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January 23, 2012 ONE OF TELEVISION'S MOST UNCONVENTIONAL COUPLES PROVE ONCE AGAIN THAT LOVE CONQUERS ALL WHEN THE SECOND SEASON OF "ICE LOVES COCO" PREMIERES FEBRUARY 19 AT 10:30PM ET/PT ONLY ON E! |
"Ice Loves Coco" Follows The Second Season Premiere of "Khloé & Lamar" As Part of E!'s Year-Round Sunday Night Reality Block
Los Angeles, January 23, 2012 – As one of pop culture's most beloved, yet unconventional couples, Ice T and Coco continue to defy stereotypes with their unique, outrageous, and surprisingly traditional 10 year marriage. Just in time for Valentine's Day, "Ice Loves Coco" returns to show a more intimate side of this power couple, going behind the hype and headlines and giving viewers an exclusive glimpse into the ultra-stylish lives of rapper/actor/author/motivational speaker Ice T and his model/entrepreneur/Internet-sensation wife Coco. This season the fun couple take off to exotic locations, share a trailer when Coco makes an appearance on Ice's hit show "Law And Order: Special Victims Unit" and due to their demanding careers, face spending time apart for their first time in their marriage. Their love is undeniable, but life isn't always easy as Coco receives some news about her health that puts the possibility of expanding their family in jeopardy. However, this fun-loving duo is ready to conquer any obstacle that life puts in their path, as long as they are doing it together. Be part of their journey when "Ice Loves Coco" premieres in its regular timeslot Sunday, February 19th at 10:30pm ET/PT, followed by another all-new episode airing on a special night on Monday, February 20th at 10:30pm ET/PT.
In the premiere episode, Coco's maternal instincts kick in when changes in her body convince her that she must be pregnant. After a trip to her doctor Coco receives news that is not as joyous as she had hoped and instead learns she has genetically high blood pressure. The sudden diagnosis stuns the couple and if not treated seriously it could affect Coco's ability to have a successful pregnancy, putting her life, as well as a baby's, in danger. In a scared-straight moment of realization, Coco decides that there is nothing more important than family and vows to live a healthier lifestyle, change her diet, expand her fitness regime and not let her workload get out of control. She quickly learns that with the love and support of her devoted husband, these life changes are necessary and will greatly improve their chances of becoming parents.
Later in the season, the stress of Coco's health issues and the couple's constant work commitments begin to take a toll on Ice and Coco, so they decide to head off to Hawaii for some rest and relaxation. While they're there, they visit the Army base where Ice was stationed and celebrate their eleventh wedding anniversary. The paparazzi follow Ice and Coco to their home in Miami where Coco is the proverbial fish out of water on a deep sea fishing expedition. Ice and Coco also retreat to Arizona to spend time with Coco's sister and her ever-growing family. Ice's kids and his grandson join them, which gets both sides of the family together for a rare and entertaining reunion. Ice's second family, his "Law And Order: Special Victims Unit" costars, also make appearances this season including Kelly Giddish and Richard Belzer. With all this talk of family, Ice and Coco realize that a penthouse in a high rise might not be the best place to raise a child and begin house-hunting for something more suitable, but they have dramatically different ideas of where they would like to live. In addition to discussing a child of her own, Coco is determined to find the perfect mate for their four-legged son Spartacus, an adorable English bulldog.
"Ice Loves Coco" is created and produced by Comcast Entertainment Studios. Jay James, Carmen Mitcho, Brad Spotto, Ice T, Coco and Jorge Hinojosa are Executive Producers, with Shawn Miles and Greg Nash as Co-Executive Producers.
Love is in the air this February when season two of "Ice Loves Coco" premieres at 10:30pm ET/PT following the premiere of "Khloe & Lamar" on February 19th only on E!
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There is a very good reason many indigenous Australians live in remote communities, and it's not a "lifestyle choice", writes Emeritus Professor Jon Altman of Australian National University.
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Yesterday morning, former Western Australian treasurer Troy Buswell resigned, ending his political career on his own terms. Unfortunately for Labor, the resulting byelection is unlikely to further ruffle the state's already embattled Liberal government.
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Thousands of government documents are unsecured and at risk in WA due to a lack of shelf space in the records office. 3rd Degree student journalist Karma Barndon reports.
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The Greens are the model supporters of the government's education and high-speed rail plans, but Liberal state premiers are having none of it. And what's happened to Kevin Rudd?
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While WA Labor leader Mark McGowan out-campaigned the Premier, Labor suffered a huge swing. Former WA Liberal (and Independent Liberal) senator Noel Crichton-Browne points the finger at federal Labor — and the Nationals.
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Colin Barnett's Liberal government in Western Australia won a decisive majority in the state poll on Saturday, marginalising the Nationals and giving federal Labor headaches.
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WA is in a fit of pique and feeling pretty hard done by, writes former Western Australian Callum Denness. Its politicians want nothing to do with eastern elitism and populist taxes, thank you very much.
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Western Australian pollies are on the move, with Premier Colin Barnett back in the Top 20 and challenger Mark McGowan hanging on in the last spot.
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The Liberal campaign in WA has been a chaotic mess, with Colin Barnett's Labor challenger Mark McGowan running well. Think the Liberals will be handily re-elected? Look closer, says former Labor adviser Luke Walladge.
