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Is your VCR programmed properly? Not sure? Maybe you couldn't understand the directions in the manual.
VCR programming directions, camera manuals, tricycle assembly sheets — all are standing jokes in the technical writing community. One can reread these directions endlessly as you:
1. Stare into space and wait for inspiration, or;
2. Try holding your tongue differently.
All these tactics don't help when the documentation is not usable. Just because you have spent a lot of money on something does not mean the documentation will help you operate, install, repair or use your purchase.
Documentation is not usable if it does not answer a specific question, information is presented in a confusing manner or information is incorrect.
The result is the documentation remains on the shelf and you flounder, using trial and error. Eventually you may get your VCR programmed or the tricycle assembled. But you leave the experience unhappy, disappointed, confused and thinking there must be a better way to do this task.
Now, think in terms of a disaster recovery plan - infinitely more expensive and important than a VCR programming feature. What can be done to help ensure your disaster recovery plan will have usable documentation? There is no single magic bullet. But the following nine steps address some of the most common documentation considerations.
Develop a good disaster recovery plan
You cannot expect documentation to make lucid a chaotic disaster recovery plan. A plan may be complex, but it must follow an internal logic. There must be a rational flow. When a disaster recovery plan is developed you cannot rely on documentation to make up for flawed organization. The best disaster recovery plan documentation is obtained when goals, methods and procedures, and desired results are clearly known.
Be prepared for documentation resource cuts
This is the inevitable money and time chase. When a disaster recovery plan runs into fiscal or time crunch, resources originally dedicated to documentation are usually used to balance the ledger. If the disaster recovery plan is over-budget, documentation funding may be cut. If the disaster recovery plan is overtime, the time may be taken from documentation effort.
This is not a fact to be bemoaned, it is a fact of corporate life. The question is, how to deal with it and still develop a usable document.
A way to deal with anticipated cuts is to develop a layered documentation plan. Plan for the documentation to consist of elements A, B, C, D and E. These elements can be, for example, a core documentation set (A), user guides (B), documentation subsets for certain parts of the organization (C, D, E), and so forth.
Give these elements a priority. If time and money is pulled, the least critical documentation elements are dropped to compensate. The goal is to protect the main project with adequate funds and sufficient time. If the entire disaster recovery project goes more smoothly than expected, the bells and whistles can be kept.
The key to this is to know:
- what is essential
- what is needed
- what is really nice and
- what would be handy
Then if needed you can start cutting back, but still end up with something valuable to the organization.
Know what you want the document to do
A disaster recovery plan can involve many players with many agendas. Training people may see an opportunity to develop a training document. Marketing people may see benefit in using the disaster recovery plan as a sales tool that indicates your organization's commitment to uninterrupted service. Managers may see it as providing proof of need to superiors for increased funding or staffing.
It is an axiom that a document that tries to do too much does nothing. Yet the research that goes into developing a disaster recovery plan will have many uses. The urge will be strong to have many tangible uses for a document that, one hopes, will never be used for its primary goal — recovering from a disaster.
It is best if the disaster recovery document is used only for disaster recovery or disaster recovery training. Other separate documents should be created for the other stakeholders. In some cases, these subset documents may be literal copies of the disaster recovery document. Usually, however, the subset documents will have to be modified to suit the particular needs of marketing, training or other uses. This means increased cost and more time to produce these subsidiary documents.
All of this should be considered carefully when you start mapping out the disaster recovery documentation. But the goal should be that a given piece of documentation has one objective. If you try to force a document to do too much, you will have a document that confuses more than it clarifies.
Know your audience and write to it
Equally important as knowing what the document intent, is knowing who will read and use it. Know your audience and write to it.
A highly-technical organization will have its own jargon and preferred format. If using this jargon conveys the information, use it. Even if this is contrary to the general notion that jargon should be avoided. If that is the way your audience communicates, use that language. If your organization is less technically oriented, avoid jargon and take some effort to define terminology as you go along. As a guide, listen to the way members of your audience talk. This helps develop the tone of the document.
Determine access to the document before you write
Determining who will be able to read the disaster recovery document is another way of defining your audience, but it can raise some difficult issues.
If you talk to people involved in the disaster recovery plan, you will probably find them divided between two camps; those who favor as wide a distribution as possible for the documentation and those who favor quite restricted access. Both viewpoints have merit.
Those who favor broad distribution will say that in a time of crisis it will be necessary to marshall as many people as possible to recover operations. The more people who know about the disaster recovery plan, the better. In addition, if the plan is restricted to a few, those people may not be available to help implement the disaster recovery plan. No one else knows how to access it or understands the information it contains.
Those who favor restricted access argue a disaster recovery plan contains sensitive, proprietary company information. Security concerns mandate that only a few key individuals have access. Since these key individuals would be spearheading recovery anyway, broader distribution could lead to confusion. People could feel free to make their own interpretations about their role in the recovery.
It helps to resolve this access issue before the documentation is written. Duplication and distribution costs are dramatically affected if you know you need 10, 100, 1,000 or 10,000 copies of a given document.
Document the plan as it exists, not as it will be
Most disaster recovery plans are evolving creatures. It is very tempting to look down the road — knowing it will be several weeks or months before the plan is published — and think that by publication date such and such will be in place. Therefore, the document should take this into account now.
The argument for documenting what is still in the planning is that it will reduce document update costs and the document will be current when it comes out.
While this sounds good, virtually no equipment, policy or program works as expected. So you end up documenting an assumption as if it were a fact. When this proves to be inaccurate, even in a small detail, the credibility of the entire disaster recovery plan suffers.
Document the plan as it exists today. If you know there will be changes shortly, think about deferring documentation of that specific area until the changes are made and the results known. Or, plan to update that changed section of the plan quickly after the document is published.
Make the document easy to read and as intuitive to use as possible
This is probably the section you thought you would be reading on the topic of usable documentation.
A competent technical writer will know about:
- information mapping methods of organization
- using short sentences in paragraphs to convey information
- using bullet lists for complex ideas
- using graphics to support the written word
- using a large point-size serif typeface for readable body copy
- developing a comprehensive index
These elements affect the appearance and readability of the document. If these elements are not included, the document is simply more difficult to use. If a document is difficult to use, generally it will not be consulted.
No competent document is produced on a ninepin dot matrix printer any more. Technology has made it easy and relatively inexpensive to produce graphically-pleasing documents.
But the most graphically-pleasing document will still not be consulted if all effort is poured into design, and none to the other issues previously discussed.
Test the document
Software is beta tested before release.
Products are prototyped and tested with focus groups before marketing. Yet too often documentation is not properly tested before final production.
Usually, the testing phase is dropped as deadlines press. When this happens, the first issue of the documentation becomes the beta version. Errors or ambiguities will surface and will have to be corrected in a later issue. If at all possible, it is better to assemble focus groups and have the documentation thoroughly examined before final production. Using the documentation as an integral part of a mock disaster recovery is an excellent way to point out weaknesses.
Don't be disappointed if such testing indicates a need for significant changes. It is much better to find this out during focus group or drill testing than during an actual disaster.
Finally: Keep It Simple, Stupid.
Being able to convey complex ideas simply is the acme of the writer's art. It is for this ability that they are paid.
KISS has a corollary: When in doubt, leave it out.
The tendency in disaster recovery documentation is to include every possible piece of information which may, in some set of circumstances, prove useful.
While the notion is nice, this leads to documentation measured in feet, not inches of paper. Be certain that the information placed in the documentation is placed for a reason, not for a whim. It is always easier to add information to a document later than to take it out.
Treat words as the expensive commodity they are. The size of a document is no indication of its value. The larger the document, the less usable it becomes, since people may become intimidated by it. They feel they cannot find the information they want, therefore they don't try.
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Estadísticas de Olas para Arrifana, diciembre: Todo Oleaje – Todo Viento
The figure shows the variation of swells directed at Arrifana through an average December, based on 2457 NWW3 model predictions since 2006 (values every 3 hours). The wave model does not forecast wind and surf right at the shore so we have chosen the best grid node based on what we know about Arrifana. In this particular case the best grid node is 26 km away (16 miles).
