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Not an all that interesting chapter for me, im just annoyed by the fact Law won't capture CC even though he's been proven badass in this arc. Makes me think a little less of him for going to Luffy but if it does have something to do with his crew or a reasoning on the same level i guess i can forgive him. If not Law loses some cool points for lack of {[blank]}
Pure Luffy leave it to him to just rush in. Hope the next chapter is straight action, its time to see what the crew can really do...no more stalling
|2012-05-30, 22:48
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Pretty much, Luffy's crew fighting in Fishmen Island was like stretching their legs. The real thing begins here, nothing says proving how powerful you are when you are facing marines who are sadists, a guy you fought with before is now a girl, giant slime ball, and a funny looking clown.
|2012-05-31, 11:42
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It is my personal sentiment that Caesar Crown is one of the most refreshingly designed and personnified characters Oda has introduced in quite a while. There is no straightforward analysis that can be applied to him. His goals may be clear, but his motives, even though somewhat obvious are still sketchy to the reader's mind simply because he as a character is unfathomable.
You could be told right now by Oda: "Caesar Crown is has no real goals other than the creation of potent weapons."
And you would still, to a large extent, think in the back of your mind that Caesar actually has a grand scheme laid out of unknown scale which will continue to have significance indefinitely. I like his flippancy, calculative coldness, and his nonchalance in the face of the fact that his interest in creating weapons really can't bring him or anyone else any good...but he's still interested anyway, possibly not even thinking about the implications or consequences.
A childish kind of wickedness, guarded by keenly perceptive powers of planning, chilling proactive defensive tactics and an eerie disregard for the prospect of failure, or forestallment by the law.
Love him. And he doesn't look grotesque either, so my mind doesn't discard him as fodder immediately upon seeing him.
|2012-05-31, 12:31
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Robin in the last page was hot. Good thing that she gave up her Egyptian hair style. Nami, or more accurately Sanji, was incredibly cool there also.
Well still a bit surprised about Luffy entrance. But good call on how Law probably gonna regret his alliance proposal now
|2012-05-31, 13:28
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lol, don't mind holypanl. He just prefers the more complex side of OP. Personally, I sort of see him as the yin to my yang (who prefers the simpler aspects of the series, and yes, that includes caring about those so-called "insignificant" background characters).
Anyways, I don't think anyone else brought it up yet, but I find it rather interesting that out of all the Straw-Hats, the one who's been shown to have the most interaction with Kinemon is Sanji. I just find that curious because I'd have figured that Zoro would be the most "compatible" with the samurai, so to speak (what with being a fellow warrior and all). It kind of makes me wonder if this means that Sanji will become a close ally of some of the Wano samurai in a similar way that Usopp has befriended some of the Elbaf giants.....?
|2012-05-31, 13:38
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The thing that makes Oda's characters interesting and easily related by readers is because he knows how to build up and present the context of his characters.
He knows how to draw and put the right ingredients together to form a character and then shows off those unique traits of the character using actions or dialogue so that people can find the character interesting.
|2012-06-01, 02:48
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I'm basically referring to background characters who stand out to me like Heat and Wire from Kidd's crew (those guys who look a zombie and devil respectively) or "Iron Boy" Scotch (the large cyborg guy who was guarding one of Kaidou's islands before the skip and who recently became the focus of a theory of mine regarding the identity of one of the yeti brothers). Of course, there's also Pandaman, but..... I think he'll end up becoming a major character near the end of the series, so I don't usually count him.
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I lol'd at Tashigi screaming "Kyaah! How do I turn back?" in Smoker's body. Can't wait for the Anime scene, Smoker's VA will have to dismiss all his manliness.
Anyway, I'm not surprised Luffy doesn't go with Law's plan, he said to Jinbei that he doesn't like to follow plans.
I still don't trust Law. The fact that he doesn't fight Caesar Clown, makes me think that he could betray the Straw Hats, or simply watch who the stronger ally is and then side with them. His explanation that he needs time to research the drug, doesn't seem really legit to me, because the fight against CC can't be too long if both Luffy and Law fight him at once
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|2012-06-01, 09:16
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People are saying that they "do not trust Law". I'm not sure what there is or isn't to trust about Trafalgar Law: he hasn't ever been presented as a fairy godmother to any of the Mugiwara, and he never purported to want anyone's co-operation on the basis of trust.
I think lots of readers have forgotten that this manga is about Pirates -- pirates are criminals, fugitives from the law and unscrupulous opportunists. Why are people trying to hold Law to the light of a moral candle? That said, Oda has not much been keeping the plot very "pirate themed", so the Mugiwara crew is mostly a group of daring seamen, and not pirates at all. Had they not declared themselves to be pirates, even after the penetration of Enies' Lobby, they would still not be pirates; they are really just Insurgent Sailors.
Not once have they cornered, boarded and looted a single merchant vessel, or held a small port to ransom, or robbed a vessel owned by the crown of any state. They're not pirates, so I suppose having been reading the story from the point of view of these mostly benign insurgent seamen, the readers are assuming that every other crew that has been classified as "pirates" is also nothing but a rogue seafaring clique which doesn't actually do "bad things".
EDIT: TBH, it has always bothered me that Oda allowed the Mugiwara crew to be classified as "pirates" from day one. That was really bad logic on his part, IMHO. IIRC, the Strawhats were first reported to the World Government after the Arlong Park arc, when a marine official bitterly sent a photograph of Luffy to the Marines, claiming that he was a very dangerous pirate. Now, that could have been used as a really nice plot device. If Luffy had just set off as an "Adventuring Treasure Seeker", and then a Marine called him in as a villain unjustly, then the story wouldn't be so inconsistent. Tbh, so far all the Mugiwaras have done is hunt other pirates (Bounty Hunting; not a crime), accept large masses of gold from grateful sovereign states (not a crime), and go looking for One Piece (Treasure Seeking; not a crime).
I re-assert that had they not been calling themselves pirates for no reason, then after the Enies' Lobby incident, they would have still not been seen as pirates, and just a set of renegade seamen.
TL;DR: Trafalgar Law is a real pirate. Stop thinking he won't, or shouldn't do pirate things. All things considered, the Strawhats really do not qualify to be called pirates.
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|2012-06-01, 10:11
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I'd probably be more impressed with Robin's move if she hadn't already revealed it way back during the Thriller Bark storyline.....
Uh yeah, not like I disagree with you about the general definition of a pirate or anything, but you've gotta remember that what matters is Oda's vision of what pirates are. In fact, I'm pretty sure that he still has pirates split up into the two categories he had established way back in the first Romance Dawn one-shot: "Peace Mains" (pirates who care more about adventuring than murdering/plundering), and "Morgania" (which basically fits your view of what pirates should be).
So just because the Straw-Hats aren't a bunch of a vicious rogues doesn't mean that they can't be pirates in Oda's mind, and I have no objection to that (hey, didn't I just say a couple posts back that I have more appreciation for the simpler aspects of the series than the complex ones?).
|2012-06-01, 10:15
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I agree with what marvelB just mentioned. Maybe in the One Piece world, there are only two types of crews sailing on the seas. If you are not part of the law enforcement, you are branded a pirate crew. Seems simple if you think about it in this manner.
If there were instances of crews sailing the seas (other than simply transporting people & cargo), I don't remember them. Please remind me if they were shown somewhere earlier. As seen from my previous posts, my memory of OP events is a little fuzzy
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|2012-06-01, 10:22
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But when the Red Line was being explained, was it not said that there are merchant vessels, and civilian vessels whose captains paid for new ships to cross into the New World? That invalidates the argument that OP there are only "Good pirates and bad pirates" or, "law vessels and pirates".
