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JACOBS, Gerrie J; DE BRUIN, Karina e JACOBS, Melanie. Practices and strategies that should nurture a quality ethos in higher education institutions. Tydskr. geesteswet. [online]. 2013, vol.53, n.1, pp.16-29. ISSN 2224-7912.
This article reflects on the last two phases of a research project, covering a period of thirteen years (1998 to 2011), conducted in four phases, and involving quality practitioners from South Africa and three other continents. The project firstly strove to identify contributors to a quality culture, and secondly to generate strategies and practices that should nurture and eventually embed an underlying quality ethos in higher education institutions. The Higher Education Quality Committee (HEQC) was assigned national oversight of quality assurance in the South African higher education sector in 2001. The HEQC encouraged institutions to promote a culture of continuous improvement via their internal quality processes, strategies and structures. However, only limited empirical (tried and tested) information was available at that stage, in respect of exactly what such a quality culture would entail and the kind ofethos that was needed to nurture and eventually embed theformer culture. This was then the main catalyst, which instigated this project. The relationship between a culture and an ethos is important, and required specific investigation. A culture was defined as the patterns of assumptions, norms, values, practices and beliefs, which the employees or members of a higher education institution regard as appropriate ways of perceiving, thinking, feeling and acting. An ethos was seen as the underlying sentiment or distinctive spirit of a culture. The project therefore explored elements or manifestations of the underlying sentiment of higher education institutions, which are perceived to enhance quality-related assumptions, norms, values, practices and beliefs; thereby nurturing (and eventually embedding) a quality ethos. Phase 1 of theproject (1998 to 2001) endeavoured to get a grip on the reigning quality culture of each of the then Rand Afrikaans University's six faculties, by collecting and analysing views from the respective faculty quality committees. The typical faculty quality culture, at the time, was labelled as "reproductive". The underlying sentiment (or ethos) of this kind of culture is usually aimed at maintaining the status quo. The second project phase (2002 to 2004) focused on possible changes in faculty quality cultures and in underlying quality ethos since 1998. This led the researchers to conclude that, after a period offive to six years, the quality cultures of all faculties had changed considerably. Quality committees now perceived quality as a much more important indicator of faculty effectiveness. However, the underlying faculty quality ethos was still (as in the late 1990s) perceived to be more re-active than pro-active - mostly shaped by demands or requests from external "forces" ("someone or something out there"). Fairly deep-seated concerns from academics, that an overtly enthusiastic quality assurance focus by faculties might undermine scholarship and autonomy, gave rise to and maintained the re-active kind of ethos. The project's focus became broader in phases 3 and 4 - the emphasis being on contributors to an institutional (which might be different from a faculty) quality culture and its underlying ethos. The researchers were now faced with a totally reformed South African higher education landscape - the number of institutions had been reduced from 36 to 23, with six "new" comprehensive universities, sharing the landscape with eleven "traditional" universities and six universities of technology. The methodology employed during phases 3 and 4, was the action research and organisational change approach, known as appreciative inquiry, applied in its usual interactive workshop mode. The intention was to uncover strategies and practices "that seem to work", by eliciting positive responses from participants to the appreciative inquiry-question: "What gives life to an institutional quality culture when it functions at its best?" Phase 3 kicked-off with in-house workshops at the University of Johannesburg, during the second semester of2007 and the first semester of2008. The project then gained "national status", when the Higher Education Quality Committee invited the researchers to facilitate a similar workshop (for quality practitioners and directors of national higher education institutions), in the second semester of 2008. This workshop generated constructive responses in respect of perceived contributors to an institutional quality culture; as well as practices, which might either sustain or impede an underlying quality ethos. The researchers hence had the privilege to soundboard, attest and verify their workshop findings (although based on a very selective group of participants) in the international domain, as phase 4 of theproject. Five similar workshops were conducted, on invitation, at international higher education conferences (generally institutional research, planning- and quality-related events) between 2008 and 2011. Seven main contributors to an institutional quality culture, and incidentally also seven practices and/or strategies, which should nurture and embed an underlying quality ethos, represent the project's main findings. From 2002 to 2009, the European University Association (EUA) launched a similar project, supporting European universities in embedding their own institutional quality cultures. An institutional quality culture in higher education, the EUA project found, usually consists of two interdependent components, namely: (1) shared values, beliefs, expectations and commitment towards quality and (2) a pro-active and focused institutional approach to quality assurance and enhancement in all areas. The South African project, most remarkably, found that the nature of the interface between these two components - the extent of alignment and synergy between the institutional quality approach and shared (especially academic) staff values, beliefs and expectations - lies at the heart ofthe establishment and perpetuation of an institutional quality ethos. A thorough understanding of the necessary condition(s) for optimal interplay between these two components, as well as contributing or limiting factors, are considered as much-needed and desirable future research.
Palavras-chave : quality; quality ethos; quality culture; higher education; Higher Education Quality Committee; quality enhancement; quality assurance; faculty quality; institutional quality; appreciative inquiry methodology; quality in higher education; Rand Afrikaans University; University of Johannesburg.

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SAN DIEGO – Most everyone sets goals for their lives. Marine recruits are no different, and many enter training hoping to earn a leadership position. However, goals sometimes take more time to achieve than expected and for one recruit, it took most of boot camp to get within reach of a leadership billet.
Throughout recruit training, Marine Corps Pvt. Zachery T. Douthitt, Platoon 3242, Lima Company, 3rd Recruit Training Battalion, strived to be a squad leader or guide. Unfortunately, it wasn't until the later stages of training that his drill instructors noticed his upstanding character.
"He's been a good recruit this whole cycle," said Sgt. Alanser Uruo, the platoon's senior drill instructor. "He always puts out in all the events, whether it's physically training, drill or guided discussions."
Out of a platoon of 60 recruits, only four are selected as squad leaders and one as platoon guide.
At 5 feet 4 inches, Douthitt, a 20-year-old native of Muncie, Ind., is one of the smaller recruits in his platoon. He also has a calm demeanor and is soft spoken. While that didn't make him a bad recruit, it did make it harder for him to get noticed.
"I always tried to show leadership characteristics," said Douthitt. "I don't know why I wasn't picked. I hope to get recognized after boot camp to show I did give everything I have."
Uruo said that it's possible for Douthitt to pick up a leadership role in the Corps if he does three things: "All he has to do is stand out, be more vocal [and] take more initiative."
Although Douthitt was a good recruit, Uruo said, it took until the second and third phase of recruit training to notice his outstanding positive and humble character.
"If I wanted to know how the platoon was doing, I would ask him. That's how much confidence I have in him," said Uruo. "The way he presents himself, his mannerisms, motivates other recruits. He has really good character and is a humble recruit."
As the weeks passed in training, Uruo said Douthitt's positivity and motivation became obvious, particularly when he would consistently provide input during recruit classes and direct fellow recruits to improve.
However, Uruo said, by that time it was too late in the game to switch up the leadership roster.
Fellow recruits called Douthitt a positive light and someone who always helped others during stressful times.
"He would help me when I was struggling," said Pvt. Justin E. Duncan, one of Douthitt's platoon mates. "I remember telling him that I didn't know what I was doing here and he told me basically to keep my eyes on the prize of becoming a Marine."
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Douthitt said that not being picked as squad leader didn't affect him; it instead drove him to try harder to help others and to be someone to look up to.
"I'm not going to let my efforts stop here in boot camp," said Douthitt. "I'm going to keep trying to do my best."
Douthitt is the son and brother of former Marines, and, he said, he plans on passing on to his kids the values of honor and courage he learned in recruit training.


