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Health Centre
Our occupational health nurse provides a range of services at Mokoia Campus that are free and confidential, including health screening (i.e., blood pressure, weight, hearing, blood sugar tests), health monitoring and support for medical conditions (i.e., diabetes, hypertension, asthma, epilepsy, etc.), sexual health services, treatment for injuries and wounds, and smoking cessation assistance.
Contact the Health Centre on Mokoia Campus for assistance. Students on campuses in Taupo, Tokoroa and Whakatane, contact the receptionist for assistance.
Who are we?
- Carole Morgan, Occupational Health Nurse
- Lynn Hanson, Health Centre Administrator/Disabilities Coordinator
- Annette Twyman, Student Counsellor - Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11am-2pm
- Dr Sarah Dalziel, Visiting Campus Doctor - Wednesdays, 9-11am
What free and confidential services do we provide?
- Treatment and advice for injuries including wound care
- No surcharge for ACC visits
- Disability support services for any student with a disability. Support can include mobility (ensuring easy access around campus), technical support (digital recorders, software), note taker/reader writer for assessments, learning support referral
- Assessment and support for minor illness
- Health screening including:
- blood pressure monitoring
- weight, hearing, vision and blood sugar tests
- Sexual health services including:
- contraception
- emergency contraception pill (ECP)
- pregnancy tests
- STI screening
- cervical screening
- free condoms
- free hearing clinic (with Hearing Therapist)
- Health monitoring and support for medical disabilities (e.g., diabetes, hypertension, asthma, epilepsy, etc.)
- Smoking cessation support
- Regular doctor clinics held, see the occupational health nurse for an appointment
- Counselling services. Home, work and study can create real challenges, but talking it over can help turn big hurdles into manageable steps. Don't wait until problems get on top of you, make an appointment to see our counsellor.
Who can use the Waiariki health services?
- All students can access health and disability services
- All students can see our campus doctor, note, the Health Centre can directly claim medical insurance for International students
- Free counselling service available to all students
What else do I need to know?
- It is recommended that students and staff new to Rotorua register with a local doctor
- Students studying forestry, agriculture, horticulture and automotive engineering need to be up to date with adult tetanus vaccinations
- Students under 18 years need to register with a dentist for free dental care
Smokefree in 2014
Waiariki wishes to promote an environment that is safe and healthy for all students, staff and visitors, and protect the right of everyone to breathe in clean air. In order to support the New Zealand government's goal to become a smokefree country by 2025, all Waiariki campuses proudly become smokefree on World Smokefree Day on May 31, 2014.
Waiariki's Health Centre is available to provide free support for students and staff who wish to quit smoking at any time.
For more information see the Smokefree information website http://smokefree.org.nz/
Waiariki Health Centre Contact Details
- Location:M Block, Mokoia Campus
- Contact:Health Centre Staff
- Phone:07 346 8883
- Phone:0800 924 274, ext. 8883
- Hours:Monday–Friday, 8.30am – 4pm (reduced hours during term breaks)
- Map:Mokoia Campus Map (1.6 MB updated 14-Jan-2015)
- More information:Students on campuses in Taupo, Tokoroa and Whakatane, contact the receptionist.
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Kadner: Jackson Jr. and that Senate seat
By Phil Kadner firstname.lastname@example.com July 1, 2013 7:26PM
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Former Gov. Rod Blagojevich sits in a federal prison, convicted of trying to sell a U.S. Senate seat.
But no one has been convicted, or even arrested, by federal authorities, for trying to buy that Senate seat.
As Jesse Jackson Jr., the former congressman, awaits sentencing for illegally spending more than $750,000 in campaign funds, many wonder why he was never charged with trying to buy the Senate seat once held by President Barack Obama.
"There's no question in my mind he tried to buy the Senate seat," said attorney Michael Ettinger, who represented the governor's brother, Robert Blagojevich, who was initially accused of being a middleman in the alleged deal.
The first trial of the Blagojevich brothers resulted in a hung jury on the most serious charges. The government eventually dropped the charges against Robert and went on to convict Rod Blagojevich of 17 felony charges in a second trial.
Ettinger, whose law firm is in Palos Heights, speculated that the government may have been reluctant to go after Jackson because the two key witnesses, Indian-American businessmen who supposedly made the offer of $6 million for the Senate seat on behalf of Jackson, were not of good character.
Raguveer Nayak, one of the key players in the pay-to-play scheme, faces a 19-count indictment for allegedly paying kickbacks to doctors to refer patients to his medical clinics.
It was well known at the time of Blagojevich's trials that Nayak was under federal investigation for fraud in that alleged scheme. Nayak was not called as a witness in either Blagojevich trial.
During the second trial, however, Jackson did take the stand as a defense witness. He was asked about Nayak and called him a "very close" friend, "lovable," "likeable," the sort of "gentleman you would welcome into your home."
It later turned out Nayak was also the sort of fellow whom a married congressman might ask to pay for his girlfriend's airline ticket from Washington, D.C., to Chicago. Jackson had admitted to federal agents before the Blagojevich trial that Nayak had performed precisely that favor for him.
