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The Resistible Demise Of Michael Jackson Review & Exclusive Extract
jonny mugwump
, January 19th, 2010 11:48
A satisfying surfeit of intelligent observation, warm, funny and provocative writing, and lack of prurience in this new Zer0 Books tome. 'Shamone' says Jonny Mugwump, our many teeted lizard overlord
A truly startling comeback.
No, not Michael Jackson, the subject of this collection of newly-commissioned essays, but Ian Penman. However, more of that later.
Zer0 books (founded by the charismatic Tariq Goddard) represent a tangible (as in physical) re-engagement with culture and thought. Positioning themselves beyond the 'striplit malls' of mass-media and the 'neurotically bureaucratic halls of the academy', there is a genuine punk-like feel to their enterprise - Zer0 FEELS like an independent record label. Utilising an understated but immediately recognisable aesthetic at frighteningly reasonable prices (you could pretty much pick up their entire back catalogue on Amazon for less than £40) they have already published a number of works in their short existence (about a year or something) none of which have been less than fascinating. Pulling together younger writers who have been carving out their own singular niches on the internet (Nina Power, Owen Hatherley and Dominic Fox all had excellent works published in 2009) alongside print veterans like David Stubbs and the aforementioned Penman (who has two books coming out this year), Zer0 pull from a multitude of overground, underground and/or ignored corners, tapping into a vein of insight that marries depth with accessibility without sacrificing either.
Collated and edited by Mark (K-Punk) Fisher (who has just published Capitalist Realism and has a further collection due this year), The Resistible Demise of Michael Jackson (and what a title that is) triumphantly justifies every claim they make for themselves. In concept alone it's perfect - 24 refractions, reflections and collisions with (arguably - although there is only one other contender) the greatest pop cultural phenomenon the world has ever known: an inquiry that covers the Moonwalk (backslide) to Stalin, from Jackson's relationship with India to Jackson's embodiment of the British experience of pop (and therefore of culture as a whole). Some of these pieces turn brevity into poetry (in 5 pages Alex Williams leaps quite logically from Kant and Lyotard via the morgue to Neverland, Inland Empire and Bataille, Bambi and The Sun) whilst others offer descriptions of Jackson's greatest moments that are so exquisite that you'll be playing them before the sentence is through (Fisher himself especially transcendent on 'Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough' and 'Billie Jean'). Oh and Steven Shaviro takes Greil Marcus severely to task for several decades of dodgy white hipsterism which is something that has been at the back of my mind for a long time.
Along the way you become aware that despite containing the aforementioned BJ and 'Human Nature' (a song that brings me out in goosebumps just thinking about it) Thriller is not THAT great, that Jackson is actually beyond disturbing in his behaviour around women in the post-Bad videos and that Norm from Cheers is a big Husker Du fan (thank you David Stubbs).
Because of the ludicrously high calibre of writing within (especially considering that Jackson has only just squeak-grunted off the planet he tried to save), the potential danger of cross-over (it suddenly dawns of course that Michael Jackson's recorded legacy is a very small one) actually becomes one of the book's strengths. There are so many different readings, assessments and interpretations of 'Earth Song' for instance that you briefly become convinced that it's a truly fascinating piece of art instead of the work of a madman (although naturally those two things hardly need be exclusive).
Also, I for one, love to read writing about dancing and I am entirely ecstatic about Costello's misfired dancing about architecture quip - what could be more fun than dancing about architecture? And boy could that man (boy) dance (although Joshua Clover rightly points out that Janet actually had the edge and in fact I would offer that she is also the more musically interesting of the two in the long term).
But in a book that is already stuffed with ideas, two pieces are pieces of art by themselves. In 'True Enough: Michael in Fifty Shards' Chris Roberts (having had the honour of being commissioned to write a book about Jackson the day after he died and having said book being published 3 weeks later) embarks on a journey through Jackson's life that can best be described as Citizen Kane remixed by Walt Disney. '...Shards' is a darkly ebullient exploding rainbow. A desperate cartoon that seems to perfectly capture the insanity of Jackson's life even though we have no fucking idea WHAT his life was like. But somehow, Roberts DOES. We have Michael searching for the elixir of eternal youth. We have Michael finding the Hollywood celebrity mother he needs in Diana Ross first then Elizabeth Taylor second. There are celebrity dalliances.
'"Hey Mikey," says Lisa-Marie Presley. "I had an unorthodox youth and know all about massive head-stewing fame. You had an unorthodox youth and know all about massive head-stewing fame. We have so much in common. And I don't need your money. Wanna fuck?"'
The penultimate 'Shard 49' is off-world brilliance with Michael occupying every celebrity corpse of the last 100 years. It's like an undiscovered chapter of Atrocity Exhibition. It really is pretty damn good.
But Fisher has one more surprise left, a comeback worthy of the King himself (it's hardly the last piece by accident).
'Notes towards the Ritual Exorcism of a Dead King' is the first thing Ian Penman has published for a very long time and I use the word "thing" deliberately as it's hard to define just what it actually is. Starting with a party, sat with some teenagers drinking Malibu, Penman tries to get a reaction on the news of Jackson's death, invokes Faust ('There's no "retiring" on contracts like these!') collides with the phenomena of the megastar and enters into some dark chaotic war with culture, with the media, practically with himself, collapsing the form of the essay at points as if possessed by Artaud whilst at the same time retaining a surgeon-like precision of pop-savvy:
'(The Thriller video - if there's a notable oddity, watching it now, I would say it's how serious it feels - if that makes any sense.)'
It does.
'Notes towards the Ritual Exorcism of a Dead King' however, like its subject matter, is permanently on the verge of profound disintegration. Turn the page and,
"It-don't- matter-if-you're: black-or-white.
It don't MATTER
It isn't matter
I am not matter
I am neither black nor white, I am black and white, black AS white, sometimes black sometimes white, sometimes beyond white..."
This is the essay as voodoo ritual (exorcism), as spell. It is genuinely strange and at times, more than a little disturbing.
It's funny, poignant, deadly serious and dangerous. When Penman gets on the good foot he is entirely untouchable but this represents a new shamanic high. It also justifies the entire Zer0 project - outside of the academy and outside of the tabloids, writing about culture can be so much more than just CRITICISM - way beyond good or bad (black or white). Because you could argue that Ballard was a critic. And Artaud. And Nietzsche. To really engage with culture is to collide with it and out of that wreckage poetry is born...
