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The Cardinals flamed out Wednesday against the D-Backs, but Mike Shannon lit up the room hours later promoting the St. Louis Press Club's Media Person of the Year Dinner, September 29th at Lumen Private Event, the swelegant restored space in the Packard Loft Building at 22nd and Locust Streets. Press Club prez Dick Weiss reminisced with more than 100 in attendance about the Moon Man's storied past. "Over eight seasons as a Cardinals player and nearly 40 as a broadcaster, Mike has made us feel like we are all part of the team," Weiss said. "Through Mike's call of the game, we share in a story that goes back generations and will continue on for many years." For his part, Mike said he was particularly pleased that funds from the dinner would underwrite scholarships and internships for young journalists. "They are the future," he told Press Club supporters. And, speaking of the future, Shannon pointed to KTRS radio's sports host Mike Claiborne as an up-and-comer and, perhaps, the next Cardinals play-by-play man. Claiborne will be emcee at the Media Person of the Year dinner, which will also feature Joe Buck and Tony LaRussa. The gambol will be held at the Hyatt Regency St. Louis at the Arch. Among those on hand for the Shannon do was Bob Fox of New Space and Build-A-Bear Workshop. Fox is orchestrating an auction on behalf of the Press Club in which 100 stuffed Fredbirds with Shannon's autograph will be offered to those attending the dinner. Others on hand were: Harriet Blickenstaff of Blick & Staff Communications, Laura Hobson Bond of Fox 2, Martin Duggan of Donnybrook fame, Jeff Gordon, P-D online columnist, Susan Hegger and Mary Leonard of the St. Louis Beacon, florists Gail and Walter Knoll, Sr., Larry Levin of the Jewish Light, Diane and Paul Gallant, Webster U.'s Karen Luebert, Bill McClellan, McGraw Milhaven of KTRS, Steve Moore of KMOX, Tom Pagano of Fleishman-Hillard, Shannon's sidekick in the booth John Rooney and Mary Swan of AmerenUE. For ducats or sponsorship of the Media Person of the Year event, call 636-230-1973.
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Mike Shannon will not be giving up his perch at the booth anytime soon. He makes too much money, has too much fun, his social calendar is built around road trips, his liver is that of a 6 year old, and he waited along time for Mr Buck to leave so he can be King of S***…not beers BTW.
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Baltimore Falls 13-5 to Texas - Recap
Texas grabbed a 13-5 win over Baltimore on Wednesday, as Alexi Ogando was credited with a win at Rangers Ballpark.
Bettors who backed the Rangers were rewarded as -172 favorites at sportsbooks. Over-Under bettors saw the total score go OVER the closing total of 9.5.
Texas got 7 innings from Alexi Ogando, who gave up 3 earned runs on 4 hits, while striking out 5. He earned the victory, while the Rangers got 3 RBIs from Michael Young in the win.
Baltimore's starting pitcher Jeremy Guthrie worked 5 innings, giving up 8 hits and 6 earned runs while striking out 2 in the loss. They got 2 hits from Vladimir Guerrero in a losing cause.
Texas enjoyed an edge at the plate with an 18 -8 advantage in hits.
Texas looks to continue its winning ways next game with a battle against Oakland. Baltimore will aim to get back on the winning track at Boston.

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Arts & Humanities
Who Can Show us any Good?
Oliver O'Donovan, sometime Regius Professor of Moral Theology at the University of Oxford, is currently Professor of Christian Ethics and Fellow of New College at the University of Edinburgh. His lecture, second in the series on Religion and the Public Sphere, was also the endowed 'Birks Lecture' for 2009. His contribution is titled 'Who can show us any good?'
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text: Candidates for the 2013-14 Princeton Ambassadors spent Mother's Day (Sunday, May 12) visiting the Princeton Elim Home, Caley House and Zimmerman's Guardian Angel's campus where they gave Mother's Day flowers to residents. Candidates for the 2013-14 Ambassadors, in the back row, pictured left to right, are: Hailey Wheeler, co-sponsored by Ossell's and Louise's Basement Boutique; Emily Cassiday, sponsored by Princeton Health & Fitness; Allison Sterneman, sponsored by Marv's True Value; and Makayla Luke, sponsored by Minnesota Sportsman's Club. Not pictured is Heather Anderson, co-sponsored by Coffee Corner and Radiance Salon & Spa. The reigning Princeton Ambassadors, pictured in the front row from left to right, are: Nicole Sorenson, Jasmine Carr and Sylvia Michels.


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Hundreds evacuated from NY's Bellevue Hospital
Hundreds of patients have been evacuated from New York's Bellevue Hospital, which has been operating on back-up generators since superstorm Sandy took out power across parts of the city.
The evacuations came as president Barack Obama toured New Jersey areas affected by the historic storm, which crossed the coast two days ago, killing at least 40 people.
About 500 patients are affected by the evacuation of the city hospital, which is located near the East River in Manhattan but not in the worst part of Manhattan's flooded areas.
Several area hospitals have been contacted about the evacuation and are coordinating efforts to take on some Bellevue patients, including The Mount Sinai Hospital and St Luke's Roosevelt Hospital Centre.
New York mayor Michael Bloomberg says the evacuation is needed because of damage sustained during Sandy.
"They didn't think the damage was that bad and they had a generator going," he told a press conference.
"But the bottom line is when they got into the basement, they realised there was more damage.
"This is going to affect something like 500 patients."
A long line of ambulances was waiting outside the hospital to ferry patients to other medical centres.
Jarron Franklyn, 28, who works in Bellevue's rehabilitation department, says a back-up generator is still running.
"The power is down and we have flooding in the basement," he said.
Dennis Jiosne, 34, a patient from Point Pleasant New Jersey, was evacuated by stairs from the hospital's 16th floor.
He says there were National Guardsmen in the stair well passing people food and water.
Mr Jiosne, who was being treated for a septic ulcer, says the power went out two days ago and that there had been no running water in his room.
But he appears to be taking it all in stride.
"In my unit it really wasn't bad, aside from the plumbing and the food," he said.
"I'm a pretty resilient guy. I was content in my room.
"The lack of television was an inconvenience."
A handful of other New York hospitals have already been evacuated due to the storm that caused record flooding around the city.
New York University's Langone Medical Centre near the city's East River was previously forced to evacuate all 215 of its patients, including critically-ill infants, when its back-up generator failed after some three metres of water flooded its basement.
The Manhattan Veteran Affairs Hospital and the New York Downtown Hospital, both in low-lying areas of lower Manhattan, evacuated patients before the storm hit, and Brooklyn's Coney Island Hospital near the Atlantic Ocean beaches was later evacuated.


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Rory McIlroy has never been happier off the golf course. Now if he could just stop hurting on it.
The world's No. 3 player and recent newlywed said he re-aggravated a rib injury in his upper right back that sidelined him for nearly two months.
