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Give this pact a chance-A A +A
By Jun Ledesma
Wednesday, April 2, 2014
AND so the signing ceremonies are over. The hoopla and the jitters will soon settle quietly along with optimism and apprehension. These we should expect as these are part of an untested process. But better these than when everything is left to speculation and anxiety. There is something to divine now than when we were all held hostage by the uncertainties of seemingly endless and aimless sequence of conflicts that resulted only in deaths, sufferings, dislocations of families who have nothing to do at all with the protracted war.
We give the administration of Pres. Noynoy Aquino our admiration for resolutely bringing the long and winding peace negotiation to a fruition. I have seen and personally observed the tedious conduct of negotiation when Jesus Dureza was still the chief peace negotiator for the government. One has to have a wellspring of patience and equanimity for every turn of unexpected issues and demands, outright rejection of well-studied and crafted drafts. I admire Jess for his composure but am actually not surprised because such is the nature of this man.
What comes close to peace negotiation is the card game called "Solitaire". Like in the peace talk the challenge and objective of the game is to open all cards of various colors, numbers, ranks the highest being the Kings and lowest the Ace. The colors - red and black - are alternating and in sequence from King down to Ace. If this alternating sequence is not followed then the game fails. There are times when there are no more moves to make the sequence. But this does not mean that the game is lost. The player may pull down the higher card to provide a link and achieve the sequence. When no more moves are available and the objective is not reach, the player gathers and reshuffles the cards and play again. Or change the whole deck of cards if it's worn out.
In Solitaire as well as in peace negotiation one makes a wish. The peace talks involving the MILF and the government however is not a game. But either way the fulfillment of one's wish is actually in doing what ought to be done to achieve the desired goals. It takes determination and sacrifice to do that. We have to tackle what seemed to be against human nature. We give up arms, authority and pride. We have to forgive those who hurt us. We have to yield some in order to make advances to reach our goal and partake of the fruits of peace. We have to communicate and find beauty in our diversities in creed, cultures and even political ideologies.
But wait, who am I to preach. Just making myself heard because during my formative years I grew up in Cotabato where some of my closest friends are Muslims and some Lumads. Today, I hear some quarters who would associate Muslims with crime and violence forgetting the fact that there are more Christians in Dapecol or Muntinglupa than there are Muslims. In my youth, we knew of "huramentados" and they are associated with Muslims. But in my youth there were murdering bandits among Christians who have no qualms of killing policemen and konstabularyos. So damn with our prejudices and biases.
Early in my journalistic trials I wrote about a complaint by Indonesian sailors whose Rolex wrist watches were taken by a Customs policeman. Without my knowledge this Custom's cop was gathering support from various quarters to buttress his claim that I libeled him. Because he was a Muslim, he had the temerity to ask the Indonesian Consul based in Davao City to sign a prepared affidavit that states that what I wrote was untrue. I learned later of his sinister plot when the Consul invited me to his office. The Indonesian envoy who was a friend of the media told me that the Custom cop brazenly told him that since they are both Muslims they should help each other and pin me in a libel case which, the Consul bared, will be filed in Iligan City.
What he told the crooked cop really stunned me and I simply cannot forget his rebuke: "If there are Christian criminals in the Philippines there are Muslim criminals in Indonesia!" I don't know whether it was because of what I wrote that the cop was suspended or the good Consul of Indonesia must have brought the matter up to higher authorities.
So there you are. It does not matter whether you are Christian, Muslim or Lumads; what matter most is that we are all Filipinos. In or out of Bangsamoro territory one is answerable to crime if he or she indulges in venalities.
Back to the signing of Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro, it is a small step but a significant one considering what we went through for almost two decades. Give this a chance.
Published in the Sun.Star Davao newspaper on April 02, 2014.
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What would you save if your house were on fire?
My dog - a golden retriever named Cali - and pictures of my family. Sentimental things. Any keepsakes. My grandpa was a firefighter in Chicago and I have a lot of respect for firefighters.
Gail Oney
mom, driver
My grandma's ceramic bunny collection. My puppy Lucy, a golden doodle, and my kitty-cats, Speeder and Dash. Photographs. Videos. We have a safe, I'd grab that.
Pam Schreitmueller
CFO of domestic affairs
All my tools. They're in the house - boxes of tools. My camera, of course, my computer. I just moved here, and at least I have good insurance. I've been in and fought a forest fire at the Russian River, by my grandmother's house; we got it to stop and burn up the hill from her house.
William Lee
Other than my children, who are 14 and 16, my pets. They'd be a handful - a dog, Bailey, a golden retriever, and my cats, Chloe and Scotch. I adopted them at ARF. I should take jewelry but it's insured so it's not a priority. If it weren't so large, my artwork - one each of paintings that my two grandmothers did, both were artists. OK, maybe my diamond earrings.
Linda Gage
elementary school teacher
Probably the usual - photo albums, financial records. I have a pet bunny named Hossenfeffer, a stuffy bunny I got when I was 5 (which I wouldn't worry about). I've never been in a fire, but I think I'd get the heck out of there as quickly as I could.
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Author of the classic work The Art of the Interview (Silman-James Press (2007), writer, producer and distinguished broadcaster Martin Perlich has for the last decade hosted and produced the acclaimed live interview series ARF!! (ARTS & ROOTS FORUM) The show, which aired daily on Los Angeles public radio, featured major cultural figures, from Stacy Keach to Terry Riley to Sandra Tsing Loh to avant-garde playwright Murray Mednick, as well as dozens of Arts figures: writers, directors, choreographers, and musical figures from Jazz, World music, and of course classical music, with many 21st century composers — known and unknown.
