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The start of 2018 has been an inauspicious one for the construction industry. The liquidation of Carillion in January, combined with the unseasonal weather in February and March, will inevitably lead to a poor first quarter of activity for the industry. The second quarter of 2018 is likely to see an upturn in activity but activity in the sector overall for the
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How Fake is Your News? How to Create Topics for Conversation Between You and Your Customers
Some business will do anything to get attention. Even to the point of creating whatever kind of news. You think no news is good? To them, no news is bad for business. It's now easy to create your own website and hire a content marketing provider. Any novice user with little website acumen can come up with a stunning site filled with anything including fake news. Those unscrupulous web designer masters are only out to get rich. They will concoct the most controversial, fabricated and fictitious news articles even if it crosses the lines of human rights, family values and morality. The sad part is that the articles pass of as true and is shared on social media very quickly.
So how fake is that news you're reading? If you look closely and use a little common sense (and not too much emotion), it's easy to spot.
The domain name looks suspicious
Some domain names look legit and are easy to pass of as the reputable news sites like nbc.com.co or abcnew.com.co with the extra .co in the end, with no affiliation whatsoever with NBC or ABC. If you're not looking at domains, you will believe it. If you're very informed, you would believe in one article stating Obama will run for a 3rd term which is unconstitutional. But what if you didn't know that? Go to the NBC or CNN site to see if they're headlining this, too. Fact checking sites like Snopes are a big help but sometimes, they're a little too late and the news has spread so far it's hard to clean it up.
They use satire
The US elections just ended and the results are in. Some say the proliferation of fake news had, in one way or another, a significant role in determining the outcome. Months leading up to the elections saw many websites created to grab the readers' attention with fake news about the candidates. That's all they provided. There's no limit to what news they came up with, who they targeted (they spared no one), and the consequences of their articles – as long as it got viral. Many of these are fiction or satire and will fool the readers into thinking they are true. If you can't tell if the news is satire since the writing is that good, look for a disclaimer at the bottom of the site.
It's an Accusation
There is such a thing as evidence-based reporting. If the story talks more about the accusation rather than giving proof that accusation is true, then it is likely to be false. So if the story of Trump accusing Obama to be a founding member of ISIS doesn't give and hard evidence, then don't believe it.
They play on your emotions
Some stories are so tabloid they sound ridiculous but will make people rethink if there may be a hint of truth in it. Stories that play on our emotions will do this to us like headlines about the end of the world through major disasters with specific dates or a breakthrough medicine for cancer. It's really quite possible and would touch the emotions of so many if a cancer or AIDS cure has been found. Did the story make you angry? Don't share it right away because that's what the article wanted you to do in the first place – get all emotional and enraged.
So why use fake news?
One fake news website owner said that it all boils down to income and nothing more. But if it has destroyed a person's integrity, ruined relationships, stirred up hatred in a community, in other words, did more damage than good, then why make this kind of menace at all?
You could use a more amiable way to get viral by choosing the right topics to engage your customers or website. Remember each website you create or post you publish is already a conversation starter so engage them well.
- Know their problem – Don't jump into your customers' solutions before knowing what they have in mind and how you can help lead them to a solution. If you're a life coach, write topics about their problems. Maybe they're too embarrassed to express their feelings.
- Why should you solve your problem – You want your readers to know why they have to solve their problems. As a life coach you know that it's good to let out some pent up emotions.
- Offer some answers about you – Sometimes, customers will not be so open to having further conversations and working with you. Tell them about what you do without actually selling your services. Sell the while industry and not your product. Subtle is the key to opening the door of future conversations and eventually, sales.
So you see? Some good things don't have to be faked to make it work. You could have engaged posts that go viral without faking it. Just use caution and choose the right methods. A good content marketing provider can help you get going. Remember, wars were started with fake news, families were broken because of bogus statements, and communities were destroyed all because of fraudulent claims. It really is a bad idea – marketing strategy or otherwise.
Annie Ianko
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Annie has 18 years' experience as an editor and content creator and manager. With work in television and written media, she has dedicated her past 10 years to learning the ropes of online content creation, from writing to editing, from SEO to content management.
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Nobles celebrate 50th anniversary
R. Dennis and Sandra S. (Elder) Noble, of Lewistown, recently celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary.
They were married on Aug. 10, 1968, at St. John Lutheran Church, Lewistown, by the Rev. Robert G. Sanders.
The couple celebrated their special anniversary with a second honeymoon to Niagara Falls, Canada.
They are the parents of two children, Heather R.D. Bailey, Chesapeake, Virginia, and Shaneen E. Gramley, Lewistown, and they have four grandchildren.
Dennis Served in the U.S. Army and is retired from Ford New Holland, Belleville.
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Oguri Shun refuses audience with Josei Shuukan
(Japanese online gossip source: Uraurageinou) Uraurageinou reports that Oguri Shun views Josei Shuukan as an enemy and refuses to get interviewed by them.
The trigger was said to be the launch for his recent dorama, Binbou Danshi which aired from January to March. Oguri Shun had said, " I hate having to move around in a secretive manner."
Apparently Josei Shuukan took it quite literally and published a feature of him and 40 other people partying at Ginza's 8th district. Upon hearing this, Oguri Shun said, "I hate tabloids too!"
Uraurageinou then noted that actually Josei Seven had published photos of Oguri Shun being drunk and falling asleep on the road before, and commented that it's better if he stops "boycotting" the magazine cos it will only encourage them to report negative news of him. Hmm well. Happy Wednesday!
