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Las Vegas also has the largest convention center in North America. You need either a bicycle or a Segway to get around the place.
I spoke with one fo the actors who will be signing at C3, and he told me that Indy was definitely a strong possiblity. He also mentioned Las Vegas was in the running, too.
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Christopher Nielsen is one of Norway's most famous underground artists. He began his career in 1980. Throughout the 1980s, he self-published several comics, such as 'Fedme' and 'Rummpfftillfftooo'. He eventually joined Semic Forlag, where he releared the satirical 'En Fettsugers Bekjennelser' (1988) and 'Jazzbazillen' (1990). From 1990, he published his works in Fidus at No Comprendo Press. In the 1990s, he began successful projects like 'Weltschmerz' and 'To Trøtte Typer'. The latter also became an award-winning animation series.


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Petty Officer 2nd Class Michael Monsoor fought dozens of battles in the streets of Ramadi, shouldering his MK48 machine gun without complaint in the 130-degree heat of Iraq's violent Anbar Province.
In May 2006, only a month into his first deployment to Iraq, the Navy SEAL from Garden Grove, Calif., ran under fire into a street to drag to safety a wounded comrade who was shot in the leg, earning a Silver Star for his courage.
On Sept. 29, 2006, another act of valor would cost Mr. Monsoor his life – and save the lives of three comrades. For that act, he will posthumously be awarded a Medal of Honor on April 8, the White House said Monday.
Monsoor "distinguished himself through conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life," said an official summary of action. He is the first sailor and the third service member overall to receive a Medal of Honor for actions in the war in Iraq.
That September morning, Monsoor and a group of SEAL snipers took up position on a residential rooftop as part of an operation to push into a dangerous section of southern Ramadi. Four insurgents armed with AK-47 rifles came into view, and the SEAL snipers opened fire, killing one and wounding another. Loudspeakers from a mosque broadcast calls for insurgents to rally, and residents blocked off nearby roads with rocks.
Insurgents shot back at the SEAL position with automatic weapons from a moving vehicle and fired a rocket-propelled grenade at the building. The SEALs knew more attacks were inevitable but continued their mission of protecting the troops clearing the area below, according to an official account.
Monsoor's commander repositioned him in a small hidden location between two SEAL snipers on an outcropping of the roof, facing the most likely route of another insurgent attack. As Monsoor manned his gun, an insurgent lobbed up a hand grenade, which hit Monsoor in the chest and bounced onto the roof.
"Grenade!" Monsoor shouted. But the two snipers and another SEAL on the roof had no time to escape, as Monsoor was closest to the only exit. Monsoor dropped onto the grenade, smothering it with his body. It detonated, and Monsoor died about 30 minutes later from his wounds.
"He made an instantaneous decision to save our teammates. I immediately understood what happened, and tragically it made sense to me in keeping with the man I know, Mike Monsoor," said Lt. Cmdr. Seth Stone, Monsoor's platoon leader in Ramadi.
Monsoor, the third of four children, played football at Garden Grove High School and joined the Navy in 2001, where he was a top performer in his SEAL training class. He graduated in 2004. Monsoor's sister Sara, a nurse, said her brother's e-mails never revealed the dangers he faced, but she knew the SEAL team was like his family. "He already had it in his head – he would be the first one to jump in and protect," she said.


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The banjo has long been a favorite instrument in the world of popular music. Initially it may call to mind country and bluegrass music, but you may be surprised to learn that artists from The Pogues to the E Street Band have crafted memorable melodies on these distinct instruments. Of course, a banjo only sounds as good as its strings, and with a wide variety available to you, you're sure to find a perfect sound for your next jam or practice session. You would think that choosing a set of strings would be a simple process, but you wouldn't be entirely correct. There are a few factors to look into when you're picking out your strings. First, you're going to make sure you have the correct number of strings. A pack of four strings won't do a lot of good for your five string banjo, so make sure the package you choose is going to meet your needs. Next, you'll want to think about the gauge of the strings. If you like a stiffer feel to your strings, try the Elixir Medium Polyweb Banjo Strings. Or, if you prefer a lighter tone, you might prefer the D'Addario JS60 Stainless Steel Light Banjo Strings. Maybe you prefer something in between the two? Try the "Almost Medium" stainless steel strings from GHS. There are so many variations that it's best to try a few different gauges to understand which work best for you. Maybe you're more interested in the sounds of a specific artist. If that's the case you will almost certainly be interested in the Earl Scruggs strings from Gibson. Scruggs name is practically synonymous with the banjo and these strings are crafted with the excellent note definition that is signature to his style. In the end, your choice of banjo strings will come down to which ones feel best in your hands. You'll know when you start playing and everything clicks. From Dueling Banjos to Dirty Old Town, your banjo will sound great in no time with a new set of strings.


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The City of Regensburg, a German medieval town, which was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2006, will host this year's OWHC Northwest European Regional Conference
The selected conference theme 'Earth, Wind, Water, Fire - Environmental Challenges to Urban World Heritage' fits perfectly into the concept of the United Nation's 'International Year of Planet Earth'. Within different thematic sessions dedicated to the topics 'Earth', 'Wind', 'Water' and 'Fire', experts and site managers will present case studies on how natural hazards and environmental conditions compromise the cultural heritage values of historic cities and discuss about innovative protective measures and strategies.
Although it is the Northwest-European Regional Conference, members of the other OWHC-Regions are welcome to participate.
- Online registration is still possible at www.regensburg.de/worldheritage
- Conference fee: € 200; the number of participants is limited
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On weekends, Kosovo's millennials dance to Smiths and New Order songs from the 1980s as if they were hearing them for the first time at the new Irish pub Miqt (facebook.com/MIQT.NET) in Pristina. The bar is by turns trendy and louche and hidden down one of the many bumpy, half-paved roads in Kosovo's capital.
One night last fall, three men in fluorescent-piped Nikes and expensive Japanese jeans gyrated around a table. A woman wearing a trench coat and choppy blond bangs slithered through the room like a Fritz Lang femme fatale. Outside, a painfully cool clique smoked American Spirit cigarettes and exchanged jokes about Serbian soldiers, injecting some dark humor about the war that ripped apart this small country.
This pocket of the Balkans where Muslims are in the majority has long been defined by war and by a heritage of hardship that stretches back to Illyria in ancient times. But instead of being mired by the tragic past, Pristina's new generation seems to look to the future.
They are also drinking beer. Though Islam prohibits the drinking of alcohol, a beer culture is emerging in the city.
"Beer consumption does clash with our Muslim history," said Bekim Shala, the manager of Birra Prishtina, a brewery that opened last year. "But we are a secular society and alcohol has always been consumed here."
The Kosovo War of 1998 and 1999 left this region, once part of Yugoslavia, divided between Christian Serbs and Muslim Albanians. As the war ended, NATO intervention forced Serbian troops out and Kosovo became a protectorate of the United Nations; that ended in 2012.
The international presence gave Kosovo its first taste of global consumerism, including new restaurants, indie music, a soccer team and its first microbrewery, which opened in late 2013. Since then, interest in beer has grown steadily.
Ramshackle Pristina (the name is sometimes rendered Prishtina) was one stop in my six-country Balkans tour last September, but it easily was the most exciting city on the two-week trip. Pristina teems with abandoned buildings, construction sites and streets that go from paved to rubble-strewn at the turn of a corner. But its free-spirited night life recalls 1990s Berlin, Belfast and Prague, and its new restaurants, stretching from Boulevard Bill Clinton to the 15th-century Carshi Mosque, serve everything from coconut curry to Kosovo locavore fare.
Locals claim Pristina makes Europe's best macchiatos, but its beer impressed me most. Its first microbrewery, Sabaja (birrasabaja.com) — named after the Illyrian word for beer — opened Sabaja Dr's Beer House, an American-style restaurant, in 2013. There, in an alley behind the Brutalist Gradski Stadium and the "Newborn" monument (a typographical sculpture of the word that captures the country's scrappy spirit), the beer house serves rich smoked porters, zesty summer wheats and Belgian ales alongside American mainstays like wings and Caesar salads. A sign inside reads, "Beer will change the world."
"The beer scene in Kosovo is as limited as you might expect from a former Yugoslavian country," said Alex Butler, Sabaja's American brewer, who moved from Rochester with his Kosovar-Albanian fiancée, Etida Zeka. "But Pristina's younger generation are willing to try styles of beer their elders wouldn't. Many of them have traveled abroad and are vocal about the world beyond lager."
