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Take Control of Thanksgiving Dinner
Learn how to prepare a delicious Thanksgiving dinner with a maximum of enjoyment and a minimum of stress, snafus, and sleeplessness!
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If you'd like your Thanksgiving preparations to go smoothly (and who wouldn't?), turn to experienced tech writer and foodie Joe Kissell for help. At least half the battle is a good plan, and Joe provides you with a customizable plan that gets you organized, helps you figure out what you need to buy, and prevents last-minute problems. Once the planning and shopping are done, follow Joe's detailed, tested recipes for Thanksgiving dinner: roast turkey with gravy, stuffing, mashed potatoes, cranberry relish, candied sweet potatoes, and pumpkin pie.
"Thanks for a great guide! I used it to successfully cook my first complete Thanksgiving, almost single-handed. While I can follow recipes, I am nowhere close to 'a cook'—your guide gave me the confidence to take on this meal!" —Ed Ruder
Appendixes cover special cases from allergies to vegans, drawings guide you as you work with the turkey, and a special included "Print Me" file provides shopping lists and schedules, as well as versions of the recipes that you can tape up in the kitchen. Although these recipes scale easily for a few more people, they are meant for 8-12 people. The recipes use U.S. and metric units.
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"I've been cooking Thanksgiving dinner for longer than I care to admit, and I never would have thought I'd pick up so many good tips! Great book!" —Trish Huffman
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Joe Kissell has written many books about the Mac, including many popular Take Control ebooks. He's also a contributing editor of TidBITS and a senior contributor to Macworld, and previously spent 10 years in the Mac software industry.
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Read Me First
Preparing a complete Thanksgiving dinner for a crowd can be a daunting task, but this book lays out the entire process, complete with easy recipes and detailed, step-by-step instructions. If you've volunteered (or been volunteered!) to make Thanksgiving dinner, and you want to ensure that everything goes smoothly, this book will keep you organized, focused, and on track. This book was written by Joe Kissell, edited by Karen G. Anderson, and published by TidBITS Publishing Inc.
Thanksgiving is a wonderful time of family togetherness, good food, and all-around positive vibes—for most of us. For the cook, however, it's often a time of stress and grumpiness! Putting together a feast like this is an unusual feat even for experienced cooks. If you've never done it before, it can be terrifying. Many things can go wrong, but you can avoid or solve virtually every problem if you plan well and have the right tools and information within reach.
I'm a foodie from way back, but I make my living writing about computers. In technical writing, my goal is to break down complex and confusing computer tasks into simple, easy-to-follow steps. In this book, I do the same with Thanksgiving dinner, breaking down complex and confusing cooking tasks into simple, easy-to-follow steps.
Anyone who wants to prepare Thanksgiving dinner from scratch can benefit from these instructions. This may be the first time you've cooked Thanksgiving dinner, or perhaps you've tried cooking one in the past with dubious results. You might be a working parent, a guy who usually leaves major cooking to the women, or simply someone who's better at cooking than planning (and needs help with logistics). Whatever the case, I can help you put together the entire meal from start to finish with minimal stress, so you can enjoy the holiday!
For a great Thanksgiving feast, you want all the basic dishes to be prepared well, taste good, and be ready at the right time. You can pull this off if you stick with my recipes and timeline as much as possible. There are a million ways to cook each of these dishes, and what you see here may not be the way your mom or your favorite celebrity chef does it. But after extensive testing of recipes and procedures in this book, I can assure you that if you follow them, you'll get good results.
What's on the menu? It's a classic, traditional American and Canadian Thanksgiving dinner: Roasted Turkey, Stuffing, Mashed Potatoes, Gravy, Cranberry Sauce, Candied Sweet Potatoes, and Pumpkin Pie.
I've included a few other options, such as a vegetarian main dish (see Appendix A: A Vegetarian Main Dish) and green vegetables (see the sidebar What about the Greens?), but in general, I stick to the basics. By the way, this meal is not low in fat, carbs, or salt. Sorry, dieters!
Although you'll be preparing almost everything from scratch—using fresh, whole ingredients where feasible—I understand that due to time, money, or space constraints, you may have to compromise here and there. So I've included a series of "Cutting Corners" sidebars with simpler approaches you can use if you get in trouble. On the other hand, if you're feeling more ambitious and want to get fancier, you may be interested in the "Upgrading" sidebars (for a few of the dishes), which tell you how to add extra flavor, texture, and finesse.
This book contains detailed instructions, but for your convenience, a separate "Print Me" file includes compact versions of all the recipes, the schedule, and the shopping list.
Before I set you loose, I want to tell you what assumptions I made when writing this book. I assume:
Because the most important thing you can do to ensure a successful Thanksgiving dinner is prepare well, I strongly urge you to read this entire book before you do anything else—and do that at least a week before Thanksgiving. At the very least, read Obtain Supplies, Obtain Ingredients, and Plan Your Cooking Schedule first, and be sure to take a good look at Appendix E: The Schedule.
Print out your reference materials:
Prepare for the big day:
Do day-before preparation:
Do Thanksgiving Day tasks:
Deal with special situations:
In version 1.2, I've modernized the book's layout so that it works not only on large screens in PDF format, but also on smaller screens in EPUB and Mobipocket formats. In addition, I did the following:
Version 1.1 included the following changes from the original release:
Q: What if I don't want to make everything by hand?
A: You don't have to! Although the book assumes you'll make most things by hand, it also has sidebars that suggest when cutting a corner may the better part of valor and an appendix helps if you have to make Thanksgiving dinner with little prep time.
Q: What about my aunt Martha's stuffing recipe?
A: The book provides recipes that work together in terms of time and temperature, but it also assumes that you may want to swap in a recipe or two of your own.
Q: I love David Allen's "Getting Things Done" methods. Will this book help me have a Getting Things Done Thanksgiving?
A: Yes it will. It walks you right through the planning process with lots of next steps, to-dos, and lists.
Q: How do you recommend preparing the turkey?
A: Joe explains a basic brining technique.
Q: Isn't brining too hard for less-experienced cooks?
A: Joe has a special talent for breaking down complex tasks into simple steps. We think a lot of cooks will be pleased when they see how easy Joe makes it.
Q: I noticed that you don't cover a green vegetable, homemade rolls, or pecan pie.
A: Yes. We limited the book's scope to something we felt could be achieved by normal humans. The book does welcome you to make more dishes, and it links to a few noteworthy recipes for green veggies.
Q: What about vegetarians?
A: The book has a lovely recipe for a polenta-and-cheese based main course for vegetarians, and it even has an appendix on how to accommodate vegans. However, if you plan to cook an all-vegan feast, this isn't the right book for you.
Q: What about the gravy?
A: The gravy recipe is superb. And, Joe splits it so people with less time or experience can go for great gravy, but readers with more time or experience can go for amazingly superb gravy.
Q: What's a computer geek doing writing a cookbook?