After he carded a 1-under par 71 to reach even par after two rounds of The Players Championship, McIlroy said he will be able to play through the weekend. But he plans to get an MRI on Monday.
"It might just be a flare-up of what happened previously and I just need to rest for a few days and it might be OK," he said. "Hopefully that's what it shows in the scan next week."
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DJ SELF EXCLUSIVE: Rico Love Grinds Like He 'Has Nothing' [VIDEO]
DJ Self is back with a brand new exclusive video filmed during his Midnite Mixs.
For the first few minutes of this video, you'll learn about a new southern group, We Are Toonz. They created a song titled "Drop That Nae Nae."
After that spotlight, Rico Love steps in to discuss his EP, Discrete Luxury and the slow grind to fame.
"I want people to do what I do because they love it. it'll ruin the game if a bunch of dudes is out here tryna write songs to get a check. Which is what's really going on for a while now. but I think the substance is coming back to music in general." Rico began to explain.
"I was watching, a webisode that future dropped the other day. He said something so real. He said that I've been grinding for ten years before I got to this point and I'm still grinding and working. You got people out here and move away from they house and try to hustle for two months and be frustrated and ready to give up. Ready to tweet me every day about why I ain't helping them. It's so much work that goes into it. before you get an opportunity to get one meeting you had to sweep up a bunch of floors. Go get a bunch of coffee and sacrifice and really humble yourself and just do the work for no money. So, if you ain't ready to do that, how you expect to be a millonare? … I ain't doing too bad for myself financially but I work like I ain't doing nothing. You know why? 'Cause I had nothing. I struggled and I loved it. I appreciated that grind."
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This is the administrative checklist for installing Solaris 8 as securely as possible on a Sun SPARCengine UltraAXmp. The machine will be used as a file and compute server providing shell access to remote users accessing via the Internet, such as what might be used by an ISP. Users will not be able to compile software on this machine, but can execute their own shell scripts and run pre-compiled binaries which they move into personal data space. Users will receive mail on this host, but the host will not be used to relay mail for others. A DNS server will not be installed, but some notes are made below about particular changes one would make to a similar system used as a DNS server.
The host will be a DNS client, and will otherwise retrieve network services information from local files. Filesystems are local and not exported.
The hardware includes four Ultra II 300 MHz processors, 1 GB of memory, two hot-swappable UltraSCSI drives and a SCSI CD-ROM. (And of course, my first note about what one would do differently on a DNS server is to point out that you would use a lot less hardware.) No floppy drive should be attached. One of the disk drives will serve as the OS disk and the other will only be added when a backup is desired (thus the hot-swap feature). At several points in this exercise you will need to make use of another machine running Solaris 8 which has compilers installed.
Solaris Installation CD
Install Solaris from the latest Maintenance Upgrade release. This is the version of the OS with the most recent complete set of patches which have been tested together. However, it is not a fully-patched system. You will still need to apply the most recent recommended and security patch bundle.
Solaris Software 1 CD
Once the above questions have been answered, you will be prompted to insert the Solaris Software 1 of 2 CD. Once it is in the CD-ROM tray:
File System Layout
Do NOT use custom install. By default, Solaris will create very few partitions, and this will prevent you from locking down filesystems to be read-only or to prevent set-uid scripts. You should specify each of the following filesystems. Log below the size given to each and which slice corresponds to which filesystem. The /dev and /devices filesystems need only about 10MB each. Remember that the Sun disk image limits you to seven partitions per disk (and one is already being used by swap), so / will need to be big enough to include /tmp. Only use one of the two disk drives so that the other can be used for backup. (User files and home directories for a machine with this purpose should probably be kept on some attached storage device like a RAID array.)
Firmware Upgrades
The SPARCengine UltraAXmp should have adequate firmware to run Solaris 8 with 64-bit support. However, it is possible that a new OBP version will be necessary for future software enhancements. If you are prompted at reboot to upgrade firmware, do so.
Additional Packages
There are additional packages not in the "Core Solaris Software Group" which you will want. This includes terminal information, system accounting utilities, Sun's NTP implementation, Berkeley-style binaries, the zlib compression library (for SSH), man pages and documentation. Since you're providing shell access, it would be kind to your users to provide some more powerful shells (like tcsh and bash), mail handlers like pine or the NMH tools, and it's always good to have less. Insert the "Solaris 8 Software 1 of 2" CD and install its packages.
Sun Recommended and Security Patch Cluster
As mentioned above, the latest Solaris CD contains only the latest patches tested as a full set. There will undoubtedly be security and recommended patches for individual packages which have since been released. From a separate machine (this one is not networked and not yet secure enough to add to the network) which has the md5sum binary installed, fetch the cluster.
Stopping Unnecessary Boot Processes
You only ever want to be in multi-user mode (with networking), single-user mode, or off, so you should remove startup scripts for all other run levels. You also remove scripts which start up insecure network services.
Tightening Networking
You should make the following adjustments to the end of /etc/init.d/inetinit to protect the machine from SYN floods, ARP spoofs, smurf attacks and from being unwitting allies to DDoS attackers.
Since inetd has been disabled, remove its configuration file. A later reappearance will be a smoking gun.
File System Configuration
There are two levels of protection which you want to enforce here. First, you want to prevent trojan horse programs from replacing system binaries in /usr and /opt. So you mount them read-only. Second, you want to prevent set-uid scripts from executing on any of these filesystems. You made this possible by creating /dev and /devices filesystems above. Mounting a filesystem nosuid also prevents devices from operating, so you need those to be separate filesystems from the root directory in order to mount / nosuid. In /etc/vfstab:
You should also ensure that removable media do not include set-uid executables. Since this machine is kept in a data center away from users, Volume Management should be turned off.
Administrative Accounts
Several of the accounts in /etc/passwd are unneccessary, but to ensure that older programs do not break, you will just effectively disable them. You also should ensure that these accounts cannot use ftp, cron or at.
Remaining Network Services
Not many. But the host needs to be a DNS client and should reference local files for password and group information. Let IPADDRESS be the IP address of the trusted DNS server, and GATEWAY be the IP address of the default router.
Improved Logging
You should ensure that security-related events are logged by syslog. This includes reboots, failed login attempts and all su attempts.
System and Process Accounting
Earlier you installed the Solaris system accounting packages, and you made sure that the sys user had a viable path so that system accounting could function. To get it started:
Auditing in the Solaris Basic Security Module
Solaris' Basic Security Module provides thorough auditing capabilities, to the point where every action taken by any user on the system can be audited. You should be very careful, however, with what signals you want captured, because you can run out of disk space very quickly. To start some basic auditing:
#!/bin/sh /usr/sbin/auditconfig -conf /usr/sbin/auditconfig -setpolicy none /usr/sbin/auditconfig -setpolicy +cnt /usr/sbin/auditconfig -setpolicy +argv
dir:/var/audit flags:fw,fm,fc,fd,lo minfree:10 naflags:lo
Before you even begin to set up sendmail, ensure that the DNS server you trust specifies this server as a recipient of mail for your domain.
