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July 2nd, 2012 at 9:34 am
Saturday WOD – Mow the lawn = 1 hour
Sunday WOD – Clean Gym = 1.5 hour
Monday WOD – Pick up wood on the beach for time
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July 2nd, 2012 at 10:22 am
Si vous avez rien a faire apres-midi….venez nous voir a la plage! We'll be getting our tan on!! Drinks on me!
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for a really good workout Martine i have PLENTY of weed whacking to do!
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Jva le faire. I love weed whaking!! C'était ma premiere fois a le faire et je ne pouvais pu arreter. C'est comme un addiction. J'ai les forearms en FEU!!!! Whoaw!!
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Monday workout: run 3.8 km
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Corwin Harper, senior vice president and area manager for Kaiser Permanente, presents a check for $73,415 to University of the Pacific President Pamela A. Eibeck. The money will fund a one-day medical and dental screening clinic led by Pharmacy and Health Sciences and Dentistry students, faculty and staff. The check presentation was made Oct. 25, 2012 at the annual Pacific Appreciation Luncheon, where University leaders honored the many donors to Pacific's endowment, scholarships and the Pacific Fund.
Kaiser Permanente awards $73,400 to University of the Pacific for community health eventPresident Eibeck says Kaiser donation and induction of million-dollar donor into the 1851 Society are evidence that philanthropy is alive and well in the Central Valley
Kaiser Permanente on Thursday donated $73,415 to University of the Pacific to help fund a comprehensive community health clinic and fair in March of 2013. The announcement was made at the annual Pacific Appreciation Luncheon where university leaders honor the many philanthropists who give to Pacific's endowment, scholarships and the Pacific Fund.
The one-day clinic will be geared toward the medically uninsured of all ages in San Joaquin County with an emphasis on Stockton residents. Students, faculty and staff from the Thomas J. Long School of Pharmacy and Health Sciences and the Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry will care for patients at the health fair.
"This generous Kaiser Permanente gift is a way for our two organizations - University of the Pacific and Kaiser -- to give back to our community. It's also a great opportunity for our students to get hands-on training in healthcare, which remains a bright spot in our economy," University of the Pacific President Pamela A. Eibeck said . "I'd like to thank Kaiser Permanente for its continuing commitment to work with University of the Pacific to strengthen the health of our community."
Services at the one-day health clinic event will include: immunizations, screening and monitoring for chronic conditions; dental services - both basic and preventive; health education outreach; and Medicare Part D review. The clinic will be operated by Pacific faculty, staff, students, community residents and volunteers. It will also provide valuable hands-on experience for students in University of the Pacific schools of dentistry and pharmacy. The goal is to serve 750 people at the event.
"At Kaiser Permanente, our work in the community is central to our mission to improve the health of our members and the communities we serve," said Corwin Harper, senior vice president and area manager for Kaiser Permanente in the Central Valley. "We want to put our mission into action and are proud to partner with Pacific on this upcoming health fair and look forward to seeing the good it will do in San Joaquin County."
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Together, 1851 members have given and pledged $342 million to University of the Pacific. The Pacific Fund has raised approximately $3.7 million dollars since its inception in 2007 in support of academic innovation and student achievement. In addition to scholarship aid, the Pacific Fund provides student and faculty grants that transform ambition into action and ensures that Pacific continues to maintain the highest level of excellence, said Jacob McDougal, executive director of the Pacific Fund.
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New Vice President of Development Burnie Atterbury served as Master of Ceremonies at Thursday's luncheon. Marshall Elementary students who comprise Harmony Stockton, the after-school youth orchestra program facilitated by Pacific's Conservatory of Music and Benerd School of Education faculty and students, the United Way of San Joaquin County, Stockton Unified School District and the Stockton Symphony, performed at the event.


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In traditional media outlets, on the Internet, and throughout the halls of Congress, debate about whether the Supreme Court should be required to televise its public proceedings is becoming more audible and focused. To date, these discussions have included such topics as the potential effects of broadcasting the Court, the constitutionality of Senator Arlen Specter's current congressional initiative, S. 344, and how the public would use or abuse televised sessions of our highest tribunal.
But almost entirely ignored in these conversations is an issue that may effectively determine the fate of S. 344: Will this initiative unsettle supposedly time-honored relations of respect and civility between the judiciary and Congress-a pattern of institutional courtesy we might label "constitutional etiquette"? In order to answer this question, we need to understand the concept of constitutional etiquette and its application to the contemporary debate about "Supreme Court TV." The following discussion briefly defines constitutional etiquette, assesses whether Congress would breach that etiquette by enacting the legislation proposed by Senator Specter, and concludes by examining the significance-for the Specter bill and for our public affairs generally-of our branches' mutual expectations of respect and deference.
A little over a year ago, Justices Anthony Kennedy and Clarence Thomas appeared before a House Appropriations subcommittee. Their testimony included criticism of initiatives that would obligate the Court to televise its proceedings. As Kennedy remarked, the Justices "feel very strongly that we have an intimate knowledge of the dynamics and the needs of the court." The current proposals, he argued, "which would mandate direct television in [the] court in every [public] proceeding [are] inconsistent with that deference, that etiquette, that should apply between the branches."
The Court's reluctance to set foot in the television age is unsurprising. The Justices' high regard for traditional modes of conducting Court business can be seen in their donning of robes and providing "quill pen" keepsakes to the advocates who engage in oral argument. Indeed, the Court has only recently begun making oral argument accessible to the general public in a timely and direct manner. Last year, the Court decided to make transcripts of oral argument available to the public on a same day basis, and since 2000 it has also released a handful of audiotapes of these proceedings on a similar basis.
The Court may also be especially interested in maintaining relationships with the other branches based on "deference" and "etiquette" because the Court noticeably lacks the powers of the sword and the purse. But what, specifically, does Justice Kennedy's overture to constitutional etiquette actually mean-and how does it apply to S. 344?
The answer to these questions is initially elusive, because neither Justice Kennedy nor others making variations of this basic argument have spelled out what constitutional etiquette comprises. Nevertheless, we might construct a working definition by drawing on general features of etiquette used in social rather than political or legal contexts.
Broadly speaking, etiquette refers to informal rules of behavior, not necessarily written or codified, that apply to a specific group and serve some social and unifying objective, generally by providing perceived benefits to the parties who abide by these norms of cooperation. Etiquette is primarily internally enforced: the adherents of the rules of etiquette, not some external body, establish and maintain its dictates.
Moving from this general conception, we might define constitutional etiquette as referring to norms of behavior that apply to the three branches of federal government and help sustain constitutional governance. The rules of constitutional etiquette, while not legal requirements, help create an environment in which each branch can fulfill its duties with the expectation that the other branches will accede to some extent.