Prior to all those revelations, however, Jackson had described Nayak to me as a braggart, a hanger-on, the sort of guy who always was coming up with big plans that amounted to nothing. He was a funny guy, whom no one took seriously, Jackson said.
Well, it turned out that Jackson took Nayak very seriously. He often had him to his Washington, D.C., office for drinks and cigars, and they frequently dined together in the nation's capital.
After learning the truth about the Nayak-Jackson connection, I stated in this column that a man who could be trusted to secretly transport your mistress across the country would be precisely the sort of guy you might trust to present an offer to buy a U.S. Senate seat on your behalf.
Jackson has always denied he was involved in any such arrangement to join the Senate.
In fact, he said he told people lobbying on his behalf for the position to be careful about what they said to Blagojevich because he was under federal investigation and possibly being wiretapped by the FBI.
"I think he (Jackson) was tipped off about the investigation by someone in the federal government," Ettinger said. "There are tapes of him talking to the Indian businessmen, telling them to be very careful about what they say to Blagojevich because he's being investigated."
There are those who believe (Ettinger is among them) that someone in the Obama administration reached out to the U.S. attorney's office in Chicago and let it be known that Jackson Jr. should not be indicted.
But it is also a fact that Jackson was cooperating with investigators, and he has said as much publicly.
Whatever the case, arresting a sitting congressman, the son of a prominent civil rights leader, would have doubtless created a lot of political pressure.
A conviction would not have been a slam dunk. The best evidence of that is the difficulty the U.S. attorney's office had in convicting Blagojevich.
Those with short memories may not remember there were a lot of people claiming the former governor was being treated unfairly and had done nothing different than previous officeholders.
Add race into the mix and any Jackson trial would have created a storm of controversy.
All of that said, I can't help feeling that the public deserved its day in court.
This was a U.S. Senate seat someone tried to acquire by offering an Illinois governor a bribe.
It was the public's trust in its elected officials and the government itself that were the victims.
To let the matter dangle, to not even address the issue directly in a courtroom, has left many citizens feeling that the justice system failed them.
Jackson's sentencing on the misuse of campaign funds, which was scheduled for Wednesday, has been delayed. He has pleaded guilty, as has his wife, former Chicago Ald. Sandi Jackson, to separate charges of income tax evasion.
To some, the fact the Jacksons have been humiliated, forced to resign their elected offices and are likely headed to prison is enough punishment.
I don't feel a need to see the Jacksons suffer further.
But I would like Jackson, as part of any sentencing deal, to fully confess in open court to whatever role he played in a scandal that resulted in the criminal conviction of an Illinois governor.
Failing that, I would hope that federal prosecutors fully disclose what they know about Jackson's participation in the bribery scheme during their listing of his prior "bad acts" to the judge.
The government has indicated it has no objection to staggered prison sentences for the Jacksons, allowing one parent to remain home with their two children.
That's fine with me, provided that Jackson finally tells the people the truth about that bribe.

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You said, "It's time — past time — for Oregonians to taste the porridge that is just right. Let's make a PERS bed that fulfills only the original promises of a retirement program that became overstuffed while no one was looking."
"In 1981, the Legislature decided to add another retirement formula, one based solely on years of service and a worker's final salary. Lawmakers set a clear goal with the new formula: Public employees with at least 30 years of service (25 years in the case of police and firefighters) should receive a pension equal to about 50 percent to 60 percent of their final salary."
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Once you have the inside information, use it. That's what Andrew J. Birol does best. Birol, 42, owns Pacer Associates Inc., a Cleveland-based business consulting company, and is the author of Focus. Accomplish. Grow. The Business Owner's Guide to Growth (Pacer Associates). He seems like a nice enough guy, as long as he's on your side. His strategies may not destroy a competitor, but being on the receiving end of them is likely as pleasant as enduring a shark attack.
One of the oldest and best tricks, Birol says, is to "selectively raise prices on high-maintenance, low-margin customers." If you have an undesirable client, jack up that customer's prices 25 percent. "Five or 10 percent, they might understand and try to absorb," says Birol, "but 25 percent is tantamount to telling your client they have ugly children. They'll go."
And to whom will they turn? Your rivals, of course. "While your competitors are rushing in-and regretting it later-you can concentrate on poaching their customers," offers Birol. "If you can move the bad apples onto your competitor and ultimately raise the competitor's costs, it's almost like infecting them with a bad virus." Ouch.
Another strategy, says Birol, is "the fake-out." Birol worked with a manufacturing firm that learned its competitors had been spying on the company by counting the number of trucks hauling products from its warehouse. (See, this sort of thing happens all the time.) Birol advised the company to "fool [the competitor] into believing their new product was a runaway hit." They scheduled 30 trucks to leave the warehouse every day, instead of their normal four. So the competition put its workers on extra shifts to make more-and ended up with a factory full of products nobody needed.
And once, one of Birol's clients, a chemical firm-let's call it Company A-had a traitor in its midst who was feeding secrets to Company B. Since the traitor had signed a contract stating he wouldn't give away trade secrets, Birol's clients made certain the employee would be able to steal an important formula for a new product. Shortly afterwards, the employee went to work for the rival firm, and the stolen product hit the market. "The lawyers started licking their chops," says Birol. Company A sicced its lawyers on Company B, which learned that it couldn't manufacture the product without going to jail; meanwhile, Company A was able to hit the market with its original and legal formula and make a fortune.
