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The reality is that not everyone can be a doctor, not everyone can be a professional athlete, and not everyone can be a writer. You may be a precious snowflake, but if you can't express your individuality in sterling prose, I don't want to read about it.
–Ted Genoways, "The Death of Fiction?" in Mother Jones Jan/Feb 2010
Here Ted Genoways, editor of The Virginia Quarterly Review, expresses his mission statement, so to speak, a way of turning aside submissions he simply doesn't want or have time to read. We might ask ourselves if this, in itself, is "sterling prose," and wonder why we should read it if it's not. Two matters make this less than "sterling," in my view, and I'd like to point them out as a means to talk about what we talk about when we talk about writing.
One problem is the speciousness of the analogies: a doctor becomes a doctor by going through considerable training and vetting; an athlete -- which is something "anyone" can be -- only becomes a professional athlete by getting paid, and continuing to get paid, to play a sport. The "anyone" here, to be an athlete, is anyone who puts in the time to train, has talent, drive, and what is generically called "athletic ability." Granted, some may wish they had it, but really don't. It's assumed that everyone who is a professional athlete has some ability -- though their detractors and anti-fans may deny it vehemently.
Is writing really like either of these things? Not really, and here's why. Anyone, literally, can be a writer, so long as he or she is literate. Children are encouraged to be athletic but they don't fail school if they aren't (I know whereof I speak on this one). But they really aren't supposed to graduate without being able to write. Therefore, they are writers, potentially.
Genoways doesn't say "professional writer" because he knows that wouldn't help his argument. The pay scale for poetry and much literary writing is so low that people who are professional writers -- journalists, mostly, but also celebrities who write books, or who become celebrities by writing books -- would hesitate to call them professionals. And everyone who considers him or herself a literary writer knows this. Many, possibly most, are not trying to become "professional writers" in that sense. Certainly, most want to be published writers and most would like to be paid for their writing, and would like to sell their books, but many of the people submitting to literary journals are "amateurs" if we define "professional" as "getting paid to write." Many literary figures, some quite respected, make their livings by something other than writing.
Genoways is well aware of this and so the "professional athlete" analogy really doesn't work, but he wants to differentiate between sheer ability or doing it for love of the game, and being an athlete paid to compete. But pay isn't really the issue when it comes to writing, even if VQR pays. If it were they'd only accept submissions from agents, who are getting paid to make sure their authors make money.
The doctor analogy doesn't work at all, not even really for academic writers, who also don't get paid (much or always) for their writing, though they are expected to produce it. Not everyone can become a Ph.D.,we might say, but, if you do become one, you now have a credential that gives you authority to conduct research and comment on research in that field. You may or may not get paid for that; as with many writers, your real pay, what makes you professional, comes from teaching. A doctor, generally, gets paid for practicing medicine, making him, maybe, a bit like the freelance writer, but one rarely hears of someone being a doctor "on the side."
Getting paid for writing may be difficult, in part, because anyone can be a writer. And though Genoways might like to think that being an editor for a respected journal is comparable to those who hand out degrees in medicine or those who hire athletes, it isn't really. An editor of such a journal is given the task of deciding, from all that it is submitted and solicited, what suits the journal, what fits with what. Some of that may come from people with credentials, some of it not. Some from students in MFA programs, some from their teachers, some from people who wouldn't go near such a thing. Or it may come only from whomever the editor knows and is in contact with.
If not published by VQR, the writing might still find a home somewhere, and if published somewhere, it may claim some at least minimal credit as published. And that's really the only point in Genoways' prose that stands: his statement of his own tastes as an editor. If it's not sterling prose, don't send it, he's not interested. Someone else may be. And so, while the person Genoways rejects is, in his scheme of things, not a writer, it may be that the person really is, and maybe even a professional one.
So what of Genoways' prose? Do you not find that bit about the "precious snowflake" cloying? Does anyone really want to read writers who are considered or consider themselves precious snowflakes? Genoways goes for the cheap laugh -- oh, yes, Ted, we know that type, how rough it must be to read such poseurs.
But then he doesn't say (which would make me be with him more): if you cannot write sterling prose, I don't want to read you. Fine. But no, he says "if you cannot express your individuality in sterling prose," which gives the game away: "express your individuality" is not sterling prose (at this point, I think "sterling prose" is rather less than sterling), but seems a concession to the language of that "precious snowflake." But why? To say that the "sterling" expression of individuality will trump the "precious" expression of individuality? If so, it leads us to believe that the expression of individuality is what Genoways is after, when the point he seems most passionate about is decrying the protracted navel-gazing of American fiction writers who don't seem to know or care that there's a war or a world or a world war going on.
If Genoways, as editor, were reading Genoways' essay, well, let's just say it might not make the cut.
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Not to pick a fight with my own people, but you wrote:
If so, it leads us to believe that the expression of individuality is what Genoways is after, when the point he seems more passionate about is the protracted navel-gazing of American fiction writers who don't know there's a war or a world or a world war going on.
But Ted Genoways wrote, as a criticism, in the middle of his essay:
Indeed, most American writers seem to have forgotten how to write about big issues—as if giving two shits about the world has gotten crushed under the boot sole of postmodernism.In the midst of a war on two fronts, there has been hardly a ripple in American fiction. With the exception of a few execrable screeds—like Nicholson Baker's Checkpoint (which revealed just how completely postmodernism has painted itself into a corner)—novelists and story writers alike have largely ignored the wars. Even our poets, the supposed deliverers of "news that stays news," have been comparatively mum; Brian Turner is the only major poet to yet emerge from Iraq. In this vacuum, nonfiction has experienced a renaissance, and the publishing industry—already geared toward marketing tell-all memoirs and sweeping histories—has seized upon the eyewitness remembrances of combatants and the epic military accounts of journalists. That, combined with the blockbuster mentality of book publishing in the age of corporate conglomeration (to the point of nearly exterminating the midlist), has conspired to squash the market for new fiction.
And in his final paragraph:
At the same time, young writers will have to swear off navel-gazing in favor of an outward glance onto a wrecked and lovely world worthy and in need of the attention of intelligent, sensitive writers.
Can you explain?
Donald Brown says:
Brian, you are quoting the very parts I had in mind when I said what he seemed most passionate about was the navel-gazing of self-involved fiction -- rather than"'expressing individuality," a throwaway line he doesn't really mean. It could be that you're thinking I mean "passionate about" as "in favor of" but I don't; I guess I could clarify that it seems he's in fact denouncing throughout those who only try "'expressing (precious) individuality" as the point of their writing, so it's odd for him to say, if they could do that in "sterling prose" I might be interested. When in fact, as the passages you quote show (and I hoped anyone reading my piece who read Genoways would know that's what I was referring to), he's mainly interested in non-fiction about the world.
so I'll change the wording to make it clear, thanks!
Bennett Lovett-Graff says:
Cat fight...rowr!
Bennett Lovett-Graff says:
"if you can't express your individuality in sterling prose" begs a question: what if the individuality being expressed isn't worth the reading? Can sterling prose, for example, salvage a dull story? It seems sterling prose, whatever that means, is for Genoway, a minimum requirement and he suggests that sterling prose may well be the foundation for the expression of individuality. (If it ain't sterling, then the individuality is submerged in the implied conformities---non-individuality--of bad prose--y'know, like what the rest of us suckers write.)