The rose diagram describes the distribution of swell sizes and swell direction, while the graph at the bottom shows the same thing but without direction information. Five colours illustrate increasing wave sizes. Blue shows the smallest swells, less that 0.5m (1.5 feet) high. These happened only 8% of the time. Green and yellow illustrate increasing swell sizes and red represents biggest swells greater than >3m (>10ft). In both graphs, the area of any colour is proportional to how often that size swell was forecast.
The diagram indicates that the prevailing swell direction, shown by the largest spokes, was WNW, whereas the the prevailing wind blows from the NE. Because the wave model grid is offshore, sometimes a strong offshore wind blows largest waves away from Arrifana and away from the coast. We lump these in with the no surf category of the bar chart. To simplify things we don't show these in the rose plot. Because wind determines whether or not waves are surfable at Arrifana, you can select a similar diagram that shows only the swells that were expected to coincide with glassy or offshore wind conditions. In a typical December, swells large enough to cause good for surfing waves at Arrifana run for about 77% of the time.
IMPORTANT: Beta version feature! Swell heights are open water values from NWW3. There is no attempt to model near-shore effects. Coastal wave heights will generally be less, especially if the break does not have unobstructed exposure to the open ocean.

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Back in September Netflix completed a major deal with DreamWorks Animation. For years the studio had a deal with HBO in which the network would get first run of all of DreamWorks Animation films starting in 2013. It was the first time in history that a studio decided to go with an internet streaming service over a pay-TV station, and it was predicted back then that other companies could make similar deals. According to the Associated Press, that has now happened.
The Weinstein Company has completed a deal with Netflix that will give the online streaming network first dibs on all of the studio's upcoming releases. The contract is described as a multiyear deal, but it doesn't say just how long it will last. One of the elements that makes this such a notable story is that one of the films included in the deal is Michel Hazanavicius's The Artist, which is currently considered this year's frontrunner in multiple Academy Award categories, including Best Picture and Best Director. This news couldn't have come at a better time for the company. Next week the internet service will be losing a large chunk of their content as their three-year deal with Starz Entertainment is set to expire.
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A Unified officer was nearby when the shots were fired shortly after 6 p.m. and observed a silver Mustang speeding away from the area, Hoyal said. The officer stopped the Mustang nearby, located a rifle in the vehicle and took the five people in the car into custody for questioning.
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Fifty of us are squeezed into an upstairs room at the Duke, a neighborhood pub described as a good place to meet friends when you want to chat without shouting and spitting at...
DUBLIN Fifty of us are squeezed into an upstairs room at the Duke, a neighborhood pub described as a good place to meet friends when you want to chat without shouting and spitting at each other.
We squat on stools around wooden tables and sip pints of black beer as Jessica Freed, a professional actress, leads us in a drinking song about Celtic candlemakers called "Waxies Dargle." She glides through the verses with a clean Irish lilt, and we sing the chorus with gusto even though we're hearing it for the first time.
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"What'll you have, will you have a pint?
Yes, I'll have a pint with you, sir.
And if one of us doesn't order soon
We'll both be thrown out of the boozer."
For next two hours, we'll join Freed and fellow actor Derek Reid on what's been billed as a Literary Pub Crawl through old Dublin.
Pub walks like this one are popping up in many cities as entrepreneurs feed travelers' desires to connect with locals. They offer a night out for the price of a movie ticket (most cost $8-$10 plus the price of beer). But the chance to sample local brews is only part of what the walks are about.
"This is a literary pub crawl, so if you're here just for the pubs and the beer, you'll have to put up with some literature as well," Reid told our group.
By the time our walk ended at the Davy Byrnes, where Leopold Bloom, the central character in the James Joyce novel, "Ulysses," stopped for a Gorgonzola cheese sandwich and glass of burgundy on his famous walk around Dublin, I found that I had acquired a taste for Irish Guinness. But it's the culture stops that turned out to be the best part of the evening.
After leaving the Duke, we headed first not to a pub but to Trinity College, a Dublin institution since 1592. Among its famous students were writers Oscar Wilde, Samuel Beckett and Oliver Goldsmith.
Our group huddled in a dark courtyard around Freed as she explained what it was like for Goldsmith ("She Stoops to Conquer") to be a poor student here in the 1740s.
"Being a scholarship student wasn't very pleasant in those days. In order to show that they weren't paying any fees, they had to wear big red hats," she explained. "They could be picked out by any fee-paying student and made to do any sort of menial task they wished."
After a stop at O'Neil's pub, a college tavern that's been on the same site for 300 years, we regrouped under the stone porticos of the former Saint Andrew's Church, now the headquarters of the Dublin tourist office.
Freed and Reid stood on plastic milk containers and performed some impromptu street theater, acting out the roles of two unemployed drinking buddies during a labor dispute known as the 1913 Dublin Lockout.
In approaching passers-by for beer money, it was important to be able to tell the difference between a Catholic (generally on the employers' side) and a Protestant (union sympathizers), Reid explained.
"If he looks fat, he's a Catholic," said one beggar to the other. "Of course, Protestants are sometimes fat too, but they never look it."
No drinking required
David Tucker, owner of London Walks, a 40-year-old tour company with 15 pub crawls in its repertoire of 250 guided walks, calls his pub walks "literary, historical guided walks that are punctuated by a few stops at pubs along the way."
Drinking alcohol, in fact, as many an Irish or English teetotaler will tell you, isn't even required. "You can go in and have coffee," said Tucker, "or just a soft drink."
In his fedora and oiled canvas coat, Tucker looks more like Sherlock Holmes than a Dickens scholar and former journalist. A radio newsman from Wisconsin, he compares neighborhood pubs to an Englishman's living room, but with their darkened windows and clubby atmosphere, they can be intimidating to outsiders.
Tucker says his walks "are designed to key visitors into the city. We aim to make people feel like they belong for a couple of hours to a neighborhood that's very much off the beaten track."
Fitzrovia, an area of London close to the bookstores and museums of literary Bloomsbury and chic of Oxford Street, is one of those neighborhoods. Tottenham Court Road, where Tucker starts a walk into what he calls London's Latin Quarter, leads to a gaslight district of historic pubs hidden among a tangle of businesses advertising walk-in back rubs and French fast food.
"Tottenham Court Road is probably one of the ugliest streets in London, but 100 years ago, there was a lot here," Tucker told a group of about 25 of us who met him outside the Goodge Street underground station on a chilly Saturday night for the start of his tour. A poor area, it attracted craftsmen who worked in the furniture and cobbler workshops.
Down an alley filled with cafes and cottage-style houses, Tucker pointed to what looked like manhole covers.
"They're coal holes where horse-drawn wagons would drop coal into the cellar to heat homes," he explained. "A little house like one of these would generate about two tons of ash annually. It wasn't (London) fog. It was smog, caused by an inversion."
Near the former Young Communist Club where Karl Marx was a frequent visitor, we found the King & Queen, a pub known for its traditional folk music and an ale called Adnams brewed in Suffolk, England.
The room was smoky and crowded, but I managed to work my way to the bar and order a half-pint of bitter, a malty ale best served at room temperature. "The Englishman's drink is bitter," said Tucker. "Lager is for women and foreigners."
I found a vacant stool and sat down with Ann Ljungberg, a practiced pub-walker from Sweden who was visiting London with her mother, ViviAnn Westin.
"When I come here on business, I always go on a pub walk," said Ljungberg. "It's a way to get out by yourself and have some company. You meet the locals and you learn something."
Ljungberg and her mother had devised a strategy for making it through the evening without drinking too much. First, they made sure they had a big lunch. Then they split pints at each stop.
A few nights later, I joined a walk led by Tucker's wife, Mary, a former dancer and trapeze artist. The neighborhood was Chelsea, a fashionable area where King Henry VIII had his manor house and Princess Diana shopped and lunched along swanky Sloane Street with a gaggle of pals nicknamed the Sloane Rangers.
Mick Jagger and Julie Andrews owned homes next door to each other, (Tucker has fun imagining them as neighbors), and in a house once owned by Sir Paul Getty, the poet and painter Dante Gabriel kept a menagerie of exotic pets, the reason why there are still clauses in some leases that say "absolutely no peacocks."
