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When I wrote Mark Latham's biography* , I learned that his favourite film was Apocalypse Now. It's striking how his political career has followed that film's plot and theme. It has been a journey into the heart of darkness of Australian politics, culminating in the attempt to use The Latham Diaries to attack the ALP, that Kurtz-like hulk of corrupted idealism.
According to Latham's first wife, Gabrielle Gwyther, he would often put on Apocalypse Now after a rough day in politics. He knew some of its lines by heart. Watching it would refresh him, she said, which is curious as it's by no means an inspiring film. But Latham has always been interested in failure. Richard Nixon, for instance, has long fascinated him.
The Latham Diaries suggest this taste could stem from a long-running pessimism about the political life. Until this week our view of the book has been shaped by the media, in the form of extracts criticising various politicians and journalists along with the responses of those attacked. This has created the impression the book is largely a work of bitchy betrayal.
But now that it's gone on sale, the ordinary reader will find a very different kind of book, the gripping and vivid story of anguished disillusionment with a party ridden with disloyalty, character assassination, and an almost complete lack of interest in ideas and reform.
It is not the individual criticisms that will strike readers outside the political class so much as the cumulative picture they - along with much other material - form of a party, and indeed an entire political culture, gone horribly wrong.
In Apocalyspe Now, the young Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) is ordered by a general to kill Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando), a Special Forces officer who has got out of control. "In this war," the general tells Willard, "things get confused out there: power, ideals, the old morality, and practical necessity."
Kurtz, leading local forces in the Cambodian jungle, has started killing his own people: "His ideas, methods, became unsound. Unsound."
This of course is an extreme depiction of all the compromises that have to be made by anyone in the world of politics, especially in a party that, like the ALP, proclaims such magnificent ideals. It is a description of how early idealism gets ground down by reality.
Kurtz himself is aware of the moral balancing act he's engaged in. We hear a tape of a rambling monologue: "I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor, that's my dream, it's my nightmare. Crawling, slithering along the edge of a straight razor and surviving." (According to Gwyther, this was one of Latham's favourite lines from the movie. He knew it by heart.)
Such a view of politics is more subtle than Graham Richardson's "whatever it takes" and also more real, for it acknowledges that humans can be driven by good as well as evil motives: to be fully human we ought to try to walk the razor's edge.
But Kurtz has failed to keep that balance. Says the general: "There's a conflict in every human heart. Sometimes the dark side overcomes what Lincoln called the better angels of our nature. Every man has got a breaking point. Poor Kurtz has reached his and very obviously he has gone insane."
Judging by what we know of its internal operations (including revelations in The Latham Diaries) the above is not a bad description of the Australian Labor Party. A once-proud party riven by hatred and rancour that stands for nothing and keeps offering Kim Beazley as alternative prime minister is politically insane.
According to Latham's descriptions - even if a few of them are, as has been claimed, invented - its methods are definitely unsound. So much so, it's now conceivable that John Howard will outlast Robert Menzies' time as prime minister.
It's true that the above description of Kurtz could also be taken to apply to Latham himself, but that's OK.
One of the film's subtleties is that Willard himself is no innocent: he's an assassin at the start of the film, and until the end it's uncertain just what he thinks of Kurtz and whether he will kill him.
He travels into the heart of darkness and realises that some of that night lies within his own soul.
Latham has been on a similarly disturbing journey. Despite recent claims to the contrary, he is open about this in the diaries.
Referring to "the cruelty of politics, the things people do to each other", he says: "I'm as guilty as anyone." He admits to faults: "I failed in my mission to advance the cause of Labor." (He also admits to emotions. After his mother is attacked on radio, he says: "I went into a meeting with Rudd and lost it, broke down crying.")
But in the end Latham with his diaries, like Willard with his machete in Apocalypse Now, lets fly at a target he has decided is worse than himself and ought to be destroyed.
Latham is right to highlight the important and corrosive role of journalists in modern political life. Perhaps the biggest change in politics in the past half-century has been the dramatic shrinking of party membership. Parties are reluctant to acknowledge numbers any more, but Latham estimates the ALP now has only 7500 active members. This is terribly few, and the Liberals would have fewer.
As a result of this dwindling from memberships of hundreds of thousands in the past, the parties today are like ships that have lost their ballast, and get blown around by winds of words. The importance of the media, the purveyors of those words, has increased in consequence.
We in the media don't (on the whole) invent people and incidents, but we do decide what sorts of people and incidents get space and how their stories should be told.
There is a continual feedback loop running between politicians and the media to create the reality-TV (and newspaper and radio) drama series that modern politics is for most of the people still paying attention.
The media can't actually tell a politician what to do, but they can tell him what it's in his interests to do if he wants to be a star.
Such an entertainment-based view of politics explains the deep yearning of all media, including the broadsheets and the upmarket TV shows, for personal, particularly sexual, details of politicians' lives.
Once one media outlet runs a salacious rumour about a politician, there is now no mainstream outlet in the country that won't relay it, no matter how irrelevant and unfounded. Where politicians are concerned, often the quality media takes the lead in digging for dirt.
When a despairing Latham begged journalists to lay off his family, they responded with the sneering contempt of those who feel their livelihood under threat. Many said, in effect, that if he couldn't stand the heat he should get out of the kitchen.
So he did. It remains the most extraordinary thing about Latham that he voluntarily walked away from the leadership of the Australian Labor Party. Indeed, it is one of the most unusual actions ever by any Australian politician.
It made him a class traitor, that class being the only one that matters any more in politics: the political class.
The diaries have merely compounded the original offence, which was to reject what that class regards as most important: politics itself.
Some members of the political class, incapable of understanding this, have suggested that Latham is insane.
However from the outside it looks the opposite: it looks like an act of supreme sanity. People involved in politics spend a lot of time these days talking about how bad it has become.
Latham is not unique in this regard (although the scale and insight of the criticisms in The Latham Diaries are new and important). But most of the critics don't seem to take what they're saying seriously, because they stay in there. But Latham did take that decay seriously.
He journeyed up the river and experienced - perhaps as only a leader can fully experience - the darkness at the source of our politics.
And this is where the diaries are most interesting.
For what he found at the heart of darkness was not just politicians and journalists but the Australian people themselves. Latham discovered to his horror that most voters are not interested, that "the disempowered don't really care" about politics.
As for the dirt dished up by the media: "The public pays good money to consume this crap."
The diaries even reveal that Latham came to regret promoting the cause of aspiration, because those people who climb the ladder of opportunity lose their concern for community.
My guess is that in the end it was not the politicians and the media but ordinary people who destroyed Mark Latham's faith. He'd spent his adult life trying to save people who no longer want to be saved.
The lost election was merely the last step in this disillusionment.
