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Moraine Park Technical College offers ongoing credit and noncredit training opportunities for business and industry to help improve their competitive edge as well as develop and retain a skilled workforce.
Listed here are courses that are available in July:
Black Belt Certification: Tuesdays and Wednesdays, July 13-14 and 27-28 and Aug. 10-11, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., Room T-105, West Bend campus. Participants who have successfully completed the Six Sigma Green Belt Certification and project are eligible to enroll in this program to prepare for the ASQ Six Sigma Black Belt Certification test. The program includes 48 hours of classroom instruction. Cost is $1,900 per person, which includes materials, lunch and refreshments.
Microsoft Word 2003 – Level 1: Thursday, July 15, 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Room O-106.1, Fond du Lac campus. Learn how to create/edit a document, format text and paragraphs, use Word's tools to proof documents, create tables and use mail merge. Cost is $199 per person, which includes materials and lunch.
Microsoft Word 2003 – Level 2: Tuesday, July 20, 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Room O-106.1, Fond du Lac campus. Learn about lists, customized tables and charts, customized graphics and advanced mail merge commands. Cost is $199 per person, which includes materials and lunch.
Mastercam Basic Mill: Wednesday and Thursday, July 21-22, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Room T-205, West Bend campus. This class is intended for new Mastercam users who have completed Introduction to Mastercam X3. Topics covered include tool and material libraries and 2-1/2 axis (Mill Level 1) machining functions including contouring, pocketing, drilling, c-hooks, customization and verification. Cost is $675 per person, which includes materials.
Microsoft Word 2007 – Level 1: Thursday, July 29, 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Room O-107.1, Fond du Lac campus. Explore the new look of Word and examine the features to create, format and edit professional documents, lists and tables. Learn how to use numbered/bulleted lists and tabs. Cost is $199 per person, which includes materials and lunch.
In addition to classroom courses, Moraine Park offers a variety of online courses in partnership with ed2go® Learn More, a division of ThomsonTM, that can be taken from your home or office at times that are convenient for you.
Registrations should be made at least one week prior to the start of a seminar.
For more information about these seminars, to register or to request a current copy of Moraine Park's Workforce Solutions course catalog, call 920-924-3449, e-mail email@example.com or visit morainepark.edu/training.
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- Open A11y Mission Statement
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- Keyboard Access Functional Specification, 1.0 (KAFS)
- Learn more about the IAccessible2 interfaces for Windows.
- Get support or ask a question either on the Accessibility mailing list or via irc.a11y.org, in channels #a11y and #ia2 -- or, create your own channel and get others involved!
Archival References & Resources
- Statement On Desktop Accessibility Development
- Open A11y Charter (2003)
- Open A11y Roadmap (2003)
- Open A11y Working Group Description (2003)
- Accessibility press release (2005)
- Email Lists: Archives & List Services
- Meetings: Agendas & Minutes
- Specifications: Drafts & Recommendations
- irc.a11y.org (on the #a11y or #ia2 channel)
- Open A11y Workgroup Participants
- Open A11y's Executive Officers
- Open Accessibility BZR Repository
- Open Accessibility GForge Projects
- Bugzilla
- Expert Handlers SIG
- IAccessible2 SIG
- Input/Output (I/O) SIG
- Keyboard Accessibility SIG
First chartered in 2004 as the Linux Foundation Accessibility Workgroup (LFA), the Open Accessibility (A11y) Group functions today within the Linux Foundation to establish free and open standards that enable comprehensive universal access to various computing platforms, applications, and services. Open A11y makes it easier for developers, ISVs, and distributions to support assistive technologies (AT). Assistive technologies enable individuals to make full use of computer-based technology despite variability in physical or sensory abilities due to illness, aging or disability.
AT enables individuals who are blind or visually impaired to read online text, for example, and provides the means for individuals who do not have the use of their arms and hands to write and correspond. AT also enable individuals who cannot speak or hear to participate on the telephony interfaces of today -- and will support their participation on the multimodal computer interfaces of tomorrow.

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This inviting, encouraging how-to turns the ideals of today's food revolution into eight practical steps to a healthier, more natural diet. It's a workable blueprint for enlightening your kitchen in ways that are good for you, your family, your pocketbookand the environment. Friendly and fun, featuring lighthearted design and lively writing, the book shows how preparing good food with simple, natural ingredients can actually cost less than reaching for commercially produced and processed alternatives.
You'll discover fresh, seasonal recipes and new ways to go shopping, plus practical advice on how to establish priorities among the many rules that sometimes seem to contradict each other. How can I eat fresh fruit in the middle of winter? If a favor local produce, do I have to stop eating bananas? Full of quick, innovative solutions (and a few old-fashioned ones, too), True Food is a complete vision of how to select, prepare, serve, store, and enjoy the planet's bounteous harvest.
The eight steps introduce and implement a short list of powerful ideas, from "Eat Local Food" to "Green Your Kitchen." Every piece of advice is backed up by solid research and personal experience. Stories of real people who have committed to the lifestyle offer amusing tales of acquiring new habits and inspiring portraits of people who quietly live with a new awareness. Special sidebars called "Budget Benefits" highlight how following these eight simple steps can actually save you moneyand at the same time help you nourish better and greener attitudes everywhere.
