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Guest post by Professor Michael Foreman
"Let's say you have a work room. There are five people who work there. And the employer has a rule that the senior employee gets to pick the music that's going to play all day long. And the senior employee says to one of the other employees . . . if you don't date me, it's going to be country music all day long." Chief Justice Roberts barely let counsel for the employee, Maetta Vance, get 30 seconds into his argument before posing this hypothetical when the Court heard argument in Vance v. Ball State University on Monday, November 26th.
While the hypothetical is far removed from the facts of the case, it drives to the core of the issue: how much power over an employee must another employee have to be considered a "supervisor" to hold the employer liable for harassment under Title VII? If the harassment is by a supervisor the employer can be held strictly liable for the actions of supervisors – basically the supervisor's actions are those of the employer. If the harassment is by a co-worker then the employer is only responsible if it is shown that the employer acted negligently – in other words the employer is only liable if it knew of the harassment and acted unreasonably in failing to prevent it. Since it is easier for an employer to defend cases of workplace harassment by a co-worker, determining whether a person is a supervisor is a key issue in many harassment cases.
In 1998, the Court in Faragher v. City of Boca Raton and Burlington Industries v. Ellerth defined the scope of vicarious liability in harassment cases when a supervisor is the harasser. The Court also provided the employer with an affirmative defense when the harassment does not result in a tangible employment action, such as hiring, firing, reassignment of significant duties, and promotions.
The Court's analysis in Faragher and Ellerth raised an obvious question, and one the Court avoided. How much power does the employer need to give an employee before they should be considered a supervisor? In Maetta Vance's case the Seventh Circuit decided that an employee could only be considered a supervisor if that employee was given the power to take a tangible employment action. By the time the case was briefed and argued it appeared that all the parties, including Ball State and most of the amici involved, agreed that the Seventh Circuit standard ignored the realities of the work place. This was a point that Justice Kagan drove home with her own hypothetical. "There's a professor, and the professor has a secretary. And the professor subjects that secretary to living hell, complete hostile work environment on the basis of sex, all right? But the professor has absolutely no authority to fire the secretary." Justice Kagan's questions showed the limited reach of the lower court focus on the ability to hire and fire as the measure of when someone was a supervisor. Deputy Solicitor General Sri Srinivasan readily conceded that the Seventh Circuit's approach would not protect that secretary and no one seriously defended the lower court's view as a correct rule of law.
While Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Alito and Scalia did not appear happy that the Seventh Circuit standard went undefended, their questions did not appear to signal that that they believed it was the correct one either. So it appears the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission standard offered by the Solicitor General and the amici briefs on behalf of Ms. Vance is the one in play.
The EEOC standard provides that employers are liable for employee actions where the harassing employee has the power to "direct the employee's daily work activities." The Solicitor General's brief and those supporting Ms. Vance argued that the standard adopted by the EEOC merely built upon the Faragher and Ellerth legal analysis and most accurately reflects today's workplace. Now, back to the Chief Justice's music playing harasser. His question was intended to measure how far this standard reaches – what does it mean to "direct the employee's daily activities." Is the power to play the music different than the power to have Maetta Vance Ball, as a kitchen worker, cut the onions – a hypothetical directly related to the case?
While Chief Justice Roberts' hypothetical is intriguing, as a practical matter the Court has already provided the answer. In Faragher and Ellerth, the Court recognized that what aids in the harassment is the authority given by the employer to "bring the official power of the enterprise to bear." In such a situation, the empowered employees are no longer ordinary co-workers because they have been given authority by the employer to impact the work environment.
The EEOC standard urged by the SG, the Petitioner, and their supporting amici mirror the Court's analysis of the vicarious liability issue. It explains the nature of the power that is needed. The authority must be of "sufficient magnitude to assist the harasser explicitly or implicitly in carrying out the harassment."
Applying this long-established rule would bring stability and predictability to this area of the law. In addition, it would promote self-regulation of harassment by companies, and avoid conflicting and confusing rules of law. It is important to note that, even though the EEOC definition of "supervisor" is met, the employer retains an affirmative defense, escaping liability if they can prove that they exercised reasonable care to prevent the harassment and that the employee failed to take advantage of preventative measures adopted by the employer.
While the rule may not protect employees from country and western music-playing-would-be harassers, the EEOC standard is a sensible and enforceable way of determining who is a supervisor. The Supreme Court should adopt that guidance as the rule of law.
Professor Michael Foreman directs Penn State's Civil Rights Appellate Clinic, which has served as counsel on numerous cases in United States Supreme Court and federal appellate counts. He argued Coleman v. Maryland Court of Appeals to the Supreme Court in 2012. Professor Foreman is frequently called upon to testify before Congress and the EEOC on the impact of the Supreme Court decisions affecting civil rights and employment issues. Prior to joining Penn State he was deputy director of Legal Programs for the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. Professor Foreman was acting deputy general counsel for the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, where he served as the lead attorney for the commission's investigation of the voting irregularities in the 2000 presidential election. A recipient of the Carnegie Medal for Outstanding Heroism, Professor Foreman has been honored by Shippensburg University with the Jesse S. Heiges Distinguished Alumnus Award. He was also selected by Harvard Law School to as a Wasserstein Fellow, which recognizes dedicated service in the public interest.


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I am a PhD student at the IMPRS Leipzig School of Human Origins in the Department of Human Evolution at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. During my undergraduate and Master's training I studied a wide range of subjects spanning archaeological science, biological anthropology, geology and paleontology. My past research projects, carried out in the Organic Geochemistry Unit at the University of Bristol, focused on palaeo-dietary exploration through lipid residue analysis and compound-specific stable isotope analysis.
The arrival of AMH in Europe and the nature of their contact with Neanderthals is a fascinating research focus within archaeology. Radiocarbon dating is crucial to our understanding of this period and under the supervision of Dr Sahra Talamo for my PhD research I am refining the radiocarbon method for bone collagen. Expanding the conditions under which collagen can be reliably dated will refine chronologies and allow a higher resolution exploration of this dynamic period of human history.