There is clearly a normal nautical arrangement. In that arrangement, pirates are expected to be...pirates. An adventuring crew is really just a crew of adventurers. It's a bit ridiculous how Oda has ardently kept asserting that the Strawhats are pirates when they aren't -- I'm a One Piece reader too, and I love it a lot, but I don't make spurious arguments to try and mask over something that is obviously a flaw :|
EDIT: Ah, I missed MarvelB's point above:
But since we've been seeing the OP world from this tame point of view, it does have the effect of distorting the perception of what the rest of the OP world is like with reference to pirates. You can pretty much replace "In Oda's mind" in the marvelB quote above with "In the reader's mind", and it'll probably become very clear why all these people seem to be quick to write off a character as a "jerk" or whatever other label they want to apply to that character. In reality though, while certain behaviours are unrefined in higher company, if you are in the presence of the criminally minded, you don't waste your time applying normal rules of morals and obligation to them. People seem to be thinking that other pirates in OP are interested in some form of decency where their piracy activities are concerned. The reality is that for a criminal, the only limits to morality are what that criminal deems to be too far "beneath" himself, or in cases where the person is truly far gone, it is only bounded by what he or she is disallowed from doing by higher powers.
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|2012-06-01, 10:30
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Well, what I wanted to say is this:
* law enforcement vessels
* cargo (human or otherwise) transportation vessels
* other vessels
Perhaps the "other vessels" are assumed to be "pirate vessels" because they do not have some official insignia denoting them to be from either of the other 2 categories? Also perhaps because they do not have an "official reason" to be travelling on the sea. This is the only way I think it makes sense.
I agree that this may very well be a flaw / plot hole, but it doesn't diminish my enjoyment when reading OP.
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Villaraigosa spoke to reporters at the first continental crosswalk installed at Fifth and Spring streets, where he announced an educational campaign to accompany the rollout of the new crosswalks.
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There's a great read and discussion about this in here:
Collis, are you sure about the 'HTML not being GPL ' issue? What I took from this post was that since the HTML literally depends upon WordPress' PHP for content, the HTML is also GPL ?
Also, I'm guessing ThemeForest won't be featured in the WordPress.org Commerical Theme listings, since they only advertise sites selling 100% GPL themes.
Personally, I'm against WordPress' decision to begin non-aggressively enforcing GPL on themes. From what I'm aware, the Joomla team (which is also GPL ) have taken a completely opposite stance on the issue. They believe by waiving their right to themes being GPL , they are encouraging Joomla theme development by encouraging more unique ideas. (don't state me on this though, I only read it somewhere, and haven't checked it).
I'd rather WordPress take up Joomla's stance on this, but right now WordPress is the major blog/cms player, theme sales are good, and so I'll be respecting their decision on this (and keeping my themes up for sale).
I'll be honest I haven't read every post in this thread so I am sorry if this has already been brought up, but what happens to all the people who are selling wordpress plugins then?
Web developers are generally honorable people who will respect your code.
Web developers usually are. Template/theme creators are not always quite as scrupulous.
Not to knock any authors here at TF specifically, I just know that anyone else who's been in the template game for a while knows what I'm talking about. You run into more than a fair share of shady characters.
I'll be honest I haven't read every post in this thread so I am sorry if this has already been brought up, but what happens to all the people who are selling wordpress plugins then?
As far as I know, plugins have always fallen under the GPL ?
Guys, all this means is you need to be more creative with your work If you have an insanely awesome theme options page, start using some ajax to spice up the functionality a bit. Not only will you enhance the functionality of your theme options page (not to mention the speed of it), but it may also protect you in the event someone decides to repackage your theme options inside their own theme. Not only will your javascript be protected under a standard license, but you can also obfuscate and minify the theme options portion javascript so it can't be modded (and could contain some obfuscated information on the theme options page so people would know what theme it came from).
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The property manager at Michael Jackson's Neverland ranch testified today the pop star had special relationships with girls and women as well as boys. But the witness struggled to come up with examples.
"Besides his wives?" asked Joe Marcus, a witness for the defence. "He has friends. Elizabeth Taylor ... I'm drawing a blank on a few of the names ... There were - other women."
When prosecutor Gordon Auchincloss pressed him for names, Marcus said: "Liza Minnelli has been there - they seem to be good friends."
"OK, so we're up to two," Auchincloss said, raising an objection from the defence.
Marcus, an 18-year employee, was called by the defence to counter former ranch employees who testified against Jackson.
Jackson, 46, is accused of molesting a boy and conspiring to hold the youngster's family captive to get them to rebut a damaging documentary.
Marcus testified he was never ordered to hold the family members captive and they seemed excited to be there.
He said an order in the ranch log instructing guards not to let the boy or his brother leave was there for safety reasons, because the boys often drove vehicles around the property. He said he did not want them taking the vehicles onto the open road.
"Did you ever receive any instructions from anyone to hold the (family) against their will?" Jackson lawyer Robert Sanger asked.
"No," Marcus said.
Prosecutors claim Jackson associates planned to send the family on a one-way trip to Brazil. But Marcus said the family never objected to the trip and only wanted to know where to have passport pictures taken.
Under cross-examination, Marcus admitted he lied to law enforcement officials during a 2003 search of Neverland when he said he had no knowledge of Jackson sharing his bed with children.
At one point during the intense questioning, Auchincloss said to the witness: "You keep looking at Mr Jackson. Why is that?"
The defence raised an objection and the judge sustained it. Auchincloss then asked Marcus if he was a loyal employee to Jackson. He answered: "Yes."
Auchincloss also asked whether Marcus knew Jackson had adult materials at the ranch. Marcus said no, but acknowledged that dolls in bondage attire were kept on Jackson's desk. He called them "artwork."
"Do you think it's appropriate for children to be exposed to these?" Auchincloss asked.
Marcus paused and quietly said no.
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Posted on Aug 26, 2012
So, dear friends, we gather again to celebrate Aug. 26, the anniversary of the passage of women's suffrage. We honor our foremothers in our special way by handing out the Equal Rites Awards for those who have done the most to slow down progress.
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But now for our own gold medals, may we have: The envelopes please!
We begin by awarding the Double Standard Bearer Prize to—ta-da!—Rush Limbaugh. Our lifetime achievement awardee attacked Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke as a "slut" and a "prostitute" because she testified before Congress in favor of having contraception covered by health insurance. For saying that Fluke should repay the taxpayers with personal sex videos, we give Rush a special Groupon to be used at the Testosterone Poison Control Center.
In the same toxic vein, the Male-Practice Award does not go to a doctor this year but to Republican bankroller Foster Friess. This super PAC-man had his own reason to avoid covering birth control: "Back in my days, they used Bayer aspirin for contraceptives; the gals put it between their knees and it wasn't that costly." We send Friess a case of aspirin, a Hypocritic Oath, and a one-way ticket back to "his days."
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Ah yes, but what about virtual games-man-ship? The annual Booby Prize for Online Sports goes to video game coach Aris Bakhtanians, who trash-talked player Miranda Pakozdi in the "Cross Assault" video game tournament, quizzing her on camera about her bra size and telling her to take off her shirt. For video harassment, we promise to crash his private hard drive.
