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Dr. Hanson is completing her Fellowship this spring. Her project is creating a series of videos that can be embedded in D2L case-based learning scenarios to encourage intercultural competencies.
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We were surprised this morning, Wednesday 02/02/2011 at 10:30 AM when we were watching our birds out back and realized we had several Robins. We were able to count 40 Plus Robins near our home in my backyard with all the other birds.....Cardinals and Finches Sparrows and Doves and several other birds that have definitely entertained me and my husband this year. I hope you can see this sight close to you back deck too. Happy Hunting!!!!!!
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Biography (Cyclopedia of World Authors, Fourth Revised Edition)
On December 29, 1812, the Reverend Patrick Brontë (BRAHNT-ee), incumbent of Hartshead, Yorkshire (originally of County Down, in Ireland), was married in Guiseley Church to Maria Branwell, a Cornish lady then visiting in the home of her uncle, the Reverend John Fennell. Little more than seven years later, having in the meantime served a ministry in Thornton, he was appointed perpetual curate of Haworth, and the family moved there in April, 1820. Eighteen months later Mrs. Brontë died of cancer, leaving six small children—Maria, Elizabeth, Charlotte, Branwell, Emily, and Anne—ranging in age from seven years to twenty months. Elizabeth Branwell, Mrs. Brontë's eldest sister, thereupon came from Penzance to take care of the children.{$S[A]Bell, Currer;Brontë, Charlotte}
In late summer of 1824, the four older girls became pupils of the Clergy Daughters' School at Cowan Bridge. Precocious in mind but shy in spirit and frail in body, they fell victims to the severity of its routine. Maria and Elizabeth succumbed to tuberculosis and were taken home to die, Maria on May 6, and Elizabeth on June 15, 1825. Charlotte and Emily were immediately recalled, and thereafter the parsonage children knew no formal school room until Charlotte, at the age of fourteen, entered Miss Margaret Wooler's school near Roe Head. Their father took overall responsibility for the children's education. Left much to their own devices, the children found endless entertainment in creative plays that continued from day to day. Shortly after Charlotte's tenth birthday, they launched a new play centering around twelve wooden soldiers; this absorbed all other household plays and, becoming a permanent imaginary world of escape, nourished and shaped the personalities and talents of the children. They not only created heroes who performed great deeds but, turning authors, artists, and publishers, recorded those deeds in tiny volumes of histories, biographies, novels, poems, and dramas.
In January, 1831, Charlotte's departure for Roe Head interrupted the Young Men's Play; Emily and Anne took advantage of the break to withdraw from the family group and set up a play of their own called Gondal. Despite Charlotte's revival of the old creation on her return eighteen months later, and its expansion into a far-flung empire called Angria, the younger girls stayed apart and, from that time on, the Brontë children played and wrote in pairs: Charlotte and Branwell concerned with Angria, Emily and Anne with Gondal.
Through the years 1832-1835 the game grew and matured with its creators through an astonishing number of "books." Branwell's productions, closely paralleling Charlotte's in characters and plot, betray his corrupting association with "rough lads of the Village" and the society of the Black Bull Inn. It was time for him to prepare for his chosen work of portrait painting. To help with family expenses, Charlotte, in the late summer of 1835, returned to Miss Wooler's school as teacher, taking Emily with her as a pupil.
The plan worked out badly. Branwell went to London but did not enter the Royal Academy, as had been planned. Charlotte and Emily, torn...
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Biography (Critical Survey of Long Fiction, Fourth Edition)
Charlotte Brontë was the third of six children born within seven years to the Reverend Patrick Brontë and his wife Maria Branwell Brontë. Patrick Brontë was perpetual curate of Haworth, a bleak manufacturing town in Yorkshire, England. In 1821, when Charlotte was five years old, her mother died of cancer. Three years later, the four elder girls were sent to the Clergy Daughters' School at Cowan Bridge—the school that appears as Lowood in Jane Eyre. In the summer of 1825, the eldest two daughters, Maria and Elizabeth, died of tuberculosis. Charlotte and Emily were removed from the school and brought home. There were no educated middle-class families in Haworth to supply friends and companions for the Brontë children; they lived with a noncommunicative aunt, an elderly servant, and a father much preoccupied by his intellectual interests and his own griefs.
In their home and with only one another for company, the children had material for both educational and imaginative development. Patrick Brontë expected his children to read and to carry on adult conversations about politics. He subscribed to Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, where his children had access to political and economic essays, art criticism, and literary reviews. They had annuals with engravings of fine art; they taught themselves to draw by copying the pictures in minute detail. They were free to do reading that would not have been permitted by any school of the time—by the age of thirteen, Charlotte Brontë was fully acquainted not only with John Milton and Sir Walter Scott but also with Robert Southey, William Cowper, and (most important) Lord Byron.
In 1826, Branwell was given a set of wooden toy soldiers, and the four children used these as characters in creative play. The individual soldiers gradually took on personal characteristics and acquired countries to rule. The countries needed cities, governments, ruling families, political intrigues, legends, and citizens with private lives, all of which the children happily invented. In 1829, when Charlotte Brontë was thirteen, she and the others began to write down materials from these fantasies, producing a collection of juvenilia that extended ultimately to hundreds of items: magazines, histories, maps, essays, tales, dramas, poems, newspapers, wills, speeches, scrapbooks. This enormous creative production in adolescence gave concrete form to motifs that were later transformed into situations, characters, and concerns of Charlotte Brontë's mature work. It was also a workshop for literary technique;...
