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Ann Cameron says she writes books to "capture the positive energy of life," a statement fully supported by The Most Beautiful Place in the World. She is the bestselling author of many popular books for children, including The Stories Julian Tells, More Stories Julian Tells, The Stories Huey Tells, and More Stories Huey Tells.
I was born and grew up in Rice Lake, Wisconsin, a small town of about 7,000 people. My favorite person was my grandfather, Oscar Lofgren, who taught me Swedish and told me stories. He was a blacksmith, and on our land he had a shop where he made things for us out of iron. I loved watching him hammer the hot iron on the anvil and seeing the sparks fly. He died when I was six. He was a warm and friendly person and helped me become one, too.
My dad was a small-town lawyer who handled all kinds of cases—sometimes for clients who didn't have any money: one family paid him in eggs, which they delivered to his office every Saturday morning. My mother had been a high school English teacher before she married and admired writers tremendously. She used to say she thought writing was "the most difficult job in the world." When I was in third grade, I decided I wanted to be a writer. I don't think the idea that it was "the most difficult job in the world" was a help to me!
From the time I was seven till I was ten, my inseparable playmates were a boy named Bradley, whom I greatly admired, and his little sister, Carolyn. My memories of that period of my life inform my stories about Julian. So does my relationship with my father, who was a showman like Julian's dad.
In the summers, my family lived at our lakeside cottage. My dad taught me how to swim, fish, water-ski, hunt, and operate a motorboat. He bought me a horse—a wonderful pinto pony named Paint—and taught me how to ride. One of the things I liked to do best on a hot summer day was to ride Paint bareback into the lake. He'd get in deep enough so he had to swim, and I'd float off his back.
By the time I was in high school, I was very interested in lots of things—skiing, acting, politics, science. I wanted to be good at everything in school because my sister, Jennifer, had been. Lucky for me I had an older sister who was good to imitate!
I got my B.A. with honors from Radcliffe College in Massachusetts in 1965. There I studied poetry writing with Robert Lowell and R. S. Fitzgerald, two well-known poets. Both of them assured me that I could indeed be a writer.
At Lowell's recommendation, I moved to New York after college to work in publishing. I became an assistant editor in the adult trade department at Harcourt, Brace. I read lots of manuscripts. I also read the letters of advice and suggestions for revisions that the editors sent to the authors when they returned their manuscripts. I hoped and believed that by reading all these letters I'd learn to avoid the mistakes the authors had made. No such luck! Occasionally I've written books in which the first draft was the final one and hardly a word was changed—The Stories Julian Tells, More Stories Julian Tells, and The Most Beautiful Place in the World were like that—but most often a book goes through three or more drafts.
In 1968, 1 started an adult novel. The chapters I wrote and the good recommendations of my editors got me invitations to artists' colonies for the summer and a full fellowship to the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa, where I got a master's degree in Fine Arts in 1974. 1 taught a literature course at Iowa and also was the first reader of all the manuscripts submitted to the workshop by student applicants. I started two more adult novels and abandoned them when I couldn't see how to organize them. Then I started writing for children. My third submission, The Seed, the story of a little seed that is afraid to grow, was published in 1974. Like most writers, I get lots of ideas but don't feel a story irresistibly bubbling up inside me. I have to push and pull at my mind to make my initial idea fill out with details and meaning. The most important rule for writing is: "Apply seat of pants to bottom of chair." Starting a new book is terribly hard. But by the end, I've forgotten how hard the beginning was, I'm proud of myself, and I'm ready to tackle the next book right away. Then I get involved in other things and much time passes . . .
To get myself to write, I do something I like much better than sitting at home: I go to restaurants. Every single one of my books has been written in a restaurant. One of them, in fact, was inspired right in the Patio restaurant in Panajachel, Guatemala. As I sat working there one day, a friend, Sergio Garcia, came up. Sergio sat down with me and started to tell me about how he'd always been scared of snakes when he was a kid—and so, to overcome his fear, he'd had snakes as pets when he was an adult. Tom, the owner of the restaurant, had been listening and said, "You could never write a book about snakes, Ann! Kids wouldn't like it." "Oh, yes, they would," I answered, "and it's going to be my next book!" Right then, I started writing Julian, Dream Doctor, about how Julian wants to get his father a special birthday present—which turns out to be snakes. For a couple of years I'd wanted to write a book about a special birthday present Julian gives his father, but until Sergio started talking about snakes, I couldn't think of any present that would make a thrilling and funny birthday.
My first book about Julian was inspired by stories a friend from South Africa, Julian DeWette, told me in 1975 about his childhood. Julian is a poet and novelist himself—a very fine one—and was then writing an adult novel about his childhood. He was most interested in writing about the painful parts of the story—about living with apartheid, the system of segregation by race that forcibly kept people apart in South Africa until it was abolished. When I used Julian's stories, I moved the characters out of South Africa. I set the stories in an imaginary country without racism—a country that represents the world we could have, someday.
After Iowa, I lived in Berkeley, California, for a year and then returned to New York. In 1983, 1 traveled to Guatemala. I went to visit Pablo Zavala, a Guatemalan friend I'd known in New York. I thought that if I liked Guatemala I would stay, partly because it might make it possible for me to earn a living from my books and get more writing done, and partly because I had always wanted to immerse myself in another culture.
In 1989, 1 met Bill Cherry, who was then working for the United States Congress in Washington, D.C., helping develop laws on agriculture. In 1990, we got married. (In one short ceremony I got a husband, two grown daughters, Angela and Cristi, and a granddaughter, Jessica). Bill retired, and now we both live in Guatemala. We have a small house with a view of three volcanoes and a waterfall, and flowers growing over the roof. There's a lemon tree in the backyard, and almost every day we have fresh lemonade from the tree. (My book The Most Beautiful Place in the World is set in Guatemala and based on stories a boy named Jose, a neighbor of mine, told me.)
In 1993, the mayor and city council of Panajachel named me the unpaid supervisor of the municipal library. The library had been closed for ten years and was very dirty, disordered, and neglected. It had fewer than twenty books for children. The town budget was too limited to make any improvements. Bill and I set out to raise money to make the library a beautiful place where children could learn. U.S. schools, libraries, and civic organizations have helped us add 3,000 new children's books in Spanish—as well as computers and books on tape. We hope to continue improving the library so the poor children of Panajachel will have a chance to learn and create a better future for themselves and their country. One of the reasons I want to write more is to have more money for the library. Seat of pants, get on your way to that restaurant and sit down!
A Conversation with Ann Cameron about Colibrí
Q. What inspired you to write this story? Did something specific spark the idea of this topic and these characters?
A. One day on the street in my Guatemalan town, I saw a poor boy, about ten, with a very bad eye—so bad he couldn't see out of it. You couldn't tell the white from the pupil of that eye—it looked hopeless, more like a mud puddle than an eye. But I almost always hope, so I talked to the boy and said I would pay for him to see an eye doctor if his parents approved. He came to my house with his father; then together they went to the eye doctor in a distant town, and I paid the costs. Afterward they came to see me again. The boy told me it had been a miracle—he had looked through an instrument the doctor had, and he could see! Now, his father added, the boy needed an operation—would I pay for that? It would mean a stay of several days in the distant town—the cost of a hotel and meals, besides the operation. I said I would—but I sensed a grasping attitude in the father, and after they left, I wondered—was what they said the truth?
I called the eye doctor. He told me yes, he'd seen the boy, but the boy had not seen anything out of his bad eye and never would—there was no operation scheduled and no return appointment; the boy's eye was incurable. The boy's very convincing show of joy at having seen from that eye had been nothing more than a piece of great acting. For his father, the boy had lied to get money from me. Later, I found out that the boy and father had played this trick on other foreigners around town as well. I was horrified at the father. I couldn't imagine my parents ever using me that way when I was a child, to get money. Making me pretend I could see, if I couldn't. Making me deny the permanent tragedy of what had happened to me.
A Mayan friend, Rosa Queché, pointed out to me that the boy wasn't suffering any longer from what his father made him do—he'd adjusted to being morally handicapped, she said, just as he'd adjusted to missing his sight in one eye. I knew she was right, but I felt so sad. The boy would never get away from the evil influence of his father. Partly to make myself feel better, I decided to write about a child under an evil influence who somehow would manage to get away. In the end the child became Colibrí and the evil influence, Uncle.
Q. What sort of research did you need to do to write the story? Have you been to all the places Colibrí visits?
A. I visited all the places Colibrí visits. For instance, I crawled around in some caves, in one of which ancient Mayan pottery had been found. I discovered fantastically good French fries (potato sticks) in the rainy Nebaj market. I interviewed a midwife. I consulted four different Mayan diviners, two of whom did a reading of the little seeds for me—the last one read the seeds about the novel itself and told me, when I thought the book was done, that I still had a lot of research left to do! And sure enough, she was right; it was nearly another year before the book was finished.
