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SPLIT, alone of all cities in Dalmatia, has a Neapolitan air. It recalls Naples because it also is a tragic and architecturally magnificent sausage machine, where a harried people of mixed race have been forced by history to run for centuries through the walls and cellars and sewers of ruined palaces, and have now been evicted by a turn of events into the open day, neat and slick and uniform, taking to modern clothes and manners with the adaptability of oil, though at the same time they are set apart forever from the rest of the world by the arcana of language and thoughts they learned to share while they scurried for generations close-pressed through the darkness.
Split presents its peculiar circumstances to the traveler the minute he steps ashore: the history of the place was on our right and our left. On the left was the marine market, where fishing boats are used for stalls; men who must be a mixture of sailor and retailer bring goods over from the islands, take their boats head-on to the quay, and lay out their wares in little heaps on the prows. Pitiful little heaps they often are, of blemished apples, rags of vegetables, yellowish boards of dried fish; but the men who sell them are not pitiful. They look tough as their own dried fish, and stand by with an air of power and pride. This coast feeds people with other things than food; it grudges them the means of life, but lets them live. On our right was a row of shops, the cafes and rubbishries which face any port; the houses that rise above them were squeezed between the great Corinthian columns in the outer gallery of Diocletian's palace.
For Split is Diocletian's palace: the palace he built himself in 305, when, after twenty years of imperial office, he abdicated. The town has spread beyond the palace walls, but the core of it still lies within the four gates. Diocletian built it to be within suburban reach of the Roman town of Salona, which lies near by on the gentle slopes between the mountains and the coastal plain; it was already the site of a Greek settlement, which was called Aspalaton, from a fragrant shrub still specially abundant here. In the seventh century, the Avars, that tribe of barbarian marauders who were to lead to a currency crisis in the Middle Ages because they looted so much gold from Eastern and Central Europe and hoarded it, came down on Dalmatia. They swept down on Salona and destroyed it by fire and the sword. The greater part of the population were killed, but some had time to flee out to the islands, which gave them the barest refuge. What they suffered in those days from cold and hunger and thirst is still remembered in common legend. In time they crept back to the mainland, where they found nothing left more habitable than the ruins of Diocletian's palace. There they made shelters for themselves against the day when there should be peace.
They are still there. Peace never came. They were assailed by the Huns, the Hungarians, the Venetians, the Austrians, and some of them would say that with the overcoming of those last enemies they still did not win peace; and during these centuries of strife the palace and the fugitives have established a perfect case of symbiosis. It has housed them; they are now its props. After the war there was a movement to evacuate Split and restore the palace to its ancient magnificence by pulling down the houses that had been wedged in between its walls and columns; but surveyors very soon found out that, if these went, all Diocletian's work would fall to the ground. The people that go quickly and darkly about the streets have given the stone the help it gave them.
"I should like to go into the palace at once," said my husband, "and I greatly wish we could have brought Robert Adam's book of engravings with us." That thought must occur to many people who go to Split. Adam's book on Diocletian's palace is one of the most entertaining revelations of the origins of our day, pretty in itself and an honor to its author. He came here from Venice in 1757, and made a series of drawings which aimed at showing what the palace had been like at the time of its building, in order to obtain some idea of "the private edifices of the ancients." The enterprise took a great deal of perseverance and courage, for all idea of the original plan had been lost centuries before, and he had to trace the old walls through the modern buildings and was often hindered by the suspicions of both the inhabitants and the authorities. The Venetian governor of the town was quite sure he was a spy and wanted to deport him, but the commander in chief of the Venetian garrison, who happened to be a Scotsman, and one of his Croat officers were sufficiently cultured to recognize Adam for what he was, and they got him permission to carry on his work under the supervision of a soldier.
The indirect results were the best of Georgian architecture, with its emphasis on space and variety and graceful pomp; often when we look at a facade in Portman Square or a doorway in Portland Place, we are looking at Roman Dalmatia. The direct result was this book of enchanting drawings, some of them engraved by Bartolozzi.
"Yes," I said to my husband, "it is disgusting that one cannot remember pictures and drawings exactly. It would have been wonderful to have the book by us and see exactly how the palace struck a man of two centuries ago, and how it strikes us, who owe our eye for architecture largely to that man."
"Then why did we not bring the book?" asked my husband.
"Well, it weighs just over a stone," I said; "I weighed it once on the bathroom scales."
"Why did you do that?"
"Because it occurred to me one day that I knew the weight of nothing except myself and joints of meat," I said, "and I just picked that up to give me an idea of something else."
"Well, well," said my husband, "it makes me distrust Fabre and all other writers on insect life when I realize how mysterious your proceedings would often seem to a superior being watching them through a microscope. But tell me, why didn't we bring it, even if it does weigh a little over a stone? We have a little money to spare for its transport. It would have given us pleasure. Why didn't we do it?"
"Well, it would have been no use," I said; "we couldn't have carried anything so heavy as that about the streets."
"Yes, we could," said my husband; "we could have hired a wheelbarrow and pushed it about from point to point."
"But people would have thought we were mad!" I exclaimed.
"Well, would they?" countered my husband. "That's just what I'm wondering. In fact, it's what made me pursue the subject. These Slavs think all sorts of things natural that we think odd; nothing seems to worry them so long as it satisfies a real desire. I was wondering if they could take a thing like this in their stride; because, after all, we feel a real desire to look at Adam's book here."
"I don't know," I said, "but there is Philip Thompson standing in the doorway of our hotel, and we can ask him."
Philip Thompson teaches English to such inhabitants of Split as wish to learn it. He is a fine-boned, fastidious, observant being, very detached except in his preference for Dalmatia over all other parts of the world, and for Split over all other parts of Dalmatia. We had morning coffee with him in the square outside our hotel, a red stucco copy of a Venetian piazza, with palm trees in it, which is quite a happy effort; and we put the question to him.
"Oh, but they'd think it very odd here, if you went about the streets trundling a book in a wheelbarrow and stopping to look at the pictures in it—very odd indeed," said Philip. "You evidently don't understand that here in Split we are very much on parade. We're not a bit like the Serbs, who don't care what they do, and shout at the top of their voices if they feel angry, and turn cartwheels in the street if they want exercise. That's one of the reasons we don't like the Serbs. To us it seems self-evident that a proud man must guard himself from criticism every moment of the day. That's what accounts for the most salient characteristic of the Splitchani, which is a self-flaying satirical humor; better laugh at yourself before anybody else has time to do it. But formality is another result. I suppose it comes of being watched all the time by people who thought they were better than you—the Dalmatians, the Hungarians, the Venetians, and the Austrians.