Our group was small, only a dozen or so, and the result was a cozier, more intimate evening.
Our first stop was the Fox & Hounds, an old-style, no frills Victorian-era pub with wooden floors and bangers and mash on the menu. The owner refuses to install video-poker machines, and the beers on tap are from Southwest London's old-time Young's Brewery, where beer has been produced in the same site since 1581.
Along darkened streets, past rows of elegant brick row houses, Tucker led us through a village-like neighborhood. She pointed out the Duke of York's house, built in 1801 as the home of the youngest son of King George III. (The mansion is slated to become a shopping complex.) Nearby was the Chelsea Royal Hospital, designed by architect Christopher Wren. "And this," Tucker said, pointing to a white townhouse facing a tree-lined square, "is where it's believed James Bond had his flat."
At the end of the street, we could see the green and orange glow of our next pub, The Surprise, home to the Hooray Henrys of the neighborhood, the male version of the Sloane Rangers.
There were long wooden tables and a fireplace in one room and overstuffed chairs, a patterned rug and a piano in another, throwbacks to a time when pubs were divided into areas for men-only and families. The menu had ribeye steak sandwiches on grilled Italian bread and French wines by the glass.
"The first pub has people who don't really reflect the kinds of people who live in Chelsea," Tucker said. "This pub does."
This left me wondering how the average tourist knows where he or she might feel welcome?
In Prague last spring, I joined a walk led by a Czech college student through the working-class neighborhood of Zizkov. He took us to a pub where men sat at long tables playing cards and watching soccer on television. Beers were 25 cents, and three of us drank and ate potato pancakes and fried cheese for around $3. We were the only foreigners there, and if we had been by ourselves, I doubt any of us would have gone inside.
If you do find yourself on your own and thirsty, and a neighborhood pub beckons, David Tucker has this advice:
"Just stick your nose in. If you walk in and you don't like the vibe, you can walk out," he said.
"There's few things more depressing than a naff pub, and few things more wonderful than a good one."
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I recently did an ISO dump for Metroid Prime Trilogy, burned it on a DVD+R DL, and loaded it on Gecko OS 1.07 mod.05 IOS249 and for some reason it say No DVD. Then I use the Backup Launcher 0.3 or something and I get a DVD error 324 I think...
All my single-layered wii backups work flawlessly on the Gecko OS so I don't bother using the Backup Launcher 0.3. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong with the double-layered wii backups; I looked it up and set the speed to x4 and layer break on 208-something and it still won't read...
Does anyone know where I can find another updated reliable app like Gecko or any other solution? I'm not sure at the moment if there's something wrong with the burning of the game or the wii. As for the Backup Launcher 0.3 IOS', I think it's 249 if that's useful information. I have to go check again tomorrow. Hope to get some replies.
And yes, I searched the forum but I'm not sure where to start at or what to do exactly as I'm not familiar with cIOS or IOS updating; I just want a channel or apps to just run the game.
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OK, well, so appearntly DVD brands really do matter for some very odd reason. I knew about this but I didn't want to get the Veterbaim brand because they're were pretty expensive at 25 buck for only 15 DVDs; after burning it, it works fine now.
But now I have that blank screen problem that requires the whole Wii scrubber and all but the Gecko OS doesn't have the anti-002 fix and alt dol option. So I went to get the neogamma r6 and r7 and updated the cios (or ios I don't know the differennce) to rev13b. Right now, using r7 gives me a timeout error and r6 gives me the dvd read error 1101. Any advice? I hope I don't need to burn another one...
And no, I'm not interested in loading it via USB until it's a last resort but mainly if I have a flash drive that has the size to hold the game... which I don't sadly.
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try rev14 for the cios, and neo7
Wait, doesn't r14 have no dual layer support in the notes?
Or is it under certain conditions or something? I do take note that Neogamma r7 (that's what you mean by neo7) says it looks up only in r14 but yeah, the no support dual layer support thing. Has there been any changes that makes it possible now?
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don't really remember... you might be right, read the changelog... i think for DL DVD you must insert a layer break on a specific point else it won't play
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Peter Taylor has confirmed that he will try to sign Luke Oliver in the summer after the defender returned to Wycombe.
Oliver joined Bradford on loan in March and the deal was recently extended until the end of the season.
However, Wycombe have now recalled the 6ft 7in centre-back after being left short of cover following an injury to skipper Adam Hinshelwood.
Oliver had previously hinted that he would be open to a permanent move to Bradford and Taylor admits he would be keen to sort out a deal.
The manager is expected to commit himself to the Bantams on a long-term contract and is already considering possible transfer targets.
"I've told him if I get my bits and pieces sorted out (with the contract) he will definitely be on my list," Taylor told the club's official website.
"Luke's got the added ability where he can play up front, so he's a very handy central defender.
"(Losing him) hurts us a little bit but to be honest, they could have called Luke back a couple of weeks ago."


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text: CONTROVERSIAL roadworks that have plagued a Hampshire community for seven months have been completed. After weeks of delays caused by floods, Southern Water's mains replacement scheme in Main Road, Colden Common, has finished and the road full reopened. As previously reported, weeks of works to lay new mains earlier this year saw tensions escalate to such an extent that contractors reportedly called in police after being verbally abused by angry members of the public. Businesses at Fisher's Pond, Colden Common, reported a rapid decline in trade, with some claiming to have lost up to 30 per cent of their usual custom. But the works were put on hold during the winter storms to alleviate possible congestion from nearby roads closed by flooding, with work re-starting earlier this month. The result of the scheme is a more reliable supply of tap water for customers in the area. The 1.2km water main, which serves more than 8,000 homes, had burst nine times in five years, each time causing considerable disruption such as a loss of water supply and emergency road closures. Peter Simmons, project manager, said: "I think we can all agree this project was a challenge and I'm delighted it has successfully completed. "I'd like to thank customers, road users and local authorities for their patience and support. The benefits of the work - fewer leaks and bursts and a more reliable supply of tap water - will last long into the future."


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a commercial software company by the name of soft pocket solutions has decided to take the sony cli� cf–err, wireless expansion slot–head-on. soft pocket solutions is announcing a project that hopes to have a workable beta by mid-april. the company's not looking for beta-testers, yet, but it is going to have a newsletter where you can sign up to get updates on the project status. i wonder if it will sell this product (likely), or simply use it as a good marketing vehicle. distributing free software like this that adds so much functionality to your handheld would certainly strike a chord, but i couldn't blame soft pocket for charging. this is going to take a lot of work! there have been two contests already for individual programmers to develop drivers like this, and as far as i know no one has even turned in a partial attempt. read the official announcement in soft pocket solutions' news section. thanks to singapore palm user's group for the heads-up.
joel's note: i thought that sony had pretty much said "pester us" and we'll see if we can develop a driver. i wonder if this company had any dealings with sony, or if it's hoping that sony comes to it instead?
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|sony's own fault (5:34pm est tue mar 04 2003)
i think it's only fair for sony to support more than one flash type. i think it'd sell a lot more units if they did. i know i'd be more tempted to purchase one of their units if they supported more than just their own proprietary format.
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- Company: Empower a Child
- Location: Uganda
- State: UG
- Job type: Full-Time
- Job category: Accounting Jobs in Uganda
Empower a Child is a not-for-profit faith-based organization operating in East Africa. Empower a Child is registered in United States of America as a 501(c) 3 not-for-profit organization. When it was started in 2006, Empower a Child focus was on the humanitarian situation in Uganda and Kenya, in particular, re-building communities, community structures, and empowering the youth. Empower a Child developed an integrated approach to development through engagement in four key sectors: education (including child sponsorship), health education, vocational training and entrepreneurship, character and spiritual development.
