text: Presentations Trisha Cummings Would You Rather Eat Nails? • Two of the top fears of most people are dying and giving a speech. • Here are some tips that will help you overcome your fears and give a great speech. – Be prepared. • Know what you are going to say. • Prepare an outline of your main points and put them on index cards or a sheet of paper. • Don't write out your whole speech and read it. • There is nothing that will put an audience to sleep faster. – Dress comfortably. • If your clothes are too tight, too short or riding up your . . . uh, you don't want to dress in a way that will interfere with movement or breathing. • Check out the room. – Arrive a little early so you can become familiar with the layout of the room. – Where will you stand while you speak? – Is there a microphone? – How will the audience be seated? – If you are using equipment, such as a projector, try it out to make sure everything is working properly. • Get to know the audience. – As audience members arrive, introduce yourself and chat with them. – It will reduce your nervousness later. – After all, you won't be speaking to a bunch of nameless strangers, you will be speaking to Jeff, Laura, Steve, Diane, and all the other nice people you met earlier. • Breathe. – Smile – Take a deep breath then start speaking. – If you find yourself speaking too quickly, or inserting fillers such as uh, um, like, you know, slow down and take another breath before you continue. • Remember that the audience is on your side. • They came to hear what you have to say. • They are spending their time and/or money to be there, and they are predisposed to like you. • Don't assume they are waiting for you to fail. They aren't. The Art of Oral Presentations • Making a good oral presentation is an art that involves attention to the needs of your audience, careful planning, and attention to delivery. • This presentation explains some of the basics of effective oral presentation. • It also covers use of notes, visual aids and computer presentation software. The audience • Some basic questions to ask about an audience are: • Who will I be speaking to? • What do they know about my topic already? • What will they want to know about my topic? • What do I want them to know by the end of my talk? • By basing the content and style of your presentation on your answers to these questions, you can make sure that you are in tune with your audience. • What you want to say about your topic may be much less important than what your audience wants to hear about it. Planning your presentation • In an effective presentation, the content and structure are adjusted to the medium of speech. – When listening, we cannot go back over a difficult point to understand it or easily absorb long arguments. – A presentation can easily be ruined if the content is too difficult for the audience to follow or if the structure is too complicated. – As a general rule, expect to cover much less content than you would in a written report. – Make difficult points easier to understand by preparing the listener for them, using plenty of examples and going back over them later. – Leave time for questions within the presentation. – Give your presentation a simple and logical structure. – Include an introduction in which you outline the points you intend to cover and a conclusion in which you go over the main points of your talk. Oral Presentations – The 1st Biggy • Content – It is likely that you already have a topic and you know what you want to say about it. – This is the content of your presentation. – You may already have the content of your presentation in written form: for example in a written report. – Whether your content is already written down or you are beginning from scratch, you may need to cut it down for your presentation. Why? • You will need to fit your content within the time limit. – Think carefully about how much information you can reasonably present in the time allowed and select the most important point. • You will need to hold the interest and attention of your audience. – Many people lose interest towards the end of presentations that contain too much information. – Think carefully about the key points that you want to get across and build your presentation around them. • Some kinds of information, such as technical explanations and tables of figures, are difficult for listeners to absorb during a presentation. – Think about summarizing this kind of information or referring the listeners to a document they can read after the presentation. • You will need to leave time for examples and illustrations of your points. – Think carefully about how you will support and explain your key points. • You will need to leave time for an introduction, conclusion and questions or comments. – During this time you are likely to be repeating points made in the main body of your talk. • Three points to think about when preparing the content of a presentation: – What are your key points? – Most good presentations have no more than 5 key points. – How will you support your key points with examples and illustrations? – How will you make it easy for your audience to follow your key points? The Second Biggy Structure • Most presentations will consist of an introduction, the body of the talk and a conclusion. • The introduction prepares the audience for what you will say in the body of the talk and the conclusion reminds them of your key points. • Good presentations raise questions in the listeners' mind. • Good speakers encourage questions both during and after the presentation and are prepared to answer them. All Presentations Need • Introduction • Main points or Body • Examples • Conclusion • Questions The Introduction • A good introduction does four things: – Attracts and focuses the attention of the audience – Puts the speaker and audience at ease – Explains the purpose of the talk and what the speaker would like to achieve – Gives an overview of the key points of the talk Starting your Introduction • It is often a good idea to begin a talk with a question, a short story, an interesting fact about your topic or an unusual visual aid. • Many speakers follow this with an overhead transparency or PowerPoint slide that shows the title, aim and outline of the talk. • Sample Introductions • (Good morning, afternoon, evening) • I'm happy to be here. • I'm glad to have this opportunity to . . . • Today, I'd like to talk (to you) about . . . • My topic today is . . . • The focus of my remarks is . . . • I'd like to share some thoughts on (topic) The Main Points or Body • The body of a presentation must be presented in a logical order that is easy for the audience to follow and natural to your topic. • Divide your content into sections and make sure that the audience knows where they are at any time during your talk. • It is often a good idea to pause between main sections of your talk. • You can ask for questions, sum up the point or explain what the next point will be. • Examples, details and visual aids add interest to a presentation and help you get your message through. • Example of how to get started on Main Points • Let me start by . . . • First, let me tell you about . . . • I've divided my topic into (three) parts: (They are . . .) Examples • Examples are crucial elements in a presentation they will help you illustrate what you are saying • Here are some questions you can ask yourself about the examples you include: – Are they relevant to the experience of the audience? – Are they concrete? – Will the audience find them interesting? – Are they varied? – Are they memorable? Conclusion • A good conclusion does two things: – Reminds the audience of your key points – Reinforces your message – Your conclusion should end the presentation on a positive note and make the audience feel that have used their time well listening to you. Questions • Many speakers worry about questions from the audience. You should be more worried if there are no questions at all! – Questions show that the audience is interested in what you have to say – They can make the talk more lively and interactive. – You can control questions better if you leave pauses during your talk and ask for questions. – It is important not to let question and answer sessions during the talk go on too long, however. – Answer briefly or say you will deal with the question at the end. – Make sure you are ready to go on with your talk when questions have finished. Delivering your presentation • People vary in their ability to speak confidently in public, but everyone gets nervous and everyone can learn how to improve their presentation skills by applying a few simple techniques. – The main points to pay attention to in delivery are the quality of your voice, your rapport with the audience, use of notes and use of visual aids. – Voice quality involves attention to volume, speed and fluency, clarity and pronunciation. – The quality of your voice in a presentation will improve dramatically if you are able to practice beforehand in a room similar to the one you will be presenting in. – Rapport with the audience involves attention to eye contact, sensitivity to how the audience is responding to your talk and what you look like from the point of view of the audience. – These can be improved by practicing in front of one or two friends or video-taping your rehearsal. – Smile Tips for your delivery • Voice quality – Your voice is your main channel of communication to the audience, so make sure you use it to its best effect. • Volume – Is your voice loud enough or too loud? Adjust your volume to the size of the room and make sure the people at the back can hear. In a big room take deep breaths and try to project your voice rather than shout. • Speed and fluency – Speak at a rate so your audience can understand your points. – Do not speed up because you have too much material to fit into the time available. – Try not to leave long pauses while you are looking at your notes or use fillers such as 'um' or 'er'. – Use pauses to allow the audience to digest an important point. – Repeat or rephrase difficult or important points to make sure the audience understands. • Clarity – Speak clearly. – Face the audience and hold your head up. – Your speech will be clearer if you look directly at the members of the audience while you speak. – Keep your hands and notes away from your mouth and keep your eyes on the audience when you are talking about overhead transparencies. – If you have to look at the whiteboard or the overhead projector, stop talking until you are ready to face the audience again. • Pronunciation – You may not be able to improve your general pronunciation much before an important presentation. – However, you can make sure you know how to pronounce names and difficult words. – Do not use exaggerated intonation or pronunciation of individual words. – Your natural speaking style will be good enough as long as you speak clearly. Engaging the audience • One of the secrets of a good presentation is to involve the audience. – Maintain eye contact – Look your audience in the eyes. – Spread your eye contact around the audience including those at the back and sides of the room. – Avoid looking at anyone too long because this can be intimidating! • Ask for feedback – You can involve the audience by asking occasional questions. – Try to ask genuine questions to which you do not already know the answer and show interest in any replies. – Leave time for the audience to think and try to avoid answering your questions yourself or telling members of the audience that their answers are wrong. – Questions to the audience work well when you manage to make those who answer them feel that they have contributed to your presentation. • Pause occasionally to ask if anyone has any questions for you. – If a question disrupts the flow of your talk too much, you can say that you will answer it later (but don't forget to do it!). – Before you ask for questions, make sure you are ready to pick up your presentation again when the Q & A session has finished. • Look confident – It is natural to feel nervous in front of an audience. – Experienced speakers avoid looking nervous by breathing deeply, speaking slowly and avoiding unnecessary gestures or movements. – Smiling and focusing attention on members of the audience who show interest can also help you feel more confident as your talk progresses. Effective use of notes • Good speakers vary a great deal in their use of notes. • Some do not use notes at all and some write out their talk in great detail. • If you are not an experienced speaker it is not a good idea to speak without notes because you will soon lose your thread. • You should also avoid reading a prepared text aloud or memorizing your speech as this will be boring. • The best solution may be to use notes with headings and points to be covered. • You may also want to write down key sentences. Notes can be on paper or cards. • Some speakers use overhead transparencies as notes. • The trick in using notes is to avoid shifting your attention from the audience for too long. • Your notes should always be written large enough for you to see without moving your head too much. Tips on using notes • One of the decisions you have to make before you give a presentation is how to remember what you are going to say. • Experienced presenters use a variety of methods. – Speaking without notes – Reading from a script – Note cards – Overhead transparences or slides • Next I outline the advantages and disadvantages of each. • It is up to you to decide which is best for you. Speaking without notes • Some presenters do not use notes at all. They just remember the outline of what they are going to say and talk. – Advantages: If you do it well, you will seem natural, knowledgeable and confident of your topic. You will also find it easier to establish rapport with the audience because you can give them your full attention. – Disadvantages: It is easy to lose your thread, miss out whole sections of your talk or to go over the time limit. People who speak without notes often fail to convey a clear idea of the structure of their ideas to the audience. – This is a high-risk strategy. A few people can present effectively without notes. If you are one of them, good luck! Reading from a script • Some experienced presenters write down every word they intend to say. • They may read the whole script aloud or they may just use it as a back-up. – Advantages: You will find it easier to keep within the time limit. You are likely to less nervous and make fewer mistakes. – Disadvantages: It is difficult to establish rapport with the audience. You may sound like you are reading aloud rather than speaking to an audience. Listeners often lose interest in a presentation that is read aloud. – This is a low-risk strategy employed by many experienced non-native speaker presenters. If you use it, you will need to develop the skill of reading aloud while still sounding natural. Few people can do this effectively. Note cards • Many presenters write down headings and key points on cards or paper. • They use them as reminders of what they are going to say. – Advantages: You will find it easier to establish rapport with the audience. Your presentation will be structured but you will sound natural. – Disadvantages: You may find it difficult to keep within the time limit. If your notes are too brief, you may forget what you intended to say. – This is a medium-risk strategy used by many experienced presenters and the one most often recommended. – The disadvantages of note cards can be overcome if you practice your presentation before you give it. • Overhead transparencies • Some presenters use their visual aids as notes. • They use them like note cards as reminders of what they are going to say. • Handouts and PowerPoint presentations can be used in the same way. – Advantages: It is easy to establish rapport with the audience because you are sharing your notes with them. You will sound natural and your presentation will seem well-organised. – Disadvantages: You may find it difficult to keep within the time limit. Your presentation may be dominated by your OHTs. Unless you are careful, you may find that you are talking to the overhead projector rather than the audience. • This is a medium-to-high-risk strategy. Used well, it can be very effective, especially by presenters who are used to speaking without notes. Visual aids • Visual aids help to make a presentation more lively. • They can also help the audience to follow your presentation and help you to present information that would be difficult to follow through speech alone. • The two most common forms of visual aid are overhead transparencies (OHTs) and computer slide shows (e.g. PowerPoint). • Objects that can be displayed or passed round the audience can also be very effective and often help to relax the audience. • Some speakers give printed handouts to the audience to follow as they speak. • Others prefer to give their handouts at the end of the talk, because they can distract the audience from the presentation. Resources • English for Professional Communications • http://ec.hku.hk/epc/presentation/default.htm


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Celebrity Gastronomy at 35,000 Feet
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. ( MainStreet) -- People like to complain about airline food, making endless jokes of its second-rate quality and cardboard texture. But that's not necessarily the case at the front of the plane, with airlines using celebrity chefs to make their business- and first-class menus into culinary experiences that try to re-create aviation's more luxurious past. Anyone who had the privilege to fly the Concorde in its final years, for instance, savored the work of the three-star Michelin chef of the Plaza Athene and Monte Carlo's Louis XV overseeing a menu of black truffles, fresh Normandy lobsters and scoops of caviar served on Chirstofle silverware.
Today's airlines follow a similar model, allowing star chefs to create fine-dining experiences that, while directed by celebrity chefs, are cooked by outside catering staff -- and often readied alongside the food for economy class.
On certain flights, at least at the front of the plane, there's little reason to complain about airline food. |
The key to getting better food is creating recipes that travel from institutional kitchen to on-board cooking galley with ease. Training catering and airline staff on proper storage and presentation can make the difference between a marvelous culinary experience and a meal of still-frozen foam on elaborate seafood dishes -- well-meant but lost in translation.
Knowing that the key to fine in-air meals is equal parts science and culinary art, American Airlines operates a chef's conclave for brainstorming recipes that includes such culinary titans as Dean Fearing, Stephan Pyles and Nancy Brussat. On its Japan routes, it enlisted Sam Choy as a consulting chef, and he's devised an innovative menu of crabmeat soups, edamame hummus and pita and wok-barbecued shrimp on a vegetable ratatouille.
United Airlines partners with Chicago's famous Charlie Trotter, who collaborates with the airline's corporate executive chef to create menus for its International First meal offerings. The result is one of the most impressive of any U.S. airline, with such dishes as crispy crabcake and braised endive with goat cheese followed by grilled sea bass with apricot curry sauce. The airline recently re-enlisted the service of Trader Vic's restaurants, which it partnered with more than 30 years ago for in-flight cuisine on its South Pacific flying routes. Today, flights to and from Hawaii, Bangkok, Singapore, Taipei, Japan and Beijing are offered retro Polynesian specialties such as Mongolian shredded chicken and mai tai cocktails. Delta Airlines has enlisted Miami-based chef Michelle Bernstein to whip up Cuban-inspired dishes for its intercontinental and transcontinental flights for Business Elite and first-class passengers. Even on its non-Miami bound domestic and international flights, her famous cuisine is offered in an in-flight setting with dishes like those in her award-winning South Florida restaurants, including Michy's and Sr. Martinez. Delta also pairs the menus with wines selected by its master sommelier, Andrea Robinson, including Napa and Spanish wines as well as premium French champagnes. In terms of international carriers: Singapore Airlines maintains a culinary panel of eight world-renowned chefs and three wine consultants for its premium in-flight culinary offerings. The chefs are from various countries and include the U.K.'s Gordon Ramsay, Sydney's Matthew Moran, Singapore's Sam Leong of Tung Lok and Japanese sushi chef Yoshihiro Murata. On the Aussie front, Qantas has long worked with Neil Perry, the chef behind Sydney's famous Rockpool. For more than 15 years Perry has been the consulting chef for the airline, creating a selection of 12 main courses and an eight-course prix-fixe option unique to the airline. Competition can be had down under via Richard Branson's Virgin Australia, which signed up its own cooking celeb with Luke Mangan of Sydney's Glass and The Palace Melbourne. Mangan oversees a three-course lunch and dinner menu for the business-class cabin as well as in Premium Economy and Economy classes. But leave it to Air France to offer perhaps the world's preeminent dining experience with its "Studio Culinaire Servair," which leans on the talent of three nations' cooking treasures to create its La Premiere menu, exclusive to its intercontinental first-class cabin. Studio Culinaire Servair is led by 30-star Michelin chef Joel Robuchon with the help of Le Grand Vefour's Guy Martin and Jacques Le Divellec, who create a seasonal six-course menu on demand to passengers throughout the flight to be polished off with deserts from Paris' Lenotre and a wine list from grand sommelier Olivier Poussier to wash it all down. >To submit a news tip, email: firstname.lastname@example.com TheStreet.com on Twitter and become a fan on Facebook.