My quarrel with Genoway's exact phrase would stand its premise on its head a little: is it possible to read and enjoy a truly remarkable expression of individuality that is not sterling in its prose-- perhaps because the individual is more remarkable than the prose? I think it may be. In fact, when the prose is sterling and the story told through it is not, that is when we have a scenario taht we sometimes call "precious": in essence, the quality of the medium (sterling prose) far outstrips the gravitas of the message (dull story), creating a kind of stylistic bathos ("precious").
Brian Slattery says:
Bennett, I hear what you're saying on this one. There are a few cases where the story might be a improved in its persuasiveness because the writing isn't "sterling"—I mean, it's fine, but it's not gorgeous. Like I, Rigoberto Menchu—the simple, workmanlike prose, at least as I read it in translation, adds to the story's power.
(And yes, I'm aware of the controversy around that book and Menchu's getting the Nobel Peace Prize. I find that Menchu's small embellishments don't—perhaps can't—detract from the wider truth that she captures about what happened in Guatemala. Eduardo Galeano said it so well in "Let's Shoot Rigoberta," his excoriating essay on the controversy: "The world is upside down if it is discussing now whether Rigoberta deserves the prize, when it should be debating whether the prize deserves her.")
Donald Brown says:
I like Bennett's idea that non-sterling prose may be well worth reading for any number of reasons. In fact, that was the point I wanted to get to, but got sidetracked into having some fun with Genoways' terms. I intended his quotation to introduce some thoughts on why I like reading students work, particularly students' journals, the epitome of non-professional, unpublished work. And that was to be offered in a context of why blogs are worthwhile though not really 'published': a view I had to get to gradually because my initial attitude to the ungrammatical visions of the individual was much like Genoways'. Maybe I'll get to that post eventually -- after reading this semester's students' journals.
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The Xbox One has been on the market in North America for three months. Microsoft has failed to prove the worth of the Kinect hardware, and there are no concrete release dates for experiences that will justify its costs.
The Kinect for the Xbox One is a sophisticated, expensive piece of equipment that adds very little to the act of playing games. I'm able to get voice commands to work around 80 percent of the time, but my wife and children have much worse luck.It doesn't help that your commands have to be oddly specific, to the point where learning the syntax needed to get the system to do anything requires either a bit of memorization or reading the prompts on the screen, at which point you would save both time and effort by simply using a controller.The use of the Kinect for navigation and voice commands is limited and often frustrating, but the lack of games that use the hardware in any compelling way is just as much of a shame. There are a few gimmicks in games here and there, but Microsoft also packages in a headset with every Xbox One. The use of a sophisticated 3D camera with infrared capabilities and an array of microphones for voice commands is an expensive, and needless, form of overkill.
Anecdotal evidence from the Polygon water cooler suggests that the Kinect may be one of the most hated pieces of equipment in current use, especially among spouses.
The common defense of the Kinect is that developers wouldn't support it unless it was forced on consumers. This assumes that a fragmented user base would cause a low level of support from the industry.That attitude is presumptuous and consumer-hostile. Why not have Microsoft and developers create something that compels people to pick up the hardware first, and then see how well it does? Pushing a product on the public with the hope that it will be useful once we have it is a cruel inversion of how product adoption should be handled.The forced pack-in proves something we already knew at the beginning of this generation: Almost no one would want to buy the Kinect separately if they were given the choice.
Allow players who like the unit to purchase one separately if they'd like, but let's stop pretending that developers are going to jump back on board the motion control train, or that the expensive piece of hardware is required to accept voice commands that may or may not work.
Would most people buy a $100 Kinect along with the system? Absolutely not. They have one because they don't have a choice, and that's a brutish way to build a product.
The Kinect adds cost and frustration, and at this point there's nothing on the horizon that will make it more attractive. Microsoft is charging every player for a feature they may not want, even if drastically improved. It's time to make the Kinect a peripheral, not a pack-in.
More @ http://www.polygon.c...-kinect-pack-in
A bit long winded, but if MS had listened to the consumer around E3 they'd of heard this kind of chatter loud and clear. People wanted price parity with the PS4, MS essentially told us Kinect can't make that happen, people get upset and ask for it to be optional.
The sales figures would probably not be what they are just now with a $399 launch, and the article does make a good point in that of what exactly do XB1 owners have right now that justifies Kinect? Pretty much only voice commands.
You can argue the sales effect of resolution/FPS differences, and have a point in arguing it not meaning that much, but pricing is one area that's pretty much outright hurting MS.

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The current population of Black Point-Green Point is 818 with the median age of 51. Black Point-Green Point's median household income is $123,721, and the average household net worth is $1,612,068. 55% of Black Point-Green Point's population are long term residents having lived in their homes for more than 5 years, while 10% of Black Point-Green Point's population have moved in the last year.
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Age distribution represents the distribution of the population in Black Point-Green Point by age group. In Black Point-Green Point, the male-to-female ratio is 407:411, which is 3% higher than the ratio of Marin County, which is 125,810:130,727. Age demographic data is sourced from census, 2015.
Crime rate index represents the average crime rate for a local area in comparison to nearby areas and the national average. A crime index of 100 represents the national average. Black Point-Green Point, has 49% less property crime than Marin County, and is 74% below the nation's average. Black Point-Green Point, has 301% more personal crime than Marin County and when compared to that of United States, Black Point-Green Point is 77% above the national average.
Marital status represents the percent of residents in Black Point-Green Point that are single, married, widowed and divorced. In Black Point-Green Point, 86% of people are married and 14% of people are single. The percent of people married is 6% higher than the ratio of Marin County, which is 79%. Marital data is sourced from census, 2015.
Household income distribution represents the distribution of Black Point-Green Point income brackets at the household level. Overall, the median household income for Black Point-Green Point is $123,721, which is 36% higher than that of Marin County ($90,708). Income data for Black Point-Green Point is sourced from census, 2015.
Education data represents the highest level of education attained by residents in Black Point-Green Point. In Black Point-Green Point, 5% of residents 18 and over graduated from high school and 46% completed a Bachelor's degree or higher, which is 7% lower than that of Marin County. Education statistics is sourced from census, 2015.


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How a session is defined in Analytics
The concept of a session in Google Analytics is important to understand because many features, reports, and metrics depend on how Analytics calculates sessions.
At a glance
A session is a group of interactions that take place on your website within a given time frame. For example a single session can contain multiple screen or page views, events, social interactions, and ecommerce transactions. Learn more about the different request types in Google Analytics.
You can think of a session as the container for the actions a user takes on your site.
A single user can open multiple sessions. Those sessions can occur on the same day, or over several days, weeks, or months. As soon as one session ends, there is then an opportunity to start a new session. There are two methods by which a session ends:
- Time-based expiry (including end of day):
- After 30 minutes of inactivity
- At midnight
- Campaign change:
- If a user arrives via one campaign, leaves, and then comes back via a different campaign.
In depth
How long does a session last?
By default, a session lasts until there's 30 minutes of inactivity, but you can adjust this length so a session lasts a few seconds or several hours. A session can be as short as a few seconds or as long as several hours.
