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Effectiveness of a Reading Clinic by Levels
Date: August 1966
Creator: Walker, Billy Wayne, 1929-
Description: The purpose of this study was to identify reading achievement of pupils assigned to the reading clinic and analyze and compare this achievement by grade levels with levels of intelligence. More specifically, the investigation attempted to determine: 1. The grade level at which the reading clinic was most effective; 2. The intelligence level at which the reading clinic was most effective; 3. The statistical significance of the variation in group intelligence test IQ's; and 4. The correlation between group intelligence test IQ's and total reading achievement.
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The Stanford-Binet, Form L-M, and the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children: A Comparative Study Utilizing Cultural-Familial and Undifferentiated Mental Retardates
Date: August 1966
Creator: Stone, John S.
Description: The purpose of this study was to compare the results obtained on the Stanford-Binet, Form L-M, and the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children for a group of cultural-familial and undifferentiated mental retardates. Such as study should provide some evidence as to whether the two instruments adequately measure similar abilities and whether the IQ's obtained from one can be considered comparable with the IQ's obtained from the other.
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Creativity and the Guilford-Zimmerman Temperament Survey
Date: August 1963
Creator: Martin, Donald Wesley
Description: The purposes of this study are as follows: 1) to investigate the similarities and differences in the temperaments of a higher creative group and a lower creative group and 2) to investigate the effectiveness of the Guilford-Zimmerman Temperament Survey in identifying higher creative individuals and lower creative individuals, as measured by the AC Test of Creative Ability.
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A Comparative Study of the Physical Education Status and the Academic Status of One Hundred Senior Girls of N. R. Crozier Technical High School of Dallas, Texas, in May, 1947
Date: 1947
Creator: White, Maribel
Description: The purposes of the study were: (1) To determine the relation of the ratings of the students in activities in the physical education program by physical education instructors and the General Motor Capacity Scores made by the students; (2) To determine the relation of the physical education grades and the General Motor Capacity Scores of the students; (3) To determine the relation of the physical education grades and the academic grades of the students; (4) To determine the relation of the Intelligence Quotients and the General Motor Capacity Scores of the students; (5) To determine the relation of the academic grades and the General Motor Capacity Scores of the students.
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A Comparative Study between the Achievement Test Results and Teacher Ratings Assigned Boys and Those Received by Girls of the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Grades in the Stonewall Jackson School, Denton, Texas
Date: 1948
Creator: McPherson, Pat Clark
Description: It is the purpose of the writer to discover if there is any significant difference between the teacher ratings of boys and girls with equated intelligence quotients. And if such differences are found to exist, an attempt will be made to determine to what extent they prevail.
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Factors Associated with School Relationships
Date: 1940
Creator: Conlee, R. C.
Description: The problem of this investigation was to make a rating of the following factors which pertain to boys in three distinct residential districts of the W. C. Stripling Junior High School, Fort Worth, Texas: (1) intelligence quotient, (2) civic attitude, (3) academic achievements, (4) Sunday school attendance, (5) club membership, (6) after-school employment, and (7) the number of broken homes.
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To Develop and to Evaluate a Mathematics Curriculum for the Mentally Retarded on the Junior High School Level
Date: August 1940
Creator: Miller, Zola Catheryn
Description: This thesis presents the results of a study conducted to determine the math capabilities of mentally challenged students attending Reagan Junior High School in Wichita Falls, Texas. Survey results are used to determine needed curriculum changes.
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An Analysis of Teachers' Ratings of Pupils as Bright or Dull
Date: August 1940
Creator: Lovelace, William True
Description: This thesis resulted from an examination conducted to determine teacher ability to identify individual student capability based on rapport between the two parties.
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Discovering the Extent to which Feelings of Insecurity can be Eliminated in Children of the Third Grade
Date: August 1940
Creator: Maxey, Rachael M.
Description: This thesis presents student case studies from a third grade class at an Albany, Texas elementary school. Students with insecurity issues are described and remedial treatments are suggested.
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The Relation Between Certain Home Factors and the Social and Academic Progress of the Second-Grade Pupils in the Robert E. Lee School, Denton, Texas
Date: August 1940
Creator: Parnell, J. D.
Description: The correlation between home environment and educational performance is addressed in this study.
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The Effect of Certain Materials on Intelligence and Achievement
Date: 1950
Creator: Simons, Berta Stephens
Description: The problem in this experiment is to try to determine if the use of certain materials during the first semester of the first school year of a group of children will cause the intelligence quotients and achievements of these children to improve.
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The Relationship of Certain Factors to Popularity in Students of the Eighth Grade of the Junior High School at Ozona, Texas
Date: 1951
Creator: Hawk, Travis L.
Description: The problem set forth in this study is to determine the relationship of certain factors to the popularity of students in the eighth grade of the Junior High School at Ozona, Texas. The factors to be considered in this study are as follows: 1. The socio-economic status of the parents; 2. Each of the factors measured by the California Test of Personality; 3. The intelligence quotient; 4. Scholastic achievement; 5. The length of family residence in the community; 6. Physical attractiveness of the students as evaluated by three teachers; 7. Athletic ability as evaluated by the physical education teachers; 8. Conduct in the classroom as evaluated by the home room teacher.
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What is it that makes a wedding ceremony so special? Maybe it's the song that is played while the bride walks down the aisle, or maybe it's the music during the wedding ceremony. Perhaps it's the candles that are lit or the large bows that are tied to the ends of the pews. With the bride's dress and the flowers that she holds in her hand, these are all attributes to what makes a wedding special.
Or maybe, just maybe it's the actual words themselves that are said between the bride and the groom. Those vows that are said to each other are the most sacred words one person can say to another. Promising to love, honor and cherish each other of the rest of their lives.
One of the best vows that was said during a wedding ceremony was one that said that you should never settle. Don't ever marry the person that you can live with. Marry the person that you cannot live without. Those are words of true love and passion and the need to have that person in their life.
Wedding vows can be standard words that are picked by the preacher for the bride and groom to repeat, such as those everyone has heard a million times, or they can be words written by the bride and groom themselves and spoken to each other.
Here are several ideas for wedding vows that one can say to another that truly come from the heart:
- I promise to love you.
- I promise to care for you.
- I will try in every way to be worthy of your love.
- I promise to be a loyal and true friend to you.
- I promise to always be honest with you.
- I promise I will always be kind, patient and forgiving.
- I will respect you and encourage you.
- You are my lover, and you are my teacher.
- I will love you, hold you and honor you in sickness and in health.
- I promise to be your partner in parenthood.
- I promise to be your ally during times of conflict.
- I promise above all else to live in truth with you.
- I promise to communicate with you fully and without fear.
- I pledge my love to you, and my devotion, my faith and my honor.
- You are the magic of my days.
- You provide a safe haven for me, like I've never known.
- On this day, I give my heart to you.
- I promise to walk hand-in-hand with you, no matter where this journey may lead us.
- I promise to make our family's love and happiness my priority.
- I promise to be yours in sickness and in health and in failure and in triumph.
- You are my love, you are my life, today and always.
No matter what vows are said and no matter if they were written by the minister or judge, or by the bride and groom, what matters most is that they are said from the heart, and they are felt wholeheartedly as a promise to be cherished and kept.

