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Tweens ages 9-12 will read a book and meet at the library to watch the movie interpretation of the book. The group will then discuss the differences between the print and film versions. The book will be available at the begining of each month for pickup at the children's desk.Library: SOKC Driving Directions
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Instructional Media Center (IMC).The IMC contains shelves of DVDs, videotapes
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listen to these disks and tapes is also available in small media rooms. Music books (call numbers M-MT) and juvenile books are also housed in the IMC.


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Top 10 Country Songs About Mothers
May 6, 2011 10:00 AM
We're counting down the top 10 best country songs about Mothers, just in case you were thinking of making Mom a mixtape this Mother's Day. From old favorites to newly discovered hits, you're guaranteed to shed a tear or two for Mom this weekend.
10. Brad Paisley - "She's Everything"
Though this song can be a little abstract, it still talks of a Man's love for his wife, the mother of his children. Either way, it's a great song to start any countdown!
She's a picture in my wallet / and my unborn children's mother


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In the last couple of days, I have finished two new qabalah collages.
I have been collecting images on this one for a while, but they didn't come together until I found the top image of the woman pointing and screaming. Her rage at injustice, the breaking of chains, and the destruction of a bombed out 1940s London seemed to pull together nuanced aspects of Geburah.
I was inspired to work on Tiphareth just yesterday by something another sister on the path wrote in her LiveJournal about the sphere:
To part the veils of pride…to seek voice in asking for aid…to be the sacrificed one for the many, the devoted mystic.
I'd love to hear your take on both the images and the spheres.
My other qabalah images are on Flickr.
[tags]qabalah, sacred art, collage, tiphareth, geburah[/tags]


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We will be back on Jan 2, 2015!
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Coolpad, the world's sixth largest smartphone manufacturer, installed a back door on millions of devices.
There's clearly a problem, but no one company deserves all the blame.
MCMC witnesses digital infrastructure alliance between MSC Malaysia status public-listed mTouche Technology and Taiwan-listed Arbor Technology in Kuala Lumpur.
Delivers high-quality, uninterrupted music and video to KKBOX customers.
TNS today revealed ten trends that are set to disrupt the technology landscape in China and beyond over the next five years.
The new air purifier that can be controlled via a mobile phone.
"The whole world runs on AWS today," said Dr. Werner Vogels, the chief technology officer of Amazon.com and Amazon Web Services (AWS). In this exclusive interview with Zafar Anjum, Dr. Vogels discusses the latest cloud computing trends in Asia and how young businesses are changing the rules of the game
Organisers of Prince Abdulaziz bin Abdullah International Entrepreneurship Award give a call for nominations
The hack of Sony Pictures, blamed on North Korea by the FBI, was not an act of war, President Obama said in an interview broadcast on Sunday.
These funds will be used for long-term strategic investments in India, as well as towards building Flipkart to be a "world-class technology company".
There's a lot of circumstantial evidence, but very little actual information on the hack against Sony.
Sony Pictures has announced that it has cancelled the Christmas day release of 'The Interview' following the recent hacking scandal, which saw its entire back end exposed.
Cloud market expected to see 23 percent growth in the new year, thanks to security efforts and hybrids.
As 2014 winds down, the breach of Sony Pictures Entertainment is clearly the biggest data breach of the year and among the most devastating to any corporation ever.
The event GCIO Forum Singapore will be held in the first half of 2015
Two former employees of Sony Pictures have filed a lawsuit against the company alleging it didn't do enough to safeguard their personal information and prevent its loss in a massive cyberattack in late November.
Businesses often use personality assessments to gauge a candidate's degree of cultural fit. We look at workplace personality tests really tells employers.
Even mature organizations can use IG to reduce risk and increase value. After all, everything from families to snowflakes operates under governance.
"The whole world runs on AWS today," said Dr. Werner Vogels, the chief technology officer of Amazon.com and Amazon Web Services (AWS). In this exclusive interview with Zafar Anjum, Dr. Vogels discusses the latest cloud computing trends in Asia and how young businesses are changing the rules of the game
Microsoft on Thursday sued two technical support companies, alleging that they infringed numerous Microsoft trademarks and practiced false advertising as they tricked consumers into paying for bogus help.
Cutting costs in outsourced service delivery can have a six times larger impact.
With escalating global competition and complex operating environments, C-level executives will increasingly need to call on their project management offices to ensure all activities align with the overall strategic vision of the business.
Half the money spent on advertising is wasted -- the question is, which half? That's the age-old question in adland. Now Oracle is hoping to help its customers answer that question with the acquisition of Datalogix, which collects offline consumer spending data in a bid to help online advertisers pick the right targets.
Pavel Ershov, VP for Service Providers Business, Parallels Asia Pacific & Japan shares his insights to what 2015 has in store for all cloud services providers.