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Biography (Dictionary of World Biography: The 19th Century)
Early Life
Patrick Brontë was a powerful force in his family's personal and creative life. He was born in Ireland in 1777 and overcame poverty to attend Cambridge University in England. The self-disciplined, hard-working young man became a minister in the Church of England and married Maria Branwell in 1812. They had six children in seven years: Maria, Elizabeth, Charlotte, Patrick Branwell, Emily Jane, and Anne. In 1820 Patrick moved his family to Haworth, England, where he was appointed minister for life. Maria died of cancer in 1821 at age thirty-eight, leaving Patrick with six small children.
Even after they became adults, the Brontë sisters seldom ventured far from Haworth, the center of their creative lives. The Brontë home was cold and damp, and the town suffered from the effects of open sewers and industrial pollution. Cholera and tuberculosis were common, and the average life expectancy in Haworth was only twenty-six years. It was a rough provincial town, and the family, while respected and well liked, had little social contact with townsfolk. The Brontë children turned to each other for companionship and entertainment. Although early Brontë scholarship portrayed Patrick as a tyrannical father, later research presented him more favorably. Defying the patriarchal values of his day, he educated his daughters and encouraged them in their creative efforts.
After Maria died, Patrick sent his four oldest daughters to the Clergy Daughters' School at Cowan Bridge, probably the model for Charlotte's vivid portrayal of the harsh conditions in Jane Eyre's boarding school. After the two oldest girls became ill, Patrick brought his daughters home. Within a five-week period in 1825, Maria and Elizabeth died from tuberculosis. During the next six years Patrick educated the children himself.
The children found the outside world intimidating. In 1831 Charlotte went to Roe Head, a private school that she first attended as a student and then later returned to briefly as a teacher. Emily and Anne attended Roe Head for a short time but were unhappy away from home. In 1842 Charlotte and Emily attended a private school in Belgium, where Charlotte remained until 1844. The three sisters sometimes worked as governesses, which enriched their writing by exposing them to diverse social situations and giving them insights into aspects of human nature from which they were sheltered in Haworth.
Life's Work
While the young Brontë women found their ventures out into the world emotionally trying, their intellectual and creative lives blossomed in Haworth. In 1826 Patrick gave Branwell twelve toy soldiers. Each child chose a soldier and named it after a personal hero and then wrote and performed plays about the character. They set their stories in an imaginary African kingdom called Angria; later Emily and Anne created their own realm, which they named Gondal, and located it on an island in the Pacific Ocean. Their fantasy worlds satisfied their emotional needs more than their bleak surroundings did. Charlotte did not free herself from her obsession with Angria until 1839, and Anne and Emily were still writing about Gondal in 1845. Angria and Gondal served as a deep well for the Brontës' creative lives. They populated their kingdoms with people from history and from contemporary society pages. They laid out cities, devised geographies and drew maps, wrote their kingdoms' histories, and incorporated the social and political controversies of their own day into Angria and Gondal. They painted and wrote poetry, drama, prose, and historical narrative.
Charlotte had a wider audience in mind. In 1845, she convinced Emily and Anne to join her in publishing a collection of their poetry, entitled Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell (1846). Since the patriarchal Victorian society seldom took female writers seriously, they published their book under male-sounding pseudonyms: Currer (Charlotte), Ellis (Emily), and Acton (Anne) Bell. Even before the poems appeared, the three sisters decided that each, using their pseudonyms, would publish a novel, to be published jointly in a three-volume work. Anne wrote Agnes Grey (1847), which drew on her experiences as a governess. Emily contributed Wuthering Heights (1847), whose dramatic characters and emotionally charged plot derived from her Gondal writings. Charlotte's The Professor (1857) was enriched by her work as a teacher, especially from her years in Belgium.
Publisher Thomas Cautley Newby refused The Professor but published Anne's and Emily's novels. Anne's book was warmly accepted by the public. She was concerned with incorporating morality and religion into daily life. Agnes Grey provided trenchant criticism of a society that allowed mediocrity to triumph over excellence and that tolerated an ignorant and insensitive upper class that had little understanding of the hard-working, decent people that surrounded and served them.
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Biography (Magill's Survey of World Literature, Revised Edition)
Charlotte Brontë (BRAHN-tee) was born in Thornton, England, on April 21, 1816, the third daughter of Maria Branwell Brontë and the Reverend Patrick Brontë. The family rapidly increased to include a son, Branwell, and two more daughters, Emily and Anne. Shortly after moving to the village of Haworth, situated high in the moors of West Yorkshire, the children experienced the first of many tragedies: In September, 1821, their mother died of a lingering illness. To help take care of the children, Maria Branwell's older sister Elizabeth came to live with the family; her strict Methodist ways and somewhat unsympathetic nature were a gloomy influence on the grieving, lonely youngsters.
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Biography (Magill's Survey of World Literature, Revised Edition)
Charlotte Brontë's contribution to the Victorian novel was one of character, not one of plot or technical innovation. Her most vivid creation is the autobiographical narrator of Jane Eyre, a character who relates her story in an entertaining fashion and establishes that it is personality, rather than wealth or physical appeal, that makes an interesting heroine. By the time she wrote Villette, Brontë was more overt in her challenges to literary convention, a tendency that makes that novel more problematic and promising for contemporary literary scholars.
