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It's called the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation Act, or CALM. President Obama signed it into law two years ago. The FCC spent months drawing up guidelines, and gave operators another year to comply.
Larry Kelley is an advertising professor at the University of Houston. He says before the CALM Act, there was a law that said the loudness of commercials, relative to programming, had to fall within a certain range.
"But that range was pretty broad. So advertisers were able to have their ads at a level that was, typically, at a level higher than program level."
Broadcasters have already invested millions of dollars in software and other equipment to normalize the levels between shows and ads. Kelley says even though the CALM Act is now official, most viewers probably won't notice a big change the next time they turn on their televisions.
"Most advertising really is at the program level as it stands. There are some that stand out. But, I think, for the most part, people won't really hear much of a difference."
The CALM act applies to commercial broadcasters — over-the-air, cable, and satellite. Non-commercial stations are exempt. The FCC does not monitor the loudness of commercials. But it will investigate listener complaints.


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Former Rep. Gabriel Giffords and retired astronaut Mark Kelly are Glamour magazine's first-ever couple of the year.
The couple, who founded the gun-safety group Americans for Responsible Solutions, were nominated because of their commitment to making America safer.
The couple will speak at the Scottsdale Center for Performing Arts on Nov. 22. All proceeds will benefit the Brain Injury Alliance of Arizona.
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FORT MYERS, Fla. - Looking for its third victory as a Division I program, the FGCU women's basketball team (2-4) returns to action tomorrow night against Central Florida(4-4) at the UCF Arena in Orlando. Tip-off is set for 1 p.m.
Last Time Out for the Eagles: Eagles Fall 78-52 at Florida
GAINESVILLE, Fla. - Adrianne McNally scored 15 points as the FGCU women's basketball team fell to the Florida Gators at the Stephen C. O'Connell Arena, by the final score of 78-52.
The Eagles fall to 2-4 overall, while the Gators improve to 5-4.
For the game, the Eagles shot 32.8 percent, connecting on 19-of-58 attempts from the field. McNally's (Howell, Mich.) 15 points led the Eagles offensive attack. McNally shot 6-of-12 (50 percent) from the field and 3-of-3 (100 percent) from the charity stripe, while also adding five rebounds and a two steals.
Chelsea Dermyer (Fort Collins, Col.) scored 14 points and pulled down four rebounds. Delia De La Torre (Las Cruces, N.M.) finished with 10 points and snagged four rebounds.
Aneika Henry and Depree Bowden led Florida with 17 points and 16 points, respectively. Henry shot 8-of-8 (100 percent) from the field and added five rebounds and three blocks, while Bowden shot 7-of-13 (53.8 percent) from the floor. For the game, the Gators collectively shot 57.4 percent (31-of-54) from the field, including 42.9 percent (6-of-14) from long-distance.
The first half proved to be a tough one for the Eagles. FGCU struggled offensively, shooting only 30.8 percent (8-of-26) from the floor and 16.7 percent (2-of-12) from behind the three-point line in the first half. The Eagles also committed 10 first half turnovers, which the Gators capitalized on and turned into 12 points. FGCU did most of their damage from the perimeter, as they were only able to score eight points in the paint and registered zero second chance and zero fast break points.
The Eagles stormed out of the gate to begin the second half, opening the half on a 5-0 run to make the score 33-27 and forced the Gators to call a 30 second timeout at the 18:57 mark. Florida would answer FGCU's run with a quick 12-4 run of their own to make the score 45-29 and kill the Eagles momentum. The Gators would increase their lead to as many as 28 points before winning by the final score of 78-52.
2007-08 A-Sun Stats (Eagles in the Top-25)
Delia De La Torre
Points Per Game - 2nd, 16.0 ppg
Rebounds - 20th, 5.3 rpg
FG % - 7th, 47.3%
3-pt % - 4th, 40%
Amanda Pierce
Points Per Game - T-27th, 9.0 ppg
3-pt % - 10th, 34.5%
Adrianne McNally
Points Per Game - T-24th, 9.3 ppg
FG % - T-13th, 42.3%
Chelsea Dermyer
Assists - 8th, 3.7 apg
FT % - T-11th, 75%
Assist/TO Ratio - 4th, 1.46
News & Notes on UCF:
Last Time Out: vs Miami (12/2) - The UCF women's basketball team's second-half rally fell short as the Knights dropped a Sunday afternoon contest to Miami, 64-56, at the BankUnited Center. D'Nay Daniels (Atlanta, Ga.) paced the Black and Gold with 15 points, while Jelisa Caldwell (Macon, Ga.) and Marshay White (Rochester, N.Y.) each added 11 points.
The Knights (4-4) shot .800 from the free throw line, which included a perfect 8-for-8 performance from Daniels at the charity stripe. UCF also shot .440 from behind the arch, with White and Caldwell nailing three a piece.
Miami (4-3) opened the game on a 14-2 run, before Caldwell and Angelica Mealing (Decatur, Ga.) hit back-to-back three-pointers making the score 16-8 with 12:42 left in the half.
Three consecutive baskets by Lewis cut the Hurricanes lead to only one, 22-21, with under three minutes to go, but the Hurricanes answered back with four buckets to extend its lead to eight. The Knights trailed 30-22 entering the locker room.
In the opening period, Lewis and Caldwell paced the Black and Gold with six points a piece, while Mealing added five. The Knights had 16 of its 22 first half points scored off the bench.
Caldwell nailed another three-pointer in the second half to pt the Knights within two, 53-51, and a layup by White tied the score 53-53, the first tie of the game.
Central Florida Statistical Leaders
Points: Tia Lewis - 14.1 ppg, Emma Cannon - 11.8 ppg
Assists: Angelica Mealing - 3.0 apg, Marshay White - 2.5 apg
Rebounds: Tia Lewis - 12.1 rpg, Emma Cannon - 9.4 rpg


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Strategies for Excellence: The IPFW Strategic Plan 2008-2014 [PDF] has been developed as the successor to the 2001-07 IPFW Strategic Plan [PDF] and as a component of the Purdue University Strategic Plan, 2008-2014.
IPFW achieved a broad range of accomplishments through the 2001 plan, including the development of new facilities and new programs, the opening of a Student Housing complex, and the movement of the IPFW Mastodons to a Division I athletics conference.
This new plan refines IPFW's mission, values, and vision. The process of developing IPFW's next Strategic Plan has also led to the identification of a series of shared initiatives, goals, strategic directions, and action priorities as the most promising approach for building on current strengths, meeting current and anticipated challenges, and expanding the university's contributions to northeast Indiana.


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(Rankings for 2013 to be published soon)
Electronics manufacturing services (EMS) providers and original design manufacturing (ODM) companies are ranked by 2012 full year financial results to avoid any flux on a quarterly basis. New to our top 10 2012 list for ODM companies is Compal Communications (#9) and Arima Communications (#10). Providers: Submit your company to our directory.
Company-branded product sales revenues, from overall EMS and ODM company sales, is separated out so we can assign a company a more accurate ranking to either our EMS or ODM competitive set based on that company's business model and heritage. Both EMS and ODM company ranking lists are made possible with the help of Michael Palma, research manager, worldwide research at IDC.
Per IDC, some 'top' lists readers may come across elsewhere (online or in print) also include revenue from EMS or ODM company-branded product and / or upstream component revenue from separate entities (e.g., non-EMS and non-ODM business) within a corporate group. Additionally, IDC states it tracks a named company only when it can reliably gather quarterly financial data from the company that can be verified by a third party. Readers should be aware efforts are made for the top 10 EMS / ODM lists on this Website to focus primarily on EMS and ODM revenue. Contact Michael Palma directly for more. Not a GlobalNet member? Join here, it's free.