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Stark, impassioned, and singularly intense, Josef Koudelka's work has received deserved acclaim over the past three decades as a uniquely significant contribution to the language of photography. Koudelka is the first book to present over 150 of his most eloquent images in a single volume, from his earliest—published here for the first time—to the most recent panoramic landscape studies. Whether photographing avant-garde theater, gypsies throughout Eastern Europe, resistance to Soviet guns and tanks advancing on Prague, or the environmental degradation of a postindustrial world, Koudelka has consistently produced transformative images that stand outside time and place. In the words of Robert Delpire, the artist's longtime champion and publisher, "Koudelka brings an intense eye and full heart to each place, object, and person. This work proves once again that he is a photographer with unique personality and power." Each of the contributing essayists explores a different aspect of Koudelka's work, illustrating his constant evolution and intensity.
Josef Koudelka (born in Moravia, Czech Republic, 1938) has received the Prix Nadar, Grand Prix National de la Photographie, Grand Prix Cartier-Bresson, and Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography. His work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art and the International Center of Photography, New York; Hayward Gallery, London; Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art, Amsterdam; and Palais de Tokyo, Paris. A member of Magnum Photos, he is based in Paris.


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Al-Qaeda[1] (Arabic: القاعدة, al-qāʿidah, "the base"), is an armed Islamic group that was started between August 1988 and late 1989.[2]p75[3] It works as a network, as a stateless army,[4] and a radical Sunni Muslim movement calling for global Jihad. Most of the world thinks it is a Takfiri and terrorist organization.[5][6]
Members of al-Qaeda have performed many acts of terrorism. Most of these have been done against the United States, and other liberal countries. Some of its most well-known attacks have been the September 11 attacks, the bombings of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, and the attack on the US Navy ship USS Cole in 2000. Al-Qaeda has done suicide attacks and simultaneous bombings of different targets.[7]
Among al-Qaeda's goals is for other countries to stop influencing Muslim countries, and for a new Islamic caliphate to be made. There have been reports that al-Qaeda believes that a Christian–Jewish alliance is conspiring to destroy Islam,[8] (largely embodied in Israel–United States relations), and that the killing of bystanders and civilians is religiously justified in jihad.
There have been guesses that there are 500-1,000 operatives in Afghanistan and around 5,000 worldwide. However, there is no confirmation of this.
In June 2001, al-Qaeda and Egyptian Islamic Jihad, which had been associated with each other for many years, merged into 'Qaeda al-Jihad'.[9]
- "...the members of Islamic Jihad and its guiding figure, Ayman al-Zawahiri, have provided the backbone of [al-Quaeda's] leadership. According to officials in the C.I.A. and the F.B.I., Zawahiri has been responsible for much of the planning of the terrorist operations against the United States".[9]
Death of Osama Bin Laden and current leadership
Egyptian Ayman al-Zawahiri is the highest-ranking surviving member of al-Qaeda's leadership, after Osama bin Laden was killed in 2011.
Death of Abu Yahya al-Libi
Senior al-Qaeda leader Abu Yahya al-Libi was killed in a drone strike on 4 June 2012.[10] He ranked second to Ayman al-Zawahiri at the time. The strike was carried out in the northwest tribal area of Waziristan. The Pakistan Government has protested to the U.S. about the strike.[10]
- ↑ pronounced /ælˈkaɪdə/ al-KYE-də or how to say: /ælˈkeɪdə/ al-KAY-də; alternatively spelled al-Qaida and sometimes al-Qa'ida
- ↑ Bergen, Peter 2006. The Osama bin Laden I Know: an oral history of al Qaeda's leader. 2nd ed, New York: Free Press. ISBN 0743278925
- ↑ United States District Court, Southern District of New York (February 6, 2001). "Testimony of Jamal Ahmad Al-Fadl". United States v. Usama bin Laden. James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies. http://cns.miis.edu/pubs/reports/binladen.htm. Retrieved 2008-09-03.[dead link]
- ↑ Gunaratna 2002, pp. 95–96. "Al-Qaeda's global network, as we know it today, was created while it was based in Khartoum, from December 1991 till May 1996. To coordinate its overt and covert operations as Al-Qaeda's ambitions and resources increased, it developed a decentralised, regional structure. [...] As a global multinational, Al-Qaeda makes its constituent nationalities and ethnic groups, of which there are several dozen, responsible for a particular geographic region. Although its modus operandi is cellular, familial relationships play a key role."
See also:
- Naím, Moisés (January/February 2003). "The five wars of globalization". Foreign Policy (134): 28–37.
- ↑ 1st paragraph, p. x, The dynamics of political crime, Jeffrey Ian Ross, SAGE, 2003, ISBN 0803970455.
- ↑ 2010 Amil Khan, The Long Struggle, p 88
- ↑ Wright, Lawrence (2006). The looming tower: Al-Qaeda and the road to 9/11. New York: Knopf. ISBN 037541486X
- ↑ Fu'ad Husayn `Al-Zarqawi ... "The Second Generation of al-Qa'ida, Part Fourteen," Al-Quds al-Arabi, July 13, 2005
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Lawrence Wright 2002. The New Yorker. The man behind Bin Laden
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Al-Qaeda commander Abu Yahya al-Libi killed - US officials. BBC News Asia [1]
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- Council on Foreign Relations Al-Qaeda


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Bath time with Sylvia and Violet has become a couple time a week affair, and while Violet doesn't stay in the tub for too long, Sylvia does everything she can do to help.
Last week, Violet was in a great mood, so why not style her hair a bit?
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BERKELEY – Imagine two central banks. One is hyperactive, responding aggressively to events. While it certainly cannot be accused of ignoring current developments, its policies are widely criticized as storing up problems for the future.
The other central bank is unflappable. It remains calm in the face of events, seeking at all cost to avoid doing anything that might be construed as encouraging excessive risk-taking or creating even a whiff of inflation.
What I have just described is no mere hypothetical, of course. It is, in fact, a capsule depiction of the United States Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank.
One popular explanation for the two banks' different approaches is that they stem from their societies' respective historical experiences. The banks' institutional personalities reflect the role of collective memory in shaping how officials conceptualize the problems that they face.
The Great Depression of the 1930's, when the Fed stood idly by as the economy collapsed, is the moulding event seared into the consciousness of every American central banker. As a result, the Fed responds aggressively when it perceives even a limited risk of another depression.
By contrast, the defining event shaping European monetary policy is the hyperinflation of the 1920's, filtered through the experience of the 1970's and 1980's, when central banks were enlisted once again to finance budget deficits – and again with inflationary consequences. Indeed, delegating national monetary policies to a Europe-wide central bank was intended to solve precisely this problem.
It is not only in central banking, of course, that we see the role of historical experience in shaping policymaking. President Lyndon Johnson, when deciding to escalate US intervention in Vietnam, drew an analogy with Munich, when the failure to respond to Hitler's aggression had catastrophic consequences. A quarter-century later, President George H.W. Bush, considering how best to roll back Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, drew an analogy with Vietnam, where the absence of an exit strategy had caused US forces to get bogged down.
But a key conclusion of research on foreign policy is that decision-makers all too often fail to test their analogies for "fitness." They fail to ask whether there is, in fact, a close correspondence between historical circumstances and current facts. They invoke specific analogies not so much because they resemble current conditions, but because they are seared into the public's consciousness. As a result, analogical reasoning both shapes and distorts policy. It misleads decision-makers, as it did both Johnson and Bush.
The same dangers arise for monetary policy. For the Fed, it is important to ask whether the 1930's, when its premature policy tightening precipitated a double-dip recession, really is the best historical analogy to consider when contemplating how to time the exit from its current accommodating stance. Certainly, the Great Depression is not the only alternative on offer.
The Fed might also consider policy in 1924-1927, when low interest rates fueled stock-market and real-estate bubbles, or 2003-2005, when interest rates were held down in the face of serious financial imbalances. At a minimum, the Fed might develop a "portfolio" of analogies, test them for fitness, and distill their lessons, as President John F. Kennedy famously did when weighing his options during the Cuban missile crisis in 1962.
Similarly, the ECB might consider not only how monetary accommodation allowed governments to run large budget deficits in the 1920's, but also how central bankers' failure to respond to the financial crisis of the 1930's fed political extremism and undermined support for responsible government. Again, rigorous analysis requires testing these historical analogies for fitness with current circumstances.
Anyone who does so will find it hard to defend the ECB and its stubborn inaction in the face of events. There is exactly zero evidence in Europe today that inflation is just around the corner. And, if current European governments are not committed to austerity and fiscal consolidation, then which governments are?
When I consider the European economy, the ECB's failure to provide more monetary support for economic growth appears to be directly analogous to Europe's disastrous monetary policies in the 1930's. The political consequences could be similarly devastating. Europeans should ponder why the inflationary 1920's, rather than the politically catastrophic 1930's, have become the historical lodestar for current monetary policy.
On the other hand, when I contemplate the US economy, I conclude that recovery from the Great Depression, and not 1924-1927 or 2003-2005, is the episode that most closely resembles current circumstances. Only in the 1930's were interest rates near zero. Only in the 1930's was the economy digging itself out from a major financial crisis.
Then again, perhaps it is to be expected that I find the analogy with the 1930's compelling. That was the defining episode for American monetary policy. And I am, after all, an American.
Barry Eichengreen is Professor of Economics and Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, and a former senior policy adviser at the International Monetary Fund.
Copyright: Project Syndicate.