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I'm pleased to announce that Castle Fraser opens on Friday 21 March. Why not join us this Easter weekend? We have a special Easter extravaganza from Sunday 23 to Monday 24 March. Check out our poster below. Each month I will be posting a new guide to our events so do keep your eyes open! Don't forget you can check out all events happening at National Trust for Scotland properties at our website also.
11 thoughts on "Join Us At Castle Fraser for Easter!"
::::big sigh:::: Wish I could be there! It all looks lovely.
Would love to be there, but sadly unable to make it. Hoping to get up to Aberdeenshire to see where the Troups of Coull & Aboyne hailed from
Hi Alison! This is Pepper the Fruit Bat and Bonnie here. We would so love to see a picture of your Fruit Bat, do you have one you could send? We are always looking for fellow bats. I wouldn't post the picture or do anything with it without your consent of course! If you want to share your Bat with my Bat, email me at bonnie (at) storyboardproductions (dot) com. That would be great.
Oh how I wish I could join you on this trip. It just looks absolutely lovely.
Have a great day! B and P
What is the infamous egg roll? My family and I had planned to take a trip to Scotland, Ireland, and England this Spring, but had to put it off. But whenever we get there, Castle Fraser is on the list!
Easter at a castle??? Sounds like great fun!!
Never one to say no to a castle, but you really got me with the chocolate eggs!
Its a shame its too far away, i would love to bring the folks along for the egg roll, perhaps one might end up in Cornwall !
Would love to, but I'm a bit too far away, I'm afraid
Trust me, I'd go in a heartbeat if I was within the vicinity! Sounds like a lot of fun!
I have been to Castle Fraser and I enjoyed the short stay. But it is to far away for a short trip. -
Looks like a beautiful place for Easter! Wish I could be there – Enjoy your day!


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Building an online community is a powerful way to get people to engage with your business - particularly if your offer is built around a trade, hobby or passion and you count on repeat purchases and offer customer support. But how easy is it to develop a community? Ben Dyer, of ecommerce software provider SellerDeck, shares the lessons he learnt when building his company's online community
A community is an enabler; it allows you an unparalleled level of access to your user base and empowers the otherwise voiceless consumer to feed back to 'the man'.
However, setting up and running a community is not easy. The SellerDeck Community was established in 2002 and today has more than 13,000 members. This provides our company with a daily insight into our customers and their views on our products and services, while highlighting both our strengths and weaknesses.
An online community is a little like a building project - you provide the bricks and mortar to build the environment where your members will reside. Once built, however, you need a plan to get people in. The traffic you attract - or don't attract - will be the measure of your success or failure.
Ideas to do this could be as simple as including details of your community at every 'touch point' you have with your customers, such as outgoing email signatures, phone messages or literature. Do your research and discover where your customers currently reside online; this could be Twitter or Facebook, so establish a presence there - but make sure you refer back to your own community.
I have seen hundreds of communities start up and turn into ghost towns because the basics of how to attract members were not in place. If you are unsure about starting a community, why not test the water with a decent blog. If you start to get a good level of comments then it's a good indicator that your customers are ready to talk.
Community building takes time and commitment to make happen. If you are confident that your strategy is correct, stay the course. For every community I have seen fail due to lack of traffic, two have the plug pulled because of a perceived lack of progress.
For your community to be a success, you need to look after it. You need to dedicate resource, especially in the early days to help it grow. The SellerDeck Community is amazing as we have so many subject matter experts, but it wasn't always the case.
Communities need leaders - it's a tough job, requiring many hats to be worn including politician, preacher and even policeman. You need to define how you will approach each role, but it needs to be consistent.
Community leadership is all about engaging and inspiring others. Constantly ask yourself "Am I doing a good job?". If not, ask for help. Good leaders will help set the tone for the rest of the community so it is vital you get it right.
I like to divide community members into three camps: newbies, casual users and the hardcore fanatics. It's clichéd I know, but it's true. These camps tend to play out distinct roles: newbies ask questions, fanatics answer them and the casuals move up the scale, or get bored and go elsewhere.
Be very careful about getting too hung up with the fanatics: while anyone passionate about your offering is valuable, they probably represent only a small slice of your community pie. The trick is to work with the most dedicated posters to help engage with the casual browsers. Your goal is to build a community, not pander to the whims of a small minority, however tempting.
If you want to build a successful community, you need rules. These rules need to be the cornerstone of the community's existence. Without rules governing how your community is run, prepare for Armageddon. Trust me, nothing devalues a brand more than your own customers slugging it out on your public space.
However, the very purpose of a community is to empower your customers to talk. Don't stifle conversation just because it is going against you, or exposing a potential weakness with your offering.
We all screw up; what matters is how we react when we do. Be honest and open with your community - this is your chance to learn what your customers really think. Listening to comments and engaging with criticism proves you want to be proactive and create better solutions for your customers.
At some point you will get a good kicking, whether justified or not. Due to the disconnected aspect of an online community, people act differently than if you met them face to face or even on the phone.
Managing aggressive criticism while maintaining freedom of speech requires a careful balance, so never respond badly in a public space. It can be a humbling experience. However, if your efforts to engage with your customers are being derailed by abusive members, you need to act. Exclude them if they persistently ignore your requests to be more moderate.
Running a community is hard work, but it can be a fantastically rewarding experience for both you and your customers. The reality is that if you have a successful company, product or service, your customers will be talking about you anyway. What you need to decide is whether you are willing to facilitate the conversation.