From 2000 to 2008 Martin served as Program Director responsible for all programming of innovative LA public radio station KCSN, named "Best of LA" by Los Angeles Magazine in 2006. In addition Perlich hosted an acclaimed daily classical and New Music show. His historic interview show Martin Perlich Interviews featuring Leonard Bernstein, Frank Zappa, R. Crumb, Pierre Boulez, Tom Waits and hundreds more, was syndicated nationally by WCLV/Seaway productions. The program won the New York International Radio Festival for two consecutive years. In his lengthy broadcast career he has amassed a huge archive of interviews, from Gore Vidal to John Adams, to Bill Evans.
Perlich has also written screenplays and novels, poetry and documentary films. The Wild Times, the first novel of his Adequacy Quartet, was published by Empty Press in 2006. As a broadcaster he has programmed and presented classical music, jazz and rock and roll, and this website offers recordings of these archives plus brand new interviews with international leaders in the arts.
A man who has followed his heart rather than any career path as such, he has worked with Leonard Bernstein, Whoopi Goldberg and Ravi Shankar and has been honored by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1998). A copy of his public TV documentary Citizen Artist is in the Smithsonian permanent collection (2007). As an actor he has worked with director Norman Corwin and with Jeff von der Schmidt and Southwest Chamber Music in Samuel Beckett's Cascando.
Perlich's early work was in music history. After studying with distinguished American composer Douglas Moore at Columbia University, he became, at 24, the first Intermission Host of the syndicated Cleveland Orchestra radio broadcasts. He worked closely with Musical Director George Szell as well as providing insightful interviews with Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Darius Milhaud, Arthur Fiedler, Robert Shaw, Isaac Stern and hundreds of others in his seven year stint.
In the cultural eruption of the 1960s Perlich became a pioneer in "experimental radio", continuing into the 70′s with interviews for WMMS in Cleveland and KMET in Los Angeles, featuring luminaries of that turbulent period: Jane Fonda, members of Black Panther Party and American Indian Movement, Dick Gregory, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Isaac Asimov, Tom Waits, Dexter Gordon, Attica prisoners and eight memorable encounters with Frank Zappa, as well as hundreds of other rock and experimental musicians.
In 1970, after Martin's second interview with Leonard Bernstein, the Maestro asked him to head a new production division he was proposing to Columbia Records, which Bernstein invited Perlich to head, overseeing the production of film and video of Bernstein's conducting projects. In addition Martin would be tasked with finding or writing "a second West Side Story" as well as text for the new Mass that Bernstein was composing for the opening of the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. When Columbia balked at funding the Leonard Bernstein Division, the Maestro left the label for Deutsche Grammophon for whom he produced a legendary recorded legacy. As the Maestro left for Vienna, the disappointed Martin left for LA.
In a rare display of versatility Perlich joined the staff of leading West Coast "Progressive Rock" station KMET, where he hosted Electric Tongue, a weekly interview show featuring major rock and arts figures. In 1975 Perlich became Creative Consultant of NBC-TV's weekly 90-minute "The Midnight Special," responsible for the acclaimed "Salute" segment, a regular documentary featuring major pop and rock music figures: Jerry Lee Lewis, Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder, Loretta Lynne and others, in addition to writing, rehearsing and assisting with editing the history-making network show.
At Public TV outlets in Los Angeles and WNET in New York, Perlich developed and produced dramatic, music and documentary programming including: "Citizen Artist" (included in the Smithsonian's permanent collection), "Hollywood 90″ (live drama), "Singer/Songwriter" (which he hosted) and "Informance", among other projects. In 1985 he produced the seminar "Shooting for Change", focusing on socially responsible feature films, with panelists drawn from major studios and leading independent filmmakers. He founded Wilton Place Films, and developed (writing and producing) "The Trial of Ramona Africa" with Whoopi Goldberg under the aegis of American Playhouse and Channel 4 in London.
The father of three, (including the acclaimed character actor Max Perlich and KJZZ-FM/LA host Miles Perlich) Martin has written, produced and directed interactive video with Warner New Media (CD-ROMs: Brahms' "A German Requiem"; Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana"; and the vast interactive educational project "The Orchestra"); " as well as "Taj Mahal: Like Never Before" for Private Music.


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In a televised address late Monday night, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his citizens to prepare for a long fight in Gaza.
In a speech aired on WNYC in 1957, poet and civil rights icon Langston Hughes grappled with finding an authentic American voice in the face of prejudice.
What are people saying about the Bowe Bergdahl deal in Afghanistan? Are regular Afghans afraid of these prisoners returning to their country, or are they responding with more of a shrug? Afghanistan's biggest media mogul weighs in.
Labor laws of 18 states exclude home care workers from their state minimum wage laws. As the number of domestic care workers increases nationwide, the number of people working these jobs, without fair pay or protections, is only increasing.
The Veterans Affairs scandal has caused outrage across the political spectrum. But lately, Republicans and Democrats alike have been crying for reform. This week, senators are introducing a bill that aims to fix some of the endemic problems with the veteran healthcare system.
According to the Kremlin, all hope may be lost for an internationally negotiated deal in Ukraine. With national elections in just a few weeks, will Ukraine really be prepared to hold a free and fair vote?
Even when it seems like there is nothing Congress can agree upon, our representatives have come together to conclude that the broken structure that houses them—1,300 cracks and all—is something that absolutely needs to be fixed.
Today, the voice of someone who grew up under communism in Bulgaria, watched the transition to democracy, and is now observing the crisis in Ukraine from the United States, reflects on her home country and weighs in on the political turmoil in Crimea.