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LOL GOTTA LOVE BAD ASS SHUN<3333 i want to see photos of him sleeping on roads/drunk!!!!! lol you know i watched the jounetsu tairiku episode of him i totally LOLLED at the first part where he got out of the car and acted really diva. i found it damn funny.
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" I hate having to move around in a secretive manner." ~ well, being celeb means everyone's going to breathe down your neck whether he likes it or not. he got his dream (which could also be a nightmare) along with papparazzis in tow. he just has to learn how to deal with them. he should just leave them alone and go along with his business – if he doesn't want to give the paps the satisfaction of running negative news about him, then he should just be mindful of his fans (especially kids) who look up to him, or better yet, use his celeb status to promote a good cause or something instead of whining about tabloids!!! booohoo! people would go through lengths to get what he has. he doesn't realize that he can turn all that into positive things. on the other hand, paps should give him due respect also. instead of running after some boozed up star, why not join in the good cause too? there are other issues that need more coverage.
Japanese people love to drink and tend to get drunk a lot. So what if Oguri Shun falls half dead somewhere? It doesn't change the fact that he's a good actor and what he has accomplished so far is no thanks to the tabloids.
Funny, I never saw Oguri Shun as a role model for kids. He isn't locked inside the "idol" box, that's why I like him. He does his own thing but is very professional at the same time…
mmm i totally agree. the reason why i started liking shun in the first place is because i thought he was different from the rest of the actors…special!!!!
Oguri is just the same people as we are! If she likes to drink w/ his friends, why not? or he wanna to take a break with his busy life… we know it is very disappointing seeing a celebrity drunken and sleeping on the road. But if it not true? we throw so many bad comments about oguri shun. what if we are in his own shoes? how do we feel?, what do you think he feels about that many bad coments? Lets just understand everything..He has also his personal Life.. and he is also a human… just my concern and opinion…
i totally agree. the reason why i started liking shun in the first place is because i thought he was different from the rest of the actors…
You guys don't give Oguri Shun such a hard time. I mean if you were him you would probably get annoyed too don't you think? Having unwanted people following you from place to place. He is still a person just like us. Everyone makes a mistake every once in a while and you can't say you have NEVER made a mistake before cause that is just a lie.
For BLAIRE, maybe just try to see it from his point of view. Nobodies perfect. This guy, Oguri Shun, is a great guy. Everyone gets angry from time to time whether they like it or not.
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When it comes to the Israel/Palestine subject, the elephant in the room is that the only form of bigotry that is ever noticed is antisemitism.
In the British argument over whether anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism, the pro-Israel side is lumping in defensible statements, dumb or insensitive statements, and actual antisemitic statements from the anti-Zionists into one big pot. And so the well-intentioned commentator, like Gaby Hinsliff, in this Guardian piece ("Antisemitism has rocked Labour's self-belief") is too lazy to try and make the distinctions and then screws up herself– when she says it's anti-Semitic to deny "Israel's right to exist" without seeming to realize that Israel wouldn't exist as a Jewish state without ethnic cleansing and discrimination.
Because nobody cares about anti-Palestinian bigotry.
No other human rights movement I can think of is automatically accused of being racist. The underlying assumption is that Palestinians just don't matter that much, so anyone who expresses moral outrage or uses the normal tools of protest, like boycotts, can't possibly be motivated by human rights concerns. They must be antisemites or at least examined very closely for antisemitism before being given a clean bill of health.
Who examines the examiners for their bigotry? No one.
The lumping in of statements is crucial to the pro-Israel effort. People like me find it exhausting and dispiriting to go through line by line what people have said, making distinctions between what is defensible, what is stupid or insensitive and what is genuinely hateful, and so lazy liberals take the easy way out and follow the lead of the hasbarists.
It is the job of journalists and pundits to make these distinctions. (Okay, stop laughing.)
But nobody in the mainstream even notices the anti-Palestinian bigotry.
Hillary Clinton's speech to AIPAC in March is the absolute gold standard in demonstrating this. You can see the pathological bigotry in the pro-Israel movement entailed by the fact that the presumptive liberal nominee for President takes for granted she can label a human rights movement as antisemitic and not be called out on it, and now the current outrage is all about some mostly obscure Labour politicians, the most prominent being former London Mayor Ken Livingstone, some of whom have apologized for what they said.
But listen to what Clinton said about the Palestinian solidarity movement. They're a bunch of anti-Semites.
Many of the young people here today [at AIPAC] are on the front lines of the battle to oppose the alarming boycott, divestment and sanctions movement known as BDS.
Particularly at a time when anti-Semitism is on the rise across the world, especially in Europe, we must repudiate all efforts to malign, isolate and undermine Israel and the Jewish people.
I've been sounding the alarm for a while now. As I wrote last year in a letter to the heads of major American Jewish organizations, we have to be united in fighting back against BDS. Many of its proponents have demonized Israeli scientists and intellectuals, even students.
To all the college students who may have encountered this on campus, I hope you stay strong. Keep speaking out. Don't let anyone silence you, bully you or try to shut down debate, especially in places of learning like colleges and universities.
Anti-Semitism has no place in any civilized society, not in America, not in Europe, not anywhere.
It's not just that Clinton's AIPAC speech unfairly equated BDS supporters with antisemites. It's that in making that equation she herself was revealing anti-Palestinian bigotry. And nobody in the mainstream thinks about it that way. It wouldn't cross their minds– even as the conventional wisdom on that speech was that she was "pandering."
