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Sometimes a multilingual wiki just has pages in various languages, not necessarily translations of each other. If you do have pages that are translations of other pages on the same wiki, then keeping these pages in sync is a problem. This manual has exactly this problem. So we added a new rule:
<translation [[SiteMap]] 124>
This rule says that the current page is based upon SiteMap revision 124. If revision 124 is the latest revision, then this will render as:
This page is a translation of SiteMap: The translation is up to date.
If revision 126 is the latest revision, however, it will render as follows:
This page is a translation of SiteMap: The translation is outdated. (diff)
And the diff link will show you the diff from revision 124 to revision 126 of the SiteMap page, if available. The Kept Pages implementation will expire old revisions after a while, so the diff may no longer be available if translations are lagging far behind.

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Most people face it in some form every day; some face it every hour.
Pressures, demands and unresolved issues circle around in increasing numbers and makes it hard to know where to turn or what to do.
Stress, anxiety or total overwhelm, whatever you want to call it, everyone who cares about anything will have faced it at some time.
Boiling it down, it's all just FEAR in disguise.
You cannot tackle anxiety, stress or fear whilst it remains as some generalised concept. You *have to* get specific. Any problem well defined in at least half solved.
You know there's a problem when according to Google there are over 33,000 searches a month in the UK for the term 'stress'. Guess what, people searching for this very broad term are not going to find any decent answers. If that wasn't bad enough, there are over 60,000 searches a month in the UK for the term 'anxiety'.
The good news is that there are a number of things you can do to silence the stress, eliminate anxiety and obliterate the overwhelm.
You CAN take control, you CAN take command and you CAN make a difference in your own life.
The first job of any doctor is to come to an accurate diagnosis. That's a necessary step before any prescription is handed out. In the same way, you need to get clear on where the problem actually lies. Here are a few places to start your search for answers.
"Remember that every emotion is the slave of your perception; change the way you see something and your feelings will immediately change.
It is essential that you understand that."
When under pressure people seem to return to their habitual patterns of thinking and behaviour. Somehow in the past their brains learned that this pattern was the best one to achieve a certain outcome… The problem is that it might not be the best way forward now – it's just that unconsciously, this pattern is still running and will ultimately steer the response.
So, you need a way to significantly interrupt this unconscious communication. Now that might sound very geeky, but thankfully it's very easy:
Better Knowledge can Remove Stress.
If I told you there's a man with a big gun in the next town who's determined to kill you, how would you feel? If I then added that the man was 3mm high and that his gun was made of Plasticine, you are likely to feel a certain measure of relief.
Sometimes its PROCESS KNOWLEDGE that is the solution.
Here the first thing to do is to eradicate the overwhelm by breaking down the challenge into small enough pieces. This is 'eating the elephant one bite at a time'. Realise that anything CAN be done, as long as it's broken down into small enough tasks. And the tasks is small enough when you look at it and saying 'I can do that'.
So how do you get knowledge? Ask someone who's done it before. If you've been getting useless answers - ask better questions!
"You need to get specific with the questions you ask if you want quality answers."
Staying Grounded
I have what I have.
I can do what I can do."
I enjoy all that I have (right now)
I delight in what I can do (in this moment)."


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Now about temperatures inside. Since the Giga upgrade does not have an onboard CPU temperature sensor, I can only use Hardware Monitor drive temperatures for drives connected to the mobo ATA66 and ATA100 buses. The two PATA drives connected to the Acard 6885M do not appear in Hardware Monitor, as expected. Additionally, I have a Radio Shack digital indoor/outdoor thermometer with the outdoor probe mounted between the vertical ATA100 drive cage and the Giga CPU fan.
Fully warmed up for the few days of constant use typically, shutdown only late night:
ATA66 cage drive 37C/99F (Hardware Monitor)
ATA100 cage drive 31C/88F (Hardware Monitor)
RS probe inside MDD 35C/95F
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Local Teen Peer Educators Celebrate Program Graduation
For Immediate Release: Jan. 30, 2014
On Wednesday, June 23, 2010, Upper Hudson Planned Parenthood held an end of the year dinner and celebration event for local Albany High School students who have participated in the S.T.A.R.S. (Seriously Talking About Responsible Sex) peer education program. Students, parents and staff gathered first for dinner at the Victory Café and then completed the evening at UHPP center at 259 Lark Street where graduating seniors were honored and all participating students were recognized.
Tiffini Bonefant has been a S.T.A.R.S. peer educator for several years and is now graduating. "It's a phenomenal program," said Bonefant. "The S.T.A.R.S. program at Planned Parenthood is a very interesting experience, especially because of the diverse people you meet. You walk in with certain information and skills and leave with even more experience to bring to future personal and professional situations."
Johron Lee is also graduating from high school and the S.T.A.R.S. program. "This experience has really helped my growth," said Lee. "I have grown as a young adult and as a young man, and I think that I'll continue to show improvement."
Those Albany high school students who participated in the S.T.A.R.S. program during the 2009-2010 school year, but who are not yet graduating include Adnan Azad, Krishona Brown, Brihan Ford, Darian Henry and Zaraya Merritt.
The Upper Hudson Planned Parenthood S.T.A.R.S. program recruits and trains high school students from Albany and Columbia Counties each year to act as peer educators. The students study and learn about a variety of issues related to sexual health and responsibility, and also learn speaking and presentation skills. Once trained, they provide educational programs on issues of sexual health in classrooms, community settings and at the UHPP weekly teen clinic. The peers are responsible for staffing a minimum of 50 teen clinic sessions each year.
A parent present at the Wednesday event shared her thoughts about the program. She commented on the many strengths the peers acquire including, "self esteem, sexual awareness and improved school participation." She also shared the fact that the S.T.A.R.S. program "helped my child become more independent, improved positive work habits and turned around school habits for the better."
Meaghan Carroll is the UHPP Education Director and oversees the two Youth Program Facilitators responsible for S.T.A.R.S. in Albany and Columbia Counties. According to Carroll, "the S.T.A.R.S. program has been able to engage peers year after year, allowing them to grow and mature within the program and to make an ongoing difference in their communities."
The success of the program is shown, says Carroll, "by the peers' ability to take the knowledge they are given and use it in their future endeavors… Seeing a group of very diverse kids from very diverse backgrounds all share that experience is really rewarding."
The S.T.A.R.S. program is made possible through a grant from the New York State Department of Health-Community Based Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Program (CBAPP).
Upper Hudson Planned Parenthood (UHPP) is a community-based non-profit organization providing advocacy, education and medical services for reproductive health care since 1934. In 2009, over 14,000 patients made 24,975 visits to UHPP health centers located in Albany, Hudson and Troy. UHPP health educators present over 300 education programs reaching over 5,000 youth and young adults. UHPP services are delivered with special concern for the underserved.
Upper Hudson Planned Parenthood, Inc.
Blue Carreker: (518)434-5678 x133 or 466-8500 [email protected]
June 24, 2010


