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My passion for photography started when I was just 10 years old, taking photos of my family and sometimes without even loading the film. I just loved having a camera in my hand; I thought it was so cool. It was always my passion and I hoped that one day I could actually be a "professional" photographer.
I can remember back when I was a child, my parent's had a friend who was a professional photographer (I think he bought me my first camera case). I was so excited to be around him, he had such a great job.
I started Creative Focus Photography more than 25 years ago using that same passion for photography, and a goal to exceed the expectations of all my clients. During the years I have had the pleasure and privilege to photograph presidents, entertainers, musicians, V.I.P.s and many other great folks and families. Do you know my passion still continues to grow every day?
My business has evolved into four distinct fields of photography - Corporate, Commercial, Portrait, and Wedding. Creative Focus has the expertise to provide the finest quality work in each area. Why? Because we care. Because we love what we do. Because we understand that each field is different and each has specific needs.
I know that brides and corporate planners need very different things. And I take that very seriously. It is important to me that you, as my client, feel comfortable and confident that your needs are being met (and exceeded) by my team and myself. Because of this, I put all of my photographers through a rigorous training process to ensure the quality of their work and their professionalism.
Being second best was-and is-never an option. I had to make my mark as leader. And I did. And I am still working every day to make sure that I stay a leader. It is important to me that when I speak with potential clients, I can say without hesitation that Creative Focus is the best at what we do. And I say this with humility. We aspire every day to be the best that we can be, not only for ourselves, but also for our clients.
I know that my work is not just taking a photograph, but capturing the spirit of a moment. Whether it's the tender moments of an excited bride as she prepares to walk down the aisle or the eminence of a corporate CEO as he delivers an impassioned message at the company's annual conference, I realize the significance and impact of my work. And again, I take it seriously.
Creative Focus Photography strives to continually set the pace for excellence in photography. It isn't a conscious effort; it is just what we do. Providing top quality work and going the extra mile for clients is second nature. It is what sets us apart. It is what keeps us going.
It has been more than two decades and I am honored to say that Creative Focus is stronger than ever. The passion starts at the top and permeates the entire organization. My love for photography continues to grow and that, at the end of the day, is why I do what I do. I hope to be able to share it with you one day.


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Looking to treat Dad this weekend? Here are some venues in Newport-Mesa offering Father's Day specials:
Top of the Hill
The Resort at Pelican Hill hosts a Father's Day brunch at two restaurants: a three-course a la carte brunch from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Pelican Grill and an all-day buffet from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Coliseum Pool & Grill. Cost for the Pelican Grill is $14 and above per entree; the Coliseum buffet is $58 per adult and $29 per child under age 12.
The Pelican Grill also offers a plated brunch menu ($75 per adult) and a dinner menu ($34 to $60 per entree).
The resort, located at 22701 Pelican Hill Road South, Newport Beach, also offers golf, spa experiences and more on Father's Day. For more information or to make reservations, call (855) 467-6800 or visit http://www.pelicanhill.com.
Free drink for starters
Dad can have his first beer, cocktail or glass of wine free Sunday at the Bungalow Restaurant, 2441 E. Coast Hwy., Corona del Mar. The special dinner menu is available from 3 to 9 p.m. and costs $35 per person, with mesquite smoked baby back ribs, half BBQ chicken, mesquite grilled king salmon, grilled flat iron steak and mixed kabob as the entrees.
For more information, call (949) 673-6585 or visit http://www.thebungalowrestaurant.com.
Gift keeps on giving
Fleming's Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar at Fashion Island gives a double gift for dads this Sunday. Not only does the restaurant offer a three-course Father's Day brunch, but every father receives a $25 dining card for a future visit. The brunch, which costs $36.95 for adults and $17.95 for children under 12, is offered from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Fleming's is located at 455 Newport Center Drive, Newport Beach. For more information or reservations, call (949) 720-9633 or visit http://www.flemingssteakhouse.com.
Z'Tejas Southwestern Grill at South Coast Plaza offers a similar $25 bonus card for a future visit as long as the entire party purchases two entrees. (There is a one-card limit per table; the cards expire Aug. 31.) The restaurant is located at 3333 Bristol St., Costa Mesa and is open from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday. For more information or reservations, call (714) 979-7469.
Cap off this holiday
The first 50 dads who come to brunch — and then the first 50 who come to dinner — get a free logo cap Sunday at Muldoon's Irish Pub, which will offer a pair of special Father's Day menus heavy on traditional Irish foods. Brunch lasts from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. and costs $13 to $18 per item; dinner goes from 3 to 9 p.m. with an entree range of $9.95 to $28.
Muldoon's is at 202 Newport Center Drive, Newport Beach. For more information or reservations, call (949) 640-4110 or visit http://www.muldoonspub.com.
A Bloody good time
Charlie Palmer at Bloomingdale's South Coast Plaza hosts a Father's Day Bloody Mary brunch at 3333 Bristol St., Costa Mesa. Along with the two-course prix fixe menu, the restaurant offers "do-it-yourself" bottomless Bloody Marys. The meal, including drinks, is $37.50 per person and available from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.
An a la carte menu is also available. For more information or reservations, call (714) 352-2525 or visit http://www.charliepalmer.com.
A true pig out
Pizzeria Ortica hosts a Father's Day dinner at 650 Anton Blvd., Costa Mesa. Executive Chef Justin Miller serves a pork-centered menu including sausage, pork chops, pancetta, ham and more from 4 to 9 p.m. An a la carte menu is also available. Prices for the Father's Day specials range from $13 to $23.
For more information or reservations, call (714) 445-4900 or visit http://www.pizzeriaortica.com.

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ican4life necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 209 diseños de 23 diseñadores freelance.
ICAN Institute, Inc.
I am a motivational speaker and trainer. My company is known for creating powerful, presentations that inspire and empower people. I want my new logo to inspire and give hope while visually representing a feeling of power. I have a logo, I want to create a new look, but still want to have a little figure that feels as though it is reaching for or claiming it's power.
My market is mostly professional business women. I help people break through their limits both literally and emotionally. When I speak at live events, I always have people break through boards. I have a new program that is called The RutBusting Challenge that helps people bust through emotional blocks that prevent their success. I like bold colors, and strong strokes.
The logo must have a figure that looks like it is free! I want there to be a feeling of movement... (see my old design)
The name of my company is ICAN Institute, Inc.
I like Blues and Golds for the logo
I have just launched a new program (The RutBusting Challenge) - I will want the logo's to work together, although they do not need to be exactly the same, just need to compliment each other. My logo will eventually inspire other products, t-shirts, banners, business cards, stationary and web materials.
Please see my current logo - ICAN Institute, Inc.)
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Feeding on the nectar of Banksia flowers, Le Bons Bay, Banks Peninsula, Canterbury.The Bellbird is easily recognised by its melodious song and well known for it's dawn chorus
Tui feeding on harakeke flower nectar
Elaine Bay - Marlborough Sounds NZ
Blue Duck - Whio
West Coast NZ
New Zealand's endemic Blue Duck lives on fast-flowing mountain rivers & streams where they feed on insect larvae on the streams rocks.
Red-crowned Parakeets
These are often seen gliding through the forest at the township of Oban in Stewart Island.
Voted New Zealand Bird of the year 2010
Yellow-eyed Penguin
Otago coastline NZ
Pair Yellow-eyed Penguins
Mutual bonding session after being out at sea all day.
Love is in the air for these forest parrots - Ulva Island
Yellowhead survive exceptionally well in the predator free environment of Ulva Island. Endemic to southern New Zealand.
