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Affiliated Computer Services (ACS) handles jobs its clients would rather hand off. The company provides business process outsourcing (BPO) services for commercial enterprises and government agencies, focusing on markets such as communications, health care, and transportation. As an outsourcer, ACS handles functions such as administration, including – more... health care claims processing; finance and accounting; human resources; payment processing; sales, marketing, and customer care call centers; and supply chain management. BPO services account for most of the company's sales. ACS also offers information technology and systems integration services. In early 2010, ACS was acquired by printing equipment giant Xerox.
The ACS/Xerox combination created a document management services/BPO powerhouse. The acquisition, valued at $6.4 billion, is expected to triple the amount of revenue Xerox receives from its services segment, from $3.5 billion in 2008 to around $10 billion in 2010. Despite being acquired, ACS still operates as an independent organization and is being branded as ACS, a Xerox Company. By taking advantage of Xerox's worldwide brand presence, ACS hopes to extend its products and services reach to markets on a more global scale. Lynn Blodgett, the president and CEO of ACS, is reporting directly to Xerox CEO Ursula Burns. ACS founder and former chairman Darwin Deason owns 5.5% of the newly combined entity. Before the deal was completed, Deason controlled a 44% voting stake in ACS.
Despite being acquired by Xerox, ACS has not slowed down its growth plans. Later in 2010 it acquired ExcellerateHRO (EHRO), a provider of benefits administration and relocation services, from computer giant Hewlett-Packard. ACS made the deal to solidify its position as a leading pension administrator and to broaden its customer base; EHRO serves not only midsized businesses but also Fortune 500 customers.
Several months later, ACS improved its position in an important market through the purchase of TMS Health, a teleservices provider serving the pharmaceutical, biotech, and healthcare industries. ACS projects that pharmaceutical companies spend up to $12 billion each year on marketing, and the deal will enhance its ability to offer industry news and tips, recruit for clinical trials, and provide inbound and outbound sales calls.
In the past, ACS hoped to grow by gaining new clients and by selling new services to existing clients, primarily within its current markets; in addition, it looked to acquisitions as a means for augmenting existing business lines and entering new markets. In 2009 ACS bought e-Services Group International for $85 million. e-Services, an offshore call center and BPO company, added 4,000 employees whose English language proficiency was cited as a factor in the deal. ACS kept its eye fixed on Europe a few months later when it snatched up UK-based Anix for $51 million. Anix specialized in IT consulting, analysis, and design services for the UK market and has operations in Bristol, London, and Manchester.
Along with other BPO companies, ACS has benefited from a cost-conscious mindset at both businesses and government agencies. It draws commercial clients from a wide variety of industries, and its government arm serves federal, state, and local agencies. Handling Medicaid claims for state agencies is a company specialty.
ACS operates from a network of about 315 offices in the US and about 110 offices in more than 25 other countries. US-based clients account for the vast majority of the company's sales.
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You wont find Internet crimes such as cyberbullying and sexting listed as criminal offenses in the FBIs uniform crime report, but such crimes are rampant and all too often aimed at children.
Similar to the way the proliferation of drugs propelled police departments and schools across the nation to partner in the 1980s and teach Drug Abuse Resistance Education or DARE programs to students, DARE 2B Cybersafe is a new crime-fighting tool allowing officers to interact with children and teens online and discuss issues such as drugs, alcohol and cyberbullying.
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Has there been an increase in modesty rhetoric in the Church in the past few years, or are we just imagining things? I wrote a post a few years ago to try to answer this question by counting articles in Church magazines by year that used the word modesty in discussing dress. I found that yes, there had been an increase, particularly in the New Era and the Friend.
The question is one that I've seen come up a lot in the Mormon-themed Facebook groups where I participate, so the post still gets linked to now and again. I've wanted to update it, though, to make three changes: (1) add 3 more years of data, (2) improve my counting of mentions of modesty, and (3) count separately for modesty discussions aimed at women/YW/girls and men/YM/boys.


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A Goldbricker's Delight today, afternoon game in Seattle and the Yanks trailed the Mariners 2-1 in the eighth inning. The sound you heard was not the grinding of gears but the grinding of teeth back in New York. The hapless fuggin' M's. Enough already. So anyway, the Bombers loaded the bases and with one man out, Jason Nix planted a 2-2 pitch into the gap in left center field. That cleared the bases, gave the Yanks the lead and that lead would be good enough for a 5-2 [2] victory thanks to an excellent performance from the bullpen [3].
Exhale y'all. Tomorrow gives a day off. Then: BoSox in the Boggie Down this weekend.
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The Haitian government has agreed to issue a diplomatic passport to former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, his lawyer said Monday, potentially dropping a major hurdle that has prevented Aristide from returning home after seven years in exile in Africa. The lawyer, Ira Kurzban, said he sent a letter to authorities requesting that Aristide's passport be "issued immediately." Aristide was ousted from power twice, and there was speculation he would seek to return after former dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier made his surprise return home two weeks ago, ending 25 years in exile.
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Gov. Pat Quinn, saying it was a "day of history," signed legislation Monday legalizing civil unions for gay and lesbian couples, making Illinois one of about a dozen states that extend significant legal protections to same-sex couples. About 1,000 people crowded into the Chicago Cultural Center to watch Quinn, a Democrat, sign the measure that supporters call a matter of basic fairness and opponents decry as a threat to the sanctity of traditional marriage.
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The number of foreign children adopted by Americans fell by 13 percent last year, reaching the lowest level since 1995 due in large part to a virtual halt to adoptions from Guatemala because of corruption problems. China remained America's No. 1 source of adopted children, accounting for 3,401, according to figures released by the State Department on Monday for the 2010 fiscal year. Ethiopia was second, at 2,513, followed by Russia at 1,082 and South Korea at 863. Guatemala was the No. 1 source country in 2008, with 4,123 adoptions by Americans.
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An organization that fights animal abuse is calling the slaughter of 100 sled dogs by an outdoor adventure company in British Columbia a bloodbath and police were investigating on Monday. Vancouver radio station CKNW reported that Outdoor Adventures Whistler expected more sledding business in an anticipated post-Olympics tourism boom. But the boom never materialized and the sled dogs were killed in April.
Pakistan: At least six people were killed and more than a dozen wounded Monday by a pair of bombs in northwestern Pakistan that were aimed at security forces, officials said.
Belarus: The United States and the European Union on Monday imposed sanctions against President Aleksandr Lukashenko and scores of other officials for a crackdown on the opposition after the fraudulent presidential election late last year.
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And then (thunderclap) one of wine's darkest nemeses appeared: the artichoke.
Out of the March woods ahead broke a thunderclap of sound, settling into a roar of musketry.
Captain Candage turned on his mate with the violence of a thunderclap.
The officer was handed a megaphone, and through it his voice came down like a thunderclap.
You may easily guess what a thunderclap this must have been to the Court.
I had quite forgotten the existence of Leach and Johnson, when suddenly, like a thunderclap, "Boat ho!"
The affray had burst over the slumbering town like a thunderclap.
What will the thunderclap be that will shake down these masses?
The thunderclap which seemed to come simultaneously, rocked the plane like a feather.
O that he had left out the grey hairs; or that they had been in any other paper not concluding with such a thunderclap!


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An Easter Egg Hunt and a bird named Jerry
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A Story about a little girl and her animal friends going on an adventure to an Easter Egg Hunt.
A story about a little girl who takes a trip to the North Pole to ask for a puppy.
The Christmas Reindeer Once upon a time in a forest far, far away, on a cold and snowy morning, in a small house lived a reindeer named Sebastian and his family, his father Rodolfo, his mother Andrea and his sister Anna.
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Rubies are red, and red-heads are renowned for their hot tempers. I have neither the excuse of flaming hair nor fiery gem-stones to excuse my reaction to Ruby Rest by Tyler Oaks (www.tyleroaks.com) but the inept actions of the heroine caused my blood pressure to soar.
