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Parades, music, festivals abound for St. Patrick's Day celebrations
By Annie Alleman For Sun-Times Media March 13, 2014 11:24AM
The Chicago River is dyed green to celebrate St. Patrick's Day each year. | Sun-Times file photo
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Updated: March 13, 2014 11:24AM
It's nearly St. Patrick's Day. Here's a rundown of events this weekend to help everyone feel a little bit Irish:
Chicago St. Patrick's Day Parade
Noon, March 15; chicagostpatsparade.com
Come at 9:30 a.m. to watch the Chicago River get dyed green (between Columbus and Wabash), and stay for the city's official St. Patrick's Day parade. The best place to watch the river getting dyed is at the intersection of Michigan Avenue, Wacker Drive and the river. This year's grand marshal John McDonough, president and CEO of the Chicago Blackhawks. The parade starts at Balbo and Columbus and proceeds north on Columbus to Monroe. The viewing stand will be located in front of Buckingham Fountain.
South Side Irish Parade
Noon, March 16
Western Avenue from 103rd to 115th streets, Chicago
(773) 916-7757; southsideirishparade.org
The South Side Irish Parade is now a family-friendly event with a zero-tolerance policy for alcohol along the route, although some responsible pre-gaming in one of the watering holes along Western Avenue is not discouraged.
Last year's parade attracted 90 participants, from kilted bagpipers to rosy-cheeked dancers and even a pack of Irish Wolfhounds.
The day kicks off with a one-mile fun run called The Emerald Isle Mile.
Northwest Side Irish Parade
10 a.m. March 16
William J. Onahan School, 6634 W. Raven; northwestsideirish.org
The Northwest Irish Parade is a celebration of faith, family and heritage now in its 11th year. The parade includes face painting, balloons and features dancers from the Dillon-Gavin School of Dance. The official After Party starts at 1 p.m. at Immaculate Conception Recreation Center, 7211 W. Talcott Ave., Chicago. Tickets are $10 for 12 and over; children under 12 are $5. The party includes traditional corned beef and cabbage meal with live entertainment.
St. Patrick's Festival
March 15-17, Irish American Heritage Center, 4626 N. Knox
(773) 282-7035; Irish-american.org
The Irish American Heritage Center hosts three days of St. Patrick's Day follies starting immediately after the city's parade March 15. This annual family-friendly event includes traditional and contemporary Irish music, dance, food, children's activities and an Arts and Craft Fair, with vendors selling Irish gifts. Tickets are $12-$15.
On March 16, stop in for a pint, live music, NCAA games on the large TV screens, darts and a limited traditional Irish menu. Hours are from 1 to 8 p.m. (21 and over only).
Come back March 17 for the St. Patrick's Day Celebration. The party runs from 12 to 10 p.m. and includes music, dance and face painting for children. There will be a mass at 11 a.m. $10 at the door; kids are free.
Shoreline Sightseeing River Cruise; March 15. Shorelinesightseeing.com
Get an up-close view of the green Chicago River via a Shoreline Sightseeing Cruise. Departures for the 90-minute cruise are before and after the city's St. Patrick's Day noontime parade March 15, and it include a traditional Irish buffet with corned beef and cabbage and all the trimmings. You can even get an Irish coffee or a pint at the cash bar. Tickets are $49.
Naperville St. Patrick's Day Parade and St. Paddy's Day 5K
March 15, Naperville; Wsirish.org
Everyone's Irish at the 21st annual West Suburban Irish St. Patrick's Day Parade on March 15. The parade kicks off at 10 a.m. from Naperville North High School at 899 N. Mill St. The parade continues south on Mill Street, east on Jefferson Avenue, south on Main Street and west on Water Street to the Municipal Center.
All residents are encouraged to donate a non-perishable food item to benefit the Loaves and Fishes Community Food Pantry.
The parade steps off immediately following the Rotary Club of Naperville/Sunrise St. Paddy's Day 5K. The fun continues at Quigley's Irish Pub after the parade. The parade will include nearly 100 entries comprised of marching bands, youth groups, local businesses, politicians and other groups. Of course there will be traditional Irish trappings, like six different pipe and drum groups and two schools of Irish dancers.
St. Charles St. Patrick's Day Parade
March 15, downtownstcharles.org/events/st-patricks-parade
The St. Patrick's Parade goes down Main Street (Route 64) at 2 p.m. and features Irish dancers, Irish music, floats and more. There will also be a Deck Out Your Lucky Dog contest; register at the tent in front of the Municipal Center between 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Before that, come to the Arcada Theater for a St. Patrick's Dance show at 10 a.m. Several local dance studios will perform.