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Lyrics: Bob Dylan
Music: Bob Dylan
Played by Dylan with the Grateful Dead (and more recently with The Dead), as well as by Jerry Garcia with the JGB; but not by the Grateful Dead on their own. Covered in 2012 by Phil Lesh & Friends.
Early one morning the sun was shinin'
I was layin' in bed (note 1)
Wondering if she'd changed at all
If her hair was still red
Her folks they said that our lives together
Sure was gonna be rough
They never did like Mama's home-made dress
Papa's bank book wasn't big enough
And I was standing on the side of the road
Rain falling on my shoes
Heading out for the old east coast
Lord knows I've paid some dues (note 2)
Getting through
Tangled up in blue
She was married when we first met (note 3)
Soon to be divorced
I helped her out of a jam I guess
But I used a little too much force
We drove that car as far as we could
Abandoned it out west
Split up on the docks that night
Both agreeing it was best
She turned around to look at me
As I was walking away
I heard her say over her shoulder
We'll meet again some day
On the avenue
Tangled up in Blue
I had a job in the great north woods (note 4)
Working as a cook for a spell
But I never did like it all that much
And one day the axe just fell
So I drifted down to New Orleans
My luck it was to be employed
Workin' for a while on a fishing boat
Right outside of Delacroix
But all the while I was alone
The past was close behind
I seen a lot of women
But she never escaped my mind
And I just grew
Tangled up in blue
She was working in topless place (note 5)
And I stopped in for a beer
I just kept looking at the side of her face
In the spotlight so clear
And later on when the crowd thinned out
I was just about to do the same
She was standing there in back of my chair
Said to me Don't I know your name
I muttered something underneath my breath
She studied the lines on my face
I must admit I felt a little uneasy
When she bent down to tie the laces
Of my shoe
Tangled up in blue
She lit a burner on the stove
And offered me a pipe
I thought you'd never say hello she said
You look like the silent type
Then open up a book of poems
And handed it to me
Written by an Italian poet
From the thirteenth century
And every one of them words rang true
And glowed like burning coal
Pourin' off of every page
Like it was written in my soul
From me to you
Tangled up in blue
I lived with them on Montague Street
In a basement down the stairs
There was music in the cafes at night
And revolution in the air
Then he started dealing in slaves
And something inside of him died
She had to sell everything she owned
And froze up inside
And when finally the bottom fell out (note 6)
I became withdrawn
The only thing I knew how to do
Was to keep on keeping on
Like a bird that flew
Tangled up in blue
So now I'm going on back again
I got to get to her somehow
All the people we used to know
They're an illusion to me now
Some are mathematicians
Some are carpenters wives
Don't know how it all got started
I don't know what they do with their lives
But me, I'm still on the road
Headin' for another joint
We always did feel the same
We just saw it from a different point
Of view
Tangled up in blue
Tangled up in blue
Tangled up in blue
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|Greg Anton et al (Rex Foundation)
So he drifted down to L.A., where he reckoned to try his luckand
Working for a while in an airplane plant, loading cargo onto a truck
He was always in a hurry, too busy or too stoned
And everything that she ever planned just had to be postponed
He thought they were successful, she thought they were blessed
With objects and material things but I never was impressed
And when it all came crashing in I became withdrawn
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Automatically senses an IMS warm start and initiates the requeue of the messages or offloads the messages that were in the dead letter queue before warm start.
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Enrollment Made Simple
Enrollment Made Simple
Easy steps to registering for credit courses at City College of San Francisco for NEW and RE-ADMIT Students.
Step 1:
Apply for Admission online at www.ccsf.edu/New_Students to receive your registration appointment.
Step 2:
Complete assessment to get English and Math placement. You can find your options here.
Step 3:
Attend an Orientation to CCSF. You can do this online at www.ccsf.edu/onlineorientation or in person. For the schedule of in-person orientation sessions, go to www.ccsf.edu/aio.
Step 4:
See a Counselor for advice on what courses to take.*
Step 5:
Register for Classes anytime after your scheduled appointment by using WEB4 (online web registration) at www.ccsf.edu.
Step 6:
Pay your fees online with Visa/Master card or Checking/Savings Accounts. Pay in person with cash, check, Money Order, Visa/Master/ATM cards.*Some students may be exempted from Steps 2, 3 and 4. Go to www.ccsf.edu /New_Students/may-ex.htm.
SSB (Web4) -Your Portal To Online Registration
Step 1: Go to www.ccsf.edu on your web browser.
Step 2: Click on Register for Classes (WEB4).
Step 3:
Enter your 9-digit User ID: [*********] your CCSF Student ID and your 6-digit PIN: [******] (initially your date of birth MMDDYY).
NOTE: To ensure maximum security it is advised that you change your PIN. First time users will be asked to re-enter the PIN and create a security question.
Step 4:
Click on "Student Services & Financial Aid".
Step 5:
Click on registration and select the appropriate menu item.
NOTE : WEB4 will charge a one-time $3.00 user fee per semester. There is no charge during AD/DROP Period.
• Students must be admitted to the College and have met the matriculation requirements prior to registration. A registration appointment is required to use WebStars. To view your scheduled registration appointment, log on to www.ccsf.edu and go to the Registration page and click on "Check Your Registration Status," or call (415) 239-3732. In an effort to go "green," we are going paperless. All Admissions, Registration and Fee correspondence will be sent electronically. Please refer to http://www.ccsf.edu/Services/Financial_Aid/Forms/EmailFAQ.pdf for information regarding your official CCSF email account.
• To protect confidentiality, it is strongly recommended that each student process his/her own registration.• BE PREPARED for registration. Your first choice may not be available. Therefore, select two or more sections of the same course before attempting to register.
• All administrative and/or academic HOLDS that prevent enrollment must be cleared prior to registration.• The registration system does not allow time conflicts, multiple registrations in the same course, enrolling in a course without fulfilling the prerequisite, multiple unauthorized repeats, exceeding the maximum number of units (17 semester units.)
• After a student's registration has passed, courses may be ADDED or DROPPED as often as necessary while the registration system is available.
Have questions? Who can help? Answers for online registration questions are available Monday through Thursday, 8 A.M. to 5 P.M. and on Friday 8 A.M. to 2 P.M. by calling (415) 239-3732. In addition you may email your question to email@example.com NOTE: If you have forgotten your PIN number or your PIN number has been disabled, simply click on the "FORGOT PIN" button. You will be asked to answer your security question. If you are still having difficulties, click on the "FORGOT ANSWER" button and a new pin will be sent to your email address on file.
Add/Drop Instructions Using SSB (Web 4)
Add/Drop Procedures
Online through SSB (Web 4) (Monday-Saturday, 6 A.M.-11:45 P.M.) at http://www.ccsf.edu. The most convenient and efficient method of adding and dropping/withdrawing from classes is online through SSB. You only need to follow these simple instructions
To Add:
1. Go to the class you wish to attend.
2. If the instructor agrees to ADD you, obtain a four-digit add permit code from the instructor.
3. Make sure you have the CRN and the four-digit add permit code for the class.
4. Go to http://www.ccsf.edu.
5. Log in and go to the Registration page and follow the simple instructions for adding.
To Drop/Withdraw:
1.Go to http://www.ccsf.edu
2.Log in and go to the Registration page and follow the simple instructions for dropping/withdrawing.


