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Creative Suite for Design
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The ultimate class for those new to design software and desk top publishing. No matter what background or industry you are from – this class will give you the practical skills you need to jumpstart your talents as a designer. These are tools of choice for designer and marketers all across the world. Adobe Creative Suite is the state-of-the-art graphics software collection that combines the best software in the publishing world. Packed full of hints and tips, shortcuts and techniques, this Academy Class offers a full on 5 days of training on the latest versions of Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign.
Designers, pre-press professionals, architects, production managers, marketing, small business owners, web designers and anyone who wishes to master the Creative Suite should attend this class. Special attention is paid to learning production workflows used by professionals in industry, keyboard shortcuts, automating workflow and special effects techniques.
Course Description
You should have a basic working knowledge of either the Windows or Mac interface as well as exposure to either Microsoft Word, Excel or PowerPoint. You should know how to launch an application, create and save files, and copy files.
- You will learn to use Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator
- Create a logo using simple shapes
- Enhance logos
- Create logos using custom paths,
- Create a logo with type special effects
- Create an advertisement
- Import body type
- Manage your creative assets using Adobe Bridge
- Manage the InDesign environment
- Design documents
- Manage text
- Utilise colours, swatches and gradients
- Manage transparency
- Utilise tables
- Prepare for handoff to a service providers
- Create Acrobat PDF files
- Explore Photoshop,
- Paint and retouch images,
- Enhance an image,
- Work with layers and selections.
Managing the Adobe Photoshop Environment
- Exploring default Workspace and Bridge
- Introduction to the Toolbar
- Palette management and Screen real estate
- History Palette and Undoing Actions
- Navigation shortcuts
Working with Selections
- Creating Selections using Magic Wand
- Adjusting Selections
- Quick Selection and Lasso tools
- Combining Selection tools for complex objects
- Saving and Reloading a Selection
Enhancing an Image
- Using Levels and Curves
- Compensate for flash with Shadow and Highlight
- Variations to quickly decide about a colour cast
- Hue and Saturation controls
- Blurring and sharpening using
- Filters
Painting and Retouching Images
- Digital darkroom techniques
- Clone Stamp and Heal tools
- Creating
- Saving and loading custom colours
- Painting with Paintbrush
- Pencil or Paint Bucket tool
- Introduction to Gradients and painting with Gradients
- Working with Quick Mask mode and Layer Masks
Working with Layers
- Importing images
- Layers and Selections
- Transforming Layer Objects and using the Smart Objects
- Starting to build layered compositions
- Applying Transparency
- Basic Blending Modes
- Other goodies as Text Layers
- Adjustment Layers and Layer Styles
Outputting your artwork
- Colour modes
- Resolution and Image Size
- Cropping an image vs Extending the Canvas
- File formats and optimizing artwork for Web
Setting Up Your Document
- Be precise with Rulers and Guides
- Add, move and shuffle Pages in your Document
- Paginate Spread Pages
- Using Bridge to organise your creative assets
- InDesign Libraries to share them
Working with Frames
- Place Text and Graphics on the Document Pages
- Applying Colours
- Tints and Gradients
- Get creative with the Stroke panel
- Shapes and Corner options inside of InDesign
- Transforming Frames Content
- Changing the default Transparency
- Share the Appearance attributes with Object Styles
Importing and Editing Text
- Flowing Text and multiple Columns design
- Formatting with Character and Paragraph Styles
- Leading
- Spacing
- Tracking and Kerning
- Create Bulleted and Numbered lists
- Explore decorative Fonts and special Characters with Glyphs panel
Working with Graphics
- Image quality and Display options
- Fitting or Clipping graphics with Frames
- Share Colours across the with Swatch Exchange Format
- Manage linked files and automate updating of your content
- Vector artworks inside of InDesign
- Goddies inside of the Effects panel
Page Layout tools
- Using Placeholders Eyedropper and Master Pages for different workflow
- Aligning multiple Objects and working with Object Groups
- Wrap text around inline Objects while making use of Alpha Channels
- Be a professional with Baseline Grid alignment
Outputting and PDF Export
- Understanding Bleed and Slug
- Differentiate between Spot and Process colours
- Create a Package to share InDesign Documents
- Manage missing Fonts
- Preflight for Prepress
Creating basic Documents
- Explore the prebuilt Document Profiles
- Shortcuts to navigate the Artboard effectively
- Create custom Workspaces
Drawing in Illustrator
- Draw Paths with the Pen tool
- Add, delete or adjust points along a path
- Understand how BÈzier Curves work
- Freeform Drawing tools
- Live Trace to transform images or hand drawn sketches into vector artworks that can be further adjusted Create Logo using simple Shapes
- Discovering basic Blends
- Symbols in Illustrator and Symbol Sprayer options
Modifying Objects
- Lasso select and the other goodies in the Select Menu
- Be precise using Smart Guides
- Grids and Guidelines
- Align, Group and Duplicate to achieve better results
- Transform objects with Twirl
- Bloat and other Warp tools
- Layers palette: Hide and Lock Objects
- Intro to Isolation Mode for effective editing
Working with Colours in Illustrator
- Difference between Swatches and Colour palette
- Applying colour to Stroke and/or Fill
- Adjusting Stroke attributes with Stroke panel
- Introducing Gradients and Patterns
Text in Illustrator
- Point
- Area and Type on a path
- Import Body Type and fix Spelling Errors
- Find and Replace Text or Insert Typographic Characters
- Create Text Outlines to design your own fancy headlines
Outputting your Artwork
- Defining cropping area
- Saving your artwork in vector formats
- Save for Web and Devices
If you have any questions, or you would like to find out more about this training course - please don't hesitate to contact us. We're here to help.
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Spring 2004 Week 13
This week we all had a chance to practice the Motor Carrier skills we had learned a few weeks ago. All of the Recruits spent the week at a Port of Entry weighing trucks, issuing and checking permits, and helping write tickets when violations were found.
There are four Ports of Entry in the State of South Dakota, Tilford, Jefferson, Sisseton, and Sioux Falls. Jefferson was closed for the week for upgrades so the Recruits split up among the other three. Several Recruits were able to stay at home for the week if they lived close enough.
Thanks to all of the Inspectors who helped us throughout the week.
Submitted by Recruits Watson, Hansen, and Albertson.
Recruit of the Week
Name: Desmond Watson- HP184
Duty Station: Rapid City
Hobbies: Hiking, cycling, playing disc golf and soccer enthusiast .
Photo Gallery
The Tilford Port of Entry.
Recruit Watson weighs a truck as it crosses the scale.
A truck is crossing the scale at the Tilford Port.
Recruit Hansen records the measurements of a truck.
Recruit Hamar is at the controls and is weighing a truck.
Inspectors Knutson, Nordquist and Mammenga are at work.
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How were you first exposed to "mainstream" American culture? What were your first impressions? Joe: I was public schooled all my life and so lived in this "mainstream" culture first hand. I say "lived in" because it was beaten into us that my siblings and I were sojourners in a foreign country. Martyrs for the cause of patriarchal Christianity. The only reason we had to be in this culture was because our evil father had forced it upon us. But I wanted it. I wanted a girlfriend. I wanted t … [Read more...]
Raised Quiverfull: Mainstream Culture
"Because that's how God made you"
The other day my daughter asked me a question:Mommy, why do I have two legs?As I looked into her curious face three answers ran through my mind:Because that's how God made you.Just because.I don't know! Let's go look it up. … [Read more...]
A Fractured Church, Part 2
I wrote yesterday about how fractured Christianity has always been. It almost seems like Christians have never been able to agree on, well, anything. Whether it's arguing over whether Judaic food laws are still in affect or the nature of Jesus' divinity or what happens at communion or whether Jesus would have been a Republican or a Democrat, the Christian church has always been, and continues to be, fractured. I wrote a bit yesterday also about the Emerging Church movement, made up of … [Read more...]
Patriarchy in Question: This Is Encouraging
I've said before that I grew up in a family influenced by the Christian Patriarchy movement, which teaches male headship and female submission, not only between the husband and wife but also between the father and daughter. In Christian Patriarchy, women must always be under male authority, and this includes not just some sort of nebulous "spiritual headship" but actual obedience and "protection." The existence of this movement will take many by surprise, but its influence is widespread in the … [Read more...]
Education and Indoctrination
Today I ran across a post called "Welcoming Doubt to Christian Education" on the Christianity Today blog. The author discusses the pitfalls and failures of Christian education, and then differentiates between education and indoctrination as follows: Human history is a series of pendulum swings from one extreme to another. This can be as true of individual growth as it is of culture, and some swings should not be prevented. But in the faith journey, perhaps such severe swings point to a … [Read more...]
