasting rolled around, most of the bars had bloomed thanks to New Haven humidity and temperature fluctuations and a lack of air conditioning. The Vosges chocolate bars were the only ones that survived because their wrappers are airtight. We tasted them anyway, and all the flavors were there; it’s just that the textures were all wrong. Sadness. Here’s what we tasted, with my notes:
- Green and Black’s milk, 34% – sweet, yogurty flavor; tastes like a Cadbury mini-egg. Thick texture.
- Dagoba milk, 37% – slightly fruitier than the Green and Black’s with a dusky finish.
- Vosges Macha (Japanese macha green tea in 41% deep milk) – woodsy dirt flavor, brittle texture. Tastes like green tea, as it should. I don’t like the taste of green tea, but if you do, this bar is true to its name.
- Vosges Woolloomooloo (roasted and salted macadamia nuts, Indonesian coconut, hemp seeds in 41% deep chocolate) – I’ve reviewed the truffle version of this bar. Nicely nutty, smells of coconut.
- Vosges Goji (Tibetan goji berries, pink Himalayan salt in 41% deep milk) – fruitiness to the bar; goji berries just taste like red berries. Saltiness works, I think.
- Vosges Mo’s Bacon Bar (applewood smoked bacon, alderwood smoked salt in 41% deep milk chocolate) – I bought another one of these bars because it’s such a great conversation piece for tastings.
- Chocolove dark chocolate, 55% – nuttiness to the flavor, which starts off sweet and has a long finish. Vanilla notes? Thick texture.
- Nirvana Single Origin Granada, 60% – fairly straightforward cocoa flavor with a strong roasted taste.
- Scharffen Berger 62% semisweet – fruity notes, sweet finish
- Vosges Calindia (Indian green cardamom, organic California walnuts, dried plums in 65% Venezualan dark chocolate) – strong spice flavor. Can taste the sweetness of the plums and feel where it adds texture.
- Nirvana Single Origin Santa Domingo, 67% – strong earthiness, dirt flavor. Not at all well received (the wrapper promised herbal tones, which must have been the dirt flavor people complained about).
- Green and Black’s Maya Gold (orange and spices) – on first taste, strong notes of pepper with a light orange finish. On second taste, orange flavor stronger. Many people said the bar tasted like marmalade.
- Scharffen Berger 70% bittersweet – super fruity with a cocoa finish
- Dagoba Conacado, 73% – nutty
- Dagoba New Moon, 74% – sweeter than the Conacado with a dark fruitiness
- Dagoba Xocolatl, 74% with chilies and nibs – slight fruitiness to the chocolate. STRONG chili flavor that wallops your taste buds on first impact. Not the way I like my chili chocolate.
- Endangered Species 88% Extreme Dark (panther) – vanilla scent with a nice smoky flavor.
- Ghirardelli 100% baking chocolate – completely dries up the mouth. Worse than the 100% La Maison du Chocolat bar.
Category: chocolate, Chocolove, Dagoba, Endangered Species, Ghirardelli, Green & Black's, news, Scharrfen Berger, single origin, Vosges |
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March 18th, 2008 by Rosa
My tasting notes, as promised. I loved how I was able to notice the subtle differences between the bars by tasting them all together. For example, when I first tasted the Scharffen Berger Extra Rich Milk, I thought it was sweet and yogurty. Tasting it right after the Chocolove Milk and the Papua single origin bar, the Scharffen Berger bar suddenly took on smoky qualities.
- Chocolove Milk Chocolate (33%) – thick and creamy, coats the tongue heavily; vanilla and caramel notes
- Nirvana Belgian Chocolates’ Papua single origin (35%) – dull and greasy looking, coffee smell, vanilla and yogurt flavor
- Scharffen Berger Extra Rich Milk (41%) – dusky, smoky flavor, soft snap with a thick and heavy melt, lingering finish
- Endangered Species Smooth Milk (52%) – earthy, pepper flavor
- Vosges Naga Bar (41%) – a bit grainy with a great snap, coconut flavor
- Vosges Mo’s Bacon Bar (41%) – smells smoky, bacon bits give it a large grain, super salty bar
- Vosges Red Fire or Oaxaca Bars (55%) – starts off sweet but the chili burn and the heat builds, a finish that lingers in the back of the throat
- Chocolove Ginger Crystallized in Dark Chocolate (65%) – sweet, sugar flavor, light ginger and citrusy notes
- Chocolove Strong Dark (70%) – earthy aroma, greasy texture
- Lake Champlain Single Origin Sao Thome (70%) – sweet and fruity notes
- Vosges Creole Bar (70%) – sweet start, coffee finish that lingers, a creamy melt around the coffee bean and nib bits
- Scharffen Berger Antilles (75%) – my favorite of the bunch – a sharp snap on a glossy, dark bar, creamy melt, lingering finish
- Lake Champlain Single Origin Tanzania (75%) – banana notes, thinner melt, unpleasant finish that’s buttery and lingering
- Scharffen Berger Extra Dark (82%) – bitter tobacco notes with a slightly sweet finish
- La Maison Du Chocolat Coro (100%) – bitter start, dries out the mouth
- Valrhona Gianduja Noisette (no %, but super, super light milk) -super soft, almost like fudge at room temperature, quite soft, creamy, heavy, and thick with strong hazelnut flavors
Category: chocolate, Chocolove, Dagoba, Endangered Species, Lake Champlain, Scharrfen Berger, Vosges |
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2 lounges, 2 bars, 2 restaurants, 2 private dining rooms, business centre, free Wi-Fi, in-room TV (Sky, Freeview), civil wedding licence, 2-acre grounds (courtyard, gardens), public rooms wheelchair accessible, adapted toilet.
all ages welcomed.
allowed, not unattended in bedrooms, only guide dogs in restaurants.
Amex, Mastercard, Visa.
per room B&B single from £130, double £160–£290. A la carte £65. 1-night bookings refused during Burghley Horse Trials.
VisitEngland Four Star Hotel
Good Hotel Guide Review
‘As good as ever in all respects,’ writes a regular visitor after this year’s visit to Lawrence Hoskins’s popular hotel, a historic landmark of this Georgian town. ‘The reception staff, without exception, were helpful and extremely pleasant.’ Past guests including Charles I and William III might have agreed that some rooms are ‘quite small’, but would surely have appreciated the evening turndown, complimentary morning newspaper, tea or coffee, bathrooms with robes, upmarket toiletries. Larger suites enjoy such features as four-poster or half-tester beds, leather sofa, mullioned windows – a legacy of Lord Burghley’s 1597 rebuild of the inn. Public rooms have wood panelling, exposed stone walls, open fires and original signs for London and York, reminders of its days as a stagecoach stop. Daniel Lambert, formerly Britain’s heaviest man, whose walking canes decorate the entrance hall, would certainly have enjoyed the food, either the Garden Room’s less formal fare, where lobster spaghetti was ‘faultless’, or the Oak Room, where chef Paul Nicholls’s dishes include the likes of roasted rack of lamb, garlic, herb crust, redcurrant, rosemary. Breakfast was ‘excellent, cooked to order, plenty of choice’. (Helen Ann Davies, IB, and others)
- Country Life: 10 lovely hotels for a family-friendly break in Britain
Sumptuous Sundays Special Offer
Indulge yourself! Stay in one of the fabulous bedrooms over a Sunday night from only £130 for two when you dine beforehand in the renowned Oak Panelled Restaurant. It is also possible to request Classic, Junior Suite, Four Poster and Single rooms. Morning tea or coffee is brought to you at an agreed time with The Times or Daily Mail, and a traditional Full English Breakfast of your choice awaits you in the Garden Room – all in the price of your room! Dinner is taken in the elegant Restaurant, chosen from the tempting, extensive and simply delicious menu, and needs to come to at least £35 per head, excluding wine and drinks. This rate is available on Sunday evenings, subject to availability, except on Bank Holiday Weekends when the Monday effectively becomes a Sunday! Jackets are requested for gentlemen – it is a special occasion after all. Please mention the Good Hotel Guide when booking.
This hotel accepts room upgrade vouchers which entitle readers to a space available room upgrade. The voucher must be presented at check-in and is entirely at the hotelier’s discretion.
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Blood-Bourne Infections and Persons with Mental Illness: Substance Abuse and the Transmission of Hepatitis C Among Persons with Severe Mental Illness
OBJECTIVES: The authors sought to better understand the relationship of substance abuse to higher rates of transmission of hepatitis C among persons with severe mental illness.
METHODS: The authors assessed 668 persons with severe mental illness for HIV, hepatitis B, and hepatitis C infection through venipuncture. Demographic characteristics, substance abuse, and risk behaviors for blood-borne infections were assessed through interviews and collection of clinical data.
RESULTS: Eighty-two percent of the assessed persons were not infected, and 18 percent had hepatitis C. Among those with hepatitis C infection, 546 (82 percent) tested negative for all viruses. Of the 122 (18 percent) who had hepatitis C, 53 (8 percent) had only hepatitis C, 56 (8 percent) had both hepatitis C and hepatitis B, three (1 percent) had hepatitis C and HIV, and ten (2 percent) had all three infections. More than 20 percent of the sample reported lifetime intravenous drug use, and 14 percent reported lifetime needle sharing. Fifty-seven percent had sniffed of snorted cocaine, and 39 percent had smoked crack. A stepwise regression model was used to identify interaction effects of these behaviors and risk of hepatitis C infection among persons with severe mental illness. Use of needles and of crack cocaine were associated with a large increase in the likelihood of hepatitis C infection.
CONCLUSIONS: The high rates of co-occurring substance use disorders among persons with severe mental illness, coupled with the role of substance abuse as the primary vector for hepatitis C transmission, warrants special consideration. (Authors)
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Visiting artist Kim Spooner
On Wednesday 25 May, Year 9 Elective Visual Arts students attended an exciting, full day, art making workshop in The Croydon studios. Leading the day was award-winning artist and lecturer, Kim Spooner.
Kim Spooner is represented by Annandale Galleries and was a finalist for the Archibald Prize. In 1999, Kim was the winner of the Portia Geach Memorial Award, Australia's most prestigious art prize for portraiture by female artists. Kim has been a lecturer in painting at The National Arts School for many years.
As part of their Light and Life painting program, students were treated to a portrait painting workshop from Kim Spooner. Kim gave a lively talk about her art practice as a portraitist and demonstrated her process of working with building imprimatura colour grounds, as well as instructing the girls on colour theory. She guided them through the drawing and inking up stages of their painting studies in preparation for their final works. Later in the day the girls stretched their own canvases in preparation for their final painting composition which they will start next week. This was a very rewarding and inspiring day for our budding PLC Sydney artists.
Image (left): Visiting artist, Kim Spooner.
Image (right): Year 9 students Kelly Lu and Phoebe Cridland.
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Ligonier ice festival showcases DiMartino sculptors
The 22nd Ligonier Valley Chamber of Commerce Ice Fest is Jan. 26 - 27 on the Ligonier Diamond.
Sculptors from DiMartino Ice Co. will use chain saws to cut through 20-inch wide by 40-inch tall blocks of ice creating temporary masterpieces of art. The carvers will create the ice sculptures 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Jan. 26 and noon - 3 p.m. Jan. 27.
The annual ice festival is the first event of the year for the chamber. It provides an opportunity for local merchants to showcase their wares at indoor sidewalk sales.
“Whether it is 70 degrees or seven degrees, it brings people to town,” said Cindy Purnell, the event's chairperson for the past 12 years. “It is not a fundraiser but more of a business builder,” said Purnell.
This year's ice fest will introduce the first invitational speed carving competition 2 p.m. Jan. 27. It will showcase four DiMartino ice sculptors, Robert Higareda, Jared McAlister, Joe DiMartino and Ernie DiMartino.
“This is something we developed for the event in Franklin. It has become very popular there,” said DiMartino, the company's president. “While driving back from that show, I thought this would be something that could become popular in Ligonier to watch on Sunday.”
On the second day of the event in Ligonier, DiMartino said the carvers typically create six or eight carvings.
“The half-hour carving competition gives people a reason to come back on the second day of the festival,” DiMartino said.
“An MC will be there to promote the event leading up to the competition and will give a play-by-play during the event.”
While it is not actually a speed contest, spectators will have the opportunity to vote for the best carving station.
Misty Haven Carriage will offer horse and buggy rides around the Diamond area and The Popcorn Man will be making Kettle Korn throughout the event.
Glass City Swing Band will provide free musical entertainment at 2 p.m. Jan. 26 in Town Hall auditorium. Swing City will perform in the auditorium 12:30 p.m. Jan. 27.
The Ligonier Volunteer Fire Co. No. 1 spaghetti dinner begins 11 a.m. in the Ligonier Town Hall community room. The Ligonier Valley Library will present a children's winter story hour at 2 p.m. Saturday for children 10 and under.
The Ligonier Theatre will present the second Chill Chaser 3 p.m. Saturday.
DiMartino has been participating in the ice festival in Ligonier since its inception.
“It has been 22 years since the first ice festival in Ligonier,” said DiMartino. “You have the greatest participation here in Ligonier. The percentage of businesses active in this festival is the greatest of all eight festivals we do between November and February each winter.”
DiMartino said the event was a nationally-sanctioned ice carving event, in the beginning.
“It started as a demonstration the first year. Then for the next few years it was a professional ice carving competition,” said DiMartino.
In recent years, the event has become a favorite for DiMartino.
“The Ligonier Ice Fest gives me the opportunity to carve in front of family and friends,” said DiMartino. “This fest has turned into the winter version of my family reunion. It is our most local festival and people in Ligonier have become family to me too. We've been there for 22 years. I consider people there my friends.”
DiMartino said this year's event in Ligonier will be an emotional one for him because it is the first event without his father Art, who passed away in June 2012.
“It will be sad this first year without my father,” said DiMartino. “Ligonier was his favorite. We will be dedicating some of the sculptures to him.”
DiMartino said his father always enjoyed coming to Ligonier during the ice fest.
“He was always so proud of us when he came to Ligonier,” he said. “It was a place that made him smile.”
DiMartino said a photograph taken of his father during the ice fest three years ago appears on all of the company's delivery trucks.
“We put his photo on one truck to see how it worked. When we showed it to Dad, he got a big smile on his face and asked if I would put on all of the trucks. A month before he died, I took him to the ice house and showed him the photos on all of the trucks.”
Contact the chamber office at 724-238-4200, for additional information about purchasing ice blocks for the ice fest.
Deborah A. Brehun is a staff editor for Trib Total Media. She can be reached at 724-238-2111 or email@example.com.
