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Regulatory Upgrade Improvement Project 2014
Since 1912, the City of Appleton has been providing safe, clean, drinking water to its residents. The Appleton Water Treatment Facility (AWTF) utilizes a number of processes to treat your water including softening, granular activated carbon filtration, membrane ultrafiltration, and disinfection with chlorine and chloramines (a combination of chlorine and ammonia).
New Treatment Technology
The State of Wisconsin and the EPA recently created new water standards to reduce Cryptosporidium and Giardia in drinking water. To meet the standards, a Technical Advisory Group was established by the Mayor. The group reviewed regulatory approved industry alternatives that would effectively meet the new regulations. From these alternatives the group recommended utilizing an ultraviolet (UV) light process as the means to inactivate Cryptosporidium and Giardia.
How does UV Work?
Microorganisms in the water are exposed to ultraviolet light when they pass by special lamps that are housed in UV reactors. The UV energy instantly damages the organism's genetic material (DNA). Unable to reproduce, the microorganisms no longer pose a health risk.
Regulatory Upgrade Project
The City's water plant is currently upgrading to the new UV technology. The UV process is being located downstream of the membranes and eventually will replace membranes as the pathogen barrier in 2016.
UV technology is highly effective against streptococcus, cholera, hepatitis A, polio, rotovirus, Cryptosporidium, and Giardia. In addition to UV disinfection, the AWTF is upgrading the plant computer system and is making regulatory improvements to the chlorine and filter processes. The project cost is approximately $6 million and is currently on schedule.
Other Benefits of UV
UV disinfection has the following benefits:
- Reduces formation of chlorine by-products
- Cost effective technology with low operating overhead
- Water aesthetic remain unchanged
Appleton is committed to delivering clean, safe water to all of its residents and wholesale water customers. The addition of UV disinfection to the water treatment process allows Appleton to cost effectively protect public health for many years to come.
If you have any questions regarding this project please contact:
Chris Shaw, Director of Utilities at 920-832-5945 or email@example.com

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Quickstart: Create an Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Single Server using the Azure CLI
Consider using the simpler az postgres up Azure CLI command (currently in preview). Try out the quickstart.
Azure Database for PostgreSQL is a managed service that enables you to run, manage, and scale highly available PostgreSQL databases in the cloud. The Azure CLI is used to create and manage Azure resources from the command line or in scripts. This quickstart shows you how to create an Azure Database for PostgreSQL server in an Azure resource group using the Azure CLI.
If you don't have an Azure subscription, create a free account before you begin.
Use Azure Cloud Shell
Azure hosts Azure Cloud Shell, an interactive shell environment that you can use through your browser. You can use either Bash or PowerShell with Cloud Shell to work with Azure services. You can use the Cloud Shell preinstalled commands to run the code in this article without having to install anything on your local environment.
To start Azure Cloud Shell:
|Select Try It in the upper-right corner of a code block. Selecting Try It doesn't automatically copy the code to Cloud Shell.
|Go to https://shell.azure.com, or select the Launch Cloud Shell button to open Cloud Shell in your browser.
|Select the Cloud Shell button on the menu bar at the upper right in the Azure portal.
To run the code in this article in Azure Cloud Shell:
Start Cloud Shell.
Select the Copy button on a code block to copy the code.
Paste the code into the Cloud Shell session by selecting Ctrl+Shift+V on Windows and Linux or by selecting Cmd+Shift+V on macOS.
Select Enter to run the code.
If you choose to install and use the CLI locally, this article requires that you are running the Azure CLI version 2.0 or later. To see the version installed, run the
az --version command. If you need to install or upgrade, see Install Azure CLI.
If you are running the CLI locally, you need to sign in to your account using the az login command. Note the ID property from the command output for the corresponding subscription name.
az login
If you have multiple subscriptions, choose the appropriate subscription in which the resource should be billed. Select the specific subscription ID under your account using az account set command. Substitute the ID property from the az login output for your subscription into the subscription ID placeholder.
az account set --subscription <subscription id>
Create a resource group
Create an Azure resource group using the az group create command. A resource group is a logical container into which Azure resources are deployed and managed as a group. You should provide a unique name. The following example creates a resource group named
myresourcegroup in the
westus location.
az group create --name myresourcegroup --location westus
Create an Azure Database for PostgreSQL server
Create an Azure Database for PostgreSQL server using the az postgres server create command. A server can contain multiple databases.
|Sample value
|Choose a unique name that identifies your Azure Database for PostgreSQL server. The server name can contain only lowercase letters, numbers, and the hyphen (-) character. It must contain from 3 to 63 characters.
|Provide the name of the Azure resource group.
|The name of the sku. Follows the convention {pricing tier}_{compute generation}_{vCores} in shorthand. See below this table for more information about the sku-name parameter.
|How long a backup should be retained. Unit is days. Range is 7-35.
|Whether geo-redundant backups should be enabled for this server or not. Allowed values: Enabled, Disabled.
|The Azure location for the server.
|Whether ssl should be enabled or not for this server. Allowed values: Enabled, Disabled.
|The storage capacity of the server (unit is megabytes). Valid storage-size is minimum 5120MB and increases in 1024MB increments. See the pricing tiers document for more information about storage size limits.
|The PostgreSQL major version.
|The username for the administrator login. It cannot be azure_superuser, admin, administrator, root, guest, or public.
|secure password
|The password of the administrator user. It must contain between 8 and 128 characters. Your password must contain characters from three of the following categories: English uppercase letters, English lowercase letters, numbers, and non-alphanumeric characters.
The sku-name parameter value follows the convention {pricing tier}_{compute generation}_{vCores} as in the examples below:
--sku-name B_Gen5_1maps to Basic, Gen 5, and 1 vCore. This option is the smallest SKU available.
--sku-name GP_Gen5_32maps to General Purpose, Gen 5, and 32 vCores.
--sku-name MO_Gen5_2maps to Memory Optimized, Gen 5, and 2 vCores.
Please see the pricing tiers documentation to understand the valid values per region and per tier.
The following example creates a PostgreSQL 9.6 server in West US named
mydemoserver in your resource group
myresourcegroup with server admin login
myadmin. This is a Gen 4 General Purpose server with 2 vCores. Substitute the
<server_admin_password> with your own value.
az postgres server create --resource-group myresourcegroup --name mydemoserver --location westus --admin-user myadmin --admin-password <server_admin_password> --sku-name GP_Gen4_2 --version 9.6
Consider using the Basic pricing tier if light compute and I/O are adequate for your workload. Note that servers created in the Basic pricing tier cannot later be scaled to General Purpose or Memory Optimized. See the pricing page for more information.
Configure a server-level firewall rule
Create an Azure PostgreSQL server-level firewall rule with the az postgres server firewall-rule create command. A server-level firewall rule allows an external application, such as psql or PgAdmin to connect to your server through the Azure PostgreSQL service firewall.
You can set a firewall rule that covers an IP range to be able to connect from your network. The following example uses az postgres server firewall-rule create to create a firewall rule
AllowMyIP for a single IP address.
az postgres server firewall-rule create --resource-group myresourcegroup --server mydemoserver --name AllowMyIP --start-ip-address 192.168.0.1 --end-ip-address 192.168.0.1
Azure PostgreSQL server communicates over port 5432. When connecting from within a corporate network, outbound traffic over port 5432 may not be allowed by your network's firewall. Have your IT department open port 5432 to connect to your Azure PostgreSQL server.
Get the connection information
To connect to your server, you need to provide host information and access credentials.
az postgres server show --resource-group myresourcegroup --name mydemoserver
The result is in JSON format. Make a note of the administratorLogin and fullyQualifiedDomainName.
"administratorLogin": "myadmin",
"earliestRestoreDate": null,
"fullyQualifiedDomainName": "mydemoserver.postgres.database.azure.com",
"id": "/subscriptions/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000/resourceGroups/myresourcegroup/providers/Microsoft.DBforPostgreSQL/servers/mydemoserver",
"location": "westus",
"name": "mydemoserver",
"resourceGroup": "myresourcegroup",
"sku": {
"capacity": 2,
"family": "Gen5",
"name": "GP_Gen5_2",
"size": null,
"tier": "GeneralPurpose"
"sslEnforcement": "Enabled",
"storageProfile": {
"backupRetentionDays": 7,
"geoRedundantBackup": "Disabled",
"storageMb": 5120
"tags": null,
"type": "Microsoft.DBforPostgreSQL/servers",
"userVisibleState": "Ready",
"version": "9.6"
Connect to PostgreSQL database using psql
If your client computer has PostgreSQL installed, you can use a local instance of psql to connect to an Azure PostgreSQL server. Let's now use the psql command-line utility to connect to the Azure PostgreSQL server.
