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The Champagne baking pear may well be an old Württemberger variety. It originated from an accidental seedling, as do almost all old fruit species. In Duke Carl Eugen's tree nursery, the Champagne baking pear was propagated in large numbers due to its high local importance so that it could be distributed by the agricultural patron throughout the whole of the state of Württemberg. According to Lucas, around 1850 it was commonly found on the Filder elevated plain near Stuttgart, in the Neckar and Rems valleys and in many regions of the state. The tree established itself at medium altitudes from 300 to 450 m above sea level, especially in conditions favourable to creating microclimates on warmer soils. Today we find the trees in particular in certain regions along the Albtrauf, the northwestern border of the Swabian Alb mountain range.
Schlat, with its favourable position for fruit cultivation, has preserved a vital crop thanks to the attachment of the local people to their Champagne baking-pear trees and to the knowledge of its fruit growers.
The main crop in Schlat is now between 90 and 120 years old, with a small part in the middle age range at 30 years old and newly planted trees from the last five years that still have some growing ahead of them before they begin to deliver any significant yield after 20 years of cultivation. A high-standing tree first completes its natural growth spurt and only then starts to bear fruit. This is an example of a tree really being planted and cultivated for the next generation, where long-term management is required.
Our traditional orchards in the area around the Albvorland, located below the Albtrauf, are the largest area of biodiversity north of the Alps. The outstanding range of species there is important for all the ecosystems in central Europe. With more than 5000 animal and plant species, not counting fungi, lichens and mosses, this is unique in the area north of the Alps. The dominant species of birds found in the traditional orchard include the little owl, wryneck, woodchat shrike, green woodpecker and collared flycatcher. The traditional orchard is therefore of the highest importance for the biodiversity of central Europe, comparable with the standard olive, cork and Holm oak tree forests of southern Europe.
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Chuck Berry, when an artist loses his art
I keep thinking about Chuck Berry -- and what it means when artists lose their creative chops.
Ken, my significant other, and I were there, at the Congress Theater, Saturday night. We were in Chicago celebrating the onset of a new year and decade and an anniversary, of sorts.
The Chicago Reader had called it, Chuck is not the musician he used to be, they warned. Still it was Chuck Berry. Hearing him play, even sub par, would be an experience.
And was it ever. The show was at an old movie palace that had turned decrepit in a way that perfectly suits a rock club. We found a spot down front and waited for more than two and a half hours for the show to start. A promoter kept returning to the stage asking for applause, for the stage hands, the bartenders, the ticket takers. Stalling -- never a good sign.
Berry finally emerged in a red sequined shirt and white sailor's cap. I confess, I had a lump in my throat. He's my mom's age, my mom who I have a hard time getting to the hair salon sometimes, and here he was on stage before a capacity crowd.
With the opening riff from Johnny B. Goode, Berry transformed impatience to pure love in the space of a few bars. A reminder to never underestimate the power of rock and roll or, for that matter, art in general. The jubilant crowd was also a diverse one. A young mother held her little girl, who clutched a bright blue ukulele. There were the older set, people who were young when Chuck was too. And everyone in between.
Berry's voice was strong but his playing wobbly. Notes were dropped or out of tune. Songs lost their way and dissipated. And when things fell apart, Berry kept returning home, to his famous riffs, instantly pulling us back under his spell. In flashes, he was the father of rock and roll.
But things didn't cohere for more than a moment or two here and there. Eventually, things fell completely apart. He blamed his pick-up piano player and the piano. He recited a strange bit of prose with no musical accompaniment. And then he gave up his guitar, taking over the piano, directing his players around the stage, which resulted in confusion, microphone shuffling and no music for a long stretch.
This is when Ken and I decided to go. It was too heartbreaking. In our cab, headed back downtown, I searched Twitter to see what people were saying about the concert and learned that Berry had collapsed on stage and was being examined by emergency medical personnel. The rest of the story, you probably know.
You might call it gumption. You might call it foolish pride. The thing that keeps Berry playing may be the thing that keeps him alive, too. Who knows?
What we were left with, though, was a portrait of an artist clinging fiercely to his creative talents at the end of his life -- and losing them. With all of the good will in that theater, I wondered where his loved ones, his close friends, were. Where are the advisors who could give it to him straight and tell him what he needs to play out (someone to tune his guitars, to play rhythm for him, for instance)? I wondered: What does he have other than his art?
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Jim Higgins - Mary Louise's title is "Art & Architecture Critic", so understanding that music is a form of Art and the JS has listed her as a "Critic" why would you be surprised that people would read this article and not look at it as a review?
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Except for Chuck Berry leaving the stage, apparently ill, this sounds exactly like the show I saw in Green Bay a year and a half ago. However, I knew much of what Ted Burke mentions going into the show, and I understood. You had to take Berry's considerable quirks (only some them age-related) along with the moments of greatness. I'm glad Mary Louise wrote this, giving voice to the fans.
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Tells about the venue, the ambiance, introduces the performer, narrates how well they did or didn't do. Tells about the crowd reaction. Clearly not a review.
That you are so tone deaf to the article that you question a reader who explains they do believe it is a review is priceless.
It would have been better for you to let them think it was a review than have you pull out the JS Staff moniker and treat them with such contempt.
It's hard to say how much of it was exhaustion and how much of it was
Chuck Berry being Chuck Berry. The "too old" criticism is lobbed at
another octogenarian who was at work on New Year's Eve, too. Joe
Paterno was coaching Penn State in his 539th game. Ultimately, they
lost to a team coached by Urban Meyer, who is calling it quits at the
ripe old age of 46. But not many people could lead an NCAA team to 7
wins at any age, let alone 84, and not many people Chuck Berry's age
would even attempt a concert.