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YO!Sushi, a sushi brand based in the United Kingdom, has announced its first franchisee in the U.S. granting the rights to open 10 restaurants in the Mid-Atlantic corridor between Washington, D.C. and Philadelphia. The Sushi Company of North America, led by Richard Pawlowski, will open the first location in Washington, D.C.'s Union Station in early 2012.
"We have had many approaches from all sorts of companies in the U.S. over the years, but have held out for an outstanding partner with the operational and financial capability to grow at a pace," said Robin Rowland, YO!Sushi's CEO. "We are also in discussions with several other highly qualified franchise partners for other U.S. territories."
YO!Sushi first opened in London in 1997 and introduced the concept of a Japanese "kaiten" sushi bar that gave on-the-go customers instant access to sushi rolls, sashimi, Asian-inspired salads and a large variety of classic Japanese dishes on color/price-coded dishes via a sleek, snaking conveyor belt.
Pawlowski's companies own 36 franchised fast casual restaurants along the Eastern seaboard (11 Qdoba Mexican Grills, 13 Cosi's and 12 Bugaboo Creek Steak Houses). Pawlowski has teamed up with Darren Wightman, who will serve as operating partner for YO!Sushi. Wightman was formerly the Executive Chef for YO!Sushi in the U.K. and subsequently oversaw 14 restaurants as operations manager.
"We are thrilled to be the first YO!Sushi franchisee in the United States. The first time I ever tried sushi it was from YO!Sushi in London and I really loved the food," Pawlowski said. "I'm confident that the YO!Sushi brand will take off in D.C. and in the rest of the U.S."
YO!Sushi operates more than 56 company-owned restaurants in the U.K., as well as more than a dozen franchised locations in Ireland, Portugal and the Middle East. The company is focused on the East Coast and other major markets such as Chicago, Dallas and Miami for initial U.S. expansion.
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Today is one of those days that has really gotten me down. I just feel after fighting (again) with my mother over trivial crap that if I had a choice I wouldn't be the gay man I am. I am so sick of being yelled at by both my parents. I'm sick of the blind hatred of my step-father. I'm sick of all the hateful comments I see on any political news site I go to. Or even online movie reviews of all things. I'm sick of the awkwardness that inevitably happens when ever I meet someone new and they find out I'm gay. I'm sick of all the people who want denounce my marriage to my husband or think it's their business to comment on it. I just really tired of it all today. These days really suck.
Many believe the attacks that started yesterday are related to the ISIS threat against Canada. None of that has been confirmed. So far:
It's so sad to see this happening in my home country :(
1)After your unfortunate consumption by black fire and transportation to Pazuzus realm, how are you fairing?
Crystal Frasier wrote: Thanks for the insight Crystal. And thank you to Artemis as well.
So can someone please for my reference enlighten me. I have full support and sympathy for trans folks. But i would like to here some of things you folks have had to deal with in the gaming community. Especially everyday stuff.
The Minis Maniac wrote: I also see you overlooked my post. On top of that of the idea you think that homosexuality could be a choice. Which no scientific expert (In the human sexuality field) supports. There is a scientific theory out there called the KIn gene theory which demonstrates how homosexuality is likely not an aberration or a mistake.
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I very much disagree with the statement on your belief of the origins of homosexuality. In fact homosexuality is found in many animals considered not to have higher thought. In fact I can tell you that we have found homosexuality in over 1500 species. Ranging from gut worms to primates. In 500 of of those species it is actually quite well documented and observed. In fact I know the main researcher who studied the lesbian Albatross phenomenon personally, through my husband who works for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. And to show I don't just posit such things without evidence, I will even link where you can read more on the subject. I know Professor Bruce Bagimihl personally, he is a great mind, and a personable fellow his book should answer your questions quite easily. Biological Exuberance
Freehold DM wrote: Just saying it should be fair. If we have Sonya with underboob, is there any reason why we couldn't have this guy?
Crystal Frasier wrote: I agree with this. as a gay married man myself, I doubt i would eat or patron someplace I know doesn't like me for something I had no control over. I am all for having boundaries and try to be as moderate as possible. But if someone is running a company and donates money to anti-gay charity I don't think I want to give them my money to help donate with.
So I actually found myself having to explain how to deal with a transgendered person at work. I felt so upset that i had to explain common courtesy. This individual had obviously just started to transition. And I had to tell my co worker to for politeness sake refer to the person as the gender they are transitioning to and not stare. In this case male to female. In the end I had to approach this lady myself. I called her ma am. It went very well and I helped her out with what she needed. I feel bad though that this was not common sense.
Hey guys long time no post. :)
James Jacobs wrote: O Giant Kin are still medium humanoids. They just range between 6'5" to 7'5". They're freakishly tall but not that tall.
James Jacobs wrote: O Giant Kin are still medium humanoids. They just range between 6'5" to 7'5". They're freakishly tall but not that tall.
James Jacobs wrote: I suppose that makes sense. I always thought them more a as "monster" . But these creatures look mostly human anyway just unusually tall with a few distinguishing features. And adventurers by definition are different from the norm.Also do you think I should produce more giantkin varieties? I didn't want to do it with the huge + giant varieties as their as they are too powerful. Is there any Golarion specific giants that could be good candidates to have giantkin offspring? Or any Giants appropriate to that region that could be giantkin material?
James, I am really looking forward to the Giantslayer AP. In fact I have created my own race of monsters for the AP I hope to insert into encounters there. But here is where we get into the tricky situation. I created a 10(RP) NPC humanoid npc race called the giantkin (inspired by ogrekin). I split the Giantkin into 4 distinct types Tethyn (Ice giant kin), Gorn (Hill giant Kin), Braunn (Fire Giant Kin), Kolan (Stone Giant Kin). Giant kin are tribal generally loosely allied with giant tribes often a meritocracy led by a half giant. Giant kin are minimum 3 quarters Human (except for the Braunn who look like they come from dwarves) and a quarter giant blood.
Erik Mona wrote: Awesome Erik. I look forward to it!!!
Way to go Erik!!! More domestic animals!!! Very good for hungry monster and farm encounters. More things we need.
Frankly if you make these, you'll do well. Especially if your focus is miniatures for roleplay purpose. I hope you like the suggestions.
Hey James I will apologize for the length of this post. But some questions will be asked in it that will greatly help me make an awesome grand investigation based Adventure Path for my home game.
The AP starts out with the premise that all players are members of the Pathfinder Society. Young members trying to make a name for themselves and a rival party challenges them to a Society dual of sorts. To come up with the next great instalment of the Pathfinder Chronicles. And a bunch of mysteries of Golarion are thrown into a hat and drawn. And their task is to investigate his death. The designated Venture Captain that is to oversee this gives them their first step. Go visit one of the last surviving priests of Aroden. A mad (half-elf or elf can't remember) who inhabits an old church to Aroden. Because if anyone had inside knowledge of what happened it would be someone who experienced it first hand.
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My questions to help me develop this Adventure path for my home group.
Like I said I have no idea why I am the way I am. It isn't to attack pdfs, because I can definitely see their utility. I personally just can't use them. Not only just Pathfinder and gaming material. I love old books. I buy Folio Society books all the time as well. I love going to old antique book stores and just wandering. So I think it is something deeply ingrained in me.