Annie B. Bond is a leading authority on the connections between the environment and personal health and well-being. She maintains blogs on multiple green lifestyle websites, has written four books, and conceived "Soular Energy Daily," a spirituality newsletter, with Deepak Chopra.
Melissa Breyer is senior editor of Healthy and Green Living and writes about food. She creates new recipes that are posted daily to Care2.com, a natural lifestyles social network and website with 10 million members.
Wendy Gordon founder of National Geographic's Green Guide, was honored as one of Glamour magazine's 75 Women Environmental Leaders in 2009. She serves as board chair of Trickle Up, an anti-poverty organization; as vice chair of the Rainforest Alliance; and as trustee of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Rockefeller Family Fund.
How to Eat LocalThe most common sense way of stating this principle is: The shorter the distance that food travels from farm to table, the better. Simply consider the distance between you and your food sources (and we're not talking supermarkets herethey're vendors, not sources), and choose the closest producers. Get your eggs from a farm in your town rather than from a farm in the far reaches of your state, and vegetables from farms in your state rather than from farms two states over. If you live on the East Coast, Florida citrus is better than California citrus. If you live in the state of Washington, California is closer than Florida, but Florida is closer than Brazil, and so forth.
Eating locally doesn't mean doing without. You don't have to give up coffee and tea, for example, which are popular the world over, though grown only in certain regions. But it does mean making choices when possible in favor of those foods produced nearest to where you live. Every time you purchase from the closest farmer, you strengthen the network of growers and businesses seeking to build and maintain a "foodshed" that is diverse, nutritious, sustainable, and secure.
How to Buy Local in WinterOut-of-season produce is an extravagance because it is so energy-intensive to transport it to your kitchen. It's not just your drive to bring it home from the grocery storethink of all the traveling that produce has done to get to the store from whatever field or orchard it was grown in. But you still want to eat plenty of fruit and vegetables, so in the winter, we should all try to eat frozen, dried, and bisphenol A (BPA)-free canned food, and food stored in local root cellars.
Eating frozen fruit and vegetables, especially from local producers and local root cellars, is your very best option during the winter months. Frozen foods retain much of their nutritional content, in addition to cutting energy costs in transportation. It takes much less energy to keep food frozen than it takes to ship food hundreds, even thousands, of miles and keep it fresh along the way. Dried and canned foods can also be nutritious options.


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Philadelphia has the Mummers, but here in Delaware, Middletown has the Hummers. The local group's annual informal parade will start at about 1 p.m. on New Year's Day.
The offbeat event features homemade costumes and floats that often lampoon public figures who have "stepped in something stinky," according to Grand Marshal for Life, Jack Schreppler.
All are welcome to participate. No registration is necessary – just show up. The starting point is the intersection of South Cass Street and West Cochran Street, one block from the fire house, just west of Broad Street. The parade will then proceed to Broad Street through downtown Middletown.
While all in good fun, this year's parade will be also be poignant, as the Hummers honor Sam Miller, a Middletown native who is battling cancer. Miller's father, Dutch, was the inspiration for the parade which began when he was ill on a New Year's Day and friends strutted to his house to cheer him up.
Schreppler said that the trophies this year will have a football theme as a tribute to Sam Miller, an All-American defensive end who recently was inducted into the University of Delaware Hall of Fame.
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All six CHA schools are back in action this weekend in non-conference contests. CHA teams have been no stranger to road play in the early going. League members have been the visitors in 11 of 16 non-exhibition games this season. They have a 4-6-1 record in those contests, with four losses (and one win) coming against top-ten opponents. This weekend,Penn State (at Quinnipiac), Robert Morris (at Bemidji State), No. 10 Mercyhurst (at Providence) and Syracuse (at No. 3 Clarkson Saturday) look to improve upon that mark with a combined seven more away games. RIT and Lindenwood will look for success at home against Vermont and Minnesota State, respectively. The Orange will host the Golden Knights in Syracuse Friday to open the weekend series.
Lindenwood vs Minnesota State – The Lindenwood women's ice hockey team (0-3-1) is home this weekend for a two-game series against 1-3-0 Minnesota State ... the series is the first of two between the Lady Lions and Mavericks this season. The Lady Lions are 0-6-0 all-time against Minnesota State ... last season, Minnesota State won all four meetings against Lindenwood, with the closest contests being two three-goal games in Mankato ... last week, Lindenwood dropped two contests to nationally-ranked North Dakota by scores of 5-1 and 6-1 ... goalie Nicole Hensley had the sixth-most saves for a single-game in NCAA history when she stopped 69 saves in the second game of the series ... Hensley has stopped over 90 percent of the shots she has faced in every game that she has played this season ... Kendra Broad had a point in both games last week, scoring a goal on Friday and assisting on a goal on Saturday... Lindenwood improved its penalty kill in game two against North Dakota, holding it to 0-for-7 for the game.
