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Mike Slocombe looks like the kind of person who would try something different on the Web. Dreadlocks snake down the back of his slightly tatty T-shirt, and he punctuates his conversation with London slang (hence the translations in brackets).
But Slocombe ranks among the big cheeses of the UK Web design community, not least for his innovative e-zine, Urban75, which is known for covering the kind of news and information that mainstream news sites usually pass by. His site includes an informative drugs section, news of political activism, an irreverent soccer news section, and most famously of all, the interactive Shockwave game, 'Slap a Spice Girl.'
Urban75 is run by Slocombe on a not-for-profit basis, and it doesn't pull its punches, especially when it comes to the likes of Bill Gates or certain British politicians, who are the targets of the zine's popular 'Who do you want to punch today?' page.
Slocombe's other plaudits include designing sites for Snickers, Internet Service Provider Direct Connection, Morgan Stanley and Zenith Films; he is also Internet Magazine's Web expert. Before launching his e-zine, Slocombe graduated with a first in graphic design from London's Camberwell College of Arts. (Yes, he designed their Web site as well.)
Online Journalism Review guest contributor J.L.Perrone spoke with Mike Slocombe in Brixton, London.
J.L. PERRONE: Urban75 has been described as a political activism site, a football zine, an e-zine... what is it?
MIKE SLOCOMBE: I think it's different things to different people. Some people go there just for the games. I just put a game there a couple of days ago, it's called 'Eco-Draughts,' it's total nonsense, but it's fun. For some people it's just a fun site -- they play some games, they have a laugh. I think a lot of people who aren't interested in politics, they shape the alternative politics. I hope it offers an alternative, I think you can make a point and have a bit of a laugh. Some people use it for the drugs stuff, some people for news and events. It is politically motivated. It aims to be a site that has something to say, but says it with humor, not just the usual, dry pages and pages of rant.
PERRONE: When did you start Urban75?
SLOCOMBE: Two years ago. I did issue one, which was about four pages, and I was dead chuffed [happy]. By luck I blagged a job. The first job I had was doing the Snickers Web site entirely on my own, and I was completely out of my depth. I mean, luckily I knew about football. I got great experience. When I started, the Levellers [British indie pop group] helped me out, they bought me a modem and an Internet account, and that's kind of when Web sites were quite rare. This guy did the site at first, I sent him the stuff, I didn't know how to do it. So within the space of a week I had a fax line, two phone numbers, e-mail, Web site, so people assumed that it's a big organization. That's what's kind of good about the Web. If you've got the content, you don't need hundreds of people. A lot of it's just cut and paste -- you find stuff, you adapt it, slap it in. There's a lot of resources out there. It's just finding it and presenting it.
PERRONE: Do you get a lot of feedback from readers, and do you take a blind bit of notice of it?
SLOCOMBE:A lot of feedback is from the 'Who do you want to punch?' thing. Because the site is so popular, it attracts people to send me stuff, so that obviously shapes the content a lot. There are quite a few sources I use that I know are credible who I have used before, because I write on my own. The best e-mails I get are when someone says, 'I've spent two hours I disagree with every word' -- great, they've spent two hours reading the issues.
PERRONE: How frequently do you update Urban75?
SLOCOMBE:As and when. The news and events is daily, the 'Slap' nominations about once a week. Articles as they come up. It's about 400 pages -- it's a big Web site. I have skills as a graphic designer to present it in a manner that people want to read it. It's won loads of awards and stuff because it's interesting to look at and easy to download. Initially it was going to be a magazine, but the printing costs made it prohibitive. Not just that -- the second it's printed it is out of date, whereas the Web costs virtually nothing to upkeep. The site is sponsored by Direct Connection. I did their Web site for them. They had to put [Urban75] on a separate server -- it's one of their busiest sites. It's the flip side of having a successful Web site -- I was originally on Demon [a UK Internet Service Provider] but they chucked me off because the traffic was so high.
PERRONE: There's very little multimedia on Urban75. Why not?
SLOCOMBE: The trouble is they're just so heavy. There's actually a video clip sat on my server and it's just too big. There's new video streaming coming through -- Microsoft Netshow is quite good. That makes it a bit better. It's fine if you're on a network powered by a two mg pipe from the States, but if you're just sat [sitting] at home, it's just annoying really. I can't wait for it to speed up because I like video stuff. I've got loads of great footage, it's just too big. I think it's good for me as a designer, the fact that I work from home, I am reminded every minute of the day what it's like to see some fabulous animated gif that weighs 50k -- I just don't do it any more.
PERRONE: Do you use any cookies on Urban75?
SLOCOMBE: Only one, which is on the 'Useless' page and doesn't do anything. I think you make the choice whether you trust the site. In themselves they are not very harmful. The truth is anyone if they wanted to could see where you've been on your computer, I generally don't like them, but I've given up refusing them. I am thinking of sticking an HTML tutorial on my Web site. There's a lot of the HTML purists, they think you should do a page that can be read by everything from Netscape 0.1 upwards. I did a test which tests whether your site can be used by blind people or not. I got three out of five. I'll specify the font face, and it works on every single platform I've tried it on, but they hate it -- but who cares as long as you can read it.
PERRONE: Why is the site lacking a search engine?
SLOCOMBE: I've tried three times to do it and I've failed. I am currently working on one -- I've got this list of things to do. It needs a search engine, definitely, because there's a lot on it. But most of the site is pretty well indexed.
PERRONE: : What is more important, content or style?
SLOCOMBE: : Both go hand in hand. It's presenting in a manner that is interesting to look at. I look at sites that are really well designed and there's nothing in them! Urban75's basically a magazine format but adapted to the Web. There's a lot of things you can't do. Text is hard to read on the Web, go past two screenfuls and you get an eyeful. It's hard to organize, there's a lot of information. The hope is that people look at it, like it, interact with it and take on board an issue or two. It's also a resource. Hopefully it's been up long enough to be trustworthy. One of the nicest things was the Electronic Telegraph sometimes links to my reports, like the last 'Reclaim the Streets' event [an anti-car protest group] which I thought was great. It's nice to get that kind of credibility.
PERRONE: What is your opinion of the mainstream news sites?
SLOCOMBE:They are all right. They have their uses. I mean the way they present the news, obviously a lot of the things that I would view as interesting doesn't get presented, so that's probably why sites like mine exist. What is good about the Web is that nobody knows -- I mean, people assume I'm an organization. I ran a thing called 'Football Fans Against the Criminal Justice Act.' The fact was, it was only ever a 'football fan,' it was me!
PERRONE: What sites do you have bookmarked?
SLOCOMBE: I get asked a lot what sites do I like, and I can't say, not because I am saying mine's so wonderful, but there's so few sites that I can say, 'great, I go there all the time.' There's one called Sound of Print [LINK TO THIS?]. I plugged it in this month's Internet Magazine. It's done by loads of students, the graphics are great. I like the site because it's just pure enthusiasm, and they're really good graphic designers, and that's the content. There's others -- it's all to do with what market you're trying to attract, but if you're trying to attract the casual user to look at your issues, I think you have to put some design in. I see these Web sites, they've brought Frontpage, and they look the same as the next one. It's like advertising, it's very sophisticated. Some of the corporations I work for I think they're starting to realize that it doesn't have to look like a corporate brochure, and the same with a Web site, you can be quite adventurous. People expect it because it's a more informal medium.
