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ARU announces changes to board
Australian Rugby Union has announced three current Board Directors have volunteered to resign or retire from the Board over the next five months.
The changes follow the approval of the new Australian Rugby Constitution in late 2012.
At yesterday's Board meeting, the current Australian CEO of Savill's and former Wallaby captain and Australian Rugby President, Paul McLean MBE, has been appointed to the Board, replacing George Gregan AM.
John Mumm has announced he will retire at the October Board meeting and General Peter Cosgrove AC MC has announced he will retire in December.
At today's meeting, the ARU Board also approved of the appointment of Cameron Clyne, the current Group Chief Executive Officer of NAB, effective 1 December 2013.
The ARU's Nominations Committee of the Board are currently searching for a third Director to join the Board before the end of the year.
ARU Chairman, Michael Hawker AM, welcomed the appointments of Mr McLean and Mr Clyne, and thanked the retiring Directors for their valuable contribution.
"Paul McLean will be a terrific addition to our team. He brings the combination of strong commercial credentials from working in senior roles with a global real estate company and a Rugby pedigree which includes extensive experience as a player and administrator," Mr Hawker said.
"We will also welcome Cameron Clyne's business acumen from the banking and professional services sector and leadership of Australia's top listed companies to the ARU at a time of change and opportunity for our game. He will take up the Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee."
Mr McLean's appointment is effective immediately, following George Gregan's resignation from the Board to pursue business interests and other roles in Rugby which he would have been unable to undertake as a Board Director.
Mr Gregan was originally appointed as the Rugby Union Players' Association representative on the Board and provided the Board with great knowledge of Rugby and a perspective of recent professional players. He has served as a Board member since April 2012.
Mr Mumm has been a Board member since October 2007 and is the current Chair of the Human Resources sub-committee and is a member of the Audit & Risk sub-committee. He was appointed as an Independent Director nominee of the NSW Rugby Union, and has been a very active and diligent Board Director, with strong people management and Board governance experience.
General Cosgrove has been a Board member for nearly six years split across two separate terms. He has been the Chair of the Board Governance sub-committee, which successfully oversaw the introduction of the new Australian Rugby Union Constitution and has provided reliable service to Rugby in his time as a Board member.
"On behalf of the Board, I would like to acknowledge the significant contribution that George, John and Peter have made to the game in their capacity as Board members. We look forward to their continued contribution to the game outside the Boardroom," Mr Hawker said.
The changes announced today follow the appointment of a new ARU CEO, Bill Pulver, earlier this year and the appointment of two new Board Directors in 2012 including Australian Rugby's first female Board member, Ann Sherry AO, and its first Western Australian Board Director, Geoffrey Stooke OAM.
Paul McLean MBE
· Former Wallaby and Queensland captain (made Test debut against the All Blacks in 1974).
· Inducted into the Wallaby Hall of Fame in 2011.
· President of Queensland Rugby Union from 1999-2005.
· President of Australian Rugby Union from 2005-2009.
· Member of the IRB's Executive Committee from 2007-2009.
· Joined global real estate company Savillls in 1990; appointed Executive Chairman of Savills Australia in July 2006; appointed Chief Executive, Australia and New Zealand in January 2009 which also included the role of Managing Director of Queensland from January 2013.
Cameron Clyne
· Managing Director and Group Chief Executive Officer at NAB since January 2009.
· Joined NAB in 2004 following more than 12 years with PricewaterhouseCoopers, leading the Financial Services Industry practice in Asia Pacific.
· Selected as one of 245 people globally as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum to address global challenges including health, education and the environment.
· Represented Victoria in Rugby against the All Blacks and Springboks.
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December 24, 2010
Dear CODEPINKer,
Happy holidays to you and your local activist community and family! In this email you'll find a review of our CODEPINK actions over the past four months. You can also read our year-in-review online. And you can download the full 2010 Roseroots Reports here.
Accountability for war criminals, Art on war and peace and Alliance-building were the 3 A's for CODEPINK in Fall/Winter 2010. Developments in this period included the Wikileaks release of a huge number of documents on the Iraq War; the One Nation Working Together rally in DC; the midterm election campaigns; the escalating US/NATO war in Afghanistan; Bush's book release; and the increasingly influential Boycott Divestments Sanctions (BDS) campaign for justice for Palestinians. Here's an overview of our active autumn:
We spoke up for civil liberties and countered Islamophobia during the threats to burn copies of the Qur'an in Florida and issues surrounding the building of an Islamic center in downtown NYC. Gainesville, FL CODEPINK joined with the local Muslim community to organize a Read a Qur'an Day and to serve dinner to the homeless. Campus CODEPINK at the University of Florida has been educating themselves and others about Islam. Their faculty advisor is a professor of Islamic Studies, and all of them have taken an Introduction to Islam course. They are also raising $12,000 to build a girl's school in Afghanistan and approached their mayor Craig Lowe about creating a sister city with a town in Afghanistan. Gainesville PINK coordinator Jacque (at right in photo with Cindy Sheehan) continues to coordinate the Peace Ribbon, composed of over 300 panels that pay tribute to the soldiers and civilians victims of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The display has travelled throughout the United States, and is currently being shown in towns across Arizona, another focal point of racism.
Local groups in 16 towns and cities from Sun City, AZ to Daytona Beach, FL -- continued to stand in weekly or monthly vigils. Two bridges, the world-famous Golden Gate Bridge over San Francisco Bay, and the small Margaret Chase Smith Bridge in Skowhegan, Maine were beautiful settings for our pink messaging. To see the complete list, click here.
Around the country, CODEPINK groups and individuals geared up for the One Nation Working Together Rally in DC with conference calls, regional meetings, and making plans to catch a peace train-bus-plane. We joined in a large coalition of other peace and justice groups to form the Peace Table and to push for antiwar, pro-peace messaging before and during the event.
Bradley Manning: With our allies Courage to Resist, IVAW and others, CODEPINK stood in support for the young Army intelligence analyst accused of leaking a video of a US attack on Iraqi civilians, and 10,000s of military reports on incidents of warfare in Afghanistan. See here and here for specifics and photos.
This month marked CODEPINK's 8th anniversary as one of the most high-profile peace organizations in the US. We are grateful to those who started our creative and ever-evolving organization, and all who have joined along the way!
On October 2, One Nation Working Together Rally drew dozens of codepinkers from several states. We popped open our pink umbrellas spelling out Bring Our War $$ Home (BOW$H) on the steps of the National Archives; stepped out in a peace feeder march from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial; and staffed a very busy table where many women came to express their love and support. We proudly wore our new BOW$H t-shirts and walked through the huge crowd with our peace messages. Singer-actor-activist Harry Belafonte gave a rousing antiwar, pro-justice speech and Medea was interviewed on Free Speech TV, wearing the BOW$H t-shirt.
The following day, 16 activists from around the country attended a training on the new BOW$H campaign; trainers included Ann Wright, Maine organizers Lisa Savage and Mark Roman, Rae Abileah and Janet Weil. The training was followed by an action bringing our pink BOW$H umbrellas and choreographed chants to the popular Eastern Market area of DC thanks to prop master Tighe and dance director Rae!
During the first week of October Medea released her hip-hop debut with Head-Roc, Blackwater Makes a Killing out of Killing, shortly after she was arrested for paying a visit to Eric Prince's home in Virginia. She was later acquitted of the charges. The terrible ninth anniversary of US bombing of Afghanistan was marked by a protest in DC; see video of a mock drone attack, the signature weapon of this escalating war, and photos here.
The following weekend (October 7 -10), during CODEPINK Women for Peace's first-ever Southeast Planning and Training Retreat in Tennessee, about 25 women from TN, AL, GA, DC, CA, and Austria gathered on The Farm for a weekend of workshops, rejuvenation in nature, sisterhood, and song. On October 10 we held a 350.org Work Party for Climate Solutions action, planting trees and visiting the newly installed solar panels at The Farm, located about 1.5 hours from Nashville.
Pink goes great with green! CODEPINK DC and around the country joined our environmental allies at 350.org events in DC on 10/10/10, including a rally directly across from the White House. For an inspiring video of this global event, click here.
??Berkeley Says No to Torture Week! The week of Oct 10 16, a coalition of groups organized by Cynthia Papermaster, Golden Gate local group coordinator, presented a series of events. (Torture) has not ended with Obama coming into office, Papermaster said.
we've chosen to hold many events on or around campus as we want to give Cal students an opportunity to express their outrage as the lack of accountability for torture carried out in our name. More here...
Iraq invasion justifier Condi Rice was called out in dramatic fashion in San Francisco and LA as she went on a book tour. This was a sort of warm-up for the all-out war criminals accountability actions that happened in November.
On Parent Teacher Conference night (October 28) in city high schools, CODEPINK NYC members handed out materials to parents and students which protect student's private information from military recruiters, focus on Non-Military Options for Life after High School and Truth in Recruitment. Cristina reported: Barbara Harris and I met with a young journalist from NYU who produced a piece on our counter-recruiting work."
Bay Area CODEPINK went to Game One of the World Series in SF! There was a lot of political messaging and flyering at the ballpark, as the San Francisco Giants met Bush's old team, the Texas Rangers, for the fall classic, and codepinkers brought our BOW$H banner and flyers to the mix. We were warmly received and often photographed by people in the huge, enthusiastic crowds.
At the end of the month, CODEPINKers attended Jon Stewart's Rally to Restore Sanity in DC, where they created a Mad Hatter PINK Tea Party to highlight how War is Insane. After CODEPINK was featured in a rather insulting way on the Daily Show, a month later Medea was featured talking about our accountability campaign in a scene designed to make activists look ridiculous (though Medea came out looking smart and savvy!). During the weekend of the rally, CODEPINK also protested the Chamber of Commerce and its blood-sucking CEO Thomas Donahue, asking him to stop playing tricks by treating right-wing candidates to millions of dollars of vicious and misleading attack ads.
Veterans Day is a sad, but important day in our pink calendar, a time to remember the troops and the need to end war. From Maine, state coordinator Lisa Savage reported: Many streams converged on Veterans Day when Space Gallery hosted Draw-a-thon II to Bring Our War $$ Home. 30+ artists + Buddhist monks and nuns leading the Maine Peace Walk with drums and chanting + Pink women + Vets for Peace + general public age 2 to around 90 being artists or subjects + Kenny Cole's amazing show "The Hellfire Story." See fun photos including Lisa in her monster pink wig and read more here.
CODEPINK's national organizer Rae joined with young Jews from Jewish Voice for Peace to disrupt Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu at the North American Jewish Federation conference in New Orleans. The action made news globally, especially in Israel and in Jewish and mainstream US outlets. Read more here.
Bush's book, Decision Points was hyped this month, with the Liar-in-Chief going on a book tour. In Miami on November 14, pinkers turned out in force to protest a Bush talk at a book fair. We think his book belongs in the Crime section of book stores and he belongs in court," said CODEPINK Cofounder, Jodie Evans, who participated. Codepinkers have also "greeted him" at book signings in Dallas, Milwaukee, and elsewhere.
Lots of people around the country have been relocating Bush's memoir to the crime, fantasy or other sections of their local bookstores in a photo contest. One man has photographed the book in appropriate sections of a grocery store! Winners of the contest received prizes including a pack of our War Criminals playing cards.??Another organizing opportunity has come from the opening the Bush LIE-brary in Dallas as CODEPINK stepped up to protest and satirize! Leslie Harris and other Texas pinks did a tremendous job of organizing a series of events.
Our online organizer, Jean Pockrus, reported this on Facebook response to protests at the future site of Bush's library: Yesterday I sent out several bulk messages with an update about the CodePink presence at the protests to members of our Fb groups, probably a few thousand in total, and I've been getting a lot of positive responses in my Fb inbox. A couple of examples: ?Paul S - November 17 at 10:23pm: thanks Jean- makes me proud to be Pink- keep up the great work; and ?Bethel S - November 17 at 5:54am: Thanks, Jean. I love Code Pink, and everything you all do.
In December we spoke up to say, Hands Off Wikileaks! and continue to support Bradley Manning, speaking out against the outrageous treatment he is experiencing in military prison. Find out more about our Wiki actions here. ??
Many local groups, from LA to NYC sung holiday carols about boycotting Ahava outside stores carrying the product. CODEPINK released an update on our Ahava Boycott, including info about the Russell Tribunal on Palestine that CODEPINKers Nancy K and Rae testified at in London in November.
Coming Up!
We look forward to being in action with you in the year ahead. We're getting ready of a day of action against torture and detainment at Guantanamo in January, and will have our work cut out for us when the new Congress begins next month also. We continue to track war criminals, and our accountability and no drones campaigns will grow in the year ahead. We'd love to hear your thoughts and ideas on what you are engaged in organizing and want to see CODEPINK get involved with in the peacemaking year ahead.
Help us keep making a bright splash for peace in 2011 by making a year-end donation to CODEPINK.
Peace and joy to you and yours,
Rae, Janet and the CODEPINK
PS: Let us know what you are planning by adding your event to our Action Calendar. After you have had your event, please post a report back Local Spotlight... and you may be featured in the next Roseroots Report!
Want to get a short essay published, or republish your letter to the editor? Please post to PinkTank. Your comments on posts there are also very welcome.
View or share your photos at CODEPINK's flickr webpage.
The Roseroots Report is a bimonthly bouquet of CODEPINK local actions and news. Why roseroots? Because we're cultivating a vibrant pink flowering garden with a hearty stemming history and strong roots, not just little "grassroots." The 1912 Lawrence textile workers on strike had it right when they said, "We Want Bread, But Roses Too!" Our pink hearts are moved by CODEPINK's approach to peacemaking: we aren't just about getting out a talking point or ensuring a basic right, we're about bringing our money back to our beloved resources - schools, health, parks, libraries and more, disarming our defenses, opening our minds to new narratives and possibilities, and creating beauty. www.codepink.org
CODEPINK is a women-initiated grassroots peace and social justice movement working to end U.S. funded wars and occupations, to challenge militarism globally, and to redirect our resources into health care, education, green jobs and other life-affirming activities. The name CODEPINK satirized the Bush Administration's color-coded, fear-mongering "security" alert system that has since been phased out. CODEPINK is a lively call for the people of the world to "wage peace." More...