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By Robert Higgs
- President Franklin D. Roosevelts New Deal did not end the Great Depressionit prolonged it. By shaking investors confidence in the security of their private property rights, the presidents laws and regulations discouraged the long-term private investment needed to revive the economy. Private investment remained low during World War II and only began to risefor the first time since the 1920safter the transition to a new administration in 1945.
- In the rush to build a credible military force in 1940, the Roosevelt administration turned toward a big business model of national defense. Facing diminished defense capabilities and contractors reluctant to bear the risks of converting from civilian to military production, the new policies offered loan guarantees, tax deferrals, contractual adjustments, and government-provided capital. The majority of defense contracting became concentrated among a small number of giant corporations, where it remains today.
- The belief that World War II created prosperity is a historical myth that stems from the misinterpretation that war or large defense spending benefits the civilian economy. The draft might have reduced official unemployment numbers, but military service yielded little pay under harsh conditions and cannot be reasonably equated with jobs in the civilian sector. Moreover, few durable and non-defense capital goods were produced by the new labor force, and real personal consumption, adjusted for population growth, changed very little between 1941 and 1944.
- In the four decades that the U.S. government spent waging the Cold War, massive changes were made in the allocation of resources. Whereas typically no more than 1 percent of GNP was allocated for peacetime military purposes prior to World War II, defense spending during the period 194889 averaged about $168 billion annually, or about 7.5 percent of GNP. Though spending dropped from 196876 due to opposition to the Vietnam War, the perceived crisis of the Cold War and the publics accompanying insecurity drove supportand spendingback up.
- The U.S. national defense budget is routinely used by Congress to serve and strengthen its members special interests and measures. Members employ vote-trading strategies to hide costs from their constituents and give the appearance of everyone receiving their fair share. When measures are viewed individually, the amount of defense waste may seem relatively small, but combined they accounted for at least $10 billion a year of unnecessary spending in the 1980s.
- From 1949 to 1989, the top defense firms outperformed the stock market by a huge margin. An investor who held a portfolio of top defense firms during those four decades would have earned about 2.4 times more than one who invested an equal initial amount in a diversified portfolio. Meanwhile, only weak evidence has been found that investment in defense companies was riskier than investing in the overall market.
- Public opinion from a given year is the single best predictor of military spending in the following year. The information that shapes the publics opinion, however, is controlled by members of the national security elite, who may seek to use their positions of authority to change its meaning. For policymakers, attempting to manipulate public opinion in their own favor is a ceaseless contest.
American history is a subject filled with urban legends and propaganda promulgated by partisan interest groups. In his classic work Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government (Oxford University Press, 1987), economist and historian Robert Higgs (Senior Fellow, The Independent Institute) addressed dozens of misconceptions about the growth of the U.S. government during the twentieth century and offered a bold new theory in their place: The largest military and economic crisis of that century, he showed, eroded traditional constraints on the growth of American government. After the crises had passed, Americans were left with a government larger in size, scope, and power and more institutionally entrenched than before.
In Depression, War, and Cold War: Challenging the Myths of Conflict and Prosperity, Higgs shows how the Great Depression, World War II, and the Cold War transformed the American political economy. Collecting ten of his most important scholarly papers written since the publication of his earlier book, Depression, War, and Cold War demonstrates Higgss masterful grasp of the relevant scholarly literature and his keen analytical ability to discern the larger meaning of statistical minutiae overlooked by many economic historians. The result is a work that sheds light not only on three of the most monumental events in recent U.S. history, but also on the economic and institutional context in which the policymakers of today operate.
Prolonging the Great Depression
For decades, mainstream historians and members of the public largely believed that President Franklin D. Roosevelt rescued America from the depths of the Great Depression through his administrations New Deal programs and court decisions. In recent years this view has met serious challenges from such noteworthy works as Gary Dean Bests Pride, Prejudice, and Politics: Roosevelt versus Recovery, 19331938, and Gene Smileys Rethinking the Great Depression.
Higgs adds to this reassessment of Roosevelts legacy by arguing that FDRs policies and appointees inadvertently prolonged the Depression by fostering regime uncertaintyi.e., doubts about the security of property rights and the rule of lawwhich discouraged investors from investing in the long-term projects necessary to return the economy to health.
Another misunderstood issue surrounding twentieth century America is the origin of the U.S. militarys growing size during peacetime. It is often assumed that this trend began during the Cold War or was carried over from World War IIperhaps because President Dwight Eisenhower, in his 1961 farewell speech, warned against the unwarranted influence of the military industrial complex. Higgs traces one key aspect of this relationship to changes in weapons procurement policies adopted in 194041. These policy changes shifted a large portion of risk from private suppliers to the taxpayers at large.
Wartime Prosperity vs. Genuine
Many historians and economists believe that standard measures of macroeconomic performance show evidence of wartime prosperity. But, as Higgs explains, because the United States had a command economy during World War II, many of these measures are highly misleading, while others are conceptually inappropriate. Meaningful national product accounting requires market prices, but the command economy of the war years rendered all prices, especially those paid by the government for goods and services, completely arbitrary. Furthermore, the U.S. governments socialization of investment during the war distorted the allocation of capital goods and labor. Most of the capital formation alleged to have occurred during World War II consisted not of increases of real capital goods but of durable munitions such as weapons platforms, guns, ammunition, and related supplieswhich did nothing to increase production for the civilian economy.
As Higgs explains, the postwar transition to a peacetime market economy was one of the most remarkable events in U.S. economic history. By 1947, real military spending had hit its postwar low of 4.3 percent of GNP, millions of workers had left government service and returned to the private sector, and the country had returned to an economic normality not seen since before the Great Depression. But despite the size, speed, and uniqueness of the postwar reconversion of the U.S. economy, economists and economic historians have devoted minimal attention to it. The little they have written about it often falsely assumes that the wartime command economy is directly comparable to the prewar and the postwar economy.
The Cold War Political Economy
The Cold War significantly affected the economic performance of the United States, although economic historians have neglected this subject as well, continues Higgs. From 1948 through the 1960s the dominant Cold War ideology and a bipartisan consensus on defense and foreign policy centered on global containment of Communism and deterrence of a Soviet attack on Western Europe or the United States. These conditions supported the unprecedented allocation of resources to the peacetime military establishment. This ideological climate was essential in maintaining high levels of resource allocation to defense but not sufficient to prevent citizens skepticism. From 1968 to 1976, for example, military spending fell sharply due to a decline of public support. Periodic crises, however, helped revive an atmosphere of tension, distrust, and insecurity, which in turn fostered the continuation of the U.S. Soviet arms race.
Yet not all of these crises were genuine. A U.S.-Soviet bomber gap in the mid-1950s, a missile gap between 1958 and 1961, and a subsequent antimissile gap and first-strike missile gap are among the crises later revealed to have been false alarms. One reason for the error was that the National Security Act of 1947 greatly expanded the kinds of government documents that could be classified as official secrets, thereby preventing citizens (and even most of their political representatives) from holding informed opinions on military spending. This asymmetry made the public highly susceptible to information distortion by the Department of Defense, the National Security Council, the intelligence community, and other components of the national security elite.
National Defense Expenditures
Another problem with national defense, as Higgs demonstrates, is that members of Congress have treated defense programs as a means to serve their own selfish, parochial, and wasteful ends. Consider two of the most successful members of Congress. Rep. Dan Flood (D-Penn.) served 16 terms from 1944 to 1980. Floods leadership on the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee and the Labor and Health, Education, and Welfare Appropriations Subcommittee enabled him to extract political favors from other legislators. Although Flood generously supported defense appropriations, at times his logrolling conflicted with specific proposals favored by the military, such as the transition from coal-to oil-powered furnaces on U.S. military bases in Europe. Floods obstruction of this conversion cost taxpayers hundreds millions of dollars in excessive heating costs but enabled him to win votes from the anthracite coal region of his state. Similarly, Rep. Joseph McDade (R-Penn.), who served on the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, represented the hard coal region of his state and blocked base furnace conversion.
Congressional micromanagement of national defense programs grew dramatically after the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal. In 1970, Congress made 830 adds or cuts to line items in defense authorization or appropriations acts; in 1987 that number had swelled to 3,422. Too often, line-item legislating has promoted the narrower interests of members of Congress rather than national security. This outcome is most evident where Congress has continued to fund projects the Pentagon had recommended scrapping in favor of projects it has deemed more deserving. In 197881, this pork hawk waste included Congresss unnecessary purchase of 56 A-7 subsonic attack planes (at a cost of $575 million), mostly due to lobbying by the congressional delegation from the state in which the A-7s were manufactured.
What do U.S. defense contractors get for their efforts? Do they tend to earn average rates of profit for the amount of risk they faceor something more? In a co-authored paper, Higgs and Ruben Trevino compute three measures of profitability for the top 100 companies receiving the largest volume of prime contract awards. In the 1970s, the top defense contractors significantly outperformed the market in terms of stock market returns (i.e., dividends plus appreciation), whereas in the 1980s they significantly outperformed the market in terms of accounting rates of profit (return on investment and return on assets). From 1970 to 1989, an investor who held a portfolio of the top defense firms would have increased the value of his holdings by a multiple of 14.78, compared to a market multiple of 8.19 for the Standard & Poors 500.
Public Opinion and Defense Spending
The military-industrial-congressional complex, Higgs shows, is not monolithic; each component competes against the others for resources and influence. Public opinion also plays a significant role in defense spending, as Higgs and Anthony Kilduff explain. Drawing on the results of 181 national surveys taken from 1965 to 1989, they find that changes in military spending lag (and closely track) changes in public opinion on military spending. Employing a variety of statistical tests, they also find that changes in public opinion in a given year account for 65 percent of the variance of defense spending in the following yeara remarkably high explanatory power for just one variableand that number reaches 89 percent when a model with four lags is employed. Thus, at first blush it seems that the public gets the amount of military spending it wants.
But Higgs and Kilduff hasten to add that although public opinions seems to influence both the executive branchs and Congresss budget decisions, one cannot assume that public opinion is autonomous or spontaneous. The competition among rival interests, within as well as outside the government, acts to move public opinion in a desired direction, while the public is largely dependent on the national security elite for its knowledge of military capabilities, the intentions of potential adversaries, and other facts that should inform public opinion.
About the Author
272 pages 6 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches 14 figures 15 tables $22.95 paperback ISBN 978-1-59813-029-4
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UH-OH: Massachusetts Sec. of State Has History of Playing Games With Absentee Ballots
"Massachusetts Dems Beware. Something Scary This Way Cometh."
"............ACORN,Where Are You ACORN ?"
The latest polls show the race for Massachusetts Senator is too close to call. Looking at the history of the state's entrenched Democratic political machine, if Republican Scott Brown wins, he better win big, as the Massachusetts Secretary of State has been known to play fast and loose with absentee ballots. In 2008 was found to have violated the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act passed in 2002, in which he failed to report and collect the number sent and the number returned of absentee ballots from overseas Military personnel registered to vote in Massachusetts. After an investigation by the US Justice Department, a settlement was reached to force Galvin to comply with the law.
The Justice Department announced today that it has reached a settlement agreement with Massachusetts Secretary of State William Francis Galvin, to remedy violations of the Uniformed Overseas Citizen Absentee Voting Act (UOCAVA). UOCAVA is designed to ensure that uniformed military members and overseas citizens can effectively participate in federal elections. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, through its Secretary of State, is responsible for collecting and reporting the number of military voters and overseas citizens who are sent ballots, who return ballots, and who have the ballots successfully cast in each federal general election. Massachusetts has failed to fulfill this important legal obligation since UOCAVA was enacted in 2002.
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User-Defined Functions [LINQ to SQL]
LINQ to SQL uses methods in your object model to represent user-defined functions. You designate methods as functions by applying the FunctionAttribute attribute and, where required, the ParameterAttribute attribute. For more information, see The LINQ to SQL Object Model.
To avoid an InvalidOperationException, user-defined functions in LINQ to SQL must be in one of the following forms:
A function wrapped as a method call having the correct mapping attributes. For more information, see Attribute-Based Mapping.
A static SQL method specific to LINQ to SQL.
A function supported by a .NET Framework method.
The topics in this section show how to form and call these methods in your application if you write the code yourself. Developers using Visual Studio would typically use the Object Relational Designer to map user-defined functions. Object Relational Designer (O/R Designer)
Object Relational Designer (O/R Designer)
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Review Mico - Chat, Live Streaming
Make friends with this bare bones chat app
Author: Jay Feldman
Date: tested on 02 Apr 2017 on
Simple interface, minimalist design
Weak functionality, not enough of settings, low-quality design
Mico:Meet New People & Chat for Android is a no frills chat app that works with tablets and phones. Just input some basic biographical data, and before you know it, you'll be off and running towards a new and exciting social life. Okay, well maybe not exactly like that, but you get the picture.
Mico:Meet New People & Chat displays in portrait, and right off the top, presents an old school interface featuring people near you on a vertically scrolling interface populated with square thumbnails and the approximate distance from your current location. Just scroll through all the offerings to find a new special friend and tap on their thumbnail to read additional info. Profiles are only as captivating as users have made them, so sometimes you see a lot of information, and more often you see very sparse personal details. To make nice with someone new, just send them a message or post a few words.
The app functions well enough for what little it does. Truth be told, I can't help but feel this is just another hook-up app at its core, but sure, you can probably make an online friend or two as well. There's a news feed interface that shows recent activity, like when new photos are posted or comments are made. The idea here is to create a thriving community, but at the end of the day, this is ultimately a private messaging app. There's an array of sticker packs to be downloaded and used in your messages and some of them are quite comical and fun.
Mico:Meet New People & Chat is a decent chat app that feels more like a dating app in disguise; either way, it's only marginally interesting and far too old school for its own good.
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Two couples have returned to the churches where they got married 60 years ago.
Doreen and Paul Bolitho, of Theatre Street in Warwick, have recently returned from a holiday in Cornwall where they visited Tuckingmill Wesleyan church where they were married on August 18 1955.
They celebrated their diamond wedding anniversary on Tuesday following a service at Northgate Methodist church.
The couple have active members of the church for many years with Doreen, 85, having once been its organist and Paul, 87, being a former editor of its magazine from 1972 to 2011.
Paul and Doreen met at the Newquay Methodist School of Fellowship’s Easter event in 1952.
Doreen was a student and later worked as a teacher while Paul, a minister’s son, decided to pursue a career as a librarian which lead to them moving to Warwick where he became the town’s librarian in 1970.
He worked at the library for 22 years.
Paul has had three books about history published - including Warwick’s Most Famous Son, about Thomas Oaken.