PERRONE: Was all the publicity from the 'Slap a Spice Girl' game good for Urban75?
SLOCOMBE: I've never advertised the site as such, and Urban75 had been gaining a lot of popularity -- it won awards, it was site of the day, it was in all the Internet magazines -- before the game went on. At the moment, it has leveled off, it's been regularly about 20-60 thousand every day and it has been that way for about two months. A lot of people are regulars. It's been on Australian TV, American TV, it was in Rolling Stone last month, so you get peaks. That's the thing about Web sites. If they're good, people link to them and it kind of rolls on. To me, Urban75 is like an advert, it draws in attention, it's how I get all my work. All the corporate work I've done is off Urban75.
The site had a hit rate five times more than Snickers, and Snickers was touted as, quote, 'the most successful European Web site.' What I made a conscious decision not to do is, you know, banner advertising. I am losing at least four 400[pounds-NEED SYMBOL] [about $600] a week, minimum, by not having adverts, but I don't like the idea of having adverts. I just think it would spoil the message and it would lose its credibility as a Web site that is totally free, it's full of stuff. Some people just play the games -- they'll go to 'Slap a Spice Girl' and ignore the rest -- the idea is that's the pretty shop front and people look at it. It was made as a political comment, although to most people that comment's probably completely lost. A lot of people look at the drugs section. In America it seems there's not much in the way of good information. I just try to be honest. People want to know what the drugs do.
PERRONE: Is there a point at which publicity can become negative?
SLOCOMBE: The site gets worldwide publicity. The 'Punch Bill Gates' was on the BBC Nine O'clock News a few months ago -- it turns up all over the place. I think it's just there to make a point. I get really blasted about the fact that I get people writing to me from New York, New Zealand, Australia, as a matter of course, but I think it's great for activism because you can link up so much better. For campaigning it's great. ? PERRONE: What are you planning to change?
SLOCOMBE: Structure, graphics. What happens is you have a section and you don't know how big it's going to be, and it grows. The action section is getting bigger and bigger, and when you have a choice that grows to about 15, it's too big. I restructure as it goes, but it's difficult because you just don't know how busy sections get, or don't get. The photography section, I set up five pictures; I had so many e-mails saying they really liked it, I ended up doing a separate section for it. There's a section with short stories, that has grown. It's kind of organic really. The good thing about a Web site is, with a magazine, you have an issue, and you have to start all over again. This stuff just stays up, so it just grows, and you prune the old stuff.
PERRONE: What advice would you give to people who want to produce their own e-zine?
SLOCOMBE: Buy a cheap book on HTML, number one. Top of the pile, because you get stuff like Frontpage, it's fine until you want to do something a bit different, and then it makes it very rigid. HTML isn't that hard -- I'm totally untechnical, I've no background at all, I bought a computer three or four years ago. Within a day you'll be able to do a basic Web site. Then, be inspired by graphics -- don't just look at other Web pages because you end up with a very limited style. Look at magazines, photography -- most of the work I do is photography based. I'm often arguing with fellow designers on this, but if you look in magazines, it's the picture that grabs your eye, and text, but for some reason when people go to Web design, they think 'now what we'll have is a spinny thing in the corner.' I don't understand why photography ceases to be strong in some people's eyes. Keep it simple, put as much of yourself in it and make it as original as possible. Look at design books. And no clip art! It's not like you have to compete with publishing, where you need a budget to produce the magazine. Anyone can do it -- my first Urban75 was around for six months on demon it was done on a tenner [about $15] a month, and it became really popular. You just need a bit of imagination and a cheap computer.
PERRONE: What is going to be the 'next big thing' on the Internet?
SLOCOMBE: It's always content -- if there's good content people will go to it. A lot of the gizmos -- like dynamic HTML -- are all right, but does it make it a better experience because the text is flying around? There are a lot of nerdy techheads -- you can see a nerdy techhead site because it's always got spinny things. I think the Internet will become a lot more integrated, just in terms of what you do -- shopping, commerce.
PERRONE: Does Internet publishing spell the end of print?
SLOCOMBE: No, people like hard copy. Magazines are one of the biggest growing sectors in Britain at the moment. Computers have made magazines cheaper to produce, but I think people like to have paper copy. If I had endless money I'd produce Urban75 as a magazine but then I'd have to employ someone. There's no way I could do it on my own.
PERRONE: Why the name Urban75?
SLOCOMBE: Er... um... well it sounded good and I liked the way it looked when it was written. There's also a slightly dodgier reason that's got something to do with my first girlfriend...and that's all you'll get out of me!


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Hi, I've got a CM-700 that generates serious "static-y" noise at seemingly random intervals, making it unusable. When it's not making noise, it records great, so I'd like to try and address the problem. Has anybody ever heard of this problem, or have any ideas about what might be the cause and/or how to fix it?
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You might want to check and see if the screw on the side of the mic near the XLS connector is tight. That serves as the grounding point for the mic chassis. If it is loose, this could cause intermittent noise. If it's not that, then check mic cables to make sure they are free from defects. Then your last choice would be to send the mic in for service. Follow the directions on our website (www.crownaudio.com) under the support heading, and choose factory service. You will will out the Service Return Authorization (SRA) form and creat an SRA number.
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Tyler Potutschnig belted an RBI single in the bottom of the ninth to lift Glendale over Moshannon Valley, 16-15, in nine innings in high school baseball action Saturday at Peoples Natural Gas Field.
Mitch Gedman had two hits and drove in two runs for the Vikings.
Joel Martin went 4-for-6 and scored four runs for the Black Knights
Glendale hiked its record to 5-9, while Mo Valley fell to 2-10.
MOSHANNON VALLEY (15): C. Kephart ss-p-rf 533, J. Martin p-rf-lf 644, Jasper rf-1b-p 601, Kovolick 2b 000, Stewart dh 612, Bacher 1b-p-1b 514, Ohler c 400, Evans ph 000, Southern cf 310, T. Martin 3b 532, McHugh lf-ss-rf 522. Totals - 43-15-18.
GLENDALE (16): Sutton lf 513, Evanskey ss 521, Hewitt ss 000, Gedman c 512, Ivory cf 532, Sanders 2b 322, Potutschnig 3b 312, Gates rf 521, Wigfield p 100, J. Kephart dh-p 311, Hamilton 1b 212. Totals -38-16-16.
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PORTAGE - Portage beat Southern Huntington, 10-1, in the title game of the Portage Spring Classic, and the Mustangs' Evan Price was named tournament MVP for collecting five hits in two games.
Jesse Kreutzberger had a three-run single in the fourth inning of the championship game for Portage (7-6), which beat Harmony in its opener, 14-4 in six innings. Kreutzberger won the tournament's home run derby.
Penns Valley beat Harmony, 11-7, to win the consolation bracket.
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Nick Snyder's two-out single scored Nik Suckinos in the bottom of the seventh inning to lift the Altoona Lions to a 5-4 win over Police at Seitz Field.
Kris Hatch had three hits, and Mikey Weston had two hits for Altoona Lions. Noah Robertson had three hits, and Conner Gahagan had two hits for Police.
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American Family Chiropractice erupted for four runs in the sixth inning en route to a 9-4 win over Juniata Civics at Seitz Field.