Berry, like many others of his era, may be rock n' roll icons, but have been victim of questionable business managers. They rely on tours for income because of bad record deals.
Older musicians rely on Medicare and other government funded health insurance assistance and use tours to supplement their income. The labels they made millions for do not generally provide lifetime insurance coverage for the artists that created the wealth.
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ACCIDENT — Second-ranked Southern scored four consecutive goals to erase an early deficit and beat Northern, 4-2, Wednesday evening at Northern.
Emily Fratz got the early goal for Northern, 15 minutes into the match, but Alicia Roth began the four-goal spurt by the Rams, tying it by scoring on an assist from Marley Merrick at 22:26.
Alli Shaffer's unassisted goal gave Southern a 2-1 halftime lead.
Tess Watson and Jess Cooper scored in the first seven minutes of the second half to boost the Southern lead to 4-1. Watson's score came unassisted and Cooper scored on a pass from Alicia Harpole.
Northern's Callie Vernon got the final goal of the night, scoring off a corner kick by Madi Gallagher at 25:22.
Southern led in shots 8-6 and in corner kicks 6-3. Annie Martin made two saves in goal for the Rams and Kloey Werner had four for the Huskies.
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A former O'Fallon man pleaded guilty Thursday to charges of involuntary manslaughter in the death of his 23-month-old son.
Wayne M. Hubert, 33, was accused of being passed out drunk while his toddler son, Nathan, died in a hot car in June.
He also pleaded guilty to endangering the life of his now 6-year-old daughter.
Hubert was sentenced to four years in the Southwest Illinois Correctional Facility in East St. Louis with two years mandatory supervised release for involuntary manslaughter, and 364 days to be served concurrently with a stipulated period of probation following time served for the charge of endangerment. He is to report to the jail May 4.
Judge John Baricevic agreed to Hubert's request to report to the St. Clair County Jail before being transported elsewhere, according to Hubert's Attorney Thomas Q. Keefe, III. Baricevic ruled Hubert is not a flight risk.
Baricevic is counting 118 days of home detention against his sentence. According to St. Clair County Assistant State's Attorney Kristi Hodel, Hubert's voluntary 54 days of drug and alcohol rehabilitation, which he served July 1-25 and Oct. 9-26, will not be taken off his sentence.
Hubert also faces charges in Madison County for driving under the influence of alcohol, failure to wear a seatbelt and transportation of alcohol by a driver. These charges stem from an Oct. 8 incident, almost five months after the death of his son, and the day before his most recent stint in rehab. Hubert's next court appearance is set for April 25.
Emergency officials responded to a call of an unresponsive toddler June 20 at the Hubert residence on Joy Drive. Nathan was pronounced dead at 5:52 p.m., more than three hours after he was left inside a hot car.
Hubert was taken into custody after authorities discovered he had passed out from intoxication on the floor of his home while leaving his son unattended and strapped into a carseat in a black Hyundai Elantra, which was parked in the driveway.
O'Fallon Police officials confirmed the toddler had been in the vehicle without air conditioning and only one window partially cracked on a day that outside temperatures ranged from 85 to 90 degrees. When rescue workers arrived on scene, Nathan's temperature was 104.6.
Hodel said during court proceedings that Hubert's blood alcohol level at 7:10 p.m. was 0.199, and again at 9:15 p.m. it was 0.193 -- more than twice the legal limit of 0.08.
According to police, the father was asked about burns on the child's arms and he replied, "The child was in the car since about 2:30 p.m.; please help. I am sorry."
Keefe declined to comment , but did say previously, "My client is living elsewhere (not at 323 Joy Drive, O'Fallon), but does still have contact with his daughter."
Hubert was married to Tere Hubert, the children's mother, who was at work at the time of the incident. According to court records, Tere Hubert was granted divorce Nov. 20.
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By Bob Hertzel
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This is the week Geno Smith's and Tavon Austin's lives changed.
They became NFL players, millionaires.
It wasn't always this way, stepping off a college campus and being handed a lifetime's worth of earnings, and we're going to tell you today about what it was like once upon a time for an amateur athlete turning professional.
It's a story of how times change, not only in terms of dollars and cents but in terms of dollars and sense.
Sometimes, even people were different.
There was a time, you see, when people actually were different.
Let's go back almost 60 years, to 1955, and use a baseball player, not a football player, coming out of college with as much potential as both Geno Smith and Tavon Austin, maybe even more, as an example.
We use baseball because at that time it, not the NFL, was the true American game, and we use this athlete because he was one who would claim greatness.
His name was Sandy Koufax.
This is the story of his signing with the then Brooklyn Dodgers, the story as it was told publicly for the first time in the May 15, 1967, edition of Sports Illustrated in a first-person article by the great general manager, Buzzie Bavasi, who signed Koufax.
It is a tale that is hard to believe today.
Al Campanis, who would grow to have his own problems in the waning days of his career, discovered Koufax when he was pitching at the University of Cincinnati and asked him to come to the Brooklyn front office with his father to talk about signing.
The New York Giants, Boston Braves and, yes, the Pittsburgh Pirates had also scouted him and liked him, but he still had no offer on the table from anyone. This was in the pre-draft days, when clubs bid against each other to sign prospects.