Why We Keep Silent
Over the past couple of weeks I've received a good number of emails from people who grew up with similar beliefs. They write to thank me for for my blog. "More of us need to speak up," they tell me. That made me wonder? Why don't we? What keeps us silent?First I think is the desire not to upset our parents. After all, parents who come to the beliefs of Christian Patriarchy do so because they love their children and want what's best for them. When we speak out we need to work to distinguish b … [Read more...]
I Was Raised To Be A Skeptic
My parents taught me to be skeptical of scientists. After all, they told me, scientists and have agendas, and evolution and climate change are frauds.My parents taught me to be skeptical of doctors. After all, they told me, vaccines cause autism and doctors are too quick to prescribe medicines. My parents taught me to be skeptical of academia. After all, they told me, professors are leftist Marxists who brainwash their unwitting students.My parents taught me to be … [Read more...]


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Murray State vs Arkansas State Final: 61-54 - Recap
Murray State grabbed a 61-54 win over Arkansas State on Wednesday, behind an 18-point effort from Isaiah Canaan at ASU Convocation Center.
Murray State was a 2-point favorite in the win, and managed to turn a profit for their supporters.
Murray State got 12 points from Stacy Wilson and another 9 points from Brandon Garrett. Stacy Wilson contributed 3 assists, while Stacy Wilson cleaned the glass with 13 rebounds.
Arkansas State got 15 points from Ed Townsel in a losing cause and another 14 points from Brandon Peterson. Rakeem Dickerson contributed 2 assists for them, while Brandon Peterson had 11 rebounds.
Murray State trailed at halftime, 27-26.
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Vermont Reads 2009: Finding the Way Home
09/25/09 7:50AM By Mitch Wertlieb
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(Mitch Wertlieb) World War II played out on many fronts, including the one at home. There was, of course, no warfare here. But there was a battle of sorts over identity. And for people who looked like the enemy, there were consequences.
(Wade) It's easier to identify a person who looks clearly different from you and from me than it is to identify a person who thinks differently.
(Wertlieb) Ken Wade is an associate professor at Champlain College with a long time interest in World War II propaganda, and the practice of stereotyping the "enemy."
And that's where we conclude our Vermont Reads series.
Good morning. I'm Mitch Wertlieb.
The Vermont Humanities Council, which sponsors an annual statewide community reading program, chose When the Emperor Was Divine this year. It's a fictional account by Julie Otsuka of the World War II internment of people of Japanese descent.
After Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, America mobilized for war. And Wade says that in order to prepare psychologically and to motivate people to risk their lives to fight an enemy, that enemy has to be demonized and made to look as evil as possible
(Wade) The Japanese were demonized to an extent that we hadn't seen since WWI when we demonized the Germans - as the Hun, the ruthless Hun.
(Wertlieb) An old newsreel from that time gives a sense of the attitudes.
(newsreel excerpt)
(Wertlieb) During World War II, some very surprising people produced some extreme images. There's a poster promoting war savings bonds that shows a Japanese man wearing glasses, with extreme buck teeth. The poster says: "Wipe the sneer off his face." It's signed by Dr. Seuss.
(Wade) Theodor Geisel was a humorist/cartoonist working in advertising. It was only after the war that he really rose to prominence as one of the most beloved children's authors... you know that the Disney corporation participated in this propaganda push as well.
(Wertlieb) And it was effective - contributing to an atmosphere of fear and suspicion, in which American citizens could be interned without public outcry. And a respected, long time resident of Vermont's Northeast Kingdom could be arrested as a spy. Joan Alexander of Glover was researching family history when she came across the story.
(Alexander) I had a great aunt who had a brother in law who was Japanese. And he had lived in Glover and his name was Yutaka Minakuchi - is how we knew his name.
(Wertlieb) His grandparents had converted to Christianity under a missionary program and he came to the United States as a young man to study for the ministry. He stayed and became a lecturer. He met Nellie Cook from Glover. They married, settled down and started a family in Glover - where for 20 years, he was a respected member of the community. In the years before the war, he was said to be the only Japanese subject living in Vermont, and the only Japanese minister in the country. But with the war, things changed.
Alexander recalls coming across a startling headline one day as she looked through newspaper archives.
(Alexander) "Japanese minister arrested as a spy" and I was totally shocked because nobody in my family had ever mentioned this. And so I decided then I would try to figure out what was this story and in the end I put together what I had for the Glover Historical Society.
(Wertlieb) Was there any real, hard evidence that led to his arrest - that the government made known to the newspapers, to the town, to anyone?
(Alexander) The fact that he was getting a stipend from Japan and had been ever since he had left his job in Peacham as the minister where he had been for ten years - people really latched onto that as proof that he must be a spy. And there had been a lot of talk that he was sending coded messages from a radio and there was an antenna up in back of their home in Glover. And it was true that there was a radio, but they searched for the antenna and never found anything like that.
(Wertlieb) After the war Minakuchi found work in New York and Pennsylvania as a butler, with Nellie as housekeeper. When it was finally legal for him to do so, he became a naturalized citizen. After Nellie's death, he returned to Vermont, where he died one year before President Gerald Ford apologized and rescinded Franklin Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066, calling for wartime internments.
After the war, the 120,000 men, women and children who had been held by the U.S. government were released. Most had to start over from scratch. But they got on with it, despite lingering confusion over cultural identity.
Where and how to return home - how to once again "belong" - is one of the final themes in this year's Vermont Reads book, "When the Emperor was Divine." Author Julie Otsuka reads an excerpt:
(Otsuka) WE WERE FREE NOW, free to go wherever we wanted to go, whenever we pleased. There were no more armed guards, no more searchlights, no more barbed-wire fences. Our mother went out to the market and brought back the first fresh pears we had eaten in years. She brought back eggs, and rice, and many cans of beans. When our ration books arrived, she told us, she would buy us fresh meat. She dug up the silver she had buried in the garden before we had left and she set the card table for three. The knives were still sharp. The forks and spoons had not lost their shine. As we sat down in our chairs she reminded us to eat slowly, with our mouths closed and our heads held high above our plates. "Don't shovel," she said.
But we could not help ourselves. We were hungry. We were ravenous. We ate quickly, greedily, as though we were still in the mess hall barracks, where whoever finished first got seconds and slow eaters were left behind to make do with only one serving.
Later on, in the evening, we turned on the radio and heard one of the same programs we had listened to before the war - The Green Hornet - and it was as if we had never been away at all. Nothing's changed, we said to ourselves. The war had been an interruption, nothing more. We would pick up our lives where we had left off and go on. We would go back to school again. We would study hard, every day, to make up for lost time. We would seek out our old classmates. "Where were you?" they'd ask, or maybe they would just nod and say, "Hey." We would join their clubs, after school, if they let us. We would listen to their music. We would dress just like they did. We would change our names to sound more like theirs. And if our mother called out to us on the street by our real names we would turn away and pretend not to know her. We would never be mistaken for the enemy again!
(Wertlieb) Julie Otsuka reading from When the Emperor Was Divine, her fictional account of a pivotal time in American history.
More resources about Vermont Reads and the Vermont Humanities Council can be found on our Web site, vpr-dot-net.
VPR News, I'm Mitch Wertlieb.


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Monday, 22 October, 2001, 08:32 GMT 09:32 UK
Playing picture perfect tennis
BBC Go Digital's Jon Wurtzel casts a wry eye over developments in the world of technology
A new kind of tennis has been served online.
Called Photoshop tennis the players are graphic designers, the balls are images, and the racquets are stored in your computer.
Photoshop is the standard graphic design programme for computer artists worldwide.
It works by using a system of layers - background, foreground, with multiple slices in between, each forming an element of the image.
International rally
To start a match one player e-mails a Photoshop image to the other containing a single layer.
In this way, the Tower of London can be transported to New Delhi then given a purple paint job.
This rally carries on with each player adding new layers, evolving the images until the match ends.
This is decided either by a time limit, a forfeit or mutual consent.
The matches are played live online at coudal.com, where the spectators can add comments in real time, and then vote for a winner.
Showing off
Photoshop tennis is more than just an interesting visual exercise.
It's a place to show off your design skills and display your wares in a competitive job market.
And because it uses images, not words, people from all over the world can join in whatever language they speak.
A typical Photoshop tennis match
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In Liberia, women comprise 75 per cent of fatalities in the current Ebola crisis. Because they are expected to do the caretaking of infected loved ones, they are left far more exposed to the disease.
As anyone who frequents this site knows, even at the best of times women across the world are routinely deprived of their basic human rights. With so much of the world currently embroiled in conflict, it is worth exploring how this inequality affects women in times of conflict and crisis.