East Dundee St. Patrick's Day Parade
March 15, Downtown East Dundee; Dundeestpats.com
There will be a celebratory fireworks show on March 14, and the parade is at 11 a.m. The grandstand is at Barrington Avenue and River Street. There will be bands, step dancers, stilt walkers, horses, cavalry, green footballs and an Irish Princess contest for 12-16-year-old girls living in Dundee Township. The FISH Food Pantry will be accepting food and cash donations during parade.
Irish Jig Jog 5K Race
March 15, St. Catherine of Siena, 845 W. Main St., West Dundee; Irishjigjog.com
The 10th Annual Irish Jig Jog kicks off at 8:30 a.m. March 15 at St. Catherine of Siena. The event includes breakfast, a beer tent, bagpipers, Irish dancing and a $10,000 Shamrock Raffle.
Shamrock Scramble
10-11 a.m. March 16
Schaumburg Park District, 505 N. Springinsguth Rd., Schaumburg
(847) 490-7020; Parkfun.com
Geared to the 6-and-under set, children can make a St. Patrick's Day craft and have a snack before heading out into field of green clovers. Each clover includes a treat. Find a four-leaf clover and win a prize. Wear your best St. Patrick's Day attire. Pre-registration is required by March 14. $5-$7.


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Food crisis: rationing introduced in bid to protect rice supplies - Times Online
British shopkeepers and the US retailer Wal-Mart have rationed rice sales to protect dwindling supplies.
The move by the world's biggest retailer, which owns Asda, constitutes the first time that food rationing has been introduced in the US. While Americans suffered some rationing during the Second World War for items such as petrol, light bulbs and stockings, they have never had to limit consumption of a key food item.
In Britain rice is being rationed by shopkeepers in Asian neighbourhoods to prevent hoarding.
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The worst GP surgeries have been named after the first spot checks of family doctors in England found that one in three practices was failing to meet basic standards.
In some cases, inspectors found maggots in treatment rooms and queues so long that patients brought in stools to sit on.
Their report concludes that hundreds of patients' lives are being put at risk by an "unacceptable" variation in quality.
The inspectors also highlighted a worrying lack of competence among GPs, saying that some were simply "not up to it".
Thirty-four per cent of surgeries were found to be failing to provide at least one basic standard of care, while about 2 per cent were found to have "really, really serious" problems.
At nine practices "there were very serious failings that could potentially affect thousands of people". In 90 practices, follow-up inspections were ordered to ensure improvements.
It was the first time that such inspections have been carried out by the Care Quality Commission, which inspected 1,000 practices as a part of an overhaul of its system of regulation. Ultimately all GP practices will be given ratings, amid growing concern about levels of care.
Regulators said some of the surgeries included in the first round of inspections were targeted because complaints had already been logged about them. Within two years, all practices will have been inspected.
The visits uncovered vaccines stored at unsafe temperatures, leaving children exposed to deadly diseases, and doctors unable to use basic life-saving equipment. Some GPs were accused of "tick-box" attitudes that left cancers undiagnosed.
In one Nottingham surgery, live maggots and dead insects were found in a treatment room, while blood and other samples were stored in a dirty utility room. One practice in Essex was forced to close after inspectors found that there were no doors on its consultation rooms, denying patients basic privacy.
Patients at a Birmingham practice found it so difficult to secure an appointment that they queued for hours outside, with some bringing stools to sit on. At another surgery in the city, Kingshurst Medical Practice, two doctors each referred the other to the General Medical Council on grounds of incompetence.
At a Leeds practice, inspectors found no doctors on the premises during working hours.
Prof Steve Field, the chief inspector of GPs warned that hundreds of lives could be at risk because of the failings.
Referring to one surgery where out-of-date vaccines were found in a fridge, he said: "That could affect many hundreds of patients in single surgeries. If they've not tracked it for years, that's a major problem."
He claimed that many family doctors were "dismayed" by poor standards among their peers. "There are doctors practising that we all know are not up to it," he said.
Difficulty in gaining access to see a GP was a "constant theme," he added. "Everyone I speak to has difficulties getting appointments," he said. "We found a Birmingham practice which had people queuing outside and taking stools to sit on in order to make an appointment." After being criticised by inspectors, the practice changed its systems to offer more phone consultations.
Last week NHS data on 4,000 practices showed that half of patients diagnosed with cancer were not fast-tracked to see a specialist within two weeks.
Problems getting an appointment and a reliance on "tick-box" systems meant too many cases of cancer were being missed, Prof Field said.
"If people have symptoms — if they might have cancer — if they are turned away they might not go back," he added.
The regulator has embarked on a new system of inspection, which will see every GP practice given a rating by 2016. Prof Field said inspectors found many good examples of patient care, but he said "unacceptable variations" needed to be tackled urgently.