The couple have a son and a daughter, eight grandchildren and one great grandchild.
Paul said: “I couldn’t have wished for a better wife than Doreen.”
>>> On Thursday Sheila and Ian Holland, of Willow Court, Heathcote, celebrated their diamond wedding anniversary by renewing their vows at the Parish church in Sutton Coldfield, where they were married on August 20 1955.
Ian, 84, was a policeman in the Midlands for 30 years, rising to the rank of Inspector.
Sheila, 81, and Ian moved to Kenilworth in 1971 where he set up a driving school after he had left the police.
The couple met at the palace Ballroom in Erdington in 1951.
Ian was doing his national service in the army at the time and had paid a colleague ten shillings so he could take leave that weekend - money he says was ‘well spent’.
The couple, who were Caravan Club members for 40 years, have always been musical having sung with amateur operatic societies.
Ian has also played for the West Midlands Police Brass and Dunchurch Silver Bands and is now a member of the Spa Strummers Ukulele Band.
The couple have two daughters, seven grandchildren and a great grandchild.
Ian said: “We’ve lived well, loved each other very much and laughed a lot.”
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Muhammad Uns is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Swyft, a third-party logistics company that offers quick flow of goods to customers while ensuring transparency, quality of service and continuous improvement.
An MBA from LUMS, one of Pakistan’s premium business schools, Uns always had a knack for entrepreneurship, technology and spearheading startups. He began his career eleven years ago at TRG – a leading call center, and transitioned into data capitalization over the years. His pioneering venture DOCKIT greatly revolutionized loyalty programs and data analytics.
Uns has participated in various international tech summits and, drawing on his vast experience, also headed growth initiatives at Cheetay.pk. This was a thought-provoking project that made him recognize the need for a new dimension in logistics.
With a focus on innovation and technology development processes, Uns is now heading Swyft, a tech-enabled logistics company that is well on its way to compete with the movers and shakers of the 3PL industry in Pakistan.
“Leadership and teamwork go hand-in-hand. Therefore, at Swyft, we create a comfortable and positive work environment that inspires us to learn, grow and excel every day.”
– Muhammad Uns
Muhammad Uns is a Member of the Male Champions of Change Pakistan group which was established in 2018. The Pakistan group includes representatives from various sectors including hospitality, telecommunications, information technology, micro-finance and sport. Members are committed to leading on gender equality, diversity and women’s empowerment within their organisations and in society as a whole.
Male Champions of Change Pakistan is a member organisation of the Champions of Change Coalition.
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I'm happy to be back with
you today using a stamp set in a slightly different way; hacking it
into littler pieces to create a different look with it. The stamp set? Mini Scenery: Bed of Roses.
The card was inspired by a cake I
made recently. The cake was quite a challenge (putting it mildly!!) and was
inspired by this creation.
you can see the Bed of Roses set. I've not coloured them to mimic real flowers;
instead tried to make them look fake as they're icing swirls rather than roses!
drew the cake and elements freehand and drew a cake plate on some Dream On paper (Pinkfresh Studio)
can see the In A Word: Wishes Cutaway die, cut out in
glitter vinyl film.
hope you liked my unicorn cake and you have a go at chopping up your stamped
images to create something new!
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Enjoy the idyllic landscape of the Schluchsee on the "high" seas. As a "leisure captain", you set the course on the largest Black Forest lake with a length of 7 km and an average width of 800 metres.
You can circumnavigate the lake by electric boat in just two hours or steer your boat to the dam and back again in 30 minutes.
Pure relaxation in our environmentally friendly electric boats. The electric boats travel at max. 10h/km, do not require a licence and are pleasantly quiet.
The sporty option is a trip on a pedal boat, bathing pedal boat or rowing boat. The distance you cover depends on your fitness level. After a refreshing dip in the lake, you can easily get back into the bathing pedalo via a ladder at the stern.
Life jackets are available for non-swimmers.
Mooring on the shore or on other people's jetties is absolutely forbidden. Please keep at least 80 metres away from the shore!
You will find further hire stations
- at the dam wall, (only 15 minutes from Seebrugg railway station) Tel. +49 170 3803299
- opposite the aqua fun lido, tel. +49 151 14936859
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Studies and first career steps
Alexandra, you’ve received both your Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees at ITMO University. What led you to you choose ITMO?
I first got into another university, but one of my classmates got into ITMO. He spoke highly of the university, and I myself had always thought it a great institution that offers courses in programming and related fields. That was why I wanted to study there too. In 2009, I passed the entry exams and began studying at ITMO.
ITMO really helped me in terms of networking, I am still in touch with a lot of my former fellow students and our professors. The university has also equipped me with fundamental knowledge of programming and IT in general, which continues to be very useful in my work.
I opted for “Technological Entrepreneurship and Innovation Economics” for my Master’s degree. I really liked the program’s description: it stated that there would be guest lecturers with a background in business and consulting, who also teach at universities abroad. I grew very interested in the program and my expectations were completely fulfilled.
Can you recall a crucial professional skill or a life lesson that you learned during your studies?
My thoughts went straight to that one time our professor told us not to get upset when we weren’t chosen for the group of potential competitive programmers. She explained then that competitive programming requires a very peculiar skillset, not the same one that is needed for commercial development. When you take part in a contest, you have to solve problems as quickly as possible, whereas in commercial development you need to write code that can be read and supported by others. It is not the same as finding the quickest possible solution to a problem. This conversation stuck with me.
How did you get your first job in IT?
It coincided with my transfer within the university. I had originally got into “Optical Engineering”, but then realized there were not so many opportunities to start working as a specialist in this field while I was still a student, and getting experience was very important for me. I saw that there were many more IT job offers which led me to transfer to another department. At the same time, I started looking for a job.
I used HeadHunter: I created a CV and filled in all the details that I thought might interest a potential employer. I wrote about the contests I took part in at school and about my personality. I even indicated what kind of IT-related books I was reading; the fact that I was interested in networks and that I studied them in my free time. I think the latter was exactly what drew my employer’s attention. I got an interview invitation from Motorola Solutions, a branch of the famous Motorola company created when it split into “Mobility” and “Solutions”. In the interview I got a question on what I read, we discussed the basics of computer networks. The interviewer noted my good command of English, which came in handy later as it was the main working language at the company: all of the inside communication and project documentation was in English.
I spent three years at Motorola Solutions until I got my Bachelor’s degree. First testing software as an intern and then as a technical writer compiling project documentation in English. After some time I got offered a position of an assistant quality manager and processes manager, which led to me combining these two roles at the company. Over these three years, I was only working part-time, for 20 hours a week, so it was possible for me to both work and study. It was not easy, I had almost no free time, but I knew that getting as much experience as soon as possible was more important. My salary was relatively low at first, but I am glad that I didn’t go looking for quick money that I might have earned by working out of the field of my specialization.
Moving to Moscow
As far as I know, you were born in St. Petersburg. However, you moved to Moscow after getting your degree. Why?
Yes, I was born in St. Petersburg and moved to Moscow in 2017. Not long before my move, I got promoted from a process manager to a product manager. It meant that I now was in charge of deciding what to do instead of simply managing the resources to meet a certain deadline. When I studied the market in my new position, I saw there were around four times as many job offers in Moscow as there were in St. Petersburg with the companies being larger. And in general, in Moscow there are more companies developing their own products instead of tailoring to clients. I started applying for jobs in Moscow and doing interviews over Skype. Eventually, I landed a job and moved to the capital.
Is there a certain ranking of university alumni in Moscow? Does it matter which university you graduated from?
It doesn’t really matter, because there are so many people from different cities and even different countries. For example, now I work with people from Kazakhstan and Belarus. I think you are not likely to hear which universities are better – those in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Tyumen or Ekaterinburg. The employers usually look at your professional skills first and then check your degree. Your university’s “brand” might be important when you are applying for your first job, but it gets less important afterwards compared to your professional experiences.
People from Moscow tend to value their universities: Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Moscow Engineering Physics Institute and Lomonosov Moscow State University. But I believe they do it based on their experiences and not due to their snobbism. If a recruiter has never been to a city outside Moscow, then they often have no base on which to form their judgment about regional universities apart from what their potential employees can tell them.
How are the corporate and business cultures in Moscow different from those in St. Petersburg?
There is a lot of outsourcing going on in St. Petersburg and with a reasonably low level of original product development. I often take part in conferences and talk to my colleagues, I see that there are some product manager positions in St. Petersburg, I could work from home, but all in all, there are not many opportunities of this sort.
In Moscow there is a lot more to choose from, almost every major Russian company has its headquarters here and even international companies are represented here. There are also more IT companies creating products on state orders. If you are interested in product design or development, especially the business side of it, my advice would be at least to check the Moscow job market.
Are there any differences in the way employees are treated in Moscow, for example, in terms of the perks they get?
There is more money in Moscow, so consequently, there are more perks and bonuses at the office. For instance, sometimes it means massaging chairs at work and a free gym a few floors below.
Sometimes employees from Moscow are treated differently than those that come from other cities. I heard it from my Moscow colleagues that programmers here are better qualified than in any other region. I can’t agree with that, because the education has to be at least equally good in St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Novosibirsk and Kazan, there are major technical universities in these cities. I also believe that a great professional can come from anywhere as long as this person is hardworking and talented.
One other thing to mention is that companies in Moscow often try to balance between hiring highly qualified professionals and the salary they are going to receive. Thus, a programmer working from home in, say, Kaluga can do exactly the same thing as his Moscow-based coworker but will earn less. It is not fair, but that’s the way market works: if people in theoretical Kaluga agree to work for less, then so it stays. Sometimes you have to move to Moscow to actually get a pay rise.
If we come back to working conditions, they depend on the company, but there still are some general trends. Life simply has a different pace in St. Petersburg. I have met a lot more career-oriented people in Moscow, a lot of them work overtime. As far as I can remember, St. Petersburg is a little more settled, more relaxed with people thinking more about their families and comfort.
What surprised you most in Moscow? What did you have to get used to?
It wasn’t hard to adapt, I like it in Moscow. Although the incredible amount of cars and the associated air pollution in the city center are nothing to be happy about, that is simply the downside of living in a big city.
What struck me most was public transportation. It is very developed with the subway system not only wide but also dense, and the ground transport having its own line. You can get anywhere really fast.
One other thing you need to think about before moving here is the housing prices. They are much higher here than in any other city. You should calculate your budget before moving here and check the housing prices in advance. It can happen that you would have to reside outside the Moscow Ring Road first, and not everyone is ready to spend more than an hour commuting to work. It might be that what you can afford in Moscow will make you reconsider your move when compared to your current living standard.
Working at MTS
How did you get into MTS, your current workplace?
I posted a CV on HeadHunter and received a call from MTS inviting me for an interview. I passed it and started working. I had been considering going back into telecommunications for some time back then, I had always liked this field, so I am glad that my wish came true.
What are you working on these days?
I am in charge of one of the company’s online displays strands in the “My MTS” mobile app, on the official website and in the online account.
How is working in telecommunications different from any other job in the IT sector?
If by the IT sector we mean software development, then telecom is relatively close to “normal” programming but it also has a hardware side to it. In that sense, anyone potentially interested in developing software for telecommunications will find it useful to know everything about communication networks and other telecom-devices.
Sexism and discrimination in IT
Sexism and the problems women face at work in primarily male environments are a hot topic these days. Does it happen in IT too?
Young women in IT might have to face a prejudiced attitude very early on when they are only choosing their career: when they opt for mathematics or informatics at school or at university, they might be misunderstood at work and by their family members.
It is especially hard for those who are programmers, which many consider to be an exclusively male profession. In my experience, women who work on middle-range software development positions and above are high profile specialists who succeeded in not only demonstrating their professional skills but also their ability to handle pressure including tactless remarks at the workplace.
Any woman regardless of her career sooner or later gets asked about her personal life during interviews. It can be a question about her plans to have children or a question about her relationship status. Some women tell the truth, some are taken aback by such questions and some try to conceal the truth from their potential employer.
All in all, the more experience a woman has and the higher up she is on a career ladder, the less light her gender receives. People start looking at her professional and personal qualities first.
How can one battle such things?
You have to realize that people can make comments on any topic, not only the supposed ill career choice of a woman in IT. The best way to react to that is the way we react to any other things done by toxic people: you should tell them straight away that you don’t like it and set your boundaries.
Sometimes this aggression can be a consequence of mistrust or prior traumatic experience. This mistrust can go away with time (for example, after a woman joins a new team) and the relationships change for the better. If a woman has a hard time going to work primarily because of these difficult relationships, then it might be a better choice to find a different position after a fair amount of attempts to improve the situation. It is easier to change yourself than to change others, and your mental health is more important.
If a woman has overcome the resistance and has been working as a programmer for a number of years, she is typically a great professional, I’ve met a lot of such people. It is usually harder at the very start of your career.
Hobbies and mentoring
As far as I know, you and your friends run a Youtube channel. What are your videos about?
Yes, we have a channel about IT and business. We film interviews and organize events in St. Petersburg with online-broadcasts. Thanks to it we are constantly meeting new people and exchanging our experiences. It is something in between a job and a hobby. We like our job and we like talking about it.
How does the channel help you professionally? Can you say that now your colleagues know you better?
This channel is an opportunity to be in the hustle and bustle of the industry, to talks to its leaders and be recognized by the professional community.
Publicity is very important in the modern world. If a recruiter or a potential partner can find something about you on the Internet, it raises the level of trust and helps to establish the initial contact, start a conversation.
Our Youtube show is not so popular yet for its hosts to be recognized in the street, but it helps us to keep in touch with those who already know us. They can ask for advice or recommendation. Your acquaintances can now mentally make a stronger connection between you and the work you do, meaning that this connection can come up whenever there is a professional need. For example, people often ask me for help with finding a job or an employee, and I have already connected several people to their jobs.
What was your most interesting episode?
The most memorable one for me was when we interviewed Askhat Urazbaev, a top specialist on software development for flexible business technologies in Russia. I think I remember it most because it made me realize how many different people you can get to know via a Youtube channel: there are not so many people who will say no to an interview. For a lot of our guests it was important to simply get some media coverage, even if it was on a small channel. It means that our episode will come up whenever somebody types their name into a search engine. And this improves trust in their personal professional brand.
One of our guests got a promotion right after we interviewed him because his superior was able to show this talented and skilled employee to the top management team. Two more of our guests started their personal blogs which we actively encourage.
You have recently joined the ITMO University’s mentorship program that connects successful IT specialists to students. How did you join it?
As soon as I received an email about the program, I signed up and soon my application was approved.
