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Dr. Edward Sri is a theologian, author and nationally-known Catholic speaker who appears regularly on EWTN. He has written several best-selling books, including A Biblical Walk through the Mass which was used in about 1 out of 4 parishes in the USA in preparation for the new translation of the Mass.
His newest books are Walking with Mary: A Biblical Journey from Nazareth to the Cross (Image) and The Advent of Christ: Scriptural Reflections to Prepare for Christmas (Servant Books).
Edward is a founding leader with Curtis Martin of FOCUS (Fellowship of Catholic University Students) and the creator and host of a new parish-wide adult faith formation program called Symbolon Adult Faith Formation and Opening the Word, a journey through the Sunday Mass Readings. He currently serves as Vice President of Mission and Outreach and professor of theology and Scripture at the Augustine Institute Master's program in Denver, Colorado. He also leads multiple pilgrimages to Rome for lay people each year. Edward holds a doctorate from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome. He resides with his wife Elizabeth and their eight children in Littleton, Colorado.
Other books by Edward Sri include: The New Rosary in Scripture: Biblical Insights for Praying the 20 Mysteries (Servant) and Men, Women and the Mystery of Love: Practical Insights on John Paul II's Love and Responsibility (Servant). The Bible Compass: A Catholic's Guide to Navigating the Scriptures (Ascension Press); Mystery of the Kingdom: On the Gospel of Matthew (Emmaus Road), Queen Mother: A Biblical Theology of Mary's Queenship (Emmaus Road); Dawn of the Messiah: The Coming of Christ in Scripture (Servant) and The Da Vinci Deception: 100 Questions About the Facts and Fiction of The Da Vinci Code (Ascension Press) (coauthored with Mark Shea); The Gospel of Matthew (coauthored with Curtis Mitch) (Baker Academic). He also is a contributor to the popular apologetics series, Catholic for a Reason and a volume on Catholic Marian theology called Mariology (Queenship Publishing).
The Bible is central to our faith as Catholics. But approaching such a large and complex collection of writings that span thousands of years is intimidating for most of us. We need a guide, a compass to set us off on the right course so that our time spent studying the Scriptures is a time spent encountering the living God.The Bible Compass provides readers with the tools to study the Word of God with confidence and purpose. This book demonstrates how to read the Bible within the living Tradition of the Catholic Church, and it addresses all the common questions about the Bible.


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Man accused of beating child to deathBy Josh OGorman
STAFF WRITER | February 24,2014
Provided Photo Dennis DubyRUTLAND A Poultney man is expected in court today to answer a charge he beat his 2-year-old stepdaughter to death.
Dennis Duby, 31, is scheduled to appear in Rutland criminal court to answer a charge of second-degree murder for the death of Dezirae Sheldon, who died Friday at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H.
According to state police, Wednesday night, police received a call from Rutland Regional Medical Center of an injured child in the emergency room. Dezirae was later taken to Dartmouth-Hitchcock, where she died from her injuries.
Deziraes body was taken to the New Hampshire Medical Examiners Office, where an autopsy revealed that the cause of death was blunt force trauma to the head and manner of death was homicide, police said.
Police said that, as a result of their investigation, they charged Duby, the girls stepfather, with murder.
Sunday, police confirmed that Deziraes mother is Sandra Eastman. In May of 2013, Eastman who at the time was 30 years old pleaded innocent in Rutland criminal court to a misdemeanor charge of cruelty to a child.
According to affidavits filed with the court in February of that year, Eastman brought her daughter to Rutland Regional Medical Center for injuries. An X-ray showed the girl had recently fractured a bone in one leg and had an older break in the other.
Affidavits state Eastman told police she had dropped her daughter while putting her in her crib. According to police, she said that, days before the February visit to the emergency room, she had grabbed her daughters leg to pull her back from the top of a staircase.
According to affidavits, doctors in Rutland and a consulting doctor from Fletcher Allen Health Care in Burlington who specializes in pediatric abuse and neglect told police the babys injuries didnt match either Eastmans timeline of events or the nature of the injuries.
Affidavits state the doctors, when looking at the recent fracture, said: This fracture would require a significant amount of force. This is not a simple toddler fracture, which can occur from relatively minimal force.