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Dear Open-Mouthed Coughers: I Don't Want Your Sputum
Please stop spraying me with your bacteria.
Open mouthed coughers are everywhere – people who insist on coughing, sneezing and spewing mucous on anyone in a five foot radius – a strange subgroup of humanity who inexplicably made it into adulthood without garnering the primitive skill of covering one's mouth during a sputum spray.
They've showered me in saliva on trains, in restaurants, at gyms and in meetings at work; in the supermarket que and mid-transit carrying my drinks from the bar. It seems there's no corner of this world where one is not at risk of an impending front-facing open-mouthed bacteria bath. And I have something I want to ask them.
How difficult, on a scale of one to 10, is it to prop a hand in front of your face?
Unless you've been horribly maimed or suffer from a genuine inability to employ basic reasoning, what possible excuse could you have for hurling back your head like a human slingshot, seizing open your giant saliva cavern and unleashing your bodily fluids on me?
I understand you're not feeling your best, that you barely have the ability to put one foot in front of the other, let alone think about how your God-awful virus is effecting everyone else; but please understand, I have no desire to share whatever it is that's making you look like a partially defrosted corpse.
My Purell supply is running frighteningly low. I don't have access to a gas mask. Or a bottomless prescription to antibiotics at the chemist. So please, for the love of all that is still sanitary in this world, please, put your germs away. This isn't iTunes, I don't want a free sample of your viral-ridden phlegm. I also don't want to see it on the handrail in front of me, sprayed across the checkout counter as I'm putting my groceries down, or dancing on the surface of the $20 cocktail I just forked out for.
You cough and splutter so loudly, so uninhibitedly, that it begs the question, do you have no dignity, no shame at all? Are you on a mission to inflict what appears to be the virus from Outbreak on the rest of the human race? Have you never heard the words 'compromised immune system', or have you just decided the plight of your pillaged immunity is more important than everyone else's?
The only thing that keeps me from wiping your glistening snot off of my face and back onto yours is the hope that one day someone will return you the favour and unleash a spew of viral carnage upon you so bad you'll be left bedridden for weeks, staring at the ceiling, shivering into your hot water bottle, clutching packets of cold and flu tablets, lamenting how utterly inhumane it was to be coughed on, and how you wouldn't wish it on anyone, not even a perfect stranger on a train, not even me.
Until then, go have a cough drop and share your sputum with someone who cares.
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Consider sharing your experiences and expertise at the 2014 ESU 9 iTi Conference on Monday, October 20, 2014! The conference will be hosted at Adams Central Jr- Sr High School.
There will be sessions for everyone… teachers, administrators and district staff. The 5th Annual iTi Conference will have a NEW look featuring strands for instructional technology as well as sessions relating to:
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Kevin Honeycutt (http://kevinhoneycutt.org/) grew up in poverty and his family moved often. As he witnessed education around the country he collected powerful experiences that still influence his conversations and his work with educators. He spent 13 years teaching K-12 art in public school and spent summers leading creative adventure camps for kids for 17 years.
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The time has come. I received a new smartphone as a gift and, even though my Axon 7 is working just fine, is time to say goodbye after almost 2 years.
It's just a shame ZTE was banned by the US gov. Particularly when foldable smartphones are now trendy. Galaxy Fold, Huawei Mate X and the others to come. Nobody will remember the Axon M. Yes, it has a few quirks and two screens instead of 1 foldable continuous screen, but it was THE first foldable. But, again, NOBODY will remember it.
Back to the A7. Despite the ban and the late update to Android 8, I was very happy using it. A solid phone with aluminum body and a pair of fabulous front speakers. Those are the main things I will surely miss. I wonder if ZTE will ever again come back to the market with a flagship phone at a very reasonable price, like the A7.
What new phone did you receive as a gift?
Still using mt A7, and love it. And I dont see anything out there that interests me even slightly.. Especially at the same price the A7 was. Or even the $600 area. Love the front facing speakers. No one has that I think. And the headphone jack. I also use the voice command camera function - nearly daily. I have no idea if other phones have that. And the dual active SIMS, thou I only used once, was very nice to have that option when I needed it. Mainly use the #2 sim as SD expansion slot. Was great that it was upgraded to take a 256 card. I have mostly music on it. The image stabilization when doing video off roading in the JEEP work great. And I cant remember the other great things I like right now.. And I dont know if other phones even at $600 or more will have even most of this. I hope this phone lasts me many more years, even IF I have to have the battery replaced some day..
And how many phones out there has a body that is designed by BMW like the Axon 7!
Its a Huawei Mate 20 Lite. 6.3" Screen, Kirin 710 Processor, 4Gb RAM, 64Gb Storage, Android 8.1 with EMUI. No NFC but I don't care. After a few days of use, battery lasts about 48 hrs (I'm an average user) and it feels fast. I like it.
I don't understand the foldable phone craze either. I'll never buy one. Just like I'll never buy a phone with a notch. There was a reason ZTE was banned. Hopefully they learned from it and can move on from it. Hopefully they will come out with a decent flagship phone soon to replace the A7. I had my fair share of problems with my A7. But I would at least consider a new phone if they ever come out with one.
The Zte Axon 10 Pro 5G looks great !!!
It has a notch. Not interested.


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Even the most seasoned sushi eaters have likely never eaten real wasabi, a sushi meal staple. There are no labeling laws for wasabi in the U.S., so restaurants can legally claim anything is wasabi. The real stuff comes directly from the rootlike stem of the Wasabia japonica plant. The vast majority of sushi restaurants use different mixtures of horseradish, mustard, and dye to create a spicy, wasabi-like paste. Mixtures like these are used because real wasabi is so difficult to cultivate, and it only retains its flavor for about 15 minutes after grating it. True wasabi grows best under very particular conditions, so it's tricky to cultivate. Wasabi grown in the streambeds of Japan are larger and considered to be of higher quality.
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A large percentage of the wasabi served at restaurants is fake. 00:00
The greenhouses mimic a stream bed and are filled with dump truck loads of rounded rock. 01:35
Rhizomes of the plant are grated to create the wasabi paste. 04:37
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Elizabeth City Centre Redevelopment, SA
Duration: July 2003 to October 2005
Value: $83 million
Contract type: Construction Management
Summary: Built Environs refurbished 70,000 m2 of an existing shopping centre and constructed 16,000 m2 of new retail and non-retail facilities in the outer Adelaide suburb of Elizabeth.
The multi-staged, on-time handover of four major and multiple specialist tenancies established the centre as the premier retail, entertainment and leisure destination north of Adelaide.
The first stage included:
- Refurbishing the Harris Scarfe store.
- Expanding and refurbishing the Big W store.
- Constructing new concept Coles and Woolworths supermarkets.
- Fitting out various tenancies.
- Constructing mall areas.
- Refurbishing existing mall areas.
- Reconfiguring and realigning car parking areas.
Stage two comprised:
- A new 600-seat food court
- Refurbishing malls and entries.
- Further reconfiguring and realigning car parking areas.
- Constructing speciality and entertainment areas, restaurants and an eight-screen cinema complex.
Constant planning, liaison and strict discipline was required to carry out the works safely while thousands of people walked around the various construction sites. Extended shopping hours required this discipline to be maintained during nightshift and weekend work. As part of the solution, most of the operating mall was refurbished out of hours. Tenants would leave at night to find their areas refurbished and cleaned ready for work the next morning.
Dust screens, fume extractors, engine filters and gas-powered plant further minimised the disruption to the commercial operation of the centre.
One component of the project required the erection of a large circus-style marquee over the main building to keep out the rain while 42 prefabricated steel-framed skylights were installed through 'cut-throughs' in the roof.
In another area, precise demolition of part of a building was undertaken while upstairs offices continued to function.
The vast construction area required a number of projects to run at the same time – all with their own milestone completion dates.
The project presented many challenge, including a shortage of trades, an inflated trades market, delayed access to construction zones and extended shopping hours. Built Environs managed these through meticulous planning, close stakeholder liaison and tight management to meet all deadlines for this complex project.


