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This color image combines many exposures from the Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) and Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) and the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) 2.2m telescope in La Silla, Chile.
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As the pendulum swingsJuly 27,2014Scott Milne launched his candidacy for governor last week, anticipating, or hoping, that the usual pendulum swing of Vermont politics will swing his way.
He was firm in his call for balance and what he described as cautious, understated optimism. He was also unsparing in his critique of the incumbent Democrat, Peter Shumlin, for his ultra-progressive agenda and his need for exuberance and rapid, radical change. He said he would not vilify Shumlin, but he did not hesitate to criticize the spirit of experimentation and the bubble of his rhetoric, which he said must be deflated.
Former Gov. James Douglas stood with Milne at his campaign kickoff, representing the kind of politics that Milne aspires to practice should he be elected. As governor, Douglas shunned risk and experimentation, practicing a steady, unflashy and cautious style of politics that Vermonters liked and respected. And yet Vermonters veered in a different direction after Douglas four terms. In electing Shumlin, they showed they were hungry for experimentation and even risk. The change in attitude reflects the pendulum swing that seems like a regular feature of politics in Vermont.
After all, Douglas was first elected after the 11-year tenure of Gov. Howard Dean. Dean was both a cautious manager and a restless experimenter. He pushed for health care reform, and he oversaw major, disruptive changes in education finance and issues of gay rights.
After four or five terms in office, voters tend to become fatigued with any governor, and in Douglass case, he was fortunate that the pendulum was swinging away from the more activist style of Dean toward the cautious style of Douglas. Dean came to office in 1991 after the death of Gov. Richard Snelling, who himself had been elected in 1990 following the pioneering six-year tenure of Gov. Madeleine Kunin. Fiscal problems and recession at the end of Kunins third term prompted voters to turn to Snelling, who in four previous terms had established a reputation for sound fiscal management.
Shumlins exuberance and experimentation could eventually wear thin, especially if some of his experiments falter. But his major experiment single-payer health care has yet to get off the ground. In electing Shumlin, voters knew they were embarking on an unprecedented new venture, with risks and the possibility of failure. But even if there are advantages to the cautious, Douglas-style approach to politics, when the pendulum swings the other way, it is because voters perceive major problems that have not been satisfactorily addressed through piecemeal gestures.
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Vermonters bought into Shumlins experiment, and the legislators they elected have been mostly supportive. It would be surprising indeed if the voters were to halt the pendulum in mid-swing, agreeing with Milne that it was all a mistake.
The other area where Shumlin has sought to be a pioneer has been on energy, but efforts to promote major energy conservation efforts have stumbled for lack of funding. So has his effort to clean up Lake Champlain.
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Hours after he was transported to the Curry County jail Thursday, former international fugitive and accused killer Noe Torres was attacked by the uncle of the child he is charged with helping slay.
Undersheriff Wesley Waller confirmed jail staff placed Torres in a holding cell near one occupied by Richard Silva, the uncle of 10-year-old Carlos Perez, who was gunned down in his sleep in 2005.
Waller said Torres wasn't seriously injured in the fight and Silva is expected to be charged with battery.
Waller said the assault happened about 5:20 p.m. while Torres was secured to a bench in the holding area of the jail.
Jail Administrator Gerry Billy said Torres was secured to the bench while his cell was being cleaned.
According to Waller, Silva, who was in a nearby detox holding cell, asked jail staff if he could use the bathroom. As Silva was passing Torres, Waller said, he began repeatedly punching Torres.
Detention officers pulled Silva off Torres, who was treated for minor injuries by jail medical staff, Waller said.
Waller said Torres was transferred from a state facility near Hobbs earlier in the afternoon for hearings Monday before Chief District Court Judge Ted L. Hartley. By law, according to Waller and District Attorney Matt Chandler, Torres is entitled to be present for his hearings and must be in the county at least 24-business hours before the hearing to allow time to confer with his attorney.
Torres has been held out of the county since his capture earlier this year at the request of Chandler, who argued that Curry County's troubled jail and staff were incapable of handling the longtime international fugitive.
Billy said he was not aware of any relationship between Torres and Silva. He also said there was no order or request to keep the two men separate.
Billy said the jail is in the process of changing its computer systems so such information would automatically post a caution on an inmate's file upon admission if there was such a relationship. But, Billy said, the system is not capable of doing it yet.
Billy also said the jail had nowhere else to place Torres because the facility is at capacity.
"Once again," Billy said,"it just clearly points to the problems that exist at the Curry County Adult Detention Center structurally."
Billy said a toilet that had been repaired earlier in Torres' holding cell had overflowed again and staff was mopping up the water when Torres was attacked.
Torres was the target of a six-year international manhunt that ended with his arrest Jan. 25 near a religious compound in Chihuahua, Mexico. He is charged with the murder of Carlos Perez, who was shot in the head as he lay sleeping in a bedroom shared with his brother.
Police say the shooting was retaliation for an argument that took place hours earlier between Clovis High School students Orlando Salas and Carlos' brother, Ruben Perez.
Torres is accused, along with three since-convicted accomplices, of firing nine bullets into a Clovis apartment window.
Torres says he is innocent of the charges.
It is the second fight in recent months to erupt inside the troubled jail over the Perez family tragedy.
On June 27, accused killer and jail inmate Louis Guerra attacked and repeatedly beat Jaime Perez when jail staff placed the two men in adjacent cells of the same pod despite pleas from the Perez family and a request from Chandler to keep the two men separate.
Perez was a key witness in Guerra's murder trial and subsequent conviction for gunning down his brother, Daniel Perez. Their younger brother was Carlos Perez.
Jaime Perez later filed a notice of lawsuit against the county for injuries suffered in the fight and failure to protect him while in custody.