Run the following psql command to connect to an Azure Database for PostgreSQL server
psql --host=<servername> --port=<port> --username=<user@servername> --dbname=<dbname>
For example, the following command connects to the default database called postgres on your PostgreSQL server mydemoserver.postgres.database.azure.com using access credentials. Enter the
<server_admin_password>you chose when prompted for password.
psql --host=mydemoserver.postgres.database.azure.com --port=5432 --username=myadmin@mydemoserver --dbname=postgres
If you prefer to use a URL path to connect to Postgres, URL encode the @ sign in the username with
%40. For example the connection string for psql would be,
psql postgresql://firstname.lastname@example.com:5432/postgres
Once you are connected to the server, create a blank database at the prompt.
CREATE DATABASE mypgsqldb;
At the prompt, execute the following command to switch connection to the newly created database mypgsqldb:
\c mypgsqldb
Connect to the PostgreSQL Server using pgAdmin
pgAdmin is an open-source tool used with PostgreSQL. You can install pgAdmin from the pgAdmin website. The pgAdmin version you're using may be different from what is used in this Quickstart. Read the pgAdmin documentation if you need additional guidance.
Open the pgAdmin application on your client computer.
From the toolbar go to Object, hover over Create, and select Server.
In the Create - Server dialog box, on the General tab, enter a unique friendly name for the server, such as mydemoserver.
In the Create - Server dialog box, on the Connection tab, fill in the settings table.
pgAdmin parameter Value Description Host name/address Server name The server name value that you used when you created the Azure Database for PostgreSQL server earlier. Our example server is mydemoserver.postgres.database.azure.com. Use the fully qualified domain name (*.postgres.database.azure.com) as shown in the example. If you don't remember your server name, follow the steps in the previous section to get the connection information. Port 5432 The port to use when you connect to the Azure Database for PostgreSQL server. Maintenance database postgres The default system-generated database name. Username Server admin login name The server admin login username that you supplied when you created the Azure Database for PostgreSQL server earlier. If you don't remember the username, follow the steps in the previous section to get the connection information. The format is username@servername. Password Your admin password The password you chose when you created the server earlier in this Quickstart. Role Leave blank There's no need to provide a role name at this point. Leave the field blank. SSL mode Require You can set the SSL mode in pgAdmin's SSL tab. By default, all Azure Database for PostgreSQL servers are created with SSL enforcing turned on. To turn off SSL enforcing, see SSL Enforcing.
Select Save.
In the Browser pane on the left, expand the Servers node. Select your server, for example, mydemoserver. Click to connect to it.
Expand the server node, and then expand Databases under it. The list should include your existing postgres database and any other databases you've created. You can create multiple databases per server with Azure Database for PostgreSQL.
Right-click Databases, choose the Create menu, and then select Database.
Type a database name of your choice in the Database field, such as mypgsqldb2.
Select the Owner for the database from the list box. Choose your server admin login name, such as the example, my admin.
Select Save to create a new blank database.
In the Browser pane, you can see the database that you created in the list of databases under your server name.
Clean up resources
Clean up all resources you created in the quickstart by deleting the Azure resource group.
Other quickstarts in this collection build upon this quickstart. If you plan to continue to work with subsequent quickstarts, do not clean up the resources created in this quickstart. If you do not plan to continue, use the following steps to delete all resources created by this quickstart in the Azure CLI.
az group delete --name myresourcegroup
If you would just like to delete the one newly created server, you can run az postgres server delete command.
az postgres server delete --resource-group myresourcegroup --name mydemoserver
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I am a sucker for Christmas. I love decorating the tree, filling my children's Advent calendar, wrapping presents, baking cookies, watching Christmas specials on television, hosting holiday parties, and making and sending my annual Christmas card.
But there is another reason I love Christmas that has little to do with my personal traditions. I love it because during this season iconic Christmas characters (like Santa, Rudolph, and Frosty) as well as pundits, preachers, and journalists engage in some surprisingly frank discussions of work, capitalism, and the working class.
Let us start with Bass/Rankin classic, Rudolph, the Red Nosed Reindeer, which first aired in 1964. Some have argued that it is an allegory for the Cold War, with the Bumble representing the Soviet Union, who is tamed by the ultimate American Yukon Cornelius. Others have argued that Rudolph represents the "Red Scare," which is interesting, because Burl Ives (the show's narrator, Sam the Snowman), was blacklisted in 1950 in the anti-communist smear pamphlet Red Channels. Unfortunately, Burl Ives cooperated with the House UnAmerican Activities Committee (HUAC) when he told them that he used to attend union meetings with Pete Seeger in order to "stay in touch with working folk."
My recent viewing of the Christmas classic suggests a slightly different take. The elves in Rudolph are apparently happy on the job. They sing: "We work hard all day/But our work is play." Hmmmmm. This is the essential myth of the Christmas elf, right? Making Christmas toys is work, but the work is play.
On the other hand, not everyone who wants to work is allowed to work in Rudolph's world. Rudolph, the Red Nosed Reindeer is a story about workplace discrimination. Hermey the elf, played with what we now interpret as a "gay" voice, doesn't fit in with the other toy-making elves. Is he discriminated against for being gay? Or because wants to be a dentist? In his signature song he says, "You can't fire me, I quit." Rudolph is similarly cheated out of a chance to work for Santa, and all because of his shiny red nose.
Workplace discrimination in Rudolph has a gendered component as well. Rudolph's mother and his girlfriend Clarice are told by Donner and Santa that looking for Rudolph is "man's work." The misfit toys are also deprived of a chance to serve as joy filled bundles on Christmas morning because they have manufacturing defects. Rudolph, Hermey, and Yukon Cornelius rescue the misfit toys by convincing Santa to give them as gifts. Even the Bumble is simply an underutilized employee. When Yukon Cornelius tames the Bumble he explains: "I've reformed the Bumble. He wants a job! Look what he can do!" At the sound of these magic words the Bumble tops the Christmas tree with a star. Indeed, conflicts over imports and fair trade (the embargo on toy imports in Santa Claus is Coming to Town), work stoppages (Santa's "sickout" in The Year Without a Santa Claus), and working conditions (the life of a clockmaker in The Night Before Christmas) are at or near the center of almost every one of the Bass/Rankin holiday productions.
And how about Dicken's A Christmas Carol? If ever there was a workplace holiday tale, this is it. Scrooge is a miser who nearly drives his clerk's family to the poor house. My favorite adaptation of the tale, Scrooged [1988] starring Bill Murray, hits all the right working-class themes. Murray plays a television executive who fires one of his employees, Eliot Loudermilk, in the first scene. Loudermilk goes on to become homeless and comes back to terrorize Murray's Christmas Carol production with a shot gun. The character of Bob Cratchit is transformed into the character "Grace Cooley," Murray's executive secretary. The awesome African American actress Alfe Woodward plays Grace as a single mother who brilliantly makes up for her boss's shortcomings.
In recent months the character of Scrooge has been called upon to describe the "1%" who control much of the wealth in the US, as identified by the Occupy Wall Street movement. When Jay-Z marketed OWS t-shirts but declined to share any those profits with the movement, a group of artsy jokesters made a statue of Jay-Z in the form of Ebenezer Scrooge.
After Scrooge, The Grinch Who Stole Christmas is most often associated with the figure of the miserly malcontent. Just last month President Obama told a rally in Ohio that he hoped Congress would extend the payroll tax rather than play the role of "Grinch." Shockingly, the now extremely beloved original animated version of Dr. Suess's popular children's book, animated by Chuck Jones, was turned down in 1966 by 25 potential television sponsors. Jones remembers that even he was surprised when the show was finally sponsored by the Foundation for Commercial Banks. Jones speculates that the bankers must have missed the moment when the Grinch realizes that "perhaps Christmas doesn't come from a store."
Each of these Christmas stories highlights the plight of the downtrodden, the outsider, or the misfit, what Jones called the "slave" or the "reindeer dog" in the Grinch tale. But how far does that critique extend? While Scrooge and the Grinch eventually realize that the "true meaning" of Christmas cannot be bought, when these tales are rebroadcast on television they are sandwiched between dozens of commercials for cars, cell phones, diamonds, slippers, gloves, and video games. Linus may end The Charlie Brown Christmas Special with a passage from the Bible describing the angel telling the shepherds about Jesus's birth, but you can buy the Deluxe Peanuts Christmas Holiday Specials at Costco right now for under $30.00. I did last month.
In the end, though, the icons of Christmas are highly plastic and can be easily mutated to call for social change. In Denver this month Occupiers were invited to participate in an "Elf Revolt." The facebook page Occupy Christmas has been active since early November. References to Christmas elves on strike, Scrooge, and the Grinch abound in humor blogs and labor coverage during the holiday season.
And, as much as Fox News broadcasters worry about the "war on Christmas," the rest of us know that the real war on US soil is being waged by the super rich on the working and middle classes. And we know that on December 26th it is back to work for those of us who still dream of a merrier, more equal society that could bring us glad tidings and figgy pudding 365 days a year.