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Win yourself a free copy of the Dread PDF over here at Hopeless Gamer. I believe the contest ends at midnight, Oct. 29th, so hurry up!
Accolades & Aspersion
Dread on the Inter-Telly
There is nothing wrong with your computer. Do not attempt to adjust the YouTube. We are controlling transmission . . .
Imagine an Eye That Walks
The Walking Eye podcast have a special spooky edition in which they play some Dread for Halloween (or near Halloween).
Unfortunately, I've not had time to listen to the whole thing yet, but that shouldn't stop you! Nothing should stop you! Nothing can! Go forth and find your destiny!
Speaking of Dread and Halloween, folks over at Gnome Stew have some tremendously nice things to say about Dread and the holiday.
I'm a little slow on the draw with these links, but it's never too early to start planning for next Halloween.
Remember When I Mentioned Trial & Terror
Well, turns out that good judges over at the ENnies thought it might be worth an award.
And now you can vote for it, right here, in the Best Free Product Category.
That's right, free product. Go ahead, download some yourself, over here, and while you're at it, check out the other free project I'm involved with: MonkeyDome.
Some of my friends have products on the ballot as well. So if you're at a lost as to what to vote for, you might want to check out the Summer Revolution.
Dread on the Air
Invasion of the podcasts here. In the past few months I've had the opportunity to chat it up with some prominent podcasters out there. For your enjoyment, I offer my Independent Insurgency interview with Rob Bohl. And the wonderful folks over at The Game Master Show were kind enough to record a Dread game (starting with the character creation at episode 36 and ending with the review session at episode 40) and then talk to me about it afterwards (episode 41).
Let the World Know What Scares You
The folks over at Flames Rising are having a contest in which you describe your favorite horror game. I know what mine is, but you should tell them about yours. There are even prizes involved.
Dread International
Isolation is becoming more and more difficult these days, what with the Internet and relative ease of international shipping. Dread is seeping into corners of the world I never dreamt it would infest.
During the early days, before the book was published, I'd hear from the occasional player in some distant city of the U.S. who learned to play the game from a friend of a friend who played in one of our demonstrations at one of the many conventions we attended. The idea that someone in San Diego or Pittsburgh was enjoying Dread thrilled me.
Since its release in August of 2005, I've heard from players beyond the United States, in places like Israel, Australia, England, Italy, Finland, France, and Germany. And I can't describe how delightfully odd it feels to know there are folks across oceans playing Dread in foreign languages.
And to be reviewed by them! German, Italian, French and a little piece from home.


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We have spoken about the fact that relevance is subjective. This however does not mean that lines need not be drawn. In the area of search, there are generally two approaches of bringing results back given a query.
The first one, which partitions the entire collection into relevant versus irrelevant documents, is known as set retrieval. If the system subsequently decides to order the relevant documents that it returns to you, it should be for the purpose of distinguishing the more relevant results from the less relevant ones.
"relevance ranking should help distinguish more relevant results from less relevant results, rather than distinguishing relevant results from irrelevant results" [1]
On the other side of the fence, many search systems nowadays avoid making that cut-throat relevance distinction. It is done either by design such as the highly tuned Web search systems Google and Bing, or unknowingly as a result of blind adoption of off-the-shelf search solutions.
This second approach, known as ranked retrieval, is designed to only return an ordering of top documents from their collections which are relevant to a query. With this approach, the most relevant results appear first followed by the less relevant ones. If one is not careful with the definition of 'top documents', irrelevant results can be included in the retrieval.
In this article, we explore the widely popular approach of ranked retrieval and the impact of its misapplication in vertical search products. Vertical search is different from Web search in that the former serves specific segments, media types or topics of online content. Some examples include restaurant reviews, job advertisements and recipes. We examine some e-commerce examples to highlight the importance of set retrieval in vertical search where the results are often heavily interrogated by the users through filtering, re-sorting and tiering.
When ranked retrieval is the only viable option
There is no other collection of documents like the Web. We all know that it is very large. More importantly, the structure, content, topic, authorship and quality vary greatly between webpages. Coupled with the ambiguity and the wide variety of intent that comes from users, deciding if a document is irrelevant given a query is mostly impossible.
If someone searches for "ice cream" on the Web, what does a relevant document look like? Do we even know if that person is using the phrase in the snack or dessert context? If so, is the person looking for recipes, flavours, the brands or products available in the market and their prices, the nutrition facts and so on. Let's not forget that users can also use the phrase "ice cream" to look for local businesses offering or making the products.
If a good search experience is not predicated on a clear distinction between relevant versus irrelevant, then there is no need for set retrieval. Moreover, if the distinction cannot be made, this provides for an even stronger preference for ranked retrieval over set retrieval. This is exactly the case for Web search.
When set retrieval is the preferred approach
Vertical search is different from Web search in two distinctive ways. First, intent is far less fuzzy and content is more specialised in vertical search. As a result, the users have a less fluid definition of relevance. Unlike Web search, the same two words "ice cream" used for searching on an e-commerce grocery site has a very exact intent, which is the food item. You would be very disappointed if you are shown things like a pasta machine or balsamic vinegar when you are clearly expecting ice creams.
Second, users are often given or expect the ability to interrogate vertical search results. For instance, an e-commerce site would offer brands, colours and price as facets that users can use to filter. This need to cut and re-order the results in different ways goes against the fact that the default order from ranked retrieval is necessary to push the less or even irrelevant results to the bottom. For vertical search systems which allow the users to interfere with this order, the chances of irrelevant results coming to the surface become very high. This in turns harm the search experience.
If interrogation of search results is fundamental to the search experience, then the search system has to take a firmer stance on reducing or eliminating altogether irrelevant results from the retrieval. The trick of burying potentially irrelevant results in the latter pages of the result set does not work in this type of applications.
20 pages of ice cream options or not
Let us look at an e-commerce scenario to illustrate the impact of not being clear cut with the relevance of retrieved documents. We will look at how re-sorting and filtering can easily bring up irrelevant results in vertical search.
I am looking to get some fancy ice cream for my shopping cart. I typed in "ice cream" in the keyword input. It tells me that there are 705 options of ice cream. I was quite amazed, thinking to myself that I probably would not find that many varieties of ice cream in my local supermarket. But then again, we are browsing the inventory of one of the largest e-commerce sites in the world.
I paused for a bit and think of ways that I can get the outcome I want. I was immediately drawn to the facets on the left. I thought to myself, "Silly me, I should have selected the Grocery category" to refine my search results to try to remove the machine parts. I did exactly that and this time, I saw balsamic vinegars and more protein shakes. As I scrolled down (not shown in the screenshot above), I saw maple syrup, tea leaves and coconut water. It was only after some digging that I finally encounter some expensive ice creams.
Bleach for my face
I proceed to look for the next item in my shopping list. I keyed in my query "face scrub". I was so happy to see some relevant results. However, I cannot help myself but be drawn to the household cleaning agents that were presented to me such as bleach, and stain and grease remover when I explicitly requested something for my face. Together with the purported 224 face scrub products, I again have my doubts.
I learnt from my previous search that I might need to filter down to the right categories first. I was somewhat uncertain as to which of the two potentially relevant categories to select from. There were the "Health & Personal Care" and the "Beauty" categories. Motivated by not wanting to miss out on cheap options, I selected the one that states it has the most results. The results did not change.
I immediately went for the "Sort by" feature again to find cheap face scrubs. I was shocked to see even more irrelevant results being presented to me. I now see body scrub, bleach, sponge pad (for scrubbing my face possibly), facial wipes and finally some face scrub products.
Milk white curtains
I moved to the third item in my shopping list. Hopefully, looking for what I want will be more straightforward this time. I gave the site one more try and typed in "rice milk". I looked at the count and there were 180 products matching my query. I looked at the categories again. I would have proceeded to add the first item I saw in my cart but the count and the facets aroused my curiosity. I wondered very hard why my search for rice milk came back with 158 products in "Home & Kitchen", 10 products in "Tools & Home Improvement", and 6 in "Industrial & Scientific" (whatever that means).
I clicked on the "Home & Kitchen" category which purportedly has 158 rice milk products. People say curiosity kills the cat. In this case, the facets and the irrelevant retrieval aroused my curiosity which in turn killed my confidence in the search product.
I wondered how I would have surfaced these irrelevant products if it was not for the facets, which made the problem stood out like a sore thumb. I went back to the all items page (by removing the "Home & Kitchen" category filter) and clicked on the fifth page of the results. The curtains and the other irrelevant items were all hiding in the 'long tail' of the search results.
What went wrong?
Clearly, the unfortunate encounters with irrelevant products would not have occurred if they were not returned in the first place. We know that relevance is subjective. However, being presented with pasta machines when I look for ice cream, bleach when I am after face scrub, and curtains when I ask for rice milk is simply weird.
There are only two possibilities as to why the unrelated products were returned. The first is that the set retrieval approach used was just not good at telling apart the relevant from irrelevant. The second is that the ranked retrieval approach was used. My guess is that the latter is true.
A good search experience using ranked retrieval is predicated on maintaining the default relevance order. This ensures that the less relevant and more importantly, the irrelevant results are buried in the latter pages where users are less likely to reach. However, by offering the facets and the re-sort options in the search interface, we are allowing the users to interfere with the order. This was what happened with the examples we saw earlier.
All in all, combining faceted search with ranked retrieval can yield undesirable search experience. It is important to note that just because successful Web search engines use a certain retrieval approach, it does not mean that it will be effective for everyone. Web search and vertical search deal with very different content, needs and tasks. In this article, we saw that ranked retrieval, which works very well for Web search engines, actually deliver very different outcomes for faceted, vertical search applications.