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Deb's wonderful meme, which she goty from Mimi, prompted me to see what the fourth photo in my fourth folder in my photo folder might be, and I was very pleased to discover it was of Prince Afrasiab Assad Bakhtiary of Iran, because this photo comes with the very interesting story of how he courted my mother.
Prince Afrasiab Assad Bakhtiary ("Afool"), Teheran, Iran
Mom wrote about her relationship with the Prince in connection with a college class assignment in March of 1945, when she was 21. Here are excerpts:
When Afrasiab Assad Bakhtiary first pulled into New York Harbor [that would have been in 1943], he had a number of reasons to offer for coming to the United States from his home in Iran. I prefer to believe his first excuse – he wanted to marry me.
Even though I had invited Assad to visit me, I cannot say that I was actually expecting him to show up. After all, had I not, during the past eight years, invited scores of men from all over the world to drop in – any old time?
Of course, I had always asked my mother's permission, and there was really no excuse for her amazement. I can remember distinctly when she said:
"Afrasiab Assad – is he your Persian, dear? Of course, invite him anytime you want to. It's perfectly all right with me."
The whole thing started in a high school French class when we all wrote for correspondents in another country...
My mother's foreign correspondence grew from there. She began writing to some of her classmates' pen-pals as well as to her own. Then after America entered the War in 1941, and her soldier correspondents began showing her picture around, letters "started coming faster as the American Army spread. Africa, England, France, India, Hawaii, the postmarks on my mail listed countries all over the world." They all read the same: "I met a boy over here who knows you and he gave me your address. Your picture is very beautiful. Will you write to me?"
I'm guessing this is the photo she had sent people. And as you can see, she wasn't exactly blonde, although she looks more blonde in some other pictures.
Mom, of course, didn't yet know her Persian correspondent was a prince. Her narrative continues:
Afrasiab was the only correspondent I had who went beyond the limits of a polite friendship. I can't say I discouraged him, when I told him I had never visited Iran, but since I had such a charming friend there, I certainly intended to.
"Ah, my dear Barbara," we wrote. "I think of you all day long and all night long when I am awake, Your picture is hanging near my bed. Tell me, do you the same?"
That was a little too much. I told him frankly no. He wrote and invited me to Persia. "With your blonde mane and blue eyes, you will get along very well here," he said.
The Prince (Seated)
Next he said he was coming to America to see me. I told him I would be married by the time he got here and sent him an invitation to the wedding. One year later, he arrived, telling the Red Cross motor corps women who met him on Ellis Island that he wanted to go to Barbara Hafford's house in New Jersey.
Mother met him in New York a few days later to politely explain that I was in Oklahoma, with my husband. He didn't understand English quite as well as he spoke it, and insisted on going shopping with her. The day ended in a night club with my father grilling him with questions.
He lived in luxury at one of the New York hotels. Not being able to make anyone understand him, he had gone without food for two days until he called the Iran embassy.
"I ask where I can eat," he explained, "but they jut say 'huh'. In Persia we kill a man like that."
The crowds bothered him, too. He had to walk between my parents, because it frightened him when anyone bumped into him on the street. "In Persia we carry a knife for anyone who bumps into us and does not apologize."
When his story came out, my parents discovered that he was a prince, Prince of Bakhtiary, where his grandfather had been chief chief. His grandfather was the man who overthrew the old king and replaced him. His stories about that varied, but the Persian consul confirmed the gist what he said, warning that he did like to talk. He was never serious, and his sense of humor would make the Mona Lisa giggle.
The Prince's Grandfather, who Overthrew the Old King, With Entourage
I didn't meet Afool (as he preferred to be called) in person until September, 1944, the day before I was to return to school. It seemed as though we had known each other for all of the eight years we had corresponded. I ached from laughing before the day was over. We had lunch at the Waldorf, where Afool decided that we should talk in French for the rest of the day. It was easy – he didn't know any more words than I did.
Afool has two ambitions now. The first is to become an American citizen; the second, to marry an American girl. Any girl will do as long as she has blonde hair and blue eyes. She should be short too, for Afool comes just to my shoulder.
He had been the only one of my foreigners I never wanted to meet; now I shall probably know him all my life. He has not yet found the girl he will marry, but he is well on his way towards becoming a citizen. In October he entered basic Army training. After the war he hopes to live in New York where he will go into importing and exporting.
I still have a beautiful Persian tablecloth the Prince gave my mother; it is silk, with a lacy center in which Adam and Eve are embroidered with gold thread. (No, not gold gold; I mean that is the hue of the embroidery.)