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Good day, First of all I am as happy as monkey in a tree with the discovery of this forum dedicated to Ajax!
Ok, my situation is as follows. I have a php script that sends an email. This is used in a type of "employment section" of the website where a document can be "uploaded" by the user (his or her cv). The mentioned script then uploads the specified document (does all the checks on size and type etc..) and then adds the document to the email as an attachement.
PS: the "employment page" has a normal form as mentioned above with a <input type="file" ...> field as well.
Currently it works with the whole: <form action="phpFile.php" ......>. The page moves to the specified php and then i use the $_FILES array in the php to upload the file via php's ftp functions and then attach it to the soon-to-be-sent email.
I have manged to get the form to be validated first when the 'submit' button is pressed.
Feedback on the validation also happens in an ajax kind of way.
After the form is validated i can send the details to the php file via ajax, thus all happens in backend without page 'reloading', again feedback then happens 'dynamically' ie. "sorry could not send" or "thank you for sending" without anything having to be refreshed.
The email actually sends but there is no attachement to the email.
I am having trouble getting the value of the "file" input field to the php so that i may use the $_FILES array in the php file.
The only way i can get a value to the php file is to pass the "fileField.value" as a parameter but then the php gets a LONG string of the local directory of the given document, which is not what i want.
So does anyone know how to get the "file" input-field value from the form to the php via ajax (variouse javascript methods) so that i can get to use php's $_FILES array?
PS: the $_FILES array is used to access elements needed by php's ftp ie:
I am aware that part of the problem is php orientated but all my php forums elswhere give me odd looks when i ask the ajax question of above! So now i ask ajax people what i believe to be an ajax orientated question.PHP Code:
$name= $_FILES['filename']['name']; //name of doc
$tmp_location= $_FILES['filename']['temp_name'];//temp reference of the file on the server
I ask for any assistance, even if it is to be directed to a place where i can read or research the problem.
Thank you upfront.


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The American Anthropological Association invites minority doctoral candidates in anthropology to apply for a dissertation writing fellowship of $10,000. The annual AAA Minority Dissertation Fellowship is intended to encourage members of racialized minorities to complete doctoral degrees in anthropology, thereby increasing diversity in the discipline and/or promoting research on issues of concern among minority populations. Dissertation topics in all areas of the discipline are welcome. Doctoral students who require financial assistance to complete the write-up phase of the dissertation are urged to apply.
A nonrenewable dissertation fellowship of $10,000 will be provided annually to one anthropology graduate student. In addition, the fellowship award winner will receive paid registration to the annual meeting and reimbursement travel to the annual meeting with funds provided by the Yolanda T. Moses Minority Travel Fund.
Read About Past Minority Dissertation Fellowship Winners
An applicant must be: (1) a member of an historically underrepresented U.S. racialized minority group such as African Americans, Alaska Natives, American Indians or Native Americans, Asian Americans, Latino/as, Chicano/as, or Pacific Islanders; (2) graduated from a U.S. high school or completed a GED certificate in the U.S.; (3) enrolled in a full-time academic program leading to a doctoral degree in anthropology at the time of application (4) admitted to degree candidacy before the dissertation fellowship is awarded; and (5) a member of the American Anthropological Association. The dissertation proposal must be approved by the applicant's committee prior to application. Students of any subfield or specialty in anthropology will receive equal consideration.
Eligibility Requirements
Decisions will be based upon the quality of the submitted information and the likelihood that the recipient will have a good chance at completing the dissertation. The AAA Committee on Minority Issues in Anthropology will serve as the selection panel. The award recipient will be notified by telephone and mail as soon as the decision is made, no later than the 1st week of July. The award will also be announced in the October or November Anthropology News.
After completion of the dissertation, by June 15th, the award recipient must submit a 1-page report specifying the status of the degree and the dissertation's defense, along with a copy of the dissertation abstract, to the Executive Director of the AAA. The dissertation committee chair or head of the department should cosign this report. Highlights of this report may be published in AN.
Payment of Award
Fellowship funds will be paid directly to the awardee (rather than the institution) in three installments: one by September 10th and the second by January 10th. The third installment will be received upon receipt of final report. Award will be reported to the Internal Revenue Service.
The online application will be available in January 2020.
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Bone-bothering boffins have discovered that Man's taste for tuna sarnies may have developed a lot earlier than previously thought.
The archaeologists found the 42,000-year-old bones of tuna and sharks in a cave on East Timor near Australia, providing strong evidence that people were deep-sea fishing back then, according to their findings, published in Science.
Because early boats were made from wood and other not-very-long-lasting stuff, it has been tough for researchers to say for certain how early people were out shopping for sushi on the Earth's seas.
The fact that people lived on these islands as far back as 45,000 years ago is proof they had some method of crossing the ocean, but whether they could actually get around in some sort of boat, or they just drifted with the tide until they found land again, was a subject for hot historical debate.
"What the site in East Timor has shown us is that early modern humans in Island Southeast Asia had amazingly advanced maritime skills. They were expert at catching the types of fish that would be challenging even today – fish like tuna. It's a very exciting find," top bone-botherer Prof Sue O'Connor of Australian National University said in a canned statement.
She said the scientists couldn't be sure exactly how these humans were hauling in their catch, but it was clear that they were fishing well away from the land.
"Tuna can be caught in purse seines or leader nets, or by using hooks and trolling. Simple fish-aggregating devices such as tethered logs can also be used to attract them. So they may have been caught using hooks or nets. Either way it seems certain that these people were using quite sophisticated technology and watercraft to fish offshore," she added.
However, this discovery has by no means brought history-digging boffins to a consensus.
Archaeologist James O'Connell of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, who already supports the idea that deep-sea fishing started between 45,000 and 50,000 years ago, told Science that the new evidence "solidifies the case".
But William Keegan, an anthropologist at the Florida Museum of Natural History, said that the tuna found were relatively small, and that could mean they were young 'uns caught near the shore.
And Geoff Bailey, an archaeologist at Britain's University of York, argued that East Timor and the other islands in the area have very steep offshore topography, meaning that the deeper waters are actually very close to land. ®