Sun's sendmail binary should be replaced with one built from source. You will need to do this on a separate host which has compilers installed and then move the binaries and libraries over to this machine. From the other machine:
include(`../m4/cf.m4') OSTYPE(`solaris2') define(`confMAX_HOP',`25') define(`LOCAL_SHELL_PATH', `/dev/null') define(`confPRIVACY_FLAGS',`noexpn,novrfy') define(`confSMTP_LOGIN_MSG', `$j mailer ready at $b') define(`confMIME_FORMAT_ERRORS',`false') FEATURE(use_cw_file) MAILER(smtp) MASQUERADE_AS(<DOMAINNAME>)
Installing TCP Wrappers
You want to force all remote connections to this machine to be made via SSH and through TCP Wrappers. Once again you will need to build from the source on a separate host which has compilers installed and then move the binaries and libraries over to this machine. From the other machine:
Installing OpenSSH
Now that TCP Wrappers is built, you can build SSH with TCP Wrappers support. The instructions here show you how to build OpenSSH, which is ported to other Unices from the SSH implementation in OpenBSD. OpenSSH is a little harder to build, but is preferable because it has a strong base of ongoing support, and is capable of communicating with commercial products using the SSH 2.0 protocol and therefore more flexible for your users. As before, you will need to build from the source on a separate host which has compilers installed and then move the binaries and libraries over to this machine. OpenSSH requires Zlib (which you should have added as a package above and which obviously needs to be installed on the compiling machine) and OpenSSL, which you will build here first. From the other machine:
Configuring TCP Wrappers
Your users may connect from anywhere, but you must ensure that they only use SSH. You should also be notified when connection attempts are made and rejected. Let ADMIN_EMAIL be the appropriate email address for such messages to go on your site.
Configuring SSH
Port 22 ListenAddress 0.0.0.0 SyslogFacility AUTH LogLevel INFO HostKey /etc/ssh_host_key ServerKeyBits 1024 KeyRegenerationInterval 900 CheckMail no UseLogin no PrintMotd no KeepAlive no PermitRootLogin no IgnoreRhosts yes RhostsAuthentication no RhostsRSAAuthentication no RSAAuthentication yes PasswordAuthentication yes PermitEmptyPasswords no StrictModes yes UseLogin no LoginGraceTime 180
#!/bin/sh - # # PIDFILE="/etc/sshd.pid" SSHD=/opt/slocal/sbin/sshd case $1 in start) test -f $SSHD || exit 0 $SSHD ;; stop) test -f $PIDFILE || exit 0 PID=`cat $PIDFILE` test "$PID" && kill "$PID" > $PIDFILE ;; *) echo "Usage /etc/init.d/sshd {start | stop)";; esac exit 0
Configuring NTP
You installed the Solaris NTP package earlier, which created the startup scripts and stored the binaries and configuration file. But you still need to modify that file.
Further Tightening
Make the system stack non-executable:
Physical Security
If a machine is not physically secure, it is not secure. Anyone who has access to the hardware can bring down the system or manipulate the disk.
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Signature:__________________________________________ Date:________________
Bring the machine online and test connectivity and for the desired results from the restrictions you imposed. If any test fails, bring the machine offline immediately and repair.
The system should now be fairly secure. With the OS disk in this wonderful pristine state, back it up.
Your John Hancock
Well done. The host should be reasonably secure and prepared to serve its users. Obviously a great deal of attention should be paid daily. Logs need to be watched carefully, user behavior should be monitored, and basic system administration will still take place. But hopefully following the instructions above made all of those tasks a little easier. Sign below to certify that the system is ready for prime time.
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All Saints gets an extreme makeover, writes Debi Enker.
This week, veteran All Saints character Von (Judith McGrath) turns off the lights in Ward 17, where the Seven soap has been based for the past six years. From next week the action shifts to the emergency department, and Seven's head of drama, John Holmes, says the changes represent major surgery.
New characters will be introduced and a few familiar ones will check out. The changes were initiated last year by Holmes and Seven's script executive, Bevan Lee, to give the show a new lease of life and stem a drift of viewers. "We were seeing the scripts and watching episodes and we were feeling that there was a little bit of a sameness in it," Holmes recalls.
Although cop shows and hospital dramas are TV staples, Holmes notes there are fundamental differences between the two. "A police show like Blue Heelers goes out to a case every week. On a hospital series like All Saints, the stories come into the wards, so there can be a bit of a sameness about it."
Initially, Holmes and Lee thought about a spin-off series - an Accident and Emergency All Saints. But they decided instead to focus on revitalising the existing show. They gambled on the belief that it's harder to launch a new drama than change an existing one, something borne out in Australia during the past few years.
"We've gone into it and said, 'What are the strengths of the show? ... Which bits really work and which don't?' Holmes says. "It's been a real rework but, with all of these reworks, the one thing that you don't want to chuck out is the heart and soul of the program.
We believe that we've kept that intact and I put that down to the strength of the program."
As well as the change of setting, the rosters have also been revised. Out go Martin Lynes (Dr Luke Forlano), Jenni Baird (Dr Forlano's on-screen love interest, Paula Morgan), Henry Nixon ("Sterlo" McCormack) and Fletcher Humphrys (Alex Kearns), although Lynes's character might return in guest spots. In come a handful of regular and semi-regular cast members, including John Howard, who has signed-on for three years to play Dr Frank Campion, staff specialist and head of the emergency department.
Also joining the cast are newcomers Wil Traval, as intern Jack Quade, and Adrienne Pickering, who has been contracted for a 10-episode stint as nurse Sophia Beaumont, younger sister of Charlotte (Tammy McIntosh). Natalie Saleeba, who plays an emergency-department nurse, and Alexandra Davies (Young Lions), who plays an ambulance officer, have also signed on.
"We're losing some cast but we're doing that for various reasons," Holmes says. "One or two of the actors didn't want to continue. With a couple, we decided that the characters hadn't worked. And we also needed to create space for some new characters that we'll meet in the emergency department."
A new chapter is also set to open for All Saints' pivotal character, Nurse Terri (Georgie Parker). Since the death last year of Mitch (Erik Thomson) she's been in mourning, but that is about to change. "Without that relationship driving the central focus of the show, we've lacked an ingredient and we've not given Georgie enough material to put her centre stage often enough," Holmes says. "Our first preference would have been not to have lost Erik but he wanted to go off and do movies." Viewers can also expect tension between Terri and the head of emergency.
A radical makeover of an established show is always a gamble as it runs the risk of alienating loyal fans. There's always the possibility that such substantial alterations will further weaken an ailing program, although a failure to make changes could be equally damaging if the show continues to decline. Seven is hoping that the new-look All Saints will survive and thrive, and make a rapid return to the healthier ratings it enjoyed before.
All Saints screens on Seven on Tuesdays at 8.30pm.
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Helen Burrey worked on a hospital train during the span of the war (World War I.) Through out the war she wrote about what happened on the hospital train she was on. Here are some of the things that she said.