"But all this," he continued, "brings to light one very strange thing about Split. Did you notice how I answered you off-hand, as if Split had a perfectly definite character, and I could speak for the whole of its inhabitants? Well, so I could. Yet that's funny, for the old town of Split was a tiny place, really not much more than the palace and a small overflow round its walls, and all this town you see stretching over the surrounding hills and along the coast is new. A very large percentage of the population came here after the war, some to work, some as refugees from the Slav territories which have been given to Italy. Do you see that pretty dark woman who is just crossing the square? She is one of my star pupils and she belongs to a family that left Zara as soon as it was handed over to the Italians, like all the best families of the town. Now Zara has quite a different history, and, from all I hear, quite a different atmosphere. But this woman and her family, and all the others that migrated with her, have been completely absorbed by Split. They are indistinguishable from the natives, and I have seen them in the process of conversion. It's happened gradually but surely. It's a curious victory for a system of manners that, so far as I can see, has nothing to do with economics. For people here are not rich, yet there is considerable elegance.
This is, indeed not a rich city. Later we lunched with Philip in a restaurant which, though small, was not a merely bistro, but was patronized by handsome and dignified people who were either professional or commercial men. For the sweet course we were given two pieces of palatschinken, those pancakes stuffed with jam which one eats all over Central Europe. The Balkans passed the recipe on from the Byzantines, who ate these under the name of palacountas. We could eat no more than one, for the meal, as almost always in these parts, had been good and abundant. "Shall I put the palatschinken in paper for the Herrschaft to take home with them?" asked the waiter. We thought not. But the waiter doubted our sincerity. "Is it because they are strangers," he asked Philip, "and do not know that we are always delighted to do this sort of thing for our clients?" Philip said resourcefully, "You see, they are staying at one of the big hotels, and they will have to dine there anyway, so that really the palatschinken would be of very little use to them."
The waiter accepted this, and went away, but soon came back. "But if the Herrschaft took them away with them, he insisted, "then they would not order a whole dinner. They could just take the soup and a meat dish, and afterwards they could go upstairs and have these instead of dessert."
"Thank you very much for your kind thought," said Philip. "I think, however, that my friends are en pension."
"But it would be nice," said the waiter, "if the lady felt hungry in the night, for her to be able to put out her hand and find a piece of cold palatschinken by her bed." I shall never think he was right, but his kindly courtesy was something to be remembered, and his sense—not hysterical but quietly passionate of economy as a prime necessity. In Diocletian's palace, throughout the ages, a great many very well-mannered people must have learned to draw in their belts very tight upon occasion; and certainly they would be encouraged to be mannerly by their surroundings, which even today speak of magnificent decorum.
It is not, of course, remarkable as an example of Roman architecture. It cannot hold a candle to the Baths of Caracalla, or the Forum, or the Palatine. But it makes an extraordinary revelation of the continuity of history. One passes through the gate that is squeezed between the rubbishries on the quayside straight into antiquity. One stands in the colonnaded courtyard of a fourth-century Roman palace; in front is the entrance to the imperial apartments, to the left is the temple which was Diocletian's mausoleum, now the Cathedral, and to the right is the Temple of Aesculapius, just as a schoolboy learning Latin, and old ladies who used to go to the Royal Academy in the days of Alma-Tadema, would imagine it. Only the vistas have been filled in with people. A little less than one fifth of the population of Split, which numbers forty-four thousand, live in the nine acres of the palace proper; but the remaining four fifths stream through it all day long, because the passages which pierce it from north to south and from east to west are the most convenient ways to the new parts of the town from the harbor. The fifth that live within the palace precincts pack the sides of these crowded thoroughfares with houses set as closely as cells in a honeycomb, filling every vacant space that was left by Diocletian's architects. One cannot, for example, see the Temple of Aesculapius as one stands in the fine open courtyard as it was intended one should do; the interstices on that side of the peristyle have been blocked by Venetian Gothic buildings, which project balconies on a line with the entablatures of neighboring columns and open doorways just beside their bases.
Yet there is no sense of disorder or vandalism. It would be as frivolous to object to the adaptations that the children of the palace have made in order to live as it would be to regret that a woman who had reared a large and glorious family had lost her girlish appearance. That is because these adaptations have always been made respectfully. So far as the walls stood, they have been allowed to stand; there has been no destruction for the sake of pilfering material for new buildings. It is, therefore, as real an architectural entity as evident to the eye of the beholder, as the Temple or Gray's Inn. There is only one blot on it, and that is not the work of necessity. In the middle of the peristyle of the imperial apartments, this superb but small open space, there has been placed a statue by Mestrovich of a fourth-century bishop who won the Slavs the right to use the liturgy in their own tongue. Nobody can say whether it is a good statue or not. The only fact that is observable about it in this position is that it is twenty-four feet high. A more ungodly misfit was never seen. It reduces the architectural proportions of the palace to chaos, for its head is on a level with the colonnades, and the passage in which it stands is only forty feet wide. This is hard on the statue, for on a low wall near by lies a black granite sphynx from Egypt, part of the original decorations of the palace, but far older, seventeen hundred years older, of the great age of Egyptian sculpture; and though this is not five feet long, its compact perfection makes the statue of the bishop gangling and flimsy, lacking in true mass, like one of those marionettes sometimes seen through the open door of a warehouse in Nice, kept against next year's carnival.
It cannot be conceived by the traveler why Mestrovich wanted this statue to be put here, or why the authorities humored him. If the step was inspired by nationalist sentiment, if it is supposed to represent the triumph of the Slav over Roman domination, nobody present can have known much history. For Diocletian's palace commemorates a time when the Illyrians, the native stock of Dalmatia, whose blood assuredly runs in the veins of most modern Dalmatians, had effective control of the Roman Empire; it commemorates one of the prettiest of time's revenges. Rome destroyed—for perhaps no better reason than that she was an Empire and could do it—the ancient civilization of Illyria; but when she later needed sound governors to defend her from barbarian invaders, Illyria gave her thirteen rulers and defenders, of whom only one was a failure. All the others deserved the title they were given, restitutores orbis—even though it turned out that the earth as they knew it was not restorable. Of these the greatest were Diocletian and Constantine; and many would say that Diocletian was the greater of the two.


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US economy adds 163,000 new jobs
The US economy added an extra 163,000 jobs in July, according to official figures, beating analysts' forecasts.
However, the unemployment rate rose from 8.2% to 8.3% last month, as more people re-entered the workforce but failed to find a job.
The US Department of Labor also said 6,000 fewer jobs were created in May and June than first estimated.
The US economy has to generate 100,000 new jobs a month just to stand still, according to the Federal Reserve.
The total number of unemployed people was 12.8 million last month, unchanged from June.
Private sector firms hired an extra 172,000 staff, which more than offset the 9,000 fall in government payrolls.
President Obama's basic argument is simple. Without his actions, including spending to stimulate and save industries, the economy would have gone down the drain.
The president claims what is needed is more Obama. Notably "an extension of middle-class tax cuts" and a Congress that will pass his American Jobs Act, to help public sector hiring. Even if he is absolutely right, as a campaigning position it is pretty lame. "It could have been worse" is not a great rallying cry.