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No. 10 Mercyhurst at Providence – Mercyhurst (1-2-0) travels to Providence College (1-1-0) on Saturday, October 12 at 2:00 p.m to begin a two-game set against the Friars. The weekend series will conclude on Sunday, October 13 at 1:00 p.m. The Lakers are 11-3-0 lifetime against the Friars. Their last meeting was at the Mercyhurst Ice Center when the Lakers sweeping Providence, 6-3 and 5-0, in a weekend series exactly one year ago, October 12 and 13th of 2012. Last weekend, the Lakers lost their home opener against Ohio State in overtime, 4-3. The loss marked the Lakers first home opener defeat since the 2005-06 season. Christine Bestland tallied the first goal of the contest, extending her scoring streak to nine games. She could potentially tie her career-long point streak this Sunday against the Friars. With the Lakers down one and just 2:05 left in regulation, sophomore Jenna Dingeldein tallied her third goal of the season to send the contest into overtime. However, Ohio State picked up their first-ever win against Mercyhurst minutes later. The Lakers outshot Ohio State 38-28. Sophomore goalie Amanda Makela suffered her second loss of the season (1-2-0), stopping 24 shots and allowing four goals.
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Penn State at Quinnipiac – Penn State (1-0-1) travels to Connecticut this weekend for two games against Quinnipiac, the first-ever meeting between the schools. Both teams enter at 1-0-1. Penn State earned a win and tie last weekend on the road against Vermont, while the Bobcats did the same at St. Cloud State. After the first two weeks of regular season play, Penn State is the only undefeated team remaining in College Hockey America... Three Nittany Lions finished the weekend with three points, including CHA Player of the Week Hannah Hoenshell. All four newcomers tallied points, led by Laura Bowman and CHA Rookie of the Week Kelly Seward, who each tallied two goals. Nine Nittany Lions tallied points and five accounted for Penn State's seven goals... Hoenshell's game-winning goal in the second period of Saturday's game was scored just six seconds after Vermont tied it up. Goaltending was of major importance for Penn State as the Lions were out-shot in both games (38-21 on Friday, 39-22 on Saturday) as the duo of Nicole Paniccia and Celine Whitlinger combined for 72 saves on 77 shots.
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Robert Morris at Bemidji State – RMU (1-1-0) travels to Bemidji State this weekend and looks to pick up their first win against the Beavers since Nov. 17, 2007. The Colonials are 1-5-0 against Bemidji State in their history, with their last meeting coming in the 2011 RMU Hockey Showcase at the CONSOL Energy Center. The Beavers are 1-0-1 so far this season after opening their schedule against fellow CHA member Lindenwood two weeks ago.
The Colonials opened up the 2013-14 season last weekend with a split against Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. In Friday's contest, Robert Morris fell to the Engineers, 3-0, despite outshooting them, 25-20. On Saturday, the Colonials bounced back with a quick start, and held on to earn the 4-3 victory in overtime.
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RIT vs Vermont – RIT (1-2-0) returns home to play a pair of games against Vermont on Friday and Saturday as part of Brick City Homecoming and Family Weekend. Friday's game from Ritter Arena starts at 7 p.m., while Saturday's game starts at 3 p.m. RIT is 6-0-3 all-time against the Catamounts, having last played them on Jan. 28, 2001, a 1-1 tie at Ritter Arena. The Catamounts enter at 0-1-1 after a weekend series against Penn State.
The Tigers (1-2-0) picked up their first win of the 2013-14 season last weekend, defeating New Hampshire, 3-2 on Friday. They fell to No. 10 Northeastern, 5-4 on Saturday. RIT tied a Division I team record with three power-play goals in the loss on Saturday. Jess Paton and Erin Zach now have a point in all three games this season. Goalie Ali Binnington made 30 and 33 saves in the two games last weekend.
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Syracuse vs No. 3 Clarkson – The Orange (1-1-0) is set for a home-and-home weekend series with Clarkson University this weekend. The 3-0 Golden Knights have outscored opponents 21-4, including a 12-1 victory over fellow CHA team RIT in the season opener. Syracuse started the season with a 4-1 win over No. 10 Northeastern in the season opener on Friday, Oct. 4, their first-ever victory over the Huskies. The Orange had not bested a ranked opponent since the second game of the 2010-11 season when SU took down No. 8 New Hampshire, 4-2. The win was just the third time in program history that Syracuse has beaten someone on the national list and was the largest margin of victory. The Orange split its opening weekend, losing to UNH, 3-2 on Saturday. Syracuse has scored three of its six goals on the power play, which is operating at 25.0% through two games. CHA Goalie of the Week Kallie Billadeau backstopped the win against Northeastern with 27 saves, and has posted a .938 save percentage in two starts this season.


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In April 2009, Jennifer Wong, then 35, returned from her honeymoon and realized she felt nauseated. At first she chalked it up to job dread. She'd once loved her spot as a marketing director at a music-database company in Emeryville, California, but she started hating the place after it was bought by a giant corporation and the dizzy fun of a start-up turned into a drone of -steering-committee meetings. "I was bored," she says. "And every month that went by, I got more and more bored."
But then Wong discovered the true reason for her seasick feeling: She was pregnant. Thrilled by the news, she soon found herself desperate for information. "I wanted it daily, and I wanted it at my fingertips," she says. "But I was working full time, so it wasn't like I could carry that huge Mayo Clinic book around with me." She also wanted access to a community of women, answers to questions she didn't want to raise with her doctor and a place to journal about her pregnancy. In her downtime, she started poking at her smartphone and realized there was a gap in the online world: Nothing was available that really met her needs.