Other common failings included not keeping a register of children at risk of abuse and oxygen cylinders that were out of date. Other practices had no up-to-date supplies of adrenalin, which they need to administer in the event of a potentially fatal reaction to vaccinations.
Prof Field said a "zero tolerance" approach was required to such failings, and he would not want his child having a vaccination at such a centre. The CQC is considering whether to send letters to patients of the worst practices.
Roger Goss, of the campaign group Patient Concern, said the failings were "unbelievable and inexcusable".
Jeremy Hunt, the Health Secretary, said: "Patients have a right to expect the best care from their GP practice. That's why we have introduced this new, tougher system of inspection which will root out poor standards and celebrate the best.
"The new chief inspector will champion the views of patients, giving them more information so they can make better informed choices about services."
Dr Maureen Baker, the chairman of the Royal College of General Practitioners, said: "Breaches of procedure cannot be condoned, even if they are isolated incidents, but the inspections were largely targeted at particular practices which had already been identified as having problems. Specific areas for improvement have been found and the CQC must now work with these practices to ensure that they meet the necessary standards and that other practices can learn from their experiences."
The nine practices found by the CQC to have the most serious failings were:
Dr Harira Syed, Nye Bevan House, Rochdale, Greater Manchester; Norris Road Surgery, Sale, Greater Manchester; The Wolds Practice, Tetford, Lincs; Kingshurst Medical Practice, Birmingham; Northfield Surgery, Doncaster; Dr Satish Patel, Newtown, Reading; Long Street Surgery, Wignston, Leicestershire; 63 Lincoln Road Surgery, Peterborough; King Street Surgery in Burton-on-Trent. All were ordered to make urgent improvements or close.


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Celebrating the life, work and legacy of Matthew Boulton
Matthew Boulton - The Father of Birmingham
During his lifetime he was a world-famous figure, but since the twentieth century Matthew Boulton's name has been largely overshadowed by that of his business partner, James Watt. But without Boulton's entrepreneurial vision, drive and ambition it is unlikely that Watt would have fulfilled his potential as an engineer and inventor. Boulton's work as well as Watt's pushed the technological boundaries of his time and led directly to Britain occupying centre-stage as the world's first industrial nation, something which has shaped our lives ever since.
What makes Matthew Boulton's story so remarkably accessible is that all of his personal papers are preserved in Birmingham. From the hundreds of letters and notebooks emerges an attractive and engaging character, a one-time buttonmaker who was as welcome at the court of King George III as he was at the fireside of his friends.
2009 marks the bicentenary of Boulton's death. This anniversary provides The City of Birmingham with a major opportunity to celebrate Boulton's historical significance, and to raise his profile regionally, nationally and internationally. These pages provides an introduction to Matthew Boulton, and outlines the plans being made to celebrate him in 2009 (co-incidentally the year which also marks the bicentenary of the birth of Charles Darwin, grandson of twoof Boulton's greatest friends, Erasmus Darwin and JosiahWedgwood).
The 2009 celebrations are a collaborative partnership involving Birmingham City Council (Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery and Birmingham City Archives), the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, the University of Birmingham, the University of Central England, and The Birmingham Assay Office.
A. Bracebridge to Matthew Boulton, 1803
Matthew Boulton (1728-1809) is arguably the individual with the greatest historic significance associated with Birmingham, a city internationally renowned for nurturing innovation, aspiration and industry.
Picture 1:Matthew Boulton, by C.F. Von Breda, oil on canvas, 1792.
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Good morning ladies, its Wednesday, how are you today?
|Wed, 09-19-2012 - 9:50am
Got the kids up and around this morning, been to a meeting and back already, have a meeting at 2:00. Hoping to take a nap at lunch, I had trouble getting to sleep last night. DH is out of town, should be back tonight. Jordyn has to work, I hope she remembered to turn the crock pot on when she left for school, if she did, we're having roast and veggies. I better text her and ask in case I need to run home at lunch.
Have a great day!
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Had a slow morning. Got the kids all off to school and I did a little bit of clean up. I have more to do but will finish it in a bit. I spent the tail end of my morning with Natalie at the doctors office and then had to get her lunch since she ended up missing it at school. She was ready to get back by the time that was over. She really likes school but becuase of friends and stuff. It's not the learning part. LOL Came home and got dinner in the crock pot and fed the cats. I am about to go pick up Katie from school and will get Matthew later. He has Robotics meeting after school. I need to go pick up Natalie's prescription after I get Katie. Nothing going on tonight. We are all home making a a roast in the crock pot.