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Here is what I found out:
Google offers two major avenues for your advertising dollar. First one is search traffic - if someone searches the keywords you selected, your add appears on the top and to the right of search results. If someone clicks on the ad, you pay the click fee - up to the maximum amount you agreed to bid (your position depends on the amount you bid).
Other one is display advertising - based on your parameters, your ads show on many sites that offer Google ads. For these you can again pay per click, or you may chose to pay CPM rate (Cost per thousand impressions).
I am very much simplifying what is otherwise very interesting and complex marketing avenue. Options you have are amazing - from demographics to geographic choices, you can really narrow down your audience and do some interesting marketing. In addition, even if you do not actually advertise, you can use Google's amazing Analytics tool to track your web side performance and see thousands of different parameters.
One of the most important parameters to use when tracking success of your advertising is so-called Bounce Rate - this rate shows how many visitors simply clicked in and left your page within few seconds - meaning that the probably clicked on your ad in error.
My approach was to offer reasonably high bid of $2.51 per click, and focus on about 40 keywords directly related to my business. I narrowed down my geographic reach to specific area I am targeting, selected appropriate times to advertise (not expecting CEO of medium size company to search for my services at 3am)... After 30 days, my results were as follows:
21,600 impressions, 32 clicks, $44 spent ($1.35 per click average)...
Average visitor visited 1.94 pages per visit.
Most important statistic was that 15 people were not considered by Google to be "Bounces". However, doing even deeper search, I found out that only 4 people actually remained on my page for longer than 1 minute.
So, I paid $44 to receive 4 visits (or $11 per visit) that seem to be seriously interested prospects. With such a small sample, it is hard to come up with conclusions, but based on this experience, as well as my 5 year history of using Google Adwords for my day job, here are some tips:
- When evaluating and planning your ads, it is safe to assume that up to 70% of all your money will go towards erroneous clicks. Easiest thing is to assume that your bids/budget are 3 times as high. So, if you are planning to spend $100 on advertising, ask yourself if $300 is fair price to pay for the results you are getting.
- Years ago, Google used to allow you to select actual domains and sites where your display ads would appear. Apparently, that may still be the option, but I had no luck in finding my way to this option. In general, Display Advertising will produce larger number of low quality clicks. In some cases, I suspect that site owners where ads are appearing have someone clicking on your ads in order to generate sales. For example, my ads displayed over 10,000 times on "Other Domains" without one single click, but on SingleParentMeet.com and two other sites, my ads showed up only 80 times yet they produced 6 clicks. Obviously, this is outside of any statistical possibility - so my recommendation would be to set-up two identical campaigns. First one should be strictly on Google Search site, while second one would be stricly Display Advertising - both with identical keywords, bids and other options. Once you have some data, use Analytics to see how much quality clicks you received form each - I bet Search would produce much better results.
- Experiment - best part of Google Ads is that you can create multiple campaigns, each campaign can have multiple ad groups, which in turn can have multiple ad versions and keywords. Simply play with it and see what works best. Given enough time, you will see that certain ads, keywords and options produce more results - then just focus on those.
As for Facebook advertising, results were even more discouraging. True, my business is not something average Joe would care about. However, after 30 days of advertising, $20-$30 in paid clicks, I am underwhelmed with the results. Here are my findings:
- I advertised specifically to the demographic that is over 25 years old, and interested in business related issues. I received 19 "Likes" (which is Facebook term for Click), but not one of those who clicked on my ad had any relation to my demographic. Based on their profiles, none of them own or manage the business. Most of them had basic education and average non-management related jobs. Since my ads were clearly spelling out that my services are for businesses only, it is easy to assume that most (if not all) clicks were erroneous.
- Positive result is that number of the "Likes" can be shown on my web page as "Recommendations" - so it looks like 19 people recommended my business.
- Facebook charges for advertising fees daily (even if they are under $1). So, in order to keep my books in the order, I would have to print each receipt and enter it into the accounting system. Very bizarre (and bad for environment).
- Facebook is clearly best suited for product-based advertising focused on residential and younger crowd. If you are selling Justin Bieber posters, Facebook advertising is made for you.
Tip: Use Google Conversions tool to track your goals. For example, if your desired result is to have someone fill out on-line subscription form, set-up Conversions to track number of visits to the "order confirmation page".


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By Kyle Daly | 03.31.11 | 10:59 am
Billionaire brothers David and Charles Koch have quickly become boogeymen of the left, the liberal answer to the man behind many conservative conspiracies: George Soros. Meanwhile, other billionaires and multimillionaires who have used their wealth to fund their agendas have managed to slip under the radar. Among them are the Fanjul family — Florida sugar magnates who also happen to be friends and neighbors of David and Julia Koch.


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BBQ Ranch Salad Recipe
"High in protein and low in fat, this scrumptious salad has become one of my husband's and my favorite, simple and quick meals," writes Kim Pohlman from Coldwater, Ohio.
- 3/4 cup cubed cooked chicken breast
- 3/4 cup canned kidney beans, rinsed and drained
- 1 small tomato, chopped
- 1/3 cup frozen corn, thawed
- 2 tablespoons chopped red onion
- 1/4 cup ranch salad dressing
- 1 tablespoon barbecue sauce
- 1-1/2 cups torn romaine
- In a small bowl, combine the chicken, kidney beans, tomato, corn and onion. Combine ranch dressing and barbecue sauce; pour over salad and toss to coat. Cover and refrigerate for 30 minutes. Divide romaine between two salad plates; top with salad. Yield: 2 servings.
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I made this but added slices of avocado, grated cheddar , and broken up tortilla chips for garnish. So good!
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Have made this salad several times. My family really enjoys,and my son asks for it quite often.
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Learn more from the experts--the families who have treated their baby's plagiocephaly with the DOC Band at CranialTech!
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Gregory's mom was kind enough to share this fun and educational take on her son's plagiocephaly journey. DOC Band parents are so creative!
"Our son wore a DOC Band in 1999 due to plagiocephaly for approximately four months. As new parents, we were terrified and we elected the DOC Band to avoid surgery. We traveled from Yuma, AZ to Phoenix, AZ on a weekly basis. After reading the recent study that came out my entire family is appalled by the findings. Our son is now 15 years old and if it were not for the DOC Band, he would not be where he is today.
He is about to complete his freshman year and is very active in wrestling and football. We are proud to say our son wore the DOC Band and it made a huge difference for him. Thank you, Cranial Technologies." – M. Duran, May 2014
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The Far Cry Condition: Exploring Open-Worlds, Developer Hand-Holding and Dynamism
Post by Steve Farrelly @ 11:32am 21/01/13 | Comments
We explore what it means to play within an open-world game today, player conditioning, developer hand-holding and the need for true dynamism
My time off over the Festivus break gave me a chance to do something I've had little success doing lately -- play some bloody games.
It might sound strange given I'm a games journalist, and certainly I dabble throughout the year with code, but beyond the odd review here and there I wrote in 2012, I was largely left with a big pile of games screaming at me to play them. And so I picked one and ran with it.