What helped me most to write the story was my friendship with two orphaned Mayan girls I'd known for nine years at the time I wrote the book. I had helped them go to school, and they'd shared their lives, dreams, and beliefs with me all that time. Knowing them gave me an authentic voice for Colibrí.
Q. Marcos gives Colibrí some detailed tips on travel. Have you traveled in pickups around Guatemala as Colibrí does?
A. I've traveled on pickups around Lake Atitlán, where I live. I love doing that. Love the bumps of it, the curves of it, the whole new view of the sky and the mountains; and I feel very close emotionally to all sharing the adventure with me. It's also dangerous, though. The father of some children who are my friends was killed when a pickup met a big truck and to avoid a collision went off the road into a ravine. Maybe the danger is part of the pleasure for me. It's also the reason I don't do it often or for long distances.
Q. Is Two Rivers an actual place? Why did you choose that location for the final scene with Uncle?
A. I did go to the actual Two Rivers—which has another name, Semuc Champey. It really was just as impressive as I hope it is in the book. It scared me!
I chose that location once I realized I wanted Uncle to die, in as dramatic and scary a way as possible. Two Rivers was the best place I could think of. I made up the names river of joy and river of fearbecause I think those two describe life itself very well—life is our journey of both joy and fear—and sometimes both can be hidden under the surface. As I mentioned, I become absolutely joyous riding in the pickups, though I know it's dangerous. In some strange way, joy and fear are connected inside us, like the two ends of a seesaw. I'm not sure a truly fearless person could ever experience joy. Or maybe, momentary fearlessness is joy.
Q. The story has a political backdrop, with references to the wars and La Hortensia. Is this based on actual history? Why did you choose to include these historical references in the book?
A. Yes, there was a long civil war in Guatemala through the late 1970s and finally ending only in the early 1990s. The massacre at a farm called La Hortensia occurred near Nebaj and was reported in the Guatemalan government's later investigation of the crimes of the war. The violence and lawlessness of the war period had a lot to do with forming criminals like Uncle and Raimundo. We're all partly formed by the world events of our time, so including the war was important to creating complete characters.
Q. Why are there so few books set in South or Central America for teenage readers in America? When you write a story, is part of your purpose to expose the reader to a place and lifestyle and history they may be unfamiliar with?
A. I don't know why there are so few books set in South or Central America for teenagers. I think there should be lots more, especially since so many U.S. teenagers now have South and Central American roots. Some of today's teenagers from these countries will be tomorrow's U.S. writers for teenagers—and I hope they'll write great cross-cultural novels to share and make sense of their experience.
I don't write to "teach" or to "educate" the reader. I'm really writing to learn, partly, and partly for the pleasure and challenge of making great stories. I write about things that have touched me deeply—in this case, it was both the boy with the bad eye, and life as I'd seen it, felt it, and cared about it during twenty years in Guatemala. I want readers to experience the people and the places of a story as if they were living it themselves. If a story is emotionally true, whether it's about a character who might live next door or a character who lives half a world away, there will be new discoveries for the reader.
Q. When you write, do you have the whole story already in your mind, or do you invent it as you go along? How long did it take you to write the book?
A. I don't have the whole story in mind. Usually I'm groping and stumbling toward it. In the case of ColibríI always knew I wanted her to find a treasure in a cave. But a lot of the rest—the darker and more powerful part—came later. I think it's essential as a writer to have someidea of where you think you're going with a story or else you just wander around in circles like a hunter lost in the woods. By trying one thing and another with the story, you see that some possible events are truer and more right and say more deep things about life than others do. You keep trying to take the story deeper and make it more involving, more exciting. The biographer David McCullough once said that when he's writing he doesn't feel like he's working ona book, he feels like he's working ina book. It's true. The landscapes and scenes become real to you and you feel as if you're wandering around inside them—as if in a dream stage set, where you move pieces of the set around in a wondering, experimental way, a kind of concentrated daze.
It took me a year and a half to write the book.
Q. Colibrí's psychological experience is complicated. She needs her uncle and cares about him, but at the same time is scared of him and knows he is dishonest. She misses her parents, but thinks they must not have wanted her. How did you get inside her head to understand this experience? Was it difficult to write?
A. For some reason, this wasn't hard to write. I think all of us have complicated feelings about our childhoods and our parents or parent substitutes, and inventing an imaginary situation may bring those feelings out in a way we never could writing about ourselves.
I also found it extremely easy to write about Uncle. Maybe someone like him exists inside all of us, and it's our duty to keep him from doing any damage.
Q. Doña Celestina often consults her seeds. Are fortunetelling and clairsentience respected in Guatemala? Do you believe it's possible to see the future?
A. Among most Guatemalans, yes, clairvoyance is respected. In fact, when I checked with my Mayan friends about Doña Celestina's knowing about the "little paper" but not knowing exactly where or what it was, they said that Doña Celestina, as a diviner, should know a lot more than that! But I didn't want her to know more, because that would have taken all the suspense and twists and turns from the story.
I've never seen the future myself, but I know people who have had premonitory dreams; and I've had a few extraordinary experiences myself. Once in Guatemala City I desperately wanted to see a friend and had no way to reach him. I was sitting in a restaurant. A minute or two later, he came up to my table and sat down with me. I asked why he had come into the restaurant. He said he didn't know, he'd been on his way to a movie.
At very important moments in our lives, extraordinary powers may waken in us. I think we can change the world with our thoughts and probably do—probably most of all, with the thought that we can't change it. As far as predicting the future on a daily basis, it's a talent most of us don't have. Creating the future, which is far more important, is something we all do. Creating a better future depends not so much on extrasensory experiences as on faith, hope, and the will to imagine and create.
Q. Did you always know the book would end the way it does? Did you consider other endings?
A. I knew I wanted a treasure in the cave. I knew I wanted Colibrí to get back to her parents. For a long time I couldn't figure out how she could ever get back. When I thought of Uncle carrying that little note in his wallet all those years, and that note providing the way home—that was the biggest breakthrough of the book. I was so proud of myself for coming up with that! And I thought it was realistic, too—that Uncle being Uncle would hang on to that note for nine long years, purely from his pleasure in the feeling of power he got from having it.
I wanted Uncle dead so that Colibrí absolutely would never have to worry about his coming to find her and reabduct her, but I had several alternative ideas for his demise. One was Uncle's becoming remorseful and suicidal because of Raimundo's death in the jailbreak, and leaping into the river. Another was a struggle in which he'd accidentally fall into the river. But I felt it was right that the collie Colibrí saved should save Colibrí; and that Colibrí, knowing Uncle might die in the river, should have the strength to keep silent and let it happen.
Q. After you finish a book, do you think about your characters' lives continuing? What do you think Colibrí would do in the future?
A. When I've finished a book, I've taken the main character through a particular situation to the psychological state I wanted her or him to get to. Just as some parents (though not the good ones) don't want their children to grow up, I am happy with my character at that end point where I feel she or he has reached momentary perfection.
When I think about the next stage of Colibrí's life, I see possibilities for unhappiness. She's been through extraordinary transforming experiences, especially her experience in the cave. She's become an autonomous person—the goal if not the achievement of most of us in the teen years. Her parents are likely to see her as younger than she is and want to surround her completely, giving her the protection they were unable to give her for so many years. If they're wise, they'll let her exercise some independence, not make her feel she has to cut off what she's learned of life to fit in with them. (As Dr. Gove Hambidge, a Minnesota psychiatrist who advised me on the book, keeps telling me—every single experience in life, no matter how ugly or sad, has value.) If Colibrí's parents can't show respect and understanding for her experience, she'll long to be back with Doña Celestina. I don't like writing sequels, but if there were one, I could imagine her parents realizing that she belongs more to Doña Celestina than to them, and letting her return to Nebaj, where she'd have some entirely new and different adventure.