Back in 2003, a report by the UN Security Council revealed that, "Women and girls suffered disproportionately during and after war, as existing inequalities were magnified, and social networks broke down, making them more vulnerable to sexual violence and exploitation."
The widespread use of rape as a weapon of war, the high numbers of war widows left to fend for their families, and the lack of women in leadership and peacekeeping roles were listed among the key factors causing women to bear the brunt of the consequences of war.
Sadly, little has changed in 11 years. Though war remains primarily the domain of men, women shoulder more than their fair share of its burden. Often, as Yvette Zegenhagen, National Manager for International Humanitarian Law at the Australian Red Cross told me, "violations against women were carried out not because of a lack of law protecting them but a lack of respect of that law."
Nowhere is this more apparent than when it comes to sexual violence. Although systemic rape, forced prostitution, and trafficking are all prohibited under the Geneva Conventions, sexual violence remains endemic. A 2006 survey of 1,600 women in Liberia found that 92 percent had experienced some form of sexual violence during that country's 13-year civil war.
But rape is by no means the only injustice women face. As well as the high levels of civilian deaths in today's conflicts, war compounds already crushing levels of poverty that disproportionately affect women.
In Iraq, women are largely shunned from the workforce so those who have lost husbands are reduced to begging in front of mosques and selling cheap goods in the streets, only to be arrested and thrown in jail. While a small number of widows receive state aid, this amounts to only $85 per month in a country where average rents are $210. Meanwhile, the breakdown of the health system has led to the highest maternal mortality rate in the region, with 50 percent of pregnant women saying they cannot afford to access government health services.
Ironically, the increased suffering of Iraqi women, like those of their Afghan counterparts, comes in the aftermath of a war that was initiated under the guise of liberating them.
The western interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan have created power vacuums allowing ever-more radical groups to emerge. Well before the rise of ISIS, the status of women in northern Iraq had deteriorated drastically, whilst in Afghanistan, the rights of women are being bargained away in negotiations. The Shia Personal Status Law, passed in 2009 by President Karzai in order to secure support from powerful Shia clerics, allows men to withhold financial support if their wife refuses to obey sexual demands, and forbids women from working without permission from their husbands.
Of course, men suffer in times of conflict also. "Men are more often forcibly conscripted to join armed forces," Zegenhagen says, and, "civilian men are more often detained because of the perceived threat their presence poses." Nor, she says, is it wise to assume women are always passive victims, "women take part in hostilities (and have) diverse coping mechanisms for dealing with the consequences of war."
But there is no doubt that the already unequal status of women leaves them having to cope with gender-specific problems on top of the general effects of conflict. In the Gaza Strip, for instance, even before the most recent war, the Israeli and Egyptian land, air, and sea blockade, which has been in effect since 2007, has crippled the local economy, causing an overall unemployment rate of 41 percent, with women's unemployment hitting 52 percent in the first half of 2014.
Subsequently, with very few permitted to leave the Strip to seek employment elsewhere, most of Gaza relies heavily on aid. While men and women suffer these problems equally, the dependence on food aid has resulted in higher levels of malnutrition in women, leaving Gaza's pregnant women, like those in Iraq, particularly vulnerable. In 2012, more than a third of pregnant women were anaemic, with the condition contributing to 20 percent of maternal deaths.
During the recent war, maternity wards in the Gaza Strip overflowed with women suffering miscarriages, premature labour, and stillbirths brought on by the stress of war (Israeli doctors reported similar problems in women living in southern Israel as they came under fire from Hamas rockets).
Compounding these problems, Hamas, the group that swept to power in 2006 in Gaza's first and only free elections, has instigated strict Islamist rule enforcing "modest" dress and gender segregation.
But it's not just the explicitly gendered violence of war that leaves women suffering disproportionately. In Liberia, women comprise 75 percent of fatalities in the current Ebola crisis. Tolbert Nyenswah, Liberia's assistant minister of health says women bear the brunt of the Ebola mortality burden because they are expected to do the caretaking of infected loved ones, leaving them far more exposed to the disease.
Likewise, in sub-Saharan Africa, 60 percent of all AIDS cases are women. According to David Tigawalana from the Uganda AIDS Commission, gender inequalities such as economic dependency, lack of personal assets, and lack of protection against sexual violence and exploitation, leave women more vulnerable to HIV and AIDS:
"Most women in African societies are subjected to discrimination right from their youth and denied access to education and gainful employment. Women end up being engaged in subsistence farming or low paying jobs. Economic pressures lead women to engage in…sex work and transactional sex. In urban settings, cohabitation and temporary sexual relationships are common because women need support for items like house rent and feeding… Social construction of masculinity and femininity renders women powerless to demand for their rights, including not questioning infidelity of their husbands. The patriarchal system in Africa affects women directly by legitimisation of male dominance."
So, how do we tackle problems of this magnitude? As well as legal provisions, groups like the Red Cross have been instrumental in addressing the specific needs of women in times of conflict, with for instance, additional food allowances for pregnant and lactating women. But ultimately, it all comes back to the role and status of women in society. When I asked Zeganhagen what needs to be done, her answer echoes the findings of the UN more than a decade ago, "The international community (must) include women in decisions-making bodies and positions of power at all levels in prevention, management and resolution of conflict."
Because as long as women are viewed primarily as homemakers and caretakers, as long as their bodily autonomy is not respected, and as long as they are shut out of power, they will continue to experience discrimination, and this will only be amplified in times of crisis.
Inequality hurts women, in so many more ways than most of us realise.


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LPA No.71 of 2006 -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CASE NO.: LPA No.71 of 2006 DATE OF DECISION: March 10, 2009 THE PUNJAB STATE CO-OPERATIVE ...APPELLANT AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT BANK LTD. VERSUS PUNJAB STAE CO-OPERATIVE AGRICULTURAL ...RESPONDENTS DEVELOPMENT BANK PENSIONER'S ASSOCIATION & OTHERS CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE ASHUTOSH MOHUNTA. HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE NIRMALJIT KAUR. PRESENT: MR. R.N. RAINA, ADVOCATE FOR THE APPELLANT. MR. GAURAV CHOPRA, ADVOCAE FOR RESPONDENTS NO.1 TO 3. MS. AMBIKA LUTHRA, AAG, PUNJAB. ASHUTOSH MOHUNTA, J.
This order shall dispose of L.P.A. No. 71 of 2006, filed by the Punjab State Cooperative Agricultural Development Bank Ltd. and L.P.A. No. 137 of 2006, filed by State of Punjab against order/judgment, dated 14.12.2005 [reported as 2006 (1) SCT 633], passed by a learned single Judge of this Court, allowing CWP No. 899 of 2000 filed by present respondent Nos. 1 to 3 in both the appeals. In view of same order/ judgment being under challenge in both the appeals, we dispose of both the appeals by a common order.
The brief facts of the case are that on the recommendations of the 3rd Pay Commission, the appellant - State of Punjab revised the pay scales of its employees on 21.05.1989, w.e.f. 01.01.1986. The appellant - LPA No.71 of 2006 -2- Bank also, vide resolution No. 37 dated 06.07.1989, revised the pay scale of its employees, on the pattern of Punjab Government after obtaining the approval of the Registrar Cooperative Societies, Punjab. The Punjab Government issued a notification dated 24.12.1992, where by the Government amended and revised the Master pay scale in order to remove certain anomalies in pay scales. The appellant bank also introduced the amended master pay scale w.e.f. 01.01.1986 vide order dated 09.12.1997 in order to remove the anomalies. However it was clarified that the arrears of pay to the affected employees on account of the amended master pay scale will be allowed only w.e.f. 01.04.1996. As per the stand of the appellant bank the arrears were paid to the employees w.e.f. 01.01.1993.
Feeling aggrieved by the restriction on the payment of the arrears of pay only w.e.f. 01.04.1996, even though anomaly was removed w.e.f. 01.01.1986, the present respondent Nos. 1 to 3, one of which is the Pensioner's Association of the appellant - bank, filed the aforementioned writ petition challenging the order dated 09.12.1997 to the extent it restricted the payment of arrears only w.e.f. 01.04.1996. The only short question which arose for the consideration of learned single Judge and now we are required to examine in these appeals is as to whether the employees of the appellant-bank are entitled to arrears of pay w.e.f. 01.01.1986 i.e. the date from which the anomaly was removed or the same could be restricted to payment w.e.f. 01.04.1996. In other words the dispute is regarding the payment of arrears of pay w.e.f. 01.01.1986 to 31.03.1996 or 31.12.1992 as the case may be.