It could not be confirmed Sunday evening that the daughter Eastman brought to the emergency room in February of 2013 was Dezirae Sheldon.
An outpouring of sympathy and cries for justice were heard across the Internet in recent days. On Facebook, a page titled In Loving Memory of Dezirae Sheldon has 212 friends, who are posting photos and sharing memories of the girl. Another Facebook page, Justice for Dezirae, had more than 5,300 members as of Sunday evening.
An online petition demanding the states Department for Children and Families take responsibility for Deziraes death has gathered 1,500 signatures. The petition can be found at goo.gl/jPaCjb. A protest is planned for outside the Asa Bloomer building, which houses the local office of the DCF, in Downtown Rutland today at noon.
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Nvidia Corp. had to delay the commercial launch of its Tegra system-on-chip (SoC) components for mobile and low-power applications from late 2008 to spring 2009. The company did not provide many details about the reasons for delay, but claimed that they were related to the nature of the business.
"Tegra is doing really well. I've said that Tegra was not ready for production this year because the design win process tends to be longer. I also have said that Tegra is coming out party is really spring of next year. So, I look forward to talking to you much more about that, spring of next year," said Marvin Burkett, chief financial officer of Nvidia, during the most recent conference call with financial analysts.
Since handheld and low-power applications have a tangibly longer lifespan compared to desktop personal computers or similar devices, it takes a quite some time before manufacturers of actual devices unveil their products based on new chips as they need to develop the design and then ensure that it is robust enough ahead of mass production start.
Nvidia originally expected to "see first products before the end of year" back in mid-2008, when Tegra was formally unveiled. However, now the company claims that Tegra-based devices will only be available in "spring" 2009, meaning that it is unclear whether it will be Q1 or Q2.
Nvidia Tegra 600-series SoCs features ARM11 central processing unit core, GeForce graphics core with programmable pixel shader and programmable vertex shader support, build-in low-power DDR memory controller, NAND flash memory controller, high-definition video processor that supports MPEG 4, H.264, VC-1/WMV9 decoding, H.264 and MPEG4 encoding and features some other capabilities. Besides, Tegra 600 and Tegra 650 support two displays, 12MPixel camera sensor, USB, Parallel ATA a variety of display outputs, including HDMI, as well as other necessary interfaces.


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The Walters Art Museum is working with five high schools from Baltimore City, Baltimore County and Frederick County to create a focus show related to the special exhibition New Eyes on America: The Genius of Richard Caton Woodville.
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Many La Crosse-area schools already have a police presence.
But having an armed officer at every school would be a big change.
It's an idea some school and law enforcement officials in the La Crosse area say is a good idea -- in theory.
The La Crosse School District already has five full-time officers working at its middle and high schools.
It's a different story for nine elementary schools; none have a police presence.
La Crosse School District Superintendent Randy Nelson said while he thinks it could be a good idea, it would cost close to a half-million dollars to hire another nine officers for all the elementary schools.
"It's something we already have a model in place for that I think really works and I think really does help at our high schools and middle schools. The issue really becomes, 'How would you pay for those positions?' 'How would you make those positions happen?' but certainly the safety and security of our children should be first," said Nelson.
Nelson also said it's more of short-term solution to increase safety.
He said it will take more to end school violence completely.
"I think there are bigger and broader societal things that we all need to, and I mean everyone when I say all, need to get our arms around understand why these things happen, how these things happen and how can we be more proactive in terms of preventing these kinds of atrocities," said Nelson.
Onalaska Police Chief Jeff Trotnic said an additional police presence would make schools safer but wouldn't solve all the security problems.
He also said funding would be a challenge.
He said to have one officer at each Onalaska school would cost close to a quarter of a million dollars.
"Anything's feasible if people are willing to pay money for it. Again, when you look at budgets where they are now, it would be difficult for Onalaska to bring in four additional police officers without addressing the issue of how are we going to pay for it," said Trotnic.
Trotnic said it would likely cost even more to have officers spend all their time patrolling schools.
Right now, the resource officer and DARE officer at the schools have a variety of responsibilities that keep them busy throughout the day.