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Congratulations, Stephenie Meyer. You made something worse than "Twilight."
Adapted by suddenly terrible writer/director Andrew Niccol ("The Truman Show," "In Time") from Meyer's supposedly adult novel, "The Host" attempts to construct another chaste love triangle around a bland, largely inactive young woman (Saoirse Ronan) and the two dudes (Max Irons, Jake Abel) who brood over her/battle to kiss her in the rain. Big problems with that: The guys, Jared (Irons) and Ian (Abel), have roughly the same personality, and the girl, Melanie (Ronan), has been partially overtaken by an alien with its own personality—to the point that Jared's fond of Melanie but Ian has eyes for Wanda, the name used when Melanie's body succumbs to the extraterrestrial personality.
Inside their shared head, Melanie and Wanda constantly argue about the guys. For example: "What the hell, Wanda?" Maybe these four should just double date?
If you're confused and/or shocked by the stupidity of this "Invasion of the Body Snatchers"-lite situation, you should be. The first installment of a planned trilogy, "The Host" exists in a future that's essentially indistinguishable from any other cinematic vision. This world contains numerous shiny objects and dull outfits, and life has increased in efficiency but decreased in individuality. That's because the alien race, which looks like floating digital sperm when separated from human bodies, has overtaken humanity and resulted in a planet at peace without any hunger or violence. You might say, "That could present an interesting dilemma: Is the Earth better off this way? Would some humans voluntarily submit to the aliens, who appear to do people no harm, because of what they've done to society?"
The humorless "The Host," however, addresses none of these complexities and at times seems like a result of a galactic misunderstanding. The resistance (which also includes William Hurt as Melanie's uncle) stands up to the "seekers" (led by Diane Kruger) without considering any gray area to the situation. The aliens have invented many powerful sprays for purposes such as healing and cleaning but can neither fly nor effectively defend themselves from a human's punch. So maybe these creatures, discernible in humans only because of their sharp blue eyes, aren't so talented after all. Regardless, get ready for some hot interspecies kissing!
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Sophomore Point Guard Making Veteran Moves For Sooners
Morgan Hook may be only a sophomore, but for the entire 2011-12 season she's been playing like a seasoned veteran, and her impact can be seen on the Oklahoma women's basketball team.
Hook, a Lowell native who starred at Rogers High School, is the Sooners' starting point guard. She started all 33 regular season games this season, averaging 11 points and 3.5 assists per contest.
She scored 13 with four assists Sunday night, helping lead Oklahoma to an 88-67 win over Michigan in the first round of the NCAA women's tournament.
"I think a lot of the credit goes to Morgan for getting us in what we're supposed to be in," said Oklahoma head coach Sherri Coale after the game. "Sometimes the point guard is that unsung hero, but she really handled the game well."
"I feel pretty good about it," Hook said about her level of comfort running the offense. "Coach told me before the game that great point guards help win the games, so I had that in my mind the whole time that I had to control the tempo and I thought I did a good job of that [Sunday]."
The school's all-time leader in scoring and assists, Hook was a three-time all-state selection at Rogers (2008-10) and had her no. 10 jersey retired. She was also a two-time Gatorade Arkansas Player of the Year (2009-10), and was named "Miss Basketball" by the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in 2010.
Oklahoma offered Hook an athletic scholarship before ever playing a varsity basketball game. Her Rogers jersey was hung in the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame Ring of Honor following her junior year.


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I'm getting ready for job interviews and I want to make sure I'm as prepared as possible. For example, what questions should I be ready to answer in virtually any interview, regardless of the job type?
Questioning Mark
Dear QM,
You're right that most job interviews come with a set of stock questions, and while many of these seem easy to answer, it's always best to know what you're in for before you head into an interview. Preparation is key in an interview even if it's for a simple question like "Why do you want to work for us?" Let's take a look at some of the common questions and the best way to answer them.
Tell Me a Little About Yourself.
This non-question is one of the most common job interview opening lines and you will probably hear it at every interview. "Tell me about your yourself," is essentially asking for a brief biography as it would apply to the job. The best way to answer this is to tailor your experiences and hobbies into your response.
For example, if you're applying as an electrical engineer somewhere, mention where you went to school, any tech related hobbies, and a brief bit about how you became interested in the skill in the first place. If you're new to the job market, use it as a means to talk about your schooling and how your background influenced the path you're on. Keep your answers short and don't drag it out longer than about a minute. You can even think of it in the same way as writing a snappy bio for yourself to keep it short and to the point.
Why Do You Want to Work for Us?
This is one of the tougher questions because it's couching a few different ideas inside it: they want to know how much you know about the company, why you think your skill set would work for the job, and what you think you can bring to the team.
The rule of thumb here is to come to the table prepared with some research about the company. The interviewer is fishing to make sure you know about the history, general practices, and its general style of office. Career site Monster.com recommends you answer the question directly with everything you know. For instance, "Based on the research I've done, you're company is great at (whatever it does) and I believe my background, history, and work ethics would be a good fit here." Photo by Sean O'Shaughnessy.
What Are Your Strengths and Weaknesses?
The two most dreaded questions in a job interview usually come back-to-back. "What are your strengths?" and "What are your weaknesses?" are difficult to answer. For strengths, pick a skill you have that applies directly the job and use it as your answer. For instance, if you're applying as a file clerk at a hospital, mention that you're very good with details and can keep track of a lot of things at once. Tailor your strength directly to the job description you applied for in the first place.
We've talked about how the question, "What is your greatest weakness?" is next to impossible to answer correctly, but as pointed out in the article, it's more about a situational weakness rather a personal one. Answer this question in direct relation to the job. For example, if you're applying for that same file clerk job, but you have trouble lifting something over 50 pounds, mention that. Basically, picture the question as a benefit for you, not a hindrance. It's a chance for you to test the waters of a job to make sure you can fit.
The other approach is to answer the question with an actual weakness and then elaborate on how you're working to correct it. Let's say you respond that you have trouble keeping a clean desk at work. Follow that with, "I've been using a few new methods for organization recently to keep my desk uncluttered and organized."
Yet another approach is to choose an irrelevant skill when asked about your weaknesses. It trivializes the interview process a bit, but it also makes it so you can answer a question honestly without hurting your chances by pointing out a flaw related to the job.
Can You Talk a Little About Your Work History?
This is one of the most straight-forward questions on the list. The interviewer is likely looking for similarities in your past jobs to the one you're applying for. Sandwiched inside this question might also be another one: "Why did you leave these jobs?"
Answer by running down the basics of your employment history as they apply to the job your interviewing for. Bring up any skills you learned at each of your jobs that directly reflect the bullet points in the original job posting you responded to.
As for the reason why you left, job hunting blog Simply Hired suggests being honest about lay offs, but shoe horn your strengths if you were fired or you left on your own terms. For instance, if you were fired, you could suggest that your skills weren't a good fit your previous job, but they're great for the job you're applying for. Of course, if you left for an entirely logical reason like a move, a nasty commute, or because you couldn't advance, mention that. Photo by Michael Nutt.
What Salary Are Your Looking For?
This question is only tricky if you don't prepare for it ahead of time. We've shown you how to calculate the average pay of a job before and it boils down to knowing the standard pay rate in the industry you're applying in and balancing that with your experience. This allows you to give a concrete and fair number.
Alternately, you can always just skirt the question. AOL Jobs suggests a simple line: "If I am your candidate of choice and, in turn, if this is the right opportunity for me, then I know the offer will be more than fair." The idea is that with that single line you're showing them that you know you have to prove yourself, you have other options, and you're looking for something above a fair price. It's not a bad way to pack a lot of info into a single line if you're not sure how to respond to the question.
Tell Me About a Problem You Solved at a Past Job
This one is hard to prepare for directly, but before you head into the interview, make sure you have a mental list of some accomplishments from past jobs. We've noted before the best way to think about responding to these types of questions is by applying the STAR method to formulating your answer:
1. The Situation or Task you were in
2. Action that you took
3. Result of that action
Be honest in your response, but still think about some examples before you head into the interview. You don't want to walk out of the interview only to remember that time you managed to save the company from collapse with a paperclip and a kitchen timer. Photo by Qfamilyk.
Do You Have Any Questions for Me?
The answer is always yes. This is your chance to get an inside look at the company to see if it truly is a place you want to work. Mashable put together a big list of questions you should (and shouldn't) ask. Your main goal is to avoid questions with negative connotations like, "How long do people typically stay in this position?" and instead ask questions that get you a better picture of the job itself. For example, "Could you describe your ideal candidate for this job?" can help you gather more information about the position than you did in the original posting.
Prepare yourself for the above questions and you'll do better on most job interviews. Develop a set of sound bites for each of these questions so you can answer them quickly and accurately without fumbling around in your memory. If they ask any questions you're uncomfortable with, we've shown you ways around those as well.
P.S. Do you have good responses to the most common interview questions? Share them below.


