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Elizabeth Warren just had her first press conference as a Senator-elect with Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, the Boston Herald reports.
Patrick kicked things off saying that he and Warren had met and discussed pressing issues facing the state that Warren would be taking on when she got to Washington.
Then Warren took the mic, and that's when things got awkward.
The presser only lasted for about 11 minutes, and Warren only spoke for about 4 minutes, stumbling over questions about defense spending and the fiscal cliff.
And no Wall Street, she didn't really answer any questions about what committee she would be joining when she got to the Senate. Sorry.
What committee assignment would she like?
"I will continue to talk with the leader about it," said Warren.
But what committee would she like?
"I will continue to talk with the leader," Warren repeated.
Warren seemed to finally hit her stride the fifth time she was asked about women.
"Let's get serious here," said Warren. "This is 2012, and we're talking about 20 percent of the United States Senate is female. That's not an overwhelming number. ... We're on the right trajectory, but there's still a lot to do."
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New Tribal President Questions Land Purchase
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - The newly elected president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe is questioning why the tribes are trying to buy a piece of land the Black Hills they considered sacred.
Bryan Brewer says it's great the tribes of the Great Sioux Nation may have a chance to get back the land, but he wonders why the tribes should have to pay for it.
Says Brewer: "That's our land."
An 1868 treaty set aside the Black Hills and other land for the Sioux, but Congress passed a law in 1877 seizing the land once gold was discovered. The tribes have refused to accept money from the federal government for the land.
The tribes are trying to raise $9 million by Friday to purchase the land they call Pe' Sla.
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Crowd-pleasing cookies
Chocolaty or fruity, crisp or chewy, there's something here for everyone to love.
Everyday Food magazine offers quick, healthy solutions for everyday meals -- from the kitchens of Martha Stewart Living.
Apricot-walnut rugelach
2 sticks cold unsalted butter, cubed
8 ounces cream cheese, softened
2/3 cup plus 3 tablespoons sugar, divided
1/4 teaspoon fine salt
2 cups all-purpose flour (spooned and leveled), plus more for work surface
1 cup dried apricots
1/4 cup brandy
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 cup finely chopped walnuts
1 large egg, lightly beaten
1. In a food processor, process butter, cream cheese, 3 tablespoons sugar and salt until combined. Add flour and pulse until a dough forms. Divide in half, flatten into disks and tightly wrap in plastic. Refrigerate until firm, 2 hours (or overnight).
2. In a small pot, bring apricots, brandy, cinnamon and 1/2 cup water to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer until most of liquid is absorbed, about 7 minutes. Transfer to clean food processor. Pulse until finely chopped. Stir in walnuts and remaining 2/3 cup sugar.
3. Working with 1 disk at a time, on a floured surface, roll out dough into a 12-inch circle. Spread with half the filling, leaving a 1-inch border. Cut into 16 wedges. Starting from the outside edge, tightly roll each wedge up; place on parchment-lined baking sheets, seam side down. Lightly brush with egg. Freeze 30 minutes.
4. Preheat oven to 325 degrees, with racks in upper and lower thirds. Bake until golden brown, about 30 to 35 minutes, rotating halfway through. Transfer to wire racks; let cool completely. Store in airtight containers, up to 1 week.
Nutritional information per cookie: 160 calories, 11 grams fat (5 grams saturated fat), 14 grams carbohydrates, 2 grams protein, 1 gram fiber, 62 percent of calories from fat.
Citrus thumbprints
If you want your cookies to sparkle, roll dough balls in sanding sugar before freezing; omit confectioners' sugar in step 2.
2 1/2 cups sifted all-purpose flour (spooned and leveled)
3/4 cup confectioners' sugar, divided, plus more, sifted, for rolling
1/2 teaspoon fine salt
2 sticks unsalted butter, room temperature
1 tablespoon grated lemon zest plus 1 tablespoon juice
1 tablespoon grated lime zest plus 1 tablespoon juice
1/3 cup fruit jam or citrus curd, whisked to remove lumps, for filling
1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees, with racks in the upper and lower thirds. Combine flour, 1/2 cup confectioners' sugar and salt. In a large bowl, using a mixer, beat butter, remaining 1/4 cup sugar, and citrus zest and juice on medium until combined; increase speed to high and beat until pale and fluffy, about 5 minutes. Beat in flour mixture on low. Roll rounded tablespoons of dough into balls; place on parchment-lined baking sheets. Freeze 10 minutes.
2. Bake 10 minutes. Remove from oven; with small end of a melon baller or a small round measuring spoon, make indents in centers of cookies. Return to oven, rotating sheets, and bake until set and light golden at edges, about 12 minutes more. Transfer cookies on parchment to wire racks; let cool 10 minutes. Gently toss in sifted sugar, then sift more sugar over tops. Fill centers with jam. To set jam, bake cookies on racks set on sheets (without parchment) 5 to 7 minutes. Let cool completely. Store in airtight containers, up to 2 days.
Nutritional information per cookie: 120 calories, 7 grams fat (4 grams saturated fat), 14 grams carbohydrates, 1 gram protein, 0 grams fiber, 52 percent of calories from fat.
Flourless chocolate-coconut drops
3 cups confectioners' sugar, sifted
3/4 cup Dutch-process cocoa powder (spooned and leveled)
1/2 teaspoon fine salt
3/4 cup semisweet chocolate chips (5 ounces)
1 cup roughly chopped toasted almonds
3/4 cup sweetened shredded coconut
4 large egg whites, room temperature
1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees, with racks in the middle and lower thirds. In a large bowl, whisk together confectioners' sugar, cocoa and salt. Stir in chocolate chips, almonds and coconut. Add egg whites and stir until combined (do not overmix).
2. Drop dough by rounded tablespoons, 2 inches apart, onto parchment-lined baking sheets. Bake until tops are dry and cracked, about 15 to 18 minutes, rotating sheets halfway through. Let cool completely on sheets on wire racks. Store in airtight containers, up to 3 days.
Nutritional information per cookie: 147 calories, 8 grams fat (2 grams saturated fat), 23 grams carbohydrates, 3 grams protein, 2 grams fiber, 49 percent of calories from fat.


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Or at least, that would be a convenient explanation for the strange, aggressive, and sometimes non-sensical behavior that we display in our borough.
Writer Michael Gold noticed the weirdness, and the result is "Horror House Detective", a novel in stories about a Queens man who is constantly assaulted by the strange and unnatural, and who decides to fight back to keep himself and his family safe.
Now, the first thing to know about Horror House detective is that it does not read like a regular novel, going from point-A to point-B in tidy fashion, instead it reads more like a comic book, taking the main character, Harold Schreiber (Don't call him by his last name!) from adventure to adventure, all within this borough of ours.