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dc.creator | Bode, Elizabeth Ann | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-11-08T21:06:22Z | |
dc.date.available | 2012-11-08T21:06:22Z | |
dc.date.copyright | 1995-04-17 | |
dc.date.issued | 1995-04-17 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1957/35023 | |
dc.description | Graduation date: 1995 | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | The central purpose of this research was to investigate the relationship of locus of control and academic success in selected medical office assisting students. The instrument for locus of control assessment was the Adult Nowicki-Strickland Internal-External Scale (ANSIES). Structured interviews were used to elicit personal responses for the purpose of confirming the locus of control direction that was indicated by the instrument. The research questions addressed the relationship of locus of control to the degree of internality or externality associated with the grade point average (GPA) for the Fall term. The findings concluded that there was a relationship of locus of control to academic success as measured by GPA in two of the four subsets of the study population. The students in the study population that received the highest GPA had the most internal locus of control. The students in the study population that received the least academic success with a GPA below 2.00 had an external locus of control. The subset with a GPA range of 2.00-2.99 demonstrated a more internal locus of control. However, the subset with a GPA range of 3.00-3.99 scored the most external direction of all groups. The findings from the structured interviews illustrated the phenomenon of shifting locus of control in response to a single question. The analysis from the structured interviews indicated more internality than was indicated on the ANSIES. The findings indicated that there was a relationship to internal locus of control and highest academic success (4.00 GPA) as measured by grade achievement. A more external locus of control was demonstrated in those individuals with the lowest academic success. The findings for the two middle subsets did not illustrate a relationship between internality and academic success or externally associated with a lower level of academic achievement. The principal implication of this research for education with regard to this study population is that locus of control is not a reliable predictor of academic success. The principal research recommendation entails further inquiry into selfefficacy, the phenomena of shifting internality, the measurement of this study population, characteristics of medical office assisting students, and locus of control as a predictors of academic success. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.subject.lcsh | Medical assistants -- Education, Higher | en_US |
dc.subject.lcsh | Community college students | en_US |
dc.title | A descriptive study of the locus of control in selected medical office assisting students and its relationship to certain characteristics an academic success as measured by grade achievement | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis/Dissertation | en_US |
dc.degree.name | Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. D.) in Education | en_US |
dc.degree.level | Doctoral | en_US |
dc.degree.discipline | Education | en_US |
dc.degree.grantor | Oregon State University | en_US |
dc.contributor.committeemember | Tricker, Raymond | |
dc.contributor.committeemember | Daugherty, Ron | |
dc.contributor.committeemember | Haddon, Lance | |
dc.contributor.committeemember | Parnell, Dale | |
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"Eleanor Rigby" | ||||||||||||||||||
Single by The Beatles | ||||||||||||||||||
from the album Revolver | ||||||||||||||||||
A-side | "Yellow Submarine" | |||||||||||||||||
Released | 5 August 1966 | |||||||||||||||||
Format | 7" | |||||||||||||||||
Recorded | 28–29 April and 6 June 1966, EMI Studios, London |
Genre | Baroque pop[1] | |||||||||||||||||
Length | 2:06 | |||||||||||||||||
Label | Parlophone | |||||||||||||||||
Writer(s) | Lennon–McCartney | |||||||||||||||||
Producer | George Martin | |||||||||||||||||
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"Eleanor Rigby" is a song by The Beatles, simultaneously released on the 1966 album Revolver and on a 45 rpm single. The song was written primarily by Paul McCartney and credited to Lennon–McCartney.[2] With a double string quartet arrangement by George Martin, and striking lyrics about loneliness, the song continued the transformation of the group from a mainly pop-oriented act to a more experimental studio-based band.
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As with many of McCartney's songs, the melody and first line of the song came to him as he was playing around on his piano. The name that came to him, though, was not Eleanor Rigby but Miss Daisy Hawkins. Donovan reported that he heard McCartney play it to him before it was finished with completely different lyrics.[3] In 1966, McCartney recalled how he got the idea for his song:
" | I was sitting at the piano when I thought of it. The first few bars just came to me, and I got this name in my head... 'Daisy Hawkins picks up the rice in the church'. I don't know why. I couldn't think of much more so I put it away for a day. Then the name Father McCartney came to me, and all the lonely people. But I thought that people would think it was supposed to be about my Dad sitting knitting his socks. Dad's a happy lad. So I went through the telephone book and I got the name McKenzie.[4] | " |
Others believe that Father McKenzie refers to 'Father' Tommy McKenzie, who was the compere at Northwich Memorial Hall.[5][6]
McCartney said he came up with the name Eleanor from actress Eleanor Bron, who had starred with The Beatles in the film Help!. Rigby came from the name of a store in Bristol, Rigby & Evens Ltd, Wine & Spirit Shippers, that he noticed while seeing his then-girlfriend Jane Asher act in The Happiest Days Of Your Life. He recalled in 1984, "I just liked the name. I was looking for a name that sounded natural. Eleanor Rigby sounded natural." However, it has been pointed out that the graveyard of St Peters Church in Liverpool, where John Lennon and Paul McCartney first met on the Woolton Village garden fete in the afternoon of 6 July 1957, contains the gravestone of an individual called Eleanor Rigby. Paul McCartney has conceded he may have been unconsciously influenced by the name on the gravestone.[7] Bizarrely, the real Eleanor Rigby lived a lonely life similar to that of the person in the song.[8]