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- A data-operation model based on partial vector space for batch processing in workflow
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- Batch processing in workflow schedules activity instances in multiple workflow cases of the same workflow type to run as a group. It can optimize business processes execution dynamically. To achieve this goal, it is necessary to define a dataflow operation language to group and ungroup the data in multiple cases of a workflow. Though our previous work has preliminarily investigated the model and its implementation, there is still lack of a formally defined model. In this paper, we first propose a method that is based on a partial vector space to model the dataflow in multiple workflow cases. Based on this model, the data operation primitives for batch processing are specified and defined formally. Since most WfMSs (Workflow Management Systems) use RDBMS (relational database management system) to store their data currently, an SQL (Structured Query Language)-like implementation language, namely DBOL (Data Batch Operation Language), is proposed. Evaluation experiments have also been done to show its performance.
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- Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience: selected papers from the Fourth International Workshop on Workflow Management (ICWM2009), Geneva, Switzerland, 04 May 2009, Vol. 23, no. 16 (Nov 2011), pp. 1936-1950
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- 2011
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- 0805 Distributed Computing
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- Batch processing; Data Batch Operation Language; DBOL; Partial vector space model; Workflow
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- John Wiley & Sons
- 1532-0626
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- Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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- The authors acknowledge support from the Natural Science Foundation of China under grant no. 60673119, 90818004, the New Century Talent Plan of Education Department of China under grant no. NCET-10-0140, and the Scientific Research Fund of Hunan Provincial Education Department of China under grant no: 09K085.
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Are you interested in this topic? Then you really should consider buying my Birth Pangs series! That's what the series is about…
As I've mentioned before, some readers of my series have indicated that they see resemblances in my series with some recent developments in the United States. This article by a Russian analyst predicting the disintegration of the United States in 2010 brought in a couple of comments by readers.
So what do I think?
Well, I won't rule anything out. Anything can happen and can happen quickly if circumstances are right. In the Birth Pangs series, it took between thirty and fifty years for events to unfold. That remains in my mind much more plausible. What Igor Panarin's analysis omits is a catalyst of any kind. In the Birth Pangs series, it was the destruction by atomic bomb of Washington DC. I don't see current events trending towards a disintegration any time soon without a suitable catalyst.
We also have to factor in logistics. Panarin proposes that Russia will take back Alaska and that the Chinese will take the western side of the United States. But in either case, for this to be accomplished, there have to be boots on the ground. For Russia/Alaska, this isn't very difficult. But for China to dispatch the number of troops needed to occupy and subjugate the American West, there have to be transport vessels, a navy to defend those transports, and then suitable staging areas. Without a catalyst leading to a massive debilitation of the American military, such conditions are unattainable in the near-term. At best, China could stage an invasion from Mexico.
It is that kind of scenario that the Birth Pangs series envisions but even then Mexico has to want to go along with the Chinese. My series explains why Mexico goes along with the Chinese. it is odd that Panarin thinks that the Mexicans wouldn't take California and Arizona for themselves. Why would La Raza allow that?
Also, without the needful catalyst, it is difficult to imagine any kind of dissolution being followed by international occupation. Panarin underestimates the cultural homogeneity that exists in this country. I have relatives in numerous states in the union and have no particular loyalty to one American state over another. To the extent that those in the US have rivalries, they are fairly benign, of the University of Michigan versus The Worthless Ohio Buckeyes type or the Packers versus the Bears or Dallas versus Everyone. This is profoundly different than the British/Irish rivalry and Chechnya and Georgia versus Russia.
The American Civil War was over something of real substance and not on petty ethnic grounds. Slavery was a suitable catalyst- no such catalyst is imminent… at least not as long as Hawaii keeps its iron grip on certain birth records.
Another thing Panarin underestimates is the Constitutional right to bear arms. The fact that there are a lot of guns in this country might support a civil war hypothesis it weakens a foreign invader hypothesis- again assuming there isn't a catalyst, and in this aspect, one that disarms the average citizen. Foreign invaders would find it difficult to subdue the American people. One finds themselves almost wishing someone would try to attack Texas. I mean, good luck.
Finally, much has been said about the thinning of the American military but this isn't really accurate. Yes, we have American soldiers spread throughout the world but barring a global EMP assault (which would also undermine foreign armies) these soldiers could be quickly recalled. Not only that, but the fact that they've been fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan means that American soldiers have something that most of the world's armies do not have- battle hardened troops both at home and abroad.
Finally, thinking in Panarin's terms, I see no reason why the upper midwest and the East coast wouldn't remain largely untouched. Canada isn't known to be expansionist and precisely what European countries could conceivably lay a hand on the East coast beyond New York, where the only armed people are cops and criminals? Pennsylvania, Georgia, Virginia, etc, are easily a match to Eurpean attackers.
So, all in all, assuming things continue as they have been with no catalysts, I must pronounce Panarin's hypothesis as untenable, and the similarities to the Birth Pangs series passing and superficial.
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Pennington and the Dolphins are one of the worst teams in football, Jets fans should not get too ahead of themselves. I do think that because Brady is out, they have a better chance at being a contender in the AFC East, but they won't win it. The Patriots did lose a big player, but they still have the rest of their team that almost went undefeated last year. With some pressure, Favre will fold just like he did against the Giants. Any team with a good defensive line can beat the Jets. Watch the Bills this year, they can also make it tough for the Jets. I think the jets will finish 2nd in the AFC East barely passing the Bills.
Today's game against the Pats will predict everything, so for the record, I am saying this prediction before the Jets vs Patriots game in week 2.


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Roxanne Morris led the Tigerettes with 45 kills, 34 digs, 37 assists, nine aces and six blocks during the tournament.
Goliad's Megan Hilscher had 34 kills, 33 digs, one ace and two blocks.
"The girls are a very young group and played really well," Goliad coach Jess Morris said. "We just need a little more work with getting in sync with each other and learning how to play together."
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Bank of America's earnings cup springs a leak
As everyone knows, there is many a slip between the cup and lip. The truth of that time-worn wisdom spilled out in Bank of America's first-quarter earnings report Wednesday.
