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Payback for the liberators: Iraq prepares to shatter
By Richard Cottrell
Contributing writer for End the LiePractically unreported outside the country, Iraq is preparing to shatter into ethnic fragments. The goal of a united, democratic Iraq built on the ruins of the Ba'ath state is nothing but an empty memory.
The fragile truce among the country's ethnic groups is bad enough in itself. But far more serious is the progressive advance of a Shiite autocracy and the virtual dictatorship of the Iraqi premier, Nouri al-Maliki.
The key power-sharing agreement between Shiites and Sunni religious factions is in increasing disarray as al-Maliki imposes his personal stamp of universal authority.
In short, he is turning into a replica of Saddam Hussein, which is precisely what I pointed out in my earlier coverage of what is going on over there.
Bahaa al-Araji, a leading follower of the cleric Sayyid Muqtadā al-Ṣadr's ranks in the Iraqi parliament, compares the situation to a 'primed time bomb that might explode at any moment.'
He went on to accuse al-Maliki directly of conspiring to exploit the political impasse brought about by ethnic tensions in order to impose a direct personal dictatorship.
The latest political crisis engulfed Iraq shortly after the illusory withdrawal of US occupation forces in July of last year. There are still 40,000 troops in heavily fortified encampments (not to mention all of the contractors), which no one is discussing during the presidential election campaign.
Under cover of 'mission accomplished' al-Maliki instantly attacked the two most senior Sunni politicians in the government.
The deputy premier Saleh al-Mutlaq was marginalized and effectively pushed out of office. Al-Maliki then drummed up charges that vice president Tariq al-Hashemi was running death squads and secret prisons, a charge which is more convincingly leveled at al-Maliki himself.
United States diplomats at the giant embassy compound in Baghdad maintained strict radio silence as al-Hashemi fled first to the self-ruling Kurdish northern province and then onwards to Turkey, where he is now in exile. He fears that he will be arrested and imprisoned if he returns home.
The Turkish government's 'harboring' of al-Hashemi has naturally infuriated the rapidly emerging Saddam Hussein Mark Two, leading to a hot exchange of words between Ankara and Baghdad.
Many observers fear this is a precursor of a full-scale rupture between Turkey and Iraq, similar to that which shattered Turkish-Israeli relations in the wake of the deadly Gaza aid convoy raid in May 2010. This split has resulted in some especially heated rhetoric, among other things like a conflict over including an Israeli ship in NATO's gulf armada.
The Turks are certainly not pulling their punches. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has openly described al-Maliki as an emerging dictator who is deliberately fomenting ethnic strife in order to impose personal rule.
There was no attempt at diplomatic exchanges as al-Maliki furiously responded that the Turks should mind their own business.
They did nothing of the kind. Al-Maliki apparently erupted into a towering rage when the president of the Kurdish province, Massoud Barzani, recently turned up in Ankara for quite unprecedented high level talks with the Turkish government.
This was a remarkable event in itself, given that Turkey is waging a bitter internal war against Kurdish irredentists inside her own borders.
Yet, smiling and beaming for the cameras, both men gave a strong impression that this was no simple courtesy call, but more likely an intentional provocation to isolate Kurdistan from the rest of Iraq.
The Sadrite faction thinks so too. Bahaa al-Araji is on record as saying that al-Maliki's increasingly dictatorial style unnerves the Kurds, who suspect that he might unleash the Iraqi army in order to snuff out their potentially dangerous quasi-independence.
"Baghdad has similar problems with other provinces. This will lead to the dividing of Iraq, and there will be no Iraq on the world map," al-Araji said.
The devastating civil war that broke out in the wake of the US-led invasion claimed at least 100,000 lives of civilians.
If violence erupts once again between the rival ethnic factions, then the prospect of parts of Iraq seceding is very real.
The bugbear is al-Maliki, who displays only feint pretense in a national unity government, which is hardly surprising given that he willfully destroyed the one that Iraq already had.
Now the Kurds say that unless there is a real power sharing agreement by autumn, they will go their own way.
History is repeating itself. Saddam held Iraq down by excluding the Sunnis from any positions of power in the civil services, the army and even education. Ending this repression was supposedly one of the reasons to justify the invasion in 2003.
Yet quite obviously al-Maliki is progressively following the same game plan, the slow erosion of the Sunni power base. This is the reason of the new wave of bloody bombings on either side of the ethnic divide, which again are unreported not only in the American corporate media but largely that of Europe as well.
I suspect that some of these attacks are false flags staged by Iraqi secret services in order to corner and isolate the Sunnis.
The illusion that 'all is well' is maintained by the White House and the Pentagon, despite the plain evidence that al-Maliki's scheming will lead to the return of massive civil unrest.
The US is making the bet that al-Maliki is sufficiently well entrenched and strong enough to withstand any large-scale Sunni rebellion.
The growing friction inside Iraq has to be judged against the increasingly adventurous activities of Turkey herself right across the Middle East.
Deputy prime minister Ahmet Devutoglu (widely regarded as Erdogan's successor, should the premier be compelled to step down on grounds of ill health) this past week stated that Turkey seeks to lead 'a wave of change' throughout the region.
Have no doubt that she already is. Thus Turkey has thrust herself into the forefront of tensions surrounding Iran and Israel, the Syrian crisis, and now the slide of Iraq into chaos and very probably dissolution as a nation state.
Turkey is a prominent advocate of the Palestinian cause and in my opinion it is only a question of time before important Turkish political leaders turn up in the Gazan gulag, a massive affront to Israel and the US.
These are immense provocations to the United States, which sees herself as the self-appointed guardian of the Middle East, in concert with Israel and the tacit backing of NATO.
It is a great irony that Turkey, an important NATO power and contributor of its second largest military contingent, increasingly plays a la carte with alliance strategies – as I predicted that she would, here at End the Lie.
Erdogan's blow-hot, blow-cold relations with the US and NATO presage two possible developments. One is full Turkish withdrawal from the alliance, which I think less likely (better to play with the rest of the kids on the block, but only when you feel like it) or US scheming to undermine and bring down the soft Islamic government which has ruled Turkey for the past ten years.
But that is a large enough subject that deserves and will receive a separate post, save to point out here that the US backed successful military coups in Turkey in 1960 and 1980.
2012 may well prove the tipping point for the Iraqi unitary state unless al-Maliki blinks and backs down in the face of pressure to restore power sharing. There are no signs in his character or history that he is planning to do that. Compromise is not his middle name.