A: Joe writes about technology in order to support his habit of eating well, and he was playing with his food long before he started playing with computers. He wields a whisk or a mouse with equal proficiency. Joe realized that the same methods he uses to make seemingly complicated computer tasks seem easy could be applied to seemingly complicated cooking tasks, and this book is the result.
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For your enjoyment, here's an excerpt from the ebook that covers how to make stuffing. The overall ebook has you starting your shopping early, but you can jump in here. Note that this recipe is intended to span 2 days, with you doing some prep work on the day before Thanksgiving. Of course, you can do it all on Thanksgiving day, if necessary.
The great thing about stuffing is that you can vary the recipe dramatically and still end up with a perfectly delicious end result. The basic ingredients of a turkey stuffing are bread, aromatics (celery and onion), stock or broth, a few spices, and a bit of butter. Of course, lots of stuffings get fancy with sausage, oysters, chestnuts, fruit, cornbread, or any of a zillion other modifications. We're going to stick with the standard (though I provide other suggestions in the "Upgrading" sidebar [at the end of this excerpt]. If you have a family recipe for another type of stuffing, and your guests expect it, feel free to use it instead.
There are two broad schools of thought about stuffing: one says to cook it inside the turkey (in which case it truly is stuffing) and the other says to cook it separately (in which case it's sometimes called dressing). If you cook the stuffing inside the turkey, it will absorb a good bit of moisture and fat from the turkey—and along with it, lots of flavor. Stuffing the turkey is a (slightly awkward) extra step, as is removing the cooked stuffing, though using a stuffing bag can simplify both greatly.
But the main argument against stuffing the turkey is that the stuffing takes a long time to heat up, while spending significant time in contact with uncooked meat. That's a recipe for bacterial growth, and of course the last thing you want to do is make your guests sick! However, you can solve this problem quite easily. First, make sure the stuffing is very hot when you put it into the bird. And, second, before you take the turkey out of the oven, check the stuffing's temperature. If it's 160*F (71*C) or higher, you're completely safe.
Because the taste of genuinely stuffed stuffing is better, we'll be cooking it in the bird. But we'll also make some extra, cooked separately, because you can never have too much stuffing!
Most of the stuffing preparation should be done the day before Thanksgiving. Just before you put the turkey in the oven, you'll perform the last two steps: combining the wet and dry ingredients, and heating the stuffing.
Only if upgrading...
2 medium apples (replacing half the celery)
1-2 cups chopped fresh mushrooms
Cutting Corners
Stuffing isn't at all hard to make, but if you're worried about getting everything done, there are always store-bought stuffing mixes. Frankly, I don't think any commercial mix can hold a candle to homemade stuffing, but this is ultimately a lower-priority menu item than, say, turkey or mashed potatoes.
This stuffing recipe, as it stands, is plenty tasty (especially the portion cooked inside the turkey). But it's also pretty basic. To add some pizzazz, you can try these suggestions:
* Replace half the celery with two medium-sized apples, peeled and diced into pieces about the same size as the celery.
* Add 1-2 cups of fresh chopped mushrooms.
* Look for other stuffing recipes. Among the thousands of stuffing recipes you can find online are ones that use rice or cornbread instead of white bread; ones that include sausage or oysters; ones that add chestnuts for some extra crunch; and numerous other variations. If you're feeling adventurous, substitute any of these recipes for the one here, but be sure to make enough to fill the turkey and an extra baking dish—at least 12 cups (3 l) in all.
November 19, 2013 -- As Thanksgiving approaches this year, I took a quick skim through the ebook to see how it was aging. Good news! With a topic like Thanksgiving, we don't have Apple releasing Turkey 2.0 or Google updating to Stuffing 3.17, so Joe's recipes are up-to-date. I am noticing a few places where Apple technology has changed, like in the Basics topic where iBooks is referred to as only an iOS app instead of an iOS and OS X app. Even so, I think you'll manage just fine. The Take Control crew had so much fun creating this title, that we'll probably want to update it at some point. That update will probably be much less about new Thanksgiving advice and much more about making sure it works technically; for example, we'll want to update that reference to iBooks platforms. And, we'll move the manuscript forward to whatever the latest Take Control templates is, so it will look like the rest of our more modern titles.
—Tonya J Engst
November 24, 2009 --
Get the scoop on Joe's favorite ebook, Take Control of Thanksgiving Dinner. In the MacVoices #9120 podcast episode, Joe and host Chuck Joiner talk about choosing a turkey, baking a moist turkey, making various side dishes, handling logistics, and more. Also, if you know what a turkey "giblet" is, but have always wondered which "giblet" is which organ, check out the Turkey Giblets post from Joe's The Geeky Gourmet blog.
—Tonya J Engst
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Grieving is such an important issue related to providing celebration of life and other funeral services. Here are two resources that may be of interest if you have just lost a loved one, or are considering "grieving pre-planning", where you want to began to understand the process before the loss of a loved one.
How to Deal with Grief by Sandra Ingerman
In this article, published in the Huffington Post in Feb 2012, Sandra provides a different perspective on the grieving process, describing grief as something that we deal with in everyday life, not just when we lose a loved one. Here are a few excerpts from the article, and a link to the full story.
"I was watching the news recently and heard an interesting story. There is a movement in the medical profession to label grief as a diagnosis of illness. Prozac, an antidepressant, would be prescribed for people dealing with grief.
Every change in life is some form of death which leads to an ending that can create a state of grief for us as something familiar dies. We might change jobs, move, get divorced, experience a change in how we feel as we age, a life threatening illness or the death of a loved one.
Death is not an end, rather it is a new beginning. And the experience of grief is important for our growth and evolution. Grief helps us to develop a deep inner well that we can expand from." full story >
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Dear Margo: Like Two Ships in the Night
My husband has become a night owl and I don't like it! Margo Howard's advice
Like Two Ships in the Night
Dear Margo: I love my husband very much, but he has some OCD traits, and over the years they've gotten worse. (We're both in our 60s.) He's retired but still "working." He spends all day on the computer, checking security updates, reading a list of forums that interest him and doing other things he deems essential. If we go out in the evening, which is rare, he speaks of "getting behind" in his "work." The list of stuff he "has to do" has gradually pushed our dinnertime later and later. Added to all this is the fact that he has a lot of medical problems and sleeps very poorly, so he often gets up around 1:00 pm or later in the day. The result of all this is that he now expects me to eat dinner with him at 10 or 10:30 at night.