Now on to the Backward Trailblazer Award. We censure the Census Bureau for its retro view of kiddie care. When mom does it, according to the bureau, it's parenting. When dad does it, it's child care. For sticking to the old script, we give the number crunchers an apron emblazoned: Dad is not a baby sitter!
Let us swing overseas for our (Half-)Blind Justice Award. It is won this year, as so often before, by Afghanistan. There, the good news is that the government finally pardoned a woman named Gulnaz imprisoned for adultery after being raped. The bad news is that Afghan Justice Minister Habibullah Ghaleb claimed that shelters for victims of domestic violence were encouraging immorality and prostitution. A one-eyed burqa for these boys.
The Dubious Equality Award goes annually to the most unwelcome evidence of a sexual parity. This year it is being delivered to Saudi Arabia. Women in the kingdom still cannot drive, can only run in the Olympics covered from head to toe, BUT ... men like Muree bin Ali bin Issa al-Asiri can be equally executed for witchcraft and adultery!
Home again, where the war on women thrives. Here, the Taliban Poster Boy Prize goes to Jay Townsend, a now-former campaign adviser to Republican Rep. Nan Hayworth of New York who suggested on Facebook how to deal with women lawmakers who promoted the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay bill—"Let's hurl some acid at those female Democratic senators." He has already received our award for him: a pink slip.
Alas this war also has its intra-gender battalions. The Mommy Wars Re-Ignition Prize goes with regret to Hilary Rosen for the sound bite that came back to bite her. She said mom-of-five Ann Romney "never worked a day in her life." A hair shirt emblazoned with "Every mom is a working mom" has already been FedExed her way.
As for the Romneys, our gal Ann worked not only as a mom but, we now know, also as an anthropologist studying the life of a remote tribe for her hubby. Employer Mitt gets the Patriarch of the Year Award for whining that he does-so understand women because Ann "reports to me" on what they think. To Mitt, a pill for tone-deafness.
Can we top that? Yesss!! The Media Ms-take Citation goes to Time magazine's cover photo featuring a 3-year-old boy being breast fed by his buff mom next to the line: "Are You Mom Enough?" For promoting competitive mom-ery via mammary, we write the editors a prescription to Mom Up.
Just don't try to fill this Rx in Texas. TheOver the Counter Sexism Award for retailing stereotypes goes to the CVS pharmacists in Mesquite, Texas, who illegally refused to sell emergency contraception, aka Plan B, to a man. After all, they hinted to this husband, he might be a rapist. We offer these pharmacists Plan D for discrimination.
From pharmacy to cosmetology, we are pleased to give the Ms-Adventures in Advertising Award to yet another makeup artist. This year, giants Cover Girl and L'Oreal took a photoshop-op to alter the eyelashes of Taylor Swift and the skin of Julia Roberts. For their attempt to sell makeup through self-hate, we send them a pre-made PSA Announcement: Even Taylor Swift doesn't have eyelashes like Taylor Swift.
Let us not forgot the Raging Hormonal Imbalance Prize. This was won, hands down, by Missouri Republican Senate candidate Todd Akin. While serving an overdose of tea party politics, he justified his opposition to abortion for rape victims by explaining, "If it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down." To offset his Boy-ology 101 lesson, Todd gets a two-week vacation from campaigning in a local rape crisis center.
Finally, we are in debt (literally) to China for the Masters of the Universe Citation. This goes to the Mandarins who are updating the concubine for the modern era. It turns out that the Chinese Masters' latest perk is a mistress. "Keeping a mistress is just like playing golf," said one such Master. "Both are expensive hobbies." As we close this awards season, at least we can get teed off. Our motto for next year: FORE!
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One example she brings up is that PTs and DPTs were raised in different environments. I, and others in my age group, grew up using talking to convene information. You said what you needed to say. DPTs on the other hand grew up in the information age where everything is immediate. According to Ms. Dunn this results in communication problems because DPTs will tune out PTs if they take too long to get the point across. She refers to this as expecting information now. I refer to this as being rude. Common courtesy is to listen to someone while he or she is speaking. Tuning someone out because they are taking too long is rude. I don't care when you grew up.
She also brings up what she refers to as a difference in work ethic. DPTs, she believes, have found the balance of work and leisure. The rest of us are workaholics who become burned out, used up and bitter. Ms. Dunn failed to consider that work environment and the pressures of providing health care are responsible for being overworked. Fewer people are asked to do more. For those of us with a work ethic that means occasionally we take the extra patient or stay late a few minutes to get everything done. Where is the value of leaving on time if things are being left undone or incomplete? The patients that the DPTs are missing because they've gone home are falling to the rest of us to treat. Yeah, that makes me overworked.
She does address what she refers to as the "unteachable" attitudes of DPTs. Instead of telling them to get over themselves and recognize experienced PTs as a valuable resource, the rest of us are scolded. We are not doing enough to make the DPTs want to listen to us. PTs are instructed to take a DPT to a legislative session. When do I have the time? I'm overworked. We're instructed to incorporate evidence into our practices. I thought we were doing that. We're also instructed to become more comfortable with technology. Since you can't function in today's world without using technology I'm not sure what she means. Nonetheless these things will make DPTs more willing to listen to us. I have a suggestion. When they are students, tell them they will fail if they don't listen to their CIs.
I don't think her proposals are going to help us work together any better. For that to happen, each degree level needs to respect the others. We need to recognize that each group has something to offer and be willing to learn from each other. I'm not going to think much of someone who doesn't listen to me and thinks I don't know anything. Just like a DPT isn't going to listen to someone who thinks he knows it all but doesn't. I work with someone like that. No one listens to him. Eventually we'll get it worked out. In the mean time, I think a little flexibility and respect will go a long way.
I initially read Dr. Dunn's article and was "convicted." Am I that typical DPT who "checks out" and comes off as overconfident and ready for the board room? It was time for some real reflection. Honestly, I was disappointed the article had to end, and was fascinated to find the observations of an experienced practitioner mirroring my own. Admittedly, they were generalizations, and by no means were the strengths and weaknesses all encompassing. Understanding this, it would be my hope that practitioners (and students) who read this do not get bogged down in the limitations of a short overview of the "challenges and opportunities" we face in the current professional environment.
When reading the strengths Dr. Dunn focused on, I was able to reflect on the countless MS and BSPTs who have taken me under their wings in the clinic. I have benefited greatly from those strong manual skills, the wisdom in relationships and team building, practice management, and as well as the other strengths to which she refers. Many of the PTs I work with (all of whom have an average of 10 years more experience than I do) often jokingly call me "student" which I don't mind in the least. My formal education may finally be complete, but with resources like the experienced PTs practicing around me, I would be a fool to think I had nothing left to learn.
And those BS and MSPTs have gone further, gently bringing me deeper into the profession, involving me in governance and advocacy, giving me a greater appreciation for the work they have put into creating Physical Therapy as it is known today. Perhaps clinically I would have approached those experienced therapists "out of the blue" with a question, but to be perfectly honest, I may never have given advocacy a second thought without their initiation and I am thankful for their sacrifice in time and energy for me.
As a PT student, and now as a new professional, I think I speak for many when I say new grads are intimidated by the experienced, knowledgeable, and expert BS/MSPT for many reasons. I have been in awe many times on a co-treat, or during a clinical discussion, watching an experienced practitioner work through something that might take me hours and a couple books (and maybe a website, email, and text message or two) to figure out. I have also been ashamed as an expert practitioner pointed out to me how much debt I was going to be in upon graduation and that it would take me just as long to get to where she was clinically as it took her.