* Latham and Abbott, Random House, 2004
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(Idenitify the item), Meeting files, Texas Early Childhood Intervention Program. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
The Early Childhood Intervention (ECI) Program (Texas Department of Health) was created by the 67th Legislature in 1981 (Senate Bill 630) upon the recommendations of the Joint Interim Study Committee on Early Childhood Intervention. The ECI Program is operated through the Department of Health and is charged with identifying and providing needed intervention services to children who have or are at risk of having developmental delays, from ages 0-3 years or until the child is eligible for special education programs for the handicapped. Services provided to eligible children include physical, occupational, speech and language therapy. The policymaking body of the ECI Program is an Interagency Council, composed of one representative from each of the following state agencies: Department of Health, Mental Health and Mental Retardation, Human Services, and the Texas Education Agency, plus an additional member from the general public appointed by the governor.
Intervention services are contracted out to public and private providers. Those entities wishing to provide intervention services apply for grant funding through the ECI program. Grant applications are reviewed and decided upon by the Interagency Council. Once grants are awarded, a contract is drawn up between the provider and the Department of Health. Program guidelines are developed by the Department of Health and periodic evaluations of the provider are conducted to ensure compliance with the guidelines.
These records are the meeting files for the Early Childhood Intervention Advisory Committee (1985-1989) and the Interagency Council on Early Childhood Intervention (1981-1989). Types of material present include minutes, meeting agenda, reports, proposals, and correspondence.
To prepare this preliminary inventory, the described materials were cursorily reviewed to delineate series, to confirm the accuracy of contents lists, to provide an estimate of dates covered, and to determine records types.
These records are organized into two series then arranged chronologically within each series.:
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Accession number: 1991/103
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According to the Star Tribune:
But the Star Tribune is wrong, and they know they are wrong (according to sources close in). So, is their front page editor on crack or something? Let's test this hypothesis.
(UPDATE: See: Senate race polling breakdown)
Available recent polling data suggest that Barack Obama is leading John McCain in the Great State of Minnesota by double digits. Here is a picture of the data from Polster.com:
The little dots are data points and the lines are regressed off of these points.
The most recent Rasmussen poll shows Coleman and Franken in a dead heat at 44/43.
So, the Star Tribune front page editor IS on crack. Why do I say that the editor, and not the reporter is on crack? Because this is what the reporter said in this front page story:
A Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday found that Obama leads McCain 46 percent to 44 percent among the state's likely voters, a statistical tie. That tossup result is at odds with other recent polls showing Obama with an average lead of more than 5 percentage points. A Quinnipiac poll last month found a whopping 17 percentage-point Obama lead.
The poll also conflicts with another survey released Thursday by Rasmussen Reports, which shows Obama with a 49 percent to 37 percent lead in the state.
In the Senate race, Quinnipiac shows Coleman comfortably ahead, with the support of 53 percent of likely voters, compared with 38 percent for Franken.
Again, however, the Rasmussen poll reveals a different picture, a tossup with Coleman at 44 percent and Franken at 43 percent.
Did you now that while reporters write stories, editors put the headlines on them?
I'm not sure if this is the Strib editor being a dodo, or if it is political bias. And if it is political bias, I'm not sure what kind. I kinda like the situation where everyone thinks my candidate is even with, or behind, the opponent, when they are actually ahead. Keeps everybody on their toes, heads up, in the game. Maybe this editor is sneaking around putting his Liberal Bias Mojo on things. Or, maybe he is, more typically for newspapers, a conservative trying to make his guys look good to reduce the embarrassment level with the Republican National Convention coming to town.
An analysis of this Strib SNAFU can be found here in an article by the esteemed Eric Black .INC who, I'm pretty sure, is Chuck Norris moonlighting. No, seriously, look at his picture. Here. That's Chuck right? Anyway, Since Eric is an actual reporter, he knows people, and he has some good insight on this not so pretty headline.
Thanks to Mike The Madman Haubrich for turning me on to this story. He has written about this as part of a far reaching indictment of humanity in general. Check it out.


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In a movie opening next week, left-wing activist Woody Harrelson (IMDb page) plays a dirty cop in 1999 Los Angeles whose character impugns the Founding Fathers as "all slave-owners" and warns that if he is fired "I'll have my own show on Fox News inside one week."
"I am not a racist," he declares in a clip from Rampart played on Thursday's Late Show, arguing: "Now, you want to be mad at someone, try J. Edgar Hoover. He was a racist. Or the Founding Fathers, all slave-owners." Some Founding Fathers owned slaves, but far short of "all." In a scene in the promotional trailer featured on Millennium Entertainment's site for the film, Harrelson's dirty police officer character threatens: "If you force me to retire, I'll have my own show on Fox News inside one week. You'll be my first guest." (Video of both scenes below)
That's likely a take-off on Mark Fuhrman, who appeared as a guest on FNC, but never had his own show.
Audio: MP3 clip
(Harrelson plays McCain campaign manager Steve Schmidt in HBO's upcoming Game Change movie about the 2008 campaign.)
The plot summary for Rampart as listed on the movie's official site:
Officer Dave Brown (Harrelson) is a Vietnam vet and a Rampart Precinct cop, dedicated to doing "the people's dirty work" and asserting his own code of justice, often blurring the lines between right and wrong to maintain his action-hero state of mind. When he gets caught on tape beating a suspect, he finds himself in a personal and emotional downward spiral as the consequences of his past sins and his refusal to change his ways in light of a department-wide corruption scandal seal his fate.


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in the three trading days before Black Tuesday; this compares to
an average of 27 contracts per day before September 6. Morgan
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the attacks. Assuming that 2,000 of these options contracts were
bought based upon knowledge of the approaching attacks, their
purchasers could have profited by at least $1.2 million. Merrill Lynch
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Wanderers will face a battle in the toughest Championship yet next season but are more than capable of success.
That's the view of injured defender David Wheater who believes the Whites can bounce back to the Premier League at the first attempt, despite the strength of the opposition.
Next season's second tier includes 18 teams who have Premier League experience – that is three quarters of the division including Wanderers who will be yearning to regain their place at English football's top table.
Wheater is confident his team-mates will thrive on that competition, and with the return of long-term absentees Chung-Yong Lee and Stuart Holden to Owen Coyle's armoury, the North East man is backing his team-mates to live up to their billing as one of the promotion favourites.
Wheater, who is not expected to be back from a cruciate ligament knee injury until the new year, said: "They are all big clubs in the Championship and almost all have played in the Premier League at some point.
"Everyone is fighting to play in the Premier League; it's where everybody wants to be.
"It's going to be a very tough season but I think we can be successful.
"We should be one of the favourites and it's up to us now to go out and perform.
"Relegation was hard, and tough on everyone, especially the fans because they want to see the Premier League players coming to the Reebok every week.
"It's our job now to bounce back. We need to start brightly and get the results to get back into the Premier League."
With the summer transfer window opening at midnight tonight, the Whites boss is already close to the double deals of Keith Andrews and Matt Mills.
And Wheater accepts squad changes were always likely after relegation ended an 11-year stay in the top flight.
But the return of Lee and Holden will be like new signings in 2012/13.
He added: "A lot of the lads were out of contract this summer anyway so I think there was always going to be departures.
"That means other people coming in and, with my injury, others do need to come in.
"But Chungy and Stuart were our biggest misses last season.