I am a morning person. I really hate eating late, going to bed even later, and getting up the next day at noon — which is what happens if I go along with his schedule. I have talked to him about changing, and he claims he's trying to do so, but it never happens. I have my own friends and an active social life without him, but I'm still not happy. I miss the husband I used to have. Is there anything I can do to change this situation? –Missing Him
Dear Miss: Your husband's "work" sounds harmless enough. I believe it's his schedule that's throwing a monkey wrench into your life. For the OCD situation, as well as the schedule he has slipped into, I would recommend a therapist and also a psychopharmacologist, since there are effective meds with which to treat OCD. I think if that happens, you can "get him back" and his vampire hours will moderate. Having your own activities is the right thing to do. As for dinner at 10 (just like Spain!), I suggest you eat separately and keep the schedule that's comfortable for you until he gets both help and results. –Margo, hopefully
Being Rude Via Text Message
Dear Margo: Yesterday, my daughter's 14-year-old friend "Sarah" was disrespectful to me in a text message when I asked her to pass some information along to the coach of their team. (My daughter was home sick, and I did not have the coach's information to reach her myself.) The text message bothered me all day, and I have no idea how to deal with it. I know the girl's mother very well. She is a wonderful person, and we get along well. She would be beside herself if she knew that Sarah texted me what she did.
Do I say something to this kid next time I see her? Do I mention it to her mother? I am getting conflicting opinions from friends. I'm afraid that if I don't speak my mind, I will have a difficult time containing my feelings of disappointment the next time Sarah is at my house. My daughter is very upset at what transpired, but Sarah is known to have attitude issues. It often surprises me that they are friends, but my daughter is very honest about telling Sarah that her attitude needs to change. I don't want my daughter to get involved, so I am not expecting her to say anything about this. –Irked Mom
Dear Irk: This rude kid is 14. You are … well, you are older. I would not get down on the kid's level to set her straight. If you were to bring up the text message, it would mean absolutely nothing to this teenager with attitude, so spare yourself the agita. What would be good is if your daughter told her she didn't appreciate it. But I would not lean on your child to do this. When next she is at your house, I would be correct, but chilly. –Margo, maturely
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I had a situation with a friend of one of my son's, that while different, was due to a similiar attitude as the teen in LW2's letter. The mother of this friend called my house to speak to her son, who was ignoring her calls on his cell phone (unbeknown to me); she wanted him to get ready to leave so she could pick him up. I handed him the phone and listened to him berate his mother for bothering him, and told her that he would leave when he was darn good and ready. As soon as he hung up, I told him in no uncertain terms that how he related to his mother was, I guessed, his business, but I would not tolerate him speaking to anyone, especially his mother, that way in my home and on my phone, or he would not be welcome back under any circumstances. I made him get back on the phone, apologize to his mother and tell her he would be ready to go when she got there. Then I dropped it. I don't presume that I solved his attitude problem with his parents in the least, but he sure knew what the rules were at my house; he never displayed that attitude in my home again, and he never ignored one of his mother's phone calls while at my home again, either.
My feeling on LW2: the interaction was between the teen and the LW, THAT is where the disrespect was dished, and the LW should firmly state how offensive it was directly to the teen and tell her that if she isn't going to tolerate that type of behavior again, so either clean up her act or take it elsewhere. Then, she can get on the phone and tell her mother what the teen texted and what she'd been told. This is the best way for the teen to learn real-world consequences for her actions and attitude. Mommy isn't always going to be there to run interference for her rudeness, and needs to learn that starting NOW.


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The piped water and wastewater system was constructed by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) during the 1950s. Four wells provide water for the community and the harbor with 250,000 gallons of storage. Sixty residences are connected to the system and are plumbed. The city provides refuse collection services.
RUBA Status & Activities This Qtr:
St. George has committed to undertake a two year RUBA agreement, in order to address deficient indicators on the RUBA assessment completed in September. Anchorage LGS staff traveled to St. George February 6-10, 2012 to initiate this process. RUBA staff presented at a St. George city council meeting, addressing Bridge Loan debt(repayment resolution), the necessity of certification for the water plant operator, acceptance of codified version of city ordinances (by resolution), and the need for a CY 2012 budget. The city council met quorum, with two members attending telephonically from Anchorage. It was significant that the community was committed to establishing a quorum at the meeting, as this has proved challenging for them in the past. Much of the information presented at the meeting was new to council members; the RUBA agreement, Bridge Loan program, debt situation, long term listing on the Significant Non-Compliance (SNC) list and lack of water quality testing were explained in detail. St. George City Council passed a resolution assigning funds to begin repayment of the Bridge Fuel Loan debt. A major element of this week-long onsite visit related to creating dialog and supporting community meetings - in collaboration with Department of Transportation (DOT) Coastal Engineers Carter and Smith - to solicit community input on the proposed harbor project. The St. George Harbor had originally been designed by Engineer Harvey Smith in the 1980s, based on a Danish design well suited to the crashing surf and difficult weather conditions of the Bering Sea. The original design was adapted during construction in order to decrease costs, and elements were removed that specifically addressed the intense conditions, resulting in a harbor that is dangerous and difficult to enter. A return to the concepts of the earlier design would render the harbor viable, both for commercial fishing and crabbing vessels and for moorage of smaller local craft. The community meeting attracted many participants, and feedback on plans was dynamic and interactive. Commercial crab fishermen were contacted and participated in brainstorming - a rare collaboration at the planning stages of a project which will impact both populations. Accounting services for the city have been transferred to an Anchorage firm. Requests to the community for updated quarterly financial statements and IRS tax information authorization have not been fulfilled. Many of the essential indicators of the RUBA assessment cannot be passed without the regular release of quarterly financial statements. As of this writing, the water pipes of the St. George distribution system have frozen. Unusual freezing temperatures and blizzards have impacted the distribution system, and made repair difficult. Remote Maintenance Worker (RMW) Doug Abbas is currently on the island, supporting new Water Operator/Manager Laurence Prokopiof with this crisis. The clinic and the school have had to close due to frozen pipes. The new operator is registered to attend upcoming Water Operator training in Fairbanks. He is receiving invaluable onsite training through the presence of RMW Abbas.
RUBA Activities for the Coming Qtr:
RUBA staff will continue to be available to provide any assistance requested to enable St. George to satisfy the essential and sustainable indicators.
Essential Indicators:
15 of 27
Sustainable Indicators:
11 of 27
Total Score:
26 of 54
Essential Indicators
All revenues and expenses for the utility are listed in the utility budget.
The utility has adopted a balanced realistic budget.
Monthly financial reports are prepared and submitted to the policy making board.
The utility is current in paying all water/wastewater electric bills.
The utility has on hand a year's adequate fuel supply or it has a financial plan to purchase an adequate supply.
The utility is receiving revenues (user fees or other sources) sufficient to cover operating expenses.
Sustainable Indicators
The utility is receiving revenues (user fees or other sources sufficient to cover operating expenses and Repair & Replacement (R) costs.
YTD revenues are at a level equal to or above those budgeted.
YTD expenditures are at a level equal to or below those budgeted.
A monthly manager's report is prepared.
Budget amendments are completed and adopted as necessary.
Finances Comments
RUBA staff worked with the mayor and accountant onsite to create a realistic and balanced budget for FY12, during the initial RUBA assessment visit in September 2011. A final version of this budget has not been presented to city council or submitted to the RUBA program. The city council has not been having monthly meetings, and has not had regular updated financials. The proposed 2012 budget needs to be reviewed by the council and adopted. High payroll expenses will need to be evaluated, as the city's operating budget is not balanced. The scarcity of viable employment on the island has led the city to employ many residents for city positions. In evaluating actuals vs. budget, this mode of operating is unsustainable. Decisions to scale back city employment positions (or balance the budget in some other way) requires open discussion and debate, in the form of taking on a commitment to empowering the city council and the community with ongoing, scheduled city council meetings and work-groups.