"There's something about Queens that seems to bring out the toughness in people, the combativeness," says Gold about his inspiration to write the book, "It's just some really crazy, out there stuff, teetering on the edge of violence."
Queens residents are sure to get a kick out of seeing their neighborhoods come to life in Gold's book From Ozone Park to Forest Hills, Queens takes center stage in Horror House Detective, and Gold wanted it to be that way.
"A lot of it came from Queens itself," he said, citing one of the book's stories that begins with a man getting hit by an SUV on Queens Boulevard. The man then becomes a vengeful spirit that causes other accidents on the Boulevard.
"Queens Boulevard drives me nuts because I have to cross it twice a day. It's like a NASCAR speedway."
However, Horror House Detective goes beyond the "normal" abnormalities or life in Queens. There's just something odd in Harold's world. As a kid, his mother was very distant, almost cruel to him. His father was kinder, but also very hands-off. And his brother, driven to a mental institution at a young age, becomes a dramatic antagonist later.
"The guy [Harold] feels abandoned by his family, and his brother is in a strange situation," says Gold. "It's a strange feeling that sort of encompasses the entire book. The guy had to grow up very early, and he's not like a regular kid."
Gold, Long Islander who has become a Queens resident though and through (he even roots for the Mets, noting that "rooting for the Yankees is like rooting for the Roman empire.") hopes local people get a kick out of the book.
"I hope people enjoy it," he says. "It's a book for Queens people."


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Powerdown is a bunch of scripts to take the hassle out of maximizing battery-life.
powerdownAUR is available from the AUR.
nmi_watchdog=0 to the kernel command line.
Add the following lines to
~/.xinitrc to turn off your screen after 5 minutes of idling by default:
# screen powersave xset +dpms xset dpms 0 0 300
consoleblank=0 to the kernel command line and run the following
xset commands (this would be a great addition to the powerdown scripts):
xset s off xset s noblank xset s noexpose xset c on xset -dpms
powerdown shell script located in
/usr/bin can be customised to your needs. To disable any undesired features simply comment out its appropriate line.
The following table presents all scripts installed.
|powerdown, powerup
|Powers everything down or up.
|Defines functions that are used by powerdown and powerup.
|Displays current power usage and settings.
|The Udev rule that loads powerdown or powerup.
|Suspends to RAM.
|Suspends to HDD, creates a 2GB swap file at the first time doing so.
|First, suspends to RAM. After 10 minutes, wakes up and suspends to HDD.
|pm-is-supported, pm-powersave, pm-suspend, pm-hibernate
|Wrappers with pm-utils syntax (for legacy support?).
After a reboot the scripts can now be run in a terminal.
Automatically running powerdown at power state changes
Powerdown is automatically loaded by a Udev rule, so no daemon, rc-script or service-file is necessary.
However, this doesn't work on every machine, so you might want to enable upower.service in systemd with
# systemctl enable upower.service
or add
upower -e to your
As there are no config files for powerdown, you have to edit
/usr/bin/powerdown by hand and adjust the values. Note, however, that these changes will be overwritten during an update!
I do get more spinups and clicks from my HDD. Where is this setting stored in powerdown?
Set the following tweak to a higher value:
hdparm -B
Packages that are no longer necessary after installation
powertop, powertop2: these packages have no updates for at least 3-4 years. if you think kernel has no changes on power management for 3 or 4 years, go ahead and continue to use them. Replacement: powernow is included in new powerdown. it shows laptop power usage in mWh. the value is usually between 10000 to 25000.
- laptop-mode-tools: this is a huge framework on power management. It has dozens of configs you need to setup, which normally no one knows how to control them. I think it is a "troubleware"; to use it properly, you have to google more. most of time, you dont even know what works or not. Replacement: powerdown shows what does not work right in the screen. it contains all the rules optimized that just work.
- tuxonice, uswsusp, pm-utils: too hassle to set things up. again, they complicate suspend and resume. the default kernel already support suspends and resume pretty well. Replacement: ps2mem uses default kernel for ram suspend and resume. you just run "sudo suspend-to-mem"; no framework, no setup.
- turn-off solves a bug in kernel(even in 3,4 rc that ehci_hcd messes up shutdown when it is set to powersave mode). This is a wrapper for 'poweroff'. You just call it to shut down your arch box.


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We are currently in the midst of a project to digitize a selection of glass plate negatives of photographs taken by Ernest H. Wilson, distinguished Arboretum plant collector of the early twentieth century. Like his famous photographs taken in eastern Asia, these are often stunning images of magnificent trees. This time, however, we are treated to views of the trees of New England: oaks, maples, stately but long-since departed elms, and other woody plants, both native and exotic to the region.
We don't actually know why Wilson began photographing these trees; perhaps he had a book in mind or maybe he just wanted to document notable specimens he encountered. But during the mid-1920s, Wilson, his wife Ellen, and family friend Beatrice "Aunt Betty" Mumford struck out for locations in the Boston area, central Massachusetts, the Mohawk Trail, southern New Hampshire, Maine, and Rhode Island in search of special trees. With his Sanderson camera, he captured nearly one hundred photographs of elms, more than fifty of various oak species, and numerous genera of conifers.
As we process this collection, we will highlight photographs that delight us or tell an interesting story. To start things off we offer you a photograph taken on June 13, 1924 at the Hunnewell Estate in Wellesely, MA, of a magnificent stand of Rhododendron catawbiense 'Album'.
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Easy installation – with adjustable compression fitting or without process connection – various diameter inserts and customized immersion lengths lead to a high flexibility. The probe is suited to temperature measurement in machinery, laboratory equipment and plants in gaseous or liquid medium like air, water, oil, etc.
Pt100 measuring element according to IEC 60751 with an accuracy Class A according to IEC 60751 and Band 5 (1/10 DIN)
Customized immersion length
Sheath material 316SS/L
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This assembly is specially suited to temperature measurement in machinery, laboratory equipment and experimental plants in gaseous or liquid media like air, water, oils and others.
It comprises of various diameter fixed inserts with flexible tails. To be installed into a thermowell or directly into the process by means of an adjustable compression fitting or alternatively a free insertion without fitting. They can also be used in all applications where small immersion lengths are needed.


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Predictions for Social Media in 2012
My colleague Peter recently wrote a great blog about Thomas Edison's predictions for 2011, which he made in 1911. While Edison didn't predict Social Media, I thought it would be interesting to post some predictions on the subject for 2012 from an article on socialmediaexaminer.com — and the predictions' possible influence on our blog:
#2: Photo and video social networks will blossom
Cisco has been predicting this for a while, particularly John Chambers. As a best practice for our blog we try to incorporate video as much as possible, as it increases engagement and enhances the experience. So it looks like we're already on board for that prediction! And yes, I do realize that there isn't a video for this blog, so no need to point that out 🙂
#4: Strategy takes center stage for social media
Now is the time. Businesses will start to show their chops in 2012.
