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Oct. 26, 2007
Add another page to a history making season.
Friday night in Jacksonville the Lady Bisons came from behind to beat North Florida 2-1. It was the first time in their five seasons in the conference that the Lady Bisons have won an Atlantic Sun road game.
"We were very prepared," said first-year Lipscomb coach Jon Ireland. "We were focused. They seemed a little flat. All week long we had watched film. We knew exactly what we wanted to do and how we wanted to play against them and we did it."
Ireland found it difficult to contain his enthusiasm. North Florida entered the game with a 5-3 conference record.
"This is the biggest win in the history of our program," Ireland said. "If you look at our previous wins I don't think we have beaten a team at that level before.
"There have been so many firsts this year. We have won two games in the conference. We have tied a conference game. And we have won four games which ties the highest total in wins in a season."
The Lady Bisons spotted North Florida a 1-0 lead on a goal by Elizabeth Gowan at 19:21.
With 24 seconds left to play in the first half freshman forward Halie Proffitt scored with an assist from junior midfielder Sasha Sack.
"Sasha shot the ball and it was deflected," Ireland said. "It bounced over them and Halie came in for a one-on-one and kicked it over the goalkeeper's head from about 12 yards out. The ball was bouncing and the keeper was coming out to get it. Halie got their first.
"We had played really well in the first half. Halie's goal gave us a lot of momentum."
Freshman midfielder Kate Spellman scored the game winner at the 84:06 mark of the second half. Proffitt earned the assist.
"It was off of a cross," Ireland said. "Kate turned and hit it in the goal from eight yards out."
They were the only two shots on goal recorded by the Lady Bisons.
Proffitt leads the Lady Bisons in most offensive categories. Ireland stresses that she is only going to get better.
"Halie has a ton to learn, but that is a good thing," Ireland said. "She can get so much better. If you give her enough touches around the goal she is definitely going to make something happen."
Junior goalkeeper Katie Shelton put in another solid performance with eight saves. North Florida out shot the Lady Bisons 18-4 and held a 9-2 edge in shots on goal.
"It was a lot closer than those numbers," Ireland said. "There were shots from way out that were counted as shots on goal. It was not like they were pounding and pounding at us."
Ireland thought the Lady Bisons might find themselves in another overtime situation, but he was determined that he was not going to let that happen.
"I made a decision to play for a win," Ireland said. "North Florida started pushing everyone forward with the game tied 1-1. You could tell they were trying to win, too.
"I decided instead of playing defensively and trying to drop people back to guard all of their players that we would stay with our same formation. I wanted to try to win the game. If we lost it, we lost it, but I didn't want a tie. And we won."
Ireland was most pleased that his Lady Bisons fought back after being behind early.
"Being down a goal and beating a team on that level on the road was the biggest thing," Ireland said. "North Florida was in shock.
"It is a credit to our players because they just keep working and working. The progress they have made from the beginning of the year until now is incredible."
The Lady Bisons are 4-12-1, 2-6-1 in the A-Sun. North Florida is 6-10-1, 5-4-0 in the conference.


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The families of two American journalists sentenced to 12 years' hard labor in North Korea once again begged the pariah nation to free their loved ones a day after Pyongyang released video it said incriminated the reporters.
Appearing live on the "Today" show, the sister of Laura Ling and the husband of Euna Lee said they do not dispute North Korea's charges that the women ventured into the communist dictatorship, but asked for mercy. The plaintive appeal came a day after Pyongyang released the evidence it used to convict the women last week.
"We have apologized both publicly and privately and we now hope that the North Korean government will show compassion and let the girls go home," Lisa Ling, a former host of ABC's "The View," told "Today."
The evidence included videotape of Ling and Lee documenting their illicit trip across the frozen Tumen River from China.
"We've just entered a North Korean courtyard without permission," the Korean translation of their videotape narration said, according to North Korea's government-controlled news agency.
Ling, 32, and Lee, 36, who work for former Vice President Al Gore's California-based Current TV media group, were sentenced last Monday to 12 years of hard labor in a North Korean prison for illegal entry and "hostile acts.
Michael Saldate, Euna Lee's husband and father of their four-year-old daughter Hannah, said he faces the grim prospect of marking their fifth wedding anniversary alone next week.
"The idea of spending that anniversary apart from her saddens me deeply," Saldate said, adding that he has done his best to reassure their little girl that "Mommy will be home soon."
Lisa Ling said it is important to separate the journalists' case from North Korea's isolation from the rest of the world, driven by its nuclear saber rattling and bellicose threats.
Pyongyang released the evidence against Ling and Lee Tuesday, hours before President Obama met with South Korea's leader Lee Myung-bak and days after the U.N. Security Council issued new sanctions against North Korea for a May nuclear test. That raised fears the women were being used as political pawns.
North Korea wants to remind the U.S. that the women remain in Pyongyang's hands, said Kim Yong-hyun, a professor at Seoul's Dongguk University.
"The North is sending a message ahead of the summit: 'Don't take your eyes off this. This is a negotiating card we have,'" Kim said.

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Candance Cameron Bure has once again reunited with her "Full House" father and uncle!
The former child star attended an event Wednesday for the 30th anniversary of the Starlight Foundation with Bob Saget and John Stamos, who, respectively, played single dad Danny Tanner and Elvis-obsessed uncle Jesse Katsopolos on the show.
Bure, 37, who played spunky eldest sister DJ Tanner on the 1990s sitcom, wore a red strapless Adrianna Papell dress that she accessorized with a silver clutch from Tess handbags.
"Happy 30th anniversary Starlight Foundation!! @johnstamos @bobsaget," she wrote, posting a photo with her TV family on the arrivals carpet.
Bure, sister of actor Kirk Cameron and wife of retired hockey player Valeri Bure, has been one of the social media liaisons for the actors on the show, which aired from 1987 to 1995. She recently shared numerous photos from events they've all attended together, including one of Saget's charity hosting gigs and Stamos' 50th birthday. (Costar Lori Loughlin also posted quite a few pics from the birthday bash.) Bure even promoted costar Dave Coulier's latest stand-up gig, "Clean Guys of Comedy," on Instagram earlier this week.
But at Wednesday's event, which celebrated the charity's assistance of families with hospitalized children, Saget poked fun about how often he reunites with his tightknit former TV family, with whom he's kept in touch since they went off the air almost a decade ago. (Seriously, Coulier and Stamos did lunch together earlier this week.)
"Had a lovely time at Starlight Children's event with @CandaceCBure and @JohnStamos who I never get to see- except every two days," he wrote, posting a pic with Bure and Stamos.
"There was actually a lot of love, that's why the show's a hit," Saget, 57, told Us Weekly about the series' staying power. "It was a nicely written kid show for 12-year-old kids, mostly girl friendly. Any cast that does well now is because there's stuff going on that's not in the lines where you can see there's a spark going on with them, and that's with the love of that show. This was a kid show and a family show so we all genuinely have affection, a love for each other.
"It is a part of culture and it's not going away," he continued. "Little kids are watching it now like it just started, so it's really quite funny. The biggest compliment I get, me especially because I'm the oldest, is, 'You look the same!' I'm like, 'No I don't, dude, I'm all older and puffy,' but they're like, 'No, no.'"
The stand-up comic, who currently voices future Ted Mosby in CBS' "How I Met Your Mother," also likened being recognized as Danny to "being in a Big Bird suit. But it's an honor having done a show that so many people love."
As for Stamos, who's done guest stints on "Glee" and "Necessary Roughness," he doesn't mind still being called Uncle Jesse every now and then and is grateful for the show's positive influence on the children of the charity.
"I've done so much work since then, but it just doesn't ever go away. I never tried to run from it, but I've really embraced it the last 10 years," he told Us. "I'm proud of it and then main thing is that I really feel that 'Full House' helped a lot with Starlight and we helped a lot of kids through 'Full House,' through the Uncle Jesse thing to make a lot of kids happy. I could be called worse, right?"
Or better -- like "the new George Clooney," after whom Stamos seems to be modeling his bachelor status.