When a user, say Bob, arrives on your site, Analytics starts counting from that moment. If 30 minutes pass without any kind of interaction from Bob, the session ends. However, every time Bob interacts with an element (like an event, social interaction, or opens a new page), Google Analytics resets the expiration time by adding on an additional 30 minutes from the time of that interaction.
Assume Bob interacts with your website at the following intervals:
After event 2, the session expiry is set to 14:34
When Bob first arrives on your site, the session is set to expire at 14:31. As Bob continues through your site, viewing pages and triggering events, each of these additional requests moves the expiry ahead 30 minutes.
What happens if during a session to my site, Bob leaves open a page while he takes a 31-minute lunch break, then returns to continue browsing the site?
In this scenario, the first session that was opened when Bob arrived on the site ends 30 minutes into his lunch break. When he returns from lunch and continues browsing the website, then Analytics sets a new 30-minute expiry, and a new session begins.
Bob was half way through a product purchase when he left your site and went for lunch. He later returned to complete the transaction. The landing page of the new session is the add-to-cart page.
What happens if Bob leaves open a page on my site, but only takes a 29-minute lunch break before he continues browsing?
When Bob returns, the session that was open continues from the last page he was viewing on your site (provided he doesn't return via another campaign source -- a bit more about this below). As far as Analytics is concerned, he never left your website.
Bob was half way through a product purchase when he left your site and went for lunch. The difference this time is that because he returned in under 30 minutes, the old session remains open. It's worth noting that his time on page for pageview 2 (product) is 29 minutes, since time on page is calculated as the difference between the initiation of successive pageviews: pageview 3 - pageview 2 (14:31-14:02 = 00:29).
End of day expiry
Bob opens your website at 11:50 PM on the 14th of August and leaves your website at 12:10 AM on the 15th of August.
The first session ends at 11:59:59 PM on the 14th of August, and the second session begins at 12:00 AM on the 15th of August.
End of day is determined by your view timezone settings.
Campaign change expiry
Every time a user's campaign source changes, Google Analytics opens a new session. It's important to point out that even if an existing session is still open (that is, less than 30 mins have elapsed), if the campaign source changes mid-session the first session is closed and a new session is opened.
Let's say Bob opens your website in the following order:
Analytics stores campaign source information. Each time the value of the campaign is updated, Analytics opens a new session. In the example above, Bob first arrives at your website via the Google organic keyword Red Widgets, then later returns via the Google paid keyword Blue Widgets.
Each search term updates the campaign, so each keyword corresponds to a new session.
What causes updates to the campaign?
Generally speaking, the campaign updates anytime the user arrives at your site via a search engine, referring website, or campaign tagged URL. Direct traffic, however, never updates or replaces an existing campaign source such as a search engine, referring site, or campaign-tagged information.
AdWords autotagging
In the case of AdWords autotagging, each click generates a unique campaign value (a gclid value). Because each click has its own gclid value, each click is treated as a separate campaign and creates a new session.
Campaign Tags
The best practice is to use autotagging instead of manual campaign tags, but let's assume that you manually tagged your AdWords campaigns with a destination URL like this:
Bob clicks your ad, which registers a new session for the first click. However, unlike autotagging, where multiple clicks on the ad can generate multiple corresponding sessions, manually tagged campaign parameter values remain the same for every click so the campaign isn't updated for each click. This makes it possible to have multiple ad clicks and only one session.
If you advertise on third-party ad networks and use manual campaign tags, you should be aware that each click from a single user on those networks might not generate a corresponding session (if additional clicks happen within the 30-minute time frame). This is a common cause of data discrepancies between Google Analytics and other product reporting.
Referring sources -- a slight exception
Each new campaign source should generate a corresponding new session, but referrals are treated differently from search engine traffic (organic, cpc), and campaign-tagged traffic. A session from a referring source within the 30-minute session window doesn't update the campaign.
Let's assume Bob goes to your site via the following sequence:
If Bob returns to your site via a referring source, Analytics does NOT update the campaign or open a new session.
Why is this campaign source treated uniquely?
There are a few reasons why referrals are treated differently:
Reason 1
Let's say your website has a 3rd party payment gateway:
Assume the third-party payment gateway (paymentdomain.com) doesn't allow cross-domain tracking. To prevent Analytics from losing your original campaign information (organic keyword Red Widgets) and overriding it with referral information from the third-party payment gateway (paymentdomain.com), Analytics ignores referral sources when a session is still open.
The caveat is that if users spend longer than 30 mins on the payment gateway pages, Analytics updates the campaign with referral information from paymentdomain.com when the user returns to the thank-you page on yourwebsite.com
Reason 2
On some occasions despite your best efforts it's possible that you miss tagging a page, or the Google Analytics tracking code doesn't function on a subset of pages. In these instances where some pages are tagged and some are not and without the special treatment of referral traffic Google Analytics would override existing campaign information "Red Widgets" with self referral information from yourwebsite.com.
Because Google Analytics does not update the campaign when the existing session is still open, your original campaign data Red Widgets is preserved up until the thank-you page, and your conversions can be traced back to this keyword.
Direct traffic
Finally, a quick word about direct traffic in Analytics. Direct as a campaign source never overrides an existing known campaign source like a search engine, referral, or campaign source would.
Direct traffic that interacts with your content within the 30-minute session window have the same effect as leaving your website for less than 30 minutes. The existing session opens and continues from where it left off.
Note that the Multi-Channel Funnel reports handle direct traffic differently than other Google Analytics reports.
Bounce rate: Can be defined as a single interaction with your website followed by an exit. Some types of interactions, like Events, allow you to specify if the request should be excluded from the bounce rate calculation. Refer to the Developer Guides for Events in Universal Analytics (analytics.js) and Classic Analytics (ga.js) to see how to implement this.
Session length: The default session length is 30 minutes, but you can change this by adjusting the session or campaign timeout handling if you're using Universal Analytics (analytics.js). If you're using Classic Analytics (ga.js) refer to our Developer Guide on how to reduce or extend the timeout length method in ga.js.


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Rating the credit worthiness of a said person or an organization is the primary job of a credit analyst. When any bank, financial institute or a company hands over a service or contract or even some kind of loan, credit or a loan to a person, the credit analyst does the job of determining the credit worthiness of that entity.
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- Consult with customers to resolve complaints and verify financial and credit transactions.
- Participate in process improvement projects, and support other management directives as prescribed.
- Complete loan applications, including credit analyses and summaries of loan requests, and submit to loan committees for approval.
- Analyze credit data and financial statements to determine the degree of risk involved in extending credit or lending money.
- It will be the duty of analyst is to help the staff to ensure that policies and procedures comply with the departmental standards and also provide the support to them in the work.
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Most organizations require a bachelor's degree or equivalent experience working in credit or collections, financial credit systems and reporting.
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It's finally happened. I've bought a copy of Windows XP and will be
installing it on my *sigh* home PC at some point soon. (Waiting for the
media and a hard drive to arrive in the mail.)
I'm considering taking this opportunity to make a fresh start...
replace my cluttered Debian/sid system with a shiny new Kubuntu one.