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Meanwhile, outside the walls of PantheaCon, I have been busy tending the Wild Hunt's hearth fires and watching the news….
The sheer number of stories describing the intersection of faith and public education has been overwhelming in recent weeks. In fact, Americans United (AU) believes that 2013 will be a "pivotal year for church-state separation." According to AU, the country's increasing religious diversity and the recent failures of evangelical Christian politics are fueling the fight to force religion back into public schools.
Since January, five states already have anti-evolution bills "in play" including, Missouri, Montana, Colorado, Oklahoma and Indiana. AU writer Simon Brown remarked, "The mantra of Indiana state Sen. Dennis Kruse (R-Auburn) seems to be: 'Darn the Constitution, full speed ahead!'"
Just last week, the ACLU of Ohio filed a lawsuit against the Jackson City School District for refusing to remove a portrait of Jesus from Jackson Middle School. The School Board's justification for non-compliance was that the portrait was a gift. However, there's that darn Constitution again. Now, the Jackson City School Board is being sued.
There are similar cases across the country. Whether it's Creationism, school prayer, religious displays or school vouchers, the challenges continue. As such, it is very easy to get caught up in the contentious discourse surrounding these cases. From a media perspective, conflicts are considered more " sell-able" because they stir emotions and keep us tuned-in. The positive outcomes are often quite boring.
As a result, we forget to adequately acknowledge these "happy-endings" or record the positive gains. When one battle ends, another always seems to flare up. It's much easier to watch the new fires than see the sprouts rising through the ashes of old battles.
However, I have and will always argue that it is essential for all of us, especially those on the front lines, to purposefully acknowledge positive progress; no matter how small, how subtle or how utterly boring. Once in awhile, it's nice to have the opportunity to do an "end-zone" victory dance and fly a flag or two. With that in mind, I'd like to update two stories that involved challenges to liberty within the public schools.
Let's start in the South. One of last year's top ten stories was the struggle to protect religious freedom within the Buncombe County School (BCS) system of North Carolina. This was the case that began when Ginger Strivelli, a local Pagan mother, challenged the presence of Gideon Bibles in her daughter's school. Over multiple contentious meetings, the school board finally enacted policies that would ostensibly prevent any First Amendment violations and, in addition, would pave the way for interfaith talks.
During the early days of this case, I worked as Lady Liberty League's Media Adviser. As such, I have written numerous case reports and articles; the last of which was just published in Circle Magazine's latest issue (#112). That article contains the full scope of the Board's newly enacted policy changes.
Here are some of the highlights. The Buncombe County School Board (BCS) has created a Faith-Based Advisory panel to act as consultant for all faith-based issues. Local Pagan, Byron Ballard, who has been actively involved in this case, now sits on that panel. In addition, the Board encouraged all teachers to celebrate National Religious Freedom Day on January 16th. On the first of January, the Board formally announced this intention and stated that all children will watch the newly produced BCS program called: "The 3Rs of Religion."
Byron has confirmed that the overall progress has continued to be very positive. In fact, for the first time in a year, Byron will not be attending the Buncombe County School Board meeting. We are witnessing the evolution of a community and recognition of social change. However Byron did add:
"I'm cautiously optimistic about the relationship with the county school system, but I am aware that it will have to be monitored forever after. Vigilance, like strong fences, makes for good neighbors."
Buncombe County's story may not yet be fully written.
Now, let's move over to Utah. In November, I reported on the ACLU's lawsuit against the Davis School District in Utah. One of its schools, Windridge Elementary, had restricted access to the book In Our Mothers' House by Patricia Polocco because of its depiction of gay marriage. The restriction was initially supported by the district and encouraged for all lower grades. In November, the advisory council stated, "Members of our Community Council feel that the book is non-offensive, but agree that it should be restricted. It can be found behind the Librarians desk." Shortly thereafter, parent Tina Weber challenged the legality of the decision which resulted in the ACLU's lawsuit.
On January 31, the ACLU reported that the Davis School Board has reversed that 2012 decision and put Our Mothers' House back on all library shelves. In a letter to the Board's legal adviser Assistant Superintendent, Pamela Park wrote, "I agree with and support the Committee's conclusion regarding the book as follows:
- "Removing the book completely is not a good option."
- "We all know many non-traditional families" with students attending our schools.
- "It could help those children in same-sex families see their family in a book."
- "[T]his book teaches acceptance and tolerance."
- "The book could help prevent bullying of kids from same-sex families."
- "It could be used by families to discuss the issues…."
Park also confirmed that the book's presence does not violate Utah educational policies because it's not used as instructional material. She continues to advise that any parent who feels the book is inappropriate can contact the librarian and have the book restricted from his or her child only. You can read the letter in its entirety here.
The Utah case wasn't necessarily a church-state issue. The school was restricting Patricia Polocco's freedom of speech more than violating religious liberty. However, it could be argued that the case did have a religious freedom element. The Board restricted the book based on what could be considered a faith-based opinion. It's opponents complained that In Our Mothers' House "normalizes a lifestyle we don't agree with." Removing the book on such a basis promotes one faith's value system over another. Facilitating parental choice supports the values of all people; no matter their religion or position on gay marriage.
Celebrating the work done in both Utah and North Carolina, and other similar cases, does not at all detract from the serious nature of defending First Amendment freedoms allowed by the darn Constitution. Nor does it show disrespect for those cases not yet closed. Acknowledging progress strengthens our spirit and allows us to stand again. It restores our faith in the American system. We need this time to breathe.
So, in honor of the work done by those in Buncombe County and Davis County, "Way to Go!" Take your victory lap.


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Road Trip
Ari Fleischer, former press secretary for the White House, spoke to the team this morning at 8 about dealing with the media.
Those of us in the game of baseball believe a media question about the condition of Cole Hamels is a major issue. It is in the world of Phillies baseball and our fans. Ari dealt with questions concerning 9/11 and world peace. Quite a difference.
Once a player becomes a professional, they are schooled on how to play the game, nutrition, security issues, wellness, health insurance issues, etc. It makes sense to include media training since a major league baseball player has to deal with the media every day for six-seven months.
Road Trip
34 players are listed on the travel roster, leaving by buses after today's game for West Palm Beach.
The Phillies have games tomorrow and Friday in Roger Dean Stadium in Jupiter. Tomorrow, the Marlins; Friday, the Cardinals. Both teams share the stadium.
Outta Here
New advance scout Craig (Dewey) Colbert begins his life with a suite case. After spending 4 weeks watching the Phillies and talking with Charlie and his staff, he left Clearwater today. He'll follow the Atlanta Braves for 10 days and then head for Arizona to watch the Rockies for 10 days.
The Braves and Rockies are the first two clubs the Phillies face during the regular season.
Next on his schedule will be the Nationals. Colbert's reports will be sent to Charlie and his staff the first day of a series.
Camp Notes
While there is no baseball at Bright House Field the next two days, there are minor league games next door at Carpenter Complex. Tomorrow, the Phillies two Class A clubs play the Pirates. The AAA and AA clubs go to Bradenton to play the Pirates. Friday, the opposite takes place at Carpenter Complex.
Game times are 1 in the afternoon; no admission charge. Fans can float around Carpenter Complex to check out the action on the four diamonds. Bleacher seats are available. Fans can bring their own lawn chairs. Wheelchair accessibility is plentiful.
There are something like 170 players in uniform. Good news, names are on the back of the jerseys.


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Boo! Or should I say, "Baaaa!"
Our little lamb!
Here is the making of the costume. I used a really soft, fuzzy blanket that I found, cut it out and sewed it together. It may have been my most successful sewing project to date - complete with an oatmeal linen lining!
Hey, Bright Eyes : )
Happy kids!
Sunday we took Emma to the Fairway Halloween festival at the park. Sorry about the blurry picture... it is the only one I'm in!
Emma's Uncle Josh and Aunt Claire came to see her in her lamb costume.
Emma's very "in to" teeth and mouths...
Emma and Daddy
Josh making a scary pumpkin... yikes!
on the sliiiiiide!
Today Emma and I decorated cookies to take to her Mimi's house for Trick-or-Treating.
Her first hands-on sugar cookie experience... of many, many more. Next up- Thanksgiving cookies!