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Hi all. I sure am tired! It was a little rough at work today. The kids in my class were definitely pushing the boundaries. Let's hope they are over it by tomorrow when I am subbing for the teacher in the morning.
School day/picture day for Ian. Regular school day for Kayleigh and she stayed after for something.
I have to leave at 5:30ish. It's curriculum night at the HS at 7:00 and at 6:00 is a presentation on college application process for the parents of seniors. I wish I could just stay home and go to bed!
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Thread: Cool double names
January 2nd, 2011 02:35 AM #1Senior Member
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Cool double names
I'm southern, and we folk love our double names - we don't even feel the need to hyphenate most of the time, since we feel it's pretty natural to have 2 names. It's a nice way to make classic or popular names feel fresh and unique, I think, or to make short names feel more complete. Growing up, I've known:
Alice Anne
Anna Catherine
Georgia Claire
Grace Ellen
Mark Anthony
Mary Catherine
I just turned 28 so there are only a handful of babies in my crew, but so far there's been a:
Lily Grace
Have you heard any cool double names? Or can you think of any?
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Also in the south. All these are age 25ish or below.
Margaret Ellen
Anne Marie
Anna Catherine
Ava George
John Ross
John Michael
John David
John Paul
Jennifer Sue
Marcia Jo
Grace Ann
Most of these are first/middle name combos who just go by both names.
When I moved to Tennessee a lot of teachers/professors assumed I went by Laura Beth (I just go by Laura), which is a very common double name around here.
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Laura & Derek
Camille/a - Eleanor (Lena) - Isla - Leonie - Margot - Selene
Arthur - Clark - Gabriel - Graham - Locke/Lachlan - Shepherd
Guilty Pleasures:
Andromeda - Lúthien - Vesper - Zephyr
July 12th, 2013 12:44 PM #9A teenage writer and name lover~
Rosemary Pearl, Priscilla Beatrice, Eleanor Louisa, Florence Guinevere, Anastasia Faye, Valentina Jane
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Karachi, Pakistan
- Prayer day: Nation appealed to pray for Aafia release, Dr Fowzia also appeals for special prayers as cyclone Nilofar approaches coastal areas.
- Global civil society decries injustice to Aafia
- Dr Aafia Siddiqui: Concern shown on prison conditions
- Family questions silence of Pakistan Government in Aafia case, No statement attributed to Aafia acceptable till resumption of her communication with family: Dr.Fowzia Siddiqui
- Aafia Movement has nothing to do with violence: Dr Fowzia Siddiqui, Vested interests trying to sabotage Aafia cause by linking it to terrorism
Cynthia McKinney, Sara Flounders, Dr. Fowzia and Altaf Shakoor addressed to a huge crowed in Karachi the Beginning of Free Aafia Week.
Daughters tortured and leaders bowing down to injustice is not the Bhutto legacy - Dr. Fowzia
Aafia lives in the hearts of the people we are committed to her release - Sara Flounders
we have come to Pakistan to urge the Pakistani Leadership to repatriate Aafia – Cynthia McKinney
these were comments that highlighted the Beginning of Free Aafia Week with Honorable Cynthia McKinney and Sara Flounders.
Sentiments were high as a huge rally started its procession from NIPA, thru Sohrab Goth into Baacha Khan Chowk where the women and local leaders address a swarm of thousands of Aafia's supporters.
During the address Dr. Aafia's sister Dr. Fowzia said that Aafia's release is as simple as a signature by President or Premier.
Daughters tortured and leaders bowing down to injustice is not the Bhutto legacy. Bhutto stands for justice and women honor and dignity. In an emotional Plea she addressed Bilawal, Benazir Bhutto's son Bilawal Zardari, if your mother were alive Aafia would not be in jail, she said Aafia is the daughter of Pakistan. Her Freedom is obligatory and a debt on Pakistani leadership. No ifs, ands or buts.
The respected guests Cynthia McKinney a former Congress woman and six terms in the house of representatives and Sara Flounders president of International Action Center (IAC) said that we are amazed at the reception we received, at 4am hundreds of people, women and children can stand in the cold to receive us. Aafia rules the hearts of people. What is wrong with the leaders? When in America we hear about the injustice on Aafia our hearts bleeds and we Protest.
We are here only for Aafia and to urge the urgency of her repatriation. I will talk to anyone anywhere who can help bring her back. It is a grave injustice that needs to be fixed every second is a shame said Ms. McKinney.
The gathering is the 6th of the series of Karwan-e-Ghairat and each one more massive than previous.
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This nursery is so chic and on trend with the gold polka dot decals on those fabulous mint-colored walls. Throw in the splashes of coral—a very hot color in design right now—and the final result is gorgeous! With it's eclectic, cool vibe, it's no surprise that this mint, coral and gold nursery is this week's readers' favorite.