Accounting Systems
Essential Indicators
The utility has adopted a collection policy and actively follows it.
The utility bills customers on a regular basis.
An accounts receivable system is in place which tracks customers and reports past due accounts and amounts.
An accounts payable system is in place.
The payroll system correctly calculates payroll and keeps records.
A cash receipt system is in place that records incoming money and how it was spent.
The utility has a cash disbursement system that records how money was spent.
Sustainable Indicators
A chart of accounts is used that identifies categories in a reasonable, usable manner.
Monthly bank reconciliations have been completed for all utility accounts.
The utility has a purchasing system that requires approval prior to purchase, and the approval process compares proposed purchases to budgeted amounts.
Accounting Systems Comments
As this quarter's financial statements have not been recieved from the new accounting firm, RUBA cannot attest to the design of the community's accounting systems. Until RUBA has direct contact with the current accountant, it is unknown what financial systems are in place and how they are functioning. The payroll, accounts payable, accounts receiveable, and cash receipt systems were in place during the September 2011 assessment. The city council adopted a utility ordinance that includes a collections policy on September 24, 2008. The city uses a pay as you go system for water, electricity and waste costs for residential customers, thus eliminating collections issues for residential customers. However, St. George has a collections policy in place for commercial customers and it has not been consistently enforced; some commercial customers are in arrears. Utility rates have not been adequately raised to compensate for increased fuel costs. This issue needs to go before the city council, and devoting a portion of each council meeting to utility issues (structural, financial, and visionary) is critical. Much of the grant funding requested by or expected by St. George is related to utility projects. The water distribution infrastructure needs attention; sections of the waste distribution system were created in different eras and are aging and failing. Alternative energy projects (windmills) are also intended by the community, and grant monies in place. Granting agencies are concerned about switching capacity and generator integration with the windmills, and the city is poised to complete substantial infrastructure improvements before funds will be released.
Tax Problems
Essential Indicators
The utility has a system to accurately calculate, track, and report payroll tax liabilities.
The utility is current on filing tax reports.
The utility is current on making tax deposits.
If there are any past due tax liabilities or recorded tax liens, a lien release has been issued or a repayment agreement has been signed and repayments are current.
Tax Problems Comments
There are no recorded liens for the City of St. George. St. George currently has Federal tax liabilities, and will need to include a repayment schedule into any budget calculations for the upcoming year. St. George is not up to date on its reports to Department of Labor for unemployment taxes. Tax liability is unknown until that department receives current reports. As with other aspects of St. George city management, tax liability needs to be openly reported in regular city council meetings.
Personnel System
Essential Indicators
The utility has a posted workers compensation insurance policy in effect.
Sustainable Indicators
The utility has adopted and uses a Personnel Policy, which has been reviewed by an attorney, AML or Commerce for topics and language.
The utility has adequate written job descriptions for all positions.
The utility has adopted and follows a written personnel evaluation process that ties the job description to the evaluation.
The utility has an adequate written hiring process.
The utility has personnel folders on every employee that contain at least: I-9, Job Application and Letter of Acceptance.
The utility has a probationary period for new hires that includes orientation, job training/oversight, and evaluations.
The utility provides training opportunities to staff as needed and available.
Personnel System Comments
The City of Saint George has workers' compensation with Alaska Municipal League Joint Insurance Association(AMLJIA) through June 2012. St. George paid a substantial balance owed in July 2011, and are currently up to date with their payments. The utility's adopted personnel policy is comprehensive and includes all the necessary items though it may need up-dating since there is reference to full-time employees being allowed to use comp time in lieu of overtime. New hires have a six month probationary period. Employees receive paid leave and paid holidays. Job descriptions are maintained for all positions. There is not an active practice of regular employee evaluation and feedback. During the on-site assessment, RUBA staff encouraged the development of once yearly formal employee evaluation, to include both written and verbal feedback. As a result of a small labor pool and geographic isolation, many city and utility positions on St. George are held by employees without job-specific training or experience. St. George does not have a line item in the budget to support employee training opportunities. With critical utility management roles being filled primarily by those willing to take on responsibility, offering encouragement and financial support for training and credentialing those employees would be a recommended personnel practice.
Organizational Management
Essential Indicators
The entity that owns the utility is known; the entity that will operate the utility is set.
The policy making body is active in policy making of the utility.
The policy making body enforces utility policy.
The utility has an adequately trained manager.
The utility has an adequately trained bookkeeper.
The utility has an adequately trained operator or operators.
The utility has adopted the necessary ordinances (or rules and regulations) necessary to give it the authority to operate.
Sustainable Indicators
The utility has adopted an organizational chart that reflects the current structure.
The policy making body meets as required.
The utility complies with the open meeting act for all meetings.
Organizational Management Comments
A utility ordinance was adopted by the city council on September 24, 2008. The city council does not meet monthly as required by the city's code of ordinances and State Statutes Title 29. This lack of regular city council meetings is a core issue for St. George. This creates a situation in which critical issues which impact the community are not reaching the council for discussion and shared decision making. The Saint George city council is currently not adequately involved in the budgetary or financial affairs of the city.
Operation of Utility
Essential Indicators
The utility operator(s) are actively working towards necessary certification.
The utility has a preventative maintenance plan developed for the existing sanitation facilities.
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Photograph shows a Christmas tree at the White House in Washington, D.C., that was obtained from the Alice Kimball property on the Parsons Road in Presque Isle. The 70-foot white pine was decorated with 3,800 lights.
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| Pyongyang, May 9 (KCNA) -- The Korean Central News Agency released a detailed report Tuesday on the worldwide celebration of the 100th anniversary of President Kim Il Sung's birth.
Overseas Koreans and progressives of over 170 countries significantly celebrated the anniversary as an international holiday, a great auspicious event common to humankind, the report said, and went on:
They held more than 3 000 colorful events and over 12 000 media of the world gave wide publicity to the sacred history of Kim Il Sung's nation.
The Nordic preparatory committee for celebrating the centenary of the President's birth was formed in August 2008. It was the first of its kind and it was followed by the formation of more than 100 preparatory committees till 2011.
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Created at the International Friendship Exhibition House was a wax replica of Kim Jong Suk by the sincerity of the figures of the Hall of Wax Replicas of Great Persons in China.
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Figures of various social standings and progressives around the world authored and published scores of books and more than 1 400 articles and poems.
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May 11, 2005 4:00 AM PDT
India eyes own open-source license
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Deepak Phatak of the Indian Institute of Technology has kicked off an effort to create the Knowledge Public License, or KPL, a licensing program that will let programmers share ideas with one another while at the same time allowing them to retain the rights to their own software modifications. The license will likely function much like the Berkeley Software Distribution or the MIT License programs, he added.