In response to the insights by Kevin St. Cyr on 2015's biggest enterprise trends, Ish shares his views on how such trends will play out in the Asia Pacific region.
If you want to really see how good or bad your golf swing is, Casio's latest digital camera can control seven cameras shooting 60 images per second.
We will be back on Jan 2, 2015!
Connectivity became unstable on Monday leading to websites being unavailable.
Google's low-cost Android One smartphones will be selling in the coming weeks in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal, three small but fast-growing markets, following a September worldwide debut of the devices in India.
Review of dozens of SDN moves may hint at what's in store for 2015.
This wasn't the pined-for year of the Linux desktop, but 2014 was still huge for the anything-but-Windows PC universe.
The holiday season is often a time of reflection, a time for organizations to look back and ask themselves 'are we doing things right'.
Mobility and the need to be constantly connected are driving the demand, says Rex Dong of Seagate.
Financial Services CIOs need to play it smart and recognise that selectively relying on cloud services enables them to build agile infrastructures
CIOs should look to start-ups for new ideas
This IDC white paper discusses key market trends associated with UC&C. It highlights a few major feature developments and provides Huawei UC&C as an example of one of the market-leading solutions.
EastWest Bank urgently needed to upgrade its existing enterprise communication and collaboration system and enrich its interaction and collaboration modes.
Chongqing Rail Transit (Group) Co., Ltd. wanted to build a Passenger Information System (PIS) to improve the quality of service in the metro system, by adopting advanced information and communication technology.
Huawei has carried out an assessment of the commitments and progress that various countries and industries have made in bettering their own connection, and the resultant value of the same – the Global Connectivity Index (GCI).
Traditional IT infrastructure deployed in the branch to meet local performance needs exposes organizations to the risk of downtime in the event of outages and disasters. For many industries, branch office downtime means a direct impact to revenue and reputation.
Today's CIO better know what's in a name
Sony hack was 'cyber vandalism,' not act of war, says Obama
Think North Korea hacked Sony? Think about this
Forrester: CIO and CMO must work together or risk losing market share
Easy Taxi selects Visa as its preferred payment partner in Singapore
Singapore-based RingMD to launch tele-health business in North America
MH370, iPhone 6 and Jennifer Lawrence the top three searches of 2014: Yahoo
Temasek Polytechnic, Pivotal, and EMC set up Singapore's first data science academy
How Mobile is changing shopping behaviour in Malaysia: BuzzCity study
SME skills gap means infosecurity remains top weakness, says Barracuda
Tech drives 300% increase of innovative Malaysian schools at BETT Summit, Microsoft reveals
Japan's Rakuten announces strategic partnership path to boost Malaysian e-commerce


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Considering that she's worn a frock made of meat and dressed like an extraterrestrial chicken, the sight of Lady Gaga in her latest guise as the face of Versace is truly shocking.
In the first ads for the new fashion campaign, Gaga works stick straight platinum blonde hair and minimal makeup (and maybe a little self tanner?) as she models two understated — for Gaga and for Versace — looks from the Lady Gaga for Versace collection. In fact, one is the same lavender dress Gaga wore to the American Music Awards last Sunday, albeit without the white stallion.
Gaga bears a striking resemblance to Donatella Versace, the matriarch of the Italian fashion label.