While blaming Congress may be popular, it is peculiar as an argument for re-election. If Obama wins he is likely to face an even more intransigent bunch on Capitol Hill. But even though America may feel let down by Mr Obama, it has yet to be convinced by Mr Romney. This election really is wide open.
The figures were better than most economists had forecast.
"We are not seeing large-scale layoffs, so job destruction is pretty limited," said Scott Brown, chief economist at Raymond James & Associates.
There were also signs that Americans were optimistic about finding a job. The number of discouraged workers - people not looking for work because they believe there are no jobs - fell 267,000 to 852,000.
The number of involuntary part-time workers, those whose hours have been cut back or who could not find full-time jobs, was unchanged at 8.2 million.
Candidates for the November presidential election have been watching the jobs reports closely, as the economy remains a top voter concern.
President Barack Obama said: "Let's acknowledge, we've still got too many folks out of work. We've got more work to do on their behalf."
The White House's chair of economic advisers, Alan Krueger, said: "Any increase in the unemployment rate is unwelcome but we do see an economy that is continuing to add jobs."
He added that the private sector had added jobs for 29 months in a row, for a total of 4.5 million.
But Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney described the slight increase in US unemployment to 8.3% from 8.2% last month as "a hammer blow to struggling middle-class families", as he said his jobs plan would add 12 million new jobs by the end of his first term.
Jobs figures explained
To understand why more jobs didn't lower the unemployment rate, you have to look at how the figures are compiled. The US Department of Labor uses two surveys to measure employment.
One survey asks companies and government agencies how many staff they employed during the month. In July, firms said they were hiring. This is the measure economists tend to focus on most.
The unemployment rate comes from a survey of households. Government employees ask the adults in each household if they are working. Those who don't are asked if they're looking for a job. Last month, more people said they were unemployed. Less people have given up looking for a job, but that number is still high, revealing the continuing struggle many Americans face finding work.
"You know this," Mr Romney said. "These numbers are not just statistics. These are real people, really suffering, having a hard time."
Mr Romney went on to criticise the president's policies, saying "This is an extraordinary record of failure."
Last week, official data showed the US economy grew at an annual rate of 1.5% in the second three months of the year, that was slower than the 2% pace at the start of 2012.
On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve said its programme to reduce long-term borrowing costs for firms and households would continue for the rest of the year.
Under Operation Twist, the Fed buys long-term bonds from retail lenders and swaps them for shorter-term bonds.
But it disappointed some investors by not announcing any fresh measures to stimulate economic growth.
The Fed has kept base interest rates at close to zero for nearly four years and pumped $2.3 trillion into the economy.

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Posted: February 6, 2013
As the 2014 deadline looms for the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, there's a debate over what kind of military hardware the U.S. will provide in its wake. Afghanistan wants tanks and planes for conventional warfare. But the U.S. says the Afghans need to focus on counterinsurgency.
The U.S. and the international community have pledged $16 billion to support Afghan security forces after NATO troops complete their drawdown at the end of 2014. That money covers the cost of troops and equipment.
But just what equipment will be provided? Afghan military officials want big-ticket planes, tanks and other conventional weapons.
The U.S., however, says the Afghans need to get their strategic priorities in order, and focus less on prestige hardware and more on weaponry and equipment suitable for counterinsurgency warfare.
The opinion of Afghan Col. Abdul Qudos Ghani typifies the dilemma. He is the commander of the 3-year-old Armor Branch School, an Afghan army training compound on the outskirts of Kabul where NATO advisers provide much of the training.
"We can fight the insurgents inside of Afghanistan with the weapons we have, but to control our borders, we should have heavy weapons," Ghani says.
And by heavy weapons he means artillery, jets and tanks. Many other Afghan commanders and defense officials echo Ghani's sentiments.
When Afghan President Hamid Karzai went to Washington last month, he had a wish list of military hardware he wanted from the U.S.
But that list has "disappeared in the Pentagon, or it's gone to one of the shelves of the White House," says Shukria Barakzai, a member of the Afghan Parliament's defense committee.
She says she was disappointed by the results of the talks in Washington. She says it's essential for Afghanistan to build up a conventional military to deter hostile neighbors.
"If we don't have it at all, it will be a big threat, not only for Afghanistan but globally," Barakzai says.
Afghans Getting Ahead Of Themselves?
The U.S. and NATO don't share this view.
"We are building the [Afghan security forces] to fight a counterinsurgency war in our own image," says Brig. Gen. Adam Findlay, an Australian who's part of the NATO operations staff in Afghanistan.
Findlay says that the Afghans are getting ahead of themselves in looking for more advanced and conventional hardware.
Afghanistan expert Stephen Biddle of the Council on Foreign Relations says the interests of the U.S. and Afghan governments are "imperfectly aligned."
One reason, he says, is that Karzai wants heavy weaponry to win more loyalty from his military commanders.
"It's not uncommon for armies and air forces in the developing world to buy equipment for prestige purposes that, when you look at the objective nature of the threats they face, is a poor fit," Biddle says.
Need For Clear Military Strategy
He and others argue this is what's missing right now: an objective analysis.
Atiqullah Baryalai is a former Afghan deputy defense minister.
"We do not have in our military sector any clear strategy, and we do not have any clear strategy in the political level," Baryalai says.
"The real threat in front of Afghanistan is going to be insurgency and the radicalism in the region," he says.
And so for the next decade or so, he says, Afghanistan should develop a national security strategy based around that threat. And that means Afghanistan needs mobile and less expensive weaponry — helicopters, light artillery, armored personnel carriers. Biddle agrees.
"If we're going to be paying the bills, I think it's reasonable to ask that the military we're building pursue interests that the U.S. has in the region," he says.
Biddle and Baryalai say that involves one thing the Obama administration has struggled to do: make clear to Karzai America's interests in the region.
NPR's Sultan Faizy and Aimal Yaqubi contributed to this report.
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Graduate PLUS Loans are available to eligible graduate and professional students up to the cost of attendance minus other financial assistance offered each academic year.
You must be enrolled in at least 6 credits as a matriculated graduate student in a graduate or professional program, and you must meet all of the other general eligibility requirements for the Federal Student Aid programs. In addition, you must not have an adverse credit history.
Apply for a Graduate PLUS Loan
STEP 1: You must first complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) and receive a financial aid offer. You must accept all Direct Subsidized and Unsubsidized Student Loans offered before you will be considered for Graduate PLUS loan funding.
STEP 2: Go to http://studentloans.gov to start your PLUS application Process.
STEP 3: Sign in with your Federal PIN. Once signed in, go to "Start PLUS Application Process," then select "Graduate PLUS."
Once the form is completed, you will receive an instant credit check.
If approved
If the application is approved, first-time borrowers must complete an online Master Promissory Note (MPN) and Entrance Counseling at http://studentloans.gov.