Kathy M. Newman


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How to Find Your Birth Parents
Adoptions come in all shapes and sizes. Some people are adopted at birth while others adopted when they're a teenager. Some people grow up knowing they're adopted while some aren't told until they're older. While a percentage of people don't have any interest in meeting their birth parents, many do. Just as there are many different types of adoptions, many different paths exist that people can take in order to find their birth parents. Here's a guide to finding your birth parents no matter where they may be.
Look for non-identifying information
No matter how you were adopted, you usually have the right to non-identifying information about your birth parents. This information generally can't be used to find your parents, but it does have some overarching information. The extent of non-identifying information differs from state to state, however, and you may need to file a court order or register with the state in order to access the information. The information often includes a physical description, details such as age, hair color, eye color, height, and build, and may include race, religion, and occupation. It may even give information such as the city or state of your birth and the reason your biological parents placed you for adoption.
However, this information is intentionally put together in a way that you can't find your birth parents by using it. For example, if you're given your birthplace, you may only be given the state, if your birth city only has one hospital. If you want to get more than that, you'll have to look deeper.
Ask your parents
While it doesn't always happen, sometimes your adopted parents will have had communication with your birth parents at some point. They may have been given more information that could be used to identify your birth parents, or your birth parents may have even given them some specific information to give you. Regardless of whether your adopted parents actually have that information, they may be able to help further your search.
Try to get your original birth certificate
If you can't go through informal routes, you may be able to find your parents through official means. One of those routes is via your original birth certificate. If you were adopted through a closed adoption, you were given a new adoption certificate once the adoption was finalized, which means that your biological parents won't be on your normal birth certificate.
As adoptions are becoming more normalized, it's becoming less and less common for states to require a court order to access your original birth certificate once you turn 18. That means that you may just be able to go to the court and file a request for your birth certificate if you're of age. If not, you may want to call the clerk in the county in which you were adopted, who may be able to help you find your birth certificate.
Getting in contact with your birth parents
Even if you've exhausted all your other options, don't give up. Even just having the names of your birth parents is a good start if you use the right resources. As a premiere online people search, PeopleFinders can be of great assistance. If you have their full names, you can use the people search feature to find contact information. Even if you only have something such as an out-of-date phone number, the reverse phone lookup may be able to help you find up-to-date contact information.
No matter what you have to go through in order to find your birth parents, it's worth it, even if you only get to talk to them once to get some closure. It may help clear up some questions you have about the circumstances of your adoption, and you may be able to ask them about important things such as medical problems that may run in the family. If you're having a hard time getting contact information for your birth parents, PeopleFinders may be able to help. As adoptions become less stigmatized, it should become easier in the future, but for now, you can use this guide to find and contact your birth parents.Tags: Adoption, Birth Records, Find People, PeopleFinders
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FLE – Ottumwa, Iowa – thebridge
I had a BLAST teaching in Ottumwa, Iowa on Wednesday. It was a terrific day.
The day started by meeting up with the pastor of thebridge, Marty Schmidt and his bride, Jenny.
After lunch, I was able to train SIX new financial counselors through the Financial Counseling Experience. Training financial counselors is one of my favorite things to do! It means that this crusade will carry on long after the event has taken place.
On Wednesday evening, the Financial Learning Experience kicked off. Lives were changed.
I can't believe I get to do this for a living!
Thanks so much to the volunteers and staff of thebridge church in Ottumwa, Iowa for making it a GREAT event!
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Thanks for coming to ottumwa Joe it was a great evening, and for me personally life changing. thanks again.


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Lightning: That time was lost; yet time continued onward. Divine Etro. Go peacefully to your rest. I will stand guard over your legacy.
Ligthning: (prior the battle with Chaos Bahamut) Forgotten time, be reborn!
Lightning: My hopes go with you, Noel Kreiss. Become an arrow through time, and speed your way to Serah. Be there for her...because I no longer can.
Lightning: Time flows without pause. In a world where I no longer exist, the future is about to change.
Noel: Okay, take it easy, big guy. I am not here to make trouble for anyone.
Gadot: You better not. Anything happens to Serah and the boss'll string your carcass out to dry.
Noel: (Live Trigger) Gadot seems concerned for Serah's safety. How should Noel respond to Gadot's distrust? (Live Trigger response - This boss sounds like a bully!) Sounds like a tool. I can deal with him.
Gadot: Huh!? Who d'ya think you are!? (runs off) Hut, two, three, four! Hut, two, three, four!
Noel: (Live Trigger response - I'll be sure to pass that on to Snow!) You're holding things together here. I'll be sure to let Snow know.
Gadot: Huh!? How do you know about our boss!? (runs off)
Noel: I've got a question for you. Who's this Snow person? A boyfriend?
Serah: (Live Trigger) Noel's asking about Snow. How should I answer him? (Live Trigger response - He's like this really cool guy!) He's just this super cool guy, you know? He doesn't care about the way he looks, but that just makes him so much cooler.
Noel: Oh, huh. That's great, I guess. Maybe we should—
Serah: And he's not just kind, he's reliable too. He always means what he says, and you can totally trust his word. I-mean-he's-my-hero-oh-and-I-know-you're-thinking-no-one's perfect-I-know-he-has-his-flaws-and-sometimes-he-makes-me-so-mad-but-I-love-that-about-him-too-no-other-guy... can-compare-to-my-hero.
Noel: I get it, can we just get back to—
Serah: He-has-this-amazing-body-and-his-face-is-so-handsome-he's-tall-and-broad-and-makes-me-feel-so-safe! Oh, and even though he's big and tough, he can be so adorable. That's my Snow. You done asking?
Noel: I'm done, yeah. Thanks for all the detail.
Serah: I'm ready to go. It's not a dream, or a lie. I know my sister is alive out there.
Lightning: People always say the future will be better. They believe the hardships of the present fade with the passage of time. And so we hope, waiting for a future brighter than today. But Serah, remember this... As you walk towards a brighter tomorrow, you have to look back to your past.
—Lightning, narrating when Serah and Noel first visit the Yaschas Massif
Lightning: (on the Oracle Drive, events from the ending of Final Fantasy XIII) Serah, I'm sorry.
Snow: 'Ey, 'ey, 'ey, the apologies can wait! We've got a wedding to plan, right?
Hope: Snow, you don't mess around, do you?
Snow: Come on.
Sazh: Kid doesn't miss a beat.
Snow: Whaddaya say? Lightning, I swear to you! I will make her happy!
Lightning: I believe you.
Serah: (narrating) My memories... They're real, aren't they?
Caius: If you change the future, you change the past.
Mog: Kupo!?
Serah: It keeps changing?
Caius: Change is the constant.
Each reunion is a twist of the knife. The joy is ephemeral; it leaves fear in its wake. A fear that all too soon the time will come when you must bid farewell again.
—Lightning, narrating when Serah and Noel first visit the Sunleth Waterscape
Noel: Listen. Hotheads who can't back down don't last long on this planet.
Snow: Maybe. But sometimes, you've gotta make a stand.
Noel: You're not listening to me. Humans aren't strong. They die easy.
Noel: Can you check that out? Over there?
Mog: No. It's too far for me, kupo.
Snow: Okay. I'll throw you closer.
Mog: Kupokupo!?
Noel: Good idea. We can broaden our search radius.
Mog: Serah, please! Save Mog, kupo!
Serah: Good luck.
Serah: (narrating) Hope told us that he invented a machine called a time capsule. That's how they got here. Back in 13 AF, Hope devised a plan to build an artificial fal'Cie. It was called the Proto fal'Cie Project. He wanted to use the new technology to re-levitate Cocoon. But then, one day, Hope saw a certain prophecy in the Oracle Drive...
Hope: So I activated the Oracle Drive and watched the prophecy. I saw you fighting the Proto fal'Cie. And I saw you screaming out at me. (imitates Serah's voice) 'Your machines are driving me nuts!'
Noel: Monsters don't kill people; people kill people. Does that sound about right?
Mog: (chuckles darkly) Truer words were never spoken, kupo. People are much more scary than monsters, kupo! We risked our lives to solve the case, kupo, and how does the government pay us? Not with gil, but bits and bobs and household goods, kupo! No one needs ten years worth of toilet paper, kupo! No one! I had no choice but to decline their offer. The government is evil, kupo! Humans are evil, kupo! (Fragment Discovered! Kalavinka Fragment You obtain 4500 CP! ... Item Acquired! You obtain a Toilet Paper Coupon!)
Noel: Do you think this will make Yeul happy?
Caius: Which Yeul are you talking about? I've known and protected hundreds of Yeuls. Though they had the same soul, every one of them was unique! A Yeul who dreamed of travel! A Yeul who loved to sing! A Yeul who collected flowers. They all died. All of them before my eyes!
Caius: He who can change time, must choose between those who die, and those who live. You must bear the burden. Of the eternal paradox!
Noel: If you change the future, you change the past. The effects ripple outwards, up and down the timeline. The seeress is forced to see it all.