I'm curious, though... will it be worth it? :^)
Who here has made the switch from plain-Debian-plus-KDE-3.5 to
[K]ubuntu? What do you think? I love Debian, but it's getting to be
a little bit of a pain to maintain, since I'm getting lower and lower
interest in doing sysadminy type stuff on my own box. :^/
(Of course, I'd also love a tiny spare box to run as a server, so my
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The Principal Financial Well-Being IndexSM Executive Summary of Wellness Results - Fourth Quarter 2009
This Principal Financial Well-Being IndexSM survey was conducted online within the United States by Harris Interactive on behalf of the Principal Financial Group® between October 20th and October 30th, 2009 among 1,120 employees and 602 retirees. This is one in a series of quarterly studies to identify and track changes in the workplace of small and mid-sized (growing) businesses. The first Principal Financial Well-Being IndexSM survey was conducted in the United States in 2000.
Employees consisted of adults 18+ who work at small and mid-sized (SMB) U.S. businesses (firm size 10-1,000 employees). Retirees consisted of adults age 60+ who reported they are retired or those who are employed part-time or self-employed and have retired from a previous career. Results were weighted as needed for age by gender, education, race/ethnicity, region and household income. Propensity score weighting was also used to adjust for respondents' propensity to be online.
All sample surveys and polls, whether or not they use probability sampling, are subject to multiple sources of error which are most often not possible to quantify or estimate, including sampling error, coverage error, error associated with nonresponse, error associated with question wording and response options, and post-survey weighting and adjustments. Therefore, Harris Interactive avoids the words "margin of error" as they are misleading. All that can be calculated are different possible sampling errors with different probabilities for pure, unweighted, random samples with 100% response rates. These are only theoretical because no published polls come close to this ideal.
Respondents for this survey were selected from among those who have agreed to participate in Harris Interactive surveys. The data have been weighted to reflect the composition of the entire population of adult employees working for small to mid-sized U.S. businesses and retirees. Because the sample is based on those who agreed to be invited to participate in the Harris Interactive online research panel, no estimates of theoretical sampling error can be calculated.
Key Findings
- Wellness Benefits - The top three wellness benefits offered are educational tools or resources (16%), fitness facilities (15%), and fitness center discounts (14%). As would be expected, wellness benefits are more likely to be offered at larger firms (501-1000 employees).
- Wellness Benefits Desired - The top three benefits employees would most like to see their employer offer are fitness facilities (27%), fitness center discounts (23%), and weight management programs (19%).
- Employer Encouragement to Participate in Wellness Programs - Employers encourage their employees to participate in wellness programs offered at the workplace in a number of ways. Nearly a quarter of employees (22%) indicated their management encourages them to participate in wellness benefits. Seventeen percent of employees have flexible work schedules that allow time for participation during the workday while another 15% of employees are offered lower health insurance costs for participating in wellness benefits.
- Perceived Benefits that Encourage Employee Participation - All employees (including those not offered wellness benefits in their workplace) were asked to identify three benefits that would encourage them to participate in a wellness program. Nearly half of employees (47%) chose better overall physical health as a benefit of participating in a wellness program. Other top mentions included reduced personal healthcare costs (30%), greater chance of living a longer, healthier life (30%), receiving a meaningful incentive from their employer for participation (28%), and reduced stress (28%).
- Effect of Wellness Program on Employee Motivation, Retention, and Attendance - Overall, 40% of employees strongly agree or somewhat agree that wellness benefits encourage them to work harder and perform better. Nearly half of employees (45%) strongly agree or somewhat agree that having an employer sponsored wellness program would encourage them to stay in their current employment situation. Just about a quarter of employees (26%) agree strongly or somewhat that they have missed fewer days of work by participating in a wellness program.
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Lafia — The over 8,000 persons displaced for the last four months from their homes by flooding which ravaged Guto at the bank of the Benue River, in Nasarawa Local Government Area of Nasarawa State, have returned to their communities, to face another uncertain rainy season to come next year.
"We are returning. Infact, most of our people have returned to pick their lives and begin afresh", said a mother of three, who spoke to this reporter on phone, today. Salamata as she gave her name, said she cannot continue a life outside of her own home, not even where there is every comfort.
Guto, among not less than 200 communities across the state, according statistics available at the Nasarawa State Emergency Agency (NASEMA), was devastated by the floods just as 28 persons including women and their children, across the state, died in the disaster which lasted months. The statistics by NASEMA also showed that over 2,000 hectares of farmland were lost to the recent flooding which was triggered by the surging Benue River around the period.
In all, he said 95,538 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), about 8,000 from Guto alone, were recorded to have been affected, and have been camping in four camps of Guto in Nasarawa, Tunga in Awe, Umaisha in Toto, and Rukubi in Doma.
While displaced persons in much of the about 200 communities have remained a distant from their washed homes, those of Guto are leaving to return to their communities.
Dr. Abdullahi Idris, Executive Secretary of NASEMA, confirmed in a phone interview with Daily Trust that "yes we are aware that Guto people have returned to their places."
He said while government is not too pleased with the decision of the returning displaced persons because of the possibility of another disaster by next year, the government still cannot force persons to rescind their decision. He said government is currently making plans which outcome will lead to a possible relocation of the displaced communities, in the totality of the package designed to address the disaster by a task force set up by the governor, last week.
"Government has a plan, and that is part of the responsible of the task force. We start with relief, disbursement of funds to displaced persons. We can't tell them not to return, especially the people of Guto, who never even accepted to be kept in camp.
"Yes, we are aware Guto people are returning, but not other people, after the flooded water receded, and their place is there for them. Some of them moved out, and were camped outside Guto. We are going back there with post disaster assessment, for us to know where persons will return", Dr. Idris, who is also the secretary of the task force said.
Governor Umaru Tanko Al-Makura, last week, inaugurated the 15-man task force to assess and report back in six months, the extent of damage caused by the floods that ravaged many communities in Nasarawa State, as well as provide relief. The task force, according to Dr. Idris, is also to disburse the N400 relief package of the federal government, to the displaced persons.
The governor said the task force, headed by Dr. Mustapha Bello, will carry out detailed assessment of the extent of devastation caused by floods across the state; conduct detailed costing of public facilities and infrastructure, as well as individual property destroyed by the floods; and consider the desirability or otherwise of the relocation of some communities affected by the floods, among others duties.
The task force is also o renovate and/or reconstruct primary healthcare facilities and other public institutions affected by the flood disasters; to ascertain the number of people that lost their lives and suffered physical disabilities as a result of the floods; to provide relief and succour to displaced families, as well as families of deceased persons and those that suffered physical disabilities; to provide relief to individuals or group of individuals affected by the flood as may be determined by the Task Force; to conduct advocacy campaigns on flood control measures and prompt response by residents; to liaise with appropriate stakeholders and agencies in carrying out the assignment; and to submit periodic reports to Government on the progress of assignment.