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/ Wednesday, February 3, 2010 / 12 Comments / Appetizers and Snacks , Breads and Bakes , Dining Out , Malaysian , Miscellaneous
Pineapple Tarts-Pictorial & Video Guide-Bloggers Dinner at East Is East
Recently, I attended a bloggers dinner gathering organized by Sherman of Sherman's Food Adventures. The gathering was pretty well received, more than 20 bloggers attended the dinner which was held at East Is East restaurant. Well done Sherman! Appreciate your invitation to join the event. I did not take any pictures that evening; but, if you are interested, please feel free to view some of the photos and a write-up about the event from Victoria (Victoria's Food Secrets), Kim ( I'm Only Here For The Food) , Jessica & Mark (Yum-O-Rama), Wilson (La Petite Vancouver), Kevin (604 Foodtography), Darina (Gratinee), Melody (Gourmet Fury), TS ([eatingclub] Vancouver), Joyce & Frank (Van Foodies), Anita (La Petite Foodie), Jenny (My Secret Garden), Jonathan (Food and Tell), and Mijune (Follow Me Foodie)
Well, the winter Olympic is just around the corner and if you are coming over to Vancouver, do consider checking out all the above bloggers' blogs as they will definitely provide you with some great ideas to dining out in Vancouver. They have diligently scout through and reviewed all of the restaurants and eateries here in Vancouver!
Anyway, back to my Pineapple Tarts post. I posted this recipe about a year ago and received many emails asking me about the technique used to wrap and shape the tart into little pineapples. Well, here is the pictorial guide and for the first time, I am also including a video guide as well to guide you through this easy process.
Pineapple Tarts
Pineapple Jam
3 Large Ripe Pineapples, skin and cut into chunks
200 g to 350 g Sugar (adjust accordingly)
2 cloves
5 cm Cinnamon Stick
3 Pandanus leaves, cleaned and knotted
80 g Golden Syrup or Maltose
Blend the pineapple chunks in a blender or a food processor. Then pour into a sieve and drain off some of the juice. Place the pineapple, sugar, cloves, cinnamon stick and pandanus leaves in a heavy bottom saucepan and cook over a low heat. Adjust the sugar accordingly. Stir frequently until the jams are slightly thick and add in the golden syrup. Then cook until the jam is thick and glossy. Remove from the heat and set aside to cool. Then roll the pineapple jam into a small cherry sized balls.
500 g Unsalted Butter, softened
100 g Confectioner Sugar
1 tsp Sea Salt
1 tsp Vanilla Extract
4 Large Egg Yolks
700 g All-Purpose Flour, sifted
100 g Corn Flour, sifted
2 Large Egg Yolks, lightly beaten for egg wash
Extra Cloves for decorating
Preheat the oven to 180˚C and line baking tray with parchment paper. In a large mixing bowl, combine the butter, sugar and salt. With a wooden spoon mix until they are well combined and add the egg yolks and vanilla extract. Then mix in all the sifted flours and knead lightly to form soft dough. To shape the tarts - Flatten a piece of dough (about 15 g) with lightly floured hand and place a piece of the prepared pineapple jam in the center, wrap and seal well. Roll the tart lightly into an oval shape and snip the surface of the pastry with a small scissors to form a spiky look. Then insert a clove into one end. Brush the pastry with the egg wash and bake for about 20 minutes or until they are light golden in color. Cool on the rack and place the pineapple tart in small baking cups and store in airtight cookie jar.
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Wow, yours look so beautifully shaped with the perfect golden color!ReplyDelete
This is a very labor intensive pastry, however, I am sure that the labor is all worth while when you see the people enjoying this pastry.ReplyDelete
They are exceptionally cute! =)ReplyDelete
They are so beautiful Angie! And thanks for the video too. Love the view behind! What's the ratio of pastry to filling that you use? Because if you wrap more filling, when you snip it with scissors, it'll easily cut through the fillings no???ReplyDelete
Hi Quinn, thanks for the compliments. The ratio of pastry to filling is about 15g:8g.ReplyDelete
Wow....these are so cute like mini pineapples. They are great for Chinese New Year.ReplyDelete
I have always wanted to make these. Thank you for the recipe. Hi Angie, I am new to your blog and I do applaud overseas chinese like yourself, who make all the effort to stay true to their Asian epicurean roots.ReplyDelete
@Shirley: Thanks for the comments:)ReplyDelete
could you tell me the equivilants of what the grams are to cups for the sugar, syrup, butter, flour... etc. i would GREATLY appreciate it.ReplyDelete
i tried converting it myself... but it was a complete failure =(
I've tried making pineapple tarts like these, but it did not come so well like yours. wow..you are good.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 27, 2010 at 2:50 AM
Been looking everywhere for this "shape" of making the tarts, thanks for the helpful "shaping" video...ReplyDelete
Making the tarts this way looks the best! ;)
Thank you very much. My mum is trying to make this for years. But not successful. I'm going to surprise her this yearReplyDelete


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Leisure Suit Larry getting HD treatment; new adventures to come
Replay Games has announced that it is working on an HD remake of the original Leisure Suit Larry, as well as some new adventures, with series-creator Al Lowe.
2012 marks the 25th anniversary of the Leisure Suit Larry series, and while the last several offerings in the franchise haven't been very good, it looks like Larry Laffer is poised to return in both a high-definition remake of the original game--Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards--as well as all-new adventures. Developer Replay Games has recently secured the rights to the franchise, and are bringing series-creator Al Lowe back on board.
After Lowe had previously stopped working on the series, a few new games were produced starring Laffer's significantly less-endearing nephew, Larry Lovage. EGM reports that Lowe and Replay Games CEO Paul Trowe are not only excited about the remake, but are are focused on bringing back the sort of raunchy charm and personality from Larry's early days that made the series a success in the first place.
"I'm overjoyed to see Larry released from his digital dungeon after all this time, and be placed in the hands of someone who understands him and wants to see him, brought back to the forefront by people who love him and understand him," Lowe said.
Replay's Trowe, who worked with Sierra-OnLine as a beta tester back during the golden years when titles like King's Quest, Space Quest, and, of course Leisure Suit Larry, were born. He's clearly an enthusiast. "I've been trying to get the Larry rights for 10 years," he said. "I grew up in the Sierra family, starting beta-testing at 12 years old. To work with such amazing talent, like Al and Robertta is one of my life-long passions. These guys were way ahead of their time, and to be a part of this magic makes me really happy."
Trowe and Lowe have high hopes for the HD redux, but seem even more excited creating new, more modern adventures for the lovelorn sad-sack. "As a software salesman, I think [a modern] Larry would feel right at home, and would stay current... at least with pornography," Lowe opined. "I can see Larry going on Match.com. I'd love to see that series of outtakes," he added.
The HD remake of Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards is planned for a number of platforms in 2012, including Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, XBLA, PSN, On-Live, and Steam.
Jeff Mattas posted a new article, Leisure Suit Larry getting HD treatment; new adventures to come.
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PUBLISHED:January 23, 2012
John R. Knight '83
An open mind yields an international career
One day last spring, as the wave of protest movements swept across the Middle East into Bahrain and troops arrived to restore order, the phone rang in John Knight's office. The streets were unsettled, the markets were volatile, and Knight, who is chief operating officer for Mumtalakat Holding Company, the investment arm for the Kingdom of Bahrain, was engaged in his first encounter with martial law. Any number of emergencies could have been waiting on the other line.
Instead, it was Mohammed Al-Sheaibi LLM '90, SJD '93, checking in on his safety. "I'd met Mohammed, who is the general counsel for the Central Bank in Saudi Arabia, at a Duke alumni event in Munich," Knight says. "His gesture says something about the Duke Law connection, and also about a certain civility in this region."
Proper training breeds versatility
It is a region that Knight has grown to admire, one in which he continues to nurture relationships and value connections, much like his ongoing engagement with the Duke community in myriad ways, including his membership on the Law School's Board of Visitors and his generous support of the Annual Fund.
When he left Duke Law, Knight had little inkling that he'd wind up halfway around the world, working for an investment firm in the Persian Gulf. "I did not go to law school having well-formed goals and aspirations," he says. "I did, though, have an open mind, a fair amount of curiosity and a willingness to try new things. And an understanding that law constitutes part of the framework by which society moves forward."
That demeanor, coupled with experiences along the way, helped mold Knight into a trusted adviser, well-suited for this time and place. In hindsight, he says, those experiences placed him squarely on the road to Bahrain.
After his graduation from law school, Knight clerked for a judge on the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Thereafter, he was awarded a Henry Luce Scholarship and was placed with the Supreme Court of Malaysia. "Malaysia was one of the Asian tigers at the time, so I had my first experience with an emerging market there," explains Knight. "And though Malaysia operates under a common law system, I had the chance to study Islamic law while there."
He developed crisis management and sovereign debt experience from stints with Shearman & Sterling, where he worked on the restructuring of the Mexican sovereign debt, and JPMorgan Chase & Co., where he was a senior member of the team that restructured the Indonesian sovereign debt during the 1998 Asian financial crisis. Knight served in various legal and management positions while with JPMorgan Chase, working in Singapore as the chief operating officer for South and Southeast Asia.
In each he relied upon his sound legal education. "A rigorous legal education gives people the confidence that they can step into difficult situations and take on challenges even when there are unknowns," says Knight. "If you have the proper training, it's the methodology and the general problem-solving skills that allow you to work through the unknowns. Certainly I got that at Duke."
In Singapore, Knight settled in with a rewarding and engaging community, participated in numerous philanthropic organizations and, in 2007, joined The Rohatyn Group, an emerging markets investment firm. "I was comfortable," he says. "Then along came this opportunity to help build an investment firm for the Kingdom of Bahrain. The chance to build something from the ground up was simply too attractive to pass up."
He describes his time in Bahrain as being both challenging and invigorating. "These are a culturally very rich people, very diverse, friendly, and gracious to outsiders who want to come in and help," Knight says. But they have also reminded him that there are limits to legal reasoning and to what an adviser can do. "Be a good advocate, but understand that local problems should be solved locally, by the owners of those problems," he suggests. "Purely imported solutions aren't always solutions that are sustained."
Maintaining strong Duke Law ties
At each stop along his career path, Knight has relied upon lessons learned years ago in Duke Law classrooms, and recalled certain courses with ongoing relevance. "Contracts with John Weistart was one," he says, "because that creates a framework by which understandings are reached, and which when broken are remediated."
Don Horowitz's course on social policy was another, he adds. "I learned that adjudication has its limitations, that there are other modes that may be appropriate for making policy and solving problems."
And Corporations, with Jim Cox, was very important. "We are all about social responsibility, strong corporate governance, and raising local companies to international standards at Mumtalakat," Knight says. "Everything I learned about corporate law comes into play here."
Knight's education is ongoing, as he meets and connects with alumni around the world and engages with students in Durham. While at Shearman & Sterling, he interviewed Duke Law students. At JPMorgan Singapore, he had Duke student interns. More recently, he has helped Duke students seeking placements in the Middle East. He has served on the Law School's Board of Visitors since 2006 and returns annually for meetings, though his travel has been recently limited because of events in Bahrain.
"I've just thoroughly enjoyed staying in touch with students and alumni," he says. "I'm still learning from some very interesting, well-educated people."
Knight also has been a significant donor to the school's Annual Fund, a role he underplays when reflecting upon his involvement. He views his donations to the school as incidental to a larger purpose. "Of course, funding is necessary for excellence in higher education," said Knight. "But when alumni give back to Duke Law, they support an educational process that helps sustain and renew the rule of law in a society. In this sense, giving is about something even larger than Duke and is a way of supporting the rule of law as an element of a good society. That is something that most of us believe in."
He has seen that vision of ordering justice in society take hold in his company, and is encouraged by the example it has set. "Mumtalakat is part of a reform agenda aimed at strong corporate governance and the responsible management of state-owned wealth," says Knight. And he is proud, as well, of its staff of bright, young, and dedicated professionals, many of whom were educated in the U.S. "Throughout the period of unrest, our offices were open and attendance was very good, even though many employees had to negotiate either illegal civilian checkpoints set up by the protesters or military checkpoints," says Knight. "The quality and integrity of our employees and the absence of sectarian tensions in our office leaves me optimistic about a promising future for Bahrain." — Sharon McCloskey


