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– Renault-Nissan and Daimler partner on fuel-efficient engines and transmissions
– Original projects remain on track as partnership expands globally
PARIS, France (Sept. 28, 2012) — Daimler and the Renault-Nissan Alliance are collaborating on two new projects to accelerate development of fuel-efficient powertrains.
Renault-Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn and Daimler CEO Dieter Zetsche confirmed the new projects Friday in an annual media update about the Franco-Japanese-German partnership.
The new engine project is a jointly developed 4-cylinder gasoline engine family co-led by Renault and Daimler. The direct-injection turbocharged engine will feature state-of-the-art technology in a compact package. It targets a significant improvement in fuel economy as well as low emissions.
Daimler CEO Dieter Zetsche and Renault-Nissan Alliance CEO Carlos Ghosn at joint press conference in Paris. Credits: Stephane Foulon.
The companies expect to jointly manufacture the new engines. They will debut in Daimler and Renault and Nissan vehicles in 2016.
In the new transmission project Daimler grants Nissan a license to manufacture automatic transmissions using Daimler´s latest transmission technology for Nissan and Infiniti vehicles starting in 2016.
Nissan subsidiary Jatco is planning to manufacture these newly licensed gearboxes in Mexico. The new transmission will feature "start and stop" and "park and shift by wire" technologies.
"These new components demonstrate how broadly and rapidly our collaboration is proliferating – while all the time remaining rooted in specific projects that give tangible benefits to our customers," Ghosn said. "The relationship is expanding organically and logically."
"The collaboration achieved a milestone this year, with the first vehicles and engines from the partnership now on the roads," Zetsche said. "Furthermore, all our engineers are keeping an open mind, looking with fresh eyes at all potential new areas of collaboration."
Ghosn and Zetsche confirmed that all of the original "pillar projects" announced in 2010 have been accomplished or are on track. The companies are also moving forward with discussions on fuel-cell vehicle powertrains, and they are working on a cross-supply program for battery and powertrain components of zero-emission versions of their small cars.
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The Renault-Nissan Alliance is a strategic partnership between Paris-based Renault and Yokohama, Japan-based Nissan, which sell one in 10 cars worldwide. Renault and Nissan have been strategic partners since 1999 and sold 8.03 million cars in nearly 200 countries in 2011. The Alliance operates strategic collaborations with numerous automakers, including Germany's Daimler, China's Dong Feng and regional manufacturers such as Ashok Leyland in India.
Daimler AG is one of the world's most successful automotive companies. With its divisions Mercedes-Benz Cars, Daimler Trucks, Mercedes-Benz Vans, Daimler Buses and Daimler Financial Services, the Daimler Group is one of the biggest producers of premium cars and the world's biggest manufacturer of commercial vehicles with a global reach. Daimler Financial Services provides financing, leasing, fleet management, insurance and innovative mobility services.The company's founders, Gottlieb Daimler and Carl Benz, made history with the invention of the automobile in the year 1886. As a pioneer of automotive engineering, Daimler continues to shape the future of mobility today: The Group's focus is on innovative and green technologies as well as on safe and superior automobiles that appeal to and fascinate its customers. For many years now, Daimler has been investing continually in the development of alternative drive systems with the goal of making emission-free driving possible in the long term. So in addition to vehicles with hybrid drive, Daimler now has the broadest range of locally emission-free electric vehicles powered by batteries and fuel cells. This is just one example of how Daimler willingly accepts the challenge of meeting its responsibility towards society and the environment. Daimler sells its vehicles and services in nearly all the countries of the world and has production facilities on five continents. Its current brand portfolio includes, in addition to the world's most valuable premium automotive brand, Mercedes-Benz, the brands smart, Maybach, Freightliner, Western Star, BharatBenz, Fuso, Setra and Thomas Built Buses. The company is listed on the stock exchanges of Frankfurt and Stuttgart (stock exchange symbol DAI). In 2011, the Group sold 2.1 million vehicles and employed a workforce of more than 271,000 people; revenue totaled €106.5 billion and EBIT amounted to €8.8 billion.
Further information on Daimler is available on the Internet at: www.media.daimler.com
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Smashing Grape Cocktail Recipe
When summer bliss fades and the chaos and responsibilities of fall take over, we can all use a pick-me-up to take the edge off of the back to school season.
When summer bliss fades and the chaos and responsibilities of fall take over, we can all use a pick-me-up to take the edge off of the back to school season.
This smashing good cocktail offers a sweet salute to summer—reflecting on the passed season's refreshing notes while looking forward to the future and all of fall's offerings.
While grapes are usually left to the wineries when it comes to cocktails, we find this fizzy drink to be just the remedy for those facing the post-summer blues.
This gentle, yet juicy pairing of green grapes and basil offers an earthy answer to our happy hour prayers—especially after a long day of back-to-school shopping or running errands.
1/2 cup green grapes
6 fresh basil leaves
2 tablespoon lemon juice
2 tablespoon simple syrup
1 tablespoon honey
4 ounces vodka
4 ounces soda water
Line the bottom of a cocktail shaker with the grapes; using a muddler or spoon smash the grapes until all skins are completely broken and a thick, juicy pulp has formed.
Next, pour the contents of the shaker through a fine mesh sieve into a bowl and reserve the juice.
Give your cocktail shaker a rinse and then place the basil leaves in bottom. Using your spoon or muddler, gently mash just enough to release their fragrant oils.
Pour in the grape juice you set aside, the lemon juice and simple syrup. Stir the mixture a bit before topping with ice and honey. Shake vigorously and pour into your glass.
Top off the cocktail with soda water for some fizz and garnish with a few frozen grapes for extra refreshment.


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There are a couple of interesting articles today about Google and its actions as a corporate citizen.
One involves the search giant's increased spending on lobbying in Washington, D.C. According to ConsumerWatchdog.org, "Google increased its spending on lobbying 11 percent over the previous year to $1.2 million in the third quarter, demonstrating the Internet giant's willingness to spend to shape federal policy."
ConsumerWatchdog.org reports that Google "has spent $3.92 million (on lobbying) so far this year compared with $4.03 million in all of 2009."
The group doesn't level a particular charge against Google, but points out that the company has tried to exert influence on a number of issues under discussion in the nation's capital, such as "online advertising regulation including privacy and competition issues, patent reform, online consumer protection, cloud computing, renewable energy, smart grid, Congressional Internet service usage rules and broadband access."
Obviously, many companies and industries lobby, and are legally entitled to do so. But ConsumerWatchdog.org says Google "outspent some rival tech companies" in Q3, including Apple ($340,000) and Facebook ($120,000). Another big spender in D.C. is Microsoft, which racked up $1.63 million in third-quarter lobbying costs.
Income shifting
The other interesting article, published by Bloomberg, details how Google "cut its taxes by $3.1 billion in the last three years using a technique that moves most of its foreign profits through Ireland and the Netherlands to Bermuda."
Again, Google hardly is alone. Bloomberg says the company "uses a strategy that has gained favor among such companies as Facebook Inc. and Microsoft Corp." It's called "income shifting," and it features specific strategies such as the "Double Irish" and the "Dutch Sandwich."
Trouble is, as Bloomberg points out:
Companies that use the Double Irish arrangement avoid taxes at home and abroad as the U.S. government struggles to close a projected $1.4 trillion budget gap and European Union countries face a collective projected deficit of 868 billion euros.
