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Introductory Entomology (ENTO2001)
This unit is an introduction to insects, the most abundant group of organisms. The course explores insect biodiversity, evolution, phsyiology, anatomy and ecology. Real world examples are used to demonstrate the ecological roles insects play in natural and agricultural ecosystems (e.g. pollinators, herbivores, predators, parasitoids, disease vectors). This knowledge is then linked to aspects of applied entomology: integrated pest management, bioinspired technologies, medical entomology and insect conservation. Practical sessions focus on insect morphology and taxonomy, so that students learn to identify common insect orders and families. Students must make a representative insect collection. This course forms the basis of students' entomological knowledge for BScAgr and BHortSc degrees and lays the foundation for future study in entomology.
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(2x1hour lecture, 1x3hour practical, 1x1hour insect collection)/week, commencing week 1.
1 x 2hr exam (20%), 2 x lab quizzes (20%), 1 x insect collection (40%), group project (20%)
Recommended: Gullan, P.J. & Cranston, P.S. 2005. The Insects: an outline of entomology. 3rd edition, Blackwell Publishing, Malden, MA. 505 pp.
Zborowski, P. & Storey, R. 1995. A field guide to insects in Australia. Reed New Holland, Sydney. 207 pp.
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If you wish to undertake one or more units of study (subjects) for your own interest but not towards a degree, you may enrol in single units as a non-award student.
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If you are from another Australian tertiary institution you may be permitted to underake cross-institutional study in one or more units of study at the University of Sydney.


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At each temple where you can save your game and heal yourself, look around for a Lizard with a white tail. If you kill them, you can eat their tail by pressing the R1 Button while standing next to them. Doing so will cause your strength meter to glow. In the demo, these made your strength go up. However, now it is much easier to just continue fighting the Colossi to make your strength increase. You can always find one in or around a save point. As you can see from the map, they are not only limited to the save shrines.
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+1 on this.. I think Continuum is ready to become a TLP at ASF. -Deng Emmanuel Venisse wrote: > Hi, > > At the begin, Continuum was designed to support maven2 projects so we > thought it was good to put it under the maven umbrella. > But now it supports other project types (ANT, shell scripts) too so it > isn't centered on maven projects. > > An other thing is that we have lot of users (not only maven users) > with actually 450 subscribers to the users list, and I think we can > get more with a TLP project. > > My last point is that with the maven project, it isn't easy to add new > committers because a new committer have the hand on all maven umbrella > code and not only one project. > > So I think it would be good for Continuum to become a Top Level > Project at ASF and the continuum community will have more chance to grow. > > My concern for the moment is we don't have enough committer from > different companies, To be stable, at least 3 committers from > different companies would be good. > > WDYT? > > Emmanuel > >
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Where do most of you order your supplies, like Satin Ice, or imposers and stamps from? I have ordered from thebakerskitchen.net, and gotten my supplies, but it's taking them forever to process. I ordered something on Friday night, and it's still hasn't shipped. Is there another quality place I can order these things and expect quick processing, because really I can't afford quick ships.
these are just a few different ones i've ordered from. It all depends on what I want to order and who has the most (and best price) at the time. Some carry things others don't and some items are carried by all of them.
I order from GLOBAL SUGAR ARTS, globalsugararts.com .
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My favorite is fondant source. They ship quickly for me and their Satin Ice fondant is cheap. I paid 6.49 for a bucket of Satin Ice that my local cake store wanted 17.99. If they don't have what you want call them and they will find it and add it to their website. I needed specific stencil for my brothers cake and he posted it for me in under ten minutes. Shipping is reasonable too.


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Leadership Ke Tips Hindi Me
Good leaders ke paas ek common cheez hoti hai: unhe pta hota hai ki advice ko kaise seek karna chahiye. Ye thoda parenting jaisa hai. No one jo pehli hi baar me job ko perfectly understand kar sake. Iske liye aapko sikhte rahna padta hai or growing bhi karni padti hai. These experts know the drill. They have written about their experiences leadership me, mass audiences ke front me kaise bolna hai or apne honed skills ko salo tak kaise bana ke rakhna chahiye sab dekhte hai.
Here we are sharing with you some tips about "Leadership Ke Tips Hindi Me". Team success ke piche sabse important role leadership ka hota hai. Team ke failures ya success ke responsible leaders hi hote hai. Team ka great result paane ke liye leaders ko consistently motivate karna chahiye apne team members ko. As a new manager, team members se great reults paane ke liye ek positive work environment ka hona jaroori nahi hai balki aapke leadership ke skills se unka confidence ko build hone me help milta hai. Check out below to see tips….
Communication Is Key
Kissi bhi successful relationship ke liye clear communication bahut jaroori hai. Or agar relationship leader or team member ke ho to no different. Apne ideas ko clearly express kare, apne employees ko sure kare ki aap unse kya chahte ho. Ek conversation friendly environment create kare and apne employees ko itni freedom de ki vo apne thoughts or concerns ko easily express kar sake. Team member ka leader ke upper trust karna bahut jaroori hai taki vo ache se openly communicate kar sake.
Wrong Can Be Right
Encourage creativity by allowing team members to be wrong. Mistakes ka hona ek inherent part of the creative process hai. Agar employees ko pta hai ki unke ideas ya solution ke liye unhe punished nahi kiya jayega to, vo outside of box se sochne ke liye inspired honge and more chances lenge, leading to the creation of better, sath hi sath more innovative ideas bhi nikal payenge.