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what do you mean by "raid it to the second drive"?
Softwareraid (md), Fakeraid (like most all onboard SATA Raidcontrollers, that are no "real" raidcontrollers) in combination with softwareraid, or real hardwareraid?
in the last case it is quite easy as you just tell your raidcontroller what to do, that's it. In case of md you just create raid partitions, combine them to a raid and "inside" you create your whatever filesystem. That also means you can deside what you want to "raid". So you could say you will hava a parition "storage" where you do store everything important, except OS stuff (as far as possible) and only this partition shall be raided, the other OS and SWAP partition, e.g. not.
I did it more easy to just create two raid 1 partitons with md, one for the whole OS and one for SWAP, as my personal experience showed that there is no real need (for my usecases) to have the stuff splitted in x partitions.
With the real hardware raid you may think about paritioning more freely, as the raidcontroller links all the selected disks no matter on the content. But be aware, that breaking the raid controller, you won't really be able to recover you data, except using the same raid controller. That's another positive thing about the software raid, just boot it up on another hw and that's it.
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He was drafted out of the OHL from the Peterborough Petes, in 1983, by the Philadelphia Flyers; (the same draft that saw such future Hall of Famers as Steve Yzerman and Domnik Hasek selected). In his first season in the NHL, 1984-85, Smith and the Flyers went all the way to the Stanley Cup finals only to fall to Wayne Gretzky's Oilers in five games. Two seasons later, the Flyers faced Edmonton once again, this time pushing them to a seventh and deciding game in Edmonton, only to once again fall to the mighty Oilers.
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On April 15, President Obama met with twelve young leaders from across the country that are in town for Power Shift 2011, a youth clean energy and climate summit being attended by over 10,000 people and seated next to Obama at the meeting is Carson, Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of the Office of Public Engagement. The young leaders described the meeting as positive and expressed excitement about working with the Administration to transition America to 100% clean energy and protect the Clean Air Act. The young people expressed concerns with aspects of Obama's energy policy, particularly ongoing reliance on dirty energy sources like coal, nuclear, and natural gas. The young leaders also voiced concerns about continued subsidies to the fossil fuel industry. The President reminded the young leaders that they have the power to change this country. Grassroots organizing in communities and states will help move our nation on energy and climate.
National Field Director for the Obama Campaign
On June 16, 2008 the Obama campaign announced that Carson had been named national field director for the campaign. The field department focuses on the "on-the-ground" organizing that is required in order to personally contact voters through canvassing, phone calls, and building local events. Voter contact helps construct and clean the campaign's voter file in order to help better target voter persuasion and identify which voters a campaign most wants to bring out on election day. Field is generally also tasked with running local "storefront" campaign offices as well as organizing phone banks and staging locations for canvasses and other campaign events.
Carson was part of the team that made the decision to go after small caucus states where Clinton had virtually no presence realizing that the cost-per-delegate in caucus states was very low. "I remember the day when we said, ''Look at this, we could win more delegates in Idaho than in New Jersey,'" Carson said.
Carson helped put an organization in place that was a traditional field organization in terms of staff and volunteers but had unique features in terms of data management, the use of the internet, the scale of the organization, the use of "super volunteers," and the field information campaign.
At one point in the general election campaign, David Plouffe, the campaign manager for the Obama campaign, considered stepping down for personal reasons and recommended to David Axelrod, that Carson could fill in for him.
"My wife had decided to leave Chicago and return to Washington in August [2008]," wrote Plouffe in his campaign biography The Audacity to Win, "in order to be with family and old friends for the last months of her pregnancy, and to allow our son to settle into a new hometown and start preschool with the rest of his class. Unfortunately the home we would be moving back into was being renovated, meaning my four-year-old and his extremely pregnant mother would spend two months staying with various Mends and family, hoping the house would be ready before the baby came. I knew it would be tough and I couldn't stomach not being there to help. Barack was not happy with my decision. He had come to lean on me and we had developed a solid relationship. There was also a comfort factor; with everything else Obama needed to do. he did not want to have to adjust to a new manager to boot."
"I thought perhaps Jon Carson, who had masterfully managed our slate operations in the primary, could step in. I tried to get Ax's approval on this, and he shrugged his shoulders. 'Sure, Carson would be great. But you're not going to leave as manager. Obama simply won't allow it.' Barack told me to hire as many people as I wanted to help ease the load but insisted I stay in place as manager, driving and making big decisions as others handled more execution. "I just want to know you are managing the process," he said, "and ultimately making the big strategic decisions. And I want to keep the relationship you and I have had, talking through everything every day."
