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So I can't voice my opinion because I have a PS3? There is a hardcore fan base on the Wii, but until more games catered for them and things like online are improved, more and more of them will be moving to the PS3/360 to satisfy their 'hardcore' needs. Too many 'hardcore' games on the Wii turn out to be flops.I want the real Wii owners appear, the people that only have a Wii express their opinion, we are the mayority and we can't allow the others consoles piss the Wii, THERE'S A HUGE HARDCORE FAN BASE ON THE Wii the only weak is they purchase slowly their games, becose they want to make sure the game that purchase is good and they like it.
The problem is, is that most Wii owners will never be like you with almost 80 hardcore games. That's not who they're aiming at. (I would also like to hear of these 80 'hardcore' games). Uh, sorry I just don't understand the rest of your post. Are you saying that if Wii owners were like you, then that would push Microsoft and Sony out of the gaming market?I think, if the real Wii owners will be like me, with almost 80 Wii hardcore games by Wii owner, the Wii and Nintendo already be pissed the xbox360/ps3 and leaved these consoles out the game market today. No, no stupid Wii360/Wiips3 owners the sales of these games will surpass the million mark at the end of the year, and when this happens we will talk about it!!


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But Indians believe they succeed despite the state. The Chinese say they succeed because of it.
The past few years have seen no shortage of commentary about the comparative economic environments in China and India, where growth and the rise of enterprising classes have gone hand in hand. Yet we have little data to help us understand how entrepreneurs in these countries think, and what motivates their decisions and actions.
A new survey of more than 4,000 entrepreneurs, business managers and aspiring entrepreneurs, conducted by YouGov and released this week by the Legatum Institute, sheds light on the countries' respective enterprising classes—and raises some questions for policy makers and investors.
Entrepreneurs in both countries are bullish. Nearly half of the respondents believe their societies are more welcoming of entrepreneurial activity today than 10 years ago, and only one-quarter in India and one-third in China believe the global financial crisis has seriously hampered the prospects for new businesses. The vast majority believe their lives will improve dramatically in the next five years.
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But the survey reveals two different styles of entrepreneurship have emerged. The differences start with why entrepreneurs launch businesses. Asked about their main motivation, the overwhelming majority of Indian entrepreneurs name "being my own boss," while the most popular response in China is earning more money. Indian entrepreneurs more closely resemble American entrepreneurs, who are more likely to cite "owning my own company" than "building my wealth" as the main reason they launched a business, according to a 2009 Kauffman foundation study.
When asked what other factors inspire them to start businesses, nearly half of Chinese entrepreneurs give answers related to the state's efforts to promote and manage enterprise. Compared to just 9% in India, 23% of Chinese entrepreneurs say that what they learned in school or at university prompted their decision. This presumably reflects the government's strategy of using universities to promote entrepreneurship. Chinese business owners cite pro-business actions by the government or pro-business messages in the media (which in China are state-controlled) at three times the rate of their Indian peers.
Twenty-one percent of Indian entrepreneurs cite family expectations as the source of their entrepreneurship, compared to 9% of Chinese. Twenty-seven percent of Indian entrepreneurs cite the inspiration they glean from knowing another entrepreneur, compared to 18% of Chinese.
The differences in inspiration and motivation manifest themselves in many ways. The relational Indian model of business startups is evident in enterprise financing, where 49% of business owners rely on family resources to start their enterprise, compared to 25% in China. Chinese entrepreneurs are much more dependent on banks, with 49% taking out loans compared to 27% in India. Indian entrepreneurs use conventional financing through debt and investors at about half the rate of their Chinese peers. This raises interesting questions. Are Indian entrepreneurs more careful about working out the kinks in their business models before they start because they know a default will hurt their friends and family instead of a faceless bank? And are Chinese banks as good as Indian families at evaluating the business merits of an entrepreneur's idea before extending credit?
In listing factors important for starting a business, Indian entrepreneurs place nearly as much value on personal qualities, such as creativity and the ability to take risks in the face of adversity, as they do access to finance. Access to information and knowledge, for instance, is more important to Chinese entrepreneurs than being creative. This suggests that Chinese entrepreneurs believe business success depends on external market conditions that can be known and manipulated, whereas Indian entrepreneurs regard success as the result of their internal ability to adapt to changing conditions.
There are also significant differences in how entrepreneurs see themselves relating to their policy environments. In India, 81% of business owners say that jugaad, the ability to improvise and find ways around prohibitive rules and institutions, is important to business success. In China, 93% of business owners say guanxi, the networks and relationships (primarily with the state) necessary to succeed in business, are important to their own success. Generally, enterprising individuals in India believe they succeed in spite of the state, while in China they think they succeed through their connections to it.
So far, our findings suggest entrepreneurship in India is marked by a kind of sustainability that is less evident in China. Because India's entrepreneurs have succeeded amid dysfunctional government and financial institutions by developing a kind of independent and experimental ingenuity, it stands to reason that the enterprising class would prosper even more were India to reduce barriers to business and clean up corruption. In China it is unclear what will happen if state efforts are no longer sufficient to entice and groom the entrepreneurs its economy needs.
Mr. Streeter is a senior fellow at the Legatum Institute in London.

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Skip to comments.Prehistoric Desert Town Found In Western Sahara (15,000 Years Old)
Posted on 08/20/2004 9:10:09 AM PDT by blam
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Again, I think 15,000 is out of the mainstream just now. From the evidence of a very sketchy article, the age of 15,000 for this Arabian settlement looks to me like some eccentric's W.A.G. (The first and last letters of that acronym are "wild" and "guess.")
North-African Berber settlement.
The frustrating thing is that those Ethiopian and Mexican dates and all the others, probably had no more basis for the date than this one. But they build on each other, until some evolutionists will say "there are dozens of cultures known to be 15,000 years old, so the Bible must be wrong.
I for one remain unconvinced. I don't buy the Ethiopian dates, or the Mexican dates, or the Saharan dates.
I don't buy the date for the 150,000 year old fossil. At least they had Argon dating. But then you already know I consider Argon dating to be junk science because of the assumption of the starting amount of Argon, (which has been proven false with 16 different recent volcanic flows), and no way to measure contamination from non-atmospheric Argon.