In the year 2010, Empower a Child Uganda purchased land in Zirobwe, Luwero District (approximately 1.5 hour drive north of Kampala, the Capital City). This land is in the heart of a community that has struggled to re-build from a guerilla war that took place over 30 years ago. Empower a Child, hopes to work with the community to build a self-sustaining community development program on this land. There have been marked developments so far. Since 2010, Empower a Child has constructed a community church, medical clinic, established a community school, started up an economic empowerment program that directly reaches the women and has set up agricultural and animal husbandry projects to diversify income avenues of the households. In 2017, Empower a Child is re-locating to the Zirobwe to better assist the community development program impact.
Job Summary: The Accountant Assistant will provide financial and accounting services in Empower a Child field office in accordance with financial regulations.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
Financial Administration and Compliance:
- Receive, review and process all invoices, requisitions and requests for payment according to the specified procedures;
- Keenly review all payments for necessary forms and supporting documentation and provide for proper accounting, accuracy, completeness and adherence to the EAC policies and procedures
- Implement and ensure all respective donors and local Gov't rules and regulations are respected.
- In charge of compiling and filing returns for statutory deductions like NSSF and PAYE;
- Establish and maintain an efficient and accurate filing system;
- Code all expenditures following the standard chart of accounts, code budget and record to the quick books accounting software or recording system daily and ensure weekly review and posting (Perform QuickBooks reviewed data entry for reconciliation and reports generation)
Internal Controls and Audit Support:
- Do monthly mandatory cash counts;
- Provide financial information to the Finance Manager and external auditors;
- Perform regular cash counts weekly and whenever needed by Operations Manager, Finance Manager, Country Director and official auditors directed by the supervisor.
Finance Unit Leadership:
- Keep safe custody of important documents (cheque books, customer's information); Keep the office safe, safe keys, cash, important documents (cheque books, customer's information); and other assets in a secure and protected place.
- Keep record of all cash, bank and advances on excel worksheet, update every day and reconcile daily
- Support budget holders to make cash flow forecast, monitor cash flow, and ensure that sufficient funds are always available in the bank.
- Prepare payroll as per contracts and other payments as per budget.
- Make payments and pay all bills
Financial Reporting (Internal and External):
- Maintain the bank ledger for the field office to ascertain actual bank balances. On a monthly basis, prepared the Cash and Bank Reconciliation Reports for management.
- Ensure that on monthly basis balance sheet reconciliations are completed on time and that country standard report and supporting data are reviewed and produced on a monthly basis;
- Consolidate monthly financial reports to provide institution heads with timely reports on fiscal health, including revenue/expenditure reports, expense reports by grant and budget variance reports, among others;
- Prepare monthly finance management reports at the end of each month, and submit them to operations manager.
Cash Flow Planning and Cash Management:
- Report to the Operations Manager about money received, acknowledge receipt of funds and file all documentation;
- Bank Agent: Responsible for delivering and receiving banking instructions to and from the bank, make deposits both cash and cheques;
- Transfer money between head-office and field offices.
- Disburse or receive authorized cash or bank payments and receipts.
- Ensure that all income both cash and gifts in kind are properly managed and well distributed
- Provide technical support to procurement officer
- Receive all cash at the center and handle all banking
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The ideal candidate for the Empower a Child Accountant Assistant career opportunity should hold a Bachelor's Degree in accounting or equivalent, with a recognized professional accounting qualification (CPA, CMA, ACCA).
- At least five years' experience in handling project reporting for various donors (UK, USA, etc)
- Computer literacy i.e. knowledge and experience in finance software systems (QuickBooks is a most)
- Proven ability to work under pressure and manage the workload to complete critical deadlines.
- Excellent communication and coordination skills
- Capacity to work as a team and in multicultural environment.
- High integrity, self-driven and able to set own work schedule with rigorous deadlines;
- Able to communicate effectively (written and verbal) in English with all staff.
- Possess the ability and desire to work within one's influence to serve as an advocate for children
- The applicant must be a mature Christian characterized by a strong Christian testimony, a heart for ministry, and knowledge of the Scriptures.
- Be a consistent witness for Jesus Christ, maintains a courteous, Christ-like attitude in dealing with people within and outside of Empower a Child and faithfully upholds Empower a Child ministry in prayer.
- Willingness to regularly travel to programme sites.
- Experience in proposal and report writing with a proven ability to secure donor funding.
How to Apply
All suitably qualified and interested candidates should send a letter of application(One page) together with current curriculum vitae (3 pages)showing details of your address and contact plus copies of certificates with two professional references and your Pastor to: [email protected] and copy [email protected] (please clearly indicate job applied for in subject of Email
Deadline: 11th January 2017 by 5:00pm
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TEMPE, Ariz. -- Arizona Cardinals head coach Bruce Arians insists he will treat Sunday's game against the Seahawks as if the teams were playing in Week 1. Maybe Arians is completely sincere. Or, perhaps, he's fibbing a bit.
There isn't much on the line for the Cardinals. They have clinched the No. 2 seed and can only finish with the top seed if they beat the Seahawks and the Panthers lose to the Buccaneers. The latter doesn't seem likely.
The NFL moved the Panthers game to the afternoon, so the Cardinals won't know the results when they kick off. No one is saying it out loud, but it wouldn't be surprising if the Cardinals do a bit of scoreboard watching.
If the Panthers have a good lead after halftime, will Arians keep key players such as quarterback Carson Palmer in the game? The coach insists he will. And Palmer wants to play.
The Cardinals have won nine consecutive games, the second-longest streak in franchise history, and they don't want to risk getting rusty, Palmer said.
"When momentum is on your side, you don't want to lose it," Palmer said. "No doubt. So we expect to show up and play and pick up where we left off the last time we were in Seattle against the same group, and want to keep that momentum going the next month-and-a-half."
Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll insisted he will approach the game the same way. If a player is healthy enough to play, he will play, Carroll said. Forget about saving anyone for next week. Forget about saving any strategy for a few weeks down the line, when the teams could meet again.
That sounds an awful lot like Arians' approach.
"Yeah, this whole seven-game stretch has been a really good barometer for us, and this is one more," Arians said. "We haven't beaten them here in a couple years and they're in the playoffs. So, it's another nice barometer."
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ANAHEIM, Calif. — A West Coast trip that started well has developed into a skull-scalding nightmare that could be the beginning of the end of the Yankees' season.
Not only did the Yankees' losing streak grow to five after the Angels topped them, 6-2, at Angel Stadium yesterday in front of 40,486, first baseman Mark Teixeira left the game in the fourth inning with a flareup of the right wrist problem that forced him to miss the opening two months of the season.
The Yankees announced Teixeira "aggravated the right wrist'' and would be examined by team physician Chris Ahmad today in New York.
That the Yankees are flying Teixeira to New York — just hours ahead of the Yankees' charter, which leaves following today's game — to be examined is an indication it's serious.
When Teixeira suffered the injury in early March, there was a 30 percent chance he would require surgery. If that's the case now, he is done for the season.
After winning three of four in Seattle to open a 10-game, three-city trip, the Yankees are 3-6 entering today's get-away date with the Angels. The five straight losses tie a season high.
The loss dropped the third-place Yankees four games back of the AL East-leading Red Sox, their largest deficit this season.
Teixeira, who returned May 31, is batting .151 (8-for-53) in 15 games after going 0-for-2 yesterday.
"He doesn't feel like he has the snap in his swing,'' Joe Girardi said on Fox during the game.
Losing Teixeira came a day after the Yankees placed corner infielder Kevin Youkilis, who has played six games at first, on the disabled list with a lower back problem.
Girardi replaced Teixeira with second baseman/third baseman David Adams because first baseman Lyle Overbay was the DH while Travis Hafner's sick bat got a rest.
In what has become a daily occurrence, the Yankees failed to score enough. They have scored 18 runs in the past eight games.
The most frustrating moment came in the seventh. With the Yankees trailing 3-2, Ichiro Suzuki opened with a bunt single and stole second and third. Ninety feet away from home with no outs, the Yankees failed to plate him as Thomas Neal, Reid Brignac (looking) and Chris Stewart struck out.
David Phelps (4-4) absorbed the loss after allowing four runs and nine hits in six-plus innings.
A leadoff walk to Mark Trumbo in the sixth with the score tied, 2-2, was Phelps' downfall. Howie Kendrick's third single in three at-bats moved Trumbo to second and got Shawn Kelley throwing in the pen.