Never Forget Your Responsibility
Kissi mahan insaan ne kaha ki "Mere liye leadership ek responsibility ke sath sath opportunity bhi hai." Effective leaders ko pta hota hai or understand karte hai ki vo everyone ke liye responsible hai jo bhi vo leading karte hai and responsibility ek main concern hai unke position ke liye. Agar aap empathy lose kar dete hai ya dedication, to jo aap people leading kar rahe hai, aap unke leader nahi ban paoge.
Look Into The Future
Apne exceptional and positive vision future ke liye express kare. Jiss leader ke paas plan hota hai usse follow karne me aasani hoti hai. Once team's goal ke liye aware rahe, each member ko moka de or motivate bhi kare apna best dene ke liye, but sath hi sath apne team ko unification bhi kare.
It's Not About You
Leadership khud ke liye nahi ki jaati hai. Jisme aap charge lete ho, being right, ya promote hone ke liye or looking the best. Leadership is all about the cause of the organization, serving the legitimate needs of those jiski aap leading kar rahe ho and leadership ke liye khud ko kabhi bhi jyada seriously na le. Aapke sath sath or bhi people hai jo aapse jude hue hai or jo aapke liye kaam bhi karte hai. So guys it's not about you, it's about team.
Be A Curious Leader
Jab aap others ke sath curious hote ho, tab aap sikhte ho, collaboration karte hai and innovate hote hai. Jab leaders curious nahi hota hai, they tend to judge, tell, blame and even shame without realizing it. Ye sab conflict, frustration, naroows perspectives or opportunities ko creates karta hai. Jisse innovation, understanding or collaboration bigad jaati hai. Leadership ke liye ek new language successful hone ke liye jaroori hai. Curiosity aapko allow karti hai ki aap uss langugae ko access kare taki aap 21st century ke leadership me hone vali jaroort ko paa sake.
Know Yourself
Apni strengths and weaknesses ko identify kare. Important decision lene se pahle feedback analysis kare ki kya expectations hai aapki usse likhe then after nine or 12 months gujarne ke baad, compare kare ki actually me kya hua hai aapke expectations ke sath. Ye leaders ke pinpoint ko exactly help karta hai ki kaha usne excelled kiya hai or kaha fell short hua hai, so aise me vo apne future ke shortcomings ko improve kar sakta hai.
Use The Right Posture For Leadership
Apka posture and body language ko intentional or consistent ki jaroort hai. Apne posture ke baare me hamesha aware rahe; jab aap bethe, khade hoye ya jab chal rahe ho. Roll shoulders up, back and down. Apne spine ko straight rakhe kyuki leaders don't slouch. Or leaders kabhi apne body language ko intimidate nahi karte jaise crossed arms, puffed out chest and finger waving etc. etc. apne head to toe tak ke dressing ko bhi dhayan me rakhe. Jisme include hota hai wardrobe, haircut, eyeglasses and even shoes. Apne shirt ko pressed kare, well fitting trousers, leather shoes and belt ek good uniform hai adopt karne ke liye. Ek tie ya sport jacket aapko extra bonus points denta hai executive presence ke liye. Ek leader ki hasiyat se good hair cut, dress, head to toe dhayan rakhna chahiye.
So guys here we shared with you some tips about today topic. Umeed karte hai ki aapko aaj ka topic pasand aaya hoga then don't forget to like and share this one. If you want to share your thoughts then leave your comment below. To get more information about other article then stay tuned with us. Thankx for visting our site and be happy.


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Carolina Folmer
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Carolina Folmer holds a Master of Music in Classical Guitar Performance from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Classical Guitar Performance from the College of Charleston, South Carolina, and the National Conservatory of Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is certified in the Suzuki Guitar Method levels 1-8(6) and is an active member of the Suzuki Association of the Americas.
In Argentina she was a disciple of Graciela Pomponio de Martinez-Zárate and Walter Ujaldón. In the US her main teachers have been Grammy-nominated Professor Marc Regnier and Professor René Izquierdo. Over the years, Carolina has been coached and participated in master classes by famed guitarists such as Eduardo Fernández, Roland Dyens, Pablo Márquez, Benjamin Verdery, Cacho Tirao, Lorenzo Micheli, and many others. Her Suzuki Method teacher trainers were Mary Lou Roberts, David Madsen and Andrea Cannon.
Ms. Folmer is an active participant in workshops and events in Argentina and the US. She has been a guest clinician at Northern Illinois University (2014) and DePaul University (2012). Carolina is also devoted to bringing quality musical training to inner city school children; helping to create identity in Hispanic communities through music and folk songs. Many of her former students have won first prizes and "Exemplary State Soloist Award" at the Wisconsin School Music Association's competitions, won scholarships to Interlochen Arts Academy, and several are now pursuing academic careers in music.
Carolina Folmer is a recipient of the 2014 Suzuki Association of the Americas Scholarship. She performs Latin American repertoire with Peruvian violinist Cecilia Pinto and has won the 2015 first prize for original poetry in Spanish at the VIII International Poetry Festival: Poesía en Abril.
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A whole area of Japan was turned into a no-go zone with long-lasting effects for the rest of the world, all because of the negligence of one company.
The disaster completely contaminated the whole of the Pacific Ocean, wiping out whole species of sea-life and poisoning the water. Experts believe it will take 16 million years fo the contamination to be gone completely, yet no-one is talking about the disaster. Because it struck in Japan, it doesn't mean the effects are not being felt in the USA, dead animals are washing up on the shores, contaminated animals are ending up here.
Although the damage cannot be undone, there has at least been action taken against those responsible. As Chris Summers of Daily Mail writes, "Earlier this year three executives with the Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) were charged with professional negligence resulting in death and injury."
He continues ,"The tsunami killed more than 18,000 people and Fukushima was the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl, although nobody is believed to have died directly as a result of the failure of the reactor".
