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Emergency response
Life can change for millions of families in an instant: natural disasters take loved ones and the outbreak of war drives families from their homes. When the unthinkable happens, Mercy Corps delivers rapid, lifesaving aid to hard-hit communities.
We have responded to almost every global natural disaster in the last 20 years, including the Japan tsunami, Haiti earthquake, hunger crisis in the Horn of Africa, Indian Ocean tsunami, and most recently, Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines.
Our seasoned emergency responders worked through the recent conflict in Gaza and are on the ground in Iraq, South Sudan and the Central African Republic distributing critical supplies and protecting families uprooted by ongoing violence.
We're also working to support 2.5 million people affected by the crisis in Syria, a long-term refugee crisis and humanitarian disaster with no end in sight. Learn more about our ongoing response to the Syrian crisis ▸
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Ethiopia: Helping more than 647,000 Ethiopians survive drought August 23, 2011
Our emergency response efforts in Ethiopia's Oromia and Somali Regions — two of the areas hit hardest by the region's worst drought in 60 years — continue to expand. We're now reaching 647,005 people, about 22,000 more than reported in our last update from Ethiopia.
Somalia: Heartbreaking visit to Mogadishu hospital August 23, 2011
I visited a Mogadishu hospital last week and found overcrowded conditions, children with measles and cholera — but also some signs of hope.
Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia: Horn of Africa disaster didn't happen overnight August 23, 2011
Photos and stories from the hunger crisis in the Horn of Africa — a region that includes Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia — have brought to light suffering on an almost unimaginable scale.
Libya: Humanitarian response continues as rebels enter Tripoli August 22, 2011
As events in Libya's capital continue to unfold, Mercy Corps is monitoring the situation closely in anticipation of meeting urgent humanitarian needs after the conflict ceases. And we continue to aid Libyans in several other conflict-affected areas.
Kenya: Clean water for nearly 200,000 people in drought-parched Kenya August 22, 2011
Over the last week, our emergency response team in northeastern Kenya has reached more than 9,700 more people with clean water. The total population to which we're delivering and ensuring water has risen to 197,749.
Somalia: Benti and her family in a Mogadishu displacement camp August 19, 2011
Benti and her family walked for more than 30 days to reach the displacement camp in Mogadishu, Somalia's capital, where they now live in this makeshift shelter alongside thousands of others.
Somalia: Walking for weeks to reach Mogadishu's sprawling camps August 19, 2011
Somalia: In Mogadishu's overcrowded hospitals August 17, 2011
Somalia: An unimaginable situation August 15, 2011
Yesterday my colleague Cassandra Nelson, on the ground in Somalia, sent in several photographs of what she was seeing in Mogadishu, the country's crisis-ravaged capital to which our emergency response team has deployed.
Kenya: Saadia Farah and her daughter Amina in Wajir County, Kenya August 14, 2011
Eighteen-year-old Saadia Farah and her one-year-old daughter Amina, who are surviving the Horn of Africa's brutal famine with help from Mercy Corps.


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Gainful employment information for Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) post-baccalaureate certificate
Program cost
Western Illinois University offers guaranteed tuition and fees as well as room and board rates for graduate students. The cost of the certificate can be calculated by determining the guaranteed tuition and fees and multiplying it by the number of hours required in the program. University fees are mandatory for all students and require payment regardless of whether or not the student receives direct benefits.
For the latest fees, go to www.wiu.edu/vpas/business_services/tuition/gd.php
Placement rate
At the time that students complete the post-baccalaureate certificate, many are either enrolled in further graduate coursework or have completed a master's degree simultaneously.
Students completing the post-baccalaureate certificate in TESOL beginning in 2009: 2
Completion rate- Fall 2010 through Spring 2011
Students accepted into the program: 7
Students enrolled in the program: 7
Students completed the program: 2
Completion rate: 28%
Median loan debt
Information regarding median loan debt can be found a wiu.edu/student_services/financial_aid/gainfulemployment.php
Students who complete this certificate are prepared to enter the following occupations:
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- 25-1199.00 Postsecondary Teachers, All Other
- 25-3099.00 Teachers and Instructors, All Other

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He doesn't answer the question because he's out of the loop
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At approximately 5:00 PM on Thursday Our manufactured home shook and felt like one of the cinder blocks supporting it crumbled. I asked everyone in the house if the felt that and they all agreed. My mother in law said she thought it was thunder. I went outside and crawled under the house to see if anything had crumbled or slipped off the foundation but it had not. My son in law searched earthquakes on the internet and found that one had happened in the last hour. It happened just east of Conser Quary about a half mile on Furgerson road. Thats the first time I have ever felt an earthquake in this area.
Earthquake in Junction city Monroe area
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I really have to question this story. Nothing on the USGS Earthquake website and if the shaking was that strong in J. City it likely would have been felt in Eugene as well. Please list the source of where your son in law found the earthquake.


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Investigative journalist Rob Wipond has written a chilling article for Focus Online, which is "Victoria's magazine of people, ideas, and culture." The article is titled, "The case for electroshocking Mia." Beautifully written and well-researched, this article exposes the tyranny of the Canadian mental health system. Although the story focuses on Canada's psychiatric, institutional tyranny, as we know, the same goes here within the medical-pharmaceutical-psychiatric establishment in the Centralized States of America.
Mia is 82 years old, and her family has been forced to take her underground in order to flee the tyrants who are trying to control and destroy Mia's brain in order to subject her to the government's life-sucking, standard psychiatric protocol. Mia had been in a Victoria retirement home where she was – surprise, surprise – consistently drugged on powerful antidepressants, like much of the Canadian elderly population. Mia started to exhibit symptoms (nausea, distress, and withdrawal) from the perpetual drugging that further exacerbated her poor "diagnosis" – thus she was certified and kept against her will, with the intention to give her ECT, or electro-convulsive therapy.
Her family obtained legal counsel and intervened, and the story that follows cannot be done any justice by my lack of ability to properly summarize it in a blog post. The story must be read in order to understand your own potential place in the world, and how OmabaRomneyCare will create similar administrative tribunals that will decide how your life shall be directed and cared for, and what course of treatment you shall take in order to stay out of the government's (un)health gulag. Huge hat tip to Joe Lee for the link.
One final note: I think that Thomas Szasz is one of the most important human beings in the history of liberty. Szasz, who recently passed away, spent his entire career fighting the totalitarian bastards who have turned the psychiatric profession into a government-approved torture tribunal. The following is from a Thomas Szasz obituary in The Guardian:
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He saw compulsory psychiatry, no matter how compassionately intended, as patronising and infantilising. Many observers have found that his description of the ever-increasing medicalisation of many human situations – what he termed the "therapeutic state" – remains uncannily accurate.