Which is another way of saying that anti-Palestinian racism is the widely accepted norm and people don't even see it.
People need to read Jerry Haber's post of a couple weeks back, on Anti-Palestinianism and Anti-Semitism. The only problem is that antiPalestinianism is such a tongue twister. But Haber puts his finger on it:
Anti-Semitism is considered a serious moral failing in Western society today, whereas anti-Palestinianism is not even recognized as a phenomenon to be studied.
He elaborates:
By "anti-Palestinianism" I understand prejudice against Palestinian Arabs based on perceived negative qualities of Palestinian cultural or natural identity. Views such as "Palestinian Arab culture is a culture of death and martyrdom," "Palestinian Arabs hate Jews because of incitement," "Palestinian Arab labor is inferior" are examples of this prejudice. Attempts to justify these prejudices are inevitably based on selective data, generalization, and bias.
Haber explains the ways that Zionists have captured the term anti-Semitism and maligned any support for Palestinian rights:
The so-called "New Anti-Semitism" was born of the increasing identification, shared by some Zionists and anti-Semites, of Israelism and Judaism… [A]fter Israel's capture in 1967 of territories of historical significance for Jews, the growing acceptance of ethnic diversity in western societies, and the increasing prominence accorded to the Holocaust in popular culture, Israel became an important component in the identity for many Jews.
Especially for the generation of 1967, to oppose Zionism was in effect to oppose the self-determination of the Jewish people, which was to imply that Jews as a people have less rights to self-determination than other peoples. This purported "singling out" of the Jews was seen by some to motivated by, or identical with, anti-Semitism. And because anti-Semitism, like racism, had become a term of moral opprobrium in modern society, "anti-Semite" was applied to those who wished ti replace the State of Israel with another political system, for whatever motivation, even if they thought it better for the Jews.
Today, if one rejects the claims of Jews to a state of their own in Palestine, i.e., if one rejects statist Zionism, one is considered by these people to be at best an unwitting or inadvertent anti-Semite. The same is true if one wishes to replace the Zionist state with a state that is predominantly a civic one – Muslim, Christian, and Jewish. The same is true if one thinks that founding the State of Israel in the way it was founded was bad for Jews and for Arabs.
It also follows that if one is a Palestinian and shares any of the aforementioned beliefs, one is, at best, an unwitting anti-Semite. And that conclusion is anti-Palestinianist because it says that Palestinians can have no other motive for opposing a Jewish state than implacable hatred of the Jews. And if that conclusion seems too bizarre even for those who are wont to find "anti-Semites" everywhere, it is less so when applied to Palestinian sympathizers. "After all ,why should a British Labourite be sympathetic to anti-Zionism if she is not herself related to a Palestinian – unless that sympathy is, perhaps, unconsciously, tinged by anti-Semitism." But aside from trivializing anti-Semitism, that conclusion is also anti-Palestinianist – because it implies that the Palestinians have little justified claim to sympathy, either because their suffering has not been so great, or, worse, they have brought it upon themselves. And because the accusation of "anti-Semitism" carries with it a particular tone of moral opprobrium following the Holocaust, the accusation is hurtful in ways that "anti-Zionism" or "anti-Israelism" are not.
Haber's conclusion:
All bigotry should be condemned, whether the target group is powerful or weak. But there should be special concern for the consequences of bigotry aimed at the weak, since those consequences will be more dire. Anti-Semitism can never be justified, and it should be called out when found. And the pro-Palestinian movement has done that. But insufficient sensitivity to anti-Palestinianism is, under present circumstances, a greater sin for those who care about the real consequences of bias and bigotry.
To be sure, those who care for the well-being and equal rights of the people living in Israel/Palestine will not agree on how to achieve those rights. One can oppose many forms of political resolutions without being bigoted, and one can oppose tactics as inappropriate or counter-productive without bias or prejudice. Particular tacics endorsed by the Palestinian National Boycott committee have been criticized. But this opposition should be based on argument, not on bigoted insensitivity, especially when directed against the weak and vulnerable. Boycott, divestment, and sanctions are generally legitimate tactics, the wisdom of which can be debated. But delegitimizing or demonizing, much less criminalizing, the BDS movement is, in most cases, the product of anti-Palestinianist bias and should be rejected by decent people on all sides.


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Don't get us wrong; we're thrilled that M. Small loves books. We just wish he loved better books. Would it kill him to sit through a few pages of Robert B. Parker at bedtime? The chapters are short and everything.
Okay, we really shouldn't complain, especially given how much he loves his board books by Sandra Boynton and Kit Allen. We love those too. Here are a few we don't love:
That's Not My Car!
The story, such as it is, gets going right on the cover when the book's mouse protagonist observes of the car next to him, "Its windows are too shiny!" The quest continues within the pages, as the mouse eliminates additional cars from being his, by virtue of the door being too rough, the hubcaps being too lumpy, et cetera. And each of these qualities is demonstrated right on the page, for M. Small to touch.
Lately, we've taken to letting him finish each sentence with an adjective of his own choosing. It's like Mad Libs with a two-year-old. "Its tires are sooo…." "Hungry!"
It's important to point out that none of these cars could possibly be confused with each other; every one is a different color and model from all of the others. There's even a giant pink DeSoto-looking thing whose radiator is toooooo bumpy (it always takes a supreme effort on my part to read this page as, "That's not my car! Its tail fins are tooooo cheesy).