The charge of negligence will not un-pollute the ocean, it will not bring back to life the millions of animals affected. More awareness needs to be raised about the dangers of nuclear contamination, as we are all in it together.
Because of the relatively low amount of nuclear power stations, Americans often think they don't need to worry about the consequences but a disaster can affect for up to miles around, and often for years after it happens.Ignoring nuclear disasters doesn't mean they won't happen to us.
Americans tend to be greatly unprepared for disasters such as this. Important things to note is to always have a good supply of storeable food and water, and make sure your iodine levels are checked.
Predicting the next nuclear disaster is impossible, but at least you can make sure you are prepared for it if the unthinkable happens.
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WASHINGTON, February 26, 2017 — Rumors have been flying fast and thick concerning just which DC superheroes plan to show up in the much-touted but not-yet-filmed "Justice League" movie. Today's big question: Will Green Lantern be a show or a no-show?
DC Comics fans were in despair after the catastrophic flop of 2011's Green Lantern film, starring Ryan Reynolds, likely for the first and last time as Hal Jordan. Fortunately for Reynolds—the victim of a disastrously unfocused script and too much confusing nonsense involving the Green Lantern Corps—it looks like he uncovered a cinematic goldmine in the spectacular success of his new Marvel superhero character, the weirdly lovable, potty-mouthed "Deadpool."
DC superhero-based films of late have, frankly, labored under the kind of burdens that doomed the Green Lantern film and made the recent "Batman vs. Superman" flick a real chore to watch: turgid scripts; gloomy, too numerous and humorless characters; too many plot branches and franchise character introductions that go nowhere; and color palettes that regularly look like 1930s Dracula movies.
Autumn Kelly, writing for iDigital Times, picks up the latest rumors swirling about that "Justice League" movie that is yet to be, and discovers that there may be another Green Lantern in our future. Though certainly not Ryan Reynolds. And perhaps not even DC fans' favorite Lantern of all time: Hal Jordan.
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Why are people so stupid? Do they not understand that this is satire with an underlying message arguing FOR Ohio State to be put in the playoff?
We probably have more talent/potential, but they are older and more experienced. We're going to have to bring more energy, mental preparation, and tenacity, and we're going to have to outcoach them. Should be a good game.
Yeah the music is pretty bad, but it's a pretty cool video nonetheless
I'm happy to see that he's healthy. Even if he does not win the starting job, his superb talent will bring out the best in the rest of the corners during the competition for the starting spot.
He's a shortstop.
That's true. I was just pointing out that BuckeyeRealist13 was looking at different rankings.
Look like kids are getting recruited earlier and earlier. A 6'6" 290 lb. sophomore? That's awesome. I'm glad to see we're in great position with many of these recruits already. Trevon Grimes from St. Thomas Aquinas and Donovan People-Jones from Cass Tech would be huge for Urban's pipelines.
For 247 rankings, there are 3 five stars. According to 247 composite, however, there are 42.
Not even Chuck Norris can block him.
Haha that's awesome. First the spelling error and now this? TTUN can never get it right.
Don't be quick to judge the kid. We don't even know him very well; this is a life decision for him, and he just wants to make it the right one. Sure, when he makes a commitment, he should honor it, but he's only 17. Give him a break. If he gets his thoughts straightened out, I'd love to have him. He plays great football.
I guess the Jerome Baker situation proves nobody's a given. Hopefully we're able to flip Baker or end up with Kilby-Lane, Jefferson, or DeBerry. Even if we don't get another addition, I'm very happy with Conner and Hilliard.
Didn't Meyer say that he'd find a spot for him if he wanted to commit? Anyway, I think it's between USC and UCLA at this point.
Haha obviously. I was talking about Jerome Baker.
We were in great position with those guys last year, but it wasn't at the level of Haskins. Most experts say he's basically ours, and yes, he has visited, unlike Gibson. Don't forget that Haskins has always been a dedicated Ohio State fan.
We may not have a representative this year, but remember, we're in great position with Haskins and Pass. Next year, we'll dominate the QB position.
I love how we're getting these great, well-spoken kids with awesome work ethics. It seems like Urban is trying to build a positive culture here; we need more of this after the bad rep we've gotten in the past few years.
Hopefully we get Damien Harris soon. Being able to play in the same backfield as Harris would be a huge sales pitch to Gibson.


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After some time off (off this topic, at least), I am now trying to work my way through the stapling code and the mechanisms of caching in mod_ssl. Phew... I had expected this to be a little more straight forward even for a non-C-guru like me. *sigh* ;) My favourite place to have the OCSP caching done is in ssl_engine_ocsp.c -> verify_ocsp_status(), right where an OCSP request would be created: static int verify_ocsp_status(...) { [...] /* Query response cache HERE */ ruri = determine_responder_uri(sc, cert, c, pool); if (!ruri) { return V_OCSP_CERTSTATUS_UNKNOWN; } request = create_request(ctx, cert, &certID, s, pool); [...] The idea, inspired by your stapling code, Steve, is: - Use SHA1 hash of cert (X509_digest(cert, EVP_sha1(), idx, NULL)) as key for the cache. - Query cache for entry of idx above -_ only create and dispatch new request, if no or invalid entry - store/update response after (new) request has been dispatched and response has been received - validate response (either received from cache or from connection to responder) --> this code is present, of course, and has been further customized already. Is there a possibility to *not* customize a bunch of files like ssl_private.h, ssl_scache.c, ssl_engine_init.c and so on, but have all necessary handling placed here in ssl_engine_ocsp.c (and maybe ssl_util_ocsp.c), without messing up? Of course, I see the pros of a generic approach, but this is definitely only for internal OCSP caching nothing to be communicated outside of this place. On a more detailed level, it is the caching mechanisms that trouble me. What needs to be done to execute caching operations? - Define and initialize a cache - similar to SSL session cache. The actual SSL session cache functions and structures cannot be used for this, just with a different storage (file)? - Define and initialize a mutex for access to this additional cache... So, I am lacking the right way to start this up, aims being at first a quick implementation and continued refactoring to a really well done solution afterwards. :-/ Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Kind regards Natanael Mignon ________________________________________ Von: Dr Stephen Henson [firstname.lastname@example.com] Gesendet: Freitag, 11. September 2009 11:45 An: firstname.lastname@example.com Betreff: Re: OCSP stapling in mod_ssl - use as OCSP cache for client authentication What I think you are trying to do is to include a cache for OCSP queries the proxy itself makes which is IMHO the best solution. So instead of always consulting the OCSP responder it instead checks the cache to see if there is a valid OCSP response in there, if it is expired or invalid then and only then would it renew the response by making an actual query. Doing things that way doesn't need OCSP stapling support in the server(s). If that's correct then you could reuse some of the OCSP response query and caching code in the stapling patch. It implements similar functionality.