…In the best known of his 36 books, The Myth of Mental Illness (1961), Szasz argued that mental health and mental illness are alienated, pseudo-scientific, pseudo-medical terms, and for the next half-century he insisted that illness, in the modern, scientific sense, applies only to bodies, not to minds – except as a metaphor. A bodily organ, the heart, can be diseased, but to be heartsick or homesick, though real enough, is not to be medically, but only metaphorically, ill. Equally metaphorical, said Szasz, were such supposed mental illnesses as hysteria, obsessional neurosis, schizophrenia and depression.
He defended an individual's right to give informed consent to treatment, such as drugs, electroconvulsive therapy or even destructive psycho-surgery. But he pointed out that even if this made the individual feel better, it did not prove that he or she had been ill. If someone diagnosed as mentally ill should turn out to have a brain disease, then this would be a genuine physical illness, not a metaphorical mental one, and should be treated by neurologists, not psychiatrists.


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Before Ed was born, his mother visited a psychic named Madame Drusa. Under hypnosis, Madame Drusa gave a reading for the unborn child: "A son will be born prematurely; a restless spirit, he couldn't wait to get into the world, he'll never be able to wait for anything. This body is strange to other bodies in it's ideas. "He is one of the first spirits to re-enter from Atlantis. He shall astound the world, bringing back an ancient lost science once known in Atlantis. The past is revealed to him in dreams and visions." Growing up, Ed is influenced by his Grandfather Nick, a sailor. Nick visits the Mayan pyramids, and there, he sees some strange carvings of UFO's and alien faces. In the Bible, at Genesis 6, Nick reads: "Now a population explosion took place on the earth. It was at this time that beings from the spirit world looked upon the beautiful earth women and took any they desired to be their wives." The Mayans told Nick the pyramid drawings explained that thousands of years ago "men from the sky" beings, came down and gave them the secrets of pyramid building. Nick explained to Ed that a race of alien beings existing on the earth in the time of Atlantis, are the result of the spirit beings in Genesis 6, who mated with the earthly women. As Madame Drusa predicted, Ed seeks an answer to his problem through dreams and visions of his past Atlantic life. Ed came to the shores of Florida with a dream in his heart to create the greatest stone monument in history. Ed read every book he could get his hands on about the Great Pyramid, Stonehenge and the pyramids of Central and South America. Working from midnight to sunrise, so no one could see him, with his small, stubby fingers, Ed cut and raised stones greater than those of Stonehenge. The largest stone Ed moved weighs around 30 tons.
"Away from Coral Castle," Leola Williams said, "Ed was always riding a bicycle. When I was in school, we used to go to Coral Castle for picnics. Ed would explain to us why he built Coral Castle."
"I was his shoemaker," David Friedrick said. "I always thought it was grand that one little lightweight man could undertake and do what he did."
L.O.Clarringer said, "Ed was a genius and a wonderful person to know."
In 1987, rock star Billy Idol visited Coral Castle. It inspired him to compose the song and music video "Sweet Sixteen" in reference to Agnes, Ed's sixteen year old fiance.
After many years of research. I modeled "Waiting For Agnes" after a form of the actual events that took place in Ed's life. I did the best I could with the material I had. but Ed took the original blueprint of his life with him to the grave. I once read, in a book about writing, a piece of advice I'd like to pass on: "When writing, write to please yourself, then, at least one person will like it."
That's what I did here, keeping in mind how Ed thought and talked, and what he liked, because it's his story, not mine.
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Transparent access: The OptiX OSN 6800/3800 employs the ITU-T digital wrapper protocol that allows transparent access of various protocols, such as IP/Ethernet, ATM, SDH, and ESCON, and services at different bit rates such as 16 Mbit/s, 5 Gbit/s, 10 Gbit/s, 40 Gbit/s, and 100 Gbit/s.
With multiprotocol wavelength technology, the OptiX OSN 6800/3800 can transmit services of various types (voice, data, storage, and video), in line with the evolution from TDM to Ethernet/data services.
Flexible grooming: the OptiX OSN 6800/3800 supports the innovative three-level traffic grooming infrastructure, which integrates dynamic optical cross-connections (multi-dimensional ROADM), flexible electrical-layer grooming (any ADM), and embedded Layer 2 data processing.
Manageability: Apart from operability, manageability, maintainability, and configurability capabilities, the OptiX OSN 6800/3800 has service management functions as well, including bandwidth management, service convergence, and end-to-end detection.
ASON network: Traditional WDM networks were statically configured by maintenance engineers on the NMS. Manual intervention is still needed to satisfy certain requests, such as connection set-up or tear-down, which results in a long response time.The ASON allows for automatic establishment/release of switching and connections to achieve quick service provisioning.
Application and Benefits
According to information released by Ovum, a well-known consulting firm in the telecom industry, by 2012 Huawei led the global optical network market, WDM/OTN market, and 100G/40G market, as well as the backbone WDM market. Huawei WDM/OTN solution has served 39 of the worldwide top 50 carriers.


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Good Folk Fest
Good Folk Fest is an art and music festival featuring over 80 local, regional and internationally known outsider, visionary and folk artists and topped off with 26 dynamically diverse musical performers. This year the festival will be held Nov. 3 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Nov. 4 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., at The Kentucky Center for African American Heritage, 1701 West Muhammad Ali Boulevard. Good Folk Fest's mission is to bring to light parallels in old and new traditions of making art and music to express the common bonds that transcend all barriers through raw creative energy and crafty resourcefulness. Admission is $10 each day for adults and free for children 12 and under. For a participating artist list, music schedule and other info visit www.junkabillyart.com.
Event Details
Date: Nov 3, 2012
Starts: 10:00 AM | Ends: 4:00 PM
Kentucky Center for African American Heritage,
1701 West Muhammad Ali Boulevard
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Rethink Robotics Rethinks Its Strategy and Tactics
It's an age-old, or at least decades-old, story. A startup company, based on exciting technology and full of enthusiasm, comes roaring out of the gate ready to set the world on fire. They garner tons of media attention, recruit some of the top people in the industry, attract healthy amounts of venture capital, and proceed full speed ahead. Then at some point, often three or four years into their evolution, they are forced by the realities of product and market development to "select and focus". They realise that they can't develop a viable, sustainable business trying to do too many things at once.
Rethink Robotics, one of the most exciting and innovative robotics companies to appear over the past six years, apparently reached that stage this week and has announced significant layoffs amounting to almost a quarter of their estimated headcount.