While I can understand where she was coming from, and can explain the reasons why I believe the profession needed to move to the DPT degree, I mean this is to illustrate the point that new grads may need a BS or MSPT to step forward, look beyond the degree, and reach out to them. And to my fellow DPTs, I'd say we certainly can do a better job of taking full advantage of the wealth of clinical and professional experience that surrounds us everyday. We can also add to it, offering assistance with podcasts, websites, statistical analysis, and new evidence based approaches to aspects of patient care...but do this with, as Dr. Dunn says "professional humility" if you really want to be taken seriously.
Unfortunately, this comment has turned out longer than expected, and I apologize for any incoherent ramblings. I do believe this is a very important, and perhaps under-addressed, "challenge and opportunity" we have as physical therapists. I feel very strongly that by looking beyond the BS, MS, or D and focusing on the PT and the individual strengths each PT brings to the table, our profession – and most importantly, our patients - will be better for it. I would like to thank Dr. Dunn for her observations and the discussion that has followed, not just here but in other venues/media/etc.
Hi Toni,
I do see your point about these young ones being rude when not listening. I have lived on a small island the past eight years and these young generation Y's here are not the same as in the Mainland, I am sure as even for this new generation here it is still "Island time".
I was curious about the article you mentioned and did go and read it. In my opinion, it had the flavor of being a "motherly" talk, and although Dunn did hit some very minor points about technology, I can not agree totally as I am a baby boomer and I have 2 laptops, e-mail daily, I have 2 blogs, facebook, and MySpace; not to mention doing on-line banking and investments. I spend several hours a day on-line doing research outside of employment. Oh, and reading your blog from time to time.
I liked the way Wikipedia describes this Y Generation. Two primary characteristics come up: peer oriented and seeking instant gratification. Knowing these two characteristics gives me an idea of the barriers that I have read about on your blog.


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Chances are you've already seen some of Keanu Reeves and the roving, vengeful samurai that make up the 47 Ronin, as there have been a couple of trailers. Now here comes a clip that introduces Reeves' character Kai.
How does he fit into the story, you ask? Well, the film is based, albeit with plenty of mystical embellishment, on a true Japanese story, which sees a group of warriors in disarray. After a treacherous warlord kills their master and banishes their kind, the leaderless samurai vow to seek vengeance and restore honour to their people.
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Dear city of Phoenix:
I was at the informational meeting the other night at Lomas Elementary School in Ahwatukee. I am still quite upset that I will not have a vote as to whether the traffic circles are approved or disapproved!
I never did get my question answered as to how you came about with the "Petition Areas" as posted. Do you, Kerry Wilcoxon, have to abide by law or guidelines when selecting the "Petition Areas" or do you arbitrarily and capriciously select them?
Both circles affect every homeowner in the Equestrian Estates' homeowners association (HOA), known as "Equestrian Management Association." They are our only egress or access to our neighborhood. Every homeowner is affected and should have a vote to say what happens in their HOA. We all pay yearly mandatory HOA fees and should have an equal say. We are all affected equally!
You can't convince me that homeowners that are more than 100 feet from the circles are more affected by the circles than the rest of Equestrian Estates owners. For example, how are the homeowners at either end of Appaloosa Drive or the end of Equestrian Trail near 36th Street more affected than, say, homeowners 300 feet from the circles on East Nowata Drive and East Talowa Street, or even East Kachina Drive. You can't!
You said the other night, and I quote, "What gives you the right to say what happens here when the people of Arcadia or Pecos don't have a say?" What gives me the right is this is my HOA and my neighborhood; they have theirs. If I drive into their neighborhood I have to live with the decisions they made, just as they drive into my neighborhood they have to abide by our decisions.
Solution: you must expand the "Petition Area" to all homeowners in our HOA. If it fails, fine; if it passes that's OK, too, but we all had a say. Not just a few!
Wayne Sandifer
Circles are a joke
Dear Editor:
The Temporary Traffic Circles on Equestrian Trail and 36th Street are a big unsightly joke. I live on Equestrian and watch the traffic zoom by every day. The only slow down is right before entering the circles. If they are serious about slowing traffic the solution is to put four-way stop signs at Equestrian and Appaloosa, Equestrian and Tonalea, and 36th Street and Coconino. This would make a longer stretch of slower traffic by having to stop and not cost a ridiculous price of $250,000 to $350,000 (someone must be getting a kickback) and the savings could be spent on street repair, which isn't happening now.
Hiley Eubanks
Traffic circles work
Dear Editor:
I read the article reporting that many people were opposed to the traffic circles at the entrances of Equestrian Estates. I live within the boundaries and am strongly in favor of them. It is a reminder, even to me, to slow down. As a result of them I drive slower and many times hold up others behind me that would like to go faster. It should remind us all to do the same. It is our neighborhood and we should treat it as such by slowing down.
We will never get speed bumps, gates or any other traffic solution to the speeding. The city has made this very clear. The speed is exacerbated in the neighborhood by it being a "cut-through" street for those going to work in the mornings. The traffic circles make it bothersome and slower for those wanting to use it. This is a good thing.
An added benefit is that it defines Equestrian Estates boundaries (we should negotiate an attractive sign on each end) and with the city spending at least a half-million on the two boundaries defining our neighborhood we all get this added benefit. These circles are in Paradise Valley and Scottsdale in more expensive neighborhoods than ours.
Anyone who says they are a safety hazard is out of touch. Anyone saying it scares buyers away because it makes them ask questions about speeding wants to ignore the reality that we do have a speeding problem. With the circles we have had no accidents, slows people down, defines the neighborhood and we are not paying for it directly.
The alternative folks, is that they will be removed and back to status quo speeding and a permanent cut-through street. There is little if any real downside unless your goal is to get out of the neighborhood or through it faster. This is our one shot at a solution.
Don Myles
More circle observations
Dear Editor:
A couple of additional observations from a resident that lives on Appaloosa Drive regarding the temporary round-about on Equestrian Trails:
1. The effect of this traffic-calming roundabout is suspect at best and dangerous at worst. Few people abide by the yield sign when someone is in the circle. I have observed and been involved in several instances where people in the roundabout had to stop for traffic entering from Equestrian Trails.
2. Traffic is not following the signs and someone is going to get injured in a traffic accident.
3. Unless the circle is increased to a point where people have to purposely slow down there will be no long-term improvement in controlling speeders. Now one can go through the circle at full speed without slowing.
4. Stop signs are effective if the police do their job in ticketing offenders. But that doesn't seem to be the case today.
Roger Dickinson
Not the time nor place for traffic circles
Dear Kerry Wilcoxon:
I thank you for the special time, courtesy and effort that was required to visit with me on the telephone, and to forward a professional, very well prepared copy of the attachments that were presented at the Ahwatukee Traffic Circle Meeting.
Both the Ahwatukee Foothills News and the Arizona Republic have reported on the meeting; hence I can glean an impression as to the attitude of the neighborhood.
As previously stated while on the telephone like most attendees at the meeting, I am personally opposed to the traffic-circle concept within a pre-designed established neighborhoods of limited space. We live about three blocks north of Equestrian Trial off of Blackfoot, which apparently is excluded from the intended formal "vote?" However, we are required to travel through either of the two traffic circles to enter or egress the streets leading to our home. The few neighbors that I have talked with confirm their opposition to the circles; however, neither I nor my neighbors have a desire to circulate a petition asserting our opposition. The arguments both for and against the restrictive circles has been abundantly presented. Your study and presentation has been both professional and thorough.