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- As of 2012 the current rate of duty(+vat) on AVGAS is about 48p per litre. On MOGAS it is about 73p. A saving of 35%!
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- Multiply that by the hours you fly per year and perhaps you might share some of your savings with AOPA UK by becoming a member.
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- The corporate airlines regularly gang up on GA and lobby for more charges to be placed on GA on the basis that GA is being subsidised by them.
- Consequently, there was a real threat that all GA traffic across Europe would be hit by en-route Air Traffic Service charges.
- AOPA lobbied against this and our argument was accepted. As a result NO en-route Air Traffic Service charges are applied to aircraft below 2000 Kg.
- AOPA has saved you at least £10 per hour for en-route charges.
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- AOPA, in partnership with the LAA, BMAA and BGA, lobbied for a lower cost National UK licence that would allow pilots to hold a limited privileges licence with less onerous training and medical requirements, or allow existing licence holders to continue to fly if they could no longer meet stricter medical conditions or had no continued need for a full licence.
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- In the face of a cash strapped Government it was next to impossible to get the proposal dropped entirely.
- After several iterations, the final Aviation Spectrum charging to be implemented is at a substantially lower level of Tax than originally proposed.
AOPA is not resting on this. When 8.33 MHz channel spacing is fully implemented the Aviation spectrum will be operating at optimum efficiency. At this point we will lobby OFCOM again to remove the Tax as no further efficiency can be made. We will need funding to do this.
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- Since then, thousands of UK PPL holders, and indeed some European PPL holders, have achieved and maintained the rating and flown safely, within the intended limits of the rating, in UK airspace thanks to AOPA UK.
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This is a clear example of AOPA UK being stretched beyond its resource capability. When EASA constructed FCL.008, the committee looking at issues including an achievable PPL IR and "sub-IR" such as the UK IMC Rating, AOPA UK were fully committed to other equally important EASA committees aiming to force change on us and trusted others to represent us and the IMCr. Had we had a larger membership we could have afforded more resource and would have pushed for our own seat on the FCL.008 committee and could have spent more time hands-on the process.
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AOPA UK receives about 1 case per week, of which around 7 out of 10 are successfully dealt with without getting to court.
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AOPA UK lobbied EASA hard for a review of Part M regulations, taking the view that these were being applied out of proportion to the GA fleet. We have been successful and a review is now under way. AOPA UK is following this through to a conclusion funded by our membership fees.
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Brett Porter wrote: >For the versions - the removal of the SNAPSHOT was perhaps not correct. Say >someone builds this and gets ldap-common-0.2.0.jar. Then they change something >and build again to get... ldap-common-0.2.0.jar. Which is the latest? If there's >a newer one in the remote repository - but Maven won't download it. > > Ahh ok I see. I was geting ready for the release before tagging the repository but there is time before the release does happen. In this time you're right we can totally get out of sync. So basically I put snapshot at the end of the version and this will do it eh. Ok I'll revert back. >Let me know if you think differently, but the process we tend to encourage with >Maven is: >- start with 0.1-SNAPSHOT >- build using this >- release 0.1, tag SCM >- update project version when start work on 0.2-SNAPSHOT >- and so on > > > This is exactly what I was thinking but totally lost sight of SNAPSHOT'ing until right after a release. >If 0.2.0/0.8.0 for the various artifacts are to eventually become "official" >releases, I suggest changing to the other technique so the official release does >not get confused with the version you built from CVS a week ago :) > > Yep yep sorry. I will fix this right away and blow away what's there. Plus I guess everyone will need to clear out their local copies of incubator-director jars. >The other thing was the names of subdirectories in projects. In eve, there is >main >plugin (renamed from maven-eve-plugin) >shared >... > >These don't match the artifactId of the projects they contain, which introduced >the need for a module.name property to be able to reference them correctly. >Is this necessary? It would be nice to name subdirectories consistently with the >artifactId. > > Ok I just liked the shorter names plus there was an eve directory which matches the working directory eve creates by default. I will revert this back so we're inline with Maven. I have the feeling this will save us some work later somewhere. Thanks for the feedback. I'll make the corrections tonight. Alex
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What an incredible life lesson I learned in those two summers! And how that summer has mirrored my writing journey these last seven years.
Inspiring, Gina, and oh, so encouraging. Thank you for sharing. Just keep writing. Just keep writing. Just keep knocking. Just keep knocking.