Which isn't a corporation's concern, one could fairly argue. Indeed, Bloomberg quotes Irving H. Plotkin, a senior managing director at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP's national tax practice in Boston: "A company's obligation to its shareholders is to try to minimize its taxes and all costs, but to do so legally."
Not everyone sees things that way.
Google is "flying a banner of doing no evil, and then they're perpetrating evil under our noses," said Abraham J. Briloff, a professor emeritus of accounting at Baruch College in New York who has examined Google's tax disclosures. "Who is it that paid for the underlying concept on which they built these billions of dollars of revenues?" Briloff said. "It was paid for by the United States citizenry."
Briloff is referring to research funding the U.S. National Science Foundation provided Stanford University, where Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page started the company, as well as scholarship money Brin received while working on what would become one of the most powerful companies in the world.
So is Google "perpetrating evil under our noses"? Is it "evil" to have your start-up subsidized by the government, only to do everything you can -- once you've become a hugely profitable company -- to avoid paying your share of taxes when the U.S. faces a massive deficit? Or is it just ungrateful? Or neither? I'd love to hear what readers think.


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I'm in the middle of making a macro for Excel 2000.
I have two questions.
1. I wanted a return value/string of current cursor position.
For instance, my cursor is now at B200 (and always change). How do I write the macro program for this?
2. Related to the first question, I wanted to run a Histogram (from Tools - Data Analysis - Histogram) for B1:B200. Below is my script, it means that the Histogram add-ins analyze data in range B1:B200 and put the result in F1. How do I change the range automatically if for the next data set the range are different?
Application.Run "ATPVBAEN.XLA!Histogram", ActiveSheet.Range("$B$1:$B$200"), _
ActiveSheet.Range("$F$1"), , False, False, False, True
Thanks in advance. Yuniati.
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I have pasted below an extract from one of my files for speed, otherwise I will not be able to fully answer your query.
It uses the currently selected cell reference:
curref = Selection.Address
curref now holds the value of the currently selected cell.
This which was part(1) of your question.
In my program I need to find the last used line in a table and add a line below this by copying the formulas in the previous line.
you could equally well adapt it to the range for your Addin function using a different combination of & (concatenate function)
I know I have not answered your question exactly, but short of having your table at least this gives you a start...It shows you how how to manipulate the reference.
If not come back to me directly and I'll see if I can help more.
'Next bit finds the last completed row, Inserts row afterwards
'Copies the last complete 1 over the top.
Sheets("Sales Pipeline").Select
curref = Selection.Address
nxtref = "$B$" & (Right(curref, Len(curref) - 3) + 1)
Lstrow = Right(curref, Len(curref) - 3)
cpyrow = Lstrow & ":" & Lstrow
pstrow = (Lstrow + 1) & ":" & (Lstrow + 1)
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Menu Toggle is a very small, simple module that lets you toggle the visibility of expanded menu items. By default when a Drupal menu is set to 'Expanded', the children of that menu item are listed below it. Some menus have very long lists of items however, and it can be inconvenient to navigate. With Menu Toggle you can force expanded menu items to show up only when you click the parent menu item. This will save a lot of vertical real estate on your website. Since the menu tree is already loaded during the bootstrap process, there is no AJAX involved - just a simple toggling of the display using a bit of jQuery. You also have the option of displaying the expanded menu items by default. Items in the active menu tree are always expanded.
Note that in order for a menu item to be togglable, the parent menu item must be set to 'Expanded' in Drupal's administration interface. By doing this you have complete control over which menu items can be toggled and which can't.
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Read our Thirty Year Timeline of Progress
See a slide show of the results of over $2 Million in grant funding being effectively spent. Here.
Whether it's receiving grants, cutting ribbons, or just pursuing the work of building and maintaining a world class museum, there's lots of progress being made!
New Museum Entrance Building. See details here. This project continues a series of impressive developments at the Museum.
New Railroaders Hall. Doubled the indoor display space for locomotives and exhibits.
Railway Education Center. Home for extensive hands-on, outreach, and professional teaching activities.
And Much More, including a new Restoration Building, a 1915 street scene, rebuilt outdoor tracks, new archival storage facilities, expanded exhibits, a locomotive cab simulator, effective use of computer technology, professional cataloging of archival holdings....
See our Restoration section for how we've restored precious locomotives and rolling stock.
The Museum has been a regular recipient of grants from the Institute of Museum and Library Services and other respected funding sources.
These include the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the North American Railway Foundation, John Frederick Steinman Foundation, the Transportation Enhancement Act (TEA 21 and ISTEA), Save America's Treasures (National Endowment for the Arts), and many other individuals and corporations.
See our slide show on how effectively these funds have been used here.
Learn about major funding breakthroughs in 2010, including a new roundhouse and an impressive new exhibits program here.
It was developed in concert with Museum Staff, Friends of the Railroad Museum leadership, our Advisory Committee, and the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. To view the approved plan, click here.
This is in PDF format. If you need the free Adobe Reader to view it, get it here.
The Museum is regarded as a world-class facility in the field of railroad history. We belong to professional associations, and have been preparing for formal accreditation. This has entailed formal self-examination, compilation of extensive data, and submission to an outside review process.
Grants have allowed fragile negatives and other records to be scanned and cataloged.
A Save America's Treasures grant allowed restoration of the pre-civil war Cumberland Valley combine car.
We've preserved and restored precious relics like this, the last survivor of over 400 E7 diesel-electrics.


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On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Tom Lane<tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote: > Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes: >> Kevin Grittner wrote: >>> However, even the *possibility* that this could be true is pretty >>> scary. If we need to effectively shut down new development for seven >>> months at the end of a release, in addition to the interim commit >>> fests, we'd better get a handle on why, so that can change. To what >>> do you attribute the extended time needed to handle the final CF? >>> How can that be made better? > >> We had many patches that had been through previous commit-fests with >> minor adjustments and we had to finalize them before we could close the >> final commit-fest. To be clear I am talking about patches that were >> eventually applied in 8.4, not patches that were rejected for 8.4. > > I think this is simply not in agreement with the facts. The patches > that caused the greatest amount of delay for 8.4 were the ones that > ultimately got rejected --- notably hot standby, sync rep, and > sepostgres. Now the fact that everybody knew they would take awhile This is also how I remember it. > provided some "cover" for other patches that weren't quite ready. > If we had bounced those three on Nov. 1 the commit fest would've been > a lot shorter. Probably some other things that did get in would've > gotten bounced too, but on the whole I think the project would have been > better off. It wasn't just the big patches that dragged on forever: for example, updateable views got submitted literally hours before the start of the CommitFest in a state where it did not even pass regression tests, I reviewed it, there was a loooong delay before resubmit, then it got committed, then it got reverted. If we had ejected that patch from the queue (for non-resubmission, if nothing else) early on in the process, it would have freed up at least three people's time (Tom's, mine, Peter's) to work on other patches that were in better shape and submitted sooner. One of the WORST mistakes that we made with the November CommitFest was to only assign reviewers to the small patches, figuring that the committers would look at the big ones. SE-PostgreSQL was not given a reasonable review for a very long time. What we need to do this time is start with the biggest patches and assign the most capable reviewers (committers, preferably) to those patches and then work down the list. This is another example of the uncomfortable dynamic between committers and everyone else: non-committers don't feel comfortable assigning committers to review patches, because who are we to tell the commiters what to do? But when the committers are the only ones competent to do that review, the result is a huge vacuum. We need to put some structure around this that works. I do agree, however, that rejecting more patches sooner (in particular, the ones that had been reviewed and found wanting) would have been the way to go and good for the project. > The long and the short of it is that there is always tremendous pressure > to include patches that are on the edge of being ready, because we all > know that bouncing them to the next release cycle will mean an extra > year before they're available in production. The dynamic in 8.4 was > exactly the same as it's been in the prior release cycles: we keep > slipping the possible release date and trying to get those patches > ready, and we don't give up until everyone agrees the release is just > hopelessly late. As long as we keep behaving that way, no amount of > schedule-setting or rule-making is going to change anything. Yep. > It comes down to somebody having the willingness to say "no" and the > authority to make it stick. Robert mentioned upthread that the > committers don't want to be seen as throwing their weight around, > which is quite true, but I have also noticed in the past that saying > "no" does not convince whoever is arguing that "this release will suck > if it doesn't have this feature". And there's always somebody arguing > that side --- usually several people. Yep. But having a review that clearly enumerates the reasons WHY the patch needs to be rejected is certainly more compelling than a blanket statement that the patch is big and invasive and therefore must have bugs, even if we haven't looked at it enough to find them. The blanket statement may be quite true, but it doesn't provide feedback to the patch author and so fails to accomplish one of the main purposes of the CommitFests, at least IMO. ...Robert
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Facial hair is all the rage, or so it would seem based on the scores of athletes and celebrities sporting it these days. All told, 62 percent of men have facial hair at some point during the year; however, despite the growing popularity, many are hesitant to get the ball rolling because they don't know where to start.