Josh Smolko had two hits and was the winning pitcher, and teammate Zach Martynuska had two doubles. Josh DeGol and Jimmy Marquette had two hits apiece for Juniata Civics.
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Records: Juniata Civics (0-2); American Family Chiropractic (1-1).
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Andrew Smith's six inning effort on the mound wasn't enough for Postal Express as it surrendered nine runs in the top of the seventh inning in a loss to Tom Dickey Law at Seitz Field. Smith strukout eight batters.
Dylan McClellan belted a two RBI single for the winners.
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Records: Tom Dickey Law (2-0); Postal Express (X-X).


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In 30 years of teaching, I have learned to ignore op-ed pieces related to education. Usually they conclude that all problems in education point to the teachers, and that the remedy is for teachers to do more with fewer resources but have the privilege of more paperwork.
Therefore, Dianne Sagan's July 31 column, "Our teachers undervalued," immediately caught my eye. I was especially intrigued by her noting the paltry $200 "bonus" Amarillo Independent School District teachers receive for master's degrees. This underscores what, for me and other veteran teaching staff with higher degrees, has been a career-long erosion in the value and reward for our advanced degrees.
In my first year of teaching, 1973-1974, my master's bonus was equal to 13.4 percent of my salary. Today, that "bonus" is worth a mere .075 percent of my salary, a drop of more than 95 percent in relative dollar amounts.
A comparison of actual dollar amounts is also revealing. When I began teaching, the bonus for master's degrees and coaching (not head) was approximately equal. As a former coach, I am the first to argue that coaches, for their countless extra hours of work, are not paid enough. However, the numbers show a definite comparison between academics and athletics. Over the past three decades, coaching bonuses have increased 300-400 percent, while bonuses for master's degrees have dropped by 60 percent.
Twenty years ago, I made a presentation to the school board on behalf of the Amarillo Classroom Teachers Association (now AEA) which utilized the surprising fact that 45 percent of the instructional staff for AISD had master's degrees. That gave the citizens and children of Amarillo one of the most highly qualified teaching staffs in the state.
Current information reveals that 30.56 percent of all personnel, including administrators, have master's degrees. The exclusion of administrators from this figure probably would leave 25 percent of teachers with advanced degrees, a drop of 44 percent in the past 20 years.
Even this figure will drop like a rock as the bulk of those with master's degrees are veterans facing imminent retirment. Local high schools now are having to scramble to find qualified teachers for the innovative dual credit programs offered by Amarillo College.
I, of course, agree with Ms. Sagan: Our teachers are undervalued indeed. The most undervalued, however, are those veteran teachers, who, on their own initiative, at considerable expense and with little thought for recompense, have secured advanced degrees.
The beneficiaries of our advanced educations have been the children of Amarillo. The tragedy is that, as we retire, there apparently are no plans to replace us.
Rick DeVoe is a dual credit teacher at Tascosa High School.
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Records, records, everywhere! The broad-based S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC ) crossed and held the 1,600 level, the Dow Jones Industrial Average briefly touched the 15,000 level intraday, and the Nasdaq Composite ended at another 12-1/2 year high.
The big boost in today's market was a surprisingly better-than-expected nonfarm payroll report, which showed the gain of 165,000 jobs in April – much higher than the 145,000 economists had forecast, and considerably stronger than the ADP private-sector employment report would have suggested earlier in the week. Stronger job numbers would signal that the economy is rebounding faster than economists had imagined, and could lead to the return of top-line business growth instead of simply cost-cutting.
For the day, the S&P 500 ended higher by 16.83 points (1.05%) to close at another all-time high of 1,614.42. The 1% gain in the S&P 500 was certainly robust, but the following three components stood out on this record-setting day.
It was certainly an odd day for the S&P 500's best performer U.S. Steel (NYSE: X ) , which rose 6.3% after reporting a considerably worse-than-expected first-quarter loss. U.S. Steel blamed increased competition and higher costs as the reason why its flat-rolled steel segment turned a $183 million profit in the same period last year into a $13 million loss this quarter. Furthermore, U.S. Steel alluded that things are going to get worse before they get better. U.S. Steel is certainly benefiting from today's strong jobs report and strength in most commodities; however, between its huge debt load and prospects for worsening losses, I'd just as soon look elsewhere.
Financial services provider Charles Schwab (NYSE: SCHW ) also added 6.3%, following a press release yesterday that noted there were 13 mergers and acquisitions in the registered investment advisory segment in the first quarter – the highest level in a year. The thesis here is simple: If the economy is doing better, and jobs are being added at a faster pace than economists expect, then Schwab's financial services, ranging from brokering to investment and M&A, will be called upon more often. A report from Reuters that the demise of brokerage profits is overrated also helped fuel optimism in the sector.
Finally, chip maker Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ: AMD ) continued its monumental run this week, tacking on another 5.6%. All told, shares rose 37% this week as investors unleash their optimism surrounding AMD's key wins in the next-generation Microsoft Xbox and Sony Playstation 4. The gaming industry has been waiting years for updates to these consoles, and AMD looks poised for some quick gains on what should be strong sales for these next-generation gaming devices.
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Mark Fisher, Fact Magazine
April 2007
Review of The Focus Group
We are all Pan's People
We are all Pan's People is almost too perfect a Focus Group title, what with its allusions to both the dance troupe from 1970s Top of the Pops and Weird author Arthur Machen's masterpiece, The Great God Pan. Transforming kitsch into the eldritch is the alchemical art at which the Focus Group excel, and We Are All Pan's People puts you in mind of the now empty Top of the Pops
studio being used as the site for a séance. The ghosts of an old BBC - patrician voices intoning poetry, the Radiophonic workshop, anonymous jazz-funksters, wind-blown Folkies, spaced-out Psych Rockers - are summoned and invited to cavort in an unlikely rite. The Sixties and Seventies are not so much remembered as re-dreamt. The tracks are a series of oneiric fragments, glued together by techniques of audio-adhesion that are foregrounded, never concealed. Instead of smoothly looping their samples, the Focus Group cubistically cut them into odd angles that never resolve into recognizable geometries. A miasmic reverb hangs over the album, a concretisation of the Focus Group's great fixation: reverberation, vibrations that persist.
Ghost Box are Weird England in exile. Each release gives us another glimpse into their alternative Albion (one track here is titled, aptly, 'Albion Festival Report'). Pan's People is
punctuated by logotones', station idents for alt. Albion's regional TV franchises, and
television the old Dr Who, Nigel Kneale, Open University - remains central to the Ghost Box synaesthetic. Ghost Box is an audio-visual label; hearing the Focus Group or Belbury Poly without Julian House's sumptuous sleeve designs is to be deprived of a web of associations, triggers and textual clues which build as the Ghost Box catalogue expands. In an age of download disposability, Ghost Box revive the collector in us. Don't miss out on this one.