Yep, that's basically it, Becky! I seem to have trouble with the just keep writing part! But I'm working on it! :)Delete
Gina, I love this. It can be so tempting to quit when things seem to go against you. But sometimes, it's God holding us back until the right moment. I'd rather wait for the right moment that go early and miss the mark. :o}ReplyDelete
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Love, love, love, love LOVE this advice! Go Girl! I love also the way you used the same door throughout the post! Although by the end..I was hoping, for your sake, to see an open one! :) Thanks!ReplyDelete
Ha, about the door, Loretta! The second door was actually a MISTAKE. Then I thought it made a good point, so I added a third door! Doors are opening slowly, but I still have to keep knocking! As we all should!Delete
I love this! The idea of persevering and having goals was not taught in our family but my brother spent at least one summer in the very early 70's doing exactly the same thing. I know it set him up to persevere when times got rough for him, too. It is not too late to realize that it is still possible to keep on keeping on!
He left his familiar Puget Sound area for California to sell... it was definitely part of the company's structure to take you out of your comfort zone!
Our set of books now belongs to one of our kids.
Yes, we were definitely out of our comfort zone, Kathleen! And I think it made it harder for people to quit and go home since we were so far from home! LOL!Delete
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The President said that the country's grateful people were not prepared to betray the country to racialists on any day again.
Participating at a UPFA People's rally held at the Pulmudey Mineral Sands Corporation premises yesterday the President asserted that by arousing racism the country will regress and not progress.
On this occasion the President also said that no force would be allowed to reverse the path of development the country was currently moving towards after ending the war.
On this occasion the President also expressed his views about false propaganda to the effect that ownership of lands occupied by people for generations was going to be transferred to companies.
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (CNS) -- Not since the aftermath of 9/11 has America's national security and foreign policy seemed to resonate so heavily with the electorate during a U.S. presidential election, according to several political scientists.
Terror incidents in Europe, the Middle East and at home -- paired with perceptions of an increasingly fragile world order exemplified by the United Kingdom's Brexit decision this summer -- have created a heightened sense of vulnerability for many voters.
How those threats and worries are interpreted and expressed by the electorate will differ widely by party affiliation and by the two major candidates themselves, experts note.
And while foreign policy typically pales in comparison to domestic policy issues such as economic growth, income equality, health care and taxes, national security concerns still resonate with a significant percentage of Americans.
"Voter satisfaction of the economy and a general sense of how things are going are usually the best indicators of which way an election will go, but since 9/11 foreign policy has intruded into the public consciousness and has not had greater salience perhaps since periods like the 1968 election at the height of the Vietnam War," said Michael Desch, director of the Notre Dame International Security Center in the political science department at the University of Notre Dame.
If foreign policy and global terrorism are more salient than they have been in a long time, certainly greater than during the 2012 presidential election, it is in part because of the bipartisan uptick of interest that occurs after a spate of terror incidents, according to Desch.
The best example of the foreign policy factor in this year's contest is the very fact of Donald Trump's triumph over his Republican primary contenders, which in no small part was the result of his rethinking of American relationships and his position that the Iraq War a mistake -- an opinion which a Chicago Council on Global Affairs foreign policy survey shows is now a bipartisan and majority view.
Desch told Catholic News Service that the electorate in general -- as evidenced by supporters of both Trump and Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, for example -- is expressing a desire to challenge the "neoliberal, global-engagement and free-trade economic consensus which has been a unifying foreign and economic policy since the 1990s under then-President Bill Clinton."
The recent repudiation of the Trump campaign by some 50 Republican foreign policy experts, he added, further indicates a reaction to the populist pushback against the establishment and "internationalist" foreign policy legacy of the last decade. That sentiment has likely been fueled by a zeitgeist of general alarm among the electorate that the county and the world are "on the wrong track."
"There is a lot of evidence the public doesn't think the country is on the right track and that their kids won't have a better life than they will, indicating a pessimism about the future," Desch said.
"I would guess if you poll people about international policy you would get a similarly pessimistic view: You take out Bin Laden and Isis emerges; the EU is frayed; global trade seems more like a mixed bag than we thought; immigration is a destabilizing issue -- all sorts of things add up to a general pessimism in the state of the world," he said.
The attacks in Orlando, Florida, Paris and Brussels and the Democratic National Committee hacking scandal only add greater relevance this year to domestic vulnerabilities and fragile overseas relationships.
The U.S. bishops' quadrennial teaching document and voter guide on the political responsibility of Catholics, "Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship," takes into account the teachings of Pope Francis along with more recent developments touching on foreign policy, including:
-- The deadly attacks on fellow Christians and religious minorities throughout the world.
-- Economic policies that fail to prioritize the poor, at home or abroad.
-- A broken immigration system and a worldwide refugee crisis wars, terror and violence that threaten every aspect of human life and dignity.
-- Wars, terror, and violence that threaten every aspect of human life and dignity.
-- The excessive consumption of material goods and the destruction of natural resources, which harm both the environment and the poor.
Raymond Kuo, an assistant professor of political science at Fordham University specializing in international security and American foreign policy, thinks about a fifth of the electorate consider national security a top priority, while the economy and jobs are paramount.
But Republicans and Democrats are couching national security issues in different terms, with one candidate presented as the "law and order" choice who will "bring it all back together" while the other tends to be perceived as overall more trustworthy to handle the difficulties of statecraft, according to Kuo.
"You have two very different candidates, with Hillary Clinton representing the conventional, moderate view to U.S. foreign policy -- a liberal international order with American power engaged in the world, serving as a pillar of free trade and the lender of last resort, and democracy is a domestic safety valve," Kuo told CNS. "Hillary very much represents consensus American viewpoint on the role of American power in the world."