The learned single Judge held that the order dated 09.12.1997 was violative of Article 14 and 16 (1) of the Constitution of India to the LPA No.71 of 2006 -3- extent it denies the arrears to the present respondent Nos. 1 to 3 and other affected employees with effect from the date of removal of anomaly i.e. 01.01.1986. The present respondent Nos. 1 to 3 were held entitled to the arrears of salary arising on account of revision of pay scale w.e.f. 01.01.1986 upto 31.03.1996. The learned single Judge further directed that if any employee has been paid the arrears w.e.f. 01.01.1993, the same shall be adjusted. The learned single Judge also held the present respondent Nos. 1 to 3 entitled to the consequential benefits in the form of revised pension and allowances, wherever the said direction was applicable. While arriving at the aforesaid conclusion the learned Single Judge relied on the decision of the Hon'ble Supreme Court in State of Punjab vs. Dr. Dharampal (C.A. No. 10549 of 1996 decided on 25.08.1998) and earlier decisions of this court in Joginder Singh Saini vs. State of Punjab [1999 (1) SCT 520] and Prem Parkash Nayar vs. Punjab State Electricity Board [2003 (2) SCT 550].
We have heard the learned counsel for the parties at great length. Mr Raina, Learned Counsel appearing on behalf of the appellant - Bank has vehemently argued that the learned single Judge erred in entertaining the writ petition and the writ petition was liable to be dismissed at the threshold on ground of availability of alternative remedy. The respondent Nos. 1 to 3 failed to avail the alternative remedy of revision as provided under Section 69 of the Punjab Cooperative Societies Act, 1961. He contended that the respondent Nos. 1 to 3 should have filed a revision petition before the State Government against the order dated 09.12.1997 in the first instance under the aforesaid provision.
We are not impressed by the argument of the learned counsel LPA No.71 of 2006 -4- for the appellant - bank. It is by now well settled that the existence of a remedy by way of revision does not bar the jurisdiction of the High Court to entertain a petition under Art. 226 as the remedy to file revision is not an efficacious remedy. Reference can be made to the decision of the Hon'ble Supreme Court in the case of Collector of Customs and Excise, Cochin v. M/s. A. S. Bava [ AIR 1968 SC 13] and L. Hirday Narain v. Income-Tax Officer, Bareilly [AIR 1971 SC 33] and this court in the case of Bhagwant Singh Dhanao Vs. Punjab State Agricultural Marketing Board, [1996 (3) SCT 757]. Even otherwise we do not find it proper to interfere in the facts and circumstances of the present case merely on ground of availability of alternative remedy in view of law laid down by Hon'ble Supreme Court in para 21 of the judgment titled, L.K. Verma v. HMT Ltd. [ 2006(1) SCT 601 ], to the following effect:-
"21. In any event, once a Writ Petition has been entertained and determined on merit of the matter, the Appellate Court, except in rare cases, would not interfere therewith only on the ground of existence of alternative remedy. (See Kanak v. U.P. Avas Evam Vikas Parishad, 2003(4) RCR(Civil) 562 : 2003(7) SCC 693). We, therefore, do not see any justification to hold that the High Court wrongly entertained the writ petition filed by the respondent."
The learned counsel for the appellant bank has further contended that the State of Punjab has revised the master pay scale for its employees w.e.f. 01.01.1993 and not w.e.f. 01.01.1986. The appellant bank has also decided to follow the State Government and amended the pay scale on the pattern of the State Government and the appellant - Bank cannot be LPA No.71 of 2006 -5- forced to pay arrears w.e.f. 01.01.1986. The learned counsel contended that the learned Single Judge has erred in not properly considering this aspect of the matter. Again we do not find merit in contention raised by the learned Counsel for the appellant - bank. The date from which the State of Punjab granted the revised master pay scale is immaterial, once a decision has already been taken by the appellant - bank to grant the revised master pay scale to its employees w.e.f. 01.01.1986.
The learned counsel for the respondent Nos. 1 to 3 on the other hand tried to support the judgment of the learned single Judge by contending, that as per settled law, once there is anomaly in the pay scales, the benefits are to be paid form the date of creation of the anomaly and no artificial and arbitrary date can be fixed by the appellants in this regard. He has relied upon the decision of this court in Gurmail Singh Dahdli and others vs. Union of India and others [2008 (3) SCT 235]; Joginder Singh Saini's case supra; Jai Narayan Jakhar vs. Union of India and another [CWP No. 15400 of 2006 decided on 14.01.2008] and Mrs. Suveena Chaudhary vs. Chandigarh Industrial and Tourism Development Corporation Limited [1998 (4) SCT 620], in support of his argument.
In Joginder Singh Saini's case supra, which has also been relied upon by the learned single Judge while deciding the writ petition, this Court held that having accepted the factum of anomaly and having taken a decision to remove the same, the Government cannot arbitrarily fix the date with effect from which the benefit of revised pay scale is to be given to the petitioners.
In Jai Narayan Jakhar's case supra, a Division bench of this Court held as under:-LPA No.71 of 2006 -6-
"Having heard the learned counsel for the parties, we are of the opinion that the stand of the respondents that the petitioner is not entitled to the benefit of removal of anomaly in the Pay Commission is wholly unjustified. It was during the implementation of 5th Pay Commission report, it was found by the respondents that there is anomaly in the pay scales. Once the anomaly in the pay scales is found and sought to be removed then it has to be removed from the implementation of the recommendation of the Pay Commission i.e. 01.01.1996. There is no explanation as to why the said anomaly is sought to be removed from 10.10.1997. In the absence of any explanation of removal of anomaly from 10.10.1997, we do not find the action of the respondents fixing such date as justified. Consequently, we hold that the petitioner is entitled to revised pay scale of Rs 5220-140-8140/- w.e.f. 01.01.1996. Thus the petitioner shall be entitled to the retiral benefits on the said pay scale."
In Suveena Chaudhary's case supra , the court held to the following effect :-
".......It is true that it is always open to an employer to revise the salaries / pay scales of its employees and also specify a date from which the revision of pay scales shall take effect but where an anomaly if pointed out in the revision of pay scales of any post and that anomaly is sought to be removed then it cannot be allowed to be removed from the date when the employer decides to remove it. In the very nature of things it LPA No.71 of 2006 -7- must relate back to the date when it existed. There would be no meaning in removing an anomaly from a date subsequent to the date when the grades were revised. In other words if new grades had to be given by way of removing an anomaly such grades should take effect from the date when the grades were originally revised."
In Gurmail Singh Dahdli's case supra, a division bench of this court, cited with approval the observations made by the learned single Judge in judgment impugned in the present case and held as under in para 8 of the judgment :-
"8...........Once there was anomaly in respect of pensionary benefits, pensionary benefits are payable from the date of creation of anomaly and that interpretation will alone serve the purpose and the object of removing anomaly."
In view of the above, we are of the considered opinion that the order/ judgment of the Learned Single Judge is sound in law. There is no error in the view taken by the Learned Single Judge and we do not find any valid ground to upset the order passed by the learned single Judge. The appeals filed by the appellant - bank and the appellant - State of Punjab are without merit and the same are accordingly dismissed.
(ASHUTOSH MOHUNTA) JUDGE March 10, 2009 (NIRMALJIT KAUR) Gulati JUDGE


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----- Original Message ----- From: "Neil Conway" <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com> To: "Bruce Momjian" <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> Cc: "Tatsuo Ishii" <t-ishii(at)sra(dot)co(dot)jp>; "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>; "Joshua Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>; "PostgreSQL Hackers" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 6:27 PM Subject: Re: [HACKERS] 7.4RC1 planned for Monday > On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 23:13, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > If we do a short cycle, will we have enough features to justify a > > release? We could try to get PITR and Win32 done by January 1 and see > > if that can happen. > > It's worth noting that we've thought about doing "quick" major releases > in the past, without much success: originally, 7.4 was going to be > "Win32 + PITR, released in a few months", and look how that turned out > :-) > > Since the cost of migrating to a new major release is more-or-less > constant (you need a complete initdb+reload whether the release took 3 > weeks or 3 years), I'm still not in favour of a short release cycle. But > in any case, the whole debate is somewhat academic unless someone does > the work to get PITR and Win32 done very quickly. > You don't have to upgrade to every new release. Maybe win32 needs to be done against the 7.4 codebase whenever that is branched, and could be released out of cycle. PITR doesn't seem to be going anywhere very fast from the messages I've seen here. cheers andrew
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Many photographers dislike taking children. It is true, they are sometimes troublesome, and the result uncertain; but again, they are so often easy and graceful, and their pure complexions give such delicate half-tones, that some of the finest pictures are those of children, and no artist seeking after excellence would forego, even from choice, the oportunity they afford. For very young children, it is necessary to choose a fine day, and the best light, which is usually in the forenoon. Avoid giving or mentioning sweets to them. Do not play or fuss too much with them. Generally a child will sit best if left entirely to the operator.