I firmly believe that 2012 is the year most business start to turn the corner on embracing and understanding social media marketing and using it more strategically. We've had enough of the hippie, tree-hugger, Kumbaya nonsense and want to start using social media as a strategic business driver.
This is the concept of Social Selling – targeting customers through social media channels – which we will expand upon the coming weeks on this blog. It is a relatively new (and loosely defined) concept, but also one which is gaining rapid adoption. Stay tuned for an upcoming interview with Jeff Reinke, editor of Manufacturing.net, on this subject.
#6: Businesses outsource content creation
Not for this blog! We're expanding our team and output in the new year!
#12: YouTube provides a social experience, #13: YouTube takes the lead, and #14: YouTube rises to top of mind
See the response to prediction #2 above, and check out our Manufacturing YouTube channel to see how we're right on track with this prediction: http://youtubecisco.com/manufacturing
#25: Traditional marketing interweaves social media
See Social Selling above.
#26: The blue-collar blogging revolution heats up
There is a forgotten group—in fact, I'd say it's a forgotten majority…It's the thousands upon thousands of blue-collar businesses spread across the globe that up to this point have been slow to embrace social media, but are now joining the ranks of other industries in an effort to change the way things in marketing have always been done…Each and every day, more and more mechanics, carpenters, plumbers, landscapers, etc., come to understand the need to embrace this new age of marketing. They're seeing the trends of the way people shop, think and make decisions. Finally, instead of refusing to tackle their online deficiencies, they're instead confronting the problem head-on.
More than ever, these businesses are blogging, producing educational videos and leveraging all types of social media. The idea that social media and blogging for business will only shine upon white-collar and tech industries will soon be a thing of the past. Do the blue-collars have a long way to go? Yes, that's certainly true, but without question, eyes are finally opening and the revolution is just around the corner.
Now, the manufacturing industry isn't necessarily the equivalent of a small blue collar business, but we love the idea of an industry – such as manufacturing – that has been slow to adopt social media begin to participate. We hope that this blog will help contribute to that "revolution."
What do you think? Are these predictions prescient? Or are they similar to Thomas Watson's "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers" prediction? Feel free to post some of your own predictions below!
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Paul Jethin
My 5 predictions…
Social media IPO would be a major hit in the market.
Social media would be a tool for the curation of current events and news. Also a tool to be used in politics particularly with the US presidential elections on their way.
Advertising on the social media site is bound to become more obvious in 2012.
People would be more than happy to keep their social media experience based around their smartphones.
Journalism embracing social media so completely is bound to be negative repercussions (Job cuts) on the industry.


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This blog is our way of letting you know about the delicious and free meals available in the Derry, New Hampshire area. We hope you will join us for an enjoyable meal in an inviting community setting.
This blog is posted by "Elijah's Table," a joint project of the Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration (1 Hood Road, Derry, NH) and Etz Hayim Synagogue (1-1/2 Hood Road, Derry, NH), both located on Hood Road in Derry, NH. Twice a month we provide free, family-friendly dinners, which are served in a relaxed atmosphere. There are other organizations in the Derry, New Hampshire area that also offer free and delicious meals to the public. Please see the calendar on the right-hand side of this blog for a list of upcoming meals. And don't forget the offerings of the Sonshine Soup Kitchen (described on the left-hand side of this blog) and The Derry Salvation Army!
Tuesday, November 28, 2017
Etz's Elijah's Table in December is a Breakfast!
We are trying something different this year. We're having breakfast at Etz Hayim Synagaogue for our December Elijah's Table: real eggs, real quiche, real french toast, real goodies. Please join us!
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Key Industries
Albuquerque supports an array of technology fields.
In 2010 Site Selection magazine ranked Albuquerque second in Metro Economic Growth Potential. In 2008 Cybercities ranked the city 10th in high-tech employment per capita.
Albuquerque has all the elements necessary for successful tech clusters: research centers, an environment of innovation, low cost of doing business, a sizable population of scientists and engineers, low utility rates, venture capital, support networks, and a quality of life that's attractive to innovators.


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The president of Mexico , Enrique Peña Nieto, on Saturday confirmed the capture of the leader of the Sinaloa cartel, Joaquin "El Chapo " Guzman, in a joint operation by security forces in the Mexican port of Mazatlan. "I recognize the work of the security institutions of the Mexican state to achieve the apprehension of Joaquin Guzman Loera in Mazatlan ," Pena Nieto said via the social network Twitter. The president added that his administration " is working to ensure security and the rule of law in the territory and achieve # MéxicoEnPaz " said the president to confirm the most important hit of his term drug trafficking. U.S. authorities offered $ 5 million on his head , while Mexican gave $ 2.3 million for information leading to his capture. Since he escaped from prison in 2001 , Guzman , 56, had become the world's most wanted drug trafficker . CAPTURE WITHOUT BULLETS The capture of the top leader of the Sinaloa cartel , was conducted " without firing a shot " in a " impeccably achieved " by Marina Mazatlan operation explained the Attorney General , Jesús Murillo. In a message to the media , Murillo said the boss " is identified at 100 percent " and will soon be moved to a penalty not say . Journalists could see Guzman when he was taken by officers of the Navy, handcuffed and with bowed head, a helicopter in the hangar of that institution, located at the international airport of Mexico City . "El Chapo ," the world's most wanted drug trafficker for more than a decade ago , was arrested at 06.40 local time ( 12.40 GMT ) with a collaborator in " an elaborate operation for several months," said the prosecutor. Mexican authorities had the " full cooperation agency of the United States," Murillo, who said the procedure had defining moments in the last month said. MONTHS FOLLOWING " Between 13 and 17 February were located in some homes that used to be" in Mazatlan, Mexican Pacific port , but the arrest was difficult because they were connected with other houses through tunnels and drainage system . Once, reinforced steel doors in a house where Guzman had been detected that federal forces did take to open , allowing the capo escape. He said that after " there were several times when he could be apprehended ," but " prudence " led them to avoid arrest in "a place where the public could be affected ." He said he waited for the right time , what happened this morning , when officers of the Navy , completed the catch with a "huge efficiency." Murillo said the operation so far has resulted in the arrest of 13 people and the seizure of 97 guns and 36 short , a grenade launcher , two rocket launchers , 16 houses and four ranches , among other goods . With the arrest of the capo , the Mexican government has arrested 75 leaders of the 122 criminals considered priorities since the administration of Enrique Peña Nieto began in December 2012.