In a sense, I was an unofficial member back when I was a Master’s student. Once I went into my department and saw a first-year student. He wanted to know more about transferring from one department to another and I offered to share my experience. Ever since, I was his unofficial mentor. I got him in touch with one of my friends who owned a startup. This first year started working there, transferred to a new department and found himself in programming.
And how can you find yourself?
As someone who didn’t discover their career straight away I can say that you should try a lot of different things, keep looking for something and treat your failures as opportunities.
You can see something as a failure now, but it usually isn’t so massive. You don’t have to pass your exams with a maximum score to get into the best university straight after school. If you failed your exams, didn’t get into your dream university or any other university – this is not the end. You should always look for more opportunities and never give up on yourself. I can safely say that it is possible to find your place in a new university, a new field or a new city. The key thing is to keep going forward!
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I’ve talked before about the reasons to visit Italy in the Spring – but in addition to the reasons that would be true in any year, this year there’s a particularly special reason you might want to get to a city in the northwest of Italy. The famous Shroud of Turin, available for public viewing only five times in the past 100 years, is about to be unveiled for just over a month in 2010.
The Shroud of Turin – the cloth Jesus is said to have been buried in – is probably the most well-known attraction in the city of Turin (called Torino in Italian), and visitors who don’t happen to be in Turin during this rare unveiling of the actual shroud can visit the Shroud Museum where there’s a full-sized repilica on display. But for some a replica just won’t do, which is why the faithful have had 2010 marked on their calendars ever since the Shroud was last on display in 2000.
If you’ll be in northern Italy from April 10 through May 23, you can visit Turin and reserve a time to see the Shroud of Turin in person – but if you’ll only be in Italy for a short period of time during the exposition, you should definitely reserve your spots sooner rather than later. Some days are already booked solid (including most weekend days).
Although the Shroud is old, the technology involved in booking a visit to see the Shroud this year is absolutely modern, which has resulted in more than 1 million people already pre-booking their spots to see the Shroud in person via the online booking system. In 2000, pre-bookings were available – but not online, and only came in at around a quarter million.
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To see what dates and times are left for a visit to see the Shroud of Turin, begin at this page of the Piedmont region’s website (this is the English page – you can change the language at the top if you wish), read the instructions, and follow the prompts – starting with the “Next” button at the bottom of the first page. A visit is roughly three minutes long, and completely free of charge.
As mentioned, weekend days are almost all booked up as I write this – but midweek days are much more open in terms of booking availability. This could be good for travelers for whom weekdays don’t mean “workdays” – and, at least at the moment, visiting on a weekday will definitely mean smaller crowds as well.
So, who’s going to Turin this Spring to see the Shroud?
Visitor’s Information for Seeing the Shroud of Turin in 2010
- The Shroud of Turin will be on display from April 10 through May 23, 2010
- The Shroud will be on display in the cathedral where it’s always kept, the Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist (or Duomo of Turin)
- Pre-book your visit at the Piedmont Italia website
- The pre-booking and the visit itself are both free
- Your pre-booking confirmation will be sent to you via email
- Your entire visit will be 15 minutes long, your viewing time will be more like three minutes
- Pope Benedict XVI will be in Turin on May 2, 2010 as part of the Shroud exposition
- The Shroud is scheduled to be on display again in the Jubilee Year of 2025
- You’ll find visitor information, a map of the visitor’s route, and tips on how to reach the church at the Piedmont Italia site
photo by Jessica Spiegel and may not be used without permission
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October 14, 1944
Got to bed at midnight last night, but was able to pile out of bed to take off in search of Lynn Rudee this morning. Got some info as to where I could find him, but as usual such info was a bit haywire – why was it haywire – well, leave it to a gal to overestimate distances! Dottie Collins, who is now in the same gang as Lynn had been here and told our gals that she thought the distance was such and such… Luckily I got a ride part way in an ambulance and then what should happen but I spy a nice looking Plymouth sedan staff car come along with a driver who looked mighty familiar. Well, why shouldn’t he look familiar, I had the guy as a patient for, I guess it was about 3 months, and in fact had taken his tonsils out myself way back in Sicily. He was delighted to help me find Lynn and, in fact, took me all the way to Lynn’s place.
I barged into the dental tent just as Lynn had finished extracting a tooth, and he looked up right into my face with a surprised grin on his face. He was sort of busy, in fact, his dept. was about the only busy part of his gang that I saw. However, Lynn took a few minutes time out to talk. He is in the pink and enjoying things tho’ a bit anxious as to what the winter is going to bring as far as weather-in-tents is concerned. He’s not as fat as he was when I saw him in Sicily, and, in fact, looks much better in general than he did then.
Lynn will undoubtedly be over here one of these evenings and I hope that he is able to pick a day that is not a busy one, for, working on this noon to midnight shift one does not have much opportunity to be with supper guests. However, there is enough wasted time in surgery, when things are going just mediocre, so that we can be gabbing together for a while, at least. He might even return my visit immediately and come over tonight.
After leaving Lynn, for some reason I struck an unfavorable time for rides, but I soon realized that “what’s the use of riding when I need a bit of exercise”. And sooo, at my usual pace, I jaunted home. See what I mean when I said that Dottie Collins doesn’t know her distances.
I’m in surgery pounding this out while Russell is doing a little case that I induced him to do under local anesthesia. Last night we had a longie of 5 hrs. on a fellow who had a bullet wound that went in one side and was sitting under the skin rather superficially on the other side. But it had cut off the tip of one kidney and gone thru the cord and then injured the other kidney (only mildly) just before stopping. We explored both kidneys and did laminectomy and found the holes in the dura.
Loads of love,
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The heartbreaking video of two elderly Telangana farmers grovelling at the feet of a Tehsildar, or Mandal Revenue Officer, pleading for their livelihood has gone viral on the internet.
The two farmers, identified as Jangili Sattaiah and his brother Lingaiah, said that their ancestral land had simply disappeared from the official records of Chevella town. It had been registered and updated in the digital records of the Revenue Department with someone else’s name – without their knowledge, reported The News Minute.
Pleading that they couldn’t survive without their land and that officials had done little despite several complaints over a six-month period, the farmers, shows the video, begged the Tehsildar for justice even as he walked away.
A second video showing the two farmers – along with a third who had been standing some distance away in the first video – alleged that their Pattadar passbook, which is proof of their land entitlement, was taken away after a physical verification, reported NDTV.
The video elicited widespread anger among social media users, with several people asking for strict action against involved officials. KT Rama Rao, the working president of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi, retweeted the account of the incident, requesting that the Ranga Reddy District Collector investigate the matter immediately.
Meanwhile, Tehsildar S Purushottam told The News Minute that he had been speaking to the farmers in question over a few weeks and that the matter would be soon resolved. “Soon after they complained about alleged encroachment and that their land was missing from the records, I and the local Revenue Inspector conducted an inquiry and submitted a report to the Revenue Divisional Officer, who foresees issues pertaining to entitlement lands,” he told the news organisation.
“Multiple cases have emerged in the last few months in which the process of computerisation and posting of land records online, aimed at transparency, have become a way of harassing farmers,” tweeted the Telangana Pradesh Congress Sevadal.
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After waking up screaming her name, Beast Boy realises just how much he had with Terra and vows to see her again.
Would it end up the same way if the roles were reversed?
Beast Boy has his own score to settle before he can show his face to Terra again. Sequel to Irresistible Lies. PG-13 for steaminess and violence in later chapters.
They say if you give your life to something, you become a part of it.
What are the Charr truly to a master of illusion? [Drabble]
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Description - Language and Woman's Place by Robin Tolmach Lakoff
The 1975 publication of Language and Woman's Place, with its argument that language is fundamental to gender inequality, inaugurated language and gender research. This volume presents the original text along with commentaries by Lakoff and 26 other leading scholars of language, gender, and sexuality. The new edition places the text in contemporary context for a new generation of readers.
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Author Biography - Robin Tolmach Lakoff
Robin Tolmach Lakoff is Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. Widely regarded as the founder of language and gender studies, she writes extensively about gender and power and is the author or coauthor of seven books and nearly one hundred articles. Mary Bucholz is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She has coedited several books on language and gender and is the author of numerous articles on race, class, and youth identities.
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Introverted Londoners urged to chat on the Tube line
September 29, 2016 - 7:04 AM
Londoners travelling on the city's often overcrowded Underground subway system are not known to be particularly outgoing, but there's a campaign afoot to change that.
An unidentified group is giving out Tube Chat badges encouraging people to strike up conversations with their fellow passengers. They've already earned the ire of Transport for London, which said Thursday it is unhappy that the group has used the Underground's official logo on the badges without permission.
The transport agency said the idea is "interesting" but they don't want users to be confused by the use of the familiar logo.
The badges are being distributed with a flyer stating people will benefit from a daily chat.
The transport agency does give out "Baby on Board" badges to help pregnant women get seats.
News from © The Associated Press, 2016
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Thank you for the privilege and honor of teaching your child the Word of God and for entrusting them to us in our various children’s programs. Our greatest desire is to provide them with opportunity for spiritual growth. Our mission is to share God’s Word so that children have the greatest opportunity to know, love, and serve God. We also strive to equip you to disciple and raise your children in Christ. Your child will be consistently challenged to live for Christ through Sunday School, missions, discipleship, service, praise, and worship!
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Today on "Hank's Blog," we're giving you something a lot of Hank-readers have asked for: A question-and-answer session with John R. Erickson! We hope you enjoy these interesting answers to some of the most-frequently asked questions we get! And, if you have one you'd like to ask, be sure to mention it in the comments below, and maybe it'll turn up in "Part 2"...
1. What motivates you to write Hank?
In the early years, I had a strong desire to prove myself and to support my family as a writer, but after a few years motivation became less important than habit and discipline. A professional writer doesn’t wait for inspiration or motivation. For thirty-six years I have risen early, between 4:30 and 5:30, have gone to my writing place and forced myself to stay for four and a half hours. I either write or sit there. A lot of Hank books have begun as an effort to spare myself from the boredom of doing nothing.
2. What type of style do you consider Hank’s books to be?
During my years as an apprentice writer, I would read a novel and then try to imitate the style and techniques of the author. It was like trying on clothes in a costume shop. By the time I stumbled into Hank, I had been writing for fourteen years and had collected hundreds of rejection slips. I wrote the first Hank story for The Cattleman magazine, and I was writing strictly for money. It was a short story, about seven typed pages. I wasn’t trying to be literary, merely writing out of my experience as a ranch cowboy and telling the story as a cowboy—or his dog—might have told it. Was it a “good” story, in the literary sense? It didn’t occur to me to ask that question. It was good enough so that the editor of the magazine sent me a check for sixty-five bucks.
I didn’t know there was anything special about Hank until I read that first story aloud to audiences in my hometown of Perryton. They roared with laughter and said, “You need to do more with that dog!” You might say that my first editorial critique came from audiences in a small town in the Panhandle, ordinary folks who didn’t know much about literature. I had enough sense to listen to them. I self published the first Hank book in September 1982, and sold the books to the same people who had enjoyed my programs. It turns out that they were right. Hank became a star and we have sold almost eight million of his books. In writing the Hank books, I wasn’t trying to imitate another author or to cultivate a style of writing. It was something that just happened and it seemed accidental at the time, a storytelling vehicle that allowed me to enter the world of this quirky character who thought of himself as the Head of Ranch Security. The style grew out of the character, like the vapor trail that follows a jet plane. Observers on the ground notice the vapor trail, but the real action occurs inside the airplane.
Looking back, I can see that I invented my own literary device, one that was perfectly adapted to my talents as a writer and performer, and allowed me to reveal the bizarre world that Hank inhabits. It has turned out to be a technique that gives me great freedom as an author. When you write from the perspective of a dog, you can romp and play. Hank tells little lies to cover his mistakes, and half the time he doesn’t understand what he is describing. What makes it work is that the reader knows Hank better than he knows himself, and though he’s kind of a scoundrel, they like him anyway.
3. What is your favorite Hank book and why?
When I decided to write the second book, I doubted that I could make it better than the first one, so I made a conscious decision not to compare one book with another. Maybe it’s superstition, but I don’t want to compare them or choose a favorite. As I see it, a book has to be worth the price. It has to be good enough for my kids and your kids. I don’t look beyond that.
4. What is your favorite quote or line from your books?
I can think of several good Hank quotes. “Do unto others but don’t take trash off the cats.” “It’s always darkest before it gets any darker.” “A buzzard’s only friend is his next meal.”
5. Are there any characters that are your favorite besides Hank?
You know, there really aren’t any characters that I dislike. Even my villains aren’t terribly villainous. I don’t enjoy writing about characters who are genuinely evil or sleazy. We get plenty of those in the daily news. Drover is a funny little guy, dreamy and a bit on the goofy side, but he’s not as dense as Hank thinks. Pete the Barncat is a great character: nasty, scheming, selfish, and very smart. That is a bad cat, and Hank keeps falling for his dirty tricks. Wallace and Junior the buzzards are always fun, and Rip and Snort the coyote brothers…I really like those guys. They are the incarnation of eighth grade boys: rude, crude, dumb, and loud. I’m fond of Madame Moonshine, the witchy little owl. Her magic powers have helped me solve a few plot problems. And I have a lot of fun with the relationship between Hank and Sally May. They live on the same ranch but occupy very different worlds.
Hope y'all enjoyed reading a little bit about John R. Erickson's writing process and his thoughts on the books and characters! Be sure to look for Part 2 in the coming weeks!
And, if you want to check out the very first Hank story ("Confessions of a Cowdog"), you can download it for free in the Print-Outs section of the "Fan Zone."
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Officials challenged at forum over principal's removal from downtown L.A. arts high school
The sudden removal this month of the principal who headed the downtown Los Angeles arts high school has sparked an outcry, including a recent street protest and a combative forum Monday night attended by about 200 people.
Principal Suzanne Blake learned July 12 of her removal from Central Los Angeles High School No. 9, the $232-million arts campus that enjoyed a largely successful first year after a series of controversies, mostly before the school opened.
Monday's meeting took place in the school’s state-of-the-art auditorium, where local area superintendent Dale Vigil respectfully listened to statements and questions for three hours. His answers appeared to satisfy few.
Vigil repeatedly said that he couldn’t discuss specific reasons for Blake’s transfer because it was a “personnel matter,” and he’s legally required to protect an employee’s privacy.
“I have to go with the information and data that I have that I can’t share with you,” Vigil said.
He conceded that he hasn’t told Blake the reason for her transfer either.
“At this point she does not know,” Vigil said. “But in time she will.”