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void Thunk( void );It's arguable whether or not this is a thunk:
void SomeClass::ThunkMethod( void );because ThunkMethod has access to the member variables of SomeClass? (if it isn't a static method). However, Thunk, above, also has access to global variables. Thunks are used primarily for their side effects. They are called like so:
Thunk(); anInstance.ThunkMethod?();In FunctionalProgrammingLanguages, thunks generally break the whole functional paradigm because functions aren't supposed to have side effects. However, in the SchemeLanguage/LispLanguage/etc. they are sometimes used for either program output or for set! side effects. Note: program output violates the functional paradigm too because it has temporal context (i.e. one line is displayed after another). That's my best effort. Any comments, folks? Especially on method thunks. -- SunirShah If you use "thunk" in the Scheme sense, then it is a function that returns no arguments but does return a value. A thunk is used to fake LazyEvaluation in languages that don't provide it natively. -- StephanHouben
(register-with-some-server #'(lambda () ; no args -- a thunk (foo my-lexical-variable-some-time-later)))and the thunk will be called by some server when some condition occurs at some point in the future (when foo needs to be called, presumably). -- AlainPicard
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AbbVie (NYSE: ABBV ) , a dividend-paying pharmaceutical company best known for its blockbuster drug Humira, is closing in on its first-year anniversary. After being spun off from Abbott Labs at the start of 2013, many investors questioned the company's future given Humira's 2016 patent expiration date. However, there are a number of signs that it does, in fact, have many opportunities to grow.
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quote RazentsuI've got 24 more days to waitIt's March 1st now. Nine more days until MadWorld.
Too bad I won't be getting it on release, I don't have enough cash, and I have to convince my parents to let me buy it.
quote Dragon ZEROUhh... nothing?Also, what in the world happened to Little Kings Story
quote Murray3This is why we can't have nice things, people.See if you can guess which is me:
quote RazentsuYou'll get used to it. Read some guides and learn the 3 basic strategys: Rushing, Turtling, and Booming.I'm getting into the RTS genre thanks to Starcraft; but I suck tons. I can't micro very well yet, and I've lost like, 10 times and only won twice. Tons of fun though.
quote Big A2Wasnt it supposed to be released in NA January 1 or something?Uhh... nothing?
quote Murray3I've had almost a similar story, except it wasn't that bad.Big A2, let's here some of your stories of an Australian gamer's horrible experiences While I steal your teeth.


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No matter how the story ends, I'm going to have to let go.
One way or the other, my days of parental concern about Harry Potter are coming to a close. Either he will die -- and I will grieve -- or he will move into adulthood and I get to practice more of the gracious art of letting go.
For kids of a certain age, Harry Potter has accompanied their entire childhoods. He landed in their world when they were in elementary school, they read every word in middle school, and somehow he remained cool through high school. Their affection for him remains unchanged.
What doesn't often get said is that for their Moms and Dads, he also accompanied their parenthood. If your kids were lucky enough to be of the Potter Generation, you could measure their growth against the books, just as if you were measuring their height against a door frame.
My daughter's first Harry Potter book was a gift from a caring aunt. I mostly read it to her at bedtime (which she still allowed.) By the second, third and fourth installments, we were reading it aloud to each other, handing the book back and forth every few pages. They were the first Really Long books she read.
By the fifth and sixth books, we were immersed in their releases: Our Girl Scout troop volunteered at the local bookstore, providing decorations, games and face-painting. (It seems like just yesterday I was cutting little Marauder Map footprints out of contact paper and my co-leader was making 100 snitches out of styrofoam.) By then, our house was buying two copies, one for mother and one for daughter. We read separately, yet tried to finish at the same time.
I watched Hermione turn into a beautiful young woman, just like the kids around me. I watched Harry's Hogwarts classmates flower and find their strengths -- again, ditto in real life. I said good-bye to a score of kids as they left for college. And will say good-bye this weekend to Harry and his world.
We've come full circle: This year, my daughter will be working in the bookstore -- like Harry, a functioning adult. I'll get home before she does. Then I'll read a bit of this last book before I turn out the light, secure in my knowledge that she -- and Harry -- are ready to be out and about in an occasionally dark world.


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"A rare outing on vinyl for two exclusive new Scanner tracks. 'Teenage Wochen' connects folk with an electro beat, sampling voices, acoustic guitar and harmonies to present a spidery, crackling foot tapper, and a melody to take to sleep with you. Autumn nights dissolves a similar mix of sounds into a casserole of bubbling synths and echoing voices and noises, suggesting Throbbing Gristle dining with Klaus Schutze. Since 1991 Scanner has been intensely active in sound art, producing concerts, compositions, installations and recordings, the albums Mass Observation (1994), Delivery (1997), and The Garden is Full of Metal (1998) hailed by critics as innovative and inspirational works of contemporary electronic music." (label info)
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Am I charged up. Maybe it's time for a conference, an informal get together or at minimum, an announcement to confront these 'marketing gurus' in a press release or over a panel discuss. I welcome the challenge.
Here's why. I'm tired of these self proclaimed experts telling you that cold calling doesn't work or that it's dead and they have the secret proven system so that you never have to cold call again. Which I find ironic, given the percentage of people hiring me to help them develop their telephone prospecting and selling skills and strategy who have used their 'infallible' system…Hmmm.
Lets get the facts out of the way first before I continue with my rant. The majority of all Fortune 500 companies utilize some form of telephone selling, marketing or cold calling to complement their overall strategic sales goals. Enough said. After all if it didn't' work, they wouldn't be continually building out this arm of their overall strategy to attract and retain more customers.
Bottom line; Do not abandon cold calling! Cold calling is far from dead and I see evidence of this every day. What is dead are the traditional and poorly developed cold calling efforts that salespeople still use in an attempt to generate new business. As an executive sales coach (www.profitbuilders.com) and someone who coaches and trains companies, sales teams and salespeople each day, it's not that cold calling doesn't work. Cold calling works fabulously well. However, it's more about the approach that salespeople are using when cold calling that simply doesn't work.
For now, I'm going to show you the universal disconnect, lie, untruth or contradiction in what these marketers are preaching:
1. First and foremost, how are you defining 'cold calling.' Is it defined as making an initial attempt to connect with a potential prospect who you don't know? Regardless of any of these quick fix programs, one thing is for certain. Eventually you need to get on the telephone with them or meet with them in person. And when that happens what's your communication strategy then? My point is, it's the message that takes precedent in this initial phone to phone or face to face contact and to me, that's what cold calling is all about. These marketers are exploiting semantics; twisting the truth, and very successfully I might add.
2. As I mentioned before, it's the cold calling system that sucks: Most salespeople sound exactly the same as every other person when calling on the same prospect, rather than develop their unique and compelling message that's going to grab someone's ear to the point where they are interested in what you have to say. And as the recipient of dozens of cold calls each day, why should a prospect want to hear the same approach time and time again? How can that possibly distinguish you? So be careful. Most people who feel cold calling doesn't work in actuality have learned the wrong lesson. After all, if you dig a hole with a spoon, do you learn the lesson that you can't dig holes very well or is it more about having the right tools to achieve the necessary objective.
3. These Marketing Gurus' secret weapon to generating more leads isn't such a secret. Are you ready? I'm going to give it to you now, for free. Networking and referrals. Wow! what an epiphany. I bet you dint' know that. You must be blown away by this awesome and unique insight. Personally, I think you're much smarter than these folks give you credit for. Maybe you already know this and are doing it. Maybe you know this and you're still not doing this. And maybe you're doing this and it's not working as well as you want. Regardless of your situation, once again; at the core, you need a strong compelling opening statement to grab someone's interest. Once again, this is the definition of cold calling. Still, no difference here.