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Ryane Clowe scored to tie the game with 1:26 remaining in regulation and Joe Pavelski netted the clincher in the sixth round of the shootout as the San Jose Sharks posted a 4-3 win over the visiting Montreal Canadiens on Thursday.
Logan Couture added a goal and an assist and Antti Niemi made 29 saves in regulation and overtime for the Sharks, who ended a modest two-game slide.
Martin Havlat scored in the second round of the shootout but captain Brian Gionta matched it in the third to keep the game going. Michal Handzus and David Desharnais traded tallies in the fourth round. Pavelski would get his chance in the sixth, using a hesitation move to freeze Carey Price and then firing a wrist shot between the pads.
Niemi stopped defenseman P.K. Subban on the other end, giving San Jose the victory.
With an extra skater on the ice, the Sharks tied it at 3-3 as Clowe caught the bouncing rebound of Havlat's wrister and lifted it from the doorstep over Price's shoulder.
Desharnais recorded a goal and two assists and Michael Cammalleri and Erik Cole each finished with two points for Montreal, which has dropped four straight.


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MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) Tropical storm warnings have been issued for parts of Mexico and Cuba as Ida rapidly gains strength over Caribbean waters.
The warnings were issued Saturday for parts of the Yucatan Peninsula and western Cuba. A tropical storm warning was also in effect for Grand Cayman Island.
A tentative forecast track from the National Hurricane Center in Miami shows the storm could hit the U.S. Gulf Coast next week.
Ida had winds of 75 mph when it hit the central Nicaraguan coast Thursday, but it quickly lost force as it slogged inland and winds were down to about 35 mph Friday morning, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami.
The storm smashed dozens of flimsy dwellings and forced thousands of people to evacuate their homes in sparsely populated eastern Nicaragua. Bridges, schools and electrical transmission towers were damaged, but no deaths were reported.
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Comments about Shimano Ultegra CS-6800 11-speed Cassette - 11-32t:
Installed easily on hub and I have a Di2 with a short cage RD, and it needed no adjustments to installed/function. Love that Di2. Makes climbing some nasty Missouri hills effortlessly with that #32.
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Great durable product that so far has lasted over 13000 miles. It provides great gear range for going up steep mountains. Will definitely buy again.
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I am a weekend rider but was ready to upgrade. I was skeptical about the range of a cassette this gearing this wide but Shimano has done a great job in making it work. I can now ride a double instead of a triple again without concern about pushing it too far. Very smooth.
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Swapped out my Ultegra 11-28 cassette for this 11-32 to give me a lower gear ratio for climbs. Did not have to change derailleur and did not touch the chain either (same length but do no use the large chainring, largest cassette gear combo). Running a 50-34 compact crank on the front. Shifting pattern has a broad overlap 5-13-6-14-7-15-8-16-9-17-10-18 so you do have to do a double shift more often than with the 11-28 cassette when chasing just the right gear but it becomes 2nd nature quickly.
Fantastic upgrade!
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I purchased this cassette (11T-32T) to replace a 10 speed 11T-28T cassette. It required that I upgrade my componentry to 11 speed Ultegra Di2 componentry. It was worth every penny. I can now climb the nearby mountains with the proper gearing. It was easy to install. If you buy this cassette, remember to remove all the extra washers and spacers from the wheel before installing it. I would recommend this cassette to anyone.
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The city's panel assigned to review reported false kidnapping statistics from 2009 met April 11 to discuss what has been gathered so far and set goals for its next meeting.
Panel members reported what they have learned from meetings with Phoenix police, were updated on their timeline by City Auditor Randy Spenla and were able to ask questions and receive answers from some of the people involved, said Toni Maccarone, director of Phoenix's public information office.
Assistant Chief Andy Anderson, Cmdr. Joe Klima, Cmdr. Kim Humphrey, Lt. Lauri Burgett, Sgt. Phil Roberts, Detective Terry Yahweh, and Mark Spencer from Phoenix Law Enforcement Agency (PLEA), were all present for questioning.
The next meeting will be at 1 p.m. on Monday, April 25. The group plans to discuss "a draft report by the panel, an update on the audit the Police Professional Standards Bureau is conducting, an update on the work the City Auditor's Department is conducting and an update regarding the Department of Justice's look at the kidnapping numbers," Maccarone said.
The panel was formed after a recent investigation showed kidnapping statistics used to gain federal grants may not have been accurate. Public Safety Manager Jack Harris was removed from his position because of these findings.
City Councilman Sal DiCiccio of Ahwatukee Foothills is calling for an independent review of the statistics. DiCiccio says a panel set up by the city is not credible.
"I've made it clear from the beginning that the committee has a strong conflict of interest," DiCiccio said. "The reason for the investigation has the same people behind it. The same people selected the committee, the same people were set in charge of the committee, the same people set the agenda and are making the report. You cannot investigate yourself."
Maccarone denies any conflict of interest.
"This is an independent panel of five very qualified, highly regarded individuals," Maccarone said. "They are not city employees."
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Time with loved ones - no children of my own, but I spend quite a lot of time with nieces and nephews.
Season ticket for Blackpool FC - my parents live there, so two birds with one stone when I go over there.
Cross country running and /or cycling once, preferably twice a week and hiking, camping for some of hols.
Business interests outside school...
Busy, busy, busy but want to make time to spend some time meeting a new lady friend.
Grafting - working hard when I need to.
People - definitely a people person.
Being positive, seeing the funny side of life.
Comfortable in my own skin.
Reading (gradually) 'Twisting my melon' - Shaun Ryder's autobiography at the moment.
Films - edgy ones, again don't watch as many as I would like. Egs. No place for Old Men, The Deerhunter, Jackie Brown, Pulp Fiction...
Shows - only panto's and kids' shows in recent years!
Food - yes please. Home cooking, eating out Country pubs, city restaurants. British, Indian, Thai, everything. Except kidney.
Blackpool FC
Real ale.