This response drew both laughter and angry shouts from audience members who protested that Blake and her supporters have been unable to defend her record.
Vigil later offered that he made his decision based on discussions with some staff members and district administrators.
Blake’s supporters have speculated about whether any role was played by school board President Monica Garcia, who criticized the school administration for not ensuring that 70% of students came from the low-income neighborhoods near the school.
Vigil, a former Bay Area superintendent who joined the district in late June, said the decision to remove Blake was his own. In an earlier interview, Vigil said Blake would run a middle school in Glassell Park. L.A. schools Supt. Ramon C. Cortines has since given Blake the option of opening a new middle school.
Blake was not present, but in an earlier interview she said that the 70% enrollment target for neighborhood students has been fully achieved in the incoming ninth-grade class, and that her late hire and the complications of opening the school hampered recruitment in the first year. In addition, the district itself sent over students misclassified as neighborhood residents, she said.
One speaker said Blake made it difficult to receive academic and budget information. Another faulted Blake for not speaking Spanish, but nearly all speakers lauded the principal.
Parent Tamar Rosenthal said Blake made students “feel warm, safe and affirmed” and recounted her tearful daughter saying, “Ms. Blake believes more in us than we believed in ourselves.”
Blake was “kind of the soul and heart of the school,” Rosenthal said.
“We need some reasons,” said 10th-grader Clementine Gamson Levy.
Joining Vigil was newly assigned principal Luis Lopez, who has served as principal at Franklin High in Highland Park for the last five years.
-- Howard Blume
Photo: Students on campus on the last day of school, June 18, at Central Los Angeles High School No. 9. Credit: Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times
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6. Chicago White Sox--Finally, they got rid of the world's ugliest uniforms. Now, if they can do something about the players.
Manager Jim Fregosi might have had it better at Louisville, St. Louis' Triple-A farm club, whence he came. Remember the Hitless Wonders? Well, these Sox are still hitless--they finished last in the league in average, home runs and RBIs last season--while lacking the wonder. Indeed, if this team is to win at all, it will do so by boring the opposition into submission.
Harold Baines remains the Ernie Banks of the '80s--great player, bad Chicago team--and Ozzie Guillen ranks among the league's slickest shortstops, but after that, these are strictly the Blight Sox. Ron Karkovice is the catcher. Donnie Hill is the second baseman. Tim Hulett is the third baseman. Bobby Thigpen is the bullpen stopper. You get the idea--nondescription at every turn.
It is difficult to imagine how the ever-flamboyant Hawk, former General Manager Ken Harrelson, could leave behind such drabness as his legacy. But there they are--ready to capture sixth place, if not your imagination.
Call them the Gray Sox.
7. Seattle Mariners--Seattle is where America's general managers shop. This isn't a baseball team, it's a swap meet--with Manager Dick Williams and General Manager Dick Balderson on hand to guarantee your satisfaction.
Need a hard-throwing short reliever or a power-hitting young outfielder? Got a hole in the infield you want to plug? Come on down to Dick & Dick's. Their prices are I-N-S-A-N-E!
Detroit hadn't had a legitimate third baseman since Aurelio Rodriguez, so Seattle provided Darnell Coles, who immediately hit 20 home runs and drove in 86 runs for the Tigers.
Boston came looking for pennant insurance--a center fielder and a shortstop, to be specific--and the Mariners coughed up Dave Henderson and Spike Owen.
Kansas City always wondered what it would do with a slugging right fielder, so Seattle gave the Royals Danny Tartabull. And then came the Dodgers . . . and away went power reliever Matt Young.
Two years ago, Seattle had what many regarded as the best young team in baseball. Now, only scraps remain--some offensive punch in Alvin Davis, Jim Presley and Phil Bradley; some pitching in Mark Langston and Mike Moore; no catching, no bullpen. And now, no ownership, with George Argyros' pending purchase of the San Diego Padres. Some are calling it Argyros' smartest transaction yet.
So buck up, citizens of Seattle. You may not have the worst team in baseball much longer.
1. Toronto Blue Jays--"Tomorrow I'll Be Perfect" is the title of Dave Stieb's autobiography. Suggestion for the sequel: "This Year I'll Break Even."
If Stieb does at least that, the Blue Jays will be a lot happier and healthier in the standings.
After winning the East title in '85, Toronto slumped to 86-76 and fourth in '86. Attribute the slippage to pitching. Stieb, bothered by bone chips in his arm, went from 14-13 and 2.48 to 7-12 and 4.74, and the staff dropped from 3.31 to 4.08. The bone chips remain in Stieb's elbow but he is pitching well despite them.
The rest of the rotation looks stronger. After an 0-3 start, Jimmy Key was 14-8 last summer. Joe Johnson, a mid-season addition from Atlanta, combined for a 13-9 record in both leagues. Jim Clancy won 14 games and John Cerutti was 9-4 after his recall from Syracuse. And if the starters can get Toronto to the sixth and seventh innings, there's the bullpen of Mark Eichhorn (14-6, 10 saves) and Tom Henke (9-5, 27 saves).
Besides their established talent, the Blue Jays also have some of the game's best prospects. Kelly Gruber, who hit 21 home runs twice at the Class AAA level, is the new third baseman. Mike Sharperson, who prompted the trade of Damaso Garcia to Atlanta, batted .400 this spring and will take over at second.
2. New York Yankees--To commemorate the 60th anniversary of the greatest team of them all, the '27 Yanks, George Steinbrenner has assembled a new set of Bronx Bombers.
How would you like to pitch to this first seven--Rickey Henderson, Willie Randolph, Don Mattingly, Dave Winfield, Dan Pasqua, Gary Ward and Mike Pagliarulo? In 1986, they averaged 20 home runs and 74 RBIs a man.
But it is a team founded on hit and hope. The 8-7 game is alive and living in Yankee Stadium. With Rick Rhoden temporarily sidelined because of discomfort in his rib cage, New York's opening day pitcher will be Dennis Rasmussen, who at 18-6 was the only Yankee to reach double figures in wins. Then, on Day 2, it's Tommy John. That's right, soon-to-be-44 Tommy John--two years after being deemed to old for even the Angels. After that, it's Bob Tewksbury and 42-year-old Joe Niekro, giving the Yankees two starting pitchers with a combined age of 86.
How would you like to manage this team?
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INFOSEC: CYBER CRIME is fast becoming a threat to surpass terrorism, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said on Wednesday, announcing that it has changed its priorities to focus on cyber security as "a national security threat".
"In the 26 years that I've been in the FBI, I've seen a number of threats emerge and change, and we have to retool and refocus ourselves as an organisation to address counter terrorism, it's been our main priority," the FBI's legal attache at the US embassy in London Scott Cruse said today in a keynote at the Infosecurity Europe 2013 conference (Infosec) in London.
"I've sat in a number of meetings over the last few years with directors and senior members of the FBI and cyber-crime is fast emerging as the next threat on the horizon to eventually surpass counter terrorism."
Cruse said the threat posed by cyber espionage actors and criminal groups and terrorist organisations to US private sector computer networks and government networks has reached the level now where it is "calling it a national security threat".
"The FBI is going through tremendous changes now as far as the way we look at cyber-crime, hiring war professionals and computer scientists to provide training to our line agents so that they can be better equipped to work these types of cases," Cruse said.
"We've also changed some of our priorities, to prevent cyber-attacks against our critical infrastructures, reduce the national vulnerability of these cyber-attacks and lastly, to minimise the damage and recovery time of cyber-attacks when they do occur."
Though Cruse acknowledged that all types of security threats are "extremely dangerous", he said that if he was to pull out the most significant, he'd choose destructive computer exploitation threats that affect large numbers of the population. "They are ones we are most concerned about," he added.
According to Cruse, the FBI has also found that governments cannot address the problems cyber threats pose alone, and it takes ongoing collaboration between affected industries, security researchers and academia in order to tackle the threats. "We're looking to build those relationships and collaborate," he added.
The news that the FBI has said cyber threats affecting national security are a major concern arrives just one day after Euegene Kaspersky declared cyber terrorists "are only a matter of time".
Kaspersky told attendees of the Infosecurity conference yesterday that terrorists will begin adopting state sponsored style attacks such as Stuxnet and Red October to target countries' critical infrastructure.
The possibility of these types of attacks are "the worst of the worst" in cyberspace at the moment, he said. µ
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[ Game is open however some errors have occured and game won't be advertised just yet until we clear up these few glitches and bugs. Thank you to everyone who has supported the game within development and we hope this game can be huge ] Welcome to Bloc Blitz! Defend your castle, and fight to take down your opponents with a loyal robloxian army by your side! Join Super Studios for updates and news on our games! https://www.roblox.com/My/Groups.aspx?gid=2887839 Bloc Blitz is currently in testing mode, all saved data is subject to a wipe without notice. If for some reason you find a bug please message me. (DrFBD) TIP: Press "F" during battle to enter free roam!
This game does not support VIP Servers.
There are currently no running games.
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It’s that time of year when makers go into overdrive: holiday gifting season! As the world of technological gadgets and gizmos seems to be growing at an astronomical rate, the desire (and the necessity) to hit the pause button and settle into an afternoon of crafting is all the more enticing. What better way to express one’s creativity and generosity than with a handmade gift for the ones we love?
To get you started, we have launched our annual 12 Weeks of Gifting, where we release a brand new free pattern every Tuesday, counting down the days to mid December. We’ll be featuring all sorts of projects – from cozy throws to gorgeous shawls – a little something for everyone on your list! We have set up a handy 12 Weeks of Gifting calendar, so be sure check back every Tuesday to find a new free pattern.
Don’t forget to check back every week for a new FREE pattern. Happy Crafting!
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“Occupy is not truly represented by the 99 percent. We are those people who have been the hardest hit by the unemployment and joblessness.”
Howard isn’t the only student group getting involved: Beforehand, Occupy D.C. plans to march with students from Howard, University of Maryland, George Washington University, American University, George Mason University and the University of the District of Columbia in protest over student debt.
Tell us: Are you a student planning to join the march? Why did you decide to get involved? Tell us in the comments below or via e-mail.
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From 2-5 April 2021 Cadets from the Fight Eagles and Bulldog Army ROTC Battalions deployed out to Camp Seven Mile, Washington to conduct Phase 2 of Operation Agile Leader (OAL). The two battalions are composed of Cadets from Eastern Washington University, Gonzaga University, Whitworth University, and Washington State University-Spokane College of Nursing. OAL was developed by U.S. Army Cadet Command to train senior Cadets on skills that were traditionally trained at Advanced Camp at Fort Knox, Kentucky that was cancelled last summer due to the pandemic. This skills are instead trained at the regional level with combined FTX’s with nearby ROTC programs. Operation Agile Leader is the top priority this year for the U.S. Army Cadet Command. Phase 1 of OAL was completed back in October 2020 and Phase II completes the remainder of the training tasks the Cadets missed by not attending Advanced Camp.
On the first day of the FTX the Fighting Eagles Cadets had a very early 4:45 AM formation at Cadet Hall to draw equipment and gear. The Cadets then boarded buses at 5:30 AM to first go to Gonzaga University to draw weapons before one group departed to Camp Seven Mile and another to the Medical Lake Range.
The The tasks for the Cadets at the range was to zero their M4 rifle and then qualify using the Army’s new marksmanship standards. After the Cadets qualified they then had to attend Call For Fire Training (CFFT). During this training the Cadets learned how to call in artillery fire on an enemy’s position. After attending the training they than had to pass a practical exercise by calling in fire using a terrain model.
Back at Camp Seven Mile the group of Cadets there conducted day land navigation training. Each Cadet had to look for three points spread out over an extremely large wooded and hilly area. The Cadets had to successfully find 2 of the 3 points within the allotted time in order to pass the course.
Following the completion of the day land navigation course the Cadets that afternoon conducted grenade familiarization training. During the training the Cadets learned how to hold, arm, and throw training hand grenades.
Following the completion of this training the Cadets then conducted a buddy team fire and maneuver course. During the course two Cadets would bound forward and fire their blanks at simulated enemies. At the end of the course each Cadet then had to throw a hand grenade simulator at a bunker to try and destroy it.
After completing this training the Cadets then moved into night land navigation. During this training the Cadets had to find 2 points in the hilly and wooded terrain in complete darkness. This is always the most challenging test for land navigation and the Cadets received great training on this course to prepare them for upcoming Advanced Camp training.
Easter Sunday occurred during the OAL FTX. Gonzaga University was able to support those who recognize Easter with a field service. Father Dan Mai traveled out to Camp Seven Mile and set up a field ministry in the middle of the forest for Cadets to participate. We appreciate Father Mai for supporting the Cadets during the OAL FTX.
Platoon STX Lanes
For Days 3 & 4 the Cadets moved into the Platoon Situational Training Exercise (STX) lanes of the OAL FTX. During these two days the Cadets were divided up into three platoons and had to conduct platoon level recon, ambush, attack, movement-to-contact, and defense lanes. MS-IV Cadets that needed to complete their OAL requirements and MS-III Cadets attending Advanced Camp this summer filled into the key leadership positions. The training in these leadership positions provided all them valuable experience for future training.
Following the completion of Platoon STX lanes training the Cadets then reassembled at the major holding area to begin weapons cleaning. Cleaning weapons is an important recovery activity after any FTX since the weapons are turned in to the Washington National Guard.
After completing weapons cleaning, the Cadets then tore down the Tactical Operations Center (TOC) tents and prepped their gear for movement. They then walked with their gear to the loading up point to take buses back to their respective universities.
Overall the OAL #2 FTX was a fantastic training event for the Cadets that participated from all four universities. Congratulations to all our MS-IV Cadets that received their Advanced Camp credit to commission as Army officers this year. Additionally the FTX provided great training for all the MS-III Cadets that are heading off to Advanced Camp this summer. Great job by all the Cadets involved who are clearly better prepare to succeed in ROTC than before the FTX. Eagle Strong!
Note: You can view and download many more pictures from the FTX on our EWU Army ROTC Flickr page.
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Commercial Roofing in Inverness
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danijelzi - 12:52 pm on Apr 15, 2011 (gmt 0)
things are just TOO f*cked up for google to just leave it like that
I'm also thinking the same way.
This morning I did a search of a keyword (a SKU of a newly launched product) and on the first SERP page are:
- official product page on manufacturer's site (#4)
- related product pages on three well ranked major retailers (#1, #3, #5)
- two pages on price comparison sites with almost no content (#9, #10)
- a MFA site with specs of the product only (and the specs are not correct) (#2!)