1. The Contradictions These Gurus Preach: One of these innovators who preaches that cold calling is dead delivers more of a conflicting message than value. In his promotional materials, he talks about developing the core marketing message, which includes the issues and challenges you address, and the solutions and outcomes you deliver. So far, this is the exact definition of what I attest to when crafting a laser introduction to use during a networking event or an opening statement you deliver when making a cold call. No argument from me so far.
However, this person then continues by saying when you make your first connection with this person (i.e. first contact i.e. cold call!) you have the opportunity to communicate your core marketing message (i.e. your cold calling opening statement). Then, and this is where it gets a bit more humorous, he writes if you deliver this message correctly, you generate attention and interest without cold-calling. And in the same breath, he reminds you that this prospect isn't a client yet and there still may be some resistance to your message but at least you have their attention. HELLO! THIS IS COLD CALLING BABY!
You can call it what you want. Warm calling, prospecting, mining for clients, shopping for customers or easy marketing 101. Whatever makes you position cold calling in your mind that makes it easier for you to internalize and digest. Bottom line; with a strong prospecting and cold calling system that is mapped out step by step; which also includes the compelling opening statement you need, the reasons why someone should listen to you in the first place (rather than asking for an appointment, demo, proposal, etc.) well crafted questions to determine if there's even a fit between you and your prospect, as well as a strong voice mail and follow up strategy, you will see what a competitive edge "cold calling" can give you. (Not to sound self promoting, but I'd suggest grabbing a copy of my book, "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Cold Calling" which is sure to give you the tools you need to sell more than you ever did via the phone.)
Finally, I am happy to share with you my cold calling and prospecting checklist that will give you the foundation and outline you need to develop a powerful cold calling campaign. This is also mapped out in my book. Here's the link.
I can tell you this, for every person I speak with who tells me their cold calling efforts aren't producing the results they want, I can assure you that there are holes and gaps in their approach which you can now identify with this checklist. Plug up the holes and you will see how effective your cold calling efforts can be, now that you've developed your true competitive edge.
If you have any other questions, feel free to contact me anytime at www.profitbuilders.com or 1-888-262-2450. Hope this helps!


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Fresh Juice Podcast for 04/05/12
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Fresh Juice April 5th, 2012 Set List:
Listen to D-Money host Fresh Juice live every Thursday night 7-9 here on Juice Radio always featuring two hours straight of new hip-hop & r&b music! Tune in by surfing the website, downloading the player for itunes, or by accessing us via the free TuneIn app on your mobile phone and then searching for "Juice Radio!" Look for the podcast each week here on the following Saturday!
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1. Obie Trice ft.Drey Skonie "Spend the Day
2. Gensu Dean ft. Large Professor "Forever"
3. Swizz Beatz ft. A$AP Rocky "Street Knock"
4. Tamia "Beautiful Surprise"
5. Paypa ft. Raekwon, Nick D's & JD Era "Tried to Tell Em"
6. The Good Husbands "In Bloom" (Local Music)
7. Iggy Azaleaft.T.I. "Murda Bizness"
8. ¡Mayday! ft.Tech N9ne "Badlands"
9. Jay Rock "Checkmate"
10. Gerald Walker ft. Jack Freeman "That Thing in Your Chest Doesn't Beat, it Counts Down"
11. Kingdom Crumbs "Pick Both Sides of My Brain" (Local Music)
12. DJ Khaledft.Chris Brown, Rick Ross, Nicki Minaj & Lil Wayne "Take it to the Head"
13. Tulisa "We Are Young"
14. Nicki Minaj ft.Chris Brown "Right by My Side"
15. J.Patron "Life My Way"
16. Tanya Morgan "Rock the Bells"
17. Kendrick Lamar ft. Dr. Dre "The Recipe"
18. The-Dream ft. Casha "Kill the Lights"
19. Estelle "Wonderful Life"
20. Dave B . ft. JusMoni "Summer Breeze" (Local Music)
21. Mic Phenom "I'm Mikey" (Local Music)
22. E-40 ft. 2 Chainz & Juicy J "They Point"
23. Trey Songz "Heart Attack"
24. Chris Brown "Sweet Love"
25. Gonzo Family "Ants on Parade (Hamthem)" (Fresh Coast Faceoff)
26. MGD ft. Jaz Digga "Foreplay" (Fresh Coast Faceoff)
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A Vanderbilt football player, distressed over an argument with his girlfriend, pounded on a dormitory window before accidentally falling to his death, university officials and Nashville, Tenn., police said.
Patrick Kyle Gullahorn, 19, died Saturday night after falling from a stairwell window just outside his room in Lupton Hall between the sixth and seventh floors in the Bransford Quadrangle.
``Our understanding is that he was upset and he hit the wall a few times and then he hit the window,'' said Vanderbilt dean of students Johnan A. Madson. ``He was hitting on the window and it broke. It gave and we're assuming when it gave, he lost his footing and fell out of the window.''


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The Molloy Student Government (MSG) provides the main forum for discussing student concerns and ideas. They are dedicated to developing leadership skills and enhancing co-curricular life. In addition, students are given the opportunity to interact with faculty, staff and administrators. The MSG is responsible for representing and serving the needs of the student body through funding student organizations and holding weekly meetings on Tuesdays at 3:30 p.m.
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Internal document reveal concerns the Obama administration has had about sticker shock and anger related to the health care exchanges.
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Age: 23
Hometown: Waldorf, Md.
Current gig: Playing an aspiring singer in Be Cool (the sequel to 1995's Get Shorty)
Being cast in the all-star Be Cool was a coup for Christina Milian, but the biggest perk for the singer-actress was costarring with John Travolta, who plays gangster-turned- Hollywood-producer Chili Palmer to her wannabe pop star Linda Moon. "He's adorable. I have a crush on him from Grease," she admits. "It's actually really embarrassing."
Yet Milian had no trouble keeping up with a cast that includes Uma Thurman, OutKast's Andre 3000, Vince Vaughn, Cedric the Entertainer and The Rock. Though she was the youngest member of the ensemble, Milian isn't new to the big screen: Besides Be Cool and the comedy Man of the House, she starred in last year's Torque and 2003's Love Don't Cost a Thing. To boot, Milian released her sophomore album, It's About Time, this past summer and her sexy hit song "Dip It Low" was recently nominated for a Grammy.
"Sometimes you're working so much, you don't realize that, okay, a couple of years ago I was just watching P. Diddy videos and now, here I am, 'Oh, hey, Puffy, how ya doing?' I pinch myself every day," she told L.A.'s Daily News. Be Cool allowed her to showcase both her talents: Along with starring in the movie, Milian has two songs on the soundtrack (including "Ain't No Reason," which was cowritten by Alicia Keys and Rich Harrison). She's also already at work on a third album.
Life wasn't always so sweet for Milian. At 13, after her parents' divorce, she moved with her mother, Carmen (who's her stylist and manager), and younger sisters Tal and Lizzie from their native Maryland to Los Angeles, where they struggled to make ends meet. The family once accepted food from a local church to stay afloat. "The bread was crawling with ants," says Milian. "I told my mom, 'We're not moving into a homeless shelter. We're gonna make it happen here. I promise.' "
Milian was determined to find success as a singer and actress. At 3, she was "very active, very hyper, very creative," says Milian's mom. "I told my husband, 'We either have to get her a psychiatrist or a manager.'" They opted for the latter: At 10 Milian got her start as an actress doing bit parts on TV shows and starring in a Honeycomb cereal commercial. She even had a stint as a kid reporter for the Disney Channel, which lasted until she was 18.