My good judgment based upon a lifetime as an Arizona resident, registered professional engineer (civil), frugal taxpayer, and neighborhood resident is that this is neither the time nor the place for traffic circles, which may very well be proved redundant and most likely a regrettable expenditures. I can only hope that the matter will be delayed while attitudes and continuing traffic speed studies are verified. I am confident that visitors to the area will continue to "slow down," some even stopping in wonderment as the often confused drivers work themselves through the circular maze. Be assured neighborhood residents will continue to exceed the extremely slow, specified 20 mph speed limit with ever increasing expertise and challenging agility.
In summary, the tenor of the newspaper reports confirm that the decision has been made. I have, and do sincerely, appreciate the courtesy of your kind responses to my past and present concerns.
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Welcome to the WindowsNetworking.com newsletter by Debra Littlejohn Shinder, MVP. Each month we will bring you interesting and helpful information on the world of Windows Networking. We want to know what all *you* are interested in hearing about. Please send your suggestions for future newsletter content to: email@example.com
1. Windows Server 2008 R2 Super Feature: Hyper-V Live Migration
Windows Server 2008 R2 includes Hyper-V R2. The R2 iteration of Hyper-V adds several new features and functionalities to the virtualization platform, and one of the best is Live Migration, which is supported in the Enterprise and Datacenter editions. Sure, Server 2008 already had something called Quick Migration, which made it possible to migrate virtual machines with only a few seconds of downtime. But for many administrators - especially those comparing Hyper-V to VMware - "quick" wasn't quick enough.
The problem is that VMware's VMotion technology promises no downtime whatsoever; you can migrate a virtual environment from one physical machine to another seamlessly, with no impact on the users who are using those virtualized servers. That set the bar high, and made Quick Migration look like an also-ran. In order to remain competitive, Microsoft almost instantly had to remedy the situation, and they did. Live Migration, like VMotion, lets you move virtual machines from one physical server to another with no perceived downtime at all.
The catch - for both VMotion and Live Migration - is that this seamless migration process requires the data to be stored in a shared arrangement such as a SAN array. In the original Windows Server 2008, cluster nodes were not able to communicate with shared storage. What makes it possible for R2 to do this is another new feature called cluster shared volumes. So, to use Live Migration, you have to add and configure failover clustering. Then you can migrate a virtual machine (while it's running) from one cluster node to another. The VMs are stored on the SAN.
What else do you need to take advantage of Live Migration? Well, first of all, all of the cluster nodes have to be running Windows Server 2008 R2 or the standalone Hyper-V Server 2008 R2. There are a couple of "little things" that could trip you up if you are not aware of them: The NTLM authentication protocol has to be enabled on all the nodes, and the drive letter for the system disk also has to be the same on all of the nodes.
Each machine needs to have a dedicated NIC configured for the virtual network to carry Live Migration traffic (this is separate from the networks for storage, for the VM, and for communication between the cluster nodes). You can use a VLAN if you do not have enough network adapters.
Another "gotcha" is that the storage system on the failover cluster needs to be identical. When migrating VMs on previous versions of Hyper-V, the machines had to have identical processors. Thanks to Processor Compatibility Mode (PCM), this is no longer the case - as long as the processors are built on the same architecture (that is, within the same vendor processor family). However, PCM does not allow migration between AMD and Intel processor-based machines. Intel's Virtualization Technology (VT) also includes a feature called FlexMigration, which works with PCM to make servers expose the same instruction set to applications even if they are based on different processor generations (it also works with VMware VMotion). You can find out more about FlexMigration here.
For detailed information on how to set up Hyper-V with failover clustering, see this TechNet article.
So, is all that worth the trouble? Many IT pros think so; in fact, many were unable to take Hyper-V seriously as an alternative to VMware until Live Migration became available. This ability becomes very important when practicing "preventative medicine" because it lets you migrate your mission critical VMs to another machine as soon as you see signs that the machine on which it's running on may fail, rather than waiting until disruption of operations occurs. You can also move your running VMs to another machine for better performance, scaling or consolidation. This gives you a lot more agility in the server room or datacenter, and you can keep VMs online even while performing hardware maintenance, applying security updates, etc. That is certainly good news for admins because it means you can do these tasks during normal business hours instead of waiting to do them after hours so users would not be affected.
What do you think of Live Migration in Hyper-V R2? Is it all it is cracked up to be? Will it finally make Hyper-V a VMware killer? Or is it too little, too late? You can write to me at firstname.lastname@example.com with your comments and questions.
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What Is Offline Domain Join?
Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 computers can use the new feature called "Offline Domain Join". This process requires the Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2. The procedure requires two steps:
First the computer account is created or provisioned on the domain controller and the resulting information is stored in the metadata. This information is then transferred to the joining computer. The workstation then performs the joining part without having the connectivity with the domain controller.
You need to use Djoin.exe on the domain controller to accomplish above. You can use Djoin.exe /? to see the syntaxes.
An example is given below:
Djoin.exe /provision /domain Name_Of_the_Domain_To_Be_Joined /machine Client_Computer_Name /savefileFile_Name.txt
5. Windows Networking Tip of the Month
A new remote access technology known as DirectAccess is included with the combination of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. A number of Windows platform technologies are brought together to make DirectAccess work. The network protocol that drives DirectAccess is IPv6 and the DirectAccess server must be IPv6 capable. For that reason, you need to have IPv6 enabled on all interfaces on the DirectAccess server. I have heard of some cases where people have turned off IPv6 on their DirectAccess servers, and it caused DirectAccess to stop working. This problem can be a very one difficult to troubleshoot, since who would think that someone would have disabled IPv6 on a server that is designed to run a very IPv6 centric technology?
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7. Ask Sgt. Deb
I have heard a lot about Server Core and I like the minimalist idea. Here is my question and it's a pretty simple one: Can I run Exchange on Server Core, or does it require a full installation of Windows Server 2008? If not, why not? Thanks! - Len K.
Well, the answer is no - and yes. Server Core is a command line implementation of Windows Server 2008 or 2008 R2 that is designed to run one of the five "core" server roles: file server, DHCP Server, DNS Server, Media Services Server or Active Directory. It can also run the IIS and Hyper-V roles. It is not designed as an application platform. That said, Server Core can run certain management tools and utilities and it does include a few GUI tools such as Task Manager.
Running Exchange or other such applications on Server Core is not supported by Microsoft. However, apparently some folks have been able to get it installed and running, as shown here.
Bottom line: If you just like to experiment, you might be able to get Exchange running on Server Core, but its not something you would want to do in a production environment, especially with an application thats as important as your email server.
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H ave you ever wondered what the meaning of life is? You looked on Google and other places... you searched books... asked those who seemed to know, and what did you get? They all seemed to take you on a philosophical ride that left you more confused than you were before. Look no further. I'll tell you exactly what you have been looking for.
I have thought about the meaning of life for some time, and no one seemed to have a definite answer. Like most things in life, the meaning is quite simple. It requires no prayer, no meditation or fasting. You don't have to be a mystic, a guru or philosopher to understand it. Once you have it, you will be able to explain it to a 5 year old kid, in one sentence. And he will get it.