I knew Id have trouble identifying with the young heroine, Edda Taylor, when an early scene revealed that shed brought a puppy with her on a flight from Austria to California, in a duffel bag. I immediately flicked to the authors biography on the back cover which states that she has travelled extensively overseas. Any reader who has taken an international flight will be aware that a) most countries apply strict quarantine and humane treatment laws to travelling animals, b) all hand baggage is x-rayed before boarding flights, and c) commonsense would suggest that a wriggling puppy would be impossible to conceal on a long-haul flight.
This may be a minor detail and the plot does require the dog to arrive in the US, but its a jarring detail in first two pages of the book, and quite frankly, it irritated me. Unfortunately this snag raised my antennae for elements later in the book which are smoothed over with the good quality writing, but nonetheless point to less than perfect planning by the author.
After a traumatic incident involving her artist boyfriend Preston in Austria, Edda inherits a cottage in a fancy coastal area of California from a woman she met once as a child. She lands on her feet with a sumptuously decorated home and a gallery job working for Shay Weiss. So far, so fairytale.
Almost instantly falling for her garden-designer, Trace Kyle, Edda learns of his familys feud with Shays and of some mysterious drownings. Trace is convinced his brother (an artist working in Austria) is in danger thanks to Shay. The pair join forces to solve the riddle of the rubies which turn up in large quantities throughout the tale.
This is all be fine by me, I like a good mystery as much as the next reader, and I dont mind some romance thrown in for good measure. Its tricky for authors to write their books just in one category and I suspect this book would fit just as well in the romance slot. However the style is too heavy on thunderstorms reflecting the characters inner torment, heroines swooning at the drop of a hat, and midnight musings in melodramatic language, for my personal taste, particularly given the novels contemporary setting.
The setting is painted well and the characters ring true. The previous owner of the cottage, Nina Rose, clearly lived a complex existence and one disappointment is not finding out more about that during the conclusion of the book. The pace of the action is swift and Tyler Oaks can certainly write, but the plot, for any mystery fan, is too simple. I couldnt help wondering if details which would have smoothed out the plot had been edited out of the book in an effort to pick up the pace.
If Edda and Trace had shared their information when they first paired-up the book would have ended in half the time. The plot depends on delayed information as opposed to genuine detective work by the protagonists. Theres a parcel delayed in the mail, an un-opened duffel bag containing the key to the ending, plus simple delays in Trace and Edda swopping their halves of the story, and even Eddas reason for leaving Austria is concealed until halfway. Coincidence has a part to play in plotting such tales, but theres a contract with the reader that information wont be with-held simply to fool them. That contract is broken here more than once.
As for the poor dog who entered the country in such an illegal fashion, hes dog-napped and the heroine doesnt report it or even seek the name of the criminal from nearby people who know him. She sleeps on a sofa despite having a bed in the next room, and she never thinks to put her pile of gems in the bank despite the fact that a stranger keeps searching her home for them. I began to wonder if shed incurred a blow to the head during her sojourn in Austria. That was the only explanation I detected for how she could cast aside the love of her life so easily in favor of another.
I think only romance readers will enjoy this book, especially if they enjoy historic romance as the language and style was strongly reminiscent of that sub-genre. Die-hard mystery fans will anticipate the ending far too easily. The author, who writes a weekly column for Writers News Weekly (www.writersnewsweekly.com) and is working on her next novel, has genuine ability but may need to consider her chosen genre carefully.


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ASEF Executive Council Meeting
April 14, 2009
Present: Drs. Saunders, Goldfine, Asbury, Schleyer, Stinnett, LaRossa, Kefalides, Dalinka, Steinberg, MacGregor, Meadows, and McCarthy and Rachael Berget
Retirement Community – Dr. Saunders reported that he and Dr. Neville Strumpf, the incoming PASEF president, met again with the team of university administrators from Mr. Craig Carnaroli's office. Dr. Saunders said that it was impressive how well the university team had done its due diligence. Mr. Carnaroli's administrators had contacted: 15 retirement communities across the country; three academic retirement communities; all three of the authors of papers given to them earlier by Drs. Saunders and Strumpf; and a retirement community management company.
The university is most impressed with a 13-acre site located on the other side of the South Street Bridge (just north of Naval Square). The owners want to sell the parcel for $13 million. University planners believe that this is a good site for the proposed Penn retirement community. In the course of their due diligence, the planners have become concerned about the low number of people that actually buy into a retirement community (usually about 12% of a university's retired and emeritus faculty). The planners will do a study to determine whether Penn has the population of such faculty to support this community.
Dr. Saunders said that the university put a lot of effort into examining this issue. The "next step" survey will take place over the next 3 months or so. Dr. Saunders also said that the postal lands were not mentioned for this development. The university administrators said that there are a lot of other plans for that site.
Dr. Saunders said that the university administrators seemed particularly interested in the governance of these communities. Dr. Saunders suggested that this site should be operated like the Monell or WISTAR Institutes—people from Penn should be on the board of the retirement community. He said that the community should be seen as an arm of Penn.
Dr. Stinnett asked what form of financing—condo, rental, or co-op—does the University envision for these units? Dr. Saunders replied that the administrators did not specify that, but the Stanford University example, which is quite expensive, was not considered viable for Penn. Dr. Saunders said that next steps include identifying a manager for the community. The community's manager will hire the contractor to build the community. The land would be purchased by the University and then leased for 99 years to the retirement community's manager.
Dr. Saunders also said that university planners were excited about integrating the community's comprehensive care with Penn's Health System. He also said that Penn already has a nursing home facility. Dr. Steinberg commented that it would be nice if everything could be contained within one facility, instead of having to leave the community and go to another site for services such as health care. Dr. Saunders said that he and Dr. Strumpf had presented the planners with 3 or 4 pages of parameters for such a retirement facility.
Dr. Saunders also commented that anywhere from 5 to 8 units, or about 10%, would be graduate student apartments, in order to achieve some intergenerational benefits. Additionally, 3-7 units would be reserved for the recruitment of senior faculty candidates who are worried about caring for aging, infirm parents. Dr. Asbury commented that this retirement community would represent a great naming opportunity.
Emeritus status for research faculty – Drs. Saunders, Goldfine and Salzberg are scheduled to go before the Medical Faculty Senate Steering Committee (MFSSC) on May 12 to talk about the granting of Emeritus status to research faculty.
Speaker's Bureau – Dr. MacGregor said that he will collect responses to the Speaker's Bureau announcement after it goes out. He will speak to each faculty member who volunteers to participate. The topic of generating a list of community groups to whom the Speaker's Bureau can offer its services was also discussed. Dr. MacGregor would also like to hear suggestions from Executive Council members about talks to offer, i.e., topics that they believe would be of interest to seniors.
21 Penn Tower Space – Dr. Saunders has written to Kevin Mahoney and accepted the space on behalf of ASEF. Members can gain access to the space by next week.
Dr. Asbury said that he had talked to Eric Weckel the day before the meeting. Dr. Asbury and Mr. Weckel will go over to see what's left after the current occupants leave and then decide what else is needed.
The Second Tuesday of each month will be ASEF's new meeting date. This will enable ASEF to book space for its Executive Council meetings much further in advance.
In a discussion of allowing ASEF members access to the new space, Dr. LaRossa wondered if it was possible to have electronic access cards made that only allow access into the ASEF office space, instead of to the whole of Penn Tower. Dr. LaRossa believes that access cards can be programmed to do this. Dr. Saunders will explore this option for allowing ASEF members entry to the new office space.
Planning for Retirement – Dr. Meadows suggested that refreshments should be offered after the Vicki and Hilary show (the "Planning for Retirement" program). The Executive Council members approved having a reception following the program.
Miscellaneous business - Dr. Meadows also suggested that ASEF should develop a strategic plan into which to fit its budget. She said that all of the organizations' boards on which she serves have a 5-year strategic plan.
Dr. Saunders stated that ASEF will not get a budget increase next year. He emphasized, however, that ASEF has used its budget wisely this year and had covered all of its expenses. Dr. Saunders will ask for the same amount next year that ASEF got this year.