The New York Times has reported that AT&T is selling personal customer information to the C.I.A. for more than $10 million a year. There are no subpoenas or court orders involved. The reason? To assist with overseas counterterrorism investigations. Joining The Takeaway to weigh in is Susan Crawford, a professor at Cardozo Law School and the author of "Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age."
Four years ago this November, Major Nidal Malik Hasan opened fire on soldiers at the Fort Hood Army Base in Killeen, Texas, killing 13 people and injuring many more. Today, Major Hasan's trial begins. The Army has already spent more than $5 million on the case. But there are other reasons why this case is unprecedented. Geoffrey S. Corn, a former Army prosecutor and defense lawyer and a professor at the South Texas College of Law, explains.
The Washington Post announced on Monday that is selling ownership of the paper to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos for $250 million. The Graham family has owned control and editorial leadership of the Post for the last 80 years. Sheryl Gay Stolberg, political features writer for our partner The New York Times, says she was floored when she heard the news. Today Stolberg joins us to talk about the sale of a family dynasty.
Yesterday, 12 players involved in the Biogenesis scandal each agreed to a 50-game suspension. Alex Rodriguez received a harsher penalty, banning him through the 2014 season, though he plans to appeal the 211-game suspension. Under league rules, he is allowed to play until an arbitrator decides the case. Jay Goldberg spent 15 years as a sports agent. He joins us to break down the consequences of the suspension for A-Rod, the MLB, and baseball fans.
It's thought that Albert Einsten once said, "If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?" Well, Einstein's endorsement of the cluttered desk now has the backing of a team of researchers at the University of Minnesota. Ryan Rahinel is the author of a new study on orderliness, decision-making and creativity. He joins The Takeaway to discuss his findings about messy desks and the research behind it.
This week we're exploring the individual and collective experience of post-traumatic stress disorder or PTSD in America as we enter the long aftermath of two wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. But for many, PTSD is about identity. For screenwriter Matt Cook, his identity changed after the 9/11 attacks, after serving in the war in Iraq and then going back to the battlefield as a civilian. He recently wrote about his experiences in Afghanistan for Texas Monthy magazine, which showcases a journey from movie mythology to his own grim reality.
Has there been a reset in the U.S. Iran relationship? Yesterday's inauguration of the newly-elected President Hassan Rouhani was a chance to assure Iranian and U.S. leaders that an opportunity for real change exists now. Joining us to discuss this is Amir Paivar, Business Correspondent with BBC Persian TV.
You and your television set may be caught in a standoff between the Time Warner Cable and CBS Television. Time Warner's current contract with CBS expired this weekend, blocking out CBS stations, and cable networks owned by CBS, in large parts of New York, Los Angeles and Dallas. Jon Lafayette, Business Editor for Broadcasting and Cable Magazine, joins us to examine the stalemate and what's next for the media giants.
The fate of next year's Kentucky senate race—and that of Republican Senator Mitch McConnell—might be tied to his oratorical performance at a picnic that took place on Saturday in Fancy Farm, Kentucky. The event has developed into a crucial test of political power in Kentucky. Gabe Bullard, Director of News and Editorial Strategy at WFPL, reports on how the candidates fared.


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Selling, general and administrative expenses for the year ended June 30, 2007 was $4.7 million, an increase of $0.8 million, or 22% compared with the corresponding period in 2006. The increase in selling, general and administrative expenses was the result of the expansion of the Company's domestic sales network, higher worker insurance requirements and environmental related expenditures.
The Company achieved higher operating leverage for the year. Operating income in fiscal year 2007 increased 62.1% to $7.5 million from $4.6 million in prior year. Operating margin during fiscal 2007 was 14.5% in 2006, up from 12.9% a year ago.
Net income for the year ended June 30, 2007 was $7.1 million, an increase of $2.9, or 69.8% compared with 2006. The increase in net income was due to higher production levels, sales volumes, as well as a net gain of approximately $1.3 million derived from both the gain of surrendering its land use rights for property in downtown Changle to the local government and the loss of fixed assets' early retirement. Diluted weighted average earnings per share were $0.62 for fiscal year of 2007, which compared to $0.42 in fiscal year of 2006.
Financial Condition
As of June 30, 2007, Shengtai Pharmaceutical had cash and restricted cash of $12.0 million and working capital of $(7.2) million. In fiscal 2007, the Company generated $5.1 million in cash flow from operations. At June 30, 2007, the Company had $42.1 million in total debt, and $31.6 million of shareholders' equity.
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Shengtai Pharmaceutical's market share in the PRC for pharmaceutical
grade glucose products, especially dextrose monohydrate, has increased.
Dextrose monohydrate is widely used for restorative and nutritional
purposes, as well as for transfusions and intravenous drips. The company's
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Ripon, WI -- The Beloit College Baseball team finished off their 2014 season at Ripon College on Sunday with a pair of losses, 10-2 in game one and 5-3 in game two, as the MWC North Division Champions took the Midwest Conference series 4-0.
The Red Hawks won the first two games of the series 5-4 in 11 innings and 17-7 in Beloit on Saturday.
Seniors Ethan Blumenthal, Sean Little, Patrick McKnight and Craig Vruwink all played their final games for the Bucs during the weekend.
In game one Sunday, the Buccaneers jumped on top in the first when Austin Martinez drove in Blumenthal. Ripon evened it up with a run in the second and then put seven tallies on the scoreboard in the third inning to jump out to an 8-1 lead. Beloit got one back in the sixth when pinch-hitter Jerrick Habecker, who had singled, scored on an error. Again RC matched that run in the bottom of the inning and added one more in the seventh to close out the scoring.