So is there a trick to coming up with these tricks? "You know what I think it is?" says Birol. "Recognize that you're dealing with people's egos more than you're dealing with rational behavior, and structure strategies that will provoke-and, frankly, fool-people who are likely to let their egos get in the way of their brains."
Case in point: One of Birol's clients worked with a manufacturing rep who declared, "We won't let you carry this line unless you drop all competing products." The client could have bowed to the rep's wishes, but instead it created "a shell company," says Birol. The company had its employee pretend to quit and strike out on his own, assuming (correctly) that the rep would run into the arms of the newly independent company. "But what do you know?" says Birol. "Eight months later, our [employee] decided to rejoin the company and fold his company back into this one." The rep, having already established ties to the employee's new company, was forced to bring its account to the parent.
So you're desperate to obliterate your competitor? Here are two suggestions-but check with your attorney before proceeding.
- Make your competitor see another type of green: If your nemesis is polluting the skies or planning to raze a meadow to build a warehouse, start a grass-roots campaign against the company. Talk to the press; place ads. Get the public angry. Get them to hate your competitor and love you for caring about the woods and the sky. Talk fondly of Thumper and Bambi, and of your children's health. Weep openly.
- Sacrifice your family: When your least capable, most bungling family members call you to ask for a job, release a heavy sigh about the shaky economy and then cheerfully tell them about the job openings at the competition.
Geoff Williams has written for numerous publications, including Entrepreneur, Consumer Reports, LIFE and Entertainment Weekly. He also is the author of Living Well with Bad Credit.
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Theory of truth according to which a belief is true just in case, or to the extent that, it coheres with a system of other beliefs. Philosophers have differed over the relevant sense of cohere, though most agree that it must be stronger than mere consistency. Among rival theories of truth, perhaps the oldest is the correspondence theory, which holds that the truth of a belief consists in its correspondence with independently existing facts. In epistemology, coherentism contrasts with foundationalism, which asserts that ordinary beliefs are justified if they are inferrable from a set of basic beliefs that are justified immediately or directly. Coherentism often has been combined with the idealist doctrine that reality consists of, or is knowable only through, ideas or judgments (see idealism).
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Bulua studes show off dances in field demo
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MORE than four thousand students of Bulua Elementary School showed off their graceful dances during the field demonstration held on Wednesday at the school's open field as part of today's feast of Immaculate Conception, the patron saint of Barangay Bulua.
Garbed in their colorful costumes, the students swayed and danced the country's different folk dances, starting from kindergarten up to Grade Six.
Parents were around to give cheer to their students while the teachers and barangay officials were also on hand to make sure the event was a success.
Barangay Bulua chairperson Al Legaspi said this activity is just part of the week-long fiesta celebration honoring Immaculate Conception, whose feast falls on every 8th of December.
Every year, school officials hold a field demonstration, held every Dec. 7, showing the Philippines' folk dances.
The event starts with a parade around the barangay's main thoroughfare, which is also participated in by students of different schools in Bulua.
Legaspi says as what was already been part of the tradition, they are paying tribute to their patron saint for another year of blessing.
"Our barangay is one of the fastest growing barangays in the city in terms of development and infrastructures," he says.
According to A. Paulita R. Roa, acting curator of the Cagayan de Oro Museum, in the olden times, Barangay Bulua was already well known by its pottery because the area is abundant with rich soil, the main component of making pots.
However, she said the name Bulua does not exist as it is just an extension of Barangay Patag.
"Bulua was once an elevated place used to be a pasteur field and a swampy area one kilometer from Iponan River and six kilometers away from the city," she says.
Roa shares that in 1936, the place experienced scarcity of water.
But residents were able to find a source of clear water named Mabuluac.
It all started when a person named Pedro who came all the way from the hill carrying clay accidentally discovered the area, which is located at Zone 2.
What Pedro discovered was a source of water that flowed out endlessly, which the residents termed "bulwak".
Later on, the name became Buluak and now Bulua where the name of the barangay was taken.
Roa said it was a blessing for the people of Bulua that is why they name their barangay after the spring that still exists until now.
Legaspi said in remembering the barangay's legend and their patron saint, he always makes it a point to have different activities to make the fiesta celebration meaningful and lively.
Among the activities lined up in today's fiesta celebration are an early Mass, a basketball tournament for persons with disability and the Bulua Got Talent to be held at the barangay's covered court.
The barangay's week-long celebration kicked off last November 30 with a Barangay Night.
Other activities held include a Religious Night on December 1, Battle of the Band on December 2, Hip-Hop Competition on Dec. 4, Indigay sa Awit grand finals on December 5 and Mutya ng Bulua coronation night on December 6.
Published in the Sun.Star Cagayan de Oro newspaper on December 08, 2011.