"The rest of the train consisted of sixteen coaches, including one infectious car which carried eighteen beds; one staff car which carried eight beds; one kitchen and sitting sick officers' car which carried three beds and twenty seats; eight ordinary lying ward cars which carried 288 beds; one pharmacy car; one infectious case sitting car which carried fifty-six seats and fourteen upper berths; one kitchen and mess car with three beds for cooks; one personnel car with thirty beds and one train crew and store car; the total capacity of the train was thus 400 beds.Each moving hospital was equipped with electric lights, steam heat, electric fans, lavatories and racks for personal belongings and even ash trays for the patients' indulgence. There were eight ordinary ward cars for patients containing thirty-six beds arranged in tiers of three. These could easily be converted into seats to accommodate patients who were able to sit up; they could also be used for stretchers in emergency cases or folded against the sides of the coach when the cars required cleaning."
In summary she talked about living conditions, the wounded that she had to treat and just about her life on the train.
Thursday, January 10, 2008
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International Summer Schools
and the programme director
Presentation of the scientific programme of the Summer School
Annamaria de Rosa (I)
Serge Moscovici (F)
With the participation of
on behalf of I.Mitchell,
Head of DGXXII Socrates
E. Whitehead, B
Exchange of introductions
between all the participants
All the participants into the Summer School
hosted by the co-ordinator of the European PhD
Two and a half hours discovering Rome through three thousand years of art and history
Serge Moscovici
Prof. G. D'Ascenzo
Prof. N. Dazzi
Dean of the Faculty of Psychology
Prof. M. Bonnes
Prof. A.S. de Rosa
Prof. F. Avallone
Prof. M. Bertini
Prof. R. Carli
Prof. G. De Leo
Prof. A.P. Ercolani
Prof. G. Losito
Prof. L. Mannetti
"A European Doctoral Programme in Social Psychology
co-ordinated by 'La Sapienza' operative in 14 Universities
in Europe"
"Building European
Post-graduate Curricula:
Scientfic, Administrative and Institutional implications"
N. Dazzi, I
Dean of Faculty of Psychology
A.S. de Rosa, I
Co-ordinator of the EU PhD on S.R.&C.
S. Moscovici, F
Programme Director of the EU PhD on S.R.&C. on behalf of M. Aymard, F
Head of M.S.H., Paris
K. Raivio, SF
Rector of the University of Helsinki
J. Ferreira, PT
President of ISCTE, Lisbon
G. Van der Perre, BE
President of EuroPACE 2000
I.Semplici, I
Adminstrative Head of ?La Sapienza? University
S. Le Moli
Ministry of University and Scientific Research
on behalf of I.Mitchell, B
Head of Socrates DGXXII,
"Planning future development and institutional implications"
Alberto Antas de Barros Junior
President of the Instituto Politecnico de Lisboa
Friedrich Schneider
Vice-Rector of the Johannes Kepler University of Linz
Jean Marc Fabre
Vice Pr?sident de l?Universit? de Provence
Room A
A Normative S.R., Society and Inter-Group Relations
W. Doise, CH
K. Helkama, SF
Normative S.R., Society and Inter-Group Relations
W. Doise, CH
K. Helkama, SF
"How can you use S.R. paradigm in organisational and educational contexts?"
S.R. in action:
Jews and Palestinians in Israel and Palestinians in the Palestinian Autonomy
S.R. around the world:
A different scenario for S.R. paradigm.
Room A
K. Helkama, SF
A Normative S.R., Society and Inter-Group Relations
"S.R. in a global/local symbolic social space"
S.R. and minority groups:
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US official claims ALP split on Iraq
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A senior United States official has fuelled Australia's domestic political row over Iraq, claiming the Labor Party is "rent down the middle" over the issue.
Richard Armitage, US Deputy Secretary of State, said Australian "colleagues" had spoken candidly to him recently about divisions inside Labor over the US alliance and Australia's role in Iraq.
In an interview with The Age, Mr Armitage said: "You know as well as I do that the Labor Party is split on these questions. I saw colleagues who were here recently; we had private discussions.
"It looked to me like the party was rent down the middle."
Mr Armitage declined to say which Australians had given him that advice, saying only: "It's not as if anyone's playing hide the sausage. (They're) speaking very candidly and plainly."
Mr Armitage made the comments on the eve of the annual bilateral security talks between Australia and the US.
Foreign Minister Alexander Downer and Defence Minister Robert Hill arrived in Washington yesterday for the talks with US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Secretary of State Colin Powell. The talks will cover Iraq and a new 25-year agreement on Australia's support for the missile defence system.
Mr Armitage's comment about talks with Australian "colleagues" in Washington was an apparent reference to Labor politicians who attended the recent Australian-American leadership dialogue.
Labor's foreign affairs spokesman Kevin Rudd, one of four Labor federal MPs who were at the dialogue, said last night: "I was in Washington recently and am unaware of the factual basis for this reported claim."
The other Labor representatives were the Opposition's deputy Senate leader, Stephen Conroy, Martyn Evans and former leader Kim Beazley.
Mr Beazley, who introduced Mr Armitage at the dialogue dinner, said last night: "As far as I'm aware the Labor Party has a pretty united view on Iraq policy."
In his interview with The Age, Mr Armitage said the alliance had to be seen as "a full-on relationship" and strongly defended recent comments by President George Bush, Mr Powell and himself criticising Labor's call for Australian troops to be withdrawn from Iraq by Christmas.
On President Bush's statement aggressively opposing Labor's policy, Mr Armitage said: "I couldn't understand how he could have answered it better."
Asked why his own criticism of Labor's policy had not contained the usual diplomatic rider saying it was up to the Australian people to decide for themselves, Mr Armitage replied: "Just ran out of time, I guess."
In other comments, Mr Armitage said he believed the Pentagon was capable of investigating allegations that the two Australian detainees at Guantanamo Bay, David Hicks and Mamdouh Habib, were abused and it was not necessary to have an independent inquiry into their cases.
"My own view, a very strongly held view, is that torture of any sort is inappropriate anywhere. I can assure you in that regard if the US is involved we ought to take steps, as we're doing in the Abu Ghraib investigation."
Mr Armitage expressed optimism about Iraq's caretaker Government and praised Prime Minister Iyad Allawi. "This is a fellow I know pretty well," Mr Armitage said.
Asked about recent allegations that Dr Allawi had in his early years worked for Iraqi intelligence under Saddam Hussein and had an abusive past, Mr Armitage said he did not believe Iraqis would give the allegations much consideration. "We'll see. I don't think that's going to sell particularly with Iraqis."
He said Dr Allawi's well-known opposition to Saddam Hussein's regime was more important.
Meanwhile, Opposition Leader Mark Latham, campaigning in Townsville, where defence forces are based, was embarrassed yesterday by recent comments by the local ALP candidate.
