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Peggy Noonan poses the question today, "Can the Republican Party Recover from Iraq?" If the article is behind the paywall, here's a relevant sample:
Did the Iraq war hurt the GOP? Yes. The war, and the crash of '08, half killed it. It's still digging out, and whether it can succeed is an open question. . .
It ruined the party's hard-earned reputation for foreign-affairs probity. They started a war and didn't win it. It was longer and costlier by every measure than the Bush administration said it would be. . .
After Iraq it was the Republicans who seemed at best the party of historical romantics or, alternatively, the worst kind of cynic, which is an incompetent one. Iraq marked a departure in mood and tone from past conservatism.
At dinner last Wednesday night in Washington with about a dozen important conservatives, a well-known journalist from our ranks went around the table asking each of us to answer the question, "Iraq—yes or no?" The vote was almost evenly split, with a slight advantage to the "No" side. I was among the "no" vote, though with the qualification that a purely punitive attack on Iraq to oust Saddam Hussein was fully justifiable, accompanied with a quick withdrawal and a warning that if they stepped out of line, "we'll be back." We've shown twice now that we can thump the country quickly in a pure contest of arms. But that's not the American style; we have to engage in "nation-building," whether we call it that or not, because it is a distinctly unconservative undertaking. Maybe such a punitive raid would have been a bad idea too, as it might well have left the country wide open to Iranian-Syrian domination (as though that hasn't happened anyway to some extent). It's another reminder that sometimes there are no good choices, and leaders have to choose (which Obama may be avoiding having to do with Iran, Syria, and North Korea right now).
Hindsight is always perfect, so it is no fair to indict the Bush Administration for a lack of foresight that the protracted struggle in Iraq would reshape our domestic politics in a way that opened the route for Barack Obama to become president. Nor should a conservative leader ever feel constrained by the irresponsible, demagogic, or opportunistic opposition from liberals. Yet there are a few truths of American politics that ought to have been kept in mind, starting with the fact that the American people do not like long military engagements. Heck, they don't like relatively short ones (i.e., Korea) if they don't go well.
So the Iraq War has done for the Republicans what the Vietnam War did for Democrats in the 1960s and 1970s. Even aside from contributing to the rise of Obama, it has dissipated public support for a forward foreign policy, and constrained the options of current and future presidents for action against Iran, Syria, and North Korea. Late in his life William F. Buckley said one of his two greatest regrets was his support for the Vietnam War. It seems that for at least some conservatives, that view of Iraq has already taken hold. There's no evading this political fact.

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Before this court is a petition for the Declaration of Nullity of Marriage with Prayer for Support Pendenti Lite filed by herein petitioner [Insert Name of Petitioner], a resident of [Insert Address here], against herein respondent, [Insert Name of Respondent], with residence and postal address [Insert Address], on the ground of psychological incapacity to comply with the essential marital obligations towards his wife and his children, with the following reliefs prayed for, to wit:
1. During the pendency of the case:
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2. Declaring the marriage as Null and Void from the very beginning;
3. Dissolving the Absolute Community Property Regime of the spouses and ordering the respondent to permanently support their children with an amount necessitated by their needs; and
4. Granting other reliefs which may be deemed just and reasonable within the premises.
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On Christmas Eve and continuing into Christmas Day, AWS had a "Service Event" centered on the ELB (Elastic Load Balancing) service in the US-East region. Although only a small percentage of ELBs were functionally disabled and unable to route traffic to their backend servers, all ELBs in the region experienced a time interval in which they could not scale, nor could changes be made to their configuration, such as adding or removing backend servers from the load balancing pool (for the full details, see the AWS post-mortem).
Many AWS customers were affected at some level – a few more negatively than others – as every ELB in the region was involved to some degree. Among these AWS customers was Netflix, whose Cloud Architect Adrian Cockcroft described the Netflix view on the outage in his blog post.
This brings me to an interesting point that many in the IT community (including Netflix) are discussing in regard to this outage: the benefits of a multi-region setup and how such a configuration can help in these situations.
Don't Get Seduced by Vendor-Specific Solutions
While we here at RightScale are big believers in using multiple regions for disaster recovery purposes, in many situations a multi-region configuration is overkill for day-to-day production operations. Many of our recommended best practices for production deployments can be found in my white paper, Building Scalable Applications In the Cloud: Reference Architecture and Best Practices.
The vast majority of RightScale customers run their productions systems in a single region, and we advise them to avoid using vendor-specific tools to reduce the potential for any hidden dependencies these tools may introduce. A key takeaway from this recent AWS outage is that while it did affect the entire US-East region, it only affected a single vendor-specific service in the region – the Elastic Load Balancing service.
If your website had been using a different instance-based load balancing solution (HAProxy, nginx, etc.) you would have been totally isolated from this failure and seen no service impact. In a previous blog post I provided some tips for fine-tuning your cloud architecture, of which Tip #9, "Be Wary of Cloud Lock-in," cautions in part:
The use of vendor-specific tools and virtual appliances may make deploying an application easier in the short term, but many times these services are integrated or tied into other services that can result in cascading outages if one of these underlying services suffers a service disruption. The use of vendor-neutral solutions insulates your application tiers from these service integrations, as well as creating a cloud-portable solution…
Using a vendor-specific tool such as ELB makes things easier during the setup phase, but it not only locks you into the vendor since that tool is not available from other cloud providers, but it also (and more importantly in this case) can result in a service disruption due to a cascading effect. The ELB state data that was inadvertently deleted by a manual mistake (more on this later) was only relevant to a very small percentage of ELBs, yet the entire ELB infrastructure was affected in some way, that is not being able to scale nor make configuration changes.
The Benefit of Using Loosely Coupled Components
One of the mantras that we preach in the world of cloud architecture best practices is to use loosely coupled components. This outage illustrates that what might appear to be a standalone component may in actuality have tight integrations with other infrastructure behind the scenes, and thus the degradation of one aspect of the system can have a cascading affect on other components. Netflix has done a lot of amazing things with regard to its cloud automation tools (take a look at some of the company's open-source projects – Simian Army in particular is awesome), but its continued dependence on AWS-specific components has always been a mystery to me.
Regarding the root cause of the outage, GigaOm provided a thoughtful take on what happened and Netflix's subsequent response. It is noteworthy that the original issue was caused by a developer manually running a process that was "currently being automated," as we advise our customers to automate all processes that touch production systems. (And we do practice what we preach at RightScale in running our own complex web of interconnected systems).
Any automated process that requires a manual "kick-off" (such as what I am assuming might have been the case in the AWS ELB situation) should be subject to both access controls (the "who" that can do it) and logging/auditing (the "what" and "when" the "who" did). Manual errors are to be expected in any environment because humans are imperfect beings, so we should relinquish as much control to our automated systems as possible. The only mistakes they make are the ones we tell them to. 🙂
Highly Available, Resilient Systems Are the Answer
This AWS outage serves as a good illustration of why "best practices" are rightly so. When shortcuts are taken or oversights creep into the mix, what may appear at first blush to be a small, localized issue can potentially cascade into a bigger problem and adversely affect your infrastructure and the applications that depend on them. On the surface, individual components can appear to be distanced from those that are suffering the outage or performance degradation, but in reality they can also be potential points of failure.
The tools are out there to build highly available, resilient systems. How effectively you use these tools will dictate your tolerance to infrastructure service disruptions that will continue to occur, however infrequently. To try some of these vendor-neutral solutions, user permission features, logging and auditing mechanisms, and more, get a free trial of RightScale Cloud Management.


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Brand Name Testim Gel Common Name testosterone gel
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How does this medication work? What will it do for me?
Testosterone gel belongs to a group of medications known as androgens (male hormones). It is used to treat men who have testosterone deficiency.
Testosterone is a sex hormone that produces "male" physical characteristics and increases sex drive. This medication works by replacing the testosterone that would normally be produced by the body. Testosterone gel should only be used if testosterone deficiency has been confirmed by symptoms and blood tests.
This medication may be available under multiple brand names and/or in several different forms. Any specific brand name of this medication may not be available in all of the forms or approved for all of the conditions discussed here. As well, some forms of this medication may not be used for all of the conditions discussed here.
Your doctor may have suggested this medication for conditions other than those listed in these drug information articles. If you have not discussed this with your doctor or are not sure why you are being given this medication, speak to your doctor. Do not stop using this medication without consulting your doctor.