Attached is a photo
of my husband's maternal grandmother, Leona Mary MARTIN (on left) and her twin,
Lee Joseph MARTIN, taken c. 1907 in Bonners Ferry, Idaho. If you look
closely at the left side of Leona's gown and the right side of Lee's gown,
you'll see evidence that someone (or a couple of someones) are sitting out of
sight, holding the children on the sofa. The twins would have been about
a year old (they were born 17 Dec. 1906). The back says "For Grandpa
and Grandma". Only their maternal grandparents, Isaac and Rebecca
(HEWITT) LUKE were still living by the time they were born. I imagine
this photo was a Christmas gift.
Donna Richmond sent this picture (below) titled "child of L.C. Hataway, Black Creek, La." At teh baby's waist, you can clearly see the hands of a woman hidden under the rug.
Here's one more picture from my collection of unidentified photos of hidden women. It dates from the late 1860s. Don't you just love the hands holding the baby's head still?Happy Mother's Day!
In response to last week's column on tinted pictures, Barbara Stone sent in this oversize hand colored photo of a young woman. It's on canvas and framed in a gorgeous gold setting. According to Stone is was found in a collection of pictures of her father's Irish relatives who lived in Ansonia, Connecticut. The problem is: Where was it taken and who is it?
Coloring daguerreotype pictures is an American invention, and has been considered a secret, though at the present time it is done with more or less success by most artists.
The color consists of the oxyds of several metals, ground to an impalpable powder. They are laid on in a dry state, with soft camel-hair pencils, after the process of gilding. The plate is then heated by which they are fixed. This is a very delicate part of the art, and should not be undertaken by those who have not a good eye, and a light hand.


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Once the king of primetime television, NBC has faltered in its post-Friends years with a string of failed comedies, the end of the ER era and last year's late-night debacle with Conan O'Brien and Jay Leno.
But, the network's former CEO and president Jeff Zucker spoke at PromaxBDA's Conference and says he's willing to take the blame for a lot of the things that have gone wrong at NBC -- especially the failed O'Brien-Leno experiment.
"I regret that we had to make the decisions. There were no winners out of that. A lot of people got hurt in that process. And that was incredibly unfortunate," he said of asking O'Brien to step down from the Tonight Show desk and air an hour later to accommodate Leno's return. "Ultimately at the end of the day, it's my responsibility. Others were on the line to make the decision. But I signed off on it. So ultimately, it's my responsibility."
As for the slew of failed shows on NBC in the wake of hits like Friends and ER?
"In the end, those two shows – Friends and ER – came to define NBC Entertainment. Our problem and my problem was we really couldn't find the successor for Friends. We never found it. It's hard. ... NBC had a history of being able to (produce hit comedies). But we weren't able to replicate that. It's not like our competition was doing it either. It's incredibly hard in a world where 90 percent of shows fail. Obviously, I feel terribly about that."
And, Zucker is thrilled to see former Today anchor Katie Couric, who recently left her post as anchor of the CBS Evening News, return to daytime talk, even if it is on ABC. He will serve as executive producer on the new show.
"I think what people have missed for a long time is the Katie who was part of …the Today show and who is big enough to have fun and be serious all in one show. That's really what you'll see [on her talk show]. That's what her brand is. It's a brand that has credibility and fun. Our hope is we take that into that program. It's a tremendous opportunity."
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Moscow Carrousel, by Eugene Lyons. Alfred Knopf. 355 pp.
Readers of books on Soviet Russia will enjoy this book by Mr. Lyons. It is different from all the books hitherto written on Soviet life. It does not pretend to be a serious study. It is written in a light, playful tone and makes easy, pleasant reading.
Mr. Lyons spent seven years in Moscow as correspondent of the United Press. During these seven years he came in contact with all phases of Soviet life. He conveys his different and many-sided experiences just as he has undergone them. The result is a colorful collection of the dark and the light sides of life under the Soviet regime. A collection which gives a fine picture of the many angles of Moscow life today.
Jewish readers who are interested in the Jewish angle of Soviet life, will find in Mr. Lyons's book a few very interesting episodes which throw light on the present situation of the three million Jews in Soviet Russia. There is the former Jewish trader who, despite all the persecutions which he has undergone, is happy to tell Mr. Lyons of the equal treatment which he enjoys in Russia now. Twenty years ago he could not even dream of entering the Czarist capital. Today he is one of the many residents in a Leningrad hotel and fears nobody. He is an equal citizen, is treated equally, and is faithfully devoted to the Soviet regime. Deprived of all his belongings, he nevertheless discovered that he had obtained something which he could not buy for any money under the old regime. He obtained human treatment. He is no longer persecuted in Russia as a Jew.
The book by Mr. Lyons is written with a fine sense of humor. It embraces almost every phase of life with which an American reader would like to get acquainted. It depicts the life of the child and of the grown-up in Moscow, of the foreigner and of the Soviet citizen, of Stalin and of the average worker, of the theatre and of the simple kindergarten. It is a bouquet of short essays on Soviet life, written in a novel and interesting style.
Many of the scenes which Mr. Lyons describes in his book will not be read with enthusiasm b# those who are 100 per cent.pr## Soviet. One feels, however, that Mr. Lyons is honest in presenting the facts. He pictures life in Moscow just as he has seen it, and no foreign observer could see it better than he, who was, day in and day out for seven consecutive years, in direct contact with events in Moscow.
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Peter Allgeyer wrote:
> My vote goes to OpenBSD, too. Why?
> * due to its emphasis on security, as Manuel said it.
> It's not only build with security in mind, there are also a lot of
> security related protocols like openssh which were actively pushed by
> the OpenBSD team.
> * the integration of pf and carp - pf is IMHO the best filtering
> language around (if you don't mention netfilter ;-)), very similar to
> ipfiter (since it's a further development of it), with a lot of
> features, ipfilter4 should also bring us, but how stable would it be?
> * carp/pfsync: this is the real highlight of OpenBSD and the real cause
> not choosing Linux/netfilter. A HA application for filtering, just
> like we know it from the good old Nokia appliances running the very
> expensive CP software. I can't imagine any better point for OpenBSD as
> this one, having stateful HA interfaces.
> Sure both, pf and carp are ported to FreeBSD as well, but nothing is
> better than the original.
> * OpenBSD IPsec implementation (isakmpd), giving us NAT-T, xauth (for
> cisco vpn clients for example) and filterable (!) Interfaces (one of
> the major points why I looked at OpenVPN in m0n0)
> * Hardware encryption: suports not only the soekris cards but also
> VIA C3 and the RNG of the Intel motherboards
> * better bridging code: STP support and able to be filtered by pf
> It convinces me in the integration of all these features. Not like
> FreeBSD/ipfw/ipfilter, OpenBSD uses one filtering language, one IPSEC
> implementation and integrates all those perfectly into the kernel,
> supporting cryptographic functions and accelaretion to all of them.
and on top of your perfect description:
openBSD is pure BSD licensed not like other OS which underlies only
halfway the BSD license because they integrate SSH form X, SSL form Y, ...


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Splitbased on11266 ratings.
Three girls are kidnapped by a man with a diagnosed 23 distinct personalities, and must try and escape before the apparent emergence of a frightful new 24th.
Release Date: 20 January 2017
Runtime: 117min
Genres: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Directors: M. Night Shyamalan
Actors: James McAvoy, Anya Taylor-Joy, M. Night Shyamalan, Haley Lu Richardson, Jessica Sula
IMDB Rating: 7.6/10


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Danica McKellar, aka, "Winnie" from The Wonder Years, is officially engaged! She posted a couple pics on Twitter and Instagram yesterday. She's been with her boyfriend, Scott Sveslosky, for 2 years and has a 3 1/2 year old son, Draco, from a previous relationship. Congrats to the happy couple!
Yep, my amazing boyfriend Scott & I are engaged!! (He's the one @iamvalc did a shout out to on #DWTS) :) Hugs to you all!
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Served Up: The Child Care Challenges of Restaurant Workers
Jul 09, 2013
By Liz Ben-Ishai, Christine Johnson-Staub, Jodie Levin-Epstein, and Hannah Matthews
The restaurant industry is tough. Low wages, unpredictable schedules, and long hours are hard enough. Add the stress of finding affordable, high-quality child care during the hours when restaurant employees need it, and working in the industry poses critical challenges to the well-being of the whole family. To enable restaurant workers who are parents to both care for their families and do their jobs effectively, we need stronger work supports and job quality policies like a higher minimum wage, expanded child care assistance, and earned sick leave. In a recent study – "The Third Shift" -- by the Restaurant Opportunities Center United (ROC), in partnership with CLASP and a number of other national organizations, researchers found that the high cost of child care, inadequate availability of child care assistance, and limited access to care during non-traditional hours are among the barriers to child care for restaurant workers. As a result of those barriers, the study found that women working in the restaurant industry are frequently under- and unemployed. The study includes surveys, focus groups, and interviews of restaurant workers with children.