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The Scottish QGIS user group meeting is happening on 19th March 2014 in Stirling at the Stirling Management Centre. Doors open at 9:30 with a 10:00 start and a planned finish of 16:00. Registration is through Eventbrite and there are 50 places available working on a first come, first served basis.
Details on how to get to the Stirling Management Centre are available here.
The agenda will be published a bit closer to the time once speakers have been finalised. If you would like to present let me (Ross McDonald) know as it would be good to have a mix of input to the day. There are both 20 minute and "lightning talk" 5-10 minute slots available.
A big thank-you to thinkWhere for hosting this first QGIS user group event in Scotland.
If you want two days of geo discussion then think about attending the AGI Scotland – Future Cities event in Glasgow the day before. Check the AGI Scotland website for more details.


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Webwag, the latest creation of ex-Google France chief Franck Poisson, is set to go live at the end of this month, adding more competition to the 'customisable start page' arena.
Speaking to E-consultancy, Poisson said that the site "will move out of beta on August 28", before being officially announced in early September.
Webwag is set to take on the likes of Yahoo and Google, as well as independent ventures such as Pageflakes and Netvibes, another France-based start-up that's backed by Netscape boss Marc Andreessen and Kelkoo founder Pierre Chappaz.
According to Poisson, Webwag will shortly launch a toolbar, allowing users to import bookmarks and other sites into widgets on their home page, as well as to search their chosen sites or the web as a whole. For the latter, it has inked a partnership with a "big search company", which Poisson won't name.
There's been a lot of recent activity in the development of Ajax-based homepages (aka 'personalised start pages ' aka 'customisable homepages'), as well as interest from VCs, but the main focus so far would seem to have been on user acquisition rather than monetisation.
Netvibes, formed by journalist Tariq Krim last year, says it has recruited over five million users of its service, and raised $15 million earlier this month in a round of seed financing led by existing backer Index Ventures.
Meanwhile, Benchmark Capital has invested in Pageflakes, another start-up based in Germany. But as Chris wrote in June, we've yet to see how sites intend to make money from Ajax homepages. We love the user interfaces and the functionality of course, and we're anticipating that there will be some solid revenue streams announced by these startups over the coming months.
According to Poisson, Webwag's revenue streams will include affiliate marketing – something Netvibes is doing via Kelkoo – and B2B deals, an as yet unexplored area. Chris previously suggested that white labelling this technology is one key revenue opportunity for these firms to consider.
Poisson said: "As Web 2.0 develops over the next three three to five years, two things will remain. Firstly, everyone will have their own blog, and over 75% of people will have their own personalised start pages.
"My belief is the big search portals (My Yahoo etc) will get 50% of that market, and 50% will be taken by three to four independents."
However, Web 2.0 watchers such as Ian Delaney of twopointouch say the indie start page outfits could have a tough time limiting churn to the big players.
"Personalised home pages are hardly an innovation, though the extra-rich functionality offered by sites like Netvibes isn't yet possible on the mainstream sites. I'm anxious, though, that if Google or Yahoo suddenly upgrade their own services to leapfrog the independents, they'll have a hard time retaining users."
"Successful Web 2.0 services lock their users in through network effects and the difficulty of starting again on a competing service. Personalised home pages don't have either of those hooks. That means their audiences will be very mobile."


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Jeff Davis is definitely not a candidate for Employee of the Month. He is an Insurance Adjuster with a bad attitude. Bored with his job he routinely does the barest minimum to get by. He also lies through his teeth with creative excuses to his wife, boss and clients. Still, he is positively brilliant when it comes to extraditing himself from sticky situations. He is also unusually witty and generally sarcastic.
Gaylon Crittes is the stepson of the influential right-wing conservative Arkansas State Senator, Thaddeus Pinkley. Gaylon needs Jeff to approve a rental because his Lincoln Town Car was badly bashed in a fatal accident the previous night. Gaylon is a weird duck and a control freak.
Gaylon quickly becomes unhappy with Jeff's lackadaisical attitude when Jeff refuses to authorize payment on the rental until he has inspected the damage to the
. In the meantime, the accident scene becomes a crime scene as some surprising evidence is discovered that could be related to a serial kidnapping case. As Jeff plods through his insurance investigation pressure builds, loyalties are tested, and four innocent lives hang in the balance. Lincoln
Rarely does a story come along that is so strangely compelling. I was hooked right from the start as Jeff procrastinated, lied, grumbled and complained to himself about practically everything. Yet, I laughed and rapidly flipped the pages almost as if I was right there with him willing him to triumph – an invisible presence captivated by his irreverent, sarcastic humor. Pick up and read this book. Rick Baber knows how to tell a story that is thrilling, funny and both politically and religiously controversial. This one is a winner; I am fervently praying for a sequel.
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Today, whilst browsing our beloved InterNets and researching this fine fellow: The Elliott Addressing Machine
I came across this fine fellow, Martin Howard, owner of AntiqueTypewriters.com.
Such cool stuff! He seems quite passionate about what he collects, and is actively buying selling and trading typewriters and other office and printing related equipment. (I have to in all fairness say that I followed a series of links from Early Office Museum.com to find Martin's wonderful site!)
He has an amazing collection of typewriters listed on his site, with photos, descriptions and even documentation of items from newspapers and trade journals! You know what I didn't know that I learned from Martin's site? Some early typewriters didn't have keyboards! They used dials, or selector mechanisms instead. (Gods I'd love to take one of those things apart… The springs! The cams! The gears! oh my!)
We had a nice email exchange about collecting, about printing, about what we might want to buy/sell/trade with each other, and I was even able to inform him about a few pieces he had in his collection that he wasn't sure of their purpose (yay! now everybody got their shout-out).
If you're interested in nostalgia, office equipment, the industrial revolution, steampunk or fancy hunks of metal, do visit his site. Its impressive and very enjoyable! Be sure to check out the detail photos when they're there. Some of these typewriters have the most delicate little flowers and filigrees painted on them! What ever happened to that kind of craftsmanship?


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Richmond, Indiana is a small Midwest community of approximately 30,000 situated right on the border with Ohio. Richmond has twice won the "All-American City Award" which, by the name alone, gives one a warm and fuzzy feeling. With close to 60 churches in this community I imagine a family down on their luck doesn't have to venture far to receive a helping hand or support. And when a family is struck with a horrible tragedy, it never fails, these good and generous folks come in droves to help. This was exactly the case with Angela Boyd who's 15-year-old daughter was brutally raped and murdered by her father. (more…)


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Scott Kelby books for Photographers - one or the whole set!