Voted New Zealand Bird of the Year 2013
Steward Island Robin
Ulva Island
Rock Wren - Otira Valley Arthur's Pass
Female Rock Wren
Otira Valley, Arthurs Pass
Black Stilt - Kaki
Kaki is critically endangered and one of New Zealand's rarest birds - Ashley River Canterbury
Black Stilt - Kaki
Mating behaviour - The male stilt dabbing the water as part of the mating ritual.
The world's rarest wading bird. They are critically endangered in New Zealand, with less than 150 of these stunning birds remaining in the wild.
New Zealand Scaup - male
Travis Wetlands Christchurch
NZ Scaup - female
Northbrook Wetlands Canterbury
Banded Dotterel - male Lake Tekapo
Banded Dotterel - female
In breeding plumage - West Coast NZ
Western Weka
Adult Weka, Gentle Annie - West Coast NZ
Western Weka feeding 1 of it's 3 chicks
Gentle Annie - West Coast NZ
Black-billed Gull
Unlike the Red-billed Gull, the Black-billed Gull is native to New Zealand and is critically endangered. They breed at our local Ashley River on the shingle islands upstream from the estuary.
Black-billed Gull - Tarapuka
This gull is eyeing up the next fish it's about to dive for - Ashley Estuary Canterbury. Black-billed Gull is native to New Zealand and is critically endangered. Some of them breed at our local Ashley River on the shingle islands upstream from the estuary.
Black-fronted Tern
Kairaki Beach, Canterbury NZ
The Wrybill is endemic to New Zealand. It's the only species of bird in the world with a bill that is bent sideways, always curved to the right.
Wrybill - juvenile Lake Ellesmere
Adult Spotted Shag in breeding plumage
Moeraki - Otago
Westland Petrel
Kiakoura New Zealand
New Zealand Wood Pigeon - Kereru
Feeding on wild cherries.
South Island Saddleback
Saddleback foraging on tree fern trunk at Ulva Island. The endemic species is most famous for being saved from extinction in 1964, when 36 birds were translocated from a rat-infested Big South Cape Island (off Stewart Island) to nearby big Kalmohu Islands. This is the first time that a rescue translocation had prevented a species from becoming extinct anywhere in the world.
Kea - Arthur's Pass NZ - Voted Bird of the year 2017
The world's only Alpine Parrot, living in the mountains of the Southern Alps in NZ. They are nationally endangered and sadly there numbers are declining through introduced pest species, predation of nest and human impact! They are very intelligent, cheeky, playful and friendly birds who love destroying any rubber they find on tourists vehicles!
Grey Warbler
Visiting our garden briefly and singing a beautiful song before leaving
Visiting our home Orchard
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Minimum of eighteen units in geography.
- Geog 290 (3 units)
- Geography seminars (2) (6 units). Selected from Geog239, Geog 279, Geog 282 and Geog 286.
- Geog 299 (6 units)
- Electives (15 units). 100 or 200 level courses in geography or related fields selected with advisor's approval.
The thesis, based on original research, is to be conducted under the direction of a thesis advisor. The thesis must be acceptable to and approved by the thesis committee consisting of the thesis advisor (committee chair), an additional member from the university graduate faculty, and a third member selected in consultation with the thesis advisor. In addition, the thesis must conform to the University standards of style and form.
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The power to settle financial complaints.
From 1 November 2009 money-transfer operators have needed to be regulated by the financial services regulator - and are automatically covered by the Financial Ombudsman Service.
This means that from this date, these businesses must have had in place in-house complaints-handling procedures that comply with the complaints-handling rules published by the regulator (previously the Financial Services Authority and currently the Financial Conduct Authority).
The ombudsman service has a range of information and support services about the official procedures money transfer businesses must follow if a consumer complains.
how can I get more information about the complaints-handling procedures and the ombudsman?
There is a wide range of information for businesses on this website including:
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As well as settling disputes, we help promote "complaints prevention". This involves working with businesses to identify and reduce problems that might otherwise lead to time-consuming complaints.
The free services we offer include:
We have organised and taken part in a number of initiatives, aimed specifically at money-transfer operators that came under the ombudsman from November 2009. These include:
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Channing Tatum is taking names in his upcoming action flick "White House Down," but off-screen he's talking about how he and wife Jenna Dewan Tatum hold things down at their house and the secret to a happy marriage.
"You have to want it," the 33-year-old says in Cosmopolitan's July issue. "Jenna's and my thing is checking in with each other all the time, like 'On a scale from 1 to 10, how much do you love me right now?' And you gotta be honest, and you've got to want an honest answer."
People's Sexiest Man Alive of 2012 met Dewan in 2006 when they appeared in the dance flick "Step Up." Tatum, who started his career as an exotic dancer, went on to step up his own career and happened to get a little beefcake movie called "Magic Mike" made about his life.
The Tatums tied the knot in March 2009 but have been together for nearly eight years. They're expecting their first baby together while living in London as Tatum shoots the Wachowskis sci-fi flick "Jupiter Ascending." And honesty seems to be the best policy for this pair.
"I told a friend to do that. He asked the question and it turned into a huge fight, and I'm like, that's kind of the point. Obviously, something needed to be fixed, he needed to be aware of it, and she needed to get it off her chest," he added.
Tatum also talked about how he felt about Oscar-winner Jennifer Lawrence, who schmoozed and won over the media during awards season.
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"I wouldn't mind being the male Jennifer Lawrence. I think she's incredibly cool," he said.
That's not to say Tatum himself doesn't come off "incredibly cool."
"It's a hard thing for me to wrap my mind around the C word: celebrity," he said. "Rock stars are celebrities, because they're larger than life. As an actor, you have to play the everyman and the everygirl. If you start treating people in the real world like assistants, that's not a good look."
He added that his friends keep him pretty grounded through good old-fashioned teasing.
"It's embarrassing to tell you how much my friends make fun of me. Seriously, when you have a doll made of your face, it's ridiculous how creative your friends can get … pictures, videos, little animated cartoons that they've made. And they're way, way not PG-13. So I get chopped down to size all the time."
Tatum stands tall as Capitol policeman John Cale in the action thriller "White House Down" with Jamie Foxx. The film hits theaters June 28, and though he may appear larger than life in character, he admits he's "a fat kid on the inside."
"I love food so much, and I fluctuate about 25 to 30 pounds between movies," he said. "I feel like I have to do a chess movie that requires very little movement at some point, just so I can eat pizza and play chess on the beach all day. And then eat more pizza and cheeseburgers and drink beer. That'd be amazing. I'd give anything for that. I gotta figure that movie out."
The full interview hits newsstands June 4.
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Quick stars as Kings blank Sharks in Game 5by Curtis Zupke
LOS ANGELES – Anze Kopitar was struggling to put the puck into the net. Slava Voynov was having issues defensively. The Los Angeles Kings looked ready to drop a game at home for the first time in this year's Stanley Cup Playoffs.
But a physical 60-minute effort in Game 5 of the Western Conference Semifinals turned those notions on their ear.
Kopitar broke out of his scoring slump with a late second-period goal and Voynov added a seeing-eye goal on point shot early in the third to propel the Kings to a 3-0 victory night against the San Jose Sharks on Thursday night. Jonathan Quick made 24 saves for his third shutout of this year's Stanley Cup Playoffs as L.A. took a 3-2 series lead. The Kings can advance by winning Game 6 on Sunday at HP Pavilion (NBCSN, TSN, RDS).
After back-to-back 2-1 losses at San Jose, the Kings stepped up their game to a level the Sharks couldn't match.
"I think it's fair to say that this was our best effort in the playoffs, really, and the most consistent effort," Kopitar said. "Now was a good time to do it."
Los Angeles came out hitting everything in sight – the Kings finished with a 51-24 edge in hits - and extended its home winning streak to a franchise-record 13 games, including six in a row in these playoffs. L.A. has won its last seven playoff games at Staples Center, including the Cup-clinching 6-1 win against New Jersey last June.