So this is an extraordinary culmination in an anthology full of exceedingly fine writing about a subject who (who exactly?) will forever remain a fascinating, grotesque and entirely ungraspable mystery. Jackson's story, despite his own desperate machinations, is also one eerily devoid of magic - full of desperation, pain and a portal to the crushing rise of postmodern media overload. But it's also absolutely essential to remember just why all this fuss, why all this inquiry, why the fascination and none of the contributors ever lose sight of those few magic moments because somewhere in his absolute mess of an existence, Michael Jackson also captured some of the most incredibly pure and joyous moments ever EVER to be found in popular music, especially (but not exclusively) on Off The Wall and The Jacksons' Triumph - music that is literally soaked in some kind of joy and that somehow managed to infatuate an entire planet and despite everything, despite the horrific and quite insane and warped reaction to his demise, well that's something that can never be ignored.
An extract from 'Notes towards a ritual exorcism of the dead king'
"This is the end of your life." Michael Jackson, 'Thriller'
On the weekend after Michael died I went to a party. It was a good party: a genuine celebration. There were little kids there, and teenagers, and us older sophisticates, still throwing lumpy shapes to Chic and Madonna. I sat down with a bunch of sixteen to eighteen-year-old girls: professional duty. They passed around the bright white Malibu. I said: I'm writing about Michael Jackson. Not much stirs. "Yeah?" Nothing. I persist, ask: what did they think? They don't seem too ruffled, or much bothered. "Quite liked some of his music..." That's it: that's the limit of what I get from them. Fair enough – on one level, it's pretty much all I felt too at that moment. Not that you'd know it from the deluge of press and media comment in the week after his death; we were all supposed to be – that pervasive, insidious, irritating "we" – heartbroken, devastated, in mourning.
This is the problem, here: the huge disjunction between how people are, what they feel, or don't, what they talk about, worry about, what they actually watch and listen to and are affected by, in their day-to-day lives; and then what the media – under the legend of that too convenient "we" – tell us we are all feeling and thinking.
In the immediate aftermath of his death, no sensible middle ground: the choice lies between hagiography and character assassination. Some of us stand on the sidelines, perplexed. What is all this? I wail at the TV wall each day. OK, I can buy that once upon a time he was a kind of cross-cultural role model, strange and new and difficult to read, but... come ON! People! This wasn't Martin Luther King; this wasn't even Marvin Gaye. I mean, just no one I know is at all bothered by this. It's not as if he even really "died young". Even on the level of OK-entertainer OK-kid's entertainer, which is what he mostly was) he hadn't really mattered for 20-odd years. A washed-up drugged-up blocked entertainer (whose palette was never that wide or deep), a maybe/maybe-not pedophile (in private 99% say: I think he was, don't you?), who so maddeningly and confoundingly went from billionaire power broker to payday-snuffling failure and recluse. So why this storm of pious, keening, sentimentalized, hysterical, pseudo-worshipful media overkill?
Was he always waiting, up ahead of us, programming every next/last response, like a bony fright-wigged Wizard of Oz for the digital epoch?
Did he pull off one final improbable coup?
Colonizing our unconscious: like a riff, a headline, a drug, a ghost.
Staging death as his last great re-appearance, return, media apotheosis, far more effective than any putative stage-bound comeback. (They surely would only have disappointed, those fifty shows. One show, a weekend at most, I can understand. But fifty?)
The only way to top yourself, is to top yourself.
He defied the former, was damaged by the latter. He would make himself over, a singularity without lineage, without predecessors. Michael, born of Media, postmodernist archangel.
As we know from previous experience, certain figures transcend the usual human script: John Lennon, Bill Clinton, Princess Diana, and now Jackson. They radiate some analysis-defying "x" factor, crowd magick, mass appeal. This ability to be consistently forgiven. Failings and fallings and flaws overlooked. Look at Lennon – heroin addiction, support for the IRA, weird foreign missus, dabbling in avant-garde conceptual art, breaks up The Beatles... what more could he do to lose the love of his popular audience? But he remains the Lads' favorite pop star, bar none: the love never goes. He preaches anti-materialism and mass togetherness but holes up inside therapy-occluded privation with only stock market deals and a freezer full of furs to keep him warm: they love him more. Puts out god-awful AOR sludge. Still the adoration increases.
Do we really need to adumbrate Michael's own perplexing choices? The myriad ways in which he would seem to be the exact opposite of anything like contemporary black pride? His almost luminous propensity for bad faith and bare-faced lies? His progressively less urgent or pleasing or interesting music? The jacked-up psychopathology of Hubris: I AM THE KING. I AM THE KING.
by Ian Penman
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Jan 19, 2010 5:33pm
What is it that produced 'wacko jacko'? I think it had a lot to do with Watchtower indoctrination,putting him on their end of the world apocalyptic Armageddon guilt trips.
80% of all kids in the USA leave the Jehovah Witness religion when they become of age,that is telling.
I watched him growing up in an Orwellian Watchtower world that paralleled mine.
Jan 19, 2010 5:43pm
I agree with Mark Davis - and I'm surprised I haven't heard or read more of this opinion. But Andrew Sullivan in the Atlantic had one of the best answers to the the reason for MJ's demise:
Watching him change his race, his age, and almost his gender, you saw a tortured soul seeking what the rest of us take for granted: a normal life.
But he had no compass to find one; no real friends to support and advise him; and money and fame imprisoned him in the delusions of narcissism and self-indulgence. Of course, he bears responsibility for his bizarre life. But the damage done to him by his own family and then by all those motivated more by money and power than by faith and love was irreparable in the end.
Jan 19, 2010 7:43pm
Chris Roberts' piece in this book is superb. Imagine if Donald Barthelme, in his prime, was an expert on Motown and decided to write the Michael Jackson story - it's not just like that, it's that good.
Jan 20, 2010 5:07am
Am tired of people over psychoanalyzing mj,obviously he was a very troubled man and I dont think anybody really knew him to write a dissertationabout him,most of the things the writer wrote are just tabloid speculations,
the media would not have covered him extensively if their ratings had not gone through the roof.millions of people loved him despite his inadequacies that is why anything asoociated with him turns to gold since he died.
Jan 20, 2010 1:09pm
"no real friends to support and advise him".
~Actually, after his death, I was surprised that so many well-meaning people cared for him (Deepak, a rabbi and countless more). He had real friends (Liz, Brooke, Quincy, Stevie, etc.) He just did not want to listen to them. Instead, he surrounded himself with sycophants.