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In the summer of 1999, I was part of the reservist crew from Naval Air Station Whidbey in Washington state, on our annual cruise in the western Pacific, with detachment sites in Misawa, Japan, and Kadena Air Base in Okinawa. We'd been alternating with our other VP-69 "Fighting Totems" aircrew, standing alerts for days on end.
"Standing alert" entails a little time in the airplane—a Lockheed P-3C Orion—to preflight and spool up computers and radars, then a lot of time back at quarters for 24 hours of sleeping, watching movies, doing laundry, ordering pizza, and generally lying about, all in the name of maintaining crew integrity and defending the Republic.
One morning, while it was still dark and a few hours before the alert airplane was turned over to another crew, someone knocked on my door and announced: "Get up, we got paged." Along with a few equally groggy members of Combat Aircrew One, I looked out to see who was guilty of such bad grammar, but he had already left. I got dressed, laced up my flying boots, grabbed my bag, and tumbled down the stairs to join the others at the crew van.
Standard operating procedure requires us to be in the air within an hour of getting a call; we were taxiing our P-3C UDIII Orion to Runway 5R with 12 crew on board, plus a Navy captain from the tactical support center who was coming along for the ride. We'd been dispatched to locate and track a Chinese submarine that someone had gotten a whiff of.
A four-hour transit put us on station in the South China Sea to relieve a P-3 that had been in intermittent contact with the sub. That crew lost track of it just before we arrived.
Before they left, they expended the last of their sonobuoys, which use sound waves to identify objects underwater, for us to start on. We shut down an engine to save gas and feathered the propeller to reduce drag. Soon our sensor operator picked up the trail, and in no time had the sub boxed in. After the euphoria of contact calls, steep turns, high-speed dashes, rapid-firing strings of buoys, and reporting back to tactical support center once we had the sub cold, we settled into the tedium of anti-submarine warfare: hours and hours of circling, laying down buoys, and watching lines on a scope. It was hot and muggy at these latitudes, so I stripped my flightsuit down, tied it around my waist, and put my survival vest on over my soaked T-shirt. Outside my starboard aft cabin window lay a blanket of fog 200 feet thick.
As ordnanceman, my job was to keep the tactical coordinator supplied with sonobuoys armed with impulse cartridges and set to the depth, radio-frequency channel, and operational lifespan he would need when it was time to launch them from the three pressurized sonobuoy chutes in the cabin floor. We'd tracked and classified the sub—now we just had to stay in contact until we too were relieved. We were operating at 200 feet, our normal anti-sub altitude. Then, over the intercom system: "Flight, I think he may be coming to the surface.
" Jez, the radar operator, confirmed a contact, possibly a periscope. In short order we had the surfacing submarine just off the nose one mile away, invisible in the thick fog.
"Smut, get up here with the camera."
Most of us who fly naval aircraft acquire a nickname. They have a place in tactical aviation under combat conditions, but despite what you see in the movies, rarely are they flattering, cool, or macho. Early in my naval career (and for reasons I care not to discuss at this time) I had the misfortune of being nicknamed "Smut." It could have been far worse: They could have named me Ears, or Mr. Potato Head.


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LAS VEGAS – Verizon Communications is not in talks with Vodafone Group Plc about taking full ownership of their Verizon Wireless venture, despite market speculation this week that such a deal could happen, Verizon's top executive said.
"There's no discussions about it," Verizon Chief Executive Lowell McAdam told Reuters late on Tuesday at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
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Verizon, which owns 55 percent of the wireless venture, has long said that it would be interested in buying out Vodafone if the 45 percent owner would sell its stake.
Vodafone shares rose 2.6 percent on Tuesday and added almost 8 points to the FTSE 100 Index, the UK benchmark, after McAdam was quoted in a Dow Jones report saying that a deal could be feasible.
But McAdam said his comment did not mean that Verizon was any more likely now to be able to purchase Vodafone's 45 percent stake in Verizon Wireless than it was before.
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Both are people who are seeing bubbles in bonds with a burst nearing… Biderman has a good big picture, and Kumart, of TCW, is yet another expert on bonds who appears headed for the exits. Note that as these people see money flowing out of DEBT (bonds, etc) that they see it flowing into commodities.
The latest rumors are that the Fed is likely to continue purchasing GSE paper basically extending their March deadline as they know that removing that artificial support will result in much higher mortgage rates. In this way, the entire market is FALSE, it is underpinned and propped up. Remove the support and down it goes. Can they keep the support there forever and ever? I think not, eventually we will all pay for their greed and misinformed methodology.
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Harwinton residents warned: Don't plow snow into the road
Harwinton >> Residents beware: There are ordinances in place which, if violated during the winter months, could get you fined.
If, for example, a resident plows snow out of a driveway and into the road, it creates a safety hazard -- particularly while crews are trying to clear those roads themselves.
"People are leaving snow in the middle of the road," said John Fresdal, Harwinton's Highway Supervisor. "This could end up costing the town thousands of dollars over the winter in unnecessary clean up costs, while also causing accidents."
Ordinance number 97 states that "it is illegal to plow or throw snow from any premises onto any municipal highway, street or sidewalk of the town in a manner that causes inconvenience or hazard to public travel."
"People do not realize that they can be personally viable for property or damage that may occur," said First Selectman Mike Criss.
The town will now enforce the ordinance, since there have been numerous instances of violations, and fine each person $50 for each violation through the resident trooper.
Warning letters will be sent soon, making the residents aware of the violations and repercussions.
Criss said that it's inevitably a way to communicate ahead of time so people can avoid the potential fines.
Enforcement has doubled what it was last year, according to Criss, "The town continues to improve safety and its commitment to keep the residents safe."
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So what? I had my suspicions. I always did. But we're not like other people. We love each other in our own way, and we can have the life together that we want. You won't be the perfect husband? I can promise you I harboured no intention of being the perfect wife. I'll not be fixing your lamb all day, while you come home from the office, will I? I'll work. You'll work. And we'll have each other's company. We'll have each other's minds. Sounds like a better marriage than most. Because I care for you. And you care for me. And we understand one another more than anyone else ever has.
--The Imitation Game
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Handbook of Assessment and Treatment Planning for Psychological Disorders, 2/E
Author: David H. Barlow, Martin M. Antony
Format: ebook
Pages: 706
Publisher: Guilford Publications
Release Date: August 26, 2010
Widely regarded as a premier clinical reference, this book provides state-of-the-science tools for conducting effective assessments and using the results to plan and monitor evidence-based interventions. Leading authorities present proven approaches to screening and assessment for specific psychological problems. They offer practical guidance and case examples to help clinicians select the best measures for different populations and assessment purposes. Recommended instruments and procedures are described, including applications for managed care and primary care settings. Many of the chapters feature detailed tables that compare and contrast relevant measures.
New to This Edition
*Thoroughly updated with new instruments and research findings.
*Chapter on the role of assessment in evidence-based treatment.
*Additional disorder-specific chapter: impulse control disorders.
*Chapter explaining how to evaluate the reliability and validity of a measure.