Carson's Peace Corps Service in Honduras
In 2004 Carson and his wife-to-be Rebecca joined the Peace Corps and served as Peace Corps volunteers in Honduras where he built water systems and taught surveying. Carson had met his wife while working on the Gore campaign in 2000 and they became engaged while they were serving in Honduras as Peace Corps volunteers. The Carsons returned to the United States upon completng their Peace Corps service in 2006.
Carson lived and worked in southern Honduras in the city of Choluteca (above). Carson worked for Action Against Hunger and Plan International, both international NGO's that work with water and sanitation. While in the Peace Corps, Carson conducted topographic surveys, designed small-scale potable water systems and organized a class on topographic surveying for local Hondurans who work in water and sanitation. Carson was able to acquire donated surveying equipment from Wisconsin to help local residents better access drinking water.
Carson says his Peace Corps experience helps him in politics because he recognizes that he speaks Spanish "like a gringo" so "knowing his limitations while communicating his intentions, serves as a metaphor for his approach" to communications in politics.
Carson's Early Life and Education
Carson was born in Chaseburg, Wisconsin, a village in Vernon County, with a population of 306, located about 15 miles southeast of La Crosse, Wisconsin, the nearest large city with a population of 50,000. Carson was born in the mid-1970's and grew up on his family's farm outside of Chaseburg. Carson's father, Glenn Carson, was a member of the Westby School Board for 15 years.
Carson majored in civil engineering at University of Wisconsin-Platteville graduating in May, 1998. Carson minored in Spanish and spent a semester studying in Spain. While at Platteville Carson got involved with tuition issues and was eventually elected President of the student senate. Carson said in 1997 during his senior year in college that he was aiming at a career that would combine political skills with environmental engineering. "I'd love to be a negotiator at something like the global warming conference that's going on in Kyoto, Japan," said Carson. Carson wrote his application essay for a Rhodes Scholarship about environmental issues and politics and his interviewers in Madison asked him to compare the effect of politics on the ozone crisis and on global warming.
Learn More about Jon Carson
In December 2008, "Peace Corps Online" proposed Carson as our candidate for Peace Corps Director.
Read the complete biography of Jon Carson that we have been compiling for the past two years at "Research and Ideas."
Research and Ideas. "Biography of Jon Carson" by Hugh Pickens
President Barack Obama drops by a meeting with PowerShift Leaders in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, April 15, 2011. Seated next to President Obama are Nancy-Ann DeParle, Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy, and Jon Carson, Director of the Office of Public Engagement. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
Super Tuesday in Boise, Idaho by Sara Ewen. Flickr Creative Commons
The City of Choluteca, Honduras. Flickr Creative Commons


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[Source: Volkswagen]
Hyper-miling couple going for trans-continental mileage record
Posted Sep 3rd 2008 11:02AM
[Source: Volkswagen]
Posted Sep 3rd 2008 11:02AM
They were wearing Shell logos because Shell was one of the sponsors and obviously provided expenses for fuel in return for some great PR. (also sponsored by VW and Navman)
That aside, their trip has been completed and they succeeded in their goal, see: http://www.mpgomatic.com/2008/09/28/vw-jetta-tdi-sets-new-world-record-5882-mpg/
There isn't a single redeeming thing about hyper-milers. They are rolling road-blocks. I nearly ran into one on a winding, hilly two lane in PA. Cresting a hill there he was, doing 35 in a 55 zone. At least the Amish put orange triangles on their buggys so you know he's going slowly. Mr. Hyper-miler should use his 4-ways if he's running below that far below the limit.September 04 2008 at 10:49 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
They need to make laws that address "hyper-miler" practices. They are dangerous and should just buy a Prius and get over themselves. The damage that they are doing to their cars, not to mention the increased insurance premiums that we all pay, has to certainly cut into the savings they achieve from fuel economy. AND you can't put a value on the lives of the innocent people they endanger with their HYPER-RECKLESSNESS.September 04 2008 at 8:55 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
If it raises awareness, it is a good thing.
People need to wake up to the huge difference between the fuel economy that the average American achieves and what is possible with today's technology.
If this stunt encourages just a few people to buy a more economical car, or drive in a more economical fashion, it will save a lot more fuel than it consumes.
Besides, what is more wasteful, driving very very economically for fun, or going to the golf course in an SUV?