"By contrast Trump presents a very different approach to foreign policy: He is an isolationist and a transactionalist, calibrating relationships and a racketeering type of approach to international powers, a radical break which will cause a lot of shocks in the rest of the world," Kuo said. "Trump says we can renegotiate all these agreements."
The general assumption is that terrorism plays into the hands of the Trump campaign, but Kuo said it is unclear that is actually the case and that the GOP nominee's comments on terrorism have often not been poorly received by the public.
In a foreign policy speech he delivered Aug. 15 in Youngstown, Ohio, Trump said if he is elected president he put an end to "nation building" and focus on destroying the Islamic State and other terrorist organizations.
The overall geopolitical trends, as Kuo seems them, are the decline of power and influence of Russia, China and the Islamic State and that each of these powers at times acts out to distract attention from their shrinking influence and prosperity.
"These actors are acting out of weakness, these challenges have limits and can be managed," Kuo said, adding that at the end of the cold war the major concern was state relations and since then we see non-state actors coming to the fore with a combination of ISIS and the resurgence coming from Russia and China.
And while the world may seem more unsafe and unstable than ever, Kuo said that high profile terror in Europe and in the U.S. obscures the fact that terror has been a constant presence for some time, although more so in the Middle East.
"It is not quite as bad as people think: Russia is in the tank economically because of oil; the Chinese economy is slowing down; and Isis is rapidly losing territory," he said.
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By ANDREW ROSENTHAL, Special to the New York Times
Published: August 23, 1988
ANDOVER, Mass., Aug. 22— Gov. Michael S. Dukakis today rebuked a Republican Congressman who suggested that the Governor had avoided service in the Korean War.
The Governor said that it was ''no coincidence'' that the legislator had raised the issue soon after Senator Dan Quayle of Indiana, Vice President Bush's running mate, was assailed over his own military record.
''I hope this is the last we will hear about discussion of my military service,'' said Mr. Dukakis, who was drafted into the Army after he graduated from Swarthmore College in 1955, about two years after the July 1953 armistice was signed at Panmunjom. He later served 16 months as a private as part of a United Nations contingent in South Korea.
Representative Gerald B. H. Solomon of New York, who is the ranking Republican member of the House Veterans Affairs Committee, issued a statement in Washington saying that he would address Mr. Dukakis's military service in a speech on Tuesday before the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Chicago. 'Point Is He Enlisted'
Mr. Solomon said there had been suggestions that Senator Quayle, the Republican Vice-Presidential nominee, was ''afraid to go to war'' because he joined the National Guard in 1969 instead of enlisting, virtually assuring that he would see combat in Vietnam.
''My point is not to point fingers at Dukakis, because what he did was legal,'' Mr. Solomon said. ''But he avoided combat by using his education deferments. There's nothing wrong with what he did because it was allowed.''
But Mr. Dukakis, the Democratic Presidential nominee, ended an appearance at a housing project here by responding to Mr. Solomon's comments.
''I understand that a Republican Congressman whom I don't know and who didn't have the courtesy to call me and discuss this with me made some statements today about my military record,'' Mr. Dukakis said.
''I don't think it's a coincidence that a Republican Congressman has raised it,'' Mr. Dukakis said. ''But it will be up to the Republican Party to explain all of this.''
Mr. Dukakis said he had a student deferment while studying at Swarthmore, which he entered in September 1951, and that shortly before graduation in the spring of 1955, ''I went to my draft board and asked them to draft me just as soon as they could after I graduated from college, and they did.'' Dukakis Says He 'Volunteered'
Mr. Dukakis said he had ''in effect, volunteered for the draft,'' and entered the Army six or seven weeks after graduation.
''I spent 16 months of my service seven miles from'' the Korean demilitarized zone, Mr. Dukakis said.
''It was after the truce had been signed but at a time when Korea was very much on a wartime footing,'' he continued. ''I'm very proud of that service.''
Mr. Dukais said he could have got another deferment to enter law school. ''But I knew that I would serve and was anxious to do my service and then return to graduate school,'' he said.
Mr. Dukakis said that selecting a running mate is ''the first Presidential decision that each of us has had to make.''
He said voters had had ''an opportunity by now to watch Mike Dukakis make the selection and to watch George Bush make his selection. They will judge us on this decision and on other issues and other decisions.'' Mr. Dukakis chose Senator Lloyd Bentsen of Texas as his running mate.
In other matters, Mr. Dukakis's campaign released a statement in which the candidate expressed support for strikes and other protests taking place in Poland and Czechoslovakia.
''It is time for the Polish Government to follow the call of the true leader of the Polish people, Lech Walesa, and finally legalize Solidarity,'' the outlawed trade union, Mr. Dukakis said.
''Poland cannot solve its economic problems and expect expanded economic assistance unless the Government is prepared to respect basic human rights and enter into a dialogue with the church and the workers,'' he said.