McCartney wrote the first verse by himself, and The Beatles finished the song in the music room of John Lennon's home at Kenwood. John Lennon, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, and their friend Pete Shotton all listened to McCartney play his song through and contributed ideas. Starr contributed the line "writing the words of a sermon that no one will hear " and suggested making "Father McCartney" darn his socks, which McCartney liked. Shotton then suggested that McCartney change the name of the priest, in case listeners mistook the fictional character in the song for McCartney's own father.[9]
The song is often described as a lament for lonely people[10] or a commentary on post-war life in Britain.[11][12]
McCartney could not decide how to end the song, and Shotton finally suggested that the two lonely people come together too late as Father McKenzie conducts Eleanor Rigby's funeral. At the time, Lennon rejected the idea out of hand, but McCartney said nothing and used the idea to finish off the song, later acknowledging Shotton's help.[9]
Lennon was quoted in 1972 as having said that he wrote 70% of the lyrics,[13] and in 1980 claimed that he wrote all but the first verse,[14] but Pete Shotton, Lennon's childhood friend, remembered Lennon's contribution as being "absolutely nil".[15] McCartney said that "John helped me on a few words but I'd put it down 80-20 to me, something like that."[16]
The song is in Em with the III of the Em chord (G natural) defining the overall mood; the natural minor Aeolian mode (aural reference points notes 1, ♭3, ♭6 in this scale) alternating in the verse with the Dorian (aural reference notes same as the Aeolian except the 6th note is sharped because E dorian shares the same key signature as D major, which includes a C#).[17] The song opens, for example, with an Aeolian VI (C chord) and C natural note (on 'Aah, look at all...") before shifting to i (Em) (on "lonely people"). This Aeolian C natural returns later in the verse as the word "dream" as the C Chord resolves into the tonic Em. The Dorian mode appears with the C# note (6 in the Em scale) at the beginning of the phrase "in the church".[18] The chorus beginning "All the lonely people" involves the viola in a chromatic descent to the 5th; from 7 (D natural on "All the lonely peo..") to 6 (♭D on "...ple") to #5 (C on"they) to 5 (B on "from"). This is said to "add an air of inevitability to the flow of the music (and perhaps to the plight of the characters in the song)".[19]
In the 1980s, a grave of an Eleanor Rigby was "discovered" in the graveyard of St. Peter's Parish Church in Woolton, Liverpool, and a few yards away from that, another tombstone with the last name McKenzie scrawled across it.[20][21] During their teenage years, McCartney and Lennon spent time sunbathing there, within earshot of where the two had met for the first time during a fete in 1957. Many years later McCartney stated that the strange coincidence between reality and lyric could be a product of his subconscious, rather than being a meaningless fluke.[20] An actual Eleanor Rigby was born in 1895 and lived in Liverpool, possibly in the suburb of Woolton, where she married a man named Thomas Woods. She died on 10 October 1939 at age 44. Whether this Eleanor was the inspiration for the song or not, her tombstone has become a landmark to Beatles fans visiting Liverpool. A digitised version was added to the 1995 music video for The Beatles' reunion song "Free as a Bird".
In June 1990, McCartney donated to Sunbeams Music Trust,[22] a document dating from 1911 which had been signed by the 16-year-old Eleanor Rigby instantly attracting significant international interest from collectors because of the significance and provenance of the document.[23] The nearly 100-year-old document was sold at auction in November 2008 for £115,000 ($250,000).[24] The Daily Telegraph reported that the uncovered document "is a 97-year-old salary register from Liverpool City Hospital." The name E. Rigby is printed on the register, and she is identified as a scullery maid.
"Eleanor Rigby" does not have a standard pop backing; none of The Beatles played instruments on it, though John Lennon and George Harrison did contribute harmony vocals.[25] Like the earlier song "Yesterday", "Eleanor Rigby" employs a classical string ensemble - in this case an octet of studio musicians, comprising four violins, two cellos, and two violas, all performing a score composed by producer George Martin.[25]. Where "Yesterday" is played legato, "Eleanor Rigby" is played mainly in staccato chords with melodic embellishments. For the most part, the instruments "double up"—that is, they serve as two string quartets with two instruments playing each part in the quartet. Microphones were placed close to the instruments to produce a more vivid and raw sound; George Martin recorded two versions, one with and one without vibrato, the latter of which was used. McCartney's choice of a string backing may have been influenced by his interest in the composer Antonio Vivaldi, who wrote extensively for string instruments (notably "The Four Seasons"). Lennon recalled in 1980 that "Eleanor Rigby" was "Paul's baby, and I helped with the education of the child ... The violin backing was Paul's idea. Jane Asher had turned him on to Vivaldi, and it was very good."[26] The octet was recorded on 28 April 1966, in Studio 2 at Abbey Road Studios and completed in Studio 3 on 29 April and on 6 June. Take 15 was selected as the master.[27]
George Martin, in his autobiography All You Need Is Ears, takes credit for combining two of the vocal parts "Ah! look at all the lonely people" and "All the lonely people", having noticed that they would work together contrapuntally. He cited the influence of Bernard Herrmann's work, particularly the score for the film Fahrenheit 451, on his string scoring.[28]
The original stereo mix had Paul's voice only in the right channel during the verses, with the string octet mixed to one channel, while the mono single and mono LP featured a more balanced mix. On the Yellow Submarine Songtrack and Love versions, McCartney's voice is centred and the string octet appears in stereo in an attempt to create a more "modern" sounding mix.