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Inspired through events close to her heart and those she created in imaginary worlds, Charlotte Brontë continues to charm readers with her unconventional characters, particularly in the novel Jane Eyre, which features a strong, defiant, and independent heroine. Such a character was not typically seen in the fiction of the period (1816-1855), and may have had much to do with Charlotte and her sister's tremendous sense of loss after the death of their mother. Through her work, Charlotte dealt with the tragedy and solitude of her upbringing, and she managed as well to provide financial security for herself and her family. Little did she know that her writing would also bring her literary immortality.Essential Facts
- After being removed from school, Charlotte and her sisters spent nearly five years at home. It was during this time that they began writing stories of imaginary worlds. Charlotte and her brother, Branwell, created the world of Angria, while Emily and Anne created Gondal. The children wrote of these worlds on tiny sheets of paper, some of which were eventually published under the title Legends of Angria.
- Charlotte's most famous work, Jane Eyre (1847), was originally published under her pseudonym, Currer Bell. However, inaccurate assumptions about Currer Bell eventually circulated, which encouraged Charlotte to reveal her true identity.
- Charlotte believed that the conditions at the school she and her sisters attended (Clergy Daughter's School) affected her physical and emotional development.
- While teaching at a school in Brussels (1843), Charlotte met and fell in love with a married professor. This experience served as inspiration for some of her novels.
- Charlotte was the only one of her sisters to marry; unfortunately, it was during her pregnancy that she, and her child, passed away.
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Biography (Novels for Students)
Charlotte Brontë, born on April 21, 1816, was the third child of Maria Branwell Brontë and the Reverend Patrick Brontë. Originally of Irish descent, the Brontës moved to Haworth, a village on the Yorkshire moors, when Patrick Brontë was appointed rector of the Haworth parish church. The Haworth Parsonage, set high on a hill, overlooked the church graveyard on one side and the wild desolate moors of Yorkshire on the other.
It was in this environment that the six Brontë children, Maria, Elizabeth, Charlotte, Branwell (the only son), Emily, and Anne formed their own imaginary world, creating stories and poems inspired by a box of toy soldiers. The written word was valued in the Brontë household as the Reverend aspired to literary success, and the small library in his study was readily available to the children.
Tragedy struck the family early and persistently. Soon after the move to Haworth, Maria Branwell Brontë, exhausted from bearing six children in seven years, died of cancer after a long illness. Charlotte was only five years old.
The Reverend made several unsuccessful attempts to remarry, and eventually called his sister-in-law Elizabeth to Haworth to help raise the children.
In 1824, Maria, eleven years old, and Elizabeth, ten, were sent to a new school for the daughters of clergymen at Cowan Bridge. Charlotte, eight, and Emily, six, joined them that same year. Due to the unsanitary and harsh conditions of the school, a typhoid epidemic occurred. Maria and Elizabeth both died of tuberculosis. Charlotte and Emily were brought home immediately.
In 1831, Charlotte was again sent away to be educated–at Roe Head, an exclusive school fifteen miles from Haworth. After less than a year, she returned home to teach her sisters, then, in 1835, returned to Roe Head as a teacher, only to be called home again when Aunt Elizabeth died. For a brief time she worked as a governess, then returned home to Haworth, and for the next few years tutored her sisters, Emily and Anne, while continuing to write.
At the age of twenty–six, Charlotte, hoping to open her own school in Haworth, enrolled in a small private school in Brussels to study foreign languages. There she formed a one–sided romantic attachment to the married headmaster, Constantin Heger, and continued to write him letters after returning to England.
In 1846, after discovering that Emily and Anne had been writing poetry, Charlotte convinced her sisters to self–publish a book of their poems. Under the pseudonyms Currer (Charlotte), Ellis (Emily), and Acton (Anne) Bell, they published their first book of poems. Only two copies sold, but that did not deter them from each writing a novel. Charlotte's Jane Eyre was published in 1847, followed by Anne's Agnes Gray, and Emily's Wuthering Heights.
Success came immediately to Charlotte, and she continued to write throughout her life. Shirley was published in 1849, Villette was published in 1853, and The Professor was published after her death, in 1857.
Unfortunately, Charlotte's siblings Emily, Anne, and Branwell were all dead by 1849, and Charlotte was left alone at Haworth to care for her father. In 1852, Charlotte accepted a marriage proposal from her father's curate, Arthur Bell Nichols, and continued to live at Haworth. In 1855, pregnant with her first child, Charlotte caught a chill while walking on the moors, and died on March 31, at the age of thirty-nine.


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The U12 team is coached by Joab Takapautolo, and Takapautolo was able to bring Paea in for the talk. Paea was born in New Zealand and grew up in Tonga, where he played rugby. He moved to Lawrence, Ks. When he was 16 and then Provo, Utah where he became a standout defensive lineman. After earning an associate's degree at Snow College, while playing football, he transferred to Oregon State and in 2011 was taken by the Chicago Bears in as the 53rd overall pick in the NFL Draft. He made his NFL debut in a Sunday Night Football game on October 16 against the Minnesota Vikings, and sacked Donovan McNabb in the end zone for a safety. He is the first Bears player to record a safety in his debut since at least 1970, possibly longer. Paea is expected to discuss how he grew up playing rugby, and how he transitioned from rugby to football, and he will discuss education, good citizenship, and other topics with the kids. |


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Systematic Collections | Image Gallery
Systematic artifact collections are most comprehensive for Southwest Florida. There are also important reference collections from elsewhere in South Florida. Included are the Cushing Collection, comprised of the many items collected by Frank Hamilton Cushing during his 1895-1896 visits to the Southwest Florida coast; the Van Beck Collection excavated from the Marco Midden in the 1960s; the extensive Fort Center collection, including carved wooden posts, ca. A.D. 400; artifacts collected by John Goggin, on which the major systematic artifact typologies for South Florida are based; and all artifacts, precolumbian and post-contact, that have been excavated since 1983 during the Southwest Florida Project (e.g., Buck Key, Cash Mound, Galt Island, Horr's Island, Josslyn Island, Useppa Island, and the Pineland Site Complex). Some artifacts are on exhibit in the Hall of South Florida People and Environments.