Historia Crux Narrator: (if Valhalla -Year Unknown- is selected) Time flows in circles. Until all possibilities have been tested, it will remain locked in this arc for all eternity. Here, a moment in history endlessly repeats itself. Perhaps the same tale has been acted out in the same place at the same time for eons beyond counting, but such knowledge will never be the province of mankind. Only the goddess atop her throne in the timeless realm of Valhalla can see the span of history in its entirety. But now her temple lies dormant, and the bells ring a funeral dirge. The battle to decide the fate of the world begins once again...
Mog: We're going to serve up a dish of poison flan to his royal highness. Fight flan with flan, as the say! It's a flawless plan, kupo!
Noel: (in the form of a microchu) Hey, what's taking so long? Where's that wonder honey? We also need some hoax herb and exquisite sugar, you know. And don't forget the rotten cheese!
Mog: Why do I have to do all the work, kupo? Noel, you're going to be the first to get a taste of my poison flan, kupo!


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Earlier this month Rain Man set fire to the internet with news that he was launching his solo career with a series of shows starting March 29th in Miami. Now, he's popping the lid off the first Rain Man track; "Visionary Ft. Sirah."
Out today on Buygore, "Visionary" is all sorts of hard and abrasive that his fans have been hoping for. Sick breakdowns and twisted dancehall grind underneath Sirah'spowerful, reflective vocals.
"The lyrics for visionary are super dark. Basically I'm talking about the decision every artist needs to make, where you either stay true to what you believe in or you bend your art to fit in a lane. I make my own lane," Sirah says.
Rain Man kicks off his tour in Miami with a slot on the Buygore Pool Party (March 29) with additional stops at Chicago's The Mid (April 10), New York City's Webster Hall(April 11) and Los Angeles' Avalon (April 17).
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Contact the Board
Communicating with the Board
Any shareowner who wishes to communicate directly with a member of our Board of Directors or with our non-management directors as a group may do so by writing to UPS, c/o Corporate Secretary, 55 Glenlake Parkway, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia 30328. Please specify to whom your letter should be directed.
Once the corporate secretary reviews the communication, it will be forwarded promptly to the addressee. Communications that comprise advertisements, solicitations for business, requests for employment, requests for contributions or other inappropriate material will not be forwarded.


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Mutants: Genetic Gladiators Guide
Mutants: Genetic Gladiators is a cool breeding game that lets you discover and breed different types of mutants using a specific gene.
Each mutant has their own strength and weaknesses depend on the genes they have.
There are primarily 6 types of genes that you can use, but only 3 will be available at first. They are Saber, Necro, Cyber, Zoomorph, Galactic and Mythic. There is a chain effect that works like this:
Saber beats Necro and Mythic but is weak against Cyber and Zoomorph.
Necro beats Cyber and Galactic but is weak against Saber and Mythic.
Cyber beats Saber and Zoomorph but is weak against Necro and Galactic.
Each mutant can have either the same genes or is paired with another gene. You can then work out different strategies and figure out how to build your team.
You can breed all the different genes and get all sorts of different mutants from it. If you like the undead looking like creatures, then Necro is the way to go for you. If you like human looking creatures, Saber should be your choice. Cyber is primarily robots, giving you the futuristic mutant. Galactic are alien like creatures while mythic are more "mythology" type mutants. You can breed them and get a mix of 2 genes.
The benefit of having 2 genes allows you to have 2 different genetic attacks, allowing you more flexibility when fighting in campaign and PvP mode. Double similar genes is good in the sense that you do get an area of effect(AoE) attack, making it useful to fight up to 3 mutants at once.
It all comes down to preference on what you like the most. If you like AoE attacks, then you will like the double similar gene mutants. If you enjoy a variety of attacks, then a mixed gene mutant will suit you better.
Whatever your choice may be, you have the flexibility to adjust your PvP and campaign team to have a better chance of defeating your enemies.
PvP Tournament
Every 14 days, there will be a PvP tournament which you can participate and win some cool prizes. The most lucrative prize you can win is the Gold Star. What that does is it allows you to breed a really strong mutant.
Bronze Star – Breed 2 level 10 mutants with this and it will get you a bronze version mutant which is 10% stronger.
Silver Star – Breed 2 level 15 bronze mutants and net you a silver version which is 30% stronger.
Gold Star – Nets you a 75% stronger mutant when you breed 2 level 20 silver mutants.
As you can see, your goal is to get the gold mutant and be the strongest of them all!
If you need a more detailed guide, please check out Mutants: Genetic Gladiators breeding guide [http://www.mutantsgeneticgladiators.com/mutants-genetic-gladiators-breeding-guide/].
Article Source: https://EzineArticles.com/expert/Kenny_Leng/1120244
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A number of archbishops signed a letter urging him to act against "unrepented sexual immorality" in the Church.
It was published hours after Dr Rowan Williams called for reconciliation in a speech to the General Synod in London.
Dr Williams had warned against tensions in the Church over homosexuality and the ordination of women priests.
The Times newspaper reported that the opposition came from 14 "Global South" primates headed by the ultra-conservative Nigerian archbishop, Dr Peter Akinola.
There are 38 primates in the Anglican Communion.
The letter, published on the Global South Anglican website on Wednesday night, urged Dr Williams to rethink his personal liberal views on homosexuality.
The letter said his "personal dissent" from the consensus of the wider Church that "same-sex sex is unacceptable" had stopped him from taking necessary steps to confront the US and Canadian churches.
The archbishops wrote: "The essence of libertinism is the severing of the grace of Christ from His moral commandments", it said.
They said they believed this "was at the heart of our present divisions".
Gay partnerships
They also said they were troubled by Dr William's reluctance to challenge the US Episcopal Church and the Canadian Anglican Church to call for the cessation of ordinations of active homosexuals and of same-sex blessings.
The archbishops demanded he should issue these churches with a warning and threaten them with exclusion from the bishops' 10-yearly gathering, the 2008 Lambeth Conference, the Times reported.
The letter also said the Church of England should have sought exemption from the Civil Partnership Act, which comes into force next month and will allow gay couples to legally register their relationships.
Dr Williams had told synod members they should beware of "poisoning the wells" and should conduct their debates without hostility.
He had urged opponents in the gay debate to communicate and pray with each other to resolve divisions.
Lambeth Palace spokesman Reverend Jonathan Jennings said: "The Archbishop of Canterbury has made it clear since before his enthronement that neither he nor anyone else has any mandate to change the church's teaching by fiat.
"He is committed to the process to which all the primates committed themselves and their provinces in the response to the Windsor Report and contained in the Dromantine communiqué.
"If this letter is a contribution to that process of debate, then it is to be welcomed, however robust.
"If it is an attempt to foreclose that debate it would seem to serve very little purpose indeed."


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Photos by: Carlton Hart
Target: Top
Gap: Jeans
Shoemint: Booties
H&M: Jacket
NYS Collection: Sunnies
Mirina Collection: Necklace
MAC Cosmetics: Lip Color
Hello Happy Thursday! I hope your having an amazing weeks so far! Take a look at my look in a all jean with blue blazer paired with Black and White Booties adding my bling to my look with my silver sunnies and necklace!!!
What do you think?


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Freight shipping from Minnesota to Oklahoma is easier than ever with FreightCenter. Our simple quoting and booking process will enable you to get instant freight rates from all the top shipping companies and start booking your freight shipments in a few short minutes. FreightCenter makes it affordable to ship freight from Minnesota to Oklahoma by LTL, Truckload, Rail, or Intermodal with our guaranteed competitive freight rates.
Minnesota is a northern Midwest state the borders the Great Lakes and also Canada. The Twin Cities area of Minneapolis and St. Paul is the center of population and transportation. Most of Minnesota consists of flat prairies, but there are forests in the northernmost regions. The state produces lumber, agricultural products, and a wide range of manufactured goods. Minnesota freight shipping is accomplished in a variety of ways, including road, rail, and water transport. Although the state has an active shipping system, Minnesota freight rates can be quite expensive due to the relative remoteness of the state. LTL freight shipping is especially expensive due to the lack of volume of goods moving through the state.
Oklahoma is a Great Plains state known for its severe weather. The terrain is largely flat and used for agriculture, drilling, and mining. Oklahoma is also home to a thriving aerospace and biotechnical industry. Surprisingly, Tulsa is home to an inland seaport that offers international freight shipping options. As the center of highway travel in the United States, Oklahoma shipping by truck is quite affordable. Several railroads also operate in the state, Oklahoma freight is an important part of the local economy. High volume of goods moving in, out, and through the state means LTL freight rates are affordable and easy to find for Oklahoma shipping.


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Thinking About Women Equipping Women?
Welcome to Women Equipping Women!