Jan 20, 2010 1:38pm
In my opinion, Michael Jackson was very overrated talentwise. Yes, he could dance but did not have much of a voice and only sang in one or two genres. In other words he was not the 'whole package'. I cannot see his legacy improving over the next ten to twenty years.
Jan 20, 2010 2:02pm
In reply to beau:
Surely the point here is that the over-'psychoanalysed' chimera of (inverted commas) "Michael Jackson" is self-perpetuating, macrogenic - egregiously unbound from the notion of an individual at all. We could chastise a writer for indulging in it, but that indulgence is the subject itself - it's only the unacknowledged paradox of real person and real icon that ever bastardises the truth - and that's what we see in the media and press regarding Michael Jackson.
Jan 20, 2010 4:33pm
''OK, I can buy that once upon a time he was a kind of cross-cultural role model, strange and new and difficult to read, but... come ON! People! This wasn't Martin Luther King; this wasn't even Marvin Gaye. I mean, just no one I know is at all bothered by this''
You clearly have no knowledge of the millions of fans around the world who are still in mourning over his passing. Michael was more than anything a wonderful, loving, caring, and human being. The comparison between him and Martin Luther King is completely inappropriate; their contributions to the world are very much different.
Michael always tried to bring awareness to the world, he urged us to change our ways through his music and humanitarian work, but no one listened, everyone was too busy scrutinizing his every move. I think we're starting to see the consequences of our selfish treatment to this planet, the same planet he loved and protected until his last days of life. Its funny how you don't notice that the more you chased him, the more he tried to hide until he ultimately became a recluse in his efforts to live a normal life away from the public eye.
Michael's god given talent was ironically his ruin; by sharing himself with the world he gave away his childhood, his privacy, and his chance to ever lead a normal life. Needless to say, some people didn't correspond in the same selfless manner.
Jan 21, 2010 3:14am
Thank you Isabel,couidnt have said it better
he obviously does not know about millions of fans that are still mourning and thousands of forums dedicated to michael jackson
he touched millions worldwide and we would give anything to have him back.
Jan 22, 2010 2:26pm
The problem with your writing is you act like you know Michael Jackson. You have been only exposed to "The Entertainer". You have no clue who the MAN is. Michael was born of media and he used it to maneuver his way through life. If you are forced to live in a golden cage due to fame why not have fun with it?? He indeed faked his death so he and his kids can live. Anyone who thinks he was filming "rehearsals" in HD and the concerts were a go is ready to purchase water front land in Arizona.( A simple check of corresponding schedule dates at 02 Arena will make you wonder how 2 acts could perform on same stage.) May I suggest you check out the FBI files on MJ recently released. Perhaps their declaration that after a world wide search they could not find anything remotely connecting MJ to child molestation will finally pry you loose from that media implanted lie propagated by Tommy Motolla in an effort to destroy the BRAND ,"Michael Jackson".( MJ's intention to open a MJJ Record Label to go along with his MJJ Publishing Co. would have destroyed Sony Records.) End result,MJ was acquitted, case is taught in law schools as what a rogue DA can indict, Motolla was fired and banished to 3rd world acts in South America and MJ ended up with 1/2 of Sony publishing.) As far as your opinion on his musical standing in History.....when someone else tops his many record setting albums let me know.
Jan 25, 2010 10:36pm
Barthelme sprang immediately to mind when I read the Roberts piece too. The, ahem, influence is pretty obvious. Good read, though.
Bring on those two Penman books! If "Notes toward a ritual exorcism of the dead king" is anything to go by... wow.
Jan 18, 2012 5:15pm
Janet has the edge over Michael when it comes to dance? I don't think so. It's easy to say that. You've probably become used to seeing Michael dance in the endlessly repeated clips on tele. His blueprint for all to follow. Janet is not so visible, so when you do see her, she comes off as a nice surprise. Outside of the set choreography, though, Janet has little imagination. Her rhythmic skills are limited and prosaic. She has no natural genius for dance. Her career is completely by design, hence the aptly titled Best Of... 'Design of a Decade'. She knows, you know.
There is a tendency to think Michael wasn't innovative. That innovation is something achieved by the likes of Prince, but not Michael. The irony is that Prince was just pretending. It was Michael that really, really meant it. "Michael is the poor man's Prince", is a phrase I've seen in print quite a bit by journalists writing in papers like the Guardian. It's just snobbery. You know these people don't listen to Prince at all. All that really happened was that Michael sped things up too quickly and made us feel a little dazed and confused. Have a sit down and put some sugar in your tea, then speak... that level of speed-up makes people feel left behind.
This book, the Resistable Demise, suggests we're still trying to get to gropes by what it all meant. But most are still on the ropes when it comes to Michael, whose life and times is subjected to their endless tropes and passed down points of view.
The Lost Children on Invincible, for instance. Who else tells us such a truth on a pop record? No fancy words or concepts for the Guardianistas, no snazzy grooves for the G.A.Y.ers (that's a night club in London, by the way). It's a brave record, and I'm glad he made it. "... So this one's for all the lost children..." he sings. Perhaps he's referring to you and me, the soporific masses - but maybe you just don't see it that way. 'Creepy' is what they said in response. Creepy because of Michael's hypocrisy and multiple personality disorder, no doubt. But since when did people NOT wrestle with all the little voices in their marvellously complex heads. Isn't that what Shakespeare taught us? That people have sides. Michael's complexities were blown up, and aided, by the newspapers giving their insatiable public their daily dose of news and, for a time, by his limitless credit - Count of Monte Cristo-style.
The problems for Michael began when he couldn't see it through, when he began apologising and raking over his past, making excuses for his behaviour and exploiting his father to satisfy the nosey needs of today's sleepy audiences. Payback for his father exploiting his talent?
No. Children had to do a lot worse in bygone eras, it's only our sentimentality regarding children that Michael was addressing. He wanted fame more than his father wanted it. Am I allowed to say that? Am I allowed to say that children have sexual feelings? "Forgive me for being weird", he began to say. Whereas he should have said:
I am your mirror, boys and girls. I have made these changes to look more like you. I am you. And in my sentimentality and hypocrisy and greed and perversion... my resemblance is complete.
I don't know, maybe he was reading V For Vendetta in the early 80s?
Forgive my hyperbole, but we are talking Michael, and perhaps a few shards of truth might shine out from this rubble.


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Chicken Quesadillas...
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Leftover grilled skirt steak...
Refried beans...
Leftover grilled chicken...