If denied
If the application is denied, there are two options, explained in the following messages that will be displayed after completing the online application:
1. Provide an endorser: The endorser must pass a credit check and sign a promissory note. An email with the Loan Reference ID and an endorser packet will be mailed to the borrower. The endorser will need the Loan Reference ID to complete the paper packet or complete the Endorser Addendum online at http://studentloans.gov. The endorser must create a Federal PIN to sign in and go to "Endorse a PLUS Loan."
2. "Credit Appeal -- I want to provide documentation of extenuating Circumstances" option: A package of additional information will be automatically sent to the borrower who will be prompted to send an email with contact information to applicant services.
Terms and Repayment Information
This interest rate is a fixed 7.21% effective July 1, 2014. This means the interest rate will not change throughout the life of the loan. The Department of Education charges an origination fee of 4.292% (first disbursed on or after October 1, 2014 and before October 1, 2015) on the principal amount of each Graduate Direct PLUS Loan. The fee is deducted proportionately from each disbursement of your loan.
Your first payment will be due within 60 days after the loan is fully disbursed. This will generally be while you are still in school. There is no grace period. However, while you are enrolled in school on at least a half-time (6 credits) basis, you are eligible for an in-school deferment that allows you to postpone payments on your loan until you graduate or drop below half-time (6 credits) status. You must apply for the in-school deferment; it is not granted automatically. Interest does accrue during periods of deferment.


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My wife and I were talking about a famous vocalist and about he she sings about who she is, her life, her experiences.
She clearly loves what she does. And her audience easily connects with her. Her personal life and her work life seems congruent. What a blast!
In contrast, when I started my job search I felt like my life was totally incongruent. I got to the point where I was miserable but I had to put on a smiley face and try and network.
I had to pretend I really enjoyed things, like going to events, giving my 30 second pitch in front of strangers, etc. I had to pretend things were GREAT when they were really far from great.
At least, I thought I had to do that.
I didn't understand the idea of being authentic. I am sure I did not connect with "my audience." I'm sure they saw the misalignment.
If your job search hurts, maybe it is because you are trying to force things that shouldn't be forced. I'm not saying this so you can have an excuse to not network with people, but maybe you shift from going to network events and start doing one-on-one meetings (lunches, etc.).
In other words, maybe the strategy is good but the tactics are bad (for you).
I give you permission to change your tactics. Have a good, strong, purposeful strategy, and have tactics aligned with who you are.
And see if some of the hurt doesn't go away.
You might be like my friend John who said "I'm having too much fun doing this networking stuff!"
And he really was.
Jason Alba blogs for Career Resumes, a full service resume and LinkedIn Profile firm. Jason is the founder and CEO of JibberJobber.com, a web tool to help you organize and manage your job search.
When I got laid off I went to a boss I had worked under for a number of years and asked him for a letter of recommendation. He immediately agreed and enthusiastically started writing something.
Later that day he gave me a two page letter of recommendation.
It was horrible.
It was mostly a letter of "Jason is great, but we had to let him go because…" and then went on to explain that it wasn't my fault, or anything about me, and that he would be happy to recommend me and he wished he could keep me on or find or make a spot for me in the company, but that was just too impossible.
Two pages of that.
It was more like a letter of apology.
I carefully asked him if I could fix a few things and then I wrote something that was a, well, a letter of recommendation!
It might feel weird to write in your boss's voice, totally bragging about yourself, but this happens all the time. Many times it is easier for you to say the things that should be said (so that you have an influence on the marketing message) than to have your boss, who usually feels bad about what happened, try and fumble their way through.
Did you catch that? Your letter of recommendation is a marketing document.
Make sure you are marketing YOU. If you want to bring out certain characteristics (team player, highly analytical, high social EQ, etc.) and downplay other characteristics that your boss is likely to think about (you have a nice smile, you were a joy to work with, etc.), then make sure you do that.
Let the boss know that you want to make sure certain things come out in your recommendation. Give him or her a list! Make it easy for them to write this. You might even write sentences or paragraphs and say "here are some ideas of what I'm looking for." They can simply copy and paste from your ideas and you'll get exactly what you asked for.
This might sound weird but it is commonly done in the business world.
If you have a hard time writing about yourself, get the book Brag!
Jason Alba blogs for Career Resumes, a full service resume and LinkedIn Profile firm. Jason is the founder and CEO of JibberJobber.com, a web tool to help you organize and manage your job search.
Today on my JibberJobber blog I wrote about Wayne who graciously shared his technique for trying to get informational interviews (or, time on the phone with people in his field).
Wayne is doing some things right, some things wrong, but not getting any results he wants.
The comments are awesome. Career professionals are weighing in, as well as regular people (non-career-pros). Everyone is pretty much right, and there are themes.
I am proud of Wayne for doing this, AND for asking for input. My questions to you:
Are you doing something? Whether that is networking or asking for informational interviews or whatever, are you doing the hard things in the job search? Don't hide behind applying online all day (like I did). You have to do the hard things.
Are you asking for feedback? If something isn't working, find out why and change. This takes guts and humility.
Kudos to Wayne for doing both.
On the Recruiting Animal's Facebook page he shared a link to this: The inside story of how 382 recruiters pursued an imaginary engineer
There is a lot to learn from this write-up. Even though it is for recruiters to learn, I think we can learn a lot, too. Some things I took away (there are a lot more, read it for yourself):
In #1 the author calls LinkedIn an "overfished pond." Interesting, huh? You can see their suggestions of other places recruiters are told to look for talent. Where are you?
In #7 we learn how recruiters are writing emails that aren't effective, and what they can do to make them more effective. How effective are YOUR emails?
In #8 they talk about following up and referencing a previous conversation. Very interesting idea.
In #9 they talk about the "what's in it for me" concept, which I just wrote about on my JibberJobber blog.
It really comes back to communication, and your ability to develop relationships. But there are lots of gems in that post.
Jason Alba blogs for Career Resumes, a full service resume and LinkedIn Profile firm. Jason is the founder and CEO of JibberJobber.com, a web tool to help you organize and manage your job search.


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What a cable-free HBO subscription could mean for Apple TV
HBO Go might just be the first domino to fall.
Five things Apple should fix in the next Apple TV update
Family Sharing and Beats Music are nice and all, but Apple needs to go a lot further to make Apple TV as easy to use as Roku and Fire TV.
SlingTV review: Convenient TV place-shifting, with an underwhelming new interface
For the first time, SlingTV puts an informational overlay on your TV screen, to help you find what to watch. We're just not sure it's worth the upcharge from the capable Slingbox M1.
Your complete guide to every Apple TV channel, A to Z
We break down all the Apple TV apps: what you'll find there, how much you'll pay for a subscription, and which cable provider logins are supported.
SlingTV aims for a unified TV experience at home and away
Sling Media's new user interface for its flagship Slingbox has a few features sports nuts in particular will love.
Slingbox M1 review: Place-shift TV with minimal hassle
Sling brought back the native desktop apps and built Wi-Fi in to its entry-level Slingbox, now called the M1.