Six Kings registered at least four hits. Dustin Penner bumped Logan Couture so hard Couture's helmet came off, and Matt Greene knocked down T.J. Galiardi in a tone-setting opening period in which L.A. was credited with 24 hits to San Jose's 12.
"You want to slow them down," Greene said. "That's the main thing. Just establish our game plan, which is kind of a grinding pace and physical play and get on bodies and just try and slow them down and not letting them do what they were doing in Games 3 and 4."
Quick earned his seventh postseason shutout and passed Kelly Hrudey as the franchise leader in playoff wins with his 27th. He was masterful in the third period, making his best stop of the night on Joe Pavelski's shot from the right side with 40 seconds left. Quick has stopped 313 of 330 shots in the postseason for a .948 save percentage.
"What Kelly meant to this organization 20 years ago was pretty impressive," Quick said. "Everything he accomplished here and over the past few years. I've gotten a chance to know him and he's a great guy, loves hockey. I remember watching him when I was growing up, he was very competitive and hated to lose.
"Being able to pass him on that list, it's an accomplishment but wins are team accomplishments, so you got to give credit to the guys you play with."
San Jose coach Todd McLellan didn't recognize Quick's performance as the difference after San Jose found itself on the losing end of a low-scoring game following back-to-back 2-1 wins in Games 3 and 4.
"I didn't think we tested him a lot tonight," McLellan said. "There are a number of goalies in the League that could have performed that way tonight. Maybe his best save was his last one ... but other than that, he didn't have to work hard."
San Jose needed to live off its power play but went scoreless on three chances. The line of Joe Thornton, Brent Burns and T.J. Galiardi were a combined minus-4 and Thornton put three shots on goal. Couture was a minus-3.
Although Thornton won 20 of 29 faceoffs, Los Angeles was better than 50 percent (37-35) on draws for the first time in the series.
"Myself included, we were bad tonight," Couture said. "That's why we lost. We're not going to win if our best players are not our best players. We need to step up. Quick played well. When you get chances you have to score. It's the playoffs. We had enough chances to win tonight. Guys need to start bearing down and scoring some goals."
Couture wasn't done critiquing his team, which must force a Game 7 against a Kings team that is 7-1 with a 3-2 series lead.
"We weren't good at the start. We weren't good at any point of the game tonight. We didn't deserve to win. Our power play was brutal. Our passes weren't on. Guys weren't shooting the puck, breakout was off and timing was off."
Though Thornton won 69 percent of his draws, it was a faceoff he lost to Trevor Lewis that led to Voynov's goal 53 seconds into the third period. Lewis muscled the puck back to Voynov, who fired a shot through traffic and past Antti Niemi for his second goal the series, helping to atone for key turnovers in Games 3 and 4.
"He's awesome, man. He shoots the puck really well," Greene said. "You think it's an accident, and then he does it every game. He gets them through. He gets them out of the net. That's a gift that a couple of guys on our back end have.
"It's fast. It's hard. He gets it through. I don't know how he does it or else I'd do it."
Sustained pressure off a San Jose turnover led to Kopitar's goal. Voynov pinched and Kyle Clifford sent a shot from the right point that squirted cleanly to Kopitar, who easily nudged it into the open net with 1:52 left in the second period.
Kopitar's last previous goal was Game 4 in the conference quarterfinals, which ended a 19-game scoring drought.
"It is a little bit on my mind, but ... it doesn't matter who does it, as long as we do it," Kopitar said. "If I get on the boards, it's a little more relieving for me. Now it's a matter of doing it over and over again."
The Kings could have enjoyed a first-period lead if their shooters had been on target – both Kopitar and Voynov missed the net on great chances. San Jose spent most of the period icing the puck and getting knocked down.
"Game 5, coming into their building, they were going to have a hard push -- we talked about that before the game," Sharks coach Todd McLellan said. "They came hard right off the bat, but we got through that without being scored on.
"The rest of the night, the other 50 minutes, we weren't very good. Moving forward, maybe that's a good thing because we've got a lot of things to improve on."
The Sharks put a wrinkle in their lineup and went with seven defensemen as Jason Demers played forward in place of the scratched Tim Kennedy.
McLellan didn't say whether he would make any more changes for Game 6, but did say extending the series to a seventh game would be a 20-man job.
"We're going to have to contributions from our big guys," he said, "but also from our supporting cast."
Quick knows closing out the series by winning at the Shark Tank won't be easy.
"We played well. We played hard, came out with a purpose," he said. "It's not easy. It's not easy to win against this team. They're a great team. We need that effort, and we need more if we expect to win in San Jose. That's a tough building to play in, so we're going to need a great effort again."


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The students here at Thelma Jones Elementary have been learning about the six pillars of good character; trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring, and citizenship. There are also a few other traits we look for in our student's behavior.
Perseverance is the character trait of the month for April!
The following students were excellent at exhibiting this trait and were featured on a bulletin board display in the main hall for the entire month.Pre-K/PPCDMs. S. Patterson - Austin BrenkeMrs. Etchison (Pre-K AM) - Elaina NguyenMrs. Etchison (Pre-K PM) - Jacob Ayers1st GradeMrs. Birdow – Cathy LebuabangaMrs. Hoffman – Winter Domo2nd GradeMs. Ellis - Dayla SmithMrs. Ewing – Valerie ZambranoMrs. Ferguson – Emily TrevinoMrs. Menesses - Leyton CopelandMrs. Trinh - Kyson Tolbert3rd GradeMrs. Berger - Marylynn OgegaMrs. Escalante – Adrian MorenoMs. Manson – Sandra NwoforMrs. Ramos – Jazmin TrevinoMrs. Terry – Aiden Young4th GradeMs. Baldwin – Alexandria DrummondMrs. Burke – Leana HarperMrs. Henry – Nolan ClevelandMs. Krambeer - Tammy PhamMs. White - Yulissa Martinez
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As we mentioned last week, the talks for a new contract between the Broncos and left tackle Ryan Clady were expected to hit another gear this week.
And that seems to be the case, as Mike Klis of the Denver Post reports that the Broncos will resume talks toward a long-term contract.
The clock's ticking, as the two sides have until July 15 to reach a deal, or else Clady will have to play out this year on his $9.823 million franchise tag, which creates the risk of him hitting the open market a year from now.
What makes this one complicated is the notion that the target is moving, as free agent deals have been depressed this offseason.
The five-year, $50 million deal which was offered last offseason (and rejected) fell short of the deal the Browns gave Joe Thomas in 2011. But it also exceeded the money Jake Long got from the Rams this offseason.
And it's reasonable to assume that Clady's shoulder injury (which he played through last year) will be used to compare him to Long's situation.
Clady hasn't missed any time, and that works in his favor. So does the presence of a 37-year-old quarterback who wasn't the most mobile to begin with.


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CHICAGO - Even record forecast soybean acreage will not significantly pressure soybean prices in the next few months because there's so much bullishness underlying the market, a grains analyst says.
Soybean acreage - forecast at 75.4 million acres in yesterday's USDA Planting Intentions Report - could produce a crop of close to 3 billion bushels, according to Dan Basse, president of AgResource, Co., who spoke during a Chicago Board of Trade press briefing.
"If there's a whipping boy in the markets, it will be beans that see the most selling pressure," said Basse. "But I don't see the market getting much below $7.20 to $7.40 until we have a new crop confirmed and made through the weather."
Basse noted that current soybean stocks were estimated at 906 million bushels (on March 31). "That's up from what traders were expecting, but still the second smallest stocks figure since 1977."
But Basse advises market watchers not to get too caught up in whether or not the stocks number is bullish or bearish. "We still need to ration about 250 million bushels over the last half of the crop year. The market may be weaker, but we're not heading into a bearish trend."