Working our way to the holidays, we're on the look-out for gift ideas for graphic designers, photographers and creatives. A good choice would be any of the Scott Kelby books ... or the entire set:
- The Photoshop Elements 12 Book for Digital Photographers
- The Adobe Photoshop CC Book for Digital Photographers
- The Digital Photography Book, Part 5: Photo Recipes
- Adobe Photoshop for Lightroom Users
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Test Centre Administrator - St Helens
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- Location
- St. Helens, GBR
- Salary
- £9.19 p/h
- Posted
- 14 Mar 2018
- Closing date
- 23 Mar 2018
- Industry
- Higher education, Non-academic, Media, Digital media, Print, Publishing, Technology, IT support, IT systems & testing
- Job level
- Experienced (non manager)
- Hours
- Part time
- Contract
- Permanent
- Listing type
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Pearson VUE (www.pearsonvue.com) is the global leader in computer-based testing for information technology, academic, government and professional testing programs around the world. Pearson VUE provides a full suite of services from test development to data management, and delivers exams through the worlds most comprehensive and secure network of test centres in more than 180 countries, where we validate the skills and knowledge of millions of individuals every year. Pearson VUE offers a great environment to start or grow your career, we are now hiring for a Test Centre Administrator to join our team based in St Helens.
Pearson VUE is a business of Pearson, the world's leading learning company with global-reach and market-leading businesses. Pearson is listed on both the London and New York stock exchanges (UK: PSON; NYSE: PSO).
The appointed individual will be responsible for the efficient delivery of tests to candidates. This is achieved by following procedures and guidelines provided by the company, whilst ensuring the highest standards of customer service are maintained at all times. The individual will also be responsible for the continual enhancement of the brand image.
Please note this is a Part Time position offering a minimum of 12 hours per week. This position is a permanent role but will not become a Full Time position.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide a high level of customer service at all times.
- Ensure candidates' needs are met with understanding and respect.
- Understand the testing needs and procedures for every Pearson VUE client and have the capability to adjust approach accordingly.
- Ensure all compliance standards relating to the test centre operation and Pearson VUE stringent security protocols are adhered to.
- Maintain professional relationships with colleagues and candidates.
- Ensure the integrity and security of tests are maintained and that they are supervised to the required standard.
- Comply with all incident reporting and escalation procedures.
- Maintain own competencies in all of the systems and procedures – requesting training as necessary.
- Comply with business needs on a day to day basis.
- Ensure personal responsibility for understanding and delivery of testing following updates and changes to client requirements / testing, as they occur.
- Assist and support business initiatives to maximise centre profitability.
- Perform other administrative tasks as required. Perform daily test centre opening and closing procedures.
- All employees have a responsibility to co-operate in promoting and maintaining a safe and healthy working environment, and to take reasonable care of their own health and safety at work and that of all other staff that may be affected by their acts or omissions. Line managers have specific responsibility for the health and safety of their direct reports and other team members for which they have general management responsibility.
- All employees are also responsible for supporting and implementing the company's policies and procedures around the Health and Safety, Security, Quality and Business Continuity arrangements that apply in their role/work function. Full details of these policies and procedures are available on SharePoint
Key Activities
- Ensure equipment is operational and test stations are in working order to deliver testing.
- Review transmission and error logs in locally operating software to ensure correct functionality (including schedule download and results upload processes).
- Periodic download and review of examinations and test centre schedules.
- Review test schedule and ensure the preparation for candidates (including those with special needs) is made.
- Process candidates' sign-in (including verification of candidate identity) according to Pearson VUE and client procedures.
- Explain the test process to candidates and deal with other queries as required.
- Print and provide post-test score reports to candidates as required.
- Schedule appointments for possible call-in and/or walk-in candidates as required.
- Liaise with Pearson VUE technical support staff to investigate and resolve technical issues.
- Ensure all hours and leave are recorded and authorised within Company guidelines.
- Help to ensure a clean, professional, quiet testing atmosphere in the centre.
- Ensure all concerns are communicated to the Test Centre Manager in a timely manner.
- Undertake all accreditations and skills checks as required by the business.
- Support and deliver any events and alternative test delivery processes as defined, both in permanent and temporary locations.
- Undertake reasonable additional duties to ensure the smooth running of the test centre.
Working Arrangements
- You will be based in one of the Pearson VUE test centres.
- Some local travel to other PPC's or temporary locations may be required.
- A flexible approach to working is essential for this position as opening hours and days will vary according to the volume of tests booked.
Essential Experience and Qualifications
- Experience in a customer focused environment.
- Good face-to-face communication skills.
- Competent in the use of Windows based applications; including Web Mail, Excel, Word and Internet Explorer.
- Ability to work independently and use initiative within organisational guidelines to meet objectives.
- Ability to deal with conflict and work under pressure.
Desirable Experience & Qualifications
- Experience in a testing environment.
Working Hours
- Minimum of 12 hours per week
- Full day and part day shifts will be required
- The office is open Monday to Friday 7:30am - 7:15pm, Saturday 7:30am - 12:15pm. The office will be open one late evening per week 10:30am - 7:15pm.
- You will be required to work a variety of days and specific days cannot be specified. We will let you know your work pattern at least 2 to 4 weeks in advance.
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A big squirt of concrete and it was done. Five months after the start of the Gulf oil spill, BP on Sunday finally killed the renegade Macondo well, which shared its name with the doomed town in Gabriel Garcia Marquez's book "One Hundred Years of Solitude."
The final relief well "kill" – performed 18,000 feet below the sea floor – provided little more than a symbolic end to a summer-long disaster that put the Gulf oil industry, resort towns, and fishing communities in the grip of a crude-infused calamity that reopened wounds from hurricane Katrina five years earlier.
To be sure, troubling questions remain about the amount of oil left in Gulf waters, its impact on the complex coastal biology of the region, and the long-term economic effects of a six-month drilling ban and the 20 percent premium that explorers now expect to have to pay to drill new wells in the Gulf because of drilling delays and insurance rate hikes.
Despite a loss of nearly one-third of its stock value (or $70 billion) since the spill began, BP will endure in the Gulf, where untapped deep-water deposits shape its future as an oil company. But given the overall hit to its corporate reputation and stock price, and after a series of PR blunders under former chief Tony Hayward, BP knows it must build a new image, much as Exxon did after the Valdez disaster in 1989. And with deeds, not words.
"This is ultimately a story about corporate reputation and corporate liability," says James O'Rourke, a management professor at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. "Clearly, the litigators want everybody to shut up and say nothing and then fight the battle in court. But ultimately the court of public opinion may determine more of the company's forward success than a court of law."