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From the artist:
The Damned Don't Cry. This is a series of eclectic images, moods, metaphors, and good old scary stuff. The series was inspired partly by the Visage song, Damned Don't Cry and a recent conversation with a close friend who asked if my illness affects my art. I struggle with chronic depression amongst other things and it is a wearying and ugly illness that often frustrates and angers me. In conversation, we also talked about art as therapy and I wondered what might happen if I were to let loose my macabre tendencies and exploit my mental darkness and convey it onto a digital canvas. The results were neither anticipated or expected as once I began I discovered I had so many visual stories I could tell that I have struggled to keep ahead of my oft raving imagination. I began this series back in January 2017 and it was finished as of September 2018. Now I had started this exorcism of the depression haunting my soul I felt a need, an insatiable need, to release the inner darkness and allow the light to finally rest on serene pastures new. The work is not autobiographical or representative of who I am or how I feel. They are works of fantasy influenced by a desire to express illness. So there is much beauty to be found here. There is also scary stuff, twisted things, macabre themes and oh so many metaphors that I have lost count of them all. Many pictures took on a life of their own and became a story in their own right. Others are just as they appeared in my head. There are memories here, feelings and emotions captured in an image that sometimes hides its true intent. Some pictures were simply just a bit of fun to make, while others are a homage to films and books. Oh, and did I mention the metaphors? Some of the titles to these works have no bearing on the contents whatsoever. Others convey exactly what the image represents. Others are hints and suggestive of something else. For me, it is all a game, a bit of fun. So have fun reading the stories contained within and if you simply don't 'get' a picture then consider that perhaps that is the point, take note of how it makes you feel and you'll probably discover that you are 'getting' it after all. Some times we should stop asking questions and trying to understand especially when the answer simply needs to be felt. And do also remember to not take it all so seriously. This is an artist at play and, though I haven't yet explained the rules, I invite you to come and play too. Each doodle is on stretched canvas (12" x 18" and 1/2" deep).


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Last Wednesday, officials, advocates and families who have lost loved ones to reckless driving around the city mourned the end of the speed camera program that operated in 140 school zones.
Though there was legislation to renew and expand the program, the State Senate, run by Republicans, did not call lawmakers back to Albany for a vote. By 5:30 p.m., 120 of the 140 cameras, including 100 cameras in fixed locations, were turned off.
According to officials from the Department of Transportation (DOT), the fixed cameras will still collect data on speeding, but can no longer issue speeding violations. The 20 remaining mobile cameras will be used around the city until the end of August.
State Senator Jose Peralta, a prime sponsor of legislation to extend the program and add 150 additional cameras over three years, blamed Republican Senate leader John Flanagan.
"Today we let our kids down, I'm very sick to my stomach over it," he said. "Republicans played politics with our kids' lives and they won, but in reality we've all lost."
Peralta gathered with mothers who lost their sons to traffic fatalities in front of PS 330 in Corona. They marched alongside a small, makeshift coffin that read, "Speed Camera Program RIP."
The state senator held flowers as advocates marched around the school. The silent demonstration resembled a somber funeral procession.
Peralta said kids attending summer school will no longer have the cameras to protect them. Come September, another 1 million students will return to school, and they will be vulnerable as well, he said.
"This is not only senseless, but irresponsible," Peralta said.
According to the state senator, 81 percent of drivers who received a speeding violation from these speed cameras never received a second one. He said that's evidence that the cameras change behavior.
City officials, including DOT Commissioner Polly Trottenberg, have also cited data that says speeding has declined 63 percent, the number of pedestrians hit has gone down 17 percent, and fatal crashes have decreased 55 percent, all due to the speed cameras.
Peralta said he will reach out to Governor Andrew Cuomo, who has expressed support for the program, to ask for a 30-day extension. Hopefully, Peralta said, lawmakers can go back up to Albany to "do our job."
Karen Manrique, whose son Giovanni was killed by a driver on 70th Street and Northern Boulevard in Jackson Heights three months ago, held up a picture of her child as she criticized the GOP for not acting.
"How dare you not find the will? You think this is a game?" she said. "You guys are playing with kids' lives."
Lizi Rahman, whose son Asif was killed while cycling home from work 10 years ago, said the pain "is still fresh in my heart."
"Please think about the kids," she said. "My son never had the chance. I don't want anybody else to go through this."
Later that afternoon, DOT workers who operated the speed camera program gathered outside the Court Square Municipal Garage in Long Island City, where the cameras are stored. Trottenberg called it a "sad moment" as trucks carrying the cameras returned.
She pleaded for leadership in the State Senate to return for a vote, and vowed to stay in the fight.
"The tone is mournful for today," Trottenberg said. "That doesn't mean I'm mournful about the long-term prospects of the program.
"My belief about legislative work is, you keep at it. Even when you suffer a defeat, you keep coming back," she added. "When you've got an important legislative cause, you just keep fighting."
In a statement last week, Flanagan blamed the end of the program on Cuomo and the Assembly for their "unwillingness to engage senators with a larger vision" for street safety.
"Instead, these politicians shamelessly mug for the press as they blame others," he said. "They should look no further than within."


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The Culture of Death is a culture of lawlessness. Once our nation violated the natural law by permitting the killing of innocents by abortion, it inevitably began to ignore or jettison other laws as well. You can see this in what passes for Supreme Court "jurisprudence" on abortion, which has regularly invented Rube Goldberg-like legal arguments, twisted precedents, and distorted the meaning of language in order to perpetuate an unjust regime under which unborn children have no rights that our lawmakers are bound to respect.
News in the past few days has brought new evidence of the inherent lawlessness of the Culture of Death. A report by the Congressional Accountability Office has revealed that the implementation of the Affordable Care Act has resulted in massive taxpayer subsidizing of elective abortion.
Remember, the Act was passed largely because of last-minute promises by the Administration. They gave assurances that people would be able to buy plans that don't cover elective abortions, and that no taxpayer funds would be used directly or indirectly to pay for elective abortions. Health plans offered through the state exchanges would be permitted to cover abortion, but no taxpayer-funded subsidies were supposed to be used to buy coverage for elective abortion. Insurers that covered elective abortions would be required to collect a separate payment from policy holders, in order to ensure that taxpayer subsidies did not pay for abortions.
Many of us doubted the sincerity of those promises at the time and were dubious of the Administration's commitment to put them into practice. Our pessimism has proven to have been right. The GAO's report found the following:
To put it plainly, the law is being ignored on a massive scale. Every American taxpayer is now paying for elective abortion, and millions of pro-life Americans have no choice but to pay out of their own pockets for the death of innocents.
So much for promises and assurances from this lawless Administration, whose commitment to the Cult of Moloch is absolute.
The Culture of Death corrupts everything it touches. It has corrupted our legal and medical professions, and the rule of law itself.
Tags: Abortion, Health Care Reform


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Even a 3-year-old can tweet.
Tori Spelling's son Liam McDermott has become the latest celebrity with a Twitter account, boasting more than 17,000 followers and counting since joining the microblogging service on Saturday, People mag reported.
"The response was not what I expected. It was insane," said Spelling, who helps the tot update his "LiamsWorld" feed.
U.S. & World
The day's top national and international news.
Among McDermott's observations: "I love making jello castles. Jello wiggles and parties in my tummy" and "Aftr throwin books all ovr my room mama asked me 2put them back&I smiled&said;"Sorry,I cant. because I'm too small!"
Spelling, 37, who co-stars with hubby McDermott on Oxygen's "Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood," has upwards of 193,000 followers on her own Twitter account.
The reality star told People she credits her son's humor with "lifting" hubby Dean McDermott's spirits following his motorcycle crash last month.