—An ALA Notable Children's Book
"Six genial, affectionate evocations of family interaction and childhood mischief. There's a glow here that's hard to resist."—Booklist
"Warm-hearted and winning."—The Horn Book Magazine
"Gentler than Beverly Cleary's Ramona series but with much of the same authenticity and insight, Huey's stories give younger readers a protagonist they'll enjoy knowing."—The Bulletin
"A book for sharing in the classroom and at home."—Booklist
—A Jane Addams Children's Book Award Honor Book
"[Cameron] tells this bittersweet story, which reads smoothly and powerfully on several levels, with warmth and dignity."—Booklist
—An ALA Notable Children's Books
—A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year
—A Parents' Choice Award
—A Library of Congress Children's Book of the Year
"Reflecting incidents true to children (making a bet with a friend, sending a message in a bottle, attempting to be brave), these stories are the sort that will make children ask for more."—Starred, School Library Journa
Cameron's style is elegantly smooth and the characters come alive through easy dialogue and involving action."—The Bulletin
The Life of Olaudah Equiano
"A gripping story. . . . Kids will read this young man's story on their own; it will also enrich curriculum units on history and on writing."—Boxed Review, Booklist
"The inspired simplicity of Cameron's adaptation quickly allows Equiano's gifted voice to establish a compelling relationship between himself and young readers. Well-sculpted with detail . . . his story is a must for multicultural or history collections."—School Library Journal
"Readers . . . will be fascinated by the details in this account."—The Bulletin


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Raleigh, N.C. – When PPP last polled Louisiana in 2010, Bobby Jindal was one of the most popular Governors in the country. 58% of voters approved of the job he was doing to just 34% who disapproved. Over the last two and a half years though there's been a massive downward shift in Jindal's popularity, and he is now one of the most unpopular Governors in the country. Just 37% of voters now think he's doing a good job to 57% who are unhappy with him.
The decline in Jindal's popularity cuts across party lines. Where he was at 81/13 with Republicans in August 2010, now it's 59/35. Where he was at 67/22 with independents back then, now he's at 41/54. And what was a higher than normal amount of crossover support from Democrats at 33/58 is now 15/78. There was a time when Jindal probably would have been seen as a slam dunk candidate for Republicans against Mary Landrieu in 2014. But now he actually trails Landrieu 49/41 in a hypothetical match up.
Trailing Landrieu hardly puts Jindal alone among Louisiana Republicans. She leads all seven we tested against her, by margins ranging from 3 to 12 points. Landrieu has a narrowly positive approval rating with 47% of voters giving her good marks to 45% who disapprove. That's up from 41/53 in August of 2010...her numbers are seeing some recovery from their post Obamacare decline.
The Republican who comes closest to Landrieu is Lieutenant Governor Jay Dardenne, who trails just 46/43. Dardenne has a 41/23 favorability rating statewide and is seen positively by both Democrats (43/22) and Republicans (42/25). We also tested a number of current or former Republicans members of Congress against Landrieu. Charlie Boustany comes the closest with a 6 point deficit at 48/42. He's followed by Jeff Landry who trails 48/39, Steve Scalise who trails 48/38 and Bill Cassidy who trails 50/40, and John Fleming who trails 50/38.
"Most of the Republicans have low name recognition so it will get closer," said Dean Debnam, President of Public Policy Polling. "But Mary Landrieu's near 50% and in a much stronger position for reelection probably than most people would have expected."
Add Rep. Charles Boustany, R-La., to the list of potential challengers to Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu in 2014.
Boustany's campaign declined to say whether the congressman is actively looking at the race, but noted that "many local officials and community leaders approached Congressman Boustany to voice their support for a Boustany Senate candidacy" during recent Mardi Gras events in Washington. According to a campaign spokesman Neal Patel, "The Congressman is committed to providing conservative leadership and getting real results for South Louisiana."
"With supporters from New Orleans to Baton Rouge to Shreveport to South Louisiana, Congressman Boustany continues to reflect on his substantial 22 point victory just two months ago," Patel said, in an e-mail.
That's a clear reference to former Rep. Jeff Landry, R-La., who has also been mentioned for the seat. Boustany beat Landry decisively in a member-vs.-member runoff last December after the two were drawn into the same district; the Pelican State lost a seat following reapportionment. That campaign left Landry with little money and a few burned bridges with state Republicans, giving some pause as to whether he could mount a serious challenge to Landrieu.
Other Republicans with their eyes on Landrieu's seat include Reps. John Fleming and Bill Cassidy. Cassidy's campaign said he was "honored" by the support he's receiving from Louisianans. Cassidy recently traveled outside of his own congressional district to give speeches in conservative Metarie and Slidell, prompting speculation that he may pursue a bid.
I'm don't think anybody can beat sista mary
The people of Louisiana want from their governor what the Manships tell them they want of their governor. The Manships hate Jindal so after 5 years of Jindal bashing every day on local news and print, it's finally showing dividends in public opinion. The tail has finally started wagging the dog in this case.
You're a complete moron if you really think thats accurate.
-Louisiana could have a fun race for Governor in 2015. New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu is seen pretty positively statewide, with 49% of voters rating him favorably to 26% with an unfavorable opinion. In a hypothetical contest with Senator David Vitter, who has a 46/38 approval rating, the two would be tied at 44%. Landrieu would have a slight edge over Lieutenant Governor Jay Dardenne at 44-42. If Landrieu decided to run it appears that it would be a competitive race.
-Only 24% of voters in Louisiana think Bobby Jindal should run for President in 2o16 to 66% who think he should not. Even among Republicans just 35% would like to see him make a White House bid. In a hypothetical GOP primary field in the state Jindal finishes third at 14%. Marco Rubio leads the way with 21% to 18% for Mike Huckabee and after Jindal it's Chris Christie at 11%, Jeb Bush at 9%, Rand Paul at 8%, Paul Ryan at 7%, Rick Perry at 3%, and Susana Martinez at 1%.
You can add Louisiana to the list of states where Hillary Clinton might be competitive with a 2016 Presidential bid, at least at this stage. She has a 46/44 favorability rating in the state and has 3 points lead over Jindal (48/45) and Rubio (46/43) in hypothetical match ups. She ties Ryan at 46.
-Finally we polled on some historical items in Louisiana. In a rematch of the 1991 Gubernatorial race Edwin Edwards would beat David Duke by a much wider margin than he did the first time around, 62/15. He would even win 44/24 with Republican. Edwards has a 42/44 favorability rating in the state, pretty decent numbers for a politician who's done time. His numbers are better than Barack Obama and Bobby Jindal's there.
well looks like LA residents were tired of actually being led by an honest and responsible governor.
One of the features of the federal health care law is that it increases the number of people covered by Medicaid, the program that is run jointly by the federal and state government to provide health care for low income and disabled residents. If states agree to increase the number of people covered, the federal government would pay 100% of the cost for the first four years, and 90% of the cost in the future. If Louisiana participates more Louisianans would receive health coverage, but some critics argue that the state cannot afford future costs of expanding health coverage under Medicaid. First, do you think Louisiana should participate in the expansion of Medicaid or should it not participate?
Should participate in Medicare expansion - 51%
Should not participate in Medicare expansion - 43%
Governor Jindal, a critic of Medicaid expansion, has questioned the state's ability to pay for future Medicaid costs and has been opposed to expanding coverage to more residents under the Medicaid program. Others have argued that by not participating, Louisiana taxpayers are leaving millions of federal dollars that would be available for health services on the table. On this who do you agree with more
The Governor's position the Louisiana should not expand Medicaid - 41%
The position of others that we should not leave millions in federal health care dollars on the table - 52%
As of right now do you believe things in Louisiana are going in the right direction or have they gotten off on the wrong track?
Right direction 37.3%
Wrong track 46.9%
Mixed / somewhere in between / depends (DNR) 9.1%
Dont know (DNR) 5.9% Refused (DNR) 0.9%
Do you approve or disapprove of the job done by Bobby Jindal as Governor?(IF ANSWERED ASK :) And do you strongly (approve / disapprove) or just somewhat (approve / disapprove)?
Approve / strongly 21.0%
Approve / somewhat 24.9%
Disapprove / somewhat 11.8%
Disapprove / strongly 36.6%
Dont know (DNR) 5.3% Refused (DNR) 0.5%
Here's hoping that Bobby will tarnish the republican brand enough in Louisiana to drag down a few of the other neanderthals we send to congress. Watch your back David Vitter.
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Security engineer 2nd Technical Interview advice
I've been interviewing lately and went as far as the 2nd interview twice on Security roles for large companies. These aren't guru roles (which will suit me ) i.e. they're not senior but now I have another in the next few days with another large multinational no names mentioned but suffice to say they sell books , does anyone have any advice for me , the first Interview was tricky enough fundametals of networking through to attacks defense and encryption incident response, I'm hoping to at least do well but this is obviosly going to be the b&&tch questions. Any ideas of questions \answers would be great ... I'd love the job as it is direct security....any help greatly appreciated


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Glutamic acid is an amino acid that is produced naturally in the human body and the bodies of many animals. The amino acid plays a number of important roles in the human anatomy and functions as a neurotransmitter or chemical messenger. When released by the brain, glutamic acid excites the nervous system to allow messages to be transmitted throughout the body. The amino acid plays a crucial role in learning and memory.