In simply walking, driving, boating, gliding or wing-suiting through the game-world, I felt Ubisoft had nailed one of the most important parts of the game -- ever-rewarding exploration and discovery. I never felt like one particular area of jungle was the same as another, and the way the team split up the island's zones, wildlife, humans et al, was a thing of beauty. Its equally rich and diverse caves, temples and hidden innards (a component I really don't want to spoil for those of you who haven't played the game yet) ticked all the right eye-candy, jaw-dropping vista moments an open-world game like this needs. Despite its abundance of green, I'd argue there hasn't been so visually a rich environment crafted for a game in recent times than this, even over the likes of Red Dead Redemption, Skyrim and beyond.
But it's in this visual richness the first pitfall of the game becomes frustratingly apparent. Where Skyrim's inviting nooks and crannies lead players to more game-world lore, interesting, relevant loot or, most importantly, new quests, Far Cry 3's diverse world is largely non-interactive. At least on a dynamic level.
In fact it's in the game's exterior systems that an antithesis to its organic-looking world rears its head, and in binary fashion no less. Loot being one of the biggest let-downs, is nothing more than an arbitrary bridge to making arbitrary money, while weapons are far too easy to come by, or simply organise for free. There's a mild progression system in place to getting better gear, but I largely found it just as redundant as cash or loot. The skill-tree and abilities system, coupled with the emergent opportunities when taking on an Outpost, Wanted Dead or Path of the Hunter quest, however, re-balanced the game in favour of player-choice leaving my overall experience with Far Cry 3 a mixed one. The fact I couldn't really put the game down in my down time though, should speak volumes about what its more solid components offer.
But I'm not here to pick the game apart, rather playing through it gave me an idea about where this type of game needs to head in the future, and also had me questioning the motives of designers when it comes to assuming we, as gamers, don't know what we're doing.
Conditioning is a powerful tool of growth. In videogames, especially, it's our reactionary motor skill, in that we rely on game conditioning to be able to function in a game-world. First-person shooters, for example, rely very heavily on a basic understanding of controlling the player-character (or camera) with either a mouse and keyboard or a controller, and that understanding translates to an ability to interact with the world. There are tricks developers use though, such as glowing objects against a more realistic backdrop to peak one's attention, or invisible walls to guide you through their maze of level-design, but by and large, it'd be a safe bet that anyone who has played games in a more enthusiastic fashion over the past five to 10 years, can not only confidently navigate most game-worlds, but do so without too much in-game prompting.
Far Cry 3 annoyed me in this respect. I played the game through on the hardest difficulty setting, and yet every time I completed a new mission and went off to explore the world at large, I was constantly reminded about my next mission or told I could explore the island. It never realised I was already doing the latter, and the persistent phone calls from Dennis every time I finished a side-mission just made the constant badgering more of a grind. The more the game told me what to do, the less I wanted to do it.
Don't get me wrong, I realise there are people out there who would likely defy all sense of logical understanding and still need in-game tutorials to tell them how to run, crouch, jump, aim, shoot and interact, but that should just be an option. By default, I'd like to see a studio take a massive gamble in gamer conditioning and actually give us nothing. Like George and Jerry's pitch to NBC, I want to see a game about nothing.
Obviously Seinfeld was anything but a show about nothing, yet it was in the day-to-day ramblings and interpersonal interactions of its larger-than-life-yet-relatable characters that its myriad stories of dovetail-layered genius could manifest. By the end of each episode, George, Jerry, Elaine and Kramer had gone through incredible adventures, yet each 20-odd minute tale began with as little as a conversation over a cup of coffee.
While playing Ubisoft Montreal's leafy opus, I began to imagine the sort of game I actually wanted to experience, and it all stemmed from nothing. Not "nothing" in the absolute, but rather not knowing what was going on. Conjure in your brain, if you will, an island paradise not at all unlike that of Far Cry 3, except instead of playing as some rich white boy whose only recourse for exploration and progression is to exact revenge for his brother's death, you're playing as an empty vessel; a blank slate of an avatar with no sense of purpose other than "where the fuck am I, and what am I doing here?" (which is more a projection from the player, too).
Through the aforementioned conditioning, players would have an immediate understanding of how to move in this mysterious island paradise, yet this game would feature no glowing loot boxes and no magical GPS-capable maps. Every component of player exploration would lead to discovery and further conditioning. Trial and error would be your only guide through this experience, and the deeper you look into your surroundings, the sooner a player-driven narrative would appear.
It might sound utopian in design, but it concerns me nothing like this has even been attempted yet. In my imagined experience, the game would feature layered stories ready to be uncovered, how these rise to the interactive surface would depend wholly on the player's interaction with the game-world. Let's assume this island has a handful of interest points for perusal: ancient temples, markets and villages, seedy sea ports and an ominous, modern structure as starting points. Now, depending on what type of player you are and the way you interact with NPCs, puzzles, environments etc, would lead you down your own rabbit hole.
Perhaps you like discovery and puzzles which could lead you to the temples to eventually uncover some ancient power through an archaeological narrative. Or maybe you're a trader, which could see you hunting and skinning animals to sell in the markets which could lead to an action-packed tale about poachers and rare beasts. You might want to explore islands off in the distance which would lead you to the port and potentially open up a dark and jarring tale of modern pirates or, maybe, just maybe, you're not sure about that strange, out-of-place structure where your curiosity sees you infiltrating its tight security to uncover a government-run facility performing all kinds of sci-fi type experiments. It could even have aliens.
Again, none of this would be clear to the player, and the only driving force would be conditioning. One of my favourite moments from Far Cry 3 came when I was stalking an Outpost to clear it for the Rakyat. This particular enemy stronghold was positioned alongside a crystal clear river that was coated in beautiful green lilies and flowers closer to the bank. At one point I was noticed by one of the pirates in the encampment and so dove into the water to swim to the other side and break his line-of-sight, only when I'd done so and jumped back into the water to begin my stealthy approach again a crocodile attacked me and started to deathroll. I didn't know there were crocs in the game, so this was a particularly jarring moment for me. Suffice to say, I survived the ordeal because I expected a "mash this button" prompt and sure enough it came, but I walked away from the experience with two enthusiastic points: I fricking love the unpredictable nature of a game-world with fully fleshed systems like ecology and, I love that I knew how to handle the situation because, as a gamer, I'd been in many like it.
As game-worlds become more and more sophisticated and open, designers should be relying less and less on hand-holding. By all means, allow for the tutorial or hint option, but take gamers seriously for a change and drop us in the proverbial deep-end. Games are about discovery and empowering the player and I couldn't imagine a more empowering tool than the self-discovery of a narrative and sub-world on an already interactive and inviting hub (maintaining my whole imaginary videogame on an island concept). But even beyond my own exampled pitch, this could become the norm for games not even of the open-world variety (Super Meat Boy is a game that told you very little about how to utilise its control system and was all the better for it).
I realise there are players out there who only want to follow a single, main quest line (to which I scream "Why!?"), but I'd argue there are millions who played The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Fallout 3 (or New Vegas), Red Dead Redemption, any Grand Theft Auto or a myriad other open-world games, who like to dabble in the richness of what "open-world" means. It would be an absolute risk for a studio to take any such plunge as I'm suggesting, to be sure, but in my mind the dividends would be worth it. At the end of the day, there's no point in crafting such a dynamic playground if all you're doing is locking down the play equipment to be toyed with in a binary way. Systems need to be exploited and experimented with in these environments, players need to feel responsible for their own interactive discovery, and the environments and their multiple parts need to be meaningful in a dynamic way.