I don't know what it is. I have a problem. I can't read pdfs. I have been a subscriber to pathfinder since the beginning, and I own all the pathfinder written material. Except the pdfs. I have a bunch of them available for download. And I have access to the pdf long before the written material arrives. And even though I am super excited, I just can't bring myself to really look at the pdfs because I hate it. I would rather lug a metric tonne of books around than one laptop. Even ipads are useless to me at games.
Just an idea Erik and something to consider. Mounts. Light Horses, Heavy horses, camels, Riding dog. A cart and horse. All without riders. Why? Because they would be used. How often are mounts used to travel in the game? And then how often does a random encounter occur? What would you use to represent the mount? Request the 2nd. First great job on the Reign of Winter Minis. Especially the animals. A flock of goats is awesome for a hungry monster encounter. My second suggestion is more domestic animals like pigs, cattle, oxen, etc. Again good for farm encounters, and random encounters in farmland. Often times these animals are around or in the way. What do you think?
James I am generally not a fan of sci-fi technology in my fantasy settings. However i am also open minded and because I enjoy everything pathfinder thus far (and own it all) I am willing to give it a chance. Plus given the amount of quality rpg products paizo has produced over the years I owe them as much to give it a chance. Do you think that The Numeria Campaign setting book, Technology Guide, and Iron Gods AP will win me over?
So it turns out my brain is full of random stupid facts. Just won quiz night at the local Pub. The winning question worth 25 Points in the History category
I'm not smart at all, just random crap ends up in my head.
1)So far so good. The small elementals as commons are awesome for summon monster spells and encounters A+ strategy there.
Ssalarn wrote: Slight over reaction on your part I am afraid. I do think male body image is an important issue. However it was not the subject of this thread, tangents such as these tend to get politely told to start a new thread or get deleted, which is why I came across as flippant, and chose to focus more on the issue at hand close to the topic of the thread.
Ssalarn wrote: I say these things for a good reason. Now I am not intentionally going to be flippant about male self image problems, because they do exist and it isn`t healthy. But more severely are female body image problems. It is near epidemic in our society. The unrealistic view of female body image is causing women to kill themselves literally, it is a horrible problem. And I know this is just my opinion but hyper sexualized and hyper optomalized images of women doesn`t help. I am asking for more realistic interpretations for a good reason is all.
It is a delicate issue for sure. I`m not entirely sure how to comment on the issue at hand, but here is what I have noticed.
My suggestion how to solve it:
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Obama, at UN, urges nations to support Middle East peace drive
In his second address as president to the annual opening of the UN General Assembly, Obama urges supporters of Palestinians to back their pledges with deeds, and asks Arab states to normalize ties with Israel.
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President Obama on Thursday implored the world not to sit on the sidelines of the relaunched Israeli-Palestinian negotiations but to actively support two parties that he said could, with courage, deliver an independent Palestine within a year.
In his second address as president to the annual September opening of the United Nations General Assembly, Mr. Obama in particular upbraided the world's many declared friends of the Palestinian people, whom he said are not doing enough to support a successful outcome in the talks.
"Many in this hall count themselves as friends of the Palestinians. But these pledges must now be supported by deeds," Obama said, calling on Arab states in particular to give robust support to the Palestinian leadership and to "seize this opportunity" by normalizing relations with Israel as promised in the Arab Peace Initiative.
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Social Media Shock: Shoppers Distrust Facebook Stores
In a study that seems specifically designed to make social media marketers lose sleep online research company ThreatMetrix suggest that more than 50% of consumers distrust Facebook Stores stating concerns online fraud as a reason. Even more worryingly, a further 23% report that they are unsure about social media shopping on Facebook.
The study, which ThreatMetrix undertook with the assistance of the Ponemon Institute reveals that of those questioned 51% said that Google is more effective than Facebook at keeping them safe from online criminals, and only 20% have purchased something directly within Facebook.
The issue is an important one and it follows up on the importance of appearance and set up in making eCommerce successful which is rapidly emerging as a crucial factor in online success. Namely, the fact that what sways consumers to make an online purchase is a sense of trust which ios hard to define but which everyone knows when it's not there.
Facebook may have managed to attract over 10% of the world's population but it also presents an unruly playground where raunchy pics, foul language and drunkenness appear to be the norm rather than the exception. This may make it ok in terms of an online place to hangout but when it comes to a place to do business in, the picture, as MySpace Founder Tom Anderson recently commented,is far from endearing.
Inevitably this must rub off on business which suddenly, in an online equivalent of the upscale store placed in a tough neighbourhood, are finding it difficult to attract customers. The game is not completely lost of course. Social media marketers advising their clients will now have to take into account the adversarial online environment and work both harder and smarter at attracting customers, appeasing their online fraud concerns and turning them into regular purchasers.
The real question, of course, is whether the additional expenditure in time and effort is justified when just round the corner Google Plus, already a trusted brand and a much more tightly controlled space, with a culture that's decidedly more reserved, is ready to offer a more rewarding experience.
The year is barely 48 hours old and social media is already making waves. The issues of trust, authority and professionalism, never far from the surface in eCommerce are now becoming critical factors which, in a tough economy, can make or break brand reputations and, more importantly, affect bottom lines.
It remains to be seen what Facebook's response will be in light of the findings but as the world's largest social network struggles to implement its new Timeline interface the feeling must be that unless they also succeed in cleaning up their social network space, a lot of the business they hope to attract will simply not want to be there.
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May 2 Posted 2 years ago
Daniel that is an excellent point, well made. There has to be real engagement rather than pure numbers which are frequently inert. I think the fault (if we can call it this) lies with legacy business which persist in demanding metrics which are based upon unsound notions of value.
Jan 11 Posted 3 years ago
You have raised some great points here - the team at Sortal Commerce predicted these issues about 18 months ago and based our social shopping platform as one that provides more than a regular storefront. We saw the need to create a value based offering to friends and one that stems from understanding the social aspect of shopping. We have achieved amazing results (7% conversion rate) exactly from this ability to give a 360 solution which includes online, offline, social and loyalty program management all in one platform.
Jan 11 Posted 3 years ago
I think your article explains the problems facing social commerce, particularly F-commerce. At the heart of this is the lack of imagination which has gone into the majority of off the shelf solutions to date.
It is wrong to just integrate a facebook application with a store and expect everything to be hunky dory. Some consideration of the pyschological hidden needs of the users is required. I have gone into more detail about the problem here, which addresses your points: http://webspacecommerce.com/node/107
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For the third game in a row, Connecticut's two Olympians both had double-doubles on Friday.
Center Tina Charles had 24 points and Asjha Jones had 14 -- and both has 10 rebounds -- as the visiting Sun beat Tulsa 86-75.
Connecticut (11-4) took a 25-10 lead in the opening quarter and won by 11.
The Sun will play the Lynx on Saturday night at the Target Center, trying to avenge a loss to Minnesota on its home court earlier in the season. Guard Ivory Latta led the Shock (2-13) with 24 points. She made six of seven three-point attempts.
The Sun had a 41-33 advantage in rebounding.
The Lynx play Tulsa twice next week, on the road on Tuesday and at home on Thursday.
* The Lynx did not practice on Friday after returning from Los Angeles. They will have a shootaround at 10 a.m. Saturday morning at Target Center.
San Antonio won its sixth game in a row, beating Washington 78-63. Sophia Young led the Silver Stars (10-5) with 18 points, all in the second half.
Teammate Becky Hammon had 16 points; she was four for six on three-point shots. San Antonio shot 52.6 percent.
Monique Currie scored 15 points for Washington (3-11).
The New York Liberty edged Chicago 64-59 even though the SKy had a 45-30 advantage on the boards.
Cappie Pondexter scored 19 points for the Liberty (6-9). Sylvia Fowles had 20 points for the Sky (8-6). It began the seaosn 7-1, but is 1-5 in its last six games.
The Sky was atrocious at the free throw line, making just six of 21 attempts.