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New York, March 30, 2010
TIAA-CREF today announced that its Growth & Income Fund, Institutional Class (TIGRX), was awarded a 2010 Lipper Fund Award for five-year Consistent Return in Lipper's large-cap core category. The fund ranked number one out of 655 funds in the Lipper category.1
This award recognizes the fund's strong five-year risk-adjusted performance for the period ended December 31, 2009 under the direction of portfolio manager Susan Kempler and the domestic large-cap core portfolio management team.
TIAA-CREF is America's largest private retirement system and manages retirement savings on behalf of 3.6 million Americans in the academic, research, medical and cultural fields.
"We are pleased that our talented team of portfolio managers and analysts has been recognized with this reward, which demonstrates the value of our long-term, research based investment approach," said Scott Evans, Head of Asset Management, TIAA-CREF. "We remain committed to the disciplined stock selection and risk management processes that have helped us to deliver consistent value to our clients over time."
The TIAA-CREF Growth & Income Fund's award follows its recognition in the same category in 2008. In addition, the TIAA-CREF Bond Fund (TIORX) was included in Kiplinger's "The Biggest and Best Bond Funds" feature in the March 2010 issue.2 60% of TIAA-CREF's funds and variable annuity accounts received an overall Morningstar rating of 3-stars, 21% received 4-stars and 4% received 5-stars across all asset classes as of December 31, 2009.3
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Monday, March 23, 2009
A Tale of Two Sammies: Charlie's Angels & the Sammy Davis Jr. Kidnapping Caper
Angel: "You prefer to go incognito?"
Herbert Brubaker: "Don't you talk no smut, woman, I'm a veteran!"
The very sophisticated and marvelous Sammy Davis Jr. makes a 1978 episode of Charlie's Angels extraordinarily special. The episode to which I refer being found in season two, disc five: "The Kidnapping of Sammy Davis Jr." Thank you very much. But can you dig the split, man? The Jekyll & Hyde split trip this cat's all about? Because tied into a fundraiser Sammy's doing (this all while skirmishing with angels and kidnappers) is a "celebrity look-a-like" contest, with a fake Burt Reynolds, a fake Barbara Streisand, and a... Sammy Davis Jr.! The sheer thinness of all this is stretched to surrealism when Herbert Brubaker III (Davis in platforms) gets mad whenever anyone tells him he looks like Sammy Davis! Why is he at a celebrity look-a-like contest, then? He just wandered into it, baby.
What's cool is how deftly Davis navigates between the two poles. As a white guy reading into it, I'm thinking these baggy pants stereotypes have their purpose in any culture. As an African American artist of widespread white acceptance, a cat like Mr. Davis essentially has to play white better than even a white guy. This results in a hyper-articulateness, since there's perhaps encoded hostility at needing to "become" rather than "be," to enunciate with Poitier-level precision as opposed to the soulful "jive talkin" of popular culture stereotype.
Herbert Brubaker III, President of H&B Boozeterias, becomes the depository of all Davis' abolished black impersonator-impersonator-isms. Sammy's getting old here--you can see ennui in his eyes--and while he's still got tons of class, grace and supreme showmanship, there's a glimmer of getting ready to face something, like Johnny Cash in the "Hurt" video. It's time to take some personal inventory, and exorcise some demons.
The white mainstream acceptance thing carries lots of baggage: The late 1960s through 1970s was a gala time for the sophisticated black comic, ala Bill Cosby and Flip Wilson, while at the same time there's the Black Panthers and the underlying pressure to not let your "blackness" slip away by catering too much to the white audience. Davis makes a point that the gorgeous woman waiting for him at home (dancer Altovise Gore) is "cocoa-brown" (as opposed to his previous wife, the controversially Swedish blonde Loray White) and he's sporting his jewelry, but he's clearly in the groove of the uber-sophisticated cat, forever erasing chunks of heritage on behalf of advancement, pulling common perception of African American culture behind him while maintaining a lightness and ease that seems heavier than uranium.
Let's not forget that Davis refused to play segregated casinos and thus helped abolish segregation in both Atlantic City and Las Vegas. Let's not forget that Harry Cohn arranged Sammy's kidnapping to scare him off an affair with Kim Novak in the mid 1950s. And while the kidnapping here is pretty nonthreatening all around, it still has a whiff of the real. Of course they pick up Brubaker by accident and when he tries to tell them who he is, the kidnappers say, "This is just a flimsy excuse to weasel out of your own kidnapping." A hilarious line implying that if being kidnapped is some manly rite only the weasely would try to escape from.
Brubaker is Davis' chance to shuck and jive, to tarnish his gloss and get some crazy soft shoe in. For an intellectual artist of Sammy's caliber, a Hyde like Herbert Brubaker III, with his huge blue and white checkered flared pants and white platform shoes (Sammy can barely walk in them [he's only filmed from dead front or behind]) must have been some kind of crazy liberation. He finds the perfect group of supporters in the lovely angels, and gives a veritable refresher course in the proper etiquette for dealing with three beautiful lady bodyguards, who really can't bodyguard worth a damn (they like to jump on the suspect's back like children). As the top quote "don't talk no smut" indicates, this is a land where no bad guy is bad enough to sexually assault, torture, or even intimidate anyone; a comfortingly sexless universe filled with sexual symbols that lead nowhere. In this groovy 1970s paradise "the Candy Man" fits like a crazy supersexy glove, just another reminder that once upon a time stars could be sexy without implying sex, cool without being vapid, and nice without being hopelessly corny.