Do not give this medication to anyone else, even if they have the same symptoms as you do. It can be harmful for people to using this medication if their doctor has not prescribed it.
How should I use this medication?
The usual recommended dose is 5 g of gel (which contains 50 mg testosterone) applied once daily, preferably in the morning after showering or bathing. If using the pump, make sure you know how many pumps to use per application. Some people may need up to 10 g once daily.
Apply the gel to a clean, dry area of non-broken skin on the shoulders, upper arms, or abdomen. Do not apply the gel to the genitals or to any damaged skin. After applying the gel, let it dry for a few minutes, then cover it with clothing and wash your hands to avoid getting the medication on other people's skin. Wait at least 5 to 6 hours before reapplying the gel, showering, or swimming. After applying the gel, allow it to dry completely before smoking or going near an open flame.
Many things can affect the dose of a medication that a person needs, such as body weight, other medical conditions, and other medications. If your doctor has recommended a dose different from the ones listed here, do not change the way that you are using the medication without consulting your doctor.
It is important that you use this medication exactly as prescribed by your doctor. If you miss a dose, and it is more than 12 hours until your next dose, apply the missed dose as soon as possible and continue with your regular schedule. If it is less than 12 hours until your next dose, skip the missed dose and continue with your regular dosing schedule. Do not apply a double dose to make up for a missed one. If you are not sure what to do after missing a dose, contact your doctor or pharmacist for advice.
Store this medication at room temperature, protect it from light and moisture, and keep it out of the reach of children.
Do not dispose of medications in wastewater (e.g. down the sink or in the toilet) or in household garbage. Ask your pharmacist how to dispose of medications that are no longer needed or have expired.
What form(s) does this medication come in?
Testim is available in tubes of clear-to-translucent gel containing testosterone 1%. Nonmedicinal ingredients: carbomers, ethanol, glycerol, pentadecalactone, polyethylene glycol, propylene glycol, purified water, and trometamol.
Who should NOT take this medication?
Do not use this medication if you:
- are allergic to testosterone or to any of the ingredients of the medication
- are female (especially if you are pregnant or breast-feeding)
- have, or are suspected to have, prostate or breast cancer
What side effects are possible with this medication?
Many medications can cause side effects. A side effect is an unwanted response to a medication when it is taken in normal doses. Side effects can be mild or severe, temporary or permanent.
The side effects listed below are not experienced by everyone who takes this medication. If you are concerned about side effects, discuss the risks and benefits of this medication with your doctor.
The following side effects have been reported by at least 1% of people taking this medication. Many of these side effects can be managed, and some may go away on their own over time.
Contact your doctor if you experience these side effects and they are severe or bothersome. Your pharmacist may be able to advise you on managing side effects.
- acne
- aggressive behaviour
- changes in sexual desire or drive
- dizziness
- hair loss, thinning hair, or baldness
- headache
- mood changes, depression
- prolonged or painful erection
- prostate disorders (enlarged prostate, or higher-than-normal results on the PSA [prostate-specific antigen] test)
- skin irritation, redness, or rash where applied
- sleep disturbances caused by breathing problems (sleep apnea)
- weight gain
Although most of the side effects listed below don't happen very often, they could lead to serious problems if you do not check with your doctor or seek medical attention.
Check with your doctor as soon as possible if any of the following side effects occur:
- breast soreness or enlargement
- depression
- high blood pressure
- problems with urination (change in frequency or colour, dribbling, pain or straining when urinating, weak urine stream, small urine amounts)
- prolonged (more than 4 hours) or painful erections, or erections that happen too often
Stop taking the medication and seek immediate medical attention if any of the following occur:
- swelling of ankles and legs (for people with heart, liver, or kidney problems)
- symptoms of liver problems (e.g., abdominal pain, persistent vomiting, feeling unwell, fever, itching, yellowing of the skin and eyes, dark urine)
- signs of a serious allergic reaction (e.g., swelling of face or throat, hives, or difficulty breathing)
Some people may experience side effects other than those listed. Check with your doctor if you notice any symptom that worries you while you are taking this medication.
Are there any other precautions or warnings for this medication?
Before you begin using a medication, be sure to inform your doctor of any medical conditions or allergies you may have, any medications you are taking, whether you are pregnant or breast-feeding, and any other significant facts about your health. These factors may affect how you should use this medication.
July 15, 2014
Health Canada has issued new restrictions concerning the use of testosterone products. To read the full Health Canada Advisory, visit Health Canada's web site at www.hc-sc.gc.ca.
Blood tests: Your doctor may recommend that you have regular blood tests while using this medication to check whether the medication is working and whether you are having certain side effects. Also, the use of testosterone may interfere with a number of laboratory tests. Tell all health professionals administering these tests that you are using this medication.
Diabetes: This medication may affect blood sugar levels. If you have diabetes, your doctor may ask you to monitor your blood sugar carefully while using this medication.
Heart disease: If you have heart disease, your doctor should monitor your condition closely while you are using this medication. Report any swelling in the feet and lower legs to a doctor immediately.
Kidney or liver disease: If you have kidney or liver disease, your doctor should monitor your condition closely while you are using this medication. Report any swelling in the feet and lower legs to a doctor immediately.
Sleep disorders: Treatment with testosterone may cause sleep apnea (interruption of breathing during sleep) and high blood pressure for some people, especially those with risk factors such as being overweight or having a chronic lung disease.
Sperm counts: This medication may reduce sperm counts if high doses are used, or if it is used for a prolonged period.
Pregnancy and breast-feeding: This medication should not be used by women, especially pregnant or breast-feeding women. It may have unwanted effects on the developing child, including masculinization of female children. Women risk exposure to the medication through skin-to-skin contact with a man wearing the gel. Men using the gel should cover the treated area with clothing after the gel has dried to avoid exposing women and children to the medication.
Children: The safety and effectiveness of this medication have not been established for males under the age of 18. Secondary exposure in children can occur through skin-to-skin contact with a man wearing the gel. Men using the gel should cover the treated area with clothing after the gel has dried, and children should avoid contact with any unwashed clothes that were worn by of men using this gel.
Seniors: Seniors may have an increased risk for prostate enlargement and should be evaluated for prostate cancer before starting testosterone replacement therapy.
What other drugs could interact with this medication?
There may be an interaction between testosterone gel and any of the following:
- adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH)
- corticosteroids (e.g., prednisone)
- cyclosporine
- dehydroepiandrostone (DHEA)
- diabetes medications (e.g., insulin)
- propranolol
- warfarin
If you are taking any of these medications, speak with your doctor or pharmacist. Depending on your specific circumstances, your doctor may want you to:
- stop taking one of the medications,
- change one of the medications to another,
- change how you are taking one or both of the medications, or
- leave everything as is.
An interaction between two medications does not always mean that you must stop taking one of them. Speak to your doctor about how any drug interactions are being managed or should be managed.
Medications other than those listed above may interact with this medication. Tell your doctor or prescriber about all prescription, over-the-counter (non-prescription), and herbal medications you are taking. Also tell them about any supplements you take. Since caffeine, alcohol, the nicotine from cigarettes, or street drugs can affect the action of many medications, you should let your prescriber know if you use them.
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The best way to explore the city centre is on foot; however, Bremen also has a well-maintained public transportation network made up of trams and buses, which run regularly and service the city and most of the outlying suburbs. At the weekends, buses are available through the night. Metered taxis are available 24 hours a day, although they can be expensive for longer journeys. Travellers also have the option of hiring a car, although it generally won't be necessary unless one plans on travelling farther afield. Bremen is one of the most bike-friendly cities in Germany and there are opportunities to hire a bike for the day. Cycling is one of the fastest and most pleasant ways in which to explore Bremen.
GMT +1 (GMT +2 between the last Sunday in March and the last Sunday in October).
220-230 volts, 50Hz. European-style two-pin plugs are standard.
The unit of currency is the Euro (EUR), divided into 100 cents. ATMs and exchange bureaux are widely available. The major credit cards are becoming more widely accepted in large shops, hotels and restaurants, although Germans themselves prefer to carry cash. The quickest and most convenient way to change money is to obtain cash from one of the ATM machines that are ubiquitous features on all German streets. Banks are closed on weekends, but exchange bureaux at airports and main railway stations are open daily.