Roku Streaming Stick review: Big Roku experience in a downsized package
It looks like a Chromecast, but packs all the channels of a full-size Roku box...with just a couple of trade-offs.
Your next Apple TV could come from Comcast
That's what the the Wall Street Journal says. But there are plenty of potential hurdles in the way of Apple and the nation's biggest cable provider joining forces.


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The property is situated in the quaint village of Malborough, near Salcombe in the South Hams. A lovely, quaint village with a shop and traditional pubs in an area of outstanding natural beauty in South Devon. From the large balcony on the first floor you can enjoy panoramic views of glorious rolling countryside leading to the coast just a couple of miles away. You and your party can relax in sumptuous comfort enjoying spacious, state-of-the-art facilities within a period setting retaining the character of the old building.


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Zyxel NSA221 review
2 disk bays, N/A storage supplied, 1x 10/100/1000Mbit/s Ethernet ports
Zyxel is better known for its range of routers than it is for network storage, but the NSA221 is actually the latest in the company's long line of network attached storage (NAS) devices. We had high hopes for the NSA221, especially as Zyxel's previous models have fallen behind the competition in terms of performance and value.
At just under £130, the NSA221 is surprisingly affordable for a NAS with two drive bays and RAID support. Since it's an enclosure, you'll have to provide your own SATA hard disks. Installation is straightforward. The disk bays are hidden behind an easily removable front panel. The included carriers need to be screwed to the sides of each disk before they can be inserted. Unfortunately, it's not clear from the poorly illustrated manual which way up the carriers should be fitted but it's easy enough to figure out with some common sense.
Configuring the NSA221 is straightforward thanks to the logically organised web management interface. Although it initially looks identical to the management interfaces of previous Zyxel NAS devices, it has been streamlined in places. For example, when creating a shared folder, access permissions to that folder can be set without having to go to a separate screen. Similarly, new user accounts can be organised into groups as they're created without having to use a separate set of controls.
Like many other NAS devices, the NSA221 can be used to share a USB printer and the contents of a USB disk across your network. It can also be used as a UPnP media server and as an iTunes music server. Shared media can be browsed and enjoyed through a web interface, although you may the appropriate browser plug-ins to play them depending on which file formats you use. The interface often felt sluggish though, especially when trying to play large movie files or browse through folders full of hundreds of images. Using Windows Explorer was much smoother and trouble-free.
The download manager lets you download files over BitTorrent or from a website or FTP site without the aid of a computer. Unfortunately, the download interface is only accessible to users with an administrator password which would also give them access to the rest of the management interface.
There's also an upload manager that can automatically upload photos and videos from designated folders to Flickr and YouTube, but the NSA221 can only store one set of account details for each service at a time. If multiple users want to upload files to their own accounts, you'll need to frequently alter the NSA221's settings which would be tedious.
File copying performance isn't unuseably slow, but we were expecting faster speeds in a NAS at this price. We used two identical 250GB Hitachi Deskstar disks. Whether configured as RAID 0 or RAID 1, large files were copied at around 12MB/s and small files were copied at around 7MB/s.
Zyxel's NSA221 isn't an awful NAS - if you want RAID support on a budget, then its low price is certainly tempting. You'll have to put up with sluggish performance and some clumsily implemented extra features. If you don't need RAID, we'd rather have the Synology DS110j which is far faster at copying files. If you do want RAID, the cheaper Netgear Stora is better value.


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Foreign Policy with David Sanger and Richard Haass
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Here at home and across the globe, questions regarding U.S. foreign policy and national security are always of critical concern. Focusing on President Obama's unforeseen foreign policy challenges, David E. Sanger, in conversation with Richard N. Haass, highlights key issues for present and future U.S. foreign policy makers.
Macy's Sunday Story Time: Enlightening the World
Recommended for children ages 4–7.
Hear the Statue of Liberty speak through Emma Lazarus' poem "The New Colossus," and discover why Emma's poem was so important to the statue's construction!
Emma's Poem: The Voice of the Statue of Liberty by Linda Glaser
Support for the Macy's Sunday Story Hour provided by the Macy's Foundation.
Chinese American: Exclusion/Inclusion
Within the exhibition, rich in media and artifacts, will be little-known stories, such as the voyage of the Empress of China, which set sail from New York in the late eighteenth century; how young Chinese boys were sent by their government to study at elite New England schools during the nineteenth century; the unprecedented immigration legislation known as the Exclusion Act of 1882, which barred most Chinese from entering the United States; the nineteenth-century newspaper, called Chinese American, and its founder Wong Chin Foo; and the Chinese America
Macy's Sunday Story Time: Cinco de Mayo
Recommended for children ages 4–7.
Celebrate Mexican independence and heritage by reading letters that cousins Charlie and Carlitos send each other from Mexico and the United States! Then enjoy hearing all about Mouse's misadventures during the Cinco de Mayo festival at the city park—will Cat spoil his fun?
Dear Primo: A Letter to My Cousin by Duncan Tonatiuh
Cinco de Mouse-o by Judy Cox
Support for the Macy's Sunday Story Hour provided by the Macy's Foundation.
Macy's Sunday Story Time: St. Patrick's Day!
Recommended for children ages 4–7.
While traveling to America, Fergus whittles the branch of an Irish blackthorn tree into a Shillelagh so he will always have a piece of Ireland with him. This Shillelagh becomes the family's heirloom and a centerpiece for storytelling each St. Patrick's Day, just like today!
The St. Patrick's Day Shillelagh by Janet Nolan
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St. Patrick's Eve
Grab a pint at our cash bar and tour our objects and paintings that represent the history of the Irish in New York.
On St. Patrick's Eve, we'll be hosting an evening dedicated to Irish heritage, with music, art and more. Grab a pint at Caffè Storico and tour our objects and paintings that represent the history of the Irish in New York! A map will guide you to such treasures as artist John Ramage's desk, Al Smith's cigar box, and Louis Lang's historical painting The Return of the 69th (Irish) Regiment, N.Y.S.M.
When war broke out in 1939, New York was a cosmopolitan, heavily immigrant city, whose people had real stakes in the global conflict and strongly held opinions about whether or not to intervene. The attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 brought the U.S. into the war, and New York became the principal port of embarkation for the warfront.


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Dog hero in Ghana rescues newborn baby - CSMonitor.comThis week, a farm dog in the west African country of Ghana is being praised as a hero hound after saving the life of an abandoned two-week-old baby. Madam Rosemary Azure, a regional director of health in Ghana, told the Ghana News Agency that the dog apparently found the baby under a bridge in the northern part of the country near the regional capital of Bolgatana. Rather than abandon (or eat) the vulnerable tot, the dog curled up next to him for the night, refusing to leave his side.


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Keeping active will make a significant difference in your quality of life with psoriatic arthritis. Movement keeps your joints and tendons looser and more limber. When your muscles are strong, your joints have to do less work to move.