Despite strength in its wealth-management business and continued progress on cutting costs, there were few truly bright spots as the bank continued to grapple with a difficult interest-rate environment. And there were some decidedly dark ones. The bank was battered by $6 billion in litigation expense, leading it to report a net loss of $276 million, while revenue dropped 2.7% from a year earlier.
That wasn't what investors expected just a few months ago. Earlier this year, after BofA reported surprisingly robust fourth-quarter earnings and announced a new target for return on assets of 1%, BofA's stock traded as if it had already cleared most obstacles in its path.
Now it is obvious that was overly optimistic. Interest rates refused to follow an expected upward path, continuing to pressure net-interest margins. And mortgage lending contracted more than expected, resulting in a 65% fall in originations.
Meanwhile, the outsize litigation expense—it was equal to the bank's entire charge for 2013—was another reminder that BofA continues to be haunted by the sins of the housing bubble. Nor can investors be sure the bank has put all its legal woe behind it.
While BofA has yet to update its view on possible losses beyond litigation and mortgage-repurchase reserves, these were up to $6.1 billion and $4 billion, respectively, at the end of last year. Plus, later Wednesday, The Wall Street Journal reported BofA was in multibillion-dollar settlement talks with the Justice Department over sales of mortgage-backed securities.
The good news is that BofA's stock, down more than 4% since mid-January's fourth-quarter earnings report, reflects a more-realistic view of its prospects. Assuming the bank can meet 2016 earnings estimates of $1.85 a share and that it trades on a historical average multiple of 10.7 times forward earnings, the shares would be worth about $19.80 each.
At the current price around $16 a share, the stock trades at a nearly 20% discount to that level. This better reflects the many risks still ahead. Of course, there is room for further downside given short-term interest rates might stay lower for longer and there could be more bumps in the legal road.
Still, the stock is no longer priced for perfection. And that gives BofA more room for error, and to manoeuvre.
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I know many of you are involved in Teacher Institutes in your areas that coincide with the Columbus Day weekend—as such, it may be a day or two before some of you read this week's update. For those taking an institute day, I hope those events are professionally invigorating and give you an opportunity to renew acquaintances and see old friends.
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Finally—particularly for those of you who have involvement with high schools—ISBE will very soon need to review the PSAE assessment. We will be analyzing this very closely here at ISBE—and I will be involved in that process with many staff members from our Fiscal, Data Analysis and Student Assessment staff in the agency. We will also be seeking input from various constituency groups. If you have strong feelings pro or con in this regard, please send them to me.
Thank you.
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Tax Anticipation Warrant Program
The response to the Pooled Tax
Anticipation Warrant Program offered by the Illinois Finance Authority has
been significant and supports the necessity for this program. "Pooling"
the needs of school districts into one issue will allow school districts to
reduce their costs and increase their savings. The program will continue
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For information or assistance, please contact Nona Myers or Eric Watson of the Illinois Finance Authority at 217/782-5792. A survey of needs and an application is available by accessing the following link: http://www.il-fa.com/products/bonds/ptawp.html
Automated External Defibrillator—HB 4232
The Governor has signed HB 4232 into law. This law will require school districts to have an automated external defibrillator or AED in all indoor physical fitness areas. The law also requires a trained AED user in each physical fitness facility during school sponsored events. Contact the Accountability Division for additional information at 217- 782-2948.
For more on the act itself and other information, please go to: http://www.isbe.net/pdf/defibrillator.pdf
IMAGE Testing Grades and Dates - Reminder
Due to the new assessment changes in state law, IMAGE for spring of 2005 will only be testing reading and math in grades 3, 5, 8 and 11.
For this year, the grade 11 students taking IMAGE will be tested at the same time as PSAE – April 27 -28; makeup May 11-12. Testing dates for all tests can be found at www.isbe.net/assessment/Chart2005.htm
Breakfast Start-Up Incentive Grants
The Illinois State Board of Education is pleased to
announce the availability of grants to promote start-up funding for implementing
School Breakfast Programs. The state-funded School Breakfast Start-Up
Incentive Grant is designed to assist schools in overcoming some of the barriers
associated with starting a new program and provides up to $3,500 per school for eligible costs.
A local educational agency (LEA) may complete an application packet for schools
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In addition to the start-up funding, your district may be eligible to receive additional reimbursement of $.10 for each paid, free, and reduced-price breakfast served if participation in the School Breakfast Program increases. If the number of breakfasts served in the month exceeds the number of breakfasts served in the same month during the preceding year by 10% the district is eligible for the additional reimbursement. No additional application is required; this additional reimbursement will be paid on a quarterly basis.
Please consider how these incentives can benefit your students in starting the day ready to learn. To access the entire application packet for the state-funded School Breakfast Start-Up Incentive Grant visit our website at www.isbe.net/nutrition. If you have questions about these incentives or about the School Breakfast Program please contact staff of the Nutrition Programs and Support Services Division at 1-800-545-7892.
Invitation to Comment on Rules
At its September meeting, the State Board of Education released one set of proposed rules for public comment. This item has been posted on the agency's web site at www.isbe.net/rules; choose "Proposed Rules and Amendments." Please submit any comments or suggestions you may have to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Part 1 (Public Schools Evaluation, Recognition and Supervision)
This rulemaking consists almost
entirely of technical corrections that are needed to ensure continuity in
certification policy. When the personnel-related portions of Part 1 were
most recently amended (effective
Similarly, in the recent amendment process several long-standing requirements for the assignment of teachers in career and technical education programs were inadvertently omitted. These details, which chiefly have to do with the requirement for work experience in the field to be taught, need to be added to new Section 1.737, which discusses the minimum requirements for various assignments.