What is more, the US is unquestionably right behind him, in the mistaken belief that their cosseted strongman has all the tools and skills to calm the situation.
Al-Maliki has already demonstrated by his intemperate attacks on the Sunni Turks that he is in no mood to give ground.
Iraq never gained the statesman that she so desperately needed in the wake of the botched invasion.
Nor did the US and its allies have any real comprehension of the depth and bitterness of the ancient ethnic divides, except the British, who once ruled Iraq yet maintained a trappist silence.
There is no doubt that maimed, devastated and chronically mis-ruled Iraq is a powder keg that will blow up at the slightest provocation. Expect a hot Arabian summer.
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There is a special formula that you need to be feeding the puppies. You can get the formula as well as specialized feeding bottles for the puppies at most pet stores. I would still call the vet as previously recommended to find out how much and how often to feed the puppies as well as anything else that you would need to do to properly care for them. Good Luck with the pups. I am also very sorry to hear about your loss of Mom.

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Protests targeted at pressurising the federal government into rescuing some 200 schoolgirls who were kidnapped three weeks ago from their secondary school in Chibok, Borno State, continued nationwide monday, even as the Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau claimed responsibility for their abduction, and vowed to sell or marry them off.
As a mark of solidarity with the abducted girls, Borno State youths and students have called on their peers worldwide to stay away from classrooms tuesday, while 2,000 students thronged the streets of Calabar, the Cross River State capital, demanding the girls' unconditional release.
This is just as outrage spread over the complicity of the federal government and the First Lady, Mrs. Patience Jonathan, in the arrest of one of the protest leaders, Naomi Mutah.
The first lady, at the weekend, had attempted to lay the blame on the abduction of the girls on the politics of the 2015 elections and made a show of sobbing over the Borno State first lady, Hajia Nana Shettima's refusal to honour an invitation from Mrs. Jonathan to meet with her.
The video of the visibly infuriated and weeping Mrs. Jonathan went viral yesterday. In the 57-minute video made available to the media, Shekau said the girls were the spoils of war, adding that he might decide to sell them as articles in the market or give them out in marriage.
He said the girls had spent over 20 days in his custody and he had been treating them as "booties of war". Shekau, who did not display the girls throughout the recording, said: "We would also give their hands in marriage because they are our slaves. We would marry them out at the age of nine. We would marry them out at the age of 12, it depends on our choice." The terrorist leader, who spoke in both the Hausa and Arabic languages, admitted that the girls were captured because they were attending formal school, insisting: "Western education is a sin, it is forbidden; women must go and marry."
Shekau also justified the abduction of the girls for the incarceration of his members in Nigerian prisons and did not give any condition for their release.
The video, which was sent via e-mail to some journalists, could not however be independently verified. "I abducted your girls. I will sell them in the market, by Allah," he said, after reports that some of the 223 missing girls may have been sold as brides across Nigeria's border with Chad and Cameroun for as little as N2,000. Shekau added that the abduction had caused outrage "because we are holding people (as) slaves".
US: Kidnapped Schoolgirls Taken Out of Nigeria Despite Shekau's boast that the girls would be sold or married off, the United States yesterday expressed concern that many of the 276 schoolgirls had already been moved out of the country.
State Department spokeswoman, Marie Harf, shared Washington's assessment after local officials in the North-east told AFP that the girls had likely been taken to nearby Chad or Cameroun.
"Many of them have likely been moved out of the country to neighbouring countries," Harf said, responding to reporters' questions as news of the abduction began to climb up the world news agenda. Harf said Washington provides Nigeria with "counter-terrorism assistance" in the form of intelligence sharing and was standing by to assist "in any way we think that is appropriate".
Chibok Protest Leader Arrested However, as the saga of the girls' abduction continued, it emerged yesterday that Mrs. Mutah, an indigene of Chibok, who helped organise the protests over the abduction, was allegedly arrested and detained by the police. Mutah took part in a meeting called by Mrs. Jonathan and was then taken to a police station, her fellow community members said. Mrs. Jonathan reportedly felt slighted that the mothers of the abducted girls had sent Mutah to the meeting instead of attending themselves.
Mutah, a representative of the Chibok community where the girls were seized from their school, last week organised a protest outside the National Assembly in the capital, Abuja. The protesters and many Nigerians feel the government has not done enough to find the girls. The Associated Press (AP) news agency quoted another community leader, Saratu Angus Ndirpaya, as saying Mrs. Jonathan accused the activists of fabricating the abductions to give the federal government a bad name. She also said the first lady accused them of supporting Boko Haram.
In reaction to the purported arrest, social media commentators severely criticised Mrs. Jonathan and the federal government over the alleged arrest. According to a tweet from the former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili, it was revealed that Mutah was detained by the Nigeria Police Force at Asokoro police station, Abuja and later taken to an unknown destination. She added that the federal government's action was unjust for arresting an ordinary mother after she attended Mrs. Jonathan's meeting.
Similarly, the Chibok community accused Mrs. Jonathan of instigating the arrest of the community women leader. In a statement by the spokesperson of the Bring Back Our Girls Campaign, Olawale Rotimi, he said the leader of the Chibok Women Development Association, Mutah, was arrested after attending a meeting with the wife of the president at the state house. "We were notified at 6 am by Mr. Tsambido Hosea, the leader of the Chibok community residents in Abuja, that Mrs. Naomi Mutah had been detained at the Asokoro police station at the instance of the first lady following a meeting she had attended in the Presidential Villa with the president's wife. "According to the leader of the Chibok community in Abuja, Mrs. Naomi Mutah and Mrs. Saratu were delegated to represent women from the Chibok Women Development Association in Maiduguri who were invited for the meeting but couldn't make it due to the short notice.
"The records at the police station showed that she had been booked in at 3.20 am. She had attended the meeting on the delegated authority of the Chibok-based mothers of the abducted girls alongside Mrs. Saratu Angus. "Mrs. Saratu Angus, who accompanied Mrs. Naomi Mutah to the meeting, and was also taken to the Asokoro police station, was released at 3.30 am.
"We arrived the Asokoro police station at 8 am with our legal representative, Femi Adedeji from Femi Falana's chambers. We, alongside her husband and members of the Chibok Committee residents in Abuja, requested to commence the process for her bail. "Our lawyer was informed that neither the Divisional Police Officer, Crime Prevention Officer nor Investigating Police Officer was available to attend to us. Subsequently, we identified the DPO who responded that he had more pressing issues to handle.