The international access code for Germany is +49. Telephone numbers in Germany can range from four to nine digits. There are surcharges on international calls made from hotels; it is often cheaper to use public telephone boxes in post offices, which use phone cards. The local mobile phone operators use GSM networks and have roaming agreements with most international operators. Internet cafes are available in the main towns.
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The No. 6 tram is a convenient way to get into Bremen as it connects the airport to the main railway and bus stations; trams operate regularly during rush hour. Buses are available to Groningen and Oldenburg, and operate several times per day.
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Taxis are available at the airport, and a fare to Bremen is around €10. Recommended companies include Roland Taxi and Tours Bremen.
The terminals are all within walking distance.
The main terminal building features several shops and restaurants, and other facilities such as banks and ATMs, a hair salon, spa, and taxi desk.
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By JOHN FLOWERS
SALISBURY — Addison Central Supervisory Union (ACSU) officials will soon offer some recommendations on reciting the Pledge of Allegiance in district schools.
The recommendations are being developed in response to a parent's inquiry into how the Pledge is being observed at the Salisbury Community School. Sal Morana, whose daughter attends the Salisbury school, brought the matter to local school directors' attention earlier this year out of concern that not all students were being given the opportunity to recite the Pledge each morning. He learned that the Pledge was being offered regularly in some classes, but not in others.
"Those kids should be offered the opportunity to say the Pledge every day," Morana said. "Here we are in a rural, agricultural town with kids who may grow up to join the military … and it was surprising to me (there is no Pledge policy)."
Morana shared his views last month with the Salisbury school board and ACSU Superintendent Lee Sease. Since then, Sease acknowledged he has received more than 75 e-mails from people weighing in on the Pledge, most of them in favor of its observance in ACSU schools.
"There is support for the Pledge of Allegiance and recognizing patriotism," said Sease, who has discovered the ACSU has no uniform policy or guidelines on the Pledge of Allegiance. He noted some ACSU schools have a student recite the Pledge over the intercom; others leave it up to individual teachers or confine it to special events.
"While this issue has come up in Salisbury, I don't think approaching this from a single school standpoint makes much sense," he said.
By MEGAN JAMES & CYRUS LEVESQUE
ADDISON COUNTY — Only about 70 percent of high school students in the United States graduate in four years with a regular diploma, and about 1.2 million students drop out every year, according to a new report issued by America's Promise Alliance.
By that standard, students in Addison County are doing exceptionally well.
Over the last five years the dropout rates at the four local high schools — Middlebury Union High School, Mount Abraham Union High School, Otter Valley Union High School and Vergennes Union High School — have all gradually fallen or hovered around already tiny percentages.
Counselors and administrators at all four local high schools credit some of their success in keeping youngsters in school to the fact that they address the different learning styles of students in different ways. Catching potential dropout students early on and engaging them in alternative education programs allows students to learn in nontraditional ways and offers them a sense of belonging in a different community, said MUHS guidance counselor Mark Thuma.
"The kids who feel disenfranchised with our system can find that sense of community with an alt ed program," Thuma said.
Vermont kids start out in school with one advantage — geography. The Alliance's report, which was based on school district data from the 2003-2004 school year, found that students in suburban and rural public high schools are more likely to graduate than their counterparts in urban public high schools, only about half of whom receive diplomas.
Local students have it even better. The most recent data from the 2005-2006 school year shows MUHS, MAUHS and VUHS all below the state average of 2.85 percent, and OVUHS just a hair above it.
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MIDDLEBURY — The Maine search and rescue organization that took more than 700 aerial photographs of the Otter Creek last month in an effort to locate missing Middlebury College freshman Nicholas Garza, has confirmed that a suspicious object identified in the river during that search could have been the 19-year-old's body. Officials said it was the color and shape of a pair of blue jeans attached to what could have been a white shoe at the end of each leg that led them to that determination.
Garza was wearing a red, button-down shirt, blue jeans and white tennis shoes on Feb. 5, the night he disappeared from the Middlebury campus.
Down East Emergency Medical Institute (DEEMI) has known about this detail since its photographs were analyzed on April 17, but until this week the public and the Garza family knew only of an "object of interest" that prompted an unplanned search of the river behind Middlebury Union High School on April 18, resulting in no new leads.
DEEMI director Richard Bowie said his organization has a policy not to reveal details of the aerial photographs it takes in missing persons cases, in an effort to be sensitive to the family and to ensure general searching doesn't stop.
This detail became public after news leaked out.
"We want the public to continue to look," Bowie said. "We don't want to say, 'He's in the water; stop looking.' You have to continue looking elsewhere because what if it isn't him?"
Still, Bowie stressed the object, which searchers have not been able to locate, is well worth tracking down.
"We look for colors," he said. "We're looking for jeans … it's pretty easy to pick them out among Mother Nature. So when you're looking at this thing in the river, you start associating shapes, sizes, dimensions. Nothing about this looked natural."
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Judge Rosemary M. Collyer
September 2012: Median Prison Sentence
District Court - Washington, D.C.
Referring Agency: Other
Lead Charge: Withheld by govt from TRAC (FOIA challenge pending)
Program Area: Withheld by Govt from TRAC
For all cases disposed of in the current fiscal year (2012) that were credited to Judge Rosemary M. Collyer in the District of Washington, D.C., the median prison sentence was 25.0 months, when looking only at cases referred by the Other with a lead charge of "Withheld by govt from TRAC (FOIA challenge pending)" falling under the broad category of "Withheld by Govt from TRAC". During the current fiscal year, Judge Rosemary M. Collyer has sentenced one defendant compared with 2 defendants during the twelve months of the previous fiscal year.
Over the last five years, the median prison sentence imposed on defendants that were credited to Judge Collyer was 0.0 months. This was 99.9% lower than the 11.5 months typical in Washington, D.C. and 100.0% lower than the 23.5 months median prison sentence for the nation. Judge Rosemary M. Collyer sentenced 10 defendants during the past five years.
(CAUTION: The kinds of cases handled by individual judges influences statistical information about their sentences. It therefore is important to consider the breakdown of cases that each has handled, available below, when making judge-by-judge comparisons.)
Figure 1 compares Judge Collyer's numbers to those for judges in this district and in the United States as a whole for cases of this type over the last five years.
During the last five years there were 13 other judges in the District of Washington, D.C. with information on convictions during that period. Median prison sentence numbers passed down for those judges ranged from 0.0 months to 92.0 months, putting Judge Collyer's median prison sentence of 0.0 months at the lowest end of the range. The median prison sentence for the whole District of Washington, D.C. during that time was 11.5 months.
Professional Biography
Born 1945 in Port Chester, MD
Federal Judicial Service
Judge, U. S. District Court for the District of Columbia
Nominated by George W. Bush on , to a seat vacated by Thomas Penfield Jackson; Confirmed by the Senate on November 14, 2002, and received commission on November 15, 2002.
Trinity College, B.A., 1968
University of Denver College of Law, J.D., 1977
Professional Career:
Private practice, Colorado, 1977-1981
Chairman, Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, 1981-1984
General counsel, National Labor Relations Board, 1984-1989
Private practice, Washington, DC, 1989-2002
Number of Defendants in Judge Rosemary M. Collyer's Cases
Case Def. Sentence (Months) Sentencing Date Program Category 1 1 25.00 03/23/12 Withheld by Govt from TRAC (FOIA challenge pending) Details
Table 2: Individual Cases and Defendants Disposed of in Current Fiscal Year


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I love time travel films, and one of my favourites of all-time also had Bruce Willis in it (Twelve Monkeys, of course). Given that I have also recently developed a man-crush on Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Looper appeared to be a tailor-made film for me.
The movie is set in the year 2044 and the future of that future is 2074, a time when time travel has finally been invented (I still have a chance to live to that day, so fingers crossed that this is based on a true story). Unfortunately, time travel is outlawed then but is still being used by criminal organizations, which need a "looper" to help them in the past when they transport things back over from the future. Gordon-Levitt is a young looper. Bruce Willis is him in 30 years. I can't say why, but they don't like each other.
It may sound complicated but I actually found Looper to be a really straightforward time-travel movie. The mechanics and laws of time travel in the film's universe are sufficiently described in the beginning and there's not much to be confused about, which is why I was really confused by all these reviewers saying that the film was confusing. Some even compared it to Christopher Nolan's Inception, which I found strange because they are nothing alike apart from the fact that both star Gordon-Levitt.