A more important question to focus on, according to Basse, is, "Will the South Americans produce the world's bean crop and will the United States produce the world's corn crop? The answer is yes and the market at some point is going to have to encourage that."
Meanwhile, global feed grain shortages this year and next are expected to drive the grain markets, he says.
Basse noted that U.S. corn acreage at 79 million acres "is not nearly enough to satisfy the demand profile for the upcoming year. There is going to be this fight going on between the corn market and new crop beans as we try to shift acres back and forth.
Basse said a 79-million-acre corn crop would produce about 10.2 billion bushels. "With usage at 10.5 billion bushels, it tells me that December corn is undervalued and needs to move higher to secure some acres from beans.
"We're going to need very good weather and longer term, if we see China becoming an importer by the latter part of this year, the United States is going to have to continue to price corn very competitively relative to soybeans.
"Grain and oilseed markets will continue to do better as we move into spring," Basse said. "I still see a tremendous amount of rationing to be accomplished in old crop beans.
"Our sensitivity to weather and volatility in price is going to remain very high. I see no reason to change longer term bullish opinion. We're going to have to have big crops come June and July before we will see a sustained bearish price presence."


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Chris Culliver's rough week continues.
With the Ravens leading 14-3 and two minutes remaining in the first half, receiver Jacoby Jones raced past a flailing Culliver into the clear. Similar to the play that forced overtime against the Broncos, Jones had to wait for the ball from quarterback Joe Flacco.
But wait Jones did, and Jones caught it. And fell. Untouched.
So Jones got up and outran Culliver more horizontally than vertically to the end zone.
The end result was a 56-yard score for Jones, who is playing in his hometown of New Orleans.
It's now 21-3. And all three Ravens scores came via touchdown passes thrown by Flacco, who is in the process of forcing owner Steve Bisciotti to hand over the keys to the franchise.


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'True Blood' Review: "You're No Good"
'True Blood' season six spurts out its third episode of the year, "You're No Good," as Sookie, Jason and Niall continue to protect against the mysterious Warlow, while Eric kidnaps the Governor's daughter in exchange for information, and Sam attempts to rescue Emma from the werewolves..
Last week's 'True Blood' episode, "The Sun," saw Sookie meet both a mysteriously injured young man (Robert Kazinski) and Jason's rescuer (Rutger Hauer), while Jessica attempted to coax Bill out of a dangerous situation and Eric went undercover to meet Governor Truman Burrell (Arliss Howard), so how does "You're No Good" keep the new season flowing? What will season six of 'True Blood' bring, now that "Billith" has risen?
Read on for your in-depth recap of everything you need to know about 'True Blood' season six, episode three, "You're No Good"!
Eric prepares to kill Governor Burrell's daughter Willa, but stops and flees with the girl when she mentions experiments being conducted on vampires. Meanwhile at Bill's, Jessica learns that Bill saw a vision of she, Pam, Eric, Tara and others burning in the sun, which Bill vows never to let happen. Over at the Stackhouse home, Niall senses the presence of Warlow nearby, but is forced to abandon his pursuit to protect Jason and Sookie.
Eric arrives to Fangtasia with Willa in tow, and urges Tara and Pam to pack while Willa reveals what she knows about the vampire concentration camp and research facilities. When Pam and Tara return, Eric reluctantly declares they must leave Fangtasia for good, and keep Willa as leverage. Meanwhile, a captive Steve Newlin is dragged into one of the experimentation rooms of which Willa spoke.
Sam and Lafayette wake to find Nicole and her VUS boyfriend Jesse helping them, and they are intent on exposing the werewolves. Lafayette urges them to forget what they saw, before assuring Sam he plans to help retrieve Emma. Meanwhile, Eric and co. arrive to Ginger's house looking for a place to hide, with Eric keeping Willa by his side for protection. Back at Bill's house, Bill comes to believe himself capable of walking in the sun, and waits outside against Jessica's advice, only to burn horribly and rush inside at first light.
Niall enters the remnants of the faerie nightclub only to find its residents dead, save for one who reveals the cause as a vampire attack before dying. Back at the Stackhouse's, Sookie continues to worry about Jason's mental health as the two bond over a somewhat tarnished memory of their parents. Meanwhile, Andy Bellefleur looks over the department's new anti-vampire weaponry as Holly arrives, hoping for protection against the starving vampires outside her home.
Rikki alerts Alcide and Martha to the incoming arrival of police, who ask Alcide for any knowledge on Emma's whereabouts. The three deny any knowledge as Rikki scares Emma into shifting before the cops search the house. After they depart, Alcide puts Rikki in her place with regard to keeping Emma within the pack, as a mysterious owl watches from the window. Elsewhere, Andy teaches Holly to shoot as the still-growing children play nearby.
Inside a two-person coffin, Willa explains to Eric that it was her mother who left her father after her affair with a vampire, while Eric refuses to allow Willa to taste his blood. Over at the deserted faerie nightclub, Niall encounters Ben and presses him into service protecting Sookie from Warlow. Meanwhile, Jessica begs Bill to let her help with his latest idea, capturing a university professor and believed creator of TruBlood.
Steve Newlin is surprised to find his ex-wife Sarah (Anna Camp) within the vampire concentration camp, in a position of authority beneath her political aspirations. After she makes his situation clear, one of the scientists demand Steve reveal everything he knows of Eric Northman. Meanwhile, Jessica enters the Japanese professor's classroom in a skimpy outfit, asking for private tutoring afterward, and kidnapping him once the other students have left.
Sookie finds Bill at her door in need of help to save the others, but despite denying his entry, Bill brazenly walks inside the house and telekinetically incapacitates Jason. Bill explains that he hopes to save vampires by synthesizing Sookie's blood, but when Sookie utterly refuses to help, Bill declares her dead to him and walks out. Meanwhile, Nicole and her group drive up to the werewolves' den hoping to film a transformation, but soon find themselves attacked. Sam uses the chaos to go inside and rescue Emma, but resolves to rescue Nicole as well once he sees her fleeing into the woods.
Governor Burrell calls Eric falsely, looking to negotiate for his daughter, tracing the call all the while. The Governor and his men peel out when the location finally arrives, leading Eric to flee with the others, and keep Ginger behind to stall. Meanwhile, Niall and Ben return to the Stackhouse residence, but Sookie finds herself overwhelmed by everything going on. Ben goes to console her, surprised that they can feel one another's telepathy, as Niall once again senses Warlow nearby. Niall overpowers the intruder, revealed instead to be Nora, as Jason collapses inside the house
Nearby, Andy finds Bill walking home and warns him about the vampire curfew, before Bill smells Andy's half-fairy children, and formulates a new idea as he walks away.
Granted, though last week's episode managed to calm things down from the premiere and develop a more cohesive storyline going forward, "You're No Good" doesn't do very much in the way of keeping things together. The Stackhouses remain largely clueless and under guard, Niall included, while no one seems to even slightly suspect the sudden appearance of Ben in their lives. We'll happily eat crow if Ben turns out not to be Warlow, but for the moment this has begun to feel like 'Dexter' season seven all over again.
Meanwhile, Bill doesn't appear to be making much of any progress either, however interesting it might be to learn more of TruBlood's origins. The same goes for Eric's kidnapping of Willa Burrell, which speedily carries us through the episode, but mostly treads water until the group manages to find some kind of destination, or at least escape the Governor for the moment.
Oddly enough, we're intrigued by the possible ramifications of werewolves outing themselves to the world, whether by choice or not, but the storyline's connection to other characters remains as thin as ever. Also, Andy Bellefleur has tween faeries with numbers for names, and wants to be a fort for his ex-girlfriend. That is all we have to say about that.