Nelson said he's already working on increasing security at all the schools.
He said they've been looking into putting in buzzer systems and new doors at school entrances.


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Bishop Herman Secondary School, also known as Bishop Herman College (BiHeCo), is an all boys catholic school located on a hill overlooking both the town of Kpando (also spelled Kpandu) and one of the largest man-made lakes in the world, Lake Volta. During my 2 year tenure at BiHeCo, I also served as a Form Master, which is equivalent to a "home room teacher" and was asked to provide briefings on various subjects such as ediquette to the students. Also, as Form Master, I took my turn during the 7-9PM study times to monitor student studying rooms. I also participated in lengthy teacher staff meetings.
While I was at BiHeCo, we celebrated the 25th Anniversary of the School and held a durbar. BiHeCo at that time was home to many volunteer and other expatriate service teachers including teachers from Britain, India, Japan, Canada, Netherlands, and France.
Sometime into the first year, I began a daily ritual of eating fufu for lunch at the "Always Always Chop Bar," near the lorry park in Kpando. Wanda, the owner of Always, Always, presided over a large bowl of soup. The price included the fufu and soup and additional charges were made for the meat. The meat was usually grasscutter, a large rodent similar to a nutria. A typical hunk of meat was a large cube tied with plant fiber and it often included the skin with some fat. Eating meat was a real treat.
The Ghanian economy was not doing so well at the time, and I remember that it was so difficult that about 50% of the volunteers quit in the first year. Our volunteer stipend when converted back to its real value was approximately $50. A houseboy, a vital need for shopping, cooking, and cleaning costs about $5-10. The remainder was barely enough to feed anyone with a healthy appetite.
While I was there, three other Peace Corps Volunteers came to teach for a short time and lived with me in the 3 bedroom home provided by the school on the campus. These homes and attached cooking a houseboy quarters were very nice living conditions for Ghana. The Head Master, Father J. B. Eleeza, was very supportive and helpful to expatriates working and living at the school.


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Going "Green" is important to Sandra Simone, a rural landowner in Alpine, Alabama. She installed solar energy through CIG that helps keep her farm more natural.
A Renewable Energy-Solar demonstration tour was held on Sandra Simone's property in Alpine, Alabama. New technology was a long time in coming to this rural setting.
In 2009, the Alabama Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) awarded a Conservation Innovation Grant (CIG) to the Alabama Sustainable Agriculture Network (ASAN) to support demonstrations for Small Scale and Limited Resource Farmers (SS/LRF). ASAN partnered with the Sustainable Rural Regenerative Enterprises for Families (SURREF), and project director Euneika Rogers-Sipp, whose goals were to develop and test micro-irrigation systems and solar-powered water pump systems. To help fund Energy Efficiency projects through Irrigation for Small Scale and Limited Resource Group Farmsteads, Euneika had the perfect person in mind, Sandra Simone.
Sandra is a LRF in rural Talladega County. She was one of the first four farmers in the state to be "certified organic." She has property across a county road from her home where she has a small herd of goats. She wanted to expand and grow some crops. She had received local Soil and Water Conservation District financial assistance to install a well 12 years before. She had no electricity on the site and used an electric generator to pump the water for her small goat herd. She tried to secure commercial power for the well, but because the property had no dwelling, the costs were astronomical--$4,000-$9,000. Sandra could have used city water, but she wanted well water to keep the farm as natural as possible.
Sandra began looking for alternative energy methods and found the most viable was solar energy. After exploring the need for a few years, she could find no one to install solar energy in small scale situations.
Sandra was aware of SURREF and had worked with Euneika and Coosa Valley Resource Conservation and Development (RC&D) Coordinator Eddie May. She mentioned her need to them, and through the years, they tried to help her find a source for alternative energy. In 2009, while at a meeting at Tuskegee University, Euneika heard about some new technology with solar energy. She suggested Ms. Simone's site for a possible solar irrigation installation. The rest is history.