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Shakopee, MN - "auto salvage yards" search results
About Auto Salvage Yards
You can find local auto salvage yards are places where unwanted cars are taken. You can find many different things at local auto salvage yards, such as batteries and car fluids. Local auto salvage yards offer communities a place to go to look for cheap auto pieces. You can find such a wide variety of materials at local auto salvage yards that can help fix the car you already own. For instance, if you car has been in an accident and needs a new door, you can go to your local auto salvage yards and see what they have to offer. There is such a wide variety of cars at local auto salvage yards that you are sure to find whatever you need. You can find everything from a car seat to an old cd player. Even if you are looking to build a car from scratch, going to you local auto salvage yards is a great place to look for parts. If you are a mechanic going to these local auto salvage yards can save you a lot of money, especially if you know what you are doing. You can find batteries and engines that need little or no repair. Local auto salvage yards need to follow certain standard protocols. This helps you find what you are looking for faster. In fact, these salvage yards are well maintained, so it is easy to find exactly what you need. The fluids are kept in storage containers and labeled so you know what they are. These salvage yards are cleaned from debris and garbage on a regular basis, so walking around to find the piece you need should be a breeze.
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More on Auto Salvage Yards
If you are interested in local auto salvage yards but do not know where you can find one all you need to do is look online. By just typing local auto salvage yards and your zip code you will get a list of what salvage yards are in your area, and if they are open to the public. You may even get a contact number where you can call and ask if the local auto salvage yard has what you are looking for. Just keep in mind local auto salvage yards are getting cars every day, so their inventory is hard to keep up with. If you cannot find local auto salvage yards in your area, you may want to consider opening one up. Opening local auto salvage yards is a great idea, as it can be very helpful to the community. But, if your local auto salvage yards are not kept up to standards, it could cause your community a lot. So, if you local auto salvage yards is of your interest, make sure you follow the guidelines. Following standard protocol and disposing of hazardous materials properly, can keep your local auto salvage yards safe for your workers, community, and the environment. Local auto salvage yards give back a lot to a community, whether you are the customer or the owner.


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CrossFit Asheville is a community dedicated to assist individuals of various abilities reach their personal fitness goals.
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"Beth's 7 Year Itch"
Partner WOD
20 minute AMRAP:
5 Hang Squat Cleans (155/105)
10 Toes to bar
15 Box Jumps (24/20)
Partner 1 runs 200 m with a sandbag (40/20) while partner 2 completes as many rounds of the triplet as possible.
Score is total rounds and reps of the triplet completed.
Coach's Choice
In teams of two, with only one person working at a time, complete:
200 Wall balls
400 m Overhead Carry (45/25)
400 m Overhead Carry (45/25)
During carry, you must perform 3 burpees each time you switch the partner carrying the load.
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4 Rounds for time:
500 m Row
400 m Run
30/20 Ring dips
Rest 1 minute between rounds.
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#255 to #3 - drizztrocks ONLINE (07/08/2013) [-]
Comment number 3.
#214 to #108 - pwnmissilereborn **User deleted account** (07/08/2013) [-]
"when they actually release half-life 3" Yeah, yeah, keep dreaming.
#241 to #24 - funnyjunkforlife (07/08/2013) [-]**funnyjunkforlife rolls 55**
dont gloat like a bitch
dont gloat like a bitch
#274 to #241 - alexusapi (07/08/2013) [-]
i have been on funnyjunk for quite some years now, finally made an account in 2011, i love funnyjunk, and it has brought me many laughs and many tears but sometimes i just get pissed off, when this mob mentality sets in, nobody thinks for themselves, they just see that i have many red thumbs and therefore probably did something stupid, i hope for the sake of funnyjunk we can go back to the good old days when funnyjunk was just about funny stuff and not hating on other people.
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Well aren't you just being a cum-guzzling gutter slut?
#76 to #75 - crimsontyyde ONLINE (07/08/2013) [-]
It just seemed like a douchey thing to say. (Could have typed it a bit better like with a =p) Kinda seemed like that one bitch who's like ' yeah, that's how you do it.'
#81 to #80 - crimsontyyde ONLINE (07/08/2013) [-]
It kinda felt like one of the smug ones, that's all.
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Welcome to funnyjunk =D
#247 to #92 - thighhighkneesocks (07/08/2013) [-]
I don't know what comment you deleted, but I sincerely hope it said: "that's how you do it noob :p"
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An editorial in the Washington Post on Thursday said that Burma's reforms are far from finished, and already they are "displaying a dark side." The editorial criticized the Burmese government's response to the recent anti-Muslim violence, which has killed at least 40 people since late March. The article also criticized the National League for Democracy, saying "Aung San Suu Kyi, who appears focused on presidential elections scheduled for 2015, has been largely silent on the issue, leading some to suggest she is catering to ethnic Burmese voters. If so, that would be both a moral error and a political miscalculation."
western should aware the game want to play by thien sein lead regime.ease sanction some external reforms are show case, at the bottom actually no reform.so called free media,instigate violent to minority ethnic lying legally, e.g when rakhine extremist burnt rohingya whole village it was reported they burnt their home.the president denial no rohingya ethnic in Burma is laughable.denying the truth,refusing to accept historical fact of rohingya ethnicity,committing war crime against kachin rebel proof the Burmese government are number one lair on earth. they just want to take advantage of western soft stance.so they can finish all ethnic, like rohingya ethnic in Myanmar map.world body should not fool to believe ,to this rascal regime to take strong action such as expel Burma from United nation member,re-impose sanction ,issue arrest warrant to leadership of Burma.extremist individual likr Dr aye maung, radical like buddhist monk wiratu ,military hardliner opportunist, rogue politician than nyunt,thangankyunt MP,meikhtila killers khin Nyunt must shown red card by international body UN,EU and NATO.


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Book a Cheap Car Rental in Adelaide - Fast and Easy
Tour South Australia at your own pace
Known as the vibrant cultural capital of South Australia, Adelaide has something for everyone. Sports, beaches, wilderness, culture, fine food and wine; it is all within easy reach of this city. The best way to get to see all this bounty is in your own hire car. Cover the distances easily, stopping where ever takes your fancy, on your own schedule.
Booking your car hire in Adelaide in advance secures the best prices and ensures that you have the largest range of vehicles to choose from, allowing you to travel around the city in comfort and style. Because we work with all Adelaide's most trusted suppliers, we will show you the best car for your trip, from economical compacts for city driving, to SUVs for touring.
CarHire.com.au works like this: pop a few details of your trip into our search engine. Within seconds we'll generate a list of available vehicles with the prices clearly displayed. The price you see is the price you pay, there are no hidden charges when you book with us. Should your plans change, and you find you need to cancel or modify your booking, there are no charges there either. We partner with Adelaide's most trusted suppliers, such as Avis, Budget, Hertz, Europcar, Thrifty and Redspot.
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While driving a hire car is the ultimate in convenience, at some point you'll have to pull yourself away from behind the wheel of your hire car - no matter how comfy the seats may be! Taking a tour is a chance to get local insights. A city tour is often a good way to get your bearings before you start to navigate in your vehicle. Alternatively it's possible have a completely different experience with one of the Murray River Riverboat tours. These usually include lunch, and conveniently leave from Adelaide.If you've always wanted to get up close and personal with the wildlife, then a drive to Baird Bay on the Eyre Peninsula might be the perfect scenario for you. Here you can have the opportunity to swim with sea lions and dolphins with Baird Bay Eco Encounters.
For those that prefer to appreciate their ocean critters from a distance Point Labatt has nice views of sea lions playing in the shallows. If you're after some whale watching in your itinerary plan your trip between June and October. Don't forget in between these months there are school holidays, and rental cars can become very scarce, so book well in advance.
Adelaide's hot zones for night life are the clubs, bars and pubs of Rundle Street in the east and Hindley Street and Light Square in the west. Gouger Street is Adelaide's key dining location. It's the gateway to the Adelaide Central Market and the bustling mall and food halls of Chinatown. Shoppers flock to the premier shopping district of Rundle Mall, while bargain hunters should try outlet shopping at Harbour Town. It is a 15 minute drive west of the city, near the airport.