Basic Recipe for Quesadillas
- Flour Tortillas
- Leftover chicken, steak, taco meat or refried beans
- Cheese
- Salsa
- Peppers, onions, black olives
- Sour cream
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Pradhan B.,Sudan University of Science and Technology
Environmental and Ecological Statistics | Year: 2011
Landslides are very common natural problems in the Selangor area of Malaysia due to the improper use of landcover and tropical rainfall. There are many landslide susceptibility analyses such as statistical, bivariate and data mining approaches exist in the literature. This paper presents the use of fuzzy logic relations for landslide susceptibility mapping on part of Selangor area, Malaysia, using a Geographic Information System (GIS) and remote sensing data. At first, landslide locations were identified in the study area from the interpretation of aerial photographs and satellite images, supported by extensive field surveys. Topographic and geological data and satellite images were collected, processed, and constructed into a spatial database using GIS and image processing. Thirteen landslide conditioning factors such as slope gradient, slope exposure, plan curvature, altitude, stream power index, topographic wetness index, distance from drainage, distance from road, lithology, distance from faults, soil, landcover and normalized difference vegetation index (ndvi) were extracted from the spatial database. These factors were analyzed using fuzzy logic relations to produce the landslide susceptibility maps. Using the landslide conditioning factors and the identified landslides, the fuzzy membership values were calculated. Then fuzzy algebraic operators were applied to the fuzzy membership values for landslide susceptibility mapping. Finally, the ROC curves for all landslide susceptibility models were drawn and the area under curve values were calculated. Landslide locations were used to validate results of the landslide susceptibility maps and the validation results showed 94% accuracy for the fuzzy gamma operator employing all parameters produced in the present study as the landslide conditioning factors. Results showed that, among the fuzzy relations, in the case in which the gamma operator (λ= 0.975) showed the best accuracy (94.73%) while the case in which the fuzzy algebraic Or was applied showed the worst accuracy (84.76%). The landslide susceptibility maps produced by the fuzzy gamma operators shows similar trends as those obtained by applying logistic regression procedure by the same author and indicate that fuzzy relations results perform slightly better than the earlier method. Qualitatively, the model yields reasonable results which can be used for preliminary land-use planning purposes. © 2010 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.
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Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews | Year: 2013
This paper gives a review of small hydropower technology. A Small hydropower (SHP) plant uses impulse or reaction turbines and is mainly 'run-off-river'. SHP technologies currently used in generating electricity for rural electrification in both developed and underdeveloped countries are helping to slow down climatic change, creating employment opportunities, and are having low maintenance costs (but high capital costs). © 2013 Elsevier Ltd.
Agency: NSF | Branch: Continuing grant | Program: | Phase: AISL | Award Amount: 1.11M | Year: 2012
Expanding on the encouraging outcomes of an NSF-funded conference, this three-year project led by the National Center for Science and Civic Engagement at Harrisburg University of Science and Technology, in collaboration with the Koshland Science Museum of the National Academy of Sciences, will explore and evaluate ways to support new collaborations between professionals in institutions of higher education and informal STEM education around areas of common interest. The primary goal is to develop the educational infrastructure to grow and efficiently sustain multiple cross-organizational partnership activities at the intersection of learning about science, society and civic engagement around such possible topics as energy, environment, genetics, earth resources, computers and ethics, nanotechnology, etc.
The initiative is: 1) creating a joint organizing secretariat to provide communications and support through low-cost shared services for at least six partnerships around the country; 2) providing partnership support and technical assistance to seed the six national partnerships, and 3) sharing evaluation and analysis services across all the partnerships. The outcomes of the work pertain to improvements in professional knowledge and practice in higher education and informal science education, as well as the improvement of learning by undergraduates and by the general public.
Agency: NSF | Branch: Continuing grant | Program: | Phase: TUES-Type 3 Project | Award Amount: 3.50M | Year: 2012
In this project the National Center for Science and Civic Engagement (NCSCE) is continuing to catalyze and sustain pedagogical and curricular transformation on a large scale through its Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities (SENCER) Program. It is building on prior results and accomplishments in empowering educators to help students in American colleges employ focused and connected learning in the science, mathematics, engineering, and technology (STEM) disciplines to engage with important issues facing our democracy. A key goal of this project is to expand SENCERs community of practice to achieve a transformative tipping point in undergraduate STEM instruction and learning.
SENCER models apply an outside - in approach from the science of learning to the learning of science, framing STEM learning within compelling civic challenges. The intellectual merit of this effort consists in empowering educators to help students in American colleges employ focused learning in the STEM disciplines to engage with great issues facing our democracy. The broader impacts of this project include strengthening our democracy by enhancing the scientific and technological literacy of the American people supporting civic engagement, and sustaining a program that helps achieve these important goals.
Five goals define the reach of this 4-year project:
1. Expand participation in the SENCER Program to reach transformative scale by involving faculty teams from more than 20% of US colleges and universities in national and regional programs in new course and program design, active learning pedagogies, and civic engagement.
2. Increase the intensity and scope of follow-up activities to institutionalize reforms by organizing intensive implementation webinars, linked-in discussion groups, and deploying leadership fellow co-mentors to strengthen implementation outcomes.
3. Disseminate scholarship, materials, and other resources to strengthen connections with the wider education community by mounting a models to materials initiative to populate the SENCER digital library collection with easy-to-adapt and use collections of course materials, labs, assessments, civic engagement projects, and related resources.
4. Broaden assessment to measure and promote enduring understandings by collaborating with the College Board to enable targeted assessment (connected to the disciplines in which SENCER courses are taught) that measures learning of unifying scientific concepts, science practices, and issues involving science, technology and society.
5. Engage in formal planning to assure sustainability, leadership succession, and growth by designing and implementing a multi-phased sustainability plan. The plan includes strategies and mechanisms for program development, finance, governance, leadership succession, and acquisition of intramural and extramural support to grow a robust community of reformers well after NSF funding has ceased.
Agency: NSF | Branch: Standard Grant | Program: | Phase: I-Corps | Award Amount: 50.00K | Year: 2014
Educators or administrators invested in improving student outcomes in STEM, are constantly looking for proven, evidence-based, trusted sources worthy of their time and investment. They are aware of pedagogical advancements and are willing to do the work necessary to implement innovative practices. However, at many institutions, the financial climate and lack of professional development funding evidences the need for lower cost, yet high quality experiences and materials. For those who have no support, or must attend a disciplinary meeting instead with their limited allowance, webinars and e-friendly publications specifically provide accessible options to support their own professional development. This includes full-time faculty and the growing number of adjuncts. This proposal extends the benefits of a proven strategy by utilizing new technological platforms to promote broader adoption, increase equitable access, and promote program availability. Widely available and interactive webinars provide people with limited time or funds the opportunity to connect with experts from around the country for a reasonable cost and on a specific topic of need. Expanded applications of the proposed approach (Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities) will lead to an exponentially larger number of students with strong scientific and quantitative literacy and more practitioners aware of an approach that responds to the challenges they face daily.