For example, there is no constitutional requirement that the executive and legislative branches recognize Supreme Court decisions as binding beyond the parties to a case. But, as scholars such as Larry Alexander and Frederick Schauer have argued, the traditional willingness of these branches to acknowledge the Court's authority to establish general precedents and legal norms promotes a system of stable and unifying rules useful to all three branches and the citizenry. The Court justifies its own "political question" doctrine on similar terms. As the Court noted in United States v. Munoz-Flores, that doctrine purportedly prevents the judiciary "from inappropriate interference in the business of the other branches." Justice Souter further explained in his concurrence to Nixon v. United States that the judiciary owes considerable deference to legislative acts involving the impeachment or trial of judges or executive officials. Judicial review of an impeachment proceeding would violate the political question doctrine by stepping into the domain of a respected, coordinate branch; even "under the best of circumstances[, it would] entail significant disruption of government."
We might distill four basic characteristics of constitutional etiquette that are reminiscent of its conventional, social analogue. First, constitutional etiquette is firmly rooted in historic comity and cooperation between our federal institutions.
Second, each branch's continued acceptance of relevant rules is crucial to the preservation of constitutional etiquette. Constitutional etiquette gains credence from the reciprocal support of all three branches, and, in turn, it generally must provide each branch with some perceived benefits.
Third, and closely related to this last point, constitutional etiquette is not strictly a legal phenomenon. In the United States, legal rules-conventionally established through legislative acts and judicial opinions-are generally formal and written, exhibiting characteristics largely antithetical to the practical, institutional give-and-take embodied by the "softer" norms of constitutional etiquette. In contrast with legal rules, our constitutional manners are maintained by the informal accommodation, compromises, personal appeals, and deal-making of officials in all three branches of government.
Finally, constitutional etiquette enables institutional cooperation by fostering a hospitable and stable environment. In this way, constitutional etiquette mitigates the rough-and-tumble that ordinarily characterizes separation of powers politics. This etiquette represents the inversion of our revered assumption, described in Federalist No. 51, that American politics depends upon "ambition" being made "to counteract ambition." The District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals alluded to a similar point when it stated in United States v. American Telephone & Telegraph Co. that our framers believed
that where conflicts in scope of authority arose between the coordinate branches, a spirit of dynamic compromise would promote resolution of the dispute in the manner most likely to result in efficient and effective functioning of our governmental system. Under this view, the coordinate branches do not exist in an exclusively adversary relationship to one another when a conflict in authority arises. Rather, each branch should take cognizance of an implicit constitutional mandate to seek optimal accommodation through a realistic evaluation of the needs of the conflicting branches in the particular fact situation . . . the resolution of conflict between the coordinate branches in these situations must be regarded as an opportunity for a constructive modus vivendi, which positively promotes the functioning of our system.
With this background in mind, let us return to Justice Kennedy's challenge of S. 344. Is Senator Specter's bill inconsistent with the deference and etiquette that should apply between the branches? Presumably, Specter's proposal violates an implicit norm giving the judiciary control of its internal operations. But, as a matter of history and practice (not to mention law), there is no such rule. As many commentators have noted, Congress has long controlled (and varied) the size of the Court, created positions that support the work of the Court (among them, law clerks and the Court marshal), and dictated rules for establishing seniority and a quorum within the nation's highest court.
But Justice Kennedy could conceivably have in mind a more general principle of etiquette. Perhaps his objection is to Congress's lack of regard for the several Justices who publicly have opposed televised Court proceedings. As a historical matter, Congress generally has been reluctant to pass measures deemed to interfere with the independence of the Court and its members.
Senator Specter, interestingly, has addressed this claim directly by turning it on its head. In an April 2006 Washington Post op-ed, Specter wrote that Kennedy and Thomas "insisted that Congress should mind its own business and respect the court's autonomy, just as the court has respected Congress's autonomy." But, he asked, "does the Supreme Court respect Congress?" In answering his own question, Specter pointed to a number of recent cases in which the Court invalidated popular federal legislation, concluding that "there is no doubt that congressional procedures and authority have been severely diminished by the court." In essence, Specter argued that his bill was an appropriate response to the Court's disruption of longstanding relations of deference and accommodation between the judicial and legislative branches.
So how does greater awareness of constitutional etiquette help us understand the fate of S. 344 and other facets of American political life? To begin with, legislators' perceptions of whether the television bill breaches established rules of deference and respect between the Court and Congress will inform the congressional debate and the ensuing vote. Congress will play a decisive role in deciding whether the bill is compatible with the informal norms that guide our national politics. Moreover, this debate will influence the response the bill receives from interest groups, the president (who could, of course, veto the measure), and, finally, the courts.
More broadly, the discussion of the television proposal serves as a reminder that these are important times at the Supreme Court-because of the high bench's role not only in construing our individual liberties and defining the contours of executive and congressional power, but also in shaping increasingly contentious judicial-legislative relations. In recent years, members of Congress from both parties have shown greater willingness to criticize the Court and support various "Court-curbing" initiatives; among these are calls to remove certain topics from the high bench's jurisdiction and to limit how long individual Justices can serve. While the Court has long enjoyed a great deal of independence and deference from the public and its elected representatives, this could conceivably change if our nation's lawmakers effectively make the case that the Court has violated the comity that the "people's branch" is due.
Exploring constitutional etiquette in light of the apparently evolving status of judicial-legislative relations is all the more important given an emerged consensus in legal scholarship and political science that the effectiveness of the Court-and especially its ability to protect individual rights-depends upon the willingness of Congress to promote and secure the Court's decisions. Without bilateral respect and cooperation, the Justices may find their decision-making powers seriously compromised by legislative indifference or even resistance.
While the notion of constitutional etiquette can inform our understanding of contemporary attacks on the Court by members of Congress, it can also help us comprehend the emergence of an arguably unhealthful form of deference practiced by legislators towards the high bench. Many of today's members of Congress support "judicial supremacy," the doctrine that the Court has a supreme-and, in some formulations, exclusive-duty to interpret the Constitution. At the same time, contemporary constitutional scholars have argued forcefully that there are theoretical, historical, and pragmatic reasons for believing that members of Congress should take seriously their own independent responsibilities to engage in constitutional interpretation. Given these claims, it is somewhat curious that judicial supremacy seems to be so widespread in Congress, both in terms of lawmakers' expressed attitudes and their actual, deferential behavior.