Euneika said, "The Energy Efficiency Irrigation for Small Scale and Limited Resource Group Farmsteads" project was put together with the help of ASAN and community partners. We wanted to take a community-based approach at bringing in alternative or renewable energy to our LRFs. Because of the large upfront costs, a lot of them are left out of the new technological advancements. We wanted to see how we could help implement these technologies for these farmers. We are evaluating how this project is going to save energy and what the costs are going to be long-term." Our ultimate goal is to inform the development of low-cost affordable systems for those farmers.
Sandra said, "I appreciate all of the help that I have had in putting this place together. My ultimate goal was to have children learn about farming here. Because of solar energy, I was able to put in about an acre of micro-irrigation under plastic mulch. This summer I did an entrepreneurial program for youth ages 8-13 to plant, cultivate, and harvest watermelons. Each child had a row and each was responsible for the business of growing and marketing their product. There was no charge to the student; they were able to keep what they earned."
Sandra continued, "It was a good way for the kids to learn about farming. The kids were so enthusiastic. They had to learn about composting, organics, and all kinds of stuff before planting. It was a joy to watch them learn and start interacting with others."
NRCS administers CIGs as a part of the Environmental Quality Incentive Program (EQIP). CIGs benefit agricultural producers and consumers by providing more options and possibilities for environmental enhancement. Euneika explained that farmers selected for these demonstrations had to meet eligibility requirements for EQIP that provides financial incentive payments to implement practices that compliment the grant project.
Sandra had been working with NRCS for some time and had received financial assistance for micro-irrigation, fencing, water troughs, and pipelines through EQIP.
Steve Musser, ASTC-Programs with NRCS in Auburn, Alabama, said, "I am excited about what is being put on the ground though EQIP. We are using a lot of partnerships like ASAN and SURREF to find landowners who need this type of assistance. Conservation Innovation Grants are designed for NRCS to evaluate system benefits to land and water resources. This helps us decide if we will provide financial assistance in future land and water programs. Today's demonstration is the fruition of hard work through conservation partners and the local community."
Euneika said, "The best thing that came out of this project is that Sandra was able to get water to her goats and to plant a crop--a crop that was only put in this year because of the solar energy. In accessing her need, we considered her existing well that was sitting idle and explored the best way to use it. We consider this demonstration project a resounding success."
An NRCS Conservation Innovation Grant (CIG) helped rural landowner Sandra Simone install solar energy to power a well to water goats and for micro-irrigation under plastic.
A well using solar energy fills these two 1,500 gallon tanks that supplies water by gravity flow to Simone's goats and garden.
Sandra Simone of Huckleberry Hills Farm 2012 Small Farmer of The Year
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Shared drives have been popular for some time in business departments and workgroups. You can easily set up a share on your local network and begin swapping content. Typically, an administrator or the department "techie" defines the share and announces its availability. You know the drill -- the email is sent out proudly announcing:
"We now have a shared drive. Please start putting all of your templates, docs, manuals, forms, etc. on the S: drive."
Usually an enterprising team member defines a straw man directory structure for the department. In addition, each team member is free to use a certain amount of space for his or her innovative and entrepreneurial purposes -- e.g., fantasy football team rosters.
Any number of version control mechanisms and techniques are demonstrated on the share and probably not well documented. For instance, Joe uses the increasing file number technique, Sally uses the alphabet soup approach, John uses a best guess date, and Fred, well, Fred is always a problem. No one in the department quite understands Fred's techniques, but then that's another story.
Before long, the drive becomes filled with files and directories. Periodically a grooming process is required. Oh, yes, and then the next email:
"Would the owner of directory 'My-Important-Stuff' please let us know if this can be deleted?"
And so the story goes. All is well in "share-land" for awhile, but then the fateful day occurs. The network server is having a bad day. The shared drive is not accessible. No one can work. You guessed it: the next email (when the system is up again):
"Don't just depend on the shared drive. Make sure you copy needed files to your local machine, so you can continue working when the server is not available."
Everyone in the department proceeds to copy the files they need from the share to their local PC. Of course, ensuring synchronization of content in this environment is impossible.
OK, you say, if it is that bad, why have shared drives proliferated?
Truth is, they are extremely valuable. They provide the underpinning to sharing and simple collaboration. They are easy to use, require no training or procedures, and quickly become an instrument for team cooperation and departmental organization. They help the group function with minimal investment.