We bitch and moan about the games industry being all "grown-up" and "mature", but when you look at the blueprint by which we play, and interact, with games, it's a design for amateurs. I'm not belittling design intent or gaming content, I'm vilifying the way in which we're told to handle it, and you'd think after 20-odd years as a sophisticated medium this component would have matured by now.
It saddened me that Far Cry 3 didn't capitalise on what made the game so worth my time, but I'd suggest we're on the precipice of something big based on my experience with it anyway. All we need is a big developer willing to take a big risk with big rewards. My idea is just one that sprung to mind while playing Far Cry 3, but the possibilities are, ultimately, endless. If it's multiplayer the publisher is screaming for, then use that as a tool for the base of this feature and come up with something even more dynamic (if Minecraft and DayZ have taught us anything, it's that the above is possible beyond a single-player experience), if it's co-op, well that's doable too. Tacking on these features is not conducive to anyone's vision or productivity, but they can be worked with in meaningful ways, as long as players are treated like adults with more than half a brain and developers are willing to take risks.
If you haven't played Far Cry 3 yet, do so. It's one of the most enjoyable games of 2012 and its game-world is one of the most compelling to trounce through I've come across in a while. It definitely fails to realise its true potential, but as a stepping stone in the right direction, provided we head that way, it will be long-remembered. Buck up devs and take some risks -- we both deserve it.
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What are the Air signs in Astrology?:
Why are they called Air signs?:
There are four triplicities in astrology, which is a grouping based on the elements. The other triplicities are water signs (Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces), fire signs (Aries, Leo, Sagittarius) and earth signs (Capricorn, Taurus, Virgo).
What are the characterstics of the Air signs?:
Those with planets in air signs use their minds to make sense of their lives. With Air, there's more space between the life lived and the observing mind. This can lead air signs to appear detached, aloof, remote, cool. Sometimes they'll try to talk their way through feelings or analyze a situation instead of encountering its full emotional weight.
The gift of Air is flexibility, and their ability to experience life through many prisms. They're often excellent communicators, storytellers, interpreters and journalists. They link people together socially, and often have a curiosity that keeps them out and about.
How are the three Air signs different?:
The signs of the Zodiac are grouped by elements in their triplicity, but they are also grouped by something known as their quality. Each type of quality has a unique path of expression. For the Air signs, Libra is cardinal, the leader, Aquarius is fixed, able to doggedly follow one train of thought and Gemini is mutable and as mercurial as the planet that rules it.
Air and Earth:
It can be a relief for the weighted down Earth to be lifted up by Air's ideas and free-thinking. Air may offer a different spin on how to prioritize things, which can be liberating for duty-bound Earth. Earth helps the remote Air discover the mind-body connection. Earth can also advise Air so that some of their dreams can be made real.
Air and Fire:
This is a dynamic combo, with Air being able to create an outline of meaning through thought for the Fire to be inspired by. Air helps Fire take a more logical path toward success, some direction for their leaps of faith. Fire gives Air a sense of mission, purpose, and shines a light of focus through the jumble of collected data, thoughts, information.
Air and Water:
These two benefit from each other by bringing balance to feeling and thought. Water shows Air a path to the feelings, and can help them grow toward being more nurturing, emotional expressive, etc. Water helps Air make the heart connection. Air lifts Water out of the murky swamp into the realm of thought. Like talk-therapy, Air encourages Water to find distance, to become intellectually curious about their experiences.
Air and Air:
Here is a meeting of the minds, and when balanced by other elements, it can mean a lifetime of shared interests. The way of connecting is through the exchange of ideas. The deeper emotional truth of the situation at hand can be discussed coolly. This bond thrives when there is also emotional authenticity, action and physical touch.
analytical, curious, thinking, intellectual, social, detached
The Air Element in Astrology:
Those with planets in Air signs lead with the head, and those wheels are always turning to analyze and interpret their world. These are the "idea people," who breeze in and offer a fresh perspective on the situation at hand. As observers, they're often seeing from a loftier position, and able to offer clarity that others don't have.
The air signs are social creatures, since their currency is ideas, and they'll find more stimulation when out mingling. Some are drawn to words and become professional communicators, while others -- especially Aquarius -- have a more conceptual way of thinking. Air signs are masters at navigating through the collective waters, and therefore are astute commentators of the cultural trends, attitudes, consciousness of the times.
When Air is out of balance, you can encounter a talking head, someone cut off from his own physical self. Air signs are more vulnerable to the excesses of our mind-body split, and could benefit from yoga and other somatic practices. A meditation practice helps Air signs calm the static.
In relationships, the distance of Air to their emotions can be refreshing. They're great conversationalists because they're the keepers of so much knowledge, gossip, strange factoids, etc. Talking with an inspired Air sign can be like skipping through a kind of virtual reality full of detail, specificity and local color.


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Luxurious Beach Home w/ Patio! Steps to Ocean! in Mission Beach
- bedrooms 3
- baths 3
- sleeps 10
- pool no
- hot tub no
- pets allowed no
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rates (USD)
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$ 1,295 - $ 3,895 / week
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Vacation in paradise! This two story brandnew beachhome with its 3 bedrooms and 3 full bathrooms is located steps from the beach and only a two minute walk from the bay. Enjoy the best of both worlds!!!
The first level with its beautiful open floorplan features a living and a dining area that opens up to an exclusive furnished patio, a kitchen, a bedroom and a bathroom. The master and the second bedroom each with an attached bathroom are located at the second level of the home.
You will enjoy the luxury of three nice flat screen cable TVs, DVD players and high speed internet. The home has brandnew furniture and finest appointments: fully equipped, gourmet kitchen with stainless steel appliances and slab granite counters, hardwood floors & designer finishes throughout.
Sleeping arrangements include a queen bed in the Master Suite, a queen bed in the 2nd bedroom and a bunk bed (with three double beds) in the 3rd bedroom.
This exceptional beach vacation home is the lower of a 2 unit townhome and is truly vacationing at its finest!!! Located in the heart of Mission Beach, the 1,412 sqft upscale property is walking distance away from fun beach activities, conveniences, bars and restaurants. The famous Rollercoaster is only 3 blocks away.
The attached tandem parking area ( 8.5' wide, 7.5'high, 35'long) fits 2 cars. Pack n play, high chair, fan in each room, linens, towels, boggie boards, beach towels and beach chairs are provided for your convenience.
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Linens Provided
Covered Parking: Tandem Parking, fits 2 cars
Cable/Satellite TV (3)
Full Kitchen
Cooking Utensils Provided
Ice Maker
Charcoal BBQ Grill
Deck/Patio: Furnished private patio with table, chairs and BBQ
activities and attractions in Mission Beach San Diego Area
Steps to the beach and bay. Close to Seaworld and many other San Diego attractions. Very central! 15 min. to downtown San Diego, Seaport Village, Gaslamp, Balboa Park, La Jolla. Easy access to Highway 5 and 8.
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Cleaning fee in summer: $200
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Three local sheriffs said Monday they don't want their county's seals or logos used in a state website being designed for pistol permit recertification, adding another round of controversy to New York's new gun laws.
One prong of the multi-faceted SAFE Act, enacted in Albany last January after the massacre of school children and teachers in Connecticut, requires that pistol permits be reviewed every five years. The permits, under the law, can be canceled if officials determine a gun owner is out of compliance with regulations.
That particular mandate went relatively unnoticed last year, as the more immediate impact from the legislation was on the owners and would-be purchasers of certain guns the SAFE Act classifies as assault weapons. The sale of those firearms is now banned.