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If that wasn't quite what you were expecting, you'll know what Lauren's many followers and their friends will be experiencing over the coming days, as a result of our partnership with Lauren and domestic abuse charity Refuge. It's a very different approach for a charity, but it's one that we think is vital to help them adapt to a very different type of audience, and a different type of public conversation.
The world is noisy. Everyone has something to say. But there are some things people just don't want to talk about. And in a media landscape catering to our individual needs, people don't have to talk or hear about things they don't want to.
People don't want to talk about domestic abuse.
When society doesn't talk about the big important problems, particularly the ones that may cause fear or discomfort, a vacuum of knowledge inevitably forms, quickly filled with misinformation.
People think that everyone "gets" what domestic abuse is. They're wrong. Research shows that more than half of teenage girls aged 13-18 have experienced sexual violence at the hands of a partner – and considered it normal. 40% of teenage girls would consider giving a boyfriend a second chance if he hit them. A third believe that cheating justifies the use of violence.
By not loudly and continuously reinforcing that domestic abuse is a problem, society sends a message that it isn't serious. By ignoring the issue, it is normalised, and creates a generation of potential victims.
In a very real sense, silence kills. Two women in the UK die at the hands of an abusive partner or ex-partner every week. Talking saves lives.
That's why Refuge's call to action is "speak up, save a life". But speaking to teenage girls requires a different type of speaking up: one tailored to a fragmented media landscape, a group focussed on entertainment rather than weightier issues, and a subject that discourages discussion.
A traditional disruptive approach wasn't going to work. But we knew our audience wouldn't come to use through choice. Our response has been to create a piece of communication directly tailored to the way that teen girls consume and communicate information. That encourages them to become part of the conversation on their terms. Not disruption of their experience, so much as a subversion of it.
We knew we'd have to sneak our message into an existing channel that our audience were already interested in in a way that created maximum impact. Considering the role of subversion of expectation in viral spread – viral activity often takes the form of practical joking – we realised that the more that we could increase that sense of contrast between expectation and content, the higher the likelihood of spread.
And we wanted to make sharing and commentary the call to action, because sharing is how teens conduct public debate. It allows them to make a stand without exposing their own opinions and be part of something with a low risk of emotional or social damage. Viral behaviour is their version of the town square, the salon or the pub.
In effect, we were creating a practical joke with a purpose that couldn't have been more serious: shocking people out of their complacency around domestic abuse, and allowing them to take a stand against it on their terms.
What we needed to do was find a Trojan horse who would carry our message to young women. That was where Lauren Luke came in.
Lauren's relationship with her audience is paramount; every content decision and direction she makes is with her subscribers in mind. Her enthusiasm for the cause and participation in shocking her fans is, in short, the kind of unstinting bravery needed to tackle domestic violence as a subject.
The film itself has been deliberately designed to maximise the shock of the contrast between the context and content: particularly Lauren's chirpy demeanour contrasting with her appearance. But this wasn't about forcing a scripted film into a social channel. We provided a general framework and direction for Lauren and allowed her the space and time to make the film her own: a challenge she rose to brilliantly.
We then wanted to make sure the content was framed in a way that maximised the stunt aspect: the copy that appears alongside the film wherever it is shared is intended to draw people in without ever giving an indication of the content.
Finally, our call to action is the most simple and natural one that our audience know: share. And by sharing, speak out.
Copywriter: Jack Smedley
Art Director: George Hackforth
Art Director: Stephen Noble
Film directed by: Wesley Hawes and Gary McCreadie
Creative Director: Pablo Marques
Strategists: Claire Coady & Simon Robertson