* The Lynx in the West and the Sun in the East each have 2-1/2 game leads over two teams.
Tied for second in the West are San Antonio and Los Angeles; second in the East are Chicago and Indiana.


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Up in Bracey on the west side of the 85 bridge i got a cool customer with a big dock that I shoot off of when I go up to winterize his boats . Where is your place at ? My boat shop is at capital '' #1'' and hwy 96 in youngsville , bout 30-45 minutes fom bracey but a damn decent haul from the arcadia and eatons ferry side . You do know they have duck blinds on the lake dont you ? i would not go shooting an 7mm rem mag or nothing but a 22 or 17 and pistols would be fine Let me know if you need any boat or jet ski work
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Hello I'm down near the Morning star marina .I ddn' know it was ok to shot on the lake nar the duck blinds . Is it legal
You must be a newbie , Morning star marina use to be Eatons Ferry till the big man went to federal prison . Overbys moved in about year or 2 ago but Morning star bought it after eatons went under . Check with the VA boys on shooting since its on the VA side , its not really developed up at the other end but you have cows and other live stock to look out for . Google map beechwood rd in bracey va and you can see that general area is pretty open and safe to shoot . I never do it on weekends or holidays , but mid week there is hardly any one or thing out there .


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well after eleven years trusty service, apart from tin foil rear wheel bearings, i'm chopping my mk1 in for a quasqi 1.5 dci.
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Baldor's New Dodge® Type EXL Bearing Offers Enhanced Features for Increased Reliability
September 5th, 2012
Company: Baldor Electric Company
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Fort Smith, Ark. – Baldor Electric Company introduces the new Dodge Type EXL tapered roller bearing that provides both misalignment and expansion capability, while maintaining industry standard Type E mounting dimensions. This new design incorporates a cartridge-style inner unit into a split ductile iron housing.
The split-housing design allows the inner unit to swivel freely in the housing allowing up to +/- 4 degrees of static misalignment. Standard Type E products offer virtually no misalignment and are not available in an expansion design. Mounting dimensions are equivalent to any standard Dodge or competitor's Type E dimensioned product. The totally sealed inner unit incorporates the Dodge XTS triple-lip seal for increased protection in harsh environments. The housing is made from ductile iron for added strength versus cast iron products.
The Type EXL utilizes the new Dodge tapered roller bearings manufactured in Marion, North Carolina. The new bearing design offers a 13% to 14% increase in load ratings over the previous tapered bearing design. The new design is available in both two- and four-bolt pillow blocks and utilizes the same inner unit for both expansion and non-expansion housings. Bore sizes range from 1-3/16 to 5 inches.
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While Al Jazeera has a large audience in the Middle East, the organization and the original Arabic channel in particular have taken criticism and been involved in several controversies.[1][2][3][4][5][6]
An article in the American Journalism Review noted that critics of Al-Jazeera have "assailed what they see as anti-Semitic, anti-American bias in the channel's news content."[7] An example cited from earlier years was a report in Al-Jazeera that Jews had been informed in advance not to go to work on the day of the September 11 attacks, which was criticized by an October 2001 editorial in the New York Times. An often-repeated example involves an on-air birthday party organized by Al Jazeera's Beirut bureau chief for a Lebanese militant convicted of killing four Israelis, including a four-year-old girl. Al Jazeera greeted Samir Kuntar, released in a July 2008 prisoner swap, as a hero. A more recent example given by the article is the weekly show "Sharia and Life" by Yusuf Qaradawi, an Egyptian cleric who, according to a February 2011 article in The Atlantic, "argues clearly and consistently that hatred of Israel and Jews is Islamically sanctioned."[7][8]
Right-wing Fox News commentator Bill O'Reilly has criticized al-Jazeera for being "anti-Semitic" and "anti-American".[9] In response, Dave Marash, a veteran correspondent for ABC's Nightline who resigned from his position as Washington anchor for Al Jazeera English in 2008 due to a perception of anti-American bias,[10] appeared on the O'Reilly Factor and asserted, "They certainly aren't anti-Semitic, but they are anti-Netanyahu and anti-Lieberman and anti-Israeli right...."[7][11]
According to Erik Nisbet, an Ohio State University professor who studies Arab media, anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism is woven into the fabric of al-Jazeera's Arabic reporting.[7][9]
Al Jazeera has been criticized for being state media owned by the government of Qatar.[12][13][14][15][16][17] Al Jazeera has been accused of being pro-Wahabi as well as being pro-political Islam (Including Muslim Brotherhood), and having a strong anti-Iranian and anti-Shia bias. Compared to all the other networks, Al Jazeera seldom broadcast extremist Salafi's attacks on the cultural heritage in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, which can be attributed to the Salafi beliefs of its owners and executives. The network also downplays atrocities committed by the extremist groups, and instead highlights actions taken by the Western governments. It also never broadcasts anything even remotely critical of Qatar's ruling family, including human right violations or the abuse of immigrant workers in Qatar. Al Jazeera can be recognized as an apparatus of the Qatari elites to exert influence over the region via propagation of political Islam combined with Salafism, hence being accused of supporting terrorism. In 2010, United States Department of State internal communications, released by WikiLeaks as part of the 2010 diplomatic cables leak, claim that the Qatar government manipulates Al Jazeera coverage to suit political interests.[18][19][20][21][22][23]
Al Jazeera's Shia Beirut correspondent Ali Hashem resigned from Al Jazeera after leaked e-mails shows his discontent over the outlet's "unprofessional" and biased coverage of the Syrian civil war in light of the Bahraini uprising, which was not given the prominence of the Syrian conflict on the network,[24][25] one side of the conflict which was partly funded by the state of Qatar, who also fund Al Jazeera.
Al Jazeera's long-time Berlin correspondent Aktham Suliman left in late 2012 "It wasn't just because the broadcaster seemed less interested in reports from Europe. Rather, Suliman had the feeling that he was no longer being allowed to work as an independent journalist. "Before the beginning of the Arab Spring, we were a voice for change," he says, "a platform for critics and political activists throughout the region. Now, Al-Jazeera has become a propaganda broadcaster." "Al-Jazeera takes a clear position in every country from which it reports -- not based on journalistic priorities, but rather on the interests of the Foreign Ministry of Qatar," he says. "In order to maintain my integrity as a reporter, I had to quit.""[2] [26] He writes, "The news channel Al Jazeera was committed to the truth. Now it is bent. It's about politics, not journalism. For the reporter that means: time to go. [...] The decline 2004-2011 was insidious, subliminal and very slow, but with a disastrous end."[27]
Walid Phares indicated that the Qatar-owned Al Jazeera television network became the "primary ideological and communication network" for the Muslim Brotherhood and Salafists during the Arab Spring in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya , Yemen, and Syria in 2011.[28] He noted that after democratic forces had initiated the rebellions, Al Jazeera played a "tremendous role"[28] in supporting the Islamic forces that then seized the revolutions.