On Wednesday, the Otsego County Board of Representatives is set to take up a proposed resolution that would call on the state to refrain from using the county seal or logo in the administration of the pistol permit recertification requirement. Sheriff Richard Devlin Jr. said he suggested the resolution after learning from the state Sheriff's Association that state officials have discussed including county seals in a new website where handgun owners could apply for recertification.
"We feel this would make a lot of additional work for the county," Devlin told The Daily Star. He said the county is not involved in promoting the SAFE Act and had no role in forcing pistol owners to recertify their permits every five years as the new law requires.
"People are going to end up thinking this is a county website when it's not," Devlin said. He added that he would prefer to see the legislation repealed by state lawmakers.
Thomas Mills and Tony Desmond, the sheriffs of Delaware and Schoharie counties, respectively, both said the state should refrain from putting any county's seal on the pistol permit website unless it specifically receives the permission of the county in question.


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UK hotel transaction market shows signs of improvement in first half of 2012
21 August 2012
UK hotel transaction market shows signs of improvement in first half of 2012
Hotel transaction activity across the UK totalled around £1.0bn in the first half of 2012, over twice that of the same period in 2011, according to analysis by Deloitte, the business advisory firm. The pick-up in deal activity which started in 2011 continued in the first half of 2012, driven primarily by single asset transactions.
Nick van Marken, global head – advisory, travel, hospitality & leisure at Deloitte, comments: "Some recovery in the UK hotel transaction market was apparent in 2011, mainly in the second half of the year, and this has continued in 2012. Single asset transactions dominate and London remains the focus for most investors. The lack of readily accessible debt financing remains an on-going constraint and has made it difficult to close on large portfolio deals in particular."
Portfolio transactions made up around 30% of total deal activity during H1 2012, compared to 70% in 2011. The most significant transactions were the acquisition of the freehold interest in six Principal Hayley hotels by Principal Hayley Group, and their subsequent sale and leaseback to Pramerica.
Single asset deals continue to be dominated by London where pricing remains strong. These included the sale of the partly-completed InterContinental at Westminster; the Hilton Southbank site and The Hoxton and Crowne Plaza in Shoreditch; highlighting the continued high level of interest in the capital. Outside of the capital, distressed sales dominated the market with notable transactions including the sale of two von Essen assets (Cliveden and the Royal Crescent in Bath) and the Crowne Plaza Cambridge. A combination of flat revPAR and uncertainty as to the profile of any recovery – notably profit - continues to hamper the transaction market.
The buyer community for regional assets included high-net-worth individuals and property companies (such as London & Regional and Topland), as well as trade (Hand Picked Hotels and Britannia).
Looking forward to the prospects for the market in the H2 2012, van Marken remarks: "We may see more portfolio deals coming to market and certainly several possible transactions are being mooted. This said, difficulties in accessing debt funding and the continued disparity between buyer and seller in terms of price expectation mean disposal processes are likely to continue to be longer and more difficult to complete. The market will continue to favour cash buyers or those not totally reliant on bank financing to close a deal."
Value of UK portfolio and single asset hotel transactions (2000-2012)
Source: Deloitte Research - Strictly illustrative
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Covert military operations can be a pain in the neck — and in the back, shoulders, and legs as well. Known for its speed and maneuverability, the Mark V Special Operations Craft gets U.S. Navy SEAL teams in and out of sticky situations fast, but the aluminum insertion vessel's speed and durability come at a cost: repeated impact strain created as the lightweight craft skips across the waves can mean injuries for the sailors on board. 2001 Mt. Ararat high school graduate Kate Stephens is out to change all that, and she may help to point Maine boatbuilding in a whole new direction in the process.
An excellent student with a talent for math and an interest in design, Stephens' decision to pursue engineering was a natural one. After graduating from Mt. Ararat, she went on to complete her bachelor's degree in civil engineering at the University of Maine in Orono, graduating near the top of her class last May. Now a graduate student in the university's mechanical engineering program, Stephens is taking the reins on a project aimed at improving the Navy's Mark V.
Stephens is a key player in a cooperative effort involving UMaine, the Office of Naval Research (ONR), and the boatbuilding team at Hodgdon Yachts in East Boothbay. The project brings together cutting-edge composites technologies spearheaded by UMaine's Advanced Engineered Wood Composite Center (AEWC) and the long tradition of quality boatbuilding at Hodgdon Yachts. Its success could mean hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts for Maine's boatbuilding industry.
"This is a great project," said Stephens during a recent brainstorming session with Hodgdon engineers and Navy representatives in Boothbay. "I'm just beginning my master's program, and I'm really excited about the opportunity to work on this."
While the project is aimed at improving the original Mark V wherever possible, the primary goal is to use specialized composite materials in the hull and elsewhere that can absorb the shock created by high-speed travel across the water's surface. By dampening the affects of the boat's repeated impacts as it skims across the waves, the new materials can help to protect the crew from back, neck, and joint injuries. Working with her advisor, AEWC technical services manager Bob Lindyberg, Stephens has developed and refined an innovative impact test that was used to select the composite material with the greatest shock-absorbent properties. Ultimately, the ONR believes that Stephens' test will be of great value when designing new composite boats.
"There has been a lot of positive feedback on this project," said Jim King of the ONR. "The methods and materials being used here have a lot to offer."
Maine has a long history of building military vessels, but contracts for smaller, high-tech designs have largely been awarded elsewhere. By combining the facilities and expertise at Hodgdon Yachts with the technological advances being made at UMaine, the project has the potential to open up a whole new market for the state. The project has already resulted in the creation of a new company. Maine Marine Manufacturing, LLC is the prime contractor for the construction of the full-scale technology demonstrator called the Mark V.1, and plans on competing for the contract to replace the Mark V fleet.
"Through collaboration with the university, our team is able to compete for the Mark V replacement contract, which is in the range of $200 million. We didn't have that opportunity before," said Steve Von Vogt, President of Maine Marine Manufacturing. "Bob and Kate's work in the composites lab has played an important part in the project all along. This is not just theoretical research that they are doing, this is about putting a deployable, high-tech design in the water for actual use by the military."
For Stephens, a native of Harpswell, the Mark V project is a way to not only get some valuable, hands-on experience in her chosen field, it's an opportunity to give something back to her home state as well.
"This is a great opportunity for Maine's boatbuilding industry," said Stephens. "The lab work that we have done shows real progress. We're setting milestones with every test.


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Warning as teenagers climb on landslide
Portland Coastguards have issued a warning after teenagers were seen climbing on rubble after a landslide at St Oswald's Bay. Last month landslides wiped out 100 meters of the Dorset coast path.
Coastguards are warning visitors to keep as far away from the landslides as possible warning if they are climbed on it could start more landslides as well as dislodging rubble and injuring people below.


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Oliver Stone to present film at Stanford
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on Feb 20, 2013 at 11:49 am
> The Stone-Kuznick interpretation contends the atomic bombing of Japan was unnecessary
I find the starting point for these discussions to be very interesting. What is it exactly?
What does "necessary" mean in this case? That in order to win the war and to beat the Japanese and end WWII looking back at cherry-picked information it was not strictly necessary in terms of someone's strategic evaluation from today?
But what I wonder is what do we get out of these kinds of questions and the discussions about them? What are we supposed to learn from this, and those lessons of course would always be predicated on us being the overwhelming winning in whatever military confrontation under discussion.