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Any trip to Adelaide is incomplete without a tram ride to Glenelg. This picturesque little seaside spot is popular with locals, tourists and of course the ever present sea gulls. A walk down the pier is a pleasant way to appreciate the view of the gorgeous coastline and there are plenty of bars, restaurants and fast food choices. Tourists will often hop on a tram to Glenelg from the city and take in the seaside: a tradition which has endured for many years which also saves you finding a car park for the rental car. An ice cream on the beach is refreshing and relaxing and so too is a seaside pint or two.
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March is a great month to visit Adelaide if you are a lover of culture. There is both the acclaimed Adelaide Festival, and world music event Womadelaide.
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WIN KITE, Burma — Three Muslim men peered over a bamboo fence built recently to fortify their village in central Burma. They gazed across dry rice paddies toward a nearby Buddhist community, looking for rising dust, a sign of an approaching mob.
It was a false alarm. But a day earlier, on Wednesday, about 100 Buddhists armed with sticks had gathered outside the fence, threatening to burn the village and kill them, said the villagers of Win Kite, about a two-hour drive from Burma's largest city, Rangoon.
Police foiled that attack. But Muslims were taking no chances after four days of mob violence led by Buddhist monks in Meikhtila in March killed 44 people, mostly Muslims, and touched off a wave of unrest in central Burma that threatens to derail the country's nascent economic and political reforms.
"We have a plan to defend ourselves if they come and attack us," said Kin So, adding that many in Win Kite had armed themselves with clubs and swords as a precaution for when troops and police patrolling the area pull out.
The 1.5-meter fence encircling Win Kite is a vivid illustration of divisions between Burma's Muslims and majority Buddhists that are beginning to cause problems elsewhere in Southeast Asia.
Indonesian police said on Friday they had foiled a plan to attack Burma's embassy in Jakarta, arresting two men late on Thursday and seizing explosives.
A spokesman told reporters the suspects had planned the attack in protest at the treatment of Rohingya Muslims in Burma. At least 192 people, mostly Rohingya, were killed last year in clashes with Buddhists in Arakan State.
In April, eight people died when Muslim and Buddhist refugees clashed at an Indonesian immigration center.
On Tuesday, one man was killed in riots in Oakkan and nearby villages just 100 km north of Rangoon, when a Muslim woman bumped into an 11-year-old novice monk, who dropped his alms bowl, damaging it.
The authorities are aware that such mundane incidents can spiral out of control in the present environment. A district officer said a measure that stops crowds from gathering had been imposed in Taikkyi, a town near Oakkan, as a precaution.
Presidential spokesman Ye Htut said in a Facebook statement the authorities had averted trouble in the city of Mandalay when three motorcyclists rode through a Muslim neighborhood shouting that Buddhist monks had come to burn down their houses.
"Security personnel went to the site immediately and explained that it was not true," Ye Htut said. "They assured the people of security. An investigation is going on to expose and detain these instigators."
Rangoon's deputy police commissioner, Thet Lwin, told Reuters that 18 people had been arrested in connection with the Oakkan riots, including the woman who inadvertently started them, charged with "deliberate and malicious acts" that insult religion.
"According to our practice, we need to send her for trial since she was involved in the root cause of the incident," he said, adding that although she had bumped into the monk by accident, it was up to the court to decide her fate.
In the village of Win Kite, a 45-minute drive down dusty roads from Oakkan, 40 members of the security forces guaranteed peace—for now.
On Wednesday, police managed to push the mob back to Sa Phyu, a Buddhist village about a half hour's walk away. There they calmed the crowd, which agreed not to attack the Muslims, according to Deputy Commissioner Thet Lwin.
One man from Sa Phyu, who would not give his name because he feared arrest, confirmed the police had prevented the attack.
A Reuters investigation found radical Buddhist monks had been actively involved in the violence in Meikhtila in March.
People interviewed in Sa Phyu denied any involvement with monks and said there had not been any meetings or phone calls on Wednesday, adding that some 700 Buddhists had gathered spontaneously from various villages in the area
Myint Shwe and fellow Muslims in Win Kite fear the mob will return and they remain virtual prisoners beyond their bamboo fence.
"Now we have police and military so it's safe," he said. "But when the security forces go back, we don't know what's going to happen."
Additional reporting by Aung Hla Tun and Minzayar Oo in Burma and Kanupriya Kapoor in Jakarta.
Wow, what a joke. A lady bumps her bike onto a young monk. Police arrested her and she has to appear to the court. And the court will punish her. Very fast track law abiding country. What about those culprit including the fake beggar monk Wirathu and his mafia who incited all the atrocities, killing 43 in Meikthila and injuring thousands, and displaced them. Ye Htut is fooling the international community. There is no rule and order in Burma. Recently one of the Monk in Rangoon went into a Muslim owned Biryani restaurant ate a plate of food and asked the Burmese buddisht staff to gave up job there. But the staff did not heed his call. They said they are very happy with the boss. After an hour the same Monk along with 20 buddisht men turned up again and blackmailed the owner. He said when he came to eat he left 7lakh kyats on the table and within an hour it is missing. If he doesn't get his money back then his men will reply. Without any delay to avoid big problem the owner paid 7 lakh( 900 USDollar) on the spot.
Any answer to this Mr. Perfect Ye Htut ? Perhaps Mr. Ye Htut has not seen the video clip of BBC yet.


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Pharmacists should not be tested by their employers for use of illegal drugs. There also should be no pre-employment "screening" drug tests for R.Ph.s. That's the position one of the American Pharmaceutical Association's policy committees has urged the organization to endorse at its 137th annual meeting next month.
APhA policy committees also made recommendations on more than a dozen other topics, including legalization of illicit drugs, needle exchange programs, freedom of choice, pharmacy school curriculums, and reimbursement for unapproved drug uses.
More drug test: The most controversial issue before the APhA house of delegates is likely to be drug testing. An increasing number of firms are requiring drug tests, at least for job applicants.
Jack Eckerd Corp., for instance, has launched a mandatory drug testing program for employees. The Florida-based company believes it is the first major drug chain to do so. Under a pilot plan, workers in 350 of Eckerd's stores must undergo periodic urine tests and all job applicants must be tested as a condition of employment. Every employee accepting a promotion also must be tested.
Effectiveness questioned: APhA's policy committee on professional affairs expressed concern over the reliability of current drug tests. It also stated: "Routine, scheduled tests will not deter off-duty drug abuse, since employees can test negative by avoiding drug use before the test."
The committee continued: "Mandatory drug testing, like polygraph testing, might work as a deterrent, but it arguably violates constitutional protections against unreasonable search and seizure, as well as common expectations of privacy. Thus, the committee supports policy opposing drug testing in the employment context."
The policy committees also recommended that APhA adopt these positions: . Oppose decriminalization or legalization of the possession, use, sale, or distribution of drug substances for nonmedicinal purposes. . Study the effectiveness of pilot needle and syringe exchange programs for preventing the spread of human immunodeficiency virus and other infectious diseases. . Affirm a patient's right to use any pharmacy without financial penalties or disincentives. Affirm a pharmacy's right to participate in any third-party program under equal conditions and terms. . Work with schools, colleges of pharmacy, and other pharmacy organizations "to address differences between contemporary pharmacy practice and curriculum offerings." . Support coverage by third-party payers of unapproved uses of drugs approved by the Food & Drug Administration.
Source Citation (MLA 7th Edition)
Conlan, Michael F. "APhA committee says No to job-related drug tests." Drug Topics 19 Feb. 1990: 12. General OneFile. Web. 23 Mar. 2015.