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"Hath told you Caesar was ambitious:There's a character who aims to improve his/her situation in life, be it in terms of money, fame or power. There is a high probablity of this character starting out as evil or becoming evil very quickly. The Visionary Villain and Well-Intentioned Extremist will do horrible things to achieve their positive goal; The Social Darwinist will commit every act of sabotage and supterfuge to move up the ranks; the Corrupt Corporate Executive began as a Nice Guy who wanted to be rich, etc. Upon attaining this power, he'll likely forget whatever it was he wanted it for in the first place. A tale of Tragedy for the one who dared to be ambitious is likely. Fictional and Real Life moral codes have a tendency to demonstrate Selfishness, Greed, Pride, Megalomania, and Machiavellian Chronic Backstabbing Disorder as a consequence of the catch-all term "ambition". If you consult a dictionary it's broader than that. Ambition is the same thing that motivates some heroes to make the world a better place, but in that case it's more likely to be called "Hope". This trope is one of the reasons why Villains Act, Heroes React. Villains who don't have great ambitions would not plot grand schemes and motivate story driving conflicts such as World Domination or Utopia Justifies the Means, and therefore, would be boring and petty. It is possible to write an "ambitionless" villain - see For the Evulz - but has a risk of being considered a Generic Doomsday Villain. Justified when the existing society is an evil dystopia, or otherwise flawed — "advancing" in such a society would mean complying with or encouraging its systemic injustices. Also justified when ambition, or other emotions, is the personification of evil itself. Can happen as a result of Status Quo Is God. Normally used as an Anvilicious Aesop about What's Really Important. Unfortunately ends up in a Broken Aesop that teaches us Evil Is Cool (or at least open to social progress). The Svengali, since his goal is usually to profit through his (supposed) protege, will usually be an example of this, and turn his protege into one, unless they realize in time. This is not an uncommon trait of The Starscream; indeeed, it's often what makes them The Starscream. The heroic converse of this trope is To Be a Master where the hero is motivated by ambition. Note that heroes tend to pursue "healthy" goals such as strength and knowledge, while villains are more likely to be after power or money, usually for their own benefit and no one else's and at other people's expense. For some reason, while even high levels of ambition are bad, equal or greater levels of determination are usually seen as good, or at least not bad. If you have high levels of both, you're The Unfettered. Heaven help the character intending to use their super powers this way; it guarantees Screw the Rules, I Have Supernatural Powers!. If a character wants to rise above the level of his or her fellows, it might be a case of The Complainer Is Always Wrong. This, in a way, is the reverse of Living Is More Than Surviving - in that achieving more than the most basic things people can do is seen as good, in contrast to this trope. See also Pride, Personal Gain Hurts and Evil Virtues. Contrast with Self-Made Man, who did pursue his ambitions, and isn't evil, as well any Rags to Riches story where The Protagonist meant to become rich.
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And grievously hath Caesar answer'd it."
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|From left, Kurtis Lee King, and Ashley Morris, with daughter Ainsley, all of Williamstown, Pa., Rachel Krise, and Adam Jamison, with their son, Jet Ryan, all of Pottsville, Pa., enjoy a moment during an interview with their newborn babies at The Birthplace Schuylkill Medical Center South Jackson Street in Pottsville, Pa., who were born at 12:12 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012. (AP Photo/Republican-Herald, Jacqueline Dormer)
BOSTON (AP) — At least five newborns have come into the world with a little once-a-century good luck.
They arrived at 12:12 on 12-12-12.
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Re: Egypt Intsum - Feb 4
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|2011-02-04 14:40:37
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From: Ben West <email@example.com>
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Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 07:38:55 -0600 (CST)
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Just to clarify, I understood that el aqsa was a district IN Alexandria -
not just another name for Alexandria, right Hoor?
On 2/4/2011 7:37 AM, Bayless Parsley wrote:
Wait they call Alexandria El Aqsa???
So good to have a fluent Squiggly speaker on staff, thanks Hoor
On 2/4/11 7:31 AM, Hoor Jangda wrote:
It is a transliteration issue:
it is El Aqsa (Alexandria) and Zagazig
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I have never heard of Alaqsar or Zaqaziq, though that could be a
product of transliteration issues
other than that looks the same at the moment
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So have demos spread to second and third tier cities now? Is there
an increase in the number of cities, or just still people out there?
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Tens of thousands protest agianst Mobarak in the cities of Ismaelya
and Alaqsar.
More than 150.000 people demonstrate in Mamsura agianst Mobarak.
The head of the Arab League Omar Musa entered Tahrir Square. Said he
would consider running in elections to replace embattled Egyptian
President Hosni Mubarak. He also said he would consider a role in a
transitional government.
Jazeera: 3000 of people hold demonstration in Muhandeesin area of
Cairo in support of Mobarak.
Muslim cleric Mohamed el-Masri called on young people gathered in
Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo to return home and end 10 days of
Nearly 100 K demonstrate in the city of Zaqaziq agianst Mobarak.
Mohamed ElBaradei said President Hosni Mubarak should step down now
with dignity as thousands of protesters poured into Cairo's main
square on Friday.
Ghad Party: There will be around 80.000 protestors in Tanta after
the Friday mass prayer.
More than a million protestors chant slogans in
Tahrir against Mubarak, asking him to leave.
Suez Canal Operates Normally, 49 Vessels May Transit Today,
Authority Says.
Gunmen fired rocket-propelled grenades at a state security building
on Friday in al-Arish, an Egyptian city on the Sinai Peninsula,
eyewitnesses said.
Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said Friday that "the riots in
Tunisia and Egypt are a sign of the Islamic awakening in the world
following the victory of the Islamic revolution in Iran."
11:08am: Our reporter in Tahrir Square says protesters are checking
the ID's of people entering the area to make sure no members of the
police or other security services are getting in (Egyptian IDs
mention the person's profession). She says the protesters are very
welcoming to journalists.
Spokesman Mohamed Morsy of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood said Thursday
evening that "Israel has not respected" the peace agreement with
Egypt. Asked by the Cable News Network if the movement would honor
the pact if it took power, Morsy said that parliament would discuss
the matter.