"The Third Shift" also shows that work-family imbalance and lack of paid sick time are issues that compound the challenge of finding and keeping stable child care. Only nine percent of the workers ROC surveyed had paid sick days. And without paid sick days, parents in the restaurant industry are forced to choose between either sending a sick child to a caregiver or foregoing wages in order to stay home. Workers in the restaurant industry also often face erratic and unpredictable schedules, an industry trend that makes it difficult for them to make child care arrangements.


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By Jim Corbett, USA TODAY
OWINGS MILLS, Md Baltimore Ravens director of player development O.J. Brigance sat down with USA TODAY last week to discuss his battle against ALS, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, more commonly referred to as Lou Gehrig's disease. It affects up to 30,000 Americans at a given time.
Brigance has a website —Brigancebrigade.org— devoted to raising ALS awareness and funds to help find a cure.
Now 39, Brigance was diagnosed in May 2007 with the neurodegenerative disease that attacks nerve cells that fire muscle movement. He is chairman for the Robert Packard Center, the research center for ALS at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. In the spring, he received the Johnny Unitas Tops in Courage Award at the Ed Block Courage Awards dinner named after the former Baltimore Colts team trainer.
NFL INSIDER: Brigance inspiring Ravens' run
Brigance was a former standout special teams player and linebacker who won a Grey Cup with the Canadian Football League's Baltimore Stallions in 1995 and a Super Bowl title with the Ravens in 2000. Brigance made five special teams tackles, including one on the opening kickoff of Baltimore's 34-7 Super Bowl XXXV win against the New York Giants.
But he has distinguished himself in his role as director of player development upon his retirement from playing in 2003. Brigance twice has received the NFL's Winston/Shell Award in 2005 and 2006 honoring the director of player development's commitment to developing unique and innovative programs.
Brigance has created programs that connect Ravens players with area high school programs and get them involved in internships with financial institutions and other business involvements. His life-skills programs have helped prepare them for post-football life.
All this despite the physical ravages of a disease that has caused him to work recently from a motorized cart as he has lost the ability to shake hands.
Brigance discussed his daily fight to raise ALS awareness through his unflagging spirit, strong personal faith and commitment to his job:
USA TODAY: Ozzie (Newsome, Ravens GM) talked about you giving 110% and how impressed he was with the thoroughness of a recent assignment he needed your assistance on for the league.
Brigance: That's always good to hear. I've never worked for such a special organization. When I first learned about ALS … I started feeling pieces of it in 2006. … I enjoyed running gassers with the guys. I was playing racquetball one day and I noticed a little bit of a weakness in my shoulder. I didn't know what it was. But I didn't have the same whip. About that time I started researching what was going on. I narrowed it down to a few things and one of them was ALS. I had heard of Lou Gehrig's disease. So I did a little research. As I looked at some of the symptoms, 'Yup. Got that one. Yup. Got that one. Walk like a duck, talk like a duck, it must be a duck. It wasn't diagnosed until May, 2007. Obviously, we (he and wife, Chanda of 13 years) had to deal with it as a family. I had to figure out what all this meant. I remember going in and speaking with Ozzie Newsome at training camp. I was moved by his sympathy and his empathy. Ozzie said, 'O.J. you're part of our family. Whatever we need to help you with to do your job, we're going to help you do that. You can work as long as you choose to.' I met with (team president) Dick Cass and (owner) Steve Bisciotti who said the same thing. That does not happen everywhere. It's a great testament to the organization."
USA TODAY: (Ravens coach) John Harbaugh, Ozzie and Harry Swayne and players say they draw strength from you.
Brigance: Every time I hear somebody else is diagnosed with ALS, my heart goes out to them. I know what they're feeling. More than anything I just want everyone to be encouraged about this.
USA TODAY: It is about how you choose to fight, how you choose to live when you received your diagnosis that is everything to you?
Brigance: It truly is. I truly believe nothing happens by accident; that we all live the life that prepares us for what we go through later on. I don't think there would have been a better ambassador to tackle this disease than myself.
USA TODAY: You were fearless as a player. That's what John Harbaugh says. You are living the same way with ALS.
Brigance: I appreciate John saying that. Many people will feel sorry for you. But I know I've been chosen for something special since I was born; whether it was being born to teenage parents; or being told I would never play professional football; or being told when there was a serious injury that I was told I might not come back from — I've overcome the odds all my life. I've fought through things before. I have an opportunity to show people what God can do with a life if someone is willing. This year I was the ambassador and chairman for the Robert Packard Center run to raise money for ALS. I got a chance to meet other people who were affected by ALS however, I can impact that — I realize now, everything I've gone through has prepared me for this opportunity to further the cause of ALS research.
USA TODAY: Do you have an idea how much you've been able to help raise through your work as the Packard Center chairman?
Brigance: I know last year we raised almost $185,000 and we raised $85,000 the year before. And through stories done on me … I got an e-mail from a guy in England. He wrote how much the NFL Network story in March really helped him. He lost his teenage daughter at 15 and he didn't know how he was going to live. After seeing how I've chosen to live my life in spite of ALS with the help of Jesus, he's encouraged to go on.
USA TODAY: Were you ever afraid?
Brigance: There's always a little underlying fear with anything. But I've always tried to never ask 'Why?' … I may have broken down one time — where I was in bed and said you know what I'll probably be dead by the age of 40. But once I got up and dried my tears and realized I had been chosen by God, especially for this task …Was there fear? Yes. But how could I not accept the challenge I've been blessed with? I have no fear of death because of my relationship with Jesus. I know no matter how this comes out, I'm going to win. I'm fully expecting to be healed. Every day I walk this earth, I expect the next morning this may be the day that I'm healed, this may be the day of a new breakthrough. Even if that doesn't happen, I'm not afraid because I know I will live again.
USA TODAY: The players treat you the same as always —Ray Lewis, who played with you, and Bart Scott, who wears your number 57?
Brigance: Ray and I tease each other. Everybody's scared of Ray Lewis. I'm not scared. I told him, At any moment, I'm going to get up out of my wheelchair and him and I are going to wrestle. If we didn't need him for our organization to win, I might have taken him out already. I'm not scared of Ray Lewis. (Laughs)
USA TODAY: This is your joy, coming here every day? You're as much a Raven as you ever were when you played?
Brigance: It inspires me to get up out of bed to put one foot in front of the other … That's one of the things I've been tremendously blessed to do. When I addressed the team about my diagnosis, there was a look in the players' eyes of concern and fear. I assured them I was going to do everything in my power to fight this thing and to ultimately win this battle. My one request of them was this: 'Do not treat me any different.' That's not what I want. Yeah, there's going to be times when I may look different and I have to adjust in order to live life. But as long as I have breath in my body, I will do everything I can to fight and to serve you to the best of my abilities. Do not treat me any differently.
USA TODAY: I understand they have speed limits posted for your motorized wheelchair around the hallways?
Brigance: (Laughs long and heartily)
USA TODAY: "John Harbaugh was saying you fly around corners some times on two wheels, much to the dismay of your medical assistants."
Brigance: If I can't run fast anymore, I'm going to drive fast. … I came in one day and there were all these speed limit signs, (running backs coach) Wilbert Montgomery put up. There's different ones — 1.9 miles per hour for long hallways, 1.2 on the short hallways 1.0 leaving the cafeteria and for leaving the building. I laughed. That's what is priceless. We all recognize what the reality is. But we're mature enough to recognize the possible and to have fun. People look at my diagnosis. But I look at other people's circumstances. Every one of us endures some form of adversity in our life, but somehow we find the courage to get up and keep on living. Same game, different name. When people look at me and are encouraged by me … I look at children with ALS … Whenever I go to the doctor, I look around and say, 'Man, I got it good. I have family that loves me. And an organization behind me. I get to do what I love to do each and every day. There are some who can't walk. Some can't speak.' We're all dealing with our own adversity. But how we're choosing to deal with it is key. All we can ask is 'How can we make life better?' Even in the midst of adversity. It's not about why. It's about what can I do."
USA TODAY: Have doctors said they're close to a breakthrough?
Brigance: They're getting closer. The thing about ALS is every one is different and what may work for one, may not work for me.
USA TODAY: Do they know what causes ALS?
Brigance: The body naturally produces glutamine. It's normally absorbed. But in ALS, the body produces too much glutamine and it ends up attacking the motor neurons and killing them … the motor neurons are like telephone wires if you will, the glutamine has destroyed the motor neurons and the muscles don't get the signal.