All of our leaders come from varied backgrounds and upbringings. Some of us grew up in strong Christian homes and some of us grew up in horribly broken families. Graciously, God has stepped into each of our lives at some point and saved us from our sin. By no merit of our own, we stand today as children of the living God. Ephesians 2:8-9
Many leaders have been in the faith for a long time yet not all of that time was particularly fruitful or marked by spiritual growth. In fact, some of us have periods in our walk with the Lord where our spiritual growth was stagnant or non-existent. And it showed.
Today, by the grace and long suffering of our God, our relationships with Jesus Christ are flourishing, growing and fruitful. We battle our sinful flesh everyday but we are growing. We are purposing everyday to live lives that glorify God. Having been discipled in the foundational disciplines of the Christian faith, we very much want to share that with the women of the Creek.
In this class, we learn about disciplines of the christian faith and then are held accountable for what we have learned. We are held accountable for "practicing" the faith we learn about. That word accountability can be intimidating. The leaders view that word as an opportunity for growth, encouragement and learning. This is what we aim to do as leaders - spur you on towards growth in the knowledge and practice of your faith.
So as you consider taking the class, consider this: look behind you. Look back at the last few years of your life. How does it look?
Is your faith growing in knowledge and practice?
How is your faith impacting your family, your work, your neighbors, or anyone? James 1:22-23
Do you generously give of your money back to God from where it came?
2 Cor 8:3-5
Have you ever shared your faith in Christ with others?
Matthew 28:18-29, 1 Peter 2:9
When was the last time you studied the bible and prayed?
Matthew 4:4, John 17:17, Phil 4:4-7, 1 Thess 5:17.
Tough questions for sure. Perhaps a more basic question than those above is why obey the commands of scripture at all? Read our thoughts to this question here.
Still not sure? Take a look at these two short articles:
How Do I Know
We admit there are expectations and commitments associated with joining this class. Any time we need to give up our selfish desires in order to add what God asks of us, there is struggle. This is the war against the flesh. That is what makes the class hard.
Our recommendation would be to start where you are and take it one day at a time. We are committed to helping you get there if you truly want to grow in your faith.
We can also tell you pursuing spiritual growth will be worth it.
To learn more about Women Equipping Women click here.
1 Timothy 4: 7 "... discipline yourself for the purpose of godliness;"
For more information contact Rhonda Clark at email@example.com
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"To take what there is, and use it, without waiting
forever in vain for the preconceived- to dig deep
into the actual and get something out of that-
this doubtless is the right way to live."
-Henry James
We have come around on our third autumn here at Soul Flower Farm. As we transition from one season to the next, we are beginning to observe the familiar cycles and traditions unique to each time of the year, a familiarity that can only happen when you put your roots down, dig in and stay in a place for a while, really getting to know the land and learning to know yourself as part of that place.
If I had to describe this time of year in one word it would be GATHER. We have been collecting and preserving all the harvest for cold rainy days to come, as well as, gathering materials we will need for the animals, garden, and ourselves.
For me, certain sights and events will always mark the presence of this autumnal season; the magnificent piles of bright orange pumpkins, stacks and stacks of hay bales, the sweetness of persimmons and the huge fat wild turkeys prancing about.
Right now we are planting lots of garlic, getting the last of the greens in the ground, tidying up in preparation for the rains, and generally turning inward for self reflection. Having family time, getting cozy by the fire in the early evenings, and enjoying many new good books are all part of this season's goodness.
A few current favorite reads in our house...
The Dirty Life, By Kristin Kimball
The Small-Scale Poultry Flock, By Harvey Ussery
The Seasons on Henry's Farm, By Terra Brockman
The Beginner's Guide To Growing Heirloom Vegetables, By Marie Iannotti


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We have had a lot of great feedback about the notifications feature we launched last year, including a number of suggestions for improvement.
We're very happy to announce a completely new look for the notifications interface. As we continue to add new features, it's vital that we improve the user experience so that IT Glue is easy to use.
The redesign of the interface coincided with an update to incorporate notification filters. The ability to add filters means you can now create more granular notifications.
What's changing
There are three very exciting changes for the notifications feature that come with this update.
- Changes in the user experience - The notification feature has a completely redesigned interface to make it easier to use. Everything has been redesigned from scratch.
- New functionality - In addition to the redesigned interface, you now have the option of using filters.
There's a huge number of options to configure, including the option to configure notifications for specific documents or specific flexible asset types. This gives you more power to create defined workflows based on specific changes in your IT Glue data.
- Functionality changes - The other changes worth noting are around expiration-based notifications. We changed the functionality so that you now automatically get notified when things are added to your account that are within the lead time you set, not just at the lead time. That means your team will always get notified when something is approaching its expiration.
In addition, you'll have control over whether to notify about already expired assets. When the already expired option is turned off, if you set your lead time to 60 days, and then someone on your team adds an asset that expires in 30 days days and one that has already expired, only the asset that expires in 30 days will be notified on.
For help using the new interface and functionality, check out Quick guide for workflows (notifications).
As always, our team is excited to hear what you are doing with notifications. Feel free to visit our community to have more interactions with us and other partners. We'd love to see you there!


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What Are the Types of Oral Medications?
Updated December 16, 2014.
The most common way people take medications is orally (by mouth). Depending on what your doctor has prescribed, your oral medication can be swallowed, chewed or placed under your tongue to dissolve.
Medications that you swallow travel from your stomach or intestine into your bloodstream and then are carried to all parts of your body. This is known as absorption. The speed with which this occurs depends on several factors:
- The type of medication you are taking – e.g. liquid or tablet
- Whether you take your medication with food, after food or on an empty stomach
- The ability of your medication to pass into your bloodstream – some medications have a special coating and dissolve slowly in your stomach
- How your medication reacts with the acid conditions in your stomach
- Whether your medication interacts with other medications you are taking at the same time
If a quick effect is desired, your doctor may prescribe a medication that will dissolve in your mouth and rapidly enter your bloodstream.
Types of Oral Medications
Tablets and Capsules
In general, you should take tablets and capsules with water. For example, taking certain pills, such as Lipitor (Atorvastatin) and Viagra (Sildenafil), with grapefruit juice can cause potentially dangerous side effects. Additionally, milk can block the absorption of some antibiotics, such as Cipro (Ciprofloxacin).
Your healthcare provider or pharmacist will tell you if you should take your medication on an empty stomach or before or after eating.
This is very important since food in your stomach and intestine can interfere with your medication dissolving and passing into your bloodstream. Make sure to follow the directions on your prescription very carefully.
Additionally, do not break, crush, or chew any capsule or tablet before swallowing. Many medications are long-acting or have a special coating and are intended to be swallowed whole. If you are not sure, ask your pharmacist.
If you have trouble swallowing your medication, tell your doctor and pharmacist. They may be able to provide you with a liquid form of the medication or a pill that is smaller and easier to swallow.
Liquid medications are good for children and adults (especially older adults) who are not able to swallow tablets or capsules. Many liquid medications, including both prescription drugs and over-the-counter drugs, are made for children and are flavored to mask the taste of the medication.
Before measuring the proper dose of liquid medication, make sure to shake the bottle as some of the medication may have "settled" at the bottom.
Most often, you will be told to measure the medication using a teaspoon. To a doctor and pharmacist, this means 5 ml (milliliters) of medication. Many household teaspoons are different sizes and hold more or less than 5 ml. Therefore, you might get too much or too little medication on your spoon.
Measure your liquid medication carefully! Ask your pharmacist for a spoon, medicine cup, medicine dropper, or a syringe without a needle meant specifically for measuring medications. Your pharmacist can show you how to properly use these. Many over-the-counter liquid medications come with a small medicine cup attached to the top of the bottle.
If the medication has been prescribed for an infant or young child, make sure to speak with your pediatrician about the proper dosage, or amount, of liquid medication for your child.
Sublingual and Buccal Medications
Certain medications are placed under the tongue (sublingual) or between the teeth and the cheek (buccal). These medications are absorbed quickly into the bloodstream through the lining of the mouth and are used to relieve symptoms almost immediately.
Some examples of sublingual medications are Nitrostat and other nitroglycerin preparations used to treat angina (chest pain) and Suboxone (bupronorphine with naloxone) used to treat addiction to heroin and narcotic painkillers.
Other Forms of Oral Medications
Although most oral medications are swallowed, some are released in the mouth by chewing, dissolving slowly or melting on the tongue. Many of these medications are sold over-the-counter.
Chewable tablets should be chewed until they have dissolved completely. They are not meant to be swallowed. Examples of chewable tablets include Tylenol Chewable and many brands of children's vitamins.
Chewing gum medications have a minimum time that they must be chewed to assure that the entire amount of drug has been released, often up to 30 minutes. Examples of medicated chewing gums include Nicorette Gum (nicotine) and Aspergum (aspirin).
Lozenges are meant to be "sucked" on like hard candy and allowed to dissolve slowly in your mouth. They should not be swallowed. Examples of medicated lozenges include Commit (nicotine) and Cepacol (benzocaine).