Yoga, swimming, walking and bicycling are just a few examples of activities people with psoriatic arthritis can do. If psoriatic arthritis is keeping you from being more active, you may want to consider working with a physical therapist to create an exercise plan.
The phrase, "no pain, no gain," isn't true. If you are just beginning an exercise routine, start small, said Christa Causey, exercise physiologist. When you've been inactive, your muscles have to work harder to do the same amount of activity as an active person. This can result in sore muscles and joint pain. If you have a hard time cooling down after exercise or your joints feel worse the next day, it's time to ease up.
Causey recommends starting to walk in just 10-minute increments, building up to a half-hour of walking through the course of the day. From there, build up to an hour of walking a day. You don't have to do it all at once; breaking up your workout throughout the day can prevent injury and make starting a new habit more manageable.
Working with a physical therapist can help to maximize the function of your arthritic joints and overall conditioning. A physical therapist can do a full evaluation and determine what may be causing the pain that prevents you from moving more, said Marvin Smith, a physical therapist at the Oregon Health & Science University rehabilitation clinic. If you have tight or weak muscles, exercise will increase stress on the joint. If the joint is stiff, the muscles have to work harder to move it, which cases more stress. This can affect your balance, too.
Your PT will create a plan involving home exercises in addition to the therapy you do at your appointments. Usually, you will have stretching and strengthening exercises, but your PT might also give you strategies to help you relax, which can reduce stress and pain, as well, Smith said.
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Income inequality is surging, and there are few countries where it is rising faster than the United States. The distance between rich and poor is greater in America than nearly all other developed countries, making the US a leader in a trend that economists warn has dire consequences. GlobalPost sets out on a reporting journey to get at the 'ground truth' of inequality through the lenses of education, race, immigration, health care, government, labor and natural resources. The hope is to hold a mirror up to the US to see how it compares to countries around the world.
For poor African-American students with little hope for a better future, the Civil Rights Movement is unfinished.
Administrators are quick to acknowledge that Morgan, like most other private schools in the area, began as a response to desegregation. However, they insist that the racial motivations underlying the school's nascent years no longer come to bear on the Academy. Headmistress McKnight reports that, though the vast majority of students at Morgan are white, the school now has several students of color, including African-Americans. Race, she says, no longer plays a role in admissions.
"I'll bet that Morgan is the most diverse school in Selma," she says.
McKnight feels that racial tensions no longer define Selma schools today.
"I grew up with a black lady that was our housekeeper and our maid, and I'll bet you that a majority of students in this area did, too," she said. "I don't see color ... If you live with a different race, you learn to love them. These divides that people put in just don't exist."
Morgan Academy costs about $4,000 per student per year. The school offers no financial aid. Private school tuitions elsewhere in the country dwarf this figure, but in Selma, where the average annual income hits at around $21,000, affording a Morgan education remains a distant possibility for most.
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'They don't hear us'
Principal Wanda Jean Lomax-McCall stoops to pick up a stray gum wrapper on the otherwise spotless atrium floor of the newly rebuilt Selma High School.
This past August, SHS opened its doors after receiving $27 million in national stimulus funding toward a new school. Now in her fourth year as principal, McCall is attempting to free Selma High of its past reputation. Over the last decade, Alabama's public school systems have been consistently ranked as among the worst in the nation, and Selma High has long placed squarely at the bottom of statewide achievement barometers.
According to Principal McCall, "all or almost all" students qualify for free federal lunches, eligible for households reporting at or below 130 percent of the poverty line. The dropout rate hovers at 25 percent. Gang skirmishes within the community often overflow into school hours.
This year, Principal McCall has brought in more extracurricular opportunities for the student body, including the first-ever school newspaper and a pre-professional mentoring program. Still, despite the new building and Principal McCall's best efforts, many feel that Selma High lacks the state- and local-level funding necessary to provide students with a competitive or even passable education.
And as SHS struggles to reach its annual yearly progress benchmarks, high-need and high-achieving students alike lack necessary support.
Between class, bubbly 18-year-old Whitney Strong uses the new media center to look at prom dresses with her friends. Unlike most of her classmates, she will leave Selma to pursue a degree in nursing.
Though she calls her teachers and administration "amazing...doing their very best," she describes Selma High as just "average," a place that only "kinda-sorta" provided her with professional preparedness. For Whitney, graduating means that she can finally put Selma in her rearview. The only kids who stay here, she says, are those that already have children – a significant portion of her class – as there "really aren't jobs" here.
Gwen Brown of the Freedom Foundation, which provides supplemental educational opportunities to at-risk students, recalled a recent SHS graduate who approached the Foundation after failing the Air Force admittance exam. He was reading at below a first-grade reading level.
"I have no idea how that happened," she said. "He literally could not read, and he walked across the stage and received a diploma."
"Our public schools are chronically underfunded," said Senator Sanders, who has served the longest tenure in history on Alabama's Finance and Taxation Committee. In Dallas County, the district to which Selma city schools belong, citizens pay the state minimum in taxes toward public education, and as much as four times less than in other districts in Alabama.
Principal McCall affirms that securing state-level funding has also proven particularly difficult. It was easier a decade ago, when SHS boasted almost double their current enrollment and when white students still attended. Now, she says, the challenges have grown: "Being in a rural area, small school, majority blacks...that makes a big difference. They don't hear us."
Alabama made national education news last year when legislators tried to remove language in the state's constitution requiring the government to guarantee its citizens "a liberal system of public schools." The amendment didn't pass, but if it had, it would have denied Alabamians the right to a public education.
Senator Sanders believes that racial dynamics contribute to state- and local-level antipathy. As he sees it, white residents simply don't send their kids to public schools. And though private schools in the city offer no financial aid, "even the poor white people who can't afford a private education somehow get one rather than going to a public school," he said.
"Nearly all the businesses are owned by whites," Sanders said. "That means that the economic system does not support public schools in the way it should. So when you're trying to get additional funding or to create a community atmosphere that supports education, you don't have the buy-in."
"The economic and political power lies with white people, the people who run the segregated country club," said Touré, who served as Alabama's first African-American female judge. "That's why it's so hard to make any systemic change because for years they have kept progressive reform out of Selma. People say that overcoming slavery was our greatest challenge, but education has proven to be the greatest struggle. What's remarkable is how little has changed."
Even for those who receive a SHS diploma, Selma's job climate offers little encouragement. Nearby factories like International Paper, Hyundai and Bush Hog have historically provided many middle-class opportunities in the area, but national cutbacks have resulted in shrinking departments. Brenda, who has worked at one such factory for fifteen years, was the first African-American hired to her department.
"They put a hangman noose on the rafter to threaten me," she recalls. Though the climate has since shifted, she feels that higher-level opportunities still elude African-Americans. "You never see black managers. You don't see black people moving anything above low-level supervisor positions."