Technically and functionally, shared drives do have shortcomings and limitations. They are based on a client-server model. Files copied to the central server are pulled from the server when needed and pushed back in an ad hoc fashion. Multiple copies of the same information tend to flourish despite central controls. Synchronization and versioning are problematic.
Figure 1. Shared drive scenario.
Shared drives support a limiting single view to the information, usually nothing more than the directory structure. Often, this becomes out of date and quickly bypassed by share members. Finding the correct file can become difficult in the directory maze. As noted, a single point of failure can bring the entire system to a halt. In addition, security and permissions are wide and broad for all group members. This makes it impossible to keep any type of audit trail.
Table 1. Strengths and weaknesses of share drives.
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Space drives provide an alternative or complementary technology to shares. They reflect the flow of information within your departments. Simply stated, a space drive is an index to content on the network, wherever it resides. It follows the natural flow of information from user to user; however, it does not attempt to force location or permanent ownership of content on a single entity. Space drives can go far beyond simply knowing where information is. They can be used to generate events and proactively alert you to changes in information or critical moments in the life cycle of a project or initiative. They are more "active" than simple shares. They create the foundation for building a collaborative workspace.
There are three primary components to the architecture of a workspace using space drives -- content, messaging, and workflow -- as shown in Figure 2.
Figure 2. Elements of space drives.
The indexing component provides a simple mechanism to name and locate information on your network. Any member of the group can add an entry to the index. This will usually be a filename and a URL that points to the file on a server or your PC.
The content component allows you to download and view files in a peer-to-peer style of content exchange. You can publish a portion of your computer's directory to a shared space that is managed by the content service; therefore, you can add files -- although they remain on your PC -- to a shared repository. The content service maintains an index to all shared space drives. If you have given access to a file to another member in your group, that member can transfer your file to his local machine from your machine. In addition, all group members can share and exchange files located within the group shared space. The important point to note is the current version remains on the owner's PC, unless ownership is transferred. Therefore, the most recent changes to the file are always available. You can even monitor the progress of work as it's happening!
Content indexing involves recording the owner, the location, and the detailed shared space definition.
ContentMap captures the user ID, space ID, and location, defining a mount point on your local machine.
The space ID is simply a name given to the space drive. A space drive is defined by a simple content map.
public class ContentMap implements Serializable {
public String userId;
public String spaceId;
public String localPath;
public ContentMap(String userId, String localPath, String spaceId) {
this.userId = userId;
this.localPath = localPath;
this.spaceId = spaceId;
A user may define one or more space drives on their PC or any network-accessible machine. A share index maintains a list of content maps by user. Every shared space definition is added to the share index for that user. Every shared space has an owner. An owner is the user that initially defines or creates the shared space definition. A share index is also maintained for non-owned shares. These are the shares that you have been given access to by another share owner.
Content, such as files, images, etc., is assigned a content ID. Files are organized into sets. A combination of
spaceId defines a unique file set. A combination of
contentId defines unique content in the workspace. Clients use the
Content interface to identify and locate content. A simple interface is defined as:
public interface Content extends Serializable
public String getLocation() throws RemoteException;
public String getId() throws RemoteException;
getLocation method returns a
String URL and the
getId returns a unique identifier. HTTP can be used to view and transfer files from any machine associated with a group member. Ownership is based on definition, and data can reside at the point of most recent use.
The following
ContentAdapter interface is implemented to transfer any object implementing the
Content interface to your local machine.
public interface ContentAdapter {
public void transfer(Content from, Content to) throws
RemoteException, IOException;
public URL createSource(Content content) throws
RemoteException, IOException;
public FileOutputStream createDestination(Content content) throws
RemoteException, IOException;
Meta data can be associated with the space index entry to provide descriptive information and improve search capabilities. Default meta data can be generated to keep the system at an acceptable content-knowledge level. For example, many of the elements of Dublin Core Meta Data can be created programmatically, if not entered manually.
