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Patricia L. Doggett
Monday, July 14, 2014
The phrase 24/7 is tossed around frequently when discussing preparedness. Patricia Doggett, an Emergency Management Specialist at CDC, walks the walk of 24/7, handling travel arrangements for public health staff who need to get where they are going fast. She gives us a glimpse of her late nights and early mornings, getting CDC staff to public health emergencies in places as far apart as California and Liberia.
What time did you wake up? What woke you up?
5 a.m. I have an alarm, but mind you, I didn't go to sleep the night before until 1:30 a.m., because I was on call and my boss called me. I am on call every 7–10 days. Our team always has someone available, so when a public health emergency happens, our team is able to immediately deploy CDC staff to get them to where they need to be. My phone rang at home at 11:30 p.m. Sunday night. My supervisor called to let me know that we had another traveler that needed to leave first thing Monday. He was going to California to support the response to unaccompanied children from Central America crossing the border. CDC is advising on medical screening and surveillance for that response. I handled booking the flight, finding a hotel, securing a rental car, and anything he needed.
How did you spend your day?
I spent my day sitting in my office, working on travel. Altogether, I was working on traveler arrangements, all in different stages, for eight different people. I had a CDC leader traveling to Washington, D.C., and then I had 2 staff deploying to work on Ebola in Sierra Leone and 5 staff supporting the public health response to the unaccompanied children situation in California. My team lead sent a request to start the process on two more travelers who were going to Sierra Leone for Ebola. So while I am working with one traveler, I am still working other disasters as well. We can't just stop for one person; our work still has to continue for other public health responses. I was also in touch with staff traveling out to California. I need to know that everyone makes it to their destination — that they have everything they are supposed to have. I don't want travelers to be stressing about where they are going to stay, where they are going to eat, or whether they have money, so I try to stay with that person until they actually land. They should be focusing on the work they have ahead of them, not travel. We tell all travelers to call the Emergency Operations Center when they get to their destination so we know they have arrived.
What personality trait did you find most useful in your work today?
I can be charming when I want to be! We had a lot going on today. My boss said, "Make it happen." The CDC staff traveling are all working on important things. With one hotel situation in D.C., I had to be persuasive, and I know how to be assertive when I need to be. It worked out in the end.
Who did you see or call?
Omega, hotel, airline, and staff traveling.
What did you snack on today?
I didn't have time to eat until noon and that was a boiled egg and a piece of bacon. I was so busy.
Did you unexpectedly meet anyone today?
I met a traveler coming down from DC. He is a CDC person currently on detail to the Department of Health and Human Services. I have worked with him from time to time. He had to be walked from the CDC Visitors' Center to our team room. He needed to get his equipment and get travel clearance to work internationally on Ebola.
What was the best part of the day?
Waking up. First thing I do is check my BlackBerry.
What was the worst part of the day?
I don't have a bad day!
How will you close out your day today?
I will watch ABC. That is my wind-down period. Jimmy Kimmel is so funny. I fall asleep with that.
How did the work you did today compare to the other deployments you have done in the past such as Hurricane Katrina?
Every deployment is an accomplishment. Katrina was my first large-scale event. Katrina was a big one. I was on vacation, visiting my son in Kentucky and had been there a day. I got a call about Katrina, and I said to my son, "I have to go." I have been working in the Division of Emergency Operations ever since then. Katrina was so sad. We didn't get any sleep. We worked 24/7, but you didn't even notice the hours. We had to get all these people out of Atlanta and to the area the hurricane hit. We handled transportation, and there were no hotels. We had to figure out the best place for CDC staff to stay and a way for them to get to the next destination. There was a lot going on to get them to New Orleans. We had to worry about their safety. My work today was a piece of cake. I am very fulfilled. I am a multitasker.
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Big Brother 15 Spoilers: Final 4 — Andy Wins HOH and POV! Who'll Be Evicted? Updates
Take a deep breath, hold your nose, and try not to gag — here are the final four houseguests of Big Brother 15: GinaMarie Zimmerman, Spencer Clawson, Andy Herren, and McCrae Olson.
How will you feel if Amanda Zuckerman's future bag holder at the mall wins $500,000 and promptly hands it over to her? Would that just cap off this season to a T? Would it be better than Andy winning? That's where our money is right now, especially if McCrae is evicted tomorrow night.
Judd Daugherty is now gone (again) thanks to a special eviction episode on Wednesday, September 11. But this whole week is on fast-forward as we approach the September 18 finale. According to Big Brother Daily's schedule, Judd's eviction was taped on Tuesday night and just broadcast tonight. The final four Head of Household competition was also pre-taped.
Andy won.
Andy is HOH.
Andy is safe tomorrow.
Sad face.
So what's he going to do? He'll put up McCrae and GM, right? Spencer is his #1 buddy, and Spencer didn't put Andy up last week. Then again, Spencer is the official pawn. If you really want someone to go home, you put him or her next to Spencer.
On Thursday, September 12, there will be another live episode, as usual, including what should be a live Power of Veto ceremony and an eviction to bring us to the final three. Then part one of the final HOH competition will start, and that will continue until the final part three airs on the live Wednesday, September 18 finale.
So stay tuned to hear more about who Andy nominated, who wins POV, and who will probably be evicted next.
UPDATE: It looks like Andy nominated McCrae and Spencer, so McCrae is pretty clearly the target. (Eighth time on the block for Spencer!) Andy also won POV, so The Ginger Professor is fully in charge today. Gotta give him credit for that, and at a crucial time. As of Thursday morning on the live feeds, he was making plans to tell McCrae he was leaving. Put him out of his misery. Spencer and GM are also making plans to stick together, if they can, in the final two, since they know Andy would win. Who would win in Spencer vs GM — GM?
UPDATE 2: Yep, McCrae was evicted. GinaMarie was the only voter and she voted out McCrae. So you could argue she is responsible for dumping both Amanda and McCrae! Speaking of Amanda, did you catch the jury house updates? Even Aaryn is sick of Amanda now.
Source: Big Brother Daily
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Portrait of a Woman by Robert Campin circa 1420
While education flourished in the Middle Ages for men, it was not generally encouraged for women. Those from the nobility or wealthier classes were sometimes educated either privately, or in the home schools that were established for male members of the family. In the 9th century C.E. Charlemagne established a palace school that was directed by the English scholar Alcuin. Several famous teachers including Clement the Scot and Peter of Pisa were also brought to the court of Charlemagne. We know that Charelemagne's daughters Lucia and Columba were among the girls who were permitted to attend the palace school.
During the 1300's children of both sexes attended school in Florence. Women from the nobility or upper classes often had obligations that required literacy. With the rise of the Medieval university household were able to employ poor university students as tutors and on such occasions girls were sometimes permitted to to join the tutoring sessions of their brothers.
The subject of education for women, however, was a hotly debated issue throughout the Middle Ages. As education was directly connected with the church it was inevitable that the church's views of women should have led predominated. St. Thomas of Aquinas,1225-1274, who was perhaps one of the great teachers of the period declared what was clearly a widely supported notion reagrding women:
"The woman is subject to man on account of the weakness of her nature . . . Man is the beginning of woman and her end, just as God is the beginning and end of every creature. Children ought to love their Father more than they love their mother."
Medieval society, and particularly the powerful domains of church and state, clearly had no place for well-educated women.
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For girls wishing to become nuns, learning to read and write was part of the training. Some even studied Latin. For the most part, marriage, motherhood and child rearing were the principle goals for most girls. As transmiters of morality and religious dogma, they were to be "raised on sacred teachings to lead a regular, chaste, and religious life." Furthermore, according to clerics such as Francesco Barbaro and Maffeo Vegio, they were to devote their time primarily to "female labors" and prayers.