Since 2001 the Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities (SENCER) project and the National Center for Science and Civic Engagement has developed and disseminated a range of educational products and professional development programs that support the improvement of formal and informal science education, including over 50 course models, backgrounder essays, peer-reviewed articles, residential and non-residential institutes and workshops, and a signature assessment tool (the SENCER SALG-Student Assessment of Learning Gains). All publications are currently digitized, tagged and searchable, and included in a web-accessed digital library. In the projects most recent iteration new products are in development, including a webinar series, a series of workshops for faculty and administrators, a SENCER handbook, and course modules called pearls of practice. This team believes that several of these products have commercial potential, either as benefits of a paid membership, and/or for individual download and sale.
Agency: NSF | Branch: Standard Grant | Program: | Phase: TUES-Type 2 Project | Award Amount: 550.00K | Year: 2013
The project Engaging Mathematics: Building a National Community of Practice, is a faculty development and dissemination initiative, which is expanding the work of the NSF funded project Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities (SENCER) by increasing the use of the SENCER model to create, implement, and sustain reforms in mathematics education. SENCER focuses on learning mathematics and science content through real world problems and engaging students in course work that is framed within complex civic issues. Engaging Mathematics is creating a wider community of mathematics scholars within SENCER, capable of implementing and sustaining curricular reforms and broadening SENCER impacts. The project offers a persistent and recurring program of national dissemination which includes developing assessment tools to monitor students perceptions of the usefulness of mathematics, their interest and confidence in doing mathematics, the students growth in knowledge content, and their ability to apply mathematics to better understand complex civic issues.
Engaging Mathematics is a cooperative program between three lead institutions, Metropolitan State University, LaGuardia Community College, and the United States Military Academy and four partner institutions to develop and assess curricula that teach students mathematics through civic issues. Mathematics faculty not already affiliated with SENCER will be invited and encouraged to use the materials developed through the project and adapt them to their unique institutional needs.
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Sudan University of Science and Technology | Date: 2014-04-14
The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for magnetic nanoparticle temperature imaging. Particularly, the present methods involve applying different combinations of magnetic fields to magnetic nanoparticles placed in a one-dimensional space, collecting AC magnetization signals of the magnetic nanoparticles, and analyzing the collected signals to obtain in vivo temperature information of the one-dimensional space. Different exciting magnetic fields are applied to the magnetic nanoparticles, so that one-dimensional temperature imaging is transformed into single-point temperature measurement of each minizone, and one-dimensional temperature imaging can be precisely and quickly achieved without knowing the concentration distribution of the magnetic nanoparticles.
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Methods, systems, program products are described to create a social network based on dynamic interests of users and using ad-hoc networking. A user of mobile device can identify another user who is close by and has similar interests. Dynamic interests of the users can be extracted or identified based on mobile usage, browsing history, places traveled, and other user actions. Users are notified if another user who is similar more than a threshold is present nearby. The system also facilitates communication between users by way of chatting, file sharing, image sharing etc.
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A system for providing a fine-grained indoor location-based social network (LBSN), the invention leverages the crowd-sensed data collected from a plurality of users mobile devices during the check-in operation and knowledge extracted from current LBSNs to associate a place with its name and semantic fingerprint. This semantic fingerprint is used to obtain a more accurate list of nearby places as well as automatically detect new places with similar signatures. A novel algorithm for handling incorrect check-ins and inferring a semantically-enriched floorplan is proposed as well as an algorithm for enhancing the system performance based on the user implicit feedback.


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Published: February 23, 1991
LONDON, Feb. 22— What will be longer than the English Channel tunnel, deeper than the London Underground railroad and will insure that there are not a lot of thirsty, smelly Londoners in the 21st century?
The answer is the London Water Ring Main, a 50-mile tunnel being dug deep beneath metropolitan London. It is the biggest water project here since the Victorians built the sewers after the Great Stink of 1858.
The $500 million main is needed because the drinking-water system has already been stretched to the breaking point, literally. A major main breaks in metropolitan London every day on average, and 18 percent of the city's water leaks away. That is not surprising, since some mains are more than 100 years old.
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Since construction began in 1986, mechanical moles have dug slightly more than half of the main. There have been mishaps. An elaborate rescue had to be mounted to retrieve a mole trapped in a flood. And four workers have been killed. One was electrocuted, another was crushed in a train accident and two suffocated when they ventured into a section surrounded by oxygen-absorbing sand without breathing devices.
Some at Thames seem hurt that what they describe as "one of this century's great engineering achievements" is not getting nearly as much attention as the channel tunnel.
"If I may be so modest, the ring main is the third major water project" in London's 2,000-year history, said Roy Watts, chairman of Thames Water P.L.C., whose subsidiaries supply tap water to 7.2 million people in southern England and take away the sewage of 13.8 million.
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The first grand project was construction of the 38.8 mile aqueduct called the New River in the early 1600's, when London's rapidly growing population had reached about 300,000 and water supplies were shrinking because of pollution. Completed in 1613, the aqueduct carried water south from the Lee Valley to the city's Islington section. It was then distributed in pipes made of elm logs, which were replaced with iron pipes in the early 1800's.
The Victorian sewers and 25 miles of the New River are still in use. "Like them, the ring main, with proper maintenance, should last forever," said William J. Alexander, Thames Water's top engineer.
Londoners love to disparage their tap water and speculate about how many bodies it has previously passed through: 6 to 8 percent of the tap water is filtered sewage and waste water -- or "effluent" as it is genteely known in the trade -- that has been dumped into the Thames.
The water also contains herbicides that exceed levels set by the European Community, said Blake Lee-Harwood, a water expert at Friends of the Earth. The British Government has given Thames Water until the year 2000 to meet the standards. The environmental group is challenging the dispensation in the courts.
Even so, Mr. Lee-Harwood drinks tap water. "It's more as an act of social solidarity and not as any favor to my palate," he said.