Shared drives are common in organizations; shared spaces are not. A shared space goes beyond simple file sharing because it is integrated into the messaging and notification structure of the workspace backbone. For instance, you can create departmental shares for each department with which you exchange documents and communication. All of the marketing group would be given access to the marketing space, and all of the sales group would be given access to the sales space. You can also define a shared "marketing - sales - development" space. In effect, you are linking and segmenting user machines along logical boundaries, not only for content, but also for communication. Alternatively, you can define shares that map to workgroup processes. The status of work artifacts can be equated to physical location.
When you are added to a shared space, you are automatically registered for shared space events. Members of the space can be notified when changes to the shared space definition occur, e.g. when member additions/removals or content additions/deletions. Clients receive notification of the change through the content service and update their views appropriately. Views can be built using asynchronous notification or using polling techniques. Instant messaging, as opposed to email, is the norm in the space drive environment. Attachments can often be eliminated or dramatically reduced. Space messaging builds on the concept of loosely-coupled communication using a "space channel." A space channel is a named ordered set of messages. Therefore, you can define content shares that map to communication channels.
Figure 3. Space drives are event-driven.
All elements (share, channel, and group) can be referenced by the same logical name. Groups can be defined around shares and channels. This is similar to defining share drives and email groups for departments. However, there is no explicit relationship between these technologies. Space drives assume the relationship between content and communication and leverage that relationship for messaging and notification. For instance, channels are automatically established with members of shared spaces.
In addition, users register to receive messages from specific channels. This can be equated to a "buddy list" or a roster in instant messaging products. Messages written to your user id/channel can be read with a simple "receive" request.
public interface MessengerInterface {
public void send(ChatMessage message) throws RemoteException;
public ChatMessage receive(String channel) throws RemoteException;
public void register(String channel, RemoteEventListener subscriber)
throws RemoteException;
ChatMessage simply contains the To: and From: user IDs, which may
reference single users, groups, or the entire workspace.
You can belong to one or more groups. The group ID is used to segment the group workspace.
Messages sent to a group channel are available to every member of that group. This provides a group, or "multi-casting," type of messaging within the workspace. Finally, the broadcast channel is used to identify the global workspace. Every user is a member of the global "WorkSpace" channel. A message of the day and timely information can easily be delivered to an entire workspace group. Space messaging provides a simplified approach to dynamic communication, coordination, and sharing of objects between network resources.
Finally, the workflow component of a workspace provides the scheduling and event notification process in the space drive environment. This allows participants to exchange tasks and requests, and monitor the progress of work processes.
Your workflow process definition is composed of a collection of work items. Work items model specific tasks in the workflow system. Of course, workflow applications can use any number of approaches. For example, you could use XML to define process templates and task execution policy.
Figure 4. Workflow process definition.
Every work item in a process has an associated task. A task is modeled to reflect the current state of the work item. Each task defined in the workflow component implements the
ActivityState interface. This interface is implemented to provide task-specific, state-change processing for the activities under workflow control.
public interface ActivityState extends Serializable
public static final String TASK_INIT = "inactive";
public static final String TASK_READY = "ready";
public static final String TASK_START = "start";
public static final String TASK_COMPLETE = "complete";
public static final String TASK_SUSPEND = "suspend";
public void start() throws RemoteException;
public void terminate() throws RemoteException;
public void suspend() throws RemoteException;
public void resume() throws RemoteException;
A workflow component can also use the messaging component to deliver warning messages to users assigned to tasks in trouble. An alert event can be used to trigger asynchronous notification to owners of processes and users assigned to specific workflow tasks.
|Improved communication
|More complex to set up
|Improved collaboration
|Additional software required
|Selective membership/permissions
|Workflow- and task-oriented
|Multiple views
|Minimal Administration
The coordination and integration of content indexing, messaging, and simple workflow using space drives can go a long way towards improving the coordination of activities that most workgroups engage in daily. Many of the shortcomings of share drives can be eliminated and a new level of automated communication is easily in reach.
The growing Internet economy will mandate improved coordination and automation of processes both internal and external to an organization. Efficiencies are gained by integrating internal systems with users, partner systems, and external customers. Coordination of activities and dissemination of information within and across organizational boundaries are essential factors to improving effectiveness.
Space drives are a first step in creating an effective platform for content, community, commerce, and collaboration.
You can test an example space drive implementation at www.jworkplace.org.