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John Nieto-Phillips
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- Associate Editor, The Journal of American History
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- B.A. at University of California, Los Angeles, 1987
- M.A. at University of California, Los Angeles, 1992
- Ph.D. at University of California, Los Angeles, 1997
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I am foremost a U.S. historian with a deep interest in twentieth-century immigration from Latin America, Latina/o education in the United States, and the complexities of "race." In the classroom and in my research, I explore the various means by which Latinas and Latinos have sought "full citizenship" and equality in the schools, in politics, and in public spaces. To that end, my book, The Language of Blood: The Making of Spanish-American Identity in New Mexico, 1880s-1930s (2004), retraces Nuevomexicanas' and Nuevomexicanos' struggle for admission into the Union (statehood) in the face of intense racially-motivated opposition. My current research involves comparing "Americanization" campaigns in New Mexico and Puerto Rico, 1890s-1940s. This project, as well as my previous work, critically examine hispanidad (i.e., pride in one's "Spanish" linguistic, cultural and racial heritage) as a discursive form of resistance to "Anglo America," as well as of accommodation to prevailing racial structures that privilege "whiteness." I am also presently editing an unpublished memoir by Mario Delmonte, a Puerto Rican tobacco worker who arrives in New York in 1925, joins the Postal Battalion during World War II, and goes on to become a Hollywood hairdresser. One of the most rewarding aspects of teaching at Indiana University has been my development of a Service Learning course option that engages my students in volunteer (family literacy) work among Indiana's immigrant communities.
Selected Awards
- Indiana University "New Frontiers in the Humanities" Faculty Research Grant (2006)
- Indiana University Trustee's Teaching Award (2005)
- Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá Award, NM Historical Society (2005)
- Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, National Academy of Education (2003)
- National Endowment for the Humanities, Faculty Research Grant (2002)
- Outstanding Faculty Award, New Mexico State University (2000)
Research Interests
- U.S. Latina/o history
- Race and citizenship
- Latin America and Caribbean
Courses Recently Taught
- Memory and the American Dream: Latino Narratives of Migration and Community
- Latino Immigration from Mexico and the Caribbean
- Mexican-American History
- Latina/o History: Race, Immigration and Citizenship
Publication Highlights
Christopher Schmidt-Nowara and John M. Nieto-Phillips, eds. Interpreting Spanish Colonialism: Empires, Nations and Legends. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005.
John M. Nieto-Phillips. The Language of Blood: The Making of Spanish American Identity in New Mexico, 1880s-1930s. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2004.
"Mémoire et consanguinité: Les origines de l´identité Spanish-American au Nouveau Mexique." Amérique Latine Histoire et Mémoire (Les Cahiers ALHIM), no. 7 (2003): 83-99.
"Spanish American Ethnic Identity and New Mexico's Statehood Struggle." In Erlinda Gonzales-Berry and David Maciel, eds., The Contested Homeland: A Chicano History of New Mexico (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2000), pp. 97-142.
"Citizenship and Empire: Race, Language, and Self-Government in New Mexico and Puerto Rico, 1898-1917." Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies (Fall, 1999): 51-74.


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FF13, the latest in the franchise's long line of major RPG entries, raises the same stakes and is part of a huge celebration of Final Fantasy that Square-Enix has termed Fabula Nova Crystalis. FF13 is only the first "13" title to emerge in this series, but it is considered the flagship title of the new compilation. It's a huge game that easily clocks in at sixty or more hours of fantastic adventure.
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1913-S Indian Half Eagle, Fabulous MS661913-S $5 MS66 PCGS. The 1913-S Indian half eagle is one of the great condition rarities in the series. This specimen is the single finest example that PCGS has certified, with the NGC Census Report showing two submissions certified in MS66. When David Akers offered this 1913-S Indian half eagle, he called it "the second finest example of this issue that I have seen, surpassed only by the incredible Dr. Steven Duckor specimen I sold with his Indian Head Half Eagle collection in Auction '90." The current specimen is the only MS66 PCGS coin with none finer, and it is even finer than the Duckor specimen, which has since been certified MS65 PCGS.
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Ex: Price, O'Neal
A large number of 1913-S half eagles have surfaced over the past decade, making the date appear more common than others in the series. However, nearly all of those coins are lower-grade pieces. The rarity of this issue in high grade remains considerable. Fuljenz comments in Indian Gold Coins of the 20th-Century:
"The 1913-S Half Eagle is usually seen in AU grades and it is scarce in the lower Uncirculated grades. It becomes extremely scarce in MS63 and it is very rare in MS65. Gems are extremely rare."
Although the mintmark is a trifle weak on this specimen, it is still completely visible and actually looks like an S, rather than the usual blob of metal seen on most specimens. The strike is substantially sharper than usual for the issue. The surfaces have a few trivial marks and hairlines, but they are insignificant and clearly insufficient to lower the grade. The luster is remarkable, with lovely orange and yellow color on both sides. In its 1999 auction appearance, the cataloger used a single word to describe this specimen: Incredible.
An old provenance indicates that this example has only been offered publicly on two previous occasions, in 1998 and 1999. David Akers notes that Dr. Price acquired this piece from "an old-time collection that was assembled in the 1930s and 1940s and, until purchased by Dr. Price, it had been off the market for more than 40 years."
Only three auction appearances have offered an MS66 1913-S half eagle, including the two previous appearances of this piece and the earlier appearance of the Duckor specimen in Auction '90. Behind those appearances are a small number of MS65 coins and several lower-grade pieces. When David Akers revised his Handbook, he recorded the 1999 auction appearance of this coin as the only MS66 coin in his record of Significant Examples. A roster of the finest specimens includes just two coins, the Duckor specimen and the Price specimen. The Duckor coin may now be one of the examples that is certified MS66 NGC, while the Price coin is offered here. Population: 1 in 66, 0 finer (12/12).
Ex: An old-time collection; Dr. Thaine B. Price Collection (David Akers, 5/1998), lot 32; Bowers and Merena (1/1999), lot 1447; Jim O'Neal Collection of $5 Indians / FUN Signature (Heritage, 1/2011), lot 5149, where it brought $218,500.(Registry values: N14284) (NGC ID# 25ZP, PCGS# 8526)
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Before I say another word in this article, let me quickly state that I have already put my neck on the chopping block for the guillotine, slipped a hangman's noose round my neck, and tied myself to the stake ready for the firing squad.
I say this in acknowledgement of the fact that when you dare to raise issues with a Nigerian's religion, ethnic group or political allegiance, however valid your facts or the argument, you might as well be ready for all of the above.
For when issues pertaining to these arise, you quickly realise that the Nigerian person is probably the most emotive of all of God's creations. As even the celebrated Chinua Achebe has recently found to his probable chagrin with the publication of his new book, even the "well educated" and "learned" Nigerian throws intellect out of the window, opens the door wide for primordial sentiments and, quite pitifully, he or she will not provide a superior argument to thump yours. Very often, abuse and insult, the resort of the intellectual scoundrel, are proffered in place of sound reasoning.
But as Igbo people will say, you do not chicken out of a battle just because people can get killed in action. Besides as writers and journalists, if we worried about the bruising our ego would suffer, among other consequences, we would be failing in our commitment to truth and a better society.
Anyone who has read the expose carried in the British Mail on Sunday newspaper on October 21, cannot but shudder at what the paper had to say about "Bishop" David Oyedepo and how his Winners' Chapel ministry had stretched its tentacles to the United Kingdom and into the wallets of its British congregation which is made up of largely African and Caribbean under--class. The article stated that Oyedepo's UK church, run by his son David Oyedepo Junior, had "exploited its British congregation" to the tune of more than £4 million in 2010 alone; nearly double its takings the year before.