Archaeobotanical, zooarchaeological, and pedoarchaeological samples are curated in the Florida Museum's Environmental Archaeology collections.
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The Florida Museum's Ceramic Technology Laboratory maintains a type collection of pre-columbian pottery found in Florida. The image gallery provided here includes only South Florida pottery types of the Glades, Belle Glade, and Goodland series.
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The Pineland collection is the largest systematic collection from a major Calusa town site. Materials excavated from the Pineland Site Complex between 1988 and today comprise more than 140,000 items. The collection is made up of artifacts, environmental specimens, and associated records. Artifacts include Native American pottery sherds; tools and decorative objects made of shell, bone, shark teeth, and stone; Spanish-derived glass, metal, and ceramic objects; and waterlogged wood, seeds, and other organic materials. Oxygen-free waterlogged areas of the Pineland site preserved the only known prehistoric papaya seeds ever found in North America, as well as the only prehistoric chile pepper seeds known for the eastern United States. The seeds are un-charred, and are about 1900 years old.
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a three-year grant (2007-2010) to William Marquardt and Karen Walker to preserve and organize the Pineland collection. The grant funded curation of materials from five major field seasons at Pineland (1988, 1989, 1990, 1992, and 1995) as well as 18 linear feet of associated records. Museum staff rehabilitated the collection by rehousing artifacts, specimens, and samples using an archival bagging and boxing method that maintains physical order by catalog number and provenience.
Some artifacts from the Pineland Site Complex are on exhibit in the Hall of South Florida People and Environments.
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Perhaps the best known collection from South Florida, this group of artifacts was excavated in 1896 from a waterlogged site on Marco Island, Florida. Unusual conditions of preservation allowed recovery of netting, cordage, wooden boxes and bowls, bone implements, several extraordinary carved and painted masks and figureheads, and a famous 6-inch-high carved wooden seated feline figurine. They are recognized worldwide as remarkable specimens of Native American artistic achievement. The Key Marco materials are principally divided between the University Museum, University of Pennsylvania; the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution; and the Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida. The Florida Museum curates over 600 artifacts of cordage, bone, shell, and wood (including bowls, clubs, painted boxes, the "woodpecker" painted plaque, stools, and some of the masks). Our Key Marco holdings also include numerous examples of fishing gear, such as nets, net weights, net-mesh gauges, bone points and pins, and shell tools and vessels. Some artifacts from Key Marco are on exhibit in the Hall of South Florida People and Environments.


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Dolce & Gabbana launches perfume for infants
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Aren't babies supposed to smell sweet all on their own?
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According to the Daily Mail, Stefano Gabbana says the new perfume is inspired by the smell of a baby and is "designed to cuddle and pamper every little boy and girl."
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But D&G isn't the first company to bottle the sweet smell of babies—other high-end labels, including Burberry and Bvlgari, have also come up with their own scent for infants.
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I'm Trying to Install Win 7 one of my partitions, and during the Sysprep process, when we are asked to create the User accounts, I get a message as-Updating registry entries and after it displays a message box as-" attempt to resume configuration restart the computer.
Restarting does not solve this.I've also done many things as having a look at the cbs log and the logs in the Panther Folder of windows.
Nothing seems to solve this problem.
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Windows could not finish configuring the System.To attempt, restart
(6 posts)I've never experienced this issue myself, however I ran a Google search and it seems as though many other people have had this problem - going back as far as 2009.
From what I was able to gather by reading a few threads on some forums - some people suspect the problem may be caused by the user's anti-virus and/or anti-malware programs.
You might want to try disabling all your protection softwares and then try running the installation again.
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'Tis the season for giving, and Grimm is giving double this year. NBC's fantasy crime procedural will air two back-to-back episodes Friday at 9/8c, featuring Wesen that will put an extra chill in your winter.read more
What's a poor, powerless Hexenbiest to do? When Grimm returns for its third season Friday (9/8c, NBC), Nick's Scooby gang will still be battling zombies, but Adalind Schade (Claire Coffee) has more important matters to take care of: getting her Hexenbiest mojo back!read more
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LOS ANGELES, Dec. 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Reflecting its elevated status as a premier race, the LA Marathon has received the coveted designation as the nation's best big city race in the January issue of Runner's World magazine.
This significant recognition in the magazine's featured 2013 Marathon Guide is another indicator of the race's gaining popularity among runners across the world. Current registration totals for the 2013 LA Marathon, with its iconic Stadium to the Sea course, are at an all-time high and significantly outpacing historic totals, according to race officials.
Julie Weiss, an ultra-experienced marathoner from Santa Monica, summarizes her enthusiasm for the LA Marathon in the article. The LA Marathon was her first 26.2 mile-race in 2008, and 2013 will be her third time running the Stadium to the Sea course. The 2013 LA Marathon will also be the last marathon on her journey to complete 52 marathons in one year to raise money for the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network in honor of her father, who died from the disease in 2010.