Finally, the mouse finds his car. "That's my car!" he rejoices. "Its bumper is so squashy."
The mouse's car, by the way, is a blue jeep. The only blue vehicle in the book, and the only jeep. Also, if I haven't mentioned it, all of the cars are car-sized, and the mouse is, if not mouse-sized, kitten-sized at best. I don't see how he expects to reach the steering wheel or the pedals. Or the door handle, for that matter.
Furthermore, if you need to identify your car strictly by tactile criteria, maybe you shouldn't be driving in the first place. Let's hope his bumpers are very squashy indeed.
I See You
I can't decide whether M. Small's love for Dick and Jane books is hopelessly square or defiantly retro. He has two of them, and the one currently in rotation is the one where Jane and Sally trick Dick into finding their dolls instead of themselves. End of story. At least it's better than Come and Go, the one where Mother gets all dressed up and walks off alone without a look back all Julianne Moore in The Hours, forcing her abandoned children to pursue her down the street. She pretends like she was just going to the market, but we know better.
Come and Go also features one of those not-so-rare occasions where the dialogue goes past stilting and straight into disturbing: "Come, Sally! Come! Come! Come! Come, Sally, Come!"
The Very Busy Spider
Eric Carle hit gold with The Very Hungry Caterpillar, and he seems to have been coasting on ripoffs of himself ever since. This one is about a spider with Asperger's syndrome who ignores all of the barnyard animals that want to include her in their activities because she's got her hands full gumming up a fence. Two things make it bearable: M. Small knows all the animal sounds, so he can "read" the beginning of each page. And you can survive the seven mind-drilling repetitions of the sentence "She was very busy spinning her web" by stressing a different word on each page. "She was very busy spinning her web…She was very busy spinning her web…still not sleepy?"
Thank God for books like Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus (or "Pigeon School Bus" as he calls it), which is more like a very short graphic novel. And thank God for the fact that he likes going to bed earlier now.4:59 PM 26 comments
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Topping my list of books my kid loved at 2+ and I, not so much -- Chicka Chicka Boom Boom and Chicka Chicka 1-2-3. Cute in concept, but didn't hold up so well to the million repeated readings he demanded. Also a squicky moralistic tome about sharing called "First Friends" that his grandparents gave him. "You can see my truck." "Wanna hold my duck?"
By January 10, 2007 at 7:02 PM, at
Oh, M. Giant, you don't know me from Adam, but I must recommend a book for you and M. Small to read together: Charlie Parker Played Bebop, by Chris Raschka. It has jazz and pigeons and a cat and nonsense rhymes and the best illustrations EVER.
By January 10, 2007 at 7:15 PM, at
I really, really recommend any of Babette Cole's books (The Trouble With My Mother, The Trouble With My... etc.) as funny and actually good.
By January 11, 2007 at 1:34 AM, at
Hmmmmm, I think I'd have to vote for the classic Go, Dog. Go! as our least favorite kids' book that is oft-requested by our kiddo. "Do you like my hat?" "No! I do not like that hat!" "Goodbye!" "Goodbye!" I mean, seriously, WTH? (And that isn't even how "goodbye" is spelled in the book, but I refuse to spell it any other way.) There's another Eastman classic that is right up there on the ick list for us too - Big Dog, Little Dog, but other Eastman books are on our favorites list (Snow and The Best Nest for example), so we can't just ban the author in question.
By Heather, at January 11, 2007 at 5:02 AM
I have to admit, two of my favorite books to read my kids are mentioned above as non-favorites - Chicka Chicka Boom Boom and Go, Dog, Go. The rhymes in Chicka Chicka seems to roll off your tongue, and you get a healthy dose of the ABC's. And Go, Dog, Go was the first "long" book that my toddler was able to sit through, and we love anything by Eastman (aka Dr. Suess). But one of my least favorite books is also a Dr. Suess book - Fox in Socks. The rhymes definitely do not roll of your tongue. Also on the least favorite list - the books you get after seeing Santa at the mall. Just imagine mall-themed books called "Giving" and "Sharing".
By January 11, 2007 at 5:57 AM, at
I love Go, Dog, Go. I can even still recite some of the lines, 20 some odd years later. ("To the tree! To the tree! To the top of the tree! It was a dog party! Big dogs, little dogs!")
By January 11, 2007 at 6:24 AM, at
You know which book we hate at our house? The Runaway Bunny. HATE. IT.
By January 11, 2007 at 7:37 AM, at
Wow, who can resist commenting on kids' books? Clearly not me, either! I'll cast a vote for the Chicka-Chicka oeuvre. I only wish there were more of them. My current favorites of my 3-year-old's collection are the Frog and Toad books, Caps For Sale, and Leo the Late Bloomer. Caps is probably number one because we get to watch him act out all the arm shaking and foot-stomping and it's unbelievably cute. For us.
By Unknown, at January 11, 2007 at 8:37 AM
I have to second the recommendation of Keving Henkes. The illustrations contain little in-jokes for the parents too.
By January 11, 2007 at 12:00 PM, at
My favorite books to read my little ones were "Green Eggs and Ham", which I can still recite word perfect, and "The Monster at the End of This Book" starring lovable, furry, old Grover. My kids loved turning the pages and watching Grover/Mommy become increasingly hysterical about reaching the end. Um, probably not a good bedtime story, though.