"To the utter dismay of Mrs. Mutah's husband, the Chibok community members and some of our members, some officials arrived at 11 am, 8 hours after her detention claiming to be from the presidency and took her away with the DPO to the Office of the Inspector General of Police. They prevented anyone from accompanying her. "We hereby call on the federal government to immediately cause the release by the Nigerian Police of Mrs. Naomi Mutah," the statement said.
Mrs. Jonathan, Police Deny Arrest However, the first lady and the Nigeria Police yesterday denied the arrest of Mutah. In a statement by her media aide, Ayo Adewuyi, he said: "Our attention has been drawn to media reports that the First Lady, Mrs. Patience Jonathan, ordered the arrest of a woman who attended the women stakeholders' meeting to discuss ways and the best strategies to ensure the release of the abducted children of Chibok (Girls) Secondary School. "We wish to state without any iota of equivocation that the first lady did not order the arrest of any woman or any one for that matter before, during and after the meeting. "It is instructive to note that the meeting
ended after three o'clock Monday morning and all those invited to the meeting including a handful of journalists who stayed throughout the lengthy meeting left the Presidential Villa thereafter. "The Naomi Mutah mentioned in one of the reports came to the meeting as part of the Borno delegation. The women were alarmed when someone who knew her told the meeting that she was impersonating one of the mothers of the allegedly abducted children on the basis of which she attended the meeting.
"The women expressed their disappointment when she confirmed that she is not a biological mother to any of the abducted children. Naomi left the State House with other members of the delegation. If she was arrested as claimed, then enquiries about her arrest should therefore be directed to the security agencies. "It is an unfounded rumour which the first lady knows nothing about." Equally, the police, in a statement signed by the Force spokesperson, Frank Mba, said the woman was only invited by the police as part of investigations into the case of the missing girls.
It read: "As part of measures geared towards eliciting useful information that could help security agents in the ongoing effort at finding and rescuing the female students recently abducted by terrorists, suspected to be Boko-Haram, in Chibok, Borno State, police operatives this morning, 05/05/2014 invited one Mrs Nyadar Naomi Mutah, a native of Chibok and Deputy Director at the National Directorate of Employment, Abuja.
"It was purely an interactive and fact finding interview. Mrs Nyadar cooperated with the police in the course of the interview and was immediately allowed to return home to her loved ones. She was never arrested nor detained as being wrongly speculated in some quarters." Mba added that the police and other security agencies were leaving no stone unturned at ensuring that the girls returned safely.
Mrs. Shettima: First Lady Wanted to Humiliate Me In addition to the outrage expressed over Mutah's alleged arrest, Mrs. Shettima, the wife of the Borno State governor, had an axe to grind with the first lady as she was forced to provide clarification as to why she elected not to attend the meeting summoned by the first lady.
A statement by Mrs. Shettima's press secretary, Aisha Muhammad Hassan, said Mrs. Jonathan had a clear motive of humiliating the Borno first lady at the scheduled meeting in the villa.
She said it was because of this that Mrs. Shettima decided to send a representative to the meeting and remained in Maiduguri to prepare for her planned trip to Chibok where she met with parents of the abducted girls, in order to support them.
Hassan said: "Mrs. Shettima had actually travelled to Abuja all the way from Maiduguri on 28th of April and on the evening of that day, she met the first lady at the villa and took two hours to brief her on the schoolgirls' abduction as well as her (Mrs. Shettima's) personal efforts and that of her husband, Governor Shettima, towards the freedom of the girls.
"Some wives of service chiefs and the National Women Leader of the PDP, Mrs Kema Chikwe, were present when the governor's wife met with the first lady, noting that the first lady appreciated the efforts of the governor's wife and consoled her on noticing how depressed she was."
Hassan said that it was therefore shocking to the governor's wife when she saw Mrs. Jonathan on the television accusing the governor of Borno of being responsible for the abduction.
"It became clear to the governor's wife that from the body language of the first lady and some of her close associates at the Saturday meeting, that there was a high possibility that the first lady's demand for the governor's wife on Sunday was to humiliate her by accusing her husband to her face in the midst of participants at the meeting, thereby necessitating that she concentrated on her planned trip to Chibok on Monday morning," Hassan added.
Hassan explained that before her meeting with Mrs. Jonathan on April 28, the governor's wife had held a meeting with a coalition of women groups that included stakeholders of Chibok, officials of the National Council of Women Societies (NCWS), wives of security chiefs in Borno State, the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) and the Federation of Muslim Women of Nigeria, among others. The communiqué, Hassan said, was shown to Mrs. Jonathan by the governor's wife which she also endorsed.
In addition, she said, Mrs. Shettima had met virtually all the groups from Borno that the first lady was meeting and that her representative was more than capable of representing her at the Presidential Villa meeting.
Borno, Cross River Students, Others Protest Meanwhile, youths and students in the troubled Borno State yesterday called on students all over the world to stay away from classes in protest over the scores of schoolgirls abducted 21 days ago by Boko Haram terrorists. The placard-carrying youths and students, who sang different protest songs, were led to the Maiduguri press conference by Fatima Zanna Maliki.
The inscriptions on their placards read: "Please Note all Borno Youths Are Not Insurgents", "Rescue Our Education System", "They Are Our Sisters", "They Are Our Daughters", "Bring Back Our Girls", "Borno Remains the Home of Peace", etc. Maliki said it was important that students all over the globe joined them in the protest in order to force world leaders to pressurise the Nigerian president to take the necessary action, which will get the abducted girls released from their captors.
She said: "We appreciate the concern and efforts of all the civil society organisations, women groups, leaders and the international communities towards our plight and we are urging them not to relent until our girls are brought back home safely, in particular, and peace returns back to our country in general."
She added: "We the youths and students in Borno State have endured unimaginable hardship for the past four years and we took it upon ourselves to call upon stakeholders and the president in particular to act urgently." While declaring Wednesday, May 7, 2014 as a lecture-free and sympathy day worldwide to commiserate with the families of the abducted schoolgirls, she urged Mrs. Jonathan to play a motherly role in the present challenges facing the country rather than apportioning blames.
Maliki also asked President Goodluck Jonathan to stop the buck passing and go about the task of looking for the abducted girls with more fervor. The youths and students warned that should the girls not be freed before their 40th day in captivity, they would mobilise students across the country to protest in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, until the students are reunited with their families.