Despite the restrictive social codes a number of women did assert their talents in as writers, poets, composers and artists. One of the most remarkable women of the time was the poet Christine de Pizan.
Not only was she able to earn her lving as a writer, but her arguments with the leading clerics of her day on the rights of women represent one of the first declarations of feminism to be articulated.
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Henrietta Clemett
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John Milroy
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Jonathan Chan-Pensley
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Sam Talbot
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- Development of Sustainable Energy Utilities (SEU) and other institutional and policy reforms that promise to bring about large transformations in energy-environment-society relations.
- These models aim to build the basis for communities and societies to design futures which conserve rather than expand energy, materials and natural resource use and which rely on renewable energy services rather than the depletion of natural stocks.
- SEUs offer a new institutional direction for social, economic and policy innovation that can bring about large-scale change. They provide the point-of-contact for energy and environmental innovation that can govern our transformation to a sustainable future that is comparable in scale and impact to the 20th utility, which guided the build-out of the conventional energy sector. (Please see press excerpts below for more information on the SEU).
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Ten days before the casino application deadline, Montgomery County residents are staging a casino rally, hoping to show the state Gaming Commission that there is a lot of support in this community.
Demonstrators were out on the Route 30 Bridge that connects Amsterdam with the Town of Florida.
They moved off the bridge when thunder and lightning broke out.
Montgomery County developers requested from the Gaming Commission an extension of the application deadline and a reduction in the licensing fee. Those requests were denied by the commission.
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Reese Witherspoon has been arrested for getting rowdy with a police officer after they pulled over her husband Jim Toth's car.
Reese Witherspoon and Jim Toth's mugshots. Copyright: [Splash]
The 37-year-old actress was arrested for 'disorderly conduct' after her husband was pulled over for drink driving.
Which means she even had to have a proper mugshot and everything.
Talk about a shocker!
Things between the Oscar-winning actress and a police officer reportedly got extremely heated and a 'war of words' erupted concluding with her arrest.
The couple's car was allegedly caught driving in the wrong lane and Reese had to be told twice to get out of the Ford Focus.
Apparently, the actress then complained that the process was taking too long and threw a bit of a strop.
According to the police report: "Mrs. Witherspoon began to hang out the window and say that she did not believe that I was a real police officer. I told Mrs. Witherspoon to sit on her butt and be quiet."
Reese Witherspoon and her husband Jim Toth were pulled over Friday night. Copyright: [Wenn]
Reese then uttered the ultimate celeb no no, and asked the police officer: 'Don't you know who I am?'.
The police say: "Mrs. Witherspoon asked, 'Do you know my name?' I answered, 'No, I don't need to know your name.' I then added, 'right now.'
Mrs. Witherspoon stated, 'You're about to find out who I am.'
"Mrs. Witherspoon also stated, 'You are going to be on national news.' I advised Mrs. Witherspoon that was fine."
Her husband Jim then insisted he only had one drink and blew a .139 into a breathalyser however, the legal limit is 0.08.
The couple were released on bond at approximately 3.30am on Friday morning.
A court appearance is scheduled for tomorrow however, according to sources the couple will not be present and their lawyer is planning to ask that the court date be postponed.
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Call of Duty: Black Ops II has minted over $1 billion for Activision, and now the publisher is giving back to real-world troops. Forbes reports today that Activision will donate copies of Black Ops II to military bases and hospitals across the world. In addition, several of the game's leading voice actors will embark on a tour to visit soldiers and staff.
The effort is part of a USO/Armed Forces Entertainment tour that will see Black Ops voice talent Kamar de los Reyes (Raul Menendez), James Burns (Sgt. Frank Woods), and Rich McDonald (Commander David Mason) play against troops at each tour stop beginning today and running through February 4.
"We play at war on the safety of our sound stages, with imaginary weapons and pretend enemies. These men and women face the real thing every day. We want to honor that fact and give the real heroes the attention they deserve," de los Reyes said. "I've always been humbled by the sacrifice our military and their families make every day to ensure our freedoms. I can't wait to look these men and women in the eye and express to them in person how much we appreciate their service. It's an honor that leaves me speechless."
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Students of secondary schools and some corps members under the auspices of WOTCLEF Anti-trafficking Brigade (WAB) yesterday staged a sensitisation rally against child trafficking and child labour in Abuja.
Co-ordinator of WOTCLEF, Mrs Veronica K. Umar, said the sensitisation was part of the weeklong activities to mark this year's World Day for Prevention of Child Trafficking and Abuse.
Also speaking, WOTCLEF Youth Officer, Odinaka Iwuagwu, said the WOTCLEF Anti-trafficking Brigade was inaugurated to create awareness in schools and communities on the dangers of all forms of abuses against children with the view to curbing them.
She called on parents to always protect their children, especially the female ones from child abusers, adding that they should give attention to their children's education.
"Students should be sent to schools; the best gifts parents can give to their children is education. All abuses such as child labour, child trafficking, child molestation, sexual abuse, bullying etc should stop," she said.
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Posted 01 July 2013 - 09:20
I found iGo to be the best satnav software. You can buy it online and use it with most 3rd party satnavs that support loading software on it...
I got given a binatone a34 or some thing like that, was really cheap but the display is great and the audio is clear. The stock satnav software on it was really poor, a friend suggested iGo. used it and while it was over featured when I first started using it (based on the poor stock satnav) I really started to get used to it quickly.
It wasn't long before i got myself a copy and it came with updates too. Haven't checked the software they sell since the latest version wouldn't work with my satnav quite some time back now, but the maps still get updated...
as for maps, if you want to keep your current satnav and tomtom software, you might be able to find cheaper maps elsewhere for download or use the opensource street mapping project. it was something I was looking into a while back but never tried it with my brothers tom tom (now uses igo on his phone).
Posted 01 July 2013 - 16:17
google maps with a phone is pretty good, but if you don't want the drain or the data usage, the tomtom is hard to beat.
I have had a magellan, I have had tomtom....the magellan is newer and has unlimited maps and traffic updates, it takes much longer to locate the satellites and it takes forever to map your path or update if you miss a turn. The thing is so slow that even the first gps units are much more effective even if they don't have the map memory. I use the tomtom even with outdated maps, or I use my iphone...sometimes the combination of both.
As far as outdated maps, how often do things change? The destinations you travel probably have been there for years unless there is a new development going in place or a store opens or closes. If you have the address, it doesn't matter if the store is closed or open as long as that address has been there so then you only have to worry about new developments/roads...which change how often in the areas you travel to? Not that much.
Posted 01 July 2013 - 16:22
google maps with a phone is pretty good, but if you don't want the drain or the data usage, the tomtom is hard to beat.
Random plug for Windows Phone!
Nokia's Here+ on my 928 is pretty amazing and you can have it do the full download of the maps so there is no data hit
Posted 01 July 2013 - 23:20
I'ved used TomTom for a while and it's pretty good. I live in a pretty rural area and it's handy because it has most of the roads here (not counting dirt roads or private roads), and if you're wondering what's around you can search for a business and get their phone number straight from the GPS.


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CORE is involved in the development and implementation of clinical guidelines for the National Health Service, in the following ways:
Core - Training and Education Programmes
In addition the unit has a strong commitment to the development, delivery and evaluation of training programmes for psychological interventions and evidence based medicine. The unit also welcomes applications from PhD students.
CORE has a strong track record of applying psychological theory and expertise to promote the increased effectiveness of a broad range of health care interventions. The TRG and CORE already have close links through joint projects including a study of factors affecting GP referrals to the stop smoking services and establishing and evaluating behaviour change interventions used by English stop smoking services.