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Global corporation X is storing all of its crucial data in encrypted form. To unlock the encryption you need special keys, which are stored in one central place, on one computer.Over IT-problemen en hun oplossingen:
"We sold them that system assuring them it was safe. One Friday afternoon, a new employee at X needs some extra capacity and notices this one computer doing nothing. He thinks it's idling so he copies its contents to a temporary file, and lets the computer run whatever he needs it for. Then he tries to copy the contents back, which is impossible with encrypted files and this is how he discovers what he's done: he has effectively erased the system that underpins all of X's global operations. Their data are still there, but encrypted and the keys are lost.
"Panic ensues, and my colleagues who installed the software jump on the first plane to X's headquarters. There they discover just how lucky company X has been. The installation was relatively recent, so our people had a good grasp of its details. They went through the system and thank God, the switches had not yet been reset, meaning the keys could be retrieved. If X had rebooted its systems all would have been lost.
"I am sure your readers would be shocked if they realised just how crap IT has been organised in many banks as well as corporations and government ministries. Sometimes we get a glimpse, when a company is unavailable for days due to 'computer problems'. Have you noticed these cases always take longer than expected? This is not because repairs take long. Finding out what the problem is in the first place – 'root cause analysis' – that's nearly always the most time-consuming. Nobody has a complete and in-depth overview any longer.Over outsourcing:
"Years ago management in major banks and corporations decided that they could outsource vital IT functions to companies such as IBM, Tata, HP and Atos Origin T-Systems. The idea was that if you describe the processes you require adequately, it's safe to delegate their execution to outsiders. But the first contract goes to IBM, two years later a contract for another part of the infrastructure is awarded to HP, then Cisco gets to manage the network … Now, who is responsible for the overall system? All systems need patches frequently. But before you install one, you need to make sure it doesn't do things you didn't expect. This requires cooperation between these suppliers, who will of course charge for these things. Often the various suppliers' support contracts don't match. Also, there is little continuity within those suppliers; operations are restructured, people get replaced or moved around. Vital expertise gets lost. Major suppliers do collaborate on patch management. But each has to 'certify' every upgrade, and since each works with a different 'software map', they come to different decisions on different timetables regarding certification. Often the latest software cannot be installed because one of the suppliers has not certified it.Over de panacee, de CIO:
"Are so-called chief information officers, the top executives responsible for IT, aware of this? I very much doubt if they are and if they care. They are managers, skilled in office politics, not technical experts. Most CIOs rarely stay in their post more than a few years. I worked for one of the major software companies in the world. It took my boss a year and a half of begging and pleading with the secretary to get a meeting with the CIO of a major client. CEOs are worse. They are afraid of looking stupid or ignorant, and actively avoid their IT people.En het ergste is natuurlijk: Het is o zo herkenbaar en geldt helaas ook allemaal voor overheidsorganisaties, klein EN groot!
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Breaking up time. Settling the borders between the present, the past and the future
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Organizers: Chris Lorenz, External Senior Fellow and Berber Bevernage (University of Ghent)
Breaking up time. Settling the borders between the present, the past and the future
Since the birth of modernity history has presupposed the existence of 'the past' as its object, yet the concept of 'the past' and the distinction between the categories of 'the past', 'the present' and 'the future' have seldom been reflected upon within the boundaries of the discipline. Indeed the question of time has largely been omitted from the agenda of history. We feel that it is about time for historians and philosophers of history to start to analyze how cultures in general and historians in particular actually distinguish 'the past' from 'the present' and 'the future', and how their interrelationships are constructed: is distinguishing between past, present and future simply a matter of passively 'recognizing' or 'observing', what is 'natural' and 'undeniable', or does it involve a more active stance in which social actors create and recreate these divisions? Can we claim to know precisely how 'present' social and cultural phenomena turn into (or come to be perceived/recognized as) past phenomena? It seems worthwhile to make a connection between the historical and the philosophical debates about the temporal distinctions between 'past', 'present' and 'future'. What have so far been lacking are comparative analyses of the variety of ways in which historians and historical actors have been breaking up time in practice. Both historians and philosophers have emphasized the role played by catastrophic political ruptures, for example revolutions and major wars, in 'breaking up time'. However, the effects of these 'transformative events' on notions of temporality have hardly been studied in a comparative perspective and as 'performative' events. 'Year 1' in the French Revolution and 'Stunde Null' in post-1945 Germany probably are two of the most well known examples of this type of event in 'the past', but the end of the Cold War in 1990 may be considered as the most 'epoch making' event in 'the present'.
The workshop solicits papers which focus on (preferably two) 'transformative events' and compare the ways in which they have recalibrated thinking about the relationship between the 'past', 'present' and 'future'. The temporal framework of the workshop covers classical and high modernity, that is: from 1789 until today. As to the spatial framework the workshop is subdivided in three clusters: 1. Europe; 2. Europe and its colonies; 3. Europe and non-colonial 'outer-Europe'.
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Friday, July 20, 2007
Food Addiction
Carbohydrates on the Brain, Food Rehab in the Future
Earlier this month, Yale University hosted the first-ever conference on Food and Addiction. Dr. Nora Volkow of the National Institute on Drug Abuse told the collection of experts on nutrition, obesity and drug addiction that "commonalities in the brain's reward mechanisms" linked compulsive eating with addictive drug use. "Impaired function of the brain dopamine system could make some people more vulnerable to compulsive eating," Volkow said.
Moreover, animal studies and brain imaging research in humans strongly support the notion of food addiction. In particular, research has pointed toward a form of food addiction known as "carbohydrate-craving obesity." Dr. Mark Gold, chief of addiction studies at the McKnight Institute at the University of Florida, and a well-known authority on cocaine abuse, argued that "failed diets and attempts to control overeating, preoccupation with food and eating, shame, anger, and guilt look like traditional addictions."
Conference organizer Kelly Brownell, director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale, conceded that "it wasn't obesity experts who got interested in addiction, it was the addiction scientists who got interested in food." Brownell suggested that psychologists have been slower to grasp the import of food addiction "in part because of a bias that obesity is all about failure and personal responsibility, so why look at biology?"
As Dr. Gold summed it up, "It turns out that food and drugs compete for the same reward system in the brain."
--"Yale Hosts Historic Conference on Food and Addiction." Yale University Office of Public Affairs. July 9, 2007. http://www.yale.edu/opa/newsr/07-07-09-01.all.html
--Hellmich, Nancy. "Does food 'addiction' explain explosion of obesity?" USA Today, July 9, 2007.
--"Yale Hosts Historic Conference on Food Addiction." Medical News Today. 11 July 2007. www.medicalnewstoday.com
--Hathaway, William. "Experts Chew Over Eating as Addiction." The Hartford Courant. July 11, 2007. http://www.courant.com/news/health
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No doubt, this hot n fiery Kerala Style Chicken Roast is one of the favorite of Spicy food lovers..!
It is one of the authentic delicious menu item in the restaurants of Kerala. This fiery red chicken dish is prepared with a semi-gravy and fresh coconut gratings.