"Eleanor Rigby" was released simultaneously on 5 August 1966 on both the album Revolver and on a double A-side single with "Yellow Submarine" on Parlophone in the United Kingdom and Capitol in the United States.[29] It spent four weeks at number one on the British charts,[25] but in America it only reached the eleventh spot.[30]
The song was nominated for three Grammys and won the 1966 Grammy for Best Contemporary (R&R) Vocal Performance, Male or Female for McCartney. Thirty years later, George Martin's isolated string arrangement (without the vocal) was released on The Beatles' Anthology 2. A remixed version of the track was included in the 2006 album Love.
It is the second song to appear in The Beatles' 1968 animated film Yellow Submarine. The first is "Yellow Submarine"; it and "Eleanor Rigby" are the only songs in the film which the animated Beatles are not seen to be singing. "Eleanor Rigby" is introduced just before the Liverpool sequence of the film, and its poignancy ties in quite well with Ringo Starr (the first member of the group to encounter the submarine) who is represented as quietly bored and depressed. "Compared with my life, Eleanor Rigby's was a gay, mad world."
In 1984, a re-interpretation of the song was included in the film and album Give My Regards to Broad Street, written by and starring McCartney. It segues into a symphonic extension, "Eleanor's Dream."
In 1996, a stereo remix featuring only the string arrangement was released on Anthology 2, and a fully remixed stereo version was issued in 1999 on the Yellow Submarine Songtrack, with some minor fixes to the vocals.
"Eleanor Rigby" is also important in The Beatles' evolution from a pop, live-performance band to a more experimental, studio-oriented band, though the track contains little studio trickery. In a 1967 interview Pete Townshend of The Who commented "I think 'Eleanor Rigby' was a very important musical move forward. It certainly inspired me to write and listen to things in that vein."[31]
Though "Eleanor Rigby" was not the first pop song to deal with death and loneliness, according to Ian MacDonald it "came as quite a shock to pop listeners in 1966."[25] It took a bleak message of depression and desolation, written by a famous pop band, with a sombre, almost funeral-like backing, to the number one spot of the pop charts.[25] The bleak lyrics were not The Beatles' first deviation from love songs, but were some of the most explicit.
In some reference books on classical music, "Eleanor Rigby" is included and considered comparable to art songs (lieder). Howard Goodall said that The Beatles' works are "a stunning roll-call of sublime melodies that perhaps only Mozart can match in European musical history" and that they "almost single-handedly rescued the Western musical system" from the "plague years of the avant-garde". About "Eleanor Rigby", he said it is "an urban version of a tragic ballad in the Dorian mode."[32]
Jerry Leiber said, "The Beatles are second to none in all departments. I don't think there has ever been a better song written than 'Eleanor Rigby.'"[33] In 2004, this song was ranked number 137 on Rolling Stone's list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time".[34]
The following artists have recorded "Eleanor Rigby" in a variety of styles, at least 62 released on albums by one count:[35]
Chart (1966) | Peak position |
UK Singles Chart | 1 |
Canadian CHUM Chart | 1 |
US Billboard Hot 100 | 11 |
Chart (1986) | Peak position |
UK Singles Chart | 63 |
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If the Brevard County School Board balks tonight at closing four schools, it will intensify a bigger, simmering story that hasn't received much attention: The degree to which teachers, guidance counselors and other school employees have personally absorbed the costs of maintaining nice academic programs for our kids.
It has been going on for years, and I can't imagine faculty and staff agreeing to it or affording it much longer.
So tonight's meeting on school closures could be pivotal, politically and financially.
You see, keeping all four schools - as city and county leaders are now demanding - would shift another $3.9 million in costs or cuts to employees districtwide. It would trigger furloughs for all staff and layoffs for guidance counselors and all elementary art teachers, district records show.
Already on the list of cuts are $15.8 million to be saved through 250 layoffs by requiring secondary teachers to work additional periods and take on bigger classes (in defiance of state law). For a teacher who stays on, it will mean 30 to 40 more essays to grade at night and 30 to 40 more parent conferences before or after hours - for net pay that's going down.
And consider the context.
Those cuts come after years of pay freezes and a shift of health care costs from taxpayers to employees of nearly $3,000 a year per worker. Even the small raise educators received last school year is portrayed in a board presentation today as a $3.3 million problem that requires offsetting cuts - mostly to the employees themselves.
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Moreover, the Florida Supreme Court just upheld the state Legislature's requirement that all public employees contribute 3 percent of their gross pay (about $40,000 on average for Brevard teachers) to the Florida retirement system. The change was designed to supplant employers' contributions - saving the school board and taxpayers millions per year - not strengthen the employee pension fund, the justices acknowledged.
Today, my back-of-the-envelope calculations show teachers, bus drivers and front-office staff will absorb about $30 million in costs next year that were not their responsibility five years ago.
And remarkably, the unions for faculty and staff have agreed to go along. From what I've seen, most of their members really do support the mission. Brevard isn't New York or Chicago.
Meanwhile, look what the school board has managed to preserve for students and families through the same difficult years:
? High school academies across Brevard that stress excellence, including International Baccalaureate and performing-arts programs.
? Extra periods of core academics each day under the Secondary Schools of National Prominence program.
? Vocational programs for students headed to the working world.
? "Choice" schools, including magnet and charter campuses.
? Almost all music and athletic programs.
? Cherished but under-used neighborhood schools.