By January 11, 2007 at 12:20 PM, at
There are some great adoption kids books out there, and some terrible ones. I don't know if you have them already, but Jamie Lee Curtis wrote a great one.
By January 11, 2007 at 12:29 PM, at
I'm with you on the first two, but I have to disagree with your dislike of The Very Busy Spider. With infants/toddlers that book is even better than The Very Hungry Caterpillar. It is possibly one of my favorite books to read with my little ones. (I'm an infant teacher) Because all the animals and animal sounds are recognizable, the kids can practically read it themselves and they get very into making the animal sounds. Plus, because it does repeat itself, you don't have to put as much effort into reading it.
By Shannon, at January 11, 2007 at 2:55 PM
You totally have to get the Max the Bunny books by Rosemary Wells--cute and funny and the one about the dragon shirt even has an iron on transfer, so, rock on. Also the Frances books by Russell and Lillian Hoban because they have silly little songs about toast.
By January 11, 2007 at 3:28 PM, at
Sandra Boynton....I haven't thought of her in a long time. I painted huge Boynton animals on the walls of my daughter's nursery back when I was young and had time to do crap like that. One of my hobbies is collecting all of the children's books I loved and grew up with and then shared them with my child; she also has fond memories of these:
By January 11, 2007 at 9:51 PM, at
Hairy Maclary by Lynley Dodd.
By January 11, 2007 at 10:14 PM, at
My favorite book as a toddler was "Milkman Bill." (Now out of print, I believe.) My parents made it "disappear" behind a couch, and we didn't find it until I was five. I was happy to find it...my parents were decidedly not.
By Currer813, at January 12, 2007 at 5:10 AM
When I was a kid, I loved the Anatole books, written by Eve Titus and illustrated to great effect by Paul Galdone. Anatole is a mouse who works anonymously in a French cheese factory, and who is devoted to his (large) family. Unfortunately, many of these books are now out of print, but they can often be found used.
By January 12, 2007 at 7:46 AM, at
Another series that was a huge hit with my kids at that age were the "Sam" books by Barbro Lindgren. "Sam's Cookie", "Sam's Ball", etc.; Sam is an adorably grubby little guy whose companion is his dog. Things like this happen: Sam gets a cookie, it's a good cookie, doggie take's Sam's cookie, conflict ensues...They are very cute & toddlers relate to the stories; fun for the grownup reading it, too.
By January 12, 2007 at 10:35 AM, at
Having worked in a bookstore that focused on children's books:
By January 12, 2007 at 2:38 PM, at
Possibly a bit too old for M.Small right now, but if you get a chance, grab any of the books Fred Gwynne wrote (Yes, that Fred Gwynne.)
By January 12, 2007 at 2:42 PM, at
"Love You Forever" is kind of mushy/creepy, but the rest of Robert Munsch's stuff is pretty funny and entertaining. My almost-two-year-old loves them right now and I don't mind repeated readings either, although even the best kids' books get boring when you have to read them four times a day.
By January 12, 2007 at 5:15 PM, at
I'm glad to see someone else feels the same way about "Love Your Forever"! I was all misty until the last third, where it gets weird.
By January 13, 2007 at 12:18 PM, at
I see lots of others have suggested books. I'm not going to suggest a book. I am going to say that I bought my friend's child "That's Not My Snowman!" for his birth, and it follows the same theme (obviously): arms too lumpy, nose too squashy, mittens too fuzzy, etc. But no mouse protagonist.
By Adia, at January 13, 2007 at 4:04 PM
I teach preschool and my three year olds love Each Peach Pear Plum, and their two new favs are Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffers, about a boy who finds a penguin at his door, and Little Pea, about a pea who has to eat all his candy for dinner before he can eat his spinach. They both have great illustrations!
By January 14, 2007 at 4:42 PM, at
My parents won't let me forget how much they HATE Curious George Takes a Job.
By January 14, 2007 at 5:02 PM, at
I highly, highly recommend "Those Can Do Pigs" by David McPhail. It was one of those books you happen upon by accident, and it's so cute and funny. I'd never heard of the author before, but knowing what I've read about M. Small's personality, he'd love it (and it's parent-friendly, too).
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The Division of Infectious Diseases provides consultation in the diagnosis and management of infectious diseases for inpatient and outpatient children. The division consists of academically and clinically renowned faculty who contribute in many areas, including basic and clinical research, antimicrobial and vaccine development, microbial pathogenesis, outcomes research in clinical infectious diseases, hospital infection control and epidemiology, and transplant infectious disease. The division oversees an Antibiotic Stewardship Program, working with pharmacists to streamline and optimize antimicrobial use at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. The goals of the program are to ensure that patients receive cost-efficient antimicrobials with the lowest risk of side effects and decreased risk for antimicrobial resistance. The division also supervises the Children's Hospital Infection Prevention Program, which works to develop guidelines to prevent hospital-acquired infections and manage potential outbreaks. The division conducts both practice-based and hospital-based clinical studies of infectious diseases, including: surveillance of acute respiratory and gastrointestinal infections; new vaccines and antimicrobials; Streptococcus pneumoniae, cytomegalovirus (CMV), influenza, and other respiratory viral infections; epidemiology and clinical features of Lyme disease; and prophylaxis and treatment of infections in transplant patients. The division has several active basic researchers focused on microbial attachment and cell entry, immunity, and pathogenesis; lung immunobiology and inflammation; and vaccine development. Pathogens studied by investigators in the division include adenovirus, Chikungunya virus (CHIKV), human metapneumovirus (MPV), influenza virus, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, reovirus, and rhinovirus.