This was how Bavasi wrote about it in an article ghosted by Jack Olsen:
"We met in my office: Sandy, a big, handsome kid right off the campus of the University of Cincinnati; his father, Irving, a lawyer and a straight shooter; Campanis and me. There was no horsing around. I asked Mr. Koufax how much money they wanted. He said $14,000 plus the usual minimum salary of $6,000."
Shall we stop there for a moment?
Koufax wanted a $14,000 bonus and $6,000 a year.
That's pocket change today for Tavon Austin.
Last year, Andrew Luck received $22 million for four years from the Indianapolis Colts as the NFL's first-round draft pick and Robert Griffin III was given $21,119,098 for four years with the Washington Redskins.
Neither had any more experience behind them than Koufax.
Anyway, Bavasi magnanimously agreed to those terms.
"I said fine, and we all made a handshake deal," Bavasi wrote. "And that's about all there was to it, except that I told them that I had no room on the roster and asked them to wait for a contract until I could unload somebody to make room."
Irving and Sandy Koufax agreed to that.
What no one knew was that as they were walking down the stairs in the Dodgers' front office they would run into Pirates scout Ed McCarrick, a former Dodger employee who often stopped by to "shoot the breeze," as Bavasi put it.
"Ed sees the father and son going down our stairs and he panics," Bavasi wrote. "He figures that Sandy Koufax is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for a scout, and after some fast action on the long-distance phone, Ed gets in touch with the Koufax family and tells them that Branch Rickey of the Pirates has authorized him to offer $5,000 more than Brooklyn's top bid, whatever it is."
Bavasi figures he's lost Sandy Koufax.
"Well, I don't have to tell you what most people would have done, especially since Sandy would have preferred pitching for Rickey and the Pirates because he had a much better chance of breaking into their rotation," Bavasi wrote.
But it didn't happen.
"Mr. Koufax and his son never hesitated for a second; they told Ed that they had a deal with the Dodgers. I found out later that John Quinn, who was then general manager of the Braves, had offered Sandy $30,000 to sign, and the Koufaxes turned down that one, too."
The Koufaxes turned down more than double the money because they had agreed to a handshake deal.
Of course, Koufax went on to become a Hall of Fame pitcher, but more importantly by then had proven himself a Hall of Fame person.
Geno Smith and Tavon Austin will get far better offers than Koufax and they won't be put in the moral dilemma he was, but as life goes on you expect such situations will face both, be it when Nike and Reebok come their way or in any other business opportunities with which they are presented.
You hope they will be able to handle them as well as Koufax.
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NORMAN — Two longtime OU campus landmarks have had to deal with demolition. The Kappa Sigma fraternity house was likely the second Greek house built south of Lindsey Street in the 1940s. The Lambda Chi house on Lindsey is believed to be the first.
Hundreds of Kappa Sigmas have called 1100 College home for more than 60 years. The red-brick colonial style house with a partial basement had thick walls and took a few days for crews to demolish.
A few blocks north, the much smaller Hettie's House, at 739 College, will come down this summer. It was a rooming house for many years before Delta Gamma sorority purchased the property and used it for overflow housing for members.
The house was built some time between 1925 and 1944 and was home first to sailors and then OU students. The sorority chapter, like most fraternities and sororities, desperately needed parking and decided to level the house this summer.
The Kappa Sigmas have been raising money and will build a new chapter house on the property, a full city block. They'll not likely need any additional parking spaces.
A few blocks to the east, contractors are finishing construction on OU's newest housing units. Headington Hall will be home to athletes and non-athletes. Judging by the activity there, they will be open by the start of OU classes Aug. 19.


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Dear all,
I wish to know the format of termination of service for my staff. He has been offered for a fixed term of six months contact. His contract will going to end by next month. Our company do not wish to continue his contract so i need to serve a letter of termination of service.
Please tell me how to write the letter i need it as soon as possible. Thank you.
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Dear Mr / Mrs XXXX,
Please refer appointment letter dated ------ for the fixed term appoint for the position of -------in our organisation. It is due to work exigencies in our organisation we could not extend your services beyond the fixed term referred in your appoint letter dated above. Your services are coming to an end on-----------------. Hence, you are advised to contract accounts department during working hours for your full and final settlement if any.
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Nothing needs to be done further and you need not to give him any termination letter. It will terminate automatically by flux of time. At the best you may think of informing him in advance saying that as per terms of the appointment his tenure will expire on so and so date.I presume that the date of the commencement of employment must have been mentiond in the said appointment letter. Six months have to be computed from that date.
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Dear Mr.
NOTICE OF TERMINATION OF EMPLOYMENT WITH .......................("the Company')
The management would like to inform you that your employment with the Company shall be terminated.
This is a Notice of Termination of your employment with ........................."the Company" You are required to work with us till ............... 2009.
We hereby give you 30 days written notice of the termination of your employment contract with immediate effect. We shall be paying off the thirty days (30) notice period from (1st July 2009 – 31st July 2009). Your last payment will be issued to you end month of July 2009.
As per your Employment Contract, you are required to do a proper handover of all passwords, files, instruction manuals, confidential documents, stationeries, keys, name cards, membership card, daily planner, new member log, lanyard, name tag, office access card and all other properties belonging to the Company to your Manager/Supervisor which were made available to you previously (the "Said Clearance") to be completed on or before 31st July 2009.
Kindly note that your employment pass/identity card will be canceled accordingly following termination of your employment.
Yours sincerely,
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I hereby confirmed that I have read, understood and accept the above by signing below
(Employee Name)
can any one have any sample of letter for cancel agreement with a computer centre with strong node??