Phelps induced Alberto Callaspo to hit a ball back to the mound that Phelps turned into a force at second. With runners at the corners, Erick Aybar, who homered to right in the second, hit a 0-1 pitch to left for an RBI single and a 3-2 Angels lead. Phelps limited the damage to a run by getting Hank Conger to bang into a 3-6-3 double play.
Phelps left in the seventh when the Angels scored twice to push the lead to 5-2. Josh Hamilton had an RBI double off Shawn Kelley and Kendrick walked to force in a run.
Ichiro may have cost the Yankees a run in the fourth — with a big assist from third-base umpire Manny Gonzalez .
Ichiro doubled with one out and appeared to steal third with Neal at the plate, but Gonzalez incorrectly called Ichiro out. Ichiro and third-base coach Rob Thomson, who rarely question an umpire's call, did and that brought Girardi from the dugout.
Albert Pujols' two-out single in the third scored Mike Trout after Trout drew a leadoff walk, swiped second and went to third on Hamilton's grounder to the right side.
Chris Stewart's soft, two-out single to right field led to a two-run rally in the third for the Yankees and erased a 1-0 Angels lead.
Brett Gardner followed with a triple high off the right-field fence that tied the score, 1-1, and Jayson Nix's single to left plated Gardner for a 2-1 edge. When Nix stole second, Robinson Cano was walked intentionally so Hanson could face Teixeira. He popped up the first pitch.


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The political class has decided to revive student unions in colleges and universities to promote 'democracy' in the country. If the ruling dynasties and their allies in the assemblies wish to undertake the big task of strengthening democracy, the logical starting point is the political parties they belong to. Democracy doesn't suit them, neither in determining who holds the party office or who gets the nomination to run for any public office. All keys are in the hands of the chief oligarchs of the parties. Strengthening democracy is not the reason for reviving student unions. The reason is that political dynasties and religious, ethnic and sectarian groups wish to extend their influence over educational institutions.
The truth of the matter is that student unions, before they were banned, were political unions. They were funded, handled, advised, and given weapons and physical protection by the party leaders who had special assignments in their home districts and cities for this purpose. There were many contenders, the PPP, the Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) and a host of ethnic parties from the ANP to Baloch groups. These parties used their student wings as their political nurseries, apparently to develop a political cadre for their 'ideologies'. That is not something objectionable at all, but the intent and the way student politics was actually practised turned out to be very different. Sure, some of the parties like the JI and some socialist groups were engaged in cultivating young students to embrace their respective ideologies. But the political parties, including the JI, also had a much more sinister design — to control educational institutions.
The end result was that each dominant political party, from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa to Karachi, came to control the student unions to demonstrate to the general public how popular they were among the youth. Why did they concentrate their political attention and resources towards the unions? It is because of the great role that the students of my generation, independent of any political party, had played in the anti-Ayub Khan movement. The early leaders and groups of students who marched on the streets demanding democracy were not part of any political party — they had ideas and ambitions that coincided with the programmes of some of the parties. The power they demonstrated on the streets, the spontaneity of their actions and the strength of the slogan — democracy — made the students a power to be reckoned with.
The political class jumped into the fray and began to create their own student factions, giving them party labels. That ended the autonomy, the power and the influence of the Pakistani youth on the affairs of the state. The young population in colleges and universities became hostage to the gun-toting, paid and protected strong men of the political parties. Since consent was not the means to win votes or influence on campuses, what mattered was how much cash, weapons and sharp-shooters a party could place on campuses. While ordinary students and the administration lost power, the parties through their resident agents assumed all power. On some of the campuses in Karachi, Lahore and Peshawar, there were scores of killings of political rivals without there being a single arrest, let alone a conviction.
I believe there are many paths to promoting democracy at the grass roots level. Student unions can be one of them. But sadly, these have always been political unions of the dominant political groups. Surely, the political class and the ruling dynasties — with new faces of the next generation — will come to control the unions, as in the past. Campus politics will become a reflection of the rivalries and conflicts of dynastic politics at large.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 20th, 2016.
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Johnson holds off Earnhardt at Daytona 500
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla., Feb. 24 (UPI) -- Jimmie Johnson held off Dale Earnhardt Jr. on the final lap Sunday to corral his second career Daytona 500 victory at Daytona International Speedway.
Johnson took the lead just before the race's final caution then fended off Hendrick Motorsports teammate Earnhardt to eke out a 0.129-second margin of victory.
Johnson, who previously took NASCAR's signature season-opening event in 2006, became the 10th driver to win the event at least twice.
Mark Martin logged a third-place finish while 2012 Sprint Cup titleholder Brad Keselowski followed in fourth.
Ryan Newman rounded out the Top 5.
Pole-sitter Danica Patrick finished eighth -- the highest-ever placing by a female driver at the Daytona 500.
Kuchar downs Mahan for Match Play title
MARANA, Ariz., Feb. 24 (UPI) -- Matt Kuchar completed his run to the championship of the WGC Match Play Championship Sunday with a 2 & 1 victory over 2012 champion Hunter Mahan.
Kuchar was never headed during the championship match, and trailed for a total of only five holes during the entire five-day event at The Golf Club at Dove Mountain.
The win was his first World Golf Championship title and his fifth PGA Tour victory overall.
Mahan's streak of 169 holes without trailing at the match play event was broken on the fourth hole of Sunday's title round.
Jason Day took the consolation match with a 1-up decision over Ian Poulter.
PGA Tour won't ban putter anchoring
MARANA, Ariz., Feb. 24 (UPI) -- The PGA Tour won't follow the R&A and USGA in banning the anchoring of putters, Commissioner Tim Finchem announced Sunday.
Finchem said such a ban wouldn't serve the pro tour well.
While the other golf organizations didn't prohibit the use of long putters or belly putters outright, they did ban the "act of anchoring any club against a player's body during a shot" in November.
"Where the PGA Tour came down was that they did not think banning anchoring was in the best of interests of golf or the PGA Tour," Finchem said.
"I would note that the PGA of America came to the same conclusion after consultation with their membership," he added. "(The) Golf Course Owners Association came to the same conclusion as well."
The decision won't set up a dispute between the PGA Tour the USGA, he said.
Yanks' Granderson out with arm fracture
TAMPA, Fla., Feb. 24 (UPI) -- New York Yankees outfielder Curtis Granderson broke his right forearm when hit by a pitch Sunday in a spring training game and will be out 10 weeks.
Granderson was taking his first at-bat of the preseason when he was drilled on the forearm by Toronto Blue Jays pitcher J.A. Happ.
Initially diagnosed with a bruise, the outfielder was found to have suffered a fracture after being taken to a local hospital for X-rays.
The 31-year-old slugger, who belted 43 homers and drove in 106 runs last season, is slated to be part of a Yankees outfield this year that also includes Brett Gardner and Ichiro Suzuki.


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Sino-Forest Corp. , the embattled timber company facing fraud allegations, has failed to respond to requests by the Ontario Securities Commission for information about its assets and relationships with key business partners in China, according to a senior OSC investigator.
Wayne Vanderlaan, of the OSC's enforcement branch, said in a sworn affidavit that Sino-Forest has not replied to requests for information, made in a Dec. 7, 2011, letter, regarding claims that the company's "cash balances, timber assets, book values and revenues" were "verified" by an independent committee of directors.
Mr. Vanderlaan said the OSC letter asked the independent committee "a number of questions" about Sino-Forest's statement that the committee's review verified these assets, but the OSC has not received specific responses.
The affidavit underscores the major challenges investigators are facing as they seek definitive answers to the many questions around Sino-Forest – a company with an opaque and complicated business model, which operates in a country with poor government record keeping.
The OSC also sent a letter to the counsel for the independent committee on Dec. 22, requesting specific information on relationships between Sino-Forest, timber suppliers and brokers in China who sell Sino-Forest's trees, called authorized intermediaries or "AIs." More than a month later, the OSC still hasn't received responses to these questions, Mr. Vanderlaan said.