Mohammed al-Beltagi a leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood said
"We are ready to negotiate after (the end of) the Mubarak regime,"
he said, adding that the government was "flirting" with the group.
"We have said clearly that we have no ambitions to run for the
presidency, or posts in a coalition government," he said.
The Obama administration is discussing with Egyptian officials a
proposal for President Hosni Mubarak to resign immediately, turning
over power to a transitional government headed by Vice President
Omar Suleiman with the support of the Egyptian military,
administration officials and Arab diplomats said Thursday.
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LAS VEGAS -- Shutting down a show is unusual for Cirque du Soleil, which generally is sunshine at the box office.
Las Vegas Weekly says MGM Resorts International has asked Cirque du Soleil to replace Viva Elvis at the ARIA casino resort by the end of 2012. That's because ticket sales aren't a hunka hunka burning love, whether due to the quality of the show or because Elvis fans are waning as the years go by.
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The move to close a show, says LV Weekly, is the first time that Strip powerhouse Cirque has been asked to shutter one.
"As attendance levels have not been meeting expectations, we have asked our partners at Cirque du Soleil to replace the show," an MGM statement said. "We will work closely with Cirque as we explore future entertainment options."
Mike Weatherford of the Las Vegas Review-Journal says: "Perhaps dead celebrity tributes belong on a short list of things -- such as prime rib and lounge acts -- that were better in the fun, cheesy Vegas of the 1980s than the classy new, respectable Vegas."
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Hacx: Twitch'n Kill (pronounced "hacks" and commonly shortened to just Hacx or written as HacX) is a total conversion for Doom II. It was created by Banjo Software in 1997, and featured an entirely new set of graphics, sound effects, music, voice-overs, weapons, and levels. Hacx uses a DeHackEd modified version of the Doom engine and the authors of Hacx paid id Software $5,000 for the rights to market Hacx as a commercial add-on for Doom II.
Hacx itself was generally unsuccessful; by the time it was released, the superior Quake engine that had come out a year prior made the Doom engine pale in comparison. Public interest for Doom and games derived from it was, effectively, dead; even though Hacx was considered a decent TC, it arrived on the market too late to become a success.
Hacx was originally priced at $14.95 on a CD-ROM, and $20.95 on diskettes. The sprites and other graphics from Hacx have been reused in many other TCs/PCs since, although Banjo Software has forbidden the use of its graphics in other WADs.
Development started on a sequel, but it failed due to a number of problems.
Hacx is now being distributed for free on its website kept online by Rich Johnston (Nostromo), one of the developers. The Hacx CD and disks are considered to be extremely rare.
Notable figures Edit
Despite the game's commercial failure, some of its creators have since become successful and relatively well-known professional game developers. Iikka "Fingers" Keränen went on to work at Looking Glass, ION Storm, Ritual Entertainment, Rogue Entertainment and most recently, Valve Software. Kenneth Scott has since worked as an artist at Xatrix Entertainment, Croteam, ION and id Software, and currently works for Microsoft Game Studios. Zack Quarels went on to work at Raven software, and now id Software. Kevin Johnstone is currently employed at Epic Games
Other versions Edit
Hacx 1.2 Edit
As a platform upon which to build the aforementioned 2.0, a 1.2 update of the original Hacx was released on October 9, 2010. The changes included making it as a stand-alone IWAD recognized by Chocolate Doom, EDGE, Eternity, GZDoom and ZDoom, but still compatible with other source ports (and even Vanilla Doom if the DeHackEd lump is extracted and used for patching).
Hacx 2.0 Edit
In November 2008, Nostromo declared on the Hacx homepage that a new version of Hacx is being made. The comment stated:
Believe or not, after nearly 10 years since Hacx has been released, a version 2.0 is currently in production! As many of you may have noticed, the original game was released as, shall we say, a not quite complete product. This was due to the fact that we had to rush it to the market before the Quake engine came out ...not that it made any difference, unfortunately.
Recently, I was contacted by an individual that goes by the online name of Xaser who was real excited about making a complete version for the ZDoom engine. He provided an updated script for all the maps and, based on his awesome enthusiasm and remarkable reworking of the script, I gave him the go ahead to build away. He is currently working on some maps and building a team.
iPhone/iPad Edit
Hacx has been ported to these platforms, based on the Doom Classic code, by the same company that also did one of the commercial Freedoom ports. Contrarily to "Doomsday: Hellraiser", however, "Hacx Classic" is available for free, as the license for the Hacx content does not allow commercial distribution.