Softchew® medications are meant to melt in your mouth or to be chewed. Examples of Softchew® medications are Triaminic Softchew Cold and Allergy Medication (chlorpheniramine and pseudoephedrine) and Rolaids Soft Chew (calcium carbonate).
A quick tip from Dr. Mike: Always read the instructions carefully and take your medications as recommended. If you have any doubts or concerns, contact your doctor or pharmacist.


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Making use of a small space
Make this nifty fold-out bar and cupboard for your outdoor living space.
Paint in your favourite Resene colours to complement your décor or accent it. Ideal for outdoor entertaining.
Make the most of this weekend with this easy step by step project idea from Resene. Find out how to create this quick and easy project yourself
Our sweet pea seeds send out, April issue and Get Growing
Dear neighbours and NZ Gardener family,
Our April issue should be with our subscribers now and available in supermarkets and service stations (having been distributed prior to the lockdown restrictions). Whether or not it's on the stands yet is a bit patchy ... but then the incredibly brave and hard-working supermarket staff have quite a bit on their plate right now so I understand if there is a delay! Please, please, please everyone ... don't go out to buy it! Normally of course we love you buying NZ Gardener but right now it's far more important that you stay home and stay safe. (You can buy a copy with your online shopping though! That's safe and I think we are all in the market for something uplifting to read right now).
In this issue we offered to send out sweet pea seeds to any reader who sent us a SSAE. Just to reassure you, we will still send out sweet pea seeds to any reader who is keen to participate. We are just not quite sure when! Ignore the dates in the magazine of when you needed to send the envelope in by - that has been indefinitely extended. But we cannot wait to send you the seed and for those flowers to bloom as by then we will be well through this or even have it behind us. And keep letting us know what you are sowing and growing, send in pictures of your harvest, your flowers or what you are sharing.
We always love hearing from NZ Gardener readers but now when we are all staying apart that connection means more than you can imagine. Stay home, stay safe and stay in touch everyone. For the most updated gardening advice, subscribe to our digital e-zine Get Growing, which will be delivered to your inbox completely free.
Providing knitting wool is an essential service
Maree Buscke knew knitting was essential, but she wasn't sure the government would.
It did, and she's delighted.
At-Home Fire Safety Checklist
With everyone staying home, it's now more important than ever for everyone to be fire-safe. People can find information on our website - fireandemergency.nz...
We're heading into winter, and with households self-isolating together, there'll be more cooking at home, and more use of open fires, heaters, and dryers - all things which can increase fire risk.
New Zealanders can be confident that Fire and Emergency is well-prepared and ready to respond to emergencies as usual during the nationwide self- isolation period.
Please call 111 if you have a fire, we will ask you whether anyone at the address is self-isolating or has a confirmed case of COVID-19. Where this is the case, we already have necessary measures in place to ensure everyone's safety including protective clothing, gloves, masks, safety glasses and mask.


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General Retention Schedules
General retention schedules are designed for record types that are common to many units of the university. An example is a departmental equipment purchase file.
University Archives is proud to announce the new Human Resources Records Retention Schedule! Please click on "Human Resources Records" below to view the revised retention schedule. This retention schedule replaces all previous human resources retention schedules. If you have any questions regarding the new schedule, please contact University Archives at firstname.lastname@example.com or 517-355-2330.
University Archives has created instructional video tutorials to assist the university with using the new records retention schedule. These videos are available here.
Fiscal records
Schedule Number: 102.98
Schedule Approved Date: General
Title: Fiscal Records—Departmental Originals
Disposition: FY + 6 years
Disposition Description: Cut off at end of the fiscal year. Maintain in office one year or until audit is complete, then files can be sent to archive for the remaining five years.
Functional Category: Fiscal
Description: These records are unique, original financial records retained in the creating department. They are not copies, nor are they copies of materials maintained by any other office on campus.
Offices: Any
Schedule Number: 104.98
Schedule Approved Date: General
Title: Fiscal Records—Departmental Copies
Disposition: FY + 2 years
Disposition Description: Retain in office of creation for the duration of the retention period, then destroy.
Functional Category: Fiscal
Description: These records are copies of documents retained for departmental use only, when the original was sent to the Controllers Office directly or submitted via Kuali Financial System.
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Hey there, and welcome to my cozy spot by the window. From here you can see all sorts of great insights into the lives and careers of women in science. It's a particularly great scene right now as I have invited all you wonderful science-inclined cats to come and join me to talk about our changing views of ourselves and of our careers. The occasion is the May Scientiae carnival, and there were lots of great submissions. In fact, I really want to take this chance to note that there seem to be lots of new women-in-STEM bloggers out there. We're creating a community, and it will help all of us. I'm so glad to see it seems to be growing at a faster rate, with all of the new bloggers I've seen since 2008 began!
I tried to include all of the submissions so if I forgot anyone, please leave me a comment. You'll definitely want to follow through on the links and read all of the great posts, so be sure to bookmark this page or the links so you can come back and read them when you have time!
As a suggested prompt, I asked about how our career goals have changed over the past year, 5 years, or 10 years, and how our views of ourselves have changed in that same time frame. I also asked about how where we are now is different from where we imagined, and what role things outside of science have had in our changing perspectives.
How do our career goals change over time?
If there was one thing that was constant for all of the respondents it would be that our goals and aspirations have changed over time. For some, interests and desires have changed considerably, while for others, small tweaks have been made as we learn more about our chosen career paths.
Jennie tries to get some perspective as she tells us about how she can question her career goals constantly, saying "So in answer to the first proposed question my career goals have changed over the course of a day." Later, she tells us more about her path to where she is now:
My long term goals have never been definite, I've just been cruising along going which ever direction my life takes me (re: question four, my husband has determined where I lived, am living and will live so that has shaped a lot of what I study/do). I enjoyed my undergraduate educational experience, my undergrad research project and my technician-type job at a government agency. I've wanted to be a scientist since I can remember. When I was in elementary school I wanted nothing more than to wear a white lab coat and make discoveries.
She's not alone. Maria at Green Gabbro gives us the "soap opera summary" of her path from burned out undergrad to young professional, back to grad school within a year and then thinking about leaving within the following year. Then she tells us how she came to learn that "clinging too stubbornly to long-term goals" doesn't work for her. She concludes, "Instead of planning for a long-term goal, I am planning for change."
Similarly, Rivikah tells us that she's not sure how she got from where she was 10 years ago to now, saying "most of the decisions along the way have been obvious ones." And Addy tells us that not having a plan has worked out pretty well for her. She shares:
Despite my lack of "a plan", things have turned out amazing well: I am happily married as we approach our 9th anniversary this summer, I have a happy, healthy eight-year-old daughter, and I have just gotten tenure. I really can't complain (not that I don't!).
And Silver Fox takes us through her journey over the past 10 years in her post "5 and 10: where has the time gone?" She tells of moving in and out of the mining exploration industry and of the other places her path crossed in between. She also isn't much of one for long-term goals, saying instead, "that some of my best ideas have been almost spur of the moment things, ideas that have ultimately taken me to places I never would have imagined – like being a field geologist."
*Wayward Elf takes us through the path of her own career, with her goals being a "moving target." She tells us of all of her different jobs, and how among them, her favorite was the video store:
I've had a paying job of one type or another since I was 14. I have never not worked. Sometimes I fantasize about it would be like to be unemployed or retired.
My favorite job, bar none, was at the video store. I loved that store. I liked the coworkers, I adored and respected my boss, I liked (most of) the regular customers. I loved that I was getting paid to stand around talking about movies, watching movies (free tape!), repairing broken tapes, and, best of all, just interacting with people all day.
Twice Tenured wrote a great post about what she originally thought she wanted (to teach at a SLAC), what she found at first and loved (a tenure track job at a regional master's level institution), how she left that to solve her two body problem and eventually found a job at a SLAC near her husband. She shares great details as well about what it was like to teach and research at both types of institutions and how the student bodies varied.
Kim tells us of how writing about the beauty and wonder she sees helps her remember her passion for her science. "I do geology because it's beautiful," she says. After having her son, she says she " slacked off, let the fieldwork slide, didn't publish." Others, like myself, prefer to recognize this as her having (quite justifiably) changed her priorities for the period of time when her child was young. Now, she says:
I'm working my way back. But I can't do it by simply sitting down and writing an impersonal article. I need to be driven by the sense of wonder, as well.
Brigindo takes us along a detailed journey of her path from the "superstar track" to a place that fit her and her family's lifestyles better. Of her current position, she writes:
It felt like a good fit. It felt like a place where I could at least attempt to have the lifestyle I wanted and where my new research agenda would be welcomed. It gave me the opportunity to teach what I consider to be a reasonable amount of classes. It's been almost 2 years and it's working for me, big time. I know there are many from my previous life that don't "get" my choice since I'm no longer on the superstar track but I no longer get their choice either.