The return of Sarah Newlin made for another interesting moment that ultimately won't lead anywhere yet, so for the time being, "You're No Good" seems exactly that.
Did you get your fill of fang-banging 'True Blood' action? What did you think about "You're No Good"? Join the discussion in the comments, and be sure to check back next week for another all-new recap when HBO debuts the season six episode, "At Last"!


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The secret of this moist raspberry cake recipe is buttermilk. It creates a light, fluffy texture that goes beautifully with a hot cup of tea. You could add any berries you like. This time I paired fresh raspberries with crunchy pistachios.
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When the abortion wars flared up last week, partisans of both sides rushed to the barricades — but the real lesson may be for the countless Americans in the middle.
A private charity devoted to breast-cancer research, the Susan G. Komen Foundation for the Cure, announced it was cutting off some funding to Planned Parenthood — the nation's largest abortion provider, "terminating" some 300,000 pregnancies a year — and the roof fell in.
Hysterical feminists denounced what they called a politically motivated "attack on women's health." Some 26 Senate Democrats snapped to, sending the foundation a letter urging it to reconsider. Mayor Bloomberg put up $250,000 of his own vast wealth as a matching grant, kicking off a fund-raising money bomb that saw Planned Parenthood's coffers swell by more than $3 million by the weekend.
Pro-lifers answered by sending Komen $1 million — but pro-choicers were also vowing to shut down the charity's donations. After a few days as Public Enemy No. 1, Komen caved.
"We want to apologize to the American public for recent decisions that cast doubt upon our commitment to saving women's lives," it said in a groveling statement. "We will continue to fund existing grants, including those of Planned Parenthood."
Never mind that Planned Parenthood doesn't actually offer mammograms, but only refers women to third-party providers. Never mind that, according to Komen's founder and CEO, Nancy Brinker, the foundation wanted to eliminate duplicative grants and free up funds for programs "actually providing the lifesaving mammogram."
And never mind that another reason Komen cut off funding had nothing to do with politics, but with a recently adopted in-house rule against funding organizations under government investigation.
Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-Fla.) is looking into allegations of overbilling and Medicaid fraud against Planned Parenthood, as well as charges that the organization has ignored state reporting requirements concerning evidence of sexual abuse. (The abortion provider gets nearly half a billion dollars a year from federal, state and local taxpayers.)
To the apocalyptic defenders of what they like to call "women's health services," Komen's reasons just didn't matter. Nor did the fact that Komen, with its ubiquitous pink ribbons for breast-cancer awareness, has done far more for women's health than Planned Parenthood ever could.
What matters is that even private charities can't be allowed to cast a shadow of doubt on the marquee protector of a woman's "right to choose" whether to abort her baby. Even a hint of deviation from the cause must be instantly and ruthlessly stamped out — by government intervention if necessary.
The same crowd, after all, had just finished cheering the Obama administration's mandate that private, religiously affiliated institutions must offer free birth-control as part of their health-care plans. Now they were thrilled to see more than a quarter of the Senate wade into what should have been a private decision.
Regarding abortion, no dissent can be tolerated by the tolerance crowd, no threat, however faint, left unmet. Even though the money at stake — $600,000 — was relatively small, the symbol was too important.
Thirty-nine years and an estimated 50 million abortions after the Supreme Court created the unrestricted abortion right with its decision in Roe v. Wade, public support for the absolutist pro-choice side is falling.
At the very least, the money fountain might dry up. The House last year passed a bill banning any federal funding of abortion; it won't become law any time soon, but that doesn't mean appropriations can't be cut more quietly.
Indeed, as Rep. Stearns pointed out, Planned Parenthood's windfall from the Komen flap calls into question why it should get any public monies at all. "I believe that Planned Parenthood could be, and should be, totally self-sufficient, as with so many other nonprofit organizations," he said.
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An admitted child molester is again facing charges of attempting to obtain and drink boys' urine.
An admitted child molester is again facing charges of attempting to obtain and drink boys' urine.
Alan D. Patton, 56, of 6269 Emberwood Rd. on the Northwest Side, was trying to collect urine in a men's restroom at Sports Ohio, 6314 Cosgray Rd., when he was arrested June 14, Dublin police say.
Patton was found in a men's restroom where he had allegedly covered toilet seats in plastic wrap, shut off water to urinals and placed Styrofoam cups in them. Sports Ohio employees told police that they recognized Patton as the man who had tampered with another men's restroom there a week earlier.
Patton, a registered sex offender, admitted in 1994 to sexually assaulting four boys ages 7 and 9 in public restrooms in Columbus. At the time, Patton's attorney said Patton suffers from urophilia, an interest in urine for sexual gratification.
When he was arrested two weeks ago, Patton said "he wasn't hurting anyone and that he suffers from an 'illness,'" a police report said. "He said he tries to control his urges but he can't."
He admitted to police that he posted "out of service" signs and tampered with the toilets and urinals to collect boys' urine to drink. Police charged him with criminal mischief.
Patton threatened to commit suicide and told police he needed to care for his 84-year-old mother, the report said. He was taken to Franklin County jail and later posted bond. He is due in court July 11.
Patton served four years of the eight-year term he was sentenced to in 1994. In 1990, 1992, 2003 and twice in 2006, he was convicted of offenses including voyeurism, public indecency and disorderly conduct in Columbus, Westerville and Gahanna.
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Wayland adding Master of Public Administration degree
PLAINVIEW -- Wayland Baptist University's Division of Social Sciences added a graduate degree to its lineup last summer and enrollment grew by 50. This summer, it hopes to do the same with the addition of another graduate degree, the Master of Public Administration.
The degree is being directed by Dr. Dick DeLung, professor of sociology and justice administration at Wayland. In his eyes, the degree can be valuable for workers in a variety of fields.
"Anyone who works for a city, county, state or federal entity can use an MPA. It's generally considered a stepping stone for promotions or hiring in those areas," DeLung said, adding that law enforcement and government employees seeking advancement benefit from having the degree.
The 37-hour program will begin in the fall, with two of the required courses leading the way. According to DeLung, the degree will blend both online classes and face-to-face classes on the Plainview campus. Those classes held at the Wayland campus will be primarily Saturday and evening offerings, designed to make it easier for working adults to pursue the MPA.
"The classes will follow the same 11-week, quarterly format as our Virtual Campus," DeLung noted, adding that his "live" classes will actually be six weeks long since they will meet from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday. Other "live" classes will be offered at nights.
The degree blends some business courses that will be taught in that division, providing students with varied exposure and some management and human resource background.
Admission to the MPA degree program requires students to hold a bachelor's degree from an accredited university, completion of the admission application and completion of the Graduate Record Examination (GRE). There are no leveling courses and students may come into the program with any bachelor's degree, regardless of the undergraduate major.
Participants may choose from two tracks for the MPA: justice administration, for those wanting to focus on the law enforcement field; and government administration, for those interested in city or state government fields or higher. Either track culminates in an internship in the chosen area and a research paper, then a one-hour practicum and seminar to prepare for the comprehensive exit exam.
The degree requires 19 semester hours of core courses, including research methods, survey of public administration, public policy analysis, public financial management and budgeting, legal environment, ethics and the final seminar. The remaining 18 hours is logged in required courses in the justice administration or government administration emphases.
The justice administration track covers international legal systems, a comparison of criminal and civil law, alternative dispute resolution, organizational theory or organizational development and behavior, law enforcement administration, and a choice of either special topics or a practicum in justice administration. The government administration track covers human resource management, cultural diversity, contract negotiation or administrative law, current issues in the public sector, organizational theory or organizational development and behavior, and either special topics or a practicum in government administration.
The course rotation is designed to allow a student to complete the degree in two years, with the final classes taken in Summer 2008.