Health Psychology
Susan Michie leads UCL's Health Psychology Unit within CORE. The focus of this successful research team is designing and evaluating interventions to change behaviour, drawing on psychological evidence and theory. Susan Michie has been a consultant to the Department of Health for many years, currently to its Public Health Strategy & Social Marketing Department.
She was key in developing the NHS Health Trainer role, producing the NHS Health Trainer Behaviour Change Handbook and supporting the roll out of the NHS Health Trainer Programme. She conducted the pilot evaluation, demonstrating that the service was successfully engaging the "hard to reach". The majority of clients were unemployed, without educational qualifications and from ethnic minorities; the biggest demand amongst clients was to quit smoking.
CORE has audited the national service for the last two years, demonstrating good uptake by target groups and implementation of the behaviour change components of the programme.
CORE is a central partner within the Training Centre, co-ordinating the research, training, accreditation and NHS liaison.
Susan Michie helped to establish and is now a Director of the National Centre for Smoking Cessation and Training (NCSCT). For more information, click here.
CORE - Key Collaborations
Core has a number of key collaborations with groups internal and external to UCL. These include:
1. The National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health


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On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 12:25:48PM -0500, Jay Strauss wrote:
> Is there any way (in perl) to do a substitution like if you find this,
> replace it with that, else replace it with something else?
> For example I have a bunch of lines like:
> initial 256
> initial 512
> initial 1024
> initial 2048
> I want to match on /initial\s+\d+/ and replace 256 with 4092 but replace all
> the other numbers with 1024. I don't know (ahead of time) what the numbers
> are, I just know I want to replace a specific number with X and the rest
> with Y.
You can use s/(?<=initial\s+)(\d+)/ $1 == 256 ? "4092" : "1024" /e;
The (?<=foo) is a lookbehind assertion, and matches only when the
pattern is preceded by foo; but isn't itself included in the match
string. The 'e' switch allows you to use Perl code to generate the
substitution. This is a newer feature, and not available in older
Perl versions (such as the one I have available at the moment - thus,
the line above is untested).
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What better way to prepare for the upcoming summer months and maintain a strong mental and physical well-being throughout the season, than to get fit right on the beaches of Cape May? Vacation is a time to relax and release stress that has built up from your hectic day-to-day life. Break the monotony and try something new while you 'vacay' in Cape May this summer. Yoga on the Beach incorporates the already developed ancient Indian method of unifying the mind, body, and universal spirit, with the calm of Cape May and its serene beaches.
Spend a night or 2 with us at the Montreal Beach Resort and escape the every day routine. A yoga workout offers a series of stretches that release tension, enhance posture and flexibility, regulate breathing and provide other physical health benefits such as body relaxation through meditation. While the exercise itself clears the mind and enhances self-awareness, combining the exercise methods of yoga with a beach setting provides a natural calm over the body. The sound of the ocean and feel of the soft sand beneath your blanket help melt your stress twice as fast. This unique experience offers tranquilizing memories that you can look back on any time life starts getting hectic. Karen Manette Bosna, instructor of Yoga on the Beach, teaches yoga classes all over the Cape May and surrounding areas. She guides her students through a unique workout modified to satisfy each individual student's personal journey. To keep the class interesting, Karen offers weekly classes in different locations around Cape May beaches. One day she may hold a class on the beach behind the Convention Center, the next day she may hold a class at the Cape May Point State Park Lighthouse. With Yoga on the Beach, you'll have the chance to experience all of Cape May. Bring your beach towel and get ready to relax.
You can find more information on Yoga on the Beach at http://yogacapemay.com
The Montreal Beach Resort is situated right on the beach. Just open the door of your room, take a deep breath of fresh ocean air, then a soul-soothing walk on our soft-sand beaches. A walk on the water's edge will surely turn up an assortment of lovely shells and maybe even a Cape May Diamond.
There are plenty of other options for releasing stress and partaking in local outdoor activities. A leisurely walk on the foot trails throughout Cape May's wildlife reserve is sure to get the blood moving, get fresh air into your lungs, and allows for some truly beautiful scenery. Visitors can choose from four trails to explore. The Promenade, which runs about two miles long, stands parallel to the beach and some refer to it as the "boardwalk," although it is paved not made from wooden boards. The Promenade offers unique scenes of ocean life and allows for beautiful views of the Cape May beaches while walking, running, or bicycling along the route. Cyclists are permitted to ride their bikes along the route before 10 am. To add a little variety to your workout, move from the paved concrete walkway and run or walk directly across the beach sand.
After your leisurely stroll, grueling run, or scenic bike ride, refresh yourself and grab a bite to eat at Harry's Ocean Bar and Grille right here at the Montreal Beach Resort. Whatever it is you enjoy that helps eliminate stress from your life, Cape May is sure to have it. With the beautiful scenery that presents itself around every corner, there is plenty of opportunity to make your Montreal Moment. So, come down to Cape May this summer, de-stress yourself, release some anxiety, and stay for a while.


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I often fantasize about what I would do if I didn't have to work every day. Resuming my travels about the globe would be my first priority, followed by cooking, reading, swimming, sleeping, and watching all the films I've missed. I now have something else I would love to spend hours and hours doing--listening to podcasts.
There are so many terrific ones specifically related to food, and at Epicurious, we are building quite a library of our own. Bon Appetit has done 11 interesting ones already and Gourmet is working on a sizable stable of its own. Gourmet's first one, hosted by editor-in-chief Ruth Riechl, debuted last week and features interviews with author Ann Patchett and photographer Laura Letinsky. This week, artist Maira Kalman and author Thomas Beller sound off on the world of food, and there are two more intriguing ones to come this month. I really like the way all of these podcasts bring alive the pages of Gourmet and Bon Appetit.
Other high-tech interactive items on Epicurious include our RSS feed, which allows you to, in effect, subscribe for free to this blog, the Daily Dish, new articles, and the newest recipes. Epi-to-Go uses the "third screen," as cell phones and PDAs are now being called by marketers. You can search and send 20,000 recipes from Epicurious straight to your cell phone as well as create supermarket lists. So now, no matter where you are, you can have access to the best recipes and food information available on the Web.


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Crailtap whipped together a #shitproskaterssay video for us all to enjoy. ABD? Nah dude, NBD!
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#2 - Nikki Doehrmann
Position: L
Year: Fr.
Hometown: Lutz, Fla.
High School: George M. Steinbrenner HS
Height: 5-5
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Last attended high school George M. Steinbrenner HS…Lettered in three-of-four seasons…At Newsome HS, assisted team to states…Won district title at GMSHS as a senior.
Born November 24 in Jacksonville, Fla. …Hobbies include playing beach volleyball, catching butterflies, crocheting, canoeing, and spending time with friends and family… Lists graduating as her career goal…Believes energy is her best asset to the team…She chose
Saint Leo because of its location and welcoming atmosphere…Daughter of Mark Doehman…Has one brother, Ryan, and two sisters, Brianna and Dana.


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2ND STEP (page 59)
God, I'm standing at the turning point right now, Give me Your protection and care as I abandon myself to You and give up my old ways and my old ideas, just for today.
3RD STEP (page 83)
God, I offer myself to Thee--to build with me and to do with me as Thou wilt. Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do Thy will. Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of They Power, Thy Love, and Thy Way of life. May I do Thy will always!
4TH STEPS (page 67)
When I am Disturbed by the Symptoms (Conduct) of Others: God, help me to show this person the same tolerance, pity, and patience that I would cheerfuolly grant a sick friend. This is a sick person. How can I be helpful to him? God save me from being angry. They will be done.