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Principia College is located in Elsah Illinois and is a private four year college for Christian Scientists. The school was founded by Mary Kimball Morgan in 1898 and started as a home school for her two sons. As she took on more students, a school was formed. Higher education was also needed, so a high school was established, then a junior college in 1912 and it was in 1932 that the four year Principia College began. The campus was designed by Bernard Maybeck, who was recognized in 1951 as one of the ten greatest architects in America, and was designated as a National Historic Landmark because of Maybeck. Principia offers a sports program for men and women and is a NCAA Division III school.
Type of School: independent, private, 4-year, for Christian Scientists
Undergraduate: 31 areas of study, Bachelor of Arts degrees, Bachelor of Science degrees
Number of Undergraduates: 490
Mascot: Panthers
Sports: NCAA Division III; Baseball (M), Basketball (M,W), Cross Country (M,W), Football (M), Soccer (M,W), Swimming & Diving (M,W), Tennis (M,W), Track & Field (M,W), Volleyball (W)
Alumni: Robert Duvall, Val Kilmer, Candy Crowley, Ketti Frings, John H. Rousselot, Christopher Shays
Founded: 1898 by Mary Kimball Morgan
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Redlands Connection is a concoction of sports memories emanating from a city that once numbered less than 20,000 people. From the Super Bowl to the World Series, from the World Cup to golf's U.S. Open, plus NCAA Final Four connections, Tour de France cycling, major tennis, NBA and a little NHL, aquatics and quite a bit more, the sparkling little city that sits around halfway between Los Angeles and Palm Springs on Interstate 10 has its share of sports connections. – Obrey Brown
Patrick Johnson, who caught a pass in Super Bowl XX, nearly made a diving catch for a touchdown in that same game against the New York Giants.
Jim Weatherwax, who played in the fabled Ice Bowl game against Dallas, had a hand in helping Green Bay win its first two Super Bowl titles.
Brian Billick basked in the glow of his name joining names like Landry and Shula, Noll and Parcells, Walsh and Gibbs on the Lombardi Trophy. Curiously, eventual five-time Lombardi Trophy celebrant Bill Belichick would join that list after Billick.
Welcome to the Redlands Connection-Super Bowl edition. That trio of former Redlands football players – Johnson (1994 graduate), Weatherwax (1961) and Billick (1972) – has surfaced in America's greatest sporting spectacle.
It's easy to break it down, too. Johnson's speed. Weatherwax's strength. Billick's brains. It culminated with a spot in pro football immortality.
Johnson's path to the Super Bowl might have been the shortest. He graduated from Redlands in 1994, committed to the University of Oregon and was selected in the second round of the 1998 NFL draft by the Baltimore Ravens.
Weatherwax left Redlands after graduating in 1961, headed for Cal State Los Angeles before transferring to West Texas A&M in Canyon, Texas before Green Bay selected him in the 11th round of the 1965 draft.
Billick's path took him to the Air Force Academy, eventually transferring to Brigham Young University. He was drafted by the Dallas Cowboys, but his career wasn't on the playing field. He coached in Redlands, San Diego, Logan, Utah, and Palo Alto (Stanford) before surfacing as an assistant coach for Denny Green in Minnesota. By 1999, Billick was head coach of the Ravens.
It almost seems like pro football didn't exist before 1967. That was the year when the National Football League champion played the American Football League champion for professional football's world title. It was a first.
In the seven years since the AFL had been developed, the league held its own championship. The Houston Oilers, Dallas Texans (future Kansas City Chiefs), San Diego Chargers and Buffalo Bills had won AFL titles.
NFL titles during that same span mostly went to Green Bay (1961-62, '65) with the Philadelphia Eagles, Chicago Bears and the Cleveland Browns also winning pre-Super Bowl championships in those years.
By the 1966 season, with 1967 showcasing the first AFL-NFL title game, the Super Bowl era was born.
In fact, Super Bowl terminology had yet to become adopted. The game was billed simply as the AFL-NFL Championship Game.
Green Bay going up against Kansas City was quite a spectacle.
It was the AFL's best team going up against the NFL's best. Vince Lombardi's Packers playing Hank Stram's Chiefs.
Redlands had a representative right in the middle of that package. It was none other than Weatherwax, known to his friends back in Redlands as "Waxie."
Weatherwax, for his part, played plenty in the second half of both games. He was seen spelling starters Ron Kostelnik and Henry Jordan on a few plays in the first half of Super Bowl II.
That particular game had been set up by the famous Ice Bowl game of 1967. That NFL Championship showdown came down to Bart Starr's last-second quarterback sneak for a touchdown that beat the Dallas Cowboys on the "frozen tundra" of Green Bay.
That play hinged on the blocks of Packers' center Ken Bowman and guard Jerry Kramer, who blocked Cowboys' defensive tackle Jethro Pugh. That play, that win ultimately led the Packers into the second Super Bowl, this one against Oakland in Miami.
Pugh, incidentally, was picked in that 1966 NFL draft five players ahead of Weatherwax in the 11th round.
Green Bay, of course, won both championship games. The Packers, thus, set NFL history in virtual stone.
"That (second Super Bowl) was Lombardi's last game," said Weatherwax. "You should've heard the guys before the game, Kramer in particular. 'Let's win it for the old man.' That's what he was saying. Looking back, you couldn't do anything but think that was special."
It was that first Super Bowl, however, that proved itself worthy of attention.
There was bitterness between the two leagues. The AFL started in 1960. Hopes were to provide enough competition that the old NFL would be forced to allow AFL teams into the NFL hierarchy.
When the NFL's New York Giants signed Buffalo Bills' placekicker Pete Gogolak in 1965 – thus stealing the first player from the AFL – the war between the two leagues was on. Finally, after much negotiation, many tactics, various shenanigans, the two leagues would be consolidated into one. The AFL forced the NFL's hand.
They called it the AFL-NFL merger.
Some of those bitter feelings were on display in the Jan. 15, 1967 Super Bowl. Played at the Los Angeles Coliseum.
The quarterbacks: Bart Starr against Lenny Dawson.
The coaches: Lombardi against Stram.
The referees: Six overall, including three from the AFL and three from the NFL, including head referee Norm Schachter, who started his officiating career 26 years earlier when he started his teaching career in Redlands.
The networks: The AFL's NBC would be telecasting against the NFL's CBS. Jim Simpson was on the radio.
Tough talk: Part of that first Super Bowl was the chatter emanating from the mouth of Chiefs' defensive back Fred Williamson. Who could forget Williamson, who had a future in the movies?
Known as "The Hammer" for his vicious hits, Williamson boasted that his severe forearm shiver into the helmets of Packers' receivers would knock them from the game. It was part of the well-hyped buildup, perhaps part of that bitter feeling between the two leagues.
As the game played out, it was "The Hammer" who was carried from the Coliseum field.
Weatherwax, meanwhile, was playing behind the likes of Willie Davis and Bob Brown, Kostelnik and Jordan – Green Bay's legendary defensive linemen.
The Redlander gave a short chuckle as "The Hammer." Weatherwax said, "I can't really say what happened out there."
Translation: He knew what happened, all right.
Part of the legend: Starr's 37-yard TD pass to Max McGee, the first touchdown in Super Bowl history, was followed by Green Bay's kickoff to the Chiefs. When Packers' placekicker Don Chandler sent his kick in the direction of Kansas City's Mike Garrett, it was Weatherwax who drove the onetime college Heisman Trophy winner out of bounds.
Credited with a tackle. In the Super Bowl.
There were a few times that Weatherwax, part owner of restaurant in Orange County, later moving to Colorado, sat next to my desk. He'd shown up visiting old friends. Part of those visits included stopping by the Daily Facts. This dates back to the 1980s and 1990s. Sharing stories. Sharing memories. Showing off his championship jewelry. Great guy. Helpful. Willing to talk.
It was a huge part of a Redlands Connection.
Part 2 – About Super Bowl XXXV tomorrow.


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Automaticity, Affect, Control & Thought Lab
Welcome to the laboratory for the study of automaticity, affect, control and thought (the AACT Lab). The AACT Lab is an affective neuroscience laboratory committed to answering psychological questions about emotion, cognition, and their interaction.
The AACT lab is part of the Department of Psychology at the University of Denver.