Robert Flenner is an active author, software developer, and independent contractor who is actively involved with emerging B2B technologies.
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Barre man accused of unlawful entry during debt collection
BARRE A Granite City man is facing charges over allegedly busting down a door looking for $50 he was owed.
Juan A. Marquez, 49, pleaded not guilty in Washington County criminal court in Barre Thursday to one count of felony unlawful trespass of an occupied residence and one count of misdemeanor unlawful mischief. If convicted, he faced a maximum sentence of three-and-one-half years in prison and a $2,500 fine.
According to the police affidavit, police responded to a Feb. 19 reported assault on Warren Street in Barre. Upon arrival, police say the resident, Dawn Sayers, 37, answered the door in an emotionally distraught condition.
Sayers told police a man named X, who later proved to be Marquez, kicked her door in and pinned Sayers to the stairs. Police observed vertical cracks in the door frame and the striker tab hanging with the screws stripped out, which police say is consistent with a doorway being forcibly entered.
Sayers told police after Marquez kicked the door in, he started screaming Where is my $50? She told police she had borrowed $50 from Marquez last summer and that Marquez had been a friend, but she had not seen him for a while.
Sayers told police she was upstairs listening to music when she heard a loud bang and went downstairs. She told police she saw Marquez standing in her home and he proceeded to grab her by the face and demand his money. Police said Sayers showed no signs of injury.
Sayers told police she started screaming for Marquez, and another man who was present but unknown to her, to leave and they did.
When police spoke with Marquez on the phone, he admitted to being at Sayers home the day in question.
On Feb. 20, Marquez went to the Barre City police station to talk about the incident. Police said Marquez admitted Sayers owed him $50, but he had written that off a long time ago. Marquez told police he went to Sayers home because she had been slandering his name, calling him a crack head on social media. When he went to talk to Sayers, Marquez told police the conversation turned into a screaming match. Marquez said the last time he had seen Sayers was about a month and a half prior to the incident.
When asked how Marquez entered the home, he told police he simply walked in, as he had always done in the past.
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The biggest (perhaps obvious) thing that no one ever tells you about getting older is that it happens a lot earlier than you think it will. It sneaks right up on you, and as much as you'd like to think that you'll handle it efficiently, gracefully and with some level of dignity, like a Gentleman Ninja, the reality is that you'll spend a few years awkwardly stumbling around like an embarrassing baby deer learning how to walk for the first time, (except also the deer has a lot of knee pain from an old basketball injury). You will not be good at it, because it's a brand new life for you, and while there are a lot of really awesome things that go along with that life, there's also a terrible, brand new vocabulary. Words and phrases that either didn't exist to you or had a completely different meaning when you were in your teens and early twenties. Here are some of the ones I've learned so far.
When you're in high school or college, a "cleanse" just sounds like a pretentious version of "wash." You'd hear someone say "I'm going to take a shower and cleanse myself," and you'd hate them, and you'd be right to.
But cleanse has an additional meaning, one that most kids in their teens and early twenties have no reason to know. When I was a freshman in college I did know the alternate meaning because, for a few months, (to help pay for school), I worked as a telemarketer selling an all-natural Bowel Cleanser over the phone. It was a kind of juice that you were supposed to drink every single day. The goal of the juice was to flush absolutely everything out of your system, via your butt. It is not, (my employers would have me stress to potential clients on the phone), a simple laxative. It is a cleansing agent designed to rid your body of all its dangerous and unhealthy toxins that would otherwise build up in your colon and stay there for years. It was supposed to make your skin healthier, your energy higher, and your bowel movements smoother and more pleasant. In my training session, my managers told me that, when he died, 25 lbs of human fecal matter was found in John Wayne's colon, and while we weren't legally allowed to say that using a bowel cleanser would have saved his life, we were encouraged to casually bring that story up and let our customers draw their own conclusions about the magic, healing power of bowel cleansers.
But, at the end of the day, yes, I was selling a juice that made you poop harder, faster, and forever to a bunch of strangers, over the phone.
"Mrs. Johnson? Hi, Dan O'Brien here, quick question: How ya poopin'?"