In the 1990s and 2000s, Kosovo was home to Europe's youngest population, with explosive fertility and population growth rates on par with Haiti, according to the Kosovo Agency of Statistics. That generation grew up with international brands and has reached drinking age now. Like their contemporaries in London and San Francisco, those young people want products inspired by cosmopolitan ideas such as "slow food" and "small batch" but made with local ingredients.
Traditionally, lagers like Birra Peja, brewed in Kosovo; Skopsko, a Macedonian beer under the Heineken umbrella; and Lasko from Slovenia dominated Kosovo's market. But the last five years brought a flood of imports, including wheat, black, porter, stout and dunkel.
Birra Prishtina (birraprishtina.com) makes pilsner. Grembeer (grembeer.com) opened this year, producing small-batch, additive-free German pils made with water from the Gremnik Mountains.
Pristina's Beerfest (beerfestkosova.com) is now four years old and credited with widening tastes and popularizing home-brewing. Last month, the three-day event attracted 40,000 visitors, an uptick from last year's 25,000. Of the 15 Balkan beer brands represented, four were Kosovan.
This spring, Sabaja started a home-brewer's club and introduced beer cocktails on its brunch menu. Its libations are available in 25 bars citywide and exported to Croatia and Slovenia.
As Mr. Shala of Birra Prishtina sees it, the future of beer in Kosovo could not be brighter.
"We have Europe's youngest population, and every day more youngsters are coming of drinking age," he said.


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•We're all too familiar with the phrase "every picture tells a story." Most of the time, you can look at an image and fondly recall a moment that captured an exceptional experience that you never want to forget. Sometimes though, a picture can tell a much different story—one of strife you'd much rather put behind you. Back in the February 2009 issue of Camaro Performers magazine, we introduced you to the Karma Camaro and its owner Tony Rose. Tony is your average hard-working guy who happened to invest six years of dedication into his '68 Camaro. He dialed in every detail on his own through long nights working in his garage. Knowing how he wanted his car to look, he rode that rail with a vengeance, but he got to the point where he just needed to have the body freshened up before the final icing was laid. However, the pictures you saw in that issue told a totally different tale.
Stories of honest people getting taken to the cleaners from less-than-honorable business owners aren't the norm in our [Camaro] world, but every so often it happens. When Tony contacted a shop to take on the final transformation of his car, he struck a deal that was designed to net him a car with a nice driver-quality paint job that would be done in a reasonable amount of time. What was promised and what the shop actually delivered was far less than what Tony had envisioned. Not only was the car delivered way late, but upon seeing the car for the first time, Tony realized his expectations of having a nice ride had been instantly thrashed. Unfortunately, six long months of anxious anticipation left Tony stranded on the boulevard of broken dreams with empty pockets.
Being a moderator on the popular lateral-g.net message board, Tony shared his story with fellow members about his experience and how he was left in a lurch by a dishonest shop. In a time when it seems the world has become very uncaring, Tony's story caught the attention of thousands of the lateral-g members, including Peter Newell of Competition Specialties in Walpole, Massachusetts. A longtime member of the lateral-g community, the hot rod shop owner was horrified when he read about Tony's experience and immediately contacted him to offer some help. He told Tony that if he could get the Camaro to his shop, he would take care of completely redoing it. It's just like Peter to step up and help a fellow car owner out of a bad situation. Well, once the lateral-g.net community heard of Peter's generous offer, the members banded together with lateral-g owner Scott Gulbranson and set up a PayPal account on the web site designed to help finance the 3,000-mile transportation bill. But wait, it gets even better. Since many aftermarket auto-related businesses are regular participants and advertisers on the site, they also began offering up parts to help complete the job.
Hearing this story helps put a little faith back into society. The lateral-g community is a great place where so many caring individuals are willing to help someone they've never even had the pleasure of sharing a cup of coffee.
When the car landed at Peter's shop, we were there for a firsthand look at what atrocities Tony's car had been subjected. From 20 feet away the '68 looked pretty respectable, but a closer look revealed that Peter and his team would have their work cut out. Obvious things like panel misalignment, poorly blocked panels resulting in uneven paint surfaces, and badly visible overspray were only the tip of the iceberg. As he looked deeper into the project, Peter brought to our attention many more troubling spots including sloppy seam sealer application, trunk seal gasket areas filled with wet sanding sludge and corrosion, and a bevy of badly-prepped surfaces. Venturing on, Peter discovered horrendous use of plastic filler, inner door corrosion, and poorly installed new rear quarter panels. Every time the team touched something on the car it went straight to Hell. It was as if the Devil himself was looming over the car.
As Peter says, "if our name is going to be associated with this car, then it will have to be done correctly."
With so many areas to be addressed, we focused in on a few particular issues that will give you an idea of what to look for when you take on a project. So follow along as we shadow the team at Competition Specialties while they pull a do-over on some poorly-applied seam sealer, address door jambs that are screaming for justice, and part seas of mud that would leave even the most hardened body expert quivering in the corner.
Stay tuned to upcoming issues of Camaro Performers as we keep tabs on the progress of Project Karma. We have some revealing bodywork and paint tips that will be a huge help once you decide to "spruce up" your ride.


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With 54% of Babson's GHG emissions coming from operating campus buildings, Facilities Management works diligently to make Babson as efficient as possible. Emissions from building energy use have dropped by 40% since 2006.
In FY 2017, 54% of Babson's GHG footprint came from the purchased electricity, natural gas, and fuel oil used to operate buildings on campus. In order to reduce these emissions, Facilities Management has been working to implement energy efficiency and conservation projects for heating, cooling, lighting, and other campus energy users.
Park Manors South and Central were renovated in 2015 and certified as LEED Silver. Park Manor West was built to LEED Certified standards.
Several buildings on campus have been retrofitted to improve energy efficiency and reduce consumption. New boilers have been installed in Forest, Park Manor South, Park Manor Central, Tomasso, Woodland Hill 1, Woodland Hill 9 and 10, Horn Complex, Babson, Kriebel, Gerber, and Coleman. New domestic hot water tanks have been installed in Forest, Van Winkle, and Webster.
Energy consumption from air conditioning is managed through automatic setbacks when buildings are not used, such as during the July 4th holiday.
Energy consumption of lighting is reduced through upgrading to efficient fixtures and turning lights off when not in use. During the 2010–2011 academic year, administrative buildings across campus received lighting upgrades. These upgrades included:
- Occupancy sensors installed in offices, hallways, bathrooms, and conference rooms to conserve energy.
- LED exterior fixtures with day lighting sensors
- T8 fluorescent lamps and electronic ballasts
Other Projects
To reduce the carbon intensity of the Babson's buildings, the Skating Rink, Boston Sports Club, and Woodland Hills 9 and 10 have been converted from fuel oil to natural gas.


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Hi there. I want to save the inventory in a txt file. Am using structures . When the user chooses to save in the menu i want to write the whole inventory to a txt file.
my structure looks like this
The function witch is supposed to save the invenoty looks like thisCode:struct inventory { char title[25]; char pub_date[9]; char author[20]; int num; int on_order; float retail; };
This doesn't show any errors but when i open the txt file it showsCode:int save(inventory book[1000], int total) { fp.open("books.txt", ios::in | ios::out ); fp.write((unsigned char *)&book, sizeof(inventory)); fp.close(); return 0; }
some garbage characters. Also the read() command doesnt work.
Am using the write() comand correctly?
If please someone can show me an example of write(), and read()
with structures it would really help me.
attached the whole code if enyone wants to look at it. (book inventory program witch i just added the save function to test)
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Windows smashed at two pharmacies
Police are investigating overnight burglaries at two Omaha pharmacies.
Officers were dispatched to Walgreens near 108th and Fort streets around 1 a.m. after the intrusion alarm was triggered.
-- Police release surveillance images
Police found broken glass at the pharmacy's drive through window.
Surveillance video shows two people break the glass with a sledgehammer and enter the pharmacy with a duffle bag.
Police said the same thing happened at the Walgreens near 90th and Fort streets about two hours later.
Police said they took the pain killer Hydrocodone from both pharmacies.
"It didn't surprise me. We feel bad for those pharmacies, but we're not surprised that it happened," said Jim Quinley with Kubat Pharmacy.