Wong talked to her husband, a technology engineer, and they decided they should develop a maternity app. Not that Wong had any formal technology training; she'd majored in art history, worked in marketing and gone to culinary school. "But growing up, we couldn't afford much—the only way to get a computer was tobuild our own, so my brother and I bought the pieces and figured out how to put it together ourselves," she says. "Until I got my first job, I always built my own computers."
She approached the launch of an app with the same spirit of DIY creativity. First, she developed a menu of functions that, based on her own experience, seemed desirable. On her list: The app should enable a woman to enter her due date and track her body's changes as well as her baby's growth. She needed to be able to pose questions (anonymously, if she preferred) to a huge community of other moms and moms-to-be. She needed a widget that would measure and record her contractions with a built-in stopwatch. Wong provided the ideas; it was up to her husband to turn them into software. But with their own child on the way, neither wanted to put a lot of money into the venture. In the end, they were convinced by one critical aspect of the software market: "You can enter the space and get a lot of traction with a small amount of money," Wong says.
Ultimately, Wong spent nomoney to start her company (which they called Alt12, because on most computers, holding down the Alt key and typing 1 and 2 makes the female symbol, ♀). She stayed at her job but moonlighted to design the front end of the app, and her husband left his job to design the back end. Wong named the app BabyBump, and in October 2009 it went on sale at iTunes and in the Palm catalog. (Today it is also available at Android Market and alt12.com. There is a free version and paid versions that cost $2.99 to $3.99.) The couple established a series of milestones they decided they had to meet in order to fully commit to Alt12. The first—to be met within three months of the launch—was 2,000 downloads a week. They got nearly 3,000. The next milestone was to earn at least enough to cover their cost of living, about $15,000 per month. Alt12 brought in about $33,000.
In February 2010, they hired their first employee, and in March, they introduced their second product, Pink Pad, a health-tracking app for women. Wong waited until July 2010, six months after her son was born, to join Alt12 full time. After raising venture capital through AngelList, a site for investors in start-ups, the company introduced Kidfolio, a photo-sharing app. Today, Alt12 has five full-time employees and eight moderators for the online community, which numbers more than one million active users. To date, the apps have been downloaded 3.5 million times. "I think there is this misconception that to start your own business, you have to have a lot of money," says Wong, now pregnant with her second child. "But that's not true. You can start small and make a big impact."
"My true passion is creativity," says Jennifer wong, who launched a preg-nancy app with her husband. She poses here in front of the crib that will belong to her second child.
"Plain and simple, I needed a job that would allow me to take care of my daughter," saysSandy Adams(here in her D.C. office) of the decision that started her on a path to Congress.
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Published: Thursday, March 21, 2013 at 5:30 a.m.
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The Spruce Creek Marching Band is back home, but the memories continue.
Here are more pictures of the marching Hawks' performance Sunday in Dublin, Ireland's St. Patrick's Day Parade. The band won international recognition after capturing the parade's best overall band award.
Spruce Creek's 200-member band was one of 17 international bands in the parade. Other bands were from Canada, Germany, Ireland and Slovenia. The bands were judged by a panel of military and university band leaders from around the world
The parade traveled three miles down O'Connell Street in downtown Dublin, finishing at St. Patrick's Cathedral in the heart of the city. On Saturday, the school's three jazz bands and jazz combos performed during the International St. Patrick's Music Festival.
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The best form of trip cancellation and
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When you visit Dijon, make sure you visit first the Musee du Vin de Bourgogne before you proceed to other places. This museum will introduce you to the importance of this place as the wine-lovers' paradise. Dijon is located right in the middle of the old Burgundy region where the original wines were made. Musee de la Moutarde is also in this village as it speaks of the world famous mustards of Dijon. Musee d'Art Sacre and Musee National Magnin on the other hand displays the famous religious arts and creations by famous painters. Musee Archeologique displays the artifacts found arounf the area from prehistoric times up to the medieval period. Fine gothic architecture is also here and can be found in their churches like the Eglise Notre-Dame and the Cathedrale St-Benigne.
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On February 15, DJ Spinderella of Salt-n-Pepa will participate in an interview and lead a DJ demonstration performance as part of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum's Ladies First: Celebrating African-American Women Who Rock programming throughout Black History Month. The event starts at 7 pm, and will be viewable via live stream here.
Back in 1988, John McCready wrote in England's New Musical Express: "After Salt-n-Pepa, women in rap don't need to act like men in reverse. They have created a space of their own and the future is wide open." They were prophetic words as more than 25 years after their debut single, "The Show Stopper," Salt-n-Pepa rank among the most successful female groups in hip-hop history. Sandy "Salt" Denton, Cheryl "Pepa" James and DJ Spinderella (Dee Dee Roper) created an impressive string of best-sellers, capped by 1991's "Let's Talk About Sex" (Blacks' Magic) – an upbeat pop-rap song that expressed surprisingly frank and thoughtful opinions about the dangers of HIV/AIDS, media censorship of sexual imagery and the complex emotions bound up with the physical act (Let's tell it how it is, and how it could be / How it was, and of course, how it should be / Those who think it's dirty have a choice / Pick up the needle, press pause, or turn the radio off). Booted along by skittering snare-drum patterns and samples from "I'll Take You There" by the Staple Singers, "Let's Talk About Sex" became Salt-n-Pepa's biggest crossover hit, peaking at Number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100.