According to a report on Boston.com, Rethink Robotics CEO Scott Eckert said that -
"...the layoffs are the result of Rethink deciding to focus on the market segments that have been most receptive to Baxter since its launch, including plastics manufacturing, consumer goods, and warehousing and logistics. Rethink has also been selling Baxter to academic and corporate research labs in the U.S. and overseas."
A restructuring of this magnitude, while certainly a concern, isn't that unusual for high tech startups during this phase of their development. In fact, if managed properly, it can be quite healthy and could put the company in a much stronger position in the long term.
At the same time there is a significant risk that some customers may have a degree of trepidation about committing to the Rethink Robotics design approach, especially for robot implementations that are mission critical for their companies. Robotics, unlike software applications or consumer electronics, are used in critical parts of their customers manufacturing and supply chains.
Rethink represents a dramatic shift in the way that companies think about and implement robotics, and can potentially yield significant benefits. But before companies adopt the Rethink approach they have to be extremely confident that Rethink as a company will be around to support them.
In many ways it's a chicken/egg problem, and one that we hope and expect will play out well for Rethink. Restructuring and refocusing is absolutely the right move at this point. They have the right technology at the right time in the right market. The opportunity is their's to win, or to lose.
Via: Layoffs at Rethink, Boston maker of manufacturing robots - Innovation Economy - Boston.com
Robosavvy Robotics Founder Limor Schweitzer Featured on Fox Business (Video)
Robosavvy founder Limor Schweitzer was featured on Fox Business discussing the impact of 3D printing on robot design and manufacturing.
Schweitzer compared the cost of some well known research robots, which can run from $30k to over $1 million, versus much more accessible 3D printed humanoids in the $1,000-$3,000 range.
To illustrate his points, Schweitzer brought along two robots - Franky, a surprisingly complex and capable humanoid (closeup below), and Fonzie, a dancing and entertainment humanoid featuring the 3D printed head of Jason Bradbury - host of the UK Gadget Show program.
Here's the full interview:
Via: Creating a robot with a 3D printer | Fox Business Video
Great Makerbot Digitizer Sale Deal – 32% Discount
I'm not sure why, especially since the product was just announced a couple months ago, but the Maker Shed currently has a super sale deal running for the Makerbot Digitizer. The standard list price of $1399.99 is discounted by 32% to $949.99 until New Years Eve.
The new scanner isn't for everyone, as I mentioned in previous posts, but if you have the need to create 3D printable models from existing figurines or small items, this is a great deal.
One surprise that I wasn't previously aware of is that the Makerbot Digitizer isn't available for shipment to Japan, along with many other countries, due to restrictions on the laser used by the digitiser. Hopefully Makerbot will be able to sort that out soon.
King Kizer Z Breaks Bricks Like Chuck Norris (Video)
King Kizer Z shows off its power with the classic karate brick breaking demonstration:
Even Chuck Norris would have trouble dealing with this super metal behemoth.
Huge Real Robot Battle Robots on Display at Nippon TV in Tokyo
Nippon TV is gearing up for the Real Robot Battle program, scheduled for broadcast here in Japan on Friday, December 13th starting at 7:00 pm. The humanoid robot competitors have been designed, and will be piloted by several of the top ROBO-ONE and university teams on the scene.
To generate more interest and enthusiasm, two of the life sized robots are currently displayed in Nippon TV's 2nd floor lobby along with the championship belt. It's hard to get a feel for the robots size from the photo. They are actually around 2 meters tall and weigh over 200 Kg (440 lbs).
24th ROBO-ONE Competition Regulations Released
The latest revision to the ROBO-ONE humanoid robot competition regulations is online, and surprisingly there is lots of red ink. The ROBO-ONE organising committee always highlights any changes from the previous version in red to make it easier for competitors to find the differences, and to avoid any disputes or confusion at the events.
For the most part, most of the changes in the revision for the 24th ROBO-ONE competition are fairly minor, but a few may cause some heartburn or controversy. Nevertheless, it's surprising to see so many changes in the regulations for a competition that's been held every six months for the past 11+ years.
Some of the changes that immediately caught my eye are:
1) Robot weight is limited to a maximum of 3 Kg or lighter. There are some heavier robots that actively compete, and they usually have a strong advantage, so this change will probably make the matches more equal and interesting. At the same time, it's really a shame that the larger robots over 3 Kg will be deprived the chance to compete.
2) The length of the 9 meter pre-qualifying sprint course may be changed depending on the venue. Does this imply that they are considering moving the event to another location? Perhaps.
3) There is more definition about the center of gravity and angle of attack during matches. The clarification is probably good, but will be hard to understand clearly and for the referee to administer.
4) There's an added section with regard to start/stop buttons on autonomous robots which seems to imply that they expect more autonomous competitors. In the past there has only been one or two autonomous entries that made it into the finals.
5) They seem to be very concerned about attacks from a squatting position, and also robots that deliberately throw themselves off balance to attack. They even characterize that strategy as a 'desperation technique.'
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Emotions ran high when The Voice's top 10 took the stage Monday night.
Team Usher's Bria Kelly got hit pretty hard during Monday night's top 10 episode of The Voice, when her performance of Avril Lavigne's "I'm With You" received quite a bit of criticism from the other coaches. After the show, we caught up with Kelly's mentor, Usher, to find out how he plans to use the criticism as a teaching tool. READ FULL STORY


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Drew and Jenny have spent years being the envy of their friends with their out of control sex lives – well, not really. Mostly it makes their friends want to throw up in their mouths a little.
With two little kids and two busy lives, for the first time, Drew and Jenny aren't on the same page in the bedroom. Drew will stop at nothing to get his previously amorous wife back in the sack, and Jenny will do anything for a full night of sleep.
Carter and Claire, and Jim and Liz are their usual (un)helpful selves and are full of advice for the discontented duo, wanting nothing more than to help restore order to the usually happy couple's lives.
In the third and final installment of the Chocolate Lovers Series, will Drew and Jenny find the spark that's been missing in their marriage, or will the trouble they're having cause a stickier situation than the time Jenny poured honey all over Drew and he fused himself to a tree? (Source: Goodreads)
The Review
In Seduction and Snacks, they all fell in love. In Futures and Frosting, their bonds were forged. In Troubles and Treats, the grass is definitely greener in other people's bedrooms.
"When was the last time you guys had sex?" Claire asks.
"Um, what day is it today?"
"It's Saturday," Claire answers.
"Last year."