The only policy change being made via Appendix A is to re-amend the validity of the provisional vocational certificate. The amendments that took effect on June 1 of this year included a change in the validity of both the provisional vocational certificate and the temporary provisional vocational certificate from K-12 to grades 11 and 12 only. We agree with points raised since that time to the effect that individuals who meet the requirements for the provisional vocational certificate generally have sufficient educational preparation, in addition to their career background, to enable them to introduce students in grades 7 and above to the fields addressed in career and technical education. However, we have determined that the temporary provisional vocational certificate, for which the requirements are less stringent, should continue to be valid only for grades 11 and 12 and limited to skill-level instruction in the specific field of specialization.
Deadline for Public
Notice of Effectiveness of Emergency Rulemaking
Emergency amendments to Part 1, identical to the proposed version discussed above, have been placed into effect so that continuity of certification policy will not be lost while the proposed amendments are completing the rulemaking process. These emergency amendments have been posted on the agency's web site at www.isbe.net/rules; choose "Rules Currently in Effect" and scroll to the relevant Part number. Once the ordinary rulemaking process is complete, the emergency amendments will be replaced.
Satellite Broadcast - "Measuring the Effectiveness of the Nation's Food Service and Retail Food Protection System"
Mark Wednesday, October 13, 2004 and make arrangements to view the two-hour satellite broadcast from 12:00 noon until 2:00 p.m.(CST) sponsored by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Office of Regulatory Affairs and FDA's National Retail Food Team.
Visit the http://www.fda.gov/cdrh/ocer/dcm/html/program_calendar.html for technical information and updates. Viewing sites must have access to a steerable C-band satellite dish.
Viewing sites are encouraged to videotape this program locally.
iVote 2004
iVote is a project to encourage Illinois K-12 students to participate in the electoral process by reporting on the candidates and issues for the 2004 Presidential and Senatorial elections and participating in a State-wide online vote.
How To Participate
If you are an Illinois K-12 teacher interested in participating in iVote, you can register your class by logging onto the Collaboratory Project at http://collaboratory.nunet.net and clicking on the iVote link. To participate in the iVote Campaign and/or the iVote Election Day you will need a networked computer running a standards Web browser.


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- Southeast weather outlook favors small grains
- Last for two or more years
• The Southeast Climate Consortium has issued a La Niña watch, meaning it is more likely than not that La Niña will redevelop in the Pacific Ocean in the next one to three months.
• Historically, wheat yields tend to be better in times of La Niña.
The weather forecast for this fall and winter should be good news for Southeastern wheat producers, since the La Niña conditions that are expected usually are favorable for winter grain crops such as wheat, oats and rye.
"La Niña brings warmer than normal winter temperatures, so we'll get fewer chill hours this winter," says David Zierden, the state climatologist of Florida and an associate in research at Florida State University's Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies.
"Historically, wheat yields tend to be better in times of La Niña," said Zierden at the recent Central and South Alabama Wheat Expo held in Montgomery, Ala.
The Southeast Climate Consortium, of which FSU is a member, has issued a La Niña watch, meaning it is more likely than not that La Niña will redevelop in the Pacific Ocean in the next one to three months, he says.
La Niña, explains Zierden, refers to a state of the tropical Pacific Ocean in which surface temperatures along the equator from South America to the central Pacific turn colder than normal.
La Niña can be thought of as the opposite of El Niño, in which the same area of the Pacific is much warmer than normal.
"La Niña typically brings fall and winter weather patterns to parts of the Southeast that are warmer and drier than normal," he says.
"Historically, the peninsula of Florida averages rainfall 40 percent to 60 percent below normal in the months of November through March during La Niña events.
"Temperatures over the entire area average 3 to 4 degrees warmer than normal. The onset of warm and dry conditions normally begins in September, and the pattern intensifies as the season progresses."
This past year was a good one, he says, for wheat yields and grain quality.
"We started off last winter very cold," says Zierden. "Florida and south Georgia ranked as the coldest December on record since 1895, and it was among the coldest on record for the remainder of the Southeast. Along with colder temperatures, we accumulated chill hours at a much higher rate than normal."
Later in the season, in March and April, the Southern U.S. was warmer than normal, he says.
"So we were accumulating growing-degree days at a critical time when the crop needed it. But from last October through July, rainfall in south Georgia and south Alabama were running at 50 to 75 percent of normal. However, the wheat crop had enough moisture in the soil to work with," says Zierden.
Crops in parts of the Southeast were already suffering from extremely dry and hot conditions earlier this summer.
The three-month period of April through June was the driest on record since 1895 for the western Florida Panhandle and southern Georgia, while June ranked as one of the warmest on record.
Last year, says Zierden, the Pacific Ocean slipped into one of the strongest La Niñas on record and this was a key trigger for the development of drought in Florida and the Southeast as well as unprecedented drought in Texas and Oklahoma.


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|As a Peace Corps Volunteers, you will have to adapt to conditions that may be dramatically different than you have ever experienced and modify lifestyle practices that you now take for granted. Even the most basic practices— talking, eating, using the bathroom, and sleeping — may take significantly different forms in the context of the host country. If you successfully adapt and integrate, you will in return be rewarded with a deep understanding of a new culture, the establishment of new and potentially lifelong relationships, and a profound sense of humanity.
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Living Conditions and Volunteer Lifestyles by Country
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- 1 Communications
- 2 Housing and Site Location
- 3 Living Allowance and Money Management
- 4 Food and Diet
- 5 Transportation
- 6 Geography and Climate
- 7 Social Activities
- 8 Professionalism, Dress, and Behavior
- 9 Personal Safety
- 10 Rewards and Frustrations
During pre-service training, you will receive mail at a post office near the training site (you will be given this address before you depart for overseas). Once you have moved to your assigned site, you will use your residence or workplace as a permanent mailing address. The Peace Corps office cannot accept mail for Volunteers except in extraordinary circumstances.