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All special stuff that costs millions of dollars.
Little of it has ever appeared on lists of programs to eliminate.
Thank you, teachers, counselors, lunch ladies and attendance clerks.
Clearly, the board's proposed savings, including the closure of four schools, isn't a random assemblage of cost-saving ideas. It is the product of an overall strategy that shifts the pain to preserve excellence and choice for families.
As a parent, property-tax payer and high school sports booster, I profoundly appreciate that.
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Tonight's decision on school closures could test that limit.


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The Child as Social Person
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Questions about how children grow up in their social worlds are of enormous significance for parents, teachers, and society at large, as well as for children themselves. Clearly children are shaped by the social world that surrounds them but they also shape the social worlds that they, and those significant to them, encounter. But exactly how does this happen, and what can we do to ensure that it produces happy outcomes?
This book provides a critical review of the psychological literature on the development of personality, social cognition, social skills, social relations and social outcomes from birth to early adulthood. It uses Bronfenbrenner's model of the development of the person and up-to-date evidence to analyse normal and abnormal social development, prosocial and antisocial behaviour, within and across cultures. As well as outlining the theory, the book addresses applied issues such as delinquency, school failure, and social exclusion.
Using a coherent theoretical structure, The Child as Social Person examines material from across the biological and social sciences to present an integrated account of what we do and do not know about the development of the child as a social actor.
The Child as Social Person provides an integrated overview of the exciting field of developmental social psychology, and as such will be essential reading for advanced undergraduate students in psychology, education and social work, as well as postgraduates and researchers in these disciplines.
"Meadows navigates a vast research literature in her exploration of systems around the developing child. Her approach is comprehensive, building up a picture of each system from biological, evolutionary and genetic foundations, towards psychological and sociocultural perspectives. … In her introduction, Meadows likens the book to a Victorian novel … the comparison is apt for this rich, rangy story of development." - Joe Hickey, Suffolk Mental Health Partnership Trust, UK, in The Psychologist
"The level of writing is appropriate for advanced undergraduates—and perhaps beginning graduate students—who have little prior training in social development. … I also believe that the book's contextual focus will make it useful to students across disciplines, though it is written toward the discipline of psychology. … The Child as Social Person is also written in a way that should be appealing to students and other readers. The narrative is very engaging, reading like an interesting story around the topic of childhood social development rather than as a listing of "facts" as found in some textbooks. … In sum, I view this book as a valuable contribution to the field of childhood social development." – Noel A. Card in PsycCRITIQUES
"This book offers the most complete update of Bronfenbrenner's model of person – environment interaction that I have seen, making it an all the more important contribution to the field." – Harry Daniels, Dept Education, University of Bath, UK
"Both students new to this area and established researchers will benefit from this integrative text, which clearly captures the complexity of factors which influence children's social development. The cross-referencing of topics within and between areas is excellent, clearly demonstrating the importance of considering the multitude of factors playing a role in individual differences. A must read!" - Dawn Watling, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
1. Introduction. 2. Beginning with the Child. 3. Qualities of Micro-Systems 1: Child and Parents. 4. Qualities of Microsystems 2: Child and Other Children. 5. Larger Social Settings. 6. Risk and Resilience. 7. Reflections.
Sara Meadows works in the Graduate School of Education of the University of Bristol. As a psychologist she uses the concepts and the methods of developmental psychology as a way of understanding what children are experiencing at home and in their other social settings and the ways in which they grow up as effective social actors. Much of her current research is with the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC), also known as the 'Children of the Nineties' study.
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URL of Published Version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jech.2005.039305 Identification Number/DOI: doi:10.1136/jech.2005.039305 The fetal origins of disease hypothesis contends that an unfavourable intrauterine environment, as evidenced by low birth weight, increases vulnerability to chronic illness in adulthood.1 There is now reasonably consistent evidence of a negative association between birth weight and adult blood pressure.2 However, the mechanisms underlying this relation remain unclear. It has been suggested that individual differences in susceptibility to stress may play a part.3 One way of assessing this susceptibility is by measuring blood pressure reactions to an acute psychological stress task. There is evidence that large magnitude blood pressure reactions to such exposures predict increased resting blood pressure at subsequent follow up.4 Our analyses revisited the issue of birth weight and adult blood pressure and examined …
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The roots of the dispute help explain some of the hard feelings impeding a resolution.
Musicians made concessions in 2009 and then were asked again in 2011. They rejected a proposal for an immediate 10 percent cut in wages followed by a two-year freeze. The proposals, they said, "outline a path toward financial sustainability that is artistically unsustainable."
When the current contract talks began in April 2012, the board proposed a 32 percent cut in base salaries. Musicians never made an economic counterproposal until Monday.
As the deadline for Vänskä's decision approached, the board made public two proposals — including a last offer that would have cut wages by 25 percent in the third year but promised a $20,000 bonus for each of 84 musicians. That was rejected by musicians and on Monday the board rebuffed two union proposals that called for much smaller cuts.
At a rally for musicians Tuesday evening outside Orchestra Hall, retired University of Minnesota professor Kim Munholland said he's been attending orchestra concerts since 1963. The board "has alienated so many longtime season subscribers, they're going to have a hard time raising money in the future," he said.
Vänskä's legacy
Campbell said Vänskä "will hold a distinguished legacy in the history of the Minnesota Orchestra."