Weapons Edit
Monsters Edit
- Android
- Buzzer
- D-Man
- Majong 7
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- Monstruct
- Phage
- Roaming Mine
- Stealth
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Levels Edit
First "episode":
- MAP01: GenEmp Corp by Mike Reed and John Herndon
- MAP02: Tunnel Town by Stephen Watson
- MAP03: Lava Annex by Marc Pullen
- MAP04: Alcatraz by John Herndon
- MAP05: Cyber Circus by Iikka Keränen and John Herndon
- MAP06: Digi-Ota by Stephen Watson
Second "episode":
- MAP07: The Great Wall by Adam Williamson
- MAP08: Garden of Delight by Ryan Rapsys
- MAP09: Hidden Fortress by Anthony Czerwonka
- MAP10: Anarchist Dream by Ryan Rapsys
- MAP11: Notus Us! by Michal Mesko
Third "episode":
- MAP12: Gothik Gauntlet by Rich Johnston
- MAP13: The Sewers by Anthony Czerwonka
- MAP14: 'Trode Wars by Andrew Gate
- MAP15: Twilight of EnKs by Jeremy Statz
Final "episode":
- MAP31: Dessicant Room by Stephen Watson (secret level, accessible from Twilight of EnKs)
- MAP16: Protean Cybex by Marc Pullen
- MAP17: River of Blood by Marc Pullen
- MAP18: Bizarro by Anthony Czerwonka
- MAP19: The War Rooms by Adam Williamson
- MAP20: Intruder Alert! by John Herndon
Cheat codes Edit
The cheat codes for Hacx are different from the ones in the original Doom. [1]
- wuss - toggles God mode
- blast - keys, all weapons, full armor and ammo
- zap - taser
- seeit - power-up menu
- superman - toggle temporary invincibility
- whacko - berserk
- ghost - toggle temporary partial invisibility
- boots - toggles boots
- bright - toggles light amplifiers
- walk - toggles clipping
- warpme## - jump to level ##
- wheream - shows coordinates
- show - toggle map detail
- tunes## - change music to level ##
External linksEdit
- Official Hacx pages on the website of Rich Johnston (Nostromo).
- AtomicGamer/Doomworld directory containing the Hacx files delivered by Nostromo.
- Hacx 1.2 IWAD at Doomworld/idgames
- Hacx (original installer package) at Doomworld/idgames
- Hacx (unpacked files package) at Doomworld/idgames
- Original HacX pages mirror hosted at the Doom Wad Station.
- HacX 1.1 at Doom Wad Station
- Hacx now available for iPhone and iPad
- Hacx Classic (for iPhone)
- Hacx Classic HD (for iPad)
- Hacx 1.2 release thread


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Best Tech Events This Week: WIRED, Hx Refactored, Design Taco and More
This is a guest post from Gary Sharma (aka "The Guy with the Red Tie"), founder and CEO of GarysGuide and proud owner of a whole bunch of black suits, white shirts and, at last count, over 40 red ties. You can reach him at gary [at] garysguide.com.
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RELEASED: May 6, 2009
EAU CLAIRE — The University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire has established the Watershed Institute for Collaborative Environmental Studies, an institute that will foster education, research and community outreach that relates to the natural world and the place of humans in it.
"The Watershed Institute will help unify environmental programs across the curriculum, in research, and through outreach and service on and off campus," Chancellor Brian Levin-Stankevich said. "UW-Eau Claire has a large group of faculty, staff and students with interest and expertise in environmental studies. They are spread across departments and colleges. The Watershed Institute will bring their efforts together in a way that will benefit the campus and beyond."
As a result of this initiative, UW-Eau Claire graduates will leave campus with a strong liberal arts experience and an increased environmental awareness, literacy and ethic, said Dr. Kate Hale, UW-Eau Claire's Sustainability Fellow.
The institute also will encourage the campus community to more actively interact with and serve the local community, region and the globe, Hale said.
"We want UW-Eau Claire to become the Midwest's premier institution for the interdisciplinary study of the environment," Hale said. "We envision this campus informing and empowering a community of ecologically aware, globally minded citizens that value and practice sustainable and respectful relationships with the natural world. Our goal is to empower all citizens to be environmentally informed and aware, and good stewards of the environment."
In their Watershed Institute proposal, members said the term "watershed" is significant not only for its meaning — a large, distinct geographic unit of water, air and land systems — but also for its metaphoric meaning: a decisive turning point, signifying a transition between two stages.
"We chose the institute's name to emphasize our connection to this place on the Chippewa River, to recognize the critical turning point society faces now and to signal our intention to work for a healthier future," said Dr. James Boulter, an assistant professor of chemistry, who was involved in the institute proposal. "Institute members also pursue studies in other geographical locales, including the global environment. When you consider the interconnectedness of environmental systems on this planet, in some sense, the entire world is our watershed."