The OSC inquiries indicate the regulator is focusing its investigation on potential undisclosed related-party transactions by Sino-Forest, which was once the largest forestry company on the TSX. This week, the OSC extended a cease-trade order on Sino-Forest shares until April 16. In August, the commission alleged that several Sino-Forest executives, including company co-founder, chairman and chief executive officer Allen Chan, participated in fraudulent activity. Mr. Chan resigned as Sino-Forest chairman and CEO in August. The RCMP is now investigating potential criminal charges.
None of the allegations have been proved.
Mr. Vanderlaan's affidavit indicates that the OSC is concerned about the company's claims that the assets have been verified and has reservations about the veracity of the committee's investigation process. The affidavit highlights a "significant number of factors affecting this process" that were identified in the committee's interim report.
Released in mid-November, the redacted report indicated the committee encountered a slew of issues as it tried to unravel Sino-Forest's business. These included a lack of co-operation from executives, who dragged their feet for more than two months before providing basic information on the company's business partners. When the information was finally provided, some of it was incorrect. As well, these business partners refused to provide the committee with any documentation verifying transactions with Sino-Forest.
Sources close to Sino-Forest said the company and the committee continue to co-operate with the OSC investigation and is working to address the specific inquiries in the December letters. They said the inquiries were lengthy and extremely detailed, which is why a response has taken so long.
Sino-Forest's independent committee is expected to release its final report next week. The company's shares collapsed in June after a short seller issued a damning research report accusing the company of fraud. Sino-Forest has been unable to release its third-quarter financial statements and debt holders have seized effective control of the company as it tries to sell assets and avoid insolvency.


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80′s Remix Featuring: MC Shan, Rahiem (Furious Five), Doctor Ice (UTFO), Kangol (UTFO), Kool Moe Dee, Sha Rock (Funky Four +1), Tito (Fearless Four), Grandmaster Caz (Cold Crush Brothers), Lin que (Isis of X Clan), Dana Dane, Pebblee Poo & Just-Ice.
My eyes have somewhat went back to normal after yesterday's marathon post. Not used to staring a screen that long, or going that long on a post. It was the most work I've ever put in on one of these bad boys, and despite it being poorly written, it was also probably one of the posts I'm the most proud of along with one of the most enjoyable posts I've ever done. I gained a heap 'o knowledge when I was writing it up.
Anyway, to avoid spending massive amounts of time on part two, I'm diving right into it……
Grandmaster Caz of the Cold Crush Brothers
Cold Crush Brothers Are: DJ's Charlie Chase & Tony Tone, MC's Grandmaster Caz, JDL, Almighty KG, and Easy AD .
Cold Crush Bros. Discography
Troopers (B Boy Records, 1988)
Fresh, Fly, Wild & Bold (Ol' Skool Flava, 1995)
Grandmaster Caz Discography
The Grandest of Them All (Tuff City, 1992)
You Need Stitches: The Tuff City Sessions 1982-1988 (Ol' Skool Flava, 2004)
If I had to choose a favorite old school crew, it would probably be Cold Crush. It's not that they had the greatest records, but their routines and live show (that I've heard on old tapes) are by far some of the best that I've heard from the era. Grandmaster Caz was the most recognizable of the group. It would be Caz who wrote the rhymes that Big Bank Hank would use on the first ever Hip Hop single on wax in "Rapper's Delight". They would appear in the B-Boy classic "Wild Style". The single they are best known for is "Fresh, Fly, Wild, & Bold " which dropped on Tuff City in '84 and had distribution from Profile.
Caz would would release some solo stuff in the late 80′s along with some 12 inch singles. The group would reform on Terminator X's "The God Fathers of Threat" compilation. There are also a few compilation albums floating around out there of their work. Truly one of the greats that didn't get their props.
Grandmaster Caz Interview
Grandmaster Caz Myspace
Cold Crush @ Harlem World 1981 Christmas Battle
Cold Crush @ Harlem World during "New York At Night" 1981
Cold Crush Vs. Fanastic 5 at Ectasy Garage 1980
http://www.zshare.net/audio/01-cold-crush-fantastic-5-mp3.html : Part One
http://www.zshare.net/audio/02-cold-crush-fantastic-5-mp3.html : Part Two
Lin Que (Formely Isis)
Rebal Soul (4th & Broadway , 1990)
This will be the toughest for me, because honestly, I know very little about her. She originally used the name Isis as part of the X-Clan and was heavy on the Afrocentric tip. She dropped a solo album in 1990 on 4th & B-Way that I honestly haven't not heard or seen for quite a while. She is heavily involved with the Blackwatch Movement, as was the X-Clan group. If I remember right, she had left X-Clan to work with MC Lyte. It was then she changed her name to Lin Que. She dropped a couple singles that got some shine in "The Source" back in the day.
She would join the all women crew Deadly Venomz that was a Wu affiliate in the late 90′s that consisted of Champ MC, N-Tyce, Finesse, J-Boo, and Lin Que herself. The album was shelved and has never seen the light of day as far as I know. Lin Que dropped a single last year that was produced by Ayatollah and is rumored dropping an album in the near future.
Recent Lin Que Interview
Lin Que myspace
Sorry I don't have any of her material
Dana Dane
Dana Dane With Fame (Select, 1987)
Dane Dane 4 Ever (Select, 1990)
Rollin' Wit Dana Dane (Maverick, 1995)
Dana Dane is from the Fort Greene projects of Brooklyn, New York. He would go to high school with one Rickey Walters, AKA Slick Rick. Together, Rick and Dane would form the Kangol Crew. It was a high school group that would spit rhymes in the lunch room while banging on the tables. As far as I know, there was never any recorded music from the duo. Dane would go on to incorporate some of Rick's styles into his own MC'ing style. He would turn that borrowed styled into gold, as in a gold plaque for his debut album "Dana Dane With Fame".
The debut album would produce such classics as "Nightmares", "Cinderfella Dana Dane", and "This Be The Def Beat". The super producer Hurby Luv Bug did the majority of the album. He was also responsible for Salt N Pepa, Kwame, and Kid N Play along with others in the late 80′s. In 1990, he would drop "Dana Dane 4 Ever" which he would continue with the excellent story telling steez. Dane would then drop out of site for awhile, only to resurface using Battlecat and a west coast sounding album in the form of "Rollin' With Dana Dane". The single "Record Jock"
generated a little buzz, but hip hop had changed a bit too much. Dane can still be found on satellite radio doing a show on Sirus Radio called "BackSpin43″.
Dana Dane Myspace
Video Interview with Dana Dane on D-Nice TV
Dane Dane – Dana Dane With Fame (Profile, 1987)
1 Dedicaton (0:22)
2 Cinderfella Dana Dane (5:24)
3 This Be The Def Beat (3:20)
4 Dana Dane With Fame (4:05)
5 Delancey Street (5:25)
6 We Wanna Party (2:59)
7 Nightmares (5:50)
8 Keep The Groove (3:56)
9 Love At First Sight (6:20)
Pebblee Poo
Part of The Master Don & Death Committee
Alright, I take the Lin Que Thing back, because honestly, I know next to nothing about this crew and Pebblee Poo and unfortunately, there isn't a lot on them or her. Hailing from Bronx right around the corner from "The Fever", she would originally be down with Kool Herc and the Herculoids. The Herculoids at that time consisted of La-Brew, JC, and Clark Kent (not THAT Clark Kent) along with Sondra Dee and Sweet & Sour. In 1980, she would join Master Don & the Death Committee, Don just happened to be her brother.