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Valve unites Epic Games, id Software and themselves under the same roof
March 17, 2008 - 16:06
Theo Valich
Steam content distribution platform just became THE 800-pound gorilla in the world of digital distribution. Valve just announced that Epic Games signed with Steam, making this three out of three for founders of FPS gaming.
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Recent writer's strike may force Blu-ray prices down
March 17, 2008 - 13:44
Theo Valich
A weekend spent in Hollywood can greatly help to learn about trends in the Consumer Electronics industry. Of course, Blu-ray was one of the main discussion topics and if you are currently frustrated about the high prices for players and movies, you may see much lower price tags very soon.
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Playstation 3 climbs forward in February sales
March 14, 2008 - 11:36
Mark Raby
The PS3 had one of its best months in February, selling over 280,000 units. That barely edges out the Xbox 360's sales numbers, but is only around half of the number of Wii units sold in the same time period. In February, NPD reports that the Wii was unsurprisingly the top console seller, reaching 432,000 units. The PS3's 280,800 units put it in the number two spot, with the Xbox 360 reaching 254,600 units.
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BioShock 2 in the works, arrives in 2009
March 12, 2008 - 15:35
Theo Valich
During its quarterly conference, executives of 2K announced BioShock 2 and finally answered rumors of its sequel to the 2007 mega-hit, BioShock. Three months ago, a new game development studio called 2K Marin opened its doors, and it was rumored that they are working on a sequel to BioShock. At the same time, the destiny of the 2K Boston/Australia team was uncertain, since head of 2K Boston, Ken Levine was stating that he is going to work on a sequel.
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Take Two shareholder sues over EA buyout rejection
March 12, 2008 - 09:46
Mark Raby
Earlier this year, Take Two Interactive rejected a buyout offer from Electronic Arts, and now a T2 stock owner is suing for not maximizing shareholders' equity. EA offered Take Two a substantial premium over the company's current market value to buy the video game publisher outright. However, Take Two said it was the wrong place and the wrong time to consider such an offer, and tried to keep negotiations secret.
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Super Smash Bros Brawl hits all the right notes
March 11, 2008 - 08:27
Mark Raby
Game Review - If you own a Wii, you need to run out and buy a copy of Super Smash Bros Brawl. It is one of the greatest Nintendo games of all time. When Super Smash Bros was released on the Nintendo 64, it was really the first of its kind - bring together a bunch of characters from different games in an environment none of them had even been in before. It was an intoxicating formula that only Nintendo has been able to perfect.
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Virtual character with child-like reasoning abilities enters Second Life
March 10, 2008 - 15:07
Wolfgang Gruener
Interacting with avatars in a virtual world may soon change dramatically: Researchers are trying to find ways to create lifelike synthetic characters, which act just like humans and would make it difficult for players to determine whether they are dealing with a real or simulated person. Scientists from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute claim that have completed a critical first step, injecting Eddie, a virtual character with the reasoning abilities of a 4-year old child into Second Life.
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Price of OCZ's brain-controlled mouse confirmed: $159
March 10, 2008 - 13:27
Theo Valich
OCZ's Neural Impulse Actuator (NIA) could become one of the most sought after computing peripherals this year. So far, the price of the device was somewhat a mystery, with estimates ranging from £99.99 to $299 – more than what you would currently would pay for Nintendo's Wii console (if you can get one). It turns out that OCZ will bring the NIA for $159 to the U.S., TG Daily has learned.
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Super Smash Bros Brawl midnight openings canceled throughout midwest
March 8, 2008 - 21:42
Mark Raby
Dozens of Gamestop stores in Ohio, Kentucky, and neighboring states have canceled their midnight openings and local round one tournament competitions for Super Smash Bros Brawl due to a nasty late-winter storm. In Columbus, Ohio, every single GameStop location in a six- to seven-county area decided to cancel the event after a total of over 20 inches of snow fell over the past two days, a new record. Many locations were not even open for regular business hours today as the city received its first blizzard warning in over 12 years.
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Microsoft not all that focused on high definition for Xbox
March 7, 2008 - 17:02
Mark Raby
While Microsoft as a company has played a major role in high definition home media, it is not really concerned with how that will play out in the Xbox 360 market. Aaron Greenberg, group product manager for Xbox 360 and Xbox Live, told TG Daily that although HD DVD's demise is unfortunate, it does "not at all" affect the console's position as an entertainment center.As we've long stated, we believe it is games that sell consoles and Xbox 360 continues to have the largest next-gen games library with the most exclusives and best selling games in the industry. Market data shows that HD movie playback is not a primary purchase driver for consumers buying video game consoles," said Greenberg.
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Rockstar to patch Bully's bugs on Xbox 360
March 7, 2008 - 14:39
Mark Raby
Rockstar said today that it is aware of serious problems in the Xbox 360 game Bully: Scholarship Edition and that it is working "to resolve these issues as quickly as possible." Players have recently flocked to message boards and Rockstar customer support to complain about the game randomly freezing and losing save data, as well as rampant audio/video problems.
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Audiosurf rules Steam's February sales
March 7, 2008 - 10:13
Wolfgang Gruener
Valve has begun releasing statistics for its Steam service, which currently reaches more than 15 million subscribers and has grown into one of the major game distribution platforms. Other than you might expect, it isn't the Bioshock & Co bunch that is dominating the Steam charts.
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Another Balance Board game coming to Wii
March 7, 2008 - 09:17
Mark Raby
THQ has announced a new Wii and DS game geared towards girls, and on the Wii it will include support for the Balance Board controller.
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Sony promises "big change" to PS3 online next month
March 5, 2008 - 10:54
Mark Raby
Playstation 3 users can expect a "pretty big change in the Playstation Network in the early part of April," according to Sony Computer Entertainment America's John Hight.
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We Ski for Wii to hit US this spring
March 4, 2008 - 08:56
Mark Raby
The first third-party Wii game to use the Wii Fit Balance Board has been confirmed for a stateside release.
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Like video games? Cnet/Gamespot going hiring crazy
March 3, 2008 - 16:43
Humphrey Cheung
Getting paid to review video games is a dream job to some and CNET/Gamespot may have a position for you. Management is still reeling from the high-profile resignations (some say firings) of four of the site's top editors and Cnet now appears to be filling those vacant positions.
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Metal Gear Solid 4 gets official release date
February 29, 2008 - 14:35
Mark Raby
Konami has announced the release date for the upcoming exclusive Playstation 3 title Metal Gear Solid 4, which will launch alongside a special limited edition version of the console.
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SCi to cancel 14 games and lay off 200
February 29, 2008 - 12:22
Mark Raby
Video game publisher SCi Entertainment Group has announced that it is going to cut 25% of its workforce and put a halt to 14 of its pending projects.
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GDC Conference visited by record 18.000 visitors
February 28, 2008 - 22:41
Theo Valich
The recently completed Game Developers Conference had a record turnout. This was probably caused by larger number of exhibitors at the conference which was a mixture of lectures, head-hunting and the conventional trade show. GDC had more than 400 sessions which were mostly packed even on the final day when guys from CryTek held several very interesting sessions.
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Wii mauls PS3 in Japan due to high-volume February titles
February 28, 2008 - 13:55
Mark Raby
After the Playstation 3 began to narrow in on the Wii in Japan, the Nintendo platform blasted the sales charts this month thanks in large part to Wii Fit and Super Smash Bros Brawl.
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Eva Zeisel, Ceramic Artist and Designer, Dies at 105
Eva Zeisel at the Museum of Modern Art in 1997, with a piece from a porcelain table service introduced in 1946; behind her is a chair she designed.
Eva Zeisel, a ceramic artist whose elegant, eccentric designs for dinnerware in the 1940s and '50s helped to revolutionize the way Americans set their tables, died on Friday in New City, N.Y. She was 105.