Running shoes.
Hiking boots.
O.S. maps!
Looking for keys/ wallet /phone.
I'm a fairly open book really. Will return to this question.
Don't need a lady who has to share my interests and hobbies. Not necessarily looking for a soulmate, just someone to share a bit of chemistry with, to enjoy being with.
You have a sense of fun, are looking for the possibility of a sexual relationship if we ring each other's bells..
You are adventurous and easyging.


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This small, compact book contains brief overviews of historically important Irish women. From pre-history warrior-goddesses like Morrigan and her sisters to more modern examples like Margaret Sanger and Scarlett OHara, the author presents many examples for the reader. A lightweight paper back, the books cover illustration, which depicts an Irish woman in gown, sword in hand, stepping on a man holding flowers, lets you know almost immediately that the stories arent going to be anywhere as dry as a first year university womens history course.
The use of contemporary language and idioms does not in any way deflect from the colourful and moving stories told. Instead, they come off with a humorous edge. As mothers, women are pretty intuitive to things base senses can pick up, like life-threatening danger, which their men always ignore (they are, after all, just women). Perfect examples of such tragic male stubbornness are Granias Dermot and Deirdres Naoise. The battle of the sexes and gender role struggles are presented with an innate understanding of the biological and environmental influences on the women and the contexts they lived in. While the stories illicit chuckles, at the same time, reader nods her head in unspoken acknowledgement.
Not all insights are told with an amusing flavour. One of the more difficult biographies to cover is that of Mary Harris Jones, a.k.a. Mother Jones. The account carefully uses illustration documents and sensitive narration to educate the reader about the industrial poverty and horrendous working conditions Irish women and children faced in America in the 19th and early 20th centuries. A strong warrior-woman, she brought the fight for decent health and safety working conditions to American president Teddy Roosevelt, who ran with his tail between his legs.
Irish woman not only fought for others and what they believed in, they were also quite often adamant about choosing who or what they centred their lives around. Of particular interest are the women of William Butler Yeats era (and not because its Yeats being discussed). Women like Maude Gonne and Lady Gregory, who were able to present the respectable front while pursuing their own real love interests, whether it be other men or, in Maudes case, activism.
Of course, a book about such issues as activism and women is not complete without bringing the discussion round to that oft-spoken topic, Christianity. For quite a problematic and complex subject, Robbins handles it with confidence and ease. From the start, she makes it clear that the pre-history stories of Celtic Irish goddesses and warriors has been recorded by Christian monks, which naturally brings about an added bias, which skewers the remaining stories to a degree. The result of her perspective gives both Celtic and Christian camps sympathy, while the fact that culture and many lives were lost or destroyed with the appearance and maintenance of Christianity in Ireland is not denied.
Wild Irish Roses is a great starter for those readers (like the reviewer) who are clueless about women in Irish history. We who have no previous exposure to Irish history other than to say we know that Ireland was the last place in the area that Christianity converted, there was some guy named St. Patrick, and they had a potato famine at one point the collection provides us with an enormous amount of educational information. For those that already have a scholarly background on Irish women get a lively recount of a wide range of their favourite (and infamous) Irish women. Either way, the work is well worth the inexpensive purchase price.


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Contributing to the integrity of Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra (TRHS) in response to the inscription on the In Danger List in 2011
Since its inscription in the World Heritage list in 2006, the three national parks (Gunung Leuser NP, Kerinci Seblat NP and Bukit Barisan Selatan NP) of TRHS have been in the spotlight for the number of threats that compromise the integrity of this site, its ecosystems and the unique species it inhabits. Despite the efforts of the Government of Indonesia to address these threats, they have increased in time and extension, leading to the inscription of TRHS in the In Danger list of World Heritage properties. This inscription has triggered joint efforst between Indonesian institutions (Ministry of Forestry, Ministry of Culture and Education, Ministry of Environment, UNESCO-Indonesia National Commission, NGOs, research institutions, etc) to develop coordinated and effective measures that will, not only put this property back in the WH list, but also ensure long term conservation of this site and its outstanding universal value.
Based on the above issues, UNESCO has developed strategies and capacity of forest edge communities to secure legal rights and responsibilities to sustainably manage their customary forest state. These activities have made an important and timely contribution to wider efforts to reduce rates of deforestation and increase local capacity to sustainably manage forest in Merangin, Kerinci Seblat NP.
UNESCO is supporting the mentioned initiatives and assisting in putting them in place with projects such as: developing an Emergency Action Plan for TRHS based on the Desired States of Conservation and Corrective Measures, conducting an Strategic Environmental Assessment of road development in TRHS, ecosystem restoration and sustainable livelihoods through ecotourism development.


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Hi guys I wonder if anyone tell me of a ninjutsu class in guildford or surrounding areas?
or any ninja accossiated type class. preferably someone whos teaching with an in depth background
Hi guys I wonder if anyone tell me of a ninjutsu class in guildford or surrounding areas?
or any ninja accossiated type class. preferably someone whos teaching with an in depth background
If I knew where they were they wouldn't be real ninjas.
You want professional Ninjas or Amateur ? because this is the Amateur section
If you need a friend, get a dog !
As this is the amatuer section, i am going to treat your thread as a genuine request and lend whatever assistance i am able to, if however you are just trolling for humerous responses, you are better off sticking to the general discussion forum.
Your best bet for finding a ninjitsu class in your area is through the bujinkan, i suggest going to the association's main website and they will either have a 'locations' section or a contact email through which you can inquire as to the nearest bujinkan dojo in your area.
however allow me to inject a caveat alongside my above advice. Stay away from ninjitsu, for the most part it is a dead art with limited practical value/training.
your best bet is to find a combat sport club that competes in your area. Judo, Boxing, Thai boxing, Kyokoshin Karate, BJJ kickboxing, sambo, wrestling, MMA etc. competition weeds out bad training practices.
Also Ninjitsu died out in japan around 1640ish and was revived in the 1970's without any traceable lineage to the traditional art from which it gets its name. So anyone claiming to do ninjitsu today is simply practicing one mans best guess as to what ninjitsu training was likely to involve.
If in spite of all this you still have to ninja, and you are cool with it being less than practical then go ahead and contact the bujinkan and enjoy the training, but remember don't bring a friend.......
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On June 9, unarmed Gaston County, North Carolina man James Verone held up a bank demanding the sum of $1. After getting the cash from a teller, he patiently waited in the bank for cops to arrive.
Twelve days later, MSNBC has picked up on the story as an example of the desperate straits that unemployed, uninsured persons will go for health care.
Yet neither anchor Chris Jansing in the 10 a.m. Eastern hour nor Tamron Hall in the 2:00 p.m. hour mentioned that there are low-or-no-charge health clinics in Verone's backyard.
A little Web search yields the website for Gaston Family Health Services, Inc., a nonprofit group with seven clinics that claims to "[provide] care to more than 30,000 patients per year (1 in 11 Gaston County citizens), through more than 100,000 clinical encounters."
For example, there's the Gaston Family Health Services clinic on West Hudson Boulevard in Gastonia that promises it provides "primary care services for patients who can't afford healthcare."
Of course, Verone was also looking for free housing for three years as a way to mooch off the government until he was old enough for Social Security, reported Rad Berky of NBC affiliate WCNC this morning on the station's website:
He is hoping for a three year sentence. He would then be able to collect Social Security when he got out and said he would head for the beach.