As for music, it's in Milian's blood: One of her great-grandfathers was an orchestra conductor in her native Cuba and her grandmother was a dancer at Havana's Tropicana. In 2000, Milian scored a record deal with Def Jam Records and released her self-titled debut album the following year. Her album took her on the road as the opening act for 'N Sync. "She was like the cute, spunky kid sister," says the group's JC Chasez. "Not everyone could take Justin's practical jokes or my teasing."
Of all of her achievements, Milian – who dates actor Nick Cannon, her costar in Love Don't Cost a Thing – considers buying the Woodland Hills, Calif., home she shares with her mom, sisters and dogs Chihuahua Baby and Yorkshire terrier Missy "my greatest success," she recently told InStyle. "When we look at this house, we can't believe that we live in it!"
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Thursday, March 21, 2013
Hundreds of anxious and excited faces sat in the Wando Performing Arts Center on Feb. 28 and March 1. Eighth graders from Moultrie, Cario, Laing along with several other public and private middle schools in the Charleston area visited Wando for a high school preview.
Over the two-day preview, about 1,200 students visited Wando, according to Freshman Academy Administrator Cheryl Swinton.
"We realize that many parents are very anxious about their students coming over to a large school like Wando, so we provide as many opportunities to become better acclimated and to make the transition smooth," Swinton said.
During the orientation, students and teachers from ROTC, horticulture, chorus, dance, Warrior Ink and athletic departments spoke to the rising ninth graders encouraging them to join. Wando sophomore Ross Cary also hosted and gave away prizes to keep an upbeat and fun vibe with the middle schoolers.
"Our responses from the parents and the students have been very positive," Swinton said. "Students are excited about the bio-medical science program; they observed students involved in drama and the other arts programs, the engineering, etc. There is just such an array of opportunities here at Wando."
Many eighth graders said they are excited to pursue their interests at Wando.
"I'm interested in the bio-medical program and athletics. I want to be a doctor and my mom's a nurse," Laing eighth grader Hannah Betfort said.
Not only did the programs interest the eighth graders, but also the community Wando provides.
"I like how there's so much stuff that I can find exactly what I want to do, and that there's just so many people to connect with," Laing eighth grader Ryan Bohr said.
The high school preview is not the only effort Wando makes to insure the incoming freshmen feel comfortable.
These other events include the shadowing program, Bagels with Beckham, showcase of majors and the freshman's early first day of school.
A curriculum fair will be held on April 16 from 6-8 p.m. at Wando for eighth grade parents and students to explore course and major opportunities available.
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Still: On Pregnancy After LossDiana Stone
(This may trigger some of you that have experienced a loss.)
It's mostly at night. The nightmares that come with a pregnancy after loss haunt me unexpectedly, at random times. I'll wake, gasping for air, still partially caught in the unconsciousness of sleep.
Perhaps the dream is of my water breaking. So I'll lay very still, convinced if I don't move, it won't happen. Had I not gone back to the bathroom when I lost my twins, maybe I wouldn't have lost them. I could have just held it in. As irrational as that is (and I do know that it is irrational) in the dark of the night it seems completely sane. So I don't dare move. No matter how bad I have to pee, the terror of going through a loss all over again paralyzes me.
Until I finally am able to wake fully and firmly tell myself that, water breaking or not, I'm going to have to get up at some point. I make myself throw my weight off the bed in an effort to shake the fear. Push it away. If it happens, I tell myself, it happens. Get over it.
Nothing happens. I am fine.
There's the other side, the one where in the nightmare I actually have this baby. I can feel it suddenly being born. And I'll wake and quickly reach down, my mind screaming at me that I need to help this baby so it will live. It will have a chance. Hurry Diana, make sure that this time he makes it.
There is nothing there.
Sam usually wakes on these nights, holding me close as I struggle to put myself back together. Relief mixes with shame because I still have these moments over a year later. My therapist tells me that it's because my brain is trying to put a rational spin on an event that is very much irrational. It's trying to process what took place when I lost my sons at 20 weeks, but it simply can't do that yet. Not fully.
These are brief episodes. Nothing like a few months ago. My thoughts are shifting as I get closer to the birth of this baby, they're more about labor and delivery than loss. It's normal, but I can tell you – it doesn't feel that way at 3 AM. Nor is it easy to write this on here. While many are supportive, I know some will read and wonder why I haven't been committed yet. As much as it hurts, I get it, because I had those feelings about loss before it happened to me.
My days are steady. Most of my nights are too. As I am further along in this pregnancy, the anxiety of another loss lessens bit by bit. Each week that passes increases the chance that I will bring my little boy home.
I love being pregnant, but on those nights I can hardly wait for it to be over. To wake and find a baby in my arms instead of terror that I've got to go through this all again. Seeing my babies die in my arms as everyone watches, unable to do anything. I did it once, in pure shock and not fully comprehending what was taking place along the way. This time I'd know. I can't imagine going through it again knowing.
I've worked so hard at dealing with all that has happened. I know how far I've come in so many areas since last May.
Yet still. Those moments I'll never forget and they haunt me. I watch the calendar willing it to move faster so that at some point, maybe the nightmares will cease completely. 30 weeks. Or 35. I don't know. Maybe they won't.
I bring myself back to the present and the miracle of this new life again and again. We're here. Nearly 26 weeks. We made it this far. I can make it through this, no matter what comes my way now. It's okay to grieve and it's okay to move past some of it too.
I'm working on it. Still, part of this will always be there. Because it's now and forever a part of my life and memories. I'm slowly becoming okay with that.
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Meriam Ibrahim, the Christian Sudanese mother who was forced to give birth with her legs chained in prison, says that her baby daughter is disabled as a result.
"Something has happened to the baby," she said, according to The Telegraph.
Ibrahim said she doesn't know the extent of the harm her daughter Maya may have suffered, and would probably only know as she grows older.
"I don't know in the future whether she'll need support to walk or not," Ibrahim said.
The Christian mom, who was imprisoned in Sudan for her faith, was freed last week after her conviction of "apostasy" was overturned. But she remains holed up with her family at the U.S. Embassy, unable to leave the country.
She could also face new charges, among them that her travel documents to come to the United States with her American husband and her children included false information about her religion.
However, the U.S. Embassy and the South Sudan Embassy cleared the papers, she said.
"How can my paperwork be wrong? My paperwork came from the Embassy," she said, according to The Telegraph. "It's 100 percent correct and it was approved by the South Sudan ambassador and the American ambassador."
The 27-year-old mother of two had been sentenced to death for marrying a Christian and "abandoning" the Muslim faith of her father. She contends that she never was a Muslim and always embraced the Christian faith that her mother taught her.
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Raid on Salmon Falls
|Raid on Salmon Falls
|Part of King William's War
Jean-Baptiste Hertel de Rouville
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Abenaki, Mi'kmaq and Maliseet
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|Commanders and leaders
|Joseph-François Hertel de la Fresnière
Jean-Baptiste Hertel de Rouville
|Casualties and losses
|34 killed, 54 captured
The Raid on Salmon Falls (March 27, 1690) involved Joseph-François Hertel de la Fresnière (and his son Jean-Baptiste Hertel de Rouville[1]) leading his troops as well as the Wabanaki Confederacy (Mi'kmaq and Maliseet from Fort Meductic) in New Brunswick to capture and destroy an English settlement of Salmon Falls (present-day Berwick, Maine) during King William's War.