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For pumpkin lovers, there may be nothing better than a simple slice of a great pie. That rich, velvety custard filling baked atop a flaky, golden crust, a great pumpkin pie is a thing of sheer beauty, a perfect way to show off the very best the squash has to offer.
Then, of course, there are the leaden hockey pucks that pass for pies at way too many a holiday gathering. Thick, dense filling -- either cloyingly sweet and spiced to the hilt, or dismally bland -- baked atop a crust that's about as easy to gnaw as a Frisbee and just as flavorless.
They're enough to make any pumpkin lover cry.
I've been a fan of the pumpkin for as long as I can remember. For me, growing up in Southern California, seasons weren't marked so much by changes in the weather as by events. To my young mind, "fall" didn't officially start until the family packed into the station wagon to make the annual trip to the local pumpkin patch. Once there, it seemingly took forever for my siblings and me to scamper about, hunting for the perfect pumpkins to carve.
The leftover seeds were probably the first thing I ever cooked by myself. One year, I carefully picked and cleaned the seeds from the carving leftovers and toasted them on the stove top with a little butter and seasoning, amazed that they could actually be transformed into something edible and tasty.
That experience sparked an interest in cooking. Soon I was hanging out in the kitchen, studying my mother's every move as she, an amazing home baker, would prepare her famous pumpkin pies for the holidays. When I finally began cooking professionally, I found myself using pumpkin everywhere I could, adding the squash to breads, cakes and soups, and using the seeds to lend crunch to stuffings and salads.
Inevitably, my passion for cooking intersected with my love of gardening, and a few years ago I started a small vegetable garden in my backyard. The first year, I planted -- or rather, over-planted -- four (yes, four) kinds of pumpkins.
They were all standard varieties found at a local hardware store: a couple jack-o-lantern types, a Sugar Pie and a cute miniature. The garden was orderly and manageable until the summer heat hit and those pumpkin vines started to grow literally a foot a day. Before long, the entire garden was consumed by vines. Secretly, I didn't mind -- pumpkins were growing everywhere! I'd excavate the garden every few days, counting squash and checking to make sure everything was happy.
Come fall, I harvested my own pumpkin patch. I'd actually grown several rather decent-looking pumpkins. Most I reserved for holiday decoration; the rest I set aside in the kitchen, eager to test in recipes.
But that first batch of pumpkins turned out to be a disaster. The Sugar Pies were plain, almost flavorless to me. The jack-o-lanterns were even worse -- overly starchy and fibrous.
The next year, I decided to try heirlooms. I pored through seed catalogs like others pore through the latest fashion magazines. There were so many to choose from! I finally decided on two: Galeuse d'Eysines and Long Island Cheese squash.
The results were a bit better. Visually striking -- soft peach skin covered with peanut-like warts -- the Galeuse d'Eysines had a nice mellow flavor and lent itself well to both sweet and savory dishes. The Long Island Cheese was beautiful, but fibrous with hollow flavor.
This year, I thought I'd take a break from pumpkins and winter squash, and tried my hand at growing summer squash. But with fall here, all I can think about are pumpkins. And I wanted to sample what I could find before I settled on seeds for next year.
It's amazing how many different squash are readily available at farmers markets -- and even grocery stores -- these days. It seems that just a few years ago, you could find a couple of pumpkins, and maybe a half-dozen other squash and that was about it. Nowadays, there are Musquee de Provence pumpkins, Australian Blues and Giant Hubbards along with the more usual Sweet Dumpling, Turban and Kabocha squash. The list goes on and on.
I decided to search out what squash I could (this was no scientific test, I simply wanted to see what was available) and roast and taste them so I could better judge them for taste and texture. With little effort, I collected close to 20 types.
I roasted the squash, plain, until tender, then sampled them, judging them for flavor (sweet to savory, herbal or other notes) and texture (smooth to fibrous). Tasting them side by side made it easy to appreciate the wide spectrum of flavors and the subtle differences between individual squash.
There were several favorites. I loved the Winter Luxury pumpkin for its intense sweet flavor and smooth orange flesh. I also loved the complex, savory notes of the Chirimen, the creaminess of a "Fairy" squash and the delicate sweet-savory balance of a Blue Jarrahdale. We also enjoyed the intense, sweet flavors of the more easily found butternut and Sweet Dumpling squash.
And don't turn up your nose at canned pumpkin, either. Canned foods often get a bad rap, but canned pumpkin can work well in many recipes that call for a puree. Granted, canned pumpkin can't compete with the depth and complexity of flavors of a carefully grown and ripened heirloom squash. But it is readily available and consistent in flavor, texture and moisture content, whereas actual squash varies.
When you find good-quality squash, making your own puree is easy. Halve it, scoop out the fibrous middle and seeds, and roast it on a baking sheet until tender and a knife pierces it easily, about an hour or so depending on the variety.
When I have great squash, my thoughts naturally turn to great pie, one that celebrates the flavor of the squash itself -- slightly sweet, rich and almost a little earthy. Sweeten the pie filling, but don't overdo it. Support the flavors with just enough spice to add a little character.
The crust should be a supporting player, but it certainly doesn't have to be a blank slate. Great pie crusts are flaky and have classically been made with butter, shortening, lard or a combination. Instead of lard, I prefer to flavor my crusts with a little bacon fat. Bacon especially goes well with pumpkin, lending just a little extra richness. I also use a little bourbon -- the alcohol helps to make for a flaky crust, and it complements both the bacon and pumpkin flavors.
Bake one of these for your next holiday gathering, and you can be certain you won't have to face another orange hockey puck. And who knows? You might just convert another pumpkin lover.


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A web application development company specializing in social application development, business intelligence applications and innovative search technologies. I like crisp, strong designs which are direct with subtle accents that draw the user in. Graphics, and colors everywhere to me is distracting. Please review some examples I have listed.
The site needs to speak to marketing directors, to decision makers in companies that want to utilize Oyova's development personnel in order to develop their next IT application project.
Fresh, new media style. Our flagship service is live media streaming technologies. The aim is to generate confidence in our company that we are trusted, capable, and reliable.
Home page design, design should be applicable for underlying content pages minus the splash style rotating content currently on the site.
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The Egnyte Cloud File Server is an easy-to-use online storage solution for storing business files of any size or type online in secure, permission-based folders. These folders are designed to allow for a hierarchical structure, letting you nest them together in order to create folders that have smaller sub-groups, each containing its own individual level of permission-based security. Because folder access is permission governed, you have full control over who has read, write and delete privileges for every folder at every level for both individual users and groups. Egnyte is designed to provide business-class online storage solutions for both small businesses and larger organizations.
When setting up online storage accounts for employees and business partners, you decide what folders they can access by assigning appropriate folder permissions. For example, you can create a sales department folder that is accessible only to the sales team. Similarly, you can have a common folder that all employees of your company are allowed to access. And because Egnyte allows for two types of users - Power Users, which are typically your employees and Standard Users, which are your clients or partners - you can also have specific folders within your online storage account that your customers can access.
Egnyte's online storage solution is designed around permission-based security to determine what users and groups have access to which files and folders. Egnyte's online storage rights management is powerful and easy to use. Users can have Read Only, Read/Write or Read/Write/Delete permissions to the folders they are permitted to view, which in turn determines the actions they can perform on the files in that folder. For example, a user with Read Only access can view and download files, but they cannot edit, upload or delete files.
Further, you can also aggregate users to extend folder permissions at a group level. For example, employees and business partners can collectively belong to a group that has permission to access a specific suite of files. If an employee transfers to another project, it is a simple matter of changing that employee's group membership without impacting his/her other valid access rights.
Egnyte Cloud File Server is purpose-built to facilitate "on-the-go" collaboration with co-workers and clients. Both employees and business partners can access Egnyte using a Web browser, smart-phone or tablet. Employees also have the option to access their folders and files on Egnyte's online storage using a mapped drive from their computer for convenient file drag, drop and edit capabilities (Windows, Mac, and Linux compatible). Regardless of how you access Egnyte, folder permissions are always enforced.
You can upload files to Egnyte's online storage in a variety of ways. Drag and drop files into the online folders using either the mapped drive or the built-in multi-file upload tool. For very large files over 500 MBs, Egnyte provides a special no-maintenance FTP interface.* We also offer Data Migration Services for customers with large initial data sets they wish to migrate into their Egnyte online storage account.