"I've already looked at a condominium. I've spoken to a realtor on Myrtle Beach," Verone said.
Jansing omitted that fact from her report. For her part, Tamron ran a news package by Berky, who of course included Verone's dream of coasting through life on the taxpayers' dime until he's 62:
BERKY: James is hoping for a three-year sentence. He figures he'd then be able to collect Social Security when he gets out and says he'd head for the beach.
VERONE: I've already got a condominium. I've spoken to a realtor, [it's] on Myrtle Beach.
Verone is clearly delusional, a liar or both, and yet Hall introduced the story by suggesting it was just a logical option one might take, albeit extreme, when unemployed and without health insurance:
So just how much is health care worth to you? One desperate North Carolina man claims it is worth a stay in jail.


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Training young people as researchers to investigate engagement and disengagement in the middle years
Carrington, Suzanne B., Bland, Derek C., & Brady, Kate (2009) Training young people as researchers to investigate engagement and disengagement in the middle years. International Journal of Inclusive Education, pp. 1-14.
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This paper reports on the first stage of a study that used Young People as Researchers to investigate the phenomenon of middle-year student engagement and disengagement. The first stage of the study focused on a two-day workshop that provided training for students and teachers from four secondary schools in conducting research in their schools. An overview of the three stages is presented and the workshop procedures and example activities for Stage 1 of the Young People as Researchers model are described. Further to this, the paper reports on data collected in the workshop to address the research question: How do middleyear students describe engagement and disengagement?
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From: "Jenny De Angelis" <>
Subject: Re: Re Access to registers
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 12:21:57 +0200
References: <00db01c68b35$ac705b90$0202a8c0@Vaio>
County Record offices do not issue Civil Registration Certificates. The
Local Superintendant Regisrars Office holds the originla Registers. The GRO
only hold copies of thos registers, copies which have been made quarterly by
each District Registrars office and it is from these copies that the GRO
compile the GRO index.
If you order a certificate copy fromt he District Register office you will
be getting a copy taken from the original register but the GRO issues copies
from their copy, so you get a copy of a copy from them.
The only exception to what registers the Distric Registrars office holds is
the Marraige register, the originals are held by the church, which registers
very frequently end up in the County Record Office. As most Marriages take
place in church then the register is held by the church and the incumbent
makes a copy of the marraiges contained in his register for the District
Registrars office.
I have never been asked to include postage or an SAE with order for
certificate copies, I understood that the cost of p&p was included in the
cert. fee.
One thing I have found with District Register Offices is that if you contact
them and ask many of them will not take credit card payments but they do not
have online facitilitie for these sort of payments, you need to either phone
them with your card details or else write a letter including the those
details in it. Many offices now have e.mail addresses too, I find that if I
search on Google for say "Colchester Registrars Office" in inverted commas
as I have shown here, I quite often get up the local Register Offices
webpage their e.mail address is usually included in the contact link. Try
googling for the register office you are intersted in and see if you get
Jenny DeAngelis
> I'm puzzled by your reference to having obtained hand written BMD
> certificates - those this topic relates to - from the County Records
> offices as I wasn't aware these offices supplied these. Have the Essex
> Records Office had a policy change? If so, I'd be interested to hear from
> you how to order these from there.
> Don't see the relevence of your job or mine to this topic, a company
> accountant or an MD can be as big a dodo as anyone - as we've just proved
> :-)
> Colleen
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steve" <>
>>I very much doubt that production and posting can be performed at the rate
>>of 1 per minute, per member of staff. Especially not at the county records
>>offices where the envelopes I have received have often been hand
>>written...breaks, like going to the loo, getting a cup of coffee/tea,
>>answering the phone, answering emails..cost of storage...cost of the
>>paper, light/heat, temperature/humidity control etc, etc, etc.
>> As an experienced company accountant, I can not see how the GRO and
>> county register offices can cover direct costs on the production of
>> certificates at GBP7 per certificate, let alone make a contribution to
>> the running costs of the buildings in use.
>> I suspect that if this were being done by a commercial enterprise we
>> would be looking at nearer GBP70 per certificate.
>> Steve
>> Colleen wrote:
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Diane wynne" <>
>>>> On 07/06/06, jackycooper.clav78 <> wrote:
>>>>> I got quite hopeful a while back, having heard that reform was being
>>>>> proposed about >access to registers - but I guess getting an
>>>>> extortionate £8 (with regular increases) from family historians for
>>>>> every certificate is too tempting for the
>>>> General Register >Office to give up.
>>>> So you want the tax payers to foot the bill for your hobby?! Someone
>>>> has to process the request, find the certificate, copy it and then
>>>> post it - time and postage cost money.
>>>> I'm getting really fed up with people carping on about the costs
>>>> incurred in order to follow a hobby. I'd rather the GRO charged a lot
>>>> more and used the money to increase the government pension retired
>>>> people are expected to live on.
>>> I agree with Jacky that the charge for certificates is quite
>>> extortionate, how many requests can be processed in an hour, 60 or more,
>>> given the bulk nature of the GRO's production of these and that its all
>>> computerised now? That's about £400 per hour per staff member working on
>>> certificate production. I agree with Diane that the taxpayer should not
>>> foot the bill, but it seems to me that the GRO makes a mint on this. I
>>> do sympathise with your view re the pension, Diane, however to increase
>>> the certificate charge might be counter productive and bring less
>>> revenue into the GRO/State so there could be even less for pensions - or
>>> maybe not since the new rules will mean many of us will not live to draw
>>> a pension...
>>> Colleen
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Chicks barely dancin, glancin every chance they get, like - oh shit, he's so HANSUM
not by choice playa.Originally posted by Inactive UserIn the future will you be participating in more writing?
why should money be taken from hard working people who earned it and given to lazy people who don't want to work? touche.Originally posted by Inactive Userwhy are you a conservative?
no i did that before to loosen up the hands/wrists/fingers. very good question tho.Originally posted by Inactive Userdid u have enuff strenght in ur hands afterwards to rub one out?
You didnt answer my question. I'm not a liberal fyiOriginally posted by Inactive Usernot by choice playa.why should money be taken from hard working people who earned it and given to lazy people who don't want to work? touche.
I prefer carcinogens to endorphins.
I pretty much did answer your question. I don't want to pay higher taxes and then have that tax money go to people who are too lazy to work.Originally posted by Inactive UserYou didnt answer my question. I'm not a liberal fyi
Yeah. Unless you're physically and/or mentally handicapped, all forms of welfare should be gotten rid of. You should get unemployment for like 6 months if you've been laid off, I guess that's reasonable. But only if you're actively seeking employment, why should you receive any form of benefits if you're fully capable of working, but choose not to?Originally posted by Inactive UserShould the Food stamp program be gotten rid of?
you're beta for asking that Q.Originally posted by Inactive UserWhat's beta and what's alpha?
beta ass niggaOriginally posted by Inactive UserWhat's beta and what's alpha?
Elaborate.Originally posted by Inactive UserAre you socially conservative too?
Im about to write this for you.Originally posted by Inactive UserI'm writing an argumentative essay on why the Salem Witch Trials went on.
10 prgph minimum. I currently have 2.
and plus I didn't read any of the extra sources the teach' provided 'cause there too fucking long
I have to turn it in by 10 fuck O clock.
what do?
gay marriage - i'm not gay nor do i have any gay friends (at least none of them admit it ), so it isn't a huge concern to me but ya i think they should be able to get married. thats not enough to sway my vote tho, in my eyes it's not a big concern.Originally posted by Inactive UserWell you're fiscally conservative, but are you as conservative when it comes to social issues? ie gay marriage, global warming, pro-life/choice?