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Check out this hot and spicy authentic recipe ….its really going to be a treat for your taste buds..:)
· Chicken leg piece - 3 or 4
· Turmeric pwd - ¼ tsp
· Red chilly pwd - 1 tsp
· Coriander pwd - 1 tsp
· Lemon juice - few drops
· Ginger garlic paste - 1 tbsp
· Oil - 2 tbsp
· Cumin - ½ tsp
· Sliced onions - ½ cup
· Curry leaves - 10 to 12
· Grated coconut - 2 tbsp
· Vinegar - 2 tsp
· Crushed pepper corns - ½ tsp
· Garam masala pwd - 1 tsp
· Green chilly - 1 or 2
· Salt to taste
· Fresh coriander leaves
1. Wash chicken and drain water thoroughly.
2. Marinate the chicken with turmeric pwd, red chilly pwd, coriander pwd, salt, lemon juice and ginger garlic paste.
3. Allow to marinate for at least 3 to 4 hrs.
4. Heat oil in a fry pan.
5. Add cumin seeds and allow to crackle.
6. Add finely sliced onions.
7. Sauté till transulent.
8. Add curry leaves and fry for few seconds.
9. Add finely grated coconut shreds and mix well.
10.Now add the marinated chicken .
11.Roast the chicken thoroughly, make sure the masala mix in well.
12.Add ¼ cup of water and cook chicken covered in low flame.
13.Add 2 to 3 tsp of vinegar and allow the chicken to cook till it turns tender.
14.Add crushed peppercorns and garam masala pwd.
15.Add finely sliced green chillies and combine all the ingredients.
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17.Sprinkle freshly chopped coriander leaves.
18.Kerala style spicy Chicken roast is ready.
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Using Network Marketing As A Tool For Your Business
Network marketing can be a great way to start out in business. After all, you have your own business with strong support from people in upper levels who want to see you succeed. You can also recruit new people who will help you to make money. Here are a tips to make sure your network marketing business is a success.
Go into network marketing with an understanding that you are going to be extraordinarily busy for a while. You are starting this out alone, and you are going to have to allocate as much time as possible to get it off the ground in the early days and beyond. The time you put into it will pay off in the end so think of these hours as an investment in your future.
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Do not start out by trying to bring in your friends or family. Leave them for after you have already made a success in the business. Going after friends and family to become prospects could potentially hurt your relationships with them. It will also hurt you in developing the skills you need to deal with cold prospects which is what you truly need to succeed.
If you're not willing to sell ice to an Inuit, you're actually perfect for network marketing. People who try to get everyone that they meet into joining their downline, will face great disappointment when those people both quit and start badmouthing them. If people hear you have a bad reputation, they won't even bother talking to you! Be choosy in who you ask to join your team.
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Natural light creates the spirit of my photography. Morning and late afternoon sessions are ideal in terms of lighting, but it's important to select a time of the day when your family is at their best. Sessions take about an hour so plan accordingly.
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Fluorochemicals Market by Application - Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast, 2012 - 2018
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DUBLIN, August 30, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --
Research and Markets
(http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/wpntm8/fluorochemicals) has announced the addition of the "Fluorochemicals Market (Fluorocarbons, Fluoropolymers and Inorganics & Specialties) by Application (Refrigeration, Aluminum Production, Blowing Agents, Components & Others) - Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast, 2012 - " report to their offering.
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The global fluorochemicals demand has been growing steadily over the last two years on account of increasing application scope, technological innovation, and growing demand in Asia-Pacific. Fluoropolymers have been found to have host of applications in large number of industries due to their versatile properties.
The fluorochemicals market report by Transparency Market Research provides an in-depth analysis of the global fluorochemical industry. The report segments the fluorochemical market on the basis of type, region and application and also provides the forecasts and estimates for each segment and their sub segments. The report also analyses the demand and supply characteristics of fluorochemicals by providing a detailed forecast of volume and revenue for the period 2011 to 2018.
Key fluorochemicals analyzed in this study include fluorocarbons, inorganics and specialties, and fluoropolymers. In terms of consumption, fluorocarbons were the most dominant followed by inorganics and fluoropolymers. Fluorocarbons such as HFC and HCFC are mainly employed in refrigerants and air-conditioners. Other applications of fluorocarbons include industrial coatings, pharmaceuticals and blowing agents. Inorganics and specialty fluorochemicals are employed in aluminum production, fumigation, in cleaning agents, etc. Fluoropolymers are expected to exhibit the fastest growth among all fluorochemicals. Key end-use applications for fluoropolymers include semi conductors, resins, fluoroadditives, etc.
Refrigeration, aluminum production, blowing agents and components and others are the major application markets for fluorochemicals. Components and others are expected to witness the fastest growth while refrigerants garnered the largest share in total revenue generated by the global fluorochemical industry in 2011.
The report also provides a thorough analysis of market share and revenue of companies such as DuPont, Daikin, Solvay, Asahi Glass, Dongyue, Arkema, Honeywell, Pelchem, Mexichem and Mitsui Chemicals. The report provides a detailed analysis of the various factors influencing the fluorochemical industry with the help of Porter's five force analysis. The analysis also helps to understand the degree of competition in the market. The report also analyses the value chain and the various drivers and restraints of the fluorochemical market.
Key Topics Covered:
Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Executive Summary
Chapter 3 Market Overview
Chapter 4 Global fluorochemicals market, by product type
Chapter 5 Global fluorochemicals market, by applications
Chapter 6 Global fluorochemicals market, by geography
Chapter 7 Company Profiles
Companies Mentioned
- Air Products and Chemicals
- Arkema
- Asahi Glass
- Daikin
- Dongyue
- DuPont
- Honeywell
- Mexichem Fluor S.A. de C.V
- Mitsui Chemicals Inc.
- Pelchem
- Solvay SA
For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/wpntm8/fluorochemicals.
About Research and Markets
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Peter Rama offers nondual consultation and teachings. Nondual meaning transcending dualistic extremes such as for instance good and evil. Striving for good as an ideal is like trying to get rid of left by continuously turning right, and then just circling around and getting nowhere.
Peter helps you to realise freedom and peace in your life, by showing you how to be aware, liberate yourself from conditioning, and see your true nature. Peter's approach has been compared to a mixture of Zen, Tao and Advaita. Basically it comes down to self-enquiry, looking into yourself. Truth can only be found in yourself. Self-enquiry is universal and neutral, that is, not bound to any method, spiritual practice or religion.
Self-enquiry is philosophy based on your own experience. It is not grounded on concepts and insights as formulated by others. Building on concepts and on evidence would be exclusive. Words create an illusory reality. Real philosophy is non-conventional, 'non-sense'. Just like some people resist any image of God, I resist any image and any concept of thinking that leads to identification and to bondage. You are not what you are thinking, you are not your feelings, you are not your body.
Any effort to reach awareness and liberation will make you dependent on a method, will lead to further conditioning and create an addicted mind. Truth can only be found in yourself, you are already there, finding it is effortless:
"Truth is a pathless land"
Peter has a background in chemistry, physics, and holds a PhD in materials technology. He also studied depth psychology and philosophy. Since his youth Peter has been inspired by Sri Ramana Maharshi and by Jiddu Krishnamurti and as a result has explored self-enquiry. Since several years he is active as a spiritual and philosophical mentor.
Peter (born 1953) is living in the Netherlands, and is also working as a consultant in a business environment. He is married and has three children.