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- Anonymous26 March, 2009
did you know Charlie's Angels was copied from Japanese TV show called Playgirl? Aaron knew he had a hit on his hands
http://japansugoi.com/wordpress/charlies-angels-copied-from-japanese-tv-series-playgirl-%E3%83%97%E3%83%AC%E3%82%A4%E3%82%AC%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB/ During the 1970's, Charlie's angels was one of the most successful action TV series. Sony already released the seasons 1-4 of Charlie's angels on DVD. I would definitely grab a copy of that.
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Hi, I'm Roy Berendsohn, a senior home editor with Popular Mechanics. And we're here to talk about Generator Safety. Providing back-up power with a generator is great, but like any piece of outdoor power equipment, it has to be done safely. So we'll review the 3 aspects of that: fuel, emissions and electrical. Why don't we start with fueling first because it's the simplest. You'll see that the gas tank is mounted on the top of the generator. This generator is supposed to have an airspace of an inch and a half above the gasoline and the tank. So never full-- never fuel the gas tank up completely so that the gas is at the base of the cap. Always leave yourself a space of an inch and a half or whatever the manufacturer specifies. It does 2 things; it allows the gas in the tank room to expand when the gasoline in the tank heats up from the heat rising up from the generator. It also prevents fuel spills from creating a fire hazard. You'll notice that this tank has a dished area on the top that's meant to catch minor fuel spills. In case you do spill some fuel, be sure to wipe it up immediately, tighten down the cap and then begin your generator operation. A vitally important aspect in running a Generator Safety is being mindful of the machine's exhaust. You can see the exhaust port here on the side of the generator. It's important to shut garage doors-- doors and windows in the vicinity of the generator. And as simple as it sounds, always remember that the exhaust points away from the house. You connect the generator to the home's electrical system with a heavy-duty exterior cord, specifically designed to operate the generator. You could see it has a male end and a female end. The male end plugs in to the side of the generator and the female end connects through the specialized outlet that mounts to the house's siding. There are 2 ways that you can run a generator, one is by plugging extension cords into the outlets that you see on the left. But a better, safer and more efficient way is to use the heavy-duty extension cord, plug that into the generator and then wrap that through the outlet on the side of the house, through the transfer switch and into the house's surface panel. On the outside of the house, we have a specialized piece of hardware called a flanged outlet. On the inside of the house, we have another specialized piece of hardware called a transfer switch. The most important thing about a transfer switch is that it accomplishes this movement of electricity safely. You can see a row of switches and inside are circuit breakers. Each switch has 3 positions: line, off and generator. During a power outage, you move the switch from line through off to the generator position. That prevents power from back-flowing from the generator onto the electrical grid work and ensures the utility worker who's making repairs to the grid outside the house. Let's go start it up. Starting a generator is similar to starting any piece of outdoor power equipment. You move the ignition switch to the ON position, the choke leather to full choke, and then you pull Start. And here's a final tip about generator operation: run your generator several times during the year to be sure that you're prepared when the power goes out. For popularmechanics.com, I'm Roy Berendsohn.
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Apple diehards now have a way to fling their Amazon Instant Video to their television screens -- if they didn't have a TV that could already do that.
Amazon's latest update of its Instant Video app for iOS adds the ability to watch videos on Apple TV via Airplay.
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Like most people, I don't know too much about prospects. I don't get to see them play before they reach the big leagues and, even then, my exposure to most young players is somewhat limited. Like most people, I don't have the scouting chops to decide who will become a star and who lacks the batspeed to make an impact at the big league level. I am not an expert, nor do I pretend to be one.
What makes a player number two on some lists but number six on another? Something catches the list complier's eye or something a baseball evaluator says really resonates. Who knows? Internet lists are internet lists, they are built to entice clicks and generate conversation. Scouting Book provides a real time compilation of the rankings, creating their own composite top prospects list.
Jurickson Profar remains the consensus best prospect in the game and for good reason. Just 20-years old, Profar plays a premium defensive position (the premium defensive position?) of shortstop. He has a big body and packs some punch in his switch-hitting bat. There is a lot to love.
After that, who knows? Is Oscar Taveras more likely to reach his stratosphere-high ceiling than Dylan Bundy? Is Wil Myers the second coming of Mike Trout? All of the above are possible while none of the possible outcomes are particularly likely.
I don't know anything but, for my money, there one player who I think will have the best career of any player in the current prospect class is Dylan Bundy of the Baltimore Orioles.
Again, I don't know anything about anything. I know that Dylan Bundy is really, really good – the kind of pitcher who talent scouts believe could have walked directly off the high school baseball field straight into a Major League clubhouse.
When I hear players described as having an "[e]lite combination of stuff and pitchability" or "one of the minors' best deliveries" while others hail him as a "once-in-a-generation talent", well, I get on-board.