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Recently, K-Reit Asia succeeded in getting unitholder approval for its plan to buy 87.5% of Ocean Financial Centre (OFC), a prime Grade A Raffles Place office building, and raise some S$976 million through a rights issue (17 for 20) to fund part of the cost. It needs S$1.57 billion to buy from parent company Keppel Land a 99- year lease of the OFC office building. KepLand will see a net gain of about S$492.7 million from the sale. Meanwhile despite the massive rights issue, K-Reit will have leverage of around 42% by end of 2011, more than the Reit sector average of 36%. This at a time of a looming slow down.
Some unitholders questioned
— the price and timing of the deal what with a recession looming;
— that while the building in Raffles Place has a tenure of 999 years with 850 years remaining on the lease, but KepLand is only selling a 99-year lease;
— why K-Reit is paying its manager (which is owned by KepLand) an acquisition fee, though it is buying the asset from its parent company;
— the independence of the manager.
But dissenting unitholders have to accept much of the blame in allowing K-Reit an easy ride at the EGM when resolutions were passed with a show of hands. The chairman of K-Reit rejected a call to call for a poll at the EGM presumably because there was no five-member call for a poll or a request by unitholders controlling 10% voting rights.
If dissenting unitholders are not prepared to stand up and be counted, they deserve to be bullied.
Business Times decided to raise a stinker, "This isn't the first time – and probably it won't be the last – that issues like these arise at a Reit. For some time now there has been growing disquiet among corporate watchers about weaknesses in the corporate governance structures in Singapore Reits where the Reit sponsor wholly owns the Reit manager, and also holds a large stake in the Reit." Well BT should remember that there is a bear market, and issues abt corporate governance always rise when investors lose money.
"[C]ases of sponsors selling properties to Reits have raised concerns about conflict of interest, and unitholders have often questioned the purchase of these assets and how they were priced". BT does not point out that
— it is public knowledge that here the Reit sponsor wholly owns the Reit manager, and also holds a large stake in the Reit; and
— in the K-Reit deal and other deals involving possible conflict of interests, the selling unitholder has by law to abstain from voting; and
— there have to be independent valuations.
"There is also the need to have more transparent structures to pay Reit managers and to tie these more closely to performance", according to BT. It's not as though these are hidden from investors or made retrospective. They are publicly available info.
Sorry BT. A piece of rubbish.
Having said all this, a Temasek-linked group like Keppel should set an example for others to follow. At the very least, K-Reit should have allowed a poll on the resolutions, rather than a show of hands. After all, the law is likely to be changed to make polls mandatory at general meetings. "Justice must not only be done, but seen to be done" and "Caesar's wife must be above suspicion".
And K-Reit chairman Tsui Kai Chong's comment that "Our father organisation, Keppel Land, is only willing to sell it to us for 99 years", tells me that, at the very least, he has an "attitude" problem: deferring to his KepLand where he is an independent director.


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The war that erupted between Russia and its little post-Soviet neighbor Georgia three years ago this weekend was unexpected, extremely violent, and brief, much like the sudden summer storms that descend upon the Caucasus Mountains at this time of year.
But instead of refreshing the landscape, the August War has led to an extended period of frozen relations, deepening bitterness, and hardening narratives in both countries. Georgia, which has shifted toward the West since the 2003 Rose Revolution, sees itself as a harbinger of democracy in the post-Soviet sphere. Russia, however, sees it as a renegade state on its flank led by an illegitimate president.
The tensions have largely played out in a fight over two ethnic enclaves, Abkhazia and South Ossetia, which broke away from Georgia in the 1990s and have since been supported by Russia. But what was for years merely a regional spat became a conflict of global concern in the 2008 war, when Moscow unilaterally granted both statelets independence to crown its swift military victory over the US-trained Georgian army.
Now, Georgians maintain, Russia is striving to undermine their country's credibility as a model for democracy.
"The root of the Russian-Georgian antagonism is that Georgia has shown that creating a liberal democracy in this part of the world is possible, and that Georgia can be an example for other countries in the Russian sphere," says Tornike Gordadze, Georgia's deputy foreign minister. "The objective of the 2008 war wasn't to recognize the breakaway regions, but to change the regime in Georgia. Since that hasn't happened, they have failed. The Russian objective is now to discredit the government [by other means]."
How the war started
Though Tbilisi still officially maintains that Russia started the war in an effort to unseat its pro-Western president, Mikhael Saakashvili, there seems no doubt that the war began on the night of Aug. 7 with a massive Georgian bombardment and armored assault on the South Ossetian capital of Tskhinvali. The attack resulted in the death of several Russian peacekeeping troops stationed there under international accords.
Russia reacted the next day with a major armored onslaught that quickly drove Georgian forces from S. Ossetia and occupied a wide swath of Georgian territory.
Western powers, stunned by Russia's rapid overrunning of a tiny neighbor, backed Georgia. They mediated a cease-fire and negotiated a pull-back of Russian forces from Georgian territory into the two breakaway regions. But that unity has broken down over the past three years as the US has embarked on a controversial "reset" of relations with Moscow, and European countries, beset by their own troubles, have divided over how to press for a regional peace settlement.
A US Senate resolution this week reaffirmed American support for Georgian sovereignty and called on Russia to end its "occupation" of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. That triggered a harsh response from Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, who said in an interview Friday that the US Senate was feeding what he called a growing "revanchist mood" in Georgia.
More ominously, Mr. Medvedev also revived the old Russian suspicion that the US may have encouraged Georgia to attack South Ossetia. "I don't believe the Americans had urged Georgia's president to invade. But I do believe that there were certain subtleties and certain hints made, which could have effectively fed Saakashvili's hopes that the Americans would back him in any conflict," Medvedev said.
'I will never forgive him' – Medvedev
The view from Tbilisi is that, despite its swift defeat, Georgia withstood the might of giant Russia in the conflict and proved that it made the right choice by turning away from Moscow and toward the West in the 2003 "Rose Revolution," which brought Mr. Saakashvili to power.
But for Russians, who triumphed over a pesky pro-West neighbor, the attitude is that Saakashvili is an illegitimate leader, perhaps a puppet of US interests, and that no meaningful peace negotiations can occur until he has gone.
In an interview timed for the anniversary, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev denied that Moscow's key war objective was to overthrow Saakashvili – "even though it would've been a piece of cake."
But Russia can never be reconciled with Georgia as long as Saakashvili remains president, he said.
Though early Russian claims of Georgian "genocide" against South Ossetians have been thoroughly debunked by international human rights monitors, Mr. Medvedev still holds Saakashvili responsible for "hundreds" of Russian deaths, including those of peacekeepers.
"I will never forgive him for that, and I will not talk to him," said the Russian president. Saakashvili will have to leave, perhaps democratically, perhaps not, he added.
"And whoever becomes the next president in Georgia, they will have a chance to restore positive and beneficial relations with Russia," said Medvedev.
Spy mania?
Saakashvili remains popular at home. He was reelected to a second five-year term in early 2008, and received another thumping endorsement from Georgians a year ago when his ruling United National Movement won over 60 percent of the votes in regional elections.
But Georgian leaders have blamed Russia for orchestrating periodic unrest in Georgia, including a wave of Tbilisi street demonstrations this spring. They also claim that Moscow runs secret networks of spies and terrorists that included Saakashvili's personal photographer, who was arrested with several other journalists and charged with espionage in July.
"We know that Russian secret services are active around the world, and Georgia is very high on Moscow's list of enemies," says Shota Utiashvili, spokesman for Georgia's Interior Ministry, which oversees the police. "Some people want to close their eyes to this, but there are [pro-Russian underground] networks operating here that we know of, and probably some we don't know of. It's ridiculous to deny that there are Russian agents working here, or that Georgia is capable of catching some of them."
Russian officials counter that Saakashvili's government is gripped by "spy mania" that is largely detached from reality. They point to episodes like last year's fictitious documentary about a new Russian invasion of Georgia, presented on pro-government TV as if it were real news, which caused Georgian cellphone networks to crash and saw thousand of people pouring into the streets in panic.
'A new mentality' in Georgia
Mamuka Areshidze, one of Georgia's top experts on Caucasus affairs, sees the near-term outlook for improving relations as "hopeless."
"The current situation is very comfortable for Russia," he says. "The two sides are not talking; they occupy our territory and do whatever they want."
A few voices in Georgia say it may be time to consider the unthinkable prospect of letting go of at least Abkhazia – an ethnically distinct region with its own separate history – as part of a wider reconciliation with Russia.
Mr. Areshidze, a well-known expert who recently suggested the idea publicly, was accused of "treason" by leading nationalist politicians for proposing such a rethink.
"I know my views are terribly unpopular," he says. "But both in Georgia and the West we have to change our attitude toward the separatist regions.... Time has passed, there is a new mentality and a new generation... Georgians have become used to having the West deal with our problems, and come to believe that with enough pressure Russia will step back. But Russia won't step back unless Georgians become active and have creative ideas," toward solving the issue.
Russian leaders divided over right course
There is also fierce debate in Russia about which course to take.
Last week Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin suggested to a meeting of nationalist youth that South Ossetia might in future be admitted to the Russian Federation and joined to its ethnically-related neighbor, North Ossetia. But Medvedev, who is locked in fierce but undeclared rivalry with Mr. Putin in advance of Russian presidential election next March, shot down that idea.
"Today there is neither legal nor factual basis for uniting South and North Ossetia and their joining to Russia. That's why I signed a decree recognizing the independence of this territory, " Medvedev told Russian media.
Most Russians appear happy with the status quo, even though only four countries in the world – Russia, Venezuela, Nicaragua, and the miniscule Pacific island nation of Nauru – have so far recognized the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. They seem to believe that time is on their side.
"Sooner or later the world will accept the facts," says Vladimir Zharikhin, deputy director of the Kremlin-funded Institute of the Commonwealth of Independent States in Moscow. "Look at Sudan, which recently split in two, and the international community welcomed it. Look at Kosovo. There's nothing terrible in the fact that South Ossetia and Abkhazia decided long ago to split from Georgia, just as Georgia split from the USSR. Trying to roll these changes back would be a dead end."