"I wanted to make sure that my final marathon would be my favorite one, which is why I chose the LA Marathon to culminate this huge accomplishment," Weiss said. "With its fantastic course, the LA Marathon is one of the most exciting races in the country."
The 2013 LA Marathon will be the fourth running of the wildly popular Stadium to the Sea course, which gives marathon runners a unique opportunity to see the beauty and diversity of Los Angeles while racing from Dodger Stadium to the Pacific Ocean, passing many of L.A.'s world?famous landmarks along the way. Among the highlights are Walt Disney Concert Hall, Grauman's Chinese Theatre, the Capitol Records Building, Sunset Strip, Rodeo Drive and the Santa Monica Pier.
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LAUREL COUNTY, Ky. —
This week, I'm spending a few days back in The Sentinel-Echo newsroom as I work on a project Willie assigned me. Looking around at all of the awards and maps on the wall and hearing the chatter of the scanner, I realize just how sweet a time working here was.
This time of year was especially special, with the holiday season starting to gear up. No one could get a jump on the season like the advertising sales girls and, though I haven't been up to their offices yet, I have a good bet they're burning some sort of aromatherapy candle scented like pumpkin spice or apple pie to set the holiday mood.
I'm writing on a Tuesday morning, which means deadline is looming. After I got my reporter legs, I came to love deadline and writing right until the very last second. There is nothing like the adrenaline rush of having the words pour right out of your fingers as you type, coming so fast because they have to: time is limited and you have to get the paper out. Sometimes, I think those stories were some of the clearest I ever wrote, in part because I didn't think on them too much, muck them up, just said what needed to be said.
I also enjoyed proofreading the pages as they spit out of the printer, which is what is happening now. I have half a mind to give them a scan and streak them with the swirls and curlicues of editing marks, but don't want to overstep. After nearly two years away, I'm an intruder here.
Sue is calling churches to make sure their church news is accurate — something I've heard her do about a thousand times — and I'm nearly in tears listening to her voice. Boy, how I miss sitting next to Sue, her neatly-ironed shirts, her perfect lipstick.
Across from her is Carrie in her office, the editor I never worked for but wish I had. Her space is slightly separated from the rest of the newsroom in that it is a proper office, but the door is always open and, anyway, a big window is in the center of her dividing wall so there is no privacy at all. That's part of what I like about this big space. Everyone has divided up their territories, personalized them, but everyone is sitting all together, sharing the same day,
I realize today there's something comforting about things that don't change. In a way, that's what this newsroom is: same orange, 1970s desks, piles and piles of newspapers, the bells from First Christian lending a soundtrack every hour, Carol's cat paraphernalia. There's a certain beauty in the constancy.
At the same time, the newspaper itself is in constant flux, reflecting all of the changes in London and Laurel County. Empty Marymount Hospital, that once untouchable institution, is now cleared and gone — a good move, reflecting the community's determination to not let things stagnate. Land has been bought to make way for a new vocational/technical school, something that was always a big goal when I covered school board. It's an interesting dichotomy, the change swirling into what seems fixed, almost permanent.
I realize today there were things I would change about my time here. As Carol and Nita and probably a few of my editors will tell you, I wasn't very easy to work with. I could be, umm, temperamental. I could, umm, swear. A lot. I had a lot of opinions about a lot of things. I would change some of that if I had it to do over. But I wouldn't change the fact that every day, as I drove from Somerset to London, crossed the foggy Rockcastle River, I was glad to go to work, glad to have my own identity in London that was just mine: the Canuck in Kantuck.
That's what this newsroom gave me, with its gentle constancy and its adrenaline rushes. A place to nestle in and just be myself, swears and all. It was an incredible opportunity, an incredible gift this place, this beautiful place.
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Last sermon of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)
This sermon was delivered on the Ninth Day of Islamic month of Dhul-Hijjah Year 632 A.C (10 A.H.) in the 'Uranah valley of Mount Arafat' in Mecca.
After praising and thanking Allah the Prophet (saws) said:
"O People, lend me an attentive ear, for I know not whether after this year I shall ever be amongst you again. Therefore listen to what I am saying very carefully and take these words to those who could not be present here today.
O People, just as you regard this month, this day, this city as Sacred, so regard the life and property of every Muslim as a sacred trust. Return the goods entrusted to you to their rightful owners. Hurt no one so that no one may hurt you. Remember that you will indeed meet your Lord, and that he will indeed reckon your deeds. Allah has forbidden you to take usury (interest), therefore all interest obligations shall henceforth be waived. Your capital is yours to keep. You will neither inflict nor suffer any inequity. Allah has judged that there shall be no interest and that all the interest due to Abbas ibn 'Abd'al Muttalib [the Prophet's uncle] be waived.
Every right arising out of homicide in pre-islamic days is henceforth waived and the first such right that i waive is that arising from the murder of Rabiah ibn al Harithibn.
O People, the unbelievers indulge in tampering with the calender in order to make permissible that which Allah forbade, and to forbid that which Allah has made permissible. With Allah the months are twelve in number. Four of them are holy, three of these are successive and one occurs singly between the months of Jumada and Shaban.
Beware of Satan, for the safety of your religion. He has lost all hope of that he will be able to lead you astray in big things, so beware of following him in small things.
O People, it is true that you have certain rights with regard to your women but they also have rights over you. Remember that you have taken them as your wives only under Allah's trust and with His permission. If they abide by your right, then to them belongs the right to be fed and clothed in kindness. Do treat your women well and be kind to them for they are your partners and committed helpers. And it is your right that they do not make friends with anyone of whom you do not approve, as well as never to be unchaste. O People, listen to me in earnest, worship Allah, say your five daily prayers, fast during the month of Ramadhan, and give your wealth in Zakat. Perform Hajj if you can afford to.