Al Jazeera has suffered the exodus of numerous prominent staff members. Reporters and anchors, particularly in cities like London, Paris, Moscow, Beirut and Cairo have left Al-Jazeera, despite what are seen as luxurious working conditions in centrally located offices. And despite the fact that the network is investing an estimated $500 million (€375 million) in the US, so as to reach even more viewers on the world's largest television market—one in which its biggest competitor, CNN, is at home.[2][29][30] Among the largest walk-offs, was that of 22 members of Al Jazeera's Egyptian bureau. The group announced their resignation on July 8, 2013, citing bias coverage of the ongoing Egyptian power redistribution in favor of the Muslim Brotherhood.[31][32][33][34][35][36]
During the 2010 FIFA World Cup opening game, Al Jazeera Sports' transmission in the Arab world went down without explanation in the first half, while the second half transmission was patchy. Al Jazeera and FIFA said they were working to figure out the cause of the disruption to Al Jazeera's official broadcasting rights.[37] The British newspaper The Guardian reported that evidence points toward jamming by the Jordanian government.[38]
The Bahraini Information Minister, Nabeel Yacoob Al Hamer, banned Al Jazeera correspondents from reporting from inside the country on 10 May 2002, saying that the station was biased towards Israel and against Bahrain.[39] After improvements in relations between Bahrain and Qatar in 2004, Al Jazeera correspondents returned to Bahrain. In 2010, the Information Ministry again banned Al Jazeera correspondents from reporting inside the country. The ministry accused the network of "flouting [Bahrain's] laws regulating the press and publishing" after Al Jazeera aired a report on poverty in Bahrain.[40]
During his visit to Egypt in November 2011, Nabeel Rajab, the president of Bahrain Centre for Human Rights, criticized Al Jazeera's coverage of the Bahraini uprising, saying that it represents an Arabic double standard. Rajab commented, "Al Jazeera's intentional ignoring for coverage of Bahrain protests makes me strongly believe that we need channels that are sponsored by people rather than by regimes".[41]
Al Jazeera has been criticized by an Egyptian newspaper for its allegedly biased coverage of news that are related to Egypt and its government, and they argue that these "continuous attacks against Egypt is to destroy Egypt's image in the region" as many of them suggest.[42][43][44] In addition, Al Jazeera has filed a lawsuit against the Egyptian al-Ahram newspaper for an article posted on 9 June 2010 named "Jazeerat al-Taharoush" ("Al Jazeera: An Island of Harassment"), which Al Jazeera finds to be "wholly deceptive and journalistically unprofessional" and claims that the article's aim is to "damage the reputation of the Al Jazeera Network".[45][46] The Egyptian regime would later collapse as a result of the Arab Spring.[47][48]
22 members of staff of Al Jazeera's Egyptian bureau announced their resignation on July 8, 2013, citing "biased" coverage of the ongoing Egyptian power redistribution in favor of the Muslim Brotherhood.[31][32][33][34][35][36]
In September 2013, a court in Cairo ordered al-Jazeera to stop broadcasting in Egypt due to its perceived pro-Brotherhood bias and "inciting violence that led to the deaths of Egyptians."[49]
During the Iraq war, Al Jazeera faced reporting and movement restrictions, as did other news-gathering organizations. In addition, one of its reporters, Tayseer Allouni, was expelled from the country, while another one, Diyar Al-Omari, was stripped of his journalistic permits by the US. Reacting to this, Al Jazeera announced on 2 April 2003, that it would "temporarily freeze all coverage" of Iraq in protest of what Al Jazeera described as unreasonable interference from Iraqi officials.[50]
During 2004, Al Jazeera broadcast several video tapes of various victims of kidnappings in Iraq, which had been sent to the network. The videos had been filmed by the kidnappers holding the hostages. The hostages were shown, often blindfolded, pleading for their release. They often appeared to be forced to read out prepared statements of their kidnappers. Al Jazeera has assisted authorities from the home countries of the victims in an attempt to secure the release of kidnapping victims.[citation needed] This included broadcasting pleas from family members and government officials. Contrary to some allegations, including the oft-reported comments of Donald Rumsfeld on 4 June 2005, Al Jazeera has never shown beheadings. (Beheadings have appeared on numerous non-Al Jazeera websites and have sometimes been misattributed to Al Jazeera.)[51]
On 7 August 2004, the Iraqi Allawi government shut down the Iraq office of Al Jazeera, claiming that it was responsible for presenting a negative image of Iraq, and charging the network with fueling anti-Coalition hostilities. Al Jazeera spokesman Jihad Ballout said: "It's regrettable and we believe it's not justifiable. This latest decision runs contrary to all the promises made by Iraqi authorities concerning freedom of expression and freedom of the press,"[52] and Al Jazeera vowed to continue its reporting from inside Iraq.[53] News photographs showed United States and Iraqi military personnel working together to close the office. Initially closed by a one-month ban, the shutdown was extended indefinitely in September 2004, and the offices were sealed,[54] drawing condemnation from international journalists.[55]
In April 2013, Iraq baned al-Jazeera (and nine other TV channels) over 'sectarian bias'.[56] The Iraqi Communication and Media Commission said in a statement that the satellite channels had "exaggerated things, given misinformation and called for breaking the law and attacking Iraqi security forces". The watchdog complained of a "sectarian tone" in the TV coverage and said "undisciplined media messages exceeded all reasonable limits" and threatened to "jeopardise the democratic process".[57][58]
A widely reported criticism is the unfounded allegation that Al Jazeera showed videos of masked terrorists beheading western hostages in Iraq.[51][citation needed] When this was reported in other media, Al Jazeera pressed for retractions to be made.[59] This allegation was again repeated on Fox News Channel on the launch day of Al Jazeera's English service, 15 November 2006.[60] Later The Guardian apologized for incorrect information that Al Jazeera "had shown videos of masked terrorists beheading western hostages".[61]
On 19 July 2008, Al Jazeera TV broadcast a program from Lebanon that covered the "welcome-home" festivities for Samir Kuntar, a Lebanese terrorist who had been imprisoned in Israel for killing several people in a Palestine Liberation Front raid from Lebanon into Israel. In the program, the head of Al Jazeera's Beirut office, Ghassan bin Jiddo, praised Kuntar as a "pan-Arab hero" and organized a birthday party for him.[62][63][64] In response, Israel's Government Press Office (GPO) announced a boycott of the channel, which was to include a general refusal by Israeli officials to be interviewed by the station, and a ban on its correspondents from entering government offices in Jerusalem.[65][66] A few days later an official letter was issued by Al Jazeera's director general, Wadah Khanfar, in which he admitted that the program violated the station's Code of Ethics and that he had ordered the channel's programming director to take steps to ensure that such an incident does not recur.[67][68]
The television network was also criticized for allegedly biased coverage of events in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, including the Bat Mitzvah massacre in 2002, where the network failed to note that the massacre victims were attending a bat mitzvah celebration for a 12-year-old girl, and neglected to mention that the gunman crashed the event at a crowded banquet hall.[69] When the Palestinian militant Raed Karmi was killed by the Israeli army, Al Jazeera was criticized for failing to mention Israeli accusations about how many people he had killed, which would have provided a context for the story.[69]
In 2008, Israel accused al-Jazeera of bias. Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Majalli Wahabi accused the Qatari-owned station of focusing exclusively on Palestinian suffering, and ignoring Israeli suffering, referring to the Israeli residents of Western Negev, who have been the target of rocket attacks by Gaza in recent years.[70] "We have seen that Al-Jazeera has become part of Hamas . . . taking sides and cooperating with people who are enemies of the state of Israel," said Wahabi, a Druze Arab. "The moment a station like Al-Jazeera gives unreliable reports, represents only one side, and doesn't present the positions of the other side, why should we cooperate?", adding: "These reports are untrustworthy and they hurt us, and they arouse people to terrorist activities." Israeli officials backed their claim by saying al-Jazeera had covered the Gaza incursion but not the Palestinian rocket attacks against the Israeli city of Ashkelon. Wahabi said that the Israeli Foreign Ministry would send letters of complaint to the government of Qatar and Al Jazeera. Officials of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party also accuse al-Jazeera of being biased in favour of Hamas, with which it is at political loggerheads, and prominent Fatah official and former Gaza strongman Mohammed Dahlan has organized a lawsuit against the broadcaster.[71][72][73] Al-Jazeera eventually agreed to discuss coverage of Mideast conflict,[74] and the issue was apparently settled.