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Hi, Can any on give a sample termination letter stateing if a employee want to join again if he is interseted
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text: WORLD SBK: MAX BIAGGI WINS IN THE SPANISH ROUND. VICTORY IN RACE 2 AND SECOND PLACE IN RACE 1. GAP BEHIND CHECA REDUCED BY 29 POINTS. NICE PODIUM FOR LEON CAMIER, THIRD PLACE IN RACE 1. Aragon Motorland (Spain), June 19th 2011 -- From the Aragon Circuit (Spain) the first victory of the 2011 World SBK season arrives for Max Biaggi. After taking second place in Race 1 behind Marco Melandri (a result which earned the World Champion 20 points toward closing the gap behind the ranking leader, Checa, who crashed in the seventh lap), Biaggi outdid himself in the second race. Off to a splendid start, Max stayed out front from the first to the last lap, with Melandri once more breathing down his pipes. The two soon left the rest of the pack behind them. Max pushed hard without any hesitation all the way to the finish line, forcing Melandri to go wide in a turn on the fifteenth lap in his attempts to keep up the same pace. Exactly the opposite of what had happened in the first race when it was Max who gave the rider from Ravenna an opening with a similar error after leading for the first three-quarters of the race. The proof of Max's strength this weekend is summed up by the fact that he was in the lead for 35 out of a total of 40 laps. "I am truly happy. This is the first victory with the number 1 on the fairing. I think it could have happened a lot sooner. Unfortunately there was always some circumstance that kept it from us, but we deserve it and I will enjoy it with my team. I must thank the team. We worked very hard and between the two races we were also able to change something on my RSV4 which allowed me to push even harder and to be fast and consistent all the way to the end. These are very close races where any slight hesitation can compromise everything. But I dare say that this was a decisive victory, in front from the first metre to the last". With this statement, and with the nice placing in Race 1, Biaggi significantly reduces the gap (29 points) behind Checa, who crashed in the first race today and came in third for the second. The two are now separated by 43 points (261 to 218). "I am certainly not celebrating because of the points I earned - admonished Biaggi - I did not overtake anyone and there is little to celebrate where the standings are concerned. What matters to me is to have truly won. Now I want to ride good races and keep winning, but we need to make the entire bike-tyres package competitive. It hasn't always been so up to now, so I hope that from here on we can change something". Leon Camier had a bitter-sweet weekend with a bitter Race 2 (eighth place at more than 17 seconds behind the winner) contrasting a nice rostrum (third) in the first race). Leon captured the third step of the podium crossing the finish line right behind Melandri and Biaggi and riding with the same pace as the leaders for two-thirds of the race. "I'm happy for myself and for Aprilia - commented Camier at the end - it certainly didn't go badly, but I'm a bit disappointed that I didn't have a good pace from the start. I struggled at least until the seventh lap and then I pushed hard, but Max and Melandri had more or less the same pace I did, so I wasn't able to get too close. Too bad!". Enjoyed this Post? Subscribe to our RSS Feed, or use your favorite social media to recommend us to friends and colleagues!


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Liz Cheney's Family Values
Liz Cheney announced that she doesn't approve of gay marriage, despite the fact that her sister is a married lesbian.
This past week, former Vice President Dick Cheney's daughter Liz Cheney, a candidate for the U.S. Senate from Wyoming, made clear her disapproval of gay marriage. Now, there's nothing wrong with taking a political stance on a hot policy topic.
Unless your sister is gay and is married to her long-time partner, with two young children at home.
In other words, Liz Cheney dissed – and likely profoundly hurt the feelings of – her sister Mary, her sister-in-law Heather, and their children Samuel and Sarah. Mary Cheney responded by posting on facebook and asking her friends and supporters to "like" and spread her post: "I love my sister, but she is dead wrong on gay marriage."
Let's assume for the moment that the sisters do love each other and have a familial bond. The Cheneys are reportedly a close family, and even Liz's dad, former Vice President Cheney, has said of gay marriage, "I think people ought to be free to enter into any kind of union they wish. . . . I think freedom means freedom for everyone." Given all this, it would seem that Liz is bucking the family on this one, as well as hurting her sister.
[See a collection of political cartoons on gay marriage.]
So the question: Was it worth it?
If only Liz Cheney knew that a Senate seat isn't all it's cracked up to be, given the current dysfunction in the Senate. Just ask her opponent in Wyoming, Republican Sen. Mike Enzi.
As the ranking member on the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions – where I served as a Senior Committee Counsel to the Democratic Chairman – Enzi spent hours each week for countless months carefully drafting legislation to reform the No Child Left Behind education law. And then what happened? At the committee mark-up, Enzi was unable to bring along the vast majority of the other Republican members of his Committee, leading to a nearly party-line vote on the bill. Then, the bill died – partly given the lack of bipartisanship and partly given the reality that Enzi's counterparts in the House had a very different vision and had no intention of compromise.
Actually, that's fairly typical of what's happening in Congress these days: Lots of hard work and many hours devoted to solving major public policy issues – and then the bills just die in the highly partisan, highly-politicized environment in which people like Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., explicitly announce that their top legislative priority is to obstruct the president, not to solve the nation's problems.
Put McConnell's obstructionism in historical context: Republicans have filibustered or threatened to filibuster (and forced Democrats to file cloture to break that threat) 250 times since President Obama took office. Compare that to a grand total of 49 cloture votes to break filibuster over the 50-year span between 1919 and 1971.