Of course there are no shortage of opinions. Here is a link to a professor from a Catholic Jesuit university talking about 500,000 year old hand axes in India. He has no problem throwing out the Bible because the axes were probably dated using radiometric techniques.
Meanwhile, I think he's an idiot. I think the radiometric dating is flawed. I think the fossil records and artifacts that would be found had tool bearing humans roamed the earth for 500,000 years would be SERIES HUGH. Thus this professor's misplaced faith in radiometric dating has left him STEWNED.
Well, I didn't start out looking for 15,000. I ran across the number at least twice on Friday while looking for oldest human fossils to resolve the 300,000 vs millions debate. It was after I had seen it a couple of times that I realized there was enough support for the 15,000 year date that that may well have influenced these guy's dating this city.
I dunno, I'm not getting into the creationist-evolutionist debate here, but just speaking strictly within a historical framework, I think there's a predisposition, in that there are a lot of a priori assumptions from the 18th-19th century that continue to underlie current theory. You mention Egyptology above, so to take that as an example, there is a problem with circular dating because Manetho's chronology is used to date finds in Palestine which are then used to support Manetho's chronology. To cite some other examples that are pet peeves of mine (i.e., this isn't directed at you, I'm just ranting, LOL!), the Bering Strait hypothesis has long been used as an assumption without any empirical justification; and C.J. Thomsen's Stone-Iron-Bronze Age progression was an a priori framework based more on Hegelian-era methodological assumptions than empirical data. I think there is a problem with some things like that which predispose the academic establishment towards certain hypotheses and against others. The problem IMO is that historians often mix methodological and empirical assumptions without realizing that they're doing so, so their intepretation of the empirical data is often premised on unsubstantiated and sometimes unconscious methodological assumptions.
LOL Busted!!!
My apologies to any Negroes or Non-Negroes that might have been offended by that link. I still haven't read it well, I keyed in on the following sentence....
"Mr. Wells alludes to this early civilization in his Outline of History, and dates its beginnings as far back as 15,000 years B.C. "
Throw out the radiometric dating and what do we really know?
... and C.J. Thomsen's Stone-Iron-Bronze Age ...
I have a problem with this, too. Thomsen seems to have the Iron Age before the Bronze Age. ;)
Fedora said it much better if a little longer than I did.
The dating's hokey.
LOL! But Fagan's "15,000" reference there is alluding to the date of the climactic trends he's talking about, not to the rise of civilization. "Civilization" would be referring to walled settlements on the scale we find at places like Sumer, which Fagan wouldn't acknowledge as existing 15,000 years ago. Fagan is a pretty conventional archaeologist who spends a lot of his time defending the established consensus on the Bering Strait hypothesis, and as such he follows the established academic view on the date of the rise of civilization.
1) Light takes a long time to get from quasars to us, but we see them.
2) Early geological estimates for the age of the geologic column based entirely upon rates of sedimentation were still far, far over 6,000 years. Well over 100,000, IIRC.
3) Lines of evidence from molecular biology tend to produce age estimates for things like the emergence of reptiles from amphibians, etc., in line with (but usually even older than) evidence from paleontology.
The Earth is obviously old, period.
Thomsen seems to have a typo, LOL! I think I just introduced some unintentional historical revisionism :)
Your reading skills need work. Exorcize your Morton's Demon! The world is not getting through to you, really. I'm not kidding.
Wasn't that area more of a grassland or savanna than a desert 15,000 years ago?
Read this book and then get back to us:
It examines the factors that influenced the discovery and spread of agriculture, writing, animal domestication, steelmaking, nationstates, and so on. It does an excellent job of explaining why these developments occurred at certain times and places, and not others.
As for agriculture, the condensed version is that kickstarting an agricultural society from scratch is a lot harder than it sounds, and at the beginning the future benefits don't look all that great compared to the amount of effort and risk involved. Plus, only a few places on the planet had both a suitable climate, *and* a suitable mix of adaptable crops (and domesticatable animals), to make it possible to subsist on a reliable, steady, nutritionally workable agriculture.
Yet another hurdle is the fact that in their original natural form, even the best of today's crop plants (e.g. wheat, corn, etc.) were barely suitable for use -- it was only after thousands of years of selective breeding (first by accident, later on purpose) were they eventually refined into crops that could truly sustain farming communities.
Figuring out that you could plant seeds and make something grow was the *easy* part, and was undoubtedly recognized for tens of thousands of years before the first real "farming community" managed to make a successful go of things after solving the many other obstacles involved.
Most readers of history know about the Celts, ancient inhabitants of Europe, whose priests were known as the Druids. It is generally thought that these Celts were Caucasoids, but Sir Godfrey Higgins, after much study came to the conclusion that they were a Negroid people. Higgins wrote a ponderous volume entitled The Celtic Druids. In the following passage from his Anacalypsis he modestly refers to it as an essay: "In my essay on the Celtic Druids, I have shown that a great nation called Celtae, of whom the Druids were the priests, spread themselves almost over the whole earth, and are to be traced in their rude gigantic monuments from India to the extremity of Britain. The religion of Buddha of India is well known to have been very ancient." (Higgins is here referring to the first Buddha, who is supposed to have lived between 5,000 and 6,000 years ago, and not to Gautama Buddha who lived about 600 years B.C. There were at least ten Buddhas mentioned in the sacred books of India.) "Who these can have been but the early individuals of the black nation of whom we have been treating I know not, and in this opinion I am not singular. The learned Maurice says Cuthies (Cushites), i.e. Celts, built the great temples in India and Britain, and excavated the caves of the former; and the learned mathematician, Reuben Burrow, has no hesitation in pronouncing Stonehenge to be a temple of the black curly-headed Buddha." (Anacalypsis, Vol. I, Book I, Chap. IV, New York, 1927.)
Scripture says 16 or 17 times that God "stretched the heavens". What exactly that means I don't know, but I know when scripture tends to repeat something, it's usually very important. My understanding is that only the distance to the nearest stars have actually been calculated using trigonometry. The rest of the distances are inferred from the red shift. But might there be other reasons for red shifts???
And it is also possible that God created the stars complete with light in transit. While the standard evo claim is that such an act is inherently deceptive, that is not so. Scripture records that God created the stars to provide light for the earth. If creating light in transit is within God's power, why should He wait billions of years before enjoying that benefit? Why should He wait just because some men will assume that He couldn't have created it thus and thus come to a false conclusion about the age of the universe? Should God anticipate every act of arrogance of man and proactive take steps to keep him from reaching false conclusions?