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A coworker of mine just came and told me that her daughter had to tell her little one that there was no Santa. The mother has been out of a job for so long she can't afford to buy presents let alone propane for her trailer.
The very thought of a child on Christmas day without anything just brought me down to tears.
At work, we have an Angel tree and I attempting to see if I can help out two children there.
I was looking through the Noel Operation in the newspaper as they try to raise jackets for the kids in the city. I only have one jacket to donate.
All I ask because I know times are tough… I have four kids of my own… but if you can, look in your newspaper and see who you can help out there. Whether it's a jacket, a meal, or even a present….
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That is why the involvement of experienced consultants who know what they are doing and care about the archaeology is important. Designing tender documentation is a skill, but it is often done by people who don't really understand it. The worst ITTs introduce risks for the contractor, but also introduce opportunities to cut corners and lower standards. My experience - seen from both sides - is that these tend to occur when the tender is issued simply as a curator's planning brief and a covering letter - a very common model, but not fit for purpose. Tenders of this sort are most often issued directly by the client without involving a consultant.
Even if a consultant is brought into the project later, if the contractor has been appointed in the way described above then the consultant's hands are often tied.
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Why Don't More Countries Have Democracies?
Why Don't More Countries Have Democracies?
While the U.S. has sometimes failed to practice true democracy, the belief in 'government of the people, by the people and for the people' remains critical to the nation's identity. But not every country has a democracy because the system isn't as great as we think, and oppressive leaders are tough to overthrow. That's according to NYU professor of politics Alastair Smith. Host Michel Martin speaks with Smith to learn more about his theory.
MICHEL MARTIN, Host:
I'm Michel Martin and this is TELL ME MORE from NPR News. Coming up in honor of Independence Day we are going to offer up a taste of some special dishes some immigrant families are cooking up to celebrate. That's in a few minutes.
But first beyond the pool parties, barbeques, and fireworks July 4th is a day when Americans celebrate this nation's rise from a colony ruled by a distant king to a democracy ruled by the people and while the U.S. has sometimes failed in the practice of true democracy our belief in the superiority of our government by the people, for the people and of the people is critical to a sense of ourselves.
But that leads us to a question. If it's really self-evident that all people are created equal and democracy is best, why don't more nations have it? We found somebody who's thought about this. Alistair Smith is a professor of politics at New York University. He recently co authored an opinion piece in the New York Times titled "How Tyrants Endure," and he's with us now from NPR's bureau in New York. Professor Smith, thank you so much for joining us.
ALASTAIR SMITH: Welcome.
MARTIN: First of all, can you give us an idea of how many nations actually have some form of democracy?
SMITH: This is always a great question to start with and it really depends upon exactly what we mean by democracy. So, there are a bunch of academics collect indices of such things and so depending upon how you want to do that those sort of freedom house people would tell us 47 percent of the world live in free politic institutions and the polity institute would tell us it's either 50 or 30 or 20 depending upon which of the particular measures you want to use. But somewhere between the 20 percent and 50 percent are free.
MARTIN: So, in recent months we've seen widespread uprisings against a number of regimes that we view in the West as oppressive; Egypt, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Bahrain. What's the difference between the countries where democratic movements succeed and those where they fail?
SMITH: Well, we want to think about democratic regimes as to who wants them. They tend to be the regimes that are best for the people. When leaders need to keep a lot of people happy they have to do things that are generally good for the majority of the people. Otherwise they get kicked out, get deposed. Leaders who have bad economic growth we kick them out in democracies. In autocratic systems we tend to think of leaders have to keep much smaller a proportion of the population happy.
And so, they don't tend to worry so much about doing things that are good for the people. They do things that are good for their cronies, which aren't generally good for the people and this makes it easier for them to stay in power.
MARTIN: Some have offered the opinion that some societies are culturally more conducive to democracy than others. Do you credit that theory?
SMITH: I think that's just an excuse for not taking the hard work that needs to be done to empower the people. People often have a particular crony that they'd like to see or a puppet that we might want to prop up for example and it will be convenient to say that the people of that country - in a very patronizing way I think - are ready for democracy and people pick up the idea of how to vote people into office and how to approve of people, disapprove of people very quickly.
And I think there's a little in cultural bias. You know, and often I think one of the ways we tend to think about regimes is do we, you know, I'm talking collectively, is the United States or the West like a country? Do we like the policies they have? And we often define the political institutions for freedom of the people and what should be done there according to what the views are that are being expressed by the current regime.
MARTIN: If you're just joining us you're listening to TELL ME MORE from NPR News on a day when Americans celebrate our country's independence. We're talking about democracy and we're talking about why so many people don't have it.
I'm talking to Alastair Smith. He's a professor of politics at New York University. He recently wrote an opinion piece about how tyrants stay in power. One of the things that in your piece in the New York Times that you wrote about, you said that regimes rich and natural resources are flush with foreign aid can readily suppress freedom of speech, of free press, and most important the right to assemble.
One of the reasons I was fascinated by this point is that a lot of people I think feel that if you have a lot of wealth to spread around why wouldn't you have a democracy, because you wouldn't need to - I think a lot of people think of tyranny as a way to husband resources for the benefit of the few against the many.
And if you have a lot why not spread it around? I know that may sound like a ridiculous question but I just wanted to ask a little bit more about why is that, that having a lot of natural resources actually doesn't always work in the favor of democracy.