DeLung has high hopes for the program, given the requests he often hears and the interest already shown before the opening term. He said the program is a common one at many master's level universities and is needed throughout the region.
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DUBLIN, Ireland, June 15 (UPI) -- Leaks about U.S. surveillance programs have been extremely damaging, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has told a group of European Union government ministers.
Defending the program at a meeting in Dublin, Ireland, Holder said the leaks also had harmed America's allies, CNN reported Friday.
"The national security of the United States has been damaged as a result of those leaks," he said. "The safety of the American people and the safety of people who reside in allied nations have been put at risk as a result of these leaks."
European Commission Vice President Viviane Reding told Holder the European Union has "serious concerns" about the surveillance program, which has allowed the National Security Agency to collect data about phone calls made and received by Americans.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in Berlin Friday she intends to discuss with U.S. President Obama on the need for transparency in the PRISM surveillance program, a secret program used to gather information from the Internet.
On the telephone surveillance program, Holder said courts allowed the information to be collected only if there was "reasonable suspicion" the calls were related to terrorist activity.
Holder did not mention the name of Edward Snowden, the former NSA contractor who claims to have revealed information about the agency's efforts in collecting telephone data. However, the attorney general told the group, "I'm confident the person who is responsible will be held accountable."
Snowden is believed to be in Hong Kong, but a representative of Singapore Airlines said Friday the British Home Office had urged the airline not to allow Snowden to board a flight for the United Kingdom.


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Rob Zombie's Great American Nightmare just upped the stakes for local acts in the California area with the addition of a battle of the bands added to the festivities. 'Rob Zombie's Great American Nightmare Battle of the Bands' will shine a spotlight on local unsigned talent throughout September and October, allowing bands to compete for the ultimate prize – the opportunity to play on the Monster Energy Main Stage.
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Rob Zombie's Great American Nightmare gets under way on Oct. 10 and runs through Nov. 2 at the FEARPlex in Pomona, Calif. – not too far from Los Angeles. The horror themed event will feature 15 nights of live music spanning many different genres and of course culminating with the man himself, Rob Zombie performing on the last night. In addition to the music, the Halloween themed experience will offer up many state-of-the-art horror inspired adventures with tickets starting at 30 bucks. Find out all the details here.


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During four years of history-making monetary policy, the Fed used just about every tool in the box. First they slashed interest rates to zero. Then they launched an unprecedented quantitative easing.
After QE1 ran its course, they launched another round with QE2, which itself just ended. Barring QE3, the Fed's massive easing policy has finally ended.
But it hasn't gone away. If it takes as long to get policy back to normal, all the stimulus that is still sloshing around the system could threaten dramatically higher inflation pressures, presenting the Fed with a fresh set of problems.
To deal with the financial crisis, the Fed had to improvise brand new approaches. In the summer of 2007, they started by cutting the federal funds rate, their customary policy tool. The Fed requires the major banks to keep a portion of their assets on reserve at the Fed against their liabilities, a balance that is monitored by the Fed each day. Banks that find themselves short can borrow from other banks that have excess reserves at the federal funds rate.
If the Fed wants to lower the rate, they can add to the excess reserves and make it cheaper for banks to borrow; the banks, in turn, can then lend out to their customers at lower rates as the Fed's easing policy radiates through the economy. By late 2008, the federal funds rate on excess reserves was already as low as it could go, so the Fed took the radical step of increasing the size of the reserve balance itself.
Quantitative easing had its roots in early 2008 when the Fed started shifting out of Treasuries (the blue shading in the chart) and into other assets that were weighing down the banking system (the red shading). By the time Lehman collapsed and the Fed formally embarked on QE1, the share of Treasuries had shrunk from its long-term average of around 90% at the start of the year to just 50%. After debasing the quality of the reserve balance, the Fed then doubled it in order to provide liquidity directly to commercial banks (such as the TARP program), to overseas central banks (through currency swaps), and eventually to the mortgage market itself (by purchasing toxic mortgage-backed securities). By the time QE1 expired in early 2010, the share of Treasuries was 34% of the reserve balance.
A few months later, QE2 began to take shape when policymakers voiced concerns about the health of the recovery and the risk of a Japan-style deflationary spiral. The Fed increased the reserves yet again, this time by aggressively expanding the purchase of US Treasuries. Where QE1 was effectively a financial rescue mission, QE2 was pure debt monetization: while it was in force, the Fed bought some 85% of all the net issuance by the federal government and ended up holding more Treasuries than the entire commercial banking system.
The Fed's reserve balance has more than tripled to nearly $3 trillion, priming the pump for growth now and inflation later. The stimulative effects of easy monetary policy helped lift stocks, commodities, as well as the economy's GDP. Employment and housing remain sluggish, but given the dire predictions about a plunge into another depression that surrounded the launch of quantitative easing, the Fed has done its job reasonably well. Moreover, the threat of a deflationary spiral is no longer on the radar. In fact, the greater risk now is a surge in inflation before Fed officials are able to remove the easy money overhang. The decisive upturn in core inflation could be an early harbinger of much higher price pressures to come.
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Update: It's official. The German parliament has passed the expansion of the bailout fund with a massive majority 523 yes to 85 against.
After an early rally, European markets have now completely lost their gains.
Original post: The big event of the morning: The German government votes on expanding the EFSF, the big bailout fund that will be crucial for rescuing Greece.
It's expected to pass easily, though the vote is controversial. The big question is whether or not the vote can be passed with Merkel's coalition alone.
Merkel's government has pushed hard for this.
It's set to begin in a matter of minutes.
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Instructions on how to make high magnetic fields without the need for large currents
Lenz's Law
A moveable diagram including current flow and magnetic field lines that shows how the movement of a bar magnet influences the induced current in a stationary conductor.
How to Use a Multimeter: Measuring Current
Instructional video on how to use a multimeter to measure current.
Electric Current
Definition and links to related information. Electric current is the rate of charge flow past a given point in an electric circuit, measured in coulombs/second which is named amperes.
Magnetic fields due to electric currents
Shows magnetic field patterns for wire, single turn coil and solenoid.
Voltage and current
A good explanation of what are current and voltage?
Convection in a Box
Brief description of some experiments with smoke in a closed box, with normal convection currents and odd effects, includes diagrams and discussion of effects.
Electric Shock
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Publications: Robinson, Janean
Journal Article
Robinson, J., Down, B. and Smyth, J. (2018) 'Shaking up' neoliberal policy in schools: Looking for democratic alternatives in Jacinta's satchel. Global Studies of Childhood, 8 (4). pp. 392-403.
Down, B., Smyth, J. and Robinson, J. (2017) Problematising vocational education and training in schools: using student narratives to interrupt neoliberal ideology. Critical Studies in Education . In Press.
Robinson, J. and Smyth, J. (2015) 'Sent out' and stepping back in: stories from young people 'placed at risk'. Ethnography and Education, 11 (2). pp. 222-236.
Robinson, J.V. (2014) Dilemmas and deliberations in reflexive ethnographic research. Ethnography and Education, 9 (2). pp. 196-209.
Robinson, J., Smyth, J., Down, B. and McInerney, P. (2012) Pushed out, shut out: Addressing unjust geographies of schooling and work. International Journal on School Disaffection, 9 (2). pp. 7-24.