"I think if we'd had both of them, we wouldn't have been relegated.
"They are the two players that make everything tick in the team."
One player who has left the Reebok Stadium this week is Robbie Blake who has joined Doncaster Rovers in League One.
And his new boss Dean Saunders believes the 36-year-old will prove an asset despite only starting four games in his two years with the Whites.
Saunders said: "I know Robbie well having played alongside him at Bradford and he's a genius at times.
"Obviously he's at the end of his career, but we'll get the fitness coach working with him and I'm confident he'll be an asset for us in League One.
"He's brilliant on the ball and still has an incredible appetite for the game."
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MIT Political Science Distinguished Speaker Series
Featuring- Governor Ted Strickland
Rebuilding manufacturing - a governor's view from the center of the country
In a troubled economy where those in power seem most interested in pointing fingers, it is refreshing to hear someone instead talking about solutions. At the lecture he gave in the MIT Media Lab on October 31, former Ohio Governor Ted Strickland focused on the nation's path forward rather than the rocky road behind.
Strickland opened with the fabled story of the Wright brothers' first flying machine, and how this tale of historical innovation and creativity should act as a blueprint for strengthening the American economy. That first primitive airplane served as the foundation for what has become a massive aviation industry, thanks to Strickland's favorite economic champion—manufacturing.
As a Midwestern Rust Belt governor with what he calls "quiet pride," Strickland's view of manufacturing as a key solution to the nation's economic woes is not wholly surprising. Strickland said of his fellow Midwesterners, "for us, manufacturing is deeply personal." However, what is unique about Strickland's perspective is his overwhelming enthusiasm for green technology. In his time as governor, Strickland advocated for cooperation between government and the private sector through a program called "Ohio Third Frontier," referring to its goal to build "an innovation economy." He highlighted Ohio's successful efforts to attract green industry through policy initiatives that reward companies that hired Ohioans and contributed to the local communities. Through these partnerships, Ohio was also able to shore up its community college system, training skilled workers for the expanding industry.
In addition to the revival of manufacturing, Strickland also emphasized the need for new industrial policy to encourage the rejuvenation of the middle class. He acknowledged the "silent crisis" that he said appears to be still invisible to those in power. According to Strickland, the 2009 stimulus should have been double what it was, if it was to generate any real hope of salvaging the middle class. Also, the American people cannot allow the corporate culture to perpetuate a "devaluing of the worth of manual work", a troubling pattern he sees in various states' efforts to undermine collective bargaining.
Strickland's clear allegiance to American manufacturing should not be confused with a blind disregard for the realities of the current economic struggle. Rather than rely entirely on the government, Strickland would recommend industrial policy that encourages private industry to take the lead. "Government can be the catalyst," Strickland said, without necessarily being the engine.
There is no easy way out of the current economic debacle, but Strickland outlined what he sees as clear steps to be taken in both industrial policy on a federal level and in private industry that will jumpstart growth in the American economy. Strickland's successes during his time as governor can serve as a guide for economic resurgence on a national level. With the motivating spirit of collaboration, Strickland hopes that we can make a healthy return to prosperity, not only to ensure the survival of the "American dream", but so that proudly "we can tell our children, 'I created that, I built that, I made that work.' "
by Jeanne Mansfield, Boston Review
On October 31, Governor Strickland discussed issues and challenges involved in rebuilding the American economy. He was the second speaker in the MIT Political Science Distinguished Speaker Series.
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NOAA's National Geodetic Survey (NGS) conducts high accuracy photogrammetric surveys that are used as a basis to update NOAA charts. NGS may also identify shoreline changes from satellite imagery. Some shoreline updates are received through the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers when construction permits have been issued. The shoreline on any particular NOAA nautical may be based on a patchwork of surveys that have been conducted over many years.


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The flower fair of Guangzhou
so pretty!
Guangzhou, with its subtropical climate, is known as the flower city of China. Every year right before the Chinese New Year, there are flower fairs of various sizes throughout the city. We went to a good sized one nearest to Zhexiong's apartment.
It felt like a beautiful summer day in Michigan, temperature in the low 80's and sunny. After a few days feeling inappropriately dressed and sweating, I finally broke down and opened the suitcase of summer clothes that I thought I would not need for at least a few more months. In our T-shirts and shorts, we were finally comfortable. The interesting thing is that you can spot my kids so easily in a crowd from how little they were wearing in comparison to the local population. Chinese really like to bundle their kids. The typical Chinese reaction to a sick kid is that s/he must have caught a cold. The word "cold" here really refers to the child being cold, either by not being sufficiently dressed or by not being sufficiently covered at night for the temperature. I can understand one's immune system can be weakened if the body temperature is particularly low, but still, 3 layers in 80 degree weather?
The flower fair we went to was set up on this giant piece of empty concrete land. Both the front and back entrance had huge popups that are red and gold, which are the colors for the New Year. In Chinese culture, red symbolizes happiness and is the classic color for weddings; gold symbolizes prosperity and wealth. The Chinese characters over the front gate read "Bai Yun (white cloud) Hua Shi(flower fair), 2013".
Two happy looking fake animals with gold YuanBo (one type of old currency of China before paper currency was introduced) on their tails guard the front entrance. As I looked at the kids posing under it, it dawned on me that they were supposed to be two snakes. 2013 is the year of the snake! Do they look like snakes to you?
Inside the gate, there is a traditional style lantern in the shape of a hexagon with Chinese style painting on the sides and strings of fake firecrackers hanging at the corners. Chinese New Year is not officially over until the 15th of January of the Lunar calendar. The 15th of January is the first holiday after the New Year's Day and it is called "Yuan Xiao". On this day, the traditional activity is to light the lanterns and appreciate them; the traditional food is called "Tang Yuan". "Tang Yuan" are small balls made of sweet rice flower with fillings such as sesame paste. Its round shape symbolizes "Tuan Yuan", which means family gather together.
The entrance would not be complete without live plants. We saw rows of mums line the big sign. As a matter of fact, mums of various sizes and colors are the flower for the new year in Guangzhou, as well as tangerine trees of various varieties. You can see them sold on the street everywhere in the city. The reason is that in Cantonese, the local dialect of Guangzhou, Mums and tangerines are both pronounced "Jv", which is also the pronounciation for the word that meant "good fortune". At least half of the fair was covered by mums and tangerine trees. People making purchases will hire a cart to send the plants home.
There are various live and fake flowers and plants being sold at the fair. The overriding theme is good fortune, good luck, smooth sail, all the wonderful things one can use in the new year.
Besides flowers, there are also New Year's decorations being sold at the fair as well as kids' play things. The decorations are just red, red and red. It is so much red clustered at one spot I actually felt discomfort in my eyes looking at them. Skyler and Ellie each got a big wind wheel, spinning and spinning in the wind that could also cause a headache if I stared at them too long.
As we leave the fair at the back entrance, we saw a guy dressed in the costume of "Cai Shen" (a god that brings money). Believe it or not, he was hired by a french wine shop to hand out red envelops to kids in the effort to attract attention to the shop. You have to admire the things people come up to promote their business! Each red envelop has one gold chocolate coin inside. Ellie was happy as she got two of them!