Liberal Arts Lady, who is a scientist who will be starting this fall as a new professor at a liberal arts focused institution, talks about a shift in what is important to her:
I started out as a gung-ho, I'll-suffer-anything-for-the-project undergrad, and although I've really enjoyed the majority of my field time, over the past few years I've become much more reluctant and resigned to field work as actual work that also takes me away from my home life.
What have we learned about our chosen careers as we've gotten more immersed in them?
Probably few of us had a good idea of what it's really like to follow our chosen career paths at a young stage in our lives. Some of us grew up with professors close in our families, and were able to see into at least a particular type of science job. Others had little to go on except for what we learned from popular media. Some of us (this cat included) didn't even consider the thought of pursuing a PhD until partway through our college experience. Ecogeofemme tells us:
In short, I had no experience with the concept of a Ph.D. before I went to college and had Ph.D.s for professors. Scientists were people interviewed on the news about cancer breakthroughs or marine biology.
Similarly, in her post "I wanna be a scientist when I grow up", Doc-in-training highlights what she didn't know when she entered college (emphasis mine):
Up to this point, nevertheless, the aspiration was merely about getting into college, so that I could spend more time on space stuff, along with the fact that I would be trained to get a job with a cool job title and rewarded by regular paychecks. But quite honestly, I had no idea what a rocket scientist, or any kind of scientist, does on a daily basis. I mean, two of my extended relatives are professors – one of them is an astrophysicist and the other is a food scientist. But they are extended relatives and were living somewhere overseas. So I got a good concept of what a scientist does from… hmm… television (?!), but I didn't know what I didn't know.
Whether we knew professors or researchers as we grew up or we discovered this career path as an option after we were already in college, all of us learned more about science research and the world of academia after we entered grad school.
In her post "Not what I'd planned, but what I was meant to do…the impossible?" ScienceWoman writes about how watching her mother work as a professor at a teaching-focused institution affected her views, and then about how she went from not wanting a job where she has to be good at both teaching and research to her current position. She shares:
As I worked through my PhD and my life evolved, I learned some things that made my mantra of 'teaching OR research' seem a bit less tenable, and the impossible started to seem a bit more attractive.
My job requires both teaching and research and expects me to be good at both. It's not exactly what I planned, but I really think it's where I was meant to be.
Hannah at Young Stellar Objects writes in her post "Changing with the times":
However, it isn't just about having good ideas. It's as much about politics and networking and self-promotion and schmoozing as it is about writing papers and winning grants. My postdoc years have been a lot about becoming savvy about self-promotion and trying to get over being an introvert.
While some women are still determined to continue even as they've seen more of the difficult realities of being a women in academic science research, others question if this is where they want to stay, while still others are already planning to pursue other avenues. In an older post that Ecogeofemme cites, she writes about her decision that she wants "nothing to do with academia long term." And Candid Engineer tells us how she's questioned her competency and abilities along the way, eventually realizing that she probably can be a professor but unsure if she wants to be one:
I am getting older and more experienced in the ways and burdens of adulthood. I regard life as a complex prism of needs, wants, actions, and consequences. So today, if you asked me, I would tell you that, yes, I believe that I could make a fine professor. I would also tell you that I don't know if I want to.
The Ethical Paleontologist tells us about her progression over the last ten years from a bright-eyed and headstrong 18 year old to where she is now, "Now? I'll be honest. The year at Wash U almost broke me." She later explains, "It was events within the science that destroyed the passion – I'm sure if I still felt that ambitious I'd find a way around the job-PhD problem."
And I wrote a post analyzing my current career path and questioning whether it was what I wanted anymore. Not a week later I learned that I had failed my qualifying exam (for the second time) and am being kicked out of the PhD program I was in. Remarkably, I'm pretty upbeat about it all, ready to go try some other way of combining my skills, something that will use my broad and varied skill set better than the very focused area of academic science research. The more I've learned about academia and academic research, the more I think it's not really the best place for me.
How has being a woman in science impacted our view of this?
For most of us, being a woman pursuing these career paths has impacted us in some way. Some of us were outright denied access to opportunities because of our gender. Challenges earlier in our careers led us to make choices along the way, sometimes choices that might help to learn more about those barriers that were faced. Pat from Fairer Science gives us a great overview of her career in acts, telling us about instances in her younger days where she was outright denied access to things because of her gender. Now, she is actively working to change the world (Go Pat!):
Act 5: President Pat founds Campbell-Kibler Associates, an educational research and evaluation firm with an emphasis on science and math education and gender, disability and race/ethnicity.
Others heard often of how girls weren't supposed to do what we want to do. Doc-in-training tells us of how her willingness to tell others of her aspirations changed over time, as she grew better able to handle the "girls-shouldn't-do-this craps."
Still others deal with more subtle aspects of being a woman in science. Jokerine pointed me to this post by a current undergraduate in science, and as a fairly recent B.S. recipient myself, I can completely relate. Despite the fact that I and many of the younger women in science, unlike those who came earlier, were admitted to many top schools in order to study science and engineering, we still see many of the things Noel writes about in her post. She shares:
So please, stop acting like a sleazy pig. Because of the things you say and do, I feel obligated to look frumpy and completely covered up. I feel self-conscious for looking and acting feminine. I feel embarrassed to participate in an academic discussion or show any signs of comparable intelligence. I even feel a little inadequate on performing tasks that I am perfectly capable of doing. It's the type of workplace discrimination that nobody would ever acknowledge or address.
In her post, Hannah also tells us about the subtler aspects of being a women in science. She adds some great insight into how promoting our ideas can be hard for women in science:
When it comes time to apply for faculty positions and tenure and all that, it's more about the impact of your research. This is where the networking comes in: you gotta give talks, go to conferences, talk important people up, promote your ideas, yadda yadda. You need to find people who will promote your ideas for you as well: advisors and mentors. Then social conditioning comes into play. It's hard to break into the old boys' network. Heck, it can be hard to speak up when you're talking informally in a group where you're the only woman. It's hard to get over the social conditioning that says you should be quiet and meek, and someday Prince Charming will notice that elegant but little-cited paper of yours and swoop in with a job offer on a silver platter.
And for many of us, our desires to start a family and to balance our non-work lives with our scientist sides lead to yet more challenging choices and changes in perspective. And of course, many of us have seen new reasons to worry about geography and location of jobs after we've met someone we want to make a life with.
Amanda tells us about how she always wanted to be a doctor when she grows up, to work toward curing diseases. After discovering she likes research, she decided to pursue a PhD. But after dating and deciding to marry her Dr. Man, she has discovered new uncertainties. She also finds herself asking an all-too familiar question, "Can I do everything?"
Woman Scientist tells us about how she progressed from fearless child to questioning grad student. She asks "Can I be a great mother and a great scientist at the same time? The more important question is do I want to?" For now, she's going to press on. She concludes:
There may come a time when I change my mind. Until then, I keep telling myself that I can do this. I have to remind myself of that a lot, but I'm starting to believe it. I'm really starting to believe it.
Stepwise Girl talks about the price of the career path she's been following:
I never really had a precise career plan, but I seized opportunities to carry on doing what I realised I love doing: research. But the career has interfered with all other aspects of my life. I met Husband doing fieldwork (how's that for a field collection!), so it's of course not all bad or impedance. But currently the career is delaying personal life plans. That's what I chose. But, just like everything else, it comes at a price. This dawned on me only a few weeks ago.
*Mother of All Scientists wrote a great post in her series "On going back to work," which discusses her feelings about returning to work after spending a maternity leave with her beautiful daughter, Bean. She tells us in her recent post, part 8, of how working time being time away from her precious daughter has made her place more value on the work being worth it:
Before I think it would have been too much for me to actually contemplate leaving the bench for good. After all, it's been 6 years since I realized that bench work wasn't right for me, and yet here I am. But having the Bean has really made me re-evaluate my priorities. And I'm just not going to settle for a job that makes me unhappy. If I'm going to be away from the Bean, I have to make that time count. I want a career that makes the time away from her "worth it".
Julie tells us about the day her life changed forever – the day she learned that the baby her and her husband had planned as she finished up her PhD and looked for a post-doc was, in fact, twins! She shares:
Before getting pregnant, I kind of had some, well for lack of a better word, fantasies about combining motherhood with a science career, but all of those imaginings were for only one baby. How would I manage to fit two children into my career? At the same time? I had absolutely no idea. At that point, I kind of just tossed my plans out the window. Whatever would come would come and I would deal with it as it came. I would finish my degree and figure out my life later. It turns out that it was a good thing I chose a "take it as it comes" approach because my life was about to get even less predictable.
And finally, in her post "Career, interrupted", the Raising Scientists blogger tells us about a recent setback which I would argue is a clear instance of institutionalized discrimination. She tells about how, despite mostly positive reviews, her grant proposal was rejected for reasons she was given no opportunity to explain:
The major concern they had was that, although I was very productive in my previous research career I had not, as of yet, published a paper as a post-doc, and that my non-productivity might be a warning flag as to the feasibility of my actually completing the proposed research. Unproductive? Let me ask you this… where, on my CV, can I put that I got pregnant and gave birth… twice?