Photo: Workers in the London Water Ring Main, a 50-mile tunnel that is being dug beneath metropolitan London. When completed in 1996, it will be a continuous loop capable of carrying 343 million gallons of water a day. (Barry Lewis for The New York Times) Map of London showing location of the London water ring main


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Saint Louis University, a Catholic, Jesuit institution dedicated to student learning, research, healthcare, and service, is inviting applications and nominations for the Department Chair position in the Civil Engineering Department at Parks College of Engineering, Aviation and Technology. The department is seeking a dynamic and vision-directed leader in civil engineering with an established record of excellence in engineering education, research and service.
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At about 12:30 Tuesday afternoon, Hanahan police received a call to do a welfare check at the Landing apartment complex. A woman had not been seen or heard from in a couple of days.
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06-25-14, 18:34 #1Registered User
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Unanswered: An Interesting scroll bar problem
Hi I have a form with several tabs and several sub forms on them. On the main form I have some command buttons to generate reports. The main form has the scroll bar properties set to neither and when I open the form all is correct. See screen-1 attachment. When I go to any report the report screen opens the report is shown in print preview mode. When I close the report the main form is shown with both scroll bars see screen-2 attachment. If I close the main form and reopen it there are no scroll bars as intended. I have done some Google searches with no success. This may be that I am having a tough time trying to describe the problem in a Google search. Does any one have any ideas.
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ive seen this sort of thing before, usually its down to something on your screen real estate being too big
perhaps a form or control has its can grow property set to trueI'd rather be riding on the Tiger 800 or the Norton
06-28-14, 10:44 #3Registered User
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Problem Resolved
Thanks Healdem for your pointer I went back to the form and on the activate event I tried docmd.restore but this did not work so changed it to Maximize and that solved the problem.
Cheers Bob


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This August, Marvel Studios will release Guardians of the Galaxy in theaters everywhere. Many consider it the riskiest movie in the young movie studio's history since the original Iron Man in 2008. [Guardians of the Galaxy](movie:424073) isn't based on a very well known comic book series and its characters are not as conventionally pleasing as Thor or Captain America. It will be deeply rooted in science fiction, while taking place in the furthest corners of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, literally. With a collection of strange characters such as Star-Lord, Gamora, Drax the Destroyer, Groot, and Rocket Raccoon, I can't help but think that if Guardians of the Galaxy is a successful movie, then it seems as if the cosmic team of space outlaws (as opposed to The Avengers) might be Marvel's answer to the [Justice League](movie:401267).
As we know, Marvel released five standalone movies that led into The Avengers in 2012. The superhero team up movie was four years in the making and established the current trend in blockbuster entertainment. As we also know, DC and Warner Bros don't have that same kind of timeline for [Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice](movie:711870), so they're starting with the big team up movie first and spinning off separate movies afterwards. Ever since that humongous success, Hollywood movie studios were enticed to copy Marvel's formula to create their own shared-cinematic universes with their own film franchises like Fox's X-Men, Sony's The Amazing Spider-Man, and Paramount's Terminator.
With DC and Warner Bros having their own iconic superhero team with The Justice League, the movie studio is looking to reverse engineer Marvel's formula and spinoff separate character movies if The Justice League is as profitable as The Avengers. After the release of Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice in 2016, we're most likely going to see another Batman movie in theaters, and a proper Man of Steel sequel, and, hopefully a new standalone Wonder Woman film. However, if The Justice League is a billion dollar movie, then we might get more with a separate Cyborg movie, along with a New Green Lantern and [Aquaman](movie:264237) movies. It sounds like DC and Warner Bros strategy is similar to Marvel's, if Guardians of the Galaxy is a hit.
See Also - Batman V. Superman: LexCorp Has Been Revealed!
Marvel doesn't have a lack of characters. They have hundreds of superheroes and villains to tap into for many movies to come. Marvel producer Kevin Feige, at one point, said that the movie studio has plans for new movies until 2028. Feige, talking to Business Week:
"It's like looking through the Hubble telescope. You go, 'What's happening back there? I can sort of see it,' " he laughs. "They printed out a new one recently that went to 2028."
2028! He might have been joking, but the reality is that it's not far fetched to think that this might be true. If Guardians of the Galaxy is successful, then you might have at least five (realistically only four*) spinoff movies coming up in the upcoming years. Have you ever wanted to watch a Star-Lord prequel? Ever wanted to see a Gamora and Nebula team up movie? You'll get your chance after Guardians of the Galaxy hit theaters in August. The possibilities are endless! In this way, Guardians of the Galaxy has more in common with The Justice League, in this respect, than The Avengers, in terms of release strategy.
*I'm not sure a standalone Groot or Rocket Raccoon movie would work. Could you really watch an entire movie where the main character only says, "I am Groot" for an hour-and-a-half? And I know he's saying more than that, but considering our human brains can't fully understand the Flora Colossusian language, "I am Groot" will have to suffice.
That said, I do think Marvel would give them their own movie, but only as a team. After all, they're Marvel's dynamic duo. It would be interesting to see a movie where the two leads are CGI characters. If Marvel does make a Rocket Raccoon & Groot movie, it would be one of their most successful because children love these two. It's fun for the whole family!


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I guess I won't need much words as most things can be seen in the pictures.
I hope it works for you as simple as for me.
Have fun!
I got the online installer from qt-project.org/downloads named: qt-linux-opensource-1.5.0-x64-online.run
Download and run it.
It can grab some older Qt versions. As we don't need those we don't check them.
If you have a ARMv5 device be sure to set the cross.
Most real devices won't be x86 so you normally don't need it. But it is good if you are testing on a virtual device. Because we will do that later it's checked here.
We need to setup the Android configuration.
(In case you already have a Qt and/or Android setup and have some configuration problems you might wanna check/remove/backup configurations and folders from Android, Qt and Trolltech from hidden places like ~/.config/… , ~/.local/share/… , ~/… )
You'll get to the next screen via menu: Tools → Options
They say they need the SDK and the NDK.
You'll get those here:
ADT-Bundle: http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
NDK: http://developer.android.com/tools/sdk/ndk/index.html
There is a SDK only version. I tried it but Qt Creator said that it would miss something. So you really should use the ADT-Bundle.
We will use a virtual device.
Currently there is non.
Start the Android AVD Manager.
Under Tools → Manage SDK you should check if all needed packages are installed.
For me I was not having the x86 image of Android. So I checked it.
After that I created a New virtual device.
Using the x86 ABI I will get hardware acceleration: http://developer.android.com/tools/devices/emulator.html#acceleration
That makes using the virtual device much more pleasant.
The new virtual device will also show up in the Qt Creator Options.
With those things set up we can check the Build & Run settings.
All needed configurations should be found automatically. Normally you should not need to manually add something yourself.