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"2) Early geological estimates for the age of the geologic column based entirely upon rates of sedimentation were still far, far over 6,000 years. Well over 100,000, IIRC."
Using a "uniformitarian" approach and completely discounting the global flood. That's a long earth age approach assuming a long earth age.
"3) Lines of evidence from molecular biology tend to produce age estimates for things like the emergence of reptiles from amphibians, etc., in line with (but usually even older than) evidence from paleontology."
Again, a "uniformitarian" and "evolutionistic" approach assuming evolution.
The conclusions of 2 and 3 are based on the world view you've already adopted.
The light explanation is a little harder, but there are many possibilities. 2) Early geological estimates for the age of the geologic column based entirely upon rates of sedimentation were still far, far over 6,000 years. Well over 100,000, IIRC. 3) Lines of evidence from molecular biology tend to produce age estimates for things like the emergence of reptiles from amphibians, etc., in line with (but usually even older than) evidence from paleontology.
"The Earth is obviously old, period"
The Earth is obviously young, period"
Well, I'm Scott-Irish. Does that make me a Mulatto?
The disparate techniques were bridged and calibrated by cepheid variable stars. A number of other techniques have since been developed to measure astronomical distance. This site mentions water masers and analysis of star clusters. The more measures we have giving agreeable answers, the more confidence we have.
You keep your understanding too simple so that what you understand can stay wrong. In short, wilfull ignorance.
No. You're Celt on both sides and pure Negroid. I'm an Irish-German mulatto.
Willful. Must ewes spell checker!
"Exorcize your Morton's Demon!"
My understanding may be simple in some cases. It's been over 20 years since I had college astronomy, and I only had the one course in that field. I don't remember Cepheid stars being discussed. But I will admit it sounds logical. It's still based on assumptions that we know how light acts over long distances and thus difference in magnitude is an adequate surogate for distance.
The problem here is not the long distances. It's the assumption that long distances prove that God didn't make the heavens and the earth, in a 7 day period like He claimed.
The very first lesson on deception in scripture was that of Eve in the Garden. Satan flat out contradicted God and told her that she wouldn't die, followed by a lot of things that were true. Instead of focusing on the contradiction, Eve focused on the things that Satan had told her that were true and it made the lie palatable.
The long distances evolutionists point out are probably reasonably accurate, the constancy of the speed of light may be true too. However, they do not negate what God said about His making the universe when He said He did. There is an explanation for why things appear as they do. I'll look for the flaws in your observations and logic where I can find them. But at the end of the day, I'm going to believe God.
That's different than Morton's demon. I don't filter the evidence. But the evidence and man's understanding of what he sees is not strong enough to negate what God said.
Morton's problem wasn't the filter. It was that he had no absolute truth to measure by. Thus when Morton finally bypassed the filter and saw observations that at first glance contradicted his world view, he changed his world view. Convenient, yes, but he has no firm foundation. He'll be blown about by every change in the wind. He doesn't know who he is or where he came from. Is he Neanderthal's child?, or Cro Magmon's? or Lucy's? or trunkmoney's? He's got no clue. He's counted his Creator a liar based on things he doesn't fully understand.
I, on the otherhand, know the Creator of the Universe. If He says His written word is true, and His written word appears to say the earth is young, then my money is on a young earth. There's always the possibility I misunderstood something. But just because light as we understand it would take millions of years to get from where we understand the stars to be, using the physical laws as we understand them, does not in any way convince me that we fully understand the how and why and timing of God's creation.
The very first lesson on deception in scripture was that of Eve in the Garden. Satan flat out contradicted God and told her that she wouldn't die, followed by a lot of things that were true. Instead of focusing on the contradiction, Eve focused on the things that Satan had told her that were true and it made the lie palatable.
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New tax bracket: Creates new 7.75% income tax bracket for single taxpayers with adjusted gross incomes of $225,000 and more, or $300,000 and more for couples filing jointly. Raises about $287 million over two years.
Capital gains tax: Lowers income tax exclusion on capital-gains profits from 60% to 40%. Raises about $170 million over two years.
Oil companies: Taxes revenues of oil companies and prohibits them from raising gas-pump prices to offset that tax. Raises $260 million over two years.
Cigarette tax: Increases tax on a pack of cigarettes by 75 cents, raising total state tax to $2.52. Raises $310 million over two years.
Financial checks: Requires banks to review state Revenue Department lists of delinquent taxpayers, seeing if those taxpayers have accounts with balances. This would make it easier for state tax collectors to tap those accounts with balances.
Tax collectors: Hires 31 new tax-collection agents and auditors to reduce the estimated record $1 billion in unpaid taxes, interest and forfeitures.
Delay deductions: Scheduled tax breaks for health insurance premiums and child care would be put off, taking effect in 2011 instead of this year.
Film credit: Limits tax breaks for companies that film or produce movies in Wisconsin, including video games and other productions.
Property tax limits: Allows December property tax bill on median-valued Wisconsin home to go up by an estimated $91, or 3.2%.
Phone-line charge: Charges new 75-cent monthly fee on any phone or telecommunication device in an attempt to support local police, fire and emergency services. Costs consumers $102.3 million by mid-2011.
Handgun fee: Raises the fee for background checks when purchasing a handgun from $8 to $13.
Surgical centers: Extends the tax on hospitals passed in February to ambulatory surgical centers, generating more federal aid. Raises $21 million over two years for overall state spending.
Seat belts: Allows law officers to stop a vehicle because they suspect failure to wear seat belts. This change could mean one-time federal aid of more than $15 million if it becomes law by July 1. Forfeiture for violation would remain $10.
Traffic-stop data: Requires law officers across the state to record data on all traffic stops to track racial profiling starting Jan. 1, 2011.
Illegal immigrants: Authorizes issuing driver's licenses to people not legally living in Wisconsin who can prove their identities, pass standard writing and road tests, and provide taxpayer ID numbers and proof they have lived in the state for six months or more.
Insurance coverage: Boosts the amount of basic liability coverage on vehicle insurance in Wisconsin, which will generally raise premiums.
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Insurance mandates: Requires health care insurers to provide autism treatment and requires insurance coverage of mental health and substance abuse treatment services provided by licensed mental health professionals.