Similarly, Calabar stood still yesterday when over 2,000 students from different secondary schools took to the streets protesting the abduction of female students in Chibok.
Besides protesting the abduction of their colleagues, the students clad in black, demanded that the girls be released unconditionally so that they could continue with their academic studies.
Waving placards with various inscriptions, the obviously furious students of both sexes were later joined in the protest by members of the National Association of Cross River Students (NACRISS), civil societies and non-governmental organisations in the state.
Miss Miriam Ukpong, a senior secondary school student, said they decided to protest because they were concerned about the plight of the abducted students whose fate remained unknown 21 days after.
She explained that the protest became imperative owing to the lingering violent activities of the Islamic insurgents in the North-east and other places, adding: "Today, it is students of Chibok Secondary School, tomorrow some other persons may be affected." In Akure, the Ondo State capital, women led by the state Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development, Mrs Yemi Mamud-Fasominu, also joined in the protest.
The women, who were dressed in black, marched to the Office of the Ondo State Governor, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko, to demand the rescue of the girls.
Addressing the women, Mimiko said governments at all levels were up to the task, adding that some security steps were being kept secret for the successful rescue mission. "I thank you all for this outward display of emotions and for showing concern. We know that this is a reminder of what we should be doing.
"But I want to assure you that we will track these people who are hell-bent on destroying our nation. I am sure that God Almighty will rescue this nation," Mimiko said.
The governor said the president was doing everything humanly possible so that there would be good outcome. He added that people's concern about being oblivious of the government's step was borne out of security logistics, which should not be revealed so that its effort would not be sabotaged.
Earlier, Fasominu said all the women were aggrieved and dejected about the condition of the missing girls. She enjoined the women to continue to pray, stressing that those perpetrating heinous acts towards the girls and women would be fished out through ongoing government's efforts.


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When we set out to find truly unique pasta sauces that we could bring to our customers, we discovered the secret of the best pasta sauces: simplicity. You start with only the freshest, most luscious tomatoes and add the perfect blend of fresh garlic and herbs. No preservatives or paste included. Pure and simple, and simply the best. Try all five, available in the Grocery Department: Tomato & Basil, Vodka, Arrabiata, Garlic Marinara, and Thick & Hearty Tomato Basil.
Start a tradition with family pizza night. Let our all natural pizza sauce steal the show and add the fresh tomato flavor that will make your pizza one of a kind. It's made with fresh herbs and spices for that old-fashioned pizzeria flavor.
You love our Kowalski's Pizza Sauce; now try our All Natural Pizza Seasoning. Made with oregano, marjoram, thyme, rosemary, parsley, savory, crushed red pepper and other spices, it's ideally suited for use on pizza, popcorn, burgers and chicken – get creative! Find it in the Spice Aisle and near Kowalski's Pizza Sauce.
This best-selling snack is a customer favorite. This premium, local popcorn arrives in our markets the day after it is packaged. When you open the bag, it won't last long!
Try Original Salted, Cheddar, White Cheddar and Jalapeño Cheddar (available in the Grocery Department) or our new individual bags of Cheddar and White Cheddar (available in the Deli and Grocery Departments) that are just the right size for snacking, lunch boxes, or enjoying with a deli sandwich or (poured into) a cup of tomato soup.
You'll love our finely milled theater-style salt. It's great for making movie theater-quality popcorn at home. Try it with our Kowalski's Organic Unpopped Popcorn. Find it in the Grocery Department near the popcorn.
From tangy Citrus Vinaigrette to classic Caesar, Kowalski's Salad Dressings provide unique flavor combinations that will dress any salad you care to create. We think you'll agree that these are remarkable and invite you to try every incredible flavor. And perfect for end of summer barbecues and fall tailgating is our Signature Coleslaw Dressing. Not too sweet yet not too tangy, this creamy dressing can turn a bag of shredded cabbage into a quick salad. Find the whole line in our Grocery Department.
When you have to add salt and pepper, you'll want to make sure both are the best quality. These basic tabletop items aren't boring at Kowalski's. Our beautiful adjustable and refillable grinders come loaded with the finest Malabar peppercorns and Pacific sea salt and are packaged with no preservatives or irradiation.
The combination of sweet and salty is epitomized in our eight-count package that combines milk and dark chocolate-coated caramels with a dusting of sea salt. Made for us by a local chocolatier.
Our bite-sized, teacake-style cookies positively melt in your mouth. Find our citrusy Lemon and Lime Bites Cookies (perfect for summertime) and our Almond Bites Cookies seasonally in the Grocery Department. And look for Kowalski's Signature Almond Bites, coming this fall!
Our brilliant new eco-friendly single-serve filters put more flavor in every cup. They're filled with the same great locally roasted coffee we've become so well known for – Fair Trade and organic, of course. The recyclable cups work in all standard single-serve coffee makers. Look for six varieties: French Roast, Colombian, Breakfast Blend, Sumatran, Rainforest and Decaf French Roast.


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The Basic Technical Writing Certificate consists of three courses that have been developed for those entering into the field for the first time or those in the downsized IT industry. The program is Instructor-Led, meaning you learn from highly qualified industry and tech writing university faculty. Now in its 12 th year, our program has been designed for those who lack sufficient experience in the field or those who want to enhance existing careers in technical writing or move in a new direction within the corporate workplace. (See Below Outlook for Technical Writers Bureau of Labor Statistics)
The certificate is specifically focused for the following:
- Those who aspire to develop their technical language and communication skills
- Those who need to update their knowledge and skills
- Those who need preparation for teaching professional communication
- Those who must prepare and deliver training for their companies
- Those who aspire to advance in documentation and other technical communication positions
- Those who seek a verifiable Certificate Credential from an accredited university
Upon successful completion of this certificate, you will be able to:
- Analyze audiences and purposes for various technical documents and write effective technical documents by incorporating editorial changes and user feedback
- Correct instances of improper usage, eliminate trite and redundant phrases, so you can write clear and precise sentences
- Apply sound formatting principles to the design and layout of documents and insert eye-catching graphics, charts, and tables that illustrate key points
- Create information plans and content specifications and implement publications projects
- Manage production processes and evaluate project successes and failures
Individual Course Descriptions
- Introduction to Technical Writing for Industry
- Intermediate Technical Writing
- Advanced Technical Writing
Introduction to Technical Writing for Industry
If you want to become a technical writer, or if you have just become a technical writer and wonder what the job and the profession may involve, this course will introduce you to an exciting and rewarding career in technical communication. You'll learn what tasks you will do, how your work fits into the organization's process, and where the field is headed.