WHEN I AM AFRAID (page 68)
God, remove my dear and direct my attention to what You would have me be.
WHEN I AM AWARE OF MY DEFECTS & AM SEEKING GOD'S HELP (page 69)
God, mold my ideals in this particular area of my life and help me to live up to them. What should I do in each specific matter. Guide me, God, and give me strength to do right.
5TH STEP (page 75)
God, I thank you from the bottom of myeat that I know you better. Help me become aware of anything I have omitted when discussing with inventory with another person. Help me to do what is necessary to walk as a free person at last.
6TH STEP (page 76)
God, help me to become willing to let go of all the things to which I still cling. Help me now to be ready to let You remove all of my defects so that Your will and purpose may take their place.
7TH STEP (page 76)
My Creator, I am now willing that you should have all of me, good and bad, I pray that you now remove from me every single defect of character which stands in the way of my usefulness to you and my fellows. Grant me strength, as I go out from here, to do your bidding.
8TH STEP (page 76)
God, help me to become willing to sweep away the debris of self-will and self-reliant living. Please hold my hand as I prepare to go to any lengths for victory over compulsive eating.
9TH STEP (page 76)
God, give me the strength and direction to do the right thing no matter what the consequences may be. Help me to consider others before I take any actions that would cause me to be sorry. Help me not to repeat such behavior. Show me the way of patience, tolerance, kindliness, and love, and help me live the spiritual life.
10TH STEP (page 84)
God, remove the selfishness, dishonesty, resentment, and fear that has cropped up in my life rigtht now. Help me to discuss this with someone immediately and make amends quickly if I have harmed anyone. Help me to cease fighting anything and anyone. Show me where I may be helpful to someone else. Help me react sanley; not cocky or afraid. How can I best serve You--Your will (not mine) be done.
11TH STEP (page 87)
Big Book suggestions about Prayer and Meditations:
1)Make no requests, in prayer, for yourself only.
2)Never pray for your own selfish ends.
3)Select and memorize a few set prayers that emphasize the principles of the Steps.
4)Ask your priest, minister, or rabbi about helpful books and prayers that emphasize the principles of the Steps.
5)Be quick to see where religious people are right.
6)Make use of what religious people have to offer.
MORNING PRAYER (page 86)
God, direct my thinking today so that it be divorced of self-pity, dishonesty, self-will, self-seeking and fear. God, inspire my thinking, decisions and intuitions. Help me to relax and take it easy. Free me from doubt and indecision. Guide me through this day and show me my next step. God, give me what I need to take care of any problems. I ask all these things that I may be of maximum service to You and my fellow man.
God, I'm agitated and doubtful right now. Help me to stop and remember that I've made a decision to let You be my God. Give me the right thoughts and actions. God, save me from fear, anger, worry, self-pity or a foolish decision, that Your will, not mind, be done.
NIGHT PRAYER (page 86)
God, forgive where I have been resentful, sefish, dishonest, or afriad today. Help me not to keep anything to myself but to discuss it all openly with another person. Show me where I owe an apology and help me make it. Help me to be kind and loving to all people. Use me in the mainstream of life, God. Remove any worry, remorse or morbid (sick) reflection that I may be of usefulness to others.
(Prayer Before Eating With Other Compulsive Overeaters)
God, help me to make the right food choices so that I can concentrate upon the company of my friends. Help me to feel the presence of others even as I enjoy my food, and to always be able to separate the two, for one feeds my body, while the other, will feed my soul if I remain ever mindful.
STEP 1 OA 12 & 12 Traditions, p. 1-7, AA's 12 &
12 Traditions, p. 21-24, Big Book, p. xi-xxx, p.1-
STEP 2 OA 12 & 12 Traditions, p. 9-17, AA's 12 & 12
Traditions, p. 25-33, Big Book, p. 60-64, (to end of
"three pertinent ideas)
STEP 3 OA 12 & 12 Traditions, p. 19-27, AA's 12 & 12
Traditions, p. 19-27, Big Book, p. 60-64 (to end of
1st paragraph)
STEP 4 OA's 12 & 12 Tradtions, p. 29-44, AA's 12 & 12
Traditions, p.42-54, Big Book, p. 64-71
STEP 5 OA's 12 & 12 Traditions, p. 45.52, AA's 12 & 12
Traditions, p. 55-62, Big Book, p. 72-75
STEP 6 OA's 12 & 12 Traditions, p. 53-58, AA's 12 & 12
Traditions, p. 63-69, Big Book, p. 76 (1st
STEP 7 OA's 12 & 12 Traditions, p. 59-66, AA's 12
Tradtions, p. 70-76, Big Book, p. 76 (2nd
STEP 8 OA's 12 & 12 Traditions, p. 67-73, AA's 12 & 12
Traditions, p. 77-82, Big Book, p. 76-84; Ch 8
(To Wives); Ch 9 (The Family Afterward); Ch 10
(To Employees)
STEP 9 OA's 12 & 12, pg. 76-81; AA 12 & 12, pg. 83-87
Big Book, pg 76-84, CH 8 (To Wives); Ch 9 (The
Family Afterward); Ch 10 (To Employees)
STEP 10 OA's 12 & 12, pg. 83-90; AA's 12 & 12, pg. 88-95;
Big Book, pg.84-85.
STEP 11 OA's 12 & 12, pg. 91-98; AA's 12 & 12, pg 96-105;
Big Book; pg. 85-88
STEP 12 OA's 12 & 12, pg. 99-108; AA's 12 & 12, pg 106-125;
Big Book, pg 89-103; Appendix II-Spiritual Experience
(pg. 569-570); Ch 11 (A Vision For You)
(Especially for the newcomer)
These reflections and meditatons are designed to acquaint the sponsoree with the First Three Steps toward recovery. There are no right or wrong answers.
In addition to these questions, sponsorees may be asked to commit specific tools (telephone, meeting, et cetera) to be used daily. This helps the newcomer get a firm grasp of the tools and their use. It also serves for long-term abstainers to keep the essence of the program before them. Regular and structured use of the tools helps us focus on the areas that can enhance our growth in the Program.
1. Write a history of your compulsive eating, beginning with the first time you can remember food related events. Discuss how much weight you've gained and lost, what medical attention you've sought for the problem, and your attempts at maintaining your weight losses.
2. Read STEP ONE in the 12 & 12. Discuss and reflect upon the effect food has had upon you over the years. Do you truly see yourself as a "compulsive overeater?"
3. Read STEP ONE in the 12 & 12. Discuss and reflect upon the following ideas found in STEP ONE. *the critical nature of our disease *the progressive nature of our disease *the need not to push someone until they are ready *If you are not ready, explain why.
4. Discuss and reflect upon the fatal nature of our disease as presented in the 12 & 12 (p. 24, paragraph 2). In your discussion, reflect on how, at the very least, the disease has diminished your life.
5. Read Ch 2 of the AA Big Book, "There Is A Solution." Discuss and reflect upon the ideas that your discipline, or lack of it, has played an important part in your life.
6. Read Ch. 3 in the AA Big Book, "More About Alcoholism". How does this relate to you?
7. Discuss the following ideas: a)The deception of others is nearly always rooted in the deception of ourselves. How does this relte to your eating history? b)What have you done in the past, due to compulsive eating, that reaffirms this idea?
8. REad STEP ONE in the 12 & 12. Discuss and reflect upon what the knowledge of STEP ONE can do for you. During your reading, underline and note words and passages that are meaningful to you. Why are they important?