I thought the entire concept was hilarious. I'd go back to my dorm with my nineteen-year-old friends and tell them all about this stupid, wacky product people were actually paying for. "Can you believe it? These folks will pay real, American dollars for a product that will 'wipe out toxins.' Uh, hello, toxins aren't even a thing! Those people are so dumb. Being 19 rules. Isn't it great that we're going to live forever?"
But Now ...
You say it'll wipe out all of my toxins?
There are plenty of cleanses nowadays, the most popular probably being The Master Cleanse. They all revolve around a special diet of juices and water, and spices or teas, and all of them are designed to rid your body of... just everything. I mean, mostly toxins and excess fat, but due to the nature of any cleanse, (the nature is it makes you poop), you're bound to get a lot of non-toxins involved, too, it is a non-discriminating bowel evacuator.
And don't get me wrong, getting older doesn't mean you suddenly have to do some kind of cleanse every few months. I don't. But being older does mean that "cleanse" will enter your life. It's a word that meant nothing to you, and suddenly you'll hear it everywhere. A bunch of your friends will try it, you'll see ads for it, and maybe you'll even read up on it. Because one of the things most cleanses claim to give you is buttloads upon buttloads of healthy, natural energy. And you'll seriously think about doing it because, when you get older, all of that excess energy you had in high school and college is the very first thing that goes, precisely at the moment when you finally have enough money and intelligence to know what to do with energy. You suddenly won't have it anymore, and you'll do absolutely anything to get it back.
"You say this'll give me just as much energy as the Master Cleanse but I DON'T have to shit myself for ten straight days? Well, this is kind of a no-brainer."
3Sleep Schedule
Back in college, a buddy of mine once stumbled into my dorm room and asked me if I wanted to see how many days in a row we could both stay awake, and even though it was the middle of the week, I said "Yes," because I was 18, and because coffee was a thing, and because I was 18.
18-year-olds are stupid.
And we did. We stayed awake all night for the sake of staying awake, then went to class, ate food, watched movies and played whichever Tony Hawk game was out when the band Goldfinger was really popular. Then at night, we drank more coffee and stayed awake again. And again. We did this until we were bored, and then we slept for a couple hours and felt fine. In a few months, we'd forget how boring this little experiment was, so we'd do it again. (And, eventually, someone would give us both pieces of paper that said we were full-fledged adults and totally ready to enter the real world. For no reason.)
But Now ...
No one ever asks me if I want to stay awake for several days in a row anymore, thankfully, but every so often, someone will ask me if I want to go to a midnight screening of something, or hang out on the beach late at night, or go to a ... like a ball, or gala, or whatever it is mature and reasonable people are supposed to do at night.
"Yes, thanks for the invite, this has been a truly wonderful cotillion."
And instead of saying "Yes, I'll do that, because coffee exists," I'll say "Well, let's see, I need to make sure I get a solid eight hours of sleep tonight ... I do have to get up at 7am tomorrow ... Usually takes me 12 minutes to get home from the beach, and I know I'm gonna wanna spend a few hours there ... It's already 9 now ... It doesn't- Yeah, it doesn't look like I'll be able to get my full eight hours. Even if we left right now, I'd be cutting it close ..."
What I'm trying to say, (other than "Try as hard as you can to not to fall in love with the wild party animal and man-about-town that is Daniel O'Brien, Women-of-the-Internet,"), is that, when you reach a certain age, the majority of your decision-making will revolve around maintaining your sleep schedule. Sure, you'll deviate once in a while. You'll stay up all night with friends, you'll drink too much, you'll only get four hours of sleep before work. It'll happen. But it's not like in college, where you can wake up after two hours of sleep, drink a Red Bull and then be absolutely fine for the day, (and, in fact, the year). It's real life, where getting a few hours means you can physically prop your stupid body up in your cubicle, but you're still not quite "at work," mentally or emotionally speaking. You're a red-eyed, headache-ridden zombie typing seven words a minute and waiting for the clock to strike 6, so you can go home and get the eight freaking hours you desperately need. You don't prefer eight hours, you don't choose it, you need it so you can function the next day. It just happens. You reach a point where your body says "That's enough. I've put up with everything you've done to me for 25 years without a word, and now I'm calling the shots. It's time for you to start taking care of me.