Looper is an unusual and unusually clever time-travel film in the sense that it's more of a character movie about how people deal with the effects of time travel rather than the time travel itself. From that perspective it means less trying to figure out what's going on/pointing out gaps in logic and more just enjoying the movie for its action and freaky futuristic stuff.
It's always hard to review a movie like this without slipping in unnecessary spoilers, so all I will say is that it also stars Emily Blunt and is in part related to genetic mutations which occur naturally in the human body at some point in the future (I am begging for this to be based on a true story).
Some people have criticized the decision to use prosthetics and make-up on Gordon-Levitt to make him look like a young Bruce Willis. I thought it was awesome. I have to admit, the thin-framed Gordon Levitt is one of the last actors I would have pictured playing John "Yippee-ki-yay" McClane, but the prosthetics made me believe he could have eventually grown to look like him. He still looks like Gordon-Levitt but it also reminds you a little of Bruce Willis – I don't get what the big deal is.
Despite my praises, I think there is something missing from Looper that prevents it from being a time-travel classic like Twelve Monkeys, Back to the Future, Terminator 2, and so forth. The film has a great premise, interesting characters, solid action and enough twists and turns to make it a highly enjoyable experience, but perhaps it lacked the grand vision and scale that would have pushed it to that next level.
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Maitai Valley walk
A great country walk with a variety of terrain and native New Zealand plants and some unusal exotics
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Take a walk through the beautiful Maitai Valley situated 20mins South West of Nelson City.
You start your 1 hour loop walk at the Maitai 'pipeline bridge'. This bridge is the start of the "Tantragee Walkway" as well. Cross the bridge and follow the track straight ahead and up the hill, which will take you through 13 hectares of beautiful plantation that has been developed over the last 20years.
You will need to bring some sturdy foot wear as this track takes you aross several fords which can make it difficult to cross after heavy rain.
In the summer there is a lovely swimming hole towards the end of the track near the Maitai Vally Motor Camp. So dont forget to pack your swimming cozzy!


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St. Bonaventure University's Student Affairs division, Franciscan Center for Social Concern, Women's Studies program, and several student organizations will host a number of upcoming events to participate in the nationwide "Enough is Enough" campaign.
St. Bonaventure and campuses across the country will speak out, engage in dialogue, and take action to stem the tide of societal violence.
Activities begin Monday, March 31, and include:
In addition, a number of campus organizations, including the Student Government Association, all campus clubs, and the Student-Athlete Advisory Council, will participate in and support SafeZone training presentations slated for 2014–15. Yvonne Makl, coordinator of the Damietta Center, will be conducting the workshops, which give participants the skills they need to provide support and create environments that are safe, welcoming and inclusive.
Background on "Enough is Enough" movement In 2008, Dr. Zenobia Lawrence Hikes, Virginia Tech University vice president of student affairs, called on fellow student affairs administrators to work to counteract and prevent societal violence, which, in turn, will help prevent campus violence. In recognition of the tragic shootings at Virginia Tech (April 16, 2007) and Columbine High School (April 20, 1999), "Enough is Enough" week is observed throughout the United States in April.
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Jersey Shore: Toilet Bowl of Terror
Sometimes Jersey Shore, the most important sociological experiment of our time, is all about shit. Not the normal shit about Sammi and Ronnie breaking up, Snooki getting wasted, and The Situation hooking up with some girl that smells like cheese. It is about actual, literal shit.
While there were other events in this most recent dispatch, the most interesting were the ones that occurred in the most sacred room of the guido household: the bathroom. Like Moses and his people wandering aimlessly in the desert in search of their home, the debacle with the toilet has been going on for weeks, and finally our tribe finally reached the promised land last night. But before we can discuss their spiritual reawakening, we need to find out just what the hell some of their language means.
- Perminating: Used to describe a particularly bad odor, one that is not only emanating, but is so foul that it might permanently make everything it touches smell foul.
- Hystactic: The guidos love to combine two words to create new words. This portmanteau is meant to express extreme delight that is accompanied by shouts, squeals, giggles, and other indications of mania. It is a state where one is so ecstatic about an event that she becomes hysterical.
- Moby Dick: Even more than combining words, the guidos love giving things terms from the animal kingdom. This one is odd because not only is it a creature, but also a literary allusion, typically not the guidos' strong suit. This is the term Snooki has given Vinny's penis. It is rather appropriate because it is large, white, and something Snooki (much like Captain Ahab) is obsessed with but will never see again. And if she does, it will be her destruction.
Now that we have deciphered their tongue, we need to look at their behavior. The biggest news at the beginning of the episode is that Sammi returned to the house after her breakup with Ronnie and a brief hiatus in the wilds of New Jersey. After going on her walkabout in the woods, she returned with her mind clear and was ready to take a whole new perspective on the relationship. When she walks through the door, she has her glasses on. This is meaningful because, as we remember, it was the destruction of her glasses—a very personal item—that made Sammi see that her relationship with Ronnie is over. But wearing her glasses into the house, she is staying that Ronnie hasn't hurt her and she has repaired the damage he has done. She also got a manicure and a pedicure, which will show him and the other males of the house that she is preening herself to go back out on the battlefield and hunt her up some mens.
Sammi seems to finally have a healthy attitude about Ronnie, she knows that they can't be together and that they probably shouldn't be friends. When they go to the club together, she talks to other boys, but she's not grinding up on them and staining them with her juices in an attempt to make Ronald upset. She's just taking it easy and trying to "do her," as the guidettes would say.
Ronnie, on the other hand, isn't taking it so well. He, naturally wants to get back together and, thanks to Sam's previous behavior, you can understand his confusion.
[There was a video here]
There is nothing finer than Ronnie's rap about the two of them being "done." It appears Sammi is actually Done with the relationship, while Ronnie is still clinging to those quotation marks, hoping that they're there. Right now he thinks they're '¿Done?" He's so befuddled, he can barely even use punctuation correctly. At the club, Ronnie follows Sam around, telling her how beautiful she is, scaring off other boys, and trying to hold her hand. Very calmly—even when inebriated—Sammi informs him that she wants to be alone and that he should go "have fun." Wow, Sam wanders around the woods for a week and gets her glasses fixed and she's suddenly behaving like a real live mature human being.
But it's not so easy. Sammi is still very deeply injured by what Ronnie did to her in Miami that she doesn't trust men. She's renewed her bonds with the women of the house (except JWOWW, it seems) and is telling them things that may not necessarily be true but are instead tainted by her recent experience with Ronnie.
This is most evident in how she deals with Snooki's relationship with Vinny. As we have witnessed, Snooki and Vinny have hooked up in the past and they have a very odd relationship. Snooki seems to be in something close to love with Vinny and even admits to the other girls that she has "real feelings" for him. However, that hasn't stopped her from hooking up with guys. For Vinny, Snooki seems to be the "grenade of last resort," one final salvo to throw at the enemy in his War on Not Getting Laid on those nights when he has completely run out of ammunition. Strained metaphors aside, he's just not that into her, but he does have some sort of feelings for her.
Snooki decides that she wants to cuddle with Vinny and sets up a snuggle session before they leave for the club. She says not to bring a girl home so they can snuggle. He agrees, but Vinny wants to have his cake and eat Snooki's too. He's all, "Sure, we can snuggle. But if you find a guy or I find a girl...um...yeah, that's cool too, ya know?" Of course, Vinny picks up a girl at the club—a Dominican, which the guidos love because they're preternaturally tan—and when Snooki returns home, she goes into Vinny's room to see if he's alone.
[There was a video here]
Yes, there is a girl there, and lucky for Vinny, Ronnie is there to play body guard—or booty guard, rather—to make sure Vinny and DJ Paulie Down aren't interrupted while trying to "get it in." In fact, when Sammi and Snooki barge into the room, the boys don't even stop making out with their ladies to even look up. They know that their defense system, Ronnie, is there to extract any unwanted visitors and make sure that they can both have sex with different girls in the same room. (Is it just me or is banging some broad in the bed next to your best friend a little creepy?)
Snooki is pissed (and pissed drunk) that Vinny is macking on another lady, and unleashes a torrent of beer tears. Sammi, still scarred, gives her the "men are scum, Vinny doesn't care about you, we don't need men," hokum that she needs to get herself through the day. Don't listen to Sammi, Snooks, that's not your problem.