The majority of those who seem to know tend to cloak the discussion in mystery. If you love someone, you will be glad to help the person in any way you can. So, the authority figures on this subject must have something other than love for those who are seeking the answer to the ultimate question. Making it more difficult than it should be does not help anyone. In my view this happens because of a few reasons, it could be one or a combination of the following reasons:
They don't know Want to feel superior Want to sell you something Keep people coming to them
The best things in life are free; love, satisfaction, joy, family, new-born babies, etc. - free but not cheap; free, but not without a cost. Relax. There is no cost to you. It took some effort for these free things to be here. Our lot is simply to enjoy the free gifts. We are children of the Most High. Given that the gifts of life are free, it must also follow that life itself allows us to know its true meaning without charging.
If you have read this far, you are wondering by now - what is the meaning of life? Here it is: Expression. That is all there is to it. There are no secrets in life. There is only knowledge that you may not know about yet. Nothing is hidden. In my next posting, I will explain what life is all about in details. You will be pleasantly surprised to learn that it has all been revealed in and around you, though you may have been overlooking it until now.
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After lunch, Herbert Le Breton went off for his afternoon ride--a grave social misdemeanour, Ernest thought it--and Arthur Berkeley took Edie round to show her about the college and the shady gardens. Ernest would have liked to walk with her himself, for there was something in her that began to interest him somewhat; and besides, she was so pretty, and so graceful, and so sympathetic: but he felt he must not take her away from her host for the time being, who had a sort of proprietary right in the pleasing duty of acting as showman to her over his own college. So he dropped behind with Harry Oswald and old Mrs. Martindale, and endeavoured to simulate a polite interest in the old lady's scraps of conversation upon the heads of houses, their wives and families.
'This is Addison's Walk, Miss Oswald,' said Berkeley, taking her through the gate into the wooded path beside the Cherwell; 'so called because the ingenious Mr. Addison is said to have specially patronised it. As he was an undergraduate of this college, and a singularly lazy person, it's very probable that he really did so; every other undergraduate certainly does, for it's the nearest walk an idle man can get without ever taking the trouble to go outside the grounds of Magdalen.'
'The ingenious Mr. Addison was quite right then,' Edie answered, smiling; 'for he couldn't have chosen a lovelier place on earth to stroll in. How exquisite it looks just now, with the mellow light falling down upon the path through this beautiful autumnal foliage! It's just a natural cathedral aisle, with a lot of pale straw-coloured glass in the painted windows, like that splendid one we went to see the other day at Merton Chapel.'
'Yes, there are certainly tones in that window I never saw in any other,' Berkeley said, 'and the walk to-day is very much the same in its delicate colouring. You're fond of colour, I should think, Miss Oswald, from what you say.'
'Oh, nobody could help being struck by the autumn colouring of the Thames valley, I should fancy,' said Edie, blushing. 'We noticed it all the way up as we came in the train from Reading, a perfect glow of crimson and orange at Pangbourne, Goring, Mapledurham, and Nuneham. I always thought the Dart in October the loveliest blaze of warm reds and yellows I had ever seen anywhere in nature, but the Thames valley beats it hollow, as Harry says. This walk to-day is just one's ideal picture of Milton's Vallombrosa.'
'Ah, yes, I always look forward to the first days of October term,' said Berkeley, slowly, 'as one of the greatest and purest treats in the whole round workaday twelvemonth. When the creeper on the Founder's Tower first begins to redden and crimson in the autumn, I could sit all day long by my open window, and just look at that glorious sight alone instead of having my dinner. But I'm very fond of these walks in full summer time too. I often stop up alone all through the long (being tied to my curacy here permanently, you know), and then I have the run of the place entirely to myself. Sometimes I take my flute out, and sit under the shade here and compose some of my little pieces.'
'I can easily understand that they were composed here,' said Edie quickly. 'They've caught exactly the flavour of the place--especially your exquisite little Penseroso.'
'Ah, you know my music, then, Miss Oswald?'
'Oh yes, Harry always brings me home all your pieces whenever he comes back at the end of term. I can play every one of them without the notes. But the Penseroso is my special favourite.'
'It's mine, too. I'm so glad you like it. But I'm working away at a little thing now which you shall hear as soon as I've finished it; something lighter and daintier than anything else I've ever attempted. I shall call it the Butterfly Canzonet.'
'Why don't you publish your music under your own name, Mr. Berkeley?'
'Oh, because it would never do. I'm a parson now, and I must keep up the dignity of the cloth by fighting shy of any aesthetic heterodoxies. It would be professional suicide for me to be suspected of artistic leanings. All very well in an archdeacon, you know, to cultivate his tastes for chants and anthems, but for a simple curate!--and secular songs too!--why, it would be sheer contumacy. His chances of a living would shrink at once to what your brother would call a vanishing quantity.'
'Well, you can't imagine how much I admire your songs and airs, Mr. Berkeley. I was so pleased when you invited us, to think I was going to lunch with a real composer. There's no music I love so much as yours.'
'I'm very glad to hear it, Miss Oswald, I assure you. But I'm only a beginner and a trifler yet. Some day I mean to produce something that will be worth listening to. Only, do you remember what some French novelist once said?--"A poet's sweetest poem is always the one he has never been able to compose." I often think that's true of music, too. Away up in the higher stories of one's brain somewhere, there's a tune floating about, or rather a whole oratorio full of them, that one can never catch and fix upon ruled paper. The idea's there, such a beautiful and vague idea, so familiar to one, but so utterly unrealisable on any known instrument--a sort of musical Ariel, flitting before one and tantalising one for ever, but never allowing one to come up with it and see its real features. I'm always dissatisfied with what I've actually written, and longing to crystallise into a score the imaginary airs I can never catch. Except in this last piece of mine; that's the only thing I've ever done that thoroughly and completely pleases me. Come and see me next week, and I'll play it over to you.'
They walked all round the meadows, and back again beside the arches of the beautiful bridge, and then returned to Berkeley's rooms once more for a cup of afternoon tea, and an air or two of Berkeley's own composing. Edie enjoyed the walk and the talk immensely; she enjoyed the music even more. In a way, it was all so new to her. For though she had always seen much of Harry, and though Harry, who was the kindest and proudest of brothers, had always instinctively kept her up to his own level of thought and conversation, still, she wasn't used to seeing so many intelligent and educated young men together, and the novelty of their society was delightfully exhilarating to her eager little mind. To a bright girl of nineteen, wherever she may come from, the atmosphere of Oxford has a wonderfully cheering and stimulating effect; to a country tradesman's daughter from a tiny west-country village it is like a little paradise on earth with a ceaseless round of intensely enjoyable breakfasts, luncheons, dinners, and water-parties.
Ernest, for his part, was not so well pleased. He wanted to have a little conversation with Oswald's sister; and he was compelled by politeness to give her up in favour of Arthur Berkeley. However, he made up for it when he returned, and monopolised the pretty little visitor himself for almost the entire tea-hour.
As soon as they had gone, Arthur Berkeley sported his oak, and sat down by himself in his comfortable crimson-covered basket chair. 'I won't let anybody come and disturb me this evening,' he said to himself moodily. 'I won't let any of these noisy Magdalen men come with their racket and riot to cut off the memory of that bright little dream. No desecration after she has gone. Little Miss Butterfly! What a pretty, airy, dainty, delicate little morsel it is! How she flits, and sips, and natters about every possible subject, just touching the tip of it so gracefully with her tiny white fingers, and blushing so unfeignedly when she thinks she's paid you a compliment, or you've paid her one. How she blushed when she said she liked my music! How she blushed when I said she had a splendid ear for minute discrimination! Somehow, if I were a falling-in-love sort of fellow, I half fancy I could manage to fall in love with her on the spot. Or rather, if I were a good analytical psychologist, perhaps I ought more correctly to say I am in love with her already.'