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Deepak Phatak of the Indian Institute of Technology has begun an effort to create an open-source license that will let programmers share ideas while also letting them retain the rights to their own software modifications.
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The number of open-source licenses has exploded, leaving many in the community miffed. But Phatak's proposal comes with the power of numbers. India's 1,750 colleges with computer science and electrical engineering degrees admit about 250,000 students a year. Combined with the outsourcing boom, that makes India one of the major centers for software development.
"The free software people are afflicted by what I call the J factor, which is the jealousy factor. The proprietary people are afflicted by the G factor, the greed factor. They want to maximally extract money from the world," Phatak said in an interview here. "I am working to tell the world, 'Please permit these groups to coexist peacefully and harmoniously. There is a tremendous advantage to everyone.'"
"Legally, we have to move very carefully because the Americans have a tendency to sue anybody for anything," he added.
The number of open-source licensing programs has expanded rapidly in the past few years. Under some programs, such as the General Public License, developers have to publish their modifications if the modifications are used outside their own operations.
Many in the open-source community have complained about the proliferation of licensing models and taken action to curtail the numbers.
Budding software powerhouse
If anything, Phatak's licensing proposal comes with the power of numbers. India's 1,750 colleges with computer science and electrical
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- This Looks Very Much Like MS's Shared-Source Program!
- From my view point as a Financial, Economic and Technical Analyst I often wonder why programmers would want to work for free - how do they get their "bills" paid? On the other hand if they die as the "Confucius" Philosophy tells us then they depart the world without anyone being able to benefit from their ideas which will be lost for ever. Question: Can't an acceptable equilibrium (balance) be found between the proponents of Proprietary Software and those of the Open-Source Communities. This newest open-source licensing program the "Knowledge Public License, or KPL" as it is called looks very similar to that of the Microsoft's Program where the company retains the rights to the program modifications. Come work for us for free!!!
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- Off base
- 1. There are many open source programmers that get paid to write open source. The rest do it in their free time out of love for programming and/or belief in a project. That may be a hard concept for selfish types to understand.
2. Shared Source is a farce. As the article states: "The idea is to create an environment where developers can take advantage of the collaborative power of the open-source movement while giving individuals the ability to exploit their own twists."
Shared source does nothing like that, if fact does nothing at all.
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- If I use code covered by the BSD licence and put it in code covered by GPL does that then make the code covered by BSD now forced to use GPL or vice versa?
I am curious how using code from one licence effects it's use in another lincence.
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- Linux and FreeBSD
- I am not sure, but I have read an article, how Linux with GPL cannibaled FreeBSD with BSD license. You can copy stuff from FreeBSD to Linux and improve but you cant copy from Linux to improve FreeBSD, because GPL will impose itself onto FreeBSD (atleast part of the code), where any changes made to that particular part of code has to be given back to the community (unlike BSD where you need not make it public) and has to be released under GPL.
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- IITs influence on tech
- Is huge in India and in the US. Look at any tech firm and you'll find it teeming with IIT alumni. For eg. Cisco has over 1000 alumni from IIT on their payroll. Most household name tech companies in the US have IITians at all levels of their orgs. A major event in May highlights the contributions and collaboration of IITians and the US and Indian economies. www.iit2005.org.
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- close-source paradigm-shift in process
- Software in general is fast becoming a canned commodity and close-source is steady losing market-share every year. Sooner than later, I'm sure MS is going to give Windows/Office away for free, as they're losing fast any reasonable advantage against their open-source counterparts.
When Windows will be pressed to reborn as sort of Winux, MS will need to be ready to stop being a traditional software house but more a technology provider for pay-per-experience kind of services (e.g. gaming, gadgets).
Good profit for software development will still exist for custom-tailored projects (especially if attached to their own custom hardware if wish to sell to the masses) and also in some sorts of turn-key solution packages attractive to bigger corporations (as RedHat and the like are trying to do).
However, the revenue of individual developers or small teams is at stake, as cheaper jobs from eastern countries will make them easily redundant until some global balance is reached; they will need to find a niche where some relatively cheap utility will make its way to the heart of customers (e.g. 3D packages, text editors).
Open-source developers are getting a payed job as part of maintaining promising initiatives and in some type of strategic research or creative projects that encompass into a broader vision of their sponsors.
As more powerful the development tools (containing more and elaborated reusable patterns), it's completely reasonable the less unique added-value to reflect in lesser costs and license fees. Only real added-value and innovation deserves good money, but the inherent volatility of detached from hardware software applications requires this industry to start looking elsewhere to make long-term profits of simply writing code. Money is not already there anymore.
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- Give it a rest
- Winux will not happen until;
1. Linux is usable to the common joe... and...
2. Microsoft does not have 10 Billion+ in liquid assets.
I recently tried to shift my server to Linux but was supprised at the amount of text based configuring I needed to do to get Samba running. When it kept freezing doing stuff that Windows 2000 (here I go again) found easy to do (like copying files) I decided that I had better things to do and put back on Window 2000. I will try again in another few years. Linux is not ready to replace Windows any time soon. Look to Apple. They are the only group around at the moment that have a chance.
(Why did I even try? I wanted the ability to have more that 10 networked files open without buying Window Server.)
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- Ignorant
- Yeah. That makes sense. You know, how it magically doesn't work for you, but Fortune 500 companies are hailing it... Gee, could it be that you don't have any clue what you're doing? Stop spouting ignorant tripe. You don't have any idea what you're doing, so look it up instead of crying about it.
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- You want to use the code in proprietary software? But still require the source of the core components of the software to be shared, like the GPL? That sounds like what the article is talking about anyway. In such cases, the LGPL is a good fit. We don't need any new "open source" licenses. We have too many as it is. Use what is available, you'll find something that fits your needs.
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- Hi all:
I don't understand why the map of India is always shown incorrectly in the news.
The state of kashmir is not even shown here. This is quite disrespectful. Agreed that there are differences in opinions about the area that belongs to Pak and so forth, but that does not justify deleting the entire state from the map of India.
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- Indian flag looks incorrect
- Hi,
I dont know how much its gonna make a difference for the content of this tech news, but when you create an image that is been viewed by millions of people, its not quite right.
The main thing is missing from the flag is the "ashoka chakra" that should be placed in the center.
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&q=indian+flag&btnG=Search
Please correct this.
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CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA—Outside of the convention center, and around downtown Charlotte, are a handful of anti-abortion activists. It's hard to miss them. They carry large signs plastered with graphic photos of dismembered fetuses and preach their message with loudspeakers:
"God is not pro-abortion."
"The Lord will punish Obama for killing babies."
As you can imagine, these activists have an acrimonious relationship with delegates and attendees at the DNC. On Monday, there was a shouting match between an activist and an attendee, with one yelling "God is holy" and the other yelling "God is love." (For those who aren't familiar with this line of argumentation, "God is holy" is shorthand for the idea that God demands justice as much as he shows love. For Christian fundamentalists, abortion and same-sex marriage are two things that require a demonstration of God's "justice.")