Maybe it is true that we could have won without using the bomb. Or maybe the equation was X number of American soldier's lives versus the number of Japanese ... i.e. enemy civilians at the time, and in our civilized day and time without passion and purely as a mental exercise we weight them one against the other. But I always wonder, if you or I were a soldier bunking in a ship approaching Japan for that invasion, how would you feel about having your life traded so that the Japanese who started the war would not have to lose 2 cities? I would not appreciate it. Most soldiers I imagine would say hell with it, drop the bomb and end this war without any more risk to people who should not have had to be there anyway.
The whole discussion becomes so complex, convoluted and emotional I don't see any point in ever discussing it any longer, and I have grown tired of hearing the self-righteous or bloodthirsty answers. It's done, it's over, and anything we say or conclude about the dropping of the bomb at this point is useless. It's not up for public vote what kind of military strategy the U.S. uses for what purpose ... that should be obvious.
So why are we wasting the time talking about this when there are really important things to think about and discuss?
I don't know if it is fair or applicable, but think about this on a personal level - this is war, crime and killing on a massive scale, emotions off the scale, do not think that revenge or vengeance is not an issue. The sanity of people or maybe whatever is left might depend on vengeance or closure, and maybe dropping the bomb provided that. we know already that there were worse fire-bombings of cities in both theaters and civilians, and to think that civilians are not part of or part of war is absurd looking at every war that ever was. When things get to war there is no way to keep it civilized.
There are so many factors to a subject like this that it is almost insulting to even see someone try to grasp hold of it for discussion in a movie or a talk. This is just another way to keep stirring American's emotions to keep them off balance and arguing with each other when it might be more useful to talk about why no Wall St. people are in jail and nothing has changed in the corporate world?
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Well said Anon. Focus efforts where they will have a measurable effect.
on Feb 20, 2013 at 1:37 pm
Well said Anon. Focus efforts where they will have a measurable effect.


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Spider Lake Cottage in Traverse City
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- sleeps 5
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$ 800 - $ 950 / week
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This Spider Lake Cottage is directly on the main bay of spider
lake. The cottage sits back from the water about 40 feet which
makes it easy to walk to and from the cottage and lake. Located on
the north side of the lake makes access to Traverse City only a short
6 mile drive. The sand beach makes for great
times swimming. The cottage will sleep up to six.
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The cottage sleeps 5 in 2 bedrooms, one room with a queen bed, one room with two twins, plus a sofa in the living room. The cabin also has a 3/4 bath. The completely furnished cottage has heat and air conditioning, deck, cable TV/VCR, radio, and CD player. The
fully equipped kitchen has a coffee maker, microwave, toaster,
dishes, and pots and pans. Linens are provided. Please bring
towels. Bebs are all new serta perfect sleepers.
The lakefront property has a private sandy beach with a fire pit,
dock, picnic table, and weber barbecue grill. A
row boat, canoe and 2 person kayak are provided for guests. The
cottage is not handicapped accessible and no smoking in the cottage
activities and attractions in Traverse City Michigan
Spider Lake covers 468 acres and has a maximum water depth of 40
feet. Fish include bass, pan fish, northern pike and perch. Boat
motors are allowed. Water recreation includes great swimming,
fishing, boating, water skiing and snorkeling. Near by boardman
river offers some of the states best trout fishing, canoeing and
tubing. Trophy salmon fishing is available on lake Michigan. Other
nearby recreation includes; shopping, championship golf, tennis,
hiking, bicycling, horseback riding, snowmobiling, downhill and
cross-country skiing, and hunting.
vacation rental rates
2014 Rates
May 1st - June 13th $800 per week
June 14th - September 5th $950 per week
September 6th - October 31th $800 per week
nightly (if available) $175. 2 Night minimum stay
Our stays are Saturday to Saturday
check in at 2:30pm - Check out at 10:00am
$300.00 deposit is required to hold a reservation. Deposits are non refundable after May 15th, 2014. A credit card is required for a security deposit.
Catherine Brown 239 573-8734
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Top things to do in Traverse City
- Check out the many Wineries
- Go to a concert at Interlochen Arts Academy
- Play Golf
- Fish the many inland lakes
- Dine Downtown
Top things to do on a budget
- Go to Traverse City Beach
- Go fishing
- Play golf at Elmbrook
- Check out the Fall Colors
- Go Hiking
Top things to do with a family
- Go to the Sand Dunes
- Go cannoing down the Boardman River
- Go salmon fishing on Lake Michigan
- Horse back riding at Ranch Rudolf
- Play golf at the areas great golf courses
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ORLANDO, FL (Laserfiche)—February 1, 2012—Laserfiche (booth #2) today announced that it will highlight out-of-the-box integrations with Junxure, Salesforce.com and a variety of other CRM and portfolio management products this week at TD Ameritrade's National Conference in Orlando, FL. (more…)
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LONG BEACH (Laserfiche)—January 25, 2012—Laserfiche today announced that AppCrown and Junxure have joined its Professional Developer Partner (PDP) program. Through the PDP program, Laserfiche provides out-of-the-box integrations with CRM systems like Salesforce.com, Junxure, Tamarac, Microsoft CRM, Redtail and ACT! (more…)
LONG BEACH, CA and PALM BEACH GARDENS, FL (Laserfiche and Junxure)—November 15, 2011—Laserfiche and Junxure will today kick off a workshop series titled, "Solving Compliance Challenges with Technology Integration." (more…)
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Fure Financial is an independent, fee-based financial planning firm based in Minneapolis, MN. The company, founded in 1984, offers holistic investment advice to manage client assets with an eye toward fulfilling life goals, a successful strategy that has grown Fure—almost entirely by referrals—into the trusted advisor and wealth manager for 360 families. (more…)
For Michigan's Rehmann Financial, compliance became more of an issue as the RIA firm grew and regulatory concerns increased. With 100 staff members—including 30 advisors—spread out across 13 offices in two states, sharing, accessing and tracking information had become "really clunky," as Operations Manager Amy Flourry puts it.
"For us, there's a real link between operations and compliance," explains Flourry.
When we last heard from Joseph Salpietro, President and CEO of Xpyria Investment Advisors, he was looking forward to implementing Workflow to streamline his Firm's repetitive work processes. As one of the first Laserfiche Avante customers in the financial services industry, one of the reasons Salpietro chose Laserfiche Avante was because of its built-in business process management (BPM) functionality.
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Baroness Neville-Rolfe appointed as UK Business Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State
Baroness (Lucy) Neville-Rolfe has been appointed yesterday by the UK Prime Minister, David Cameron, as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the UK Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. In line with UK rules, she has resigned from her position as EuroCommerce President with immediate effect. The Board has appointed Carl Hugo Erbslöh as interim President and has accelerated the process for finding a longer-term President for the next three-year period.
EuroCommerce considers self-regulation of trading practices best way forward
EuroCommerce welcomes the European Commission's support for the Supply Chain Initiative in today's Communication on unfair trading practices in the food supply chain. On a less positive note, EuroCommerce regrets that, in the preamble to its recommendations, much airtime has been given to opinions, perceptions, and some biased surveys of interested parties.
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EuroCommerce congratulates Jean-Claude Juncker on his appointment today as President of the next European Commission. The main federation representing retail and wholesale wishes him every success in his new role.
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The European Payment Users Alliance represents businesses and consumers across Europe. We have a simple message for Europe's politicians: we need the interchange fee regulation as a matter of urgency. The regulation on interchange fees must be treated as an absolute priority by the Italian Presidency so that it may be adopted by the end of 2014 and come into effect as soon as possible. Europe needs to move into a new payments world - yet the lack of this legislation is holding us back.