He sat down idly at the piano and played a few bars softly to himself--a beautiful, airy sort of melody, as it shaped itself vaguely in his head at the moment, with a little of the new wine of first love running like a trill through the midst of its fast-flowing quavers and dainty undulations. 'That will do,' he said to himself approvingly. 'That will do very well; that's little Miss Butterfly. Here she flits, flits, flits, flickers, sip, sip, sip, at her honeyed flowers; twirl away, whirl away, off in the sunshine--there you go, Miss Butterfly, eddying and circling with your painted mate. Flirt, flirt, flirt, coquetting and curvetting, in your pretty rhythmical aerial quadrille. Down again, down to the hare-bell on the hill side; sip at it, sip at it, sip at it, sweet little honey-drops, clear little honey-drops, bright little honey-drops; oh, for a song to be set to the melody! Tra-la-la, tro-lo-lo, up again, Butterfly. Little silk handkerchief, little lace neckerchief, fluttering, fluttering! Feathery wings of her, bright little eyes of her, flit, flit, flicker! Now, she blushes, blushes, blushes; deep crimson; oh, what a colour! Paint it, painter! Now she speaks. Oh, what laughter! Silvery, silvery, treble, treble, treble; trill away, trill away, silvery treble. Musical, beautiful; beautiful, musical; little Miss Butterfly--fly--fly--fly away!' And he brought his fingers down upon the gamut at last, with a hasty, flickering touch that seemed really as delicate as Edie's own.
'I can never get words for it in English,' he said again, half speaking with his parted lips; 'it's too dactylic in rhythm for English verse to go to it. Beranger might have written a lilt for it, as far as mere syllables go, but Beranger to write about Miss Butterfly!--pho, no Frenchman could possibly catch it. Swinburne could fit the metres, I dare say, but he couldn't fit the feeling. It shall be a song without words, unless I write some Italian lines for it myself. Animula, blandula vagula--that's the sort of ring for it, but Latin's mostly too heavy. Io, Hymen, Hymenae, Io; Io, Hymen, Hymenae! What's that? A wedding song of Catullus--absit omen. I must be in love with her indeed.' He got up from the piano, and paced quickly and feverishly up and down the room.
'And yet,' he went on, 'if only I weren't bound down so by this unprofitable trade of parson! A curate on eighty pounds a year, and a few pupils! The presumptuousness of the man in venturing to think of falling in love, as if he were actually one of the beneficed clergy! What are deacons coming to, I wonder! And yet, hath not a deacon eyes; hath not a deacon hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? And if you show us a little Miss Butterfly, beautiful to the finger-ends, do we not fall in love with her at least as unaffectedly as if we were canons residentiary or rural deans? Fancy little Miss Butterfly a rural deaness! the notion's too ridiculous. Fly away, little Miss Butterfly; fly away, sweet little frolicsome, laughsome creature. I won't try to tie you down to a man in a black clerical coat with a very distant hypothetical reversionary prospect of a dull and dingy country parsonage. Flit elsewhere, little Miss Butterfly, flit elsewhere, and find yourself a gayer, gaudier-coloured mate!'
He sat down again, and strummed a few more bars of his half-composed, half-extemporised melody. Then he leant back on the music-stool, and said gently to himself once more: 'Still, if it were possible, how happy I should try to make her! Bright little Miss Butterfly, I would try never to let a cold cloud pass chillily over your sunshiny head! I would live for you, and work for you, and write songs for your sake, all full of you, you, you, and so all full of life and grace and thrilling music. What's my life good for, to me or to the world? "A clergyman's life is such a useful one," that amiable old conventionality gurgled out this morning; what's the good of mine, as it stands now, to its owner or to anybody else, I should like to know, except the dear old Progenitor? A mere bit of cracked blue china, a fanciful air from a comic opera, masquerading in black and white as a piece of sacred music! What good am I to anyone on earth but the Progenitor (God bless him!), and when he's gone, dear old fellow, what on earth shall I have left to live for. A selfish blank, that's all. But with her, ah, how different! With her to live for and to cherish, with an object to set before oneself as worth one's consideration, what mightn't I do at last? Make her happy--after all, that's the great thing. Make her fond of my music, that music that floats and evades me now, but would harden into scores as if by magic with her to help one to spell it out--I know it would, at last, I know it would. Ah, well, perhaps some day I may be able; perhaps some day the dream will realise itself; till then, work, work, work; let me try to work towards making it possible, a living or a livelihood, no matter which. But not a breath of it to you meanwhile, Miss Butterfly; flit about freely and joyously while you may; I would not spoil your untrammelled flight for worlds by trying to tether it too soon around the fixed centre of my own poor doubtful diaconal destinies.'
At the same moment while Arthur Berkeley was thus garrulously conversing with his heated fancy, Harry and Edie Oswald were strolling lazily down the High, to Edie's lodgings.
'Well, what do you think now of Berkeley and Le Breton, Edie?' asked her brother. 'Which of them do you like the best?'
'I like them both immensely, Harry; I really can't choose between them. When Mr. Berkeley plays, he almost makes me fall in love with him; and when Mr. Le Breton talks, he almost makes me transfer my affections to him instead... But Mr. Berkeley plays divinely... And Mr. Le Breton talks beautifully... You know, I've never seen such clever men before--except you, of course, Harry dear, for you're cleverer and nicer than anybody. Oh, do let me look at those lovely silks over there?' And she danced across the road before he could answer her, like a tripping sylph in a painter's dreamland.
'Mr. Le Breton's very nice,' she went on, after she had duly examined and classified the silks, 'but I don't exactly understand what it is he's got on his conscience.'
'Nothing whatsoever, except the fact of his own existence,' Harry answered with a laugh. 'He has conscientious scruples against the existence of idle people in the community--do-nothings and eat-alls--and therefore he has conscientious scruples against himself for not immediately committing suicide. I believe, if he did exactly what he thought was abstractly right, he'd go away and cut his own throat incontinently for an unprofitable, unproductive, useless citizen.'
'Oh, dear, I hope he'll do nothing of the sort,' cried Edie hastily. 'I think I shall really ask him not to for my sake, if not for anybody else's.'
'He'd be very much flattered indeed by your interposition on his behalf, no doubt, Popsy; but I'm afraid it wouldn't produce much effect upon his ultimate decision.'
'Tell me, Harry, is Mr. Berkeley High Church?'
'Oh dear no, I shouldn't say so. I don't suppose he ever gave the subject a single moment's consideration.'
'But St. Fredegond's is very High Church, I'm told.'
'Ah, yes; but Berkeley's curate of St. Fredegond's, not in virtue of his theology--I never heard he'd got any to speak of--but in virtue of his musical talents. He went into the Church, I suppose, on purely aesthetic grounds. He liked a musical service, and it seemed natural to him to take part in one, just as it seemed natural to a mediaeval Italian with artistic tendencies to paint Madonnas and St. Sebastians. There's nothing more in his clerical coat than that, I fancy, Edie. He probably never thought twice about it on theological grounds.'
'Oh, but that's very wrong of him, Harry. I don't mean having no particular theological beliefs, of course; one expects that nowadays; but going into the Church without them.'