All mankind is from Adam and Eve, an Arab has no superiority over a non-Arab nor a non-Arab has any superiority over an Arab; also a white has no superiority over a black nor a black has any superiority over a white – except by piety and good action. Learn that every Muslim is a brother to every Muslim and that the Muslims constitute one brotherhood. Nothing shall be legitimate to a Muslim which belongs to a fellow Muslim unless it was given freely and willingly. Do not therefore do injustice to yourselves. Remember one day you will meet Allah and answer your deeds. So beware: do not stray from the path of righteousness after I am gone.
O People, no prophet or apostle will come after me, and no new faith will be born. Reason well, therefore, O People, and understand my words which I convey to you. I leave behind me two things, the Qur'an and my Sunnah and if you follow these you will never go astray.
All those who listen to me shall pass on my words to others and those to others again; and may the last ones understand my words better than those who listen to me directly. Be my witness, O Allah, that I have conveyed Your message to Your people."
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thank you for sharing this beautiful message
is all mankind from adam and eve? – on the 6th day of creation (1st chapter Genesis) THE GODS made human beings IN THE IMAGE OF THOSE GODS – MALE AND FEMALE (at the same time), male and female the GODS made them (each one of them individually) – BUT in 2nd chapter Genesis THIS: By the Lord God Adam was made out of the DUST OF THE EARTH (not in the image of God or Gods like the human of 1st chapter Genesis) – MALE ONLY – later a WOMAN was taken out of Adam – so the relationship between Adam and Eve was not the same as that which existed between male and female in 1st chapter genesis – ALSO the ONE male and female entity of 1st ch Gen. was (were) told by its (their) CREATORS: "Be fruitful and multiply and tame the Earth." – BUT Adam and Eve (two separate individuals) were told by their LORD GOD NOT to engage with the duality of the World (forbidden fruit of knowledge of sowing and reaping) lest they "would surely die." – the Lord God wanted Adam and Eve to ask HIM for whatever they would want in their Garden of Eden made for them by their Lord God – BUT those 1st two (erroneously known as) "white folks" ("who told you that you were naked – that you were your naked paleness") partook of the forbidden fruit (tried to get things on their own by their own efforts) and were cast out of Eden and now their descendants kill and die and work iniquity all over the world amen?
so you can see that ONE KIND (the ORIGINAL KIND) of Mankind was made in one way for one purpose and ANOTHER kind (an ADAMIC KIND) of Mankind was made for a quite different purpose amen? -
Beautiful beautiful sermon, from our beloved Rasul Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) in the hereafter. What a generous, kind, merciful, handsome, great loving man with a clean heart he had. We love him and remember him dearly in our hearts and lives forever.


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Doing its best in its quest to bridge the ever widening gap between the educational haves and have-nots, Grammar recently opened a $16 million 'wellness' facility - humbly described on the school's website as "an exciting new direction in education, building confidence, optimism and success in young people". Thank god. This sort of service couldn't have come soon enough to some of the most advantaged elites in our community.
Students of Australia's richest learning establishment finally have access to two indoor courts, a 25 metre heated pool, large gymnasium with a weights room, ergometers, aerobics and dance areas, teaching spaces, a café, health information areas with online resources, a nine-bed medical facility, and doctors' consultation rooms.
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Seligman's warm and toasty, middle-class view of psychology is that it should concentrate on building people's strengths rather than "fixing people once they are sick". What insight – helping the 'worried well' build on their already considerable advantage.
But apparently Seligman - philosopher king that he is - has had the radical idea that it's not only elites that could benefit from having their optimism levels adjusted. The Professor's utopian vision would hopefully see the 'wellness' model of psychology become universally available, especially to the less fortunate among us.
What if the Government adopted the idea of wellness facilities as part of its Education Revolution - a policy which they claim is also aimed at empowering the disadvantaged? After all, Seligman's "visionary" approach is based on twenty years of rigorous research which revealed, among other paradigm-shifting insights, that people who are optimistic are – wait for it – "less depressed" and "have better relationships with other people".
Now who would have guessed that people who are optimistic "perform better in work, school and sports"?
On that basis, it's a no-brainer that people on the fringes of society who experience appalling rates of inter-generational poverty and violence, need their "success drivers" enhanced.
So instead of covered outdoor learning areas, let's stick wellness centres in all our under-resourced public schools. Of course, the Government mightn't be able to access the well-remunerated Seligman to oversee the implementation of this ambitious project, nor the money to fund it, which would leave our State schools to raise the majority of the necessary capital on their own.
But that's just a minor point when we're talking about the potential for achieving every democracy's hope: for success and happiness to be within the reach of us all.
So some life advice to underprivileged pessimists: time you did your bit to improve your lot. Embrace the practice of positive psychology – because, let's face it, you don't have much to lose.
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anna says:
i work at schools which have all this already except the gym and they're all public schools. They would be better encouraged to do after school or weekend activities handing out brochures that really targets what they want to do not a pool a cafe a gym which is going to magically make them happy.
Shane From Melbourne says:
If private schools were privately funded, no one would give a stuff how they spent their money. But since private schools are sucking on the public teat, and rather hard at that, the least they could do is open their books to government audit, to show how the taxpayer money is spent. Taxpayer money = government audit, no exceptions.