Last week Anita Phillips, 59, said: "I think it's still a long way till Christmas and I don't know if Latham said which Christmas."
Yesterday Ms Phillips insisted she agreed with Labor policy, describing her comment as a "throwaway remark" which she had been foolish to make.
Ms Phillips said an "exit strategy" from Iraq was needed, and described Labor's policy as "an aspiration", which depended on winning the election and the handover of power to the Iraqis being successful.
At a doorstop interview with Mr Latham, Ms Phillips said she had "always been on record as supporting the withdrawal of troops by Christmas".
Asked on radio about Ms Phillips' earlier remarks, Mr Latham said: "She supports the policy and, as you say, it was a week ago. The main thing: she supports the policy."
Defending his plan to withdraw troops by Christmas, Mr Latham said it was "not unusual to have a time limit on these engagements on the other side of the world.
"The Howard Government had one for Afghanistan, where they had the troops out by Christmas 2002," he said.
Mr Latham said Labor believed "very strongly" in the American alliance. "And the good thing about it is that it is stronger and broader than the errors that have been made in relation to Iraq."
Prime Minister John Howard said Ms Phillips had been caught out trying to soften Labor's message on troops in Iraq "because she knows it's unpopular in Herbert", and that Mr Latham had been forced to reaffirm the party's line.
"This is a blatant case of saying one thing to the people of Herbert and saying something else to the rest of the Australian people," Mr Howard said.
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The play's director Gregory Doran said David was "gutted".
In the meantime, he's been replaced by an actor called Edward Bennett.
Fans of the Doctor Who star were no doubt disappointed that they didn't get to see him in action, but the RSC said Edward Bennett, who normally plays the role of Laertes, still got a standing ovation.
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Washington Post columnist David Broder thinks Barack Obama is trying to do too much -- and that it's his own fault:
Obama, on the other hand, came into Christmas Day with an overloaded set of self-imposed tasks. He was winding down one inherited war in Iraq and expanding another one in Afghanistan. He was renegotiating our relations with other powers in the world and attempting to enlist their help in confronting outlaw regimes in Iran and North Korea. And simultaneously, at home, he was being pressed to rescue a badly wounded economy while lobbying a reluctant but allied Congress to pass controversial, ambitious changes in health care, climate control and financial regulation.
Raise your hand if you think dealing with two "inherited" wars and rescuing a "badly wounded economy" constitute "self-imposed tasks." How about dealing with financial regulation and a badly broken health care system? Anyone think those are optional? Yeah, I didn't think so.
Broder contrasts Obama's purportedly full plate with the ease with which President Bush shifted into fighting terrorism:
Bush reacted with anger and a determination to punish the people who wreaked the havoc.
For Obama to establish a new priority would obviously be much more difficult than it appeared to be for Bush. And this new priority would be a much less comfortable fit for Obama than leading a war on terrorism was for Bush.
Seems like there should have been room in there somewhere to mention that as "comfortable" as Bush was punishing "the people who wreaked the havoc," he was also pretty darn comfortable punishing the people who didn't. Or that Bush's obsession with the people who didn't wreak the havoc probably contributed to the fact that Osama bin Laden remains free to this day.
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The pandemic�s effect on children
Addressing HIV/AIDS in children is a significant global challenge. It is estimated that 2.2 million children, defined as those under the age of 15, are living with HIV/AIDS, constituting 13% of new HIV/AIDS infections and accounting for 17% of HIV/AIDS deaths annually.2 Over 1.2 million HIV-positive children live in 15 Emergency Plan focus countries, as reflected in Table 3.3 In some southern African countries, as many as 40-60% of deaths of children less than 5 years old have been attributed to AIDS.3 Where care and treatment are not available, studies suggest that 35% of infected children die in the first year of life, 50% by their second birthday, and 60% by their third birthday.4
In addition to the pain and suffering caused by HIV/AIDS, these children are more vulnerable to common causes of death that affect all children in developing countries, such as malaria, malnutrition, pneumonia, tuberculosis (TB), diarrhea, and vaccine-preventable diseases such as measles.
Services to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) can help to prevent infection of children, and long-term combination antiretroviral treatment (ART) that includes antiretroviral drugs (ARVs), are crucial interventions for children who are infected. Because parents and caregivers are often suffering with or have died from HIV/AIDS, it is important to remember that both their infected and uninfected children need other types of care as well. Activities aimed at improving the lives of children and families directly affected by AIDS-related morbidity and/or mortality are considered orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) programs. These may include training caregivers; increasing access to education; economic support; targeted food and nutrition support; legal aid; medical, psychological, and emotional care; and other social and material support. While these interventions supported by the Emergency Plan are beyond the scope of this report, data on them are nonetheless included in select tables in order to give a fuller picture of activities directed at the care of children.
[Editor's note: The following table also is available as text-only.]
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While effective interventions are available to prevent the transmission of HIV from mother to children and to diagnose and treat those children who become infected, the barriers to rapidly expanding these programs are significant.
Challenges to effective PMTCT programs in the developing world include: stigma, which poses a barrier to service and increasing access; the failure of women to return for HIV test results where rapid testing is not available; low acceptance of short-course preventive ARVs offered to HIV-positive women at antenatal clinics; difficulty in tracking and follow-up for mothers who deliver their infants at home; and the complexities of infant feeding for HIV-positive mothers in very low-resource settings. Referral for ART, when needed by mothers and children, depends on the availability of ART service sites in the area.
Obstacles to successful long-term ART programs in resource-poor settings begin with the challenge of diagnosis. From a clinical standpoint, accurately diagnosing HIV in the youngest children, when treatment may be most effective, is especially difficult and costly.
Both HIV diagnosis and treatment are affected by shortages of trained health care providers and of needed commodities. ARVs in formulations appropriate for children may not be available, and when they are available, they may cost up to four times the cost of adult treatment. In addition, the regimens are complex and difficult to follow. Even where diagnostics and drugs are available, once a child is diagnosed, health providers may not be familiar with pediatric treatment and care protocols.
Additional challenges are posed by limited health systems, which often face difficulties with management, commodity supply chains, and monitoring and evaluation. Monitoring and evaluation systems often do not report by age, making it difficult to assess the services that are being provided.
Mobilizing communities to meet the additional needs of children with HIV/AIDS and their caregivers can be difficult. Stigma can undermine essential efforts. Older children, who may have survived early childhood, often live in communities without access to services.
U.S. leadership in meeting the challenge
The Emergency Plan has brought unprecedented focus to the many faces of the HIV/AIDS crisis, including the impact on children. In keeping with the vision articulated in the U.S. Five-Year Global HIV/AIDS Strategy, the Emergency Plan is working with multi-sectoral host country partners, including governments, nongovernmental organizations, faith-based and community-based groups, and international partners to scale up prevention, treatment and care for children infected with and affected by HIV/AIDS.
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3 The fifteen focus countries are: Botswana, Cote d�Ivoire, Ethiopia, Guyana, Haiti, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Vietnam, and Zambia.