My name is ASAC Schrader, and you can go fuck yourself.
fuck no b i had to write paragraphs about fucking helen keller you know how boring that shit is?Originally posted by Inactive Usercan you write another 11 paragraphs for me? im too lazy to do it myself.
nah player that shit smells like fucking garlic bread.Originally posted by Inactive UserDoes Portia de Rossi's booty smell good doe??
Originally posted by Inactive Userwhats that like 5 pages
FUCK APA I hate that shit. but nah it was MLA.Originally posted by Inactive Userwas it written in APA?
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Do you have a thesis yet?Originally posted by Inactive UserI need to write a 10 page paper about drug addiction. Could you swing me a bunch of topics I could write about.
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Highlights of Commissioners' Meeting of May 21, 2007
Peggy M Reeves
Board Highlights
Approved minutes of the Commissioners' meetings for May 7 and 11, 2007.
Recognized one retiring employee serving a minimum of 25 years with Wake County Government: Kenneth Cromartie from Environmental Services.
Approved by consent all agenda items as follows:
A three-year agreement with Verizon, Inc., for access to Verizon database for emergency response purposes.
A grant increase of $2,800 from the North Carolina Department of Correction's Criminal Justice Partnership Program.
The execution of a Declaration of Conservation Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions as required by the US Army Corps of Engineers to restrict development on approximately 55 acres of County-owned property within the boundaries of the South Wake landfill.
Accepted $713,251.73 in workforce development funding for the Workforce Development Project Ordinance.
Acted on these items under the regular agenda:
Received the County Manager's Recommended Fiscal Year 2008 Budget for consideration and approved the following:
Hold a public hearing on the budget during the Board of Commissioner's regular meeting on Monday, June 4, at 2 p.m., in the Board Room of the Courthouse, and also that day at 7 p.m. at the Wake County Commons Building.
Hold a Commissioners' budget work session on Monday, June 11, at 9 a.m.
Consider the budget for adoption on Monday, June 18, during the Board of Commissioners' regular meeting, which begins at 2 p.m.
Held a public hearing and approved a proposal to amend the Wake County land use plan for the proposed Franklin County Airport Overlay District.
Held a public hearing and approved an ordinance amendment to the Franklin County Airport Overlay District.
Held a public hearing and approved a proposal to apply a newly created airport overlay district to approximately 8,997 acres in Eastern Wake County's jurisdiction that lies within the general vicinity of the Franklin County Airport.
Approved the transfer of $41,360 between Wake Technical Community College Capital Projects
Approved a request from Wake County Public Schools to enter into agreement a multi-year operating lease for the Dubois Center to operate a 9th-grade center.
Received a report on land acquisition for an elementary school in Apex (E-32), and the item will be placed on the June 4 agenda for consideration.
Received a report on land acquisition for an elementary school in the Wendell Area (E-34), and the item will be placed on the June 4 agenda for consideration.
Approved acquisition of approximately 2.5 acres for Marks Creek open space tract from Watson & Watson of NC, Ltd., Partnership, for approximately $31,250.
Received presentation of the proposed site for the new Leesville library.
Approved acceptance of grant funding to purchase six neighborhood electric vehicles.
Made appointments to various boards, commissions and committees.
Authorized staff to proceed with the following acquisition to support the development of the Little River Reservoir Project
approximately 9.77 acres owned by Alvester H. Perry and Romell Goodman Perry in the amount of $117,000; approximately 9.831 acres owned by J.L. Perry and Nina M. Perry in the amount of $208,000; and an agricultural lease for $1.00 per year for a period of no less than five years with Alvester H. Perry and J.L. Perry as a part of the consideration for the purchase of 9.77 acres from Alvester H. Perry and 9.831 acres for J.L. Perry.


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Setting Research Priorities to Reduce Global Mortality From Childhood Diarrhea by 2015
To assist donors in understanding the potential of different research avenues to contribute to reducing the burden of disease and disability, the Child Health and Nutrition Research Initiative (CHNRI) of the Global Forum for Health Research recently developed a methodology that allows systematic listing and transparent scoring of many competing research options, thus exposing their strengths and weaknesses. The Department of Child and Adolescent Health and Development (CAH) of the World Health Organization is currently using the CHNRI methodology to develop research priority issues on the major causes of child deaths. In this paper, the authors present the results of this research priority-setting process applied by CAH for childhood diarrhoea. This article was published in PLoS Medicine.
Author: Fontaine O, Kosek M, Bhatnagar S, et al.
Published: 2009
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Citation: Fontaine O, Kosek M, Bhatnagar S, et al. Setting Research Priorities to Reduce Global Mortality From Childhood Diarrhea by 2015. PLoS Medicine. 2009;6(3):e41.
Resource types: Peer-reviewed journal
Diseases/vaccines: Shigellosis and enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC), Rotavirus
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The following describes the ethical standards by which the Women's Resource Center operates.
- The WRC is committed to serving all students regardless of gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation or ideological background in a way that is fair and consistent.
- The WRC professional and student staff practice confidentiality by keeping information about who utilizes the WRC's services private and not disclosing names or other identifying information.
- The Coordinator of Sexual Assault Awareness, Outreach, and Education is able to take confidential reports of sexual assault. The coordinator will offer referrals and services both on campus and in the community to persons disclosing sexual assault.
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- The WRC provides advocacy and support to students. Its services compliment but do not replace the services of the Counseling & Psych services center.
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MAKE PARTY!!!!: Carnival Miracle Cruise Review by ginsbergen
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Destination: Panama Canal & Central America
Embarkation: Fort Lauderdale (Port Everglades)
Embarkation was eerily fast. They asked to see our passports a lot, but as far as luggage searches and whatnot, the staff was incredibly polite, unlike the airport employees we encountered earlier. Upon getting on the boat, we were escorted up to Lido deck where beautifully decorated and potent beverages were offered to us left More and right as we dug into the endless amounts of food all around us. It didn't take long at all before we were allowed in our stateroom, which was beautiful!! The entire ship was. I have never been impressed with Carnival's taste in decorating, but the artwork on the ship was gorgeous.
There's a spot on the boat called Gatsby's Garden that you should definitely check out. It was empty almost everytime I went in there, so I would take my guitar, sit around for an hour or so, and get the peace and quiet that it seems hard to find while sharing an interior stateroom with another person. Surprisingly, the casino stayed empty most of the time, as well, and I found myself sitting around for hours at the slot machines talking to the wonderful staff about their mother countries and life on the boat. The staff was definitely my favorite part of the shipall very intelligent, helpful, and beautiful people, to say the least.
On to the food! Being vegan was really easy on the Miracle at Horatio's, but Bacchus had very few options for me. In fact, it kind of creeped me out and was decorated like a Herpes commercial, pardon my choice in words. It was a bad scene. I would firmly recommend just hanging out on Lido deck for more options, better quality, and a more laid back atmosphere.