9. Re-read STEP TWO in the 12 & 12. How is the taking of STEP ONE a necssity before taking STEP TWO?
10. Discuss and reflect upon the effectiveness of OA-HOW from your personal experience and from what you hve observed in others. Could what you have experienced emanated solely from you? If so, why had it not happened before?
11. Read Ch 4 in the AA Big Book. Discuss and reflect upon the concepts of Honesty, Open-mindedness, and willingness and how these are tools of growth in the OA/HOW Program.
12. Discuss and reflect pon the concept of insanity as it applies to us in OA/HOW.
13. Discuss and reflect upon how we use the substitution method of acception the presence of a Higher Power (p. 27, 12 & How have you looked for substitutes all your life? Are you still looking?
14. Discuss and reflect upon the following concepts available in STEP TWO. a) Belief means reliance, not defiance. b) Defiance is an outstanding charteristic of every compulsive overeater. (p. 31, 12 & 12). c) The hoop you have to jump through is a lot wider than you think. (p. 26, 12 & 12).
15. Re-read STEP TWO in the 12 & 12. Discuss and reflect upon your childhood exposure to any religious concept. On a two-column balance sheet, olist on one side your negative feelings, and on the other list, your positive feelings as they relate to your early religious experiences. What conclusion do you reach when you reflect on this balance sheet?
16. Read STEP THREE in the 12 & 12. Create another balance sheet. ON one side, list all the reasons you can for believing in God. On the other side, list all the reasons for disbelieving.
17. Re-read STEP THREE in the 12 & 12. Discuss and reflect upon the following quote: "Faith alone can avail us nothing>
18. Read Ch 5 in the AA Big Book. "How It Works". Write on dependence as you understand it in OA/HOW. How can dependence lead to greater independence?
19. Are you a "grateful compulsive overeater"? Why are you grateful?
20. Re-read STEP THREE in the 12 & 12. I am responsible for only one person's actions. Whose? Why?
21. Discuss and reflect upon the idea: "Abstinence is the most important thing in my life . . . without exception".
22. Discuss the idea of calliing a "H.A.L.T."when your life gets unmanageable (not allowing youself to become too Hungry, Angry, Lonely, or Tired).
23. Read Ch 11, in the AA Big Book, "A Vision For You". Discuss and reflect upon the idea: "The more you give, the more you shall receive."
24. OA/HOW teaches us a sense of dignity. How have I utilized my newfound dignity in relationship to myself, my family, and my friends?
25. In the OA/HOW program, what is the importance of giving service? What is the importance of meetings? How are they both part of my road to recovery?
26. In the OA/HOW program, what is the importance of the telephone? What is the importance of anonymity? How are both intertwined?
27. Discuss and reflect upon reading and writing as tools of recovery in the OA/HOW program. Why are these toold essential to my recovery?
28. Read pages 569-570 in the AA Big Book, "Spiritual Experiences". Discuss and reflect upon the following: "Spiritual growth is a daily commitment". How can I grow daily?
29. Re-read STEP THREE in the 12 & 12. Write on "Having taken STEP ONE and STEP TWO, the degree of our success in the OA/HOW program depeneds upon how far we take STEP THREE".
30. Re-read STEP ONE in the 12 & 12. Review your two balance sheets from reflections #15 and #16. Make a sincere commitment to your Higher Power to turn your will and your life over to His care.
The following may be done in conjuction with Question 30, or it may be delayed 24 hours before the Step-up ceremony. (The Step-Up ceremony is for those person who have taken the first 3 steps and are now going to become HOW Sponsors).
In the morning, read the article, "The Act of Surrendering". Write on the ideas: "Submission is not the same thing as surrender". Discuss the differences. Discuss and reflect upon your own personal surrender.
1. Continue to call in your food plan to your Sponsor on a daily basis and continue selected tools on a daily basis. Most long term abstainers continue daily contact with their sponsors.
2. Continue with, or start, a daily meditation program.
3. Write and/or discuss something from a daily reading.
4. Continue attending three meetings per week and continue to use all the tools. Continue on with Steps 4 through 12.


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Spark Hire, a video powered hiring network that connects job seekers and employers through video resumes and online interviews, is proud to announce the launch of its Human Resources Blog on Monday, July 16th, 2012. The new blog will discuss trending topics, advice, news and issues such as employee engagement, recruiting methodology, talent management, video interviewing and so much more.
With this announcement, the original Spark Hire Blog will be transitioned to a job seeker blog and will focus on articles and advice related to resumes, interviews, and the job search in general. The launch of the Human Resources Blog comes after many requests for a separate Spark Hire blog dedicated solely to the HR community.
Josh Tolan, CEO of Spark Hire, had this to say about the exciting news: "We are absolutely pumped to start this new chapter of Spark Hire blogging. While we've been producing high quality content for just over a year now, the Spark Hire Human Resources Blog will go more in depth on important topics and will surely become a must read for all HR professionals."
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In addition, if the gas is in a container, the collisions with the walls are assumed to be instantaneous and elastic.
More modern developments relax these assumptions and are based on the Boltzmann equation. These can accurately describe the properties of dense gases, because they include the volume of the molecules. The necessary assumptions are the absence of quantum effects, molecular chaos and small gradients in bulk properties. Expansions to higher orders in the density are known as virial expansions. The definitive work is the book by Chapman and Enskog but there have been many modern developments and there is an alternative approach developed by Grad based on moment expansions. In the other limit, for extremely rarefied gases, the gradients in bulk properties are not small compared to the mean free paths. This is known as the Knudsen regime and expansions can be performed in the Knudsen number.
The kinetic theory has also been extended to include inelastic collisions in granular matter by Jenkins and others.
Pressure is explained by kinetic theory as arising from the force exerted by gas molecules impacting on the walls of the container. Consider a gas of N molecules, each of mass m, enclosed in a cuboidal container of volume V. When a gas molecule collides with the wall of the container perpendicular to the x coordinate axis and bounces off in the opposite direction with the same speed (an elastic collision), then the momentum lost by the particle and gained by the wall is:
where vx is the x-component of the initial velocity of the particle.
The particle impacts the wall once every 2l/vx time units (where l is the length of the container). Although the particle impacts a side wall once every 1l/vx time units, only the momentum change on one wall is considered so that the particle produces a momentum change on a particular wall once every 2l/vx time units.
The force due to this particle is:
The total force acting on the wall is:
where the summation is over all the gas molecules in the container.
The magnitude of the velocity for each particle will follow:
Now considering the total force acting on all six walls, adding the contributions from each direction we have:
where the factor of two arises from now considering both walls in a given direction.
Assuming there are a large number of particles moving sufficiently randomly, the force on each of the walls will be approximately the same and now considering the force on only one wall we have:
The quantity can be written as , where the bar denotes an average, in this case an average over all particles. This quantity is also denoted by where is the root-mean-square velocity of the collection of particles.
Thus the force can be written as:
Pressure, which is force per unit area, of the gas can then be written as:
where A is the area of the wall of which the force exerted on is considered.
Thus, as cross-sectional area multiplied by length is equal to volume, we have the following expression for the pressure
where V is the volume. Also, as Nm is the total mass of the gas, and mass divided by volume is density
where ρ is the density of the gas.
This result is interesting and significant, because it relates pressure, a macroscopic property, to the average (translational) kinetic energy per molecule (1/2mvrms2), which is a microscopic property. Note that the product of pressure and volume is simply two thirds of the total kinetic energy.
From the ideal gas law,
From Eq.(1) and Eq.(3)1, we have
Eq.(1) and Eq.(4) are called the "classical results", which could also be derived from statistical mechanics; for more details, see.