Dig in and get right into planning, writing, editing, and testing – the key activities in a technical communicator's day. Each lesson focuses on a specific area of technical communications and you will receive information, resources, questions and assignments geared towards the specific area.
You can email any questions, thoughts, or concerns you may have at any time. After your writing assignment has been completed and submitted, it will be reviewed and returned with comments. The course is designed to help you become a professional technical communicator so I invite you to ask any questions that occur to you along the way.
By the end of this course, you'll be able to…
- Identify tasks and job titles in the profession of technical communication.
- Write and edit step by step instructions.
- Organize a set of procedures.
- Articulate the levels of edit.
- Analyze and edit a document following the recommendations in a style guide.
- Identify key components of an information plan, and content specification.
- Analyze an audience.
- Perform a task analysis.
- Identify key activities in user-centered design.
- Perform user testing on a procedure.
- Identify the key emotional competences for outstanding performance.
- Define key terms used in technical communication.
Your progress will be assessed in several ways:
- Through instructor evaluation of written work.
- Through self quizzes.
- Through instructor comments on your reports of activities that you undertake.
- In-depth responses from the instructor on your weekly work.
- A final exam.
- What is technical communication?
- Define the field and what it takes to become a professional
- The ideas of documentation, documents, and design
- Forces that have shaped our concept of technical communication
- Visual display
- Why is visual analysis necessary
- Using tables and charts to communicate data
- The Gestalt principles for design
- Perform a task analysis
- Testing your documentation for usability
- Grammatical structure
- Creating effective documentation
- Using the correct formatting, styles, templates, and headings
- Document design
- Writing for your audience
- Perform an audience analysis
- What is user centered design
- Editing and delivering a quality product
- Understanding and using various levels of technical editing
- Create a style guide
- How can you become a top notch technical communicator
Intermediate Technical WritingCourse Description
This technical-writing course introduces you to basic page design such as headings, lists, tables, notices, and highlighting.
You`ll learn and be expected to use standard design, format, and style for these page-design elements in the documents you write for this course. These are much the same standards as those used in the technical-publishing industry today.
After you study the page-design units, you will write a set of instructions in which you use these guidelines and of course the general standards for good writing as well.
You will e-mail these instructions to your instructor who will review, comment on, and send them back to you by e-mail attachment.
You`ll follow the same process for the recommendation report. The course is appropriate for people who have had some on-the-job experience as well as those who may have taken Introduction to Technical Writing for Industry. may be taken alone or as part of the sequence of courses leading to a certificate in technical writing.
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- State good design practices for headings, lists, notices, graphics, tables, and highlighting.
- Recognize common problems involving headings, lists, notices, graphics, tables, and highlighting.
- Use standard design, format, and style of headings, lists, notices, graphics, tables, and highlighting in their writing projects.
- State the common design and structure of written instructions and for recommendation reports.
- Use headings, lists, notices, graphics, tables, and highlighting effectively in written instructions.
- Perform audience and task analyses in preparation to write instructions.
- Create instructions that focus on reader tasks, that explain actions clearly and that use an effective design enabling readers to accomplish their tasks.
Introductions and start-up. To begin the course, you will fill out an online schedule and questionnaire, specifying your own due dates for the units included in this course. Doing so will generate your own web-page schedule with links to all the assignments, readings, exercises, and related information.
You`ll receive an e-mail introduction from your instructor and will then send e-mail introducing yourself.
- Headings and lists. In more or less the first week of this course, you will study headings and lists, using the online textbook and other resources and then take quizzes on these two topics to ensure your understanding of them. Your instructor automatically receives your quiz results and is available by e-mail or chat room to answer any questions you may have.
- Special notices and graphics. In more or less the second week of this course, you will study notices and graphics, using the online textbook and other resources and then take quizzes on these two topics to ensure your understanding of them. Your instructor automatically receives your quiz results and is available by e-mail or chat room to answer any questions you may have.
- Tables and highlighting. In more or less the third week of this course, you will study tables and highlighting, using the online textbook and other resources and then take quizzes on these two topics to ensure your understanding of them. Your instructor automatically receives your quiz results and is available by e-mail or chat room to answer any questions you may have.
- Writing project: instructions. In the next two to three weeks of this course, you will put what you`ve learned about headings, lists, notices, graphics, tables, and highlighting to work in a set of instructions. You`ll use readings, exercises, and examples from the online textbook as well as other resources. Your instructor will be available to discuss your ideas and plans for the instructions project. You`ll send your instructions by e-mail to your instructor who will review, comment on, and send them back to you by e-mail. You will then revise accordingly, e-mailing your instructor if you have any questions. If all goes well, your instructor will approve your revised instructions (if any revision is necessary).
Writing project: recommendation report. In the final weeks of this course, you`ll write a recommendation report that gives you further practice with the concepts in this course. You`ll use readings, exercises, and examples from the online textbook as well as other resources. Your instructor will be available to discuss your ideas and plans for this report project. You`ll send your report by e-mail to your instructor who will review, comment on, and send it back to you by e-mail. You`ll then revise accordingly, e-mailing your instructor if you have any questions. If all goes well, your instructor will approve your revised recommendation report (if any revision is necessary), and you`ll have successfully completed the course.
Advanced Technical Writing
Advanced Technical Writing will give you the expertise and confidence to market yourself as a technical writer or simply to tackle more advanced assignments at work. Building on the skills you have acquired in the previous technical writing courses, this course emphasizes audience analysis, document organization and design, supplements, visuals, and research techniques. The course consists of one proposal that will incorporate all stage of technical writing: planning, writing, designing, and revising.
Throughout the course participants can communicate with the instructor on assignments and may discuss any issues related to technical writing.
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Analyze readers and/or situations to prepare for writing a proposal
- Define the purpose of a proposal
- Gather, record, and interpret data
- Use content, design, and style guidelines to produce a more readable, concise document
- Write and edit technical documentation
- Write a winning proposal
- Participants will demonstrate their understanding of advanced technical writing by creating a proposal that meets the required standards set forth by the instructor.
- The proposal will include research, supplemental materials, and graphics that meet the expectations and criteria.
- The participant will submit the proposal in stages for assessment and feedback.
- Students demonstrate mastery of advanced technical writing by achieving at least 80% on the final proposal.