Kubat Pharmacy shortened its hours concerned robbers would come in at night. Just two months ago, Quinley said it installed 12 surveillance cameras.
"We did that to help deter crime, and also if there was a crime, we at least have some evidence," he said.
Anyone with information on the case should call a detective at 402-444-5652. If you want to remain anonymous and be eligible for a cash reward, call Crime Stoppers at 402-444-7867.
In addition to the reward offered by Crime Stoppers, an additional amount of up to $2,500 is being offered by RX Patrol for a tip that leads to the identification and arrest of the burglars in this case.


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Vincent van Gogh was born more than 150 years (1853) ago in Zundert, Netherlands (Dutch)
He had many jobs, such as working in an art gallery, as a teacher, in a bookstore and as a preacher.
Then, around 1880, Theo his brother, suggested he become a full time artist.
When he painted,Vincent liked to play with light and use loose brush strokes. He liked dark tones.
In 1885 Vincent went to Belgium and he discovered Japanese art which had bright colours - this
influenced his style.
In 1886 he went to Paris and met other artists like
Paul Gauguin and Henri de Tououse-Lautrec. This is when he discovered impressionism and liked its use of colour and light and the technique
(pointillism) where you use small dots that blend into rich colours. So Vincent is regarded as a post-impressionist .
In 1888 Vincent left the city and went to a French country town called Arles - he was happy for a
while but later he had mental problems and actually cut off part of his left ear!
In 1889 he was treated at a mental institution and he started painting with small stripes instead of
dots and later also used swirls.
Sadly, in 1890, Vincent shot himself in the chest and died two days later with his brother, Theo, by
his side. He was 37.
Perhaps his most famous painting was The Starry Night Painted in 1889
It is exhibited at The Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)
Unusual Facts about Vincent
He did over 2000 paintings and drawings in 10 years but he only ever sold one!
Most people think that he cut his whole ear off but it was just the lobe!
His famous painting The Starry Night has all the stars in the correct spot in the sky!
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Regardless of what you think of Kant's philosophy, his ideas, how much sense they make and how useful they are – you have to respect him. The man tried to dig ridiculously deep into human thought. His is the drill that pierced philosophy. The difficulty in understanding Kant is not in his writing. The writing is fairly analytic and linear. What's difficult is the distance Kant takes from human thought.
Human thought is built by layers upon layers. Spread all your ethical laws. Notice how you'll find a hierachy between them. One law is derived from another. A classic example is that of rape. It's derived from the law of bodily autonomy, of not forcing people to do things against their will. In turn, this is derived from the law of freedom of action. That one is derived from the law of not causing suffering, since we assume here that violating freedom causes suffering.
Now, this is an off-the-cuff example that doesn't require deep thinking. It's popular enough to make my point clear about these layers. Kant isn't satisfied in stopping where I did. He goes as high as he can, he tries to understand the bare skeleton of what moral thinking is.
Kant goes so high that he doesn't even talk about humans anymore. He's obsessed with reason. In his world, only reason and the ways of thought he exists. When he talks about universal ethics, they exist way before Man himself exists. Although he separates the natural world (what we experience) and what is really there (which we can't access), his dissection of reason is like a mathematicians' dissection of the rules of nature. He creates a logic that everything is subject to. Only Kant deals with words, with terms that have loaded and not definite meanings. The task is automatically more difficult.
Which is why it's so impressive. Once you understand how Kant functions, it's easier to read him. The Categorical Imperative becomes more than mere 'do what you want others to do'. That rule seems simple and intuitive but Kant removes the subjectivity from it. You can use that rule to justify theft. If you don't believe in public property, you can expect others to steal and not feel guilty about stealing. What Kant does is ask whether a behavior like this can actually exists. If everyone steals, then we don't have anything to steal since everything's stolen. When I respect someone's property rights and he respects mine, society doesn't fall apart.
The main issue with Kant's idea is exactly how detached it is from human experience. In the end, the moral behavior has to come down to the World of Appearances. Once it does, it no longer exists in isolation. There are results. If a moral behavior in an individual instead happens to lead to results which give power to immoral people than how good is it? The problem with pure reason is that it tries to isolate things with its strict laws, but that doesn't actually happen.
As an attempt to set a groundwork for discussing morality, this part is a bit of a let down. He moves too forward, and although the Categorical Imperative remains in the World of Reason, it naturally leads to the World of Appearances and that's where we'll test it.
The better part, however, are when Kant discusses what exactly is moral. The Categorical Imperative becomes convincing once Kant defines what morality actually is compared to other things. His writings about free will feel as though he shuts down the whole discussion by solving the problem. Morality needs freedom. Rationality demands freedom. We cannot prove freedom exists because our notions of 'proving' relate mostly to the World of Appearances. However, once we think that freedom doesn't exist we can no longer think morally or rationally since we give in to natural impulses. Do you do this? Does anyone live only by natural impulses? Even if freedom doesn't exist, we have to act and think as if we're free.
His definition of morality as fairly convincing – it is goodness, plain and simple. At first it seems overly simplistic, but it actually makes sense. By 'goodness', he means thinking beyond our natural impulses. Here you can see how Kant spent too much time thinking and not enough doing. This idea is understandable, but he has to connect it to the World of Apperances. Intelligence and morality may exist in the World As Itself which is important because it's the basis for the World of Appearances, but the World of Appearances is what we actually experience. So if I act morally, the results were bad (in various ways), does it matter if I were moral?
The only blind side to Kant's case is that he never proves that reason is so awesome that it improves reality (or the World of Appearances). All the love he has for reason is convincing that it's important, but seeing that reason in action would be the final proof. The clearest benefit from Kant's way of thinking is how critical he is, how willing he is to vivisect ways of thought so it feels more like 'reason' and 'morality' are beasts he analyzes using microscopes and scalpels.
At worst, the book lives up to its title. Since Kant goes so deep in his definitions and dissection, it does come off like the starting point for moral thinking. He separates morality from other ways of thought. He separates other needs and the free will and the moral action. Only he never puts them back together, but you can start forming your own Theory of Ethics using this. Later, McLuhan would criticize the Typographic Man for their linear, fragmented thinking. Kant is an excellent example of this fault. Everything is split up to tiny little pieces, which is useful to understanding them. If only Kant went the extra mile to connect these piece – he was sure aware that he should, but I guess we needed new technology to help us realize the world is happening all at once.
Keep in mind this review was written by someone who just started his voyage on the seas of Philosophy. At the time of writing this, I haven't taken any courses and this book was difficult to read, almost incomprehensible at times. The final section especially felt like a great mental exercises going nowhere. Still, as a place to start it's great. It lays down the most important question and is fairly accessible, despite how huge the ideas are in here.
4 morals out of 5 metaphysics


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AN EGYPTIAN COURT has sentenced 21 people to death on charges related to one of the world's deadliest incidents of soccer violence, which killed 74 mostly teenage fans of Egypt's most popular sports club last year.
The verdict comes after a day of clashes between security forces and protesters opposed to Egypt's Islamist President Mohammed Morsi that left seven dead.
A policeman was killed in violence in the Mediterranean city of Port Said following the announcement of the verdicts, according to security officials speaking to AFP.
Fans of al-Ahly, whose stands were attacked by fans from rival club Al-Masri, had promised more violence if the accused did not receive death sentences for the incident on 1 February last year.
Families of the victims shouted "Allahu Akbar!," or God is great, after the judge read out his verdict. One man fainted, while others wailed and cried in disbelief as they carried pictures of the young men killed in the soccer riot.
Judge Sobhi Abdel-Maguid said in his statement read live on state TV that he would announce the verdict for the remaining 52 defendants on 9 March. Among those on trial are nine security officials.
Many Ultras, or die-hard soccer fans, have taken a leading role in protests over the past two years.
Gross negligence
Both Al-Ahly Ultras and Al-Masry Ultras widely believe that ex-members of the ousted regime of Hosni Mubarak helped instigate the attack, and that the police at the very least were responsible for gross negligence.
It is not clear what kind of evidence, if any, was presented to the court to back up claims that the attack had been orchestrated by regime officials.
As is customary in Egypt, the death sentences will be sent to the nation's top religious authority, the Grand Mufti, for approval, though the court has final say on the matter.
All of the defendants — who were not present in the courtroom Saturday for security reasons — have the right to appeal the verdict.