A kid with all the weapons and the makeup and the want to become one of the best in the game. A pitcher who dominated professional baseball players more than three years his senior without his best pitch, a darting cutter the Orioles are reluctant to unleash. The Orioles plan to let Bundy go all out in 2013, starting the year in Double-A with an eye to the big club down the stretch. They plan to limit his innings but won't shut him down at any point.
Pitchers are nothing if not volatile, with injury and velocity decline lurking around every corner. Position players are the sure thing, which pushes players like Profar and Tavares ahead on most lists. But I'll take my chances with Bundy. If I'm starting a team today, he's the guy I want. If we're looking back ten or fifteen years from now, he's the guy I think with the best career numbers.
Reckless as that might be, there simply aren't many True Aces in baseball. And to these untrained eyes, Bundy can be just that. Consider me all-in on Bundy. Despite my…distaste for the Orioles, there is nothing I want to see more than Bundy come close to his ceiling of a dominant right-handed workhorse. I'm selfish that way.
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MiH Oversize Shirt from Thread on Grandview(love the different colors/washes you can get here), MOTHER The Looker Skinny Jeans from Rowe Boutique(different wash here), Sam Edelman Petty Booties, J. Crew Leather Round-Buckle Belt, Avenue BoutiqueAntique German Bead Bracelets(you can still get 15% off with the code LUCKYSTAR15), and Honey Rose & K x More Than Words Jewelry necklace (detail shots below).
Here's the necklace! Love all the different vintage charms from Honey Rose & K and the adorable stamped ram from More Than Words Jewelry. You can find this collection at Rowe Boutique.
The simplest way to wear this shirt is untucked and with a pair of skinny jeans. It's the outfit you wear when you have no idea what to wear. Easy. Simple. Classic.
If you follow my blog, you know I love a good half tuck. All you have to do is unbutton one or two of the bottom buttons and tuck in one of the shirttails. It's a great way to show off your favorite belt while still looking a little disheveled and cool.
Another way to switch up this blouse is by unbuttoning a few of the bottom buttons and tying them together in a pretty knot. It tones down the volume of the shirt and also allows you to show off your belt!


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The Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians is a federally recognized Native American tribe located on the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation in Belcourt, North Dakota.
The tribe has 30,722 enrolled members (2010 BIA Labor Force Report), with a little over 16,500 living on or adjacent to the 6 x 12 reservation.
Historical Overview
The reservation was established by Executive Orders of December 21, 1882, and March 29, 1884 on an area of 72,000 acres of land. This initial land base proved to be inadequate for the population of the reservation.
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Although the question of what constitutes a Thing is an ancient one, it is pressing today in a number of humanities fields: for example, in literary studies, "material culture studies" continue, and the broader question of the historical contextualization of literature in a world of things remains an important but multiply vexed one; in continental philosophical work, "object-oriented philosophy" and other new post-post-structuralist directions have arrived in search of new non-Heideggerian models of referentiality; and in the real world global crises of economy and environment, the human situation is raising with a new urgency the question, "What is a 'Thing'?" and to invite papers that explore interpretively from today's perspective various key responses to this question since the Romantic period.
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During the high point of German idealism from the end of the eighteenth through the first half of the nineteenth century German philosophers and writers imagined the human as a mixture between angel and animal. They emphasized the spiritual qualities of the human over the base instincts of the animal. Such efforts to preserve the reign of the spirit over the body are particularly pronounced in the German context and can be seen as reactions to materialist and empiricist assumptions that were gaining momentum with the emerging life sciences. The ideological implications of such attempts to safeguard human sovereignty are the focus of the conference. It will explore literary, scientific, and philosophical endeavors at defining and redefining the borders between the human and the animal from the late eighteenth century up to the twentieth century.
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By Ryan D'Agostino
Lynn Brennan
"Hey, who needs a political career?" the congressman said again. "I mean, that'll be the end of that, because when I go public with this, they'll come after me with everything they've got, and I mean everything. But if I'm going to go down in flames, I may as well do something good."
Massa was declared free of cancer in 1999, a cancer his doctors had once described as terminal, and eventually decided to follow his old boss Wesley Clark into politics. In 2006, he almost exhausted his savings and spent his family into debt campaigning for the reliably Republican congressional seat that included the town of Corning, where he lived. And four days after he lost that race by a respectable three percentage points, he decided that he would be running again and that he would not give up until he represented New York 29 in Congress. It was hard to imagine anyone wanting to be in the Congress of the United States more than Eric Massa. So barely a year into his congressional career, it was surprising to hear Massa sound so sanguine eager, even about the prospect of self-immolation. Martyrdom. And that, of course, assumed that his information about David Petraeus from his "four generals" was even remotely correct, and that also assumed that Massa's analysis was correct, and that coming forward with such information would destroy him, a piece of thinking that seemed arguable at the very least. Beneath his protestations that he didn't ask for this mission, there was a messianic quality to Massa's presentation. Sometimes you look around and there's just no one else left to do the right thing.
BEHIND THE SCENES: What Do Massa's Allegations Mean?