This is the unconventional there's-trouble-in-paradise story of Jenny and Drew, the wackiest members of our beloved lot, who finally get their own book to star in. We find them married, with two small children in tow and a marriage troubled by intimacy issues. Even though their underlying problems are nothing more than what many young couples face when they start having children, for this couple the effects are unbearable. The intense physical nature of Jenny and Drew's relationship has always been their main strength and it was also what initially drew them to one another. When suddenly faced with struggling libidos and no activity in the bedroom, they decide to tackle the problem with every single hilariously inappropriate method they can think of. Except the one that could actually help them – open communication.
"It's like the day the stick turned pink, her lady bits put up a giant "Out of Business" sign. Do not enter, closed for repairs, zombies will eat your face if you try to touch this vagina."
Through numerous snippets from their life together so far, we are given an insight into what has truly been everything but a traditional romance between them. What started as a perfect match between two equally silly individuals, but true soul mates at heart, eventually gets shaken by childbirth, housework, babies crying at night, hairy vaginas, poorly utilised sex swings, stalking in-laws, shirtless neighbours, and flesh-eating zombies. Their rampant sexual appetites are no longer in sync. While Jenny is afraid that her husband might no longer find her satisfying or sexually attractive after witnessing natural birth, she is also struggling to reconcile her adventurously sexual self with her new role as a mother. Drew, on the other hand, is constantly mourning the loss of their former sex life, frequently reminiscing their past sexcapades, constantly plotting possible solutions to their problems.
"I'm pretty sure I can pinpoint exactly where I went wrong with Jenny. I blame it all on natural childbirth. No man should ever have to see his wife in that position. Somehow, now, I need to convince my wife that I do not fear her vagina. Not anymore at least."
Drew and Jenny's story is almost entirely told through a collection of funny sketches, matching perfectly the frivolous personalities of these two already familiar characters. Their presence in the previous books in the series was mostly used as comic relief for the reader, their absurdity and childlike approach to life knowing no boundaries, so it only feels appropriate for that tone to have been kept in a book about their life together. The humour is relentless, sugar-coating every single aspect of their story, but never questioning how uniquely compatible they are.
This is the perfect conclusion to a genuinely feel-good trilogy about real people with real relationship issues to overcome but laced with uncountable instances of snort-inducing laughter and cringe-worthy situations. A must-read for any fan of the ridiculously funny, for anyone looking for an easy but endlessly entertaining reading experience, for anyone seeking ways to spice up their bedroom life.
"No matter how perfect you think someone else's marriage is, this just goes to show you we can all use a little spark and a little fun in the bedroom to make life more interesting."
The Interview
NATASHA | Tara, I have to start this by saying that you are single-handedly responsible for people thinking I was a cracked-up wacko during the few months following the release of each one of your previous books. I laughed so hard and in such inopportune places and situations every time I read or even remembered one of the scenes, that people started looking into assisted living options for me. I guess wetting my pants didn't help…
Please tell us a little but about yourself. How did you become a writer?
Tara | I'm awesome, the end. Let's see…I married my high school sweetheart and we have 2 little assholes, I mean children and we live in Ohio. I really don't know how I became a writer. I believe I was punched in the vagina with a writing stick. I've always written things – poems, short stories, ransom letters…one day I decided to see if I could write a full-length book and I did it. The friends I don't pay told me I should try and get it published and since they aren't getting anything monetary out of speaking to me, I did what they told me.
NATASHA | Your books are not just hilarious while you read them, they leave readers in stitches for days to come. How do you stay sane from writing such hysterical situations? Where do you get your ideas? Please say it's all autobiographical!
Tara | See, this is my problem. I don't think I'm funny. At all. When I send something to my beta reader, I always assume she's going to be like "WTF? That sucks." And fortunately for me, a lot of what I write about is autobiographical. Or friends and family-graphical. Whatever. There are definitely a lot of real life conversations and events in all of my books.
NATASHA | I felt that although your writing could be described as "humorous contemporary fiction", each one of your books had very real and very serious threads in the background as well. You dealt with single motherhood, commitment issues, friendships, raising children, intimacy problems – do you see yourself diving into other genres as well or have you found your niche?
Tara | I am definitely diving head first into a cement pond. My next series is going to be romantic suspense. The first book will be out January 3rd and it's got a lot of sexual tension and hot Navy SEALS. I love writing comedy, but it gets draining after a while. I need a break. And I'm in the mood to make people horny and cry. Not necessarily at the same time. Unless that's how you roll.
NATASHA | After two incredibly well-received books under your belt and a third one that will undoubtedly meet the same reaction from readers, do you now consider yourself a "writer" first and foremost or do you still see it as a side gig? Would you be happy if writing was all you ever did professionally from now on?
Tara | Well, I just quit my job of 14 years so I hope this isn't a side gig! At first it really was just going to be an 'on-the-side' thing. Then it sort of exploded and turned into a full-time job! This is my first week of doing this full time and I couldn't be happier. Unless the house cleaned itself. That might make me happier.
NATASHA | Is this the last instalment of the Chocolate Lovers series or are we to expect more from that crazy bunch? What projects are you working on now?
Tara | This is definitely the last instalment of this group. I wouldn't count Gavin out yet though :) Right now I'm working on the edits for my new romantic suspense series. The first book is called A Beautiful Lie so make sure you check it out on January 3rd!
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- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Elevator/lift
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Billiards or pool table
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Children's club
- Total number of rooms - 258
- Library
- Multilingual staff
- Garden
- Terrace
- Beach bar
- Porter/bellhop
- Luggage storage
- Restaurant
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Snack bar/deli
- Year Built 1970
- Shopping on site
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- Outdoor pool
- Use of nearby fitness center (discount)
- Free Wi-Fi
- Poolside bar
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Children's pool
Stay connected
Available in some public areas: Free Wi-Fi
In your room
- Cribs/infant beds (surcharge)
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- Balcony
- Air conditioning
- Phone
- Daily housekeeping
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- Complimentary toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Bathtub or shower
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Eat and drink
Valamar Rubin Hotel has a restaurant on site.
Jedro - This beachfront restaurant serves lunch and dinner.
Room service is available.
An outdoor pool and a children's pool are on site.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Water skiing nearby
- Aerobics on site
- Bicycle rentals on site
- Fishing on site
- Miniature golf on site
- Hiking/biking trails on site
- Motor boating on site
- Mountain biking on site
- Parasailing on site
- Playground on site
- Scuba diving on site
- Tennis on site
- Windsurfing on site
- Beach volleyball on site
The fine print for Valamar Rubin Hotel
When you arrive
Check-in time starts at 2 PM
Check-in time ends at 6 PM
Special check-in instructions:
Guests planning to arrive after 6 PM must contact the hotel in advance to make special check-in arrangements. Contact information can be found on the confirmation email received after booking.