Impact on bottom line
BP has paid out $9.5 billion to combat the spill, kill the well, and remunerate victims – a figure that BP says could ultimately climb to $32 billion. Though that's not likely to doom a company with an average annual revenue stream of nearly $250 billion, uncertain liabilities could increase the impact on BP's bottom line beyond that figure. Unresolved issues include restrictions on BP's ability to drill and the settlement of thousands of civil lawsuits piling up in courthouses along the Gulf Coast.
More broadly, the accident is likely to alter how business gets done in the Gulf, and not just for BP. The result may be that drilling will be safer, but it will also be more expensive, which could shake out some industry players and affect everything from gasoline prices to US energy independence. Four major drilling rigs, including the Deepwater Ocean Confidence, have left or are leaving the Gulf due to the drilling moratorium.
Tougher regulations and higher insurance rates present a "significant change [that] could affect the rate of oil production from the Gulf many years from now and ultimately the amount of oil that can be recovered from the region -- another long-term blow for the import-dependent U.S. economy," writes James Herron for The Wall Street Journal's "The Source" blog.
BP is starting its rebuilding effort in a series of down-to-earth ads showing locally born executives talking about the company's efforts to stay until the clean-up is complete and lives are restored. Communications experts say that's evidence of a company that's settled on a "paid-media" strategy to go around the geyser of negative press that surrounded the spill and BP's role. The strategy also earned BP the ire of President Obama, who in June said about BP's $50 million image campaign: "What I don't want to hear is, when they're ... spending that kind of money on TV advertising, that they're nickel-and-diming fishermen and small businesses here in the Gulf who are having a hard time."
Words and deeds
Nifty branding is what had set BP apart before the Deepwater Horizon accident, as the company transformed itself, according to past CEO John Brown, into a moral market leader that understood that BP "needs a sustainable planet for its own survival."
That concept was enshrined in the introduction of the green helio and the phrase "beyond petroleum" to replace British Petroleum.
BP, however, may have failed to undergird its corporate messaging with responsible behavior on the ground, either out of complacency or a focus on the bottom line as the Deepwater Horizon rig faced cost overruns battling the troublesome Macondo well.
"There was an accumulation of small decisions at the margins about this risk versus that risk, and they all went wrong," says Mark Isaac, an economics professor at Florida State University in Tallahassee. "Ultimately BP would have been better for the environment if they'd decided to be a better oil company."
Indeed, economists say BP has begun to move, often in fits and starts, from trying to control the messages around the oil spill to heeding its lessons. In other words, even in the world of corporate communications, talk is ultimately cheap.
"I think the best thing they can do, and it will take years, is cleaning up the area and getting people back to work," said Tim Sellnow, a crisis communication expert at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, in a university news story. "Then, they need to be proactive and move to the forefront of their industry in oil drilling and oil transportation safety. That would require an entirely new culture in the organization."
Replacing BP's Euro-centric leadership, epitomized by former CEO Tony Hayward, with Gulf Coast-born Robert Dudley and fellow American Doug Suttles hints at the company board's willingness to redirect the BP "culture" toward paying more attention to the frontlines, where drill meets dirt.
Moreover, the future BP, experts say, may be built more as "financial participant," where it would let other companies do some of the exploration work, Phillip Weiss, an analyst with Argus Research, told Bloomberg News.
"My sense is that BP has deep pockets, good leadership, and a solid business model," says O'Rourke at Notre Dame. "It's going to be a rough go for a while for them, and what they've got to say is that the mistakes which led to the explosion … were an aberration rather than the core of the culture. People affected by this are not going to forget, but people are willing in many instances to forgive."


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Monday, March 10, 2008
Soviet Kitsch: Soup
Fruit soup! Rhubarb-apple-strawberry soup, with a side of marinated apples (yes, you can pickle apples) and slices of lemon. This is served cold in the summer.
Milk soup--hot milk with rice or pasta, served with a pat of butter in the middle of the bowl. I think of this as comfort food, even though I've got no good reason to eat it anymore (milk, carbs and butter will no longer make me grow big and strong, alas). This is food for when you're sick with a cold or flu.
Some sort of fish soup. Is that smoked herring to the right?
That's 24-hour schi (sauerkraut soup). Schi is usually made a day in advance to allow the flavors to settle, but this recipe has you freeze the soup for a day and then defrost and heat before serving.
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- adele said...
The "random processed meat products" soup doesn't sound that far removed from my mother's "Kitchen Sink Soup," which consists of the week's leftovers, dumped into a pot and boiled with noodles. (She has made stir-fries with leftover lunchmeat, so it's really quite similar.)
I would eat the cold fruit soup, though. Do you have a recipe for that? I tried looking under "soup", but didn't find anything.
- Margarita Andreevna said...
I've seen solyanka described as the hostess's rescue--if you have a party with a meats and cheese platter, and the meats don't get eaten--make solyanka the next day! This is from "Kylinarnaya kniga lentyaki" by Dontsova. I love that book--silly home anecdotes intersperesed with conversational-style recepies. Something to the effect of "oh, take some of this and that, and you know, cook it".
- Yulinka said...
Adele--I've never made fruit soup, but I can send you the recipe. Just give me a day or two...
Margarita--My mom might have that book! But I've never much liked solyanka.
- litsa said...
You should never, never, never give milk soup to somebody who has a flu! They cannot digest it - during a flu the enzyme for milk digestion (lactase) gets destroyed. They will throw up and get very very nauseous, and this will definitely not help getting better. More information about this too common problem here:
Milk Intolerance
I could not digest pure milk already as a child, but my mother forced me to eat a similar milk soup, and I got sick every time. But instead of skipping the soup or checking with a doctor, they kept punishing me for getting sick!
- Yulinka said...
Litsa--Really? I didn't know that. Hot, spiced milk is my go-to beverage when I have a cold, but I admit that I've never tried it when I was sick with the flu. I'll keep this in mind.
- - AbsolutStoli said...
looks like the fish soup is an ukha, pretty easy to make, but definitely depends on the quality of the fish. im pretty sure its fresh fish, not selyodka.
great post! i love soups (except for that milk one...hate warm milk), and russian kitsch. my mom used to make green borscht with young krapiva, sooooooooooooo good! rassolnik was also a favorite. i need to start making soups.
were these all the cards in the kitsch, or just your favorites?
- Yulinka said...
Stoli--I picked the most interesting and unusual recipes. There are actually more cards, but I didn't feel like scanning them all. I haven't had some of these soups in ages!


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Ch7 was great, I'll always approve of Lilith service!