I spoke to one of the activists, a middle-aged man named Ante Pavkovic, while he was demonstrating outside of the main convention hall. He was nice enough to tell a little bit of his story and explain why he was here protesting.
Is this how these demonstrations usually go?
Pavkovic: We go in front of the abortion clinic with a sound system, we'll play music—church music—and worship the Lord out there. I'll say to every woman who gets out of their car—really quick, before they get out of the car—"Ma'am, we have doctors that will see you free of charge. We also have adoption agencies if you can't keep the child. If you decide to keep the child, we'll throw a baby shower and give you everything you need for the first two years of that child's life."
And above all, we have the Gospel. I try to get all of that out—you have about 30 seconds from when they get out of the car—and that's what I say to all of them. I want them to know that they have their bases covered, and we can give them everything they need.
I grew up in the church, and I've always been taught that evangelism has a lot do with hospitality—living a particular life and letting people see for themselves. I'm not sure that I get these signs. It seems like you might reach more people with a gentler approach.
Here's the problem with that. First of all, abortion isn't gentle, like you can see. Second, they're being told that abortion doesn't kill little children. But "fetus" is a Latin word that means "little one"—they can dehumanize it by giving it a Latin name. And so most people don't believe that abortion is killing babies. We have the sorry, thankless task of with one picture refuting this argument, whether or not abortion kills babies. We're hoping for the right reaction, often we get the wrong reaction—people get mad at this, rather than the people who do this to little children.
I think a lot of pro-choice people would say that most abortions aren't as late-term as the ones you portray. What would you say to that?
Here's the thing. Most women don't know they're pregnant till after a month or two. Now, a heartbeat has been detected at 21 days after conception, and brain waves within the first month. Now most of the time people find out they are pregnant, it's way further than 30 days, it's two or three months later. Now, if there's brain waves at prior to four weeks and heartbeats after four weeks, then what are we talking about? We're killing children.
What if someone said, "We will limit abortion and even outlaw it, but in exchange, we have to have universal health care, universal pre-K, government-funded contraception?"
No, one has nothing to do with the other. This is a moral issue, period. This whole free health care stuff is socialism and communism. It doesn't work, it's not going to work, and the Founders would be vehemently opposed to this stuff.
And well, [contraception] encourages sin and fornication. Have sex when you get married, and start a family as God intended.
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Thu, 2012-09-06 13:45
You can't, and shouldn't legislate morality. The short answer is that abortion is killing a baby....even a Democrat knows that abortion is killing a baby. It is a terrible thing to do but it should NOT be illegal. In a perfect world everyone would be responsible for their of actions and would not get pregnant unless they wanted to keep the child. And in a perfect world people would buy their own contraceptives.
Fri, 2012-09-07 19:24
If they believe the fetus has a soul, and if that is why they believe it shouldn't be aborted, then what happens to the soul of a fetus when a woman has a miscarriage? If that soul goes back to the heaven they believe in, then why wouldn't the soul of a fetus that was aborted go back to their heaven? And if the soul goes back to their heaven, maybe the soul gets to come back at a later time, when the situation will be different, the mother will be able to care for the child after it is born. Maybe their deity actually wants abortion to be available because there are too many people in our world, too many unwanted children. And maybe people were inspired to discover the various forms of birth control to prevent the conception of unwanted children? Does anyone ever think about that? Children should be born to people who are able to care for them, to support them both financially -and- mentally.
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Montoro Says Spain Missing Budget Goals Would Hurt Europe
April 25 (Bloomberg) -- Budget Minister Cristobal Montoro said Spain would damage European and global growth if it misses budget-deficit targets and threatened to take over the accounts of regions that don't reorder their finances.
"Spain's future and Europe's future are at stake because we are big enough to hurt the whole of Europe and to threaten the global economic recovery," Montoro told lawmakers in Madrid today during a debate on the 2012 budget. The government will take all measures needed because "for all parts of the administration the deficit target is unconditional," he said.
Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's four-month-old government is battling to convince investors it can meet its fiscal goals for this year amid a recession and an unemployment rate of more than 23 percent. Data yesterday showed the central-government budget deficit narrowed to 0.83 percent of gross domestic product from 0.93 percent a year earlier.
The yield on Spain's benchmark 10-year bond fell 4 basis points today to 5.82 percent as of 1:31 p.m. in Madrid, after starting the week above 6 percent.
Spain's borrowing costs have surged by about 1 percentage point since the start of March, approaching the 7 percent level that helped force Greece, Ireland and Portugal into bailouts.
The People's Party government is implementing the deepest budget cuts in over three decades after the nation's deficit came in at 8.5 percent of GDP last year, 2.5 percentage points more than the target set by the European Union. Rajoy aims to narrow the gap to 5.3 percent this year.
Montoro said he will be "inflexible in asking each region, each townhall to correct its public finances and meet its deficit target," He said the government's efforts to reduce the budget gap are aimed at improving citizens' well-being and that there is no European law being imposed by the bloc's strongest members on the weakest.
"There are no strong and weak members in Europe," Montoro said. "There are only the competitive ones and those that aren't capable of adapting to modern times and to the economic relations Europe needs."
Deputy Budget Minister Marta Fernandez Curras said yesterday that the central-government budget is "reasonably" on track to meet its full-year target of a deficit of 3.5 percent of GDP.
Tax Increases
The central government budget gap was 1.85 percent in the first quarter including the impact of transfers to regions that were paid early this year. That compares with 1.06 percent a year earlier.
New tax increases aren't yet reflected in the data while the government returned funds to taxpayers earlier this year, skewing the comparison, Curras said. First-quarter data for the region's isn't available yet. They had a combined shortfall last year of more than twice their target.
"We have no reason to doubt the absolute commitment of the Spanish government to undertake the necessary reforms," European Central Bank President Mario Draghi told a European Parliament committee in Brussels today. "Remarkable progress has been achieved and is being achieved."
ECB Executive Board member Jose Manuel Gonzalez-Paramo, a Spaniard, said yesterday the tools to rein in regions in the government's budget-stability law will ease investors' concerns.
"Among the measures adopted, some involve an issue that worries analysts, and that is regional finances, which are a black box that always yields bad surprises when you open it," he said at a conference in Madrid.
Gonzalez-Paramo said he is "absolutely convinced" Spain will meet its deficit targets. Economists forecast the gap at 5.7 percent of GDP this year, according to the median of nine predictions compiled by Bloomberg News.
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2012 marks the 9th Annual National Lemonade Days – a meaningful fundraiser that allows people of all ages and all walks of life to make a difference in the battle against childhood cancer.
LEGO® Friends and Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation are collaborating to build the world's largest lemonade stand made entirely of LEGO® bricks. Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation will serve lemonade from the stand on Saturday.
The Lemonade Stand will be completed in time to serve lemonade on Saturday. The event is free of charge, but donations are encouraged.