But we can partially account for this apparent disconnect by noting that Congress's support for judicial supremacy may stem from its eagerness to recognize broad norms of constitutional etiquette. Indeed, research suggests that some members of Congress equate the Court's core institutional responsibilities with its possession of a monopoly on constitutional interpretation. As a result, deferential legislators may be ceding their own obligations to engage in constitutional interpretation in the interests of respecting what they (mistakenly) believe is a power exclusively held by the Supreme Court: that tribunal's supposed authority to be the ultimate interpreter of our supreme law.
In sum, we need more careful attention to and systematic study of constitutional etiquette as a part of our investigation into the largely unseen "dark matter" that helps to hold our constitutional system together. Such an examination will help us, in the short run, to understand the political path of S. 344, and, more broadly, will provide us with a critical vantage point for assessing the ongoing health and sustainability of our Constitution.


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Thurston Moore has been part of the New York music scene for three decades, and he's still going, proving to be a rare example of lasting independence in the music industry. NY1's Budd Mishkin filed the following One on 1 profile.
He's an influential musician with more than two dozen albums, most prominently with his former band Sonic Youth. That's what makes the following admission from Thurston Moore somewhat surprising.
"I can't play in a cover band," he says. "I don't know how to play real music."
For his admirers, his music is very real.
"One part of me doesn't really want to be doing this again, but another part of me is just sort of like, 'Well, why not?'" he says.
Moore is still pushing musical boundaries, experimenting, defying categorization. He scored the music to the film "Street" by artist James Nares, now an exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
"I never really learned how to play traditional guitar so much," he says. "Punk rock started happening, and seeing bands where the guitar players were very rudimentary at best, but they were complete geniuses when it came to the creative mind."
In 1981, that inspiration led to the creation of Sonic Youth. The band enjoyed growing popularity throughout the '80s, eventually touring with and inspiring none other than Nirvana, giving concerts around the world.
It started in the East Village, where Moore arrived in the late '70s drawn by the music, the poetry and the energy. He's lived elsewhere, but in a sense, he's never left the East Village.
There's a favorite old record store.
"Usually, the proprietor will throw up the heavier items on the wall," he says.
There's a bookstore that satiates his love of hard-to-find, rare works of poetry.
"I sort of came to New York in the '70s to sort of get involved with the poetry community," he says.
There's also his beloved St. Mark's Church on the Bowery, a haven for writers and performers as the home of the poetry project.
"This is where I come to really sort of be inside of the New York mind," he says.
Moore is understandably romantic about the old neighborhood.
"I moved here in the late '70s, and it was still sort of, at that point, it was just like as if the apocalypse already happened, to paraphrase Lydia Lunch," he says.
But he is appreciative of the new, safer neighborhood.
"I feel much less stressed out on these streets than I did," he says. "I don't run home anymore."
As Sonic Youth became more prominent in the '80s and '90s, much was written about Moore and Kim Gordon. They were bandmates, husband and wife, raising a daughter, the so-called First Couple of Indie Rock.
So it's not surprising that when Moore and Gordon announced a separation in 2011, there was more media attention about their personal lives.
"I don't dignify it with a response even though I feel like writing a screed about it, This is what you need to know. You don't need to know that," Moore says. "To talk about my personal life with family? No, that is so private."
"A lot has to do with narcissism," Moore says. "I'm as narcissistic as the next person. I'm a Leo, and I understand what that is. But I do draw the line."
Thurston Moore grew up around music in the small town of Bethel, Connecticut. His father played classical piano. his older brother brought home Beatles, Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath records. As a teenager, he started coming into the city to hear punk and new wave bands.
"I remember being stunned the first time I sort of saw a band in a New York club," he says.
The band was called Suicide. Moore knew he was no longer in Connecticut.
"Dripping white pancake makeup with scars on his face," he says. "It was demonic, and it was incredible. It was completely life-changing in a way."
Moore wanted to return, and quickly. So he came to the city after high school, renting a walk-up on East 13th Street.
"I remember hearing lots of alcoholic fighting going on," he says. "The streets were pretty crazy."
The neighborhood also had plenty of new artists and energy. It also had the history.
"You could get up and walk to the local Polish restaurant, and Alan Ginzberg would be eating in there with Peter Olaafsky, and you just sort of knew you were in the right place because of that," Moore says.
He was your basic starving artist, playing in a band, working as a foot messenger. But unlike many of his friends who came from afar, Moore could go home to Connecticut.
"I could escape," he says. "I could go to this little rural area of Connecticut where my mother lived, and it was not that hard to get to."
It took a few years, but eventually, the buzz about Sonic Youth started to grow.
"My mother came to CBGB and she saw how the audience reacted, and she said it completely touched her in such a way that she knew this was really special," Moore says.
The band eventually played around the world, and developed legions of admirers.
Moore says mainstream success - radio play - was never the goal. But when Sonic Youth toured with Nirvana in the early '90s, Moore got a front-row seat to the effects of mass popularity.
"It really did change for people who were younger and coming up and seeing that as a standard of success, and that was something you could appeal to," Moore says. "I thought that was a bit of a distortion of what your agenda should be as a musician or an artist."
Moore has worked with some of the musicians who initially drew him to New York, such as Patti Smith, but he says he is most thankful for the interactions with his audience.
"When I'm at my downest, when I'm just sort of like, 'What am I doing? Where is my life going? What have I done?', somebody will come up to me and say, 'Hey man, I just want to thank you for all you've done, for those records and for getting me through college,'" he says.
Yet, in his mid-50s, touring with a new band, apart from much of what he's known personally and professionally for the last 30 years, there is still a feeling of searching.
"I haven't really started yet," he says. "I always feel like I'm waiting for the apprenticeship to be over so I can really sort of get into the real game."
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David, thank you for that great introduction. We're proud to claim David Victor as one of Michigan's own. He, and his parents before him, have made great contributions to the security of our nation and of Israel. We are all grateful for his leadership.
As most of you know, I am a proud Democrat and a supporter of the President, and so no doubt you're expecting me to come here this morning to back his policies.
Well, I sure don't want to let you down! So let me speak to you today both as a Democrat, and as a friend of Israel.
I have worked with this president, during his time in the Senate and his time in the White House. I have seen him up close and personal. There is no bluff or bluster in him. Time and again, he has demonstrated thoughtful, tough and courageous leadership – from ordering the raid on Osama bin Laden, to leading our efforts in Libya and Afghanistan, and importantly to all of us, in our nation's relationship with Israel.
I worked closely with the President Obama recently, when as David said my Armed Services Committee adopted a bipartisan Kirk-Menendez Iran sanctions bill as part of our defense authorization bill. That's where it belongs: Defending Israel as part of our defense authorization bill. And that bill is now law and has been signed by the president. The sanctions which are in our bill with the support of the president will cripple Iran's access to international financial markets and its ability to sell oil.