The day ended with us having dinner in the nearby shopping mall. The kids' fascination with escalators continued. They rode it up and down, up and down with their wind wheels in hand. It looked like a dangerous operation. The dinner at the restaurant on the third floor of the mall was so so. It is a restaurant called "ninety nine cents". Every dish in the restaurant has a price that ends with ninety nine cents. Smart, isn't it? The food featured are Shanxi style, which is a lot of flour based entries such as noodles and dumplings. The northern parts of China are known for eating a lot of flour based foods. Maybe I am from the south and is used to eating rice instead, I found the food not so exciting. What impressed me was the open kitchen just inside the entrance of the restaurant, watching the chief cutting noodles out from a giant piece of flour dough.
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These tenon cutters can make tenons from 1" to 2-1/2" (mfg. states 7/8" up to 2-3/4"). Use with any 1/2 inch chuck drill...even a battery pack, cordless drill. (The bigger the drill the easier it will work).
- Use on logs up to 4-1/2" diameter...larger will need to be resized with drawknife, table bandsaw or some such to get under the 4-1/2" max.
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- 45 degree EZ makes a tenon up to 3" long with 45 degree shoulders (2" of tenon plus 1" of shoulder when using the optional countersink bit)...2" overall without the countersink.
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- The EZ tenon cutter blades are double edged...the 45 degree comes with 2 blades, however it only needs on at a time
- EZ tenon cutter blades are non-sharpenable, however they last a long time.
- Replacement blades available...however the 45 and the 90 take different blades. (the 45 degree uses one blade and the 90 degree uses 2 blades at a time).
- There is a 45 degree countersink available which helps to 'bury' the shoulders into the mortise (hole) for a different look.
This is a great starter tenon cutter and you may find it's all you really need. It's not as fast as the 60 degree bell shaped (look like a big pencil sharpener), however it's plenty good until you get a backlog of orders.
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The MultiMedia Specialist is a Communications staff member who will become an expert in using video, still photography and other media to promote Princeton's core messages by telling compelling stories that meet office and University standards. The specialist, who reports to the Director of Web Strategy & Visual Communication, will create priority content, including a minimum of 4 video features per month, and will organize production assignments, including freelancers, as needed. This position will work at least 2 night or weekend shifts per week.
The specialist must possess good production (including camera and editing) and writing skills, must be able to enforce standards, including those related to intellectual property and accessibility, must work well independently yet be a collaborator and must have the energy and commitment to be highly productive and effective. The specialist will collaborate with other visual communicators, writers, editors, social media staff, managers and University partners.
-Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience
-Minimum of 2 years experience working on deadline-oriented productions, preferably in a journalism and/or public relations environment. Must include video production, post-production and writing and editing.
-Minimum of 3 years, or equivalent, of still photography experience including color correction and other post production.
-Minimum of 2 years of using a system to organize scheduling/production and ability to demonstrate this knowledge.
-Must have a valid drivers license, proof of insurance and comply with all University safe driving and parking procedures.
-Must be willing to work nights, weekends and holidays.
Must meet requirements for lifting/handling equipment including:
-Stand or walk for 2-4 hours at one time, up to 6 hours per day.
-Sit for less than 4 hours during an 8-hour day.
-Lift or carry up to 25 pounds frequently (34-66% of the workday) and up to 50 pounds occasionally (less than 33% of the workday).
-Lift up to 50 pounds in a range of motion from floor to shoulder height.
-Push or pull with forces up to 35 pounds occasionally (less than 33% of the workday).
-Use hands for simple grasping, pushing, or pulling frequently (34-66% of the workday).
-Possess physical agility and full range of motion, and ability to maintain balance. Hold a camera and/or other relevant equipment to photograph multiple events per day
-Sit at a computer for long periods of time while conducting image searches, retouching photos and editing videos
-Distinguish colors accurately and be able to color correct photos and videos.
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By Valecia L. Dunbar, D.M., Army Medicine Public AffairsOctober 1, 2013
Army Medicine joins Military Health System (MHS) and other health system partners in recognition of Breast Cancer Awareness Month to increase the overall awareness and sharing of information among Soldiers, family members, and beneficiaries on the importance of breast cancer screening as well as communicating how a healthy lifestyle, which includes eating nutritious foods and staying physically active, are to maintaining, restoring, and improving breast health.
The end state is an environment where Soldiers, family members and beneficiaries have a better understanding of the preventive measures they can take to reduce the risks of developing breast cancer by getting screened early and regularly.
Breast cancer is the second most common cancer (behind skin cancer) in females in the United States and the second most common cause of cancer death in women (behind lung cancer). Today, there are about 2.5 million breast cancer survivors living in the United States. An estimated 39,620 women are expected to die from the disease in 2013.
The good news is that death rates for breast cancer have steadily declined for women in the past 20 years likely due to progress in earlier detection, improved treatment of breast cancer, and possibly from the declining use of combination hormone replacement therapy.
The National Breast Cancer Awareness Month (NBCAM) organization is comprised of several national public service organizations, professional medical associations, and government agencies working together to increase breast cancer awareness, share information and provide access to screening services. NBCAM began on a national level more than 25 years ago in order to promote mammography as the most effective weapon in the fight against breast cancer. A variety of events are organized in October to highlight NBCAM including walks, runs, and the pink illumination of landmarks.
The third week in October was established as "Male Breast Cancer Awareness Week" by several male breast cancer advocacy groups. According to the American Cancer Society (ACS), an estimated 232,340 new cases of breast cancer are expected to be diagnosed among women in the United States this year (2013); about 2,240 new cases are expected in men. Men are generally at low risk for developing breast cancer; however, approximately 2,140 men are diagnosed with breast cancer each year.
Military Health System also recognizes October as Women's Health Awareness Month. Women's health is an important part of the overall wellness of the defense community. While women and men have many of the same health issues, women may be affected differently than men. In addition, there are some conditions which are unique to women. Familiarity with women's health issues, regular screenings and prevention are keys to maintaining good health.
If you are age 40 or older, join the millions of women who get mammograms on a regular basis. If you are a Family member, friend, or colleague, don't wait to encourage the women in your life to get mammograms. Breast cancer is more likely to be cured if it is caught early. If all women adhered to guidelines for obtaining mammograms, the survivability rate from breast cancer would increase significantly. Early detection is key. The key to mammography screening is that it be done routinely -- once is not enough.
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The Very Rev. Canon Peter O'Reilly, Parish Priest of St. Michael's Church, and the Very Rev. Kenneth Hall, Dean of Clogher and Rector of St. Macartin's Cathedral, have once again been in the company of Her Majesty The Queen. The well-known Enniskillen clergymen attended a reception in Buckingham Palace in the past week at the invitation of the Monarch and the Duke of Edinburgh.
The reception was for those who helped organise various events to mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee and included a number of celebrities, including singer-songwriter Gary Barlow, who had contributed to the festivities of the Diamond Jubilee weekend itself.