Vinny comes downstairs after ushering his latest conquest out the door and tries to console Snooki, but she is crying so much that water isn't even coming out of her eyes, it is pure tequila. She is just bawling up booze in her bed. As Vinny explains, she can't be too upset because she just smashed Jionni a few nights before. And Jionni's cousin, and their friend Nick. This isn't some horrible double standard about boys being about to be slutty but girls can't, this is classing, "What's good for the goose is good for the gander." Vinny is saying that he behaves no differently from Snooki. However, in Snooki's defense, he did say he'd cuddle with her and then broke his word, which is kind of fucked up. When he leaves he says, "I love you." Is that a Platonic love, or was Vinny as hurt by Snooki's romp with Jionni as she was by his with Darla the Dominican?
By the end of the episode, they have a little chat where Snooki apologizes for having a drunken conniption and Vinny apologizes for hurting her, but then he says, "Does this mean I can hook up with other girls now?" Snooki says, "Yeah, but don't let me see it." Oh, their's is a groovy kind of love.
Speaking of Sir Vinny, remember that he has been questing against the intractable clog in the guido's toilet? Yes, the bathroom is the shrine of the guido household. It is sacred and holy and having a clogged toilet is the worst kind of sacrilege. Vinny was on a religious quest to clear the toilet and thereby clear his conscious, but he didn't have the spiritual wherewithal to get the job done. Finally Ronnie stepped in to try to clear the toilet himself. With some cotton stuck up his nose and some Ziplock Toilet Training Bags on his hands, Ronnie is armed for wrestling with the mighty dragon in the toilet.
[There was a video here]
But there is a problem. Not only is the toilet clogged, but it appears that someone has taken a fresh dump in the clogged toilet. Whoever has done such a thing will go to hell for all eternity taunted by the perpetual ringing of the duck phone. And the squawking will continue, unabated, just like sleeping through the alarm and dreaming about the sound but being completely powerless to stop it. That is the punishment for thee who uses a clogged toilet. Even JWOWW was willing to pee behind a car (and on Deena's foot) on the way home from the club rather than put some number one in a pent up bowl. Can you imagine if she did number two? Unspeakable!
What happens when someone shits in a clogged toilet is that it imbues the porcelain with an evil spirit. When Ronnie goes into the bathroom and lifts the lid, he is not only met with a foul stench "perminating" through the air, but the toilet actually raised up into the air. It was levitating over the linoleum, and its head spun all the way around on its axis until it was facing the guido's again. Then, it spewed the most vile green liquid from its mouth all over those witnessing this evil event. Yes, the toilet was now possessed, and they on thing that could fix it was the exorcist of the guido world: the plumber.
The big day finally arrives, and Snooki is the only one home to greet them (the rest of the tribe had to preoccupy themselves with bowling—the most heroic of guido contests—to recover from the recent trauma of being spewed on by a possessed toilet). When the priests arrive, they are indeed the paramount specimens of guido society. They are big hulking men with large muscles and tattoos, and one is even wearing a ceremonial brown wife beater. This is a sacred garment only allowed to be worn by a plumber, so that if and when he gets some of the noxious toilet liquid on his garments the stain will not be perceptible to the public. A plumber should never look soiled, only holy.
[There was a video here]
The high priests light candles in the bathroom and draw their strange runes on the floor. They chant and pray over the toilet, clutching their rosary beads—which they got at free at a reliquary-themed party at Karma on Easter Sunday—and finally they stick their magic staff into the toilet to force the evil spirit out.
But rather than hitting the toilet with a resounding clang, there is something soft and squishy at the bottom of their rod. "What the..." the main priest asks, peeling back his ceremonial cloak to get a closer look. "There's a [bleep]-T in here clogging the toilet. It's not an evil spirit at all."
Yes, it was a [bleep]-T. The problem is, the scientific censors who transmit the show have bleeped out one of the words and I can not, for the life of me, discern what they are talking about. It is a very sad moment here at the National Institute for Jersey Shore Studies, because we have finally been stumped by their terminology. We may never know what a [bleep]-T is now. We thought, originally, they were saying cock-T, but that doesn't seem to be the case. Then we were guessing it was Guinea-T, and the censors were taking out the term. And the crew has a whole conversation about it, trying to figure out whose [bleep]-T it was, where the [bleep]-T came from, who should be punished for letting the [bleep]-T clog the toilet. Even DJ Paulie Delusional thinks that the [bleep]-T came from aliens who want to attack the guidos. [bleep]-T, [bleep]-T, [bleep]-T, and we still can't figure it out. And it's not the terminology only of this clan, for the priest and JWOWW's boyfriend, Roger the Mayor of Seaside Heights, recognize the word without being prompted. Maybe this is a garment that is so special and scared to the guido that its name can not even be heard or understood by outsiders. It shouldn't even be uttered, like the true name of G*d.
Now that the mystery of the toilet has been solved, our guidos can go back to their carefree ways. When Snooki, Sammi, and Ronnie decide to have a sober night, they come home early because, well, being sober is fucking boring. Once you've talked about news and politics and feelings and reality TV programs and the legacy of French existentialism in post-modern American literature, there is nothing else to do, so you just go home early and try to amuse yourself anyway you know how. They decide to pull a prank on The Situation.
[There was a video here]
Yes, they put cheese all up in his bed. Oh, that is so funny and Krafty. But that's not the real prank. The real prank is that The Situation brings home a drunk girl and puts her in his pajamas so that she can't escape. That means he wants to hook up with her. When he gets her into bed, they begin to get intimate, but he sends her home early in his sweats and T-shirt. Apparently he thinks that she is the one that smells like cheese. Now that is really worth seeing.
The girls tell The Situation that the cheesy smell probably came from the girl having an STD and The Situation thinks he's safe because the woman only pleasured him orally. When a fight breaks out whether or not an STD can be transmitted during a BJ, JWOWW places a call to the free clinic. OK, it was actually her close friend Dr. Drew, but ever since Adam Corolla humiliated him on Love Line he hasn't wanted to appear on MTV, so he kept his name out of it. Drew tells them that they can get STDs from oral sex and tells him about the nasty case of oral gonorrhea he once got after a weekend in Palm Springs with Danny Pintauro. (OK, none of that really happened, but it's funny.)
Ironically, the guidos know more about pinkeye than they do about sexually-transmitted infections. This is the most deadly disease in the guido realm, because everyone can see it right there on your face and they will think that you are unclean for any number of reasons. If you have sores or leakage or anything growing below the belt, that's not going to impede your ability to get laid at the club, so it doesn't really matter.
As we all know, Vinny fell victim to pink eye last summer after dancing underneath a fat girls crotch. Yes, that is where pink eye lives. But not only there. Apparently farting into someone's pillow can also give them pink eye, as can putting rotting cheese under their sheets. In fact, most things that guidos find nasty—sobriety, good taste, loose fitting tops, Speedoes, pasta served without gravy—can give you pink eye. But the worst kind of pink eye imaginable is the pink eye from the water of a toilet that has been puked in. This pink eye is chronic and can not be cured by science alone. And deep in the bathroom, the possessed toilet waits. It is angry that it had a [bleep]-T shoved down its gullet for two weeks by one of the uncaring guidos, and it has been storing little nuggets of pre-digested food in its tank just waiting. The next time one of the housemates is close enough, the toilet will spit, blinding them for life and finally having its revenge. And somewhere downstairs the Duck Phone will squawk and giggle. They brought this upon themselves. The gods shall not be disrespected.


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Aloe Falcata - Vanrhynsdorp Aloe - Indigenous South African Succulent - 10 Seeds
Seeds for Africa
Aloe is a genus containing about 400 species of flowering succulent plants. The most common and well known of these is Aloe vera, or "true aloe". The genus is native to Africa, and is common in South Africa's Cape Province, the mountains of tropical Africa, and neighbouring areas such as Madagascar, the Arabian peninsula, and the islands of Africa. Most Aloe species have a rosette of large, thick, fleshy leaves. The leaves are often lance-shaped with a sharp apex and a spiny margin. Aloe flowers are tubular, frequently yellow, orange, pink or red, and are borne, densely clustered and pendant, at the apex of simple or branched, leafless stems. Many species of Aloe appear to be stem less, with the rosette growing directly at ground level; other varieties may have a branched or unbranched stem from which the fleshy leaves spring. They vary in colour from grey to bright-green and are sometimes striped or mottled. Some Aloes native to South Africa are arborescent.
Growing to 0.6m with rosettes of long grey-green leaves and red flowers in Summer.