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A History Of Everyday Life In Pictures
Ozan Sağdıç is a photographer. He is also interested in literature. He has translated the rubâî's of Omar Khayyam and Rumi into Turkish, and he has turned the poems he has written into books. But neither of these things dominated his life like photography. The photographs he has taken since 1956 virtually document the different stages through which Turkey and its people have passed. And now for a history of everyday life in pictures, from Ozan Sağdıç.
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View of the artificial pond at Youth Park in Ankara, 1979
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A Middletown man was charged with burglary Jan. 11 after police said he stole a riding lawn tractor from a barn on Choptank Road.
Jedadiah Elliot, 32, who resides in the unit block of Meadow Drive in the community of Chesapeake Meadow, is being held at the Howard R. Young Correctional Institute after failing to post a $6,500 secured bail.
Police said that on Jan. 10, Elliot responded to the 75-year-old victim's residence looking for his alleged lost dog.
Elliot gave the victim his lawn service business card that had the name "Jed" and a phone number on the card so that if the dog was found, he could be contacted, police said.
The next morning at around 11:19 a.m., New Castle County Police were called to the victim's residence in the 1100 block of Choptank Road in Middletown for a reported burglary that had possibly occurred overnight.
The victim told police that an unknown subject had entered his barn and removed his 54" lawn tractor, which he later found damaged and stuck in mud in a wooded area near his home.
As an officer headed back to the crime scene, they saw Elliot walking in the field in the area of the abandoned mower carrying two beer cans, police said.
The officer then learned that Elliot was the man who was searching for a lost dog the day before.
Elliot was found to be in possession of wire cutters and a set of key to the lawn tractor, police said.
A metal fence was also heavily damaged, police said, which was in the path that the mower was driven.
Police interviewed Elliot and the officer confirmed his involvement with the crime, also learning that the wire cutters had also been taken from the victim's barn.
Elliot was charged with burglary, attempted theft, and criminal mischief.
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Welcome to the 100 Books In A Year Challenge 2012! I haven't done too badly with this challenge, but I still failed. At present I'm on book 72 and I imagine I will add another few before the year is out. This is the second year I haven't reached my personal goal of 100, so I'm hoping 2012 will be my year!
In 2011 I had an amazing 630 participants!! All I can say is, WOW! So I hope you will join in again this year too! For more details see below.
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In 1999, BBE released Henry Street Music: The Story So Far – 1993 To 1999, a slice of superior club classics featuring the key music makers of the day. Todd Terry, Armand Van Helden, Kenny Dope, DJ Sneak, 95 North, Robbie Rivera, Davidson Ospina, Ralphi Rosario, Mike Delgado, King Britt and a handful of others under various alter egos and nom de plumes.
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THOMASVILLE | Audrey Elizabeth Privette, 30, of Leonard Street, died Thursday, April 4, 2013.
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The Battered Women's Justice Project (BWJP) is a national resource center on the civil and criminal justice system response to intimate partner violence (IPV). BWJP's Military Advocacy Project provides technical assistance on improving responses to IPV involving active duty, Reserve, and National Guard personnel, veterans, and their families, including effective coordination between the military and civilian interventions in these cases. Under federal contracts, BWJP conducts trainings on related issues and provides on-site consultation to jurisdictions around the country seeking to improve victim safety and offender accountability.
- Develop and manage projects to increase the capacity of community-based victim advocates, lawyers, other providers, and programs to address IPV and sexual assault involving military personnel, veterans, and their families.
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- Maintain accurate records and prepare periodic reports to funders.
- Monitor legal, military, veteran, and public policy developments nationwide that affect civil/criminal justice responses to IPV and sexual assault involving military personnel, veterans, and their families.
- Participate in the national dialogue about the intersection of IPV and combat-related conditions and accountability for military and veteran IPV offenders.
- Develop a best practice model for responding to IPV when there are co-occurring combat-related conditions.
- Organize and moderate webinars and audio-conferences.
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Zend_Controller_Front line 511 its correct so because the base class is _interface The double documented thing will be fixed
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Basketbal: Charles garners honor
Published: Saturday, March 9, 2013 at 1:12 a.m.
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Lenoir-Rhyne's Jazmine Charles, a former Central Davidson star, has been named to the 2012-13 all-South Atlantic Conference first team.
A sophomore, Charles leads L-R in scoring with 11.5 points per game and also leads the team in 3-pointers made and steals.