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Hey, Liz, you might think twice about causing such a rift with a dear member of your family, especially given the political "prize" you're after. Give your sister a call, say how deeply sorry you are, and invite her, her wife and the kids to Thanksgiving. The Senate isn't all it's cracked up to be, these days, and it sure ain't worth throwing your family under the bus.
Moreover, what the Senate needs right now, in order to return to a well-functioning arm of democracy, is strong leaders who are willing to buck the destructive, petty partisanship that McConnell is so fond of, reach out across the aisle and get back in touch with the everyday concerns of Americans. Arguably, a candidate who is willing to say whatever it takes to win an election – including causing personal hurt to her sister – is not likely to be a leader who can help right the sinking ship.
This could, instead, have been a "teachable moment." Liz could have echoed her father's stand, or even stuck to her policy stance against gay marriage while still educating whoever in Wyoming feels threatened by gays and lesbians by saying, "Hey, my sister is a lesbian and is married to her long-time partner. I come from a tight-knit family in which we accept and love each other – warts and all. What's right for my family may not be right for every family, and I don't want to impose our family's ideas on the rest of Wyoming, but I do think it is wrong to be afraid of the love and commitment that people can share." Or, even, echo Pope Francis, who recently said of gay priests, "Who am I to judge?"
[Read the U.S. News Debate: Should Gay Marriage be Legal Nationwide?]
Why would this matter? Does the name Matthew Shepard ring a bell? A young college student in Wyoming, he was tortured and murdered just because he was gay. In his honor, Congress finally passed legislation in 2009 to make hate crimes against gays and lesbians a crime. And hate crimes continue. According to the FBI, almost one in every five hate crimes in the U.S. in 2010 were motivated by hatred of gays and lesbians; the Southern Poverty Law Center reported that gays and lesbians are "far more likely than any other minority group in the U.S. to be victimized by violent hate crimes."
And Wyoming? It voted down such a hate crimes law for gays and lesbians. Think Wyoming might benefit from having the issue humanized a bit? The mere fact that opponents of Liz Cheney allegedly attempted to tar her with gay marriage tells us a lot about how that issue plays in Wyoming.
But instead of sharing with Wyoming residents the love that she feels for her lesbian sister, and trying to help spread tolerance, Liz Cheney pandered to Wyoming's most homophobic constituents.
Pandering is not leadership, and it's not what the Senate needs right now.


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|UK managers' conceptions of employee training and development
|Almuth McDowall, (Psychology Department, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK), Mark N.K. Saunders, (School of Management, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK)
|Almuth McDowall, Mark N.K. Saunders, (2010) "UK managers' conceptions of employee training and development", Journal of European Industrial Training, Vol. 34 Iss: 7, pp.609 - 630
|Decision making, Individual development, Managers, Training, Training evaluation
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|10.1108/03090591011070752 (Permanent URL)
|Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Purpose – The first purpose of this paper is to review the practical and theoretical distinctions between training and development in the organisational psychology and human resource development (HRD) literatures. Then the paper seeks to investigate how managers responsible for the training and development function conceptualise these activities in practice, the factors that guide their decision making, how they evaluate the outcomes and the extent to which they perceive a relationship between training and development.
Design/methodology/approach – Taking a critical realist perspective, 26 interviews were conducted with UK managers and analysed through thematic coding using template analysis.
Findings – Managers' conceptualisations of training and development vary. Formal training is prioritised due to a perceived more tangible demonstrable return on investment. Perceived success in training focuses on improvements to job-related skills, whereas success outcomes for development are more varied and difficult to measure. Managers consider that training and development are more valuable when combined.
Research limitations/implications – There is a need for further process-driven research to understand the interrelationship between training and development and to develop methods that can be used by organisations to evaluate both. This necessitates going beyond methods currently in use and including both qualitative and quantitative measures.
Practical implications – Managers may take a more proactive and directive role in facilitating development than the literature suggests; consequently, their role needs to be considered more actively in HRD learning strategies.
Originality/value – This is one of the first qualitative studies to explore the conceptualisations of managers responsible for training and development, highlighting the inter-relationship between training and development and the factors guiding decisions regarding these activities.
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AUBURN — For more than three hours, they were angry and they were heard.
Hundreds of people packed Kirk Hall at Central Maine Community College on Thursday night for a comment session on Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield's controversial new insurance proposal that would force individual policy holders into a network with MaineHealth providers.
Under the plan, patients who bought individual policies after March 2010 could no longer see doctors at Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston, Bridgton Hospital or Parkview Adventist Medical Center in Brunswick.
Speakers ripped Anthem and MaineHealth for proposing it and the state for considering it.
They questioned the increased drive times, abandoned long-term patient-doctor relationships, increased waits, risk of losing local jobs and having choice taken away.
Mary Dempsey said her mother, who has battled cancer, could have to leave CMMC, home to the Patrick Dempsey Center for Cancer Hope & Healing that her son helped found.
"My mother is a very strong lady, and to see her break down in tears because she might have to go somewhere else is not acceptable," Dempsey said. "Not acceptable."
Daniel Rausch, a medical oncologist, said CMMC is the only Lewiston hospital that offers radiation therapy. He'd have to tell sick patients to drive five days a week to Portland or Augusta.
"I don't know how that qualifies as comparable care," he said.
Allan Ingraham, recently retired head of vascular surgery at the CMMC heart center, said he was "disgusted and disappointed" that the state's second-largest metropolitan area was getting such short shrift.
"To coin one of the governor's famous statements, you should pass out some Vaseline to everybody in this area," he said. "It is ignoring all of the achievements that have happened at Central Maine Medical Center."