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A package of cigarettes might not be the first place you'd think to look for gorgeous illustrations of scientific theory and high tech innovation, but in the years 1935-1938 Max Cigarettes released a set of trading cards called "The Age of Power and Wonder" that did just that. That title sums up the exuberance many felt about the rapid developments in science and manufacturing taking place: the commercial manufacturing of plastics and synthetics, the advancement of optics, and the unlimited possibility of the atom.
The Art Deco style prominent in the 1930s was a marriage of art and science that blended machine age imagery and materials with a beautiful aesthetic. In that vein, these cigarette cards combined mass production and art to bring science to a curious population. The collection features a total of 250 cards that illustrate scientific theory, science history, new innovation, and famous scientists. Each has an artistic rendering and an educational blurb on the back. The striking visuals and almost abstract representations—especially when it comes to the more theoretical concepts—are so classically cool that they wouldn't be out of place in a contemporary home.
Check out the entire 250-card collection at the New York Public Library.


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Why Don't You Just Leave?
We've been in our apartment now for three years. Some of the surprises we've dealt with are by no means new. Part of the disasters we shrug and laugh at, others put us on the verge of a nervous breakdown. The average friend or family member will ask us, "Why don't you just leave?" and we reply that it's easier said than done. We have a four year old son and need a two bedroom. Around here, that sort of luxury doesn't come cheap. Not to mention, coming up with a security deposit for a new place, moving costs, and the entire headache that goes with it. We're simply just not ready.
A few nights ago what seemed to be the last straw for us happened. There was about five inches of rain that fell in roughly a two hour time span. I kept checking the windows and every known crevasse for water. Something in me just knew it was going to come in.
"We're Going to Need a Bigger Boat."
The funny part is, we went through two massive hurricanes, and not a single drop of water entered our space. This time was different. This time the water neared so close to our windows I was anticipating them giving out and just letting the gigantic pools rush right in. Instead, much to our surprise, the damage was not noticed until the following day. My other half walked into our closet to hang something up and remarked to me that there was a sopping wet mark on our carpet in there. Slowly, that sopping wet stain became another, and another, until our closet was virtually filled with dirty water. It soaked the carpet and its padding underneath.
Our Saturday night was not spent laughing or watching a movie together. We didn't go out and I didn't get an early start on my work. Instead, we spent it ripping up the mildew and flood soaked carpet and padding that by now absolutely reeked.
Time Waits For No One
After an extremely rough week of other life headaches – this was the last thing we both needed. Rewind back to Saturday morning, when we first started speaking of doing all of this ripping up and cleaning. My neighbor upstairs also got a ton of water in her apartment. It's anybody's guess how. She's on the middle floor after all. Still, as she was getting her entire carpeting replaced – the workers were banging so hard with hammers that they knocked our kitchen clock off the wall. It landed in the sink and broke. Although this may seem like something so small, I was livid. I was so angry, my initial reaction was to lose it but, I realized my son was watching. Even though he's only four, he had such a look of concern on his face. He was concerned for his mother who was obviously a wreck. I just picked up our shattered clock that had much sentimental value, since it was the first little housewarming gift we bought ourselves – and then I let out a few tears.
Sometimes, you just need to melt down.
Moving On
Although our landlord has at least tried to show some care toward the situation, we remain worried that he is going to be cheap about replacing our small area of carpet. We may just end up following in our neighbor's footsteps and having it done ourselves while deducting the costs out of the rent.
In the long run, this has been a learning experience. This ordeal is nobody's fault. It was just Mother Nature being really pissed off. After all the other various issues we've had here, this was just one more stiff reminder – we need to move.


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Single status: Day 50
Yup, tugboat man's been gone since March 10.
I've almost forgotten what he looks like, and if he didn't make a brief satellite call once a week, I'd forget what his voice sounds like, too.
This is the transitional time for absentee spouses.
The initial missing of his constant presence is OVER, life goes on, and my own routine is firmly established.
It looks like he should be home in about two weeks or so, PROBABLY missing my birthday, but in time to go camping with son/DIL, which is my birthday present, so I don't mind being alone on my bday if it means he's for sure home for the celebration.
And just in time for Mother's Day, an Anna's Hummingbird built her nest right outside our kitchen window on the deck, on HUMMINGBIRD WIND CHIMES.
Isn't this the craziest thing?
Do you think my little hummingbird KNOWS where she is?
It's magical, watching her build her nest out of spider webs and feathers. I touched it and it feels like a handwoven sweater, soft but strong.
Can't stop taking pics; look at that beautiful color.
Isn't this amazing?
Mom doesn't mind when I walk back and forth or get up close and personal for pics, but she's so protective of her nest when another bird flies into her personal space.An egg!! There are supposed to be two; waiting for the next one!
Hummingbird sitting on hummingbird nest on hummingbird chimes.
Could anything be more adorable?
Who needs a dumb old tugboat man when this magic is inches away?


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Bastille Day Recipe Round Up
Happy Bastille Day, Serious Eaters! We're observing French Independence with a round up of some of our favorite French recipes for appetizers, sides, mains, desserts, and drinks. What better way to celebrate the French than with some of their delectable food? Bon appétit!
Beet Salad with Goat Cheese
Provençal White Bean Dip
Creamed Leeks
Saffron Lobster Tea Sandwiches
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2011 Ram Dakota Extended Cab - FROM $23,210
When it comes to towing, the 2011 Ram Dakota is still top dog among midsize pickups. Unfortunately, the competition trounces the Dakota when it comes to affordability and refinement.
What's New for 2011
The 2011 Ram Dakota gains a couple of important safety features, namely antilock brakes and side curtain airbags, on its list of standard features. The navigation system is no longer available and the off-road-oriented TRX4 model has been discontinued. Also, the truck is now known as the Ram Dakota rather than Dodge Dakota.
It used to be that only hard-working truck people drove pickups. Then came the era when all kinds of people drove pickups but rarely tackled a job more grueling than hauling home a few bags of mulch and a flat of petunias. If you count yourself among the first group and are inclined to turn up your nose at the second, we think you'll find the 2011 Ram Dakota is worth a look.
Of all the midsize pickups on the market, the Dakota comes closest to providing what hard-core truck people expect without going all the way with a more expensive full-size pickup. With a stout V8 engine and a towing capacity of 7,250 pounds (best in class), the Dakota can earn its keep. The only other midsize truck that provides V8 power is the Chevrolet Colorado (and its GMC Canyon twin), but it's woefully outmatched by the Dakota in every way.
For 2011, the Dakota gets antilock brakes as standard (at last) and side curtain airbags. Nevertheless, this Ram leaves much to be desired when it comes to refinement. Though it does have comfortable rear seats with handy under-seat storage bins, this is one pickup that's not designed to pamper its owner, from its trucklike ride to a no-nonsense interior filled with hard, cheap-looking plastics
If, by chance, you're looking for a light-duty pickup that can do double duty as a family car, you'd do well to consider more polished models like the Honda Ridgeline, Nissan Frontier and Toyota Tacoma. But if you're more interested in towing capacity, V8 grunt and a no-nonsense work truck, the Ram Dakota might still be worth a look.
Body Styles, Trim Levels, and Options
The 2011 Ram Dakota is a midsize pickup truck that's offered as either an extended cab or crew cab. Extended-cab models feature a 6.4-foot cargo bed, while crew cab models are fitted with a 5.3-foot bed. There are three trim levels available, including the base ST (extended cab only), the midrange Big Horn (called the Lone Star in Texas) and the top-of-the-line Laramie (crew cab only).
Standard features for the ST include 16-inch steel wheels, foglamps, a dual-position tailgate, air-conditioning, cloth upholstery, front bucket seats, a front center console, two rear folding seats (extended cab only), a tilt-only steering wheel and a four-speaker sound system with a CD stereo and an auxiliary audio jack.
The Big Horn adds 17-inch alloy wheels, body-colored bumpers and front fascia, a rear under-seat storage system (crew cab models only), keyless entry, full power accessories and cruise control (optional on ST). Big Horn options include full-swing rear doors (extended cab only), fold-away mirrors, a sliding rear window, utility bed rails, a bedliner, a power driver seat, remote ignition, a leather-wrapped steering wheel with audio controls and an upgraded six-speaker Alpine stereo with a six-CD changer and satellite radio.
The Laramie gets all the Big Horn's optional features plus 18-inch alloy wheels, chrome exterior accents, automatic headlights, a bedliner, heated front seats, leather upholstery and Bluetooth (optional on Big Horn/Lone Star). Larger outside heated mirrors and rear window defrosters are available on all Dakotas except for the ST.
The Big Horn and Laramie extended cabs can also be equipped with a front bench seat in place of the standard buckets. Optional on the Laramie are 18-inch alloy wheels.
Powertrains and Performance
Every 2011 Ram Dakota is powered by a standard 3.7-liter V6 engine that produces 210 horsepower and 235 pound-feet of torque. A four-speed automatic is the only transmission available with this engine. Rear-wheel drive is standard on all Dakotas, with four-wheel drive being available as an option. Fuel economy registers an EPA-estimated 15 mpg city/20 mpg highway and 17 mpg combined for rear-wheel-drive models, and 14/18/15 mpg for 4WD versions. When properly equipped, the maximum towing capacity of V6 models is 4,950 pounds.
Optional on all but the base ST is a 4.7-liter V8 that produces 302 hp and 329 lb-ft of torque. A five-speed automatic is standard. In performance testing, a 4WD Dakota Laramie crew cab with the V8 accelerated from zero to 60 mph in 7.6 seconds. Estimated fuel economy with the V8 and two-wheel drive is 14 mpg city/19 mpg highway and 16 mpg combined. Opting for 4WD drops these ratings to 14/18/15. When properly equipped, a V8 Dakota can tow up to 7,250 pounds.
This year the 2011 Ram Dakota gets four-wheel antilock brakes and side curtain airbags. In Edmunds brake testing, a 4WD Dakota Laramie crew cab came to a stop from 60 mph in 126 feet -- a good distance for a pickup.
The Dakota hasn't been rated using the government's new, more strenuous 2011 crash-testing procedure. Its 2010 ratings (which aren't necessarily comparable) were a perfect five stars for front and side protection with both cab styles, though the extended cab did not get a rear-side rating. In Insurance Institute for Highway Safety frontal-offset crash tests, the extended cab got a second-best "Acceptable" rating while the crew cab Dakota earned a top "Good" rating.
Interior Design and Special Features
If you're a hard-core truck buyer who doesn't necessarily want a stylish interior, you won't have a problem with the Dakota's cabin. Everyone else will probably flinch at the cheap plastics, low-quality switchgear and overall industrial feel. The Dakota's interior layout is actually pretty straightforward and perfectly functional.
The standard bucket seats are very comfortable, while the available power seats offer a wealth of adjustability. The crew cab's rear seat is split 60/40 for added flexibility, and provides a flat load surface with the bottom cushions raised. All crew cab models also feature a pair of handy boxes similar to milk crates, that fold up to keep loose items from rolling around the interior.
Driving Impressions
While the 2011 Ram Dakota's 3.7-liter V6 is fine for tooling around town, it feels noticeably less robust when driven back-to-back with V6-powered models from Nissan and Toyota. With that in mind, it should come as no surprise that we recommend the much gutsier 4.7-liter V8 engine here for anyone looking to carry heavy loads or tow a sizable trailer.
Ram engineers made an effort to improve the Dakota's harsh ride last year with new recalibrated suspension components, though we haven't yet had an opportunity to evaluate the results of those changes. Stopping distances -- already pretty impressive when we tested a 4WD Dakota a few years ago -- should be even better now with the addition of standard antilock brakes across the model lineup.
While Ram's decision to drop the rugged TRX4 model might disappoint serious off-road enthusiasts, most buyers will find the 4WD Dakota's 8 inches of ground clearance and two-speed transfer case more than adequate for most situations.