The Al Jazeera office in Kuwait City was closed by government officials after airing a story on police crackdowns. The story had video of police beating activists and included interviews with members of the Kuwaiti opposition. Four MP's were injured in the crackdown. Kuwait's Minister of Information described Al Jazeera's coverage as "intervention in a Kuwaiti domestic issue".[75]
According to the media of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Al-Jazeera worked on behalf Western countries and those of the Gulf Cooperation Council in promoting their policies against Libya. It explained that Al-Jazeera worked to "disseminate falsehoods and lies to incite international public opinion."[76]
The Qatari Emir, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, opposed Libya's government and supported Libya's armed revolt in 2011, providing the rebels with significant military support and funding. Qatar's emir ordered Al-Jazeera to emphasize Libya's conflict in the channel's coverage, which contributed to the spread of the insurgency and influenced the Arab world's views on Libya.[77] Within a week of the start of the rebellion in Libya against the Libyan Government, Al-Jazeera started using the rebels' tricolor flag to mark its coverage.[78]
Qatar's emir appeared on Al-Jazeera and urged that military intervention in Libya was necessary. Al-Jazeera's journalists were criticized for not challenging the emir over his position.[79]
Although Al-Jazeera reported on 22 February 2011 that Libya's government carried out airstrikes on Benghazi and Tripoli, observers concluded that the airstrikes did not take place.[80]
In January 2009 Al Jazeera aired a documentary on toxic waste dumped in Somalia. A Somali journalist who studied the contents of the two-part Al Jazeera documentary, The Toxic Truth,[81] has concluded that Al Jazeera failed to rigorously research the story because one of the letters used to substantiate arms smuggling was issued on 15 April 1992, from the Ministry of Defence of People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, almost two years after South Yemen and North Yemen united to form the Republic of Yemen in May 1990.[82] Another criticism of the documentary was that Al Jazeera did not allow Ali Mahdi Muhammad, former interim president of Somalia, to exercise his right of reply for being accused of authorising Italy based companies to build dumping grounds in Somalia.
Reporter Tayseer Allouni was arrested in Spain on 5 September 2003, on a charge of having provided support for members of al-Qaeda.[83] Judge Baltasar Garzón, who had issued the arrest warrant, ordered Allouni held without bail. Al Jazeera wrote to then Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar and protested: "On several occasions Western journalists met secretly with secret organizations and they were not subjected to any legal action because they were doing their job, so why is Allouni being excluded?"[84] Allouni was released on bail several weeks later over health concerns, but prohibited from leaving the country.
On 19 September, a Spanish court issued an arrest warrant for Allouni before the expected verdict. Allouni had asked the court for permission to visit his family in Syria to attend the funeral of his mother but authorities denied his request and instead ordered him back to jail.[85]
Although he pleaded not guilty of all the charges against him, Allouni was sentenced on 26 September 2005 to seven years in prison for being a financial courier for al-Qaeda. Allouni insisted he merely interviewed bin Laden after the 11 September attack on the United States.[86] Al Jazeera has continuously supported Allouni and maintain that he is innocent.[87]
Many international and private organizations (Reporters Without Borders among them) condemned the arrest and called on the Spanish court to free Taysir Allouni.[88] Websites such as Alony Solidarity were created to support Allouni.
Al-Jazeera has been criticized over unfair coverage of the Syrian civil war. The channel's reporting has been described as largely supportive of the rebels, while demonizing the Syrian government.
The Lebanese newspaper As-Safir cited outtakes of interviews showing that the channel's staff coached Syrian eyewitnesses and fabricated reports of oppression by Syria's government. It refers to leaked internal e-mails suggest that Al-Jazeera has become subordinated to the Qatari emir's assertive foreign policy, which supports Syria's rebels and advocates military intervention in the country.[89]
In March 2012, Al-Jazeera correspondents Ali Hashim and two others resigned from their jobs because of objections over the reporting on the conflict. They reported that Al-Jazeera paid $50,000 for smuggling phones and satellite communication tools to Syria's rebels. Hashim concluded, "The channel was taking a certain stance. It was meddling with each and every detail of reports on the Syrian revolution."[90]
Ahmad Ibrahim, who is in charge of the Al-Jazeera's coverage on Syria, is the brother of a leading member of the rebels' "Syrian National Council". Al-Jazeera reportedly put pressure on its journalists to use the term "martyr" for slain Syrian rebels, but not pro-government forces.[91]
UK officials, like their US counterparts, strongly protested against Al Jazeera's coverage of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Al Jazeera stated that the coalition leaders were taking exception because its reporting made it more difficult for both countries to manage the way the war was being reported.[92]
Since 9/11 U.S. officials have claimed an anti-American bias to Al Jazeera's news coverage.[92][93] The station first gained widespread attention in the West following the September 11, 2001 attacks, when it broadcast videos in which Osama bin Laden and Sulaiman Abu Ghaith defended and justified the attacks. This led to significant controversy and accusations by the United States government that Al Jazeera was engaging in propaganda on behalf of terrorists. Al Jazeera countered that it was merely making information available without comment, and several western television channels later followed suit in broadcasting portions of the tapes. At a press conference on 3 October 2001, Colin Powell tried to persuade the emir of Qatar to shut down Al Jazeera.[94][95][96]
On 12 October 2008, Al Jazeera broadcast interviews with people attending a Sarah Palin 2008 United States presidential election rally in St. Clairsville, Ohio, with interviewees making comments about Barack Obama such as "he regards white people as trash" and "I'm afraid if he wins, the blacks will take over". The report received over 2 million views on YouTube[97] and elicited comment by Colin Powell: "Those kind of images going out on Al Jazeera are killing us."[98] Following this the Washington Post ran an op-ed,[99] claiming the news channel was deliberately encouraging "anti-American sentiment overseas",[99] which was criticized by Al Jazeera as "a gratuitous and uninformed shot at Al Jazeera's motives", as the report was just one of "hundreds of hours of diverse coverage".[98]
Some critics have alleged that al-Jazeera has censored criticism of the United States under U.S. pressure.[100] Al Jazeera English's former director, Wadah Khanfar resigned in September 2011 following Wikileaks documents that asserted that he had close ties to the U.S. and agreed to remove content if the United States objected.[101][102]
Some of Al Jazeera's competitors have claimed that Al Jazeera is pro-American. RT, a Russian network sometimes criticized for an alleged Anti-Western bias,[103] asserted that the Wikileaks documents concerning Wadah Khanfar (see above) proves that Al Jazeera is pro-American.[104] Voice of Russia made the same claim. Another rival, Iranian Press TV, has also published articles critical of Al Jazeera, claiming that Al Jazeera has Pro-American bias and serving Israeli interests. Their criticism of Al Jazeera came along with criticism of Qatar's government, and reports of rallies against the government.[105][106]
Al Jazeera cameraman Sami Al Hajj, a Sudanese national, was detained while in transit to Afghanistan in December 2001, and up until May 2008 was held, without charge, as an enemy combatant in Camp Delta at Guantánamo Bay. The reasons for his detention remain unknown, although the U.S.' official statement on all detainees is that they are security threats. Reporters Without Borders have repeatedly expressed concern over Al Hajj's detention,[107] mentioned Al Hajj in their Annual Worldwide Press Freedom Index,[108] and launched a petition for his release.[109]
On 23 November 2005, Sami Al Hajj's lawyer Clive Stafford-Smith reported that, during (125 of 130) interviews, U.S. officials had questioned al-Hajj as to whether Al Jazeera was a front for al-Qaeda.[110] Al-Hajj has since expressed plans to launch legal action against former U.S. President George W. Bush for his treatment while in Guantanamo. According to Stafford-Smith, these accusations include having been beaten and sexually assaulted during his incarceration.
Sami Al Hajj was released on May 1, 2008 from Guantanamo Bay and flown to Sudan. He arrived in the Sudanese capital Khartoum on a US military plane in the early hours of Friday, May 2. Al Jazeera showed footage of him being carried into the hospital on a stretcher, looking frail but smiling and surrounded by well-wishers.[111]


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Political donor says he didn't know law
City to review Gerson contributions to Williamson campaign
The owner of Simi Valley's The Vineyards said he was unaware that local finance laws limited him to a maximum donation of $1,000 to the committee to re-elect Barbra Williamson for City Council.
Glen Gerson donated $3,000 under the names of three separate corporations, including The Vineyards, in this year's council race. He said he gave money to Williamson after she asked him for support in her bid for a fifth term.