'Well, you see, Edie, you mustn't judge Berkeley in quite the same way as you'd judge other people. In his mind, the aesthetic side is always uppermost; the logical side is comparatively in abeyance. Questions of creed, questions of philosophical belief, questions of science don't interest him at all; he looks at all of them from the point of view of the impression alone. What he sees in the Church is not a body of dogmas, like the High Churchmen, nor a set of opinions, like the Low Churchmen, but a close corporation of educated and cultivated gentlemen, charged with the duty of caring for a number of beautiful mediaeval architectural monuments, and of carrying on a set of grand and impressive musical or oral services. To him, a cathedral is a magnificent historical heritage; a sermon is a sort of ingenious literary exercise; and a hymn is a capital vehicle for very solemn emotional music. That's all; and we can hardly blame him for not seeing these things as we should see them.'
'Well, Harry, I don't know. I like them both immensely. Mr. Berkeley's very nice, but perhaps I like Mr. Le Breton the best of the two.'
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Branded Executive Resume Writer
6 Questions to Ask Yourself to Effectively Audit Your Job Search
Written by Lisa Rangel, Executive Resume Writer
The job search is not yielding what you have hoped up to this point. You feel stale, uninspired and ineffective. Or maybe you are happy with your initial results, but now the activity has weaned a bit and you want to step up your game? Below is a short list of questions to quickly assess the quality of the quantity of your job search activities to help you determine (1) Am I doing the right activities? and (2) Am I doing enough of the right activities? Take this job search audit quiz now and be honest with yourself…it will help you identify the activities that will get your results and ensure you drop the activities that are dragging you down: Here we go:
- How many hours are you spending on job boards?
- How much time are you spending tweaking your resumes and cover letters?
- How much time are you spending researching companies to apply to?
- How many companies do you add/modify/delete from your target list each month?
- How many hiring managers, line managers or knowledge resources are you speaking to each week?
- How many outbound emails are you sending to targeted decision makers or knowledge sources each week?
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The Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry today announced that employers are expected to save up to $100 million dollars in interest payments through the state's sale of unemployment compensation, or UC, bonds.
In addition, Moody's Investor's Service, one of the premier bond rating agencies, has awarded the bonds its highest rating possible, or "Aaa," demonstrating a confidence in Pennsylvania's economic stability.
"As part of the state's comprehensive unemployment compensation reform, these bonds help to ensure a stable and reliable financial future for the commonwealth by saving employers money that they can now invest in the
creation of jobs," said Governor Tom Corbett. "The "Aaa' rating reflects Pennsylvania's large and diverse economic base and the state's history of
strong and consistent funding for the UC program."
Pennsylvania's UC reform law, Act 60, which passed in June, provides for a
bond sale to pay off the debt to the federal government for unemployment
compensation benefits. The administration took the additional and proactive
step of paying off the principal debt through a short-term loan from Citibank.
This saved $18 million to $24 million for Pennsylvania businesses that pay
into the UC fund.
"Governor Corbett's comprehensive approach to reforming the state's UC
system ensures the fund's return to solvency and the long-term availability
of benefits for those who need them," said Labor & Industry Secretary Julia
Hearthway. "The fact that Pennsylvania received the high bond ratings is, in
large part, due to Governor Corbett's responsible economic decisions."
"The ability to offer these bonds with such a high credit rating means
Pennsylvania employers may expect as much as $100 million in interest
savings on the bonds over seven years,'' Hearthway added. "Those savings
can be invested in hiring new employees and expanding their businesses."
The UC bonds are a highly-rated permanent financing that will repay the
Citibank interim financing.
Moody's defines "Aaa" as "of the highest quality, subject to the lowest level
of credit risk." In addition, both Standard & Poor's and Fitch Ratings awarded
the commonwealth with their second highest rating, "AA+."
The Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry, the Office of the Budget
and the Pennsylvania Economic Development Financing Authority (PEDFA)
are coordinating the UC revenue bond sale, which is slated to be completed
in mid-October.
For more information about the Department of Labor & Industry, visit
For more information about the Department of Economic & Community
Development and PEDFA, visit www.newpa.com.
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Emerald Ash Borer Prevention
The City of Johnston recently transplanted some Ash Trees, and State Entomologist Robin Preusner says we all need to help prevent and control the movement of the exotic Emerald Ash Borer.
Pruesner says the Emerald Ash Borer has two primary ways of moving from county to county. One is on their own wing power, the other is by man. She says, "Man has a certain love of taking firewood. If there are larvae in it, they can emerge the following year and infest that area."
Pruesner says right now there three known infestations in Iowa. They are in Des Moines, Jefferson and Allamakee Counties.
Pruesner says municipalities need to do inventory on how many Ash Trees they may have, and diversify if needed.


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The University Record, May 6, 1998
U to strengthen child care programs
By Jane R. Elgass
Continuation of the Student Child Care Subsidy Program Scholarship and the Kids Kare at Home Program, and subsidies for the University's five child care programs that will enable them to serve children of lower income faculty and staff are among the recommendations of the Child Care Task Force that will be adopted by the University.
In advising the Regents of the recommendations at their April meeting, Provost Nancy Cantor noted that these actions will enhance the University's efforts to continue to be a "family friendly," flexible employer of those with children.
The University's annual subsidy of the student child care program will be doubled, to $150,000. This will be combined with $75,000 in student fees designated for this program. Awards are made on the basis of financial need, ranging from $500 to $1,250, with an average of $800 per term. While the program does not provide total support for child care costs, "it has had a positive impact on those who have used it," Cantor noted.
Sick child care is a concern of all parents--faculty, staff and students--and its high cost is of particular concern to lower income members of the University community.
Kids Kare at Home Program, which has operated on a pilot basis since January, will continue and a sliding fee scale with a subsidy for lower income faculty and staff families on the Ann Arbor campus will be implemented. In addition, a one-year pilot of this program, to assess need and feasibility, will be offered to students.
A sliding scale subsidy program will be initiated at the University's five child care centers to help offset the high cost of care and to make the services available to low income faculty and staff.
Cantor also noted that the task force found availability of data on children of faculty, staff and students "in short supply if not non-existent." As a result, the University will investigate ways in which to collect this data, possibly through the M-Pathways project.
Cantor told the Regents that while the long-term recommendations of the task force also have support, implementation will be a bit more difficult.
The possibility of securing outside funding to provide space at the North Campus center for infant/toddler care will be reviewed with incoming Vice President for Development, Susan K. Feagin.
Also to be addressed will be the possibility of offering off-hours child care, for which there is heavy demand, and a change in policy that would allow more flexible use of sick time for sick child care.
This policy change, currently under review along with other changes in sick leave policy, would be implemented in July 1999.
Cantor will encourage the deans to consider part-time degree programs. There also will be a renewed effort to inform faculty and staff about existing policies that allow flexible scheduling, including job-splitting and job-sharing, and part-time return to work following the birth of a child.


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Horseradish and Chive Baked Potatoes
Sirloin Steak and Baked Potatoes
- 6 medium russet potatoes, scrubbed
- 1 cup regular or low-fat sour cream
- 2 tablespoons prepared horseradish
- 2 tablespoons minced fresh chives
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- Preheat oven to 400° F. Place the potatoes directly on oven rack and bake until tender, about 1 hour. While they are baking, fold together the sour cream, horseradish, chives, salt, and pepper in a small bowl. Halve the baked potatoes and top with the sour cream mixture.