So the president has not just talked. He has acted. He has acted to strengthen the U.S.-Israel relationship in his budgets, where despite the fiscal pressures, he has increased the U.S. commitment to maintaining Israel's qualitative military edge. He has acted internationally to support Israel as an important part of America's security.
As Iran continues to thumb its nose at the international community, violating six UN Security Council resolutions demanding Iran stop its uranium enrichment, President Obama's unique credibility around the world has helped forge an unprecedented international coalition opposing Iran's nuclear drive. He has committed "all elements of American power" to preventing Iran from building a nuclear weapon. And he has made clear that our goal is preventing a nuclear Iran, not just containing a nuclear Iran.
When he says all that options are on the table to prevent a nuclear Iran, he means it. I believe him. The world will believe him. I hope the Iranians are rational enough to believe him, because Iran ignores the president of the United States and his words at their peril.
One major U.S. effort on which the Senate Armed Services Committee has worked closely with President Obama and his predecessors is the major commitment of U.S. funding, expertise, and assistance to Israel on missile defense. I want to focus a few minutes this morning on this issue of Israel's missile defense, because I believe it is an under-recognized factor that can help pressure Iran to abandon its nuclear ambitions.
And here's why. When Iran faces the fateful nuclear decision before it, it will have to recognize that should it cross the red line which would bring about military action against its nuclear facilities, its ability to retaliate, or even credibly threaten to retaliate, against Israel will be severely degraded by Israel's missile defenses.
Iran's primary threat to Israel is its missile arsenal – an arsenal which, combined with a nuclear weapon, would constitute a danger so grave that it must be thwarted. Israeli missile defense systems such as Arrow, Patriot and Iron Dome give Israel strong protection against an Iranian retaliatory strike. They provide a formidable, layered defense against a full range of missile threats, from long-range ballistic missiles to short-range artillery rockets. Those systems benefit enormously from American technology, from joint development efforts by our two nations, and from the major assistance of American taxpayers.
There's more. The United States provides Israel in real-time missile warning and launch data from our satellite and radar systems. And of major significance, U.S. troops are on the ground in Israel, operating a powerful X-band radar that makes a huge contribution to Israel's defense capability against Iran.
Now Iran is going to have to weigh these facts and add them to the many disincentives to continue its nuclear program. If Iranian leaders believe they can protect their nuclear program from a military attack by threatening retaliation with their missile arsenal, they are mistaken. Should Iran make the fateful choice to develop a nuclear weapon, because of the missile defenses in Israel, Iran's missiles will not stop Israel or us from doing what we have to do to prevent them from succeeding. Should the sword need to be drawn to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, Israel will wield a powerful shield against Iranian retaliation – a shield strengthened and participated in by the United States of America.
America's relationship with Israel is more than a marriage of convenience, more than a transitory alignment of interests. U.S. presidents of both parties have followed the will of the American people, which is that our commitment to Israel and her people is and must remain unshakeable.
Where support for Israel has long been a unifying force in our nation and in our community, there are now some who, in the hunt for partisan advantage, use excessive and divisive rhetoric to drive a wedge between supporters of Israel.
Now friends of Israel may disagree on which specific policies or actions will keep Israel more secure – just as participants in Israel's own boisterous democracy at times disagree. But we do a disservice to the security of our nation, and of Israel, if we succumb to those who would use Israel to divide us for partisan gain. The bonds that America and Israel have forged, let no one drive asunder.
Thank you, and may God continue to bless Israel and these United States of America.


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During the Second World War, a large number of generals and commanders sacrificed their lives in the battlefield. Although their bodies have turned into dust, their heroic deeds go down into history and won't be forgotten by the world for good. If we, the ordinary people living in the modern world, were given a chance to go back to the Second World War battlefield, what it would be like? And how should we survive the war? Most people will regard it as a dream which will never come true. However, our dear friends, come and join Iron Marshal and experience the thrill and excitement of such a fantasy.
Iron Marshal is a WWII strategy game and browser-based MMORTS which is developed by HiThere, a leading game developer and operator in the world. The story takes place in the futuristic time when the players accidentally return to the battlefield of the Second World War in an attempt to re-write the unforgettable history of WWII. Its gameplay is very similar to War2 Glory, Operation Gamma 41 and WWII Rage, but the players will be greatly impressed by the great graphics, historic campaigns, period costumes,weapons and vehicles as well as an exciting battle system in this game.
In Iron Marshal, a player starts as a low-level commander of a small force of soldiers and works the way up the chain of command to become the most powerful general in this war. You can build up your own base, fight in historic campaigns and change the course of history.
There are several attractive features in this game which will keep the players coming back for more. First of all, Iron Marshal won't pester its players for money every other minute because of its refreshing in-game money system. The upgrading equipments and training can be accomplished with resources earned in this game without spending any real money. Secondly, players can meet all of the historic figures in WWII personally, experiencing their humour, wild behaviours and approachable manners. Thirdly, the game employs an exciting custom appearance system which allows the players to make your general unique by picking his hair, facial expressions and costume at will. Fourthly, in each battle, a player can meet various commanders and learn tactics and strategies directly from them. What's more, you can decide on your own which strategy and tactic should be employed in this battle like a real general. There are thousands of combinations and options for you to choose from in this game.
You will undoubtedly get a lot of fun from playing this game.
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Here is a related article. Blows me away people put time and energy into something like this. Seems to me if this energy was spent helping society rather than making destructive tools we would live in a better world. http://gizmodo.com/5807610/cute-mini-guns-as-small-as-matches-can-actually-shoot-bullets/gallery/1
Leave it to the Swiss to use watch-making technology to come up with the world's smallest working gun.
It sells locally for 6'500 Swiss Francs (about $6,400 US) and as I understand it, can not be purchased in the U.S. The announcement of this thing has the internet buzzing for a couple reasons. First of all, it's kind of cool, so of course, everyone's passing the link around to their friends, blogging about it, etc. But there's a more somber buzz about this potentially deadly little device, too. Some have raised concerns about how easy it might be to get one of these on a flight, for example. And what about court rooms, and other places where there is a high risk of someone walking in with a gun? Here's what the site had to say about exporting the mini gun to the States:
Our Miniature Revolver ref. C1ST is not importable in the United States.
We have received a letter from the US Department of Justice mentioning that our Miniature Revolver does not meet with the minimum size prerequisites referring to the Factoring Criteria For Weapons ATF Form 4590.
Our revolver therefore is classified as not sporting and is not importable.