Blumenthal had a pair of hits to lead the seven-hit attack.
In game two the Bucs also scored in the first, with Martinez driving in Blumenthal. But, again, Ripon matched that run in the bottom of the inning and then tacked on another run in the third and two more in the fifth to lead 4-1. Beloit pulled back within a run with two scores in the seventh. Mike Gulve drove in Jake Parrott to make it 4-2 and Blumenthal scored Gulve to make it 4-3. But that was as close as the Buccaneers would get. RC added a run in the bottom of the seventh to close the scoring.
Blumenthal again had a pair of hits to lead the offense.
Back on Saturday in game one, Ripon scored two unearned runs in the first but Beloit bounced back with two in the bottom of the inning on an RBI fielder's choice by Martinez and a run-scoring groundout by Zach Jenkins. It stayed 2-2 into extra innings when the Red Hawks scored twice in the 10th with back-to-back home runs. But the Buccaneers answered with two unearned runs in the bottom of the inning. Adrian Peil scored on an error to make it 4-3 before Kam Sallee singled in pinch-runner Danny Quijas to continue the game. RC got the game-winner in the 11th with two out and the Bucs went quietly in the bottom of the inning.
Peil had three hits in the game. Ryan Kaveney went the first nine innings and scattered seven hits with no earned runs. He struck out 12 and walked three. The 12 strikeouts, his third double-figure game of the season, gave him 72 strikeouts on the season, just one short of equaling the Beloit single-season mark.
In game two RC scored four runs in the first and another in the second to jump out to a 5-0 lead. Beloit got on the board in the third with Matt Woodstock's RBI groundout and added another run in the fourth when Sallee singled in Martinez. They then took a 7-5 lead with five runs in the fifth. Matt Meade had a two-run single while Peil and Sallee also had RBIs. But the Red Hawks answered in a big way, scoring 12 runs in the sixth and then shutting down the Buccaneers for the seven-inning win.
Peil had three more hits for six on the day while Alex Lawrence, Sallee and Meade each had two.


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Did you know the Muse likes a bit of sparkle, shimmer, and shine? Obviously right?
Put a tiny bit of sparkle into your looks with Eyeko Sparkle Powder! An ickle pink cardboard box holds a deliciously candy scented powder puff that's loaded up with iridescent sparkling powder that can be used on face, cheeks, and if you so please puff some onto eyes!
I've been meaning to review this since I got my order late Summer sheesh can you see how behind I am with reviews? Bad Muse! But something good does come out of it considering that the holiday is upcoming and I think many of us like a bit of sparkle for this time of the year so here in is an ideal little solution.
The sparkle is in the puff so it's pretty much mess free! Simply dab the puff onto the places where you'd like a bit of shimmer and you're good to go! The scent is a vanilla cotton candy blend that's quite pleasant and girlish!
I think for the most part the appeal is in the packaging in this case as the puff and little box is too adorable! I do think that the price tag is a bit expensive considering it's price tag of �5. But hey I love shimmery bits and bobs so I'm happy to have this in my stash!
If you're interesting in nabbing this you can get it now with Free Worldwide Shipping from Eyeko!
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11/12/08 12:08 Ghoulina:
This is soooo cute! ^_^
11/12/08 12:09 the Muse:
hehe isn't it ghoulina?
😉 I think that's why I brought it..couldn't resist the kawaii factor!
Thanks for the comment!
11/12/08 13:15 rocketqueen:
Sooo pretty! Me likey!
11/12/08 13:28 Katee "e-polishblog":
ohhh I love shimmery pink stuff!
11/12/08 13:49 Phyrra:
Vanilla cotton candy? Kinda like peeps? Kinda like Snow Fairy?
11/12/08 13:55 firefly:
Oooh, and right now, their site is offering buy one, get one free on everything.
11/12/08 13:56 the Muse:
hehe linn
got you speaking like the Muse!
11/12/08 13:57 the Muse:
I'm with ya katee! The more shimmer the better!
11/12/08 14:03 firefly:
whoops! it's buy TWO, get one free. sorry for the confoozion.
11/12/08 17:17 Laura:
I saw and considered this today! Haha I'm lusting after that magic eyeliner thing though (the name escapes me), but the shop was out of stock.
11/12/08 19:23 Askmewhats:
hey you got me all excited when I read free worldwide shipping! i'm on to the site right now! Thanks
11/13/08 10:16 the Muse:
hey laura!
LOL great minds think alike
I haven't tried the liner yet but been considering it!
11/13/08 13:14 rocketqueen:
LOL love that! I'm am quite a 1337 nerd like the Muse so I think I am entitled to the same manners! ;D
11/13/08 14:01 the Muse:
hi linn!!!!! 😉
hehe i'm with you 😉


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Michael Butler guilty of "landlady from hell" graffiti at Westward Ho! flat
Posted: February 28, 2013|
A MAN scratched "landlady from hell" into the wall of a house he had just moved out of.
Michael Anthony Butler, 27, of 49 Kala Fair, Westward Ho! pleaded guilty to criminal damage when he appeared at North Devon Magistrates' Court on Friday.
Lyndsey Baker, for the prosecution, told magistrates how Butler, his partner and children had moved into a flat in Morwenna Park Road belonging to Patricia Adorian in June 2012.
"There was a dispute about conditions," she said. "The tenants left and after an inspection of the flat, graffiti was found scratched into a wall."
When interviewed by the police Butler said moving into the property had been "the biggest mistake of my life".
"I know I left it in a bad way," said Butler, "but good."
Debbie Bakehouse, for the defence, said Butler had endured problems throughout the tenancy and had invested heavily trying to do up the property.