Since there are degrees of freedom (dofs) in a monoatomic-gas system with particles, the kinetic energy per dof is
As noted in the article on heat capacity, diatomic gases should have 7 degrees of freedom, but the lighter gases act as if they have only 5.
Thus the kinetic energy per kelvin (monatomic ideal gas) is:
At standard temperature (273.15 K), we get:
Assuming an ideal gas, a derivation results in an equation for total number of collisions per unit time per area:
From the kinetic energy formula it can be shown that
with v in m/s, T in kelvins, and R is the gas constant. The molar mass is given as kg/mol. The most probable speed is 81.6% of the rms speed, and the mean speeds 92.1% (distribution of speeds).
Other pioneers of the kinetic theory (which were neglected by their contemporaries) were Mikhail Lomonosov (1747), Georges-Louis Le Sage (ca. 1780, published 1818), John Herapath (1816) and John James Waterston (1843), which connected their research with the development of mechanical explanations of gravitation. In 1856 August Krönig (probably after reading a paper of Waterston) created a simple gas-kinetic model, which only considered the translational motion of the particles.
In 1857 Rudolf Clausius, according to his own words independently of Krönig, developed a similar, but much more sophisticated version of the theory which included translational and contrary to Krönig also rotational and vibrational molecular motions. In this same work he introduced the concept of mean free path of a particle. In 1859, after reading a paper by Clausius, James Clerk Maxwell formulated the Maxwell distribution of molecular velocities, which gave the proportion of molecules having a certain velocity in a specific range. This was the first-ever statistical law in physics. In his 1873 thirteen page article 'Molecules', Maxwell states: "we are told that an 'atom' is a material point, invested and surrounded by 'potential forces' and that when 'flying molecules' strike against a solid body in constant succession it causes what is called pressure of air and other gases." In 1871, Ludwig Boltzmann generalized Maxwell's achievement and formulated the Maxwell–Boltzmann distribution. Also the logarithmic connection between entropy and probability was first stated by him.
In the beginning of twentieth century, however, atoms were considered by many physicists to be purely hypothetical constructs, rather than real objects. An important turning point was Albert Einstein's (1905) and Marian Smoluchowski's (1906) papers on Brownian motion, which succeeded in making certain accurate quantitative predictions based on the kinetic theory.
The Mathematical Theory of Non-uniform Gases : An Account of the Kinetic Theory of Viscosity, Thermal Conduction and Diffusion in Gases Sydney Chapman, T. G. Cowling


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New video! Talk about slow!
Hope you like, please subscribe, rate etc. etc. if you like the tattoo and earring. Watch, if you don't know what I mean.
Next video is about Eye Care. Yes, a sensible video for a change!
New video! Talk about slow!
Hope you like, please subscribe, rate etc. etc. if you like the tattoo and earring. Watch, if you don't know what I mean.
Next video is about Eye Care. Yes, a sensible video for a change!
I say thank you but then get embarrassed and change the subject! Someone said they liked my eyeshadow the other night but i just turned red.
Talking about cultural differences, I love how confident Americans usually are!
Has Megan auditioned for Corrie yet? (as a platform for other things). Seriously!
haha you are hilarious Rowena! I can't take compliments well either because I am Chinese and my parents are exactly like your nan.
That's a funny vid! Chinese can't take compliments hmm.. I never knew that its a cultural thing.
I don't have a problem taking compliments, I have a problem with what to do afterwords. I feel like I have to reciprocate to be polite, but that feels a little cheap right after getting a compliment, so I'm never quite sure what to do and change the subject.
My parents (especially my mother), who for simplicity will be identified as Russian, also never let me go to sleep with wet hair. Something about catching a cold and dying. They also never let me sit on cement/stone or whistle inside the house, so I'm not quite sure if it was for a practical reason or a superstitious one.
Haha, great video, as usual!
Yes, I can and I get them quite often
great video! maybe its because my parents are hispanic but they always told me not to do certain things. definitely the wet hair…they still tell me to dry my hair completely or i'll get sick. that never happened lol. i never heard of not facing the door when you sleep..why is that??
I was never allowed to go to sleep with wet hair because paper mites (tiny tiny red spiders that live in old books) would crawl into my hair and live there. (!!!??) Also compliments were not a part of life at all, so not a problem, but I think that was just 1970's Yorkshire for you…it's grim up North…
Ha ha brilliant! Irish people can't take compliments either, and are very suspicious about those who can. Admire someones skin and you'll get "this old thing? Sure I was born in it"
Hey Kirstie
In that case, Chinese people and Irish people are very similar! It doesn't matter what the compliment is, there's always a comeback! It's worse when someone else does the dissing for you!
Hilarious video. That gave me a good laugh; way better than a lot of "professional" comedy shows. Megan is so cute! I love your sideways glances; very expressive.
I'll stop gushing now.
My mom still has a thing about going to sleep with wet hair. I do it all the time now that the weather is so terribly hot. Fortunately I didn't get anything about the door.
Hi Kuri
I am so glad you like the video!
I still get told off NOW for going to sleep with wet hair and I just can't do it anymore – I HAVE to dry my hair it doesn't feel right to me to sleep with wet hair!
I've never been able to take a compliment. I do the "explaining away" thing all the time. I'm trying to be better about it, though.
Hi Mayrei,
It's hard isn't it, I still find it tough to not say something sarcastic about myself!
I find it hard to take a compliment. Mainly because i have such low confidence.
I think thats probably down to being badly bullied when i was a kid
Hi Alexandra
Oh no! You can't let bullies win you know, you have to smile and say thanks! Because that person means it
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Tweets of The Week: Boston, Adam Scott, and Clay Court Prowess...
It was a big news week this week, with lots of tragedy mixed in with sporting victories. The Boston Marathon bombings and subsequent man hunt certainly dominated the news. Tennis players were just as horrified as the rest of us, and many shared their thoughts on Twitter. However, if we searched through all the tweets dedicated to Boston we would have a enough Tweets of the Week posts for a year! Here's a small selection.
All my Support to all affected in the #Boston attack. A tragedy that should not occur again.— Rafa Nadal (@RafaelNadal) April 16, 2013
Tasty! Photos and Interviews from the BNP Paribas Taste of Tennis
It's that time of year again when famous chefs and tennis players rub shoulders with other "celebrities" like women from Real Housewives of NY (huh?) at the BNP Paribas Taste of Tennis that benefits the NY Junior Tennis League. We (Kait O'Callahan and I, Rachel Vinson) had an awesome time on the green carpet chatting it up with fellow tennis bloggers and stumping the players with our question.
Caroline Wozniacki interview bombs Mardy Fish
Today at the BNP Paribas Open, a journalist named Caroline Wozniacki, who is known to interrupt press conferences, hijacked Mardy Fish's presser and then chatted about golf. It went a little something like this:
Caroline: Excuse me, I have a question. We all know that you're so good. You finished off the match very quickly, but can you please finish off your press conference? I'm actually after you, and I'd like to go back and...
Mardy: How well did Rory play today?
Caroline: Very nice, yeah.
Mardy: Very good.
Caroline: 7-under. How's your golf game?
Mardy: Horrible.
Caroline: I don't believe you. You have your clubs here, I bet.
Mardy: I do. I haven't played yet.
Caroline: You should go out and play.
Mardy: I haven't played yet. I might take a lesson from you.
Q. How do you think he'd do on the PGA?
Caroline: No comment.
Oh Caro.....
Shanked Balls and Double Faults
Kait O'Callahan is a contributing writer for OnTheGoTennis. She is currently at the Australian Open with her brother and will be sharing her stories from the matches they attend.