That still doesn't answer all the concerns, but it sure helps to know that they're not welcomed here (even if I DO want one to play with). Perhaps, one day, we can get these with RF chips in them that will trigger an alert if taken too close to a federal building, school, or public mass transportation like an airport.
The bullets from this gun can fire at just under 400 feet per second, making a kill at close range possible. They're just over .35 inches. It's hard to imagine that something so tiny and cute could kill someone.


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On August 5, 2012, an armed gunmen went on a shooting rampage at the Sikh Gurdwara in Oak Creek, Wisconsin. Six people were killed and many other wounded either physically or emotionally. The man's motivation for shooting at the Gurdwara was unequivocally racially motivated. In order to reflect on this tragedy, the Centre for Indo-Canadian Studies hosted a forum titled We are all Sikhs: Blind spots in racial landscapes of "mistaken identities." on October 16th, 2012. Faculty and staff members took a moment at this juncture to present their thoughts and emotions. Below are their papers:
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Jamba Juice Moves To More Planet-Friendly Cup For Smoothies
Jamba Juice Company (NASDAQ; JMBA), a leading healthy, active lifestyle brand with over 750 stores across the U.S., announced today that the Company has begun introducing a new, more ecofriendly cup to hold its popular smoothies. The Company began rolling out the new cup in several markets in June and will have eliminated the use of Styrofoam cups across its entire system by the end of 2013.
Jamba has spent several years researching materials that would be more friendly to the environment than Styrofoam while still having the strength to support Jamba's rich, thick smoothies. The Company tested several options before landing on an innovative paper design that successfully meets this need. Many materials currently used to make beverage cups will lose their integrity within several minutes of containing a thick, frozen drink such as a smoothie. Jamba's new cup maintains its structure, is made from renewable materials, and provides a superior customer experience.
"We have spent several years researching a solution that would allow us to move away from the Styrofoam cup, while still offering a quality product to our consumers," said Jamba Juice chairman, president and CEO James D. White. "As a Company with a strong concern for people and the planet, we continually seek to improve our environmental footprint across all areas of our business, and our move to this innovative paper cup is a major milestone in these efforts. I am proud of the hard work our team has put forth over the past few years in finding a more viable solution for our cups."
About Jamba Juice CompanyFounded in 1990, Jamba Juice Company (NASDAQ: JMBA) is a leading restaurant retailer of better-for-you, specialty beverage and food offerings, which include great tasting, whole fruit smoothies, fresh squeezed juices and juice blends, hot coffee and teas, hot oatmeal, breakfast wraps, sandwiches and mini-wraps, California Flatbreads™, frozen yogurt, and a variety of baked goods and snacks. Jamba-branded products for at-home enjoyment are also available through select retailers across the nation and in Jamba outlets. As of April 2, 2013, there were 820 Jamba Juice store locations globally. Jamba is a proud sponsor of "Team Up for a Healthy America" in the fight against childhood obesity and encourages fans to join the Team Up community of celebrities, athletes and other leaders committed to getting kids active and involved at www.myhealthpledge.com. Fans of Jamba Juice can find out more about Jamba Juice's locations as well as specific offerings and promotions by visiting the Jamba Juice website at www.JambaJuice.com or by contacting Jamba's Guest Services team at 1-866-4R-FRUIT (473-7848).
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While most actresses would shy away from cozying up to a female actor on screen, Divya Dutta took the challenge head on!
Divya, who's proved her acting mettle time and again (most recently in Delhi 6) was initially at loss, when she was told that she has a lesbian scene with co-star Kitu Gidwani in the film Monica.
But rather than shirking away from it, Divya decided to do the scene.
The actress tells a website that she approached the scene very professionally and discussed it with Kitu Gidwani before the shoot. But more than anything, she prepared herself mentally.
"I mentally prepared myself. I was just an actor playing a character," Divya is quoted as saying. Apparently, the scene turned out very well.
According to Divya, it was shot aesthetically and isn't vulgar or titillating.The film is the story of two struggling and vulnerable women who find solace in each other.
Before Divya landed the role, many actresses had turned it down simply because they did not want to do the lesbian scene. In the past, only a few actresses have mustered courage to indulge in something like this.
Nandita Das and Shabana Azmi did it in Fire and Amrita Arora and Isha Koppikar tried it in Girlfriend.


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Vegetable curry for a crowd
Cooking timePrep: 15 mins Cook: 45 mins
Skill levelEasy
ServingsServes 8
This vegetarian curry is great for feeding a group of mates on a budget, or make a batch to freeze
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- Freezable
- Vegetarian
Nutrition per serving
- kcalories
- 263
- protein
- 5g
- carbs
- 25g
- fat
- 17g
- saturates
- 8g
- fibre
- 4g
- sugar
- 14g
- salt
- 1.28g
- 1 large potato, diced
- 1 small butternut squash, peeled, deseeded and diced
- 1 aubergine, diced
- 6 tbsp tikka masala paste
- 3 tbsp vegetable oil
- 2 onions, sliced
- 680g-700g jar tomato passata
- 400g can coconut milk
- 2 red peppers, sliced
- 2 courgettes, diced
- few coriander sprigs, to serve
- rice or naan bread, to serve
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Make it Thai: use Thai green curry paste, swap the passata for an extra can coconut milk and stir in the juice of a few limes before serving. Or spice it up by adding 2 chopped red chillies to the onions and use a Madras or vindaloo curry paste.
- Heat oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6. Toss the potato, squash and aubergine with 2 tbsp curry paste and 2 tbsp oil in a large roasting tin. Season, then roast for 30 mins.
- Meanwhile, make the sauce. Fry the onions in the remaining oil in a large pan until softened and golden – add a splash of water if they start to dry out. Stir in the remaining curry paste, cook for 3 mins, then add the passata, coconut milk and 100ml water. Simmer for a few mins.
- When the vegetables are roasted, tip them into the sauce with the peppers and courgettes. Simmer for 10-15 mins until tender. Scatter with coriander and serve.
Recipe from Good Food magazine, October 2010
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This is a fabulous recipe and one that is used weekly in our family, two teenagers and hubby. Such a favorite. The children are not that keen on aubergine, so I tend to use just potato and sweet potato, red peppers, and courgette.....goes down excellently and served with homemade flat breads smothered in homemade garlic butter. Winner in our family. Oh, and the curry freezes beautifully!
Recently tried this as I am looking for a veggie option for a party. I think it's ok for a mid-week dinner, but not good enough for a party. Tasted more like a ratatouille than a curry. I would recommend the sweet and hot vegetable curry instead, also on this website. It's tastier and much quicker to make, recipe easily doubled to serve 12.