They would release a NY hit in "Funkbox Party" in '83 on Enjoy. Pebblee Poo would go solo and release "Fly Guy" that was an answer record to the Boogie Boys "Fly Girl". She would be up in the clubs through out all the early 80′s. Master Don passed away from a brain tumor in the early 90′s…RIP
Speaking on Master Don
Good Interview with Pebblee Poo that shines some light
Master Don & The Death Committee @ Harlem World in 1981
Just Ice
Back To The Old School (Fresh, 1986)
Kool & Deadly (Fresh, 1987)
The Desolate One (Fresh/Sleeping Bag, 1989)
Masterpiece (Fresh, 1990) Gun Talk (Savage, 1993)
Kill The Rhythm (In-A-Minute, 1995)
II (Warlock, 1998)
The original gangster of rap, Just Ice was one of the first MC's to talk about the lifestyle of a gangster along with Philly MC Schoolly D. Just Ice was raised in the Brooklyn during the early years of Hip Hop and come up in the clubs during the 80′s. Being fairly stocky, a mouth full of gold teeth, and tat's, Just Ice gained the respect of people as someone you didn't want to fuck with. A death of a D.C. drug dealer in which Ice was questioned by police for will just add to the rep. Forever outspoken, Just Ice would criticize the Go-Go dance movement, take shots and the ruling hip hop group at the time in Run DMC, he was never short for words. One story would have him going to Queens with a shotgun, looking for MC Poet during the height of the Bronx/Queensbridge wars after Poet had taken shots at KRS on wax. This rumor was laid to rest when Just Ice admitted to it in an '05 interview.
His first album, "Back To The Old School" in '86 was produced by legendary producer, Kurtis Mantronik. The album contained the trademark 808 production of Mantronik along with teachings of the Zulu Nation that came from Just Ice's 5% membership. It would also contain a Jamaican flavor that was not found in hip hop at the time. The only other group that time messing with the Dancehall/ragamuffin flavor would be KRS-One and Boogie Down Productions, who Just Ice would hook up for this next two albums, which wouldn't garner as much attention as his first, nor the international acclaim. "Going Way Back" from the second album was a hit though, as he goes through and name drops multiple people from the old school days, some well known, others not so well known. His 1990 album was produced by Grandmaster Flash himself, but Sleeping Bag/Fresh records was starting to fold at this time and the album never did receive proper promotion. During the 90′s, Just Ice released a few more albums on small labels. He dropped a 12 inch that was produced by DJ Premier in 2002.
Excellent Two part interview with Just Ice (where he tells the story of looking for Poet)
Just Ice – Kool & Deadly (Fresh/Sleeping Bag, 1987)
- Going Way Back
- The Original Gangster of Hip Hop
- Freedom of Speech
- Moshitup
- Kool & Deadly
- On the Strength
- Lyric Licking
So that wraps up the 80′s. Tomorrow it's all about the west syyyde!


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No one knows how From will respond, but I'm in the camp that thinks that if sales figures on PC are half-decent, they will hopefully put a bit more effort into optimising the follow up for PC. So I'll buy it and support them on that basis. If they repeat the same mistakes again
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The fact is that there are always the first and brave... whether it is to cross a country or a river... and eventually there are resources put in place to encourage the others, and then more come and finally what was seen as unique and scary is seen as normal and everyday.
Yeah, there may not be a magic silver bullet to getting more people to use bikes for transportation... as it is a complex issue, but when nothing is provided, what we have seen is that the numbers tend to remain quite flat... and let's face it, if the words "brave," "fast," "assertive" and "road sneak" are part of your bike plan, well that is going to tend to leave a lot of folks at home.
If the country looked at things with your logic, we'd still be driving across country on a 2 lane route 66.
I have the same question. And it is an increase in recreational cyclists- and not on bike paths or in bike lanes but on the road.
Here in Boston, when I first joined BF in 2005, there were 60 yards of bike lanes. In 2007 they started to add bike lanes to the point of more 60 miles of bike lanes in the city. I moved to this city in 1980 and had ridden here daily without the bike lanes but expressed my enthusiasm for the new lanes on BF at the time.
My posts were met with a good share of skepticism and a fair share of vitriol. Many opponents of bike lanes said there would be no increase in ridership, that bike lanes and numbers of bike riders were not related. By 2009 bicycle ridership had more than doubled and has continued to increase since that time. The addition of the Hubway bike share system 2 1/2 years ago has contributed to the number of people on bikes in Boston.
All of this is easily documented by surveys and bike counts. And bicycling remains relatively safe in the city, although there have been occasional spikes in accidents the overall accident rate has been dropping and the city is moving towards a 50% reduction in the accident rate for cyclists.
Springfield and Worcester, two of Massachusetts' other large urban centers, have not seen a concurrent increase in cyclists but they are now just beginning to implement added infrastructure, like lanes and bike paths, it will be interesting to watch as ridership rises along with the addition of bike lanes.
To deny, at this point, that bike lanes and bike infrastructure increases ridership while keeping biking relatively safe or making it safer is simply throwing the blinders of bias on in the face of fact.
If you've ever ridden SF and know the bike paths/shortcuts through the city, bikes are as fast or a quicker way to navigate the city. Plus, if you have a place for safe parking, it saves you quite a bit. It's so expensive to rent in the inner city that many of the local workers live out past the Mission district. Makes perfect sense that these areas have created a larger biking culture.
Interestingly cycling is also taught as a regular part of the curriculum in Copenhagen.
But yes, I am curious about the numbers too.
Most interesting fact: roughly half the bicyclists counted were on the sidewalk!!
I do support quality infrastructure. Place a higher priority on cyclists than on storing parked cars and I'm ecstatic. Make the bike lanes adequately wide (OR state law is insufficient and even that low standard is ignored) and I'm happy. Make the connections work rather than just doing a shoe-horn job and I think the person responsible is a saint. I just don't care for city officials who oversell their goods and I'm none too happy with so-called advocates who think something labeled bikey, no matter how flawed, is better than nothing. All too often, the infrastructure that gets put in adds to my risk rather than reducing it, all in the name of "bike friendly".:notamused:
I have seen the same 3 to 4X increase in recreational riders in LA. No clue on LA commuters.
And yes Genec, Oahu has a fourth grade BikeEd education run and taught with cyclist hired by Hawaii Bicycle League. Genec, guess who flew out and helped set up the training program - your buddy John.
I do believe education is part of the increases to ridership, contrary to the claims that it is all about the bike lanes.
Kapahulu is pure motorist grid lock all day long - the sidewalk is 10 times faster (and that is no joke), so the only surprise here is that 30% of cyclist are willing to sit in the grid lock. **** is tourist and recreational riders on a park path that also serves as a sidewalk.
Sometimes it actually helps to look at why the numbers are actually that way rather than just throwing out your unsupported bike lane claims.
See how the bike lane guys pile on when you do not buy into their false bike lane paradigm.
For example, my personal observation was that there was about a threefold increase of cyclists on my street route into Boston when the bike lanes and sharrows were added. Bike counts by the city and bike organizations showed an increase of 122 % from the time bike lanes were added to 2009. Since then there are now Hubway (Bike Share) bikes added to the mix. The 122% increase is based on a citywide count, not just on roads with bike lanes but throughout the city. The larger share of the increase is on the roads with the added infrastructure. Since 122% is double the number of riders plus another .22% I would be less than exact to say it had "doubled"on my route. A "threefold increase" may not be exact but certainly it has more than doubled and since the bike share program was added after 2009 and has added substantially to these numbers I feel really confident that my observations are accurate.
I see nothing in your claims of a threefold increase in evidence by the 2013 bike count I linked. Nor do I see evidence that supports your claim of larger numbers of recreational riders on the road in the area. In fact, a quick search of Google about bicycling in the Honolulu area brought up a large number of links citing the poor quality of road riding in that area. Many sites bemoaned the fact that despite Hawaii's ideal weather, excellent scenery and "vacation life style" it is not exactly a bike rider's paradise.
Why, for example, does a city like Minneapolis have such a substantial share of bike riders if not due to their emphasis on added infrastructure? It sure ain't the accommodating year round ideal weather.
All of it adds up to nothing more that correlation = causation claims. There are no normalized double blind studies that show bike lanes increase ridership. There are way too many other and more plausible reasons for ridership increases.
With all the money spent on bike lanes, you would think that such a study would have been performed. But no, just continued claims that correlation = causation.
I give up.
A double blind study is not needed because it's so obvious to all but the most biased of observers.
Why would people like me, who has ridden on the same roads since 1980 with or without bike lanes, have anything to gain by claiming that it makes my ride better, makes it safer and increases the number of riders if, in fact, it did no such thing? If they took the bike lanes away tomorrow I would still ride the same route but it would not be as pleasant, not as safe and I am sure there would not be as many riders sharing that route with me.