Milwaukee County RTA: Authorizes regional transit authority for Milwaukee County and a 1% local sales tax to support bus service, parks and other municipal programs.
Kenosha, Milwaukee, Racine RTA: Authorizes authorities in those three counties to build a commuter rail line that would be paid for in part by raising $2 car-rental fee to $16.
Dane County RTA: Authorizes regional transit authority for Dane County and a 0.5% local sales tax to support its programs.
Fund transfer: Transfers $205 million from the transportation fund to help balance the general fund, which pays for most programs. Such transfers have been controversial in the past.
State aid: Cuts general state aid for public schools by about 3.1%, or $294 million.
Per-pupil spending: To control December property tax bills, the budget allows schools to raise per-pupil spending by no more than $200 in each of next two years.
QEO: Abolishes on July 1, 2010, the qualified economic offer limit of 3.8% on one-year increases in teacher pay and benefits, which was implemented in 1993 to control property taxes.
Parental choice: Raises state support for Milwaukee program that subsidizes low-income children who attend private schools from 55% now to 58.4% next year, 61.6% in following year. Imposes new standards on choice schools.
Prevailing wage: Requires local governments and businesses that get $1 million or more in public support to pay union-level wages for construction jobs.
UW faculty: Authorizes University of Wisconsin System faculty and academic staff to organize and join unions, bargain collectively.
Health care workers: Establishes a Wisconsin Home Care Agency, whose home health-care members could unionize and bargain collectively.
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Stimulus cash: Spends about $3.7 billion in federal stimulus aid over a three-year period.
Overall spending: Raises total state government spending by 6.3%, including federal stimulus money. Cuts general-fund spending by more than 3.2%.
Debt: Postpones payment of $285 million in principal on state bonds over the next two years, so only interest will be paid. Raises long-term borrowing costs.
Furloughs: Requires state workers to take leave of eight unpaid days per year in each of next two years, saving $192.2 million.
Rescind pay raises: Cancels 2% pay raises for state workers scheduled to go into effect this month, saving $145.8 million.
Layoffs: Forces the layoffs of about 1,000 workers. Up to 400 more would lose their jobs if union-represented workers don't give up the 2% raise.
Tourism centers: Gives local communities grants totaling up to $160,000 per year to staff up to eight tourism centers on the state's borders, saving the state Tourism Department more than $1 million a year.
Pensions: Lets part-time workers for school districts - including aides, clerical and maintenance staff and cafeteria workers - qualify for state pensions if they work 440 hours per year, or an average of less than nine hours per week.
Regional offices: Closes two dozen Department of Natural Resources walk-up service counters.
Early release: Lets prison inmates earn earlier release dates based on a good-behavior formula.
GPS monitoring: Reduces the number of convicted sex offenders whose locations are monitored on a moment-by-moment basis, and instead reports their locations once daily.
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Revenue sharing: In 2010, cuts state-aid payments of $974 million per year to local governments by 3.5%.
Tipping fees: Raises landfill tipping fees paid by local governments from $5.90 per ton to $13.
Domestic partners: Authorizes same-sex partners to register with local officials to let them get some legal rights now afforded only to married couples.
Lawsuits: Changes state law in civil-damage cases to allow someone found to be at least 20% at fault to be ordered to pay up to 100% of damages. Now, someone can be ordered to pay all damages if found to be 51% at fault.
Child care fraud: Gives the state more power to crack down on fraud in the Wisconsin Shares program, which pays for child care for low-wage workers.
Earmarks: Authorizes earmarks for 29 projects, including 20 for $100,000 or more, with some in the districts of first-term Democrats.
Senior housing: Guarantees property tax exemptions for those living in nonprofit retirement homes valued at up to 160% of the average fair market value of condos and single-family homes in those communities. The exemptions would apply to units worth more than $500,000 in suburban Milwaukee.
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In the previous movie, I introduced the topic of how we can sharpen our images in more intelligent ways. By working with smart filters. And we went through the process of converting our layer to a smart object layer. Then we selected a filter, which was smart sharpen, which we've applied here. We talked about how we can double-click the filter name to reopen the filter dialog and then change the amount or radius or noise, any of those settings, and then click OK in order to apply them.
Well, at this point, we're halfway through the process of working on this image and here I want to finish this file off and in order to do that we'll talk about a few things. One is blending modes, opacity and then also masking. Now you can scale the effect back or lower the opacity or change the blending mode by clicking on the icon right here, to the right of the filter name. It's kind of tough to see but hopefully you can see it's that icon right there. Double click that icon and what it will do is it will open up a blending options dialogue.
Here in this blending options dialogue, we have an opacity slider. If we want to scale back the intensity of the effect or the filter, just lower the opacity. If you want to change the blending mode, click on your blending mode pull down menu. And you remember that blending mode that I like to use for sharpening? It's luminosity. We can select that here. So this gives us the flexibility of having layer blending even though we only have one layer. Because what we're blending in is the filter. The sharpening filter is now blended in on the luminosity blending mode.
Right, with this image, think I could bring that opacity slider up a little bit then click OK in order to apply those settings. If ever you change your mind, double-click the icon again. It will remember the blending mode you applied and also the layer or the blending opacity that we have here. Make any changes and then click OK again. All right, well what about the masking? What is this mask which we have here? Well currently, this mask is white. And a white mask reveals.
What is it revealing? The sharpening effect. If we zoom out for a moment, we'll see that this effect is sharpening the entire photograph, the subject here, and also the background. Well, what if we only want the sharpening effect to apply to the subject? We don't need to sharpen this area that's out of focus. Well, if that's the case, we can work on the mask. To do so, simply click into the mask and you'll see some brackets around it. Click into the image and the brackets will appear around the image icon here.
So again, click into and target that mask. Next, what we're going to do is double-click the mask, which will open up the Mask panel here. And here we have some masking controls. You can also just click on the tab for your Mask panel, as well. In order to work with this, I'm going to first click on the Invert button, which will fill the mask with black, concealing or hiding all of the sharpening effect. If you have a version of Photoshop which doesn't have the Invert button, another way you can do that is to go to Edit and choose Fill.