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Bimbo's is a ramshackle old cabin-like structure set among a grove of Christmas light-draped oak trees in the middle of nowhere on the far northwest side of town. There's seating on the front porch, but you don't have to sit out there to legally light up as Bimbo's is beyond the city limits and not subject to Houston's antismoking statute. Once inside, you'll likely find a bulwark of leather-clad bikers pounding Buds and Millers and occasional sidecars from the full bar like there's no tomorrow. They will probably also be singing to each other, to jukebox tunes like Dr. Hook's "Cover of the Rolling Stone." Meanwhile, the barmaid and another employee will be trying to reassemble the pieces of the night before: which of them, if in fact it was either one of them, took whom home, and what happened after that? And there is some priceless graffiti here, such as the one my wife found scrawled on the wall in the ladies' room: "Don't eat hot wings then pussy!" That's the kind of hard-won advice bikers go out and live for us so we don't have to.
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Rachel Brady has long worked as a scientist by day, but she's always loved reading fiction. One day she went from reading to writing, just to see if she could, she says. The result was Final Approach, published earlier this year. As readers might guess from the title, airplanes play a major role in Final Approach. Set in a skydiving school just outside of Houston, the book chronicles the adventures of Emily Locke as she does some undercover snooping into the case of a missing boy. Along the way, she runs into a weathered cowboy who might steal her heart — if he isn't the bad guy. Then there's her over-the-top friend Jeannie, who has turned being sassy into an art form. Brady's next book, Dead Lift, will hit shelves in December, and buzz is already building.
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Just last year Houston drinkers were relegated to driving or walking from bar to bar if they wanted to hop from joints off Washington Avenue or Midtown. In the past year, jitney services have popped up in town to haul the thirsty and party-hungry to far-flung places when walking or driving is either a chore or ill-advised for legal reasons. Cops don't really like it when you drink ten shots of Patrón and take to the wheel of your SUV. The biggest jitney to make the scene is the Washington Wave, which quickly became the leader in the nascent industry. Each bus in its fleet comes decked out with a sound system, a DVD player, and free water, candy and condoms if you are thirsty, hungry or plan to get lucky.


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Children in Open Adoptions Are Not Confused by Contact with Biological Families
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Interesting post. In our Samoan culture, 'adoption' as the Western world defines it does not traditionally exist. Families are not nuclear, they are extended and so children 'belong' to everyone in a sense. It is frowned upon to give a child of the family to complete strangers. Rather what happens is, a child is 'adopted' by a sibling, an aunt, grandparents, a cousin etc. Often, if a couple has lots of children and one of the parents siblings has not been blessed with any children - then they will give one of their young ones to the childless sibling. It is not a secret or a big deal. Traditionally, all adoptions are open then.ReplyDelete
I agree that, it would not be confusing for a child to 'know' their biological family/parents. I believe that the more people that can love a child - the better.
Thanks, Lani. The Samoan way makes a lot of sense. Things are shifting a bit towards that way of thinking in the West. At least in terms of older child adoptions via foster care, there is now a preference for kinship placements when possible.ReplyDelete
Hmm, I just mentioned this post in another comment to you, and now I see that you read it and commented already! Now, re-reading your comment here, I'm curious about your situation. Your other comment implies that your adoption is not open. Is it a non-traditional one, in the Samoan sense?ReplyDelete


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You have a poor ability to abstract and deduce from evidence, not to mention a lack of rudimentary reading comprehension skill.
But the researchers did not, for they cite in their conclusion...
CONCLUSION: sodium [¹⁸F]fluoride PET/CT might be useful in the evaluation of the atherosclerotic process in major arteries, including coronary arteries.
An increased fluoride uptake in coronary arteries may be associated with an increased cardiovascular risk
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Yeah, I'm such a bad reader and thinker that I managed to become my class valedictorian and am read by tens of thousands of people worldwide in my field.
In any case, the increased uptake once again refers to the tracer they are using - fluoride. In other words, if someone has calcification occurring in their coronary arteries then that is probably a risk factor for heart disease.
Fluoride binds with calcium. That's why they are using it as a tracer for CAT scans. They inject you with it so it will bind with any calcification deposits and then scan you.
If the CAT scan shows increased uptake of that tracer in your coronary arteries then chances are you have calcification going on there and are at risk for heart disease.
Of course, if you weren't a grade A moron you would've read it properly instead of twisting their words to fit your fantasy.
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LOL. A valedictorian of Shilltard University?
If you were so smart you would be able to take it a step forward and realize the addition of a salt to a person's bloodstream, a person who already has arterial calcification especially, will result in an INCREASE in the arterial accretions due to the affinity of various NA-FL salt compounds to lodge there, as PROVEN by that study.
In addition these compound will also shed a fluoride ion or two which will bind with calcium either on the plaque, or creating a INSOLUBLE Calcium fluoride. (see reference below)
Now while insoluble CAF2 is generally harmless, the process whereby it was created has just removed that free calcium's potential to do its proper work in regulating the nervous system, specifically by disrupting the homeostasis (proper exchange) of sodium and calcium ions across the plasma membrane of a cell. In other words, Fluoride encourages a short in the circuit by reducing free Calcium.
^ a b c I. M. Rabinowitch. Acute Fluoride Poisoning. Can Med Assoc J. 1945, 52, 345–349. [1]
The mechanism of toxicity involves the combination of the fluoride anion with the calcium ions in the blood to form insoluble calcium fluoride, resulting in hypocalcemia; calcium is indispensable for the function of the nervous system, and the condition can be fatal. Treatment may involve oral administration of dilute calcium hydroxide or calcium chloride to prevent further absorption, and injection of calcium gluconate to increase the calcium levels in the blood.
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I'll tell you what I'm smart enough to do. I'm smart enough not to assume that drinking a miniscule amount of fluoride is going to cause heart disease based on the fact that directly injecting large amounts of fluoride into a person's bloodstream binds with the calcification that is already present.
I am also apparently smart enough to point out that this entire post is based on a lie. A misreading of the research done out of sheer stupidity or ideology.
I'm also smart enough to notice when faced with this fact none of you recognize the error and instead engage in the "baffle me with BS" maneuver that is easy to see through.
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A minuscule (yes I spelled it correctly) amount of Fluoride? Really, Mr. Valedictorian?
So much for your edumacation.
Keyword = Bioaccumulation.
Water from drinking, water used in cooking beans/rice/pasta, water absorbed through skin in shower/bath, DAILY.
Fluoride concentrated in Cow's milk.
Fluoride salts aplenty in the pesticides concentrated in your cereal grains, vegetables, fruits. PROVEN.
Know any one who does NOT cook with "non-stick" coated pans? What about restaurants? Massive fluroride release every time they are heated. Airborne particulate and absorption into the food. Look it up.
Its in the soil everywhere there is a commercial farm, and in the air locally as well.