"From the moment they moved in there were problems with damp," said Miss Bakehouse.
"Mould ruined the childrens' toys and bedding so when the landlady asked them to leave they willingly went."
She also said Butler was taking up civil proceedings against Mrs Adorian.
Presiding magistrate Terry Robins told Butler: "You've admitted damaging the wall and we've taken note of the fact you spent a lot on the property, so we aren't going to fine you or order you to pay compensation."
He gave Butler a conditional discharge for six months and ordered him to pay costs of £35 and a victim surcharge of £15.


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Verasun Energy
VeraSun Energy Corporation was a leading producer of renewable fuel. Founded in 2001, the company has a fleet of 16 production facilities in eight states, of which one is still under construction. VeraSun Energy is scheduled to have an annual production capacity of approximately 1.64 billion gallons (BGY) of ethanol and more than five million tons of distillers grains by the end of 2008. The company also has begun construction at its Aurora, South Dakota facility to extract oil from dried distillers grains, a co-product of the ethanol process, for use in biodiesel production.
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Cynthia Belar Response Letter to the New York Times
Letter to the editor in response to the New York Times magazine's article "Intern Gap Frustrates Clinicians in Training."
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Your article "Intern Gap Frustrates Clinicians in Training" (Nov. 8, 2011) addressed the important issue of ensuring a sufficient number of training internships for aspiring clinical psychologists. The article is, however, incorrect in its suggestion that we encourage students who do not match to an accredited internship to accept a non-accredited training position. To the contrary, the American Psychological Association (APA) is committed to the development of additional accredited internship programs to allow all clinical psychology students to complete their studies in a timely manner and to ensure quality in all internship programs. APA accreditation is the only quality assurance mechanism recognized by the U.S. Secretary of Education and the Council on Higher Education Accreditation for the review of professional psychology education and training programs.
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The Westminster men improved to 7-4 overall and the Mount Union men go to 5-6. The Westminster women moved to 7-5 and the Mount Union women fell to 8-3 overall.
Sophomore Amanda Marlow (Twinsburg, OH / Twinsburg) was the only Titan to score three wins on the day as she was able to touch first in the 200 yard IM with a time of 2:17.17, the 100 yard butterfly with a time of 1:01.38, and in the 200 yard butterfly with a time of 2:15.47.
Scoring multiple wins for the women were senior Caitlin Lehberger (New Wilmington, PA / Wilmington) in the 100 (1:06.68) and 200 (2:25.88) yard breaststroke and sophomore Erin Erdley (Meadville, PA / Cochranton) in the 100 (1:03.02) and 200 (2:15.58) yard backstroke.
Senior Mike Barringer (Boardman, OH / Boardman) in the 100 (49.06) and 200 (1:47.64) yard freestyle and junior Alan Nedley (White, PA / Connellsville) in the 100 (52.72) and 200 (2:00.81) yard butterfly earned multiple wins for the men.
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The wheels of justice moving at the ICC but are we not in denial as a country that we ought to bear the final responsibility of ensuring impartial justice locally?
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The International Criminal Court at the Hague on 23/01/2012 confirmed that Court's Prosecutors proposed charges that Hon. William Ruto and Mr. Joshua Sang be charged at the ICC for crimes against humanity of murder, deportation or forcible transfer and persecution and Hon. Uhuru Kenyatta and Ambassador Francis Muthaura for crimes against humanity of murder, deportation or transfer, rape and other inhuman acts and persecution. The ICC declined to confirm charges against Hon. Henry Kosgey and Major - General Hussein Ali.
The ICC reiterated that the now four Kenyans against whom the charges of having committed crimes against humanity have been confirmed remain accused persons before that Court and that they also remain presumed innocent until found guilty by a Trial of the Court.
The post election violence and terror, the subject of the ICC prosecutions rocked Kenya in late 2007 and early 2008 and it is now four years on. The Nation of Kenya has been able to observe a transparent criminal process slowly unfold at the ICC far away in Europe at the Hague, in the Netherlands. Depending on where one stands in the whole matrix of the ICC process there are those who now are for that process and those against it but nobody can fault the systematic transparent and timely movement of the wheels of justice at the ICC from the moment that Court became seized of the matter.
The question that Kenya has to answer as a Nation is that we remain largely in denial of the criminal injustices that were committed in 2007/2008. That despite all the big talk about the heralding of the new Constitution in 2010 and the various so called raft of reforms, the Grand Coalition Government has deliberately glossed over, skirted over the most important question of local impartial justice for the perpetrators and victims of crimes committed in 2007 and 2008.
The ICC has only indicted four Kenyans for the post election violence and mayhem. It is clear as daylight that indeed crimes were committed in their legion in 2007/2008 and by other Kenyans beyond those four now facing the ICC. This country cannot delude itself that the ICC process will be the panacea of our failed institutions of justice. Are we saying that we will go to the next General Elections with the hundreds of perpetrators of the 2007/2008 post election violence at large and at liberty to indulge in another round of impunity?
West fm states that the ICC decision of 23/01/2012 ought to compel us as a country to ask ourselves whether we are prepared to follow the same path as the ICC in ensuring that the local justice system really and actually works, however slowly it may be. The challenge is to see, witness a systematic prosecution of those who were the low and middle rank perpetrators of the 2007 and 2008 post election violence so that can Justice be our Shield and Defender as a country and no other substitute. Yes, Justice cannot forever remain a rhetorical topic in Kenya. The reform of the institutions of justice, the rule of law, law and order must be accompanied with real concrete steps in the delivery of justice the way the wheels of justice have been shown and seen to move at the ICC. The ultimate outcome of the reform of the institutions of law and order is to see the fruits of those reforms delivered to Kenyans and not the reforms on paper as an end in themselves.