USDA Zone - 9
Season to Sow - Spring


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Quick Start Guide for Off Campus Job Postings
New Users: Please use the Create Account link to register. Be sure to complete all required information indicated by a red asterisk (*) on the registration profile. IMPORTANT: You must be a current or past LCC student in order to use CES JobLink.
Registered Users: Please use the User ID and Password you created when you set up your account.
Update Your Profile
Go to: lcc.edu/studentjoblink
Log into your CES JobLink account
Select View/Edit Profile Data under the Profile tab on the gray navigation bar
Click on the link to the profile subsection you want to edit, just below the subsection heading at the top of the page
Click the Edit link at the top of the section
Next, update the information, being sure to leave the required fields filled. These fields are marked by a red asterisk
When you are done making changes, click Save at the bottom of the page
Upload A Document
- Select Upload a Document under the Documents tab on the gray navigation bar
- Select the type of document you are going to upload and click Next
- Click Browse under Select the Document to Upload
- Locate the file you want to upload in the browser window, then click Open
- Make sure you selected the correct file, then click Upload
Publish a Resume to a Resume Book
- Click Publish a Resume under the Documents tab on the gray navigation bar
- In the Additional Resume Books section, find the resume book you would like to publish your resume to and select the resume you would like to publish from the dropdown menu in the Publish Resume column
- Confirm that you have selected the desired resume and resume book, then click Save at the bottom of the page
Search for Jobs and Internships
- Use the Basic Search to search by Keywords, Job Function and/or Location
- Select Job/Internship Search under the Jobs & Internships tab on the gray navigation bar
- Next, fill in the fields under Basic Search (too many criteria may limit results)
- After selecting your job search criteria, click Search
- To view the details of the jobs, hover your mouse over or click on the Job Title in the Jobs column
- Some other job searches you may use are 1-Click Searches, Search Forms or Previously Saved Searches
Search for Employers
- Select Employers Search under the Employers tab on the gray navigation bar
- Decide which method you would like to use to search
for the employer
A. By the first letter of the employer's name (Click the letter you would like to search by)
B. By criteria: employer name, employer industry, or number of employee (enter the desired criteria)
- Click Search
- Click on the Employer's name to view the employer profile
Creating and Using Search Agents
- Select Job/Internship Search under the Jobs and Internships tab on the gray navigation bar
- Conduct a job search using either the Basic Search, a Search Form, or a 1-Click Search (see the Search for Jobs and Internships section above to learn how to conduct a job search)
- After search results have loaded, click Save Your Search directly under the Search Results heading in the top left hand corner of the page
- Name the search, choose whether to receive email notification of job matches (this allows you to receive notification of new jobs that match your criteria), and select the job source in the Show Me Jobs...section
- When all the information has been filled in, click Save at the bottom of the page
Creating a Favorite Jobs Folder
- Search for Jobs (see the Search for Jobs and Internships section above)
- On the Search Results page select the checkbox to the left of the job(s) you want to save to a folder
- In the drop down menu located on the right side just above the Search Results table, select Save jobs as favorites, then click Go to the right of the drop down menu
- Then decide if you want to add the job(s) to an existing folder or a new folder. If creating a new folder, enter a name for the new folder, then click Save at the bottom of the section
- You will then be brought to the Job Folders page, where a message will confirm that your jobs have been saved. If you created a folder, the new folder will appear in the Your Folders table.
Career and Employment Services
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Discover! Simulations
1. Get Set to Explore
- algae: Plantlike organisms that live in water.
- polyp: A small water animal whose body is tube-shaped; its mouth is at one end of the tube, surrounded by tentacles for drawing in food; the other end of its body often connects to other polyps, allowing the polyps to form colonies.
- reef: A ridge of coral or other materials at or near the surface of the water.
- subtropical: Related to something that borders the tropics.
- tropical: Related to something in or from the region close to the equator.
Building Background
- Explain that the topic of this simulation is a coral reef and how it grows. If possible, bring in a large picture or a poster that shows a coral reef. Let students point out organisms that they recognize in the picture.
- Guide students to understand that a coral reef is an underwater ecosystem that forms in warm parts of the ocean. The main organisms are corals, which are tiny, soft animals that build their skeletons around themselves. Each skeleton is a tube with a hole at the top; the coral, called a polyp, lives in this tube and pokes its mouth out of the hole to feed. As you go over this information, present the definitions of the vocabulary words, using them in context.
- Pose the Discover! question: Elicit predictions from the class. Have students give reasons for their predictions. Ask the class to vote on the maximum age of coral reefs. Tally votes on the board.
2. Guide the Exploration
- Direct students to launch the Discover! Simulation. When they begin playing the simulation, students should use the cursor to look at close-up views of the different coral reef organisms. They should listen to the descriptions of these organisms and jot down notes about each one. They should also move the cursor over various nonliving parts of the ecosystem to learn how each contributes to the growth of the reef. Eleven important organisms and ecosystem elements are featured.
- Suggest that students make a chart to compare the different kinds of corals. They should compare coral shape, size, color, rate and manner of growth, and function in the coral reef.
- After they have learned about all eleven featured organisms or elements, tell students to run the animation. It shows the rate of growth of the coral reef. The bar at the bottom of the screen indicates how much time has passed, in years.
3. Review/Assess
- Review Step 3's Wrap-Up text, and let volunteers summarize it in their own words.
- You may wish to return to students' predictions about how old a coral reef can be. Students should realize that coral reefs generally grow very, very slowly. Large reefs, such as the Great Barrier Reef of Australia, have parts that are 2 million years old. The bulk of the base of the reef is about 500,000 years old. The living part of the reef has been growing steadily for the past 8,000 years.
- Present the Extension questions to the class. Students should return to the simulation to formulate answers to these questions.
- Many different human actions and environmental factors can affect the growth of coral reefs. These could include:
- anything that increases the cloudiness of the water or of the air, such as increased pollution or volcanic eruptions
- anything that increases or decreases the temperature of the water significantly, including thermal pollution or severe global warming
- anything that increases the depth of the water
- anything that increases the populations of bio-eroders of the reef
- anything that increases the wave action near the reef
If time permits, present students with the following activity:
- Critical Thinking: Apply Draw a three-link food chain for some coral reef organisms. Answer: Food chains should start with a producer, for example, the algae in the coral's body; the middle link would be the coral, which gets energy from using the extra sugars that the algae produce via photosynthesis; and the third link might be the parrotfish, which eats the coral.
4. Reaching All Learners
On Level: Logical Learners
Direct students to study the interdependence of the different organisms in the coral reef, as they do the simulation. Then they can make a drawing or a flow chart to show how the different corals have different roles in forming the structure of the reef, as well as the contribution of the parrotfish in reef variety and formation. They should also explain how the coral and the algae that live inside them are interdependent.


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Working groups
Working Groups have been established to investigate particular topics related to the IERS components. (For more details about the terms of their work, please consult the Terms of Reference.)
Current working groups
- Working Group on Site Survey and Co-location
- Working Group on SINEX Format
- Working Group on Site Coordinate Time Series Format
Former working groups
For the results of the work of former working groups see the following historical web pages and especially the files in the "Documents" sections.


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10U (3rd/4th Grade) Grassroots Session Plans
Building Up in Own Half (2)
Building up in the Opponents Half (1)
Building up in the Opponents Half (2)
Click here to download all Spring 2019 U10 Session Plans as a single PDF File
Click here to download all Fall 2018 U10 Session Plans as a single PDF File
Building up in the Defensive half
Building up in the Attacking half
Click here to read Ian Mulliner's article on our New Session Plans
Please use the Document search below to download our 10U plans from previous years.
Please note, all Massachusetts Youth Soccer session plans are provided in good faith and must not be utilized for assignments for US Soccer or NSCAA coach education courses. We welcome coaches and organizations to share, use and build upon all Mass Youth Soccer Session plans as long as appropriate credit is given.
In order to make practices run smoothly and be fun, it is important to have a basic understanding of the intellectual, emotional, and physical developmental stage of the players we are coaching. Here are some typical characteristics of the Under 10 player:


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There's a common misconception among investors that a good product makes a good stock.
That is not always the case.
A popular gadget or a charismatic executive doesn't guarantee that the publicly traded company behind them is going to grow. On the other hand, a fast-growing company may be overvalued. So there are risks on both ends.