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This is the third look-back video we are sharing from our Making Noise Media Project, which has unfolded over the past three years.
It is the second in a series of 3 spoof PSA's that bring attention to the issue of street harassment faced by females by flipping the narrative so that men are the victims. This video was developed by Black Women Against Male Harassment (BWAMH) and produced by Sedina Fiati, in partnership with the UARR's Making Noise Media Project. As always, please do share your thoughts with us.


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17th May 2014 – QECP Day & Night Enduro
1st June 2014 – Gravity Project Round 4 DH race
8th June 2014 – Southern XC series Round 5
27th July 2014 – QECP Trail Collective Enduro
Yes! I missed out in the record ticket sell out if you get a veteran drop out I'm ready to roll guys! Keep up the good work trails are some of the best I've ridden for years! Cheers andrew


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1 3 lb beef chuck roast
1 tbs olive oil
salt and pepper to taste
1 15 oz jar red enchilada sauce
2 cups low sodium beef broth (I used the meijer naturals beef broth concentrate)
2 sweet potatoes, peeled and cut into chunks
2 small chayote squash, also cut into chunks (meijer does carry this mexican squash, but I have yet to see it there. They are always out, so you can use summer squash in it's place)
1 15 oz can hominy, drained
Rub the roast with olive oil, salt and pepper. place in a roasting pan, or stock pot. Add the broth and enchilada sauce. Cover and cook at 250 for 8 or 9 hours. At this time add the sweet potatoes, squash and hominy and continue cooking for another 3-4 hours. I cook my roasts this long to make them fork tender. You can adjust cooking time if you want.


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According to the Alexander Downer, the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General in Cyprus, the Cyprus problem must be resolved within 18 months from the start of peace talks.
The representative said that the new negotiations will not begin until March next year, after the presidential elections in South Cyprus, and must be completed no more than six months before the expiration of the current president of Northern Cyprus.According to reports in press representative of the UN Secretary General said he needed to know the intentions of the two leaders until the summer of next year. He added that the new discussions must be coordinated with the future president of the Southern Cyprus, because it is important to discuss the list of current agreements and disagreements after the elections in February. At a meeting with diplomats, Mr Downer said that the two sides should just prioritize. On the Greek issues of priority will be territory and property, while Turkish side will concentrate on distribution of powers. Mr Downer has not ruled out alternative solution to the Cyprus issue.
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June 22, 2007 • Posted By Josiah Rowe
Britain's newspapers and blogs are beating the drums for The Sound of Drums.The Stage's blog calls the episode "a bonkers, brilliant beginning of the end for the third series of Doctor Who." Saturday's Times squeezes in three Doctor Who references: first, a preview of the episode in TV Choice says, "The second part of this fiendishly involved story by Russell T. Davies involves John Simmmasquerading as the Prime Minister. His style is presidential and he treats the Cabinet with contempt. His policies may lack substance, but everyone voted for him because, as Martha Jones (Freema Agyeman) says: "He always sounded good - like you could trust him." Second, an article in the main section of the paper discusses the Vote Saxon campaign and outlines Mr. Saxon's electoral manifesto. And finally, Caitlin Moran puts things into perspective by pointing out that Britain will be saying farewell to Tony Blair this week and to Doctor Who next week: "Obviously we know which is the more significant - is the Prime Minister on the cover of the Daily Mirror's We Love Telly supplement? Hashe ever killed a Dalek? Considered in this light - which, I'm sure you'll agree, is the right light - it seems amazing that Channel 4 Newshas even mentioned Blair's resignation."
Thanks to "springyrice" and "PolyG" of the Outpost Gallifrey Forum.
Thanks to "springyrice" and "PolyG" of the Outpost Gallifrey Forum.