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In the United States, dietary supplements are defined by the 1994 Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act as products that are not used exclusively as food, but are intended to be consumed in addition to an individual's diet. The law states that dietary supplements are taken by mouth and contain.
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one or more dietary ingredients. Examples of dietary ingredients include vitamins, minerals, herbs or other biological material, amino acids, and enzymes. Dietary supplements are sold in the form of tablets, capsules, powders, liquids, extracts, or teas. Products sold as dietary supplements are required to be clearly labeled as such.
Dietary supplements serve a wide range of purposes. Some of these are medically appropriate, while others may do nothing or harm the individual. Reasons for taking dietary supplements include:
- Replacing a necessary substance not found in large enough quantities in the diet
- Preventing or decreasing the risk of developing a disease or condition
- Boosting the immune system and improving general health
- Boosting energy levels
- Improving mental or physical performance
- Stimulating weight loss
- Reducing symptoms of a disease or health condition
Dietary supplements comprise a variety of products ranging from familiar multivitamins found in every supermarket to exotic botanicals such as the South African herb hoodia. Millions of Americans take dietary supplements daily; their use has become increasingly common since the 1990s. The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) estimates that in 1999 more than 12 million Americans were taking ephedra, a weight-loss supplement that was later banned because it can cause serious side effects. Due to the large number of different supplements and their range of uses, testing and regulation of these products is difficult and often ineffective.
Dietary supplements and the law
The FDA regulates dietary supplements under the 1994 Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA). At the time the act was passed, legislators believed that because many dietary supplements come from natural sources such as plants and have been used for hundreds of years by practitioners of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), these products did not need to be as rigorously regulated as prescription and over-the-counter drugs used in conventional medicine.
DSHEA regulates supplements in the same way food is regulated. Like food manufacturers, manufacturers of dietary supplements do not have to prove that a supplement is either safe or effective before it can be sold to the public. Manufacturers of conventional pharmaceutical drugs, however, must prove both safety and effectiveness in humans before a new drug is approved for use. With dietary supplements, the burden of proof falls on the FDA to show that the supplement is either unsafe or ineffective before the supplement can be restricted or banned. Information about a supplement's safety and effectiveness is normally gathered only after people using the product develop health problems or complain that the product does not work. Initially, supplement manufacturers were not required to report consumer complaints of complications or side effects to the FDA. However, beginning in 2007, a federal law requires all manufacturers of dietary supplements and over-the-counter drugs to report consumer complaints of adverse events (negative side effects) to the FDA. This makes accumulating information on the safety of these products faster and easier.
Dietary supplements are required to be clearly labeled with the word "supplement." The label must also show the volume or weight of the contents, the serving size, a list of dietary ingredients and non-dietary ingredients (e.g., artificial color, binders, fillers, flavorings), the name of the manufacturer, packer, or distributor, and directions for use. If the supplement is an herb, the label must contain its scientific name.
- Health claims—Statements indicating a relationship between an ingredient in the supplement and the reduction in the risk of developing a disease or condition. (e.g., Increased intake of folic acid by pregnant women helps reduce the risk of neural tube defects in their offspring.)
- Nutrient content claims—Statements describing the amount of supplement in the product and may contain words such as "high in," "good source of," "fortified," "enriched," or "high potency."
- Structure or function claims—Description of how the supplement may affect organs or systems in the body without mentioning a specific disease or condition. (e.g., Calcium builds strong bones.) Labels with structure or function claims must also contain the words "This statement has not been evaluated by the FDA. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease."
Manufacturers of supplements are required to follow federal Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs) that regulate sanitary and other conditions under which these products are prepared, packaged, and stored. These GMPs are much less stringent than those that regulate the manufacture of conventional drugs. They do not, for example, assure that the amount of active ingredient in each pill or capsule of a dietary supplement is the same. Some supplement manufacturers try to assure consistency of their product by making sure each batch contains the same amounts of active ingredients. This type of standardization is not required by law, and the word "standardized" on the label is not an indication that the product meets any legal requirements as to quality or consistency of contents.
Dietary supplements in conventional medicine
Conventional medicine, also called Western or mainstream medicine, is practiced by licensed medical doctors (MD) and doctors of osteopathy (DO), dentists (DDS or DMD), registered nurses (RN), licensed practical nurses (LPN), pharmacists, and similar health care professionals. Some dietary supplements are routinely used as an accepted part of conventional medicine. The most common of these are vitamin and mineral supplements taken in accordance with established dietary reference intakes (DRIs). DRIs are a set of values for different nutrients that indicate the daily amount of that nutrient necessary to meet the needs of most individuals, as well as the largest amount of the nutrient that can be consumed daily without harmful effects. Other supplements, such as folic acid, are prescribed for pregnant women in order to decrease the risk of neural tube defects in their offspring. Still other supplements, such as enzymes, may be given when the body fails to produce adequate amounts of the enzyme as the result of a genetic disorder such as cystic fibrosis. When taken under supervision of a conventional health care professional, dietary supplements tend to be extremely safe.
Dietary supplements in complementary and alternative medicine
Most dietary supplements are used within a system of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). Complementary medicine uses treatments that are not part of conventional medicine to supplement conventional medicine. Alternative medicine uses treatments that are not part of conventional medicine as a complete replacement for conventional medicine. Alternative medicine includes well-established treatment systems such as homeopathy, traditional Chinese medicine, and Ayurve-dic, or traditional Indian medicine, as well as newer fad-driven treatments. Many CAM treatments have their roots in tradition and folklore.
Herbs are some of the most common dietary supplements used in CAM. Many have been used for hundreds of years and show evidence of effectiveness. Others are ineffective or may harm the individual either directly or when used as a replacement for conventional drugs and treatments whose effectiveness has been proven. Vitamin and mineral supplements used as part of conventional medicine become part of the CAM system when they are used in mega-doses that far exceed DRI values or when they are used to prevent or treat a specific condition (e.g., vitamin C to prevent colds). Likewise, enzymes and amino acids that have specific uses within conventional medicine become part of the CAM system of dietary supplements when they are used in non-conventional ways or in non-standard doses. Some dietary supplements, such as bee pollen, are used exclusively in CAM.
Individuals interested in using dietary supplements should consult their health care provider and other reputable sources of information before taking any new supplements. Pregnant or breastfeeding women should be especially careful to discuss the supplements they may want to take with their health care provider. Many herbs and other dietary supplements cross the placenta or are secreted into breast milk and may affect the fetus or nursing baby. In addition, care should be taken in giving children dietary supplements. Few studies have been done specifically on children and the recommended dosage for adults may be harmful to children. As with any medication, more is not necessarily better. Overdose is a common cause of adverse side effects in dietary supplements. In the event of side effects, the supplement should be stopped immediately and the side effects reported to a health care professional.
Dietary supplements may interact with both conventional drugs and other herbs or dietary supplements. Individuals should seek information about specific interactions from their health care provider. Many dietary supplements should be stopped several days before surgery to reduce the risk of excess bleeding.
There is strong evidence that some dietary supplements can cause serious harm or death. For example, the weight-loss supplement ephedra was found to have contributed to the death of the Baltimore Oriole's pitching prospect Steve Belcher in 2003. The FDA later banned ephedra-containing supplements. According to the American Association of Poison Control Centers, there have been over 62,000 reports of vitamin poisonings, over 23,000 cases linked to minerals, and over 23,000 reports linked to herbs. Twenty-seven deaths were attributed to dietary supplements in 2005, of which 13 were attributed to herbs. It should be remembered that "natural" does not mean safe; for example, many wild mushrooms are completely natural and cause death when eaten.
Complications may arise from dietary supplements themselves or their misuse or poor regulation of the manufacturing process. This is especially true of those supplements imported into the United States.
from developing countries. Independent laboratory analyses of dietary supplements have found:
- Contamination with pesticides
- Contamination with heavy metals
- Presence of ingredients not listed on the label
- Amount of dietary ingredient not the same as the amount listed on the label
Parental concerns
Parents should be aware that the RDA and UL for vitamins and minerals are much lower for children than for adults. Accidental overdose may occur if children are give adult vitamins or dietary supplements.
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Natural Standard. 245 First Street, 18th Floor, Cambridge, MA 02142. Telephone: (617) 444-8629. Fax: (617) 444-8642. Website: <http://www.naturalstandards>.
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Packaged units – also known as coldboxes – are utilised in a wide range of applications for the treatment of cryogenic fluids and gases, including air separation plants, gas separation and liquefaction plants, chemical and petrochemical plants.
We deliver a range of coldboxes in sizes of up to 5 m by 7 m and up to 40 m long. Boxes that are too large for preassembly and road transport are assembled and tested directly on site or at Linde Engineering workshops located near harbours. The coldboxes are insulated by packing perlite in the empty spaces around the cryogenic equipment.
The self-supporting steel compartment comprises a number of components including:
Plate-fin heat exchangers
Pressure vessels
Interconnecting piping
Instrument lines for temperature and pressure measurements
Pressure difference and level indicators
Wall penetrations
All of our components are factory assembled and welded, which speeds up construction and set-up times on site saving delivery time and reducing cost.
All of our packaged units are designed according to client specifications. They also meet requisite national and international standards and regulations, such as AD-2000, the Pressure Equipment Directive 97/23/EG (PED, CE-marking), ASME, British Standards, and DIN or EN norms.


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Property Location With a stay at Westgate Inn Dothan in Dothan, you'll be convenient to Westgate Recreation Center and Dothan Country Club. This hotel is within close proximity of Wiregrass Commons Mall and Wiregrass Museum of Art.Rooms Make yourself at home in one of the 100 air-conditioned rooms featuring refrigerators and microwaves. Complimentary wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and cable programming is available for your entertainment. Conveniences include irons/ironing boards, as well as phones with free local calls.Rec, Spa, Premium Amenities Enjoy the recreation opportunities such as a seasonal outdoor pool or make use of other amenities including complimentary wireless Internet access.Dining Enjoy a satisfying meal at a restaurant serving guests of Westgate Inn Dothan.Business, Other Amenities Free self parking is available onsite.