- two scrapper sites (#7, #8)
Interesting part is that content of the two scrapper sites is taken and shorten from a relevant site, which is now on #3 of the second SERP page.
I really think that things can stay too long this way.
This is very similar to something that I experienced a couple of years ago (I think it was 2006), after an algo update. The results were nonsense and my site was affected, but after a month and a half I think after the update, everything got back to "normal" without any intervention on the site.
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EXPOSURE ON BABY FACTORY/BABY SALES; A VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN AND GIRLS in Imo State.
Series on Baby Factory
Article 1: EXPOSURE ON BABY FACTORY/BABY SALES; A VIOLATION OF
THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN AND GIRLS in Imo State.
Written by Faith Kalagbor.
Baby factory is diversification of child trafficking which is trade on human beings and
it is one of the various forms of violence against women and girls. It is a new
systematic abuse pattern that promotes infant trafficking, neo-slavery and the
exploitation of young women with unplanned pregnancies in Nigeria. The terms baby
factory, baby sales, and child harvesting are often used interchangeably to refer to the
systematic sales of Human children typically for adoption (illegal) and lineage
continuity, and atypically for diabolical purposes including rituals.
Since its first discovery in Imo state in the year 2013, the trend has witnessed an
increase in occurrence due to prevalent economic and social factors associated with
Eastern Nigeria. Social factors such as stigmatization and labeling of young unmarried
girls with unplanned pregnancies, childless married women and married women in dire
need for specific gender, especially male children as the narrative of the patriarchal
the system has embellished, hence the higher bidding in sales of male infants than female.
Young girls who end up in baby factories due to social factors are often victims of
kidnap whilst in search of means of aborting the babies while married women and
couples in the aforementioned predicament, due to desperation, patronize baby
factories the most as it is a cheaper and quicker option as opposed to surrogacy,
in vitro fertilization, assisted reproductive technology or adoption through social
The economic narrative reveals cases of young girls from a low-income background who
may likely want to keep their babies but are faced with choosing abortion or cajoled
into staying at baby factories in exchange for care till delivery after which they are paid
off to give up their babies for adoption, cutting all ties. Research shows that some
young girls after their first child being raped by a paid client or partner with a baby factory
owners and then coerced to remain there, confined in an environment where they only
have contact with those who are paid to provide various services for them including
The prevalence of this inhumane act which is a form of violence against women and
girls, informed our decision at Alliances for Africa, to create awareness on the growing
the trajectory of this perilous act and the existence of the Baby Protection Law signed in
response to prosecuting perpetrators of baby sales in the state and putting an end to
this menace. We, therefore, urge the general public to be watchful and promptly repor
any illegal monetary transaction on babies or illegal caregiving homes for babies and
young pregnant girls.
We say NO to BABY FACTORY & ALL FORMS OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND
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RMV Policies / Junior Operator Provisions:
1. Students under 18 must have completed a drivers education course, and must be certified.
2. Junior Operators must have held their valid permit for 6 months before road test date.
3. Student must have fulfilled the 40 hour supervised driving with a parent.
4. You must have your valid Massachusetts Permit on your person.
5. Please have the following fees ready for the RMV:
A. Road test fee: $35.00
B. Class D license fee: $50.00
These fees can be paid in cash or by one check for $85.00.
Checks should be made payable to RMV or prepay fees using the RMV's telecenter 1-866-627-7768.
Grand Prix Policies:
1. The road test application, payment, and the bottom of the sponsorship contract must be returned to the office before your road test date to reserve the car and the instructor.
2. Please keep the top half so that there will be no misunderstanding of policies and procedures.
3. You must provide your own ride to and from the RMV.
4. No reservation made without payment.
5. No refund will be given if canceled with less than 48 hours notice or by Friday for a Monday appointment. There is no refund if you don't show up for our warm-up lesson. If you choose not to go on your road test for any reason, Grand Prix must be the one to cancel the road test or you forfeit all right to a sponsorship refund.
6. Tests are booked on a first come first served basis based on the RMV's test availability. Road tests at the RMV book 6 weeks in advance. Grand Prix will only schedule tests at the South Yarmouth RMV.
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S&X@V 5. Viana do Castelo
Päivitetty: 19. toukok. 2020
19 - 20 September
Before arriving at Viana do Castelo, a day sailing from Baiona with a border crossing and a kind of an emotional national flag hoisting, feeling good wind coming. It’s a wonderful feeling when we are blessed by dolphins swimming alongside Victoria for a long time. The city's small marina but nicely located had a perfect slot for Victoria and Rio Lima quiet streams, made all the process quite easy and smooth.
Viana do Castelo is one of two Minho capital districts, therefore has some city-like rumble but not enough (not even close) to stress you. Downtown has lots of noble historical houses showing the importance of the city in monarchy ages.
Dinner out in town was settled, but September is the shop's month of election to close after the hectic August when the region's sons return home from a year of hard work and homesickness abroad. Thus meaning the choices weren’t that many, and local habitants don’t go out much, leaving the city just for us, giving a too quiet scenario. The few people we saw wandering the streets like us, were the university students properly dressed with the traditional university students costume (black trousers/skirt, vest and cape and white shirt).
Casa Primavera was the place to go, an old fisherman tavern converted into a nowadays restaurant where the love for traditional dishes and products is present but the service style has lots of the old days. We tried all that makes the town cuisine renown: seafood, fresh fish, delicious vegetables. Olive and garlic are mandatory and we can say it was a meal to cry for.
On our walk back to Victoria, we found proof that the captain had been here before.
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- Nyc Mets
- Nyc Knicks
- Brooklyn Nets
- Brooklyn Dodgers
For individuals who follow sports, probably you remember that these organizations suggest a lot into the the respective leagues. The Knicks and Yankees may not have obtained headings during the a beneficial whenever you are, however, they’ve been seriously among the many organizations with U . s . fans.
The state of New york possess legal wagering, however it is perhaps not on the internet but really. The state still has so you can approve the new judge on the internet playing bill, that ought to takes place in the near future. Horse rushing and you can everyday fantasy sports betting are allowed, however cannot do that within on the web playing sites.
Yet not, you could choice at acknowledged gaming storage, constantly casinos, with their sportsbooks. On line wagering will create good money on state, for this reason new governor try pushing to possess on the web judge football gaming inside New york.
Nyc Wagering Expenses
New New york wagering expenses is anticipated to betting odds handball pass soon, . You will find a giant force for legalizing mobile gambling for the 2020, yet the circulate did not materialize. Governor Andrew Cuomo have recommended that legalization off online playing would be good source of cash towards county. Yet, fans will always be holding its air over eventual legalization.
The good news is that it’ll are available in the future, providing happiness so you’re able to sports betting admirers who can only just get it done yourself up until now.
Football Gaming Taxation within the New york
Any cash gotten by way of playing or on line playing in the New york is known as nonexempt earnings of the Irs. It also setting earnings away from gambling enterprises, bingo, video game suggests, and you can pony racing. Payouts gotten in the offshore betting internet sites aren’t taxed yet, but fees will be applied as on line wagering statement lives.
Gambling earnings into the Nyc are nonexempt from the a beneficial 24% flat rate. Winnings over $5,100 is nonexempt to help you taxation withholding. Out of low-cash honors, you need to spend taxation towards the reasonable field of each honor worthy of.
What’s the Activities Playing Ages in the Ny?
The new judge football decades having gambling within the Nyc condition is actually put from the 21 decades. Individuals less than one years isn’t allowed to take part in enabled wagering. It is widely questioned on pub become placed during the the same level whenever New york sports betting sites getting court in the the state soon.
Way forward for Judge On the internet Sports betting inside the Nyc
As stated, on line gambling during the Nyc remains perhaps not judge. Although not, it is expected to feel legalized in the future, on the delight from many fans. When you find yourself there isn’t any put day yet ,, of many masters believe it’ll takes place the moment 2021.
It would be a surprise in the event it does not, on governor, wagering fans, and you may groups moving for on the internet betting legalization.
How to choose the best Bookies inside the New york
Choosing the best bookies during the Nyc isn’t as simple whilst audio. On line wagering in the Ny are illegal, therefore bettors can only stick to belongings-oriented spots and you may overseas web sites. And even though there are many different web sites available, it is really not as easy as it may sound.
- Earliest anything – when deciding on a bookmaker inside Nyc, you will need to remark the fresh new permit. It would be best if you steered free of unlicensed sports books. Regrettably, the market is full of him or her, and it’s very easy to get caught inside their trap;
- When you’ve located an authorized bookie, you’ll want to sign in. Make sure your character via the current email address confirmation connect, and then make in initial deposit. Yet not, make sure you check out the advertisements area ahead of carrying it out. There might be a very good greeting extra wishing you;
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We call for a climate strike on August 9th in Lausanne with all participants of the meeting. This is a unique occasion to show the world how things go when the people of Europe join up to demand actions. Let’s all answer the youth’s call for immediate actions on climate change !
The past demonstrations have begun an impulse into society, let’s not stop here !
Come make your voice heard ! Come alone or with your friends, come with your message, come with your music instruments, your boom-boxes and your band, come sing with us all.
Let’s make climate’s voice speak aloud !
The demonstration will start at 15:00 at “Place de la Gare” !
We must all be there !
After the concluding speeches at the end of the demonstration, everybody is invited to stay and celebrate the week, from 5pm to midnight.
Stay and party with us at the lake, in front of the Vidy Theatre !
There will be two DJ’s (PyWhy and Mr Boogaloo); live music (Soirée Chasse),
The event is made possible thanks to the collaboration with the City of Lausanne and the Vidy Theater.
Time until the Strike 9th august
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In June 2013, a series of large demonstrations throughout Brazil have shaken its main cities and political landscape. They have also perplexed politicians and analysts alike, many of whom found themselves without solid references to interpret the novelty and oscillated between silence and old discourses. It is always risky to interpret emerging processes. Minimally, we risk following secondary paths or, even worst, framing new events with the vocabulary made available by old interpretative models, exactly the ones that the new events are trying to displace. However, in order to reveal what is emerging it is necessary to risk, search for new hints, and follow signs already available. Several references that can guide us to interpret the June events have been around for quite a while; others are new, but we can trace their lineage and contextualize them.
The demonstrations in Brazil share some characteristics with others around the globe in recent times. Analyses of movements such as those of the Arabic Spring, Occupy, the Indignados of Spain, and more recently the protests in Istanbul have already revealed features that point to the existence of a new type of public mobilization. They include: a symbiotic relationship with the internet and the social media; the diffused and spontaneous organization around networks; the capacity of attracting thousands of participants in a short period of time; the heterogeneity of the participants, who may or may not form coalitions; the hand-made quality of posters and banners; a high participation of young people. The demonstrations also disregard established political institutions such as political parties and unions and clearly indicate a shift in the way in which political languages are produced, circulate, and guide practices. They reveal that previous monopolies in the production of information and forms of organization have broken down.
The role of the internet is evident. It gives to all and everyone – and not only to those who control institutionalized means of expression and organization – the autonomy to formulate and distribute messages and interpretations, to select and distribute information, and to form networks. It also accustoms its users to political criticism and engagement, making the signing of petitions, for example, a frequent tool of protest. But the internet’s power also crystallizes on the streets, where those who Brazilians call internautas (internauts) congregated carrying posters with sayings and ideas that have been in the making and circulating in social media and blogs for quite a while. Moreover, from the streets participants feed back the social media, describing, documenting, interpreting, and thus amplifying the events and re-articulating networks. This exchange between the internet and the streets was palpable in São Paulo and other Brazilian cities, where events such as police repression were posted and reproduced immediately in Twitter and Facebook, convincing many who had stayed at home to join the crowds.
The city and its segregation
Issues related to the city and its quality of life also framed the protests. There is a global dimension to this. Movements demanding rights to the city are nowadays articulated in the most diverse cities around the world and their experiences are exchanged frequently through networks of activists. It is also probably meaningful that São Paulo’s demonstrations have started just after those in Istanbul, which clearly articulated the issue of rights to the city. "Turkey is here" was a huge banner in the streets of São Paulo.
But it is obvious that there is also a local history to this. The demonstrations started in São Paulo triggered by an increase in R$0.20 (US$ 0.10) in the fare of public transportation. It did not take long for protesters to insist that the demonstrations were not only about the 20 cents and for a long list of demands to appear on the streets. Moreover, the demonstrations persisted after the increase was cancelled. Nevertheless, it is undeniable that the city itself, its pattern of spatial segregation, and especially its everyday dynamics of stalled traffic and eternal difficulties of moving around are at the core of the protests.
São Paulo is a dispersed city in which long distances separate the centre from the peripheries, workers from their jobs. As in many other metropolises in the global south, migrants who arrived by the hundreds of thousands a year to work on what was becoming an important industrial centre could not find housing. They have thus relied on auto-construction. Starting in the 1940s, they bought cheap pieces of land in non-urbanized areas in distant peripheries and then started a long-term process of building and expanding their residences, transforming them year after year until it would become a nice house of their own. This process typically takes one to two decades to complete and simultaneously urbanizes the city.
As a consequence of this process, however, by the 1970s São Paulo was clearly segregated according to a center-periphery pattern. The better-off lived in well urbanized and equipped central areas of high population density, while the working poor inhabited the precarious, distant and low density peripheries that they had built on their own. The provision of infrastructure under this pattern was difficult and very expensive. But by the 1980s, it started to arrive. Crucial for this to happen, was the action of urban social movements, which spread throughout the peripheries claiming rights to the city they had built and in which they paid taxes. These movements helped to democratize Brazilian society and to significantly transform the quality of the urban space and of the public services in the peripheries.
In sum, São Paulo was urbanized by its citizens through a process that generated deep inequalities, long distances, high expectations of consumption, and a process of democratization that formed citizens and accustomed them to demand the improvement of their spaces and their participation in the polity. If in the past water, electricity, and sewage were the catalysts of social movements, now circulation becomes a core issue. Mobility through the immense metropolitan region has not improved, but rather worsened continuously over the last decades. The frustrations and indignities of the everyday life in a congested city in which people have to travel long distances found expression in the June demonstrations. However, they have been expressed in the internet, in new forms of political movements, and in the cultural production from the peripheries for quite a while.
The right to move around
The experience of moving around in traffic is painful for all, and the indignities of using absolutely packed public transportation -- buses, vans, and subway -- are a constant complaint of the millions who commute everyday. The internet has been functioning for a long time as the space to express and spread the feelings of irritation. Anyone who follows Facebook and Twitter on a daily basis knows that people sitting in the immense traffic jams use their cell phones to post messages such us: "in the damn bus: stopped for 15 minutes!"; "Will be late for work AGAIN;" "Oh no! Now it stopped to get a handicapped person: will be even more delayed." And so it goes, a breeding site for frustrations and a space for the expression of prejudices and intolerance, some times in cruel and vulgar terms.