Conference Paper
Robinson, J. (2014) 'My life, my future; stuck in the cloud: Challenging institutional surveillance of high school students. In: TASA Conference 2014, 24 - 27 November 2014, University of South Australia, Adelaide
Robinson, J. and Carnes, R. (2014) Stories from high school and prisons rattle institutional cages. In: TASA Conference 2014, 24 - 27 November 2014, University of South Australia, Adelaide
Robinson, J. (2012) Doing critical ethnography and struggling around. In: Oxford Ethnography and Education Conference, 10 - 12 September 2012, New College, Oxford, UK
Robinson, J. (2012) Pushed out, shut out: Addressing the unjust geographies of schooling and work. In: Education and Social Research Institute Conference: Space, place and social justice in education, 13 July 2012, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester
Robinson, J. (2012) Transforming our practice: Listening to student voice. In: 27th Annual Research Forum (Western Australian Institute for Educational Research Inc) Transforming practice: The value of educational research, 11 August 2012, University of Notre Dame, Fremantle, Western Australia
Robinson, J. and Kuteyi, B. (2010) Critical ethnography unearthed: Exposing and confronting our challenges. In: AARE 2010, 28 November - 2nd December 2010, University of Melbourne, Melbourne
Robinson, J. (2010) "Where you at?" Becoming unstuck: The process of collaboration to complete. In: Murdoch University Postgraduate Student Association (MUPSA) Inaugural Multidisciplinary Conference, 29 September 2010, Murdoch University, Murdoch
Robinson, J. and Ferrara, H. (2009) Classrooms without borders: Socially democratic and creative spaces. In: Tenth Humanities Postgraduate Conference: Creative Margins, 5 - 6 November 2009, Curtin University, Western Australia
Robinson, J. (2009) A mad policy party: Who is informing who? In: The Fogarty Foundation Postgraduate Forum, 18th September 2009, University of Western Australia, Crawley
Robinson, J. (2008) Behaviour management and discipline policy: A genealogical approach. In: Western Australian Institute for Educational Research Forum 2008, 9 August 2008, Edith Cowan University, Mount Lawley
Robinson, J. (2008) I want to be heard! Classroom echoes of resistance. In: 9th Humanities Graduate Research Conference, 5 - 8 November, Perth, Western Australia
Robinson, J. (2008) Using portraiture to script the voice. In: AARE 2008, 30 - November - 4 December 2008, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
Robinson, Janean (2007) Rethinking school behaviour management policy. In: AARE 2007 International Educational Research Conference, 25 - 29 November 2007, Fremantle, Western Australia
Robinson, J. (2007) An ethnographer swinging in the school policy jungle: Peeling the layers. In: Western Australian Institute for Educational Research Forum 2007, 11 August 2007, Edith Cowan University, Mount Lawley Campus
Conference Item
Robinson, J. (2008) Wow! At such a rate of knots: Slowing down to untangle the mess. In: The Fogarty Foundation Postgraduate Forum, 19 September 2008, University of Western Australia, Crawley.
Robinson, J. (2008) The postgraduate landscape. In: Postgraduate Survival Seminar, 7 May 2008, Murdoch University, Murdoch.
Robinson, J. (2007) Managing student behaviour workshop. In: Westralian Indonesian Language Teachers Association (WILTA) Workshop, May 2007, Murdoch University, Murdoch.
Robinson, J. (2007) There are those who walk through woods and see no trees: There are schools where you can't find the kids! In: Research Seminar Presentation. Murdoch University. School of Education, 28 September 2007, Murdoch University, Murdoch.
Robinson, J. (2006) Behaviour management and school policy: Listening to student stories. In: 2006 Social Sciences and Humanities Postgraduate Seminar, 24 November 2006, Krishna Somers Foundation, Murdoch University.
Robinson, J. (2006) Reclaiming teaching: One teachers' journey. In: Research Seminar Presentation. Murdoch University. School of Education, 13 October 2006, Murdoch University, Murdoch.
Book Chapter
Robinson, J. (2019) Finding the Lost Thing under the Binds of a Neglected Thesis Cover. In: Smith, R.J. and Delamont, S., (eds.) The Lost Ethnographies: Methodological Insights from Projects that Never Were. Emerald Publishing Limited, pp. 147-163.
Down, B., Smyth, J. and Robinson, J. (2018) Rethinking School-to-Work Transitions in Australia: Young People Have Something to Say. Springer International Publishing.
Robinson, Janean (2011) 'Troubling' behaviour management: Listening to student voice. PhD thesis, Murdoch University.
Down, B., Smyth, J., Robinson, J. and McInerney, P. (2014) Rethinking the conditions for young people 'getting a job': Kids have something to say. Australian Research Council/ Federation University Australia/Murdoch University, Murdoch, W.A.


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The ewftools are a Linux based programs to read and write EnCase E01 and SMART s01 bitstream copies of storage media. It has been ported to other platforms like *BSD, MacOS-X and Windows as well.
The ewftools were developed by Joachim Metz while working for Hoffmann Investigations.
The ewftools are part of libewf package which was created in 2006. Libewf is a rewrite of earlier work on the EnCase 4 file format by Michael Cohen part of PyFlag and the Expert Witness Compression Format Specification by [Andrew Rosen]. It has been updated to read and write EnCase 1 to 6 E01 files and SMART s01 files. Libewf has initiated an Extended EWF (EWF-X) specifications to bypass limitations on the format imposed by EnCase.
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College Football Player Says He Was Axed from Team for Gay Kiss
(WAHPETON, N.D.) -- A gay North Dakota freshman linebacker believes he was kicked off his university football team for kissing his much-older boyfriend at a game.
Before the incident, Jamie Kuntz, 18, was playing football for North Dakota State College of Sciences in Wahpeton on a partial scholarship.
He was recovering from a concussion over Labor Day weekend so his coach sent him to the press box to videotape the game against Snow College in Pueblo, Colo.
Kuntz's boyfriend, who lives in Colorado, came to the game and was sitting in the press box with him. At halftime, Kuntz's team was losing 49-3 and he went down to the locker room to hear the coach's halftime talk.
He returned to the press box after the talk and said he shared a kiss with his boyfriend in between plays.
"It wasn't a peck, but it wasn't a hardcore makeout session," Kuntz told ABC News. "It was in between."
When he boarded the bus to return to North Dakota, his coach pulled him off the bus. The coach told him that people had told him that Kuntz was a "distraction" the whole game.
"He asked me what happened in the press box and I played dumb. I said, 'I don't know what you're talking about,'" Kuntz said.
When pressed, he lied and told his coach that it was his grandfather that was in the press box with him. Kuntz's boyfriend is 65 years old. The conversation ended and Kuntz boarded the bus. On the way home, he said he felt like other players were laughing at him, but he did not know why.
Kuntz said a few close friends knew about his sexuality, but he had not come out to his team or his family.
When asked why he lied to the coach, Kuntz said, "I wasn't out at all and that's a lot to unload on somebody on a question like that. I was kind of scared I would get kicked off if I told him the right answer."
But when the team got back to North Dakota, Kuntz felt guilty about lying and came clean to the coach about who the man in the press box was.
On Monday, he was dismissed from the football team after a meeting with his coach.
"I was shocked. I didn't think I was going to get kicked off the team," Kuntz said. "There could have been extra conditioning. There's always something that could have been done [instead]."
Soon after, he withdrew from the school.
"I chose to leave," he said. "The only reason I went there was for football."
Kuntz strongly believes that he was kicked off of the team because of his sexuality. He believes that had he been kissing a woman in the press box, even an older woman, the outcome would have been different. He said he probably would have been "congratulated for it" by his teammates, if it had been a woman.
The school vehemently denies that Kuntz was dismissed from the team for the kiss.
"It had nothing to do with his sexual orientation. Nothing," university spokeswoman Barbara Spaeth-Baum told ABC News. "He wasn't doing a task that he was assigned to do. On top of that, he lied about what he was doing or not doing, meaning not fulfilling his task."
Spaeth-Baum said that Kuntz was told that he could keep his scholarship even if he was not on the team, but that he chose to leave.
"Our staff is trained and they certainly know what those reasons are and are fair to everyone involved," she said.
The university said in a statement that Kuntz was "dismissed from the team for a violation of the football team rules."