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APS Emergency Maneuver Training
We specialize in the delivery of advanced training to pilots of all skill levels from small Cessna aircraft through to 747 pilots to teach them how to recovery from life-threatening flight attitudes and situations. We integrate the use of aerobatic airplanes, advanced full motion simulators and online video training products. Our team of pilots are all former military fighter pilots and airlines pilots.
Our target audience is professional and serious private pilots. The majority of our business is career pilots flying business jet aircraft or military fixed wing airplanes. We are well established as the industry leader and need our booth to reflect that reputation.
This image will be for a high resolution 8 foot by 10 foot trade-show booth. The exact specifics required for the printer will not be initially available so the image design should easily support slight size modifications to accommodate a booth design that has a 'wrap around the ends' image (for example: http://www.exhibitsusa.com/images/p…lyria.jpg).
A few high resolution images have been attached for use with this booth design. The images are named to give guidance to their use and importance. Also, we have attached a couple of our current brochures to provide an general idea of the branding of our company that must be complimented by the booth design. Our old booth shown but is NOT guidance for this design.
The booth with have to communicate six areas of expertise/services as shown below. There will be some text for each section and associated images (see attached).
1. On-Aircraft Upset Recovery Training
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APS Emergency Maneuver Training
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Adventure Maps provide global travelers with the perfect tool for navigating cityscapes and more remote attractions.
Each title contains accurate topography,roads, points-of-interest, and detailed inset maps for major cities, plus a host of important travel tips. Adventure Maps are printed on the same durable, waterproof, and environmentally friendly material as our Trails Illustrated maps, making them ideal for the rigors of international travel.
National Geographic's Tuscany Adventure Map is designed to meet the unique needs of adventure travelers—detailed, durable, and accurate. Tuscany includes the locations of thousands of cities and towns with an index for easily locating them, plus a clearly marked road network complete with distances and designations for expressways, motorways, scenic routes, and more.
What sets National Geographic Adventure Maps apart from traditional road maps are the hundreds of points of interest that highlight the diverse and unique destinations within Tuscany. Archeological sites, menhirs and other sites of interest from monuments, palaces, and castles to churches, chapels, and monasteries are noted making this map indispensable for travelers seeking to explore the region's rich history. Users will find a variety of helpful travel aids on our map as well, including the location of airports, airfields, railroads, lighthouses, ferry routes, harbors, anchorages and petrol stations.
Tuscany's coastline and the western portion of the province are shown on the front side of the map including the cities of Pisa and Livorno. An inset map of the Arcipelago Toscano National Park provides greater detail of the islands. The reverse side of the map covers the eastern portion of the province and shows the cities of Florence, Grosseto, Siena, and Arezzo. Lake Tresimeno in neighboring Umbria is also included.


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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
The massive hit from 1969, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, is often cited as a "Western that people love, who usually don't like Westerns." But it also often makes "all-time most overrated" lists, especially from folks who do like Westerns. That contradiction may be because the film is completely carried by the charisma of its two superstars, Paul Newman and Robert Redford. Also it's closer in spirit to a light comedy or even the "outlaw reexamination" genre started by Bonnie and Clyde than the landmark Westerns of its era that Sam Peckinpah and Sergio Leone were directing at the same time. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is an incredibly simple tale, and regardless of its place on the Western checklist it's perfect entertainment.
The script seems to have very little dialogue and often the same lines are repeated, "You keep thinking, Butch," which is ironic since the script by William Goldman (Marathon Man, All The President's Men) has been hailed for its perfect three-act structure (pre-film school era Goldman wrote a number of books about screenwriting and the business which also helped elevate his status as a quintessential writer). Act One is an introduction to Butch (Newman) and Sundance (Redford), two charming but frustrated bank robbers who are now hitting trains. Butch is the brains and Sundance the gunman. They also share a woman, schoolteacher Etta Place (the mumbly Katharine Ross of The Graduate), Sundance is her lover, while Butch flirts but is more the big brother. Act Two is one long chase as a hardcore posse follows Butch and Sundance over miles of picturesque Western plains (shot by the legendary cameraman Conrad L. Hall), ending famously with the two jumping off a cliff into a raging river. Act Three has the heroes and Etta traveling to Bolivia where they work as muscle for a paymaster (Strother Martin) and culture clashes impede their bank robbing career, finally ending with a shoot out with the Bolivian army.Continue Reading
Extreme Prejudice
After his great little run of action films from 1975 - 1982 that included The Driver, The Warriors, Southern Comfort and 48 Hrs, gritty director Walter Hill wandered in the wrong direction with the action musical Streets of Fire and the unfunny Richard Pryor comedy Brewster's Millions. Even though he would go on to have a big hit with the Schwarzenegger muscle bore Red Heat, most of his flicks had potential but oddly fell short (Johnny Handsome, Wild Bill). He did do an underrated urban thriller, Trespass, but otherwise nothing reached that earlier high.
Hill started out as a writer and one of his first credited screenplays was for Sam Peckinpah's mean spirited thriller, The Getaway. So Hill's 1987 Tex-Mex action flick Extreme Prejudice, though completely ignored by audiences in its day, now plays as a perfect homage to his one-time boss, Peckinpah (The Wild Bunch, Straw Dogs), the master of masculine violence who had burned out and died a few years earlier. With about as good a cast of tough guy character actors you could find in 1987 (including Nick Nolte, Powers Boothe, Michael Ironside, Rip Torn, Clancy Brown and William Forsythe), time has been kind to Extreme Prejudice. Though it's set in modern day, it's now starting to look like one of the better "Westerns" made in 1980s.Continue Reading
The Dirty Dozen
The Dirty Dozen, the granddaddy of action super-team flicks, took the sheen off the WWII big ensemble picture (The Longest Day, The Great Escape) and mixed in the military cynicism that was bubbling up (encouraged by doubt about the Vietnam War) with rowdy anti-heroics (MASH, Kelly's Heroes). Like so many films to follow, the film breaks into two halves easily: first, assembling the team full of anti-authority types (Stripes); and second, the undercover suicide mission behind enemy lines (Inglourious Basterds). After years of dependable supporting performances in The Wild One, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and Ship of Fools, this may be silver haired, tough guy actor Lee Marvin's signature role (with apologies to the great crime thriller Point Blank and his Oscar winning work in the otherwise forgettable Cat Ballou). The Dirty Dozen gives Marvin the perfect opportunity to showcase his brawn as well as his sense of humor. As Major Reisman, he is assigned the task of putting together a WWII team made of 12 creeps and criminals, many of whom are facing the noose, to first train and then sneak into France before D-Day to kill a group of high-end Nazis (with their dates) at a fancy chateau shindig.
The team is made up of many future stars, or at least interesting cinematic curios...Continue Reading
The Wild Bunch
As the western genre in America became more and more watered down by television, Sam Peckinpah singlehandedly turned the western on its head; his The Wild Bunch shocked 1969 audiences with its almost apocalyptic, misogynistic, and violent vision of a dying era. By today's standards The Wild Bunch is still a nihilistic masterpiece. The action and graphic carnage on screen are still staggering and utterly exciting. And along with Battleship Potemkin, Psycho, and Bonnie and Clyde, it's still one of the gold standards for incredible cutting-edge editing of violence and death. The film is bookended by two of the best pieces of choreographed mayhem ever put to screen where the Bunch engage in shootouts so violent and intense that the film got an X rating then and even got an NC-17 rating when it was re-released in the '90s (both ratings were negotiated down by the studios). The editing and mix of film speeds, including slow motion, have been ripped off and become a standard in operatic action scenes since—just check out all of John Woo's best (Hong Kong) films; they're direct grandchildren of The Wild Bunch.
The legend of director Sam Peckinpah has taken on mythical proportions; he was a man out of time, a hard drinkin' visionary with a death wish. One fact is definitely true: he was an ex-TV western director trying to find a place in features. His Ride the High Country was considered a little gem while the financial disaster and critical drubbing of Major Dundee almost ended his film career (a half-ce...