Her death was confirmed by her daughter, Jean Richards.
Ms. Zeisel (pronounced ZY-sel), along with designers like Mary and Russel Wright and Charles and Ray Eames, brought the clean, casual shapes of modernist design into middle-class American homes with furnishings that encouraged a postwar desire for fresh, less formal styles of living.
"Museum," the porcelain table service that brought Ms. Zeisel national notice, was commissioned by its manufacturer, Castleton China, in conjunction with the Museum of Modern Art in New York, which introduced it in an exhibition in 1946, its first show devoted to a female designer.
Ms. Zeisel's work, which ultimately spanned nine decades, was at the heart of what the museum promoted as "good design": domestic objects that were beautiful as well as useful and whose beauty lent pleasure to daily life.
"She brought form to the organicism and elegance and fluidity that we expect of ceramics today, reaching as many people as possible," said Paola Antonelli, a curator of architecture and design at the museum. "It's easy to do something stunning that stays in a collector's cabinet. But her designs reached people at the table, where they gather."
Born Eva Amalia Striker in Budapest on Nov. 13, 1906, she was the daughter of Laura Polanyi Striker and Alexander Striker. Her father owned a textile factory. Her mother was a historian, feminist and political activist.
READ MORE http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/31/arts/design/eva-zeisel-ceramic-artist-and-designer-dies-at-105.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=eva&st=cse
Remembering Designer Eva Zeisel–LISTEN
All Things Considered host Melissa Block remembers Eva Zeisel, one of the premier ceramic designers of the last century. She died last week at her New City, N.Y., home at the age of 105.
LISTEN http://www.npr.org/2012/01/02/144587800/remembering-designer-eva-zeisel
A Poem A Day: Portable, Peaceful And Perfect
Alan Heathcock is the author of Volt.
I hadn't slept well, had to get my three kids to three different schools in three different cities, had deadlines piled on deadlines. I leaned my head against my bookcases and there, at eye-level, was a book of poetry by Mary Oliver.
I randomly opened to the poem "Egrets." Like magic, I was pushing through catbrier to the edge of a pond, where I watched "a spindle of bleached reeds" become egrets and "unruffled, sure, by the laws of their faith not logic, they opened their wings softly and stepped over every dark thing."
I closed the book, transformed, bolstered from the inside out.
From that day forward, each morning I read a poem. Even with a crazed daily docket, I can manage a minute or two for the words, reading while waiting for the bread to toast, sitting in a school parking lot. I've read poems at jury duty. At Jiffy Lube. Once, at a football tailgate, I read a poem in a Portajohn.
The older I get, the more life passes in a harried traffic of cars and people and events. This world of shallow speed often sends me to sleep feeling I've been to battle. Battle at dance practice and the soccer game and the drive-thru window, battle to pick up the dry cleaning and get the kids new shoes before I have to attend parent-teachers conferences. Battles at work, battles in my relationships, battles with myself. If you're like me, you long for a bit of quiet, a morning in the chapel, a walk in the woods. If only I had the time to still my mind, take an accounting of myself, find my balance once again.
I'm not a poet. Not much of scholar. Just a guy looking for a little peace in the mad scramble that is life. For me, this peace is a poem. A poem each morning, to sustain me through my days with the faith of an egret stepping over every dark thing.
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'In The Right Place' by Cordley Coit… Another old Crested Butte memory..JR
The entry to town looked like the entry to a junk yard. I liked it immediately. After years in England avoiding my country's call, Local Board Six, Vineyard Haven, Mass, informed me that the State of Massachusetts was no longer persecuting draft dodgers and the land of the free was a safe place to live.
This happened about the time I made some very unpopular films about Ireland. I was shot at by the Protestants, my people over there, and had beaten the living shit out of a couple of vengeful IRA types. The country I returned to was split. There were signs saying "no hippies here" and in Nebraska I was offered a fight a couple of times for being a hippy. I was hellishly tired and dirty and declined to fight, the fool didn't know I had a .45 revolver under the seat and was sick enough of conflict to waste a flag wearing patriot in a Belfast second. Armed love was my motto, words to live through the Nixon years by.
My first stop in Crested Butte was Tony's Conoco. The old man kindly asked me what that thing in my pickup was. "Haven't you seen a motorcycle before?"
I then went into Tony's Tavern. A surly young man served me 3.2 beer and told me my brother would be there in a minute. I liked it more. I sat there with my beer between sleep and awake. An old timer was sitting at the end of the bar. He was a Slav or Croate, I could tell by the accent. "Hey, buy the new guy a beer and strain it through an IWW sock". His hands were gnarled from arthritis, his voice was the yell of a miner. Pitzker Sporicich introduced himself. When I told him I was a Wobbly he laughed a big laugh. "Hell, half this town are Wobbles and the other half Klansmen.
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True Grit: 'Into The Silence' Scales Everest–LISTEN–
No mountain captures the popular imagination like Everest. The world's highest peak, towering out of the Himalayas, has frequently proved deadly to those who have tried to reach its summit. The most famous of its victims was the first Englishman to attempt a climb: George Mallory. In the early 1920s Mallory took part in the first three expeditions up Everest, dying on his third attempt.
Wade Davis, explorer in residence at National Geographic, chronicles these expeditions in his new book, Into the Silence, which links the team's hardiness and appetite for risk and adventure to their experiences in the trenches of World War I.
"They took their experiences which were never spoken about but never forgotten to the flanks of the mountain," Davis says. "Death had no mystery for them, because they'd seen so much of it. What mattered was how one lived."
And while charismatic, good-looking Mallory was the leader and the public face of the expedition — and dying in the course of the climb just cemented his reputation — the real unsung hero was a Canadian surveyor, Oliver Wheeler.
It was Wheeler who found the route to the mountain — not George Mallory as the historians have claimed.
Wheeler's discovery of a route through the Rongbuk glacier (a route still used today by climbers coming from the Tibetan side) is especially remarkable given how unassuming the glacier is. Its mouth was so narrow that Mallory passed it three times, thinking it wasn't worthy of exploration. But Wheeler, the mapmaker, thought everything was worthy of exploration.
"His job was to map the inner core of Everest, and he did so with incredible courage," Davis says. "He spent more time along on the mountain, exposed to the wrath of the mountain, than anyone else in 1921."
LISTEN/READ: http://www.npr.org/2011/12/29/144380271/true-grit-into-the-silence-scales-everest
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Bean Bowers–'The Lives They Loved'–NYT
Bean Bowers died in July, a month short of his 38th birthday. This picture shows Bean at his "Most Enthusiastic" best, that being the name of the award he won at camp when he was nine years old.
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'Smart Decline'–LISTEN–
Unfinished subdivisions like this one in the Phoenix suburb of Gilbert, Ariz., have led urban planners to suggest "smart decline" strategies that sometimes even dismantle existing infrastructure.
On the western edge of Phoenix, it's easy to find vast tracts of empty land once prepped for two-by-fours and work crews. Utility stanchions emerge like errant whiskers from the desert floor.
This is the land of zombie subdivisions. Some experts believe up to 1 million dirt lots in central Arizona were in some stage of approval for new homes when the market crashed.
Urban planners are floating a radical solution for areas like this. It's known as "smart decline."
Justin Hollander, an assistant professor at Tufts University, wrote a book called Sunburnt Cities,about smart decline in the Southwest. After the bust, he says, more than a third of ZIP codes in major Sun Belt cities saw population losses.
"People are leaving," Hollander says. "So that means all the houses, all the roads and infrastructure that supports those houses, it doesn't just disappear."
In some cases, Hollander calls for tearing down that infrastructure. He points to some Rust Belt cities that took generations to realize the depth of their problems.