Dr. Meadows commented that she needs to hold a meeting of the ASEF Program Committee. She stated that Dr. Goldfine will serve on this Committee as an ex-officio member, and said that Dr. Pasquariello is also on the Program Committee.
Dr. Kefalides showed Council members a University Club account card that PASEF got to charge its luncheon speakers' lunches. Dr. Kefalides suggested that ASEF should get the same card for its luncheon speakers' charges.
Fall Emeritus Dinner - Dr. Meadows asked if any of the Executive Council members had ideas for something different that ASEF can do. She is concerned that ASEF is not drawing enough people to its Fall Emeritus Dinner. Dr. Kefalides stated that he attended the PASEF Emeritus Dinner last Fall at the University Museum. He said that the president of PASEF introduced all of the emeritus faculty, who stood around him at the front of the room. His intro was brief (there were 30 retirees). They had elegant reception and dinner. Dr. Saunders commented that he would like for this year's Emeritus Dinner to be held in the 2nd or 3rd week of October.
The Council members expressed the belief that the BRB auditorium is too big, dark and dreary for the program part of the event. The suggestion was to return to the Inn at Penn. Rachael Berget or Julian Pugh will check out the costs of having the Emeritus event on campus vs. at the Inn at Penn. The event will be held on a Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thurs, not a Monday or Friday. Dr. Saunders said that he would check with Vicki Mulhern and Hilary Lopez to find out the number of emeritus and retired faculty for this academic year who will be honored at the Fall dinner.
Election of New Council Members for 2009-2010 – We have nominees for President-Elect and for the At-Large Council positions. We still really need a Secretary-Treasurer.
Website – Dr. Schleyer will work on linking to The Almanac to get obituaries for the most-recently deceased emeritus and retired faculty. Dr. Schleyer reported that Dr. Saunders will take pictures of the new space on 21 Penn Tower and have them posted on the web.
The next ASEF Executive Council meeting will be held on Tuesday, May 19, 2009.
Respectfully submitted,
Rachael Berget


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The otherwise sensible citizens of New York and Washington, D.C., had spent a week hyperventilating over doomsday scenarios brought on by Tom Ridge's orange alert: deadly chemicals in the subways, a "dirty bomb" in the harbor or just a truck loaded with explosives. Just when the residents of these twin target cities began to feel ridiculous about these panic attacks, the weather produced something real to worry about — a storm that made venturing out for a quart of milk seem like a Presidents Day re-enactment of George Washington's ordeal at Valley Forge.
Here in New York, the storm threw a cold blanket on out-of-control fears and brought with it a series of strange and wondrous sounds. There was the near silence of empty streets as the few taxis and automobiles that ventured out slid quietly across the snowpack. Now and again, you could hear the unmistakable metallic sound of snow shovels banging into concrete sidewalks, along with the deep rumble of a passing plow. And, oh yes, the telltale giggles of children frolicking in this frostbitten wonderland.
Adults, too, felt liberated, even if someone like Mr. Dithers was taking attendance at work. For the psychological allure of a snow day can survive the rigors of a wintry commute to the office. Just looking at the drifts harks back to the joys of being 9 years old again, on a day when school has been miraculously canceled and we're allowed to snap on our mittens and button up our snowsuits for an afternoon of sledding.
This snow-day sensibility removed the edge of urgency from workaday concerns. So it is tempting to wonder whether Dick Cheney or Donald Rumsfeld or Condoleezza Rice relaxed long enough to contemplate Washington's frosty white tableau. Or did they fume at the way that the weather gods had the temerity to interfere with their preparations for war? It is, of course, too much to hope that these apostles of certainty paused to reflect on the enormity of their chosen course of invading Iraq.
But for the rest of us, the snow can serve as a reminder of the risks of haste. When it comes to overthrowing Saddam Hussein, we are blessed with that rare luxury in the annals of American warfare: the ability to decide whether now is a prudent moment to attack. Nothing, beyond the president's fierce determination, makes an assault on Baghdad in the next few weeks inevitable. Unless, that is, we are hostages to the weather even in our 21st-century war planning. It is sobering to think that our impatience with the United Nations Security Council may be largely premised on the need to mount an invasion before the Iraqi temperature charts shift into the red zone in April.
Last Saturday, before the snow arrived, the streets surrounding the United Nations, for more a mile north and south, were filled with antiwar protesters. It was an inspiring event, even if you disagreed with the marchers' cause. For what the demonstration symbolized was that citizens would not avoid Manhattan out of code orange fears. The sermons of government officials urging Americans to go about their lives as usual involve more than keeping the cash registers singing at shopping malls. There is no sterner rebuke to al-Qaeda than the spectacle of a vast throng of Americans exercising their hallowed First Amendment right to protest peacefully.
A middle-aged woman, scurrying down Fifth Avenue on her way to the demonstration, carried a hand-lettered sign that was particularly haunting. The sign read, "Stop the Murder of Iraqis." Clearly, the woman saw her message as a full-throated appeal not to kill civilians by bombing Baghdad. But despite her anti-war zeal, the placard could also be interpreted as a demand that Saddam be ousted in order to halt the murder of Iraqis.
That double-edged meaning captures some of the ambiguities of the Iraq crisis. George W. Bush has so often repeated the mantra "Saddam Hussein gassed his own people" that it has lost its moral clarity. But at a time when Slobodan Milosevic is in the dock at the war-crimes tribunal, it must be remembered that Saddam's atrocities dwarf the murders and rapes carried out under the orders of the former Serbian strongman.
A recent briefing paper published by Human Rights Watch details just one of Saddam's many crimes: the assault on the Marsh Arabs, who have lived in the wetlands of southern Iraq for 5,000 years. The Marsh Arabs are Shiite Muslims. The report details the "murder of thousands of unarmed civilians following the abortive March 1991 uprising" by Shiites and "the enforced disappearance of many of the Marsh Arabs arrested during the 1990s." These are the among the reasons why this respected human rights group declares that "many of the acts of the Iraqi government's systematic repression of the Marsh Arabs constitute a crime against humanity."
It can be argued that Saddam can be contained and even disarmed short of war. But it is nearly impossible to peacefully prevent him from continuing his murderous assaults against the Iraqi people. The plight of the Marsh Arabs may not be a justification for unilateral attack. But crusaders for peace should face the complex moral dilemma that Iraqi civilians are being murdered every day — and that there are human costs to inaction as surely as there will be civilian casualties during war.
Walter Shapiro's column appears Wednesdays and Fridays. E-mail him at firstname.lastname@example.com


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KOEI's European arm has been a hot-burrow of busy bunnies this week as the publisher announces that it's signed PS2 titles Phantom Brave and La Pucelle: Tactics from Japanese firm Nippon Ichi for release in early 2005, and plans to release its own PS2 Samurai Warriors Xtreme Legends title in the same timeframe.
Having previously published the critically acclaimed Disgaea: Hour of Darkness for Nippon Ichi in Europe, KOEI obviously feels that the Japanese firm's output is worth continuing to bring across - and has targeted well-received titles Phantom Brave and La Pucelle for its follow-up push.
Phantom Brave (screenshots), which our resident RPG nut Rob describes as a "quirky and finely crafted turn-based strategy in which you, as the ghostly guardian of a ditzy bounty hunter, lead an army of phantoms who can possess objects on the battlefield for a limited amount of time", should be out in Europe in February. La Pucelle (screenshots), meanwhile, which Recurring Rob describes as "a game I haven't played", but which is known to be a tactical RPG set in an alternate medieval Europe, will follow sometime in spring.
Samurai Warriors Xtreme Legends (screenshots), finally, is due out in February priced at just �24.99. That's because it's not really a full game, but rather a standalone expansion in the same vein as the Dynasty Warriors "Xtreme Legends" titles, introducing four new legendary warriors with unique branching stories and multiple endings, as well as new skills and items, a modified character growth system, balance and AI tweaks, new difficulty levels, and so on.