I really have a dislike for the hyper-milers. It is alright if they do it in a safe way, but one almost got me killed. I was riding my motorcycle on a back road with a 55 mph limit and came around a turn and there was a row of traffic. A hyper-miler was doing 12 mph in a 55. Sure enough a car coming around the turn doing the speed limit had to slam on their brakes to avoid running over me. Hyper-milers are way to dangerous for the roads!September 03 2008 at 1:00 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
Unless you're being facetious, then that was not a hyper-miler. The optimal speed for fuel economy for most vehicles is probably around 55mph, at least it is a lot closer to 55 than to 12mph, at which speed most of the gas you burn is just going into keeping the engine turning over. I would guess it was someone with engine trouble... or limping home on a flat.September 03 2008 at 2:03 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
They are wearing Shell patches on their shirt and standing in a way that conspicuously displays the patches, so I'm guessing the environment is not what matters here. Perhaps they can hunt some moose on their trip.September 03 2008 at 12:17 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
I can beat that....don't do it...imagine all the fuel you would save. Driving to save fuel seems a bit odd to me and this is showing an extreme case of waste.September 03 2008 at 12:04 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
My first impression on this is that it is driving for the sake of driving. Therefore it's wasteful and in no way green.September 03 2008 at 11:36 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply


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Rondo, West to get MRIs; Rivers expects both will play in Game 4
Delonte West (shoulder) and Rajon Rondo (elbow) both will get MRI's today, but Doc Rivers believes the two guards will be available for Monday's Game 4.
"I'm optimistic that (Delonte and Rondo) are going to play," Rivers said. "Tomorrow… it's Game 4 and we have to win."
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I don't know if either player will play tomorrow. I hope both will, and that they'll find a way to play well. But whatever happens, the key to the Celtics chances is that they need to continue to pound the ball INSIDE aggressively. Without a doubt, the Heat will play tougher defense on Monday than they did last night. The Celtics have to be ready and willing to challenge that defense, and to continue to do so even if things don't go their way all the time. If we are going to lose, let's at least not lose by playing soft basketball.
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A view of Rondo that might surprise, from Jermaine:
"The return of Rondo solidified O'Neal's already high opinion of the guard.
"The first thing I noticed was his toughness when I got here. His maturity, and his leadership," the center said. "I don't even know what the injury is, but most guys would have just gotten ready for Game 4. He's a guy who is very impressive in the way he controls our team. All I heard was he was a very quiet guy, but it's been the total opposite. When I got here he was very vocal in the locker room, very vocal on the court. He has a strong opinion about what this team and players should be doing. To see him come back gave us that energy. We had a couple of things that really gave us that boost when Miami was making that run, and him coming out of our locker room after we thought he was gone for game, it was like, OK, we have to kick it into the next gear.""
If Rondo really is that vocal, I hope he's being vocal that the Cs need to continue to take the game to the Heat.
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I read your blogs all the time but never comment. I have to comment on this game, are you serious!? Rondo's performance was a sight for the ages. Me being a "Rondo Hater," I have nothing but the utmost respect for him now. Even if we lose the series or even if we lost that game, we have to admire Rondo and the Celtic's fight. "This is it, all in," as Garnett said. Go Celts
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Weak agnosticism says that God is simply not known if he exists at all. Strong agnosticism says that God cannot be known.
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"Breaking Through The Clouds: The First Women's National Air" is
a documentary about 20 female pilots, including Amelia Earhart, who
raced across the country in 1929 over a nine-day span to prove that
flying was a safe mode of transportation and to show that women
could indeed fly. The documentary will be shown during
AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, and the film's Executive
Producer and Director, Heather Taylor, will be at Author's Corner
all week.
Amelia Earhart
"Facing cultural stereotypes, mechanical failures, navigational
challenges, threats of sabotage and endless chicken dinners, the
women persevered and became pioneering legends in aviation," Taylor
said. "Their story is inspiring to anyone who has the courage
to follow their own dreams."
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year's women's air race celebration in Frederick, MD. Playing to a
sold out crowd, the reaction from the viewers was enthusiastically
positive. Taylor says, "Many told me that they had never been
to a film where the audience was so intensely following the story
every step of the way. There was laughter and crying during
the film and a long-standing ovation afterwards." Taylor has worked
13 years to produce this film.
"Breaking Through The Clouds" is nearly two hours of story
telling with original footage from the 1929 air race, interviews
with legendary pilots Elinor Smith Sullivan, Julie Clark and Patty
Wagstaff as well as interviews with friends and family members of
the original racers and aviation historians. In addition,
there are aerial recreations using planes like the women flew in
the Derby such as the Travel Air, Monocupe, Fleet and Waco.
Pat Thaden Webb, daughter of original racer Louise Thaden, said,
"I'm so appreciative of how you portrayed my mother Louise Thaden's
beautiful soul, and her determination and courage to be a great
pilot, and what flying and flight meant to her. She, and the
other 19 pilots who flew this first race, earned their right, and
the right for all women, to be able to participate in the
development of aviation. Your film is a real tribute to my mother
and to the others, and I'm forever grateful that their forgotten
story has come to the screen for all to see."