And then in this Fill dialog, click on this pull-down menu and select black there, and then click OK and it will fill that mask with black. Alright. Well, once we have the mask filled with black, we're going to grab our brush. Click on the brush tool icon. We want to paint with white, so make sure you're painting in with white to reveal the sharpening. Then we need to choose a brush. We want a pretty big brush. 0% hardness. Nice, soft edges here. For the opacity, let's leave this at a little bit of a lower range, but not too low.
I want to paint this in pretty quickly. I'm going to go up to about 70%. I'm just going to start to paint over the image, where I want to have the sharpening effect applied. And I'm just painting some brush strokes over these areas. Move down to the lower portion of the image. I think that's pretty good. In this way, we're able to apply some selective sharpening, just to specific areas of our photograph. The area which is white, is the area where the image will become sharper. The area which is black is the area which won't be affected at all.
And the techniques that I'm highlighting here, again, work with any type of filter. Works with smart sharpen and with camera, with unsharp mask. And the advantage of going this next step ensures that you're able to really accomplish what's called selective sharpening. You're choosing where the sharpening effect is applied. And by combining this with smart filters, well it just gives us a lot of creative flexibility and ultimately it can help you to accomplish great results.
- Reducing luminance and color noise
- Improving details in portraits and landscapes
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Robert Fuller: Religious ideals, decoupled from political pressure, have seldom been enough to prevent predation or to arrest the cycles of vengeance that tend to ensue.
Whatever Happened to "Peace on Earth, Goodwill toward Men"?
Robert Fuller: It seems to me then that religion's most serious shortcoming was not that it harbored "deniers" of well-established science models, but that it had not found a way to realize its own aspirational goals.
Black Ministers Follow Obama on Same-Sex Marriage Stance
Rev. Irene Monroe: For African-American ministers, the liability of Obama losing his 2012 re-election bid is far greater than being publicly outed for not being in lockstep with their homophobic brethren.
The Limits to Growth and the Growth of Despair
Nicholas C. Arguimbau: Economic growth is bad for the economy. Or more acccurately stated, it is bad for individuals, good for the managers of large corporate and govenmental institutions and large NGOs.
The "Golden Rule" Will Sail Again
Lawrence Wittner: And so it appears that the "Golden Rule" will resume the long journey it began more than half a century ago. Rebuilt by U.S. military veterans, it will "renew Bigelow's and Veterans for Peace's mission — to abolish war and promote peaceful diplomacy."
Wikileaks and Tangential Truths
Tom Hall: While Faux News and right-wing blowhards fabricate against wikileaks for publishing the truth, the Republican Party voted to reaffirm its opposition to ending discrimination in the military, even if such discrimination hurts the nation's security.
Capitalism's Golden Rule
Bob Letcher: doubt that any portion of the collapse of GM was included as a cost of NOT having national healthcare. But all those Golden Handcuff's that GM's employees understandably put on their own wrists as the only way they could see for keeping their loved ones healthy and covered just might have contributed to the recent very expensive collapse of the company, the company towns, all the nameplates and jobs.


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Skyrim: A Bad Hangover in the Walking Nightmare Quest
Another dark artifact beckons for it's retrieval. Will you purge The Skull of Corruption or turn it into a viking stein?
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I keep finding more artifacts than I know what to do with! This is a simple walk-through of the Nightcaller Temple found East of Dawnstar, where you pick up the quest from the local priest of Mara, who turns out he knows more about it than he lets on.
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Microsoft introduced the User Account Control security system in Windows Vista and received a flood of complaints about it. UAC is the system responsible for the dialog box that appears when confirmation or a password is required before continuing with some change. Most users found this annoying, and most companies realized that there was a productivity cost associated with the system. Subsequent versions of Windows still contain the feature, but it is less obtrusive, and all versions allow you to disable the feature.
Click "Start" and "Control Panel." Click "User Accounts."
Click "Change User Account Control Settings."
Click on the control and drag it down to "Never Notify." Click "OK," then click "OK" to allow the change to proceed. Provide the administrator password if prompted.
Restart the computer to activate the changes.
- Disabling the security system can make your system vulnerable to undetected changes.
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The new season is nearly upon us. Lots of games to entertain you this yr. Please have a look round the site and you'll find the fixtures, results and scorecards for the games.
Junnior cricket practice
5-7yr olds (younger are welcome to come and join in) Fri 5.30-6.30p,
8yrs old to 18yrs old Fri 6.30pm - 8pm/
U11's and younger £3.00
U13's and up £3.50
We have a facebook page and facebook closed facebook page called farnworth Social Circle.
Our official twitter pageis @ fsccc_cricket.
A link to the clubs cricket wear http://www.allroundercricket.com/teamwear/cricket-teamwear/Farnworth-Social-Circle-CC please have a browse.
The ECB continues to work with Sport England on the pioneering club accreditation scheme 'Clubmark' to develop a vibrant and healthy club cricket infrastructure.
Cricket clubs can play a key role in the successful delivery of Building Partnerships – cricket's strategic plan for 2006-2009 - by supporting the delivery and implementation of the following programmes:
The ECB Clubmark and community cricket clubs play a central role in all of these programmes and Clubmark will provide the standards that clubs involved in these programmes will aspire to.
In addition, it is expected that clubs who achieve the ECB Clubmark will be recognised and rewarded for their hard work and commitment to club cricket in England and Wales.
By registering to work towards ECB Clubmark, clubs join a growing number of cricket clubs across England and Wales that are prioritising junior development, creating a benchmark for high quality community club cricket.
County Cricket Development Managers can help clubs through the process of achieving ECB Clubmark Accreditation.
ECB Clubmark gives clubs an opportunity to write and implement new procedures as well as acknowledge existing practices. Cricket clubs are required to present evidence and demonstrate implementation across four different themes, culminating in the production of a Club Development Plan.
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Civil Affairs units help military commanders by working with civil authorities and civilian populations in the commander's area of operations to lessen the impact of military operations on them during peace, contingency operations and declared war. Civil Affairs forces support activities of both conventional and special operations forces, and are capable of assisting and supporting the civil administration in the area of operations.
Civil Affairs specialists can quickly and systematically identify critical requirements needed by local citizens in war or disaster situations. They can also locate civil resources to support military operations, help minimize civilian interference with operations, support national assistance activities, plan and execute non-combatant evacuation, support counter-drug operations, and establish and maintain liaison or dialogue with civilian aid agencies and civilian commercial and private organizations.