Catharine Lumby says:
We send our children to a public school where they are learning life's most important lessons a) If you fall over on asphalt it will seriously hurt and you''ll have interesting marks on your legs forever; b) Sitting in a crowded classroom is good practice for sitting on public transport c) Developing neat handwriting is far more important than learning how to navigate the internet and d) At some point you will be asked to do 'old-fashioned sucky dancing' with a member of the opposite sex who will inevitably have warts which you will catch.
If you don't understand how important these sterling learning objectives are I have to question whether you've written this column in good faith - as someone who really "cares" about children - or whether you are an enemy of children.
PS. I hope this column is not another one of those 'satirical' columns. Education is something we all need to take seriously for the sake of future generations.
The Shaking Head says:
Our local state school (40k from Brisbane) is getting $300,000 for a hall this for a school of 900 pupils, there is no airconditioning in classrooms, parade and meetings are held outdoors and the few computers they have never work. Australia is no longer an shiny new fair society giving reward for effort but now gives reward for being priviledged, welcome to the old world, we got there in the end.
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Acutally Carrie, perhaps you should better try to understand Seligman's work. If you read through his ideas on Positive Psychology or are lucky enough to have him as a lecturer, as I have been, then you may understand that he does not emphasise the splurging of money on frivolous infrastructure at all.
His ideas concern promoting individuals exploring their passions in life, as well as enjoying their personal quirks (so long as these quirks are not pathological). He proposes models for helping people achieve their self and social esteem pre-emptively of mental illness; rather than waiting for mental illness to set in by which time the problem is far more complex and expensive to deal with.
So please stop rubbishing Seligman. He didn't create this splurge, which is really nothing more than the latest splurge by an overfunded private school. It is nothing new, and you are certainly completely wrong in trying to claim that this splurge is somehow Seligman's doing.
Seligman's ideas contribute practicably to an area, mental health, where by and large our society fails people increasingly as the years go by. Rubbish Geelong Grammar all you like, but do steer clear of sinking your fangs into an individual who is guilty of no folly and who ought to be commended for the revolutionary work he is doing on the mental health front.
SalC says:
Wow, I saw it as a really good idea! Institute the concept of wellness centres to low SES schools, use a well-defined model that can be easily adapted to each individual school. One consultation fee, and it doesn't have to be as grandiose as Grammar's, just use the same principles. If kids can't get peace and stability at home, at least they will have a safe space to chill out at school, in conjunction with their education. Or we could just leave the downtrodden to swim out of their own sticky myres. You're choice!
Rob says:
Geelong Grammar the most prestigious learning institution in Australia?
What utter and complete rubbish. By which measure can the author make such a dubious claim? Not to mention that 'learning institution' by definition also includes universities. Carrie Miller needs the sack for writing such fiction.
Grumbles says:
One day schools will teach compulsory martial arts, students will be disiplined and respectful, brimming with confidence, fitter, faster and smarter.
At a young age martial arts teaches all those lessons that reading, riting and rithmatic just don't include, it empowers those who feel weak and inspires confidence in the shy. It is good for fitness and flexibility. Finally, it should be run by class teachers themselves as it builds a relationship of respect between student and teacher, and regular schooling will benefit greatly.
Basil says:
Oh geez Carrie good to see your well, oh how am I you ask, Oh I'm really wellness, thank you…. Wellness, what a buffoon of a word, right up there with "unworry and "unfriend", I dare any one to use this stupid, senseless irriating word in a proper sentence…. Oh Basil, the Headmaster would like to see you in his office now….
Sally says:
Australia's most prestigious learning institution: Geelong Grammar????
Maybe most expensive. Is that b/c Prince Charles went there for a month a zillion years ago?
I'll take any one of the GPS schools in Sydney that are more prestigious.
iansand says:
When was Mr Rudd promoted to Principal of Geelong Grammar? The things that happen when you go away for a couple of weeks.
Andrew says:
@Daryyl/@Ginger perhaps you need a wellness centre to help you understand KRudd. Let's not forget this nastly little man has a track record of abusing his power and the people around him. For a man rooted to the Union movement, his treatment of staff is laughable, if a private enterprise business demanded from his staff what he asks it would quickly be front some form of judicial authority - his claim there is a lot to be done just doesn't stick.
He is a workplace bully!
As for this article, I simplt don't understand. I know there is sarcasm in there, I can feel it in the mere mention of the woeful waste of money known as My School. But to suggest a Labor Government couldn't afford an expensive consultant is absurd - how else would they spend our money?
Cedric says:
I completely disagree Carrie,
If public school students began to perform better, then where am I supposed to find cleaners and garbage collectors for my company?
Craig Lambie says:
Not sure if you are being sarcastic or what you really want here.
Of course the richest institution in Australia (if it indeed is) would invest in the best opportunities for its students. It is a private institution and competes in a market place, so adding a "wellness" centre is a great "marketing" ploy to get more students in paying $20k+ a year to use the facilities.
As you point out "Now who would have guessed that people who are optimistic "perform better in work, school and sports"?"
I have to agree with your stance here….. of course, you would have to be an idiot to not see this.So I ask you this;
are you trying to get wellness centres into schools?
are you maybe trying to give Rudd a hard time over the outdoor covered areas?
are you maybe trying to point out the inequalities in our "democratic" society?Success and hope are well within reach of everyone in Australia, that is why so many people want to come live here… not just for the beautiful beaches.