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I'm starting the year off on a new foot for 2013! I love doing the album designs, and they always do well, but I always need to occasionally break free of that style and do something different. I had a lot of fun with this piece because I haven't done a digital painting like this in a while. It felt like a breath of fresh air!
Gallery 1988's first show for 2013 is "The Humorist - A Tribute to one of the big screen's funniest directors". I admittedly don't know a lot about Woody Allen's career so I didn't initially have an idea in mind. But I just kept going to the Toy Story character Woody, and although they couldn't be more different, I think they mash-up quite well together.
A limited amount of signed and numbered prints will be available to purchase at the gallery (and online). I'll update this post with sales info once it becomes available!
My buddy Jason Liwag created a pretty incredibly brilliant print for the show that has been used in promotion, If you are a Woody Allen fan, you won't want to miss what's sure to be a show with some excellent and creative takes on an excellent and creative writer and director.
"The Humorist"
Gallery 1988 Venice
Friday Jan. 11 7-10pm
214 Pier Ave.
Santa Monica, CA 90405


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Sure, you could go out to a club on Halloween night, get drunk, hit on some girl in a sexy kitty outfit and then drive home looped on Bacardi. But I wouldn't suggest it. Odds are you'll get pulled over by APD and sent to the BAT Mobile. Trust me, you do not want to spend a weekend in jail dressed as a pirate.
Instead, stay home, turn off your porch light, eat all those "fun size" Nestlé Crunch bars yourself and let your good friend the Idiot Box set an appropriate holiday mood for you. Almost every channel around the dial has got some sort of Halloween-related programming. Granted, most of it consists of crummy reruns and bad sequels. (Honestly, you don't need to spoil your day with a 40-year-old episode of "Bewitched" or Exorcist II: The Heretic.)
"Goosebumps" (Cartoon Network 7 a.m.) is basically the tween "Twilight Zone." Adults will grow bored quickly with CN's 17-hour marathon, but kids should be reasonably attracted to the brand name--even though it isn't an animated show. (What's up with all the noncartoons lately, Cartoon Network?)
Adults and kids can both enjoy "The Munsters" (WGN 2 p.m.). America's second-favorite horror-related sitcom (behind "The Addams Family," of course) gets an eight-hour marathon courtesy of WGN. If you do get bored, be sure to check back in at 10 p.m., when the Chicago superstation airs "Alice Cooper's Along Came a Spider" (WGN 10 p.m.), a 30-minute behind-the-scenes look at shock-rocker Alice Cooper's new album.
As usual, American Movie Classics spends the night screening films that are not exactly classics. Constantine (AMC 4 p.m.), Resident Evil (AMC 6 p.m.), House on Haunted Hill (AMC 8 p.m.) and Return to House on Haunted Hill (AMC 10 p.m.) will give uncultured twentysomethings who can't watch movies made before 1985 something to ogle.
For the rest of us, there's Turner Classic Movies, which features several great programming blocks including Tod Browning (7 a.m.), Bela Lugosi (9:45 a.m.) and Herschell Gordon Lewis (12:30 a.m.) films. My personal pick? The four-film H.P. Lovecraft marathon featuring The Haunted Palace (TCM 6 p.m.); Die, Monster, Die! (TCM 7:30 p.m.); The Shuttered Room (TCM 9 p.m.); and The Dunwich Horror (TCM 10:45 p.m.).
Video game-centric station G4 gets into the spirit, offering a couple of appropriate film choices starting with fantastic 2006 Korean monster movie The Host (G4 6 p.m.) and continuing with notorious 1985 gore comedy The Toxic Avenger (G4 8:45 p.m.).
WE TV started out life as Romance Classics back in 1997. It became WE: Women's Entertainment in 2001. Apparently women like reality shows about ghosts because that's all the station seems to show these days. For Halloween, WE is airing "666: Searching for Satan" (WE 10 p.m.), a road trip special hunting up historic locations and trying to make them sound creepier than they really are.
Of course, it wouldn't be Halloween without the Ghost Hunters boring the crap out of us for seven hours straight. TAPS maniacs can savor every second of "Ghost Hunters Live Halloween" (Sci-Fi 5 p.m.) as the team sets up its infrared cameras and EVP recorders at historic Fort Delaware and waits. And waits. And waits. ... Where's that episode of "Bewitched," anyway?


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The Right to Be Forgotten?
Have you ever Googled your own name? Statistics say that you probably have. Egotism aside, in a world where potential employers, schools and even romantic partners are likely to Google you, it would be irresponsible not to be aware of what pops up when you search your name. Many experts (and this non-expert) even recommend setting up a Google alert in your name. But, what can one really do if, for example, your top search Continue Reading →


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Series: Regional Economic Outlook
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Publication Date: 28 April 2015
Language: French
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781475595840.086
The sharp decline in oil and other commodity prices have adversely impacted sub-Saharan Africa. Nevertheless, the region is projected to register another year of solid economic performance. In South Africa, however...


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This varied guidebook covered the accessible sport climbing (and a touch of trad) on a selection of different crags across the Lake District ranging from the slate quarries of Hodge Close and Parrock to the sandstone sea cliff of St. Bees Head.
It is still available in many outdoor retailers.
New Edition
- The limestone crags were covered in Northern Limestone 2004.
- The bouldering is covered in Lakes Bouldering published in April 2006.
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They Said A Storm Was Coming Lyrics
For one hundred days
We set sail without
As much as one distraction
But it seems that I have sank
Because of my past actions
And mistakes that I have made
And attempts to evade all
The consequences now
Being washed away
Washed away…
They said a storm was coming and
"You'll be washed away!"
Maybe now I'll be made clean
While I bathe in your seas
As I seek out all the dreams
That I once had
Of a life already lived
Of a gift already given
That was taken from me far too soon
Halt! Where is your security now
When you begged for a lifeline
And were thrown an anchor instead?
And, has the smallest grain of
Sand traveled up the hourglass?
Or, has the sun ever set
In the east for you
Or any other man?
Face forward
Swim towards the surface
And look ahead to the life
On the new horizon
There was never any way
Of going back to the old world
With any sort of victory
Or good tidings of new discovery
Fortune never favored me
And the oceans were never big enough
To hold all of our iniquities
And secrets in its clear, blue embrace
I will ascend from the bottom
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Mule Design's newest t-shirt, the El Vetica, which boasts "… celebrating the career of Mexico's only typographer/luchador". Purchased.
Mr. Eaves, a new sans-serif companion to Mrs. Eaves from type designer Zuzana Licko. The "Q" is especially excellent.
Chromeography, a photoblog entirely devoted to "… praise of the chrome logos and lettering affixed to vintage automobiles and electric appliances". From Typographica.
I also saw this photo of Jenne Farm in Vermont, which pretty much sums up how beautiful Fall is in New England.


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Hey, it's another post where all I do is explain why I'm not really posting!
I'm out of town until mid-next week, and at this writing, my internet access is not quite as robust as I hoped it would be. So posting from me might be even lighter than expected. In the meantime, have an open thread and be good.


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ReviverSoft necesitaba un nuevo diseño de botón o icono y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 21 diseños de 8 diseñadores freelance.
ReviverSoft is a new an exciting new company that is focused offering advise and software solutions that help you make your computer run like new. We want to differentiate ourselves from everyone else by offering more in the way of tips and walk throughs on how to fix common and not so common PC problems.
Anyone with a computer that is experiencing performance problems.
At the moment our site is in the middle of construction but we are looking to give our site an identity by adding a character that will appear across our site.
We will have the character doing different things on different sections of our website.
ReviverSoft is all about fixing up your computer and making it run like new so our idea was to have an animated mechanic as the mascot. We will call him Reggie (but this name does not need to be on the character).
We would like the character to use similar colors to the ReviverSoft logo.
Below I have listed the the different areas of the site that need a mascot and what he should be doing:
1. Home Page: Standing and Smiling
2. Support: On the phone or listening
3. FAQs: Standing confused with a question mark above him
4. Uninstall: Offering his wrench to the user
5. Shopping Area: Holding out an invoice
6. Miscellaneous: Tweaking a computer
7. Thumbs, up smiling
8. Standing, Dirty
9. Standing with a smoky computer driving away
10. Holding a magnifying glass


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Congratulations to Derek Jeter and Larry Walker, the newest players elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Congratulations to the newest members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame: Edgerrin James, Troy Polamalu, Steve Atwater, Isaac Bruce and Steve Hutchinson.
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