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By now you've heard of the tornado that hit Joplin, Mo., last night, killing at least 89 people in what's been called the most deadly U.S. tornado in 58 years. This morning, the rest of the world is reliving it through video made by its victims.
As the photo above taken by a Texas pastor shows, the force of the mile-wide twister defies description. The city's main hospital and business district took a direct hit; injured people overwhelmed the city's treatment center, and at least three schools were destroyed, including the high school — which was fortunate enough to hold its graduation ceremony Sunday at a nearby college.
Hailing from southwest Missouri, I'm shocked so many people perished despite a long tradition of preparing for tornadoes. Reports indicate residents had 20 minutes of warning, but even those that were able to take shelter may not have been able to escape from a twister this powerful.
This harrowing audio was taken by a man in a Fastrip convenience store, where customers had to take refuge in a walk-in freezer when the tornado hit, and captures the sheer terror of what Joplin residents went through. The local Red Cross chapter is accepting donations and other aid here.
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Believe it or not, you can actually buy this terrifying "replica" of the arm blade from BloodRayne. I say "replica" because it doesn't look much like the one from the series, not because it doesn't look like it could cut my face off.
We're not here for the blade itself, though. Sorry, fans of vampires killing Nazis. We're here for a user review on the blade from Amazon.
I have been a user of Ninja Forearm Machete Blade Full Tang Knife Swords (NFMBFTKS for short, pron 'nif-mib-fit-kis') for most of my career, and have some that are quite nice. As a professional mercenary and vendor of 'blood diamonds', 'blood coffee beans', 'blood Nike knock offs', and other 'conflict-zone' products, I find myself in need of a good NFMBFTKS regularly.
I was a bit disappointed for several different reasons when this product arrived at my secure compound.
First, this product is sold by a company called 'Martial Arts Land', which is the same name I gave to my home in the Democratic Republic of Congo. I wish the company had done more research into other entities who are also using that name before naming their company. The post office had quite a time, seeing as the shipping label read 'From: Martial Arts Land' and 'To: Martial Arts Land'. I hope they are not the people who have been getting my missing issues of 'Soldier of Fortune' magazine, as the 'help wanted' section is crucial to my ability to earn a living.
Second, when I saw the description of a 'hi-tech' strap in the product description, I was fully expecting something computerized and perhaps operated by hydraulic machinery that would maybe shoot spikes into the arm if someone besides the owner attempted to use it. Imagine my disappointment when it was shipped to Martial Arts Land (my secure compound in DRC, not the original shipping company, see how confusing this is getting?) with a simple Velcro strap. There is no failsafe in the weapon as-shipped to prevent an enemy skilled in the use of ninja weapons from taking this particular NFMBFTKS from you and using it against you.
Thirdly, I did not find the handle to be particularly ergonomic. After using this product as intended for approximately 8 hours a day, I have developed 'repetitive ninjitsu stress disorder' in my rotator cuff caused, I believe at least in part, to the lack of adequate wrist support. I saw an occupational health ninja who agreed with my assessment and suggested I spend hours on end standing under an icy water fall in the middle of the woods in the dead of winter doing ninja poses to help it heal.
All in all, I can see myself using this as a back up ninja forearm machete blade full tang knife sword day-to-day, or maybe on light trips to the grocery store or library, but I will not be replacing my primary ninja forearm machete blade full tang knife sword any time soon.
Powerful Ninja Weapon
Machete Blade
Full Tang Knife Sword
Velcro strap not hi-tech
Lack of good ergonomics
Company name 'Martial Arts Land' is a problem, as I as my home address is also 'Martial Arts Land'
Those NFMBFTKS customers are a discerning lot!
Blood Rayne Arm Blade W/ Sheath & Adjustable Handle


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Academy for the Arts to perform Nutcracker at the Mann
Some of the most talented students in the area will be on the big stage at the Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Hall in Fort Myers on Thursday as the North Fort Myers Academy for the Arts invites members of the community to enjoy their production of Tchaikovsky's two-act ballet, The Nutcracker.
The performance will start with a preshow at 6:30 p.m., with the actual ballet beginning at 7:30 on Thursday.
Now in the eighth year of production – and the fourth at the Mann – The Nutcracker is a multi-faceted arts educational experience for students of all ages and arts disciplines at NFMAA.
Nearly a third of the student body will take part in the annual performance, according to Dr. Doug Santini, NFMAA principal and the man who will play Uncle Drosselmeyer in the ballet.
"There are more than 350 kids in it from the school and it's professionally done," Santini said. "We are an arts academy so you expect them to be talented. But we'll have a great show and it usually sells out."
Students from across the entire student body will take part in the annual production and will be honored to have the community come out to experience a holiday classic while supporting the arts programs of NFMAA.
The preshow will showcase performances by the chorus and string section. The intermission will feature another choral group.
Dress rehearsals took place last week.
Before going to the Mann, the students will perform the ballet twice in front of the student body as well as other classes from other schools on Monday.
The students will do a run-through on Thursday afternoon before the show so they can be acclimated to the different stage, Santini said. Dinner will be provided to the participants before the show.
The Nutcracker has enjoyed enormous popularity for more than 40 years and is performed by countless ballet companies, primarily during the Christmas season.
"It's a wonderful story, especially for families and kids," Santini said. "It's a great event for the community and the quality is very high."
Tickets range in price ($10, $15, $20, $25) and are available from the Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Hall Box Office, online at www.bbmannpah.com or by calling 481-4849.
Proceeds from this production will support ongoing and future arts education programs at the NFMAA.
The Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Hall is at 8099 College Parkway, Fort Myers.