ADVICE: Bring a jacket. It doesn't matter that you are in the Caribbean. The boat is pretty darn cold at times. Also, don't bring your phone. You will be tempted to check your voicemail, and when you come home, you will probably have a $616 phone bill. Just saying. Also, be sure to check out the Beatles show it made me and my mother both cry. And don't buy the soda card; it's a rip off just buy two liters at the ports of call. If you are traveling with family, don't be afraid of being stuck in a cabin with them for so long there is always something to do, and they will probably be trying to ditch you for good looking men. Speaking of which, if you are traveling with your pretty, young daughter, watch after her like a hawk. My mom did, for sure. There are some pretty creepy older men on boats that prey after young girls who they try to lure into being their "escort". I was offered money SEVERAL times under the grounds of prostitution it got to the point where I didn't feel safe walking around by myself after dark. Be VERY wary, especially in the casino. A final piece of advice, take the tips off your Sail & Sign card and hand them to the staff personally. When the tip is on the card, they don't get most of it, but they work their butts off to say the least and deserve every penny that you can give them. Trust me.
The ports of call were, for the most part, awesome. Panama was incredibly filthy (which is a strong word for me to use considering I live with 12 hippies who don't bathe), and we were kind of scared for our lives when we were being chased out of town because of our light skin and had to be escorted back to the ship by a local police officer. Be wary of leaving the port here you will get stared at, pickpocketed, and probably called a couple of dirty names. Costa Rica was really wet, cold, and rainy that's all. Belize was amazing and really accommodating to Americans. We had an awesome tour guide who took us to his hand-built house to meet his family. I will definitely return to Belize in the future. We didn't do a single shore excursion at any port, but we indulged in the culture of each location in ways that I was not sure would be possible in the small amounts of time we spent in each.
Debarkation was too easy. It kind of scared me when I woke up the next morning, put my luggage on my back, went to the atrium, a door was open, and we just walked out. I almost cried having to leave the boat behind. You really get into the routine of cruising after eight days. My house has seemed filthy and unaccommodating since my vacation. I left my heart on the Carnival Miracle. Less
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Nicki Minaj's Thoughts On Drake Not Putting YMCMB On His Album
Drake may have skimped out on the YMCMB features on his October release NWTS but Nicki Minaj has a different thought process. Although the two maintain a bond, she insists that no matter what project she's working on, the YMCMB family will always be present.
"I'm Young Money til the death of me", said the YMCMB first lady when asked about the lack of Young Money/ Cash Money appearances on Drake's latest album. "Drake could do what Drake do but Nicki Minaj is a whole different person. Later adding,"I think your team is your team. Who gives a fuck about trying to be different like I'm always gonna want my team to be a part of my project. No matter what. In some way."
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March 2, 2009
Doodling while listening doesn't necessarily imply a wandering mind—in fact, it can help with remembering details, a new study suggests.
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Doodling while listening doesn't necessarily imply a wandering mind—in fact, it can help with remembering details, a new study suggests. According to the research published Feb. 26 in the journal Applied Cognitive Psychology, people given a doodling task while listening to a dull phone message had a 29% improved recall compared to non-doodling counterparts. Forty members of the research panel of the Medical Research Council's Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge, U.K. were asked to listen to a two and a half minute tape giving several names of people and places, and were told to write down only the names of people going to a party. Twenty of the participants were asked to shade in shapes on a piece of paper at the same time, but paying no attention to neatness. Participants were not asked to doodle naturally so that they would not become self-conscious. None of the participants were told it was a memory test. After the tape had finished, all participants in the study were asked to recall the eight names of the party-goers which they were asked to write down, as well as eight additional place names which were included as incidental information. The doodlers recalled on average 7.5 names of people and places compared to only 5.8 by the non-doodlers, researchers reported. "If someone is doing a boring task, like listening to a dull telephone conversation, they may start to daydream," said study researcher Jackie Andradeof the University of Plymouth, U.K. "Daydreaming distracts them from the task, resulting in poorer performance. A simple task, like doodling, may be sufficient to stop daydreaming without affecting performance on the main task." "In psychology, tests of memory or attention will often use a second task to selectively block a particular mental process. If that process is important for the main cognitive task then performance will be impaired. My research shows that beneficial effects of secondary tasks, such as doodling, on concentration may offset the effects of selective blockade," added Andrade. "This study suggests that in everyday life doodling may be something we do because it helps to keep us on track with a boring task, rather than being an unnecessary distraction that we should try to resist doing."


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A pair of True Religion Billy Jeans costs $533 including postage on the Myer.com.au site. The same pair can be found for about $250, brand new and including postage, on the US eBay site. Australian consumers are super savvy when it comes to online shopping, so it's not hard to guess where they're going to spend their money.
And although the dollar may lose its lustre, the internet will not. The dollar's worth will stick as it retrains generations to "add to trolley".
The news is good for overseas retailers and their slick online shops, but local retailers, although they won't admit it, are in a panic.
Forrester Research estimates online retail sales will hit $28 billion this year – up 17.5 per cent from last year. A quarter of those sales will go overseas.
Data from Google Insights reveals searches for the words "USA shopping" grew 300 per cent in the past 30 days; "US shopping" grew 120 per cent and "online shopping fashion" 40 per cent.
The spike in the dollar in April led to a 60 per cent increase in local purchases from international sellers on eBay compared with the previous 12 months, says eBay spokeswoman Jenny Thomas.
We are buying mobile phones and accessories, music, women's clothing, watches, jewellery and craft items. The eBay UK and US sites now have dedicated fashion hubs and eBay Australia developed a fashion site, The Global Shopper, a few months ago.
"The inclination to purchase from international sellers is obviously something that's really popular," Thomas says.
Referring to the True Religion Billy Jeans, she says: "Those are the sorts of bargains people can get if they shop online and take advantage of the dollar."
Myer did not wish to comment for this story but the chief executive of
The department store will launch a gift site next month with more than 1000 products available in time for Christmas. Zahra says the site will allow people overseas to send gifts to Australians and vice versa. But he admits David Jones' entry into the world of online has been anything but speedy.
"We're a little bit behind everyone else and we see that from learning from what other people are doing," he says. "As for online shopping, I do believe that retailing remains a sensory and tactile experience.
"It's complex ordering fashion, particularly, online because of the size of the fabrics and all that sort of stuff . . . customers have to buy two or three of the same dress so they can return the incorrect size."
Zahra believes the fashion market will evolve but sees the opportunity for growth in commodity items such as books, cosmetics and groceries.
"I believe the Australian dollar has given online greater voice," he says. "But there's delivery time, delivery charges. It's not as simple as people make it out to be."
Zahra says online will pose a threat to the department store model only when it comes to small-ticket items such as T-shirts.
"But when you're buying a Fendi handbag it's a different proposition," he says. "Women generally want to touch, feel, see it and know what they're up for. That's where it will drive competition to make Australian retailers be closer to the market."
A quarter of Topshop's online sales are generated from Australia and we continue to be the third biggest users of luxury shopping site Net-A-Porter, so international shopping sites are laughing as an increasing number of Aussies click to check-out.
Other popular international sites include asos.com, zappos.com, JC Penney.com and amazon.com.
Sites such as lasoo.com.au allow people to compare prices online and let them know when items are on sale.
A research fellow at the Australian Centre for Retail Studies,
She says it may come as a surprise to department stores but fashion is growing phenomenally online. "That category doesn't naturally lend itself to online shopping because of the trying-on and sizing issues. There's a lot of reasons that category works in store." But she says online stores such as Net-A-Porter are making it easy for people to return products. Some send three sizes of shoes, so the buyer can send back two. "Asos sends you a return parcel with your order," she says.