Yes, let the Nation of Kenya do its duty to its citizens by ensuring expeditious impartial justice to all the perpetrators and victims of the post election crimes and violence of 2008 now and not later so that as a Nation we may soar above the now prevalent National denial of that sad chapter in our History.


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#21773 new defect (bug)
Scheduled pages/posts should not appear in custom menus
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When I add a scheduled page/post in a custom menu the page/post immediately appears in the front-end menu.
I think these scheduled pages/posts should only be visible in the front-end navigation when their scheduled time is reached (as it is the case with automatic menus). Otherwise the "Schedule" functionality makes no sense with custom menus, especially for pages.
Here is another forum post regarding this issue: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-menu-support-for-scheduled-pagesposts
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comment:1 @SergeyBiryukov — 3 years ago
- Component changed from General to Menus
comment:2 @ericlewis — 3 years ago
- Keywords reporter-feedback added
Could not replicate the bug on trunk with twentyeleven.
If no custom menu has been created, the default menu uses the function wp_page_menu, which via wp_list_pages get_pages queries only for pages that have a post status of 'publish', while any scheduled pages would have the post status of 'future.'
comment:3 @Lorangeo — 3 years ago
- Keywords reporter-feedback removed
The default menu (which is automatically generated) is OK. The problem is with custom menus.
It should be possible to create a custom menu, add some scheduled pages to it, and expect that these scheduled pages will only appear in the front-end menu when their scheduled time is reached.
Sorry if I'm not clear but my English is somewhat limited.
comment:4 @c3mdigital — 3 years ago
- Type changed from defect (bug) to enhancement
- Version set to 3.0
comment:5 @jdcohan — 3 years ago
Private and Draft pages also appear (to all users, including non-logged-in) in a Primary Navigation menu which is based on a Custom Menu. My most recent confirmed test was with WordPress 3.4.2 and Twenty Ten 1.4.
Seems to me this is a defect. I'm just saying...
comment:6 @Lorangeo — 3 years ago
- Type changed from enhancement to defect (bug)
jdcohan is right. Pages set as "Private" or "Draft" still appear in custom menus, even for users that are not logged in and that should not be aware of these contents.
From the WP codex:
Private content is published only for your eyes, or the eyes of only those with authorization permission levels to see private content. Normal users and visitors will not be aware of private content.
Based on this I would also consider it a defect that hopefully shouldn't be too difficult to fix.
comment:7 @alexfurr — 21 months ago
hi - this still seems to be a problem i.e. scheduled pages should NOT appear in a custom menu.
Any movement on this? I would imagine its quite a simple fix :) (he says!)
kind regards,
comment:9 @SergeyBiryukov — 20 months ago
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Kids Are All Right 11/18/2013
Even though Thanksgiving isn't until next week, many organizations who serve the city's youth already are preparing activities for the upcoming winter break.
The YMCA will have a holiday camp on weekdays Dec. 23-31 (not including Christmas Day) for children signed up for after-school care. Cost will be $70 for YMCA members, $140 for nonmembers. The cost will include morning and afternoon snacks; each child needs to bring their own lunch. Sign-ups will begin Dec. 6, and will continue until all slots are filled.
There also will be special programs for the after-school group on the day before Thanksgiving. Cost for the week is $35 for YMCA members, $70 for nonmembers. Single-day sign-ups are not available.
The Alliance for Women & Children will offer a holiday camp from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Nov. 27; Dec. 23, 26, 27 and 30; and Jan. 2-3. Children of elementary school age can be signed up for $12 per day, with their spot assured upon payment. Snacks will be provided, but children need to bring a lunch.
The city of Abilene also will offer a weekday holiday camp at Rose Park Recreation Center from Dec. 23 through Jan. 3, excluding Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and New Year's Day. The regular camp will be open from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and will require a $50 fee, which covers meals, snacks and activities. An extended camp will be offered from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. for $60. Sign-up begins Dec. 2.
If you know of any other special holiday activities for kids available to the general public, contact me and I'll help get the word out. I'd particularly be interested in hearing about opportunities in communities outside Abilene.
Camera Shots, 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Mistletoe Hut, Stephenville. For Brownie and Junior Girl Scouts. Cost: $6 per girl; snacks and drinks provided. Register at www.gsctx.org; click on "Calendar," then "Girl events." Narrow search to Council Area 1.
CookieU, Saturday, Girl Scout Service Center, 901 Avenue B, Brownwood. Cost: $4.50 per girl. Sessions at 11 a.m. and 1, 3 and 5 p.m. (only need to attend one). Register at www.gsctx.org; click on "Calendar," then "Girl events." Narrow search to Council Area 1.
Nov. 27 for "Holidays Around the World" on Dec. 16, Girl Scout Service Center, 901 Avenue B, Brownwood. All age levels. Cost: $5 per girl. Register at www.gsctx.org; click on "Calendar," then "Girl events." Narrow search to Council Area 1.
Nov. 30 for Abilene CookieU on Dec. 7, (location to be determined). For Daisy, Brownie and Junior Girl Scouts. Cost: $6 per girl. Contact: Laura Jones at 800-582-7272, ext. 1204, or email@example.com.
Of note
The Boy Scout and Girl Scout offices in Abilene will be closed Nov. 27-29 for the Thanksgiving holiday. The Girl Scout office in Brownwood will be closed Nov. 28 and 29.