Made this tonight but added small florets of Cauliflower as I finished frying off the onions. Everything else was as per the recipe but my tablespoons of the curry paste were generous ones and I stirred freshly chopped Coriander through as it finished cooking. We all loved it and can't wait for leftovers another night!! I'll definitely make it again.
I'm really surprised to read some negative reviews of this recipe. I've been cooking it ever since it appeared in the magazine, and my guests - most recently in December 2013 - have all raved about it, and I'm always asked for the recipe. I cook both the trad and the Thai versions: I think I prefer the Thai one, but it's a close call! Roasting the veg gives a delicious taste. The only adjustment I've ever made is to cut down on the amount of oil, as there's plenty in the curry paste. Delicious!
Really not bowled over by this - sorry! Reduced passata and coconut milk as suggested, otherwise followed recipe. Made in the morning and reheated for serving as evening meal, by which time, curry needed added liquid (perhaps I should have used passata amount suggested in recipe after all). I don't eat rice so served on its own and found it to be a bit bland. And I have several other portions in freezer yet to get through!
was a great success! My daughter brought a friend over, and she wanted the recipe.
Her friend had not even noticed it was a vegetarian dish (but of course the best vegetarian dishes are the ones that can exist on their own merits, such as this one. Not the ones where meat has been replaced with some soy substitute).
I did some things differently, no potato or butternut, but had a sweet potato (also orange). Had a cauliflower, so put some rosettes in and a box of mushrooms, which I also added.
So actually, I used the recipe more for inspiration.
But still, I do recommend this one.


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CBS 8 History
The history of CBS 8 is unique among America's television stations. While we have always broadcast on Channel 8, we haven't always been WAKA or even a CBS affiliate. In fact, our offices weren't always in Montgomery!
Our history was filled with struggles early on but much recent success thanks to you, our viewers.
Channel 8 first hit the airwaves as Selma TV station WSLA on March 17, 1960. In the beginning, it was an independent station but soon became an ABC affiliate. Network programs were picked up from Birmingham's WBRC through an antenna and then rebroadcast to our part of the state.
It was a makeshift way to receive and transmit network programming -- primitive even by the standard of the day, which was to receive network programs through telephone lines. It would be decades before satellites would be the standard way stations received outside programming.
It would be several years before Montgomery would get an ABC station of its own. At that time, ABC itself was a fledgling network with few hit programs.
WSLA's owners were confident brighter days were just around the corner. The Brennan family and their company Deep South Broadcasting also owned WBAM AM 740, a powerhouse Montgomery radio station. When they received the FCC license for Channel 8 in 1954, weeks before Montgomery's WSFA Channel 12, they immediately planned to move the station's tower closer to Montgomery and increase the station's transmitting power.
Those moves would require government approval. Standing in WSLA's way was Montgomery's then-CBS affiliate, WCOV Channel 20. Starting in 1954 and lasting 30 years, WCOV fought every attempt WSLA's owners made to improve Channel 8's signal.
Some people's TV sets couldn't even receive UHF channels at all. WCOV saw that tiny WSLA would be a big threat.
So Channel 8 made due with only 3,000 watts of visual power. All the while, the owners believed it wouldn't be long before the FCC would allow them to make much-needed technical improvements.
The dreams of owners and workers at WSLA went up in flames on August 1, 1968. The entire station burned to the ground in a fire.
The station went dark and would stay that way for years. Maybe because of the legal fight with WCOV, the potential of Channel 8 didn't seem to be clear to anyone.
WCOV actually investigated buying WSLA, lowering its power, so that legally it could simulcast WCOV's programming to West Alabama. This time, WCOV was dealt a defeat when the FCC said no.
No one knows why WCOV's owners didn't simply buy WSLA and operate it as a full-power station -- taking the action they had long feared that others would.
Better times finally arrived in 1972. Charles Grisham, the owner of CBS affiliate WHNT in Huntsville, bought the station.
WSLA was rebuilt in Selma and returned to the air in 1973 broadcasting in color. This time, Channel 8 was a CBS affiliate -- a direct challenge to WCOV's CBS affiliation.
During this time, WSLA's facilities made dramatic improvements with new equipment and a growing commitment to covering the news. But without a stronger signal, the station's ability to reach all viewers still couldn't be realized.
Bonus Video: A look back at the 20th anniversary of CBS 8 in 1980.
By the 1980s, the FCC was beginning to loosen its heavy regulations on local TV stations. At the same time, WCOV was running out of arguments to prevent WSLA from reaching more Alabama families.
In 1984, Grisham was finally allowed to boost the transmitter's power and build a new, taller tower in Lowndes County. Hundreds of thousands of people would now be able to watch Channel 8 for the first time in places like Montgomery, Alexander City, Troy and Andalusia. What had been the Selma TV market would be absorbed into the Montgomery market.
This was just the first of many major changes at the station. The call letters were changed from WSLA to WAKA on Oct. 28, 1984 so that viewers wouldn't confuse the station with Montgomery's NBC affiliate, WSFA.
Bahakel Communications of Charlotte, NC, bought the new WAKA in 1985, the same year that Channel 8 started broadcasting from its new 1,757-foot tower with a full 316,000 watts. Now Channel 8 could be seen from the suburbs of Birmingham and Tuscaloosa to the Florida panhandle and from near the Mississippi state line to extreme East Alabama. It is the largest coverage area in the state of Alabama.
Those weren't the only changes. Soon, portions of "Action 8 News" would be broadcast, not from the main studios in Selma, but from the station's brand new building on East Boulevard in Montgomery. For a while, some station functions remained in Selma, but eventually, the entire operation moved to the Capital City.
Even then, the station has never forgotten its roots in Selma. It has always kept an office there with a full-time news reporter and an account executive dedicated to the needs of West Alabama.
Meanwhile, WCOV's fears were realized when CBS dropped the station as an affiliate on Jan. 1, 1986. The station came under new ownership and joined the upstart Fox network.
With legal battles, power upgrades and the move to Montgomery behind us, the station has never stood still.
In the past decade, we began a new commitment to our viewers in South Alabama by opening the South Alabama Newsroom in downtown Greenville and to people in Pike County with the Troy Newsroom. Our news crews can easily cover those parts of the state and reporters can broadcast Live. Those newsrooms complement the Montgomery and West Alabama Newsrooms, giving us a huge advantage over the competition when news breaks across our 15-county viewing area.
In a dramatic shift from the days that WCOV battled our attempts at boosting our signal, we now produce "WCOV News at Nine" seven nights a week for our one-time foe.