"I'm the old George Clooney! George is only one year older than me, I think," he quipped about the 52-year-old movie star (Stamos turned 50 in August). "I always used to look at George and go, 'Aww man, I don't know about that life, I'd like to settle down,' but now I'm pretty happy being a bachelor so ... I can just sort of walk in my own shoes, but I don't know."
Stamos was married to actress-model Rebecca Romijn from 1998 to 2005. He recently said he once dated his on-screen wife Loughlin, who is now married, and said she "could be the one that got away."
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Farmingdale, N.Y. - The Farmingdale State men's soccer team fell at home, 3-0, to 22nd ranked William Paterson this afternoon in Farmingdale, N.Y. The Rams are now 2-5, while the Pioneers improved to 7-0-1.
After a scoreless first 26 minutes of action, William Paterson's senior forward Domenick Candelieri (Pennsauken, N.J.) put the pioneers ahead 1-0 with a shot from the left side into the bottom right corner of the net. William Paterson increased their lead to 2-0 as freshman midfielder Jason Mena (North Arlington, N.J.) scored an unassisted goal off of a rebound in front. The Pioneers held a 14-1 shot advantage in the half and took a 2-0 lead into the break.
In the second half, William Paterson added one goal by Candelieri, his second of the contest, capping off a 3-0 victory.
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Well, some of you knew he was coming from my little avatar sneak-peek, and I know a lot of you saw the awesome, classic-style figure COTU made of him, but now you can see the glass shrimp as you've never seen him before:
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and just for fun, a work-in-progress, pencil sketch just to show the bare bones of the process:
and for those of you who have never heard of him before; See-Shell is a fan-created character created by myself with the help of Skeletoncrew and Galaxy Warrior of COTU fame. His inspiration was from my old avatar, and screen-name of Glass Shrimp.
His bio:
"See-Shell is a member of the Heroic Masters small, but elite, underwater forces. He is a member Crustie Race, the same basic species as Clawful, but of a rare breed that has different and unique powers, and does not share the same cruel temperment. Equally at home on land and sea, the already translucent See-Shell possesses the ability to become completely invisible when it suits his needs. Such as when gathering information on Skeletors' dastardly schemes, or when sneaking up on a couple of Evil Warriors in battle! See-Shell considers it his duty to take the fight to all the evil Crusties, but one in particular has become his nemesis, the deadly Lobscure."
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The recently released third edition (2010-2011) of The 500 Most Influential Muslims, has bestowed a deserved distinction on Professor Salim T S Al-Hassani, the President of the Foundation for Science, Technology and Civilisation (FSTC). The publication is an initiative of the The Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre (MABDA), which itself is an independent research entity affiliated with the Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought, headquartered in Amman, Jordan. Professor Salim T S Al-Hassani was selected as one of the Muslims who, by their work, represent a worldwide influence on the Muslim community, this influence being the power (be it cultural, ideological, financial, political or otherwise) to make a change that will have a significant positive impact on the Muslim World.
The recently released third edition (2010-2011) of The 500 Most Influential Muslims, has bestowed a deserved distinction on Professor Salim T S Al-Hassani, the President of the Foundation for Science, Technology and Civilisation (FSTC).
The publication is an initiative of the The Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre (MABDA), which itself is an independent research entity affiliated with the Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought, headquartered in Amman, Jordan.
Professor Salim T S Al-Hassani was selected as one of the Muslims who, by their work, represent a worldwide influence on the Muslim community, this influence being the power (be it cultural, ideological, financial, political or otherwise) to make a change that will have a significant positive impact on the Muslim World.
From the "The 500 Most Influential Muslims" book, Page 134
A New Way of Promoting Social Cohesion
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Professor Salim Al-Hassani's message is short and simple: "To build a better future, we must learn from our past." Achieving this is not as easy as it seems because history, as we know, is not a simple flow of events through time. There is a lot of information that has been lost, hidden, corrupted and biased. It is in this critical area of revisiting the history of what the Western education systems refer to as the Dark Ages, which Muslim history calls The Golden Age, that Professor Al-Hassani has devoted so much time and energy during the past two decades.
Prof. Al-Hassani founded FSTC with his colleagues around a new concept of charity and volunteer action aimed towards creating a solid ground for inter-community and inter-cultural understanding and cooperation, far away from political and religious boundaries. By choosing also to articulate the work of the foundation around science and technology, rather than the classical initiatives of inter-religious and cultural dialogues, he proved to be sensitive to the call of the modern world. Science and technology represent our best tools to build a better future for the coming generations. But the history that they receive should not suffer from oblivions or gaps, nor be the locus where complexes are born. A complex of superiority on one hand, from the triumphant Western Civilisation, nor a complex of inferiority within the modern heirs of Muslim Civilisation. These complexes do not promote dialogue or self-esteem, but antagonism and extremism.
Turning his attention to the past, he kept his eyes on the present. The central slogan of his work "Muslim Heritage in Our World" depicts this twofold and informed gaze. The present is built on the past, and in order to be able to learn from the latter, we must re-discover it and make clear the ties it has with the present. From this perspective we can all work together in the present to build a better future for all our heirs.
Projects like "FSTC", "1001 Inventions", "MuslimHeritage.com" and "CE4CE" represent this central tendency which guided the work of Salim Al-Hassani in promoting Muslim Heritage and its ramifications in our present day world. Phrases like "Cultural Cohesion", "Social Understanding", "Respect for Diversity", "Working Together", "Building Bridges", "Creating Awareness" and many more promoting inclusion found their real meaning through these projects.
FSTC and Its Projects
In 1999, Professor Salim Al-Hassani and other colleagues founded the Foundation for Science, Technology and Civilisation (FSTC). Professor Al-Hassani was, until the end of 2011, the Chairman of the Foundation. He is now the President of FSTC, Professor Mohammed El-Gomati is now Chairman. FSTC is a not-for-profit educational foundation which aims to generate social cohesion, inter-cultural appreciation, and to promote science and learning as an alternative to negative and extremist behaviour. It does this by illuminating the shared scientific heritage of humanity, with its initial efforts centring on uncovering the very significant scientific contributions by the Muslim Civilisation. In its various projects, from books to lectures, seminars, exhibitions, films and electronic publications, FSTC is supported by a large network of historians of science, academics, writers and intellectuals.
The projects carried on by FSTC are a compilation of stories that tell the history of science, technology and culture dating back to a thousand years, which are absent from school books, particularly in the West. This thousand-year time frame corresponds to a period after the fall of the Roman Empire to the beginning of the Renaissance in Europe, the period commonly known as the 'Dark Ages.' This is a misnomer, as this period was not really dark, and outside of Europe people were living in a golden age, in the sense that the age of discovery and science had never really ceased. This period also corresponds to a time when the Muslim civilization was flourishing. Yet, when we look at European sources on mathematics, astronomy, chemistry, physics, technology and medicine, we find a one thousand year gap. Does this mean that the readers who derive their knowledge from these sources suffer from a thousand years amnesia? This amnesia is of a dangerous type, in that it both feeds the superiority complex, and introduces an inferiority complex among other nations, particularly within young Muslims.
This gap in our history is destructive, rather than productive. Moreover, it will not help create or maintain peace in the world. Therefore, FSTC uses history of science as a new platform for dialogue. The Foundation is non-religious and non-political. Its researchers have chosen from among thousands of inventions to bring life to some of those that still are present in modern society. The research to document, verify and produce the content supporting the work of FSTC is carried out by a large number of academics and experts in this field to ensure that the information placed in the public domain meet high academic standards.
The aim pursued by FSTC in its main projects and global mission is to create a new platform, capable of using the roots and routes of scientific inventions to enhance social cohesion and to induce cultural inter-appreciation.
Currently, FSTC's projects and initiatives include:
- 1001 Inventions, which has become a global success story attracting one million to its travelling exhibition which has toured London, Istanbul, New York and Los Angeles.
- The Library of Secrets film starring Sir Ben Kingsley, produced for "1001 Inventions" touring exhibition, has received 21 international awards and has been downloaded 12 million times.
- MuslimHeritage.com was launched in 2002 as the central academic web portal of FSTC; at present, it includes hundreds of peer reviewed articles, published online and consulted for free by thousand of visitors on a daily basis, from all over the world.
- Curriculum Enrichment for the Common Era (CE4CE) was established in 2009 to further develop work with education in schools, prisons and communities around the world and receives 200 monthly users of its online teaching materials.