We live in an age of media overload, so it's understandable why some people buy a company's "story" instead of actually exploring the balance sheet. So before you eat up the next tasty headline in your Facebook feed about a "disruptor" with a cutting-edge gadget that is about to change the world, take a deep breath.
You may find that despite great brand appeal, some companies aren't worth a penny of your hard-earned investment cash.
A few big brands I like as a consumer, but I'm bearish on as an investor, include:
GoPro: Sure, GoPro GPRO, -0.87% videos of BMX'ers jumping over canyons or surfers hanging 10 are amazing. But this company priced at $24, opened above $30 and is currently trading above $40 after just a few days on the market. The overhyped GoPro IPO was valued as a media company despite no media business to speak of yet, and its existing camera business doesn't exactly enjoy a high barrier to protect it from competition. The momentum is great while it lasts, but with its recent S-1 filing showing slowing revenue and profits in the first quarter, there are a lot of red flags for this cult stock. The recent circuit-breaker-tripping drop could very well be only the beginning.
Coca-Cola: In stark contrast to newly minted GoPro, I think Coca-Cola KO, -0.31% is equally bad for investors. Sure, Coke is great as a caffeinated pick-me-up, but sugary, carbonated beverages are on the decline in the developed world thanks to a focus on fighting childhood obesity and a rise of healthier alternatives. Coca-Cola has tried to hedge its bets with lines like its Odwalla juices and Powerade sports drink, but the flagship soda brands of Coke and Sprite are having trouble fighting upstream. Consider that Coke's stock has added just 8% in the past 24 months, around half that of the S&P 500. The company is certainly entrenched and offers a modest dividend, but investors have plenty of alternatives out there for income and stability, and shouldn't be taken in by the big brand of Coke.
Amazon: I adore Amazon Prime both for its quick shipping and its archive of Nickelodeon shows for my kids. However, Amazon AMZN, -1.86% has hit some real snags in 2014 as investors have started to get skeptical about its ability to put up profits. The ill-advised Fire phone is sure to be another drag on the bottom line, considering Apple AAPL, -1.52% and Samsung are the only two companies on the planet that have figured out how to make money on smartphones. When you take a 16% loss so far in 2014, account for the drag of recent hardware moves and throw in Jeff Bezos' stubborn leadership style, it may be rough going for Amazon for a while.
Whole Foods: Sure, Whole Foods US:WFM overprices a bit. But if you're a foodie and live in an area with few alternatives to Whole Foods, the organic grocer is a great option to get healthy produce or track down a weird ingredient for a new recipe. But while I love the selection at Whole Foods — not to mention the free samples — I don't like the direction of this stock at all. Whole Foods is among the five worst performers in the S&P 500 this year with a 32% decline. Furthermore, the stock still has a forward price-to-earnings ratio of more than 22. That's very pricey for a staples retailer. Whole Foods faces increasing competition, posted disappointing earnings and just got busted for overcharging customers. Sorry, but I'll check out a different stock for my portfolio.
Twitter: I am a huge believer in Twitter TWTR, -2.42% as an information filter and as a way to stay in touch with fellow investors. However, there are serious challenges facing the company when it comes to monetizing its user base: It's smaller than Facebook FB, -1.95% is mostly mobile so it doesn't have as much screen space to serve ads, and it actively shuns the "right rail" like other media platforms. The company is barely better than break-even and doesn't seem to have a solution to grow profits. No wonder the shares are off 35% this year.
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With September 2009 having marked the 60th anniversary of the death of composer Richard Strauss, the forthcoming orchestra concert at Hope College will include a commemoration shaped by unique personal experience.
The college's orchestra will perform its first concert of the season on Friday, Oct. 9, at 7:30 p.m. in Dimnent Memorial Chapel. The public is invited, and admission is free.
The program will include the "Four Last Songs" composed by Strauss, featuring guest artist Linda LeFever Dykstra of the Hope faculty as soloist. The training and experiences that will inform her performance include having met and sung for Strauss's son and daughter-in-law in the late composer's own study in Germany.
Dykstra, a lyric soprano, was appointed to the Hope voice faculty in 1997. Her undergraduate and graduate degrees were earned at the University of Maryland, and her post-graduate voice study has been with Thomas Houser and Jim Turner.
In addition, some 30 years ago she studied in Germany with Dr. Jürgen Völlkers, who had known Strauss, who lived from 1864 to 1949, and was friends with his only son, Franz Strauss, and Franz's wife Alice. Dykstra was eventually asked to perform some of Strauss' work for the son and his wife, who then shared with her some stories about Strauss' work. She performed, accompanied by her teacher on Strauss' own piano, in the family villa at the foot of the Alps. Her experience strengthened her life-long love of Strauss' work.
"After each song, Herr and Frau Strauss would offer bits of information about the song; they told us that 'Meinem Kinde' had been composed by Strauss as he bent over the cradle of his newborn son - the frail, elderly man for whom I was singing - and of little phrases from the songs that the composer would use in everyday life," Dykstra recalled.
"When our little recital was over, Frau Strauss took us into a little antechamber in which much Strauss memorabilia was displayed - his baton, letters from Puccini and Wagner, scores and recordings, etc.," she said. "She produced the Strauss guest book, and we paged through it, seeing names of composers and musicians. Imagine how thrilled I was to be asked to sign it! Herr and Frau Strauss, in turn, signed my volume of Strauss songs. To this day, that day holds a very special place in my heart."
The orchestra's concert has been scheduled in conjunction with the college's Homecoming Weekend. The concert program will open with Engelbert Humperdinck's "Hansel and Gretel Overture," followed by Strauss' "Four Last Songs." The program will close with Ludwig van Beethoven's "Symphony No. 2."
The orchestra is directed by Richard Piippo of the Hope music faculty, who is an associate professor of cello/chamber music at the college. Piippo has taught at Hope since 1999.
Dimnent Memorial Chapel is located at 277 College Ave., on College Avenue at 12th Street.


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Monographs currently available from ACRL:
- Directory of Historical Textbook and Curriculum Collections
Librarians routinely receive questions about locations of older school-books, specialized school materials, and names of institutions that will accept donations of materials used in kindergarten through high school classrooms. This directory encompasses historical collections of school-book and curriculum materials in the United States and Canada; that is, textbooks and curriculum materials published prior to 1980. Several indexes are included that identify collections by geographic location, size, strengths in various subject areas, willingness to accept donations, and format. A resource list provides some guidance to other directories and a brief glossary explains unfamiliar formats and preservation terminology.
$39.50 (ACRL members less 10%) 2005
- Digital Resources and Librarians: Case Studies in Innovation, Invention, and Implementation
Patricia O'Brien Libutti, editor
A discussion of the role of Web-based resources in education information collections, which have grown exponentially over the past decade, and of the work of librarians who have integrated digital resources into their professional toolkit. Summary chapters on topics such as the audience for education information and the core resources for electronic collection development in the field of education will be complemented by case studies of the resources developed by librarians and by commercial information providers. This book also provides an overview and analysis of how the rise of digital resources for information services, collection development, and professional development has affected the professional work process of librarians.
$35.50 (ACRL members less 10%) 2005
- A Guide to the Management of Curriculum Materials Centers for the 21st Century: The Promise and the Challenge.
Jo Ann Carr, editor.
Curriculum Materials Centers (CMCs), resource centers that support teacher education programs, are facing many challenges, including maintaining funding, meeting increased expectations, and coping with changes in technology. This volume covers a wide range of management issues from the perspective of eighteen librarians, including practical advice on budgets, collection development, effective access, virtual collections, outreach and public relations, and collaborative activities, among others. A selective annotated bibliography is also included. This book will assist librarians involved with CMCs and teacher education programs to more effectively meet the information and technology literacy needs of both teachers and teacher educators.
$28.00; ACRL member $25.20. 2002
- Directory of Test Collections in Academic, Professional, and Research Libraries.
Paul G. Fehrmann and Nancy Patricia O'Brien, editors.
This directory includes the results of a systematic survey of collections available to researchers and practioners who need to know the content of various tests.Information includes the size, availability, contents, and focus of the collections. A number of indexes are also provided that allow the user to access the information according to restrictions on use, size, collections with historical matierals, by collections strengths, and those searchable via online catalog/database.