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Thirty years ago, when I came to begin a new life in New York, nobody knew Yoga Nidra. When they experienced it, they loved it and could not get enough. The Yoga Nidras were the ones taught, described, and transcribed in the book Yoga Nidra by Swami Satyananda. I knew of no other Yoga Nidras.
Having experienced and witnessed their profound effect in India, it was clear that this was a powerful technique that anyone could practice. The Satyananda sannyasin (renunciate) teacher who was truly a master of Yoga Nidra made it a process of magical transformation.
Now Yoga Nidra has become far more familiar. What people are not aware of is that Swami Satyananda is responsible for bringing this technique out into the open from the tantras and making it accessible to everyone. Reading this book, first published in 1976, will give the readers original information directly from its master. Swami Rama was another towering figure, but we have no book on the practice by him.
What is Yoga Nidra? It is often described as "conscious sleep", "yogic sleep", or "dynamic sleep." The practice is essentially a technique of sense withdrawal called pratyahara in raja yoga, and it is the fifth step in the eight steps of Patanjali's yoga. Sense withdrawal is essential for the next steps of concentration (dharana) and meditation or paying attention/mindfulness (dhyana). So advanced Yoga Nidra can lead to concentration and meditation.
The process is structured and systematic to induce complete physical, mental, and emotional relaxation. The awareness is on the threshold of conscious awareness and sleep. In fact, everyone drifts in and out of the two states toward the beginning.
Swami Satyananda states that the characteristic feature of Yoga Nidra is the systematic rotation of consciousness (now called deep relaxation). This feature comes from the tantric practice of nyasa (to place). In nyasa, specific mantras were placed on various parts of the body as a way of consecrating it and instilling higher/divine awareness into the body. Swami Satyananda devised the contemporary Yoga Nidra by placing visual and mental awareness on parts of the body through the initial step of rotating consciousness throughout the body.
Yoga Nidra is ideally practiced in the corpse position or shavasana. It can be 10-15 minutes or 60 minutes long. It begins with a positive affirmation or resolve. This is very helpful in determining a goal in life—what do I want? It is followed by rotation of consciousness, which relaxes the physical body. This step begins the process of moving away from external distractions. Then comes breath awareness, which deepens the process of physical relaxation and starts the process of emotional calmness. Concentration happens in relaxed states, not agitated states. The breath also awakens prana, the vital life force, which can be directed to all parts of the body. Next comes the awareness of feelings and sensations. Memories of profound feelings are released. It is different from insight meditations of the Buddhist vipassana tradition (which has many similarities with Yoga Nidra) because opposite pairs of feelings are invoked (heat/cold, heaviness/lightness, pleasure/pain). This deepens emotional release of tension. It is followed by visualization. This stage develops self-awareness and relaxes the mind by freeing it from painful and disturbing mind content. The process ends with the visualization of an image that evokes profound peace and calmness.
Yoga Nidra is now used to relax, to alleviate symptoms of anxiety and stress, to help lower blood pressure, to improve learning and memory, to clarify thinking/perception/intuition, for post traumatic stress syndrome, to transform lives of prisoners, to improve discipline and concentration, and for spiritual transformation. Yoga Nidra is much, much more than deep physical relaxation.
In this book, the reader does not just read the background, description, research, and applications, but actually gets numerous transcripts of progressive Yoga Nidras. You can record the transcript by reading it yourself, and then practice. Swami Satyananda has been incredibly generous in sharing this amount of information in one book. If you have practiced Yoga Nidra, you will see where the material came from. You might as well get it straight from the master of Yoga Nidra—what better source can there be?
Note: Several Yoga Nidras (not part of the book) are offered on this page free of charge. It is not the website's intention to monetize this technique. The intention is to retain the integrity and purity of the teachings, and honor the yoga tradition and the yogi who brought them to everyone.


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Welcome to the Wellness Center!
We are located in Gay Hall across from Health Services. The Wellness Center exists to support students in making healthy choices related to their health and wellness. We take a holistic approach to supporting students and offer programming throughout the school year related to physical health, mental health, sexual health and violence prevention.
Being a healthy college student means having the confidence and energy to live each day to its fullest. Maintaining a reasonable balance with health and wellness can be the key to success as a student and beyond. Good health and wellness is up to the individual, however sometimes we all need support and education to make the best choices for ourselves. The wellness center is here to do just that.
Our mission is to create a space that students feel safe and comfortable- able to explore meanings connected to health and wellness and discover the best process for the individual.
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In recent years, a significant number of sensor node prototypes have been designed that provide communications in multiple channels. This multi-channel feature can be effectively exploited to increase the overall capacity and performance of wireless sensor networks (WSNs). In this paper, we present a multi-channel communications system for WSNs that is referred to as load-adaptive practical multi-channel communications (LPMC). LPMC estimates the active load of a channel at the sink since it has a more comprehensive view of the network behavior, and dynamically adds or removes channels based on the estimated load. LPMC updates the routing path to balance the loads of the channels. The nodes in a path use the same channel; therefore, they do not need to switch channels to receive or forward packets. LPMC has been evaluated through extensive simulations, and the results demonstrate that it can effectively increase the delivery ratio, network throughput, and channel utilization, and that it can decrease the end-to-end delay and energy consumption.
A wireless sensor network consists of battery-powered sensing devices that transmit their observations to the base station. The sensing nodes have a limited transmission range, so nodes away from the base station deliver their data through intermediate nodes. The data generation rates of the sensing nodes depend on the applications. An elastic application might use varying data rates. For example, a monitoring application generates data at a very low rate in the absence of an event, whereas a particular feature might lead to a huge traffic burst [
On the contrary, recent sensor motes, such as MicaZ [
To improve the network capacity, many multi-channel medium access control (MAC) protocols have been proposed. These protocols generally assign (as part of the network setup) orthogonal channels to the nodes (either to the senders or the receivers) in a two-hop neighborhood [
To minimize the channel switching and to use multiple channels when necessary, a recent paper proposes a dynamic channel allocation policy based on control theory (hereafter referred to as DM-MAC) [
In this paper, we design a multi-channel communications system for WSNs. LPMC dynamically adds or removes channels based on the active network load, and uses multiple channels whenever (when the network load is higher than the capacity) and wherever (the part of the network with a high load) it is necessary. While LPMC has a similar flavor in terms of channel switching to DM-MAC [ Unlike TMCP, LPMC does not need any initialization, such that the overhead is reduced. LPMC assigns channels dynamically instead of the static allocation of TMCP. TMCP divides the network into sub-trees by considering the equal data rate of the nodes. Due to the dynamic channel allocation, LPMC is transparent to data rates. Unlike DM-MAC, LPMC adds or removes channels based on the overall network load. Furthermore, the sink controls the channel changing instead of the sensor nodes, since it has a more comprehensive view of the overall network traffic.
Unlike TMCP, LPMC does not need any initialization, such that the overhead is reduced. LPMC assigns channels dynamically instead of the static allocation of TMCP. TMCP divides the network into sub-trees by considering the equal data rate of the nodes. Due to the dynamic channel allocation, LPMC is transparent to data rates.
Unlike DM-MAC, LPMC adds or removes channels based on the overall network load. Furthermore, the sink controls the channel changing instead of the sensor nodes, since it has a more comprehensive view of the overall network traffic.
The main contributions of this paper can be summarized as follows: (i) We propose a multi-channel communication systems for WSNs that keeps the protocol functionalities out of the sensor nodes as much as possible. (ii) LPMC dynamically identifies the network load and adds channel(s) to the mostly heavily loaded part. No initialization steps are required for LPMC, and the overhead for channel assignment is minimal. Nodes do not need to switch channels to receive or forward packets. (iii) LPMC dynamically adds paths with non-interfering channels to a set of nodes to meet the traffic demands. (iv) The performance of LPMC is evaluated through extensive simulations, and the results demonstrate that LPMC performs better than the existing schemes in terms of packet delivery ratio, network throughput, end-to-end delays, and energy consumption.