In addition to glutamic acid's important functions as a brain chemical, the substance can also be used by the cells of the body to create the energy necessary to move, power the heart and lungs and keep organs functioning properly. The body also breaks glutamic acid into smaller components, which are used to manufacture other important brain chemicals and materials for proper cellular functioning.
The German scientist Karl Heinrich Leopold Ritthausen first discovered glutamic acid in 1866 while he was studying the substances found in ordinary wheat. A Japanese chemistry professor, Kikunae Ikeda, established glutamic acid as a flavoring agent by publishing the results of testing that he performed on kombu broth in 1907. Glutamic acid is now used as an additive in many foods, including soy sauce, cheese and fermented bean paste. The amino acid can also be made into monosodium glutamate salt with the addition of sodium. Commonly known as MSG, this food additive is used widely in Chinese cuisine.
In addition to use as a food additive, glutamic acid is an ingredient in some skin and hair care products, and is currently found in the formulas of more than 300 products sold in the United States. When used in food and skin care product manufacturing, glutamic acid is manufactured industrially from wheat. Approximately 1.7 million tons of glutamic acid are used worldwide each year in various foods and other products.
When used in the beauty industry, glutamic acid is primarily added to products because of its ability to condition the skin and hair. The chemical structure of glutamic acid makes the substance attractive to water molecules. Because moisture is naturally drawn to glutamic acid, when it is applied to the skin or hair, the ingredient has the ability to pull water from the air and transfer it to the tissue. Both the skin and hair are constantly subjected to the drying effects of evaporation, and glutamic acid helps to restore the moisture balance that is necessary to keep the skin soft and smooth.
Due to its skin conditioning abilities, glutamic acid is used in eye creams, lipsticks and treatments, shaving creams and moisturizers for the face, body, hands and feet. For those with dry skin, products that contain glutamic acid can help reduce redness, itching and irritation as well as the flaking and peeling that occurs when the tissue becomes extremely dehydrated.
The amino acid is also added to hair conditioners, to styling products used to reduce frizz and to solutions used for coloring, perming and straightening the hair to prevent over-drying. When mixed with zinc, glutamic acid forms zinc glutamate, an additive used to prevent bacteria and other microbes from colonizing in skin and hair care products.
Some studies have raised concerns about the overall safety of glutamic acid, finding that the ingredient may cause gastrointestinal or cardiovascular side effects when consumed in high quantities as an additive in foods. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration still lists glutamic acid on its list of ingredients that are safe for use in foods, and other studies have produced conflicting results that suggest the risks involved with consuming glutamic acid are minimal.
The safety of glutamic acid when used in skin and hair care products has not been widely assessed. The ingredient has not been evaluated by any major panels that review beauty products;however, a 1994 study using white rabbits found that even with prolonged exposure to a dressing coated with glutamic acid and water over a period of 4 hours, the ingredient did not cause any symptoms of skin irritation, including redness or swelling. The test subjects also did not develop any type of delayed reaction from glutamic acid in the 72 hours that followed the initial test. This suggests that even people with sensitive skin should be able to safely use glutamic acid on their skin or hair.


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If the Playaz N1 were designed with reasonable amount of bass and they could be the steal of the century. In reality I can recommend them for EQ-friendly folks only - stay away if your source does not have a good, user customizable EQ.


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Nice! Hopefully it turns out to be pretty good since it was not originally designed for 3-D.
It wasn't originally made to be redone in 1997 either but they still mangled..err managed to do that. I had heard about this several years ago from Steve [Sansweet] and I was reluctant back then. If they release it on Blu-Ray in 3D I will jump on that. What about the 'live action' Star Wars TV series I had been hearing about?
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I can't decide if I will go to see these in theaters or not. On the one hand, it's STAR WARS IN THE MOVIE THEATER! On the other . . . I can't see in 3D because I have no depth perception, so I'll be paying extera for a feature that I can't really enjoy. I'll also have the blu ray disks by then.
As a side issue, how do you read comments under news stories in full? All I see are the avitar icons, the person's name, and a reply button, so if I want to read comments, I have to hit reply so that i have a quote of what others have already said.
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Description ADULT Has blue-gray upperparts, darkest on back. Dark eye is accentuated by faint pale eyering. Wings have faint pale margins to flight feathers and one faint pale wing bar. Tail is rather long and underparts are whitish, palest on throat and flanks. JUVENILE Similar to adult.
Dimensions Length: 5-5 3/4" (13-15 cm)
Habitat Common summer visitor (mostly May-Aug) to arid scrub and chaparral. Winters mainly in Mexico.
Observation Tips Listen for the distinctive song.
Range Southwest, California, Rocky Mountains, Texas
Voice Song is a repeated tche'Woo; call is a rasping chrrr.
Discussion Unremarkable plumage (as vireos go), but absence of striking features is in itself a means of identification. Habits are unobtrusive; best detected by song. Flicks tail from side-to-side like a gnatcatcher. Sexes are similar.


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On a recent speaking trip to Rochester, New York, I had an opportunity to visit the George Eastman House. Yes, the George Eastman who created Kodak – the films, the cameras and so much more.
Just a few miles south of downtown Rochester is a beautiful house, where he lived, which has been turned into a museum.
The reason I'm talking about George Eastman is the following: I believe that, when he created his company, and developed certain unique processes for developing film, creating the Instamatic camera, and so forth, I believe he programmed his brain, his mind, for success.
And that's why he achieved such worldwide acclaim.
But, too many people, and I've been as guilty of it in the past as anyone, are programming their minds for failure. Whenever we go around saying things that don't help us, we're programming our minds for failure.
Examples: "I can't get any breaks. I can't get my health to be in good shape. I can't get ahead with money. I can't get out of debt. I can't start a business of my own."
Those are all thoughts that go into the brain and program us for failure. Then, when we see any indication to prove one of those thoughts, we say, "Look, I told you that I never get any breaks." And that is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
So, no matter where you are in life right now, no matter what your condition is with you health, your finances, or your relationships, you have the power to change those things for the better by starting to declare what you want and stopping to declare what you don't want.
It's like putting good software into your computer. You're going to get good results. Bad software ends up in bad results.
If you think that you have been saying things to yourself that keep you from moving ahead, and thus programming your mind for failure, let's turn those thoughts around.
It's just a matter of turning certain thoughts around. If you want to get out of debt, just write an affirmation that says, "It's easy for me to get out of debt."
If you want to save money, "It's easy for me to save money." Want to create a great relationship? "I create great relationships in my life." If it's business, "I'm able to succeed in business."
Just read those affirmations the first thing every morning and the last thing every night. Don't analyze them. Just read them out loud. Give me at least 30 days of you programming your mind for success and I believe you'll be amazed.
Incredible things happen when we program our minds in the right direction. And I think you're going to be doing that right now. And, like George Eastman, I believe you'll be amazed with what develops!
You are special. You are unique. You are destined for greatness. I see it in you. You are a Champion!
Since children are barraged by so much negative each day, wouldn't it be valuable to give them a diet of positive thoughts? That's what my new daily CD for children, The "30 Day Can Do Program for Kids," does.
This is a great self-image-building program for children, 4 to 12 years of age. Each of the 2-minute daily messages is uplifting, encouraging, and the results are very positive.
As a bonus to the CD, you will get the "Can Do Workbook", a great e-book supplementary teaching tool to the audio messages.
The "Can Do Program for Kids" CD is available, with the bonus e-book, for just $29, at the Boaz Power Store on my web site: Boazpower.com.
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I program my mind for success every day.
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"The proposal being circulated among House Republicans would end a general rule against any behavior that might bring "discredit" on the chamber, according to House Republican and Democratic leadership aides. House members would be held to a narrower standard of behavior in keeping with the law, the House's rules and its ethics guidelines."


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Anthropogenic wastes, toxic chemicals, and changes in land-use patterns resulting from residential, commercial, and recreational development have stressed the environment of the Sound, causing degradation and potential loss of benthic habitats (Koppelman and others, 1976; Long Island Sound Study, 1994). Detailed maps of the sea floor are needed to help evaluate the extent of adverse impacts and to help manage resources wisely in the future. Therefore, in a continuing effort to better understand Long Island Sound, we have regridded and interpolated this NOAA bathymetric survey into a complete-coverage acoustic image of the sea floor. The image presented herein covers a 41.1 km square area of the sea floor in north-central Long Island Sound off Branford, Connecticut and was produced from data collected during NOAA survey H11043.