"So here's what I've done. Earlier this week, I made a call to the Pentagon. I went to the very top the senior uniformed officers stationed at the Pentagon and I said, 'I need a meeting.' I was told, 'You can't have one, they're very busy. What's it about?' And I told the official, 'If I have to get up at a committee hearing and go public with this, it will cause the mother of all shitstorms and your life will be hell. So I need a meeting. Now.'
"And so four days ago I went to the Pentagon and sat across from some of the most highly decorated officers in the United States military, and I briefed them on the situation, the gravity of which was lost on no one, and I said, 'Gentlemen, I'm giving you a week to get an answer from General Petraeus. The clock starts now.' "
"Did they take you seriously, Congress-man?"
"Oh, oh yes. You could have heard a pin drop."
Our meeting was over. Massa, exercised by the rigors of moral suasion, leaned back in his chair, suddenly at ease. He took the last gulp of his coffee, cold by now, and looked at me with a mischievous glint in his eye. "What are you, seventeen?" He turned to another editor and pointed at me. "What is he, seventeen?" Turning back to me, he laughed and said, "You better watch yourself around gay bars, my friend. It could get interesting."
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The U.S. House of Representatives passed a package of anti-human trafficking legislation on May 21. NCSL supported two of these bills. The bills are now before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee for consideration in late June. NCSL has been working with sponsors of these bills in both chambers for six months and it is encouraging to see them moving through the committee process. NCSL is the first national state organization to adopt a formal policy position on the issue of human trafficking, which encourages improved coordination among federal agencies as well as improved federal outreach, consultation, coordination and assistance to states and territories with regard to strengthening trafficking enforcement and assistance to trafficking victims. HR 3530 sponsored by Representative Ted Poe (R-Texas) will permit the attorney general to make grants to states or local governments. These grants can be used for a variety of activities to combat human trafficking and assist victims of trafficking. The grants can be used to establish, improve or expand comprehensive domestic child human trafficking deterrence programs that help law enforcement officers, prosecutors, judicial officials and qualified victims' services organizations address human trafficking. The bill also raises the cap in the Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) to permit state flexibility to use the funds toward the establishment or enhancement of specialized law enforcement training, task force units, problem-solving court programs or victims' services programs. See summary here. HR 3610 sponsored by Representative Erik Paulsen (R-Minn.) provides incentives to localities on their Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), if the locality is within a state that treats a minor who has engaged in or attempted to engage in a commercial sex act as a victim of human trafficking. It also discourages the charging or prosecution of such person with prostitution or a sex trafficking offense, or encourages the diversion of such person to appropriate service providers. This legislation also establishes a nationsl huamn trafficking hotline beginning in FY 2017 through grants made by the secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. See summary here. S 1738 sponsored by Senator John Cornyn is the companion bill to HR 3530 (as originally introduced). It contains a different funding mechanism to support state efforts in combating human trafficking. This bill provides for a special assessment that will fine convicted felons of trafficking and pornography-related offenses a $5,000 penalty which will be placed in a fund and distributed directly to states to assist with victims' services and law enforcement efforts. There is also a trafficking victim certification provision that is intended to streamline the process for receipt of victims' services. This bill also contains racketeering provisions that permit prosecutors to prosecute an entire human trafficking ring in a single trial so that victims only have to testify once. S 1738 also contains expanded asset forfeiture language that parallels federal money laundering law. This provision permits forfeiture of any asset involved in, not just used in, a trafficking offense. See summary here. S 1733 sponsored by Senator Amy Klobuchar is the companion bill to HR 3610 (as originally introduced) contains an additional provision providing for the establishment of a national strategy to combat human trafficking. Under the provision the Attorney General will coordinate efforts to develop this strategy. See summary here.
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by Louis Alexander
We are what we eat, what we wear, what we drive, etc. Yes, we may be all of those things, but, principally, we are what we speak. Our mother tongue rules every moment of our lives. In our waking hours it is the language we use to communicate to others. It is also the language we use to communicate to ourselves through our thoughts: what is often called 'the stream of consciousness'. When we are asleep, it is the language that dominates our dreams.
Our mother tongue is therefore a kind of code which we share with other native speakers. In some cultures, this code is regarded as exclusive. For example, in such cultures, native speakers might regard it as intrusion if foreigners learn their language too well: as if the acquisition of their language by a foreigner is an invasion of 'national privacy'. They may actually feel shocked that a foreigner has acquired their language with a high degree of fluency and, in doing so, has obtained access to the code through which they communicate with each other. They rightly feel they 'own' their language. In the case of English, by comparison, speakers from the Indian sub-continent can lay as much claim to 'owning' English as speakers in the UK. No one country now exclusively 'owns' English.
If language and culture are inextricably bound together, what happens when you try to acquire a foreign language like English? Do you have to adopt the 'consciousness' of native speakers (British, American, Australian, etc.)? Not at all! English is now the acknowledged 'lingua franca' of the entire world. Learners of English expect to be able to communicate with other people round the globe, regardless of their culture. The most common use of English as an international language is in business and in tourism where it is quite normal for (say) a Finn to be communicating with a South Korean during a business meeting in (say) Mexico City.