When you leave
Check-out time is 10 AM
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Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
- Crib (infant bed) fee: EUR 40 per night
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Head coach Matt Potter says the Oklahoma soccer team has added junior transfer Laura Rayfield to the roster for the 2014 fall season.
Rayfield joins OU after two seasons as a defender at Oregon State. Rayfield started 25 matches and appeared in 34 total contests for the Beavers.
As a sophomore in fall 2013, she started 17 matches at Oregon State, logging 1,388 minutes and scoring a goal against Washington State on Sept. 27. Rayfield took eight total shots and was named Pac-12 All-Academic Honorable Mention.
Rayfield also saw action in her freshman season, starting eight matches and appearing in 15 total. She posted four shots (one on goal) and appeared in over 600 total minutes of game action as a true freshman.
She plans to major in chemical engineering.
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I am fortunate that when I actually get around to doing a Tea Time Tuesday post that I'm suffering from one malady or another so that I can do a little research and share with the rest of you. Or is this really a good thing after all??? Currently....I'm suffering from a wisdom tooth that has broken off on the top and is now trying to come up. Causing the ragged edges of my tooth to press against the gum...causing swelling. Yay.....not.
So....today's tea is Licorice. You can also use Echinacea or a Tumeric and Calendula blend. Green teas have also been reported to have anti-inflammatory properties. I, personally, am going to find some Licorice tea and see how effective it will be. Wish me luck.


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Paid Sick Times Act: Does it Make Sense?
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A flu or child's cold cost one million people in NYC a day's pay…and for some it can cost them their job. Parents shouldn't have to choose between their health and their job. If the The Paid Sick Time Act in New York City would pass it would give 1.5 million New Yorkers access to a small number of paid sick days to use to care for themselves or a sick child. It has a veto-proof majority of support on City Council, but Council Speaker Christine Quinn refuses to bring the bill to a vote.
Worried about how this bill might affect businesses in these difficult times?
From Business Week, "A 2011 Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR) study based on surveys of 727 employers and 1,194 employees in San Francisco found that the effects were generally positive. Six out of seven employers reported no negative effects on profitability, and most said the new legislation had proven easy to implement.
Employees, it was found, rarely misused sick days, and—despite the availability of either five or nine sick days (depending on the size of the business)—the typical worker used only three. One quarter of employees used zero. Parents with paid sick days were also 20 percent less likely to send a child with a contagious disease to school than parents without the benefit.
In 2010, the Partnership for New York City, which represents the city's biggest employers, released a report (PDF) estimating that paid sick leave could cost employers nearly $800 million annually. A forthcoming IWPR cost-benefit analysis of implementing mandated sick days in New York contradicts these findings. The report, which will come out within weeks, says the bill would likely cause New York businesses to expend an additional $283 million in terms of lost productivity, but that businesses would gain an offsetting $287 million, largely due to savings from reduced turnover. The IWPR also found that the New York metro area would save about $41 million annually on health-care expenses because of reduced emergency care and fewer virus outbreaks."
Convinced that NYC needs to pass the Paid Sick Time Act? Then, sign and share this petition asking Quinn to stop blocking the bill.
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Thank you for covering this issue! Our kids and our families really deserve better. Hope we'll see it passed—and SOON.
Cari, A Better Balance
Great post! Thank you so much for sharing about this issue on your blog. It's so important to families and public health.
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Bulldog Bytes highlights the new coffee table book that documents the amazing history of Ferris State University from its roots as Big Rapids Industrial School, founded by Woodbridge Nathan Ferris, to where it stands today as a fast-growing university with a unique and important mission of education.
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A coffee table book will be published on Sept. 1, 2009 to commemorate the 125th anniversary of Ferris State University. Packed with wonderful photos (who knows, maybe you're in there!) and interesting facts you may not know about the history of Ferris. The books will be available at the Barnes and Noble Lundberg Bookstore, Great Lakes Book and Supply, the Old Pioneer Store and Emporium and the Ice Arena Pro Shop. They will make wonderful gifts for all of your Ferris friends! Visit www.ferris.edu/alumni/historical/ to learn more about the history of Ferris.
Share your memories with the Oral History project by visiting www.ferris.edu/alumni/historical/
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It Pays to Be Nice: Rudeness in the Workplace Comes with a Hefty Price Tag
Porath and Pearson state that job stress in the United States accounts for $300 billion in losses, as an uncivil workplace reduces productivity (aka "slacking off") as workers spend time looking for other jobs or helping others to do so. In addition, according to Porath and Pearson's research, 80 percent of employees who were victims of insults or bullying in the workplace lost valuable work time worrying about the incident and 78 percent said their commitment to the organization declined.
The authors combined various methodologies to reach their conclusions. First they gathered subjective data via various focus groups comprised of a cross-section of professionals--including attorneys, managers, and emergency medical professionals--where they focused on what incivility was in the workplace, and what the implications were for employees and organizations. Porath and Pearson next surveyed nearly 800 employees where they found that 1 in 8 would quit a job due to an abusive environment.
Porath, along with University of Florida management professor Amir Erez, also employed scientific experiments, discovering that "people literally did not perform as well, weren't as creative and became more dysfunctional and aggressive" when someone was rude to them, Porath says.
But the impact of rudeness defined in the book as ranging from "taking credit to others' efforts" to throwing a temper tantrum didn't end there, as the authors discovered that even witnesses to an incident where someone was bullied had a negative effect. And if a customer witnesses incivility, that customer decides to not re-patronize the business fifty percent of the time.
Porath and Pearson also employed case studies of companies that cultivate civility such as Cisco Systems and Microsoft to inspire other companies, Porath says, "to take a page from their notebook."
In fact, Cisco leadership launched its first global workplace civility program—the first of its kind that Porath is aware of--after Porath and Pearson published some of their research in an earlier journal article. "They did the math," Porath says, "saw how their bottom line was affected in the millions of dollars and were motivated to start the program."
This year Fortune magazine ranked Cisco sixth among the 100 best companies to work for, with a voluntary turnover rate of only 4 percent. Cisco's low turnover rate helps their bottom line, for, as Porath discovered in her research, the costs of replacing employees ranges to up to four times their annual salaries.
So how do companies create a civil workplace? Porath and Pearson outline their top 10 solutions that include recommending that companies:
Set zero tolerance expectations
Establish norms for all employees, including managers and executives, to live by
Weed out trouble early in the employee hiring process
"It starts with the top," Porath says, who's taught these same concepts to executives through Marshall's MBA Program for Professionals and Managers.