SMITH: Right, so this is the complete irony of it. You have wonderful natural resources which could pay to improve the welfare of the people. But it provides all the political incentives to do the exact opposite. So, there's all this wealth and the leader has all this wealth and they can think about how they want to divvy it up. Paying off a small number of cronies enormous amounts of wealth so they live in luxury is a great way of buying that political support.
That money doesn't go as far if we divide it over millions and millions of people so, you sort of concentrate the wealth in a few people and providing they're willing to keep you in power and do the dirty work of preventing the people from actually rising up and trying to seize the wealth themselves you are pretty stable as a leader.
MARTIN: Well, why didn't that happen here in the U.S.? The U.S. has tremendous natural resources. I mean, we have oil, we have fertile agricultural areas. We have all kinds of natural resources. Now, how come that didn't happen in the U.S.?
SMITH: Well, this I think you're all thinking of this very much from a 20th century perspective. So, you know, one of the reasons - I guess is July 4th - so one of the reasons that the British didn't fight that hard over the United States and - make the slightly controversial interpretation - but this is that the U.S. just wasn't a particularly valuable asset at the time of the war of independence. The Caribbean was a much more important money-making thing.
So, the money was coming out of Jamaica where slaves were growing sugar and rum and things like that were much more valuable products. The U.S. was small.
SMITH: The U.S. was much more small holder farmers and trappers. It was not an easy way to accumulate vast amounts of resources from the people and therefore the people came and set up their own institutions so, small holder farmers - there wasn't this ability for the government to strip out the resources that there was in the Caribbean.
And that's sort of a I hadn't really thought of putting it in those terms but, you know, we got the next resource, that the British will concentrate on the Caribbean and not on North America.
MARTIN: Again this may sound like a ridiculous question but I think this is the kind of question that many Americans have when they look at countries who are looking to throw off despites, but one of the questions I think a lot of Americans have and this is something that was asked a lot about Egypt is why do people put up with it for so long?
SMITH: Well, precisely because the numbers of people that are actually out on the street the regime can kill those numbers of people, they can have them arrested. And provided the regime has the repressive capacity to do so, the people are wise to keep their heads down. It's very difficult for people to coordinate so, if everybody turns up on the street at the same time which we saw this happening in Egypt and we saw this happening in Tunisia. We saw this happening in Eastern Europe.
We saw this happening during the Russian Revolution. When everybody shows up then you can overwhelm the security forces. But even in most of these cases, the reason they succeed is that the army and the security forces actually decide that they're not willing to prop up the regime.
MARTIN: A number of American presidents have said in recent years that the bend of the arch of history was toward freedom. I don't remember who said that originally but I think it might have been Martin Luther King, I'm not sure, but do you credit that as well? I mean, do you think that--that is in fact true, that over the course of history that is where the bend of history goes?
SMITH: Well, we've seen democracies are relatively recent invention. The proportion of nations that were democratic a century ago was a very small proportion of the world's people lived in democratic societies, and that's definitely changing. Hopefully, the new technology, things like the Internet, the importance of knowledge in the economy is a big driving force for democracy. If you stop people meeting, you stop people talking, you prevent a knowledge-based economy.
So, hopefully a knowledge-based economy will drive leaders to adopt policies that allow people to talk, allow people to assemble, allow people to discuss their views, and at which point it becomes much harder to control people. It's much harder to stop people going on the streets if they can all coordinate to show up at the same time.
MARTIN: And, finally, before we let you go, I do understand that you're from England originally. I think that our listeners may hear that in your accent. I hate to ask, but I'm going to ask - any mixed feelings on this Independence Day? Are you happy for us?
SMITH: I'm very happy for you.
SMITH: I think it's a wonderful country. It's been a great experiment in democracy. And I would like to see - the U.S. could become more democratic. The rules can still be changed to empower more people in the U.S. We can get rid of gerrymandering. We can get rid of the Electoral College. We could set up change to the institutions here so that more leaders become more and more dependent upon more and more people to stay in power and they'll - those sort of institutional changes hopefully will empower leaders to be even more responsive to the people of the United States.
MARTIN: Alastair Smith is a professor of politics at New York University. He's the co-author of a recent New York Times opinion piece called "How Tyrants Endure." If you'd like to read that piece, we'll link to it on our website. Go to NPR.org, click on the Programs tab, then on TELL ME MORE. Professor Smith was kind enough to join us from NPR's bureau in New York. Thank you so much for joining us.
SMITH: You're welcome. Bye-bye.
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To determine which remote access solution is best for your environment, consider the following:
- Use AcuODBC with AcuServer if your site uses Microsoft Word, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Excel, or other applications that dynamically generate SQL to browse records in a file or table. These applications import entire files, without regard for how the SQL commands are passed to the server.
AcuServer allows you to locate files and return them to the local machine for processing, and gives you the greatest amount of remote access flexibility.
- Use AcuODBC Server if your site uses either a report writer application such as Crystal Reports Professional or custom a VB application that uses known SQL with specific retrieval criteria.
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Facebook Stalking is a past time enjoyed by many a user. Some do it out of boredom, others out of curiosity and some even take it to the extreme past all societal norms or legal boundaries. A recent study by Vernonika Lukacs, a Master's Degree candidate at Western University, found that a whopping 88 percent of respondents Facebook stalk their ex-lover in some capacity.