It's already hot when we turn up for our first match. The wind is blowing strong and it looks like we are in for a day of shanked balls and double faults. It certainly starts that way as we tune in for Frederick Nielson and Kevin Anderson. Nielson, who we developed a soft spot for during his Hopman Cup choke loss to Gasquet, has fought his way through qualifying and been rewarded with a match against the man who donated a huge chunk of his first ATP title's prize money to saving rhinos. Anderson is too good for Nielson, and we leave after the first set.
A Russian woman is seated in front of us, playing with the pearls dangling from her neck. Her matching earrings and expensive looking black dress stand out amongst the masses of t-shirts and denim shorts. She flits on her high heels towards the shade every few games. It's hot work being that glamourous. She's there to watch Nikolay Davydenko, who appears to be playing well against the very defensive Flavio Cipolla. Unfortunately, that all changes when up two sets up to one, Davydenko begins to tire, and eventually loses in five. It's a disappointing first round exit for a man who used to be world number four. We wonder if it is the last time we will see Davydenko live.
Reading Room
Fish vs. Dimitrov from Stephanie Myles on Vimeo.
Grigor Dimitrov made quick work of Mardy Fish at the Hopman cup, and Mardy didn't like it. Video images here. Funny slide show above via Open Court.
A LOT of people are starting 2012 in a bad way. Injured.
Rafael Nadal added weight to his racket to improve his serve and gain length on his groundstrokes.
A great read from SI about why people shouldn't take Serena Williams so literally.
A new website called The Tennis Space, did a 60 second interview with Caroline Wozniacki. Find out what movie star she would like to play her in a film!
Herbalife India is now sponsoring Somdev Devvarman.
If you are travelling to the Aussie Open this year, John Wertheim gives you some need to know tips.
and last but not least...
Caroline Wozniacki explains why she doesn't mind over exposing her relationship with Rory McIlroy.
Twitpics of the Week
When I first saw this picture I did not believe those were Mardy Fish's chicken legs, rather, they look like the legs of someone with Elephantitis (Google it). My first thought was, "Gosh, I hope he is alright." My second thought was, " How the heck can he go to the bathroom like that?"


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Last Friday
My gma died november 1st 2011. It was really hard cus i was really close to her. My dad, brother, mom, and i had to clear out her house because we are letting it forclose. Its hard just letting it go because i had so many memories with her there. She was a strong woman and fought it till the end.
So last friday i decided thaat after work i was gunna stop by her old house. When i was there i looked into the front window and nothing was there so tears welled up in my eyes. I usually just walked right in whenever she was alive and i couldnt then. I walked to the front steps, tried the lock, and bawled like a baby because its still hard to belive shes gone. I miss her so much even tho she did have her mood swings.
Across from her old house is a playground that i used to go to when i was younger so before i left i sat on the swings. I was there for a good 10 minutes and was crying the whole time, knowing that ill never have any fun like i used to whenever i go back. The entire time i was all alone, just like i feel now, in class, full of 24 kids.


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President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf has expressed hope that resigned Peace and Reconciliation Committee's chairperson, Laureate Leymah Gbowee, will continue to work to make reconciliation a strong part of Liberia's rebuilding process. This is the first time President Johnson-Sirleaf has spoken publicly on the resignation of Laureate Gbowee.
Recently, while in Paris France promoting the French edition of her book, "Mighty Be Our Powers", Nobel Laureate Gbowee resigned as chair of the nation's Peace and Reconciliation Commission; on grounds that the Johnson-Sirleaf led government has made no sufficient progress in promoting reconciliation, also blaming the Johnson-Sirleaf administration of not only condoning corruption but also of practicing nepotism.
Madam Gbowee , who stated that she stands guilty of betraying the people's trust by working in a government that is guilty of closing its eyes to corruption in high places, views her resignation as an act of forgiveness from a raging conspiracy that President Johnson-Sirleaf has awarded "lucrative jobs" to her sons in a blatant act of nepotism.
She lamented that the president's appointment of one of her sons, Charles, as central bank deputy governor, another (Fumba) as head of the National Security Agency, and the third (Robert) as senior adviser and chairman of the state-owned National Oil Company of Liberia (NOCAL) was unacceptable.
Regarding President Johnson-Sirleaf's son Robert Sirleaf, Nobel Laureate Gbowee averred: "This is wrong and I think it is time for her to put him aside." "He's a senior economic adviser and that's well and good - but to chair the oil company board - I think it's time he stepped aside."
Said Laureate Gbowee: "I've been through a process of really thinking and reflecting and saying to myself 'you're as bad as being an accomplice for things that are happening in the country if you don't speak up." "And when tomorrow history is judging us all let it be known that we spoke up and we didn't just sit down."
She acknowledged that the Johnson-Sirleaf led government has done a good job in rehabilitating the country's infrastructure, but was quick in pointing out that the rehabilitation of the country's infrastructure was not good enough for a country in which poverty was fast determining the social status of most Liberians.
Listen to Madam Gbowee: "What good is infrastructure if people don't have enough to eat?" "In her [President Johnson-Sirleaf] first term she developed infrastructure. But what good is infrastructure if people don't have enough to eat? Development in a land of hungry, angry people is nothing. The gap between the rich and poor is growing. You are either rich or dirt poor, there's no middle class."
However, President Johnson-Sirleaf says: "She [Leymah Gbowee] has helped us with the reconciliation. She's decided that she does not want to continue to help and we respect her views on that. We hope that somewhere along the line, as a good citizen, she will continue to work with us and make reconciliation a very strong part of our rebuilding process."
According to a news report posted on the Executive Mansion website, the Liberian leader made these assertions Friday, October 12, 2012 in Japan, when a reporter from Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper asked about the difficulty of the reconciliation process, especially in light of the recent resignation of fellow Nobel Laureate, Leymah Gbowee.
The Executive Mansion news report added that in further response to the inquiry, President Johnson-Sirleaf responded by highlighting Liberia as an open society in which its citizens are free to express their opinions about the government. "So we will continue to work with her [Leymah Gbowee] and hope that our objectives will all be the same - the rebuilding of our country using capacity wherever we can get it. I hope that she will join us in moving our country forward," said President Johnson-Sirleaf.


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Below you will find a sampling of job titles for graduates from the Construction Management major. Click on the links to view profiles of alumni, including information about their current jobs and advice they have for students.
Please note that some alumni may have changed to new positions since completing their online profiles. We continue to offer their profiles as they represent the variety of rich entry level positions our graduates obtain.
Corporate Sustainability Coordinator - Midwest Hardwood Corporation
Construction Control Representative - US Army Corps of Engineers
Field Engineer - Blattner Energy
Project Manager - Lynch Mechanical Construction
Field Engineer - Mortenson Construction
Project Coordinator - HAI-WW Contractor for General Services Administration
Field Engineer - The Boldt Company
Advisor - Cresa Minneapolis
Field Engineer - Flatiron Construction Corporation
Estimator - Flatiron Constructors Canada
Project Manager - Hammers Construction Inc.
Project Manager - Terra General Contractors
Vice President - Watson Forsberg Co.
Senior Designer - Walker Parking Consultants
Relay Supervisor - Xcel Energy
Superintendent - McGough Construction
Site Supervisor- High Point Construction and Remodeling
Estimator – M.A. Mortenson Company
Project Manager – Elder Jones, Inc.
Project Manager/Estimator - Alvin E. Benike, Inc.
Project Manager - Building Arts Sustainable Architecture and Construction
Superintendant - Demar, Ltd.