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There's not much snow in Tahoe, so my 'Fair-' is relative to overall conditions. Not worth $101 unless you're rich or desperate. But if you have a Northstar pass, it's still kind of fun right now.
There were very nice man made snow conditions over the weekend with a few hard bits and bare spots but nothing too bad. I had a fun time screwing around on skis one day and a snowboard the next, as did my wife & kids. The place was empty and the sun was shining.
Nstar says 27 runs open. All I can say is that if you explore a bit there's just enough terrain open to keep you amused, but no more.
From what I heard, Squaw and Alpine are pretty much a dead loss right now, but I didn't go there myself. Sounds like Northstar or Heavenly have the best snowmaking & are the only games in town right now...


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This place is awesome. Fantastic food, incredibly friendly and knowledgeable staff. The bartenders are phenomenal. Beers are the best! I have never left here unhappy or anywhere close to sober. It is always a delight! Highly recommended!
Posted by Ryan on 06/01/2009
I'm a big fan of micro brews and this place was an awesome find. The Cask beer had me limping out the door. It was really complex and well flavored. Possibly better than the beer was our server-- blonde hair, big smile-- who knew everything there was to know about beer. She was really friendly and helpful in making selections for my group.
Posted by Anonymous on 11/20/2007
the beer is delicious. the soup was the best ive ever had. service was good. prices are very fair.
Posted by Brian on 08/03/2007
The food at Nodding Head was nothing special but it was decent. If you are looking for simple bar food than this place should suffice. You get a lot of food for the money. The service is good and the atmosphere is nice (though pretty dark). The beer, while better than the mass produced macro-brews, is nothing special for the craftbrew fan who has had exposure to a number of craft beers.
Posted by isofish on 07/19/2007
I love this place, though the food is better at Monk's (another Fergie joint). Another reviewer disliked the grog but for me it is the best Philly-brewed beer around--try it, at least...
Posted by Anonymous on 03/11/2007
I frequent the nodding head and have been overwhelmed with satisfaction every time. The beer is amazing and as far as bar food goes, this is hard to beat.
Posted by Anonymous on 12/31/2006
Two out of the three brews I tried were so-so. One was very good. The hummus appetizer was excellent, but the entrees were only average, We were there around 5:00 PM and there were not many patrols, but the waitress was slow anyway. We had to wait far too long to order the first brew - A "Grog" which I do not recommend.


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During the early days of Muskogee the City Cemetery was located at the corner of Sixth Street and Martin Luther King Blvd., in the parking lot directly across the street (West) from the old Baptist Hospital. It was known as the Muskogee Burial Association Cemetery. In the latter part of the 1890 the City leaders began to see the need for a larger cemetery. There was a parcel of land available at the Northeast corner of York and North Street. Eighty acres of this land belonged to the Creek Nation and was purchased by the City of Muskogee for $1639.00 dollars. Since that time some civic minded businessmen of the area have donated the rest of the land, which is about 160 acres. As best we know the men who donated the land were William S. Murphy, James A. Patterson, Captain F.B. Severs, Clarence W. Turner and Samuel Sondheimer, all of these men are buried here in the cemetery. In 1901 this parcel of land became the City Cemetery, known as Greenhill Cemetery. There were some burials on this property prior to it becoming the city cemetery.
In 1904 all the bodies was removed from the old cemetery and buried at Greenhill. It's not clear exactly how many bodies were moved but Chapman and Johnson were the low bidders, and moved the bodies for $1819.50. As you enter the front gate of Greenhill Cemetery, immediately to the right, is the Catholic section, known as the St.Joseph Catholic Cemetery. In 1907 the Catholic Church purchased 5.2 acres for this purpose. The purchase price was $105.00. Straight on back, in the Southeast corner of the cemetery, is the Jewish section of the cemetery, which is known as Beth Ahaba Jewish Cemetery. It is about the same size as the Catholic section, purchased also in 1907, but purchase price is not available. On the back of the cemetery is the old county burial grounds. No records of burials were kept at that time. Greenhill Cemetery is a perpetual care cemetery, 12.5% of every lot sold, is put into a fund for the perpetual care of the cemetery.
At the present time about 120 acres of the cemetery has been plotted and is being maintained, with 40 acres to be developed later. There are about 53,000 burials in the cemetery,according to a count made by the local Historical Society, this count may be incorrect though.With new technology and an ongoing survey, the numbers as of January 2010,appear to be somewhere between 38,000 and 42,000. The oldest being Lizzie Nevins who died in 1867. Lizzie is believed to be a part of the Nevins family which ran the ferry boat across the Arkansas River from about where the City Water Plant is today, to a point between the Verdigris and the Grand River. There is a great deal of history here in the cemetery. The first Governor of Oklahoma, C.N. Haskell who served from 1907 - 1911 is buried here. The first and thrice mayor of Muskogee was a man by the name of Patrick Joseph Byrne, born in Ireland in 1843. Alex Posey, outstanding news paper man and poet laureate of the Creek Indians. Alice Robertson, Missionary teacher and the first U.S. Congresswoman from Oklahoma. She was a person that was always thinking of others. If you have lived very long in Muskogee, a walk through the cemetery will bring back memories of old friends and neighbors.
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Fax: 918-684-6216
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1500 N York Street
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DURHAM, N.H.- The University of New Hampshire athletic department and New Hampshire Public Television have announced a 10-game men's ice hockey television schedule for the upcoming 2003-2004 season.
The first NHPTV broadcast will be Saturday, Nov. 8 vs. Hockey East rival University of Maine Black Bears. The other highlighted games on the schedule include Saturday, Feb. 28 vs. the Boston College Eagles and Saturday, March 6 vs. the Boston University Terriers.
The remaining seven games are: Nov. 22 vs. Northeastern; Dec. 13 vs. Merrimack; Jan. 3 vs. Yale; Jan. 10 vs. Providence; Jan. 17 vs. Brown; Feb. 7 vs. Massachusetts; and Feb. 14 vs. UMass-Lowell.
All 10 games will be broadcast live from the Whittemore Center beginning at 7 p.m. and will also be available on webcast at www.nhptv.org.
The NHPTV broadcast team consists of Dan Parkhurst (play-by-play) and Bob Norton handling the color commentary.
The Wildcats open the season Saturday, Oct. 4 with an exhibition game against the U.S. Select-18 Team. Game time is 7 p.m. at the Whittemore Center. UNH plays the University of Vermont on Saturday, Oct. 11 in the season opener at the Whittemore Center. Game time is 7 p.m.