Mail from the United States usually takes two to four weeks to arrive at Volunteer sites. Advise your family and friends to number their letters so you will be able to tell when a letter has gone astray. Also tell them to include "Airmail" and "Par Avion" on their envelopes.
International telephone service is generally available throughout the Kyrgyz Republic, but it is expensive. Calling cards make calling the United States much easier because you can call the AT&T operator in Moscow (095.155.5042) and place the call directly. The time in the Kyrgyz Republic is 11 hours ahead of Eastern Standard Time (10 hours during Daylight Savings Time). Phone service within the Kyrgyz Republic is improving, but it can be a difficult experience, depending on factors such as the time of day and weather conditions. The national telephone agency has offices in all major cities and in some smaller towns, but if you are calling from outside Bishkek, it is sometimes difficult to secure a line.
Most Volunteers take advantage of local Internet cafes to make international phone calls. This low-cost way of calling the United States is available in most urban areas throughout the country. Though the connection is not always the best, the service is by far the least expensive way of staying in touch with your family and friends.
There are two cellular companies in the Kyrgyz Republic, and more and more Kyrgyz are using cell phones, especially in the capital. However, coverage is spotty and unpredictable outside Bishkek.
Computer, Internet, and E-mail Access
The Peace Corps office has several computers with Internet access in its resource center that may be used by Volunteers when they are in the office on official business. In addition, Volunteers can access E-mail at Internet cafés in many of the larger towns in the Kyrgyz Republic.
Housing and Site Location
Peace Corps/Kyrgyz Republic assigns Volunteers to the sites with the greatest need and to schools and organizations that demonstrate potential for making the best use of Volunteers' skills. Peace Corps/Kyrgyz Republic has a mandatory three-month homestay policy and asks the sponsoring agency to provide the Volunteer with adequate, safe housing, which is paid for by the Peace Corps. The housing varies from site to site and is typically with a family or within a family's compound.
The housing will have simple basic furniture such as a bed, a table and chairs, a wardrobe or bureau for clothing, and access to a stove and a refrigerator. The Peace Corps will provide you with a water filter or distiller. In addition, because winters in the Kyrgyz Republic are cold and many heating systems are inadequate, the Peace Corps will also provide you with an electric heater. Still, you will probably need long underwear and will definitely need a warm sleeping bag, as electricity is not always reliable.
You need to be very flexible in your housing expectations, as there is no guarantee that there will be an indoor toilet or that running water or electricity will be available continuously at your assigned site.
Living Allowance and Money Management
The Kyrgyz Republic has a cash-based economy. There are now ATM machines in Bishkek, but few opportunities to use credit cards other than buying international plane tickets from a local travel agency or online. The rate of exchange between the dollar and the local currency, the som, has been stable in recent years, with the dollar losing value slightly to the som.
As a Volunteer in the Kyrgyz Republic, you will live at the same economic level as your neighbors and colleagues. You will receive a modest monthly living allowance (deposited in local currency into a bank account you will open at your site) to cover food, utilities, household supplies, hygiene products, clothing, recreation and entertainment, local transportation, telephone calls, reading materials, and other personal expenses. The amount of this allowance may not seem like a lot of money, but you will find yourself earning more than many of your colleagues and supervisors.
You will also receive a $24 monthly vacation allowance and a one-time settling-in allowance in local currency to purchase household items when you move to your permanent site. The settling-in allowance is intended to defray part of the costs of items such as cooking utensils, dishes, towels, and blankets.
Finally, you will be given a quarterly program travel allowance to support regional exchanges with other Volunteers and to travel to Bishkek to visit international organizations or meet with your program manager. This allowance is designed to encourage Volunteers to exchange knowledge, skills, and best practices about their primary and secondary projects with one another.
Food and Diet
People in the Kyrgyz Republic eat a lot of meat and vegetables (e.g., potatoes, tomatoes, cabbages, carrots, and onions), with much of the food fried or boiled. There is a wide range of fresh food for sale in markets throughout the republic during the spring, summer, and fall, including meat, vegetables, dried fruits, and nuts. Oranges, bananas, and apples can be found in some parts of the country but are often expensive.
Fruits and vegetables are, of course, seasonal, but it is possible to be a vegetarian in the Kyrgyz Republic. A sufficient variety of food is available to maintain a healthy vegetarian diet, and previous Volunteers have been successful at doing so with a little advance planning. The markets have white, pinto, mung, and red beans; chickpeas and split peas; pasta; rice; and peanuts and other nuts. Cheese, eggs, and milk are available in many, but not all, markets, and potatoes, cabbages, carrots, and onions can be found almost everywhere. Tofu is available in larger towns. The most difficult aspect probably will be the social pressure to eat meat, but with a little patience, most vegetarians have served their two years with few problems.
Because of safety issues, Peace Corps/Kyrgyz Republic prohibits Volunteers from driving or riding on two- or three-wheeled motorized vehicles for any reason. Volunteers are not allowed to own or drive private automobiles or tractors. Road travel between oblasts after dark is prohibited. Road travel after dark within oblasts is strongly discouraged; Violation of these policies may result in the termination of your Volunteer service.
Most Volunteers travel in the country in commercial vans (called marshrutkas), but some choose to pay more and hire long-distance taxis. Although the vans often do not operate on a set schedule, there is regular public transportation between cities. Travel by bus among cities is also available.
Geography and Climate
The Kyrgyz Republic borders Kazakhstan in the north and northwest, Uzbekistan in the southwest, Tajikistan in the south, and China in the southeast. The Tien Shan mountain range covers approximately 95 percent of the country, which is about the size of Nebraska. The mountaintops are perennially covered with snow glaciers.
The Kyrgyz Republic has four seasons, including very cold winters and hot, dry summers. The duration of each season depends on the region of the country. In the mountains, the temperature can drop as low as minus 30 degrees Fahrenheit. In the rest of the country, winter is much like winters in the Midwestern United States, but without so much snow. The north is much colder than the south, with normal winter temperatures in the mid-teens to low 20s.