Photo of Michael and Kitty Dukakis greeting Sen. Lloyd & B.A. Bentsen (AP)


text: OAKLAND -- After 14 months away from the Major Leagues it would be hard to script a more special return to the mound for Brett Anderson. The 24-year-old lefty looked like he never underwent the season-ending "Tommy John" surgery that derailed his 2011 season. Anderson tossed seven innings of one-run ball earning a win that was 443 days in the making as the A's defeated the Twins 4-1. After countless hours spent rehabbing, being poked at and examined by doctors, stretched out, throwing under careful watch, side sessions, some simulated games, and six rehab starts, Anderson returned to the Major Leagues with a vengeance. "You remember your debut and this is kind of like my second debut," Anderson said. "It is always going to be special and I'll remember it forever."Anderson faced one over the minimum in his seven innings pitched. He allowed just four hits, didn't walk a batter and struck out six. Even though Anderson hadn't pitched in the big leagues since June 5, 2011, he turned in one of the best performances of his career."I thought he was about as good as you can be for the first time out," A's manager Bob Melvin said. "I know talking to a lot of the players that he can be as dominating as anybody we have here."The A's couldn't have been more correct in their assessment of Anderson after he threw his final side session on Saturday. He clearly was ready to return. Anderson induced 13 ground ball outs and didn't record a single fly out. The only run that Anderson allowed scored when Norris couldn't handle one of Anderson's sliders. It was ruled a wild pitch."I felt pretty good," Anderson said. "The slider was pretty good, got some strikeouts, early contact on the fastballs. Just mixed and matched and made some pitches when I had to."Five of the six strikeouts Anderson recorded were on sliders. Anderson's fastball topped out at 93 mph, he also effectively worked in his curveball and a change-up.The big test for Anderson was just working through the first inning nerves. He allowed two singles in the opening frame and then retired nine straight batters. "Just getting out there and getting on the mound again, throwing a pitch in the big leagues was kind of a relief," Anderson said.As if Anderson's first start back couldn't have been any more special, the A's defense bailed him out with a triple play in the fifth inning. It was the 21st triple play in A's franchise history, the eighth in Oakland history."I was extremely excited," Anderson said of the rare feat. "I don't know if I've seen a triple play, let alone be on a mound for it, so it's pretty awesome and it kind of propelled me for the last couple innings."Anderson is now 1-0 and has a fresh start on his career. His last Major League win came on May 26, 2011 against the Angels. After surviving most of the season with four rookies in the starting rotation the A's now have three veterans in the starting staff for the stretch run -- Bartolo Colon, Brandon McCarthy, and Anderson. The A's are a season-high tying 10 games over .500 (66-56) and they are armed and dangerous.


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Rosa Parks
by jacoryn walker
She went to jail because she refused to give up her seat to a white person. She was the person to build the underground railroad to free the slaves. She joined the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP. She won the NAACP image award.
She was a very brave person. She cared for everybody. She was a very charming person. She was a very eager person. She is very intelligent.


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Chapter One
"They'll fire you."
ICE Agent Sonia Knight gave her partner a sideways glance and rolled her eyes. "Not if we succeed."
Trace shook his head. "I want this bastard as much as you, but we're walking a very fine line here."
"We're so close."
"We could both end up dead."
"Our witness has risked everything to give us this information. If Jones gets even a whiff that Vega is turning state's evidence, he and his pregnant wife are dead."
"Don't think it."
"You know it. He hasn't checked in for three days, which isn't like him."
"Kendra Vega is fine. We checked on her yesterday afternoon."
"For now. But Vega could be getting spooked. It's one thing to talk about getting out of the business, but doing it is another story. These people are ruthless. Vega knows it."
"And you pulled every string and called in every favor to get them into witness protection when he delivers the goods. You can't do squat for him unless he comes back with the promised intel."
True, but Sonia feared that Xavier Jones was untouchable. He'd been getting away with trafficking in humans for years because his instincts were sharp and he trusted no one. That one of his top security men came to her three weeks ago to make a deal was a miracle. She wasn't going to blow it—she wanted Jones in prison and the Vegas safe. That's why not hearing from Greg Vega for the last three days disturbed her. Where was he? Why hadn't he checked in?
"I wish we had better information," Trace said, not for the first time.
They were hiding among the pine trees near Devils Lake, appropriately named considering the son of the devil, Xavier Jones, owned hundreds of acres in the Sierra Nevada foothills abutting the lake. She could see his house with field binoculars, and tonight, like the last two nights, it was dark.
"It will happen this week."
"This is our third night watching Jones's place. He's out of the state, like Vega reported last time he checked in. The kid could be wrong."
"He's not." They'd contacted the Transportation Security Administration. Xavier Jones hadn't used his passport. He usually traveled by private plane, both retaining a pilot and having a license himself. Tracking small craft was much more difficult, making the last few days even more frustrating. He could be back in northern California now for all they knew.
Sonia had spent long days talking with ten-year-old Andres Zamora just to get him to trust her. He told her everything he remembered about his family's abduction and his brother's murder. It all held together, and he had the scars to prove it.
"I should never have run."
"You did the right thing. Your brother told you to go."
"I should have stayed to find Maya. She is all I have."
"Don't give up on your sister."
"How could she survive what they do to her? I don't even know where they took her."
Sonia didn't have an answer, because she didn't know if she could find his sister. Eight days was a long time in the vile underworld, and thirteen-year-old Maya had most likely been sold before she ever set foot in the United States. If she even ended up here. They'd been separated during the journey, and Andres had no idea where they'd been when she'd been taken away. He'd ended up being smuggled in by truck, then boat.
Sonia frowned at Trace. "If you're worried about a reprimand, I'll tell them I lied to you like I lied to the rest of the team." She hadn't wanted to be dishonest, but she felt as if she had no choice. Her boss wouldn't have authorized this stakeout on the word of a pint-sized illegal immigrant.
Trace slammed his fist on the ground. "I can't believe you said that."
"I'm sorry." She stared through the binoculars at the dark house. She didn't want to hurt Trace, but he hadn't been in the trenches long enough to know how brutal this business was. That the buying and selling of humans was even thought of as a business angered Sonia and kept her focused on the prize: slapping cuffs on Jones and getting him into an interrogation room.