The center will be an environmental information portal for the campus and community, serving as a meeting ground for faculty, staff, students and community members, Hale said. She added that members of the institute will support and coordinate outreach efforts to governmental organizations, businesses, nonprofits, advocacy groups and K-12 educators.
"We want to unite programs under one umbrella so efforts in all areas can be coordinated and enhanced," Hale said. "We want to foster collaboration and strengthen the identity of all the environmental programs within and among the campus and community."
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In a lot of the old horror movies, the money-shot moment was the scene of transformation, when ordinary men would sprout hair and grow fangs, their faces taking on the cast of the devil within. But how much transformation is too much? Van Helsing, a $148 million pixel-overload monster mash written and directed by Stephen Sommers, who made ''The Mummy'' and ''The Mummy Returns,'' is a movie in which men stretch into saber-toothed werewolves, then claw off their own fur and even their skin, as if they couldn't wait to mutate some more. A team of yowling, cadaverous winged furies morph into toned-midriff babes, only to turn back again, and their lover and master, Count Dracula (Richard Roxburgh), who for some reason has been made to look like a world-weary version of Furio on ''The Sopranos'' (so that's where he went to escape Tony -- Transylvania!), has got a castle full of egg pods just waiting to be hatched into baby gremlins. Even the hero, Van Helsing (Hugh Jackman), a fearless demon slayer who sports what appears to be a failed 19th-century Eastern European prototype for Indiana Jones' fedora, may not be quite what he seems. The key figures in ''Van Helsing'' are all living on the verge of an altered state. Who are they? They're the new digital-age hollow men. They're everything and nothing at once.
''Van Helsing,'' a fusion of eye candy and brain sputter, is a long, kinetic, yet dreary mess. It's a movie in which people speak not in plain sentences but in grand and sinister pronouncements of such arbitrariness that they have absolutely no consequence, and so you end up giggling at the tin-pot pomposity of it all. As Anna Valerious, a descendant of a haunted aristocratic family who teams up with Van Helsing to defeat Dracula, the normally sexy Kate Beckinsale, in a corset and incongruous buckle-down go-go boots, could be Catherine Zeta-Jones in bad '60s makeup, and her performance has a low-camp '60s tinge as well. In a movie full of atrocious accents, she wins the prize for the most lugubrious Carpathian monotone as she turns a romantic eye toward Van Helsing and delivers clunkers like ''Nothing is faster than Transylvania horses! Not even VEREwolves!'' Jackman, with flowing hair and a gleam of ice, cuts a glamorous figure, but Van Helsing, as written, has more weapons than he does dimensions. You can see Jackman straining to hold back any hint of his Aussie ebullience. He's like a dashing surrogate videogame shooter, firing a fancy crossbow into undead harpies who come bouncing back to attack him anyway.
In addition to Dracula and assorted werewolves, ''Van Helsing'' features Frankenstein's Monster, a flap-skinned hulk with residual jolts of electricity dancing around his partially exposed brain. He's played, with the charming civility of a grouch who's got a good excuse for it, by the acclaimed stage actor Shuler Hensley, whose performance is the only one in the film with a glimmer of resonance. ''Van Helsing'' is a chockful-of-ghouls horror movie that treats the great old monsters not as imaginative creations but as brands. The movie, with its special effects framed by awkward chunks of exposition, has exactly two modes: frenzied and static. At the climax of a particularly relentless sequence, Van Helsing kills one of the vampire brides with holy water, and as she crumples back into a human being and expires, he crosses himself -- a gesture, in context, of ludicrous solemnity. Is he saying a prayer for the death of storytelling in blockbuster cinema? The castles and cobwebs, the silver bullets, the moon and fog, the meticulous set design that went into erecting Frankenstein's laboratory so that it looks like it did in the old Universal days, if not the Mel Brooks days -- all of this is gothic wallpaper meant to make two hours of flimflam look like a real movie.
You could say the same thing about Sommers' ''Mummy'' films, with their clattering scarabs and prancing hieroglyphic beasties, their mile-wide armies of darkness that presaged some of the more spectacular war imagery in ''The Lord of the Rings.'' Except that those gonzo Egyptian thrillers benefited from being so over-the-top: They were airy fun, with no pretense of anything beyond the mass-market psychedelia of demons and movement. ''Van Helsing,'' with its old-world ponderousness, is a roller coaster that lurches and creaks; it made me long for Brendan Fraser to show up and confront Dracula with one of his gee-whiz grins. If he had, the movie might truly have gotten the old vamp to rise from the grave, instead of just leaving him spinning in it.


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Last year, I tried my hand at Eggnog Cookies. This year, I wanted to punch those up and take them to a new level. And therefore, I added pumpkin.
Pumpkin Eggnog Cookies
Pumpkin Buttermilk Donuts
Donuts mean Halloween to me. Pumpkin, donuts, Halloween, chocolate milk, they all go together, right?