The state's first breast care center. The state's first helicopter service.
Comment after comment drew hoots and applause. Many CMMC employees and supporters in the audience wore lime-green "Please Keep Care Local" T-shirts. Another hundred people who couldn't fit in the auditorium waited outside in the hall.
The Rev. Naomi King drove her electric wheelchair to the front of the packed room and introduced herself as Stephen King's daughter. Her family, she said, has Anthem policies.
After her father's horrific car accident in 1999, "it was Bridgton Hospital that stabilized him and Central Maine Medical Center that treated him," King said. These changes would effect people who "helped him walk again and write great books and tell great stories."
She said she'd put off some care if forced to travel 90 minutes from Western Maine to see a doctor.
"It is going to increase suffering in our community, enormously and economically," King said.
Bill Young, CMMC's former, longtime CEO, said he was "perplexed" that the state was considering the plan but understood why MaineHealth, Maine Medical Center's parent, wanted it.
In the 1970s, CMMC was small and Maine Med was huge. People drove there for specialized care. In the mid-1970s, Young said, CMMC made a concerted effort to grow, and every specialist hired drew patients away from Maine Med.
"It's very obvious from what we've done, we've never been a friend of Maine Medical Center," he said.
Things came to a head when CMMC decided to open its heart center. Maine Med's top cardiologists paid Young a visit.
"These men walked into our office here in Lewiston and told us we have absolutely no business 'fooling with their patients,' and that was their exact words. I'll never forget it," he said.
Ronald Reagan, Young said, called the Soviet Union the "evil empire" because it meant to do harm.
"I submit to you that Maine Medical Center, to the citizens of this region, to the providers of this region, they are the evil empire," Young said.
Lewiston Mayor Robert Macdonald said the hospital was the city's largest employer and he did not plan to see it lose any jobs.
"If you are going to play this game, that's fine, because I will keep going the distance," Macdonald said. "If it doesn't (work,) we'll go to step two. If it doesn't, we'll go to step three — I think that will get your attention."
He walked away from the microphone without elaborating.
Anthem spokesman Christopher Dugan said the proposed plan would keep rates 12 percent lower for individuals than they would be after new Affordable Care Act costs.
People would also still have a choice, he said. They could choose to buy insurance from someone else.
"It certainly is not for every single person," Dugan said.
There will be a formal public hearing on the proposal Monday, Sept. 9, at the Burton M. Cross Office Building in Augusta.
Superintendent of Insurance Eric Cioppa, who took in the hours of sworn comment Thursday, said he would rule on the proposal shortly thereafter.
"I won't sit on it long," he said.
The Lewiston session was the third and longest of the comment sessions, which made sense, Cioppa said. "I want to hear what people had to say."
The event ran so long that a planned Q&A session around the Affordable Care Act was put off for another night, to be determined.


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I will agree with the long winded part BKC, but great story and bull! I would guess the bull that got away was hit in a horn?


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Hey, good studies going on. Just keep it up and you'll do fine!
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Some excellent stuff. I especially like your colour work.
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Thanks guys!
I'm back after a little while, been working and figuring stuff out and my art has been sort of neglected. Something I'll soon fix.
Today I spent a few hours on a Sargent study.
From this reference:
Yay I have stars now!
But I would still love some feedback.
More stuff:
Awsome sketchbook you have going here
I really like your painting style has alot of great brush strokes
Looking forward to seeing more
keep having fun drawing and observing
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sketchbook updated October 6th
You make me want to start my own sketchbook on this forum. Thanks.
Hey thanks guys, that means a lot!
I've been working on a little project from another forum where you take a piece of old artwork and do a new one, presumably to show how much better you have gotten since.
Original (circa 2007):
Good work dude! next time don't skimp on the handddss!
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PS: I love how our Iron Haans/Jack and the Beanstalk project just died
So here's a few anatomy studies and such.
I'm also doing concept art for the poem Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll. It's for practice but aimed at being used in a game.
It'll never be as good as this telling but one can dream.
Here's the design for the Jabberwock.
My idea is that he's a dragon that somehow lost his wings in a fight and he's stuck on the island where the story takes place.
Started with thumbs but they all looked crap except for the one i have here, so i took that and worked on a sketch.
Hey DeeLock! Thanks for giving me some crit in my SB, means a lot and it's hard to come by^^
You got some solid work here matey - your character drawings have style, it's definitely distinguishable from others I feel. Nice to see the anatomy study, I think it's paying off. All the weapon ideas look like great research.
For crits, I think your faces could do with some more work - have you used Loomis Head and Hands book? Also try looking at them in a mirror, helps with symmetry. Though saying all this, that Sargent study looks fantastic ^^
Keep it up man!!
Thanks for stopping by my SB. You got some awesome stuff here, very nice progress.
VERY nice work, Dylan! You're at a better place than I was when I started at AAU, so you'll be just fine. That Sargent study looks awesome, and I love the head studies.
I'm in the masters program, are you doing that or undergrad? And what major? PM me about those, I can point you towards some teachers here and there. My advice for now is: work your ASS off. Keep filling that sketchbook, attend whatever workshops you can, and keep up those master copies. They'll keep you busy enough, but at least in my program, we get less homework than you'd imagine. You'll have several required classes and that can't be helped, but spend time researching the teachers and pick your sections based on that, not the time slot. Always get to the shuttles in time for the one BEFORE the bus you need, they're always late for me. Other than that, you should be golden. Make friends with people who work hard . If you've got any other questions just PM me, and drop me a line if you wanna sketch sometime or whatever.