- The Muslim Heritage Awareness Group (MHAG) is expanding globally with networks in the UK, Turkey and the USA.
- The Arabick Roots exhibition opened in June and sponsored by FSTC at the Royal Society proved to be yet another great success story.


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Phil Mickelson Demonstrates to Military Children How Math and Science Influence Golf
Elementary school students from Quantico Marine Base and Fort Belvoir Army Base in Northern Virginia joined Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings at the U.S. Department of Education on July 22, for a golf lesson with golf legend Phil Mickelson. Mickelson, who demonstrated how he uses math and science in the game, is a co-sponsor of the Phil Mickelson/ExxonMobil Mini Golf Camp and the Mickelson/ExxonMobil Teacher Academy. The Academy helps teachers bolster their knowledge of math and science. In addition to the Secretary and military children, Ken Cohen, Exxon/Mobil's vice president for public affairs, and Tom Luce, president of the National Math Science Initiative, were on hand to assist the young golfers. For more information, see www.ed.gov/news/pressreleases/2008/07/07222008.html.
Memorandum of Understanding Signed by DoD and ED
On June 25, Deputy Secretary Ray Simon (ED) and Deputy Secretary Gordon England (DoD) signed a Memorandum of Understanding to establish a general framework for cooperation between the two agencies that will support and encourage military families. To advance this vision, ED and DoD will utilize and strengthen existing programs, promote the use of scientifically based research on effective school practices, and enhance communication about tools and information available for parents to help their children succeed in school. Activities will be defined further to support the goals of both Departments.
Secretary's Activities
Secretary Spellings Honors Military Spouses
May 9 was designated as Military Spouse Appreciation Day. Since 1984,and by Presidential proclamation, the Armed Forces have set aside a special day to acknowledge the significant contributions of their spouses. To view the proclamation, go to http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2008/05/20080505-8.html. To find more family news and resources visit the Military Spouse Network at http://www.military.com/spousecenter/index.html.
- Mother's Day
For the annual Mothers Day at The Wall event at The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund on May 11, Secretary Margaret Spellings sent a card honoring the mothers of fallen soldiers and those who hold their families together while a loved one is deployed. Her card joined those from children across the country who sent hand-written messages.
- Father's Day
On June 15, the Secretary and ED employees sent special greetings to "All Dads stationed overseas" and to Rick Siders and Brian Huckaby, ED employees, both fathers of two, who are now deployed in Iraq. Go to http://fathersday.stripes.osd.mil/ to see the Father's Day greetings.
Secretary Spellings Participates in Opening of Discovery Center
On Sunday, June 8, Secretary Spellings joined former First Lady Nancy Reagan for the grand opening of the Air Force One Discovery Center in the Air Force One Pavilion at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum in Simi Valley, California. To learn more about the center go to http://www.venturacountystar.com/news/2008/jun/ 09/unmatched-creativity-at-reagan-library-students/.
ED/DoD Leadership
Education Department Releases Online Newsletter Featuring Ft. Riley School
Ware Elementary School at Ft. Riley, Kansas was featured in the first issue of the reformatted ED newsletter, The Achiever. The school, where 65 percent of its students transfer each year, has helped virtually all of its children exceed state academic standards with 100% of students proficient in math and 99.6% proficient in reading. The Achiever provides parents and community leaders with news and resources on improving education and is now an online photo narrative. To read more, go to www.ed.gov/achiever.
Conversion of BRAC Properties into Schools and College Campuses
Under the military Base Realignment and Closure Act (BRAC), ED plays a role in assisting colleges, universities, public and private schools and eligible nonprofit organizations in acquiring and developing former federal government real property at substantial Public Benefit Allowance discounts through its Federal Real Property Assistance Program (FRPAP). For eligibility and additional program information see http://www.ed.gov/programs/fedrealproperty/realpropbrochure.html. The FRPAP has authority to award both civilian (GSA) and military properties to educational institutions and school systems and is actively engaged in working on more than 100 military properties determined surplus as a result of the 2005 BRAC decisions. Listings of approved projects will occur in upcoming issues.
Assistant Secretary Briggs and Deputy Assistant Secretary Colby Attend DoD Conference in Japan
Assistant Secretary of Elementary and Secondary Education Kerri Briggs and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Communications and Outreach Chad Colby represented ED at the Advisory Council on Dependent Education (ACDE) meeting in Tokyo. Both also participated in site visits to the Department of Defense Education Activity schools in the Pacific Region, April 26 – 30, where schools in Seoul, Korea, Okinawa, Japan, and Misawa, Japan were evaluated. These evaluations were then presented at the ACDE meeting in Tokyo on May 2.
DoD Deputy Under Secretary Arsht Participates in 2nd Charter School Conference
Ms. Leslye Arsht, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, Military Community and Family Policy, participated in the ED-sponsored National Charter School Policy Forum on May 7. The Forum kicked off National Charter Schools Week (May 5-9) and provided a national platform for increasing the understanding of the charter school model and the replication of high-performing charter schools for business and education leaders from across the country. Ms. Arsht signaled support for charter schools, making mention of DoD's charter school, Belle Chasse Academy, which serves about 900 military dependent children from all the services in the greater New Orleans area.
ED Employees
Brian Huckaby, Region IV, Deployed to Iraq
Lt. Brian Huckaby is currently on active duty in Iraq. An Office of the Inspector General auditor in ED's Chicago office since January 2005, Huckaby is in the Naval Reserves.
ED Staff Member Joins Interagency Forum on Energy
At the invitation of the Deputy Secretary of Defense, Lane Raffray of the Office of Management is serving as ED's representative to the Interagency Forum on Energy Security.
ED Assists DoD in Defining Disability-Related Program Terms
Jerry Elliott, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS), is a primary liaison to a Department of Defense and Veteran Affairs task force. The primary goal of the task force is to provide definitions for terms involved in statutes, regulations, and program eligibility requirements for programs in DoD and the Veterans Administration (VA). The Vocational Rehabilitation program funded by OSERS uses functional definitions to determine eligibility for individuals with disabilities, including veterans with disabilities. Refining the definitions is the first step toward consistency of terminology between DoD and VA.
ED Employees Learn About National Guard Youth ChalleNGe Program
On April 10, Hugh Price of the Brookings Institution and Rick Mills, military area officer with the Chicago Public Schools JROTC and military schools programs, shared insights from the National Guard Youth ChalleNGe Program at a policy forum for ED employees. Established in 1993, the program is based on the military school model and educates children who are performing below par, disengaged from school, or dropping out. For more information go to http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Files/rc/papers/2007/ 05defense_price/05defense_price.pdf
Employees Participate in Ceremony for Wounded Warriors and Loyalty Day
On April 24, President George W. Bush welcomed the Wounded Warriors to the South Lawn of the White House for the second annual "White House to Lighthouse Challenge" bike ride. ED employees joined men and women of the armed services, Cabinet members, congressional representatives, and guests to cheer on the riders. President Bush also proclaimed May 1st as Loyalty Day, declaring that "All Americans are grateful to the members of the military and their families for their service, sacrifice, and dedication, and we are proud of their accomplishments." To learn more about Loyalty Day, go to http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/04/20030430-26.html and http://220.127.116.11/index.cfm?fa=cmty.leveld&did=2484
Charter Schools Program Director Talks to DoD Advisory Committee
On May 16, Dean Kern, Charter Schools Program Director at ED, spoke to military personnel and civilians at the Defense Department Advisory Committee on Women in the Services' business meeting in Arlington, VA. He provided an overview of the Charter School Grant Program and information about the growth of charters.
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"Spouses to Teachers" Is a Department of Defense Project
The "Spouses to Teachers" project is designed to support spouses in their pursuit of K-12 teaching positions in public and private schools in the U.S. The program targets husbands and wives of active duty personnel, selected reserve and National Guard reserve members, and members of Individual Ready Reserve who have been recalled to active duty in key states. Information and services related to becoming a teacher include state certification requirements, counseling and guidance on certification options, application assistance for transferring teacher certification from one state to another, financial assistance, and state employment guidance. See www.spousestoteachers.com/ for more information.