Westfield's general manager of marketing,
"Shoppers have more access to information to review, to compare, to share, right throughout the shopper journey," Batistich says. "In the past, most decisions were made in store. Increasingly, decisions are made at any time, anywhere – at home, online, on mobile [devices] and that is changing shopping behaviour."
Batistich is running a campaign to find "the Westfield insider". The winner will be offered a 12-month position to blog and inform the online community about "on trend, on budget" style, product and retail news, and post Facebook updates and videos on the westfield.com.au website.
"In terms of marketing, we've seen online – which is access, laptop, tablet, mobile, desktop – as a very important part of the shopper journey from web to mall," he says. But he views the internet more as a research tool than a shopping outlet.
"We see it as an opportunity as there is a far greater number of people who are going online to inform their store search and shopping centre search than transacting online," he says.
Another area growing exponentially is mobile phone shopping. Research conducted by Pure Profile, on behalf of eBay, in September this year found almost 25 per cent of Australians now use their mobile phone to shop online, and that Australians have bought more than 1 million items on eBay this year using mobile devices. They do it while commuting, at work, even in the bathroom, eBay spokeswoman Jenny Thomas says.
While department stores are struggling to control the tech-savvy consumer, local shopping sites are also experiencing a boon in sales.
Penny Flanders worked in advertising before founding Miss Money Penny online shopping site 18 months ago. She didn't want to lose money by selling clothes on eBay and takes commission for selling pre-worn designer clothes and accessories.
She says interest in the site has grown from more than 2.4 million page views in February last year to more than 1 billion in September this year. She now has about 10,000 unique visitors to the site a month – buying and selling – and says this can rise to 30,000 during the spring racing season.
Former Google employee Michael Fox also identified a gap in the online market: he founded Shoes of Prey 12 months ago with two others. Their site allows women to design their own shoes. They won best new online retailer at the Online Retail Industry Awards this year.
Fox now has six full-time employees, an office in China and partners in Japan and Russia. He says 60 per cent of sales are generated from Australia and sales doubled each quarter in the first year.
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Environmental Justice
Instructor: Ryan Heryford
In our own current historical moment, often referred to as an era defined by ecological crisis, when global climate change and resource scarcity are drastically altering the lives of a vast majority of the world's people, where the term genocide now refers not only to aggressive acts of killing, but also to the exclusion of the many from the right to survival, why is it that in the United States, we often think of 'environmentalism' as a bourgeois, apolitical terrain, embedded in practices of corporate 'green'-washing and a sustainability discourse that, as ecocritic Stacy Alaimo notes, more often than not works to "render the lively world a storehouse of supplies for the elite"? In this course, we will look at the way in which environmentalism as a 'privileged' space of activism has been challenged throughout the 20th and early-21st centuries by cultural texts documenting ecological harm and crisis as they continue to play out along uneven divides structured by gender, race, ethnicity, class and national/cultural difference. Focusing on a transnational range of contemporary cultural producers like Cherrie Moraga, June Jordan, Kelly Reichardt, Indra Sinha, and Amitov Ghosh, we will explore issues of the environment as they are inherently tied to questions of social activism and historical redress. We will encounter terms and fields of study such as environmental justice, eco-feminism, environmental racism, and critical species theory. Additionally, we will be concerned with how different cultural forms are able to articulate, what ecocritic Rob Nixon has referred to as, the slow violence of environmental catastrophe, highlighting "disasters that are slow moving and long in the making, disasters that are anonymous and that star nobody, disasters that are attritional and of indifferent interest to the sensation-driven technologies of our image saturated world." In charting these different historical and cultural shifts, this course will ultimately work toward new definitions of environmentalism, ones similar to Graham Huggins and Helen Tiffin's assertion that there is "no social justice without environmental justice; and without social justice – for all ecological beings – no justice at all."
Why are international "peacekeepers" generally drawn from the armed forces of various countries? Are soldiers likely peacekeepers, considering that they are trained to kill and to act aggressively in many other ways? Are men necessarily the best peacekeepers, as is generally assumed?
This seminar explores the complex system of relations between the transatlantic slave trade and the consequent rise and fall of the plantation complex in the extended Americas. Focusing on the Age of Revolution, a tumultuous epoch marked by epistemic ideological shifts in Europe and her overseas colonies, the course examines the migration of ideas, tracing how revolutionary rhetoric flew back and forth across oceans and was tailored to met specific historic, social and economic circumstances. For example, just as French revolutionaries were inspired by the United States' declaration of independence, so too were Caribbean colonial elites and slaves both influencing and responding to shifting metropolitan realities in complicated, violent negotiations for their own freedom and autonomy. The fundamental conundrum: how could revolutionaries fighting in the name of liberty and equality justify the institution of chattel slavery and its mandate that men/women constitute the property of another? Was it economically feasible to dismantle a system whose profits financed global institutions? More importantly, what measures were taken by slaves and free people of color not content to wait for others to decide their fates?
Close attention is paid to questions of genre and rhetorical strategies as we trace the culture of political decrees (e.g. the Code Noir, the Declaration des Droits de L'homme et Citoyen and the Declaration des Droits des Citoyennes), polemical novels and the strident periodical press that polarized both proslavery and anti-slavery agendas. How do these forms explore issues of maroonage, African "survivals," and excise or re-inscribe people of color into debates about nation, citizenship and equality? Primary source material from the late eighteenth to mid-nineteenth centuries is complemented by contemporary fictional musings and films concerning how to "make sense" of events that have left a profound impact on the social and aesthetic landscape of the present. Influential historical and economic studies, in addition to visual images, provide secondary context. Primary emphasis is placed on the Caribbean, although texts from both North and South America are included. Authors include Mary Prince, Moreau de Saint-Méry, Leonora Sansay, Thomas Jefferson, Herman Melville, William Wells Brown, Cirilio Villaverde, C.L.R. James and Alejo Carpentier.
The course satisfies the department's historical breadth requirement.
The focus of this seminar will be on how Latino/a history is represented in several 20th and 21st century Latino/a - Chicano/a works of fiction. By reviewing theoretical works dealing with history and historicity, we will be better able to theorize and contextualize the texts in question. Recent work by Jameson on Realism will be key, but we will also examine a number of other theoretical texts that address how history is constructed and reconstructed in modernist and postmodernist novels and film.


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Bruce McClure
Bruce McClure was known as a dancer, teacher, and performer of Scottish Dance.
Scotland's Dunvegan Castle, towering above the rugged coastline of Loch Dunvegan on the northwestern corridor of the Isle of Skye (a Norse word meaning "misty island"), pays silent homage to the romance and history of the MacLeod of MacLeod Clan, the progenitors of the Mighty McClures. The fortified enclave, surrounded by picturesque gardens, rolling hills and waterfalls, and on the ocean side by a colony of seals, has withstood the trials and tributions, the ebb and flow of eight hundred years of triumph and tragedy.
At one time, Bruce had a television program in Scotland.
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Dances Dr. McClure taught include Barley Bree, Black Dance, Bluebell Waltz, The British Grenadiers, The Camp of Pleasure, Cumberland Reel, Duke of Perth (Broun's Reel, Clean Pea Strae), The Eight Men of Moidart, Eightsome Reel, Gae Gordons Jig, Gramachie, Hebridean Weaving Lilt, Highland Reel, Highland Schottische, Jenny's Bawbee, Jessie's Hornpipe, Long Live the Queen, The Dashing White Sergeant, The Reel of the 51st Division, Shepherd's Crook, Waltz Country Dance, and Wee Waltz.