The melee was the world's deadliest soccer violence in 15 years.
In the days leading up to the verdict, Al-Ahly fans warned of bloodshed and "retribution" if death sentences were not handed down. Hundreds of Al-Ahly fans gathered outside the Cairo sports club in anticipation of the verdict, chanting against the police and the government.
"The police are thugs!" yelled relatives of the deceased inside the courtroom before the judge took the bench.
The violence began after the Port Said home team won the match, 3-1. Al-Masry fans stormed the pitch after the game ended, attacking Cairo's Al-Ahly fans.
Authorities shut off the stadium lights, plunging it into darkness. In the exit corridor, the fleeing crowd pressed against a chained gate until it broke open. Many were crushed under the crowd of people trying to flee.
Survivors of the riot described a nightmarish scene in the stadium. Police stood by doing nothing, they said, as fans of Al-Masry attacked supporters of the top Cairo club stabbing them and throwing them off bleachers.
Al-Ahly survivors said supporters of Al-Masry carved the words "Port Said" into their bodies and undressed them while beating them with iron bars.
While there has long been bad blood between the two rival teams, many blamed police for failing to perform usual searches for weapons at the stadium.
The soccer fans, known as Ultras, are among Egypt's rowdiest and are proud of their hatred for the police, who were the backbone of Mubarak's authoritarian rule.
The Ultras then directed their chants against the military rulers who took over after Mubarak's ouster in 2011 until Morsi came to power in elections last June.
The Ultras from Egypt's sports clubs were engaged in deadly clashes with police near the Interior Ministry headquarters in Cairo that killed 42 people less than three months before the soccer melee in Port Said.
- with reporting from AFP
Last year: At least 73 killed in clashes after Egyptian football match


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Supervise gaming operations and personnel in an assigned area. Circulate among tables and observe operations. Ensure that stations and games are covered for each shift. May explain and interpret operating rules of house to patrons. May plan and organize activities and create friendly atmosphere for guests in hotels/casinos. May adjust service complaints.
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Each casino establishes its own education, training, and experience requirements, but all gaming service workers must obtain a license from a regulatory agency, such as a State casino control board or commission.
Education and training. There usually are no minimum educational requirements for entry-level gaming jobs, although most employers prefer workers with at least a high school diploma or GED.
Each casino establishes its own requirements for education, training, and experience. Some of the major casinos and slot manufacturers run their own training schools, and almost all provide some form of in-house training in addition to requiring certification. The type and quantity of classes needed may vary. Many institutions of higher learning give training toward certificates in gaming, as well as offering an associate, bachelor's, or master's degree in a hospitality-related field such as hospitality management, hospitality administration, or hotel management. Some schools offer training in games, gaming supervision, slot attendant and slot repair technician work, slot department management, and surveillance and security.
Slot key persons do not need to meet formal educational requirements to enter the occupation, but completion of slot attendant or slot technician training is helpful. As with most other gaming workers, slot key persons receive on-the-job training during the first several weeks of employment.
Gaming and sports book writers and runners must have at least a high school diploma or GED. Most of these workers receive on-the-job training. Because gaming and sportsbook writers and runners work closely with patrons, they need excellent customer service skills.
Most gaming dealers acquire their skills by attending a dealer school or vocational and technical school. They teach the rules and procedures of the games as well as State and local laws and regulations. Graduation from one of these schools does not guarantee a job at a casino, however, as most casinos also require prospective dealers to audition for open positions. During the audition, personal qualities are assessed along with knowledge of the games.
For most gaming supervisor and gaming manager positions, an associate or bachelor's degree is beneficial, but it is not required. Most employees in these occupations have experience in other gaming occupations, typically as dealers, and have a broad knowledge of casino rules, regulations, procedures, and games.
Licensure. Gaming services workers are required to be licensed by a regulatory agency, such as a State casino control board or commission. Applicants for a license must provide photo identification and pay a fee. Some States may require gaming service workers to be residents of that State. Age requirements vary by State. The licensing application process also includes a background investigation and drug test.
Other qualifications. In addition to possessing a license, gaming services workers need superior customer service skills. Casino gaming workers provide entertainment and hospitality to patrons, and the quality of their service contributes to an establishment's success or failure. Therefore, gaming workers need good communication skills, an outgoing personality, and the ability to maintain their composure even when dealing with angry or demanding patrons. Personal integrity also is important because workers handle large amounts of money.
Gaming services workers who manage money should have some experience handling cash or using calculators or computers. For such positions, most casinos administer a math test to assess an applicant's level of competency.
Gaming supervisors and gaming managers must have strong leadership, organizational, and communication skills. Excellent customer service and employee relations skills also are necessary.
Advancement. Advancement opportunities in casino gaming depend less on workers' previous casino duties and titles than on their ability and eagerness to learn new jobs. For example, an entry-level gaming worker eventually might advance to become a dealer or card room manager or to assume some other supervisory position.
Legalized gambling in the United States today includes casino gaming, State lotteries, pari-mutuel wagering on contests such as horse or dog racing, and charitable gaming. Gaming, the playing of games of chance, is a multibillion-dollar industry that is responsible for the creation of a number of unique service occupations.
The majority of all gaming services workers are employed in casinos. Their duties and titles may vary from one establishment to another. Some positions are associated with oversight and directionsupervision, surveillance, and investigationwhile others involve working with the games or patrons themselves by tending slot machines, dealing cards or running games, handling money, writing and running tickets, and other activities. In nearly any gaming job, workers interact directly with patrons, and part of their responsibility is to make those interactions enjoyable.
Like nearly every business establishment, casinos have workers who direct and oversee day-to-day operations. Gaming supervisors and gaming managers oversee the gaming operations and personnel in an assigned area. They circulate among the tables and observe the operations to ensure that all of the stations and games are covered for each shift and workers and gamblers adhere to the rules of the games. Gaming supervisors and gaming managers often explain and interpret the operating rules of the house to patrons who may have difficulty understanding the rules. They also may plan and organize activities to create a friendly atmosphere for the guests staying in casino hotels. Periodically, they address complaints about service.
Gaming managers also have additional responsibilities beyond those of supervisors. For example, gaming managers prepare work schedules and station assignments for their subordinates. They are responsible for interviewing, hiring, training, and evaluating new workers.
Managers supervise a variety of other workers. Some of these workers need specialized skillsdealing blackjack, for examplethat are unique to casino work. Others require skills common to most business workers, such as the ability to conduct financial transactions.
Slot key persons coordinate and supervise the slot machine department and its workers. Their duties include verifying and handling payoff winnings to patrons, resetting slot machines after completing the payoff, and refilling machines with money. Slot key persons must be familiar with a variety of slot machines and be able to make minor repairs and adjustments to the machines as needed. If major repairs are required, slot key persons determine whether the slot machine should be removed from the floor. Working the floor as frontline personnel, they enforce safety rules and report hazards.
Gaming and sportsbook writers and runners assist in the operations of games such as bingo and keno, in addition to taking bets on sporting events. They scan tickets presented by patrons and calculate and distribute winnings. Some writers and runners operate the equipment that randomly selects the numbers. Others may announce numbers selected, pick up tickets from patrons, collect bets, or receive, verify, and record patrons' cash wagers.
Gaming dealers operate table games such as craps, blackjack, and roulette. Standing or sitting behind the table, dealers provide dice, dispense cards to players, or run the equipment. Some dealers also monitor the patrons for infractions of casino rules. Gaming dealers must be skilled in customer service and in executing their game. Dealers determine winners, calculate and pay winning bets, and collect losing bets. Because of the fast-paced work environment, most gaming dealers are competent in at least two games, usually blackjack and craps.
Work environment. Most casinos are open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and offer 3 staggered shifts. Employees can be expected to work weekends and holidays. The atmosphere in casinos is generally filled with fun and often considered glamorous. However, casino work can also be physically demanding. Most occupations require that workers stand for long periods; some require the lifting of heavy items. The atmosphere in casinos exposes workers to certain hazards, such as cigarette, cigar, and pipe smoke. Noise from slot machines, gaming tables, and talking workers and patrons may be distracting to some, although workers wear protective headgear in areas where loud machinery is used to count money.
Wage earnings for gaming services workers vary according to occupation, level of experience, training, location, and size of the gaming establishment. The following were median earnings for various gaming services occupations in May 2006:
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Gaming dealers generally receive a large portion of their earnings from tokes, which are tips in the form of tokens received from players. Earnings from tokes vary depending on the table games the dealer operates, the personal traits of the dealer, and the pooling policies of the casino.