We have a stable political environment with opportunity and resources galore. Most schools do a fair to average job at educating people, some need more help than others, hence the MySchools rating system.I really am lost after reading your piece, maybe you could be a little more succinct in making your point, as this is just a bunch of ideas thrown out in random chaotic order.
Darryl says:
@Ginger: Well said. There has been a seismic shift from the previous government and many departments have been radically restructured. I note that Housing and Aboriginal Affairs had low turnover rates. These are probably two of the departments where public servants are more likely to be long-serving. I suspect there might be a few more similar departments (Transport, Treasury?). Defence has also been quiet of late so their rate is probably stable.
Also, the nature of employment has changed with many more people on fixed term contracts rather than life tenure.
iansand says:
Another blurt from Miss Carrie. Could the editors instil in her the concept of making a point?
Sherlock says:
Lefty journo writes article exploding with class envy. Big Yawn! Just one more thing on a long long list for the left to hate
Ginger says:
@WKH- there are a variety of reasons why so many staff have left in those two years. So many of those public servants would have worked for the Howard Government and would not have coped with the change in government- it happens all the time in change in governments in the public service. From being a public servant, (who left to work in the non profit sector- many public servants frequently move between the three spheres of government, non government and private sectors) only people in the top spheres are generally directly impacted on by Ministers or Prime Ministers, etc- there is no way all those people left because Kevin Rudd is a bad boss- the Director General is the boss of them anyways- and let me assure you not that many people left the Premier's Department when Kevin Rudd was Director General of that in QLD Government.
But thanks for trying to shift the debate. Nice one.
acker says:
All those public school teachers in rich suburbs doing it pretty easy teaching well off kids getting paid the same money as those teachers in more challenging western suburbs or the outback applaud fools like you, who they continualy use to disguise the issue.
WKH says:
So far this government has stuffed everything it has touched at great expense to the tax payer. Don't give Krudd anymore bright ideas. Just hang on to them till we have a capable government in place. This government can't even maintain staff…As David Spears would say, "have a look"
260 staff walked out on Krudd in 2 years. KRUDD = FAIL
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Greetings all. I've been trolling the forums for a few days now and suprisingly (I think) haven't come accross any discussion about the Intel Quick Synch technology and LucidLogic Virtu software available in the Z68 and newly available Z77 Intel chipset motherboards with respect to editing in Premiere Pro. The Intel Quick Synch technology, as I understand it, is all about accelerating video compression & decompression, etc.- though I've not used it yet. The LucidLogic Virtu software is supposed to allow the combination of Intel's Quick Synch along with a discrete graphics card (e.g. nVidia chipset with cuda cores enabled in MPE). My understanding and experience of Cuda Cores (I currently have them working in Pre-Pro 5.5 using a 460GTX chip and a successfull hack) is that when MPE is enabled, rendering and pIayback is greatly speed enhanced, though I believe the MPE engine gives only limited assistance and speed to much of the conversions, compression and exporting (which is a great deal of day to day editing experience) while Quick Synch is supposed to make a real difference here. Now I do not suppose Intel or the MB manufacturers have thought that the LucidLogic Virtu software be compatible with Premiere Pro and MPE hardware, but I figure it can't hurt to ask..
Editing needs: Some SD (basic DV), HD, 720/60p and some 1080i/p. (cameras Canon 7D video / Panasonic AVCCAM 1080/30p) MPEG4, H264 codecs, etc.
A motherboard which I moght consider would be, for instance, a new Asus P8Z77-V Pro or similar. http://usa.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_1155/P8Z77V_PRO/ depending on add-in slots needed (Pci-e and/or PCI)
CPU: Intel 2700K, memory to match with some overclocking expected,
Of course I could go on, but this is the basic thought. Any thoughts or copmments are surely welcome. Thanks in advance
Doug A
Quick Sync takes a 'black box' approach which doesn't give applications that utilise it via its API much control over its parameters so it's aimed more at home users than professionals. This may change over time but I'm not aware if the API will be extended when the i7-3770K (Ivy Bridge) is released. Ivy Bridge has improved hardware performance for Quick Sync which generally seems to be tuned for performance rather than visual quality or flexibility.
"Do not get an i7-2700K, wait till the end of the month and get an i7-3770K. This in your Motherboard will give you PCIe v3.0 for one major advantage." Bill Gehrke
Bill, are there any benchmarks showing that PCIe 3 offers real world gains with the MPE?
Be aware that if you already have a Z68 board that only some of them support PCIe 3 regardless of which CPU you use. Even though the PCIe controller is on the CPU the board has to have compliant PCIe circuitry; traces etc.
Bill, are there any benchmarks showing that PCIe 3 offers real world gains with the MPE?
Be aware that if you already have a Z68 board that only some of them support PCIe 3 regardless of which CPU you use. Even though the PCIe controller is on the CPU the board has to have compliant PCIe circuitry; traces etc.
I do not know of any yet that are applicable to Premiere. And I do know that my Z68 Gigabyte board is PCIe 3.0 compatible--when I get my hands on a CPU that has the built in features, and that requires a 1155 pin Ivy Bridge CPU, i. e an i7-3770.
Actually, early benchmarks indicate that you may be in for somewhat of a disappointment with IB and Z77.
The IB CPUs (at least in their initially released stepping) will not overclock nearly as high as the SB chips because the IB chips get very hot at even moderate overclocks. In fact, Intel is releasing the IB CPUs with a TDP of 95W (same as SB) instead of the originally promised 77W.
Second, some early benchmarks showed that the average Z77 board is a bit slower (performance-wise) than its Z68 counterpart.


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