Gas prices have some effect on the decision to ride but think about it- the average bike commute is less than 10 miles RT, how much gas money does that represent? If gas prices have climbed roughly $1.10 since 2005 and my car gets only 20 miles to the gallon I'm saving .55 cents a day- is that enough to sway bike share? Not that economic factors are not at play here- overall cost of car ownership may effect the numbers. But you claimed gas prices- I don't think so. I think it is a number of factors. And one major catalyst to riding a bike during times of low economic growth is added infrastructure without it, they'll take the bus, walk or car pool.
For far too many, bike lanes are an item of faith.
A word about Portland vs. Beaverton. There is a small mountain range in between, and there is a pretty good light rail link. It's also about a 10 mile ride by roads that aren't the divided highway. As long as we are rationalizing data, I'll just go ahead and point this out. Also, according to google, since 1990, the population of Portland has increased by about 20%. In the same time period, the cycling mode share went from 1.5% to 6%. I don't see a corresponding 4x increase in population that would justify these numbers.
You are reaching pretty hard right now. Sorry if providing a bit of data feels like we are ganging up on you :rolleyes:.
You should understand that population increases are more dynamic when considering commuting. Larger populations cause more grid lock since our roadways are no longer keeping pace with the population increase. So it is not a straight across number comparative, it is a synergistic affect getting more people willing to choose cycling and mass transit.
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Aug. 8 is the 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C, Cycle II).
Two friends of St. Francis celebrate their feast days this week.
Aug. 8 is the feast of St. Dominic, who founded the Dominicans. He was known for his oratory skills; Francis was known for his way of life. Perhaps their talents were complementary, because they are said to have been close friends.
St. Clare's feast is Aug. 11 in Assisi. Her friendship with Francis is the reason she has become the patroness of television: She spoke to him in a vision when he was far away.
Toy Story 3 hit theaters this summer. Along with Toy Story 2, it gives an Aristotelian lesson about friendship.
Toy Story 2 is about choosing true friendship over what Aristotle would call "friendship for utility." Woody is given the best friendship-for-utility arrangement imaginable. He is the featured attraction of a famous Old West "roundup" gang. The gang needs him in order to get fame and adulation in a museum. He must decide whether being true friends with one person is better than being useful to a few and liked by many. His answer transforms his own life and his new gang's.
Toy Story 3 is about what Aristotle would call "friendship for pleasure" vs. true friendship. What do you do when a friendship isn't fun anymore — when you're a toy and playtime is over for good? Woody's dilemma is between a pleasure palace for toys or "being there" for an absent friend. His choice leads to one of the most affecting images of friends finding solace in each other in an apparently hopeless situation.
Wisdom 18:6-9; Psalm 33:1, 12, 18-22; Hebrews 11:1-2, 8-19 or 11:1-2, 8-12; Luke 12:32-48 or 12:35-40
Our Take
Today, the first reading and the Gospel create a paradox that is only resolved by the second reading.
In the first reading, the Scripture makes the point that it was to the advantage of the Israelites that they knew when the Passover was coming: Knowing the day and hour gave them the certainty they needed to have courage and do what was right.
In the Gospel, Jesus says that we need to have special courage because we don't know the day and hour he is coming. It's this not knowing, he seems to say, that gives us the impetus to get our act together on a more permanent basis.
Call them "pedagogies of repentance." One says that when you know the judge is coming on Aug. 17, you are strongly motivated to get your papers in order by Aug. 17 — and might not otherwise. The other says that when the judge performs spot checks at random intervals, you're highly motivated to be ready all the time.
So: Which is better?
St. Paul's letter might give a "pedagogy of repentance" that accounts for both.
In today's reading, he doesn't point to punishment; he points to faith: "Faith is the realization of what is hoped for and evidence of things not seen," he writes. He recounts Abraham's obedience in faith as he "sojourned in the promised land as in a foreign country." It was faith that gave him "descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sands on the seashore." In other words, faith gave him peace in the trials of this life and a glorious eternal life, which for him was represented by many descendants.
This teaches us two lessons. First, it answers the "date certain" vs. "spot check" question by saying faith makes the dilemma irrelevant: The promise that Christ will come back someday is as solid as giving a date.
But second, it reminds us that there are dire consequences from ignoring the message. Real and substantial benefits come now and hereafter to those who, by faith, see God's presence in their lives today — and don't only dread his future presence.
We will need to face a reckoning one day, and that's one reason to do the right thing. But an even better reason is because we know who God is, and we know that tapping into his grace now will bless us today — and forever.
Tom and April Hoopes write from Atchison, Kansas, where Tom is writer in residence at Benedictine College.


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Photo of the Day - Year 2009I will continue my previous album "Photo of the Day". This new album is created for the photo of the day for the year 2009 only. All photo of the days will also include in the previous album too.
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Melodeo, Making Big Push in Online Music, Eyes Apple in the Cloud
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That presumably leaves a lot of people without mobile access to their music libraries. Which is where nuTsie comes in: the service is available for a monthly fee, or a one-time charge per device, on all major U.S. carriers, all major handset manufacturers, and all major mobile platforms including Android, BlackBerry, and Windows Mobile devices.
Melodeo was founded in 2003 to sell music downloading and podcasting services to wireless carriers. That business didn't work out, in part because of issues between record labels and the carriers. So the present management team, led by CEO Jim Billmaier, came in about four years ago to push the streaming music approach for mobile devices. Melodeo is backed locally by venture firms Voyager Capital and Ignition Partners, who most recently co-led a $7.9 million funding round in 2007. (Interestingly, Ignition also backed Lala.) Melodeo currently has about 20 employees.
On a visit to the company last month, I found the management team chomping at the bit to lay out its strategy in cloud-based music now that Apple has put its stake in the ground. But first, I wanted a little more context. "We think Apple taking this step is the best thing ever," said Billmaier. "They've validated the cloud." Dederer added, "They were smart enough to say, 'We need this now.'"
At the same time, Melodeo says it's far ahead of Lala in terms of the types of devices it covers and its level of technical experience in streaming digital media from the Web to different devices. As for other competitors, there's Rhapsody from RealNetworks and Pandora, the radio-like recommendation service. The latter has lots of users and lots of funding, but wasn't profitable as of last year. Dederer says Pandora's song recommendations work in a "reductive" way: when you hear a new song, you either like it or hate it (and never hear it again). "We really want to crack this nut of music recommendation where it's not reductive, it's expansive," he says. "It needs what we call 'delightful randomness,' because that's what a real music discovery experience is."
The company's overarching goal is to combine song recommendations, radio, and friends' playlists to provide the ultimate music experience for consumers. And do it all from the cloud. Melodeo's patented technology essentially makes it efficient to stream songs from the Internet … Next Page »
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This data visualization was created from real flight data. It shows the air traffic which flies on a typical summer day and highlights the intensity of the operation in Europe – an operation which runs 24x7x365.
Wow! It's amazing that there are so few serious accidents, imo.
I love the latitude separation lanes over the Atlantic, btw. (They look like 1 degree apart).
It really is remarkable – to me, anyway, when I think of all the technology behind this animation. Things like this make me realize people can be pretty awesome when we're not being arseholes…
Question for the better informed, tho – what are those flight paths that seem to go in tight loops like a NASCAR track? Is that just an optical illusion or did somebody forget something and have to go back to the terminal?
Mark, I think what you're probably seeing are the airport approach paths. Each airport has a specific route to follow to approach the runway, so planes can slot into the queue, and they follow each other on that route on intervals of 1 to 3 minutes. (In fact, usually a route per runway and per direction, and the approach route is paired with a farther-away "holding pattern" loop in case the plane has to wait for a slot.)
You see similar predetermined-route patterns in the neat parallel paths over the north Atlantic.
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Hahahahaaaa why do I make things harder than they should be? Kimono is a pink brocade with a purple-pink-ish sari sheer fabric over it, and lined with a purple flowerly cotton fabric. The bow and obi are made from the same pink brocade, but without the sari.
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