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The People's Republic of China (PRC) first competed at the Olympic Games in 1952, at the Summer Games in Helsinki, although they only arrived in time to participate in one event.[1] That year, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) allowed both the PRC and the Republic of China (which recently relocated to Taiwan after the Chinese Civil War) to compete, although the latter withdrew in protest.[1] Due to the dispute over the political status of China, the PRC did not participate in the Olympics again until the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid.[1] Their first appearance at the Summer Olympic Games after 1952 was the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.[2]
The People's Republic of China hosted the Games on one occasion: the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
The Chinese Olympic Committee in its current form was recognized in 1979.[1] Before the Chinese Civil War, athletes competed as the Republic of China (ROC) at the Olympics. The ROC continued to compete from 1952 to 1976 (Winter), but only representing athletes from the island of Taiwan (although the football team members of ROC in the 1960 Olympic Games were overwhelmingly Hong Kongers). The dispute over use of the name China resulted in the PRC boycotting the Games completely during these years. In 1979, the International Olympic Committee passed a resolution for the ROC team to be designated Chinese Taipei, and this opened the door for the PRC to finally join the Olympic movement.[1]
Hong Kong has had a distinct National Olympic Committee since 1950 and has competed at the Games since 1952.[3] After the territory was returned to the PRC and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region was created in 1997, this arrangement has continued, with Hong Kong competing independently from the rest of the nation under the name Hong Kong, China.[3]
The People's Republic of China (PRC) sent a delegation to the Olympic Games for the first time at the 1952 in Helsinki, Finland. The Chinese delegation (including athletes and officials) consisted of 38 men and 2 women,[4] including the men's football team, the men's basketball team, and one swimmer. Only the swimmer arrived in time to take part in the official competition, and the football team played two friendly matches.[5] The Chinese stayed 10 days in Helsinki and participated in the closing ceremony.
The Republic of China's (ROC) team withdrew from the Games on July 17 in response to the IOC's decision to allow both PRC and ROC sportsmen and women to compete.[6] This marked the beginning of the "two Chinas" conflict in the Olympic Movement, which resulted in the Chinese Olympic Committee's withdrawal from the IOC in August 1958. The issue was resolved in November 1979, and the People's Republic of China participated in the 1980 Winter Olympics—their first appearance since the 1952 Games.[4]
The first gold medal to be awarded at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles was also the first-ever gold medal to be won by an athlete from China (both ROC and PRC) when Xu Haifeng won the 50 m Pistol event. It was called "a break through zero" - an event that brought great joy to the whole Chinese nation.[7] Li Ning won also 6 medals in gymnastics, 3 gold, 2 silver, and 1 bronze, earning him the nickname "Prince of Gymnasts" in China.[8] In its first full participation at the Summer Olympic Games, China earned 15 gold, 8 silver and 9 bronze medals and placed fourth in medal standing. The Eastern Bloc led by the Soviet Union had boycotted these Olympics, so some of the strongest sporting nations like USSR and East Germany were not participating. In the 1988 Summer Olympics at Seoul, South Korea, China finished 11th in the medal standings. However, its athletes rapidly improved, finishing 4th at the 1992 Summer Olympics at Barcelona, Spain. In subsequent Summer Olympics, China has always finished at 4th or better ranking, culminating in the first rank in the 2008 Summer Olympics, which it hosted at Beijing.
At the 2004 Olympics, China took home 63 medals, 36 of them (57.1 percent of the total) being won by young athletes; 10 of the gold medal winners were under 20 years old. Chinese athletes made outstanding achievements in tennis, canoeing and track and field. Hurdling star Liu Xiang became the first Chinese man to win gold in an Olympic track event, finishing first in the 110-meter hurdles and equaling the world record of 12.91 seconds. In canoeing Meng Guanliang and Yang Wenjun won the men's C2 500 final, China's first Olympic gold in aquatic sports. Sun Tiantian and Li Ting won the women's tennis doubles final, China's first ever tennis gold.
- Olympic Medal Winners. International Olympic Committee. Retrieved on 2006-12-09.
- Chinese Olympic Committee. International Olympic Committee. Retrieved on 2007-12-06.
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 10th-15th Olympic Games: 1936-1952 Chinese Olympic Committee.
- ↑ 23rd Olympic Games: Los Angeles 1984 Chinese Olympic Committee.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 SF&OC History Sports Federation and Olympic Committee of Hong Kong, China.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Template:Cite journal
- ↑ Mulvenney, Nick. "Chen Chengda, China's almost Olympian", Reuters, 2008-08-07. Retrieved on 2008-08-13.
- ↑ "1952: Zatopek wins gold at Helsinki", On This Day 20 July, BBC News, 1952-07-20. Retrieved on 2008-08-13.
- ↑ http://en.olympic.cn/games/summer/2004-03-27/121671.html 23rd Olympic Games: Los Angeles 1984 Chinese Olympic Committee.
- ↑ Reuters - Li Ning, "Prince of Gymnasts" and businessman - 8 Aug 2008


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Thursday, October 20, 2011
Calling Native English Speakers
We all know the difference between "between" and "among": use "between" when it's, well, a choice between two options, and "among" when you are talking about three or more. For instance:
I cannot choose between tiramisu and cheese cake. (This is a complete lie. I totally go for tiramisu every time.)
Among the deserts available at Fancy Restaurant, the best one is their tiramisu.
However, there's a bit of a caveat, as Grammar Girl taught me some time ago. When your choice is among three or more specific things, then the use of "between" is appropriate. For instance:
Mary is choosing among several top schools.
Mary is choosing between Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. (Note the use of "between" when the different options are specific.)
Now, why are we doing this little grammar exercise? Because I just received a proof for a paper of mine. This journal lets you see the copy-edited version as well as the proof. In the copy-edited version, I noticed that this sentence had been edited:
"... there is a connection between Math Concept A, Math Concept B, and Math Concept C".