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Author P.W. Creighton (Nightfall) and I will be judges of the writing contest portion for this cool Blogiversary party on Haunt Jaunts blog this Friday, Saturday and Sunday! Come have fun, there'll be goodies, and more. Plus submit a writing piece: open to two categories: fiction (any genre) and travel. There will be a $5 entry fee, with all entry fees being donated to the Lymphoma Research Foundation. There will be two winners, one in each category (fiction and travel). They will each receive a $25 gift Amazon.com card, and the winning pieces will be published on Haunt Jaunts.
There's also a calendar: Are you a jaunter who likes taking pictures of haunted places? Want to share your images with others and have it seen in a calendar?
Haunt Jaunts is going to look for pictures to include in its first calendar.
These calendars will be for sale, however $5 from each one will be donated to the Lymphoma Research Foundation, a cause near and dear to Haunt Jaunts' heart. (Literally. H. J. had a tumor grow just over my heart. Thanks to research strides made in part by organizations like the LRF, it's why she's still here today.)
If you're photo is chosen, you'll receive a copy of the calendar
(which at this point is looking to be a $15 value).
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Japan has to stop capturing and killing whales under its whaling program in the Antarctic, called JARPA II, the International Court of Justice has said.
In a judgment issued in The Hague in the Netherlands today, the U.N. court has ordered Japan to revoke existing permits to catch whales for scientific purposes and to stop granting such permits in the future. The ruling is a victory for Australia, which filed court proceedings against Japan's whaling in 2010, arguing that it breached international obligations.
In 1982, the International Whaling Commission (IWC) adopted a moratorium on commercial whaling, allowing the taking and killing of whales for research purposes only. Scientific catch limits are set by each country on a yearly basis, submitted to a review by IWC's scientific committee.
Antiwhaling critics say that Japanese whale research is a fig leaf for commercial hunting, as whale meat can be sold to cover research costs. Japan counters that its whale meat sale is not profitable and that it needs to take and kill whales to study the animals and their potential as a food source.
The court said that JARPA II activities can "broadly be characterized as scientific research," but found several "shortcomings" with the program's details—saying in particular that Japan had not paid enough attention to nonlethal methods. "The evidence does not establish that the programme's design and implementation are reasonable in relation to achieving its stated objectives," the court said. Therefore, "the special permits granted by Japan for the killing, taking and treating of whales in connection with JARPA II are not 'for purposes of scientific research,' " the judges added.
By 12 votes to four, the court ruled that Japan had breached several obligations under the Schedule to the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling.
Masayuki Komatsu, a former Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries official now at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Tokyo, says that whales are abundant, and therefore the moratorium and whaling restrictions are invalid in the first place. "It would not be appropriate to comply with a judgment based on illegal articles," Komatsu tells ScienceInsider.
The judgment is binding and without appeal, however, and Japan has already issued a statement saying that it will abide by the ruling, even though it is "disappointed." (The statement was posted on Twitter by Patrick Ramage, director of the Global Whale Program of the International Fund for Animal Welfare; a Japanese foreign affairs official in The Hague confirmed its authenticity.)
With reporting by Dennis Normile in Tokyo.


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NCAA Football 11 (PlayStation 3) review
"Despite its many improvements, NCAA Football wont be able to overtake the Madden franchise anytime soon. But as far as alternatives go whether based in the college division or some fictional realm where late hits are encouraged you cant do much better than NCAA Football 11."
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The US government is closed for business right now. And that's a shame, mainly because some government agencies have rad rides that are going unused. Which has the raddest?
For us, it doesn't get any better than the Ford F150 Raptors used by the US Customs and Border Control.
What better way to chase people crossing your border than taking a couple tons of American truck muscle dune hopping? None. There is none better way.
What do you say? What part of the US Government has the best vehicles?
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ANAHEIM, Calif., Feb. 19 (UPI) -- Jonas Hiller stopped 25-of-27 shots and Corey Perry netted the eventual game-winning goal Monday in the Anaheim Ducks' 3-2 victory over Columbus.
Hiller, making his first start in nearly a month after battling a lower-body injury, was especially sharp in the first period went he turned away 11 shots as the Pacific Division-leading Ducks racked up their fifth straight win.
Perry's power-play tally 8:44 into the third period gave Anaheim a 3-1 lead while Ryan Getzlaf contributed a goal and an assist in the win.
Peter Holland also found the net for the Ducks.
Vinny Prospal and Derick Brassard scored as the Blue Jackets dropped their fifth in six games.
Sergei Bobrovsky made 26 saves for Columbus.


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Struggling Suns routed by Timberwolves
PHOENIX (AP) -- Andrei Kirilenko scored 20 points and the Minnesota Timberwolves routed the slumping Phoenix Suns 117-86 on Friday night to snap a nine-game road losing streak.
Reserve Dante Cunningham added 18 points, Greg Stiemsma had 14 and four others were in double digits for the Timberwolves, who won for the fourth time in 16 games.
Minnesota set season highs for total points, first-half points (67) and second-quarter points (35) in snapping a 13-game road losing streak against Western Conference opponents.
Luis Scola had 17 points and 12 rebounds, and Goran Dragic added 13 points and 10 assists for the Suns, who have lost six of seven and eight of their past 10.
Phoenix's last three losses have come by an average of 21 points.
The Suns came into the game with only one true center on the roster, little-used Hamid Haddadi, who has averaged 18 minutes since starter Marcin Gortat went out on March 6 with a Lisfranc strain in his right foot.
Jermaine O'Neal, Gortat's regular backup, was out with a combination of a strained left calf muscle sustained in the Suns' loss to Washington on Wednesday and a case of the flu.
Phoenix used the 6-foot-9 Scola as its nominal center, and Kirilenko and Nikola Pekovic wasted little time taking advantage of the Suns' smaller lineup. Kirilenko scored five points to spark an 18-4 run as Minnesota extended an 11-10 lead to 29-14 with 1:24 left in the first quarter.
Overall, the two scored a combined 22 points on 9-of-13 shooting in the first half as Minnesota opened a 67-39 lead at the break.
Cunningham took over the Timberwolves' offensive load in the third quarter, scoring 12 of his points on 5-of-5 shooting as Minnesota took a 95-69 lead after three.
NOTES: With the loss, the Suns officially have been relegated to the lottery for the third consecutive year. . The Suns are 2-7 without Gortat. . Phoenix will finish with at least its ninth-worst record in the team's 43 seasons and needs to win seven of its final 12 to avoid the team's fifth sub-30 win season. . The Timberwolves' 95 points through three quarters were more than Minnesota has scored in 31 full games this season. . Phoenix also without G Jared Dudley, who also was out with the flu.


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Historic Banning Mills
Between the tree house lodging, the zip lines, and the massive climbing wall, Historic Banning Mills Resort seems designed to keep travelers from ever touching the ground. This 1,200-acre retreat and conservation center 50 miles west of Atlanta sits in a hidden gorge along the Snake Creek at the site of a former textile and paper mill that operated during the Civil War. Mike and Donna Holder bought the overgrown property in the late 1990s and, over the years, have developed it into a sprawling outdoor adventure complex.
Flying along the world's longest continuous zip-line course, over some 40,000 linear feet of cable, is a highlight for most visitors, who can hit speeds of up to 60 mph as they pass over the Snake Creek Gorge and a dense hardwood forest. Altitude lovers can also scale a 140-foot climbing wall and trek along a 600-foot-long Sky Bridge (pictured) that provides sweeping views of the roiling water below.
When visitors are ready to return to earth, a new 7-mile network of mountain biking and hiking trails winds along old town roads and across bridges. Several outfitters, including Georgia Trail Outfitters, offer trips to a number of local rivers, including the Class III Flint and Cartecay Rivers, as well as Class IV Sweetwater Creek, sections of which run through beautiful, 2,549-acre Sweetwater Creek State Park, with nine miles of hiking trails and a 215-acre lake where you can hook bass and catfish.
Between adventures, refuel at the main lodge, which serves a big country breakfast and a variety of hearty repasts, including pork chops, red grouper, and beef filet. At night, play Tarzan in one of the new tree house accommodations. The two-person suites, accessible by rope bridge, are made of heart pine logs, and feature king beds, jetted tubs, and back decks with panoramic forest views.
More information: Historic Banning Mills Resort cabins go for $189 a night, while rooms in the main lodge cost as little as $99 a night.
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