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It is difficult to find eye openers that clearly show the Western trick of how Dictatorship is called Democracy; as it usually demands lots of explanations and backgrounds.
But this example is the perfect eye opener.
And from there it is easy to get how the same pattern is used in all other questions.
This example shows how a minister, in a nation that is usually recognised as so called Democratic openly rejects a petition made by thousands of healthcare professionals.
And then became the rejection the same as Democracy and a guarantee of perfect healthcare provided by the political élite.
The then Minister of Health and Social Affairs/ Socialminister Göran Hägglund said the following, about the petition, in the State owned national broadcasting service, Läkarupprop mot brister i svensk sjukvård, Ekot Sveriges Radio, 21 June 2013 in my translation.
… the petition that is made is a repetition of a dark picture that does not fit what Swedish healthcare and hospitals actually delivers, …The petition was written and managed by the medical doctors (or then possible students) Lollo Makdessi and Märit Halmin and was published in the Swedish medical journal Läkartidningen, owned by the Swedish Medical Association / Sveriges Läkarförbund, under the headline "Petition by Medical professionals for a better healthcare/ Läkarupprop för en bättre sjukvård", Läkartidningen, 19 June 2013.
So, the background, arguments and the organisation of the petition was for sure well founded.
The rejection by the minister was the end of a promising process. And of course all major Swedish news media presented the Minister's perspective without any direct or concrete questions.
The demands of the political élite in this affair become the only possible official truth and the petition was accordingly regarded as an unnecessary disturbance of the only correct order.
And from here is it somewhat simple to grasp that the citizens are not able to get in a concrete or systematic manner how they are fooled.
Because the Westerners whole Understanding of Life and the World are sabotaged so they cannot grasp HOW they are fooled in a concrete or systematic manner.
And the area that is all about how to Understand Life and the World is of course called Science.
Here is must be underlined that the real role of the massmedia is also exposed here; to show the citizens what they must Accept and Obey.
Or like this. The message to the citizens was: Do not make any petitions as we will condemn you!
How So Called Science Creates the Illusion of Democracy
A fast, simple and accurate explanation of what is called Science in the current Western culture is that it is according to this false Science; that the perspective of the Ruler or the political élite is the same as the truth or what is called Objective.
Whereas the perspectives of the citizens are called Subjective and is in a formal aspect worthless compared to the perspective of the Ruler.
This means when the victims are trained to take for granted that this false Science is the true perspective of Life and the World are there no concrete possibilities to say anything against the decisions of the Ruler; than perhaps to complain in vain.
Consequently could the minister reject the petition in full accordance with the current accepted traditions of so called Science and so called Democracy.
Where Democracy in practice means to choose between preselected candidates in general elections.
So, it is this usually Hidden relation between the formal perspectives of Objective and Subjective that makes it possible for the political class to command and control their victims as they want.
In practice this means that propaganda about, for example, Science, Democracy and Freedom are directed to the Subjective perspective.
And when the victims wants or needs to use what is promised in the propaganda; it is always possible for the Ruler or the political élite to restrict and condemn the perspective of the citizens.
To comprehend and Dissolve the tradition of Objective and Subjective you need to at first go one level up in order to study the tradition of Dualism that guarantees that the Ruler is always Right.
And then you need to take one more step upwards to grasp the whole tradition of Platonism, that is the formal name of this restricted worldview, and then you will be able to Dissolve the tyranny.
And for sure, as The Hidden Slave Rules are protected by to be called Science it is also possible for the political class to reject any form of protest against the terror of Platonism.
But please remember the problem is not the politicians; the problem is the false Science that legitimises the ongoing terror.
In the upcoming Section Two are all the main relations regarding Objective and Subjective as well as Dualism presented as the fourth Slave Rule in Key № 6 The Hidden Six Slave Rules Called Science.
Check the Teaser with lot of usually Hidden relations.
And in Section One are all relations as a kind of exploration.
Section Two will be a platform to FIGHT, DEFEAT and DISSOLVE the Academic cult that fool the Westerners with corrupt Science in order to suppress and exploit the People.


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This selection is from NonBinary Review Issue #5: The King in Yellow. Get NonBinary Review #5 from the Zoetic Press website.
In a certain Bible Belt town,
Methodist ministers, keeping
with Wesley's circuit rider tradition,
rotate in and out through baffle gates
while the Baptist preacher
remains a permanent fixture.
During daily dismissal of his bible
school, he shakes hands firmly,
bares teeth wolfishly, fervidly offers
glad-to-see-you greetings.
I perceive him hiding behind lip
service, feel his flesh squirm
in my grip. Hold tight my pastoral
impressions lest I'm branded blasphemer.
Elderly sisters, widowed, smell preacher
man's lust, arrive early Sunday mornings,
keep vigil, soon pass from the scene.
Two years lapse, preacher man thinks
he's outrun sin when in local woods
the decapitated corpse of Christine, his
unhappily wed parishioner, fingers their affair.
Nearby, her displaced head rests at the foot of
a Beech tree, it's trunk inscribed,
"Have you seen the yellow sign?"
Linda Kennedy is a musician and choir director working in Richmond, Va. She has taken poetry classes at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Studio School and is presently enrolled in poetry courses at the Visual Arts Center in Richmond, Va. She has a poem posted on the VMFA Blog.


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Organisers of this year's Summer Universiade in Naples have called for firms to help refurbish the city's San Paolo Stadium.
According to the Italian news agency ANSA, the arena, which will host both the Opening and Closing Ceremonies as well as track and field athletics, requires new seating, glass balustrades and "waterproofing of the walkways".
Naples 2019 have published a tender for the work on their website and called on companies to bid for it.
Applications for the work must be received by January 28, with the project valued at almost €11.5 million (£10.5 million/$13 million).
The ground is the third largest football stadium in Italy after the San Siro in Turin and Stadio Olimpico in Rome with a capacity of 60,000.
It last underwent large-scale renovations for the 1990 FIFA World Cup, which it staged the semi-final between Italy and Argentina.
The works being carried out for the Universiade mean the capacity will be reduced to 55,000 during the Games scheduled to take place between July 3 and 14.
Calls for two other tenders have also recently been released, for the television production and athlete transport contracts.
As reported in ANSA, the television production tender will cover the creation of the international broadcast centre, audio, video and digital communications.
That has been valued at €2.9 million (£2.6 million/$3.3 million).
The other, meanwhile, will cover transport for both athletes and officials during the Games and has been valued at €4.8 million (£4.3 million/$5.5 million).
The transport contract has reportedly been divided into three sections.
One covers a service for members of the International University Sport Federation and Federation Presidents.
Another covers the transport of athletes and the third covers the officials.
The deadline for applications for both of the transport and television contracts is reportedly January 25.