In search of a future
As president of the Freedom Foundation, Gwen Brown works to provide at-risk children with educational opportunities through tutoring and the arts. When she came to Selma six years ago, she was shocked at the extent to which a lack of education perpetuated poverty.
"Time and time again, we're seeing twelve-year-old girls getting pregnant just so they can get welfare checks," Brown said. She estimates that 98 percent of the students with whom she's worked don't have a reliable father figure, and that the majority of them have suffered from sexual or physical abuse.
"Everywhere these kids look, they're being taught they don't have a future," says Brown. When driving around the city with her theater group, she often passes by Selma Country Club. "I still don't know what to tell kids when they ask me why they aren't welcome there."
Seventeen-year-old Austin was one of the first students to join the Foundation's Selma program. At a lanky six-foot-seven, most people expected him to play basketball – it's one of the only tickets out of town for a black kid in Selma, he said.
Joining the Foundation's Random Acts of Theater Company, he discovered a love of public speaking. Now, he's looking at civil rights law and hopes to return to Selma.
These success stories could be far more common, Brown feels, if more students felt they deserved a fighting chance.
Unmet expectations
On that day in 2010 when Secretary of Education Duncan came to town, an expectation was created. Many here in Selma feel it is an expectation that has been largely unmet.
In the back of the crowd, Brown remembers being suddenly struck by a simple fact: aside from the other members of the Foundation and the media covering the event, she saw no other white faces in the crowd. "I remember thinking, why wouldn't the whole city come to this, especially something so big, in the tiny town of Selma? But I've learned that's just how it goes here."


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Favorite: Nevada. Player of the Year: Nick Fazekas. Conference Rank: 10th.
2006-07 Preview: #40 New Mexico State
October 2nd, 2006By Shawn Siegel
Reggies Theus has done a good job getting NMSU back in the WAC title hunt.
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Phantom Planet: Raise the Dead
Fourth album from LA power pop band -- its first without drummer Jason Schwartzman -- smothers great songs under a full-tilt production aesthetic.
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Phantom Planet: The Guest
In 2001 it was an East Coast thing, as many swore by The Strokes' brand of updated Velvet Underground garage rock. In 2002 it may just be a West Coast thing, as we get the sophomore effort from Phantom Planet. The resemblances are uncanny.


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Lessons in Leisure vol. 2 is the Disc of the Week at Quick Before it Melts:
here's Grayowl Point's nice review of the album:
Canadian music blog Ride the Tempo premieres the new Blackpaw Society song/video.
[WATCH] Blackpaw Society – Stupid Evolution on ridethetempo.com
Blackpaw Society on Rex Manning Day Blog's Top 5 Indie Tracks of the Week:
Rex Manning Day – Top 5 Indie Tracks of the Week
and also on the Magnificent Wrecks:
The Magnificent Wrecks – Heard on the Wire
here's the new blackpaw society album. rolling around in dead things to hide the scent. i hope you listen a little bit.
this guy in the UK wrote this and it made my day:
"Now, this band really confuses me. I genuinely, genuinely, cannot fathom why this band aren't 1000000% bigger than they are; 14 likes on FACEBOOK, this particular song on youtube with only 22 views & being uploaded over a year ago, yet it is one of the most wonderfully crafted songs. It's in my top 10 played all time in my itunes, & that is saying something considering there are 17044 other songs. There must be something that I am missing?
Pure rock n roll, slighlty haunting & raw. mixes up some tastey bass riffs, heavy guitar solos & a cheeky bit of flute, with an underflow of electronica check out SILVERS. Sounds ideal to me, get on it."
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Shrimp and Sausage Gumbo
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This spicy Cajun creation features succulent fresh shrimp, tender Italian sausage, and plenty of veggies, making this one-pot dinner as nutritious as it is delicious.
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Calories | 400 |
Total Fat | 17g |
Saturated Fat | 5g |
Cholesterol | 135mg |
Sodium | 680mg |
Total Carbohydrate | 33g |
Dietary Fiber | 3g |
Sugars | -- |
Protein | 25g |
Calcium | -- |
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Serves: 10
Total Time: 1 hr
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- 1 pound(s) hot Italian sausage links, pricked several times with fork
- 3 tablespoon(s) vegetable oil
- 1/4 cup(s) all-purpose flour
- 1 medium green pepper, chopped
- 1 medium onion, chopped
- 2 clove(s) garlic , finely chopped
- 2 medium stalks celery, chopped
- 1 can(s) (14 to 14 1/2 ounces) chicken broth
- 1 can(s) (14 1/2 ounces) stewed tomatoes
- 1 cup(s) water
- 1 package(s) (10 ounces) frozen sliced okra, thawed
- 1 bay leaf
- 1/4 teaspoon(s) dried oregano
- 1/4 teaspoon(s) dried thyme
- Salt
- 1.5 cup(s) regular long-grain white rice
- 1.5 pound(s) shelled and deveined shrimp, with tail part of shell left on if you like
- Heat 6-quart Dutch oven on medium-high until hot. Add sausage links and cook 8 minutes or until well browned, turning frequently. Transfer sausages to plate to cool slightly, about 10 minutes. When cool, cut sausages into 1/2-inch-thick diagonal slices.
- While sausages cool, discard all but 1 tablespoon drippings from Dutch oven. Add oil to Dutch oven and heat on medium. (If your sausages are very lean and you do not get 1 tablespoon drippings, add enough additional oil to drippings to equal 1/4 cup fat total.) Gradually stir flour into drippings until blended, and cook 4 to 5 minutes or until flour mixture (roux) is deep brown, stirring constantly. Add green pepper, onion, celery, and garlic, and cook 5 to 6 minutes or until all vegetables are tender, stirring occasionally.
- Return sausages to Dutch oven; stir in broth, tomatoes, water, okra, bay leaf, oregano, thyme, and 1/4 teaspoon salt; heat to boiling on high. Reduce heat to low; cover and simmer 30 minutes to blend flavors.
- Meanwhile, prepare rice as label directs. In medium bowl, toss shrimp with 1/4 teaspoon salt.
- Add shrimp to Dutch oven; cook 2 to 3 minutes or until opaque throughout.
- To serve, discard bay leaf. Serve gumbo in large bowls. Top each serving with a scoop of rice. Makes about 10 cups.
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Even with a few minor scheduling glitches, the National Hay Association (NHA) is expecting more than 300 people to be on hand Sept. 1-4 when the group's annual convention takes place in Lexington, KY.
"We had to schedule this year's meeting about two to three weeks earlier than normal and over a holiday weekend to ensure enough meeting and hotel space," says Don Kieffer, executive director. "Initially, we were thinking that might hold down attendance some. But from what we've seen so far, registrations seem to be right on par with recent years."
Historical climatologist Evelyn Browning-Garriss will be the featured speaker. Browning-Garriss, author of the Browning Newsletter, will offer insights on what's been behind weather developments in the U.S. and internationally over the past several years. She'll also provide a forecast of what lies ahead.