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Thursday, March 12, 2009
Some Good Books in Asian Legal History (I): Zinoman, The Colonial Bastille
In The Colonial Bastille: A History of Imprisonment in Vietnam, 1862-1940 (2001), Peter Zinoman traces French Indochina's prison system from its construction through the beginning of World War II. Vietnamese Communists often called the colonial prisons a "school for revolution," and Zinoman traces the ways in which (especially in the 1930s) "the Indochinese prison system provided a curiously stable environment for the reconstitution and expansion" of the Indochinese Communist Party. He also challenges much recent literature on colonial empires that suggests they were "model laboratories" for modern statebuilding. Quite the opposite, he argues. "It was the antiquated and ill-disciplined aspects of the colonial prison that facilitated its transformation into an instrument of anticolonial resistance."
For me, this book was a reminder of the richness of Vietnamese historiography that U.S. historians rarely (if ever) give to their students when they teach about America's Vietnam War. Beyond that, The Colonial Bastille is an amazing political and social history of imprisonment that should be of interest to any scholar who has struggled to figure out how to tell the history of prisons.
To be continued…
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Ritu Birla's (University of Toronto) Stages of Capital: Law, Culture, and Market Governance in Late Colonial India (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009) is one of the first major monographs looking at commerical law in India
"In Stages of Capital, Ritu Birla brings research on nonwestern capitalisms into conversation with postcolonial studies to illuminate the historical roots of India's market society. Between 1870 and 1930, the British regime in India implemented a barrage of commercial and contract laws directed at the "free" circulation of capital, including measures regulating companies, income tax, charitable gifting, and pension funds, and procedures distinguishing gambling from speculation and futures trading. Birla argues that this understudied legal infrastructure institutionalized a new object of sovereign management, the market, and along with it, a colonial concept of the public. In jurisprudence, case law, and statutes, colonial market governance enforced an abstract vision of modern society as a public of exchanging, contracting actors free from the anachronistic constraints of indigenous culture."
- March 13, 2009 at 4:58:00 PM EDT