Nice little chapter at the beach, Arata still pretty fun and interesting and he's got one hell of a cool spell
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Do not know about you but I much prefer a Mc who behaves so that someone who is 30 ch emo mode, before they get better or try to do something to resolve the situation.
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God damn, I feel like Hijiri is becoming an after thought with his grabby ass thing with the teacher, anyway here's to hoping we see hijiri in the near future, honestly I think it's because i like the Osananajimi from countrouble and due to the plot lock between the two current love interests makes me want Hijiri to find some happiness. Gah damn same illustrators.
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I just read what's out of this manga yesterday. I've got to admit that despite it having almost every possible cliché from a harem story, the MC definitely makes it likeable. I particularly liked how he chose he thema. I was expecting something like justice, friendship, love and he went for Rule. It was definitely rather refreshing.
As for the story itself, it's been a fun read so far but I hope there's a plot and that it kicks in eventually. I mean, it's fun to see not much happening at first (other than the first chapter, of course) but if the story remains that way it'll feel like its dragging and the story it'll become boring, in my opinion. There's nothing more vexing in mangas than a monthly manga with a slow pacing.
Anyhow, I think Hijiri probably is the 7th member of the Trinity Seven. Furthermore, considering Lilith said that it wasn't that Arin looked like Hijiri but that from her point of view it was the opposite, my guess would be Hijiri looks completely different and she probably has some connection to Arin, or they're twins (or something akin to that). Those two aside, Yui has also caught my interest. She had an air of mystery to her, even though she looked like a really kind person.
I'm really hoping for the plot not to be bland. I think this has enough ingredients to be good and memorable.
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Dropping by to show some support to this series, just read everything in one go and enjoyed it a lot. But damn the monthly series, guess I will try to forget it now and pick it up next Thanksgiving...
Like someone said, the series might be filled with general harem cliches, but the main guy NOT being your typical timid, pervert-yet-shy, always-tripping harem lead more than makes up for it.
I always like all 7 girls of the Trinity Seven so far, both in terms of design and personality, something not every harem manga out there can achieve.
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More than 4.5 million people were watching when Shay Sorrells got sent home from the Biggest Loser ranch in the reality show's current season. Shay's departure was significant because she was the popular weight loss show's heaviest participant to date, weighing in at 470 pounds. She had lost 100 pounds before she was booted off, the most for any of the show's female contestants on its boot camp "ranch." The blogosphere was flooded with posts from fans who were rooting for Shay and were extremely saddened by her departure.
The show is filled with sad moments, but the saddest reality that the Biggest Loser has delivered so far is the realization that addiction is now so prevalent in the United States that it has become a popular source of prime time entertainment.
"It's a national epidemic," says HLN anchor, Jane Velez-Mitchell. The "it" that she's dubbing as an epidemic is not obesity in particular, but rather the "it" epidemic of addiction in general.
"Ninety percent of the stories that we cover on 'Issues' are in some way, shape, or form, related to addiction," Jane said in a recent interview with TVNewser.com. "Whether it's alcohol, drugs, money, or sex, this comes up continuously. So it is one of the dominant issues of our time."
Velez-Mitchell feels particularly qualified to comment on the American addiction epidemic not only because of her position as an internationally recognized news reporter, but also because she is a recovering addict herself. In her recently released memoir, "iWant: My Journey From Addiction and Overconsumption to a Simpler, Honest Life," Velez-Mitchell reveals her own personal struggle to overcome a series of addictions – to alcohol, cigarettes, work, shopping, food and sugar.
"Addictions jump!" Jane writes in her book. "You give up one thing and something else pops up to take its place. The reason for this is obvious. Addicts will use whatever substance is available to escape and self-medicate."
So while most of the "Biggest Loser" audience thinks they are watching obese contestants struggle with physical workouts and emotional breakdowns, what they're really watching is the individual struggle to break an addiction to food as a drug of choice.
Shay Sorrells was one Biggest Loser contestant who seemed painfully aware of how she has used food as a drug to self-medicate throughout her life. The daughter of a heroin addict, Shay was immersed in the lifestyle of addiction in her earliest childhood. When her mother's addiction caused Shay to be homeless for two years, the lack of food available during that time triggered Shay's lifetime obsession with getting food and her addiction to consuming that food.
It is certainly easy to imagine the underlying terror and helplessness that Shay – or any pre-school child – would have felt in those childhood circumstances. It is also easy to understand how a young child could become dependent on some type of substance to soothe and medicate those feelings. Shay's drug of choice was food. For other Americans who have pain that is overwhelming, the drug of choice could be cigarettes, pot, pills, alcohol, work, television, the internet, video games, sex, caffeine, or just about anything else that can be used to escape.
"The problem I have with alcoholism is a problem that millions share," Velez-Mitchell said to TVNewser.com. That "problem" is not just alcoholism in particular, but the wide variety of addictions in general that an estimated 225 million American addicts are struggling with every day.
If there is, in fact, a common challenge that Americans are having with addictions, then there must also be a common thread running through the stories behind the addictions of Shay, Jane, and every other addict. Velez-Mitchell believes that there is a commonality, and in an effort to remove the stigma and shame from addiction, she created a CNN iReport Assignment for viewers to submit their addiction stories.
The dozens of stories that have been posted on the CNN's iReport website so far illustrate that addictions can be found in every walk of life in America. The root causes behind the addictive self-medication are sometimes simple, sometimes complex, but always individually overwhelming. The "iReporters" who have shared their addiction stories include:
- A real estate agent who got addicted to crystal meth and went from making $200,000 per year to sleeping in the bushes behind a McDonald's
- A war veteran whose wife, mother, mother-in-law, and brother all died as a result of their addictions to drugs and alcohol
- A California woman who was given alcohol in her baby bottles when she was teething
- A man who started smoking at the age of eight because the Marlboro Man was one of his role models
- A cheerleader who started drinking to overcome painful shyness
- A woman who had become addicted to food after being abused at age eight, and then became addicted to purging to allow more compulsive eating
- A teen who became addicted to cutting herself after being locked in her closet for most of her childhood
It is these kinds of stories that Velez-Mitchell believes need to be told. She broke her own 12-step vow of anonymity to write "iWant" in order to give the national addiction epidemic a face and a voice. "I wanted to share my experience to try to prevent someone else from going through the hell that I went through," Velez-Mitchell told TVNewser.com about writing her memoir. "Why waste a good problem?"
HLN will be accepting addiction stories at CNN.com/iReport through November 20, 2009. iReport submissions chosen to be included on "Issues with Jane Velez-Mitchell will receive an autographed copy of "iWant" and will become a candidate to visit Jane on the set of "Issues with Jane Velez-Mitchell" in New York.