The concepts are very specific, therefore, according to Grammar Girl, "between" is appropriate. However, the copy editor changed it to "among".
Dear reader, do you think the copy editor was right? (Which would make Grammar Girl's advice wrong.) Clearly, we must have a poll:
If you think the copy editor was wrong, would you request that they change it back or would you just leave it alone because, really, who cares?
Cath brought up another interesting issue, so on to another poll:
27 comments:
- Cath@VWXYNot? said...
I voted that s/he was wrong - "choosing between" things is a different concept to "connections between" things. You can't really have connections among things - that just doesn't sound right.
Having said that, I would change "Mary is choosing among several top schools" to "Mary is choosing FROM among several top schools", although not having had much formal instruction in English grammar I'm not sure that's correct!
If I was the copy editor and I really had a problem with the original wording, "there are connections between A, B, and C" might have worked better. Or "A, B, and C are connected".
- October 20, 2011 at 4:55 PM
- Comrade PhysioProf said...
Or "A, B, and C are connected".
DING! DING! DING! We have a winner!
- October 20, 2011 at 4:59 PM
- GMP said...
Cath, I would also say "choosing from among top schools," and that's how I had it in the original post (20 min ago :-). Then I went back to Grammar Girl's page and she has this sentence "She chose among the Ivy League schools." Since I am quick to dismiss my non-native-speaker intuition about what's correct, I changed it.
But we can do another poll!!! :-)
- October 20, 2011 at 5:03 PM
- Postdoc said...
A quick, nonscientific method: googling "choosing among" pulls up 1.18 million hits, but googling "choosing from among" only pulls up 797,000 hits. Not very scientific, but for what it's worth. :P
- October 20, 2011 at 5:19 PM
I voted "Who cares?"
I think there's room for wiggle here, so I'd go with the copy editor. However specific those math concepts are, a concept is, in some sense, still general, in that it can be applied to many things.
Or so it seems to me without knowing your specific context.
- October 20, 2011 at 5:22 PM
I think it also depends on the journal. In my field, the European journals have different conventions than the American journals. My PhD advisor didn't like publishing in the European journals because he was a grammar stickler and didn't like the heavy-handed editing his manuscripts were subjected to.
- October 20, 2011 at 5:40 PM
- Cath@VWXYNot? said...
@postdoc: well, by the same measure "here here" outperforms "hear hear" by almost three to one, but is demonstrably wrong
(pet peeve! :) )
- October 20, 2011 at 6:20 PM
- Cloud said...
I'm with Comrade PhysioProf- reword that sentence. It is awkward with either between or among. But I think Cath is right- there is a difference between choosing between and a connection among.
For the absolute truth, you could consult a style guide. I think the Chicago one is available online....
And I think is "choosing from among" correct. For whatever that is worth.
- October 20, 2011 at 6:32 PM
- Alyssa said...
I think saying "among Math Concept A,..." just sounds wrong, so I voted that the editor was wrong in the change. I'm not sure I would request a change in the paper though.
For the second poll, both sound okay to me.
- October 20, 2011 at 6:37 PM
The Economist style guide claims that the distinction between among and between is among other things artificial and incorrect.
However once people have become convinced that it is incorrect to use among between two choices using between when people expect among interrupts the reading flow and as such is best avoided.
- October 20, 2011 at 7:56 PM
So as an FYI, many journals are now outsourcing their copy editing to India (for reals). Depending on the journal the editor may not be a native speaker either. I have made copy editors fix a grammatical error they put in my paper in proofs before and never had an issue.
In regards to your second poll question. I would say both are correct with the caveat that scientific writing is best served with economy of language so stylistically I would choose the former.
- October 20, 2011 at 7:58 PM
- Cloud said...
@Crystal Voodoo- chance are someone with a job as an English copy editor in India is in fact a native English speaker, just of a different dialect than Americans.
- October 20, 2011 at 9:38 PM
@Cloud Valid point and please forgive any disrespect.
In my case the errors were changes to incorrect verb conjugations and pronouns neither of which could be accounted for by conversion to British English. Given the cut and paste nature of copy editing the changes must have been purposeful and many were so elementary that either the editor didn't speak English natively or they had confused my paper for the comments section of a lolcat post.
However my former PI was British and when my first manuscript proof came back converted entirely to -our, -ise and sulphur I went into his office and asked if he was screwing with me. He nearly laughed out of his chair and then reminded me the journal was based in England. Good memories.
- October 20, 2011 at 10:06 PM
- Alethea said...
What about "amongst," for even more grammatical trickery?
- October 20, 2011 at 10:06 PM
I routinely correct the grammar of my copy-editors. Hmm... maybe this means I'm not publishing in good enough journals?
- October 20, 2011 at 10:34 PM
- Gears said...
This strikes me as one of those "if a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does anyone really care?"
- October 21, 2011 at 7:15 AM
I'm a postdoc in a technical field and also do academic copy editing on the side, for whatever that's worth. The company I work for is occasionally hired by publishers to edit accepted articles, and my rank is "senior editor" (I edit junior editors' edits).