Pumpkin Cookie Bars with Cinnamon Icing
One nice thing about pumpkin is it is naturally wet, which means you can use it to replace eggs in a baking recipe. Lots of pumpkin recipes are sort of naturally egg-free. Which is nice for the egg-allergy crowd. Especially if they are also the pumpkin-loving crowd.
Nutmeg Buttermilk Cookies
Let's be honest, nobody doesn't love a buttermilk cookie. This recipe called for lemon zest, but I decided to use nutmeg instead.
Root Beer Cookies
Pin ItIt's the first week of school, and the first week of Health class for my 9th grader. Having been through this class with his older brother last year, I knew a little about what to expect. "Guess what this means?!" I taunted him. "We get to talk about sex!" Groan, groan. "Ahh! Do we [Read On]
Oreo Cookies (Small and Crispy)
Pin It Source: Adapted from LilaLoa, who calls them the end-all for chocolate cookies. It's summer, which means we have shed the daily routine of breakfast and school and homework in favor of a new routine. It goes like this: everyday, my children say, "Can I have a friend sleep over?" and I reply, "Did [Read On]
Lemonade Pound Cake
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Coconut Cream Cookies
I said, "I need to bake today. What kind of cookies should I make?" He looked at me like I was crazy… like the answer was so completely obvious to everyone else. "Didn't you hear me last night?" he said. "You should make coconut cream cookies!"
Coconut Cream Cookies on Measured By the Heart
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Red Velvet Sugar Cookies
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Pin ItA recipe for a simple oatmeal cookie with vanilla icing. Source: Created by Diane, although hers are much more beautiful than mine. Yield: 3-4 dozen I had big plans for my weekend. They involved spending a lazy morning in bed, doing some baking, playing a card game with the kids, and generally just taking [Read On]
Grapefruit Sandwich Cookies
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Dulce de Leche Cookies
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Chocolate Sugar Cookies
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Cream Cheese Cookies
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Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Round 3 of the BBA postseason awards is upon us (we skipped Round 1 - manager of the year, because we are both lazy and indifferent toward managers). Today we vote for the Goose Gossage Award, given to the top relief pitcher. Needless to say, there will not be any Marlins anywhere near this award, lest they give up a game-tying home run to the trophy in a simulated scrimmage. Below is the ballot.
- Brian Wilson, San Francisco
- Heath Bell, San Diego
- Jonny Venters, Atlanta
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Michael Jong's ballot
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After struggling with infertility for over a decade, we finally have our baby in our arms.On this journey, I've had my fair share of disappointment and heartbreak. I am finally a mom through the gift of open adoption. I look forward to sharing with you how I became a mom and what it's like to navigate the world of private adoption.
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Did anyone get a letter this week - did you stay the same/go up/go down or are we all in Phase 2?
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Did anyone get a letter this week - did you stay the same/go up/go down or are we all in Phase 2?
I have not had a letter yet.
Well - got my notice of termination of employment this morning :)
(I wonder - will they really re-employ me - or will they take the opportuniy to get rid of me :) )
Its a shame HR couldn't program up 2 form letters and send the the second one which says
"Dear Simon
we're sorry that you didn't volunteer for the change in condtions but we need to railroad this though and your just a minow in the way - so tough luck - your sacked !
But if your good, we'll let you come back to us (just like BT)
I know you must feel aggrieved that we've asked you to sign new terms and conditions at the same time as not telling you what your new grade is to be but we can't get everytihing right and you've lost out this time."
Has anyone heard when phase 2 is going to happen.
March time next year I heard.
..... ignore - im an idiot :)
My line manager told me today that he'd been told it was 2 years away
saw this in a forwarded email
"In respect of those identified as being in Phase II which is generally those on Scale 6 or above it is planned that their Job Evaluation will not take place until the new School Support Staff Negotiating Body have considered the new pay and conditions for school support staff.
The latest SSSNB bulletin confirms that despite considerable progress within the SSSNB it is looking increasingly unlikely there will be an agreement on a pay and conditions framework that would require implementation during this year. It is envisaged that implementation would not take place before 2011 at the earliest."
I have been told this morning from my line manager that phase 2 might not happen in Lancashire as the conservatives are trying to stop it This has not been confirmed and the school has been told to wait until a final decision is made by county.
Just a slight technical problem for those of us working in multiple schools.
If you need to claim overtime at another school you normally fill out a form that asks for the grade/scale point your claiming.
You need to put in a new Grade and not an old scale even though you haven't been re-graded as the computer/HR people don't like it if you use the old one.
e.g My was/is on Scale 4 Point 19 - I've been told to say I'm on Grade 5 Point 19 in future (they let me off with my summer hoilday claims but said they won't do it again!)