Children of Fallen Soldiers Relief Fund Provides Financial Aid
The Children of Fallen Soldiers Relief Fund, a nonprofit organization, provides college grants and financial assistance to surviving children and spouses of military service members who have lost their lives in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. The program assists disabled service members' families as well. To learn more, go to http://www.cfsrf.org/
Federal Aviation Administration Seeking Air Traffic Controllers
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is accepting applications under the Special Program for Retired Military Controllers for military air traffic controllers who are either on terminal leave pending retirement from active duty military service or who retired from active duty on or after September 17, 1999 are eligible to apply. For more information, see http://www.faa.gov/jobs/job_opportunities/ airtraffic_controllers/openings/.
College Aid Expanded For U.S. Veterans
Veterans will see expansions in their GI benefits as a result of the Supplemental Appropriations Act (HR 2642) that was signed by President Bush on June 30. The law provides educational benefits available to members of the military who have served on active duty since September 11, 2001, including reservists. Benefit amounts would be based on the amount of time a veteran had served in the military since 9/11. The legislation also enables veterans to transfer unused education benefits to their spouses and children. To learn more, go to http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2008/06/20080630.html and http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi? dbname=110_cong_bills&docid=f:h2642enr.txt.pdf.
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The recent bombing at the Boston Marathon and the current investigation into the massacre in Benghazi have brought two points clearly into view: One, Islam is waging an undeclared war on America; and, two, the very character of our government is now in question.
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The recent bombing at the Boston Marathon and the current investigation into the massacre in Benghazi have brought two points clearly into view: One, Islam is waging an undeclared war on America; and, two, the very character of our government is now in question.
How many times will Muslims attack America before we finally acknowledge their threat? We can review American history as far back as Thomas Jefferson and find that Western Civilization in general and America in particular have been under attack by Muslims for centuries. Recent attacks include: 1972, Munich Massacre; 1983, U.S. Embassy in Beirut bombed; 1993, World Trade Center bombed; 2001, World Trade Center destroyed, Pentagon damaged; 2013, runners and spectators killed and maimed at the Boston Marathon. In searching the internet for Muslim attacks, I found a list that included approximately 100 incidents since 1979. The list was too long to count; therefore, I cited here only one from each recent decade.
Less noticeable but more serious is the question of our national character. We have abandoned the very foundation of our Constitution, the Bible. God warned Israel in 2 Chronicles 7:14: �� if my people , who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.�
Our government has lied to us about the events in Benghazi on Sept. 9, 2012. The IRS has been found to have singled out for persecution grass-roots groups of assorted patriots who object mainly to government spending � namely, the TEA Party. The Justice Department has refused to enforce selected laws � chiefly, those having to do with immigration and homosexuality. The President�s policies have weakened the American military and encouraged attacks by radical Muslims. His Affordable Care Act passed through a Congress that did not read the bill and now the truth of its real cost and the refusal of many states to participate must be faced.
Although the president has been seen carrying a Bible to church � at least once � the president�s administration is a party to suppressing Christian expression while the Congress debates issues such as immigration, gun control and the truth behind Benghazi.
At the core of our national woes is a government that we do not trust, a Congress that is dysfunctional and a judiciary afraid to recognize and proclaim the truth. Our nation is suffering from a pervasive illness, a product of modern technology and an affluent lifestyle that feeds individual egos and ignores genuine needs. Like an immature teenager, we think we are perfect and immortal.
What has happened to our faith, our wisdom, our courage, our integrity and our honor? When will we wake up? At what point will we finally stop thumbing our iPods and Kindles and fall on our knees and plead with God for the survival of our nation and its freedom? That freedom has never been free and never will be. Many of those who fought to free this nation from the oppression of King George III and the evils of Hitler�s Nazi Party knew this only too well. They paid with their lives.
We must heed God�s warning in 2 Chronicles 7:14. We need to pray daily that the price paid for our freedom is not in vain. Pray each day that our leaders at all levels of government will turn back to God and govern us according to His precepts as found in His book, the Holy Bible. As a pastor once admonished, �Pray hard!�
I hope and pray that our prayers do not reach heaven too late.
Jere Geurin
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Galaxy UGC 9391
This Hubble Space Telescope image shows one of the galaxies in the survey to refine the measurement for how fast the universe expands with time, called the Hubble constant.
The galaxy, UGC 9391, contains two types of stars that astronomers use to calculate accurate distances to galaxies, a key measurement in determining the Hubble constant. The red circles mark the locations of Cepheid variable stars. These stars pulsate at rates that correspond to their true brightness, which can be compared with their apparent brightness as seen from Earth to accurately determine their distance.
The blue "X" at bottom right denotes the location of supernova 2003du, a special class of exploding star called a Type Ia supernova. These supernovae are another commonly used cosmic yardstick. They flare with the same brightness and are brilliant enough to be seen from relatively longer distances. Astronomers calibrate the supernovae with the Cepheids in galaxies such as UGC 9391 so that they can accurately calculate the distances to faraway exploding stars. UGC 9391 resides 130 million light-years from Earth.
The observations for this composite image were taken between 2012 and 2013 by Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3.


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But can you get yourself fired for venting on social media? Does the law protect your right to speak ill of your boss? The answer is yes to both questions, say two employment lawyers and Tony Wagner, a spokesman for the National Labor Relations Board. Technically, the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 protects most of the negative things you might want to say about your boss online. The rule is that your intention should be to improve or change the terms or conditions of your employment and the speech should be "concerted." In other words, you should be trying to act in concert with colleagues who might feel the same way as you about your lousy boss.
Though the law may protect you, employers obviously do not look kindly on being the brunt of online criticism, especially on social media. A story on the front page of today's New York Times describes how an increasing number of companies, including General Motors, Target and Costco, are issuing social media policies that say workers can't disparage managers or co-workers on social media, and to do so can be grounds for firing. But the Times points out that the NLRB is pushing companies to rewrite their restrictive policies, believing that the NLRA protects employees who want to discuss work conditions openly without fearing sanction.
The only statements that aren't protected are personal gripes or rants that affect no other employees but you. Example: You complain that your boss is being a jerk to you but not to anyone else in the office. Gossip that doesn't affect the terms and conditions of your employment, like a post about the boss's extramarital affair, is also not protected. On the other hand, you can write a post noting your company's anti-nepotism policy and that your boss has just hired his wife. That does affect your working conditions and would be protected, explains Anne Golden, a plaintiff-side labor lawyer at Outten & Golden in New York.
Daniel P. O'Meara, chairman of the employment law division of Philadelphia-based law firm Montgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhoads, which represents employers, brings up one quirk of the law: The protections do not apply to managers and supervisors, because the statute is aimed at employees who are trying to organize to improve their working conditions. So a salesperson making $95,000 a year who is not a supervisor would be protected by the NLRA, while a supervisor earning $11 an hour would not.
The Times lays out a few recent cases that illustrate how the law works. Two cases that didn't favor the employees: One involved a bored police reporter at The Arizona Daily Star who posted Twitter messages bemoaning the lack of overnight homicides. "You're slacking, Tucson," he wrote. The paper found the posts offensive and fired the reporter. The NLRB reviewed the case and found that the reporter was personally venting, which is not protected under the NLRA. In another case, a bar in Illinois fired a bartender who was unhappy he had not gotten a raise in five years and launched into a rant where he called his customers "rednecks," adding that he hoped they choked on glass and drove home drunk. The NLRA does not protect personal rants that don't pull in other employees who may be experiencing poor working conditions, says the NLRB's Wagner.
In a case where the NLRA did protect employees, an online argument had broken out between caseworkers at a nonprofit social services office, Hispanics United of Buffalo, where caseworkers went online to berate a colleague who felt they didn't work hard enough. Hispanics United fired five caseworkers, saying they had harassed the complainer. But the labor board reinstated them, because it said they had engaged in concerted activity to discuss working conditions, activity that is protected by the NLRA.
Despite that victory and the NLRA's broad protections for employees who complain about lousy bosses, and the agency's push to get companies to relax their social media rules, Golden and O'Meara agree that it's a very bad idea to use social media either to vent about your boss's bad behavior or to try to organize colleagues to protest workplace policy.