Edit: Oh, and one more thing. When you start oil painting, if you're on a shoestring budget, get the best brushes you can possibly afford, get the student paint, and buy wood panels at Home Depot. Buy what you can online, Utrecht's a ripoff .
Hey dude this is looking awesome, those heads are great! Can't really think of anything to crit but thanks for dropping by my SB and keep up your good work!
Thanks everyone!
New sketches from Thanksgiving weekend.
I was up in Oregon and just now got access to a scanner. I'm also on a laptop so it's a bit dimmer than I'm used to so I hope they all came out ok.
Designs for the Tumtum tree from Jabberwocky:
And of course I had to bring my sketchbook to the Portland Zoo (I was in a group so none of these are more than 5 minutes):
Damn man, your faces are nice D: Everything is really nice actually. I wish I could be more helpful but I really can't find anything to crit
Well, dude, keep up the awesome work and thanks for visiting my book of sketches.
Thanks Bombur
Some eyes:
Hands (I tried to invent more as I went along, last page is all invented):
Good stuff! Keep going!
hey so i'm obviously waaay below you in the artistic ranks but i love your stuff! particularly the zoo animals...I'd like to do that, except I don't know how that'd work since they don't keep still...
your eyes creep me out, but all of your anatomy studies are great and kinda encourage me to do more...i need to...
Thanks guys!
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Well, well, well. Fancy seeing you on here. You've got some nerve showing your avatar around here!
Nice updates dude. Keep em coming!
Nice to see that last page of gestures.
I would say construction and gestures are your weaker points right now. So perhaps do some posemaniacs! It is good for that (and not much else, actually).
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what book did you get all of those hands from? And nice hands from imagination. I should do more of those >.>
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These are mostly from my Analysis of Form class and Anatomy at the Academy of Art.
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A Haddon Township man was arrested Thursday on a slew of gun charges, and authorities say he's also a member of a federally recognized anti-government extremist group.
Gregory Gawrysiak, 46, of the first block of Emerald Avenue in Haddon Township, was arrested Thursday morning at his home for illegally possessing several firearms.
Gawrysiak was ineligible to buy new firearms after a 2010 incident in which he allegedly threatened to kill law enforcement officers, the Camden County Prosecutor's Office reported. Police confiscated a firearm from him at that time. While Gawrysiak wasn't charged, he relinquished his firearms identification card and his eligibility to purchase new guns.
After the 2010 investigation, officials learned Gawrysiak is part of Sovereign Citizen Movement, which believes federal and state governments lack legitimate authority, the prosecutor's office said.
"Sovereign citizens are anti-government extremists who believe that even though they physically reside in this country, they are separate or 'sovereign' from the United States," according to an FBI profile. "As a result, they believe they don't have to answer to any government authority, including courts, taxing entities, motor vehicle departments or law enforcement."
An investigation into the group by Haddon Township Police and the prosecutor's office Homeland Security/Counter-Terrorism officer prompted a deeper look into Gawrysiak.
"During a three-month investigation, it was determined that the weapon obtained in 2010 was an illegal assault firearm according to New Jersey statute," reads a release from the prosecutor's office. "Further investigation revealed Gawrysiak had obtained a false Pennsylvania driver's license last year by using a relative's address and was continuing to purchase guns illegally in that state."
On Thursday, authorities confiscated a pistol from Gawrysiak's Emerald Avenue home. His relatives tipped police off to other weapons—a handgun, shotgun and rifle—belonging to Gawrysiak, but kept at a Mantua home. Authorities said the weapons were bought illegally in Pennsylvania in 2012.
Gawrysiak is an apprentice linesman for Amtrak, the prosecutor's office said. Amtrak representatives were on hand at his arrest.
Gawrysiak was charged with unlawful possession of a weapon, possession of an assault firearm and possession of a defaced firearm. He was jailed in Camden County on $500,000 bail. Additional charges are pending in Pennsylvania.
Police are continuing to investigate Gawrysiak's alleged activities.
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BOARDMAN, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon State Police detective says a pipe bomb discovered in the Eastern Oregon city of Boardman would have damaged a trailer home park had it exploded.
Detective Dennis Wagner told the East Oregonian newspaper (http://is.gd/8emq4x ) that the bomb's potential blast radius was at least 100 yards.
Two women found the unusual-looking device Saturday during a community cleanup day in the city of 3,500. It turned out to be a pipe bomb with explosive powder and 4-inch nails to create shrapnel.
The trailer park is at one end of the road, which creates foot traffic. But there are no homes and businesses in the area where the bomb was found.
Police say they have no suspects in the case.
Information from: East Oregonian, http://www.eastoregonian.info
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Driver ends 'Dancing' night in 3rd' - but is it finals-worthy?
Donald Driver knows the agony of going 15-1 and going home without the Lombardi Trophy.
Similarly, all the effort he put into "Dancing With the Stars" will mean nothing if the Green Bay Packers wide receiver does not receive enough votes from fans to move him into next week's finals.
At the end of Monday's semifinals, Driver and partner Peta Murgatroyd were in a familiar place, stuck in third, while other dancers received higher scores and effusive praise.
Driver did receive a little of both, but it was tempered by a score of 57 out of 60, which may not be enough on a night when Maria Menounos and William Levy each received perfect scores for one of their dances. Menuous ended the night with a 59, and Levy had a 58.
Driver's chances possibly improved when presumed frontrunner Katherine Jenkins was apparently injured during her second dance, for which she earned a 27.
Her total for the night was 56.