On June 9th and 10th, in conjunction with the Alex's Lemonade Stand event, the National Constitution Center will host the following programs and activities to honor Alex Scott and her legacy, as well as provide a fun and educational experience for kids of all ages!
Visitors also can take a special guided journey through the Center's main exhibition The Story of We the People and learn about child heroes, who, like Alex, have made a difference throughout our history.
The Center's activities are free with museum admission.
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Besides The Cast Of 'Magic Mike', Five Actors We'd Like to See Strip
June 28th, 2012 2:05pm EDT | By: Cyn Donnelly
On Friday, June 29th, 'Magic Mike' hits theaters. I have no idea if this film will be any good but I do know that there are many worse ways to spend two hours than watching Alex Pettyfer, Channing Tatum and Joe Manganiello strip. A fact that got us at Starpulse to thinking about other male celebrities we'd like to see take it all off for the sake of their art and their wallets.
So it's been left to me to give you a taste of the men not included in 'Magic Mike' we'd like to see strip in the movies (or, heck, in real life). Here are the top five as chosen by a totally non-scientific poll of folks I know (in order of how who received the most votes):
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I agree with whoever said to let people figure it out for themselves. If
you could have a Linux-positive handout that wasn't MS-negative, and
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The Academic Presentation: Situated Talk in Action: Situated Talk in Action (Directions in Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis) (Directions in Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis)
Author: Johanna Rendle-short
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Keywords: ethnomethodology, conversation, analysis, directions, action, situated, presentation, academic
Number of Pages: 173
Published: 2006-11-11
List price: $110.00
Is giving a presentation an easy task? In this book, the author unpacks this seemingly simple task to show the complexity that underlies it. Examining the academic presentation as a case in point, the author details when things go according to plan from the perspective of the listening audience and shows how seminar presenters interact with the audience and objects around them to produce a coherent whole that is the academic presentation. Through detailed examination of talk-in-interaction the book throws light on one instance of talk as situated practice, demonstrating the ordinariness of the
Author: James Paul Gee
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: schooling, literacies, traditional, critique, language, learning, situated
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2004-08-25
List price: $39.95
Why do poor and minority students under-perform in school? Do computer games help or hinder learning? What can new research in psychology teach our educational policy-makers?In this major new book, Gee tackles the 'big ideas' about language, literacy and learning, putting forward an integrated theory that crosses disciplinary boundaries, and applying it to some of the very real problems that face educationalists today.Situated Language and Learning looks at the specialist academic varieties of language that are used in disciplines such as mathematics and the sciences. It argues tha
Authors:David Kirshner, James A. Whitso,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: psychological, perspectives, semiotic, social, cognition, situated
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 1997-05-01
List price: $115.00
This book is a result of a symposium at a recent annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association that explored foundational issues relative to situated cognition theory. Its chapters contribute to discourse about repositioning situated cognition theory within the broader supporting disciplines and to resolving the problematics addressed within the book. There is a cumulative vision to the book -- its theme is that the notion of the individual in situated cognition theory needs to be fundamentally reformulated. No theoretical reconfiguration of the social world or of social pra
Authors:Harry Berger Jr., Judith Anderson,
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Keywords: cultural, representations, bodies, texts, utterances, situated
Number of Pages: 396
Published: 2005-04-15
List price: $34.00
Berger describes himself as a reconstructed old New Critic,and hispublications over the past fifty years have centered on investigations of theways in which texts represent both themselves and their situations of utterance.The thirteen chapters of the present book illustrate the range of his inquiryacross several cultures and disciplines. They also demonstrate the interpretiverichness, the theoretical acumen, and the energetic prose that characterize thework of one of America's premier close readers.Situated Utterances is divided into four parts. In Part One Berger designs ananalytical m
Catching Ourselves in the Act: Situated Activity, Interactive Emergence, Evolution, and Human Thought
Author: Horst Hendriks-Janse
Publisher: The MIT Pre
Keywords: evolution, human, thought, emergence, interactive, ourselves, situated, activity, catching
Number of Pages: 379
Published: 1996-06-06
List price: $60.00
"Catching Ourselves in the Act is no less than an attempt to explain intelligence. Delightful how the author dismantles traditional views in psychology, artificial intelligence, ethology, and philosophy. But he goes beyond criticism by providing alternative explanations, drawing on recent work in situated robotics. A masterpiece in combining detailed analysis with grand theorizing. A must for any cognitive scientist." -- Rolf Pfeifer, AI Laboratory, Computer Science Department, University of Zurich Catching Ourselves in the Act uses situated robotics, ethology, and developmental psychology to
Situated Cognition: On Human Knowledge and Computer Representations (Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives)
Author: William J. Clancey
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: social, doing, cognitive, computational, perspectives, learning, representations, cognition, human, knowledge, computer, situated
Number of Pages: 428
Published: 1997-08-28
List price: $53.00
This text deals with recent changes in the design of intelligent machines. New computer models of vision and navigation in animals suggest a different way to build machines. Cognition is viewed not just in terms of high-level "expertise," but in the ability to find one's way around the world, to learn new ways of seeing things, and to coordinate activity. This approach is called situated cognition. Situated Cognition differs from other purely philosophical treatises in that Clancey, an insider who has built expert systems for twenty years, explores the limitations of existing computer pr
Human-Machine Reconfigurations: Plans and Situated Actions (Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives)
Author: Lucy Suchman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: social, doing, cognitive, computational, perspectives, learning, actions, machine, reconfigurations, plans, situated, human
Number of Pages: 326
Published: 2006-12-04
List price: $32.99
This book considers how agencies are currently figured at the human-machine interface, and how they might be imaginatively and materially reconfigured. Contrary to the apparent enlivening of objects promised by the sciences of the artificial, the author proposes that the rhetorics and practices of those sciences work to obscure the performative nature of both persons and things. The question then shifts from debates over the status of human-like machines, to that of how humans and machines are enacted as similar or different in practice, and with what theoretical, practical and political conse


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Inspection Boxes
Secondary Citizenship
Working Children Worldwide
Working Children Worldwide provides the information, activities and materials needed to take pupils on an investigation of children's work, past and present. Its cross-curricular approach enables teachers to cover core curriculum requirements and teach key skills in PSHE/Citizenship, Geography, History, English and Literacy through a contemporary and important issue. The pack looks at why children work, at the range and nature of this work and at how what we buy and what we do links us to working children. It encourages children to consider why child labour is an important issue, and where it is dangerous and exploitative and where it enables children to make a positive contribution to their families.
How do we make Peace?
Using 10 exciting activities designed to improve speaking and listening skills, this booklet addresses what peace is and the causes of and solutions to conflicts. By relating conflict situations to students' own experiences, young people can see how they can become actively involved in building and maintaining a peaceful community. The pack includes inspirational case studies from young people in Burundi, Cambodia, Northern Ireland, and Scotland.
A History and Citizenship KS3 resource to investigate the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Booklet including teachers' notes and activity sheets for students.