I see no clear rules here; neither version sounds totally wrong. My preference is for "among math concepts A, B, and C." This syntax emphasizes that there are common features shared by one or more items. I read "among math concepts" as saying "A, B, and C form a connected graph" (if we think of the concepts as nodes and connections as edges). In contrast, the "between" construction is more like "A, B, and C have edges between them," and it implies to me that the graph is complete. As you mention, I think about pairwise comparisons with "between" and common features with "among." Either could work, but considering the generality of the sentence, I prefer "among."
While I think this level of editing is probably not terribly important, I am so glad you care about writing well. All the people who think it's superficial do science a disservices.
- October 21, 2011 at 10:21 AM
Haha. I meant "disservice."
- October 21, 2011 at 10:22 AM
- Postdoc said...
@Cath@VWXYNot? - Well, Here Here is the name of a band (http://www.myspace.com/hereheremusic) and Here, Here and Here is the name of an album (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here,_Here_and_Here), so that certainly affects that analysis!
- October 21, 2011 at 12:39 PM
I am the first person who posted as Alex, not the second. In order to avoid confusion, I shall use the longer version of my name, and append an appropriate descriptor.
- October 21, 2011 at 5:51 PM
- gasstationwithoutpumps said...
Neither "... there is a connection between Math Concept A, Math Concept B, and Math Concept C" nor
"... there is a connection among Math Concept A, Math Concept B, and Math Concept C" seems right to me. A "connection between" is a graph edge, not a hyper edge. The closest I can get is "there are connections between …" (where either "among" or "between" is ok for me).
In my dialect of English, I can choose from a set and I can choose between two things, but I can't choose among things. For me, the only choice is "choose from among". This may vary by dialect, though.
- October 22, 2011 at 8:57 PM
- GMP said...
gasstationwithoutpumps, it's really one common thread sewing together A, B, and C, i.e. the connections aren't really binary. The full sentence is actually quite formal, as the paper is heavily mathematical, as in "It can be shown that there is a connection between A, B, and C (see Appendix A)." And then there are 5 pages of math in Appendix A.
- October 22, 2011 at 9:09 PM
- DocG said...
There is no such thing as a connection "among." And a connection "between" three different things sounds awkward. If you are trying to say that A, B and C are interconnected, then maybe that's all you need to say, i.e.: "A, B and C are interconnected."
And by the way, I am troubled by the use of the word "to" in the first comment above: '"choosing between" things is a different concept to "connections between" things.' I realize that this usage has become very common, especially in Britain, but it disturbs me because prepositions are essential to the logic of sentences, and when an idiomatic usage trumps logic, there is a danger of confusion.
Nothing can be different "to" anything else. The word "to" implies motion, which is not a factor in this case. The correct usage is "different from." In most cases it might not seem to matter, since the intended meaning can be inferred. However, in some cases it might either change the meaning or result in confusion. I realize this has become a commonly used idiom for many, but imo it represents a degradation not only of the English language, but logical thinking generally. http://englishproper.blogspot.com/
- October 23, 2011 at 7:51 AM
- cherishthescientist.net said...
Coming kind of late to this, but I was also taught between only applies to two things while among is used for more than two objects.
I was also taught that compare means to find likenesses among objects while contrast means to find differences. It's obvious that isn't common usage, though it not being common usage doesn't mean the misuse is correct.
Finally, it should simply be 'among several schools', not 'from among'. You shouldn't use two prepositional phrases in a row. From is not supposed to be an adverb describing among, so among is sufficient.
That being said, I try not to be too picky about these types of things when reading other people's work (as the proper use is not necessarily the common one), so I'm not sure why your reviewer changed it.
- October 23, 2011 at 11:45 AM
This isn't really a grammar issue. It's a style issue. And the number one question for matters of style in science is "what is the clearest way to express the information?" Differences of opinion about word choice or usage can almost always be resolved by rewriting the sentence to be more clear.
That said, I disagree with the editor in this case.
- October 23, 2011 at 2:05 PM
- Cath@VWXYNot? said...
@DocG: my high school English teacher (in England, in the late 80s/early 90s) specifically taught us that both "different from" and "different to" are fine, but that anyone using "different than" should be immediately shot!
The alt.usage.english newsgroup has an interesting piece on UK vs. US usage in writing and in speech, and Oxford Dictionaries says the following: "Some people criticize different than as incorrect but there's no real justification for this view. There's little difference in sense between the three expressions, and all of them are used by respected writers.
Sorry to have troubled and disturbed you so much, though ;)
- October 24, 2011 at 4:50 PM
- DocG said...
I'm not criticizing you personally, Cath. "Different to" is certainly a widely accepted usage, especially in Britain. But that's precisely what I'm objecting to: its wide acceptance, which in my view weakens the language.
There is a clear logical opposition between "to" and "from," obviously. And when we see them being used interchangeably, that should concern us. There are, of course, certain illogical elements in language that are accepted as idioms and rightly so, since in such cases the intended meaning is almost always unambiguous.
In this case, however, we are not simply talking about the illogical use of a word, but the careless misuse of a logical opposition.
And it CAN make a difference. For example: "All the students were different to George." Under standard British usage this sentence is ambiguous. It could mean George thought all the students were different from one another. OR it could mean all the students differed from George.
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