"When a local politician comes up and says 'Donate to my campaign,' I'm going to do it," Gerson said. "We make donations to have people leave us alone."
He said he would have given donations to any candidate who asked for it.
City Manager Mike Sedell said he will ask the city attorney to look into the donations as possible violations of campaign finance rules. The rules allow a company's owner to make separate donations under the names of each company he owns, but the donation cannot total more than $1,000.
City Attorney David Hirsch has said if contributions are made by separate corporations controlled by the same contributor, it could be a violation.
Depending on the extent of the inquiry, an outside investigation could take place, "based on facts and circumstances," Sedell said.
In addition to the $3,000 Gerson donated through three separate checks from his companies — The Vineyards, the Malibu Conference Center and the Morris Gerson Family Co. Inc. — he asked employees at The Vineyards to give to Williamson's campaign. Two employees each gave $1,000, recorded on the same day in July.
Williamson called again, Gerson said, asking him to raise an additional $3,000. Three more employees donated $1,000 each in October.
Gerson said he didn't feel pressured to donate to Williamson's campaign.
Williamson acknowledged she asked Gerson for donations more than once but was unaware he exceeded the maximum by donating under different business names.
"There's some things you have control over, some things you don't," she said, referring to the oversight of the donations.
"Some of the campaign finance laws can be confusing and should be reviewed and updated," Williamson said. "I don't think I've done anything wrong."
She said her campaign records show the donor's name and the amount donated, and when looking at that alone, she didn't find anything that looked suspicious.
Gerson's donations were listed under the different businesses' names, not his name. Two of the donations, from The Vineyards and the Malibu Conference Center, were listed with the same address on Stow Street in Simi Valley.
City campaign finance rules say it is the responsibility of the candidate to track all contributions and return contributions in excess of $1,000 within 15 business days of receipt. Once candidates file their campaign disclosure statements, the City Clerk's Office reviews them, as does an advisory commission, for the name, address and amount donated.
The three Gerson donations were given in July to the Committee to Re-elect Barbra Williamson. In Simi Valley, no business or individual can contribute more than $1,000 during the election cycle.
However, people who work at the same business can donate up to $1,000 each as individuals.
Williamson, 64, is the longest-serving member on the City Council and won her fifth term on Nov. 4. Each term runs for four years.
She received about $44,000 in campaign contributions this election cycle, more than any other candidate, including Mayor Paul Miller and longtime incumbent Steve Sojka.
Gerson opened The Vineyards in 2006 and has not had any project before the City Council. He said he didn't give any of his employees money to help contribute to Williamson's campaign.
Soroor Campbell, a co-owner of The Vineyards, said she donated $1,000 and said she has known Williamson for a few years.
"I don't donate for any reason other than I like the candidate," Campbell said.
She clarified why she hadn't recognized some employees named on the campaign finance disclosure documents, in an earlier interview with The Star.
Carlos Camara was listed as the CFO of The Vineyards, but it is his wife, Sky, who actually holds the title. Her husband's name was written on the $1,000 check and was somehow confused during the documentation of the donations.
Also, Alejandro "Jair" Paz donated $1,000 but hasn't worked at The Vineyards for several months, Campbell said.
Jeremy Hall, misspelled on the campaign documents, is the husband of Monica Hall, who donated $1,000 and is the bar manager, Campbell said.
"It was a simple clerical error," Williamson said.
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Verification of Parent-Report of Child Autism Spectrum Disorder Diagnosis to a Web-Based Autism Registry
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Growing interest in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) research requires increasingly large samples to uncover epidemiologic trends; such a large dataset is available in a national, web-based autism registry, the Interactive Autism Network (IAN). The objective of this study was to verify parent-report of professional ASD diagnosis to the registry's database via a medical record review on a sample of IAN Research participants. Sixty-one percent of families agreed to participate; 98% (n = 116) of whom provided documentation verifying a professionally diagnosed ASD. Results of this study suggest that information collected from parents participating in IAN Research is valid, participants can be authenticated, and that scientists can both confidently use IAN data and recruit participants for autism research.
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- Title
- Verification of Parent-Report of Child Autism Spectrum Disorder Diagnosis to a Web-Based Autism Registry
- Journal
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
Volume 42, Issue 2 , pp 257-265
- Cover Date
- 2012-02-01
- 10.1007/s10803-011-1236-7
- Print ISSN
- 0162-3257
- Online ISSN
- 1573-3432
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Additional Links
- Topics
- Keywords
- Autism spectrum disorders
- Web-based research
- Parent-report
- Community
- Diagnosis
- Industry Sectors
- Authors
- Amy M. Daniels (1) (2)
- Rebecca E. Rosenberg (1)
- Connie Anderson (1)
- J. Kiely Law (1) (3)
- Alison R. Marvin (1)
- Paul A. Law (1) (3)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. Department of Medical Informatics, Kennedy Krieger Institute, 3825 Greenspring Avenue, Painter Building 1st Floor, Baltimore, MD, 21211, USA
- 2. Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
- 3. Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD, USA


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Yeah, yeah...^^^.........like we aren't already messed up....
At least there are SOME certainly human amongst these inhumans....
Yeah, yeah...^^^.........like we aren't already messed up....
At least there are SOME certainly human amongst these inhumans....
Yeah - well, actually, not too sure about that. Something is odd with the Innocences of Allen and Rinari, so they could have started off human, but won't be by the end of the story - Komui is human, I suppose - Crowley is a vampire (^_~), Kanda has some strange tattoo that heals him, and... well, maybe Miranda? Not a lot to choose from, there. o_o
Oh, and the Noah, I guess - but maybe not Road.
Hm..ocay, as long as it isn't as scary like the Earl....I mean, if Linali and Allen are some sort off-human because of their innocence it isn't that bad...and Kanda is just way to mysterious, like Road still is. And Miranda......she's too unlucky? At the beginning in her Arc....but now she's pretty normal.
My Favourite Characters
The Earl
the rest..
Kanda's tattoo doesn't seem to be related to his Innocence, although it grants him super healing powers. Pretty much all the Exorcists SEEM to be human, although Rabi and Bookman might not be and Cross is too evil to be (=P). Miranda is probably just one of those people who the world hates.
Although he's Japanese this tattoo looks Indian, doesn't it? Another mystery xD Bookmen are human, I think. They're people who bystanders and record time for the future. Cross......... ..... ..... ..... never mind. And Miranda should be hating the world for having such an unlucky live until she met Allen and Linali. I think she might be a funny clumsy Noah....
Yeah... well, maybe Kanda did some travelling, or didn't grow up in Japan.
The way Bookman was being described, it sounded like they're human-like entities that exist outside this world. ._. Which humans couldn't really do (except Road, and I'm not sure about her). Miranda would make an interesting Noah... her powers could complement Road's, being time.
Well, but that wouldn't explain his love for soba and his bandages wrapped around his chest, what's used in Japan for worriers and swordsmen. If, then it was travelling (although he doesn't appear like the travel-type)
...I didn't pay much attention to that. And well...yeah...Road's a special case. Heh, that'd be funny....poor clumsy Miranda standing next to Road and JasDebi, shaking like a leaf when facing her former colleagues xD
The name Debitto ....sometimes it's translated as David, right? But is it a coincident that 'debito' is Spanish and means blame?
Allen likes mitarashidango and HE isn't Japanese, so Kanda could just like soba. =P Can't explain the bandage thing. Maybe he wants everyone to think he's a woman? ^_~
I don't think Miranda would do it - she's not mean and evil like the others can be. =P And then the Noah would start yelling at her and maybe she'd pass out. And therefore be totally worthless...
It might not be a coincidence. ._. I don't know why it's translated as that since the Japanese DO have a "d" sound (duh), and if it really was meant to be that wouldn't it be Debiddo? But it isn't.
Allen's travelling around a lot. With the circus and with Cross. And surely he had been in Japan once. And I think Kanda's that sort of person that would be pissed if anyone would think he's a woman xD
The image is still funny^^
Well, it would fit him, as bad-boy xD