National Maritime Museum
The Global School Guide
This practical manual for teachers provides realistic advice about how to make your school a 'Global School'. A Global School is defined as one where the global dimension is reflected in the school curriculum and also in the wider life and ethos of the school, and this indispensable book guides teachers through thinking about how to achieve both.
2005, Leeds DEC
This game, with supporting activities and information, provides a framework in which young people can explore, develop and discuss some of the concepts involved in human rights and development. It raises issues of inequalities and says that by buying fair trade goods children can take action.
2000, Humanities Education Centre
Fair Trade in Action
Fair Trade in action introduces Fair Trade as an alternative to conventional trade. It contains resources and activities designed to encourage students to be aware and active citizens. It helps students develop a wide range of skills, and increase their knowledge and understanding of world trade.
The Changing Face of Slavery
Diane Louise Jordan presents this video pack which focuses on slavery past and present. The video first examines the transatlantic slave trade, then looks at the employment of young children and the links between the wealth generated by the slave trade and the Industrial Revolution. The last part brings the historical roots and the contemporary issues around child labour together. The teachers' booklet has been revised and updated and contains case studies, information and activities.
2001, Amnesty Internationa
Whose Citizenship? ... a teacher's toolkit
Offers practical ideas and starting points for enabling a global approach to 'local' citizenship investigations at key stage 3. Includes:
* A wide range of approaches
* Key principles and potential pitfalls
* Photo-copiable material
* Information about other sources of information
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Living on the Line
A video pack featuring extracts from Channel 4's "On The Line" series, supported by a range of teachers' notes and classroom activities. "On the Line" is a unique Millennium project, supported by Oxfam. linking the diverse countries that lie along the meridian Line. "Living on the Line" builds on the broadcast material developed for this project and features 10 short films, each focusing on a key issue for the 21st century. Issues covered include trade (illustrated with an example from Ghana), conflict (Algeria), migration (Spain) and globalization and change (Mali).
2001, Action Aid
Auditing Citizenship at Key Stages 3 and 4
This audit for primary level has been developed in response to the debate about the definition and nature of Citizenship and PSHE. While including the English National Curriculum requirements, this resource goes far beyond this in an attempt to outline the elements of Citizenship and PSHE.
2002, South Yorkshire DEC
Citizenship Education: the Global Dimension
This booklet aims to help teachers and teacher educators understand the significance of the global dimension to citizenship and to enable them to teach it in meaningful ways.
2001, Development Education Association
Talking Rights, Taking Responsibility
This resource comprises 30 activities in six structured units for introducing the UN convention on the Rights of the Child. Through discussion of values in everyday life, young people learn about their Rights and accompanying responsibilities.
For a FREE downloadable sample activity visit the UNICEF website:
Southern Perspectives on Development: Colonialism
and Its Legacy, Book 2
One of a series of five booklets that has been produced in collaboration with individuals and organizations from the South, who were asked to put the issues and ideas they want young people in the UK to understand.
1996, Manchester DEP
This City Life: PSE/RE
A video resource with a series of activities which enable students to learn by reflecting on the experience of other young people. It explores issues about families, relationships and leaving home; risky behaviour and its consequences; prejudice and discrimination; children's rights; participation and citizenship. The video provides interviews with young people, the booklet provides background information, and the floppy disk offers further information and pupil pages for easy adaptation.
1999, Leeds DEC
Dealing with Disasters
Including case studies and focusing particularly on flooding in Bangladesh, this text gives background information on earthquakes, floods, hurricanes and famine. It provides answers to why disasters happen, how they can be prevented and what can be done to help.
2000, Oxfam
For a FREE downloadable sample activity visit the Oxfam website:
My Village, My Life
Three real-life situations from West Africa are explored giving pupils the opportunity to think about and express the views of people in developing countries. Topics considered are:
* girls' education
* living with disabilities
* caring for the environment
2003, International Service
The Challenge of Globalisation
Provides a framework through which young people can gain an understanding of the complex issue of globalization. It explores not only the economic and geographical aspects of globalization but also the moral and ethical debates which concern young people's lives.
2003, Oxfam
Human Rights in the Curriculum: History
A handbook for teachers highlighting areas in the National Curriculum where the human rights implications can be made explicit. Through a series of interactive activities, students investigate the human rights dimension of the suffrage movement, the Holocaust, Victorian child labour and slavery.
2002, Amnesty International


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Serinyà : Michelin's recommendations
This village has a very rural feel. The Iglesia de Sant Andreu is a fine example of 13C Romanesque architecture, with its doorway decorated with archivolts. Archaeological excavations around the town have unearthed a splendid collection of palaeolithic remains.


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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, speaking on Nevada Public Radio, let it be known that there is not going to be a "Grand Bargain". While the Senate bill that ended the shutdown seemed to open the door for a deal that would cut Social Security and Medicare, Reid was adamant that was not going to be the case.
Reid rebuked the Nevada Public Radio host when he was asked what Republicans would have to concede to get Medicare and Social Security cuts on the table.
"You keep talking about Medicare and Social Security. Get something else in your brain. Stop talking about that. That is not going to happen this time. There is not going to be a grand bargain," Reid said. "What we need to do is have Murray and her counterpart in the House, Ryan, work together to come up with something to get out of this senseless sequestration and start the budgeting process so that we can do normal appropriation bills."
Is that what he told President Obama? Because he does not appear to have gotten the message.
Nor has Congressman Chris Van Hollen, the ranking Democrat on the House Budget Committee. Van Hollen says he is open to changing Social Security and Medicare.
Van Hollen said he would be open to finding savings in Medicare in ways that focus on giving care providers incentives to cut costs. He said he would want to avoid changes that reduce the benefits that Americans receive.
One idea that would be a tough sell with Democrats is a change in the way that cost-of-living increases are calculated in Social Security. The change would be made by adopting a less-generous gauge of inflation, known as the "chained Consumer Price Index," or chained CPI. Such a plan "creates a whole lot of problems within the Democratic caucus," Van Hollen acknowledged.
Regardless of legislators' wishes, the House-Senate budget conference will likely just redirect the austerity of the current budget. In other words, the funding level stays the same but special interests will be protected from automatic sequestration cuts. The poor and powerless will take the pain.
It will be interesting to see what members of Congress really want to push for cuts to Social Security and Medicare outside of the Tea Party as the 2014 elections approach.


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Oh who am I?
I fight my battles with a pen
My heart has been led astray
But all I want
Is to have her in my arms today
So what do I write?
What possible words can win back a soul?
She said she needs space
Will the shaded figure take its toll?
I would give anything to have it back
A picture perfect Bonnie and Clyde
But tonight I lie in torment
Should I calmly wait and hide?
It felt so real
Like we were alone in our own space
We would be together and happy
I saw it in her face
I feel as if my life is fleeting
My very words are growing thin
I can not muster a breath
I am left alone tonight again
I have not the strength to type
Or the strength to cry
So again here alone I lie
And if tomorrow I shall not wake
I pray the Lord my soul to take
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