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Katz to speak on importance of morality and justice in higher education, April 18
Posted April 12, 2002; 03:17 p.m.
Stanley Katz, a leading expert on American legal and constitutional history, will present a lecture titled "The Just University" at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, April 18, in Bowl 1, Robertson Hall. He is expected to address the importance of morality and justice in higher education.
Katz is director of the Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies , faculty chair of the undergraduate program and lecturer with the rank of professor at the Woodrow Wilson School. His current research focuses upon the relationship of constitutionalism and civil society, both in the United States and in emerging democracies around the world. He also serves as president of the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage.
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Date: 2011-11-28 By: Heather Alicia Lagan
Chaldean numerology has traveled a rather bumpy road since its birth in ancient Mesopotamia thousands of years ago. In later years, for a variety of reasons, people needed a simpler system to work with, and the system was nearly lost. Now Chaldean Numerology is experience a resurgence, as it is proven itself to be the most accurate, inspiring, enlightening, challenging, and rewarding numerology system. Heather Alicia Lagan, author of Chaldean Numerology for Beginners discusses how Chaldean Numerology works, using the name Llewellyn as an example.
Date: 2007-11-12 By: Pauline Edward
Numerology, the practice of assigning numeric values to dates as well as to the names of people, places, and objects, has been around for centuries. As we approach the New Year, how can numerology be employed to help you make and maintain resolutions and goals, as well as successfully gain that which you desire?


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STARKVILLE – Last time on the court, Rick Ray saw his Mississippi State team lacking in confidence, and in their time of struggle the players turned to a selfish form of play.
Ray hopes it was a one-time thing.
The Bulldogs (7-11, 2-4 SEC) will try to fix those issues and snap a four-game losing skid when Texas A&M (12-7, 2-4) visits Humphrey Coliseum tonight.
MSU is coming off an 82-47 loss to then-No. 8 (now No. 4) Florida. Ray didn't like what he saw from his young team that night.
"I thought we lacked some enthusiasm. More importantly, I really didn't feel that our guys thought that they could win that game," Ray said. "I didn't think they had a belief in themselves.
"In order for us to be successful, we've got to believe in ourselves, and I didn't think we had that against Florida, so we've got to get that back."
Freshman center Gavin Ware said the Bulldogs have reverted to some "old habits" during the losing streak, and the Florida game was a prime example. Ray didn't like the way his players used the clock.
"I'm not saying those guys are selfish throughout the whole course of the season," Ray said, "I'm saying in that particular instance playing against Florida we asked them to limit their possessions by not taking those quick shots."
Such are the hazards of having a young team. Four newcomers are in the starting lineup, and the learning curve is steep and unforgiving.
"Sometimes we don't even realize that we're being selfish," freshman guard Craig Sword said. "But coach pointed out to us and showed us that we have been doing some selfish things on the court."
Tonight, MSU faces a Texas A&M team that's also trying to halt a four-game losing skid. Unlike State, though, the Aggies have been competitive, losing the last three games by a combined 12 points.
They're led by Elston Turner, who's averaging 15.7 points per game and scored 40 in Texas A&M's last win, over Kentucky.
The Aggies have struggled with 3-point shooting and turnovers during their slide, but coach Billy Kennedy isn't too down about it.
"Excited that our guys are still competing, and I think we're close to breaking through," he said.
On paper, this looks like a game MSU could win. Same goes for Saturday's home game versus LSU (10-7, 1-5).
Ray understands this is a big week for his team. It's a chance to get back on track and regain some confidence.
"These are two winnable games, as coach said, so all we have to do is believe in that, believe in ourselves and our team, and just trust in one another to get it done," Ware said.


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Breaking SATA Connectors
I've just broken my second SATA connector. This isn't a lot considering the number of hard drives I've worked with, but it's still really annoying as I generally don't break things.
The problem is that unplugging a SATA cable requires pushing a little clip, this isn't overly difficult but it unfortunately doesn't fit well with habits formed from previous hardware. The power cables used for hard drives based on the ST-506 interface which was copied for the IDE interface was large and had a fairly tight fit. Removing such a cable requires a significant amount of force – which is about the same as the amount of force required to break a SATA connector.
When I first started using PCs a reasonably configured AT system cost over $5,000 (maybe something like $10,000 in today's money). With that sort of price hardly anyone had a set of test PCs. When hardware prices dropped such that hard drives of reasonable size became reasonably affordable on the second-hand market I bought more disks and used some for extra storage and some for testing software. As there was nothing like VMWare for testing OS images the way to test a new OS was to plug in a different hard drive and boot it. So I got a lot of practice at removing IDE power cables with as much force as was necessary.
Now I own a pile of test PCs, SATA disks less than 100G are free, I use Xen for a lot of my testing, and generally I have much less need to swap hard drives around. In most situations in which I would swap hard drives in the 90′s I will now swap PCs and I have piles of PCs ready for this purpose. So I haven't had enough practice with SATA disks to develop habits for safely removing them.
So far this lack of habit development has resulted in damaging two disks due to changing drives while not concentrating enough. Fortunately duct-tape works well for holding a SATA connector in place when the plastic that attaches to the clip is broken.
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By Scott Reed
Almost everyone invests these days. That is true, in no small part to the emergence and proliferation of the mutual fund industry. Mutual funds have allowed small and large investors alike the opportunity to safely diversify their assets.
The fund business can be separated into two types of investment styles: active and passive. Active funds have fund managers that use their expertise to decide what types of securities should be bought and sold in their fund. They are the ones you hear so often in the media pontificating about what stocks or bonds are hot right now. They talk a great game, and they attract interest from the investing public by promoting their style of management.
There are sound reasons why one may want to invest with an active manager: They are looking after your interests on a daily basis. If something goes wrong, they are there to minimize the loss. They scour the earth to find the best of the best in their realm of expertise, which should naturally produce superior results for their clients.
With all of that being said, using an active manager makes sense. Especially when you look at what passive management has to offer.
Passive funds simply buy everything within their universe and hold it until it no longer is in their universe. For instance, an S&P 500 Index Fund will buy all the stocks in the S&P 500 and hold them, unless one is kicked out of the S&P 500. Then they sell it and buy its replacement. There is no analysis, no subjective brilliance applied to the strategy. It is what it is.
There is little argument that active management can produce superior returns in areas where markets are inefficient and trading volume is low. That is why active managers have always been able to charge more money to manage your assets than passive managers.
The problem is that, over the years, most markets have become extremely efficient. The fault is somewhat their own in that more and more investors are using mutual funds, which pushes more and more money into the markets.
That money has created much more efficient markets and made it much more difficult for most active managers to show any real value for the money they charge. A recent study showed that in the past five years, 66 percent of active equity managers and 80 percent of active fixed-income managers underperformed their benchmark.
If that is the case, why don't more investors use passive management and accept the lower management fee they provide? The short answer is that most passive funds don't pay anything to the person who recommends them. If you are using someone who depends on a commission for their income, a product that doesn't pay anything is not particularly attractive.
Passive investment options are worth looking into, but don't wait for someone to sell them to you. You may have to make that happen all on your own.
Scott Reed is CEO of investment advisory firm Hardy Reed in Tupelo. Contact him at (662) 823-4722 or email@example.com.


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Minimum eligibility for UCSF School of Dentistry consideration
Students who wish to apply for admission into the first-year dental class must meet certain minimum eligibility requirements:
- California residents must have a minimum overall and science college grade-point average of 2.70. Non-California residents must have a minimum overall and science college grade-point average of 3.0.
- All applicants must have minimum Dental Admissions Test (DAT) scores of 17 in the Total Science and Academic Average sections. For information see: Dental Admission Test (DAT) FAQ'S [1]
- All applicants must be in good academic standing (not on probation) at their current or last school attended.
- They must present evidence that they have completed, or will complete within the specified time frame, the minimum transferable prerequisite coursework.
Additional information on minimum University requirements can be obtained from the Information for Prospective Students brochure available at all University of California undergraduate offices.
Essential Abilities Required for Completion of the DDS Degree
Dentistry is the art and science of maintaining the health of the teeth and surrounding oral structures. It involves physical evaluation of patients, prevention of oral and dental diseases, disease diagnosis, and therapy. The UCSF School of Dentistry intends for its graduates to become competent and compassionate dentists who are capable of meeting all requirements for licensure. In order to successfully complete the DDS degree, participate in all necessary aspects of dental training, and meet licensing requirements, a student must possess a minimum of certain essential physical and cognitive and emotional abilities. That an individual student may intend to practice only a narrow aspect of clinical dentistry, or to pursue a non-clinical career, does not alter the requirement that all dental students must complete and demonstrate competency in the entire curriculum. For the purposes of this document and unless otherwise defined, the term "candidate" refers to candidates for admission to the dental school as well as enrolled dental students who are candidates for promotion and graduation.