Furthermore, the OP of this thread said it was LINKED to Heart Disease, not "the cause". And it is certainly proven to have some link. I stand by my original assessment of your reading comprehension and deductive powers. Seriously lacking.
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LONDON, June 25 (Reuters) - Steve Darcis probably thought he would be taking a flight back to Belgium on Tuesday morning but instead the world No. 135 was basking in the Wimbledon spotlight after his stunning defeat of Rafa Nadal the previous evening.
Precious little was known about the 29-year-old from Liege until he turned tennis logic on its head by defeating the twice former champion in the first round in straight sets.
While journalists scrambled around for more information on the man nicknamed "Shark", the fall-out from Nadal's only defeat in the first round of the 35 grand slams he has contested was still reverberating around the All England Club grounds.
With Nadal was heading back to Mallorca to pick over the bones of his humbling loss, however, Darcis was holding court on a media balcony as television cameras swarmed around him.
Despite a win over Czech Tomas Berdych at last year's Olympics it is safe to say he could have walked through the grounds unnoticed 24 hours earlier.
Life has taken an unexpected turn for the recent father though after his 7-6(4) 7-6(8) 6-4 defeat of Nadal.
"It's amazing and I'm now starting to realise how big a win it was," Darcis, whose ranking peaked at 44 in 2008, told the BBC as spectators walking below stopped to point at the man who knocked out Rafa.
"I had many texts and messages after the win, which was really nice. And my Twitter followers jumped from 2,000 to 5,000."
There was to be no partying though as it was straight back down to business for the son of a tennis coach who sports a shark tattoo on his arm and supports Belgian soccer team Anderlecht.
With Pole Lukasz Kubot awaiting in the second round, Darcis hopes to avoid the fate of Lukas Rosol who also stunned Nadal last year but lost his next match in feeble fashion.
"My next match is tomorrow (Wednesday) so I have to focus already," he said.
Impressive as his victory was, Nadal looked a pale imitation of the man who claimed an eighth French Open title earlier this month and, while making no excuses afterwards, he looked hampered in his movement against Darcis.
Former Wimbledon great Boris Becker, who commentated on the match for the BBC, noted Nadal's reluctance to put pressure on his suspect left knee while hitting backhands.
The German great even suggested Nadal should have perhaps missed the tournament, especially as he had pulled out of the Halle warm-up event the week before and arrived in London with little preparation on the slickest of surfaces.
"Nadal has come back from injury so strongly this year but he was playing mainly on clay," Becker said.
"I almost thought that he should contemplate not playing (Wimbledon) this year." (Reporting by Martyn Herman; editing by Ken Ferris)


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On July 17, Bishop Thomas G. Wenski of Orlando, chair of the U.S. bishops' Committee on International Policy, issued a statement faulting Hamas and Hezbollah for triggering the present crisis, criticizing Israeli attacks on civilian infrastructure, expressing solidarity with the Lebanese, and asking the United States to exercise greater leadership to bring a halt to the violence.
On July 18, the U.S. bishops' conference staff prepared a set of talking points for social action directors in dioceses around the country about the statement. Among other things, it stressed that "we know who started the current cycle of violence," meaning "extreme factions of Hamas and Hezbollah," which, it said, was obviously intended to provoke a military response. The talking points said that "we recognize the right of Israel to defend itself."
Nevertheless, they continued, Israel's response "has been in some instances militarily disproportionate and indiscriminate." The italic emphasis is in the original.
These comments reflect an irony often noted by observers of statements from the U.S. bishops on the Middle East over the years. Because of the pro-Israeli nature of American politics, U.S. Catholics are usually among the most sensitive to Israeli concerns in global Catholicism; yet given the generally pro-Palestinian tilt of Catholic opinion in other parts of the world, Catholics here are often among the most sensitive voices to the Palestinians in American debate.
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AN ANNUAL charity music festival held in honour of a young Wimborne cystic fibrosis sufferer this year celebrated her survival following a lifesaving lung transplant.
Kate Hennessey was at death's door when last year's Hen Fest took place in her parents' back garden.
"She was on the transplant list and one of the consultants had said she was too ill to get a transplant. We knew she only had a matter of weeks," said her mum Gail.
"It was great to have all her friends there and we thought it would be a lovely way to remember her."
Three days later Kate was rushed into hospital, where she continued to deteriorate. She had been kept alive by a heart lung bypass ecmo machine for a week before she was given her new lungs at Harefield Hospital last August.
There were complications after the operation and Kate was not allowed home until just before Christmas.
Gail said: "This year, the event has been bigger, and in terms of spirit, very much about celebration. Kate's an amazing person. You couldn't believe the amount she's suffered, but she's a fighter.
"Three weeks ago she caught an infection. We were told she wouldn't get through the night and were told to say our goodbyes. They put a morphine drip on to ease her through, but it wasn't adequate.
"By morning she had turned a corner and 10 days later she was back home. She put a message of Facebook saying: 'Dear Lord Death, beat you this time, better think of another way to kill me. I'm off down the pub'.
"She's funny, full of life, and really determined to do anything within her power to make those lungs work, not just for her but also for the donor's family."
Gail and her husband Mike started Hen Fest three years ago and this year hope to have made around £6,000 for cystic fibrosis research and furnishing a new patients' room at Harefield.
"This was the last one in the garden because we can't accommodate all the people that want to come," said Gail.
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Punk Fashion Tips – 3 Styles to Perfecting the Modern Punk Look
July 25, 2010 by Kristine | Filed under Style & Trends
Fashionistas are going ga-ga over punk! Vivienne Westwood, Ed Hardy, Marc Jacobs and Betsy Johnson are some of the famous names taking the fashion world by storm. Their unique take of punk-contemporary designs made them huge household names for this generation. Are you at a loss where to start with this fashion scheme? Below are some quick punk fashion tips for beginners:
1. Sexy Punk: Let's recreate the 80's gothic punk with modern sexy punk. Usually a white or black oversized top would be a safe choice. Most shirt designs are studded with metal links or chains to give a subtle punk look. Ripped jeans or skinny jeans may be paired with black, red or white pumps, wedges or boots. Metal earrings and leather cuffs compliments the overall get-up.
2. Glamorous Punk: More designers are now following this trend. Applicable punk fashion tips under this category can only be summarized with one word: Bling. Rhinestone earrings, necklaces, gothic pumps, wedges and a headdress will do wonders to a simple black dress. Take a small purse with intricate details like ruffles, stones and chains. Out of for a corporate gathering? Take this punk overhaul and make a hot statement!
3. Emo Punk: Emo punk is a widely used fashion statement for the younger generation. Irregular sideway hair lengths are the most basic emo hairstyle. Plain cuffs, black shirts, dark eyeliners and black nair polish are usually sported to achieve this look. Don on some sneakers and you're good to go!
For men's casual punk attire, go for shoes like Converse, Vans, DCs and the likes. For women, belts make a great accessory for slightly bigger torsos. And lastly, own the look. Your best accessory is your confidence!