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Gulf County Sheriff Mike Harrison announces the arrest of Anthony Robinson (28) of St. Joe Beach, Justin Armstead (27) of Port St. Joe, and Brittany Kyle (32) of St. Joe Beach.
The Gulf County Sheriff's Office (GCSO) responded to a shooting incident in the early morning hours of July 15, 2013.
The investigation revealed the victims were driving in the St. Joe Beach area when they encountered Armstead standing in the roadway.
Armstead distracted them, which provided Robinson an opportunity to shoot at them. Robinson fired two rounds at the victims and one round struck the vehicle, nearly hitting the driver.
The victims were able to flee the scene without injury. Based on witness statements and interviews it appeared the motive for the shooting was a result of ongoing problems between one of the victims and Robinson.
Through further investigation, GCSO Investigators learned Robinson's girlfriend, Brittany Kyle, was present during the incident and provided him the firearm used. Kyle admitted to investigators she disposed of the spent shell casings, along with the remaining live ammunition, and hid the firearm.
Investigators were able to retrieve the firearm used in the incident. Robinson was charged with aggravated assault with a firearm and shooting into an occupied conveyance. He is currently in the Gulf County Jail held on a $25,000.00 bond.
Armstead was charged with principal to aggravated assault with a firearm and principal to shooting into an occupied conveyance.
He is currently in the Gulf County Jail held on a $20,000.00 bond. Armstead was currently out on a $5,000.00 bond for an unrelated felony criminal mischief charge. Kyle was charged with tampering with or fabricating physical evidence and is awaiting first appearance.
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Two thousand people had the honour of riding the world's longest waterslide in Auckland. It measures 650 meters long and was open for only two days to raise funds and awareness of depression.
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In September 2012, 25,000 people participated in the fitness challenge Tough Mudder, at Glenworth Valley on the Central Coast, north of Sydney.
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"JCC gave me hope and self-confidence"When I was an art student 20 years ago at Johnston Community College, I never thought I'd one day be teaching at my alma mater. I was a terrible high school student, struggled with dyslexia, and was very unsure of my abilities.
But over time, I realized that I wanted to teach and that my passion was helping others appreciate art.
My education at JCC gave me hope and a solid foundation on which I could grow personally and professionally. Without the positive support, words of encouragement and cheerleading I received from my instructors at JCC, I never would have had the self-confidence to continue my education.
Today, as director of the graphic arts and fine arts department at JCC, students are my top priority.
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Gregory Orr
Acclaimed Poet & Teacher
"The Heart of Orr's poetry, now as ever, is the enigmatic image...mystical, carnal, reflective, wry." —San Francisco Review
"Poetry is the thread that leads us out of the labyrinth of despair and into the light."—Gregory Orr
Considered by many to be a master of short, lyric free verse, Gregory Orr is the author of ten collections of poetry. His most recent volumes include The River Inside the River, published in 2013, How Beautiful The Beloved, and Concerning the Book that is the Body of the Beloved. His other volumes of poetry include The Caged Owl: New and Selected Poems (2002); Orpheus and Eurydice (2001); City of Salt, Finalist for the LA Times Poetry Prize; We Must Make a Kingdom of It; and The Red House.
Orr is also a writer of nonfiction and personal essays. His memoir The Blessing was chosen by Publisher's Weeklyas one of the fifty best non-fiction books of 2002. His personal essay This I Believe was broadcast on National Public Radio in 2006 and included in the anthology This I Believe (Holt, 2007). His essay about working as a teenager for the Civil Rights movement in the Deep South was selected for The Best American Creative Nonfiction (2009). His prose book, Poetry as Survival (University of Georgia Press, 2002), an extended meditation on the dynamics and function of the personal lyric, was characterized by Adrienne Rich as "a wise and passionate book." Earlier prose collections include Richer Entanglements: Essays and Notes on Poetry and Poems (University of Michigan), and Stanley Kunitz: An Introduction to the Poetry (Columbia University Press).
Much of Gregory Orr's early work is concerned with seminal events from his childhood, including a hunting accident when he was twelve in which he accidentally shot and killed his younger brother, followed shortly by his mother's unexpected death, and his father's later addiction to amphetamines. Some of the poems that deal explicitly with these incidents include "A Litany," "A Moment," and "Gathering the Bones Together," in which he declares: "I was twelve when I killed him; / I felt my own bones wrench from my body." In the opening of his essay, "The Making of Poems," broadcast on National Public Radio's All Things Considered, Orr said, "I believe in poetry as a way of surviving the emotional chaos, spiritual confusions and traumatic events that come with being alive."
Video Profile on Orr by The Cortland Review
Orr has received many awards and fellowships, including an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim Fellowship, two NEA Fellowships, and a Rockefeller Fellowship at the Institute for the Study of Culture and Violence.
Orr teaches at the University of Virginia, where he founded the MFA Program in Writing in 1975, and served from 1978 to 2003 as Poetry Editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review. He lives with his wife, the painter Trisha Orr, and their two daughters in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Gregory Orr is the author of eleven collections of poetry. His most recent volumes include The River Inside the River, How Beautiful The Beloved, and Concerning the Book that is the Body of the Beloved. His memoir, The Blessing, was chosen by Publisher's Weekly as one of the fifty best non-fiction books of 2002. Orr has received many awards and fellowships, including an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim Fellowship, two NEA Fellowships, and a Rockefeller Fellowship at the Institute for the Study of Culture and Violence.
About RIVER INSIDE THE RIVER (Poetry, 2013)
Three gorgeous poetic sequences that combine the intensity of lyric with the thematic scope and range of narrative and myth. In the first sequence, "Eden and After," Orr retells the story of Adam and Eve. "The City of Poetry" explores a visionary metropolis where "every poem is a house, and every house is a poem." River Inside the River focuses on redemption through the mysterious power of language to resurrect the beloved and recover what is lost. "River inside the river. / World within the world. // All we have is words // To reveal the rose / That the rose obscures."
About HOW BEAUTIFUL THE BELOVED (Poetry, 2009)
Gregory Orr explores the carnal ache of living and loving in this equable, full-bodied, and flowing collection. Through concise, perfectly formed poems, he wakes us to the ecstatic possibilities of recognizing and risking love, of pain transformed to beauty. His central message is joy—the urge to say "Yes"—with each poem revealing a brief moment of happiness or longing, another moment of living in the arms of the beloved. How Beautiful the Beloved chronicles not only the body of the beloved but also his or her mind, heart, and totality. Orr writes, "Not many of them, it's true, / But certain poems / ...bring us back / Always to the beloved."