Now that is all set up we can create a little project to test if it will work.
Be sure that all of your desired targets are checked.
You can also add targets later.
In the Qt Creator, in the lower left, above the play button, there might be a computer icon or one of an Android dude, there you can select your current desired target platform. Android x86 it should be now.
Push the play button.
You will be greeted by a dialog to choose your device.
In this case we have just one that is shown in the compatible devices category.
That is what we want.
The Android virtual device will open.
In the background in Qt Creator you will see that the project is deploying.
Wait until it is done.
It might take a while.
After it finished your first Android app should open up looking like this:
If you had selected an ARMv7 target it would look like this:
Use the AVD manager for creating new virtual devices. It gives you more options and more control.
Have fun with your new set up!


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GraphicRiver Duck reading near palm trees 7844358
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GraphicRiver Duck reading near palm trees 7844358
Stock Vector \ Characters \ Animals
Rocks \ Sand \ Reading \ Read \ Landscape \ Living \ Seashore \ Shore \ Wood \ Wooden
Stock Vector - Duck reading near palm trees 7844358 by interactimages @ GraphicRiver
Stock Vector \ Characters \ Animals
Graphics Files Included: JPG Image, Vector EPS; Layered: Yes; Minimum Adobe CS Version: CS.
Illustration of a duck reading near the palm trees on a white background
Crystal ball with lighthouse; Duck at the pond with eggs; Girl doing karate; Paper bag with seeds; Clown balloon with kids in basket; Boy holding a clown balloon; A boquet of pink flowers.
Keywords: animal, background, bed, bird, book, bookworm, brown, cartoon, creature, duck, fable, folding, ground, island, isolated, land, landscape, living, read, reading, rocks, sand, seashore, shore, shoreline, soil, stones, white, wood, wooden.


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As of November 18th, 2017 we have programs across 32 nursing schools in West Virginia. You'll be able to find different courses that cover an extensive range of topics that include but not limited to Associates Degree, RN-BSN and RN-MSN. You can take these and a range of other course/degree options from schools that include Frontier Nursing University - Online, Indiana Wesleyan University - Online, Capella University - Online. If you're looking for other states to start or further your studies we cover programs across the U.S. such as Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky and Ohio.
West Virginia Nursing Schools
State Nursing Board: West Virginia RN Board
State Nurses Association: West Virginia Nurses Association
State Hospital Association: West Virginia Hospital Association
For many people, a career isn't just a job choice. It's the chance to make a difference, to do something meaningful, and to change the community. Becoming a nurse is a way to do all of this and more. Nursing professionals are one of the most important parts of West Virginia's health care industry, particularly in light of West Virginia's very large rural population. Nurses allow clinics and hospitals to provide affordable and practical care to patients without overextending doctors.
Contact the schools below to learn about nursing programs in West Virginia.
Becoming a nurse can be a great way to become a part of a professional community and contribute to the strength of society. One local nursing school hosts an annual Inter Professional Education Day. This experience allows nursing students to learn how to work together as part of a team and react to numerous clinical situations.
Furthermore, you can contribute to public health efforts that can change the health of West Virginia residents. Local nursing professional Amy Bruce has made it her mission to teach West Virginia residents about melanoma and how to prevent it through simple measures.
Becoming a Nurse in West Virginia
While you prepare to start your education, you may want to look into different nursing programs in West Virginia. The shortest option is a LPN program, which leads to the job title of licensed practical nurse and requires approximately one year of study. The next step up is an Associate's degree in nursing, which leads to a registered nursing license. A Bachelor's degree, which is comprised of four years of study, also permits you to earn an RN license.
Once you've chosen a nursing program, you can begin applying for financial aid. The West Virginia Health Care Association awards scholarships worth $500 to $2,250. You may also apply for grants through the West Virginia Center for Nursing. West Virginia PROMISE is a state-funded merit-based scholarship program.
When you start your education, you may enroll in several different nursing courses. Your curriculum can include courses like Health Assessment and Communication, Foundations of Nursing Practice, Introduction to Evidence-Based Practice, Pharmacology, Ethics in Health Care Careers, and Nursing in Community Systems.
Working as a Nurse in West Virginia
With your educational requirements completed, it's time to earn your license via the West Virginia RN Board. The RN Board administers licenses after checking your educational background, your clinical hours, and your NCLEX score.
In general, job growth rates for nursing jobs are very exciting. Between 2012 and 2022, O*Net predicts a 25% increase in licensed practical nursing jobs. Registered nurses may experience a 19% increase in job openings in the same time frame (O*Net, 2012).
Your salary potential may increase as you gain more and more education. According to BLS.gov, the average salary for a West Virginia LPN is $
Make your mark on the world of health care with a nursing career. Use our list of schools to find nursing programs in West Virginia.
Some of the top employers of Registered Nurses in West Virginia include Charleston Area Medical Center General Hospital, Ruby Memorial Hospital, Wheeling Hospital, Saint Mary's Medical Center, and Cabell Huntington Hospital.
Expert Advice from the West Virginia Nurses Association
We reached out to the Director of the West Virginia Nurses Association, Ruth Blevins, to provide you with honest information on the industry today in WV. Be sure to read through all of her answers, and click the links below for schools that accept from your area.
- What is the outlook for people who are interested in nursing careers in West Virginia?
Nursing is a growing career field, and there is ever more need for registered nurses in West Virginia as the nursing population is aging and starting to leave the field. All across the state there is a very favorable outlook for nurses looking for jobs, including a great need for Nurse Educators.
- How does your organization help those who have chosen nursing as their career?
The West Virginia Nurses Association is the voice for all nurses in the state. The organization aids the nursing industry by protecting the quality of the industry through various forms of legislation. It is the only accredited organization approved by the American Nurses Credentialing Center in WV to provide quality nursing education.
The WVNA is a membership organization that can be obtained through an annual fee. The benefits of joining the WVNA can be very rewarding. Membership entitles you to a say in the direction that the association heads when it comes various health policies. Members also have the opportunity to be appointed to various health care board positions. Additionally, membership allows you the ability to hold a position on the WVNA board and the American Nurses Association board. Finally, members can earn over 40 free continuing education credits and receive reduced rates on certifications.
The association also maintains a list of various nursing scholarships, grants, and loan forgiveness programs. There is also great opportunity to receive school loan assistance for nurses that choose to work in under-served populations of West Virginia.
- What advice do you have for individuals trying to choose the right program?