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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Update: WE DID IT!
We have lots to update tonight.
Well, congratulations America, we did it. We managed to order enough of the new McDonalds Angus Burgers to make them officially a permanent menu item. Our friends in Boston and Minnesota will finally have the privilege of enjoying the burgers that we have been fortunate enough to indulge in for months. This goes to show that, like in the presidential election, every purchase could make a difference, and it clearly did.
In our last update there was some speculation that although Wendy's had moved on to the Gourmet Mushroom Swissburger, it was still possible to order the flavor dipped sandwiches. Well I am here to tell you that not only is this the case, but you can practically flavor dip anything. Tonight when G&GG went to Wendy's to consume the Swissburger, Andrew asked if the flavor dip was still available, and to test the limits ordered the Homestyle Chicken Grill flavor dipped in buffalo. It caused quite a bit of confusion among the Wendy's staff so we recommend to only pull a maneuver like this if there is a veteran crew working.
In other news, The Arby's Chicken Cordon Blu made a triumphant return to their promo/gimmick rotation and Taco Bell introduced the Fully Loaded Nachos complete with outlandish coverage claims defying you to find a bare chip. Expect G&GG to test this out.
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This is the funniest thing ever. We did it America...haha...silly! :)
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Microsoft last month broke with a longstanding pledge and said it would release a new version of IE before its next major Windows upgrade. Security concerns catalyzed the shift in plans, and Microsoft has kept mum about any possible standards or feature upgrades that might accompany the security improvements.
But a source familiar with Microsoft's plans confirmed a Tuesday report on MicrosoftWatch that IE developers, who have code-named their project Rincon, are at work on non-security features and standards support, including tabbed browsing, support for IDN (Internationalized Domain Names), improved support for CSS 2 (Cascading Style Sheets) and PNG (Portable Network Graphics) transparencies.
MicrosoftWatch also reported that IE 7 will include a built-in news aggregator based on RSS, or Really Simple Syndication.
While Microsoft declined to answer any questions about IE 7, the company has repeatedly brought up the issue of IE 7 standards support on its developer-oriented blogs to solicit suggestions on what changes developers would like to see in the upcoming release of the browser. Without making any promises, leaders in the IE development team suggest that after years of inaction on World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standards problems, Microsoft will finally clean up its act.
"Specific requests and descriptions of problems in the field help us tremendously in prioritizing what we need to do," Chris Wilson, Microsoft's lead program manager for the Web platform in IE, wrote in a March 9 blog titled "IE and Standards." "Microsoft does respond to customer demand; Web developers are our customers."
If the tenor of the comments posted in response to Wilson's blog item is any indication, Microsoft has a lot of angry customers.
"IE6 has stagnated since its release," wrote one of Wilson's more civil respondents. "More annoying than this stagnation has been the silence from Redmond regarding future releases and the support of standards. Aging documentation, no support forum, undocumented features--IE 6 has been a nightmare."
Developers' concerns about standards and feature support in the current version of IE are reflected in the browser team's current to-do list. Frequent complaints include IE's lack of tabbed browsing, which lets users keep multiple pages open within the same window; full support for CSS 2, a W3C recommendation that lets Web authors apply single style guides to multiple pages; and support for PNG transparencies, which provide a nonproprietary, unpatented way to create transparent images.
The Mozilla Foundation--whose highly successful Firefox browser many credit with lighting a fire under Microsoft's IE development work--hailed news of Microsoft's renewed attention to standards and features, but dismissed the idea that a souped-up IE could steal Firefox's fire.
"Let's remember that the reason for IE 7 is security," said Chris Hofmann, Mozilla's director of engineering. "That's what's driving people away from IE and focusing them on other browser solutions like Firefox. There's some tough work for Microsoft to do because content developers have come to rely on features that are insecure."
Hofmann specifically cited Microsoft's proprietary ActiveX API (application programming interface) for running Web-based programs on client computers; Microsoft's implementation of the DOM (Document Object Model), which lets scripts act on discrete elements of a Web page; and IE's security zone model.
"It's not about the features," Hofmann said. "But if they're going to do this major upgrade, they're not going to leave the feature set three years behind the other browsers."
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- Standards
- Well, I am happy to see that Microsoft might finally support standards better. However, I hope they focus more on security at this time.
Speaking of browsers, I really like the new one from Netscape. The biggest problem I see facing the Alternitive Browsers is lack of support. Firefox is already feeling the pain and Netscape appears to be just running with the crowd. I use Firefox, but like all things if it starts lagging behind I will move on (probably not to IE though).
Let the browser wars begin. Again.
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- No promise
- They didn't promise so don't expect it to ever happen. Even if they can get close and add a few features, that will be something.
They will not slow down firefox unless it is reasonably secure. They have yet to come close to reasonably secure, so whatever they throw into IE7 will be worthless without security.
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- Catching up?
- IE7 looks like a catching up release. Everything planned for this release (from security fixes to tab-browsing, to standard comply, even RSS aggregator) is an an attempt to catch up with Firefox which already provides those, for free. So this is not a ground-breaking release, nothing revolutionary. By the time it will be out FireFox will already have something new in it. Then people will ask for those new features in IE8??
By for those who still run old Win versions, FireFox will be still the only way out.
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- Support
- If firefox support is that, does it mean that MS support for IE is good? Of course not. Ask those poor people using IE6 under Win2K. Firefox support may not be great, but at least it exists.
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- Example of what they're talking about
- CSS 2 lets you add things like menus to Web pages without having to use other scripting like JavaScript, which many people turn off anyway to stop popup ads. And yes, I'm probably now in trouble with advertisers for telling you how to do that and in trouble with all those popup ad blocker program companies. But, I believe in helping people, and I've had businesses threaten me before. *Shrugs* I'm still here. ;-)
To see a working example of what they're talking about in the way of CSS 2, please see this page: www.cyberwolfman.com/css_web_browsers_history.htm
It also has pictures of the working features for those who can't compare it in both IE and CSS 2 compliant Web browsers like Firefox.
Oh, btw, it's not really a commercial site; I just got tired of forcing my Web site visitors to put up with banner and popup ads. ;-)
- CyberWoLfman
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- Microsoft Listens? Listens to who?
- I like this "Microsoft does respond to customer demand; Web developers are our customers."