Direct English deals with this reality in a number of ways. First, it assumes that when we are using English in our own countries we are communicating with foreign visitors and the situations practised reflect this reality: entertaining foreign guests at home or in restaurants, showing them the sights, acting as interpreter, etc. Second, when we are using English outside our own countries, the situations practised again reflect this reality: getting about, securing accommodation, asking for help to cope with an unfamiliar environment and strange customs. The English taught in Direct English avoids all culture-bound activities, including sports such as cricket or baseball, visits to pubs or anything too closely associated with the culture of native speakers. People who are using English as an international language simply do not need to know about the varying cultural backgrounds of the English-speaking world because they may never have to visit an English-speaking country. This kind of specialized knowledge is necessary only for diplomats, business people or immigrants who intend to take up temporary or permanent residence in the English-speaking world, not for casual visitors.
We can think of speakers of English as falling into three circles: 1) the 'inner circle', ENL (= English as a Native Language). This is the language spoken by native speakers among themselves and often is and will continue to be a difficult code for non-natives to penetrate; 2) the 'middle circle', ESL (= English as a Second Language), where English is the medium of instruction in all subjects in schools in countries outside the English-speaking world and is therefore a 'second language'; 3) the 'outer circle', EFL (= English as a Foreign Language), where English is taught for a few hours a week in schools. This is English as an International Language (EIL) which is the only concern of Direct English.
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After completing her degree at Nottingham Trent in 2003, designer Kirsty Whyte spent some time at Sweden's Kalmar University, studying glass design, before establishing her own shop in London in 2008. She's spent the past year in Shanghai to explore the relationship between development and manufacturing, and she's glad to back in her native UK in time for next week's design festivities.
Indeed, she's exhibited work during London Design Festival in the past, with a strong showing in 2009 that included the Gordo table lamps (above), the Warp clocks and Limpet wall hooks (below).
More recent projects include the Drew tables for Modus, which consist of round glass surface atop an Eiffel-like steel rod base.
[The tables] use same design language and manufacturing process—made from one continuous piece of steel rod—meaning minimal material is wasted in production. The forms have been pared down, making an even purer form. They are smaller and lighter so it can sit with any contemporary environment.
Whyte notes that the DREW range originally launched in Spring 2009; the tables seen here launched in Milan last year.
Last but not least, Whyte was selected for Heal's Discovers 2011, for which she created the "Twist" nesting tables and Nesting Candleholders.
The "Twist" tables are precisely that, a playful take on nesting tables. The powdercoated aluminum legs of the larger two tables can slot into legs of the smaller two.
As for the candleholders—quasi-interlocking walnut blocks of orthogonally-joined 1×2 units—Whyte notes that she "came up with the idea for these candleholders whilst playing around with OXO cubes."


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Learning to talk begins during infancy. Babies learn about the world around them through looking, listening, touching, and movement.
The earlier you interact with your baby helps them to build the foundation for communication skills.
Talk, sing and play games with your baby. They know familiar sounds and voices and will start to respond by babbling, smiling and giggling. We communicate in a variety of different ways through facial expressions, tones and gestures.
Early non-verbal communication signs include:
- eye contact
- smiling
- babbling
- turn taking
- gestures
After you bring your baby home, you may want to look into getting them into an early intervention program. A team will evaluate your baby to determine what services will be needed and by whom. They will design a plan that will incorporate your goals for your child and provide you activities that you can do with your child at home. One of the therapists may be a Speech Language Pathologist.
Some of the interventions they work on may be hearing, stimulating visual skill development, feed/eating and sensory integration. These types of interventions will help lay the foundations needed for speech and language development.
Getting your child the right therapy from the very beginning will help them to reach their milestones quicker.
There is a lot of great information and resources out there for you to get ideas for different activities you can do at home to help your child build their communication skills.
One of those great resources is:
This book provides you some good activities that you can do at home with your child along with the activities that your therapist may want you to do.
Other Resources:
Down Syndrome Education Online
National Down Syndrome Society – Speech & Language Skills
You may also want to teach your child sign language, this may help them to communicate their needs earlier if they are having difficult with oral motor and language skills. Some people may think that either learning/teaching sign language is hard and some people may also think that if they teach their child sign language they will never learn to talk. That is not the case.
It's a form of communication (a second language). When you teach sign language you are not only signing but you are also saying the word. I taught my son sign language and it was very beneficial to both him and us because it helped him to ask for the things he wanted. He now is very verbal, but still signs and speaks the first couple of signs that we taught him "more" and "bottle."
The sign language program that worked for us was the Signing Times dvd's/flashcards:
You should be able to rent these at your local library or if you are part of a Down Syndrome support group they may have them in their library. They are definitely worth looking at.
Now that Jacob is almost 6 years old he is starting to learn how to write words.
In this video you can watch him learning how to write and read the word "hero." (click picture to be taken to YouTube)


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Meg Whitman will make a special visit to San Luis Obispo this afternoon.
The Republican candidate for governor is scheduled to speak at the 2010 Gubernatorial Candidate Series. It's being hosted by the Lincoln Club and the Republican Party of San Luis Obispo County.
The event will be held at Tolosa Winery and Vineyards, located at 4910 Edna Road. A private reception begins at 4:30 p.m. and a general reception from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
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