$28.00; ACRL member $25.00. 2001
- Directory of Curriculum Materials Centers , 6th Edition
- Compiled by the Curriculum Materials Centers Directory Ad Hoc Committee
The 6th edition of this directory lists and describes curriculum materials centers or collections at institutions that responded to an electronic questionnaire sent out in the spring of 2007. The questionnaire was designed to provide basic information about the CMC's such as location and contact information as well as short descriptions of the collections and open-ended comments from the respondents. The directory is laid out in alphabetical order by sponsoring institution.
- The Collaborative Imperative: Librarians and Faculty Working Together in the Information Universe
Dick Raspa and Dane Ward, editors.
This is a book about librarian and faculty collaboration -- as it exists now and as it could exist. It focuses on development within and beyond the instructional arena and will challenge readers to risk engaging in the collaborative process.
$24.00; ACRL member $21.50. 0-8389-8085-6, 2000
- Librarians as Learners: Librarians as Teachers: The Diffusion of Internet Expertise in the Academic Library
Patricia O'Brien Libutti, editor.
This book focuses on the training role of the academic librarian with respect to the use of the Internet and the World Wide Web. Includes a literature review, reports of research, and case studies..
$27.00; ACRL member $24.00. 308p. 0-8389-8003-1, 1999
- Teaching Information Retrieval and Evaluation Skills to Education Students and Practitioners: A Casebook of Applications
Patricia O'Brien Libutti, Bonnie Gratch, editors
Scenarios depicting actual instructional sessions at the undergraduate, graduate, practitioner, and high-school level using goals and objectives statements. Several cases include the teaching of ERIC and Internet resources. Most useful are the reflective analyses of the session by librarian-instructors that reveal lessons learned about teaching technology.
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Monographs (complete list)
Directory of Curriculum Materials Centers , Fifth Edition. Fred Olive, editor. An Electronic Book. Chicago: ACRL, 2001.
The Collaborative Imperative: Librarians and Faculty Working Together in the Information Universe . Dick Raspa and Dane Ward, editors. Chicago: ACRL, 2000.
Librarians as Learners: Librarians as Teachers: The Diffusion of Internet Expertise in the Academic Library . Patricia O'Brien Libutti, editor. Chicago: ACRL, 1999.
Directory of Curriculum Materials Centers . 4 th ed. Chicago: ACRL, 1996.
Teaching Information Retrieval and Evaluation Skills to Education Students and Practitioners: A Casebook of Applications . Patricia O'Brien Libutti and Bonnie Gratch, editors. Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries, 1995.
Directory of Curriculum Materials Centers. 3 rd ed. Chicago: ACRL, 1990.
State Education Documents: A State-by-State Directory for their Acquisitions and Use . Chicago: ACRL, 1989.
Directory of Historical Curriculum Collections . 1988. (ERIC ED 313 045).
Curriculum Materials Center Collection Development Policy . Chicago: ACRL, 1985. (ERIC ED 256 360). (Developed by Collection Management Subcommittee of Curriculum Materials/Problems of Access and Control of Education Materials Committees.)
Directory of Curriculum Materials Centers . 2 nd ed. Lois Lehman and Eva Kiewitt. Chicago: ACRL, 1985.
Guide for the Development and Management of Test Collections with Special Emphasis on Academic Settings . Chicago: ACRL, 1985. (Developed by Test Collections Subcommittee of Curriculum Materials/Problems of Access and Control of Education Materials Committees.)
Directory of Curriculum Materials Centers . Lois Lehman and Eva Kiewitt. 1981. (ERIC ED 194 110).
" Research in Education: A Comparison and Analysis of Databases." College & Research Libraries News, 61(1, January 2000): 16-19, 24.
" Library and Information Resource Instruction for Psychology Guidelines ." EBSS Newsletter 10(1, 1995): 5-7.
" Groups Concerned With Legislative Issues." EBSS Newsletter 7(1, May 1992): 6-7.
" Information Retrieval and Evaluation Skills for Education Students." C&RL News (October, 1992): 583-588.
" Sources of Information on Legislation." EBSS Newsletter, 6(2, November 1991): 6-7.
" Curriculum Materials in Online Catalogs." C&RL News, 51 (June, 1990): 562-565.
" Psychology and Psychiatry Serials: A Bibliographic Aid for Collection Development." Behavioral and Social Sciences Librarian 9(2, 1990): vii-121.
" Teaching Library and Information Retrieval Skills to Academic Administrators and Support Staff." C&RL News, (April, 1988): 217-233.
" Administrator's Checklist of Microcomputer Concerns in Education Libraries." C&RL News, (January, 1986): 69-71.
" Cataloging Practices and Resource Sharing of Curriculum Collections in Academic Libraries." Journal of Library Administration, (6, Winter, 1986): 81-88.
" Psychological Abstracts, Past, Present, and Future." Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian, 5(1, Fall, 1985): 21-42.
" BI Tip Sheet for Administrators and Support Staff." C&RL News, (November, 1984): 546-548.
" Bibliographic Competencies for Education Specialists." C&RL News, (July-August, 1981): 209-210.
" Worksheet on How to Use Resources in Education." C&RL News, (October, 1978): 287.


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Convenience store companies boost employee income, engage in one-upmanship
If Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's plan to boost inflation and the economy along with it is to succeed, companies will have to raise employee salaries and wages, otherwise there will be no increase in consumer spending. Earlier this week, a number of automotive companies and electronics makers said they would go along with this plan and announced bigger bonuses, seemingly as a gesture of support for Abe's scheme. However, one company got the jump on all of them, the #2 convenience store chain Lawson. The company's president, Takeshi Ninami, who happens to also serve on the government's Advisory Panel on Industrial Competitiveness, said earlier this month that employees "in their 20s to their 40s" would be eligible for a pay hike of 3 percent, or one percentage point higher than Abe's inflation target.
Ninami told Nihon Keizai Shimbun that Lawson employees in this age group account for 70 percent of the company's workforce. It should be noted that the vast majority of Lawson employees who interface with the public, meaning clerks at Lawson's stores, are not eligible, since they are either hired by the franchise owners or, if the store is company-owned, employed as part-time help (arubaito). Ninami admitted this to Nikkei, but said that Lawson would try to "secure higher incomes" for these workers by implementing "activities to increase profits for our franchisees, starting in March."
In response, Seven and i Holdings, which runs the No. 1 convenience store chain 7-11, and Family Mart, which operates the No. 3 chain, will also boost pay to stay competitive, since there's a danger some of their regular employees might bolt to Lawson if they don't. Ostensibly, however, or at least according to Tokyo Shimbun, the convenience store industry believes it needs to support the Abe plan because retail "is very close to the consumer" and thus must provide an example that could help open tightly closed wallets. Because convenience stores have continued to do well even during the recession, and retail workers tend to be paid less per hour than workers in other industries, CS companies need to take the lead in the hope that other distribution-related firms will also increase wages and, as a result, boost consumption in general.
Domestic consumption accounts for 60 percent of Japan's GDP. That's why Abe stood in front of the Japan Business Federation (Keidanren) and two other business associations in February and bowed deeply, asking them to increase salaries. They reacted "cautiously," saying that the business situation is "still difficult," but Abe probably expected that. He made sure cameras were there to record it so that the public would know that he was trying and other business leaders might be shamed into going along. Then Ninami, who is basically part of the Abe team, announced Lawson's wage plan. In addition, Family Mart announced its wage hike right after economic reconstruction minister, Akira Amari, told reporters that he hoped the company would do exactly that.
Specifically, Lawson will increase bonuses for 3,300 of its 3,500 regular employees for an overall 3 percent boost in employee income. The 54 group companies of Seven & i Holdings comprise 53,500 regular employees, who will receive a "base up" — meaning all affected receive a uniform raise — in addition to regularly scheduled individual salary increases (teikishoku) based on position, age and number of years at the company. Family Mart will give 2,700 of its 3,100 regular employees a 1.5 percent raise in teikishoku and a 0.7 percent bonus increase.
As Tokyo Shimbun points out these measures are mostly cosmetic. Since more and more workers are non-regular employees of the people they work for, there is no chance for a boost in inflation unless they get wage increases as well, and except for Ninami's vague promise to "increase profits for franchises," no one has said anything about non-regular and part-time workers, including major media. To give some idea of the scale involved, there are more than 13,000 7-11 franchises and 400 company-owned stores; the respective breakdown for Lawson is about 9,300 to 1,000; and for Family Mart its 7,500 to 450. Franchise employees are paid by the franchise owner, not the company whose name is on the store.