According to Porath, it's important for executives to think about how good behavior can fit into "each piece of the Human Resource cycle," from the company's mission statement, to its recruitment and training policies. "There should be a thread of civility," Porath says, through everything a company does.
Otherwise, good employees will move on, much to the long-term detriment of the company, in terms of dollars the cost of an exit is an estimated 150 percent of a mid-level employee's salary and talent loss.
According to Porath, even with a national unemployment rate of 9.5 percent, there's a "huge concern with Human Resource executives that there's a shortage of talent. Businesses are fighting for talent. If you're a good performer, you'll be in demand, Focus on your performance and put yourself out there. Don't just hunker down and take it. Think about other possibilities."
Managers, take note. Maybe it's more cost effective just to be nice.
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The International Hardware Fair 2014 was a great success and once more proved its importance to the hardware industry. 2.783 exhibitors from 53 countries presented their numerous product novelties and exciting innovations in the field of industrial supplies, fastening and joining technology, fittings, tools and construction and DIY goods. read more…
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Wreck slows traffic on I-35 at 20th Street Wednesday morning
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A wreck slowed traffic on southbound Interstate 35 at 20th Street for about a half-hour Wednesday.
The crash, involving one car, happened in the southbound lanes of the highway about 10:45 a.m.
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The letters are amazing, and even more amazing to me since so much of her papers and things burned in the fire and were destroyed by her children after her death. I hope to find out who they belong to and connect with this cousin.
John Brown LettersThese letters were passed down through the family, they concern the late radical (and infamous) abolitionist John Brown. Personally I believe in strictly non-violent means of effecting societal change, although we live in an imperfect world and sometimes imperfect solutions become necessary in order to prevent the "greater evil". Certainly America has been no stranger in regards to sacrificing lives to this end.
If not for John Brown it's quite plausible that the Civil Rights movement might have been set back by fifty years or more. Was the movement's acceleration worth the lives that were taken? Herein lies the controversy. Incidentally I think it's worth pointing out that there is more slavery in the world today than at any time in recorded history. If John Brown were alive today, I wonder what he'd have to say about that?


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Cervelle de Canut (Silk Weavers Brain) – French Recipe
Before you all leave this page in total disgust at the prospect of being made to eat a silk weavers cerebral cortex, let me tell you that 'cervelle de canut', is a nonthreatening cheese and herb spread named for the famed silk workers of Lyon in the mid-18oo's;
Pascal, the head chef at Terroir, insisted that 'cervelle de canut' was a tribute to the talented 'canut' of Lyon who diligently packed this cheesy spread on their way to the silk factories. While others tell me its name was a cruel joke amongst the bourgeois Lyonnaise, who assumed the cheesy dip shared a consistency with the gray matter of their silk-working class.
Whichever story is to be believed this creamy dip is delicious and a happy change from the usual suspects we are often left to dip our crudités in. Served with some soldiers of granary bread or perhaps a bundle of plump radishes it is a totally French treat and a perfect way to start any meal.
- 250g fromage blanc
- 1/4 cup white wine vinegar
- 2 heaped tablespoons of crème fraiche
- 1 1/2 tablespoons walnut oil
- 1 small shallots, very finely chopped
- 1 small garlic clove, finely chopped
- 1 tablespoon fresh chives
- 1 tablespoon fresh tarragon
- 1 tablespoon fresh chervil, chopped
- A good pinch of ground black pepper
- A good pinch of sea salt
- Drain the fromage blanc and place it, along with the white wine vinegar, crème fraiche, and walnut oil into a deep mixing bowl or blender.
- Process the cheese until it is smooth and completely blended into a medium consistency.
- Add the shallots, chives, chervil, tarragon, salt and pepper to the mixture and blend or stir until all the ingredients are incorporated into the cheese.
- Refrigerate the cheese for 2 to 3 hours before serving and serve garnished with a pinch of fresh chives and a drizzle of walnut oil.
- This post is as part of London's World of Food – an A to Z. A food and travel project I am taking on with fellow writer and explorer Al Humphries
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Remains of a miner's cottage, Welshtown, Bendigo
Bendigo's Historic and Scenic Reserves are outstanding examples of their kind. The historic reserve is probably the best and most accessible example of quartz reef mining in Otago.The nature reserve has the only bush walk on public land in Central Otago, the 10 kilometre Kānuka Track.
View the Exploring historic Bendigo brochure (PDF, 788K).
The 1085 hectares of Bendigo's adjoining historic and scenic reserves are popular visitor sites. They provide easy and interesting opportunities for day trips in the area.
Most of the Bendigo area is 'wander at will' but you can also walk the 10km Kānuka Loop Track and visit the Come in Time Battery.
There are no places to stay in Bendigo, but there is a range of accommodation available in the nearby town of Cromwell.
Be prepared for the changeable conditions and find out how to access areas in Bendigo.
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they know what they're doing, have a little faith
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2. basically no idea what 'tebowing' is so take that for what you will
3. no
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5. I stopped voting after W. won the first time
6. The Notebook maybe?
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1.Should nurse practitioners be allowed to operate on their own, performing their regular duties without the supervision of a doctor, in America?
2. Is Tebowing played out? I saw Tebow on the Pizza Hut website.
3. Are you aware of the conditions at Foxcon?
5. Would you still have voted for Obama knowing what you know now?
6. Fave Ryan Gosling film?
7. Which Japanese Man Would You Be If Given The Choice?
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Man, fuck Plies. Plies doesn't even rate. He couldn't hold Tity Boi's jock.
Man, fuck Plies. Plies doesn't even rate. He couldn't hold Tity Boi's jock.