These are just some of the basic punk fashion tips you'll need to help you get started. The flexibility of contemporary casual to glam punk fashion created quite a buzz from everyday individuals, teenagers and reached as far as Hollywood. Just think of leather, metal studs and belts and a pair of edgy shoes. Make your own style standout from the rest!


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The official announcement of Prince William's engagement to Kate Middleton happened less than 24 hours ago, but that hasn't stopped hackers exploiting web users searching the net for the latest news about the happy couple.
According to security firm Websense, poisoned search results have already started appearing in Google and other search engines. The search results lead to malicious web pages that infect a user's PC with malware when they navigate to the pages.
According to Websense's 2010 Threat Report, more than one in five (22.4 percent) of all searches for current news lead to malicious search results.
"Prince William's engagement is the latest example of a hot media topic that is being used to manipulate search engine results to make malicious links appear higher than legitimate links," said Carl Leonard, senior manager, Websense Security Labs.
It is an increasingly popular method of attack for cybercriminals, and one that shows they are using ever more sophisticated techniques."
Leonard said threats on the internet are changing rapidly and security needs to be kept up to date to match threats.
He warned consumers and businesses not to rely on security tools bought two or three years ago, and to remain vigilant, making sure only reputable sites are visited when looking for news for example rather than just conducting random searches.
Security firm Sunbelt Software said that within minutes of the engagement being made public, it detected a poisoned link that appeared in results when 'images of Kate Middleton' was searched for on Google. The link displays the image but then redirects the user to friefox.ddns.pl, where a Trojan is downloaded on to their PC.


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According to one study, 44 percent of those interviewed said they would be willing to relocate for a career opportunity this year.
Nearly one-third of employers participating in the same study said they are willing to pay to relocate an employee in 2012, especially for positions tied to technology and revenue generation. The study was conducted by CareerRelocate.com, CareerBuilder's job relocation site.
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Learn what you would need to earn in order to maintain your current standard of living in another city. Your research should include factors such as housing, property values, schools, transportation, cost of living indexes, insurance premiums and social life.
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Make sure to set aside enough to cover expenses, such as moving costs, initial housing costs and furniture.
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With a lineup consisting of all three members of New York sludge-doom trio Unearthly Trance alongside former Electric Wizard/current Ramesses bassist Tim Bagshaw, Serpentine Path were/are pretty much destined to deliver a respectable level of detuned satisfaction. While the band's debut breaks pretty much zero new ground, Serpentine Path's thudding death-doom will have genre enthusiasts rolling their stoned skulls in graveyard genuflection. Meandering and dirge-like, the eight songs here live up to the band's moniker, weaving slow and snaky through the album's 42 minutes and what we can only presume is a veritable wall of amplification. Tune in and nod out. J. BENNETT
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To the latter Bougainville gave the name of Grandes Cyclades,—one, however, not destined to be long retained.
Two vessels were placed under the orders of M. de Bougainville.
"The reconnaissance looks as if Wolfe meant to attempt a landing here," Bougainville said.
Bougainville was the first Frenchman who sailed round the world.
Bougainville could only obtain very vague information of their ceremonies and religion.
Bougainville and called by him Louisiade, and probably joins to it.
Upon leaving the strait, Bougainville made an unsuccessful search for Cloates Island.
The rumor of the English invasion was confirmed by Bougainville.
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If you work with a cultural heritage organization and you're interested in developing your own partnerships with Wikipedians and the Wikimedia community, join us for the first GLAM Wiki Partnerships in Baltimore meeting hosted by the Walters Museum. We'll start with an introduction to how GLAMs (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums) across the country are partnering with Wikipedia from Wiki DC organizer Katie Flibert and museum professional Sarah Steirch. This introduction will be followed by a presentation by Dylan Kinnett on new online engagement efforts by the Walters Art Museum. We'll then conclude with a lively brainstorming session on new opportunities here in Baltimore.
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The latest from "The Scientology Parent"Video: Targets & Goals and the Admin ScaleThere are virtually unlimited parallels between the ways that the technology of running groups can be applied to the family. I've written a few articles (like this and this) on the subject, as the brilliance with which L. Ron Hubbard's administrative teachings can be used to unsnarl problems in the family never ceases to amaze. Another such facet of this is one that seems to have infinite appli … [Read more...]
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Tad Reeves is Scientologist, a website systems engineer, and a parent of two adorable children. He has a great time applying Scientology as a parent, and keeps up a website entitled ScientologyParent with tips and successes that he, his wife, and his friends have had in applying Scientology to the joys and challenges of parenting.I think that communication skill is one of the single most – if not the single most undervalued yet utterly essential skills in being a parent, a husband or a … [Read more...]


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Mountain Retreat Resort, Arnold
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- Indoor pool
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- Calaveras Big Trees State Park (2.9 mi / 4.6 km)
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Mountain Retreat Resort, Arnold
Hotel Info: 866-539-8117from $243
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Key facts
Hotel size
- This hotel has 31 rooms
- This hotel is arranged over 3 floors
- Check-in time 4 PM-8 PM
- Check-out time is 10 AM
Required at check in
- Credit card deposit required
- Government-issued photo ID required
- Minimum guest age is 21
Travelling with others
- Children (18 years old and younger) stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding
- Pets not allowed
- Free WiFi in public areas
- Free WiFi in rooms
- Self parking *
Other information
- Smoke-free property
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In the hotel
- Supervised childcare/activities (surcharge)
- Coffee/tea in a common area
- Barbecue grills
- Indoor pool
- Ski storage
- Free use of nearby fitness center
- Spa services on site
- Spa tub
- Sauna
- Arcade/game room
- Billiards or pool table
- Business center
- Front desk (limited hours)
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Laundry facilities
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Number of buildings/towers - 15
- Year Built 1982
- Picnic area
- Library
- Fireplace in lobby
- Television in common areas
In the room
- Air conditioning
- Ceiling fan
- Coffee/tea maker
- Iron/ironing board
- Washer/dryer
- Sofa bed
- Pillowtop mattress
- Fireplace
- Individually decorated
- Individually furnished
- Separate dining area
- Separate living room
- Separate sitting area
- Balcony
- Second bathroom
- Shower/tub combination
- Designer toiletries
- Hair dryer
- 19-inch flat-screen TV
- Cable TV channels
- DVD player
- Free newspaper
- Free WiFi
- Free local calls
- Full-sized refrigerator/freezer
- Microwave
- Kitchen
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- Weekly housekeeping provided
- Access via exterior corridors
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Only registered guests are allowed in the guestrooms.
This property does not have elevators.
Reservations are required for golf tee times and can be made by contacting the property before arrival at the number on the booking confirmation.
Optional extras
Late check-out can be arranged for an extra charge
Self parking costs USD 10.00 per night
Housekeeping is offered for an extra charge of USD 40 per night
Rollaway beds are available for an additional charge
We have included all charges provided to us by this hotel. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the room you book.
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