The School of Dentistry has an ethical and professional responsibility for the safety of patients with whom students and graduates will come in contact. Although students learn and work under the supervision of the faculty, students interact with patients throughout their dental school education. Therefore, patient safety and well-being are major determinants for establishing requirements involving the physical, cognitive, and emotional abilities of candidates for admission, promotion, and graduation. The essential abilities and characteristics described herein are also referred to as technical standards. They are described below in several broad categories including: observation communication, motor function, and social and behavioral skills.
Technical Standards
I. OBSERVATION: Candidates must be able to observe demonstrations and participate in experiments of science, including but not limited to such things as dissection of cadavers; examination of specimens in anatomy, pathology, and neuroanatomy laboratories; and microscopic study of microorganisms and tissues in normal and pathologic states. Candidates must be able to accurately observe patients and assess findings. They must be able to obtain a medical history and perform a physical evaluation and comprehensive oral evaluation in order to integrate findings based on these observations and to develop an appropriate diagnostic and treatment plan. These skills require the use of vision, hearing, and touch or the functional equivalent.
II. COMMUNICATION: Candidates must be able to communicate effectively and efficiently with patients, their families, and members of the health care team. They must be able to obtain a medical history in a culturally competent manner, interpret non-verbal aspects of communication, and establish therapeutic relationships with patients. Candidates must be able to record information accurately and clearly; and communicate effectively in English with other health care professionals in a variety of patient settings.
III. MOTOR FUNCTION: Candidates must possess the capacity to perform procedures requiring the use of fine motor skills. They must be able to respond to clinical situations in a timely manner and provide general and emergency dental care. Such activities require functional physical mobility and coordination of both gross and fine motor skills. They must adhere to universal infection protocols and meet established safety standards applicable to inpatient and outpatient settings and other clinical activities.
IV. BEHAVIORAL AND SOCIAL ATTRIBUTES: Candidates must demonstrate the maturity and emotional stability required for full use of their intellectual abilities. They must accept responsibility for learning, exercising good judgment, and promptly completing all responsibilities attendant to the diagnosis and care of patients. They must understand the legal and ethical aspects of the practice of dentistry and function within both the law and ethical standards of the dental profession. Candidates must be able to interact with patients, their families, and health care personnel in a courteous, professional, and respectful manner. They must be able to tolerate physically taxing workloads to function effectively under stress, and to display flexibility and adaptability to changing environments. Candidates must be able to contribute to collaborative, constructive learning environments; accept constructive feedback from others; and take personal responsibility for making appropriate positive changes.
Equal Access to the School of Dentistry Educational Program. When considering candidates for admission, the School of Dentistry abides by the non-discrimination policy of the University as outlined at:
https://registrar.ucsf.edu/student-records/nondisc [2]
Applicants for admission to the dental curriculum must meet the requirements for admission to the University of California as well as the requirements outlined below. Although all course requirements need not be completed at the time of application, they must be completed by the end of the spring session before the desired date of enrollment.
Course Prerequisites
Completion of 139 quarter units or 93 semester units (exclusive of repeated and nontransferable courses) of college work at an accredited institution is a minimum requirement for admission to the UCSF School of Dentistry dental curriculum. A minimum of 30 quarter units or 20 semester units must be completed at an accredited four-year institution. These units must include the following subjects:
|Minimum Unit Requirements
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|Semester Units
|a. English
Two courses in English composition. (Note: ESL, Scientific, Professional, Technical and Creative Writing classes do not fulfill the English requirement)
|b. Inorganic Chemistry with Laboratory A minimum of three quarters or two semesters of inorganic chemistry with laboratory.
|c. Organic chemistry with laboratory A minimum of two quarters or one semester of organic chemistry with laboratory.
|d. Biochemistry (Note: must be taken at a 4-year institution)
|e. Physics A minimum of three quarters or two semesters of physics with laboratory.
|f. Biological sciences One year of general biology or zoology with laboratory, designed for science majors. Vertebrate zoology is strongly recommended. (Anatomy, botany or elementary courses of a descriptive nature cannot be used to complete this requirement.)
|g. Psychology General psychology.
|h. Social sciences, humanities, or foreign language (in addition to requirements "a" and "g").
|i. Additional electives to bring the total number of units to at least 139 quarter units or 93 semester units. (Recommended: embryology, comparative vertebrate anatomy, genetics, statistics)
You must earn at least a "C" grade in requirements "a" through "g'
It is to the applicant's advantage to complete the prerequisites before taking the Dental Admissions Test (DAT) and filing an application. It is required that all above prerequisite courses and units be completed by the end of the spring term of the year of intended enrollment. No required coursework may be taken during the summer prior to fall registration.
We regret that the School of Dentistry is unable to offer advising services at this time.
Approved course lists for all UC, CSU and California Community Colleges can be found on ASSIST [3]. Course substitutions are not allowed.
To determine what coursework from private California schools or out-of-state schools will satisfy our prerequisites, please consult with an advisor at your school.
Advanced Placement (AP) Tests
While actual course work is preferred by our faculty, applicants may use AP Tests to partially fulfill the prerequisites. In order to have AP Tests applied towards the prerequisites, applicants must submit an official copy of their AP Test Score Report from Educational Testing Services (ETS). Using School Code 5482, you may contact ETS at ets.org to request that a copy of your score report be sent to our office.
AP credit may be applied in the following manner:
|AP Test
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|General Chemistry
|awards 8 units, one course (4 units) with lab still required
|awards 8 units, one course (4 units) with lab still required
|Physics B
|awards 8 units, one course (4 units) with lab still required
|Physics C, Mechanics
|awards 4 units, two courses (8 units) with lab in electricity and magnetism still required
|Physics C, Electricity and Magnetism
|awards 4 units, two courses with lab in mechanics still required
|Physics B & C
|awards 8 units, one course (4units) with lab still required
|English Language and Composition or English Literature and Composition
|awards 4 units, fulfills first 1/2 of prerequisite
|awards 8 units, fulfills entire prerequisite
|awards 4 units, fulfills entire prerequisite
|Humanities and Social Science (includes the following):
|awards 4 units each towards social sciences, humanities or foreign language electives
|Art History, European History, French, German Language, Government & Politics, Human Geography, Latin, Macro-Economics, Micro-Economics, Music Theory, Spanish, Studio Art, US History, World History
International Baccalaureate (IB) Exams:
Applicants may also use IB Exams to partially fulfill some prerequisites. In order to have IB Exams applied towards the prerequisites, applicants must have an official copy of their IB transcript sent directly to UCSF. Information on requesting transcripts can be found at: http://www.ibo.org/informationfor/alumni/transcripts/ [4]
IB credit may be applied in the following manner: Scores of 5, 6 or 7 on Higher Level exams award 8 quarter units in the subject. For chemistry, biology an physics, students must still take at least one 4 quarter unit course with lab in the subject.


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Pacific Edge chief executive officer Mr David Darling said the building blocks were in place to achieve commercial success in the US, the world's largest health market.
Singapore: New Zealand-based cancer diagnostic specialist Pacific Edge has completed the first commercial sales of Cxbladder tests signaling the start of the commercial revenue for the company in the US. The tests were ordered by US-based clinicians and processed in Pacific Edge USA (PEDUSA)'s custom laboratory in Hershey Pennsylvania.
Cxbladder is a non-invasive laboratory test for the detection of bladder cancer that gives actionable results to make a meaningful difference in a patient's treatment. Earlier this week Pacific Edge finalized an agreement with national preferred provider network, FedMed to enable 40 million Americans to have access to Cxbladder. Negotiations are also underway with other national provider networks to broaden the access to Cxbladder.
The commercial relationship with FedMed provides FedMed's contracted insurance carriers, third party administrators, health and welfare funds, and self-insured health plans with access to Cxbladder. More than 40 million Americans have access to FedMed's National Provider Network of over 550,000 physicians, 4,000 hospitals and 60,000 ancillary care providers nationwide.
The commercial roll out of Cxbladder in July followed certification of the purpose built and equipped molecular diagnostic, CLIA approved, laboratory in Hershey.
PEDUSA chief executive officer Ms Jackie Walker said, "The laboratory, custom built for high throughput testing with the design capacity to process up to 4000 tests per week, is achieving the design expectations and the processing of patient samples is exceeding the prompt turnaround times expected by clinicians delivering on our brand promise".