PS And make sure your using the new forms!
has anybody else got the letter from unison tell us that we are taking action short of a strike, the letter states a series of things we are not to do, i just wondered if any one else was following what the union had said. I have advised my line manager that i wont be doing the open evening, using my car to visit the primary schools we provide tech support to and only working my contracted hours.
Just remember that the management can play the Industrial Dispute game as well.
Make sure you do NOTHING that could be construed as failure to meet your contract.
You may find that "discrentiony" tea breaks are withdrawn from you.


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NAPCAN, a non-government, not-for-profit volunteer-based organisation, is represented in most Australian states and territories. They undertake research, as well as run information campaigns and advocate for changes in legislation and policy to improve the rights of children.
Website: www.napcan.org.au
The National Centre for Childhood Grief provides loving support in a safe place where children grieving a death can share their experience as they learn to live with its impact on their lives. The centre also provides education and training for individuals, schools and other organizations handling the grief of children and young people.
Website: www.childhoodgrief.org.au
The National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) is a professional and independent body responsible for collecting, managing, analysing, evaluating and communicating research and statistics about vocational education and training (VET) nationally.
Website: www.ncver.edu.au
The National Child Protection Clearinghouse (NCPC) collects, produces and distributes information and resources, conducts research, and offers specialist advice on the latest developments in child abuse prevention, child protection and associated violence.
Website: www.aifs.gov.au/nch/
Contact information: www.aifs.gov.au/nch/contact.php
NCYLC is a Community Legal Centre dedicated to addressing human rights issues for children and young people in Australia through legal change – the only community legal centre of its kind in Australia.
Website: www.ncylc.org.au
NCLS Research is a cooperative research venture designed to resource congregations for mission. Involving millions of participants over a number of years in different countries, surveys have explored aspects of both church and community life.
Website: www.ncls.org.au
NDS is the Australian peak body for non-government disability services. Through the provision of information, representation and policy advice, NDS promotes and advances services which support people with all forms of disability to participate in all domains of life.
Website: www.nds.org.au/
The National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC) is a premier research institution in Australia and is recognised internationally as a Research Centre of Excellence. The Centre is multidisciplinary and collaborates with medicine, psychology, social science and other schools of the University of NSW, as well as with a range of other institutions and individuals in Australia and overseas.
Website: ndarc.med.unsw.edu.au
NDRI, located within Curtin University, is one of two Centres of Excellence in drug research established by the National Drug Strategy. NDRI contributes to the overall aim of the National Drug Strategy, which is to minimise the harm associated with drug use. It does so by undertaking research designed to establish the preventive potential of a number of interventions: legislative, fiscal, regulatory and educational.
Website: ndri.curtin.edu.au
The National Drug Strategy, a cooperative venture between Australian, state and territory governments and the non-government sector, is aimed at improving health, social and economic outcomes for Australians by preventing the uptake of harmful drug use and reducing the harmful effects of licit and illicit drugs in our society.
Website: www.nationaldrugstrategy.gov.au
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The NYA are an independent charity in the UK and the partner of choice for government, local authorities, businesses and the third sector, delivering with them, and advising and supporting them in the development of programmes and policies for young people.
Website: www.nya.org.uk
In partnership with NSW Health and other sectoral stakeholders the Centre seeks to improve the health and well-being of young people aged 12-24 in NSW.
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NZAAHD is a national network organisation for people who work with young people (those aged 12 to 25). NZAAHD was founded in 1989 specifically to promote youth health and development.
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NAYH is the peak body in NSW committed to working on behalf of the youth health sector to promote and advocate for the health and well being needs of marginalised young people aged 12 to 25 years.
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The mission of Nutrition Australia is to promote optimal health for all Australians by encouraging food variety and physical activity.
The Drug Foundation supports alcohol and drug workers and New Zealand communities, and provides a range of public and member services, including txt and web information, training workshops, health promotion and drug education resources.
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Young people caught by police for underage drinking in the Lake Illawarra region of NSW attend a two-hour face-to-face education seminar with their parent or guardian. Sessions are run by expert drug and alcohol workers and police. Original article
Preliminary findings from an evaluation of Victoria's Education First Youth Foyers show that there is considerable variation in young people's social connectedness. Original article
Youth workers are concerned that hundreds of vulnerable teenagers will be at risk of falling through the cracks when Youth Connections, a national youth support program, closes at the end of the month. Original article
The head of PricewaterhouseCoopers Australia, Luke Sayers, says being flexible is critical for young graduates. He also suggests they try new things, take risks, start their own business, and know who they are and what they value. Original article
Former Prime Minister Julia Gillard is to join the board of the national mental-health not-for-profit beyondblue, which was founded by former Victorian Premier Jeff Kennett. Original article