Employment of gaming service workers is expected to grow much faster than the average for all occupations., Opportunities will be best for those with previous casino gaming experience, a degree or technical or vocational training in gaming or a hospitality-related field, and strong customer service skills.
Employment change. With demand for gaming showing no sign of waning, employment in gaming services occupations is projected to grow by
The increase in gaming reflects growth in the population and in its disposable income, both of which are expected to continue. Higher expectations for customer service among gaming patrons also should result in more jobs for gaming services workers. Because of increasing demand in gaming establishments for additional table games, particularly poker, the largest growth is expected among gaming dealers. Conversely, advancements in slot machine technology, such as coinless slot machinesknown as Ticket-in, Ticket-Out machineswill limit job growth for slot key persons relative to other gaming service occupations. Ticket-in, Ticket-out technology reduces the need for slot key persons to payout jackpots, fill hoppers, and reset machines. Additionally, slot machines linked to a network allow adjustments to be made from a central computer server rather than from the floor by a slot key person. However, there will still be some new jobs for slot key persons because of the casino industry's focus on customer service and the rising popularity of racinos and slot machines in States that have recently legalized gambling or are expected to do so in the future.
Job prospects. Job prospects in gaming services occupations will be best for those with previous casino gaming experience, a degree or technical or vocational training in gaming or a hospitality-related field, and strong interpersonal and customer service skills.
In addition to job openings arising from employment growth, opportunities will result from the need to replace workers transferring to other occupations or leaving the labor force. Despite this, keen competition for jobs as gaming dealers is expected. There are generally more applicants than jobs. Experienced dealers who are able to attract new or return business will have the best job prospects.
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Gaming services workers are found mainly in the traveler accommodation and gaming industries. Most are employed in commercial casinos, including riverboat casinos, casino hotels, and pari-mutuel racetracksknown as racinosthat in 20 States offer casino games. The largest number work in casinos in Nevada. Mississippi, which boasts the greatest number of riverboat casinos in operation, employs the most workers in that venue. In addition, there are 28 States with Indian casinos. Legal lotteries are held in 41 States and the District of Columbia, and pari-mutuel wagering is legal in 43 States. Forty-seven States and the District of Columbia also allow charitable gaming. Other States are considering legislation to permit gambling, but no casinos have been opened as of yet.
For most workers, gaming licensure requires proof of residency in the State in which gaming workers are employed. But some gaming services workers do not limit themselves to one State or even one country, finding jobs on the small number of casinos located on luxury cruise liners that travel the world. These individuals live and work aboard the vessel.


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Oprah Winfrey admitted she was "stunned" by the backlash to President Barack Obama's speech to America's schools.
In a new interview, set to air on Access Hollywood on Wednesday, Shaun Robinson brought up the speech that President Obama gave on Tuesday to children around the country and the controversy surrounding it.
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When Shaun asked Oprah if she understood the concerns that many people had about President Obama speaking to their children, Oprah replied, "No, I do not. No, no, no, no and no. I'm just really stunned by people who feel that the President, the leader of our country and of the free world, saying to your children it's important for your success, the success of your families and our country for you stay in school, that education is vital to your well-being… I don't understand it. I do not understand it."
Shaun also asked Oprah if she felt that children who were not permitted to watch the speech, missed out on a great opportunity.
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"I think those children missed out and I think that's the message we're trying to send," Oprah said. "If you're a country that doesn't want your children to hear that message, then who are we really? That's what I think."
For more of Access' interview with Oprah tune into Access Hollywood on Tuesday or Wednesday evenings.
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A fun and social online writing environment, Cubert's Cube is designed to creatively engage young students in the writing process.
By Sramana Mitra (Founder, One Million By One Million)
Most kids use technology for games and music. What about using technology to learn to write, an essential skill to master early in life?
With Cubert's Cube, entrepreneur Melanie Kusmik is attempting to do just that – teaching kids how to write by harnessing the power of the social web. Years of experience in software development and product management at companies like Quantum, 3Com, Nortel Networks has helped Melanie learn to transform a concept into a business.
A fun and social online writing environment, Cubert's Cube is designed to creatively engage young students in all aspects of the writing process.
The idea of creating such a platform came in while volunteering in her son's kindergarten class. Melanie noticed kids would finish their worksheets quickly and then start looking around to figure out what to do next. She handed them blank papers to collaborate on a story idea together. And kids would happily participate – they would draw pictures, write a few words, and sometimes ignore the recess bell.
While spending time with kids, Melanie realized that they are as enthusiastic about technology as we are; and most of them use technology as most us do, for games and music. Melanie thought of building an educational technology product for kids. "Could we inspire creativity and imagination intrinsically by allowing kids to be the creators rather than the consumers of what we adults imagine?" Melanie started brainstorming her ideas with a second grade teacher and came up with the first design of the website. That was in 2010. They developed a prototype and introduced it to second and third grade students.
Melanie watched the kids using the prototype for six months; then she made some changes in the navigation, added more support for both students and teachers. That's how she built Cubert's Cube and it is now ready to launch. "We hope your kids, in the classroom and at home, find this to be a place for them to explore their ideas, craft a poem, story, letter or essay and share it with others. We believe you will love the power of using technology to foster creativity and community as much as we do." says Melanie who is now CEO of Cubert's Cube.
With Cubert's Cube, Melanie's objective is to grow children's interest in writing. The product is quite aligned with educational systems and it advances skills like creativity, collaboration, communication and critical thinking. The website offers a safe environment; children of second to sixth grades, and teachers, can use it across all subjects through a paid subscription.
After the beta level testing with 10 teachers and 250 students, Melanie is offering a pilot program this fall to validate the product across different teaching and learning environments. She intends to offer district-wide licenses in the spring of 2013. Interested teachers in public, private and homeschool environments can use the pilot program. As per the trend so far, Melanie is expecting the pilot to be filled up quickly; the company will be offering discounted rates to interested teachers who missed the pilot.
Cubert's Cube has a good market.
TAM for the product is estimated at $45.2M considering 12.5% adoption rate of elementary school teachers and homeschool parents in the United States. There are 88,000 elementary schools with an average of 30 classrooms in the United States. With a SaaS subscription model, Melanie is expecting an annual recurring revenue stream on a per teacher (single class) or per school basis and often 3 to 4 times more when school districts purchase a multi-year subscription. Writing portfolio and journal books can make up a second revenue stream for the company.
Cobert's Cube has joined the Learning.com SKY marketplace. Like any other product company, they are also desperately looking for partners to reach teachers and students. Balancing the need for product development and validation, building fundamental marketing and sales tools, finding the right distribution channels and partnerships, and financing the efforts in a pre-revenue state are challenges she is facing right now.
Melanie also wants to attract a world-class advisory board to the company that has the right balance of business acumen, educational market knowledge, and people who are enthusiastic about her vision and mission. But most of all, she wants to introduce Cubert's Cube to teachers and parents.
Providing technology solution for K-12 education is not an easy task. But that is what Melanie is passionate about. Her early customers share her passion for this innovative offering. "It is a great motivational tool for students. Even my reluctant writers found writing fun," says Dana, a third grade teacher in Washington. "Students love having the ability to send their ideas to friends so they can co- write stories," adds Demetra, a third grade teacher, also in Washington, where Melanie and Cubert's Cube are based. "For me as a teacher, Cubert's Cube is so user friendly that I would be making more work for myself if I didn't use it. My kids are able to write, revise, and publish in one location," praises Crystal, a fifth and sixth grade teacher.
The students, in turn, love the ability to co-write their stories with their friends, and use features like drawing, inserting pictures, etc.
Historically, engaging K-12 teachers to adopt new technologies has been challenging. However, today, a large number of extraordinarily tech-savvy teachers and parents are, finally, adopting educational technology, giving the field its renaissance. If you are reading this post, chances are, you have a child in school. What are you waiting for? Jump into Cubert's Cube and get your child going. And if you like it, recommend it to his or her teacher.
Tech savvy parents are critical to bringing educational technology to schools. Please be sure to keep an eye out for cool stuff that can vastly improve the learning of this generation of kids.
Women 2.0 readers: What do you think of Cubert's Cube? Let us know in the comments!