"It's foolish," says Golden. "Even if it's technically protected by the NLRA, it's not going to make your boss like you or smooth your road at work when the company learns about this." Most companies have automated searches for online mentions of their names, so if you post something, it will likely make its way back to your boss. "If you have things to complain about now, maybe you can't be fired for saying them, but your life is not going to be made easier at work," says Golden. "Retaliation is a very human response to feeling attacked."
If you really want to organize your co-workers, protesting online is not the best way to do it. Even if you are careful about your Facebook privacy settings and you make sure only certain colleagues see your posts, Facebook postings are not as effective as in-person meetings about the problem at hand, says Golden. O'Meara agrees. Posting workplace discontent online, though legally protected, "is just one aspect of the bad judgment people exercise on social media."


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UC Davis medical student receives 2012 Physicians of Tomorrow award
Kabir Matharu, a fourth-year student at UC Davis School of Medicine, received a 2012 Physicians of Tomorrow award from the American Medical Association Foundation for his leadership and strong commitment to promoting social justice through use of the performing arts. Matharu is one of only 18 students in the nation to receive the scholarship, which recognizes academic excellence and provides $10,000 for medical school tuition.
"Kabir Matharu is using innovative approaches to improve the health of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community and raise awareness of the needs of this underserved population among students and providers," said Claire Pomeroy, vice chancellor for human health sciences and dean of the School of Medicine at UC Davis. "His work is helping to define new approaches in health care and exemplifies our institutional commitment to improve lives and transform health care."
Since his first year of medical school, Matharu has worked with the Department of English Literature and the Department of Internal Medicine to develop a popular workshop for medical students to engage in theatrical readings. In these sessions, students dramatize scenes from literature that focus on suffering, illness or death, which enabled them to "become" characters who are different from themselves and explore situations beyond the realm of their own personal experiences. Characters range from a heartsick and dying father in Shakespeare's "King Lear" and a middle-aged woman coping with ovarian cancer in "Wit" to a gay man confronting AIDS in "Angels in America." The work of Matharu and his colleagues has been published in journals such as BMJ Medical Humanities and Literature Compass.
"We found that students, regardless of whether they acted the part of a different character or watched their peers perform, were able to understand segments of society deemed 'different,'" said Matharu. "Our work over the years has clearly demonstrated that literature and the arts have a special place in medical education."
Matharu founded a support group in 2010 that provides counseling and referrals for homeless and indigent LGBT patients in Sacramento and Washington, D.C., where he spent a year as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute research fellow. The intent of his organization is to promote health among members who identify as LGBT or have significant others who do. People served by this clinic often have few resources for specific health and psychosocial services, and the ability to participate in the support group is especially important and therapeutic. The monthly sessions allow individuals to discuss their thoughts and concerns on sexuality and "coming out" and to address health concerns such as sexually transmitted infections, cancer, diabetes and depression.
Matharu also developed and conducted a survey among his fellow medical students to assess attitudes about gay men and their behavior, as well as issues related to civil rights and masculinity. To be published in BMC Medical Education, the study by Matharu and colleagues at UC Davis and Harvard Medical School demonstrated more negative attitudes toward gay men among male and younger medical students.
With funding from the Arnold P. Gold Foundation and UC Davis, he is currently working on a project that will test whether theater can target bias against obese people.
"We've come to a point where we can apply scientific methods for assessing various forms of bias against the obese, for whom discrimination is more overt than other marginalized groups," he said.
Matharu is lead student investigator of the study, which is being conducted with colleagues at UC Irvine and Mayo Medical School.
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Now whether that's a bias towards our own scene I don't know. I've never spent an extended period of time in any stand-up scene other than Chicago. Talent wise I've seen less than one percent of what other towns have to offer. And the Chicago comics who are going out of town have to have similar if not identical experiences to mine. But when I leave, no matter what town I'm in, I feel the exact same way. I think the reason is because of these factors, in no particular order of priority.
Originality: When it comes to Chicago comedy, hack comedy is frowned upon like pedophilia. If you're someone doing a joke about shake-weights, R. Kelly, or Snooki, you put yourself on the outside. If you're talking about out-of-date topics because your Steve Irwin bit was so good and you don't want to let go of it, you won't fit in here. If you're a comic who does jokes that anyone can write such as 'Why are they surprised a killer whale killed her? It's called a 'Killer Whale?!,' or an even more egregious offense, 'I'm saying nigger or talking about rape because I'm edgy! There's no joke here, but listen! Nigger-rape! Crazy huh?! I'm going to go drink my own piss now!' you are not tolerated here.
In the Chicago comedy scene, artistic integrity is held in very high regard. That's why being considered a comedian other Chicago comics respect, means so much. I think every Chicago comic wants to make the other comics laugh just as much as they want to make an audience laugh. And because of that respect, it makes our scene amazing because we have so many comedians who are able to make the audience laugh while still staying true to themselves and not giving in to cheap jokes they know would work.
Treating comedy like a hobby and expecting something more back from it is not what our scene is about. In Chicago, you're not going to catch a lucky break. This isn't where you come to get famous. This is where you come to get good.
I understand it's difficult to get out, especially if you have a job. But I know myself along with a multitude of other comics who get 8 hours a sleep once every 2 or 3 months. That's why Chicago comics are a very close-knit group and don't let just anyone who's been doing it for a short amount of time in. We are war buddies. We've been through the shit. The Underground Lounges, the Gio's, the Amps and Lucky Number Grill's. The road shows where the TV's are still on in the bar and the crowd is angry you're ruining their dinner. The fundraisers where people have their conversations interrupted briefly to hear you introduced only to turn their heads and resume their conversation as you begin your 20 minute set. The shows or open mics where the microphone becomes a decoration because you're doing your set to two fellow comics and a bartender and the only sound in the room is your voice coming through the microphone. And worst of all, the nights of a packed house, ready to laugh, and for some reason that night, you didn't have it. Everybody who's a legit Chicago comic has had these experiences 10 times over. And yet we still do it. That's what makes us tight knit. Which is the next reason Chicago comedy is special.
Community: When I'm done with a show or an open mic, I should go home. I'm tired, I have work early, I've got errands to run and bills to pay. But I don't leave. Instead I go out with a bunch of degenerates who have as little a sense of responsibility as I do. But it's awesome every time. Nights like the last night of Riot Comedy, a local Chicago showcase that ran for two years, shows how much of a group we are. Damn near every comic in Chicago was there to support the show's final night. Riot was a show that epitomized the community feeling of Chicago. A show that put up the newer comic who had been doing well at mics and deserved to go up in front of a crowd and get their feet wet. And on Thursday nights, it was a staple for hanging out. After any open mics or out of town shows that were going on, the Chicago comedy scene would converge on Chicago Joe's and drink copious amounts of alcohol until we were kicked out. Then it was off to the Oakwood to drink until later hours until we were kicked out of there. Then it was whoever's apartment we are off to so that we could piss off that comic's roommate for making noise at 5 in the morning.
Certainly there's some psychosis involved here that we all don't want to go home. But the camaraderie in the scene is intense and amazing. I won't forget the night that I performed at the Just For Laughs auditions at Chicago Underground Comedy and the feeling I had in the back of the room looking around at the other comics. The first feeling was respect and admiration for all the people I was performing with. The next of a nervous feeling that this wasn't going to go well followed immediately by the comforting thought that 'Well I have friends in the back who won't let me bomb.' All the comics laughed at jokes they'd heard a thousand times before. After sets, every comic went up to whoever just finished, shook their hand and said 'Awesome job man, you killed it. (Except Adam Burke. He said 'Splendid job. Absolutely marvelous. There is a complete lack of superlatives to describe the magnificence of your sagacious witticisms.') That was an example of what the Chicago scene is about.
No Ego: Stand-up comedy in Chicago is the ugly step-sister. Everyone comes here to do Second City, iO, or some form of improv and people flock from all over the country to try and get into these places thinking that's their path to Saturday Night Live. Now that's not to say that every person that goes to iO or Second City is like that, but certainly these comedy institutions have been diluted by the delusional. People who want fame and think that going to those places simply puts you on the fast track. That said, audiences flock to these places as well, seeing pictures of John Belushi, Chris Farley, and Bill Murray. Meanwhile stand-up showcases fight to stay alive and keep giving stage time to truly talented people in front of a real crowd. Stand-up comedy in Chicago is the ugly step-sister. But because of that fact, that's what makes it as innovative as it is.