Social Activities
Volunteers are expected to develop relationships with people in their communities and participate in the social activities available at their sites. Outside of Bishkek, there is little formal entertainment (e.g., the opera, theater, cinemas, etc). Therefore, both the Kyrgyz people and Volunteers, especially in small towns and villages, spend much of their leisure time "guesting." Guesting means being invited to a home for a meal; this could last up to five or six hours, depending on the time of day. As the only American, and often the only foreigner, present in a community, you will often be the guest of honor.
Being a guest in a Kyrgyz home can be simultaneously rewarding and stressful. The local people, whether ethnic Kyrgyz, Uzbek, or Russian, are hospitable, charismatic hosts. This means that you, as the guest, will be constantly encouraged to eat and drink more and more. Although it can be difficult to convey to people you do not know well that you have had enough to eat or drink and that you do not want any more or need to go home, Volunteers find that they are better able to manage such situations as their language skills develop.
Alcohol is prevalent in most social situations in the Kyrgyz Republic and can cause stress for Volunteers. Volunteers may regularly feel pressure to drink heavily when in new social surroundings either with their new Kyrgyz friends or with other Volunteers. The pressure to drink often eases as a Volunteer becomes better known, and many Volunteers abstain from drinking in their sites. Program managers and the safety and security and medical officers help Volunteers develop strategies to manage the pressure of alcohol consumption.
The Peace Corps has policies and strategies that will help Volunteers assess and manage their use of alcohol. Excessive use of alcohol may result in behavior that affects your performance, effectiveness, safety and credibility. Inappropriate behavior resulting from alcohol abuse or the inability to carry out your assignment due to alcohol use is grounds for administrative separation from the Peace Corps. Alcohol use has been a factor in injuries and assaults involving Volunteers in posts throughout the world, including the Kyrgyz Republic. The Kyrgyzstani judicial system considers use of alcohol as an aggravating factor in criminal cases. Individuals with a history or predisposition for alcohol abuse should seriously consider whether the Kyrgyz Republic is an appropriate assignment for you.
Professionalism, Dress, and Behavior
People in the Kyrgyz Republic take pride in their personal appearance and tend to dress up both for social occasions and for daily activities and generally dress more formally than Americans. While most people cannot afford a large wardrobe—it is not unusual to see co-workers wear the same outfit two or three days in a row—wearing clean and ironed cloths is important. To gain the acceptance, respect, and confidence of Kyrgyz colleagues, therefore, it is essential that you dress and conduct yourself professionally. Professional dress is required in the workplace, which means mid-length or long skirts with blouses or dresses for women living in more rural or conservative areas of the country, and pressed chinos or dress slacks with jackets or sweaters for men. Dress shoes or boots are also essential. As it is the custom to take off your shoes before entering someone's home, Volunteers might wish to bring with them shoes that easily slip on or off rather than ones with laces.
The Peace Corps expects Volunteers to behave in a way that will foster respect in their communities and reflect well on the Peace Corps and the citizens of the United States. As a Volunteer, you have the status of an invited guest and must be sensitive to the habits, tastes, and taboos of your hosts. You will receive an orientation on appropriate behavior and cultural sensitivity during pre-service training.
Personal Safety
More detailed information about the Peace Corps' approach to safety is contained in the Health Care and Safety chapter, but it is an important issue and cannot be overemphasized. As stated in the Volunteer Handbook, becoming a Peace Corps Volunteer entails certain safety risks. Living and traveling in an unfamiliar environment (oftentimes alone), having a limited understanding of local language and culture, being perceived as well-off, and alcohol abuse are some of the factors that can put a Volunteer at risk. Some Volunteers experience varying degrees of unwanted attention and harassment. Petty thefts and burglaries are not uncommon, and incidents of physical and sexual assault do occur, although most Kyrgyz Republic Volunteers complete their two years of service without personal security incidents. The Peace Corps has established procedures and policies designed to help you reduce your risks and enhance your safety and security. These procedures and policies, in addition to safety training, will be provided once you arrive in the Kyrgyz Republic. At the same time, you are expected to take ultimate responsibility for your own safety and well-being.
Rewards and Frustrations
Although the potential for job satisfaction in the Kyrgyz Republic is quite high, like all Volunteers, you will encounter numerous frustrations. Because of financial or other challenges, collaborating agencies do not always provide the support they promised. In addition, the pace of work and life is slower than what most Americans are accustomed to, and some people you work with may be hesitant to change practices and traditions that are centuries old. For these reasons, the Peace Corps experience of adapting to a new culture and environment is often described as a series of emotional peaks and valleys.
You might work for months without seeing any visible impact from, or without receiving feedback on, your work. Development is a slow process. Positive progress most often comes after the combined efforts of several Volunteers over the course of many years. You must possess the self-confidence, patience, and vision to continue working toward long-term goals without seeing immediate results.
To overcome these difficulties, you will need maturity, flexibility, open-mindedness, and resourcefulness. The Kyrgyz are warm, friendly, and hospitable, and the Peace Corps staff, your co-workers, and fellow Volunteers will support you during times of challenge as well as in moments of success. Judging by the experience of former Volunteers, the peaks are well worth the difficult times, and most Volunteers leave the Kyrgyz Republic feeling that they have gained much more than they sacrificed during their service. If you are willing to integrate into your community and work hard, you will be a successful Volunteer.


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Lines are not blurredOctober 29,2013
Lines are not blurred
Brad Watson might want to consider lowering the temperature of his rhetoric after referring to critics of Mayor John Hollar and City Manager William Fraser as cowardly.
Both the mayor and the city manager have served this community well, but the issues raised by Planning Director Gwendolyn Hallsmiths outside political activities are important and it serves no ones interests to dismiss critics of the way City Hall has handled this incident as cowards.