Facebook can often be the perfect place for spurned lovers to spy on their exes, so Lukacs decided to base her graduate thesis on the subject. The study titled "It's Complicated: Romantic breakups and their aftermath on Facebook", surveyed people 18 to 35 years old and interviewed another set of 21 to 39 years old, all of whom had experienced break ups in the last 12 months.
Out of the total numbers who Facebook creep on their exes, 70 percent admitted to doing it using a mutual friend's account. What's more shocking is that 74 percent even investigated the profile of their ex's new partner or those who they think to be the new partner.
Niagra Advance breaks down other statistical highlights of the study:
- 48% of people remained friends with their exs on Facebook.
- 88% creeped their exs.
- 70% used a mutual friend's profile or logged in as a mutual friend to creep their ex.
- 74% tried to creep an ex's new partner or suspected new partner.
- 64% said they re-read or analyzed old messages from their ex.
- 50% deleted pictures of their ex from their profile.
- 31% posted pictures to try to make their ex jealous.
- 33% posted a song lyric or quote about their ex as their status.
- 52% said they were jealous of a picture their ex posted.
The study did not offer a comprehensive answer to what lovers and ex-lovers do online during and after their relationships. But it gives a glimpse of what some people do to mend their hearts (or ego) just after a breakup. The Internet and social networking sites are making it easier to spy on friend and foe alike.
Apart from these shocking statistics, there are some serious privacy implications at hand. If you would like to better protect your privacy from your ex (or anyone else for that matter), then consider heeding the following suggestions:
- Change your Password – Some people share passwords or an ex-lover could have found yours out by other means.
- Un-friend the person if the relationship didn't end on good terms.
- Consider removing close friends of your ex. The study shows that there is a good chance your ex will use the account of a friend to creep on you.
- Create a Facebook list of mutual friends and use Facebook's sharing options to limit what posts they can see.
- Limit your posts and activity to 'Friends Only' and not 'Friends of Friends.'
- Advise any new romantic interests of yours to do the same. 🙂
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Thank you Republi-CONs for the Franken-Trump/Trumpenstein (© NoBullU.com). And thank you to its puppet master Steve.
Read the Washington Post, Faster, Steve Bannon. Kill! Kill!, which states:
"Rarely has a political party more deserved the destruction the Republican Party may be about to suffer at the hands of President Trump's former strategist, ideological guru and onetime puppeteer Steve Bannon. It was obvious during the earliest days of the campaign that Trump never intended to be either the leader or the protector of the Republican Party. He had contempt for the party. For one thing, it was a proven loser. For another, it crumpled like stick figures under his steamroller. Who could respect people who fell so easily, and so willingly?
Party leaders were especially contemptible in Trump's eyes. They couldn't even see what he was doing to them, or if they did, they were too cowardly to stop him. He had contempt for them when they tried to distance themselves from his racist, sexist and all around antisocial behavior. But he had even more contempt for them when they nevertheless came crawling back to him, again and again, pledging their fealty. He knew they came back not because they approved of him but because they feared him and the political following he commanded. He had stolen the hearts of their constituents, and therefore he owned them. He would use them as needed, and dispose of them when he could, knowing they could do nothing about it. 'I saw them at Munich,' Hitler said of his British and French counterparts, whom he dubbed 'little worms.'
Now the conquest is in full swing. Trump and Bannon put on a little Kabuki play for us this year. After a few months, it became clear that Bannon had become a lightning rod in the White House, the target of endless sniping from disgruntled Republicans and fellow staffers, unable to get anything done in the sludge of the Washington bureaucracy. He was hamstrung. And so they decided he could do more for Trump on the outside. Trump would play the constrained madman, surrounded and controlled by the 'adults,' occasionally letting his true feelings be known to his throngs. Meanwhile Bannon would play the gonzo political maestro on the outside, running Trumpists in primaries to knock off establishment types, even hardcore conservative ones. Trump could even pretend to support the establishment's choice, but his voters would know better. The result would be a rout. Some establishment Republicans would lose, either in the primary or the general; others would be afraid to run for reelection; others would try to suck up to Bannon in the hopes of persuading him not to unleash the hounds; all would try to mimic Trump. And it didn't matter which path they took: These would all be victories for Trump."


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Pinktober is a month of honoring and giving to those who have breast cancer. Our school raised money for the Fisher-Titus Mammography Fund in order to find a cure for breast cancer. We raised over $300 and were given a jeans day where our high school wore pink in honor of those who are going through this fight. We thank Senora Lucas, our Spanish teacher, for bringing this to our attention and being able to contribute to something good. We continue to pray for those who are fighting against breast cancer and are glad to have been able to help raise money for such a great cause.
Pinktober, by Emily
Deacon Waz, by Lexi
Mr. Mike Wasiniak, our high school biology, marine biology, and anatomy and physiology teacher was ordained a deacon of the Toledo Diocese this past weekend. He participated in the deaconate ordination reception of holy orders and pledged obedience to Bishop Blair. Deacon Wasiniak will be assisting Father Bill Pifher at St. Alphonsus and St. Joseph parishes. Deacon Wasiniak was one of the seventeen men ordained in the Toledo Diocese. As a deacon his responsibilities consist of marrying, burying, and baptizing. His first scheduled baptism will be in October of his youngest granddaughter, Lily Grace. He will give homilies at mass, read the Gospel, and assist the priest on the altar. "Deacon Waz," as his students call him, is looking forward to this new chapter of his life.
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