About the guest blogger: Sramana Mitra is Founder of One Million By One Million, an educational business development and incubation program that aims to help one million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant. As an entrepreneur CEO, she ran three companies: DAIS, Intarka, and Uuma. Sramana has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT. Follow her on Twitter at @sramana.


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Energy Share is a weatherization rebate program exclusively for residential customers of Rocky Mount Public Utilities. Through Energy Share, the city's electric or natural gas customers can receive a cash rebate of up to $500 for work related to attic weatherization, up to $1,000 for a replacement HVAC system, and/or up to $250 for duct work.
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A new "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" posters has been released, and it's…well, really dark.
The poster shows Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) and the evil Lord Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes) face to face in the final duel. As the MTV Movies blog notes, the poster is noticeably missing the vast ensemble cast of posters past (Ron! Hermione!) and reminds us of the original intent of the Harry Potter story—good versus evil. Love over blind hatred. And, maybe good grooming habbits prevail over the not-so-good? (Look at Voldemort's thumbnail and you'll see what we mean).
It's hard not to notice the poster's harsh gloom, or that both Harry and Voldemort are covered in a considerable amount of blood. It just goes to show that the film adaptations, much like the books, matured and have grown from the child-like world of wonder painted in the first poster.
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Save the Humans
WhaleOil has found a new blog, "Save the Humans". Looks like a quality piece of electronic opinionationilism. (Yep, I just made that world up :D)
Here are my fairy lights. What do you think? They are happy smiles from the Earth. The Earth is fine.
But this is spooky. About 8:45 some neighbours rang the doorbell and asked why we had fairy lights up. They were just 'interested' and not accusing in any way. Just that their 13 year old son was confused, didn't we think the Earth was stuffed?
It was the strangest most spooky experience. It was like getting a visit from a local priest who has noticed you have not been to church lately. Slightly uncomfortable, a bit light-hearted, lots of 'we are just interested but have you read this book…it's called blah blah and it says that…'.
The son was genuinely confused (presumably after 6 years of environmental indoctrination). It didn't feel right to be too honest with him (a bit like feeding pork to Muslim perhaps). I just said that I am a terrible optimist.
That's really the scary thing about environmentalism (and Bush bashing, and even Helen Clark worship to a lesser extent). It's complete and utter bull, but some people actually believe in it to the point where they just can't understand that others might not agree with them.
Now, religion is different. I understand that others are Atheists, Muslim etc. Those people may hate me to various degrees, and many think I'm nuts, but they don't look at me with that blank look when I explain that I believe in Jesus.
But tell certain people the world is fine, or that Bush gave an honest assessment of the danger posed by Iraq (or that he won the 2000 election under the rules) and you just don't know what to expect.
Or maybe I'm just biased here. I guess the kid doesn't get out much past school.


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Set Up Mobile Synchronizer
You can automate the transfer of sessions and designs between the field and enterprise using a Process Framework Replica in Geodatabase Replication or using the Mobile Synchronizer.
The Mobile Synchronizer executes a send/receive task at specified intervals of time. Before the Mobile Synchronizer may be executed on a Process Framework database, it must first be configured.
- Open the Process Framework Administration tool for the database (e.g., SessionManager.mdb, WorkflowManager.mdb, FieldSessionManager.mdb). Select the Node Types tab.
- Add a node type for the Synchronizer to use. Name this node type anything you wish. Assign an extension based on the Process Framework extension you are using (e.g., Session Manager, Workflow Manager). There is no need to assign a deleter or version namer.
- With the new node type selected, click the Add Task button to create a task that will send and receive mobile data on the enterprise.
- Enter a name in the Task Name field. This may be any name you choose. Assign roles as appropriate. The Mobile Synchronizer requires a login to the Process Framework database, so the login user should have permissions to execute this task.
- The task uses different subtasks based on whether it's
a field database or enterprise database. Select the appropriate database
below and assign the subtasks in the order shown.
Is Engine Mobile enabled?
Is Enterprise Disk Full?
Mobile Synchronize
Update Enterprise
Mobile Synchronize
Is Engine Mobile enabled?
Mobile Synchronize
Mobile Update
- Click OK to save the new task.
- Select the States tab.
- From the Filter by Node Type menu, select the node type created in step 2.
- Click the Add button to add a state. It must have a value of 1 in the State field. Name the state anything you'd like.
- Select the Configuration tab.
- Add a row with a Name value of DefaultSynchNodeType. In the Name field, enter the name of the node type created in step 2.
- Add a row with a Name value of DefaultSynchTask. In the Value field, enter the name of the task created in step 4.
- Close the Process Framework Administration tool and save
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University of Vermont
John S. Millis (1941 - 1949)
John Schoff Millis became president of The University of Vermont on November, 3, 1941, exactly one hundred and fifty years to the day after the signing of the original charter. It was a depressing, ominous time. UVM was more than half a million dollars in debt, and events were going so badly in World War II that is seemed inevitable that the United States would become involved. Two days after his inauguration, thirty-seven-year-old Millis wrote to his father, 'I know I have bitten off a fairly sizeable bite, but I am hopeful that I can handle it without killing myself. Time will provide the answer and at present, I'm on the job."
John Millis was born on November 22, 1903 in Palo Alto, California. His father was a well-known professor in economics at the University of Chicago where Millis received his bachelor's degree in 1924, a Master of Science degree in 1927, and a Ph.D. degree in physics in 1931. He married Katherine Roseberry Wesner in 1929, the same year he accepted a position as an assistant professor of physics at Lawrence College in Wisconsin. Moving rapidly up the ranks, Millis was promoted to full professor in 1934, dean of the college in 1936, and dean of administration in 1939. In 1940, he was awarded a Carnegie Corporation grant to travel around the country, studying the management of colleges and universities. As a result of this project, the young administrator was recommended as the individual who could straighten out the financial and managerial problems of which the University of Vermont faced.
Just two months before Millis arrived in Burlington, the Vermont legislature has been called into special session by the Governor William H. Wills to deal with the university's financial crisis. On September 16, a day before UVM's fall term opening, the legislature approved a "rescue plan," appropriating $260,000 in support for the next fiscal year to be matched by alumni contributions. In addition, the legislature stipulated that the university must set aside $68,880, each year, to cover interest on its outstanding debt. Although the legislature was called to focus solely on the university's needs, once it was in special session it decided to use the occasion to declare war on Nazi Germany (the term it used was "a state of belligerency"), thus providing official notice to Adolph Hitler that he was persona non grate so far as the state of Vermont was concerned.
One month after Millis began his presidency, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and the United States entered the war. Large numbers of students left the university to enlist in the military services, and the total number of undergraduates dropped drastically from 1,300 to 650 within only two years. As a result, UVM arranged to bring U.S. Air Force training units to campus for special six-to-eight-week courses to help make up for the lost tuition revenues.
The war years were trying times of sacrifice and financial austerity. A top priority was the security fund drive to raise money from alumni and friends to match the legislative appropriations. Proctor Page, a banker from Burlington, was appointed to serve as UVM's treasurer, and Millis and the trustees devoted their major energies to monitoring the financial situation. In addition, Millis pushed through a number of other important reforms during the war years, including a plan that guaranteed academic freedom and tenure for the faculty, as well as a university retirement plan.
As soon as the war ended, UVM was flooded with returning students, and enrollment jumped to more than two thousand in fifteen months. In 1946, Millis reorganized the university into five divisions—Arts and Sciences, Medicine, Agriculture, Education, and Nursing, and a new College of Technology for engineering, mathematics, chemistry, economics, and business. President Millis stayed on for three more years to manage the postwar transition.
A strapping six-foot-plus man, Millis was active in the local Episcopal church where he served as lay reader. He was extremely capable and forceful, full of drive and vigor, but he could be brusque, demanding, and autocratic. His wife, Kay, was very outgoing.
In 1949 John S. Millis resigned from UVM to become president of Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. He was later named Chancellor of Case Western Reserve University, a position he held until 1969. Following his retirement, he chaired the National Fund for Medical Education, and he also served on the National Board of Medicine Examiners.
The Millis family retained their ties with the university after they moved to Ohio. Both daughters attended UVM and for many years, the entire family spent vacations at their camp in Shelburne Bay. On January 1, 1988, John Millis died in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, at the age of eighty-four. He was survived by his wife, a son, and two daughters.