Civil Component Oriented, Culturally Attuned, Engagement Focused, Civil Information Managers, Skilled Integrators/Coordinators, Diplomatically Astute, Skilled Negotiators/Mediators, Stability Operations Oriented, Language Capable, and Critical and Adaptive Thinkers.


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At the National Association for Pupil Transportation's (NAPT) conference in Austin last month, Lenny Bernstein began his two-year tenure as the group's president, taking the reins from Steve Kalmes.
Bernstein, who also serves as transportation coordinator for Haverstraw-Stony Point Central School District in Garnerville, N.Y., discussed with SCHOOL BUS FLEET his early goals for the tenure and his thoughts on the conference. For more from Bernstein, see his president's message in this issue.
SBF: Now that you've taken over as president of NAPT, what's the first item on your to-do list?
BERNSTEIN: It was to arrange my calendar for the coming year. It seems that once you become president, all of a sudden you need to be in a lot of different places at different times. I just want to make sure that I can get to everywhere I need to be.
How difficult will it be for you to juggle your job responsibilities with your NAPT responsibilities?
I'm very fortunate that I have a great staff in my district. I also have unbelievable support from the district administration. They realize how important it is for me to be involved. At the same time, I have a great executive director at NAPT and the involvement of the board of directors. We're all on the same page. It's the classic team-effort approach.
What do you see as the association's greatest strength?
Our greatest strength is the number of members that we have and, along with that, their sincere dedication to our industry.
Where do you think NAPT could improve most?
I really think we can and will improve in our communication to our membership. It's at a good point, but we want to make it a whole lot better. We're going to be offering a lot of different things to improve it.
What was the highlight of the event in Austin?
Standing in front of our membership to accept the presidency and having my family and friends there along with me. At the same time, it was great for me to honor [outgoing president] Steve Kalmes in my first official act. He's been very, very helpful in making this a smooth transition.
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Justin Bieber to play twice at Staples CenterMay 23rd, 2012, 10:45 am by BEN WENER, THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
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Brace yourself for the next round of Bieber Fever.
Justin Bieber, the Canadian pop sensation who had already sold more than 15 million albums worldwide by the time he turned 18 two months ago, will soon release his next disc, Believe, due June 19. Naturally, he plans to tour behind it -- and the outing arrives in Southern California shortly after it launches from Arizona on Sept. 29.
The Bieb and his reshaped hair will appear twice at Staples Center, Oct. 2-3, preceded by the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on Sept. 30 and followed by stops in Fresno and Oakland on Oct. 5 and 6, respectively. Theoretically that means there's time for an extra date, or even two -- but I wouldn't count on it.Read the rest of this entry »


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Whitney, Derek Duane, 43, 2510 Foraker Ave., Toledo, OH; Terry, Kimberly Lee, 41, 2510 Foraker Ave., Toledo, OH.
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Gilboa Davara wrote:
Would it be possible to create a Fedora-policy ML and get people to stop spamming (either willingly or by using blacklists) the main MLs?
I suggested a code of conduct such as the ones other projects have adopted, long back in Fedora advisory board list and that idea got rejected.
For reference http://live.gnome.org/CodeOfConduct http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/coc.xml http://www.ubuntu.com/community/conduct http://en.opensuse.org/Code_of_ConductNow we are going about addressing the issue with specific policies such as the one recently enacted for IRC conversations. Note that there are mailing list guidelines at
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelinesEnforcing it is different matter though. I don't think moderators are even reading the list in the first place.


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Chateau Ste. Michelle is a massive operation, leading the world in the production of Riesling. 3,500 acres planted across the state of Washington produce roughly 2,000,000 cases annually. Winemaker Bob Bertheau manages not one, but two seperate wineries dedicated to the production of white and red wines respectively.
2005 Chateau Ste. Michelle Late Harvest White Riesling Ethos Reserve Columbia Valley (half bottle)
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91 Points | Stephen Tanzer's IWC - November/December 2007
($39; for 375 ml.) Bright, pale gold with a green tinge. Slightly high-toned, musky aromas of honeycomb, caraway seed and mace. Fat, thick and very sweet, but with good acidity framing the very rich flavors of ripe peach, caraway seed and honey. In an ideal world, this would have more complexity and acidity, but this sweet bomb is dense and delicious.


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Ibis World Trade Centre Dubai places you next to Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre and within a few miles (5 km) of other popular attractions like Dubai Mall. This 210-room hotel welcomes guests with conveniences like a restaurant, a full-service spa, and free in-room WiFi. Located in central Dubai, the hotel is also near Burj Khalifa and BurJuman Mall.
Enjoy a bite to eat at Cubo, the hotel's onsite restaurant. You can sip a beverage at the 2 coffee shops/cafés. For your convenience, a buffet breakfast is served for a fee each morning from 6:30 AM to 10:30 AM.
Ibis World Trade Centre Dubai's 210 rooms are soundproofed and provide coffee makers, free bottled water, and phones. Guests can expect free WiFi and 32-inch flat-screen TVs with satellite channels. Ironing boards and desks are other standard amenities.
Property features
Guests staying at ibis World Trade Centre Dubai enjoy access to a full-service spa, a nightclub, and free WiFi in public areas. There's free offsite parking, and an airport shuttle (available 24 hours) for AED 160 per vehicle roundtrip. Multilingual staff at the front desk are standing by 24/7 to help with dry cleaning/laundry, luggage storage, and securing valuables. Additional amenities include coffee/tea in a common area, a computer station, and a terrace.
- Steps from Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre
- Free WiFi in rooms and public areas
- Onsite dining
- Spa
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Hotel Amenities
Ibis World Trade Centre Dubai features a full-service spa. Dining is available at the restaurant and guests can grab coffee at one of the 2 coffee shops/cafés. The hotel also has a snack bar/deli. Guests can unwind with a drink at one of hotel's 2 bars/lounges. A computer station is located on site and high-speed wireless Internet access is complimentary.
This Dubai hotel also offers a nightclub, spa services, and a terrace. For a surcharge, a roundtrip airport shuttle (available 24 hours) is offered to guests.
Ibis World Trade Centre Dubai has designated areas for smoking.