The school's 2012 Player's Manual says, "The head coach reserves the right to dismiss any team member for any conduct that is deemed detrimental to the team."
The list of "possible dismissible behavior" includes "lying to Coaches, Teachers or other school staff," in addition to criminal violations, fighting and repeated absence or tardiness.
Just one month into his college football career, Kuntz found himself having to drop three bombshells on his family--he was kicked off the team, he left the school and he was gay.
"I think they were more upset about me getting kicked off the team than anything else," he said.
When he told his family about his 65-year-old boyfriend, he said, "My mom was the only one that was rough with that."
But Kuntz said that she is supportive of him and has now accepted his boyfriend. He recognizes that people may find the 47-year age difference between him and his boyfriend "sketchy," but he said the year-long relationship is genuine.
"I know it's weird to tell people," he said. "I don't know if I was looking for a father figure right away or a mentor, but it's passed that now."
The two met through an online dating site, Kuntz said, and have spent time together several times over the past year. Kuntz did not want to disclose his boyfriend's identity to protect his privacy. He said his boyfriend "felt awful" about the fallout from the kiss.
Kuntz's main concern now is getting back to football. His plan was to play at North Dakota State College for a few years before transitioning to a Division 1 school. He currently has no plans to sue the school.
"I'm not worried about a lawsuit, I'm worried about getting back to a deal in college and playing football," he said. "I would rather still be playing, getting ready for this game on Saturday."
But he hopes that his newfound notoriety will be helpful to others.
"My story is out there so hopefully this doesn't happen to someone else," Kuntz said. "I may be a voice for somebody who doesn't want to come out."
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World Day for Consecrated Life
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The Committee on Clergy, Consecrated Life and Vocations seeks to foster and encourage the various forms of consecrated life in the Church today. In Vita Consecrata, the 1996 Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation, Saint John Paul II wrote of the different forms of consecrated life as "the many branches which sinks its roots into the Gospel and brings forth abundant fruit in every season of the Church's life." These diverse forms include: Monastic Life, the Orders of Virgins, Hermits, and Institutes completely devoted to contemplation, Apostolic Religious Life, Secular Institutes, Societies of Apostolic Life, and new or renewed forms of the consecrated life (cf. Vita Consecrata, 6-12). Each form is described in the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
Celebrated in Parishes February 2-3, 2019
In 1997, Saint John Paul II instituted a day of prayer for women and men in consecrated life. This celebration is attached to the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord on February 2. This feast is also known as Candlemas Day; the day on which candles are blessed symbolizing Christ who is the light of the world. So too, those in consecrated life are called to reflect the light of Jesus Christ to all peoples. The celebration of World Day for Consecrated Life is transferred to the following Sunday in order to highlight the gift of consecrated persons for the whole Church.
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I know this isn't the original trilogy, but I figured you guys would appreciate this being released and would want to know. Give me some feedback on the record!
For the very first time ever on vinyl, I Am Shark, will be releasing the original soundtrack to Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace, scored by legendary composer John Williams. This will be part one of three, continuing on the latest trilogy soundtracks, as well as I Am Shark's new face as an independent label for Film/TV/Game soundtracks. The release will be in 2xLP format, with limited color versions coordinating with characters through out the movies.
50 limited bundle packages will be available with all colors/pressed versions, one random winner will receive a test press version of the album (only 10 test press copies exist).
Pre-orders are now available through I Am Shark's web store.
Star Wars Main Title and The Arrival at Naboo – 2:55
Duel of the Fates – 4:14
Anakin's Theme – 3:05
Jar Jar's Introduction and The Swim to Otoh Gunga – 5:07
The Sith Spacecraft and The Droid Battle – 2:37
The Trip to the Naboo Temple and The Audience with Boss Nass – 4:07
The Arrival at Tatooine and The Flag Parade – 4:04
He Is the Chosen One – 3:53
Anakin Defeats Sebulba – 4:24
Passage Through the Planet Core – 4:40
Watto's Deal and Kids at Play – 4:57
Panaka and the Queen's Protectors – 3:24
Queen Amidala and The Naboo Palace – 4:51
The Droid Invasion and The Appearance of Darth Maul – 5:14
Qui-Gon's Noble End – 3:48
The High Council Meeting and Qui-Gon's Funeral – 3:09
Augie's Great Municipal Band and End Credits – 9:37
Total Time: 74:23
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Green Drinks Canberra July 2019: Anna McGuire on ACT's 'net zero emissions'
This event will feature a short guest talk by Anna McGuire, Senior Policy Officer - Climate Change from ACT Government. Anna's talk will occur at roughly 6:00 pm.
Green Drinks Canberra is a monthly event for socialising and professional networking, created for those interested in environmental sustainability and eco-efficiency.
Green Drinks is your must-attend monthly hub for meeting other people doing important things, and learning about other events happening around Canberra.
Date rule: the second Tuesday of each month.
Venue: King O'Malley's Irish Pub, 131 City Walk, Canberra
(meet at the long tables in The Arcade: look for signs with the Green Drinks Canberra logo)
RSVP: Not required, but handy as a memory-jogger. [Use our Eventbrite listings to RSVP].
Cost: Free entry, pay for own drinks.
Start time: 5:30 pm until whenever. Arrive at a time that suits you.
Sixty Second Soapbox: At 6:00 pm, we pause the room's freeform conversations for the Sixty Second Soapbox. Each person, if they choose, will have the opportunity to speak for up to 60 seconds (mercilessly enforced!) This is a great way to share information about upcoming events, to find collaborators for projects, or to share interesting news.
Guest talks: Each Green Drinks Canberra event features a guest speaking about their field of expertise. This talk begins shortly after 6:00 pm, and lasts approximately 10 minutes, with time for audience Q&A afterwards.
Mailing list: Join our monthly email newsletter. (We promise we will not spam you).
This is an event for environmentally-minded Canberrans who meet for a monthly drink. An excellent way to:
• meet like-minded people
• make friends and contacts
• learn about interesting projects / organisations from around the Canberra area
• discuss and collaborate on projects
• stumble upon 'eureka' moments
Essentially, the aim is to be a social think-tank with the environment as the common denominator. Green Drinks are agenda-free and non-politically aligned (read more). Individuals from businesses, not-for-profits, government, academia, and community groups welcome, as well as those with personal projects!
Primary contact channel is via our email mailing list. Be sure to join it! We are also on Facebook and Eventbrite.
To contact the organiser with a question/request not covered by this page, email firstname.lastname@example.com (inbox checked only once per month).
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Beyonce Directing & Starring In HBO Documentary of Her Life
Beyoncé is the subject of a new HBO documentary that she's also directing, the network announced Monday (Nov. 26).
The film will premiere Feb. 16, and combines footage of her onstage performances with private behind-the-scenes moments shot by Beyoncé herself.
"HBO has a history of pushing every boundary with class and authenticity," said the 16-time Grammy winner (and mother of Blue Ivy Carter, who turns 1 in January) in a statement. "Some of my favorite shows are on HBO, so I am excited that my film will be part of its bold programming. This film was so personal to me, it had to have the right home."
The film, which Beyoncé also executive produces, "sheds light on her childhood in Houston, with home movies revealing the close bond she built with her family and charts the challenges Beyoncé felt when she decided to manage her career and build her own company, Parkwood Entertainment," HBO said.
The notoriously private singer has been coming out of her shell of late: over the weekend, the 31-year-old shared a new photo of her cuddling with 11-month-old Blue Ivy on her personal Tumblr. Another image shows husband Jay-Z walking down a path carrying the baby. In honor of the holiday, she also posted a picture of a handwritten note that read: "From my family to yours. Wishing you a happy and healthy Thanksgiving. Beyoncé."


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