If you're in Chicago doing stand-up, you know you're not going to get famous here. Or if you are you've been misinformed. When you come to Chicago for stand-up you should know this is not the fast track. The fast track is in LA and New York. If you're doing stand-up in Chicago you won't get famous, you're just going to get better.
Everyone that has achieved fame and success that's from Chicago has moved in order to achieve that fame and success. But not before they reached their full potential as a Chicago comic. This is where people come because they love it. And as frustrating as it is not doing comedy for a living or not getting booked or what have you, the thing that makes it tolerable is the fact that you know when you do leave, you'll be ready. And watching the other talented people in the scene who are better than you doesn't create jealousy. It creates inspiration. You want to be that good. You appreciate that person and then think 'I need to keep working. I want to be at that level. I gotta hit more mics.'
And because there's no industry here, it's not as though someone is going to catch a break you didn't. Someone gets something else, awesome! That's good for Chicago cause then it makes people aware of us. That's the mentality. And because of the community feeling we know that with every person that goes onto bigger and better things, the more the industry is going to start coming to us and then we won't have to leave a place we love. Whether that's a good or a bad thing I don't know. The one fear I have is people coming here to do stand-up to get famous. Right now, people are here to do it because they love it. And they love seeing talented people go up because A) It's enjoyable and makes them laugh, and B) It inspires them to get better rather than angry because they're not that good yet.
Opportunity: When new comics arrive on the scene, they ask 'Where is a good mic to go to?' Instead of listing off all the open mics in Chicago, I grab a pen and a napkin and write down every single one I can think of. I then tell them to go to all of them. If they do that, they will have a better shot at getting better and therefore getting booked. If they say, 'You mean like at Zanies or the Improv?', I never talk to them again.
In Chicago, you can go to a number of open mics and be seen by those in charge of well-run local comedy showcases. After seeing you a few times, if you bust your ass and don't bail on a set regardless of how many people are in the crowd and whether or not they are paying attention (and of course if you're funny), they will give you an opportunity to perform in front of a real crowd. You can then be seen by comics who run other showcases that can recommend you or help you get to another stage. Or will recommend you to a road club like Madison on State Street.
Comics here are willing to help and there's plenty of stage time to make a name for yourself so you can become part of the group. In other cities, those opportunities are limited. I remember when I was in Milwaukee there were two open mics total. Two. Here, you can get on stage a number of times on any given night. That opportunity is not available anywhere else. Or if it is available, it will cost you. Literally. Like $5 for 5 minutes or something insane like that. And in bigger scenes the only way to do a showcase half the time is to bring 10 audience members and then say 'Thank you sir may I have another?' with no promise of anything other than the prospect of being exploited a few more times.
The Chicago comedy scene is special for all these reasons and honestly when I think about it, it reminds me of when I hear of Boston's comedy hey-day back in the 80's. The only thing missing is the popularity of stand-up comedy but that's what makes our scene work even harder and try and get better. We want to be part of this thing that may make people turn their heads away from improv and sketch and realize that what's happening now in stand-up in Chicago is something they're going to want to see and be a part of. Think of how lucky people were to see Second City when Gilda Radner and John Candy were there. The opportunity to pay $5 to see someone coming into their own, on their way to eventually being great (Which is the way I feel about a lot of stand-ups in Chicago) is an opportunity that shouldn't be passed up. A lot of talent Is migrating away, but there's still plenty left and on the horizon.
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Lady Gaga, Perez Hilton feud on Twitter
CNN/Stylemagazine.com Newswire | 8/19/2013, 11:34 a.m.
By Sarah Aarthun
CNN/stylemagazine.com Newswire
The latest celebrity Twitter feud erupted Sunday between two heavyweights of the social medium.
In one corner: pop superstar Lady Gaga and her nearly 40 million followers. In the other: pop culture blogger Perez Hilton and his 6.1 million Twitter fans.
Who won the war of 140 characters? It depends on whom you ask.
The feud between the former friends appears to stem from several incidents: Hilton tweeted Thursday that Katy Perry's new single, "Roar," is better than Gaga's latest song, "Applause." On Friday, Gaga, who is in the midst of a comeback following a serious tear to her right hip, cryptically referenced a text from Hilton that appeared to make light of her injury. "Still have the text Perez sent me of me in a wheelchair with the words KARMA written across + Madonna pointing a gun at me," she tweeted.
But Gaga went into Twitter overdrive Sunday, accusing Hilton of stalking her, after one of her followers alerted her that he was at Gaga's apartment building in New York.
"STAY AWAY FROM ME + MY FAMILY YOU ARE SICK TRYING TO RENT AN APARTMENT IN MY BUILDING TO STALK ME. LEAVE ME ALONE!!!" she tweeted.
Hilton, who lives in Los Angeles, announced last week that he is moving to New York as he raises his new son, born via a surrogate in February.
He responded to Gaga's tweets with a post on his blog Sunday night, titled "A Statement On Lady GaGa's Lies." In the statement, he explains he was house-hunting and later learned one of the buildings he looked at was, in fact, Gaga's building.
"After a day of innocent house-hunting, I am devastated and my heart hurts that my former very good friend, a person I used to call my 'wifey' and traveled the world with, is making very public and very untrue allegations about me on Twitter," he wrote, adding "it is still too painful" to reveal what caused the end of their friendship.
He said that as a result of Gaga's series of tweets Sunday, her fans have sent him death threats and posted derogatory comments about his 6-month-old son.
"If her fans want to send a message of support to Lady GaGa, they should buy her music," he wrote, a thinly veiled reference to Gaga's new single being declared a flop by several media outlets.
And while Gaga vowed "I've been quiet for a long time, not this time," Hilton appeared to be getting the last word.
"The truth will all eventually come out. It usually does!" he wrote.


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Updated list shows 33 new goals for fiscal 2014-2015.
In 2009, the Obama administration directed agencies to identify a handful of priorities that they would commit to achieving in a two-year timeframe. This initiative was embedded into the 2010 GPRA Modernization Act. Agencies are required to identify priority goals and report on their progress quarterly. In late June, agency progress reports were posted on the governmentwide performance.gov website.
When the president's fiscal 2015 budget was released in March, agencies refreshed their priority goals for the fiscal 2014-2015 time period. There are 89 agency priority goals for the 23 major departments and agencies. Based on my review, 33 are new and the rest are extensions or revisions of goals previously set in the 2012-2013 round of goal-setting. In all cases, agencies have named individuals who serve as the goal leaders.
New goals and associated progress indicators include, for example:
Defense Department: Transition to Veterans
Improve the career readiness of service members transitioning to veteran status by Sept. 30, 2015, which includes:
- Ensuring that at least 85 percent of eligible service members complete new transition requirements prior to separation, including pre-separation counseling, a Labor Department employment workshop, and Veterans Affairs Department benefits briefings.
- Verifying that at least 85 percent of separating service members meet newly established Career Readiness Standards prior to separation.
- Achieving and maintaining 85 percent or more positive responses from service members assessing the effectiveness of the department's transition assistance training curriculum.
- Accelerating the transition of recovering service members to veteran status by reducing the disability evaluation processing time.
- Supporting the seamless transition of recovering service members by sharing active recovery plans with the VA.
Goal Leader: Virginia S. Penrod, chief of staff, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense, Personnel and Readiness
Social Security Administration: Expand the use of video hearings to deliver a world-class customer experience.
Increase the percentage of video hearings from 26 percent in fiscal 2013 to 30 percent by Sept. 30, 2015.
Goal Leader: Jim Borland, assistant deputy commissioner, Office of Disability Adjudication and Review
Each agency priority goal includes an action plan and measurable indicators of progress and milestones. Progress reviews are conducted quarterly by agency chief operating officers (generally the deputy secretary or equivalent).
Progress Updates
The new (or refreshed) goals posted in March underwent their first progress reviews at the end of the quarter, March 31, and the updates were posted on performance.gov in late June to provide an initial baseline of data for assessing progress in coming reviews. Agencies will begin their next quarterly reviews on July 1, and those progress reports will be posted publicly after they are completed, generally six to eight weeks after the end of the quarter.