"If you don't do a good job, it further destabilizes the neighborhood," he says. "It further creates a cycle of disinvestment."
Read More/Listen http://www.npr.org/2011/12/28/144333793/smart-decline-a-lifeline-for-zombie-subdivisions
Antique Indian motorcycle heads to auction, rust included
Bikers might want to take another look at that unused, rusting motorcycle hidden away in the corner of the backyard if an upcoming auction in Las Vegas is anything to go by.
The motorcycle press is abuzz about a 1906 Indian Camelback going to auction that has definitely seen better days. Experts expect collectors to look past its 'unrestored state' and bid on the fact that the motorcycle on the block is one of only 1,698 Indian Camelbacks produced some 105 years ago. The model was one of the first ever two-wheeled motorized machines and one which is hugely desirable to collectors.
"It was a pedal assisted bike and it still has its original registration number on the rear mud guard," Ben Walker from Bonhams explains.
The motorcycle is going under the hammer at Bonhams in Las Vegas on January 12th. The expected winning bid should fall around $75,000. But auction goers are buying more history than performance
The motorcycle going to auction boasts a single cylinder 2.25 horsepower engine that kicks out a top speed of 30 mph.
READ MORE: http://www.clutchandchrome.com/news/news/anitque-indian-motorcycle-heads-to-auction-rust-included
FOUR HUTS— very nice book…jr
Stephen Addiss brush painting
The short works collected in Four Huts give voice to one of the most treasured aesthetic and spiritual ideals of Asia—that of a simple life lived in a simple dwelling. The texts were written between the ninth and the seventeenth centuries and convey each author's underlying sense of the world and what is to be valued in it. These beautiful texts were written by the renowned classical Chinese and Japanese poets Po Chu-i, Kamo no Chomei, Basho and Yoshishige no Yasutane. The qualities that emerge from these writings are an awareness of impermanence, love of nature, fondness for poetry and music, and an appreciation of the quiet life. Four Huts features eleven brush paintings by artist Stephen Addiss.
Abstract Artist Helen Frankenthaler Dies At Age 83 –LISTEN–
Abstract expressionist artist Helen Frankenthaler, pictured above in 1956, adopted Jackson Pollock's technique of painting canvases laid flat on the floor. She sought to "marry" the paint with the canvas, she said.
At a time when the art world was still dominated by men, Helen Frankenthaler's abstract canvasses earned the respect of critics and influenced generations of artists. One of the major abstract expressionist painters of the 20th century, Frankenthaler died Tuesday at her home in Connecticut. She was 83 years old.
In the early 1950s, Frankenthaler started painting with her canvasses flat on the floor after seeing Jackson Pollock do it. She liked the gesture and the attitude of working on the floor, she told NPR in 1988, "but I wanted to work with shapes in a very different way."
Frankenthaler developed her own technique of pouring diluted paint directly onto canvas, then manipulating it with mops and sponges to create vivid fields of color.
"What evolved for me had to do with pouring paint and staining paint," Frankenthaler explained. "It's a kind of marrying the paint into the woof and weave of the canvas itself, so that they become one and the same."
Starting with the 1952 masterpiece Mountains and Sea,Frankenthaler produced a body of work that was a major influence on the painters of the 1960s and beyond.
"She really helped pull art out of the angst and trauma of the abstract expressionists, the wartime generation, and into a lighter, more lyrical kind of modernism," says Betsy Broun, who directs the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C. "I think it was a relief, a liberation."
Read more/Listen http://www.npr.org/2011/12/27/144323377/abstract-artist-helen-frankenthaler-dies-at-age-83
Haiku Error Messages. If computer programmers were more into haiku these are the sort of error messages you might see.
Hello nature lovers, computer users and poets….you have probably seen these, but another time through can't do any harm. It is better than the world news of the day to muse on….
Serious error.
All shortcuts have disappeared.
Screen. Mind. Both are blank.
– Ian Hughes
Chaos reigns within.
Reflect, repent, and reboot.
Order shall return.
– Suzie Wagner
Windows NT crashed.
I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams.
– Peter Rothman
You step in the stream,
but the water has moved on.
This page is not here.
– Cass Whittington
Harsh Political Reality Slows Climate Studies Despite Extreme Year
TORNADO Joplin, Mo., suffered severe damage in May. Scientists say data suggest an increase in tornadoes as the climate warms, but no rigorous analyses have been conducted.
At the end of one of the most bizarre weather years in American history, climate research stands at a crossroads.
Scientists say they could, in theory, do a much better job of answering the question "Did global warming have anything to do with it?" after extreme weather events like the drought in Texas and the floods in New England.
But for many reasons, efforts to put out prompt reports on the causes of extreme weather are essentially languishing. Chief among the difficulties that scientists face: the political environment for new climate-science initiatives has turned hostile, and with the federal budget crisis, money is tight.
And so, as the weather becomes more erratic by the year, the public is left to wonder what is going on.
When 2010 ended, it seemed as if people had lived through a startling year of weather extremes. But in the United States, if not elsewhere, 2011 has surpassed that.
A typical year in this country features three or four weather disasters whose costs exceed $1 billion each. But this year, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has tallied a dozen such events, including wildfires in the Southwest, floods in multiple regions of the country and a deadly spring tornado season. And the agency has not finished counting. The final costs are certain to exceed $50 billion.
"I've been a meteorologist 30 years and never seen a year that comes close to matching 2011 for the number of astounding, extreme weather events," Jeffrey Masters, a co-founder of the popular Web site Weather Underground, said last month. "Looking back in the historical record, which goes back to the late 1800s, I can't find anything that compares, either."
Many of the individual events in 2011 do have precedents in the historical record. And the nation's climate has featured other concentrated periods of extreme weather, including severe cold snaps in the early 20th century and devastating droughts and heat waves in the Dust Bowl era of the 1930s.
But it is unusual, if not unprecedented, for so many extremes to occur in such a short span. The calamities in 2011 included wildfires that scorched millions of acres, extreme flooding in the Upper Midwest and the Mississippi River Valley and heat waves that shattered records in many parts of the country. Abroad, massive floods inundated Australia, the Philippines and large parts of Southeast Asia.
A major question nowadays is whether the frequency of particular weather extremes is being affected by human-induced climate change.
Climate science already offers some insight. Researchers have proved that the temperature of the earth's surface is rising, and they are virtually certain that the human release of greenhouse gases, mainly from the burning of fossil fuels, is the major reason. For decades, they have predicted that this would lead to changes in the frequency of extreme weather events, and statistics show that has begun to happen.
Leadership Lessons From the Shackleton Expedition
Ernest Shackleton's failed quest to reach the South Pole is still a management tutorial in how to face repeated crises. The crew of his ship, the Endurance, was photographed in July 1915 while trapped by an ice floe.
A HUNDRED years ago this month, the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and four teammates became the first men to reach the South Pole, arriving in triumph five weeks ahead of Robert Falcon Scott. The Amundsen crew would return safely to its base, but, heartbreakingly, Scott and his four British companions died on the return journey.
The race to the pole has long attracted leadership experts, who like to contrast the Amundsen focus on efficiency and innovation with Scott's more deliberate dedication to scientific pursuit.
But another polar explorer — Ernest Shackleton — faced harsh conditions in a way that speaks more directly to our time. The Shackleton expedition, from 1914 to 1916, is a compelling story of leadership when disaster strikes again and again.
Consider just a handful of recent events: the financial crisis of 2008; the gulf oil spill of 2010; and the Japanese nuclear disaster, the debt-ceiling debacle and euro crisis this year. Constant turbulence seems to be the new normal, and effective leadership is crucial in containing it.
Real leaders, wrote the novelist David Foster Wallace, are people who "help us overcome the limitations of our own individual laziness and selfishness and weakness and fear and get us to do better, harder things than we can get ourselves to do on our own."