Driver was dressed in all white for his first dance, a waltz, and while he gave a fluid and elegant performance, he looked pensive and stiff. Judge Carrie Ann Inaba said that a few times his "feet didn't finish the step," and, at this point, "it's about every little step."
But judge Bruno Tonioli said their dance was "like watching romance blossom right before my eyes." And judge Len Goodman called Driver "a big, rough, tough cream puff," as Driver's teammates, Aaron Rodgers and Clay Matthews, and coach Mike McCarthy looked on from the audience.
The second dance, a samba, in which Driver posed as a rich man and Murgatroyd as a gold-digger, was filled with little flourishes - Driver brushing his shoulders, tossing a kiss and pointing. In the end, she pulled a wad of money from his pocket.
The audience was on its feet for the whole dance.
Goodman called it "a little bit careful," but Tonioli said he "took a big risk and you won." Inaba described the dance as "A-plus, game."
Between the two performances, there were short biographical films of each dancer.
During his, Driver became emotional talking about growing up in a "very tough neighborhood" and "selling drugs and stealing cars." The turning point, he said, was meeting his wife Betina in college.
"I put my foot down," she said. "If you won't stop that life I won't be with you."
On Tuesday's results show, the judges scores will be combined with viewer votes to reveal which three dancers will perform in next week's final competition.
The winner will be named May 22.
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I think you were absolutely wrong when you stated that Donald Driver was stiff during his waltz. I found his performance absolutely mesmerizing, as his passion, his heart, and his soul shone through. Like all the other semi-finalists, his technique is superb, but he gifts his audience with something even beyond the beauty of the grace and elegance and pizzazz of his footwork. That something beyond is that special something that has won him the hearts of Packer fans throughout his career. Thanks you, Donald. And thank you to the entire Driver family for sharing this remarkable man -- as well as all you have contributed to his legacy -- with those of us in Packer country and beyond. As Donald himself ends each of his Packer blog entries, God bless!
On Monday evenings, after 7pm, if my lack of cell phone service is any indication, I'd say Driver is getting plenty of phone-in votes; all I get is a busy signal, or an "all circuits ares busy" recording.
I tried to vote on my land line for almost 2 hours and never could get through----I think it's a setup!!!
I had the same experience.....tried calling, calling, calling but never got through - either busy signal or "all circuits busy" as well. I hope that votes not getting through doesn't negatively impact Donald's chance to move forward tonight....
I was able to vote 25 times. 5 on land line, 5 on cell phone and 5 on three different e-mail accounts. I too received busy or all circuits are busy message when using my cell phone, but persistently called until I got all 5 votes in. On the land line I got through all 5 times without a hitch.Hide replies
Thanks for carrying the vote!!
Hope you don't try to vote for Barrett and Obama as many times. Can you say "voter fraud".
Like Donald but what a waste of time...all nfl guys win..tj Lang would win....they need to go to all sports or none at all...people are voting because they love Donald...it surely isn't his dancing...it was shoddy yesterday


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From Greek Orthodox to spiritual rock star to Muslim activist: the spiritual journey of a lifetime
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HOUSTON (RNS) -- Way back before Yusuf Islam, long before Cat Stevens, there was a little boy named Stephen Demetre Georgiou.
When the other children at his Roman Catholic school went forward to make their confessions or receive Holy Communion, Stephen did not participate. As the son of a Greek-Cypriot restaurateur and a Swedish mother, he was different from the other kids. He was Greek Orthodox. He attended the Catholic school because it was the only parochial one in London's West End.
"I was sort of an oddity," the grown-up Stephen, now known as Yusuf Islam, said in a recent lecture to a mostly Muslim crowd of 1,500 at the University of Houston.
Today, the word "distinctive" describes him more appropriately. Although his conversion to Islam prompted shock among his fans, the novelty of the switch has lessened. Slight and bearded, this servant of Allah exudes a quiet air of peace, whether he is lecturing to a group or talking one-on-one.
"The biggest instrument of change came with prayer. Because Islam teaches you not to wait a week until you sort of get religious. It says every day you should be keeping your connection with God throughout the day," Islam, now 51, said in an interview during his Houston visit.
Especially among fellow Muslims, he is widely respected for his lectures on behalf of the faith and for his work in Islamic education.
Millions were surprised when he left rock music after becoming a Muslim in 1977. To a generation of music fans, he was the lyrical minstrel of softer rock, a vocalist and guitarist known for such hits as "Moonshadow" and "Peace Train." But two years after his conversion, he changed his name to Yusuf Islam and left behind Cat Stevens, the moniker he used while a rock musician.
"Many people cannot understand why someone, who apparently had everything, would suddenly quit and dedicate himself to something so widely misunderstood," Islam told the university crowd. "I try to tell people that I didn't have anything before my conversion -- I didn't know myself, and I had no concept of what I was meant to accomplish. From the day I became a Muslim -- December 23, 1977 -- I was floating on air. Because I had finally found out who I was."
In conversation, Islam is gentle and funny -- sometimes even self-deprecating. One minute he seems almost bemused by his transformation from an icon of popular culture to an active proponent of one of America's fastest growing religions. The next moment, the piercing brown eyes that went straight to the heart of a generation of music fans turn serious.
He is discussing his faith.
"There are five prayers in a day," he said. "That may sound difficult to some. Quite frankly, it's as long as it takes you to have a cup of tea. It just means rather than looking and working and concentrating on this world and ... the goodies of this life, it's looking toward and focusing on your Creator, and your ultimate destination."
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