The village was destroyed, and most of its residents were killed or taken prisoner for transport back to Canada. They killed thirty-four men and carried away captive fifty-four persons, mostly women and children, and plundered and burnt the houses and mills. Militia mustered from Portsmouth and gave chase, but were driven off in a skirmish later that day. Hertel then continued to raid present-day Portland, Maine.
The attackers' original intent was to target the home of Edward Tyng, father of Edward Tyng, at Fort Loyal but changed plans and attacked Salmon Falls.[2]
See also[edit]
- ^ "Biography – HERTEL DE ROUVILLE, JEAN-BAPTISTE – Volume II (1701-1740) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography". biographi.ca. Retrieved 2014-09-13.
- ^ "Jewett Texts". public.coe.edu. Retrieved 2014-09-13.
- Kingsford, William. The History of Canada
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Caterpillar ( CAT) pushed the Industrial industry lower today making it today's featured Industrial laggard. The industry as a whole closed the day up 0.7%. By the end of trading, Caterpillar fell $1.33 (-1.5%) to $88.62 on average volume. Throughout the day, 6,922,560 shares of Caterpillar exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 6,954,700 shares. The stock ranged in price between $87.90-$90.25 after having opened the day at $89.96 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $89.95. Other companies within the Industrial industry that declined today were: Research Frontiers ( REFR), down 14.3%, Intellicheck Mobilisa ( IDN), down 10.4%, China BAK Battery ( CBAK), down 5.3% and Global Power Equipment Group ( GLPW), down 3.5%.
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Posted at 12:28 PM on February 13, 2008 by Michael Marchio (1 Comments)
There have been some questions in our comments section and e-mailed to me asking about trades. Instead of a trade function, if there is a lawmaker whose performance you're unsatisfied with and think deserve some time warming the bench, you can put them on waivers.
After logging in and selecting the lawmaker you want to put on waivers using the "Team Waivers" button at the top of the page, you'll be able to select a replacement from the pool of available legislators. Here's a hint, the unclaimed lawmakers will have the total points they've earned so far next to their names. You won't get those points just by picking up the lawmaker, but it's a good indicator of how productive they are.
On Sunday night, we will make the changes you've requested during the week. The lawmaker you've put on waiver will be sent to the available pool and the one you've selected will join your team. If two people select the same lawmaker from the available pool, the team with the lower total points will receive them. So on Monday morning, the team you see is the one you'll have for the rest of the week.
I'll be posting later on this afternoon about the session thus far, so check back for that.
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Breast cancer — raising funds and awareness both vital
Survivor Allen says "there is strength in numbers"
Gigi Tinsley | 10/24/2013, 9 a.m.
Susan G. Komen's Annual Race for the Cure was held last Saturday and more than 20,000 walkers and runners joined together to help the cause. The race honored breast cancer survivors, supported those dealing with breast cancer diagnosis and raised money for research to end the debilitating and life-threatening disease. Since its inception in 1995, the Susan G. Komen Miami/Ft. Lauderdale affiliate has raised more than $13 million. In accordance with Komen's guidelines, 75 percent of the net dollars raised through local events, including the annual Race for the Cure, stay in the local community to fund breast cancer screening, education and treatment initiatives. The remaining 25 percent is pooled with Komen's national efforts to fund research programs.
The Komen initiative has funded $1.3 million this year through 36 diverse organizations including not-for-profit organizations, public health agencies and community groups in Broward, Miami-Dade and Monroe counties. According to a company spokesperson, these projects will have the greatest impact in serving uninsured and underinsured individuals in the tri-county area.
"The awareness and prevention is a program that goes on year-round," said Patricia R. Wright, a member of the Miami Gardens Commission for Women [MGCW]. Their 2nd Annual Breast Cancer and Heart Disease Awareness Health Fair takes place on Saturday, Oct. 26 at the Betty T. Ferguson Recreational Complex [3000 NW 199th St., 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. The purpose of the health fair is to increase awareness through education and prevention. Free breast screenings by Community Life Support and free breast exams through Sister's Network Miami Chapter (pre-registration is required). Follow-up support will be provided. In addition, free basic health screenings such as: immunizations, blood pressure, blood glucose and cholesterol will be provided. Among women, breast cancer is the second cause of death; heart disease is the first. But among forms of cancer, lung cancer deaths exceed those related to breast cancer. Approximately one out of every 36 women will die from breast cancer in 2013, according to data released by Breast Cancer Awareness, Inc.
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CLAYTON, N.M. - Korae Leedette Hall, 35, died Friday, Jan. 16, 2009, in Trinidad, Colo.
Rosary will be said at 6 p.m. today in St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church in Clayton. Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Tuesday in the church with the Rev. John Shedlock as celebrant. Burial will be in Clayton Memorial Cemetery by Hass Funeral Directors of Clayton.
Korae was born Feb. 12, 1973, in Clayton to Tim and Bonnie Gilbert Donnelly. She lived most of her life around the Clayton area, attending school in Felt, Okla., and in Clayton and Des Moines, and graduated from West Texas University in Canyon, Texas.
Survivors include her husband, Brad Hall of Trinidad, Colo.; four children, Quinton Seaton of Mineral Wells, Texas, Koler Ray Seaton of Trinidad and Tyler Hall and Emily Hall, both of Scott City, Kan.; her parents; and two sisters, Sarra Lopez of Clayton and Kristen Donnelly of Albuquerque.