Canon O'Reilly and Dean Hall, who also had the opportunity to talk to other members of the Royal Family, including the Duke of Edinburgh, Duke of York and Princesses Beatrice and Eugene, were invited as co-hosts of the Northern Ireland State Service of Thanksgiving to mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, which took place in St. Macartin's Cathedral in June and was followed by a reception in St. Michael's Church.
During their time at the Palace last week, both clergy had the opportunity to speak to Her Majesty at length upon arrival, and again later as part of a small group at Her Majesty's request.
During their engaging conversation with the Queen, the Canon and Dean spoke about the impact of her visit to Enniskillen, and how the visit created a pathway in terms of community relations that many have wanted to follow but have not had the confidence to do freely in the past. The Queen's visit to Enniskillen had provided a glimpse of the future, one where people can be together, not necessarily be the same, but together in peace and harmony.
During their time in London, the local clergymen were followed by an ITN film crew in preparation for a two part series covering the Queen's Diamond Jubilee; they had previously been interviewed for the programme when the Queen and Prince Phillip visited Enniskillen in June.


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Hotels pursue teens, pre-teens with menus, getaway packages
Hotels are trying to do something parents often can't: keep their teen-age children interested.
Several hotels have introduced new activities, programs and menus to appeal to teen-age and pre-teen guests — and their paying parents.
•Omni Hotels this summer launched a "Teen Connection" program. At select locations, teen-age guests can contact the Teen Concierge through Twitter, Facebook, e-mail, or text message and ask for recommendations on what to do.
•Hyatt Hotels and Resorts this week introduced the "For Kids by Kids" menu, a re-designed menu for children and pre-teens that features low-calorie, low-fat foods and QR codes that lead to information about healthy eating. A three-course organic menu by celebrity chef Alice Waters also is available. The menu was approved by a group of young taste-testers.
•The Ritz-Carlton Orlando Grande Lakes offers a 50-minute teen massage and 50-minute teen facial, each for $120.
•Sofitel Luxury Hotels has partnered with TV5MONDE, a French language network broadcasting in the United States, to create Tivi5MONDE, a French language channel specifically for guests up to age 13.
•And the Tysons Corner, Va., Marriott, is offering new American Girl getaway packages and had free viewings of American Girl's McKenna Shoots for the Stars at the hotel.
Bjorn Hanson, dean of New York University's hospitality school, says hotels are trying to build loyalty as early as possible. Teens and younger Millennials have become an influential demographic because they set social trends through their use of Facebook and Twitter, he says.
They also have a lot of pull with their parents, who "offer an increasing amount of influence, even control, to the teens in the family," he says.
David Strebel, the 18-year-old Teen Concierge at the Omni Berkshire Place in New York, says too often, hotels and cruise ships offer programs for younger guests that are "juvenile."
"When I travel, I'd like to see programs that cater more toward me," he says.
When young guests ask him for advice, he directs them to concerts at the Beacon Theatre, burgers at Shake Shack and skateboarding through Central Park.
Haile Thomas, 11, who taste-tested the new Hyatt menu, previously couldn't find a children's menu designed by adults that met her tastes. She prefers curried shrimp lettuce wraps over cheeseburgers.
"It's kind of disrespectful that they gave us bad food," she says. "Kids deserve better food."
Which is why Waters, a healthy school lunch crusader, has created a menu that includes vegetables, fruits and chicken. The menu is as much for the parents as it is for the kids, Waters says. "There are a lot of parents who really care about where their food comes from," she says.
And as Susan Santiago, vice president of Food and Beverage for Hyatt, points out, "if our children are happy, we're happy, and happy parents make for loyal guests."
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PARIS (AP) — With No. 3 Vera Zvonareva losing in the fourth round, following earlier exits by No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki and No. 2 Kim Clijsters, this is the first time in the Open era that none of the top three seeded women is in the quarterfinals at Roland Garros.
It's only the third time it's happened at any Grand Slam since 1968, when professional players began entering major tournaments. The others were Wimbledon in 2008 and the Australian Open in 1997.
There are some familiar faces still around, though, including the past two French Open champions, Francesca Schiavone and Svetlana Kuznetsova. Both won Sunday, after Zvonareva dropped the last five games of a 7-6 (4), 2-6, 6-2 loss to 14th-seeded Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russia.


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House for sale, Cape Verde - 3 results
This property is for sale. This one-storey home contains 8 rooms including 3 bedrooms and has a livable surface of 350 m². It was built in 2014. The land has a total surface area of 1600 m². This home offers a beautiful view on the ocean ; furthermore, it is located close to the ocean (80 m). This home contains 3 bathrooms as well as 4 WC. There is a garage and a parking space. The property has a terrace of 80 m². The listed price is of 198000 € (euros). An internet connection is available. Handicap accessible. This home has solar panels.
About The Property: Wonderful sea views can be enjoyed from the balconies, which are also accommodated with comfortable sun loungers, tables and chairs. The private use of the resorts large swimming pools are also a few metres away. The apartment has a fully fitted kitchen which includes a dishwasher and washing machine.One bathroom and one en-suite. A king size bed in main bedroom and two singles in bedroom number two.The apartment also has a sofa bed in the living room and a flat screen TV. The apartment comes fully furnished. The resort now has a pool bar selling drinks and snacks and TV. WIFI and TV packages are also available as well as a daily bread delivery service and a bus into town. No shopping facilities are available yet on the resort. Lots of restaurants and bars and supermarkets can be found in Santa Maria town which is a short 5 minute taxi ride away (4 euros). About The Resort: Paradise Beach is a beautiful resort located on the south-west Coast of Sal Island a short stroll from the tourist town of Santa Maria. The island's only international airport is based on Sal, making it one of the major gateways to the Cape Verde islands and with its abundance of magnificent white sandy beaches and guaranteed sun, Sal has been turned into a major tourist destination. Paradise Beach onsite facilities include: • 12 swimming pools throughout the resort • Landscaped gardens • 5* hotel • Pool Bar • Health and beauty spa • Tennis courts • Internet cafe Other Information: Sal is the most cosmopolitan island in the archipelago as nightlife abounds, with a choice of bars, clubs and restaurants. This rapidly developing island offers a varied range of hotels. 18 km south of the airport, the town and tourist resort of Santa Maria offers 8 km of white sanded beach and crystal clear waters. Sal has excellent conditions for many water sports, with windsurfing, fishing and diving readily available.