Tot Spot, for children ages 3-5 (and an adult), 10 a.m. first Thursday or 9:30 a.m. or 11 a.m. first Friday of each month, The Grace Museum, 102 Cypress St. Free for museum members, $5 for nonmembers. Reservations required; 325-673-4587 or www.thegracemuseum.org. Check the museum's website under "Classes and Workshops" for holiday scheduling.
National Center for Children's Illustrated Literature, 102 Cedar St., 325-673-4586, offers activities every week:
Monthly art and reading event for children ages 2-5, 10 a.m., first Friday of each month.
Art activities for children, 1-4 p.m. each Saturday. Free.
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Do you read Marian's Roots & Rambles blog? If not, take a peek. This is what she does in her business. Very interesting. http://rootsandrambles.blogspot.com/2011/06/what-exactly-do-i-research.html And stop by Amy's We Tree Blog and see what she's up to. I'd like to be where she is now. http://wetree.blogspot.com/2011/06/vacation-from-my-ancestors.html Tweet
Motivation Monday – Get Published
I received the March 2011 issue of the Association of Professional Genealogists Quarterly. This issue was filled with many articles relating in some way to the Civil War. It also included an article called Get Published in Magazines Tips for Getting Your Words in Print by Leslie Albrecht Huber. Leslie discusses how she got her […]
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Update: Check out the MS TechNet docs for more netsh commands and how-tos here.
While listening to an archived Hanselminutes podcast about Scott's Top-10 Windows Utilities, I was intrigued to hear him mention netsh, the command-line util for setting your network interface properties. As he points out, it's true that not many folks know the power of netsh to control your IP, DNS, routing tables and more.
I've been using netsh myself for some time to get around a minor XP annoyance: Switching WiFi networks. I assign an IP to my laptop when I am connected to my home router, but at the office I connect via DHCP. Ordinarily, this switching would involve opening up the properties for my connection and changing the IP and DNS configurations according to the network I was on. This is so onerous, that there are even utilities out there (that people are charging $$$ for) to make this more seamless.
I'm cheap and I believe in a working hack that saves me a few bucks!
So, I crafted a couple of batch files to run netsh commands that would allow me to switch between my home and office WiFi routers with ease. Here's the first one for establishing a DHCP connection:
netsh interface ip set address name="Wireless Network Connection" dhcpnetsh interface ip set dns name="Wireless Network Connection" dhcp
I saved this in my root folder under the filename "wireless_dhcp.bat". Note the address and dns named connections that are used in this batch - this refers to the named connection for the wireless card. You can confirm the name of your connection by running an "ipconfig /all" and checking the ethernet adapter item for your WiFi NIC.
Next, here is the batch file that I used for my internal network:
netsh interface ip set address name="Wireless Network Connection" source=static addr=192.168.0.100 mask=255.255.255.0 gateway=192.168.0.1 gwmetric=1
netsh interface ip set dns name="Wireless Network Connection" source=static addr=18.104.22.168 register=primary
netsh interface ip set dns name="Wireless Network Connection" source=static addr=18.104.22.168 index=2
This is a little more interesting. The first command sets up my IP address, mask and gateway -- I use a non-standard config for VPN access. The next two commands set my DNS servers - the primary and secondary. It's a little counter-intuitive the way this is set with "index=2", but this allows for a range of DNS servers to be added and accessed by index.
I saved this batch as "wireless_home.bat" in my root folder. Now, when I want to switch networks, I just drop down to the command prompt and run the appropriate batch to switch my network settings.
Cool. But it could be notched up. This is where another util Scott mentions came in handy: WinKey. This bad-boy (which also happens to be out-of-print, so get it from the link fast) lets you configure windows key shortcuts to run commands automagically. I added two shortcuts for Win-A and Win-B to run my home and DHCP batch scripts respectively.
Total time to do this hack is about 10 minutes and it's zero cost. With a little creativity and some review of the netsh commands, you could put together some pretty complex on-the-fly changes for your own NIC configs.
Have fun!
After almost two years of not being able to find the time to complete my last exam, I finally bagged my Microsoft Certified Application Developer cert last Monday: 70-316 Windows Application Development Using C#.
I managed an 840 which, truth be told annoys me -- I should have had a high 900s score. They are getting trickier with the questions, so my caution to anyone doing the exams now or in the future is to read the questions carefully!
Last Thursday and Friday I attended a Certified Scrum Master course -- intensive training that is delivered by a Certifed Scrum Master Trainer.
While I have read widely about Scrum, it was a useful course to attend to get independent verification that I indeed understand agile/Scrum fundamentals and to be able to ask hard questions about how to manage an agile project.
My course was delivered by Mishkin Berteig, an agile coach and trainer with 10+ years experience in the field. If you're new to agile and want to get the gold seal, I highly recommend attending either the 2 day or 4 day courses.
If ever there was a patent example of why Big Design Up Front / Waterfall projects fail, it's this one. And, unlike your typical isolated corporate app, the failings of this one can result in more than just budget overruns: It could contribute to lives lost.
Today's Washington Post details the story of a multi-million dollar effort to revamp the FBI's criminal investigation tracking system, which was to be called the Virtual Case File (VCF). A contractor, Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) was engaged to develop the system, which, after years of development and testing had collapsed upon itself in a heap of bugs that render the system unusable.
Reading this multi-page account is like watching a trainwreck unfold or the Titanic sinking: You just know it's going to fail because it's so obvious. It reeks of impending failure. Some hallmarks:
Software problem reports, or SPRs, numbered in the hundreds, Azmi recalled in an interview. The problems were multiplying as engineers continued to run tests. Scores of basic functions had yet to be analyzed.