CBS 8 is now making history with a unique shared services agreement involving four of Montgomery's other leading stations, WNCF ABC Montgomery, WBMM CW Montgomery, MeTV Montgomery and Heartland Montgomery. We are now under one roof as Alabama News Network, with cutting-edge high definition equipment and a state-of-the-art studio. It's a multi-million dollar investment to bring you local news, weather, sports and entertainment from the most advanced television center in Alabama.
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I briefly joined MyGirlFund out of curiosity. There are a lot of web cam sites out there right now but this model was different. The women on the site make money from conversation sharing, photograph exchange, and naturally video chats as well. My Girl Fund even required that the models on the site hold up a sign with their screen name to help verify their identity. As someone who does deal with a decent amount of photo theft, I valued this.
I'm not going to say whether or not My Girl Fund is a scam, but I can speak to the fact that the people behind the show act in a very paranoid manner.
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This came into play for me because I registered, not surprisingly, as Maggie Mayhem. Why? It seemed like another opportunity to connect with fans. The rules clearly states that I could not post any links, so I didn't. No links. This wasn't enough for the website as I was told that I had to choose another name. Mine was "too easily searchable" and it would be "too easy for users to locate and communicate with me outside of the site." They were worried that I would utilize this fancy network of potential customers and run off into the hills with them leaving MGF and their profit margin behind.
I didn't post any links. The webmaster kindly offered to pick a new name for me. I told him to delete my account. Then I decided to do a little more research about MGF. Oddly enough, there was very little out there about the website. Given that MGF insists on being so insular, models aren't posting too many links or stories back to the website. I did stumble upon this comment on a message board for "ballers" which revealed some startling information:
As a part of my investigation, I read the faq section and the terms of service. Hidden in the terms of service I discovered that the men could have MGF record their web cam sessions for one credit. Credits can be purchased at a rate of 50 credits for $62 or $1.22 per credit. If fewer credit are purchased, the rate can go up to as much as $1.80 a credit. If a man does wish to record the web cam session, the credit he purchases it for goes NOT to the woman but to the website. That raised a few more doubts about MGF in my mind. Credit are used for a few things on MGF but primarily for messages. If you send a message to a woman, it deducts one credit from your bank.
Since men paid a premium for the credits and the website implies that a credit is analogous to $1, I thought that the women would get $1 for each message (credit) sent their way. Since I've learned never to assume anything, I asked how much a woman received for a message. The answer was 65 cents, not the $1 I expected. MGF gets a cut of the money on BOTH ENDS of the transaction. If I were to buy credits on average for $1.22 each and the woman receives 65 cents, that mean the women get only 53% of the money while MGF gets 47%. The women do the hard work of coaxing men and MGF gets FORTY-SEVEN PERCENT of the money. It gets worse if fewer than 50 credits are purchased. At the highest credit rate of $1.80, the women only gets 36% and MGF gets 64%. SIXTY-FOUR PERCENT to MGF. I pointed out the $1.22 fact out on my profile and a few women messaged me thinking that men purchased the credits for $1 each since they received only 65 cents for them. Apparently some of them weren't happy to discover this.
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The author of the comment claims to have been kicked off of the website. Looking at the TOS regarding privacy, we can see that all communications (including video) are recorded in order to make sure that all laws and TOS are being followed. Now every website records everything you do. That's part of how it works. There is a line between a high functioning website with a lot of media on it and a paranoid fear of dissent. It's a page out of the Suicide Girls play book to boot people for their concerns and observations rather than actually addressing them. While I'm pretty damn out of the closet as a performer, there are a lot of girls who do cam because it's such an over-saturated market that it would be unlikely to be outed at a later date in life. Mind you, I said unlikely, not impossible. To record every single one of your online cam sessions with hopes of finding a future senator or beauty queen is an arduous task. Furthermore, how could you really identify someone that well from a cheap low resolution web cam anyway?
At any rate, there are definitely a number of girls who have been banned from the site for minor offenses relating to having an internet life off of MFC. Whether or not these guys are scammers, they are doing a decent impression of douche bags. Although they do try to stir up some good publicity, anyone who says that a cam site selling chat, pics, and video is about 'friendship' then I believe we have two different editions of the dictionary. It is a relationship, it may be very friendly, but it is a business relationship and not a personal one.
At any rate, that was my brief touch with MGF. There are certain things I am willing to give up but my name is not one of them. Let's all countdown until they try to make me take this blog entry down.


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How are Schools getting away with pumping out so many new graduates for no jobs? - page 2
Question: How are Schools getting away with pumping out so many new graduates for no jobs? Thoughts: My first thought on this is that there is a lack of education or better yet lack of information discovered by students... Read More
- 6Jan 8, '13 by elkparkQuote from AutumnDraideanThis is another issue. I had another career before I went into nursing and can tell you that, for generations, people in many (most?) other fields go to college expecting that they will need to move to where they can get a job when they finish school. Nursing is the only college-level occupation/profession I've ever encountered where large numbers of people routinely expect to be able to go to school and then find employment (not just employment, but their dream job!) without leaving their current location.Good grief! This is very harsh.
There are shortages in areas that don't have nursing schools nearby and there are gluts in areas of high population concentrations. Some people can mount a national job search and move where the jobs are, other people just can't. I had some weak career advisement when I went the first time, I was told a historian could do anything, the part they left out? I would have had to move away and I wasn't prepared to do that for personal reasons. I paddled around in circles then I got mad and went back to school!
If someone is sold on rosy promises from a college recruiter while the media is trumpeting nursing shortage but they live in a town with three or four programs? getting a job might not be so easy. even if they get that far...I would like the media to hush about "Nursing shortages" and stop selling nursing as an iron rice bowl. it isn't.
It's a great job if you love it and want to work with people and things medical. It's a versitile starting place. That's all true. It's a tough program and I had to ask myself every day just how bad I wanted it!
- 2Jan 8, '13 by chucksterWhile he number of newly graduated nurses has increased significantly over the last decade, laying the blame on the nursing schools for the present nurse oversupply is misplaced. The institutions are responding to the demand for nursing education and while some schools - primarily, but not exclusively the for-profit colleges - have aggressively and perhaps deceptively recruited new nursing students, in most cases, the demand is consumer-driven due to the the media (and to a lesser extent, the BLS).
There have been countless stories in print and in the electronic media that spoke about a severe nursing shortage and framed the nursing profession as as immune to recession. The verbiage about nursing in the BLS information was only slightly less hyperbolic. As a result, greater and greater numbers of students migrated to nursing programs and colleges increased their nursing enrollment in response to this increased demand.
The AMA strictly limits the number of students that can attend medical school in this country through a variety of mechanisms. This artificially limits the number of doctors thus actively encouraging a permanent physician shortage. Unless the ANA is willing to do something similar, nursing employment will always be cyclical, with shortages followed by gluts followed by shortages, etc, etc.