1 Bed Apartment in Villa Cabral 1 Cape Verde It is a new building completed in 2014. The blocks of apartments have been designed in a semicircle around a large swimming pool and a small children's pool. The building is decorated with colourful flower boxes and is one of the most interesting island. It caters mostly to tourists, but also houses some local and foreign residents. Next to the pool is the bar Elcibar restaurant, which offers cocktails and sandwiches. Wi-Fi is available at the bar during opening hours. There are 7 blocks with 12 flats, each block has its own elevator and a secure entry system with security door. In each block there are 6 apartments, 5 studios and 1 penthouse. There is security 24 hours a day. The structure is at the first line, with Cabral Beach just 50 meters walk. The sea view is beautiful. The town of Sal Rei is a 10-minute walk or 300 escudos/€ 3 in taxi. There are some training equipment on the beach in front of Vila Cabral One. The building is located next to the condominium of Vila Cabral 1 that has a beauty center and a small shop and cafe. Services included: - Swimming-pool and sunbeds 24h (with silence hours) - Elevator - Security 24h - Bar/Restaurant


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19 Comments on "Jimmy Kimmel Makes His "Friends" Fan Fiction Come True"
Yoj, we have spare rooms, so yes! I have the boxed set of Spaced. You know Duane (golden vocal cords) played by Peter serowatzisname is married to Sarah, who was Susan on Coupling?
Check out Peter's truly bizarre show "Look around you".
@Yoj – OMG! If they're British, I'll have to check 'em out. Thanks for the tip! See what I learn here every day?!
@Bee Haven
You love 'Spaced'?!
That settles it, I'm emigrating to Oz to come and live with you and the bus driver. You don't mind, do you?
*jumps up and down like a 2 year old with ADHD and red cordial* SPAAAAAAAACED!!!! I love Daisy, Brian, Marcia… all of them. This would be the BEST!
Its just u: what a gorgeous pic of you for your avi.
I've never cracked someone's shit up before! Does it hurt?
The others are British shows that were cancelled after one or two series. They're cult classics.
@Yoj – Get on it! Start that GoFundMe for "GG" (your Betty-White-just-talking-to-herself cracked my shit UP) or "TP"! I'll happily donate to those two! (I just didn't watch the others, is all.)
Urgh. 'Friends' was out-of-date in 2001. Why can't we have reunion episodes of 'Spaced' or 'Queer As Folk' or 'The Golden Girls' (it would just be Betty White talking to herself, but I'd watch it) or 'TWIN PEAKS'?
Lisa Kudrow is everything!!
This was great, and I'm so glad that it's all over the place today because I was watching "KUA" DVDs and I forgot to watch. I don't think a day goes by that I don't use a "Friends" line or reference. Seriously. Been doing it since '94, yo! Think I might have a get-together on 22 Sept, in fact.
That was awesome. My son texted me from his Army post to let me know about this Jimmy Kimmel skit. He loved the 'Marcel' episodes. Still makes reference to it every now and then.
Well, that was boring. Not the Friends reunion I wanted. (I'm still holding out hope for my spinoff show, The Bings, to happen).
The girls look great
I think I cried a little. (In a really good way) *FanForLife*
This clip was 1st thing I saw this morning and it totally has made my day. If I were ever to become fabulously wealthy, I wouldn't want a mansion or castle. I would have an exact replica of Monica's apartment built.
Guillermo kills me. This was great!
Why did I watch that?
That was awesome!!!!
I loved everything about this. Got me feeling so nostalgic. Jen, Courtney and Lisa <3


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Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have made no secret of the fact that they plan to add to their already large family, but reports are that the couple has been warned against having another biological child any time soon.
According to the new issue of OK! doctors have told Angelina that because her last two pregnancies – with daughter Shiloh and twins Knox and Vivienne – have involved complications and ended in emergency c-sections, it may be a risk for her to carry another child.
The magazine quotes a source as saying, "She's been told that, at the least, she should not get pregnant for a year after her last deliver, and it would be safer if she did not get pregnant, ever."
Angelina has said in the past that she loves being pregnant, revealing that it makes her "feel like a woman." However, even as this latest issue of OK! hits newsstands rumors are circulating that the couple is planning another adoption from an Ethiopian orphanage.
Whether they add to it biologically or via adoption, it seems that the Jolie-Pitt family is not complete just yet.
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Shares of Bed Bath & Beyond (NASDAQ:BBBY) were being slammed by roughly 15% at midday Thursday thanks to a gloomy second-quarter outlook announced Wednesday after the bell.
For the first quarter, BBBY saw profits increase 15%, coming in at $206.8 million or 89 cents per share — more than the 84 cents per share expected by Thomson Reuters analysts. Revenue also met expectations, increasing to $2.22 billion from $2.11 billion at the same time last year.
However, the company's better-than-expected first quarter was all but forgotten in the wake of the lackluster guidance.
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On Sun, 5 Sep 2004, Jim Gifford wrote:
> Are the patches available from
> http://m0n0.ch/wall/downloads/kernel-patches.tgz safe for a
> non-m0n0wall system?
It depends on what you mean by "safe". :-)
I don't think any of them would do anything really nasty, but some may not
be appropriate. In general, changes can be broken down into about four
1) Bug fixes.
2) Unequivocal improvements.
3) Changes for particular configurations.
4) Changes for particular preferences.
While #1 and #2 can be applied unconditionally, #3 and #4 shouldn't be. I
believe the current collection of m0n0wall patches includes *some* things
that should really be conditional but aren't. I.e. the "conditional" is
implemented by conditionally including the patch. :-)
On Sun, 5 Sep 2004, Jim Gifford wrote:
> However, I had some problems applying all the patches. The patches in
> kernel-patches.tgz were these:
> clock.c.patch ip_input.c.patch ng_pptpgre.c.patch
> if_ethersubr.c.patch ip_nat.c.patch.old ng_pptpgre.c.patch2
> if_xl.c.patch ip_output.c.patch subr_diskslice.c.patch
Umm, that doesn't even look like the 4.10 patch set.
I ran into a number of problems with the 4.10 patches, which I sorted
out. I didn't keep careful notes, but the problems included:
1) Being referenced to something other than the release version.
2) Missing the path to the file.
3) Having the wrong path to the file.
4) Having the wrong timestamp for the base file, even though the content
apparently matched.
And of course there's the usual problem of all the timestamps being local.
On Sat, 11 Sep 2004, Leonard E. Nielsen wrote:
> ipnatmss.patch is trying to patch a file mlf_ipl.c that does not exist.
> Then it patches a file named mlfk_ipl.c that does exist and that patch
> works. Is this an either/or type patch?
Sort of. One is the for the userland version, and one is for the kernel
version. Only the latter is actually used in m0n0wall. The former
actually exists, but the patch has the wrong path for it. The one for the
kernel actually lives in *both* paths, although the patch doesn't reflect
> ip_fil3.4.33-icmpcks-fix.diff and ip_state.c.patch fails. They also seem to
> be modifying the ipfilter code.
Probably because you're using the IPFilter 3.4.31 code bundled with
FreeBSD 4.10, rather than the 3.4.33 version that m0n0wall uses.
Personally, I think before/after source files are a better way to
represent changes when the number of files involved isn't too large. That
way everything is much clearer, and you can always make diffs in your
favorite format if you like. The main downside is that it makes
"selective inclusion" difficult, but that should really be done by
preprocessor conditionals, anyway.
Here I have the sources organized in three layers:
1) .../FreeBSD/4.10/ has release sources exactly as they appear as
loaded from the DVD to /usr/src
2) .../FreeBSD/upd4.10/ has "official updates" to that. Currently this
means just IPFilter 3.4.33
3) .../FreeBSD/pat4.10/ has m0n0wall's & my patches, with the original
versions renamed to xxxx.orig
The idea is that by copying or union-mounting 3 over 2 over 1, you get the
proper sources.