The writer estimated Oyedepo's personal wealth at a little under £100 million. The paper carried photographs of Oyedepo luxuriating in the plush cabin of one of his two private jets; it showed him in the notorious photograph in which he was alleged to have slapped a young girl in his church who was accused of being a witch, and gave a catalogue of Oyedepo's assets, from his Rolls Royce Phantom limousine to his business empire that includes everything from bakeries to petrol stations. The paper had infiltrated the congregation with an under-cover reporter who was able to give an eyewitness account of how church members were given envelopes with slips of paper to make donations with their debit cards in return for promises of prosperity from above.
There is probably nothing that The Mail newspaper unearthed in the Winners' Chapel in the UK that does not happen on a larger scale in Nigeria where the church has a large following and owns a 50,000 capacity church in Ota, Ogun State. But the one significant fact here is that the newspaper categorically accused Oyedepo of "exploiting" British citizens and of "enriching" himself.
In a country where churches are given various types of concessions and considerations because they are by their nature non-profit making, any suggestion of exploitation of, and or personal enrichment from donations made by the congregation immediately attracts public condemnation and the attention of the Charities Commission, the body that oversees non-profit organisations and ensures that resources are used for the purpose for which they are intended. But because Nigeria is a moral no-man's land, her mushrooming churches, which see Britain as rich pickings for hard currency among the hard-up immigrant Black population, fail to realise, first that Britain is not Nigeria and that Big Brother is always watching. Secondly Nigeria is not a country much loved abroad. Also Oyedepo clearly did not learn from the lessons of Matthew Ashimolowo and his own ministry which got into a similar mess in the UK some years ago.
Now there are two ways of looking at Oyedepo and the so-called 'pastorpreneurs', prosperity pastors who have turned their churches into commercial enterprise with themselves as the CEOs, and for which Nigeria has become as globally notorious as she is for her 4-1-9 exports. Sadly, either way you look at the Oyedepo phenomenon, the exercise is fraught with the danger of irrational and emotive attacks from the fanatics of the new wave Christian denominations who will, as I said earlier, abdicate any attempt at theological logic and resort to insults and name-calling. Notwithstanding, we have to face a few fundamental facts.
The first is that except in theocratic societies like Iran and Saudi Arabia, religion is globally regarded as a private as well as sensitive affair in which neither the state nor indeed anyone, except the adherents, have a say. The second is that when any Nigerian organisation, be it a church or a bank, extends its operations beyond our borders, it ceases be a private matter. For however you look at it, the type of adverse publicity generated by Oyedepo's church in the UK cannot any longer be the exclusive business of David Oyedepo and his followers. It impacts on the image of Nigeria and her citizens.
The other aspect of the matter, and one for which I should put on my bullet proof vest, is the question that many of us who have witnessed the activities of these new wave churches, have shied away from asking, probably because as I said earlier religion is a sensitive affair. Nevertheless the question needs to be asked: What is the theological agenda of Oyedepo and his fellow 'pastorpreneurs'? Are they businessmen and millionaires or are they followers of Jesus Christ, the Son of Man who had "no place to lay his head;" who rode not on a gold-plated chariot or white stallion, but a donkey, the lowest form of transport of his age? One has to ask, which Christ are we following, the one that commanded his apostles:"You have received without paying, so give without being paid"? As pastors and priests, are we following in the footsteps of the apostles who "left everything" and followed Jesus? Are we following in the example of Peter, the first apostle, who, before he healed the lame at the entrance to the synagogue, declared "silver or gold [or private jets] have I not, but that which I have I give to you..."and what he had was the power to say "...in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk!" Are we preaching prosperity of the pocket or of the spirit?
As I was working on this article, I stumbled on a posting on the internet which read: "If your pastor is not telling you to be prepared for the rapture but always preaching about prosperity, you are in danger." Dare I say then that many Nigerian Christians are in danger when our sermon consists of how the congregation can improve their socio-economic status through "giving to the Lord" [conveniently citing the widow's mite]; when we equate the Lord's treasury with the bank account of the pastor, are we preaching the gospel of Christ or exploiting the economic woes of the down-trodden?
Of course there is little question that the cottage industry which the Pentecostal faith has become in Nigeria grew with the severe economic hardship of the military dictatorships of the 80's. Clearly, the pastors quickly spotted a lucrative opportunity: the preachment of prosperity would resonate with the impoverished population; never mind that many of the preachers knew little or nothing about true religion. Indeed a research carried out by the defunct NEXT on Sunday newspaper two years ago claimed that many of "the Pentecostal clergy are equipped with no more than six months of Bible college in America". As if to prove this point, a few weeks later, I watched one of the leading 'pastorpreneurs' in Lagos say on television that "the original sin was sexual intercourse"! But the fact is that in these churches, money is the centre of sermons and worship; God becomes a money-doubler, and religion is used in the manner a drunkard uses a lamp post - more for support than illumination.
Sadly the majority of the exploited poor may not read this article. One such person who will not is Peter. In search of deliverance from poverty Peter attended his local Pentecostal church in Ikeja recently. The pastor cajoled his congregation into giving all they had "to the Lord," reminding them about the "widow's mite." Peter gave all N200 in his pocket "to the Lord". After the service, Peter was desolately trudging home when he saw "the Lord" cruising past him in his brand new Toyota Land Cruiser.
Peter many not afford to buy this paper; but his Pastor can. And I hope it will give him an opportunity to re-examine the real mission of his ministry.


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With the iDOLM@STER approaching its end, an episode arrives ensuring megane wearing former idol and current producer of Ryuuguu Komachi, Ritusuko, receives her well deserved recognition.
Ryuuguu Komachi's crew of cute girls intensely practice their vivacious choreography as they have an upcoming "himitsu concert". Ritsuko's riled up in instructive energy at the expense of the girls considering the concert date is closing in – this not to surprisingly leaves the group a mild mix of exasperated and exhausted. It's not the strict practice routine which serves to be the main issue this episode however, the core of worry within this installment arises as Azusa is afflicted with the Mumps – a nuisance of an illness which leaves one gauged down and silly looking.
Azusa is of course left unable to participate in the secret concert due to her inconvenient condition, and adding to the matter, the dance routine fails without the additional flare on stage from Azusa. The single remedy is to find a replacement – and what better substitute could there be than someone who already knows Ryuuguu Komachi from the inside out, Ritsuko.
Although a former idol herself and more familiarized with Ryuuguu Komachi than anyone else, especially seeing as she established it, she initially refuses to play the role of an idol again – even if only for this single event. She hesitates with the thought of standing on stage once again – shyer than she seems. P-san suggests her to take on the challenge and become an idol for the day – yet she waveringly refuses with the reasoning she hoped to abandon her life as an idol when she decided to become a producer.
Ritsuko then asks Miki, who is willing to take the role, yet mentions she believes Ritsuko to be more appropriate for the position. Ritsuko herself realizes she's most suitable for the part, but she fears the possible outcomes of returning to stage – repeatedly recollecting an event of her past. She has no negative aspects attributed to the stage, she's simply scared of going back to something she's been away from for all these years.
The pressure from every direction finally pushes her to accept the spot as an idol within Ryuuguu Komachi – initiating the harsh training led by Iori and Ami who get to take some revenge for the unforgiving workouts they receive. Everything then boils down to the day of the concert. It starts off expectedly with a uneasy Ritsuko, yet Ritusko keeps in mind that which others have told her – not to mention, she receives some inspiration from her team and even the audience.