Right now, we are in the glut part of the nursing employment cycle. This will be followed by a shortage, but at some point in the medium to long term - probably too far in the future to help many of the tens of thousands of likely underemployed nursing grads over the next several years.
- 4Jan 8, '13 by AutumnDraideanNursing in recent years has attracted adults as opposed to 22 year olds. That can make moving complicated. What if your spouse owns a business? That was what kept me near my college town...leaving would have ended the relationship. when you have kids it can be tough to leave, or kids and an ex spouse, kids need the other parent and sometimes you are obliged to stay nearby so you don't make visitation an undue hardship.
Some people are very mobile, others are not and it's not a matter of being short sighted.
- 3Jan 8, '13 by AutumnDraideanAdding too...maybe the ANA should take a harder stand on accrediting colleges of nursing. Try and even out the boom/bust cycle and pay closer attention to state licensure data as well as job forcasts.
- 9Jan 8, '13 by elkparkI understand that many folks going into nursing are tied to a particular area for family reasons -- however, I think that has to be considered when considering a career in nursing, and when criticizing schools for continuing to offer nursing programs when the employment market for nurses in a particular area is saturated. It's not the fault or responsibility of the schools if their nursing graduates can't/won't relocate to get a job. The graduates from other departments of the school are not expecting to be able to get a job in the town they went to school in, and you have to think about how realistic an expectation that is.
Also, the ANA has nothing to do with accrediting nursing programs. They are accredited by the NLNAC or CCNE, but, even then, accreditation is voluntary -- there is no state in the US that requires a program to have NLNAC/CCNE accreditation in order to operate. Nursing programs are approved by the state BONs, and, in the five states in which I've practiced over my career (I can't speak for the other 45, although I expect it's the same there), programs have to get approval from the BON not just to open and operate, but also to increase the number of students they are allowed to enroll. However, there is a lot of pressure from state legislatures on the BONs to increase enrollment in nursing programs, and BONs often run into problems if they attempt to tighten the requirements/standards and have little or no ability to refuse to approve a program just because there are already plenty of nursing programs in the state.
I dearly wish that TPTB in nursing were able to do as good a job of looking after the interests of current US RNs as TPTB in medicine do of looking out for the interests of US physicians. But I can't imagine we will ever have that kind of clout or status.
- 16Jan 8, '13 by Rose_Queen, MSN, RN GuideWhy does it seem no one takes responsibility for their own choices anymore? "I went to school to be a nurse, now the school should find me my dream job where I want to live." No. People need to take responsibility, research their potential job field, research schools, and then make an informed decision. The entitlement attitude has got to go.
Sure, schools may offer aids to finding a job, such as job fairs, resume critiques, and interviewing skills seminars, but they should not be required to help their students find a job. So much more is involved in making the decision on whether to hire someone or not besides education. People need to step up to the plate instead of relying on someone else to do everything.
- 6Jan 8, '13 by CrunchRNI still think there is a ton of misinformation out there about job opportunities in the field and that it is propaganda from those that profit including some schools and administrators who can now lower wages......
Personal responsibility is one thing, but I still see articles all the time that state it is practically guaranteed life long employment with tons of opportunities and great pay and that belabor how dire the nursing shortage currently is and will be in the future. Even experienced nurses often seemed shocked at the difficulty finding a job.
- 1Jan 8, '13 by SaysfaaThe government moves slowly; they are constantly well behind the cutting edge. For example, many segments are still reporting a nursing shortage. They would be (are?) trying to increase the numbers now. And that is just on a report/recommendation level, which is much, much quicker and easier to change than a law.
Y'know, there are more situations than just the people who want to stay in their current area after they graduate. There are also people who want to stay only long enough to graduate. My sister graduated from a state school near where her husband was in seminary. They knew there was virtually no chance that they would stay in that area after they graduated (and they didn't, they went to a rural area with a very severe nursing shortage and a very long commute to the nearest nursing school). It would have been sad if she had been unable to go when and where she did just because there were too many nurses in that area.
- 5Jan 8, '13 by WannaBNurseyThere are schools that get rid of programs when their students can't find employment afterwards. A technical school in my area got rid of many programs because they found that their graduates were no longer getting hired in these areas. I think community college and technical schools do have a duty to provide training for jobs that are in demand in those areas. They have a duty to their community. I think, for the most part, community college and technical schools try to offer majors that are in demand in their community, but it is the student's job to do their own research.
- 0Jan 8, '13 by SHGR, MSN, RNThis would be easier to understand if all the nursing students were paying their own hard-earned money to attend nursing school, but that isn't the case. Why people are still getting loans and grants is beyond me.


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Arundhati Roy has issued this statement from Srinagar
I write this from Srinagar, Kashmir. This morning's papers say that I may be arrested on charges of sedition for what I have said at recent public meetings on Kashmir. I said what millions of people here say every day. I said what I, as well as other commentators have written and said for years. Anybody who cares to read the transcripts of my speeches will see that they were fundamentally a call for justice. I spoke about justice for the people of Kashmir who live under one of the most brutal military occupations in the world; for Kashmiri Pandits who live out the tragedy of having been driven out of their homeland; for Dalit soldiers killed in Kashmir whose graves I visited on garbage heaps in their villages in Cuddalore; for the Indian poor who pay the price of this occupation in material ways and who are now learning to live in the terror of what is becoming a police state.
Yesterday I traveled to Shopian, the apple-town in South Kashmir which had remained closed for 47 days last year in protest against the brutal rape and murder of Asiya and Nilofer, the young women whose bodies were found in a shallow stream near their homes and whose murderers have still not been brought to justice. I met Shakeel, who is Nilofer's husband and Asiya's brother. We sat in a circle of people crazed with grief and anger who had lost hope that they would ever get 'insaf'—justice—from India, and now believed that Azadi—freedom— was their only hope. I met young stone pelters who had been shot through their eyes. I traveled with a young man who told me how three of his friends, teenagers in Anantnag district, had been taken into custody and had their finger-nails pulled out as punishment for throwing stones.
In the papers some have accused me of giving 'hate-speeches', of wanting India to break up. On the contrary, what I say comes from love and pride. It comes from not wanting people to be killed, raped, imprisoned or have their finger-nails pulled out in order to force them to say they are Indians. It comes from wanting to live in a society that is striving to be a just one. Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds. Pity the nation that needs to jail those who ask for justice, while communal killers, mass murderers, corporate scamsters, looters, rapists, and those who prey on the poorest of the poor, roam free.
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October 26 2010
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