"No you're not. You think you're protecting the team, but you're only hurting yourself. Don't be the martyr, Sonia. You're too damn good. I'm a big boy, and I could have told you to fuck off, or told Warner that Vega didn't give you this intel. I backed you up because I trust your instincts. I just don't want you to be blinded because—"
Their earpieces came to life.
"Beta Two reporting three vehicles approaching from the west at approximately forty miles per hour, headed toward the residence."
Beta Two was stationed at the fork, and there were only two private homes off this road, one being a vacation home belonging to a Silicon Valley executive who came up here quarterly.
Adrenaline flushed her system and she was ready to rock and roll. This was what she lived for. It was 0100 with a near-full moon.
"Ninety seconds to our post."
"Stand down. Do not engage—Beta Four, circle—"
She was cut off mid-sentence. "They're Fibbies," Beta Two said.
"Grille lights just went on. Red, white, and blue."
Sonia slammed her fist against the nearest tree trunk. She watched the road and seconds later red and blue lights flashed intermittently through the trees lining the private road off Lake Amador Drive. She heard someone—it sounded like veteran Joe Nicholson—say, "She's gonna fuckin' blow like Mount Vesuvius."
"Wish I could see it," his partner replied.
"Wish I were on vacation."
They were talking about her, and they were right. She had had more problems with the fucking FBI than any other law enforcement agency. And now they'd blown her operation. How did they get wind of the stakeout? Why didn't they call and find out if anyone was investigating Jones? They acted as if they were the only federal law enforcement in the country. Jones was ICE territory, and Sonia was going to make damn sure the FBI knew it. Innocent children were going to die if they screwed this up.
She watched as three black Suburbans drove onto the wide, circular drive in front of Jones's towering home, lights flashing, screeching to a halt as if they were in some B movie.
Federal heads were going to roll. Sonia would see to it. Personally.
She issued orders to her team, then turned to Trace. She was about to tell him to stay put, but shut her mouth. He was no longer a rookie, having been with her team for two years. "Ready?"
He nodded. "Don't be rash."
"This isn't the first time the Fibbies have screwed up one of our ops."
"You don't have to tell me that, but don't forget: more flies with honey, right?"
"I don't want to catch them, I want to swat them."
She and Trace ran low to the ground toward the residence. They were a good hundred yards or more off, but made it to the rock-strewn edge of the drive through sparse foliage without being seen by the feds. They halted behind a boulder where they could watch the action. Doors opened and at least eight Fibbies oozed from the interior, black bulletproof vests with bold white letters proclaiming their authority: FBI.
Homeland Security trumped the FBI every time, and she'd make sure the idiots who had driven into her stakeout damn well knew it.
They were dressed in black tactical gear, and she pulled her hat from her pocket that identified her as ICE, peeled down the flap on Trace's back revealing the same acronym, and clipped her badge to her belt. Trace did the same. She motioned to her partner and mouthed "On three." They emerged from the large, decorative rocks only feet from the nearest agent. If she had been one of the bad guys, she'd have an ideal head shot. Hell, with her weak hand she could have taken out three of them without breaking a sweat. Incompetent jerks. Did they know who they were up against in Xavier Jones?
She strode toward three agents surveying the layout. One black-vested agent tried to stop her, flashing his badge and saying, "Ma'am, we'll have to ask you to speak with—"
She pointed to her badge, glanced at the name sewn onto his vest. "Who's in charge, Ivers? Elliott? Richardson?"
A black-haired agent approached. Sonia recognized Sam Callahan, Sacramento FBI's SSA for white-collar crimes. Political bribery and money laundering. What was he doing here when Jones's crime was far more international—and deadly—in scope? "Callahan. Surprised to see you here."
"Right back at you, Sonia." He nodded at Trace. "Anderson."
She couldn't hold back her frustration. "You just destroyed nearly two years' work! Is covert not in your vocabulary? We're in the middle of a major investigation. Did you just not feel like contacting us?"
Callahan straightened and reddened. "We have a subpoena."
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text: Montefiore Medical Center is collaborating with UnitedHealthcare to provide enhanced, coordinated care to more than 9,000 New York residents enrolled in UnitedHealthcare's employer-sponsored health plans, including Oxford Health-branded plans. The collaboration focuses on prevention, improved coordination and well-managed care. Montefiore will share in the generated savings with UnitedHealthcare and reinvest those funds back into the system to ensure patients continue to receive the right care at the right time in the right place. "We pride ourselves on our ability to provide best-in-class coordinated and compassionate care when and where people need it most through Montefiore's extensive network of employed and affiliated community-based, private practice physicians," said Stephen Rosenthal, vice president, network management, Montefiore. "Working with UnitedHealthcare enhances our ability to address patients' complex medical needs and allows for improved outcomes and patient satisfaction while making health care more affordable." For nearly 20 years, Montefiore has provided innovative services and interventions to help patients manage their care and achieve optimal health. Montefiore currently manages the care of nearly 300,000 people, and the medical center was designated as the only Pioneer Accountable Care Organization (ACO) in New York by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' Innovation Center. Montefiore achieved the highest performance in year one among the 32 Pioneer ACOs through increased patient engagement and coordination; preventive, patient-centered care; and collaborative efforts with the practicing physician community. UnitedHealthcare employer-sponsored plan participants who currently receive care from Montefiore-affiliated care providers will not have to do anything differently to receive the benefits of these agreements, which include enhanced care coordination and follow-up. "UnitedHealthcare continues to work with care providers statewide to help enhance health services and improve coordination of care for patients," said Michael McGuire, CEO, UnitedHealthcare of New York and New Jersey. "We believe our collaboration with Montefiore Medical Center will deliver enhanced quality, better outcomes and greater efficiency for our health plan customers in New York."


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