First of all, the U.S. Supreme Court has clearly established the basic First Amendment right of public employees such as Ms. Hallsmith to engage in outside political activities. Mr. Watson would do well to educate himself about that right.
Second, based on a series of e-mails I exchanged with the city manager on Friday, it seems clear the city has no written policy addressing the issue of outside political activity by its employees.
There has been no suggestion in either the articles that appeared in this paper or in my correspondence with the city manager that Ms. Hallsmith used public resources or public time in pursuing her outside activities or identified herself as speaking for the city itself.
Since the city council has never (to the best of my knowledge) taken a position on public banking, its very hard to see how Ms. Hallsmiths constitutionallyprotected outside activities have blurred a line or undermined the citys interests in any way.
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Thank you, NarutoBase Staff
Originally Posted by MinatoTheYellowFlash
Dude Naruto isn't strong its the nine tails -_- he only has sm and he can't even beat pain with it
Kurama is currently part of Narutos might.
Naruto and Kurama are now one,Kurama on His own can't stop Madara from controlling Him as He and Obito have done in the past,Naruto alone dose not have the power to stop Madara but both united as one dose and will stop Madara. One body with 2 souls united by a common enemy.
it's his first day using this power,he's not accustomed yet to this power,what's more kishi is trying to downgrade naruto's power each time by forbidding the use of clones,at first it was in SM he couldn't fuse with frogs,then he couldn't make more than two clones,then in KM he says he can't use clones then he makes naruto use a lot of them(the ones that ran to different battlefields),then afterwards against obito when he reverted back to KM after using BM,why he didn't make more than one clone?
the answer is obviously plot because he could have overwhelmed obito alone,so he has to dongrade him again,so that obito holds his ground until madara arrives
I think using a large amount of shadow clones in tailed beast mode is a waist. Using big attacks and physical strength is best in this form. Every clone destroyed is waisted chakra and every clones is evenly split chakra from Naruto and Kurama. Naruto kyuubi chakra mode is more suited for using 100,000,000 shadow clones.
Madara is more powerful than Naruto because of Madara's tailed beast zapping abilities and his Susanoo. If it were the old Madara then I'd think it'll be even.
Its because Naruto was never taught ninjustu like nature element and doesn't know sealing techniques just think if Naruto learns a seal that seals a person's chakra, maybe a seven element seal
Originally Posted by Zlad
He is overrating himself, as I know how stubborn he is I bet he will go to attack against the ten tails
he doesnt even think of his ability....look at gaara vs naruto...before sakura was in danger he was terrified of gaara...but when he fights to save his friends he doesnt care if he dies or not...or if the person is stronger or not....just look at what madara did to the kages....and naruto is a genin and is charging at madara
simply its not his arrogance at his own power...al throughout the series naruto has charged enemies much stronger than himself, while knowing that...he is stubborn and im sure he will try to attack the jubi....but not because he overrates his own power, because he believes its up to him to protect his friends and is willing to die trying....
so i agree that he will attack juubi, and disagree because he overrates himself
to the thread....i think naruto doesnt care so much about how strong he is...he is focused on beating madara and bad guys to save the world and his comrades.....after when he isnt fighting he will for sure realize his power....if he hasnt already
You contradicted yourself
Naruto's sage mode lost because it ran out before he could beat the Deva path. If Kurama would have let Ma and Pa fuse with Naruto, then he wouldn't have lost.
You contradict yourself, because it was Kurama's fault that Naruto's sage mode ran out. Naruto was overpowering Pain, but since Ma and Pa couldn't fuse with him(Unlimited sage mode), he had to resort to clones(limited sage mode).
Originally Posted by MinatoTheYellowFlash
Dude Naruto isn't strong its the nine tails -_- he only has sm and he can't even beat pain with it
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Orioles vs. Yankees 4/22/11 (Rainout)
Today was rainy down at Oriole Park:
But I headed down anyways.
I laughed at how there were 3 gates set to open, yet all the Yankee fans
lined up at one gate so I could wander off and come back and still be in front:
I walked in and saw this:
And after a few minutes of standing at the O's dugout
watching a few pitchers talk to Nick Swisher:
The pitchers went down the 1B line to throw:
Ronnie was out stretching while they threw (he eventually
threw with Tillman and probably more):
And Adam Jones (who tweeted
3 minutes earlier that he would be coming out to throw) threw out on the
warning track:
He then signed for us (though I stood back and watched, don't
ask for Orioles autographs anymore):
And the baseballs never came. I talked to Ronnie for a few minutes, which
is all I wanted to do. A few pitchers
threw balls towards me, but I got other people to catch them. Wasn't in my best mood, so didn't care much
for a baseball at that point.
Then I went up to club level with Brittany (Ms. Hoppity) and
Amanda, where we sat and eventually found out that the game was being
We went to the players lot to stand around and talk
(including Donna now) and I left shortly after.
Be back out there tomorrow.
Season stats:
Baseballs: 23 (12 hit, 5 on fly, 8
toss up, 3 found)
Autographs: 4 (Scherzer, Guerrero,
Oliver, Pavano)
Orioles home games attended: 8
Orioles total games attended: 8
Total MLB games attended: 8
Total baseball games attended
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Santos was born in Cuero to Julio and Angelita Tagle Serna on May 4, 1922. He is preceded in death by his wife, Irene, and his parents.
He is survived by six sons - Santos Jr. and his wife, Gloria, of San Antonio; Robert and his wife, Yolanda, of Robstown; Raymond of Friendswood; Jimmy of Calgary, Canada; and Hector and his wife, Zelma, and Larry and his wife, Yvonne, of Corpus Christi. He is also survived by a sister, Garbriela Mendoza of Robstown, 12 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren.
Visitation will be at Goliad Funeral Home Chapel on Friday, Aug. 9 from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. A Rosary will be recited at 7 p.m.
A Funeral Mass will be celebrated at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church of Goliad on Saturday, Aug. 10 at 10 a.m. with Father Ralph Baidoo officiating.