When the day's done, Ritsuko's satisfied she relived her moments as an idol – requesting if she ever go down that path again, P-san "produce her", then all returns to an average day for Ryuuguu Komachi as Azusa comes back.
Greatly enjoyable it was to see Ritsuko earning some focus, and like every other female member of 765Pro, end up with sort of attachment to P-san. Similarly, P-san's reputation as a badass continues to grow well beyond anything expected when we first began this series with episode one months ago. He's basically an expert at handling other people – he's considerate with what he does, which in turn, brings about a positive outcome for the idols of 765Pro.
Split paths faced by each of the individual idols of 765Pro come together to form the face they wear for the public as role-models – this is essentially the beauty of The iDOLM@STER.


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The first thing to remember is portraits start with the face. So fill the frame and get close and make the face the prominent feature in your basic portraits.
Secondly, look for a good expression. As Bambi Cantrell always says, "Expression over perfection sells every time."
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The kid, Justin, got the opportunity after Jay Z spotted him in the crowd holding up a sign that read, "Can I rap for you?" at the 'Marga Carter' tour to Greensboro, North Carolina, reported Ace Showbiz.
Jay-Z then asked Justin to join him and handed him the microphone. The boy was visibly nervous before he rapped Jay Z's 'Clique'.
The 44-year-old rapper even mentored him in front of the crowd-packed stadium in another of his songs, telling him to skip the "the drug dealing part" of the track.
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A July 4th Celebration!
- Line Star Pan with plastic wrap. Prepare orzo following package
instructions. Drain and rinse with cold water.
- In large bowl, combine orzo, chicken, bell pepper and
shallots. In small bowl, whisk together vinegar, oil, honey, mustard, salt, thyme and black pepper. Pour over orzo
mixture; mix well. Gently stir in cherries. Pack into prepared pan. Chill at least 1 hour. To serve, place serving
platter over star pan. Carefully turn over to release salad; remove plastic wrap.
Makes about 12 servings
Mixed Green Salad With Northwest Cherries, Almonds & Goat Cheese
- 1/4 cup pitted Bing cherries
- 2 tablespoons balsamic
- 6 tablespoons olive oil
- 1/2 pound (about 8 cups) mixed salad greens, washed, dried,
and chilled
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
- 1 cup Bing or other
dark Northwest cherries, split in half and pitted
- 1 log (4 ounces) fresh white goat cheese, crumbled
- 1 cup glazed sliced almonds*
- In blender or
food processor fitted with steel blade, puree 1/4 cup cherries, vinegar and oil until smooth; set dressing aside.
- In large bowl, gently toss greens with dressing. Add salt and pepper. Sprinkle with 1 cup cherries, goat
cheese and almonds; toss gently. Serve immediately.
Makes 6 to 8
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Dazzling Desserts
Giant cupcake adorned with stars and
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Visit www.nwcherries.com for cherry recipes and information about storage, purchasing, nutrition and
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- Red-Red and Royal Blue icing color
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Youngblood named PDL Player of the Week
PORTLAND, Ore. – United Soccer Leagues announced today that Portland Timbers U-23s forward Ryan Youngblood was selected as the Premier Development League's Player of the Week for the 11th week of the season.
Youngblood, a native of Bend, Ore., recorded five goals and an assist last weekend to lead the Timbers U-23s to road wins over the Spokane Spiders and Yakima Reds. The two victories helped Portland clinch one of three playoff berths in the Northwest Division in its inaugural season.
With his five goals last weekend, Youngblood now paces the Timbers U-23s in scoring with 10 goals and three assists. He also ranks among PDL leaders in both scoring and goals scored. He is the first-ever Timbers U-23s player to be selected as the PDL Player of the Week.
The Timbers U-23s play host to the Abbotsford Mariners in their regular-season finale Saturday at Lincoln High School in Portland, Ore., at 7 p.m., presented by Oregon Premier Soccer League. Tickets, priced at $5 for kids 18 and younger and $8 for adults, will be available at the door; gates open at 6 p.m.
Portland will face the Seattle Wolves in the first round of the divisional playoffs; details to be announced at a later date.


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Tunis — Thirty-two-year-old Tunisian Farid Abidi was forced to quit his job at an oil terminal in southern Libya and return home to avoid death.
"Almost no day passes without violence or clashes," he told Magharebia.
"We tried to deal with the situation, but unfortunately we won't be able to, and therefore, we had to leave the place out of fear of radical Islamists' attacks on energy facilities and their attempts to control them," he added.
The new conditions have brought Abidi back to unemployment and need.
"My work was good," he continued. "I had ambitions about starting a family. However, one just doesn't realise all that one wishes. I'm now unemployed and I feel it will take a long time until the country stabilises. This is pushing me towards frustration once again."
The deteriorating security situation in Libya has made many Tunisian workers fear for their personal safety.
The kidnapping of 40 Tunisians by an armed group during the night of December 8th-9th in Zawiya was the latest incident in a series of kidnappings targeting foreign workers in Libya.
"Work had become very difficult," said Mohamed Methnani, a 41-year-old Tunisian who left Libya.
"We had that sense of fear wherever we went. Honestly, I couldn't acclimatise to the new situation, and therefore, I preferred to return to my country and work in the construction sector, despite the low wages here."
For years now, Libya has been providing many job opportunities for Tunisians, and the Tunisian government started depending on the country to cut unemployment at home. The Libyan authorities have previously said they want to hire more than 200,000 Tunisians to contribute to the country's reconstruction.
However, given the lack of stability and continued violence, Tunisians now fear going to Libya, despite their need for work and the financial attractions.
Marouane Belkadhi, 22 and unemployed, was planning to travel to Libya to join his friends and look for work, especially given the lack of opportunities in Tunisia.
But with the rising levels of violence in Libya, he no longer wants to leave his homeland.
"I don't want to risk my own life in Libya," he said. "The security situation there is tough and unsuitable for work. Some of my friends told me about violations committed by some armed militias against Tunisian and foreign workers there, and I don't want to see that happening to me."
Marouane is one of many Tunisian young people who now refuse to go to Libya for work.
"It's true that Libya provides many job opportunities, but at the same time there is growing security chaos there," said Abdeslam Hidri, 24, a native of Jendouba province. "I'm now thinking about immigrating to Europe. I don't have any other option; I just want to work and live in peace."
Tunisians' reluctance to work in Libya is understandable, given the risks, Abdeljalil Badri said. The economics professor noted that Tunisia was one of the most affected countries by the security situation in Libya.
Meanwhile, some jobless young people insist on defying the instability and chaos in order to win work in Libya.
Jamad Edine Dandani, a graduate of economics, justified his insistence by saying that he had no other option, especially since he graduated two years ago and hasn't found a suitable job.
"Some Tunisians have become accustomed to adventures out of need and poverty," he said. "Anyway, the adventure of working in Libya won't be worse than the sense of unemployment I'm living in right now."


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HOPE International School is a vibrant, nurturing school community with a vision to see students impact the world for Christ.