If Microsoft listens and responds to customer demand then how come...
1. The were only going to upgrade IE with Windows? This isn't what we wanted.
2. Why do they insist on making the browser an integral part of Windows? This isn't what we wanted.
3. Why do they insist on ActiveX when they know it is a security blackhole. This isn't what we wanted.
4. Why don't they support web standards and support them correctly? Why not full support for CSS 2, DOM and PNG? Poor support and "the Microsoft way" on these things isn't what we wanted.
5. Why doesn't IE have the features that we want that just about every other browser out there has? This isn't what we wanted.
I don't see how they can claim "Microsoft does respond to customer demand; Web developers are our customers." When developers and customers alike have been screaming for these things to be corrected for years.
Someone needs to pull their head out and take a breath.
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- Why NOW?
- What with the previous 'wait until longhorn' and their usual lack of concern for what the customer wants I ask "Why now?" I only need to look to my Desktop to det the answer
I'm not too sure about style sheets but all the other things mentioned(tabbed browser and RSS feeds) are in DEEPNET EXPLORER. A free browser that even knows what your IE6 preferences were and sets them as the defauld when you download this gem.
I heard about it here in CNet so search the name and get the goods for FREE
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- Why Now?
- Why now, because Microsoft is loosing market share and that freaks them out to no end. The though that there are now more people using another browser other than IE than there was before makes old Billy Gates get all sweating and shaky.
They thought they could get away with serving up crap when and how they pleased because they had most of the market share. Firefox proved them wrong. If fixing a couple things and adding a few features will get them back the market share they lost or even more than they had before you can bet they will do it.
The problem then becomes who do you trust. Microsoft and IE for security or Firefox. I will stick with Firefox.
I think the biggest winners to improvements to IE will be if they go with better or full standards support. It will make life much easier for web designers.
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Simple ABA Model Rule amendment may have major ramifications on the practice of law.
Since I've been writing recently about the use (and misuse) of technology, I also wanted to provide some insight into an ABA Model Rule of Professional Conduct amendment approved last year. Not too much has been written about Rule 1.1 Comment 8, but it could impact your practice at some point now or in the future. Here is the actual text:
"To maintain the requisite knowledge and skill, a lawyer should keep abreast of changes in the law and its practice, including the benefits and risks associated with relevant technology, engage in continuing study and education and comply with all continuing legal education requirements to which the lawyer is subject. " Click here to read the full set of Rule 1.1 comments.
This seemingly simple and aspirational update raises the bar (pun intended) on the level of technological knowledge required for legal competency. As attorneys, we should understand both the benefits and risks of utilizing technology in our practices as a basis for our duty to provide competent representation.
As the use of the word "should" clarifies, this is a wake-up call rather than a new obligation. Although the Georgia Bar has not adopted this comment yet, it's time for us to:
With a nod to comedian Jeff Foxworthy, if client conflict checks still involve yelling down the hall, or you get confused between the "reply" and "forward" functions of email, you might be a technology late adopter. If you send unencrypted client files through an open office computer network, you might be a late adopter. If you don't understand what I just wrote, you might be a late adopter.
If your client data ends up in the wrong hands, you could be in serious trouble for violation of GA Bar Rule 1.6 – Confidentiality of Information.
I won't pretend to be your IT vendor, but here are five things you can do to help improve your technological competence while minimizing your risks and liability.
Focus on building your technological proficiency. Add technology to your must-read topic list, keeping abreast of industry trends and best practices. Add technology courses to your CLE program. Adopt technology that will benefit your firm and clients, and just make life easier all around.
Finally, check your professional liability insurance policy to ensure that you are covered for all types of data and technology issues. If not, check out separate coverage available specifically for data breach and cyber liability. These endorsements are now more readily available in the marketplace.
In my opinion, the greatest threat to our industry today is breach of client confidentiality resulting from breach of technology. Let's use the ABA Rule update as our wake-up call and establish a basic technological proficiency as part of our core duty of competence.
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Harley Earl Vette on West Coast
The Visalia Motorsports Council will host the second annual Visalia Motorsports Festival and Pan-Pacific Road Race Celebration during Memorial Day weekend. We're talking an action-packed weekend filled with car shows, cruises, and vintage racing. The highlight of the event will feature the debut of the Harley Earl Corvette roadster on the West Coast. Probably one of the most well-known factory Corvette "styling cars," this one-of-a-kind creation was hand-built in 1963 by the General Motors Styling Facility in Warren, Michigan, and delivered to Harley Earl for his personal use. Harley was GM's Chief Designer for decades and was responsible for influential cars like the Cadillac Eldorado and Buick Skylark. The Harley Earl Corvette's special features include a 327 churning out 340 horses, a leather interior, knock-off wheels, special side-port exhaust, and an experimental instrument panel with over 15 gauges. This car was also equipped with unique features that would be included on the 1965 models, including disc brakes and a rear-mounted battery. Come out and see what's going on-you won't be disappointed. For more information, call (559) 651-5025, or go to www.visaliamotorsports.org.
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The National Corvette Museum will hold its first Annual Corvette Forum Cruise-In on May 25-28. Coordinated by the National Corvette Museum and co-hosted by corvetteforum.com, this four-day event celebrates the Corvette lifestyle. Festivities include guided tours of the Corvette assembly plant and Holley Performance, a full day of racing at Beech Bend Raceway Park, and presentations by those directly involved in the design and development of the Corvette. The event concludes on Sunday as the Museum hosts a viewing of the Indianapolis 500 in the Chevrolet Theater and then will bid farewell to all with a trademark "Final Road Tour," departing from the front circle of the Museum. It promises to be a great weekend for all involved. For more information, contact The National Corvette Museum at (800) 53-VETTE, visit their website at www.corvettemuseum.com, or visit www.corvetteforum.com.
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Corvette clubs come in all forms. Many cater to any and all Vette owners, while others cater to a specific aspect of the Corvette hobby. For example, some clubs are made up of those who own solid-axle Corvettes, while others are comprised of those who only like to race. Well, there's another specialized club on the horizon that's dedicated to the '68-82 body style, commonly known as "The Shark." Centered in Monmouth County, New Jersey, the main objective of the club is for Shark owners to get together, have fun, and share with other owners the experiences associated with the unique car that the Shark-bodied Corvette is. For more information, contact Barb Balchus (732) 671-5668, firstname.lastname@example.com, or Carl Bessey (732) 531-5108, firstname.lastname@example.com.


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