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DECLARATION signed by Dean Boland re 235 Memorandum in Opposition to Motion filed by Paul D. Ceglia. (Boland, Dean)
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK PAUL D. CEGLIA, Civil Action No. : 1:10-cv-00569-RJA Plaintiff, v. MARK ELLIOT ZUCKERBERG, Individually, and FACEBOOK, INC. DECLARATION OF DEAN BOLAND IN OPPOSITION TO DEFENDANTS' MOTION TO STRIKE ROBERT GIANADDA'S FIRST DECLARATION AND FOR SANCTIONS Defendants. MEMORANDUM DEAN BOLAND, submits this declaration and hereby declares under penalty of perjury and pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 1746 and under the laws of the United States that the following is true and correct: 1. I make this declaration upon personal knowledge. 2. I am counsel for Mr. Ceglia in this matter. 3. I had conversation with Robert Gianadda by phone on Wednesday afternoon, November 9, 2011. 4. I introduced myself to him over the phone as Mr. Ceglia's lawyer in the Facebook case. 5. I asked him if he was willing to discuss his observations of the Facebook Contract during his work as the videographer for the Defendants' experts' examination of that document. He responded, "sure, no problem." 1 6. I asked him if he recalled his involvement in that case. He responded "yes." 7. I asked him if he recalled being at the offices of Harris Beach on July 14, 2011 for the unveiling of the Facebook Contract to Facebook's experts as they were prepared to begin their examination of it. He responded, "yes." 8. I intentionally did not pose any leading questions to Mr. Gianadda. 9. I then asked him, "how did the Facebook Contract appear to you when you first saw it removed from the envelope by Mr. Argentieri?" 10. He responded, as is typed verbatim in Doc. No. 212, his initial declaration, "I did not notice anything out of the ordinary regarding the documents." Doc. No. 212 at ¶16. 11. He then added, unsolicited by me, "[t]hey looked like white documents, eight total white pages." Id at ¶17. 12. Mr. Gianadda authored his entire declaration, Doc. No. 212. I merely typed what he said, verbatim. 13. After the response regarding "eight white pages" I then told him that the Facebook Contract now looks manila envelope yellow on one side. He responded, "No." 14. I asked him what he meant by "no," and he replied, "no, they didn't look that way on the first day, they looked like eight pages." 15. I then asked him if he was willing to sign a declaration to that effect. He said, without hesitation, "yes." Our conversation ended as I told him I would call him the next day when I was back in my office to finalize his 2 declaration. 16. I called him the next day, Thursday, November 10, 2011 to take dictation from him as to the precise wording of his declaration. At the very beginning of that call, he interrupted me and said, "in the spirit of full disclosure, I want you to know that after I spoke with you, Alex Southwell from Gibson Dunn called me. He wanted to know what you and I talked about. He wanted all the details of our conversation. I felt I should tell him because I am a neutral, disinterested third party." 17. I responded, "that's fine with me. I will even put a line about neutrality that in the declaration if that would make you more comfortable." He responded, "Yes, that would be good." 18. "How do you want that worded?" I asked him. He then gave me the language that appears in paragraph 8 of his declaration, Doc. No. 212 and I typed it into his declaration as he spoke. 19. Before sending him the draft of the declaration, I inquired if he had MS Word to view and edit the document to insure I had typed his words correctly. 20. He told me he was a "mac guy" and used a word processing program called Pages for Mac computers. I also use Mac computers and replied, "Perfect, I will send it to you in Pages so you can make any changes you want." I then told him to send me the signed copy back in pdf format to insure he was comfortable it could not be altered after he signed it. 3 21. He told me he had to handle some family events and would send me the declaration in about 30 minutes. 22. I called him about two hours later and he said, "I am concerned about sending you this after receiving another phone call from Alex Southwell." I asked why. He re-iterated that he didn't want to be perceived as taking sides and "in my business" he said, "that is important for the future of my professional career here in New York." 23. Mr. Gianadda then asked me to call Mr. Southwell to ask Mr. Southwell's "permission" for Mr. Gianadda to send me the signed declaration. 24. Mr. Gianadda repeated several times throughout this phone call about his belief he had to obtain Mr. Southwell's permission to go any further providing his truthful declaration to me. 25. "I am totally fine signing this as it is, I just want to make sure it is okay with Mr. Southwell," he re-iterated. 26. I told him that I do not speak to Mr. Southwell on the phone that much and that we regularly email each other, therefore, I suggested he email us simultaneously to deliver the declaration to both of us, which he did. 27. To this day, Mr. Gianadda has not contacted me to express any reservation or concern about the truthfulness of his first declaration. 28. The declaration he was provided had the case number, case caption, the name of the court and the title "Declaration of Robert Gianadda." It also contained language, which he read, indicating he was making the 4 statements therein under the penalties of perjury. 29. After discussing his willingness to provide the declaration, Mr. Gianadda insisted that paragraphs be added attesting to his neutrality. Those paragraphs are verbatim quotes of Mr. Gianadda dictated to me during our phone call. 30. There are no statements made to me by Mr. Gianadda about the coloration of the documents that were omitted from the declaration 212. 31. I have read Mr. Gianadda's altered declaration, Doc. No. 218. 32. The "what I meant" sections appearing in 3 of that document do not reflect any part of the conversations I had with him. 33. Mr. Gianadda did not offer and I did not ask him anything about his recollection of the ink or printed words on any document. 34. I never told Mr. Gianadda that the purpose of obtaining his declaration was "starting a dialogue" with Mr. Southwell. 35. Mr. Gianadda never stated to me anything about the topics involved in Doc. No. 218 at ¶4 except that he was three feet away when he observed the documents on the morning of July 14, 2011. 36. I informed him that I was seeking his declaration as there was currently an issue in this case about when the now obvious yellowing on the Facebook Contract occurred. 37. The declaration draft and final version sent to Mr. Gianadda had the case number, the case caption, and the parties listed at the top as appear in 5 Document 212. 38. Mr. Gianadda is correct that neither he nor I raised the issue of what might become of his declaration. 39. I had no intention of filing Mr. Gianadda's declaration with the court unless necessary in reply to what was then scheduled responses due by Defendants. 40. After receipt of Mr. Gianadda's signed declaration, I consulted with Mr. Argentieri and Mr. Ceglia regarding the rapidly changing concern expressed by Mr. Gianadda following his conversations with opposing counsel regarding the potential professional effect the truth in this declaration could have on his business. 41. I speculated that the pressure Mr. Gianadda was expressing he was feeling would potentially cause him to decide to alter his statement. 42. Before that pressure steered his statement toward a conclusion more favorable to Defendants, a decision was made to file the declaration as it was also supportive of pending motions. 43. I never applied any pressure on Mr. Gianadda. I have never met Mr. Gianadda in person. 44. I only had two relatively brief phone conversations with Mr. Gianadda before he agreed to sign his declaration. I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct. Executed on this 28th day of November, 2011 at Cleveland, Ohio. 6 /s/Dean Boland Dean Boland Attorney for Plaintiff 7


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An estimated 600 trees and 715 pounds of lights were collected this season through the Fourth Annual Christmas Tree & Holiday Lights Recycling Program, according to organizer Jennifer Molski, of Flossmoor.
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Education and Schools among the Shakers in New York State
In conjunction with the NYS Museum's exhibit on the Shakers, our seventh-floor exhibit for November-December 2014 highlight some of the NYS Library's Shaker collections, particularly those relating to education.