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2017 will be a milestone year in Canadian history as our country celebrates its'150th birthday.
Planning for the sesquicentennial anniversary (let's call it Canada 150) began in 2012, under the previous Conservative government, with the mandate to build our nation and celebrate our history. Celebrations that will inspire Canadians to get involved have been planned.
I wanted to take this opportunity to inform constituents of a number of initiatives where you can get involved as the countdown to Canada 150 has already begun. Become part of it.
Canadian Heritage and CBC/Radio Canada have joined together to share what is taking place across the country and to collect your stories. For more information on what is planned and to share your photos, videos and stories please visithttp://www.cbc.radioCanada.ca/en/explore/2017/ or http://canada.pch.gc.ca/ to reach the Government of Canada's website. In addition, there are several legacy grants that will go towards supporting culture, history, heritage, and sport in Canada. Those applications and guidelines can also be found on the Government website.
Our Capital city is planning celebrations throughout 2017 to mark Canada's 150th birthday. If you are planning a trip to Ottawa, this would be a spectacular time to visit. Here is a website that can direct you to the events that will be occurring in Ottawa – http://www.ottawa2017.ca/.
For a more local look at the celebrations, I encourage you to look at the imagiNation 150 website to see what is being planned in Calgary. Canadians of all ages, back grounds and walks of life are being encouraged to reflect on where we've been and to dream audaciously about the future we will create. This website can be reached at http://www.i150.ca/
The Canada Council for the Arts is marking the 150th Anniversary of Confederation by creating a special program to support the creation and sharing of exceptional artistic and literary works. The hope is to inspire works that interpret the world we live in and envision our shared future. This website is http://canadacouncil.ca/council/grants/find-a-grant/grants/new-chapter
Canada's 150th anniversary is an historic moment with the power to bring people and places together as we dream big about our communities and our country. It's a chance to encourage all Canadians to contribute to their communities in a way that will foster a greater sense of belonging, support meaningful reconciliation and leave a lasting legacy now and for future generations. For more information about Canada 150 grants through the Community Fund for Canada's 150th, please visit www.communityfoundations.ca/cfc150
It is going to be an exciting year for Canada so plan to participate in one of the several celebrations that will be happening across our country. Follow along at @Canada150th on Twitter and use #Canada150 and help countdown this milestone year.


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1. Monday is almost over. This is the last week of classes at CSU, and as in love as I ever was with my class and as much I adored my students, I am ready to be done now.
2. The art of Hugh MacLeod. He posts his work on his website, gapingvoid, and it is this lovely mix of sharply funny (like the edge of a knife sometimes), smart, and open-hearted. In honor of the first item on this "Something Good" list, here's one of my current favorites:
3. Seven Day Weekends. Not having to go to work for almost the whole week of Thanksgiving was great. We should do that more often.
4. This kid, and everything about him and this video. The moment he takes a deep breath, wipes his tears, and holds up "But…I'm not going anywhere," was the best, so brave. After you watch the video, make sure to read his update, which says, in part: "The video is real, and true…Love and peace to all who are hurting." Amen.
5. Pine Ridge Holiday Project. Sorry to sound like a broken record, but I am just so in love with this, and I really think you should try it. You don't have to be in Colorado, people from all over the world have taken part in the past, all you need to do is email Christine or Julie and get some names. In the last few days, they got more lists, specifically infants, and have so many kids, infants, and elders left who really need your help this season. From my heart: if you have enough this season and you are loved, please share that with someone who might not be so lucky.
6. "Women, Food, and God" Eating Guidelines. These are so simple, so complicated, and have been so helpful to me. I highly recommend this book to any woman who struggles with her relationship with food. Here they are, the seven guidelines to eating more consciously, (and if you can already do this, good for you–please be kind to those of us who are struggling):
Eat when you are hungry.
Eat sitting down in a calm environment. This does not include the car.
Eat without distractions. Distractions include radio, television, newspapers, books, intense or anxiety-producing conversations or music.
Eat what your body wants.
Eat until you are satisfied.
Eat (with the intention of being) in full view of others.
Eat with enjoyment, gusto and pleasure.
7. Felted animals. I have been in love with these since I first saw them.
There are artists that will use a picture of your dog and make you one that looks just like them. If the ones who are really good at it didn't charge so much ($299!–the work is worth that amount, but I just can't justify spending it), I'd have ones made of Obi, Dexter, and Sam and take them with me everywhere. I'd especially like one of Obi. He's gone, but I could carry his miniature around in my pocket. And I know just who I'd hire to make them for me: Kay from Canada, of Kay's K9s. Her work is amazing! Here are a few of her custom pieces:
Dexter's Mini D is pretty good, but not quite as close of a match.
8. Sharing a banana with Sam every morning. No matter where he is in the house, no matter how soundly asleep, he hears the snap of the top of a banana and before I can get the first side peeled, he's sitting in front of me asking for some. One thing I love so much about it, besides the cuteness of a dog eating a banana, is that Obi loved bananas too. Right after he died, the first banana I had all to myself was the saddest thing ever, so Sam has returned eating a banana to a joyful practice.
9. The Idea Manifesto. This is the work of Bernadette Jiwa, a "Results Coach" born in Dublin and living in Perth, Australia.
- Love and peace to all who are hurting.


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Region: Northern Arizona
Theme: Women in Historic Preservation
Bartlett worked in a number of different roles over the years at the Museum of Northern Arizona. She was the museum's first curator from 1931 to 1952, creating the organizational system for the museum's collection and establishing the museum's conservation policies. From 1952 until 1981 she served as librarian and curator of history, creating a library of research materials on anthropology, geology and natural history for northern Arizona.
She planned museum exhibits, edited museum publications and contributed articles that appeared in more than 60 publications. Her breadth of knowledge was staggering, covering topics such as Hopi and Navajo history, along with Spanish exploration of the Southwest. Her study of ground stone food- processing technology is considered the standard reference guide for the field.
Bartlett earned numerous accolades over the years. She was named the first Fellow of the Museum of Northern Arizona in 1984 and featured in a Smithsonian exhibition, "Daughters of the Desert," which documented the accomplishments of pioneer female anthropologists. She and other early women anthropologists gave "voice, visibility and respect to disenfranchised Native Americans," according to Barbara A. Babcock and Nancy J. Parezo, authors of Daughters of the Desert: Women Anthropologists and the Native American Southwest, 1880-1980.
In 1991 she received the Sharlot Hall Award for her contributions to Arizona history. Her professional associations included a charter membership in the Arizona Academy of Science, and she was a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Anthropological Association, and the Society of American Archaeology.
In the 1950s, she traveled with partner Genevieve Foster through the Glen Canyon region, cataloging archaeological sites before their destruction from flooding by the Glen Canyon dam. After her retirement, Bartlett moved to Oak Creek and continued to work as a part-time volunteer. She continued to live and travel with Genevieve. She died at the age of 93. The library at the Museum of Northern Arizona is named in her honor. She was inducted into the Arizona Woman's Hall of Fame in 2008.
For more information, see Daughters of the Desert: Women Anthropologists and the Native American region, 1880-1980 by Barbara A. Babcock and Nancy J. Parezo.
Photo Credits:
Courtesy of the Museum of Northern Arizona, Bartlett standing, #C-100B-1958-4.


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