During his term at UVM, President Millis provided steady leadership through demanding times. He reduced the university deficit by more than $420,000, and restored the institution's financial health. He initiated a number of important academic and curricular reforms, and he presided over the postwar enrollment expansion, which involved planning the addition of fourteen new buildings. During this latter period, the dormitory plant more than tripled following the construction of Buckham, Chittenden, Wills, and Coolidge halls; the University Heights complex was built to help house the faculty; the state provided funds to build Hills Agricultural Science Hall and the Dairy Science Building.
In terms of his overall contributions, John Millis ranks as another of those uniquely qualified individuals who provided precisely the right type of leadership the university needed during a very trying period. As a result of his presidency, UVM emerged as a rejuvenated and stronger institution.
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Replying to my first post on the subject, friend of the blog Dara Lind suggested to me that Vaclav Havel's political ideas were a good match for what I argued the modern left lacks. His essay "Politics and Conscience" certainly includes some concepts that are very close to what I called worship and the religious attitude. It's hard to talk about things like "worship" divorced from a specific theological or metaphysical context, but Havel does a good job of grounding them in personal experience. To whit:
As a boy, I lived for some time in the country and I clearly remember an experience from those days: I used to walk to school in a nearby village along a cart track through the fields and, on the way, see on the horizon a huge smokestack of some hurriedly built factory, in all likelihood in the service of war. It spewed dense brown smoke and scattered it across the sky. Each time I saw it, I had an intense sense of something profoundly wrong, of humans soiling the heavens. I have no idea whether there was something like a science of ecology in those days; if there was, I certainly knew nothing of it. Still that "soiling of the heavens" offended me spontaneously. It seemed to me that, in it, humans are guilty of something, that they destroy something important, arbitrarily disrupting the natural order of things, and that such things cannot go unpunished. To be sure, my revulsion was largely aesthetic; I knew nothing then of the noxious emissions which would one day devastate our forests, exterminate game, and endanger the health of people.
To me, personally, the smokestack soiling the heavens is not just a regrettable lapse of a technology that failed to include "the ecological factor" in its calculation, one which can be easily corrected with the appropriate filter. To me it is more, the symbol of an age which seeks to transcend the boundaries of the natural world and its norms and to make it into a merely private concern, a matter of subjective preference and private feeling, of the illusions, prejudices, and whims of a "mere" individual. It is a symbol of an epoch which denies the binding importance of personal experienceincluding the experience of mystery and of the absoluteand displaces the personally experienced absolute as the measure of the world with a new, man-made absolute, devoid of mystery, free of the "whims" of subjectivity and, as such, impersonal and inhuman. It is the absolute of so-called objectivity: the objective, rational cognition of the scientific model of the world.
What he's arguing here has a certain family resemblance to the concept of worship, but his argument is also very much rooted in its time, the last days of the Soviet Empire. For our purposes, what's even more interesting is how this translates into a political theory:
I favor "antipolitical politics," that is, politics not as the technology of power and manipulation, of cybernetic rule over humans or as the art of the utilitarian, but politics as one of the ways of seeking and achieving meaningful lives, of protecting them and setving them. I favor politics as practical morality, as service to the truth, as essentially human and humanly measured care for our fellow humans. It is, I presume, an approach which, in this world, is extremely impractical and difficult to apply in dailv life. Still, I know no better alternative.
I'm not a huge fan of the "anti-political" construction, which seems a little misleading. But this is surely on the right track, grounded as it is in a moral sense that we have allowed, sadly, to atrophy.


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Well, I am about to break the one steadfast rule I've had on this blog since the beginning. I don't ask for money. I fund this ministry/website out of my own pocket and try to avoid arguments that I am selling out or support tithing because tithes support me. But I am in a quandary. Not one that affects the site – yet – but one that affects me personally.
As my loyal readers know, I was in the middle of a messy divorce a little while back that cost me the rental property my ex and I operated because she refused to pay the mortgage or give me the rental income to do so. Now the final property-related nail is coming as a result of her bankruptcy and foolishness. I am about to be foreclosed on by my bank for the house that I am currently living in. Now, I did my best to pay the mortgage, but unfortunately, circumstances got the better of me. Over the last 2 years, I've lost a number of my sources of income as the economy kept sliding and government and tourism-related industries kept cutting back.
Despite being willing to do just about anything and humbling myself, applying for literally hundreds of jobs, I am still jobless, my income is steadily decreasing and I am barely making ends meet. Unfortunately, the mortgage was one of those things that just didn't get taken care of in a timely basis and now the bank has called their note due.
When I was first served, I went through my affirmative defenses – one of which being that my ex-wife signed a quit claim deed, divesting herself of this house. To date, the bank has still not recognized it and her name appears prominently on the foreclosure papers, myself, who continued to pay the mortgage long after she stopped, is relegated to a secondary defendant. My biggest defense was that the bank had refused to accept and properly credit some of my payments, holding the money, as a bank employee explained to me, "in limbo." The banks lawyers have responded to that claim and offered me two options, after adjusting for the money that was never credited ($500+, not counting the interest and fees that they didn't credit me for).
My two options are this: pay approx. $212,000 to pay off the loan, or approx. $40,000 to cover the missed payments, interest, lawyer's fees, etc. etc.) And I have until 5pm on April 1st to deliver that payment to their offices in Fort Lauderdale. Considering that I have just enough to cover my electric bill this month and am eating courtesy of Food Stamps, that is far outside my reach.
Praying for a miracle, it came to me that I might ask if people would be willing to help me out. $40K is not really that much, in the big picture and even small donations would help whittle this down. I am not sure if this insight came from the Lord or not. I was praying when it occurred to me, but my only experiences with hearing God were both forgiveness-oriented, so I can't really tell. Usually, I get insights from the Holy Spirit where I suddenly understand or realize some deeper truth or concept and I don't want to misrepresent my Lord.
I have committed that any money I receive from this will be paid back to the donor/patron, unless they specifically state for me not to, in which case, I will pay to help out others needs on their behalf.
Also, I would prefer to do something rather than just take donations. As I said, every little bit helps and I do have some skills that I can apply that are of value.
I sell books, CD's, DVD's and toys on Amazon – my site is Books From A Rose and I have between 2400 and 2500 items currently up for sale. If you're looking for something, please take a moment and see if I have it. If I don't, I would also recommend some friends of mine that helped me get started in this enterprise, Pursel Books. They sell a quite a number of items on Amazon and eBay and may very well have what you need.
I am a writer. I spent almost 20 years in the local TV business, writing news, commercials and promotional spots. You can see some of my TV work at www.YouTube.com/user/lonerangerone. I also have written some plays over the years and am currently working on a couple of screenplays. I have done reviews for Title Trakk, and I was the Senior Editor for Television for Infuze Magazine, before we were closed down, working with novelist Robin Parrish and music producer & novelist Matt Bronlewee. I used to write songs back in the day – one was even performed as part of my church's worship service.
I shoot, produce and edit video. Okay, I am an okay video shooter… Great if I have a tripod. I am a great editor, though. Having learned from some of the best and learned how things were done, "back in the day…" I can find a way to make just about any video look the way you envision. I have shot VHS and BETA, DV, HD-DV, and 8mm. I have edited on everything from AVID Media Composer (my favorite) to Media 100, Pinnacle VideoCube, Apple Final Cut, Speed Razor, Boris FX, New Tek Video Toaster, Adobe After Effects and Adobe Premiere. When I worked for the Lee County Sheriff's Office, I also did Forensic Video Processing and was a member of Law Enforcement Video Association (LEVA).
I design, build and maintain websites. While I am still exploring much of this field and I cannot do killer Flash opens and whatnot, I am pretty decent and very affordable. I use Adobe Photoshop, Dreamweaver and Fireworks. My work is available at www.StarlightstudioProductions.com, www.FASN.net, www.MartyWisher.com, www.UFTAFlorida.com, www.FamilyofGod.us, and this site, www.FinancialFreedomThroughFaith.org. I am familiar with WordPress themes, editing them and promoting them.
I am a pretty good actor and I am a partner with the production company Starlight Productions, we do celebrity impersonations, character work and Murder Mysteries. We just finished our first feature length film, "Light." I am also the sitting President of United Film & Television Artists (UFTA) a non-profit that helps filmmakers and actors with support and promoting our area as a film location.