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The President of the Miss World Organization, Julia Morley, coined the phrase 'Beauty With A Purpose' more than 35 years ago and since then more than $400 million USD have been raised in its name in support of children's charities across the globe, bringing help and hope to hundreds of thousands in need.
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The Top Model of the World is an international search for the ultimate model. The sought-after characteristics are: independence, talent and fashion consciousness. The event started in 1993 in Miami, organised by the Globana Group, now it is owned by World Beauty Organization.
Willemstad International Beauties "WIB" and Willemstad International Models "WIM", will also have the opportunity to send its first delegate to Top Model of the World in 2012. After our first national event takes place in July 2011.
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The 18th edition with 44 delegates from 42 nations took place March 16, 2011 in a 3 hours spectacular show on the island of Usedom, Germany. The 1st Runner-up was the Model from Latvia, representing Baltic Sea; the 2nd Runner-up was the Top Model from Zimbabwe. An international panel of judges among them Susanne Philipps from the "Allstar" – Model Agency (Cape Town, Cologne, LA) and Soullegend Keith Tynes (former member of the legendary "The Platters") had no other option but to crown Top Model Romania – Loredana Salanta as our new Top Model of the World 2010 winner.
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All Models have been accomodated in spacious Suites at the 5 Star Golf-and Wellnesshotel "Balmer See" in Usedom. During our stay in Germany all Models visited various cities such as Nuernberg, Cologne, Leipzig and Berlin.
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1. Top Model of the World – Romania – Loredana Saltana
2. Baltic Sea – Katerina Fedosejeva
3. Zimbabwe – Vanessa Sibanda
4. Poland – Zusanna Brzezinska
5. Algeria – Yasmine Ouchene
6. Honduras- Marilyn Medina
7. Canada – Denise Garrido
8. El Salvado – Anita Puertas
9. Colombia – Lizeth Romero
10.Brazil – Juliete Beraldo de Pieri
11.Ukraine – Diana Loboda
12 Spain Eva Rodriguez Quiroga
13.San Andres Island – Rosa Cordoba
14.China – Xiong Ziyi
15.India – Michelle Almeida
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Queen of Europe – Ukraine, Diana Loboda
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Bali is set to be the destination for beautiful and intelligent contestants of the Miss World pageant in 2014.
Bali is an island and a province in Indonesia located in the westernmost end of the Lesser Sunda Islands, lying between Java to the west and Lombok to the east. It is one of the country's 33 provinces with the provincial capital at Denpasar towards the south of the island.
Bali Governor Made Mangku Pastika said the event's organizers have confirmed that Bali would host the prestigious beauty contest.
According to Pastika, Bali's epic natural beauty and rich culture were deciding factors in it being selected for such a prestigious international event.
"This will ensure Bali is even better known around the world," he said to the Jakarta Globe.
He also said that after the release of Eat, Pray, Love, a major Hollywood film, Bali had been nicknamed the "island of love".
He also said that tourists seeking intimacy should make Bali their destination.
"For those who have been married for a number of years and want to reinvigorate their love, or for who have not married and want to be intimate, Bali is the best place."
Pastika added that new infrastructure was coming, which included a bigger airport and better roads.
Indonesia will host the Miss World competition in 2014. The news was broken by Bali Governor Made Mangku Pastika during a speech to open the 61st World Real Estate Congress (FIABCI) at Hotel Grand Hyatt Nusa Dua, Bali on Thursday.
"In 2014 the Miss World contest is going to be held in Bali," Pastika said.
According to Pastika, the resort island will also a host a number of other international events such as the 2011 ASEAN Summit and the 2013 APEC Conference.
Pastika used the opportunity to promote tourism in Bali by saying Bali had already gained another nickname.
"Bali is known as the Island of Gods and Island of Peace and Democracy, now Bali is the island of Love. Julia Roberts, in the movie Eat, Pray and Love found true love in Bali," he said.
Pastika's persistence in promoting Bali earned him praise from Vice President Boediono.
"If you need a marketing director, Pak Governor is the right man. He has the knack for marketing," Boediono said.
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Could Tobago be the host country for Miss World 2011?
During the last few weeks Julia Morley, Chairman and CEO of Miss World Limited has been visiting the short listed countries that have been bidding to host the Miss World 2011 final. The Miss World website missworld.com has seen a large increase in activity as the announcement of the winning bid draws near.
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In the past few weeks, Tobago and its sister isle Trinidad in February have become suprise front runners for hosting 2011 Miss World Final, after Julia Morley met with Tobago's Chief Secretary Orville London and the Minister for Development, Mrs.Vernella Alleyne-Toppin. The visit so impressed Mrs Morley that she told the Chief Secretary that she was confident in Tobago's capability to stage a world class final. If the event is held in Tobago, it is expected to bring a massive economic boost to the region and open the door for other premier world events to be staged on this Island paradise.
Meanwhile the Miss World team is visiting the other candidate countries for the final time.
Will the Island of Tobago be able to hold off the bids from its much bigger rivals in South East Asia, including China, Kazakhstan, Malaysia and Philippines. That answer will soon be revealed!
If they do so, Tobago will, make history in becoming the first country of the Caribbean or Latin America, to win the bid to stage the Miss World Festival!
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Western Midway Sunset Cogeneration Power Plant Project
Docket Number:
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99-AFC-9C (Compliance Proceeding)
Project Status: Not Built, License Expired.
The California Energy Commission approved this project's Application for Certification on March 21, 2001. The Commission monitors the power plant's construction, operation and eventual decommissioning through a compliance proceeding.
Committee that oversaw Original Licensing Proceeding:
Robert Pernell, Commissioner, Presiding Member
Robert A. Laurie, Commissioner, Associate Member
Hearing Officer: Major Williams, Jr.
Key Dates
- February 4, 1999 - Western Midway Sunset Cogeneration Company files petition for jurisdictional determination for a Notice of Intention exemption.
- April 14, 1999 - Commission Approves NOI Exemption.
- December 22, 1999 - Applicant files Application For Certification (AFC).
- March 8, 2000 - Commission finds project Data Adequate.
- August 21, 2000 - Preliminary Staff Assessment released.
- November 14, 2000 - Final Staff Assessment released.
- February 16, 2001 - Presiding Members Proposed Decision released.
- March 19, 2001 - Errata to Presiding Members Proposed Decision released.
- March 21, 2001 - Commission approves Application For Certification.
On December 22, 1999, the Western Midway Sunset Cogeneration Company (MSCC) filed an Application for Certification (AFC) for the Western Midway Sunset Cogeneration Project. The proposed Western MSCC Power Project will be a nominal 500 megawatt (MW), natural gas-fired, combined cycle, with two combustion turbine generators (CTG) and, two heat recovery steam generators (HRSG), which will supply one steam turbine generator (STG). The Western MSCC plant facilities will occupy approximately 10 acres and will be located adjacent to an existing 225 MW Western Midway Sunset Cogeneration power plant. The existing plant and adjacent site are located approximately 2.5 miles east of Derby Acres in western Kern County, California. The Western MSCC plant will employ 5 new permanent positions in addition to existing MSCC plant staff. The MSCC site address is 3466 Crocker Springs Road, P.O. Box 457, Fellows, Calif.
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Emission control will be provided by a Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR). The SCR system consists of the reduction catalyst and an aqueous ammonia injection system. The SCR will use a high activity catalyst on a metal, ceramic or zeolite extruded support structure. The plan identifies a continuous emissions monitoring system (CEMS) on each HRSG stack to sample, analyze, and record the concentrations of carbon monoxide, oxides of nitrogen, and diluent (oxygen/carbon dioxide) in the flue gas.
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Morning Five: 05.05.14 EditionPosted by nvr1983 on May 5th, 2014
- We try not to get into NBA issues too much here, but the Los Angeles Lakers coaching vacancy hangs like a big cloud over college basketball particularly in Storrs, Connecticut. Among the many candidates for the job is Kevin Ollie, who might be the hottest NBA commodity among college coaches given his recent NBA experience and the fact that he is coming off a title. Even if there is nothing going on between Ollie and the Lakers the possibility has scared the Connecticut administration enough that they are reportedly willing to pay Ollie double his current salary, which would bring him up to almost $2.5 million per year. The Lakers could certainly pay more than that so it is something to keep an eye on.
- Kansas had an interesting close to last week. Soon after losing Naadir Tharpe to a transfer, the Jayhawks found out that Devonte Graham would be coming to Kansas after one of the more complicated recruiting sagas in recent years. You may remember that Graham had committed to Appalachian State and signed a National Letter of Intent, but wanted to back out when his stock shot up. Former Appalachian State coach Jason Capel refused to release him. When Capel was fired and replaced the new coaching staff let Graham out of his letter of intent. In a strange way, this will probably work out better for Kansas because Graham might already be better than Tharpe or any of the point guards that the Jayhawks have.
- The newest conference challenge involving the Big East and Big Ten is one that we would have loved to have seen a few years ago when the Big East was much stronger, but it is something that we will still enjoy. The Gavitt Tipoff Games will be held annually starting next season and feature eight games between the two conferences through the 2020-21 season with the games being spread out from Tuesday through Friday during the first full week of the regular season. Given the lackluster opening that college basketball typically has this could be a nice boost for the sport.
- The coach's son might have helped put Creighton on the college basketball map for casual fans, but it might be transfers who keep it there. The Bluejays had already received a commitment from Boston University transfer Maurice Watson Jr and now they have added Nevada transfer Cole Huff, who committed to Creighton over the weekend. Like Watson, Huff will sit out next season and have two years of eligibility left when he is able to play during the 2015-16 season. Last season, Huff, a 6'8″ forward, averaged 12.4 points and 5.4 rebounds per game. Those numbers will not make anybody forget about Doug McDermott any time soon, but they could help ease the transition into the next stage for the program.
- There were two notable transfer announcements that were significant for very different reasons. The first and least complex one was the decision by Seth Allen to leave Maryland. As we mentioned last week when it was first suggested that Allen might be on his way out we have to question how long Mark Turgeon will last in College Park as Allen, who averaged 13.4 points and 3.0 assists per game after coming back from a broken foot, is the fourth Terrapin to transfer since the season ended about a month ago. The other interesting transfer announcement came out of Air Force where Tre' Coggins and Darrius Parker announced that they would be leaving the school. As you may have noticed the decision by two players to transfer typically is not noteworthy (or frankly that interesting), but in this case it is because the two reportedly are reportedly leaving due to issues with the required five-year post-college service required of all Air Force graduates. We have not heard otherwise so we are assuming that Coggins (16.0 points, 2.7 rebounds and 2.6 assists per game) and Parker (3.8 points and 2.1 rebounds per game) will have to sit out a year although given the other transfer waivers that we have seen granted we would not be shocked to see them request one from the NCAA since their reported issue with the school was a required post-college commitment.