In the case of the priority goal for veterans, the progress report to date says Defense has developed a military lifecycle implementation plan that will be rolled out to all the services. The department also combined 13 directives and developed an expedited disability process manual to help speed claims once service members are discharged and file for veterans benefits.
On the priority goal for video hearings, the progress report notes that Social Security has created a new quarterly report to track progress on video use and that regional staffs are certified to use the equipment. The report states that administrative review judges have "held 27.2 percent of hearings by video during this fiscal year, while for the month of March alone we held 28.3 percent of hearings by video."
Reading the Reviews Online
The Government Accountability Office critiqued the performance.gov website last year, including observations about its poor navigation. While it has improved, it is still difficult to move back and forth between priority goals. I've created a separate landing page that lists goals by agency and numbers them for easy reference. But beware: The list is static, not dynamic. It will not reflect changes in text or goal leaders since the original posting. And if agencies add or delete goals, then it will affect the numbering.
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The Victorian Government has extended the freeze on granting new liquor licence applications to trade after 1am in local governments areas of Melbourne (including Docklands), Stonnington, Yarra and Port Phillip, until 30 June 2019.
Applications in the local government areas of:
Applications for local government areas other than those listed.
Applications for the grant, relocation and variation of the following licence types:
Applications, relocations or variations of the following licence types:
The Victorian Commission for Gambling and Liquor Regulation (VCGLR) will generally not grant applications for licences to trade after 1am in Melbourne (including Docklands), Stonnington, Yarra and Port Phillip, unless certain conditions are met.
The VCGLR refers to specific decision-making guidelines when determining applications from licensees who wish to serve liquor after 1am within these areas. For more information download the Decision-Making Guidelines Late Night Freeze (PDF, 327KB).
All applications to serve liquor after 1am in these areas require the prior support of the relevant local council.
Each local council has developed its own process or policy on how decisions will be made on these applications.
Contact your relevant local council for further information and guidance.
Other conditions apply based on the type of liquor licence requested. See below licence categories.
Secure local council support first.
Applicants for the grant, relocation or variation of permanent liquor licences must satisfy the VCGLR that:
Applicants for the grant, relocation or variation of permanent liquor licences must satisfy the VCGLR that the application is for:


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Check out Wellington, the 'Coolest Little Capital in the World'
Wellington is crammed with more bars, cafes and restaurants per capita than New York. You'll also find arts and cultural events in abundance in the capital
Nestled in green hills and within a protective harbour, the capital city of Wellington has a laid back vibe yet offers some of the best shopping, arts and nightlife in the country. After a day of checking out the numerous galleries and museums indulge in boutique beer and innovative cuisine in award winning restaurants. Some fantastically accessible nature experiences are within a short drive of the city so get up close and personal with some of New Zealand's iconic wildlife in an informative and fun environment.
If you find yourself in Wellington in September don't miss the Brancott Estate World of WearableArt Awards Show.
The Brancott Estate World of WearableArt Awards Show in Wellington held each September is more than an art exhibition, more than a fashion show and more than an awards show, it is a montage of theatre, dance, colour and movement that takes art off the wall and on to the moving body.
Did you know?
Wellington was voted as 'The Coolest Little Capital in the World' in the Lonley Planet 2011 guide to Best in Travel. Despite its impetuous weather, Wellington is crammed with more bars, cafes and restaurants per capita than New York. You'll also find arts and cultural events in abundance and a booming film industry thanks in large part to the success of Wellingtonian Sir Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings Trilogy.


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I'm wondering how everyone feels about the distinct difference in Marlena's appearance in the 80's and the one that appeared in the MYP toon.
1. Which version do you prefer, and why?
2. With a classic Randor already released, is there room for a 200X Marlena?
3. Should Adam and Adora's mother be a redhead, white haired, or a youthful brunette?
4. Does anyone think she might be a Christmas 2010 surprise, like Adora was originally planned to be?


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Spending some time thinking about defunct bands I would like to make new music
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MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (May 23, 2013) – Emmy Gaffney and Jessica Savin's Rule Number Six may be the smallest horse in size in trainer Ronald Gaffney's barn, but his career success has grown exponentially and has become the stable star among Gaffney's horses at Calder Casino & Race Course.
"He's not a difficult horse to ride, he's kind of proved that," co-owner Emmy Gaffney said. "He doesn't have to be up close, he doesn't have to have everything his way because he's never had everything his way. Really he hasn't. He's always in trouble."
In the victory that kicked off the winning streak, Rule Number Six was clear breaking from the rail in a 1 1/8-mile turf starter allowance, but Argueta had to check him going around the first turn and lost a few lengths. He continued to race behind horses before the rail opened up down the stretch for Rule Number Six to come away with the victory.
Two races ago, Rule Number Six broke through the gate before the start of a 1 1/8-mile allowance optional claimer at Calder, but fortunately the starter kept a tight hold and did not let him go anywhere. Rule Number Six raced in the middle of the pack stalking the leaders throughout much of the race and surged ahead down the stretch for the win.
In the Sumter, jockey Mario Argueta had to take Rule Number Six outside the six other horses in the field going around the final turn and commanded the middle of the track as he closed down the stretch to overtake Megamove.
"It's always a thrill when his little head comes out through all the mess he gets himself into," Gaffney said.
Gaffney said the main reason they purchased Rule Number Six was because they liked the Bwana Charlie colt Liquid Luck, who is out of the same mare as Rule Number Six. Just by looking at the horses, however, no could tell that they are from the same dam.
"They look nothing alike," Gaffney said. "I don't know if they ever look like her. They all look like the stallions. We had another one by Full Mandate and he just looked like Full Mandate and this one (Rule Number Six) looks like Repent and he (Liquid Luck) looks like Bwana Charlie. So I don't know what the mare looks like."
Visually, Rule Number Six does not stand out. His performance in the races, however, does.
"He's just an ordinary little black horse to look at," Gaffney said. "He's just got a big heart."
Rule Number Six's career began without a maiden victory in four starts as a 2-year-old. He kicked off his 3-year-old season by breaking his maiden in a 1 1/16-mile maiden claiming race at Gulfstream Park. After two more starts at Gulfstream, Rule Number Six moved up to allowance company at Calder, finishing second three times in a row. He then had a third and a fourth place finish before bone bruising sidelined him for the remainder of the season.
He returned to the races this January, finishing eighth in a 1 1/16 mile turf claiming race off the layoff. He progressed to second in a 1-mile turf starter optional claiming race before finishing third in a 1-mile turf starter allowance, all at Gulfstream. Then, his winning streak began.
The Gaffney's are partial to the dam Rikta, having raced a total of three foals out of Rikta in recent years.
Despite being the smallest of the three, Rule Number Six has been the most successful.
Liquid Luck resides right next to his half-brother in Gaffney's barn and is still in the hunt for his maiden victory. The closest he has come to breaking his maiden in 21 career starts was in a 1 1/16-mile turf maiden special weight race at Calder in 2011. He has had one other second-place finish and five third-place finishes.
Hungry Hill, by Full Mandate, raced only six times as a 3-year-old and now lives at a Thoroughbred retirement home.
Rule Number Six is the first stakes winner in recent years for the Gaffney's, who moved to Florida from the New England area in 2001. They own many of their horses, which heightens the excitement when the horses race.
"It's over the top. No matter how small the stake is or whatever, you're just so proud. You're so proud of them. It hurts you when they get beat. You take it personal," Gaffney said. "You spent all that time with them, you picked them out, it's your horse."
Argueta will be back aboard Rule Number Six in the 1 1/6-mile Memorial Handicap, and they will break from post position six. Despite being the only horse in the field to have a stakes victory in the last few months, Grade 3 winner Csaba most likely will be the post time favorite. He will break from the rail.
"He'll run all day. That's one thing we do know," Ronald Gaffney said. "Your question mark is the one horse, of course, but he's been off awhile. And that other horse they supplemented (Eldaafer)."
Rule Number Six will add to his resume and earn back-to-back stakes scores with a win in the Memorial Handicap.