USA TODAY: Thank you, O.J. for spending time and sharing your story with others, especially those who might have ALS or might have a family member or a friend with ALS.
Brigance: I can't tell you how much I appreciate you coming down here and doing a story on me. If you wouldn't mind mentioning, I have a website, Brigancebrigade.org to raise awareness and funds for ALS research. That's my passion. All I can do is keep fighting. That's all any of us can do.
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WOW. That was amazing. I- I'm not even sure what to say... well, firstly, I loved how you set it up at the beginning. Though this was only a one-shot, somehow you found a way to make it capture a lifetime, and this was far better than just about any other one-shot I've ever read. The character development was insanely rich and believable. I felt the story climaxing, as if I were apart of it myself. You did such an excellent job with keeping everything (the scene, the characters, the dialogue) accurate to Potterverse. I simply adored the scene in which Hermione and Ron argue, for innumerable reasons, but mainly because of the little flashes you granted us into the minds of Harry and Hermione. It's typical for those two to bicker like that, but you put such a unique and well-crafted twist to it that I find myself admitting I like your version much more! The agony, confusion, and doubt was all portrayed brilliantly, and mingled flawlessly with the backdrop of Love. You have a talent with words, my friend, and I have confidence that if you wanted it, and worked for it, a future in writing could be yours. I look forward to reading other stories by you, and encourage more one-shots! Great job.
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It's Friday night, you made it through the week, the kids are hungry, and you're too tired to cook. Bring the whole family to Charlotte's Place (107 Greenwich Street in Lower Manhattan) at 6 PM for free Family Friday Pizza & Movie Night.
Charlotte's Place is a free space in Lower Manhattan. Open to everyone, it is supported and operated by Trinity Wall Street, an Episcopal parish in the city of New York.
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5 Things to Know
The Silent Threat of Hepatitis B
By PETER JARET
Dr. Nancy Reau is an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Chicago's Center for Liver Disease, where she specializes in treating hepatitis. Here are five things she says everyone should know about hepatitis B.
1. Hepatitis B is a silent threat. People with chronic infections may feel fine for a long time, even as the virus is causing damage to the liver. Recent evidence shows that during the immune tolerant phase, when most researchers had assumed the virus was quiet, the liver may be sustaining injury. By the time symptoms appear, liver damage may be advanced. That's why it is so important to be tested if you have any reason to think you might have been exposed.
2. People infected with hepatitis B should be tested for hepatitis C and H.I.V. Both of these viruses can be transmitted via routes that are similar to hepatitis B. Co-infection raises the risk of complications. In addition, many doctors encourage people with hepatitis B infection to be vaccinated against hepatitis A to protect their livers from additional damage. Hepatitis A is typically transmitted in contaminated water or food.
3. Family members and close contacts of people infected with hepatitis B should be tested for the virus. If they have not been exposed to it, they should be vaccinated.
4. Not every person infected with hepatitis B needs to start treatment right away. Many people live with the virus and never develop serious symptoms. Most doctors counsel patients to wait until liver function tests and a biopsy show signs that the virus is beginning to cause damage. By waiting, doctors can limit the amount of time patients need to be treated and lower the risk that drug-resistant viruses will emerge.
5. Current drugs are very effective at controlling the virus and preventing damage. And because the liver can regenerate itself, some patients with advanced disease may see their condition improve significantly after beginning treatment.


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I have an Elgin Courant obituary relating to my third great grandfather who lived and
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I searched the Elgin Courant yesterday and found a lot of information about it's history
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The newspapers are the Forres Gazette, Morayshire Advertiser and Elgin
The Local Heritage Services for Moray, located in Elgin who run the Libindx
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obituary, if you are fortunate it may have details of the funeral service.
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COSMIC launch is successful
The Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere and Climate (COSMIC) mission was successfully launched into a circular low-Earth orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, at 0140 UTC on 15 April 2006. Six identical microsatellites, each carrying an advanced GPS radio occultation receiver and two other ionospheric instruments, were deployed successfully about 20 minutes after launch. The satellites are now going through check-up and testing, with the scientific instruments to be tested beginning in the next few days.
COSMIC data collection is expected to begin in June. To register for data access, please see the COSMIC Web page at the URL below. The page also includes visuals from the launch and other COSMIC background materials.
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The COMET Outreach Program is accepting proposals for Partners Projects for 2006. Funded by NOAA's National Weather Service, Partners Projects typically involve a one-year collaboration between an NWS forecaster and a university faculty member. Topics generally focus on a single case study or analysis problem. Local or regional workshops may also be supported. Please see the URL below for more details on submitting proposals.
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Good Times: Carnival Elation Cruise Review by Tigobitties425
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Good Times
Destination: Western Caribbean
Embarkation: New Orleans
The dinners were fine, but not great. The pizza was good as were the sandwiches on the buffet. The desserts were pretty good in both the dining room and on the buffet.
The ships entertainment was just okay. We were on NCL in January and the dancers and singers were fabulous and the shows were top notch. Carnival seemed more amateur. We did enjoy learning the "thriller" dance; however, they did that on NCL as well and then one night all those who learned the dance performed it in a small lounge for other guests. I have to say the comedian on our cruise was really funny and we enjoyed his 18+ show.
We did have an incident when my husband helped break up a More fight that broke out during lunch in the buffet. Security was slow in responding, as they claim they were busy checking passengers back in from a port we had stopped at. Regardless, we felt they should have responded quicker as the fight escalated over 8 - 10 minutes, until punches were thrown. (Parents need to watch their kids when off the ship, these guys got drunk in Mexico with no supervision)
The staff was friendly, our room steward was wonderful.
Overall we had a good vacation. Less
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COUNCILLORS have warned of more cuts and a council tax rise as they look to plug a £16.2 million gap in funding for 2014/15.
The council's executive board was given the base of the council budget for the next financial year which includes up to 75 job losses and service redesigns to help save money.
But it still has plans to invest in schemes including loans to households for energy efficiency works, investment in the crazy golf course at Walton Hall Gardens and funding for new community facilities.
Clr Russ Bowden, executive board member for corporate resources and assignments, said: "We have some £16.2 million worth of savings bearing in mind it comes on top of £50 million savings in previous years.
"That £16.2 million is only part of £50 million worth of savings we need to make over the next four years.
"We are looking at opportunities for income to mitigate the impact on some resources and decisions on service cuts."
Council tax looks set to rise by 1.98 per cent as the council decided not to take on Government funding to pay for a freeze - a scheme the council also turned down last year saying the money paid out would not be enough.
"We decided last year it wasn't in our interest to take the one per cent council tax loan due to that ever decreasing funding from Government and we take that view again this year," added Clr Bowden.
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Atlanta (AP) - Air travelers nationwide scrambled to revise their plans Thursday after an FAA computer glitch caused widespread cancellations and delays for the second time in 15 months.
The Federal Aviation Administration said the problem, which lasted about five hours, was fixed around 10 a.m., but it was unclear how long flights would be affected.
Doug Church, a spokesman for the National Air Traffic Controllers Union, said controllers were entering flight plans manually in some locations even after the glitch was fixed.
Aviation officials told The Associated Press that the problem began at the computer center in Salt Lake City. The officials asked not to be named because they were not authorized to speak publicly.
FAA spokesman Paul Takemoto said the problem started between 5:15 and 5:30 a.m. Airplane dispatchers had to send plans to controllers, who entered them by hand.
"It's slowing everything down," Takemoto said.
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, the world's busiest, was particularly affected. The problem also exacerbated delays caused by bad weather in the Northeast, with airports in the Chicago, Washington, D.C., and New York metro areas reporting problems.
Some flights were more than two hours behind schedule. Airports around the South also reported delays and cancellations.
U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-New York, said the country's aviation system is "in shambles" and the FAA needs more resources to prevent such problems from continuing.
"If we don't deliver the resources, manpower, and technology the FAA it needs to upgrade the system, these technical glitches that cause cascading delays and chaos across the country are going to become a very regular occurrence," he said in a statement.
In Atlanta, sisters Sharon Walker and Sheila James were taking their elderly mother, Rosa Washington, to see their other sister in St. Louis. The trio's 9:30 a.m. flight was delayed until 4 p.m.
"We were going to be there for a four-day weekend, but now it's getting cut short," James said. "It's just not a good day."
At Newark International Airport, Chris Cozzi was moved from one Delta flight to another but was still unsure if it would arrive on time in Atlanta, where he would have just an hour to catch a flight to Europe.
"You have to wonder what's the glitch? Glitch is kind of a general term, it could encompass many, many things," he said. "So it is a concern, but I tend to be an optimist."
Passengers were asked to check the status of their flights online before going to airports.