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A Time to Heal: The Autobiography of Gerald R. Ford
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Massscorecard.org BOOK REVIEW:
This is Gerald Ford's presidential memoir and autobiography. President Ford is the least appreciated of all our modern presidents -- this book demonstrates that he really was a decent man, placed by no choice of his own into exceedingly challenging circumstances. His re-election campaign, in 1976, had zero chance of succeeding because he was a Republican running in the first post-Watergate election.
Ford didn't do anything hugely memorable during his presidency -- which is why the title is "A Time To Heal", because he viewed his presidency as the period of post-Watergate and post-Vietnam healing. The two seminal events of his presidency revolve around those two issues -- pardoning Nixon and the fall of Saigon. They both ended dark moments in American history -- our first presidential resignation and our first military loss -- and Ford got the country through both.
History should treat Ford better than the dismissal our current generation offers him. This book will someday be the centerpiece of a new understanding of his importance in getting through a period of crisis in American history -- and recognizing his role in doing so at the time of his actions, including a recognition at the time that he would not be respected until some future generation.
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It's rare that I do a music post, but I'm so excited about John Mayer's upcoming album, I had to share. I've been a John Mayer fan since the beginning of his career, but have loved every new album more than the one before. His new album, titled "Born and Raised," is a little bit folk, rock, pop, and soul all wrapped into one. I'm not sure I'm loving his new long hair look (he's wearing a hat that looks like the one that Shooter wore in "Secret Window" if you saw that film), but he's still looking good.
I also love, love, love the album cover art…check it out above. John posted some photos of his video shoot for "Shadow Days" on his Tumblr. Here they are:
And here's John sharing the CD and cover art a few days ago:
Here's the video for the first single to be released, "Shadow Days"
Are you as excited as I am? The album is released today on itunes.
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Lies in conservation: the truth about big-game hunting and African nature reserves
Navaya ole Ndaskoi
14th March 2016Media furore over the shooting down of a helicopter in Tanzania masks a bigger picture of commercial hunting and evictions of indigenous tribes in the name of wildlife, writes Navaya ole Ndaskoi. It's time to rethink 'white saviour' mythology and develop new models of conservation that respect and engage with African communities, recognise their achievements, and inspire a new generation of conservation heroes. more...
A century of theft from Indians by the National Park Service
Kollibri terre Sonnenblume
29th March 2016George Catlin's original vision of national parks saw them as providing a refuge for 'man and beast' alike, writes Kollibri terre Sonnenblume, giving Indians a home in the 'freshness of their nature's beauty'. But soon the National Parks Service was violating promises, treaties and contracts as it perpetrated over a century of land theft from America's Indian tribes. more...
Public Trust Doctrine requires governments to protect our oceans!
Deb Wright
9th March 2016A legal principle dating from Roman times is ripe for use in protecting our waste-filled and over-exploited seas and oceans, writes Deb Wright. Under the 'Public Trust Doctrine' governments are entrusted to protect shared natural resources from abuse, and can be held accountable for neglect of their duties. more...
Monarch butterfly decline: the overwhelming case for banning glyphosate
Eva Sirinathsinghji / ISIS
2nd March 2016Monarch butterfly numbers are dwindling despite protection of their wintering forests in Mexico, and voluntary schemes to restore their food plant, milkweed, in US field margins, writes Eva Sirinathsinghji. These measures alone are insufficient: no less than an end to the mass spraying of glyphosate on crops, predicated by 'Roundup-ready' GM corn and soy, will do. more...
Give beavers permanent British residence!
Nigel Willby & Alan Law, University of Stirling
28th February 2016Beavers are Britain's native aquatic engineers and their return to sites in Scotland and England is doing wonders for the local environment, write Nigel Willby & Alan Law: restoring wetlands, recreating natural river dynamics and ecology, filtering farm pollutants from water, and improving habitat for trout and other fish. more...
Queensland's land clearance is costing Australia and its wildlife dear
Martine Maron, Bill Laurance & colleagues
22nd February 2016Australia's rainforest state, Queensland, is destroying well over 100,000 hectares of native vegetation a year, and rising, write Martine Maron, Bill Laurance & colleagues, including 'at risk' habitats and Koala bear forests. This is more than reversing the entire nation's eco-restoration programs and pushing endangered species ever closer to extinction. more...
South Africa's conservation success story: the 'Black Mambas' mean business!
Anneka Svenska
19th February 2016A unique, all female anti-poaching unit has transformed the conservation picture in South Africa's Kruger National Park, writes Anneka Svenska. In just three years the Black Mambas have cut poaching by more than 75%, removed over 1,000 snares, and become role models for local youth. And this weekend they arrive in the UK to collect Helping Rhinos' 'Innovation in Conservation' Award. more...
National Park service finally stands up for Grizzlies - and for people!
Louisa Willcox
9th February 2016As the movement to 'delist' Grizzly bears from protection under the Endangered Species Act gathers pace in US states and the Fish & Wildlife Service, two National Park superintendents have spoken out for the bears', writes Louisa Willcox. The hunters and the FWS may be furious, but the change of approach enjoys strong support from a public who have come to love their local bears. more...
REDD is dead. So now, how are we going to save the world's forests?
Chris Lang
11th February 2016For years the 'market mantra' has been to save forests by selling the carbon they embody, writes Chris Lang, harnessing the profit motive for the benefit of trees and climate. But it never worked, and now even former fans are admitting that REDD is just another failed conservation fad. So what next? How about asking local communities to manage their forests as commons? more...
Saying 'No!' A last chance for the world's forests
Bill Laurance, James Cook University
5th February 2016Roads, mines, dams, power lines, pipelines and other infrastructure projects are fast eating into the world's 'core forests', writes Bill Laurance. These rare and precious places where wildlife and ecological processes can flourish undisturbed must come before the evanescent gains of 'development'. To save what's left, governments and funders must learn the word 'No!' more...
Hunting in the Amazon threatens rainforest carbon
The Ecologist
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Craig Bennett / Friends of the Earth
25th January 2016When the UK joined the EU in 1973, it was dubbed the 'dirty man of Europe' thanks to its out of control pollution, writes Craig Bennett. Since then EU laws have forced us to clean up our act. But if we leave, all that may go into the reverse, with terrible impacts on our air, water, health, and wildlife. more...
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John Aitchison
19th January 2016Some of us are fortunate enough to have close relationships with the nature around us, writes John Aitchison. But what about everyone else? We must find ways to make people feel like old friends with wildife near and far, and feel that their wild homes and habitats are extensions of our own. And hence, that they are as deserving of our care as human neighbours - if not more so. more...
Uganda: Save Kafuga Forest and gorillas from tea plantations
Richard Sadler
27th January 2016Mountain gorillas in the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest are at risk from tea plantations that would obliterate the adjacent Kafuga Forest, a vital buffer zone for local people, writes Richard Sadler. Deprived of foods, herbs, medicines and clean water from the forest, human pressure on the gorillas would inevitably increase, and expose them to potentially lethal diseases. more...
Second life for 'extinct' giant tortoises of the Galápagos Islands
Luciano Beheregaray & Adalgisa 'Gisella' Caccone
14th January 2016The endemic giant tortoises discovered by Charles Darwin on Floreana and Pinta islands in the Galápagos are extinct, write Luciano Beheregaray & Adalgisa 'Gisella' Caccone. But scientists have found that their genes live on in newly discovered hybrids on other islands. A selective breeding programme now aims to recreate the originals, and return them to their native islands. more...
Massive road and rail projects threaten thousands of Africa's wildlife reserves
Bill Laurance, James Cook University
4th January 2015Africa is facing an unprecedented surge in road and railway building with 33 huge 'development corridors' planned that threaten 2,400 of the continent's protected wildlife areas, writes Bill Laurance. We must block the most destructive plans and limit avoidable impacts on natural areas - before it's too late. more...
A Wild Liberty
Grant A. Mincy
18th January 2016The world we inhabit is a miracle of billions of years of evolution as life has unfolded in its full beauty and diversity, writes Grant A. Mincy. But human activities - deforestation, mining, urbanisation, pollution, climate change - are tearing away at the functioning fabric of the living biosphere. A mass extinction is under way, and it must be halted, and reversed. But how? more...
Bullfighting is conserving Spain's biodiversity - ban at nature's peril
Robin Irvine, University of St Andrews
28th December 2015Bullfighting may cause suffering to animals, but that does not mean the EU should ban it or withdraw farm subsidies, writes Robin Irvine. Traditional bull-breeding estates are valuable reservoirs of biodiversity in intensively farmed landscapes, and without the bulls there would be nothing to sustain them. more...