The rest of the paper is organized as follows. In Section 2, we explain the existing multi-channel mechanisms for WSNs. We present the proposed mechanism in detail in Section 3. Section 4 demonstrates the performance evaluation of the LPMC. Finally, we conclude in Section 5 with a direction to the future works.
In the existing literature, a significant number of MAC protocols (such as [
The idea of multi-channel protocols in WSNs is not new. A number of MAC protocols have already been proposed for WSNs [
A dynamic channel allocation method is proposed in DM-MAC [
To avoid channel switching, TMCP divides the network into a number of sink-rooted disjoint subtrees [
However, TMCP has a heavy initialization phase that is required in order to partition the network. The tree partition does not consider the data rates of the nodes, so the sub-trees might have different loads. Furthermore, changes in the routes might require a reinitialization, which is too costly for WSNs. Moreover, if a set of nodes sends data at a very high rate, static channel allocation cannot deliver the data. Therefore, we propose a dynamic channel allocation method, in which the forwarding nodes do not require channel switching and channels are added or removed wherever and whenever necessary.
To describe LPMC, we introduce the following notation and terminology. We define the base station (
It is obvious that the use of multiple channels increases the network capacity. The base station needs to sink (receive) all of the data sent in different channels. We, therefore, assume that the sink is equipped with multiple transceivers, each of which works in a different channel. A single node can generate data for multiple concurrent applications. The data of a particular node uses a single path. We assume that there are
Our proposed mechanism, LPMC, aims at utilizing minimum number of channels and channels are dynamically added if particular channels become overloaded. If a single channel is sufficient, then it uses one channel. If the generated data requires more capacity, channels are added. In contrast, when the traffic does not need additional channels, channels are removed so that the nodes eventually use only one channel. Whenever a channel is added, it is assigned to a set of nodes in the overloaded tree branch and thereafter, data flows in an entire path uses a single channel. Therefore, nodes in a single path do not need to switch channel to receive data from the upstream nodes, or to forward data to the downstream node.
An important design consideration for LPMC is to allocate channels based on the network load. Therefore, we need to effectively estimate the active load of the network and to allocate or deallocate channels accordingly. In generic WSNs, the sensor nodes only have a local view of the overall network behavior. They might effectively measure the traffic load in a neighborhood, but they are not well-positioned to perceive the overall network status [
At the sink, LPMC has four distinct logical components:
The The The The
The design of LPMC does not depend on any features specific to a particular MAC layer, except for changing the operating channel. Link-level retransmission can improve the performance of LPMC, but it is not essential. We assume that the sensor nodes run a routing protocol that selects a path from each source to the sink. In the following sections, we describe the detailed design of LPMC.
The basic idea of LPMC is that all nodes in a single path use the same channel. Nodes do not need to switch channels in order to receive and forward packets. Therefore, in a tree-structure, the channel used by a neighbor of the sink (one-hop away node) is to be used by all of the nodes that forward their data through this node. We refer to this node as the
When the network starts, all of the nodes use a predefined channel. We refer to this channel as the
One important technical challenge for LPMC is the design of a mechanism to estimate the active load or congestion level in the network or in a TB. Many techniques in the literature of wireless networks or wireless sensor networks measure the congestion level or load at a node. These techniques either measure the channel utilization around a node [
LPMC's load detection mechanism is based on the following intuition: a network (or a part of it) is not heavily loaded as long as the packet loss rate is acceptable, which permits packet losses due to a poor wireless link, medium contention, and transient congestion. When the network load increases, the packet loss rate also increases, or the interval between successive losses decreases. LPMC, therefore, uses the
The sink maintains a list of flows for each TB, and it maintains a per-flow list of missing packets and received packets based on the sequence number of the packets. The packets of a flow are forwarded in a single path, so the reception of an out-of-order packet indicates a packet loss. The sink also measures the number of successfully received packets before a loss event in order to measure the average loss interval. LPMC keeps track of the last
There are many techniques in the literature for measuring the average loss intervals. However, we choose the
The reliability of the
However, if the application is loss intolerant (e.g., structural health monitoring application [
If the loss rate of any flow exceeds the threshold, then we say that the channel used by the flow is overloaded.
The NLD also measures the active load of the network (
The channel allocation and deallocation component assigns the channels for the TBs. When an overloaded channel is used by multiple TBs, CAD assigns a lightly loaded or unused channel to one of the TBs. LPMC aims to use the minimum number of channels needed to satisfy the traffic load, so it first finds a lightly loaded channel that can be allocated to the overloaded TB (
In contrast, if the network becomes lightly loaded after having been at an overloaded status, then it removes one or more of the added channels. The idea of removing a channel is that the unused channel can be allocated to other nodes if necessary. A static channel allocation mechanism cannot do so. More specifically, if there is a continuous source of external interference for any channel, then the delivery ratio of the nodes that use this channel will be very low. A dynamic channel allocation mechanism can easily overcome this problem. First, because the sink keeps track of the achievable data rates of individual channels, it can determine if the loss of data packets is due to some reason other than overloading and can reallocate a separate channel. Second, even if the sink cannot compare it with the maximum achievable capacity, it adds a new channel for the nodes, which at least reduces the load of the channel. Therefore, LPMC tries to shrink the number of used channels. If two or more channels are shrink, the allocation mechanism keeps the channel with the smallest id as the active channel. The channels with higher id's are removed.
The CAD mechanism maintains two lists: the channel list with the fields <
Channel Allocation and Deallocation (CAD)
|ChannelAllocation (Channel
|Find the no of TBs,
|Find the TB with maximum loss rate,
| Assign channel
|ChannelDeallocation ()
| Assign Channel
In contrast, the channel deallocation mechanism removes channel when the load decreases. The NLD indicates when a channel is overloaded and CAD runs the
The capacity of a channel might decrease for to many reasons, for example, very bad link quality, external interference, or even jamming by malicious nodes. LPMC changes the channel if the overall capacity of the channel is decreased to a certain fraction of the
In LPMC, a single TB uses only one channel, which ensures that a node does not need to switch channels to receive or forward packets. Therefore, whenever an overloaded channel is used by only one TB, CAD cannot allocate a new channel to that TB. A single TB using one channel can be overloaded due to many reasons, which include: (i) randomness of the node deployment, which place many nodes in a small area, (ii) dynamic path selection of the routing protocol, and (iii) nodes from a small portion of a large-scale dense network (usually far away from the sink) generating data at a very high rate. In such cases, LPMC partitions an overloaded TB into two TBs, and assigns a new channel to the newly created TB (
If a node receives a PUM with
Using the PUMR messages, the PUMR generator tries to find leaf nodes that can further forward the PUMR. However, such a node might be using a different channel. Therefore, PUMR is broadcasted in all of the channels one after another in order to find leaf nodes. The only leaf nodes that can forward a PUMR message are those with a hop count to the sink that is not greater than the value of the
We illustrate the path update operation with an example shown in
The channel changing (CC) component that resides in the sink issues explicit control messages that trigger all nodes in a overloaded TB to change their channel. Two types of
To change the channel of an overloaded TB, the sink sends a unicast CCM-1 to the CDN of the TB. The message has the fields <
The CCM-2 message is unicasted with the fields <
Because the CCM-1 messages are broadcasted, the nodes that are missing this message need to find the channel ID of the downstream node. LPMC uses a
We have performed extensive simulations to evaluate the performance of LPMC in NS-2 [
We have considered the following performance metrics to evaluate the performance of LPMC in a different set of experiments: i. Network throughput- sum of the sizes of the total data packets received by the sink in a unit time, ii. Packet delivery ratio- the ratio of the total number of packets received by the sink to the number of packets sent by the sources, iii. Average end-to-end delay- the average end-to-end forwarding delay (which also includes medium access and switching delay) of the successfully delivered packets, and iv. Average energy consumption- the average energy consumed to successfully deliver a byte of data.