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Senior Librarian Stephanie Barrett will review the different types of historical maps available at the New York State Library, including Library of Congress Land Ownership maps, Adirondack Survey maps, and maps in the Library's Digital Collections. She will also provide a demonstration of the Sanborn Map online database. Sanborn maps are valuable historical tools for anyone who wants to learn about the history of their home, their family history and the growth and development of American cities, towns, and neighborhoods. Sanborn maps are large-scale plans containing data such as the outline of each building, the size, shape and construction materials, heights, and function of structures, location of windows and doors. The maps also give street names, street and sidewalk widths, property boundaries and building use, such as stable, garage, and warehouse. Registration is required.
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November 8, 2014
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The New York State Library is a treasure chest of resources for those tracing their family histories. Join us for a tour highlighting published genealogies, local histories, church records, Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) records, United States and New York State Census records, newspapers on microfilm, city directories and more. The tour is limited to 15 individuals and registration is required.
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Nov. 15, 2014
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A Shaker Legacy: How the Shaker Treasures Came to the NYS Museum
John Scherer, Historian Emeritus at the NYS Museum, will present the story of the formation of the Museum's milestone Shaker collection. The Shaker collection is part of the NYS Museum's newest exhibition, The Shakers: America's Quiet Revolutionaries, opening November 15, 2014 and presented by the New York State Museum, Library, and Archives in collaboration with the Shaker Museum | Mount Lebanon, Hancock Shaker Village, and the Shaker Heritage Society.
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Nov. 19, 2014
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Accessing E-Journals at the New York State Library
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Oast Houses
❖ Converted oast housesOver 85% of oast houses have now been converted to dwellings, usually houses, but sometimes flats.
lots of which are also B&B's and holidays lets.
One of the first known conversions was at Millar's Farm near Meopham in 1903.
Other oast houses have been converted to
Farm shops
Community centres
Visitors centres
Gift shops
Health centres
Youth hostels
Student Accommodation
Cafés, tea rooms, pubs and restaurants
a Christian Retreat
even a Kebab shop!
An increasingly small proportion of disused oast houses are left unconverted.
or in ruins
See a Geograph Map of unconverted oast houses and Shared description.
There are a number of publicly visitable oast house museums.
❖ PreservationOver 500 Oast Houses are Listed buildings. See more listed oasts
Yonsea Farm was saved from the path of the Channel Tunnel railway link near Hothfield, and completely moved to the Rare Breeds Centre.
The tiles and timbers of an oast house at the Bewl Water Reservoir site were taken to Montreal, Canada, where an oast house was reconstructed.
This unlisted oast house at Wincheap, Canterbury, is currently under threat of demolition.
Lack of maintenance is common on disused buildings, as demonstrated by this collapsed kiln roof near Brenchley.
Many traditional materials and features are changed during the conversion period, such as large domestic windows, chimney stacks, porches, white painted weatherboard (rather than black stain), tile hung walls, and painted walls.
It is important that oast houses are converted sensitively to maintain their character and avoid unattractive additions
Other modifications;
Some unusual windows
Cowl replacements
❖ ArchiveUnlike castles, windmills, pillboxes and other distinct buildings, there are no other public lists or photo-archives of oast houses.
With over 2400 separate oast houses photographed, Geograph has the largest public online photographic record of oast houses.
❖ Popular Oast HousesSome of the most photographed oast houses on Geograph and the rest of the internet
and most featured on postcards and calenders
❖ Fake Oast HousesSome 'fake' or 'mock' oasts have been allowed to be built. Most are easily spotted as they are out of proportion to a normal oast house, built at a much larger scale than the originals. Many of these appear to have been built around the 1980's when planning laws were more relaxed, though there are some more recent examples. Most are in areas were the local area has little or no architectural merit.
These toilets were opened in 2010 in the style of two oast house kilns, at about half size.
See more fake oast houses
❖ Village signsMany village signs in hop growing areas adorn an oast house.
See more village signs
❖ As seen on TVDarling Buds of May (1991-1993).
Buss Farm was the main filming location for the tv series, where it was known as 'Home Farm'. In one episode the oast is re-tiled.
❖ TriviaThe most common names are Manor Farm Oast and Park Farm Oast.
An oast house was only used for drying for one month each year. The rest of the year it would be used as a store for other farm produce, animal feed, farm implements or whatever else the farmer might need to store.
In 2004, as an alternate way to sell an oast house at Chilham, it was put up as a raffle prize.
In 2007, the Daily Mail newspaper gave away an oast house, valued at £400,000, in a competition.
❖ Further readingBooks
"Kentish Oasts" by R. and I. Walton
"Oasthouses in Sussex and Kent" by Gwen Jones and John Bell
"Beltring Hop Farm" by Robin Walton
"The Oasthouses, Their Life & Times" by Alan Major
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Geograph: The Hop Farm
Geograph: Hopper Huts (snippet)
Geograph: Hops & Hop Fields (snippet)
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This is so weird, it's almost beyond even speculating about. If the spot on the screen had moved, that would be one thing. If there was anything in the SOHO system that would cause an effect like this, that would be another. But neither of those things can explain this. It is a bizarre and total mystery. (The video is sped up. The sun actually takes 12 hours to turn on its axis. BUT IT'S NOT SUPPOSED TO DO THAT AT ALL!)
For whatever reason, SOHO was instructed to rotate 360°, making the sun appear to rotate. The reason the dot didn't move is because it's attached o the camera somehow: possibly debris on the lens, but more probably it's a persistent software glitch, such as a compression artifact.
This is yet another instance illustrating why the supposed solar motherships are, for the most part, just software glitches.
Besides, the sun (at its equator) takes 25 days to rotate on its axis, not 12 hours.
These two replies don't follow any logical line of reasoning. Non-sequitors, they are. But since this comes from NASA, I think they're just toying with us. Good bad photoshop.
That's weird but defiantly a glitch in the imaging software. Funny thought I got a good laugh cause the sun cant do that ..LOL...or can it ? ;)
@William Hickey: Sorry for the late reply, but perhaps you could explain to me how a rotating camera *won't* produce a rotating image? It's insultive to simply declare someone's theory to be invalid without even addressing why. And perhaps, if the idea doesn't make sense to you, it might be far more constructive to ask for clarification on the issue, rather than dismissing said theory as a non sequitur?
Anyhow, since you weren't polite enough to ask, let me expand on this a bit: What's happening here is an inadvertant exaggeration of what cinemtographers call a "Dutch angle", where the camera is tilted to make the scene look like it's tilted instead. In this case, instead of stopping after a few degrees of rotation, the satellite making the recording here goes through a full 360° rotation. A wikipedia article explaining this, with examples: http://tinyurl.com/4shwwf.
If this still seems illogial to you, just let me know, and I can get out my camera and provide you with a demonstration of what's happening.


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