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text: At 02:57 PM Sunday 12/31/00, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote: >"Karp, Alan" wrote: >> The goal is not to be perfect; it's to reduce the amount of code that has to >> be examined by a person. For example, executing any line of code that >> accesses the file system will be caught by the security manager... > >Alan, I believe that you are neglecting the possibility of attacks >perpetrated by bytecode written in Java assembler. > >You really need to take a look at the results that have come out of Ed >Felton's group at Princeton. I believe you will conclude on reflection >that the claim you are trying to assert is unsustainable. I'm just re-joining this thread, so allow me to restate what I think the context is for Alan's remarks. If I've got the context wrong, lemme know. We're talking about figuring out how to subset or wrap the standard Java API as implemented by the standard Java libraries, in order to create a capability-safe and capability-oriented derived library, which is as familiar as reasonably possible for people who've learned the original API. The specific case in front of us is Swing vs CapWT, but the techniques developed may then be applied to other APIs. In all cases, we assume the prior API is part of our UTCB, and is not written to be purposely malicious. However, we assume it was written without any cognizance whatsoever of capability security, other than that subset semi-enforced by Java itself. As an example of "semi-enforce", let's take pointer safety. Although Vijay Saraswat showed how Java code can subvert the type system and thereby compromise pointer safety http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/courses/629/papers/Saraswat-javabug.html , it is unlikely for there to be any code that *unintentionally* engages in this attack. So by "semi-enforce" I mean that it plausibly prevents all those who don't intend to do X from doing X. With apologies to MarcS, think of a baby rather than a thief. If handed a gun, a baby may in its innocent ignorance kill someone, but is unlikely to engage in complex subterfuges to hide the gun. Ok, perhaps this is a bad example, but the principle is clear. The existing standard Java APIs and libraries are capability-babies, not capability-attackers. No one is proposing that we can figure out how to safely wrap locally untrusted (as in attacker) Java code with less effort than turning Java into a secure language. For this among other reasons, the only locally untrusted code we support is E code. So while the Princeton results, like Vijay's results, show Java's weakness at hosting locally untrusted code, I don't think either result is relevant to the issue of wrapping capability-baby APIs in order to create capability-safe and capability-oriented APIs. Babies in the UTCB? Of course, this raises the question of whether this baby vs attacker distinction is sufficiently sound for us to entrust with our life, liberty, and sacred honor. I don't recall this ever having been explicitly discussed, and it certainly bears discussion. I propose that the reasoning chain by which we come to believe that *any* UTCB is immune to, for example, the Ken Thompson attack is a reasoning chain that uses this baby vs attacker distinction. For example, while Jonathan may be protecting himself in some ways from plausible accidental compiler bugs in compiling the EROS kernel, I see no way for him to protect himself (or us) from compilers that are out to get him. The compiler cannot be assumed to have been written with the care of the EROS kernel, so we must assume it may be a baby, but we trust it not to be an attacker. KeyKOS/360 avoided depending on a compiler, but it did not avoid dependence on assemblers and hex dumpers and such. Babies are still in our UTCB, but they weren't constructed to be in our UTCB. Any UTCB constructed using tools (including CPUs) that precede the conception of the UTCB cannot avoid including such babies in the UTCB. Before further serious discussion of this topic, it would be great if someone would suggest better terminology. ;) Cheers, --MarkM


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The Ravalli County Commissioners heard from Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks Fisheries Biologist Chris Clancy last week about the need to respond to a pending request for Portage Routes on Mitchell Slough. The County Commissioners received a letter from Andy Roubik on November 15, 2012, objecting to the language on the signs at the current Portage Route entrances to Mitchell Slough and requesting additional portage routes at several other fences that cross the slough and impede public access.
Clancy informed the commissioners that, according to state law, the commissioners were obliged to respond to such a request within 45 days and it had already been 90 days. He said that Mr. Roubik was not overly concerned about the delay but that he was also desirous of a response. Clancy said that he was there representing Roubik who was not in attendance. He said that Roubik told him he was willing to attend if needed and that he (Clancy) had determined it was not necessary.
In his November letter, Roubik reminds the commissioners that the Montana Supreme Court ruled in 2008 that Mitchell Slough was a branch of the Bitterroot River and thus open to public access under the state's Stream Access Law. Subsequently, in 2009, three official Portage Routes were established to enter the slough at the Tucker Headgate and at Victor Crossing and Bell Crossing Roads.
Roubik points out that the signs posted at the legal entrance points are contrary to stream access law. The signs state that people must stay in the channel, "even when a fence crosses it." The problem is that the law allows the public to exit the stream to circumvent manmade obstacles such as fences when it is not feasible to cross them in the stream channel.
Roubik claims that some of the fences across Mitchell Slough have barbed wire strands starting six inches below the surface of the water, extending up about four feet. Other landowners, he claims, have employed electric fencing six inches above the water with barbed wire above that and more electric wiring across the top.
"As you can imagine, going under the fences is very uncomfortable, dangerous, as well as painful. I would like to see the sign from FWP changed to reflect Montana Stream Access law and the fencing altered to allow watercraft and wading people safe and pain free fence crossings," wrote Roubik.
Clancy told the commissioners that Roubik was correct in his assessment of the signs. He said they do not accurately reflect the law. He said that putting fences across a stream is allowable by law. But the fencing must still allow for public passage on the stream or else the law gives the person the right to exit the stream to cross the barrier in the "least intrusive manner possible" and then re-enter the water as soon as possible. Clancy said that some landowners may have constructed their fencing without realizing the need for public passage.
Clancy also noted that the law requires the landowners to make the fence adaptations necessary for public access at their own cost, but that FWP had paid for the alterations at the original three Portage Routes on the slough and was willing to pay for any needed alterations on subsequent fences on the slough if they are needed.
Commissioner J.R. Iman asked if the agency had a standard for implementation at the fence crossings and Clancy said there were lots of different solutions, each tailored to the site and the landowner's purposes.
"The bottom line is that they've got to keep livestock in," he said, "and allow public access."
Commissioner Jeff Burrows said that he would have a tough time making any decisions without seeing the obstructions first.
Clancy told the commissioners that he had not yet inspected the fences and did not know exactly where they were located, or on whose property. He said he was coming to the commissioners first to see how they wanted to proceed.
Commissioner Iman said he had no problem with FWP locating the sites of the complaint and getting landowner input. It was agreed that Commissioners Iman, Ron Stoltz and Burrows would join FWP on a trip down the slough to inspect the sites along with the landowners. Commissioner Suzy Foss insisted that the landowners be contacted before any tour of the slough.
Clancy stated that the trip would be down the slough and that it was legal to do without getting approval of all the landowners along the slough. He said many fences may meet the requirements for public passage and the ones that don't could be identified before having the landowner come down only to find out there is no problem.
"Even if it is legal it is not right to take people marching across private property without notification," said Foss.
Clancy said he would arrange the trip and agreed to contact all the landowners prior to the trip and invite those that may have a fence across the slough to meet them at the fence if they desire.
In the public comment portion of the meeting, a few landowners along the slough complained about vandalism from the public use of the slough, some traps placed along the slough being stolen, and cars blocking the entrance to private property at the Portage Route on Bell Crossing.
Michael Howell, representing the Bitterroot River Protection Association, the organization that won the court ruling in 2008 and initiated action to establish the three existing Portage Routes on the slough, said that Roubik had contacted his organization with his complaints. He said based on a recent examination, he was satisfied with the routes at Tucker Headgate and Victor Crossing, but he urged the commissioners to take another look at the one at Bell Crossing.
"Either the water has gone up or the fence has been lowered," said Howell. He said when examined recently the fence did not allow passage as it was envisioned.
As for applying a standard to portage route designs, Howell said, "In each case, it depended on what the landowners wanted and what worked best for them." He advised working the designs out with individual landowners.
No date has yet been set for the tour by the commissioners.


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By InMotion Software, LLC
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Review: "Like all good endless games, StickMan Rocks starts out simply enough and ends with you hitting the 'retry' button again and again... just beware the evil cute-leprechaun-bunnies," AppSpy.com
You've never seen rock climbing like this… parachuting penguins, roaring bears, bombardier birds, carrot-flinging flying bunnies, spitting snakes, and other perils lie in wait. Avoid perils, collect stars, and climb as high as you can!
Has two modes of play:
* Iron-man "Play" mode - the higher you go the tougher it gets
* Infinite "Kid Play" mode - just for fun and you never die
What's New in Version 1.2
* Added new "Fox" character
* Minor Improvements
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Awesome app
I really enjoy this game very challenging seems easy at first! Buy it right now if have not!!!
Not addicting but it was fun playing
A commercial worthy app.
- $0.99
- Category: Games
- Updated: May 04, 2010
- Version: 1.2
- Size: 7.9 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: InMotion Software, LLC
- © 2008-2010 InMotion Software, LLC
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