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Total number of rooms - 210
- 24-hour front desk
- Airport transportation (surcharge)
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Multilingual staff
- Number of floors - 7
- Number of bars/lounges - 2
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Coffee/tea in common areas
- Number of coffee shops/cafes - 2
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Elevator/lift
- Full-service spa
- Free shopping center shuttle
- Computer station
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- Laundry facilities
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- Gift shops or newsstand
- Designated smoking areas
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- Spa treatment room(s)
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- Restaurant
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- Year Built 2003
- Spa services on site
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- Free Wi-Fi
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- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
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- Phone
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- Private bathroom
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- Satellite TV service
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- Free WiFi
- Soundproofed rooms
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Buffet breakfasts are available for a surcharge and are served each morning between 6:30 AM and 10:30 AM.
Cubo - This restaurant specializes in Italian cuisine and serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner. A children's menu is available. Open daily.
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The onsite spa has massage/treatment rooms. Services include massages and manicures and pedicures.
The spa is open daily.
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To make special requests for accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
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Charles Woods, father of former Navy SEAL Tyrone Woods who was killed in the attack said about President Obama's reaction when he met him during the memorial service. He kind of just mumbled, you know, 'I'm sorry.' His face was looking at me, but his eyes were looking over my shoulder like he could not look me in the eye. And it was not a sincere, 'I'm really sorry, you know, that you're son died,' but it was totally insincere." Woods said shaking Obama's hand was "like shaking hands with a dead fish."
Yes, if we were able to inject Obami with truth serum, he'd say something like this. Sorry, but these are bumps in the road. I can't concern myself with all these military matters. I had a fund raiser to attend in Vegas that day. First things first. And calling in the nearby troops to try to extract your son would send this new regime the wrong message. I would be politically incorrect, to show the world, I didn't trust the local security. We have to cut defense, I had to take the Ambassador's plane away. Mouchelle has first dibs on planes. She needs them for taking her friends on fab vacations. Besides, he was ordered to stand down, not assist the Ambassador. So fighting till the last man is on him. Taking a pledge to defend the Constitution is a little over the top. Black folks you know were only considered 3/5ths of a man, by these old white folks who wrote that racist rag. You can bet your bottom dollar, or Mouchelle's next vacation, I'll be getting rid of this politically incorrect document. God and Country, no way. Read the inscription on the ring I wear. It says Allah is the only true God.
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Building a Web Weather Station
Last fall, my family and I moved from central Iowa to the little mountain resort town of Estes Park, Colorado. Estes Park is a beautiful town at the east entrance of Rocky Mountain National Park. More than three million tourists visit the park each summer.
When we moved here, I brought along my fledgling consulting business, Daylight Software, and set up web pages to drum up a little work. In a flash of inspiration, I decided I would either buy or build weather station equipment and offer weather data on the Web. Visitors from around the nation—and the globe—would see my web pages, and Daylight Software would be established as a Linux consulting powerhouse. Well, maybe it wouldn't lead to global domination, but it would surely be a good thing. I saw it as a community service, since no public weather reporting service was available, other than the time and temperature sign on one of the local banks.
After some investigation, I decided that my hardware development skills were not sufficient to design and build weather sensors. I shopped around and eventually purchased a Texas Weather Instruments "Weather Report" WRL-25 system from American Weather Enterprises of Media, PA (http://www.americanweather.com/).
The WRL-25 is like many weather stations in that it includes an RS-232 connection and comes with DOS/Windows software for downloading and viewing the gathered data. It has sensors for wind speed, wind direction, temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure and rainfall. Using a regular television antenna mast and fittings, I mounted the weather station sensors on the roof of my house, snaking the sensor cables through the attic space and down to my office in the basement. I mounted the handsome display unit on a shelf in the office.
Across the room from the weather display is my array of computers, including my Linux workstation. I am running the Red Hat 4.0 Colgate release, 2.0.18 kernel, on my AMD 486DX-4 120MHz ISA server. I built a cable and attached the weather display to the Boca AT-66 serial card in the server. I then wrote some Perl scripts to build HTML and GIF files and upload them to my ISP, and to manage the data readings put out by the weather station.
The sensors are mounted on two ten-foot sections of steel TV antenna mast, available in the U.S. from stores such as Radio Shack. Approximately four feet are buried in the ground, and the rest of the mast is vertical at the gable end of our single-story house. The mast is attached with a TV mast bracket at the roof line of the house. About six feet of mast projects above the roof line.
Figure 1. Weather Sensors on TV Antenna Mast
The sensors came supplied with clamps and hardware to attach them to the mast. (See Figure 1.) I followed the installation instructions and mounted the wind direction/speed sensor module pointed north at the top of the mast. The temperature and humidity sensors are in a "pagoda" enclosure to protect them from direct sunlight, and the pagoda is mounted about three feet above the roof line. The rain collector is mounted at the roof line; I used a carpenter's level to mount it properly.
Figure 2. Wires from Junction Box into House
Multi-wire cables from the sensor modules go into the bottom of the junction box, where they are plugged into matching connectors from 100-foot cables which run to the weather display unit. (See Figure 2.) All excess cable is coiled up and attached securely under the eave. Cables going into the junction box were left drooping slightly, to encourage rain to drip off instead of flowing into the junction box.
The 100-foot cables run through the attic and out through a hole at the peak of the eave. The hole was later filled with caulking to discourage squirrels and other pests from getting in. From the attic, I drilled a hole in the top plate of an interior wall and snaked the cables down to the basement. A fancy wooden switchplate made for cable TV installations serves to mask the hole where the cables come through the wall into my office/computer area. The cables connect to the back of the WRL-25 display unit.
I ended up crawling through the blown-in fiberglass insulation in the attic more times than I care to remember. If you do this, be careful—wear a dust mask or respirator and long sleeves and trousers. The attic was hot. I considered this to be the most difficult part of the installation.
I had to set the current time on the display unit and change some of the option settings. Other than that, the sensors and other features of the WRL-25 were all calibrated and ready to run.
On the back of the display unit is a 9-pin serial pigtail. The WRL-25 came with a mix-and-match 4-ended 25 and 9 pin serial cable for adapting to whatever connectors are available. I did not use that particular cable. My Boca Io-AT-66 six-port serial card uses RJ-45 sockets for its connections. So, I made a cable from a ten-foot scrap of eight-wire twisted pair that already had an RJ-45 connector crimped on one end. Pin assignments and wiring information were included in the Io-AT-66 documentation.