In this paper, we have designed a load-adaptive multi-channel communications system for WSNs. LPMC controls the channel allocation and deallocation at the sink and dynamically adds or removes channels. The dynamic channel allocation utilizes the limited channels of WSNs very efficiently and adds channel(s) only when necessary. LPMC increases the channel utilization and network throughput, and reduces the delay. LPMC works very efficiently in a dynamic environment in which traffic pattern changes very frequently, wireless environment is very dynamic, and even the presence of external interference might destroy the communications of one or more channels. LPMC dynamically divides a branch of the networks into smaller branches if the load of the branch is more than the capacity of a single channel. Finally, the simulation results demonstrate that LPMC outperforms the existing mechanisms.
In the future, we would like to test the performance of LPMC in a real testbed. Another future interest lies in designing a multi-channel communications scheme for large-scale WSNs where multiple sinks are considered.
This work was supported by the IT R&D program of MKE/KEIT. (2009-S-014-01, On the development of Sensing based Emotive Service Mobile Handheld Devices). Choong Seon Hong is the corresponding author.
A typical WSN scenario with 4 TBs rooted at 4 CDNs.
The path update module creates new paths for nodes 13, 22 and 23, by creating a new TB through node 4, and thus, divides the overloaded
Performance comparison for randomly selected 50 sources with different data rates: (a) network throughput, (b) delivery ratio.
Performance comparison for randomly selected 50 sources with different data rates: (a) average end-to-end delay, (b) average channel capacity when all nodes achieve a fair throughput.
Performance comparisons for randomly selected 50 sources with different data rates when end-to-end reliability is considered (a) network throughput, (b) average end-to-end delay.
Performance with varying number of sources from a randomly selected location: (a) network throughput, (b) delivery ratio.
Performance with varying number of sources from a randomly selected location: (a) average end-to-end delay, (b) energy consumption per delivered data byte.
Impact of channel quality and external interference on the performance: (a) network throughput, (b) delivery ratio.
Impact of channel quality and external interference on the performance: (a) average end-to-end delay (The vertical lines shows the minimum and maximum delays for different channels), (b) energy consumption per delivered byte. All nodes send data to the sink.
System parameters used in simulation.
|Link bit rate
|250 Kbps
|Packet size
|32 Bytes
|PHY Header
|MAC Header
|224 bits
|ACK Packet
|112 bits
|Slot Time
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* Gas-directed rig count slides, first drop in 3 weeks * Horizontal rigs slip, match 20-month low from early April * Oil rig count climbs for fourth time in 5 weeks NEW YORK, April 26 (Reuters) - The number of rigs drilling for natural gas in the United States fell this week to the lowest since May 1999, as producers continued to pull back from dry gas drilling despite recent prices gains. The gas-directed rig count, which had gained slightly in two previous weeks, slid by 13 this week to 366, data from Houston-based Baker Hughes showed on Friday. Producers have mostly been curbing dry-gas drilling in favor of more profitable oil and liquids-rich plays such as Eagle Ford in Texas and Marcellus in Appalachia. But a 40 percent run-up in spot gas prices since mid-February to a 21-month high of $4.429 per million British thermal units just last week, had stirred concerns that gas output, still flowing at or near record highs, could increase in coming weeks. The oil-focused rig count rose by 10 to 1,381, its fourth gain in five weeks, Baker Hughes data showed. The oil count is up 53 rigs, or 4 percent, from the same week last year. Baker Hughes also reported that horizontal rigs, the type often used to extract oil or gas from shale, fell by 13 this week to 1,084, matching the 20-month low of 1,084 posted three weeks ago. The horizontal count is down 9 percent from the record high of 1,193 set last May. Drilling for natural gas has mostly been in decline for the last 18 months. The count is down about 61 percent since peaking in 2011 at 936, but so far production has not slowed much, if at all, from the record high hit last year. The associated gas produced from more profitable shale oil and shale gas liquids wells has kept dry gas flowing at a brisk rate. The U.S. Energy Information Administration expects marketed gas production to edge up slightly in 2013 to its third straight yearly record. Gas futures prices, which were down about 6 cents in the $4.10 area just before the Baker Hughes data was released, climbed about a penny after the report.


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Field Guide to Strategic Planning for Associations
(Updated March 2016)
The strategic planning process is key in helping an organization develop a vision of where it will be in the future and determining the best ways to turn that vision into reality. This page includes resources on all aspects of strategic planning, from beginning the process to monitoring its implementation after the plan has been worked out. Also included are the strategic plan of the National Association of REALTORS® and other resources to assist REALTOR® Association executives in developing strategic plans for their organizations. (A. Scoulas, Information and Project Specialist)
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NAR's Strategic Plan & Association Resources
NAR Organizational Alignment - Core Standards FAQs, (National Association of REALTORS®, June 2014). These FAQs are provided to assist local and state REALTOR® association leaders and association executives in understanding the Organizational Alignment Core Standards program and how to comply with its requirements. Periodically, the FAQs will be enhanced and updated to address arising issues and questions. Readers are encouraged to utilize the most recent version of the FAQs. Please refer to Section 4 for the FAQs regarding Strategic Plans.
NAR Strategic Plan: 2014-2016 (approved Nov. 2013)—A PDF version of NAR's full strategic plan can be found on this page, in addition to a video about the strategic plan.
Strategic Planning Resources Toolkit, (National Association of REALTORS®, 2013).
The Answer Book, Chapter 9: Planning and Visioning—Tap into resources that explain the basics of strategic planning for association, including resources to assemble a business plan, the components of a needs assessment, information on audits, and more. A PDF version of Chapter 9 may be downloaded from this page.
NAR Strategic Plan: 2012-2014 (approved Nov. 2011)—A PDF version of NAR's full strategic plan.
AE Strategic Issues—Videos, eBooks, smartphone apps and other resources centered around the NAR Association Executive Committee's 2012 report Simplify: Real Estate Trends in a Time of Uncertainty.
Best Practices for REALTOR® Association Executives—A Special Report, (Association Executives Committee Best Practices Work Group, Dec. 2003).
REALTOR® Association Models Planning Tool—Use this online questionnaire to help assess your association's current situation and plans for the future.
REALTOR® Association Resource Exchange (RARE), (National Association of REALTORS®, Information Services)—Use the purple menu at the top to browse sample strategic plans from various REALTOR® organizations around the country.
The Importance of Strategic Planning Within the REALTOR® Organization (Leadership Summit 2013) – In this video, Todd Shipman, 2014 Chair of Strategic Planning, inspires the audience to think innovatively when creating a strategic plan. Constance Freedman, Vice President, Strategic Investments, Second Century Ventures, shares what NAR has done to prepare for the second century.
Strategic Planning: Getting Started
The right -- and wrong -- way to build a strategic plan, (Government Finance Review, Oct. 2012). E
Strategic planning: Predicting or shaping the future?, (Organization Development Journal, Summer 2012). E
Help Your Association Change Course (Associations Now, Feb 2012)
Strategic planning that works, (Nonprofit World, July/Aug. 2011). E
Strategic planning simplified, (T&D, Sept. 2010). E
Five questions to build a strategy, (Harvard Business Review Blogs, May 26, 2010).
Success planning: Create your best strategic plan, (REALTOR® Association Executive, Fall 2004).
Filling in the Details
Barriers to strategic planning and how to transcend them, (Nonprofit World, Sept./Oct. 2012). E
Meta-SWOT: Introducing a new strategic planning tool, (Journal of Business Strategy, Vol. 33, No. 2, 2012). E
What's next for strategic planning?, (Associations Now, Apr. 2012).
Drucker's strategic thinking process: Three key techniques, (Strategy & Leadership, Vol. 38, No. 3, 2010). E
Four fatal flaws of strategic planning, (Harvard Business Review Blogs, Mar. 13, 2009).
Needed: A better grasp of strategic planning: Answer these questions to create a strategic plan that'll make your vision a reality, (Nonprofit World, Sept./Oct. 2006). E
Four steps to better goal setting, (REALTOR® Association Executive, Fall 2004).