Shackleton exemplified this kind of leadership for almost two years on the ice. What can we learn from his actions?
Retreat of Glaciers Makes Some Climbs Tougher, but according to local high altitude medicine expert Dr. Peter Hackett, "At extreme altitude, the increasing temperature is making Everest a tiny bit easier to climb."
Glaciers are retreating in many high ranges, including the Himalayas and the Alps. The Kyetrak Glacier in 2009.
Three decades ago, when Mick Fowler climbed the north face of the Eiger in the Swiss Alps, he used crampons and ice axes to haul himself up sheer walls of snow and ice.
Nowadays, during a hot summer, "you'll find virtually no snow and ice on its face — none," he said. "It's a huge change over the last 20 to 30 years."
Like Mr. Fowler, mountaineers around the world find themselves forced to adjust to a warming world. Routes that were icy or glaciated in the middle part of the past century, when the world's highest peaks were being conquered for the first time, are turning into unstable and unappetizing rock.
"Almost every area and route in every range have been affected," said Jeff Jackson, editor of Rock and Ice , a climbing magazine.
The main issue, scientists and climbers say, is that as permafrost, ice and glaciers melt, they leave areas of teetering rock. Some rock formations high in the mountains have essentially been held together by ice, which "acts as a glue," said Christian Schlüchter, a professor at the University of Bern's Institute of Geological Sciences . When the glue disappears — something he has seen happening over the past 15 years in the Alps — the formations can collapse, especially if they are initially weak.
Retreating glaciers are a problem because they leave rocks and other sediments that are poorly compacted and of different sizes, which can make footing treacherous and lead to rockfalls, said John H. Shaw, chairman of the Earth and Planetary Sciences Department at Harvard University.
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Secular Opponents Of Holiday Displays Get Creative
A skeleton dressed in a Santa Claus costume is part of the holiday displays at the Loudoun County Courthouse in Leesburg, Va. Many local residents are not pleased with the "Skele-Claus" or other displays by secular activists and atheists.
Nativity scenes have long been a part of holiday displays at city halls and small-town courthouses across the country. This year, some proponents of secularism are finding new ways to protest the time-honored tradition. They're putting up their own versions of the creche — and causing quite a commotion in places like Leesburg, Va.
For decades, a Nativity scene took center stage at the county courthouse there. But when some residents complained that the tradition violated a separation of church and state, its lawn was opened to numerous public displays. The decision to be more inclusive came after a 1989 Supreme Court ruling, which found a single creche on public property had an "impermissible effect of endorsing religion," while a menorah and a Christmas tree together merely acknowledged holidays that are often celebrated secularly.
Atheist groups grabbed most of the 10 allotted spaces created by the county's policy change in 2009, but their holiday displays are sparking more controversy this year than ever before.
There's also something residents are calling the "Skele-Claus," which, as the name suggests, is a skeleton dressed as Santa — that's slung over a cross. The "Skele-Claus" has been torn down so many times that the county sheriff set up a 24-hour surveillance truck to watch over it.
Local news footage shows one vandal pulling the skeleton off of its cross and gingerly pulling its bones apart. When asked why, the middle-aged saboteur said simply, "Because it's offensive."
"These people are, as far as I'm concerned, hell-bent on not only banning everything on the lawn … by being as offensive as possible, but they're basically trying to stamp out religion," Reid says.
But that's not the intention at all, according to Rick Wingrove, the director of the Virginia chapter of American Atheists.
He points out that some of the displays put up by atheist groups aren't at all offensive. One bears the message "Seasons Greetings, Peace, Love, Health and Happiness to All." They also put up a Christmas tree adorned with tinsel and lights, only instead of ornaments, it's covered with notes from atheists that say things like, "I can be moral without religion."
"We're not attacking Christmas. We're not attacking Christianity," Wingrove says of the atheist group he represents. "We're trying to preserve the constitutional separation between church and state."
To Flirt In Cities, Birds Adjust Their Pitch–LISTEN–
Northern cardinals have higher-pitched songs, but those sounds can get garbled in cities, so they've started to sing a little lower.
December 24, 2011
Have you ever been at a bar where it was just too loud to hit on anybody? Birds feel your pain.
A big part of being a bird is singing, often to attract other birds. Sometimes it's hard to do that amid all the noise in a city. For birds, it's like living in a bar, scientist Peter Marra says.
"Those sounds compete with low-frequency sounds," Marra says, and that makes it hard for birds that sing at a lower pitch to hook up.
But there's no stopping love, and Marra has found that those birds are changing their tune.
Turns out, urban birds like the gray catbird or the robin are singing differently from their country cousins. Marra, a conservation scientist at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, recently published his findings in the journal Behavioral Ecology.
The Big Legacy Of Charles "Tennie" Harris, Photographer—LISTEN–
Charles "Teenie" Harris/Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg
Little boy boxer, seated in boxing ring, possibly in Kay Boys' Club, circa 1945
Charles "Teenie" Harris didn't need to wander far during his life as a photographer. His hometown of Pittsburgh, Penn., supplied enough images to sustain a career. For more than four decades, Harris was one of the principal photographers for thePittsburgh Courier, one of the nation's pre-eminent black newspapers.
San Juan Mountains Weather Report. Friday December 23, 2011…08:49
An upper ridge of high pressure building in the northwest is pushing the passing low pressure south into Arizona leaving cloudy skies, some fog and a few snow flurries on the north side of the San Juans this morning. Clearing skies and cold temperatures with valley inversions will dominate the next few days even with abundant sunshine.
Quiet weather will persist into the holidays with temperatures slowly warming as the Pacific ridge gains strength over the Great Basin. This pattern will continue through Sunday then a short wave trough moves into the northern portion of the forecast area flattening the high pressure ridge allowing northwest flow. Some moisture will be carried with it along with a series of short wave disturbances…Too early to tell, but looks like unsettled weather Tuesday through Thursday with a chance of snow for the northern and central mountains leaving the San Juans dry. This is looking almost a week into the future so it will probably change, stay tuned.


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Tiger Woods still nervous around Rory McIlroy, says golf great Greg Norman
- From: News Corp Australia Network
- December 12, 2012
GREG Norman says nothing has changed since September when he said Tiger Woods was intimidated by world no.1 Rory McIlroy.
And the "Great White Shark'' has added fuel to the fire, declaring that the fallen US superstar "can't keep up'' with the Northern Irishman who has now got the "number'' of Woods.
Speaking at the "Dinner with the Stars" function ahead of this week's Australian PGA championship at Coolum, Norman said he stood by his comments earlier this year that McIlroy had surpassed Woods as the alpha male in world golf.
"What I'm seeing is that Tiger is really intimidated by Rory... When have you ever seen him intimidated by another player? Never," Norman, 57, said in an interview published in September.
McIlroy finished 2012 at the top of the money list for both the US and European tours as well as the world rankings after a year that netted the 23-year-old almost $US11 million in prizemoney and his second major – the US PGA.
Norman's initial assessment sparked outrage in the US but the dual British Open champion is standing firm.
"I was right,'' he said.
"I think when you are around the game for long enough, you can tell.
Players can tell.
"We understand what the game is all about and there is always a new wave of new kids coming through who don't have that fear factor,. The other players do feel that.
"To me it was a very logical statement to make. I stand by it today.
''I actually think that Tiger really can't keep up with Rory. He is trying to keep up with him (but) I think Rory has got his number.''
Norman – who spent 331 weeks at world no.1 – said McIlroy's rich vein of form will only help Woods who dominated the game before injury and off-course issues plagued him.
"I think it's going to make Tiger a better player. Whether Tiger will be the player he was in the past, I don't think so, but he can become a better player because of Rory.''