Racer Mary Von Mach's great niece, Mary Jo Von Mach added, "For
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Everyone loved the film and felt it was just the right tone, and it
made them all, to a person, feel very proud to be involved with you
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This year's winner of the women's air race Terry Carbonell said,
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to 2010. Amazing. But what is more amazing is how you captured the
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The designer's rise to global recognition has not been without its difficulties. It is well-known that when, in 1996, McQueen, the son of a London taxi driver, was appointed creative director at Givenchy, a storm of controversy ensued. True to his young and outspoken form, McQueen made no secret of the problems he had working there. Today, he views the experience more pragmatically. "I learned a lot from the atelier, but, you know what, when I was in Paris I tried to mold in with this concept of couture and this hierarchy, but it's just not me. I can't play that game. I think it looks stupid when designers play these bourgeois characters. At the end of the day, I'm left with the real me. What you see is what you get."
And that person is, of course, as gifted, refined, and sensitive as he can be childish, arrogant, and blunt. "I came to terms with not fitting in a long time ago," McQueen says. "I never really fitted in. I don't want to fit in. And now people are buying into that."
Lee is quite a closed shop," says England, one of the designer's closest friends, who, along with Daphne Guinness and Phillipa Horan, is featured in this portfolio. The jeweler Shaun Leane and Annabelle Neilson also form part of his inner circle. "He's a private person, and there are only very few people he's prepared to listen to and trust. Yes, he does isolate himself; he does cut himself off. It's a huge pressure when you're constantly having to meet new people, go for dinners, be interviewed, have your photograph taken. You're putting yourself on the line, you're having to expose your personal details, and I don't think he wants to do that anymore. Why should he?"
In December 2000, McQueen sold a 51 percent stake of his business to the Gucci Group. "It's a corporate world, but it's not a compromise," the designer argues. "I'm given completely free rein. And in the end it doesn't matter where the money comes from as long as the product is good."
And the product, now more than ever, is all-important.
"I care about my work," McQueen says. "There are only a handful of designers that influence other designers, and I have to keep one step ahead of the game. As a designer, you've always got to push yourself forward; you've always got to keep up with the trends or make your own trends. That's what I do."
It seems not insignificant that McQueen was one of just a few big-name designers showing in Paris who didn't have Janet Jackson in his front row this past season. "I can't get sucked into that celebrity thing, because I think it's just crass," the designer says. "I work with people I admire and respect. It's never because of who they are. It's not about celebrity. That would show a lack of respect for the work, for everyone working on the shows, because when the pictures come out it's all about who's in the front row. What you see in the work is the person himself. And my heart is in my work."
More than anything else, McQueen says, "I'm interested in designing for posterity. People who buy McQueen are going to hand the clothes down to their children, and that's very rare today."
The discreet opulence and timeless beauty of the current collection in particular is perhaps explained by the fact that McQueen is now a more reserved figure than he once was, as driven as ever but more quietly introspective nonetheless. "People always ask me why I don't stick around after the show, but stick around for what?" he wonders. "After the last show, I went back to the hotel and watched a film. I never go to my after-show party. I've been a rock kid. I've done all that madness. Things change. I know what kind of world I work in, and I find the social and political side of it incredibly stressful. I'm now in a position where I don't have to play the game, and I choose not to." Instead, says McQueen: "I visit. I don't stay."
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UH law school donates school supplies to Micronesia
Schools on Oahu are donating educational materials bound for the Marshall Islands.
Since the UH Law School is going digital, dozens of bookshelves are being donated, as well.
Recently, volunteers, some of whom are from Micronesia, loaded up a container that will be filled with other supplies from different schools.
Helpers said the items will supplement the poorly-stocked libraries and schools in the Marshall Islands.
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Definitions for overcompensationˈoʊ vərˌkɒm pənˈseɪ ʃən
This page provides all possible meanings and translations of the word overcompensation
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
o•ver•com•pen•sa•tionˈoʊ vərˌkɒm pənˈseɪ ʃən(n.)
compensation to an unnecessary or unreasonable degree.
Category: Common Vocabulary, Psychiatry
Psychoanal. a pronounced striving to overcome a trait perceived as unacceptable by substituting an opposite trait.
Category: Psychiatry
Origin of overcompensation:
1915–20; as psychoanalytic term, trans. of G Überkompensation, coined by Alfred Adler
Princeton's WordNet
(psychiatry) an attempt to overcome a real or imagined defect or unwanted trait by overly exaggerating its opposite
excessive compensation
An excess amount provided in one area in an effort to overcome a perceived lack in another area.
Excessive pay or reward provided for work performed.
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