"Evelyn was a very popular speaker at our 1992 and 2000 conventions," notes Kieffer. "And, given some of the weird weather, we've experienced recently (abundant growing-season rainfall in the U.S., drought in Russia, flooding in Pakistan, etc.), we thought this would be a good year to bring her back. She is one of the most sought-after speakers in the weather forecasting business."
Along with the Browning-Garriss presentation, scheduled for Saturday, convention-goers will hear from experts on a variety of topics at Friday morning's educational session. Topics to be addressed include hay for horses; the past, present and future of horses in Kentucky; and an update on Roundup Ready alfalfa. There will also be presentations on producing and marketing hay and the 50-year history and future plans of the Pennsylvania Forage and Grassland Council.
Registrations are still being accepted. To learn more, go to the NHA Web site or phone Kieffer at 800-707-0014.


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I am going to comment on another bonus.. The shape of the bottles. I know it's not to big of an issue but these bottles are comfortable to hold.. Am I right ?
Consmr donated 20 cases of PurAqua and is hand delivering them to hurricane shelters in the New York City area.
This water is overpriced and although high quality, we can't afford water this ridiculously expensive. I'd rather but more generic waters and save my cash. Sorry!!!
LOVE it!!!It is the best tasting water! I Do wish it also came in a gallon size! I drink only this water all day and it would be nice to have it in the gallon size to be more convenient and use less bottles. Keep up the good work!
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To the Boutique FinderA delicate design with a fresh vintage appeal. This romantic necklace presents an amazing gradation of gray and black crystals set in palladium-plated metal, demonstrating Swarovski's unique color expertise. A black ribbon makes it easy to mix and match.
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by MaudDib » Fri Dec 09, 2011 2:24 pm
Fantasy GM wrote:So provided the things written above, do I dangle Verlander or Lee if I even make a trade here? I know Lane_anasazi2 says Verlander due to higher value. I believe Lee is my #3, though he completely dominates some months of the year (the problem is he does meh in others). Thoughts? I could acquire a Justin Upton type potentially (Lee will easily score more this season, Upton is 24).
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Fantasy GM wrote:UPDATETulo team could send me the star SS + 2nd round pick for Pujols + 8th round pick (we keep 4 remember, so this is Rounds 2 and 8 out of 19). Intriguing. Pujols is the king of stability, Tulo dominates a weak position. Not sure what 1B or SS are available come draft time.
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Panama Trip Ends
Ho Hum - my vacation has now ended. I leave tomorrow to return back to the States. Overall, it was an excellent adventure. Being an urbanite, I had thought Panama City would be the favorite of the 3 towns that I had visited. Well, it was not.
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This is something I found rather funny. A member of our vacation group brought with him his housekeys. Okay - yes, you locked up your house before leaving for the airport, so of course, you would have your housekeys with you - I understand this. But what is funny and peculiar is that he brought it with him on our outings and excursions.
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I received this email from a friend who received a memoir from another friend (an Aussie) who spent 18 months living and working in Shanghai, China. This is his experience living in the Far East! It's a fascinating read about life in China from the perspective of a Westerner.
Bocas Del Toro
Bocas del Toro is a province on the northeast coast of Panama. The capital is the city of Bocas del Toro, found on the island of Colon. It is a small city with a world-renowned tourist resort touching the Caribbean Sea. The population of the province numbers some 89,300 people.
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Panama has been ranked the 5th best place to retire. Many US retirees are flocking to Boquete, Panama. Why? Safe, beautiful climate, clean air, tranquil, low cost of living and outstanding retirement benefits. Boquete is located in the Province of Chiriqui.
The Panama Canal
Of course one cannot visit Panama without seeing the 8th Engineering Wonder of the World - the Canal. It is a Must-See, a Must-Go! The Canal fuels the country's economy therefore making water as Panama's greatest commodity.
Republic of Panama
The swirl has taken a trip to the southernmost country of Central America - Panama. Located on an isthmus connecting North and South America, Panama borders Costa Rica to the northwest and Colombia to the southwest.
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Word.adderall is alright for studying and then thats about it.
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is it true people get it online..
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Yeah, I take adderall as a prescription for my ADD. Im prescribed 20mg once daily but i usually take 40mg in the morning then another 20 in the afternoon if I work. I work so damn hard hahaha.does it really help you focus. i have taken ritalin but, i heard adderall is much better.
is it true people get it online..
And yes, it does help you focus. Also, one of the best highs I had was when I took about 40-50mg and got high off weed. AMAZING high. Felt the happiest I've ever been.
Good stuff.
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All I know is that I know that something is impossible.
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Dexedrine is a different story. If you have that, snorting it provides a rush.
Ritalin is also worth snorting. Cocaine with a PG rating a House would say, haha.
Fun stuff =D
Also, mystieyed, Dextroamphetamine (Adderall) is a Schedule II substance, you aren't getting it without a prescription. Ask around in school and you're sure to find it eventually, but I see you're 21 so =(. It's the second thing a doctor will give you when Ritalin doesn't work. ADD meds aren't terribly hard to get a prescription for. Just look legit and fool yourself into thinking you really need it, that way you'll look honest =P
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I was going to ask a similar question: Should I just crush up the XR beads and swallow the powder? Is snorting the crushed powder no better than swallowing the crushed powder? My friends find it quite gross to snort anyway, and I'm not into f*cking up my nasal lining. Just wondering about snorting powder vs. swallowing powder. Time differences and intesnity of experience, etc. Thanks for any info!
I did a 15 mg line tonight, and it only worked for an hour or so. Weak. (I did lose some of it to snot though...) But I did take Ritalin for most of my life until freshman year, so I'm kind of used to it. Although Adderall was a high I've never felt on any other ADD stuff. Ritalin just felt natural, not like the wired high I got from Adderall.
I'm proposing a system of watching all of our usage for my friends and I tomorrow. But it's not that big a deal. I can easily avoid the stuff, just thinking this is a great idea for all of our health.
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I have only taken it orally so far but, when I get on a higher dose I am going to shift a line before class and see if there is a difference.


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Matthew Boyer is an Assistant Professor of Educational Foundations in the Eugene T. Moore School of Education. He received his PhD in Educational Psychology & Educational Technology from Michigan State University. His work focuses on using design methods in the research and development of game-based learning activities and environments. Before coming to Clemson, he was an elementary school teacher for 13 years in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, a post-doctoral researcher in the Interactive & Digital Media Institute at the National University of Singapore, and an assistant professor at Yeditepe Üniversitesi in Istanbul, Turkey.
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Food was excellent!!! Portions were HUGE and very reasonable prices! Taste was great, delivery fast-great choice for everybody!Thanks :)
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This place is awesome! The food is excellent here. No. 1 has very prompt sence of service when engaging what the customers are wanting.
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As an out-of-towner, this place matches the great Chinese restaurants back home. It has no atmosphere inside, but as a takeout it is great, has reasonable prices and gives very large portions.
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