My other company, 13/30 Productions, does media and business promotion. We provide newsletters, websites, press releases, social media marketing, etc., all to help small businesses get the word out about their product or service to their potential customers. I try to apply all of my skills as a designer, writer, promoter and video producer to help my clients get their message out at an affordable price. If you need a little more Internet-based solution, my girlfriend runs Small Business Development Group, specializing in Affordable Internet Marketing Solutions and Search Engine Optimization.
I am a pretty good speaker. I used to teach when I worked in Financial Services and I gave a few lectures/presentations on Financial Freedom for Christians. I have written and given a few sermons that I thought were pretty good. They are posted on this site: What Would Luther Say?, The Waiting is the Easy Part, and eternal sunshine for the Transformed mind.
I have not given up on my vision for a financial non-profit company that would help people in the same need I am in. That will come to pass one day. That was from God and it is often those he humbles that have the strongest commitments.
If there's any way I can help you or work I can do for you, please let me know. I am a hard worker and willing to do what it takes. I serve God and when I can man, and I do my very best.
I will update everyone when I return from Fort Lauderdale on April 1st.
If you feel led to make me an interest free loan or invest in one of my talents, you can contact me at email@example.com. If you feel like helping out the old fashioned way, my mailing address appears below also. If you do not feel led, that's really okay, I just ask that you pray for me, regardless. Thank you in advance, and may God bless you richly.
Paul A. Rose, Jr.
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Monaco is preparing for a royal wedding this weekend as Andrea Casiraghi, grandson of Princess Grace, prepares to marry his long-time love, Tatiana Santo Domingo, on Saturday.
Casiraghi, 29, is the son of Princess Caroline of Hanover and her second husband, Stefano Casiraghi, who was killed in a speedboat accident in 1990.
Now second in line to the throne of Monaco, Casiraghi also has a Canadian connection — he was a student at McGill University for a time. Casiraghi has previously been named one of People magazine's 50 most beautiful people and one of Forbes magazine's 20 hottest young royals.
His fiancée, also 29, is the New York-born daughter of the late Julio Mario Santo Domingo, a Colombian billionaire, and Vera Rechulski of Brazil. The couple welcomed their first child, a son named Sacha, earlier this year.
According to Britain's Daily Mail, the bride hosted a lavish pre-wedding celebration for her bridesmaids aboard a yacht. Santo Domingo is known for her love of fashion, having started her own fashion line and been included in Vanity Fair's 2010 best-dressed list, the Mail notes.
Hello Magazine reports that the wedding is expected to be low key, but will feature a noteworthy guest list. In addition to the Monegasque royal family, those likely to attend include a who's who of the international financial, fashion and social scenes.
"The striking brunette has been educated at the best schools in Paris, Geneva and New York. So legions of glamorous names are expected from the Big Apple, Milan, Switzerland, France and Latin America," says Hello.
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Weaving through traffic and bumping into other drivers can get anyone a DUI, but how about when that's the object?
David Warner got himself arrested for driving drunk in a demolition derby, which he won. The 36-year-old Kentuckian was competing in the Jessamine County Fair's derby, when cops got several complaints about his driving. Nicholasville police detained him and determined he was drunk.
Police waited until he event was over to check him, and said he was "staggering," and having trouble standing up. So they gave him a sobriety test and arrested him for DUI.
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"The young man has no future here as far as events," said County Fair President Jay Bruner. "He will not be allowed to participate in any event on these fairgrounds."
Warner told NEWSFIRST he was plenty sober, at least sober enough for a demolition derby. He did admit having a "a few beers "to loosen me up."
"I mean, I'm not denying I wasn't drinking by no means, but I was not drunk. I was under the limit," Warner said. "I'm not perfect, but this has gone too far, and I will fight it," he said.


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Do I start over seems to be running wild on Facebook. Folks are realizing that their files are out of control. I got that, been there done that. I understand the problem. My file has always been pretty well documented with Citations, as I have always used the Undocumented Report in Family Tree Maker. When I am looking at my screens, I try to make sure there is at least one citation for each fact. But that is just me.
My thought on the "start over" question was, I have spend 10 to 15 years working with this SAME family file. I have spend many, hours working with it. Do I want to through away those many hours of work?
But the Do I Start Over question has been on my mind. I spent a lot of time thinking about that question, but my answer is different, and it has paid off for me. I learned "my answer to that question" last year. My task was to move ALL of my source and citation information into the Template Feature of Family Tree Maker. I have blogged about that process many times.
How to attack the issue of an an out of control, messy, undocumented family file?
Let me say that over these past years, I have learned a lot about how to do family research. "GPS" wasn't part of my understanding until just a few years ago. How knew about Inferential Genealogy 10 years ago. Who knew the importance of a properly formed citation? I certainly didn't. My understanding of how to do research has changed and far more records are online, we have access to. I chose to work with what I have.
Make a plan.
There are many ways to go at this clean up process, You could do it my "line", by person, but I chose to do it starting with my Sources. That is, intentionally starting with my Sources, moving each of them into the Template format. In doing this, I actually accomplished 3 things.
1) All of my Citations, where the Source is in a Template, are in the Evidenced Explained format, which is my goal
2) In order to "fill in the blanks" of the Template, and complete the Citation, I had to go back to those sources, just to fill in the blanks
3) Picked up the data elements (Facts) that I missed the first or second "time around".
I worked on this and continue to work on this for the past 18 months. Not that I have a lot of Sources, but I took the time, had to re-do some of the work that I had done, but I have better information, more complete information in the Citation and about the people AND relationships within my file, just by looking at the Source.
When I started to look at my data from the Source, I did two things. Learned what the source is all about, why was it created, what was it's purpose. Just look at the Census Records over time. What was the purpose of that Census Record for each Census Year, What was being asked and WHY was it being asked. WHY did the 1940 Census Record have a question about where you were in 1935?
Understanding the Record was where I started, but the next step was, for me at least, What do I want to capture from that Record, any record. Sticking with the Census, do I want to capture if the family owned or rented? I chose not to track that. Was the person listed at being married in that Census Record. I chose to track that one. Just by relooking at the Census Record for that column, I then had a handle on, and could track, at a glance, when the person was married, when a spouse died, so know that I may have to look somewhere else.
A single female in 1910, not with the family in 1920, I might have to look for her, but being married in 1920, so my search strategy for her in 1920 would change.
By starting with the Record, Identifying what I want to capture, got me started. I started with the Census Records, mostly because they are at the top of my Source listing in the Source Workspace, I was able to understand that family make up over time. I made sure that I used the Head of Household and add the household members to that Citation. Making sure that I didn't have a number of the household members with their own Citations.
This gives me ONE Citation for that Household, with the Media file, LINKED to that Citation, and links from that citation to many Facts for that census year.
Here is a link to the work that I did for the 1940 Census.
So, if I have any question about an entry, I can go to the Source Workspace, and I have then 2 places where I can see the record itself. Either the Media Tab, or the Link to the record, if it came from Ancestry.com.
There were a number of times where I re-merged an Ancestry record because I had done the merge from a household member, but I wanted to be consistent, then cleaned up the entries associated with the "first" non-head of household, but I wanted to be consistent.
Looking that the Timeline feature for the person, you help me identify what information I might be missing or to help understand what happened to a family. The best example was a family lived in one place for a number of years, but between two census years, they moved. Looking at the Time Line, I noticed the move. But WHY did they move. Looking at the Head of Household's timeline, with the Family Included, didn't help much. BUT when I looked at his Spouse, with the family timeline, I realized that HER father had died, just before they moved. Looking a little closer, I realized that they have been living with the "in-laws" in the previous census. So, it appears that the "father-in-laws" death caused the family to move.
Am I done, no. Do I add new information, absolutely. I follow those shaky leaves, but I am spending more time understanding what I am looking at (the source) before I enter the data into my file.
My Citations are far better. I have moved some of the details that I might have in my citation into the Fact Notes or Citation Notes. Moving source information that was in the Person Notes, into Fact Notes or Citation Notes. Also taking advantage of Research Notes, AND adding to my ToDo list. Many of these features didn't exist when I started this file, way back when.
Bottom line here, for me at least, I have learned much over these years, AND Family Tree Maker has many more tools, built in, that I can take advantage of that didn't exist earlier.
Oh, if the plan that you start with doesn't work for you, look at your plan again. So far, my "clean up plan" has worked. That is move ALL of my sources into the Template feature is helping me clean up my file.
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