The WRL-25 can be programmed to periodically send a status report over the serial line. This can be used to print directly on a serial printer. I programmed my unit to send a reading every 5 minutes. I also changed an optional setting to allow the rainfall rate report and to print a daily Max/Min report at the end of each day. I set the serial line data rate to 9600bps.
The unit can also be directed using single-character commands through the serial connection. I rarely use this feature. The PC software that came with the unit can be used to set various options and settings, as can the buttons on the display panel. So, more sophisticated programming could be used to query the unit on demand or change various features. I elected to use the simple logging feature to gather my data.
I was able to run a quick test on my setup by using the following command:
cat < /dev/ttyS19
This command takes any input appearing on the /dev/ttyS19 serial line and echoes it to the screen. Pushing the manual report button on the WRL-25 produced a one-line report on the screen. I was a happy camper!
good practical info
I've been looking to set something like this up at a school overseas so this is a helpful step of information. thanks
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In a socially-acceptable way, of course: ie, via another hike in the tax on tobacco. The "Maryland Citizens' Health Initiative" - a name whose hint of subtle menace should make small-government types involuntarily shiver - looking to raise it by a buck a pack, because... well, pretty much because they want people to quit smoking, and taxing it through the ceiling is supposed to accomplish that. And it might... except for one minor little detail. You see, Maryland's state sales tax on tobacco is currently two dollars; over in Virginia it's thirty cents.
You do the math.
I mean, I know what the message is supposed to be here:
Continuing in his efforts to aggressively crackdown on cigarette smuggling tobacco tax evasion tactics, Comptroller Peter Franchot announced today that agents from his Field Enforcement Division confiscated more than 17,000 packs of the contraband cigarettes. In addition to seizing the approximately $103,000 worth of contraband cigarettes, Comptroller's agents arrested four people in four separate cases within less than one week's time.
...but the message that comes from reading this article is It's really easy to smuggle cigarettes over the Maryland state border. Not that people should, because it's illegal - but a buck-seventy differential is apparently one heck of an incentive for filling your car with Marlboro Lights and driving north.
For that matter, seventeen bucks per carton is probably enough of an incentive for people to just buy their smokes at handy Virginia locations. Not to mention other groceries, which means even less revenue for Maryland. And if you think that people in poor financial circumstances who are physically addicted to a highly addictive drug that does not impair their ability to reason cannot make this kind of elementary financial decision... congratulations! You have all the necessary qualifications one needs to be a Democratic member of the Maryland state legislature.
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The Isenberg School of Management at UMass Amherst will launch its new speaker series, "Driven: A Conversation With ..." on Friday, Oct. 7 with Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Computer and chief scientist at Primary Data, a data virtualization company. Tom Ashbrook, host of the NPR program On Point, will moderate the inaugural event, which begins at 6 p.m. at the UMass Club at 1 Beacon St. in Boston. The Driven series was created to fuel the exchange of innovative ideas.
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The current severe drought in parts of New England is notable, says UMass Amherst hydrologist David Boutt, but not extreme in historical terms and nowhere near the depth of dry conditions observed in the acute five-year drought years experienced in 1962-1967, when the water level in the Quabbin Reservoir was 20 feet lower than it is today.
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By Sgt. 1st Class Manuel Torres-Cortes, U.S. Army North PAOMay 10, 2010
FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas - Civilian and military community members often are first responders to a crisis that happens in local areas. As such, those who are trained to handle events are critical in getting the right amount of support and information for those who are affected within time.
The Chaplain Ministry Team from U.S. Army North participated in the Community Crisis Response Team training held by the National Organization of Victim Assistance at the San Antonio Baptist Association April 22.
The ARNORTH Chaplain Team became involved with this training because of their interest in helping military members and survivors maintain resiliency during disaster response operations, said Col. Dan Franklin, chaplain, ARNORTH.
Knowing of this interest, the president of the San Antonio Volunteer Organizations Active in Disaster requested the assistance from him to help the SAVOAD develop a plan to address the issue of encouraging spiritual and emotional needs of evacuees at the city-run shelters following disasters. Franklin worked with members of the SAVOAD to develop a plan and the NOVA training is a key ingredient to this plan.
This training, given one day a week for five weeks, focused on training crisis responders to assist survivors of disasters cope with the emotional and spiritual impact of the disaster. Training modules included understanding the trauma response, the impact of death and loss, understanding stress reactions, dealing with the media and the impact of culture on the trauma response.
"This is a training tool used to effectively help people who have been affected by tragedy and crisis," said Glenn Hall, retired Army chaplain and volunteer. "This has been one of the best trainings this community has done for its residents."
"This training definitely can help me - not only during times of great tragedy in a community but also in everyday life and events," said Dexter Brown, who works at a Hospice.
Volunteer groups such as these are often supporting communities who suffer from great loss of life whether it is from a natural disaster, catastrophic event or a widely publicized death in the community.
"I wanted to do it for my own development and to help prepare me to help the people I work with and definitely work for," said Staff Sgt. Glenn Hambrick, office of the chaplain, Army North. "This is unique training they are giving us. It is very specific and very details on how to help people through times of crisis. I have not had any type of this training before in the military so it will help benefit my ability to assist in more ways than one."
This training was available to volunteers and was sponsored by SAVOAD, the San Antonio Community of Congregations, with funding assistance from the Texas Baptist Convention and the Methodist Healthcare System.
The SAVOAD also offers a four-hour introductory NOVA Course that addresses the need to rapidly integrate volunteers to serve as members of the Crisis Resiliency Team. The course addresses topics such as The National VOAD Points of Consensus; Impact of Trauma on Individuals; Elements of Crisis Intervention, and Spiritual Dimensions of Trauma.
All volunteers must complete the blocks of instructions in order to serve as a member of the Team. The SAVOAD recognizes that many volunteers will come with skills and training that far exceeds the training level of the Introduction to NOVA Course, but it is still essential that all volunteers undergo the training. This ensures that all members of the Team have a common level of understanding on the role of the Team and the Points of Consensus, according to SAVOAD.
"We need to ensure that we have a team of trained volunteers who are ready to respond within 24 hours of a request," said Franklin. "Not only do we need to build resiliency in our victims and those affected, but we also have to build resiliency in our volunteer crisis responders."