He led the orchestra on four European tours, including two appearances at the BBC's Proms, the world's largest classical festival. The band also won two Grammy nominations for its acclaimed albums on the Sweden-based BIS label.
The label's CEO, Robert von Bahr, said Vänskä "has brought the orchestra to the very forefront of the world's best orchestras." By resigning, Von Bahr said, the conductor "shows that he is a man of his word with a great personal integrity, who looks at music first, and the rest later, if at all." As for his future job prospects, "we are not at liberty to discuss that. His career is going forward in a big way, that much is certain, because of him and his musicianship."
Vänskä has guest-conducted around the world with increasing frequency in recent years.
The bigger surprise Tuesday was the resignation of Kernis, who did not pull punches in a letter to the board.
"I have personally never seen two sides that show such unwillingness to sit down together and attempt to tackle the major challenges that confront the orchestra," he wrote, calling Vänskä's departure a "heavy penalty for the choices made by both sides this year."
Kernis is not alone.
"It's really insane, this intransigence," said New York-based critic and composer Greg Sandow, who said Vänskä's resignation in the midst of labor strife is unprecedented.
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Title | Hip Hop = Healthy: participant perceptions of an innovative physical activity intervention for adolescent health |
Author | MacCubbin, S.; Harris, Neil David John; Stewart, Donald Edwin; Leveritt, Michael |
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Chapter 4
Making the most of existing health workers
A country's health workforce is made up of health workers who are at many different stages of their working lives; they work in many different organizations and under changing conditions and pressures. Whatever the circumstances, an effective workforce strategy has to focus on three core challenges: improving recruitment, helping the existing workforce to perform better, and slowing the rate at which workers leave the health workforce. This chapter explores the second of these challenges: optimizing the performance of current workers.
In this chapter
- What is a well-performing health workforce?
- What determines how health workers perform?
- What influences health workers' performance?
- How are levers linked to the four dimensions of workforce performance?
- Conclusion
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IBM Tivoli Service Automation Manager - Extension for Usage and Accounting v1.0 is now available!!
Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager (TUAM) development are pleased to announce the release of the IBM® Tivoli® Service Automation Manager (TSAM) - Extension for Usage and Accounting v1.0. This TSAM extension delivers cloud cost management capability by enhancing the integration, reporting and services between TUAM and TSAM. The extension allows cloud users to view historical invoice reports that show the charges associated with each project. The Usage and Accounting v1.0 extension provides the following features: Easier Cloud Usage Report... [More]
Identificações:  tsam cloud_cost_management cognos billing tuam isdm reports chargeback tcr costs cloud |
How extensions expand the reach of your Tivoli Service Automation Manager and IBM Service Delivery Manager solution
With our 7.2.2 release we enhanced our extensibility model. What does this mean for you? private and public cloud service providers can extend their solution by adding extensions to their environment. For example they may want support for specific network or storage use cases. You will see extensions appear over the next weeks and months on the ISM library . ISVs, SIs, customers and IBMers can contribute to the extension community by building and uploading their accelerators. How you build Tivoli Service Automation Manager extension is... [More]
Identificações:  tsam isdm extension cloud |
Italian Fishermen Turn to the Cloud
In case you have not come across this interesting application of Cloud Computing: the economy in Bari and its territory (the southern Italian region of Puglia) is based on small and medium-size businesses, primarily in agriculture and food products. To help sustain development, the University of Bari built a system that enables fishermen, wine growers and others to contract for services through a portal decreasing time-to-market, reducing transportation costs and the amount of products wasted. You will find a video with more details about this... [More]
Identificações:  cloud system_z tsam |
Tivoli Service Automation Manager in the Cloud track at PULSE 2012
Registration is now open for Pulse 2012 which will be held March 4-7, 2012 and will feature hundreds of industry-focused sessions that demonstrate how IBM provides Visbility, Control and Automation across the business infrastructure to help you react with agility in today's competitive landscapes, reduce risk, and receive the most value from your technology investment. One of the key topics is Cloud Computing as a
profound evolution of IT with revolutionary implications for business
and society, creating new possibilities and enabling more... [More]
Identificações:  tsam cloud |
A TUAM solution for usage metering for Maximo application running on cloud platform
Pay as you go is one of the characteristics
of cloud computing service. To provide such a service we need to track the usage
data for each cloud offering. For example, in an IaaS cloud platform, the usage
data is normally the CPU, Memory, Disk, Network. For a SaaS cloud offering
like Maximo as a Service (MaaS), the usage data required to charge the cloud
offering consumer may be the business usage data, such as: how many assets are
managed in the cloud for how many days, how many service requests or work orders
are processed Tivoli... [More]
Identificações:  chargeback cloud_cost_management maximo tuam maas |
IBM Service Delivery Manager 7.2.2 released
After releasing Tivoli Service Automation Manager 7.2.2 in July with a great deal of new capabilities to cover customer use cases, now IBM Service Delivery Manager 7.2.2 is available. In addition to leveraging Tivoli Service Automation Manager V7.2.2, it Adds new monitoring capabilities of the virtualized infrastructure
through Tivoli Monitoring
for Virtual Servers V6.2.3 Provides enhanced metering and accounting capabilities, leveraging Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager
V7.3 Is delivered as a set of virtual machines for simplified... [More]
Identificações:  isdm tsam cloud |
New Tivoli® Usage and Accounting Manager (TUAM) Cognos® reports are available!