Fracking go-ahead in England's national parks, SSSIs, water sources
Kyla Mandel & Oliver Tickell
16th December 2015New regulations that will allow fracking under national parks, water sources and nature sites won the approval of MPs today in a Commons vote, write Kyla Mandel & Oliver Tickell, even though four Tory MP's rebelled against the party whip. But the new rules won't apply in Wales and Scotland. more...
Coal plant threatens world's largest mangrove forest - and Bangladesh's future
Mowdud Rahman & Greig Aitken
10th December 2015As COP21 reaches its endgame, there are plans to build 2,440 coal-fired power plants around the world, write Mowdud Rahman & Greig Aitken. Their completion would send global temperatures, and sea levels, soaring. Yet Bangladesh, the world's most 'climate vulnerable' large country, has plans for a 1.3GW coal power plant on the fringes of its World Heritage coastal wetlands. more...
'Last Days of Ivory' promotes a military conservation that is fatal for tribal peoples
Lewis Evans
17th November 2015The massacre of elephants for Asian ivory trade is driving the iconic African giant to extinction, writes Lewis Evans. But the 'military response' is both brutal and ineffective, all the more so as it excludes and alienates the indigenous communities who are the best defenders of nature and wildlife. The simplistic message of 'Last Days of Ivory' is both damaging and dangerous. more...
Voluntary schemes cannot replace environmental regulation
Donal McCarthy / RSPB
16th November 2015A new review of the performance of politically fashionable 'voluntary' approaches to environmental protection demonstrates limited effectiveness, writes Donal McCarthy. Laws and regulations play a vital role in protecting nature and the wider environment - for which voluntarism is no substitute. more...
Health and biodiversity restored? How farming can rediscover its long-lost roots
Dave Goulson
16th November 2015As industrial agriculture continues to erode our wildlife, Dave Goulson challenges the methods and objectives of ever-increasing food production. We need to move towards sustainable, evidence-based farming systems that produce healthy food, rather than allowing the agrochemical industry to reshape our farming, countryside and nutrition to its quest for profit. more...
Why isn't the UK standing up for EU Nature Laws?
Catherine Weller / ClientEarth
5th November 2015The EU's Nature Directives have been doing a great job of protecting Europe's most threatened species and habitats and building up wildlife numbers, writes Catherine Weller, and the UK knows it. But now it's the Directives themselves that are under threat. Other EU countries are standing up for them - but not the UK. more...
Can we halt biodiversity loss in 15 years? Yes we can!
Richard Pearson, UCL
12th November 2015Is the aspiration to halt the loss of biodiversity by 2030 - enshrined in the UN's new Sustainable Development Goals - a fairy tale? It's ambitious, writes Richard Pearson, but there are plenty of signs that the world is acting effectively to conserve its endangered habitats and species. With extraordinary effort, we can do it. more...
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Chocolate Chip Coffee Cake
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- 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
- 1 (16 oz) package pound cake mix
- 1 (8 oz) container sour cream
- ½ cup milk
- 2 large eggs
Stir together chocolate chips and 1 Tablespoon cake mix, set aside. Beat sour cream, milk, eggs, and cake mix at low speed with an electric mixer for 30 seconds or until blended. Increase speed to medium and beat three more minutes. Spoon half of batter into lightly greased 13×9-inch pan. Sprinkle chocolate chip mixture evenly over batter. Spread remaining batter on top. Sprinkle Streusel Topping (see below) evenly over batter. Bake at 350 for 25 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center of cake comes out clean.
Streusel Topping
- ½ cup brown sugar
- 2 Tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 1 ½ teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1 cup chopped pecans, toasted
- 2 Tablespoons melted butter or margarine
Combine first three ingredients; stir in pecans and butter until crumbly.
*This recipe is part of a collection of favorite holiday recipes compiled by members of the Denver Chapter of the Baylor University Women's Council.


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Rescue at seedy local cantina reveals secrets of sex-trafficking ringDecember 29, 2013 Updated: February 13, 2014 9:15pm
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The parking lot was empty as Steve Roskey, a slim, sandy-haired agent with the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission in Houston, pulled his unmarked Crown Victoria alongside the bar's brick red walls. He was on a mission to give VIPs from the Texas attorney general's newly formed human-trafficking unit a closer look at the notorious La Costeñita cantina.
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A "Blessing of the Animals" will take place at Grace Church (Anglican) at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 2, in observance of St. Francis' Day.
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Grace Church is at the intersection of Bertha and Sycamore streets in Mount Washington, two blocks south of Grandview Avenue between McArdle Roadway and the Mon Incline.
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Eli Broad
Philanthropist, The Broad Foundation
Eli and Edythe Broad have spent their lifetime giving back.
After creating shareholder wealth by providing vital homebuilding and retirement savings services through the two Fortune 500 companies he created—KB Home and SunAmerica, Inc.—Eli Broad and Edythe, his wife of 54 years, are now devoting their time, energy and resources to philanthropy.
As the child of immigrant parents, Eli Broad was instilled with the values of hard work, education and the dream that anything was possible. He and Edythe both attended Detroit Public Schools, and then he attended Michigan State University, graduating with a degree in accounting and becoming the youngest CPA in the state's history. While working for two years as an accountant, Eli Broad saw his homebuilding clients making
much more than he was, and he and Edythe's cousin's husband decided they, too, could build houses. Eli Broad and Donald Kaufman founded Kaufman and Broad with the simple idea that if they built houses without basements (the widespread use of gas heating rendered basements to store coal unnecessary), they could offer homes with mortgage payments that were lower than the rent for a two-bedroom apartment. The first weekend in 1956, they priced their houses at $13,740. They sold out that same weekend and were in business.
Kaufman and Broad grew rapidly, becoming the first homebuilder to be traded on the American and New York stock exchanges. Realizing that the homebuilding industry was cyclical, Eli Broad looked to diversify the business, and in 1971, Kaufman and Broad acquired a small life insurance company for $65 million that they eventually transformed into a retirement savings empire. With the merger of SunAmerica into AIG in 1999—at the sales price of $18 billion—Eli Broad stepped down as CEO and turned his attention to full-time philanthropy.
The Broads had created a family foundation in the 1960s as a way to support their charitable interests and causes. But with their financial success from the sale of SunAmerica, the Broads focused their charitable giving in a new style of investing that was more akin to their business acumen: venture philanthropy. An entrepreneur at heart, Eli Broad has applied his same spirit of creating new enterprises to the family's approach to philanthropy.
Today, The Broad Foundations, which include The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation and The Broad Art Foundation, have assets of $2.5 billion. Their mission is to advance entrepreneurship for the public good in education, science and the arts.
Eli Broad has held numerous leadership roles on boards around the country. He was the founding chairman and is a life trustee of The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, is a life trustee of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and at the California Institute of Technology, and he is currently a trustee of The Museum of Modern Art in New York. Eli Broad is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 1994 was named Chevalier in the National Order of the Legion of Honor by the Republic of France. In 2004, he became a Regent of the Smithsonian Institution by appointment of the U.S. Congress and the President. In 2007, Eli Broad received the Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy.
The Broads have lived in Los Angeles since 1963.
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As far as South Florida goes, I left because I couldn't stand the area. Too much intolerance, too much social divide, too much violence, and frankly... I noticed my home was not my home anymore. West Palm Beach is being completely overrun. It's a shame, because I love Palm Beach County. It's a paradise. My family was a staple of Jupiter FL in the 30s and 40s. A close family friend, someone my relatives used to call uncle, was a well known trapper. It was my legacy, almost.
And I moved. Way up north. And I love it up here. It kills me but South Florida right now is dying. I don't know why, and I don't know how to fix it but simply put... it's a place you don't really want to be if you can help it.


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Whoaaaaa WLW just caught some very bad language from Votto.
Whoaaaaa WLW just caught some very bad language from Votto.
Votto K's.
Reds Fan Since 1971
"I got all of it ... I crushed that ball ... and it BARELY cleared the outfield wall. I settled into my home run trot ... then I realized I didn't even have a home run trot." - Bob Uecker
The boos for Brandon from Cardinals fans just doesn't seem sincere any more.
Phillps HR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Reds Fan Since 1971
Oops, I take that back. They hate him again.
Base hit for Bruce.
Reds Fan Since 1971
"I never argue with people who say baseball is boring, because baseball is boring. And then, suddenly, it isn't. And that's what makes it great." - Joe Posnanski
Brandon Phillips is a rally killer.
Here we gooooooooo
Wait, a home run after a single after a home run? I thought home runs killed rallies?
I like when the Cardinal faithful boo BP. He seems to enjoy it. Nothing an old Jeffrey Leonard "one flap down" couldn't cure.
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