#2 is essentially the files from the IPFilter 3.4.33 archive reorganized
into the FreeBSD directory layout. As with the 3.4.31 distributed with
FreeBSD 4.10, the kernel modules appear in *both* /contrib/ipfilter *and*
/sys/contrib/netinet/ipfilter, but unlike the "official" version, the
latter copies haven't had the RCS IDs changed to say "FreeBSD". There are
no .orig files in this set.
#3 includes the m0n0wall patches from the archive on the website, my IPsec
fixes that will probably be in the next m0n0wall beta, and a couple of
minor bootloader tweaks. Note that for IPFilter changes, the .orig files
match the 3.4.33 (upd4.10) versions, not the 3.4.31 versions.
I've put archives of the latter two in my personal FTP area. This has a
pretty limited bandwidth quota, so I'll have to take them down if there
are too many hits. See:
If someone else wants to host these, let me know.
Note that I *believe* these sources to agree with Manuel's, but haven't
confirmed it.
> Is there an easier way to add the HZ=1000 option?
I sure hope you're using a fast processor with that setting. :-)
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Features Scripts are command line shell scripts designed to help with building Drupal sites using Features, Drush and Drush Make. It actually automates the processes of installing new Drupal sites and adding new features to them, both used in site building.
Overview of the concept
These scripts assume the following:
- Your site is been build fully with the help of features. Therefore there is a need to separated everything what is related to a particular functionality into a particular feature module.
- A feature is bundling not only it's exportable components, but also a make file for downloading its dependencies, and a shell script for making all the other changes related to a feature where needed.
- Your starting point, all the functionality which you need for using this workflow (all what is on top of a naked Drupal install in this case) is bundled in a feature which we call the basic feature. The script contains only how to download and install Drupal and this basic feature.
Scripts are designed to be executed from the root path of a Drupal site or independent
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Build and install a Drupal site start point.
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Build and enable a desired feature from your existing features repository.
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Charged with unifying a diverse set of program requirements into a single facility, the design team at HDR created a stunning new courthouse for Mecklenburg County.
Charged with unifying a diverse set of program requirements into a single facility, the design team at HDR created a stunning new courthouse for Mecklenburg County.
As a growing district facing space shortages
and a fragmented court system spread through four different facilities in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, officials hired the TriVenture Team of HDR Architecture, KMW, and Schenkel Shultz to consolidate all of the courtrooms under one roof.
The designers sought to create both a building focused on the needs of the people who will use it and an expression of a new era for important civic activities within its prestigious walls. Despite the challenge of fitting an extremely large program onto a very tight site, the new courthouse has now become a focal point and gateway to Charlotte. The façade incorporates local materials crafted to reflect both classical and contemporary details; the appropriate use of scale and massing honors the city's heritage while reflecting its vision for the future.
The new 542,000-square-foot courthouse has been organized to provide clear, easily understood circulation to all functions. At its center, public circulation encircles a daylit atrium, which provides orientation to first-time visitors, offers a sense of spaciousness to offset tensions frequently associated with judicial proceedings, and brings reflected light deep within the building. A colonnade creates a distinctive architectural feature in the atrium, supporting a semicircular roof terrace at the fifth level.
The building's prominent location and orientation strongly defines this edge of the government district. The court plaza reconnects in form with the urban plaza of the existing government center. The street entrance is distinguished with soaring columns rising through four levels of covered exterior space, creating a strong sense of place and a welcomed shelter to pedestrians. A reinterpreted cornice at the corner of the building extends outward to convey an image of permanence and dignity.
Spaces have been arranged to locate higher volume courtrooms and departments on lower levels. Behind the courtrooms, a private corridor connects with jury deliberation rooms and support spaces as well as staff stairs and elevators. Dedicated elevators connect central holding with the courtroom holding cells for detainee circulation. Courts on upper floors have been organized by their function: criminal courts on levels three and four; civil courts on level five; and family courts on level seven.
The courthouse meets new post-9/11 federal security standards for court facilities, including increased security measures for personnel and vehicles, truck barriers, laminated glass and hardened exterior walls. Two separate areas provide X-ray parcel/package inspections and walk-through weapons detection. Both areas have egress-only optical turnstiles for efficient staff utilization. Two integrated control centers utilize touch screen graphic panels to provide control for inmate movement and building operations. Integrated courtroom technology spans local and wide area networks, fully integrating VCR, DVD, laser disc, document viewers, audio/video monitors and projectors into a single, user-friendly operating system.
To meet security programming needs, both "progressive collapse avoidance" and blast scenarios were reviewed and evaluated. As a result, progressive collapse avoidance design features included diminished vehicle setback. Street bollards were also required to enforce the setback.
By locating family courtrooms on a single floor, the family court level functions as a "court within a court." The courtroom design was customized to specific case types. Variations in the size, bench layout, spectator seating and number of entries are incorporated into Juvenile, Child Support and Domestic Violence court sets. Differences from other courtrooms include an increased number of counsel tables to accommodate the greater number of participants in family cases. The height of the judges' bench is reduced, creating a less foreboding environment for the child, while still maintaining the dignity of the court.
Additionally, the Atrium Public Art Commission's "Persistence of Vision" sculpture reinforces the important concept that justice rises from—and serves—the people. This kinetic sculpture by Ralph Helmick and Stuart Schechter features about 3,200 tiny portraits that hang on cables from a platform raised to the ceiling. Made from scans of local community faces, the portraits reflect the ethnic, age and gender makeup of the community's citizens as reported in the 2000 Census. Guided by a computer program and motors, the heads form 12 different portraits that change week by week.


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YouTube Adds Video Editor
YouTube has quietly added a basic video editor to its site, allowing users to apparently just stitch together existing videos and overlay a music soundtrack.
All told, it's not much, which may be why Google/YouTube hasn't formally announced the technology. But it's a start. Let's hope that in the future Google adds or acquires technology from these superior, free, online video editing sites (note that JumpCut has disappeared into the bowels of Yahoo).
The addition of a site like this instantly makes you wonder why Google hasn't developed something like this from the beginning.
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Apparently, he thinks people who love someone with Down syndrome simply must be clouded by sentiment, and unable to see reason.
Theory B is that Obama still somehow thinks, after all this time, that he can get the GOP to see reason and come to terms.
Bounderby, I see reason to doubt whether we have ever quite understood Louisa.
Then in that case, thou and I together, old hunter, might make him see reason.
Assuredly I will never shrink from innovation where I see reason to believe that innovation will be improvement.
If Eli had begun to see reason, his face held out no promise of it.
There I see reason to alter my opinion, and the seeming resemblance has disappeared upon a more particular information.
No, he no English, but he plenty of Welsh—that is if he see reason.
Sit here beside me, and let us talk; you are miles away there, and I want to—make you see reason.
Then she would stroke my eyes and bid me see reason, and all would be well.