Manager of Estimating and Process Engineer - Firestone Metal Products
General Assistant - Habitat para la Humanidad
Estimator - McGough Construction
Project Manager - McGough Construction
Project Manager - Personal Pride Construction
Assistant Project Manager/Dispatcher - Premier Electrical Corporation
Regional Accounts Manager - Rolex Manufacturing
Project Engineer - Structure Preservation
Engineering Technician II - American Engineering and Testing
Operations Management Trainee - Cargill
Construction Manager Solar Decathlon - U of M
Project Engineer - JE Dunn Construction
Project Engineer - JH Findorff & Son
Field Project Manager - Permasteelisa
Project Manager - RJM Construction
Field Engineer- Mortenson
Assistant Project Manager- McGorgh
Assistant Project Manager- Kendell Doors
Project Manager- Allina Health
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Assistant Project Manager- Faithful + Gould
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Project Engineer- Wanzek Construction
Field Tech Engineer- Braun Intertec Corporation
Project Manager- Michaud Cooley Erickson
Project Manager- Standard Construction
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Contractor- MN Painting
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The cost of wagering: students and gambling
By KIM HENNEN
Walking up the creaky, wooden stairs and into a room with only a sunken futon and a television resting on an upside down garbage can, this house seems to resemble that of any other male college student. However, venturing into the house just a few steps further, one enters a whole new world.
It's the world of online gambling. Rob, an incoming sophomore at UMD, sits in a small room, a palace of technology. Four flat-screen computers accompanied only by other technology equipment rest on a sturdy, oversized desk. In the kitchen are a sink of last week's dirty dishes and a stack of mail lying next to empty pizza boxes. But in this room, there are no distractions, except maybe intertwining cords turning this way and that.
Rob stares intently at his computer screen as he reaches the final two in an online poker tournament of over a thousand people all over the world. First place is $3,000.
"My heart was racing waiting for the river to fall," says Rob, a phrase in poker meaning the last card on the board.
Rob, an avid Texas Hold 'Em No Limit player, is one of few college students who choose to spend their time gambling online. His opponent could only catch two of the remaining aces in the deck, which gives him only a five percent chance to win.
"Luckily, he didn't win," says Rob letting out a long overdue sigh of relief after the final card was turned.
Sometimes, but not always an addiction
In a 2006 study of 9,931 students from 14 different Minnesota Colleges by Boynton Health Services, fewer than one in ten students admitted gambling once a month or more. Half of the students reported participating in some form of gambling at least once. While this frequency may not be dangerously high, the possibility of becoming a compulsive gambler is still there.
Kathy Morris, Director of Health Services at UMD, explains this through the concept of intermittent reinforcement. This means that the gambler can't predict when he or she is going to win. For example, with drinking, the consequences are much more predictable.
"Students know if this party gets too loud, the cops will come. Or, 'If I have any more drinks, I'll get sick,' " says Morris. "With gambling, it's not a consistent thing you can count on. People think 'Oh, I'm due any time to win,' but this isn't the case."
Morris says there are a few students who come in voluntarily to get help with their addiction, but not many. It is difficult to measure the prevalence of gambling among college students because it doesn't make as much of a ripple in the community as drinking. Students know that come Monday morning, the stories about who got drinking tickets, which parties got busted, and what dorms got written up will make their way around campus.
"These kinds of measurable consequences are not present with gambling," says Morris. "The amount of people that come in for help with an alcohol addiction is no higher than those that come in for help with a gambling addiction."
For most college students, however, gambling does not cause problems. It is a social or recreational activity.
Keith Whyte, Executive Director of the National Council on Problem Gambling, says fortunately, the majority of those who gamble don't develop an addiction.
"However, any recreational usage has a chance of being problematic," Whyte says. "All of a sudden twice a year turns into twice a day."
Poker as income
Rob says he does not have a problem, and can't picture himself developing one.
"I have never gone in debt from gambling, never regretted my decisions the next day, and it hasn't negatively affected any of my relationships," says Rob.
Rob started gambling online at the age of 16 after seeing his two older cousins making money. He got his first job working at a grocery store when he was 15, but has taken up poker as means of paying rent on his condo in Duluth and paying off his school loans from Mankato State University where he attended his freshman year of college.
"I look at poker as a job," he says. "Some days it sucks, other days it doesn't. I don't play for the rush that many problem gamblers chase. I mainly play it for economic reasons."
Luck, a word many people believe is essential for any card player to have, is not central to the game Rob says. For a skillful player, it takes no luck to win over a long period of time.
"The difference is that luck is pretty much a one time thing," says Rob. "In the long run, the lucky player will go broke because the math behind the game will never fail."
He explains it like this. If two players meet and Player One is supposed to win, Player Two (the underdog) can get lucky and win any given day, but if they played 100 games, Player One (the favorite) will surely win more often.
"I don't just put money in and hope I win," says Rob, "It's skill-based, like any other job."
Now 20 years old, Rob says gambling will remain a lifelong hobby, but he plans on getting a job in the future with his business major. For now, on a good night, Rob can make multiple thousands. He averaged $70 an hour this past month and depending on his schedule, plays anywhere from two to three hours a night. Some players make up to $1,000 an hour.
"It's best at night because that's when the drunks come out," says Rob, "and usually their judgment is impaired."
The internet versus casinos
According to Whyte, online gambling poses more dangerous consequences than gambling in casinos.
"It has additional risk factors for addiction such as a high speed of play, 24 hour access, social isolation, and use of non cash payment," says Whyte.
However, gambling online seems to be less popular among college students.
Zach Olson, a sophomore at the University of Wisconsin Superior, says he and his friends have never gambled online but do like to go to the casino every now and then.
"It's somewhere to go, something to do when there's nothing else going on," he says. "Of course it's nice if we leave with more cash than we came with, but it's not a necessity for us."
Olson has kept a running total of his wins and losses out at Black Bear Casino this year and says he's up $85.
"It's not much, but it pays for my groceries," he says. "My friends and I get pretty competitive though. We usually make bets about who will come out with the most money."
Back in Duluth, Rob takes a seat at his computer desk, preparing for a different kind of competition than that at a blackjack table in the casino. He readies himself for another night at work, enrolling in an online poker tournament with hundreds of hopeful winners.
"I always like a challenge," Rob says as he wipes off the already spotless desk with a sweep of his arm. "Of course there is the money factor, but it's something I never get tired of because you can't ever master it."
In the kitchen will remain that half eaten pizza crust, but right now it's time to concentrate, to calculate odds, to pay off that student loan, to spend another night at the office.


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Along with being mindful of beauty and creation, do we take the time to notice those around us in their daily distress and need? I'm not just talking about the beggar or the hungry orphan. I'm talking about the everyday "Mr. Jones." "Mr. Jones" is too battling his daily demons. He too his scared, vulnerable and at times in severe emotional stress despite the mask he wears of perfection.
Plato said it best: "Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." It's so easy, however, to put aside the needs of others and withhold our kind deeds as we continue on in our own hastiness throughout the daily race of life. We easily become married to the frantic go-go-go lifestyle of survival and affluence, only to neglect those who may be strategically placed on our paths or those who are within our reach.
Once we notice the need, we need to be determined to act on that need. It's real easy to feel so
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rry for someone when they've been knocked down. It's another thing to use your power and effort to help lift them off the ground. Be there for others. Truly be there. "The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers". –Zen Master, Thich Nhat Hanh.
What does Thich Nhat Hanh mean when he says 'offer others our presence?' I would imagine it would mean to be
truly in the moment—truly involved in enjoying another's presence—truly mindful of their needs. Moreover, become liberated from our own self-wants and the restrictions of time. Be there solely for others and be on their time. Only then, Nhat Hanh teaches, will we be able to witness their potential and self-worth "bloom like flowers."
Life is all about relationships. Build others up, and you too will bloom.


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