"A month before delivery, you don't have SPRs," Azmi said. "You're making things pretty. . . . You're changing colors."
"A month before delivery, you don't have SPRs," Azmi said. "You're making things pretty. . . . You're changing colors."
Ahoy, captain! Iceberg 12 o'clock high! Icceeeeberrrrrg!
The article also notes (laments?) the failures as stemming from "failures of almost every kind, including poor conception... muddled execution". Sounds like a raging waterfall of doom to me. From here on, this story takes a bizarre set of twists and turns, with the FBI acquiescing to SAIC's demands to rewrite their system from scratch as opposed to modifying off-the-shelf products (hmm-- is that even feasible?)
But the evidence for this BDUF/watefall failure continued to mount, including launching the new software all at once with minimal testing, half-baked (sloughed) features and, of course, the infamous "sliding delivery date":
By 2004, even as the news grew worse behind the scenes, FBI officials struggled to put an optimistic spin on their software upgrade.
In March, testifying before a House subcommittee, Mueller said that the FBI had experienced "a delay with the contractor" but that the problem had been "righted." He said he expected that "the last piece of Virtual Case File would be in by this summer."
Two months later, Azmi -- who had been named the bureau's chief information officer -- pushed back the estimate further, predicting that SAIC would deliver the product in December.
In March, testifying before a House subcommittee, Mueller said that the FBI had experienced "a delay with the contractor" but that the problem had been "righted." He said he expected that "the last piece of Virtual Case File would be in by this summer."
Two months later, Azmi -- who had been named the bureau's chief information officer -- pushed back the estimate further, predicting that SAIC would deliver the product in December.
And of course, this resulted in "feuding over change orders, system requirements and other issues". Game. Set. Match. Thanks for playing "I Want To Deliver Software with a Waterfall". Please collect your kick in the rump as a parting gift.
Given the importance of an agency like the FBI, this multi-million dollar fiasco is really disturbing. Even more disturbing is that despite mountains of evidence to the contrary, major software firms continue to indulge the fallacy of the waterfall to deliver high-risk, critical software projects.
In the end, Lockheed Martin stepped in to develop a replacement for VCF called Sentinel, projected to cost $425M. Apparently Lockheed will be required to meet benchmarks (hmm, like Sprint Reviews?) and so far "has survived three review sessions and is on-budget and on-schedule".
The takeaway from this cautionary tale is not to get into the same predicament: By carefully planning a segmenting work into smaller deliverable chunks that are continuously tested and reviewed by the client, fiascos like the VCF can begin to dissipate, costs controlled and software that provides real value delivered.
Just noticed this item in my collection of RSS feeds that describes a tool included in the SPS 2003 Post-SP2 Hotfix Package:
Description of a new command-line operation that is available for the Spsadm.exe command line tool that you can use to clean up orphaned items in the configuration database in SharePoint Portal Server 2003
Does anyone at MSFT support know how to write better titles? Sheesh!
The article details using the repairorphans command argument for the spsadm.exe tool to remove orphaned items that can result from corruption of the content or config databases in SharePoint. I know of at least two scenarios in the past year that I could have used this tool!
Update: See Joel Spolsky's recent post, The Command and Control Management Method, for more bon mots on the prevailing software project management follies of today. I especially like his definition of hit and run micromanagement...
While noodling around the weeb today for info on Fartleks (I'm training for the Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront 1/2 Marathon this September) I came across this old post by Eric Meade at java.net that neatly dovetailed two of my passions: Long distance running and agile projects.
Eric notes in his post that there is some simpatico between training for long-distance running and efficient, productive software projects: Both require reviewing and training toward a sustainable pace.
In terms of running, if you're doing a 1/2 marathon (21.5 km), running increasing long distances for long hours will succeed in doing one thing: Burning you out -- if you're lucky. Thus, the key is to gradually increase your distances and the pace at which you can sustain effort over time -- this is known as "pushing the wall" or the point where your body would ordinarily say "see ya!" and you collapse from exhaustion.
A key part of managing this increase is to mix hard effort with periods of recovery -- the classic definition of a Fartlek workout. As Eric notes:
Business always seems to be interested in increasing the pace and it isn't that hard (to describe). Fartleks a.k.a. "speed-play" is the answer. When fartleking you increase from your long slow pace to a short (the end is in sight) burst of speed, once you recover, you can burst again.
Typically business misses two things in this process, starting from a sustainable pace and recovering. So they take teams, which are already working at an unsustainable pace, and slowly, continually turn up the pressure
Typically business misses two things in this process, starting from a sustainable pace and recovering. So they take teams, which are already working at an unsustainable pace, and slowly, continually turn up the pressure
I've seen this in action over my career time and again, and I've even willingly indulged it, sacrificing weekends and holidays for barely attainable objectives -- and generally speaking, it wasn't worth it. Why should businesses care?
Well, I can think of one huge reason that has a direct impact on a firm's prestige: Employee retention.
I believe that we're increasingly entering an era where there will be two types of companies: Those that foster an environment where their teams can work at a sustainable pace producing high-quality software (using agile practices), and those that Eric Meade describes, who continually notch up the pressure with bad practices (with BDUF or by abusing agile), burning out their teams and continually looking for new people.
I am a Toronto-based software consultant specializing in SharePoint, .NET technologies and agile/iterative/lean software project management practices.
I am also a former Microsoft Consulting Services (MCS) Consultant with experience providing enterprise customers with subject matter expertise for planning and deploying SharePoint as well as .NET application development best practices. I am MCAD certified (2006) and earned my Professional Scrum Master I certification in late September 2010, having previously earned my Certified Scrum Master certification in 2006. (What's the difference?)
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