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It's been a tough year for many mega tech operators like Oracle (ORCL), Apple (AAPL) and Facebook (FB) — all of those companies have lost money for shareholders in 2013. However, Google (GOOG) has had a stellar year, gaining of 26% on the stock market and bringing the market cap to $294 billion.
But can the company keep up the momentum? As Apple knows all too well, even the hottest tech company can experience a sudden plunge on the market.
So, to get sense of Google's prospects, let's take a look at the pros and cons:
Big Bets: This is crucial for any tech business to be sustainable. There must be big leaps in innovation, not just tweaks or incremental changes. And yes, Google's DNA is all about big bets. The result has been products like …
- Chrome: It is now the world's most pervasive browser, with more than 750 million users.
- Android: It has a base of over 900 million phones and gets 1.5 million activations per day, making it the world's largest mobile operating system.
- Gmail: The service revolutionized email by providing 100 times more storage than the competition. Now, Gmail is the dominant player with over 425 million users.
- YouTube: A billion users watch more than 50 million hours per day of online video.
Going forward, Google is looking at some other potentially game-changing technologies, such as self-driving cars, Glass, high-speed Fiber rollouts and even Internet access in Africa (using balloons). True, these aren't guaranteed to be successful. But the more important thing is that the company is investing in the future — and wants to be a part of tomorrow's megatrends.
Multi-Screen Approach: Google is building its products for multiple platforms. That means the technology needs to work seamlessly, such as across the desktop, laptop, phone or any other connected device. So far, Google has done a good job with this, but the company has also been building systems for monetization. To this end, there is Play, which provides access to films, music, books and other premium content. There is also a sophisticated enhanced ad delivery system. This makes it much easier to put together multi-screen campaigns.
Financials: The company's numbers are solid. In the first quarter, revenues climbed by 31% to $13.97 billion and net income went from $2.89 billion to $3.35 billion. Operating cash flows came to $3.6 billion. In all, GOOG has about $50 billion in the bank.
Motorola: Google bought Motorola back in the summer of 2011. While it helped bolster its patent portfolio — which is crucial in the mobile world — the deal hasn't been a winner. Motorola failed to launch a successful handset and, as a result, continues to lose ground against mega players like Samsung (SSNLF) and Apple. For the most part, Motorola is a niche player, with Q1 revenues at only $1 billion and an operating loss of $271 million.
Social Networking: Google missed this megatrend. While it has tried to catch-up with G+, the results have been lackluster — Facebook remains the dominant player in the space. In fact, there are a variety of startups, such as Snapchat, which are seeing lots of success on mobile platforms. If anything, Google may need to ramp up its dealmaking, as it did with video (YouTube) and mobile (Android). Interestingly enough, the company recently shelled out $1 billion for Waze, which is a social network that crowdsources maps. This could just be the start of aggressive M&A.
Valuation: The stock is still on the expensive side. The price-to-earnings ratio is at 27X without the benefit of a dividend. By comparison, Apple stock is only 10X with a dividend yield of 3.1%.
When Google went public nine years ago, there was a lot of skepticism about whether the company could go beyond its core search business. Obviously, it did, and as a result the stock price has been a huge winner — up a staggering 718% since then.
As for the future, it seems reasonable that the growth will continue. Google has fostered a culture of innovation and experimentation leveraging thousands of brilliant engineers, not to mention massive platforms like YouTube, Chrome, Android and the search business.
While the valuation is on the high side, this is to be expected for a company that has attractive growth prospects.
So should you buy Google? Yes — for now, the pros outweigh the cons on the stock.
Tom Taulli runs the InvestorPlace blog IPO Playbook. He is also the author of High-Profit IPO Strategies, All About Commodities and All About Short Selling. Follow him on Twitter at @ttaulli. As of this writing, he did not hold a position in any of the aforementioned securities.


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I was involved in a fight at school in which i confronted another girl who was teasing me and proceeded to hit her. There was a warrant for my arrest issued and now I have a court date. I was going to go to court and plea guilty and hope that my clean record would allow for some leniency of the court... would that be unwise... I am trying to avoid any additional costs besides any fines that may be associated. If i do decide to plea not guilty then would i be able to get a lesser charge?
Get yourself a lawyer. You may be eligible for a diversion type program depending on your age. If you are under age 17, the matter will be handled in the juvenile court. If you are age 17 to 20, you will be charged in the adult-district court and would be eligible for YTA which means that the matter can be dismissed if you comply with the court conditions.
MCLA 762.11: This provision applies to offenders after the individual's 17th birthday and before the individual's 21st birthday. An individual who is sentenced pursuant to MCLA 762.11 (also known as the Youthful Trainee Act), may be entitled to discharge and dismissal of the proceedings upon compliance. The court, in its discretion, may revoke a person's status as a youthful trainee before final release. Youthful trainee status is not available for certain offenses, including but not limited to offenses involving life in prison or major controlled substance offense.
Your other question pertaining to a reduced crime/charge is not sensible. Your may try to get a reduced charge such as "attempt assault and battery" but this does not help you because you will still have a record of an assault related crime. There isn't a charge much lower than assault and batttery unless the prosecutor amended the case to a civil infraction. You need a lawyer.
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This friendly little fella will not only sharpen your pencils, but also shred your receipts and scrap paper - all while looking completely adorable! Four suction cups will keep your new buddy firmly in place while he does your dirty work, until it's time to clean him out; simply lift open the top! No batteries required.
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I wake up before as the sun is just rising over the horizon, tingeing the sky with light and calling the trees out of the darkness. The green fleece saddle blanket is warm around me and I rub my feet together in a subconscious ritual of awakening. I am a little stiff from my night on the couch (a side effect of insomnia, this wandering and sleeping in odd places.) Still, despite the stiffness, there's not much that could make me happier than this weekend on our island retreat with my murmur of Soulsisters.
Ten of us have gathered here on the Sound, carving out for ourselves the Soultribe we could not find elsewhere. We range in age from our 40s' to our teens. We are single-married-divorced. We are child free by choice or circumstance, and in the process of raising offspring. We are employed and freelance, looking and established. We live in 3 countries, 4 states, and one province. The one thing we have in common is that we all of us need a Tribe – not to define who we are, but to support who we are. Not a place of rules and membership guidelines, but just a place to be. Â That's what we are doing here on our island retreat, under our green blankets, at the dawning of day.
Already, with just one afternoon and evening behind us, I am fully convinced that this was worth it. The time and the money and the travel; the risk and the "jump!" and the Gremlins. Something good is getting itself born. And we will help you get your something good born to. Whatever you do hold on to hope, your Soultribe is coming. Our's arrival here is a harbinger of good things to come.
 May peace greet you this Sunday morning. Shalom.
Rachelle Mee-Chapman is an alt.minister dedicated to helping Soultribes get born. To take some practical first-steps, or to read how-we-did-it interviews with fabulous Soultribe practitioners click here. To follow along as we stumble, experiment, and dance our way towards our Soulsisters Soultribe, follow our progress here. Thank you for being here.