Traffic is also associated with an intensified consumerism and with the fact that the government has chosen to emphasize it as a mode of promoting the social mobility of the poor. The individual automobile is central to this policy. Instead of developing public policies that could ameliorate the quality of life in cities by improving urban infrastructure and investing in public transportation, the Brazilian government, especially under the PT, has opted to subsidize the acquisition of individual automobiles. As a result, São Paulo, a city of around 11 million inhabitants, had in 2011 more than 7 million registered vehicles, 5 million of them automobiles. The inevitable outcome is a permanently congested city.
Traffic and mobility are at the core of the new type of social movement that made the call to the streets in June: the Movimento Passe Livre (MPL or Free Fare Movement). It describes itself as "an autonomous, a-political (a-party), horizontal, and independent movement, which fights for true public transportation, free for all, and away from the private initiative." It is not a new movement, since it was founded in 2005, but it had not been taken seriously by the instituted political organizations. It is a movement that knew how to articulate the everyday frustrations of the city and the aspirations of its young people, and that dared to look for democratic and radical alternatives for the problem of urban mobility – such as the notion of zero fare, a proposal it has supported with studies of alternative modes of taxation able to finance a free public transportation of quality for all.
For years, the motto of the movement has been: "a city only exists for those who can move around it". This is a demand for a fundamental right to the city. In this regard, it is meaningful to notice that São Paulo's demonstrations have been mobile and occupied simultaneously several spaces of the city, instead of being identified with a fixed territory, such as Taksim Square or Tahrir Square. The demonstrations exercised the right to circulate throughout several parts of the city, including some where usually people don't walk, such as expressways. They have congregated both in the centre and the peripheries and, symbolically, largely bypassed Praça da Sé, the central square that has been the iconic space of protests and political gatherings during the democratization process in the 1980s.
But to affirm that a city only exists for those who can move around it is more than a demand for a fundamental right to the city. This affirmation also expresses the practice and the values of an immense number of young people and of an intense cultural and artistic production that proliferates especially in the peripheries. In São Paulo, the majority of the participants in this production were born in the peripheries and are the children or grandchildren of the migrants who first moved to the middle of nowhere to build their houses. However, there is a striking generational difference in their ways to look at the city. When the young cultural producers were born, the social movements were already fading away and the spaces of their neighborhoods had improved considerably. They grew up in a world of democracy, NGOs, relative access to education, and increasing availability of technologies of communication. In spite of their poverty, the young artists from the peripheries are plugged into globalized circuits of youth culture, whose styles they reinterpret and adopt, and into an equally globalized and quite expanded consumption market.
By contrast, the generation that built the peripheries had one central project of consumption and social mobility: their houses and their appliances. For this they made incredible sacrifices and accepted a significant immobility in the city. Today the new generation are either less interested in owning a house of their own or believe it to be untenable. Instead, they value the possession of a large range of items, from clothes to the cell phones, all electronic and communication-related items, and motorcycles and cars. They want to move around the whole city and to do so in a fashionable way. Their artistic production and their practices of circulation express clearly this desire, either through graffiti, pixação (São Paulo's style of tagging), rap, break dancing, skating, parkour, or literary events.
But this production also expresses their indignation toward the difficulties they face to use the city and its resources. Some of their production aggressively tries to take over the city. Pixação, São Paulo's style of tagging, is the most evident and transgressive of them. For over a decade, pixadores have inscribed all types of spaces and articulated the desire for mobility and visibility of young men from the peripheries. A city in which pixação is omnipresent should have already understood both these desires, the aggressiveness of the interventions that attempt to materialize them, and the mounting indignation associated with the continuous difficulties to move around and become part of the whole city.
But this new cultural production expresses several other indignations related to everyday life in the city, most importantly the anger toward a police force which has never refrained from using violence in the peripheries. It is not surprising, thus, that social media exploded and the streets became full of people as soon as the demonstrations in mid-June started to be treated with an unusual level of police violence (tear gas and rubber bullets shot at the crowd, plus beating). It should also not be a surprise that posters incessantly reproduced on Facebook remarked: "The PM (Military Police) is doing on Paulista (a central avenue) what they have never stopped doing in the peripheries".
The class tension that marks the city and that is expressed by its spatial segregation became palpable in social media as the protest unfolded. An image that went viral juxtaposed two photographs: on one side, a middle-class young man held a poster with the words "The people woke up"; on the other side, a bus burning in some area of the periphery with the saying "I'll tell you a secret: the periphery has never slept." Posters indicating the peripheries' sharp awareness abounded. Thus, those who had been articulating new imaginaries and a deep indignation in alternative spaces for quite a while finally arrived to the streets and made sure to attribute any feelings of surprise to others. They knew. They have long understood and experienced injustice; it was the others who were finally waking up and experiencing surprise. These included the political parties that have not listened to them, the governments that have disrespected them continuously, and the middle classes that arrived late to the streets to join in the indignation.
Thus, in the same way as the spontaneity of the demonstrations and the new format of the MPL indicate a break from monopolies, authorities, and modes of political organization, the new cultural production of the peripheries and its circulation via internet or via the walls and streets of the city have been breaking monopolies in the production of representations and interpretations and displacing authorships and authorities. This disperse cultural production does not conceive itself in terms of political movements, but has certainly been producing new imaginaries that circulate in autonomous and non-regulated ways. Imaginaries that crystallized on the streets and that express some of the great inequalities and social tensions that constitute the metropolis.
Beyond the city: democracy
But it is obvious that this was not the only thing that crystallized on the streets and that participants in the protests were not only young people from the peripheries. After the demonstrations exploded, all manner of simmering irritations and anger from across all social groups found their expression on the streets, most notably: the exasperation with politicians and their corruption; frustration with government at all levels and branches, whose buildings were attacked in several cities; the sense of absurdity of the expense of mega-events such as the World Cup contrasted with the disregard of basic social rights such as education and health (we want "Fifa standard" schools and clinics, said the posters); annoyance with political parties (the PT flags were burned on the streets); perplexity with the attempt of some in Congress to undermine LGBT rights; and the revolt at continuous police violence. This proliferation of protests on the streets, preceded by exchanges on the internet and years of cultural production and interventions into the space of the city, indicate the incapacity of established organizations and institutions to maintain a hegemony in the production of interpretations and practices. This can be very positive and liberating, opening new paths, breaking old monopolies, and revealing new articulations. But it also indicates risks and the need for a new democratic articulation that may go beyond posters, hash-tags, and inscriptions on the walls; an articulation able to contain authoritarian and violent impulses and create alternative political spaces without losing novelty.
This article appeared in a previous form at www.kafila.org.
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Week 3 Market Recap
The broad markets were all generally lower this week with U.S. large stocks posting their second consecutive down week. More notable was the -1.3% loss for small U.S. stocks. These are the stocks that have been leading the Trump rally and are still higher by 13% since the election as compared to U.S. large stocks up less than half that during the same time. International stocks, both in developed countries and emerging markets, were lower for the week but remain among the leaders year-to-date.
Notable Market Headlines
- Earnings Season Continues – Procter & Gamble and IBM beat estimates and their stocks rally while GE misses their revenue estimate and the stock falls.
- Tiffany’s Trump Troubles – jeweler Tiffany’s reported holiday sales in the U.S. declined by 4% while their flagship Fifth Avenue store experienced a 14% decline explained by “…post-election traffic disruptions.”
- Inauguration Day Market Performance – the Dow Jones Industrials gained 0.48% on Friday. This is the only time of the past 9 that the market has moved higher on the day of the presidential inauguration. This is interesting but meaningless! The performance in the week following inaugurations have been mixed.
- Dow Remains Below 20,000…again – this psychological milestone continues to elude investors closing the week at 19,827.
- 10-Year Government Bond Yield at 2.468% – after falling for about a month, rates resumed their move higher but remain below their recent December peak of 2.6%.
Top 10 Performers – Summary
- CSX – activist investor appears to be planning a management shakeup at this railroad. The stock jumped 14% for the week and is up 23% for the year.
- Big Tobacco Gains
- Reynolds American and Philip Morris were two of the top 10 performers on expectations of strong earnings
Bottom 10 Performers – Summary
- Several banks were among the week’s bigger losers giving back some of their Trump Rally gains
- Bristol-Myers Squibb
- Stock was down -12.4% or a loss of $11.7 BILLION following disappointment related to the development of a cancer therapy
Economic Indicator - Reported
The Consumer Price Index, a broad measure of inflation, rose 0.3% in December fueled by higher energy prices (up 1.5% for the month). For the year, prices rose2.1%.
Housing Starts hit 1.226 million in December, at the top range of estimates. This measure includes both single-family and multi-family housing which had dramatically different changes for the month:
Economic Indicators – Upcoming
- Existing Home Sales – average estimate is for a drop of -1.3% in December.
- Gross Domestic Product (GDP) – estimates range from 1.8% - 3.3% growth in Q4.
Netflix was founded in 1998 as a DVD-by-mail service. Today they company has a value of $59 billion and more than 50 million customers. In what year did Netflix begin streaming content to customers over the internet?
2007. It was reported that Netflix accounts for 37% of all internet traffic as of a year ago!
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Mica tape + Halogen Free Ethylene propylene, type EPR according to IEC 60092-351.
The standard identification is the following:
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Tinned copper wire braid.
Mud resistant thermosetting compound, black colour, low smoke and halogen free, type SHF MUD.
Fire resistant offshore instrumentation 250 V individually screened cables. These fire resistant cables are specially designed to transmit data in the presence of fire. In case of fire, they do not emit toxic or corrosive gases, thereby protecting public health and avoiding any possible damage to electronic equipment. They are also heavy duty, mud resistant cables for Offshore applications. Halogen free, flame and fire non propagator. Excellent resistance to oils, abrasion, petrochemical fluids, moisture and salt water. Based on IEC 60092-376 and NEK TS 606. Suitable for fixed installations in vessels and oil rigs, assuring the highest level of safety, security and reliability.
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PlanetSide 2 Overview
PlanetSide 2 is a scifi MMOFPS from Sony Online Entertainment that takes all the best features of the original PlanetSide and brings them into the modern gaming age, adding improvements that are expected in the genre. Players join one of three factions (Terran Republic, New Conglomerate, or Vanu Sovereignty) and engage in combat on foot, vehicles, or the skies. Battle across open fields to urban centers with and against hundreds of other players to control key territories and valuable resources.
- Three Empires | The militaristic Terran Republic, the New Conglomerate freedom fighters, and the technocratic Vanu Sovereignty.
- Key Battlegrounds | Core gameplay involves holding territories and controlling resources, in order to receive fuel, ammo, and tech bonuses.
- Huge Maps | With every inch of land being contestable real estate.
- Free-form Class System | Engage in combat according to your play style, and unlock more skills to add to your chosen combat role.
- Mission System | Developers and players may add more content into the game, designed for new players and veterans alike.
- Customizable Outfits | Guilds will be able to create their own uniforms to better match their identity, reputation, and role in the war.
- Customizable Weapons | All twenty basic weapon may be customized to players’ preference.
- Customizable Vehicles | Over ten vehicles that have skills and features waiting to be unlocked.
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Primary Support: Digestive Health*
Proprietary blend of 16 different enzymes that supports digestive health by aiding in the breakdown of proteins, carbohydrates, and fats, and the absorption of nutrients*
Due to inventory-related issues from our manufacturer, some of our blue product caps have been replaced with a temporary white cap. Our traditional blue cap will return soon! In the meantime, rest assured knowing our products contain the same great formula you know and love.
• Supports healthy digestion of food*
• Reduces intestinal discomfort associated with food digestion*
• Supports overall digestive health*
Amylase, protease 4.5, α-galactosidase, protease 3.0, lipase, and ß-glucanase
Made in the USA with quality ingredients from around the world.
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I am sick, so my mom is typing for me instead of me writing. I have thrown up three times tonight, and I will probably miss school tomorrow. I'm glad I got to go today. I did my presentation. I really wanted to be Rosa Parks, but a few other people did, too. I got lucky and worked hard, and got to be Rosa Parks!!
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May SU Creative Crew Scrapbook and More Focus: Mini Books
Back in 2009 we CASEd Julie Griffith's idea of a toilet tissue tube book and presented it under 3-D challenges, 3D094. You can see the challenge here: http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/fo...k-t425477.html
See instructions and pictorials on this cute little mini book. Try your hand at this project and enjoy the process.
This turned out super cute....I just tied my ribbon too tight so now you can't open the pages! I'll have to go searching for more ribbon to redo it!
Date: Thursday, May 1, 2014 GMT Views: 873
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The title of an article by John Farrell in Commonweal is a dead giveaway. When writing about the interaction between faith and science, as Farrell does in the piece, the title “The Conflict Continues” is like a flashing red light that the mythological Warfare Thesis pitting science versus religion is coming at you.
Sure enough, Farrell does not disappoint. He informs readers that the fear that science could “make God seem unnecessary” is “widespread today among religious believers,” particularly in the U.S. where “opposition to belief in evolution remains very high.”
Indeed, this fear has “haunted the debate over the tension between religion and science for centuries.” Farrell notes that Edward Larson and Michael Ruse point out, in their new book On Faith and Science, that the “conflict model doesn’t work so well.” But that seems to be a minor speed bump for Farrell. He finds that:
The idea that the world operates according to its own laws and regularities remains controversial in the evolution debate today, as Intelligent Design proponents attack the consensus of science on Darwinian evolution and insist that God’s direct intervention in the history of life can be scientifically demonstrated.
Farrell also writes that Isaac Newton, driven by concerns about secondary causes, “insisted God was still necessary to occasionally tweak the motions of the planets if any threatened to wander off course.”
Riddled with Myths
Farrell’s piece is riddled with myths. Secondary causes are not nearly as controversial as he would have us believe. He utterly mischaracterizes ID, and Newton said no such thing. It is true that Newton suggested that the Creator could intervene in the cosmos (not “insisted”).
And was this the result of some radical voluntarism? Of course not. Newton suggested God may intervene in the cosmos because the physics of the day (which by the way he invented) indicated that our solar system could occasionally have instabilities. The fact that it was running along just fine, and hadn’t yet blown up, suggested that something had intervened along the way.
Newton was arguing from science, not religion. But that doesn’t fit the Epicurean mythos that religion opposes naturalism while science confirms it. The reality is, of course, the exact opposite.