What to Do When the Plan Is Done
Put your strategic plan in action, (Nonprofit World, Nov./Dec. 2012). E
Three simple steps to activate your strategic plan, (Nonprofit World, Sept./Oct. 2008). E
Translating strategy into effective implementation: Dispelling the myths and highlighting what works, (Strategy & Leadership, Vol. 31, No. 3, 2003). E
Strategic Planning Websites
Association for Strategic Planning - Professional organization for those involved in strategic planning processes. Includes book reviews, website links, etc.
All About Strategic Planning, (Free Management Library)—Step-by-step guide to all aspects of creating and implementing a strategic plan.
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Unlike "Old Bald Head" Ewell, "Jubilee" Early, and "Old Clubby" Johnson, the other three high-ranking commanders of the Second Corps, Robert Rodes looked every inch the heroic leader of men. Over six feet tall, slender, blond, with a sandy mustache that drooped below the corners of his mouth, a strong dimpled chin and flashing blue eyes, he was a majestic figure astride his black charger. Douglas Southall Freeman, the famous Confederate historian, became positively giddy when describing Rodes. Freeman wrote that Rodes looked like he "stepped from the pages of Beowulf," and referred to the Southern officer as "a Norse God in Confederate gray," and a "Wotan still young." Freeman also paid Rodes one of his highest compliments by terming him "the personification of the new type of Confederate leader."
In the summer of 1863, Rodes was one of the Army of Northern Virginia's brightest stars. Certainly part of his mystique was due to his dashing looks, but he had won his major generalcy mainly by being in the thick of the hard fighting in battle after battle, with the wounds to prove it. He was the only division commander in Lee's army who hadn't graduated from West Point. A native of Lynchburg, Virginia, he had gone to the Virginia Military Institute instead, graduating with distinction in the class of 1848. Appointed assistant professor that year, he applied for a professorship in 1850, but Thomas (later "Stonewall") Jackson was chosen instead. Rodes, like many officers of that time, then went to work for the railroad. Moving to Alabama, he worked for various rail lines both as a civil engineer and executive. He married in Tuscaloosa in 1857, and moved back to Virginia, where he accepted the professorship of Applied Mathematics at his alma mater, the job previously held by Jackson. He had been there only briefly when the war broke out.
Rodes volunteered at the first clash of arms and organized the "Warrior Guards, " a company of Alabamians in May 1861. Within days he was made colonel of the 5th Alabama regiment. Commended by Beauregard as an "excellent officer," Rodes was promoted to brigadier general and given a brigade in October 1861. On the Peninsula in the summer of 1862, he led his brigade in battle for the first time. Rodes displayed martial prowess in a series of attacks at Seven Pines, continuing to fight even after he was wounded in the arm by a bullet. He relinquished command at the end of the day's fighting but was back on duty within the month and fought at Gaines' Mill. He was still suffering from his arm wound, however, and had to again forego field duty just before Malvern Hill. Rodes emerged from the Peninsula with a reputation as a hard-hitting brigadier; high-ranking officers like James Longstreet commented on the VMI graduate's "Coolness, ability, and determination" in combat. were Longstreet's list of Rodes's qualities. His next battles were in September. At South Mountain, his isolated brigade gallantly held back an entire Union division all afternoon. At Sharpsburg, he was again wounded, this time only slightly, by a shell fragment in the thigh while defending the Bloody Lane.
During the Battle of Fredericksburg his brigade was not directly engaged. His chance for higher command came in January 1863 when D. H. Hill was sent to North Carolina. Edward Johnson, whom Jackson wanted to take command of the division, was still convalescing from an ankle wound, and Rodes was put in charge by virtue of being the division's senior brigadier.
Two months late, at Chancellorsville, Rodes's fiery drive helped ensure the success of Jackson's surprising, crushing attack on the Union right flank. One witness wrote his "eyes were everywhere, and every now and then he would stop to attend to some detail of the arrangement of his line or his troops, and then ride on again, humming to himself and catching the ends of his long, tawny moustache between his lips." His battle cry, delivered in a clarion voice heard above the din, was "Forward, men, over friend or foe!" After the battle, the mortally wounded Jackson stirred from his bed to urge for a "battlefield promotion" for Rodes, whose leadership he described as "magnificent." Such promotions, Jackson thought, were "the greatest incentives to gallantry in others." As Lee wished both to reward Rodes and please Jackson, Rodes was made major general for the coming campaign in Pennsylvania.
Rodes had consistently distinguished himself as a brigadier and he had also shone in his first performance as a division commander at Chancellorsville. Though not as experienced at this level of command as many of the other division leaders, he was a rising star. His only liability was an overconfidence that had the potential to lead to recklessness.
|At Gettysburg
| On July 1, Rodes planned to continue the previous day's march south
from Carlisle in response to Lee's orders to concentrate the army around
Cashtown. Rodes had his division on the road at sunrise. Some time before
9:00 A.M., Ewell learned that Hill was fighting the Union First Corps. In
response, he ordered Rodes to turn south toward Gettysburg upon reaching
Middletown. By 11:30 A.M. Rodes had approached close enough to hear infantry
fire, and turned his lead brigade onto the northern spur of Oak Hill in order
to come in on the flank of the Federals drawn up to oppose Hill. This was
probably a mistake, for if he had kept to the road he would have sped into the
unguarded rear of the First Corps before most of its men were deployed.
After advancing for a mile through the dense woods on Oak Hill, Rodes was able to observe the enemy line to the south end-on. He deployed his division with Doles, O'Neal, and Iverson in his first line (from east to west), and Ramseur and Daniels in his second. He began by shelling the enemy--another bad idea, since it announced his presence on the enemy's flank and gave them time to redeploy to meet him.
Rodes was fully deployed by 1:30 in the afternoon, with his first line occupying a mile of ground between the Carlisle Road to the Mummasburg Road. With elements of the Yankee Eleventh Corps now pushed north of town to oppose his left, Rodes led off his attack with O'Neal, his least experienced brigadier. O'Neal bungled his attack badly, and, as Rodes angrily reported, "was repulsed quickly, and with loss." Next to go forward was Iverson, whose brigade was ambushed by Federals hidden behind a stone wall and almost annihilated. This second costly disaster further negated Rodes's initial advantage of his position on the enemy flank. Iverson's collapse also jeopardized the next of Rodes's piecemeal brigade attacks, this one by Daniels on Rodes's far right. Daniel's Brigade was forced to slug it out alone with units of the Union First Corps. After a while, however, Daniel was aided by Ramseur's Brigade going in on his left and Hill's troops on his right, and the exhausted brigades of the enemy First Corps gave way, losing prisoners as they scrambled back toward the town. Meanwhile, Doles on Rodes's left, who had been outnumbered and threatened by the advance of the Union Eleventh Corps, saw Early's Division outflank the Eleventh from the northwest. Doles then went forward, pushing back the Yankees and harvesting prisoners as he advanced.
Rodes halted his brigades before they could storm Cemetery Hill (which angered O'Neal and Ramseur's men, whose blood was up), then rode into the town square and met with Early and Ewell. There the two division chiefs urged Ewell to press the attack against the retreating Federals, to no avail. Later that evening, Rodes--now in a fatigued and unaggressive state of mind--advised against sending Maj. Gen. Edward Johnson's newly arrived division to attack Culp's Hill. When Lee rode up that evening to confer with Rodes, Early, and Ewell about the proper use of the Second Corps, Rodes spoke little. At the end of the day, Doles's, Iverson's, and Ramseur's Brigades slept in the town, with O'Neal's Brigade in their right rear along the railroad bed and Daniel further to the west on Seminary Ridge.