Norman was supported by 2011 British Open champion Darren Clarke who is also playing in the Australian PGA at Coolum this week.
"What Rory is producing these days were the standards that Tiger was producing in the past on a regular basis,'' Clarke said.


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It was Lin Milano's teenage son Cory who tipped off his mom to pictures on the Web of his sister Alyssa—the actress made famous as moppet-next-door Samantha on ABC's Who's the Boss? When Lin went online in 1995, what she found wasn't suitable for the family album. Some sites featured flesh-baring freeze-frames from Alyssa's schlocky 1995 movie Embrace of the Vampire. Others electronically pasted Alyssa's head atop the bodies of people in pornographic poses. Milano, 49, called an immediate huddle with her daughter, now 24. "I told Alyssa that I was going to try to kick some butt and tell these people that this is not right," she says. "And Alyssa said, 'You go, girl!' "
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This New Republic article on the Democrats' abrupt loss of religious voters suffers from a fatal flaw: it's all 'how,' and no 'why.' Despite the slightly breathless tone of the author, the 'how' is both obvious and not particularly surprising: from 2004 to 2008 the Democrats actively went out and told voters that liberalism and religious belief complemented each other. The Democratic party spent a good deal of money and resources on that message, and it paid off in 2006 and 2008. Since that point, the Democrats have effectively stopped their religious outreach except among African-American voters - and their support among religious voters has effectively cratered. That's the 'how.'
'Why' is more interesting, though. It is significant that liberal religious outreach requires constant funding and attention to get anywhere among American voters; it at least implies that the entire thing is a highly artificial construct that is not capable of independent, organic growth. It is also significant that the organizational structure of the Democratic party was apparently deeply institutionally hostile to the continued development of this particular special-interest group (religious progressives): the entire edifice apparently depended on no more than half a dozen people keeping fairly specific jobs in the party hierarchy, and when they went elsewhere, nobody was permitted to really take their places. Take those two points together and it is not unreasonable to conclude that there is something in either the Democratic party's organizational structure or its ideology that is at best indifferent, and at worst actively hostile, to religious sentiment; and, given that the predominant element in both is liberalism, it does not seem unreasonable to conclude that perhaps it and religious sentiment do not complement each other.
There is some evidence in favor of this statement. At least, on the street level - which is where the work's being done. Or, in this case, where the work isn't being done; and is fact instead being curb-stomped.
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Circus Big Pop Lite
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★ Slash pop corn, peanuts, lollipops and hats for high scores
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Circus Big Pop combines the fun of a day at the circus with fast-moving, easy-to-learn action for gamers of all ages. Swipe and tap popcorn, lollipops, peanuts and top hats to score points. But hurry. The fuse timer is burning! Time bombs extend playing time but cost valuable points. And the rainbow bomb is pretty, but beware –– touch it, and it ends your game! Play once, and you won't want to stop playing Circus Big Pop. It's a blast!
Circus Big Pop is a fun, impossible-to-resist game for all ages that combines the fast-moving action of a day at the circus with the challenge of a true adventure.
Grab the treats (and hats). Free the performers.
Enjoy a day under the big top.
Ringmaster Renaldo is ready for a big day under the big top. But Renaldo's quirky circus performers are trapped inside magical balloons. It's up to you to free them so the show, and your game, can go on!
Swipe or tap the popcorn, lollipops, peanuts and top hats to collect points, then watch for the character balloons featuring the wonderfully weird performers. Pop 10 character balloons, and free the character! At the end of each round, you'll tap and pop a circus-full of balloons with a Balloon Blast –– all for bonus points!
It's fast and fun. Not to mention wonderfully addictive.
You'll want to play Circus Big Pop for hours. The tension rises as you play, because the fuse timer is burning. You can tap or swipe the time bombs to extend playing time but there's a price –– time bombs cost points. And the dreaded rainbow bomb is pretty, but beware –– it ends your game!
Play once, and you won't want to stop playing Circus Big Pop. It's a blast!
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ARLINGTON (AP) - Doug Melvin, the architect of Texas' only three division championships, was fired as general manager Sunday after the Rangers finished in last place even with Alex Rodriguez.
After also finishing last in 2000, the Rangers signed Rodriguez to a record $252 million, 10-year contract that was negotiated by owner Tom Hicks.
Rodriguez did his part, hitting over .300 with more than 50 homers, but Melvin was unable to upgrade a weak pitching staff.
Texas started the final day of the season at Seattle with a major league-worst 5.73 ERA and 44 games behind the Mariners, A-Rod's former team. It's the second year in a row the Rangers finished in last place and had the highest ERA in the majors.
"What's important is the search is on for a winner,'' Rodriguez said in Seattle. "Mr. Hicks is not going to settle for anything, from a team perspective, that is average. We were below average this year.''
Hicks said the search for a new GM will begin immediately, and that Melvin's replacement will come from outside the organization. Hicks said he will be aided by a professional search organization.
The owner refused to detail that group or possible candidates, but gave an indication of what he's looking for.
"I'd love to hire a GM with a proven track record that has developed great young players. That will be our first goal,'' Hicks said. "You have to develop your own talent, particularly with pitching.
"Others organizations have developed pitching a lot better than ours has,'' he said. "It's not Doug, it's not one person. It's our whole system. We are going to take a careful, fresh look of how to make sure we have to ability to pick and trade and develop players.''
Hicks hopes to have a new general manager in place within six weeks.
The new GM will decide on the status of manager Jerry Narron and his coaching staff, but Hicks said he will highly recommend Narron.
Melvin was hired as the Rangers' sixth GM on Oct. 10, 1994. Texas won the AL West in 1996, '98 and '99, but won only one playoff game those three years - losing to the eventual World Series champion New York Yankees each time.
"Under his leadership, the club won three American League West titles in a four-year span and reached a new level of success for this franchise,'' Hicks said. "However, the last two years have produced very disappointing results.''
Hicks, who has more of a hands-off approach in both his ownership of the Rangers and NHL's Dallas Stars, left most of the baseball decisions to Melvin, who he retained after buying the team in January 1998.
Melvin had two years left on his contract. But Hicks didn't feel that time would be enough for the Rangers to change.
"I was afraid that if I allowed this to go on for a couple of more years, we'd get to the same place,'' he said. "I didn't want to waste any more years.''
Calls to Melvin's home went unanswered. Melvin, who just finished his 30th year in professional baseball, had already been considered a top candidate to replace fired Toronto Blue Jays GM Gord Ash.
Narron was hired May 4 when Johnny Oates stepped down under pressure after an 11-17 start. He was given a two-year contract extension through 2003 on June 2.
Narron said Sunday he is confident he is the right person for the Texas job. He spoke with Hicks on Sunday morning, and said Hicks told him he has been pleased with Narron as manager.
"I appreciate the fact he has been happy with the job I've done,'' Narron said. "I definitely think the general manager should be completely satisfied with who the manager is. I have no problem with that. That's the way it should be. ...
"I am confident that I can definitely do this job for the Texas Rangers in the future. If not for the Texas Rangers, if I never manage again, I know I can do this job.''
The hiring of a new GM should not put the Rangers too far behind from a development standpoint, according to Narron and A-Rod.
With the players Texas has, the new general manager will have the opportunity to come in and package players for trades, Narron said. Whether he thinks catcher Ivan Rodriguez will be involved, Narron did not want to speculate.
Ivan Rodriguez, a 10-time All-Star, is eligible for free agency after next season. Hicks said the new GM would handle that situation.
"Obviously we do need a new direction, because things didn't work out this year,'' first baseman Rafael Palmeiro said. "It usually starts at the top. We're going to get it turned around, no doubt about it.''
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