Cross-posted at Darwin’s God.
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25 Years Of Hits is unique in that it plays the most popular songs of the week in order for the last 25 years and sprinkles in memories with fun timeline trivia tidbits. It’s really the best way to rewind, relax and relive with your all time favorites and today’s country.
Your host Mike Allen has listened to country music as long as he can remember, it’s probably the one thing he loves most in life…well he does have this thing for dogs. Anyway, he’s worked in country radio for over a decade and uses that to get you unique insights into your favorite artists, and helps you discover new ones too!
So sit back and relax as Mike Allen takes you on a quarter century long journey filled with memories and the songs that became the sound track to your life!
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Wavy hair sits somewhere between curls and straight hair. That makes knowing how to care for it tricky
Some might say that wavy hair gets the best of both worlds: the body of curls, without the challenge of caring for them.
Unfortunately, it’s seldom that simple, and wavy hair can fall prey to dandruff.
WHAT MAKES HAIR WAVY?
Hair shape is defined largely by the shape of your follicles, where the hair exits the skin on your scalp.
Curly hair has curved, J-shaped follicles, while straight hair follicles have less curve.. Wavy hair sits somewhere in between.
What this ends up meaning for wavy haired people is that caring for your hair falls somewhere in between as well.
Like curly hair, wavy hair can mean that crucial scalp oils are unable to travel easily down hair strands, leading to problems including:
- Dry hair
- Scalp irritation
These problems, plus styling and de-tangling your locks, mean that you may find the cuticle becomes damaged.
Cuticles are the protective layer around the outside of your hair – they cover it like a coat of flexible armor.
Unfortunately, when these become damaged, hair becomes frizzy and can even break.
WAVY HAIR AND HAIR PRODUCTS
People with wavy hair often turn to products to style their hair. Those with hair closer to curls want to tame the associated frizz, while those with straighter waves might be looking for more body (or even straighter locks).
The problem is that these products can and do build up in hair, and when that happens they can break down into potentially irritating substances.
Then there’s the potential damage caused by using hair straighteners.
Read more: The hidden dangers of hair straighteners
A good deep cleaning shampoo can help control some of these problems, clearing away product build up.
But for long-term hair health, and to avoid dandruff, you’ll need a bit more.
CARING FOR WAVY HAIR
Caring for wavy hair means caring for your scalp, and avoiding build-up and irritation.
The best way to do this is with a good anti-dandruff shampoo - this will help protect your scalp from irritants, to prevent itch, flakes, and dryness.
Smooth & Silky shampoo is a good option to help keep the scalp in good condition while deeply conditioning your hair.
Regular brushing is another great way of caring for wavy hair – this distributes the oils through your hair, both avoiding build-up and protecting your hair from damage.
So, with a little bit of care, you really can have the best of both worlds.
More hair care tips and advice
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Welcome to ICOS Carbon Portal
Here you can discover, visualize and download European greenhouse gas data!
Discover our data
ICOS Carbon Portal is the gateway to all observational data, derived services and products from ICOS Research Infrastructure to inform and assist its users. In the ICOS data portal you will find data from over 130 stations and get access to raw, near real time and final quality-controlled data, supplemented with elaborated (model) data and analyses.
ICOS Carbon Portal provides free and open access to the high quality ICOS data on greenhouse gases. ICOS (Integrated Carbon Observation System) is the European measurement system for high quality and high precision greenhouse gas observations that informs science and policy on natural and human emissions and uptake of these greenhouse gases from ocean, land ecosystems and atmosphere.
ICOS data supports climate science and policies. Climate change is recognized by the United Nations and the European Union as the biggest environmental threat to human civilisation. Greenhouse gas emissions by humans are recognized as the most important contribution to the global warming since the industrial revolution we now witness (about 1 degree Celsius). ICOS data informs us on the extremely uncertain changes in natural fluxes due to ongoing climate change (feedbacks) and whether the mitigation promises from the Paris agreement translate in actual reductions in the increase of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
By the end of 2019 we expect that all stations are in full operation and deliver ICOS data through this portal. The portal will gradually be filled with more data and services.
We develop and offer :
- discovery, preview and download of quality-controlled observational data
- advanced visualizations such as animated flux maps
- popular-scientific products for policy makers, authorities, teachers and students.
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Republican frontrunner Donald Trump has shown a fondness for bad economic predictions and conspiracy theories in the past. In one 2012 blog video, Trump managed to combine them both in predicting that if President Obama won re-election, gas prices would go through the roof due to a deal the president had made with the Saudis.
Gas prices today are at the lowest they've been since the start of the Great Recession, with the national average near two dollars. Prices had a slight drop following President Obama's re-election. The plunge in prices since then has been attributed to a combination of factors, including the Saudis and other Middle Eastern producers increasing drilling in an attempt to undercut American companies after the shale boom significantly increased U.S. oil production.
"Even though gasoline and oil prices are going through the roof, I have no doubt in my mind that President Obama made a deal with the Saudis to flood the markets with oil before the election, so he can at least keep it down a little bit," said Trump in his April 2012 video blog.
"After the election it's going to be a mess," continued Trump. "You're going to see numbers like you've never seen if he wins. Let's hope he doesn't win. Remember I said it — if he [Obama] wins, oil and gasoline through the roof like never before. I believe a deal was made. It's a sinister deal, but let's see whether or not I was right."
That same year, Trump predicted that the price of a loaf of bread would soon soar to $25. It currently costs $2.32 on average nationally.
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We now invite you to submit 2018 Annual Conference workshop proposals
8th December 2017
Share your ideas and good practice by submitting either a campus or academic workshop proposal!
We’re currently in the planning stages for the
22nd EAUC Annual Conference on the 19 - 21 June 2018 at Keele University. Workshops/sessions will run on 20 - 21 June 2018 only.
We invite abstracts, papers, and proposals to be submitted in any of the six streams of the conference (detailed in the guidance notes), in which sessions will be scheduled and during these times, six sessions will run concurrently. There are 36 sessions available for both the academic
and campus submission streams.
The conference theme, Collaborations for Change, Global Goals for Tomorrow's Education, Today, recognises the critical role universities and colleges across the planet have to play in finding and implementing a solution to climate change, and realising the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with partnership working.
Next year's conference is inspired by United Nations Sustainable Development Goal no.17, Partnership for the Goals, meaning a successful approach to leading change for sustainability requires a new commitment to partnership and cooperation. They are needed across every part of our learning institutions and between us and wider local, national and international stakeholders.
Iain Patton, EAUC CEO, says, "The SDGs are the world's new to-do list and this conference will inspire and empower universities and colleges to take the step-change needed."
With the prevalent issue of the SDGs, plus the inclusion of an academic stream, next year's conference promises to attract an even wider audience, so send your proposal in today!
Click to download the proposal forms and guidance notes:
Academic sessions - guidance notes
Academic sessions - proposal form
Campus workshops - guidance notes
Campus workshops - proposal form
Alternatively submit your proposal online
Visit our conference
website for further information or if you need assistance.
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Boost Box Schedule
When: Held 2nd Tuesday of each month / Noon - 1 pm / Archives
- MAR now offers 1 MLA Continuing Education (CE) credit per Boost Box session
- Details are provided at the end of each session
National Center for Health Statistics
Presenter: Tara Das, , PhD, MPH, MLIS, Interim Head, Social Work Library/Government Information Librarian, Lehman Social Sciences Library
Description: Ms. Das will review the work of the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), which is one of the principal statistical agencies in the United States. She will discuss NCHS data collection and data release methods and publications. Data access for researchers interested in analyzing NCHS data will also be included.
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Customer Profiling Defined
The definition of Customer profiling is ” a description or analysis of a typical or ideal customer for one’s business” Harper Collins Publishers. Customer profiling is a marketing tool that businesses use to understand their customers and helps to make better business decisions. Profiling results in customer profiles which provide a description of your customers based on a set of attributes. You can group similar profiles by shared characteristics such as demographic, geographic, psychographic and behavioural characteristics.
Why profile your customers?
Customer profiling will help you to understand your customers, highlighting who they are, what they look like, their interests and wants. This insight will help you to recognise your customer’s characteristics, behaviour and traits. Having a better understanding of your customers, you will understand what they are interested in and will be able to communicate with them more effectively.
Common Customer Profiling Models
Profiling usually groups customers into similar characteristics providing ‘types’ or groups of customer. Demographic and social grade definitions enable the classification and measurement of people by different social grade, income, life stage, age, affluence and location. These factors can then be used to group similar customers, you may be familiar with well known social grade classifications like ABC1 & C2DE developed originally by National Readership Survey.
Behavioural classifications can also be used to group people based on their shared behaviour, likes and interests. This then provides a more in-depth and robust look at your customer base and what drives and motivates them when making purchasing decisions. MOSAIC, ACORN and Personicx are all well-known examples of classifications that take into account behaviour and hobbies as well as demographic variables such as age, location, affluence and life stage.
Understanding similar traits amongst your customer base enables you to segment them into similar groups by shared characteristics and traits. The benefit of customer segmentation is that you can target each customer segment with a bespoke approach rather than a one size fits all technique. Targeting by specific segment makes it easier to communicate with your customers with message relevant to them, providing a more personalised approach with appropriate marketing communications
Customer Profiling and Transaction Analysis
Once you have developed a profile of your customers you can then analyse transactional data to identify patterns and trends amongst your customers by segment. As a result, your customer profile is not only based on demographic information but also takes into account past behaviour. You can analyse your customer profile by product type, value, frequency and patterns of spend. Analysing the different patterns of behaviour or spend by customer profile, provides a clear picture of your most profitable customers. Once you understand who your best customers are, you can develop a strategy allocating the resource you would like to allocate for each segment group. Optimising your marketing budget and improving return on investment.
Using Customer Profiling for Prospect Acquisition
After you have identified the profile of your best and most profitable customers, you can then find look alike prospects and target them in an effective manner. These prospects should have a higher propensity to take up your offer and therefore provide a more cost-effective means of targeting new customers.
In conclusion, customer profiling and segmentation provide the tools to fully understand your customer base, improve customer engagement and target look alike prospects.
Related articles: –
Profiling Case Study – World of Wedgwood
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Department Assistant - Full time
Location: Traverse City
Status (FT/PT): Full-Time
Shift: Day shift
Req ID: 60420
High School graduate required with a minimum of three (3) years secretarial and/or office experience or comparable formal education. At least one-year hospital experienced desired.
Demonstrates energetic, professional and friendly appearance.
Possesses outstanding interpersonal skills, communication skills and excellent telephone skills.
Demonstrates ability to effectively handle sensitive and high stress situations.
Demonstrates excellent grammar, spelling, formatting and punctuation skills.
Demonstrates considerable initiative and ability to work independently.
Unit clerk skills and Medical Terminology recommended.
Position requires a high degree of confidentiality.
May be subject to elements of time pressure, constant interruption of activities and noise.
Must have basic typing ability (30 wpm) and good mathematical skills.
Microsoft Office package literacy required with demonstration of using Word, Excel, Publisher and PowerPoint and knowledge in Outlook required.
ORGANIZATION: This position reports to the Director or Manager of the nursing unit/units assigned.
- Maintains Kronos time and attendance- Enter payroll or scheduling data and run reports requiring advanced knowledge of Kronos
- Facilitates end user training as needed for Outlook and also Microsoft Office Package
- Maintains staff attendance records and educates new employees on Kronos or other unit processes
- Maintains appropriate levels of supplies for nursing unit, i.e., forms, education material, and general office
- Maintains patient confidentiality and advocates to all staff
- Creates and organizes data into either Microsoft Excel or PowerPoint. May also create custom reports as needed
- Supports Managers with overall office coordination; schedules interdisciplinary, meetings, may develop agenda or take minutes
- Coordinates Education/Travel
- Performs other duties and responsibilities as assigned
- Assist Professional Governance councils with secretarial support/location for meetings
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Calling their Bluff
Over at Townhall, Tony Snow has excellent advice for the President: "Call their Bluff." He reckons that forcing a vote ought to flesh out the propriety of the NSA international wiretaps once and for all.
|Note who has not spoken against the NSA program since the Times story broke. The list includes Harry Reid and Dick Durbin in the Senate; Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer in the House; and members of both intelligence committees. In other words, Democrats in the know either have supported the surveillance program or just kept their mouths shut. A straightforward vote would shut up the rest, highlighting vividly the gulf that separates a president responsible for national security from critics responsible to nobody.|
Commenter "Hyman Roth" begs to differ and asks:
|The president does and should have increased powers in times of war, but do you really think the "war" on terrorism qualifies as a real war?|
Let's see if we can figure this one out.
1) Has the enemy launched a massive surprise attack on the scale of Pearl Harbor? Check.
2) Has the enemy has promised to kill four million Americans, including "two million children"? Checkety-check.
3) Has the enemy repeatedly tried to acquire nuclear, chemical and/or biological weapons? Check and mate, bezatch.
Do the math, "Hyman". That is, if adding one and one together won't tax your noggin.
Ms. Coulter, in a highly entertaining column, also savages the Times for its NSA reporting, using everything but a taser and a cattle prod. The money quotes:
|After 9-11, any president who was not spying on people calling phone numbers associated with terrorists should be impeached for being an inept commander in chief...|
...Either we take the politically correct, scattershot approach and violate everyone's civil liberties, or we focus on the group threatening us and ...worst-case... - run the risk of briefly violating the civil liberties of 1,000 [out of] 300 million.
...In the Democrats' world, there are two more options. Violate no one's civil liberties and get used to a lot more 9-11s, or the modified third option, preferred by Sen. John D. Rockefeller: Let the president do all the work and take all the heat for preventing another terrorist attack while you place a letter expressing your objections in a file cabinet as a small parchment tribute to your exquisite conscience.
Jay Rockefeller's public display of CYA behavior is as weak-minded as it is disenguous. Why lock up a circumspect memo, when he could simply register a formal complaint with the Attorney General -- who was fully aware of this particular program? Oh, that's right, because there would be no political hay to be made with a practice the AG had already ruled legal.
And, despite the breathless reporting of the Times regarding the legality of the NSA intercepts, one need only check their archives to find this news report dated November 7, 1982:
|A federal appeals court has ruled that the National Security Agency may lawfully intercept messages between United States citizens and people overseas, even if there is no cause to believe the Americans are foreign agents.|
Would that the Times could even bother to check their own microfiche.
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Hearthstone: Naxxramas strategy guide
How to beat every Heroic boss in the game.
Diablo 3: Ultimate Evil Edition guide
Our complete guide to the new console version of Diablo 3.
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