Would you like to expand your TUAM Cognos reporting experience? The TUAM team are pleased to announce the delivery of 10 new Cognos reports, that enhance TUAM Cognos reporting in the following ways: Graphs and Pie charts have been introduced giving users an at-a-glance view of the current situation. Trend reports are now available, allowing users to view how those accounts accruing costs and how costs are being recovered by rate codes. New reporting functionality has been added that extend the existing report set by providing new reports which... [More]
Identificações:  accounting reporting reports cognos tuam usage |
Tracking usage and billing in the Cloud
As businesses adopt cloud environments to control IT complexity, pool resources, and improve cost efficiencies, the TUAM development team have been engaged in evolving the usage and accounting capability in IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager (TUAM) beyond traditional Enterprise charge-back. In such a shared cloud environment the ability to accurately assess which IT resources and services are being utilized, how much they are being utilized, and by whom is fundamental if service providers are to justify the cost of the IT resource and... [More]
Identificações:  chargeback showback cloud metering tuam cloud_cost_management |
Top Five - Why add SmartCloud Orchestrator to your IBM PureApplication System Deployment
I had great discussions at Impact 2014 on DevOps, SmartCloud Orchestrator , SoftLayer , BlueMix and so much more. One of the most common topics I was asked about was how SmartCloud Orchestrator relates to PureApplication System. SmartCloud Orchestrator shares common pattern technology with PureApplication System allowing the same pattern to be moved between environments, and it also provides orchestration capabilities that can be used directly with PureApplication to add significant capabilities to your cloud... [More]
IBM SmartCloud Provisioning open beta program started
The open beta program for the upcoming IBM SmartCloud Provisioning release started: Freely download the code , run it unattended in your premises without the need to sign a non-disclosure agreement Discuss what you think about that on a dedicated forum Watch demonstrations of IBM SmartCloud Provisioning capabilities in the work and tell us if you like or do not like the newest features just clicking a button. Join our community to get early access to and provide feedback on cloud provisioning and orchestration technologies Stay tuned to the... [More]
Identificações:  isaac beta smartcloud cloud demo provisioning |
IBM Tivoli Service Automation Manager - Extension for Network Attached Storage
IBM® Tivoli® Service Automation
Manager (TSAM) has delivered yet another cloud extension that provides service
offerings for automating the provisioning of network attached storage (NAS)
with an NFS export name. The file systems can then be mounted into virtual
machines provisioned within TSAM Virtual Servers Projects . The
extension introduces the concept of Storage-only Project , which
allows managing the entire life-cycle of the file systems (create, expand, set
access, and destroy), in a secure multi-tenant environment. It works... [More]
Identificações:  storage volume cloud filesystem netapp nseries tsam isdm |
IBM Systems Director Management Console - Metering with Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager
Would you like to show and charge
for usage of your IBM Power Systems server?
You may already be aware of the concept
of a virtualized system and virtual machines. This might be used by your organization as a means to share physical resources or form the basis for your cloud infrastructure. The usual goal of virtualization is to
centralize administrative tasks while improving scalability and work
loads. The question is how do you analyze the usage of such resources
and charge appropriately where required?
The Tivoli Usage and... [More]
Identificações:  usage utility_computing sdmc billing tuam showback powervm chargeback virtualization |
IBM SmartCloud Provisioning (aka IBM Service Agility Accelerator for Cloud) started the open beta program
IBM SmartCloud Provisioning (previously known as IBM Service Agility Accelerator for Cloud) fully embraces the transparent development philosophy.
Starting from today, you can join our open beta program. This Program is intended to raise awareness of IBM SmartCloud Provisioning with the widest possible
audience and provide a feedback mechanism to let you tell us what you like about the product, and what we could improve.
The code is downloadable from... [More]
Identificações:  cloud provisioning virtual |
Growing Number of Extensions for Tivoli Service Automation Manager
As a quick update in connection with the blog entry How extensions expand the reach of your Tivoli Service Automation Manager and IBM Service Delivery Manager solution : With the most recent additions, there are now several extensions available for Tivoli Service Automation Manager (TSAM) which you might find useful for extending your TSAM solution: Tivoli Service Automation Manager Extension for Load Balancer - which updates/adds offerings to provision and configure an F5 Load Balancer device Tivoli Service Automation Manager Extension for... [More]
Identificações:  tsam cloud extension |
Announcing new IBM SmartCloud Foundation capabilities
Today IBM announced new SmartCloud Foundation capabilities to help organizations realize the potential of cloud computing. Watch the replay of the IBM SmartCloud launch webcast , to learn more about how the new announcements, including IBM SmartCloud Provisioning (delivered by IBM Service Agility Accelerator for Cloud ), can help customers move beyond virtualization to more advanced cloud deployments.
Identificações:  virtualization provisioning cloud_computing cloud smartcloud |


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Well we made it to Laughlin
Trip Start
Jun 06, 2012
Trip End
Where I stayed
Gloden Nugget casino
We did go to bed at 10:30 (That's early for us). To our bodies it was 11:30... Boy, that time changing is hard.. we went through 3 time zones while on this trip...
I can't tell you how much fun this has been,. Dang! I don't want to go home...
While going through New Mexico & Arizona, we noticed there wasn't much road kill for Vern to identify, we thought that was strange...Plus he was getting board... Well we figured that one out... Somewhere in Arizona there is a place call "The Roadkill Cafe"..... Doesn't that explain it? Oh gross, yuck!!!!