AirTran canceled at least 22 flights and delayed dozens more. Delta Air Lines was also affected. American Airlines spokesman Tim Smith said several hundred flights would be delayed. He said American was told the problem would be fixed soon, "but once you get behind, it tends to stay that way" throughout the day.
Continental Airlines spokeswoman Julie King said delays averaged about an hour from 6 a.m. to 8 a.m. and were concentrated at the carrier's hubs in Houston, Cleveland and Newark, N.J. JetBlue Airways said 25 of its flights at Kennedy International Airport had average delays of 60 minutes and delays at other airports were up to 30 minutes. US Airways Group Inc. spokesman Morgan Durrant said the airline was no longer being affected by the FAA computer problem by midday but might have to cancel flights later due to weather.
Houston's two airports and Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport reported few delays but said things could get worse, especially for travelers headed east. Los Angeles International Airport also reported that delays were likely later in the day. Airports in Europe reported no immediate problems.
The glitch hinged on flight plans collected by the FAA for traffic nationwide at two centers _ one in Salt Lake City and the other in the Atlanta area.
Victor Santore, the National Air Traffic Controllers Union southern region vice president, said he began getting e-mail messages from air traffic controllers around 7 a.m. EST Thursday that the Atlanta-area computers had stopped processing plans.
Santore said some controllers were pulled away from their normal duties talking to airplanes or pulled off breaks to help enter the flight plans.
"When something crazy like this happens, we'll pull everybody onto the floor," Santore said. "Every airport at some point some will be affected ... (The delays) are going to ripple through the entire system."
In August 2008, a software malfunction delayed hundreds of flights around the country.
In that episode, the Northeast was hardest hit by the delays because of a glitch at the Hampton, Ga., facility that processes flight plans for the eastern half of the U.S.
The FAA said at that time the source of the computer software malfunction was a "packet switch" that "failed due to a database mismatch."
Associated Press Writers Joan Lowy in Washington, D.C., Marcus Franklin in New York, David Koenig in Dallas, Joshua Freed in Minneapolis, Johnny Clark and Dionne Walker in Atlanta, and Matt Barakat in Chantilly, Va., contributed to this report.
Air travelers nationwide scrambled to revise their plans Thursday after an FAA computer glitch caused widespread cancellations and delays for the second time in 15 months.


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Jalylah Burrell Presents…Hip Bop
Over the past few years or so I've gotten heavily into Jazz but my mama raised me on gospel and soul. Holy roller that she was (and still is) she had me in Sunday school, serving as an altar girl, youth u(r)sher, and a host of other activities at our church in Seattle. So I got my fill of gospel music. With regard to soul, I swear I'd seen Al Green a dozen times at locations up and down the West Coast, including British Columbia, by the time I was twelve courtesy of my mother's reignited teenage infatuation. I'd also seen my Auntie throw herself at Smokey Robinson's limo following a show at Bumbershoot. I'd had my mother cover my ears to protect me from curses being hurled by Chaka Khan at the lighting tech during a local concert and I'd seen more failed pimps and old playas (in short sets and straw fedoras no less) at an Ohio Players concert my dad drug me too when I was in the eighth grade. So it's not like I could have just sifted through my parents old records and discovered Jazz music. It came to me more indirectly.
A clerk at defunct Seattle record store Orpheum recommended Cassandra Wilson's New Moon Daughter to me as a pre-teen so I picked it up, enjoyed it and a few months later was intrigued to hear her on "One Shine" from Illadelph Halflife. I got into legendary drummer Art Blakey via a Starbucks Jazz compilation my mom picked up for me on a Soy steamer run but I came to a good deal of Jazz through hip-hop. So I've compiled a short list of hip-hop songs that introduced me to jazz, jazz songs sampled by hip-hop artists and hip-hop-influenced jazz I've been listening to recently.
"Planet Rock" by Jason Moran (Modernistic, Blue Note, 2002)
Having signed to preeminent Jazz label Blue Note in the late nineties, Houston native Jason Moran's released just over half a dozen albums the last of which, Artist in Residence, dropped in September. This is his take on the Bambaata classic Planet Rock from his 2002 album Modernistic.
"The Doo Bop Song" by Miles Davis (Doo Bop, Warner Bros., 1991)
I highly recommend Miles Davis' autobiography (as told to Quincy Troupe). It's a great read and he's surprisingly forthright from openly criticizing other musicians to trying to account for his violence against women but what also emerges is a committement to developing his sound. At the end of his life this took the form of this collaboration with Easy Mo Bee. Miles died before the album was completed. Critics have ben pretty hard on it but I remember seeing this video of the rap video show. I liked it then and still like it now.
"Variations (On a Conspiracy Theory)" by Russell Gunn (Ethnomusicology Vol. III, Justin Time Records, 2003)
Grammy nominated trumpeter Russell Gunn has toured extensively with DJ/Turntablist Neil Armstrong of the 5th Platoon collective. An East St. Louis native who was raised on hip hop, he incorporates it pretty nicely into his music especially his Ethnomusicology series. The Atlanta based Gunn has just released with his group Bionix, Krunk Jazz, which despite the name is quite listenable.
"Respect the Architect" by Guru feat. Bahamadia and Ramsey Lewis (Jazzmatazz Vol. II: The New Reality, Chrysalis, 1995)
It's really a shame that Guru chose to embark on that irrational rampage against audio engineer Young Guru. It was foolhardy and only sullies his name for a new crop of listeners who may not be familiar with the Gang Starr legacy. Midlife crisis aside no one has come close to fusing Jazz and hip hop like Guru. The Jazzmatazz series is classic. This track from Volume II is my favorite. Ramsey Lewis is a pianist equally at home playing Jazz and R&B and Bahamadia was and still is a phenomenal emcee and is in my all time top ten.
"Mrs Parker of K.C." by Eric Dolphy (Far Cry, Eric Dolphy Prestige 1960)
Eric Dolphy didn't mean anything to me until I read Ntozake Shange's Liliane. At one point the narrator says, "I heard Eric Dolphy in his eyes." I thought it was sick line and I just assumed that I'd like Dolphy's music. I don't. At least the two albums I downloaded. The clarinetist may have been a genius but he's not easy listening and I can be lazy. But I mention him because he's a major figure and he was sampled on the Del classic "Catch a Bad One" according to The Breaks. If my ears are correct the sample's about 6 minutes in.
I really recommend going to hear some live Jazz. It's a different experience than listening to a recording and for those of you who are aspiring beat makers you might get a little inspiration or find a sample source or two. So NYC metro, I started a Jazz listening group this past summer after noticing that I was often the only young and/or black person at a lot of shows. The listening group is a diverse mix of young folks and we check out a low cost or free Jazz shows in the city every month. E-mail me if you want to join us.


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The Cumbrian nuclear reprocessing plant is due to be decommissioned over the next 10 years, with 8,000 jobs to go.
Now Cumbria County Council has successfully lobbied the Lords for changes to legislation on Sellafield.
It could mean a new agency, the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA), will be required to support the community.
Under the Energy Bill, outlining how Sellafield will be decommissioned, the NDA was only being encouraged to support activities benefiting the social and economic life of communities near nuclear sites.
But the council believed that was not strong enough and lobbied for the NDA to be "required to do so".
The House of Lords has voted in favour of amendments to the Energy Bill and the amendments will now be debated by the House of Commons in May.
The council's three political parties worked together and in a statement, Conservative councillor Rex Toft, Stewart Young, for Labour, and Liberal Democrat Mike Ash said: "We want the final legislation to make a binding commitment to benefit the social and economic life of communities living near nuclear sites.
"It is essential that the areas hit by job losses as nuclear sites are decommissioned get all the support they can.
"Cumbrian peers have done an excellent job in convincing their colleagues of our argument.
"The debate now moves on to the House of Commons and let's hope we secure similar support and get the law on the side of the local communities."
The council has already welcomed the announcement that the NDA's headquarters will be in West Cumbria.


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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 12.0587 Monday, 12 March 2001
Date: Monday, 12 Mar 2001 17:14:14 +0000
Subject: Libraries & Chairs
I wonder whether anyone on the list could help me with two queries:
1. In the Preface to his 1857-66 edition of Shakespeare, Richard Grant
White acknowledges the access he has been given to the private
collections of Thomas Barton & James Lenox. He also says that the copy
of F1 that he 'constantly used', was that held in the Astor Library --
formerly owned by the Duke of Buckingham. Could anybody point me in the
direction of some information on the Astor Library?
2. Would anyone happen to know when the first US English chair
specifically dedicated to Shakespeare studies was established? I know
that F. J. Child was appointed as Harvard's first ever professor of
English in 1876 and that he taught Shakespeare (among other things).
But when was the first American chair in Shakespeare studies
Many thanks in advance.