We've moved from the outright discrimination (no girls admitted!) of Pat's days to institutionalized discrimination to the more subtle gender issues where young woman find themselves dressing messily so as to have people pay attention to their ideas instead of their breasts. Maybe change is occurring, but is it happening too slowly? Luckily, there are still many brave women scientists for whom the current state of the system is workable, and for many, their love of science may get them through. Hopefully, all of us will do what we can to help effect some change, from outside the academic science world and from within it, so that those who truly do want an academic science career won't be hindered by many of the biases we still face today.
ScienceWoman plans to work for change:
My hope now is that I can work in some small way to transform academia into a place where future generations of young women won't think that the combination of teaching, research, and motherhood is an impossible combination.
How have our views of ourselves changed?
Lots of submissions included great details and insight into how our self-perceptions have evolved over time. Many of the posts linked to already have also touched upon this, so be sure to go check out the original posts!
Many bloggers talked about feelings of doubt and fears of stupidity. ReBecca at Dinochick blogs wrote an excellent and detailed post about her career changes in the past ten years. At the end of her post, she leaves us with some great insight as to how she has managed to deal with the changes and setbacks that she has faced:
My brain and I are not always friends, and sometimes I am just not smart enough to get where I want to be I guess. I wish I were more intelligent, articulate, or better at playing the game. I finally figured out that I have to work with what I have been given. I had to learn to love myself for who I am. I can not make my brain work any better than it does. I can try to learn and improve, but I am only what I am. And I have to accept that. While I am about to give up a job I really love for a man I really love, I know that I am not giving up a part of myself in the process, and that is the most important thing that I never did before. This new chapter is only going to help me continue to pursue my goals because this time I know I have this individual's utmost support and encouragement on all levels. My goals might have been delayed some, but they are still there.
Acmegirl from Thesis – with Children tells us about how she's moved from pursuing a career as a dancer and choreographer to studying physical therapy to redefining herself as a scientist. Then, she considers how she can make her own box to fit into:
I've always been into science. I just didn't see myself as a scientist. I still sort of stutter on the word when people ask me what I do. I'd rather say I'm a graduate student. This is an ongoing process, I guess. Ten years ago, I had no idea what I would look like as a scientist. I couldn't really fit myself into that box. Instead, I've taken up the challenge of creating a different box. It needs to be a pretty big box, since I like to dance around in the lab while doing experiments.
Cherish Maunders from Faraday's Cage is where you put Schroedinger's cat wrote a wonderful introspective post in which she analyzes each of the prompts I asked. She talks about realizing that her struggles weren't always because of her own ineptitude but rather because she was in the wrong environment:
I always thought I was pretty dumb, and this has been a huge obstacle for me to deal with. It wasn't until the past five years, especially dealing with the struggles my older son had and the homeschooling that made me realize that I'm not. It's amazing how I used to feel that my struggles were due to my own ineptitude. Watching my son go through the same things I did helped me realize that a lot of it was not due to me being stupid or inept but that I was in the wrong environment with the wrong teachers. It has really changed my whole perception of growing up. I spend a lot less time mentally beating myself. I've stopped being angry at how things changed…now I just need to learn to accept that the people involved were just doing their best. (Dealing with this is probably a good goal for the next five years.)
Lab Cat tells us about how she learned to deal with her dyslexia as a teenager, and overcame this disability by forcing herself to look everything up in a dictionary until she had memorized the correct spelling of things. It paid off and she says "finally my Mum, a remedial English teacher, stated that I was cured of dyslexia, which she had never met in her professional life before."
Most of us have experienced doubt and fear at some point in our careers. Some of us came out the other end feeling more sure and confident. Academic tells us about how despite the fact that she knows an academic career won't be "easy, rosy, or clear," she is confident now that she is in the right place:
One thing that has been becoming increasingly true is the realization that I want to be an academic. I can see that my chosen path will stretch me far outside of my comfort zone. However, there's a lot of power in knowing that I am choosing the path instead of being my advisor's puppet. Even though I'm on the front end of the graduate school experience, I'm coming to appreciate the uncertainty that is the journey.
Rebecca from Adventures in Applied Math wrote a wonderful post in which she showed her changing perspectives on graphs. You really should go check it out there to see the graphs and her explanation of them!
So, that about rounds out our discussion of our changing career goals and views, the effect being a woman has played, and our changing self-perceptions. There are so many different perspectives and experiences being shared out there in the blogosphere; hopefully this month's Scientiae Carnival provides a good glimpse into some of the many varied stories of women in science, engineering, technology, and math.
A few other things to check out
I feel a bit like the teacher who at the end of a long, tiring, yet informative lecture says "OK, class, you can go in a minute I just need to tell you a few more things…" and then goes on for another half hour. Here are some off-topic submissions and articles of note:
1. Podblack cat talks about Women and Superstitions (and a candy bar whose advertising slogan is "It's NOT for girls!")
2. At Missives from the Frontal Lobe, KLDickson rants about decreased government funding in the US and speculates about the future of intelligence research.
3. A post in the theme of last month's Scientiae about playing the fool: Jingling Bells at the blog The Honeycomb:
Now, as a generalist working with specialists, I find I'm sometimes the first to confess ignorance. I fear that if no one breaks the ice people will posture rather than communicate, especially when attempting to work across disciplines.
4. I came across this article through MentorNet about a new book, Gendered Innovations in Science and Engineering.
5. This article was suggested to me in the comments 3 times by 3 different commenters after my posts about analyzing my career path and pursuing other careers that meld science, writing, and mentorship.
6. Sheril Kirshenbaum asks "Is Our Children Learning? (maybe not)" and then leads a discussion. She says, "Moreover, if the examination methods were reasonable, I'm extremely troubled by the ladies' overall performance. Therefore, I plan to spend this week exploring the disparity that leaves me speechless."
*These submissions were added after the initial posting. Sorry I missed them the first time!


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This Fourth of July weekend, the creators of Sausage Party gave a brief public service announcement aimed at promoting the safety of food on this national holiday.
"Hi, I'm Frank, and in the time it took me to say, 'Hi, I'm Frank,' over two million of my friends will have expired from these unnatural causes, all because of you and your insatiable hunger for killing," Rogen's character said in the short clip.
The rated-R animated flick, written by Rogen and Evan Goldberg, has a star-studded cast that includes some of Rogen's buddies like James Franco, Jonah Hill, Michael Cera, along with a bunch of others. Sausage Party is available to watch in theaters August 12. Revisit the trailer here.
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First HBO announces they will be doing a Preacher Television show. Today the annoucement is made that HBO just picked up the rights for George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire.
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City Parks Director Lester Chang apologized last night to a crowd in Hawaii Kai gathered to keep the Koko Crater trail open because he did not "discuss the issue with the community" before putting up signs closing the trail Feb. 15.
"We were wrong to put up the signs," Chang said.
At issue is the safety of hikers near the Koko Head Rifle Range.
About 150 hiking and shooting enthusiasts, as well as law enforcement officers who use the target range, jammed the meeting of the Hawaii Kai Neighborhood Board at Hahaione Elementary School last night.
Chang said the issue of public safety remains a concern that didn't exist before the closure in the 1990s of a Job Corps facility that acted as a physical buffer between the trail and the gun range. With steps made of old wooden railway ties, the trail on the western slope of 1,207-foot Koko Crater has grown in popularity in recent years, with some novice hikers actually wandering down onto the shooting range.
Police and state law enforcement officials said no hikers have been shot.
Chang has taken criticism from both groups.
"We are not here to take away recreational activities," he reassured the large gathering, adding that the signs were taken down after being inadvertently put up.
He said the department wants to see whether "two unlikely recreational activities can co-exist so closely."
Hiking groups said they don't want a fight with the gun community and are not interested in shutting down the range.
The Hawaiian Trail and Mountain Club collected 100 signatures to keep the trail open.
Hawaii Kai resident Paula Bender said the signs the city put up and later took down created a rift between the two groups.
She asked whether the homes in the immediate areas, such as her own on Kaumakani Street less than a mile away, need to be condemned, along with the baseball field and tennis courts.
Chang insisted that the gun range did not threaten safety anywhere else in the area.
Many shooting enthusiasts showed up last night because of a rumor that the range, which is part of the Koko Head Regional Park complex, could be shut down.
Shooting enthusiast Brian Ching said, "Neither (party) wants the other to be eliminated."
He questioned why the city appears to be "provoking animosity between both sides."
"We should be supporting one another," he said.
He and others were suspicious of the possibility of private developers wanting to develop Koko Head.
Chang said that the department has been wrestling with the issue and how to best accommodate the two uses. But he emphasized that the path was never officially designated as a trail.