More About Jane Velez-Mitchell and "iWant":
- Jane Velez-Mitchell on Dr. Phil
- The Secret "Issue" Behind Jane Velez-Mitchell's Addiction
- "iWant: My Journey from Addiction and Overconsumption to a Simpler, Honest Life"
- Issues with Jane Velez-Mitchell


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Long-term care
Depending upon where you live, short-term (respite) and permanent housing options may include supportive living, group homes, retirement residences or long-term care homes. Your local Alzheimer Society will have information on the services available in your area. In making your decision, try to remain flexible and keep in mind the needs of the person you're caring for.
When looking at caregiving options, remember that there are no right or wrong choices. For some, the decision will be to continue providing care at home or in the community. For others, the choice will be made to arrange for care provided in a long-term care facility.
Learning more about the disease and being able to talk about your feelings can often help to clarify your decision. The person with dementia will eventually require full-time caregiving and you can't do it alone. Your friends, family or an Alzheimer support group of caregivers can be especially important during this time.
If you decide to continue caregiving at home, it will be important to know about the support services available. In-home respite services, a home-care worker or visiting nurse can provide you with relief from caregiving tasks. At the same time, you might wish to consider enlisting additional support for day-to-day chores such as housekeeping, laundry and home maintenance. The Alzheimer Society can inform you of the available services in your area.
If you decide to arrange for care in a long-term care facility, there are a number of things you can do to make this decision easier — both for you and for the person with the disease.
Need More Information?
Contact your local Alzheimer Society.
- All about me booklet, A fillable PDF to help caregivers get to know you better
- Guidelines for Care, Alzheimer Society of Canada.
- The Alzheimer Journey: At the Crossroads, Alzheimer Society of Canada.
- "Are you caring for someone with Alzheimer's Disease? Remember to take care of yourself too!" , Alzheimer Society of Canada.
- Pain and cognitive impairment: reading the cues (video), Canadian Virtual Hospice
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In more ways than one, a pair of decades-old pin oak trees were the reason why Dorothy Widler chose to put a rock garden in front of her home in Marion early this spring.
"The ground was bare because the trees sucked all the water out of the ground," Widler said.
Her daughter, Jeannie Wildin, said she also wanted to reduce the work needed to maintain the yard because of health concerns.
Every time a friend would mow the yard for her, dust would blow everywhere, she said. But she wasn't about to take out the trees for the sake of a green lawn. She said the trees were planted when Wildin was about 10 years old, and it wouldn't be home without them.
"I remember when they were planted," Wildin said. "I was just a little girl. And the trees looked like sticks coming out of the ground."
"They're part of the family," Widler said.
She recalled when a hail storm broke several tree limbs, which required trimming the trees, and how emotional that made her.
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"It is different than anything else that is in Marion," Wildin said.
Widler also said the landscaper did a good job choosing plants able to withstand a hot, dry summer. One bush died during the drought, but the rest of the plants thrived.
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Hope College has announced a staff addition and changes within its Hope Fund, major gift and alumni relations programs.
° Abby Reeg has joined the staff as director of the Hope Fund. The Hope Fund solicits ongoing, unrestricted financial support from alumni, corporations, churches, parents and friends for operations and programs at the college.
Reeg was most recently director of development and marketing at Evergreen Commons for the past five years. Her professional experience has also included managerial positions with the Ottawa County United Way, the Child Abuse Council of Muskegon County, the West Shore Chapter of the Alzheimer's Association and two Hospice organizations.
Her community experience currently includes serving on the board of the Tri-Cities Love INC and she is a member of PEO (a philanthropic educational organization that works to further women's education). She volunteers for the Holland Area Chamber of Commerce and the Spring Lake Yacht Club. And, she was founding president of the Walden Green School Foundation.
Reeg graduated from Hope in 1986 with a communication major and a Spanish minor. She completed a master's degree in organizational communication from Western Michigan University in 1990.
° Stephanie Greenwood, who was previously director of the Hope Fund, has become executive director for the Hope Fund and advancement services. In addition to her new role with the Hope Fund, her new responsibilities include overseeing the research and records related to the college's advancement program. A 1995 Hope graduate, she joined the Hope staff as director of parent relations in 2003 and became director of the Hope Fund in 2006.
° Mary Remenschneider, who was previously director of alumni and parent relations, has become executive director for major gifts, with managerial responsibility for the members of the college's fund-raising officers. Remenschneider, a 1996 Hope graduate, joined the Hope staff in 2003 as director of alumni relations and assumed additional responsibility for the parent relations program in 2006.
° Scott Travis, a 2006 Hope graduate who has been assistant director of alumni and parent relations since shortly after graduating, has been appointed director of alumni and parent relations. The alumni and parent relations program coordinates a variety of events, activities and services locally and around the country for alumni and parents and families of students. His oversight of both programs will include supervision of an assistant director still to be appointed.


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KALAMAZOO—The Western Michigan University Army ROTC was recognized for the quality of its training program at this year's Leadership Development and Assessment Course held at Joint Base Lewis-McChord near Seattle.
The Bronco Battalion was the top program in Michigan based on the individual performances of cadets and it was one of the top two programs in the five-state region of Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio and the Lower Peninsula of Michigan.
The LDAC program includes 29 days of training during the summer; 17 WMU ROTC cadets took part in the rigorous program.
The Bronco Battalion and cadets from around the country participated in land navigation tests, the Army Physical Fitness test, land and water obstacle courses and situational training exercises. Cadets receive advanced leadership training as well. Those who achieve standards in designated events are awarded the Recondo badge.
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- 53 percent of the WMU ROTC cadets received the Recondo badge--more than any other program.
- The Bronco Battalion finished in the top 10 percent nationally in two major categories, finishing fourth in Peer Rating and 17th in Platoon Top 5.
"The WMU ROTC program gives students the opportunity to pursue their interests while maintaining a high standard. Cadets can participate in study abroad programs, and have advanced experiences in leadership and clinical nurses training," says Lt. Col. Decker B. Hains, chairman of the Department of Military Science.
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During the presidential campaigns last year, we often heard references to the war on women and occasionally we heard about the war on immigration. But no one spoke about the war on kids, which is being waged big time by President Obama and his fellow Democrats.
There are thousands of kids in America that have been orphaned for one reason or another. They live in homes and orphanages throughout the nation. Many of these homes and orphanages rely on donations to help them provide a shelter, food and clothes for the kids.
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Wild Bill for America explains it best:
Many socialist governments have large government run orphanages that amount to nothing more than storehouses for unwanted kids. There is little care and concern for the kids and they are often treated quite harshly with little chance for adoption. Is this what lies in store for America's parentless kids? It is if Obama is allowed to continue on his plan to destroy the economy and the American way of life.
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