On July 2, Rodes was to attack with Ewell's other two divisions, in concert with Longstreet's movement on the Confederate right--Johnson would go in first against Culp's Hill, then Early and Rodes would assail Cemetery Hill from the northeast and northwest, respectively. As it happened, Longstreet didn't attack until after 4:00 in the afternoon, and it was almost dark when Johnson and then Early began their efforts to Rodes's left. Rodes, however, had begun his attack preparations too late to be of help. Moving his brigades from Gettysburg's narrow streets and the fields west of the town evidently took Rodes longer than he anticipated, and by the time his infantrymen were in position, Early's assault had ended. Rodes then unaccountably turned over command of the advancing division to one of his brigadiers, Ramseur, who called off the attack after advancing halfway to the enemy lines in the dark. Rodes recalled his brigades and ordered his men to stand down in the Long Lane leading southwest out of Gettysburg, faced southeast toward Cemetery Hill. Early was justifiably enraged by Rodes's lack of support, and he complained stingingly of Rodes's failure on July 2 for the rest of his life, calling it "the solitary instance of remissness on the part of any portion of the corps in the battle." Officially, Ewell was more forgiving, reporting only that "Major-General Rodes did not advance, for reasons given in his report," though at least one member of Ewell's staff held the opinion that Ewell agreed with Early.
During the night, Rodes sent Daniel's and O'Neal's Brigades to reinforce Johnson's Division, who had made a lodgment on Culp's Hill that evening and were eager to press the advantage in the morning. Rodes now only had three brigades, including Iverson's decimated command, remaining under his direct control. Therefore, his division maintained its position in Long Lane, and was not called upon for offensive action on July 3.
Rodes's Gettysburg performance was extremely disappointing. Though he continued to give good service in command of his division until he was killed in Early's Shenandoah Valley campaign, and though he was not alone among Confederate generals in having an "off day" at Gettysburg, his performance there had an adverse effect on his career. For Rodes, considered a rising talent after Chancellorsville, was never afterward considered for corps command.
For further reading:
D. Massy Griffin. "Rodes on Oak Hill: A Study of Rodes' Division on the First Day of Gettysburg." Gettysburg Magazine 4, Jan 1991
Peyton, Green. "Robert E. Rodes," in Memorial, V.M.I. [Ed. by Charles D. Walker] Philadelphia, 1875
Samito, Christian G. "Robert Rodes, Warrior in Gray." America's Civil War 7, Jan 1995
Wert, Jeffry E. "Robert E. Rodes." Civil War Times Illustrated 16, Dec 1977


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We don't need higher oil taxes
Lately there has been talk of special interests placing an oil tax on the ballot in 2016. The legislature has repeatedly introduced bills proposing an oil tax, but they never made it to the governor's desk.
Even Gov. Brown shot down the idea of more taxes this year.
California's oil and gas industry contributed over $22 billion in state and local taxes in 2012.
Voters approved statewide sales and income tax increases in 2012 that are generating $7 billion per year.
It's too soon to approve any more new taxes, especially since California's economy and families are still struggling and so many people are out of work.
Not to mention, another oil tax could also mean higher gas prices for Californians, among many other things!
I'm standing against higher oil taxes because I don't want to watch my state, city and fellow Californians suffer by losing revenue and paying higher gas prices.
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By Leslie Cauley, USA TODAY
NEW YORK Verizon Wireless, the No. 2 U.S. cellphone carrier, passed on the chance to be the exclusive distributor of the iPhone almost two years ago, balking at Apple's rich financial terms and other demands.
Among other things, Apple wanted a percentage of the monthly cellphone fees, say over how and where iPhones could be sold and control of the relationship with iPhone customers, said Jim Gerace, a Verizon Wireless vice president. "We said no. We have nothing bad to say about the Apple iPhone. We just couldn't reach a deal that was mutually beneficial."
Verizon's decision to pull the plug on talks sent Apple into the waiting arms of Cingular, which will be the exclusive U.S. carrier for the iPhone. The multifunction device is expected to ship in June and cost about $500.
VERIZON Q4 EARNINGS: Profit falls, beats estimates
Apple and Cingular (which now is solely owned by AT&T and adopting that brand name) have declined to discuss terms of their alliance. But the Apple-Verizon talks offer a peek into the computer giant's thinking.
According to Verizon, Apple CEO Steve Jobs insisted that he have hard control over iPhone distribution.
The problem? While Apple and Verizon stores would have it, Wal-Mart, Best Buy and other Verizon distributors could have been left out. "That would have put our own distribution partners at a disadvantage" to Apple and Verizon stores, Gerace said.
Customer care was another hitch: If an iPhone went haywire, Apple wanted sole discretion over whether to replace or repair the phone. "They would have been stepping in between us and our customers to the point where we would have almost had to take a back seat … on hardware and service support," Gerace says.
Cingular won't talk about the financial terms or say how long its iPhone exclusivity lasts, but two people with direct knowledge of the deal say it's a five-year contract. The exclusive is USA-only, leaving Apple free to market its iPhone globally.
Natalie Kerris, an Apple spokeswoman, declined to comment on any aspect of this story.
Mark Siegel, a Cingular spokesman, said, "We think this is a win for Apple, and it is a win for Cingular."
Siegel declined to comment on customer care plans but said Cingular would field calls related to the wireless service. "I don't want to leave the impression that these (iPhone) customers are not ours. They are."
Siegel would not say whether Cingular distributors, which include Wal-Mart and RadioShack, would get the iPhone. The deal announcement referred only to Cingular and Apple stores and their websites.


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BUSINESSES are being offered a series of free seminars to equip companies with the tools they need to thrive in the digital era.
The Superfast Business service which is being delivered by Business West will help businesses throughout South Gloucestershire.
Superfast Business is running three free 'express' events this autumn, starting on Thursday, September 4, this year.
The two hour long events, for small to medium sized companies, will explain how firms can use technology to save time, increase revenue and reach wider audiences.
Phil Smith, Managing Director of Business West, said: "Businesses need to adapt in order to succeed in today's digital era. Digital technology can enable businesses to operate faster, cheaper and offer a better service to their clients.
"We recognise that this is new ground for many businesses and that fresh skills and knowledge are needed to help them reap the rewards from digital technology.
"We have identified the key areas where businesses need support and designed our event programme around these themes.
"The Superfast Business events will give South Gloucestershire businesses the tools to become 'digitally able' – to market themselves, sell, communicate, collaborate and measure their success."
There is no charge for attending but eligibility criteria apply and booking is essential for more details and to book, visit www.superfastbusiness.co.uk/events.


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8 (1/2-ounce) slices ham or Canadian bacon
4 large eggs
4 whole-grain English muffins, split and toasted
8 teaspoons mango chutney
3/4 cup (3 ounces) shredded reduced-fat sharp cheddar cheese
Preheat broiler.
Heat a large nonstick skillet coated with cooking spray over medium-high heat. Add ham; cook 2 minutes on each side or until lightly browned. Remove from pan; keep warm. Reduce heat to medium; recoat pan with cooking spray. Break eggs into hot pan; cook 1 minute on each side or until desired degree of doneness.
Place muffin halves, cut sides up, on a baking sheet. Spread 2 teaspoons chutney over bottom half of each muffin; top with 2 ham slices, 1 egg, and 1 tablespoon cheese. Sprinkle 2 tablespoons cheese over top half of each muffin. Broil 1 1/2 minutes or until bubbly. Place top halves of muffins over the bottom halves.


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Detroit's Bankruptcy Plan Accelerates Blight Reduction
Detroit recently filed its Chapter 9 bankruptcy plan of adjustment in U.S. Bankruptcy Court. The proposed actions of the plan include a dramatic acceleration of the city's blight reduction efforts.
"Reduction of urban blight is among the city's highest reinvestment priorities," said Detroit emergency manager Kevyn Orr in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court filing, which took place February 21, 2014.
Nathan Bomey, Matt Helms, and Brent Snavely report on the details of the bankruptcy plan adjustment, which will "[pave] the way for the city to dramatically reduce an estimated $18 billion in debt and liabilities."
In a separate article, John Gallagher, Patricia Montemurri, and JC Reindl detail the plan's dramatic acceleration of the city's blight reduction program—from the current pace of 114 residential structures a week to 400-450 every week by next year. "At that pace, the city would rid itself of 80,000 blighted houses in five years, paid for by savings from the bankruptcy reorganization and from government and private sources."