About THE BLESSING (Memoir, 2006)
Orr's gripping chronicle of his troubled boyhood is alternately self-conscious, moving, and revelatory. When he was a boy growing up in New York's Hudson River Valley, Gregory accidentally shot and killed his younger brother Peter during a hunting excursion with their father, a philandering, amphetamine-addicted country doctor. Now in his fifties, Orr examines the corrosive effect of that loss on his parents' marriage; the divine purpose of such loss; his destiny and the reason for his own survival amid a series of misadventures, which include the family's sudden relocation to rural Haiti and Orr's harrowing participation in civil rights activities in Mississippi in 1965. Upon Orr's return from the Deep South, where he was imprisoned by local authorities, his high school English teacher took him for a walk through the David Smith fields near Lake George. Smith, the great American sculptor who had just died in a car accident, filled the fields in Bolton Landing, NY, with gigantic metal sculptures. Orr saw in them images of his own "martyr's cross... alchemized and shining, metamorphosed... into a hundred expressive shapes.... Here was my blessing." And there, a writer was born. Orr's understanding of the tragic events of his life through the prism of art allows him to find serenity and stability. One can only wonder what the next installment of Orr's life will look like on paper, for this one never fails to entertain, mystify, and surprise. —Publisher's Weekly
About CONCERNING THE BOOK THAT IS THE BODY OF THE BELOVED (Poetry, 2005)
This book-length sequence of ecstatic, visionary lyrics recalls Rumi in its search for the beloved and its passionate belief in the healing qualities of art and beauty. It is an incantatory celebration of the "Book," an imaginary and self-gathering anthology of all the lyrics—both poems and songs—ever written, and it pushes the ecstatic lyric into epic realms. Gregory Orr discovers the Beloved in everything, everywhere, and reconnects us to our emotional lives. Each poem highlights a distinct aspect of the human condition. Together, the poems explore love, loss, restoration, the beauty of the world, the beauty of the beloved, and the mystery of poetry.


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• Cat Scratch Disease, also known as Cat Scratch Fever, is a bacterial disease caused by the bacteria, Bartonella henselae.
• More than 90% of people who develop Cat Scratch Disease (CSD) have had some sort of contact with a cat prior to becoming infected. More than 22,000 cases of CSD are diagnosed annually in the US.
• Most people infected are under the age of 21.
• The bacterium is carried from cat to cat via fleas and there is no evidence to date that the fleas can directly infect humans. Human to human transmission does not occur, that is, CSD is not contagious from one person to another.
• Cats and kittens will not appear sick if they are carrying the bacterium, which lives in their saliva. Experts state that more than 50% of cats carry B. henselae and cats under 1 year of age are more likely to be infected.
• Symptoms of CSD include:
a. a non-painful blister or small bump that appears within days of being bitten or scratched by the cat
b. Swollen lymph nodes appear within 1-2 weeks after injury.
c. Mild fever, headaches, and loss of appetite are also reported
• Incubation time is generally 3-10 days for initial symptoms to occur with 1-4 weeks until lymphadenopathy.
• In many cases, the disease is self-limiting and will resolve without any treatment at all. Antibiotics have been used in some cases.
• People who are immuno-compromised run a higher risk of more serious complications of CSD which include:
a. Eye infections
b. Internal organ (liver, spleen, bone marrow) infection
c. Lingering high fever
d. Seizures
• Routine hand washing and discouraging rough play with the family's cats or kittens is the best method for preventing CSD.
• There is no reason to get rid of your pet in the event someone develops CSD in the household. Speak with your veterinarian about concerns that you might have.


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African American Women: 1864-1899
- Mary McLeod Bethune
- Frances Harper
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- Mary Church Terrell
- Sojourner Truth
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African American History and Women - Timelines 1865-1899
The details of black women's history in America, year by year.
Hallie Quinn Brown
Hallie Quinn Brown biography - the life and importance of Hallie Quinn Brown, black civil rights leader, educator, and speaker.
Mary Ann Shadd Cary
Mary Ann Shadd Cary biography - a profile of Mary Ann Shadd Cary, African American teacher, journalist, and law school graduate who lived for some years in Canada.
Charlotte Ray
A profile of Charlotte Ray, first African American woman lawyer in the US and first woman admitted to the bar in the District of Columbia
Harriet Tubman, Moses of Her People
A four-part in-depth biography of Harriet Tubman, highlighting the four phases of her life: her life in slavery, her years as a conductor on the Underground Railroad, her service in the U.S. Civil War, and her later years working for reform and telling her story.
Sojourner Truth
Abolitionist and women's rights advocate Sojourner Truth was a familiar figure in the 19th century in America. Biography and links from your About Guide to Women's History.
Freedmen's School for Women - Sewing Class 1866
A Reconstruction-era vocational school for freed women to learn sewing.
African-American Experience in Ohio 1850 - 1920
A digital collection of materials on black history in Ohio.
Kate Brown and Segregated Transportation
This 1868 report, entered into the Senate record, documents the case of Kate Brown, an employee of the Senate, who was ejected from a railroad car in Alexandria, Virginia, when travelling to the District of Columbia.
Personal and Political in Kate Brown's Washington
This speech, by Kate Masur of Northwestern University, talks about the case of Kate Brown, 19th century protestor against segregated transportation. (Video)
The Woman's Era (1894 - 1897)
Josephine St. P. Ruffin and Florida R. Ridley edited The Woman's Era from 1894 through 1897, a journal of the African American woman's club movement. You'll find her an electronic edition of those three volumes of the publication.
Charlotte Forten Grimké
After the Civil War, Charlotte Forten continued teaching and writing, and married Francis Grimke, nephew of the famous Grimke sisters.
Margaret Murray Washington
Margaret Murray Washington was rather new as first a woman teacher at Tuskegee Institute, then the lady principal, in charge of women pupils and educators, when she married Booker T. Washington. She worked with him to build the strength of the institution, and she also worked for solidarity among African American women in their own organizations.


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Taco Bell has issued a statement in response to a social media storm after its Facebook page was flooded with photos that show a store employee licking a stack of taco shells.
The Fast Food giant, owned by Yum! Brands, says that the incident was part of an internal contest that went bad.
Taco Bell initially posted a reply to one person who uploaded a copy of the photo with: "We have spoken with the restaurant and confirmed that the shells were never served to customers. This is completely unacceptable and we are taking the appropriate action against everyone involved."
Taco Bell did not explain how it knew the shells were not served to customers. It also did not disclose where the restaurant was located.
One visitor to the Facebook page, Matthew Snider, responded: "Yes, I understand this "could" be considered an isolated incident but who are we kidding? Its fast food run by mostly high school kids whom most have no morals or ethics let alone little hygiene concern for the patron."
An LJ Rhodes asked, "So, if y'all watch video surveillance to see what happened to the licked shells, and it shows that they were indeed sold to customers, are you going to admit as much, or are you going to claim they were thrown in the trash no matter what you discover?"
Later, Taco Bell issued a statement saying, in part: "The taco shells were used for training in March before we launched a new product, and were in process of being thrown out. Two employees, however, used them to take a photo for an internal contest in which company and franchise employees could submit for approval photos of themselves enjoying their first bite of the product. The contest had clear guidelines about what was acceptable and unacceptable. This image was clearly unacceptable – it violated the rules and spirit of the contest, and the employees never submitted it. But an employee posted it on a personal social media page in violation of the franchisee's policies, and it emerged online in social media."
It added: "We do not believe these employees harmed, or intended to harm, anyone. But we deplore the impressions this has caused to our customers, fans, franchisees, and team members. The behavior is unacceptable for people working in a restaurant. Our franchisee is responsible for the employment and conduct of his restaurant's employees and he has informed us that he immediately suspended the employee shown in the photo and is in the process of terminating his employment. The employee who took the photo no longer works there. As we complete our investigation we will work with our franchisee to implement any additional action we find appropriate to address this situation and ensure it never happens again."
Taco Bell had temporarily disabled the ability for people to post images to its Facebook page.


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Applications for M.Horn expeditionIf you are between the ages of 13 and 20 years old, interested in helping preserve the environment and want to have a once-in-a-lifetime adventure, the PANGAEA project is for you!
Applications for the next session of the Y.E.P. (Young Explorers Program) are now being accepted. The expedition takes place in October on an Indonesian island.