The burial service will follow at 1 p.m. at Robstown Memorial Park Cemetery located at 4607 Farm-to-Market Road 1889 in Robstown.
Memorials may be made to the Goliad County Senior Citizen's Center.
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Collaborative Learning and Academic Integrity
Research shows that group study can accelerate learning, but only if each student is a full and active participant in that learning process. Group collaboration often calls for more rather than less effort on the part of each member of the group. It calls for the mastering of the group process as well as the mastering of a subject.
However, collaboration often brings fears of "over collaboration"—that students will cheat in a collaborative environment. An understanding of plagiarism in the context of collaborative learning, combined with strategies for maintaining academic integrity in collaborative environments, will allow collaborative projects to be used to maximize student learning.
NOTE: Most of the examples and texts below are an amalgam from key writers and researchers in the area of collaborative learning. Sources are provided at the head of each section
What is Collaborative Learning?(Source: University of Sydney)
Collaborative learning occurs when small groups of learners help each other learn. Each member of a group contributes personal experience, information, perspective, insight, skills and attitudes to the group. Ideally, the groups collective learning is ultimately acquired by each individual in the group.
Collaborative learning requires that learners meet face-to-face or in a computer conference producing a single cohesive assignment, not a group of related assignments. Each learner must help other members of the group learn, so that each member of the group can attain the same level of performance.
What About Collaborative Learning and Academic Integrity?
The boundary between legitimate and illegitimate collaboration can be ambiguous. In collaborative learning, each member must contribute to the group performance. It is unacceptable for all members of the group to attach their names to an assignment completed by a couple individual members.
The following are useful resources in maintaining the highest standards of academic integrity in collaborative environments:
- Encouraging collaboration while avoiding plagiarism
- Suggested statement to give to students regarding collaborative work in courses
- "15 common mistakes in using cooperative learning - and what to do about them" by the Teaching and Learning with Technology department of the State University of New York


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Science And The Game Of 20 Questions
An audience member at a recent NYC Skeptics meeting asked me how I handled conflict surrounding strongly held beliefs that are not supported by conclusive evidence. As a dentist, he argued, he often witnessed professionals touting procedure A over procedure B as the "best way" to do X, when in reality there are no controlled clinical trials comparing A and B. "How am I to know what's right in these circumstances?" He asked.
And this is more-or-less what I said:
The truth is, you probably can't know which procedure is better. At least, not at this point in history. The beauty of science is that it's evolving. We are constantly learning more about our bodies and our environment, so that we are getting an ever-clearer degree of resolution on what we see and experience.
It's like having a blurry camera lens at a farm. At first we can only perceive that there are living things moving around on the other side of the lens – but as we begin to focus the camera, we begin to make out that the animals are in the horse or cattle family. With further focus we might be able to differentiate a horse from a cow… and eventually we'll be able to tell if the horse has a saddle on it, and maybe one day we'll be able to see what brand of saddle it is. Each scientific conundrum that we approach is often quite blurry at the onset. People get very invested in their theories of the presence or absence of cows, and whether or not the moving objects could in fact be horses. Others say that those looking through the camera contradict one another too much to be trusted – that they must be offering false ideas or willfully misleading people about the picture they're describing.
In fact, we just have different degrees of clarity on issues at any given point in time. This is not cause for alarm, nor is it a reason to abandon our cameras. No, it just gives us more reason to continue to review, analyze, and revise our understanding of the picture at hand. We should try not to make more out of photo than we can at a given resolution – and understand that contradicting opinions are more likely to be evidence of insufficient information than a fundamental flaw of the scientific method.
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By Kevin Wilson: CNJ staff writer
I've been on a mission lately, and I'm sad to say I've been failing.
On my desk is a copy of the 1987 classic, "Throw Momma From the Train," starring Danny DeVito and Billy Crystal. I look forward to any awards ceremony, or pretty much any movie with Crystal involved.
For its NBA connections and great comedic elements, "Forget Paris" is above all other Crystal films. It's about a couple who meet and fall in love during a few days in Paris and spend the rest of their marriage struggling to rekindle that feeling.
I'm in a similar quandary, because I can't forget Paris … Hilton. As the heiress and reality television show star serves a deserved jail sentence for violating probation, I have to hear about it from everybody.
I can't read the news to get critical updates about Iraq or the 2008 presidential race, because it's buried in stories about Hilton's medical condition that gave her a temporary house arrest option.
I can't get away from it when I'm online, because my friends instant message me to say, "What do you think about Paris?" Apparently, "I don't care" with expletives isn't a legitimate answer.
And even when I don't avoid it by watching E! or "Entertainment Tonight," I'm disappointed.
An exclusive "Entertainment Tonight" interview had one expert telling me the Hilton saga was a terrible example of entertainment tainting our judicial system. Unfortunately, the expert was Judith Sheindlein, a.k.a. Judge Judy. To review, the person who's made nearly $100 million on turning small claims cases into daytime TV and writing respectable books like, "Don't Pee on My Leg and Tell Me It's Raining" is commenting on entertainment interfering with the law.
I'd be relieved about the whole thing if Hilton learned crime didn't pay. However, E! News gave a Sunday report that many clubs were looking to pay Hilton nearly $1 million to be the guest at a "Get Out of Jail" party.
Then again, maybe clubs wouldn't pay all that money for her presence if she hadn't become famous on "The Simple Life," a reality show where she and Nicole Ritchie couldn't hold a job but never faced any consequences because they were rich and attractive. Well, at least reality television has that right.
Throughout all of the media coverage I've seen, I've only known one person to get it right. She said she was "shocked" the case received so much attention and "more important things like the men and women serving our country in Iraq" deserve our focus.
That person was Paris Hilton. The only one who makes sense in any of this is the criminal herself.
I need to get away from all of this. I think I'll go rent "City Slickers."
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