Our main campus is in Phnom Penh, the capital city of Cambodia, and we also have a second HOPE School campus in the provincial city of Siem Reap which is where the famous Angkor Wat can be found.
HOPE International School is a not-for-profit charity that exists to support missionary and Christian expatriate families working with the people of Cambodia and surrounding regions.
HOPE International School embraces the diversity of God's people, with over 400 students representing over 25 nationalities, from Preschool to Year 12.
We offer quality education in an international context. We nurture our students' God-given gifts and abilities, with programs in music and worship, art and design, sports, technology and a range of extra-curricular activities to complement their academic studies.
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Misfits is a series about an unlikely group of superheroes with less unlikely super powers. It's a quirk-fest that's taken the UK and Australia by the seat of it's pants and given it a good spank. Yes – we've had too much coffee here at Nobody today – but you can benefit from this as thanks to those generous people at Roadshow Entertainment we have 5 copies of Misfits Series 3 to give away to 5 lucky peeps. All you have to do is email us here at Nobody with the subject line "The Misfits are gonna get ya" and the first 5 will be alive with a prize! firstname.lastname@example.com
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If you are severely obese and have had trouble losing weight, your doctor may recommend weight-loss surgery. Weight-loss surgery, also known as bariatric surgery, is an effective way to lose weight and reduce the risk for weight-related problems such as heart disease, diabetes, sleep apnea, and arthritis.
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As with any surgery, gastric bypass carries some risks. Complications of surgery include infection, blood clots, and internal bleeding. Another risk is that the anastomosis, the new connection created in your intestines during the bypass surgery, will leak. Leaking of digestive juices and partially digested food through an anastomosis is one of the most serious complications after bypass surgery.
Gastric bypass overview
Gastric bypass is the most common type of weight-loss surgery. During bypass surgery, a loop of your intestine is cut and brought up and reconnected to an area adjacent to your stomach. Food is then redirected past your stomach to an area farther down in your digestive system. Because food will now bypass your stomach, your body does not absorb as many calories, and you will feel full faster after eating.
Your doctor may suggest this surgery if you have a body mass index (BMI) of 40 or higher or if you have a BMI of 35 or higher along with serious weight-related, health problems. A BMI of more than 40 typically means that you are at least 100 pounds overweight.
Symptoms of anastomotic leaking
Anastomotic leaks occur in 2 to 6 percent of bypass procedures, depending on the type of surgery. A leak may happen up to a month later, but most develop at about three days after surgery. Symptoms of an anastomotic leak include:
Rapid heart rate
Drainage from a surgical wound
Pain in the shoulder area
Low blood pressure
Decreased urine output
The more obese you are, the more at risk you are for an anastomotic leak. Other risk factors include being male, having other medical problems besides obesity, and having a history of previous abdominal surgery.
Diagnosis and treatment of anastomotic leaking
The most reliable diagnostic test for anastomotic leaking is an upper GI series with a CT scan. This involves putting dye inside the upper digestive area and then taking computer-guided X-rays to see if the dye is leaking through the anastomosis. If you have a negative exam but still have symptoms, your doctor may do an emergency operation to look for a leak.
The medical team treating an anastomotic leak will likely take these steps:
Give you antibiotics through an IV.
Drain any infection caused by the leak, repair the leak, or make a new anastomosis.
Stop all oral feedings. You may be fed through a tube that goes directly into your intestine until the leak has healed.
Risks of anastomotic leaking
A leaking anastomosis may cause bleeding and infection until it is treated. Long-term complications may include scarring or a drainage tract through the skin called a fistula. Pneumonia is another dangerous complication, because digestive juices can spill into the lungs.
If you are considering gastric bypass surgery for obesity, discuss the procedure carefully with your doctor. The overall risk of serious complications should be weighed against the risk of continued obesity. Remember that gastric bypass surgery works best when combined with long- term, healthy lifestyle choices involving good nutrition and regular exercise.


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• Religion:
Religion – from the Latin re = "again" + ligere = "to tie" – re-ties us, reunites us with God from whom we can easily feel estranged.
The concrete realities of human life - training for a career, finding a mate, paying mortgages and taxes - can make God seem distant, unknowable, uncaring. Success in meeting life's challenges can even make God seem unnecessary.
Religion at its best reunites us to God in our daily experience.
Religion at its best connects us to God's love as the necessary response to the stress and fatigue of engaging life's concrete reality. God's love strengthens and affirms us when we realize that we can't overcome all of life's challenges.
Religion at its best offers us life with God, a richness of life we cannot give ourselves.
•A religion's dogmatic tradition states what that religion believes about God.
•A religion's educational tradition teaches the religion's dogmatic tradition.
•A religion's mystical tradition unites us experientially with God in an actual, dynamic, living relationship.
The Church is the community of these individual human beings with God at their center.
Spirituality is a set of practices that expresses how a community of faith can experience the relationship with God.
The Roman Catholic mystic tradition encompasses multiple spiritualities, experienced and made relevant by centuries by countless believers. Each spirituality re-ties and reunites its followers with God the Creator in life-giving, affirming relationship.
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For students interested in pharmacy, this workshop will explore what students should be doing during their pre-pharmacy years. This session will be a primer on pre-pharmacy, early assurance, PharmD, and Pharmaceutical Sciences programs. Learn about these exciting programs, ask questions, and share suggestions to help understand the application processes. Register for this workshop at: workshops.buffalo.edu


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RIM is marketing the PlayBook as "professional grade" rather than pushing it specifically at businesses like early Blackberries were in the hope of also attracting regular consumers as well.
The WiFi only models were cautiously impressing. Design is muted and understated, but with the feel of a quality build.
The dual core 1GHz processor (now the default standard for next-gen tablets) and 1GB of memory makes for a remarkably zippy device and the screen is bright and extremely touch responsive.
Interestingly, RIM have made the bezel of the PlayBook touch sensitive as well as the screen – you pull up the virtual keyboard by flicking the lower left corner diagonally and the battery life and connectivity indicators can be accessed by the same motion in the upper right corner, just to give two examples.
The multi-tasking is extremely impressive, with any running apps appearing in a ribbon-like interface. We had a 1080p HD movie, a PowerPoint presentation, a music player and a Flash intensive website all happily running at the same time with no noticeable sluggishness – quite an achievement.
Special mention should go to the video playback, which is nigh-on perfect and shows off the screen superbly.
We were also impressed by the news of the Android virtual machine, an app that will allow PlayBook users to run Android applications that have been ported to the BlackBerry AppWorld.
We'd need to see this in action before we wax too lyrical, but it certainly opens up the usage considerably.
The WiFi only model is intended to be tethered to a BlackBerry phone for internet access as well as real time access to email, calendar, address book and even BlackBerry Messenger.
RIM couldn't comment on a 3G or 4G version in terms of local timing, carrier availability or pricing.
In all, we were fairly impressed with the PlayBook. We have some concerns regarding the amount of native BlackBerry touch applications that will be maximised for use on the 7in form factor at launch, but hope to be surprised by this.
Local pricing is still a mystery, but the 64GB WiFi only model will retails for US$700 in the US, so if RIM can avoid the traditional "Aussie Tax" down under, the pricing should be in line with the current tablet market.
Stay tuned for a launch date – RIM are currently stating "Q2 calendar year" which is wonderfully vague.
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