Many that choose to go into nursing often do so because of a connection of a family member or friend that already works in the industry. These individuals often have an idea of what they want to do before they pursue their education. Often, these individuals will choose to start with their basic education at the vocational or practical nursing level to get into the industry more quickly. From there they will choose to continue their education starting at the RN level and working their way up. This route allows nurses to work in the industry first to really get an idea of the path that they wish to take, which can sometimes deviate from their original intentions.
Nursing has come a long way, and there are various types of specialties an individual can pursue as well as a variety of places to work. Whatever the specialty, nursing is considered a lifelong learning industry whether it is through higher education or just continuing education programs.
- What are some of the benefits of choosing a career in nursing?
Nursing is a very rewarding career and you can see the results immediately. It's a field that shows continual compassion, and you get to constantly educate your clientele. It has been said that nursing is one of the top ten most trusted professions in the country because of the constant contact and care that nurses provide to people, always trying to keep a patient's best interests at heart. Nurses are advocates for patients who deserve safe, affordable, compassionate healthcare.- Ruth Blevins, Director of the West Virginia Nurses Association
Nursing Degree Programs in West Virginia
Transition programs for nurses:
Graduate programs for nurses:
- All Masters in Nursing Programs in WV
- All DNP and PhD in Nursing Programs in WV
- All Nurse Practitioner Programs in WV
Entry level nursing programs:
MSN Programs from West Virginia Schools
Listed below are all of the nationally accredited MSN programs with campus locations in West Virginia.
West Virginia
|Marshall University (Huntington, WV)
Program Name: Family Nurse Practitioner, MSN - Nurse Midwifery, Nursing Administration, Nursing Education
Accreditation: ACEN accredited
|West Virginia University (Morgantown, WV / Parkersburg, WV)
Program Name: Family NP, Geriatric NP, Neonatal NP, Nursing Leadership, Pediatric NP, Women's Health NP
Accreditation: CCNE accredited
|West Virginia Wesleyan College (Buckhannon, WV)
Program Name: Master of Science in Nursing, Nurse Administrator, Nurse Educator, Nurse-Midwife, Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner
Accreditation: ACEN accredited
|Wheeling Jesuit University (Wheeling, WV)
Program Name: Family Nurse Practitioner (online), Nursing Administration (online), Nursing Education Specialist (online)
Accreditation: CCNE accredited
programs for nurses
- Online LPN to RN
- Online RN to BSN
- Online Masters in Nursing
- Online DNP/PhD in Nursing
- Online Nurse Practitioner
- LPN to RN
- RN to BSN
- Masters in Nursing
- DNP/PhD in Nursing
- Nurse Practitioner
- Nurse Midwife
- Clinical Nurse Specialist
- Nurse Anesthetist
- Nurse Educator
- Clinical Nurse Leader
nursing specialties
- Acute Care Nursing
- Adult Nursing
- Family Nursing
- Geriatric Nursing
- Neonatal Nursing
- Pediatric Nursing
- Psychiatric Nursing
- Women's Health Nursing
- Nursing Informatics
- Nurse Administrator
becoming a nurse
- Accelerated BSN
- Direct Entry MSN
- Four-Year BSN
- Associate Degree in Nursing
- Practical/Vocational Nursing
- Certified Nursing Assistant
nursing schools
- Alabama
- Alaska
- Arizona
- Arkansas
- California
- Colorado
- Connecticut
- Delaware
- District Of Columbia
- Florida
- Georgia
- Hawaii
- Idaho
- Illinois
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- North Carolina
- North Dakota
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Oregon
- Pennsylvania
- Puerto Rico
- Rhode Island
- South Carolina
- South Dakota
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Utah
- Vermont
- Virginia
- Washington
- West Virginia
- Wisconsin
- Wyoming


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$2,600-donation limit remains
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The Western District Court of Missouri overturned the one of popular ballot issue in the state Friday when it ruled the state needs to stop enforcing Article VIII of the Missouri Constitution, which went into effect because of the passage of Amendment 2 in November.
Amendment 2 limited campaign contributions to just $2,600 per candidate per election, banned contributions between candidate committees, and prevented corporations or labor committees from contributing to campaign committees that only campaign on ballot measures, among other campaign regulations.
Some of those provisions were overturned by Senior Judge Ortrie Smith, as he sided with the plaintiffs in the case, Free and Fair Election Fund and the Missouri Electric Cooperatives. The $2,600 limit will remain, but Smith struck down the part of the law which forbids committee-to-committee transfers.
However, to give time for an appeal to be filed, Smith stayed enforcement of the order for 45 days. An appeal would have to be filed to the 8th District U.S. Court of Appeals.
The amendment passed in November by nearly a 70-30 margin. Its easy passage seeming to indicate that the people of Missouri largely approved of campaign contribution limits, which was the major provision of the amendment.
Eddie Greim, a partner of the Graves Garrett law firm for the defense, celebrated the decision, calling AMendment 2 "deeply flawed."
"The federal district court's order provides an example of federal judiciary's essential role in protecting First Amendment rights from infringement by states, even an unlawful state constitutional amendment," Greim said. "But today's judgment sends a clear message that a statewide vote cannot trump the freedom of speech."
The "Graves" in Graves Garrett is Todd Graves, the Chairman of the Missouri Republican Party and a lawyer for the defense.
Supporters of the amendment, were quick to ask Attorney General Josh Hawley to appeal the decision. Stephen Webber, the chairman of the Missouri Democratic Party, attacked Graves for his role in the case.
"It's no wonder the Missouri Republican Party's Chairman was the chief lawyer fighting to reopen these dark money channels – today's ruling will make it easier for Eric Greitens and Missouri's Republican officeholders to continue relying on special interests and billionaires with a pay-to-play agenda to advance policies that benefit big corporations at the expense of working Missourians," Webber said. "Attorney General Josh Hawley should honor the will of the voters and take immediate legal action to restore these campaign finance rules."
The full case can be read below. This is a developing story and is subject to updates.


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Hi there!
just a short question. I've got a stack of cracks that I've written taking up my HD space and I was wondering if anyone had opinions on the best place(s) to post them.
I was thinking about GameCopyWorld for tha gamey ones but I can't find out how to submit cracks here.
Any ideas or suggestions?
Hi, I am sure Crazee, the maintainer of Copy Freaks (that will be back soon) would be happy with your cracks. Please send a list of your cracks to firstname.lastname@example.com and will make sure he will contact you !
Thanks !
Why don't you make your own site if you have so many cracks ?????
cracks are not illegal you know.....
just curious:
Have you written the cracks in assembly or did you use another language?