Even with the graded stakes-winning competition Rule Number Six will face in the Memorial Handicap, and an undesired propensity for finding himself in trouble, one key attribute will be to his advantage.
"There are a couple of nice horses in there. There's no doubt about it," Gaffney said. "But we know where they are. He doesn't have to be much better. He's a pretty good kid."


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Beyoncé literally shut the house down after her halftime performance at Super Bowl XLVII, but that wasn't necessarily why the Mercedes Benz Superdome experienced a 34-minute blackout about two minutes into the third quarter. CBS, the network carrying the Super Bowl broadcast last night, released a report early this morning on why some of the stadium's lights and electronic equipments went out.
"A piece of equipment that is designed to monitor electrical load sensed an abnormality in the system," Superdome management companies Entergy Corporation and SMG reported in a statement. "Once the issue was detected, the sensing equipment operated as designed and opened a breaker, causing power to be partially cut to the Superdome in order to isolate the issue."
If you watched the show like millions of your fellow Americans, you may have noticed how CBS sportscasters' microphones cut off mid-sentence in that third quarter. CBS also put together this video package which showed what the control room looked like when power temporarily died.


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Chicken Coop / June 11, 2018 / Maryellen
Why do you choose chicken? Basically, raising chickens is very cheap rather than petting dog in your house. The foods are cheap, lots of options for its shelter, no need for pet care, and if you can make it the backyard chicken then it will be much more inexpensive. Backyard chickens are sometimes called as urban chickens. Thus, you will have an urban chicken coop just like a backyard with certain characteristic. Urban chicken is good source of food, providing bunch of healthy eggs, but when they are mature enough, their production of eggs will be decreased.
Since those chickens are easier to manage, you need to set anything right. First, you should figure out how many chickens you want to have so you will know the room size you should provide. Every chicken can be raised on the backyard but only some of them could reach their highest potential such as Rhode Island Red, Wyandotte, Ameraucana, and Orpington. They are suitable to live at urban chicken coop.
Urban chicken coop will be a different yet interesting style of coop you can try for your chickens. If you are a beginner it may be a bit overwhelming to raise chickens but you may also find it rewarding and exciting. But of course there are things you should know and learn to raise them in good manner so they will give you bunch of healthy eggs. It is not impossible to grow your flocks later.
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I'm continually impressed with their sophisticated design skills, attention to detail, commitment to meeting challenging deadlines, and dedication to seeing projects through from start to finish. Their first project increased my tasting room bottom online retail 50% across the board year to date. For the past two years Wonderboy has been instrumental in bolstering our social media presence, refining our marketing materials, and improving our brand design and strategy with the ultimate goal of communicating a more cohesive and sophisticated message to our national consumer base. In addition to the quality of Wonderboy's work, they're also a pleasure to work with. J.C., Chris, and Sean always perform with a high level of professionalism and integrity. They're easy to communicate with and always exceed my expectations in producing materials that are cohesive and aligned with our brand vision and strategy. I have no doubt that Wonderboy's creative skills would be an asset to any group looking to take their brand design and marketing materials to the next level.
We've engaged Wonderboy Creative on a number of creative design projects and have always been overjoyed with the results. We're one of those clients that "knows it when we see it", and typically with other design firms the design process has been a long string of "We're not sure exactly what we're looking for, but we know that's not it!" The staff at Wonderboy Creative have a knack for understanding the intended audience and they produce outstanding work that is on point the first time.
Working with J.C. Biagi, Sean Parsons and the Wonderboy team is pure pleasure! They consistently put into design what I describe with words. It's as if they can see into my imagination. Oftentimes, they make it even better than my original concept. They've taken our print and web advertising to a whole new level. Also, their business practice is always personable and professional. I never worry when I put a project in their hands.
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Tight capital budgets, the European banking crisis, and the unending U.S. budget debate make predictability – and taking on less risk – even stronger themes for 2012. In the technology world, mobility, the cloud, and big data (very large data sets and their related challenges) are a few of the trends driving Nucleus Research's 2012 predictions.
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Old English hore "prostitute, harlot," from Proto-Germanic *khoraz (fem. *khoron-) "one who desires" (cf. Old Norse hora "adulteress," Danish hore, Swedish hora, Dutch hoer, Old High German huora "whore;" in Gothic only in the masc. hors "adulterer, fornicator," also as a verb, horinon "commit adultery"), from PIE *qar-, a base that has produced words in other languages for "lover" (cf. Latin carus "dear;" Old Irish cara "friend;" Old Persian kama "desire;" Sanskrit Kama, name of the Hindu god of love, kamah "love, desire," the first element in Kama Sutra).
Whore itself is perhaps a Germanic euphemism for a word that has not survived. Some equivalent words in other languages also derive from sources not originally pejorative, e.g. perhaps Old French pute, perhaps literally "girl," fem. of Vulgar Latin *puttus (but perhaps rather from Latin putidus "stinking;" see poontang). Welsh putain "whore" is from French, probably via Middle English. Cf. also Bohemian nevestka, diminutive of nevesta "bride." And Dutch deern, German dirne originally "girl, lass, wench." Among other languages, Greek porne "prostitute" is related to pernemi "sell," with an original notion, probably of a female slave sold for prostitution; Latin meretrix is literally "one who earns wages" (source of Irish mertrech, Old English miltestre "whore, prostitute").
The vulgar Roman word was scortum, literally "skin, hide." Another term was lupa, literally "she-wolf" (preserved in Spanish loba, Italian lupa, French louve; see wolf). And of course there was prostituta, literally "placed in front," thus "publicly exposed," from the fem. past participle of prostituere (see prostitute). Another Old Norse term was skækja, which yielded Danish skøge, Swedish sköka; probably from Middle Low German schoke, which is perhaps from schode "foreskin of a horse's penis," perhaps with the sense of "skin" (cf. Latin scortum) or perhaps via an intermediary sense of "vagina." Spanish ramera, Portuguese ramiera are from fem. form of ramero "young bird of prey," literally "little branch," from ramo "branch." Breton gast is cognate with Welsh gast "bitch," of uncertain origin. Cf. also strumpet, harlot.
Old Church Slavonic ljubodejica is from ljuby dejati "fornicate," a compound from ljuby "love" + dejati "put, perform." Russian bljad "whore" derives from Old Church Slavonic bladinica, from bladu "fornication." Polish nierządnica is literally "disorderly woman." Sanskrit vecya is a derivation of veca- "house, dwelling," especially "house of ill-repute, brothel." Another term, pumccali, means literally "one who runs after men." Avestan jahika is literally "woman," but only of evil creatures; another term is kunairi, from pejorative prefix ku- + nairi "woman." The wh- spelling became current 16c. A general term of abuse from at least 13c. Whore of Babylon is from Rev. xvii:1, 5, etc.
"to have to do with whores," 1580s, from whore (n.). Related: Whored; whoring.


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EPA Revisits Hydraulic Fracturing and Drinking Water
As oil prices increase and energy security becomes a concern in the US, more is being done to explore cleaner burning fuels such as natural gas. Natural gas has seen big increases in the number of wells and total production as shale gas extraction, in particular, intensifies. The EPA projects that 20% of US gas supply will come from shale gas by 2020.
An EPA report in 2004 found that "there was little to no risk of fracturing fluid contaminating underground sources of drinking water during hydraulic fracturing of coalbed methane production wells." But public concern over the process by which shale gas is extracted known as hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," has escalated with the growing number of wells. Each well requires the pumping of tremendous amounts of fracking fluid into the earth and, according to the EPA's 2004 report, "[t]here is very little documented research on the environmental impacts that result from the injection and migration of these fluids into subsurface formations, soils, and USDWs." Until last year (when the EPA called for the voluntary reporting of chemicals used in fracking fluids), many of the chemicals used in fracking were unknown. Chemicals now known to sometimes be involved in the process include: diesel fuel (which contains benzene and other toxic chemicals), polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, methanol, formaldehyde, ethylene glycol, hydrochloric acid, and sodium hydroxide. Given this situation, the EPA has announced another study to examine the effects of hydraulic fracturing on drinking water and groundwater. The EPA aims to issue preliminary findings in 2012 and a full report in 2014. The draft study plan is available at here.